The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Break The Losing Streak! Trade Rumors Are All Over The Place, Astros Sit 61-47

Episode Date: July 30, 2025

Astros Break The Losing Streak! Trade Rumors Are All Over The Place, Astros Sit 61-47

And welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. 2-2. Curve ball, and that's whacked down the right field line. Slicing, will it stay fair? It sure well by a foot and go into the corner. Walker getting the way from Tony Parrish-Chico around third. Here's the relay to the plate on a hop.

The slide. Walker beats the tag. RBI double for Cam Smith, and the Astros lead, one-and-nothing. I'm back, and she's gone. Ties it up. Field back. Corner infielers are in. First pitch, Altouvae smacks it up the middle

and in a center for a base hit. DuBahn scores. On the third goes Whitcomb, and the Astros get some insurance up four to two. No offense to you. Two to Garcia. Swinging and a foul tip held on to by Diaz, and that is the ball game.

Josh Hader strikes out the side of the night and the Astros end their five-game losing streak and beating the National, seven of four. Even up this three-game series at a game of peace. Jonathan, we occasionally on this show talk about songs that white guys can dance to. This would be one of them. I feel this is a classic for you guys. Oh, We as the Whites, love this song.

Mount Rushmore. Yeah. We as the Whites is a crazy statement. Look at this. Look at me, Ross. I mean, good gracious. This is perfect. There's two different things, Jonathan.

Then he says can dance, but also doesn't mean dance well. What's there a go-to-moven? He looks like he's having a stroke in here. I'm just telling you, this show really should be on Space City more than the other one is on. Oh, yeah, they're boring. I mean to look at. I mean, the show content's great. You'd be able to see me dance.

Did I save it there? No, they're going to come after you hard. They'll destroy you today after the Astros can. I love them both. Oh, my God. I love those. guys in different ways but they're

they're a part of my core I've been with me wax as since well actually Adam took a hiatus both them took the hiatuses but that both they're back thankfully that went a wrong direction quickly 104 Sports Talk 790

good morning everyone it is the Matt Thomas show Ross we have a we used to have snack size editions of the show this is actually just a this is a light lunch this is a calorie count lunch Like you're not going to go all out. You're going to eat.

You're going to get full, but you're just going to make sure you kind of keep under a certain threshold. Well, you know, there's like lunch specials. The lunch specials, they want to get you in and out in a 30-minute time. That's true. So we have two hours in 35 minutes, two hours and 40 minutes to entertain you today. So, okay, so it's a lunch special edition. It's actually, yeah, it's almost like we used to do. And now we have an extra hour to hang out with y'all.

You're welcome. Yeah, thank you. I'm talking to the people. Oh, 10 to 1240 today, and then we'll send it over to Astros Radio for the finale of the series. The rubber game. I think I guaranteed the win last night. I think that's what I said. You did?

I remember I said they're going for a series win? Yeah, no, no, no, no, no. Just in general. No, you didn't do that in the game. In my mind. No, no. All right. A very interesting 24 hours for the Astros, not necessarily by their own doing, but at least by what the Twitter streets are saying.

And I'm just. confused isn't the term. I'm very curious. This is one of those situations. I really wish I was on the other side of the wall. Are you flummoxed? No. Flummox would be flat out.

What are you doing? I'm not flummoxed by this, but the rumors that you hear are, my curiosity is piqued. And usually I like to try to stay one step ahead, or at least on the same step as the team that I'm talking about. I'm not in this particular case. And for those of you that don't know, and we'll get to the game itself. Ross and I'll be hosting the On-Dick show.

We're going to hear from Dana Brown a little bit during this show. We got Boat Brangabogus at 11 o'clock, and then we're going to run a good chunk of the Dana Brown conversation with Sean during Astros on deck at about 1215 or so. So please stay with us the whole time. Okay. Shut your bum ass up at 1132. So there's two names that are being talked about on the Twitter streets.

That's Bob Nightingale's. It's been confirmed by other people. In fact, McTagger just put a tweet out a few minutes ago. Dylan Cs, San Diego pitcher. We know him from his, what, White Sox days back in the day. Starting pitcher. Which, remember I talked to you about a few months ago, I thought that that would be something that they should go after.

And the bats just got so super quiet that I thought maybe they need to deflect from that. But that name doesn't go away. And then you got a couple more pitching injuries with McConaughey's. Colors and Walter, who had been pitching well. And no disrespect to today's start of your best friend, Ryan Gusto, but Ryan probably isn't a rotation guy for this team. What? Oh, you're just a hater, Matt? I didn't say that at all.

Why would you say that about Ryan Gusto? Now, watch him throw seven innings of two-run baseball with nine strikeouts today. I would love to watch that. I just don't think it's going to happen. I can't even defend them after the last night. I would also love to see Happy Gilmore 2 win an Oscar. I don't think it's going to happen. By the way, 1050 today, Ross and I will.

We'll do our review of Happy Gilmore, too. Okay. Without giving away any of the plot. What plot? Oh, sorry. You and I are going to agree on this. Yeah, it's a real brain bender. Hey, when you're gone, should I invite Lawrence you how did it come to the show with me?

Absolutely. We would crush ratings-wise. I don't know if I'd be able to focus and do the show, but that's a different issue for a different time. Okay, back to what I'm saying. Okay, so Dylan Cise is the name that has been brought up multiple. times in lost 24 hours. Yes, Chandler Rome and Ken Rosenthal first on it. And then Nightingale, and I remember, Nightingale runs very hot and cold,

but he has had a good run as of late. Yes, and he was confirmed by Brian McTaggart, so I'm feeling good. Yeah, if McTaggart's confirming something, I don't need some Gibranian that has, you know, Astro for Life website. I don't need you confirming that. I need legitimate people. And so if Brian McTaggart's confirming it, there's going to be a little bit to it. Carlos Correa

Now we had we looked We read a really silly tweet yesterday That was giving the twins I mean nothing of real substance For Correa and Castro For Correa and Castro Which was that was what we were laughing about It wasn't necessarily that there were names being brought up

It was what you're giving back in return I mean you were giving back You're asking for a full-time utility player Who's probably a starter at some teams And obviously a starter with Correa for guys that aren't even on the major league team that are not considered top-end prospects. And then Zach Short, who's a fringe major league. I mean, the deal didn't make any sense.

But the Carlos Correa stuff is out there. Nightingale put it out there originally. And again, when McTaker confirmed it. We talked about it yesterday. We went through his contract. What, three more years guaranteed, correct? And then there's investing after this year. and then two more, I think.

And then investing counts. So that count you, if you want to call that three or whatever. So we got some vesting meaning that if you reach certain thresholds, it kicks in. He's got to finish. There's some top five numbers. There's also some plate appearances involved. Yeah, top five MVP. Or 575 plate appearances, which is doable.

Yeah. Well, maybe not for Carlos. All right. So I'm going to do a lot of prefacing. Yes. Okay. First of all, when you make a trade like that, bringing somebody in that has been so good for this franchise, and it's still considered a very good Major League player, you would naturally get excited.

You would also appreciate the fact that the Astros want to get better. That's the number one thing at its core is, where are you now, and does the player that you hear, that potentially be coming to Houston, does he make you better? And in theory, I would think the Cardinals Gray would make you better. but the question is at what cost. Now, the Minnesota Twins are in financial hell right now because they're trying to get sold. Correy is a huge contract.

I think he's probably the number one contract on that team. I don't know the top to bottom on that. I don't even think Byron Buckson's making that kind of money for them. And he's always hurt too. But they need to get it to be a leaner team so they can make a little more sales friendly. There's no way the gym is going to pick up the tab on Carlos Correa's remaining portion of the contract.

