The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Bring The Broom! Sweeping Rangers & Reclaiming AL West #1.. Next Seattle.

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

Astros Bring The Broom! Sweeping Rangers & Reclaiming AL West #1.. Next Seattle.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-0-1 in H-town. Good morning. And welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show and Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. A little E.J. for you? Nine in a row. Silver boots.

Incredible. I want the boot for 24 hours. You know, I figured, I was wondering how long it would take you to spin it to you and it took about 14 seconds. I mean, it was. It was longer than that, but it was definitely within a two-minute time frame. Hey, Matt. Good morning. Good to have you back.

Yeah, I will say I did not watch a moment of the game because I was planning on being home in time to watch the game. What happened? Newark had some rain and put us on the tarmac for three hours before he took off. That's why you've got to go JFK, Maddie. Come on. Why would the JFK make a difference? I'm just kidding.

I mean, it's actually not a horrible idea, but JFK is much further. I was in Jersey. city so the airport was much closer. You take the train over there? No, Uber. Okay. Yeah. Oh, dang. Uber's in New York? You got some money. Uber's in Jersey. Okay. It was expensive for the rocket, so that's fine. Okay. Oh, what was I saying? Oh, so I did

go to the MLB app and I downloaded it and I bought, you know what? I did something for the first time yesterday in all my years of traveling. Okay. I bought the internet on the flight. And you've never done that? I've never done. Well, how terrible was it? Normally, Schmided got a new, satellite. Oh, okay. If I wanted to grade at one to ten, the internet unsmited, 10. Wow. I'm telling you, if you are going to be on a long flight, now, again, minute, I was

delayed. Yes. And the flight, you know, from Newark to here is, you know, three, you know, three half hours. So I had the internet for about six hours. Okay. It never, ever let me down. And I was streaming the audio and I thought what me you have in the air the audio is going to be splotchy you know and look schmina's got its issues but that new internet they've got going is spectacular all right so that's a highly recommend for me thank you matt I listened to guess I got in the car after I got landed listen to you on the 10th inning show wow how would you grade me I mean you kind of have an albuquerque sound to you oh okay so what's that is that a small market mid market market 50 okay I'll take it.

Yeah, 55 maybe. All right. Nice. Thank you. How'd the shows, God? Did not listen to a moment of the shows? Oh, the actual shows, they were great. Forgot you were gone.

Okay. By the way, a lot of people are sending tweets, Matt, the aster's of one since you've left, so it takes some more time off, and, you know, so I'll do that. Uh-huh. Maybe I shouldn't come back until after the World Series is over with. Yeah, they are 3 and O while you're gone. That's true. Just saying.

Today's an off day, so we'll give you a pass. Friday, we'll see what happens. But the Texans are own ones now left. That's true, but they also lost when you were here, too. By the way, water holders, you owe the city of Houston an apology. Texans water carriers, Texans, Kool-Aid drinkers? Well, no, they're not Kool-A-Rankers. It's the Texans people that make credentials that shouldn't have credentials.

Okay. That list is abundant. Y'all couldn't throw enough shade on Bobby Sloick. Bobby Sloak was the whole problem. Now Nick Cayley's the whole problem. Yeah. I mean, my God. I mean, do you want to be a Cal's cookout that damn bad that you're just going to just completely have no integrity?

We'll move on on that. But more important, we'll get to that later. I got a lot of things pent up. Yeah, I was going to say we're playing the hits in segment one. We are, we are. Yeah, good show today we got hopefully for you. We're going to entertain the hell out of you between now and two o'clock. Brian McTagrager will be with us at 11 o'clock.

Huge. I just don't get it. Okay. I have one for an. entire team. I don't get at 1130. Ooh, all right. All right. The news at noon today, we've got the rotten 5 at 1250. I sent that out last night, so there should be zero surprising.

I'm on it. It's halfway done. And I will do, believe it or not today, all things, Robert Redford. Oh, great. Did you guys give away those tickets to the concerts? Yeah. How did you do it? You didn't do it. Oh, man, there's so many. I mean, I sent you an email and a text.

Yeah. Yeah. Did you guys not give away those tickets? No, we didn't. Are they today? No, the promotions department said Monday through Wednesday to give away those tickets. Oh, I'm sorry. Matt's mad. I'm sorry. I forgot. But not in my defense. I didn't remember anything. I forgot. I don't remember anything. I literally text them to you. I'm sorry. Or email them to you. You got every Sunday, I send you a rundown on the entire week.

Sorry, guys, I'm getting in trouble. I messed up. I'm sorry. I blame the producer. Producers supposed to be reminding me. I'm like, you know what? You know, Matt, you know, I was going to let him, you know, I was going to do anything. But I did remind him on Tuesday. On two, one time. No, I said, hey. Monday through Friday.

I said, because we forgot Monday. And I said, hey. Jonathan's fault. Well, hold on a second. Okay. So we have those, we have trans Siberian for believe or not. But there's something else. There was a concert we were supposed to give away.

Yeah, a little Wayne. When is the, when's the, when's a little Wayne concert? Can you look it up. I think it's tonight. It's today. We'll get away right now. Yeah. We have three tickets.

We can get three or four. sets, three pairs. Yeah. All right, let's do this. Yeah, people get a little Wayne. We're going to save ourselves here. Well, I'm going to save you yourselves from yourselves. Okay. You want to go see Little Wayne tonight? Yes. I got three pair of tickets. Okay. Let's give them away right now. All right, how are we going to do this? Just claim them? Well, you tell me. How do you want him to come on the air?

Hmm. No, no, no, no. I haven't come on the air. Just say hello. Just general how they feel about sports. Okay. And maybe Maybe it's something anecdotal about Little Wayne. Okay. Yeah, we'll see how this goes. Sure, why not? I don't know if we have a Little Wayne audience or not. I couldn't name one song.

You couldn't? I don't think I could. What? All right, we'll play some Little Wayne all day for you. So before I answer these calls, what's the, oh, just have come on the show and talk to us for just a couple minutes. Just say, and then say you want some Lowell Wayne tickets.

If you want the Little Wayne tickets, we'll give you on hold. So if you want the little Wayne tickets, you have to come on the show for like a minute. Tonight at the Woodlands Pavilion. Keep going. September 18th. Ticketmaster.com. Yeah, there you go.

Official seller. You can get them for free here on Sports Talk 790. But if you can't, 713, 212, 5790. Oh, look at this. We have some little Wayne fans. We get some wieniacs.

We do. Can you say that on the radio? I think so. Okay. It's the Carter 6th tour. With Lowell Wayne. Tickets available at Ticketmaster.com. All right. So there's a lot of positives from the Astros series against a range.

Absolutely. All right. Who broke Brianneberg, you, by the way? What do you mean who broke him? He's got three saves in a row. Two nights ago, talk to me. What? Oh, when he got four outs and got the save?

How many runs did he give up? Zero. Well, one of them was unearned. You're talking about two nights ago when he went to, he got to 32 pitches? Yes. Yeah, he allowed a run from, I think it was a Dulles-Garcy RBI single, but that run was charged to Inyo, Dillette. Los Santos. Oh, so anything else was okay.

He wasn't broken because the Twitterverse told me it was broken. He's broken. Well, Twitter versus, you're telling me, somebody overreacted on Twitter? It happens occasionally. He got a four-out save. The runs that scored in the eighth were, yeah, he allowed an

Adoles Garcia RBI single, but the runs were charged to Inno Delos Santos. So the inherited runners were on him. It was one, I think it was one of the inherited runners. I'll go back and look. I thought it wasn't the game like 6-0 and then it came back to 6-5? Yeah, that was Enioliz Santos gave up the four runs. Well, Delos Santos, you Della Suck then.

Well, yeah. So, excuse me, who broke Della Santos? Okay, yeah. Brian Debray, who came in, he gave a walk, and then an Adoles Garcia single, and then he got out the, he got the final out, and then, yeah, he did give up a single and then got a double, did he get a double play? No, and then he, yeah, it was all right. Okay, so I don't need to worry about him then.

It was 32 pitches, and I mean, there were some nervy moments. Okay. But, yeah, Enio de Los Santos did the bowl. of the giving up of runs. Well, I stand corrected there. Nobody broke Brian and Brady. And he got to save the day before. All right.

All right. Jose, Cody, and Jerry are three people that are going to go to the concert. Now, for some reason, they can't go tonight. We'll let somebody else come on and get on the show. Okay. But we'll invite people even if you can't go to Little Wayne to join the show. Wow. People love their little wing.

I didn't realize. So what is, name the most famous Little Wing song? Probably a Millie? Maybe six foot, six foot seven foot. I was going to say a Millie or six foot seven foot? Six foot seven foot. A foot. A foot hook. What? Matt, you know this?

Matt's a hair? No, it's sampled from a Harry Belafonte. Oh, shut. Don't tell him that. Yeah. That's from like the 50s, so Matt knows that, or the 60s probably. Do you know who Harry Delafonte is? Belafonte. Bell, whatever. Not at all. He had a hot daughter, too. He knows the Harry Belafonte. You'll recognize the songs. He said Dale. Yeah, that song.

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Can we hit a break. Good God. Hey! Mrs. Officer. The Carter 3 is a rap classic. Carter 4 as well. So come back with the most famous Lil Wayne song. And we'll play, does Matt know it?

Okay. I've played a Millie before. Of course, he started with the hot boys as an 18-year-old. They had hits. Was he a wild boy or a hot boy? Hot boys. All right. With he and B.G and somebody else.

Before we go to break, by the way, do you want me to get every call or just the first three that we have? No, we'll see. Jose and Cody, get a backup. Get four just to get a backup. Harry, Jose, Cody, and Jerry want to go. So if one of those three can't go for some reason, or their calls horrific, we won't give them the tickets. Okay. Chance are you're going to get the tickets.

10.13, it's the Matt Thomas show with Ross as we give away more Little Wayne tickets than any other station in the marketplace. Sports Talk, 790. I mean, this is. This is absolutely amazing. Matt's bobbing his head, guys. Excuse me? This is the Kendrick Lamar of today's R&B. What?

A couple of things here. Little Wayne predates Kendrick Lamar by a decade. Then Kendrick Lamar is jealous of how great Lil Wayne song is. I don't think so. So Mrs. Wayne had the baby come out and she said, I'm going to name my son Lil. No, it's a rap moniker, Matt. Okay. I think he was the first started now.

I don't think he wasn't the first Lil I don't know who the first Lil was but there's a it's a very common rap moniker little Wayne also apt because he started he started rapping as a teenager with the hot boys he was a little kid from Denver New Orleans

I guess that actually made me loud that was funny yeah you're telling me the rap scene in Denver's not great I would say New Orleans is better that feels fair Yeah, I don't know who the most famous Denver rapper is. Might be John Denver. It was Little John Denver.

Yeah, yeah. He's on a Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, hi. Hi. To the phones, Cody with us on the Matt Thomas show and Ross. Cody, good morning. Good morning. I got three sports takes, and then I got some bars for you real quick. Oh, let's go.

This made me the best call we've had all week. But before I say the bars, am I able to say the S word or would that get me dumb? No, that'll get you dumb, so do not say it. Yeah, don't curse at all. No cursing at all, zero. All right, no cursing. All right, here we go. Texans are back.

I mean, Astros are back. Texans aren't back. And Arch Manning couldn't hit the water if he jumped out of a boat. Oof. And the bars are better wear a latex because you don't want that late text. that I think I'm late text. True words never spoken. Little Wayne got bars, Maddie.

Let me tell you something. I don't know what those bars were 15 seconds ago, but I understand them now. Okay. All right. Well, Cody, you can really go tonight, yes? 100%. I'm off all weekend. Don't go back to work until Sunday night.

There you go. Thank you for calling in Cody, even though you know real G's moving silence like lasagna. Hmm. Hot take? What? I like lasagna. Oh, my God. I don't like ricotta cheese.

So if you're going to make a lasagna for me, no ricotta. Oh, please. I'm not. Jonathan, Jonathan, your thoughts on ricotta cheese. You already got your dukes up, but I didn't say anything. Wait, no, Ross, I'm sorry, but I agree with me. See, again, I didn't say anything.

I'm not the biggest. But you hummed. I'm not the biggest ricotta fans. See, you don't even let me speak. All right, I'm sorry. Go ahead. God. Go ahead.

But if you want to layer noodles and Parmesan and other cheeses, I'm all for that. I can eat lasagna. until I'm blue in the face, but don't put the ricotta in there. Ricotta's gross. Graney, no... Ech. Jerry in Golf Gate. Hi, Jerry.

All right, good morning. Before I say that Lil Wayne and I almost share a birthday. His is the 27th at September of 9th of 28. And Matt, two weeks ago, you had a guy on, I tell you something. He had been a DJ.

And now he's mixing old school songs with new school you know with a house beat and and I want to tell you he said something he says man it gives me range I really appreciated that

you know so that was kind of a blast you know I really appreciate you having him on do you remember what I'm talking about? No idea oh okay yeah you had a guest on he was a special guest matter of fact all my guests are special just like

you, Jerry. You're a special call to the show, my friend. I just won't let you know that. I'm impressed. I tell you something. But anyway, yeah, I'm down for the Lil Wayne action. All right. Well, we'll put you on hold on, get you taking care of now. Do we have one of them taken away from us? Is that right? Yeah, we only had two bears. Yeah, but I don't know if you can get to

Marvin, but yeah, I think a team took the Monday one. Oh, they did? Yeah. Because they actually follow rules around here? All right. I'm sorry. Oh, look at me. Hey. I forgot to give away the tickets. Right it down. Right down. First time in radio history, somebody forgot to give away tickets.

Sorry, guys. I just, I'm a little hurt. I like to prepare the show and I put things in bold. Jonathan will tell you I was very unprepared. I forgot what day it was. I was saying I just don't get it on Wednesday. Did you shut your bummed ass up yesterday? Yeah, we didn't.

Yes, we did. Okay. Do you have Joe a spot on? Yes, we did. Okay, so I want to make sure. We had bogey. Joe's spot was good. Was he as cranky as he was the challenge yesterday?

He wasn't cranky. He just, I mean, you know, Yordon Alvarez is going down. You wouldn't be upset either? Yeah. So what are we supposed to make of this? I'm trying to catch up a little bit here. Okay.

It sounds like he's going to... Bob Nightingale reported he's out for the year and they're might going to reeval for the postseason. They have not put him on the 10-day I.L. Yet doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot to me unless they make it till... If they make it to this big series against the Mariners with him, not on the IL,

that means he could come back soon. I'm gut feeling is that he'll be. I'lled today, or I'm sorry, tomorrow before the game. Yeah, because you, I mean, you've got a week left to go. You've got nine games left. You can't play a man down the whole time. You want your 28-man roster. You just do.

An extra position player would certainly hurt help, I should say. Now, does Paratus take that spot? That's interesting. That's another thing. Dana Brown, it's been like, hey, we're targeting it. It would be a long, it's a long shot, but he's targeting it. And then yesterday, Joe Spada said he would, if Paratus came back, he would be advised to not run 100% on the basis.

So he's either going to have to hit a home run. Yes. Or gap doubles, which will wind up being long singles. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. And then you don't ever want him to go first to third or second home. No.

And everybody will have the recount on that and intelligence on that. Yes. So he's literally going to have to go station to station. And as he goes that 90 feet to 90 feet, we're going to be praying that he gets there and doesn't pull something. Doesn't that sound like he's just a pinch hitter? He can go out there and come out there and Kurt Gibson it? It kind of does.

