The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Even The Series vs Yankees, Leading AL West By 4, NFL Opener Tonight

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

Astros Even The Series vs Yankees, Leading AL West By 4, NFL Opener Tonight

Good morning and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Oh, Blue Eyes. And I feel like we do this at least once a year, but it's just never going to change. The greatest song ever about a city. Period. End of story. Not even debatable.

I'll go with a foggy day in London town. Oh, my God. I'm kidding. We got Jonathan bags, got a fresh haircut It's good to see a smiling face back Looks refreshed Yeah It's like I'll brace him down

He's ready for you to yell at him again His testicles are in regular size today Well we don't know how that way They're probably are regular size Are you checking? No he's the one that admits it Frequently Why are you checking another man's hog nuts? This is weird

You know, it's weird Two minutes into the show No, I'd rather not I'd rather not ask You go in there and do that privately Suck it, Yankee He's key. Suck it, Yankees.

He went to the game, didn't he? Suck it, James and Garden Oaks. A WF.A. Yen 66 on your dial. Hey. Okay. So we have to go through a plethora. Oh, God, she's amazing today. All right.

Matt, see, I, Matt tricked me. He was like, put it on the N-M-O-B network. It's thought, like, you know, we're going to watch some baseball stuff. He really just- Well, I'm watching some shihadi. And I like a shihadi. All right. And what position does she play?

Anywhere she wants to play. I thought you were going to say catcher. All right, anyways. All right. First of all, outstanding comeback. It does make a difference when you have the greatest hitter in your lineup available to you. Yeah, that's so funny how that works. It does work out that way.

The home plate umpire. Woo! Is the greatest of all time. Apparently, you can do a Google search on him and you can find a plethora of strike calls that are missed. I mean, game after game. team after team and honestly man i listened to aaron boone's post game press conference in his in their in their he got tossed he got tossed but he was much more he was reserved talking about whether it's a call mr two here and again he did the moment you're going to say a lot of things

but that home played umpire last night was clearly team astro brian walsh is his name hey that last call was on the edge of the edge of the edge. And I brought this up on the 10th inning show with you, and I want to get your honest opinion. I know you weren't listening. By the way, you would have loved it. Three plus hour game. He had a decent number of calls.

That's good. Let me get to the umpire scorecard first. Brian Walsh is the umpire's name. Okay. Overall accuracy 90%. That's not good. That's not great. Overall favor plus 1.4 runs for Houston.

That seems devastating. They won by one. Overall consistency, 90%. That's also not good. Three most impactful calls. Bottom of the eighth, Williams to Trammell, two outs base is loaded two o' count. Strike is called a ball.

Tremel won up walking. That gave the Astros a lead on that. Bottom of the first, Warren Altuve, one outrunner at first, one two count strike is called a ball. That didn't make a difference. Top of the fourth, Alexander to Stanton. No outspaces, empty. Two-O count.

Ball is called a strike. called ball accuracy 93% average 97 called strike accuracy 85% is the average excuse me he is 85 the average is 88%. So well below average. Yeah. So I don't ever want to hear from people. I won't mention names, Adam Clayton. This stuff evens out. I tell you this over and over and over again.

The Astros caught, I don't know, at least four to five calls yesterday that were. that would have been reviewed and changed if for the ABS. But let me ask you this, and I brought this up on the Tenth Ennics show last night. The box hurts, and we've talked about this many times. Yes.

When you take it away, it's hard, or when they make it, you know, like more... Or there's special... ...on stadiums. Ross, he missed a bunch of calls, but they weren't atrociously missed. No. And so I think if you were to say

human element stays in the sport, you could say how many true, true calls are like the embarrassing you shouldn't be behind home plate calls. Now, if you go look on, if you go Google or go on Twitter to find Brian Walsh, you can find some heart of the plate strikes that were not called in other games. And I don't remember if there was one per se last night that was so blatantly off the zone. Yes. That's why you're going to get. mad at me, but... But my point is this, and I'll let you finish. There were missed

calls, a lot of them benefiting the Astros, but they weren't so bad off that I'm thinking this guy needs to be fired from his job. That's why they do, the Upscore card you were reading has expected accuracy. Because calls in the edge, if somebody's missing, if every

ball goes down the middle, you're expected accuracy is 100%. Yeah. If everything's on the edge, you're expected actually goes down. So his accuracy was 90%, his expected accuracy is only 91. There's a lot of calls on the edge. It was a lot of edge calls. Yes. So, to your point.

So as much as I want to say, my God, that was a horrifically call game. I've seen Brian Walsh do way worse. He had a lot of difficult decisions to make. And yeah, you have a ball coming in with movement at 95 miles an hour or whatever,

and you're judging an imaginary box. It's tough. It's a hard job. It is a very hard job. That's why, when you say, could give to the machines. Let's help the machines can help you.

Let's now let the machines help out. Rather than using an imaginary box, they could actually get every call right. But they refuse to. Because the box doesn't lie. And look, we've argued about how much we love box. We love the box because it does absolutely give you what you want. I'm more of a beat guy.

Oh, you are? Yeah. Beat over the box for sure. Oh, I'm definitely team box. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Huge win? Must-win game.

And guess what we have today debuting at 1030? Oh, we might have done this before, actually. M-O's? I think we might have. We did? Yeah, a couple of years ago. Oh, I don't forget.

They were really classic. It might have been last year. We're going to do MOs. I'm not saying we did for sure. We're going to do M-O's at 1030. We're going to go to the Mariners' Twitter. count and see how they're feeling. Because they were down, as you sat down to watch the Astros game or listen to it here on 790,

the Mariners were down 8-0 after the first second inning. The Ray's scored four apiece in both the first and second inning. God bless, first of all, God bless the rays. And secondly, God bless the fact the Mariners just blanked the bed on the road. They just do. And thirdly, God bless CJ Stroud. Oh, my God. Since he won the Mariners, they've hardly winning.

Just the best. best. They're playing like two 75 balls since he put the uniform on. He put the hat on. You're welcome. Houston. And look, if he survives this week, we'll really want to thank him next week. But my thought is he could be breaking his leg this Sunday against the Rams. And also

congratulations of the hitting coaches. Doing a great job with Yordon Alvarez. Well, it's funny because you know, he got four for five. He was going for five hit games. Something that Jose LTV has never done. He swung at a pitch about one inch off the ground trying to get that fifth hit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, ground ball to second base. But the reality is this. People are like, now, this gives further indictment against sitting, you order and our eyes. What if the day off freshen him up? Exactly. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. What if his hand was sore two days ago and yesterday he was fresh, so he got four hits?

Yeah. You don't know? I don't know. We don't know these things. I don't want to. I don't want to talk about it right now. We do know, however, that it's universal. There ain't anybody buying this cross-up thing anymore.

Your Don't Alvarez- Oh, my God. It continues to go violated. Every baseball content creator on the planet is weighed in. Yep. And you know what's funny, like 99% of them are ex-players. Yeah. They're like, man, I know these wars. I've been the Major League dugout before.

I've been on a Major League field. I know what I see as a cross-up or I see somebody being a douche and Framber's that. I mean, the question is going to be, how much did Framber cost him? Now does one start make a situation? No. But his reputation for the last two months, which was already sketchy to begin with, is further on. Ever since he opened his Twitter, you know what, getting on social media poisoned your mind. Yeah. I mean, again, because whoever's running the account, and I know somebody says, oh, it's going to be Framer.

There's no chances from her. Verifies it. He says it's his. Now, of course, it doesn't mean he's running it. Correct. All right. We have a very busy show today. We have Brian McTaggart at 11 o'clock today.

Oh, wonderful. 1130. I just don't get it. We're going to check in in Los Angeles with the host of the Sean McVeigh TV show for ABC 7 is going to join us today. Not Sean McVeigh, but the host. Okay. And he'll join us, I think either 12 or 12, 20, depending on what time works best for him. Wonderful.

We have, believe it or not today. Oh, great. And news and noon. You and me. Jonathan's back. Jonathan is back. Hog nuts is back. And we have an NFL opener tonight.

That's right. Cowboys Eagles. Yeah. Eight and a half point. I don't know if the NFL folks said, you know, let's put a game one, the very first game on the season where one team is... Have you looked at this total? I'm not. I haven't either. It's got to be at least 50, right?

I wanted to... Man, maybe I heard 46.5 for my making that. Oh, really? Utah. I'm just throwing a number against a wall. I'm just guessing. Yeah, me too. Yeah.

There's going to be some points I feel like tonight. Oh, 48 and a half. Okay. So we split the difference on that. By the way, Jordon with that four-hit day yesterday still sticking at one home run, which means, in theory,

if we're playing the price is right, my gut feeling is better than your gut feeling. Okay, so you think he's not, it's September 4th. He ain't going to get one more? No, I'm just saying for now. I take wins when I can. Well, I had to.

Well, you took it the loss. You said he wasn't going to hit any. You thought he wasn't going to play the rest of the season. You're just going to save your money now. What money? You know, when you tie a parlay, you've got to save your money. You get your money.

Cash out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but he already lost. He said zero, and it's gone over zero. But Jonathan, we're playing the prices right. That's the air. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah, okay. It's a lesson for you.

Injuries aren't predictive. Yeah. All right, here's some exciting news. All right, so last night, Devin Williams pitches for the Yankees, and that's a godsend because he sucks, and he has sucked all year long. All my Yankee buddies hate Devin Williams. He got tossed. Aaron Boone got tossed, and then Jazz Chisham got called out then the

game yesterday. He wasn't happy, and then he was telling people S&D on... Oh, I'm sorry. Ha! He pulled to me. You just pulled the Jonathan. I didn't know. So I'm going to just forget, race, what Ross just said. Yeah, delete that.

So jazz... No, don't dump it. No, don't dump it. So the guy named Damon 98 goes, this is absolutely uncalled for and disgusting behavior by Jazz Chisham. A gross representation of our great sport. A suspension of tank games feels like the appropriate course of action. Jazz Chisham goes to his Twitter account, says SMD.

So he's having a sound mind day? What does that mean? It's actually it's a barbecue term. It's a sizzle meat delicately. Okay. I've got to be honest with you. And I've been on Twitter since 2008, I want to say. Two different accounts, three different accounts.

One of my account in Minneapolis. I had the... Burner Thomas over here. I got the Wade Busters, H-O-U, which is good. The media woman in the dining room. with the Astros like, you're going to break up the way of the night? I said, God willing, I'm going to. Oh, yeah, she's nice. Yeah, she's nice. And then I had a, what was the one, when my account got. 790 blessing or something

like that. So I've had three or four. But point being is this, I've never, I've been rude to people on Twitter before and I've told them what they can do with themselves, but I've never sworn at them. Like, I don't like to swear on them. I may have done it like one or twice. It is what it is. You got in a fight with somebody on Twitter yesterday. No, well, I did have violence threatened against me. That's every day on Ross's TV. I didn't realize. I got to start looking at your timeline more often.

I'm making jokes about the hitting coaches. Uh-huh. And then people are getting taken it way too seriously. Calling me a narcissist and threatening violence. Well, one of those is true. Oh, come on. What? You know.

Jonathan, how does Ross feel? Here we go. Here comes to the biggest projection in the history of radio. When he loses him to tell the truth, does he take it like a man or does he piss him own about it? You know? Well, it's because generally you have bad takes when I lose. See, that's the reaction we get. Oh, that's all.

It's perfect. It fits. All right. 713, 212, 570. But I've never told anybody SMD. You've thought it. Oh, no question. I mean, my difference is he hit post and you don't.

My favorite is when I tell people, hope you don't get in a car accident. Yes. But if you do hope your injuries are minimal. Yes. And I think way worse. Like my tech, if we were ever super close friends and I gave you my number, you would be amazed and disappointed at me at the same time about how rude I can be. Yeah, I would say amazing and disappointed is about accurate. I mean, it's fair.

I can't argue that at all. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-190. Brian is with us at 1024. Thomas show with Ross, Brian. Good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. I've got a couple of questions for you, but a quick just point on last night's game, when you start to see this offense of what it can be, I think last night was a better indication, and hopefully we see a little bit more of that. Yorda just makes such a difference.

If you can get Myers back, it just lengthens that line up. One more spot, one more spot. So that helps. I was encouraged to see Paredes actually taking ground balls. and man, if you could somehow get that back, even if in a D.H. roll and figuring out how to maybe incorporate him with some days off for some other guys, that'd be huge because I think a lot of these struggles started when he left. But then a couple of questions. And one thing I don't get, and it happened mainly because Luis Garcia started him, but I know a couple of years ago, MLB sent him a note saying he had to change the Rock.

the baby. Otherwise, it would be considered a balk. But I wonder if they sent the same thing, if you guys have ever watched like Johnny Quato, he used to do like a deal where he like shucked and jibed and dropped his shoulders. And Nester Cortez looks like sometimes when he throws, he's having a seizure. You know, he'll like with that leg around and do all of that. And so I wonder, I guess what I don't get is how they can call that and say what

Garcia was doing was a balk, but they still allowed Nestor Cortez to get away with some of the stuff he's doing, because he'll lift his leg and kind of make a move, but that leg won't cross, so apologize, I'm going through the car wash for you. That's okay.

We'll let you go. We got you. Thank you. Thank you for the phone call. In fact, was it he only rock the baby fully from the wind-up. Yeah. Of course, nobody on base. Hold up, hold up. Who was the, who got the balk last night that, uh, Yaron and Alvarez saw coming. He matter of fact, he whispered it to the umpire and the umpire saying that was a balk.

I'm trying to think it was a Duval or was, Duval or was, it wasn't Williams. I'm trying to look at the box score. Help me out here, Houston, Texas. Who was the, there was a, there was a balk. Oh, it was Duval. Yeah. He was rocking. He was rocking. He was rocking. He was Williams? No, it's Duval. I'm looking at the box score. And the eighth? Yeah, it was an eighth inning. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, you're right. Sorry, Deval just came in. So, I don't know if you saw, but Yordan saw Doval do what he did, and he basically stepped in front of the bag or in front of the plate and said, man, and then part was like, oh, yeah, yeah. That guy came around and said, oh, it's a balk, everybody went crazy. So here's what I was told about Garcia. They told him a long ahead of time.

We've been watching you, and it's not legal. So I think it's going to be questioned an out of if, but when if there's, if there are questionable deliveries being made in baseball, the Empire. will go to the union and say, we've got a picture of yours that we believe is balking every time. So if you're getting away with it now, that's good. I don't think they're being selective about who they're saying, don't use this delivery and don't, who's not. So Doval was a great example of that last night. He's a rocker.

And one of the reasons they wanted to not rock the baby is because of the pitch clock. So I don't know how much of it was about a balk or his movement or how much of it was the pitch clock. It could be. But it doesn't have both, yeah. It doesn't matter. By the way, I did get a very interesting, real quick, before we get to Mariners Overreactions. I did get a caller yesterday. Elderly gentleman.

His name was Dr. Something. I forgot his name. He doesn't go by his first name. Good working? No. He's dead. Thanks for asking. Doctor, whatever.

And he said, I'm trying to think of the exact phrasing he said. So he calls a show and he says, I know I'm about to give you a very unpopular take. And I was setting myself up. Now, granted, I was also signed Billy Wagner. I was very tired yesterday. He said the moral thing to do would be to release from Bervaldez. What? That things are more important in life than the way he acted two days ago.

