The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Get Blown Out 14-1 In Game 2 vs Red Sox’s, Texans TE Depth Chart Talk.

Episode Date: August 13, 2025

Astros Get Blown Out 14-1 In Game 2 vs Red Sox’s, Texans TE Depth Chart Talk.

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10 o'clock at H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. And the Mariners won for like the 48th time in a row.

Let's go, baby. Buckle up. It ain't supposed to be easy. I like it to be easy. I know you like it easy, man. Sometimes it's difficult. sometimes it's too much work take the

I know you like to take the easy road back I do When you have a chance to fly first class or coach you fly first class I've never flown first class Actually that's a lie I have flown first class before Yeah see I knew you're such a fraud

Just once And I wasn't supposed to tell you actually when it was Why not? When was it? This one we went to Minneapolis Myself and Gordy Oh he bumped you up? there was only two seats left on the plane. Oh, nice.

Why would you not tell me? Because we didn't want to hear anything from you. Oh, no. No, because you like to shame and all that stuff. Why would I shame you? You talk about how we're on vacation trips. Well, you are on vacation. We don't want to hear from Matt, so we're not going to tell them.

You may not be on vacation if things continue the way they are. They're going to make the playoffs at least. Yeah, but we're not going to go to the long card. I'll be home. Turn it up. A little ELO. This is a jam. This is my favorite song of theirs.

I don't even think it's close. You want Extreme Matt Thomas show with Ross History, Manusia? Please. This is the first song I played. I played a bunch of songs and you didn't like them because you were trying to give me the feel for your music taste, which are horrible? Yeah.

You told me that out of the game. This is like the first one I play that you're like, yeah, this is good. This is good. Oh, and the Brewers ever going to lose a game either? Jesus. They're like 90 games about 500. I'm not worried about the National League.

The National League is stacked. Yeah, that's true. You're going to worry about the American League West first. Good morning, everybody. Matt and Ross with you here on this Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. There is a tie atop, the American League West. That's what you wanted. You wanted a close race.

I didn't say I wanted it. I said it's fun. I'm having a great time. I'm having a blast. First of all, you can't control what's going to happen no matter what, Matt. You got to learn in life to control what you can control. That's true. And enjoy the things that you can't.

So you know what? This is going to be a race. Every game matters. Well, Astros didn't think last night mattered that much as they got destroyed, 14 to 1. Of course it mattered and they cared. But pregnant with two home runs in a series so far? Yeah. Jeremy Payne had three hits.

Erigetti gave you five. Yes. It was, he gave you five and five. The ugliest five you might be ever seen. And yet you were still in the game. when you walk five people in five in things you're supposed to be down nine nothing well they eventually got that way but it was not because of him it wasn't because of him yeah well everybody's like dFA uh hector and eras bring back sean dubin baby yeah well

do oh oh lord chas mccormick getting some innings in yeah i mean my gosh well you're saving your bullpen i mean that's true least yeah a couple of inings from Colton Gordon and one from Chas McCormick. So we didn't have to use any leverage guys because you are short on leverage guys. You had two reliable leverage guys, two really reliable. A couple of the guys here and there,

Brian King Ben and Sousa, Ocert, every now and then. And one of them is down. And Caleb Orts are going to join us on the show today. Oh, great. Well, he's going to have to step up. Caleb, you got some important games coming up, Frank. Yes, he does.

And the Astros may need still a right-handed reliever. And there's one out there, Sports Harvey. Oh, why is he out there, Matt? Hold on. What's his name? It's Ryan World Series Closer Presley. Okay. And why is he available? He didn't like his accommodations in Chicago. Oh, that's true. He asked for his release from the Chicago Cubs.

He said, I want to out of this National League ballpark, this band box on his regular field. So then they designated him for assignment. They said, hey, you can go your own way. They fleet with MacDow. Oh, okay. And did anyone claim him? On waivers? He is still available at this point. Okay. Waiting for the right spot.

How long ago was that? A couple weeks. Okay. And he still hasn't been picked up? He's thinking about all of his options. He's pondering all of things. And one more thing, Matt. How many teams are involved in division and wildcard races in baseball?

Would you guess, like completely? Matt? 11? 12? Matt? Yes, sir. Don't 12 teams make the playoffs? Yes.

Okay, so how many are making the playoffs and then how many are in races, would you say? Just a guess. I mean, okay, so 15. But, I mean, some of those races are already done. Detroit's going to win the Central, so there's nobody in the American League. Cardinals and Reds are within four games. Okay. But he wants to go American League?

And the Guardians, Rangers, and Royals are within four games. He wants the American League. So you add in those five teams. That is 17 teams in play. If you're within four games, would you say you're in a playoff race? I would say so. Oh, yeah. Okay, so 17 teams are in a playoff race.

Yes, sir. And how many have attended the services of Ryan Presley? Again, he's got so many options, he's going through it. He's taking his time with this. I'm just asking. All I'm doing is asking you questions. I know, and you pepper me, and I'm trying to give you the right answers. Okay.

Okay, so, I mean, I don't mean to go open-ended with you here, but how we're feeling? Does that feel okay to say that? I love that question. I know. I've been stealing some of your material. I'm actually feeling okay. Not great, but I'm feeling okay. I'm feeling all right.

Poll question today, and we're going to keep doing better job of this. We're going to try to a daily poll question just to kind of get the pulse of things. How are we feeling today about the tie bit? Astros got this is option one. M's will win the West is option two. I didn't know what you were talking about when you said tie bit at first. It took me a second. I didn't want to just, I wanted to just change things up a little bit.

And three was too close to call. 48% say Astros got this. 32% say too close to call and 20% say the M's win the West. What I didn't want to do is I was going to try to just leave it to people that follow me on to reply, but you can't do that. Because I was afraid Seattle fan was going to jump in there. I saw that he was going to retweet it and get a bunch of people from Seattle getting in there.

I mean, that seems about right. That's what I voted. Astros got this, baby. Okay. Now remember, you do have seven with. The Baltimore are Orioles. Mm-hmm. You have three more with the Colorado Rockies.

Oh, yeah. You have those last six games of the season against the A's and the Angels. You have the Angels, I think, coming back here one more time. Yeah, seven with the Angels. Now, you do have, what, three more with Texas. Three more with Seattle. Six more with Texas. Oh, six with Seattle.

Those are all in Houston. So. 26th schedule strength and raining. Seattle's 23rd. So it's close. Here's the problem. When those seven games are done with their Orioles, which will be the band in the next week,

that number is going to go way high. Yes, it will. Yeah. Guess what? You know what you do with those seven games in the Orioles? You win five of them. Six and one. Let's go.

Okay, well, you wanted six and one. You wanted five and one this week. They just lost one. Yeah, they're going to finish things off. Win the series today against the Red Sox. By the way, first pitch is at 610. If you're going to the game tonight, it's not 710 at 610 because of Boston's travel needs.

What they try to do is you have to, You have to be in a certain city and a certain number of hours before the game. And these teams don't like to play afternoon games because, again, they're worried about the attendance. And with Boston being a good draw,

the chances of having $30,000 for a Boston game at 610 is a lot better than having it at 110. So if the Astros were playing the Guardians or the Reds, you could put this thing at 110 and let those people go on. But it's Boston. They want to give an opportunity to play and have a chance to get as many folks in stadiums.

So if you're going to the game, then it's an hour earlier. on deck tonight, 5 o'clock. First pitch is at 6.10 here on 7.90. It'll be a great edition of the Astros on deck show coming out. My guess it'll be just a replay the end of Brown's conversation. Because the person doing the show will probably mail it in. Wait a second. Wait a second. Oh, yeah, Brian Bogus Hevick, too. Oh, it's on deck with, uh, it's on deck with the Adams.

Yeah, is it Adam and Adam? Yeah. That's not what it. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I like the saw you do his 10th inning tonight, then. Yes. Oh, yes. I knew I was on post game, but I forgot I had no, For those who don't know, pregame's the hard part. Yeah, that's where the most work is put in. I will be listening to you on my way to Austin. I'm going to, daughter's got her first high school volleyball tournament. You're going to Austin, Texas.

I'm going to Austin, Texas. Beautiful. Great city. Traffic is ridiculously bad, but otherwise it's a great city. Enjoy squatting on 35. We're taking $2.90 going in, so. Oh, okay. It's Grand Park out of $290. That's the way he tells us.

Oh, you're going to get a lot of tolls, but that's okay. That's fine. What are you going to do? I take I 10. Well, because I live closer to my time. I think I think from my house to the 290 grand parkway is probably $11 of tolls. Which I think, don't we pay for these roads anyway? That's one of the reasons I, first of all, I got to say buddy.

I want a tight budget. Okay, that's fine. Second of all, yeah, it's spite. If it's like five extra minutes to not pay tolls, I'll do it. I don't care. I need to get to Austin as fast as possible. Tell the toll road authority shut their bum ass up. I got to shut your bum ass up and it involves a state law that just got passed.

Wasn't the Beltway supposed to be like, hey, guys, we're only going to do these tolls for a little while. I don't know. Same thing with Hardy Toll Road, right? Didn't they? Weren't they like, hey, guys, it's only be tolls for a little while? It needs to be a Hardy Free Road. Exactly. The Grand Parkway should be grand.

That should cost me a grand to get on it. All it does. All right. Boga 7 at 11 o'clock. Shut your bum ass up. I just don't get it at 1130. No, I don't know. No, shut your bum ass up.

anybody got time for that 1130. We have the news at noon. We have Caleb Oort today at 1.30. We got believe it or not. And we've got people, apparently somebody called the morning show this morning that said it would be better at the Astros. Don't make the playoffs.

I didn't hear the call. We get a higher draft pick. Well, I don't know what they were thinking. There is a draft lottery now, right? Yeah. But there... It's only the top handful. Yeah, I was going to say,

if you're really going to not make the playoffs, you might as well go Colorado on us here, and not won another game the rest of the season. That's not going to happen. 713-212-5-7-90. Come on in and join this radio program. It's 7-13-212-5-7-90. Did you go to the game?

I want to hear from those that went to the game last night. How do you do it, Rossi? How do you go to a game when your squad is being beaten? The starter kept in, the bullpen. I mean, Leaky's an understatement, right? I think the damn burst. Yeah, I was going to say, what is 50 times leakage? I guess it would be depends.

That was a horrific attempt at a dad joke, and I apologize for that. I was just going to let it fly by. No, you shouldn't have. You must criticize when necessary. I told you, I'm trying to be nice. It's not working. I'm trying to be nicer in my day, day, day life. It's not working.

If you went to the game last night, how did you spend like the innings 5, 6, 7, and 8? And did you even stick around for the night? I think 14 to 1, by the way, 14 to 1? Wave is fair game. No, sir. We do not do the wave under any circuit. What's up? 713.

212.7. Friend of the show, Stephanie just said, hey, I was the game last night, except for the pregame, aside from the pregame excitement, Chas pitching in the ninth inning was the highlight. If you went to go to an Astros game in Chas McCormick was the highlight of pitching,

then that means, man, what the hell happened in the previous eight innings? Well, it means they got their ass kick, but I also do like it when a position player comes in to pitch. It's fun. Games a blowout. Gives you something to be interesting. interested in. How's Chazzy Fizz doing? Can I ask a rude question? What's higher? Is ERA or is batting

average? Batting average. Well, depends. Oh, that's true. We've got to take the decimal, take the, we've got to move the decimal point of the area. All right? It was a fair question, though, right? No. All right. So if you went to the game last night, how do you, it was a Tuesday and I had the dogs for a dollar, right? Yeah. You got dollar dogs and Chazy Fizz was pitching. At the end of the day, you just go and you more hot dogs, right? And you walk around and you go see people.

Maybe like you ran into this, you know a friend of yours from high school as the game, and you go sit with them for a couple of endings. Hey, I haven't seen you in 20 years. How are things? Oh, there's another home run. Yeah. It feels like you always do run into strange people you haven't seen in 50 years in the ballpark. It happens to me probably, it happens to me at least four to five times a year at Rock games

and probably three or four times at Astros games. Yeah. So yeah. It was last night a Facebook meetup where you were discussing about what you saw in the field and you said, hey, I'm going to go check my social media and see if any of my buddies are here. Or maybe that lost love of yours from yesterday year. Oh, wow. That old name is girl on 19, wouldn't you graduate of high school? That would be 2003. Okay. That girl from 2002, man, you're looking good, girl. It's been a while. thought you were gained way back in the day but you look thin now this happens to be a lot man you glad you're alive glad you didn't get that charge of arm robbery got dropped

no she she got took a plea deal did she really yeah still looking good you say hey interesting spot for that tattoo yeah a couple big pin prison tats it's good all right so if you went to the game last night how did you how to just how to just survive that map mess because even a lot of people probably left because I'll say this when's the

as you've ever left a game. I will say I don't leave games. At all. I probably maybe one or like that. Unless you're, look, if it's up to me, if you're with like four people and they all want to go, it's kind of like you have no choice. Right, right, right.

But I like to stay there because I don't have children, so I don't have to get them in bed. I don't care. Correct. So, yeah, I like to stay, I would say 97% of the time, I stay full nine innings no matter what. I am ridiculously good seventh inning lever. I can see that.

During the stretch. Everybody standing up, great way to exit out. Again, if the game's close, you're sticking around. I'm saying, if it's 10-1, I don't care. 10-0, I'm done. I'm hanging out, having a good time. A lot of times, it's easier to get out of there at the end when everybody's already left. I'm going to blow out.

Yeah, well, I can say seventh inning's not bad either. So I stay, but I understand a lot of people leave. All right. Especially if you've got to get kids to bed. Let's talk to Jim in Missouri City. Hi, Jim. Hey, Matt. How's it go, man?

Good, friend. Good. 99 times out of 100. Assuming I've gone to 100 assing games, I've probably gone to more of my lifetime. But 99 times out of 100, I am watching the game. Every pitch, first inning through 9. Last night, Howard survived it, we timed a corporate event with this game. So my company, I worked for, co-hosted with another company, and we were in the

center field upper deck, which has that capacity for 100 people, and we had 85 guests. So I spent the night checking in guests and networking with our clients and prospective clients, and we had food and beverage. And that made that game, I maybe saw about three or four pitches. And I would have never done that, you know, and being in the stands and stuff. I'm watching the game the whole time. So you figure out a way to time your corporate event with one of those disastrous games and you just spent time networking and drinking and eating.

That's how I survived that. So really, it didn't matter what was happening in front of you. You were pounding the booze. I get you. That seems fair. The game was in the background. No, so after I checked in people, my intent was to watch the game, and then I saw it was getting out of hand.

I'm like, I'm just going to just chit-chat with people and the games and afterthought. But that's not what I do when I go to a baseball game as an Astros fan. I'm usually locked in. but this was nice to have that distraction of company-paid beverages and food and, again, meeting people that we might be able to draw on some business. All right. That's how I survived last night. We're going to put your office manager on blast. You ready for this?