So, yeah. All right. So, Gio and Jose, we don't have any more Little Wayne's. If you still want to come on and talk, we'll give you some extra time. As a matter of fact, if you want to give us some Little Wayne bars as a consolation price, we'll let you do that. Okay. But we are out of tickets, so.

See, we got rid of them all. We're good. Yeah, okay. You'll be getting an email from the promotions permit. That's fine. Just say, you know what you got to say? Sorry. Yeah. Friday 1130. Thanks. Sorry Okay, Frumber

Fromber. Frobber's doing great. The best thing about the sweep mat is they were able to line up the rotation the way they wanted to for the weekend and sweep the Rangers. How about Brian King were they four out saved last night?

Yes, sir, and a nice mustache. Well, nice and mustache can be two different things. He's got the best stash game on the squad. Is it frothy in your mind? Frothy? Yeah. Like a big thick, like Tom Selleck kind of thing? Or is it more wispy?

I wouldn't describe it as either. Okay. Just regular bro-mustache. Yeah, he's got a nice womb broom. Okay, very good. Ted 28 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. We'll talk to Jose, who's going to spit out some Little Wayne bars for us. Okay, great.

We've got Brian Boga. We have Brian McTaggart coming up. Some kind of Brian. Do you think Brian McTaggart knows one Little Wayne song? I mean, he's... Yes. You know what? He's League City. Yes.

That's going to be a yes, right? I will bet you, yeah. You'll be the most out of touch out of any of everybody. That feels fair. That's right. 713-212-5-790. And if you owe Bobby Sloak an apology, wait until tomorrow because there are a lot of folks that are throwing him out of the bus. And by the way, I know the defense on Monday night was mid at best.

And I got another super hot take for you. Oh. If I want a quarterback to win a game this Sunday, am I taking Baker, Mayfield? or am I taking C.J. Stroud? Oh, at the moment. It's not a hot take at all. Okay, so it's a regular-degree. Regular temperature take.

In 2023, when they played each other, we know who it was. Yes, right. 7-13-212-7-90. 10-28 of the Mounted-Talbush. With Ross, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. God, this is making me tear up. That much amazing vocals sound. A number six hit.

In 2008. On what? In America. Not the Billboard top 100. No, Billboard Top 100 Number 6 hit, man. You're out of touch.

No chance. You're way out of touch. No chance. Not even recent. This is almost 20 years ago. Yeah, it was like six. 2006. 2008.

2008. It hit number six. Billboard 100. Okay. A million. It hit number six. This is a six. This song is six times platinum.

Mm, the card of three. That was some hits. Hey, why'd you fade that out? It was making Matt angry. I'm not mad about it. It was the follow-up to Lollipop, which hit number one on the U.S. Billboard chart in 2008. Huh.

The things you learn on this show. Yeah. We're not doing Little Wayne, believe it or not, by the way. Why not? Because I'm working on Robert Redford. Oh, okay. Oh, Got Money was number 40 overall for the year. Yeah.

A Millie was 40. You're playing up. featuring T-Pain, but you know, you can't add a good song unless you had T-Pain to it. T-Pain could sing. Now, he usually went with the,

you know, the auto tune, but he could sing to it. Oh, by the way, don't forget little boozy and a little fat. Okay. And, A little Boosy.

Corty probably rocks that. Yeah, Boosy had some hits. A Luzzi young guy. Yeah, let's see. Okay, end of the year, Amili was the number 43 song of the year. Lollipop was the number four song. I forgot that.

That was that big of a hit, Matt. Mm. congratulations to all of it involved yeah that's why the 2000s have been probably the worst music decade and you've actually said that too so that makes me feel that's not true uh yeah a little river band not on here unfortunately matt

no they were not not Barry Malo either no no Barry Manlo either no I'm not trying to I'm not trying to put the 70s above anything I was just what I like and that's cool but I would agree Matt I'm not I'm not hate on you I'm agreeing with you look at it I wasn't hating well he was the one that said there was no chance

it hit number six on the billboard it did He probably knew. He was, you know. No. He's talking too mad. Lou Wayne, a Millie. Forty third. God, I can't.

Man, how, oof, Lord. Number one song that year? Low by Florida, Florida, featuring T. Payne. Yeah, you know that song, probably. Yeah. Bleeding Love number two, no one number three, Lollipop number four. Wow.

That's been an off year. Oof. What are you talking about? Those some hits. Music after about 1989 sucks. And you know it. Because you appreciate the art. We get in the car.

You appreciate the old stuff too. I play the old stuff because I don't want to hear you whine and complain the whole time. I wouldn't lie and complain. I'll just put a podcast on. All right. 713, 2125-790. 7-13-212-5-790.

So let's talk about a few other things that we didn't discuss because I wasn't here. Okay. I mean, Arch Manning is probably headed for that, Heisman. Probably said the name etched on there already. Uh-huh. Sam Houston is Sam Houston a must, win game for him this week? I would say so. It's a must

win. Yeah. They're 40-point favorites. Did you feel any better after last Saturday's game? No, it got worse. He's getting progressively worse every single week. So what are the what are the Uber Homer saying and what other Uber Reel is saying? I don't know what the Uber homers are

saying. I guess that he's going to be okay and maybe he will, but I don't know how anybody could possibly be encouraged by him getting progressively worse as the competition has gotten easier. It is weird, isn't it? And he says he's physically fine. That's what the speculation has been. And

he just got to go out there and play his game and be better, but he's missing, like wide open, easy, you know, 10-yard throws. He's frankly been better as a runner than he's been as a thrower. Yeah, he's been making, well, unfortunately, it might have to go and just had to make him the 18-wheeler package and he can be the next thing. He can be Tyrone

Swoops 2.0, which is not what you wanted. Yeah. Which, by the way, Tyron Soups was a five-star recruit. Sometimes it doesn't work out with five-star recruits. Well, how about that kid that's at Oregon State that we're going to see next Friday, the Cougars are, that Malik, what's his face? Was a quarterback in Texas for a while. Oh, Jefferson? No, Malik Murphy?

No, Malik Murphy? Yeah. He's at Oregon State now? He went to Duke. And now he's at Oregon State. And then he was somewhere else, I thought, in between. Whatever. He's at three schools.

And Oregon, I watched him at Oregon State game last Saturday because I was bored. He's awful. So, yeah, all this whole star bit thing is. Yeah, Malik Murphy, I think, was a four. Star. Whatever. My point is it... But Arch Manning's opposing quarterback for U-TEP was Malachi Nelson, he was a five-star.

Nico Yamaliyov in that same class was a five-star. He's not playing well at all. That UCLA got their coach fired already. Yeah. And by the way, their schedule, they were looking... I was looking at a website today. There's people that think that UCLA may not even win a game this year. Hmm. So there's no guarantees,

no matter what your last name is with five stars. Correct. And... It's not looking good, but we can be hopeful he can change. Well, you'll have at least back for next season. There'll be no thought of going to the NFL. Yeah, exactly. I mean, we talked about how the most likely outcome would he be coming back and well, it's looking pretty good. Did you get into a deep dive on the A&M victory over Notre Dame? I did not. Good victory by them. A nice clutch touchdown at the end of the game.

I watched the game, but it was very entertaining. I thought the Saturday college football was really good. Saturday was good. We did a round by round breakdown of Crawford Conello. How'd that go for you? By the way, can I say this? I do like boxing. Crawford decision was quite fortuitous. Was that the favorite result? No, Canella was the favorite. Because of his size, you had two weight classes.

Crawford was jumping up. And Crawford decision was plus 220. And that did not even start to, what, 10.50 in our time? Later. No, it was like. It was like 11.30. Yeah. So that's 1230 in the east.

Yes. And you probably know the answer to this. And I sort of do. but I just want to just at least say it. Boxing has such little national star power in terms of getting on the front pages of the websites, on the leads of the sports shows. Baring these fights at that late of an hour is absolutely ridiculous. And I could say this for 25 years.

One of the reasons they do it is they try to get it done after the U. It wasn't even a UFC pay-per-view. It was like a fight night. But there's overlap, but you do have overlap with people who like combat sports, and UFC is bigger than boxing right now. And so I think they wanted to wait until UFC was over and then start it late. But even as too late, they shoot themselves in the foot, exactly what you said. You get this massive fight, one of the biggest fights that can be made in boxing with Canello,

who is the heritage water carrier in your sport, and you put the fight on it at like 1130. Well, I remember, you know, when I was for the, and I'm just going to go to an old school fight, the Tyson Holyfield fight, the famous biting of the year. I did an arena football game in Albany, New York that night. So the game was ending at about 10 o'clock. You buy you time and pack you're up your 10.30. We, you know, we didn't have social media at the time, but we were like, hey, has the fight started yet? No, it hasn't. So we literally took a cab to the first bar we could find that had it.

So we're looking at about 1115, 1120. we got in the bar. Now, we may not have even ordered a drink, but we got to the bar in time for this amazing fight between those two heavyweights at the time, two star power, and it was 11, 20 last night,

and it still hadn't even started yet. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. A lot of times the big fights are in Vegas, so that's West Coast time, so they don't care about the eastern coast. Which they need, that's the thing is, they need to absolutely care about the East Coast in a central time zone.

Yeah, they need to do better about it. And then a lot of the big fights these days are like in Saudi Arabia. So they're on it like 3 p.m. Yeah, it is crazy. By the way, did you see WrestleMania is going to Saudi Arabia, not this year, but the year after?

I did not see that. There's also, the NFL is doing stuff in Saudi Arabia. Like Tom Brady and somebody else are doing like flag football stuff in Saudi Arabia. You know, a lot of cash, a lot of oil money over there

in Saudi Arabia. And by the way, ask live golf. Yeah, I got to take an L on something. I never thought the Super Bowl would ever be played overseas. I'm going to change my mind on that. I can't be in Saudi Arabia, can't it?

And ask yourself that question again. They might drop like a billion dollars. Canello allegedly made like $250 million for that fight. Normally he would make like $50 million if the Saudis weren't involved. But apparently he made a quarter of a billion dollars for one or either for one fight or for two fights this year, something like that. It's insane. Terrence Crawford made like $40 million and he won the fight. Tell me Berlin or London or any one of the other math.

Brazil will not want to write the NFL a billion-dollar checks. They can play the game here. Yeah, maybe they can make it like the World Cup just goes to the highest bidder. I never thought it, but I am now, when it gets announced, whether it be in five years, 10 years, 20 years, I won't be surprised. Because really, and the reason why I probably need, I change my thought on this is that the average person on you mean, we're not going. So why do we care where it is?

Right. I don't. I don't. As long as it's on at 5.30 or whatever, like it's normal. This year it's going to be in Santa. Clara, it can be in New Orleans, it can be in Miami. Now, if our teams are going, which the Texas are never going to go, so that won't be an issue. But you don't really care where it is because you're not going. Now, if your team does go and you get 8,000 tickets, that's going to make those 8,000 tickets. The whole trip are going, it's going to be much more expensive.

But my guess is if you're going to the Super Bowl anyway, you can probably afford a goal wherever the game may be played. It will probably still be sold out wherever it is. I think you're right. All right, 1045 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713, 212, 5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. All right, it is Matt and Ross. We're with you until 2 o'clock this afternoon.

I just don't get it's come up at 1130. 7-13-212-5-7-9 if you want to join the conversation. 7-1-3-2-5-7-90. So kind of can do a little more catch-up here. General reaction from the audience on Tuesday after the... the Texans game. I will say this. I was at a New Jersey bar for the entire game on Monday night. Hey, what's going on with the Texans? You took the under?

I didn't make a bad on the game. It is funny. Obviously, I was in an area of town. I called the Newport area of New Jersey. This is a Jersey city. There were no residents there. We were all from out of town because the Yankees were playing. And 90% of the televisions in the bar were on the football game. Wow. And the Yankees are in the middle of a pennant race themselves. I mean, they're trying to secure their spot, too.

Everybody was upset. I mean, let's see. The offensive line wasn't good. The running game wasn't good. You had that long touchdown by Chubb for 25 yards, but then the speculation still is, and now you've got, like, Tampa Bay riders asking a bunch of players about it,

and they think that the Buccaneers allowed the Texans to score. Then the defense couldn't hold on to Baker Mayfield in that last drive. So, and Nico Collins only had three catches after catching a spectacular touchdown to start the game. That was an outstanding. First of all, that touchdown pass was what we saw of CJ in his rookie season. I mean, just, I mean, that's literally thread the needle. There was no room for the corner.

I mean, the cornerback did everything he possibly could. It was great catch, perfect ball placement. and just enough of that end zone available for Nico. Yeah, and a great catch by Nico Collins. But after that, you didn't get much of anything from him or anybody or the run game or the offensive line or other pass catchers. Your second leading rushker in the game was C.J. Stroud. Your second leading receiver was Woody Marks on one catch for that long screen pass that he caught or check down, whatever it was. By the way, you got a problem also, Rossi, if Woody Marks is your best,

blocking running back. Well, he's making some stuff. Davey and Pierce, it must be so bad at it that they made him inactive for the game. Now, was he dealing with an injury? I couldn't recall. But either way, I want to see some more Woody Marks. I'm not against that either.

And I think we might like that. We know who he is. Nick Chubb, somebody on our group text threads, said, is he running in cement? and that felt fair. I won't mention who it was. See, I'm glad you did that. Because Gordy straight up outed me.

That was funny, though. That's so funny. Gordy's like, well, you're the one that said he was, you're the one that said he was running at Quicksand. I was like, yeah, on a private group text with you guys. And he's like, well, so what? Dick Chubb's not going to find you. I'm like, no, it's, he broke a brocode, correct?

You did it, you did it diplomatically. Yeah, even though I didn't say anything bad that I wouldn't say on air. He looked like, but I'm just saying. And I wouldn't bring that up on the show. I thought we were protecting super private information. Nick Chubb did not have a burst on that play. No. And it's funny, I did not catch some of that part B of Tampa Bay saying, well, we may not let him score.

Yeah, there was an article today. It was from the, what's the paper over there? Tampa Bay Tribune. I think Tampa Bay Tribune. With a guy and like, basically he's asking all the players about it and he's just getting smiles and winks. So. Because I don't know how Nick scored. Because it was like you had slowed it.

You know, when you rewind your DVR and you can come back and you can play it back at a slower speed, that's how it felt like that play was. Now, it was nice to see him get the end zone. I'm sure it made him feel good. And it probably supplants him on the roster for the rest of the year. But I was like, man, that thing took a long time to develop. And Joe Mixon, good luck. We'll look forward to seeing you.

whenever it is. Yeah, I'm sorry, Tampa Bay Times. Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times lighting an article. Just getting a bunch of winks and smiles asking everybody if it was, if they allowed them to score on purpose. And Henry Toa Toa with, I mean,

that miss block he had was awful. And by way, Tampa Bay's running game just gushing the Texans all day along. Yeah, they crushed them. Yeah, Todd Bowles' answer to the question. I don't think it matters. We won the game. That's very diplomatic. Antoine Winfield.

was a great run by him. He said smiling. Like I said before, it was a good run. Good run, man. Good play call. Does that, that comes across as, now, that could be one of two things. It could be wink, wink, we let him score, or be, you're giving me an out to say how bad we sucked on that play. Yeah, Tyreek Smith. It was a good, the safety. I think it was a good run. Good play for call for what we were in. When asked if he was going to stick to that story, he just laughed. So it sounds like to me they all have the same storyline. They're all telling the same story. All right, we'll see.

It doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter. Give the Texans the lead and then that two-point conversion plane. They should have been able to stop them. And the fourth down, fourth down and one, third down and one, Nico Collins, I mean, it was a bad throw by C.J. Stroud. And then the sprint left with a right-handed quarterback on fourth and one. I guess you're trying to catch Tampa Bay off guard.

They were not. So Nick Cayley isn't this. He's the savior, no. I mean, good God. He's getting crushed. And I follow a lot of fantasy football people and data, and he's getting crushed by all them too.

So it's universal, basically. Is he getting his crush as much as the astro hitting coaches prior to these last three games? I don't know. I thought the hitting coaches put together some good A-Bs against DeGrom and Merrill Kelly. And that what 19 runs in the series? I think he's 17 maybe, but six off of Kelly and five off of DeGrom.

How about that 30 pitch inning in the very first one for DeGrom? So you're saying there's a chance to the old Astros. By the way, I know that Todd Cowles was kind of getting goofed on because he was talking about how the Astros could eventually maybe make it to the two seed. He wasn't wrong.

It's not probable. Is it two games back at the Tigers? A half now. Okay, game in a... Yeah, the Tigers are losing. But I believe the Tigers have the... Tiebreaker. So they'd have to flat out win the division

or have a better record by one game. So in many respects, it maybe is two and a half games. Well, win two out of three against the Mariners. win five out of six against the A's and angels. That can happen. It's literally laid out for him. The A's, the flag was put up, what, in early May? The Angels have been, the Angels are who the Angels are for years too.

There's no reason why you can't go to California. The crowds will be minimal. You don't have to worry about anybody showing up. I mean, maybe you get some September callups that, well, that's only two calls. You can't be much. They're booking their flights to Kinko. Yeah. When the damn thing.

And preferably, you know, be a two-sendip. seed and maybe have a week off to rearrange your starting rotation, then have that heart to heart say with Framber to say, look, Framber, if you want to play well for your next team, you need to show up for this team. I think he knows that. I think he knows he's costing himself money. If he doesn't, he's a complete fool. He's literally costing himself millions of dollars per performance in September. Yeah. Brian McTaggart to join us to start the second hour of the Matt Thomas show, Ross. Would you like to join us? You may do so at 713-212-5-790. 7. 7. 713-212-5-7-90.

Also a reminder that coming up at 1130, I just don't get it. And I'm going after an entire team, Rossi, at 1130. I just don't get it. And if you those of you that are not familiar to that segment, it's basically you live your life to the best of your abilities, right? But there's just some things you just don't get, Rossi, and that's what we're here for.

If you don't get something, we think we, between the three of us, can help you out with that. 7-13-212-5-7-90 for that. That's coming up. but again in about 30 minutes from now. 11.03 on Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you. I'm going to spend 10 quality minutes with our good friend Brian McTackard of MLB.com.

We'll open up on a nice soft one for you here. Brian, you get the silver boot for a day. What are you going to do with it? Silver boot for the day. Well, I think I'll take it to Buckees and let people take pictures of it. Because a few years ago when they won the silver boot in Arlington, the Rangers handed the boot to the Astros and an Astros front office employee. Astros were going somewhere else.

I was going home. So they asked me if I could take it home to Houston. And I told them I would stop at Buckees with it on the way. And it ended up I didn't have to take it. But I regret I never got that chance to take the boot to Buckees. I mean, because I want to say if there's anybody that has seen as many silver boot games in person, it has to be you, right? I would think so. I mean, I think I've seen pretty much every one of them since.

since probably ever. Yeah, I'm saying, I'm trying to give you your flowers here, my friend. Just say, yeah, I've been every one of them, because I own this town baseball-wise. Yeah, well, I don't know about that, but it's been a weird series because the Rangers used to kill the Astros for years and years, and now the Astros are one at nine in a row, and it's pretty hard to believe these teams now have the exact same record against each other in the regular season. So it's been a fun rivalry. All right. Before we get to the on-the-field play, for those that are just catching, but I've been out of town a little bit the last couple of days,

but looking at your Twitter and the stories, what does your gut tell you about Yordaunt's injury situation, and what does your gut tell you about the East Seck Peretti's potential return? My gut tells me Peretti will return, and I think it could be soon, and Alvarez will not be back until playoffs at earliest, and I think they might have to go a little ways in the playoffs. I mean, what Joe Espada said yesterday,

pregame about Peretis all seem really, positive if you're the Astros. And I think Joe even used the word soon that he could be back. So he even talked about, hey, can he run? You know, he's, what, two months removed from that hamstring? Can he run? And Joe said,

well, I'm not going to ask him to run. They're going to need him to swim at the bat. If he grounds shortstop, you know, he's going to jog the first base. But if he hits a homer, you can jog around all the bases. So they're going to have to be smart with the way they use them. But yeah, I think I think there's a pretty good chance

within the next few days. We'll have Perettus in the lineup. But I don't see ever returning before the playoffs at the earliest. And even then, I think it could be Division Series LCS before they have a chance to get him back. And what about Yordon? Oh, that's what I meant. I meant Yorda. Yeah, I meant

Yorda, I don't see Yorda on returning. Oh, okay, I got you. Okay, I got you. Yeah, yeah. Sorry, I got the names right. Yeah. All right. I think it'll be a little bit of the player. All right. Brian McTaggart, MLB.com, with us here. on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. So, I mean, look, it's easy to say how'd they do it. Well, the bats showed up.

And we have been trying to, at least Ross and I, for a better part of a month. Is it going to be the pitching that's going to carry? Is it going to be the relief? Is it going to be the defense? Is it going to be the health of returning players that have been gone for a long while? To me, this felt like this was three games where the Astros offense just showed up. It's a kind of a up and down roller coaster team offensively this. entire season. And right now, they're catching it at a good time because the bats against really

good pitching. I mean, the Rangers line their rotation up for this series and the Astros beat some pretty good people to kind of push the Rangers for their back in the long card chase. Yeah, and I think that's the blueprint of how they're going to do this, if they're going to make a long playoff run. They're going to have to jump out to early leads like they did against the Rangers. They scored in the first inning every time. They never trailed in the series. they're going to have to come up with clutch hits. This is their blueprint to victory and then just have their starting pitching

and their relief pitching be just good enough. You know, I think they set the tone in Atlanta with those first two games. You know, remember they went into Atlanta and I think they had scored four runs in their previous eight games or something, eight games, eight runs in the previous four games. I mean, they were really struggling, scored 11 in that first game in Atlanta,

did pretty well in the second game. But I think that sort of set the tone for where they're at now and some really good at bats against DeGrom in that first inning to get his pitch count up to 35 pitches. Jeremy Pena laying off a couple of sliders early, and then he was able to get a double to get that inning going. You go back to September 6th when they faced DeGrom. DeGrom came out pounding sliders, struck out three guys in the first inning on sliders. You can tell the Astros were not going to let him do that. And that's going to be crucial because they're going to face a lot of this,

this caliber pitching in the playoffs and even this weekend against the Mariners, it seems. So they're going to have to have that same disciplined approach. It seems like an X Factor, of course, is also going to be Zach Cole. O for his last five, but we know he's got some lightning in his back. Keep asking you about your gut feeling. I mean,

how do you think this plays out for him down the stretch? Yeah, I don't know, Ross. It's going to be interested because the kid's obviously pretty fearless, so I'm kind of anxious to see what he can do this weekend. I mean, I'm sure he's going to be in the lineup once or twice. But then again, he these are huge games and he's still trying to feel his way through the big leagues and and

and he he's facing all this elite pitching when he'd barely been at triple a I mean all of a sudden he's facing de grom and you know Luis Castillo and Brian Wu maybe tomorrow night so this is the best pitching he's ever faced in his life he's he's having to figure out in games that matter hugely to the astros so but I mean he's he's he's he's not he's he's not he's he's scared of anything. So I, you know, I think the Astros will give him a shot at least in one or two of these games and see what he can do. Brian McTaggartastroos.com with us

here on Sports Talk 790. On the pitching side, it feels like this time of year we're always talking about how the playoff rotation is going to line up. So asking you about that, and specifically with Framber, if he's really good the next couple of starts, I think he's the two guy, if he's really bad.

How much do you think he can slide? And what if he's just kind of somewhere in between? Yeah, I still think if he has a couple of good starts under his belt, then, yeah, he's going to be the number two guy. You know, Alexander can't take anything away from what he did. I mean, they're winning every time he takes the ball, and that's what you want as well. You know, Kristen Javier has two pretty good starts under his belt now, six innings. So I think he's a guy that maybe at the back end of their rotation, if you need a four starter, would be in there as well. But yeah, I mean, I think the next two starts are pretty huge for Frommberg to see just where he will slot in in the

playoff rotation. I mean, a lot of it's going to depend on how they use them in that final week of the season. Do they have to use them in the final weekend in Anaheim if they have to win those games? And it looks like this thing definitely will go down to the wire. And, you know, that might decide for them how they line up their playoff rotation for the Wild Card series if, you know, if they have to, you know, use Hunter Brown or Frumber in the last couple of days of the regular season. What do you see with maybe Paredes coming back, how much Jose Al-Tubei-H will we see between? now and the end of the season, regardless of whether or not

Preris can come back. I mean, I think if Paredes comes back, he's going to de-hed. I don't see him play in the field. I mean, he's not going to play third base over Karea. I mean, I guess he probably wouldn't de-h every game, and then maybe that's where you can get Al-Tubei back in the D-H spot and off second base.

But I don't think Paredes is going to, he's obviously not going to play short, second or first, and you're not going to take Correa off third. So Paredes is going to be DH only. Will he play every game? It maybe depends how he feels, how he's swinging the bat. But Jose Al-Tube has played

a lot more second base in the second half of the season as he did in the first. And I think of the playoffs, that's what we'll see. I mean, I think it'll be interested if they have a lead in a playoff game. Do they pull Al-Tube and put Ureus or Dubon or somebody who's a little bit better

in their defensively? You know, that remains to be seen. But, you know, having that bat, paredes in the lineup, if you can just work counts and use that pull power and hit the ball close to the way he did before he got injured, that could be a game changer. All right, size up the bullpen. It feels like to me, especially with the way Brian King has pitched,

really all season long, and the fact that somebody guys have been hurt, he's your eighth inning guy, Abraeu is your ninth. Generally give me your thoughts about what you've seen from this bullpen. I would say the undertone to me is it's really been heavily worked, and you need somebody to give you one or two of those guys this weekend to give you some length of,

to give these guys a rest, especially if they're going to have to play another bullpen game sometime next week out in California. Yeah, they do. And I think the best thing that could happen for them is if they, if they can run down the Tigers and get the number two seed, which is now back in play. I mean, they're only a game and a half behind the Tigers, and then you get that by. And now you're going to arrest everybody for five days before you start the division series. But, you know, they have a couple of guys in the bullpen now who can give them multiple inning outings. We've seen it from Colton Gordon. JP France can throw two or three in them. So I think guys like that could be important here over the next week if it's a blowout or even if it's not.

If you just need somebody to give you two innings to make that bridge to get to King and get to Abrae. You now have guys that are capable of doing that. But, you know, if they have to fight tooth and nail all the way down to next Sunday and use all these guys over the next weekend in Anaheim and they get on a plane and go to Seattle or go to New York. York or whatever. It could be really, really tough. So I know there was one Astros uniform member. It told me he was watching the Detroit game closer than any other score because they feel they can run down the Tigers and get that number two seed, which would be absolutely massive because you would get the days off and you'd open the division series at home.

And one more question about the pitching. AJ Blueball, do you think he could start a game in the postseason? Do you think he's just going to be a long relief? What type of role do you think he has down the stretch and in the postseason. Yeah, I don't think he'll be a starter, but yeah, I see him as long relief. Somebody gets in trouble, fourth or fifth. You know, you bring in blue ball to, you know, throw those three inns, throw 97, 98, get that bridge. He could be a huge weapon in the playoffs. He's a fresh arm. He's another one of these guys who's absolutely fearless. His stuff plays up in the bullpen more than it does when he was starting. So they don't have the, you know, the one-hitting relievers they had early in the season with Sousa and

Hater and Ork being out, but now they have these multi-inning guys, and when you get to the playoffs, you can really manipulate the way you use your bullpen where these guys are real weapons. So I think Blue Ball is going to be a big part of that. All right, in 30 seconds, give me your crystal ball thoughts about how this weekend's going to go down. Yeah, Astros, I think, are playing their best baseball since June. Mariners are not a good road team. I think they've had their hot streak. I think the Astros win two out of three.

That will set them up very well to go on a road trip against two teams that are out of it. So, yeah, I think the Astros win two out of three, get a little bit of a lead in first base and first place. And I think they win the division. I think they close this thing out. If they don't, they just have themselves to blame because after all they've been through, here they are with, what, 10 games to go, nine games to go. Nine. They're sitting here in first place. Nine.

So they got a chance to control their own fate here if that's possible. Great stuff. As always, we're going to look forward to hearing with you and Ross tomorrow night before the Astros Mariners series from Diken Park. Thanks, and we'll talk to you soon. Thanks, Tagg's. Appreciate it. All right. Thank you.

Brian McTaggart with us here on Sports Talk 790. 1115 is our time. I just don't get it coming up at the bottom of the hour. What don't you get in life, Ross? A lot. All right. Well, we want to look forward to hearing things from you coming up in just a little bit. 713-212-5-790.

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That's 7-13-212-5-790. All right, Rosses. Give me a little tease before the second we began. Bill Barnwell. Not a friend of the show. Not an enemy.

Not an enemy. I mean, kind of just a guy. I think the name is vaguely familiar with people. ESPN. Bill Barnwell. NFL writer. Yeah.

I think you'd see him. Not see him, but maybe you heard the name. Oh, yeah, that sounds familiar. So please explain what Mr. Barnwell was able to decipher. He wrote it already. that I was checking out called ranking the 10 winless NFL teams

Chief Bears and others at O.N. 2 In terms of likelihood for them to make the playoffs. Now remember, this is a one man's opinion. Yes. This is not a aggregate story. This is just him writing a story. Well, I think they might also be using the ESPN FPI playoff odds, chance playoffs.

Or no, maybe they're not. Yeah, I think this is Bill Barnwell's story. Okay. Of course, he's got the chiefs at number one. out of the 10 teams that are 0-2, most likely to make the playoffs. I mean, they're going to make it. They're Andy Reid, Pat Mahomes, et cetera. Although, you know, I know they're going to make it because I think they're talented. They're in the most difficult division.

Now, would you care to guess where the Texans are? Now, of course, there's a lot of bad O-N-2 teams, like dolphins and... Panthers. Yeah, like teams that have no chance. There's 10 O-N-2 teams. I will give you a hint in a way. the ranking for Bill Barnwell surprised me. Third.

Second. And can I give you a deduction as to why that is? Okay. AMC South. That's part of it, although the Colts are 2 and O. But is it legit? I mean, they should be one in one. If Denver doesn't call for that launching penalty,

that's true. They lose the game. That's true. But they still got the game. They still won it. And by way, they beat Miami Week 1. and Miami sucks. I mean, really super sucks. Miami does super suck, but hey, Daniel Jones is looking good.

The Broncos have one of the best defenses in the planet, and Daniel Jones look pretty good. And Jonathan Taylor is running wild. They have one of the best offensive lines in football. They've got a great running game, and Daniel Jones is looking pretty good two weeks in. They're better than the Texans right now. Okay. And they're two games up. Is there an explanation as to why the Texans could make it?

They have them number two. Okay. They have the Bears number three, and it's like a thousand words. but basically talking about getting the running game going, talking about C.J. Stroud, the offensive line jelling and stuff like that.

