The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Bring The Brooms! Astros Sweep The Diamondbacks, Now Sitting Tied #1 In The American League.

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

Astros Bring The Brooms! Astros Sweep The Diamondbacks, Now Sitting Tied #1 In The American League.

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-1 at H-Town. Good morning and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. This isn't hit. It just doesn't. My squad isn't tied for the best record in the American League. You all right?

Yeah. I've used this like three times on this show. You never said anything? I don't remember this at all. I know. Maybe I was out. Actually, maybe you were. Yeah, I was going to say.

Because we don't play anything from, we have a rule when you're out, actually. Nothing before 1990. Oh, that sucks. You know, 35 years ago. Yeah, but, I mean, there's the clock, the, pull the curtain back, the number one, one of the top three stations in the city, radio-wise, in terms of sheer listeners, is classic rock for a reason. Yeah, we're number two.

Yeah, we are number two. Congratulations to us. Yeah, I, um, the category of I just don't get it. I've really, Rossi, I really have tried. I just don't get it. I don't think you've really tried, but that's okay, man. I don't get hip hop. I just don't get hip hop. I just don't. Are you sure? Okay, it's only mad at me. Mm-hmm. Yeah. They don't wrap about Burck and khakis stocks and she just doesn't relate to you. Okay, khakis, yes. Berkham stocks, no. Although I've told Kim about that and she's going to find you and hunt you down like a rabid dog. Why? That was her idea, not mine. Add it to the list. I know. What else is. What else is. You do have a deep list there. Hey, good morning, everybody.

It's nice to have you with. This is 1004 on Sports Talk 7. Honey, Matt and Ross with you here. What are you chuckling about? I don't really mean to do this two minutes into the show. But what I do already? Are you going to put jelly on your biscuit and then eat the bacon and cheese? Yeah.

Are you eating it separately? No. Are you eating jelly on the bacon and cheese? Yes. I know you're not alone in doing that. It was her idea, too, the woman at the deli. But I don't get it. Okay.

So I have a To peel the curtain completely back. I had an early morning appointment this morning Did not eat any breakfast. So I have a bacon cheese biscuit, no egg. And I'm about to put strawberry jelly on it. You're going to put strawberry jelly on the biscuit, then recombine the biscuit.

Combine it, yes. And have strawberry jelly on your bacon and cheese. Yes. Yeah. Do you like jelly? I like ice cream and I like steak. I don't put ice cream on my steak. I know.

But jelly on a biscuit is. not crazy. I'm just messing if you... I'm meshing the breakfast flavors together. I didn't mean to do this two minutes for the show, but I thought, can we get Jonathan ruling on this? I don't know. Strawberry jam on a biscuit with, and again, it can be bacon, egg, or cheese.

It's a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit, and he's putting strawberry and jelly on it. On it. With the sausage? With the bacon. With the bacon. Oh, that doesn't sound of bacon and jelly, though. Bacon, jelly, biscuit. Yeah. Now, I've had candied bacon.

See, so I'm not really judging. I'm just confused, I guess. I mean, it might be good. It doesn't sound like it's a whore. Because every time I go to the drive-thru and get a biscuit, they ask them I want jelly, and I'm like, what the hell do I want jelly for? Yeah, because for guys like us. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Clearly it happens. Now, the game changer for me is the steak bag. And this is the last time we'll go to food before we get to the people are listening for. It's Spicefall. Texans and Astros coverage. I'm sorry. Is I will get the steak, egg and cheese bagel, the meal. I will take the hash brown.

I will put the hash brown in the bagel, smash it all together, and I'm eating at one point bagel, hash brown, steak, egg, cheese, that sauce, boom, one bite. Astros sweep the diamond bags. Thank you very much. See, that's what we wanted to hear. They did, and it looked a little. It was the most entertaining game yesterday. That was a scratch and claw on one.

You know, one you play 162. You're going to get some blowouts. You're going to get this and that. Let's be brutally honest. the lineup was atrocious going in, right? It was a getaway day. You had won this series. You needed some rest for some guys.

Because you're playing tonight. I mean, they're back at Dinkin Park. Yes. You got Walker the Half Day in D.H. No Altovae. No Cam Smith. Of course, no Alvarez Pena, others anyways. You were thinking, all right, you know what?

Two out of three in Arizona ain't bad. You were thinking, you know, they were going to meatloaf it. And they won the game yesterday. But Brandon Walter had other ideas. Bennett, Sousa, blew the save and got the win. Got the win. And the number one thing I'd take away from the game yesterday, beyond the fact they won it,

was that there are so many people, I won't name names, Adam Clinton, who just annihilated umpires because he always thinks they're screwing the Astros. The strike three called to end the game yesterday. It was a doozy. With Josh Hayter on the mound was not borderline. It was a flat out miss.

And I mean, if you go look at the, whatever they, the, what ESPN will take with the pitch where it lands and whatnot, whatever they call that thing. It was not even close to the zone. The Astros 100% yesterday caught a huge break. Yes, they did. So as I've told Adam, for you. years and he never believes me. I said, man, these these things do even out. What did he say? He said it's fine. He hasn't responded? No, he did. He responded on Twitter and said it's fine. Okay. But like I said, he kills me on refereeing calls in the embassy. I said, man, if you thought

it was bad last year, Kevin Durant's going to get some calls that other players in his and his statutes and his part of the league will not get. So it's going, everything does even out. Unless you have, unless you have a group of people that have a horrendous bias towards a particular team and usually the sports associations will weed those people out. Yeah. I'll just say this and I mean I think Adam Clinton has said this himself. He's a homer. Yeah. He's a homer. And look, we are

homers too but we had to call it as we saw it yesterday. That was abomination would be too strong of a term. Atrocious, egregious? Yeah. Egregious. A flat up miss. Unacceptable. And again, if you're Has Catelle Marte feeling about the human element today? Even a gravy trainer, Ben Verlander, thought it was a terrible call in the game yesterday. He did? He did?

Yeah. He said on his tweet, ABS can't come sooner enough, I'm paraphrasing here on this. He's still working? Good for him. Well, I have it muted. If his last name was Johnson, he'd be working at a restaurant waiting tables. And I'm sure it'd be a great living for him. What do you mean?

He played minor league ball. He got drafted by the Tigers. Oh, he did. It's getting married, apparently. Hold on. That's great. Wonder who's paying for their wedding. Oh, there's no way Justin's cutting a check for the full wedding.

I bet you if we were to look at the debit account to Acme wedding farm, it would be a huge amount of money going to pay. I'm saying he's maybe helping, but come on, full wedding? Are you going to help your brother with his wedding? No. No. But Justin is. Well, he makes more, my brother makes more money than I do. Oh, he's here.

I ask him. But again, just to show you that even Ben Verlander, who's, uh, wants to have, make sweet love with Shohei Otani every time you look at his Twitter account, uh, thought that the, the call was way off. And it was, but you know what? It helped the Astros. And like I said, things do even out. Okay. And they did.

They tipped in the Astros way in a big way. That was a full count. He should have walked. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? I mean, this is in all sincerity. Josh probably needs a couple days off.

He has been throwing a lot of pitches. His ERA has slightly gone up. His perfect save situation, which was not going to ever be the case all year long. He's given up some home runs. They haven't been as nearly as fluid for him in the last week than it was in, say, the first eight or nine weeks of the season. Well, we talked about this. This is why somebody, I recall, at the beginning of the season, said he was going to get 40 saves. Pitching's really good.

Offense not so much. You're going to end up in a lot of close games. We've seen this the last two years now. Good for him. He's going to have the type of year that I think a lot of Astro folks thought he was going to have you see it even a year ago. Yeah, I don't think he's getting to 40, but he's got 27. They have about 59 games left, I think, give or take? 60.

60, okay. So when I said 59, give or take, I was in the give or take category. Yeah, we took. Very good. All right. On the radio show today, I really enjoyed our conversation with Jim Bowden yesterday. It's good. And we're going to play some of that later on this week.

morning, just in case the one o'clockers didn't get to hear it. Because as we've learned through experiments, Rossi, those of you that listen to 1030, 11. 30 may not be around at 1.30. We want you to stay for us for the entire four hours, but sometimes it's just not possible. Okay. So a little bit of that coming up at 1120. Brian McTaggart normally with us on Thursdays is traveling back from Phoenix today. And you're saying, well, Matt, did Brian text you and say he was on available today?

No, he did not. I had to go to the United Airlines app to see what flood he was on. You stalked him on the United Airlines? I didn't stalk him. I looked to see where he was. Are you guys buddies or something? No. How can you look him up? Because he's on the upgrade list flying back from Phoenix to Houston and it says MCT comma B.

I figured it out. Why didn't you just text him? Because I wanted to save myself a step. I wanted him to somewhat feel bad. I feel like texting is. Okay. So you wanted to get him. Yeah, he's answered the question directly, Matt. I mean, he's a big, he's a huge star.

Clearly. He's not going to reach out to us. We got to ask him what his travel plans are. That's exactly right. He's the star of the show. Just ask him. So we'll, McTagot will join us tomorrow at 11 o'clock. We'll get to that.

Man, he's doing, and pregame? Yeah. Okay. I mean, I think he can probably do two segments on the same day. Hell, we do four hours. Well, how was the event last night? Do you guys have a good turnout? We had a few people come out.

Yeah. Talking some Astros. Recording your special podcast, y'all do? Yes, the Crawford Boxcast. Is your podcast? We had our friends from the, liked story saga come out. Say that again?

Oh, when people started calling me Thirsty RV. Oh, they came out last night? Trevor, and I'm going to say her name wrong, so I'm not going to do it. I asked her. Are they lovely people? Yeah, they're very nice. That's good to hear.

I'm glad to hear that. And then, what podcast does better? Yours or the Sarah Spain Women on Sports Podcast? Probably hers. It's more national. It's got the backing of IHeart Radio. I mean, we've got the backing of Carbock Brewing. We've got the power of friendship. The power of friendship.

I think that's what our history of our show is, the power of friendship. And then once we become friends, it'll really become good. All right, 713, 212-579 if you want to join us. The Astros are on top of the world, sort of. They are tied with the Blue Jays for the best record in the American League. Did any of you had that if you did? Call in and brag about yourself. Say with 100 games left to go in the season,

you thought the Astros would be 18 games above 500, and owning the top record in the America League. Tramel and Caratini as your 1-2. Back in the lineup, Matthews Dubon, Hummel McCormick-Wittam. That was a get-out-of-town lineup. That was a, let's get out of here in two hours and four-minute lineup. And they won. And they won.

Beautiful. 7-13-21-2-5-790. 7-1-3-212. Texans back on the practice field for day number two. I didn't hear anything yesterday that was necessarily crazy. Again, I think the number one storyline is going to be this offensive line. Number two is going to be the running back situation. Number three is how often are we going to say Nick Cayley's name over the course of the show?

We've got to just don't get it at 1130. The news at noon and believe it or not today at 150. So a busy show is always, but you guys are always and ladies as well. Very much welcome to join the show. 713-212-5-790. Jonathan Alexander. C.J. Stroud was one for two with a completed pass at Eco Collins

on the first series in team drills. Nick Chubb ran the ball with first team, but the play was negated because of a false start by Blake Fisher, who was immediately pulled. Dog days of summer, folks. I thought you were talking about Jonathan Allen for a second. It's like, man, he was at camp today? No, no, no, he's here with us.

Okay. All right, 713-212-5-790. Training Camp reports. We're going to do a contest a year from now. We're going to play sound bites. I should have thought of this last year. We're going to take sound bites from this year and match up with sound bites from next year

and we're going to play which year was Domingo talking about it. What you're talking about D'Amico? Yeah. Okay. Jalen Petrie has intercepted C.J. Straub. Wait, did you say that? No, I did not. Go ahead tell the audience.

Defense gets hype. Jalen Petrie intercepts C.J. Straub. See, he's not just a tackler, folks. I'm glad he's back because he was hurt last year and he's a significant piece of their defense. Yeah, for sure, for sure. I just... I've got so much I just don't get.

I mean, if I took everything that Brian McTagrin and Chandler-Rome gave me during spring training as gospel, I would never have thought this team was going to win, you know, as many games as they have. Well, I mean, we put up videos of some pitcher throwing like three pitches of a side, and we get a lot of views and people talking about it. I don't think it's all that different. maybe I don't I don't person it's just not my cup of tea I gotta stop saying my cup of tea too nobody says that anymore it's not my

people say it okay it's not your jam that's much better that sounds a lot better all right okay you know you know what my jam is is Sunday afternoon getting up at 11 o'clock well I don't get up 11 but my being ready at 11 o'clock to watch

on a Sunday to watch all those games Saturday day the 320 It's a crazy thing about the NFL is that If there's a 325 game on that's of somewhat interest, I'll watch it. Like if it's, Is it really, like if the Brewers and the Mariners play last night,

no, that's a bad example. No, even then, you could say that. I didn't want. Yankees Blue Jays are playing, okay? If I miss it, I miss it. If there's a really good 325 Detroit versus Green Bay game,

I'm going to make sure I'm in front of it. It's the most, well marketed, the most, I would say, widely accessible. I mean, everything, all the games, not all of them, but the games you want to watch are on network television,

and then you can also buy this little thing called Red Zone that gives you every game. Yeah. Yeah. Once. So just to show you the power of the NFL, we'll get back to the Astros here just a couple minutes. The Green Bay stockholders are having their big report coming up. They do it once a year on this time. And they have to publicly announce how they've done in terms of profits because they are publicly held company.

Now, I don't know the minutia behind all that because you can buy stock, but it's really more just of a ceremonial thing as compared to really taking its investment. But as part of the report they're going to announce, they have to say, well, what were revenues? And they're giving you hundreds of millions of dollars of proceeds. In this report that I just happened to scan this morning, you know the NFL last year in revenue? 13 billion dollars Okay yeah That's not profit That's revenue

Revenue Now there are expenses to go out to that But $13 billion Yeah you got to pay salaries And then operation costs Right But Yeah just from the NFL

The Packers got $138 million Which every team got Handed to them From a revenue sharing program overall revenue was 436 million or I'm sorry 432.6. That's why you have to, let me taste it. If you're a young, attractive girl, marry an NFL owner's son.

Hmm. I hear that fist pump you heard was Hannah McNair. I mean, tell me, tell me you're wrong. I'm not wrong. Now, the origin story goes that she pursued, he pursued. shoot her, but she was smart to say, all right. Yeah, I mean, she's the smartest girl in the room for many reasons, woman in the room for several reasons. She's been able to get in front of the microphone because cow can't. Oh, thank God. She finally does speak a little bit. She got Jackie used to be

out of there. But yeah, she, yeah, she, yeah, she, yeah, the only thing she's got left to do to really cement her place is to figure, what? She's not, recommending her place, Matt. But I mean, her, not legacy, but... She's not getting a statue in front of the stadium. No, I don't think so. But she's going to either get a refurbished NRG or she's going to, they're going to start a blaze a path for a new stadium.

So that'll, that can, that can sometimes change what people think of ownership. Because like, like when Bud Adams was on the owners, Ross, he was a bumbling, stumbling, you know, trailblazer that brought the football to football to Houston back in 1960 and then all the things were going on with firing the coaches and then Love You Blue came around and they fired bomb

and then they got past that and got to the run and shoot and things were going well but he was just old crotchety butt Adams he became public enemy number one when he was threatening to move the team not once but twice and did move him in the second time

so again public opinion about ownerships can change in a heartbeat yeah but I think Cal's a bit of a special case. Cal's just like, I'm just the same guy. Yeah, I think what he did with the Easterby thing is in letting him run rough shot over the organization is unforgivable.

