The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Drop The Series vs Blue Jays & Now Tied For AL West… Can They Battle Back This Weekend?

Episode Date: September 12, 2025

Astros Drop The Series vs Blue Jays & Now Tied For AL West… Can They Battle Back This Weekend? 

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Tano and welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Ross, don't knock it, do you try it? That burger that you ate yesterday with Sports RV was well deserved. That was an outstanding Friday open. I appreciate it. And good Lord Lauren Shihadi, are you on a all-timer today?

Two seconds into the show. Well, not really. It's 10.03. Well, two in seconds into us talking on the show. That's true. Changes channel. Well, she's... Lauren Shahati is showing the sausage sampler.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Sometimes I put things on a tea and I wonder if you're going to swing. I mean, I have the perfect response to that. But I'm not going to do it. Okay. It's a family radio show.

It isn't anything that goes Friday as well. It is an... Any thing goes Friday. And you know what I'm pissed off about? What are you pissed off about, Matt? We've got a tie in the America League West. It was not a matter of if it was going to be when and it happened. Well, thanks for nothing, Angels.

Get our hopes up. No, thanks for nothing, Kevin Gossman, throwing strikes every single time. I mean, that dude does have a Cy Young under his belt, correct? Well, here's a funny thing. People will call and say, you know, the Astros got to take some more pitches. They got to, you know, shorten up their bad. They got to do this. They got to make the pitcher work.

When the pitcher is throwing strike one, strike two, almost to every single batter, there's just some things you can't overcome. And that's exactly what the Astros were yesterday. They were completely overmatched by the pitching matchup. And Javier tried to stay in it after a really rough early going, gave you a little bit of length. And then Lance McCuller said to come in and try to at least get some mojo. go back and he was good for one inning and haysu sanchise butch bouchering the ball out on right field not once but twice

how much are we blaming the sun or how much are we saying we've seen him take bad routes he's he's a below average outfielder and the sun did first of all the sun didn't help i get that but he's still a below average outfielder and that's a hesitancy that probably uh the astros have him putting him out there he's got a great arm he does have a great arm but again uh you know if he was a receiver he wouldn't be considered a particularly good route runner. I like that. It's got great hands, but not it doesn't run good routes. Yeah. You know, okay.

Like, for instance, when I was playing football as a kid, I was a fantastic rot runner. You were? Yeah, I would run right as a concession stand. Oh, but she's here all weekend, folks. Try the veal. Yep. Do you eat much veal?

I haven't had veal in a while. It's not one of my favorite things, but if somebody said, hey, we're going to have Bill Pomerge on the night, I'd eat it. Yeah. I mean, you feel a little guilty, and then you have a bite, and you're like, that poor baby cow suffered, but this is delicious. It's not something you would ever go, let's go and have some veal together. Yeah.

All right. All right. So the Astros were... Hey, I'm throwing a big veal party this weekend. So, everyone come over. The Astrobatts were feeble again. Yeah, it's been happening. You know what?

I'm it. I'm done. Okay. I'm done. What are you done with? I'm done. I just, yesterday was aggravating. I mean, I go to the dentist yesterday.

She's like, you need to flush your teeth more. I mean, how many times are you going to tell that to somebody? Floss every day, Maddie, come on. Do you floss every day? I do. But I will tell you, I've only started doing it about a year ago. And that's when my dentist was like, if you want to keep your teeth, you need to start flossing every day. Who, she dropped the, you're going to lose your teeth.

He did? Ooh. Yeah. So, then I'm getting needlessly ridiculed. That scared me. So I'm not going to lunch with you guys. I would love to go. But here's, let me just peel the old curtain back.

I put that as a joke. I'm sorry. No, no, no, not your fault. We do a show from 10 to 2. Yes. Okay. We get hungry. So that's four hours.

Yes. It takes me an hour to get to work. Uh, woo! It takes me an hour to get home from work. So that's nine, and that's, and I don't show up literally here at 10. I try to get here by 9.30. So that means leaving the house at 8.30 to 3. You have very little time because of our shift.

And people who work 9 to 5 find the same situation. So on a situation where I could actually go and do something outside of my normal time, I'm going to take advantage of it. And so I knew the Astros game was an early start, an afternoon start. And so you did the on deck show, and I was able to squeeze in at 2 o'clock dinner appointment. Wonderful. So they did that, and I got home and watched the early implosion by the Astros, and the fact the Astros had runners at first and third in one inning, two hits in the game.

It was the only inning that had two hits in them. There was no slug. There were two singles. And a bunch strikeouts. and a bunch of lazy pop flies. And then McCullors goes out there and does what he does. And the game was out of hand anyway. It was on a hand at one.

You could have to give it up 10 runs. Yeah, it didn't matter. And then, so we decided as a family we're going to go suffer together. And we went to Rex's Roadhouse and we ate about 15 rolls apiece. We felt much better by ourselves. No, we ate the steak too. Oh, okay. We're not that kind of people. That'd be funny.

Just fill up on peanuts and rolls and head out. You know the reality is you get the two bags of peanuts. Yes. It gets your table. Oh, you used to get a bucket. Now you get bags? No, they put the, because I think it's a COVID- peanut allergies.

So, they used to have the peanuts on the ground, but they don't even do that anymore. I know. Which, by the way, could you imagine? You're a slip and fall hazard. Well, could you imagine being at Bex's Bobaus and every day your part of your ship is cleaning up all the peanuts on the ground? That would suck. That would be terrible.

And then you got servers, slip it on the shells. Yeah, I mean, it was a-dropping rattlesnick bikes on you. It was frankly a bad idea. Really, really bad idea. So they do them in the, the bags now. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

And then they bring the rolls before, before you get down to order your drink, the rolls are sitting there in your face. Yeah. And you have, you inhale about three of them because you're hungry. You're there because you're hungry. Yes.

And then... And then two bites into your, your chicken fried chicken, you're full. There's four of us, three men and one woman, and the woman's having her normal role. And I'm,

the boys are, you know, the boys are mowing them down. We're just shoving him and left and right. Boom, boom, boom, boom, just jamming rolls on our mouth. It's like a roll-eating kind of. contest at the table.

It was, but it didn't feel better. Because yesterday sucked. It was not good. And then I got home last night. Watch a very little bit of the game between Washington and Greenback. I didn't have any fantasy impact in the at all. Or you didn't? Or, you know.

Woo! Tucker Crafts season, folks. But he was good. I love those white uniforms, by the way. You know, I like him, too. The white on white with the white helmets? They look nice. Texans didn't do that one time. You know, they always had their first home game.

They don't have white helmets, though. They don't? Uh-uh. I mean, they might have worn on white helmet once, but I've not seen it. No, I'm not saying you're wrong. You're the uniform expert. I was going to say expert. No, a horse fine.

I was trying to be, you know, it's a sorry Friday. I'm trying to be nice. But yeah, the Texans will wear white this Monday night, I believe. Okay. So Liberty White, for Liberty White, Matt, let's go. Will they go to Owen 2? Maybe. I mean, there's a chance.

They're favored. I'm feeling good. Okay. Kind of. I got a question for you today. Go ahead. But I'll save for the next segment. Ooh.

Okay. By the way, the Astros are in Atlanta tonight. It's a bullpen game. How are we feeling? I'm going to ask you a very simple question. Will the Astros have a share or be in first place by themselves by the end of this weekend? Seattle has the Angels. They're in Seattle where Seattle almost never loses.

By the way, her legs. My gosh. She's just perfect. All right, focus. I'm going to turn to you. I can definitely look at imperfection there. I don't want to see your leg. I don't want those white socks.

Put those down. That's terrible. Okay. Focus, Thomas. Come on now. Will they be in first place by this weekend? I don't want you getting no more choked up about it. No.

Maybe tied. Oh, you mean tied or in by themselves? Tied or by themselves? I'll say yes. the bats and Carlos Kraya brought this up yesterday after the game they've been talking about this for a bit the bats just aren't going to be there I mean they just aren't

the offense is not there we have a problem in this town with offense frankly with two of our three teams well Kevin Durant's going to help that well I said two of the three teams I'm not one counting and the Cougar offense will be great tonight against Colorado here we go here we go big game sure why not

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now it's going to be probably a very low-key party where are we going I don't know we'll figure you know we'll go to big city wings a week from Thursday well hopefully you get there a week from next Thursday wait yeah

the next Thursday's coming up a week from Thursday's coming up a week from Thursday yeah just say the date that's on the 25th I don't have the number so thank you very much you know I'm very organized yeah you and the plan

I'm very organized with my planner Matt said he'd buy me one in August he didn't that's okay. No, you've not, you know what? When we go to eat burgers next time, I'll buy you a plant. Because yours is too small. And you've heard that before from others. 713, the planner, of course.

They usually say it out loud. They just think it. That's right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-5-790. I thought about this, and Sean actually was talking about on his show this morning as I was driving in. Rossi, how many players on the Texans offense would start for other NFL teams?

What do you mean? No, I think I'm very clear. Rico Collins starts for all 32 teams in football. Correct. CJ Strz starts for about 20. A little higher. Three of them. 23.

At least. Maybe even 25. Okay. All right. Continue on. We'll put Joe Mixing in the healthy category, although he may not be healthy. How many? Dalton Schultz could start for about 10 of them.

Okay. Titus Howard, six to seven? Titus Howard might start for 10 to 12, if not more. If you need just a guy. Cam Robinson, maybe about three? No, lower than that. Who else are we going with? Joe Mixing would start for 20 teams if he was healthy.

Yes, if he was healthy, but he's not. That's it. Dalton Schultz? Do we say Dolton Schultz? We did say Shultz. Okay. Oops, we're not. Areonti nursery? Yeah, he can get a shot with like 10 of them.

It's one game. It's one game. He's a rookie. It's going to get better. Then I can't make him a starter for the NFL teams. Snips, snap, snip, snap. It's confusing. Put him on the right or put him on the left.

The Texans as an organization greatly overrated their offensive coming in. Now, they did address it by trying to get two receivers. Well, hold on. Who told you was going to be the greatest show on turf? Oh, but you've had all this offseason to play. it. You knew your offensive line was going to be hot garbage and you make shifted it at best. By the way, congratulations Larry Tunsell getting a false start penalty in the game last night.

Only one? The one I happen to be on for a few minutes. And I'm telling you, or that was a weak one. Al Michaels, he may have lost his fastball, but he still has a good changeup. He's like, it's nothing foreign for, nothing strange for Laramie Tunsel to get a false start call he led the league in the last season. So Al still got a little bit left in the tank. Yeah, he does.

He sleeps walks through most of the broadcast. I listened to a little bit. He was fine to me. I mean, it was also the first game of the year. Yeah, he's fine. December and Baltimore, he may be a little tired,

but that's a different issue for him. But yeah, no, the Texans' offense might have been greatly exaggerated. And so how is CJ supposed to have this amazing third season if he doesn't have all these parts? Now, again, he's got the two rookie receivers. Mm-hmm. He did have multiple tie-ins to his availability,

but one's done now for a while for the season. And then you've got a makeshipped offensive line that may not be ready. Oh, by the way, Christian Kirk, who you brought in, hasn't played yet, and probably will not play this Monday night. Yeah, Christian Kirk is starting a slot for about 15 teams. Too many. No, he's definitely middle-the-packed slot guy, I think.

Okay. When healthy. but that's always been the big that's what I think it's a small number because how many teams are going to go say I want to go get Christian Kirk although he's been hurt for two straight seasons The Houston Texans

Oh that's true It only takes one It only takes one Hey he can still play 15 games if he misses this week That's true That's true Gotta be positive Matt You got a game of Jacksonville next Sunday

You got to change What is it at hamstring for him? Yeah Oh great Braxton Berrios Uh Okay Braxton Berrios

I mean Brax and Berrios can play No you can play for all 32 teams As a return guy and fourth, fifth receiver, he can do that anyway. Yeah, there's a spot for him. But he's done it for about six teams. So how are you supposed to win games when you don't have that kind of firepower?

You need players who are going to be special, who can shore up. We can go up and down teams and everybody's got holes for the most part somewhere. So that means C.J. Stroud and Nico Collins need to be special, and you need to get Joe Mixing back as soon as possible. If you have guys who are impact game-breaking type of players, they can make it easier for everyone else. If Joe Mixon is there and making guys miss and changing directions and being patient and waiting for the holes to find him, he can make the offensive line look better.

C.J. Stroud as well can make the offensive line look better. And Nico Collins, if they can, rather than pass protect for, I don't know, 90% of the snaps, in the half of the snaps, they do a good job of it. You have to make the most of those. And look, in eight weeks from now, the Jalins can be great receivers for this team. Yeah, they have to have some impact as well. So could...

The Jaden and Jalen. It's so confusing. I know. Jaden Higgins, Jalen, Noel. Not Noel. I think it's Nol. That's what they were saying on the broadcast. We'll go with Null. Okay.

We got to stay consistent. So what's what? We'd trust him. I can't believe. He gets names wrong sometime. Just saying. You're Mr. Under Your Breath Talk guy. You hear that?

He's just talking under his... But he's great. He's an all-time great. All time. And a great human being most important. And super nice guy. Now, I don't think you members my name very often. No, that's fine.

I mean, Lisa, I mean, I doesn't remember my name all the time. That's nice. That's great. You guys are boys. I got the national people that I like. All right. All right. Let's, yeah.

Can I name drop anymore? Yes, I'm very proud of your name drop. I want a name drop. I want to name drop. Out of nowhere. Yes, Matt. You're doing a great job. Let's see.

We're proud of you. Joe Bucking doesn't know me. Kevin Burkhard doesn't. Tom Brady doesn't know. I'm working on these things. I'm going to see if me and Tariko can be besties before the end of the season. Because the Rockets are going to be in NBC. I look quite a bit.

Well, you know Charlie Polillo and here, boys, weren't they roommates or something? They were roommates. They saw each other in each other's underwear and stuff. How fun were those parties? Charlie and Toriko pulling up? Charlie and the member's only jacket. With a six pack of Bartle and James. Yeah, or maybe some Zima with some Jolly Ranchers on the bottom.

Yeah. Going to this really cool place called Chili's. It's really, it's got a little bit of everything. It's got a good vibe to it. And then Charlotte's like, I'm more about Ruby Tuesday's guy. And they start asking each other trivia questions. Like they're on this big double date. And Tariqa was like, man, what's up, girl?

How was your astronomy class today? Oh, it's fine. The big dipper is really not as big as you think it would be. It's actually not a constellation, Matt. It's part of Eursa Major, which is a constellation. I failed astronomy in college and in high school. Okay. But I paid off the college professor with sports tickets.

I'm kind of proud of that. Why are you proud? Because the power of sports made its way through my college life. You didn't know what Star Pluto was like astronomy Really? Well it's a dwarf planet it's not a real Yeah it's a dwarf planet Jonathan I'm talking about back in y'all's day

He was the planet so Back in our day When you were in college in I didn't go to school in 1866 I was in third grade When you and Copernicus We're hanging out looking at the telescope You're terrible

Wasn't our class in college you never could pass Astronomy was it for me No it was all of them for me Because I didn't care First of all you had to go to class. That was a big problem for me. And then you go into the room and he's just going through this long-ass lecture and you are

like falling asleep to this thing. I can remember getting caught snoring twice in astronomy when I was in college. Now imagine doing astronomy 8 a.m. on a Zoom call. Mm-mm. What was your grade in that class? You know, we all got caught cheating in a group chat

and then so she had 10th everybody's grade so the final thing was pass or fail. And you failed. No, no, I passed it. I just had to do a couple all-nighters that week, you know. What does it do with your class? Study for a test. I didn't, I didn't know nothing about anything. Okay. So you were as bad as student as I was. Yeah, so I was, you know, I'm just trying to relate to you. Thank you very much.

