The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Break The Losing Streak Winning Game 3 vs Athletics, Can They Squeeze Into The Post Season?

Episode Date: September 26, 2025

Astros Break The Losing Streak Winning Game 3 vs Athletics, Can They Squeeze Into The Post Season?

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Later, boy. Going to get us some money on Saturday, baby. Let me go. Sorry. What got into you today?

Well, he lost money last Saturday. Yeah, thanks. That was a big bet. He was money yesterday. He was double-digit strike. We got a good Frumber yesterday. Great Frumber. Farewell to him as an Astro.

That was it. Backs against the wall, season on the line, and he came through. Woo! How are we feeling? Let's go Frommers. Let's go Astros. Still a chance. I hadn't even checked.

Well, before you give the percentages, let me give you the scenarios. Is that okay with you? Oh, yes. All right, here we go. Here's how it has to go. The Astros, if they sweep the angels, they need the guardians to lose two or three to the Rangers, or the Tigers will lose two or three of the Red Sox,

or on the converse side of it, the tigers need to sweep the Red Sox. But they also have to win out. That's if they go 3 and 0. Okay. If the Astros win two out of three, the guardians or tigers, one of the two, must get swept. If the Astros do not win at least two, if they only win one, no chance, no way, no how.

28.2%. So your Sanders a chance. It went up from yesterday is 24. Good. Just win, baby. You're just winning pray now at this point. Your ace, Jason Alexander is on the hill. Let's go.

Do you try, if Hunter Brown give you two innings on Sunday, do you go to him? I guess. He didn't go long. Sure, why not? Because everybody knows when a guy's on short rest and you don't use him, he would have been perfect. And he would have gotten all the outs in the world. And everything would have been peach keen if you didn't go,

if you don't go to the guy on short rest. Okay. I can't believe that's coming up. In 2025, that's still coming up. Are you ready for me to say something? I'd only say maybe once every four or five years? No. Let's go Rangers.

They are laying down and dying. They're already sitting Marcus Simeon and Corey Seeger. Goodness knows who else they're sitting at this point. Games are in Cleveland too. That doesn't help. Okay, so they're on the road and Seeger and Simeon are out and whoever else they're not playing. Yeah, that's Dungzo. The Astros are done, but hey, at least they showed a little bit of fight yesterday. So it comes down to, okay, so we're not going to rely on the guardians at all.

Yeah, you know, right? No, you shouldn't. So that means the tigers need to lose two or three of the Red Sox. That is very possible for that to happen. Or sweep the Red Sox. Or sweep. Right? No, that's the other direction.

Oh, the Red Sox got to get sweat? Tigers to sweep the socks. Yes, I'm saying. They could sweep this. You need them to lose two out of three or sweep. Lose two out of three or win three. Yeah, I'm saying sweep. Yes.

Sweep the Red Sox. Yes. Win one or win three? That's what you want. Now, get swept. Do sweep. Do the sweeping. Get the broom.

Their broom, not their broom. Astros' fault. Yeah. We've confused you, not because of our fault. It's the Astros' fault. Just win your games. Just win out. And we'll see what happens.

8.38 p.m. start tonight. Woo! Who! Who's on post game? Probably Dan. I'm doing it tomorrow. We better get that coffee going to nap. Are we doing post games today? I had to do post games midweek.

I'm sure they are, yeah. Okay. Yeah, good. I'm not doing it. Client insure hell ain't doing it. Wexler's in Oregon. So he's not doing it. He's going to be playing with his wrestling figurines. Is that what he does? Yeah, he's reenacting a WrestleMania 12. All right. It is an anything goes Friday here on the show if you've not been able to figure that out. Ooh, it is Dan. Is Dan doing post? Yeah. Yeah, we always do pre, we always for sure did games pre 9 o'clock first pitch. Oh, that's true. That's right. Godspeed.

So you were the only, I think we did two 9 o'clock post game shows this year and you did both of them. And that's why I'm going to be nice to you for the rest this week. Come Monday, it's all the time. You can't say I'm going to be nice for you the rest of the weekend. It's Friday. Well, you get three hours and 50 minutes plus all of our text this weekend if we text each other. Oh, okay. Which you're a terrible return of text.

That's not true. That's not true. You haven't been responding to several texts I've sent recently. Okay. I think we pull up the receipts. You can pull the receipts. Hey, anything goes Friday. Generally, it's very bad and rude things I've said about people.

that is actually right. That is actually right. It is a non-Rider Cup edition show. Trying to explain what's going on. I can tell you, Eurosop 3-0 in the foursomes. I have no idea. I don't think our audience particularly cares.

If you do care about it, you're probably at home watching it. Are you locked in on the Ryder Cup? No, I'm not. I mean, it's on this, I'd rather watch Shahadi, but you won't put her on because it affects the show.

Yeah. I'd rather you watch you, Victor Hovlin's body than does Shahati's body? something called a can't lay and a chefa sheffelay i'm wishing that a zander a shufferley chafferlelea shuffelais sounds like a burned breakfast item i'll have that i'll have one of those chaffolays all right uh it is anything goes fronty here on the radio program 713212 5779 if you want to join our program today it is anything goes friday i do have a poll question up rossi on the twitter account how's that going um it's actually got some decent response the sam

size could certainly get bigger. And if you would like to get your response in, it's at SportsMT, as my Twitter account. What intrigues you more this weekend? You're smirking for some reason? What? I can't smile. It's a beautiful day to be alive. It is.

Beautiful weather today, by the way. It's a lovely day. Yeah. All right. Astros final weekend or Texans trying for their first win? Who'd like to guess how people are gauging their interest level this weekend? Well, let's talk about the one you did like a week ago on Monday night. What did I do on Monday night?

It was, are you watching the Buccaneers or are you watching the Astros? And what did people say? I think it was heavy Buccaneers, Texans. I think it was. So with that being said, 213 votes are in. 56% are curious about the Astros final weekend, 44% Texans trying for their first win. Wow, that's pretty high, actually. That's actually a fairly high discrepancy.

I was going to guess 70-30 Astros. I was actually going to guess more than that. Really? Mm-hmm. Okay. Well, I mean, there's a team going for the playoffs, and there's a team that's 0-and-3. Mm-hmm. I don't know what to make of that. And it's just anecdotal to me, but we are going to be watching all on television this weekend, obviously.

Late night television. And the Cleveland, the Detroit Boston games on Apple TV, so if you're watching that tonight. That's if you want to watch that game, you can do so. No, I canceled mine. Did you really? Are you a big get cancel a subscribe guy back and forth? Let's see. I've done it with Paramount Plus multiple times.

I've done it with Apple Plus multiple times. I signed up for and canceled Discovery Plus. I haven't been back. I watched a lot of the... I only do it for one thing. The crocodile, hunter. I get the sports pack in the fall. I get the sports pack in the fall, which has the red zone on it.

And then once the season's over, I cancel it. That's good. Mine is tied in with NBA Network, I think, so I have to have it. Oh, really? Okay. So I mean. Each is own. All right. Got to get those hardwood classics in the summer.

What is M.A. TV going to be like now? They won't have games anymore. 1980 Supersonics versus the Golden State Warriors with Rick Berry and his toupee falling off. And those shorts higher than her knees. Yeah. Al-a-John Stockton. This good stuff. How about, you know what?

I told you this before. I was in Toronto one time. And NBA Canada has its own NBA TV channel. It's different than the NBA US. Yeah. And I turned it on and they were having the Rockets versus Sun's playoff game. 93? I don't remember what sure it was.

It had to be in that range. And they were hitting these top of the key jumpers and they were nothing but long twos. And I'm like, this is hard, this difficult to watch. It makes you mad. It does. You feel the spirit of Daryl Morey getting you angry when you see guys stepping on the line and launching long twos. one more step back and just worth an extra point. It's incredible. 50% more points. Yeah, it's incredible. All right. On the show today, we've got I'm sorrys at 1130 today. Usually you give me a plethora of I'm

sorry for the things you've said and done to me over the course of the week. I'm clean this week. All right. It's good. You should apologize to me. For everything. All right. It's fine. 1130. We got I'm sorry's. That'll be at 1130. 12 noon. We'll wake the strippers up at 12 noon. Okay. We have Dr. Roto at 1 o'clock. We've got I. got two non-flora stories this week two two of them oh someone gave it to you yeah somebody yeah how many of those did you research yourself one

better taste man you know what jonathan is learning he called you straight out did i didn't say a word some weeks he doesn't say that at all but then some weeks he says like i got some stories and like where did the stories from that's fair i can i i understand man at one 30 we have non florist stories we have hell yeah or not all things about beavers and oregon state right we can go with that we get the big cougar game the night against oregon state

Oh, we're doing cougars and beavers. Well, do you want to do just beave or do you want to do Oregon State? Like Wally the beef? I don't care. You could mix it up. Cougars like Jennifer Aniston? Is she the all-time cougar of all-time? No, Vergara.

There's a Mount Rushmore of cougars. That'd be it, right? We did. We did a fancy-5 on that. Yes, we did. Aniston's in there. Vigara's on there. I think we talked about the prime of their cougardom,

because we think we took Raquel. Somebody took Raquel Welch. Right, right, right. Sophia Loren. If you're talking about Prime runs as a Cougar, it might be Raquelch number one. Yeah, yeah, I could give you that. Even Lengoria right now.

Ann Hathaway? Is that... Yeah, I guess she counts. She's now... Was she in the Cougar Club went in like five or six years ago? Over 40 now, yeah, 42. You know what? We may have to do a redraft.

No, we're good. Cirque 2025 Cougar Club? Sure, why not? No past tense? We haven't done a fantasy. in months. I know. Has Jonathan done one? He did. He did one. He did one. I lost. Yeah. Yeah. I have the belt. I think. No way.

You won the first one. I won the second one. So I'm batting 500 with Jonathan. Yes. So give me a, usually, Jonathan, my win percentage is about 28%. Normally he's about Christian Walker-esque. Wait, way, way, way, way, way, just a minute. We have all this positive vibe on the Astros and her performance yesterday, and that's what you do.

Sorry. anything goes Friday. 713, 212.790. 713, 212 5790. So again, if you want to vote, let us know. I want to get the pulse of at least those that tolerate me. I was going to say, I don't think all of the people that follow me and like me, but that's fine. I can live with that.

56%. Astros final weekend, 44% on the Texans trying to win their first game. Indianapolis. Indianapolis is at the Rams. Texans are home for Nashville. We're scoreboard watching in the AFC South already? Well, I mean, why not? Yeah.

I mean, I actually probably way too prematurely declared the AFC South to the Colts, because you can't make up the ground. You still have two games with the Colts. It's not feeling. You're feeling safe. Let me that way. We'll put it this way. After this, you have at Baltimore and at Seattle.

How are you feeling? Not great. Seattle's looking good. Seattle wins at the gun yesterday. Sam Donald's playing well. They absolutely annihilated New Orleans a week before. Well, everybody annihilated New Orleans. That's true. You know, the Saints, not that we're going to spend a lot of time on Saints radio here,

because Gordy's not here to do that, but that's a diehard fan base. When you think of the absolute diehard fan, I think of Pittsburgh Steelers fans, I think of Green Bay. Yes. generational. I think there's generational saints fans. I really do. Cowboys fans have this national family. I don't even get that. But a lot of them are diehard. They haven't won anything

in 30 years and they still support the team. They do. For as little as the Saints have won. Seahawks fans, I feel like are pretty diehard. What do you think? But they don't, but their following is just basically parts of Washington State. I feel like the Saints kind of

have the South, Mississippi. We were in Lake Charles. Everybody was upset. And everybody's losing their mind over that. But they're getting mad in Shreport. They're getting mad in Mumro. They're not particularly happy in Metri. Metri.

Slidell, they're not pleased. That's an angry state. Well, the saints suck. Yeah. The city closes down when the games are on. And it closes down in LSU. That's true. I mean, look, there's a lot of things wrong with Louisiana,

probably, you know, lack of teeth. and education, but they love their sports. Binge drinking. Well, I mean, is that a negative? I guess if you have an issue. Yeah. Like toddler, since toddler. I mean, until I state of the union, you can vomit really anywhere you want to.

Think about it. Yeah. If you're walking on bourbon and you feel well, blah, blah. And keep walking. Yeah, usually if you're in Texas or in Houston, you're trying to go to a trash can or go to a bathroom. Louisiana, they just vomit all over. What's the ratio of horse poop to vomit? on Bourbon Street. It's a one and a half to one.

That's about right. It's like all these, they've got the cavalry and the horse-drawn policemen. It is funny to me that the only place, I know where I can find my rockets on the road. Uh-huh. You know, we're traveling or, you know, look, we're going to say, people, they spread out, they go to different restaurants, they do the thing. In New Orleans, they don't, the rockets don't go to Bourbon Street.

athletes don't because they just know that's going to be some trouble there. Well, yeah, you're going to get surrounded immediately when you're 6 foot 11. Yeah. Now, they will go to the casino. Yes. And it's great that our hotel is right next to the casino. And you and Mike Epps can roll some dice. That's right.

It's my close personal friend. Yes. Black Doug. Black Doug. That was a funny story. I'm not going to lie. No, the funniest part was how many black guys you know named Doug, by the way. I can go Doug Williams.

You're next. Doug Baldwin. Okay, that's two. The former Seattle receiver. Yeah, a tight-in, right? No, receiver. Okay. Possession guy.

All right, Jonathan, you're next. I have no one thing I've ever met or even know of Black Doug. That's an odd name. Like, I got a... It is an odd name in general. Doug is just a bad name. It's just like a noise you mad, Doug. And then you name somebody that.

Doug. Yeah, exactly. We're going with this. I don't know. What were we talking about? Oh, we were talking about Dice. Yes. With Mike Epps.

Yeah, and you told the story and you lied about what I said. Yeah, I did. Remember. You didn't remember it was me. You were like, I was with some guy, and we were rolling dice. Yes, you.

You told the story to me, and I'm like, yeah, it was me. It was you. You know what? I can't even get mad at you. I've done that before. Sometimes you're telling a story, and you're like,

was it you with me? or was it somebody else? And you can't remember. Well, the problem is I'm embarrassed that I didn't know who it was with until I figured it was you. That's funny. We're there for rockets, right?

The funny part is it happened on air. Yeah. Yeah. That's okay. I think the rockets are 1 and 0 with you on the road with me, right? We beat the Pelicans there, do we not? I think they were really bad those days.

Yeah. I think that was the year, it might have been the year before they got Zion. Like they were tanking for Zion. Unfortunately, New Orleans has a lot of great things. Great restaurants. Casino is amazing. the hotel. The arena's a dump.

And Pelican fan is, it's far from diehard. Deep, rich history, great music, great food. World War II Museum. Oh, amazing. I love New Orleans. We were talking about museums yesterday? Yeah. That's the last museum I went to, the World War II Museum. I need to go back. In New Orleans. It's spectacular. I was there for like five, six hours, and there's five buildings, and I saw basically two of them.

