The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Cant Catch A Break. Spurs Crush Wolves, CJ Stroud Talk?

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

Astros Cant Catch A Break. Spurs Crush Wolves, CJ Stroud Talk?

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Thanks, town. Good morning, and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Los Angeles Dodgers take the rubber game of this three-game set, defeating the Astros 12 to 2. I googled songs about disappointment. This one's the first one that popped up. Wake me up when it's all over, Maddie? Not great, Bob.

Where is Lance McCuller's thumbnail? Yeah, what happened? Is he okay? What's going on? Does he have vitamin deficiencies? I mean, when you are going to pitch... Does his nails fall off? Yeah, what's the vitamin you need for nail strength?

E? I don't know. Kay? Every one of them? Multivitamin, maybe a Flintstone. Vitamin B7 and some iron. Let's get it up, buddy. Collagen and zinc.

That's what Google says. Let's get all that. Let's get the cocktail going. I will give him credit for sticking around. Apparently you're throwing a pus after that. Literal pus. So it was his thumbnail he lost? Yeah.

I saw fingernail. Some sort of nail. Okay. Does it really matter what nail he lost? I guess it doesn't. Couldn't throw his curveball on. more so I guess he was just throwing straight Ephis. Well, you won one out of three.

You said you would take that? I did say I would take that. That's what the odds said. You were two to one dogs in every game. That means one out of three. One out of three, ain't bad. I don't know. When you get your ass kick twice, it's not great.

The two one game was fun. Not good for the old run differential. Not good for the team ERA, if you will. Rough day for Dana's an idiot for not calling up Jason Alexander guy. Man, Gordie loves him. Jason Alexander, too. I mean, we love Gordy. Well, apparently he was looking good in spring.

Look good in spring. It looked good until yesterday in the year day before that and then got set down immediately. Hunter Brown's got a bullpen this weekend. He's coming to save us. And Tatsu YMI is going to pitch soon. He's coming to save. The cavalry's coming, baby.

Well, at least you find somebody who's finding the sunshine out of this desperate day. Burroughs can turn it around. Erigetti's been good. Lambert's good. that's three and you get a hunter that's four why are you putting hunter in the mix brown yeah he's throwing a bullpen this weekend a couple weeks and be ready to go okay you know what positive energy from one of us today by a couple i mean like six yeah remember sooner or other than later we don't talk about

bull pit is a steper in the right direction shoulders feeling good how about that lineup what lineup cold de senzo shoemake last three in the lineup yesterday oh salads i don't forget either. That's 4-5-6-7-89. L2BL get back. Rested, refreshed. Day off helped. He was celebrated a birthday yesterday and didn't play. Man, you must be really struggling. They don't play on your birthday. How does that work? Because usually there, you know, we've always had this conversation about whether people should take days off on their work. I don't do that because why don't want to take a random Wednesday off? Now, if you want to wrap it around a long weekend, then it kind of makes a little bit of sense. Yeah, that's what I always do.

No. Altuva has a birthday on a Wednesday and got a DMP. Well, it's because you get the two days off now. He's got really clear his head. Now he's going to be in Cincinnati eating those great ribs and he's not going to have chili. He's not going to be the baddest box with a rack of ribs. Well, you know, good help. Fatten the boys up.

All right, good morning, everybody. It's 1006 on Sports Talk 7.90. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross on this of Thursday where today we will cry in our beer. there's a tear in your beer. Well, what else are going to do? Well, it's 10 in the morning. I'm not drinking. You won't get you into a deep dive on the Texas linebackers?

No, I don't want to do that. This is baseball season. Oh, okay. This is baseball. Well, how's the baseball going, Matt? It's not going great, Rossi. How's the basketball going, Matt? It's not existing.

Okay. Can't get into a deep dive of the wolves and the spurs from last night, because I think collectively America turned it off at the end of the second quarter. They'll blow them out. We're going to have to have some summer fun. We have to have some summer fun stuff. We have to do something. Okay.

because I don't want to talk about CJ Strail whether he's making $60 million for the next four months. Let those people that ought to work do that. I don't think he's going to. Oh, man. Our local nine. I mean, look, it was the Dodgers.

They're the serious World Series favorites. Their starting pitcher got hurt yesterday with back spasms. Yeah, I thought we might have a shot. Glassnow got hurt. Yeah. Went one in England for the second. That's another top pitcher hurt. Now it was his back spasms for him?

That's good. I mean, not good. I mean, like, it's not like, you know, elbow discomfort. I'm glad you brought that up. Are we going, is Rob Manfred really going to just say them's the brakes? With these pitching injuries? With these pitching injuries, whether it's the Astros, whether it's the Dodgers, whether it's other baseball teams. Are you talking with respect to the pitch clock?

I don't know. What's he going to do? I mean, I'm telling you, if I have a phenomenon throughout baseball where my star pitchers are getting hurt left and right, are you going to continue to chime it up to them's the breaks or are you going to say that we've got to do a deep dive? And if you do the deep dive, do you really want to know what your results are? The results are probably too many games. The results are probably not a big enough roster. The results are probably not enough pitch to clock time, spin rate, the things that are being, I mean, Ross, there has to be a number of things.

It's not just one. But everything combined is taking away the heart and soul of the first. some really good pitching in baseball. Game 7 of the World Series was the most watched baseball game in 34 years. I don't want you to argue with me like that. I want you to argue with real life thoughts. That's what Rob Manfred's going to tell you. He's going to say ratings are up, interest is up.

We're going to look into these injuries. We have a lot of, what are you going to tell the pitchers to stop spinning the ball? We're going to put a spin rate governor on the thing, VLO governor? If you throw a pitch over 100, is it like in beer league? If you hit a home run, it's an out? If you throw a pitch over 100, but it isn't even that. It's a ball.

It's the torque. It's the curve. It's the spin. Yeah, it's all that. That's not adding to 99. We're not seeing guys, we're not seeing 15 guys throw above 100. We're seeing more guys than ever are throwing over 100.

I'm not saying, again, I'm not watching a randot Phillies versus Cod's game. It's a fact. It's a fact. More guys than ever are throwing high 90s and over 100. But are they saying, I mean, is that, are those all the guys that are going down? I mean, Hunter Brown's a flamethrower. Christian Javier wasn't a flame

thrower Ergettty's not a a threem flamethrower Now granted he was hurt for different reasons just last year I just We have to just

At some point say Let's take some sort of deep dive into this Not our responsibilities But somebody's got to say We're seeing I mean What is scuba A guy that throws typically over

100 on a regular basis a lot I don't know He's high 90s I don't think he's over, he's humming it over 100 all the time. And you know what you could also say is that the body just can't do this? The body was not born to throw with the torque in the way that the spin rate and that you're going to just have more injuries in baseball among pitchers. And if you want to have that, that's fine, but expand rosters.

Sports science and the honing and sharpening of all the tools is evolving way faster than bodies can catch up. And that's what's happening right now. I mean, sports science has revolutioned. Even since you got in this business, man, or I got in this business. We know so much more. And the pitching and the fastballs have gotten so much faster. And it's every sport.

It's every sport. It's massive injuries in the NFL. Basketball, we're talking about Achilles, right? Achilles. Okay, so let me ask you this then. And again, I don't have a super old school from a reference to this. but why did pitchers in 1970s? And even before that late 60s,

the Bob Gibson's, the Steve Carlton, the Nolan Ryan's, I'm trying to think of some other big-time hard throwers. Maybe we weren't paying attention in your list. Guys are throwing harder. It's a couple things, yes. Guys are throwing harder than they ever have, ever. And it's not even close. I know everybody's like, Robbie, Hummel.

Well, he threw a pitch, and it was racing a Model T, and it was going 100 miles an hour. That's like in exact science with a film camera that's going like 20 frames per second. Okay. Guys are throwing harder than ever, and then exactly what you said. There were guys that we never heard of and don't remember who were either great prospects and ruin their arms. They used to just call it dead arm. When you tore your, when you tore your UCL back in the day, they were done. They're like, well, they got the dead arm, and now his career is over.

That was it. They just called it the dead arm. And then your D was done. And we never heard from you again. So we didn't think about it. We didn't talk about it. Because you couldn't get repaired. You couldn't come back. We just celebrated the ones that could do it. Exactly. It's called survivorship buyers. We remember, like if you, like everybody thinks, oh, you know, this toaster, my grandma

had this toaster for 30 years. They don't make them like they used to it. Well, yeah, there's a million toasters that failed. And we don't remember those. We don't talk about those. You know, all right? I miss my toasters. Yeah. Because every Every toaster I'm watching Throwing in the

Mingling game is getting hurt It feels like Everybody's like Why don't they build a black Nolan Ryan? There's one Nolan Ryan Little one dude He

So is my favorite He He was in Cy Young Rubber Arm Cy Young wasn't humming it At 99 miles an hour With a spin rate of like 3,000 RPM's

It's just different And maybe some of those guys Would be built different And would be able to survive Nolan Ryan is surviving any area, era, obviously. Right. But he is the exception rather than the rule.

Yeah, yesterday was ugly. Lance tried to give it a go. And now, dumbass Astros' Twitter, y'all are just stupid as you. Uh-oh, what now? Why did Joe allow McCuller just stay out there to get beat up? Because he could throw. Because the Astros don't have pitchers.

Why did he let them out there? It's his game's over. It was six to a YD. he wanted him to let McCullors out there. No, they're like, why are you continuing throw Lance McCullors when the game was close? The game wasn't going to be close. The assures bullpen's been taxed.

It has been all season long. Somebody's got to get you innings. He went two and two-thirds. Yeah, it wasn't like you stretched him to six. You just got to start muting people. I'm serious. This is the thing. And I'm not feeling great, so I want to make sure I call myself. No, it's okay. You don't have

to. Come after him, baby. I just... I've been begging for smart, intelligent baseball conversation. I listen to a guy called the show The Porras, wanting Yordon Alvarez traded. That's not the answer. You want to trade Yon Alvarez so you can go fill up with four or five prospects

for three or four years down the road and then just basically start over from scratch. Is that what you want? I would say you want to retool and be able to compete in the next couple of years and Yordaun Alvarez would be your centerpiece of that. I honestly don't understand why people say trade Yoron and blow everything up.

But then he's on a great contract the next couple of years. If you're paying him $45 million a year. If he was the outlier and he was making all this money and hampering your other decisions within your organization, then I would say, okay. But just because your team this year has been saddled with terrible pitching injuries, doesn't mean you fix it by getting rid of one of your five greatest hitters in the history of the franchise, who's still very much an upward trend.

He just is. Yeah, number one in franchise history in OPS Plus. Number one. Can't wait. See more of it. Now, look, do I think the Aster's could be in a much of a sell-off team? Absolutely could be, for sure. Yeah, but what does that mean, though?

Does that mean everybody? Does that mean Peña, Brown? What do you have to sell off? Yeah, I mean, I... You could sell ESAC, but you need ESAC right now, now that Cardl's career has done for the season. I hate selling off because the... I mean, just in theory, because prospects are prospects.

Prospects means unknown. Prospects mean players. Doesn't mean guarantees. Prospect means no major league track record. Honestly, how many of the prospects of the Astros sent off that the Astros have been burned by? Not many. Not a lot. When you think about it.

I mean, Lopoito, you moved to Toronto for, you say Kikuchi, and he didn't do much there. Now you brought him back here. I'm just using one small example of that. You know what I'm saying? When you say prospects, it's almost like the guarantee. And I think all of us in media get caught up in that, too, is that if you say, we're going to go get prospects, we're going to replenish, it doesn't necessarily mean the prospects you're getting back and are going to make a difference.

They just don't. Or you're going to have a high draft. You're going to be able to use your draft system. Walker Yonick is hurt in batting 125. That's your future catcher you're supposed to think about moving Yarn Nardillo as a first base. That's been slowed down considerably. Let's see. Ryan Clifford was on a top hundred list. The fringe of it with the Mets. Drew Gilbert hasn't done much.

Nope. I'm trying to, yeah, I'm trying to look up. The Seth Beers and the other dudes like that. Nothing at all. Yeah. Corbyn Martin? Who? Exactly. All right. This first segment always flies by so fast today. I know. Brian McTaggart, 11 o'clock is going to join us at 1130. I just don't get it today. News at noon. And believe it or not today, all things about Ted Turner passing away yesterday at the age of 87. Probably one of the five most significant people in the history of electronic media. Oh, really?

Can you think about it? Okay. Create a news network. Owned a sports team. Sports team. Manage the America's team. Manage the America's Cup. What's America's Cup?

Is that the boating one? The boating thing. Okay. Sure, why not? I think it's America's Cup. No, is it called America's Cup? I don't get into the same. It's the Yotting thing.

Yeah. I think so. Married Ted to Jane Fonda, loved pro wrestling. Pretty much a gentleman of all, of all. Jack of all trades. Jack of all trades. That's right. 713212-579.

If you want to join in, 713-212-5-790. Life without Carlos Correa. We'll discuss that next, 1018 on Sports Talk 790. I know I teased about Carlos Crane live after him. It's going to be the greatest, most expensive coach in the Astros history for the rest of the season. Well, I'll tell you what, you don't have to worry about us. Easek Purdy's moving on because that guy's going to be here.

Got to play him. Need him. Got a lot of expensive coaches in this town. You're not kidding. Fred Van Vleet made a lot of money to coach the Rockets this year. John Wall. John Wall. John Wall. Fred Van Vleet. John Wall. Now, Carlos Correa. Joe Mixon.

I don't think he was coaching. Joe Mixon's showing up on my Twitter timeline that I was looking to see if something had happened. Is he doing okay? And I saw it. Bang! Bang! Did you see a big hole? You didn't see a whole... hole in his foot, did you? When am I getting my pastry and my coffee, by the way?

When Jonathan gets the sound effect, right? He's busy. He's talking to, Gordy came and talked to him. Okay, I got you. Yeah, what happened? Joe mixing. He wants the Joe mixing gunshot. Still, nobody has reported that. I feel like if somebody shot themselves, there would be a credible reporter.

Maybe it's a greatest secret in Houston sports history. There would be a credible reporter who would report it at some point. Generally, when you show up the house. We don't have very many credible reporters. in this town. We have enough, though. We have enough. Jonathan Alexander, Aaron Wilson,

that's enough right there. That's pretty much as it. That takes care of it. Rest of the water carriers. Ooh, come on my YouTube page. Watch me talking some takes, bro. Stop. That's twice.

Tip jar. Tip jar. Tip jar. Are you okay? No. My Astros. Look at my Astros. They're not good.

What about of them? Well. My rockets. What am I going to do? What are we going to do? We've got a Cougar football season coming up shortly. Twelve and old baby. expanded football

playoff for a couple of years. No, going back to the Central Point, we had to call it if you want to call back. This is not just about the Astros. This is about, in general, baseball is a wonderful sport with wonderful pitchers that are going down for long periods of time.

If you want to just tell me that everybody's going to get hurt and that it's just going to be, it's not a matter of it, but when, I guess I can accept that. It kind of seems like that. Doesn't it? I think, I mean,

Spencer Aargetti was on the A team, and he was mentioning that. We've had pictures on, and it's like something you've got to put out of your mind because it is almost a matter of if not when. But let me ask you this, and I listened to this yesterday. I think it was on the A team, as a matter of fact. Are the Astros going to get the voodoo reputation of don't come here? I don't think so. I hope not.