Okay. And I said, honestly, sir, doctor, whatever his name was, I said, I would treat that just the opposite. If you released him with a month left to go in the season, you would be, I think, significant. hurting the Astro's chances to win the division. I still think Frymer is going to have something left in the tank. And he just like, some things are more important life than winning. And I'm like, that is actually not accurate. In baseball, in any team sports you play, the most important thing is winning.

It's not like he pulled out a pistol and shot him. Well, some felt that way. He was angry and frustrated and, well, crossed up his catcher. All right. Let me ask you, boys this. Do we go with a Seattle-based song for M-O's? Okay, what do you mean? Like Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Nirvana.

Sir Mix-A-Lot? Who? Jimmy Hendricks? I'm going to let you two of you figure out which song you want to come back with. Now remember, I'm going to be reading things over this song, so let's not make sure it's something so crazy that nobody will understand the message. We have M-O's, Mariner, Overreactions. Next, 1029, Sports Talk, 790.

We decided to go against the grunge and go to the grunge and go to the good old fashioned song that just hits. Get ready, relax. And by the way, for the honor of Framber, he's going to stay. It'd be dishonorable to release him as we present to you something we like to call. Mariners, over. Reaction. M.O. Let's go. Mariner's over. Reaction. Right here on 790. All right. The Mariners Twitter account last night. says headed to Atlanta for a three-game set. Oh, no.

Final Tampa Bay 9, Seattle 4. It's a sure flight. About an hour. How many likes? 659 likes. Okay. 10 bookmarks. 123 retweets.

I'll let you handle the retweet. I'll let you handle the retweet. 419 comments. 419. 419. That's absurd. Here we go. A picture of a guy choking that says that's a choke job.

That coming from at Just a Sparky. Next, fate is Crypto-O-3, team-only meaning tomorrow, then go do something fun. Okay. I guess a little team-building exercise. Red Raider Man says Raiders catching you by midnight. That didn't happen because the Rangers lost yesterday. Joe from Seattle says, bro. Did the Mariners lose?

trying to end up my ass. Syrex says 7367 goodbye playoffs and it says sell with the S and the Seattle logo. Oh man. At Tarzan 1-211.09 says this team needs Jesus.

Let's see here. At Jeffrey with a bunch of numbers says Atlanta's excited to see a well-playing, well-managed team. Yikes, that feels personal. at Huinios Juarez, multicolored, whatever. Lou Panella cursed us again. O and two since meeting.

I guess he was at a game earlier this week. At B.J. Elferson says sell the team and fire everyone. I'm tired of this poverty franchise. At Kevin R. Burnett says they need a rainout or three. Let's see here. At Eddie Lindenstein says, They haven't won a road series since I opted back into my season tickets. Sorry, everyone.

So guys like, I'm committing and now they've lost. Let's see here. Oh, at Paul underscore DB says Mariners are who we thought they were. Okay. Let's see here. Oh, at loss underscore Jaden. I speak for everyone in all caps when I say that we are done with you. The NFL starts tomorrow and we are no longer.

longer watching. At Coco's crazy card says, well, maybe we will make the playoffs another year. Liz Buck just says, please win. Oh, at Riot, the mute says, so we're just giving up on this season,

right? Let's see. At CH Collectibles, Dan Wilson out. That's our manager. Let's see. Oh, the sticks and home fries, bruh, what are you doing why why is the annual breakdown so on point

and let's do a couple more here anything on the retweet side that you want to mention oh no I was still looking at the replies as well I like this flask with the Mariners logo on it let's say that's true paperback writer Tim Brindle says don't worry a lot of teams break their slump versus the Braves at Rocky with a bunch of numbers says the team

finally trades for bats and the whole team lays an egg and let's see a couple more here this is pathetic it feels like we just never will get over the hump and actually have a legitimate world series contender and one more

quotes yeah go ahead says mariners forgot how to play baseball let's see another mariner's loss and it's a oh here's one for you meme of Trump looking at something

keep going past Atlanta to Cancun thanks prayer signs And that, my friends, is M-O's. Oh, let's go. M-O. Let's go. Mariners, over.

Reaction right here. It's 790. It feels good when somebody else has those overreactions. Yeah. See, everyone, not everyone. Certain sectors of the fan base who like to be miserable every single day. Could be worse. My guy, Mike's been sent me 10 emails yesterday.

Are you serious? During the game, yeah. What did he say when they won? He didn't say anything. Oh, he didn't say anything when they won the frigging game? I was thinking about... See, these are the jackasses I hate. I'm sorry.

Mike, you're a miserable human being. I was thinking about Ford him to you. I don't want them. I told you. Block his email. Please. It humors me. You can do it.

No, no, it pisses me off. I know. They won the game. You don't say, hey, nice rally. Great job. Yordon. What a wonderful win by the Astros. Brian O'Bray, you gave up a three-run shot and they still won the game.

Congratulations, Stroes. Four games up in first place. Let's go. Can I read them? How about we do this? Let's read them to a song. Let's read them while I take deep breaths. Okay.

Try to focus on positive things. You know what? Okay. What's a good, what's your happiest song? When you need a song, and I'll let you want to go. Feel good? Oh, no, no, no, no. I mean, how about Marvin Gay, let's get it on?

That's, no, that's a sexual song. Okay. How about Lovely Day Bill Withers? That's good and that's not Yacht Rock. All right. All right, Jonathan, let's get some lovely day going here because I want to read Mike the email. And how about this? You read a couple sentences of him and then I will talk about something that's positive and good.

Can we do that? Mike sends me an email. I don't have the time. 7.53. Can anyone on this effing team hit, fire the hitting coach? Turn it up. They scored eight runs. then he sends me an email at 816.

Why do you think I'm crazy? They've all been ruined by Cintron. There are major internal problems going on too. I told you our nerd third baseman could get some blank started. Well, it's a mess right now. You know, we all woke up this morning, and every day is a gift in this life of ours and an opportunity to put smiles on our face

and smiles on the faces of others. 823. God, this team frustrates me. Some of my favorite things in life are puppies, our young children or toddlers, a child's laugh, getting a wonderful loving text from someone that you care about. 831. My eyeballs are burning watching this. I'm so glad I don't have a show tomorrow and have to talk to people like me. Turn it up. Mike Snell at 859.

Killing it today. No more effing days off. Let's talk about Alvarez. Then he comes around at 1002 and says, okay, I never seen. saw this comeback coming. Okay, at least he said something positive. Then he follows it at 1028, almost blew it, gift third strike.

Oh my God. That's it. I need you to block this person. I don't know. It's a good bit. It's a good bit. Mike the unhappy astro fan. Hmm.

We always like a little Bill Wethers. Man, I'm so sorry he passed. I mean, everybody's going to pass, but damn, they're getting, what a magical voice. You know to see, when sometimes on a bad mood on the way, home from work after my 90 mile drive or a running minute drive. I put Bill Withers on it.

I roll the windows out and I yell at this song. Lovely day, it gets people going. It does. I love that song. People are like, who's that really attractive bald man in the car singing Bill Wethers? Not one person has ever thought or said that. There's not one, many, many, many. Not a single.

There are women in this town like, are you married? I'm like, yes, very happily married. Thanks for asking, no. I'm here, but, you know, I can't, I can't satisfy all of you. You know what, Matt, where I'm trying to be positive. Yeah, you're great. You're extremely. I don't think I need you cackling.

I don't think I don't need you cackling. And you're the pick? Yeah. Oh, yay, yay! You heard him. If he likes me, everybody's going to like me. That's fine.

You look great, Matt. All right. Brian McTaggart in 17 minutes now. Apparently, he's on a boat. What? Like a cruise? No, he's like... Is he going to get service?

He's, I'm saying... He's been calling us from a satellite phone? How many times is the feed going to be interrupted during that? Oh, great. I'm really looking forward to this. I'm just throwing it out there as a possibility. Or does he get off the boat, come in and do a nice commercial visit with us without having to worry about any of that kind of stuff? All right.

By the way, we forgot to mention Spencer Irrigetti is on the intro list with elbow. We didn't have to mention that. Elbow inflammation, Maddie. Oh, excuse me. Which is what Brandon Walters had for like a month plus and then he got shut down. Tommy John. You saw Corridis is taking ground balls. Oh, by the way.

Did we hear anything about Josh Hater? he was supposed to have follow-up imaging. By the way, I would not be... I'm sorry, he's... Essex not playing this year. I mean, I don't think so why, but... I give him plenty of support for trying to do it, but it's just not happening.

Well, one step in his recovery was getting some good news from the imaging and trying to resume baseball activities, and he's doing that. So I'm with you, it's probably not going to be... I could probably be an impact player for the Astros down the stretch. At least he's out there. At least he feels good enough to be running at 50%. And he said. That he is.

That he is. 713212. And he's given at least a try. 713-212. 5790. Let me tell you, if you're threatening violence against my pal here, sports RV, you've got the answer to me. And let me tell you something. I'm not going to physically fight you.

Oh, that'll get them. I'm going to ruin you in other ways. Everybody needs to relax. We're just talking baseball on Twitter, folks. I know people. I don't know as many people as Michael Barry, but I know people. No. Or Tillman Fertita?

I know people. John, you stay away from sports rave. All right. I think I should be okay, I guess. 11 o'clock, McTaggart, 1130. I just don't get it. 12 o'clock news at noon. We'll go to L.A. at 1220.

Man, what a jam-pack show. Yeah. This should be great. By way, one week from today. day the season debut of oh is it ross's rotten five the rotten five now i've decided to never do the rotten five when did you start with us i haven't done it though okay uh i've made an executive decision with the rotten

five first of all it's so good but it takes a lot of work on days where you have to do the rotten five i will be doing believe it or not this makes a lot of sense yeah i want to be i'm a team player yeah it's finally time you shoulder some of the load on the show mr texas says hey i'm willing to contribute as much as i can of the show who is that me no it's not you. Jonathan, we had free barbecue here from

Delician. J. Bar M. sponsor of this station, free barbecue. I had some ribs. A lot of them. Ribs, brisket, beans,

potato salad, all for... Did I have potato salad? Yes. Did I have a jalapians? Yes. I'm trying to finish my sentence here.

All for Dan Matthews's birthday. You fraud. Why am I fraud? I'd free, delicious, well-smoked Brisket. And he calls himself Mr. Texas. Hey, when you go to a Chinese buffet, do you eat every item on the buffet

Lina? No. It was literally ribs and brisket. That's it. There was no general chicken. There's no pepper steak. There's none of that. There was two items of meat and you only got one. You skip brisket. You're not Mr. Texas. I'm Team Ribs. And when you think

of Texas, you think of ribs and you think of me. And I don't think of you. You were the worst? The worst. Duggan. Sevedati. Good morning. morning. Hi, guys. How are y'all? Wonderful.

Great. Excellent. Hey, man. This might be a little bit early for the take about the whole situation with, like, what's the segment that y'all have? I just don't get it. 1130. Don't, don't start early. We don't, we don't do anything premature on this show.

Okay, so I would like to just say, never have I ever. So maybe that's another good segment that you guys can do for me. That doesn't sound great. We're not trying to get girls drunk at the dorm room. Why don't you do that on your podcast, Aggie-Duck? Yeah. We can. We can.

But if y'all want it, I'd be more than happy to let you guys have it. Yes, you're welcome. You've been doing this for 15 years longer than I have. But guys, so you look at Astros Twitter last night. And never have I ever wanted to have Astros fans, channel, Yankee fans, or even Patriot fans. I mean, can we just act like we've been there before and just say, hey, we'll pay attention. when we get to the playoffs. And this going through this whole emotions of up and down, we're going to lose.

I mean, Michael was saying last, Mike Schwab was saying that, you know, we're going to lose the whole series. And then all of a sudden we're back in the win column again. And we not only do that, but we pick up a game on Seattle and we pick up a game on Texas. It's baseball, people. It's the way that it works. It's up and it's down. It's back and it's fourth.

It's left and it's right. I mean, the whole situation with baseball is, I mean, Bull Durham is one of the best movies of all time. And I think that a lot of people need to understand Bull Durham, especially after what happened with Framber and Salazar. Because if Salazar catches Framber next time, I wouldn't be shocked to see two to three home run happening. It's like, yeah, fairball. Oh, he's going to pull a, he's going to pull a, what was Kevin Koster's name in the movie? Crash. Crash Davis. Crash Davis.

Yes, sir. Crash Davis, when you speak of me, speak well. There you go. But no, guys, I just think that Astro's Twitter needs to really, really take a chill pill, maybe some Zanx, something to calm everybody down. Because I have a really good feeling now that the numbers are starting to turn a little bit. I realize that we're going to Arlington. But I don't know, guys. It's starting to feel like that this is going to be a little bit of a playoff run.

Well, it's four games. Thank you, AD, for the phone call. Astros Twitter has always been the worst in the marketplace, but it's at its all-time worst this year. And God forbid how bad it's going to be when they don't make the playoffs. Because guess what? This run is going to ultimately end. It is.

The Atlanta Brave's great run of all those years that came to an end. Okay, I'm glad it's just not just me. No, Astros, Twitter, you are the worst by far and not even close. Even over Texans, we're going to win the Super Bowl. Goofy-ass Twitter, that's stupid too. That's not happening. Davis Mills of the truth. Right.

I want to seek more Graham Mertz. What? What? Stop cuss and discussing Graham Mertz. Okay? And then the worst part of Astros for the last 48 hours

is I want this season to end. This isn't worth it. There's 70, they're 14 games above 500. And four above Seattle. Brian McTaggart. Brian McTaggart. Oh, Brian McTaggart.

Hey, he's a fine Scots-Hirishman. I want you to come back with the Gilligan's Island theme because I believe he's on a boat. So you're a bit right back Then you'll hear a tale A tale of a faithful trip

That started from this topic boy A boy this tiny ship So You're a beat writer for a team It's a strenuous schedule Get to the ballpark at 3 every day You're riding to 11, 1130 Game went late last night

It's a grind And you're thinking yourself Well, the average beat reporter's probably Just at his house Taking a nap maybe watching some of his stories or the prices right now. Brian McTackard's apparently I've been selling this morning. Brian, where the hell are you?

I'm at my house. Well, I was not on a boat. I live very close to water so I can, my morning walk, I have access to different water areas. So yeah. That MLB.com money ain't bad. I didn't realize how much money you made. I spend some time and thought at the water every day.

It's great. You know, that's beautiful. You know, we need Astros' Twitter to do that, Brian. Yeah, it clears your mind. I went down there and I looked at the calm water and I started wondering about C.J. Stroud wearing the Mariners hat. Oh, yeah.

This is brilliant. He cursed the Mariners. God bless it. That's what the water can do for you. That's what the water can do for you. All right, now, what can the baseball knowledge do for you? That's what Brian McTagher does for us every Thursday here on the show. First of all, great win last night.

The Astros, I think, were beneficiary of a few calls. Clearly, the Yankees would agree with me on such notion. But it also underscores the value of Yorraise and what he does, lengthen this lineup. And by the way, he just strikes fear in opposing teams. And it's so nice to have him back. And I don't care if he takes a day off here and there, whatever the case may be.

Because obviously, in my mind, Brian, the day off work because he came out with all guns of blazing to that victory against the Yankees last night. Yeah, the swings on the five balls he put in play were, I mean, he crushed all five of those balls. I mean, you don't hear much about it because the balls weren't in the air generally, didn't hit any home runs. But all five balls he hit were 103.5 X velocity or higher. The only other person to do that is since they started tracking the X velocities in 2015 is Shohay Otani. He did it last year. and Alvarez has done it twice now.