Yeah. You can definitely knock it out in two days, for sure. All right. 7.13-212-5.7.9. So for those of you that are Astro fans, that were so, upset and so down on the dumps. And that would include myself and you probably too. I was down in the dumps. You now have hope remains alive, but you've got to now root for other people. And unfortunately, two weeks ago, Ross said you didn't have to root for other people. Now it's out of your control. You know, they had their backs against the wall. They could have laid down and died, but they rose up huge and they put together some great A-Bs. And I'm talking about the hitting coaches.

Great job, guys. Oh, did the hit coaches get their props? Oh, I'm sure they did, right? 11 runs from the hitting coaches. I'm sure they got full credit. You have been so hitting coach on Twitter that you know when one or both get let go, they're coming after you. That's fine. And I'm going to say the same thing. It's on the players. It is on the players.

Now, I'm just wondering, did anti-hitting coach give them full credit for yesterday? That's my only question. I'm just going to say this. Not every one of our sports takes you should treat as gospel. Actually, none of them. Well, no, no, I'm going to go with this one. blaming the hitting coaches, or for that matter, pitching coaches, but really more hitting coaches than the else, it is the lowest of lowest hanging fruit. Like, for instance, if you want to blame coordinators in football, Rossi, as you know, they have a huge role, huge play calling, strategizing.

You know, D'Amico gives the reins in Nick Cayley. He gave the reins to Bobby Sloick. That's what head coaches do. They are administrators. calling third down, go for it on two. They're not intimately involved. Coordinators have a huge, huge role in football. I, in my mind, treat them way differently than I treat positional coaches in Major League Baseball. I wouldn't say they have certainly more involvement to a degree, but also it comes down to the players as well.

But yeah, it's more on the offensive coordinators for sure than it is the hitting coaches at the Major League level and it's not even close. But also, remember, Bobby Sloak was a genius when Joe Mixon was running and Laramie Thompson, the offensive line was good. Then all that goes bad, and Bobby Sloak's an idiot. You know what I'm saying? So there's some degree of that as well, but it's more extreme when it comes to baseball. I'm just telling you, please trust me. If you don't believe me in any other thing I tell you take wise, the role of a hitting coach is largely overrated. So please don't feel bad and don't feel good either when you say.

say, well, I know that everything's going to be fixed now because next year's offense could be just as futile as next year's. And you're really going to feel bad if you or I'm hitting coach fire a guy in this offense struggles next year like it has most of this year. 713-212-5790. Matt and Ross with you at 1037 here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm responding to a tweet. somebody says this is from two-time title town why are coaches free of blame y'all lose your mind if anyone has anything critical to say the hitting coach the manager if they have no influence on the results and why are they here well the reality is and i'm responding to they aren't free of blame they're hitting coaches catch it too i'm not saying they're not but it's just silly to always believe it's their fault first of all you never see them do their job you never see a a situation where the hitting coach comes out and says hey i've told these guys to do this and don't know not look

and they're not listening to me. They're largely hidden. There are largely guys that are in a video room. They're largely guys that are around the cage. But the fans, and for that matter, the media have no intimate knowledge. And most importantly, when the aster's scoring or any team scores 8, 9, 10 runs, or averaging 7 runs a game, nobody ever calls shows and says, thank God we have that as a hitting coach.

Nobody ever does that. It's just low-hanging fruit every time it's something's wrong with the hitting. It must be the hitting coach's fault. And I'll tell you another reason why I, I, I think, especially in this case of the Houston Astros, it's ridiculous to always go after the hitting coaches. These guys have been here since 2019, both on the staff. You have a track record of them being at the helm of one of the best offenses in that span.

The Astros have been a top three offense. So that's the thing. If this were the first year of both Troy Snicker and Alexandron and we had nothing to go on, I would be like, you know what? Yeah, these guys have everybody chasing everything. they, you know, Einer Diaz is literally leading the major leagues in Chase percentage. And Jose Al Tuvei is swinging through his shoes and he's in decline.

And Christian Walker came here in his first year and he's not been good and close to what he was in Arizona. If this was their first year on the staff, I could see that where we could convince ourselves. I'm like, maybe these guys aren't doing a very good job. However, we have a very, very extensive track record of these. guys being here for one of the best offensive, and I'm not giving them credit. I want to be clear as well. We have a very clear view

of the 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 Astros being among the best offenses in baseball while these guys were here. So either A, they forgot how to be hitting coaches, or B, you lost Michael Brantley,

George Springer, Kyle Tucker, Alex Bregman. And all by the way, you lost the time clock on Hose L, too, career because he's getting older. Prime Gurriel. Carlos Correa is getting older. Carlos Correig was gone and came back and actually he's been good since he came back. And the decline, as you

said, of Jose Altovae. Yordon Alvarez was out the entire year. Esoc Paredes was one of their best. Their geniuses with Issaq Paredes and then the hamstring falls off his bone and you're trotting out Cooper Hummel and the boys and then all of a sudden they're idiots. That's

the problem. That's the issue I have is you cannot wake up and and have the light bulb come on your brain that these have been good hitting coaches and great offenses for years and years and years. Taylor Tremel will never be Kyle Tucker. And that's where, I would think if you would have a semblance

of critical thinking, you'd be like, man, they were really good hitting coaches a couple years ago when they had better hitters and now they're not good hitting coaches. Huh, what's going on here? Figure it out. And that's the problem is, we just don't have enough of you that figure it out.

And that's why we get aggravated. And that's what I'm saying. It's not that they don't do anything. And by the way, again, I want it for the 500th time, there's going to be changes off this. You have this much futility. I mean, I'm going to be brutally honest with you. If I'm either one of the coaches, I might have to call a realtor.

I'm just saying. Both of their contracts are up at the end of the year. It wouldn't be a shock. You're going to need a fall guy. It's not a travesty, but positional coaches sometimes. take the fall. They're going to miss, yeah. They've been here six years. It's a long time. And then you had the offensive futility overall. But I personally don't think that they should be should be shouldering the blame. However, you do need fall guys when you miss the playoffs,

which the Astros in all likelihood are going to do. And then when the new guys come in next year, I'm going to say the same thing. It's on the players. And imagine this. If Yor-Alvarez plays 140 games next year, this offense is going to be significantly better. And guess who's not going to have a huge part of it? That's the funny thing. Issaac Parades is going to be healthy and Yordaunt Alvarez is going to be healthy. If they are.

If and when they're healthy. And then people are like, see, the hitting coaches are doing a great job this year. Yeah, is Isaac Paredes and Yorda and Alvarez are there. Speaking of Yorda and Alvarez, the only hitting coaches that Yorda Alvarez has known as a professional are these guys. And he's been one of the most dangerous hitters on the planet. Do we give Yorda? And nobody gives the hitting coaches the credit.

You're sitting there at home. not the hitting coaches, you've given them zero credit for Yordon Alvarez and how great he's been. And I'm not saying you should have. I'm saying let's do a little critical thinking and have some logic, simless of logic, and be consistent. So Paredes has had a better year when he was healthy. Jeremy Pena had his best

year. Career year. And Jake Myers has had his best year offensively. Actually, now back to back really good years. Yeah. Under the tutelage. Yes. Of the two batting coaches. And nobody gives him credit. Career year for Pena and, yeah, and Myers. And that Yordon guy is pretty good when he

he's in the lineup. I don't know. Victor Caratini's been pretty good for a backup catcher. In pinch hit situations, he's been good. No credit. No credit to the hitting coaches. It's all Victor Caratini. Maricio DuBon, playing six days a week. Going to get your coach fired. You know what? I'm with you. I don't know why the guys couldn't fix Marisio Dubon.

It's been an issue for sure. All right. On the phones next, Todd and James will get to you. 713-212. 5-790. We got some I'm sorry as they get to and we'll do that before you come up at 1130. 7-13-1-2. 5 790. All right, Gordy's here.

We got a lot of folks I want to talk to, so Gordy, are you going to be better than the callers or worse? I was literally in the studio with Jonathan. I heard somebody calling in going, I got to set these boys straight. Who sent, who ones? Which one is it, Jonathan? Scott. Oh, hold on. Gordy, let's see this guy.

Here's what we're going to do. We're going to let Scott set us straight. I'll be the independent arbitrator. And you are the arbitrator, all right, because you heard our portion. And now we're going to hear from Scott. Scott, good morning. You're on 790. Let's set us straight, Scotty.

what do you got today? All right, fellas, what's up? So let's take a realistic stance on this. You guys are right. Everybody's over compensated blame on the hitting coaches. But let's take another step back. Your take is whack because you're giving credit. Oh, well, the years that we had Jordan and George Springer and all these other guys,

they're hidden. The hidden coaches are great those years. The years you have great hitters, the hitting coaches are doing a great job, that doesn't tell me they're doing very much. The years that your hitters, your lineup is suffering, I think that falls more on the hitting coaches. But what if the guys there? But hold on, Scott, what if the guys, hold on, Scott,

what if the guys that are given are fringe major leaguers that can't really handle major league pitching? There's only so much you can do. They're not miracle workers. No. Taylor, Taylor Chamele has been bounced around as a major leaguer for multiple baseball teams. He's a 4A player. God love him, but he's a 4A player. Sure, but to give them the credit of the years when you have an all-far bashing lineup. No, that's, no, you got to be consistent. No, if San Francisco...

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, okay, hold on. I'm going to put you on hold, brother. Maricio Dubon was with Milwaukee. He was with San Francisco. He was bad offensively there. And now he's in Houston. So those hitting staffs are supposed to go ahead. The Astros are supposed to turn Maricio Dubon.

You can't do that day drinker. Okay, and now we're done. All right, Arbitrator. Arbitrator, what do you got? I think there's blame to go around everywhere. Yeah, look, they can take it blame. I'm not blaming them for not turning for Jesus, swinging at everything and not.

I think Hazel Sanchez needs LASIC. Let me, let's what I think. Let me put it this way. Mike Gundy will go down as the greatest coach in the history of Oklahoma State. They fired him. Sometimes it's just, it's just time for a fresh start. It's time for, you know, to move on. I think this offseason it will be time to move on from the current hitting coaches who have been here.

Probably. The new voices in the room never heard. And we are not objecting. We're not falling on our sword on this. We're not going. This is a travesty. sometimes you just got to shake things up. They shook up things last year with Gary Pettus being bounced,

and Tony Parris Chica likes to wave runners home or keep guys at third base, and they don't listen to him. So it's, you know, that's a separate issue. Got the pitching coaches, they've done a pretty great job, all things considered, with all the injuries they've had to face. With all of these, I mean, who the hell of these people pitching getting, I mean, did Brian, was Brian King going to be really your best setup man this year when it came down? do it? He's turned into one of your best

relievers. They turned Jason Alexander into a viable starter in Major League Baseball for a contending team. So, you know, pitching coach is doing fine. I just think that, yeah, they've got to change a little bit something. I think Joe does a good job. You know, he'll still help out

throughout spring training and stuff. In defense, they're always going to be, and Paris Chico was brought in to help with the defense. And I think defensively, they've been pretty good, right? Pretty solid. Overall, all things he's there. Cam Smith, making plays in right field when he's never played the position before. You get a frisky owner who doesn't mind making changes, and you need it.

There has been so much prolonged slumps that you'd need a different set of eyes. If they just missed the playoffs this weekend, I think Joe stays, but I think you, you just, the training staff's definitely gone. I think so, too. That's got to change. That's, there's no. That would almost be criminal if there were no changes in the medical staff. And then, again, not to throw a guy under the bus, but the guy, Jeremiah, just, come on, dude.

And he acts all cocky and stuff. I can't speak that. I'm not around him, so I don't. I just, they never make him available to speak. Like, just tell us what's going on. Like, I don't even care. He could. Transparency doesn't hurt.

He could hold 45-minute press conferences at this point. The number of players that have been hurt with severe injuries means that somebody, there needs to be cleansing. And sometimes freak accidents happen. Don't get me wrong. Like, sometimes stuff just happens. But yes, there are sometimes where you're like, this isn't working. Whatever you guys are doing,

isn't working. Auburn A&M this weekend. Who you like? Man, it's hard to go against the Aggies at home. I will say, though, that defense is leaky. Leaky. They're giving up a ton of points, ton of yards. They're dead last in the SEC.

I get it. You went on the road and played at Notre Dame, and you found a way to pull out the win. But it is weird that... Look, Auburn's got a defense. D.J. Durkin's doing a great job with them. They held Oklahoma in check outside of that stupid fluke play that they that they cheated on and got a touchdown on.

I don't know. But look, Marcel Reed's playing great. He's flinging around the football field. Casey Concepcion is Mario Craver. They are hard to contain. So I think it's a close one. I'll go with the Aggies because they're at home, but wouldn't shock me at all if Auburn pulls out of win.

Will Brian Kelly be snippy towards a media when the Tigers lose at Ole Miss tomorrow? They can't lose. They just can't lose this game. Bottom line is this is the best defense. Elshu's had in a decade. If you can't slow down a quarterback from Ferris State, look, he's been great, but he beat Arkansas, who's the worst defense, one of the worst defenses in the SEC,

and Tulane. No offense to Tulane in the membrane. No, no, no, you just offended him. No offense, too, usually means offense is coming. Yeah. But, no, I just, I'm more worried about LSU's offense because it sounds like Kaden Durham, the running back may not go. And so, you, you,

Like, you play in Oxford, you got to score some points. But I think, I think Trinidad Chambliss has a coming back down to Earth party this weekend. Are you going to the LSU watch party? No. Dan might. Okay. Dan loves every SEC team, too. There's too many good games going on all at the same time.

Alabama, Georgia. Yeah, that's a big one. Kalin DeBore is, I think it was, two and six on the road so far as Alabama head coach. Kirby Smart, pretty damn good coach at home. I think Georgia hasn't lost a home game since like 2019 or something. So I think I'm going to stick with George on this one. Okay. Anything else from your sports, RV?

No. Texas with the buy. So they can't. It's not a buy. It's an open week. It's an open week. Let's not confuse things. I mean you get to advance to something beyond.

It's just an off week. You're bypassing. They get to go to the swap next week. And as bad as Florida has been, their defense has been a bright spot. So how does Arch do against? Probably not well. He's not very good. Hopefully they can win 17 to 16. Take the under on whatever that line is going to be.

All right. So Dan's got the 10th inning tomorrow on deck. I have it on Saturday and you'll be there for Sunday. Well, you said tomorrow is Saturday. Dan's got tonight. Dan's got tonight. I have tomorrow. You have Sunday. Will I be doing a post game Sunday celebrating the asterisk making the postseason? No.

Can I hold my response? No. What's a win? If they lose tonight and tomorrow, you'll eulogize them Saturday, right? Because that's kind of it. Yeah, they cannot lose twice in Anaheim. There's no chance of the playoffs that they lose twice. If they lose two games, they are out.

Out, out. If they win two out of three and the tigers get swept, they're in. I believe that's right, because they're one game up. I don't want to read it right from the playoff thing. So you talk about Carbock for a second. Make sure you guys are loaded up on playing at Crawford Park from our friends at Carbock. Brewing, of course, brewed right here at Houston, Texas. Tequila, Sunrise Stripes on the can.

It's overwrite. Randles the other night. Grab me a nice little friend. fresh pack to load up for this weekend in my mini fridge as I watch football. Make sure you guys do the same. Grab you a Crawford Bach from Carbock brewing. Hey, it's not on the question. We can still have playoff games at Dike and Park.

