The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros CLEAN HOUSE, KD Preseason Debut, Yankees lose

Episode Date: October 9, 2025

Astros CLEAN HOUSE,  KD Preseason Debut, Yankees lose

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10 H-Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Start spreading the noon today. I don't take it personal. One more, one more, one more. Poppy is a national treasure.

I don't know if he knows any of the players in either squad, but he's entertaining as hell. And he takes great delight in uttering Yankees lose. He actually gave Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez hats for their trip to Cancun. Oh, wow. That's pretty funny.

Oh, my God. That is good stuff. It's why that show is so entertaining because, again, you would think baseball pre-your-post-game shows. You're like, whatever. I mean, no disrespect to Bill Ripkin, but come on. Zero entertainment value. I don't normally watch.

And gives us an excuse to play this song one more time. Yes, sir. I mean, this is great. Turn it up, baby. We retire this for the season. I'm waiting for you, Yankees, Keith. Yeah, where's Yankees Keith? I'm waiting for you, James and Garneux.

The fact that you called it yesterday, and he's not going to call it. Oh, there's no chance he's calling. No chance whatsoever. He's so busy. He was acting like they were up 2-1 yesterday when they won. one game. And guess what? And go tigers. And definitely go tigers.

We are your unofficial home for Blue Jays baseball. We are. We're official home. We're a lot of unofficial homes. Yeah, it feels like that way. Now look, if people on 66 WFA and listen to this right now, they're like, oh, listen to Houston, just saying that. Their team didn't even get there. We got 27 rings over here in New York.

I got your 28th ring right year. Okay. We're going to stop doing that. No, I don't want to stop. We're not going to stop. Can't stop, won't stop. I mean, we can continue to say we're not going to stop. We can't stop.

We can't stop. But this is, but your favorite teams in life don't win every year. So it's okay to transition to not liking somebody. Does that make sense? Yeah, hate watch. Yeah. If you don't hate watch. watch things, you will turn the TV off and not watch anything else again.

Like, imagine being a Texans fan. If you hate it, if you don't hate watch and you're a Texas fan, you haven't seen a Super Bowl in your life in the last 20, whatever years they've been around, 2002. Well, you don't have to hate watch. Okay, how about the AFC championship games? You can certainly hate watch. Yeah, I don't even know. It feels like the Texans don't even have enough to, who do the Texans hate and root against?

I mean, I guess people do root against Pam Holmes or Travis Kelly. because they're all mad about Taylor Swift. Right, right, right. What else? No, but I feel like the bills are rather beloved. My philosophy is this, again, it's okay to hate watch because at least means you're vested. I have asked all of you, and I think, unfortunately, sometimes I fall on deaf ears on this, is to watch other teams not involving Houston because there is drama.

There is excitement. I like to watch. And I like to do it. And I, look, again, I can't control what you do. You've got busy lives. Yeah, that's true. A lot of people. If you carve out your life to car.

Houston sports, you're like, well, if my Houston teams aren't involved, I'm going to go watch my kid or play golf with my son or walk out. I can't begrudge that to you. Or are you going and improving your life and spending time of your family? Just watch sports. You sound like a sports radio host. But my point is that you have to sometimes, like for instance, tonight's there's a Thursday night football game on between Philadelphia and the New York Giants. Yes. You don't have to hate watch that.

You can watch it for fantasy implications. You can taste to watch that. Get a little taste on the, on the dress. Ralph King's Pick Six app. If you are going to do any sort of wagering, it makes sense. But if you don't watch Philadelphia in the Giants, I get that because there's a significant chance I'm not going to watch it. You put 20 on the over.

We can't do that here legally. You're not doing it intentionally, but you're doing all this just to aggravate me and you're aggravating yourself. You're right. I'm fine. Oh, no, I want gambling here. Me too. I'm going to tell you that right now, I will vote for any politician.

All, and again, I'm not voted for anybody. I'm going, I don't typically do a lot of voting. I mean, it made me a character for my part. It is what it is. No, it's not. I will vote for anyone who brings legalized sports betting and gambling to the state of Texas. Love it. Period.

You go on in front of a pulpit. You're at a church or something and say, my name is Dexter Jones, and I'm going to bring casino gambling to Houston, Texas, or the entire state. I will vote for you. I will even donate to your campaign. Wow. Thank you, Matt. Because so many other people, my friends across this country, when I go to other cities, look, there are vices in life, there's alcohol, there's drugs, there is, what, gambling?

I mean, sure. There's plenty of vices in life that you have to control. Yes. And frankly, marijuana. I mean, marijuana is legal in many states. That's true. if you do things under-controlled situations and don't overindulge, it's good, but there's going to be addiction no matter what it is.

And I would like to have the opportunity to put a couple of wages. And now, I know me, I don't have an addictive personality on a lot of things. So I think I would be able to handle it pretty well. I do like, how's your, uh, craps? I haven't played in years from craps at least a year, right? When you and I went to, uh, Rurka, right? Yeah, we found you at the table, Mr. I quit crap. That's because somebody.

he said, hey, put $100. I thought I'll call it. But it's like we found our friend quitting crack in the alleyway with a crack pipe. But felt bad. How many times did I play craps when I was in Lake Charles with you? I don't know.

I wasn't around you the whole time. That'd be a zero. You do your little 8 a.m. session. I don't know what you're doing there because I'm sleeping. That's true. Rossi and Matt don't hang out at 8 a.m.

Yeah, I'm more, though. I'm more apt to be there at 1 a.m. And you're more apt to be there at 8 a. That is exactly right. All right. So back to it. So the Yankees are out. That's a shame.

And I fully expect. Suck it, Yankees. So here's the thing. We always welcome all of you to join the show at 713-212-5-790. Also, I want half credit for something? No, you're not getting it. I've already, I've had a chance to think about this. You asked with this half credit last night and you're not getting it.

That's right. We were talking at the Rockets game, which we have to talk about as well. I had a gut feeling that Kyle Tucker would get an extra base hit. He got two singles. That adds up to a double mat. And a walk? Throwing a walk for Cherry on top. But neither one of those hits were extra base hits.

If you said Maddie, they're going to get extra base after his first hit. No, no. If you would have said he's going to get two total bases, then I would have accepted that. And then a walk. Yeah, I mean, it's semantics at this point. There's no semantics doing it at all. Two singles and a walk. It's a semantics free conversation.

It's either extra base hit or it's not. Okay. Well, there's no gray area. You know how you like it. It's blue or gray or white and black or red and red as white and white? I don't know. Black is black. White is white.

Okay. There's no gray area. You lost. the God feeling. That's okay. I'm taking half credit. You can take all the credit you want. Jonathan and I are like, you get nothing. Two singles and a walk. Nothing. Good day from Kyle Tucker.

Teams are going to be writing that blank check after a slugging of 225. What's he slugging right now? It's got to be two-fittity. You sit in two-fitty, slugging two-fitty. It's not a huge slug. It's not bad. Not great. It's not bad. It's good for

short sample size. It could be better. All right. On the radio program today, We've got, at 1130 today, we've got, I just don't get it. This is the half hour of the show once a week that we sit back and we just throw things at each other that we just don't get. I mean, it could be a plethora of things. It could be sports related. It could be life related. It could be cooking.

I don't know. Gambling. I don't care. Cooking. All right. Like, for instance, I like cream gravy and brown gravy and people that think, they think brown gravy is the antichrist. And I just don't know. I like both.

I tend to disagree. Situationalally, I would say eight times out of ten, I'm going to say. cream gravy over brown gravy? I used to be 8 to 10 brown. No, more 50-50. That's good, right? You prefer the cream. No, I enjoy the cream as much

I love the brown. 713-212-5-790. That's how you reach a show today. Also, coming up, we get the news at noon. We've got the Rotten 5 at 1250 where I listened to a national show yesterday. They were doing their power rankings, and it was so pathetic.

Yes. because it took no originality to tell me how great the Detroit Lions are. It takes nothing special to tell me how great the Philadelphia Eagles are. Who is number one in the power rankings right now, actually? Well, I... Other Colts. Bills? Bills are the best record in the E.C.

Yeah. By the tiebreaker, but does that make him the best team? Bill's just lost to the Patriots. Right. It's got to be Bill's Eagles somewhere. We're not doing it. It takes zero ability to give you who the best five are. It takes something special today

Who are the five war star? I can't wait. And the Texans won't be in there Because they got back to back wins, baby. No, they're where their normal spot is And that's being mid. If we did the middle five, we'd be the Texans of a permanent spot in there.

The Texans would be the all-time Hall of Fame. Yeah. Yeah, they would be the Barrett, well, Barry Bunsen on the Hall. Bengals would be in that middle five, right? Generally, I don't think the Steelers. Steelers would be staples of the mid-five. No, the Steelers would be like in the middle five.

No, the Steelers should be like in the decent 13. Yeah. Like they're around 11, 12, 13 every year. Every year you're thinking, there's no way they can make the playoffs. And then, oh, my God. Here they are. They're 3-1 with 41-year-old Aaron Rogers. And he's not killing it.

He's just been okay, right? I don't think they're like going, oh, my God, this offense is so explosive. And then at 1.30, we got Willie Fritz for his weekly visit on the radio show. Wow. Cougar is going to Oklahoma State this Saturday. Huge game. For an 11 o'clock game. The game is so big.

We're putting it on TNT. and 950 KPRC. At 11 a.m. Yep. Pregame at 10 with me on 950 from Stillwater. Three episodes of Charmed. And then it's U of H. Cougars football. I've never been to Stillwater for a football game. I'm going to go walk on the field because that concrete brick wall is so close.

It's like five feet away. It's dangerous. I hated when the Long Runs had to play there every other year. Yeah. Because you just get nerd. People get hurt. And then when the bane comes on the field close to halftime and they take them It's a lot of areas. Yeah. Yeah. Like there's no room. It's like you're in the club at 1 a.m.

Everybody's trying to play football. It's not right. It's frankly dangerous. And I'm, the Cougars about 15 years ago had a player seriously hurt there. Yeah. But it's, if it's rare, it doesn't happen more often. It's crazy how rare it is. Yeah. Everybody has to be aware. Katie made his rocket debut. It's just the preseason. I don't care. I'm fired up, baby. 10.13. on Sports Talk 790. Shangoon,

crossover against Newarkage, hands it back to Katie, right down the lane. Easy jam. We've seen that only about the last 17 or 18 years. Time out.

Will Hardney in the Utah Jazz. Shangun is beyond the rings. Now comes inside the ark. Hands it out left side to Duran. He's going to fall and put up a shot attempt for the right. Baseline is up and in

and he has spout. Kevin Durant loves that baseline mid-range, knocks it down and put himself in double figures. All right. Yeah, I'm not going to use my aimless material for the preseason. Okay. I just can't. Why not?

It's Newtown the preseason. It's just the preseason. Opening night, Oklahoma City? I did. I did say something to Ross. I did use on a broadcast something that I didn't think I was going to do, but I'm always trying to figure out different ways to, if you say the same thing every time. Kevin or Durant or KD. So I'm

just calling the game, just kind of just get my wits about having him, you know, rooting for him as compared to hoping he misses every shot. And he had a shot and I called him the Durantula. And I didn't think I was going to do that. I don't think that will do it on the regular but I was like I said, I was just trying to

kind of float off the tongue. Yeah. Just work on my way navigating these waters of one of the greatest players of all time. Now we're in Rocket Gear. All five starters last night, scoring in double figures. Houston took care of Utah in a defense optional game by multiple accounts, although one time Alper and Shingoon did not play very good defense. And E. Medoca called a timeout immediately and ran the middle of the floor and chewed his ass out. Yes, I did see that. I was at the game.

Yeah. I got tickets from a great friend. Well, that wouldn't be publicizing that too much, but thank you. I didn't say who it was. You shouldn't have. And I didn't. Yeah. Thank Gordy for those tickets. Thanks, Gordy. 1021 on Sports Talk, 790. 7. 7.1.3, one, two, five, seven, nutty. Look, he does what he does. He takes a little bit to get warmed up. Then he puts up four or five baskets in a row. He'll turn the ball over a couple times.

And it's, you know, a 12.7 rebound game in about 16 minutes of play, basically. They look good. And he even got a dunk in the paint. Doesn't score much in the paint these days. He did when he was a young-in. Nope. Because, I mean, anything 15 feet in is basically a lay-up for him as it is. But he's going to be able to sky over anybody that's six-eight guarding him.

He just is. Wage spage good. bag dunk that was like his standing reach, as they call it, in the basketball scouting world. Yes. It's like basically at the basket. It's basically to the rim. It's ridiculous. Yeah.

But he looked very comfortable. I think he liked the Rockets for a reason because he's got a couple of ex-teammates with him. He's got a coach that he knows from international play. And from when he was in Brooklyn and E-May was an assistant there. And he said he wants to be coached hard. Yeah. And as you said, E-May is calling timeouts. even though there was like two minutes left in the half

and he called a timeout to chew everybody. That was not just specifically Shingu in that time. It was everybody. And, you know, it feels like most coaches like two minutes left in a preseason game. We'll talk about it at a halftime. Correct. No, no, no, no. Those you don't know, in the NBA,

you have two mandatory timeouts per quarter. That has to happen. And those are two lengthy ones. After the second one, meaning the third and anything else that's called, those are 70 seconds. Yes. So a timeout is called and I'm thinking, okay, this is too. Like, wait a minute.

We already had the second timeout. We're going to go to a 70 second break. Why? There's he may just chewing ass. Yes. He was not playing. He was like preseason against the Utah Jazz, two minutes to half, and he's acting like it's the finals. I love that.

There is a kid on the Utah Jazz team, and he literally is a kid. He was the fifth pick overall in last year's draft. His name was Ace Bailey. We mentioned Ace Bailey a little bit around the draft. And for those who don't remember, very talented player out of Rutgers, the basketball factor that is Rutgers University. And there was a lot of conversation about where he wanted to go if he wanted to hand choose where he got to go.

Utah Jazz is like, you know, you guys don't like coming to Utah. We get it. We get it. We're still taking you. And then it took him a while to get on a plane and go see the people in Utah. Yeah, a lot on his plate. He's busy. He wasn't busy at all.

He was like he was, he think he was brooding until the agent said, you've got no choice. Either you go there or you set out another season. Oh, his given name is Arias. I like Ace better. The limit, now that was the first I ever saw him play in person. He's really good. Hits threes,

can defend, go to the basket. Scored 25. Now, granted, he was out there more than anybody else was because they were playing starters

late in the fourth quarter. Yeah, it was like Nirkich was playing late and I was worried about the 11 and a half for the Rockets. Shreemak was out there, your buddy? Yeah, that guy.

That guy was throwing down Ali Ups. Yeah. So he's really good. Now, granted, he's going to be very good. good for a team that's going to win, I don't know, 17, 18 games? Maybe they're going to

surprise. The question is going to be how they're going to trade Lori Marker. Old man Kevin Love is out there with his gray hair. Yeah. Trying to knock down three. Not because he wants to make them, he just doesn't want to go all the way in the low block. He was out there late in the fourth quarter. I'm like, can you let this man sleep? I was like, what is Kevin Lonsbegown's

how is my career going to end? I'm in Utah, back end of the bench, and I'm playing in the fourth quarter of a meaningless preseason game. And by the way, I've been saying LeBron should be doing this for years. and love just rocks the gray hair and makes you appreciate him more. You're like, wow, look at this old, this old dude is out there on the floor

running up and down. If LeBron would have let the hair line go and then go full gray, we'd all be like, oh my God, this is incredible. He's dropping 27, 7 and 8 at 40 years old. I think there's a reason why he does it. I think the hair is splotchy. I don't think he wants to do it that way. To my LeBron? Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Let it go.

Wouldn't it be uneven? Yeah, but everybody, he would get, I would say, 75% less hate for doing what he's doing on the floor. Okay, 50%. Okay, 25%. Yeah, the hate still there. But if you imagine you got a dude with a gray half row out there, throwing down dunks like LeBron James? Yeah.