I don't think so. But everybody around baseball, even as I was watching MLB-based network yesterday, second consecutive year this team has been labeled with over a dozen major injuries I don't think so I think that's more of us and the fans watching that I think the players they know everyone gets hurt

as I just said we talk to them and they know this happens and they know they put their bodies on the line and the injuries I mean Alex Bregman and others have talked about this too remember he was having hamstring injuries like every year these guys have talked about it and they know and that it's very very simple you're going to pay me how much? Yeah, I'll come to the Astros.

That's it. But I mean, for two consecutive days to have your catcher go on the injured list in the gauge, and then you have Carlos Correa not only go on the injured list, but have to face six to eight months of rehabilitation

after having surgery. I don't think different players and different organizations and a lot of them are friends talking to each other. Like, yeah, it's crazy. Everybody's going down over here. but I don't think there's like some kind of people thinking it's a voodoo or, you know,

is our players on the Giants paying attention to how many players are on the IL of the Mets? Oh, I'm sure it's just around the cages kind of talk. Right. Yeah. I don't think it's like a huge like, oh, I can't go to Houston. All those guys are getting hurt. I don't think so. But to your point, Ross, like, you know, they probably like, oh, the money's there.

We're going to go regardless. Exactly. But I mean. Oh, but you said, you're talking about your U of H thing. I just, no, because athletes do. we that is something about it because it's the organization that's all I was saying yesterday it falls on the ashtra's as a whole

like it just looks so bad but they changed their they changed their head trainer last year it's a new whole different guy that makes it worse so what's going on that everybody still's getting hurt and you still hire new people I mean do you is the medical team like the doctors are they the ones but the doctors aren't with the guys

every single day they only come basically when asked I have the word for you please and I said it yesterday I think right but I didn't say the word because I don't know what it was. Apophonia. Okay. The word of the day is apophonia. Are you going to use it and believe it or not today? The human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns, connections, or relationships and

random unrelated data or coincidences. Did, did Iner Diaz hurt his, what did he hurt, oblique or what? Did he hurt his oblique because Jeremy Pena hurt his hamstring? No. I don't think so. Well, I don't think there's a connection. The only thing that you could attach all these two is that the medical staff, or the training staff, but the medical staff has their workouts routines, either too hard or too soft, whether they are taking the wrong type of supplements. But they're not all under the same, right? This is the thing, too.

Every one of those guys, they have their own training staff, they have their own, there's team Pena, then there's team Diaz and there's team Alvarez and there's team whatever. they all have their own guys and they're not all the head trainers it's not like P.E. and third period. All right everybody line up. Time for a stretch. No, they're all on their own thing.

They're all in their own regimens, their own workout regimens. They're all doing their own thing. I never want you to bring up P.E. ever again on the show. Why not? Because P.E. coaches in elementary schools are usually A-holes. That's right. They make you climb the ropes. They get short shorts and a whistle and a short poofy fro for some reason. And they make you do the shuttle cock back and forth,

you know? Yeah, what's up of? Yeah. You didn't play crab soccer back in the day? Yeah, but we didn't play crab soccer back in the day. That was only on Fridays. We had to climb up and nothing like that. Yeah, I think President Eisenhower had Matt doing the president's test or whatever.

We didn't have to do that either. Jonathan, we used to have the President's physical fitness test. Yeah. We had to run shuttles and you'd have to do chin-ups and pull-ups and sit-ups. And then when you would do the sit-ups, you'd have your body hold your feet down and you want to gasing because you're trying to hold it in. And then you get two weeks off for the harvest.

God, I hated elementary school. I loved elementary. Now, playing like a dodge ball on Fridays was fun. Yeah. And watching Ronnie a lot. I think that got legislated out. And then Ronnie a lot destroying people on football tape Thursday was pretty good. What?

Yeah, you know the NFL harder hitter. Oh, yeah. I used to watch those at home. I didn't know they were showing them in school. 90% of them now are illegal in the NFL. It's like NFL. hardest hit. Most bone-rattling hits.

Watch Ronnie Laude take off his index finger to stay alive in the football game. Watch them cart this guy off in an ambulance. How cool is that? Those are good videos. 1031 on sports. Character builders. That's right. 1031 on Sports Talk, 790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90 if you want to chime in. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Astros the day off. They'll play the Reds tomorrow in the Natty. 1031 here on 790. 1035 on Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you at 713-2125-7-90. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90.

We'll speak with Brian McTagger coming up at 11 o'clock. I just don't get it at 1130, 12-150 will have, believe it or not, today, all things about Ted Turner. And I don't know. I don't feel like the NBA is going to move the needle last night, although we did see the Knicks beat the 76ers for a second straight game. They're up to nothing.

And then the San Antonio Spurs. I fell asleep, honestly, after halftime. They destroyed the Minnesota Timberwolves. I mean, destroyed them. We're setting for our way for a San Antonio versus Oklahoma City Western Final, which I think a lot of folks probably thought. They've been a collision course basically all season long. I think everybody's hymn and haunt about the Rock.

and roster construction and Udoca and offensive schemes and this and that. These are the two best teams in the West, and they're going to meet in the Western finals, and I think that's how it was going to be. And you know what? They can knock it out this year, and the next year I'm both going to be ravaged by injuries. Wow.

Yeah, because neither one of them is like they're going to be slowing down. Oklahoma City's got draft. I mean, it could happen. It could happen. It's only getting better. The injuries completely change the complexion of the East. Completely change the complexion of the Rockets, frankly. Yes, as well.

That's true. So the rockets are due for some injury luck. Yes. I want Oklahoma City to get hurt. I want San Antonio to get hurt. Wow. I can't hide it. Okay.

Right? I guess. Who do you want to get hurt? Every one of them. Every single one. Johnson. Victor Wenbenyama. Devon cast.

Darren Fox, pull quad, out months. She goes to Alexander, gets hit finally on a real foul. ACL in the Bahamas for one of them. Exactly. 713-212-5-790. Rogers with us at 1037.

Roger, good morning. Good morning, Matt. Good morning, Ross. Hey, just a hypothetical. With all these injuries, seem to be more of the norm than just anomalies, and they're happening more frequent each year. I wonder, do you think,

and I'll get the West Hague portion after I hang up, I just wonder if the roster construction is going to be the whole ideal ideology of them building a roster, a pitching roster is going to be totally different now. I'm talking about adding more to the roster, expanding the roster, and even cutting down on salaries because of that. And because starting pitches are just getting injured, ravaged by injury every year after year.

It's becoming more frequent. I don't know what it could be. It could be the pitch clock. Could be just a what's aification of modern athlete. Who knows? But it's just happening more and more. And I was just wondering, it's going to be something that.

going to have to make some kind of dramatic change later on in baseball. Just a thought. Thanks, Roger. You know who should be very interested in this, Rossi? Who's that? Because if these pitchers continue to go down, guess what the salaries are going to do? That's why running backs in the NFL don't get the super big money because the injury bug hits guys in the running back court. Also, they're replaceable.

A high-level pitcher is, we're seeing right now. Hunter Brown is not very replaceable on the Houston. Astro's roster. But, yeah, I mean, it's interesting. That's why I talked about, we, in the offseason, it's like, if you're choosing Jeremy Payne or Hunter Brown, part of me wants to choose Jeremy Payne, just because I don't want to pay a pitcher $40 million to be on the sidelines with the UCL tear.

It's more likely that a position player, now, of course, Jeremy Payne is out with a hamstring injury, and he had, what, the rib thing last year. Right. But he's still, at the end of the day, hopefully going to play like 120 games. That's what I'm saying. I think for the greater good of the sport. Now, granted, you're talking about Hunter Brown.

You're talking about one a ace per team. It's 30 pitchers. There's a lot of other pitchers that are number two, number threes on rosters that would like to get paid too, and they're not going to get paid because they're afraid they're going to get hurt. It's interesting. And then you pay guys and then they get hurt. How are the Astros feeling about the Christian Javier deal right now?

Awful. How do they feel about the Tatu I, My Deal right now? Terrible. How did it felt about the Lance McCullors deal for all these years? years. Terrick scoble's made the biggest arbitration dollars ever. Yeah. He's on the sidelines right now.

What's Garrett Crochet making in Bostoners? He's still under arbitration. I'll have to look. I think he's got, he had like a year left or something when he was traded away. But just look at the Astro situation. The amount of money that the crane ownership group has spent on pitchers and it hasn't paid off. And that's why I think there's going to be a little bit of hesitation when it comes to Hunter Brown. Yeah, Crochet did get his big deal. He's making $25 million.

year. Think about all the different pitchers. Who you got to the Max Scherters of the world have made crazy money? Who was the Dodger pitcher that was making a great money until I retired recently? Clayton Kershaw? Clinton Kershaw. Justin Verlander. Granky made great money.

Kevin Brown made great money. I could go, I mean, on and on and on with guys that just never could fulfill the length of their contract because of the fact that they spent so much time on the injury list. if I'm a pitcher and I'm on a high-ender, I want to know why my brethren, my fraternity is having such a difficult time saying healthy. Josh Hater. It's a lot.

Think about this for a second, gang. The amount of money that has been spent on Hater, Verlander, Javier, not Hunter Brown per se just yet. He's making decent. Decent money. But he was scheduled to make that kind of money. If you're Jim Crane, does this, oh, Emi, does this make you super, super leery of spending big money on pitchers?

Well, he's super leery of spending big money on anybody. Yeah. Honestly, if y'all think about it, baseball is the only sport, like Matt, you said, that pays these players that aren't, that don't have much shelf time. Like running backs, I mean, you can even talk about it to track. You can even go down to all these other sports that if they're not shelf time, you're not going to get paid. and baseball is the only one that risk all that money going into. Obviously it's a necessity.

Now, running backs to Ross's point are easily replaceable. You can go from, well, I don't know, Sequin Barclay probably had been replacing the Giants. They're the only ones with fully guaranteed long-term contract because there's limits. You can only, there's limits and there's maximums in the NBA. There's a maximum amount.

There's no max on years. There's no max on money in baseball. That's the only one that's like that. to kind of what you're saying there, Jonathan. So, yeah, it is a unique animal to where you can get a 10-year, $400 million contract. You can't do that in basketball. You certainly ain't doing that in football. And you probably aren't doing in baseball anymore.

That's, yeah, I don't know. You kind of don't have a choice. It has to be almost a collusion of the owners to kind of all step back and say, hey, we can't do this. Or a salary cap. Or you're seeing a lot of these optimals. doubts like Tatsu you might just sign. Oh, he's opting in.

It's like Billy Joel said, I'm opting in. That's the song, right? That's Diana Ross. Oh. No, he's coming out. No, I'm moving out. I'm opting in. You know, usually, folks, I'm the one that butchers the music references.

I know that the song was Matt. What is it? I'm moving out, Billy Joel. Okay. I thought you were going Diana Ross. Oh, I'm coming out? Yeah. I'm

Come in Opting In I'm opting in I want the world to know I'm gonna take that money and let you show that I can pitch in the United States

Or maybe not But I'm still opting in There you go What's wrong with us? A lot I'm sorry You want more breakdown on 12 to 2? No

So let's break down pitch by pitch Jason Alexander's outing No, he's back in Sugarland. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Brian McTegger coming in for 15 minutes. We're going to hear also from Dana Brown today. He was on the morning show.

We'll see how you mean. There was a barrel of laughs. Oh, I'm sure it was just, hey, boys, good now. I'm so glad to do this segment with you. I can't wait to break down. I got news for you. What are you going to do with Dana here? We've got the draft coming up in two months.

He's drafting. Why? Why not? Are you going to make a replacement? No, you can be, no, I'll give you the argument. Okay. I don't want him to go, but I'm going to give you the argument. I'm going to give you the argument.

1044 on Sports Talk 790. 1049 on Sports Talk 790. We'll have Brian McTaggo join us. And again, I have nothing against Zinnett Brown. He's trying. He's trying to make moves. He's going on the directive of his ownership, trying to keep payroll where it's at, trying to field roster,

field as much depth in the pitching core as possible. But, you know, we've talked about this the last handful of days, sports survey. You've got fall guys. You can't fire an administration. You can't fire an entire team. You can fire the man who's ultimate responsible. And I think Joe and Dana know that on lame duck contracts with him not having a deal, they know that their time was limited.

If you don't think it's working and you are going to make a chance, change. Logically, to me, it's you let the lieutenant handle the draft. You let the lieutenant handle the draft deadline, the trade deadline, because the guy that's going to be making these moves isn't going to be the part of your free future in 2027. I mean, I understand that, but I feel, I mean, it could happen. Dana could get dismissed and they'll go with somebody else to run the draft.

If they don't think that the draft picks have been good, which so far, I don't think there's a single one that's in the top hundred of any. prospect list and you've got three years of draft classes. So I'm not saying it's the craziest thing, but if he's going to be gone, you're just going to let some underling of him make all the draft picks and run the drafts when he has the experience of somebody who has done this and you drafted in here as a scout and as somebody to, he's here to run drafts. But he's not going to be the future general manager of your team.

So why are you putting the, the, the, the, future picks in his hands. Well, neither is the underling. You don't know that. Probably not. So Dana Brown's bad and we're going to go with his first lieutenant? Yeah. I mean, yeah, absolutely.

Yeah. Yeah. You could, I believe it's, I believe it is something that should be considered. I'm not saying, I want it to happen. I'm saying that if you cannot be naive to the thought that why would you let a default lame duck general manager run your draft when you know he's not going to be part of your The easy reason to let this see itself out is because everybody's been hurt. And you're also, Dana Brown has been, if you're Jim Crane, Dana Brown has been under your orders.

Dana Brown had to ship out Marisu Dubon for Nick Allen because you want to stay under the tax. Dana Brown had to go and ship out Jesus and bring back Joey Lopofito because you wanted him out. Dana Brown hasn't been able to get any sort of semblance of any big name free agent because you wanted him out. Then why hasn't Jim backed up Dana with an additional contract then? Because I'm sure he is unsure of how good of a job Dana is doing. It's not fair in life, but business owners take out general managers, even though maybe the ownership fault. I think it would-general managers of restaurants. I mean, I don't want to serve this meat.

It's not as good as we normally serve. We're down 20 percent. You're doing it. Okay. And down 20 percent? What do you do? Do you fire yourself? No, you fire the general manager.

I'm not saying Dana Brown is some general. managing genius, but I think he's had a bad, he's been put in a bad situation. Yeah. And maybe the, Ross, maybe the general managers are always put in bad situations. Don't get over the, we have to compete. We need to be World Series contenders. Oh, by the way, the competitive balance tax threshold is radioactive. Stay away from that at all costs. And, oh, by the way, you're going to trade for Justin Verlander. You're going to trade for Yusay Kukuchi. You're going to trade away what any little bit of prospects you have. And you're going to sign big money to a Josh Hader.

Oh, and by the way, 18, 19 people are going on the aisle one year, and then you're up to, what is it, 14, 15 this year? For the 100th time. It's not fair. But you've got to still think, I think you have to think of an owner. If you are like, this isn't working out, the prospect, the monoling system isn't as good, the players who've brought in hasn't made the difference. You've signed all these pitchers and they haven't made a difference.

Ryan Weiss, Mike Burroughs, Ryan Weiss has been a disaster. Yeah, Burroughs has been mid. Yeah, you've had to build guys on the cheap too. Yeah. You have to try to make something work with Mike Burrow. Peter Lambert's been good. Do we get any credit for Peter Lambert?

Yeah, you do. Okay. But Peter Lambert does, the success of Peter Lambert does not overshadow the non-success of the team. I'm just saying don't sleep on the fact that there may be somebody doing the heavy lifting around the deadline if they become sellers. You brought Hayden Wes Nesky. He was pretty good. And then he ripped his arm apart. Brandon Walter was pitching very well from you.