So my guess is that Minnesota would be sending cash to the Astros as part of this to get Carlos's deal done. But when you ask for cash, the other team has to typically give you high-end prospects. You're buying prospects or you're buying players. That's how it typically works. We've talked about this before. the Astros aren't flush with prospects. The Astros aren't flush with a deep system. They do have some talent because they have had some drafts the last couple of years,

but they're nowhere close. So the very first thing I thought of is, if you are going to go trade Carlos Correa and you're going to get Carlos Correa and you're going to get the twins to pay off some of his remaining two plus years in his contract, you've got to give them something of significant value. Is that Jacob Melton? Is that Bryce Matthew? is it both of them

I don't think you want to give Walter is it Walter Yonick is that no what's Yonix's first name is it Walter okay he's your first round pick now we've seen first round picks get traded hello Kame Smith good to see you Walker sorry Walker I was going to say Walter didn't sound very Walter didn't sound very I was like I don't think that's right Walter Yonick

so there's that angle to it all so that's why Rossi I got to be honest with you I'm perplexed by this because Carlos's numbers aren't great this year. His OPS is barely above 700. He's missed time. He's at single-digit home runs. Target field's a relatively easy place to play.

But, and all by the way, what are you going to do at third base if Isok Perretti comes back? I'm not saying he's come back this year. I don't believe it for a second. But how do you handle 2026? If Perretis is limited as a third baseman, I can't imagine he's going to be any better as a second. second base. And we've already seen the Astros already carry a guy on their team that can't

field second base anymore in Jose Altuvi. That's, again, these puzzle pieces to me, and I'll, and I'll let you speak here because I'm kind of just rambling. These puzzle pieces to me just don't fit. Would you put Pena at second? There's got to be, there's got to be something that I don't know about. Pena, Correa Paredes, or you're getting rid of Paredes, but how can you get rid of a paratus when he's had a major hamstring injury? I can't imagine if his hamstring injury. I can't imagine if his hamstring is off the bone. Which we don't know. Which we do not know.

But a serious enough pull that means he doesn't play this year, could you imagine a fan base welcoming a new player on the team who is not going to play for you anymore this year, who has been traded multiple times in his career? Yeah, if you're a seller, you don't need them this year anyways. I might even be attractive in a way. As long as you know that the injury isn't extremely serious, like an off-the-bone situation, I guess.

Or if you think, hey, he's going to have surgery, and he's going to be fine. Because he's been very good. He's been one of the three best Astros this year. As far as well, position players, he's probably best two. So do you sell on hope for 2026? Now, remember, many moons ago, and I teased you about this before the show,

I said to that Eastside Paredes, I wouldn't be surprised if he was a one and done. But that, I did not anticipate it being a three-quarters of a season and done. And being as good as he has been. he's got a lot of value for the Astros right now, but you have to get, and we talked about them having to get creative with guys on the 26 man to try to get something back because the prospects aren't there. That's why I said, if the Astros make a move, whether it's for C's, whether it's for Correa,

whether it's for anybody that we don't even know about at this point, I believe an active member of the team is going to be as part of this. You know what? It makes sense, kind of. If we're talking about the twins shedding payroll, you get back Parades, who's a good player. You could sell that to a new owner, like, hey, we got this guy. He parades. He's playing well. He's got a hamstring injury. He's very cheap and he's going to be 90% of Carlos Correa.

Does Melton, who is top 100? And he's been better than Carlos Correa this year, by the way. And Bryce Matthews, top 100, that's it. You have to throw them in the mix as well. I guess it makes, we're kind of making it make sense here. We're talking it out. I'm not talking to that. I'm just, I'm trying to think of it from the Astor perspective. more of that. So when I tell you Houston, Texas, that Carlos Cray is on the radar.

What say you? What's the first thing that comes to your mind? 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Brian Bogushevick joins us at 11 o'clock today. Before that at 10.50, Ross and I will review quickly, Happy Gilmore

2. And at 1130, it shut your bum ass up with Astros on deck at New will also mix in a couple of Dana Brown cuts if we get them. I don't know if it's back here to do that or not, but we'll certainly try. 1016 on Sports Talk 790. Time is 1021. It is Matt Thomas show with Ross.

And by the one thing we did not mention during all this, and this is probably a little, um, I don't want to say this is Jerry Jones. That's not fair because. everything the Astros have done in terms of these kind of decisions have tended to pay off. This feels very Jim Crane led on this. I think Jim Crane wanted Justin Verlinder back and Dana Bryan was given those orders to say, can you make it work? And he did. Yes.

And I think Jim Crane is like, you know, we need a third baseman. We need some flexibility. He's a guy that's an awesome. clubhouse guy. He's a guy that obviously, I mean, if you don't think Carlos Cray ain't calling the Astro, his buddies down in Houston, what would be would be like? McCullors, Al-Tube for sure, saying, hey, man, get me out of here. Bragman's not here. You know what I'm saying? You know, my point is that

bros can talk. Bro talk. Nothing against that because, first of all, there's no evidence of it. Second of all, there's nobody, you can't, that's not tampering when friends talk to friends, but no disrespect, but Maricio Dubon can't be playing third base six days a week.

Shea Wickham's not a third baseman. Mm-hmm. So if Altuve calls and says, hey, I had to talk with Carlos, and Jim said, well, what do he say? He'd like to come back. That's happened in life. Yeah, it's still on its face

doesn't make sense. Unless you're trading away ESOC Paredes, and also, you shed Ryan Presley, and Rafael Montaro because you're trying to stay under the tax, which they are basically nuzzled up against. So, I mean, I guess I could see a scenario that Jim Crane says, yeah, we wanted to be under the tax.

And then if we knew we needed to make something to push for a World Series, then I'm okay with it. At its core, you want an owner who wants to get better. And I will never, ever begrudge an owner. of a sports team that I follow, care, talk about wanting to get better. I am very much appreciative of that. It's just, I don't know, there's something about it that just doesn't strike me right. Without thinking about what you'd have to give up.

And remember, if you're giving, if you're asking the twins for money, which I'm assuming they're going to, to help pay for this, they're going to want something back in return. The Minnesota twins want to get lean. They also want to get better because they want, you know, the twins are not huge in the free agent world. They need their homegrown players. They need their, they need prospects to grow and flourish and be on the cheap. Minnesota is not one of those franchises that is typically known for spending a lot of money. So it could be, again, a lot of smoke, but Nightingale's been better the last year or so.

McTaggart's like, yeah, I'll make a couple calls. And he says, yeah, there's some smoke to it as well. And I'll tell you this, Rossi, if it happens, people will be excited because people are excited about change, especially when you are on the cusp and you're holding off Seattle and Texas and the division, who by the way both lost yesterday, that was good news. You win and then all of a sudden you're thinking,

all right, we've got that extra boost because every time the asteros have done a boost, it's worked. In 17 with Verlander, it worked. In last year with Cicucci it worked. The year before that, Verlander it worked. Grinky. Grinky worked.

I mean, giving. Carlos Gomez and Mike Fires. Didn't work. In fact, it caused a lot of issues. That's a different issue for a different time. But these little boost, hashtag trade deadline, have certainly more times than not helped out your baseball team. Yeah, I look.

If you're especially going to help when you get a guy to replace somebody who's not going to be there. But Carl's Correa, you mentioned, is not having a very good season. If you look at, I know you love wins above replacement, Matt. he's at a point one. Basically, he's been a replacement level player, according to baseball references. And that dollar amount doesn't justify his performance. If you looked at the dollar amount,

he's not giving them a Minnesota Twins value. And so the twins are like, if I can shed this so I can get this team sold and I've got a guy maybe on the down third of his major league career, I'm going to do it. Now, even if they have to pay a certain amount of that money, that helps them out as compared to being on the hook

for all the contract for the rest of his. I mean, I don't know what that would be. Yeah. You're looking at what? At least two years after this. Yes. And maybe you're thinking back in a familiar environment, back with his buddies.

No, you were right. It's three years. What the hell? Yeah. Jeez. You know what? I'm just going to go ahead and say it. I don't think this is happening. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense based off of the history that we have seen with other players in their free agent status. That's all I'm saying.

Even if you're getting a lot of cash from Minnesota, it's going to count up into the tax threshold. Now, what payroll are the Astros shedding in the next couple of years? Well, Carotini is a free agent. Fromber's a free agent. Frommber is probably what, making $17, $18 million in arbitration or something like that. Okay. And then what's Dillon Cesa situation?