It'd be insane. Yeah, LeBron's catching it for doing the whole... He would be like Uncle Drew. It'd be like watching Uncle Drew. Yeah, I don't need to see that. I think you should do it. What's the most famous thing that Uncle Drew has ever done? Made a movie.

Called? Uncle Drew. That's it. Was Shack? Yeah, the Kyrie Irving movie. Was it good? I didn't catch it. I saw my watch list.

So the most famous movie he's ever done and you didn't see it. Yeah, you have you team Uncle Drew? Sure, why not? Okay. 62% on Rotten Tomatoes. Not great. You wanted to be at least 70, correct? Yeah.

Shaq was in the movie, Chris Weber. Boy, it was a, it was a, it was a all-star team out of. Reggie Miller, Lisa Leslie. Yeah. I didn't catch it. Yeah, I'm sure it's great. You know, we'll do a, you know what I started doing? We used to do a 790 movie night.

We've been saying this for like a decade. It's never going to happen. All right. But go ahead. I need to watch the Bachelor Party. I still haven't done that. Bachelor Party is on your list. Have you seen airplanes start to finish?

Absolutely. Okay. Multiple times. All right. Great movie. Okay. That's one I'm not going to give you, many things you like are weird. Airplane's hilarious.

Okay. You want me to watch. Walk hard. It doesn't matter. What's the one Friday? You want me to see. Friday. You haven't seen Friday? I haven't seen Friday yet. Oh my God. Okay, so our six-week movie series is going to be Bachelor Party. Yes. A young Tom Hanks and Adrian Zemed.

Yes. Yes. Yeah. Uncle Drew apparently. I don't think Uncle Drew's on our list. It's on the triple bill. You can leave for that. You know, we got to do one week. We got to figure out what Jonathan hasn't seen that's like unbelievably good. Well, he hasn't seen anything. Have you seen Star Wars, Jonathan? Of course I've seen Star Wars. All right. Have you seen Star Wars? All right. Have you seen The Godfather? I fell asleep during it though. Have you seen E.T. It looks creepy and old. I like old movies, but

that one just lives like... E.T. made me cry. Goodfellas. I fell asleep in goodfellas. What is wrong with you? I mean, like, I haven't seen good fellas either, but how do you fall asleep during a massive horror? You're missing for like messing around with your lady or something? No, no, no. That's exactly what it is. I'll be it for real. I tried watching Goodfellas. Pulp Fiction. Oh, by the way.

I don't like Pulp Fiction. Jonathan, by the way, I fell asleep during Pulp Fulp Fiction. wink wink all right Matt if he's falling asleep I can fall asleep too that's true I don't really like Pope Fission I think Darren T's one of his worst

comedy wise I guess I know it's a good movie comedy it's not a comedy I'm not I've only seen the first half hour of it like his jokes he's trying to say Darren Tarrantino I don't I don't know I like what other movie he just I just watch Reservoir Dogs and glorious bastards Jackie Brown

and Jango and Chey I don't think we've been a time in Hollywood. I don't think we can go... John, we can't do a movie series of Ross because he's going to shame us in all the great movies we haven't seen. Okay, let's go. All right, real quick, before we go to break. All right, Ross, what do you think is the best like five? Or you can think of it? Of all time? No, all time. But it's like best you can think of on top of your head to watch.

I would say Goodfellas, Godfather. Pulp Fiction's up there. I actually prefer Jackie Brown and Glorious Bastards is great. There Will Be Blood. You go with Paul Thomas Anderson. Boogie Knights is fantastic. Christopher Nolan films like Momentum. Oppenheimer, the Dark Night trilogy. I'm really excited for The Odyssey coming out. I mean, that's just kind of play.

Oh, Stanley Kubrick's one of the all-time greats, of course. The Shining is great. One of my favorite comedies of all time is Dr. Strangelove. He also did a full metal jacket. If you're looking into war films. I got a new name for you. You are IMDB. That's, I mean, that's just the easy stuff.

Yeah, Memento is a pretty... When I was in college, this is now, Back in my day, Jonathan, Netflix used to be a mail-in service, and you could, they would just, you'd make a list of DVDs and you would mail them in, and they'd be back at your house like two days. It was great. And so when I was in college, I was knocking off there. The AFI American Film Institute made a top 100 list, and I tried to knock out like as much as the top 100 list as possible. You know, it's funny, you're talking about how much you loved Netflix. It was awesome.

When Redbox came out and they said you don't have to take it back to the same location. I thought this is a 100% game changer until I realized that no one used DVDs anymore. Oh, I didn't even mention. Well, I mentioned Goodfellas for Scorsese. Casino, taxi driver, Raging Bull. Oh, taxi driver is a really good. Okay, I've seen a taxi driver. Okay.

There you go. Mr. IMDB over here. I mean, I respect it because I just haven't, I don't have that kind of movie catalog in my head. Mm-hmm. Thank you, Matt. But I got useful sitcoms of the 70s. You want to roll with that. Let's go.

Hey, if I want to ask you about. If you want to get quizzed on random game shows, you're ready. Game shows, 70 sitcoms, and occasional soap opera conversation. That's what I'm here for. All right. So, wait for Yankees Keith to call in. Still waiting for James and Garden Oaks to call. James and Garden Oaks, where are he talking about the Yankees?

Aaron Boone can't hold Joe Girardi's job. I have not looked at Nick Totoro's Twitter. Oh, I saw it. Is he swore? I came on my 4U tab somehow. All right. We'll see how he's feeling about these things. 1031 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

We've got to just don't get it coming up at 1130. The Rotten 5 at 1250. And believe it or not today at 150. 713-212-5-7-90. If you want to join our conversation today, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. If you want to jump into the conversation that Ross and I are having about a variety of things, including last night's Rockets game.

If you are able to watch the game, listen to it, or we're in person. We keep using the term, But it feels like it was surreal watching Kevin Durant with the word rocks across his chest. And hopefully he's doing it for the foreseeable future. It was cool. Yeah. When he got introduced, of course, from Texas. Longhorn legend.

Retired number. You know, it's funny. You know, I was talking about this. When you're doing games now and colleges do it, way more announcers do it than pros. So colleges, when you're doing play by play, you're usually to say, you know, John Jones, who was a sophomore. 6-5-2-65, he played high school football at Texarkana. And you were moved on. Now you've got play-by-play broadcasters that are saying the former UMass Minuteman

or the former Central Florida Golden Knight or the former Arkansas Razorback. There's so much transferring. Imagine if you did the starting lineups of NBA teams and you said, at 6-11 Ford, started out in Oklahoma City, went to Golden State, then to Brooklyn, then to Phoenix, then the Rockets. Hey, come on. Be kind of wordy. well but if you've been the league

18 years the thought of playing for one team in this day and age I mean I feel very confident saying that we will never see an NBA player play for just one team ever again we're seeing it very rarely in college I mean in professional baseball I mean Jose Altuva is the one-off there's a few that you could do that

you know, but Mike Trout going to finish as an angel, probably. Aaron Judge will probably retire Yankee, but you're talking about a handful of people. Yeah, Bobby Wade, huge contract. Like 14 years. Yeah, so, I mean, but my point is is that you, in the NBA,

it is just considered normal to play for multiple teams. Well, you can't even sign a 10-year deal in basketball now, right? No. No. They have limitations, yeah. But even so, Either we get traded or anything. Like, I'm trying to think.

Like, even though, I mean, we talk about the greatest of the mall. I came Elijah one. You know, Dwayne Wade went and played for the Bulls and then came back to the heat. I'm trying to think of who's the most. Obviously, Kobe was a lifelong Laker. John Stocktonick, lifelong jazz. Yeah, I'm trying to think of like the last 15 years of recent Hall of Famers. I don't know.

Dominique Wilkins wasn't even a career Atlanta hockey. He was just in town the other day. That's true. He went to the spurs and stuff, right? Yeah, yeah. He didn't bounce around. But even Carmel in his career with the Lakers. Oh, I forgot about that, actually.

Honestly, if you were, let's do this. Let's take a look at who is in the league right now and who could possibly end his career with this original team. So let me, let's throw some people out there. Okay. I don't think Yannis is going to stay in Milwaukee the rest of his career. So we'll put him in. Does Victor Webben, Yama, have a chance to be a spur for life?

Probably. Got a chance. You see he's seven for five now? Yeah. gained two inches. Yokich? Yokic with the... Maybe nuggets might make him a nugget for life.

Yeah. Who else would be potentially a player for life? Dirk was a Maverick for life, right? Yes. Even though he got traded from the Minnesota. But he never wore any other uniform. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm just going through recent Hall of Fame classes.

Right. Genoblee was a spur for life. But it used... But you know what's funny. Did he knock around somewhere? Genobly finished somewhere else, I was. want to say. No, spurs.

All the way through? Wow. Okay. Tim Duncan was a spur all the way through. Was Tony Parker? No, Tony Parker played somewhere else. Charlotte. Yeah.

Oof. That was an I would end it. Charlotte, Tony Parker. What's Otter? Tony Parker is a Hornet or Akema Lange one is a Raptor. Both. Yeah.

But you know what? Today's young fans don't necessarily care. No. A lot of fans are fans of players rather than teams. Because of this, what we're talking about. I have a son, my oldest,

and he's in my son. He's telling my son, but he's a young adult now. He's son. He still is. The DNA results back that up. He looks exactly like you. Yeah. He chases the player.

Yeah. He doesn't chase a team. Now, he has affinity for his Texas Tech Road Raiders, but that's about it. Mm-hmm. I mean, there are people bumping around Houston that couldn't imagine being a Kevin Doran fan

that are now because he's wearing the Houston gear but then you know that's just kind of the opposite of I was trying to explain but there aren't guys I mean if Steph Curry would be a good example. Steph Curry could be a Golden State player for life. Yes. Dremont Green maybe could be a Golden State Warrior for life.

True. So maybe there's more than we thought they were good. Yeah, just a handful. Yeah. But it's not like it used to be. No, but either way. I couldn't imagine Steph Curry. you know, they're going to take care of them.

No, Steph Curry's retiring as a Golden State War. Traymond Green may go have a one-off in Orlando or something. He, like, brought up the value of that franchise like tenfold. It is the number one franchise in the NBA. And look, I understand the value of San Francisco, huge media market, huge industry there, big fan base. Basketball is really, really popular in the Bay Area. Yeah, but what is Monti-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A.

Yeah, but with Monta Ellis and the boys, they weren't that value. Yeah, Marie Spritz or whatever that guy's name was. Donald Foyle. Andres Beardrons. That's not going to move the needle for gold. They didn't. But he basically made him, and obviously the Clay Thompson, the Splash Brothers, and Draymon and whatnot, but made them the most valuable commodity in the NBA,

which is saying something because the New York Knicks are a franchise that has championship pedigree in the biggest meeting market, playing in the world's most famous sports arena. I mean, they're in the number one media market. So, yeah. Yeah, I can't, yeah, Steph's not going anywhere else. He's got to retire. I would say so. It's rare.

And hopefully, Amend Thompson is so good. He had a corner three last night's sports RV. Untouchable, Emin. Untouchable Thompson. That's what we're going to call him. Call him All-Star if you want. Be nice. Make one All-Star.

Calm defensive league, defensive MVP. Player of the Year? Be nice. I'm all ready for that. All right. 1042 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you guys want to chime in, you 10 o'clockers, you're all there? Let's go.

Is this thing on? Seriously, let's just rip on the Yankees for the next three hours plus. I'm down. I'm all for that. Is Aaron Boone going to be back? Yes. I think you're right? You can't win the American League pennant and then get fired the next season.

Oh, you know who also's name we haven't mentioned? Clayton Kirshaw. Woo! Is throwing pus a inappropriate? term for that? Is there a player in history whose dominance in the regular season and then just absolutely, what would you call it? Just haplessness or just

ineffectiveness in the postseason is such a stark difference? I would call it despair. Yeah, I mean, because he's going to the Hall of Fame, right? Yeah, he's going to the Hall of Fame. His lifetime ERA, it's around two, isn't it? Let me pull this up. He's the greatest April to October pitcher I've ever seen in my life and maybe the worst post October. In 18 years, he's

got an ERA of 253. It's been dodging injuries the last handful of years. 253? All right, so pay off on this. What's his career ERA in the postseason? That's actually not that bad. 463. But that's still...

I don't know. When you are 2... Would you say 250? To go to 4... To go to 463? That's two different people. Over a large sample, too. 4-41 games. That's a lot. For the postseason, that's a good sample size.

Compared to the number of games you play, that's a great sample size. That's almost a season of starts. All right. We need to be... I mean, it is a season to start. More than a season starts. Are we seeing damage control in Chapel Hill, North Carolina? We'll discuss that next.

Oh, man, that's getting wild. 1044. Lots to discuss. Yeah, we got a lot to get to. Come on in, join us. 7-13. We don't bite. No, we may we do, but... Hard.

That was, uh, oh, I'm sorry. That was, um, Austin. powers. I don't bite hard. 713. 212.570. What's a movie, guys. 713. 212.570. As expected, Ross and I went to go look at Nick Totoro's

Twitter account, and he doesn't disappoint. We're going to play it for you in the top of the 11 o'clock hour if we have enough time to edit it. A lot of F bombs. There's so much language we would get probably a six-figure fine from the Federal Communications

Commission, so we can't. We're having to heavily edit it. Yes. He's very upset. As is the case. And he knows that's his stick and that's good because, first of all, I think it's authentic. But second of all, he did put the camera on. He knows.

He knows. So it's good. Yankees Keith, you've got the carte blanche. 713. Yankees Keith, where are you at? Let's go. Start spreading the news. Let's go.

Where are you at? 66. Where are you at James and God Noakes? Come on, baby. Let's go. I'm here. We got more Yankees talk yesterday than Astros, I think. Yeah.

Now nothing. Funny how that works. It is funny how, oh, y'all trash, and the Yankees are going to win five world series. I mean, come on. Maybe he's back to Texans, Keith. Well, put it this way. Is there anything that you and I do that we go in hiding? I don't think we, I don't think you and I?

Well, we can't. We got this job. That's true. I'd like to go take some time off. That's true. I mean, look. The Long Horse loses. oh you might take Monday off. I did. I did do the show the day after North Florida beat

Houston. Oh, you did. And I held off for a couple days. Yeah, but the most important thing that you said is a couple days. You didn't completely hold off. Why would I? If you're going to brag all tournament long about how you're winning the championship. Yeah. For weeks and weeks and weeks. Yep. And months and months and months. Yep. I got to get my shots in. Yeah, I know. I know. When the team chokes and it doesn't get a shot off in the last possession. With the championship on the line. That's got to hurt.

I mean, it didn't feel great. I'm sorry, Matt. I'm sorry to you and real Cougars fans out there everywhere. Thank you. Last night, they had Walter Clayton Jr. played 20 minutes for the Utah Jazz. Walter Clinton, last scene, in my eyes, was the most outstanding player for the University of Florida in the national championship game. I wanted to go put like a master,

like a jinx on him or something. Like a hiss? And I just, you wanted to go jinx them? I want to go. You don't want to do, Jonathan? I want to go.

I want to go. I want to go. I want to go, he went three of ten. Okay. It was a minus 13 out there. By the way, I heard I was getting slandered on the, on the broadcast.

You did kick brought up. I forgot what it was about. Adam Clinton called me a bad texter or something. I don't know how to how that come up. We were talking about texting rules. This is at the fourth quarter of a preseason game, I imagine. Bingo. Yeah, he said, is your rule still in place?

I said the rules in place. If you text me and I don't, you don't, if I text you, excuse me, and you don't respond to me within two hours of the text, your phone gets locked until you respond. You've gone more than two hours from responding me multiple times. Not lately. In your group of friends and family, I'm a top five text returner to you. I don't know about that.

are in my group of life, you're in my bottom five. Jonathan is also... Jonathan, you're also terrible out of it as well. I'm trying to be better. Yeah, see? Don't mess me back here. I got the sound effects. Okay, that's true. That's true.