I mean, that was impressive. Yeah, he just adds a total different element in there. I mean, even when he came back, the first couple of games, they're pitching around him already, even though he missed 100 games. They want no part of him. You know, he draws four walks, his first eight-played appearances. He changes everything in that lineup. And I think he's going to start, you know, hitting the ball in the air eventually and doing some serious damage.

I mean, he's played in, what, eight games? He's slashing 4-35, his office? base is over 560 and he's slugging 609. He's only hit one home run. So I think the best is still yet to come. You know, the argument is, are the Astros being patient enough? Are they being too patient? There have been a lot of single digit number innings by opposing pitchers the last, probably the last month or so. Carl's Gray was asked about that in the clubhouse a couple days ago. He says, look, we're aggressive. We're a type of team that's going to try to get out in front of these things. I didn't find it ironic at all, Tag, yesterday that the Astero started to make their move

with a lot of first pitch swinging. Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, facing a tough pitcher, they kind of wanted to set the tone a little bit, but especially when they got to that bullpen, they, I think they, having Devin Williams was just like putting meat in a water and they were sharks. They know he can struggle at times and you got to get him up in the zone. And so I think they went there with the mindset, anything up in the zone, you know, we're going to take or swing at, and he proved to be a little bit wild. So the approach against the relievers was really good, you know, took advantage of some wildness and drew some walks and they got a couple of big hits in that eighth inning. But, yeah, Korea's right. I mean, they can't go out and just change their approach.

I mean, they do miss Paredes a lot just with the amount of pitches he takes. But I don't think guys like Yiner or Altuvae are suddenly going to start working counts deep. I mean, Yiner did have a really good at battle late in the game. I think he went nine pitches. Ended up striking out. He fouled a bunch of pitches off. But this team is what it is. And, hey, they got Alvarez back.

And, you know, we saw how much that can change the whole on it. Continue with Brian McTaggart here on Sports Talk 790. And Brian, every season is kind of its own story. And Jason Alexander's been a good part of that story lately. I mean, how about him coming out of nowhere? And how long do you think that he can, just keep this up. He wasn't spectacular last night, gave up a couple of runs,

but he has been a very important part of the Astro is trying to keep this boat afloat. Yeah, and I don't think he is going to be spectacular. He's going to do what he's done. I mean, they've won the last seven games he started, which is pretty incredible. So he's in this rotation, I think, through the end of the season.

You know, he doesn't do anything fancy. He just strikes. He keeps them off balance, sinker, sweeper, change up. He's very prepared. I mean, this Yankees lineup is very dangerous. I think everybody in the lineup had hit at least 18 home runs. You know, they lead the majors in home runs. So there's power up and down this lineup.

So giving up a couple of home runs, you know, is not the end of the world, but he limited the damage after that. And, yeah, I mean, he's, you know, there's two or three guys. You can say, where would they be without blank? And Jason Alexander is one of them, considering the injuries they've had to the rotation. And another one they got yesterday was Spencer Arroghetti. Yeah, that leads me to what my next question was going to be with Arrogati.

obviously hard to speculate. We don't know a whole lot, but obviously hard to feel encouraged by elbow inflammation. Yeah, it doesn't sound good. I mean, how many elbow inflammations have we heard this year? And I don't think any of them have come back, you know, quicker, very quickly. And the fact that he's, you know, there's three and a half weeks left in the regular season, he's going to be out two weeks. So without even knowing what's going on, the chances of him coming back and pitching at the end of the regular season, you know, don't look very good. I mean, So where are they at with the rotation right now? Well, I mean, they had a six-man rotation.

And so now they have five guys in the rotation. Javier, Brown, Garcia, Valdez, and, you know, Alexander. And they have some days off coming up. So, I mean, you can stick with a five-man rotation. That does mean that Brown, Garcia, and Valdez are going to have to pitch on four days' rest. You know, this weekend, the Astros, you know, going to be comfortable with that. Or do they want to maybe slide AJ Bluebaugh? just to slide everybody down a day.

But they have a day off Monday, and then, you know, all those guys could continue to pitch on five days of rest. So not good news, certainly, but the fact that they did get Garcia back and Javier back, they do have five guys now in the rotation. And that might be the five guys they have to march forward with the end of the season and end of the playoffs. Did you get any recounting all on Jake Myers? I know he left the game early last night in Sugarland. Yeah, someone at Strickland told me that he fouled a ball off his leg or shin or something and left. So it doesn't appear it was calf-related. So it might have just been precautionary, so I don't know more than that.

I mean, he was scheduled to play again today, take tomorrow off, and then join the Astros in Arlington on Saturday. So I don't know if this changes that or not. You know, the fact that they have a four-game lead, if they have to give them a couple extra days, I think they'd be willing to do that at this point. should get more information on him later today. You know, we have not talked to you on air since the whole Framber situation. It has been universal in terms of the national perspective. And I know

that Joe Espada met at a point yesterday to say, you know what, I don't look at social media, but people have told me that social media has attacked the Framber about that situation. And hopefully it is something that will not linger for this team. But the amount of Major League players that are now analysts, that have come to the defense of Cesar Salazar and not to Framber Valdez, it certainly has hurt Framber when it comes to his national appeal.

I don't know if one start or one act would cost him a contract of any length in terms of dollars or cents, but it is interesting. There is very little benefit of the doubt coming from the Framber Valdez side of things. Yeah, and I think for good reason, I mean, watching it, it didn't look good, especially the way, you know, Fromberg just took the ball and turned around. And it didn't seem to show, you know, much remorse or put his hand up and say, my bad. You know, I'm not going to sit here and say it was intentional. Salazar didn't seem to think it was intentional.

And Espada seemed to think, you know, Salazar's explanation of it was pretty plausible. But you definitely sense that he was frustrated. I mean, maybe he threw the pitch he wanted. the pitch that Salazar didn't call. And, you know, Salazar clearly wasn't expecting it, couldn't catch it. And maybe he didn't expect to hit him. But whatever the case, you're right, it didn't look good. And, you know, Framber a couple of times this year has, you know, questioned, you know, the positioning of the defenders.

The one game, that ball hit to right field that was extra bases. He wondered what Trammell was playing where he was playing. And, you know, there's been a couple other things here and there were some of the things he says that, you know, about, you know, some of the other plays. things he can't control, things like that. So, yeah, it's going to be interesting to see if he can get it together over here for his last, you know, three or four starts because like it or not, he's your number two star in the playoffs. And they need him to pitch like he did in the playoffs in 2020 for them to have a shot behind Hunter Brown. So with Fromber, you take the good and the bad.

I mean, he was really good for three months. And what, 13 starts in a row they won. And now they're struggling every time he's on the mound. So he's got to get it turned around. between the ears, get it turned around on the mound and quick. And there's been a lot of talk about, I don't know, possible disciplinary action for him or whatever. And we know that Joe Spada took him into the manager and talked to him. I mean, is there anything?

I mean, is it just one of those situations where he's going to do what he's going to do? And you just got to roll with it. I mean, clubhouse-wise or with the manager or with anybody? Yeah, I mean, Joe said, you know, they put it behind him. It's over. I mean, there's nothing really they can do. I mean, Joe, you know, taught the both guys in the clubhouse together after the game. I mean, the reporters that were in the clubhouse when we got in the clubhouse.

when we got in there, Salazar with his locker with his clothes on, with his uniform on, Framber was standing up and talking to him in Spanish. It was a pretty emphatic conversation. And then Omar Lopez, the bench coach, came in and seemed to take them into the manager's office where they continued there. And Joe Espada said the conversation continued there. And that, you know, Joe said what he had to say probably to Framber. We don't know what that is.

And, you know, that's probably the end of it. So Bromber is going to get the ball here in a few days. And if he goes out there and pitches well, it's all water under the bridge. And I think everyone moves forward. Tags, great stuff as always. Looking forward to reading your work this weekend. What parts of the travel trip are you going on next week? Yeah, I will be in Arlington, of course, which is a pretty big series.

I am skipping Toronto because, well, a lot of reasons. The number one, I have a passport right now. And then I'll be in Atlanta. So then I'll be with the, with the, with the, always the rest of the way. So I got some terrible news for you. I got my passport online renewed in like two weeks. Well, I started doing that.

Then I realized it was like double the price and I canceled it. Then I went to the post office like three weeks ago and it's supposed to be here in the mail on Monday. So I'll be good. I'll be good for the playoffs. If they go to Toronto, don't worry. You don't need them because it's going to be. Maybe Astros Blue Jays in the second round, division series. You never know.

Hey, thank you for the visit as always. We'll look forward to hearing you tomorrow and I on the On Deck Show. before the Astros game against the Rangers in Arlington. Thanks for the time, as always. All right, thanks, guys. Brian McTaggart, not on a boat, just walking around. You know what he's doing? You're sitting in the dock of the bay.

Getting some perspective, watching the tides roll away. But Jonathan, is he wasting time? Hmm. I'd say no. No, I think he's reflecting. Yeah, that's very important time. You reflected last week in the middle of nowhere. I was doing a lot of reflecting.

It was great, and I want to go back. I need to reflect at a five-star hotel. 116. Sit next to this guy. Calling himself Mr. Texas every five minutes. John and Paso-Git, but I like Pasadena, too. You can have Baytown, but I like John and Pasadena. 7-13-212.

What's your favorite thing? What are your three favorite things about Pasadena? There is a Rex's Roadhouse there that has great roles. Okay, so they have a chain restaurant from Indiana there. Yes. That's your number one thing about it? whole road is easy to navigate around. It's a toll road now?

Yeah, they've got the same Houston over there. Oh, yeah, I guess so. And there's some nice bridges. You're hitting the 225. Nice bridges. Yeah. Lovely town. Mr. Texas goes to Pasadena.

You've never been in Pasadena forever. What are you talking about? You've been to Pasadena. I don't know. When's the last time you went to Pasadena? At least 10 months. 10 years. No, 7-1-3.

I talked about Rex's Road Rouse. 1121, Sports Talk, 7.90. We've got I just don't get it coming up at the bottom of the hour. And we've got the news at noon coming up. We're going to play some more great astro highlights with the greatest New York song ever, right? Greatest City song? We've already discussed this before.

If we not? And then we're going to have joining us today at 1220, a reporter from Los Angeles. His name is Kurt Sandoval. He's been working at Channel 7 in L.A. for 25 years. He hosted Sean McVeigh Show. Wonderful. Yeah. I assume with Sean McVeigh.

Well, I would think so. I mean, he's a legit member of the media, which they probably have more legit media in L.A. than we have in Houston. So. Looking forward to getting an L.A. perspective. By the way, the college games this weekend absolutely suck. Some dog games? There are probably, and I'm not...

You've got a big rivalry game here in Houston. Please. I guarantee. Guaronte, Houston Beats Rice. Guarotee. I thought it was only like 12.5. Last I looked. I didn't stutter.

All right. You got buddy that lad, that bad boy. I mean, it should be fine. San Jose State, Texas. That's 13 and a half. What's the line? Total of 39 and a half. You know why?

You know Rice rushed the ball 55 times against Ulala? Oh, really? Yeah. They're back to the triple option? So my guess the game will be over in about two hours and six minutes. That's good for you. I'm okay. that. Let's see. Texas

36 and a half over San Jose State. Like here's seriously, I want to run through the top 25 in college football this weekend. Here we go. FIU versus Penn State. Huge. Penn State is a 42 and a half point favorite in that game. East Texas A&M against Florida

State. There's not even a line. There's no line on that game. There's not a line for Ohio State Gambling. Kennesaw State Indiana. Indiana is a 36. six and a half point favorite. Wow. Look at this one.

I don't think I've ever seen this one ever bigger in my entire life. Texas Tech is a 48.5 point favorite at home against Kent State. Wow. I think Ken State won last week. I think they had snapped like a 21 or a 22 game losing streak. Yeah, they beat Mary Mac. Ross, seriously. Have you ever seen a 48.5 point spread?

I want to say there was a huge one when Oklahoma State played Savannah State. That's popping into my head for some reason. That was also an FBS too, FCS. The Aggies are 31.5 point favorites against Utah State. I mean, Jesus. Oregon, 28.5 point favorite over Oklahoma State. Clemson, 33.5 point favorite over Troy. Yeah, they beat Savannah.

This is 2012. They beat Savannah State 84 to nothing, covering the 67.5 points spread. Wow. LSU is a 37.5 point favorite over Louisiana Tech. These are embarrassingly bad. Alabama, 36.5 point favorite over U.O. Monroe. You know what? Let me just tell you all.

Let me give you a little advice for Mr. Texas here. Spend time with your family on Saturday. Mr. Texas is not here. It can't be you. It's me. Mr. Texas says, spend time with your family on Saturday because NFL Sunday is all about you. in the NFL.

Let's talk to... Unless you want to get a little taste in some of these spreads. Oklahoma, Michigan's good. That's the only decent one, frankly. John and Passett, Get Down, Dana. Good morning. Hey, good morning, guys.

Hey, let me tell you about to get down, man. First of all, Gilles, Irwin Cowboy, all right, the petrochemical industry, and a contribution to our economy. And if you want Mexican food, there's probably more Mexican restaurants per square mile in Pasadena

than anywhere else. So come on down and get you a little bit of that. And how are the Pasadena ladies? Give us a firm assessment on that. Hey, hey, Pasadena ladies ain't bad. I mean, if you want the high class ones, you might have to venture in the deer park. The Pasadena ain't bad.

All right. That feels fair. But look, man, so, Sean, you're a team guy, right? I've been a team guy all my life and team sports and stuff. This fraudulent deal, man, let me tell you something. You go back to pitch the guy hit out, right? If you remember Sanchez is telling something's going on between Framber and Sanchez. Salazar.

Yeah, that's okay. And nobody's name is Sean. He's telling him to go back on the mound, back on the mound. I don't know what was going on there. That was before the pitch that the guy hit out. So something was going on there. Framber clearly, look, you know how Framber is a head case, right? He starts getting, things start going bad for him.

He makes it even worse on himself. So when he gives up that home run, and I don't know if maybe they called the wrong pitch or what was going on, but he laid that baby right down the middle, and he got taken out. But the very next pitch, when he crosses him up, that was on purpose, man. I'm sorry, that was on purpose. The minute he threw the pitch, crossed him up, turned around and walked to the back of the mound without saying my bad or whatever, man, that's 100%. That's on Frommer, man. That's on Frommer.

And that's a problem. Yep. that's a problem to me i john i can't yeah i understand you know worth firing or getting rid of them going into the playoffs or whatever but when it comes when it comes contract time or whatever that's a problem to me well don't worry about it john because he can get into contract here he will get his qualifying offer and he will take that offer and he will say shut your bum ass up astros question is going to be how much of this season this last two months hurt him and again it's it's there's no defat definition of Well, that costs him five or it costs him a year or cost him 10.

It's not a good look. It's not when every single baseball creator on the planet is talking about how you intentionally hit your catcher, that hurts. And he cares about PR or they do or his team does. That's the only reason they made that Twitter account. He's out putting a bunch of positive daily affirmations. Thanks. They're trying to build the brand. They're trying to make him look good.

They're trying to build awareness about him and who he is. And this is about a. as bad as a turn as it could have taken for whoever is behind those efforts. They haven't even tweeting in like a month, I don't think, right? Yeah, because you don't want to, he's been giving up four or five runs almost every time he's been getting out there for a while. So you're telling me that only time I ever tweet is when I do a good show.