And also the opponents that they play. Rams are probably winning their division. Buccaneers are probably winning their division. Yeah. No. And so while I believe the AFC South competition will help them, they're not getting any breaks, Rossi,

because they are playing a first-place schedule. They still have to play Baltimore in a couple weeks Who else is really daunting? They still have... I mean, they get the chiefs, they got the bills eventually. The schedule's tough. It's a first place schedule.

So it's supposed to be tough. Yeah. Okay. But the AFC South will set you free. But the rest of the list is not great. Texans might just be best of the rest. Then he goes to bears, dolphins, giants,

And then who's six? Oh, no, the giant six here. Anyways, like Panthers are seven, it's a list of bad teams. Okay. So, I mean, I didn't think the season was over when they went to O and two, but it's going to be much more of a grind. Is the season over if they go to O and three? You'll have to wait until next Tuesday for gut feelings on that.

Because I'm not going to say it right now. Okay. Is it a must-win game in Jacksonville this weekend? for the Houston Texans. Do you understand, though, what are the percentages of teams that go 0 and 3 to make the playoffs? I'm sure they're very low. The Texans aren't very good right now. And if you can't

beat the Jaguars who aren't good, and by the way, they're underdogs in that game. By the way, you go to Jacksonville every year and beat them, so why would you, when things dramatically change? I have predicted the Texans to win this game. Well, that's because you're Battle Red Ross. Of course. Mike, on 790. Mike, good morning.

Good morning. You got a win in September playing. October, right? You're talking about the Astros? Yes, of course you are, yes. Well, you can't talk about the second because they'll be two and seven after nine games. Look at the schedule.

Look at the play. Two and seven. I love CJ Stroud. I love D'Amico Ryans, but they're being outclassed, outcoats, and outrun and out-trained. These guys are running over them right now. They're done. Astros, however,

this is their season. This is what they do. At the end of the season, when they're under pressure, they make it happen and they're doing it. I think they're going to push through. I think they're going to take six out of these nine. And we'll be in the playoffs of Detroit will falter. And we'll be the second seed. So we'll get out home game for the first round of the divisions in playoffs.

That's my word. Let me know what you think. All right. Thank you. You know what? Honestly, Ross, and I don't, it's hard to predict baseball because, again, the worst teams can beat the best teams almost every single right. Anything can happen. They need to win this division.

I mean, you have Seattle at home. Seattle is not good on the road. They're poor on the road. Okay? Mm-hmm. And you're going to two cities that gave up on their seasons three months ago. I mean, it's just laid out for them. Yes.

Seattle, now, of course, they are on the road, so you do have the advantage there. But then they got three with Colorado and then three with the Dodgers. Dodgers who might be locked into their spot. They're two in front of South. San Diego. So we need kind of the Dodgers to just hang in there for a while to make them want to play. Yeah, the Dodgers are not catching the Phillies or Brewers. Those teams

have 90 plus wins. Yeah. No, they need to regress this weekend and make sure those games with the Seattle Mariners mean something. That'd be nice. Because Seattle is excellent at home. As bad as they're on the road, they are as good at home. You got me checking

the Dodgers schedule. They got the Giants for four. Arizona for three. and then Seattle for three. All right. So we cannot... Okay, I'll say it. We're not going to be able to rely on the Dodgers.

They're going to be playing, you know, 24, 25, 26 men on the roster. Giants and Diamondbacks are about playing 500 ball. Yeah. All right. Rossi and Jonathan, I've got a simple question for both of you. Okay. What don't you get in your life? You'll find out next.

You'll find out next. If there's something in your life you don't get... We're here because we are of three different generations. We can help you with these things. Uh-huh. I am, of course, the sage, one of the three of us. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

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Also, we've got the Rotten 5 at 1250, and I will be handling today's edition of believe it or not, all things about Robert Redford for trans-Siberian or Croesus tickets. One will really go without saying, and this happened yesterday in my flight. We were a three-hour on the runway at Newark as the weather passed. It gave the person sitting, I was on a row with three seats. I was on a window. This gentleman was on the aisle. and he took his shoes off and kept them off for the entire flight.

I don't get why anybody thinks that's even a decent thing to do ever. While you're taking your shoes off on planes is ridiculous. First of all, the planes are filthy. Second of all, this isn't your couch. This isn't your easy chair in your house. You're on a plane. Taking her shoes off is stupid. I just don't get it.

I'm with you. And didn't, somebody was telling me, because when I went to flew to Korea, it was like a 15-hour flight. They were telling me that everybody takes their shoes off, not true. I don't get it either. Now, if I had a 15-hour flight like you did, I probably would bring a pair of slippers because I think being in tennis shoes of 15 hours. Yeah, I had some, hotel sleepers, but I didn't actually even use them. I just, I was fine. I just slept the whole time. Okay. That's good. I'm glad. Thank you for your service on that. You're welcome.

I just don't get why you need to think, I mean, again, look, maybe a Paris, Australia, some, you know, Brazil, whatever, but it was New York to Houston. Come on now. Do you think they should make an announcement? I just think it's off-putting, but maybe I'm wrong. I just don't get it. My second one. Okay. And I was not alone in this.

And the reason why I brought this up was specifically for what happened yesterday. We were at the NBA broadcast meetings, and there were some people saying, well, this person's going to this network. This person's leaving this job to go to this network, which is the best. one of the producers from one of the regional sports networks is leaving to go be a producer and director for the Savannah Bananas. Oh, congratulations to them. And a buddy of mine, who is a fellow colleague of mine in the NBA, was sitting in front of me, and turned around and says, the Savannah bananas, I just don't get it. And I thought to myself, I don't get it either.

Now, I know they're the baseball version of the Harlem Globetrotters, but, and I know the Harlem Globetrotters, but, and I know the Harlem Globetrotters are celebrating 100 years, congratulations for them on that. But once you've seen the Harlem Globetterers once, their bit hasn't changed. I mean, they throw popcorn on you, they make fun of the fat referee, they dribble and use their Knicks finger,

they dance around with some stuff, it's pretty tired. I've tried to go watch a Savannah banana game on TV, and I'm looking at it going, This is the Harlem Globe Charters of Baseball. And there are 50, 60,000 people in these stadiums that are watching this stuff. So the question I have for both of you is the Savannah bananas. I just don't get it.

I would say children. It's for the kids. Yeah, that would be the mostly the way I would say I kind of get it. I'm with you like I've watched it. Maybe you just got to be there because I don't find entertaining on TV. Now, I've never been to a game. So maybe I would change my tune. But the problem is, when you find out that the Savannah bananas are going to your favorite ballpark,

like people will run to their Facebook. I've got to get to the bananas game. They're going to NFL stadiums. Yeah. And they're like, I've got to get these seats and I will pay whatever it cost. I'm sorry. I'm not going to the Rose Bowl to watch the bananas play for $244 a ticket. Not happening.

Now, again, maybe I would change my tune if I went to the game. But Rossi, I watch 150 baseball games a year at least. Why do I want to watch gimmicky stuff? Just don't get it. I don't get it. But I guess my answer, only answer would be it's for the kids. It's for the kids, Matt. Wu-Tang is for the kids.

Yes, exactly. What I was thinking about it was like in Wutang, definitely for the kids. All right. Rossi, you're up next. What don't you get my friend? I am. I got a couple of things. Please. Well, they're actually both sports related.

By the way, if you don't have something you don't get, let us know at 713-212-5-7 713-212-5-7-90. A quick one. What's happening with Isok Paredes? I don't get it. He's going to come back and he's going to DH sometimes, but not the other times, and just be used as a pinch hitter, and he can't run on the base pads. Correct.

He can't go second to home. He can't go first to third. Is it just going to be a specialty pinch hit? I kind of don't get what's happening there. No, I do. I think it's, they're just going to, they're going to drain that. But when have you seen this? Never.

That's what I'm saying. Nick Gibson, 1980. Literally. That was a pinch hit, right? Yeah. What is, is it draining the turnip? Is that what it is? Get the last little, like, you know what it is?

Oh, squeeze, well, they've blood out of a turnip. I got your one. You have that bottle of ketchup in your refrigerator you've turned upside down? Yes, I do. And you know it's not really going to work, and I can give you the massive consumption of ketchup you want. That H.EB black pepper ketchup is elite. But you'll squeeze it one more time to get that one little drip. That's what they're doing.

The, the E-Sock part is that bottle of ketchup in your refrigerator that has not, Nothing left, but you're looking to get one little squeeze out of it. Well, how well can he even swing the bat if he can't even walk? Well, I mean, he's obviously swinging the bat. He's been rehabbing for weeks out of this. So, I mean, there's going to be something going on. So I will say, while I don't disagree with you, I kind of get it. I just don't know how that's going to play out.

They just miss bats terribly. And then a quick one also sports related. I mentioned earlier, like, Canella Alvarez has made like a quarter billion dollars for boxing for these Saudi Arabian fights. Now, when they have them in Saudi Arabia, I kind of get it. but this fight was in Las Vegas at Allegiance Stadium. Why is, and that's a gross overpay for, they're taking a financial loss on this. The Saudi Arabian conglomerate that's doing this.

Okay. Why are they doing this? I don't get it. That's out of my pay. Yeah. I mean, if somebody can explain it to me, I don't know. More attention to like. Just more attention to Saudi Arabia?

Like how, you know, they're a fan of boxing. How everything's cool, but you can't even drink over there. Like, who are these Saudi Arabia? Do we even know who they are? Some sheiks and some princes and some sheiks and whatnot. They got a lot of oil money. I just don't get what the endgame is, I guess. They just like boxing?

They're like, yeah, sure, here's a quarter billion dollars, Canella. Like, how does the Saudi Arabian money get that? Like the Liv Golf and all that. Like, what's the end game with Live Golf? Just to compete with the PGA? They got bought out. They're not turning a profit, are they? Exactly, if I'm saying, like, there's, I would say there's very little chance they

they turned a profit giving Canello a quarter of billion dollars and Terrence Crawford 40 to 50 million dollars. Yeah. Like how much did Netflix, Netflix pay for that fight? Couldn't have been that much. No, I'll go with you. I don't get that either. I don't, I don't get, unless they're just blowing money because they can say they can. Yeah, I'm not even trying to be, I'm not trying to be negative at all.

I just need it explain to me. No. What the end game is. Yeah. Because they're not promoting trip going to Saudi Arabia to hang out. No. Yeah. Yeah.

When the fight is in Saudi Arabia and they want to, track tourism and have people come see that that Riyadh or whatever is a cool place to come visit or or you know Abu Dhabi or whatever I kind of get that but when the fight's in Vegas I don't get

Okay Jonathan my friend What don't you get this week? I really don't get why people paint themselves all over before a football team even even like I saw on Monday it's Monday night

Why are you shirtless painted all over for the Texans? And I just don't... Any team, really. It's called their glory hounds. I was going to use the phrase attention-seeking, but we're on the same page. Like, is that not odd? Look, I just, I don't, you get a bucket of paint and you start, I don't know. And does someone else apply for you?

I just, I don't know. Yeah, no, you're an intention-seeking whore. That's what you are. I mean, that's what Texas Darlene is. Texans Darlene doesn't know the team. She has no idea who the players are. She just wants to dress up and scream go Texans for four hours. That's what attention-saking horrors do.

But you know, honestly, John, that's any team. That's just, I don't know, man. I don't know. I look at you differently. Hmm. All right, there you go. What don't you get, ladies and gentlemen? 713-212-5-7-90 if you want to chime in.

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We're looking for you right now at 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. The news at noon is coming up next. Rossi, the asteros are still standing. And for at least for a short time, all by themselves, to top the American League West. At the moment. Seattle and Kansas City

play a 110 game in Kansas City. Let's go Royals. Let's go Royals. Probably frequent updates on the A-team unless they can do a deep dive of the Texans offensive line. Seattle minus 120, Kansas City even.

Luis Castillo versus Stephen Cullick. Mm. Royals? Top five uniforms. They get the advantage of Seattle. Okay. They win today. Let's go to James on 790 and 1150 James.

What do you not get? I don't get how Greg Ross is when you're not there. He's so nice. He's so kind. He praised the Cougars quarterback. He gave the Aggies a backhanded compliment by saying nice one over Notre Dame, which defense could have been better. And then he took on his own team and told everything he was wrong with the Texas Longhorn.

So it was almost like, hello, let's go. I was expecting that to weigh in the background. Ross is a totally different person when you're not with him. You know what? Maybe he's in a better spot. Thank you, James. Thanks for telling us about the time that I was gone. Are you a nicer person when I'm out here? I don't think so.

Okay. I mean, all those things were true. The Longwoods have been terrible. It was a nice win by the Aggies. Cougars a nice win over Colorado. I did say a nice win, but I don't think I said anything nice about Connor Wegman because I didn't really watch the game. But, I mean, I'm wishing him the best.

Yeah. Tell you what? Texas Tech beat Utah in Salt Lake this week. And then the Cougars run through Oregon State. We could have a little Texas Tech, Texas, Tech, Houston for supremacy in the Big 12 over the weekend in a couple weeks. Well, depending on what's going with the Astros, I'm just going to ask you for tickets to that game. No. That's not guaranteed.

Why not? Because I've already given them out away. You said you could give them out some. Yeah, but you hate the Cougars. No, I'll be rooting for them if I go. Will you really? Were you wearing a U of eight shirt? No.

Oh. All right. Well. I'll wear a red shirt. I'll wear a Cougar red shirt. I have one. It's a 790 shirt. It's got a 790 logo on it.

That's a fair compromise. But what if I go get you a shirt? A University of Houston shirt, would you wear it? You can say no. It won't impact your ticket status. Oh, yes. I will wear it for the tickets. Terrible.

You can't get me tickets? No, it's going to be even fuller than the Texas than the game against Colorado. Because Texas Tech will bring people down. That's true. And that's the reason why my ticket. Don't you want people there who aren't going to, I'm not rooting for the Red Raiders. I don't care. I don't care who's in a building.

I want 40,000 people. I'm rooting for Houston over Texas Tech for sure. All right. Well, my son took your tickets. That may be accurate. See, you need somebody there to combat. You know he's going to be rooting for the Red Raiders. No, but they're in a suite, so it won't be an issue.

Oh, okay. Fine. I guess I won't go. I'll get you some tickets. Maybe up for day. I mean, look, if the Astros are playing, I can't go. Right. And hopefully the Astros are playing.

Let me ask you this. Again, they're a game and a half out behind Detroit. So they have to win, they have to be a game better than Detroit. They would lose the tire breaker. It's not probable, but it's certainly better than a pipe dream. Detroit's got Cleveland, I think, twice. Well, they got Cleveland Day. I'll go pull it up.

And Cleveland wants to be in the playoffs. They're in the wild card chase. fighting with Boston for that last wild card spot. Continue. Hold on, I'm going to pull it back up. Yeah. Finishing with the Cleveland and then they have Atlanta at home. Oh, geez. Oh, geez. Three at Cleveland. Three at Boston who's fighting for a wild card spot.

Ooh. That's spicy. See, this extra wild card, I didn't like it, but it makes things more interesting. I'll be honest with you, I've liked it since the jump. It delights. It dilutes. It dilutes. the playoffs, but it makes more fan bases invested and more players, and more, especially smaller market teams keeping their players, keeping invested, so it's good. And the best part of it is, Rossi, is that you get these things done very quickly.

I mean, you get Monday off and then you play wildcard games. I mean, you could be out by Wednesday. We unfortunately know what that's about. And by the way, at the Astros would like to play some 105 first pitches or 12 o'clock. I was thinking about 1130. They don't do 1130, Rossi. Okay, 10.30? They can do a 10.05 first place, a little morning baseball.