You ain't cheating. You ain't trying. That's what they say, what the kids say, Rossi? It's what the Houston Astros say. Get the trash cans back. Let's go. Stop it. Anything goes Friday. What class in college did you cheat in more than others? Mine was just trying to me. And it didn't work until I failed and had to get him tickets. and it worked that way. 713, 212.790. 713, 212.5.790. It is ending and goes Friday on the Matt Thomas show at Ross.

Astros. What's the guy's name is pitching today? He's a Jaden or a Jalen or something? He's the opener. Jaden Murray? Wait, was it that guy? Yeah, it's that guy. Can I be a friend of the A team?

Can I tell you? What? Chaden Murray is pitching on a late September game for the Astros is they try to hold on the American League West. Oh, I'm sorry. He's got an ERA of zero. Matt. How many appearances?

29. No, two and a third this year. Okay, fine. Dang it. You were off by 27 and two thirds. I want you to say the name of the Brave Starter. Hurston Waldrop. Heston Waldrop.

Who, by the way, is a rookie with a 4-0 record at a 1.33 ERA. right. Well, yeah. Technically, a rookie. He pitched two games last year, though. No, he's still a rookie, yeah. Heston Waldrop. He's got a mustache, too. He looks like a Hirsten Waldrop.

So the day off-row, too, he didn't help out, huh? He needs another one. I don't know what to tell you. I can't believe. I mean, everybody went O for Kevin Gossman was pitching well. Yeah. And this is a terrible thing, but sometimes the pitchers are better than the hitters. and unfortunately it feels like for much of the season

the pitchers have been better than the hitters. I mean, come on, Carlos is right. We got to go. No more time for, you know what, we'll get past this. I mean, you know what, maybe you got a throw. And again, I know it's, well, it's not, it's not who they are. It's not throwing the Gatorade bottles around and stuff. Start flipping tables?

Something. I don't think that's going to help. You know what? You know what I was, Jonathan, when I was playing Little League baseball? Our team was really struggling. And my manager came into our, we were all taking showers after the game. And we threw all the bats in the shower. And he goes, you guys are lolly gagging to the plate.

You're lolly gagging to first. You're lullough. All you do is lallygagging. That's all they did. Could you imagine, Jonathan, having someone throw a bunch of baseball bats in a shower while all of us trying to get dressed and shower up? Isn't that terrible? That's not Bull Dharham, is it? 7-13

This is the greatest victory of my life Yeah Bold Durham It certainly is It certainly is Weren't you in North Carolina or something Or wait Western Kentucky Same difference

Basically same difference Bold Durham Okay He was close That's how the proper pronunciation That's not It's Durham Yes

Ryan and Montgomery At 1036 On the Matt Thomas show at Ross And anything goes Friday Ryan, good morning. Good morning. So I used to go to Blin, back, way back in the day before I transferred out, and there was a bowling class. And the professor, I'd say professor, I use that term lightly, it was bowling.

We took the class at a bowling alley, like a real bowling alley at like 3 o'clock in the afternoon. So me and my buddies would show up early and drink a bunch of beer and bowl like crap. And we were going to fail this class. And then one day the professor caught me and my friend out in the parking lot. doing our best Cheech and Chong impression and we thought we were just screwed he walked over because what are y'all doing and he could smell it in the car

and he goes hey you should give me some of that and I won't tell anybody and I was like you should give us A's he goes I can't make it A's because I'd be too suspicious I can do Bs. They're like cool so he sold him a bunch of stuff and then we just got drunk

for the rest of the semester and bold and just sold weed to the teacher and got B's but doesn't it happen in most classes at Blendergarten as it is? Yeah, probably. I don't know. I don't want to throw any teachers under the bus,

but the guy was really cool, and he took it well, but yeah, I committed crimes for a B and bowling. Why were you failing bowling to begin with? That's what I'm most troubled by. I was a very uninspired young man at the time, Matt. I just didn't care,

and it was bowling. Okay, okay, hold on, hold on, hold the phone. Ryan, I could be uninspired for English. I could be uninspired for, I don't know, government or U.S. history pre-reconstruction. If you're not motivated to go bowl and eat Frito pie and smoke cigarettes and drink beer, then what is there to live for, my friend? There were tests. I hated the test.

Oh, on 7-10 splits? I mean, come on. The history of bowling? Look, I'm not going to get into the semantics with you, but 21-year-old Ryan really liked the idea of $5 buckets of beer, packs of Marlboro lights, and bowling, and just taking tests, didn't seem that great. Hey, I got to be, Matt. Why am I getting, I'm getting red my riot act here? Yeah, because I would have thought it would have been a more important class, Ryan.

That's the thing I'm concerned about. Now, more importantly, this, when you're eating the Frito pie at the bowling alley, do you put onions in your Frito pie, yes or no? No, I do not. And we were once considered friends. Thanks for the phone call. Some raw onions. Raw onions?

Yeah. You don't cook them under zero circumcate. They're raw. Got to be. Well, grilled onions would be pretty good, though. In a Frito pie, no chance. You've got to chop those bad boys up. Well, yeah, you're not going to just have a piece of the onion.

You're not marinating onions to put in your Frito pie. You're chopping them. No, you could not. Sounds kind of good. No, it does not. You're making it up. Carmelized onions are going anything. Now, I am team caramelized onion, but not in my Frito pie.

Don't knock a day, try it. Hmm. Carmelized onion on a hot dog. Excellent, by the way. What about on a chili dog? You go raw or caramelized? Both, but I'd probably go raw. Okay.

No? I'm not. Well, you can't criticize my... I'm stepping out. I'm stepping out. I'm stepping out of the batters box. You are the worst foodstom. You're now criticizing my onion selection?

I am not criticizing. Yeah, you're going like this. Matt, you're misunderstanding. Matt, you're misunderstanding. You're misunderstanding. I am team caramelized onion. You're a misunderstanding. You just keep saying raw, and I said, I'm just stepping out of the...

batters box. Oh, okay. Gosh, relax. You like it wrong. You're not being attacked. See? That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid. I see. And you did it. And then you're all being sensitive and think you're getting the text and you're not. You're always attacking my food choices. That's not true. That's not true. I had mushrooms on my steak last night. Is that okay with you? This is at Rexis Roadhouse? Yeah, that's fine. Now, if you're at a nice place, I would criticize you. I know. I know. I know. I get it. You have to go baronades at a high-hender place. No, don't even. Oh, God. Baranace is delicious.

Just eat meat. People love... You don't got to put a bunch of sauce on your meat. I got news for you. Yeah. I love putting sauce on my meat. I know you do. And when you go to high-end restaurants...

When we started this show... Listen to me. Listen to me very carefully. When you go to high-end steakhouses, they offer varieties of sauces because, I don't know, Ross, people like to put sauce in your meat. A bunch of people to know how to have a nice piece of meat. Gail, you're on 790.

Good morning. Yeah. I don't know probably about that steak. Yeah, I want you put some chili and cheese on it, Matt. With beans, too. head, Gil. Coaches don't go to showers and literally, you take a, you take a shower bath at home. So tell me you were a reference something else because I don't know literally coach in my life

that ever went to, in the shower. We didn't have showers a little bit. Gil, we literally, we were showering and we were not performing well. And my man, the coach of our team took a bunch of bats and he threw him in the middle of the shower. And he goes, you guys, lollygagging. Lolliggan it at first. You're lollagging at a plate. Little League.

I was in a higher in Little League. I was in a high in Little League. We did showers. Double A, Little League. Double A. You know what we did? In one of my, but you're ready for this? You weren't in Catholic school.

You were in Little League. Gil, we had a hot team mom that would always pick one and make her favorite her favorite on the team. Oh, there's nothing wrong that, though. Well, that's what I'm saying. And we had another, and we wrote on. buses and we brought our we brought our guitars and we sang on the bus you talked about wedding gifts and mound visits and we go to the mound we would talk about our favorite like we're going to get our mom some mother's day for gifts and stuff and then we and then some of our

players would make out in the bathroom before games in our uniforms well what was the oldest players on the wrong i was in the wrong state or something i wouldn't mind that thank you very much we'll see later. All right. The oldest player in the team, I think his name was Crash. He had a record for most Little League hits. He's like, man, I want to play high school ball, but I can't. I'm not good enough, so he can play Little League over and over again.

And then, you ready for this, Jonathan? No. One time I was pitching and I wasn't listening to my catcher, and he told the hitter what it was coming. So disrespectful. That Little League. 1043 on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. 713, 212, 5, 7.

713-212-5-7-0. Do you have a know-it-all in your life, Rossi? I do. Besides you? Who's the know-it-all in your life? My middle son, Peyton. Arguing with me yesterday about the Astros or the Mariners playing the Cardinals tonight last night. I said, they're playing the Angels.

No, dad, they're playing. I said, son, this can take one second. I wouldn't go look at the ESPN app, look at the schedule. Oh, I know. They're playing. He had his red teams mixed up. Yeah, he did. That happens.

You know the angels? Angels are, I will say your son's very smart. He's very, very smart. Hanging out with him, like everything we brought up in conversation, he knew details about. Like, when we went to the mob museum, he knew everything about everything. He's a history major. He loves history. I had literally read a book on Al Capone, and I was, like, talking about this stuff I read in the book, trying to act like I was all smart, and then he knew more than me.

By the way, everybody has any ideas. My son, the job market's a little bit of a struggle right now. I'm brutally honest for his career, and we kind of knew that going in. History major, yeah. History major, but if anybody has any ideas what a good history major could do for a job, I'm all in because I'd like to get him some employment. He wants to work very. He's such a good kid.

He wants to work. He's just, there's just not a lot out there right now for that. Like a museum or something? Museum, I was thinking library. I was thinking of some government jobs, something like that. We're trying to figure it out. So if anybody's got any good ideas, let me just give me a shout.

When I was in Fort Davis, there's like Rangers who work at the historic Fort Davis historical site. Like there's historical sites like that around there where you do like tours and stuff like that. But those, they're just not very many jobs like that. I mean, those, they are very high, highly competitive. Yeah, very, very, so. And then you got to live in the middle of nowhere. Which I don't think you mind, but I just, like, the boys like, Dad, I want to work. I'm like, son, I'm trying.

I get you a job in media, but actually, I don't want to get you in job of media because it's not good, but. History is not giving me a whole lot of avenues here. Just ask AI. History, major careers. I think AI is taking my son's jobs. That's actually true. 7-1, 3, 2-1. Yeah, we'll just Google it, bud.

Yeah. Let's talk to Roger on anything goes Friday. Roger, good morning to you. Good morning, Matt. Ross and Jonathan. So my thing is I'm focused on the U of H beating the snout of Buffalo. Anything extra is going to be like sprinkles on a dessert. It's going to be extra. The Astros, you just don't know. And, you know, you got to give them credit for fighting through a bunch of injuries. and, you know, at least being in the hunt, yeah, they lost their lead, but they got their lead with a bunch of guys from AAA helping them, and nobody thought the level expectation was lowered, and we were just thinking about, you know, not a whole bunch, and then now they got this lead, and then everybody, you know, pissed about the assholes. You know, man, they did good by getting Correa, the natural leader, but, you know, some of the stuff,

didn't work out. And that's just baseball, so that's a good thing. We live in a great city where we've got teams, other teams, you know, to pass the bar and see what they do, man. That's how life goes and has sports goes. Thank you very much. Appreciate the phone call. Yeah. Honestly,

you know, when you have other things going on, baseball tends to have a difficult time getting a lot of publicity in the month of September unless you're in a really good competitive race, which frankly, the Astros are in. I mean, this is it. We kind of knew this was going to happen. It doesn't get more competitive than this.

I was going to say, I mean, I would say that you can't hide it now. 15 games left. Especially because you get the Rangers and you got the Mariners coming to your town next week. I mean, I would hope, and I'm going to be gone for a few days in the NBA, but I would hope next week for you is going to be a relatively easy week. I mean, there should be some, I mean, you got the Texans on Monday night, which means Tuesday is going to be a good day to talk about that. You got the Astros playing the Rangers.

I mean, I would think this is going to be a, there should be a good time for us as sports fans. Should be. could be also clinically depressing too. Yeah, we'll see. I mean, look, I keep saying, they're either going to get it done or they're not, and that's basically it. They have it, as you said.

Your two toughest series are at home, and then you have at the end of the season, the Angels and the A's who are going to be playing out the string. Go out there, win the ball games, make the playoffs. The reality is this. Even though as things have gone

as early as they have, and they're playing about, what, 415, 420 baseball, give or take, ish, yeah. They control their destiny. They have the home games. They have the Rangers and the Mariners in their ballpark. Atlanta is not going to the playoffs, and you're going to be taking two, playing two teams. Now, granted, the angels are not like yesterday's angels. I mean, hell, they gave Seattle all they could handle last night.

And the angels are, like, they're not like, 40 games under 500. They're like, what, 10 somewhere in that range, give or take? Now, the A's have no long mailed it in, but the Astros have had problems against the A's. But if you want to win the division, it's not like you've got Detroit and New York waiting for you in the final week of the season on the road at those two stadiums. You have very winnable games. And if it was meant to be, it was meant to be. Because here's the reality of this.

If the Astros do not win this division, Ross, and do not make the playoffs, we're going to be pissed. Because we're not used to that. But it's like, help me out here. A month from now, we might say it was never meant to be because there was just so much going against them. You just aren't supposed to make the playoffs when you have this many injuries. You're not supposed to make the playoffs when you are having to rely on so many 4A players playing in pivotal spots.

Right? You're not supposed to. No. I think in a couple of months, no matter how it shakes out, and it's probably not going to be with a World Series championship. I mean, let's be honest, we will say, man, how do they even get as far as they do? I think it's like just many things in life when you're in the thick of it

and it's going on, it's harder to have that perspective. Because right now, we don't care about all the injuries. They're still playing the games, and we still don't know how it's going to turn out. But we'll have more perspective in a couple of months, I feel like. I mean, I'll give you an example. when the Rockets lost the Warriors in game seven, I was pissed.

I wasn't happy. I didn't want to play Golden State. I think it was pretty plundantly clear about how I felt about Golden State. Game 7 in home, lost. I was pissed. Pits for a while. But then I look back in and go, man, last season was fun.

The Rockets became relevant again. So there may be a retrospective on it. The problem is going to be, as we've talked about, we have been, we collectively, not just you out there to listen to it, but you and I as a host, we have been so spoiled that we don't know how to handle this and that the question will be how will the organization handle this? Will they change coaching staff?

