The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Down 2-0, Gut Feelings & Rockets Next Coach

Episode Date: October 13, 2020

Hurt. So much larger than life. Yeah. You said. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12 o'clock at H-town. What's happening in luncht timers? Good afternoon to you.

And welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. This ball's hit in the air pretty deep to center. It sends back. Springer Stokelke. going back out the wall and that ball is gone. Just did clear defense and straightaway center, a three-run home run for Manuel Margo. And the Rays really make that error hurt.

It's 3-0-0 Tampa Bay. Lips this one down the right field line, rangy over Margo, fighting the sun and the foul territory, makes the catch and then flips over into the seats and foul brown and holds on. What a play by Margot in foul territory and the Astros are turned aside. It's hard to left field going back on it, Springer.

He's going to look up and that's gone. So Zanino with the homer for the raise give us a one lead now. And that's his third homer of the postseason. The American League Championship Series. So apparently we played this after the Astros lost those first two games in the Nationals. So why not? They seem to rally. A terrible breakup song, by the way.

You know what I'm saying? Listen to this. This guy's just belted it out I'm telling you Brendan if you find that girl someday And she breaks up with you with this song You will cry like a baby for weeks Is she 30 years older than me Yeah she's probably not going to the 1979 number one hit

Yeah you're probably right I had it's great It's great that you all have a memory of the show greater than I have Because And I want to give this person credit on Twitter And I'll do it just a second I put out a tweet earlier today. By the way, if you want to follow me on Twitter,

I'd love for you to do that at SportsMT. Keeps this kind of interactive in the show together. And my question was, name a song we should play for being down 02. And the last time the Astros were down 02 in a series was the World Series.

Remember the first two games were at Minut Made Park? Then the Astros jump on a plane, go to Washington, D.C., and win the next three, games, but that was the song that we played. And I'm looking here. I'm trying to find the guy that I hate when I have to scroll while I'm live on the radio. Oh, here it is. It's at it's Girk 97. He calls himself great value Tom Cruise. But his Twitter account is it's Girk 96. It's Gert 96. Shout out to you for remembering that song. I didn't want to go nearly as depressing as that, but I did and I had to. I think it's, I think it fits well. But see,

It's better if they're done, done finito. 2-0 sucks, right? But it's... And I, Wax and I did a show yesterday. We took a bunch of calls after the game on the 10th inning show. We went about an hour of 45 minutes. And I will be working tonight's 10th inning show. It would be a lot later.

Probably not going an hour 45. But they're hitting the ball, right? They're smacking the ball around. They're just knocking the clutch hits. The only thing to me, and we've been arguing about, this on Twitter and certainly on the show the last couple of days, is the only thing that it was fluky was Margot's catch in right feel where he falls into the stands or the camera well and he makes the catch. Everything else from a defensive perspective, the race had it planned.

So you have to, unfortunately, I know it's painful to do this. You have to sometimes give credit to the other team. And that's exactly what the race should get. They've had the timely hits. they took advantage of, I'm telling you, one of the biggest heirs in Houston Astros baseball history when you think about it. When you think about how the Astros could have got out of the inning with that ball hit to Jose Outube in Shadow Right Field, and then he has a terrible throw.

And of course, he got the air, and it was deservingly so. But Yuleiguriel did not do him any favors. I thought Yuley gave up on the play, one to two seconds early. And if the normal Yule at first base makes that play, he overcomes the terrible throw from Jose Altuve. He gets that final out. And Jose Al Tuve finds Yule Guriel and he smiles and he hugs him.

And he says, thank you for saving my ass on that play. I'm not trying to put Yule Gariel in a category of, well, he can't feel his position because let me tell you something from the time as you guys know that have followed the Astros, from where Yuley started as the first basement to where he is now, it's a world of difference. It's a complete 180-degree turn. You know, remember Yuley grew up playing on the left side of the infield,

not the right. But that was a play that needed to be made to bail out a terrible throw from shadow right field. The second error on Jose, there's nothing that Yule could have done about that, at least as I saw it. And it was a bad throw. It was a worst throw because he tried to put some mustard on.

or some sort of arc or whatever it was, it was bad. It was the secondary. Now, again, that wasn't nearly as costly. The three-run homer that was hit right after that was the one that was painful. So we took a lot of phone calls in the 10th inning show yesterday. And again, I'll be hosting it tonight.

By the way, tonight's first pitches at 740. So I might be having subalcones during the post game if things get really ugly because I don't want to be sitting there taking phone calls until midnight with a 303 deficit. that's just me. Now, if they win, I might have some Belcones, but if they lose, I'm definitely going to have some Belconeys. But they are hitting the ball, they are smacking the ball, but they're just, the balls aren't dropping. And I feel like, and I know I'm supposed to be down in the dumps being down O2, and I'm discouraged. I can't believe that the Jose Al-Tube missplay in the first inning was so costly yesterday.

I'm so disappointed that the nine-hole hitter for the Tampa Bay Rays hit a tape measure shot at Petco Park. But I feel like after these first two games that that ball's going to drop, that this team is hitting the ball too hard, that you're not going to rebuild and have some sort of reversal of fortune and be able to get back in this series. So normally when you're down O2, you are panicking. There hasn't been any major managerial decision. that you question. The pitching has been outstanding. I mean, well, yeah, maybe outstanding. Maybe better than the raise. But it's, who cares what you think subjectively who's got a better pitching staff and who's

performed better? It's about the results. And the results are that Tampa Bay Skittish Bullpen has been just good enough. And Nick Anderson, not the Nick Anderson and Orlando Magic, who brick the free throws against the Rockets in the mid-1990s, the Nick Anderson was a hot mess as a Tampa Bay finisher yesterday, closer for the raise. The Astros got plenty of people on the base pass. Alex Breggman smoked up all the right field, but again, played perfectly, out recorded,

and the Astros are down 02. So I'm not nearly as discouraged as I would normally be if a team is down 02, but I will say this. they absolutely, without a doubt, have to win this game today. And they're going to go with Jose Orkidi over Zach Grinke. Not probably. It is the right decision.

So we've got a lot to get to this afternoon on the radio show. If you like to join us, and obviously we got some NFL to get to some Rockets News on the latest coaching candidates in town, been in town, going out of town, coming in for visits, we'll get to that. We have gut feelings coming up at 1 o'clock. Brendan, are you going to go with a gut feeling on the Astros game,

or is there's something else you got a gut feeling about in the world of sports? I haven't decided yet. Do you know what yours is? Yeah. But maybe it's because I'm just astro buddy. I don't know if you know what Astros buddies are, but that's the kids group. Okay.

That you, for like, 20 bucks, you get to sign up, you get to get a hat, you get to go to a game, and you have like an astro buddy that's sort of like your guy. When I was a kid, Astro Buddy was a big deal because they let us go on the field and meet our favorite player once a year. And my Astro buddy was Alan Ashby. I was an Astro Buddy in 1980. So maybe the Astro Buddy in me is going to be talking about my gut feeling at 1 o'clock today. Aaron Reese and the Athletic joins us at 1.30.

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The Matt Thomas Show. We're down 02 in the war series last year with Urquidi and Greenkey coming up next to pitch for us. So it's not like we haven't been here before. So, you know, we got to attack it like we did last year. You know, we were able to come back and win three games in a row. I don't think it's impossible. We've done it before. So we got to go with that mentality, knowing that we have two great pitchers coming for us.

And hopefully, you know, on the offensive side of it, we can find some holes. Because I feel like the abats have been great against a great pitching staff. One of the best pitching staffs in the league. The abats have been solid all around, man. We just got to find some holes there. All right, Carlos, I can buy into that. I guess the question is, will you buy into that? 713-212-5-790.

7-1-2-7-90. Gut feelings coming up at 1 o'clock. That segment is growing, Brendan. People are starting to catch on. You're just calling with whatever gut feeling you have. Doesn't it be about sports? It can be about life. I think we had the lines entirely full last week.

I know. I like that. So if you got a gut feeling, we're not going to hold you to it. What were last week's gut feeling? I don't remember what it was. You know, it's funny. In the first week, I kept them all because I was right and you guys are wrong.

I know. And I have not kept a single one since. I think we have to start writing them down just so if we hit, we can brag on them. But if we're wrong, it's okay. Didn't you have one a little while back about the Rockets head coach? Yes, that it was going to have a rocket connection to it. Tailu would not be a Rocket connection. Actually, it's not true.

You played for the Rockets, very short period of time, but he did play. So that technically works. Van Gundy, serious Rocket Connection. he was the former coach. I'm thinking back, I think me and you both had the Astros advancing to the ALCS last week. Okay. I like that one. We'll go with that one.

But if you got a gut feeling about something coming up in 40 minutes, we do a segment, nothing but just gut feelings. Be gut feeling about the Texans game against the Tennessee Titans. By the way, the Titans' Bill's game will be played today at 6 o'clock. There's no way they can win two games in five days, right? speaking of the Tennessee Titans. So does that give you pause? Do you have a gut feeling that Texans could go to Tennessee and win that game on Sunday? I think that's the direction I may be going as to that game.

That's a tease right there. Stay with it on that one. But again, look, teams play Sunday Thursday all the time. So this would not be out of the ordinary. But we're talking about a Tennessee team. I can't remember the last time they even played. It's been so long. And they're going to play two games.

Now, granted, both games are at home in Nashville. But it's still the way. wearing terror beating up. And here's the problem. So I have Derek Henry's my running back at one of my fantasy leagues. He's not, I don't think he's going to give me a hundred yards in both games, is he? I wouldn't think so. So my fantasy football is suffering because of COVID. How rude? He'll be fine next week. Or Sunday. Isn't that crazy?

Yeah. Tuesday Sunday. By the way, people are like, oh, I love this Tuesday night football. Really? I would trade Thursday for Tuesday. No, Tuesday's an awkward day. No, give me, because you know why I like third? I'm not a big fan of Thursday Night Football as it is. Because, again, I think the quality of play sucks. Plus, the games usually suck. It's like Cincinnati Cleveland.

Jets, Denver was, I mean, has there been a release? I mean, I guess the Tampa, Chicago game was pretty good because it had some headliners in it, obviously. It's who can we get, who can we put on TV that we know you'll watch because you're start for football? Or you have a bet on it. Or you've got a fantasy football impact. But I would say this. I would rather live with Thursday night football because it feels like it's the kickoff to the weekend. Tuesday does nothing but just Tuesday is a meh day, right?

See, I have like, it's the momentum of the weekend. Like, I still want to watch football, but after I get a couple days off, I don't mind waiting for the weekend. No, see for me, yeah. And again, it's to each his own. Like, I don't get fired up for Tuesday and Wednesday night college football unless there's obviously a betting impact or a fantasy. Well, no fantasy, unless you play college fantasy, then you're really fantasy geek. All right. 713-212-5-790.

Where are you on the stroze? Carlos seems positive. I feel pretty good. How do you? 7-13-212-5-7-90. Kathy's first up at 1223 on Sports Talk 7-90. Hello, Kathy. Hi.