And then his arm fell apart. Christian Javier, that's not Dana Brown's fault. Lance McCullors Jr. certainly ate Dana Brown's fault. You got to throw Dana Brown out there. I mean, Lance McCullors and when he was healthy, Christian Javier, and I feel like Jim Crane had a heavy involved in bringing Tatsu EMI over there with a Diken deal. Yeah. Okay. So all those things you just said made

tremendous amount of success. or a made a tremendous amount of sense. I would say at least let him see, yeah. I mean, see, can you see if things turn around some? Do you see that both the guys out?

That's why over and over again, I have said, if you're really going to make a move, do it at the end of the year. Don't be cruel to these guys because a lot of the things you just said are out of their hands. Now, some could be,

roster construction wasn't great. Everything you brought in hasn't panned out. I mean, Lambert was not on your radar to be a guy that was supposed to come in. Yeah, but he's been good. You were spouting Ryan Weiss, you were spouting Mike Burroughs, that big trade there. You were saying that life would go on without Maricio Dubon, that has not worked out. Now,

you did keep Peretti. A lot of it was because you had to, not necessarily because you wanted to, because you needed to because you had guys that are hurt. The EMA deal, how much of that was Diken, how much of that was going to define the international market, how much of that was Jim Crane, we'll never know to know the real real answers.

I'm just knowing how big business works and big business and the big boss says, I've got to make a change. Why don't want to let my current people running it have any intel about the future of my team? So that's why if I was a Dana Brown fan, I'd be more nervous about Dana Brown's future at this point than I would be of Joe Espada.

Because you do have the draft. coming up and you do have the trade deadline. Yeah, I mean, if you have somebody in place that you think is going to do a better job, I guess go for it. You don't. You have the lieutenant. You have the interim. And in terms usually don't do a better job. They just are the placeholders. That's what I'm saying. I mean, if you have somebody waiting in the wings

who is a baseball scouting genius. And yes, this guy's tweeting me, Bryce Matthews was not a top hunter prospect on baseball perspective or baseball America list. I think he was like literally hundredth on on the MLB pipeline list. And Kevin Alvarez is not a draft pick.

So. By way, shout out to elementary school PE teachers in general. He was an international signing, not a draft pick. And Alvarez is doing very well. Yeah. But the PR Academy has not done enough, the DR opinion, I would say. And they tried to go international. Shout out to PE teachers across the area.

I love you all. I just had a bad one. Oh, okay. I just get random texts on people. Hey, we're not all the same breed. Sandra, if you're out there listening, God love you, you were the best. Although, you never were my PE teacher. I just had a couple salty ones back in the day.

And again, the whole rope thing was just uncomfortable. That's all I'm saying. All right, let's get to our friend Brian McTaggart of Astros.com. We'll talk to him about what he saw yesterday. He was making a lot of headlines himself because he was putting his videos out there talking about how bad Carlos Gray was. Torn tendon, six to eight months recovery.

Yikes. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Every Thursday at 11 o'clock we spend 10 quality minutes with our friend Brian McTaggart. Brian's videos are becoming way too popular. Apparently, so I've got to put my face on these

Twitter videos. Instagram, the man is all over the place. And I think, Brian, you're going to have to start watching more of batting practice because the last two times the Astros took batting practice before night games, they sent two guys the injured list. What's going on down on that plate at about 545, 6 o'clock? Yeah, that was crazy.

I think Correa's was actually inside the hitting tunnel. You know, a lot of players now don't like to hit on the field, so Correa was hitting inside. So I wouldn't have seen that one anyway because apparently he crumbled to the ground. Diaz, I did not see that one at all when he was swinging and had to stop. but it's unfathomable that two days in a row they lose a guy in batting practice and one of their starters position players and a key player it's just you think just when you think they've had enough injuries and they can't get any more than that happens and it's it's it I I'm speechless I've

never seen anything like this that's the thing Brian is that we're being asked the same questions you are well you change the medical staff out you change out the physical strength and conditioning. You do all the subtle behind the scene things that we don't see. We have to assume they're all professionals of their job. They've got training to it. Do you want to just chalk this up to a second year of unbelievable, terrible lack of luck? Or do you think there's even another deep dive within the organization that has to be done because of the number of injuries that have happened to this team so far this year? Well, I mean, they changed head trainers. They trained, changed their head, strength, and conditioning coach. They brought in other

other people to the medical staff. I mean, they've made a lot of changes to their medical staff and it's still happening. So I mean, I lean on the side of this is just a crazy coincidence. I mean, I don't think there's, I can't imagine there's anything going on with the Astros

that is getting all these guys injured. I mean, you know, Krea looks like he just rolled his ankle, I guess, taking a swing. I mean, you know, whose fault is that? It's nobody. It's just, you know, it's just, you know, it's just unfortunate luck and you know ds swings the bat and feels an oblique i mean diaz is in good shape he as far as i know he does all their workouts and their plans and i guess i guess there's no

firm answer but you know two years in a row they've had more injuries than anybody and you know i know it's frustrating and everyone wants answers and the answer might be it's just the way it is there is no there is no answer all right speaking of injuries mcculler's nail what do we know about what happened yesterday he his ability to stay out there was good Unfortunately, he was just throwing stuff that was easily hitable as the Dodgers took two out of three. But what do we know about Lance right now in the nail and whether or not it will impact the way he makes his next appearance? Well, I mean, apparently, you know, he's leading off the third inning against Freeland, the nine-hole hitter in the third inning. The part of his nail tore off on his pointer finger nail on his right hand.

They came out there and looked at it. He said, I don't have my curveball anymore, but let me try to finish this inning. I can make quality pitches. They said, okay, just because they really can't afford their starter to go two innings. And then he couldn't get out of the third inning because he said he was a pitch down. So he was asked directly if it's going to impact his next start. He said, we'll see. So it would not shock me considering the struggles that Lance has had if they put him on the injured list.

The problem is, who do you replace him with? I mean, they bring up Jason Alexander and he gets. knocked around. They're just at the end of their starting pitching debt. They just don't have anybody anymore. So, just because of all these injuries. So, and, you know, EMI is going to come back and start against Seattle just because kind of what I did yesterday. Look, I mean, this guy's not injured. He's throwing 97. He's making a ton of money. You either get guys out in the big leagues or you don't. So sink or swim time. And so that's where they're at with him. So it's just nothing about this feels really good if you're the Astros, but it's just where they're at.

Brian McTaggart with us here on Sports Talk 790, and that's what I was going to come with you, come to you next, Brian McTaggart is Tatsui Imi. How were you surprised at all that they kind of made that decision to just throw him in there, or is it, like you said, it's just a necessity and you've got to go out there and get some outs and earn this contract? Yeah, I wasn't surprised. I mean, you know, what more can you do? Let's give him another minor league start, and, you know, he walks four guys and, okay, now what? You know, they sign him here to get major league hitters out, and that's what he's going to have to figure out a way to do. His first two innings, it's Sugar Land. I mean, I was not there.

I was watching the Astros play at Dikin, but apparently his first two innings weren't bad, and then the rails sort of came off. But he mentioned something about the pitch clock, and I mean, we've heard everything. Now we've heard pitch clock, the mound, the balls, eating schedule, you know, you name it. At some point, you're just going to have to go out there and man up and get guys out. And that's the point of the season we're at. And they're in a really tough part of their schedule right here. I mean, they just finished playing the Dodgers. You know, Cincinnati was playing well.

You know, they were in first a few days ago. Now they're in last, but they're still over 500. You know, the Mariners just took a series from the Braves, so they're sort of on the come. so there's really no soft landing spot at this point. You're just going to have to go out there and get major league hitters out. That's what we're paying you to do. So it's time to go do that. If it keeps trending in this way, how much grace do either of Joe Espada or Dana Brown get in terms of the injuries and the situation they are on?

How thin of ice do you feel like both of those guys are on? Yeah, that's tough because depending any of this on Joe Espada, I don't think is fair. I mean, you take away the amount of players. We're talking five starting position players, three members of your starting rotation who are in the rotation to start the season and your All-Star Closer, you take them away and there's not a manager around this going to have this team in first place or, you know, playing much better than they are now. That's just the way it is.

But I get it. You know, people want answers. People want accountability. Jim Crane has never made a move with a manager or a general manager. in the middle of the season. So I think we're too early for that stuff. I think at the All-Star break, maybe that's the time that the Crain will, you know, sit down and evaluate things.

I have not asked him about this. I have not had the chance to talk to him about, you know, what do you think of the state of the team right now and where they're at? So it's really hard to say it's all speculation. But my gut just tells me I don't think we're to that point. And I think it would be really, really unfair for Joe, just with all the injuries that they've It's just he's running guys out there who, you know, should be in the minor leagues. And there's, you know, that's not an indictment on him.

That's just the roster that he's been given. And specifically on Dana Brown, Matt and I were talking about this in the last segment. If, I mean, what do you think the prospects of him in terms of also the draft that you have coming up in terms of, could you just talk, just tell us how that goes? How involved is Dana Brown? Is he making the picks? Is it like director of scouting? And is the board built? like what would that entail if it weren't Dana Brown running the draft?

Well, you know, Dana was brought here because of his draft record. One of the reasons, I mean, he's a scout at heart. He had some really good drafts with the Braves. And so the draft is what in July. So I would find it hard to believe they would make a move. I mean, Dana's very, very involved in the draft. I mean, they brought in Derek Ladeneer, who's, you know, one of the top of talent evaluators a couple of years ago. And he's very involved as well.

So, you know, there's a lot of voices that are involved in their draft selection process. But Dana's up there as well. Now, if they did make a move at general manager, would they still have capable guys who can make draft picks? Yeah, I mean, they have a lot of pretty good talent evaluators that Dana brought in. I mean, these are Dana's guys. So, you know, do you remove that? If you remove Dana, then, you know, do other guys stay? I mean, these are all questions.

I just don't have an answer to. So it's sort of uncharted waters at this point. It certainly is uncharted waters, but let's put this in perspective here. You have been hanging around the American League West, despite the fact that your team is under 500. The division isn't good. But how important are these, look, every game is important. But the next seven at home after you go to this trip to Cincinnati will be a against all division teams.

That feels like to me next week is a very important week for figuring out whether you are just hanging around and thankfully you're hanging around or there will be some separation between the top and the bottom teams in the American League West. Yeah, I agree. I mean, you look at the standings here like, you know, they're not even, you know, it's a quarter mark of the season yet. And, you know, they're still sort of in a spot to where if they could get it together, they could make a little bit of a move here. But you're right. I mean, this is a big homestand coming up. they had a three and three road trip to Baltimore and Boston. I mean, you take a 500 road trip.

You know, you lose two or three to the Dodgers who are, you know, the best team of the world. So now you've got to start stacking some series wins again. You're going to slowly start to get some guys back off the IL here. Pena is really close. I think we'll see him. Nick's homestand, you know, haters a couple of weeks away. You know, my is coming back what he's going to give you, you know, I'm not sure that they've got the Senzo back.

So they, you know, a little bit more of a capable, player than they had at that spot a week ago. But at some point, you're going to have to win two out of every three win series. But if they have a poor home stand against the Mariners and the Rangers and really get buried in standings, and it starts to look like it's just not going to happen. Then maybe Crane has some difficult conversations. But having not talked to him about this, it's hard for me to know what he's thinking. Before I let you run, the ESOC Paredes holding onto him, it wasn't because the Astroen

were not trying to kick the tires. I'm making a move with him during spring training. They just needed him because of necessity, because of ailments and whatnot. Now the Kray is out. I would assume unless the Astros are in a full cell mode, and that could still be a month from now that Esock pride is done to worry about what gear he's going to wear

for at least the next 30 to 45 days. Yeah, I don't think he's going anywhere. I mean, they tried to trade him. They couldn't find a match. So, and yeah, I mean, they've, you know, all we talked about all winter was this surplus of infielers that they have and then, you know, what happened?

Pena was hurt, you know, right off the bat, didn't play every day. And then even Paredes left the team for three days, you know, for the death of his grandparent and now here, Correa's out. So, you know, they need him. I mean, he's a guy that's still very young, a guy that's not making a lot of money.

So he's not going anywhere. He's going to be at third base the rest of the season. and a guy they'll go into next year, you know, probably looking to be in the middle of their lineup as well. So if they would have traded him, yeah, I don't know what they would have got for him, but they would have been in, I'm guessing they would have got younger players, maybe minor league players who aren't ready now. So they'd be in a lot worse spot than they are.

So I think that was a silver lining for them for sure, holding on to Paredes. And back to Eam to wrap it up here. This is a situation where he's just got to get out. This is the money that was being spent. I'm curious how Scott Boris, and you've had a chance to deal with him a little bit. What is Scott, what's going through Scott's mind right now as a wrap up this young man's first four-a-in-American baseball? Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, I haven't taught to Scott about EMI, but, yeah, I mean, I think you're right. He just got to throw strikes. Just put good guys out. Don't walk guys. Throw in the zone. I mean, the fact that, you know, he's pretty much a two-pitch pitcher. And Dana Brown said the other day that he would like to see him, yeah, throw those two pitches, but, you know, maybe open up a little bit more of the arsenal as well,

because you throw two pitches, you know, you can get predictable. If you're a starter, if a reliever, you can get away with it. So, you know, maybe there's some pitch uses, things they can change. But, you know, I'm sure Boris is probably frustrated. He wants the best for his clients. But, you know, he's got his money. He's got a lot of money. And I'm sure, you know, if I was in his situation, I would not like my ERA.

I would not like the fact that I'm walking so many guys every night. innings and, you know, I want to go out here and shove and show people that I can do this. So, and I get there's a transition period, but, I mean, he was at spring training, the entire spring. He pitched with the pitch clock. He looked really good. It's, you know, it's the same game that it is now. It's just, you know, the lights are brighter. So maybe it's something between the years.

I don't know. But you're right. He just got to go out there and throw strikes and give the team a chance to win. And he hasn't been doing that. And two of the three starts that he made in the big leagues, he didn't do that. Tags, great stuff as always, friend. Thank you for the visit. We'll talk with you again next Thursday.

All right, sounds good. That's Brian McTaggart with MLB.com. 1115 is the time. If you miss the Dana Brown conversation, we're going to have that for you coming up at 1220 today. So we'll have that. If you missed that from this morning's show with Dan and with Cole, we've got Brian McTaggart, we just had there.

We've got Ted Turner on, believe it or not, and we have your phone calls at 713-212-5-790. I'm currently editing Dana Brown for our 1220 replay today. He's glass half full, which he has to be. Shocking. I know. I know. It's shocking.

He didn't say, we're the worst. I'm going to get fired. It's been nice talking to you guys. But he's even, oh, of course, always overly optimistic. And you know what? In his defense, this is not abnormal for this Astro team to be off to a sluggish start. it feels like it's a right of passage, isn't it not? Yeah, but also this just feels different because of the amount of injuries didn't really hit hard to like the middle of the season last year.

They got off to a good start last year, right? Those bad injuries? Well, they were able to withstand them and compete all the way to the very end. I know they gave up the leading the division late in Seattle went on to win the American League West, but they were tied for the wild card. Now they lost a tire breaker because of the winds of the tigers. Thank God your division sucks. And that's the thing.

and that's why I brought up with McTaggart a few minutes ago about whether or not the tide would change if all of a sudden Oakland and Seattle and the Rangers come in next week and beat you up pretty badly. Because you're, I mean, look, the lineup yesterday, 6, 789, Ross,

what in a murderous role of offensive lineup? You would be 11 games behind the Braves. Thank God. Thank God. God bless the American League West. He'd be 8.5. behind the Dodgers. Yeah.