Well, if that was the case, I'd never be tweeting ever. That's different, Matt. You are, I'm sorry. I don't mean to, you know. I just say it. Frommberg is more important than... No, not the big picture. I'm a baseball. I'm a communicator.

Okay. He's bigger. He's more famous. Makes more money. He doesn't makes more money. I'm more attractive. I got better hair. I don't think so. His hair is, or you have better hair than him. Yeah. You have that, whatever he's got going. I don't like making bald references on this show because it's low hanging fruit, but you have no hair. Kenny on 790. Hello, Kenny.

Hey, how's it going? Good. My question to all the people out there that are down on the assholes right now are you not paying attention to the fact that most of the season we've been fielding AAA and rookers and we're still in first place so what what's the complaint we find ourselves answering that question many of time people are complaining about the lineup every day complaining about pinch hit decisions

complaining about the hitting coaches, complaining. It's a lot. There's a lot to complain about for these people. Lots of people. By the way, Texas Tech was a 52-point spread versus Arkansas Pine Bluff and beat the spread. Good for them.

And the game was shortened to eight-minute quarters because of that weather they had in Lubbock. Oh, Lordy. And they're still covered? They still covered. Ross, I got a question for you. What don't you get? A lot.

You already to tell us? Jonathan, you've been going a couple days. I don't even know where you've been. Have you been in hiding? What's going on with you? I think something I said last week. I'm about to say again this week. You know, when you turn 23, you guys all have been my age. It's time to point. Take a deep breath. Take a look around these surroundings and figure out what you're going to move forward. Oh, yeah, yeah. A little motivational, productive type.

That's good. Time marches forward. Hmm. Time away from us, huh? Clinged you. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? It can be very cleansing. Look at the skin. It's good. It's gone. I know. You got great skin. Actually, no, it looks great. See, that's what I'm saying? You look her.

All right, what don't you get? If there's something in your life, whether it be sports-related or your life, we have three different generations of this show. Ross is significantly closer to my age than he is to Jonathan's, but that's not here nor there. 713-212. You're 58 now, how old are you? No. I'm 53, but I look 37.

713-212-5-790. Do you? Dog-years? Sorry. SMD. 1130 on Sports Talk 790. Do you have something in your life that you just don't get. No need to worry, no need to fret.

We will discuss the topics to see if we comprehend the things that may confuse our friends. It's time to say I just don't get it. 1135 on Sports Talk 790. Mine is a very difficult one, not topic-wise, but, you know, the NFL Red Zone is God's gift to sports television, right? I mean, you have the greatest all-time things that have come to sports television. I mean, it's instant replay.

That's HD. That's college game day. And the Red Zone's right up there among the greatest sports things ever. Well, this year they're adding commercials to it. Mm-hmm. And people are losing their minds. Yes, they are. And while I don't want commercials and part of the charm of Red Zone was not having commercials,

the NFL is always trying to dissqueeze one. more dollar out of potential NFL advertisers. We've got to go up and up and up and up. When everything's go up, they've got to go up more and they've got to keep going some more. We've got to go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

Keep the share of all is happy. I will just say the angst is I just don't get it because let me tell you something. Y'all pay for a lot of pay networks. Like Hulu, I have Hulu account that's got commercials on it. My Apple's got commercials on it. I'm not thrilled about it. And you can also say, I'm not going to buy it. But we know that's not the truth.

if you are a red zoneaholic and they put a couple of commercials in in the you know look it's how they place them if there is a first and goal for the bingles at the cleveland nine yard line this week they're not putting a 30 second re-ray burger and you know having your way commercial and they're going to wait to do it that it makes sense so i think it's frankly much to do about nothing and i just don't get the intense anger over the commercials you don't get it at all I'm not thrilled about it. I'm not surprised by it. I don't get that people are surprised about it. I'd be with you on that.

But I get why people are upset. It's seven, literally Scott Hanson, when he opens up the program, says get ready for seven hours of commercial free football. Past tense. That's what he said every single week. I know. And that's what it was. Yeah. Things change.

We have advertising creeping into every little part of everything we do. And it was a sanctuary. It was a safe place. And now, of course, they did have sponsored segments. FedEx carry the day or whatever. Amazon package delivery, whatever. I'm just saying, and hopefully I'm correct when I say this, I think these spots will be minimal and you people will not be nearly as angry.

Again, if they do it in a very crucial moment and say, hey, we want to show you what Jalen Hertz just did after we play this commercial for this, then I can see the anger. There's a lot of downtime, especially in the 3 o'clock when you. when there's only two or three games being played. But no, but I totally get why people are upset. That something that had no advertisements and there was this great football sanctuary is now being, well, we'll see to what level, but going to have advertisements on it.

I'm not, again, I want to make sure and clear. I'm not thrilled about it, but I work in an industry where advertising makes a war go around and I get it. I get it. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Make sure you use code 987 when you sign up for draft Kings pick six. Ross, what don't you get? I don't want to do that.

I'm not a huge fan of bringing up things pundits say on this show and discussing. But I don't get, Ryan Clark is going viral right now for talking NFL with Stephen A. Smith on whatever program this is, talking head program this is,

talking about Arch Manning as a generational quarterback, is a generational prospect? Is he a generational quarterback? remains to be seen, obviously. And well, it didn't get off to a good start at the shoe. But anyways, he says, I don't think Tom Brady, I don't think Drew Breeze,

I don't think Peyton Manning are generational talents. I don't get that you're even bringing this up. Yeah, you're right. He was also the one that said yesterday that he believes in the day that Arch Manning is not going to be a great quarterback. And that's fine. That's his opinion. That's okay. And you know what? That actually makes more sense of what he said today,

Because, again, we already know what those guys have done as players. Yeah, Drew Breeze was what, a second round pick? I mean, Tom Brady was 199, six-round pick? Yes. But Peyton Manning, six-foot-five, dad played in the league. As polished as they come, number one, number one. You lived up to it. That's generational.

When you live up to being 1-1, you're generational. How's he not a generational talent? Look, Ryan Clark, just... I know what? You're mad at me for putting Mike's emails out there. When you put Ryan Clark's takes out, that makes me mad. Well, I just don't get how that could come out of somebody's mouth and they get paid money to talk about football. Are you stunned by that, by the folks at ESPN?

I mean, come on now. I actually am. I mean, they, they, uh, Kendrick Perkins is... Lamar? I mean, Kenneth Lamar probably gives you better NBA takes and Kendra Perkins. There's actually no doubt on that. I'm still trying to get Drake on the radio broadcast for a Rockets Raptor's game. Oh, you are?

Yeah. How is that going? I'd say, Mr. Drake? Apparently you have beef with Mr. Lamar. Mr. Aubrey Graham. All right. Wishing him the best. Jonathan, we've missed you the last couple days.

We have one simple question for you. What don't you get? I just don't get this, and I think y'all can explain it to me. With all this Kauai Leonard and fraudulent tree company, I have no idea. I totally get it. it's called circumventing a system. Is it like how they do baseball with Otani and take that like, you know,

so the money doesn't go to the salary cap or what's going on? No, because there's no salary cap in baseball. They deferred the money. You can defer money. This is opening up a dubby company allegedly. Yeah. And paying this guy $28 million. It's paying him side money.

Side money. But yeah, well, yeah, there's a competitive balance tax threshold, which is kind of like a soft house salary cap, which does save the Dodgers money there. But, Mm-hmm. So Mark Cuban is, so apparently the company, this aspiration company,

is lost some huge fraud case and people were scammers. Steve Balmer's claiming ignorance and Mark Cuban's backing him up. Yes, and Mark Cuban went at Pablo Tori on Twitter and said, you don't know what you're talking about. Pablo's like, can you come on my, I want to talk to you. On the podcast, they're going to talk. They're going to talk. That's great.

I think Pablo Tori's smart. I think Mark Cuban is smart. I'd like to see what they have to say. Did you see the next thing that Pablo's going after? I saw you're talking about the New York? Correct. Jalen Brunson signed a new contract a couple of years back. Maybe it was just a year ago that paid him over $100 million less than he would he could have made.

If he'd hit free agency or something like that, right? I don't know the particular. I think it was with an extra year or something. But, I mean, he was set to make. And everyone's like, what's going on here? And it sounds like that maybe there's a similar situation. Could be. Maybe he's getting unlimited sphere tickets.

That's a lot. By the way, are you proud of me for saying? I really am proud of you, actually. I am pronounced with it. Thank you. Let's talk to our buddy, Ivan on 7. Ivan, what don't you get 1143? What I don't get is, I got to ask, Rati, compadre,

Why don't you acknowledge our tribal chief Mr. Texas? Oh my. What makes, okay, Ivan. What makes Matt Mr. Texas? Well, I mean, he is the voice of the Rockets. Yeah, that's one team. There's also a voice of the Spurs. There's a voice of the Mavericks.

There's a voice of the, I don't know, the Astros. He goes everywhere in Texas and promotes him. Where? I mean, he's never been to the Capitol building. He's never been in a big band. He's never been to a single state park. I'm not an outdoorsy type, but I go to the big cities. I've been to Austin.

I've been to Waco. I've been to Emmerillo. I've been to Midland, Odessa. I've been to Lubbock, Corpus, Brownsville, McAllen, I've been there all. When did you go to Brownsville? I don't remember a couple years back. Thank you, Ivan. Thank you, Ivan.

Let's talk about this. No, I want to hear some more. Oh, here we go. No, let him finish. Oh, no, you hung up. Ivan, thank you for having my back. Thanks for being a little person that has your back. Thank you for being part of the Lone Star Nation.

Embarrassing. 713-212-5-790. What don't you get? I have a simple question for you. You should get. While you continue to push this ridiculous Mr. Texas, a negative narrative. You don't like it to Luz or Sweet D. Or Dr. Pepper!

You're the worst! Oh, Dr. Pepper is a bad one. Ugh. Seriously. Is it a Sprite right next to him right now? Say that again? Is that a Sprite right next to you? Yeah, Sprite Zero.

Oh. You don't like Sprite? Sprite zero is fine. What's the hate that you got for a Sprite? I said yikes because you don't like Dr. Pepperating drinking a spite right now. Trying to claim Mr. Texas. Sprite is made here in Texas. Don't you prefer Pepsi to Coke?

Do you own a cowboy hat? No. Don't you prefer Pepsi to Coke? Matt? I like Coke. Matt? I like Pepsi. Matt, which do you prefer?

Be honest. Because that's not very Texan like. No. No, Coke is an Atlanta thing. It's not a Texas thing. Okay. But what is preferred in Texas? Coke is preferred in every state in this country over Pepsi.

That's not true. Oh, stop. Some states up north, it's Pepsi. Oh, Montana probably likes Pepsi more. You know what it is? What Mr. Texas does for you is he likes everyone and everything. I don't have to play favorites. You hate everyone.

What are you talking about? Mr. Texas took it easy on SFA fans last week. Mr. Texas did not pick up delicious free brisket and put it on his plate. He did not put it on his plate. Because he enjoys ribs more. You put St. Louis ribs on your plate, but you did not put Texas brisket on your ribs. I put Texas ribs on my plate. All right.

Hey, I got to tell you about the Shell Federal Credit Union. You know, they're all about Texas. All right, so I'm getting called out for not liking biscuits and gravy. So here's what I'm going to do. First of all, I like biscuits and I like gravy. I don't like them on top because it's gooing gross. Let me ask you this. May I, next time I go to a hotel,

no. Get a biscuit, put a sausage patty on it, and put gravy on top of that. Will that be considered sausage and gravy, biscuits and gravy? Don't just do it at a hotel. I don't want to make gravy at home. No need to. Don't you go to a good breakfast cafe and get some biscuits and gravy.

Why don't am I getting it at the mare reeled in? Exactly. You're eating it, you're eating at the mare meal than saying you don't like it. That's your problem. Just like you're eating, you're eating brisket at the place on the side of road and saying it's not good. When you go to the good places, it's good. All right, next time we go at breakfast, which is never. You know what?

We're going to play Charles next month. There's got to be some good breakfast. Yeah, biscuits and gravy there somewhere. We'll go. We'll stop going to the Rock O'Rell you always want to go to over there. That's because Danny's been losing money there. We went to Daryls. We did go to Daryl's.

It was good. You can get fat and happy Daryl's. I'll go back. in that order. Fat and happy? Yes. They don't have fries, by the way. You're only chips that they're at Rerrers.

Is that true? I don't remember. Yeah, they don't fry any their food. I was worried about the po' boy. I got the meat and the shrimp in the... Surf and turf. Ooh, good gracious. Chris on 790. Chris, what don't you get?

Well, first of all, I will tell you that if you do put sauces on the distance and gravy, yes, this is considered this is engraving. I never have it without dropping money. So that's fine. But what I don't get is why you had to tell me about that silly Bobby Tahlish U-H shirt last week.

Now, I'm a proud owner of one, but I guess on my wife how much it cost. Oh, my God. Do not tell her. She will hate you. She will hate you because I hated my son when I found out how much he spent on it. He got it at that.

I can sing the song because they're really expensive shirts. Thank you, Chris. Sorry, for your loss. These are one-fitty? I want to say it was more than that. That was Tommy Bahama and the U of H logo on it, which obviously makes it additional value to it. I think that actually puts it down 26%.

That's false. Greg on 790. Greg, what don't you get? Hey, guys, I was watching the A&M game on Saturday. and Andre Ware was the color commentator. And so he was talking about Darinoka, the studio host, and how he's an OKC fan, and they go back and forth, because Andre, and he said this, because his NBA team is the Dallas Maverick.

I just don't get how Dickinson Native, U of H alum, Texan color commentator, Andre Ware, as his favorite NBA team be the Dallas Maverick. That's crazy. Now, I will see Dre. And so please confirm with him. Yeah, I will see. I can't believe it.

He's doing the Colorado Houston game next Friday on ESPN. So I will find him. And I will find out the answer to that issue because that is ridiculous. It's great. And they talked about the Lukutri. I was like, I didn't hear that right. And then I was like, that can't be Andre. And they talked about the Luca trade.

And how he was good with it. And I was like, come on, man. Because Andre is a couple years older than I am, okay? Right. So I know what the Mavericks were like back in like 1982, 83. They sucked. It was Brad Davis and Roy Tarpley and Jay Vincent and Mark Aguard. Now, there were some teams that were all right, but they also got into trouble with drugs and whatnot.

But larger, the Mavericks sucked back then. I don't get it. No drug issues in the 80s. Being a U.H.I with the Keem and the Rockets being good in the 80s, it makes zero. All right. I swear to God, you got to call me like, give me two weeks because we play them Colorado. He's doing the game. to know because I couldn't believe it.

Yeah, that's embarrassing. And I don't think he does. That's just absolutely embarrassing. He also wanted to go to the University of Texas, but he settled for U of H. No, he didn't. He said University of Texas is rude and obnoxious. Well, they wanted to him. They told him to play defense.

Well, that would that be Freddie Acres problem, right? Was it Freddie? Probably around there. Yeah. All right. Last one. Roger on 790. Roger, what don't you get?

I don't get Frumber's agents I guess he's protecting him but I still don't get what he said about Yeah That was damage control Yeah Roger I totally get it I didn't see it

He basically said how dare anyone think that Fromber would throw out a teammate Roger you're absolutely right That was 100% team That was damage control Yeah so Yeah that was it And yeah

There's a place There's a place. We don't go to Lake Charles. I can't really say anything because it's not, you don't make money with that place. It's going risk gets and ram. And it's not very far from the casino. But then they live in. Now, you know when local first responders are there, you know it's a good place.

