The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Get Swept By Rockies, Rockets vs 76ers Tonight, Masters Talk

Episode Date: April 9, 2026

Astros Get Swept By Rockies, Rockets vs 76ers Tonight, Masters Talk

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. In H-Town, good morning, and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. None. Zero. Zilch. Not any satisfaction in Denver. Couldn't even play John Denver's song once in the three days.

Thank goodness. May he rest. Yeah. Where was his plane crash? Probably into a lake. Was it in the Rockies? That would be ironic, wouldn't it? I mean, we could Google search it if you wanted to.

I'd rather not. I'd rather not. I'd rather not. I'd rather not. That's how we're starting to show a 10-0-4. Good to have you back, Matthew. Uh-huh. Oh, yeah, y-ye.

I mean, a day where we lose Jake for God knows how long. He came straight back to Houston. Yeah, he's like, the game started at 110 Mountain. He was on a 305. Yeah. I don't know. He must have been on standby.

God. Yeah, Jake Myers leaves the game. Then Christian Javier gets pulled. Which, you know, it is what it is. What is it is? What do you mean? He's not any good anymore. He's finding his way, Matt.

He's finding his way. Okay. He had control issues. He only gave up one run in the first inning. He did better DJ Blue Ball. I mean, you're going to have bad Siri. And look, we have to be level-headed about this. Okay, I don't want to be, though.

Well, that's what our jobs are. You're telling me, okay, hold on. They go to Sacramento to take on the crappy A's who can hit some, and then they lose two out of three there, including a walk-off on Sunday. Yes. And then they go to Colorado with the team that hasn't swept anyone in. an entire series since 2004 and they're a joke of a franchise

into the laughing stock and they get swept by them with all of those games despite a slight comeback in the first game not even really being close and you score one run in back-to-back games in altitude and you're telling me to calm down 713-212-5-790 7-13-212-750 we will

do AOs at 1030. Okay. All right. Because it's necessary. Okay. Fine. You know it is. I mean, it's not good. Four out of six losses, including four in a row now.

To the A's and Rockies. It's fine. It's April 10th. It's okay. Well, here's the reality. Javier wasn't good when he came back last year. Javier destroyed a lot of the gate. Whatever's left of him, you got to bear it out because that's a lot of money that you've spent on him.

You haven't spent a lot of money in Hunter Brown yet? You would love to spend a lot of money in Hunter Brown ultimately. Scott Boris is like, you're not getting no discount here. And now he's on the shelf. And now he's on the shelf. For, again, depending on who you want to believe, two to three weeks, there is a Dana Brown cut that I heard yesterday. I don't know, it must have been either with Wex doing the 10th inning show.

I don't think it was during our show. It's about Dana. It was describing Hunter Brown throwing hard. And I don't want to, we as grown-ass men don't say a gasp very often. A gasped? Or that too. But this comment shook me.

And I don't know if you can find it. I'll try to find them the next second. Okay. It was about him throwing hard in the spring. And I was like, is this really a deal? Basically, and I don't want to paraphrase, but it was like he was perhaps throwing too hard in the spring. It's too hard in the spring. It built up too quick.

So doesn't somebody say dial it back? Somebody? Anybody? I don't know. I mean. They're on the track, man. They have the velocity and the spin rate of every ball he throws in spring. It's like, and again, here comes a terrible analogy in three, two, one.

it's somebody that's eating four cheeseburgers a day and you're just sitting there watching it going and you're probably going to gain some weight but I won't say anything and that guy has high cholesterol and he goes well he probably just shouldn't have been all those hamburgers no I'm going to go a different way

I'm going to say it's a guy you already you haven't even heard it is it's better it's a guy in a marathon and he starts a first mile in a full sprint somebody's got to be like hey dial it back or Jonathan likes mine better

oh no I don't disagree with you but yours was a sports analogy I was trying to go food. Okay. By the way, I almost did this to you guys, I'm money speaking of food. I almost sent you to tell the truth food. And I was going to audio saying,

I like this. I like this. I would have no, well, I have some history. But if it's some things I don't know, you honestly, I can predict.

I can predict Adam Clanton. I can predict certain picky eaters that I know in my life. Yes. You're unpredictable. So you know what we're going to do today? What? You didn't do to tell the truth on money?

Yeah, we did. You did? What was it? What was it? What was it? What was the topic? I think it was about Jeremy Pena's OPS was the truth. I can't remember the lies.

Oh, y'all really did it? I thought you didn't do it. I just made that up. Oh, my God. That's your lie. I got you for a second. You got me. Because you told me that today you didn't do it.

So you know what we're going to do? What are we going to do? What are we going to do? Because I don't want to talk about the sucky Astros losing in Colorado for three straight. Okay, well. And I don't want to talk about the hour and 20. minutes to me to drive here to office today. One hour,

25 minutes. Again, my fault. My decision, well, none of my decision. Trust me. What's my decision? I got to pull out couch bed. I'm five minutes away, baby. So you're saying me you want a permanent roommate?

No, it's going to cost you. Well, okay. A couple days a week. I would assume it would cost me. Just a couple days a week. And now I can't get to my VPN because it's off my death. top. I don't know what the hell. There's supposed to be an update, but I never got the email.

I got it. Can you forward me that email? Because I didn't update. But it actually says individually your name. It doesn't say, hey, all employees. It says, hey, Matt, your computer needs updates. Okay, well, just forward that to me, though, still. Okay.

Because I didn't get, I was searching for the update to the VPN, and now I can't log into it either. So anyways. All right. That's good content, folks. And we were like, what the hell is this VPN talk? I know. People know VPNs.

If you don't know, you should know. Especially the people listening during the day. They got jobs. It protects you. Or they're unemployed. That's true. Because they got laid off. All right.

But Ryan McTaggart will join us at 11 o'clock today. He's a fine Irishman from Cork. Yeah. From a league city. Oh. They had a rich part of the Houston metropolitan area. Really? That's a little Ireland.

Little Dublin? League city is. It's a little Dublin. I've been to League City a few times. I don't know there's a huge Irish population. I don't think I. know if I've ever, maybe for a high school football. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You, no, I can, not knowing your entire life, you've been to League City at some point. Okay. I haven't been back in a while. I'm sure it's very nice. I used to go to Lamarck all the time when golf Greyhound Park was around. I used to go to golf all the time. All the time. Okay.

And now I don't go, it's not there. Which, why don't we have Greyhounds? I loved it. I can't believe it didn't do well. Oh, I think it was cruel and the dogs were. dying and being mistreated. That's probably a huge factor. I think there's only like a couple dog tracks left in the whole country.

I didn't know that. All right. So 11 o'clock, Brian McTaggart. I just don't get it at 1130. And then we're going to play AOs at 1030, which are coming up in 20 minutes to get everybody really in a frothy bad mood. And then we will play to Tell the Truth do on food. And you know what we'll get the audience involved. Because I'm sure you, we don't, we didn't give away much this week.

Correct. Jonathan, we got the prize vaults pretty open. Wide open. Ooh. Okay. So the prize vault is open. We'll plate to tell the truth. I will give you four food items. I like three of them. Okay. I will not like one. This is going to be difficult, I think. Unless it's something I can remember. So let me tell you what I was doing. I was thinking about sending you guys the audio of me saying what I'd like, I'm for Tell the Truth. And I was writing down the plane. The people next me are like, why are you writing down what you like and what you don't like? They're reading your screen? No, I was just, I was handwriting. I'm one of my not pads. Oh, on one of your, uh, your grifted notepads. I don't grifted. They're a gifted. They're a gifed. They're a gif. They're a gift. The hotel says, please take them. I insert an R. Lie, lie, lie. Okay, other things to get to,

rockets are going to try for, what, eight in a row a night? Yes. It is sizing up, not that it's a foregone conclusion, but it is sizing up. The rockets are going to play a Luca and Austin Reeve-less playoff

Laker team in the first round of the playoffs. To steal a phrase from Ross, Villal. How are we feeling? I'm feeling great. beaten up on the Lakers in round one, hopefully. Thought we were going to the second round last year too. Well, the question mark is, do they hold on to 4-5? If they jump to three,

which would then take Denver to lose some games, and then the Rockets to win out, and then you got the tire breaker going to Denver's advantage. The wolves you've already lost two once. You're about to play them again on Friday. Now, you did lose twice the Lakers, but that was a full-throttle team. Do you want to go ahead and finish?