Blessings of the American League West. Very good blessings. Oh, damn, the Yankees have been ripping off some dubs, huh? Yeah. Well, again, as McTagher brought up, Seattle's playing better, they beat Atlanta in the series. You're not going to have a team. Like, right now, isn't the American League Central?

Is anybody above 500 in that division? No, they're 19 and 19. The Guardians are leading. So, yeah, you'd be 10 and a half games behind the Yankees. You're only four games behind the A. Just four. You heard him. Let's go. But that's going to, you would assume that it's going to change.

As he said, though, you're eight games under 500. You've got to start two and out of threes, four out of five. You've got to need a little six out of seven or something like that, six out of eight, whatever. Yep. You got to get to that point. Yes. You got to, and you're doing it with piecemilling a pitching rotation. Now, if Lambert wants to be a hero, if Erigetti wants to continue to be good,

If Mike Burles continues his upward trend, you've got some thoughts. The colors, I don't know. I mean, how do you lose a nail and then come back and pitch five days later? It seems like practical. It makes a lot of sense. What Mike Taggart said, I think, is going to happen. He's been pitching horribly. He lost a nail.

I.L. Do you ever lose nails like that? I lost a toenail. I imagine that. Did it happen to you in track, Jonathan? You lose toenails all the time, right? No, Tonell burrows. But those cross rush runners?

They do. You know, I peel my toenails off sometimes, too. I got a little delayed blood in there. I get rid of it. Yeah. You're right. Yeah. Okay.

At least, no, you know, that helps get mad. I'm glad you took care of so because I can get bad. Thank you. Don't pop your blisters, though. No, I'm done with that. Okay, good. I'm blistered popping done. Why have we bring that up?

Now imagine it again. No, it's just pus. You got the infection. All right, let's move on. I just don't get it coming up at about five minutes. Maybe that's my fault. What do people poke at their toenails? Don't do it.

Don't do it. Jordan and Oak Forest at 1125. Jordan, good morning to you. Hey, Matt. How are you doing? I wanted to say, thank you so much the other week I won, I'm believe it or not, brought Stuart tickets, took my dad. He's had a couple of brain surgeries the last couple years.

And it was just special to be able to go to the show. And we just loved it and wanted to say thank you. Also, I just want to talk about, why our managers and pitching coach keeps leaving pitchers and struggling innings, you know, they're walking with glances callers, seem to be going well, and then all of a sudden you can watch him come apart. And it becomes six-runs, seven-run innings. And I know we're not deep right now,

but surely there has to be better recognition of everything going, I would have to respectfully disagree. I think Joe is having to decide literally by the minute who he's got it available, who's healthy, who hasn't pitched a lot. He used blue ball a lot. He has used, who else, Brian King a lot. I mean, there's no way if I was wearing his cap and his responsibility, I'd build to figure out this pitching staff right now because I can't figure out who's healthy on a day-to-day basis. Now that I had McCullors in the mix, it makes even more difficult. Yeah, I agree.

I mean, you know, McCullors has had some good performances recently, but, man, we are wild as a team. You know, just give up so many walks and put ourselves in almost impossible situations. I don't know what the answer is to keep them healthy. I do know that someone has to get fired here in terms of health-wise, keep our place. ready to go. I mean, this is just a pattern. I don't know if it's bad luck anymore. Well, thank you for the phone call.

You're not going to be fired by the angelus. You're fired by the results. But I just want everybody, when you call the show, and we're guilty of this as well, when you ask for people to be fired, put yourself in their shoes. If the situation was the exact same and you were running the team,

whether you're the field manager or the general manager, what would you say? I'm responsible for this? I mean, it's just crazy. Shoulder, oblique, ankle. A popping of a tendon in a batting cage. Yeah. I mean, you can blame the manager for a misplacing guy giving a guy a day off,

not putting a lineup in the right spot. How in the hell are you going to throw a manager or a general manager under the bus when the guy pops a tendon in a pregame warm up? I don't know. It's bottom line business and it doesn't look good, but if I were, I would talk more and more to the players. anything. And so players are going to be biases because a lot of these guys, Joe's their guy.

Yeah. Has he lost the clubhouse and they're all playing horribly because of him? I don't think so. I'll just say, when you lose a clubhouse or people question what's going on, Chandler Rome and Brian McTaggart and Matt Kawakawa, they're all ready to listen. Whether it's behind the scenes,

whether it's in front of the microphone or behind, they'll tell you. You don't hear that. Like when we're getting Chas McCormick and Pudding. There was a story about Chas McCormick not being happy with Dusty Baker? Yeah.

That's just, but that's a very, yeah, that's an example, but that's just a very small example. If there was aggravation about, like if, for instance, if Carole's Correa said, the reason why my tendon is not feeling great is because I'm playing all this shortstop

because there's nobody else, you could say, well, okay, did the Astros have enough depth in the left side of the infield? You'd argue that. But they wouldn't got, what's his name, Alan, who plays all over the place in the infield. They wouldn't got an other utility guy. And he's hurt.

Or he got hurt. He's back now. Trust me, if Carlos Corrie and Jose Al-Tuvai, I've got something to bitch about, they'll do it. They'll be just very convenient how they do it. So we've got two obliques, a quad, a hamstring, and a ripped ankle. It's talking about just position players. Is the oblique just swinging too hard? Yeah.

I mean, I don't know. I mean, we get oblique injuries. I mean, Al-Tube's had oblique recently. Ordon Alvarez had an oblique injury. It's pictures. Christian Walker had oblique too. Yeah, exactly. Multiple times.

Yeah, batterers get oblique injuries all the time. It's another thing. You're trying to get your bat speed up. One way to do that? Swing out of your shoes. Rip your oblique. Yeah. Swing as hard as you can.

Look, friends, and I consider you all friends, most of you. Most of you. I love most of y'all. It's just, we don't have answers. And I feel like we can't have answers because this is all medical. We don't know. Yeah, this is a case-by-case basis as well. I mean, it's not contagious.

Jeremy Payne didn't hurt his hamstring, and then that caused Jainer Diaz to hurt his oblique. Nothing connects the dots, except as happening to your baseball team. If this was happening to the Toronto Blue Jays, you wouldn't care. Josh Hader got hurt in his off-season throwing program. He wouldn't anywhere near Houston or West Palm. Yeah.

It's, you know what, Ross, I just don't get it. It's not the vitamin water or the lack of fluoride in Diken Park or they're using bad equipment cages. The electrical grid. Yeah. Could be some cancer cells over the power of the top of the building. Oh. Benzio played there for all those years. Jeff Kemp played okay.

Injuries happen. Jeff Kent got hurt though, washing his truck. Wink, wink, wink. wink wink that's true you hate when you you hate when a putts hurts himself on a truck putts on the truck he is a putts in the truck

is that like the new elf on the shelf i will not be celebrating his world's his hall of fame entrance oh he made it yeah remember we talked about that yeah douche 1130 borderline no full douche borderline major league hall of fame but he's in so credit to him good for him congratulations really happy for him

713212 57590 what don't you get ross what don't you get, Jonathan, what don't you get Houston, Texas? We need some answers. Actually, we're going to supply the answers. If you have something in your life, you just don't get, we're here for you. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Do you have something in your life that you just don't get? No need to worry, no need to fret.

We will discuss the topics to see if we comprehend the things that may confuse our friends. It's time to say, I just don't get it. All right, what we're going to do here, 1137. We're going to sit back. We're going to listen to y'all. We're going to use our sage advice that I've brought to the table. Ross has brought to the table. Jonathan brings the table in a category we simply call I just don't get it.

I'll make mine very grandiose. I don't get why Major League Baseball is just going to say, yeah, injuries are going to happen. I'm not blaming the pitch clock. I'm not blaming the spin rate. My ratings are high. My stadiums are full. My television ratings are good. Nothing to see here.

I think sometimes if you're a very effective leader, if you're not looking at the macro view and looking at the micro view of your success, that does not make you a great leader. I hope as baseball set some time away from its sport, probably next year, unfortunately, they look at this and they probably say maybe five extra seconds on the clock. couldn't it couldn't hurt you're talking about what three to four minutes of an extra game I would say baseball's blind eye to the injuries and the not bringing it up in serious conversation I say I just don't get it I think they will look into it but it's also that we need years and

years of data to figure anything out how much of this is just an outlier how much of this is in terms of the pitch clock because what can you can't tell guys to not spin the ball and and And thanks to Kylie sent an article from Rotowire. It also talks about not only a guy's spinning the ball harder and throwing the ball faster, they're not throwing their fastball as much. So they're throwing more sliders, cutters, splitters, whatever, stuff that torques on your elbow. It's also more off-speed stuff is getting thrown. And that's just the nature of the way the game has evolved.

I don't know how you've stopped that. Rob Manford make a decree you have to throw at least 60% fastballs. He can't do that. No, we can't do that because then you're going to have to people deciding, well, was that a fastball? Was it a curveball? And then broadcasts are like, oh, I don't know what that was. And then that's going to further muddy up the game. I would have to agree with you, though, because you see NFL, too many people getting hurt on kickoff, they had a change kickoff rule.

They did. Yeah, but also at the end of the day, they don't care either. It's all about money. I mean, I get it. It's about money and ratings because what happens? Oh, player safety. Hey, guys, we're adding a 17th game. Players safety, we care about our players.

Oh, we love it. of our players. All right, guys, 18th games coming. Like, they keep adding games. That's not player safety. They changing some of the rules and tweaking some of them. I got news for you. Guys are still getting hurt. When they get the 18th game, it's going to happen. I'll tell you this a couple of years ago. What's that? They're going to make people sit out a game. Maybe. They don't get paid?

No. Players are going to agree to that? No, they'll get paid for 18. The owners are going to agree to paying them for them not playing? I mean, this is a gut feeling. I think you're going to be in a mandatory 17 games. schedule. It can be collectively bargained. What about doing that for baseball? Pitchers can't pitch more than 30 games or 25 or whatever. Players can't play more than 120.

You could go with a minor little league number of pitches thrown. I mean, everything's got to be in the table. A pitch limit? Yeah, 100 pitch limit. Guys aren't normally hitting that anyways. Or you can only, if you're a reliever, you're only pitching 50 pitchers a week. Wow. I don't know. I'm just throwing it out there. I want to hate on it.

I know you do. I'm not a fan of it either, but I'm just saying... I don't think it would happen. The consistent blind eye... The owner's going to say, if I'm paying this guy $40 million a year, he needs to be out there. That's happening right now.

Emi is making, what, 18 or whatever? 18, yeah. Come on, buddy. You're no, no, no, you're no longer a space cowboy. You're back up. That's why. I mean, you don't think Jim Cran's like,

get his ass out of minor league. I can't bear it wearing, uh, seeing his his arm being thrown at non-important pitches. If he has five healthy good starters, maybe you'd give them another one, let them figure it out. But you don't. You don't have it. You don't have it. You guys are nails are falling off. We got obliques. We got

hamstrings. And Les McElellan's nails are literally falling off. And we got tendons popping in the Oh my God. Gage. All right, Ross, what don't you get? I mean, I was just going to go to the, not only the injury carb, I still don't get what happened to Carlos Correa. He's

swinging for a pitch and he pops a tendon in his ankle? Yeah. Yeah. How? What's going on? Well, I mean, think about it. Could it happen? I've never heard of that happen.

Have you ever heard of that happening in baseball ever any time? No, but I could envision it. How kind of a major toe tap is he doing? Now, if he popped his Achilles, I can kind of wrap my head around that. But they haven't said that. Nope. They could ultimately say a lot more. Was he barefoot?

No. He barefoot and he stepped on a baseball? I don't think that's the case. You got to put shoes on the baton cage. I don't get it. I'm going to say I do get it. I think that you could see some injuries in the batting cage. I don't want to, but I can get it.

You have never heard of a guy getting season engine injury on his ankle from the batting cage. I heard about it yesterday. You've never heard about that before. Ever. And you've been covering baseball a long time. I know. And you never heard that before. Terrible.

But, I mean, it could happen in the middle of the game. And they popped it worse? Could he? That's what I'm saying. I feel like there has to be more to this story. Oh, so basically about the whole I'm not saying. I'm not saying.

I'm not saying. That made sense, actually. I think he cracked it. Because guys always, not always, but often cracked their ribs diving for a ball and they don't realize until. Yeah. That happened to Aaron.

Judge. It is weird that Carlos's two injuries happened not on the active field. No, he cracked his rib diving for a ball and then the masseuse really cracked it. Masuse is like, you want her to out make you hurt.

I can't breathe. That's what happened. Is that how when? Yeah. Jonathan, what don't you get? All right, mine's going to be more of a Gen Z thing.

So stay away. Let's go. Okay, so educate these kids. I don't understand when you go out and this could be with anybody, you know, whatever floats your boat,

but if you're out with somebody that you are like talking to or you're, you know, you're messing around with, I don't understand if you're going on, on dates with people and someone

asks you like, oh, are y'all a thing? You look at that person and tell everybody it's complicated. If you're out on a date, you're dating, right? No. No, no, no, no, no. I'm not saying like a bar day, oh, you're not on the bar. I'm saying, like, if you meet this couple, Matt,

saying, okay, oh, yeah, we've been on each other for a couple months. You know, we go out around time. That happens all the time. But I don't understand. I mean, you don't say like your boyfriend and a girlfriend, but saying it's complicated? What's complicated about that?

Because I don't, because if I didn't know you and your girl were together and you don't know if you're together all the way through, it is complicated. But I think you're trying to use a one-off. I don't think most young couples in early dating say it's complicated. You may have a one-off. I think, Matt, I'm telling you right now. Not everybody saying it.

Have you heard about situationships? Yeah. Matt, I'm talking, Matt, I knew Ross knew, but Matt, have you heard about the 13 years? I'm saying that I'm telling you, if I went to go to a bar tonight and met 10 couples that were on dates one through five, that maybe one of them would say it's complicated. That's what I said. That's a small number. It's a small sample size. It's a Gen Ziti.

I think he's right. I think the kids are unwilling to commit. Well, then then that's on them. I just don't get, but I don't understand that. I don't, because how you said it. But it is complicated. Are you together or are you not? Well, I mean, we're not completely sure.

When you say it's complicated, I'm thinking you're going to bed with them. That's all you're telling you. Yeah, just say we're fornicating. That's what I'm saying. The guy should say we're trying to hook up. Yeah, but they don't say that. They just, I don't know. Because the guy's trying to be polite.

So I always say I get it. We're getting late and we're going to see what happens. I just, it's weird times. I don't know. All I'm saying is, y'all have got a terrible dating life. We, oh, we know. Everybody's trying to redefine words. When in 1997, what were people doing dates 1 through,

We're dating. That's it. Oh, you know what? Better question. Matt, all right. Say your daughter was like, all right. I'm talking to this guy, dad, like, you know, I really like him. And you asked, oh, okay, as you take on your dad, you guys, dating.

Oh, no, you know, it's like a little situation shit. What do you say as a dad's your daughter? I say, be careful and don't let him touch you. That's what I'm saying. Okay, that's all right. I just don't get it, man. Well, I think it's a weird. It's a situation.