It's called. What is it called? What is the rhyme called? Risket's and ram. Risket and ram. Huh? Look at them. Ram. Okay.

Where is this? And Lake Charles? It's out of market. We can say it, right? Yeah, say it out of market. They can't spend money here. What is it? Okay, biscuits and jam.

Biscuits and jam. That sounds good. Let's go get some biscuits and jam. But it's more than that. And it's a local family run breakfast eatery and you know when the first responders in there, it's awesome. It's so good. Thanks for the heads up on that, Roger. And I'm going to get.

Biscuits and gravy with bacon. Ooh, this look good. And I'm going to get a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit for Ross. and he's going to put some jelly on it too, because that makes it a perfect combination. It's like a psychopath. What are the people to the deli ask you next door? You want jelly with your biscuit?

And what did I tell them? Shut your own ass up, man. That's exactly what you do. That's why you're rude and they hate you in there. They spit on your food. They love me. They smile at me. Wave.

All the faces brighten up when I get in there. Because that's what I do. I bring cheer to people. Because they're rude. They messed your food up. They messed your food up. So they did. All right.

New York, New York. You suffered a law. yesterday. The highlights of that next, plus the news at noon and a Texans injury report update that I got to ask Benoretta Ross if he's concerned about. We'll get to that next on 1158 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Houston and a little town is a sports RV. We're a big metropolis. We smack that Yankee ass around for three hours. Well, not. It was like four years. I'm gonna get dicey.

Are we worried about Brian and Brayu in the ninth inning? He needs an unclean inning here. That was far from a clean inning yesterday. It was hard to expect him to have an ERA of like 130 all season long. I was expecting it. Okay, well, you shouldn't have been. You're probably right. All right, there you go.

Thank you, Blue Eyes. We appreciate that, the chairman of the board, giving us the introduction to the second third hour of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross, 1206 is our time. It's time for us to give you what you've been thirsting for all day long. The News at News. And we do that with the Scott Van Pelt of Houston Sports.

It's Ross Fieldrow. Hey, man. How are you? I'm going to look at Lauren for a minute while you run through the news headlines. I think I might have another. I just don't get it, even though we're late. That's okay. You can do it. Anyways, but let's talk about the actual one, by the way. Will you relax? Good God.

8 to 7 Astros DeVee the Yankees. Yes, Brian Abrae gave up a three-run home run. But the headline story The hitting coach is doing a fantastic job with Yordon Alvarez. Four balls hit 103 miles an hour or more

we had Brian McTaggart on last hour, said in the stat cast era, that starts in 2015. Only other hitter to ever do that is Shohei Otani. We're talking about one of the best and most dangerous hitters on the planet back in the lineup. getting four hits for you yesterday, also driving in a run.

He was great. The offense came up enough for the team in runners in scoring position. Three for eight there also had a walk or two. There was a balk mixed in there somewhere as well. They get the win. Very nice bounce back. And most importantly, the Mariners continue to lose. Astros four games up on the Seattle Mariners in the American League West.

Matt. If they just play 500 ball, the Mariners have to go 16 and 6 the rest of the way to clinch the division. How are we feeling? You know what? Am I going to be right about them one of the West by five games? You might at this point. Now,

the easiest way for that to happen is that the Astros can win the series against the M's here in a couple weeks. Yes. Yes. That looms large. Yep. I would say even at the very least, you still get swept. Well, you still have six with the You can dispose the Rangers here in the next week or so.

Six with the Rangers, three with the Mariners left, also three with the Toronto Blue Jays. Those are the most difficult series. And then the A's, A's, and Angels, three apiece with those guys. Right now you have the 16th most difficult schedule remaining. Seattle has the 28th because they still have the Rockies, Braves, Angels, and Cardinals left on their schedule. All right, elsewhere in the news at noon, Matt, we talked about the big Pablo St. Tori story that broke yesterday. He is alleging via his reporting that the Clippers

circumvented the salary cap by giving him $28 million in an endorsement deal from basically a dummy company or a no-show job is what they were calling it. But Mark Cuban, former owner of the Dallas Mavericks, called Pablo Torre's reporting out on Twitter yesterday. saying I'm on team Balmer as much as I wish they circumvented the salary cap Steve isn't that dumb

why would he let the company go bankrupt knowing all creditors would be visible to the world basically saying they had scam by the company called Aspiration who had a $300 million sponsorship deal with the Clippers and then were convicted or pleaded guilty to some crimes

relating to fraud and some, other issues. I think it was like $260 million worth of fraud or something like that. So Mark Cuban pushing back on Pablo Tori's reporting. Pablo Tori standing by his reporting, inviting Mark Cuban on his podcast, and it looks like Mark Cuban has accepted. And if Mark Cuban would have said no, Pablo's like, I'm coming after you next, biotch. Hmm. I mean, no, if you're going to call out, see, I imagine Mark Cuban's ready to back up what he's saying if he's going public with it, which he sounds like he is.

Do you ever watch Shark Tank, by the way? No. I'm out. feel like if I got into a shark tank rabbit hole, I'd be there for a long time. Hmm. Yeah, I just don't want to spend my time. I'm watching it. That's fine. Everybody's got choices. I just don't want to feel like I'm going to be on my deathbed saying I wish I watched more

shark tank. I get in a Judge Judy rabbit hole and it cost me hours. No, I might be on my deadbed saying I wish I watched more Judge Judy. That's entertainment right there. Texans injury report. What do you got? You tell me. Braxton Berrios, Christian Ham's.

Oh, no. Christian Kirk. Both did not participate. yesterday because the hamstrings are on the practice field right now. Cam Robbins in the backup left tackle, starting left tackle out due to illness. Blake Fisher limited participant with

a bad ankle. They're on the practice field right now. We'll get you an update from Texans Wex as soon as he sends a tweet out to us. Okay. We're going to L.A. by the way, in 10 minutes. We're fine? If you can figure out of it gets their intent... No, bye, Burbank. John Wayne?

Oh, Orange County? Okay. I can airport code you to the death. LGB. LGB Long Beach, baby. Let's go. What's the G in Long Beach Airport? L-O-N-G, Long. Oh.

But I thought it was the LBC. That's what Snoop told me it was. No. Yeah. It's hard being Snoop D-L-D-L-G because there's so much drama in the LBC. Name the airport code. It's E-A-D. That's actually at your house in Kingwood.

That's the Jazz Chisholm International. Okay. Or SMD is what it was, I think. All right. Anything else from you? No, I'm sorry. What you're just saying don't get it? You just had something that popped up. Go ahead. Say it quickly.

Everybody, and I honestly think I kind of maybe get it. I'll give you my theory in a second. There's a lot of people like, why are you watching Red Zone? Red Zone's not real football. It doesn't give you the context of the whole game. Who's saying that? It's these high and mighty NFL pundits.

First of all, you put Red Zone on TV number two. You don't just watch all Red Zone. Second of all, saying that Red Zone gives you no actual context of the game that's going on is just patently false. They often update you with drives and scores and you get a lot of what's going on. It's not all just a it's not a seven-hour highlight package. There are drives. There are people, just because it's called Red Zone doesn't mean they only show Red Zone plays. There are times where people are starting drives or it's in their midfield or whatever because nothing else is going on or other games are on in a commercial.

You do get full context of games. I don't get why everybody's having this backlash and trying to act like Red Zone isn't one of the most amazing inventions in the history of time. I absolutely love it. And I'm not thrilled about commercials being a part of it, but I get it. My theory is it's people who pay for Sunday ticket and they get mad that you can get so much.

You can get close. You don't get Sunday ticket with Red Zone, but you get as close as you can for a fraction of the price. All right. That's the news of noon. By the way, we go to Los Angeles, check on the Rams next year on the program. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-98.

Also quickly on the Astros, if you did not catch it, Spencer Arrogetti. Elbow inflammation, is that we're calling it? Is that what the team is calling it? Elbow inflammation. Fantastic. And the Seattle Mariners lost the raise yesterday, 9-4, which means the Astros lead over Seattle is now four games. Nothing but good news on the local 9 front.

Well, I mean, the Arrogati thing is kind of sucks. That's not good. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Kurt Sandiball, ABC. next on the ram side of things here on 790 at thomas show with ross we really appreciate our next guest joining in we'd like to check in on the enemy well i mean it's not enemy i mean how can you hate you can't hate the rams right in nice stadium southern california uniforms look good they're in los angeles compared to being

in st louis i guess can you can you name me a ram you hate uh roman gabriel you really hate roman gabriel what did what did you kidding i don't know i was not prepared for rome and gabriel hate no you weren't were you all right i'm sure i'm sure our next guest is like what the hell have i just signed myself up sorry apologies in advance kurt sandiball abc seven on the mad top of the show ross kurt how are you thanks for joining us roman gabriel come on man okay since you've been in l a all your life who is your least favorite ram we won't tell anybody i swear I got it'll be just between us.

I don't have a least favorite ram, you know. I have a least favorite Dodger. We could talk Dodgers Astros. That would bring out the hate, right? Oh, you know, we'll call you in October. Don't you think we won't be calling you for that? I would love it. Kurt is with ABC 7.

I witness news. I watch that channel all the time when I'm out there with the Lakers and the Clippers. By the way, real quick before we get to the Lent Rams, how is the split among fan base? Chargers to Rams in Los Angeles, both teams being there within the last decade? I would say 8 to 1 Rams. It really is.

A lot of it stems from the Roman Gabriel days, you know, the fact that the Rams were here before, for one. Right. And two, Southern California has a love-hate relationship with San Diego. They consider them little brother. And, you know, the chargers are, people still think it's San Diego's team. So San Diego doesn't, ever since they moved, you know, Dean Spanos is a horrible, you know, four-letter word, the owner of the chargers. But I'll tell you, with Harbaugh and Justin Herbert, that seems going to be pretty darn good this year.

So that's the best marketing tool, as you guys well know. So you as a longtime sports reporter there, you have to cover a variety of professional teams. You've got Clippers, Lakers, you've got Ram. I mean, you as a station have to decide what people care about, right? I mean, you're not really frankly giving it all equal treatment, are you? No, not at all. And in fact, it's really a unique situation. I've been here at KBC 26 years.

I spent four years in San Diego. I'm from Denver, actually worked for the Broncos. And that's probably more similar to Houston or Dallas. You know, if the Cowboys or the Broncos by a file cabinet, it's front page news, right? Out here, it's really a Laker town, really Dodger Town right now, as the world champions, and the sky is falling right now, and then it's Lakers. And then you could say Rams are third USC 3A, and then everybody else. You know, every team has it to die hard, but that's kind of the big three.

You're not leading with Anaheim Money Ducks highlights is what you're trying to tell me then, basically. But when they went to the, you know, Stanley Cup, everybody loved a duck. Yeah. Was that 2005? You're asking me? I have no. If you said, Kurt, if you said, I'll give you $1,000 for every duck, I couldn't, I'd give you Donald Daffian. And it'd be about as far as we go.

I couldn't name you a duck. All right, let's get to the Rams. There has been one storyline, period into story for this entire training camp, and that has been Matthew Stafford's back. How is it right now? In your best estimation. Well, my best estimation is it's doable. I mean, he slings it at practice.

He looks good, but when you watch him stretching, he's the one guy who's not going to get on the ground. So when he gets hit to the ground, what's that going to entail? That's the elephant in the room. Anybody where the bad back knows, you know, it's tough. It's a very iffy situation at best. That being said, man, the dude's not to be cliche. He is as tough as nails. He's dealt with injuries

His whole life He's been sacked You know Going back to the Detroit days Over 500 times in his career But he's he's a coach on the field He is the most cerebral player I have ever met

I mean he's right there with Peyton Manning In terms of cerebral knowledge of the game And quarterback on the field But man that is such the elephant in the room What will it be when he gets hit and hit hard? What about Devante Adams How is he looked and how do you think he fits in as getting a little bit older.

We know how great he has been in the past, but age 32 can be a tricky season for wide receivers. No question. I will say he has looked sensational. And so you kind of go back to, you know, the timing and the connection with quarterback and wide receiver. And they were, you know, it was like a passing league in the offseason.

And both those two guys are great leaders, incredibly cerebral, really smart, read defense as well. And Devante, when they scrimmaged the Cowboys, man, it was jaw-dropping how good he looked. You put him in a Sean McVeigh system. I think he's, you know, if you haven't had your fantasy draft pick, you know, draft yet, I would highly go all in on Devonte Adams.

I think he's going to have a really big year. You match him with Puka Nakua and this wide receiver core and a good offense line. If Stafford stays healthy, this is a team that, you know, won the Super Bowl a few years ago. And that season was the last year that they saw the Texans, right, back in October in Houston. And this team offensively is better than that team on paper. Will they do it?

We'll see. Obviously, they lose a great leader in Cooper Cup. But Devante is, my goodness, guys, I mean, former basketball player in high school, he can still get up. He still reads routes. He looks incredible. But, you know, they haven't hit anybody yet, right? So you say that with an asterisk. Kurt Sandoval, ABC7 in Los Angeles with us here on Sports Talk 790.

What can you tell us about Nick Cayley? What was he thought of over there in L.A.? What do we expect? And do you think there's any sort of advantage gained on either side with the familiarity of Nick Cayley and his offense and what he wants to do and with his familiarity with the Rams. Boy, that's a million-dollar question. You know, Sean alluded to that yesterday,

that this is the one week, right, that there's no, you kind of know what guys are going to do, but you kind of don't. And I think that's going to be a big thing that's going to play out. Along that exact same line, you know, out here, small pivot, C.J. Stroud

from Rancho Cucamonga. Just personally, I think the world of him as a human being for what he did. You guys, I've never even talked to him. I've seen him at Laker games. But, you know, the coordinators on both sides are saying, you know, we need to play rules football,

we need to play rules football. That to me is the wild card in this game Sunday. You know, you talk about coordinators and teams know, each other. They know the inside, but Sean McVeigh is really, really, really good in opening games. This is his ninth season. He's eight and, he's six and two games. His two losses. One was the year after they won the Super Bowl, came out flat against the bills. The other loss was last year in Detroit, in just a fabulous game. So I think it's a little bit of hide and go seek, it would be to answer

your question. Kurt, the number one concern for the Texans going in, and it's going to be this way the entire season is the offensive line. The Rams have a very stout defensive three-fourth assessment. How good are they going to be this week? How good are they going to be this year?

And are they going to be good enough? Ultimately, I think the NFC is wide open. I really do. Is it just about keeping Stapford healthy? Is it about the defense performing up to expectations? I think a lot of people are very nervous around here, whether this defensive front is going to cause CJ and the offensive line some issues this week.

Yeah, that's a great point. And, man, I just love week one because, A, there's excitement, B, there's, let's call what it is, there's overreaction on both sides. So to answer your question, the Rams defensive line really finished strong, really finished strong last year. Statistically, they weren't that good top to bottom because they started horrible. I mean, and Chris Shula would say as much, their defensive coordinator. This team was 1 and 4 last year.

They were getting beat pretty bad. But boy, did they flip the switch. And again, last year, ridiculously young, starting two rookies in Jared Verst, and I'm just drawn a blank 55. Anyway, my brain will wake up here in just a minute. defensive line-wise, they're young and they're strong. Braden Fiskey. Braden Fiske?