All right, so let me get to Bill Belichet. So there were some published reports. And look, we used to, when we used to have a legitimate media, we could say publish reports. Now it's internet rumors. Well, that guy's from the Guardian, right? He's got 20,000 followers. what's his name something connolly or whatever so there is a report

that bill bellichick would be willing to step aside from north carolina provided he had a good landing spot whatever that means my assumption would be either another coaching job somewhere or back on television ollie connelly is the reporter the guardian is a a british paper

but he works for the i guess the united states bureau of the the guardian Okay, so you... So how legit is that? Exactly, I don't know. So North Carolina had to go on their socials and say, we are committed to Bill Belichick, we are committed to North Carolina football. Oh my gosh, he got like 10,000 followers on last day. He's at 36 now.

He was at like 20 yesterday or 20 something. So it worked for him then. Yeah. All right. So they did a bunch of... Do you want the report from him? Please. Per sources.

Bill Belichick has discussed. buyout options with North Carolina's hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media. He's not going to play, he's not going to coach another team again. He's done. Either this is, he's going to finish this out at North Carolina

and get this thing fixed, or he's going to either go into retirement or going back to television. He's done as a coach. Members of his staff have already spoken to other schools that are expected to be in the playoffs about taking on roles during the postseason. I guess if you're a coach, you can't coach for another team until the postseason starts or something? I don't know. Anyways, his coaching staff is looking for other jobs.

And also, this is an interesting one. Reports of serious recruiting violations remain under investigation at UNC. That's all from that one guy that got 10,000 new followers yesterday. Recruiting and practice violations have already been proven by the school according to multiple sources. Okay, practice violations. can be easy to detect because everything is logged when you get on the field, when you practice, how much time they're in the workroom,

in the workout rooms, how much they are in the film study, how much they're on the field, how much hitting there's going on. That can be, that's chronicled. Gritting violations, that to me, I mean, that's a fine line because you're talking about NIL stuff. Because you can pay the players out of your North Carolina money.

now you can't give them more than what you're allowed to give them, which is a certain budget, you can push them to NIL people, but the NIL people have to do the heavy lifting. You can't do it yourself. So maybe I, who knows? But I mean, was there, maybe I would think if you're saying recruiting violations, maybe you're contacting kids in areas where you can't talk.

I mean, there's a quiet period. That could be just a situation where Bill Belichick didn't even know he was breaking the rules because he doesn't know college football. And he, you know, contacted people, yeah, outside of periods. where he was supposed to or did something else. Which would be a very, in the big picture of things,

a very minor violation. Yeah. So who knows? Look, I don't like him. I respect him, but I don't like him. I don't like the way he treats people. I don't like his,

the way he is, this very glib, funny, interesting television reporter or analyst when he's making good money and he becomes a major a-hole when he's not. But he's still great.

He's one of the greatest coaches ever. But he's ruining his legacy. I mean, is he really, is he really going to have the fire in the belly to fix the program is probably going to go three and nine this year, I guess. They're two and four now or something like that.

Yeah. They've been blown out multiple times. They're horrible. Their wins are against directional North Carolina schools. It's pretty bad. I mean, if I'm him, I'm going to get out. I'm going to take my little hussy with me and we're going to go have a nice long vacation and get away from everybody. And then show up on the Manningcast next year and be able to

beloved like you normally. He was great on the Manningcast. Yeah. The last two weeks they lost 38 to 10 to Clemson and 34 to 9 to UCF. And that UCF game, well, which one? The Clemson game was a home game, I think. Yeah.

They've had That was a reverse pass touchdown. The first play of the game. Two home games and two annihilations. TCU beat him in week one badly. 48 to 14. And then Clemson, as you mentioned. Bill, retire. Hey, they got a road win at Charlotte.

Who's the other road victory against? Home for Richmond? Yeah, like I said. I didn't know the Richmond Spiders had a football team. And that's their FCS, I believe. That's not even a real Division I win. Let's get the second hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross

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We've got great sponsors. But that's about it. We're going to be here the rest of the way. Plenty of time for you to come in and talk about your Yankees losing to the Toronto Blue Jays. Yeah, the crazy thing to me is how they were both acting like they won one game in a five-game series. Yeah. And they were both acting like they were up 9-0.

Correct. In a clinching game. Yeah. Yep. Yankees fans. All accurate right there, my friend. All right. 713-212-5-790.

If you want to join the show, again, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We've got a pair of baseball games tonight and the American League, and I should say in the national. League side of things. We have this evening, the Phillies and the Dodgers at 5 o'clock. The Brewers and Cubs play at 8. Man, I still don't think it's smart putting Brewers Cubs on that late at night. Now, again, they're going against Thursday night football, so it doesn't matter.

These two teams are going to get demolished by the NFL stuff. That's interesting. They put the Dodgers so early. Yeah. Philadelphia and the Giants play in East Rutherford. It's 715, and Philadelphia is a 7.5. favorite in that game. Detroit, Seattle, by the way, will play tomorrow in a deciding game five in Seattle.

And that will be at 7 o'clock, and they're putting that on Fox. Big Fox. No FS2, no MLB Network Spotlight game or something like that. It's going to be on the big one. The Blow Torch. Go Tigers. Please go Tigers. Is that too much to say? No, it's not too much to say. All right, so we've got the Yankees to lose, so that's good.

We're halfway home. Let's talk to Ron on the southeast side, 1105 on the Matt Tomas show Ross. Ron, thank you for waiting and good morning to you. How y'all doing today, man? Amazing. Thank you. Okay, hey, man, I just want, don't you and Ross jump on me for not knowing this, but for the last five or six months, I was excited to see what Cam Whitmore was going to do for the Rockets this year. I'm sorry. It's my surprise.

Don't jump on me. To my surprise, I just discovered like three days ago he's been traded. Yeah. But let me ask out something. Did they trade him? he wasn't good in the locker room but he didn't play defense or the coach didn't like him and one more thing soon they got more than just two second round picks for him they should have got a first for him i think uh the reality is this he was given a couple of opportunities last year ron to

make the rotation and his defense was poor it was kind of a shoot first and give everything about everything else second and it just didn't vibe and sometimes coaches and players and teams don't vibe and they liked cam and said look we're going to send you somewhere where you can go play and score a bunch of points and have very little pressure put on you and the Washington Wizards was the supreme place for him to go and that's what they went and so yeah you uh he wasn't a first round talent uh you couldn't get a first round for him I think two second rounds not bad especially if the Wizards are terrible that means that those in theory could be two decent second round selections that you could use in under trade possibility so yeah no surprise there at all

Oh, okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Huh. First rocket call out of the show. I would have thought, man, watching Katie doing his thing was cool. We got a Cam Whitmore call in. Yeah, he would just come in in garbage time and score a bunch of points and it looked good, especially when he was shooting hot, which overall, the numbers weren't terrible. 35% three-point shooter, almost 36% in his two years as a Houston rocket. So he would come in and fill up the bucket. a lot of people would get their hopes up about him possibly being something. But I think to me it was just more volume. And then there were the other issues, as you mentioned,

the defensive issues. It didn't seem like he was very coachable, speaking out in the media about being unhappy with his role and unhappy where he was. It's like, dude, you just started the game and scored 25 points. And you're talking about how mad you are. It just seems like, not a cold. What do they say with the Texans, the cultural fit?

Yeah, there was not a lot of joy in his face. The demeanor kind of said it all. He wanted to be somewhere else and maybe not a cultural fit with the Rockets who want to be everybody. What do they say? Sometimes me, sometimes you, but always us. The Houston Rockets would say. Let's get some T-shirts made of that. I think they did make some.

With a 790 logo on him. Always us. Oh, okay. With 790 logos? Sure, why not? We can sell them. And it was, Cam Whitmore's like, no, always me. Yeah.

Always, it's always us when I'm out there. Sometimes you, but mostly me. Cam Whitmore. All right. Can I stay with the NBA for a second? Yes. So we brought this up two days ago. LeBron James had his quote-unquote

The decision part two. Is he still getting backlash? A little bit. Okay. To me, the backlash would have been worse if we would have all been sitting there waiting for him to make this decision. Thankfully, somebody said,

you need to put this out here a half hour before your quote-unquote decision because it's softened the blow. For sure. His decision was to drink Hennessy. Yes. A cognac, if you will. Yes.

It is a cognac, which is also a brandy. You're a fine girl. All right. So if you don't know this, when the decision announcement was coming, I've got a decision to make. Stay tuned. People lost their mind in Los Angeles in particular. So there was a massive run to the Lakers' quote-unquote ticket office. Yes.

to buy tickets to the last regular season game, which in and itself is stupid. If you think he's retiring, I actually have a friend who's a Lakers fan who called me, it was like, hey, should I buy tickets to a game? Now, the reason why I think it was stupid, man, I shouldn't stupid, it's too strong the term.

I think the Lakers are going to make the playoffs. So it really wouldn't have been his last game. It wouldn't have been, unless everything falls apart. Last regular season game. But so you're taking a chance on that maybe being the last last time. You're also taking a chance that he's going to be able to play in that last game. That's true. Lod management.

So the ticket prices for that last Los Angeles game went skyrocketing up. There's a gentleman that spent $865 on two tickets. Now, having done many a games at that arena, it's at crypto.com now, that's not crazy money being spent on two NBA tickets. It's just not. Now, they could be super high level upper deck seats. That sounds like nosebleeds probably. That would not be good value on two tickets for $865. So when the announcement came out that he was going to be doing the commercials for that said Cognac company,

the prices have dropped in value and the online folks have said the value of those tickets are now 20% of what they were before the announcement. Wow. So an 80% reduction. LeBron James is being sued by this ticket holder. in small claims court for fraud and misrepresentation over this quote unquote second decision. Okay. There was no hint of retirement.

Yeah. There was no hint of you have to be there. It is an option. No one put a gun to your head to say you must buy these tickets. This is a gentleman. This is what part of society makes me ill. This is a guy trying to get 15 minutes. this will be dismissed rather quickly.

And I said 15 minutes. Lighting fast. He's going to have to kill the other 14 minutes and 45 seconds because the 15 seconds he's going to get that won't be on his own clock will be in the courtroom when they say get out of here. GTFO. He's going to get a shut your butt man's out from the judge. The Honorable Mildred Jones, Ms. Jones, what do you say? Excuse me, sir, shut your bum ass up. Get out of my courtroom.

Pay the court costs. There's no way. So I just thought it was interesting. interesting that the guy took a chance. It's like a stock. Everything in sports is a stock. The parallels are quite incredible, frankly. It was a pump and dump scheme, but for Lakers tickets. Now, you never found. What if he bought LeBron's tickets? That would be funny. What if he's like, I'm buying these for 865, I'm going to try to turn these over for double the profit. I mean, he never, and I don't know who this person is. I don't particularly care. And this is the last time we're going to bring this up. but it's interesting that we are still trying to sue people for every little thing

and if this gets even gets to the claims court there should be he should have to pay the fines that are associated with the court costs because this is an utter embarrassment that a human being in this country would think that lebron james is goofy as the second decision was and as i don't know if ill times the word but it just it just a little tone deaf on it but again i don't care it's such a minor thing. And the most important things I said before is that he didn't surprise us. When he made his second decision video, we already knew what it was. For him, for this guy to think that LeBron James, you know, hoodwinked him into buying tickets is ridiculously absurd.

He's delusional. Yeah, this is not going to hold up in any court. There's no way. And it just shows you again, there are a lot of dumb sports fans out there. Huh. There are a lot of dumb political fans. a lot of dumb people. There's just, I just rule one of the world.

I saw that, and I clipped the tweet and I was like, man, what are we doing? Again, I'm not going to begrudge the guy for buying the tickets. Because if he's a LeBron guy and he's through and through and you want to be there for the last regular season game, if and then it indeed is his last game. But dude, this smelled like a rat from the start. Because as bad as the decision, the first, time went. I don't know LeBron. I've never spoken to LeBron. I think I've asked him a question or two in my life and a lot of him. Yeah. I hope he's not wrong about, I hope I'm not wrong about

this, but I'm going to assume that he's going to go through a lot of checks and balances to say, how do I properly say goodbye? And my guess it'll be in a press conference stage as compared to going to a commercial and trying to recreate. One of the things that frankly embarrassed is as early part of his career. And so I, it smelled bad from the start. And I don't feel sorry for this guy. And it's just, again, shows you how litigious we can be if we want to be. It's ridiculous.

It's going to be one of the worst lawsuits in history. And then Scrimon is all over him for crushing him for doing it. I'm like, come on. Dude, are you right? Are the ESPNs, are they that desperate for our segments? Mm-hmm. Well, the next segment was on the Cowboys, I imagine. Or the Jets.

Or Chador Sanders. You know, Shador Sanders. I mean, they're just rotating the same four things. I mean, and look, there's a lot of things. things about LeBron that irked me, but this wasn't going to be one of them. It was an ad. You'd smell like an ad from the jump.

And Stephen's not stupid. My guess is Stephen A is like, the producer walks up and says, look, we've got to kill 14 minutes. Can you really be upset about this to 14? Of course I can. Yeah. I can be angry about anything. This is absolutely preposterous from LeBron James. How could he do this to us? It's his legacy. He's trying for another title. Remember, the only

title I've gotten late because it's in the bubble. And I don't God, the bubble, because I wanted a bubble. Why do I get Mad Dog mixed in with Stephen A? I don't know what's going on with me. But I just wanted to pass out long to you. All right, I just don't get it. It's coming up in about 15 minutes from now, sports RV. Are you ready?

What don't you get in life? A lot of things. A lot of things. A lot of things. 713-212-5-790 if you want to join our conversation. 7-1-3-212-5-790. And again, we're going to now hopefully have Nick Totoro's edited a response when we come back.

1120 on Sports Talk 790. Do we have the finished product for Nick Vitturo? Are you sure you listen to this like multiple times to make sure we don't get any trouble? We have a dump button. It's fine. We're worried about. Are the license getting fine, suspended by the office? It'll be all right.

All those of those of you don't know Nick Totoro is an actor, best known probably for his role on NYPD Blue for all those years, right? He's been a friend of the show. we have not broken bread but we have we I think I've met him one time I'm not for sure

but he's been on the show multiple times over the years brother of John Totoro who I would say is more famous probably so for his movies correct okay but Nick is certainly if you were a fan of the NYPD Blue series

and I was just a diehard Yankee fan and he is he's kind of the He's kind of what you think a New York Yankee fan is. With his overreactions and New York accent and the accent. Here's Nick the Toro after last night's loss by the Yankees to the Blue Jays. Nothing left to say we didn't show up.

We didn't fucking hit after a great emotional win. I thought we would have momentum and we hit the bet as an offense. Judge did everything he could do. Cam Schittler was terrific. Kept us in the game. than a f***er. Of course, that's our Achilles heel. Era, always error. Couldn't get a big hit. Had men on base, seven, eight, just could not get it done. Got beat by a better fucking team. It's just very frustrating, very sad that every fucking October,

the last eight, ten, twelve years sucks ass like this. Very upset. First of all, we figured out what he was saying. Second of all, excellent editing by you, except there was one little part that was weird. What do you mean? You don't have to... Cam Schittler was terrific. Yeah, you don't need a beat there. Oh, you know what? He actually said Schlittler.

Just in case, you know. I mean, better safe than sorry. Yeah, you told me to make sure that I protect the license. Schlittler. Cam, Schlittler. If you don't forget the L, you're in good spot. You forget the L, you're going to be a little bit of trouble. Yes.

Hmm. poor Nick. Poor Yankees fans. And it's so funny, people always will send me little messages on Twitter saying, hey, call Nick, I'm not doing that. Yeah, not after they lost. It'd be like if somebody was like sending a text, sorry for your loss after your favorite team lost a game.

He already complained the last time we got him on. He's like, hey, you only call me when we lose. We don't even know anybody else. We have Yankees, Keith, who really isn't any Yankees fan. He's a faux fan. He said he's been a fan since, like, the 70s. James from Garden Notes is definitely a lot. James and Garden of New York.

has died. Yeah. And, you know, and I always appreciate you call me governor. Why? What are you the governor of? Do you have to ask?