Never mind. Talking about this. No, in 2026 I don't date, so I can't speak to this, but in 2026, nobody wants to find anything. Is that fair? Because if you say you're dating, then you're like, oh, then you're together, but you're not completely telling the truth. Because Jonathan, if you found somebody else on the next night, you'd be like, yeah, you know, we're going to go out and have a date too. You know what it? It's a noncommittal universe of 2026. So live with it.

It's so weird. I don't get it. I don't get it. back on the phones next. Jonathan Joan and James, the triple Js are up next. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. All right, let me set up the next half hour of the show for you.

We've got a lot of people that want to say hi, which we love y'all. I just don't get it here on a Thursday. We have the news at noon coming up. We're going to have to put a lot of Dodger highlights. At 1220, we're going to let you hear a good chunk of the interview that Dana Brown did today with Dan and Cole on the morning drive. That's at 1220. At 1.30, if you missed the conversation, Brian Maytag will have it for you. We believe it or not today at 150.

All things about Ted Turner. So I've got a busy show between now and 2 o'clock. I want you guys involved. And thank you very much for being a part of the show at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-7-90. This week, it's a Thursday. It's I just don't get it where we ask you to jump in and my computer is Frozen Raw.

So you will go to Jonathan online, number one, not our Jonathan, but the other Jonathan in Fulcher. Jonathan, what don't you get at 1152? You know, it's funny. And I'm going to rapid fire this. What's up, Matt, and his noble speed. I called your boy. As you may or may not know,

I manage HOA communities. I've got a community on League City. I called your repair guys, and it's funny because you just got up, got done talking about them. They don't service everyone. I need them to come out and fix the dishwasher, and they were like, we don't service League City. You think I was in Orange. Like, no offense, Michael Berry, but dude, this is Greater Houston. Like, what are we talking about here?

You don't service the area? So I was highly disappointed, Matthew, that I'm seeing your Appliances in a week, and I will find out to get the League City office up and going. But see, the thing about League City. This is not even for. Yeah, but League City, you guys don't even have appliances in League City. What are you talking about? I've got a million dollar clubhouse that they need a freaking new dishwasher. All right.

Well, you know what, Jonathan? I'm going to. going to talk to them next week. I promise you. Thank you very much of the phone call. All right, Lake Uptown appliance. Get out there to League City because Jonathan's got to get his appliance taking care of. We love you uptown appliance repair. 281-7589978. They'll take, I'll get this fixed. Don't worry about that. Let's go to, let's see. Our friend, if I get my computer, God, I get our equipment. I hate everything about our equipment.

I hate everything. I like you, Ross. Oh, thank you. I don't like Jonathan. He's a swell fella. I don't like Joan if I can get to the phone here. Let's try this. Hi, Joan. What's going on?

Hey, Matt. How are you guys? Hi, Ross. We're doing good. Hello. This Carlos Korea thing is really bugging me because I don't understand what I just don't get. The non-disclosure, the hidden tendons. in the, I get privacy, I get medical, I get all that, I worked in the medical field, I get all that.

However, for the layman who's seen on live television a million times when a basketball player's, Achilles pops, and to go back to Carlos' own description, I swung the bat, I turned my ankle, I heard the pop, and I fell to the ground, that's an Achilles. And if it's not an Achilles, okay, fine. And I realize he needs a second opinion and all. Just had to get that off my chest. Look at Nurse Joan coming in here. Thank you, Joan.

Let me give you Joan what he said. Complete tear while taking swings. Normal routine in the batting cage, took a swing and just felt a pop. It completely snapped on me, and I fell to the ground. He was in a walking boot Wednesday at the ballpark. After seeing a foot specialist, he would see some other opinions before schedule.

the surgery. So, to Jones' point, it could be an Achilles. To me, it doesn't even really matter. Six to eight months, six to eight months, right? Correct. I mean, it could be a bad hip, and it's six to eight months, six to eight months. The hip bone is connected to the ankle bone. And the tailbone connected to the butt bone. I think they're the same. Okay. That's a bad example. My bad. Could try. I was trying. We're proud of you.

Trying to get to my fifth grade elementary songs, but I was, I was tarry. by my PE teachers couldn't get those songs memorized. Paul and Myerland, Paul, what don't you get, my man? He's ready. I don't get wrong. My wife cannot put the lid back on the toothpaste. When I grab the toothpaste, I grab it with my left hand. Grab my toothbrush in my right hand.

I unscrew the cap, put the toothpaste on the toothbrush, and screw the cap right back on. Never have to put the cat down. Why my wife cannot put the lid back on the toothpaste, I just don't get it. You know what I would do, Paul? I would divorce. I would divorce her.

She supports me. That's fine. Don't do it then. Get a bottle where the cap is attached. I had on my flight from L.A. two weeks ago, toothpaste all over all over my stuff in my toiletry bag. I mean, what are they opening up my toothpaste for? Oh, really?

Yeah. Oh, like TSA did or whoever the... Well, Dave, we have TSA. We have private TSA, but we do have TSA, yeah. They were looking through your toothpaste? I think so. Maybe it got. got smashed.

That could be it. You probably didn't put the cap on all the way. It's probably user error. I would probably blame myself more than anything else, but it's easier on a major market radio show to blame others. That's my bad. I'll let you do that. So damn you,

I'll try my bum. I say, thank you very much. All right, last one belongs to Jim on 70. Jim, what don't you get? Yeah, I don't get why you have an area of Houston and the surrounding areas. You all cover probably over 5 million people in the listening audience. And the gamers don't buy any radio. time on your station so they can fill up that stadium

because the gamblers suck. Because the gamblers suck ass. Because they're irrelevant and they're a terrible organization and nobody cares and nobody goes and people. The product sucks. The organization sucks. The league sucks. And you suck. I mean, that pretty much narrows it all down. That's not true. That's not true. Oh, it is too. It is true. All right, three of the four are. And I'll tell you why.

Can me tell you why? I don't care. Go ahead. I'm a voice. I got a half a voice. I got a half a voice. Because you never. been to a game. I'm never going to go I'm never going to go because the product sucks. No, I'm not going. No, no chance. It's extremely fun. No, no. No, you know what? No,

no, I am Mr. Fun. I'm Mr. Texas and I'm Mr. Fun and I'm, you know what I am? I'm not Mr. Boring. I'm not Mr. Sucky football. It's a loser. You hear me gamblers? You are losers. Losers with no. Your PR team sends out fourth grade releases about how your team did. It doesn't even mention

the score. You have video com calls that no one goes to. You have nobody. You don't sell tickets. You don't advertise. You don't do anything. You suck. You're going to be going, bye-bye. Bye-bye, gamblers. You're going to go bye-bye. This is it. Done. Finito. You feel better? I feel great.

Are you okay? Gamblers suck. The only gamblers I know were the Houston Gamblers of the USLFL in 1983 and that was a short-lived thing. If the product was good, I'd watch it, I watch more USFL or whatever the hell this is than the three of us combined in this room.

I'm sure you do. And it sucks. It's absolutely terrible. And it's embarrassing the city of Houston has a stadium that's got 40 people in it. But you know what this says? It says the people of Houston have gotten some taste. Why is it embarrassing? I mean, who cares?

It's because we shouldn't have a franchise. It doesn't matter. Goodbye, gambler, Jim. They're all going to go bye-bye. No more gamblers. No more. Bye-bye. They suck.

I'm worried about you. You should be worried about me. Now I'm all fired up. About the gamblers. Good God. I'm right with you. I don't know. My Astros are in fourth place.

That's what's the matter with me. That's good. They're not the last. They're not the last. Nothing good about it. No, let's be positive. No. Let's focus on the 14 games they have one.

Okay, you do that. You knock yourself out. I'm sorry, 15. Yeah, I didn't mean to short them. The 15 games they have. have one. There you go. And a very important series with a natty coming up tomorrow in Cincinnati. Huge. Way more important than gambler talk with Jim. Gambleers can't know. Nobody cares. He was just saying we have a great station. They should advertise on our station. Well, then that's their fault.

You know what? Then gamblers get out your checkbook and actually get a few people in their building. That's all he was saying. Oh, yeah. So, yeah, you mean, it's indictment against me. It's indictment against sucky gamble organization. 12 o'clock on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Swing at a best. Walker strikes out on a fastball up and end and that is the ball game.

Los Angeles Dodgers take the rubber game of this three game set defeating the Astros 12 to 2. What do you think he's talking about here in his life? Just depend upon. and just started writing about his miserable life. You're talking about A-Lo black?

Yeah. Maybe. You know, if I was becoming a lyricist, you know, I'd be writing about the gamblers. Why? You got to know when they suck. You got to know when no one cares. Kenny Rogers already did it. That's true.

That's right. Good job, John. Come on, Jonathan, help me out here. I'm at 60% throat today. Come on now. All right. All right. Hey, it's 1207 on Sports Talk 7.9.

If you miss the conversation with Dana Brown, we're going to play out a good chunk of that for you. In the next segment of the show as he talked with Dan and Cole this morning as part of the morning drive. The reality is this, I want to hear from him. We need, you and I spout and all, they ain't going to help. But I mean, what can he say? Everybody's hurt and everybody else who's not hurt is bad. You'll find out at 1220 right now. Yeah, and interviews over.

Hey. Don't give away too much. Glasses half full with Dana. You'll find out in about 13 minutes. Okay. Right now, let's get to the news at noon. Yes, Matthews, we will start the news at noon with what the highlights you just heard.

Off day for the Astros today. Thankfully, they needed. Jose Altuvae off on his birthday yesterday. Lance McCullors, Jr., bad and hurt. Feels like we'll be hearing about him hitting the IL at some point. A fingernail popped off of his pointer finger. According to Brian McTaggart, who we heard from earlier, two and two-thirds innings, 70 pitches, six earned runs, three walks. Jason Alexander came in a relief and, well, at least he ate up some innings, four and a third.

But he gave up five earned runs. Just a disaster for the Astros. Even with Tyler Glastonnell leaving the game with back spasms. I love the one I said. It's a bullpen game for the Dodgers. Well, their bullpen was good, sadly. Their polpen was better than the Astros bullpen. Well, they lose two out of three to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

They got the day off and then they will be hitting a Cincinnati and then they will be taking on Seattle at home. So a short three-game road trip. Right. In the Queen City? Yeah. Something like that. There's a few Queen City. Charlotte's a Queen City too, right?

It's a big divisional games coming up, Maddie. Home for four against the Mariners and four, excuse me, three against the Texas Rangers. an opportunity to make up some ground in the American League West. That's a glass half hole I'm looking for right there. Yes. All right. Only four back. Only four back. It's also May.

If you're four back in May, that's not good. No, you could be worse. Could be ten and a half back of the Yankees. Could be eleven back of the Braves. See? And what did I say, nine and a half back or whatever it was of the, or maybe ten and a half of the Dodgers. But thankfully, you're in the crappy American League West.

You're only four games back if you're the Houston Astros. Elsewhere in sports news, Matt. Rodgers. Aaron Rogers. Likely to visit the... Why is he visiting the Pittsburgh Steelers? He's going to sign a contract. He needs to see the facilities?

He's been there before. Ian Rappaport saying he is likely to be back with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Go steal crew, I guess. Do the Texans play the Steelers this year? I don't know. Look, that puts them at 9 and 8. That's a winnable division. Wait, they were both winning the division winners.

So yes. No, they didn't win the division. Jaguars did. Never mind. No, I'm talking about the Steelers. Yeah, yeah. I was trying to think of like first play schedule and all that. Anywho, Detroit, Tiger's left-hander, Framber Valdez.

Ever heard of them at? He used to play for the Astros. He was suspended five games by Major League Baseball on Wednesday for intentionally throwing at Boston Red Sox shortstop Trevor Story, Tiger's manager, AJ Hinch, receiving a one game ban. Isn't that crazy that AJ did not endorse Framber throwing at Trevor Story, and yet he got also suspended too. Yeah.

Of course, Tarek Scouble, Casey Mize, and Justin Verland are all hurt for the Tigers right now. And now you got Framber Valdez missing a start. He maintained that he did not throw purposely at Trevor Story, believe him. That's a lie or not. That's a not because as we talked about on the show yesterday, he threw one four four seam fastball, which is the just rare back and go fastball.

And it was the one that hit Trevor's story in the back. Maybe he was trying to mix up his repertoire. It got away from him. After throwing two, after giving up back-to-back home runs. You take those spam calls, don't you? I do sometimes. You actually talk to them?

Yeah, I tell them to put me on a do not call list. I got to do what I can. I don't know. Will people stop reaching out for me with strange names asking if I need roofing, by the way? My name is not Gregory. Or solar panels for that matter. Oh, terrible.

Or any kind of plumbing or anything like that. All right. Continue. That's ridiculous. There's not a whole lot. I was going to say, I was going to go to that if you want. Yeah, go ahead. I mean, the Spurs destroyed Timberwolves 133 to 95.

Nick's beat the 76 is 108 to 102. Spurs and T-Wolves tied at one apiece. Knicks up 2-0 on the Embed-List 76ers. He could not play due to hip and ankle injuries. And whole right side of his body, apparently. By the way, Victor Wimbunyama last night, 26 minutes, 19 points, 15 rebounds. Look at his whole stat line. Many block shots.

Let's see, two block shots. was a plus 12 Julian Champani All their starters Nobody played more than 26 minutes Because they blew the hell out of the In game one of the series He had 12 blocks

That can't be right Yeah That's right Oh my God Yeah He's gonna get a quadruple double With blocks You ready for an unhealthy question

What Over under Victor Wimbunyama MVP's in the next 10 years Well how many of he's going to be healthy for Where do you send it? Did they have the voting come out this year? No yet, not yet.

Yeah, no. He might win this year. I don't think he's going to. What if I said? What if I said? I would say over? Two feels about right? That's troubling, Ross, if it is. Why? Because it means he's going to be a thorn on the rocket side for the next decade. He didn't get the ping pong balls. Sorry. We prayed for him, though. We did. Pray for Victor. And then people backed off him because they're like, oh, he's a spur. He sucks. No, he doesn't suck.

He doesn't. He's soft. He's never going to be anything. Now, size could impact him. Certain hosts calling him up. bum. And Bemski. He does fall very awkwardly. Got no body fat. He needs to gain some weight.

I don't know that he can. Probably can't. It's like 7 foot 4. Yeah. There's your news at noon. How about that, Houston? San Antonio is going to have a great franchise for the next 10 years. Stop.

Oh, unless you want to hear the latest on the Mreg-Vrayble, Diane or see anything. Can we do that? Well, let me hold that for 1230. Okay. TMZ Sports. TMZ are getting after it. Relentless. And I've got a take on this on the relentlessness of TMZ sports. Okay.

Dana Brown visited with the morning drive. You'll hear from that next. 1215 on Sports Talk 790. 1220 on Sports Talk 790 every Wednesday. Normally at 930, Dana Brown visits with the boys. But yesterday, obviously, things were awry with the injury situation with Carlos Correan, the fact that we lost Janair Diaz as well to the injured list. And obviously now we know that Carlos has done for the next six to eight months.

Dana was on today with the boys. That, of course, is Dan and Cole as part of the morning drive. And they were asked Dana, among other things, does this speed up a timetable for bringing Jeremy Payne back off the injure list? Here is most of the conversation with the three of those guys this morning here on 790. No, we're not going to speed up the timeline on Jeremy because, you know, we're going to need him the rest of the season. And so speeding up the timeline,

you know, could affect, you know, the rest of the season. And we don't want, we don't want Jeremy to be out. When Jeremy comes back, we need them for the rest of the season. So we certainly have to, you know, take our time with Jeremy. We still think at the end of the day, we still think it's going to be, you know, 10 to 12 days before, you know, we can get him back. And so he's on a good pace to come back. So we won't rush him, though.