Even if they win a Super Bowl, he's not getting most of the credit. I don't think. No, no, no. He's not getting any of that. Not most of the credit, but you know what I'm saying? The amount of credit that any other owner would get. Yeah, it's like if the, If the Texans win the Super Bowl this year,

when you know they go on the stage and Torrico or Jim Nance or whoever's hosting the show, they hand the microphone to the owner. Hannah's like, yeah, does she smack it out of his hand? Yeah, she's like, does she take over? Because normally she stares up at him to make sure he doesn't make any goofy remarks.

Okay. She's pulling the microphone away. She's like, I got this. He's going to have to practice a speech with him over and over. It's not a hard one. Thank you, Houston. You are the greatest fans in the world. I love this team.

Is this thing on... No, that's not going to be the case. I don't know what to do with my hands. Don't listen to him on this. Now you're just being rude. That's not it at all. No, there will be a firm rehearsal of what is said. I practice this moment in Madden.

That's just terrible. It wasn't where I was going with this. You and your horrific Forrest Gump impersonation of Cal McNair. What is wrong with it, Matt? All right. So the Astros are on... I can't... I turn on my left here.

I always giggling that's face. I cannot even focus on this show. Folks, help me out here. I'm sorry. Well, it's time for a break. Can somebody call me and just talk to me? I don't care if it's about your life. I don't care if it's about what you had for breakfast today.

I just need someone to talk to me except Ross. Jonathan's got his girl calling the show now. Oh, man. Yeah, and she's getting all her misinformation wrong. I don't even know she's going to do that. That was the prize. Chorice is delicious as are tachis. Tockeys are my favorite, but I eat them.

Matt doesn't. Yeah, I'm anti-Taki and anti-Jerriso. It does. I like a crunchy Cheeto, but the tachies. But no flaming hot. Yeah, that's too much. All right. So again, I need someone to talk to me because I don't like talking to the person to my right.

Yes. Please call Matt. I mean, anybody but Eric, anybody in Eric and Basset he can call. I'm actually, I'm on Matt's side on this. I'm off the rails today. Call Matt. 713. 2.15.

I don't know. I only had one beer at Carbock, so it's not like a mungover or something. Okay. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Let's come back to Brang on the Astros. And that lineup that was out there yesterday, and that does this stretch that now has them winning four in a row

with the trade deadline one week from today, doesn't impact how Dana's thinking. 713-212-5-7-90. Thankfully, normally, my food takes are deniolated by those of you on social media. Bulldog 200 says, jelly on a biscuit sandwich is next level of delicious.

Fancy Matt is on point. Sousai Rich says I put grape jelly and my bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit, not crazy. See, I didn't say you were crazy. Okay, well, I just wanted to make sure. I mean, normally your food opinions are horrible. I mean, world-renowned. not only horrible but inconsistent

at least clinton's inconsistent i mean consistent he's consistent about jelly i mean about gelatinous what does he call it white gelatinous substances yeah like dips dressings ranch blue cheese sour cream hate some all mayonnaise despise them

okay sour cream mayonnaise yogurt go yes yes no okay sorry i'll shut up you got your calls Yeah, I want to talk to other people besides Ross. But kick my feet up, guys. You can handle this. By the way, congratulations to Justin Verlinder. He snapped his 16-16-game start winless streak with a win last night.

Oh, and we also congratulated you on your tweet, and I'm going to congratulate myself on my tweet. I've got 4,300 likes. On what? A tweet I put up. This is a meme. 4300 likes? Yeah, 500 retweets. What was your tweet about?

It was a funny meet. Yes, you're just a meme, Ross. It's just a meme about the space cowboys holding together the Astros. Aw. Don't show up the wax. You would argue with about it. Yeah, but 120,000 views. What?

4,300 likes. I mean, new followers you get out of it. At least 20. That's good for you. At Sports RV. Let's talk to the great people of Houston, Ross. You can take the rest of segment off. All right, see you.

Chad and Lakeland at 1035. Hi, Chad. Hey, what's up, Pete Basky? You're terrible. You are terrible. Well, I'm going to make it even worse. I'm the, that was the trade Kyle Tucker midseason last year, guys. Oh.

Well, but so. So what do you want right now? Are you going to trade somebody this week? Tell me what you're going to do. No, no. No, I'm good with the team this week. Have you heard the space cowboy commercials for going out to Sugar Lake? I have not.

Tell me about him. They are C-future stars of the Houston A and all I could think yesterday when I heard that before the game is they are already up here. No, are you sure that's the Space Cowboys, or that's the Corpus Christi Hooks commercial you're hearing? Same thing with the Space Cowboys. All right, all right. Point well taken.

No, that was hilarious. And then how excited are you after the dregs of rocket seasons for next year to call games? Chad, I am beside myself. I am staring at my computer asking from the NBA schedules are going to be released to figure out where I'm going and win and who they're playing. And that's not coming out until like the middle of August. So I don't know why I'm doing wasting my time. But I will be a literally a kid in a candy store. All right.

And last thing I got for you is Ross. It's just PA announcers apparently. My wife used to work in Tiger Town here in Lakeland. and she got good friends with the P.A. Nauter there, who he's still the P.A. and out there for the actual Tigers in Detroit. They're just absolute perps. So it's not just Matt.

Chad. Chad is, I just got back. Matt has to be to leave, so I really went and got some coffee. I'm back now. Chad. You're like. What would give you an indication I was a perth? Well, I mean, I'm listening 11 to 3 here.

on the east side on the I aren't ready yet. Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. We've heard the noises you make when Lauren Shahdi comes on the TV. Let me say, Chad. Have you ever watched Lauren Shahati on the baseball channel? No. Oh, Taylor. Who?

Or volleyball. Oh, that's true. Yeah, it's okay. You know, I'm hanging up here. I was literally talking to this man, and he was telling us a story about his wife. He could not think of a girl that he knew at the stadium in mid-story about his wife. He's like, oh, kick with the jug. remember your name.

Well, thank you, Chad. You know where Chad is in Lakeland, Lakeland, Florida, Central Florida, right through the Tigers have the spring training facility. Wonderful. Thank you, Chad. Making a lot of good points. Call me peach basket, too, which is just a highly offensive.

I miss that, too. I like it. I like it in there. It's lucky. It's a comment. Yeah, exactly. It's about you being a font of basketball knowledge. And you know you're going to be busy on Christmas, by the way.

So here's what I'm thinking. I'm working Christmas Day. Yes, you are. I mean, right? There's five games on that day. That means I might be two. You don't have to. Get Gordy to do it.

Adam Clinton. You know what you're going to do. Get Clanton or Waxler to do it. Yeah, that's a real knee slapper there, Matt. Can I get Christmas off, please? Just, no, just do it. Just tell Gordy you can't do it. I mean, he's on the longest tenured employee here.

Mm-hmm. Please, can I get Christmas? Christmas off. Yeah. You know what? We'll give Jonathan a chance to do your first hosting of a post-game show.

Oh, Christmas Day? Yeah. That'd be a cool story to tell. Yeah. Slowed down. Just saying, I mean, that'd be a lot of calls that day. He's going to recap the whole game in 45 seconds. Have Gerard call?

Your show's done. Yeah, it's true. He hasn't called the while, actually. I know. We always want Gerard to call in when he can. He lost his Space City Home Network, so we'll give it back for him. Ryan and Montgomery at 1040 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. Ryan, good morning to you.

Good morning, Matt. Hi. You say you're going to kick your feet up and you're like, oh yeah, my tweet. You don't need this, Matt. You don't need this. Did Johnny Carson have a co-host? No. You're the Johnny Carson.

Yeah, I'm going to leave. You don't need this. I don't know. Have you heard the shows when I'm out? Oh, my God. But Ed McMahon had a role, too. He introduced the show. Yes, sir.

Yes. You are the greatest of all time. You know what the thing is, is McMahon would brag on Johnny a lot. You don't brag on me enough. I think we should have two to three brags an hour. Continue on, Ryan, hit the floor. It's a constant tear down. Somebody's got to do it.

I swear. Matt, we hung out. You're a nice person. You're such a nice person. Why do you treat your boy just like dog water, man? Exactly. I'm actually nice every day. Actually.

Of everything I think of? I only say about 10% of the things I think to say. And then he tells me another 90% off air. That's actually not inaccurate. Also, by the way, how was I feeling when Hater took the mound? That what a gift from God above, mana from heaven. That horrible call. That strike three call was horrible.

Wretched. Thank you, Ryan, for the phone call. Good to hear your voice. Ryan, good friend of the show. Yeah. Ross, we cannot downplay that enough. I invite everyone to go look on Twitter. The strike three call, it wasn't even a strike call in a game down the road.

It was, yeah, I will go back to the word egregious. It was egregious, and it should have been a walk. There should have been two on. That's exactly right. The tying run should have been in scoring position. To make things even more diceier after the a two-run run on base, yeah. Let's talk to our friend Brian at 1042 on 7-90. good morning.

Hey, good morning. You know, I will call you fancy, Matt, but I'll leave it there. Because you just stay in some glamorous hotels with your fuzzy slippers and all that. But, hey, you stay in the hotels you're required to stay. That's right. No one forces me to stay there. I, you know, yeah, exactly. Yeah, real quick, yeah, I was kind of like you guys, I saw the Astros lineup yesterday,

and I went, well, they're, you know, they're going for two of three. That's pretty good. I honestly have no idea how these guys keep doing it, just game after game after game. And yeah, it's rather impressive. But I had a question for you guys. I heard, and I know McTaggart talked about it a little bit last week, who all besides guys rehabbing is down at that Florida Complex League?

Is that where like a lot of the recent draft picks start before they go to Lake Fayetteville or Asheville or wherever they're going to go? like who all is down there that they send people doing that their games and all of that going on. And then Ross, come out to, I haven't seen you this year, come out to a Shell, come see me.

All right, I'll let you know. Yes, sir. Yeah, come out and see me. Sounds good. Sounds like he wants a date with you. No, that's okay. Brian gets a hookup. Brian, you got hookups at the old soccer game. Oh, now you're ready to go. Can you...

Matt, you come out and see me with your family. You let it hit me up on X. I will take care of you and your family. No, he hates soccer. Don't let him come. My son loves soccer. My oldest one does. So we will take you up.

Yeah, but Matt hates it. He's not going to come. Yeah, there's really no chance I'm coming. Thank you, Brian, for the phone call, though, however. Okay, so the answer on the Florida, it is a combination of new first round picks going to get, like, a spring training. It is primarily a place you would go to have people that have extended injuries. I know the last time I did an injury report, which would be yesterday, but it was even more two days ago. Jeremy Pena is there.

Arigetti's minors. Garcia's minors. Who else am I thinking about at this point? Myers is in Houston. Yordon went to Florida, but now is back with the team. For instance, I would assume that, you know, Blanco, once he's able to start doing something, sort of physical activity and Wesnowski would go to Florida to rehabilitate, if not it could real bit in their own town. But, you know, if the Astros want to keep an eye on and they would go to

Florida to do so. So it's kind of a hodge bodge to give you an answer on that. Okay. I mean, they're a worst place to go. I mean, it's hot as balls down there right now, but hot as, how could it be both cold as balls and hot as balls? I have never heard cold as balls. You've never heard that? Never heard it. Okay. Not when you were in Minneapolis? Oof. I don't know how I did it. I just don't get it. I just don't get. Why did I choose Minneapolis? Today's temperature. I remember going to go covering the Astros and the Twins in Spring Training. I live Fort Myers,

Florida. Okay, this is mid-March. 87 degrees. Polly, you know of them how Lepa gets out and goes, folks, good to have you. We'll just hear on the flight today. We're going to get you up to 35,000 feet, and have a nice smooth ride. We're going to find our way through Georgia, head up through Arkansas, and then head to a little more Midwest. Missouri, get up to Iowa, and then we'll get down to Minneapolis. It should be about two hours

and four minutes left in this ride. It should be a few bumps along the way, but generally speaking, going to get you there safely and as quickly as we can. Want to thank all the flight attendants for all their big help, and yeah. And I know that you... Computers are slow. It's not my phone. Computers are slow. Trying to kill it in here.

You know, we left at Fort Myers, 87 degrees, and we land out of Minneapolis, St. Paul International Airport to be minus 12. Thank you for flying RELTA Airlines, and have a good day. Thanks for all with us. Coming back, 1045 on 790. This is such a jam.

You're saying, why are you playing this? Hulk Hogan passing away today at the age of 71. I mean, if not for the Hulkster, and Vince McMahon, wrestling wouldn't be the multi-billion dollar industry that it is today. Did he save the league or just proliferate it? It went from a niche circus type.

He brought it into the mainstream. He brought it into mainstream. He brought it in the national television. Not him by himself, but most of it is him. I mean, it's just it. He is the most recognizable wrestler. in the history of wrestling. Doesn't mean he was the best. Doesn't mean he was the best worker or the best talker.

But if you were to go to a crowded bar and say, give me one wrestler's name, even today in 2025, Hulk Hogan's going to get near the top of the list. He's going to be near the top now, but I would say all time, he's one. But I don't know. You know better.

Yeah, yeah. All time name one wrestler. I think it's either him or Rick Flair. One of the two. Rick Flair has skirted death. I would have said Stone Cold Steve Austin. Dwayne the Rock Johnson. I mean, heavy hitters, for sure. And then John Cena.

That's my wrestling. So, thank you very much. And I'm pleasantly surprised you named five wrestlers. Because usually you just say old up and full of steroids. Well, yeah, that's what's going to. Speaking of Oak Hogan, may he rest? Yeah. I mean, a lot of you are sending me tweets and emails.

Thank you for that. Yeah. Wow. So here's the thing on Hohon, Kogan. There was a guy by the name of Bubba the Love Spunge. Does that name ring a bell to you? I've heard of him.

He does a show. He did a show while on series X-M or something, or a podcast. He went out a few months ago, a couple months ago, and said, Hulk's not doing well. Okay. On his deathbed, not, you know, and again, he said, the thing about, for those who don't know, Hulk has had a lot of post-career surgeries. And when Bubba, the Love Sponge speaks, you listen. So everybody in their mother, who was like Team Hulk, was like, Bubba doesn't know what he's talking about.

He's talking out of his ass. Oh, really? He should stop saying this. He's doing great. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's, I think Bubba's, you know, I think Bubba's call him for scoreboard here, but Bubba wasn't wrong. Mm-hmm. So, I would say it's crazy.

Hulk was insanely popular as an athlete, insanely popular as a sports entertainer for two different. organizations. And then gotten some issues with dropping the N-bomb, which just never going to win on that one. Multiple racism scandals. Yeah.

I think he's a racist P-O-S, but, you know, may he rest. Yeah. Did a, had a sex tape made unbeknownst to him with his best friend's wife. And he sued,

and he sued the company, and he won, but the company had no money, so he wasn't able to get, yeah. And then, most recently, you know, I've always told you this before,

and I've said this 100 times about our show. I don't think if I'm an athlete or I'm a celebrity, I would want to get involved in politics, because I don't want half people immediately to hate me. Like, I am proud of the fact, and I mean this in all sincerity, that we have Republicans and Democrats,

conservatives and liberals that listen to this show. Because we don't get into politics. No. So Hulk has got into politics. Oh, that's right. and automatically 50% of America thought he was a POS. Oh, I thought that before that. I don't know, but stay with me on this.