Who would be up for that? You know what you can do? You go get your breakfast. Yes. You go to your 10.05. You're done by 1 o'clock. You're at the office by 2. You still put a 4 or 5 hour day in.

Breakfast baseball. Sounds good to me. Well, yeah, I guess they could play early on the 4th. What time's that game? No, they, we don't know yet. Oh, it hasn't been announced. There's a chance. It could be a big noon kickoff.

Okay. Well, maybe I can make that. You want to be there for that. You want to go see how all that money Cody Campbell spent it on Texas Tech. I'll be rooting for the Cougars. Can we clip that, please? There's like a watershed moment. During this specific game against the Red Raiders in Houston.

So why are you anti-just because you just don't like the Red Raiders? Yeah, I've hated the Red Raiders for years. Back to the Big 12 days. By the way, when are we going to end the tortillas bit? Never? You think so? You think it's part of the charm of what Texas Tech is? There's not Jack to do in Lubbock. So, hey, guys, we'll bring us some tortillas. It could be hilarious. Yeah, I mean, think about this.

They had a massive delay for rain last week. All those tortillas were wet and soggy. I've never enjoyed a soggy tortilla. Have you? Oh, somebody says, ATX-Obo girl says, is U of H.OBow? Is U of H-Town blue that game? I believe they are.

Oh, I got H-Town blue. I got a shirt that says H-Town, and it's like the old Rockets one. I can wear that. Hmm. Or I can gift you tickets for your birthday. I just give me some cash. Okay, fair enough.

I don't want tickets to the game. I don't have much of a rooting interest. But you want to be there because it is America Stadium. It will be the place to be in America. There's not a bad seat in the house. There isn't. It's very small. It's intimate.

It's quaint. Yeah, because it's not big time football. But that's okay. It is big time football. No, it's not. Big 12th Saturday. Let's go 11 o'clock. Big noon kickoff.

Joe Cloud will be here. He'll probably want to come on the show. He won't come on the show. Let's pay him a lot. You know, I don't want that. That's 40K. Some programs get 100K for like even when Sam Houston comes into town. Yeah, it's because you've got nothing else to do.

In Austin, Texas? Yeah. I mean, you might as well get your same Houston wins because you ain't get a bunch of SEC wins. And I don't think so. Chris, on 7.90, Chris, what don't you get? I don't get tipping at a drive-through. I mean, come on. You pay $4 for a coffee and they're going to put that little reader in your face.

Who's doing that? Is that Rarox that's doing that or somebody else? Starbucks, man. Starbucks every time. It's funny because I just hit 0% then. I use my app. They don't ask me for a tip on I use my phone. Oh, every time I do that, they put it up there.

And the first option before you can even get to the point where you sign off on the card is do you want a tip? You can just say no. You got the ladies at the fast food that had a little cup outside now. A little tip cup. at a drive-thru. I'm not paying $4 for a meal and then tipping for, you know, $2. Yeah, then don't. I don't, but it's just, it's annoying, you know?

It's like, it's like giving homeless people money. Well, I'm not, I'm not annoyed about it. I just do, if I don't feel like they deserve a tip, I don't give them a tip. I don't, I'm not annoyed by it. I just, I mean, it's one extra step. John, I don't know you're annoyed about it because, uh, you'll, you'll, they call you Mr. Cratuity. on these parks.

You just quite are what I said. If they did a good job, then I took it. Yeah. Yeah. He said the same thing you said, Matt. Yeah. You're all on the same page. We are on the same page.

That's why Jonathan and I are brothers. Much younger. Yeah, you're more of his grandpa, I believe. That is not true at all. I think you're old enough to be his grandpa. That's what, 67? Yeah. Maybe.

Oh, my God. I hate you. I guess I call you Papa. No, you're not. Yeah, it's up to you. I give him a little bit. I understand if people don't want to. It is what it is.

Yeah. Yeah. It's, if you're in a hurry, well, then maybe you're a little upset by the one extra step. What if you're getting like a mocha frappuccino with, you know, two splinders and three sugars? I mean, it takes a little time, a little craft. Right? Yeah. You tip your bartender.

Yeah. But I don't do, I don't do, I'm not a super big, like if the beer is 940, I'll give them 11. Yeah. It seems like a little. Yeah. It depends. I'll tip more for like a craft cocktail place, of course. Now, here's where I will not tip.

I'll give you this one. Okay. Concession stands. I'll take two coax and a popcorn. Boom. I don't know. I mean, I don't know much more than that. I can't do it.

It's up to your discretion. But I am remarkably inconsistent. Yeah, it's difficult to be consistent because at the end of the day, it makes no sense. Well, yeah, because everybody wants something. So you just, I feel like I've got my own, like a governor on myself. Everybody should make a living wage, but not everybody does. Like, for instance, I took an airport shuttle. yesterday, two in front Monday

to the airport, Wednesday for coming back, you know, those no parking shuttle things. I gave a guy a couple bucks. In the show? Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, I'm not, you know. But again, there's sometimes I don't get money at all. I'm, I am inconsistent. Unlike Mr. Gratuity, Jonathan.

He's very consistent with his gratuities. Or like they're off. All right, 1150. 9%%. You know, yeah. 9%. That's good. 9%. All right. The Astros are still standing. We'll have it for you next.

1159 on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. The Astros have the boot and they're still standing. I might be the only person that can give you this declarative statement. I don't particularly care about the boot.

I was just way more concerned about them winning if they were playing Kansas Kansas City or Cleveland or Boston or Baltimore yesterday. They're in the middle of a pennant race and I didn't care about the boot. I think most people don't care about the boot. It's just fun to talk.

about, especially when you were... It's fun to hang over Rangers fans' heads, even though they're more worried about how the Cowboys' Defense is going to do this weekend. Yeah, it's fun like I've got a lot of friends that live in Dallas. I can't blank talk to them on Rangers' Astros. They don't care.

Because first of all, the Astros have owned them except for that one American League Championship series. But generally speaking, their stadium is a rip-off of Diken. Their fan base could give two blanks about the team with exception to maybe if they go the World Series, which has been what twice in the last 20 years

I mean if you think this is a football town Dallas is 25 times a football town compared to the baseball team like it is here at least here we've had you know all this is success in the two world series and the endless playoff appearances

there's nobody to fight there's nobody to smack like tomorrow we're getting soft again from Seattle our buddy yes we're going to smack talk the hell out of them should be fun yeah And you're working on Jacksonville guest maybe for tomorrow? We're working on it. Okay, it's fine.

Very diligently. I like it. But yeah, it's, I mean, they got to be pretty deflated, but the problem is, does anybody in Arlington really care? No. I mean, the Cowboys got that big victory off of that kicker with a strange name last week, two big long field goals. By the way, are we going to say a 70-yard field goal this year? No. We saw 64 over the weekend, and he made it by several yards.

Okay, maybe. You think I don't think so. I don't think so. I think who broke the record this preseason Oh yeah, the preseason record? You mean to tell me Rossi, we're not going to see a 70-yard field goal in Denver, Colorado at some point in our life? Maybe in Denver. I don't know these, I think these domes stadiums.

I don't know. Okay. I'm just saying we have got a 70, we've got these guys that are kicking 55 like their chip shots. Yeah. Tucker, I forgot this, made a 66 yarder in 21. Brandon Aubrey made a 65 yarder in 24.

He was the one that made the long kick. Yeah. In this year. Why are kickers better than they were when we were growing up? Well, everybody's better at everything. Everybody's bigger, faster, stronger. Kickers too. You know what? Techniques are better? Kickers when I was growing up for fat

and smoke cigarettes and drink wine on the sideline. Yeah, it's usually some guy who came over from Bulgaria and was a soccer player. Tony, remember those of you that are old school oiler fans, Tony Fritch. I mean, Tony Fritch had a massive gut. Martin Gramatica had a massive gut.

Not Martin, no, no, no. Sebastian Janakowski was all thinking of. Yes, he did. First round pick, by the way. He was great. Yeah. And when he gave a damn. But I think he wouldn't, I think that, you know, like, go to bed early. I think he went to bed with a with a pack of smokes in his mouth

and probably drank himself and did all that, but he could boom the ball. But now we're seeing these guys. I mean, hell, Kami Fairbairn, Rossi, where would this team be without Kami Fairbairn? That's a funny statement.

Because seven years ago, we were like, you're spending what on this dude? Who is this guy? And he's been their MVP so far this year. I mean, tell me he doesn't deserve a spot in the ring of honor. He's earning it at this point. Kickers are, yeah, they've gotten better.

Like, I just pulled up the longest kicks and they're all from 21, 24, 25, 2013. And then you go back to like Jason Elam for the Broncos in 98, had a 63-yarder. But most of these longest kicks ever are within the last really five, ten years. Steroids? You think kickers, you think Keeney Fairbairns on steroids? Have you seen him?

No, I mean, all you know is. He's on the Best Buy Geek Squad. Why don't you put something in that leg? Maybe they got bionic legs going or something. Yeah, I would just say techniques are better. I don't know if anything's different about the footballs. Specialized training for the kids coming up. More specialized training?

Yeah, exactly. Now, are we still seeing as many soccer kickers doing their thing? I don't think any of these guys are soccer guys. Yeah, they're just true field goal guys. Now, Australian punters are a thing. All the best punters are coming off from Australia. Australia. Like Cameron Dicker and whatnot, Cameron Dicker.

Who's the guy that's Dickinson? Who's the C-O? You have a Foster's beer in their right hand? Is they kicking the ball too? Yes, man. They jump out of a kangaroo pouch. And they eat like massive and large amounts of fried onions? Yeah.

And that, what's that stuff they spread on, that nasty stuff that they spread on bread? I don't know. We all you the news at noon. Sometime. Next. You get the news at noon. Then Ray and Doug are going to come in and join the conversation. A vegemite.

I never had a you. Apparently it's pretty nasty. I'm telling you, the moment of the year last year from me in the Rockets, we're in Miami. And I'm not talking about Australia. It is New Zealand. Stephen Adams, reputation is, eats a lot. I mean, when you're seven feet tall and you're 280 pounds.

He's got a fuel up, Maddie. You get a fuel up. He and I are in the elevator together. Uh-huh. No, you've had to go food and you brought it to your elevator, right? Okay. I tell you this. He brought him a tomahawk on the plate.

with a massive helping of mashed potatoes. I don't see what the problem is. That's ridiculous. I'm just jealous. You've never taken a plate of food from the restaurant and not covered it up. Just a...

If he picked up by the bone was eating on it, that'd be funny. He probably could be doing it in this room. He was going to Flintstone style? I don't know, but it was probably a 40-ounce steak. Did he say yab-dab-dab-do? Do you think I would ask him to say yab-dab-a-doo? What?

Oh my God. That was that was such a bad. I couldn't let that slide. That was bad. Yab-dab-da-a-da-doo. Time for a break. The news at 1220 is next. I thought we were supposed to get rid of this bump.

Seriously. It's not to like about it. It's everything's about to hang about it. Imagine dragons suck. The lightning and the thunder. It's that that comes up with follows. What a great hit. What a fantastic.

on. It's terrible. All right. We got the Rotten 5 coming up in about 30 minutes from now. If you miss our conversation with Brian McTaggart, that's coming up at 1.30 today. And I have just finished off today's edition of Believe it or Not. See, Rossi, I'm handling, believe it or not. And I got it done at 1222. The segment is at 150. I'm proud of you. Well, okay. We'll see how quality of the questions are. Oh, they're mid. But I don't write them as good as you do. I fully admit that. You're doing a great, Matt. We're all proud of you.

You don't know that. I want you to judge these questions when they're done. I'm going to give you an A plus. Matter of fact, when we do this, when we do it, you play it first to see how if you think you know. Okay. It's about Robert Redford today, so be ready for that. Like off air? No, on air.

Or do you want to do it off here and see how I do? No, I thought, you mean on air with the contestants? Yeah. Okay. Like we'll solicit Ross advice first and he'll either believe it. You'll like a helper, if you will. Okay. Like you're alive or dead.

You do quite well on those. No, I don't. I got crushed the last time. You did get crushed last time. time. Agie Doug on 7-90. Congratulations on the huge win in South Bend over the weekend. We don't talk about those

things, Matt. Why not? Can't talk about it. Why not? You get so few of those big wins. Why would you not want to talk about it? No, I've taken, I've turned over a new leaf this year. I'm just going to let Aggie football be Aggie football, and at

the end of the year, that's when I'll have my comments. All right. Until then, I feel like I've jinxed them, basically at this point. So you know what? I'm just not going to give them any flowers. I'm not going to give them anything until we actually see the end of the result at the end of the season. That's okay. T. H. H. Zoh, my friend. I got you. Go ahead.

I'm doing the same with the Astros as well. But y'all were asking about the kickers. And so evidently the NFL allows the kickers to have the ball all week long so they can mold it, squeeze it, you know, inflate it, do whatever they need to do. And as long as it passes specs at the beach. beginning of the game. And they're doing this with quarterbacks, too. The quarterbacks have the balls four days before.

And basically, that's the reason that the ball is going further. And more or less, that's kind of a fantasy cheat if you didn't know about it. So basically they're building relationships with these pig skins before the game, what you're saying? Yeah, I don't know what the hell they're doing with them, but the ball's flying longer. And I've heard that they're going to shatter passing yards this year that several, you know, quarterbacks are going to, you know, just shatter passing yard. Well, that's, that doesn't do with the football.

That has to do with the play calling. Well, a lot of the, but a lot of the, it is the football. I mean, think about it. I mean, Tom Brady wouldn't have done what he did if it didn't help. I'm not saying that, but I mean, you're not going to try to get in trouble if you, if it doesn't work. But if, if my, if the coach of my team still calls for the ball to be carried 30 times on the ground, there's going to be no shattering of a football record. A shattering of a passing record would be like,

Can help what Domingo does, man. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, that's not all good. Hey, hey, hey, that's not nice. I just do hope Aggies do run the ball 30 times. So that's what they just need to continue to do. That's the only comment I will make on the Aggies. They need to keep running the football. Well, it certainly worked against Hunter Dayne.

Thanks for the phone call. By the way, did you do your check on the offensive lines through two weeks in the NFL? Today is the day when a pro football focus puts out. You want me to go look? Because it was dead last last week. Yes. By the way, is Cincinnati considered like 31, 30 every week it feels like? They were 31, yeah.

And Joe Burroughs out for three months with turf toe. I've never had turf toe because that would require me being an athlete. His toe must be the size of a grapefruit. I don't know. Apparently it's very complicated. There's a lot of ligaments in the toe. And turf toe sounds like it's something you should be able to get over, but it's quite difficult. And well, it's going to be three months for him.

I think he's getting surgery. Three months with surgery. but as I saw him get hurt I'm sure you were doing the same thing I was watching Red Zone right it was like oh no Joe Burroughs hurt again oh yeah I forgot the Bengals don't invest in their offensive line

sound familiar it was like oh yeah I forgot Jake Brown and can ball he was good now I got to talk to Rodo about whether I got to use T. Higgins because Tee has been underwhelming in the first two weeks of the season yeah I think you should trade them I'm not training him, but there's, I got a San Diego receiver. I'm interested.

Are you really? You need some help? I picked up Woody Marks this week. How are you feeling? Are you 0-2? No, I'm one in one. Okay, okay. I'm 2 at all and number one in the league so far, but again, it's very early in the season.

I'm glad to have the Toros back, winning. Just give me my money back. Why? Because, I mean, I have very low expectations of my squad. I think you're doing great. Thank you. All right, so how are our PFF grades? You want to guess where they are out of 32 teams?