Yeah, Fiske? Okay, sorry. His kids call him Frisky, though. Go ahead. Continue on. And Brayden Fiske is coming off a knee injury that he hurt in the playoff loss to the Eagles. But he's completely healthy. Kobe Turner, sensational.

Byron Young, sensational. I mean, they're really still young, third-year team. but oh my god you guys Jared verse if you're not if you're watching the game you know just watch number eight on defense he will talk talk talk talk talk

and then at the end of the game he'll say you know to the opposing player that he's been going up against Houston he'll go man you made me better today you know he's that kind of guy but I think that's you know not to get into the X's and O's that's one of the you know it's it really

is going to come down to the the two line on the other side. When you asked about Stafford, Stafford has to stay healthy. I mean, Jimmy Groplo is, if you have to go to your backup, that's a really good backup. He's not going to throw it deep.

But he, in the scrimmage against the Cowboys, guys, he was 30 of 33. I mean, he really knows the offense. But you got to have Stafford healthy, and that's the million-dollar question. I mean, and if both offensive lines, I'll tell you the other really, really quick, fabulous story. Alaric Jackson, the offensive lineman for the Rams.

He had blood clots in his legs. And, you know, if you twist an ankle, okay, I know if my ankle's good. I got blood clots. How do you know if you're really good? He says it's a fatigue thing. He gets screened every day. He's going to start. That's a big, big, big story on Sunday as well.

Kurt, really appreciate the insight. I look forward to meeting you at a Rockets Clippers or Rockets Lakers game. In worst case, we're going to have you on for the Dodgers Astros World Series preview if you're okay with that. Well, you know what? There's a lot of great connections with what the Rockets are going to be this year. And I'm not from L.A. I just cover that team in blue. And so anytime we can talk, Astros, Dodgers, bring me on.

I love the conversation. Do you fear for your life when you go to Dodger games? I don't listen we could spend an hour talking about this I don't want to put you in a spot I was just teasing here's the two things Dodger fans God bless them they're the most arrogant fans and that was before they won the world series so that arrogance to be very honest and I'm not saying anything that I wouldn't say you know inside the stadium it starts from the front office there's some great players. Dave Roberts, love him dear. I'm old enough to say I covered Dave Roberts in high school in San Diego. Good manager. Shohei is the greatest pleasure of your career, anyone who gets

to cover Shohei. But oh my gosh, the arrogance. It's tough to stomach sometimes. So I try to hit it down the middle of the fairway, so to speak. But I think it's a fabulous, fabulous conversation. I don't think the Dodgers are going to go back to the World Series. But if they did and they play the Astros, that would be a dream. And I hope it happens just so we can all talk again. Because Matt, John Ireland speaks so highly of you. And I appreciate you. He's a good man, a good friend.

And Kurt, you're now best. He's because of him. Thank you, friend, for the time. We really appreciate it. Hey, you bet, guys. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Kurt's hand of all joining us.

ABC 7. I got me a new friend in California. Proud of you. John Ireland, by the way, is the longtime voice of the law. Los Angeles Lakers on radio. And I said, John, get me a good L.A. guy to talk Rams, and we had Kurt come on.

That was great. Yeah. And he called his fans arrogant. Who are the most arrogant Houston fans? Now, arrogant? Arrogate? We rip on you Astro's Twitter for good reason, because Astrolete, Twitter knows how I would say they're the most spoiled.

Arrogent, though. Do we have an arrogant team in town? Fan base? Arrogent meaning... Probably you and some of your Cougars fans. You got them winning the Big 12 every year. That's fair. It's going to happen, too.

They haven't won. When's the last time they won their conference when it was conference USA? Hey, we won when it was the American. We went and beat that Florida State ass. Oh, their third string quarterback is great. Because the first two were afraid to play us. Hello. Okay, you beat their third string quarterback and the coach got hired away.

Thanks. Yeah, where do you go? Yeah, you went to go start getting in fights with Mike Gundy at Texas. All right, enough of that. Maybe we don't have an arrogant fan base. We got an entitled, but not arrogant. Very entitled. The Astros fans can be arrogant on them Twitter streets.

I've seen it. Yeah, they're out to you. Hey, if you're, if you want to attack Ross, I'm all for it. At Sports RV. You can get me hurt now. Go get yourself in your. Follow me on Instagram. At Sports RV.

Don't do that. You're going to waste your time because, again, he called you arrogant. I think you're nice and friendly. At SportsMT. 1234 on 790. Welcome back. To the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Rosvia Reout with you.

Thanks to Kurt Sandoval, ABC7 for joining us, talking a little Texans. Huge matchup coming up. I like L.A. With the Los Angeles Rams. Not a fan of Dodger Stadium. I mean, when I get in the stadium, it's great. I went to Dodger Stadium. It's cool.

Oh, no. When you're in it, it's awesome. But getting in it and out of it. Whatever happened to you? No, nothing. It's just the parking is just in this. And the traffic flow is. Take the bus.

We Ubered. It's awful. I took the shuttle bus. That was fine. I mean, I don't have the same, I don't have the same history that you do. And the Dodger dogs do suck. Ubers are expensive. Well, thank God I wasn't paying for it. But point being is that. I see, what are you whining about? Man, America's guests over here. No, it's logistics.

Man, hands out Thomas. Hands out Thomas. It's, you know what, let's gift, let's gift mad things. People like me. They want to do nice things for me. Yeah. Free B.M.T. I don't ask for it. They're like, we'd like to take you. All right. Again, I was more than willing to pay, but when they said, no, we got it.

I was like, good. I'm glad that makes me happy. Anyways. We were there for a game. It was in April against the Padres. We had a two-hour rain delay. You know, I've never grown up on rain delays. Have you ever grown up on rain delays?

No. Not really. I mean, maybe a college game once in a while or a lightning or something, but that was kind of foreign territory. Maybe, yeah, Texas game was delayed back when I was in college. but then I just got drunk and then missed the game. So I was kind of diehard you are. I'd rather drink myself and not worry about the game itself. It could be the biggest game of a lifetime.

Sometimes you get two hammered at the tailgate and you miss the game. We've all been there. I know Gordy's been there. Oh, my God. If you don't go into the arena with a blood alcohol level of 2.0, you're in trouble. Louisiana, yeah, they do a breathalizer and they hand you shots of whiskey. Yeah, we do not let you in the Tigers enemy and let you get a certain number. Exactly.

They put shots in the stuff, the little plastic ones, in your coveralls. So a couple of years ago I went to a fantasy football draft. I was not even involved in the draft. I was just there as a friend. Okay. And we're like, we got a bunch of Cajuns, and we're going to have this great time, and we're going to make this amazing gumbo. And we're like, oh, yeah, we got real Cajuns.

Went in there, did the fantasy football draft, waited for like three hours of this gumbo, had two bites, like, eh, it's fine. It's no good? A dark rue or a light roo? It was dark. I like a good dark rue. My rue, I don't care what it is.

And I get that dark rue, baby, for the fantasy football drive. Hush puppies were a top shelf. You get them hush puppies, baby. I'll say this. I do miss New Orleans food. I need to go back immediately. It's been too long. You come with me for a Rockets Road game.

I did that once. It was fun, right? Good time, yeah. You did a good time. Rockets win that game? Rockets usually win a minute. I have no clue. I don't even know.

I think I won at the casino. People know me if they find me in New Orleans. Where are you at, Matt? You're on French Quarter? Nope. You're at the casino? You're Areris? Yep.

All right. It's a wiser's now. They built up a bunch of new rooms there too. Yeah, it's a metropolis now. It's nice. Yeah. All right. On the phones, let's talk to our buddy Ryan and Montgomery at 1240 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Ryan, good afternoon. Afternoon, fellas. So I wonder how that guy is doing. I forgot his name who had all that stuff to say about the brumes. yesterday. Oh, Yankee Keith. Yeah, he hadn't called in. That's funny. He's busy again. Very, very busy right now. But no, hey, Ross,

to make you feel better, one time, Sam Houston was playing Texas Tech when Mahomes was playing there. And we went, and I went to the tailgate. Oh, it was a blowout. We got, oh, man, it was bad. But, so the thing in love it is they have you drink out of these huge pails and you pass it around in these circles.

That sounds safe. I don't know. I don't know. It's not safe at all. Anyways, that's probably the drum. guess I've ever been. I passed out at half time, woke up and the game was over and had the gnarliest sunburn ever. So, you were better served not going to the game. So your buddies let you

just stay out there and fry, they didn't go to pick you up or put you in a safer spot? Dude, we were all past, they were all past out. They were all past out. It was not a get to-tried out of the stadium, or I guess that's par for the course in Lubbock. It is part for the course in Lubbock. But, no, I mean, a bunch of my fraternity brothers

made the nine-hour drive just to get blackout drunk at the tailgate, not remember anything. By the way, going to happen? You've been in Olympic for a game? No, I haven't. It's great. Stadium's awesome. I'll never go to a Texas game. No, because they, I mean, I've heard horror stories about how they treat Texas fans there, so I would never go as a Texas fan.

Well, that's not going to happen because they don't play each other anymore. Yeah, well, I mean, I guess. We'll playoff. That's true. Texas is a Texas? No, Texas Tech. I mean, it could happen with all that NIL cast you're spending. Do you agree with me when I say that you're Dan, if you do, Dan, if you don't on the NAL?

What do you mean? No. If you're Texas Tech and you win, everybody's going to say, well, you should have won. You spent all this money. If you lose, look at all the money you spend you still and get in. Yeah, that's true. People aren't realizing that everybody's spending all the money. Like if somebody would say it's a massive failure if you don't win a national championship in three years.

It's everybody spent, Ohio State spending a ton of money, Alabama, Texas Tech, Oregon. It's hard. Matt, didn't you just bring up that he gets salty when he loses? Yeah, isn't that funny? What did I lose? What did I lose? That's crazy right. What did I lose?

to tell the truth. That's where it came from. Is that what it came from? I didn't remember that. Yeah. I said it would be a massive disappointment of Texas and I don't think that was. To tell the truth. Oh, absolutely it was.

Are you sure? It was. See, I don't even remember that. No, we don't. I still trapped mine back out there with Jonathan. Sure, why not? His body and his mind are cleansed. I'm the same people who understand everybody's spending money.

So it's still A&M is spending a bunch of cash. Miami's spending a bunch of cash. That's how many programs that I just mentioned? But you're the University of Texas, though. Okay, what does that even mean? Oh, you know what exactly what that means. Tell me what it means. That means you are the haves.

You are the... So is Ohio State's not a half? That's right. Alabama's not a half? It's a half. Actually, Alabama may not be a half. Oregon's got a lot of cash. We're telling me that maybe Alabama don't have the money.

Texas Tech. Have a lot of cash. Texas Tech is a half. They have a lot of cash. You're in Blue Blood. You're in Texas of Blue Blood. Absolutely. So is Michigan.

Michigan and Ohio State and Alabama, like I said. Miami has a lot of history. Florida State, Florida. All this is, all these money you're spending. All these top flight recruits, if you don't want a national championship in three years, I want you to say, oh, golly, you shucks. Oh, darn it. Yeah, we'll see what happens.

It'll be the context. They made the final four in the playoffs for a couple years, and they came down to the last second drives in both games. You'll be like the Buffalo Bills of college football. If they're not making the playoffs at all, yeah, that would be a massive disappointment. All right. It's contextualized. Don't worry about it.

You're in. we'll see. I don't see you're going to be in. Okay. You lose at Florida. You could be in trouble, but you're not going to lose there. They could. Why not?

Yeah. Well, they even be underdogs in there? I don't know. Florida's top 15. Florida's got eight top 25 opponents on their schedule left of their remaining 11. You'd go on the road in the swamp to the number 15 team in the country. I mean, it's going to be tough.

Never been in the swamp. Me either. I'm surprised you don't want to go to one SEC venue. You just got to train. You can pay for it. I mean, you're making money. What's that drive? Code 987. Please help me out.

See? 1244 Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show at Ross. 713-213-2-5-790. Coming up at 130 today. If you missed our conversation with Brian McTagher, we'll have it for you coming up at 130. Ross, what is today's edition of Believe it or not?

All right. He'll be looking for that topic right now as we speak. Jonathan, when's the last time you did the Humpty Home? never in my life have I done the hump that's that's way before my time just to make you feel a little old you know 2002 after the towers

after the towers I have never I know exactly what that means but yet I've never heard it everybody that here's our aid that's what we all say oh my god you aren't even born then wow that's creepy that's not something I'm saying you said again it's just a creepy phrase

I never heard that Do you remember where you were? Yeah, I was in high school And they rolled in a TV Every class we went into And we just watched CNN Or yeah, I think it was CNN Every single, like every hour

I was all in disbelief I was working at KTRH during morning sports updates We would do four hours of news in the morning And I did sports updates twice an hour And I was in the newsroom And We had the very first thing we thought not to get overly morbid here, but we was thinking about it, was we had thought just a plane to crash into the, it was a flight control issue or something that just crashed in the building.

And we didn't know there was other things going on. I remember watching the towers collapse on TV in school. That was going crazy. Then they talked about the Pentagon getting hit. And then some, you know, somebody, some random kid or somebody started a room or some girl ran in and was like, they're storming the White House. Like, we thought there was like a coup happening. Right, right. Wow. It was like Mariel, shut up. That was wrong. Merrill, you dumb bitch. Oh no, hey! She's very nice.

Shut up. Mariel, we love you. Merrill, we hate you. Class of O'3, Nimitz. You're the best. Matt. She's probably in prison. She just heard a rumor from somebody else. It wasn't her fault. I don't know why it burned in my memory. Well, I guess it was a big day. What if you see her in a reunion, we're going to say?

I don't go to the reunion. Thanks on 9-11 assessment? Well, the 10-year, I got. that was when that was 2013 Texas was supposed to lose to OU it was 11 a.m. start and they they upset OU and I got

I'll say I celebrated too much that day. You do a lot of celebrating. I didn't make the 10 year didn't make the 10 year. When did you graduate what year? 2003. 20 year I think we couldn't even get it together. You just missed your 20 year. Yeah we were going to have to have it at the prison visitation room. That previous comment by

at Sports RV Paul on 7 on a hill, Paul. Hey. Good afternoon, Ross and Matt. Yeah. I wanted to talk by you, Bayou Bucket. What's going on at U of H?

Is U of H ready for this one? Are they overlooking rice? Are they got the big, you know, you big britches on now that they're Big 12? What's going on? I'm a rice fan, and I'm going to call my shot. I broke U of H basketball and respect U of H football. But I think Rice has kept.

a lot of the offense under wraps in that first game. There's a bunch of stuff in there that they haven't shown yet. It's going to be 21-7 at halftime Rice. U of H defense is going to shut Rice down in the second half. It's going to be 21-20 late into fourth quarter. U of H is going to go for two, and Rice is going to stop them. 21-20. Wow.

Love it. Sir, you're... Sir, you are not allowed to drink and drive, okay? I don't know what you're doing right now, but it's highly illegal. I mean, first of all, will you even have a thousand people at the game? No. Well, at least you're being honest. When did you go to school at Rice or are you just a Rice fan?

I graduated in 91, so I saw Chuck Weatherstone and David Dacus and all of the U of A. Lamar Lathan, all of the. of the U of H five beta Kappa at that time. Yes. Well, I'm going to say you this. We're going to keep it close because of the fact that Rice is running this

not necessarily a triple option, but it's a it's a veer run style offense that takes up large amounts of time off the clock like they didn't in Louisiana. I think U of H covers, I would say it's going to be along the lines of 24 to 10. It covered. Yeah.