What? Listen to me. I want to hear what was served, and I'll figure out how much these people meant to you all by what you served in the sweep. Well, no. So when we worked with the Asteris, so we had a, you could order for. Since we were in that central, that party deck in the center field, they had waitresses come out and take the order. So we ordered from an L-TMPO Mexican food menu, and then they had a little bar right

there that you basically order anything you wanted, like margaritas beer, some crown and diets were flowing. So everyone was drinking a whole host of things. So we ran up a bill, man. So your company paid for that bill, correct? My company and another company, we co-hosted, so we paid for it. Okay. Well, then by the way, your office manager gets an A plus because you guys could have gone cheap and said,

a dollar dogs, everybody, all you can eat. No, you and LTMPA, which is the most expensive part of the ballpark. So good for y'all. Yeah, no, we, yeah, we, when we do events like network events or go to conferences and stuff, and we have like a booth or something like this, we'll host happy hours too. We do it upright. My company does it upright. So it's a, it was a lot of fun last night.

I mean, for me, it was, for us, really, with the game being out of hand, it's a, the perfect opportunity just to talk more, you know, because people are like, the game's out of hand. Right. Right. You know, so it worked out pretty good. So I swerved into surviving that last night in a pretty good spot. Good. Well, two things. One, two things real quick for let you go. Ross and I would like to come to your next company event.

So, I mean, you could bring us there. And then I would need a small appearance fee. Other than that, we're good to go. Okay. You got it, my man. See you later. You invited yourself and said pay me? Yeah. Damn.

That's a two-for. That's very Matt Thomas of you. People would want to talk to me. That's going to cost them some money. But you invited yourself. Well, no, I floored the idea to him. You can't reach out to somebody and then say, pay me. Sure, I get.

Because if Jim goes to his boss and says, hey, I went on Matt and Ross's show, and Matt Ross would be a great idea to bring them to come talk to our clients. I don't want him to think that we're doing him for free. Okay. I mean, you can do it for free. No, I'll do it for half of whatever Matt is. You want to split the fee? Nope.

No, how will we get a tandem fee and we'll split it 60-40? 60 to me? Fair. That's fine. Whatever. I don't know to talk to more people than you are. You're bougie. Not when I have margaritas.

Oh, that's true. You know, I'm very yappy at that point. You are chatty, Kathy. Chatty, Maddie. Yes, Ross and I will come to your company event. We'll liven things up. We'll give you some inside stuff. Yes.

But we'll need you to VMO some cash to us. And at the end, Matt will juggle knives. Yes, I will. And I will vomit for distance. And he will go on a unicycle and he'll, and he'll throw bowls on top of his head. Yes. Yes.

That's exactly right. And I'll scream yay yay for two hours. And to the point you'll say, can we please live this tall white man alone? You don't have to pay him to stop. That's right. You're not that tall. I'm 6'1.

It's not terrible. It's above average. It's in the, what's the average? 5.10, I think. Okay, so I'm two inches above. 5.9 is the average. Ooh, so now I'm 10, 11.

I'm 3 inches above average. 713, 212, 5, 790. God. 7.13. 212 5-7-90. So that's how Jim spent his day. The rest of you guys let us know. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90.

Brian Bogus-Civak in one-half hour here on 7-90. 1033. Matt and Ross with you on Sports Talk, 7-90. Congratulations. The Angels were pulling off a triple play last night. Against the Angels, against the Dodgers, I should say. Do you see Shohey Otani's back in the news? Yeah, he hit into a triple play.

That's part of it. Oh. But he's being sued, Sports Harvey. Yes, he is. He and his agent? Yes. Or manager or something? Accused of sabotaging a $240 million real estate project.

Yeah, apparently was, I don't have all the details. You pulling it up over there? Yes, here it is. He's tab to endorse something and then. I always love the. this phrase, tortuous interference and unjust enrichment in a lawsuit followed on behalf of real estate developer Kevin Hayes, Sr. This is happening in Hawaii. So without getting into great details on this, apparently the suit claims that Ohtani and Balelo, I believe his agent,

interfere with the contractual rights of Hayes and Matsumuto, the other guys involved in the deal. They were planning and developing a luxury real estate project on the big island. Otani and Balelo are accused of interfering with the plaintiff. interest in a second neighboring venture. According to the lawsuit, Ohtani and Balello pushed for concessions to the plaintiffs before issuing an ultimatum and threatening retaliatory litigation

unless one of the project's business partners removed himself from the deal. But this is like, look, Otani is a special, special athlete. But who's, what company is he hanging with, bra? I mean, I'll be honest with you. Who is Nes Balelo? But my point is,

he had a bad interpreter was gambling his life away got him involved and now he's involved in a $240 million real estate deal gone bad that's how much

the housing project was how much was how much are they seeking from Otani I don't see that I'm going to need to see more details on this I suppose but I mean

most athletes I don't recall anybody else getting I mean, I'm sure maybe somebody's gotten sued in some kind of bad land deal. I'm just saying there's, athletes get sued all the time for misrepresentation or I'm going to commit something, but you don't.

I mean, that's not uncommon that sometimes athletes get put into deals they should stay away from. But it's just been, this is two straight years of Shohay being in these really bizarre stories. Yeah. I don't know.

I mean, they kind of seem like two different things. Can I guess give Shohey's, some advice because, you know, he listens to a show all the time. Uh-huh. Just collect your money and put it in, I mean, Ross, an IRA or something. No, he deferred all of them. First of all, yeah, he's not eligible for an IRA, Matt.

But, uh, okay, put it in a savings account. You get 38 cents on the dollar. I don't care. Just kidding. But just stay away from everything. Well, he deferred all that money, man, so he's got to make his cash back. Oh, please. He got to make his cash back somehow. No, stop. He said Shoah is getting his chicken somehow. No, no, no. I, I, I, I, it's just to be,

I mean, there is so much goodness in him that this is the last thing you need is another story to not necessarily dampen who he is, but this is two straight years of off-the-field stuff is making Shoi Otani's life not pristine when it comes to national headlines. And oh, by the way, he got into a triple play yesterday. That was kind of cool. And he's going to win MVP.

I mean, he is as must-see as baseball's had, I got one for you, but this will put our thinking caps on for a minute. Who was must see before Show Hey Otani in baseball? Was it Mike Trout when he was healthy? Show him greater than. I'm going to go Barry Bonds. What's up? Well, you can go that far back.

I mean, you can present me with something that's, I mean, I could change my mind, but I'm telling you what's coming to mind. Let me give you a few just to throw out there. I'm just, just for the sake of argument. Remember when Josh Hamilton was smacking the balls with the Rangers all over and all the time? Yes. That was pretty much seen for a while. Who was the guy from San Francisco Giants?

Poppy, is it? Poppy. Big Poppy, is that what it's called? Big Poppy, we played for the Red Sox. Oh, okay, good, okay. On the twins before that. I think I'm Barry Bonds, yeah. Thanks, Jonathan.

I will say Shohei, more must-watch than Mike Trout because of the pitching. Okay, but that's not my question. My question was who, if Sho-hay is the must-watch of 2025, 20-24, 2023, and all that. Who was before Showing? Who was the must watch before it became Showing? Was it Trout? It was Mike Trout, probably.

Aaron Judge would be second, I guess, Nationalwide. I know we hate him here in Houston. Poo-holes is a Cardinal was a must-watch guy. Okay. Well, I hated watching him. Well, I did too because it was rather personal. Yeah. Train tracks, Poo-holes.

Not great. Yeah, I mean, you're going to run into these players are going to own the league and be on the cover of your various video games and magazines. He has transcended the sport and is the most must-watch baseball player since Barry Bonds. Unless I'm presented with something that changes my mind. And probably needs to keep better company. Hang out with his teammates. I mean, yeah, I don't know.

We need more details on this agent thing. The interpreter thing was certainly sketch at the very least. At the very least, yeah. At the very most criminal at the very least sketch. Yeah. Again, Shohei, just play baseball. Use your, Ross, put your per diem in. an IRA or something, right? Can he put something

in some sort of investments? Maybe maybe up the 401k from the Dodgers. Yeah, he can do that. Do that. I can put more into the pension plan. Yeah, just do that. But no, he's deferred all the money, Matt. It's got to make his cash. Okay. Nobody's buying your argument. Not a single person. Because you got news for you. He made money

with the Angels before he did. Put in the escrow, that's true. Yeah, so he's doing just fine. Yeah, maybe he's eating ramen for dinner and struggling. Mm-mm. I mean, the media dinning, I mean, the team dining is good. He gets two square meals a day when he goes and plays baseball games.

You think he wraps up a sandwich and a napkin and takes it home for dinner? Save cash? I will say that to go boxes in professional sports are quite prevalent. Yeah. See? Especially if you're on a league minimum? No. It's equal opportunity. Okay.

They're super rich to do it too. Even ones that make $40 million a year and don't play. To go play. Okay. You're calling out John Wall. That's fine. I mean... If it's there, yeah. If there, you got to eat it, right? I would do the same thing.

I'm not here to judge. Look, yeah, I'm Mr. Teet, especially at 1 o'clock in a morning when you're in Beverly Hills. You got to feed your family, Maddie. No, no, no, this is on the road. You know, one o'clock in a morning. You're going to feed you side chick. There's no in and out to the in and out Beverly Hills. You got to do what you got to do.

Yeah. Or they get DoorDash. I'm sorry, more mash. NBA players do more mash a lot. Or Walmart Express delivery. Hmm. It's funny, Ross. You see how folks, you drop that in there for,

No apparent reason? It's very rapid, yeah, we've heard the commercials. Walmart Express delivery. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. You just should be. I'm not. I know you're not.

Check it out, folks. All right. Texans back on the practice field, and then tomorrow they'll have the Carolina Panthers in for a workout. Okay. Bryce Young v. C.J. Shroud.

For how long? I mean, I want C.J. a plan on Saturday a little bit, don't you? I don't care. I'm going to say something crazy, Matt. I'm going to trust this coaching staff to play them how much ever they want. Let me ask you this.

This is a real honest question. Has CJ been hit since starting training camp? Probably not. So don't you feel like you need to get hit once? For what? I don't know what it feels like. I think he knows what it feels like. He's been playing quarterback since he could walk probably.

But doesn't you realize this offensive line's got, you know what? It's actually he shouldn't be getting hit because he's going to get hit a lot. Oh, you want to get more? Yeah. Week one against. the Rams. He can be hit a lot, unfortunately.

Yeah, just as long as his head's not hitting the turf like he did when he was, what, against the Jets. I feel like he got concussed, especially his rookie season. Oh, I think there's been multiple concussions in his life. Yes. I think only one was one,

did he get one last year? Which the question then becomes, how does the NFL allow that to happen? Because you've got an independent doctor upstairs who's got his binoculars on, watching all the players. Yes.

It'd be hard to get away with it. But there's also some places in the NFL that have, I mean, for instance, that MetLife Stadium turf in New York is supposed to be horrific. It is horrific. And I'm surprised that more players don't get hurt on that turf. So, I don't know. It's just, yeah, you may be right. CJ doesn't need to feel the brunt of that pain.

No. Because against the Rams, you're going to feel it. Hopefully it's got that line that's protecting him. Yeah, Arionte Ursa is ready at right tackle. Cam Robinson may be ready to play at left tackle, but we'll see. The old blinds hasn't going to be an issue there. All right, Brian Bogusiv is going to join us in 17 minutes here on the Sports Talk 790 machine. That is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. If you're on Twitter, we'd love to have you at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and of course our at 7-90. any account. We do have a two-order poll question. We're going to try to keep doing this on a daily basis here. And the question is, how are you feeling today about the Astros now that they're tied with the Mariners atop the American League West? Your choices are

Astros got this? M's will win the West or too close to call? 51% still feel like the Astros got this. The M's to win the west at 22%. Too close to call, 27%. ESPN, Rossi, has something called a sports Misery Index. Okay. We're going to play the sports memory,

uh, misery index game when we come back. So get ready for that. Play along with us here on Sports Talk 790. There are five levels to your sports misery index according to ESPN, Ross. So stay with me on this. If you're the higher the number,

the more woeful your squad is or your sports fandom is. If you score between 80 to 100, you are the lowest of lows. We wouldn't wish on anyone, almost anyone. Okay. Flailing is between 60 and 79.

Some teams have it worse. It might take a minute to think of them, though. Me is 40 to 59 on the misery index. Feeling somewhat ambivalent, you find yourself looking up at your rivals. Pleasant, 20 to 39. Your teams are competitive,

but there could always be more. Elated is 0 to 19 in the misery rating. You remember your last championship like it was yesterday because it basically was. All right. So here we go. We're going to do this misery rating. Now, I can't get, what am I supposed to do now?

I'm stuck. Click on one. Sure, why not? How do you feel? What is your misery index on there? My misery index? Yeah, what would you feel? I would say, I'm not a pleasant?

Pleasant, let's say pleasant. Okay. Now we need a little help from you. Enter your favorite North American pro team in the box below. You can choose any team. Which team would you like you to put it in? My favorite team? Your favorite team, period.

That'd be the Houston Rockets. All right. The Rockets. This is interesting. We're doing this live on the radio. How long have you been a fan? Less than five years, five to 15 or 15 plus? What do you think?

15 plus. Okay. Okay. Okay. ESPN are doing us any favors here. Now it's stuck. Don't hurt yourself, Matt. You can, now you've really put some time in your team.

All right. We get your favorite MLB team, NBA team. What other teams do you love? You want to add some more teams? Yeah. Let's add another team. Houston Astros. Let's add the Astros.

Now the Texans are going to be under five years. I've only been a Texans fan now for two. You're 15 plus on the Astros. Correct. Now it's going to be my third year as Battle Red Ross. Correct. Yeah, of course, yeah. Astros fan since I could walk.

Now an ad pops up, so I've got to go back. Okay. Oh, no, my God. Ross mentioned something. Yes, follow me on Instagram at Sports I really would appreciate it. I'm putting together more content using my green screen. And I'll try to put something maybe tonight or tomorrow.

And I'm trying to build it up. And it would really help me out in my media career. If you follow me at SportsRV on Instagram. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Follow you. At Sports RV. All right, we're going to add another team.

We're going to add the Astros. This is not great radio here, but we're trying to do this for the sake of... That's okay. Don't hurt yourself, Matt. Well, I'm just saying. All right. And one more team. We're going to add the Texans.

Uh-huh. And you've been a fan for less than five years. Yes. Y'all can do this, by the way, at home, as you're listening to show if you want to in your misery index. You're less than five years. See results. Here it comes. This is the bot does this.

You are meh. You win some, you lose some. Your rankings are, uh, who's your competition? Oh, the rockets are 15th among the 30 NBA teams in, in misery index. That seems actually a little, that's 50 to 30 on misery? Well, you want...

Three straight losing season. Well, you've been a fan for 50 plus... Well, you tell me. We need two championships for 30 years ago. Yeah, but you were a fan of more than 15 more years. I was a fan, though. Yeah. It was great.

I remember the great times. Going to the parades. Team 150 plus games last year. Yes. Okay. And it doesn't seem miserable. It just seems it could be better. Yeah.

I would say you take the bad years with the 60th plus lost season three years in a row. And then you add the 51 year plus the playoffs before that with Harding, Chris Paul and with Russell Westbrook. Yeah. It feels me. The Astros 29th. That's good. That's great. That's great.

The only team that feels better about themselves are the Dodgers. I was going to say Dodgers. The Dodgers. Okay. Now the big one. Where are the Texans in the misery list? Oh my God, they got to be way down there. Number 11, yeah.