When he said he didn't want his daughter dating inwards, that's when I thought he was. I thought he was a POS then. So here's my point of this. He goes on, so within the last year, WWE puts their Monday Night Raw show on Netflix. And he comes out for the very first Netflix show. And he gets booed off the stage. Then there's booing because you're a heel bad guy.

Yeah. And then there's booing because they just don't like you. Yeah. And it kind of threw him off a little bit because for Hulk's career, when he was in character, in a wrestling ring and an arena, he was largely adored. So, you know, I don't know, I don't think I contributed to his passing, but his post-life, you would think you'd be able to kind of live. I mean, like, for instance, Rick Flair is a nut job too. and he certainly had his issues with tax evasion and wives and scams and all sorts of things. I mean, he's had his own, he's had his own extracurricular activities.

When Rick Flair would walk into a restaurant, people couldn't run to him fast enough because he was the nature boy. He was, you know, spilling drinks and all that kind of thing. Hulk never got that much of his, in the last 10 years. And on top of that, numerous injuries, numerous ailments. I don't know if prescription drugs gotten involved in. Again, we don't know. We will never, I guess we'll sometime know about the, if they have an autopsy.

But you add that all together, and it was probably not the best last five years of Hulk Hogan's life. Last time I think I saw Hulk Hogan was before that Netflix was when he was speaking at the Republican National Convention. And he looked fine to me there, obviously. But yeah, there are some things going on, and I'm sure we'll find out more. But Hulk Hogan, the most famous wrestler of all time.

I think it's very safe and saying of all time, passing away today at 71. Well, yeah. I'm just trying to be nice. I just wanted to put that out there. What? I'm still in shock that Matt called this when he said it happens in threes,

and it happened back to back. Oh, my gosh. Hold on. Ozzy was two days ago. What's the moratorium? I think three and five days is appropriate. That's crazy. Among them celebrities.

Yeah, I think, thank you, Jonathan. It's made up, Jonathan. It's absolutely right. Jonathan, it's absolutely right and thank you for making that good assessment. Well, what if somebody else famous dies tomorrow? They didn't happen in force. Well, no, we're out of that five-day window. Oh, okay, guy.

See, you close the window. It's arbitrary and made up. It's arbitrary and made up. It doesn't mean we can't discuss it. That's true. Doesn't mean that people don't say it. We discuss a lot of arbitrary and made-up things, like the strike zone. That's true. That's true. All right, 1058, Sports Talk 790.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Believe it or not today, a whole thing is Hulk Hogan. I would try to say with... Eight questions about his racism scandals. Do you want me to do it? I mean, if you don't want to do it. No, I'm doing it. Oh, okay.

I just let you know. Greatest he'll turn in wrestling history. Is that what they're calling it these days? No, not that. Oh, sorry. Step away from that. We're focusing on the career. Oh, I'm sorry.

713. I'll throw in a couple steroids questions. Clearly Ross not a fan of Hulk Hogan. Not that I'm... Look, when I was growing up, I wasn't a hoag. I was a fan of the NWA. I'd be honest, I totally forgot he was even at the RNC. Yeah. I was a fan of the NWA more so than WWF, because I thought the WWF was cartoonish and gimmicky.

But it wind up winning. And now it's worth, about the worth of value of the NFL. Two most powerful sports brands, Ross? WWE and NFL? What? What do you think? What? Tell me there's not two more valuable commodities out there. I'm going to guess revenues of the NBA and Major League Baseball are way higher than the WW.

But man, the WWE prints money like nobody's business now. Their overhead's probably a letter, less. I'll take your word for it. Revenue, I'll be curious to see where it is. 10.59. Let's get the second hour of the Matt Thomas show started after I tell you about Big City Wings. All right. So the topics on the show today, Rossi, in no particular order.

Your Astros own a share of the best. wreck in the American League. Is that a gut-feeling hit for Jonathan Allen, JK on this radio show? We gave you two weeks for that, did we not? Yeah, he said it was going to be one week, and we backed them off. See, I've done this to you before. Backed you off a gut feeling, and then it's been right.

Yeah. So you know what? Don't ever listen to me. Ever. I'm wrong too often. Can you clip that for future purposes? I knew you were going to say that. That needs to be a staple of the show.

Just let me tell you, hey, Jonathan, you write that down, clip it and we'll just randomly use it during the middle of shows. You have carte blanche to use it whenever you want to. Just that line right there. Oh, word. Okay. Tomorrow's, okay. Tomorrow's,

I mean, I'm not talking about Friday opens. I'm talking about like Monday through Friday 10 to 2. Oh, no, no, I hear you. All the time. So Jonathan got it. He said the Astros one of the best wreck in the American League. Now, they don't have it by themselves. So maybe there's a little bit of a technicality on this.

Yeah, because they're tired, right? Yeah, it's high. I think we can do, believe it or not, on things Hulk Hogan is simply lied about. Sorry, I was doing research. for believe it or not. He lied about an experience with a make-a-wish terminally ill child.

He lied about being scouted by MLB teams. He lied about hitting 700 in Little League Baseball. They have no record of him playing Little League Baseball. He lied about Elvis Presley being a big fan of his, despite Elvis having died two years before his debut.

He lied that the Rolling Stones and Metallica wanted him to play bass. For them? Wow. Have I ever interviewed Hulk Hogan, Jonathan? Yes or no? Yes.

That is correct. He also lied about size. Don't we all? Oh, seriously. All of us do, except Jonathan. He doesn't do it. Lie about size? Yeah.

Astros sweep the diamond backs yesterday. 7-13-21-2-5. Oh, man. This is going to be a good, believe it or not. This is going to be definitely a slant towards nothing he ever did in the ring. How can you lie about an experience with a terminally ill child through the Make a Wish Foundation? This dude's a scumbag. Let me tell you, remember our old producer Trey, who we loved dearly?

Yes. The last two texts he sent us are people who've died. He's obsessed with death and birthdays. Have you not noticed that? Ozzy Osbourne dead at 76. He sent that text. No, the one before that, scroll up. It was something else, too.

Oh, I got rid of it. Oh. Hulk Hogan died at 71. I don't like keeping texts around unless I Unless they're really relevant Mm-hmm What was it before? Don't do, mm-hmm

Jim Mersey Damn Jim Ursay May Oh, it happens in threes Jim Mersey and May Who is the third one Who are the other two with Jimersay Since it happens in threes

I don't remember Oh okay I'm sure it did Yeah Don't you make me go to the Who died on this day card Go ahead No I'm not doing

I'm busy Trying to entertain Houston Texas I got anti I got the hatred of Cole Cogan over here. All I did was read the facts. He lied that Elvis Presley was a fan of his

and he died before he debuted. Are you going to mention Rocky, is Roland Rocky? Thunderlips? Yeah. Are you going to bring up any of his movies? Whispy white hair and the skin of a hot dog. Are you going to bring up any of his movies?

Mr. Mom or something like that? Mr. Mom, I also think he was like a, not Shazam. That was Shaq. Who else? He said he was, he turned down the lead role in the the wrestler that went to Mickey Roark, but that was also a lie? Yeah, we're going to do, believe it or not, things that Holkogen said, were they true? Greatest, again, for those of you that are wrestling efficienauts, which I am one, greatest hill turn ever.

Yes. They created the NWO during WCW when he had been a... Did he have like a big rival that helped grow, or was it mostly him? No, he rivaled, his rivalries were included under the Giant. They put 90,000 people at the Silver Dome in WrestleMania 3. That's a myth, by the way, that 90,000 people were in there. I've heard. I got to be honest with you, if you look at the video of it,

there's 70, you put 75,000 in the stadium, and you can put another 15,000 on the floor. I'm just telling you. What is the real number they say? They say what it is. Look, people do embellish attendance counts. I'm just, I'm going off of what I've seen. It doesn't matter. Sorry, I shouldn't even.

Sometimes I just talk. We get him nodding. Sorry, go ahead. No, because I was, I don't know, I was trying to make a parallel. You know how kind of like how Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, their rivalry, kind of save the NBA. All right, so this, I would go, here are my Hulk Hogan top five rivalries. Andre the Giant, macho man savage, ultimate warrior, Rick Flair, although that was much later in both of their careers. Maybe Yokozuna.

I don't know that, brother. and of course he was an NWO where he turned heel after being a favorite for her face. I remember everybody at school going crazy about that. I was like, what are you nerds watching? So I asked him when I interviewed him back in 2008, I think is when it was. And I said, do you regret turning heel? Heal is meaning bad guy. Face being good guy, heel being.

I said, do you regret the heel turning? He goes, no, just the opposite. It completely resurrected and gave me a renaissance of my career. And he's absolutely right. Yeah. And he put on that shoe pol. his beard. Well, it was black. That's true. He called himself Hollywood. NW. for life. Bap, bough, bough, bough, bough, bough, bough, bough, bough, bough, I'm sorry. The 30-year-old is catching up with me here.

You know, it's a character flaw in mine. I get it. I used to like wrestling. No, it's fine. I don't like the current stuff much. It's a huge billion-dollar industry, Matt. It's great. Oh, he just texted. At least you're not cosplaying at WrestleMania. Let's see here Which is actually fine too He says I'm not here to judge

Adam Clayton just texted in a group chat of mine I am not well Oh man I'll fill that for you man But yeah So you know what When you see Adam Clemon today at 2 o'clock Because he won't be here a minute earlier

You should give him a big bro hug Mm-hmm I was like me just like Elvis I was a huge fan of Hulk Hogan That's what I'm gonna say You hear that Adam The Hatred for one hook Real name is

Terry Bollia Yeah, B-O-L-E-A. I think he said it. I kind of knew that. Okay. But I also have been reading his Wikipedia. There you go. Let's talk to Jerry and Golf Gate at 1110 on the Matt Thomas shows.

We segue into the people of reason for this show. Sports, Sports and more sports. Jerry. It's technically sports. It is kind of sports. Hi, Jerry. Man, you guys are fan dangtastic. Hey, fan.

I like to, man, I like to waste my beard when a hater threw that change up yesterday. I mean, I was happy that it was not, well, it just wasn't an attractive pitch, so the better didn't, he wasn't sitting on it. You're not going to sit on a change up with Josh Hader up there. But, boy, he called me off God. I didn't know he had that pitch. But I agree with the previous caller, man. What do you think? You guys, I'm excited about the upcoming season and listening to you, M.T.

Because, boy, that boy, Durrance got that Levinsky fade away that he takes. And he's got another shot that Art Ekman used to call a corkscrew jumper, you know, where you kind of do that spin. It's just really basically a fade, you know, a turnaround jumper, really for the most part. but I noticed you was you threw in nothing but nylon here that that spiced it up a little bit in the last last season so I'm like that previous caller and a lot of other listeners we're looking forward to to to you calling one quick thing uh Ross now now now now a home boy don't like Rod Stewart I guess you know but but but but but he wouldn't like Jaru either would he mean with the raspy voice we're gonna be one I'm a baby Thank you Thank you Jerry

Yeah Thanks Jerry I love Jerry's call All over the damn place Yeah he was I've been saying nothing By Nylon for nine seasons Thanks for listen Jerry

You just snort Yeah You're gonna be saying I'm gonna argue That Kevin Durant Is at minimum The third best shooter To ever walk the planet

You're gonna be saying A lot of nothing but Nylons Okay Steph is one. I'll put the top four and then you order them however you want. To me. Okay, go for it. Steph, Clay, Durant, Alan.

Steph, Allen, Durant, Clay. We know who number one is. To me, you can shuffle the other three. Clay has dropped off a little bit in the last three years. I think that's... Yeah, well, he's like, he's old. But I mean, longevity does go under. And Duran is old, too.

Yeah, but Duran hasn't dropped that much. Yeah, but he's also seven foot with the wingspan of a pteradicle. And again, I'm not trying to be pace or radio here, but you... Reggie's not... You never bring up Reggie. I'm curious. Why? Because.

Is it volume? Because of most of everything in his... First of all, you look at his percentages. It's not the same, but also it was a different game. But he also didn't... One of the reasons Steph is the greatest shooter of all time is because of the contested under duress threes that he made. And that to say that there's not a whole, you know,

a boatload of Reggie Miller contested threes made. But he didn't create his own shots off the dribble. And he had to come around. like 50 curls to get open. So I just feel like you could have two people, if there's going to be two people draped off somebody and they're going to make the shot, that's the reason I put Kevin Durant to me second.

And the same thing with Steph Curry. The amount of times you say, oh my God, how did that go in? Unbelievable. Steph Curry's won. And then I think Kevin Durant's right up there because of contested shots. like that's why I don't put you know like a Steve Kerr or I don't know think of whoever else I don't know Brent Barry guys with really high three point shooting because a lot of times they're just open in the corner Tim Legler

Tim Legler sure whoever um and you know what maybe you can even downgrade Ray Allen a little bit because later in his career he was like that early Ray Allen was I mean he was a baller but late Ray Allen was kind of just open in the corner yeah most famously in game six of the 2013 finals um so because of their ability to make contested threes. And I put Clay up there as well. Yeah. To me, of all the guys, we're going to get to break. The guy that makes the, how did the hell do that go in more than anybody else? Steph Curry. Still.

And he could score nine points a game for the rest of his career. And I'm still going to say to him about him, how the hell did that get in? How many times you've been on the call and you go, oh my goodness. Like, you're just like incredulous. That's why I don't like calling Rockets Warriors games. I know. That's why when I was like, bring all the warriors, like, no, I don't want the warriors. To me, making the contested shots count, that's why I have Kevin Durant in the top three.

713-212-5-790. I just don't get it coming up at the bottom of the hour. I just don't get it. Let us know what you don't get coming up in 15 minutes. It's the Matt Thomas Show, Ross, this is Sports Talk 790. 1120 is a time. Should I text wax if he'll join us at some point? All right.

You promote something important. Not name your IG account. Guess what? My Instagram at SportsRV, I mean, it is growing. I meant to do a video yesterday, but I forgot I'm falling off. I'm trying to get back on there and do better folks. So I really would appreciate it if you would follow me at SportsRV on Instagram. We have all these new influencer initiatives here at IHeartMedia, and I'm trying to build these things up.

I'm really not a big fan of social media, but it would really help me out if you give us a follow. And, you know, I'd even just drop a like on the occasional post. I'd really appreciate it. Well, I don't necessarily worry about the social initiative. I think you just follow me because it'll make your day better. At SportsMT. At SportsMT to feel better. Okay.

If you want to go to my Twitter and drop another like, we're over 4,300 on my meme. What? That's way too many. Way too many. Thank you. Not that funny. I appreciate you. All right.

Honestly, I thought it was rather innocuous. I'm like, what? But you know how that happens on Twitter. You make like 50 jokes that you think are hilarious and the one you're like, this is fine. I'll hit post. And then that's the one that blows up. By the way, you know what I did yesterday?

And I got issues for a variety of things. Oh, we know. We've heard the show. The match game is back on ABC. Oh, yes. And I went to the Match Game Facebook page, the one of the ABC put together. And I basically said I needed to be the host of the show. You crushed them on Match Game?