He's a rental. Okay, so that's a two-month and done kind of situation. Okay, that's an easy one to justify. I could see that happening. But even if you were to shed yourself in Lance McCuller's, that's still money on your payroll. That's still against your tax. Because you're paying out that money if you were to release Lance McCullors. Very intriguing times.

And like I said, at the end of the day, it's nice to hear your team wanting to be active. Now, remember, just because you hear it and when you do it are two different things. you can work on something. That doesn't mean it's going to happen. That's right. All right. We'll go to the phones next. 713, 212.1.570 if you want to chime in.

When I tell you, Carlos Gray is rumored, it's intriguing to the Astros. What say you? 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-79. All right. Ross and I will review Happy Gilmore in about 15 minutes. By the way, crushing on Netflix streams. I'll say this.

A lot of things in 2025 suck. The ability to avoid the movie theater to go watch first run movies is pretty good. I got to be honest with you. I was in my office last night. We were in our chairs watching it. Made our own popcorn. drank her own beverages. I disagree depending on the type of movie.

If it's like a big action movie, you want the big screen. You want the loud sound, like the bone rattling crashes and the F1 thing. People talked about how great that was in theaters because you could feel the car zooming around and all that type of stuff. You're not going to get that at your house, even if you got a really nice sound bar. Yeah. But I'm just, I wasn't looking for that yesterday. Got by Happy Gilmore. It was fine, standing home.

If it's Happy Gilmore, too, let's get on the couch. Yeah. If it's F1 or Christopher Nolan's the Odyssey coming out next year or anything Christopher Nolan does. Because I saw, I'm going to tell you how this really hit home for me. I saw Interstellar on my couch like a year or two ago. And I was like, man, this movie's great. This is awesome. Then it re-released an IMAX for the 10-year anniversary.

And it was a completely different experience. I was blown away. I'm not saying that movies don't have any relevance anymore. Theaters are any relevance. I don't want to say that all because you are absolutely right. Sometimes the big screen is going to play it. But I'm just talking about a good old-fashioned run-of-the-mill. Like, Mickey Gunn is coming out soon.

You don't need to be in the theater. And I can be at home to watch that. I'll be very happy to do that. By the way, do you said no that Liam Neeson and Anderson, Pam Anderson, are dating in real life? Good for them? Why not? That's good.

A lot of wear and tear. All the joints working? I don't know. You know, she doesn't wear a makeup. anymore. Good for her. Even in the film? I saw a little bit in the film, the trailer. Okay. But it's stunning, because I thought back in the day, which is what, 30 years ago, she was the most stunning. Like, she was just the sexiest woman alive. Now, granted, some of those parts weren't all real, but she was still sex. She exuded sex. She played into that very well.

And, you know, Tommy Lee agrees. She got around a little bit. Actually, not a little bit. Got around a lot. And I think she just had one of those moments in life. She says, I'm going to go just the opposite. And I'm going to go, you know, like I live with the Quakers in Pennsylvania.

Really? She'd become celibate? I don't think Liam Neeson knows that. Okay. Maybe he does. And we don't. I'm going to guess that it's not. happened but i will say this

she needs to put a little bit of makeup on just a little bit why because she doesn't look this there's no sexiness to her right now so what no i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm saying okay she doesn't care what you think matt no she doesn't we never met i'd like to meet her i think it's great i think it's great for her not wearing makeup she confident herself

having a good time she can wear whatever she wants or in leiam's case where what she doesn't want to wear it well yeah it's up to Her and Leon Nisa could talk about it. Yeah. I don't. She just doesn't look anything like the sex appeal that I saw back in. Like 30 years ago, Matt. Yeah, there are women that have aged well over the years.

That's true. You know, Sophia Vergara? Jennifer Lopez. My God, you see Jennifer Lopez on stage these days? You're wearing a thong? She is? See? No, I haven't. I haven't been any.

Is it the video with the skirt falls off? Yeah, Lopez concert. I didn't see that. Well, clearly. I didn't catch that one. I'm not going to search for it. Brian on 7-a-old. Hello, Brian. It's going to get my history.

What's going on, guys? When it comes to the Correa deal, I'm intrigued. And I don't think it's the worst move in the world if you pull it off, because I think part of it is it gives you a lot of options, depending on where you see things going. Obviously, it would depend on what the compensation is, but you could decide, okay, last year you were toying with the thought of bringing back Bregman and moving Paradeus to first.

maybe somehow you're able to eat a little bit of Christian Walker's money, move him in the offseason, move Paratus to first if he decided to go that route. Or you put Paratus in that deal, and hopefully, you know, he comes back and is, you know, and is healthy. And, you know, if you're Minnesota and he winds up being the player he pretty much is this year. I think he does kind of give your guys that spark and you don't have that kind of kick guys in the butt that you had with Brex. or somebody who might be willing to be a little bit more vocal on this team. That's not really Al-Tube's demeanor, and I don't feel like Parades or Walker are established with this team yet.

So it kind of brings back one of those guys where it's like, okay, he's been here, he gets this team, he understands it, and he can kind of be that leader in the clubhouse that maybe you're missing. And we obviously don't know the dynamics. And you might as I'm going to shut my bum ass up on this one, and that's totally okay. but after this season, Jeremy Payne may not, his value may not be any higher than it is now. So you deal with,

you get a replacement for him, even if in the short term you keep Paredes and Walker, you trade Jeremy Payne, get something back for him. You could probably get, especially having two years of team control left, some better prospects, things like that. You're going to have money with not, if Pramber would make it $18 million this year,

so you figure he would probably, command at least 20 to 25 on the open market. So you're saving that. You don't have Brayew, Presley, or Montaro. So that's another $45 million. So you're able to bring that number down a little bit. So I don't think it's the worst thing in the world. I'm not saying go out and do it.

But I can certainly see where bringing in somebody like Correa gives you a lot more options depending on do you think you can resign paying your long term? Or are you going to say we're putting all our money? in the Hunter Brown basket. That's where we're going to make our big free agent splash and lock him up for the long term. Plus then, hey, if Yordon is able to come back and you might want to re-sign him to a little bit higher AAB moving forward. So I don't think it's the worst thing in the world. Dylan ceased to me.

He's a guy for this year. I don't think you're going to have to give up as much as you might think with him being a rental. But, you know, it's an intriguing move. Yeah. phone call, Brian. Another thing, why are the Padres and wanting to move Dylan C's? They're, they have a wild card spot right now. They're four back of the Dodgers in the National League West. That, to me, smells like active player. Yeah, that would make sense. Left-handed reliever? Do the, do the Potters need a left-hand of reliever? Because we've got plenty here.

You're going to miss it all three of them. I don't know. That's why, man, I just wish I could just, like, phone tap into Dana's phone. What is going on? I don't know. I mean, unless the Padre Singh ceases washed, why are you getting rid of a starting pitcher for a team that's in the wild card? And with the shouting distance of the, I mean, the Dodgers are really good, but they're human. We've saw that just two weeks ago. Yeah, I don't know.

You know, like you said, they've won four in a row. They're only four games back. I guess we can comb the roster here. You never thought you'd ever have to comb the L.A. the Padres bullpen. I really didn't think I was going to have to, but here we are. How many lefties do they have? I don't know.

It just says RP. I got to go look them all up individually now. Oh, that's a lot of work. Don't worry about that. Or I can go to the baseball reference, and they should have an asterisk next to the lefties. Jake on 790 and 1041. Hello, Jake. Hey, what's up, guys?

I listen every day on the podcast, but I had time today, so I figured I'd call me. Thank you. Okay. I'm doing my best to follow your orders and avoid Rockets and Astros Twitter. And you keep seeing this Correa business. And I feel like, I don't know, I'm early for anybody got time, but, man, maybe you need to do, like, the tap into the microphone thing and say, like, the PSA or, like, screen at the rest of Houston saying, like, it's not going to happen. Or am I wrong? Because Astros' Twitter is slowly turning into a reality.