I thought the pitching's been great, the hitting's been great, the shame for the errors. But the one question I want to hear you talk about, I'll hang up after I ask my question. Okay. It seems to me when we've got the guys on VIII, and it's two outs that that clutch hit can't possibly come when they swing at the first pitch every time. And I think I'm seeing a trend in that and just wanted you to comment. I'll hang up. Thank you.

Thank you, Kathy. I think she's notably talking about Bregman's hit the right field in the game yesterday. There's an argument. I'm not into it that Bregman should have allowed Nick Anderson to throw a couple of more balls because that's all he did. I mean, Nick Anderson, who finished the game yesterday for the raise, was a hot mess. He could not throw a strike if you paid him a handsom to do it every single time. The problem is this, if you go back on the replay, the ball he threw to Alex Breggman was a pitch in the zone that Breggman, if he would have watched that thing cross over the plate, it would have been called a strike. He would have been pissed that he did that.

It was a sweet spot for Alex Breggman. He hit the crap ton out of it. Again, it fell into a glove. That's how baseball works. Waxson and I are doing the post game last night. He came up with some crazy-ass stat. And you're more, you're younger and in the geek stats. Did you...

I got to go look it up. It was like expected batting average or something. I'm not super familiar with that, but I expected is becoming a big thing in sports. I expected field goal percentage. He had... I have to look at it, but it was one of those stats that I did a double take when he said it, because I don't care what something is expected or not. Either it hit, either the ball lands or it doesn't.

Well, no, you do care. Like, you don't want to hear the number, but the reason you're telling us you're okay, not okay, but you're not as down at 02 as normal is because your eyes are telling you the Astros should be scoring more runs. That you would hope the next time that ball is hitting that exact same location, then the ball is going to drive. Rex is just using numbers to say the same thing your eyes are telling you. Okay. I have to find this thing because it cracked.

When he said it on air yesterday, it cracked me up. Let's see here. Trying to find it here. Oh, here it is. Okay, first of all, Alex Breggman's five hard hit outs today ties Anthony Rendon for the most by any player in any game this year. Five hard hit outs? Well, of course. Does it matter if they're, again, I don't know they have five.

Texas leaguers that just loop in for base hits. But that was funny to me about whatever the, whatever staty used. It was some crazy ass thing that I had never heard of before. Look, I'm not one of those people that just goes, oh, stats are for geeks. No, there are some things that do make sense. But don't tell me about what you think was going to happen on the computer when I can see it in front of myself, in front of my own two eyes. And I can see what happened. And the fact is that Alex Spregman hit it really, really hard. And the race defended it and could get to the ball and, you know, make the final out. That to me is the end of the game.

No matter what you want to tell me about how many times it happens again, I deal in the realities and I deal in the reality of the Astros, just hit the ball way too hard for two straight games. For it, there'd be a third straight game where they can't see one of those balls drop. and more importantly, Jose Al-Tube, smart, savvy move by the team, not the guys in the dugout, but Jose and Carlos Correa flipping spots.

So Carlos was out in shallow right field, and Jose Al-Tube was right behind the second base bag. And that didn't come from Dusty. We'll tell you more about that coming up, plus more your phone calls. 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2. 22570. Those of you out there that are tired of wearing glasses and contacts, I've got great news for you. My friends at Berkeley Eye Center have had a spectacular early fall with their LASIC savings campaign.

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Play Sports Talk 790 on I-Heart Radio. 32 Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas Show. 713, 212, 5790. So there was a change late in the game about Correa and Al-Tube defending out that shallow right field. That didn't come from Dusty. We didn't move them.

They moved themselves. You know what I mean? You know, Carlos and Jose moved himself. We didn't move them. And so that's, you know, how close these guys are. And, you know, Carlos really looks up to Jose and in ultimate admiration. And so, you know, they did that themselves.

I like it. I like that their relationship is so strong that they can do that. And Jose can say, all right, you know what? Your arm's better. And I've had a tough day out there. Again, I thought of the two throws, the one that could have saved Jose's Bacon

was the one in the first inning that won of being the three-run, home run. The second one was just a terrible throw. But Jose, you know what? Look, I really thought when the end of the regular season finished for the stroas and they were 29 and 31, I was like, man, in my mind, Jose's got to be thinking, I just got to get rid of this season. I got to, you know, if we lose these games to Minnesota and the wild card around and we're done, I can go get on an island and cleanse myself of everything that has been his worst professional season. But he rallied. His bat's been really, really good.

As a matter of fact, there's been a lot of good bats. I mean, Carlos Correa's, George Springer, not so much yesterday, really not so much yesterday in terms of clutch hits, but there have never been a lot of guys that have smacked the ball around, especially in the Dodger series. Now, playing at Dodger Stadium in the daytime is compared to playing Petco Park, two different animals. It just is.

But today just feels like it. It's just, you know, maybe it's my gut feeling I'll have in 20 minutes. But you would think that if a team is hitting the ball as well as they have, 19 hit so far in the two games, they would be able to have more runs than what they have so far. And that every little bounce or amazing catch or placement in the defense for Tampa

can't be perfect for a third straight day. Because if it is, the Astros will drop this series 03 and then we'll be thinking about at what point of the race, you know, come back and win this thing for the good of the American League. Hopefully that isn't the case. So yeah, I'm down. There's no question about that. that. But I'm not like, this is the end of the world. One game can change everything. I think you've got to feel pretty good right now about where their bullpens at, too, just in,

terms of, like, usage. Lack of usage and effectiveness, for that matter. By the way, I found Wex's tweet yesterday. Bregman, this is 0 for four today. This is before the game ended. First one is exit velocity was 106.8. It lined out to shortstop. In the third inning, it was was 99.5 exit velocity, sharp ground out to shortstop. Fifth inning, his exit velocity was 103 with a sharp ground out again to shortstop. Eighth inning exit velocity of 103.1, sharp ground out to third base. Expected batting average of those four smashes, 670, 330, 3.30, 380, 330. Actual batting average, and that's what I tend to believe.

the actual one as compared to the expected one is zero. So basically, if you have an exit velocity of 106 miles an hour off for a ball that's hit, lined out the short type, you're going to get a hit 67% of the time. We saw it on the 33 side. So, yeah, I've loved baseball all my life. I've talked about baseball on the radio for four decades. I will never be expected batting average guy. I'm telling you, Matt, you're not as far away as you think you are.

You're just not using the same words. Okay. So I'm my own person. Sure. I'm a simpleton. Yeah, I think that's a good word choice. You see, the best insults are the ones you lay on yourself. You know yourself.

Yeah. Let me tell you, Brendan, in 20 years, are you going to be talking about, well, man, the Chicago White Sox, led by manager, A.J. Hinch, they expected to have, they expected to have 14 hits. They had three. So I don't know where you are on this. I don't usually share advanced stats, but I like the people who know them. Like I respect the people who can share them with me.

Do you know who likes them? Front offices of baseball. They live by this because that's how they create their baseball team. And if I'm an owner of a baseball team and I believe analytics are important to baseball, I want my general manager to know what expected

batting average is. I want to know what VORP is and all the other crazy stuff that I see people tweet out that makes you look, people sound like they're smart. But as a true baseball fan, and it's just a connoisseur of the sport, I've lived with base, with those numbers not in my life for most of my adult life, I don't need them. I don't need them now. What I need is for Margo not to catch that ball in right field, for him to fall over and have the ball trickle out of his gloves.

What I need is Nick Anderson to throw several more pitches in the dirt so Alex Berman can't hit the ball. You know what I'm saying? That's what I want. But, you know, I'm not one of those people that just goes, oh, here comes dorky stat. I respect the stats. I just don't use them. Because it doesn't make me feel any better that Bregman's expected batting average in the first four bats were 670, 330, 380, and 3.30.

Because expected batting average doesn't create parades in downtown Houston. Expecting batting averages doesn't help win a game. Although many of me general managers thinks it does, it does. So we'll see. The Astros just have got to hit him where they ain't today. That's my storyline. Let's go to Paul and Galveston, 1238 on Sports Talk 7.90. Paul, good afternoon.

How are you doing today? Good. All right. I'm calling it asked about the detection of fire Bill O'Brien yet. They have fired Bill O'Brien, yes, and they're one-in-law and head coach Romeo and Cornell. Nice, nice, nice. All right, I got a question. Did the Astro sign back, Correa or Springer, or can they do both?

They absolutely can... Hold on. You asked me a question. I got to answer it first. I got you. I got you. Big dog. Let me tell you something, Big Dog, Paul. They can sign both of them. They're not going to. Why not? It's called a budget. I mean, with Correa playing like that, I mean, he's top three, top five short stops in the league. You know? And Springer, I mean, he's the best player in the postseason in the big leagues.

I don't know how you You are preaching to the choir, Paul. There's no possible way we can get both of them. No, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying it's probably not going to happen. My guess is there's a dollar amount that the organization wants to spend on a collective payroll for an entire team,

and I don't envision those two guys long-term, based on what they want, getting that from the Astros. Oh. All right, man. I think we're going to get that guy Correa back. He's pretty solid out there.

Yeah, you know what? You could have a great debate. Thank you, Paul, for the phone call. You could have a very good debate on which direction you want to go. But I think you guys know where they're going to go. Because here's the problem. If you think Carlos Corrie is the guy you want to spend the long-term money on because of the long-term benefit, younger, significantly younger,

just because you save the money for Carlos doesn't mean Carlos takes the money either. Carlos may have aspirations of playing in New York, Los Angeles. I don't know. I mean, no one talks to him about it because it's just one of the things you don't talk about. How often you talk about where you're going to work with your buddies? Not very often, right? So why would you talk about your future with a bunch of strange media people? Think about it. George Springer has been asked probably 10 times since the beginning of the season about his future.

And all he has said and he's been consistent with it is, you know, I'm not worried about that right now because he's not. But when the seasons are worth, he'll be worried about it because he's going to be thinking about what have I done for this baseball team this year, especially in the postseason, that's going to help me get more money. He is looking to get fat and happy because this is the first time in his major league career. He's got a, he's a true free agent. And he may be, he may want the stench of the 2017 off of him, which that's never going to

happen because everybody associated with a 2017 is going to have to carry that. He might be thinking, well, the Astros had a chance to keep me. here long term by settling up a contract with me during spring training of the offseason. They didn't do that. So I'm going to find out what's out there. And he may not find what he wants. I don't know what the state of baseball is economically. I would assume that it's not in great shape because there's been not a single fan in the stands this year, with the exception of what they're doing right now in Arlington. But my guess is the sport of baseball is healthy, but have been a lot healthier if you had stands of 35, 40,000 in every single game and you played 162 games

compared to 60. But I'm guessing that no, you know, look, Mookie Betts signed his ridiculous deal. Was that the middle of the pandemic? When Mookiee signed here with the Dodgers long term? I don't know when that was, but point being is that there's still going to be lots of money for these players to make. They just signed a brand new billion-dollar television deal with Turner for games and postseason.