Will they trade players or release players or make massive wholesale changes? Or will they say that in 2006 and hopefully if this team is healthier and doesn't have the injury bug, they can not necessarily run it back, but remain competitive. Yeah. It sucks, though. Because if they were fully healthy, I mean, they could, I would

be calling for them to win the American League. If you had Paredes and Hader and Blanco and Wesneski and, I mean, Erigeti, I mean, this would be a damn good team. But the healthiest players, Walker

for the most part, well underperformed. True. Al-Tube healthy all season long has slumped for basically two months now. I think you mentioned two guys in age decline. I think you just did. I mean, it is what it is. Yonner's heating up a little bit, but he has been like a roller coaster this year. But Paredes playing 150 games, gang.

Astros win the West. They just do. Yoran playing 120 games. 81 games. 81 games. They win the West. 10-57. In one half hour, we're going to apologize to some people.

And that includes you, Ross, for all the mean things you said to me this week. I said something in segment, oh, one of the clips that was played, I think segment one I need to apologize for. I cannot wait. If you want to apologize, someone will do that in one half hour. I was rude. 713-212-5-790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Brian McTaggart reporting a few minutes ago that the Astros are calling up outfield prospect Zach Cole.

You're saying, Matt, who's Zach Cole? Wow. He only played in 15 AAA games. He's been crushing it, though. Was not in spring training at all. Am I reading this right? Is this OPS over 1,100? Yes, yeah.

$1,200, excuse me. Yeah, he, he, what is it, 353 average, I think, something like that? 353 with an on-base of $459, slugging 745. So I add those to go together, and I'm looking at $1,200. Yeah, over $1,200. OPS in 15 games at AAA. A lot of that at home, by the way.

Only at home or in Round Rock. I mean... Five home runs in 15 games. Let's do it. I don't care. Shot in the arm. I mean, this is, again, this is what the organization is saying, we desperate times seek desperate measures. He's 25 years old. He's not spring tricking. Yeah, I know.

Now, he can be a lay bloomer. Yes. I'm okay with that. Yes. He played college at Ball State, so 25 isn't super old for a college player. No, it's George Springer kind of timeline. What was his draft status? He was drafted in the 10th round of the 2022 draft. Okay, so mid-level prospect.

Yeah, he's there number 19. You said 19 in the MLB pipeline. Yeah, we mentioned him in the path to future success yesterday, Matt. And well, clearly he's on the fast track to future success. Wow. That's why you listen to this show. because you didn't hear about Zach Cole until Ross brought him up yesterday. Or it was in a PR release.

No, that's not true. Actually, it wasn't in a PR release. I went up and I looked it up because I knew he was playing well. And I knew his average when you brought it up. What's up? You astonished me. We better get to know Zach Cole because he may be the difference between the Astros, one in the West and not.

82 games in AA-868 OPS. That's, you know, for AA, that's not. crazy. But yeah, he's been really hot in AAA and well, they said, let's go. I don't know, his whole prospect profile, we can bring it up. But he wasn't even in spring training camp. That's crazy.

Now he's coming to help out the Astros in late September. You know how Dana Brown likes to, he's like, all right, let's go. You're hitting, let's get you up. We'll see how it's going to go. He's not shy when it comes to prospect. Not at all. 1105 on Sports Talk 790, Matt Ross with you coming up at the bottom of the hour.

We're going to ask you to apologize so the things you've said and done this week. Noon, we'll wake the strippers up at 1 o'clock Dr. Roto for the fastest 30 minutes in major market radio. And we've got non-flora stories today at 1.30. And hell yeah or not is all things about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. You want the Zach Cole prospect profile from MLB.com? Please. It seems pretty fair, right? Oh, yeah.

Cole creates at least plus raw power with a combination of bat speed strength and the loft in his left-handed swing. He can drive the ball out of the park from foul line to foul line. approach is scary because he can't get overly aggressive at times, swinging through pitches in the zone. I mean, yeah, he's been striking out a little bit as well. 38% strikeout rate last year. If he can make consistent contact, he has the tools to be a star. Feels like we heard that about like trade cabbage, Zach to Zinzo, some others, but anyways. Plus speed, base dealing Saturday.

Gary Fisher. Hey, all right, all right. Plus speed. I'm going to keep giving you examples for my bad. Plus speed. That white guy. Bryce Matthews. Toby, what was White, the Great White?

What was his... Tyler White? He was more of a contact guy. I have no power. And then he was whiffing on everything. Fair enough. Plus speed, base stealing savvy, 30-30 upside. Playing left field at Ball State,

a quality defender in center as a pro. You know what? He's a 30-30 guy with a plus thief-up glove. Let's go with some speed. It's funny. When I go to a Mexican restaurant, this place in Kingwood, we get a margarita and they'll say,

do you want some of the top shelf tequila? then they go, why not? So I'm saying back to him, to you. Why not? No, you shouldn't. You shouldn't get top shelf in a margarita. I'm going to tell you why. It's got so many mixers, especially if they're using like their triple sec mix and whatever.

Unless they're going to handmake it with some more premium orange liqueur, like a grand marnier, perhaps. You should just get the regular. We should do a cooking show. It's going to taste about the same. Like, for example, they want you to get top shelf bourbon with an old fashion. Well, you're mixing it with bitters and all that other stuff. So it ruins it. Exactly.

I got you. It's like upgrading to a prime steak, but then you're covering, like we were talking about, covering the mushrooms and all that stuff. All right, fair enough. So you hear that? Go with the house when you're doing the moderators. Let's talk to Mike in Tombald at 1107 on 7. Mike, good morning to you. Hey, guys, good morning.

You know, I heard the last commentary before the break, and I just wanted to, I wanted to say, man, the difference in sports and in life between winners and losing. is winners expect to win and losers hope to win. And what we've been so graciously blessed with here in Houston over the last almost 10 years is the expectation to win because of the culture that these guys have created for our city and frankly for a lot of our state. And despite the fact that we've had some challenges with injuries and other things, when you lose series to the Orioles at home and you lose other series at home when you should be expecting to win, that's how we found ourselves in this position.

And, you know, honestly, down the stretch or not, it's unacceptable, I think, to be where we're at. And whether that be the coaching staff or whoever has to be held accountable, we are supposed to be winning. We are expected to be winning because of what these guys have created. Mike, let me stop here real quick. I don't think you expected to win with Taylor Trammell playing serious amounts of centerfield this year. You did not expect to win with Cooper Hummel this year. You did not expect to win with, give me some other people. DuBonds played 125 games.

The shortstop that was here for a while. Oh, was Zach Short. Zach Short. I mean, Tom, I mean, excuse me, Mike. there's no way you expected to win. Now, you can expect more from the guys that you thought were going to be better. You expected more from Christian Walker. You expected more from Yarnar Diaz.

You probably expected more from the medical staff. I mean, that's all fair. But there have been too many guys that have played too many games of this team to expect them to have the supremacy that you're speaking of right now. It's just, it's not fair to that. Their Vegas win total was 86 and a half. They have 15 games left. They have 79 wins.

They go 7 and 8. They basically about hit their, That was their vagus expectation. Yeah. I just put in a perspective. Well, that's fair, but I mean, everybody, everybody deals with injuries, right? Everybody deals with injuries. Everybody has upset.

Yeah, but this is different. This is a team that has had at one point had 19 players on their injury list. I mean, there's exceptions to the rule. Yes, everybody gets hurt. It is. It's unprecedented. It's unprecedented for what they've had to deal with to be where they are. I get it.

But I just don't want, there's no consolation prizes, right? There's no trophy for second place. and the series that we have lost have really put us in this position because when you can go to Boston and win a series, when you go to L.A. and you sweep them. Those injured guys were out at those times, right? So, I mean, again, you know, we can come up with excuses. We can come up with reasons and justifications.

But at the end of the day, we are where we are, not necessarily because of injuries, but because of the way guys have played. I could not disagree. I could not. I'm going to let you go on. thank you for the call. I cannot disagree with you more. I just told you what I said and you just totally said no.

No, he agreed and then he still went back to his original point. He's like, yeah, you're right. There's been a lot of injuries, but there's no excuses. Well, it's, and you can have whatever perspective you want on it. But yeah, sorry. Well, here's the point. There have been times where Cooper Hummel helped the team. There were times that Taylor Tremel hit a home run. But also, Matt Dominguez hit home runs back nine years. ago for the Astros when they sucked

and they won games. You just have to take the sum of the parts. Some of the parts says this was a team that was not built to win 90 baseball games. This was a team that was to, that's got AAA players on it. You're not going to be able to have AAA quality

players over 150 games and expect to contend. You just not. And I think it's unfair to criticize the organization collectively for the hot mess of players that have put the uniform on this year and expect them to be the same that they were when Carlos Corray and George Springer and

Jose Altuve and and Gary Cole and Justin Verlena were pitching. It's not the same team. So to expect the same is foolish. It just is. Yeah, I don't really have much. It doesn't mean we can't be aggravated about it. I mean, I'm pissed off. I'm not happy.

I don't want the Mariners to win. I have no interest in them. I have no interest. I want the Astros to win. But we got to start dealing in some realities here. The realities are this team has gone through more injuries. Now, some of this could be on their own because of malpractice within the training staff. But I'm sorry, friends.

Cam Smith probably shouldn't have played as much this year as he did. He's playing a hundred twenty-four games. A normal team would not have brought up Cam Smith to play serious time for this baseball team this year. Maricio Dubon is a utility player Utility players do not play 120 games They just Zach this I mean Brendan Rogers Brendan Rogers

Zach short Shea Whitcomb Ooh I forgot about Shea I mean Luis Guillory You remember how Leo scar What? Remember him? He played I forgot I already forgot

I mean I'm going to the list here No there's some more forgotten 2025 Astros already I forgot Raphael Montero pitch for them this year Yeah. Jacob Melton. Jacob Melton may be a very nice player, but he is not a major leaker right now. But 31 games.

67 to bats. 31 games for Jacob Milton? Yes. Oh, man. Remember Jordan Weems? No. Not really. I don't remember Jordan Weems. I do not.

The extras have, what the Astros have failed. If you want to go to the cut and dry failed card, is they failed to understand that just because injured players are coming back, they weren't coming back to where they were before they got hurt. And that if you want to say there's a feeling, they did not get enough pitching at the trade deadline. If you want to say that. Because right now this bullpen is severely taxed,

and the guys that have come back have been very mixed results. And oh, by the way, your co-ace at one point, Farmer Valdez, is acting like a guy that, can't get out of Houston fast enough. I want to be a little more blue, but I can't. Do you know who has the third most innings pitch to the Astros this year? Is it Jason Alexander? Please tell me it's not. It is not. Okay, thank God.

It's somebody not on the team. Ryan Gusto. Your third leading innings pitched pitcher is Ryan Gusto. Your fourth is Colton Gordon. Your fifth is a reliever Brian Abrae. 3, 4, 5. Gusto, Gordon, and a reliever. Like I said, when we get out of this forest,

we're in the thick of it right now, we're going to have a little more perspective. It's been a disaster. For the next two weeks, I will be grumpy as hell when they don't win the division. Trust me, I'll be right there with you, Houston. And I'm going to post this on Twitter as soon, people say. What?

Most endings pitch this season for the Astros. I didn't know. I knew that Gusto was third. I didn't know Golden Gordon was fourth. I got dealing realities. this is not your Astros team of yesterday year. So I know we want it. We shouldn't temper our expectations, but I think you kind of have to. 1115 on Sports Talk 790.

You want to apologize? Something's coming up with you in about 15 minutes for you chance to say, I'm sorry, here on Sports Talk 790. Oh, thank you, MLB Network. Kevin Gossman throws two hits, shoutout versus Astros of the lead. Two hits. How many strikeouts today have nine or ten? No walks?

He was getting a little help from his friend behind the plate, but also he He was nasty It's tough for me to watch him play I gotta be honest with you It's tough Strikes out a lot Rightfield just doesn't play well

It's an adventure I will call it an adventure That's a That's a nice way to say But you were going to say butchers It's more diplomatic yeah Minaventure is true He did save a couple of home runs

I'll give him that So it's not it's still painful I understand Oh he had one walk with nine strikeouts. Through 100 pitches and a two-hit shutout. He didn't win a Sy Young,

but he finished top five a couple times. Oh, you said he won a Cy Young yesterday? I said, has he? I asked, and that was in the first segment, that was yesterday. I think it was... I said he was... I said, well, I...

I said, Cy Young winner, right? I said it that way. And what did I go? I don't know. Yeah. You know what's easier in 2025? Plead ignorance. Well, he finished third and 23. maybe I was thinking of that year

and then he finished 6th in 21 so he's been close but not bad Kyle with his son 7-90 Kyle thank you for holding what's on your mind today Hey guys how y'all doing? Good So I called in to talk about the starting pitching but then you guys started talking

about Zach Cole and I just want to say I love that I mean he could be like the shot in the arm that we needed bring him up it could be kind of like I hope he's like how Evan Carter was for the Rangers in 2023 just young guy get called up, bring the energy and help us out. But I wanted to say tonight, why not call up McGillioola?

I'm not sure when the last time he started was, but I mean, if you're going to call up that cold after being there for not even that long in AAA, I mean, you always been there pitching good. Yeah. I mean, try to bring him up, you know, but hopefully Zach Cole comes up and gives the guys that energy. I wanted to see where you guys think they'll plug him in at. You think they'll start putting Yordon at D.H more.

and let out two-day play more second base and maybe throw Zach Cole on left field or as well to do what you guys take to say. I don't think he can play center. Let me see what he's been playing. Yeah, I don't think Kyle, he's a guy that's going to be an everyday guy. I think they're just hoping they're coming at an extra body. I don't think this is a bringing Zach up here to play six days a week for the next two weeks. Yeah, he's a lefty bat.

He can play. I'm trying to find out where he's played. By the way, first of all, Evan Carter was like a top five prospect in baseball. I mean, it's not going to be the same type of shot in the. Yes, it is. It's magic here in Houston. We have to temper our expectations. I'm not. Evan Carter was one of the best prospects in baseball when he gave the Rangers a shot in the arm.

So, no, I mean, I think we'll see him tonight. Usually teams don't like to let their rookies or first-timers get up here and just sit on the bench. But I don't know if there's a specific role for him. And I don't think it would be in terms of a massive playing role. 51 games in Corpus at Center, 25 at right with Sugar Land. played two in center, six in left, five in right. So they've been playing him everywhere.

Has Jake really struggled that much from the play? Jake Myers. Well, they said it was a planned day off, but before that he was 0 for four, three strikeouts. But he had a hit in every game before that. Yuleola is a guy that has been, and I'm, we'll eventually pronounce it.

Uola. Uola. Uololio. Two L's equal of Y. Uiola. Uolah. U. O O O O O O O O O O O

O O Ola. O O O O Olla. Like one. Like one. Uribe. The Spanish is actually easier because... But I was actually pretty impressed with my Ramon Urius.

I got that right in the first time. No, you just said Rurri-Rus. What did you say? Urias. Urias, yes. Urias, Urias. Because there's no accent.

Oh, right? I don't know. Is there an accent at the eye? You know, it may not matter. It doesn't matter. Yeah, we'll be on to Lekin-Tomlinson at that point. Oh, God. We're going to have tech...

Let me take... Can I get some music? Can I get some light piano music of something? And when you find it, just play it. John, they don't need a word but cueing in it. Just play it. I need some light music. So I'm going to give you a heartfelt message here for about 90 seconds

when the music kicks in. Okay. Because this show, we talk about all the things. We have football, basketball, baseball. We do not avoid the big issues, big picture things. We don't talk about one team for 20 hours a day. Oh, this is perfect. Thank you, guys.