Who's hosting it now? Martin's Short. He's like 80. Well, he's like mid-70. Yeah. I watched half an episode yesterday. It was atrociously bad. First of all, there were no celebrities worth. The biggest celebrity on there

was probably Anthony Anderson and Kevin Neeland. Kevin Nealyn hasn't done Jack Squad in 35 years. He's probably going to be in Happy Gilmore 2. I think he is actually. Okay. But before that, it was Happy Gilmore 1 in 97. I didn't recognize 80% of the list celebrities. Second of all, Martin Short, it was all scripted.

Number three, if you host the match game, part of the legacy of hosting match game is having the microphone in your hand. The long stick microphone that Gene Rayburn did. It's an O2. And he had no microphone at all. The questions were bad. The celebrities were bad. Okay. It was just a train wreck.

So I went back to the Facebook page and I said, your show sucks. Really? Because that's, because that's going to work? Well, I didn't work yet. They didn't call. You know what? Yeah, I need to figure this out. I know I just don't get it is coming up

But it is But you're on this I'm pretty sure you're on the same page We've talked about this before Martin's short I just don't get Not funny to me Painfully unfunny

Painfully scripted Painfully I mean String He was cringe before the kids Were saying cringe Yeah he was pre-cringe But the show sucked yesterday

And there are very few things in my life That I believe that should be this is weird the game show should be but if you're going to do something and reboot something it needs to be as it needs to do everything impossible to be as good as it was before or not don't just don't reboot it

now I will say your complaints about the celebrities and the questions and the hosts are valid but complaining about the microphone is definitely game show nerd a very game show nerd of you 1,000% fully admit that but when I went on the Facebook page

two days ago before the show came I said I would do a better job I know how to I know how to add lib I know how to introduce the guest. I know how to read the question with the right phrasing. Everything sucked about the show yesterday. I didn't watch. Just don't watch, Matt.

I'm not. I took it off the DVR season pass. Was it the first episode you watched? It was a season premiere. Oh, you're out at the premiere? Yeah. Maybe it was like a trial run, Matt. Maybe it was a rehearsal kind of deal.

It'll get better. Kevin Nealon will get funnier. Just not good. Just really, really embarrassed. That great show that had such a good. a nine-year run, he's got all these new versions that all of them suck.

Even Alec Baldwin was better than Martin Short, I just don't get. Alec Baldwin was on there? Yeah. And then he shot somebody and then he took him off the show. See, I wasn't going to say that. Well, I mean, he did shoot him.

Didn't mean to. Got, got, uh, no criminal activity against it. I would kind of stay in the shadows for a whole while. I mean, I know it was a stage accident, but whoo! It'd be a hard one to live through for sure. Yeah.

I might want to just lay low for a while. Find a safe house. So we've been on the air for an hour 23. We've discussed Hulk Hogan match game a little on the Astros because the game the game was yesterday it was at 240 so it's not necessarily top of mind

for people. All I'm telling you top of mind is your Astros are in first place. And Ross, even if the Astros just win the division don't finish the top record, does not Joe, I mean, maybe I'm being too homer here. No, he deserves it. What do you mean?

I don't know how many tigers are on their IL? Every team's got them. It ain't 17. Yeah. I don't know how many Blue Jays and Yankees are on the IL. It ain't 17. It's a team that also lost one incredible player, All-Star Gold Glover, DeFrey agency,

and they traded one. Now, that shouldn't come into play, but they did have to trade it because... But that's also something a spot has to work for. It's what a spot I had to do, and that's the definition of manager the year. you take the 26 or 40 players of the Astros had this year and you manage them. And if you do it better than everybody else, you should be the manager of the year.

Agreed. And I think he deserves the opportunity to be at least top two, if not win the whole thing. Yeah, I'm consistent that the players are really the ones that make them make the games, but they have to be put in positions to succeed. And Joe Spotted does a great job of that. Yeah. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

Now, I feel like the first 90 minutes of the show has been nothing but I just don't get. There's got to be some other things that you have, that are on your mind. If there's something in your life you just don't get, we're here to help you. Now we've got three different perspectives on this. One, a ridiculous, successful family man, host, radio star.

Two, a fledgling young man trying to get in the industry. And three, Ross. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-2. 16 years in his business, pal. Yeah, that's right. I know. Yeah, I'm shocked, too.

About 14 more than I thought I had you at. Same. 713, 212 5790. 7132-1-2-5-790. If you want to follow us on Twitter, it's at SportsMT. But again, we're looking for people that have issues in your life you need help with. We're here to help you because you just don't get it. 1127 on 790.

1133 on Sports Talk 790. It is this week's edition of I just don't get it. You call it with an issue? Yes. That you simply say to yourself when you're with your bros or your gal or whomever. Or your hose? I just don't get it. Yeah. Or your hose. That's fine. I just don't get it.

So we're here from our three perspectives. And I think we've done a very good job of basically analyzing people's lives and giving them relevant answers. Unbelievable. And Ross. We need to bring back life advice with them to you. That was always good. I'm here for it. I've lived a lot of things in my life. That's true. Bad, ugly.

You've seen a lot. I have. Cities, towns, countries. I make a couple countries. All right, Ross. Yes, Matt. You had something you wrote down the other day. What don't you get?

I'm glad you asked, Matt. First of all, yes, I did want to reiterate Martin Short. What the hell? I just don't get it. I don't get it either. But also... 713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-19.

If something in life you just don't get we're here to help you. Mm-hmm. Go ahead. Now, I've been seeing this pop up. I don't know, the last few months. Apparently it's been becoming a thing the last year or two. And I don't understand it. Players before baseball games...

are doing national anthem standoffs where they stand on the line for as long as possible and there's a representative from each team and whoever leaves first loses. Why? How? Why can't they just, can they stay there forever? What if this standoff goes for an hour? Are they going to get like find or suspended by Major League Baseball? How did this become a thing?

Why is this a thing? I understand it's just fun and they're having some fun and that's fine. get off my lawn. I don't want to be like that. But at some point, like, if I'm at the game, I don't want to see two dudes standing there in a standoff staring at each other. Like, let's, let's get the first pitch, folks. Let's go. I've got some news for in this. Number one, it's obviously team bit versus team bit. And I guess Julian Morales would be better to answer this question than I would. I need somebody to fill me in. But ultimately, it doesn't really delay the game at all. because the umpires are to go out there and say get off the field

it's so inside baseball that I don't think the average person trying to get to their seat to sit down and watch the game is paying attention to it these are going viral though I think they are I mean I've been seeing it more and more and more there's nothing entertaining about it I don't laugh at it and if you hear people laughing about it it's because they don't they're trying to be bros of the front with the team they're standing there staring at each other awkward media laugh

you know much I hate awkward media laugh I mean they just stand there and how does, I don't know. I don't know. I just don't get it. Yeah, I don't get it either. It makes no sense. It's not entertaining.

It doesn't add to the pregame festivities. Now, if it starts getting more games are delayed five, six minutes, guess who's going to come down? Majority Baseball has been like, if you guys cannot get off the field fast enough, we won't let you out of the dug out for the National Anthem anyway. Yeah, a lot of time they're doing it. Like, they're doing it when the pitcher is warming up. What about when the pitcher's done warming up? Yeah, my timeline is full of Hulk Hogan stuff right now, so I can't give you any answer on this.

But all I'm telling you is that it doesn't make any sense. It's, I think it's stupid bros being bros in baseball games and are bored. Yeah, baseball is a bros more than any of the sport. Oh my God, it's so bro. And it's so kangaroo court. And it's so, you know, the clubhouse, you're not one of us. Yeah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You get your first win.

We're going to pour mayonnaise on you in the shower or whatever. Weird stuff like that. They do pour strange things on them during there. Oh, that's so weird. Yeah. and yeah like who finds big vats of mayonnaise available

to throw gone men's stuff in the shower I don't know all right it's just a very bro sport shout out Brian Lou Lima yeah I mean the shoe fits all right

Jonathan you're up next what don't you get so just I grew up playing baseball since I was seven to like 14, quit it because I was trying to do football and baseball. My mom wasn't going to take me to any of those practices. But what I just don't understand about now, I guess I didn't really notice when I was younger,

is what I don't understand these select ball and travel ball teams that go to like different countries to go take their kids to go play. I think that's the most waste of money and you're not getting any competition you wouldn't be getting if you don't go down the street with the ballparks and keeping the same league there. I don't understand why are you going to these big things and these big national things and have this cashé

or like, oh, your kid pay $5,000 and you go here for a baseball team when it's, I don't think he needs all that. I don't understand. Well, I'm here to tell you, I totally get it. I'm here to inform you young man because you're going to, if you ever have, get married and have kids,

you'll be doing the exact same thing. Clubball is a way of life. And this is in basketball. This is in football. I don't know if it's football, but it's certainly in basketball, volleyball, softball, and baseball. You play in these tournaments because you want to play high-end competition.

You cannot grab your local team, go down the street, and expect to play the similar type of competition that you would play in clubball. You just wouldn't. Now, you can have different clubs within the city that play each other, and you do that all the time, but you go to these tournaments because you want to play for qualifiers, a chance to win a national championship, and you have to earn your bid. And that's the reason why you travel to all these different places. Now, in volleyball, they don't go out of the country, but my daughter in the last five years has been to, too, places like Salt Lake City, Minneapolis. She has been to Chicago multiple times, Dallas, Indianapolis multiple times, Philadelphia, Orlando. It is a thing. It is to do your defense. It is a scam because they are spending crazy amounts of money on these club teams, but it's a necessary evil because these club teams,

if you have a really good player in your club team, the colleges will fly to these clubs, these tournaments, and watch your kid play and watch 40 other kids play as compared to going to 40 different plays. to watch a game being played. So it's a chance for college coaches to see a bunch of kids in one central location in a short period of time. Okay, okay, okay, all right.

Yeah, okay, all right. Yeah, okay. And money. It's money related. It's a money grab. It's a straight up racket. That's, I mean, you have said that mad. Other people have said that the amount of money this stuff costs, it's a racket.

Yeah, I mean, I don't mean to brag. I'm just being real with y'all. Probably Carly cost me a year in close. club between club fees, travel, practices, private lessons. This doesn't sound like a brag at all. It's not a brag. It's just reality. It's probably $15,000 a year.

Yeah. No, yeah. And the only reason I do that because my girl played volleyball at college and I didn't know it was that, you know, that intense. Yeah. You know, okay. So that's why I've given the advice that if your kids really want to play at the next level, you have to play club.

But if that. they don't want to play the next level, then you probably should back out a club because it's going to be a lot of money that you're going to waste for your mom and dad for no payoff. Playing club is fun because you're playing higher level competition, but I would think part of playing club is because you want college coaches to see you. And thankfully, many coaches got to see my daughter and she made the decision to go play at the University of Rhode Island coming up in 2006. And that will be paid for, but not really, because I've already paid.

I've already paid well in advance. The money I would have spent on her college, I've already spent on the club scene. And this is the same for anybody that's got sons that are playing club baseball and, you know, and softball and all that kind of thing. It's not just in bat. I mean, the A.U racket is just terrible too. Yes. So. Almost like an investment for college, right?

That's right. It's an investment for some, but I think it's just a money pit for a lot. And a racket. Well, it's a money pit for a lot because one percent of kids, or I think two percent of kids that play club sports at least in volleyball, play division one volleyball. I mean, my daughter's in a two percentile. that's that's microscopic number of small kids that get to do it's crazy so i do get it uh 713 212 5 790 if you've got something in your mind you just don't get 713 212 570 i don't get i'm martin short i already told you that um i don't get the reboots because every time

something is rebooted it's never as good as the first go-around let me give you some case and points Will and Grace was a very funny show in the 1990s. They brought it back? They rebooted it. When? It wasn't about five years ago. It wasn't nearly as good. They rebooted Frazier and put it on the Paramount Channel.

It wasn't as good. They rebooted Beverly Hills Cop for the latest version five years ago. That wasn't very good. They rebooted coming to America and that got panned. My guess is Happy Gilmore 2 is not going to be anything close to as good as Happy Gilmore 1 was. they're putting, you know, if you're a movie company, if you're a recording studio, if you're a anything that is in charge of producing quality entertainment, be very careful about your reboots because more times a night,

you're wasting your money and your time and you're pissing off the audience that loved your original production. Match game was classic, Rossi. They've rebooted it multiple times, and this latest version absolutely blows. So I say to those of you that are rebooters, I just don't get you. very simple Matt money money they've run out of original material

if these don't well I think a lot because a lot of the let's be honest here the country's going on the toilet and America has a nostalgia fetish I have a nostalgia finish

everything better than it used to be everything yeah you talk about Ferris Bueller's Day and not talking about you Matt me too I mean I'm going to watch Happy Gilmore too I always say things are better than they were because they were

Countries going in the toilet There's like multiple wars going on All this strife We want something nice and fuzzy It's basically like that South Park episode Mimberberries We just all want to eat a bunch of

member berries And remember how things were When we were kids When things were better and simpler And it's nostalgia It's very comforting And soothing for us And I do that

It reminds us of better simpler times And there was less going on The less we knew about It's just yeah America has a nostalgia fetish. I'll leave it at that. But the nostalgia fetish you would think would just pick up where you left off. Now they're trying to...

Like, I don't want Anchorman... If these things weren't making money, they wouldn't do it. I don't want Anchorman 3. Two was disappointing. I don't need three. Hollywood does not need new ideas if the old ideas keep making money. How many Superman just came out? How many Superman movies have there been?

There have been a lot of Batman movies, too. 700 Batman movies. You know what it is? Also, too, it's probably very difficult to take a completely new original idea and sell it to a movie company. Yeah. Yeah, because they have to say some of money and they don't want to take risks. Movie companies, especially now, fewer people going to the theaters,

they can't afford bombs. They want sure things. So they want big summer blockbusters and they want rehashed ideas that they're feeling more safe. But Netflix has a good job to put new stuff out. A lot of people have talked about how they don't well, I mean, some what do they have, the Irishman with Martin Scorsese, I'm sure maybe there's some other stuff.

But for the most part, they don't want to take risks. I just, if you're a rebooter, just reboot it to what I liked, not this disappointment. I mean, I just feel like I've never come away

and going, oh my gosh, coming to America and two was better than coming. Well, because the reviews were so bad. They were really bad. I didn't even watch it.

That's my dad's favorite movie too. How many to America One was great. So good. McDowles? It's a staple. And the Jerry Curl or Jerry Froe, whatever? Yes.

Oh, God. Eric LeBlancor? Oh, it's fantastic. Samuel L. Jackson, Robin McDowell's with a shotgun. Arsenio Hall, Louis Anderson, just plain funny. 1144. Matt Thomas Show at Ross. Is there something you don't get? Let us know. 713-212-5-790. The news at noon will feature news about the Astros and a wrestling goat passing away.

That's 15 minutes away on 790. As I've said to you many times, deaths happen. and fours. Chuck Mangione. Uh-huh. It's like Ross called this one, though. You called Chuck Mangione's death? I was like,

threes is made up. What if somebody else dies in the next day? Well, I said tomorrow. Three in the last 36 hours. All right. Stop. Hold on. You said five days with a cutoff.

Now it's 36 hours? In this particular case, it is. It's made up an arbitrary. Chuck Mangioni. How would you describe it? him. This was, this was, this was played on radio stations. Elevator jazz? No.