4 or 5, then the question would be, can you do enough to get the home court? So you've got to win enough to stay at the home court, but you also don't want to win maybe too much so you get jumped into 3, then it's the potential of the rules. I'm okay with jumping to three, honestly. I think you're probably right. I think the nuggets want number 3, so they're not going to. The nuggets, I think, have the spurs and the thunder left, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, who are both.

They're all locked in. Everybody's locked in. So the only things to be settled right now in the West are 3, 4, and 5. Okay. Rockets in 76ers tonight. By way, 76ers need this one to get out of the eight spot. I mean, so they've got something to play for. So tonight should be a very good game. 7 o'clock, I'm assuming you've got the launch pad.

That is a good assumption. You're going to become in the arena hangout tonight? I want to. You don't have to. I want to. We miss you. You don't even know when I'm... I see you for five minutes when you doka talks.

Yeah. Come sit with me during the game. I'm not going to do that. Why not? There's plenty of space. No, there's not right there. No, but you can sit on... Adam's lap. I'm good. Whichever Adam it is.

I want to see how many, why does he stack so many cushions up? He has a, he likes to have cushion and comfort when he calls a game. Just kidding. All right. NCAA is trying to push this five-year eligibility bit into play, which, how many times the Supreme Court got to whip your ass NCAA before you learn a lesson? They keep coming back for more. They are sadists.

They used to be a five-year rule, right? There's a five-year rule, but it just, none of it holds. up in court. Because all the money that they're making and all the money these programs are making and these coaches, you are not, you cannot hold them to the standard of regular students. You just can't. So there's a new regulation, there's new legislation into when that five-year window starts. We'll talk about that on the show today. Just don't get it. We've got Astros, frustration, Aos, Rockets. So how much did you talk about Diane and Rossini yesterday? It was brought up briefly. I brought it briefly with you and I think one mention later.

It's so cute It's so cute It's not cute It's cute that they're trying to say nothing happened Sedona, Arizona It's a couple's paradise You don't It's an end in a bros trip

They just happened to meet up Matt Yes they did They happen to hook up So it was a chance meeting But I don't know And look you and you've been trying To get me off before you And I've been trying to get a little bit better

But you know you can sort the four you now It's got tabs on it The four you for that matter It's just been inundated with Oh you can on you can click that. If you have the updated X app, go to the 4-U. It's got a drop-down menu. Now, unfortunately, you have to

redo it every time you don't close the app. You can unclick politics. Look, I unclick Iran conflict. Oh, that's excellent. Thank you. AI, gone, gaming, gone, crypto, gone. I keep entertainment, science, business, and sports. Okay. I need to go get my phone on my car, and you're going to

help me with that today. Thank you very much. And you need to unclic thirsty only fans models. And then you'll be good to go. You're saying, I have to I need to. You probably should. It cost you. I don't pay for the service. And I don't know how it shows up. Okay. I don't what you're talking about. 1016, Matt and Ross with you today until 2 p.m. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-719. So just how bad of the local nine right now? Further on that conversation next year on 790.

1023, Matt and Ross with you. We will have AOs coming up at the bottom of the hour. And as I like to do, because it's better when we don't read them. ahead of time so we don't prepare for them. Okay. We will organically look at them at the same time. I'm sure everyone's keeping a level head and everyone's feeling okay about the squad. Well, you must have already looked then.

Thankfully, I think I'm glad you did. I mean, can I say there are legitimate reasons for concern. I mean, the bats are going to be fine. Yoron's going to hit a little bit, but I mean, scoring one run in back-to-back games in Colorado is not fun. But Hunter Brown being out, not great.

You're going to a six-man rotation. Christian Javier just got hurt. Mike Burroughs has been okay. Yeah, I was going to say that he's the true definition of just okay. And remember, he was amazing. Oh, by the way, I do want to play this Hunter Brown sign bite for you. And you found it, did you? I think you found it, correct?

Oh, okay, I'll look for it. I'm sorry. I didn't know. Yeah, Christian. I didn't see it. Oh, it was Mike Burroughs was amazing in Springtime. Remember all the innings he had thrown of scoreless ball, yada, yada, yada. I was buying it in.

Yeah. I was all in on Mike Burroughs. As where all of us were. I have a question for you. Yeah, go ahead. Who is the Astros best starting pitcher right now? Are you, do you, you're requiring me to give you an answer? Just ask you a question.

Okay. Right this moment. Playoff series starts on April 10th tomorrow. Who's your guy? Game one. as currently constructed a 26-man roster. Lance couldn't get you out of the fifth inning in his second start. Tatuya, I-Mai?

He's got control issues. It was better the last time he went out. It's just a funny question. Obviously, a lot of this will shake out. You always require me to answer questions like I require you, and I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I mean, last year it would have been fromber. I believe I had a blow up yesterday.

I don't know how bad it was for the... Well? for the L. T. You'll find out on Monday. Oh, okay. Great. Well, he's going to have another start by then. Hopefully he'll have turned it around.

You'll find out when I'm missing you. Okay. Yeah, Frumber gave up eight earned runs in five innings yesterday. Ooh. For the Tigers. So there's that. Although I think he was good in his first two starts,

but eight earned runs, not good. Who's the Astros number one starter right now? I say Tatsuya I'mai. But you're not beating your chest over it. I don't think I would be. He's made two major leagues. He's made two starts out of Japan in his entire life. Just funny.

It's not funny. Well, and I got to do this. The 4-U sometimes provides information. There was somebody on 4-U that ran through every pitcher the Astor's had. And it was a Debbie Downer tweet, but it probably held a little more of, it had some legs to it because again the Astros have bragged

a lot and they needed to about how great their pitching depth is. The problem is the pitching depth was full of three, fours and fives. It wasn't it full of ones and twos. Yeah. In terms of guys, you would say you'd want your front end of your rotation. Well, it was Gladys Knight and the Pips and Gladys's got

laryngitis. We'll put it this way. What the Astros have, and I'll move it to the 70s, the Jackson 5, and you don't don't have Michael or for that matter, Germain. You got Tito. Yeah, that's why I think the Pips works better. Because Germain's actually had some hits. It was actually decent.

That's what I'm saying. No, no, you lost, you lost Germain. Oh, you're saying Jermaine's in Detroit. Or Jermaine's just going on the injured list here. No. Oh, okay. Well, then who's Michael? Hunter Brown. He's gone, too.

So now you say Jermaine's on the injured list. And Jermaine. You got Tito. That's your lead dog. Oh, you're saying Javier's Jermaine? Yeah. Who's Jackie Jackson in this scenario? Okay, see, I'm winning.

People understand it now. No, that's... I'm just asking you to flesh this out. No, I'm asking you to tell you... So, Jermaine? Yes. Okay, that's what I'm asking. Yes, Jermaine.

Michael is Hunter, and you got Tatsui Emi as Tito. Okay. And I can't name any other two members. Should I know who their two members are? I used to know. I think, yeah, it was Larry. No, it's not. Larry Jackson's not one. There's a Reggie.

No, he was a great Astro pitcher or great Yankee hitter who took some money from the Astros over for you. Jackie Jackson didn't come until the Jack Suns, I think. Randy. Oh, we forgot Randy. He was so good all these years on American Idol. No, no, no, no, no. I don't know. We should know it.

No, there was Randy Jackson. He just wasn't the guy from American Idol. is a different Randy Jackson. Yikes. Oh, Marlin. Oh, Marlon. Yeah. McCullors is Marlin.