Bad food takes? Texas? You're the governor of bad music takes and bad food takes. Bad movie takes. I am going to be running for political office. And my, my stage is very simple. Professional gambling.

Blackjack, craps, roulette. And do accept kickbacks. Pie gal. Sports betting. I've never. Never sat down at a pi-gau table. No, that's a lie. I've done it once.

Do you even know the rules? I know. I had a friend who loves Pai-Gow and I was playing with him. Is that the game where you just basically just sit there and watch the cards being played? You have to do with it? You have two hands and you set the hands and you make two poker hands or something like that. Okay. And if the dealer beats one of yours, if you split, then you split.

So most of the time you split. But if the dealer beats both of your hands and you lose, if you beat both their hands, you win. I think, I think. Don't quote me on that. Don't get me started a lot. I'll go try it. Now, it's usually taken up. It's usually like only one table running, at least at the rolled and rugged.

See, here's the thing. It's that, and again, you and I have run by different rules. I couldn't take the day off after U of H lost to Florida. Lord knows I wanted to. Yes. But I was here, I was able to take the medicine and go. Okay. You will be here on Monday if Oklahoma beats Texas.

Yes. Still deciding if I'm going to Dallas. By way, do you see that Oklahoma is practicing in the bubble all week long? Oh, they're trying. trying to hide if John Mateer is in the bubble. Yeah. That's funny. Okay.

Longhorns apparently, according to a tweet I saw, are one and a half point favorites if John Mateer is playing. So Vegas is assuming they're playing. Okay. He's playing. Right. If not, they are five and a half point favorites. Which is funny because they're unranked and they're playing the number 16 at a neutral

site. So now in college, you don't have to report anything. Correct. the only people that would probably know whether or not material is going to play for Oklahoma insiders. Message board insiders. Well, somebody that's in the practices

that would say something. Or the coach would then tell the broadcasters before the game, hey, you need, you know, because if I was calling the game this week, which I guess Chris Fowler and Kerrard Street, I would say, hey, which should I prepare for? And if I'm Oklahoma, if I'm Brent Venables, I'm going to prepare for both of them.

Because you're going to do that anyway. But they probably want, they probably would like lean as to who they're going towards. But I don't read it into either way whether or not Mater's playing based off the indoor. I mean, that could be just a, hey, we don't want you to know, period. We don't care who it is.

I read it based off the line. Vegas can get things wrong. No, no, not right. Yeah. But if that line's at one and a half and it stayed that way, that means somebody's whispering somebody to somebody that somebody, right? Got inside information. Yeah, on a recorded line, you know what I mean?

Oh, low total, 43 and a half. Do I want to go? I see, oh, you minus one and a half now. Oh, that sounds like you're playing. Yeah. On ESPN bet. Hmm. It's changing that quickly, huh?

Yes. Because Texas has been the favorite all the way up until, I guess, if you're telling me accurately, they've been favorites all week long. Mm-hmm. All right. So let's do this really quick before we get to Just Don't get it. If you decide to go right now. Uh-huh. John, let's help him out here.

We're going to spend Ross's money here for one minute. Gas to Dallas is going to be around. You're going with your brother, I'm assuming. Yeah. Okay, so you're going to split that. It's going to be $40 for each of you. Ish. Yeah, maybe a little less.

Maybe 35. I find a good deal. Okay. Use my roger points. Let's just go 40 just for blank and giggles. Okay. You're going to go to Ruckies. Yeah, one rookie stop in Madisonville.

It's a hot 50. One back. That's 25 each. It's $90. I'm not spending $90 on food, on snacks. No, you're spending 25 each way. 25 each way? Maybe.

Okay. I've been with you. You're 25. That's not true. You're such a liar. $90 so far. You're going to go stay at a hotel. Now, I have requirements that you don't.

Yeah. I'll stay. I've been at the Mesquite Motel 6, folks. With greasy floors. I wish people could have seen. There was literally dead roaches in the room. people could have seen our West Palm Beach Hotel two years ago. That was the all-time worst.

The Mesquite Motel 6 was worse. Okay. That's not a joke. The suburb of Dallas. I know where Mesquite is. I'm saying that was not a good location to get your hotel. All right, Jonathan. You want to spend $300 to be in town or you're a 15-minute Uber ride away and it's like $100.

Okay, so let's go back to this quickly. You're at $90. You're going to go to go to... I just literally need somewhere to lay down. You're going to go to bed-boof-in. I'll go to bed booth. I don't care. Okay, bed boo for you and the brother. That's going to be $110, $120.

You're going to be at the fair all day. You just need somewhere to literally sleep. I'm not looking for a resort hotel. So your hotel is going to be, you're part of a 50. Cheap ones are about $150 right now. Oh, okay, so let's make it $75. So your 90 plus $75 is $165. Okay.

Your ticket. Cheapest ticket's going to be what? Right now the cheapest ticket is about $2.30. That's to get it. get in. Decent seats are going to run about $4.50. This is why I'm not going right now.

And by the way, you can take the transit in Dallas to go straight to the fair. 165. Let's say you get a ticket for $3.35 to even things out. You're at $500. Okay. You're going to Uber to the stadium. Yeah. And you're going to split

that both directions. We'll put that at 20 each. That's $5.20. Okay. You're going to eat several Fletcher's corny dogs? Oh. No, one Fletcher's corny dog. Okay. But you're going to need something else.

Oh, yeah. There's all kinds of, I normally find the, there's a list every year that comes out. Best food, savory, best food, sweet. I always go get the best food. $50. Oh, no, more than $5.70. I'm talking about the, it's no drinks yet. Bears and water.

I'm saying more than $50 in food. But how about $80? Yeah, you get a fried this and that. It's like $17. So you haven't had a single drop of alcohol or water yet. I don't know if I'm going to drink. I mean, cutting back. Okay, so water, you get $30 or $30.

water? That's 630. Water, I'm going to drink a water fountain. What do you mean? You're not going to a water fountain. That's disgusting. No, no, no, no. What are you talking about? You're not drain the water fountain. You guys are bougie. No, no, no. You were drinking out of the water hose when we were kids. Yeah, you were fine. You made it out just fine. You get a little rusty taste. You know what? It's fine. You're not drinking the water fountain. You guys are a bunch of matters. That's nasty-ass water. Yeah, you know what? They're putting tap water in your water bottle

and then charging you $8. It's ridiculous. I will not participate in it. Jonathan, he's buying water. No, no, no. You're wrong. You can't bring water in either, so, yeah, no. You don't know that. You haven't been a safe fair, have you?

I'm from Dallas. I'm from up there. All right, so I'll drop it to, I'll drop it to $10. You're at $610. Okay. That's without any souvenirs. I don't get souvenirs.

No rides. And you are spending minimal money on beverages. $610 on the cheap. Yeah, I'll stay. Yeah, you're right. I'm going to stay this weekend. I think we've convinced you to stay. Yeah, especially in this climate. 713-212-5-790.

Should Ross spend $610 minimum to go see OU, Texas this weekend? I mean, we've low-balled, frankly. Yeah, but it's a fun experience. But this is okay, well, let me tell you this. First of all, the state fair is wonderful. Oh, I'm sure it is. The Fletcher's Corny Dog is delicious. Yeah.

It is the most unique experience in college. football today. It's a massive rivalry game. It's split down the middle, 50-50. It's extremely fun to go to. I also have been five times, so this would be my sixth trip to go. And it would be

a camaraderie with my brother. Yeah. Let's spend, let's spend Ross's money. That's not that bad. Should you do it? $610. Minimum. Keeping in mind, I make minimum. 713-212-5-7-90. Also, I just don't get is up next. We got a combo segment here.

Uh-huh. Let us know about things in your life you just don't get. Maybe you don't get spending $610 on OU Texas tickets. It'll be more than that. Yeah. Also, because normally on the Sundays we go to the sports bar for the noon games. That's going to run you about 75 anyways.

Oh, God, you're looking at 700 now. Yeah. Easy. Okay. Help them out. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Do you have something in your life? It's just don't get No need to worry No need to fret

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let us know. 713-212-5-7-19. Jonathan, we're going to let you just go first. There anything in your life you just don't get? I really do not get every time I go on social media and see people defending Archmanning. And I know I talked about this yesterday, but it doesn't make sense.

You're at a Power 5 Division I level for three years sitting back there, strengths coaching, film across a quarterback that's now in the NFL as well, and multiple teammates that went to the NFL and you're telling me that we need to say he needs more time any division one athlete and everybody that's been in division one athlete you see those football players

and you're expected to produce as soon as you get on campus no answer to about it I paid you this much money to come here to this high end university you need to put up the numbers if you can't you're out, you're gone you play like this and didn't want to come out

Arch Manning himself saying, I don't know where this hype came about, I only play a couple of games. Dude, you, I just, it doesn't make sense to me. Like, everybody in the country, you even had a dude from UCLA, I can't say his name, who just beat Penn State with a UCLA team. So that's the excuse you want to put on it. What about him? You don't get the excuse makers for Arch Manning.

I just don't get it. I'm just fed up with it. Fed up. I didn't realize there's such energy for the Arch Maining. He wants to perform. You're a five-star recruit. Well, here's my thought on this. Jonathan, there have been so many can't miss prospects in college athletics over my entire

life watching college sports that Arch won't be the first and he certainly won't be the last. The difference in this particular case is that so many high-end football minds thought this was the chosen one. and he couldn't he be the chosen one in his sunbelt school right now. He was getting hyped when he was a sophomore. I'll give you an example. I'll give you a prime example of someone that was hyped just as much, like almost not as much, but a high end is Spencer Rattler going to OU.

And I remember going to visit and seeing him. And he was dog water over there, man. He had to transfer and had to prove to himself. Yeah, and prove himself. And look, he didn't make any excuse who were like, oh, I've only played a couple. No, he was expected to produce an OU. Archmanning didn't make excuses and say, oh, He did. He did. He came out saying, I don't know where this hype from. I only played a couple of games. I don't know where this number one Heism thing came from. I need to see these quotes.

Dude, I can try to find it. I'm telling you this is this week. I'm not making this up. Okay. We're putting on Jonathan on the chase on that. So he doesn't get, I mean, yeah. I get, I get the criticism. I feel like Arch is getting, no, he doesn't get people giving him a back, defending. I think he's getting criticized more than he's getting defended. I think it is. I think it is. literally the athletic came out with an article saying he's synonymous with failure. Yeah, which I thought was ridiculous. That was too much. That was to grab some headlines and subscribers.

And I'm not defending Archmanning either. I've been saying the same thing. He's been had three years on campus. He is not some true freshman. He's now had seven starts. He needs to be better. And actually, he wasn't that bad against Florida considering the pressure rate and how much the offensive line got shredded. But he's got to be better.

he's kind of been a one read quarterback and inaccurate. Other than that, he's been great. That's the proper assessment right there, my friend. All right. We got some other folks that want to get theirs in. Okay. I was going to say, really quick, I don't get the traffic congestion issue around TOTA Center last night.

It was a hot mess getting out of there. Do you leave right after the game? Yeah. You left, you were in the garage? Uh-huh. I got it pretty quick. I went playing, I've gone two different ways home, plan one was a U-turn on 59

Oh you mean after the garage After the garage Okay well I went a different way than you And that was okay Plan two had me going through downtown central downtown To get on the 59 off of Franklin And that was a hot mess Was there any other concert?

Was there maybe House of Blues? No it's just litter with construction That's all it is Ah Yeah I didn't have any issues But I went a different way We live on different spectrums of the city Yeah you live close I live far

Thanks for thanks for bringing I didn't you did I didn't you're right Cameron, what don't you get? I hate to be personal in this one, but I don't get Ross this week. Yes. You know, listening to the cheese stick story, the cheese stick debacle, I may say. I just, I let it slide.

We all have a crosses to bear. Sometimes we can't help, but, you know, criticize people, you know, free food. But the second thing I just heard, $610. My God, Deshaun Watson could have the time of his life, you know, half of that business. that, I mean, what are we doing here? What does that mean? Do you want them to go or not want him to go? It's too much money?

It's too much money? That's way, I mean, in the day and age of 4K HD TVs, I mean, why would you spend that money? I would say because you can't replicate the experience of going to that game and the day and the pageantry and college football and the rivalry. Yeah, I would put, and look, first of all, it's not like I'm going. I've been five times. I'm on the fence right now.

then the tickets are going to have to go down significantly for me to go. But I guess I just can't explain it to you. Cameron, do you root for college football team? I do. I'm a U.H fan. Okay, yeah, you don't understand big-time football, so that's okay. You don't know what it means to be somewhere, where everything is on the line and there's big playoff implications

and a huge rivalry with two-stored programs. You don't understand that, so I understand you don't get it. Okay. And then you go there, the state fair, and you get the fried food and all that type of stuff, and it's just a great experience. I would recommend it to anybody who's not even a fan of either team. So it's fantastic. And then what was the first thing you didn't get?

It's not like I'm on a crusade and I'm wearing t-shirts. Your cheese sticks suck. Matt keeps bringing it up. I don't bring it up. I was asked on the air, how was the food? And I was like, yeah, the cheese sticks were great. And they were out of a frozen bag from Costco. So I don't get why that's such an issue.

Ross, I think a perfect TV show idea, you go from wake to wake and berate the grieving widow on how bad the ham sandwiches. Well, if they're bad ham sandwiches, I'll bring it. No, you're not. I won't let you do that. We weren't at a wake. It was a Super Bowl party. She's, if I'm, that's our phones? If I'm hosting a party and I put out bad food, let me know. Please, don't be so soft. All right, Cameron, love you.

We'll see you later. Thank you, Cameron. 1144, Sports Talk 790. So all you're asking was for Teresa to put some salt on them. Yeah, there's just a little salt. Shut up. You're the worst. You're the absolute worst. All it took was salt, Teresa.

Oh, my God. See, this was like eight years ago at this point. Why does this continue to come up here? I don't understand why people, I still don't get it. I don't understand why people fixate on this. Ross, sometimes you just say nothing is the right thing to do. That's all we're saying. saying. Sometimes you say nothing.

Isn't there a country western song say nothing at all or something like that? She was not in the back rolling out dough and hand breading these things. Grab the other ones next time. You're named the freezer at Costco. Grab a different brand. That's it. It's not that hard. Teresa, Taras. Oh, my God. Shut up. I can't even do it. All right, quick timeout.

We'll give you back. 1145. I just don't get it. Come in and help us out. 713, 212.1.790. Back after this. 713, 2190. 719.

719. 7.1.3, 2.1.2.5.790. What are you giggling about over there? Nothing. Oh, somebody sent you a funny question. No, I got nothing, man. Everything's cool. Am I getting ripped on by something?

I didn't do anything wrong. Usually you laugh when I, I'm made fun of for some reason. And that's the truth, and you know what it is. Not at all. John, then back it up. You know it. Oh, my gosh. Folks, do you see what I have to deal with on a daily basis?

Matt. Never mind. He says his walls up, Ross. He's scared. It's not about you at all. It's so funny. Okay, it's good. Uh.

All right. I don't get you, actually. No, I just usually, and there's just people who like to take shots at me. So I'm just curious. I want to make sure. 713-1-2-125-790. The news at noon. is coming up and we've got

1250 we got the rotten 5 do you mean to handle believing or not today I'd rather not do it. I did it two days ago don't let Matt do it there was four winners oh Shade drone yikes

wait when is the rotten 5 1250 okay I can do it you do both okay good we have no believe or not tomorrow that's right because I'm heading out a little early to go to Oklahoma State so that's fine

catch a break and it's still water okay Cougars what still 14 and a half point favorites by the way I don't even know

let me look yeah yeah I'm going put that on a recorded line I think let's take a look here how are we doing on the recorded line

excuse me let's see Houston is 14 and a half it's a big number on the road because even though Oklahoma State

sucks how you feeling confident it. Okay, good. James on 790. James, what don't you get? I don't get why they're changing the name of the roughnecks back to the gamblers.

I know y'all don't like the UFL, but I love spring football. I've kind of invested in roughnecks and now I've got to go back to the gamblers. I don't know why I've looked at them. Why are they doing that? Just sell some more gear. That would be my guess, right? You think that's it?