But. I'm an astro fan. We carry the games. I have a vested interest in their success, and I've enjoyed watching and listening and talking to you for nine years about how great this thing is gone. And I'm coming and pouring my heart and my soul to you to tell you that I don't want to spend 14 weeks talking about the Texans offensive line. It's not very interesting. They're not very good. You have no idea who they are.

And I don't think you particularly care. The only time you're going to care about that Texans' offensive line is if and when C.J. Stroud takes a five-step drop and gets crushed by three defensive linemen, and he tears his ACL and breaks his shoulder. So my heart felt to you as friends, I don't want to be your home for Texans O'Line Talk. But if the Astros don't get their blank together really quick, we're going to be your home for Texans O'Line Talk. and we'll talk O-Line Talk and Nick Cayley and Ariante Ursery more than anybody else will. And that makes me sad. It should make you sad because who the hell's going to want to spend hour after hour after hour worrying about whether or not Ed Ingram's going to play this week? You're saying, Matt, who's Ed Ingram?

He's a part of your offensive line. me to you go astros more astros means less texans oh line talk thank you i just had to say it well we'll see that's not what i was looking for i was looking for matt i'm with you i don't mind talking about the texans i like him battle red ross checking in battle red ross you're gonna take on you're gonna be taking that red cap off when they drop this game of the Buccaneers. No, I won't, Matt. When I've decided to become a fan, I am a fan for the first of the future. For the life.

For life. You live 38 years in your life and not being a fan. You bury me in a chrome battle red casket, baby. I'm a bear you with a bearing Lance McCullors. In the H. Or in Albuquerque. Or Helena, Montana. In Albuquerque on a minor league deal.

Yeah, by the way, if those people are you wearing Lance McCuller's jerseys to the playoff games next year, you don't want to worry about that because he's playing it. odds to win the division. Just say it. Let me go to play our Mursaris. Mariners, 57%, Astros, 39%, Rangers, 4%. So you're saying there's a chance.

You still control your own destiny. Yes, you do. We've already run through it already. If they went out, they'll win the division, baby. Let's go. How we feeling? All right. I'm sorry. You know what? I'm going to get one early. I'm sorry for that.

If you're sorry about something, let us hear it from you right now. 713 212-790. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. It's time for you to apologize for the mean things you've said this week or done to your friends, to your neighbors, to your next-door neighbors.

7-13-212-5-7-9. I'm sorry. It's our next year on 790. Ross, you owe me many, many things that she's about to say to you right now here on 790. I'm sorry. I can't remember the comment from the beginning of the show, but I was like, man, that's rude. It's normally what you say.

So I'll apologize for that. I just don't remember what it was. 713-212-5-790. If you want to apologize to anyone or anything, you have the next half hour. It's a cleanse free zone. I want to apologize to Lauren Shi Hattie for me constantly making references to her luscious body.

So sorry. You should apologize to our audience. My audience is those that like females would have believed me. I dare you to watch 30 minutes of MLB network and not think that she's just a goddess. I mean, she's stunning. Yeah. I'm not going to argue with you. But it distracts me from the show and I apologize for that.

I apologize to you audience that Lauren Shahati has me in meat sweats. Can we just do a quick curtain peel? When the show was on 12 to 3, there's a lot of sports, not a lot more sports on. We often put on MLB Network because there were day games on. For example, thank God the Cubs are home for a Friday day game. Cubs bail us out and it's something to watch. We like to watch sports. Other shows put on other stuff on the TV.

We put sports on the TV. But at 10 a.m., we're short of options. Unless it's like, I don't know, the Hungarian Soccer League. I mean, it's just not good. Yeah. But I probably talk too much shihadi on the show, and I'm sorry. So on, normally, it was our habit to put on. Go ahead.

Oh, sorry. MLB Network, because we try to catch a day game. But at 10 a.m. every day, she's on there in some smoking hot outfits. So it's kind of your fault, but it's kind of not your fault. Thank you. I appreciate you having my back a little bit on that. Thank you. So I'm, you know what, I'm sorry for getting so upset or you for getting so distracted.

If she was ugly, it would not be an issue. Also considering I'm sorry. normally the one with the remote. So it's my bad. All right. I lead you to water and then I get mad when you drink it. Oh, I drink that water all right.

Oh my God. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry for leading you to that water. I'm putting golf back on. Putting golf on. Yeah, it's fine. You know what? I need to be rained in.

I get it. Yeah. Jonathan. You need you to fall a fawning over Victor Hovlin. Jonathan, you need to apologize for the people you don't tip enough. I haven't been the place where I need to. to tip at all. Actually, you know. You don't go anywhere where you tip anywhere? I haven't been out

to eat since like the first the 31st of July. Okay, you went out yesterday to get a hamburger with our guy here. Yeah. And he bought. Yeah. And did you tip okay? There was no tip jar. There was no, there was no option and there was no, they didn't, there was in a tip jar or anything. But I did give a homeless guy $3. So he did. Hopefully, uh, oh, that's excellent. Good for you.

Hopefully, we got him a water too. He looked parched. I was a little worried about him. Yeah. Well, hopefully that's, he's using that towards nourishing himself as compared to unfortunately some problems of the homeless. It's a different kind of nourishment. That's true. I'm sorry. So I will apologize for me thinking you don't tip very well.

Sorry. I feel pretty confident you don't tip well. But that's a different issue for different times. All right, all right. Next time we go out to eat, I want you to pay for the tip, whatever we go. Well, you always big time us. You never come anyway. I had to go to the dentist.

What about last time? Carpactor. It's Frank. In the Tomontown. That's right. I forgot about that. What was her name again? Ross, move on.

Ross, what are you? You said you were flying her in off IG? I'm kidding, Mrs. Thomas. Wait, play that again. Matt, what did you and that girl do? You're getting me in so much trouble. You really are, and it's not even fair. I'm kidding.

I'm sorry. You know what? I'm sorry about that. Thank you. Oh, sorry. I really can't. Well, he'll just play the comments again at noon, but whatever I said at the beginning of the show that was playing in the clip, that was rude.

I'm sorry, Matt. I was rude to you. Got you. What else? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm good right now. Okay. I'm sure we'll think of something.

We've got some folks that want to apologize for things they've done. 713-212-5-7-90 if you want to join us. And look, I know y'all. I've met many of you on location. Got a lot to apologize for. Okay. You just do. Dee Crittle.

Dee, what are you apologizing for? It's September, and I finally come to grips with the Duke Law. As the governor of the Duke chapter of Houston, I'm sorry to all the UH alumni. I'm sorry to you. And I apologize for talking so much noise in March. Yeah, we went one ear and out the other. So sorry. Don't worry about it.

Especially because the two nights later, I was having to apologize to myself. I'm finally over. That's how long it takes for me to get overlawed. I'm not getting over to losing to Florida. That's never going to happen. I got two losses that are in the back of my craw. You ready for this? U of H. North Carolina State, 1983, and 2025 April at the Alamo Dome.

I'll see your losses. Then go 94-Duk, Arkansas, 98, Duke Yukon. Oh, that's deep. Those are deep cuts. Thank you, Dee Cruddle. I appreciate your phone call. Is there a loss you haven't gotten over yet in your life? Sports-wise?

I mean, the one that hurts the most still to this day is 18 rockets. Oh, against Portland? The 14 was Portland. 18%. That was fine. They weren't going to win it all. San Antonio? 18 Houston Rockets.

Oh, Golden State. Oh. Game 7. I'm getting all these mixed up. Rim, Ron, Prants. Ah, they're choking. I've never seen anything like this. Shut up old ass up.

Who said that? Nobody. I said it. I rhymed it, but I'm not going to say it anymore. One more time. Who was it? Nope. sir.

Rim rom rants, rom rams. Rim rom rumps. Oh, yeah, but nobody doesn't know that. You can say Timbantams. I don't know that. This is very annoying.

We had him on the show one time. We thought we'd be really good and he was really kind of not good. He's snooty. I'll say it. Whatever. No, is he going to care now? I don't think so. He's miles more successful than I am.

He's got a substack. He was with ESPN. Where is he now? He's substack. of the layoffs. It said, shut you a bum ass up. We've got to pay Stephen A. Oh, look at this. It says, I'm sorry to Matt. All right, here we go. This is to the top of the list right here. Steve, on 7.90. Steve, good morning to you. And I mean a glorious morning to you.

Yes, sir. Okay. Well, you were speaking, or you were speaking, or sports RV was speaking. And you just, you said, you know, we should start a cooking show. And I just thought of goffawed and laughed in my vehicle, as you said that. Uh-huh. And I thought to myself, well, so I got home, and I wanted to just call and say, you know, I'm sorry that you have a culinary palate of like maybe a five-year-old. So for that, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I do not have a palette of a five-year-old. You're mixing people up. Do not. How old people have a horrible day? Don't choke on your lunch, by the way. I wouldn't say you have the palate of a five-year-old. I would agree with you. I don't have that.

I would be more like my brother. He doesn't eat vegetables. You eat vegetables. Absolutely, I do. Sorry, Ray. Asparagus, yes. Calfour, yes. Broccoli, yes.

Lama beans? No, but no, who eats lemon beans? Nobody does. But, yeah, there just seems to be no rhyme or reason to your odd proclivities. I love blue cheese. Yeah, see, you exactly. Like I said, you don't have the fight. You just are all over the place.

it's very confusing. I like halibut. I like shrimp. I like floundered. I do not like salmon. You are like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. And I don't know which of those chocolates you're going to like.

Yeah. Yeah. That's right. So I do not have a pallet of a five. Five-year-old palettes are jello and chicken nuggets and mac and cheese. Craig Ackerman. Craig Ackerman. Adam Plent.

A dozen like a ranch. I like mayonnaise. It's dusty it here. I love mayonnaise. I love ranch. I got mayonnaise and mustard on my burger yesterday. Really? That is an odd combination.

They offer you both. I like the mix. I used to hate mayonnaise. Usually you do the ketchup mayonnaise combo you can do. But mayonnaise, I mean, I would do it. I'm not opposed to it. It was a tasty burger. And I like different forms of mayonnaise.

I like the, I mean, not the mayonnaise. Mustard. I like the gray pupon. Oh, do you like? the stone ground stone ground brown uh spicy brown absolutely yeah me too someone all of you to collectively call this show that have ever taken a shot at me for my food takes and apologize to me right now is that what this segment's really all about you you just want people to apologize to you but the guy in fairness to steve he did get fall and we don't

we know what yeah we need more guffawing in the world he came into here to apologize you know i don't want to apologize to listeners because of you that's true all right uh when we we got one more segment of this Wonderful. So if you're out and about and you need to apologize for something you've said bad about me, I would like to, no, I'm trying to think, because I've done a lot of terrible things this week. I'll think of some more because I need to leave by example. If I can apologize people, so can you. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. The news at noon is going to feature who's going to start the Astros game today and who might be in the lineup. That's a tease right there, my friends. That's coming up at about 15 minutes plus a week. the strippers up. But right now we're looking for you to apologize

at 713-212-5-790. Back to Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal. On Sports Talk 790. 1150 on 790. Coming up at the top of the hour week, the strippers up, the news at noon. At 1 o'clock, we're going to talk

to Dr. Odo for the fastest 30 minutes. Oh, by the way, I'm sorry, Ross. We're putting a wop on your fantasy ass last week. That was a beatdown. I apologize for that. I don't mind winning by five or six points, man, I crushed you. I thought we talked about fake apologies on this segment, man. But what if I am?

What if I would have been happy with a five-point win? I didn't have to worry about a five-point win. You know what? I'm sorry to the rest of the league for winning three of the last three championships and four of the last six. That's my bad. That is your bad. Sorry, I'm dominating the league over the last six years.

That's my fault. You're going to lose that belt this year. That's okay. It's a champ. Well, I'm not going to win. Sometimes you've got to give something. a chance. Seriously, if Adam Clant wins again, I'm going to... I'd have to go through and look at the rosters.

I thought... I mean, you're in the mix. No, I don't like my roster. I got Kyler Murray's my starting quarterback. Please. Yikes. That's what I'm saying. My backup is Caleb Williams. It was okay, but he still massively overthrew receivers this past week. Oh, you're projected to win this week? Yeah. If I beat

Wexswats, two and a O after getting two of my compatriots here at the station? My ego won't be out of control. 7-1-3-212. 5-7-90. Let's talk to J.R. on Paralyand. J.R., what's going on with you, friend? What are you sorry for? Oh, man, Matt, Ross, Jonathan, you know, I just had to apologize for, you know, I got some tickets to the game next week. And, you know, originally I plan to go with this one young lady.

But, you know, I'm saying another young lady hit me up who I'm way more attracted to. So I just kind of ghosted the first one. And the bad thing is I send her a screenshot of where I'm sitting at. So I hope she doesn't like pop up at the game while I'm, you know what I'm saying? So I just want to apologize before, you know, and try to get something off of the car that's to sneak up on me. All right, J.R., what event are you going to? What game are you going to?

It's the Rangers game Wednesday night. Oh, so you? Huh. So you invited one girl. And you strictly took somebody else because of her appearance. And you ghosted the first girl. Cool. She is, the second girl is more attractive and she's way cooler too. Okay. And I wasn't in the right mind when I was talking to the first one.

So it kind of like, my judgment was clouded, you know. So you have no interest in talking to this first girl ever again. Is that correct? I do, but I'm choosing not to. Unless she pops up at the game, I mean, she knows the seats on that. So I just hope now. I'm going to act like I don't even know who she is, honestly. Have you ever been out with her before? No, I haven't. Oh, then you're safe.

Well, not in public, at least. Oh, in private you have. Yeah, at nighttime, for sure. Not in daytime. All right. Last question, I'll leave you on. Have you sent her picks? Yeah. This isn't going to end well for you, my friend.

I hope not. I hope I hope this apology helps me clear it up a little bit. Oh, sorry. J.R., I wish you the very best in luck. But it's not going to, and you sent her picks that early? And your ghost and girl you sent picks to? It's not good, Ross. When you send picks, you're going to end things well, right, Jonathan?

No, it is. It's the way of the game. I mean. No, it's not. How do you think he got the private interaction? He had to send picks somehow? He had to score somehow. Yeah, but she did. Say the word?

Yeah, he did. He dumped it. Okay, good. You just dumped yourself. Okay. You're the first person ever sworn on the air. Good for you, Jonathan. I'm proud of you.

I think I'm at two. I've done it twice now. I'm always astonished that I don't do it more. All right. J.R., call us back next week. I'm kind of curious how this is going to go. By the way, that girl's not going the game. Don't worry about that.

I'd be worried about the publishing issues. That'd be pretty funny. That's true. Let's go to Harry on 790. Harry, who you're apologizing too. Hey guys. Oh, geez. It's Friday.

Figured I'd give us a call for you. Our phones are messed up. Yeah, we should have Harry callback. Yeah, Harry call back from wherever you're calling us from. From the Great Beyond. The Great Beyond. Maybe he's still suck in purgatory. Harry?

Yeah. I don't know. So I was doing some, I don't know why I was looking on Wikipedia for Harry Carey. do you know that he got fire from the Cardinals before he went to the White Sox, okay? He got fire from the Cardinals because apparently he was having an affair with one of the Bush daughters. H.W? No, Anheuser-B-H-B-U-S-C-H. Well, I mean, their family wasn't H-W, his father was in politics, right?