No, don't ever listen to Astor's Twitter because every time they see a player that's being talked about, it's going to happen and you've got to go buy a jersey tomorrow. But again, there's a little bit of legs of this. But as John Heyman, and you know, Jake, we don't like John Hamon on the show, he's a douche, but he did say that the Minnesota twins like Carlos Correa and Carlos Correa likes Minnesota

and there is a no-trade clause attached to Carlos Correa's contract. Now, I would be very, very, disappointed and upset to believe that Carlos Craya would not want to come back to Houston. Right. And to another part of this, I mean, we go back and we look. I mean, they showed it on the game last night on Space City.

Like, how many deals the Astros have made year in and year out at the deadline? I don't you think that opposing teams GM is coming in a little bit leery when Dana Brown, you know, phone numbers on their caller ID? Like, aren't you a little hesitant of, okay, they're going to take, you know, a Dillon Cs or a Cray?

What are the Astros going to do to turn him. We need to offer, we need, the price needs to be higher because I mean, I feel like a lot of these deals, we end up winning time and time and time out again. So don't you think that GMs are leery of that or they don't care. They're just trying to make a deal to make their team better. If you do that, you will never make trades because everybody's going to, if you're a general manager, you hadn't have done something right. You know what I mean? There's not everybody's going to win every trade. Now me's going to lose any trade, but there's nobody that's got a perfect record. If you don't take phone calls from every team, you're not doing your team of service.

Right. So that's, I appreciate it. Do you want Correa on the team or no? Well, okay, let's, can we dump it down? Does Carlos Correa make this team better today or tomorrow than he does today? The answer is to the, yes.

But I'm still trying. But don't you feel like we're gluttoning our team? It's like what happens next year at spring training and you have Paratus, Correa, and. Well, I'll put it this way. I mean, there is a significant player on this team. If Correa does come here, there is a significant well-known player on this team that will not be a part of the 2020-6 roster. I can guarantee you that right now. They're not going to carry as many infielders as you're just describing there if you got Carlos Crea. I don't think Carlos Craig can play second base. I don't think ESAC Predates can play second base. The question that Ross brought up would be interesting. And thank you for the phone call, Jake, is, does Jeremy Payne have second base? in his blood.

Yeah, I don't see why now, Paredes, maybe you don't think he's rindy enough for sure, but Pena and Correa in whatever place you want to put them. Carlos Correa is going to play third base with this team. He's getting older. You're taxing him by playing squirley infield positions. You know, jumping around, you know, scorely. Maybe a bad choice of words, but you can know where I'm going with this. Third base preserves.

Yeah, Yon Easy is telling us that the Padres would want to be shedding payroll, but Dylan Cis only makes $13.75 million. And they've already paid him over half of that. You've already paid more than half of that. You're done to 60 games. Yeah, you're shedding like $6, $7 million. I don't know. And they do have, they have two left-handed relievers that are pretty good.

Of course, Matt, as you know, Adrian Morejon. Yes. He's having a great season for the Padres. And Wandi Peralta is having a decent. season. That's two lefties out of the bullpen. I will say this. They have no lefty starters. Yeah. The

Dillon Csies to me is a bigger surprise that even the Carlos Correa stuff. The Correa, you know why the Correa's so surprising? I would say the Coray is a bigger surprise to me. Just because the contract is three more years. Of big money. And it's so not what the Astros have spoken of,

right? I guess I'm surprised more on the seizing from the San Diego side than I am the Houston side. If Dillen Seas comes here, it's because Dana's not sure that all these pictures we've been talking about for four months now that are supposed to come back, are you ready to contribute to give you six innings. That to me is the number one sign of maybe one of them is. All right. More phone calls coming up. Brian Boga-Sevick at 11 o'clock.

And Ross, you and I will do a quick review of Happy Gilmore 2 in a matter of moment. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Brian Bogusseviken will join us in about, actually about less than 10 minutes. If you missed Dinner Brown earlier today, a good portion of that will be played during the On Deck Show, which will be coming up at 12 o'clock here on Sports Talk 7.9. Matt Ross with you at 1053. Really quick, just to kind of take a little break from what the topic of conversation is.

And that, of course, is the Dillon Seas rumors, the Carlos Crea rumors. last night before the Astros played, the wife and I sat down and we took in a little happy Gilmore 2. Ross, you had watched half of it yesterday. I'm presuming you finished it. So I figured, you know what, let's do a quick review. Okay. And look, it wouldn't take you long to figure out what the plot is. So we're not going to give you a whole lot of that.

I'm going to tell you this. And by the way, Gordy, it was his birthday yesterday, so I don't want to be too harsh on him. But I said what I said about it, and he's like, well, were you expect? So he says, sorry he wasn't Citizen Kane. I mean, I wasn't, there's no point was I expecting Citizen Kane when I watched Happy Gilmore. My expectation level was very low. My expectation level was low. Slapstick comedy, a sequel, Adam Sandler, never going to ever be confused winning an Oscar.

Although he almost won an Oscar, did he not for? Uncut Jim's. Yeah. Punched drunk. Love, I believe he got nominated as well. So he's got a little bit of acting jobs. I don't know if he got nominated for Uncut Jim's, but I think he did for Punch Drunk Love. So he's had some, he's had some acumen, but in the Happy Gilmore format, that's not going to be yet.

So we knew all of the, there were going to be lots and lots of cameos. So I'm going to tell you this, and this is the best way I was going to be able to describe it to you. The first half hour of the movie for me was a 10. A 10? I love the first half hour, 30, 45 minutes. Really? Then it dropped to about a seven. Okay.

Then midway through it dropped to a really solid five. And then the last 30 or so minutes, Kim and I could not wait for the movie to end. It was so patently absurd. Over the top. Over the top, stupid. So my way to describe it to you was, 10 to a 7 to a 5 to a 1

That's how I describe Happy Gilmore 2 The script really ran out of steam you're saying Well If it would have stayed And I would say What don't we can be able to discuss Really discuss it would be like a year from now

I guess I don't know Without spoilers But I mean Yeah I guess we can hold off on spoilers Point is Again if you're trying to figure it's on he obviously attempts to come back.

There could have been a lot of other more interesting, funnier ways to attempt the comeback than how they did it. And I just thought it got from, it was a bad premise and then it became completely preposterous to the very end. Not that I was expecting reality, but I was, again, what we looked and said, how much longer has this movie got to go?

And it was like 31 minutes. We stopped, you know, when you're on Netflix, you can see much left and like, oh, thank God. It was to me, the premise was okay, the execution was bad. There were some funny moments for sure. I laughed a few times. Okay, it was a little too much with the cameos.

I mean, there was like 10,000 cameos. It felt a little mailed in from that standpoint. Like having a few golfers pop up and all that type of stuff, that's cool. Like, oh, he's John Daly's living in his garage. That's funny. Even though John Daly probably was the worst actor in the entire thing. Some of the bits were running to the ground. can I say?

Yes. You know, like him drinking out of everything. Yeah. That got ran into the ground. There were some clever moments. I was like, oh, he's going to say somebody's closer at the end. He doesn't say that. He says something else.

And so I thought overall, I gave it like a six out of ten. Maybe like a five and a half. I'm closer to a five. Not the worst movie I've ever seen. No, I'm not going to see it again. I will never see it again. Also, it felt like Adam Sandler like didn't want to be there. Did you think he's acting?

like he needs to go to fix my low t.com Matt. He felt it was lacking in energy. And part of the cabby goremer was this and maybe that's just it. He's, he's defeated because of what happens in the movie. And he's got to make this money for his daughter and all that type of stuff. I guess that's

what was supposed to be the point. But, yeah. And also the, what happened to the quality of film? Everything just shot on. It looked like they bought some cameras from Best Buy and then shot the film. Is that a bi-product of watching it on television at home, though?

Maybe. Maybe. It just didn't look. I mean, I didn't like the look of it. I didn't like the feel of it. I didn't like some of the jokes, like I said, it was just over the top, a little bit too much. Like, oh, this guy's got fart breath. Ha, ha, ha. Like, eh. Yeah, it to me is an. And remember, I saw the first one and loved it. I'm bumming it down to a five.