I mean, let me tell you, they're not selling the product because the product sucks. It just does. It's bad football. It's bad football. I don't think it sucks. I don't think it's bad football. You haven't watched it. Yeah, I had.

That's the reason why I don't watch anymore because it was terrible. Well, it was terrible, but they actually got good toward the end of the season. I don't believe it to be accurate. Okay. Yeah, Matt, you didn't watch the whole season. You watch the growth, man. You're right. James probably has watched more UFL than I have, but by the tens of people that are watching it,

I think it's not very successful. And frankly, I'm surprised it's still around. Matter of fact, I think I... too, honestly. I mean, it's got to be one more year. I mean, they're moving teams from city to city. They're rebranding. They were in a bubble for a while, right? They were doing all the games in Alabama or something?

No, it was in Memphis. Memphis and Birmingham, yeah. So now, I mean, let's be truthful. You know what they do? These teams all practice with each other in Fort Worth or Dallas. Then they fly to their respective cities to do the game, to play the games, and they go and they leave. There's no

ties. There's no community. There's no interaction. It's a, it's a, and the product sucks. It's very, yeah, there is, but it's very small. I mean, there are some, they were like roughnecks fans. But it just, it wasn't. Yeah. Look, I've tried to watch it.

It's terrible football. I mean, I can't really explain it any other way. Yeah. It's like how you feel when you watch MLS. You don't like it. You're like, I know what, I know what good football is and I don't, and I choose to watch it. You're right. Exactly.

Correct. term football. I like that. I'm proud of you. Yeah, you watch an MLS game and I mean, the skill level, the passing, the touches, the shooting, it's just all horrible. And I just,

I can't watch it. Unless I'm there. If you go to the game and there's a little atmosphere and had a couple bruskees, it's good. It's bad. My son, game experience is fine. My middle son likes the, like the rubbed next couple years ago and then he's like, Dad, I don't like it. It's hard to watch. Oh, he's not liking? Yeah. He's like

because the football's quality of the football's Terrible, yeah. Because think about this. You can hardly find 10 to 15 good quarterbacks in the NFL. And you're saying you need to find 10 good quarterbacks for the UFO?

It's hard to find 32 good NFL kickers. Imagine what the kick is like in that. Exactly. Look, how many UFL players are on active rosters today? 7 or 8? You just have to change your expectations. It's like watching NBA

basketball and college basketball. It's almost two days. different sports. You kind of have to change your expectations to appreciate it. And the reality is this, we don't love college basketball. We love the jerseys they wear because they represent our school. Yeah. That's how I've always felt about college basketball. If you, it's like 59 to 53. If you're a true college basketball fan, you hate the timing of it, you hate the officiating of it, you hate the bog down, you hate the shots, the shot making is so much worse. The free throws are bad, there is no fluidity. When I call an NBA game, I can go one and a half to two minutes without a stoppage and play.

college basketball, when I call a game, there's a foul stop, free throw stop, substitution change. It's just, there's nothing close to it. Now, high-end college basketball, you're going to find over there on Cullen, that's different. That's true. If you're getting too high, but even then, I mean. But putting on a rando game between, I don't know,

Boise State and South Carolina doesn't know an interest to me whatsoever, because I know what it's going to be. It's going to be a sloppy 60-160 game with a bunch of guys that aren't very good. I know what you do. Get a little taste on the over. Man, it's great. Boy, these days out here under. What a non-conference tilt that is.

Yay. I've seen you in the book betting on some strange games. I have bet on some strange games. Did you win on the Rainbow Warriors? I did. Nice. I'm so mad. I didn't tail on that.

I forgot. By the way, because I'm a, I'm a Vegas insider. I'm a Vegas insider. Always bet the Warriors. You may not win 12 weeks in a row, but you're going to win 10.

It feels like it. You always give, you always give up the point. On the road game, and you take the points at home. Sorry, Fresno State. You lose. All right. Start spreading the news.

The Yankees are out of the playoffs. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. That's one. That's one, Maddie. Now, I don't know what it is still. It's definitely two. Hit it. That's two.

Your decision. Jonathan, do you know what it is? No, not at all. Okay. Two's good. All right. Can I take three guesses? Sure.

And as long as I'm, tell me if I'm running this first one. Sure, why not? Astros are changing hitting coaches. That's correct. Yes. Well, with one hitting coach. Ooh. The Astros are parting ways with hitting coach.

Alex Centron sources tell the athletic, says Chandler Rome. More changes are expected on Houston's coaching staff. So everyone who's complained about Alex Centron, your long national nightmare is over. The offense will be number one in baseball next year. Isn't that a good feeling hit for Matt? Yes. I think I said I would... We both did.

I think we both said. Yeah. Yeah. It felt like it was trending in that direction. Dana Brown had said publicly that they would like a change in their approach. And we'll see what happens from here. But Alex Intron, who has been here in Houston since 2019, signed a three-year contract after the 2022 season.

Contract was done. And I don't see anything... about Troy Snitker and whether or not, but I believe his contract was up as well. So I don't see anything about Troy Snitker in this article from Chandlerome of the Athletic, but first on the scene, Alex Centron,

no longer the major league hitting coach for your Houston Ashton. Now, you have said this, and it was wise on your part to say this. You had said, hey, there have been a lot of players in that clubhouse that said they are team Alex Entron. And my retort back to you was,

it doesn't really matter that the player's endorsement only carries so much weight and this will be yet another example of why players may say one thing but front offices coaching stabs and ownership say other things

yeah and it seemed like the writing was much more on the wall when I mean Dana Brown was speaking publicly talking about issues with the team approach and I think Joe spotted said the same thing too and that's when it felt like certainly there was there was going to be a change made Well, I'll put it this way. If you were in a situation where you were wigging out about whether or not the manager or the general manager or both were going to come back,

it wasn't just going to be let's bring everybody back and let's run it back a more time. There was no, there was going to have to be some sort of change. Fall guys. And, yeah. Hitting coaches, man, this is awfully clicheish, but it sounds like they're hired to be fired. Yeah, I would say, I mean, yeah, it happened. The Rangers fired their hitting coaches. You had some other hitting coaches changed recently.

the Yankees changed. They had a new guy this year, maybe within the last two years. It happens. Yeah. And I would be consistent. The players have to perform at the major league level, no matter who the hitting coach is.

Yeah. The reality is, I don't expect this team to all of a sudden be a top, ferocious, top five team offensively, unless, again, the free agency. Look, Kevin Durant's going to make the Rockets offense a better offense than it was a year ago. Because Kevin Durant's a better player. Yes.

And we'll see what happens. No disrespect to Dylan Brooks, but Kevin Durant's a better player than Dylan Brooks is. I'll be interested to see what happens. It'll be funny if Yoran's back and Pena's healthy and Esak Paredes is back and the offense is really good and then everybody's going to be like, see, you told you so, it's all about the hitting coaches. Well, yeah, a lot of those guys are missing time last year. And guess what, Alex Entron's going to be really mad because he's like, man, I didn't get a full roster. Exactly.

It's a tough situation for him, but the offense, of course, wasn't up to par. Certainly not with runners in scoring position. And guys who like to be aggressive up there, the Jose Al-Tuvays, the Yiner Diaz's of the world. not working counts, especially after Esak Paredes went down. It was a problem. Yep.

Yeah, this is zero surprise. Now, does Snicker get to keep his job? Will they, you know, I don't know how many of the 30 teams have tandem hitting coaches? I don't know either. I think I looked, because we did hitting coach, believe it or not, the day. Yeah, we did. I'll have to go look it up. I think I went to basically every, oh, that's right, there was this one page.

Sweet. Yeah, most places have a hitting coach and an assistant hitting coach. I mean, I understand it, but I never got the impression that Snickr and Cintron were assistants. Me either. I think it was a tandem. The baseball reference page lists Centron as the hitting coach and Troy Snickr as the assistant. I would say they're kind of co-hitting coaches. All right.

But most everybody's got at least two, three people named. Yeah, I mean, the roster's too big to have just one guy focusing on that. So that doesn't surprise. All right, so Astro fans, you got your wish. Yes. Now, many of you didn't even know who Alexandron was, so this will be kind of a little bit of an exercise and get to know your former hitting coach. We're not doing believing in Alex Entron. We're just like that's, you know, that wouldn't be very polite.

No, it wouldn't. Although we do dead people all the time. Somebody said, I hear they're replacing them with a bunting coordinator. We got to move runners, guys. I feel very confident telling you that we're not going to see a 40% jump in bunts next year. Although, you know, Detroit's what some fans would like to see. Detroit's been doing a fair amount of bunting in this series. But part of the reason why is Detroit's offense not very good.

Detroit's offense for two months has been garbage. I don't know how they put up eight runs today. It's stunning because they don't have much sock in their lineup. Yeah, was it them that put up nine or something? It was supposed to be the most in a playoff game for them since like 1968. Oh, yeah. 68 Tigers, they won the World Series, by the way. Oh, they did?

Well, look at you. Yeah. Code Double Day Thomas over here. It's better than call me Abner. What's the rest of? Do we have the news at noon theme? We're going to go with us the rest of the way. I mean, this is kind of the news at noon.

Yeah, it is. It is a new. I was hoping to hear some... There it is. This is big news. I'll be interested to see how Jose Al-Tuvei, if he gets a new offensive philosophy, start taking a bunch of pitches.

And again, Jose Al-Tubei, Carlos Correa, you can pick probably a handful of other players. They're like, man, we are a team. Team Centron. At the major league level, it does not matter. Somebody had to be a fall guy, and Alex Centron is the first casualty of that said list. You only had four guys. Well, let's put Cam Smith in there.

You got 400, 493 plate appearances. These are your top five plate appearances guy. Altovae, disappointment. Walker, disappointment. Yonard Diaz, disappointment. Jeremy Pena had a career year. And then Cam Smith, overall, was a disappointment. I mean, he just was.

I know he wore down on all that type of stuff, but you OPS 671, OPS plus an 87, that's a disappointment. So four of your top five plate appearance guys were disappointments, but also, of course, Gisac Paredes was great, he was hurt, Yordon was great, he was hurt, Carlos Correa was great, and he didn't come until late in the season. I got one for you, all right, so if we're ready to make changes, and I don't think this will be the only one, are we going to get a Chandler-Rom's breaking news sounder in the next couple days, maybe a week or so, about the medical staff being completely overall.

I would imagine. That's what I kind of thought it might be. Yeah, it says, in fact, Chandler's stories as the, The Astros are parting ways with hitting coach Alexintron, and more changes are expected on Houston's coaching staff. Yes. I said that. Oh, I did, okay.

I was listening. I was fine. I just want to repeat things. When you have co-anchors, you sometimes like they're real... Yeah, that's fine. Reiterate. Yeah. Emphasize, if you will.

All right, what else you got? Oh, we're still doing the news at noon? Sure. I thought that was the news at noon. Elsewhere on the news at noon, the Yankees lose. Actually, can we play that? Here is Vladimir Guerrero Jr. noted Yankees hater. I mean, he hates the Yankees.

You could tell. After the game, yeah, go ahead and play this, Jonathan, if you have it. Die. Yankee loose. Let's go. Hey, let's do it again. Day, Yankees loose. He really enjoyed himself, isn't he?

Yeah. He was. That was Vladdy Jr. And, of course, Big Pappy. David Ortiz. I love him. That was Vlad Barrera Jr. who started it. He's the first one to say it.

Yeah. And David Ortiz, like, let's do it one more time. Is he really upset because maybe he didn't get the type of money he may have wanted from the Yankees? I don't think so. He just seemed to hate the Yankees. There's like quotes floating around and talking about him never wanting to play for New York. He's pimping these home runs big time that he's been hitting in the Yankees. Did you see the one where he was scoring, I think, was he scoring from second or from third?

he like full Pete Rose dove into home plate he hates the Yankees and he actually ran backwards on one of the home runs I didn't do that but I just say He did cartwheels Yeah he skipped his way from third base to home Pulled down his pants like Randy Moss Oh that is so on that is a disgusting act

By Randy Moss I think Joe Buck's like why don't I say that Yeah it's just a bit I think from maybe from his vantage point He thought he actually took his hands off Yeah, which would have been disgusting. Because nobody wants to see some bear ass out there. No.

Not in Green Bay. All right. And Rossi, we've got the Rockets last night knocking off the... Yes, they do. Kevin Durant is a Houston Rocket, folks. How much of that game did you catch? Miss his first three buckets, but then did not miss after that. 7 to 10 from the field.

20 points for Kevin Durant. One for two from three. You also had Men Thompson with a great game. he had 19 points, six assists, seven rebounds, filling up the score sheet like we're going to expect him to do. By the way, Joe was asking, is Tony Paris Chica on the hot seat? He needs to be gone, quite frankly. Honestly, that sounds like that could be a possibility too, for sure.

Yeah, if you're keeping your job and you've got a year left to keep your job to try to get a new contract and the people above you say make changes, you're going to make those changes. Yeah. And frankly, again, missing, Tony Pettis? I mean, it wasn't like Andy, that Tony Pettis. Gary Pettis. Yeah.

We need some solidity at the third base. In solidarity. Now, of course, there are times where I'm sure Gary Pettis, there was people blown through his stop signs, but it felt like it happened more last year than it did the previous three or four, right? They didn't even, they're like, Carlos, you ran through that sign at third base, we have a third base coach? Yeah.

Jeremy Payne is like, what's his name? I've never met the guy. Yeah, it was, it was like saying, I just like saying Paris Chica. That's my alias this year on the road for the Rockets. Tony Perez Chica. And that is the news at noon. Yeah. Hitting coaches are gone.

All right. Offense is saved. 713, 212, 570. You've been wanting it? You've been asking for it. You've been calling us. You've been bludgeoning Ross over on his Twitter account about it. I'm getting crushed on Twitter right now.

Are you good? Y'all am to go crush sports RV. He loved the worst. He loved the hitting coaches. And I was like, you know what? Chains got me made. Oh, yeah. I said they're the greatest ever. Come on now. You get, you get your chance.

Come in here and go, you know what? We were right. You were wrong. Which, again, we never argued with you all. We just said it's not their fault. Yeah. And I will stay consistent. And somebody had to be the fall guy. And I'll stay consistent on that as well. 1215. It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross.

713, 212.5. I have NFL Rotten 5 coming up in about 35 minutes. 713, 212. 790. 1221 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. If you want to join our conversation, Rotten 5 coming up in 30 minutes.

By the way, congratulations to WMBA star Angel Reese. She is going to be a Victoria's Secret runway model. Oh, really? You're all right? No. I was ill-prepared for that. Do you need a moment?

I need a cold towel. Lovely. Has there been photos have been released? Yes, there have been. Let's focus on the show. Oh, wow. She's, um, she's got long legs.

Yeah, that's the reason why she plays basketball. How tall is she? I don't know, but, um, she's, you know, she's deserving of such a...

You have a mountain climbing, Maddie? Six foot three. Ain't a mountain high enough. Ain't no valley low enough. Oh, we got to go straight to this. Well, we've got to get David in first. All right, fine.

David on 7.90 and 1222. David, good afternoon to you. Hey, how's it going? I just letting you know I'm leaving big city wings and definitely first time there. Definitely love the wings. Great atmosphere. But can they get Coke products instead of 50?

Oh, I'll tell the bosses. I know the people there. Yeah, that's the reason why I stopped. I'm on the way to Livingston. I told my wife, I said, let's stop in here and grab some lunch because I wanted to try it out for the first time since you always talk about it. Yes, that's excellent. I'm glad to hear that.

And I will make sure your comments are sent to the proper people, but I'm glad you're able to enjoy the Big City Wing treatment. It's a great place. And where do you live, what part of town do you live in? In Friendswood? Yeah, I'm in Friendswood. We're just going out to Livingston for the weekend. And actually, I actually sat me in the Matt Thomas booth today.

Did you? All right, all right, all right. Oh, wow. You know what? You're now an official star of the show, David. Thank you very much for calling in for the good. words. By the way,

go Cowboys. Yeah, that's fine. Now hang up on. Hang up on that. We're done. We're done. So you distracted me with these Angel Reese photos.