It looks like that was in late July. Oh, of last year. No. No, 2020. Oh, so they knew what things were looking like. Oh, yeah. That's right. So, yeah, you're right.

So Moogie Betts gets that ridiculously fat deal with the Dodgers in the middle of a pandemic when they weren't playing any baseball games. Yeah, George ain't worried about it. George will get his money from somebody. Maybe it's the Astros. You never know. But I felt like the day that he left and the team's, stop playing and there was no contract sign that that was the sign of,

I'm going to go look somewhere else. Because that's what normally team players do. When they don't get their deals done before they sign, before they end spring training of their final year, that's usually the indication that they're looking to go somewhere else. We saw that with Dallas Keikull. We saw that with Garrett Cole. 1243.

It is the Matt Thomas show 713-212-790 if you want to join us. If you want to get into some Texans talk, we will do that as well. Aaron Reese is going to join us at 130. I'm just not going to try to oversell you on the value of the Texans win against the Jaguars. It was a really nice game. They won. People feel better that Aho Bill O'Brien is gone. That's a win for everybody.

But I'm not going to all of a sudden proclaim them as the favorites win in the AMC South. That's just not in my poor right now. They have to go do, go beat Tennessee this Sunday in a short week for them. That would get me fired up. Beat Green Bay at NRG Stadium. I mean, Green Bay is a machine right now. Go beat them. Then we can start overhyping a football team.

But I'm not going to overhype a win against Jacksonville. It's not fair to you guys, unless you are Texans Darlene, or you are Battle Red, whatever, or you are blank the Texan. That's what you want. You know where you can find that. I'm going to say, good win against Jacksonville. We'll get to the situation with the football. football team and getting ready for this Tennessee game.

But they got to beat somebody. Because beating a bottom five Jacksonville team does nothing to make me think they're going to be any different than what they were. You want to be Tennessee and Green Bay, both in the next couple of weeks? Then we'll talk. 713-212-5-790. With a message right now for bronze roofing, there are some of you out there that have old roofs that you just fail to even think about checking on them because you're afraid to go

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Margot's, on believe it or not today coming up at 250, Manuel Margot, Margot Robbie, Margo Kidder, that's all I can think of at this point. Any other Margoes I'm forgetting? Margot Robbie was the only name that came to mind to me when you first mentioned it. Yeah. So it'd be a heavy, steady diet of those three, probably. So Manuel Margot hits the home run, first of all, to piss us off.

And then he makes the grab of the second inning to further make us mad. So we had a call yesterday in the 10th inning show it was interesting. He said, how do we know he caught it? So we don't. The ball could have fallen on of his glove when he landed in the camera well, but he would have had to have scooped it up within 0.5. My guess is he, and again, this is just purely a guess on my part, he caught the baseball and fell over.

So the silent reporter, which again, does baseball need silent reporters? I mean, it's not a whole lot of meat on that bone. You know what I'm saying? Especially because during this pandemic time where you can't really get on the field and have these kind of conversations. She's like, so you having been a former San Diego Padre, you know what this playing in right field's like before.

And his response was, I've never played in right field here before. It was kind of one of those all-shucks moments. But he made the difference, that's for sure, as the razor up one game then look. Again, you can't have five million camera angles, but I don't think unless Manuel Margo is the shiftyest of all outfielders that the ball could have fallen on of his glove, he captured it, shoved it back into his glove, and got up in one fluid motion. That would be

quite the athletic feat. All right, other things to get to. We had the New Orleans Saints win yesterday on Monday night football. They did so because the Los Angeles Chargers kicker missed one off the upright. How do you all feel about, and I don't know how many Saints fans we have here, I think Taysam Hill in small doses makes a little bit of sense for them, kind of change of pace. He obviously scored one of the touchdowns late in the game as they came back from that deficit they had. But I think if you're trying to change things up, You do that around the goal line where you know what Taysom Hill is going to do. I don't think anybody honestly respects Taysam Hill's arm.

They respect the heck out of his legs because they work. But I thought that Sean Paine went to him way too many times yesterday. Matt, Twitter was eating him up every time he came in. Every tweet I saw was complaining about Tatea Hill. Because what, look, I know Drew Brees is not having a great season. and the Saints, frankly, are underperforming. They're three and two, but very easily could be, me and hell, they were down two scores to the Detroit Lions and came back.

If you've got a quarterback who's trying to get his mojo back, and it feels like that's what Drew is trying to do a little bit, why in the world would you try to put in Tassum Hill for a series of plays or move Drew in and out of the lineup for a couple of plays just to kind of think you're going to surprise folks? if Taysam Hill is really going to be that guy that really is going to throw a wrench into the game plan, then he need to take a deep step, five-step drop

and try to launch a ball down the field so they can actually respect him. But again, I've not watched a whole lot of the Saints, but it feels like to me that it's very uncore- it's very choreograph what's going to happen. He's going to take the ball. He's going to look like he's going to pass for a second. And then he skirts off the right and starts running

and hopes that he's got blockers in front. of him. He's throwing the ball twice so far this year all year. And he's playing snaps at quarterback every week. He's probably playing maybe 10% of the snaps, give or take, in that range? Probably a little high, but... Okay. So if he's taking 6% of the snaps, my thinking would be he'd probably want to throw the ball a couple more times than two. I agree. Twice in five games when you're taking any snaps. It's just very predictable. May as well put a running back there. A running back is going to throw it that often.

Yeah. Why would you do that? again, Taysam Hill's a great athlete. I mean, he has carved a nice niche, but there's no way in the world that the New Orleans Saints are thinking this is the signal call of our future. If Drew Brees calls it a career after tomorrow or after this season, they're in a world of hurt. Because James, I mean, what do we know about James Winston? We don't know anything, frankly, anything about him. And we know that Taysam Hill is not capable of throwing the ball because the Sean Payton offense doesn't give him that opportunity to do so. So Saints fans, you got you a little conundum there.

And first thing I'd do is I'd say, look, Sean Payton, we love you. We want you to be our coach forever. You brought us our first Super Bowl championship. We go to the playoffs every year. Now, granted, the last three years have sucked. A lot of it on the last second plays. But do us a favor and cut back on the Taysom Hill carrying football because it's very predictable.

If you really want to change things up, you keep him out there for four or five plays and he throws it three straight times. But you know why they don't do that? Because they don't trust him to throw the football. making it very easy to defend. Does he even go on a bootleg left? Again, I've only watched bits and pieces of some saints. It feels like every time he took the bullet in the game last sign against the Chargers,

he went right off right off right guard and right tackle. One of them resulting a touchdown. So scoreboard for him. And if you're within the five-yard line, sure, why not? But I think putting him out at the 42-yard line is doing more for the psyche of Drew Brees than it is for the good of the team trying to show a new level of diversity in the offensive side of the football.

But that's their issues. The Texans have their own, including trying to beat a Tennessee team. So this Tuesday night football thing is Buffalo versus Tennessee. Apparently, everybody has tested multiple times in the last handful of days. We were a full go. Nothing's going to preclude this being played. But the NFL still, I just read the crawl over the last couple of minutes,

they are still ready to destroy the Tennessee Titans for this mess. Did you see the press release? I don't know if you guys saw this or not. I think Twitter released it on some people's websites. they have had to completely destroy the schedule, meaning like there have been, I'm going to say safe to say probably 10 games so far that have been altered because of Tennessee's COVID positive testing.

And then instead of feeling sorry about, hey, sorry things got out control, they had an illegal practice where they were told to shut down their facilities, so they went somewhere else and had to practice. I don't know what the punishment's going to be if there's ultimately going to be any. But I would think that all these logistical turns and twist because of one team's inability to stay COVID-free, now, granted, again, the virus is not pick and choose where it wants to go, but you can do things to make sure that you stay away from large groups,

you stay away from, you know, activities that would involve contact, and maybe if one person gets caught, you just shut the place down. My guess is everything that the Tennessee Titans did was not what the NFL asked, that they were being renegades in a sense. So how do you find them? Do you find them $5 million? I think the greatest thing you can do in the NFL is you take away a draft pick. Whether that's a fifth round, a third round, I think a first round would be too severe.

Now, if they continue to not behave themselves and they continue to try to have illegal practices, then you have to really do that. But if you guys have noticed this at all, in football, these general managers, they're like foam at the mouth. They're like, what? You're going to take away a draft pick of ours? You can't do that.

That's unfair. We value our draft picks, says every team except the Houston Texans. Everybody else values draft picks except the Houston Texans. Case in point. Two first are gone in a second for a very good luck tackle. But they're gone. So you want to stop Tennessee.

you want Tennessee to know that what they've done in terms of messing up the NFL means something, drop a fourth round pick on them, say, you know what, you don't have it next year. That'll teach them. And it will. And hopefully they've gotten a lesson that everybody in the NFL can't change their lives because of you. And my guess is if we get any more delays because of COVID, then it could happen that we're going to see the NFL season expand and everything pushed back, which again, for us, we don't particularly care, but the NFL has a timeline that they'd like to keep to. All right. It's time for us and time for you to have us tell you your gut feelings.

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And it's your time to get a gut feeling in as well. 713-212-5-790. Aaron Reese from the athletic to join us at the bottom of the hour. So we had a good run last week with people calling it with gut feelings. if you got something. Like, I have a gut feeling. I'm going to go get some very non-nutritional food after the show today at 3 o'clock before the on-deck show. I hosted six with Adam Wexler.

I do that quite a bit. Yeah. Like, I won't be going to a salad bar. I'll be going somewhere where there's fattening food. That's a gut feeling I have. That's the reason when my gut grows. Hey, man, it's hard when you got an O. and 2-Astress D.mplean at very important game. I know.

You need some comfort food. Funny. When your team is up 2-0 or 3-0 in a series, you tend to eat healthier because you feel confident, alive and fresh. If a team is down 02 in a series, you wind up just loading up on carbs and sugars. All right. So, with that being said,

you got a gut feeling, let us know. 713-212-5-790. If you also have a gut feeling you want to put on Twitter, you can put that out there with a hashtag gut feeling or gut feelings. I'll accept the ass on those if you need to. Brendan, I know what I'm going to go with. I'm curious where you're headed.

So with you, my friend, we go to your gut feelings. I think since we've started this, I've always had a positive gut feeling. I'm an optimistic person. Yeah? I don't have any positive gut feelings at the moment. It's okay. Gut feelings don't have to be positive. So I'm going to go with the negative one that bothers me less.

Please. I think the Titans are going to smash the Texans. But specifically, the one thing we had to really feel good about in that win this weekend was the run defense. Derek Henry is going to run for at least 150 yards. even after a short week? Even after a short week. That man touches the ball 35 times every week like it's nothing. So do you think he's going to be like minimal tonight and then just burst on Sunday?

Or do you think he's going to have just two halacious games in five days? I don't know what he'll do in terms of yardage today, but they have no concerns about over-feeding him. He could touch the ball 70 times in the next five days. All right. So for the record, Brendan's gut feeling is that, wow. Derek Henry rushes for $150 in the game Sunday against the Texans. All right. My gut feeling is this. The Astros are going to jump on the raise very early in the contest today.