Stop. Stop. So you want more of a Beatles situation where you've got a John and a Paul and a George. And then Ringo's your fourth guy. That's fine. Yes. Because they all had some hits.

They all had hits. I mean, Ringo's the worst. Among the soul artists, yes. But as a four, he's fine. Yes. He's an excellent four. Yes. He's an excellent four.

Did we confuse y'all well enough? I think we did. Jonathan's like, who are these people you call the Jackson's? I don't even who you're talking about. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Disrespectful. I'm trying to find the Hunter Brown. I swore to God I heard the Hunter Brown on this station.

We don't have a really good itemized system of finding this. Well, sometimes, never mind. We're calling me out. We're good. Sometimes things don't get saved. That's all. Well, it should be. We're team here, right?

Yeah. 713. Back in my day, when you play something on air, you saved it. Yeah, 713212-570. 7-1-3-212-5-7-0. If you want to visit with us through Twitter, you may do that as well at SportsMpt. It is really not here. I can't believe it.

I've heard on this radio station, and I can't find it. Cody Bolton, people are saying, is there Astros number one starter? Stop. Well, this guy actually said Colby Bolton. It's close enough. If you don't even know who the guy was that gave you almost five innings yesterday, by the way.

Almost five. Did you just hear the low bar that we set for the Astros starters? See, I'm concerned. And I feel like there are overreactions, but I'm concerned and I think it's legitimate. So maybe that we're going to sound coming off, coming out of the break here,

is not overreacting? We can talk. And we'll talk about it with Brian McTaggart, a Scotch-Irishman. Yes, by the way, for those of you shaming me saying he's not Irish, There is Scottish. There's Irish in it. We asked him directly.

Correct. Because he's a, he's a supporter of Celtic, the football club, which is Scottish. So I was wondering if he was Scottish or Irish, and he said, I'm both. So there you go. All right. 713-212-5-7-90. A-O's or are they not A-O's? After I tell you about Big City wings.

Let's do it. A-O! Let's go! A-O! Let's go! Astros, over. Reaction. Right. Here, on 790, Stormchaser. I'd say pitching is in serious issue, but that's like saying night is dark.

Good grief, we're in trouble. You know what I like? I like a good old-fashioned good grief. Like what Charlie Brown used to say. Good grief. You know what? It's a perfect phrase. I will try to incorporate it into Rockets Broadcast.

Okay. Now, if I do it, it's probably something bad happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah. O'ney Smoke says, Damn, I thought this was our year. Oh, well. One week ago. Exanthony, Benzon says,

what happens when a team is loved by Espada and Correa? All right. Next. No, that's stupid. I'm not glossing over that. Shut your bum ass up. Literally a week ago, they're going to the World Series, and they go to Colorado, and they can't score runs.

That's Joe Espada's fault. Don't forget Sacramento, too. Are we going off through the hitting coaches now, too? because they got two runs in the last two games in Colorado? At James Kai with a bunch of numbers. 50 and 112 coming, folks. All right. That's an overreaction.

At peak lousy pitching sucks. Yes. Well, that's not wrong. Eric Koki Perez, we deserve all the smoke. Effing team sucks. Joe has no clue what to do. And Dana just blows smoke. Trash-ass-ass team.

Oh, my God. We really going after Dana and Joe one week after. There's a dude named Matt Thomas at MT Tap 611. For real? Let's get this over with. See y'all in 2027 with a thank you fans from last year. Oh, no. Let's take a look here.

I'm looking at here. Ranger fans still coming in. Stop. Oh, here we go. At Urban Champ, fire Dana Brown. Fire Espada. fire training staff. Everyone that takes over is on an interim basis.

No contract passes this season. Do it now. Do it now. Oh my God. Who at the training staff fired again? At Parlay underscore Dave. Damn, y'all been really chasing to fight these last four games. That sounds like another fan.

At Muddogs. It's going to be like this all season. Just be ready. At Enrique underscore Bullness. We're not going anywhere. Losing against sub 500 teams. Embarrassing. Uh, whiskey drinker.

That's effing embarrassing. Uh, oh, at David Morant, your buddy. Abrae, did a Brayu thing, scored on again. By the way, his ERA dropped five yesterday. Yeah. It's a little north of 19. Yeah, what are you guys complaining about? That was a solid outing.

Let's see. Gucci-Lucci says this team is pathetic. We think we have a chance by giving up 10 runs a game. This is a disgrace of a team. By the way, quick thing, people were arguing with me. Brian Brayu's out of options. He's going to pitch. Like he's going to be out there.

He's going to be out there. Let's see. Bay Area fan jumped in. Can't read that one. Oh, here we go. Today, this team looks like a lot of the 2013 and 14 Astros, boring on all fronts. At D-N-H Texans,

change our hashtag to hashtag fix it. We aren't chasing anything. Chosen says Espata and Brown got to go. at Cowboys Lovers is humiliation ritual Let's see Population Texas How the hell do we get swept by the Rockies And we'll do one more here and get out of here

It's over effing disgrace Disasters are back Fire a Spotto we suck And let's see Get some trash cans next time And that is Astros overrun My God I'm curious in which way Joe Spot is failing the team

team these last four games. I think it's failing because honestly, not him, but personally, but the pitching's not been great. It's been frankly, boorish. The defense has not been normally as good as it has been in past. And those key hits,

those multiple run innings have been a thing in the past. Single spots in the second, and that was it. How do you only score one run against in Denver? Twice. Twice.

So your outfield right now is... Against Michael Lorenzen, too. I knew it. I was doing the on deck. I was like he'd been terrible. He gave him like 10 runs at his last time out. I was like, I didn't want to say it out loud, but you're thinking he's going to, he's going to spin a gem against yesterday. Put the perspective here.

He goes five and two-thirds yesterday. One run, seven hits, four Ks, two walks. His ERA drops to nine. From what? It was like 14 something, right? It had to have been. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't a brave. ZRA like north of 23

and now it's down to 19.64. His last time out before he had given up nine earned runs and three innings, Lorenzen against the Phillies. Not great, Bob. God, the Astros... Let me just read this to you really quick to really put you in a bad mood. Javier, one inning,

Blue Ball, one inning, Dill Santos, two innings, roll at one in two-thirds, Teng, one in a third. I'll bring you one. You had to burn six pitchers yesterday. Now, you're in a burn a starter obviously and you would have had one less

because Javier you would presume would go longer than one, but the one inning, he got batted around and he got hit hard in that first inning yesterday. Brian McTaggart reporting, Taylor Tremel and J.P. France going to Seattle. You need it? Yeah, I mean,

obviously Jake Myers going on the injured list immediately. So there you go. J.P. France and Taylor Tremel. Where's Gordy's disciple, Jason Alexander? the reason why he didn't get called up is because I think he just pitched it yesterday. He pitched seven innings like two days ago. Yeah, so he's probably not ready to go just yet.

He's available. Erigate will be Arrigetti in France, probably Sunday and Monday in whatever order. France is a guy you can throw once and then... Okay, so I'm giving you the Jackson's without Germain and Michael. You've given the Pips. Okay. How about this? 9,999 maniacs because you don't get Natalie Merchant.

Okay. Stay with me. I'm going to go ahead and walk away. All right. That's fine. I don't know about the 10,000. What is there? There are 10,000 maniacs.

I don't, I'm not familiar with the 10,000 maniacs. She drives me crazy. Was that then? Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. It's a good song. Oh, that was fine young cannibals. 10,000 maniacs.

It's about the same amount of syllables. Do you get the Dave Matthews band without Dave Matthews? I don't know. Steve Miller ban without Steve Miller? I don't know. The Doobie Brothers is out Michael McDonald? Wasn't Van Morrison in a band? Like, what are the people who went solo and then they just blew?

Van Morrison was in like them and then he went solo? Eric Lampton was the guy that was in a group. He went around like Cream and he was in a bunch of bands, right? Kenny Rogers? He was in Derek and the Dominoes. Kenny Rogers? What band was he in? I don't remember.