It'll be interesting. They've had some really good games in the past, and I hope this one lives up. It's the last value bucket for a long time. So hopefully it'll be fun. Unfortunately, most of the bucket memories I have are negative. You probably remember the game in the last Southwest Conference football game. Oh, yeah.

Bryce backed it up and Halfield took two knees and backed up five yards, and then we missed the field goal. That was painful. That air raid's firing back in the late 80s. And Robertson Stadium over and over again. Yeah. Hey, a good conversation. I will say this.

You're one of the only Royce fans ever called me in the history of my doing my career. Also, one of the only ones that exists. Yeah. And you don't sound like he's 90 either, so that's good. You may be older, but that's fine. Yeah, I don't. We rush the ball for 209 yards ourselves against SFA. Yeah, that was running.

A lot of that was running out of the clock. I said here like Wegman was that good, okay? I didn't say it. We ran for 209 yards. We averaged 4 yards of carry. I'm okay with that. Yeah. Four?

You got to be better than that. That's bad. See, you know? Total of 39 and a half in a college football game. That's bad. It was zero zero to what? The second quarter in like seven minutes. Connor went through for 159 yards, three touchdowns.

We should have had at least two pick sixes in the game. I'm telling you, when Rice decides to throw the five times they do, The two of them we picked in the University of Houston's hands. We're going pick six of the house I mean in front of 3,000 people over at Rice Stadium this Saturday. Well, the game's in Houston. Shouldn't it be full of Houston fans?

Well, they're not letting us in. That's such a lie. You don't know that. You can't even say that with a straight face. I can't say it with an extremely straight face. 39 and a half in a college football game, that is gross. Yeah, it's got to be 24.

2410. I'll take the under in the game. For sure. Yeah, it should be a real barn burner. Willie on 790. Hi, Willie. Hi, yeah, this is Willie from Friendswood. Hey, Willie.

I have a cold, yeah, I have a cold, so I sound kind of hoarse. But I'm going to tell you, Ross set me off again. Oh, good, get him. Yeah, without slams on the Coogers all the time. Oh, and what caught west? The last conference they've ever won. You know what, Ross, when the Cougars went into the Southwest Conference in the 70s, We were a powerhouse, and we blew almost everybody off the football field.

We had a bunch of cotton bowls. I'll tell you, it was fun football. It was in the Astrodome. Oh, okay, like 45 years ago. That was a good run. But, yeah, I'm going to tell you, Ross, you weren't even born. I know. Maybe I ought to look up there.

I'm 40 now, so it's been a while. No, yeah, well, maybe you ought to look up to history. Yeah, I got to dust off that Cougar's book. It's been a minute. Willie, you get about it. They were running football. Then how many national championships do they win? They should have had at least two.

Willie, thank you for the phone call. We're going to save you for your voice there. And how many of those wins were vacated due to NCAA infractions? Just wondering. None. We have been a, we have been a pristine program since day one. I'm just asking, yeah. I'm telling you.

Yeah, I don't remember. I wouldn't board. We've got banners. We've got trophies. We've got bowl championships. We've got cool people. we have nice successful people in business you got broken promises and arrogance

cool people is a factor okay you please cool people your SFA people had the best time in Houston tonight they were actually able to get out of their wagons and actually have a real meal and have to put shoes on I mean it was all good don't you live in South Nacadoches I do I do live in some Madagosius

get them Can I take all this Lumberjack hate man I live in the livable forest Willie, don't take it that seriously. Willie. And it's having fun and it's only because Matt's here. Matt's out, we don't talk about U of H football at all like most people. Willie.

Get them next time. You have carte blanche to destroy that man. Cart Blanche. Talk about the great history of the never won a championship. And then when they had their best run of football ever, they were getting massive NCAA infractions. Hey. Great job, guys.

But we went to the Peach Bowl and destroyed Florida State because nobody else would want to play us, including your school. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 106 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Astros a chance to win another series. And the Astros have a four-game lead. They're playing the Yankees to wrap up the series

and a trip to Arlington tonight to take on the Rangers for a three-game series Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Meanwhile, on the MLB scorecard tonight, it will be the Mariners with an off day. They'll have a weekend series against the Braves. The Braves are 63 and 77. The Astros will see the Braves a week from Friday. Big?

I think it's this big trip coming up. First, I've got the one game against the Yankees. You've got three with the Rangers. You've got three in Toronto against the first place team that's trying to hold out of the top spot or at least one of the top spots in the American League. And then, again, Atlanta wants to be frisky and maybe be a sporter because if they could do that for the Mariners,

it would be a big help for the Astros. So we're down the home stretch friends. we really are, and this is exciting. And the most important thing is, as bad as the Astros, the perception is they've played, they're still 14 games about 500 and a four-game leading in the division. With 32 games left to go.

They're not going to win 100 games. They're not that type of team. They're not one of the world-beating teams of Major League Baseball, but there's still four games in first place. And I think the fan base should act like it. Also, by the way, the Mariners have to face Chris Sale, who's been fantastic this year and Spencer Strider. So, let's go Braves. So if that happens, would they see them, they would probably see them next weekend, too.

Yeah. I'm assuming the Braves of an off day somewhere in the mix. They're right. Carlos Rondone's going to throw today for the Yankees. Ooh, Rossi, 15 and 7 with an ERA of 3.18. Oh, and also in the middle of that is some guy named Hurston Waldron. trip who's got first and wild trip he's got five starts

on the season and he's four and oh with a 1.01 era let's go braves let's go braves the asteros have to play these same braves rotations looking good why are they so bad yeah uh injuries have hit them hard

Javier goes for the stroes today let's go 16 innings what do he throw six in his last start after throwing 10 in the first three starts something like that so hopefully the Astros can get a win it is a little bit an earlier start tonight. So if you're going to the game, it's a 640 first pitch

and a 710 first pitch. Oh, no, 640 first pitch. 530 on deck with Adam and Adam here on Sports Talk 790. Rangers will be the Astros opponent and the Yankees. Boy, they didn't do any favors to the Yankees. The Yankees are all the way back to New York to play

our game tomorrow. It's a long trip after a night game. That's a shame. I like more day games, Ross. I'm about you. That's not bad. You look that at 1-10 start. Very nice. I would like to see 10-15 first pitches occasionally. When I went on vacation, where were they?

The game started like 11-30. Detroit. Detroit. That's good. All right. So I want to bring up that you match up the Astro fan base. And remember, when we do tease because we care. Most of y'all are cool.

I would say 80%. Yeah, maybe more. 85? Not more than that. Okay. So there's that 15% of, and look, it's people you go. the games. It's your co-workers. It's your buddies

on Twitter. It's in your IGs. It's in your DMs. People who you think otherwise are relatively intelligent. Yeah, I mean, you have stockbrokers. You've got attorneys, lawyers, air-pying pilots, people that run grocery stores. It's all economics,

all societies, all demographics. 85% of y'all salt to the earth. 15% of you, you're bad blank crazy. And stop sending Matt emails. Yeah. Well, that's not going to happen.

I can't look forward to them. Nah, I'm not a blocker. I'm a lover. 10 emails, Matt. You've blocked thousands of people. Yeah, but these are their bots or douchebags. If you're a bot or a douchebag, you're getting blocked on my Twitter account. Okay.

You're in one of those two categories. What was I going on with this? Oh. We're talking about the Astros. Oh, the fan base. Fanbase. I've gotten probably a lot of tweets that say, I can't wait for the season. be able with.

Spoiled. Spoiled. If that was the case, every Texan fan would say, why bother playing the 17? Because I know what the Texans are going to do. They're going to win 10 games, 11 games.

They're going to play a first round playoff opponent at 3 o'clock on a Saturday. They're going to win that game at NRG Stadium. They're going on the road and lose. Now, I think that's the favorite pick again this year, but things can obviously change. If all of a sudden Pat Mahomes breaks his ankle in week one, you got a puncher's chance.

If Lamar Jackson has a terrible season or Josh Allen Regressus and Herbert and I see. It's got a deep list. Joe Burrow. Joe Burrell also, you know, but Joe Burroughs been hurt. They can all get hurt. I'm feeling good about the Texas chances. The point being is this.

You are a fan of a team to watch it play out whether it's in good times or in bad. And I, you're four up, you're in first place, you're not Atlanta, you're not playing out the street. You're not Baltimore.

Do you know Baltimore won 100 games back-to-back seasons and they're going to sit there and finish in fourth or last place in America League East? They won't even be tasting a playoff spot. It could be worse. And I just want to know when did baseball become a chore on your life?

Now, if you want to say wait me up when the playoffs begin, I'm not a huge fan of that, but I kind of get it. I get that. But yeah, if you're getting fully invested in the team and it's making you miserable, which it seems like there's a lot of you that is, this is not an obligation.

This is not something you have to do. Yeah, your livelihood and your health does not depend on whether or not you fan the Astros or not. So when you run to Twitter and tell me, or tell in the 4U tab, I can't wait for this season to be over with, I mean, it's not like you're going through a flu bug. And then they won the game.

Yeah. You got your guy, Mike telling you the game is over, the game is over, it's over, they lost 3-0 0 games over. Mm-hmm. I was looking at it like Chandler-Rombs mentions, like, are they, Chandler-Rombs just putting out the lineup. Over under one and a half runs.

Every single reply under. Every single reply. It's like, who are these miserable people? Sports are not supposed to make you miserable. No. Now. Now, these Astros and running scoring position can sometimes make you miserable. I mean, there are some things.

I mean, watching Framber be bad for. Brumber makes you miserable. I can say these things I'm an astro fan. You can even say U of H, you know. Yeah, football. Yeah, investing time in their football

has been a futile experience for like 80 years. And I understand why you're coming from and you're suspended without pay for saying what you just said, but it's fair. I like how the lumberjacks get the snipes in. That's why I'm not a Texans fan.

I've got plenty of unhappiness in my life to carry me over for other teams. Hey, what do you mean? Division around, two years and a row. bro, baby. AFC South champs, Brian. You know what?

I don't think it's going to happen again. If that's the crescendo, then I hope you as Battle Red Ross enjoy that. I don't need it. I mean, I've been enjoying the season. I haven't been miserable being Battle Red Ross for two seasons.

You know what? I can't. It's actually, I'm going to be honest with you. I am not a big enough fan of baseball to watch a rando game between the Merritt, bad choice. Between the Red Sox and the Tigers.

I'll put it on. But you're not going to pay super close A crochet or something? Good matchup? Well, if you don't have that. You're looking elsewhere. Point being is this. What else are you going to watch? The NFL, you can put two random games on, and I'm vested.

That's mostly because I got fantasy football stuff going on. I don't always have that, but I'm just telling you, it's a little, it's a little bit of a nice breathing spot. I don't have a fan of a football team. Okay. Now, if the Texans want to prove to me that there are going to be something that they're not, they're ready. then I will

not only will I become a Texans fan, I will be donned and head to toe gear. I'll be an Adam Clinton. I will gravy train off of a team that I barely cover and talk about and I will love on them. We will order sautade crow. Yes.

For you to eat. Yes. Live on air. Lots of garlic. Yeah, I've got to put something on there. Me not being a fan. It's kind of, you know, like, like there are people that are listening to our show

that will live and die on the Texans. And if they lose this game on Sunday against Rams, they're going to be really pissed off. Everybody in life has a certain amount of things that they want to check into. And that's okay. You check in, for example, I have a,

I root for a Premier League team. You don't. And so that's everybody's choice. And that's okay. And you live and die by that? I choose not to do so. I would say live and die, but yeah,

I get up at like 6.30 to watch them lose 2-0. That's always fun. Well, you'd just be pleased that. Two goals scored in the game. 6.30 in the morning, Ross? Sometimes their games are at 6.30. I don't always get up for the 630s. 8 o'clock.

10% he does. It depends on how big the game is I'll record it That's good enough Because it's time to watch it Yeah All right You can watch a soccer game

I'm just curious when When it became a I can't wait for the season To be overtalk Why that it became a thing in 2025 I don't know what's going on Because let me tell you something You do not want to be Rocky's fan

You don't want to be Reds fan Is this too general I think we have like a big mental health crisis In America in general anyways Oh I'm mentally on today Since the pandemic. Yeah. We know.

Thank you. Thanks, Charlton. He said it, not me. I was trying to be nice. I was trying to be measured and nice. Brian McTaggart at the bottom of the hour here on Sports Talk 790. 121 sports talk 790. We'll get back to the baseball channel a little bit, but I do want to tell you that at Texans practice today,

not more non-sidings of two wide receivers that I think would have been a part of the opening day roster. including Christian Kirk. I thought would be kind of a sneaky. Did I have Christian Kirk getting the end zone in week one? I think I did for gut feeling on the Texans. I had him over 50 catches and 649 yards. Well, that can still happen too. Yeah, well, not if he's missing week one.

It's not over to a good start. Braxton Berrios, by the way, I guess is perceived one of the kick slash punt returners, also not available today. They were both listed as hamstring injuries on the injury report. And then Cam Robinson was out today. was practicing today, did not practice yesterday because of an illness.

We got Dallas felled off you tonight. Yeah, should be great. I'm looking forward to it. Should be a high scoring game. I don't know how close it'll be eight and a half is kind of a meaty spread. Yeah. And then the game tomorrow is in Brazil.

Yeah, they did that last year. The turf was terrible, right? Well, the thing I kept hearing about last year was they told the players do not leave the hotel. Yeah. I don't know if you want necessarily be promoting a game in which you're league.

has been telling its players do not leave the hotel because of violence potential violence is everybody good nobody got hurt right i don't i don't think so maybe some people got robbed i can't remember a couple things stolen that's why the game will never be put in aldean that's for sure who me doing all right over there i made it out okay i don't take it robbed a few times but i mean yeah who hasn't broke into the car a couple times uh yeah the international games will be good and then sunday sunday we don't we don't get a whole lot of three 25s we're getting three 25s this year because We're playing West Coast teams, but firing up the red zone at noon. Full day of football.

I'm excited. They're saying four 15 second commercials to be played during the course of that. During seven hours? Yeah. That's it? If I'm correct on that, I want to double check. It's one minute of spots? It's nothing.

But it'll grow. Oh, it won't stay there. It won't stay there. That's right. Don't worry. It'll be plenty more. That's a story. Yeah, the streaming service.

Oh, yeah, it's $4.99. Oh, okay, sorry. It's $6.99. Oh, it's $9.99. And it's ads. they know how to slow dose you. They know what they're doing. Very calculated.

Yeah, I'm trying to see if I was just reading that out of my, if I made that up or I thought I saw that it was going to be. Yeah, it was a reliable source or you read. Yeah, it's probably going on someone for you. You know, you can't trust those people. No, you can't. You spend all your time there still. Okay, CJ's drop back in Los Angeles, his home area. That doesn't play much to me one way or the other.

I mean, not really. No. I'm more worried about Christian Kirk being out. So that's a D&P on a Thursday? That's not good. Tomorrow we are making our predictions on the NFL season. Yeah. Not tonight?

Not today? No, we're almost out of time. Okay. Well, if the Eagles lose by 30, it's going to change my perspective on the NFC. Do you think they're going to lose by 30? I don't. Probably on Roto's with us tomorrow, too, Friday. So we start our Friday Voto visits.