Like a senator or something? I don't know, but you can't sleep with the owner's daughter. and Harry apparently was having some inappropriate and Harry got fired. He always denied it though and she did as well. But there were too many times where Harry apparently was in downtown St. Louis having cocktails with

the young Bush girl. B-U-S-C-H. I see I'm staying away. Harry will try this again. Who are you following? So Harry was with who? Hey guys, listen, they forgot to preface it with allegedly. That's right.

Allegedly is the key there. Listen, guys, I've got two apologies, and I need an apology for the medical staff of the chiefs of Astros. I mean, come all, guys. We're just limping through here.

I had to watch the Barters last night. They've got some Etsy wizard out there. Somebody paid someone to get those guys some wins, and here we are. end of the season looks terrible. Hey, I went to Dachan, I came out, my shoulder hurt. I had a little elbow sort of myself. Hmm.

Weird. Are you lifting too many Budweiser? Were you lifting too many Budweiser, Harry? Well, let me get to that. Let me get to that. So two apologies. One is to the six-pack of ice-cold Budwisers. A crush last night.

Sorry. And the second apologies to the guy out in Katie. I was at a driving rage last night. I might have had more than six Budweiser's, and I tore that place up. Let me tell you. They got a great range out there. He taught me a heck of a swing. But I emptied out as cooler.

And sorry about that, buddy, if you're listening. I'm sorry. Haiti golf. You stole somebody's beer at the driving range, Harry? Well, I mean, you know, here's the deal. I get in the zone, especially when you put a golf club in my hand, and I peered over my shoulder. There's some real ice-covered ones, you know.

They start to drip, get a little frost on them. I'm telling you. Harry, I think you might want to consider getting some help. Harry, please forgive me. If you're out of the driving range, you can't steal people's beers of the driving range. Committing larceny and getting, quote, in the zone, end quote.

it sounds like you might be a problem drinker Harry Can I ask a serious question? Yes So Harry is very easy to impersonate What I certainly was He's doing Will Ferrell's impression of Harry Carey But my point is Who is the most

What broadcaster Is the easiest to impersonate Or is anybody impersonate right now We don't impersonate Al Michaels No We don't impersonate Mike Breen We don't impersonating... Bang!

That's it. We're not impersonating Kevin Harlan. Not really. You don't... Now, I've heard... You can do a... I would co-sell. He's long dead.

Now, we do have somebody that calls in as Todd Callis on a mobile. That's true. That's actually really good. Can I tell you that in many ways, everybody goes to broadcasting school and they teach you all the... There's not as many distinctive

voices because they teach you all to speak the same and enunciate and have a certain cadence. That's right. Maybe that's it. Because if Howard Kosell talked the way that he did and he went to broadcasting school today... He'd be shot down. He wouldn't get work. Well, he would be told to change the way he talks. Yeah.

Same thing for like Keith Jackson. Or who I mean, Harry Carey. But even gravelly voice Jack Buck. People did Jack Buck. You know, that's true. But I mean, Joe Book sounds like he went to broadcast his school. We used to have Dave South on mobile. We don't have that anymore.

Well, Dave South was a special case. All right. There is, I'm sorry for the week. RIP to us impersonating sportscasters. We're going to wake the strippers up next. 1159 on Sports Talk 790. Go with Ross. 1204 in H-town.

Exter Rippers. This is the hour. three of the Matt Tom of the show at Ross. Sports Talk 790. Don't knock it to you. Try it. We have an hour and 54 minutes left to go. And we're going to be busy. We got the news at noon. We have Dr. Roto at 1 o'clock. Now in Florida Stories at 130 and all things about the Buccaneers on today's edition of Hellyer, not at 150.

Do we still have Jonathan tickets for the Cougars game tonight against Colorado? We don't. Oh, we're out? Unless we can get Marvin to give them quick. No, I don't think we're out out. What do we got left from the prize vault? T-shirts? Yeah, of course we had the T-shirts.

And I can try to see the other ones. We've got tickets for next week, because you're not doing it, believe it or not, for a few days. Yeah, go ahead. We'll go get the next week's prizes. So, you know why? Because people are running to TDECU setting for tonight's game. Is it going to be a cell-out?

Close. Is it going to be a cell-out? You just said people are running. Yeah. It's a cell-out or what? Two things can be true. Put your name on. Let's go. Man, I'll tell you this.

If you've eight twins and Beasts, Colorado, you have, I'll give you respect the rest of the season. Well, thank you. They're favored. I mean, it's not the biggest one of the year. What the hell was that? Let's go cougars. Poorcans.

Sounds like a sick cougar. It's like a cougars got pneumonia. Cougars on its deathbed. Time now for the news at noon. And it's brought to you by one of the greatest cougars of all time. I'm Jim Nance and the Jim Nance of Houston Sports Talk. It's CrossFit. What?

Yeah. Wow. What a compliment, Matt. You're welcome. Hello, friends. Welcome into the news at noon here on Sports Talk 790. Yes, the Astros lost yesterday to the Toronto Blue Jays. Kevin Gousman with a nine inning, a two hit, and they were only singles.

So no extra base hits. Shut out of your stroes in the rubber game. They win the matchup. And then later on that evening. evening. The Angels, thanks for nothing. Battle back against the Mariners, but then they lose in 12 innings. So the Astros and

the Mariners are all knotted up atop the American League West. Good news is Astros have a pretty weak schedule coming up. Their two toughest series are against the Rangers and the Mariners, and they get them at home. But 15 games remain

Matt, down the stretch we go, how are we feeling? You're asking me this. after the Astros got two hit yesterday? Yes. Not great? Oh. I mean, it's right in front of them.

It's not like it's a murder result. I mean, they've got six really important home games, but they also have nine very unimportant road games. But I'm obviously important, but I'm talking about it against non-containing teams. Is it a must-win series against the Braves this weekend? Yes, it is. Sure, why not.

And it's a must-win series against the Rangers. They're all must-wins. Absolutely. They're playing with 50s. games left. They got to all. I must win them all. Got to go 14 and 1. Well, that would be nice. I don't know that it's going to happen.

Commanders lose last night to the Green Bay Packers in the Thursday night football action as Jordan Love had himself a pretty good evening. As did Micah Parsons on defense. A couple of touchdowns for Jordan Love. Josh Jacobs also had 84

yards and a touchdown. Jake Daniels bottled up by the Green Bay Packers defense. who have bottled up now the Detroit Lions and the Washington commanders two potent NFC offenses in two weeks. I watched quite a bit of that game. They're both very good.

Green Bay is really good. Although Jordan Love, I don't love him. I like him. I don't love, I don't... I think if CJ Stroud had that Green Bay Packer offensive line, they'll be asking for CJ Stratt over Jordan Love. Okay, Matt.

Also in the game, Austin Echler leaving with an injury. it appears to have been what everyone feared. That would be a torn Achilles for one Austin Eccler. So pour one out for Austin Echler, Matt. I will. Okay. Also, Matt, elsewhere in the NFL news, unfortunately, standout defensive tackle. Ed Oliver, going to miss this weekend's game against the Jets for your Buffalo Bills.

A proud University of Houston product. Well, he says he wishes he literally quoted, and then saying he wishes he went to LSU. That was AI generated and the answer that was false. This is before the big AI rollouts, but I digress. All right, man, big weekend of college football for many. Well, Uteb versus Texas, not huge so much. Oklahoma versus Temple, maybe not the hugest game ever.

But you're fighting Texas A&M Aggies. Everyone knows you're a closet. Aggie. Are you out of the closet? No, I have as much affinity for them as I do for Texas Tech. The two schools my boys went to. Okay. It's okay.

Clause. Aggie Matt Thomas. He's out of the closet, Matt Thomas, rooting for the fighting Texas A&M Aggies. They are six and a half point dogs against the Notre Dame. You got the fighting Irish and the fighting Aggies going this week. Well, last week you had the Aggies versus the Aggies when they played Utah State. That's true.

And Texas A&M won that battle. Yeah, A&M did not necessarily get them. I mean, they had two cupcakes open up the season. So you're going from playing UTSA, which is okay. and then you played Utah State, which is just very mid at best, to going against a top 20 program on their field at night on the NBC game of the week. And you mentioned Colorado versus Houston on the Big Dog, ESPN. Yes.

630 start. If they hit game day on Fridays would be here. It's that big of a game. Kansas Arizona is bigger. Bologna. Kansas sucks. that be on 4K? Anyways.

Houston favored by 4.5. Doesn't sound like it's going to be a shootout. Total 44 and a half. Pretty low for a college game, Matt. Your thoughts? I would take the under in that as well. Under. Under and a Coopers covers?

Yes. You can put it on the board, baby. Okay. And also, I did want to apologize. I figured it out since we played the bite again for saying that people are asking about you. That was rude. And I'm sorry.

All right. You forgot to mention two Astro Tid. bits that are important. Oh, that's right. You even teased them and I forgot. Yes, you did because you don't write the news down. Jaden Murray will start for the Astros tonight. It'll be a bullpen game. I expect JP France to be, what do they call

the guy, the same guy coming in, the lynx guy? I'm going with headliner. If you have an opener, then you have a headliner, right? But is J.P. France a headliner? He is the headliner. I didn't say it's a good concert. Does it come with that lousy chicken breast in terms of $184 like they do with a rocy row? I mean, you

get here early. It's two for one drinks. Okay. He's the headliner. And the second headline, Zach Cole has been called up from AAA Sugarline. You're like, who the hell is Zach Cole? No, I know. 15 games at AAA, OPS above 1,200 with five home runs and 16 RBIs. In 15 games.

In 15 games. Five home runs and 15 games. And I believe all those games were at Consolation Field, or most of them were at least? Yes, most of them. And the others were in Round Rock. So. Oh, so latitude didn't make that big... Exactly. Yeah. So he's launching the ball, baby. 25 years old, no spring tricking for a prospect. Got to get him out there.

Get them up, baby. We're looking for a guy that's had 15 games in AAA to save the Astro season. How are we feeling? Wow. And that, my friends, is the news at noon. 1221, on the mat, top of show at Ross, 713, 212-790. Today that goes Friday. Where's your non-flora story from this week, Rossi?

Yeah, that would be from Bangladesh. By the way, unless I find a better one. I usually have people that send me stories. You guys have been neglectful, frankly. Why don't you do your own damn research? I'm going to have to. God, hands out Thomas. My goodness.

I think he needs to announce when he gets a story from somebody else. Do you pay these people? No. And you're scolding them for not helping you. It's the least they can do. We provide 20 hours of entertainment per week. My goodness. Do we not?

Do we not try at least? We try. I don't know if it's... We can discuss if you won't to. I don't know if it's 20 hours of entertainment. Well, okay. This week it's been 19. Oh, you mean talking about the segments that don't make much sense?

Okay, 14 to 15 hours a week of under time. Yeah, there was on deck. Early on deck. That was 30 minutes. That's true. All right. It was a spectacular on deck show, though. It was one of the best.

I listened going to the dentist. I was like, I could have done better. Well, I think you do a great job on the pregame shows. Well, the nicest things, Jonathan, he's ever told me is that when you do the on deck, I listen. I'm like, that means a lot because I know what that really means. Don't say the second part. I know, I will not say the second part. I will not say the second part.

you are safe with me on that. Gosh. Dry snitch Thomas. Not dry snitch. I just said I appreciate you. You say you listen to me. That's all I've said. I didn't say part two.

Yeah. You're all right? No, I'm not okay. Stunna is what is. Stunner, you ready for the big Astros Braves weekend? Man, I'm still trying to get over last night. last night and yesterday, Matt, because, hey, no matter what picture we have,

if you don't score no runs, you can't win a game anyhow. Correct. I mean, you cannot win. Can we at least get somebody to bring on a run from third with less than one out? Is that cool? He's going to do it. Absolutely. Absolutely pops up three times.

Okay, we can, you know what we got to do, Stana. Thank you for calling. We got no more calls on line two. Line two is... Can we send an email to somebody or will they just neglect it again? We are in a major market, right? I was sending emails.

I'm going to... You should want to tell you what it is. Please. It's the internet. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's not. That's just how it's going to be. Unless you want to get,

if you want to like contact Comcasts and have them lay down a bunch of fiber or something, it's just how it's going to be. Yeah, because they're in Cincinnati and we're on cloud. Yeah. Yeah, it's all based on the internet. So basically the success of our radio is how the cloud is working in Cincinnati.

And it connected to us, yeah. Yeah, and the internet, which, I mean, there are daily out, not daily out. No, momentary. Yeah. I would say momentary out is daily, yeah. If you work for a good internet company and would like us to advertise on this show to get your audience to know how great your internet is, let us know. Shoot me an email.

At sportsm. Or mt at sports 790.com. Oh, I'm sorry. It's empty at sports. That was email. Yeah, whatever. also send me Twitter, too. All right.

Yeah, runners in scoring position, I hate to ask you this middle of the segment, but how do the Astros rank in that when it comes to... Last I checked there, like 17th or 18th.

It feels significantly worse. And I think everybody, if you told the audience today that we were... Do you see the Angels with runners in scoring position yesterday? Yeah, it's other teams too. That's the thing.

When you watch, the more of other baseball teams you watch, the more you realize... Like, I'm going to assume the Colorado Rockies do not do a great job with runners and scoring position. Or the Royals or any of the other second tier team's Reds.

Well, I think Reds are kind of hanging around. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. We do look at our team through a microscope and we don't have the macro view of other teams. You're doing a good job of stalling, but I clicked on the wrong thing. So I'm behind. Okay. I'm going to continue to stall with, yeah.

Follow your Instagram. How about that? Oh, I have a question for you, Matt. Oh, there we go. I like this. Ask Matt. So my girl is starting to watch Desper Housewives. I say this is on I'm sorry because I want to watch it with her.

Okay. But she asked me just out the blue. She's like, hey, has Matt watched this before? I heard this really good. And I was like, you know what? He might have watched this. I will say this. I did watch a fair number of it.

It wasn't must watch TV. But if it was on, now that show's got to be 20 years old. Yeah, that's why it's old. It's like great anatomy. Okay, I got it already. Hold on. We got more important things to discuss. Okay, sorry.

Even Lengoria is a goddess. So I was a big fan of hers. Terry Hatcher is an all-timer for me. The show had its moments, Jonathan. It's not, I would say this. It's better than Gray's Anatomy, because Gray's Anatomy just jumped the shark so many times that it became completely absurd.

So if you're going to watch something lighthearted with your girl in his drama and she wants to go back, like my son is about your age, and he does the same thing. He goes back and watches old shows that I watched 20 years ago. So I would say Desperin Housewives for a girl. friend guy thing is okay yeah it's fine it's not spectacular but it's good yeah it's got it's got enough juice to it for sure now back to you what was your meaningless number you're going to

telling us here oPS runners in scoring position the houston asteros are 23rd in baseball now that feels about right that's that feels right good god who's worse uh sorry i was pulling up w rc they're 24 that's weighted runs created plus which is yeah too big which i which i like too much a hundred is average they're 94 okay go back to the go back runners support OPS you want? No, give us runners and corner position. That's what's been bothering us. Yeah, runners and score position, OPS.