But he was definitely in a band. Okay. And then he broke off. And he slid every country western fan around. round. He said, shut you a little bum asses up. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm the gambler. He's a gang. Every time he gambled, he won. Good life for old Kenny

Rogers. May he rest. See, we're trying to segue into bands that have like stars that leave and we're left with. Yeah, but we're left with the rest of the band. That's the problem. Hunter Brown is not leaving and going to bigger, brighter things. He's hurt.

Now, there is a... And we got all the pips. There is a positive. We have the miracles with Smokey Robinson. Glenn Fry passed away with the Eagles. Vince Gill stepped in and has done a really good job. Okay. I'm going Smokey Robinson and the miracles. We got the miracles left. Oh, we're struggling.

Oh, I got one for you. Here's old school. How were the Supremes when Diana Ross left? Not great. Nobody went to go see just the Supremes. I guess maybe now. They probably tour. No, they're all dead.

They're all dead. There's got to be a least one. I'm going to say over 0.5 living Supremes. You double-figure crossed on that one. All right. I see you're going with that. All right. Let's talk.

We'll talk to our friends Stephen in a minute. If you guys want to jump in, you may do so. This is bad. You hear what we're doing? That's what we're doing. You know what? Keep bringing some more on Twitter. Give me some more bands that had the league guy gone.

That's what the Astros pitching staff is. One Supreme is still alive. Yes. Is it Mary Wilson? Is that she still alive? Sidney Bert song? I don't know who that is. Yeah, that's Otis's cousin.

Oh, really? Otis has got a cousin in some of the Supremes. Does Otis Birdsong alive or dead? Definitely alive. Great friend of mine. He probably doesn't remember me now. Okay. Thank you, Jonathan.

What'd you say? They had so many members. I don't know. Oh, wait a minute. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Google. Go back to Google. How many original Supremes are still alive?

You didn't say that. Oh, you know what I meant. It's like Cool, the gang's still alive. Well, yeah, because it's like 50 years. There's like nine new members of the gang. Oh, where's cool? How is the gang? Do you go see the gang without cool?

Some of the gang. Yeah, I mean, Leonard Skinner doesn't, don't they tour and there's not a single original member? Yeah. Aren't you basically a tribute band at that point? I think that's fair. 1044, it's Matt and Ross. Sports Talk 790. We laugh because it's better than that to cry.

713-212-5-790. Time is 10-5-5-9. It's Matt and Ross with you here on a Thursday edition of the program. Rockets will try for their eighth consecutive win tonight against Philadelphia. You'll have the 40 beginning at 6 o'clock with the Rockets Launchpad with your host, Sports RV. 630 Network pregame, 7 o'clock tip time inside Toteson, then Rockets and Wolves tomorrow night. Again, I think the Rockets are probably headed for a Laker matchup. It's depending on four or five who has the home court.

Rock is still have a puncher's chance at the three seed if they win all three. three of their games and Denver loses both of theirs. It's not going to happen though. And Denver's got something to play for the two teams. I think Denver's got two games left and I think. Oh, both. It's Thunder and Spurs. And they both have their just.

They're both clenched. Yeah, if I were them, I would sit those guys, set those players out. Spurs certainly are, I imagine the Thunder are two. But Spurs have been playing the long game all season long. That's the scary thing. The Spurs have been nursing Wimbeniama and like all their players. Yeah. playing guys

Harrison Barnes Missed games and they won 61 games That's scary They've been playing for the playoffs And they won 61 games But Denver's a lot of seem right now

Yeah they've won 10 in a row Spurs But Spurs were They've probably won like 13 Of the last 12 or something like that Or 12 of the last 13 or something like that I think Oh it's

It's more than that I'd have to go count They've won like 20 Their last 22 Slide Let's enjoy the first round Let's get a victory, and then we'll say small prayers after that. Is that fair?

They were 32 and 16. They're 29 and 3. And their last 32. The Spurs? The Spurs. Does Missy know this yet? Don't tell her. I don't want to hear it from her.

Dave won 29 at their last 32. Are you all ready for that in Houston? Are you ready for our friends in San Antonio? Let's go Janus. Come on. Bring in Janus. Sorry. I don't care who's untouchable. I don't care who we say is untouchable.

A man's untouchable. Okay. He's good. Y'all were so cute. Gordy's like, if you've got to develop a jump shot, it's not going to be in. I didn't say that. You didn't say that. Gordy did.

It was cute. And look, a man is, does everything else brilliantly. Yes, he does. And he, again, I've called 99.9% of his games. That was, to me, was as good as it got. I mean, unfortunately, nobody saw it because the game didn't start until 10, 12 central time. Shame on you. network. If you're going to do the split national games, which are doing now, just make West

versus West teams. You just have to figure it out that way. You cannot send a team in the Central or Eastern Time Zone to play a game out West and have that visiting audience want to watch the game. Yeah. You have diehards like yourself, but I watched it. Even somewhat diehard. Did you watch the whole thing and I fall asleep? I did. Good for you. I mean, I'm normally up around those times anyways. Yeah. But it was over. It was the past 1 a.m. Dad. Stephen, Los Angeles on 790. Good morning, Stephen. Hey, guys. Obviously, this isn't what I was going to talk about, but I'll just mention

it quickly, since I'm on the West Coast. West Coast is the elite time zone to watch sporting events. Because even when you get a ridiculously late game, like the Rockets Phoenix game, it's still only like 8 o'clock at night for us. You know, so football

seasons and other story starts at 10, ends at 5. Yeah, college at 9 a.m. No thank you. I'm a Premier League fan. So that's, so that's a starter 2. You've got to give it 4.30 for you some of the Premier League games. It is weird. I was in the, you know, because Phoenix

half the year is specific and half the year it's Mountain and everything. Like the second half of the double headers internet, we were in Phoenix was like starting at 630. I'm like second half of double header should be 630 and that is weird. All right, Stephen, what do you want to talk some Astros with us? Go for it. Yeah,

I just wanted to kind of mention a couple of things. I think where I'm at with the Astros right now is that, you know, the pitching's just been meh, you know, and it's not just one or two guys. It's a lot of guys that are meh. But, you know, having said that, you don't want to overreact to just, you know, what, two weeks of baseball. And, you know, they were playing in two ballparks that were, you know, not ideal for pitching.

You know, I'll just put it that way. So you're hoping it gets better. I mean, you know, they got a four-game series against the Mariners who haven't really been exactly lighting up, you know, the hitting stats. So, you know, you get blown up. Your pitching staff gets blown up by the Mariners and maybe additional red flags start to get raised. But it's still early, you know,

and so I'm not going to overreact too much to everything. And then my last point will just be, it's a very small gripe, and I know it's early and there's a plan towards everything, but I think you really got to, you've got to figure out a way to play all your best hitters. on the road. And like I said,

I know some of the ballparks were weird, and that's why you didn't want Alvarez playing left field. But he just got to, you got to figure out a way for him to play outfield and all your players at the same time in ballparks, not named Dikin.

So appreciate the time, guys. I'll hang up and listen to him. Thanks, Stephen, for the call. Yeah, the reality is this. Your outfield is thinner now. And I don't know if you want to play. I don't think you're all. overly excited about Bryce Matthews,

Cam Smith, and Joey Lopofito being your everyday outfield six days a week. Yoron's going to get some more playing time. He just is. I think so. Cam Smith has been great, though. And Lopofito's off to a pretty good start. We'll see what, I mean, Taylor Tremel's out there.

Okay, Bryce Matthews, it's kind of a whiff machine. He came in and got the RBI yesterday, though. It was a two-two-count. Two-two-count. He's ready to go. And with that hit yesterday that he got. is batting average now to, I believe, 143. If I'm correct on that, let's take a look here.

I'm scared. 136. Let's Joy Lo Perfito's held on, and maybe Joy Lo Perfito plays in center field, because he did that yesterday obviously. Yeah, you can have him do that. That's fine. Taylor Trammell can play out there. You have options.