I mean, were you prepared for that? I was not. I mean, I knew she had game, Maddie. Oof. All pro. All WMBA. She got my vote. Let me hit mute on this.

Yeah. Jonathan, can we get Ross a wet nap over here? I'm doing great. You need a wash, clap, what's neat. Oh, wow. Okay, can we please, we have an hour and 46 minutes, 37 minutes left in our show. At 2 o'clock, you'll be fine. You do what you do on to 2 o'clock.

Excuse me? You do whatever you need to do at 2. There's locations all around. What are you talking about? You know, you're staring at the computer. Focus on the show. All right. We have Kat called him, what, since the start of the show today?

And it only took him two hours in 20. 24 minutes to come in here. Ladies gentlemen, we present to you. Yankees Keith. Hey, I actually just got home, and I just turn it on the radio, so I really don't know what you're talking about. Oh, I do.

You know exactly what we're talking about. We're calling you fraud. We're calling you. Well, we bit the dust last night. We didn't hit. We're going to do some changes over the, over a on a whole left side of the infield. It's going to be a whole new left side of the infield next year.

Then we're going to get cold back. So we're going to be in way better position next year than we were this year. Hello? Hello. What will let you talk? We're giving you freedom. Any more thoughts on the Yankees? Yeah.

We're giving you plenty of it. How do you feel about it? Do you want Aaron Boone back? My wife don't want him back, but I think he's all right. He can't hit for the Yankees. can't pitch for the Yankees. He can't field for the Yankees. All he can do is put them out there in

certain positions and see if they do what they're supposed to do, what they get paid highly to do. If you can't hit, you can't score. We had eight players in our lineup that hit over 20-old runs. I didn't see none of them show up in a

playoff. Except my son, Aaron Judge. You should be embarrassed. You should be humiliated. You should take your Yankee cap off and put on any one of the remaining caps. You could be, you know what you could be? You could be Blue J. Keith. You could be Mariners, Keith, if you wanted to. Tigers' Keith. But you can't be Yankees, Keith, because your team is gone. Gone, Gonzo, Finito. Bye. Mr. Thomas. Mr. Thomas.

I have been a Yankee fan since I was nine years old. I'm 73. I think there's no more they voted Yankee fan in this city other than myself. That's not a bragging point. There is a bragging point because we're going to go to next. year and for the next five years we'll be in contention we're going to be either at a world in the world series or we'll be in the playoffs what will your astros be on top of the baseball world we're going to be on top of the baseball world we're going to rise above it all no i don't want this oh you know what the asteros i was a motivation i was going to let the uh the yankees i got this down yikes keith you ask me what we're going to do we're going to get better pitching. We're going to get a new hitting coach. Maybe a new third base coach. We're going to get rid of Freiber Valdez who throws the chest of his catchers. We're going to get a healthy Yoran Alvarez. We're going to get a healthy Josh Hater. We're going to get a healthy two or

three starters. We're going to have Christian Walker slugging OPS in 114. And then we're going to make our way to Dike and part. And we're going to open up the year with 11 or 12 consecutive wins. Then go on the road and beat the athletics and the angels like they couldn't do last year. Shush. Stay with me on this. Nick Kurtz is pretty good. Then we're going to beat the Tigers and beat anybody else who had to walk the tiebreaker

loss too. And your Astros in 2026. after Matt Ross go to West Palm Beach and stay in a decent hotel for the second consecutive year, are going to win 102 games and rise above it all. And put another America League pennant inside Dike and Park. Then we're going to put our third World Series banner inside that majestic facility. We're going to see Yordon go yard 40 times. Sneaky snake J.

OPS and 817 Isak Paredes completely healthy hamstring I hope so And Brian Abrayu more 1-2-3s Not 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 Hey he was really good all season Come on

October September September or September August he rallied He rallied And we're going to see Less of Of Caleb Ward Colton Gordon

Brian Bray, you had a 228 ERA on the season and 70 appearances. Shet Joe Bum ass up. He was great. Just remember, Yankees, Keith. The World Series banner, the trophy, H-Town, October, 2026. Book it. 1229, Sports Talk 790.

Like Centron out as one of the Astor hitting coaches. Channel Rome Athletic, alluding to there could be some more things going on. Medical staff, I think, is a number. no-brainer. What's the difference between medical as in doctors, training staff, and then strength and conditioning staff? There's three different things. Absolutely.

There's three different things. Doctors are usually provided by the provider that is your corporate sponsor. Yeah. Okay. That's just the truth. Training staff are usually, can be sometimes employees of that said medical group or they can be employees of the team. Most, I'd say most times they're employees of the team.

and then strength and conditioning are going to be employees of the team. Dietitians also are very prevalent around sports. And teams move away from and moved in and out of dietitians all the time. Yeah. Nutritionists, psychologists. Everything that when it comes to the psyche, both physically and mentally, are up for grabs every single year. Those, I don't think they work on multi-year contracts typically. You know, they work hand at hand, Matt, the physical and the mental. Which one are you?

Physical or mental? Which one? Of this show. Both? Okay. That's fine. I would say this is more of a... What's physical about this show?

Having to carry you for four hours? Hmm. That was a layup drill. Is that the way you see it? That was a layup drill. That was too easy. Come on. Is that how you see what's happening here?

No, I didn't say that. This is a joke. I know. I wasn't mean. It's fine. I've been saying, well... You've been saying mean things to me for a long time. That's not true.

I'm just very nice. I'm trying to think what... I actually only say about 30% of the mean things that popped in my head. So the other 70 you hold back? back. See, I'm the other way around. I usually say 90 things when I should only say 30. That doesn't add up, Matt. I only say

90, but I should only say 30. Oh, you're not talking about percentage? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I wish we had old 2010 tapes of the show. I wonder when the first time you took a real jab at me was. Yeah, I don't know. It hadn't been within the first month.

Because I used to not talk on air, because I used to work with Charlie Polillo. did not let me talk about air. Yeah. And I told you, I said, and I would say stuff into your ear. Yeah. And you would ask me, hey, was that on the air? Was that in my ear?

I said, I was in here. You say, say it on air. Yeah. And then look what you created. So whatever you are now is my creation? Oh, God, I'm embarrassed. Mitchell on 790 and 1235. Mitchell, thank you for holding a good afternoon.

Hey, good afternoon, guys. Long time. Listener, first time caller. Welcome. Appreciate you, Mitch. Now, we want you to be a second or third time call or as long as this one goes okay. Oh, yeah, it'll go fine. Don't worry.

I know the parameters. I've heard enough people say things the wrong way that they don't get invited back. So I understand. I get it. Don't worry. I just hopped into my truck because I'm heading to lunch. And, of course, I had the pleasure of hearing that dumbass Yankee caller call here a few minutes ago. And I know I got my days mixed up.

He confirmed it for me. But I just want to let him know. Yankee Chris, Yankee John, whatever the hell your name was. Shut your bum ass up. The Yankees aren't going to do anything over the next five years when you say, oh, where the Astros are going to be. We're going to be exactly where we've been for the last eight years, and that's end of the playoffs or except for this year, I know.

But we've got the success to track for it. Your team and franchise doesn't have any success to track for anything, aside from your Mickey Mouse World Series that you so happen to stumble into the other year. and you got embarrassed on national TV in a pretty bad way. So, dude, shut your bum ass up. This is Houston Territory. Houston Astro Territory. Stay off the lines and go call your WFAN, whatever Yankees call sent it up there.

I'll hang out of Houston Airways. I'll hang up and appreciate you guys. You're definitely welcome to call a second time. Although he called you triple aiding, call you Jonathan. But that's fine. That's all right. It's different. It's really different.

A lot different. Not different. 7.13, 2,1,2, 5, 7. Look, Yankees, Keith, I give him some kudos, but he's also 73. So what else I can do the rest of the day? We've called the show. Yeah, we appreciate him. I want to know what James and Garden Oaks is doing right this second.

Come on, James and Goddokes. You know what we got to do? Let's play the 66 sounder here. Oh, it's like the bat signal. It's kind of like a, hey, it's called to duty. Yes. We play the sounder. You got to call it.

Because you got to compete your medicine It's like playing revely in the morning It gets everybody Get the troops ready That's exactly right Okay It's like playing the Cougar fights on I'm gonna make it a great day on this show

Now James We ain't gonna bite We ain't biting God nooks If anybody's in the garden oaks area right now Can see James Tell him to call the show To call the show

That's pretty funny Is Garden Oaks like New the Heights Am I making that up? I don't know I really don't even I mean I looked it up when he was first calling but I don't know Like, I don't even really, I don't think I really know what Garden Oaks is.

It feels like a height's this area. Central Northwest. So that feels like a catacorn. North of the, north of the west loop. North of the West loop. Yeah. If I make the move in this. Like 2.90 and 6-10-ish.

Oh, that's almost like, that's like, almost like Jersey Village a little bit, right? That's what this, that's what Garden Oaks. Huh. That's what this says. I don't know. Okay. It doesn't matter. It's fine.

All right. James, we're going. North of the Houston Heights. This says. Okay. So, Wikipedia says north of the heights. Okay. Very good.

So it wasn't too far off. All right. So, well, let's say this for a quick. What else are we asking? If we had a wish list for the changes, medical staff, I think it needs to be completely overhauled. I think it's just fair. I can't imagine there was nothing that went astray.

There was nothing that went, that everything was so coincidental. I refuse to believe. that. I mean, Jake Myers probably wouldn't be a good person to ask. I'm guessing Yorna Aberg wouldn't be a necessarily huge advocate of the training staff. Kyle Tucker probably isn't a huge one.

I'm going to call him. He's busy. Well, he had a fracture the whole time. I mean, it's not like he came back. No, but I mean, was he given wrong information or was he told this is what we're going to tell the world about your experience? I don't know. It's weird. That was a weird. That one is a weird situation.

And then, you pile it all up, though. And honestly, if I'm Dana Brown, I'm asking for new training staff, I have been, I think you do. I have been led out there to be the sacrificial beat, I mean, beating up over this. I ask a question, though, if they don't rush Jordan back, then do you think the season turns around and we're in the playoffs today in October? Well, the problem is, is that he came back and he heard himself completely differently. I mean, he could have suffered that ankle injury the 1st of September. I mean, that could have happened any day in the week. It just happened to happen at the worst time of the year.

Question is, was it a rushback? Was it a misdiagnosis? Was the athlete doing some of this too? Because, you know, me, I've always said this about injuries. The athlete, not necessarily go with the responsibility, but the athlete has to be truthful and honest. And if he's not 100% or trying to play through pain, you've got to tell somebody. And if you don't, because you want to get back on the field, that can be just as detrimental to the organization. as a bad prognosis.

It's a bad situation. And you don't know how much of it is. Each of these cases individually, it's to brush off, but you have them all piling up, and that's when it becomes an issue. I can't, if we got an auditor, the National Council on Sports Medicine,

what would that way? And we pay the guy to go in there and look at every record. Do you think, how do you think his interpretation would be of all this? I don't know. Because there's a lot of team, look, we've said this before to be fair to the Astros.

There have been a lot of injuries all over the place. Yeah. Injury levels have been higher and higher. This training staff has been here for however long. Since 2015, I think that guy. And it was an all-star training staff. Yeah, they won like training staff of the year in 2017. So they forgot how to be trainers or they or this is some bad luck?

I don't know. Or maybe they became negligent and complacent. Picked up a coke habit? I don't know. I mean, I wouldn't put that on them. I'm just asking. That felt a little personal. I don't know.

just saying what changed? How do you go from training staff of the year to you're so negligent you need to be let go? And how does the pitching clock contribute to this? That's been talked about. I'm talking about less the pitching injuries and more the position

player hit injuries and the rushing and the return to player policies which have been under question for several years since Jake Myers first came back from his shoulder injury and James Click was talking about that. And you have Jake Myers coming back from that calf injury. literally doesn't even play a game.

Like that's alarming. That's alarming that, hey, this guy's coming back from a calf injury, and then he's listed in the lineup. He goes to run out to center field to where you need to be running, to play center field in Major League Baseball, especially at Dyken Park, you're covering a lot of ground, and he doesn't even start the game. That is cause for concern.

Cause for concern, cause for valuation. and I guess I could say everything is coincidental, but I don't believe that. I just don't. I can't. Yeah, I can't tell you. I can just say it looks bad. I can definitely say it looks bad and they change people. That's fine.

Now, here's the sensitive part of it all. We're talking about people's careers here. Yes. If you're a hitting coach, you can probably go find work with other organizations. If you're a medical staff guy and you've, let's say you've lived in Houston all your life, I don't know if medical staff moved from team to team to team. That I can't speak to. But these are people that have been Houston guys that have worked for the hospital or the hospital group and they lose your job.

I mean, it's going to be tough. I don't want to be insensitive to that. Yeah, head trainer, Jeremiah Rendell's been here since 2015. What was he before that? Is there a bio point on him? I'm reading his bio. I don't see. Was he a assistant trainer for the Reds or something like.

The Pirates. Okay. for two seasons. So maybe they... He was Dodgers Minor League rehab coordinator in 2010. Major League Physical Therapist for the 2011 season. Also has been with the Seahawks and Patriots. Okay, so they move around as much as coaches do.

That's why I feel sorry for him, but he has a doctor of physical therapy. Damn. From the University of Miami. He's qualified. Yeah, so I'm saying. Like, dude forgot how to be a trainer? Did something change? Did he lose focus?

Or, I mean... I don't know. It's up for Jim Crane to figure it out. And, again, if you're Dana, don't you want to, like, get a fresh start here with the group? Because I would think they would. He's had to answer so many. And again, I would say talk to the players. 713-212-5-790.

That's what? What's happening here? You know what? Let's do one more. Eight minutes ago, in addition to Alex Centron, the Astros are also letting go. Troy Snickr? Oh! Major League coach Michael Collins, who worked closely with the catchers.

Catchers coach? You guys' framing sucks. I got to be brilliant honest. I didn't know the Astros at a catcher's coach. I mean, I kind of know the Astros. I didn't know if Michael Collins would have walked in here and he said, I'm the catcher's coach for the Astros. I'm like, okay, what do you really do?

So they're cleaning house on the hitting side of things. And Michael Collins is out as a catcher's coach. I thought he was great as the drummer for Genesis. You know, it's funny, and you and I have argued about this before. I don't know that, and I probably should. But some of the great bands in America, I don't know who their bass player is and stuff and drummer. Wait, wasn't Phil Collins, the Genesis drummer? Yeah.

That's what I said, okay. Oh, so it really wasn't Michael Collins for Genesis? Phil Collins. You fraud. I'm on the fraud. You heard of it had a sail over your head. You had it been going for a minute. You're like a Tom Collins.

All right. Oh, I do. Doug Collins, great analyst. Melanie. Fantastic silent reporter. What's so fantastic about her, Matt? Insights, analysis, and timely information. Hard-hitting questions? Definitely hard-hitting.

All right. I'll put a leash on you. All right, let's take a look here. What old Michael, Brian McTaggart's Twitter account, Gator Astros, Trump. Astros Trump guy? What? And it's got two P's at the end.

It says hire Michael Brantley today. Oh, another breaking news sounder. How many? Probably two. Go ahead. One more. Let's do it again. We have two, four, six breaking news sounders in one show.

You can probably guess. Train staff. Oh, Paris Chica. No. Training staff. Jeremiah Randall. Out. Just brought a.

Oh, my. Oh my God! There's a big one. There's a big one. Wow. They are cleaning house, folks. Woo! He keep in that sounder. Keep in it. Just get it and dig it. Can't hit it more. Yep. So head trainer, gone. Troy Snicker and Alex Centrone. Gone. Catching coach Michael Collins. I got another one hit and hit it one more time.

Uh-oh. Hold on. Tony Farisheera. Tony Perr's Chica. Nope. Astros assistant GM Andrew Ball is not being retained. Really? I don't even know who that is. I don't know. I don't know. What does he do? Is he okay? I don't know. I think he's in charge of team snacks. Man. Woo, they're getting the brooms out.