You can grab yourself a Crawfordbach there. Here we go, Gordy. If the Astros go two and one, the Guardians or the Tigers must be swept. Yes. And the Tigers are playing the Red Sox. Yes. Who are still fighting for their seat. Are playing the Rangers in Cleveland.

If the Astros go 3 and 0, the Tigers must lose two or three to the Red Sox or the Tigers win three against the Red Sox. Oh, and then that knocks Boston out. Mm-hmm. I think your best chance right now, like, if we're just going on odds, is that the Astros win two out of three, and the Tigers get swept.

I think the best chance of them to get in is the Astros have to sweep the Angels and the Tigers lose two or three to the Red Sox, would be my guess. Yeah. I mean, yes, your best chance is sweeping. Gosh, it's just hard to envision. Can the bats carry over a little bit from yesterday?

Of course they can. As I said that, watch them get three hits over seven innings tonight. That's Gordy. We got more of you coming up in a moment. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Also in one-half hour, say you're sorry for the week. That's at 1130 here on Sports Talk 790.

1102 Sports Talk 790. as anything goes Friday. 713-212-5-7-0. I don't want to speak another word about the hitting coaches. I just don't. Nobody's changing their mind. No. I'm not going to change my mind.

No one's going, hey, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks, guys. They're going to move on from them, and then we can, and then we'll go revisit this next year, and then the offense sputters, and then we can talk about how those guys are the worst hitting coaches ever, too. It's going to be a lot better when, again, it's just a lot of,

easier to be a hitting coach when you have All-Stars. And see, I think it's also more of a macro thing. People just say, offense, bad, hitting coach, bad. And you have to go, and you have to go by, to me, dig a little deeper. And it's really just scratching the surface, honestly, and ask yourself, where are things failing? Maybe they're failing Christian Walker. I don't know.

Maybe the hitting coaches have failed him. Because I'll give you a real-life scenario. They told Christian Walker to start doing things, and he started to do it. it and it's dropped his production. That's a possibility. Absolutely. Again, we have no relationship with the hitting coaches. Even if we were around the ballpark every single day, we wouldn't know the intricacies.

We just wouldn't. So you have to it's only about results. Whatever they did, worked in July and August, and it's been horrible in September. And this is the thing. When he has a good in July and August, everybody goes, wow, great July and August by Christian Walker. Not great July

in August by the hitting coaches. Yeah, I mean, they don't go to Hawaii for two weeks. They're worth the guys every day. That's all I'm saying. Look, they're going to be gone, I think. At least one of them, maybe both. Who knows?

We'll see. Because, as I said, both of them, their contracts are over. And then we'll see. And we'll go from there. And put it this way. If they're, I'll give you another one for you. You don't pay a lot for hitting coaches. I mean, you're not getting into a bidding war.

So if they keep them, guess what? They like them. You know what? Remember how we recorded a loop about how Trevor Bauer would never be an astro? Yes. Can we record a quick loop about the hitting coaches? And then we just play that anytime it comes up? Well, the problem is we should have done it a month ago.

It's kind of laid out. You're right. Because they could be all gone next week. You're right. It's Friday. Yeah. Anything goes Friday. All right. I should have thought about this month ago.

My brain. You got the hitting coaches side a month. My idea was on layaway. See, I'm not on their side. That's the thing. I'm on the player. I'm on the players matter the most side. I'm on the player of responsibility side.

Most played appearances this year for the Houston Astros. Al Tuveh, 35 in decline. Christian Walker, looking like 34 in decline. Yiner Diaz, he's declined for sure. Jeremy Payneut breakout, Cam Smith rookie, Isak Paredes. Issaq Paredes missed like multiple months with a hamstring injury. He's number six in plate appearances on this team.

Then it's Dubon Myers-Karratini. That's the hitters who have gotten the most played appearances. and you say, why hasn't the offense been good? Because of what I just read you. It's all going to be, even if they make the playoffs, I wouldn't be surprised if there are massive changes. Hell, yeah.

I mean, when you're an Astros fire a general manager after World Series victory, you know that they're not immune to making changes. Oh, I'm just looking at this plate appearance list. Brendan Rogers, Taylor Tremel, Jesus Sanchez, Zach DeZenzo, Cooper Hummel. Talk about don't forget,

Jacob Mountain. I'm sorry. Bryce Matthews. You know what, maybe one of these guys, the hitting coaches should have turned into an all-star when they're 28, 29, 30 years old. Probably ought to keep their jobs. Again, we're just, we're just guessing.

Maybe they ruined Camp Smith. Wait a minute. No, no, no, no. They didn't ruin Cam Smith because Cam Smith was with the coaches in March and spring training when he was crushing the baseball. Well, now I'm confused. I don't know who to blame.

The theme to me would be just, It's the blame primarily, like if you were to have a big pie and you were split it up, 90% of the responsibility goes to the player. It just does. That's how I see it. Okay. Now, Maurice is saying who's, okay, let's see. If Dubon's back next year and he bats 319 with 15 home runs, then you guys can have scoreboard on me. But I know a sample size is enough of Maricio de Bonn to go.

I know who Maricio de Bonn is. Utility player. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. John is with us on the Matt Thomas Show. Ross, John, good morning. Hey, good morning. How you doing? Wonderful. Thank you for asking. Hey, first off, I want to say Mike Gundy was not the best coach at Oklahoma State.

It was Jimmy Johnson. He really transformed that program from 79 through 83 and then his legacy group from there. Call Gordy. But I agree that it's on the platform. player. You know, it's all the injuries. You didn't know who was going to be healthy and who wasn't. And I don't, I don't really blame it on the coaches. I, I, I, I, I, I think that it's just the players and it's just been, it's, it's just been kind of haphazard. I mean, you didn't know who was going to be healthy and who wasn't. And then, the injuries that Astros have

had this year is just, I don't know, it's just kind of crazy the way this has all happened, what's happened to everybody. And I, I think it's just a lot of that comes into play. And, anyways, you know, and I never was, I never did agree with that move that they fired James Click. Because, you know, what, he went to Toronto? He's at Toronto not, right? And, but anyways, but I agree. I think it's the players that, you know, they just have to come through. I think that they should sweep the Angels this weekend.

And I think that the Red Sox will take two out of three from Detroit. It's going to be hard to do the opposite if you're the Tigers. have too many issues going on right now, I think. So the Astros might make it. They might make it. I'm hopeful anyway. As am I. Thank you, John, for the phone call. Appreciate it. Have a good weekend. Tigers are in free fall.

I mean, look, the Red Sox have everything to play for, Sports Harvey. I mean, there's no reason why the Red Sox can't win two out of three. They're trying to hold on it. They're trying to get the playoffs themselves. It's just frustrating that you're even here. I know. I'm just angry. I hate to rely on somebody else. I'm going to go for a walk during this next break. No, I'm going to walk around

this and take some deep breaths. Well, what's matter now? Okay. I said it was going to talk about hitting coaches. Okay, well, Cass is saying it's simple. People sign here and they get worse and they leave and they start getting better with more power. Alex Breggman, people, see, people aren't paying attention. Alex Breggman has been horrible the last couple of months for the Red Sox.

His numbers are not markedly better than what they were. His OPS went a little bit up. His home run percentage is down. OPS Plus is last year was 768 with the Astros. This year, it's 822 with the Red Sox. Sox. Okay. It was 804 the year before with the Astros.

It's 822 at the Red Sox. That's fairly consistent. That's not something that's way out of the ordinary. And Kyle Tucker's numbers are way down from where he was last year with the Astros. He had almost 1,000 OPS with the Astros. And this year it was 850 with the with the Cubs. And then people bury their head in the sand with how about that? Because Kyle Tucker started off a gangbuster.

Everybody's like, look at the hit of coaches. Kyle Tucker finished with a, let's see. Last year with the Astros, his home run percentage was 6.8. This year it's 3.8. Nobody brings that up when they talk about the hitting coaches. Let's go. That's a fact. He almost went in half his home run percentage

from the brilliant Astros hitting coaches to the idiotic Cubs hitting coaches. I'm being sarcastic. Of course, I know some of you aren't smart enough to pick up on that. I told you, I need to go for a while. Are you going to get on decaffeated coffee or caffeine? I'm going to, you know what? I think I had a cup and a half.

Yeah, I'm going to eat something. I'm going for caffeine. I'm sorry. Oh, no, you don't eat me on more caffeine. No, I'm talking about me. Okay, you go get caffeine. I'm going to, I'm going to take a walk. You know what you can do?

I want you to apologize to people in 20 minutes. I should. You know what? I'm sorry. No, no, no, no, no. 20 minutes. I'm going to write it down. But I want to say it again.

I'm sorry. I'll say it again. It's just baseball. I'm taking it too serious. I'm going to take a one. You know what? Focus on what's really important. That's Kingwood pulling out the upside of the century today against Summer Creek.

A little volleyball action. Todd and Cyprus on 790. Hi, Todd. Hi. Yeah, I just said, so, yeah, I'm with y'all. I mean, it's 90, 95% of players. My really only complaint is that sometimes it feels like there's no strategy with the offense. And I'll give a couple examples real quick.

One, a couple months ago, three months ago, maybe, I don't remember who our starting pitcher was. But he went in and threw like 35, 40 pitches. It was a horrible inning. It was rough. And he needed a break. He needed a rest. And our hitters proceeded to come up the next three. And I think all of them swung at the very first pitch.

And it ended up being like a four-pitch inning. So our pitcher did not get any rest. It might have been Javier. And it's just, is there no communication about, hey, we need to get him a breather. You know, take a pitch. If it's a strike, so be it, do the best you can. We need to get, you know, I just, that seems really strange to me that there was no communication there about that. And then the other example is about a month or two ago, we were facing another pitcher.

And even in the notes ahead of time with Blum and Cowell is on TV, they talked about how that pitcher got rocked on the first pitch more than like anybody in the league. I got 300, 370 batting average against on the first pitch at bat. And so we went up for like the first three, four innings, and everyone's just looking at first pit strikes go by over and over and over. And then suddenly in the fifth or sixth inning, when it's like their second or third time through the lineup, they finally decided to start swinging at the first pitch, and we started getting to the guy.

And it just seems like sometimes there's a lack of strategy. And I don't know who that is. I don't know if maybe it just didn't work out. But it just seems like a lot of that stuff, because the situational hitting will go 0 for 30 for four days in a row. And we don't try to take anything to right. It just seems like the strategy is off. And I don't know if that's a spot. I don't know if that's the players.

I don't know who it is. I just know that's something that probably needs to be that needs to be looked at. I'll hang up to listen. Okay. Thank you, Todd. It's hard to take one game out of 162 and say that the strategy wasn't there. Some people want the Astros to take more pitches. Some people want them to be more free swinging.

The Astros have been free swinging for basically nine years. They have been uber aggressive. They don't draw a lot of walks. That's just who they are with the exception of. Yordon draws a fair number of walks. Altube does not. Paredes did a pretty good job about going deep into counts. Parades has been working counts.

Yordon works counts. Correa has been working counts. But the other guys, they're just aggressive. We talked about this is Brian Bogosevic. And maybe we should just play his answer on a loop too. It's easier to take Jose Altuve not working counts when, A, he's younger and can get to more balls with more power. And B, you're surrounded by guys who do take pitches. Yeah.

I'm sorry to say this. And I don't know. I guess we just don't want to face it. I mean, Jose Altuva is in decline. I don't want to face that. I know. Three straight years, though, his OPS has gone down. He's 35 years old.

He'll be 36 next season. And we're just looking to blame the hitting coaches. Because it can't be our sweet, sweet Jose Altuve. He's perfect at our eyes. All right. I'm putting a moratorium on hitting coaches. Okay, good. I'm done.

Well, I'm actually typing up a long tweet. See, this is bad. Oh, really? I mean, I'll let you do that. I mean, I can't control your tweet. I can't control the show either. No, I'm done. I'm going to send this.

I'm going to mute the word hitting coach, I think. There's no way. I'm sick. What if you want to hear about the Whiteox hitting coaches? How are you going to get the information? That's what we did. Hitting coach or what did we do? Hitting coach or first Congress.

Nobody knows who the hitting coach is until the guys are swinging out of their shoes and strike it out. All right. More phones coming up in a minute. And bottom of the hour, we've got I'm sorry to get to. 713-212-5-790.

We do have the Texans playing the hated Titans. Derek's Stanley probably not going to play in the game, Rossi. He's just been battered and bruised all year long, had he not? I mean, if there was ever a time for early by-week or an off week in the NFL season, it would be for him. I don't think he's going to play on Sunday. Are we scared?

No. Titans are not good. Cam Ward is running for his life. He's been sacked, I think, 15 times already this year. Do you see the line moved? It was a significant move as well. Please. A one point move in Vegas can be super significant or not.

Like if you go from 13 and a half to 14.5, that's a pretty big one. Six and a half to seven and a half is huge. Because you go from giving the seven. now you have to give a hook, getting seven, you know what I'm saying? So six and a half to seven and a half is a very significant line move. That must mean a lot of money is coming on the Texans. But you know what? And you're not going to argue with me on this.

Okay. That doesn't affect how anybody should feel about the game. It's just strictly for betting perfectly. Actually, it makes me feel a little better. Because we were in, like Charles last week, and a bunch of money was getting piled on the Texans, and the Vegas didn't move the line. When they liked their lines, they say,

want them bring it. Let's go. They're like, all right, fine, we got to move it a little bit. Yeah, I, I, and they were right. And they were right. They were right last week, right. Yeah, they were right. I just, I like it because it helps me with when I'm betting, which I only bet in person. Yeah, it's only, but I, but I don't go, oh my God, the Texan should be more concerned about the situation. Yeah, I don't think, I don't think, I don't think Demico's putting it on the whiteboard. Hey, guys, get in right now. Let me tell you some. Y'all have been practicing so good. this week. And even though

Derekson is I'm playing. Vegas likes you more than they did yesterday. Can I get a hell? Yeah. No, they don't do that at all. They don't do that at all. Can I just give you the creepiest notion I have about this game on Sunday? Go ahead.

CJ's getting hurt. See, you're the worst. You are the absolute. What are you talking about? You're Texans' hater number one. Look at this. You're talking about the Quarterback getting hurt.

Why would I say that? Because you want it to happen and you're trying to manifest it. No. I don't care what team hat he's wearing. Could be any of the other opponents the Astros could be playing in the playoffs. What if he's wearing an Angels hat on Sunday? That would be pretty funny.

That would be the fate of complete for his career. No. The offensive line isn't... I mean, I know it's probably getting... in pass pro it's been okay. The run protection's been non-existent. A lot of that is because of the running. There's just something, I don't know.

I don't feel good. I don't feel good. I don't want anybody to get hurt. This offensive line just isn't getting, generally speaking, getting any better. It's not the cohesion, the working with each other. Tianta Ursheri just got annihilated this past week.

Josh Hines Island is good. I mean, look, you're a rookie and you're making basically your second start the left tackle and you go against Josh Heinz Allen. You're going to lose that. You're going to take some lumps. So maybe, so maybe I'm going off of that. Yeah. It was not. It was not. It's certainly bad.