I just, yeah, I'm at a five. Because, again, I... If Gordy was in here bullying me, I'd say six. But I'm going to go five. He came in just like, oh, this is... I mean, first of all I also woke up at 4 o'clock in a morning, two to watch it. I mean, he lives... He's in Louisiana, too, so that's, you know, the pallet of a Baton Rouge movie critic.

This would be, like, if this movie was produced by, like, the LSU Film Board. That's how, like, he loves, he lives and breathes Adam Sandler. He's, like, loves all his albums and went and to go see... Anytime he comes into town, he goes and sees Adam Sandler. Gordy worships. Adam Sandler. So he was going to like it no matter what. He just was. He's a Homer. He is. Yeah.

And so when he said, I'm sorry it wasn't a citizen, I was like, what, what are you doing? Enjoy your birthday. He's going to defend it. Yeah, like I say, it's be like you're saying something bad about Ed Ogeron. He's going to defend him. Yeah. Sorry he's not, Newt Rockney.

All right. Boca Civic next here on 790. All right, 11.03, Sports Talk 790. It is Matt Ross with you. We've got Astros baseball a day game. Of course, we want you to listen to radio, but if you happen to be watching it on television later today at some point, you're going to see at least at 1130 or at 1230,

the Brian Bogus-Evick led pregame show along with Kevin Eschenfelter. Bogies at the ballpark right now. What a huge weight off of the shoulders of the Astros. And you would never say that after losing four straight games to Oakland into the A's and to the nationals, but it certainly happened last night, Bogie. No, absolutely. It felt like it was getting to the point to where they needed one, not just for the standings, but just to kind of let everybody breathe a little bit. You know, that stuff starts piling up, especially this time of year when the season's kind

of dragging to begin with. And then you have Texas making a move and Seattle playing well. It was a much-needed win last night. All right. So what is this time of year like in the clubhouse before we? we get to the actual particular players. You have been in the major league clubhouses for part of your life and you've been around on July 31st or so. What's, what is it like for everyone, whether their names are being mentioned or not? It's, it's anxious. It's exciting. You know, there's always, you know, the opportunity for the unknown. And, you know, it's much more exciting to be in a clubhouse for a team where you're thinking they're going to add. And we're, all right, we're

making the moves to go for it versus being in a clubhouse where it's, you know, you're kind of looking around and saying, am I going to be gone? Are you going to be gone? Who's going to be here tomorrow? But yeah, it's just, it's a strange time. You know, just imagine being in your office on any given day knowing that, you know, there are going to be some guys in and out here in the next day or two. It just makes them a little bit of angst, but at the same time, it's an exciting time because, you know, once you get past this, it's really like, okay, here's who we are and this is the home stretch now. Do you feel like, and not that you can speak on every trade rumor that's out there, Brian, but do you feel like this is agent driven because the agent finds out through reporters

that their names are being banned about? Because I would assume that most general managers, unless they're just trying to float a name out there, wouldn't be calling their favorite majorly baseball network reporter and saying, hey, I want to mention this guy as a trade possibility. No, I think everything that gets out, gets out for a reason. And it's, and it's agents trying to, steer teams into or steer their players into what they think to be better situations or it could be teams trying to, you know,

throw some smoke out there and throw people off their scent of who's available and who's not. But yeah, a lot of the stuff that gets out there is out there for a reason and it's not usually because anybody's trying to tip their hand as to what they're doing. So if deals don't get made, tell me what that

clubhouse is like. For instance, let's talk about just throw Dylan Cease's name out there. He's been associated with a variety of of teams, including the Astros. What if Dylan C stays to San Diego Padre? What's his mindset supposed to be if he still is a Padre, say, in two days from now? You know, I don't know, I don't know that it really affects guys all that much. You know, maybe young players who are going through it for the first time or hearing about it and seeing it for the first time, it might shake them a little bit, but a veteran, I mean, Dylan C, it feels like his name has been in trade talks

ever since he got to the major league. So a guy in that type of situation, you kind of take it for what it is, you know, kind of look at it as teams think I'm valuable, you know, teams are interested that that should be a good thing for me personally. And if it happens great, and if it doesn't, you just go about your business. It just kind of comes along with the territory. At some point, eventually you just kind of get numb to it all. Last thing I'll say about this before we get to the particulars. You know, I've asked many people when I'm covering NBA games and traveling like,

hey, what do you hear about guys being traded? And the majority of them typically say, if I have, have my contract and I'm getting paid, that has to come with the territory of, you know what, I may have to move at some point in my career. As long as the check moves with me, I'm going to live with it, okay.

Yeah, there are very few guys in any sport who get into the situation where they're pretty comfortable or confident thinking that they're going to be with one franchise for their entire career. I mean, those guys are very rare and it's because of their abilities and then also just their stature within those organizations. everybody else the idea of moving from team to team it's not ideal during the season you know it's kind of a headache from a personal standpoint but in terms of from a professional standpoint everybody's under the assumption that they're probably going to be changing teams one way or another at some point if not multiple times during their career so the idea of it isn't all that you know disruptive but but just on your day-to-day life when it does actually happen it's kind of kind of a pain all right bulgey's with this bryn bogus civic space city network

with us here on the sports talk 70. So let's get to the two players that are being talked about more than anybody else. And we'll start with Dylan C's. Walk me through it if you can. A, why the Padres would make a move like that. They're four back of the Dodgers in the West. They are the wild card team. And then on the Astro side,

are we supposed to context clue that maybe all these guys that are at rehab and working on getting back from the AAA that maybe the Astros in the back of their mind are thinking maybe. only one or two of them pan out that I need as many reinforcements as possible in my starting rotation. Yeah, so I'm from the Padre standpoint. Why, you know, if you need to make moves one way or the other, if you've got to shore up one place of your team or your organization has got to come from somewhere else.

So, you know, usually you think of, you know, trading minor league prospects for major league talent, but sometimes it's just trading from a place of strength or a place of surplus and trying to add somewhere else. So I don't know that it's necessarily red flagging somebody because a team is willing to move off of them. It's just kind of, you know, what they need or what they want at any given time. I think from an Astro's standpoint, look, it's great that there are guys who are coming back. It's great that there are guys who are really close to being healthy and going to be able to contribute at the major league level. But, you know, the fact of the matter is when a guy's coming off a major surgery and a long layoff,

even when they get back, you don't know exactly what you're going to get from a talent standpoint. You don't know if they're going to be all the way to 100%. Just because you're activated, you might not be all the way back to where you were. You're certainly not going to be able to carry the same workload as a guy who never went through that or isn't coming off of an injury. And there's probably going to be, at the very least, some inconsistency or maybe some time when your innings have to be managed. So, you know, I think, yes, getting a Christian Javier or Luis Garcia back,

at some point it's going to be additive. You add those guys into the mix. It's certainly helpful, but it's just hard to really pin down what exactly you can count on a guy for who's coming off of a major surgery. So you brought up those two guys and didn't bring up Spencer Arrogati because it's a different situation. I think Arrogati is not going to have to worry about a governor on him because it wasn't an army issue that got him into trouble. So let me ask you this, if you were to put Javier and let's say even JP France got in the mix, you're adding him, you're adding Luis Garcia. You're adding three guys that are going to be on a pitch limit the rest of this year. It'd be ridiculous to think they're going to be throwing 90-95-mile

pitches per game. Does that not then tax your bullpen or does that make you livery of going to a six-man because you're going to already be one guy short in the bullpen with maybe three or four guys in your rotation that aren't going to be able to get you deep in the games? No, you're certainly going to have to be wary of that. You know, if you're going to have guys who are going to be on a pitch count, first of all, for their total. Also, you're talking about guys who are going to be on pitch count in terms of innings. If you see one of those guys coming off of a major surgery, go out there and throw 30 plus pitches in an inning, that's probably going to be it for them, regardless of what

their total was for the game. So you're talking about always having the potential for a short start. If you're already one guy short in the pen because you're in a six-man rotation, it makes it really difficult. You certainly don't want to get into a situation where you're throwing leverage relievers and non-leverage situations. That's taking away from a strength of the team. So it's part of the calculus. And part of that, you know, is who are the other guys who are in the rotation? Can they be counted on to go deep into games and kind of balance that out? Is Framber going to be able to continue to do what he's been doing? Is Hunter Brown, you know, going to be able to get back to being as efficient as he was and being six seven innings instead

of five or six innings. And you have to weigh all of those things because, you know, anytime you add somebody into the roster, anytime you make a change to the roster, the way the whole team functions is just a little bit differently, and it's got to be accounted for. Come more minutes of Brian Bogacific with us here on 790. All right, so let's get to Carlos Crea.