And they are going to score a boatload of runs very early. and have to hold on for dear life and will win game three. My gut feeling tells me, Brendan, write this down or at least memorize it, very fast start for the Stroves, 3, 4, 5,0, and wind up winning 7 to 6, 6 to 5 somewhere in that range.

I'll take a win. I don't care how it happens. That's right, me too. But I think we will, you know how we've had no, we've had no fingernails the last couple of days? days of all the drama. It's going to be the reverse. It's going to be Ryan Presley pitching in the first time in this series, and he's going to have runners at first and second, 3-1 count in a one-run game, and he's going to get the final out somehow, some way to win the contest. We don't know this yet. Do you think they're going to go five-man rotation for this series, or could Javier be in play

if what you... I think they go five-man rotation because no off days. Okay. Because in your situation, I want to get that win. I think I bring in Javier. Over Presley? To close a game? Well, not to close, but you're talking about a rough game. I'm expecting more than one relief pitcher. I would agree with you on that. No, I think they had to save Javier. Disappointing.

Ryan Yarborough, left-hander goes for the raise, Jose Orkini for the Astros. So my gut feeling, and again, these are not predictions. It's just how I envision this game in my head. Four to five-nothing start in a six-to-five, seven-to-six kind of victory. You got a got a feeling. Let us know on Twitter. at SportsMT, at Brendan Riley, and 713-212-5-790. Christian in League City.

Christian, what is your gut feeling? My gut feeling is that the Astros are really going to come out right out of the gate at the start, and they're going to score a ton of runs. But I do feel like it's going to be a big run fest, like Game 2, the World Series in 2017. I feel like there's going to be a lot of action. I feel like we're really going to have to look to our bullpen for this. I feel like our Tee won't be as hot at the start. I feel like he might let up a couple of runs in the first three innings or so.

But I do think that we're going to come out of tonight with a win. I think Christian, you and I have the same gut feeling, my friend. Yes, I do believe so. I do think that the Astros are a little bit ticked off and they really want to put it to him. I think Tucker's going to have a good game. Julie's been doing pretty decent, but I do think Tucker is going to get out of this bump. All right. I like your gut feeling, Christian.

You didn't gut, you didn't bit steal my gut feeling. I just think you just kind of envision this way it works out both games. I also have another gut feeling about television viewing habits. That Tuesday night football and the season premiere of The Bachelorette is going to crush baseball. That's one that I got feeling. That's probably a very educated guess. Does Bachelorette do that well? I have no idea.

I haven't watched it since the very first season because they're all the same, right? It's not my thing. You know what? I'm proud of you for that. I've not watched an episode. I've never watched one episode of Big Brother. I've watched an episode or two A Big Brother, not my thing either, but I've given it a try. The only reality shows I watch,

I do watch some of the Real Housewives because I'm just attracted to them. That's just me being a sexist pig. And I do watch Hell's Kitchen. I watch the first 35 seasons of Survivor. There's 35 seasons, man? I think they're over 40. I know, it's crazy.

All right, let's go to Robert in San Antonio. Robert, what is your gut feeling, my friend? My gut feeling is that the balls, the Astros have been hitting, are finally going to get through. They've been out hitting the race, and tonight's tonight. They're going to go up. They're going to win, and it's going to be two to one. I'll accept that. Thank you, Robert, for the phone call.

Appreciate you listening. You notice this, too, that I wish I could have heard my shows prior to the Astros being down O2 going to the nationals last year. I don't feel like I was this optimistic. They've looked good. They have. You got to hit them where they ain't. What you got to do? I think they could very easily, and they're not,

but they could very easily be two and out right now. They could be, but yeah, that's right. It's not like anything fluky happened to Tampa to win those games. They earned the victories. Now it's time for the Astros during them. 713-212-5-7-90. Brian, in Missouri City, Brian, what is your gut feeling? How's it going?

I want to throw this off a little bit. I have a deep, deep gut feeling that the technicians are going to blow the general manager and coach job. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I had to go with that. I just got a deep, have a deep gut feeling. You know what that is? That's having, you have a deep gut feeling that Cal McNair doesn't know what the hell he's doing. Hey, you hit it right on the head. And I got one more thing.

The other day you were talking about Saturday Night Live, you forgot John Belushi and Richard Pryor and Samaraj Sun. Oh, for sure, for sure. That was great guy. All right. Thank you, thank you, Brian.

Thank you, buddy. Appreciate it. Yeah, that's, for me, that's not a gut feeling. My feeling is that just, that's indigestion when it comes to Cal McNair trying to figure out the coach and the general manager. Although you never know. now that Jack Easterby is running things

we'll find the salt of the earth fella By the way, did you watch Saturday Night Live with Matt Foley yet? I watched a couple different ones. I don't think they're very funny. You've got to send me the exact one you want because I couldn't find it. But I watched a couple and didn't do it for me. Did you watch the one where Christina Applegate and David Spade were the kids? No, I've seen a couple with David Spade, but I didn't see any with...

All right, I'll send you. I'll send the definitive one. All right, a couple more gut feelings here. Let's go to Ryan in Southwest Houston. Hi, Ryan. Hi, how's it going? Good. What's your gut feeling? I think after not sleeping all night, last night, Jose Altuve,

will have a multi-hit game and redeem himself. That, my friend, is a solid gut feeling. I appreciate that. There you go. Multi-hit game for Jose Al-Tube. He's had a good postseason. I mean, well, at the plate. But the defense of what that was yesterday was not the Jose At-Tube we know.

Of course. No chance in the world because he's been playing. a lot of that shallow right field. It's had very limited problems. Should have been only one error yesterday. Should have gotten out of the out in the first inning. Bad throw, not a great effort to try to save it, Yule O'Aurio. But at least Uli's bats warming up a little bit.

I guess we can't have everything, right? All right, one more. Let's get to E.J. in spring on 7-90. E.J., what's your gut feeling? Hey, Matt, listen. I got to tell you, man, my gut feeling. feeling is not good. Okay.

That's okay. Listen, I am on my way to get an MRI on my back because my wife is at me doing stuff I shouldn't have been doing. Yeah. And I got my hat, Correa jersey on. Yes. I got my World Series ring on. I've had it on for two days.

But I'm telling you, man, the karma's not there. Yeah. It just feels like this is a raise year. Hey, let me ask you this. Have you had a lot of MRIs in your life? Say what, Matt? Have you had a lot of MRIs? Yeah, I've had one before.

Now, I've had two in my life, and I think I'll never have one again. I don't care what the situation is. How do you breathe when the MRIs on your back? Oh, hey, Matt, try it with a mask on. Oh, hell no. Yeah, man. Two weeks ago, I had one with a mask on and ear plugs in because, you know, they're banging all that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, thank you. I'm sorry to hear about that. Good luck on your back, my friend. Yeah, I'm never having an MRI again. You're going to have to fully sedate me. Because the first one was with a closed MRI machine, and I hated that. I'm like, I'm never having one of those again.

The second one was an open MRI, which is just a fraud. It's just the side panels open. I mean, you feel like you're breathing any better. And you say you can't move. I'm assuming a lot of people in the audience have had MRIs. I have to get, I'm going to have to smoke large amounts of weed and be so chill. Greg Bizio here, the heart of the order is up right now.

Matt Thomas is swinging for the fences here on Sports Talk 790. Check in on the Texans in 10 minutes from now. So if you want to get football in the brain, be ready for that with Aaron Reese from the athletic coming up at 1.30. Dusty Baker is going to join. Tomorrow's show is locked and loaded. It's going to be good. Dusty Baker is going to join us from San Diego. Joe Klatt from Fox Sports are going to join us for some college football.

And Dana Hulgerson, the coach of the Houston Cougars, will be joining us as well. So we've got a lot going on tomorrow. And then we'll start digging a little bit in the Tennessee game based on what we see tonight. 6 o'clock, Bill's Titans, CBS. This might be the first time I watched CBS in the middle of the week in forever. Boy, today's going to be a great channel-clicking day. You got the Braves and the Dodgers game two of their. series, that'll be on FS1. Astros and Braves,

Astros and Rays, right here on 790, and of course on TBS. What do you think about the TVS broadcasters? Any opinion one way or the other? No, not particularly. If I hear Jeff Frankor being referred to as Frenchie ever again, like seriously, if you want a drinking game, Albeckone's distilling drinking game, you know, that's the new bourbon I'm a drinking, have a drinking game to every time Jeff Frankor is referred to as Frenchie.

That doesn't bother me. Like, why? It's just, it's just too much. Everybody doesn't have to have a nickname over and, and, and you don't call them Frenchie once or twice, it's fine, but after the 11th time, it's like, um, oh, it's like when Nikola Yokic plays for the Denver Nuggets. If you watch a Denver Nuggets game, which I'm assuming most people do not do. But I do because I like the NBA.

They call him Joker every single time. That's because I don't want to say Jokic, right? I guess. I think that's what's happening there. It's like the Greek freak. It's the same thing. Or Janus. Yeah.

But no one tries to say his last name. Attentagumpo. Sounds good to me. I think I'm pretty close. I don't remember the last time I tried to say his last name. Thankfully, he's good enough. You can just refer to him. by his first name.

Plus, there's only one other, and there's no other Janus is playing in the NBA. So it's perfect. Greek freak again, if you heard that 20 times in a broadcast, that would drive you crazy. But it's longer. Like, Frenchy doesn't bother me

because it's short and sweet. Okay. Well, if we ever give you a defendant, like, would you like to be called BR every time? I don't love BR. You do love it or do not? Okay, then we won't do it. I mean, I've had plenty of nicknames I don't love.

Me too. Maybe this is just hitting a home. home. That would make sense. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-790. Now, Peanut called the show yesterday. And, oh, Peanut was kind of in a positive mood, correct? If I remember the call correctly yesterday? It was, he was one of the Astros. Oh, he was trying to want to fly. Motivational speakers. Yeah, and he was Astro Motivational Speaker. I guess that means he failed. Well, everybody that tried to call the show. yesterday failed. So let's see how motivational speaker Peanut is doing after the loss yesterday.

Hello, Peanut. Hey, what's up, fellas? What's going on? By the way, Peanut, how did you get your nickname? Because I can't, I'm not assuming that you're real first name. All right, so when I was little, I had a small head man, and I looked like a peanut. So you're telling me, if I got a picture of you at eight years old, you'd look like a peanut? Well, not like, not like little. I'm talking about like, like, when I was like seven, seven, eight years old, I got the name named Peanut. and then the guy that gave it to me played baseball at high school with me and then he called Peanut

and then from there it just jumped off my whole life been called Peanut and you fully accept it now after all these years yeah peanut walnut cashew any anything that you can think about

I've been called I need to digest that last statement for a second yeah let me just tell you something Peanut you just admitted on a very small listen to show that you are called

every nut in the book? Every peanut in the book you can think about I've been called. Now, okay, before we go to your Astros, how tall are you? What are you away? I'm 570-190.