Rangers are worse. Royals, White Sox, Padres, Twins, and then, of course, the Rockies and Pirates. So there we are. The Rockies, the Pirates and the Twins. Yeah. But my guess is... Seattle's 18th. My guess is if we looked at the Rangers in the last month, their offensive numbers since August 15th are significantly different than they were probably in the first three months of the season.

because right now they're just tearing the cover off the ball. They're playing good baseball. And they've got injuries galore too, and they're starting group, too. Overall, team OPS Astros are 14th. With risk, they're 20, what did I say, 23rd? Yeah. Now, we talked about the pitching leaders. I also found the plate appearance leaders for the Astros this year.

Jose Altuve, age decline. Christian Walker, age declined. Yiner Diaz, having a bad year. Jeremy Payne having a good year. Cam Smith, literal rookie. He's fifth on your team in plate appearance. Then it's Essoc Paredes, hamstrings off his bone, Maraisu Dubon, utility man,

Victor Carrotini, backup catcher, Jake Myers missed two months with a calf injury. I can't comment on any of those things. That's what we've had, that's what's been out there. Yoron is 10th, who missed 100 plus games, and then Correa is 11th,

he just got to the team a month ago. Those are your top plate appearance, guys. Those are terrible, terrible numbers. Not against those gentlemen individually. But they are probably... You didn't mention Yaron-A-A-V-R-N-A-R-A-Rez. No. You did not mention Paredes.

He's six. But he's six, but... And he's not on the team anymore. Yeah. I mean, you know, he's missing the rest of the season. He's going to get passed by Dubon, maybe even Caratini. Okay, look. Can we try for the next 90 minutes to be positive about this situation?

Our Astros, and they are our Astros. Stay with me on this. With 15 games up to go in the season, if the playoffs were to start today, they'd be in the playoffs. 15 games up to go, they're in the playoffs. They have nine games against teams that have no interest in being in the postseason or can't do it because of their record. You have six games with teams that you directly can beat and absolutely beat their chest and beat them on your home field. Which means, ladies and gentlemen, I got one minute here to do this. If you're going to the Dike in Park next week,

your sorry asses ain't doing the wave. You hear me? No stupid-ass wave. All right, relax, but it doesn't matter about the wave. How about just go win the games? No, how about this? How about we act like a real Major League Baseball stadium for a week? Stay with me on this.

Are they doing in Boston? You cheer early. You get there, you know, close you can't. They're all 7-10s or 6-10s or not. There's no day games to interfere with, you know, work or something like that. Although we wouldn't mind a 110 game once in all, but that's different issue, different time. Be nice.

Maybe 10.15. Oh, I'd love 11.05 first. Just go win. No more we're going to battle back. No more we're grinding. No more we're close. No more we're just there. Just go do it.

Just get it done, baby. And if they don't, we'll be clinically depressed for a few weeks. And then we'll sit back and reflect on what the season was, which was a team that had like 70 different players play for the Astros this year. That's about 25 too many. 76% playoff odds. Let's go.

I like the odds. I mean, somebody gives me a 76% of doing something? Feeling good. Feeling good. 1230 on Sports Talk 790. 7197197-13-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-7-90. All right, coming up in 15 minutes.

The latest Texans offensive line evaluation from pro football focus. You're saying, what is pro football focus? It's a website. It provides lots of information. Now, 80% of the people that work there don't have sex or have zero friends, but they do a good job. You don't know that. I know that. How do you know that?

I just know. I have sources. You've been polling people asking if pro football focus employees are fornicating. Yes, and have friends. And the answers are no on both. They're dweeps, but we need dweeps in life. Yeah. I'm sitting one sitting on my left.

That may be fair as well. We need dweeps and the PFF dudes are dweeps, but they provide information and they hard work, so we're going to give them. We're not going to rhyme them. We're going to give them their credit. In 15 minutes, you'll hear how they feel about the Texans offensive line. You've been very squeamish since you brought this up. I'm sorry, my finger is sore from scrolling down to the list.

Don't give away too early. Jason and Katie at 1237. Hi, Jason. Guys, can you hear me? Yes. You're on line, too. That could be a very mixed results. Yeah, we apologize.

No, I got three things, y'all. Dude, for real. Like, I was on hold for like 30 minutes, like last week, and when I came on, he couldn't hear me. I'm like, damn, I'm like, I can't, you know, you're going to lose callers like that. But anyway, second thing, if the Astros go three and three with the Mariners and Rangers,

then I feel like no matter what, we'll at least make the playoffs, because we can run those other games. And the third thing, if you can't get an A in bowling, four years I took it at A&M. Every time I got like a hundred. Hell, the instructor was how to me run the class. It's crazy if you can't.

The test is a joke. I don't know what he was talking about. I'll talk to you all later. Thank you very much. Yeah. We had a caller in the first hour of the show that was saying that he was failing bowling and that when he paid off the bowling instructor, the teacher for the course at Sam Houston,

with the ability to buy weed and drink beer. Yes. I believe bowling is a gradual of a class at SFA.FA. Did you know that, Ross? Actually, the bowling team, SFA is a nationally ranked squad. Oh, yeah. Multiple national championships. Stunt on them.

But they did, and this is a good... They're a powerhouse, for real, right? They're a powerhouse. Actually, I knew that. Sam Houston also is, I think if their women's program is like number one or two in the country. Really? Yeah. They go crazy in the bowl.

and Pony Woods over there. Piney Woods Boney Rivalry. Why is the Piny Woods between San, why is SFA and Sam Houston the bowling capital of like Texas? I think it's just how easy

accessible those old There's nothing else to do. Yeah, it just gets a bowling lane go drink and that's what they do. The daughters grow up seeing their dads do it and they do it. And then they go run to the Sonic and get a slushy after.

But they have a lot of transfers. Well, what else are we going to do? Yeah, let's go bowling. Why do they have to have that accent to it? I don't know. That's what they sound. They could also go like this. Why do we go and knock out some bowling?

Would you like to have some chili fritos at the bowling alley? And then we'll go to Rapparees and have some riblets. We'll have some Don Perri-on. They don't have Dom Parian at Rappelrys. Me kidding. But fun fact about the bowling team. Fun fact. They're not going to be a dynasty anymore because before I left,

the head coach and the assistant coach, which were husband and wife, the assistant coach, which was the husband, had caught getting an affair with one of the athletes. No. All over the news. One of the athletes was sleeping with the coach's wife? Yes. And it's fun of fact,

Ivana, my girl, had an empty room of her dorm in the village, and the new roommate was one of the teammates that moved randomly during the season, and so I just can't be there anywhere. I'll tell you the details. And she gave the whole details about how the affair was going on and how the whole team broken up,

and she had to get a divorce, and the whole bowling team was split up and the split up I see what you did there and then the girl the athlete stayed with the husband afterwards so a girl on the team

hooked up with the assistant coach who was the husband of the head coach who is female correct okay all right I remember hearing about that it was huge

it was huge he was canceled hmm isn't that crazy think about yeah not crazy i mean look i when i you know i got to be brutally honest with you when i was doing wmba games there was quite a few player coach relationships so it's not unheard of staying away from that one just letting it go by i'm taking i'm taking that one taking what with him

don't take that pitch okay i'm just saying it's happened it does happen put the red light on that one. It doesn't happen a lot in the NBA. No, the NBA. Don't know if Major League Baseball. NFL, don't know.

But the NBA, there's coach player relationships. Love is love, Ross. I agree. 100%. I ain't judging.

Love is love. Okay. Love is love. But, man, you go out the bowling coach? Bowling coach's wife. Like, if SFA and Sam Houston are the two best, who's the third best bowling school in the state?

Are there any other schools that have bowling? I don't think your Ewa's got bowling. Your incarnate word does? I just started an, I mean, Graham's school. That's not a terrible choice. No, I see it was a good school choice. Real quick, before we get to the PFF grades on the Texans offensive line,

rest in peace to the Houston Sabre Cats. What? They folded yesterday. Are you serious? You can't be surprised. Educate me on this? The rugby team. Oh.

No, no. Yeah. The whole league apparently is going to go on here. Sorry, now you guys got me on college bowl. bowling top 25 rankings. I didn't do anything. I'm just bringing up, yeah. Number one in the country, Mount Mercy.

That's not even Division I. They must not have division runs on bowling. I think they do, though. I don't know. I'm on the wrong page. It's kind of convoluted. Never mind, forget it. Okay.

We'll move on. Check the bowling RPI. I just want to say shout out to the Sabre Kats. We have a friend of ours, Lauren, who used to work for them and hope that she's okay. and rugby just wasn't going to have any sort of stature of this town, and for that matter, the United States. Like, I mean, you could, I mean, Australian rules football apparently is awesome,

but it's just not going to translate to here. We're not in the big, I mean, we're having a hard enough time supporting soccer in this country. Rugby was never going to have a chance. Raining bowling champions, Youngstown State over Jacksonville State. Okay, those are two Division I schools. Who championships in Las Vegas? Is it really? Where should we go?

You know where the bowling capital of the world? Arnie McCracken and the boys, that'd be Reno Nevada. What a poll. So proud of you on that one. Have you ever seen the movie Kingpin? You need to watch Kingpin. I did. It's okay. It's okay.

I thought you'd like it. It's okay. You need to watch it again. Actually, but you're one of those people. If somebody tells you something's good, you don't like it. But if you think it's good, then you love it. No, if you're giving me an endorsement, it means I might watch it again. Okay.

Like, I went off of your endorsement of the Big Loboski. I mean, I watched that. No, I did not tell you to watch that. I thought you said you were. See, I don't. See, I love the Big Lobowski. I would not recommend it to you. It was okay.

Exactly. It's more subtle, slow humor, and you like slapstick. Correct. That's why I've been suggesting for you to years to watch Walk Hard. It's like it's in the vein of airplane, blazing saddles, naked gun. Okay. At least you know me. All right.

So how bad, how about this one, Rossi? How bad is the Texans offensive line? How bad is it? Pro football focus will have us the details on. that momentarily. 713-212-5-790. We got Dr. Roto coming up in 15 minutes. You ready for the fastest 30 minutes in manager market radio?

We got that coming up next to you here on 790. Well, thanks, Craig. I really do appreciate that. Shout out. You can also follow me on Instagram at SportsRV. There's been influencer initiatives up here. I would appreciate to follow at SportsRV on Instagram. I'm trying to get my numbers up.

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And also, most people that commented said they didn't know, they didn't realize how young you looked, Jonathan. Guys. Very young. That's why they make fun. I don't know. I didn't know if you wanted your business out there. But people were talking about how young you looked.

Yeah, you know, I think I'm the youngest in the building, actually. You might be. You might be. Young pup, much to learn. Jonathan. All right. Well, hey, Matt. I was just plugging my Instagram.

At Sports RV. At SportsMT. Big party at 3,000 when I get there. So I need 100 of you that are listening to show right now. And hopefully I've got 100 of you that are. I mean, I would assume there's 100 of you that are less in the show, period. And I'm assuming that 80% of you've got Instagram. So if I get 80 new followers in the next hour, I'd greatly appreciate that.

At sports. What are you going to do for the celebration? We're going to Big City Wings and Cyprus, and we're going to have a toga party. Toga party. Toga party. You don't live life until you've toad. I don't think I've ever been to a toga party ever. Well, we're going to have one at Big City Wings.

I guess I haven't lived. All right. Rossi. Maddie, the pro football geeks. We love them. Pro football focus. Are they dorks, dweeps, or geeks? Yes.

They're not regular guys. They're not like you and me. Why not? Come on. I bet you I'd rather Never mind You say you'd rather hang out with them than me Nope

That's not what I was going to say That's not even That's not what I was going to say All right Here we go They have ranked the offensive lines Of the 32 NFL teams And after week one of the NFL season

It's a very small sample size Just one week There's 16 more of these stuff to go Do you want to count it down 1 to 32? No it's too long Let's go from First couple of tops

Are some people you'd expect The Eagles, Broncos Bills Colts Ravens That sounds about right, right? Yeah, no problem there. You want to start from the bottom now? Let's go to number 32.

It's the use of Texas. Can you tweet that out? No. And then I'll retweet it with a quote. Oh, fine. All right, just for you. At Sports RV. The worst offensive line through one week of the NFL season.

Yeah, there's plenty of time left, Maddie. I told you they can crack the top 25. That's what you were looking for, too. You were dying for top 25. By the end of the year, we're going to take one. Rome wasn't building a week or a day. What is the phrase? Rome wasn't building a week or a day, all right?

And neither was this offensive line. My mouse is dying. All right, so can I ask a simple question? Yes. Can I ask you if the defensive line of the Buccaneers is ranked properly at this point? Oh, they do have defensive line rankings. I have to go find it. I'll tell you this, though.

Number 31 is the Bengals. They can score points. So it is possible to have a terrible offensive line and yet still reach the end zone. Yes. All you need is Jamar Chase T. Higgins and Joe Burrow and Chase Brown. By the way, Joe Burroughs aren't going to stay upright either. Joe Burrow has been injury. He's been injury prone because his protection's been terrible.

He takes lots of hits too. He takes as many hits. He stands in there and took a big hit on week one. Yeah. By the way, you're getting a terrible. I got an email. Walk Hard is terrible, not even close to airplane or losing salels. Oh, you're wrong. Walk hard's amazing.

It says sounds like a take that you'd hear from. I can't mention a person's name. Walk hard, criminally underrated. Criminally underrated. I'll watch it. You're giving me a recommendation. I'll do it. All right.

So the Houston, Texas. Now I've oversold it. I have the worst. 75% fresh, rotten tomatoes. All force offensive line in the NFL. The worst. No surprise. massive terrible sacks, no depth

in moving your left tackle to right tackle and vice versa several times during the course of the game. I'm sorry, I'm putting my tweet. You said you're going to retweet me. Here's in Texas. Sorry. What?

What? All right. Can I help you with the defensive line? Because I'm curious at the Rams, where the Rams were after week one. And did the Texans' wulfill offensive line make the Rams defensive line look better? Could be it.

Or was the Rams defensive line? The Rams defense is so good. Yeah, I like that one. Let's spin it that way. Well, so I'm asking, was the Buccaneers defense? I mean, the Buccaneers gave up a lot of points last week. They weren't back and forth with Atlanta. Let's see.

Defensive line rankings, Rams are third. Okay. And the Buccaneers? Buccaneers are 29th. Rams are third. Texans they have at second. That should give you a lot of hope that Baker Mayfield's going to have a hard time throwing the football because you guys are going to be super loud.

on Monday night. Texans covering. Let's go. I have the Texans on the money line. It's my lock at a week. Money line. Why not? So you're saying it's going to be within a three-point game. It could be.

All right. What I tell you 19th? No, that was the Rams game ahead. I'm old for one on Texans picks. Maybe I should stay away from this one. No, you got to make a pick, Matt. Make a stand. No, nobody cares.

Nobody's jumping around 10-10. No, nobody's going, hey, Matt, what are Matt, what's your pick on the, Broncos Colts game this week. Well, they should. No, they shouldn't. How do we know? We have our head from our ass on that. We don't know. Well, you should know the Texans. We do not. The Texans scare. The Texans offensive line. Here's what I do know.