Hot AC? It was on top 40. Adult contemporary? It was on top 40 shows. Yeah, but it's not like he had like 10 hits. Yeah, I mean, you don't sing. It doesn't, it doesn't help the cause. Hold on. It's kind of a jam. It is a jam. Listen to it. Yeah, it's just like when you're going to the dentist. Oh, no, you don't play this as a dentist. Well, you're waiting in the, uh, in the waiting room for your STI test results.

STI. St.I. Oh, forget when I. We've been that. haven't we all? Are you on hold? When do you hear this? You don't hear this at the dentist office. It's too abate.

Chlamydia, negative. Donorrhea. Negative. E. coli, positive. Herpes, simplex A. Herpes simplex B. Hap B. Do you think they dance at this in the clubs?

Nobody's dancing to this in any club. No. I'm talking about in 1978. No. I don't know. I would disagree with you. Well, I didn't know it had this killer guitar solo. I didn't know.

I've honestly never listened. I've honestly never listened to this song more than 30 seconds. Hold on. Hold on. Crank this up, actually. This was a top 10 song. I'm not kidding you. Yo, this guy's getting down.

I'm actually really trying to figure out where you would hear this at. Where would you hear? Would you hear this? You wouldn't hear it at a workout facility as you're wanting to. Number two hit, by the way, Matt. I thought that's even better, yeah. Number two. Maybe you hear it around a music order, maybe?

I'm sorry, the album hit number two. Oh, you know what? You hear this before your movie starts. Yeah, that works. In the movie theater. Ah, okay, okay, okay. It was, this was nominated for Record of the Year. Lost to Just the Way You Are.

I won Billy Joel. By the way, I've recorded the documentary. I can't wait to get home and watch that. Watch it over a dumb-ass match game. Oh, yeah, it was a number four hit. The album was a number two behind staying alive. the Beegis. Yo, he's hanging up there with the Bejys in 79.

Chuck Mangione, legend. 84, good life. May he rest? Yep. So, all right, so let's be honest. We have, it happens in threes. We got Mangioni. Oh, shut up.

Hulk Hogan, check. Who's next? Hold on. There's four. Who else was there? Well, there was, all the other, there's been four. There's Malcolm Jamal Warner. There has been Ozzy Osbourne.

I think the rule is three over the age of 70. Oh, yes. Stop. It's a weather channel music. That's like a perfect. That's pretty good. Oh, the forecast? I think it's just hold music.

Now, kids don't know about the hold music, but do you get put on hold? You know what? I was on hold with a bank dinner day, and it was not nearly as cheery as that. I was on hold for 90 minutes with, you know, I'm going to say their name, Xfinity, and then they hung up on me. You know, is that because the timer got you knocked off? I thought you were getting rid of them. And I'm going to have to call them crawling back. I think they knew that.

Friggin' monopolies. Don't get me started. Buddy Matt from the Astros. Pier 23, San Francisco, Chuck Mangione, Heaven. Matt loves him some Chuck Mangione. Chuck Manjone could play. Dude, that was a hit. I didn't know they had that funky guitar solo.

Also, I didn't know the album version. It's nine minutes. I'm going to cranking that on the way home. Jonathan, if we're not dancing to this song, are we making sweet love to this song? No. It's too casual. I felt like that.

That's when you sit your son down in an intervention. With this song in the background? I don't know about that. your drug use has affected me in the following ways. I swear to God we're a sports show. I really do. But we're not piping. Folks, it's July 24th.

It's July 24th. Your aster's kicking asses are kicking ass. I mean, we can do... Texans training. How is it going to join us in 25 minutes? Okay, good. How is the Texans' offensive line configured today? It was interesting to me that Arionte Ursulae was the right tackle and Noblich Fisher.

I mean, we do need to... It is going to be an absolute storyline for us all season long is who's moving around. And is juice Grug's going to be the center or not to be the center? I mean, he was the second round pick, right? Yes.

And if he's moving around, that means he doesn't have a spot. People are like, they need to draft offensive line. They have been, because Arios picks have it been very good. Can I give you the most hot takey thing I can give you at 1156? When we come back? No, no, I won't throw it out. Come on. You got a tease ahead.

What the f? But it's a good discussion. I almost cursed. We have a news at noon. coming up. Plus, we're going to play Chuck Mangione behind Astro highlights, or are we going to go with... Well, you didn't want Drake. You said it sucked.

Yeah, it sucked. So I'd see, and I said, oh, because it was after 1990. And here we go. We're going to 1979 Chuck Mangione. Let's do it. Give him the second most popular Chuck Mangione song. What is the Chuck Mangione song that's getting people fired up? I don't know.

We're honoring the dude. He barely has any... He's got to have a second hit, right? I think so. I don't know what it is. All you got. Yeah Something's in the

There's another one in the system Okay We're gonna play that with Astro highlights It's gonna be a good game Oh he was in Art Blakely's band Is the Matt Thomas show With Ross

You go walk in the grocery store aisles in this song I could do that, yeah This is a little funky Chuck Mangione I was now familiar with your game I have to apologize I've always been team Mangioni Hey Chucka Mangione

I'm playing this in the car after. Yo, I'm actually going to listen to some Chuck Mangione the way home. Will you make sweet love to Chuck Mangione this week, Jonathan? Will you stop? Most definitely. This is a vibe. This is a vibe. Yeah, yeah.

This is when you know what? This is when you walk into the jazz bar before the live music shows up. This is playing in the background. No, I want to hear this. Dude, I got to get these nine-minute album versions. I love stuff. You know, I love stuff like that. I know you do.

You see it. You see in this house playing, imagine? As they called the 12-inch mix, Matt. Do you do love a 12-inch mix? 12-05. Sports Talk 7-90. Let's get to the news at noon. Wait, can we just keep this up?

Quick that back. I want to do the news at noon to Chuck Mangioni. You know what? He died. Let's give him his respect. Turn us down. I might throw a little, yeah, so I don't have to hate on Terry Belia so much. I might throw a couple of Chuck Mangione.

Yeah. Well, hey there, Matt. Appreciate you having you have to be. Time out for the news at noon, where deaths happened in three. We've had two so far. Hulk Hogan pro wrestling legend Say what you will about is checkered pass One of the most important figures in WWE history

If not number one Has passed at the age of 71 How about this opening of the AP report? Hulk Hogan, the mustachioed headscarf wearing icon of the world of professional wrestling has died at the age of 71. Florida Police and WWE said Thursday.

As you mentioned, Matt, a huge figure in the 80s and 90s. I remember even as a kid who wasn't into wrestling, like other friends that I knew, okay, friend that I knew in middle school, talking about how huge it was

that he had turned heel. Like, it made waves at my school. I think it was middle school. I had to find, I guess, with the year. Do you know the year of the heel turn? Gotta be about 96, I want to say, somewhere that range? Yeah, so I'm going to say I was in middle school. I remember it like people coming to school the next day talking about it.

So, yeah, a huge figure in the history of wrestling. Also caught several times making ridiculous racist comments on tape. Also made a lot of false claims like Elvis was a friend of his and made a false claim about meeting an ill child for the Make a Wish Foundation. Yeah, I mean, definitely some issues post-career, but in career, the greatest. No, no, no, but I mean, his blemages are low. I also got a $115 million judgment from Gawker because they released the sex tape of him. You didn't know about it. With Bubba the Love Spunge's wife.

Do you think Bubba set him up for that? Apparently Bubba on the tape was heard saying to his wife when it was over, if we ever need a retirement, we have this or something like that. Oh, my God. And Bubba was one telling the whole world he was dying and people were like, no, he's doing just fine. Apparently cardiac arrest is the cause of death. I mean, he admitted under oath to have being in the 90s when Vince McMahon was on trial for, I guess, providing steroids or something like that. He admitted under oath that he had been using steroids since 1976. That was in the 90s.

Yeah. So I mean, the body was beaten. Yeah. Numerous back surgeries, neck, all. sorts of thing. I mean, with the wearing Terry upon his body and the things he did in the gym, 71's a blessing, frankly.

Yes, somebody's saying, tell you that the death three was Malcolm Jamal Warner. But we knew that. So there's been four recently. Was the other one? But two today. Okay. Oh, sorry, Matt. Let's keep moving on the news at noon.

The other death today, Chuck Mangione. coming to prominence I did not know he was an art I know Art Blakely that's great band great band leader and then of course made his own hits including whatever the hell this is give it all you got

which is quite frankly a jam Darren I was teasing we knew death came in three yeah Matt Darren you're about half hour late but that's thank you anyway yeah people can't always listen Matt well they need to

prolific recordings for Riverside Jazzland Mercury Records and more. Chuck Mangione. Passing today at the age of 84. 84. May he rest. May his music always be a part.

I'm going to be honest. A serious XM channel. The first time I really ever heard of him was on King of the Hill. Hmm. First time I ever heard him was on Casey Kaysman's weekly top 40. Like, why is this instrumental in between BG songs? I love instrumentals. Last instrumental.

Last. Instrumental to be a hit. Like a top five hit? Harlem Shake. Really? I was going to go with Chariots of Fire. Chariots of Fire was a hit. I think Hideaway by Freddie King.

I think some Henry Mancini. I don't know if it was Baby Elephant Walk or Big Panther theme or something like that. We can go to there's a list. Oh, I have several instrumentals. Breezing by, don't even say it. Don't even say it. Breazin by George Benson. Just restrain yourself.

Try not to get angry this segment. Sounds of Philadelphia. for you? Yeah. Okay, anyways. Astros sweat the Arizona Diamond Pass yesterday. Brandon Walter, look, and you know what, can we talk about this? Brandon Walter threw seven innings of one-run ball.

Benitz-Suzer comes in, literally blows the game, gives up two runs in an inning, and gets the win, because Josh Hader saved it. After the Astros got a run in the ninth, I mean, of all the runs that were scratched across, scratched across a run.

And people ask me, can you change the rules? I guess you could, but it would be very convoluted. You can't skip over somebody. Doesn't the score have a judgment anyways? On a save, he does. No, I thought there was rules for saves, like if it's three innings or whatever. I'm talking about, let's say somehow Brandon Walter was out in the fifth, and then two guys came in and threw scoreless innings in relief.

doesn't the score judge who gets the win? You know what? I thought it was who takes the lead when the pitcher was last pitch. Right. But you know what? I have a friend of mine who's an official score. I think it is a judgment call sometimes. Like, let's say McCuller starts, he throws four inings,

but the Astros are up 10 to 1. But he can't qualify for a win because he didn't throw 4. So then let's say three guys come in or whatever, however many guys come in. They have to judge who gets the win. Right. So there is a judgment call. How many pitchers pitch yesterday? Three.

Walter sues a hater. Okay, Walter can't win it. He should. Because he didn't have the lead. I know. Okay. Change the rules. You can't give somebody a win and a save.

Yeah, but you shouldn't give it to the guy who came in and wet the bed. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. It's a cork in the rules that doesn't sound great. I get it. I understand. So we allow a judgment call sometimes. Why don't we allow a judgment call every time?

Yeah, the only time you do a judgment call is that that starting pitchers, doesn't go four in a five innings. You get the win in my eyes, even though you're one and three. You know what Brandon Walter gets to do? Stay in the rotation. And he's like, Lance McCullors, sit down, work on that blister years.

We'll see you in September. He should get a dub. Well, Ryan Gustle gets a hard win and then you don't give him any of this love. Oh my God. Brandon Walter has an ERA of 335. What's Ryan Gustos? What's his win?

He's not even started. Win loss. I don't know. Windsor's dumb. Like I just said, Brian Brandon Walthor's only got one. He threw seven in a one run ball. I didn't know we had the gusto

fan club back here. Well, he just noticed your hate for him. He was trying to equal it out a little bit. By the way, we were talking to listeners out at Carbock, and one of them said, Jonathan, you're very funny and good. Oh, I appreciate him. Yeah, clearly his mother or his father. Clearly, he was drunk.

So what is Ryan Gusto? Ryan Gusto is 6 and 3. Ernie? With a 446. That's not terrible. Yeah, for being a swing guy? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's not bad at all.

All right. It's been good. Let's check in. The R.A. Plus of 91, averages 100. That's not great. Let's check in on the Texans. You want to? We're going to call Wax.

And by the way, Jonathan, you have his number now, so we're calling him. So there's no confusion. Wax joins us next here. He just was at Texan's training camp for an update on what's going on there. Today at 150, it's believe it or not, Hulk Hogan and a couple of Czech Mangione's sliding in there. Is that what you decided or are you going to start working on it? We're going to slide in some Mangioni. Okay.

Because I don't want to be too negative one. You don't have to be negative on Hullf. There's plenty of positives on Hock. It's going to be difficult to restrain myself. 12, 13. on Sports Talk 790. It's our friend Adam Wexler, part of the A team, which you'll hear and enjoy today from 2 o'clock until 6 on Sports Talk 790. Wex, let's get right to it.

Day number two of camp, day of two of many coming up. And it feels like I was looking at your tweets the last hour or so. And it feels like to me, a lot of shuffling on the offensive line. Is this, I got to find a combination that works or I'm just trying out different combinations. Wex? Hmm. I don't hear him. You hear nothing.

All right. Maybe we'll try to reconnect with him. Okay. Maybe he's... All right, let's try this. Hi, Wex. Are you there? Yeah, I'm here.

I heard your question. How about I just answer it? Please. All the moves they've made this offseason with the offensive line. I think one thing was clear then, and I would say there are many camps and two days of training camp. It's true now. There are no definitive starters of tackle.

Everybody who's here that can play tackle essentially has gotten opportunities, whether it's rotating first and second team, rotating right side to left side. That is what is clear. They don't have clear and obvious talent above and beyond the other players they're competing with. So Cam Robinson or Tay Urshry, probably you're starting left tackle, Blake Fisher or Tay Ursery, and maybe Trent Brown, if he gets off the puff list, he was working off the side today. But it's a competition. So they're going to be changing spots throughout these first few days. It'll be interesting to see what they do when they get to West Virginia in front of that first preseason game against the Vikings. And then the interior portion of the line, Jared Patterson or Jake Andrews, Patterson probably got a few more of the reps today and yesterday, but it's padless, not real camp for O. Lineman when that's the case.

The only thing we know for sure, Titus Howard is not a tackle unless injuries dictate it. He will be their starter at guard where he's been throughout the late portion of last year and the early portion of this. year. And he did say something that I hope is true that they were, they have to push people around this year. They need to run the ball. They need to get after people. They need to do the things that they let other teams do to them last year. And that's the mentality that they have, all the stuff that I know you Matt hate to hear in the offseason because it doesn't mean anything. Yeah, but I mean, it's still conversation pieces. I look, I would think that 75% of Texans fans don't particularly care who's up in front of the offensive line as long as somebody

it works. Laramie Tunsell was the most recognizable name last year. You brought up a bunch of new names in the draft picks. One name you did not bring up was JuS Scruggs. He's played a lot. I wouldn't say it's been exemplary career. He's also had a variety of injuries. Why don't you mention his name so far? I doubt he will be playing for this team. It's possible he makes the team, but he's not the first or second string center. He's maybe one of the reserve guards. He's getting work probably as third team center and as a reserve guard. But he's absolutely in competition just to simply make the team and a guy that might not be active on game day if he does and it's unfortunate he was the first of three consecutive seasons of second round picks scrugs fishery and then this year

with ursary um i think the talent for scrugs and fisher is being played out in that they keep trying to find players to play in front of them let me ask you this a big picture question this is a debate point that ross and i could have if this offensive line plays to what people think it's going to be, whether it's pro football focus or NFL.com or any of those goofy websites. And they are bottom five in the league again. Does Nick shut the door

and go, what am I doing wrong? What are my scouts doing wrong? Because this will be if it indeed plays up to what people think it's going to be. This will be the third straight year of a below average to potentially bottom three offensive line. Yeah, it is.