Oh, okay. The higher the number of the war short. I got you. So you were 11 out of the 30 teams. So 19 teams and their fan bases feel better about themselves than the Houston Texans do. Because again, you make the playoffs. Yeah. And you win some divisional games.

Yeah. And you blank. You have some hope for the future. You blank the best. in the divisional playoffs. You had huge hopes that CJ Stroud was going to be a top five quarterback and now he's top 10-ish.

And he's time for ninth. According to the athletic, yeah. Yeah. It's top 10-ish. Okay. So this thing was, this is an AI-driven thing and it's not particularly entertaining,

but I wanted to see how it paste everything. I don't feel that miserable. Maybe it's just because the Astros are very good. What's my most miserable thing right now? Oh, yeah. Can you put the Houston Cougars in there? Well, here's what I'm going to say. I am ridiculously excited about Cougar basketball.

but however however if they don't win the championship I'm going to be just as miserable as I was when they lost the championship to Florida championship bust or mentality will drive you nuts but that's where I'm at no matter who you are you're going to be disappointed way way way more often than not

especially in a one and done tournament that's hard it is hard that's why the misery is so high they were better than Florida they're better team than Florida they weren't better than Duke but they beat Duke That's true. That's a good point. Duke was better. I think Duke Wicks win six out of ten, and I think the Cougars win six out of ten against the Florida, maybe even seven. So that's who I am right now as we speak here on August 13th of 2025.

My astro misery is rather low because I've already tasted championships, and I know this team has been beset by so many injuries. My rocket misery is minimal because Kevin Durant just came here and I'm really expecting a lot of things to be fun in coming up this next season. Texans I'm not really a fan of so I'm indifferent to it. They do great, it's fine, if they're miserable, I don't care either way. Misery is like white socks. Misery is like Charlotte Hornets. Colorado Rockies.

But even the Rockies know what a world scene. They made one world series. They got their ass swept out, right? But think about this, but they, but they at least say no. What does Charlotte Hornet fan know? The greatest player ever to play in basketball owned your team for a while and all you did was lose 60 games. That's misery. And now my cougars on the basketball side, if they don't win the national championship, I'm going to be a hot mess.

And you're going to text me, sorry for your loss. I didn't text you that, did I? You meant it that you meant to? No, I didn't. You telepathically did. I showed you some grace. And you know what I got on top of that? What?

The vid. So now that I lose a championship, I got the vid after that. Oh, you got the COVID? Yeah. It was a double-dusy of disaster. That's why when they go- Man, your team lost the championship in heartbreaking fashion. You spent a lot of money getting over there and you caught COVID?

Correct. Ooh. Yeah, that's right. That's misery. Yeah, but they were in the championship game. That's not miserable. I know you're feeling miserable about it, but I was feeling miserable about it.

Poor Calvin Samson, who I love more than life itself. He's not poor. He's doing all right. I want to be my father figure. Okay? George Michael? That made, sure. You saw the quotes right after the game. He's like, I don't know what happened.

I mean, people get, yeah, he's a little snake bit. And it was bad, what was it the year before? Who got hurt? Was it Jamal Shed that got hurt? Yeah. They could have won it then. We need it. The city of Houston needs it.

I don't think the city Houston needs it. For my mental health. I got the Astros to get my title from my Astro fandom. I got my Rockets as a PA announcer. I need one more title from the Rockets, and I need my Cougars to finally win the National Championship. So Gibbons is like people I work with and stop talking about all the golf championships we have. And we can stage a full segment of Cougars fans calling it and dunking on me. Oh, God.

that'd be gold. Can't wait. Don't me to shut my bum ass up. I think it'd be fantastic. 713, 212. 577. No,

they don't love you. Every time I go somewhere, you tell Ross to shut his bum ass up. Oh, they're so cute. No, they're not. They're not. No, they just think that

you're just belligerent and mean and rude. Well, it's mostly part of the bit of the, it's mostly a bit. Mostly a bit. Not completely a bit. Not completely a bit. Brian Borgessevick.

join us to start the 11 o'clock hour after this is the matt thomas show with ross 1102 is our time we're going to spend 10 quality minutes with our friend brian bogussevich of space city home network finale of the three game series tonight 5 o'clock on the on deck show tv on space city radio right here on sports talk so big bogey will be joining me friday with you out 10 to 12 we're looking you're going to talk texans and panthers that's good I can't wait to hear your analysis on that. We're going to do two hours of Tulane football in the American conference. Okay.

A serious question we're going to put to the Astros. How much Tulane stuff do you talk about with your buddies and your family and the alums and that kind of thing? Very little. I mean, our discussions have moved on from college stuff. I mean, there's very little. Honestly, during baseball season, we'll talk a little college baseball, but in terms of following football, basketball, it is as casual as it gets.

Well, one of my best friends is the voice of the Pelicans. Todd Graffini used to be the voice of Tulane. All he does is texting Tulane stuff over and over and over again. I feel like the two you should be bros or something. We are from a long time ago. All right. Big opener against Northwestern August 30th. Ooh. All the smart kids playing football.

Is there a dummy in the mix in that group? Jesus, that's crazy. All right. So start number two for Eragherty. Now, giving up the two runs was good. the walk count was not obviously. A thought about what you saw yesterday from the starter who, man, has got a lot of pressure on him over the next 40 or so days.

Yeah, I would say looking at yesterday and the first start even down in Miami, it's a little bit disappointing that he's not sharper. You know, there was command issues that kind of ran through both of those starts. From a stuff standpoint, though, it's pretty encouraging. I mean, the fastball velocity, the life on the fastball, those are both, good, the shape of the breaking ball, the spin of the breaking ball. That all looks good. So there is reason to be optimistic. You know, the first start, he got a ton of swings and misses. Yesterday, even being constantly behind in the count, constantly having to deal with runners on base,

he was still able to win in the strike zone when he was in the strike zone. So there is a lot to like there. He's just got to get better command, get all those pitches working, you know, his repertoire as a whole versus all of his pitches is kind of being, you know, one individual pitch after another. So yeah, not as sharp as maybe we had hoped from a guy who's not coming off of an arm injury, but he looks a lot like he did early on in the season last year. He made a lot of adjustments and was much better late. Hopefully those same adjustments can happen on a much quicker timeline this year.

Do you think he's thinking about, man, I really want to get back in the groove of these things of pitching every fifth day. I miss so much time. Oh, by the way, my squad needs me because I've got injuries in my bullpen now. I've got uncertainty in my starting rotation. I've got Javier just coming back personally for Spencer. He didn't go through Tommy John.

He didn't go through the stuff that makes you miss 12, 14, 16 months, two years. What's going through his mind do you think for him over the next handful of weeks? Well, he's been around the team all year. Besides, you know, at the end of the rehab, when he goes down to Florida to get stretched out. So he knows everything that's been going on. He knows the injuries that have racked up. He knows that this team has been kind of piecing it together, waiting for everybody to get back. So he understands the deal and the optimism of getting these guys back, and maybe there's a little bit of pressure.

I think, you know, what we have to remember with Spencer is that this is only the second year. And he didn't even get a full season last year at that. So he's still very early in the learning process. This was still going to be a big development year for Spencer Arigetti, regardless of getting injured or not. So the idea that he's just going to come off of a long layoff and just immediately go in there and just be, you know, essentially the savior of a rotation, that's pretty unrealistic, you know, for us to expect from him, from him to expect from himself, I think just looking at it through the lens of what he did last year and learning things in a given start and applying them into the

next start. If we can see that growth start over start, I think by the end of the year or maybe even after four or five starts, I think it'll be the guy that we were hoping to see coming out of the shoots here. Bogie, this Astros Clubhouse, whatever version has been over the last seven or eight years, has been cool and calm, never so down when things are down, never so up when they're on a hot streak.

They've seen a 10-game deficit erased. Now in 2025, they've seen a seven-game lead erased. It's hard to measure what that brameter that clubhouse is because it's so many new guys. But take us through what you, think the general culture is still with Altuva in there, still with a lot of veteran leaders, but yet at the same time knowing that the injury bug continues to hamper this team. And oh, by the way,

the team behind them, the Seattle Mariners haven't lost since I think the first of the year. Yeah, I think, you know, just the circumstances of the season have changed, right? Everything is fluid throughout the course of the season. Sometimes you're the team getting healthy. Sometimes you're the team getting hurt. Sometimes you're chasing. Sometimes you're being chased. And, you know, it sounds so cliche to the one game at a time type of thing, but you can't get through 162 games thinking about a big picture constantly. And you can't get through, you know, a decade of seasons like a guy like Jose Al-Tuvae are some of these veterans by constantly being big picture oriented because it's overwhelming. So if you're going to have a mindset when, you know,

you're chasing somebody in the standings of, hey, we just got to go out there, win a game, win a series. You're going to apply that same thing. when it's the other way around and you're the team that was out in the lead that has now been chased down because there's really nothing else you can do you can go out there and you can worry about what's it going to look like the next you know 40 plus games who are we playing in the upcoming week who are the mariners playing none of that matters and to get to the success level that these guys have gotten to they know how to compartmentalize those things they know how to stay focused on the day-to-day stuff because that's the stuff that really matters so so when it's going good or

going bad, it really is the same mindset regardless. Yeah, so we, fans and media, of course, are hanging more on every pitch and every game and the results of that, but you don't think that's necessarily bleeding into the batters boxer in the field. No way. I mean, it's the same thing, whether you're, you know, got a 20-game hitting streak or you're in a long slump, you're going there, you're getting your work in, you're game planning, you're going through scouting reports, you're doing, it's all about the preparation.

and then you go out there and just play. And once you're out there and just playing, what happened yesterday is the last 10 days or what's going to happen 10 days from now, it really doesn't matter, and it can't matter because you've got enough to worry about when you're standing out there in the batter spots. Brian Bogosovic with us here on Sports Talk 790.

Why has Carlos Corrie been so good at the plate back in an Astros uniform? You know, when you hear Carlos talk about hitting, he's very rarely talking about mechanics. He's always talking about approach, approach, approach, approach, having an approach for a pitch for an at-bat for a game for a one-on-one matchup or even the team. And, you know, kind of the definition of approach in my book is, what are you doing to tip the scales in your favor?

Because the batter-pitcher matchup, everything favors the pitcher. It's an impossible thing to do, you know, hitting a baseball in general. The fielders are so good. So how can you go out there, you know, take into account what the pitcher's repertoire is, take into account the game situation, where the defense is playing, what that pitcher's outpitch is. You know, how do you factor all of those things in to give yourself a better chance? And when you watch Carlos go out there, and early on in the count, he's obviously hunting pitches, looking for something that he can drive, something that he can do damage on.

Later in the count, he'll try to take away a pitcher's best pitch and not give them that put-away two-strike pitch. He'll shorten up, and a pitch that maybe takes a big swing at in a 1-0 count, he'll just kind of punch to right field in a two-strike count. So watching him go out there and just execute and just really fight tooth and nail on every single pitch, you can really appreciate how he gets to the results where we look up after, you know, whatever it's been, 10, 12 games and the numbers have been really good. And I think that is going to start to bleed over into some of the younger players

and just the team as a whole and just trying to have those really drawn out, knockout, drag out type of that bats. Bogey, we were looking at MLB Network in our studio here just a minute ago, and they just went through the lineup 1 through 9 for the Mariners. Eight of their nine batters have an OPS plus right now of 100 plus. That sadly cannot be said for the local 9, although there are numbers that are improving, Christian Walker being one of them. How are you going to outslug the Seattle Mariners to this fight to the finish

to the very last 40 games or so of the season? Well, I think we're going to see, you know, the last six, eight weeks of the season, whatever it is, it's a different version of this team. It's different guys in general when you look post-trade deadline. It's different versions of a guy like Christian Walker who finally looks settled in, you know, knocked on wood. If Yoron gets back, that changes everything. So I don't think you have to look at it from a big picture of numbers standpoint. Can they hit with the Mariners? Yeah, they can.

and the end of year numbers might not show it, but I think this is going to be a lineup, and they're going to have to because, you know, the injuries are not going away when you look at what's going on with Josh Hayter. They're going to have to score runs to win games, and now, you know, there's a lot more length in the lineup. There's a lot more guys that can hurt you in the lineup, and there's a lot of guys who aren't necessarily feeling the pressure

of being the one or two guys that it's going to have to be them on any given day. Otherwise, there's not going to be anybody else to do. do it. If Yordon does not come back, forgetting about the offense, what's the best Astros, I guess combined defense and offense outfield, do you see the wrestle away for the Houston Astros? In the outfield, I think it's probably, you know, we'll leave out the fact of does Jake Myers come back or not. Hopefully he does soon. But right now, it's probably a platoon in center field. Tremel and Chas, if he can get it going a little bit, which it looks like maybe. he's gotten it going just a little bit.

Cam Smith is your right-fielder, Jesus Sanchez in left field. If you want to try to work, I wouldn't say a platoon, but piecing together, if you want to try to hide Cam from a tough righty and move Sanchez into right field. But it's some combination of those two guys in the corner

and then mixing Al-Tube in there, if need be. All right. Do you like this? We're quick. Do you like this? I like five-game league guy. My partner over here to my right loves the anticipation of this being

playoff time starting right now. Where are you on what we have seen because the Mariners don't lose and the Astros are playing a little bit under 500 these days? Yeah, as a fan, I'm excited. I'm excited for a lot of meaningful baseball. I'm excited for a lot of high-energy games

coming down the stretch as a player and as a guy watching a team that he knows wants to make a deep playoff run. It would be really nice to have the last week or so of the season be sign sealed and delivered and you start to kind of line things up for the postseason. But no, as a fan, you know, there's nothing better than coming out to the ballpark every day

and there kind of being those butterflies and that feeling. And you get that in the playoffs and the idea of maybe getting that for the last month of the season, that would be a lot of fun. Bogey, thank you for the visit. As always, look forward to hearing with you and Ross on Friday. Thanks for the time as always. All right, see you guys. All right, it's Brian Bogusivik.

Going to hang out with you for a couple hours on Friday. Looking forward to that. Yes, 10 to noon. I'm excited. Which means 10 to noon ratings will be really good. No, 2 on Friday, a little concerned about. That's fine. We'll get Adam Clinton.

So I'll just go ahead and lay it out for you. We got Gordy tomorrow, 10 to noon. Okay. Boogie 10 to noon Friday. Okay. One o'clock hour. Adam Clanton tomorrow. Nice.

One o'clock hour, Adam Wexler on Friday. What a team effort around these parts. I really appreciate everybody. I mean, they're working up. See, it takes four guys to fill your shoes, Matt. I couldn't have said a better. myself. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We got to shut your bum-ass up coming up at the bottom of the hour. I've got one for the state of Texas. Uh-oh.

Mm-hmm. So, I want to just briefly bring this up to you what's going on in a city that I used to live in, Minneapolis, St. Paul. I was a St. Paul guy. Love it there. The weather was. Is it like the Crips and the Bloods? No. It was the... Was it, Turf Wars? No. Minneapolis is very cosmopolitan, somewhat bushy. St. Paul is more working class, family kind of thing.