5-7-190? Yes, sir. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't call you slim and I wouldn't call you a stretch. So maybe a peanut does work. So on your business, card. Do you have a business card? Do you put the word

peanut on there or do you put your real first name? I put my real name and then peanut and then my last name. Oh, what is your real first name? Joshua. Josh. I might stick with peanut. Yeah, facts. Yeah, sounds better. All right, go ahead, Pina. You got a gut feeling about

tonight's game? I think after you league got a little hit and a walk, I think he hit two hits today or a home run. because he needs to wake up. Our bottom of our order needs to get on base, and Springer needs to hit a home run or have two hits. Everybody from one and nine got to have at least two hits for us to win this game.

Every single player, one to nine's got to get two hits. That means it's at least an 18 hit day? Like at least, well, not 18. At least 10 told hits. It happened before. We could do it. We did the last series. We didn't get 12, 15 hits.

Well, you know what? Here's the thing. is they've had 19 hits in the first two games, and they've only scored, what, three runs off of them? Total? Yeah. Because everybody's second-guessing themselves and don't want to swing at outside pitches

and lunging that balls down low, up to a day or something. We're just out of sync right now. Like, we're not, we got to wake up. No, I don't, I disagree. What do you mean by out-of-sync? They're hitting the ball very hard. Out-of-sync would be check swings, lazy pop-ups,

lots of strikeouts. That's not out of sync. They're just, you know, again, I hate to use an old phrase, but you got to hit them where they ain't, and that's exactly what they have to do. True, true. I'm saying, but we got to hit them what they ain't, and we got to do that tonight. If not, we're going to be down three-olds, and everybody's going to be quiet, and we might come back from three-olds. Okay, well, here's the rule.

You cannot call the show tomorrow, whether they win or lose. You just cannot call the show in any circumstance, okay? Hey, Peanut, give it a couple days, and you can call back and we can talk about things after we know if we got a couple more games in the books, okay? All right, I got you. See you later. All right, buddy. Do you think I could, if I could call myself Peanut, it would be a good name of the show, The Peanut Thomas Show? I kind of like it.

I didn't know where you were going, but the Peanut Thomas show, that that full name kind of flows. Like, I don't think being called a peanut head is necessarily a good thing, correct? No, I would agree with that. Like if peanut is his name, what's the second best name you could call yourself based off a nut? You don't want to be cashew. Cashew, Thomas? I don't know that there is another one you'd like. Cashew walnut, peanut,

almonds? When I think peanut, I think of Charles Tillman, who was a good player. Yeah, yeah, for sure. So, like, I don't mind peanut. But I don't know anybody in my life that has been nicknamed that. That was 64-260 built of gold. granite. I think maybe you have to, if you're going to be named after a nut, you've got to be named,

you've got to be at least under 5-8. I was thinking under 5-8, he barely clears what's allowed. Correct. He's 5-7190? Correct. That's a little plump, right? For peanut, I think so. Yeah.

I mean, peanut, you could stand up, probably back off of those peanuts. You know what? After thinking about this, I don't want to be referred to as any sort of nut. MT, sports, MT. I'm good with that. I'll just stick with those names. Because the ones I was called as a kid, we're borderline abusive. 1.30 on Sports Talk 7.9.

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135, Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas show continues. We always enjoy spending 10 quality minutes with our friend Aaron Reese. From the athletic, he is all things Texans. and will be a very keen observer of the game between the Buffalo Bills and Tennessee Titans because the Titans and Texans will play Sunday in Nashville. So, Aaron, what do you make of how Tennessee has handled this first and foremost

and what kind of energy are they going to have for tonight? I guess more importantly Sunday when the Texans and Titans meet in Nashville. Yeah, you know, it's interesting. I thought I was thinking about this this morning regarding this game on Sunday and how they're going to go about the schedule. I mean, in terms of how they've gone about it, I think it'd be hard to argue that they were being super responsible given that they weren't following the protocols

and were working out at a high school as has been reported. I do think to some degree, though, it's like we should be focusing less on which team did this and more or which team that's happened to and just that this is kind of probably the nature of the year we're living in and the season they're trying to do under very abnormal circumstances. So, you know, I think this was bound to have it eventually. the big thing is like, will it happen again?

Because I don't know how much more reconfiguring of the schedule, the NFL can continue to do if it doesn't want to add weeks to the season. As far as, you know, the next game, you know, I think the best example or thing to look at is how the Viking schedule worked when they had their running with the Titans when this whole thing began, right? Their facility was closed on Wednesday, and then the players came back on Thursday, and they basically had Thursday was a Wednesday practice,

Friday was a third day practice and then a Saturday morning like walk through before they got on a plane to come Houston basically functioned at their Friday practice. So I imagine that's probably what the Titans will do. I haven't seen that report anywhere, but that would seem to make them a sense to me because you know the rules this season don't allow the team to come in the next day after a game. So that would seem like what they have to do. All right. Now to the Texans a little bit.

Bernardrick McKinney is done for the season. A lot of money spent on the two inside linebackers between. McKinney and Cunningham. Tyrol Adams, if one week is a indictment of how a player is, he was very good, very active, love the team in tackles, I believe. If you're a McKinney fan,

I don't know how many there are. Are you worried that his days as a Houston, Texan may be numbered because of A, the injury, and B, the money that is now spent on that inside linebacker position? Yeah, definitely. I mean, I think if he's not done with the Texans, we

haven't seen him in the last game of him, he certainly will not continue to play on the contract that he's set to play on. I think his cap hits over the next three years of this deal range from anywhere for like 8.5 to 10.5 million. That's a lot of money for an anti-linebacker period, but especially when you're also paying that coming in. But there's no guarantees left on his contract. So they have a lot of leverage to renegotiate here this next off season. The next GM does if that's what they choose to do because the free agent market is probably going to be pretty dry. You know, the same reason the Texans would want to renegotiate because the cap will likely be.

going down and they're projected to be about 15 million over the salary floor of 175 million would be a reason a lot of other teams probably wouldn't want to spend big on a veteran inside landbacker like him. So they might keep them, but it will definitely be at a cheaper price. I think that these final 12 games, that are 11 games, though,

will give them the opportunity to evaluate Dylan Cole, Tyrell Adams, if either one of those guys, someone they could see bringing back at a cheaper price and still having some continuity in the system, Cole and Adams are both in restricted for agents. Yeah, Adams's name was brought up a lot obviously during the course of the game because he was in on many, many tackles.

What did you think of him before the game? What has the organization spoken of him? I mean, any opinion at all before what he did against the Jackson's past Sunday? You know, I mean, he, Bill O'Brien, at least for his opinion, obviously the worst much anymore. But, you know, he liked him. And, you know, he played well when he came into the – when he played in a relief from McKinney last year. You know, he had a pretty good game against Tampa, week 16, when they clinched the division. I want to say he forced a fumble in that game or he recovered a fumble.

So, I mean, he's a guy who's played well when he's been given the opportunity. I was a little surprised that we didn't see a single snap of Dylan Cole on defense. He was active, you know, but I think that maybe speaks. I don't know if that speaks more to Adams, kind of being a really good standing or Cole just not being physically there yet. I mean, he had, he was dealing with an knee injury coming back off that and kind of eased into camp. So I don't know what the combination of those things are, but it seems like Tyrell Adams is certainly the leader to kind of step and for McKinney for the rest of the season. Not to try to oversell it, but I do trust your

opinion. What did you definitely notice differently in the game? Now, again, the run production, the run defense was much better. Probably one of the weaker running backs they have seen. Although, you know, Jacksonville had a decent ground game. Two or three observations about the play itself, not about

the vibe on the sideline or the high fives or Romeo's dancing at the end of the game in the locker room. Philosophically, what did you see differently this past Sunday that you didn't see in previous games, or does the answer, I didn't see a whole lot different? Well, I think one thing was that Brandon Cook, Brennan Cook's was clearly just, it was a point of emphasis to get him involved. You know, I mean, he was, the first play of the game was, was to him on that, that deep shot. I mean, Dachan Watson was looking his way a lot.

You know, I think after they had come off that game against the Vikings, where he had no receptions on three targets, it was just clearly something they need, they need more of. And, you know, I think Jack Easterby is now kind of in charge of football ops. And, you know, he's the one who wanted coach. You know, he targeted him and thought he was a good character or culture fit. So, you know, I think he, though he's kind of not going to be the GM would pass, you know, this interim phase, like he, you know, his voice still has sway in the building. And I think, you know, he wanted to get him involved.

And they did get him involved. The other thing that stood out on offense to me was just that they seemed to have a much better plan picking up with this, you know, and I know that there's a lot of deep balls and that kind of was what seemed to be the highlights of the game. But the thing that stood out is just like Deshaun Johnson did not get hit a lot. He only got sacked once, and granted, Jacksonville's pass rush is not great, but I think a lot of it has had to do, like, when they brought extra pressure, he had a solution. And that's not something we've seen a lot this season. I think that's a large reason why his sack numbers and his hit numbers haven't been much better than they were in 2018, despite the fact that they've made a ton of changes to the lines of them. Let's get the offensive line for a second, visiting with Aaron Reese from the Texans and the Athletic at Aaron J. Reese on Twitter.

So last year's surprise offensive lineman had to be Max Sharping, right? I mean, in terms of playing, stepping in, no experience, did a nice job. Cineo Calamante has taken his spot. What happened there and what has happened to Max for him to fall in a favor right now? You know, I think he just didn't look great. You know, he and Zach Fulton were two of the kind of like leaders in Blum Bloch, among offensive linemen, I think, at week four. Zach Fulton being the right guard.

So I think that he just didn't really kind of make the year two sort of jump they were looking for. And I think they view Calamede as a little bit more of a savvier veteran, just a little more know-how and maybe a little more reliable. What I do find a little curious about the move, though, is that I don't, I mean, I'm not to say I'm an expert in this stuff, but I don't see a noticeable difference in the quality of play between Zach Fulton and Max Sharping. So if I'm going to swap one of them out, I'm going to swap out Zach Holden because the nature. of his contract, he's probably a guy who they're going to want to move on from at the end of this year, whereas, you know, Sharping has two more years on his rookie deal after this one. So even if, you know, he's not great this year, you know, this is also a, an 0-1-4 team. Chances of the playoffs aren't that high, even though they say they're still competing for the

rest of the season. I probably am more invested in getting that guy reps, getting to do a real evaluation of him, giving him more opportunities to improve so that he has a better chance of providing this team some sort of value on his rookie contract. But maybe that'll happen eventually this season, but so far they chose McClell, at your left guard and leave Zach Fulton in. Look, clearly winning is going to solve a lot of the issues

and JJ's feeling better and everybody's feeling better. There's probably a much more positive uplifting vibe in there. But I think for people really to embrace this team and to think that this division can be you can be a player in the division is if you go beat somebody you're not supposed to beat.