It's way beyond that, actually. The question you posed to me is a question I posed to him probably over a year ago, is it time or past time for your evaluators to start evaluating what you're doing on the offensive line? And it's a little hard to figure because obviously he has history prior to the Texans and they were finding players in New England plenty that could play competent enough offensive line to make it all work, whether it was high draft picks or not. And here in Houston, I don't think we have any issue with Nick Casario's roster building or drafting, except at the most important spot other than quarterback.

They've been beyond awful. They are arguably the worst in the league at putting an offensive line together and using their draft picks in order to do it. So I think they're way past that, but I don't know if they will ever come around to realize that if they have another season like this. What they're banking on is a change in technique, a change in coaching style, and a change in how they put this group together. Communication was terrible.

Technique was terrible. The coaching honestly was terrible. and even with talent, which they arguably didn't even have last year, you're not going to be very good. So they're hoping that fixing the other problems will allow them not to rely solely on talent, and they really don't have any. So what choice do they have? What about adjacent to the offensive line, the tight-in position, seeing some videos of Brevin Jordan out there. You've got some guys who may emerge.

How are we feeling about the hierarchy and where it is there, especially with Dalton Schultz, kind of looking like he was in decline last year? Yeah, I think it's interesting that they basically didn't address it. I would see it probably the same way you're kind of forecasting. Dalton Schultz declining, Brevin Jordan. You're counting an awful lot on a player who's been here a long time without being a consistent contributor, and he's now coming back from significant injury. Great that he's been out there both days, talking about Jordan, both days without any limitations.

Luke Lechay is an added player via draft, but I don't know that they're counting on him for anything. He's running, you know, deep third team. Irv Smith is a blocker more than a pass catcher, and we saw that last year with how he ultimately had to be used. I'm just a little surprised that, you know, beyond Cade Stover, who's clearly going to be better this year as opposed to last year. Nick Casario mentioned him yesterday. They have to have him be better. I know he has a good relationship with C.J. He walks into the practice facility with him each morning so far, and that's been going on for a year plus now.

That's the place where I would see their most improvement, and Nick Caley has a history of trying to utilize his tight end. So, again, this is a position I'd probably be most concerned with about how they're going to help the team and if they're in fact going to hurt the team that they can't do their job. I'm going to save a gut feeling for next week about C.J. Garner Johnson, but this is what is fourth team, I think, Wex in the NFL. And my guess is he'd like to stick around somewhere more than a year. Anything, we're going to get to know him this year because he's going to be quite boisterous in a locker room. We'll say things and we'll obviously demonstrate a pizzazz on the field. But forgetting about that for a second, just any initial thoughts you have seeing him on the

field. Yeah, because of what they're doing out here, there's not a whole lot to take from it, but he is obviously among what should be an at least starting five of their secondary with Lassar and Stingley, Petrie, he and Bullock, and I think they will be. I'm going to put him down as the best secondary in the NFL, and they have depth, but they also drafted to keep that depth. And I'm not sure that Gardner Johnson is a long-term text, and I would probably say he probably is not. This could be very short term possibly pushes Jimmy off the roster entirely. He's on the pup list to begin with.

But Gardner Johnson will be heard from both on the field and off. I was talking with some people about being interested to see where they place his locker in this locker room where he'll be mixed among everybody because he's not afraid of saying what he feels. He's not afraid of kind of upsetting the apple card.

This team can handle all that stuff because their locker room is very, very good so everybody doesn't have to be the same. But football-wise, he's has played on a lot of teams that have won a lot of football games and he'll be the first to tell you about it. So he's looking to try to get this team to win more than they have. Well, you know, he may want to say all the things he wants and say, but D'Amico has shown no inclination of keeping those types of players around. I mean, there may be a handful of teams that do it, but D'emico's never shown a reputation for keeping guys that are overly boisterous around their locker.

It's a team message, and I think that would be a long way towards CJ wanting to be a long, at least here more than one season. I mean, that's all true, but they just got him. He just okayed the deal to bring him here. He knows who he is. He doesn't need to see him in the facility to know who he is. And D'Amico, I honestly would say he'll look past any of that stuff because, first of all, it's very minimal. Like the impact, some sort of negative impact, just look to last year. What kind of reputation did Stefan Diggs have when he came here?

It was wrong, and it was stupid, but it was there. It didn't upset this team in any way. It actually did the opposite. The teammates here could have been more pleased to have him here. Coaches couldn't say more glowing things about him. And while I don't think these two players are similar, totally similar, this will, he won't be, the word we haven't used is issue. And for a good reason, he won't be an issue here.

You just say things, that's it. All right. So one, two days are practices in the books. Is there anything spicy coming up in the next couple of days? Wendy, we're going to see pads the first time? I haven't gotten confirmation on it. I'm sure they've decided, but I haven't heard if they're putting pads. on for the first time Saturday, which is also the first day that fans will be there,

but I believe that is the case. If not, it will be the first practice of next week after they take Sunday off. Fans in the house is a given will ramp up the intensity. That's why I believe that will be the day they can do it. That'll be their fourth practice. You haven't had any players really have to step aside from practice so far. Damon Arnett's the only player that practiced day one that did not practice day two. Don't think there are any other issues for them. Nobody's had to come off the field for anything, but it will get spicier immediately once they put the pads on, which should again be practice four Saturday or five coming up on Monday.

I look forward to seeing you 90 minutes. Drive safely, my friend. We'll do it. All right, that is the one and only Adam Wex are on our little Texan training camp report, and we'll have more from him throughout the next handful of days, and I think we're putting him on assignment here for the show. I mean, he's in this car. What else are going to do?

Listen to the show. Yeah, he's listening to the show. I knew I I love J.J. Watt for a reason. He had a brilliant tweet just a handful of minutes ago. Okay. We'll read it to you coming back.

It's about training camp. Great. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. I hope you're having a beautiful time at home. There's a lot of strife in this world. Terry Belia has passed. and now Chuck Mangione is gone.

But you still have to take time to stop and smell the roses. Enjoy your family and your loved ones. And the fact that the Astros are 60 and 42. First place. America League. Well, tied at least. By the way, I'm watching this Vermont main game. All these girls are getting hurt.

This little league softball, if they're getting hurt, stop playing. They're all getting hurt. I just turned it off. Seriously, this is about the third injury in the game. Sorry, I didn't mean to ruin your vibe. But I did, didn't I? They're all on a knee now, too. Damn, girl.

Looks hot out there. No, it's between Vermont and Maine. It can't even more about 85. Okay, well, where are the games being held? Well, I'm assuming somewhere, it says New England a regional elimination final. It looks sunny. I hope they're wearing SPF 50.

Can I, let's do this. Let's go when Carly is in school. She's got another year. You and me do three or four shows in Rhode Island. Newport? Where are they? Well, the Kingston's where are the University of Rhode Island. Kingston, man.

Oh. But you fly to Providence and you drive a half hour south. I'm going to try not to talk like that. And then Newport is there. Four days? Two or three days. Whatever. Okay, three days sounds better.

With you? It'll be shacked out with your four days. Here's what we do. We go to Boston or Cian Astros. Red Sox. Get some labs to rolls. And then go up to see I don't know if Carly's going to come home for the summer

My guess is she not Well I guess Rhode Island Is that's Connecticut adjacent right? Yeah they're all really close to each other Isn't that we're all the best pizza places in the country in Connecticut? I don't know I hated going to Connecticut I've only been there twice and hated it both times

Yeah New Haven how far is it from New Haven? About an hour and a half Everything's an hour and a half I'm going to go to New Haven I want to try all these pieces I've been seeing Okay So you're looking at me weird I, as a joke, because I know how you click on something on Instagram, then it shows up on your search thing,

I clicked a bunch of pizza because I thought it would be funny if my whole search thing was pizza. And now I click on it and I look at pizzas. Is that terrible? And we know what you're clicking on, on your Instagram search page. What doesn't Instagram even have a search page? Let's take a look. Oh, this is smart.

This is very smart by you. Is your wife going to the store or something? Let's take a look. Yeah, let me, I want to look at this a lot of time. Where do you see search? I'm coming over here. Where's the search here? The search is right here.

Right there. It's at this floor page. Uh-huh. There's a bunch of pictures of the CEO. All right. All right. Here it is. You ready for this?

Yes. It's girls. TNA. It's girls committing to colleges for volleyball. It's blackjack. You know how much I've been. Uh-huh. And it's the picture of the couple.

Oh, what's this? That's booty. What's this? Blackjack? What's this? That's my girl, Taylor, I think. I think that's Sidney Sweeney.

Is it, Sydney? All right, back to it. How did we get on this? Let me tell you something. Don't ever tell anybody any of your secrets because Russell does spit them out. That's not true. Look, look at mine.

Yeah, pizzas. All right, you know what? I'm going to have all mine set up to blackjack. So let me go to the tweet I want to talk about. So JJ Watt. has become so sage post-retirement. He's always been smart. I didn't say he was smart, but he was corny as a player at times.

Okay, well. He just was. I think he got tired of what I've been seeing, and he had to say something about it. He says, quote, this is, when did he tweet this out? Let's see here, and it's long. It's a 10, oh, less than two hours ago. Can we get some Chuck Mangione?

We need some reading music? Yeah, put that jam back on. JJ. Here we go. Training camp stats are insane and ridiculous. Used to think it was always just people joking, but now seeing them seriously reported. You have no idea what the purpose of that period is,

what the goals are, what the context is, etc. It could be a strictly third and long blitz period where every play is skewed to be the defensive advantage. Coaches could be asking the quarterback to focus specifically on one route concept, D-Ly may be focusing only on bull rushes one day or just speed rushes for one period. More importantly, practices for practicing. You're supposed to fail.

You're supposed to try new things. See what works and see what doesn't work, etc. If you only do what works, you'll never grow, adapt, change. The entire point of training camp is to build and grow towards the season so that you perform your best when the real game start. God, JJ, I cannot love you enough. I cannot wait for you to be the number two analysts on CBS. He's also arguing with people in the comments. So Dan, the Reds fan, says,

agree with most of your take, but, quote, you're supposed to fail. That's a terrible mindset. Guess why that's why you never won a Super Bowl. He responds, guess that's why you have a cartoon picture of yourself as a major league ball player instead of a real one. That's a great, great, great. Can you imagine lecturing three-time defensive player?

Future Hall of Famer. J.J. Watt about mindset? It's ridiculous. You know what? I love this. I'm muting, Dan. Bye, bye, Dan. But to the point, that's why what I bring Wex on, I won't. And Wex knows, he knows the game on this. It's big picture stuff.

If you're tweeting about a third and nine that wasn't completed because of this, this and this, there may have been a reason for it. And I just, it's, and I've tried to mute, but there are people that I, do look for other sports things on there that I can't mute specifically football stuff from them, right? Why you look at me that way? You know I'm right. It's just too...

Nobody's posting them. I don't know. Who has been posting stats? Like, CJ Stroud is 8 for 10. Well, I mean... If they're doing that, you need to unfollow them. It's a beat reporter, I think. Let me look.

I mean... Now, the fake media that goes out there and covers a team, I don't follow them. I mute them, blocked them, whatever I have. have to do. I don't know. I'm just, this is a conundrum I find myself because I like some of the people I do respect out there. Most of my don't. And I, you know, I just the ones I respect. I just don't need the. And JJ's like my timeline is flooded with things from people that don't know their head from their ass when it comes football. Football, if you've not played it is the hardest to discuss. It just is. There's so many nuances to it. Mm-hmm. Baseball is pretty good. Baseball,

you know, it's strategy. If you've played it or at least have studied the sport a little bit, It's easy to figure out. Well, I played a year of college ball, Matt, and I know everything there is to buy baseball, and they need to butt more. But speaking of bunts, I think I saw more bunts in the Astros Diamondback series than I saw in the last five years in baseball.

Well, you know, I guess I do feel like that might be Taylor Trammell's best shot to get it on base. Hey, he went yard in Seattle. I know. He's hitting 217. That's better than, you know what, let me not do that. Yeah, you want to go ahead and not turn the microphone on unless you're ready to finish the statement.

Ooh. I was going to say it's better than Christian Walker all season, but okay. Whoa, Christian Walker's hitting $2.37. Now. You get a good series in Phoenix. Did he not guys? If you can just get him in Chase Field and Dodger Stadium all year long, he'll be doing great.

Maybe he's a National League West guy. Well, he clearly has been. So why do you leave? You know why he left? $60 million? What do you mean? Did you see what he said in about Phoenix? What?

They never offered him a contract. That's got to be painful. You've been playing all those years of Diamondbacks and Diamondbacks aren't a big. Corbyn Burns a billion dollars to get Tommy John. Bryce Matthews hit 167. But three home runs. Seven Rebby's in a series. 167? How about this for Bryce Matthews?

OPS of 801. That's why batting average doesn't tell you everything, folks. That's why he's literally giving you four bases every time he hits swings the ball and makes contact. I'm talking to Chris Gordy. Is Chris Gordy batting average guy? Wait a minute. We've talked about this. No, I haven't.

No. I haven't. No. I mean, I was talking about me. Gordy. So when you guys are arguing on the box cast, you guys are arguing about batting average? And I go to Opie. I'm like, come on, Gordy.

Thanks for listening, Matt. I mean, I haven't listened. It's fine. I mean, I don't listen to a lot of sports talk except for hate listening occasionally and sometimes listen to the 18. Well, just give us the click and leave it on your phone. I mean, I could do that. We could use the downloads.

I'd be happy to do that for you. Numbers are good, actually, this year. My plinkos and power bombs would do a lot better Well then why don't you do it Stop talking about it Mr. Oh, if I really tried I could be the MLB You sound like Hulk Hogan Really tried what?

He did go to the MLB He went to the MLB of the WWF No, he said he could have been a baseball player He was a Metallica was begging him to be his base player So there's gonna be a very negative vibe Of today's edition, I believe it or not There's positive things in here How about I'll throw a freebie

please do the first and only professional wrestler to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated they haven't won since no rock no stunning Steve Austin no stone cold it's not real sports I mean go tell ESPN that let me oh you know what I'm going to do this right we're quick we get 10 seconds I'm going to go to the ESPN headlines no they put Cornell championships on there too

yeah the very first one at the very top pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan dies at age 71 also lied about his base career, his baseball career, and many other things. Some guy named Rosenberg says Hogan was the Babe Ruth of professional wrestling. We're really doing that, huh? Yeah, I'm not denying his importance and impact. Is everything the Babe Ruth of something now?

No. I thought we can move forward past that. The answers no. I think that's kind of old school. But I mean, seriously, we're in 2025 and we have people calling people the Babe Ruth of something. That just shows you how. Maybe he's the greatest baseball player of all time. I like my, uh, ooh, is he, though?