Minneapolis, it's a pretty good comp to what you would, I don't know if Dallas-Fort Worth, it would be, because Fort Worth's got some horty-torty areas, too, so that's not even a bad example. I don't really. I think it's a bad areas. They do, but point being is this. That's where I spent my summers. They're two incredibly different cities separated by eight miles. It's really bizarre.

Really enjoyed my time there a lot. The main reason why I left was two reasons. One, my kids and my wife missed their families here in Texas. And two, the weather is atrocious. I mean, it's just, it's almost unbearable. How many months of the year is it too cold? Six. That's too many.

It's hard to live there December to May. Yeah. November can get pretty dice. I remember bundling up on Halloween, really bundling up. January is cruel to the human body. Minus 13. It's just ridiculous. Yeah.

Okay. So my point is this. Huge sports town. Big Vikings, big unhockey, basketball, getting there. Baseball, the twins have been around since the 60s, haven't won a World Series since 1991. but yet they they draw very, very well. Diehard group. They know who they are.

They know they're not going to outspend people. They know they don't get the free agents typically. When they got Carlos Gray a few years ago, that was a big freaking deal to them. Because Carl's Gray just doesn't, those types don't choose the Minnesota twins. Well, a lot of that was because other teams are saying, no thanks to Carlos Creer.

Oh, yeah, I love Minnesota. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The owners of the team are the Polad family, when they've owned the team since the mid-80s. and they're miserly would be too strong of a term but they're not going to be they're not Jim Crane

that's why I want to bring this up because there's a central point of this is that for all the criticism that maybe Jim Crane gets it's just unfounded he spends money he doesn't spend the crazy contracts and we're frankly seeing a lot of that

these days I mean Alex Bremen went to go get that crazy contract and he may not even get it he may get a better deal but he still may not get that super mega deal I'm hoping that Kyle Tucker doesn't get that mega deal. You're wrong. Okay. Seven years I'll accept.

Your cockiness on this is so awesome. I cannot wait to win. This will be my greatest victory if we win this one. Okay. Bring it to me. And the drive-thru, too. Don't forget that either. Oh, I'm ready.

Okay. So the poll ads a couple of years ago decided they were going to sell the team. And everybody in Minnesota is like, oh, hell yeah. So what did the twins do at this offseason? Or this during the season? They stripped down last off season. Yes. And then at the trade deadline, they traded 10 players.

I mean, they really stripped it down to this. It was a fire sale. It's a fire sale. So people are like, okay, now the twins have really made it economically viable for somebody to buy their team. They just announced this morning they're not selling the team. Why? They've got two minority investors that are going to jump in on the fray, and they're going to be exciting additions.

the twins ownership family. So they're not, I explain that to me. They're selling more shares to the minority owners? No, they've got new minority owners they're going to bring in. Okay, so they're selling parts of the team. But they couldn't find somebody to buy it. And I'm curious if that's because the sports landscape in sports today are finding fewer people to buy sports teams or the price they were asking for

was completely atrocious. I think if you want to sell a team, you can sell it. That's what I was thinking to. I mean... Is that... Because these football teams are selling for ungodly amounts of money. The Celtics got sold for an ungodly amount of money. Yes.

The Wolves in Minneapolis. I'm very, very mid-MBA team. Alex Rodriguez and his old partner, they spent a lot of money. What, Matt of Sheba bought the Sons a few years ago. There's been a lot of... The Lakers sold for crazy amounts of money to the owner of the Dodgers.

But maybe... What about baseball, though? I have not heard of anybody trying to sell a baseball team lately. That's why I'm curious if it's sports related or it's baseball related, but revenues have been way up in baseball. They're going to get a new television deal this year, which usually means a spike in revenue for whatever they're going to go with. The Orioles just sold. That's right. I forgot about that. Orioles just sold last year.

Or how much? $1.75 billion. NBA teams are going for way above that, correct? Yes. Rockets are worth like $6 billion. Yeah, yeah. is this the royals sold in 2020 oh Steve Cohen bought the Mets in 2020

he spent a pretty petty on that two and a half billion so I just the reason why I brought this up I just wanted to say that if you are cranky with your ownership in your particular of your favorite team whether it be here in town or somewhere else just know that my friends in Minneapolis who watch their twins basically strip the team down to a bare minimum

they got a new stadium about 15 years ago but decided not to put a roof on it because the poll ads are miserly. They're cheap. And cheap. And say, we don't need it because we don't want to pay for it. We know we need it, but we're just not going to do it. We're just going to schedule games in April. Yeah.

In October, they've been fine. And so this team is where it is, mired in a very mediocre division. I mean, Detroit's good, but I don't know if anybody is considering them a legit World Series candidate. Cleveland doesn't spend money. Kansas City doesn't spend money. the White Sox are a perennial loser I mean that's a division that a good baseball team with good ownership should win on a regular basis

and they find out today that they are staying with the PoloF family at least from a majority standpoint so I just was just I saw that on my time on the aisle so I got to bring that up a little bit to say you know what

sometimes it's you got a pretty good where you are on that's the crew is who's the best owner in Houston is it Jim Crane? Oh I honestly Tell me does a good job they spend money Honestly, all three of them are doing a really good job. Yeah, Hannah's doing great. I mean, Hannah's completely changing image.

I don't think the Texans are miserly. They're always trying to do things to improve. In the NFL, you have no... Yeah, but I don't know what you mean. Facilities and stuff like that. Now... Because you have this... There's a salary four and a salary cap.

Yes. And everybody goes to the salary cap. It could get surly if Hannah comes out and says, we need money to build and refurbish our NRG or get a new stadium. That's where it's going to get really, really tough. If you lose... If you win, people are like, I can't wait to spend my money on your new facility. Making a Super Bowl or at least an AFC championship game is going to get you votes.

That's literally crazy. That's a huge proponent or a factor in this. It's just on-field performance. Yes. If we did a universe, if we did a vote where they just made the Super Bowl and if we did a vote where they didn't even make the playoffs, it would be vastly different. Isn't that crazy? Like if we did a poll with this question right now and then we saved it for 12 months.

And they go to the championship game or they go to the Super Bowl, even if they don't win the Super Bowl, I bet you that the survey results would be, I wouldn't say a complete 180, but there would be a significant shift in the, well, we'll do whatever we can. Just know this. The Texans are not leaving Houston ever.

It's just going to be, there's going to be some muddy waters, for sure. Especially if they don't win. Yeah. And especially if... No pressure to be going to... Cal has to do stuff without Hannah by his side because Cal's going to...

What does that mean? Meaning that he's going to... say something that's going to be misconstrued or not what the team message would want to be. That's why they're going to be more than one foot away from him. They got a good muzzle on him. They're trading them up. And they hired a guy

to be their team president who is in this in the stadium business. He's going to, yeah. He's going to be handling those documents. A lot of phone calls. Hey, we want to bring on our team president here to talk about what's going to be great for the community and raise money. Go back on Call of Duty Warzone, Cal.

All right. You were ready to shut your bum ass up? No? I'm ready to talk for two and a half more hours. All right. We want you to call us right now. If you got somebody in your life, you want to tell them to shut their bum asses up. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. All right. 1135, sports talk 790. This is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We should explain Ross. If somebody is irritating you at the office. Somebody who is sending you spam emails. Somebody is interrupting your lunch with endless phone calls, text. Maybe somebody cut you off in the middle of the freeway. Maybe a

sports athlete did something wrong and insulted your favorite sports team. Simply tell them to shut their bumasses up. And you play the sounder. Set your bum ass up, man. There you go. 7-13. Spam calls have been up. Oh, that happens. I've got, I get about 40 a day. I got three this morning. Did you? 40 a day is insane.

Did you answer? No, I know. I don't do that. Oh, God, so much fun. I used to, but I don't anymore. Oh, God, I live for it. 713, 21, 2, 1, 5709. All right, I got a, ain't nobody got time for something.

And this might be an unpipater take, and I fully expected. Okay. I am anti-Texas House Bill 1481. I don't know what that is. Students K through 12 cannot use any personal communication devices during the school day. What about if there is an emergency? Who's the dean that's an emergency?

Well, I don't know. There's been several school shootings in Texas over the years. Now, I don't know if they're doing it because they think the kids are distracted or if they think that the kids are using it to cheat and look, AI as being as a huge role in life? Can we just go to handwritten stuff and I mean, how can you cheat? If everybody has to put their phone up and then you do handwritten stuff, isn't that the solution to all this? Here's what I would do. And I'm not an education. It's never been in. I've been to school in a long time.

Okay. You have a little room with a little bag in. You put your phone in when the class starts. And when the class end, you go pick up your phone. Or you can get the little pouches like they take, have you been to a concert where they take up your phone? Yeah. Yeah. It happened at the Dave Chappelle concert.

I went to. My daughter's first day of high school was today. This is a lot of people that are listening to the show. There are a lot of first day of schools. If I want to get a hold of Carley right now at 1137, I should be able to do it. I'm sorry. I for me not to develop and again you're saying well you didn't have that communication issue no that would be a counter argument I get it it's 2025 they're changed yeah there also weren't as

many school violence school violence and school shootings and school period blank happening is 500% more than it was 35 years ago I want to be able to get a hold of Carley if I want to say hey take the dogs out when you get home then she needs to be able to see that I am against this bill. So I would say to Texas, now again, I don't want her using a phone to cheat. I want her be able to drop the phone off from the class arts. But if she's at lunch with her buddies, or she's in the bathroom and she's got her five-minute break and she wants to check and see what's going on in her life or when her mom and dad texts her or her best friend text her, whatever the case it would be. What else is in this bill? It's no phones. It's no, it's nothing. It's no tablets,

none of that stuff. No electronic devices capable of telecommunication or digital communication. That includes smartphones, flip phones, tablet, smart watches, radio devices, or pagers. So I say to the state of Texas, you don't know anybody got time for your house bill. And again, I may be on the wrong side of this,

but with all the things going on in the world, if the blanket's the fan at a particular school and I want to say, Carly, are you okay? Guess what? I won't be able to find her because she can't get to her phone until after school. It sucks. Just my own person, two things. I'm sorry, Matt.

Okay, thank you. I don't have time for this ESPN misery rating. You said they had me feeling mad. I'm feeling pleasant. Rockets are doing good. They just got Kevin Durant. Sure, they haven't won a championship since the 1990s. Astros won two championships.

Texans are looking stagnant, but at least that they're 10. Divisional victories. And, well, okay. Divisional round losses. I'm not that miserable. Shut your ball mess up. Misery rating. Shit your bum ass up, man.

Shut your bum ass up, AI. Yeah. Shit your bum ass up, man. First of all, I told me as well, I said today, I said, if you trust AI, you're going to fail. A lot. Way too much. I'm telling you. When I do, I think you can do like a slash no AI or something like that at the end of your Google searches.

I need to start doing that. It's just wrong. It's not only wrong, but it's dated stuff. It's very often wrong. I know somebody that was at a trivia night, and the guy had looked up the trivia questions on AI, and he looked up, the trivia question was, who's the only Astro to win an MVP award?

There's been two. Al-Tivian Bagwell. So some people said Bagwell and got it wrong. There was a whole trivia night controversy, because AI, since the season was ended by the strike, but still, he's 19. 1994 National League MVP. That is correct.

So it's costing people in trivia night. There's like controversies. Well, we can't have that, Ross. I know. We can't have people drinking 17 gins and tonics and losing at the trivia night. It's a whole uproar apparently. To win a $25 gift card. It was a whole to do at trivia night.

What's trivia? Hey, I shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. What's trivia night guy I like, by the way? Oh, trivia nights actually, I think. describe trivianite guy Trivia night guy well there's probably nerds

who like to have a couple of drinks and prove to everyone how smart they are Can I tell you when I'm trivia night guy what I do? Okay I try to answer the question before the question is even finished You shout it?

Because yeah You're supposed to write it down No we can do a shout if you want to No you're in it depends Very frowned upon Okay I'm just gonna tell you For you single fellas out there

If you and a couple bros See like two girls at a trivia Hey you guys want to make a team. We only have two people. That way we can get some more people. It's a great way. And then if you answer questions wrong and look like a dofus, then it's probably not going to go well. But if you go there and you're smart and you interact and then you prove that you have some smarts, it's going to go very well for you. I used to be, we used to have Trivian Night with the Rockets when Stephen Silas was the coach. Oh, yeah. I was always the pick because I did very, very well

in these things. We're proud of you, Matt. Thank you very much. I'm glad you brought that up. So Triviyanai guy is a dork. What's trivia night girl like? She's with a girlfriend. She's, they're nerdy girls? No, I don't, I would say. Sometimes bookish?

That's okay. Are you sure? I think it's a little higher than that. What do you think of Friends trivia? That depends. Somebody's playing Friends trivia. They're pretty hot. Smart girls and nerdy girls are great.

They need love too bad. Everybody needs love. Everybody needs love. 713-212-570. 7-1-3-212-5-78. Question is, if you're hooked up, but a trivia night. 713212.

5790. I imagine it's happening all over town. With our audience? Can't wait to hear. Maybe not ours. Kyle on 790. Kyle, what's the matter with you?

Matt, I got, I had one, uh, shut your bum ass up. Now I got two because Ross said that. First of all, I am not a nerd. Okay. And I go to those trivia nights. I've been on many cruises. I win every time. Yeah, you're a nerd.

No, you're a nerd. No, no. No, no. No, but I'll tell you what, you can shut your bum ass up because. MT is Mr. Texas and don't you forget it. That's right. Oh, my God. I am the, you know what, call me Mr. Lone Star State.

Now, you don't actually believe this, right? You're the absolute worst candidate for Mr. Texas. Where am I going this week? I'm going to Austin. So what? Don't be jealous. Jealous? Exactly.

Jealous of what? Well, because we're from U of H and you're from now. School who has to buy their players, you know? Oh, really? So you think this five-star quarterback going to U of H? You don't think there is any monetary compensation happening there? Well, no, he just wants to win. He doesn't want to go to the team projected for five and a half wins, Kyle?

By the way, projected by the 31st team of the country. Thank you very much. No place to go, but up. Exactly. Thank you, Kyle. Shit your bum-ass up, man. Let me, Kyle. Kyle, feel free to call any time you want.

Kyle is clearly smoking crack this morning or huffing people or both. There is some poll that has his number 31 in the country, and I'll take it. What? At football. What poll? I don't know. I saw it. You've aged 30.

Somebody backed me up on this. 31st? First of all. Number 31. Getting all proud about being 31st. Compared to where we've been, are you kidding me? I'll take 31. I would just remember the...

I got news for you. Five years ago, you'd have been 31. What are you talking about? Oh, hell yeah. No. Nobody would have loved to be 31. In college, when you had Charlie Strong running things, and Tom Herman, you would have died to be 31st.

No, they were ranked multiple. multiple times during that era. And Tom Herman won a Sugar Bowl. And they won 10 games that season. I want to say they finished top 10 in the country that year. You know what I'm saying. Would you say? It's not always perfect in Austin. No, go ahead. No, I didn't say it was perfect in Austin. But you would have taken top 30? No, I would not have ever taken top 31 and said this is great.

You know what? It's called standards, man. I have realistic expectations. Yeah. They call me. With 15 golf championships and get all excited about that. 1970s. We're all proud of you. Mr. Texas says number 31 is okay in 2025. Next year we'll go above that.