It's just how much of the options, how great are the options. How about this? Taylor Tramel was supposed to bat clean up yesterday for Sugarland. Let's put things in perspective. Taylor Tremel is an 8-9 hitter at the big leagues and is a clean-up hitter at the Tripoli level. It shows you the discrepancy between the two. Yeah, there's some Twitter debate. People are arguing about the biggest leap from pros, from college to the pros, it's baseball.

It's baseball and it's not close. Well, it would be the comps. College basketball to the pro. Well, no, because you can be very successful in college and have a very great rookie year in the NBA. Now, pound for pound. Like, you can't take a college team and go compete. Exactly. But you have an individual stand.

That's what I'm saying. the biggest leap. There's no college player. Rare, very, very, very rare a college player will go in straight to the major leagues. Once a decade? Yeah. That's how rare it is. There's literally in between college baseball and

major league baseball. There's like five leagues. There's AAA, low A, rookie ball, AA, single. All right. Brian McTaggart, a Scottish Irishman. It's a fine lad. He is here in town. He'll be catching a flight to Seattle later today to

join the team in Seattle? That's a long that's a long flight. Take a nap. Now can you nap? You are a window guy in particular. Oh yeah. Because I love to nap. See, I have a little bit of claustrophobic issues with the window. Napping on the plane, let's go. In fact, I would rather sit in the middle seat than sit in the window.

Are you, you're insane. Well, that's true, but that's something to do with this conversation. Brian McTaggart for his Thursday visit. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. No 3 on Sports Talk 790. We're going to spend 10 quality minutes with our close personal friend.

The one, the only. Brian McTaggart here on the show. Before we get to McTaggart, I want you guys to hear this. We found the Dana Brown cut. And Jonathan, do you have it? Let me know when you do. Ready to go. All right.

This is Dana yesterday with Dan and Cole on his weekly visit discussing the Hunter Brown injury situation. And I don't want to say it was flummox. but I was like vexed? Yeah, I was definitely vexed. Here is Dana on Hunter and what he saw and now the results of the shoulder string which we found out just a couple days ago.

I think one of the things that we were talking about it internally is Brown came in the camp and he was red hot from beginning. You know, he was 96 to 98 and you know, he was throwing hard and we were, you know, kind of all taking back a little bit. I think he was just so

ready to go and he was so amped up. He was probably throwing a little too hard maybe for spring training. I wouldn't mind seeing him throwing 94 to 96 every now and in touch a 7. I mean, he came in guns blazing and I'm not

sure if that's the reason, but I would say that he came in hot. All right, so Brian McTagger, next time you cover spring training, which will probably be in two years. If you see Hunter Brown throwing 97, we'd tell him to back it off a little bit for us, please. Yeah, I mean, he definitely was hitting 98 in the spring. And I think it was maybe his effort, after his third spring training start, and we were talking to

him after, we're like, man, you look like you're ready to go. I mean, you're hitting 98. And he was like, yeah, I feel ready to go for the season. So, you know, these guys used to come to spring training and start throwing their bullpins in Florida. And then they would go from there. Now when they come to spring training, they're like, oh, I'm throwing four or five bullpins back home.

I started throwing in January. It seems like that they're starting earlier. Right. So I don't know if that leads to anything, but it certainly seems like they're throwing more often than they used to be back in the day and guys are getting hurt more. So who knows, we don't know why he got injured, but he certainly looked, you know, a month ago like he was ready for the start of the season. So let's put things in progression a little bit here, moving along. We got Jake Myers coming down here to get testing done. What do we know about Christian Javier and where he is at this exact moment?

not sure if he came to Houston or what I mean I guess it would surprise me if he if he hadn't come to Houston on the off day to figure out what was going on there too I mean there's no need for him to go to Seattle at this point but I do know that Taylor Tremel will be in Seattle to join the team J.P. France as well will be in Seattle to join the team so that tells you right there Myers is going on the injured list neither one of those guys are on the 40 man but they do have an open 40 man spot and they can move a guy eye on the 15-day L to the 15-day I-L to the 60-man. I think Blanco is still on the 15-day. So not any big-time 40-man implications, but, I mean, here we are still mid-April, and they're already really testing their depth and reaching down to AAA and bringing guys up that they thought maybe they wouldn't need until later in the season. It's crazy that we kind of bragged on the Astros' depth and pitching, but you look at it and you're going, all right, it's okay.

to brag on it when you lose a three, four, and five in your rotation, when you lose the number one guy, the guy that you're building around is your true ace, it just stings a little bit more. Yeah, and they didn't expect that. I mean, Hunter's been a guy who's been healthy his entire career. I mean, they like the fact that they had Ergeti and AAA, Jason Alexander and Triple Lloyd, Colton Gordon, J.P. France. You're like, okay, if one of our other starters, our middle starters, go down. You know, we have these guys who've been up the last couple of years. years and have given us some good innings. You feel good about that, but you did not expect your ace to go down, and you're not going to replace him with anybody at AAA of that caliber.

So, yeah, I mean, you know, we'll have to wait and see the extent of the injury and how long it is until he comes back. It's not, nothing about it is good. Nothing about it feels good if you're the Astros. And, you know, getting swept and really the entire road trip, but not off to a good start at all. So there's nowhere to go but up from here. And so they're going to need some of these depth pitching guys to step up. And that includes guys like Blue Ball, who didn't pitch well when he came in, but he's going to have to pitch better. France is going to have to come in and pitch better. And they're going to have to eat some innings and get deep into the game. Otherwise, this is going to spiral and get out of control pretty quickly.

Spiral is the word I was just about to use, Brian, because, okay, it's, we know it's beginning of April, so we don't want to panic. It's a long season. But as you see, said. I mean, this looks like this is a situation that's not good and that when you have these starters who aren't pitching the way they are and then you mentioned blue ball getting lit up. I mean, Ryan Wiss started off okay and then he's been getting lit up and Brian Abray who just has given up a run every time he's gone out there. We're focusing a lot on the starting injuries and rightfully so, but I mean, there's got to be a lot of worries for Joe's spot in his bullpen. Well, and that goes to the starters when these guys aren't going deep. You know, the starters aren't going

in the fifth or sixth inning very much. Now you're putting extra pressure on the bullpen and they brought in, you know, three wrong relievers because they knew that there were a couple of guys specifically McCullors and Javier who wouldn't go deep in the games, but now, you know, Burroughs isn't going deep in the games and now Hunter Browns

out. So it's just putting pressure on everybody. And this really started at the beginning of spring training when Hayter was injured and was going to have to start the season on the aisle. And then you move a brayu into the closer role, which, you know, he wasn't actually great at. You'd rather have him in the setup role and you're moving guys around for bullpen

now. And so nothing about this has gone to plan. It's got to be really frustrating for them coming off a season last year where they had so many injuries on the pitching staff. But they do have guys, I think we'll see come up. I mean, I think Eric Getty comes up and joins the rotation next homestand. Jason Alexander pitched really well last time out in AAA. He's a guy that won like, what, nine starts in a row for them. But again, you're really testing your depth really early in the season and banking on nobody else getting injured. Brian McTaggart with us here on Sports Talk 790.

On to the offense side. One run scored in the last couple of games. Obviously, we're not going to panic there because the offense has been very good, but what do you think has been plaguing them the last couple of games? Yeah, it just looks like they got away from their approach a little bit, I mean, especially the middle game in Colorado. Yesterday, you know, they just, I just think they got pitched really well, but they just got to get back to what they were doing, you know,

the first 10 games of the season, including in Oakland or in Sacramento when they were swinging the bat so well. So one run and back-to-back games in Colorado is not great. I don't think it's a real cause for alarm yet. I mean, Jordans cooled off a little bit. I mean, he wasn't going to keep up at that pace. But I think their offense is somewhere in between what we saw in the home. home stand and somewhere in between what we saw in Colorado.