I'm going to say they got bumped up a spot. They're 30 seconds. They're still the worst offensive line in the NFL? Yeah. It says Titus Howard was their best player. You're supposed to get Jake Andrews back this week. You're going to say, you're going to say he's supposed to get Jake Andrews back. And the-

Jake Andrews is coming back, baby. And the audience in Houston's going, well, what does he exactly do? He's the center. There you go. That answers the question. Apparently, Ed Ingram played pretty well too. They're going to get more of a chance to gel with Ursary on the left side, Howard on the right side.

And Jake Andrew's coming back. Titus Howard, yeah. It's all good. I told you, I told you, I believe, baby. I know what you said. Top 25, let's go. But are they bearing themselves so poorly that they're going to be stuck at 30 seconds?

It's weak to week, baby. Okay, so they can be number six next week if they protect CJ. Yeah, it looks like the bottom, basically the bottom five offensive lines are all in the same order as last week. Texans, then Bengals, New York Giants, Cleveland Browns, Raiders, Titans are the worst offensive lines in football. According to pro football focus. The news at 1230 is up next. We didn't do it. That's fine.

Do you do it the last two days, three days? Yes. I don't. we did Jonathan did you use the news okay see the latest edition and this is totally my fault yeah you're right I deserve to suck it the news at 1230 is don't clip it is up next to write that down no it's not did you do a Friday oh I was here last Friday I know that 713 212 570 713 212 570 what's wrong with me now I'm just feeding the material to the segment the news at 1230 is next let me tell you something, sometimes you have a press conference that takes over, the news running late, sometimes a game runs late, sometimes just the witty ripartheid between the two hosts

delay something. But we owe it to you to catch up with all the big headlines today we present to you, Rossville Real and the News at New. Yes, Matthew, the News at New includes your Houston Astros sweeping the Texas Rangers able to get the victory last night,

5 to 2, as they clinch the Silver Boot Series. They clinched the tiebreaker. And with the loss of the by the Seattle Mariners, they're able to be now a half game up in first place in the American League West. Jake de Grom, not good.

Five innings, five run runs. How about Christian Javier, though? Six innings pitched. A couple of runs given up there early, but then settled in nicely. That's all he gave up with five hits, one walk, four strikeouts. Christian Javier, how are we feeling going forward?

Been up and down for him. May I throw a question at you with a question back to you. Okay. I would like you to size up the five-man rotation one to five at this point. Okay. It is Hunter Brown. Definitive.

Frumber Valdez. Jason Alexander. Christian J. J. J. Blueball. Are we still keeping Framber in the number two spot? Yes. I would agree with you, but it's a very shaky too. Let's just say, I don't think he has a stranglehold on the position.

I don't think it's no doubt about it, but as of this moment, he is still there. And the Astros will be after today's day off, lining up their rotation with that one, two, three that I put in order there, Matt, with Hunter Brown. And then Framber Valdez and then Jason Alexander. For the Mariners, it will be Brian Wu, who's been very good. George Kirby, who hasn't been as good lately, but has given the Astros problems before. And then Logan Gilbert on Sunday.

It's a big three-game set coming up this weekend. Must win series. Must not get swept series. That feels fair. Because if you go down three going to the West Coast with again, remember the Mariners are home the rest of the season after this road trip. They'll have the Colorado Rockies waiting for them in Seattle. Colorado, I mean.

They've been playing out the string since March. They knew they were asking for people to buy tickets for 2026 in spring training of 2025. That's how bad it was. It's not been great for our friends, the Colorado Rockies. Right now, as far as the playoff odds, Astros, chance to win the division. They have the Mariners, actually, as favorites, 53.4%. Astros at 46.4%. Your Rangers, Matt, at 0%.

Suck it, Rangers. Yeah, suck it, Rangers. Okay. Anyways, moving along. Let's keep it in baseball. Show Itani, did you notice, Matt, or did you hear while you were away? He had five innings of no-hit ball this week for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Yes, and did you see what they're thinking about using them for?

Well, that's why I bring it up on the news and noon, Matt, right after he went. How about you give up, you go five innings of no-hit ball. You hit your 50th home run in a single game. Show-O-O-Tani is just a frigging uticorn. And then literally they're losing the game one inning later because the bullpen for the Dodgers has not been great. So Shohei Otani and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts in discussions about him possibly being available as a reliever. Now, if that happened, Matt, he would have to start the game in the field. You cannot be a DH and then come in as a pitcher.

You can start the game as a pitcher, but you cannot come into the game is what I'm reading. So he would have to be in the field. Okay, so say this again? Okay. You can start the game as a pitcher because, you know, they changed the rules basically for Shohei Otani. And then stay in the game as the DH. You cannot start as a DH and then be inserted as a pitcher. Boy, oh boy.

I cannot wait for that to complexity to come into play when the Astros for the Dodgers in the World Series. But shy of that, Ross, I will not be overly concerned with that. Yes. Huh, that's very confusing. Oh, I'm very confused by it. He said he would have to play the outfield to remain in the lineup after exiting as a reliever. but he can remain in the game as a D.H if he's a starter. That's what I'm reading.

We're going to go with that. Okay. Continue on. I could be wrong. Go to Google.com. All right, we will continue on on the news at noon, Matt. Elsewhere, you have stuff going on in the news, including... Would you like me to segue into something different?

Okay, go ahead. I was going to bring up some champions. Go ahead. Oh, no, we don't need that. You know, mine's on the news and news, so finish your champion. We talked about this yesterday, Matt. Actually, had you heard about the good news for Stefan Diggs? That he is on the boat and he's having sex with multiple women at one time?

No, he and Cardi B are expecting a child. Is it his? He and Cardi B are expecting a child. Yeah, but Cardi B could be telling him that. When I say two people are expecting a child, the assumption is that it's theirs. Could Cardi B be playing the field? I didn't say he and Cardi B are expecting someone else's child. Okay.

All right, well, congratulations them both. What kind of gift are you giving them to them? I will not be getting them any sort of gift, but I just wanted to let you give your heartfelt congratulations. Congratulations to you both. I hope you're very successful and happy. And the child's healthy. All right, Matt, you're going to hear more about this team

and the Rotten Five later on today. But tonight, on Prime Video, it is the Buffalo Bills versus the Miami Dolphins. Will Mike McDaniel be fired within the next four weeks? They got the bills, then they have the jets, then things kind of lighten up. They have the Panthers.

Chargers, Browns, 11.5.5 point dogs are your Miami Dolphins. I'm going to say this. It's the Buffalo Bills tonight. Buffalo wins. If I was a betting man on this, I would take Miami with the points. Miami can score.

I know, granted, their defense sucks, too. But if you're going to play a 35, 24 game, I could see that. But I don't see a 42-30 game. I'm going to take Miami the points. Miami plus the 11 and a half. You heard it here first. It's the lock of the week.

On a recorded line, I'm Maddie Esposito. And I got sources that are better than the sauces than the dolphins have of sources. All right, quick American League baseball note. We didn't mention, though, that the Astros, we did mention there in first place. We did not mention there only one-and-half games behind the Yankees for the first wild-cart. And also one-and-half games behind the D. Detroit Tigers for a possible two-seed situation in the American League, Matt. How are we feeling?

I'm feeling like... I feel like it's two in the loss column. It's too much to overcome. I think if the Astros win the West, which I still believe it's going to happen, they will do so as the three-seat. If they do it as a two-seed, then maybe they're the hottest team going on the postseason because this team was left by some, not everybody, but left for dead about two weeks ago. All right, Matt.

Elsewhere in the NFL, let's go ahead and talk about your Houston Texans. I was doing some research. And, well, a lot of the advanced stats we talked about yesterday for C.J. Stroud, have him as one of the worst quarterbacks in football. Do you know where the Texans lie in terms of yards per play in the NFL out of the 30? Yards per play. Now I'll give you a hint. Some of the best teams in football are at the top.

Baltimore is one. Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Ram, Detroit, and Green Bay. That's your top five. The Houston Texans and my educated NFL analyst mind of mine are 26th. 18th. That's close. So not great. Teams around them include the Niners, Bears, Broncos, Falcons.

I got one for you. Okay. When is C.J.? Now, excuse me. When is Dimeco going to start feeling a little bit of the, you're just a mid-coach heat? I think he's feeling some of that heat now. Okay. You were getting some of that last year people wanted D'Amico Ryan's.

fire. I'm not saying fire and I'm saying that to me it was a slam dunk higher. I'm going up for that slam dunk right now and I'm missing the rim a couple of times. I would say generally for coaches, the coordinator fire is kind of like a get out of jail free card. That is exactly right.

And so he's you, I mean, how many times can you continue to point the finger at everyone else? I point the finger. They threw the bus under CJs or under Bobby Sloick. I mean, they They have unfortunately and perhaps unfairly criticized through backdoor channels how bad of a coach he was. And if I'm Bobby Sloak, I'm laughing my ass off.

I really am. He probably is. Well, I don't know. He's got his own problems. He's the passing game coordinator for the dolphins tonight. Yeah, that's right. All right. One more quick thing, please.

Did you see the Instagram post by, won Kyler Murray on Tuesday. I heard about it. I have not seen it. It was Kyler Murray wearing a retro throwback Virginia Tech jersey by a certain quarterback named Michael Vick. Okay. And where's the issue? And also

posting with a bulldog. That's my fantasy quarterback by the way. Tyler Murray's your he took down the Instagram post from Tuesday after seeing Blow Black Blowback Online. he also expressed empathy

to those who took offense to the posts. Of course, Michael Vick spent 21 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in 2007 for operating a dog fighting ring. So how old is Kata Murray? Like maybe 27? Yeah, a couple of people who told me. Okay, you know what happened to Michael Vick.

Do you, Jonathan? So I was a kid, but I knew he was, they were dog fighting, right? That's all I know about it. I don't know any other details. But you don't know he went, did you know he went to prison until you? I knew he went to prison, but, you know, like, You've lost the Madden games.

I'm just curious if 25-year-olds know that Michael Vick went to prison. Well, Kyler Murray, it went right over his head. In no way, shape, or form do I condone animal cruelty or dogfighting, Murray said during his weekly news conference. You believe him? I would say he didn't do that in purpose. Yes. He just said he won, he put the jersey on because he's an admirer of Michael Vick.

And those are his, does happen to be his dog. He has two bulldogs named Swoosh and Trunks. Oh, they're sweet. They're like their belly's right. I don't think he fights them. No, they, like treats and belly rips. Or electrocutes them to death when they're not good fighters, like Michael Fick was doing. He was doing all that?

Oh, dude, go, don't go, go, go, go to go search. They were drowning the dogs that weren't good fighters and stuff like that. It's ugly. I mean, he deserved the present time. He did. But, thankfully, you know, Michael learned the error of his ways and was able to be a a member of society. I mean, yeah.

And now he's the head coach at Norfolk State. Norfolk State, yeah. Yeah. They're one and two. Are they playing Texas this week? No, Texas is playing the juggernaut. In-state rivals. Who, they're playing University of Houston?

No, that's not an in-state rival. That's an in-state irrelevant. Oh, my God. There goes your ticket. I think you bets could beat UT right now. I don't disagree. Thank you very much for saying. That's not hot take.

I'm just saying. That's not hot take. Okay, line them up. Let's go. You know what? We'd line them up in a millisecond. You guys are afraid to play us. Yeah, that's what's happening.

The only time we were ready to play you was because the Big 12 told us you. Yeah, nobody wants to play in that tiny little Mickey Mouse Stadium. It is a majestic facility, my friends. All right, the Rotten 5 is, we get back-to-back segments with you. Are you going to be able to handle this? Oh, what is Windsoran 5? Next segment. Oh, great.

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Does Gordy know this? I'm afraid for you, Gordy. You hear me, Gordy? You're not going to want to listen to the Rotten 5 coming up next. Are you okay? And we're going to get mad a minute. It's getting all stuffed up. Stuffed up, oh.

Don't be coughing on me. No, I covered my mouth. Kind of. I didn't aim it towards you. Thank goodness. be weird. All right. I cannot focus around you.

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This don't smell quite right. It absolutely tanks no talent to tell you who the five best teams aren't the NFL. But we like to cuss and discuss the five worst teams in the NFL. Are you okay? We go cuss and we go on discussing. Shee. All right. Here's Ross. With the rotten five. All right. Let's get it moving on. Rotten five. Woo. I want you to cuss and disgust. Come on. Jeep. Dibit. All right. Relax. All right. Hard to blame the

Browns for losing last week to the Baltimore Ravens, but they lost to the Bengals before that. and they talked all week, Jerry Judy specifically, about being disrespected, being 10 and a half point dogs, not worried about the Ravens secondary at all. Well, then they lost by 24 points. So maybe it was disrespectful to just be 10.5 point dogs, but on the flip side. So the Browns have started the season, 0 and 2. Don't know how much easier it's going to get the next two weeks. They take on Green Bay and Detroit.

Choflako remains their quarterback. He was horrible this past weekend against the Ravens. The Browns, the fifth worst team in the NFL. A factory of sadness. All right, right on time as usual. Okay, the Tennessee Titans, where are the worst football team? Come on now, she! Well, talk to RCS News.

It's great software, Maddie. Tennessee Titans. Worst team in football last year, of course. They did earn the number one overall pick in Cam Ward. Welcome to the league, young man. First two weeks you get to take on the Denver Broncos. is one of the best defenses in football. That L-O-L-A Rams defense quite formidable as well.

So, yes, the offense has been sputtering. They are 30-second in football in yards per play. They do have a couple of divisional games coming up, hosting the Colts and then at the Houston, Texans. So in theory, lightning up the schedule is defensively. But as of right now, Titans not very good. They are 0.2. They are the fourth worst team in the NF.

Go ahead. Guys, we got to go get Vince Young. Yeah, I know. All right. Well, let's keep the Carolina Panthers on this list. I mean, my goodness, how much have they appeared here the last couple of years? Last year, three good games from Bryce Young. They're feeling all good.

They're going to get things going. He's going to hit the ground running in his second season. Not so fast, my friend. The good news is that he did have 328 yards and three touchdowns against just one pick this weekend against Air. Arizona Cardinals. The bad news, it took him 55 attempts to rack up those yards. And they only scored 22 points. Come on now, Carolina Panthers. You've got to be better than that. Well, unfortunately, they are not. Offense, 29th in yards per play. Defense not much better at 27th.

The Carolina Panthers, they are the third worst team in the NFL. This sucks more than anything that I've ever sucked before. I know it sucks around here. I'm going to have to restart this computer during the break, but that's okay. All right, you kind of knew the New Orleans Saints weren't going to be very good. It is what it is. He's already know this yet, by the way? Yeah, well, he should know if he doesn't.

If he don't know, now you know. Spencer Rattler, obviously, in the worst quarterback situation in the league. You're even going up against Mack Jones. You're at home, and you already have players. calling out the fans because there were so many San Francisco 49ers fans in the stadium. Well, it is what it is. Alvin Camara, not very good and just old. Spencer Rattler is horrible.

You couldn't beat Mack Jones at home. New Orleans Saints starting off the season, 0 and 2. It has been horrible. Now they go on the road to face the Seahawks and Bills. We're looking at O and 4 dead in the eyes. The New Orleans Saints, the second worst team in the NFL. Believe it, yeah. Go suck the head up the crawfish down.

Thank you, Gordy. Appreciate that. All right, you know who it is. They're playing tonight against Buffalo Bills. They're 11.5 point dogs. They continue to lose. Everyone is making waves talking about Mike McDaniel. He's losing his mind in his press conferences.