But for now, I'll take 31. Mr. Texas, you're not making it out of the primaries. I'll say it again. You don't like sweet tea. You don't like Dr. Pepper. You don't like enchiladas. You don't like high sugar products. Okay. You don't like tamales. And you're not a big fan of brisket. You're out of here.

Briscuit's fine by me. You're out. I'll be in Austin. And then I'll be going to Luke and back Texas, Waylon. No, you're not. You're such a liar. I mean, Ron Rock, all that good stuff. You'll be impeached for Mr. Texas within six seconds.

I got the Lone Star State around my belt around my way. 713-212-5-790. God, I love this station. The conversation we have off air. Spectacular. Ross, what happened to you over there, all right? A piece of the microphone fell off. It's all good.

Don't tell them. cost you. No, that's all good. Are you sure? I didn't do it. Yeah. I'm blaming Sean. To the phones we go. Brian and Pearling, Brian, what's the matter with you? To the people who, I got two of them, to the people who control the 288 toll road, um, $18 at 7.30 in the morning from 518 just into downtown is absolutely highway robbery and criminal. Ain't nobody got time to be paying that crap at or, traffic for two hours. That's absolutely absurd.

That 288. Yeah. I totally agree with you. I've done it a couple times because I've got some clients out in that area and the easiest way to get back into the city is to take that 288 toll. He's right. It's ridiculous.

Scam. Scam. Scam. Yeah. What can we give up in order to get free toll roads? What do they want us to pay more? Probably more tax, but they're just going to misappropriate the funds. you know,

welcome to machine politics. What kind of machine? Like a machete? Like a gun? Like a well-oil machine that's taking all of our money and misappropriating funds and kickbacks and...

You seem like you're pro-government. I don't love it. Please join me in this bill. I'm pro-government. It's just the people that... I mean, we need government. We need roads. We need roads paid for.

We need certain things. I don't want to be able to text my daughter. Hope you're having a good day at 1150. We need government, but we need good people to run it. and that just doesn't happen. Well, that's why, as Brian and Garden, who's our, Alex and Garden Oaks? Who's our Garden Oaks guy?

James and Garden Oaks is one of the complaints about Joe's spot and never taking pictures out. Yeah, James and Garden Oaks calls me governor. You know, I'm Mr. Texas. So I'm running the state. I could run this thing, like a well, oil machine. I just could. Let's go to, uh, no chance. Jacob on the north side.

Jacob, what's the matter with you? Yeah, to all the guys that call it. with your jokes and your impersonations, shut your bum ass up. You're not funny. You're not a professional. Just stop. Put your sports take out there, hang on the phone, move

on. Thank you. Shut your bum ass up, man. Jacob doesn't care for let's see we had Harry Kerry recently a couple times. Who else? I don't remember. We've had Bradward. Bradward? I think Bradward's funny. He's fine. And Harry Carrey isn't terrible.

By the way, Ivan's going to vote for me for Texas. Mr. Texas? Yep. He's got to screw loose. That's okay. Oh, Trevor says I actually host a trivia night in the Woodlands every Tuesday. I call it trivia. It's awesome.

Travia. Trivia. His name is Trania. Whatever. Yeah, look, I mean this in the nicest way. Like, yeah, if you're all super into trivia, now you're a nerd, but I don't mean that in a bad way. And, of course, Kyle's not that much of a nerd because he went to you of age. We're tier one, baby.

medical school That's right Tier 1 Medical school Architecture Education Broadcasting Law School

What don't we do We don't we do everything Magnificique Magnificiccic Yeah Your graduates Can't even say real words Magnificique

Yeah Massive a geek So I call it Because I'm Mr. Texas Oh my God You're the This is a bit right You don't believe

You're actually a good Mr. Texas All right You'd be horrible. Hold on. Hold on. Listen to me. Horrible. First of all, I love Galveston. Okay. Why does that make you Mr. Texas? Dallas doesn't bother me as much as it bothers others. I love Lubbock. I love Austin.

I go to the valley once in a while. It's not terrible down there. What else do I like? What year did the Texas declare its independence? 1836. Dang. Boom. Name me three generals of the Texas Texian Army. Lee? Alfonso and Rodriguez.

No, you're already out because you don't like tamales and enchiladas. And you like to put beans in chili. I can't have either way. But you know what? That shows me flexibility because good leadership requires flexibility. You're Mr. Inflexible. Hi, Gary. What's on your mind?

What are you mad about? Yeah, I was listening to the radio station. And there was this man that lives out in Kingwood. I believe he was a tennis dad. And then I heard somebody else somewhere. I believe he was a volleyball dad. And they're both wanting to piss. all over people's fun parade

at the ball games because they want to do the wave. Just because you don't like the wave, we're telling everybody else what to do and how to have fun. So shut your bum ass up, man. Shut your bum ass up, man. You and Gary got beef again. I thought

your kissed and made up. I thought I did. Dude, Gary, don't get into a car wreck today, but if you do get into one, hope you don't get injured too bad. Hope you don't lose a limb. Stay away from those 18 wheelers too because they can run over your car real quick I know about 27 law firms you can call if you do getting a car wreck

And if those law firms want to spend money in this station I'm available, hi Send me an email, mt at sports790.com No, send me an email, Ross at 790. Oh no, you're too busy at Walmart, you don't have time for anybody else Walmart, let's go, baby You're a Walmart

You're a Walmart whore Who doesn't love Walmart America? It's fine Express delivery within an hour Okay Gary The wave sucks and you suck even more

And like I said If you get in a car accident I hope you'll be okay Man You guys He was the one that called you a clown I think Yeah

Which I love Let me tell you Let me tell you something Gary may be And I mean this in all their respect Gary may be one of the dumbest people In here's the Texas I think Gary makes a lot of good points

You know what I think people understand why you think Gary's cool. By the way, somebody found the thing where the U of H was 31st. Yeah? It was some random guy's ranking of all 136 teams. And you're trying to heck like this is some sort of official ranking. Huge deal to me. I know.

And you know what? I shouldn't make fun because this is so pathetic that a fan base would get excited over this over being 31st and one random person's rankings. What is the guy's name? Yes. You're talking about literally one random person. Yes, a college football analyst, R.J. Young. Well, RJ Young, shout out to you.

Let me tell you, there are bigger losers than R.J. Young. Go to your YouTube channels and look for Texans coverage. That's worse. Well, he has the Texas Longhorns number one, but I'm not that. Let's discount that. That doesn't make any sense. See, and I didn't discount anything. I just think it's pretty sad that a fan base, when a random guy put your team 31st

and you'll get all whipped up in a frenzy about it. No, whatever's in a frenzy. It's called respect. I don't want to make fun of the pathetic history of Houston Cougars football. So I'm really... We took care of Florida State Community College in the Peach Bowl. We win games left and right in the league. We've had a couple of down years because our coach decided he didn't want to recruit anymore.

Like I said. We've got a recruiter in there. We've got a five-star quarterback. Bada-boom, Bada-Badda-Bing, we're 31st. Yeah, like I said, it's pathetic. Athletic had you 68th out of 68th in program valuations for Power 14. That's just one person. Zero championships.

I mean, it's sad. So I really don't want to keep bringing this up. So I'm really going to try to stay away. funny you keep bringing it up all the time. From making fun of this sad history of the half-empty stadium. So I'm going to try to stay away. You're not going to stay away. I'm sorry. I'd like to apologize.

Don't go to Kug fans. Your feelings would be hurt badly. But you keep bringing it up. This is the thing. I don't bring up them being 31st in some random thing. I say 31st because the Americans finally respecting the Kuga football program. Act like it's gospel. I didn't say it was gospel.

I said it's a good thing. But people are realizing how good things are going to be this year. The news at noon is coming up after the Astros unfortunately brought us down last night. Details on that next here on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Astros and Mariners now tied for first to top the American League West. That's because the Mariners beat the Orioles 1-0. I mean, come on.

One-nothing? Come on. You can't score more. As the great late Bob Euchar, you can't get more than one GD hit? I don't even know how many hits the Orioles had. It doesn't really matter, but they didn't score any runs. Getting kind of an uneasy feeling about this race.

Wait a minute. Oh, no, no, no. I'm Mr. Excited. I want these things to be. It's going to be fun. I'm having zero fun. I'm just talking about the outcome. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. You having fun? I'm glad you're even fun. I'm not having a blast at all. I'm worried to hell that your own and Alvising will be back for a long time. Why?

Because he's in Florida Complex League, swinging a bat. It's feeling good. I can be in a Florida Complex League swinging a bat feeling good. Okay, well, you don't have a career OPS Plus of 168. Well, I'm trying.

George Kirby, seven three, seven inings of three hit ball. Yeah, they got a lot of good pitchers. Josh Naylor, the RBA. Josh Nader. is the one doing all the damage for the Mariner's offense. It ain't Eugenio

Cheneo Suarez. Oh, yeah, he's in 098. Suarez won for 0 for 3 yesterday. Yeah, they only scored one run, Matt. They got great pitching. Hineal Suarez is batting 098 since coming the American League. And they've won like 23 in a row.

Oh, Cal Raleigh has got like 700 home runs. Let's get to the news at noon. Okay. I had Yordon's career OPS Plus wrong. It's 168. I'm sorry. All right, Matt. Yes, the a do. The Astros get walloped

by the Boston Red Sox yesterday. 14 to 1. I'll give you some bright spots. Jeremy Pena had three hits. His average is up to 318. He continues to play well for the Shros. Yiner Diaz had a couple of hits as well. Team 1 for 7 with runners in scoring position.

and that wasn't positive, but I'll tell you, I'm going to leave one spot off of Spencer Arrogati's start. Tell you it was good. Five innings pitch, just one hit, just two runs, three strikeouts, and no home runs, and

he had a good time. He said he had many funsies were had. The hair was flowing? Hair was flowing. He enjoyed himself. It reminded him of his days when he was no hitting the Main Creek Rams. And he issued fun. walks. Five walks. I mean, look, the Astros are going to win this game again today. They're going to

keep first place. Can we have some sort of seance for the Baltimore Orioles? What do you mean? Like get a Ouija board out or something? No, they just suck. Just go out there and beat them. Hey, seven with the Merit with the Orioles coming up. I know. We keep talking about and talking about it, but you got to go out there and win the games. They do not play them on paper. Matt, the Astros going for another rubber match or rubber game Hunter Brown on the mound

against Walker Bueller minus 155 for you who said Astros that feels great I feel like it should be higher Astros win 5 to 2 you're here first 5-2-609 first pitch

yes elsewhere in the news Matt Shador Sandor sitting out practice with an oblique injury. Cleveland Browns have had injuries to a number of their quarterbacks. We talked about Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dylan Gabriel. Then they had Tyler Huntley, I believe, had they had to sign. So they got a whole big pack of mid over there in Cleveland when it comes to

quarterbacks. But unfortunately, Shador Sanders sidelined with an oblique injury. And it's been held out of joint practices, which they are being held right now with the Philadelphia Eagles. How many Cleveland Brown victories will be in 2025? Six. Boy, you're optimistic on them a little bit. Am I? I was thinking more to them three, four category.

I have no idea what's going on in the schedule. All right, Matt, Tom Dundon, the owner of the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes, has agreed to buy the Portland Trailblazers from the estate of Paul G. Allen at evaluation of, have you seen? No, I've not. Can I imagine a guess? Okay.

Now, we mentioned just for a barometer, rockets were evaluated, I believe, at $6 billion. Portland Trailblazers. What's my range before I go into this one? $7 billion. No, stop. Just guess. $4.6 billion.

Four, just more than $4 billion is the valuation. So I don't know how much. So you're in the right ballpark. Thank you. Dundon intends to keep the team in Portland. Sources have confirmed to ESPN. They're going for a new arena. Don't kid yourself.

$4 billion for the Portland Trail Blazers. They were put up for sale in May. Did not take that long for them to get sold. A little bit different than what happened there in Minneapolis. Although we are probably going to see, you know we're seeing in the NBA, because I've seen it in Phoenix. I've saw Toronto last year. The Rockets will be going through this.

We're seeing renovations. I don't know what the reason for it is, is that it feels like NBA arenas are being more renovated than they are being torn down and created in new facilities. So Toronto, like I said, Toronto's got one going, Phoenix. San Antonio is getting a new arena back downtown. But yeah, anytime a new arena, you hear about, oh, we intend on staying in Portland.

Just give me a new arena. Matt, are you familiar with the name David Booth? Is he second cousins of John Wilkes? No. He is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He has given a massive gift to the University of Kansas. Unprecedented. I'm not even going to ask you to guess.

$300 million gift to the University of Kansas, believed to be among the largest single gifts in the history of college athletics and the largest in school history. 75 million of it will go to launching the second phase of the transformation of the David Booth, Kansas Memorial Stadium. Imagine that. And construction of the surrounding district. They are going to put an emphasis on football upgrades for the University of Kansas with this $300 million gift that will also establish additional revenue stream for other Kansas athletics. Well, what I would have said to this man, David Booth, is where the hell were you 10 years ago when the SEC was looking to expand?

Because my guess is Kansas is very better than not in the SEC. Missouri got it. Because it's Kansas. But yeah, Mazoo was a different time and place. Missouri would make it these days. Ten years ago. One more thing note, I know you don't have it because you don't prepare this for marriage. According to a woman who writes for front office sports, Annie Costabile.

She says that Houston is the still preferred landing spot for the team known as the Connecticut son of the WMBA. Oh, really? That the sun are being sold. There could be a move to Boston or there could be if Tom and Fertino wants to purchase it. Move the sun to Houston, Texas. So if you're looking for WMBA, it might be not around the corner, but it could be a possibility. Let's get you on the beat. I mean, look, I've done WMBA games before.

They've won. I like home basketball games I mean I do it they ask me to for the right price I wouldn't be much I mean I just like calling games okay I miss I miss I don't they don't travel so I'd stay at home

the whole thing you see me all summer alright I actually like you better in studio well I pay better attention to I like you not on your Apple Watch either but I've been asking for that for five years it's fine all right

I'll put away my Apple Watch you put away your phone I got my news item from there thank you very much you have a laptop I don't like that It's easier to do this. You scroll Thomas. 1214, Sports Talk 7.0.I. I'm the governor and Mr. Texas. No, you are not.

Scott, people have said it. You heard the previous callers. Oh, yay, yay. Thank you very much. Well, they're drunk. Scott, Michael and Steve, hang tight. We're getting to all three of you. I promise.

You promise? I guarantee those three gentlemen are coming on this radio show. You're issuing a personal guarantee. Personal guarantee. I like that. As long as you stand on, anybody else that calls in is getting on the show today. with exception to that doofus that called earlier. What's his name?

Gary in Spring. Gary, you got open carton blanche, as they say. Gary, you know, if you get a flesh eating bacteria, I'm sorry. You know, Frank keeps calling back. I think he's mad I called him stupid a while ago. Frank, I'm sorry, Frank. Can we end this view between you and Frank? Oh, sure.

Put him on right now. Hold on. Hi, Frank. Hey, what's going on, Matt? Hey, Frank, are you still mad at me? Hi, it's Ross. All right. You know what happened?