They're not going to score seven runs a game. They're not going to score one run a game. They're somewhere in between there. And if, you know, if Christian Walker keeps swinging it, you have to feel good about that. I think Alvarez, if he's healthy, obviously, he's going to have a huge year. And, you know, Al-Tuves off a nice start. So I think pitching is really where this team needs to try to hold things together here. And because I think the offense will be okay.

All right, Brian, size up the Astros outfit. feel for the next week or so, and I want to say just the next week or so, but it could be longer than that. He went underwater. He's speechless. Are you there? There you are. Try it again. Hello? Go ahead.

We hear you. Okay. What did you say? I didn't hear you, Matt. Oh, that's all right. Here we go. Three. It's good for editing purposes. Oh, yeah. We're going to edit this later. Here we go. Three, two, one. All right. So let's size up the Astros outfield, Brian. not only this week, but maybe for the foreseeable future. Yeah, well, I think you're going to be seeing a lot more low profito in Bryce Matthews.

I mean, they had sort of been platooning in left field there, but I think there's chances for both of them to play every day. I mean, they're going to sprinkle in Tramel, of course, another left-handed hitter. But I think for Bryce Matthews, especially, this is a real chance for him to come in and show what he can do. At a really good spring, and I think it's played pretty well. well so far. Loporfito looks like a guy who's ready to start every day, and I think he's definitely going to get that chance. And you feel good about Cam Smith and right field. So, you know, losing Myers hurts. I mean, when you had Myers in center, you had Cam and right,

you had Loporfito and left, that is a really, really good defensive outfield, really athletic. And you're still going to be athletic because you've got Bryce Matthews, who's a great athlete as well. So, you know, how much can he hit? We're going to find out. So, you know, they have options there and it'll just be a matter of how they work in Fremel at this point. All right, wrapping things up with a little pitching conversation back to Abraeu for a second. Again, he's not had a clean inning yet

this year. The ERA's north of 19. We've seen Brian King get a little bit of heavy leverage situation. Obviously the Astros got to be in a leverage situation here in the foreseeable future to make this, but how long of the leash is Abraeu right now as we speak

about Joe going to him in the key moments of a baseball game, especially the fact that he's even with a chance in a non-levered situation, he still struggled yesterday in Denver. Yeah, I mean, I think there is a little bit of a leash there. I mean, I mean, what do you do? I mean, they just, do you put keying at closer at this point? I mean, again, you put guys in these roles they're not used to.

We've seen this over the years. I mean, a bray is an example. It hasn't gone particularly well. Even going back to the, remember when they put Will Harris at closer, he'd done so well as a setup man, did not do well as a closer. or if you move one guy out of his role, then another guy out of his role. Now you've got everyone pitching in different roles, and you're really rolling the dice there. So I think there's going to be a little bit of a runway here for Abraeu.

But at some point he's going to have to pitch and get guys out and pitch one, two, three innings. And, you know, when is that cutoff line going to be? I think only a spot I can answer that. But it's probably coming down the road, but I don't think yet. I mean, I still think on Friday night if they have the lead in the ninth inning, and they're going to give the ball to a bray. And very lastly, you're heading to Seattle, where the Mariners are off to a terrible start this year.

Pitching is great. They're not hitting. Both teams needing of a series win in the worst way right now. Yeah, both these teams are headed in the wrong direction. You know, you look at the pitching matchups. We've got EMI going against Hancock. I mean, every one of these pitching matchups is probably going to favor the Mariners, which is what happens when you face the Mariners.

They got Hancock, Castillo, Gilbert, and Kirby. So these Astros bats are going to have their work cut out for them. And we really don't even know who's pitching the last couple of games of that series for the Astros yet. So, you know, they've got to go up there and try to get a split and just try to salvage anything they can on this home road trip and come back for a homestown. They got to Rockies at home. You know, you've got to turn the page there and try to beat up on them. And Astros are, what, only a game or 200 or 500. So it's not the end of the world, but it feels like it.

But there's, you know, if they go to Seattle and have a good series, come home and face the Rockies. you can turn this thing around pretty quickly. Safe travels, my friend. We'll hear you tomorrow night as part of the On Deck Show. Thank you for the time as always. And great coverage is always by you at MLB.com and Astros.com. Thanks again for the visit. All right. Thank you.

That's Brian McTaggart. We'll be with us tomorrow during the On Deck show. And, of course, every Thursday here at 11 o'clock, right here on Sports Talk 790. And the most important thing is we're talking about 13 games here. 13 games. That's true. it's just 13 but you're down two starters

starting pitchers I'm concerned a little bit have we set a date on the Hunter Brown return we have not I think it was re-evaluated in a couple

and he's not throwing for a few weeks whatever that means okay so low end was two weeks I heard there were other reports that maybe were Ronies it's a three

again it's semantics it feels like they said not throwing for a few weeks re-evaluated in two weeks which means they're going to see how he's feeling. They're going to do some follow-up imaging,

and then it probably won't throw for a little bit after that. Then he's got to throw. Then he's got to build up. And then he's probably going to rehab. May 15th, you say. Okay. Yeah. Being encouraged. May 15th. Okay. I just don't get it coming up at the bottom of the hour.

And we will play, to tell the truth, food edition. Yes. I'm recusing myself, correct? Yes. I just, I, because I wrote these ones. down yesterday on the plane. Yeah. And I'm like, Ross won't know the answers to these, but then I've already forgot what they were. So I've written some things down. And you and I have broken bread a lot of times in our life.

I've known you for like almost 20 years of this. Yeah, it's, yeah. So Jonathan, you'll be playing and so all our audience for a chance to win spectacular tickets from bands that were relevant 30 years ago. 713-213.2.570. We'll do that. I think we'll do that around 1230 today. So mark that down, 1230 for it to tell the truth, food edition.

as we will celebrate a timeless game here on the program. 713-213-1-2-5-790. The NCAA would like to go back to its five-year rule or at least a harder stance on it. We'll discuss what they're thinking next here at 1117 on Sports Talk 790. 1121 on Sports Talk 7-9. I just don't get it coming up at the bottom of the hour. I'd like to say I just don't get the traffic issues, but that's...

I live in Houston and live here 90% of my life, so I totally do get it. But today really suck. Why was today better? Batter, worse than other days. I left the house at 8.20 this morning. What happened? Was there a wreck? No.

Just terrible, terrible congestion. I got a news for you. Here's a terrible, terrible, terrible hot take. We have 100,000 wonderful things about our city. Like, I was just in Phoenix. You know, Phoenix is sprawling like Houston is. It's not a condensed market, you know, like inner city of Chicago. I mean, Phoenix has got lots and lots of suburbs,

and their traffic is not nearly as bad as ours because they anticipated it. So if you really want to blame anybody for our traffic, it's the people that created our infrastructure 50 years ago. Yeah, but I mean, that's every city. As soon as you construct something, it's basically good for them. It's not built for the future. I know, but God, blessed Phoenix, we were in the middle of rush hour and the two days we were traveling there, and we had no problems.

I know. Phoenix also, the fifth most populous city in America. Yeah. Behind Houston, which is crazy. It's just nuts that we just have this. And again, nobody, I know.

Can I just say I'm sorry for continuing to whine about it? Because it's my decision. I'm sorry, man. But it doesn't mean I still can't be upset about it. No, you can be upset. You can be traffic. But I think you got to keep your cool. You got a namaste, deep breaths.

There's nothing, things out of your control. Just got to let it roll off your back. Like water. off an otter. I just came up with that. I'll write that one down. Have you, once last time you saw an otter?

On planet Earth, on Netflix? No, no, no, no, no. You went to a zoo. Oh, yeah. Which zoo was that? Was that in Seattle? Or it was a Seattle Aquarium or something? I don't know.

They're very cute. Okay, here we go. We're segueing out of this. Was an Irish otter? Oh, look at the little otter. His name is Fitzpatrick. Things I don't get. You.

Bottom of the hour. All right. An NCAA panel is scheduled to discuss potential changes to eligibility rules that would incorporate age into the process. You're saying what? The proposal, which does mirror what the press had to say last week, would give athletes five years of eligibility with the clock starting at the earliest of two dates, either when they turn 19. or graduate high school. Why would they choose high school? Early as the two.