We will not rush him. Dana, when it comes to Tutsi, he will make his next start at Dyken Park when you return from Cincinnati. What went into the decision to bring him on up after what was a better start than what we saw in Corpus Christi, but still one to dealing with the walks? Is it a listen, we believe that you have some things that you can work on, but you can work on it at it from the major league level, or we need an arm, we believe that you are ready to go and we'll figure out the walks along the way? No, so that's a good question.

And so one of the things that we talked about was simplifying things. Part of, you know, you come over here, you're in a new environment, and, you know, we give you a lot of information. And so we want to just simplify it and get him to attack the strike zone like he's been attacking the zone. A lot of times we talk about how to pitch certain hitters. And sometimes a lot of information, you know, could be tough. And so we'll try The goal is to simplify it, get them in the strike zone, pitch to hitters, very similar the way you used to pitch to hitters, but attack the hitter with your best stuff, you know,

as opposed to trying to find the hitters' weaknesses or things like that. And so I think simplifying it for him and telling him, look, get into the strike zone, attack, attack, attack is our message to him. Astros General Manager Dana Brown joins us every single week here on the Morning Drive with Dan and Cole Sports Talk 790. Dana, for you and Joe personally, I mean, it's no secret what your current status is with the team after this season. And I know that you all talk after every single game. I mean, do you notice that, you know, the conversations between you two are necessarily changing with just where the club is at the moment and in where things stand injury-wise? Or is it business as usual for you guys, just, you know, focused on the job and trying to.

to be able to get this team back into contention. Yeah, we're focused on the job at hand. Look, we've been here in 2024. We were actually, in 2024, it was a worst start. And so we've been here before. This is not uncharted territory force. You know, we're navigating through these injuries. And we feel confident that this is a really good ball club.

You know, not many teams could withstand an injury like the injury with Korea. Look, we still have infield depth. You know what? We're going to have some of our pitching coming back. We're going to have Pena coming back. Haters is growing well. He's up to 94 and his most recent rehab start. And so, look, ultimately, you know, we know that we have the pieces and this is a really good team.

So you cannot panic. You've got 124 games to go and you're four games back. And so this is not the time to panic. The time is to get healthy. The time is to stay focus. We've been swinging the bats very well. The defense has been pretty good. We're not on all cylinders because the pitching hasn't been as good, but we've had some bright spots and some clips of coming attractions of late, you know, with the start of Lambert.

You know, excellent start. You know, we have the core pieces to stay afloat, compete, stay competitive, and once all of your guys get back, it'll be on. Dana, when it comes to Lance McCulloch, Jr. yesterday, he left the game early because of a nail, a nail, issue had trouble gripping the ball and it's been something that has been brought up by fans by multiple people before that this is a player who as good as he can be he can probably give you about two to three eggs of quality work there have been internal conversations about while we know that he still can pitch he can still pitch at a high end rate maybe it's better to utilize him out of the bullpen at this point because of we can get somebody that can give us more endings to

work with. Glances had some great spots this year you know the six innings that he threw in Baltimore, don't give it up the two runs and nine strikeouts. And so while I understand, you know, the fans and their assessment, you know, just from a purely evaluated standpoint, look, I've evaluated players my entire career in professional baseball for 36 years. And the stuff is still really good, you know. He, you know, he runs into trouble at times when, you know, he can't command that stuff, but the stuff is really good. And so he has had some bright spots. And, you know, we do have a long season, you know, where we will continue to monitor the outings and then we'll make the necessary adjustments. But, you know, he's had some bright spots here and we'll continue to talk him through it.

And we'll, you know, we'll give us some more evaluation and talk about things as we move forward. But right now, you know, he's shown those clips of really being good and the stuff really. looks good. And when you're beat up in the rotation like we are, you know, we need Lance to have some good starts for us. Just from the grand scheme of baseball, there have been multiple injuries to the pitching side largely due to forearm tightness and other things to where you have to go and undergo surgery. And it's been brought up by multiple people, the pitch clock and working through that situation of maybe going through their approach a little bit too timely and it leads to where their arms will strain. Do you believe that there is some correlation between the

the pitch clock and more injuries happening to the pitchers when they're on the mound? I do think guys have to learn how to navigate the pitch clock, right? So if you're not used to, you've been pitching their entire career where you've been able to take a couple deep breaths in between pitches, walk around the mound a little bit, kind of get your win. I do think there's a strategic aspect of managing the pitch clock. I also believe that, you know, we have a lot of pitchers. that are throwing a lot harder these days, and a lot of pitchers are chasing spin,

and trying to get the ball to do certain things to get to some success. And so certainly the combination of a few things are weighing heavily on some of the pitchers, and I think learning to navigate these things are going to be important going forward for the entire sport. And finally, Hunter Brown expected to throw a bullpen this weekend. And what would be the next step for him if all goes well over the weekend?

Yeah, so Hunter Brown, look, once he gets to throw his bullpins, you know, we'll get him going. We'll get him built up. He'll go through his regular spring training because we have to redo that again, you know, because he's been out for so long. So he has to go through a full spring training to get him built up. And, you know, hopefully, you know, we get him. We'll circle back in early June as to some discussions as to when he's going to actually. total rubber at the major league level but certainly he's moving in the right direction

he feels pretty good we're going to get him throwing his bullpins we're going to get him built back up and then you know in a few weeks we'll know a lot more than we know now but we're certainly trying to get him on the track to get back in June all right that again Dana Brown from earlier today

here on Sports Talk 790 we need a glass half full we needed it and Dana provides it for us because man we played some songs. We've talked about the Carlos Gray injury. We talked about Lance McCuller's losing a nail. We talked about Janair Diaz. Harding

is oblique. We need something. So they came and helped us out. All right. Somebody got mad as we were, there is nothing new salacious on the Diana Rossini Mike Vrabble front. Or is there? I mean, if we're talking about the boat,

we're going to kind of just put this away I think with those two people next. 1229 on Sports Talk 790 All right, 1235 on Sports Talk 790 Matt and Ross with you until 2 o'clock this afternoon If you missed our visit with Brian McHagger, we'll have it for you at 130.

Believe it or not, today is all things about Ted Turner at 150. And TMC sports has been busy with Diana Rossini and more on Mike Vrable. I'm just going to put this in a nutshell. There is video of them on a boat. she's what seven months pregnant is that the correct number on that with whose child who's okay isn't the child named mike so here comes

here comes my segments number one if i'm if i'm russini's husband i get a DNA test he gets get a divorce number two even the kids not yours you've been raised him for seven years or whatever they're going to get divorced number three i don't know if rabel's wife's going to stay with him or not and number four i don't mean to be callous about this ross but invalty happens all the time in the workplace. Yeah.

These are just recognizable people. This is happening all the time. Doesn't make it right. In a matter of thinking, it makes it very sad. But the reality is, I'm kind of getting tired of it. I don't particularly care anymore. I think it's interesting. And I think it is more than that just because of as we kind of talked about,

the insider trading and the potential swapping of insider information and advantage is gained by Mike Vrable. But as the NFL has said, I know. We're good. That's because they don't want to deal with it. Yeah. It's like anything happens to like stuff we hear about the NCAA. They're like, oh, no, yeah, that's on the school.

They can, yeah, they'll figure that out. Yeah, they want to put it on Robert Kraft and the Patriots. They don't want to deal with it. I will say this, because there's a lot of people that are like, first of all, Diana is her. I mean, it is what it is. But Mike Frable's her too. A vessel in Putnam County, Tennessee in June of 2021.

According to a, this is the TMZ Sports, according to a source of direct knowledge, the Tennessee Titans head coach and the, journalists were the only people on board of their two to three hour rental. I don't know them, either one of them, but they are, this is clearly more than just a fling. This is a relationship.

Over several years. Do you think they were rocking the boat? Yeah. I have one question not all this. Please. Don't tip the boat over? So, Ross just said he was like, you've been raising the kid for seven years.

But we're all men here. So, what are you going to do if that's not your child? I would say in general, you have such a loving bond with a child. You're not going to throw the child. You are going to raise the child as yours. But it absolutely must be discussed in terms of whether or not it's his or not. Now, if they get a DNA test, that's ruling upon them.

No one's going to, the court of public opinion is not going to tell them to do that. The court of public opinions already made up their mind about who, what they, with these, what these people are. And they're long-term lovers. They just are. This is not an overnight thing. This was a deep-seated relationship. They try to live two separate lives for seven years.

They have the waiver they signed to get the boat. How did TMZ get all this? What took them so long? From 2021. Somebody had to dig back into the documents of this boat rental place. Yeah. Somebody went through some boxes and boxes of waivers. So I thought all along that Mike Vrabble was cool with this in terms of not losing his job.

I still believe that the case. But if Mike Vrabble was to leave, probably because of his own doing more so than the Patriots. Bob Craft has said nothing about this. In fact, Bob Kraft very early in this conversation, tried to get a lot of this kiboshed, if you think about it. Yeah, Rable's good. He went to counseling that one day of the draft. Yeah, he missed a whole third day to go to the draft. He had no input on the fifth round pick

And then he went to the council He's like, I know it's important for my marriage And I know the fifth round's pick I'm going to pick my marriage over the fifth round. Now I'm not going to pick my marriage over first round pick I'm not going to pick my marriage over second or third round pick But day three, that's all you guys All right, I got another thing for you, Matt.

If you were the husband and you're going to raise the child as your own no matter what, do Would you really, really want to know Or would you just kind of move on and say, I'm going to raise this kid no matter what he's he's mine. Been raising them for, what is it?

However many years, seven years. You're not going to abandon the child anyways. You are not going to abandon the child. That has been your child, but curiosity does kill the cat, right? I feel like if you asked a hundred guys, you're not going to get 100 different answers,

but I don't think everybody's going to say the same thing. No, because I think about this, if you have children... You don't need DNA test for your children. If you have multiple children and one of them doesn't look like, you, do you think about that? I would say yes.

Now, fortunately, all my children look like one of the two of us, so I'm not overly concerned. I think I shouldn't be overly concerned. Okay. Go ahead. Keith, this is about sports. So what situation is worst in? We had last year with the Michigan coach, you know,

and we found out that the lady was, it was, uh, no, but it came out that she lied about him coming in and trying to attack her. Oh, is that true? Yeah, so she came out saying that. Wait, she, well, hold on. it was a lie that he attacked her? Do you haven't read up on this?

She did some interviews. Let's just say allegedly. It was all allegedly. Which is worse here if this is all true? I thought he didn't say he was going to kill himself? Well, he got, he got acquitted of everything. There was no charges filed. Well, no, he played it.

He played it down, I thought. Yeah, plea deal. But he's free and clear now. He played no contest to malicious use of telecommunication device. domestic relationship and trespassing. So 18 months probation. Well, people plead stuff down every day. I don't know if that

feels worse. Also, it was a staffer that he had on the payroll. Hey, she got a 200% raise. This is weird. You got a bunch of promotions, too. Why is the assistant to the assistant to the assistant marketing person making 150K? What's going on over here?

I think, Jonathan, in my mind, they are two different situations. think you have two adult relationship people, two adult people in working environments of the NFL that are like, you know what, there's a spark. You had a coach to a subordinate, a young girl, stupid, she-he stupid. They were both horny. I mean, it is what it is. This is more than that. This is going on for years. Yo, I didn't expect that to say. What? I didn't expect you to say horny. That's just like, I'm sorry.

It's got to be more than that. I mean, they both have, one has a wife and one has a husband. I don't know. To try to figure out which is worse, it doesn't make any sense. I mean, I think they're both equally bad. I feel bad for Sharon Moore's wife or wife and kids. I feel bad for Diana Rossini's husband who has to worry about whether or not the child is his or not. The thing that pisses me off more than anything else, on frankly, all the sides is that Diana Roshini is like,

I didn't do anything wrong. and journalist, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You doubled down on it, and that's the only thing it pisses me off. Now she's radio silent. Took all of her social media stuff off. There are apparently TV networks gushing to get her interview with her. Ooh. And paid for that.

Yeah. See? Yeah, maybe Mike Rable's not in the clear yet. Oh. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. This is like an onion.

And what do you do? And what do you do if you've ever seen it? If you really do love, I think, you know, Again, not knowing either one of them. I think there's a true... This wasn't on a fling for those two. That was a long-standing relationship. You're talking about that many years...

Yeah, maybe they're just great friends on the boat. Oh, my God. They're great friends in the boat. They were great friends in Sedona, Arizona, too. Just don't do it. Just don't do it. Don't dip your pin in Company, Inc. Is what you said?

It's kind of similar. She's a journalist. The Michigan is the Company Inc. That's true. because they're on the same payroll. This is a pretty similar. A coach and then an NFL reporter. But yet the most important thing about that whole thing about Rossini and about the coach of the Patriots is that the NFL is like, we're good.

We don't worry about information that Vrable gave her. We're not worried about what information that Rassini got from Vrable. We're not worried about any other team getting involved in it. That's not espionage. What would that be called? Just insider information. Inside our trading. Inside of trading.

How do the Patriots feel about a certain player? How do the player, how does the, what information about does Rusini get from another team about an injured player that may be playing the Patriots that week? Or the Titans. And nobody cares. Because you know why? It's easier to say nobody cares. Well, it's not the headline. The headlines are the-

Dimeco Ryan's going to hold a press conference. guys, I wanted to address this. Mike Vrable got some inside info from us, and I think he needs to be suspended. I'm not going to do that. The reason why I think this may be a sexist thing for me to say, boys, I think Rucini it wasn't just Rable.

Oh, yeah, I mean, there's Sean McVeigh rumors. There's rumors all over the place. And that's on her, because that's what her... And I think they're saying that if, Jonathan, if they're going to go all in on Rucini, they're going to find other coaches. I think other coaches are saying, let's stay out of this to protect my marriage, too. It's a cruel roller. This is a cruel, world, man.

Variable was just the first. Now, we don't have evidence that Rucini wasn't doing other things, but there are been longstanding rumors. And, you know, the NFL streets like to talk. They just do. All right, 713, 212-5-790. We give you Dana Brown and

Diana Rucini talk all in one half hour. Another radio show on the marketplace is going to give you that. 713 212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Thanks very much, Blummer. Blummer is going to have the week off in Cincinnati. It's going to see Steve Sparks on Space City Home Network, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Robert will have Kevin Ashton on the radio side for the weekend set in the Natty against the Red. Did you've been the Natty? The what? The Natty? Cincinnati? Yeah. I don't think so. No.

Nice men, Washington down. I mean, you wouldn't go to the debt. They don't go one, two, three, Cincinnati. It's not on my bucket list. Casino, ribs, chips, nice people. Midwest. Chips? Yeah, potato chips at the Montgomery Inn.

Delicious. Yeah, I'm not flying there for potato chips. I would agree with you on that. Now, we had some guy online one who just called. Yes. That's what I don't get sometimes. Matt, I'm checked out. Walk me back in.

So I'm going to walk you back into sports. He hangs up. Well, he's busy. Maybe. How can you be busy? How can you call the show and say, I'm going to call and talk and then hang up like 30 seconds later? You go. or somebody, I don't know, he's got an emergency.

Maybe he's getting sick at school. I mean, any million of things. No, I think he just didn't want to wait. I'm going to go with that. So right now, right now, I want you all to call this show, and I'm going to get you fired up for sports. Are you? We're going to talk some Texans football.