That's the second name that's being brought up. Now, obviously, a lot of that is because the thought to me is that EACPredeus is not going to play anymore this year, and you can insert Carlos Craig at third base right away. So when you first heard the name, what were your initial thoughts? And then just like we do here on the radio, we try to deduce things.

So what does an early Brian Bocasific deduction say about why there is apparent interest between the Astros and trying to acquire their former shortstop? Well, I think why there would be initial interest is quite obvious, right? It would fill an immediate need. It could fill an immediate need.

It's a guy who you certainly know what you're getting in terms of the clubhouse and on the field. And just anytime a player of that caliber starts getting mentioned as being available, and certainly when it's a guy who means as much as he has to this organization, you're going to look into it and just see what it is. Now, the surface level interest is just the beginning. It's what is it going to take to bring a guy in like that?

Is it going to what's the prospect cost? What's the money cost? All of those conversations are more important than just him being available. But also with a guy in that situation, you have to think about, you know, it's not just for this year. Like, yes, he slots in to Asoc Paredes, the spot that he's vacated with injury, but what does it look like in years coming? What happens when you have a healthy Jeremy Paineon,

when you have a healthy Esoc Paredes, where do all these pieces fit next year and the year after? Because it's not just a one-year deal for a guy like Carlos Correa. So when you're talking about acquiring somebody at the deadline who's not just a rental and hitting free agency, you've got to think about what does this look like for us moving forward in terms of payroll, in terms of playing time, in terms of how the infield works. So why is their surface level interest, I think, is pretty obvious.

It gets much more complicated after that, though. Well, that's what we were trying to do. I'm trying to size up 2026, Brian, because obviously we're down to two months left in this season and change. If I'm thinking about 26, I'm thinking that one of the names you just brought up will not be a part of this team, that there will be something that will be decided, because unless you think you can move Jeremy Pena to second base, I don't think I want Isaac Peretti's playing second base.

I think, Jeremy, I want to keep him where I am at shortstop if I want to do that. I don't think Carl, I think to preserve Carlos Creight, playing him at third base would help him out in terms of longevity. So walk me through what 2026 would be if this deal was made in. And do you agree with me that maybe one of the guys

we brought up wouldn't be here? It's certainly possible. I mean, if you added a guy like that into the mix, You know, you obviously see some redundancy in the positions, but it could also be a thing of saying, hey, if we can get better now, maybe we do that move and then figure out how next year looks in the offseason. You also have the ability to take one of those guys. I mean, you would have two guys in Correa and Pena who would be certainly well overqualified to play second base, but that's always the possibility.

You know, I don't know how that changes your plans moving forward with a guy like Bryce Matthews. But, you know, these are the things that have to be taken into account. And that's why the trade deadline is always so interesting because we get so hyper-focused on, we've got to make a move for this year. We've got to make this team better now for this playoff run. A lot of these moves will affect you down the road. So, you know, I don't know. It's a move that certainly helps in the short term, but theoretically, I don't know how it works long-term.

Yeah, that's good stuff. And we'll talk more about that if indeed it does happen. Bogie, look forward to seeing you on TV. Thank you for the visit. We'll talk again next week. All right. Thanks, thanks, guys. You got it, Brian Bogus Epic with us here from Diken Park.

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or now. We've obviously gone all the way Astros. I know the Texans are practicing right now. It's fine, right? I mean, they're doing fine. I think they're great. They're doing great. Apparently some rookie got hurt. I don't know. I guess he's not doing great. He's not feeling great right now.

run pick out of a Rutgers. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. I'm fine. Who's don't let out all this Rutgers money, by the way? They got good basketball players, the football players are getting better. They still don't win. I guess NIL does not guarantee success, as the folks over there in college station understand. Man, money's going crazy.

Absolutely. So let me ask you this, and I don't even know the answer to this. I guess I should do some digging. Like, you know, the University of Houston, we have had our struggles financially. Mm-hmm. We don't have the base of gazillionaires like Texas, A&M, Alabama, Notre Dame, Ohio State. We're having a great recruiting class. And I'm not naive to think it's because our facilities are great.

I mean, they're good, and they get a good football operation center, but we're paying. Did people, and this is an example, this is just a question for, whether it's Houston or whatever. Did people not want to pay up and we had to go to the AD had to go to the boosters say hey man we need you to step up this is the time to do it. I don't know. How is the old class looking to shaping up these days? It's top 40 nationally.

Wow. Yeah. And we haven't said that in a long time. And look, Willie Fritz is a great recruiter. No matter where he's gone, he's always been a good recruiter. She has set your expectation levels higher, Maddie. Top 40? I'm talking about this year, I think.

We haven't been top 40 in years. I mean, Dana just gave up on recruiting. Yeah, we're going to look on the portal, man. 39th, yeah. Yeah, so, I mean, when was the last thing you brought up top 40 in U. Behind Cal and Kansas and TCU and Boston College? But I'm like, for instance, Texas Tech's never been talked about that? How did Texas Tech all of a sudden get their recruits?

Cody was a guy? What is that guy's name? Yeah, they are 20. So that dude is printing, is literally handing out blank checks and they only get to 26. This is according to 24-7 sports. How legit are they? What do you mean? Okay.

Well, I mean, come on. They could be, we get a fanboys everywhere too. I mean, trust me, you can find fan boys with college recruiting stuff. Yeah. So that's what I'm saying. You got to separate the super fan boys. Why would I bring you a website that wasn't legit, Matt? Come on now.

I don't know. You go to, you go to Texans for Life.com for your Texans information. That's where that's because I'm head writer there. That's true. That's true. So if you're a University of Houston supporter and you've been helping us, thank you. Open up the checkbook a little bit more. Come on, Matt, what's going on with you?

Let's go. Let me tell you, my money's going to other places. You know, I'm tired of spending money. I need to save some money. And look, I love college athletics like everybody else, but don't come to me for money. I've done enough for the University of Houston. Let's see. On three's got you at 41st.

Dang. So on three. I think on three got bought by rivals? I don't know. You know the same guy, I think he started all three websites. This is more of a question for Gordy. But I think the guy who started rivals,

sold it, started 24-7 sports, sold that, started on three and sold that. This guy's like a recruiting website genius. And then some schools are not associating themselves with that. Hmm. Like, didn't Texas have some sort of relationship with one of them? And then Texas is like, we're going on our own now.

I don't remember. All right. But the point being is that, the schools that are making the most in rows, at least in Texas, when it comes to spending money these days? I mean, SMU always had money, but I guess they had to wait to get the ACC for people to really start giving it to them. And the money that's being spent at Texas Tech.

You guys are 41st, just behind Vanderbilt. Looking good. We're behind Vanderbilt? That's okay. Oh, ew. I don't like that at all. You ever watching Vanderbilt football games? Yeah? It's depressing.

I did. They were pretty solid last year. They have wooden seats in our stadium. That's not true. That's so messed up, man. Come on. I mean, I've seen... Their locker room is in a log cabin. Their facilities are like Nacadoche is good. No.

Actually, I'm a lover jack, but those facilities are nice, okay? I'm just kidding. I'm trying to find SFA's recruiting class. Relax. This is very small. Go to 225, 230 range. It should be up there in that area. I think they're behind Georgia State. I believe they're behind DeVry Technical College.