Certainly bad. It had been nice. If he had stood up to him and shut him down, then we're talking about you got a franchise left tackle. I mean, yeah. Unfortunately, sign him up long term. Exactly. Buy it's arbitration years. I don't have that. Yeah.

I'm just, this line is playing with fire. And it's next fault. It just is. And you know what? I don't, I like C.J. I don't think he's having a great year. I think C.J. wants to win battling. I think C.J. is working hard.

I think C.J.'s, I think, probably fed up with, I think, play calling has been mid at best. His execution has been minute. He's having a great start of the season. And the offensive line, he, I'm deathly afraid for him getting hurt. I just, and hopefully it doesn't happen. Hopefully I'm wrong. Hopefully I'm wrong. but I'm right about what I said before the start of the season.

Maybe the seven-win season. You're predicting. Yeah, actually, I cannot believe I'm going to lose that bad, actually. You don't know that. They can change around. Why am I? Why am I the only one doesn't believe that O'N3 is not the death nail? Because it's not.

They're not. But I don't think, I don't think, you can win it. You can go to the playoffs at O'N. Nine and eight. You can't go at one in five. They have to go. You're going to go to Baltimore or Seattle and win a game you're not supposed to win. Ooh.

Woo! Tell me, am I right about that? Yeah. You're going to have to go to a place in the next three weeks that you're not supposed to win. Crazy things have happened to Baltimore. They do seem have this error of invincibility and then they just wet the bed. By the way, Baltimore plays Kansas City. The loser of that game is one and three. That's crazy. With two perennial MVPs. And both of them also much better than the Texans. Texans go win a game you're not supposed to win. In Baltimore,

or in Seattle. Now, Seattle plays games close. Case in point last night. Arizona's not that great. But generally in the NFL, there's like five teams who are great, and then everybody else is just kind of in a blob. And five teams are great, five teams are bad, and everybody's in a blob.

Luis and Katie on 7-90. Hello, Luis. Good afternoon, guys. My comment is with Ross. The Ross is making fun of Altuva, because we shouldn't really brand-blending coaches. I want to say just a couple of things. First, the senior citizen of Albuve let the Astros in Homer.

Yes, he did. Let's go. First, second, he didn't. He played most of the season like the other guys that they're going to hurt at the age that he has. Third, he just reminded him that he was humble enough to say, I'm not good enough second base. I'll go play left field. Fourth, I just want to remember that he could, he still got a lot of money on his country. but he was one of the, he didn't go and run for the money, like Breggman, Correa, Springer, and, and what's the other one?

Anyway, so when he says about Altova, when we go to the A's and we play two games and we score only one run, and the whole team doesn't hit, it cannot be only on Altube. It's going to be either of the whole team. Luis, I was not crushing Altuve. You're missing the point. You're totally missing the point. Oh, my Lord.

You said, and you can record it back. Yes. I'm going to go back to it. That's what you said. So don't go back and take it back. All right, guys. He's in decline. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Look at his numbers. Yes, he's leading the team in home runs. He's in decline. 151 OPS two years ago, 124 plus, I mean, in 112 this year. This is his worst offensive season since 2013. And I'm not, ah, why is this happening?

Why is this collateral damage happening? All because of stupid hitting coaching talk. I'm having a great Friday. Me too bad. I'm over here. You know what? Johnny, you look good. I forgot to take that walk.

You make me love to a girl last night. I love Altuve. He's great. He's playing on a hurt foot and he's an all-time great. He also is in decline. And I'm just saying we're crushing the hitting coaches because the guy who got the most played up. He shouldn't be out there for 153 games.

He's going to play. If he plays this series, he's going to play 156 games. They need to get him off his feet more. They need to dh him more. They need to do their best to keep him comfortable late in his career so he can produce for a full season. They haven't been able to do that because of the injuries. And this all ties in together. All the injuries and everybody running out of gas right now, it's not a coincidence.

And I love, please. No, I love Altova. He's one of the nicest human beings of the planet. He has an all-time. greatest astro of all time. According to some. According to many. According to him, maybe even most. And that's cool. If you want to say he's the greatest of all time in Astro, I'm not, I mean, I can disagree or I can troll or whatever. He's up there. He's on the Mount Rushmore. He's an all-time grade. He is leading

them in home runs. He's a career 300 plus hitters. He's hitting 265. He's in decline. He's the greatest astro of all time who's in decline. And you know what? Most 35-year-olds, with as much playing time as he's had over his career will decline. I can get that. But you know what? I still take him. The only thing I was saying is he's in decline

and it's not and everyone wants to go off to the hitting coaches about it. No, I'm not the hitting coach. I mean, Luis, I'm sorry if there was a collateral damage there. I'm not trying to cuss Jose Al-Tuva. I love Jose Al-Tuvi. I want to make that clear. Please.

Look what happened. Look what you. I'm blaming you. I think I've been very even killed today. You're right. I'm out of here. getting a text from a good friend of mine. John listening to us Oklahoma City.

You're asking the Texans to go win a game they're not supposed to win when they can't even win the games they're supposed to win. Let me tell you something. This city's going to lose his mind of Tennessee wins on Sunday. You know this, right? All right, time now for some I'm sorrys. You need to apologize for Ross because his blood pressure is really high right now. Come in and say you're sorry to Ross.

713-212-5-7-9. And if you need to apologize to anyone or anything, 713-212-5-790. I'm sorrys are next here on 790. This is the most cathartic half-hour you will experience in Houston Sports Radio, and for that matter, radio. You will call 713-212. You will compose a thought or two and simply utter these simple words. I'm sorry. So sorry.

Ross is working on his list right now. It's about two pages deep. I'm going to start. This is not even a backhanded, I'm sorry. This is not even a, I'm going to just explain myself. So I went to host the Coaches show, Willie Fritz show on Wednesday. And I was asked at the very last second to do it,

and I was glad to do it. I try to defend our city when I can. So I went to this area off of St. Emmanuel Two Little Woodroats where the coaches show was And I had to go find a place to park And I don't mind paying for parking Do you know how much it was to park? $20

$23 with a service charge It was all gone. Not much of it. Don't leave anything valuable in your car over there. I'm going to tell you something right now. We cannot as a Houston community have a vibrant downtown when we're putting $23 charges on people before they walk outside their leave their car

and go to do their thing for the night. I think it's terrible. And I'm sorry the city of Houston makes us pay $23 to park downtown to go have a couple of pops and maybe eat something or watch a great coaches show featuring Willie Fritz, America's coach, and me. So I'm sorry, Houston. I'm sorry. I was really irritated by that.

Not the $20 isn't going to mean in the world to me, but it's just, it's just awful, awful greed. Those lots have been paid for many times over. If it was $10, I could live with that. But the $20 is one thing. And then the service, why am I getting charged a service charge?

What did I do? What charge are you giving me as a service? I don't know. That's horrible. I was completely flabbergasted and frankly pissed off. So I'm sorry that our city sucks like the way that does that's going to charge, or they gave the people the right to charge $20. And I went to five or six different lots.

I didn't mind walking. Everywhere I went was $20 for a half day and $40 for a full day. Shame on you, Houston. You should say you're sorry. Oh, sorry. Now I feel better. Thank you, Matt. Thank you.

713-212-5-790. I want to say, Ross? The floor is yours. I'm sorry for getting in all these Twitter fights. How many are you in right now? At least four. Oh, that's tough.

Has anybody, by the way, has anybody given the Astros hitting coaches credit for Carlos Correa? His OPS has gone up? His OPS Plus as a twin this year was 94. This year it's 117 as an Astro. 200 plate appearances, which is out of nothing samples. Anybody? I missed it.

I miss hitting coach guys. Has he gotten full credit or no? You're supposed to be apologizing. Okay, you know what? I'm sorry. Yeah, you're missing the point of this whole segment. I'm sorry for getting in pointless, ridiculous, reductive arguments where no one is going to, no one is going to change their minds.

So I don't know why I'm doing this. Why I do know. I'm trying to post more on social media just because it's part of the business of 2025. We have to be on air. We have to be on radio. We have to be on social media. 2020? Well, actually, 2020 and before it was a social media age,

but even more so. So I'm trying to be more active. I really am. And I'm sorry for getting in all these fights with these idiots and spending any time on it, wasting my time and wasting your time, and then yelling about it on air. I'm sorry. I'm going to try to be better. And no one don't get up and walk

away. So sorry. Because no one's changing their mind. That's all you. I'm sorry. You should apologize to the people Lake Charles. because they played great blackjack over the weekend. I am sorry that I unfairly gave a stereotype to blue hairs that play blackjack. We played with some older people this weekend. Everybody that went with us, that were in Lake Charles last weekend when Ross and I went,

behaved themselves. They played cards the right way. They didn't make asses themselves. And for that, if I've ever made fun of people in Lake Charles the way they bet, I say I'm sorry. I didn't mean that. Now, you got to remember, though, that's probably my 50th trip to Lake Charles, and 49 of them have been disastrous because of crappy car playing. So, maybe it was a one-off. Hopefully it's not.

But I'm sorry for that. You need to apologize to math. Because math, it tells you that you're just as likely to be helping it hurt. Say sorry, math. Sorry, math. I don't know why that struck me. That struck me so funny. Sorry, college algebra.

Sorry probability. Sorry coin flip. Sorry, uh, integers. Calculus. Sorry, geometry. Sorry, geometry. I did fail. It was two classes in high school that I failed for six weeks.

One was geometry and one was astronomy. All right. Anything else? Jonathan, I, look, you don't live a perfect life. So let's go. You know, I wanted to say sorry to our fans. For us making fun of them about every time, it's like five times this week they came in and said,

we should just give up and start next season. And the reason why I want to apologize to them, because, you know, I thought about it over again. And they just care. They just want our players to be safe. They don't want the disappointment. They just care that much for their team. And they just want a new fresh start. I can't blame them for that.

And, you know, I was laughing hard at them and making fun of them, but I wanted to say I'm sorry. Sorry. You should be sorry. They just care You know They just want a new fresh start They don't want to see this pain Heartbreak curse season anymore

You know Now they're wrong Is this Slide Wolf the guy that you're fighting with I don't remember why He says okay MT We'll get off your lawn Geez what did I do now I don't know

Uh oh It's probably me Why don't you suck at SlideWolf Oh Matt Say you're sorry I'm sorry He's listening to the show Don't tell him this

He's good He's trying to slide wolf We love you You can still suck it That's fine If you ever say get off my lawn guy, you don't deserve a sorry. But I'll say sorry,

Slidewolf. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to. That's great. That's one of my favorite drops now. See, he doesn't want to follow me. Will he?

What did I do? Yeah, I just, I don't like crappy car playing. That's all I'm saying. Don't use get off your lawn. No, that's so 2006. No more lawn talk. Things we got rid of.

We don't bring up Karen anymore and we don't bring up long guy. Good. Is my mom his name Karen? She's a sweet lady. Yeah. Not a great name, though. She didn't name herself. Well, that's, then blame Grandma for that. Wait, Matthew, what's your middle name?

Lewis? It's my grandfather's name. I didn't have a choice. No, nobody had a choice. What's your mental name? Keith. Oh, wow. Like Keith Sweat? Yes. Like Keith? Like Keith? Like Keith Urban? Thank you. That's a little better than Keith Sweat. Key Sweat's a legend

What's wrong with Keith Sweat? Key Sweets way better than Keith Urban. I don't know about that. Oh, I do. Who sold more records? I don't know. I don't care. Key Swets better.

Keith Irbin suck it. That's an opinion. You got to say start of Key Urban. Keith Urban is a mega superstar of Country Western, right? I guess. Is it Country Western or just country? It's just country now. That was Ross.

That wasn't even mean. That's a good one. Why did we do that? I don't know. Was it Texans? I think it was the Texans bit, and you said, I'm going to make a record this sound like it every time. Damiko is mad. Oh, because Damiko's mad.

We only care about the, we want media to carry out the players here. Whatever. You want media there that are water carrying for you. Hey, hey, coach. I know, I know you're only three, but, you know, what do you say to the fans that say? the season's not over. What? Dumbass. 1146 on sports talk.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. I'm sorry. You should. I'm sorry. You know what? I was in a great mood up until you started battling people on Twitter with hitting coaches. You're infiltrating my good spirits today. It's negative energy on our Friday. Come on. Anything goes Friday. This is what you guys. You know what it is? All right. Here we're going for one second.

I need someone to cleanse our show. Yes. Strip it down to its core. I need somebody to give me the most positive thing you could. possibly say on Twitter at SportsMT or on the phones. The weather's great. Lower humidity. We all woke up.

That's great. We did wake up today. We're here. We're living. It's beautiful. The Astros are probably out of the playoffs. The Texas are over and through. Oh. Oh, sorry. The Rockets Media Day is Monday. There you go. Let's go. Let's go. Kevin Durant will be on this show Monday. Yes, he will be

on this show on Monday. Very excited about that. Will I be shaking and nervous? I don't know. Oh, you'll be a hot mess. You'll be a big old If you want to hear my voice crack, tune in Monday. 10 to 2. Sports Talk 790. 1147 on 790. All right, last chance for you to get on the phone is 713.

2125 is 790. 713-212-5-7-9-0. How you doing, Matt? I'm doing great. We have a Friday. Yes. My Cougars are going to beat Oregon State. Let's go.

We have the Astros are going to sneak their way into the playoffs? You heard me. What? There's a revelation. You believe that? Oh, he just rolled his eyes, folks, and it just slow blink.

Slow blink I rolled. I don't know. That was funny. I mean, I don't want to come on and say they're not. I don't think they're making it. I'll say it. You're sorry to say that. I'm sorry.

But it's their fault. I want to be wrong. First of all, I'm wrong all the time. Oh, God knows. I work with you 20 hours a week. Where's the drop that says don't listen to anything I say? That's exactly. Let's play that one.

I get that. Anthony has a happy call for us at 1154. Anthony, good morning to you. Hey, good morning, guys. So my thought is that the Red Sox are still playing meaningful baseball. The Tigers own the head-to-head versus the Red Sox. The Red Sox have to win two out of three. to maintain their position in the wild card race.

And two Red Sox wins and three Astros wins equals an Astros playoffs. So I think that the Astros do sneak into the playoffs. Let's go, baby. That's great. I'll take it. Okay, I do want a gut feeling from you on something. Please. Astros win the first two.

Yes. They're alive on Sunday. Yes, they are. Your game 162 starter is? whose turn is it supposed to be well I'll give you two options Hunter Brown or the field see Hunter pitched on

it would be three days rest and of course you'd be burning him for a wild card on Tuesday if you want you would you would lose him for probably the entire wild card series maybe if you had to go to a game three um uh you believe it would be

Javier's turn you okay here's what you do oh Lord how do you ask Hunter Brown to be in a bullpen game and be a part of a bullpen game when he hasn't done it this entire season and you would cost him a playoff game. It's come out of the bullpen before but it's been a couple years obviously.

I can't okay so you're saying that Detroit loses loses Friday and tonight and Sunday Saturday. Sure, why not? I'm just saying the season's on the line. You're alive. I don't know if you're going to win and you're in but you're alive.