Does he have the respect of the team? They're going to be 0 and 3 after tonight against the Buffalo Bills. The Miami Dolphins are horrible. They do get the Jets and the Panthers in the next couple of weeks, so maybe they can turn things around. But the Miami Dolphins and Bulldogs and Bulldogs, and Bobby Sloick, their passing game coordinator, the absolute worst team in the NFL.

This computer's number one, too. Here's a computer in my thought of number one. There's your rut in five. We're going to restart it literally right now. By the way, all right, question that you and I are going to Lake Charles this weekend to watch football and to bet on lots of college and pro football this weekend. Can't wait.

I went to do a little digging. The Houston Jacksonville game is at noon. Yeah. The other CBS game is at 3 o'clock. Now, it's a CBS single game weekend. Now, we'll be at a book, so we'll be to see all of them. But what do you think New Orleans, Seattle is on at 3 or the Texans Jaguars? What game is the affiliate in Lake Charles, Louisiana broadcasting?

Saints. You're right. Yeah, I mean. Lusana, baby. But isn't, like, isn't Houston closer to Lake Charles than Lake Charles is in New Orleans? Yeah, but everybody's Saints and LSU fans over there.

That's true. I was hoping a puncher's chance that we could, if we were waking up late, we could be in our room watching the Texans. It's not going to happen. I've got to get up early. City Arsenal, 1030. Come on, now.

It's a big game. Come on, sit there. Oh, so we're going to be the book early then. I'm going to be there with you. You're coming to watch City Arsenal? Let me tell you something. I want you to, I will be there with you. Go bet the under.

And you will shoot a photo of me watching. in the game. Wow. All right. I didn't start. I'm shocked. Yeah, I'm here for you. As long as I can wake up. I'm trying to take it easy on Saturday. That's the plan. Yeah. So we, once a year, we go to Lake Charles during football season. Usually when it's the U.H. Buy Week, which is the case this week. Because we're getting ready for the big matchup with Oregon State.

Folling, I mean, massive. Huge. But it works out well. The problem is, again, it's Jacksonville. And we're going to fight people to get Houston, Jacksonville on the big screen at the book? I don't know. You ponying up the cash for a nice table? By the way, things I get, sadly, if you want to go to a casino there, and I'm not going to mention any of them because they don't spend any money with us, you have to spend hundreds of dollars in minimum food and drink. Per hour.

Per hour. It ain't messing around with you. Ross, we're talking about $125 an hour per person. That's what it is, for real? Yeah. Gosh, they just want you to get hammered drunk. driving down that night. No question. So that ain't happening. Just

saying. All right. 1259. Let's start the final hour. We lost Jonathan. Is he with us still? We still in the air? I told you. I'm restarting the computer. Oh, okay. I was worried about for a second. We don't see Jonathan's in a studio around the corner from us. We don't see him really live. It's all right, man. It's not all right. It's terrible. It is what it is.

I love our company, but we make, we make massive mistakes when I come to technology. A benevolent, I heart empire. We appreciate you. I'm happy to have a job. Thank you. I'm very happy to have a job. and want to be here for the rest of my life. Just some things aren't perfect. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 106, the calm before the Seattle Mariners Storm.

Rossi. There'll be a buzz in the air tomorrow night. Seattle v. Houston. Friday, Saturday, and then the last ever ESPN, they're presuming the last ever Sunday night game on ESPN coming up on Sunday. 6 o'clock. That's good. You know, like at the Texans at noon.

Astros at 6, both can get their individual time. We'll be listening on the way home, listening on 790. Yes. Can't wait? We are a blowtorch in Lake Charles. That's true. They love us in Lake Charles. They do.

We're going to Merrill's? Yeah, I got to get two sandwiches, though. And when you'll go, Ross, make sure Matt's not gazing nobody. Make sure things are underway, you know. What do you mean? Yeah, I want to hear this, please. Do you mean his wandering eye? Last time you guys went to Lake Charles

I remember y'all were at a black check table and then Oh because that old biddy Oh when he tried to we he tried to two piece Brenda Trying to stand her up yeah Try to square up with Brenda Square up I wanted to hit that wig off that bitch Matt

All she did was hit a 14 And what'd she do when she hit that The dealer had a 5 or a 4 I want to say a 4 I think you're right The dealer bust No the car She got dealt

She got dealt a face card and bust It's likely to help I'm gonna start yelling and screaming With mountaintops Every time somebody plays wrong And it helps you You forget That's fine

That's fine You'll do it less than three times You're I'm gonna say You're beautiful You're 75 year old bitty If you're there And your blue hair's there

I'm sending you on fire again It was And it was brine It was chestnut brown Matt She's like Oh I guess I shouldn't Hit that

I'm like yeah You dumb And I called her name On her breath All right Relax No I'm not relax. Don't take my money.

Well, don't put it down. It's probably true. All right. So we got that. We got the college football weekend. The big Sam Houston State Houston game, I mean, the Texas game. What's the sexiest college game the weekend? Miami, Florida. Florida needs this to keep the job for Billy Napier, you think?

He's on the chopping block. I think the odds are him to be one of the first fired guy, even though not first, but next. You've already had two coaches fired at UCLA. And Virginia Tech? Yeah. Let's take a look. What's the sexiest Saturday game to think of here?

We got... That would be the in-state rivals. Sam Houston Bearcats versus the Texas Longhorns. We got to Auburn, Oklahoma. That's not terrible. Oh, yeah, Texas Tech, Utah. But we're not going to be there in time for that. We can bet the second half.

That's 11 o'clock. It's true. We got a puncher's chance. That's a 10 o'clock mountain time kickoff. Are we stopping at the Ruckies in Raytown? Got that right. Okay, just nice. Got to put some money in that Raytown community.

Lord knows they don't. spending money in their town. Stimulate the economy. By the way, Illinois, Indiana. Michigan, Nebraska's kind of interesting. Notre Dame O and two hosting Purdue. Notre Dame is a 26.5 point favorite against Purdue.

What happened in Purdue football? They suck the noise. Yeah, it's true. LSU's got a big matchup with the southeastern Louisiana. Or how about this one? Not that anybody around here cares, but Indiana is played three, I mean, complete dog crap teams, right? Yes.

They're a six and a half point favorite at home for Illinois, who's the number nine. If Indiana loses that game, people are going to make fun of Indiana like you wouldn't believe. Because they are going to say, well, all you had to do is step up to league competition and you failed. They need that one badly. Indiana beat Old Dominion, who beat Troutes Virginia Tech. Oh, we're watching that. Texas is a 39.5 point favorite over Sam Houston. That's a stay away.

I'm going to bet that game. That's a stay away. And look at LSU. How embarrassing is this LSU? You're playing South East Louisiana. You're playing a non-division. You're playing an FCS school. There are no odds in the game.

You ought to be embarrassed. You ought to be embarrassed. LSU, first of all, Brian Kelly, you tell him to shut us bum ass up the other day. I did not. Why didn't you? He's getting mad at reporters. Oh, what are you mean?

You're being too hard on us. We know we're 17. Shut up, Brian Kelly. Overrated-ass coach. Oh, they beat Clemson and Florida. They got two good ones. wins? Yeah, but they got a little gimmicky against

Latec and get all mad. And Clemson's looking shaky. They lost to Georgia Tech. I got one for the list. Dobbo Swinney was coming after people. Every coach, you know why, you know what it is? Every coach

goes after people when they when they're finally taking the task for something. Nick's statement. You used to get grumpy with the media. Yes. Brian Kelly got grumpy. What's the name? Gundy at Oklahoma State.

Oklahoma State. Garg was acting weird. Who is? Sark. Sark was talking about Sorling themselves. Arch's sold pants. I mean,

thank God we at U of H. are nice and even keeled. Tom Herman used to get a little salty. Tom Herman used to get salty with the media. Dana. I don't care about recruiting anymore. Yeah.

I just want to drink. Cocos. I just want to drink and just party. We're not worried about recruiting. Big game for Dana this week. Offensive coordinator in Nebraska. Huge. Massive.

You know why these coaches do this in honesty? It's because they're never challenged. They go in their building and they're considered God. No one, no one, no one, A.Ds are afraid to do it. Who's the AD at LSU? Is it a Joe Adler guy still? No idea. Whatever.

He's not going to. Timmy Boudreau. It's a Philip Langalear. is what it is. Tibidot. Tipido. Tippado, Arcadneau. These, the only people that are ever afraid of, coaches are afraid of other university presidents. Scott Woodward.

Okay, same difference. Scott Woodward. Scott Woodward. Scott's like, what the hell am I doing in Baton Rouge? He was born in Baton Rouge, apparently. LSU alum. 1985, Woo! Baton Rouge, I worked the chimes, and I served a lot of bread to people.

Oh, that's right. He was the 88 A&M. And they went over to LSU. I forgot about that. Oh, is that a better job? A&M's a better job. Sorry. He disagreed. Clearly he did. But how about Treve Alberts, who's 80 at A&M?

He left his alma mater. Nebraska? Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot of money, but it's a lot of pressure. Yeah. A lot of undue pressure, quite frankly. There's no history. No, the banners, the banners that say otherwise.

Oh, that's true. They keep adding. I think they claim three more national championships this year. Don't. Aggie fans don't come after us. I'm sorry. They know I'm right. You know.

You know you just added a couple of years ago. See, just because you went there, can't we just be practical and smart about this? Come on, man. That seems fair. All right. So now we've antagonized every college coach for being overrated. Anything else we need to get to? I think we're good.

Okay. Big series of the Astros tomorrow. Huge. Softie is unavailable. Unavailable? You're going to talk to him before the show? No. He says he's got a golf tournament.

He's playing in the more. morning early and he's got to take his dog to the vet. So his partner is going to join us. Let's get his dog on. Let's get his dog on. What do you think Softie's dog's name is? I can text him and ask him. Oh my God. Yeah. Griffey or you could go Pete as in Carol.

Oh, that's not bad. Russ? It's a good dog name. Softie, Hardy. Sherman. Sonic. Why Sonic? Seattle Supersonics?

Oh, that's true. Come on, Ross. Cosothy is pure Seattle. He's 100%. I'm going to text him. Maybe Herssey after Herssey Hawkins. Oh, it could be Sean Kemp. That's not a bad dog name.

Colin Kempter. Oh. No. Those are a grown man's in the living room. Get over here, Kempir. I mean, is a dog always in heat? Like Sean Kemp was? They have big litters.

Sean Kemp. that a litter? He did. Welcome to Sports Talk 790. That's right. All right, let's talk to... We don't talk like this. Only when Matt's here. It's his fault. No, if the show the last three days was more serious, I apologize. It was more serious, but it probably wasn't as entertaining, Matt. All right, I'm texting him right now. What is your dog's name?

All right, real quick. Does Softie have a Seattle tie... Seattle Sports Time to his dog's name? Yes or no. I will say... Griffey's a good dog name. Griffey's a fantastic dog. name. Ichiro? Okay. Suzuki.

Edgar? Big unit? Oh, Felix. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. For King Felix? That's not bad. That's not bad. I'm going to say yes then now.

I'm not going to think about it because there's a lot of good options. Does Softie from KJR Radio have a dog with a sports name to it? What's the best Houston option? Earl. Bige. Casario? I don't think that's

going to work. Is there anybody that's got a dog name of Cassario? Arien? Yeah, I don't name your dog, Arrian. No, no. Dude. That is your second inappropriate statement. That is your second inappropriate statement. Harry Foster, what are you all talking?

God. I was thinking about Aaron Foster. What's wrong with you guys? Big city wings. Does the buy one get one free, boneless wing today? That's right. You guys had lunch yesterday? You guys are boneless yesterday. I was crushing them. Delicious. All white meat? Yes.

Hand-breded? Hand- hand-bredded? Oh, no. He says text me Al-Tuve. Like, seriously, you're the worst. That's terrible. That is terrible. His dog's name is not Al-Tu-A. I say he does own the city. He does own.

I'm using your material. Back to Big City Wings. All right, so Sopty is not giving me his dog's names. There must be some sort of family tied to it, but he sent me a picture of them, and they're really adorable. Come to dogs with these, by the way, Ross. I don't even know what they're up. Why is he being mum about the, uh, the dog's names?

Well, he said Altuve and I didn't believe him. Uh, okay. Yeah, they are. Looks kind of like a boxer mix. I don't look, uh, beagle, maybe one beagle in the mix there. Yeah. Towards the middle. Maybe a Jack Russell Terrier mixed.

It's like mix mixes. Maybe he's got some rescues. That'd be great. Rescue your dogs, folks. I am a huge dog lover. Period. End of story. Uh, all right, real quick before I go to the phones, and Larry's going to talk to with us from Galveston.

I went to the NBA broadcast meetings. That's the reason why I was gone. the last three days. I didn't take any just sitting around meeting bonbons. I was actually with my colleagues. Mm-hmm. And a lot of the press, a lot of our meetings were,

let's introduce yourselves to Amazon, Peacock, NBC. You met Jeff Bezos? No, he was not there now. What was I going with? Oh. So, on some of the Peacock games, actually it feels like a lot of those, those are going to be the Monday night streaming games.

They're trying to invent, they're trying to reinvent the broadcast wheel. The play-by-play guy is going to be in his normal mid-court lower-level seat, wherever he is, you know, table. They're going to take two analysts for those two games. You're going to have a three-man booth. But instead of putting the two analysts with the play-by-play guy at the table, they're going to position one on each bench.

On the bench? Well, I mean, or right behind it, you know, thereabouts. Yeah, I know what you meant. And they're going to treat it. They're going to send those analysts to shootarounds and any game day practices or anything availability. So they really are, quote, unquote, entrenched with that team for that particular day. So you could have a game with, let's say, the Rockets are playing the Mavericks. I don't know if it's a Peacock game or not, but I'm throwing it out there.

You could have Carmel Anthony, if he's working the game for NBC, right behind the Rockets Ben. bench and you could have Reggie Miller right behind the Mavericks bench. I'm just using their analysts. So while I understand and kind of know what they want to go with, these people have not met the NBA coaches. They're very secretive. They do not want to open their doors to a lot of things. And I'm going to be curious to see how much resistance. Now, my guess is they would put real NBA respectful ex-players behind them, so it'll be a little easier.

but Rick Carlisle is not easy to deal with. But a lot of coaches that don't want you around their huddles and whatnot. So I want to see how this works out. And they're all going to be calling the game and commenting on the game concurrently? Correct. See, I think one thing that popped into my mind about this, and you know this, Matt, when you're working with a color, or even just you and I sitting in here, is reading the body language off the other to kind of know when to talk and when not talk

and who's going to talk and not step over each other. if you don't have that proximity to kind of pick up on those little cues. It's going to take a work in progress for sure. For example, or like if you want to lay out for a call and you can kind of like, you know, kind of tell the guys, give them a little signal, hey, hey guys, don't say anything. We're going to lay out. We're going to let this breathe, stuff like that. Those little nuances that make broadcast good, you're not going to have that opportunity

to kind of give cues off of each other. Now, you can clearly turn the microphones off. Yes, true. Is the play-by-play guy who's on play-by-play on these? Are they going to have like a mute button? Well, it's like Mike Tarrico's going to do a lot of games. Noah Eagle is going to do a lot of games. Been on the show several times.

Terry Gannon, I mean, there's a bunch of announcers. I mean, I think Peacock's doing 60 games. I mean, it's a lot. Yeah, like you can see videos of like Kevin Harlan with, you know, Stan Van Gundy or whoever. He's like telling them like, hey, don't say anything. We're going to let this breathe. Yep.