We're going to get on. We're going to get in on the Texans sending the secondary. We're going to get in the offensive line. And then we're going to get into whether or not C.J. Strouds worth $60 million a year. This is your fault Astros and Rockets. That's $150 you will. We need a stronger punishment from him. Yeah, it's not working.

It's not working. You're getting worse. I am. I'm just wanting to pay that pie. That pot. I just don't want to do it. I don't, look, I love football. I don't want to do it right now.

I don't. I'm a three-sport guy. I move on. Okay, well, you got to get into the gamblers, I guess. No. Gambers suck. I'm not doing gambler talk. What are the standings?

I don't even know. Is it the XFL or the USFL? It's a UFL. You don't even know the league. Yeah. I watch more gamble football anybody in this marketplace, so I'm able to do it.

Why would you do that, though? Is that a sucker for sports? Oh, they're in last place. Kevin Sommel's gained some weight, too. I don't know what's going on. What do you mean? He's got all that money. He doesn't have a lot of money.

He's even good. I mean, look, Kevin's a good guy, but man, what a fall. from grace. From leaning our cougars to having a big party with Bucky Ridgister in the night before a championship game. Yeah, I said it. Bucky. We should be talking to my coach.

Our team wasn't ready because y'all were doing God knows what. Game plan was in place by it. No, it was not in game. No, you're with your players a night before the championship game. Game plan's all good. Stop. Then you went to A&M and fell on your ass, and you went to Arizona and fell on your ass, and now you're coaching the gamblers. I forgot it was six years at A&M.

Six underwhelming years. Three at Arizona. Yeah, he's got some good payout cash. Good for him. Now he's running the gamblers. Astros, you know what? We got a will-the-astros back into relevancy.

All the things you said earlier. Hunter Brown coming back soon. Okay. Jeremy Payne coming back soon. Joy, Louis Profito, coming back soon. Imai. Tatsu, I'm going to pitch on a real, major league baseball field. Can we import some Japanese dirt and get it on the mound for him?

We got to do something. Let's get him some hookers. What? Yeah. What? Yeah. Hi, that was Matt Thomas who said that. It was not me Ross. You don't think sex would help what Matt would help him out a little bit? I had nothing to do. No, you said you don't want people having sex in the middle of the season. Linebackers. You said you did want. Jay J.J. Watt, no sex. Everybody else sex. Pitchers, yes. Yes. That doesn't make any sense. It's a stressful. job as it is. How did this go so right? It did go so right. Am I right?

J.J. Watt, no sex, three-time all defensive player of the year. No sex. He was having sex. No, he was, he abstained from sex. Every year he won defense player of the year. I'll talk to him about it later when we... You know what the hell you're talking about. You don't know that?

Yes, I do. Did he get pregnant while he was playing? No. He's never gotten pregnant. You did his wife get pregnant during the... Nope. He wasn't married. Yeah, that's right.

Because he was abstaining. He's like, I'm going to torture the cornerbacks. what is wrong with you? E-Mai needs loving. I thought you wanted him to have a high pitch count. And that too. I'll take anything at this point. Let's talk to Chase on 7-90.

Hello, Chase. I'm with you. A lot of things. Hey, what's up, boys? First off, I just say, good morning. Absolutely, let's get E-May some hookers. Are we crazy? Yeah.

They're crazy. Tell me where hookers hurt pitchers. I want him focus on baseball. You know what he's been focused on baseball? He's focusing on the pitch mound. He's focusing on the pitch clock. He needs to focus on some ass. And he's a focus on all that.

Not ass. Listen, boys, he needs, listen, he clears his mind. He clears his body. He'll be ready to play some baseball. Get the man some hookers. What are we talking about? Yes. See what you do, Matt.

See what you do. Thank you, Chase. Listen, Matt. Yes, sir. I'm right there with you. Secondly, let's talk Astros in general. This is the saddest season I think I've ever been a part of. I'm 36 years old.

I've watched every single Astros game for the majority of my life. Good. I have never felt so kicked in the nuts so early in a season in this season. And it's hurting me, boys. Even if when, and I heard Cole Thompson's dumbass talk about this earlier, we, listen, even if we get Pena back looking great, even if we get Hunterbound back looking great, they're not going to save us.

With Yordan, they're not going to save us. We are in a dark downward spiral right now. And unless everything happens to go right for the rest of the year, we will not make it to the playoffs two years in a row. I will leave it at that. Good morning strippers and you'll have a magical day. Thank you very much, Chase. We'll wake the strippers up tomorrow at noon. You know what it is? Part of it is Ross is we are

so spoiled. Did you hear what Chase just said two years in a row of no playoffs? How does 80% of Major League Baseball feel about the last two years? They're massively disappointed. We are spoiled in the Jim Crane era. It's been

very good. And look, we're we're just a real talk on a Thursday. We're in the dying embers of a dynasty. It's over. I'm sorry. Nothing lasts forever. We're what the Golden State Warriors are right now. Is that what this is?

Are we going through what we didn't want to go through? Because the Braves went through this 10 years ago. The Braves did it. And they did come back. Best record in baseball. Early 90s Yankees. Well, then you know what? I'm sorry, late 90s

that we got to step up our game now. We're not, we as a 10 to 2 midday radio show in Houston, Texas, with a few people who listen to the show and for that, we love you. We got to be better than that. We're not going to bring it, we're not going to let

popping of tendons bring us down. Everybody's hurt. And if people are playing, are underperforming, except for what? Yord on and Camp Smith. Brain shoemake. Brain shoemake.

Yeah. If I would have said Braden Shoeake was a third baseman starting for the Astros three months ago, you would have said that to me out. I said, who the hell is Braden Shoeick? Yeah, what if we brought you that lineup card from yesterday? Bryce Matthews leading off, Brady Shumake, Sazars, Salazar's back? Buddy of the show, Zach Colbatten's 6th. Oh yeah, Christian Walker's been great.

Yoran's been great. Peridius has been good in different spots he's been in. Cam Smith is showing some flashes defensively. He's been fantastic again for this team. All right. OPS is 661. But that's enough. And we're getting some EMI some ass.

Let's get it. Let's get him laid. So you're getting a pitcher prostitutes. Correct. Okay. Again, folks, I will reiterate. This is Matt. Matt Thomas is saying these things.

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That will get everything fixed. I don't think that's going to help. How do you know he's not getting loving? He's having a difficult time adapting in the United States. Okay. Maybe there's a girl back there. Maybe he brought his girlfriend with him or a wife or whatever. Do you know if he's married?

There should be zero problems with adaptation. No, he has problems. Have you heard him? It's the weather. It's the mound. It's the ball. Pitch clock, everything. It's a lot of acclimating he has to do.

And there's no whine in this cheese is what you're saying. What? No whining in this little running around of all the things that's complaining. I mean, doesn't he just have to sack up and throw strikes? I mean, he's being asked what's wrong and what's hard to adjust and he's listing stuff. It's not like he's holding a press conference. Hey, guys, I just wanted to announce I can't hang out with the slope of the mount. I can't do this with the pitch clock.

He's getting asked questions through an interpreter. Hey, so what's taking some adjusting? Oh, well, is he having more than everybody else? I guess everybody's just different. Everybody, yeah, I guess everybody's different. Then give that $18 million back. Go back in Japan, Japan. See you later.

Sayonara. Arrivederce. Go get you some Japanese. You know what there. And let's go. What? You know. No, I don't know. I can't say. Okay. Ramen?

Exactly. What are you talking about? I'm saying, I need him to be pitching every fifth day. Okay. And I need to say, I don't want excuses. I'm done with excuses. You're a Scott Boris Klein. You're a higher gun.

You have no emotions, no desires, no beliefs. You should be throwing strikes to the local nine. They need you. Why aren't you yelling at Lance McCullors Jr.? Scott Borris client making $18 million. We've been telling him for five years. Yield them at all. It's all the Tudu M.

Can't come on the show. Poor guy's trying to adjust. Got down to a half a nail. Yeah, he's missing a nail. Scott Boris client, $18 million, $7.7. ERA. Jim Crane, if you're listening, no more Scott Boris clients. They don't pan out.

They leave us. Well, I was Al-2-A's got a OPS on like six. That's enough. Grace said on 7-9-a-good afternoon to you. Good afternoon, guys. I don't understand all this talk about Astros aren't going to pull this out. I mean, we have five, our first five hitters once Pena gets back are credible. And then you have Smith and Lophaito comes back.

He was batting good when he left. Nobody's on a season-ending injury, just Correa. And Correa wasn't pulling through with hitters in, when they were had the bases, you know, when hitters were available to knock in. he wasn't knocking him in. So I don't understand what the big deal is. We have a better sorting five once Hunter gets back because you have Aragetti and Lambert instead of the two guys at the end of there,

Javier and McCullors. I think it's going to turn around. I hope you're right, Grayson. I'm just right now, I'm in the theater of the moment right now. I'm discouraged. I don't like the lineup. I don't like the fact the bullpen's being used so much. I don't like to the fact the starters are not being, I mean, it's just, look, things can change in clearly a week.

There's no if, ands or buts about that. But it's still 14 players, right? It's still, you're opening, you know, in an opening day roster, they always put the players out there, and they run out on the field at first base line, and they tip their cap, and they say hello. If you did that for right now, you would have nobody out there. And on four. You do, you have five, you have your whole infield except for the catcher. and well and and and pina who's going to be you got a completely new left side of the infield you have Smith you have

I mean it's it's good it's going to be fine and this team is okay I mean I hope you know what Grayson thank you for the phone call I hope you're right too much has to go into place for it to just be fine Hunter Brown's got to be good and back and effective and not get hurt again you are assuming that everyone these players are coming back and everyone are going to pick up where they supposedly left off Emai has to turn it around. He's not turn around. He's got to do something. Yeah. If we can't use the odds of all this.

I mean, we're talking about like a one in a million for everything to hit. Emi has to come back and be good and give you lengthen games. Burrough has to turn it around or at least be consistently good, I should say. Lambert just came from Japan. There's no guarantee that Peter Lambert keeps this up all season. You sign Ryan Weiss at $3 million. He's not been of good value. He's been terrible.

You're waiting for Mike Burroughs to turn the corner on. Now he's giving you a couple of quality. but he's been far from dominant. I love Spencer Arrogatti, but is he going to have a ERA of two all season long? Probably not. Pena's got to come back and be good. Jake Myers is like an unknown.

Joey Lo Perfito, we don't know. Joey Lo Profito is a fourth outfielder, Taylor Tremel, fifth outfielder. Yeah. You're going to get all these guys back and they're all going to be great. Yiner Diaz, people wanted Yiner Diaz d'i fayed early this season. We're going to act like he's going to come back in Zbier.

And Walter Yonick, the future catcher is hurt and batting 1-25 at AA. but grace holds optimism and I'm going to live for it you need all those things to go well you need all in the comeback stay healthy and play well and the biggest break is the American League West is awful that is a good break thank God it is

the biggest thing you need is Hunter Brown to come back and be Hunter Brown it's a lot of pressure for guys missed about 90% of the season you guarantee me a pitcher's not going to get hurt again of course you can't it's too much it's too much to overcome I think.

When you factor in the division, perhaps. But I would say the odds are very low of them making the playoffs to me. Now, what I would like is for them to be relevant. Because Ross, if they are in the mix,

you can then cling to the hope of, well, it's been another season of injuries. But if they start to fall 12, 13 games under 500, that's when people start to check out. want you all to check out. It's not in our goods because then we're going to have to get into a deep dive

of, you know what. We don't need that. You're not going to do it anyways. I'm willing to do it. Grudgingly. Let me get on the podcast and give you. It's, yeah, it's a, how much of my 10 bucks? No, it's 50 apiece. Damn. You don't eat well off of me. All right. Vince in Midtown will get to you. Brian McTaggart on

the Astroostrogles as well. Plus, believe it or not, all things, Ted Turner. 114. Sports Talk 790. Reds are about to play the Cubs, so maybe the Reds will be tired for the Astros series tomorrow in Cincinnati. We have some breaking news. That's one. We'll give it a second one. Oh, no. Who's hurt? Nobody's hurt.

Okay. It is official. Well, it's got to go through two more layers, but the NCAA committee, the first one in the committee is going to expand. It is going to be a 76th tournament for the NCAA March Madness next March. You'll have 12 games play on. on Tuesday, excuse me, six games played on Tuesday, six games on Wednesday, and then you'll have the back to the round of the rank normal tournament. So 76 teams total is compared to 68.

Who asked for this? The NCAA did. And when the NCAA said yes, by the way, TV has not been determined on that yet, but you know that ESPN and or Turner will get involved in that as well. So six games. So the first four is done. Now the first six, the second six. What?

Yeah. You get six and six and six and six and six and twelve. Then you get the 64 making total of 76. Six plus 70. That still doesn't make sense. It's going to make sense. I don't know what the hell they're going on. Get your bracket.

It'll all make a lot of sense. Okay. It's even more impossible to get a perfect bracket. So two games on Tuesday is gone. It's now six games on Tuesday. Two games are gone. on Wednesday. That's gone. That'll now be six games on Wednesday and then it'll be down.

You'll take the winners of that, add to that to the 12 winners. 12 plus the 64. It makes it 76. Okay. You know what? This is it. Everybody wants more. Players want more. Coaches want more. TV networks. More, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more.

So let's stop talking about how things used to be great and things how money doesn't make the world go around. We all want more money. We want more exposure. We want more opportunity to keep our jobs. We want more money for our kids. We want more money. If we want more, you got to, you just, it doesn't organically come out. Out of nowhere.

You have to create more content to make more money. Nobody wanted more of this, though. Are they not making, is the NCAA struggling to make ends meet? The answer is not want to pay the players, the ungodly amounts of money. So they're going to have to create, now they are going to, they're out paying players now. So you have to create more money to continue to have your economic window and all the money you made. before and give the players the money that they're giving the institutions. Yes.

Everybody wanted more. Coach just wanted more. Coach just wanted job security. Coach just wanted job security. Do they not? You make the tournament more. Is that going to be good enough, though? Is that the threshold when you're spending all these millions?

So what you did is you took 350 teams that play college division one. Okay. So now that you've got, Grand Canyon's got a better shot of making the tournament. Cool. A western Wisconsin or what I'm just making things up here. It'll be more bubble teams. We didn't do this with the power teams. Were the Aggies mad?

They didn't make it. I can't remember. They made it. They made it. There was some school. Oh, there's always four or five every year. Yeah. But the day, it's going to be Notre Dame.

It's going to be Duke. It's going to be Yukon. It's just keeping coaches alive, adding another layer. And frankly, Ross, to be brutally honest, we'll watch it. We don't watch a lot of it. We'll watch some of it. I don't watch a lot of the first four. Betting on it.

Bet NGM and all those fan duels, they can't get enough of this. I know. More games, more handle. Yeah. More money. Squeeze it all from everyone. Squeeze all the dimes. Just think about it.

Everything around sports is concerning money. Not about the balance, not about the bracket, not about the fun of the bracket. It's about the financial. It's about adding a layer of television games to these networks. It's been that way for a long, long time. It's just more and more apparent. 76, Ross, I can somewhat live with. This 24-team tournament is going to, the college football tournament.

I mean, congratulations in North Texas. You're going to probably get a better shot at getting in. You just are. So the first eight, get a buy, I guess, and then 16 teams go down to eight, and then you're at 16. That's what you're going to do, I guess? Probably. My guess, I'll be some double-bys involved in this as well.