Oh my God. I don't know. Oh my God. I think they turned to him. gut feeling. We're gut feel. Just a gut feeling. Okay, do me a real quick favor before I give you this final answer. How many pitches did he throw two days ago? I want to say it was like 96 or something.

You didn't go deep in the game, I remember that. Because I was half asleep and listening to you in my earphones and I appreciate that, man. Thank you so much. You're welcome. I listen to you. I've listened to you many times past 11 p.m. at night for some reason. I lied. 86. Not 96. 86. How about this? Okay, I'm going to give you a soft answer. Hunter Brown pitches somehow

some way in that game. I can't give you length. I can't tell you what part of the game it's in. Hunter Brown will be available to throw in that game, which would essentially mean you don't get him until game three. Because here's the thing. You're off Monday. The wild card is Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

You could pitch him Sunday and pray that you know, for a game three on Thursday. Or if you could use him a little bit on when, oh, hell, no, no, no. you're not going to shatter his arm in the last week of the season. Well, they'll probably just lose one of the next two. Oh, that's enough from me. I'm just being realistic. Charles, you're on 7-90. Charles, please apologize.

Yes, sir. I'm sorry. I was going to apologize to my spouse. A couple weeks ago, I was making her a sandwich, and there was a weird piece of bread. Yeah. Mention something to her about giving her the weird piece of bread. She said she's got a weird piece of man.

And so I was in the kitchen. She was in the living room, and I frisbee through it, good 25 feet and smacked it right in their head. And I want to apologize for that, even though it was hilarious. So you hit her. I didn't mean that. You hit her with a piece of bread. Yeah, like frisbee tossed it.

How often is bread being thrown in your home? Wow, a salt by bread slice. Not very often, but it was pretty funny. Was it soft white bread or was it more like a pumpernickel? No, it's regular white bread. Okay. It was like a nine grain. And how did it?

head with us. Let me tell you, you've been hit with a nine grain? Oh, God, it hurts. A sesame seed in her eye. How did you make up to it? Did you just apologize or did you go rubber head or what? Hey, no, well, I laughed first and then we watched the video because we have cameras to our house and left that. Wait a minute. What do you have cameras in your house? I would just, you know, freaks do it over there. What are y'all doing all the other? What part of town you live in? You in Pasadena? What's going on over there in Baytown? I do, yeah.

I knew it. I knew it. God. I knew. I knew. You freaks in Pasadena did stuff. See you later, Charles. All right. How'd I guess that neighborhood? I don't know. I'm actually going to ask you that. That's actually really funny. Let me tell you what you got.

You got video cameras in Pasadena and you got pineapples and Santa Plantation. That's all I'm going to say. Ah, God, I'm slow. Okay. You need to apologize to the people of Pasadena. Apparently, Dolly Madison does quite well in the Kingwood area, too. That's the cookies?

or the ice cream cakes? I thought that was a married app. I mean, the, is it Dolly Madison? Does it Dolly Madison makes like, oh, snack cakes? It makes like cupcakes. Oh, what is it? Holly Madison? You tell me, Matt.

I don't know. Why are you winking, Matt? Stop. Get out of here. He's not winking. I'm not winking. What's the name of that website? It's for guys that marry people that want to hook up.

What's it called? It's for knockoff Twinkies. That's what I'm telling us. It's something mad at Holly. Molly Madison? I don't know what it is. All right, we got one more. All right, one more here. Jaime on 7. Honey, what are you sorry for?

Yeah, I'm going to be real, well, it's going to be an ominous, but never mind. I have to apologize because I was watching the Astros game. Yeah? During our Bible study at home and discipleship class. Oh, my gosh. Is that bad? No. Wait, last night?

No, Wednesday. Oh, okay. I was going to say, you could have turned it off early last night. You just don't like Jesus. Wait, wait, wait. Those games don't start until 9 o'clock. What are you doing a Bible study for at 930 at night? Well, we have coffee, fondutes, and all that after that.

And then we have a refresher discipleship class after that. How late do y'all go? That's kind of late, don't you think? Usually 10, 10.30 because we start around 8.8.30. Hmm. You know, I'm going to tell you what Jesus would tell you. I forgive you, my son. Thank you.

Thank you. Let me tell you. If you're speaking the words, that late at night, I won't forgive you. Let's wake the strippers up next. That's not a segue. That's a great segue.

That's a segue. Do not judge me for the next. May Jesus be with you. Wake it up the strippers next on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 12. This is the third hour of the Matt Thomas show.

with Ross. Sports Talk 790. I ask you one question before we get to the news at noon. I would like for you and Jonathan

to hold hands here in the studio for a while. What is wrong with you? Walk around the state. Yeah, seriously. You leave that to your dreams. I'm not wrong about this. Yes, you are my God.

I'm surprised you're married if you asked me. Okay. Jonathan, do me a favor. Take your girl to them all this weekend. Go to the Galleria. Well, that's got crime there. Go to Woodland.

Gallery is safe-ish. There's only been one or two shootings there this year. Take her to Woodlands. They don't start, none won't be none at the gallery. I wouldn't go to Deerbrook. You got to follow the hood rules of the gallery now. Just go to Memorial Park. Walk with your girl and see how long it takes before you all eject your hands.

My girl loves to hold hands. No, that's a difference. Holding hands and watching a movie together is one thing. Going for a stroll, going to be a certain limitation. You are dead wrong. We were just in college. We were going to classes holding hands. You weren't walking miles.

I can guarantee you that. They were walking at least a quarter mile. Matt, you're wrong. SFA's only got like a three-acre campus. That's not that big. Much of your office buildings. You know, you're not the strip. You're not the strip mall, Matt.

come on they're not next to the dollar tree I will fall my sword on this one okay you're wrong oh you guys all right this start a poll then yeah it's a poll can you walk with your woman what is it what is your what are even your parameters

no okay I'll make sure we get the news to get you guys be very clear about this I think holding hands is amazing it's a terrific sign of affection okay I am pro holding hands Okay The reality is

You just can't get very long with it You're just going to be How long? I don't know How far? What's your limit? Not that's not a question What are you tapping out?

It's just natural release of the hand Now if you're walking next to her Aren't you all walking at the same speed So what's the difference if you're holding hands Are you breezing past your wife? Are you racing? Are you speedwalking? Olympic speedwalking with her?

Your left leg maybe in front Well, hers is the right leg. You're not in a sack race. And you're both tall, too, so the hands would be at the same level, no? This is not the three-legged race at field day at school where your legs are tied together. It's your hands met. You can swing them. Thank you very much for this.

You can swing them, Matthew. I'm trying to teach you. No. Time now for the news. What is wrong with you? At noon. Please get to it. Dr. Roto, by the way, at 1 o'clock.

All right, Matt. I'll ask Roto. I'll ask Roto at 1 o'clock. Ask them. Have you gotten anybody to agree with you yet? All right. How about this? We'll do this real quick.

Is there anybody that does limited walking with your girl hand in hand? I'm saying hates it. Because if you hate it, you're going to do it. No, I want to hear from the thousands of people that disagree with you. No, no, we had that last week already. I'm just saying there's just a certain limit. You're only going to build a goal, I don't know, three, four hundred yards. News at new time.

Ross, please explain the Astros Playoff scenario. That's what people are looking for. Yes, Matthew, well, the Ur-Huson Astros are in dire straits. They have a 28.4% chance at making the playoffs. They are out in the American League West as they are now five games back. They are one game back of the Tigers, two games back of the Red Sox. And that's basically where it starts and ends right now.

Now, if the Tigers or the Guardians lose two out of three, you need to win out. Also, you could win out and have the Red Sox lose out. That's where you stand right now for your Houston Astros as they settle in for a three-game set. It's a huge one for the heading coaches coming up this weekend. Wait a minute. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We're trying to get off of that.

You're right. You're right. You're right. You know what? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's a huge one for the actual players on the field this weekend in Anaheim. You're so passive aggressive.

Just terrible. Just awful. I'm the worst. I know. No wonder people hate you. Jason Alexander, I love all of you, even if we argue. Jason Alexander. You need you go constantly.

Jason Alexander, undecided and undecided this weekend for the Astros. How are we feeling? Okay, so let's spend a gut feeling in this. I say Hunter Brown pitches Sunday. I say he doesn't. I say he does if the game matters? No, no, no, no. If the game matters.

But I say... The problem is you lose him from... You lose him for game 1 and 2. You got to get in the playoffs. You got to get in first. Do you basically say Christian Javier, this is why we pay you a lot of money? He is L. Reptile. Not El Roadkill.

I say they will use him if they need him, but I will say they will lose one of the next two and not need him. I'll give you another strange one. How about we back away from Hunter? And we asked Frommber to throw an inning. He pitched yesterday. Right? That's only two days of rest. No.

So how about this? I guess they could do like a regular bullpen day and he can give you an inning. How about this one? How about this? If the game means something on Sunday. Yes. Here's the easy, low-hanging one. Will there be any wonky pitchers in the game on Sunday?

If it means something. I'm just not mega optimistic about it. Okay. Sorry. Continue on. Ask me if they're making the playoffs. Are the Houston Astros making the playoffs, clenching

a wild card spot. Why would I think Detroit could win two out of three in Boston when they've been horrific for three months? Two months, actually. Or you want them to sweep Boston, don't you? Or lose two out of three? It's really weird. Either lose two or three or sweep the Red Sox.

Correct. I think A is much more more likelyer than B. Okay. All right. What else you got? It's time for a break. Don't mention Derek Stingley, though. What's happening with him?

He's out? I don't know. Okay. The Rider Cup's going on? I'm about to mute about five more people here in about two seconds. Nice. Go say it. I'm team.

I think I was going to go to Team mute. Mute is the goat. See, I've been telling you for years. Thanks, coming to my side. Especially now that Elon ruined it. Yeah, because I put mutable words in there and I still see them. Oh, you do? I don't.

You gave me the words to use. Yeah, I mute all those words. Trump, Biden. Democrat. I have Republican. I treated politics and didn't do me any good. Yeah. All right. Okay. Yeah. By the way, oh, we have somebody got our back here real quick. Nigel or Nigel? I don't know which one it is. It says Nigel. Neal. Neal, what do you got, friend? Matt, me and you are about the same age. And I don't think that the people that are suggesting that holding hands for the long period of time really realizes probably how many times they let go

hands. I love grabbing my wife's hand when we walk anywhere. It never lasts for more than two or three minutes because either somebody's phone or you point something. Wait, Matt was saying 30 seconds. I didn't say 30. No, Neal, you have my back. I only needed one person.

I'm a minority on this and I will accept a loss. But Nealilil, I got you. We don't have to lose. We don't have to lose. We just have to be confident in our own beliefs. That's correct. That's 20-25. That's how you do. confident in their game. No matter how wrong.

No matter how wrong you are, 2025. Just do me this favor, Houston, Texas. The next time you go with your girl for a walk, just figure out, get the odometer out, same many steps you go. Okay. That's all I'm saying. How many steps are you saying?

What's the limit? No, no, limit. I'm just saying that... What's the time limit? No, I'm just saying if... Give me an example. Can you go 2,000 steps with the girl? I didn't say there was a limit.

You said the limit. So I'm asking you the limit. I'm not saying you stop. Give me the limit. When you said there's a limit. I'm saying, where do you stop? Yeah, you tell me. You're the one saying it's...

I'm at about 500 steps. 500 steps. That's like a whole football field. Yeah. That's about it seems about right. No, that's not a football field. That's not far, that's not far, though. See?

What does the Google say? How many? Google doesn't have an answer to this. 500 distance. AI will have us. Okay. A quarter of a mile, that's kind of far. When you go, when you go to the mall...

That's not right, though, either. Can you walk hands? hand to hand from the parking lot to the food court. No, that's extreme unless you're like real clingy. You got some issues. Why is it super clingy? If you hold a hand in hand, what's the difference? From the parking lot to the...

Y'all are talking about how you're going to open the door. You got to open the door. How are you going to open the door with the hands out? Sands opening the door. You're so ridiculous. Dr. Roto with this in 40 minutes, 1217 on SportsCorp. Talk, seven daddy. All right, Dr. Roto's coming up in about 35 minutes from now.

Thank goodness. I need some resuscitation. Well, I'll tell you what, it's interesting how fantasy football works. I did reach out to Roto, and I said, hey, I've got, and I don't have great quarterback play, to be honest with you. I've got Kyler Murray for the Cardinals, and I have Drake May of the Patriots. And I said, you know, I think I even asked you. I said, which one should I go with?

And I asked my son, and I sent Roto, and he goes, man, those are great. quarterback? I'm like, yeah. He said, I think I want you to go with Drake May, but I'm not completely sure. So he then texted me later back and said, yeah, go with Murray. I mean, go with Drake May. So I'm watching the first quarter of the game, first half of the game against Seattle, and Kyle Murray throws two interceptions. And for a lot of the first half, he had negative points, which obviously is a huge detriment to anybody that's trying to use your quarterback to score. Yes. I go to bed. I didn't. finished watching the game, didn't know until I woke up

what happened, he still finished for 21 fantasy points, which is pretty good for a quarterback. So to where he was, to where he went. Wait, he did? Oh, man. He had like two points. Yeah. Do you see it? Almost 21 points for Kyla Murray. I didn't go back and

check because I was playing against Kyla Murray in another league. Yeah. Now I'm pissed. That just shows you how really flawed fantasy football can be. Your quarterback, I don't think anybody in Phoenix is going, man, that was a great game for Kyle Murray. They were probably spending a lot. I guarantee you Phoenix Sports Radio today is like, what the hell was

Cata Murray doing in the first half? But it just shows you that fantasy football does not mirror the real life of the sport. Of course it doesn't. Yeah. Justin Fields is a great fantasy quarterback. Real life, not so much. No. So now I'm a little worried because I left 21 points on my bench.

We'll see what happens, Maddie. That's how it goes, man. It's fantasy football. Let's go. But the Toros are 3-0, and I haven't been 3-0 and God knows how long. See, aren't you glad you're back? Not really. Yes, you are. No, I'm not great. No, it's fine.

I'm a fraud because I told you I was going to be in a lot of my last year, and I set it up for that way over and over and over. But I think the camaraderie of being with the station and being with guys and actually following other guys who are in the league not named the Texans, it's kind of helps you out a little bit. Absolutely. Keep your football acumen sharp. Oh, well, you know, I am the Texans insider.

No, you're not. Yeah, I am. I have way too many examples. When did you make a mix of coming back? Probably not at all this year. Dang, you might be right on that. I'm not going to write that down. Johnson's knocking back some porkloaning back there.

Let me tell you, John, that what I got you right. I told you about Stefan Diggs, check. I told you about Laramie Tunsell, check. What did you tell us about Laramie Monsel? He's a bad dude, and getting his ass out of here. How's the offensive line going doing with him, gone? That wasn't an insight. That was just analysis for me, Texans insider.

Then I told you about Joe Mixing, check. And then what I had the other day, oh, C.J. Garner Johnson, I am four for four on my Texans insider analysis. That's not true. I'm sure I can think of something that you've gotten wrong. There's probably dozens of things Keep going on. Let's go. Give me a second.