What happened, Frank? I'm sorry, Frank. I'm sorry, Frank. I'm sorry, Frank. Get him. Get him, Frank. Can I apologize to you live on air right now? Okay, I'm listening. I'm sorry. My, my, my, uh, I was acting out in anger. Okay, well, working with Matt can do this. That's what I'm saying. Frank, excuse me. Actually, Frank, I think you're kind of a genius, Frank. Hey, Matt, you got to let him know that you cool with us because you, it's, it's, you're, it's, It's cool to be ball-headed. Yes, sir, it is. You know, that's right.

I'm going to be honest with you, Frank. I may be one of the, in the 10% of the sexiest men in Houston. Comfortably. 10%? 10%? 10th percent. 10th. 10th of 10.

Yes. It might be a little less than that, Matt, because I'm in there, too. Yes, sir, you are. You sound like it. Frank, I got to get to a break. Thank you for the phone call. Glad you guys are buddies. Frank, you're always welcome to call now.

See now, now, see, Frank has been bothering our man jar. Yeah, I know. Now we're all, we're all kumbaya. We're all good. And Gary, like I said, if you drown the pool, I hope somebody's there to rescue you. 1217 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1223, Matt and Ross with you here. If you miss Brian Bogussevich earlier today, shame on you.

We're going to play a little bit of that coming up at 120. Caleb Oort from the Astros. Caleb with a K, I think I misspelled his name. I never thought of Caleb with a K. I always loved Caleb C-A-L-L-B. but that's my mistake so I apologize and I'll fix that later. What the hell? I know. What the hell, man?

Orte. I don't even know where that, where is that name from? It's mort for mort. Do you think anybody caught that reference? Maybe. Jonathan. Are you in there? Yeah, you ask me if I caught the reference? Caught the reference. Not at all.

If I said to you, Nanu, Nanu, how would you feel about that? I would think you be speaking a different language. That's good. the only one that can make references from 1978. Real quick, John, they're going to the phones. Oh my God, here we go.

If you and your girl break up, I don't want them. I don't want you to. But if they do, there's these two girls I want you to meet. They work at a brewery. And they're roommates. And they knew Mork from Ork.

They knew what? Mork from Ork. Mork from Ork. Mark from Ork? Mark from Caleb Orte. Yeah, that's right. So if you ever want to get a hold of these two ladies, let me know. And their dad runs a pizza shop. And one is kind of frisky, one's not.

So it's, and one is this like fake cat that you're like hung out with all the time. All the time, Ross. This sounds like a 70 sitcom. It's not. Just friends of mine. Yeah? And he runs a pizza shop. What pizza shop is it?

It's, oh, God, I forgot the name of it. Oh, it's the, I don't know what it's called. It's a brewery and pizza. I forgot what it's called. I didn't watch the show. You're getting the oldest. I didn't want it. Don't say show.

What are you talking about? This is the real life. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't watch the real life story you're telling. Okay. Oh, yay, yay. They've made two weird neighbors, too. All right, man.

Can you just get to the calls? I promise. I promise. I've been to talk to people. Jesus. 713-212. 5-790. I apologize for that well in advance.

and let's talk to my screen stuck. Oh, okay. What do you want? Scott and Roaks, line two on 7.90. Hi, Scott. And Matt Ross, what's going on, guys? So, Matt, I know you seem a little bit nervous and apprehensive about where we are in this division race with the Mariners. So I'm not sure if this thought will help make you feel better about the overall state of the team,

but it might help everyone in the audience feel a little bit better. ease their nerves on the day-to-day stressing with the standings with the Mariners. I don't want them to win the division and give them that satisfaction just as much as any other fan does. However, unless we end up catching Detroit or Toronto, we are regardless of whether we win the division or end up as a wildcard team going to have to play in that fluky little wildcard thing. And, you know, with Hunter and Frumber presumably going game one in game two, it doesn't, you know, whether we play that at home or on the road, road, you know, we're going to have to just let the chips fall where they may with that. So overall, unless we catch Detroit or Toronto in terms of accomplishing our overall, you know, goals for the season trying to win the world series, it really doesn't change much about

where we are, whether we win the division or not, as long as to make the dance. Does that help at all? Not really, no. You didn't help at all. Because the reality is this. Here's another thing. If they drop with the wallet card, You're going to have to burn your two best pitchers to keep the series alive,

which means you're going to start from your back into your rotation. Yeah, but they're not a number. They're not a top two seed right now, right? No, but they're not the same. You've got to burn them anyways. If they win the division or the third seed, they're going to be playing in that no matter what. Well, we got three with the Tigers coming up so you can beat the tigers and get in that spot again. Beat the Tigers.

That's right. That's right. That's going to do it in Detroit. Stop is fine. Tark's cool is going to skip the rotation because he's tired. That needs rest. Okay. I wouldn't mind that.

I wouldn't mind that either. Scott, let me tell you. Your effort was at 10, but the execution was about a 3 and a half. No, I thought the execution was good. You just need to stop being a worrier, Matt. It's all good, baby. Let's go.

Scott, I'm worried. Thanks for the phone company. Houston Astros. Let's go. Now, I still have faith, but I'm scared. You're scared? Scared. Do you want our friends at Fangraph's playoff odds?

Please. Oh, I thought you were going to give me more than a one-word answer. Give me a second. I'll talk to... Okay, I'm ready. Go ahead, please. The favorites to win the division in their eyes are... Mariner's for sure.

56.9% for the Mariners, 42% they say for the Astros. Interesting. Okay. But the Astros to make the playoffs, 89.9%. Looking good. I'm happy with those numbers.

And these odds change daily. You win three out of four, Mariners lose three out of four. You're looking good. How are the Yankees to make the playoffs, by the way? Yankees to make the playoffs are at 71... I'm sorry, 85.7. So even though they've been playing some very poor baseball,

they still are considered a heavy favorite to make it. Yes. Okay. Let's talk to Steve and Huffman on 790 at 1228. Hello, Steve. Hey, how are you guys doing? I just, I go away to Chicago for two days and come back and Hader is not with us for a while because he's hurt.

Yes, sir. Okay, all right. Well, I went to bed last night and late. I won't tell you about the escapade I had out of O'Hare. But anyway, here's my crazy, crazy recommendation. And I'm going to give you my realistic one to follow. So why do I get the feeling? I was watching the Hall of Fame induction speech by Billy Wagner.

And I know he's, what, 60? Now, maybe, 65. and Bissio was telling him at the end of his career when he said he's going to retire. He was still throwing the ball triple digits. And Bid said, you really think about it? You want to do this? And, well, he did. Well, here's my crazy suggestion.

Uh-oh. So any way we could talk him into closing games for a while. You know, I got the feeling this guy could still bring it the 90s, even at his age. I think he takes great care of himself. It wouldn't take much to get in shape. Now, I know it's a long shot in so many different fronts. But it's something maybe to think about long-term now.

Realistically, He's 54, by the way. Okay, well, even better. What about Presley? I know he's lost a lot. The Cubs get rid of him. But do you think he could be of help to this team in the short-term? Presley, I'm sure the tires have been kicked.

Obviously, a situation that other teams have had the interest or lack thereof. That's why he's still available. Do I think he's going to figure out a way to be on a major league team by the 4th of the end of the year? I believe the answer is yes. Let's go back to your original point. Steve. The only way that Billy Wagner... I know.

Stay with me. Stay with me. Stay with me here. Just stay with me. time. The only way, what do you do for a living, Steve? May I ask? Well, I'm a project coordinator for a Fortune 100 company. Congratulations. The only way that Billy Wagner comes back and pitches for the Astros is if you go and drag to your office for seven consecutive days.

Okay. All right. Well, like I said, I knew it was a long shot. We were writing a book. Now, that's realistic, you know, a Grisham-type. novel. But, you know, I know we're in the real world right now. And by the way, you know, putting all this aside, everybody's talking about, you know, the Mariners are going to win it now. Chant probably. But you know what the thing about the Mariners? When was the last time they were

in the World Series? Zero. Nothing. Nada. Yeah, they won 110, 120 games in 2000. I can't remember it. And they spit it up at that time. And by the way, guess the Mariners have to play the next two series. I think their reality will come down crashing hard on them when they go to City Field and they go to Citizen Bank Park. There you go. I think we're going to see different outcomes.

Much better. Your call rallied. He, he, no, Steve Rally. He rallied. The 2001 Mariners have nothing to do with this 2025 team. It's not in their mind at all. He had zero barred. He started with a god-awful Billy Wagner take and he rallied. George Kirby doesn't care what each

year was doing in 2001. It has nothing to do with this year. It does. Nothing. Zero. Correct. But at least it wasn't as bad as the Billy Wagner is going to come back and try to play. Honestly, that's going on, I'm putting on the Mount Rushmore right now. That part of the call of the entire thing. That's up there with

Michael Brannley is better than Michael Brannley is better than Mike Trott is one of the worst takes you will ever hear in the history of anything. And that wasn't a caller. That was somebody co-hosting so that makes it worse. Oh, that was $400. times worse. NASCAR on the moon was also somebody

employed by this station. I'm putting in right there. 54-year-old. Back after this, after we have a long, quick shot of something. 1233 on 790. 719.

713-1-2-125 790. We just finished off a bottle of boons. Feeling good. Steve, I love I love you like a weird uncle that I stay away from at the family reunion. Hey, Steve was the call on Maryland Moments and the 10th inning show, right? I think so.

Do we have it in the system still from Monday? Was that from this Monday? Yeah. Why does I feel like that was ages ago? Because it was Dan hosting the show over the weekend. Oh, okay. Great moments than 10th inning show. I don't know.

Let's ask our friend. Jonathan, you have it still? I mean, I can pull it up. Let me get a call in here. I can look for it. 54-year-old Billy Wagner is getting loose. He's ready to come back, folks. I mean, that's not a long shot.

That is literally the world has to be stricken with a zombie apocalypse, and they need to sign somebody. And then Billy Wagner's one of the last people left on Earth, and then he would sign back with the Astros. That's quite a bit what you just said there. Here it is. Here it is. I'm going to forward you right now, Jonathan.

I'm going to forward you right off the screen here. Let's get a phone call and then we'll play it here. Yes, please. Let's talk to Michael on 790. Hello, Michael. Hey, how are you? Good. Okay, Matt, you still got the five bucks you want off of me on the Phil Mickelson Tiger Deal?

Yes, sir, I do. Okay, so I'm going to make a real stupid bet today. I'm going to take JJ Spahn to win the FedEx Cup of two weeks over Shephyp or any of them. Wow. Well, give me that bad. Gets the field? You get the field? I got the field.

I'll take the field for $5. Sure, sure. Okay, you got the field. I mean, that's saying JJ Spott wins it. Yeah. I should get odds on that, but I will. Yeah, so I'm looking at some stats, and it looks like Mickey Mantle has the most home runs in the World Series lifetime. But he also has this 13, I think.

And that's also his playoff record. which would make him, what, 247? Because he didn't have, they didn't play playoffs, right? Correct. Just the World Series, yeah? Yeah, I mean, you had to win the pin it back then. You didn't have wild card. No, that's right. Okay, so, okay, I got you.

And that's it. I just wanted to get a chance to make that bet. You know, it's for 26 years since I sold you a Torres for your wife. Oh, where did you work? To AC Collins when you and... Oh, AC. What is up with AC Collins? Are they all still in business or no?

No, no, I'm not there. I'm 70. I've been retired for six years. Good for you. They sold out to Mac Hike. It's Mac Hight now. Okay. I used to commercials for A.C. Collins back in the day.

Yeah. Yeah, I used to see you, you know, when you guys came out to a big of a pub. Yes, Mee Moon. Back when I was a young pup in the business. Thank you, Michael, for the phone call. I appreciate it. And I had hair too. That's right.

Thanks for bringing that up. Appreciate it. Wasn't great. Okay. So Stephen Huffman called the last. last segment. Yes. I believe this is also Stephen Huffman on the great moments from over the weekend. Let's see if the voices match.

We jump back into the conversation on the phones out to Huffman. Steve is with us here on the Astros 10th inning show. Wex here with you. What's going on, Steve? Well, I like Joe, okay? He's a nice guy. He's a good coach. He's not a manager.

And I'll tell you why I'm saying this. First of all, Pena had a day off tomorrow. We needed him to play. today we need to win this game. Seattle's playing a junior high team tonight. They're likely going to beat and then gain a game. And now it's going to be two games.

Really, that was really a poor decision on Joe's part. You know, if there wasn't a day off tomorrow, maybe I could see his reasoning. But we need him in the lineup, you know, particularly when we got, what, 49, 48 games left. Every one of these games are important. and Joe treats it like it's spring training at the church. You know, I don't know what's going on. I'm actually going to go insane. I don't want you going insane.

He just called. Stephen Huffman just called. And he called on the weekend. Talk to Wax. Spring training games is a church. When are the spring training games played at churches? Are the Astros playing a spring training game at First Baptist? Oh, come on.

Steve's a good guy. I appreciate all of you who listen and call. We love all of you. You know we do. We only tease because we care. We love you. I love you Astro fans. The Astros played yesterday with Jeremy Pena and they still lost.

I need like a call. I need, I don't know. No, you don't need music. I need something. So you're just a Mav Dog 2020? Yeah, I don't know. Whiskey. straight bourbon to the dome.

How about a sex on the beach? How about sex on the beach? No, no. You're the only person above the age of 19 who would ever order that. Oh, come on. It's delicious. Refreshing. Were you with me when the guy was buying shots for us?

I got made fun of. I was buying shots. Oh, that was you. Okay. Yes. The Astros was an 18-inning marathon Seattle Maritors victory. We are in the draft kings, which we can say. Proud partner sports talk 790.

Shout out, draft king. You'll hear more in a couple of weeks. draft kings sports book in Lake Charles me you and Noah Fouts are like yes Jerry Pena hits the home run Luis Garcia closes it out let's take shots

I'm like I'm doing tequila Noah's like yeah I'll take a tequila Matt goes I'll have a sex on the beach no way I mean what no way you come across the sex of the beach drinker too shut up you do too and you want to be Mr. Texas oh who is this Lita on MLB Network

good gracious Who is this what? Lolita. Don't say that. What is that a derogatory term? That means like an underage girl. Oh, okay. Forget.

She's definitely underage. She's full age. Who is this? Hmm. She's a Latina. Who is this Latina? Jonathan, you can put on a Mb network. You like the Latinos too, correct?

I've got to walk out. I don't know what is happening today. What is in the water? Billy Wagner. Billy Wager, 54. Can close games. Billy Wagner, sex on the beach, and I'm not even going to say that, repeat that word. I'm out of here.

Don't even do it. All right. We got a Lillima update when we're coming back. Yeah. No, we don't need, I thought Lulita meant something else. My friend. What I mean to say that? But whoever she is.

Oh, God. Boy, MLB Network, if you are a 5, you cannot be an MLB Network. There's no chance, no way, no way, know how. You've got to be at 8.5.9 strong. 1244, Sports Talk, 790. This is a Matt Thomas show at Raw. 713. 212-5-790.