Oh, hey, DeVry's got some good recruits this class. Is DeVry still around, by the way? I don't. When I was watching Jerry Springer, like every commercial was for DeVry. The DeVry Institute, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't see. I don't see SFA on here. Isn't it crazy that when you look at recruiting, it's not like, well, you know,

these coaches go in there and really dig in and talk about how great their facilities are and what's going to happen is probably because the cash influx. Like, where was, again, we don't have time to figure it out today, but where was Texas Tech three years ago on the recruiting front? Were they 26? I can go look. You really can? Yeah, what do you mean?

Well, man, I don't know. It's the internet, man. I want you to hurt yourself. I'm the Research Bureau of this, of this show, and you're the Hot Take Bureau. They were 25th three years ago. Wait, but money's not helping them out. If I'm If I'm that dude at tech,

like, wait, but I'm just giving you all this blank check money. What's going on? Okay, 43rd in 2022. Okay. So they have a bumping up. Yeah.

Also, they only have like 16 recruits. It could be landing guys later in the game. And they're probably using them portal. A lot of the classes. Oh, yeah. They're there. I think they had the number one or two portal class. That does make some sense there.

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Trust me. We have 25 minutes. I feel like I've done this before, but I feel like I have to do it again. Please. And you talked about this happening downtown around the Toyota Center, East Downtown, everywhere. It feels like it's getting worse.

To you people, driving around. You're in your scooters, you're racing around, you're not checking around corners, you're going the wrong way on one-way streets, you're going to get yourself killed, and it's been happening across these country with major injuries of people flying around on scooters. Ain't nobody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that. You cannot drive around downtown or east downtown in this town without having to, like, swerve and play Frogger with 100 people on scooters.

To Darkbreast Airlines. Doing a commercial. Hey, we have great news. We're assigning seats now. That's because you want to charge people. Is that great news? Anybody got time for you bragging about signed seats when you're looking to add money to your piggy bank.

Hey, nobody got time for that. Losing a free bag, free bags too. Shut you bum asses up, Darkbreast. $70 for bags nowadays. $70. I remember when they were 30 and I was, I was pissed. You know what you have to do. The easy thing to do you do.

You have to get the credit card. Get the credit card. That's what I want you to do too. Yeah. Yeah. It's all a friggin' racket. Not doing it. No, I'm wearing all my clothes and I'm only bringing a backpack.

What's up? I'm putting on 10 layers of clothes. It would be heavy. You'd be sweating on that plane. That's okay. Make sure the air conditioning vents are really good. I'm turning it on. Them TSA people are going to look at you.

I don't care. $70 for a $70 for a, check bag? No, it's not 70 per. I mean, for the first bag, yeah. No, what airline? Yeah. No. I'm telling you right now. $35. No. For a check bag? Not seven, not for the first bag. No chance. I seen it. I seen it recently. Now, maybe if you're basing economy that would cost you 70 for the bag. Yeah, maybe that's it. No, even then, hold on. I was looking at a fly. I'm going to, you talk to somebody. I'm going to talk to the people of Houston, Texas. 713, 212.570. 7.1.3, 212, 570. 7.7.7.7. on ain't Jonathan, what's the matter with you?

Man, I'm Texas. I'm not Texas born, but I'm Texas raised. And one of the things about growing up was staying up late and going on TV and waiting for American Dad and family gone when your mom wasn't around. And, you know, you had to sit through at least a three 30-minute episodes of King of the Hill, man, and then you fall in love with it.

And you're like, you know what, this is the stuff, this is Texas good humor. And then they rebued it. Reboot it. And it looks horrible. It sounds horrible. It's not the same old Hank Hill and Bobby. It's not It's not what I grew up on. And ain't nobody got time for that, man.

There's nostalgia run. And Matt, you had brought this up. It just kills my, my childhood is ruined. Okay, and it's just gone now. All right. What airline is this? This is United. Oh, that's right.

Basic economy, economy 80, 80, 80. Wait a minute. That's first check. What does it matter with you? We'll see. 80. It says $80 on United. Oh.

I'm pretty sure I saw 70 on 70. Southwest. Are you sure? All right. This can't be $80 for a check. And the first bag? No way. I'm excited. All right. I'm going to try to book a ticket. Okay. And we'll see. Let's go to Economy Plus. It says first check bag. As I'm saying, it says all three am $80. Yeah. You told me I was making it up. Well, you said 75, so you're really wrong. No, I'm going to found Southwest. They had 70. Matt. What's the matter with you, Matt? Hey, Matt. Hey, Ross. How y'all doing? Good. I got a, this one, this one, this one's targeted at Ross and Gordy.

Yes. I got to call you out on something. Last week, I was listening to the Crawford Bopscast, it's all this after an episode. You're the one. You're the one. I'm on Spotify. Appreciate it. I can't get, I can't get two minutes through the episode without the first ad.

And then two minutes later, another ad. And another, every two minutes, every two minutes. Every two minutes. Every two minutes. Listen on Spotify. It's terrible. What, what, you guys got to fix that. I ain't got time for an ad every two minutes.

I didn't get to the whole podcast episode. I gave up. I appreciate that. Gordy uploads it. I'll have to talk to him. I don't know. It certainly shouldn't be an ad every two minutes. That obviously is a mistake.

Okay. Well, thank you for bringing that to my attention. Absolutely. Hold up. Hold on. Happy time in. I did not. I am.

This computer does not know who I am. Okay. I bought, I just randomly picked a flight between Houston and Indianapolis. First bag, $40. Okay. First bag, $40. Well, how come, yeah, I just pulled it up. on Google. That's what I was looking at.

You know what? Google's trying to, Jones in on that. Go to the United app. Okay. So Google, shut your bum ass up. All right. I got a shut show for you. Oh, please do, Maddie.

Okay, now, no, this one, I'm sorry. This goes to the broader 790 host demographic. Okay, this is kind of all for all y'all. And just about everybody else, all the other baseball nerds. Every year, it's the last, I don't know, two or three seasons, I've had to call in with the shut show. And here we go again.

Shut your bum ass up with your strength of schedule talk this team has taught us that they play down to the competition every time. I don't care how many games they have against teams under 500. I'd almost rather than play first place teams only from here on out. Shut your bum ass

up with strength of schedule talk. That's all I got. Shut your bum ass up, man. I think it's directed to Ross because Ross is the king of the schedule strength of talk. Let's see. Well, things haven't been going well against teams of below 500 records recently. I'll have to pull it up.

How about this week? Yeah, that would be recently. Very recently, like just the other day. Meagel on 790 Meegiel, what's the matter with you? Hey, how's it going, guys? I was just going to give you a peek behind the curtain a little bit on said airline that you didn't like West that goes from South. My wife works for them. So the CEO, they fired him last year when they first started talking about charging for

bags because he had told him it was going to generate $1.2 billion in sales, but they were going to lose $1.7 billion in passenger fares. So they fired him and brought in a new guy that would put the bag fees on there. So, you know, I'm pretty sure he's telling them to shut their bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. Neidja, what does your wife do for Darkbreast? She's a customer service. She works at the ticket counter and then she also boards the flights as well. Oh, my God. She be a saint. Yes, yes, definitely.

Does she come home every day and tell you funny stories about people yelling on her from some random reason? You know what's funny is my wife is huge on social media, but she knows, she doesn't know who anybody is, so she's waited on like several celebrities and all of her co-workers are like taking pictures and going, hey, hey, hey, look, you know who that is? And she's like, I have no idea who that is. So, you know, it's hilarious when she comes home and tells me that she waited on

somebody and she wasn't just ooing and on all over them but all of her co-workers were so yeah well good thanks to the information need you appreciate it yeah uh we i think you we you brought up first and i backed you up on it the this charging for the bags thing and is gonna is going to ultimately cost southwest in the long run don't you think i mean i don't even i would think so i don't even think about flying dark breast anymore first of all intercontinental is significantly easier second of all and i do have a credit card attached to shmided so i get a bag of but I would go down to Dark Breast to get the two free bags and I don't get any more. So, dark breast, until you get those two free bags back, shut your bum ass up.

Shit your bum ass up, man. 713-212-5-790. Mark is with us on 790. Mark, what's the matter with you? Nobody got time from Ross. Yes. Throwing out bad numbers. It's $35 for the first bag and $45 for the second bag. I showed Matt on Google Flights what it told me. How many bags did it?