Oh, earliest of the two. Okay. Who's proposing this? This is the NCAA with a little bit of a poking from the press, who's trying to stop the Iran war and govern eligibility and college athletes. I thought we already won it. Didn't he say we won it like two weeks ago? We're still battling.

Let me continue here. There would be limited exceptions, but they would not involve injuries, which has been a common reason for players to ask for extra eligibility. Still unknown is whether the rule would shield the NCAA from lawsuits over eligibility. The answer would be no. They'll be still being sued. Dozens of players have sued for extra years, claiming injuries and other circumstances made them candidates for extra eligibility. The NCAA is seeking a limited antitrust exemption from Congress to prevent these lawsuits.

Good luck. Well, so funny. So here's the issue. If you want to put a threshold a number of years, I can kind of live with that, but they're not talking about necessarily, I guess you could move five places in five years if you wanted to. Yeah, why not?

I could do that if I was a regular student. Yeah. Why can I do that if I, just because I play sports? As I'm reading this, that's not terrible, right? You don't want to have guys in college athletics playing six or seven years, or do you, or it doesn't really even matter?

I guess it really doesn't matter. I don't. In theory, I don't because that's just how it was. it always was but then you have the injury part that's the main you have the injury part I mean so basically Jonathan unless you get a leg amputated

you are not getting an extra year of eligibility yeah I can get that but it's going to be hard I mean coaches redshirt players all the time or like do a fake medical redshirt or whatever the case may be how are they going to like stop that like you know what they were going to do you're going to have college freshmen they're going to be asked to

redshirt and they're going to say no if you're holding me to five full you know, without any flexibility, that if I'm going to burn a redshirt, I may have to use it later on in life if I get hurt. This isn't a non-starter to me. This is not happening. They just keep losing lawsuit after lawsuit,

and they're just trying to, I don't even know, save face, PR, whatever. We're trying a little bit, but a little bit is not going to matter. And ultimately, I still believe, again, athletes should have the same exact freedoms that coaches do. So if you're going to start putting some barriers on the athletes, let's sit around the coaches too.

I think, I think this would be better if they put hindrance and, like, restrictions on the athletic directors and the coordinators because it's more of a problem because high schoolers are versing grown men and not just being freshmen being high school or 19. It's more of, I got this 19-year-old going against a 27-year-old. They got a kid and, you know, on the way. You know what I mean? Yeah. He's got dad strength. That's not fair.

That's the most important and the problem in all this. I'll tell you what I think is going to happen too. And this is not going to happen for a very small segment of the population. but, you know, players go on missions or athletes go on missions at BYU. That's a two-year commitment. Yeah, what if they just put an age restriction? I've literally versed people at nationals that had two kids in the stroller and they were 26 involving. Yeah, what if you put an age restriction?

You're like saying by 25? Yeah, you've got to be gone by 20, I don't know, four or five or whatever. That's more reasonable. That seems more enforceable. But this to me, as I've just reading the story to y'all, doesn't seem like that. the number one issue that should be why is it instead of like fighting this over anything else? What was the age? I don't even know.

The Michigan Wolverines roster. They're all like my age. Like 23 and like 24, 25. A bunch of grown men? Yes. Like my wife, I came home yesterday for my trip and my wife says, you know, we were talking about the national championship games. She goes, you know, Michigan won the national championship with essentially five transfers. I said, that's college athletics

for you. Mm-hmm. You don't think the cougars are not going to completely reinvent themselves this year after losing, you know, at least one, if not two players of the draft. You've got two players that have already left. That to me is, if you're really going, man, what's wrong with the sport? Is that you are getting a, you cannot, well, you know, it's funny. You are a fan of the jersey.

You're not a fan of the individual player. Generally, yes, in college. It's more in college than others. Yeah. But you can't relate to them if they're going, if they're in and out, one year. Yeah, that's been a problem with college basketball. The interest level is way down from where

it was in like even the 90s. Because during five time of January, when I was a kid and I was a kid, so it was a kid. So it was a kid. So things are going to different when your kid as a career to adult. The same players were there. I mean, Dream played. Drexler was there. Reed Geddes was there. I mean, look at me. Alvin Franklin was there. Michael Young was there. I'm rolling off

players. Larry Mishaw was there. Yeah. There's nobody that's going to really remember the Cougars of this year because they're going to be gone. You'd say, let's get them next year. Now you can't say that. We'll see what the team looks like next year. That's exactly right. Well, so what do you do when it comes to foreign players

that have military things in their country before they can even go to college and stuff like that? But then the age restriction would then come into play, correct? Yeah, but I mean today there's still 22-year-old freshman from Croatia.

But those are 22-year-olds are probably coming to play for one year. They're not overly concerned about getting a four-year ride there at the particular school. Like, Frank, For instance, I mean, that's the reality of it is. In basketball, is that you're just going to play for one year to get some seasoning to adhere to the NBA rules. But a lot of these international players, oh, Jonathan, they don't have to worry about playing college basketball anymore. Look at all the littered number of high-end players in the NBA that don't even go to college.

It's playing their professional leagues. Starters from Michigan, two seniors, two juniors, and a sophomore. more. And how many of them were homegrown by Michigan? I don't think any of them. Off the bench, the guys who played more than 20 minutes, senior, and a freshman. Trey McKinney. And congratulations to them.

Yeah, they won. You think Michigan fan cares where these players came from? Oh, are you kidding me? 19-year-old don't care. They were partying in Indianapolis. Sitting in the third deck. Can't see anything, but the binoculars helped out. The what?

Binoculars. Oh. Oh, uh, Kansas City? No, Indianapolis. They're sitting in the third deck. Okay. What did Kansas City come into play? I thought you said Kansas City.

No, Indianapolis. All right, what don't you get? Many, many things. Do you have anything particular this past week? We'll find out next. 713-212-5-7-90. This is where we give you some of our wise wisdom. Wow.

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Diana Rossini? Oh, I get Diana Rossini. By the way, she put out a legit tweet today about something going on in the NFL and her replies. Oh, my God. Have you seen all these videos? dug up with her talking about her husband and stuff.

Yes, about he's average looking, it doesn't put things out there. I'm like, you're not even hiding it. Okay, let me ask you this. And you brought this up, so we're going to finish it here. Do you believe there's nothing going on or do you believe something was going on? And am I, it's Diana Rossini's

lawyer, or am I just an objective of a zero? You are Ross Villarreal, just a regular bro. Something's going on. I'm like 70%. Unless those photos were AI generated. Which clearly it could be. No. Honestly, too, it feels like it's like private investigator.

Like, they're zoomed way out. Like, somebody was tailing them, it feels like. And it could have been a spouse of either one of them. Could be. Yeah, I, I think, I absolutely without a doubt, believe Diana Rossini and Mike Ribble were lying. I want to read her 2200 replies. Written again, read her tweet and then give the replies and go ahead. The NFL informed teams out when they could expect to see replacement officials visiting facilities

if a deal is not reached by next month when the current CBA with the NFL referees, association expires. Number one reply is an elephant gif. It says, address me. Ref's lining up to be Racini's next insider. It's a bunch of referees. Stop saying inside her. Insider.

Insider. Diana, when she heard a ref wanted to talk, I got one more in me. It's the... Oh, again, stop. the Vince Carter. Oh, dear. It's a picture of Mike Vrable.

It's a YouTube. It says every inch matters. All right, Jonathan, you believe her? Do you believe them, or do you believe there's something on the side going on? They are messing around.

They are messing around. There's no way. I'm sorry. If they were at a bar, like in a regular bar, even in downtown Phoenix, and they hugged each other, I would not think twice about it.

When they laying down holding hands in a little pool, They're in a pool holding in Sedona, which is like the hookup joint of the... Is that right? Well, yeah. I have no idea. It's a very surreal couples retreaty, go on walks, high-end resorts. It's not just a...