1250 on Sports Talk 790. We have, believe it or not, today coming up at 151 hour from now. By the way, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said in an interview that he dealt with stage 4 melanoma. An experienced trial drug saved his life. there is a Netflix documentary that is out called America's team The Gambler and His Cowboys

It debuts next week The Gambler and his Cowboys? Mm-hmm Okay Jones says he went underwent cancer treatments in M.D. Anderson here in town he did not reveal details of the treatment

and what it was for quote he said, I was saved by a fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle drug called PD1 therapy. I went into trials for that PD1 and has been one of the great

medicines, I now have no tumors. Jones telling the Dallas Morning News that he was diagnosed in June of 2010 and began treatment soon thereafter. Over the next 10 years, he said he had two lung surgeries and two lymph node surgeries. Stage four melanoma refers to skin cancer

that has metastasized to other parts of the body. Oh, wow. God. He really is lucky. I'm going to tell you, shout out to you, MD Anderson. You all do a great job. My gosh. I mean, I've, fortunately, I've lived in three major cities in my life, and two of the three have been just phenomenal.

I lived near close to the Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis. It was in Rochester, which is about an hour and a half from Minneapolis. That's a lot of people travel around the world, and now people come all over the world to come to Andy Anderson. So shout out to them. 82 years old. Good for his life, good for his well-being, but man, he still can't manage a football team. Yeah. No sarcastic comments from some of you Cowboys fans.

None. Not what y'all want to say. Just don't say it. Except if Gary in Spring calls, and I probably would say it. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-2-790. James is with us at 1253. James, what do you have?

Yeah, last night during the broadcast, they showed Myers working out, and he looks like he's ready to come back. And then they showed roads, I think it's roads, or the second baseman He said he's about ready. Rogers? Rogers.

Yeah, Rogers. I mean, Rogers, yeah. Do we even need Rogers? I mean, is he going to be a guy that we want to bring back to the team? This is your opinion. He might be let go. No, I think he's, yeah.

First of all, I can't hit. And his glove wasn't as good as advertised, frankly. It wasn't bad, but there's no need for him. I would imagine he's not going to be on the 20. There's not room for him on the 26 man. And I didn't see the video of Myers, but I thought the last time I heard anything about Myers, he was in Florida. Yes.

Yeah, last I heard he was in Florida. Yeah, I don't think we're going to see him the next handful of days. I mean, look, as long as there's a minor league season, these guys need a couple of games to get back in the swing of things, literally. Yeah, he's traveling to the Florida Complex League to continue rehab. That's the last update we got on Monday. And those Florida Complex League, like, their dinners at night, got to be great.

You got your down with that big money. Myers is doing okay for himself. Me, McCuller's been down there a bunch. It's basically, there's been a, there's been a straight taxi to the Florida Complex League all year long. It's almost like a retreat. We're headed for a few days. I didn't get some R&R.

Where you go? I'm going to the Florida Complex League. Okay. That's what they're doing. And that's where you learn, go to find your swing too, like Jose Abrae. I wonder why, and I'm sure it's logistically, just a reason,

that you wouldn't build a, something here did the same exact thing in Houston, Texas and keep the guys here in town. You know what I mean? Maybe because you have more fields. Do they have to pay annual rent on that facility so you might as well use it? I don't know.

And they have, I mean, they have a bunch of baseball. All that baseball equipment and track men and all that type of stuff all set up over there. And they're not and the Astros, I mean, they're not the only ones to be. A lot of teams have these complexes where they have their spring training. They use them for all year round. I was just curious why

any team would say, you know what, run down to West Palm for a few weeks. Because also there's other teams they can play against over there, right? That's true. That is right. That's right. So you've got opponents you can play. You've got all your equipment and all your trackman and all your training staff and coaches and all that type of stuff over there. So it's a quick flight. I mean, it beats the alternative. I imagine it was in Topeka. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Not that Vegas means much. It just means. something. The new odds are out for who's going to win the American League. The Seattle Mariners are now the favorites at plus 350, which is three and a half to one. They're the favorites? The Toronto Blue Jays are plus 375, which is, again, for every 100 you win. Spend you get 375 back.

Detroit is plus 400. The Astros at plus 475. So 4.75 to 1.4.7 to 1.4. one, almost five to one. Meaning, can they win the win the pennant? This is a pennant, right? This is American League pennant. That's correct. One out of six years, can they win it all?

See, I don't think of it as... I don't know how I think of it as. I think of it as somebody's got to be the team that you think has got a better chance than others. That's how I think of it. I don't usually think of it's their turn to win. If it's four to one means winning four out of one, which means winning one out of five, right? That's 20%. So if they, if we simulate this Csia, season from this point on five times. Can they win it all once? If you say yes, then the value is good.

I mean, I don't know if the value would be good or bad. If I was in Lake Charles right now, I'd probably put $50 on it or something like that. I wouldn't put a lot, but I'd put something on it. Put a little 50 spot on it? Yeah. I'd want to, me. I don't necessarily need value. If I think my team's going to win, I'm still going to win the money.

Yeah, but it's all about equity and odds. That's all? We've gotten these semantics for us. Is the juice worth the squeeze? Ooh, you can put that on a T-shirt. Yeah. I did not like that. No, no.

No. We're going to. Why can't you, you don't like that phrase? It's also, it's a double entendre because juice means the, what they charge you for, for bets. Oh, all right. I was a hater. No, actually it's smooth. See?

I was a hater. No, I like that. We're trying to get you to learn things here. They call it the vigorous or the vig or the juice. That's basically how the house wins. Because all of these odds in theory are short. The house isn't giving you fair odds. No, yeah, there's no one I'm going to say, there's no book in America is going, you know, I need to give my people that are potentially betting this fair value.

If they're giving you four to one, they think the odds are worse. Yeah, they're just the only way that's how we gauge it on. We don't, you know, you and I create our own odd board if you wanted to. Let's do it. But you got to take bets. See, that's the thing, though. They put their money where the mouth is. You mouth is, you show up and say, I think this is good value.

They say, okay, you think it's good value than bet. Yeah. All right. Final hour of the show. We've got to the Bogus Civic interview coming up in a few minutes. If you missed that, real quick, Texans are having kind of like a walkthrough or did have a walkthrough today over at NRG Stadium. They've got a practice tomorrow with the Carolina Panthers.

That's what they're really getting ready for. So they're going to go beat each other up for a day and a half or so and then play the Panthers in the second preseason game Saturday, 12 noon. So there's nothing really new coming out of there today. Although we can cuss and disgust if you won't too. We could. discuss and discuss then. Yeah, I want to talk about Michael Pinnock's getting into fight in the Titans practice.

Falcons Titans practice. You know, these... I don't want my quarterback fighting anybody. Well, here's the reality. I think these things are starting to really start to increase in terms of, you know, these joint practices are... And I know what they're doing. They're trying to do it because they feel like can get more accomplished

than just a regular exhibition game where you don't want to put players out there to get hurt. But it feels like to me we're getting more and more fights at these things. Is it? Because I feel like there's always been fights. But I think the heat and the I'm sick and tired of training camp comes into play. And I get to face somebody else not need my own teammate. So I'm going to go scrape with somebody else.

That's why there's always been fights to me in these joint practices. I mean, I feel like every year you watch hard knocks and every year there's joint practices and every year there's fights. That's why again, Roger Goodell, what are you doing? You should open these joint practices up to the fans, charge $10 for them in the stadium and call it a day. I think they should let them fight. 50 yard line. Make a little circle like hockey. First one down, you're out.

You have no players left. Well, then they would stop fighting, wouldn't they? I don't know. You emotions work differently. That's true. A lot of fight. Actually, we need a three-minute pause so we can make odds. We need live odds on the fight.

Is that what we want? Yeah, okay. Let me get down a little parlay. I'm taking DeNeil Hunter by knockout. Who's the most for your time? Texan. Is he it? Yeah. Or Will Anderson. But I think Daniel Hunter's a little bigger. Right?

To me, I'm not getting in a fight with Will Anderson. He's so pleasant, but those are the sneaky ones. Okay. I'm trying not to make a Joe Mixing joke. By the way, if Joe Mixing doesn't play in week one, I want to be officially known as a Texans insider. Why? Because I got it right. It was a gut feeling. Put your name on it. I put my name on it. Oh, yeah, baby.

Oh, shake your head, Jonathan. You know I'm writing this down. You got peer pressure as it is. I go to him all the time. Yeah, he does. All the time. That's what it's going to taste. That juice is going to be squeezy, even sweeter when I'm right.

I'm not saying you're going to be wrong. But you go to me into saying something that's going to really backfire if I'm wrong about it. Take your time, Joe. No season was lost after a week one. Yeah, I would say play it slow. I would say wait until he's a hundred. 100% healthy. Absolutely. It's a long season. And he is one of the backcodes of your, not only your offense, but your team.

I got news for you. How the hell are they going to carry five running backs? They can't. They're not going to. So if all five of the following are healthy, Woody Marks. He's safe. A gumbo walle. Pretty safe. Pierce. Chubb Mixin. Who's, who out?

I would say either Chubber. Mixing. I mean, I'm a Chuck. Sorry, Chub or Pierce. But that's why Mixon if he's not even close to 100% Rossi, he's got to open up the year on the injured list. Yeah. I don't know. This is a sneaky

little storyline that I think, I don't know if it's gotten much attention if at all. If I was a Texan fan, I'd be concerned about. Because again, part of the reason to keep your quarterback upright is not him dropping back five, seven steps and having to worry about his future. You don't worry about your future when you have a good

ground game, you can hand a ball off to somebody 20, 25 times again. Damiko Ryan, so wholeheartedly agrees with you. But do you think about that? And that's five, that's a lot of running backs and a lot of uncertainty. Gumbola Lale has just been a fringe NFL player. Third downback, I mean, typical third downback, he does a good job. I don't think you're dropping a mid-round draft pair. I mean, you could.

It wouldn't be unprecedented. What was it, fifth or fourth? I was going to say, fourth rounder. Yeah, it's definitely mid-rounder. Fourth-rounder, so I don't think you would do that. I think he's going to be fine. Mixon obviously is very very much going to be okay

unless they are them and then you would be very right that's what I want to be called the insider. I'm not saying you're crazy. I'm not saying you're crazy. I'm just throwing it out there. Okay. If I'm wrong, you call me the outsider. Okay. If you call, if I'm right,

you call me the inside, which means I get more stories right than the average insider in this town does. Okay. All right. Brian Bogussevich on the Astros and what he has saw last night and what he looks to see you the rest of the way. We'll talk with him next. 112 on Sports Talk 790. 117 on Sports Talk 790.

Sophia Santos is the woman's name, right? Rossi that I was looking at on that. Sierra? Sierra. Sierra? Sierra. It doesn't really matter. Another fine, great member of the MLB Network on air talent crew. Emphasis on fine. Brian Bogus Hedick's a fine analyst on Space City Network for baseball analysis, of course.

and we visit with us every Wednesday here on the radio program. By the way, Caleb Orrott's going to join us in about 15 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. But right now, here is what Brian Ross and I talked about when it came to Spencer Arigetti in recapping his second start last night for the Astros and that big loss, unfortunately, to the Red Sox. Yeah, I would say looking at yesterday and the first start even down in Miami, it's a little bit disappointing that he's not sharper. You know, there was command issues that kind of ran through.

both of those starts. From a stuff standpoint, though, it's pretty encouraging. I mean, the fastball velocity, the life on the fastball, those are both good, the shape of the breaking ball, the spin of the breaking ball, that all looks good. So there is reason to be optimistic. You know, the first start, he got a ton of swings and misses.

Yesterday, even being constantly behind in the count, constantly having to deal with runners on base, he was still able to win in the strike zone when he was in the strike zone. So there is a lot to like. there. He's just got to get better command, get all those pitches working, you know, his repertoire as a whole versus all of his pitches is kind of being, you know, one individual pitch after another. So, yeah, not as sharp as maybe we had hoped from a guy who's not coming off of an arm injury,

but he looks a lot like he did early on in the season last year. He made a lot of adjustments and was much better late. Hopefully those same adjustments can happen on a much quicker timeline this year. Do you think he's thinking about, man, I really want to get back in the groove of these things of pitching every fifth day. I miss so much time. Oh, by the way, my squad needs me because I've got injuries in my bullpen now. I've got uncertainty in my starting rotation. I've got Javier just coming back personally for Spencer. He didn't go through Tommy John.

He didn't go through the stuff that makes you miss 12, 14, 16 months, two years. What's going through his mind do you think for him over the next? next handful of weeks. Well, he's been around the team all year, you know, besides, you know, at the end of the rehab, when he goes down to Florida to get stretched out. So he knows everything that's been going on. He knows the injuries that have racked up. He knows that this team has been kind of piecing it together, waiting for everybody to get

back. So he understands the deal and the optimism of getting these guys back. And maybe there's a little bit of pressure. I think, you know, what we have to remember with Spencer is that this is only a second year and he didn't even get a full season last year at that so he's still very early in the learning process this was still going to be a big development year for spencer ergetti regardless of getting injured or not so the idea that he's just going to come off of a long layoff and just immediately go in there and just be you know essentially the savior of a rotation that's that's pretty

unrealistic you know for us to expect from him from him to expect from himself i think just looking at it through the lens of what he did last year and learning things in a given start and applying them into the next start. If we can see that growth start over start, I think by the end of the year or maybe even after four or five starts, I think it'll be the guy that we were hoping to see coming out of the shoots here. Bogie, this Astros Clubhouse, whatever version has been over the last seven or eight years has been cool and calm, never so down when things are down, never so up when they're on a hot streak. they've seen a 10-game deficit erased. Now in 2025, they've seen a seven-game lead erased.

It's hard to measure what that bromometer that clubhouse is because it's so many new guys. But take us through what you think the general culture is, still with Altuve in there, still with a lot of veteran leaders, but yet at the same time knowing that the injury bug continues to hamper this team, and oh, by the way, the team behind them, the Seattle Mariners haven't lost since I think the first of the year. Yeah, I think, you know, just the circumstances of the season have changed, right? Everything is fluid throughout the course of the season. Sometimes you're the team getting healthy. Sometimes you're the team getting hurt. Sometimes you're chasing.

Sometimes you're being chased. And, you know, it sounds so cliche to the one game at a time type of thing, but you can't get through 162 games thinking about a big picture constantly. And you can't get through, you know, a decade of seasons like a guy like Jose Al-Tuvae are some of these veterans, by constantly. being big picture oriented because it's overwhelming. So if you're going to have a mindset when, you know, you're chasing somebody in the standings of, hey, we just got to go out there, win a game, win a series, you're going to apply

that same thing when it's the other way around and you're the team that was out in the lead that has now been chased down because there's really nothing else you can do. You can go out there and you can worry about what's it going to look like the next, you know, 40 plus games, who are we playing in the upcoming week, who are the Mariners playing? none of that matters. And to get to the success level that these guys have gotten to, they know how to compartmentalize those things. They know how to stay focused on the day-to-day stuff because that's the stuff that really matters. So when it's going good or going bad, it really is the same mindset regardless.

Yeah. So we, fans and media, of course, are hanging more on every pitch and every game and the results of that, but you don't think that's necessarily bleeding into the batters box or in the field? No way. I mean, it's the same thing. Whether you're, you know, got a 20-game hitting streak or you're in a long slump, you're going there, you're getting your work in, your game planning, you're going through scouting, of course, you're doing, it's all about the preparation. And then you go out there and just play. And once you're out there and just playing what happened yesterday is the last 10 days or what's going to happen, you know, 10 days from now, it really doesn't matter. And it can't matter because, you know, you've got enough to worry about when you're standing out there in the batter spots. Brian Bogus-Evick with us here on Sports Talk 790. Why has Carlos Corrie been so good at the plate back in an Astros uniform? You know, when you hear Carlos talk about hitting, he's very rarely talking about mechanics. He's always talking about approach, approach, approach, approach, having an approach for a pitch for an at-bat for a game for a one-on-one matchup or even the team.