It's going to cost CJ Strau the season. You play like a, you played Sunday. He's not standing upright 17 games. Not a matter of if, but win. And I don't know what the, with a quick solution is. My initial thought is keep Ariante Ursiariate left tackle and just go with it. a ghost. Let him take his lumps. Whatever, but I can't imagine a young man who's got promise being shifted around on his offensive line in his very first game is good for his confidence. Well, also

from this offensive line ranking, their best offensive lineman, they say, was Cam Robinson. But he hardly played. Yeah. Dr. Rodel's going to give us some answers on these things next. You ready for the fast 30 minutes of Major Market Radio? Do I ask you a question again?

It's the obligatory wrong question. It was more of a like a, like a fantasy question, Nadi, my own teams. Correct. All right, University of Houston tonight. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Turn out to be a big, I don't know which wide receiver I need to Motto.

Give me the news. I really don't know what I should do. This is 30 minutes at Major Market Radio. We call it Dr. Roto's time to give us his fans. Fantasy Insights, week number two of the NFL season. Toros are riding high. Toros are kicking ass. That's right, Dr. Roto.

Me taking a certain Arizona Cardinal quarterback in the eighth round was pure genius. Would you not agree? Are you giving yourself the self-high-five? Correct. I am. Yes, sir. Yeah, week one, victory laps and fantasy always work out, right, Dr. Rotto? They do. They do. You know, it's so funny.

You know, you prepare for your fantasy. fantasy draft and then week one your team goes into the crapper and then you're ready to throw it all in and then you know what week two everything regulates so by the time it's like week four you know jemar chase if he goes for like 120 yards and two touchdowns this week we'll say oh yeah he's got 160 yards and two touchdowns on the season he's having a great season so it's you got to take everything with a big chunk of salt all right last night uh good game not at spritacal but a good game tell me about the sophomore slumps because we had one here in houston texas last year we C.J. Stroud. Are you anticipating

that for Jane Daniels this year? Well, I mean, look, you lose Austin Echler, and that's a horrible injury. It's a problem. They have a lot. I mean, Green Bay Packers' defense, this is a good team. I mean, they made the Lions look bad. They made the commanders look bad. So

this is a tough one. And the Giants defense is actually a very good pass rush. So I think it's too soon to say that Daniels is struggling. I think what I saw yesterday was there were a lot of opportunities for him to run. he chose not to, and he took a lot of these short outlet passes versus, you know, challenging the defense a little bit. So hopefully he'll be more aggressive in the coming weeks.

All right. Now let's get to this weekend's action. Again, the week one overreaction is certainly in place. So let's give us a couple of names that probably disappointed you last week that people should not be hitting the panic bonnet at this point. How about every star receiver, A.J. Brown. How about J. How about T. Higgins? Oh, yeah. I mean, Brian Brian Thomas Jr. had a touchdown, but it was a rushing touchdown. Who saw that one? Who had that in their bingo card? Malik neighbors.

So look, if you drafted running backs early, you probably loved your games and your teams last week. If you drafted wide receivers, you're hating it. I think it's switch. It all flips this week. And a greatest example that would be. You're talking about heavy on the Cincinnati wide receivers, I'm assuming? Oh, yeah. I mean, that game, I can't imagine that Chase doesn't score and Chase Brown doesn't score and

Brian. Thomas doesn't score. I mean, it feels like a game that should be wide open and high scoring. All right. Brock Purdy, not playing for the Niners this week. How does that impact them at New Orleans? I mean, luckily, they're at New Orleans, so they still should be able to win that one. Mack Jones has played in the NFL before. It's not like he's a rookie in his first start. I don't think they'll be great, but Matt Jones is, you know, is a solid backup in this league. Here's what you do. You throw the ball to Christian McCaffrey. You throw the ball to Ricky Pierceall. I mean, you don't have kiddle. Joan Jennings right now is not a definite that he's going but if he does i think that'll certainly help they should win because they're more

talented but it's going to be a lot closer than people think if you've got a question for dr ronel we'll have that in segment two of this show seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven seven one three two one two five seven ninety for your dr roto questions uh i'm going to say you were surprised that erin rogers threw for four touchdowns like the entire world was how does he back that up this week at home in his debut for the steelers against the seattle seahawks I was shocked at that whole game. I mean, that Vegas had that game at like, what, 37 and a half points or 38 and a half points and it exploded to over 60. The Steelers couldn't stop the run.

The Jets couldn't stop anything. Look, Rogers only threw for 244 yards, but he did have the four touchdowns. I mean, the Steelers are going to do what the Steelers like to do. They want to run the football, and Rogers will throw effectively. I think D.K. Metcalf is fully incentivized to score against his old team. I would give Rogers maybe like 240 and two touchdowns this week. I don't think you're winning fantasy leagues because of him, but you're certainly not going to lose it either.

Miami's implosion last week was, I mean, big time around the NFL. People worried about the future of the coaching staff there. Are they going to have a rough season? What were your thoughts going in and have things dramatically changed after watching them get destroyed by the Colts last week? Well, I think I may have mentioned this in one of the times we've spoken, that I think Mike McDaniel could be the first coach fired. I think Chris Greer could be the first GM fired.

I think this week is it. Really, it's it. Because they were embarrassed last week. If you can't play better at home against the Patriots, you're in big trouble. Now, I think they're going to have a better week. I do. I think Tyreek Hill will have a better week. If not, that guy is going to get traded at some point because he doesn't want to be there.

So I think the shock call that I'm going to give you of the weekend is I think Miami is going to maybe probably win this game and hang on a little bit. Because if they don't and the Patriots pull this out, McDaniel doesn't. and make it to week five. Wow. Is that just philosophical? Is that just the team isn't very good? I mean, there's going to, you know, Tyreek Hill's already grumpy and got some issues. They're off the field with him as well.

I mean, are we sitting Miami players because of this? Well, look, I think you're playing a Chan, you're playing Tyreek and you're playing Waddle. That's it. I don't think you can play too in confidence. You look terrible last week. I mean, they don't even have a tight end to speak of. I mean, they got rid of Jonu Smith to bring up. bringing Darren Waller and Waller's not even playing and their defense looks slow.

I mean, this team is just mismanaged and a mess. But that's the key word there. This team looks slow out there. The Colts scored on every offensive possession. I mean, giant fans have to be wondering, was Daniel Jones this good and they just never realized it? I mean, it was crazy what happened last week. Are we surprised about the slow offensive start for the Lions last week at Green Bay? That's a really great question.

Right now I'm going to chalk it up to the Green Bay Packer defense being exceptional. But lines look stale. Jemir Gibbs had 10 catches for 30 yards. Their offense wasn't clicking there. Their offensive line is not what it used to be. So I am cautious right now. Chicago played well enough to beat Minnesota. They didn't, but they played well.

And if anybody knows the lines, it's Ben Johnson. but I think this should be a week that Jared Gough at home could always trust that. Amal Ross, St. Brown, should have a big week. So I'm still on the lines and still feel that the better team, but I'm slightly concerned.

Great friend of the show, Ross Villarreal is not going to have the Brock Purdy-led Niners this week. He went and got Trevor Lawrence as his starting quarterback this week. How do you think he will fare at Cincinnati? This is why Ross has gone back to back to back. I mean, that's his own pickup issue.

have this week. Oh, Lord. You know what happened last week? Browns deserved to win that game. If they had a kicker, they would have won that game. So what the Browns did was they dominated time of possession. Liam Cohen is going to do the same exact thing. So I'm going to give you a player.

First of all, everybody knows what ETN did. Basial Tutton, T-U-T-E-N, watch this guy. They traded Tank Bigsby, right? Bigsby is now with the Eagles. Tootin is the primary backup. Bigsby had 12 touches last week. I think he has Biggsby's touches this week

and I think he does pretty well. Pooka Nakua 130 yards on 10 catches against the Texans defense that's a good defense as you know will he put up similar numbers not necessarily every week but is this going to be a go-to guy especially as they go to Tennessee this week? Yeah there are people in my industry

who think Puka could end up this year as the number one wide out in fantasy and you see why he's just a target monster. I mean, why doesn't he go eight for 80 every week? There's no reason. The only problem you ever have with him is it feels like every time he goes down, you wonder, is this guy getting up? I mean, he gets smashed in the head, concussion.

You know, if he played 17 weeks, guys should have 144 receptions. That's how good he is. Now, what I love about Devante Adams is that Adams is that guy that they really didn't use the cup that same way last year because he was a slot receiver. I think, you know, third and six, you go to Adams for seven. I love Kyron Williams this week. Love Kairn.

Kiron's scoring a touchdown this week, and I love Puka this week. All right, time now for the Rossville Reale, obligatory question of the week. Ooh, okay. Some guys that we weren't expecting to perform well did last week. I want to know if they can keep it up in your mind. I'm going to give you three names. Daniel Jones, Giovante Williams, and Quentin Johnson. All right.

Daniel Jones, I actually like, but not this week. I think he's in an offense. that's suited for him with a lot of talent around him, with a decent offensive line and a coach who believes in him. So I know this is going to sound really random, but I've got a friend, you know the friend of a friend story. My friends like buddy works at MetLife Stadium. So he's like a security guard there.

He can tell you for a fact that Dable hated Daniel Jones, hated him. So, I mean, when you know that your coach hates your guts, that you're not going to play well. Indianapolis brought him in for a reason, because Anthony Richardson's not very good. I think Jones will suffer this week because they're playing Denver, but on the whole, I kind of like him. Javante Williams is in a good spot. Jane Blues, probably not going to be activated yet again.

Pretty good matchup against the Giants. He's obviously their number one guy. I'm fine with him. Quentin Johnston, I think that's way more luck than skill. This is a guy who drops a lot of passes. I know he caught them last week, but give me Ladd-McConkey. Give me Keenan Allen. Those are the two guys I won on the Chargers.

All right. We'll find out how he feels about the Texans going against the Bucks this week. your phone calls. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. It's hard. There's a face. Oh, with Dr. Rodo, the fastest 30 minutes,

a major market radio sports talk, 7-90. Dr. Rodo, let's get right to it here. Interesting double-header. Well, way more because of the Texans playing the Buccaneers on Monday night. Tampa Bay got into a back-and-forth game with Atlanta. Texans did not score a touchdown. Who sits and who plays in. in this week's game at Energy Stadium?

I think this is a good matchup for the Texans. They've got a very good defense. And as we saw last week, Baker Mayfield was under siege most of that game. I mean, Atlanta really should have won that game at the end. Drake, London, just missed a couple of grabs in the end zone. And Michael Pennix played great football. C.J. Stratt has not been great.

The last few games, he just has not been a quarterback one. But I think the Texans get by this week. Obviously, you're starting Nico Collins, you're starting Egbuka, you're starting Mike Evans, you're starting Bucky Irving. After that, I think I'm going to keep it right there. But I think the Texans pull this one out in a defensive battle. Maybe it's like 2320.

But I don't think there's a ton of fantasy goodness in this one. If Nico struggles, not necessarily dropping passes, he just wasn't a target. Would that give you a major alarm after two weeks that he's not been a part of the Texans' offense? Again, if it only happens this week? Well, I don't know if it's his fault. I mean, how is it his fault when the offensive line is not playing too well? And then look, look, the Rams have a great pass rush. We knew that.

I said that last week. So you're talking about a top five pass defense in the league, right? So the bucks rushed the passer well, but I think Stroud should have more time. I think this is a better week for Nico. Let's give him like seven for 80 this week, and I think we'll be okay. All right. On the phone, Jonathan, we switch over to line B. Is that correct?

All good to go. All right. Let's go to Will on 790 for Dr. Roto. Hi, Will. Hello, I'd start a flex out of DJ Moore, Michael Pittman, or Ricky Pearsall. Yeah, I think right now it's got to be Pearsall. I mean, you've got no kiddle there, and, you know, Mac Jones will throw to Pearsall. Mac Jones is fine.

I think, look, DJ Moore is good, but you've got a lot of guys there. You've got Roma Dunzee, you got Loveland, you got Comet, you got Swift. Piercel, you don't have a lot of issues like that. So I think I'm going to go Pearsall. Let's go to Greg in Livingston on 790. Greg, your question for Dr. Roto. Yes, I want to thank Roto for an undefeated championship season last year, first of all. Congratulations.

It's awesome. Yes, yes, sir. And either Pickens, Shakir, or Johnston. Yeah, I like Pickens this week. I think Dak and Lamb and Pickens are going to have a big week against the Giants. I could see Pickens scoring a touchdown, Lamb scoring a touchdown. Johnson, I'm not going to touch that. game. If I am, I think Hampton

scores and maybe McConkey. So go with Pickens. I think he has a bigger week, Greg. All right. Let's go to Brian on 790. Brian, you're on with Dr. Roto. Go ahead. Hey, Dr. Roto. I'm almost embarrassed to ask this question because I'm thinking I'm overthinking, but Patrick Mahomes or McCarthy?

So, listen, the way to beat the Eagles is through the air. And I think Mahomes going to have to throw the football. Petreco did not look great last week. So I think this is the game This is the game that we're all watching, right? So I'm going to go with Mahomes.

I like Travis Kelsey to score this week. I think Howard Brown will have a decent week. Look, J.J. McCarthy did a sensational job. I mean, really, everybody was burying him at halftime in the second half. He comes back to life. And I think the Vikings are going to win this week. But I think Jordan Mason scores a touchdown. Maybe Aaron Jones.

Let's go Mahomes in a higher scoring game. What did you think of Sam Donald, by the way, in Seattle last week? That's a mess. I mean, think of it this way. One guy caught the football. JSN. Cup, non-existent. Tide-in, non-existent.

Donald looks closer to losing his job than being an all-pro. All right. Koso, what's a Chilican question for Dr. Roto, please? Yes, sir. I picked up Calvin Austin and Quentin Johnson off the waivers. I'm seeing if I should play either one of them were those games won off because I have Juan Jennings who seems to be hurt to speak.

So any help there. Thanks, guys. Yeah, I mean, look, Austin did fine, but that was a very high scoring game. Do I think it's going to be very high scoring this week against Seattle? I don't. Quentin Johnson has ability. He just can run.

Can't catch. So, I mean, look, I think it was more lucky than good. If Joanne Jennings is starting, you play him. It's a great blocker. They never take him off the field. They don't have kiddle. They will use him. Now, if Jennings doesn't play, you know, pivot to Johnson, but that's not.

I'd play Jennings for sure. Is anybody playing Russell Wilson for the Giants? I don't think the Giants want to play Russell Wilson. There's some crazy rumor that Dave will went and said, can I play Jackson Dart? So let me tell you what happened there. He was under siege last week, Wilson, but he didn't have the mobility anymore.

Dart has that mobility, that escapeability, to make plays last longer. So I think Russell Wilson, you're looking at week five or less if the Giants can't get any offense. All right, let's go to River Oaks and say how to Scott for Dr. Rodo 1790. Hi, Scott.

Hey, what's going on, guys? Dr. Rotto, I have Kenneth Walker, Zach Charbonnet, and Jordan Mason. All the research I did pre-drafts that Kenneth Walker was going to be the guy to get Target in the fourth round. I can only start one of those three. Who would you recommend for this week on a week-to-week basis going forward? How should I evaluate my middle-tier running backs, specifically those three guys? Yeah, that's a really great question, honestly. So, look, I think they're ramping up Walker. He was a little injured in training camp, as we know.