Where do you, and again, it's hard to do this because we're not talking about two games, but where do you value Tennessee at this point? Indianapolis looks very, very up and down. We have already seen Jacksonville. They're a mess. So how vulnerable do you think the Titans are and how much improvement can the Texans make? I think the easiest answer to this question. I'm trying to give you an answer to a question I'm asking you is, what can the Texans do in the next two weeks to prove that the Jacksonville win wasn't a fluke?

You know, I think if they can make a lot of progress in terms of stopping Derek Henry on the ground, I think that will be a sign that maybe their run defense has taken a step up. but that's probably the biggest thing to me. I'd also like you to see if the pass rush, the past protection can continue to be, you know, good against the better pass rushing unit. Like I said, Jacksonville is not bad. That's not necessarily Tennessee either,

but I will be interested to see how they hold up against Kloni. I just, you know, they need to be better teams. That's kind of the simplest way to say. I think that can start pretty simply with Tennessee. Jacksonville does not teach pretty much. But, you know, I'll be interested to see kind of what we make of the division here a few weeks. You know, like, what is Tennessee going to look like tonight? If the Texans somehow beat the Titans, then what do you make of the Titans 3-0 start? I think Philip Rivers has not looked good

these past two games. So, you know, I still think it's a long way for the Texans to make the playoffs. But I think it could be interesting here on the back half of the season. I got 30 seconds. David Johnson, best game for him, didn't reach the end zone, but certainly in terms of production on the ground was his best night. Is that a one-game scenario? Or do you think that things will start to open up for him over the next handful of weeks. I mean, I think it was a one-game scenario, and I think kind of were even maybe overstating how good the game was. I mean, he had 29 yards on a run when the game was out of reach, and he had one 11-yard

run on first down. But if you go by, like, kind of, if you try to measure him by consistency and his success rate on first-down runs, he was, he's still way below average. He ranks 18,020 running back in at least 60 carries and success rate. So I just, I'm still pretty out on him. Great stuff, my friend. for the visit. We'll talk to you next Tuesday. Yeah, thanks a. You got to Aaron J. Reese

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and their hopes and dreams and aspirations of beating the San Diego's. I don't keep on to call them the San Diego race. This is just such a funky situation about these two teams that are playing in a stadium that's one's 50,000 miles away from their home and the one's about 2,500 miles away. I haven't had any trouble with that. Petco Park's supposed to be a pitcher-friendly park. They have had tape measure shots. Zanino's home run, a blast.

Carlos Correa is. home run a blast. We'll get to more of that coming up at the 2 o'clock hour plus at 250 this afternoon. We will play believe it or not famous Margoes. Do you find any extras or is it just three basically? It's just three and there's only one question on one of them. It's going to be heavy manual Margo and heavy Margo Robbie. That's okay. Everyone likes Margo Robbie. Who doesn't like Margo Robbie? I don't believe that person exists. Yeah. Like is she that's, well, I said there's so many sexy women alive. Is she, is she top 10 sexiest woman alive category in your mind?

She's close. I think she's certainly in the conversation. Yeah, I'll get you. She's also a great actress, by the way. She's done very well for herself. I think that matters. Like, she's, like, that only makes her more attractive. First movie I ever saw her in was Wolf of Wall Street. I think same. And she was great in it. She was delightful in more ways than one. Yes. I was late to that game. I watched it. I saw that movie about five years after it was produced. That movie was so good. It was.

A little long, but very good. Yeah, yeah. You could have cut it in half. The whole boat scene probably was about a half hour of our life. We didn't want to get back. Didn't mean to be a spoiler there. All right. 713-212-5-790.

So, according to ESPN, take it for what it's worth. And it's Adrian Wojanoowski and Tim McMahon writing this story. This was published at 10-12 this morning. Clippers assistant coach Tailu's candidacy for the Rocket's head coaching job has gathered significant

momentum after a meeting with Houston ownership and management on Monday. The Rockets are competing with the Clippers for Lou and could try to extend an offer

before L.A. has completed its process search. But that isn't expected to happen before Jeff Van Gundy meets with the Rockets later this week.

Look, I don't want Jeff Van Gundy to leave the broadcast booth. That's not fair of me to say, Jeff, you're better served doing television because he's so good. But he's also a really smart basketball mind. You can clearly hear that. And clearly he's been able to be a successful head coach in multiple spots.

The one thing I can't wrap my head around is how is Jeff and James going to coexist? Because it's one thing to love a guy from a distance when you don't want to. work with them or he is your boss or he is your leader or he is your supervisor. And there's another thing when he becomes your supervisor and your leader. And to me, for Jeff being in the game but not in front of the curtain as compared to the behind the curtain, I'd like to know if that is a long-term marriage. Because as long as the Rockets are still committed to James Harden, you're going to have to play a certain brand of basketball, and you're also going to have to probably

dictate a certain set of rules. And I just don't know if Jeff's one of those. Well, how don't want to say this? He'd have to really adhere to how James wanted to run the operation. And that's not an indictment against James. That's just how the NBA is played. LeBron runs the Lakers

like LeBron wants the Lakers run, not how Frank Vogel runs the Lakers. When Eric Spolster had Dwayne and Chris Sposh and James Hart and not James, Arne on the same teams, Eric Spolster ran the heat the way those guys wanted it to be run.

Russ Westbrook ran the Oklahoma City Thunder while Scott Brooks and Billy Donovan were their coaches. But I'm just telling you this is a different world of the NBA and I don't know

how well James would embrace a Jeff Van Gundy my style of basketball play the way I want to practice the way I want to prepare unless Jeff's different. And he says, look, this today, you know, when I was coaching the NBA 12, 15 years ago is significantly different than it is now.

I don't know Ty Loo's coaching acumen. don't. Doesn't mean I don't think he'd be a good fit. Obviously, he was very highly sought after when he got the Clippers assistant job when Doc was there. He's obviously very highly considered to be a coach to replace Doc. He was in Cleveland and was, you know, worked well with LeBron. So obviously he knows what it's like to deal with a superstar and or superstars. But more of the coaching is not about how you draw things up. It's how you work well with others. And that may not be fair to the great coaches of the game who have a lot to provide. Jeff Ben Gundy, Mike Dan Tony, Ty Lou, and name any of them.

They've obviously got something they can provide these teams. But half of the battle is knowing when to push those buttons on your superstar players. Young and pressible players, they're just having been the league. Guys that are making $35, $40 million that have been multiple-time all-stars and MVP candidates. And I'm not talking just about Jim. I'm talking about any of the alpha dogs in the NBA. Like, for instance, Doc Rivers is going somewhere where Joel M.B. and Ben Simmons think they don't need to be coached. He's not walking into a scenario where everything is Kumbaya in Philadelphia.

There's been massive chemistry issues. And that's why, again, I think whoever takes this job is going to be doing much more than just drawing up types of plays, but kind of meshing everybody together. And that's not saying that Mike D'Antony didn't do that. I'm just saying that's just what the job is. You've got an older team with established stars, not a lot of youth behind it. not a lot of maneuvering unless you were to move somebody of consequence. And really, the only player I think you would get tremendous value. And in return would be James.

I don't think the Rockets have any interest in training, James. So it's a good job. But it comes with definitely some parameters that may be outside someone's comfort zone. And in that case, it made me more of a lean towards Ty Loo because Ty knows what it's like to work with Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love, and with LeBron, knows what it's like to deal with the different temperatures in an NBA locker room. But if, I mean, there isn't a name that hasn't been to talk about.

I think Wes Ansel Jr., Stephen Silas, John Lucas, my good friend, who's a development play coach, and the guys love him. I see it myself. They embrace him. And maybe that's the bridge that you want to go with. That's something that comes into play. Who knows?

But, I mean, there isn't a name on that. I go, oh, this is atrocious. I'll be excited to whomever it is. But it is interesting that today at 10 o'clock this morning, it became a name out there that probably had some early steam in Tailu. Because, again, I think he knows what it's like to be around players that are going to obviously be alpha dogs and mainstays in an NBA locker room. Final hour, the Matt Thomas show, starts with somebody named Astro Mark.

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The left center field, and you can kiss that one goodbye. Into the Astros' bullpen for Correa. And the Astros get on the board. It's three to one, Tampa Bay. It is time for baseball to come alive. It's time for the ball to drop. It's time for Tampa Beta for a few mental errors of themselves, and that bullpen to be sketchy again.

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I know we've got that in the system somewhere, but we don't need to play it. although, you know, if they win tomorrow, we'll put the Spanish version. Really shake things up a little bit. All right, so it'll be Jose Orkitty on the mound for the Local 9. Tonight will have the coverage for you beginning at 6 o'clock as Adam Wexler and I will host a 65-minute edition of Astros on deck. 65 minutes. Pitching matchup, Ryan Yarborough, left-hander is no record with an ERA of 3.60 in the postseason.

Jose Orquitie has not performed well in the postseason. He has gone four in the third innings in both of his start so far. He went 76 pitches against the Twins in the Wild Card Series and 79 pitches in the game against the A's past. Wednesday gave up four solo home runs. So we need the Jose of last year's postseason to come through this time as they trail two games to none. 713-212-5-790.

Believe it or not, coming up at 250, famous Margos, the category. Astro Mark on the Matt Thomas show. Astro Mark, good afternoon. Hey, Matt, you know me. I just don't call in as much. I understand. We moved. But anyway, the asteros have the advantage today because they're the home team.

Well, it's not much of an advantage because they lost the game against the A's when they were the home team. So it doesn't mean a whole lot, but I understand. Last at bat. I'm just being facetious. let me ask you a question kind of a two-prong question are you surprised that they've made it this far

considering they lost verlandro sooner and Alvarez and do you think they would have made the playoffs if it would have been a regular 162 game schedule with all their injuries

and so forth and so on I'll let you go bud all right thank you for the phone call let me get the no I think they benefit from playing 60 even with the expanded

playoffs you still don't think they get in at 160 I don't think they get in without it well first of all they don't get any without it they were the worst of the second place record teams and I believe weren't the wild cards the seven and eight seeds they had better the Astros are the worst record they only one that were under 500 right they were 29 and 31

so if not for the expanded playoffs they don't make the playoffs. So to say that where they are in the America League Championship Series would be a surprise. If this team played 162, I'll say, I'm going to ask you a trivia question, see if you know the answer. What would it be the major difference in this year's team? This is kind of a, this is a convoluted trivia answer. What do you think would be the biggest difference between this team at 60 games and this team at 162?

What would be come to mind? It's a move that would have been made, I think. They would have sold? No, I think they would have gone and gotten somebody. I'm just thinking at the deadline they would have been further back, but I don't know. Yeah. Mark, thank you for the call. It's a really, no, I think the longer the season was going, the longer the warts would have shown.

Although, I'll say this. You could spin it as a positive saying that Andre Scrabb gets to get more pitches. He gets to see what Major League Baseball is like. You develop Christian Javier as an every fifth game starter consistently. or Keady would have had a full season because remember he only pitched one month of the season because he came back from COVID late. Can I give an incomplete of that answer and just say that it just, I just don't know because that was never a 162 game season was never in play? That's a tough question. Yeah.