Everybody that's looking at this four seven and 90 pages. Look, we didn't know this is going to happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right. You did a good. You're doing a good job. Wow. All right. So let's recap.

Centron out. Snicker out. Michael Collins. Hello. You're out. believe it. Andrew Ball, the general manager. Out. Assistant general manager.

And athletic trainer Jeremiah Randall. You know what Jim Crane did? He walked in and said, what the hell has happened around here? Crazy. Jeremiah Randall never made himself available to the media one time. Now that was

I don't know if that was Jeremiah's decision or that was the Astero's decision. My guess it was more team than individual. But my guess is Jeremiah was probably happy you didn't have to answer questions about all the number of players that were hurt. I never met the guy. I don't know. I mean, I've seen him, obviously, but don't know him at all. Well, he got him. Okay, so Parishika's still here. For now. I feel like he could be gone. The two pitching coaches are still here. Yes.

Javier Bracquamante is still here. Hey, it is for life, baby. Let me tell you some. I love the Bracquamante family. They better not, Javier gets to keep his job. Anybody else? Oh, who's the first base coach? He's a Venezuelan team Omar Lopez. He's still here. Okay, Astro fans, this is your opportunity.

We got an hour left to go on the show. Oh, we're late for Rotten 5. We'll do Rotten 5 at 120. How about that? That's great. You okay with that? Sure, why not? Believe it or not today is? All these people that got fired. I can't wait to hear this one.

I'm just kidding. 713-212-5-790s. that off. I'd be really impressed. That'd be your best work ever. Actually, we could, but who want to honor them? They just got fired. No, that's not good. They're probably going to put four sale signs up. No, you don't want any part of that. This way, it might be another

person and get fired. How about Eric Spulcher? He was just named Team USA head coach. There it is. Team USA as a new basketball coach for the next Olympics. It'll be Eric Spolster of the Miami Heat. That's today's edition of, believe it or not. Rotten 5 at 120. Your phone calls next. Come on, Astrofans. We know you're out there.

The organization is cleaning house. New hitting coaches, a new trainer. I never thought I'd be in the business. Hey, everybody, let's call him what your new trainer moment is. 713-212-5-790. Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Still don't know what I was waiting for. And my time running while.

Gotta be honest. What? Don't like David Bowie. God had made it seemed to taste This song kind of fits, but Tell me, tell me I'm wrong. I mean, tell me if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I can do it.

Some people love David Bowie. Yeah, I don't want David Bowie truthers coming after me. David, both truths are going to come after you. You have some great hits. Oh, it's not sure. Changes. I want to be a richer man. This is a hit.

I didn't say this wasn't a hit, but I mean, fame's a jam? Let me see. What else? Yeah, I'm going to stay with it. I don't like him. We can't like everything, right? Well, you have bad music opinions too. That's ridiculous. Some of my favorite people are the most successful recording artists in the history of music.

I like Billy Joel. I like Barry Mantolo. I like the Beatles. I like Elton John. They're all major, major stars. was a number one hit 1975. You heard this song Changes before, by the way,

Jonathan? What do you think? No, I like it. I just remember it from Shrek. I actually didn't know. Oh,

from Shrek. Under pressure, let's dance. Oh, okay. Okay. China Girl, modern love.

Under pressure's not bad. What was the one? Blue Jean. And dancing in the street with Mick Jagger was just a cover. Yeah, yeah.

You know what? I'll say this. overrated. Oh. Overrated. Not horrible. I'm going to say not overrated. I'm going to say overrated. All right. What's not overrated is the Astros changes. That's the reason why we play the song. Final hour of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. If you want to chime in, 7-1-3-2. I want to hear from a David Bowie truther. Don't. Why? Some people just really love David Bowie. I don't know. I don't know. By the way, we are up 6-0 on the breaking news sounders on day show over the A team. Yeah, Matt.

That's a huge win. You always whine and complain. Yeah, but these were decent ones. I'm looking for like a mega. Okay. I think Kevin Durant, was Kevin Durant on our clock or was that on the game team's clock? Do you know who played the, uh, what?

Kevin Durant? When did that happen? That was our weekend? Haven't we played some we just kept playing the sounder for like endless amounts of time? We just kept playing it over and over again. Probably one of the Verlander. I think one of the Verlander ones came.

Okay. All right. The second time he came, you all made it five, and I argued there was four, but either whether. Okay. By the way, Omar Lopez is the bench coach. Yes, he was the former first base coach. He was the first base coach.

He moved to the bench coach, and of course, Dave Clark is the first base coach. We messed it up. Somebody corrected us on Twitter, thankfully. Yes. Thank God. And they were respectful of it. Yeah. No, he dropped a huh on us like we're idiots, but that's okay.

That's fine. Nobody makes mistakes except us. We can live with that. Everybody else is perfect. 713-212-2-5-7-9. if you want to chime in. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5. You know, it's fine.

We're on 20 hours a week. We're still about 900-ish. 875. So, both hitting coaches are gone. The catching coach, which didn't realize they had a catching coach, is gone. Yes. Medical trainer, Jeremiah,

Randall, gone. Gonzo. Parachica is still here. As far as we know. Lopez still here. Yes. Clark's still here. Pitching coaches are still here.

Yes. Now, this stuff can trickle, so there could be some more coming. It's at a full pour right now. Well, I will say this. There is a thought that if there were some things that were going on in the organization, that Ross, it won't be too long until some of the stuff comes out. Just keep that at the back of your mind. What do you mean?

Sometimes teams that let players go are a little more loose lip with the media about maybe some of the dealings of last season. You're more likely to talk bad about a place you were at once you've been let go. And as long as you keep it anonymous and say you didn't hear this for me. Anonymous sources. Mm-hmm. Now you can probably, the team can probably assume that where those sources are coming from. But that comes to the territory.

Now, if you want to bat-mouth the team you just worked for for several years or a couple years, whatever, you're probably going to hurt your chance of becoming a same position with another team. So you just got to be careful. I mean, we've all been let go before on things. in our life and you have to just I think you have to walk a tightrope on this. That's true. Especially if you're looking to find a work in

2026. I was slandering Clear Channel when they laid me off. And look what happened. You're back where we are now. I came crawling back. Yes, you did. We welcomed you back with open arms, especially at your salary level.

713-212-750. 7-1-2-790. Kenny is with us on the Matt Thomas show of Ross. Kenny. Good afternoon. Hey, fellas. Hi. You guys are doing a great job as usual. Thank you.

Hey, listen, I kind of gave up on the Astros. I've been following since the very beginning, like 62. And, you know, I've never seen such an inability to score runs there at the end of the season. And it just got so bad, I just go, I kind of gave up on them, you know. But the other thing I wanted to ask you all about is one player, I thought, showed some pretty good promise. And all of a sudden he wasn't playing anymore, and you never heard what was the matter with him. is Zach DeSenzo. What the heck happened with him?

He got hurt, and we didn't hear word well from him after that. I know. And what, what, what did he hurt? It was a hand injury. He had a hand injury, and I think towards the end of the season, he was on a rehab assignment, and then I don't recall what happened if he went back. Did he get called up for the last week?

I think he got called up for the last series of the season. Oh, did he? I think. Okay. Yeah. Well, I tell you, it's going to be interesting to see what changes they made. It seems like after, I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing right, Paredes went down. It just, it really went bad.

Yeah, because he's having a really good season. He was in ESAC is credible. By the way, thank you for this phone call, Kenny, and for the nice words. Channel Rome was doing an article today in the athletic. As a matter of fact, before all this went down, talking about ESAC Paredes maybe going to second base. And he basically says in the article, there is very few people in the organization, much less in baseball than if he said EACCAPRATES can play second base.

You already have a negative second basement in Joseo. What do you want to add to the mess? That's what I'm saying. I can't get worse. There's no way Dana can come out in spring training and go, hey, we're going to go with this ESOC at second. Why? Well, it can't get worse.

Well, you've got to figure out something out. What are you going to figure out then? It's going to be done. It's going to be figured out. Somebody's got to move. Yeah. Who wants Christian Walker after that season? I mean, he hit 27 home runs.

What's Arizona Diamondback's first base situation? I don't know. I'm not a huge follower of that organization right now. No, I just feel like it's going to be solved. It's got to be. Somebody's got to be moved. How about this? How about you go get a starting pitcher and you move somebody in that infield for that starting pitcher? Because remember Dana said right at the end of the season press comments, he's like, hey, we're going to go make a trade for a pitcher.

I'm like, trade. Yeah, but the obvious trade candidate is Christian Walker, and you're going to just have to send money with that. Probably so. I guess the question would be, how much is an average first base of making baseball? I would say probably I mean I have no idea Yeah 20 million dollars year

He's making 20 That's probably around Well if you count Or it depends Are you talking about free agent guys Now if you're sending him to the Royals $20 million for first basement It's not great money

You send him to the Mets You're not worried about $20 million They might be losing Pete Alonzo So yeah There could be a need there All right let's go to Tim and Katie at 110 On the Matt Thomas show

Ross Tim Good afternoon to you Afternoon guys How are you today? We're terrific. Good. Two things. First off, the Astros.

I don't really care what too much say. But injuries is what caused this season to go cabooey. I went into something. One of the things you guys probably look at, it had 16 players on the injured reserve, and it showed the amount of dollars, that was spent. I want to say

ours was like 54 million. You go over to Detroit, and Detroit had a lot of injuries also. But instead of 54 million, theirs were about 23, which means it was a lot of people that

were not, quote, unquote, all stars. They led the division for a long time and finally, it just all cut up to them with a whole bunch of other people going out. Hater. He went out the last month.

It just all cut up to him. I think if they would have had even half of those people back, they could have done a lot better. And I am the big David Bowie fan you were asking. All right, there you go. Get them, Tim. We need to be somebody. Don't get me.

It's just a true opinion. That's it. Yeah. What I can tell you. you is that if I ever wanted to have been a bisexual man, it would have been with him. What? Whoa. Hey, Tim.

Hey, you're back. Hit the breaking news on our head. Tim's bisexual. But it would be. I will say that, Matt, I met you out at the place out on Logan Baum a couple, a week ago, whenever. And I wouldn't be by with you. I will take that as a compliment. It's calling you ugly, Matt.

That's fine. Tim does not want to have sex with me. I'm very comfortable with that. That's unfortunate. For Tim or for me? Both, maybe. I don't know. I mean, I give Tim credit for going on a major market radio show

and saying that he'd like to have bisexual relations with a dead guy. I mean, well, I don't think he wants to do it with his corpse. I would certainly hope not. maybe Tim's had a couple of pops. You don't know what he's doing these days. Yeah, David Bowie, he was into the whole introgynous thing, right? Yeah.

Now, I will say, the greatest David Bowie song is when he and Bing Crosby did Little Dermoy. I don't know why you're fixated on that horrible. It's not horrible. It's just, I don't know. Yeah, go ahead. What is it?

You don't know. I think you do know. Because we did Christmas songs Fantasy Five many moons ago. Yeah, we did. I believe I won. Yeah, you did. You usually win.

I know. Would you have a call radio show and admit, I mean, again, nothing wrong of being by. Yeah, what's, hey, you know? You teach his own. Yeah. Tim? Likes him some David Bowie. But not Matt Thomas.

Let me ask, he doesn't like me. Jonathan, since we're being open and honest, if you were to have a bio-relationship with somebody? We're doing Fantasy Five hottest dudes. He's got David Bowie number one. I'm going to be on vacation today. Why? You can admit a man's handsome. Yes, I can.

Brad Pitt, handsome man. Yeah, I mean, he's not ugly. Yeah. But I'm not attracted to. I think he's, when you say attraction. When you say bite, he was like attracted to him. Yeah, I get it. Tim's attracted to David Bowie.

I'm not attracted to any man. I can say man is good looking, but I'm not attracted to them. Exactly. You can say something is pretty or beautiful. That doesn't mean you want to have sex with it. Lauren Shahati is beautiful and attractive. And the Rotten Five is next. 114 on Sports Talk 790.

They've gone bad. Hey, they draw flies. Ooh, it's Ross's Rotten Five. This don't smell quite right. All right, we'll get back on the Astro stuff. And again, if you're just joining us, lots of wholesale changes in the coaching staff. We'll recap all of them for you here in a little bit. But we were going to do this a half an hour ago.

but the breaking news sometimes takes over and the hard work. You flow with the show. Yeah. We don't stand, Pat. We don't cuss and discuss things just because it says it's on our timing sheet. Yes. Everybody has their prep sheets. Guess what we'd prep for? Ourselves. We know what the show

that needs to do. Yeah. What he said? We want to go off the beating track, go off the beaten track. We're going to give you the rotten five. The five worst teams in the NFL. I'm going to do it right now here. On Sports Talk 790. All right. Some big shakeups on the list.

this week, but we started off with the New Orleans Saints. They did win a game, so they move up the list. Congratulations to you, New Orleans. Yeah, sure, it was Jackson Dart, the New York Giants, but at least you won the game. You also played the bills close

the week before. Spencer Rattler, if you look at a lot of the analytics and things like that, actually has not been that bad of a quarterback for the New Orleans Saints. He had 225 yards and a touchdown over the week. and things are looking well, not so great.

Is there going to be three and a half point home dogs to the New England Patriots? But on the season, Rattler with six touchdowns, just one pick. Maybe the Saints can rack up a victory at home versus the Patriots

are also going to go at the Bears in the following week. Right now, fifth worst team in the NFL. Believers share, got to suck the head up the crawfish there. Oh, thank you very much. Okay, New York Giants play tonight against the Philadelphia Eagles.

We'll get to that in a second. But come on, man. You lost by double digits after starting up 11 and nothing in that game. And you lost to the freaking New Orleans Saints. Jackson Dart, second start, not looking great through a couple of picks. Camp Scadaboo has been getting a lot of touches, but hasn't been getting a whole lot of production as far as the yards and the touchdowns. And of course, we know Malik Neighbors is down with that injury.

As I mentioned, you got the Eagles tonight, and they'll be at the Broncos the next week and then at the Eagles the week after. That sounds like three losses. in a row for Brian Dable and the New York Giants. So right now, Giants, fourth worst team in the NFL. Oh, no, it's bad. It's real bad. All right, we shot the Miami Dolphins up last week because they finally got a victory,

but we got to bring them all the way back down to number three this week. I mean, you get up 17 to nothing on the Carolina Panthers and Bryce Young on the boys, and you cannot get the victory. you're one in four on the season. Your one win is against the Jets who are going to be later on this list. It just has not been pretty for the Miami Dolphins. Somehow only three and a half point dogs against the Chargers this week. But they are not good.

But they have some winnable games coming up after that on the road against the Browns and the Falcons. Miami Dolphins right now, the number three. Worst team in the NFL. All right, we had to take the Tennessee Titans out of the bottom spot because they got a victory and the team that's left in the bottom does not have a victory. That is one of the most ugly, gifted, nasty wins in NFL history that the Tennessee Titans got last week.

You had the Amari DiMarcato fumble. Then you had an interception thrown by Cam Ward. Somehow fumbled into the end zone and recovered by the Tennessee Titans. Technically, they did get the win. They got the 22 to 21 victory. They're 1 in 4 on the season. But that was not a good game by the Titans. They are the number two, worst team in the NFL.

I mean, if we're keeping a bulk right now, we ask. Yes, you are, Cam Ward. All right. Only one 0 and 5 team on the season. That means you're at the bottom of the Rotten 5. I talk about the New York football jets. It hurts me. Nimitz graduate, Aaron Glenn, already on the hot seat.

What? Shout out to something that's successful out of all the Nimitz. Hey, you're making an NFL coach. Even if you get fired about midway through your first season, that's still a nice feather of the cap. for Nimitz legend Aaron Glenn, but they were horrible against Cowboys. Final score of 37 to 22 does not even tell the story. They do take on the Broncos, probably going to be another L.