No, you can't find anything. I'm going to take this next break and I'm going to come up with some stuff. You can't find a squad. I'm going to tell you there are other fools out there that pretend they're Texas insiders. They do these YouTube pages and all they do is interview Hannah McNair. That's not making you an insider. That's making you a water carrier. I am the insider.

No, you're not. Yeah, I am. Four and four. With your media credentials, what's going on? You haven't broken a single story. No, but they're coming from me. Insiders don't have to break story. Is Insiders said it give you the inside dirt when it comes out.

And I've given you, I have given you so much dirt. You need a sponge to clean it all up. Okay, let's do this. What's your next? Yeah, one of my next one. Yeah. What's your next one? I'm glad you asked.

What's my next job? That's a nice stall tactic. I'm glad you asked. You know the radio game. You repeated the question and said, I glad you asked. That's two double stalling. You know, it's time for a break. That's a triple stall.

Let's go. When we come back? When I come back, I'm going to give you. you not one but two bits of Texans insider stuff. And seriously, Jonathan, if I hit them both, heaven help us all. Heaven help us both. If I hit one of the two, I will still have an 833 winning percentage.

But if I hit both, you think I'm miserable now to work with, it's going to be way worse. 1233 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. We've got Dr. Roto coming up in a half an hour from now. 713-1-2-5-7-90. those two bits of Texans insider analysis next here on 790.

Not only do I consider myself a Texans insider sports rbby. I'm an NFL insider. Jonathan, remember when Ross and I were having this spirited conversation about Ashton Genty? I remember this. He's been in the NFL for three games. Now, three games does not make a season,

but he's got 144 yards through three games. Okay. That's, uh, if you play 17, on pace guy puts him at well under 1,000 yards. Okay. So at this point, the insight you got from me on Ashton Genti has worked. You said he's never going to run for 1,000 yards in his entire career. Did I really say that?

Are you sure I did? That sounds kind of, yeah. I'm what I wrote down? I was like, what did he just say? Okay, don't make me pull up the file. No, when you always go to the don't make me pull up the file, because I mean I must have said it, so I fully admit. that. Hold on me, let me find it.

I mean, it still could happen, but I think you didn't say that. I wrote down the time. This was, this was December 31st, 2024 at 11.22 PM. I will pull up the audio. I was like, I mean, AM, AM. I was going to say, well, I was like, this is so bad. I got to write down what time this was said.

You said, okay, first of all, your first prediction was he'll be just a guy. So far, he's been just a guy. Yeah. But the, the analytics nerds thinks he's been running well. They just have a bad offensive line, which gets part of the problem. And then you said he will never rush for 1,000 yards. If you want to go pull it, I can go find it.

No, that's okay. And I said he will. Okay. He's on pace for 816. Okay. Yeah, he could get hurt. Anything could happen. Raiders' offense is not very good.

We'll see what happens. Okay. I gave you Genthe so far. So I'm going to clarify that as a count that as a win at this point. Okay. You're counting it as a win three weeks? That's like you counting Yiner Diaz as the home run leader a win when he's like fourth. He's in top five.

It's your not being hurt all year? I don't think we see Joe Mixing this year. I could see that. I think there's too much secrecy. Have we heard a single word about it? Not a word. Here's the thing. And don't ask because you don't mean you care about the player.

Here's the thing, Matthew. If he's out for the ear, just say it. What is, I don't get it. Because I just don't get it. Maybe they didn't formulate what they want to say in terms of what exactly happened. They said week five, right? He can come back week. That's what they said.

He can practice week for it. He's technically allowed to come back next week. And you haven't heard word one about him practicing or doing anything. Yeah, you could be right on that one. I don't know what the heck's going on. Because you've got, but that's okay. Because it's Woody Mark season, baby. The goat.

So here's what you got. You have October 5th, you got to have Baltimore. Then you have the off week. You don't play again until Monday, October the 20th. It should be a fair question to Monday's press conference. Joe makes an update. Like, is he alive? I mean, look, guys could go away on their own and rehabilitate, but you would think at some point,

someone in the bill, like, you know, the Texans media, the ghost, they see players walking around. They see players, like you've even seen Aaron Wilson or Jonathan Alexander say, hey, I saw Joe Mixon working out today. Or I saw Joe Mixon running on the treadmill. You don't see any, you don't even, you don't even see a name, a picture,

anything. I can't give you a second one. I'm afraid for CJ's life. I'm afraid for CJ's life. Genties a bus and Mixon's out for the year. That's what you went with. Right? I guess I said the mixing one though. Yeah. I'm going to say with those.

You're Nixon mixing or keeping that one? I'm going to keep a mixing. Okay. I feel like I'm working at a Robble Rab creamery. Bless you. Remember when Robo Rab first came around? Everyone was like, oh, you're telling me I can put five mixins in my ice cream? They're like $14 and then their business models like me.

I take the pretty basic. I just get Oreos. Well, the problem is that people were not spending $14 for a cone, so now it's all you can get mixins. Hmm. Yeah, I mean, they have, they have, they've got some nice ice cream places around town but just not that one do you hold hands when you go get ice cream?

Absolutely, why not? That's very romantic. Yeah. It licked that cone, Maddie. But what if your cone drips? You gotta use that second hand. You gotta lick it fast before it gets all over your hands.

No, you gotta eat a cone with the two hands. One with a napkin in it and one with the cone. It's just safer that way. You don't need cone drippings all over yourself. I don't get cone drippings on myself, Matt. You get that leftover cream. If you're in a cone with one hand, you're going to have problems. No, well, it depends.

How hot is it outside? Where do you live? Cone melts by the time you walk out. If you're inside at the mall, you've got time. That's true. Don't eat a cone outside. If you're going to like that cone out, you're going to eat it inside. Let's go to Bobby in Spring on 790.

Hi, Bobby. Hey, I just want to know how many more games do the ask those need a win to clinch the division. Zero. They cannot clinch. The Seattle Mariners clinch the division.

Oh, so that can't get in it, can they feel good in playoffs? Yeah, Bobby, a matter of fact, I'll give you the, you know what?

I'm going to do, let's get, what's a good hope for, what's a good song of hope? Google songs of hope. Don't stop believing? Yeah. I'm a believer?

Ooh, that's, it's monkeys. Um, Don't stop believing. It takes like... Oh, what's that song? It takes like half a... Five minutes to get to the chorus.

High hopes. Lean on me. Give me, I'm a believer by the monkeys. Now, their smash mouth did one too, right? It is basically a straight cover. Yeah, that was terrible. Give me, I'm a believer by the monkeys. It was in Shrek.

Because our caller just wanted to know. Because Matt loves the monkeys and all the members and playing golf with them. No, that one guy was an A-hole. Are you kidding me? I hated and play on Mickey Dolans. All right, turn it up a little bit. If the Astros sweep the angels, they need the guardians to lose two or three to the Rangers.

Or the Tigers to lose two or three of the Red Sox. Or the Tigers to sweep the Red Sox. Sing it, Beatles. Oh, monkey, sorry. Wow. That's over the tongue. This is a strike. Yeah.

You know, I appreciate the monkeys. that they try to rip off the Beatles, and they're like, we can't do it. We're not as good as there. We're not as good as writers there. What do you mean? They had hits.

They did have some hits. Okay. Now, I'm not done. If the Astros go two and one against the halos, the Guardians of the Tigers must get swept. Got it? Yeah. So, Astros win two or three.

Guardians or Tigers must be swept. Guardians ain't getting swept at home by Texas. Sing it to me, Mickey. her face So I'm playing golf of Mickey Dolan's And I said man What was it like hearing your song again And Shrek was a huge hit

Smash Mount did a cover of it Yes And he was like pissed at me For even asking I thought he would be like Oh it was great The song's been redone I made some money on the royalties

The Shrek's a huge success And he couldn't have been a bigger jerk I was so disappointed Oh you know what That's more to the story I didn't know you were asking about his music and he was mad at you. That makes more since.

This isn't a bit. You actually met him? I played nine holes of golf with him. Oh, that was a bit. No, I swear to God, I did. And he was mad? He was cranky the whole time. But I just, I didn't know what to say.

Remember that time you sang last train of Carksville? I mean, I didn't want to do that. I was in all of him. He just taught golf, Mattie. Hey, how's your short game? It wasn't good. He was tired. He was mad the whole time.

So I tried to loosen things up. Like, man, that must be great here. And I'm a believer again. And he's like, Damn. How was it? No, don't do it. I'm not doing it again.

Got to have a beer? He's the only member with the monkey's still alive. You're not surprised. Good for him? I don't know. I can't name the members of the monkeys. Who's the most famous monkey?

That's Davey Jones. Davey Jones. James George. No, it's not curious. He is the most famous monkey. That's a good one. And the man with the yellow hat. What was that guy's name?

The man with the yellow hat. He didn't really have a name. In the books. Yeah, it's just, yeah. I think that's all it is. Hey, come on, Matt. Read a book. I got one for you.

Who was one of the poo's adult friend? I was Eeyore. Christopher Robin? Oh. Duh. I'm talking about Eeyore. No, Eeyore is like that little thing that walked around with him. The mule or donkey.

Whatever it was. The hell is wrong with you? Anything goes Friday. Clearly. We gave you Astros probability. The monkeys. Curious George, Shrek,

Mickey Dolans, and E.R. What do you want to cuss and discuss the Texas? We can do that too. Yeah, this big game this weekend. It's not big. Nobody cares about this game. It's a must-win game before the Texas.

Well, last week was a must-win game. They lost. So they didn't fold-up shop. It's a must-win game. Everybody was saying must-win game last week. week? Who was saying it? People? Media members? Absolutely. I saw it. I'm not going to name names. Don't say names. But I sainte it. Okay. James and Klein will get to you coming back. If you want to jump in before Dr. Roto and God knows we got a spot for you. Nine Flores stories, by the way, coming up today at

130. Ross, where is your non-floor story from? Bulgaria. All right. I've got two non-flora stories today. And I'll be talking to you about those. Plus, Dr. Roto in just 16 minutes. All right, we got Rodo coming up in about 10 minutes. I've got some folks that have been patiently waiting and let's go to them now. Let's say hello to my screen's not working. James and Klein on 790. Hello, James.

Yeah, I wanted to get back to that holding hand stuff. You know, when the Beatles wrote, I want to hold your hand. Paul McCartney said it's because you're showing that woman or that man that you're with. That's the person you want to be with. So it's a term of the determent. So when you're not holding someone's hand and I want you to hold your hand, and you're kind of letting her know that, you know, you're not really the one for me. So you should hold her hand.

I do hold. We do hold hand. Again, people are only hearing one side of this story. I said it's just difficult to do it for a lengthy period of time. That's my only thing. I'm not anti-holding hands at all. Okay, well, that's not really the reason I called it. The reason I call this.

These people that are bashing Christian Walker, are you crazy? You asked us last year, you asked them to go out and get an upgrade from first base, and they did. They went and got an upgrade. I mean, at the beginning of the year, he told me that our first baseball was going to hit 24 home loans and have 90 RBI. I would be happy with that. He's not the reason that we're not in the playoffs. He's not the reason. He's an upgrade from what we had last year.

So all these people bashing Christian Walker, come on, get off of it. He's a good, I want him back next year. He is, well, first of all, he's going to be back. He's got two years off on his contract. So unless the Astros deal him, he will be back next year. Yeah, but you all were talking about trades and stuff. The only thing that I didn't like that he did is his average is a number. very high. His average should be a lot higher, but

he's delivered. I mean, he's been a lot better than Singleton was, and he's an upgrade. We could upgrade every position. Of course, we'd be in the plus. Yeah, but you're also paying, you're also paying Christian Walker, well, you're paying John Singleton, two million. You're paying 10 times the amount and not getting 10 times of production. James, thank you for the phone call.

No, I'm just going to say this. I think he sometimes gets too much to blame. He's actually had a pretty decent road trip, all things considered. But I think Christian Walker would, if you went to Christian Walker and said, describe your season, he would say it's disappointing. And I'm saying it's disappointing. Ross is saying it. Astrofans are saying it. And I guarantee you, Christian Walker was saying, I'm having a disappointing season. I don't think it's worth even a conversation or debate. His home runs have gone down for four straight years.

His OPS Plus has gone down for four straight years. 36, 33, 26, 24 this year. can hit a couple this weekend. That'd be helpful. Hey, he's back to 0.0 war. He's a replacement level now. According to baseball reference, that's good. He hasn't been Brian Obray, Brad. I mean, Jose Ibrahim was, yeah.

That was different level. But he hasn't been... What did you want? Did you want more... You wanted more of what Yule Griel gave you in the same glove? Yep. The glove isn't disappointed because he's a plus defender.

Yeah, he's a plus defender. he's not losing balls in the lights. And Sacramento. I know what happened. Disappointed. And by the way, the RBI situation to me, and I learned this with a brayu, is largely overrated. Guys that are batting 3, 4, 5 in your lineup

are going to have more chances for RBIs because you would assume that your table setters are getting on base. Yes. Can you look this up really, really quick? I don't mean to put you on spot. What is Christian Walker's batting average? with runners and scoring position.

I can look that up. You just for this year? Just for this year. That to me would be probably where the great disappointment is in his game. I'm hitting the wrong buttons. Sorry. You talk. All right, I'm going to talk to John then real quick

before we get to that answer. Let's go on that. Okay, I got it. Not you, John. Oh, you already have it? 238 with a 737 OPS. You need better from your heart of the war. That's about what he's been all year. So you're saying 24% of the time

when there's a runner, on scoring position. I mean, second or third base, he's making... Yeah, but I mean, he's got sack flies that have driven in runs and stuff like that. But those don't count as AB. Exactly. Yeah. So he's driven

and runs in those count, but it don't count as an AB. Yeah. All right. Jonathan, the caller, Jonathan. Hi, Jonathan. You're at 1255. You're on 7-90. Go ahead. What's up, Matt? Hi. And his noble seed.

Man, piggybacking off a Christian Walker, like, sometimes you just got to look at the eye test. Like, we haven't had, to y'all's point, like, we haven't had a good hitting first baseman, sensually, and that was ages ago. And it's to no fault on the Astros. I feel like, you know, they tried to get a Brayu. They thought Christian Walker was going to be able to get his hits into the Crawford boxes. That didn't happen.

Nonetheless, since anything goes Friday, I've got two can't. that it's for the Cougar list. One of them, Marissa Tomey, she still looks good. She has not, she's like the female Dick Clark. Like, she has not

aged at all. Okay. I get that deep cut from you. I'll agree with you on that. Continue, who's your second one? The second one is Jennifer Connolly. I mean, we all No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no.

Uh-uh. What? What are you talking about? In Top Gun Maverick, you didn't think. Oh, no, no, I made me amazing my people. What are you talking about? Jennifer Colley is a all-time smoke show. Hold on.

I think I'm getting the person mixed up. Okay, good. That's what I was saying. Well, you were trying, no, you were the way constantly shutting him down. Who is Stifler's mom? What is that woman's name? Oh, I don't. That's not Jennifer Connell.