I think with the expanded playoffs, they still find their way in because I think you still get a team below 500 in. Well, I didn't think it has to do with the record. I think it's the fact that the if the expanded playoffs, the Astros and the A. were at the end of the day so much better than the Angels, Mariners, and Rangers. Now, I know the Angels and Mariners trying to make it cute in the last week of the season. But the main reason

why they made it so cute was because the Astros were just holding on for dear life. They were a terrible team on the road, really awesome team at home, and they kind of just, you know, barely just were just racing to the finish line,

hoping that no one was going to chase him. So I'll give you, I'll give you a long-winded answer to a very short question. Expanded playoffs in a 162 game schedule? Probably yes. Am I stunned where they are today? Absolutely. I wonder what next year's playoffs are going to be like.

I don't think they can go eight because that's a lot. That's a bunch of more games plus a full 162. If you wanted to go eight teams like you did this year, I'm okay with that. I think you've got to reduce the games to 154. Oh, I would hate it. I think that would be the worst move of baseball. do. That's why they're not going to do it. They don't want to give up what would be

what, four more home dates, 40,000 people, or in theory, 30,000 people at those four games. That's just such a massive season for more than half of the teams to get in. The NBA does. It's not foreign. Yeah, but it's half the length of season.

But not in their minds. I mean, the only reason why they play 80 is because they take days off. They have more days off in the NBA calendar than they are during a major league season. It just makes every regular season game feel so meaningless when chances are there's going to be sub

500 teams getting in? What are they currently? Five now? Yeah, there's five because the wild cards, the two wild cards play and then the winner that plays the number one seed. Could you see six in each league?

I think you'd get away with six. Yeah, I'm okay with that. Two buys? Yeah. Make the top two records mean something. I think you could do six. I think that would be a compromise if they wanted to expand.

And still keep 162 games schedule. I've always believed for the health of the sport, dropping it to 154 would be a terrific decision. I just, I don't see them, maybe they would because they now know what it's like to play in a shorter season and still try to make revenue. That you would think, okay, well, 30 home games to nobody, you know, having 78, 77 games with people, and it compared to 30 with none, would still be a lot of money. I think if you got to 154, you'd see better crisper postseason play. you wouldn't have to worry about early or late weather problems. And you probably can give the guys a whole week off at the All-Star break to really rejuvenate themselves compared to just three or four days.

But hey, I'm not developing the schedule. But I'll make this prediction. I think we go to six teams in each league for the playoffs and for future playoffs. I think the DHS is alive in both leagues. This pitching hitting in the National League is gone. And I believe they'll keep it at once. 162. Those are just my...

I think I agree with every single one of those. Again, I'd love for them to go to 154. I think eight games of mental health elimination would pay off immediate dividends. You could start the season a little bit later, end the season a little bit sooner, a little bit, a few days here and there, and not have to worry about playing

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The NBA coaching search for the Rockets has narrowed down, it sounds like, and Ty Lou has become a, as according to ESPN, an emerging candidate, with Jeff Van Gundy to meet with him, I think, tomorrow? Who would you like to see the Rockets coach? And how much, how will you balance your television watching tonight between Bill's Titans, Astros versus the Rays, and the Dodgers and the Braves, and the Bachelorette.

Could you watch all four of them in the same time? It's a little much. That's a little much. I will be watching Bill's Titans. I'm very curious to see what the Titans do with this long layoff. 713-212-5-790. Right now a word for the Shell Federal Credit Union.

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Cougars coach Kelvin Sampson here. You're listening to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. 2017 sports talk 790 the matthomas show we take you until three o'clock today I know this is a stunning bit of breaking new matter of fact why don't you get the breaking news sounder on this because this is something I'm about to say right now that I have not said a whole lot in the last two weeks the A team's working today I mean seriously what a bunch of lazy bums well wax is working just really Adams the Clinton's a lazy bum In the last seven days, they've done one show. That's not true.

The last six days they've done one show. Well, they'll be doing shows now, for the most part, you would think. You would think unless somebody like, very sick, cough, can't speak. Texans aren't playing any weak-a-day games. Or I guess Texans, they'd still be doing it. You know what? They probably ask the bosses here, can we carry the Buffalo games? I'm trying to think of how they get days off.

Their life is one day off after the other. So, yes, the A team. We'll be working today from 3 o'clock until 6. And then Wexer is going to stick around and to co-host the On-Dec show with me at 6 o'clock going till 705. All right, real quick, we're going to the clubhouse from yesterday. And then we will get back to the phones at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We were talking about hitting them where they ain't.

And that's exactly what Dusty's been thinking. You know, I learned a long time ago that all you can do is get a good fisty head. and then hit it hard. And after that, it's really out of your control. So, you know, you can change your approach all you want to. I mean, but it still boils down to trying to hit the ball. I got to get fish to hit and hit the ball hard. And like I said, you got to simplify it.

And, you know, they got away. I mean, there's nothing, you know, that we did wrong. It's just that we just didn't find a hole. All right. Meanwhile, Carlos Graya asked if it gets frustrating not getting those big hits. This is the one game that you can do everything right and not have any success. So, you know, it's a tough game. We know that at the same time, man, you got to get credit to our defense.

You know, their pitching is great, but their defense today was really, really solid. And, you know, when you play great defense like that and your pitching staff is doing what they're doing, then you got a huge chance of winning games. All right. He sounds upbeat, right? You didn't sound down in the dumps. I'm ready. Meant to fire up.

Bianca, one of our great listeners, Killer Bee, says, where's the double crush bus? I make this solemn promise to you if the series gets even at any point, 2233, we will bring the double crush bus out. Fair? Seems fair. You ever been on the bus before?

Once. For Rockets. Oh, it was the double clutch bus. Oh, there's a difference? Yes. One's red and one is orange. one breeze orange fire I thought it was just like a new paint job for the other season

well maybe it is we have we have budget limitations around here but the double crush bus is the one that started at all no I have I have not okay well the bus it's double-decker there's a pole on the first on the second floor and the first level of the double crush bus Brendan is for families and friends things get really wild and soapy on the second floor like you need hand sanitizer and booze and pasties basically the second level.

Okay. Just saying, if it's up to you where you want to go. So if the Astros get to 2-2 or 3-3, we will go to the double-crush bus to get the team over the top. Cameron's in Cyprus who 220 on 7-90. Hi, Cameron. Yes, I'm just letting you know today. Everything turns out of... The Houston Nationals scored 10 points.

The raids make a lot of mistakes. And we go on the game five. Or is it game four? I don't remember. All right. I got several issues. You okay with you? You okay?

Cameron hung up. First of all, he's in the bathroom. Number two, they're not points in baseball. They're runs. Well, I think your number one might have flustered him. Maybe he wasn't ready to have his call taken. Let me peel the curtain back. in the old radio business.

I don't call y'all to come on my show. You have to start the communication process by dialing 713-212-5-790. So if you're in the bathroom and not feeling well or you just want to read a magazine, that's fine, but it doesn't give you

carte blanche to call my radio show and call from the toilet. It just doesn't. So if you're in the toilet and you're not feeling well or you just want to sit and relax and pontificate life in there, that's cool, but just, you know,

call me later. I'm on three hours a day, 15 hours a week. I got plenty of time. But number two, big fella, they've never been called points in baseball, ever.

Now, that can be a slip of the tongue, and I can fully accept slips of tongue. What? But if you're in the bathroom and you're calling them points, that's a double dip of bad sports take. Number three, and he didn't do this, but I just want to make sure you guys know this. And I thought most people that like sports knew this. You never refer to the team that is down in the game first, even it's a team that you root for.

case and point if you ever hear a sportscaster say the Astros lost two to four to the Tampa Bay race, they should be fired on the spot. The number one rule is, and it's not a rule that I made up, but it's just the rule of rules. The team with a higher number

always gets referred to first. That happens in any sport. So you know that you're hanging out. If you're at a bar with your buddies and you're watching the Titans Bills game today before the Astros. You're like, what's to score the game? Oh, I think Tennessee is up, or I think Buffalo is down 10, 14.

Throw a glass of water on them, not alcohol, it's not safe. Glass of water will be fine. It'll shake them up. They'll be mad at you for like 30 seconds, but like, why'd you how do you do that? Because you're always supposed to mention the highest score first. I can think of one exception. The only exception I can think of is one in, is it maybe in tennis? I'm not super familiar with tennis.

I was going to go ping pong. The person's serving, you go first, right? At least if I play with friends... Wait, how often do you watch ping pong? I don't watch ping pong, but I play ping pong. Okay, so if you and I are playing a game of ping pong. If I'm serving, I say my score first, even if I'm losing. Okay, but, okay, that may be one thing if you're playing,

but if you are playing Ross in a game of ping pong and I'm watching y'all, somebody says, who's winning? I'm not going to say Brendan is down 611. That's fair. Now, I think in tennis, if you're serving, you can say it's 1540. But again, that's not an announcer. You would say the other person is up 40 to 50.

Yeah, you're right. If you're on the outside looking at, I think you have to say the high score first, always, in every sport. And I'm not saying this because nobody's ever done it, but I've been around, here's the thing about me being in my normal life. I don't run around telling people what I do for a living. I know that's the easy thing to do is say, what do you do? No, I always say I'm in inside sales.

But I can always tell. Do you really? No, I don't. I thought, I could see you pulling that. I could see you lying. And I mean this and also, I don't like to really, I don't come out and forthcoming and say what I do. If people want to ask what I do, I will tell them. But I don't say, well, you know, I'm in sports radio.

I don't want to be that person. I try to be, I try to get to know people without them knowing what I do. Because I want to get to know them. I'm frankly more fascinated with other people's jobs than my own. It's strange to say that. Like, I live around a bunch of United States. employees, they must hate me because all I want to talk about with them is the airline business.

Be honest. Have you always been that way? Or when you were younger, did you like to tell people what you did? The only time I ever bragged about the job was when I got press passes for the first time. And I got to go see Euler Games at the Dome, Astro Games, the Dome. I got to go to Hafein's pavilion and watch the Cougars and didn't have to pay. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. Your friends probably hated you.

Yeah. And I would hate me too. you mean to tell me I get a press pass to go sit in a relatively nice place to watch the game, and you're going to give me parking, so I don't have to pay for parking. And then when I get there, you're going to feed me a meal? Are you kidding me? And I get to do this again the next day if I want to, and the next day. And then I'm sitting next to people that I've read in the newspaper or watched untell of it.

Like, I'm sitting next to Bob Allen watching an Astros game. Are you kidding? Oh, hell you. like 23-year-old Matt couldn't tell enough people what he did. But I just feel like, you know, I'd rather them get to know me for being, you know, Cameron's dad or Carly's dad or Peyton's dad more than what I do for a living. But point being is I, when I'm around some dads that are these self-professed football experts, and they say, yeah, the Texans won, they beat, you know, the Jaguars only, you know,

the Texans lost 14 to 26. I'm like, uh-uh. not a real sports fan. You always go with the highest number first. That's just an over pet peeve of mine. That's all I got. What's your biggest sports pet peeve? Do you have one?