I'm talking about it on the football. Yeah. all so James Madison can play Liberty in a first round matchup. And by the way, bet on it. And by the way, put it on TNT. I got James Madison plus the points lock of the week. Lock of the week. Vince in Midtown at 125.

Hi, Vince. Hey, guys. Change the subject on you. Sure. But I'm just kind of, I'm a big NBA fan. Been for years. And man, these playoffs have been extremely disappointing. They've been really made us two or three games that were really like, you know, riveting.

and just overall the epic droughts that some of these teams are having, like shooting, missing 18 shots in a row. But it's just crazy. And it's just very, very underwhelming, to say the least. And I don't know where it's going from here, but just, you know, other than San Antonio and Oklahoma City, those are the only teams that seem to be intriguing to watch. And I'm assuming they'll both lead in the Western.

conference finals and I think that would be some really good TV there but other than that it's just been a dud. Yeah, first of all, thank you for watching. I disagree. There's been a bunch of close games. Pistons Magic went seven, Cavs, Raptors went seven. Yesterday's Sixers game in the Knicks was cool but it's just not going to be seen by a lot of people here in town.

Now, when you have the one close team that you are familiar with San Antonio blow the walls off of Minnesota, that doesn't help, but there were some dynamic game sevens. And I'm not trying to give you information you already know. Sixers went seven? Yeah. You had three series in the first round, go seven games. It's hard to paint a broad brush over an entire playoff series.

It just is. I think there's been a lot of good games, but... Okay. I mean, yeah. I mean, I'm trying to look at the score. But, I mean, the Cab's Magic and the Cavs Toronto, they're not moving the needle here. I know, but he's just saying none of the games have been good, and that's just wrong. Yeah.

They've been good. It's just too easy to say that the whole series have been bad. Now, the Knicks, Atlanta game, then... that series was awful. Rockets game ended there. It was 50. The Rockets were terrible. Spurs was a blowout last night. Nick Sixers were close to the end. You've also had a lot of injuries. I mean, Luca's out.

Austin Reed has been terrible for the Lakers. Aunt Edwards is out. Well, it's also the Thunder are just a juggernaut. Yeah. I would say this, Vince, that when the Oklahoma City play San Antonio, that has to be a knock-down, drag-out fight in the Western Conference. that's a series that I think frankly any fan of basketball that doesn't have a dog in a fight has been looking forward to watching.

Yeah, and I think no matter what the matchup is, I mean, the Knicks are probably going to beat the Sixers they're up to nothing. I think the East Finals would be good too. Nix Pistons could be a lot of fun to watch. So don't give up. Don't give up on us, baby.

It's a 1970s song. Okay. Don't bring it up. All right, let's hear from Brian McTaggart. Next, Geron wants to jump in two, 128 is our time. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713. 212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. I love surprises. I've talked about this before.

I got an awesome, awesome surprise from my office here at IHeartRadio. And I have been with this company for 30 years this year. And they brought me a guitar with all of the sports logos on it. Yes. I've covered all the teams. The Oilers, yes. They have the Houston Hot Shots logo on there. That's the Astros.

Comets, oh. No, no comments. No Cougars. That's okay. But you'll see the photo. 30 years this year with IHeart altogether. So thank you to my great boss is Paul Lambert, Eddie Martini, Brian Erickson. All my, the sale stuff, people came by a minute ago.

Hey, everybody came in here. Except Jonathan. He was busy, though. Huh. No, I can't play this guitar, right? Why not? play it. Of course you can't. Why not? I don't know.

This is, oh, this is so nice. And I'll show a photo of it. Thank you. Okay. I can't. I'm left-handed. Don't, don't break it. What do I do? You need to put a picture up of this thing. I'm going to put it in my office at the house. Can you play guitar?

I play a little C-cord. Ooh, it's out of tune. Oh, that wasn't me. That wasn't me. Ouch. Thank you, Iheart. Thank you very much. 30 years. Oh, it's way out of tune. Yeah, I started in July of 19.

1991 and I moved away from my heart for a few years, but came back, obviously, to work with you. Yeah, not consecutive. Hold on now. I want to count these years back up. No, no, no, this is consecutively. No, it's a couple years of Harvard, but yeah, whatever. It's close enough. It's close enough. 30 years. How about that? 30 years. This is awesome. Thank you very much, everybody, to my heart family. Let's hear from Brian McTaggart. You know, I went to school together. U of H way way back in the day. You guys in classes together? Yeah. Really? Yeah. I didn't know that. I think so.

I think we have one class together. Oh, really? Yeah. You cheat off them? No, they're all trying to cheat off me. Nah, nobody believes that. Hey, Brian McTagher was on the show, and I, hell, I even forgot what he talked about. Well, Jonathan, how we leading it is.

I totally forgot. Talking about Carlos Cray. Oh, the Carlos Cray injury. But how Rossi, we got to send McTagher to cover... Bad in practice cages. Batting cages, because we're seeing guys drop like flies the last couple days. here's our visit with Brian. Yeah, that was crazy.

I think Correa's was actually inside, inside the hitting tunnel. You know, a lot of players now don't like to hit on the field, so Correa was hitting inside. So I wouldn't have seen that one anyway, because apparently he crumbled to the ground. Diaz, I, yeah, did not see that one at all when he was swinging and had to stop. But it's unfathomable that two days in a row, they lose a guy in batting practice and one of their starters,

position players, and a key player, it's just you think just when you think they've had enough injuries and they can't get any more than that happens and it's it's it i i'm speechless i've never seen anything like this That's the thing, Brian, is that we're being asked the same questions you are. Well, you change the medical staff out, you change out the physical strength and conditioning, you do all the subtle behind-the-scenes things that we don't see. We have to assume they're all professionals of their job. They've got training to it. Do you want to just chalk this up to a second year of unbelievable, terrible lack of luck?

Or do you think there's even another deep dive within the organization that has to be done because of the number of injuries that have happened to this team so far this year? Well, I mean, they changed head trainers. They trained, changed their head strength and conditioning coach. They brought in other people to the medical staff. I mean, they've made a lot of changes to their medical staff and it's still happening. So I mean, I lean on the side of this is just a crazy coincidence. I mean, I don't think there's, I can't imagine there's anything going on with the Astros that is getting all these guys injured.

I mean, you know, Krea looks like he just rolled his ankle, I guess, taking a small. swing. I mean, you know, whose fault is at? It's nobody's just, you know, it's just unfortunate luck. And, you know, Diaz swings the bat and feels an oblique. I mean, Diaz is in good shape. As far as I know, he does all their workouts and their plans. And I guess, I guess there's no firm answer, but, you know, two years in a row, they've had more injuries than anybody. And, you know, I know it's frustrating and everyone wants answers. And the answer might be, it's just the way it is. There is no answer. All right. Speaking of injuries, McCuller's nail. What do we know about what happened yesterday?

His ability to stay out there was good. Unfortunately, he was just throwing stuff that was easily hitable as the Dodgers took two out of three. But what do we know about Lance right now in the nail and whether or not it will impact the way he makes his next appearance? Well, I mean, apparently, you know, he's leading off the third inning against Freeland, the nine-hole hitter in the third inning. The part of his nail tore off on his pointer finger nail on his right hand. They came out there and looked at it. He said, I don't have my curveball anymore, but let me try to finish this inning. I can make quality pitches.

They said, okay, just because they really can't afford their starter to go two innings. And then he couldn't get out of the third inning because he said he was a pitch down. So he was asked directly if it's going to impact his next start. He said, we'll see. So it would not shock me considering the struggles that Lance has had that if they put him on the injured list. the problem is who do you replace him with? I mean, you know, they bring up Jason Alexander and, you know, he gets knocked around. They're just at the end of their starting pitching debt, they just don't have anybody anymore.

So just because of all these injuries. And, you know, EMI is going to come back and start against Seattle just because kind of what I did yesterday. Look, I mean, this guy's not injured. He's throwing 97. He's making a ton of money. You either get guys out in the big leagues or you don't. So sink or swim time. And so that's where they're at with him.

So it's just nothing about this feels really good if you're the Astros, but it's just where they're at. Brian McTaggart with us here on Sports Talk 790. And that's what I was going to come to you with, come to you next, Brian McTaggart, is Tatsi I, how were you surprised at all that they kind of made that decision to just throw him in there? Or is it, like you said, it's just a necessity? And you've got to go out there and get some outs and earn this contract. Yeah, I wasn't surprised.

I mean, you know, what more can you do? Let's give him another minor league start. And, you know, he walks four guys and, okay, now what? You know, they signed him here to get major league hitters out. And that's what he's going to have to figure out a way to do. His first two winnings, it's Sugar Land. I mean, I was not there. I was watching the Astros play at Dikin.

But apparently his first two innings weren't bad. And then the rails sort of came off. But he mentioned something about the pitch clock. And I mean, we've heard everything now. We've heard pitch clock, the mound, the balls, eating schedule, you know, you name it. At some point, you're just going to have to go out there and man up and get guys out. And that's the point of the season we're at. And they're in a really tough part of their schedule right here.

I mean, they just finished playing the Dodgers. You know, Cincinnati was playing well. You know, they were in first a few days ago. Now they're in last, but they're still over 500. You know, the Mariners just took a series from the Braves, so they're sort of on the come. There's really no soft landing spot at this point. You're just going to have to go out there and get major league hitters out. That's what we're paying you to do.

So it's time to go do that. If it keeps trending in this way, how much grace do either of Joe Espada or Dana Brown get in terms of the injuries and the situation they are on? How thin of ice do you feel like both of those guys are on? Yeah, that's tough because I, depending any of this on Joe Espada, I don't think is fair. I mean, you take away the amount of players. We're talking five starting position players, three members of your starting rotation who are in the rotation to start the season and your All-Star Closer. You take them away and there's not a manager around that's going to have this team in first place or, you know, playing much better than they are now.

That's just the way it is. But I get it. Some people want answers. People want accountability. Jim Crane has never made a move with a manager or a general manager. in the middle of the season. So I think we're too early for that stuff. I think at the All-Star break, maybe that's the time that the Crain will, you know,

sit down and evaluate things. I have not asked him about this. I've not had the chance to talk to him about, you know, what do you think of the state of the team right now and where they're at? So it's really hard to say it's all speculation. But my gut just tells me I don't think we're to that point. And I think it would be really, really unfair for Joe, just with all the injuries that they've had. It's just he's running guys out there who, you know, should be in the minor leagues.

And there's, you know, that's, that's not an indictment on him. That's just the roster that he's been given. And specifically on Dana Brown, Matt and I were talking about this in the last segment. If, I mean, what do you think the prospects of him in terms of also the draft that you have coming up in terms of, could you just talk, just tell us how that goes? How involved is Dana Brown? Is he making the picks? Is it like director of scouting? And is the board built? Like, What would that entail if it weren't Dana Brown running the draft? Well, you know, Dana was brought here because of his draft record. One of the reasons, I mean, he's a scout at heart.

He had some really good drafts with the Braves. And so the draft is what in July. So I would find it hard to believe they would make a move. I mean, Dana's very, very involved in the draft. I mean, they brought in Derek Ladeneer, who's, you know, one of the top. the talent evaluators a couple of years ago and he's very involved as well so you know there's a lot of voices that are involved in their draft selection process but but dana's up there as well now if if they man if they did make a move a general manager would they still would they still have

capable guys who can make draft picks yeah i mean they have a lot of pretty good talent talent evaluators that dana brought in i mean these are these are dana's guys so um you know do you do you remove that if you remove dana then you know you know do other guys stay i mean these are all questions i just don't have an answer to so sort of uncharted waters at this point it certainly is uncharted then again part of the brian mctagger conversation earlier today and of course he joins us every thursday at 11 o'clock here on sports talk 790 believe it or not all things about ted turner is next if you want to play 713 212 5 790 719 713 212 5 790 ted turner believe it or not coming up here on sports Talk 790.

I told Gordy he can play my guitar only if he plays some shaggy. Okay, he's trying to tune it up during the show. Oh, not there. All right. Thanks again, IHeart Radio, Houston, for bringing me that wonderful gift. And by the way, thanks everybody, listen to the show. We don't always get along, but we're here for each other. I'm like your big brother or your cousin or your nephew or a trusted friend.

30 uncle. 30 uncle. Not nice. Maybe accurate. I mean, you did just ask for a hooker to be for it. You wanted to get the pitcher hookers to turn his season around. I'm going to ask you a serious question. You do not think Tutsu I'm getting a nice girl for a few hours going to loosen him up a little bit.

You're telling me no. That's what I thought. No. Maybe you stress him out. Stress him out? I'd give him a relaxation. He's breaking the law. Okay.

Well, then let's get him a date. Jonathan, your girl's got friends, right? Oh, my God. You can pimp them out. You're pimping out his freaks. Did you just say that out loud? No. I thought it.

I didn't say that loud. And you're not the dirty uncle, really? Oh, right. Yeah. If anybody can help Tatsuri... You just ask your producer, if his girlfriend has friends, you can pimp out to an Astros pitcher. Do you want the Astros back in contention? Do you think that's really going to help?

It can't hurt. When does it ever getting Now I'm not looking for a relationship here with your girls' girls Oh my God Just a one off Is this a disrespect for there? Why don't you call the friends? You know what?

If Tatsu Emi wanted my wife's friends, I'd set them up. I guarantee I can find one of my wife's girlfriends Would happily spend quality time with Tatsui Yima If you get six innings of pitching That's what we're going to do. The Thomas family is willing to help out of Houston sports Put your name on it. You're a sick individual.

Yeah, well, let's see you get it done then. Well, I got to find. You're going to save the assholes. Go ahead. Start asking your wife's friends who's going to sleep with Tatsuya I. What if you might as though like older women? What if they don't like younger men? I don't believe it to be the case.

Okay. You know what? I'll set some, I'll send EMI up with somebody this weekend. Zero chance. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play. America's fastest growing sports radio game show Monday through Thursday, which is one of those days.

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Believe it. No, he was not self-made, unfortunately. I know. He inherited his father's billboard company. Ken on 790 Ken, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Ted Turner attended Brown University where he was expelled for having a female in his dorm room. Believe it or not.

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Statement number two for the win. Ted Turner was the creator of the popular children's cartoon series, Captain Planet and the Planetaires. Believe it or not. That's such a good show, but I'm going to say not. Believe it. So good that he created it. Oh, well. Dosecchi's on 790, Dosecchi's.

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I believe so. Ted Turner had a long-standing rivalry with Rupert Murdoch, even once challenging him to a televised fistfight. Believe it or not. There you go. Congratulations. All right. Anything goes Friday tomorrow, Rossi.

You thought Tatsu Emai getting laid talk was going to be crazy on Thursday. Imagine how Friday's going to be. We may have the person call the show. You never know. We got to get him better. You're going to have hookers called the show? Well, I mean, it wouldn't be the worst thing.

Okay. You want to break down Lakers versus Thunder game, too? We can do that. Yeah? We can also do. You know, we could also get into. What? Is C.J. Stroud and elite level quarterback? Just throwing that out there. Who thinks he is?

Well, maybe the flag. He's not a person on the planet that thinks he's worth $60 million. Maybe the flagship, you don't know? I'm saying. We got I'm sorry as it get to tomorrow. We have Wexler. We've got a lot of apologizing to do. Oh, my God, so much.

You need to apologize to Jonathan's friends, your wife's friends, and Tatsuya I and his family. That's all tomorrow at 1130. Up next, Clanton Wexler, the A team. Talk to you for anything goes Friday. And I mean anything. at 10 o'clock Friday. Sports Talk 790.