Okay. That's what I'm saying. I got a miss. I was like mistaken identity there. What is her name? I don't remember. Jennifer Connelly She was the girl in Labyrinth

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree with you on that Absolutely 100%. Wrecking for a dream? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Reckway for a dream. Yes, yes, yes. Let's not say what they did to her No, we don't have to talk about that.

But that was eye-op-op-op-op-gun Maverick. No, no, no, I'm not. I'm holding it together. I got you, I got you. Who is the Jennifer that I'm talking about that is lost, I mean, lost. I know. You're talking about Stifler's mom? Stiffler's mom was...

Jennifer Coolidge. That's who I was thinking of. I'm sorry. I staying correct to Jonathan, making you for the phone call. Jennifer Coolidge, Stiffler's mom back in the day. Oh, my goodness. Today...

Jennifer... Jennifer Connolly is one of the hottest women to ever walk this planet. Can't argue. So hot. Marissa Tomey, too. Marisa Tomey is like almost 60, I think, right? Yeah, she's in her 60s, I think.

God, almighty, she's good, too. Jennifer Coolidge? All right, you've lost me for the segment. Just looking at Jennifer Connolly picks. Dr. Roto is up next. That's great. You're going to be able to cool it with Coolidge for a half hour if you want to, or Connolly. Sports Talk 7.00.

Dr. Roto is next. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Turned out to be up. I don't know with. Give me the news. I really don't know what I should do. The fastest 30 minutes in Major Market Radio. We say hello to the good doctor with us here.

Dr. Rodo here on Sports Talks. I brought this up to you yesterday about Drake May or Katta Murray. And Roda, I was feeling great, especially after Murray throws those two early I intees. But fantasy football can be cruel. I wake up this morning. He has 21 fantasy points. So it just shows you real life football and fantasy football are two different animals. It is.

I mean, look, Murray was fine. It wasn't great. Trust me, at halftime. were probably, like you said, you were loving life because he could barely play the game. And then the second half had picked up. But what did he finish with? 200 yards and two touchdowns, a few yards rushing. I think Drake May is going to be better than that.

I mean, Carolina does not pressure the quarterback. So, look, I always want to find, I think Drake May is on the cusp of being really good. And so worth the risk. All right, let's go over a couple things from last week and moving forward. Since anti-Mnesota game, my God, the backup quarterbacks, one didn't have to do much because his defense kept scoring in Cincinnati with Browning was a hot mess. If I've got T. Higgins, which I do have, and I'm a friend, you got Jamar Chase, are you, if you're a Bengals wide receiver fan, are you wiggin out right now?

No, no, no. Look, Jake Browning's not terrible. There are worse guys out there. He just played a really hot defense last week. Minnesota's a good defense. Brian Flores is a great defensive coordinator. This week's a tough matchup, but the Broncos run a lot of man coverage, which is right up T. Higgins' alley. never say that you're not going to play Jamar Chase.

So, look, Browning is better than a lot of backups in this league. I picked him up in a couple of leagues. You just got to be patient. Maybe after this week he's playable. All right. We got Brock Purdy back playing for San Francisco this week. Does that change their fortunes much against the Jaguars? I think they're going to beat the Jaguars regardless.

This could be one of those McAfre, you know, 140 yards from scrimmage and two touchdown weeks. Ricky Pierceall right now is not 100%, so we've got to keep our eyes on that. Juan Jennings, I expect to be back. If he's there, you definitely want to play him. Look, the Jaguars, these are two teams that play fast. These are two coaches that are innovative play callers. You know, the big question here is without Nick Bosa, how will the 49ers fare on defense? That's what I'm concerned to see.

Atlanta got shell-shocked by Carolina last week. If I've got Pennix and company there, how am I going to do against Washington? You're going to do really well because here's something that works. Nobody on planet Earth wants to play Michael Pennix Jr. this weekend. That's why he's going to have a good week.

Right? It's just how the NFL works. I'm telling you. It's just one of those funny things. So you're playing in DFS. I like Michael Pennix this week. He's playing at home. He's playing on that fast track. Washington's in big trouble this week. There's no Jaden Daniels. There's no Terry McLaren.

The Atlanta defense is better. I think Pennix has a much improved week. I'm going to put them down for 240 yards and two touchdowns. Dr. Rota, there were a lot of folks that picked up Daniel Jones because of what the fast are for the Colts. They're three and oh, but realistically, they could be just as easy one and two. We saw what that Rams defense did against C.J. Stroud in the opening week, how will Jones and his skill position players do against the Rams? I think this is going to be the most exciting game of the weekend, truly.

I think this game could really blow up in terms of scoring. So I like Daniel Jones, I like Jonathan Taylor. Take a look at Josh Downs. He doesn't play a lot when the Colts are winning, but I think they're going to be losing, so he'll be out there. It might be interesting fantasy-wise. Love Pucanakua, love Matthew Stafford.

Devante Adams is still very, very, he's been out with a hamstring during practice this week. If he's not there, Kairn Williams is also firmly in play. We really like this game. All right. Ross and I have been kind of joshing about Ashton Genti, only 150 yards and three games.

That's a case of a porous offensive line. Chicago showed a pretty good defense against the Bears against the Cowboys last week. How do you see Chicago and the Raiders? I mean, the Cowboys were a mess. The second CD Lamb got injured, right? At that point, it wasn't like the Bears were great. And the Cowboys defense is awful.

I really like Ashton Genty this week. I think that should be another exciting game. I think the 4 o'clock games are way better than the early slate games. So, look, I think that Gino Smith, in play. Gentie in play. Jacoby Myers, definitely in play. Brock Bowers also on the other side, I think you can play Caleb

Williams. I think you could always play Roma Dunezay. That's like, don't even ask that question anymore. Just play Roma Dense. And those are all the guys I would start in that one. Okay. Hey, I love the Detroit Baltimore game because I had loaded fantasy players on both sides. Although Flowers

was kind of quiet for the Ravens. Can he pipe up this week in Kansas City? Not sure this is a great spot for them because the defensive coverage they roll out doesn't really favor him. I think it favors more Rashad Bateman. I think Derek Henry is going to have a good game. On the other side, if there was ever a week to play Travis Kelsey, this is the week. Baltimore is awful against tight ends, second most receiving yards, second most receptions. It's been a nightmare.

Both these teams need this game desperately. The only way the chiefs do it is if Kelsey plays well. Late game comebacks for both Philadelphia and Tampa Bay. Low scoring or high scoring this week down in East Florida. West Florida, I guess. West Florida, right by me, yeah. You know, it's funny because you can't run on the bucks, but you can throw on the bucks. So I think that this is one of those games, and the bucks have led up the most receptions to opposing running backs.

So a lot of people won't want to love Barclay this week. I have no problem with Barclay this week. I have five or six receptions. like Jalen Hertz this week, like DeVantta Smith this week, like A.J. Brown this week on the other side, Mike Evans, as we know, is out. Chris Godwin is expected back. Egbuka has been fantastic. I think this is going to be a lower scoring game, but you could still see fantasy yardage, just not a lot of touchdowns. All right. Jackson Dart with the Giants, their own three.

Nobody's surprise they made the move probably this soon is a little bit of a surprise. How do you see the Chargers of the Giants? no no Brian Dable was going to get fired so the only way that this guy doesn't get fired is hey I've got a new quarterback that I have to mentor okay Brian we'll give you a few weeks that's it otherwise I mean to leave Russell Wilson in there was over but Jackson Dart

if he ever watched him in Ole Miss dude can throw dude can run okay he's mobile he's interesting he's a good quarterback right now good in college doesn't necessarily mean good in your first pro game against the Chargers defense and Jim Harbaugh that's a lot to ask for. However, Malik neighbors, two out of the three games, he didn't see the football. He will see the football this week. And I love Cam Scadaboo. This dude is very underrated.

Look at his numbers last week, MT. With those numbers, he'd be like a third round pick if he did that every week. On the other side, I love Herbert. I love Ladd McConkey. And Omerian Hampton, very sad what happened to Najee Harris, but Omerian Hampton becomes a beast right now. All right. CD Lamb lists Dallas Cowboys. Green Bay, really impressive so far. They've got to be smart with their loss at Cleveland last week. Will they try to take it out on the Dallas Cowboys? Hide the wife and children. M.T., this is ugly. It's really going to be bad. I mean, you have no lamb. Maybe Ferguson has a good game. George Pickens, I don't really like. I don't love Giovante Williams. I don't like Back Prescott. Stay away. On the other side, here's a name that you haven't heard, but I think you will. Matthew Golden from University of Texas. Texas. I think the guy, Dallas has let up the most yards per target in the league. They let up a ton of big plays. Golden is their big play receiver. That's going to be

the guy who scores this week. Yeah, Matthew Golden was a Houston cougar until he decided that the University of Houston was too difficult for him. That's why he made a change to the University of Texas. He upgraded in prestige and academia. What are you talking about? Oh, here's Ross with his obligatory Ross question of the week. I mean, come on, Matt. Let's be realistic. You mentioned a little bit about Ashton, I'm just curious some of the running backs who are sputtering. How much longer do you expect it to last, especially in the case of Jentee, Chase Brown,

and maybe to a lesser extent, Alvin Kamara. Yeah, you know, Kamara is not bad, right? Because they don't really use a lot of guys that have used Juan Johnson. They use Alave, they use Rashid, Shaheed, and Kamara. So he's different. Chase Brown has been a nightmare, really, and now gets to play Denver this week? That's not good either.

So you can have another bad week of Chase Brown before it gets better. Denties should get better this week. Problem is you drafted these guys in like round two. So what are you going to do? Cut them? No, what are you going to do? Bench him until they get better? Maybe, but do you have a better guy in your roster? Probably not. So sad, you're kind of stuck with them at this point.

All right, last thing before go to the phones. Tennessee, Houston. Now, Nico got pass a defender, slipped, scored a deep touchdown. The numbers have not been great for him. There's not an non-existent offense in terms of running game. C.J. has faced a lot of pressure. are we getting nervous about our skill position players for the Texans, even though they are playing O'N3 Tennessee?

Well, look, this should be the game they win, right? We feel good about that. Stroud should have a better day. Jeffrey Simmons, though, is a beast. You've got to watch for that guy. I mean, if the Texans' offensive line is not paying attention, Simmons is going to sack Stroud four or five times. Do you think the real key to the Texans?

I think there's three guys. One, Woody Marks. Let's get him out there. Doesn't he look faster than Chubbs of the naked outside? Oh, my naked eye, to the blind eye that he looks faster. It does. So you're like, why are they not getting this guy out there more? He was one of the best receiving running backs in college football the last three years running.

So this is not a fluke. This guy's legit. Two, Christian Kirk, you've got to have another receiver there to help Nico Collins. And three, you've got to get the ball to Dalton Schultz. Right? So you've got to get these guys involved. It can't just be the Nico show. Because if it is, then you become a one.

one note team and you're in trouble. The good news is the Titans really stink. I don't see a pathway for them to really improve, certainly not this week. So this is the game that Texans need to get the ball rolling. All right, that is Dr. Roto. You got any questions for them. Let's go.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-2-790. This is 30 minutes of Major Market Radio continues. The good doctor with us here on Sports Talk, 790. 7-1-3-212. 5.790, 713, 212, 570. When you call in, just to let you know, Dr. Roto's doing fine. Ross, you're doing fine, I'm doing fine, right?

Got all that knocked out. It's spectacular. Get your, you're in, let's crank your mood than you were earlier today. Now we'm not talking about Astros hitting coach for a couple of hours. Oh, my God. Why'd you even have to say that word? Not bad. Let's go to the phones and talk to the great people.

We say hello to John on 790. John, your question for Dr. Roto, please. Hey, guys, thank you for taking my call. I'm in the standard lead. I need to fill my flex spot. Montgomery, A.Manoor, Golden, or Jameson Williams? Well, these are both great options that you have. Look, Montgomery at home is always a guy, especially in your league.

You've got to figure that he's going to score a touchdown. It is very hard to run on the Browns. They have a good run defense, but I always like Montgomery at home. Look, I said Golden was a good play. It is, but it's not a safe play. I like James and Williams again, but it's not a safe play. Montgomery is a safe play at home. Is there another one-two combination that you feel confident with Gibbs and Montgomery

that you may not find in any of the other 31 teams? You know, that's an interesting question. I think they are clearly the best too because Montgomery is a one, right? If he was on another team, wouldn't he be the clear one? Just that you're dealing with Jemir Gibbs. Now, I would argue that Tyler Algiers pretty darn good, but we don't see that as much because John Robinson is there. But Montgomery was the number one of his own right before he went to Detroit.

So they've got an embarrassment of riches there. Let's go to Gio on 790 for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Gio. Hey, Rodo. So I drafted Borough and I drafted J.J. McCarthy that both out. So I picked up DART and Marriota. Who should I start? Yeah, I think you're going to start DART this week.

I know Mariotta had a good week last week. I get that. You don't have McLaurin. you're playing Atlanta who's going to play a whole lot better at home. Their defensive pressure is pretty good. I think Mario had a great week last week, but now we've got to move on to this week, Gio. I think Jackson Dart is going to run for about 40 or 50 yards. I think he's going to throw for about 200.

I think he's going to throw at least one touchdown pass. I would be starting dart. Need two. This is from Twitter. Golden, Trey Tucker, or Shaheed, which one of those three guys sits? Yeah, so, oh, who is sitting? Well, you're in two of those three, Golden, Tucker, or Shaheed? Yeah, I think I'm going to sit Shaheed, right?

Because he's the riskiest guy. I told you I like Matthew Golden. Tucker, look, he's not going to do what he did last week. Last week he won people leagues and he won the, you know, he fed families in DFS. Do I expect that again this week? No, but it's a high-scoring game, so I want to be in that game environment. Kincaid or Kelsey? Kelsey is in the smash spot of the week at tight end.

Okay. I like hearing that. Thank you, Dr. Roto. You speak the gospel. Mark on 790 for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Mark. Hi, Standard League pick two. Scataboo, Ridley, Pacheco, and Travis Hunter.

Wow. Okay. First of all, we're playing Scataboo from now on. It's not even in question. The guy is really good. The Giants envisioned him as their starter when they took him. They think he could score nine or ten touchdowns. I do too.

Isaiah Pacheco, I think he's about, he's like the Nick Chubb of the Chiefs. Naked eye tells you this guy stinks. And Breschard Smith from SMU, guys, good. They started to play him a little bit in last week's game. So, I mean, I guess in a standard league, he's interesting to me, but I don't really like it. I don't trust Ridley

either, and Travis Hunter, not at all. So I think it's Scataboo and Ridley, but if you feel strongly about Pacheco, you could start him, but I think Pacheco is about half away from losing his job. Let's go to John and Conroe for Roto. Go ahead, John. Hey, what's up, Roto?

I got two questions for you. Do I start Travis KOC or Dave Montgomery and the Flex? And do I start Jameson Williams or Jordan Addison? All right, I'm going to go Kelsey and Jameson. Addison is going to be good, but this is his first game back. Could be a little messy out there. You know, they're on bye next week or is it in week six, one of those two weeks. I'd be waiting on Addison just a little bit.