Oh, that's a, that's a, I don't know that I do. That is for me, that's really the only one. The rest of it, if you don't know, or pretending that you know a team and you can't remember who their quarterback is or their starting pitcher. I was going to say the one thing that does it for me is, like, I don't mind if you don't know sports. It bothers me when people, I guess, try to like, keep up. with you. Right. Like I was at a dinner a few years ago and this guy was talking about the Yankees

and he was saying, yeah, Mark Texier, you know, is a really good first base. I'm like, yeah, he's not bad. He gets hurt a lot, but he's not bad. It's okay. You don't know the Yankees. I don't either. Like, just be real with your level of knowledge. Don't try to oversell it. Don't do it. Because we're all humans. We're all just hanging out with each other, chown out. Michael and Cyprus on the Astros. You guys on the Cyprus. Well, you can be in Cyprus. I'll talk to you in Baytown.

Katie, Brookshire, North Houston, Onomobile. I don't care. We got a half hour until we get to the A team. Right now, I got to tell you one of the things I've been very happy to tell my friends about is this great experience I've had with Balcones. Balcones make some of the best whiskey in the world. And you're saying, well, Matt, weren't you looking for great whiskey about six months ago? Yes, I was.

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Play Sports Talk 790. I Heart Radio. Richard and Cyprus opens up this segment of the Matt Thomas show. Richard, thank you. Excuse me, Michael in Cyprus. I'm sorry. Michael, how are you? Thanks for holding.

I'm doing good. How are you doing? Well, thank you. What's up? I got a question. Play yesterday with Al-Tuvei. Yeah. And, you know, is that, because we know how Al-Tuve's arm isn't the best.

Is that more a lack of effort on Gueriel? The first one was for sure. As a matter of fact, Wex and I argued about it last time in the 10th inning. show. The throw wasn't good, Michael. You obviously know that, but I think Yuleigureel did not give it the full effort to try to save his second baseman's bacon on that one. So in my opinion, if you could split an error, you'd split it between the two of them. You can't do that. And 99 times out of 100, the error goes to the person that throws the baseball. And that's why Jose got it. I think with as much improvement that Yulee Guriel has had at first base, Michael,

that's a play he should have made and should have been. able to save it. And he was obviously frustrated because if you saw the television angle at the end of the inning, he threw his glove in the dugout, meaning that he should have grabbed that baseball. He just reaches his glove out a little bit more, and he catches that ball in the air, I think. Other question is, too, going forward, is out Tuesday a good second base, but I don't think there's any chance that he can play left-go-old. His arm isn't good enough, huh? No, he's not. No, he's a second baseman for good. In fact, yesterday, thank you for the phone call, you notice that Carlos Gray of flip spots. So if they go to that alignment again, where they

put somebody out in shadow right field, which they will, again, obviously, at least for a couple of the guys, they will probably put Correa out there and move Altuve just to the right of second base. Just flip-flop where those two guys were. And then you got Breggman on the left side of the infield to cover all that spots. And again, that's only going to be for guys that are hitting from the left side of the plate. So I don't know how often it's going to happen today as compared to the yesterday, as often as it did. But that was the right switch because Correa's arm is just significantly better than Jose's. Not that Jose's arm is bad.

It's an awkward throw. It's not done a lot. But Correa's got the exemplary arm. That's the reason why he's been the shortstop for as long as he has and why he will continue to do so because he continues to just throw the ball very accurately and with a lot of steam. Have they clocked him in like 85 a couple of times, I think on throws from short to first? I want to say, I mean, the guy has got gas in that arm.

And so my guess is today is a pregame. warm up, that he'll be doing a lot more of that because I'm assuming that they're going to do that shift at least a couple times during the game. Doug, on the southwest side on the Matt Thomas show, Doug, what do you have this afternoon? My biggest pet peeve. Can I talk to you about my biggest sports pet peeve? I'm here for you. I'm a good.

I appreciate that. I'm a native Houston and I only root for Houston sports teams. I don't have any other sports teams or routes where I study Houston. Okay. And everybody knows a native Houstonian that doesn't root for a Houston sports team. team and just they opts, they root for another team in another city. That kills me. I can't stand it. What do you think about that?

Give me an example. What team does and they're like a lot of cowboy fans you're talking about? Yeah, yeah, and then you ask them, name one player on that team and they can't even name a player. No. They're just rooting kind of they're rooting for the brand almost as opposed to the you know what I mean? Because it's kind of gotten on the bandwagon. Well, they're rooting for bandwagon teams because

A, they're very good and if you have championships, it's easy. you to root for a champion. It is for a team that doesn't. And secondly, my guess is those teams are the ones they're rooting for are also on television a lot, right? Does that make sense? That's probably true. Yeah, I appreciate that. Yeah. All right. Take care. Thank you, Doug. I appreciate.

I don't know. Here's what I don't like. I don't like Houstonian that roots for the other team and then bags on the Houston team. If you want to be a fan of the Cowboys, that's cool. But saying the Texans suck because you don't root for them,

That makes you a douche. Because there are a lot of cowboy fans bumping around here that had very little to brag about. I mean, if you're going off of Troy and Emmett and Michael and Jimmy as your launching pad point of braggadocia, that's 25 years ago. So just simmer down cowboy fan who wants to take shots of the Texans. The Texans deserve shots of their own. I'm not going to believe it to you. But let's be careful ripping. If you went to Clear Creek High School and you went to the University of Houston,

but yet you're a diehard Laker fan that don't take shots of the Rockets. The Rockets don't force you to be a Rocket fan. You should because they're the local team, but it is what it is. But just don't run around bragging about how great the Lakers are when you can't name another Laker besides Shaq and Kobe and LeBron. That's all I would ask. You don't want to love the local teams. I get it, but don't chide those of us that do.

Now, the only exception I can give you to sort of that, and it may be, you know, selective choosing here is that when the order's left, I didn't choose the Texans. I never had a vibe to me that I could fully embrace them, and I haven't. and I feel kind of at ease with that, but I don't make it a point to rip on the Texans. Everything I've ever said about them has been about what they've done in terms of coaching, general management, general managership, ownership, and on the field play.

You also don't have another NFL team you prefer, do you? No chance. I think that's way different. If the Texans were going 12 and 4 every year and going to the Super Bowl once every five years, than any perceived dislike I have for them would be just, it would be bitter, it would be uncalled for, and it would be without justification. But as someone that doesn't have a dog in the Texans fight, they win AFC South Championships, and that's wonderful.

They also embarrass themselves in playoff games. They employed a terrible head football coach who got way too much power, and an owner who I'd like to be able to see has a pulse. they've spent bad money on free agency. They have given away numerous draft picks, going back to Brock, going back to the Tunsell deal, and they've overpaid on guys that, frankly, we're not getting any sort of major offer from other teams.

But if that wants to change with a good hire of a general manager and a spectacular hire as a head coach, and they want to go win an AFC championship and give this city its first ever Super Bowl, I'm all in for that. But I don't think in my criticism of them and my lack of wanting to be a fan of theirs can be argued. I think I kind of made the right decision because I lost a lot with my elders. And my orders, Brandon, they gave me tremendous heartburn and heartache and sadness.

The Buffalo Bills Houston Oilers playoff game in 1991 was the second saddest game of ever witnessed in my entire life, not in person but on television. If I slamma, jamma, losing the North Carolina State, 83 was the saddest game of my life. Saddest, crying, never, and the elders were second. I don't need much more of that. I need general happiness. I get disappointed when the Astros don't do well. I was disappointed when they lost Game 7 of the World Series

after having a 3-2 lead and, you know, not being a one home game. But at least they gave me something. The Oilers leaving almost gave you an excuse. But I remember this. When the older's left, I thought to myself, Do I go start rooting for the Cowboys? And then I said to myself, what the hell are you thinking, Thomas?

I never refer to myself with the last name, but I did there. A couple real quick before we get to believe it or not. Let's go to Garrett and Cyprus. Hi, Garrett. Hey, Matt. Thanks for getting me on. Sure. Real quick, man, and it's real quick.

I've got one thing. I'm really excited to see Jose or Keady tonight because I think he's going to have a bounce-back game. You know, in L.A., similar conditions, when he's, gave up those four solo shots, you know, ultimately, I think whatever, you know, strong and dusty are going to, you know, get in his head, you're going to see a fantastic performance by him today and a good bounce back win so we can get that first win in the series. From your mouth, the baseball God's ears, my friend. I hope so.

You know what he needs to do? Thank you. Thank you for the phone call. I appreciate it, Gary. He needs to go as deep as McCullors and Framberg have gone. Shorten that bullpen up. The more bullpen arms you go. into the greater drama you have.

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Amazing. I just wanted to talk about a couple of sports pet peeves. I'm a big sports nut, played sports all throughout high school, a little bit in college. But I've worked in television for a little bit. over 27 years and worked in production. And I was always taught when you build graphics like matchup graphics, the home team is always on the right. You've got the visiting team versus the home team.

And it would just drive me crazy when producers would just, because they live in the city where the team is, they would put the Texans versus San Francisco, even they're playing in Houston. You know what I mean? Yeah. Kind of like when you were saying you use the team that scores has the most points first. Got to be.

You know that, right? Yeah. You as a television guru that you are, know that. And I also hate when people will talk about baseball and say, oh, so-and-so's ahead by four points. No, it's four runs or three runs. It's not points. Tracy, I had somebody. Yeah, I had somebody in the best.

bathroom called me a few minutes ago and he said hope the Astros won by 10 points today. I'm like, eh, that was little cringe-worthy. Well, I love listening to you guys, and I hope you have a blessed rest of your day. As to you. Thank you very much for the nice words, Tracy. Appreciate you listening. Tracy has been in the truck. Those people, those television truck people, Brandon, work crazy hours. They have to be in an event six hours prior to the game starting. I'm good, thanks. So if you work on a television truck, you've got to be there at 1 o'clock for a 7 o'clock game.

The game goes three, three and a half hours. That's a nine and a half, ten hour day. And it's tedious. I travel with those folks with the rockets, and they put in some serious hours. And it pays off because all those productions are very, very good. All right. Tomorrow on the show, Dusty Baker will be making an appearance with us. This will be probably his last time with us on the noon to three show.

And then we've got to Joe Clatt to join us from Fox Sports. And we have Dana Holgerson is going to join the show as well. you never know what else is going to pop up. It'll be a very busy show, and hopefully we are one step closer to the double crush bus getting underway. And I said, I'd bring the crush bus out if the series again gets tied to two or it tied at three. Right now, five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do?

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No, it's not good. So she's not friendly on the 094-5 right now. Oh, she's always friendly there. Okay, but here's a different animal. She would kill you right now. She would eat you alive. So she does not buy one, get one free at Big City Wings. No, she would be comfort food.

Oh, okay, with some cater tots, a little ranc dressing. You bring it by on the way home? I guess I could. It's sort of on your way. But at 6 o'clock, I'm going to be on the air with, oh, it's Wax, too. How good is this life? The entire A team is here. I cannot wait.

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