It said first bag, $80. You saw it. I saw it. Matt sees it. So shut your bum ass up. Mark, something's going on. You got your bum ass up, man. 45 for the stuff.

All right. Well, I don't know. Talk to Google flights. I think Google's trying to screw them, Mark, because I just went to United and it's 40-40. But I did see first bag 80. So, yeah, Google, you know what? Get away from Google, Ross. Go to the website.

Okay. Get away from that Google. Mark for the phone call. Do you even use those travel websites at all? I don't even use the Roaritz or Mavomosity or Rex Ridi. I usually use Gordy Travel Enterprises. Oh, I told you that doesn't

work. Who do you really supposed to trust when it comes to the office? See what happens when I pull up Dark Breast? What's the Dark Breast say? This is now, it's on Google. So I was searching on Google and I was getting better. Get the hell off of Google. Like, I'm going to go to Darkbrest during the break, see how much a vaccine costs you. I think it's

35. I think you're right. Yeah. So, so Google's just searching for flights on Google flights and it says first check bag, $70. Shit your bum ass up, man. 1140. Don't make me screenshot it. No, no, I saw it. Matt is a testing. I'm just telling you, get off Google. 1144 on Sports Talks. Get off the Google and get on to what. 66 WFAA. That's enough for me to turn the done the music. Let's go to James and God knows. James, you're on the fan. What's going on?

Hey, thank you for checking my call, Governor Thomas. Yes, sir. Shout out to all of the, listen, I happen to be listening to a baseball game on the radio over the weekend. I normally don't do that. And I was listening to these two clowns after the game talking about all kinds of sports. And they were going out of two pineapples, man. But one pineapple was talking about walling and, you know, how great he is and everything. And that's a good, feel good story.

And then they're talking about George, the other guy from the other angle. Look, the guy that was talking about all the facts, he was right on top of his stuff, man. He had all his facts and figures, and then the other guy just said, well, but Count Rowling, he's a feel-good story and everything. Look, okay, give it that he's a good, feel-good story, but I still think pound for pound that Judge is still the better player. And if he loses the MVP of this shit, life goes on. But he's still one of the game's best players.

And I felt sorry when they did the same thing to Bregman, when Trout was out and Bregman was doing his ass, He was doing his job and he should have got that MVP. He was robbed all because of these dumb pineapples that, you know, run the sports. Thank you for taking my call, Governor Thomas. Thank you for joining us on the fair. Unbelievable, man. Cow rally can't hold Jorge Posada's Jack.

Bernie Williams a kick out of Raleigh's dumper. He kick him through the teeth. Aaron Rogers is going to. a sock for the Steelers. Staten Island will go next to you. Felipe on 7-90. Felipe, what's the matter with you? It's W-F-A-N.

I miss Ruh, I miss something, man. I haven't heard him from a while in a while. I just want to piggyback on the flights. So I have two of them. I know one, a couple weeks back, Matt, whenever they put the paper bags on Ralph Ritz, they should just raise the ticket prices. Like, what's the difference?

you know, like, we're not going to see it. People complain about the bags, paying for the bags. But if you just added it into the ticket, we're not going to go playing. Correct. Basic marketing. Yeah, it's stupid. Like, so to Ralph Wress, shit your bum ass up, man. Set your bum ass up, man. And this goes up to Google flights.

I'm looking up for flights to go to Las Vegas in October for my sister's wedding. One day, oh, they're pretty good. Decent round trip is like 180? Okay, I come back two hours later. They're at $390. Google flights, shut your bum ass up too, man. Shut your bum ass out, Rugal. Shut your bum ass up, man.

Rugal. Yeah. I mean, it's a good search engine, but I'm going to buy no damn ticket on Rugal. Ross, that's a, that's a, you need to send Google a review and tell him, why are you double in the bag prices? I don't know. I'm not going to purchase it, so I guess I won't find out.

Yeah. You know what? Let me buy your tickets for you. I'll get you that free bag. Yeah? Yeah, where you going? Oh, you just want some points. I'm not going to anywhere yet.

I'm just trying to decide. I'm leaving it a month. We do whatever's cheap. Maybe do a road trip. I might be headed to a scenic Bay City. I hear Brian Colle Station is nice this time of year. All right. Last one, James and Klein.

What's the matter with you, James? Yeah, the Astros had a game against Seattle where the Space City Network, you couldn't watch it on it. It was on Sling or you had to go to MLB. I went to MLB and went ahead and paid for it, because I wanted to watch the game. And then they sit there and tell me that I can't watch the game until 90 minutes after the game is over.

What's up with that? Wait a minute. Every game from Seattle was on Space City. Yeah, it was on, no one was, you couldn't get on the Space City. It was Space City, right, you're right. But you had to have Sling or MLB because it wasn't on the regular channels with the AT&T which would I have on DirecTV. No, no, no, no, no, James.

I have DirecTV. And I watched all three Seattle games. Okay, well, for whatever reason, I had to go to MLB. And when I went to MLB, they said, you can watch the game 90 minutes after it's over. What's up with that? I mean, why am I paying for it to watch it? Cable to late 90 minutes after the game was over? That's crazy.

All right. Hey, nobody got time for it. Sorry for your loss. I didn't have that issue because I have DirecTV and I have Space City and I watched all three games just fine. Maybe that's me Maybe Klein's got different zip code issues Yeah, I don't know

He should be under the same umbrella I didn't have to watch Anything on Sling TV? No What the hell is he talking about? I believe it isn't Friday on Mapple Is it? I thought they weren't going to be on Mapple

No, I think Friday's Mapple, wait, let me double check Friday maybe Mapple and I believe Sunday is Moku Oh my God With a Moku Okay. Yeah, Friday is on Apple.

Man, they are really bullying you into getting this Southwest Visa. It's ridiculous. Yeah. You get the credit card from the airline that gave you a free bag. Now, if you travel a lot or you are a fan of a particular airline, you have a credit card, you might as well do it. Just paid off on time. I'm very proud to say, knock on whatever this is, I have not been an interest payment

on my credit card in probably five years. Prudy, man. I'm lucky, but I know a lot of people can't do that. So that's the negative on that is if you get it, airline credit card, those interest rates are about 19, 20%. That'll hit you. That'll hurt. So just be careful.

Words to live by from Matt Thomas. I can't believe Google would do that to anybody. Why are you double charging the bags? That's ridiculous. Maybe when you click on it, it goes down. I don't know. But it says first bag. Oh, no. I saw it.

I didn't believe it, but I still saw it. Because I had paid for bags before on the airlines, and it's always been $35, $40. somewhere in that range. Who knows? Yeah, charge, it's like when you go to a restaurant and you get a steak, right? You get a steak and a side. You want a salad.

You know, people like to have a little salad and bread before they get their main course. Uh-huh. Add a salad for $1.99. You know what? Charge me $1.99 for more for the steak. Give me the damn salad. Give me more value. Don't you think I'm right about that?

I don't know. They've probably crunched the numbers. From $2399 to $2529. Okay. I'll take that 10-ounce surloin and get that knocked out with a salad. mean good. Charging me $2 for an extra salad. Shut your bum ass up,

respective low-end steak places. So I'm all in on stuff. Shit your bum ass up, man. I should teach a marketing class. I teach a lot of classes. I would not want to take that. Wait, my professor, negative one. You give me a negative review?

I'll give you the biggest paragraph to make sure at no one would join Mr. Thomas' class. You need to go out of Google reviews and give me the best review. I'm affable. I'll let you turn papers in late. I'll let you make mistakes. And, you know, SFA, you only use 20 letters of the alphabet anyway. Is an SFA vowel optional?

What? Val optional. I'm staying out of this. Yeah, you probably should. I tease lumberjacks. I'm kidding. You are one of the better junior highs I've been seen in a long time. Just wait until all of Nacadocious comes after you, man.

They ain't coming out to me. Hey, the neckwrecks is crazy. I'm just saying. Who's going to run the run I can in if they're coming after me.