If you're being called the Babe Ruth of something in 2025. It was pre-integration, though, so you can't say. Okay, but I mean, people are still referring to him as, you know, the theory is that Babe Ruth was. Oh, that's true. There is a conspiracy theory that Babe Ruth had, uh, some, yeah, had some black. Yeah, some, uh, some. Ancestry. One of the time here.

Who's, who's talking for? Ancestry. Yeah, you never heard of that? Melonon, you know, just put it in Google. Was it my, was it? or dad. I don't know. Maybe further back. You got to look at the, you got to look at the pictures.

Google says he was not black, but who knows? That is a conspiracy. You never heard that? I have never. Okay. I don't, I don't, you both have brought it up, so obviously there's some truth to it. Mm-hmm. All right, 1246, we've got, believe it or not, coming up today at 150. We have your phone calls. We're kind of an open line today because there isn't, I mean, look, the Astros put a day game yesterday. Nothing's big time happened with the Texans. the biggest news today, frankly, is the hulks are passing.

We're at 71. I want to have Clinton's calling in sick. Is he going to be okay? We'll find out about an hour and 14 minutes. Is he going to say brother all day? It is the Matt Thomas Show, Ross. Sports Talk 790. Brother.

We got an hour and 10 minutes left to go on the show today. We thank all of you for listening. Kind of a hodgepodge of stuff going on. Not a real meaty sports day. and tonight the Astros do play the athletics and we will see Jason Alexander back and I think we've gone five seconds without referring to anything Seinfeld related

with mentioning the name Jonathan Alexander I'm gonna try to declare a moratorium It's just too low-hanging fruit Well I mean it's not like a show is fresh or interesting It's not like he's doing anything right now That show's been off the air for 27 years? 98 Yeah The worst finale of a show ever maybe

Disagree. What do you think is worse? No, I think it wasn't bad. Oh, I didn't like it. But I'm trying to think of this. They tie in everything. Cool, because everybody's like, oh, it's Jerry and Elaine.

And if you know, Matt, of course, as you know Larry David in his personality, he's not going to just stump for the audience and give them what they want. They brought back a lot of the old characters. They ended with how it began. They were talking about what, the buttons on a shirt or something like that.

I can't even remember. The last line was like the first line. And they kind of, hinted, like when the plane was going down, that Jerry and Elaine were going to say they loved each other, but then they pulled the rug, and then the plane it stabilized.

I thought it was great. It's funny, though, because in the final episode of Kirby Enthusiasm, Larry and Jerry alluded to the fact that how bad their finale was, and how it was routinely hated. Maybe it's because we were just anticipating it being the funniest show on television

maybe ever didn't come up with the funniest is closing. Everybody wanted the storybook ending. Do you think let me and they didn't give it to you? We need sports. I'm sorry. We don't have Texans did fine today. I'm sorry. They're winning. They're playing the A's. The A's tonight. Astros on deck. Come on your way at 6 o'clock. With you? Yes. Astro's on deck coming up at 6 o'clock tomorrow. With you?

Also with me. And I'll have Saturday show. That's what I'm talking about Matt. And we can't tease wax because it's coming out on the show, but Clanton's not stepping up. Gordy's got Sunday and that would be take care of it. All right. Goody's busy. Do you think it's just too hard to write the final episodes of anything? I guess so. Was Succession's final episode really good? Game of Thrones is terrible.

Succession was okay. You was okay. Ozark was below average. I mean, you tell me, soprano, did it end the way you wanted it to? Ooh, that's another one people are upset about, but I like. Okay. Again, it's the whole point. That's the director saying as David Chase,

who everybody is so bloodthirsty and they want to see Tony get killed and they killed us off. We got whacked. They went to black. And it talked about the whole show. You never know when it's going to come. That's the whole point.

Okay. Sorry. I'm just trying to think of my favorite shows of all time. Did I spoil the show? Well, the show's been gone a while. You're fine. Curb ended the way. It was a good ending for me.

that. Okay. It's over, over? Over, over, yeah. Done, done. But yeah, I don't know. Maybe it's just, maybe when you are an episodic television writer that you're just writing the next thing and the next thing and the next thing and the new innovative way. And then you just, somebody says it's time to end it and you don't know how to tie it up, wrap it up. Like George R.R. Martin in the Song of Fire Ice. Yes. All right. I'm going to segue with it's into sports. Yes. How are we going to end the 2005 Houston Oh, you mean like Chris Paul?

No, I'm going to go different way. Like some guys know how to write the storybook ending of their career? Chris Paul's hanging on. Billy, John Elway had the best finale. Sugar Ray Leonard couldn't stop retiring. Jordan did have the best storybook ending and then he came back with the Wizards.

LeBron doesn't know when to hang him up. Yeah, but you know, you bring up LeBron here. And look, I'm at the biggest LeBron fan because he says some really goofy crap off the court, but he's still on the court amazing. Look, he is not anything close to what he was even five years ago. But Rossi, I watch a lot of NBA. He can still play.

There isn't a question of him being a detriment to his team. No. There isn't a question of him not having the desire to win. He's just getting old and father time is in the wear and the tear. He's not what he was five or six years ago. And I think the LeBron. fans, the biggest LeBron fans, can't adapt to that. That there is going to be a natural downplay in his performance.

That the Lakers have said, we made the tray for Luca Dodgers in part because it can't be LeBron's team anymore. And maybe LeBron's having the hardest time with that. But I, as a fan of LeBron, as a player, I can live with him being 60% of what he was because the 60% that I do get to see in the games I've called, he still takes over games what he needs to. He's averaging 24, 8 and 8. I don't know how many people on the planet

are still doing that. It's pretty good. It's really good. I'm just saying. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 103 is the time. It is the final hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross on a Hulk Hogan RIP Thursday. 71 years of age you've not heard.

The Hulkster passing away after apparently cardiac arrest. Again, numerous issues post-resting career. I mean, he felt like, like he was under the knife every other day with some sort of back surgery, leg surgery, neck issues. The body broke down

and obviously putting things into his body, i.e. steroids probably didn't help the cause. If there's an example of a guy that should do a video saying, hey, don't do them, don't inject things in your body, it's going to wind up caution you in the long run. Would you say professional wrestlers put more of a hurting on their body

than any other, I mean, any of the major sports. Especially now, now in these days, they aren't doing like 300 shows a year. They have reduced, yeah. In the 70s, 80s, they were doing like literally 300 shows a year, right? They were wrestling six days a week, sometimes seven days. Sometimes I listened to a lot of podcasts. Some guys would wrestle eight matches in a week in seven straight days, and sometimes they go to two different cities. So forgetting about just going to the ring, how about getting in the car, traveling,

long distances driving, eating very poor meals at 3 o'clock in the morning in the middle of nowhere to get ready for the match the next day. I will say this. Now, look, I'm not giving away company secrets on this, but it's scripted. Yes. And they do their

best. Yeah, I saw the guy too. They do their best to make sure they don't hurt each other. But, I mean, they're flying at each other. They're flying into, they're throwing themselves against walls. They're landing on concrete floors. You have to do those things to put on a good show.

When you're talking about it's not, they're not made men now. We're not saying you don't have to put on a good show now, but you really got to sell it. You have to sell it. And it's an art to be able to do it effectively. But even with that being said, injuries are going to happen.

Seth Rollins is a WWE wrestler. Landed awkwardly on his feet about two weeks ago and suffered a serious knee injury. Yeah, I would say, this is not because I'm a pro wrestling aficionado or a fan, I'm saying that the body goes through more aches and pains and more trauma as a professional wrestler than it ever would as a professional football player. Because of the fact that professional wrestling careers, it takes your probably five years just to

become a star. Then if you want to be a star, you're talking 10, 15, 20 years. I mean, hell, Rick Flair was wrestling on a regular basis in his 50s. And he started when he was probably 22 or 23. 30 years, 300 matches a year. Even if you are doing the best you can and faking punches and faking kicks to the midsection and trauma shots of the head, it's just the, you're throwing yourself against ropes and jumping and leaping. And again, as Hulk Hogan,

his most famous move was the leg drop. And it obviously did not crush people, but dropping your leg going full speed at 200 whatever he was carrying weight wise, what 275, 280 pounds, you could probably feel the spine

crackling as it was landing every single time. And it took its toll. Yeah. And he filled his body full of steroids. And we need to find out within... Because that was the pressure. Because back, especially in the 80s, when wrestling was really becoming a national form,

you had to look the part. Vince McMahon wanted you to look like a bodybuilder. They don't have to look like bodybuilders. Now, now, are the best guys? You can't be a fat slob anymore. Those days are being a fat slob in wrestling are done. There's no, who is that guy that would sit on people's heads, rakishi or whatever?

Well, there's no more Mokitia. There's no earthquake. There's no one-man gang. Bring back the fat wrestlers. There's no Abdullah the butcher. That's rude. Why are they fat-shaming wrestlers now? So let's say the hardest working guy or most famous wrestler,

who I don't know who the current guys are. How many shows a year are they doing? Cody Rhodes probably is doing 120 shows. Woof. Really? Well, let's say he works 40 weeks a year. Dang. He's doing the Sunday pay-per-view or the Peacock exclusive.

He's going on Monday Night Raw, and he's going on Friday Night or Friday Night Smackdown. Now, is he wrestling on all three of those? No, he's probably wrestling maybe twice. Okay, that's what I was going to be the next question. But there's going to be some physical contact in it. That was my next question. So maybe the number of matches he's in in a year will probably be in the 40s, but appearances and falling on being put on a table, even though the table is already ready to be broken in half, landing on that table.

There's probably some of them. That's an impact. Yeah, for sure. I mean, that's why there's so few that do it. There's so few that are really good at doing it. That's why the money is good. but we as adults love the adult, you know, the real-life superheroes, I guess.

But they're human. They land awkwardly. They get concussed. They have neck injuries. A lot of guys had to retire. I mean, Stone Cold had to retire because of injuries. It wasn't because he wanted to. He would have wrestled under 10 or 15 years if he could have.

Crushing some ice cold beers. He does. He does drink a lot of beer. Well, as does. What are you doing? Stop. Sopi midsitts, as did Rick Flair. Yeah.

You drink it like 30 beers a night or something. Yeah, I think. And Andre the Giant was going for records. I think one of Rick Flair's greatest lines is I spilled more money on spilled liquor than you spent on all year or something like that. Yeah, yeah. That's a good one. He had some great lines. He did have great lines.

I call him the goat. Can I call him the greatest restaurant of all time? You probably could. He's my goat. Because, again, very, very, very, very casual observer. He was way more of a traditional wrestler than being the... I mean, Hulk Hogan would never work 30-minute matches. Rick Flair would work 45 minutes, 60-minute matches on a regular all the time. Yeah, but they still on the ground breathing half the time, though.

At least when I watch WrestleMania at your place. Yeah. I'd like to put you in a figure-forward leg lock before the end of the show. Can we do that? All right, if you can pull it off, let's go. You want you to lay down flat on this ground. Yeah. I'll choke you out in 30 seconds.

No, no, you know. They don't do chokeouts in wrestling. What are you talking about? What do you mean? That's MMA. Oh, sorry. Get your facts straight. Orioles, the Guardians 3-2 in the bottom of the fourth inning.

A little day baseball way for you. Yeah. Astros, it isn't strange the Astros are back in action today. No. It's baseball. I know, but it is, it's, you go all the way to Seattle, down to Phoenix, and Phoenix and Houston ain't around the corner. That's about a two-and-a-hour flight.

That's the grind, baby. No days of it. off and yet the Astros, who were dead to rights by some people, I won't mention names Dan Matthews. We have one four in a row an hour time. That's why baseball is such a

up and down, roller coaster, marathon, whatever cliche term you want to use. This team a week ago was, it's All-Star Break. They need a break. They went one in five before the All-Star Break. And they come out with two flat performances against Seattle. They're one in seven. Oh, the sky's falling. Yes.

It's like your 401K. Don't over react to the daily swings. Ooh, the DeF-1-K doing good this week. Every time I hear the stock report on K-2H. I told you don't overreact, Matt. I'm stuck the stock was up 500 points yesterday. Dang, that's good. Can I not react on that?

I'm very pleased with that. All right. 112 on Sports Talk 7.0. 7-1-3-212-5-790. You're all right over there? No. What's the matter with you? I'm doing great, Matt.

You're just trying to get as many malicious shots in on Hulk Hogan as you possibly can. It's not true. I didn't say one bad thing about him. whole segment. I wonder what Mark Henry thinks of him. You know what Mark Henry is? Wrestler? Yeah, former wrestler.

Okay. He does the morning show in Austin on our I-Hard Sports Station. Okay. Isn't that weird? No, I don't know who he. I mean, who is he? He's a former wrestler. He's just a WWE guy and he lives in Austin and we're like, all right, you're hired.

You have to ask Brian Erick, so I think he hired him. I don't know. Okay. But it's, I'm curious because I'm seeing a lot of tributes coming out about him. And most of him of Rick Flair did one, Brutus Beefcake, who was used to be Hulk Hogan's best friend until they stop speaking to each other. Brutus Beefcake? Brutus Beefcake, yeah.

Do you think he, I wonder if he legally changed his name. Hello, Mr. Beefcake. Mr. Beefcake, party for four? Oh, I got one. Stay on my passenger, Beefcake. We have your seats assigned for you. Come to the gay, please. Okay.

You really got to have a major ego if you're calling yourself a beefcake. Was he a beefcake, Matt? He wasn't flabby back in the day. He also got involved in a little, in fact, he got involved in a water skiing accident that was so bad that his face got basically taken off. And to reput his face back on his face. Mm-hmm. What? Yeah, that's how bad it was.

How fast were they going? I don't know, but we're not going to go any further to it because people are cringing right now with me even bringing that up. And then they wrote a movie about it with John Travolta and Nick Cage. That's actually not true, but not a bad pull on your part. What do you say, Jonathan? I said me being one of them cringing. Yeah. Yeah, please.

Go to break. We'll be back with better content, folks. You know what we need here? Maybe, you know, you took a segment off. I need to take one off. I think I'm drunk. I went to got coffee and came back. All right, if you want to talk to Ross only in the next segment, let's see how this work.

Now, I got four people to call just me. By the way, Charlie Morgan's pitching. How about that? Look at Uncle Charlie doing his thing. And he's got a crutch out there. Is they allowed to bring wheelchairs in the mound? That's not nice. All right.

So if you want to talk to Ross in the next segment. Please talk to me. I don't want to talk to... Matt's talking about people's faces getting melted off. 713-212. You put it back on. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Matt takes the next segment off.

Talk to Ross next here on Sports Talk 7-9. All right. In today's edition of Come on now. All right. I just created a segment, Ross. So I put out a tweet about 18 minutes ago, and it was, I said, do I have time to listen? to all these voicemails.

I put out 10 phone numbers that left me voicemails. They were either one or two seconds long. Okay. Do you kind of get what they were? No. They were spam calls. Oh, okay.

Roberto says maybe don't put people's phone numbers out there. They're spam calls. Yeah, I mean, come on. Come on. Come on. I mean, can we not put two and two together here? That's all I had to say. Sorry, Matt.

No, it's not sorry for me. It's sorry Roberto didn't realize that I would, do you think I have to put people's numbers, phone numbers out there if I didn't know they were complete spam? No. I mean, seriously. Critical thinking. We're just talking about this? We don't have it. I have 42 phone

calls that, because I have it on my phone that if I don't know who you are, you go right to voice mail. So, the spam callers, and like I said, I've been in, by way, can I apologize I tell you what happened with the one spammer? The one you screamed at? Yeah.