And, you know, kind of the definition of approach in my book is, what are you doing to typically? scales in your favor because the batter pitcher matchup, everything favors the pitcher. It's an impossible thing to do, you know, hitting a baseball in general. The fielders are so good. So how can you go out there, you know, take into account what the pitcher's repertoire is, take into account the game situation, where the defense is playing, what that pitcher's outpitch is. You know, how do you factor all of those things in to give yourself a better chance? And when you watch Carlos go out there and early on in the count, he's obviously hunting pitches looking for something that he can drive, something that he can do damage on. Later in the count, he'll try to take away a pitcher's best pitch and not give them that put away two strike pitch.

He'll shorten up and a pitch that maybe he takes a big swing at in a 1-0 count. He'll just kind of punch to right field in a two-strike count. So watching him go out there and just execute and just really fight tooth and nail on every single pitch, you can really appreciate how he gets to the results where we look up after, you know, whatever, it's been 10, 12 games and the numbers have been really good. And I think that is going to start to bleed over into some of the younger players and just the team as a whole and just trying to have those really drawn out, knockout, drag out type of that bats. Bullga, we were looking at MLB Network in our studio here just a minute ago,

and they just went through the lineup one through nine for the Mariners. eight of their nine batters have an OPS plus right now of 100 plus. That sadly cannot be said for the local nine, although there are numbers that are improving, Christian Walker being one of them. How are you going to outslug the Seattle Mariners to this fight to the finish of the very last 40 games or so of the season? Well, I think we're going to see, you know,

the last six, eight weeks of the season, whatever it is. It's a different version of this team. It's different guys in general when you look post-trade deadline. It's different versions of a guy like Christian Walker who finally looks settled in. You know, knock on wood, if Yoron gets back, that changes everything. So I don't think you have to look at it from a big picture of numbers standpoint. Can they hit with the Mariners? Yeah, they can.

And the end of year numbers might not show it. But I think this is going to be a lineup. And they're going to have to because, you know, the injuries are not going away when you look at what's going on with Josh Hayter. They're going to have to score runs to win games. And now, you know, there's a lot more length in the lineup. There's a lot more guys that can hurt you in the lineup. And there's a lot of guys who aren't necessarily feeling the pressure of being the one or two guys that it's going to have to be them on any given day.

Otherwise, there's not going to be anybody else to do it. If Yordon does not come back, forgetting about the offense, what's the best Astros, I guess, combined defense and offense outfield. Do you see the rest of the way for the Houston Astros? in the outfield I think it's probably you know we'll leave out the fact of does Jake Myers come back or not

hopefully he does soon but right now it's probably a platoon in center field Tramel and Chaz if he can get it going a little bit which it looks like maybe he's gotten it going just a little bit you know Cam Smith is your right fielder Jesus Sanchez in left field

if you want to try to work I wouldn't say a platoon but piecing together if you want to try to hide Cam from a tough righty and move Sanchez into right field. But it's some combination of those two guys in the corner and then, you know, mixing Altuve in there if need be. All right. Do you like this?

We're quick. Do you like this or I like five game league guy. My partner over here to my right loves the anticipation of this being playoff time starting right now. Where are you on what we have seen because the Mariners don't lose and the Astros are playing a little bit under 500 these days? Yeah. As a fan, I'm excited. I'm excited for a lot of meaningful baseball. I'm excited for a lot of, you know, high-energy games coming down the stretch as a player

and as a guy, you know, watching a team that he knows wants to make a deep playoff run. It would be really nice to have the last week or so of the season be signed sealed and delivered and you start to kind of line things up for the postseason. But, no, as a fan, you know, there's nothing better than... Nothing better than, what did he say? Finish it off. Playing match game. Nothing better than a Pannon Race, I think.

And you know what it is, honestly? We're in playoffs. The playoffs have started today. Can a team go a month and a half of playoffs? Because that's what the Astros and the Mariners are about to do here with the last 40 or so games left to go. Caleb Ward's going to be a huge part of that, I believe. We'll hear from him next.

As a Matt Thomas show, Ross continues in a moment, 713-212-5-790, the number you will use to play, believe it or not. A lot of folks are calling in and still commenting and commenting on our Twitter account about Billy Wagner getting out of retirement. Apparently B. Boyles 06 says Brad Lidge isn't doing much these days. Yes. At Astrofan 201 says, what does he say?

What does he say? He says, hell, while we're at it, let's bring Oswald back to. I got one from Daniel says, can we see what Mike Gallo and Brandon Puffer are up to? Tesla bus driver says, why not Nolan Ryan? And R.H. says, is it possible to bring back J.R. Richard from the dead? God bless it. Y'all, what is wrong with y'all? What is wrong with you? Let's talk to, let's get some sanity back on this radio. Let's do it.

Last seven appearances for our next guest. Six and a third innings. Two hits. Yes. No runs. Let's go. Seven strikeouts. That's what I'm talking about.

No ERA. None. Zero. No earned runs. Caleb, or you are not allowed to give up another earn run the rest of the season. Can you handle such responsibility? I mean, I would love that. So I'm in.

Seriously, we need you, dude. This city needs championships. It's on your shoulder. You cannot, first of all, you cannot get hurt. You're the only one I haven't got hurt lately. Number two, we need the zero ERA. You've got a lot of pressure on you. Are you willing to accept it?

That's the plan. I think that's all of our plan. Go out there and all of us to just keep doing our job, and I think it's going to work out just fine. Yeah, for sure. Caleb, it's Matt Ross. Thank you for joining us for a few minutes on the show today. Are you ready for this?

I mean, look, I know the seven game leads are wonderful in the American League playoffs. It would matter what other cases. but regression can certainly happen. It feels like to me we were just talking about this before. The playoffs don't officially start until the end of September, but it kind of feels like a full-on pennant race right now between you and the M's. Yeah, I mean, I think, yeah, you're not wrong.

Everybody kind of feels it. I think, you know, it's good energy, and every day we're showing up, and there's no letting off the throttle at this point. So, yeah, it feels like we're already there. So just keep going from here. obviously in an organization that has been through these types of battles before and you've been around a couple of years what it's just like is it business as usual in the clubhouse for for everybody or maybe a little bit more chatter about the race and some scoreboard watching?

I mean maybe a little bit yeah but for the most part it's same old same all every day you know we come in all the guys are just you know we're tight group here so it doesn't seem like a whole lot changes obviously, you know, we're paying attention to the race a little more, but I don't think it takes away from just us being a tight group all day together and, you know, doing the same thing that we normally do. Busy with Caleb Ward here on the radio program. Different clubhouse for you after spending your first few seasons as a boss in Red Sock. What's the adjustment like in this year two of that new clubhouse

significantly easier to kind of get acclimated to things and the lifestyle as compared to when you're brand new with a baseball team? It wasn't really a whole lot to adjust at all here. I was welcomed with open arms last year. All the older vets that were here last year. I mean, there was no, there's no, like, wall to climb over to get through with anybody. Like, I was welcomed immediately and, you know, expected to perform right away. It's just who this club is and, you know, winning team.

And that's what we are was chasing the championships here it seems like. So there's no like, yeah, I just welcomed and expected to perform and everybody wants you to do the best. So it was pretty easy to come into this clubhouse

and just get along with everybody. What has it been like for you? Of course, you injured to the start of the season, but also kind of just hanging around and seeing everybody kind of go down. What is it like for you mentally?

Like you just try to stay tunneled and focused on yourself or like you look around and there. just been so many different injuries going around on this team. Does it creep into your mind? Like, I need to do better at this or that to try and stay healthy? Or is it just something you try to put out of your mind? Yeah, no, I don't think anybody that's not hurt right now.

I was thinking about that. Like you said, I was, you know, I got hurt in spring pretty dang quick this spring. So, like, you know, I know what it was like to go through that. And, you know, just keeping a positive attitude mentality about it at all times. is obviously the best thing to do. But I'm not sitting here thinking I could do this or do that better. You know, like what I'm doing is what I'm doing, and I'm doing everything I tend to stay healthy.

And I think everybody in here is. Everybody's got the routines and arm care and everything that they're going through. And, you know, if somebody goes down, it's going to happen. You know, it's a sport. You throw a lot. You play a lot. There's a lot of games. And it's bound to happen eventually.

So if it's going to happen, it's going to happen. The last thing I'm going to say, here and do is overthink it and, you know, try to get all stressed and tense about it. Like, there's no reason for that. No, you can't for sure. You'll be in your 39th game the next time you pitch. Any advice from fellow relievers you've gotten over the last few years about what it's like to get this deep into the season, this many appearances, and just to make sure your arm is as physically as great as possible at this point?

Yeah, I mean, guys last year, guys this year. I mean, Josh specifically too. Like, you know, he's been around. He's been in deep runs before. You know, Presley was here last year. You talked to him. Guys like that, I mean, they're always just telling you basically take care of yourself. Like every guy's got something different to do.

Not every guy's going to do the same thing, but you just do what you can to recover every night. You know, you've got 24 hours almost. Like, do whatever you can to recover and get back and tell them back on the workouts if he's, need to and just be able to pitch the nuts night because I mean it's all hands on deck right now until whenever we're done you know so there's no no slowing down and you back off on unnecessary things and keep yourself healthy that way you can keep pitching all right who's the weirdest left hand of reliever in the astros bullpen all of them all lefties are weird because we tease about the fact that sometimes you don't have any lefties you got like a half dozen back there

what makes them a little quirkier than the average pitcher that you run into? You know, I don't really know, but around, I feel like, you know, it's just always been a thing. Lefties are a little bit weirder. I don't know why. I can't explain it. It seems like that's always been a thing no matter what team, wherever. It's just like a league-wide thing, I feel like. I don't disagree with you.

Last thing for let you run. Give me your best conversation in the bullpen fifth inning of a game. you're not throwing yet, not warming up, just kind of hanging out there. What are topics of discussion of the day per se? Man, I mean, it could be anything. I mean, you could sit there, talk about being on a lake, fishing, hanging out, just chilling on a pontoon, or you could be talking about how much we've heard the day before. I mean, it goes from on-field, off-field.

Yeah, there's just a lot of random conversations. It's definitely not anything specific. for sure. How about the women on the MLB network? Has that ever come up and play? Oh, my God. The what? The women on the MLB network.

Do you ever watch that channel? I do not watch that channel. Oh, well, okay. Well, smart answer. It's probably a very smart answer, Caleb. I want to just make sure all your bases to cover on that. Hey, thank you for the time. Congratulations on your great season so far.

Keep it going. Like I said, bubble wrap yourself, whatever it has to be, because we need you all the way through the end of the season. All right, man. That sounds good. Thank you, Kelly. We appreciate it. Caleb Ort with us here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

713-212-5-7-90. Thanks for Caleb for dropping by for a few minutes. Keep them in good shape. Yeah. If you and I were in the outfield, just sitting there in the bullpen, what will we talk? We BS during breaks. What are you talking about? That's the same thing.

What are you talking about? I was trying to loosen him up a little bit. Okay. That's all I was just trying to do. Kelly's all about business. It's all about strikeouts, baby. I'd rather him be serious as hard. heart attack that hopefully

Gary and Spring doesn't get. Dang. You still bring it up Gary? And if he does, I hope he gets decent medical care. But if he doesn't, it's no, you know, it is what it is. Oh, my God. I'm done with you.

I'm not leaving you. You don't get to decide one. I don't know it. God. All right. We're going to play, believe it or not next. Categories, all things about the Portland Trailblazers are being sold. for how much do we say $4 billion?

A little over $4 billion is what's been reported, so who knows? So let me ask you this. When Paul Allen's family gets the check, is it literally a check for $4 billion? Is it literally that amount of cash? I mean, who has that just lying around? Nobody has it lying around. It's in assets. I imagine they acquire a loan and then whoever like when somebody buys your house.

You get it from the mortgage company, right? Yeah, but you do get that check and it pays it off. That's a good looking check. Like what banks cutting the check for four billy? All of them. I'd love a photo. I'd love a photo of that. Oh, it's probably a big check.

Sure. Like you're a publisher's clearinghouse. Exactly. They come with a bunch of balloons and stuff. Look at how rich you are. You just sold your team for $4 billion. All right. Let's play believe it or not.

And this masterpiece of a radio show today. 713-212-5-790. 150 p.m. here on Sports Talk 790. Welcome back to the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Matt's out tomorrow and Friday. I guess he's already taken off. Oh, I'm here. Okay. Follow at Sports RV on Instagram.

I would appreciate it. Thank you very much. I got a quick shut your bum ass up. Can we do a late one here? Sure. Why not? Friend of the show. I love Brian and Lima. But he's got to shut his bum ass up.

Why? He put this tweet out a few minutes ago. And he's not happy with everybody putting their back to school. Yeah. I mean, come on. Let people do what they want to do. Here's his tweet. I don't know if this is a hot take or an unpopular opinion.

Well, I got one for you. It's both. But no one gives a blank about your kids starting school today. Stop forcing your kids to take pictures at 6.30 in the morning for their first day of fourth grade, just so you can post it on Facebook. I don't know. It's funny because... What was that? Look, it's one day a year.

Let people do their thing. I don't get mad at people putting their politics on there or their recipes. I just scroll past it. I don't go to my Facebook and tell you, don't do that. Do you like seeing pictures of other people's kids getting raised to school? I think first days are kind of cool. I have three children. I've done it for many, many years.

My daughter started her first. her today was her start of her senior year in high school and she took a picture right in front of her car and we posted it so suck it so Brian if you ever have children I better not see your picture your kids on there because I'm going to

I'm going to bookmark this biotch and show it right back at you I will represent the the childless bureau and say yeah I don't really care for it it doesn't make me angry I don't care I understand that people are bursting with pride for their children and that's what Facebook is is the first time of school is an emotional day. Do I care

to see it? Not really, but it doesn't affect my day. All right. I'm wishing you and your children the best. Let's see. Oh, God, he's getting... He's getting ratioed? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm going to just, I'm just going to strongly disagree. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? By the way, Clinton He puts up kids, his pictures of kids all the time. He's probably going to beep there. His most photographed child in history. That's right.

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You're going back and forth with Ross. And then I'd read with you. I'd do with you as far as kids going to school. Yeah, just once a year. We don't do it daily. Well, some do it daily. I only do it once a year. In 2003, then Blazers owner Paul Allen trademarked the phrase jailblazers in order to shut down products and apparel marketing the negative phrase. Believe it or not.

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Believe it or not. That sounds good, so I'm going to say not. It's believe it. I'm sorry. We're out of time. Get your Facebook out. Go look at pictures of people. You'll see a very handsome. You'll see a handsome Carson Clinton on his first day. Of the fifth grade?

No, no, no. First grade. He's only, first guy. I was right. I have 50-50. Well, he thought he was so advanced. He thought he was in the fifth grade. The AT is next.