After that, they have the Panthers and the Joe Flacco led bingles and the Browns, so maybe there's a win mixed in right there. But right now, 0.5, New York Jet Prolittance, you are terrible. You're the worst team in the NFL. They can't stop a nose, bleep. And that'll be on the 8.30 a.m. game on Sunday. London. Lundy,

London. 8.30 a.m. Broncos Jets, Matt. How are you feeling? You're rooting for the Jets. Honestly. Because Denver is an eight. Again, I'm I'm standings watcher. Oh, I forgot. Your standings guy. Week five, week six. Yeah. Okay. Look, when I'm in December, when these things matter,

you're going to be like, Matt, I should have jumped on the watch train with you. So, there you go. Great job, as always. Very happy. I know it's a little bit later. Usually it's a $1.50 staple, but wanted to put it there. And there's your rotten five. Thank you very much. A friend of the show, Adam Spoling,

yes. Put a very interesting little anecdotal thing about all the changes today. And you know what? We'll give him, when we mention his name, my name, so we'll give more credit on that. Nice guy. Nice enough guy. Yeah. 713-212-5-790.

If you want to join us, again, we will, when we come back, let's go ahead and recap every one of the decisions, and then I will give Adam his shine on what he thought was interesting about the things he saw today with all the astro changes. I will say when I tell you what he says, I don't necessarily connect the dots on it, but it is ironic. Don't you think? Yeah. Now the question is, has Dana been licking his chops to make these decisions? Or has Jim Crane said, we've got to give the optics out there of making moves to make them.

Yeah, you can't have this season and run it back fully. There's just no way. I mean, you can't, right? I mean, that's what I always wonder. About fan pressure, because a lot of the, I would say if you ask to a man, everybody in that locker room, if Troy Snicker and Alex Entron were failing the team, they probably would have said no.

But, no, it would have been very hard for Dana to go in the room and say, hey, what do you all think about your hitting coaches? And my guess is they're Carlos Correa and Jose Altuve and you're on Alvarez and Jake Myers and anybody else said, it's on us. But you can't, you know, it's,

again, it's the age old thing in sports. You need a new voice. Now, if somebody is saying, if one or two guys are saying, I went to those guys of the last couple of years,

and they told me what to do, and my average dropped 20 points, or I lost some of my slug. They suck. What a Christian Walker's like, these guys are horrible. Do you see how good I was as a diamond back? Look what I've done here.

Change will do you good. Yeah. Well, that's, who's that, who's things at? A change, a change will do you good. Change is going to come? No.

that would be the one and only Sam Cook. Great song. Yes. Died at a very early age. We were talking about that with my son made it the other day. Yeah. He got in a mix-up at a motel. Got shot.

Yes, by the employee, right? One of the employees. Apparently he got robbed by a... I think the story is he was with a woman, whether it was a hook or not, who knows. He was with a woman, and the woman ran off with all of his stuff, and then he came in, like, bust in naked at the front desk, and the woman got scared and thought she was.

being attacked and in self-defense fired upon him and killed him. Terrible story. Yeah. I know. You're trying to get some at the motel. Next thing you know, you're getting blasted on. It's not good. I don't know how I'm going to segue into that, but we will do that right now.

127. One of the all-time greats. 127 on Sports Talk 790. We'll recap some of the Astros decisions coming up in just a couple minutes. Right now let's spend a few minutes with our good friend, the head football coach of the University of Houston Cougars, Willie Fritz. and he is brought to you by the joint chiropractor,

the official chiropractor of the University of Houston Athletic Department. Willie is with us here getting ready for Saturday's game with Oklahoma State. Willie, thank you for the time. As always, take us through Connor's situation when you needed to pull him and where we stand right now getting ready for this game against the Cowboys. Well, he's in great shape. You know, we put him anytime there's anything that you worry about with a guy with a concussion or whatever, you immediately.

put him into what we call concussion protocol. And he was doing good on Sunday. And then he's continued to progress and been fine all the way through and, you know, practice today. And we feel great about him playing on Saturday. Obviously, you have Zion Zion as his backup and has been able to play some at the collegiate level. How much does the playbook change? How much does the game plan change when you make a change in the middle of the game like that? Oh, it does a little bit.

You know, you have a full complement of plays that you run, you know, your playbook, and you want the quarterbacks to learn all of it. But, you know, there's definitely some parts of it. The one guy might do better than another guy. And, you know, so there are a few changes, you know, probably a little bit more run game with Zeon, but, you know, Connor runs the ball very well also. What did you think overall of his performance?

I know it's always difficult to be the backup quarterback because you're only one play away. But for a guy like that to have some experience is a nice fallback in case Connor can't go for you or can't be at 100%. Yeah, he came in and we gave us a spark. You know, he had a couple really good runs and ended up catching, you know, getting a touchdown

with a nice throw to Marri Thomas. And unfortunately, we just, you know, we needed to play really well. well. We need that going into the game. I don't think we played as well as we were capable of. I'd do a better job of getting everybody prepared, coaches, and players.

And then we've got to go out and execute on game day. But, you know, the hats off to, you know, them. They played extremely well and very talented team. And, you know, we just got to do a better job of executing and, you know, and call the right

things, offense, defense, kicky game. I knew you were so, you know, Yeah, I knew you were so impressed and proud of your guys in the low turnover count. And unfortunately, it was rude as luckily ahead this past week. When you look at the game film on that, were there some things that TechSTech was doing, or was it just self-destruction a little bit on your side? Oh, both.

They do a good job of getting after the football like we do, and targeting it. When someone's running, anytime you overtake you got to speed, trying to get the ball out, you're in his blind spot, and did that on occasion. We had a foolish interception that we threw. We didn't need to throw. That was an easy one for them.

But you're right. When you play a quality team, you play anybody. You know, if you're plus one, plus two, plus three, you got a great chance of winning the ball game. And fortunately, we're a minus two. And when that happens, you don't win very many games. I thought, Willie, the most encouraging part during that stretch, when, unfortunately, the squad was turned the ball over

was you were holding Texas Tech to field goals. And that had to be a positive sign that your defense, you know, try to keep in the game as long as you could. Yeah, they did. They did a good job early in the ball game. We talk all the time about four-point plays, both offensively and defensively. When you hold the offense to a field goal, don't allow them to get a touchdown, seven points.

You know, the same thing on offense. You know, when you get an opportunity to get a touchdown, we didn't. You know, we had to kick a field goal that after we had that long completion to Kobe Young. So you want four-point plays there to touchdown instead of a few. field goals. So, you know, that's a big, that's one of the, you know, bigger points in winning football games is scoring touchdowns over field goals and we've got to do a better job of that. Willie, you're going to Oklahoma State this week. They've made a coaching change. If I was to look at their last week's game film as compared to when Coach Gundy was running things early in the

year, would I see a dramatic difference? No, not too much. You know, they got the same offensive coordinator. Matter of fact, he was here as the offensive coordinator one year back at 2013. Doug McHen. And, you know, so not a dramatic difference in what they were doing prior to, you know, coach getting let go and what they're doing now. And for your guys, you haven't had to have this experience this year because it was your first loss, but to gather the troops, what was practice like this week?

What was the mental focus? Did you notice anything different? Do you try to not reinvent the wheel after a tough loss at home? Or do you need to give the urgency of, hey, if we want to do some things and get back to a bowl and be competitive in this Big 12, we need to shake things up a little bit? No, you know, the one thing we did do is we always take off Sunday and then Monday we came in and we watch every single tape. You know, the offense watched every single play together.

and just kind of see probably five or six times I heard the coaches hey I want to get a call on my behalf I sat in there with them and told them a few things I could have done better but we also had the guys look

and see what things they could have done better we did the same thing with defense did the same thing with kicking game we usually run through the tape pretty quick and we move on to the next opponent but spend a little bit more time on it just to not you know repeat the same mistakes

that we did in that ball game So I thought it was really good on Monday, and I think we've had an excellent week of practice. Well, leave it at that, coach. We'll see you at the plane tomorrow. Congratulations on a good season so far. Looking forward to getting up there and getting that victory against Oklahoma State. And we'll look forward to that game on Saturday in Stillwater. Thanks for the time, as always.

All right, thank you. Willie Fritz, joining us here, the head coach of your Houston Cookers, brought to you by again the Joint Chiropractor, the official chiropractor of University of Houston Athletics. 11 o'clock to start time on TNT, not a place you would normally think for college football, but they're starting to carry some games now. And we'll look forward to having that for you Saturday as well on our sister station 950 KPRC.

If you're just joining us, first of all, damn glad to have you. Be where I'll have you been. And the Astros today, sports RV, making variety of changes. Both of the hitting coaches are out. The trainer, Jeremiah Randall is out. And thanks to a great listener of ours.

There is Andrew Ball, the assistant general manager. His title, Assistant GM to Dana Brown, focusing on roster management, player evaluations, procurement, contract negotiations, and rules compliance. He also oversees research and development and sports medicine and performance. Makes sense. Yeah.

So he's an R&D and sports medicine guy. And now he's looking for employment. Yeah. Not knowing Jim all that well, but knowing. Jim enough, he probably went in there and said, do your deep dive, come back with some changes. The run it back

philosophy wasn't going to fit for 2026. No. It just wasn't. And as speculations to who the people were replaced, it would be foolish on our part to do it because my guess is 99% of the people that we hear of names will never know. And I know there's

going to be the Martimaudin' Donald's got to be a coach on this team. I got to get him as a catching coach. Michael Brantley is a hitting coach. Everybody wants Michael Brantley. Who went through the hitting coaches list? It's not a bunch of former all-stars. Now, knowing Michael Brantan like we do,

I think he'd be a great hitting coach. I think when you are called a professional hitter, yeah, just swing at the good pitches and don't swing at the bad ones. Now, part of the reason why he did retire is because he wanted to see his kids grow up. Yeah, it's not happening. I don't think. I'll be shocked. I'll put it that way.

Oh, well, I'll agree with you. You never say never, but I would be shocked because, again, I don't know how old his kids are. He's got to be in his late 30. So my guess is they're probably in their teenage years, young teenage years. Being a hitting coach at the major league level when you're trying to watch your kids grow up is fairly difficult. And he's got plenty of money. So it's not the question of he's looking to keep himself employed. My guess is Michael Brantley could retire.

Well, he has retired and not do a damn thing the rest of his life. He's got 10 years of major league service time. So he's got a pension coming his way. So we will not do that. We will simply go off of what the reporters, that's Chandler, that's Brian McTaggart, that's Matt Kawahara from The Chronicle, those guys will figure it out.

And I'm sure Ken Rosenthal will mix in a couple of people and Jeff Passon. This will be an interesting time where you'll see some names that are brought up because agents are calling these national writers and saying, hey, can you float my guy's name out there in Houston? It even happens for position coaches. Now, we have not had any breaking news on anything else

coaching-wise in 40 minutes. 45 minutes, give or take. So does that mean the pitching coaches are okay? Does it mean that Tony Paris Chica is safe as the third base coach? Now, I will say this. It probably also, you can't assume that because they're certainly going to want to tell these people firsthand before they whisper things in the media. But so far, on a day where we were anticipating some changes, it's pretty strong. severe.

Jeremiah Randall has been around a long time with his organization. Oh, by I was going to I was going to tell you what our buddy Adam Spolen has said about what he thought about the situation. It was interesting. Now, I didn't think of this. I frankly don't know if the Astros

thought of this, but here was his statement. Adam says, what stands out about the staff changes are Astros are making is that they are moving on from people who have been entrenched in the organization going back to the Leno Hinch days. Did you think about that at all? No.

Cleaning out Hinch guys and Luno guys? I think if the Astros win 92 games, which were there on pace to, and win the division, which they probably should have done, if healthy, my thought is they probably would have been around. I would think so, too. I think that these changes are a byproduct of two months of futility offensively, because the last two months have just been way different. and the fact that so many injuries took place. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think that Dan is like, I got to get all my people in here.

Because these are people here that were part of the World Championship teams in 2020, right? James Clook didn't get rid of those guys right away. No. Well, they got rid of him. They won the World Series. There's a one-year deal with no raise, and we're going to put you in a downgraded hotel. I don't think they did that.

but you know what I'm saying. It might have. I said you're going to get an expense account. You mean to ramp it in a lot. It's not bad. Breakfast is good. You know, it's funny. We did have a call earlier.

Jim does watch the dollars and cents. I mean, that's his job as an owner. The amount of money that the Astros spent this year, I'm moving guys around. Probably 300% more than they probably anticipated. What do you mean? I'm moving guys around. Calling guys up.

Flying them. Back and forth. Probably true. Valories. Okay. I don't think that's a huge factor, but I do believe it's a factor. Okay. To get to a player to get to a certain city in a short time.

And then you're paying some major league coming. You paid guys this year on the major league roster, major league dollars, even though they probably had minor league contracts. That adds up. And when they went into the money spent on rehabilitation and transferring guys from AAA to major leagues, we saw guys move up and down almost felt like, I mean, what is this, AJ Blue Ball?

I mean, they had a call 59 South the AJ Blue Ball Express. The guy's been moving back and forth. That's, I mean, there comes a cost with that. Even though it's within the city, it's still salary. And if the Astros having to be on the road, they're going to fly a player up, all that stuff counts.

So maybe that's part of it, too, is it, man, you guys, they go. Yeah. And I'll go ahead and give you a small. all gut feeling even though we're not in that part of the show. Okay. I don't think they're done. Okay. You differing? How's Tony Parrishcheek feeling right now?

I think he's trying to hold on to something here. Hold on at some of the stationary or something. All right. Let's play believe it or not. It is all things about Eric Spolster, right? The new brand new U.S. Olympic coach? Yes. 146 on Sports Talk 790. That liner has been used for 15 and a half years. Hashtag fresh sounds of 790. Hey, it still works, baby. I heart radio. Check it out.

Listen to 790. But if you can't listen to 790, listen to the IHart Radio app. Tomorrow on the radio program, we have I'm sorrys. Okay. Usually it's cathartic for a lot of us, mainly for me. Why? Could you have to say apologize to people? You normally give backhanded half-hearted apologies.

I've stopped doing that. It's been two stories. Are you sure? No. It's just not good to say that. You said it with conviction. Dr. Rota with us tomorrow on the show. Yes.

A complete breakdown of Philadelphia versus the Giants tonight. Let's go Jackson Dart. I don't really care. Yeah, it's NFC. Yeah, NFC doesn't do anything for us. Now, we are rooting hard for Denver this weekend to lose to the Jets. We got Cincinnati Green Bay. We're rooting for Green Bay to keep beating Cincinnati.

So the Bengals are down and out. Do not come back and sneak one of those wild cards? spots. And what else will we rooting for here on the weekend of the NFL? We're going to say, go Browns, go dolphins, go Saints,

go Rams, go Arizona Cardinals. Colts are about to go to 5 and 1. Texans are going to be 2.5 behind. They have a chance to make it up. They're going to have to go beat the Colts at least once. Texans don't beat the Colts at least once.

They can't win the division. And you do not want to get a tiebreaker with any of those squads. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game. Shall we simply call it B, believe it or not? And here's how it works. You call 713212-5-790.

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Believe it. That's a believe it. Congratulations. Jeremiah on 790. Jeremiah, you're ready to play believe it or not. Believe it. After college, Eric Spolster, played two seasons in Germany before retiring due to back issues. Believe it or not? Not. That's a believe it. Believe it. You ever see him walk around? It's kind of crickety. Kind of crickety back, Ross. 713, 212-5-7-9. Kevin on 7-9. Kevin, what's your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? When they said they were letting go of the trainer. All right. According to Sportico.com, Eric Spolster is the highest paid coach in the NBA. Believe it or not. Not.

That's right. Steve Kerr. Statement number two for the win. Eric Spolster drinks the same Starbucks coffee and eats the same meal for every Miami Heat game. Believe it or not. That's correct. Skip 7. I have to know the same question twice.

Okay. We're down to one question then. Okay. That's fine. It is what it is. Nice work. Andrew on 7. Andrew, what's your favorite part of today's radio show?

Willie Frith interview. In two, you just joined you. In 2016, Eric Spolstra married Nikki, a former Miami heat dancer. The couple has had three children. Believe it or not. Believe it. There you go. You're going to see.

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