Charbonnet looked terrific. When you're trying to decide between those two guys, in games where we think Seattle's going to be losing, you're going to see more Charbonnet because he's a better receiver. In games where we think Seattle's going to be winning, then you're going to see more Walker. I think Seattle's going to be losing this week, so I think Charbonnet is the slightly better play. I love Jordan Mason. He looked real good last week. But Jordan Mason, to me, is more touchdown dependent.

He's not going to catch the football. So I don't know what your league, if it's a standard league, I think Mason's the guy you play every week. If it's a half-point PPR on Mason or Charbonnet, if it's a full-point PPR, then I'm leading Charbonnet this week. The other thing that you can do is go look at where Vegas has the line this week. They have both Charbonnet and Walker at about 57 and a half yards, which tells you, you know, you can't go wrong either way. I just think in a PPR I'd go Charbonnet. Brian for Dr. Rodo on 70. Brian, go ahead. Hey, Dr. Roto, I need a help in my flex.

I've got Trayvon Henderson or Benson from Arizona. What do you think? Yeah, I think Mike Rable went to Josh McDaniels after that game and said, dude, what are you thinking? You've got to get Henderson on the field. Stevenson is slow, Anderson is fast. You know why they lost that game? There wasn't enough Henderson out there. Benson had one big play, but that was against the Saints, and I think it was a lucky run.

I think Connor actually scores this week. give me Trevion Henderson over Benson 10 times out of 10. All right, I got six players here. Sean, in your emails for the future, you can't give me six. Here we go. About two. You get two wide receivers and one flight. Here we go.

Wilson of the Jets. Hill, Evans, Williams of Dallas, ATN, and Cup. I'll say it again. Wilson, Hill, Evans, Williams of Dallas, ATN, Cup. Three of those six. All right, give me E.T.N. Give me Tyreek. And give me...

Garrett Wilson. I was very happy with Garrett Wilson, by the way. I don't know if I'm going to get that for 16 more weeks, but for week one, that wasn't bad, was it? I was shocked. I really was. Justin Fields played out of his mind last week. They really deserved to win that game. And they couldn't stop Reese Hall.

So this week, I think, is going to be a little messy. Really like Josh Allen. Aaron Glenn, if you remember, when he was the defensive coordinator for the Lions, they could never stop a mobile quarterback. It worries me this week. Josh Allen's going to have a big week. Let's go to Augustine for Dr. Roto.

Hi, Augustine. Hey, what so, guys? This is a must-win game. So I'm trying to see, should I start a carbonate or Trayvon-Henderson? It's a must-winner. It's only one week in. I mean, dude, you're Owen 1. You sound like Ross.

Yes, it's a must-win week. But I appreciate the live-in-di attitude. I kind of like Trayvion Henderson. I think the dolphins are actually going to play well. I think Stevenson kind of stinks, and I think Henderson is going to get the football more. Here's what I know about Seattle. It's kind of a mess there right now. Both those guys are getting the same number of touches.

I'll take the shot that Trayvion has the bigger week. All right, come over real quick. Josh for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Josh. Hey, guys. I got Zay Flowers, C.D. Lamb, and Sutton, Starten, and I can't decide between Zay Flowers or Mike Evans. Oh, I'm going to go with Zay, Lamb, and Sutton.

I like Mike Evans, but this is a tough game. This is a really tough game. And Mike Evans did not have a great week last week. It was more at Bucca. So I don't dislike Mike Evans, but Zay Flowers is a great matchup this week. You've got to play him. All right. Last one belongs to Mark on 790 for Dr. Roto.

Go ahead, Mark. Hey, two questions. One, Abert or Mahomes? Herbert. Justin Herbert? I would not recommend Bobby Aber. Okay, Herbert. There you go, we got you.

All right, well, let's go in the homes, yeah, and what's the other one? All right, he was, I think he was, he took the loss on that one pretty easy. We were just easy. All right, Dr. Roto, we ask you once a week to give us an unbelievable knockdown, drag-out for high-end performer for us. We present to you, Dr. Roto's lock of the week. This is the week of number one receivers coming back in place. playing well, I told you I liked lamb, I told you I like Chase, I told you I like

Brian Thomas Jr. But the guy I really like A.J. Brown, whenever they never feed him the football, what happens? He complains and they come back the following week and they find him. How do you beat the Chiefs? Well, look at what the Chargers did. You throw on the chiefs. Well, Jalen Hertz to A.J. Brown. I like A.J. Brown for 100 yards and a touchdown. And that, my friends, is Dr. Roto's. Lock of the week. All right, friends. Where do we find Dr. over the next 72 hours. He's about to tell you right this second. All right. You can find me on Sirius XM Fantasy Sports Radio every Saturday morning from 6 to 9 a.m. Central.

You could find me over at Dr.roto.com. Into the promo code win. We'll get you 10% off our yearly or monthly packages. And of course, on X at DRROTO. That, my friends, the one and only Dr. Roto. Thank you for the time. As always look forward to our visit again next Friday. You got to take care, guys. That is Dr. Roto with us here on Sports Talk 790. next it's non-flora stories mine is from the UK

Ross where's yours from non-flora all right 129 on sports talk 790 non-flora stories next we find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida

and share them with the people it's time for non- I'm going to the UK, gentlemen, on this week's edition of non-Florio stories. If you're new to the show, first for where the hell have you been? Second, like, damn glad to have you. And third, it's a weekly segment where? What do you got? Uh-oh.

You're in the UK? It doesn't say. Okay. Oh, this is what we do stories about weird stuff that happens in the world, but it can't come in the state of Florida because every other radio show in the marketplace. And in the world, for that matter, does stories about what happens in Florida. Okay. I'm going to the UK.

Fox Business reporting August 21st that a UK snack company launched some corn chips this summer. You guys like corn chips? You guys, Fritos eaters? Yes. I like Fritos? Yeah.

I mean, they're the plainest of the plane. But you like the chili cheese, or if they put a little spice on. I like to have them with, yeah, with Wolf Chili and, of course, fresh onions. Correct. Well, the folks that I was in the UK like a flavor as well.

Okay. They launched corn chips this summer that tastes like licking a 9-volt battery. Hmm. Apparently, according to the story, that it was licking 9-bolt batteries for its flavor was a big thing in the 1990s and getting what they say is an electric tingle. Rewind Now offers a snack of a way to revisit one of the 90s weirdest shared experiences. No batteries required. A spokesman said the chips deliver, quote, a very hard-hitting acidic acidic. zing to the tongue, followed by some salty metallic notes.

Salty metallic notes? Notes. The company did go on and say, we do not recommend or condone, licking, biting, or otherwise ingesting real batteries. For now, the chips are only available in Dutch retail outlets. So if you were to put in a list of flavors of chips and or snack corn chips, where would 9-volt battery flavor be on that list?

145th. Yeah, I'm going to be in that same range. By the way, licking a 9-volt battery is disgusting. Now, have I done it before? Yes. Did I do it when I was a kid? Don't you check it to see if they're still working, right? Yeah, yeah.

That's okay. But to sit there and lick it from top to bottom, side to side for its flavor and delight? No thanks. That is the easiest clip in the history of the show. And that, my friend, says my non-flora story. All right. Well, man, I was nervous because I'm in the UK as well.

Let me tell you about Dr. Suhail Anjim, 44 years old, who is a surgeon. And in September of 2023, he was operating on a certain patient. And unfortunately, had to take, quote, a comfort break. as he went and did that, he told the anestestitian to watch over the patient while he took this break and well, he went to go have sex with a nurse. While leaving someone at the operating room,

he went to another room, and the woman only referred to as nurse C. He went and fornicated with her while in the middle of surgery. surgery. Dr. Anjim was gone for about eight minutes. Well, it's like you need sometimes, eight minutes. Came back into the theater and finished the surgery.

No, let me ask you this. When surgeons have one of those six or seven hours surgeries, don't they take breaks? Yes. So you're saying sex would not be an appropriate break? Well, the attorney representing the doctor said, no harm came to the patient when Dr. Angam was absent from the theater. procedure went on without further incident. So where's the issue in this?

Everybody, I mean, some people smoke. Some people want to go to Coke. Some people want to just close their eyes for a minute. Some people want to find Nurse C. Nurse C. And do things with her. Well, Dr. Anjim did apologize, saying it was quite shameful to say the least. I only have myself to blame.

I offer my sincere apologies to everyone involved. And I want the opportunity to put this right. And nurse C was good. Oh, and he didn't say that, did he? No. Okay. I mean, look, this is at the Tameside Hospital in Greater Manchester.

As long as I was under anesthesia, and I was fine, if my anesthesiologist wants to go get some, I mean, I can't overly complain. It was the doctor, yeah. He told the anesthesiologist to watch the patient. He's like, we got to take a quick break. Well, that's what I'm saying doctors do take breaks. He probably washed his hands on the way back, I hope.

Huh, I didn't thought about that. Yeah, I'm sure they were, he was cleansed. properly. Did you have to change your outfit too? Well, put new scrubs on? I don't know. Did the scrubs touch the ground? All right, we're done. Jonathan, what is your non? You're right, I did. What is your non-Florida story, Jonathan? Mine is located in Colorado today at Huron Peak.

It's a mountain with a summit over 14,000 feet. Is this H-E-R-O-N? Is that what it is? H-U-R-O-A. Huron. Huron. Huron. Huron. Okay, yeah, okay.

Thank you, that. So the Associated. the press reported over the Labor Day weekend, there was hikers going up the summit. Okay. You know, doing, you know, hiking things? Yeah, just in hiking. And as they got up to the top of the summit, there was a random

man, one hiker named Legend Dairy. Was seated in a camping chair wearing an ice cream cone costume, sunglasses with a fake mustache, and no one knew who he was. And was out there with a cooler handing out ice cream sandwiches for

everybody who got up to the top of the night. That feels nice. Yeah, well, it's a problem. No problem. He just skated off in the day after he was done ice cream sandwiches and left. Well, this is a sweet story. It was a sweet story. Yeah, it was a superhero. Legendary was seen and now he's not wrong.

He was just too. Legend. Derry ice cream sandwiches. Dressed up in an ice cream cone. So it's a feel good story. I had a feel good story too. Ross, would you, if you were to dress up as a dessert, what would you dress up as? Strawberry shortcake.

I'd be a banana split. What was wrong with? Yeah, man. You like getting banana split. That's cool. Banana split may be the best dessert out there. Multiple scoops. Good banana.

Cherry. Whip cream. Boom. I don't like cherries. I know I'm going to be in the minority on this, but just a plain, just very well-made New York-style cheesecake. No fruit. No topic at all? No.

Really? That's interesting. With the graham-cracker crust. Graham-cracker crust is an absolute. I do like cheesecake. I would prefer a topping of them. But it has to be the right amount of, like, you know. the right amount of like fluffiness, but also not too soft.

Hmm. New York cheesecake a slice and cost you about $14.15, but more times and not, it's worth every penny, especially when you go to the delicatestants. Very nice. So you walk up 14. Rossi, you've done some fair share hiking. You go up 14,000 feet and you can hand an ice cream cone.

Would you be appreciative? I would eat it. From legendary. There's a, when I went to Guatape in Colombia. Yeah. There's the El Pinole that you hike up. And at the top, they have like Agua frescoes and stuff. It's not, I got a beer, actually.

I thought they had 22-year-old females up there. Oh, I'm sorry, El Pignon, not Pignol. Same thing. Yeah, we've figured it out. El Pignon, yeah, you can go up there and then, yeah, I bought a beer. It was quite refreshing. More refreshing than, say, a shower beer? It's, uh, that's about 7,000 feet in elevation.

Ooh, shower beer is great, too. Jonathan, you're out of shower beer, bro? You know, they told me about it, and I did not, not too long ago. And? And? Yeah, I came out refreshed. I'm not a lie. See?

Huh. You get a hot, especially after like a long workout or you're doing the yard or you got, or your day of moving. It's nice. After you're a little sore, you want the hot shower and the ice cold beer. It's nice. It's like a 9-volt battery. With a zing? Yeah.

The metallic zing. With a metallic finish. 144. Let's play, believe it or not, now we were going to do buccaneers, but Ross said, no, we're not. So what are we doing this on instead? That would be Canelo Alvarez and Terrence Crawford, who are facing off on Netflix this weekend. Big Fight in Vegas. And they're spending the money with us, so we don't really...

Oh, I'm sorry. Met. There you go. Much better. Tricks. Now, they want to spend money and send us there. We'd be glad to be there. I know.

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That's a great date night, great family event. Get out there. TotaCenter.com for Trans-Siberian Orchestra tickets. You can win them now if you play this game, which we ask you one simple. I'm sorry. Ask you one simple question. What? Five minutes left to go on the show.

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Canel Alvarez has stated that his... favorite boxer of all time is fellow Mexican countryman Julio Cesar Chavez. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No, it's Muhammad Ali. Duh.

Mike on 790 Mike, what was your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show? Talking about the Texans. Cannell Alvarez is a big Michael Jackson fan and even plays his music during training sessions. Beat it is his favorite MJ song.

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They have I'm sorry Why don't you have the family tree in front of you Canella Alvarez you don't know that All right Bill what's your favorite Trans-Ciberian Orchestra song Only if Urban Magic Johnson's son and Dwayne son is in that band.

That's enough. Terrence Crawford is a two-time Golden Gloves national winner and represented the United States at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Hell yeah or not. Not? No, that's right.

Statement number two for the win, we hope that you lose. In 2024, Terrence Crawford was in the crowd at a WWE Smackdown event where he was handed a chair and smacked Grayson Waller with it. Hell yeah or not. That's unbelievable. Oh, not.

Hell yeah. Bye. The best part of it. What a way to start the Friday. Renee on 790. Renee, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? The non-flora story. As a teenager, Terrence Crawford was kicked out of five different schools all for fighting.

Hell yeah, or not? He was. If I've said it once in a thousand times, you've got to know if your friend is a troublesome, young man and if he gets out of fights for school, I screwed that up. My bad. I try. That's okay. Next week. It's the end of the week. It is. Jay and love it got seven. Howdy, Jay, you're ready to play believe it or not? Hell yeah or not.

Hell yeah. As a child, Terrence Crawford's mother toughened him up by offering neighborhood kills money to beat up her son, but Terrence never lost. Hell yeah, or not? Not. No, we just told him how badass he was in school. No, that's kind of crazy. Terrence Crawford is different. He sounds like he scares the hell out of me is what he does.

All right, Rossi, we gave away no TLO stuff. So we'll hold those till next week when I'm back. Okay. All right, so here's the plan. What's the plan? Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday next week, Ross is in. I'm going to be in New York at the NBA broadcasting meetings hanging out with very famous people.

That's all you. That's it. I zoned out. You're going to have a full. Four hours of Texans, Buccaneers break down. Chris Gordy hasn't texted me back. Don't know how available he is.

It'll be me and a cast of characters. It will be. And you'll also be talking about whether or not the Astros are in first place in the American League West come Monday. Can I just say one more thing? Please. Give me some calls next week, folks,

because I'm going to be doing three straight pre-imposts and, I mean, I normally carry this show, but you got to carry even harder when Matt goes out. And you were rude to end the show. That is so on brain. Okay, I'm sorry. Strike the first part. I have to carry this. the show with Matt out. Plus, I'm doing

three straight pre-imposed, so I'm going to be tired. That feels a good. Call me next week. Up next, the A team on Sports Talk 790.