It's going to be every Friday? Every Friday. What happened a Thursday? It's easier for him to do on Friday. I'm not going to argue with them. Thursday and football. I know. I mean, I can't, I can't.

I need to talk to this guy. Why don't you do that? I'd probably stick to talking to you. He loves me. Because all you do is ask him 17 questions about the Toros. Yeah. Like Matt, can we get to other things that are happening in fantasy football rather than just Oh, trust me.

Try to recess it and state your team? Tomorrow's Roto visits about 90% about the Toros and 10% about your all squad. Oh, yeah. We're playing, you and I are playing a matchup this week. And you are a four and a half point favorite. Is that true? Yeah. Okay.

All right. We'll see what happens. I think within, if you're within five, you're fined away, right? Who's my quarterback? I got Calda Murray going against New Orleans defense. I got Brock Purdy.

I'm ready. At Seattle, too. I kind of like my matchup more than yours. How'd you guys let me get Sequan and neighbors? Sequan. I always say Sequan. It's a fine. Sayquan!

Well, maybe there's a thought he might be injured this year. Everybody's saying that, but we'll see. He hasn't been funny. How old is he now? 28. See, I'm not concerned. That doesn't feel very...

It is what it is. That's not fair to running backs. That's why their money has been so bad the last few years in the NFL is because everybody and their punitive mothers are saying, well, NFL running backs wants to get to 28 or pass their prime. Yeah, 28 is... I get it. And it's coming off of a bunch of carries. And then, funny enough, somebody was like, after...

You know, you look at the numbers after 2,000-yard seasons. The production goes down. Oh, yeah, no, no. No bleat, genius. People don't normally get back-to-back 2,000-yard rushing seasons. Who could have seen that coming? It's like, are the chiefs set for a downfall? Well, they went 16 and 1.

I guess they're going to earn 15 and 2. And they made the Super Bowl. They might go 13 and 4. Oh, wow. It's like people's kind of like Astros fans. I'm hoping for Travis Kelsey big season. Because he's doing it for his bride and doing it for the Toros. He's checked out.

You know, it's funny. He's going to be swiping through wedding dresses in the middle of the field. The updated app still has him in. In the leagues on ESPN apps being played, I think, in 88% of, starting in 88% of leagues. Well, yeah, tight ends of wasteland. Yeah, it is. Unless you got Trey McBride, baby. Let's go.

Feeling good this weekend. You want to make a side bet? No. Why not? Because I hate my team. It's only got me a 50% generally, honestly, in my experience, when you hate your team, those are the teams that do the best. Yeah, I've loved my team in years past.

Exactly. I feel like, man, I smash this draft. You go like 4 and 11. Mike, you're on 790. Good afternoon. Matt, did you enjoy my emails last night? Oh, I did not. But Ross did talk to Ross, Mike.

Mike, what does your therapist have to say about all this? I still think the batting coach has got to go. He's the worst. Who is? What's his name? Citron. What about Troy Snicker? Why does Centron get all of the hate?

He's terrible. What about Troy Snickr? Is he good? I don't know about him. Okay, so you want him to fire him now? Yeah, I think the whole front office manager, everybody's got to go. I think there's... Dana Brown's got to go, too?

Okay, so who should they hire for hitting coach? For hitting coach? I think Michael Brantley would be beautiful. Michael Brantley for hitting coach. What's he doing right now? Well, if he would take the job, he would be the best in the league. Based off of what? I mean, I never saw anybody more disciplined, just work the pitchers.

they got nobody that can Your don't work The pitchers? Well, yeah If he's not rested Yeah I think that's the worst there is

The guy rest them way the hell too much He's knocking the cover off the ball And they Oh, it's time for rest Oh, Correa needs a rest What the hell? I agree with Sean You know, on that

How long have you been watching Astros? How long have you been watching Astros baseball, Mike? Nobody rested Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Mickey Mal. He was in the 1960s. So what? They play. It's a different time. You know what, Mike?

We need more Calropkins in this sport. I don't disagree with you, friend. I would trade anybody on the Astros for Matt Chapman. Matt Chapman. Every single day. No, you mean Matt Olson. No, the guy in Atlanta. Yes.

That has like 800 straight games. Matt's Matt Olson. You'll see him in a week. Not Chapman. Well, that's the kind of people we need. Well, Matt, well, the Braves are losing. The Braves are losing. Well, okay.

Mike, you guys know what I think. Keep sending those emails and copy what I think. He'd like to see him as well. I'm good, Mike. Thank you very much. All right, there you go. Thank you, Mike. Thank you, Mike.

That was a real barrel of laughs. That guy. This is real fun going to dinner with Mike. This food's terrible. This prime rib is overcooked. They have had at 1.8 starting pitchers on the IL. At one point, what was it, got up to 18 players on the IL. At one time.

They are 14 games above 500. There are four games in first place. And he wants the hitting coaches, the manager. And wants Matt Olson here. And the general manager fired. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, send Matt those emails.

Oh, he does? He sends me 10 today. And I'm going to forward him to you. Don't forward those to me, please. But I will save you. I will block you. You can't block me. You can block email addresses, pretty sure, and I'll look.

You'll figure it away, right? All right. Brian McTaggart is up next on the, what he saw last night. Here we go. Settings, mail. I'm sending you straight to junk. Do not send me to junk. I'm the best emailer you know. You're a junk emailer.

1.30 on Sports. I'll have the terriarchy steak. With the, yeah, go ahead and the shrimp. Yeah, appreciate that. Fried rice. Oh, yeah, I'll take some of those peppers and onions, too. Uh-huh. Yeah, okay, thank you.

Hey, Matt, open your mouth. Catch a shrimp, Maddie. So the reason why he's doing this is because he, his little F-boy, what's his face? Excuse me? Jeff Passon says the Kyle Tucker is going to get a 12-year contract. I'm just checking, browsing, ESPN.com, and some predictions from Jeff Passon about guys like Kyle Tucker, Kyle Schwerber, others. Speculating about his possible contract, Matt.

That's all. And it says what? Go ahead and say it. He says the most obvious deal to compare Tucker 2 would be the 12-year $365 million deal that Mookie Betts got at his age 28 season. Says the contract with Kyle Tucker will likely be in the $500 million range. Of course, he talked about how end of June,

we're talking about Vlad Glorero's $500 million deal. So things can go down. Is he okay? I know he was lifted from the game after hitting a three-run homer. Well, is Kyle Tucker. Yeah, he's got a bad calf. Oh. I believe it's going to be amputated.

Here is Brian McTaggart. Enough with you on your stupid bet. Here is a little bit of Brian McTaggart talking about the win last night where the Astros were down 4-1, came back to win at 8-7. Yeah, the swings on the five balls he put in play were, I mean, he crushed all five of those balls. I mean, you don't hear much about it. because the balls weren't in the air generally, didn't hit any home runs.

But all five balls he hit were 103.5 X velocity or higher. The only other person to do that is since they started tracking the X velocities in 2015 is Shohei Otani. He did it last year. Alvarez has done it twice now. I mean, that was impressive. Yeah, he just adds a total different element in there. I mean, even when he came back the first couple of games,

They're pitching around him already, even though he missed 100 games. They want no part of him. You know, he draws four watches his first eight-played appearances. He changes everything in that lineup. And I think he's going to start, you know, hitting the ball in the air eventually and doing some serious damage. I mean, he's played in, what, eight games? He's slashing 435. He's on base is over 560.

And he's slugging 6.09. He's only hit one home run. So I think the best is still yet to come. You know, the argument is, are the absolute? Astro's being patient enough? Are they being too patient? There have been a lot of single-digit number innings by opposing pitchers the last, probably the last month or so. Carlos Coray was asked about that in the clubhouse a couple days ago.

He says, look, we're aggressive. We're a type of team that's going to try to get out in front of these things. I didn't find it ironic at all, Tag, yesterday, that the Astro started to make their move with a lot of first pitch swinging. Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, facing a. tough pitcher. They kind of wanted to set the tone a little bit, but especially when they got to that bullpen. I think having Devin Williams was just like putting meat in a water, and they were sharks. They know he can struggle at times, and you got to get him up in the zone. And so I think they went there with the mindset, anything up in the zone, you know, we're going to take

or swing at, and he proved to be a little bit wild. So the approach against the relievers was really good, you know, took advantage of some wildness. and drew some walks and they got a couple of big hits in that eighth inning. But yeah, Correa's right. I mean, they can't go out and just change their approach. I mean, they do miss Paredes a lot just with the amount of pitches he takes. But I don't think guys like Yiner or Altuvae are suddenly going to start working counts deep. I mean, Yiner did have a really good at battle late in the game.

I think he went nine pitches. Ended up striking out. He filed a bunch of pitches off. But this team is what it is. And, hey, they got Alvarez back. and we saw how much that can change the whole line. Continuing with Brian McTaggart here on Sports Talk 790. And Brian, every season is kind of its own story.

And Jason Alexander's been a good part of that story lately. I mean, how about him coming out of nowhere? And how long do you think he can just keep this up? He wasn't spectacular last night, gave up a couple of runs. But he has been a very important part of the Astro is trying to keep this boat afloat. Yeah, and I don't think he is going to be spectacular. He's going to do what he's done. I mean, they've won the last seven games he started, which is pretty incredible.

So he's in this rotation, I think, through the end of the season. You know, he doesn't do anything fancy. He just strikes. He keeps them off balance. Sinkers, sweeper, change up. He's very prepared. I mean, this Yankees lineup is very dangerous. You know, I think everybody in the lineup had hit at least 18 home runs.

You know, they lead to majors in home runs. So there's power up and down this lineup. So giving up a couple of home runs, you know, is not the end of the world, but he limited the damage after that. And yeah, I mean, he's, you know, there's two or three guys. You can say, where would they be without blank? And Jason Alexander is one of them, considering the injuries they've had to the rotation. And another one they got yesterday was Spencer Arrigetti.

Yeah, that leads me to what my next question was going to be with Arrogati. Obviously hard to speculate. We don't know a whole lot, but obviously hard to feel encouraged by elbow, elbow inflammation. Yeah, it doesn't sound good. I mean, how many elbow inflammations have we heard this year? and I don't think any of them have come back, you know, quicker very quickly. And the fact that he's, you know, there's three and a half weeks left in the regular season. He's going to be out two weeks.

So without even knowing what's going on, the chances of him coming back and pitching at the end of the regular season, you know, don't look very good. I mean, so where are they at with the rotation right now? Well, I mean, they had a six-man rotation. And so now they have five guys in the rotation, Javier, Brown, Garcia, Valdez, and Alexander. They have some days off coming up. So, I mean, you can stick with a five-man rotation. That does mean that Brown, Garcia, and Valdez are going to have to pitch on four days' rest. You know, this weekend, the Astros, you know, going to be comfortable with that, or do they want to maybe slide A.J. Bluebaugh on there just to slide everybody down a day.

But they have a day off Monday, and then, you know, all those guys could continue to pitch on five days of rest. So not good news, certainly. But the fact that they did get Garcia back and Javier back, they do have five guys now in the rotation. And that might be the five guys they have to march forward with the end of the season and end of the playoffs. Did you get any recounting all on Jake Myers? I know he left the game early last night in Sugarland. Yeah, someone at Sugarland told me that he fouled a ball off his leg or shin or something and left. So it doesn't appear it was calf-related.

So it might have just been precautionary. so I don't know more than that. I mean, he was scheduled to play again today, take tomorrow off and then join the Astros in Arlington on Saturday. So I don't know if this changes that or not. You know, the fact that they have a four-game lead, if they have to give them a couple extra days, I think they'd be willing to do that at this point.

But we should get more information on him later today. You know, we have not talked to you on air since the whole Frumber situation. It has been universal in terms of the national perspective. and I know that Joe Espada made at a point yesterday to say, you know what? I don't look at social media, but people have told me that social media has attacked the Framber Valdez situation. And hopefully it is something that will not linger for this team.

But the amount of major league players that are now analysts that have come to the defense of Cesar Salazar and not to Framber Valdez, it certainly has hurt Framber when it comes to. his national appeal. I don't know if one start or one act would cost him a contract of any length in terms of dollars or cents, but it is

interesting. There is very little benefit of the doubt coming from the Framber Valdez side of things. Yeah, and I think for good reason, I mean, you know, watching it, it didn't look good, especially the way Framber just took the ball and turned around and

it didn't seem to show much remorse or put his hand up and say my bad. You know, I'm not going to sit here and say it was intentional. Salazar didn't seem to think it was intentional. And Espada seemed to think, you know, Salazar's explanation of it was pretty plausible. But you definitely sense that he was frustrated. I mean, maybe he threw the pitch he wanted, the pitch that Salazar didn't call.

And, you know, Salazar clearly wasn't expecting it, couldn't catch it. And maybe he didn't expect to hit him. But whatever the case, you're right, it didn't look good. And, you know, Framber a couple of times this year has, you know, questioned, you know, the positioning of the defenders. The one game that ball hit to right field that was extra bases. He wondered why Tramel was playing where he was playing. And, you know, there's been a couple other things here. And there were some of the things he says that, you know, about, you know, some of the other plays, things he can't control, things like that.

So, yeah, it's going to be interesting to see if he can get it together over here for his last, you know, three or four starts because, like it or not, he's your number. two star in the playoffs and they need him to pitch like he did in the playoffs in 2020 for them to have a shot behind Hunter Browns. So with Fromber, you take the good and the bad. I mean, he was really good for three months and what 13 starts in a row they won. And now they're struggling every time he's on the mound. So he's got to get it turned around. That was a little pregnant pause because McTagher was so good.

I was speechless. Or were we all. Plus our microphones weren't working very well. So all right. You ready to play, believe it or not? What's the category? at least tell me. It's the Eagles.

Philadelphia champs, yeah. How about the music group? One of the greatest bands of all time. Okay. Just Eagles. Philadelphia Eagles. Up next, believe it or not, 713-212-5-790. All right, tomorrow on the radio show, we will have, I'm Sauris, we'll have Dr. Roto.

Jonathan, we're going to let you join Ross and myself. We're going to make our NFL predictions. They're going to pick all the division winners. Okay, okay. The wild cards in both the NFC and the AFC. We will make the Texans prediction on the season record. And we'll have our two championship teams and our one Super Bowl team. 10 and 7, AFC South champs, Brian.

10 and 7, book it. And I will not back away from my assessment many moons ago, which remains very honest and true from years ago. And as long as Cal McNair is on the Texans, you will not be going to the Super Bowl. Never go to the Super Bowl. Yep. ever ever ever ever ever and the reality is this it's not leaving the mcneras because you know hannah's not

not pulling that cord she's got the strings are tightened yeah she loves being the owner of the texans loves it she's not the owner matt please vice president of the texan foundation or whatever she's the owner of the team her bail's just kind of innocent bystanders get out the way and then i'm the owner it is not hannah you know he's got six kids. I think at least He's fertile. I thought it was more than that. I thought he had like five with her and like he's pulling like Calvin Murphy numbers. Well but I mean they're going to be fighting for that team eventually.

Oh the kids? Yeah. It'd be like a power struggle. This is like a succession show just about the Texans though? Like which one of the McNair kids, the family number one or the second family deserves it. You know, Hannah and be like my kids are more of your previous kids. Like Game of Thrones. Okay. That's over my head. So I don't know. Well, it's your power struggle. You can figure it out. You're smart enough. Succession is a great example. Okay, War of the Roses? I don't know.

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