And he said, why are you being rude to me? I wasn't rude to you? Yeah, what did he say? What did you say? I swore him some more. That's rude, Matt. It is rude, but I just... He's just trying to gift you for all your money.

It's cathartic. Okay, let's see whatever works. I love talking to spam callers. And I'll turn my spam feature off. Let me talk people right. I get out of the show at 2 o'clock, while I'm listening to the A team, of course. All right, 713, 23, 212, 5, 790.

2-1-2-5-790. Does Charlie Morton interest you at all for a... No, late graph. The CRA's like six. Well, it's low now. Why are you so intrigued by Charlie Morton? Because that's the kind of... It's not 2017. It's the kind of fringy move you would make. No, no. Who's better right now? Branden-Walter or

Charlie Morton? Brandon Walter or Lance McCullors? I mean, excuse me, Lance McCullors or Charlie Morton? Lance McCullors, Jr. Don't... You're going to die on that hill. He will bounce back. Our food supplies have been shortened. We're on hunger strike on Lance McCuller's junior island. Now, is this a bit or you really believe what you're talking about?

I don't do bits on this show, Matt. Well, I do, and I'm telling you the truth. Look, I applaud Lance. He just doesn't have everything left. Yeah, he's, yeah. He's had a couple. Well, you look good in Dodger Stadium. You weren't saying after that start.

I was stunned by it. That's why I couldn't react to it. I was so astonished. Okay. By the way, your take is the one that's being shared by a lot of people. We brought up the Lance McCullors maybe going to the bullpen. Your take was, if you're really getting rid of Lance, you are getting rid of him. You're going to Brian and Brayne him, basically, what you're going to do on that.

Jose Abram. Jose Abram. You can't Brian or Bray him. No, you want him around. You, Jose Abram. Yeah, he's either DFA. I don't know how much longer the leash is, but if he continues to not get even five innings and not get outs, something has to be done.

You got a cut bait. What does it got left in his contract? I'm looking into pro quick. It's 17.7 this year and next year. Have baseball teams eaten 17 million dollar contracts? I want here on Crawford and Texas. He's been doing a lot of that.

Rafael Montero and Jose Abraeus say thanks. Yeah, I mean, they would applaud him for the work he's done and getting back. I'll tell you this. If he didn't have next year on the deal as well, he'd be gone, I think. Oh, if he was done after this year, yeah.

Done, for sure. He's shown, he's got, what, three, four quality starts. But he's, you can't be, and the quality starts have been, like, minimum quality. It's not like he's going seven, eight innings. Well, what he never did. There was a ramp up, which we gave him a grace period. Then there was the crescendo, which was the Dodgers game. Yeah, the problem.

And then after that, it just hadn't been the same. he well he hurt his foot now he's got a blister and blisters are a part of baseball that he would not be the first nor he'd be the last if he has one i didn't hear you if he has one which i think he does have players foeat injuries yes do the astros have a history of that i don't think so would you want to give him a trip to the injury list to settle him down because he has been rocked and you don't want to bring up the fact that it's you're moving him off rotation because he's rocked give him a 15 day breather 10 day yeah whatever all right uh it's 15 for pitchers now yeah 10 or 15 I mean it's not the craziest notion I wouldn't necessarily think that's the case all I mean all lands would have to do is shows his hand I'm saying I think he's got a blister but I guess it's just because I'm so wary of the astros and the injury stuff but but I'm saying I think he's got a blister but I guess it's just because I'm so wary of the astros and the injury stuff but. In this case, I'll defend the Astros. They wouldn't be the only team that would put a player on the injured list with some sort of element. You're right. Absolutely. Every team has probably done it, yeah. And especially somebody, he's in a very unique situation.

He's owed a lot of money. He's trying to get back. He's shown some signs of life. I mean, his Astros career is on life support, but he's shown a pulse here and there. And what you do want, honestly, is you do not want to bury his hard work. it would be because again Lance in 17 especially was a fantastic addition

to this baseball team that if not for his performances would not have put the Astros where they were winning a world series yeah he's and you'll always get credit for that no matter what the ailments have been and no matter how much time he's been gone he's trying Morton to give a home run

3-3 3-3 yeah you want him I just started out that was saying just a second to Stephen Kwan? I mean, he's a good slap hitter, contact hitter, but... Okay.

But do you treat... Are you treating Lance with perhaps a better set of kid gloves than you would be with other players that don't have the history? He's getting more grace, absolutely, because he's one of the... He is, along with El Tuve, the last Astros from the 2017 team. He's a heart and soul. He loves the Astros. He wants to be here. He's a competitor.

He's fiery. He says all the right things. He's smart. And I really... That's why I'm one of the reasons. I've been on McCullors Island because I'm rooting for him. I'm rooting for him. I want him to succeed.

And he did sign a contract that you would say, well, it depends on if he was to pitch, it would have been very team friendly, but because he didn't pitch, it winds up being very player friendly. That's compared to team friendly. Yeah. The deal when it was signed was, hey, if he's an effective 25 games a year starter, this is a huge win. If he's hurt the whole time, it's a huge L. And, well, it's been closer to the latter.

But let me, let's just get the forecast out there. Let's say, and again, this is going to be, this is a glass half full conversation. What's your rotation? And you're not going to give me an answer to this until we come back from the break. Okay. What's the answer to this question? If Garcia comes back, we do believe Erigati will be back. Mm-hmm.

And let's say Christian Javier comes back. Name the five-man rotation. Maybe, how many days? I'm going to ask you off days that are in September. They're enough to go with a sick. You have to go with a six man or can you live with a five man in September? I mean, even with the off day, you can give, I mean, I think Hunter Brown, a little off day here and there, not bad.

Ooh, so it leads big enough? Yeah. Okay, then the six man has to make it a great debate. Who's your five-man rotation in September trying to, A, clinch the division and B, and most importantly, maybe try to clinch a one or two spots you can avoid playing in the Wal-card round. We'll discuss that at 713-212-5-790. All right, Rossi, name your rotation 134 here on 790. If you want to join us, we've got believe it or not coming up in 15 minutes.

713212-5-7-90. Name that rotation. Let's go. Framer Valdez 1? Yeah. What's up? Hunter Brown 2. Good. Spencer Arrogate 3.

Yep. Christian Javier 4. Yep. Louis Garf. T.O. 5. Hmm. No Brandon Walter. Brandon Walter Man, he's looking

I think he's in consideration to it and then it depends I think it's actually very easy to kind of predict what happens with McCullors He's going to get a couple more starts If he's good He stays If he's not

He's released from the He's released from the roster And for a Luis Garcia, Javier Whoever Garcia Because if Lance is not best utilize as a reliever to go get his mojo back

there would be no purpose to keep him on the team no and he's always been of the characterization of IMA starter we mean he nearly threw hands at Gordy for asking about that he was asked about it before the start of this season about it right

he's like I don't know what struggles you're talking about it's like you know what struggles we're talking about come on but anyways well if he is now it's my understanding I don't know but as far as I know he would be DFA'd correct I don't know if he would go through

wave he could accept a he could accept a minor league assignment just like Jose Abrang when does somebody have to go through waivers for example I think like Forrest Whitley went through waivers well it's a DFA is you have 10 days to outright release him to go through waivers

accept an emotion but not everybody does he have enough I think if you have enough years you're not subject to waivers I don't know if he has that amount of years. It feels like to me it's the same thing as Jose I'm Brady. Nobody's claiming to the Lance of Colors Jr. for $18 million anyways. No, no, no, no.

He's not getting claimed. If he's going to be picked up, it's going to be picked up by a team on a very much of minimum kind of. Either he has enough, he has enough service time where he wouldn't be subject to waivers or he's going to go through waivers and nobody's going to claim him anyways. So the point is, yes, I think he can, I think he can then accept an assignment from the Astros,

which he might do, or he would elect free agency, I think. Would his ego, would his ego be able to say, you know what, I'm not who I need to be. I'll go to the space cowboys. Go to the space cowboys. And figure it out and then hopefully get called back up. I would hope he would do that.

I mean, that's kind of what Jose Bray, you did that. He went to the Florida Complex League and was like, hey, you guys paid me all this money. I'm going to try to figure this out. Raphael Montero went to the space cowboys as well. Now, this is if it happens. He comes out and, you know, hey, six inning a one-run ball next time. We're not talking about this. Because we've been here multiple times.

I'm going to throw another thing at you. Okay. What if they do go get a starting pitcher before the deadline? Then it would even make things even more difficult. I don't think they will. This is part of the reason. I don't think they will. Okay, let's do it very easy if-then statement.

Because we were here after the Cincinnati game. If they don't get a pitcher, they would have the intelligence to say, the guys I just mentioned are coming back. Or at the very, very worst, case, Rossi. Arrogatti's coming back. There's nothing arm-wise

that has hurt him. He's not coming off of Tommy John or rotator. You know what I mean? It's it was a flukeish thumb injury that took probably way too long than anybody thought it would be, but it's not going to necessarily hurt his mechanics. You know, there should be a bunch of setbacks, right? So let's dumb it down. Let's say

that Javier and Garcia do not come back. Okay. Then do you want to do you want to reevaluate your five-man rotation? then no Javier Walter's in there Okay With Arredetti

Brown Verlander I mean the Verlinder Frumber Valdez The other V And yeah It could be McCullors Unless he's terrible

Then yeah It's gonna be Gordner Gusto But I think I think Javier I think a couple of those guys Are you're gonna be back Certainly Argeti

I wonder if Jason Alexander's got a spot Chance I don't think the answer is yes Whatever happened to AJ Blueball just minor league guy I mean he got kind of in a waiting order he made the one start wasn't really good not really fair for him but he's 25 years old

and was highly considered before the start of the season that was one of those names by the yeah see this is the thing we have to remember just like training camp just because you're number five in the astro system doesn't mean you're one of the best pitching prospects at baseball yeah uh 586 eRA and triple a Of course we understand the ball flies out in the PCL. But you can't elevate it for two runs.

Yeah, I know. Ooh, he's 25. He almost, hmm. 25 still at AAA. That can't, you know what, you cannot be 25 a considered a prospect if you're still at the triple L. You are 25 and looking to catch lightning in a bottle when you eventually get the call to the big leagues if you ever do.

Or you're George Springer and they're trying to hold you down. Well, he won't 25. He was like 24, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there was pedigree. First round draft pig. Yeah, I know. He had went to college.

Look at you putting George Springer and A.J. Blueball. George Springer come down here from Toronto and kick your ass for saying that. I don't think he would. He's too nice. He was 24 when he made his debut. George Springer. Blueball's got earning of almost six. Yeesh.

And this Uliola guy, I think we're maybe pronouncing it. Miguel Uiola. Two L's is a Y. Uola. Uola. Say again? Just say Miguel. Just say Mikey.

Say this last same. Uyola. Uola. It's not going to go well. Yola with a Y. Yola? Cola with a Y I mean. Cola with a Y.

Cola. You cola. Nah, I'm worse off. It's funny. When he was making... Uola. I was asking people in the Astros press box about a month ago.

Maybe he goes by Ula. And there was a bunch of people trying to mispronounce it. It was on the only. He could do that. I'm always called him the U. How about we just call him Uyola?

Say it was to the first part of again? Uiola. Uyola. Uyola. There you guys. I got it Uyola. There you go. How about that?

You got to appreciate that. 713-212-5-790s. Miguel, Miguel, Uiola. Yeah, you could sing a song. I see what you did there. Do you think people caught onto that? I don't know. He's a real talented picture from Sugar Land.

Got a low ERA and that's nothing but stand. Oh, myelola. Miguel Uliola. Strikes people out. Oh. That was great. He strikes people out and runs up the hill. Throws 95 miles an hour.

Oh, what a thrill. Miguelio. Miguel O'Leo Oh no That's a banger Shut up You don't even know

That song There once was a space And cowboy Who threw really fast And wants to be an astro rhinola I'll figure this I turn that off I'll work on this

I'll work on this Raj in New Jersey I tried It wasn't bad I got the Hi Raj guys, how you doing today? Good.

Thanks so much for having me on. Sure. So here's the thing. I mean, you know, obviously we look at the trade deadline now in a week. I don't think there's going to be some sort of, you know, hitter coming in on a white horse, like, you know, just saving this lineup. I mean, I do think the best we could do is a guy like Mike Talkman, you know, somebody like that who could just, you know, fill in a role as a left-be bat, you know, platoon against righty, something like that. But I do think that if we're going to make a run this postseason, we've got to look at it like 22, where our pitching is. just locked down. And I think for

that, you should look to adding probably another starter. All right, because I don't think I want a guy like Walter Gordon marching into Toronto or Detroit for game three. And I do think we need one more reliever. I mean, you know, get a seventh inning guy that you can

trust, you know, in front of a Brewery and Hater, you know, just somebody else other than King or Sosa, who, you know, may not have this kind of stuff back in October. What do you guys think? It would have to be from the right-handed side, and thank you for the phone call, we appreciate it. You got plenty of left-handers.

The question would be is, could you make a move? And the answer, of course, is yes. You can do anything you want. Could you move one of your lefties for a better rightie? You've got four lefties in your bullpen. You're not moving haters. That's three that you would theory and think about. Why not?

Oakard, I'm not the Oker. Yeah, okay. Sorry, Okerzsche's a king? Yeah. I guess. Somebody's interested in that. And left-handers are obviously much more of a commodity than you'd have from a right-hand side.

Maybe you could get a little bit better from the right to get sending off a mid-left. Just throwing it out there. Okay. But I think you can get creative with a reliever. You can do cash considerations, lower prospects, guys. All the vibes are minor move.

Unless Uhineo... A.U.Hinio... I.uhnio Suarez is wearing Astros' gear. And if he's wearing gear, You can say Mamu Shvili. Come on, man. Andrew Mamu Shrik, Kellyshvili. Don't forget the Kellogg.

I'm sorry, Mamu Kelishvili. There you go. Look, when they get to the Houston town, Houston, I'll be fine. I'll get them all right, I promise. Okay. All right. Let's play, believe it or not next. You want to?

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New Orleans Saints quarterback in 2006 oh please this is not even a hot take this is just a ridiculous pull out of your ass prediction Arch Manning I'm gonna tell you this

tell me I'm wrong you can go ahead and tell me there's no guarantee he's declaring for the draft he could Andrew Luck and continue to stay there he's got ungodly millions from NIL is there for sure yeah do you think he talks to Grandpa Archie

about where he might end up I think he talks to Grandpa Archie and Cooper and everybody about you know there are some people I won't name names who foolishly thought he would transfer out if Quinn Ewer's stayed the starting quarterback and he's going things about

he's going about things different way because he is a manning. I will bet you there was a conversation at some point about him getting his degree, which he can do probably in three years. But staying... You're going to go somewhere that sucks

if you're going to be a high draft pick. And enjoying the college life, enjoying the campus life. And also, yeah, we could see. It could also depend on who's number one. If it is number one and he could come home to the New Orleans Saints or if he's even that good. What if he's not good enough?

What if he has a decent enough year and maybe another year of seasoning? He'll be really, really good. And he can improve. There's no guarantee that he's I keep going back to this. There's no guarantee he's going to light the world on fire. None.

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