Interesting. They're just trying to, they're just trying to. Yeah. I get it. And I try to be open-minded to change, so I'll be open-minded. Yeah. But I have questions. Interesting.

I do believe, however, not that I don't have people particularly care. I think the NBC, Amazon folks, will do an excellent job. They're putting a lot of resources behind it. They, well, good. They're ponying up a lot of cash. Yep. Yeah, they are. And they are not oblivious to, they're,

going to get a public annihilation for a while. When half of your national television packages on a streaming service, you're going to get criticized. You just are. Now, every Tuesday, that will be a game on NBC. That's been unheard of. Every

Tuesday. That's cool. Every Tuesday night. Now, if you're playing the late game, and let's say NBC is going to do two games. One's going to be for East Coast viewers and Central. One's going to be for Mountain and Pacific. If you don't live in that, Times zone in which your game is on, you go to Peacock and you can get it too.

So in theory, every Tuesday, NBC is going to have two games on. One will be over the air and one will be on streaming. Just swap depending on your time zone. Depending on your time zone, yeah. What about the playoffs? Playoffs are Amazon, NBC, Peacock. So Amazon, yeah. All the way to like conference finals?

No, I think NBC gets a final this year. And ESPN will always have a conference final. And they'll always have the NBA finals. Okay. So, all right, really fast here. Let's go to Larry on 798-1-28. Hello, Larry. Ben, how are you?

Good, Larry. What's going on? It sure is good to have you back, dude. Ross has done a great job, but you're the number one dude. No, no, you're the best, Larry. Larry, we are co-number-ones. We're one A and one B. All right, that'll work.

That'll work. hey first of all my question is if the astros would go on and put yuron on retroactive how long does that completely take him out of our lineup well there's only nine games left so how long has he been gone he's been gone since monday right yes he got hurt monday and then but he played the game so it would be retroacted to tuesday right yeah Tuesday would be the first day he'd be retroactively put on the disabled list. So.

So, when is the next time if they put him on the IL? It'd be a 10-day I-L and you've got nine games left. So he would be coming back maybe the last series. Larry, I wouldn't hold my breath. It's too, those ankle injuries look severe. It looked terrible.

I mean, I don't tell you. I don't see it. Yeah. I am, I am absolutely not holding my breath. Okay. All right. So I'm make sure. You know, and so, you know, my point is that, you know, if he really did mess up his ankle that bad, then why don't we just go in and put him on the aisle and bring somebody up,

and hopefully they'll be able to make some type of positive addition to our team. And the next question is if JP, Grant is on our roster, why are we not putting him in to throw anything and pitch anything at all? Thank you, Larry, for that phone call. They're going to disable him tomorrow. I think. I think you're absolutely right. Yeah.

And I think it's got feeling. Maybe it's for Predis. You don't know. That would be interesting. But I'm sorry. I don't know. P. France is the X factor between now and the Astros winning the series against Seattle or going on a deep playoff run. Or for that matter, we're in the division. It can be an arm. But Franklin's Blueball. I was going to go with Jaden Murray.

He did okay. He's been fine. He's pitched a lot of them. Blue ball is interesting. And we talked about it with Brian McTaggart. What kind of role he's going to have going forward. And we'll talk and we'll hear that conversation next. 131 on Sports Talk 790. All right, we got, believe it or not, all things about the late Robert Redford kept up in about 15 minutes. Right now, a few minutes from our conversation from Brian McTaggart. He said, look, this roller coaster ride of his season, things are going right now very well for the local nine. They took two or three from Atlanta, and they finished a sweep of the Rangers. Who are we seeing, Brian McTaggart? Yeah, and I think that's the blueprint of how they're going to do this, if they're going to make a long playoff run.

They're going to have to jump out to early leads like they did against the Rangers. They scored in the first inning every time. They never trailed in the series. You're going to have to come up with clutch hits. This is their blueprint to victory and then just have their starting pitching and their relief pitching be just good enough. You know, I think they set the tone in Atlanta with those first two games. You remember they went into Atlanta and I think they had scored four runs in their previous eight games or something, eight games, eight runs in their previous four games. I mean, they were really struggling.

Scored 11 in that first game in Atlanta, did pretty well in the second game. But I think that sort of set the tone for where they're at now and, you know, some really good. bats against de Grom in that first inning to get his pitch count up to 35 pitches. Jeremy Pena laying off a couple of sliders early, and then he was able to get a, you know, a double to get that inning going. You go back to September 6th when they faced the Grom. DeGrom came out pounding sliders, struck out three guys in the first inning on sliders. You can tell the Astros were not going to let him do that.

And that's going to be crucial because they're going to face a lot of this caliber pitching in the playoffs and even this weekend against the Mariners it seems so they're going to have to have that same disciplined approach it seems like an x-factor of course is also going to be zach cole oh for his last five but we know he's got some some lightning in his back keep asking you about your gut feeling i mean how do you think this plays out for him down the stretch yeah i don't know ross it's going to be interested because the kid's obviously pretty fearless so i'm kind of anxious to see what he can do this weekend i mean i'm sure he's going to be in the lineup uh once or twice, but then again, these are huge games, and he's still trying to feel his way through the

big leagues. And he's facing all this elite pitching when he'd barely been at AAA. I mean, all of a sudden he's facing DeGrom and, you know, Luis Castillo and Brian Wu maybe tomorrow night. So this is the best pitching he's ever faced in his life. He's having figured out in games that matter hugely to the Astros. So, but I mean, he's not. He's not scared of anything. So I think the Astros will give him a shot at least in one or two of these games and see what he can do. Brian McTaggart Astros.com with us here on Sports Talk 790. On the pitching side, it feels like this time of year, we're always talking about how the playoff rotation is going to line up.

So asking you about that. And specifically with Framber, if he's really good the next couple of starts, I think he's the two guy, if he's really bad. How much do you think he can slide? And what if he's just kind of somewhere in between? Yeah, I still think if he's just kind of somewhere in between. has a couple of good starts under his belt then yeah he's going to be the number two guy you know Alexander can't take anything away from what he did I mean they're they're winning every time he takes the ball and that's what you want as well and uh you know Kristen Javier is is has two pretty good

starts under his belt now six innings so I think he's a guy that maybe at the back end of their rotation if you need a four starter would be in there as well but yeah I mean I think the next two starts are are pretty huge for Framber to see just where he will slot in uh in the playoff rotation I mean, a lot of it's going to depend on how they use them in that final week of the season. Do they have to use them in the final weekend in Anaheim if they have to win those games? And it looks like this thing definitely will go down to the wire. And, you know, that might decide for them how they line up their playoff rotation for the Wild Card Series if, you know, if they have to, you know, use Hunter Brown or Frommberg in the last couple of days of the regular season.

What do you see with maybe Paredes coming back, how much Jose Altuve ADHD will we see between now and the end of the season? and regardless of whether or not Preris can come back. I mean, I think if Paredes comes back, he's going to de-hed. I don't see him play in the field. I mean, he's not going to play third base over Karea. I mean, I guess he probably wouldn't

de-h every game. And then maybe that's where you can get a two-day back in the D-H spot and off second base. But I don't think Paredes is going to, he's obviously not going to play short, second or first, and you're not going to take Karea off third.

So Paredes is going to be D-H-only. really play every game. It maybe depends how he feels, how he's swinging the bat, but Jose Al-Tube has played a lot more second base in the second half of the season as he did in the first, and I think of the playoffs, that's what we'll see. I mean, I think it'll be interested if they have a lead in a playoff game, you know, do they pull Al-Tube and put Urius or Dubon or somebody who's a little bit better in their defensively? You know, that remains to be seen, but, you know, having that bat paredes in the lineup, if you can just work counts and use that pull power and hit the ball.

close to the way he did before he got injured. That could be a game changer. All right, size up the bullpen. It feels like to me, especially with the way Brian King has pitch, really all season long, and the fact that somebody guys have been hurt, he's your eighth inning guy. Abraeu is your ninth. Generally give me your thoughts about what you've seen from this bullpen. I would say the undertone to me is it's really been heavily worked and you need somebody

to give you one or two of those guys this weekend to give you some length to give these guys a rest, especially if they're going to have to play another. bullpen game sometime next week out in California. Yeah, they do. And I think the best thing that could happen for them is if they, if they can run down the Tigers and get the number two seed, which is now back and play, I mean, they're only a game and a half behind the Tigers. And then you get that by.

And now you're going to, you're going to rest everybody for five days before you start the division series. But, you know, they have a couple of guys in the bullpen now who can give them multiple inning outings. We've seen it, you know, from Colton Gordon. JP France can throw two or three in them. So I think guys like that could be important here over the next week if it's a blowout or even if it's not, if you just need somebody to give you two innings to make that bridge,

to get the king and get to a bray you. You now have guys that are capable of doing that. But if they have to fight tooth and nail all the way down to next Sunday and use all these guys over the next weekend in Anaheim and they get on a plane and go to Seattle or go to New York or whatever, it could be really, really tough. So I know there was one Astros uniform member. It told me he was watching the Detroit game closer than any other score

because they feel they can run down the Tigers and get that number two seed, which would be absolutely massive because you would get the days off and you'd open the division series at home. And one more question about the pitching. AJ Blueball, do you think he could start a game in the postseason? Do you think he's just going to be a long relief? What type of role do you think he has down? the stretching in the postseason.

Yeah, I don't think he'll be a starter, but yeah, I see him as long relief. Somebody gets in trouble, fourth or fifth. You know, you bring in blue ball to, you know, throw those three innings, throw 97, 98, get that bridge. He could be a huge weapon in the playoffs. He's a fresh arm. He's another one of these guys who's absolutely fearless. His stuff plays up in the bullpen more than it does when he was starting. So they don't have the, you know, the one-inning relievers they had early in the season with Sousa and Hater

and Orr being out, but now they have these multi-inning guys, and when you get to the playoffs, you can really manipulate the way you use your bullpen where these guys are real weapons. So I think Blue Ball is going to be a big part of that. All right, in 30 seconds, give me your crystal ball thoughts about how this weekend's going to go down. Yeah, Astros, I think, are playing their best baseball since June.

The Mariners are not a good road team. I think they've had their hot streak. I think the Astros win two out of three. that will set them up very well to go on a road trip against two teams that are out of it. So, yeah, I think the Astros win two out of three, get a little bit of a lead in first base and first place. And I think they win the division. I think they close this thing out. If they don't, they just have themselves to blame because after all they've been through, here they are with, what, 10 games to go, nine games to go.

They're sitting here in first place. Nine. So they got a chance to control their own fate here, if that's possible. possible. And it all starts tomorrow with the Seattle Mariners. Believe it or not, all things about the great Robert Redford, and I will ask Ross the question to help you out along the way. We'll see how this goes. How much is Sports Arvino, Robert Redford? 713-213-2-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-790. We're playing for Trans-Siberian Orchestra tickets next on 790. All right, Rossi, tomorrow on the show.

We're going to get a representative from Seattle Radio on to S Talk this Mariners series. We're going to get somebody out from Jacksonville, correct? Was Softie referring you to somebody? Yeah, his partner, Dick Fane. Oh, that's right. Slowly, please? Dick Fane.

Okay. Longtime Seattle sportscaster. Yeah, we're out to some people. A person. Try a second person. Just relax. Not everybody's Mr. I'm on the I'm on the A plus texter like you Matt.

I know. I'm going to D-Miles email or turner and an F follower. Five minutes left to go to the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game. Show we simply call it B. Leave it or not.

And here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believe it or Not is a special edition. I will read you a question about or statement about Robert Redford. Statements completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it.

If the statement's erroneous, full of bunk and made up, you'll say this. Now, I will read it to Ross first. Ross, you will give the, what you think the answer is. Okay. But it's ultimately the contestants answer the counts. Okay. Two in a row win you a pair of tickets to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra performing the Ghost of Christmas Eve. The best of TSO and more, decide.

the 19th at Toyota Center. Tickets of both afternoon and evening shows are on sale now at Toyota Center.com. What a great little date night family event you could do if you believe it or not. Ken on 790, Ken, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Ken, good luck to you. Rossi. Robert Redford was offered but turned down the role of police chief Martin Brody in the Jaws movie series. Believe it or not. The Jaws movie series? You don't like Jaws 1, Jaws 2, Jaws 3? Oh, okay. The whole, I'm sorry. I don't know why I was thinking TV series. Not. What do you say, Ken? Believe it or not?

Not. That is not. It's a made-up one. Okay. Statement number two for the win. Robert Redford's love for baseball grew after his work in the natural. He bought a 10% interest in the Baltimore Orioles, which he later sold in 2013. Believe it or not. Ross, what do you think? I'll say, Ken. What do you say, Ken? I'm not believe it. No, you should have believed Ross. I made that up. Sorry.

Keep and count them, 2 and 0. Jeanette, on 790, Jeanette, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? The discussion of the Astros. All right. Ross, Redford won one Academy Award, but it was for his best director's role. He never won an Academy Award for his acting. Believe it or not. Not sure.

I'll say, believe it. Jeanette, what do you say? Believe it or not. Not. It's a believe it. Ross, you're 3-0. Good for you. Al on 790, ready to play Believe it or not.

Believe it. Ross, Redford took a page from Paul Newman's salad dressing enterprise. He sold high-end deer and elk meat from his Sundance Resort in Utah. Believe it or not? I will say not. What do you say, Al? Not. That is correct.

I made that up. Statement number two for the win. Robert Redford earned a baseball scholarship to the University of Colorado, but lost it due to excessive. drinking, believe it or not? He went to the school. I don't know if he had a baseball scholarship. I'll say no. Not. He's a believe it.

In college. Well, if you see his face, he looked like he had a few pops in his day. Redford, get the red face? Maybe so. Mark on 790. Mark, what was your fair part of today's radio show? The Astros. All right. Ross, Redford disliked watching his own film. The only film in which he was completely satisfied with was his own performance was the sting. Believe it or not.

I'll say not. What do you say, Mark? I'll say, believe it. Believe it is correct. Statement number two for the win. Robert Redford's Relationship Tree over the years. Oh, oh. Includes Barbara Streisand, Jane Fonda, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Merrill Streep.

Believe it or not? I'll say... Believe it. No. Oh, he's saying... I'm going to disagree, but go ahead. What do you say, Mark? Believe it.

No, they were just as co-stars. They had no romantic relationship. All right. One of my five and two? You're doing, I'm actually kind of proud of you. Renee on 7-Henny. Renee, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it.

Renee, and first to Ross. Ross to enhance his role as Roy Hobbs the natural. Robert Redford solicited batting advice from Pete Rose and Rod Carew, who were the premier left-handed hitters in the MLB at the time. Believe it or not. I will say believe that. What do you say, Renee? Believe it.

No, I made that up. I'm sorry. No. I know. Man, these are so good. These are good. Let me tell you, this is my best work right here. Come on, give me some credit.

I still got five of them, right? Yeah, but it's a 50-50 game. Yeah, so I won. What was the best question to me was a relationship tree? That one was the worst one. All right. How about the elk meat and high-end deer meat? That was pretty bad.

Oh, come on. Now, you said Sundance Resort, I knew we had a Sundance Resort. Because he founded the Sundance Film Festival, right? Yeah, he did, yeah. After his character. Yeah. How about the 10% of the Baltimore Orioles? You didn't like that one?

That was the second worst one. Updex. Wexler, Clanton, the team. We'll wake the strippers up tomorrow at 12. And then goes Friday at 10 on 790.