I like Jameson Williams this week, and I love Kelsey. Any worry about any of the players playing in Dublin this weekend? Yeah, Jalen Warren is questionable right now. He went on the injury report today. That's never a good sign. So you could see Kenneth Gainwell. You could see the rookie Caleb Johnson. Maybe there's a Caleb Johnson siding.

But remember, the game is early at 930. Nobody wants to wake up early and change their fantasy lineups, but you might have to. All right. Travis for Dr. Rodo. Go ahead, Travis. Hey, Dr. Rotto, Scataboo or Travis Eitian? I'm all in on Scataboo. First of all, Tyrone Tracy's out. Secondly, you've got to think that Dart is going to throw some short passes, right, with the pressure he's going to see from the chargers.

Scadaboo, look at what he did last week. He ran for 60 yards. He caught a bunch of balls. He's just one of those guys who's a PPR machine. Think of an Alvin-Kamar type. That's the type of talent we're talking about, not in terms of explosiveness, but in terms of being able to catch the ball. block a little bit and be good by the goal line. Are you flexing McConkey or T. McMillan in a full point PPR?

Two guys I really like. The only problem I have with McMillan is that Christian Gonzalez is expected back. He is really, really good on the back end there. I think Ladd McConkey, the Giants are terrible against slot receivers. They're terrible against man coverage. What does Ladd McConkey do best? Man coverage and he plays in the slot. I love Ladd.

Worthy or flower? this week? Worthy. Okay. Josh for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Josh. Hey, sir, I got two. So Devante Adams is questionable,

so I was thinking about putting in Golden over him, or I've got Zay Flowers or George Pickens. Thank you. Yeah, I don't really, I mean, I guess I'll go with Pickens because he's the only guy there.

I don't dislike Zay Flowers. I just think I worry about the matchup this week. The Chiefs play of Diffinz. defense. It's not great for him. I'm in on Matthew Golden. The one lucky thing that you have is, you know, you can watch and wait until the four o'clock games and see because the Cowboys are the night game. So that's an advantage there. You don't have to make up your mind until about four o'clock, but I think Golden is going to have a big game. Let's go to Robb on 790. Rob, what's your question for Dr. Roto? I hear you talking up Cam Scataboo. I have Scataboo,

but I just dropped Tyrone Tracy and picked up Woody Marks. Is that something I might regret? down the road? I don't think so. I mean, like I said, I think the Texans are, I don't think they're ever going to get rid of Nick Chubb. And you're not going to use Woody Marks by the goal line, but maybe you make Nick Chub, your short, yardage goal line guy, and you get him out of there between the 20s and you get Woody Marks out there. So Tyrone Tracy's out for the next two to four weeks. It can't be a bad thing to put in a young guy with upside and put a guy like Tracy on on the bench. All right. And lastly, we go to Ray on 790 for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Ray. All right, two questions, standard PPR.

Judkins or Breece Hall or any other question is, Worthy or Jalen Waddle? Thanks. Yeah, I'm going to go Judkins and Waddle. Waddle always seems to do well against the Jets. This is a must, must, must, must win game from Mike McDaniel and the Dolphins. Judkins has been good. I know that the lines are good defense, but Judkins is like Scataboo. The guy can run, he can catch, he can do a little bit of whatever.

everything and he's even more explosive. So I'm not taking that guy out of my lineup. So Judkins and Waddle for me. All right, ladies, Jim, we asked. Wait a second. I was supposed to get one. You got it in the last segment. Oh, go ahead, get one more.

Go ahead. You mentioned Judkins. I got to sit one of he, Chase Brown, or Tony Pollard, sit one. I'm not sitting Judkins. How about that? I think your choice is Pollard or Brown. I'll play Brown. I mean, if they can get by the two-yard line,

you've got to think he's got a shot. I don't really like Tennessee this week. to you. I don't know. I'll pass on that one. You are wigging me out about Zay Flowers against Kansas City. Am I going to put him in? I got him in right now, or am I putting T. Higgins? Man, the bingoes sucked last week. Are you

sure I can put T. Higgins in? T. Higgins for me. T. Higgins. Trust the process, Matt. They're both good. I mean, they're both good plays, but T. Higgins, you took in, what, round three? Dr. Roto, do you feel insulted that you've been giving great advice for like

10 plus years and Matt's questioning you? You should feel insulted. I don't feel insulted. I'm looking to verify. Although as a fantasy expert, you're used to being questioned. Time now for Dr. Roto's lock of the week. Look, we talked about a little bit before. Puka Nakua. All this guy needs to do

is stand this up straight for 17 games. He might be the number one receiver in fantasy football. Going up against the Colts, Devonthe Adams with a hamstring injury, sign me up. Pooka Nakua, a dozen catches. 140 yards. And if he finds the end zone, it's boom city. That's Dr. Rottos. All right. It's half my show. I'm going one more.

All right. So I've got four guys. Shut up. I got four guys, Roto. Which one of my... That's six. Four. Which one am I sitting? You ready? Keenan Allen, Garrett Wilson, Zane Flowers, T. Higgins. Which one of the four am I sitting? As of this second, unless I get back to you, M.T., I'm sitting Zayflowers. In Roto, we trust. Where can we find you between now and the Sunday kickoffs?

I know that I'm on Sirius X-N Fantasy Sports Radio from 6 to 9 a.m. on Saturday's central time. I'm at Dr. Roto.com into the promo code win for 10% off our monthly or seasonal packages. And of course, you can find me at Twitter slash X at DRROTO. Ladies and gentlemen, pray, Zay Flowers, one catch for nine yards. That's all I need is Monday night and football. I may have to text you during the game, Roto. I have faith in you, but I, Flowers is quiet last week. I'm just a little scared.

I know. I'll text you. I'll text you. Look, I do the deep dive empty on Saturday. Okay, good. 2 a.m. I'm still up. Yeah, text me. I don't care. Text me any hour.

I just need to win. I got to go to 4 and L. Oh, my God. That's a good doctor. We'll talk to you next week. Thank you, Roto. All right. There it is.

Whew, I'm scared. Clearly. Matt went from, I'm not playing fantasy. I know. This is a must win game, even though I'm 3-0. You got some good receivers, by the way. I love to stay undefeated. I've got a nice roster.

Jonathan, I have two stories. One, both involve teachers. One is highly inappropriate and one is not really not too bad. We'll let you decide which I say first. Now, Florida Stories are next. 132 on Sports Talk 790. We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida and share them with the people.

of Houston It's time for non- All right, Jonathan, do you want the disgusting story first or the non-discusting story? No way. I'm interested. You're going to this disgusting one. All right.

A West Florence, South Carolina teaching assistant was arrested for something that he did in high school as a teacher. His name is Alexander Paul Robertson-Lewis. That's a lot of middle names. 32-year-old teaching assistant at West Florence High School arrested on September the 19th. After authorities discovered, he had been spraying a substance designed to mimic the smell of feces throughout the school.

Oh, God. The act reportedly took place over several weeks from August to 25th to September the 19th, leading to complaints from students and staff about a foul odor that caused nausea, nausea, headaches, and respiratory issues. respiratory issues. He has been charged with a disturbing school property and malicious injury to property with damages exceeding $55,000 due to inspections and repairs needed to the school's air conditioning system. Wow. The investigation revealed that the spray was used multiple times resulting in

significant disruption to the school's environment and prompting some students to seek medical attention. He was taken into custody, later released on bond set over 9,000 $1. First of all, where do you buy such an event? Such spray. It's a popular spray. You can get fart spray. You can get fart spray.

I have never smelled it in my life. You don't know. Like, it's that bad. Is it what I think it smells? No, it's that bad. It's that bad. Okay. Now, we have the anti in our house.

We have the anti spray that makes it, you know, when you got to do what you got to do, like French vanilla or fresh flowers. but not that. That is horrible. What would possess someone to say, you know what, I'm going to make this place smell like blank. West Florence, South Carolina.

And that Rossi is my first of two non-Florida stories. Thank you, Matt. Great stuff. Great stuff. Well, man, let me take you to the San Francisco Bay. I've been there many of your time. Well, you're just watching the tide roll away. Yeah.

need to be careful when you go to San Francisco, Matt. If you have flowers in your hair. Residents of the San Francisco Bay Area are on the lookout as there has been an animal attack in the neighborhood of San Rafael where at least two people have gone to the emergency for medical treatment. Okay. It is a very mean squirrel. Has been attacking people.

Has had at least five attacks, two people. in the emergency room for medical treatment. Joan Heblack was one of the attacked, saying she was walking in the neighborhood where the squirrel seemingly came out of nowhere, attacked her leg, and began clawing and biting. She said, quote, it clamped out of my leg. The tail was flying up, and I was like, get it off me.

Get it off me. Another named Isabel was attacked while walking in the same area as it launched itself from the ground to her face and wound up on her arm leaving it bloody. Flyers have now been posted, warning residents that the squirrel is no joke and then more than five people have been attacked by a quote, very mean squirrel

that comes out of nowhere. Can I ask a really stupid question? What purpose do squirrels have? I mean, what purpose do you have? Well, I'm here to entertain people 20 hours a week. Okay. And provide thoughtful now. I mean, I'm a Texan insider.

They eat nuts. They eat nuts. That probably helps with some kind of fertilization of trees. I mean. That's a good question. Okay. I'm sure they're an important part of the ecosystem. They're mammals and their food for hawks.

Okay. Food for hawks. Okay. You're done. That's fine. Okay. I mean, that's off the top of my head. I don't know.

I've heard worse answers from you. All right. Jonathan, what is your non-form? the story. Mine's from Hungary. On September 6, more than 20 teams competed in the international grave digging competition.

Okay. Ida DeCenture reported, the contest is sponsored by the country's Association of Cemetery Operations and Maintainers, were short for MTFE, and is intended to raise the prestige of the profession. Two of the teams must dig graves two meter long,

80 centimeters wide, and 1.6 meters deep within two hours. Then shovel the dirt back into the holes to create a neat barrel ground. Contestants are judged on the Accuracy and attention to detail. The Hungarian team of Lazow Kiss and Robert Negi won the first prizes for the first two years. Or second row, sorry. And the Russian team came in last blaming their performance on the hot weather.

So this is a serious thing. So they're not digging up people, are they? I guess they're going to cemetery. I don't think they're digging up people, but, you know, it's a competition. It's like a radio competition. You've got, you know, 20 shows compete to the best libraries or something. I don't know. Best Live Read?

Actually, they're having a contest for that. You got to send yours in, Matt. Oh, you're right. There are. Okay. I've never dug a grade before. Me either? Don't anticipate doing it.

When's the last time you dug a hole with a shovel? I've dug a hole in this radio show many a time. Yeah, I mean with actual, like shovel in your hands. Oh. When I was four. What were you burying, Jonathan? Oh, my girlfriend's dead cat. She wanted to make a burial.

You know, Cheeks don't. on one of our freezers. That is sick. I don't want to hear about that. What is wrong with you? We just forgot. He's in the garage freezer, though. By the way, squirrels are vital.

To what? For ecological purposes, they help regenerate forests. They disperse fungi, fungi, and they're a food source for various predators, including birds of praying coyotes. Thank you for that. Quickly. Hold on.

No, what's going on with cheeks? He's doing fine. No, he's not. dead and rotting in your freezer. No, he's in, he's freezer lock. He's good. All right. That's disgusting. A haunted freezer.

A public school administrator in Akron, Ohio, resigning this past week after he sold the school district's lawnmowers on Facebook marketplace. Apparently, he bought seven of the traded in mowers under a quote, friends and family discount

with the vendor, according to the agency. He paid $5,693 for those lawnmowers. The agent agenda said Keena then listed five of those seven lawmakers for sale on Facebook Marketplace asking for a total price of $14,700. The Akron School Board under recommendation from the superintendent was considering firing Keenna because he violated the stats code of ethics. So don't buy stuff for the school district on Facebook Marketplace and then try to resell it for your own. He made a profit though.

Yeah, but he may have lost his job over the whole thing. Oh, by the way, he didn't resign. official at the school board meeting coming up this Monday. Administrator resigns after selling public schools lawnmowers on Facebook marketplace. And by the way, he's got really long hair. Not that I'm judging that, but it's definitely like

a mullet-ass type thing. I don't know a mullet game was strong in Akron, Ohio. And that is my second non-Florida story. We've got, believe it, a hellier or not. Ross, what are we talking about today? I don't know. I'm still, I'm baffled. By what? Adam Clinton doesn't think Jennifer Connolly is attractive.

We'll bring him in here with Jennifer Connolly. I don't want to discuss it. I mean, it's each man's opinion. Hell, yeah, or not is up next. What the hell's wrong with him? 713-212-5-7-0. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do?

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was it Beavers and Oregon State, is that correct? Both. Both. And the school and the athletics and actual beavers. Oh, well, a pulpery of conversation pieces. I'll read your statement about any of the things he just said. The statement is completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Hell yeah! If the statement's erroneous

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Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. No, just two species. The cool beaver and the dumb beaver, right? It would be the North American beaver and the Eurasian beaver. Hmm. Which one do you prefer? I prefer a North American beaver, but Eurasian's good too.

All right. John, on 790, ready to play, hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Although they do not carry a traditional pouch because of their adequate prowess, Aquatic. Aquatic. Aquatic. I guess it's adequate, too. Because of their aquatic prowess, beavers are still categorized as marsupials.

Hell yeah, or not? Hell yeah! No, there are rodents. Anytime I can get the word marsupial in there, I have to. No kidding. Edgar on 790, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? I like your Florida story. Beaver's are extremely good divers and can hold their breath for up to 15 minutes. yeah or not. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, that's right. Statement number two for the win.

Hell yeah. Bievers are omnivores. They eat mostly plants but have known to eat minnows and other small fish. Hell yeah or not. Not as right. Congratulations. Srictly herbivores. James on 790, ready to play hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. The Oregon State beavers have never had a Heisman trophy winner in their history. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. No. Terry Baker won in 1962. Duh.

What a great season he had. How good was he? Heisman worthy. Heisman worthy, yeah. Josh on 790, Josh, your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show. Transitioning from talking about Jesus to waking up the ladies of leisure. The Oregon State School newspaper is called the Daily Beaver. Hell yeah or not.

Hell yeah. No, it's the daily barometer. Do you. I would love to see the Daily Beaver. All right. Paul on 790, ready to play Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah, yeah. The official motto of Oregon State University is, quote, out there.

Hell yeah or not? Not. It is. If you've been to Oregon, you know exactly it's out there. That's a horrible university motto, though. That's terrible. Brian on 7-90, ready to play, hell yeah. Not there. Brian?

Yes. The Oregon State Beavers women's soccer team was a national powerhouse in the 2000s, winning four national championships between 2000 and 2011. Hell yeah or not? No, that's right. They were just mid. That's it. Mama, we made it.

No post games. No one of the Texans game? I'm looking forward to this weekend. All right. I got volleyball. I got U of H pregame show at 830 tonight. Over a 950 KPRC. Okay.

We'll talk to you Monday. Are the Astros in the postseason? Monday, Media Day, Rockets. Expect it to have, you know who, on the show. Don't want to jinx it. Evan Morant. J. Sean Tate, of course. Oh.

The team is next on 790.