It ain't the downtown Hyatt, put it that way. Okay. Yeah. And honestly, I have heard, and I don't want to say, I've heard from two friends of mine that are females in a business outside of the Houston marketplace. Okay. They're pissed off.

off at her. I'm sure. Women are getting dragged on this. Because again, the stereotype is that all women sleep their way towards getting stories and building relationships. And you got another one here. What was the last one from ESPN?

With Ocho. Ocho Cinco? No, no, Ocho. Manuel, what's it? Acho? Oh, Joy Taylor. Oh, yeah. It's Joy Taylor 2.0 is exactly what it is. and largely her career is over with. I don't know. Yeah. What does she do? What I'm doing now? I mean,

I don't know what she does. I mean, she'd do whatever she wants to do. All right. Let me go down. I just don't get it here. Thank you. By the way, I do completely get Diana Rossini. I think she's... Okay. And shame on both of them, frankly. If you're going to have the side piece, just don't go to a resort where somebody's tailing you. You're right. You're to your point.

There is somebody watching that thing. watching that thing? Well, those things. Let me move on. I don't watch the par three. I'm going to maybe watch a handful of minutes of the master's period. If Sunday's competitive, I'll make sure I'm in front of a television to watch it. Okay.

But I'm not going to just, like, tomorrow and today, I'll check the scoreboard a couple of times. We'll be good. Yesterday was the par three, which is a really light jovial day. Kevin Hart is caddying. Jason Kelsey is caddying. Why are we doing this? Are we trying to get those fans of those dudes to start watching the par three of the masters? Why do we continue to have non-people integrated into a particular sport?

Like, what was the other day that wasn't Jason Kelsey a part of opening day cover? the wrestlers were in part of opening day baseball coverage on Netflix or something. Yeah. Why are we doing this? Now, again, I'm going to hear the number one cliche term. We're trying to grow the sport. You're not growing it. You're just confusing it.

I guarantee you that Uso's were on majorly baseball, Sunday night baseball starting up, wasn't going to all of a sudden generation of wrestling fans and start watching the weekly Sunday night baseball game. So I say this cross-over for pollination, whatever you want to call it. cross-promotion, I just don't get it. Yeah, they're just trying to grow the game and they're trying to do whatever they can. You know how you grow golf?

How do you grow golf? You find somebody that dominates it and has a personality and crushes it and win, like Rory McElroy was supposed to be that guy. Yeah. And he's had a very successful career. But I'm talking about taking over. You really, really, really want golf to be

talked about on talk shows at the bars, hanging out at the office cooler. You know what you do? You just find one or two bros that like to beat each other up and talk smack. Phil Mickelson v. Tiger Woods. That was much must watch golf. Yeah, but I mean, those guys who are excellent golfers and great personalities don't grow on trees. They don't.

And Tiger Woods didn't really even have a great personality. He just won, one, one, and won some more. So Kevin Hart carrying a bag is not going to go, oh, bad, I got to watch the Masters now. It makes me want to go buy a, get run a DVD for a dollar, and it's a horrible movie that he made back 10 years ago. So I don't get it. I just don't. It's not going to make Kevin Hart, carrying a bag on a part three,

is not going to make me watch any more of the Masters than it was, say, 24 hours ago. Just public relations. I got you. So that's all I got. I'll go overall with Jason Kelsey. I don't get it. I mean, I like Jason Kelsey. Football analysis is good, got a personality, but he is everywhere.

It's overexpo. It's Stephen A. It's too much. I guess it's just because Taylor Swifties love Jason Kelsey now because they watched his podcast with his brother Travis and they gave him a fat

check so they got to put him out on something. They're like, yeah, we just gave you $80 million. We're going to need you to be on everything. He's going to be on NASCAR coverage and everything, I guess. I guess I kind of get it, but I kind of don't. When did somebody say that America wanted more

Chase and Kelsey? Swifties. Swifties are powerful. Be'er watch out. They're going to come after you. You think Swifties? are watching NFL coverage because of Jason Kelsey? Maybe they know who he is now. They didn't know who he was two years ago, three years ago. All right? They're engaged, right?

Oh, yeah. Congratulations to the... Kim and Carly are going to the wedding in Rhode Island. No, they're not. They just haven't been invited yet, but they plan on stalking it. Okay, that's cool. You're one of those helicopters, right? Don't get them arrested.

That's right. For trespassing. Ross, what don't you get? Oh, you already said, Cassie. I got some more. Please. The NCAA floating this five and four. nobody that's get zero chance of being implemented and that'll get struck down in court like within milliseconds.

Why are they even talking about this? Why are they floating this out? I mean, continue to take your L's and keep this house of cards up as much as you can. But why are they even talking about they have to know these rules that they're floating out have no chance of being implemented. I don't get what they're doing. They're basically saying you cannot be injured. You've got five to play five, four to five to play four. and if you get hurt, them's the brakes.

Again, to me, they should be spending more time with some sort of NIL regulation and some sort of regulation to coaches. That, to me, is where I want the NCAA involved because this cannot continue this crazy outlandish spending unless you just say, you know what, 40 schools can spend the rest of you just sit around and watch. And I think that's what we're finding out now. So, Jonathan, what don't you get? I don't really understand why now and times we don't, it's nostalgic era.

I don't understand the nostalgia era. I just don't get it. I don't understand it. I don't see why you need to, you know, remake a naked gun. I don't see why you need to. Oh, I so get it. I just don't understand that. Even like we reuse and nostalgic about old celebrities, like, Kevin Hart on the master's

is a point. Why can't we get somebody else to do? Why are we getting the same? Like, I just don't understand that. Well, I totally get it, but there's two different arguments there on that one. The first one to me is that we're losing creativity. And Ross, you were the one that brought that up to me, right? Yeah. We're running out of ideas.

Well, we're running out of ideas, but it's also safer. If I go to a movie studio and I say, give me $50 million to make this movie and it's got no ground to stand on and it might fail and it might flop, they're trying to eliminate flops. They're trying to make as much money as possible. So if you can get a population of, you know, 35 to 55-year-old people

who love something from 20, 30 years ago, and you already have a built-in base and then it can go up from there, it's a lot safer to go with superhero movies, with how many Batman's have they remade even in our lifetimes? I mean, you went from Michael Keaton to Christian Bale to Ben Affleck to what's his name, Robert Pattinson. They just keep recycling and recycling because it's safer. It's going to make them more money. And then same thing with the nostalgia and these latent sequels and coming to America too.

You're going to have a baked in audience to where at least you're probably not going to lose money and then you have the potential to make money. But that's the thing that I just don't understand. You're talking about the people who consume it. Well, no. The public who want it. I get your point. It's the industry itself because back then coming to America was a new fresh idea that y'all came to love for 40 years. I think that's a smarter business move to go and do that real.

to try to get something to stick rather than just keep rehashing the whole stuff. There's 20 movies that came out that you never heard of that didn't stick and that were flops and that lost millions and millions of dollars and that were box office bombs. John, then you're talking one-third of this show loves nostalgia. So if you get 33% of America that loves nostalgia, I'll take that over 6-7% that may not like something brushy new. May not like a new deal. And then people like nostalgia as anyways because it's just comfort. It's a security blanket. I mean, whether they have their own problems with, I don't know, their life or whatever.

Things were always used to be better, Jonathan. What do we always tell you? Yeah, it used to be better. And that's when you get to your age and you have children and you're talking to your kids, you're like, back in my day, things were better. Because our parents told us that. Their parents sold to that. Everything was better back in the day.

And then if you can harness the nostalgia and make money off of it, that's why they do. Yeah, I totally get it. You know what? I don't like it now. I get it now. Just don't like it. You get it. You just don't like it.

you just don't like it. I understand. Remember, you're as much of a consumer as I am. So if you don't like something, I'm not talking about you particular, but a certain generation of people that says, I'm not going to watch a reboot of naked gun,

or I'm not going to watch a reboot of Ocean's 14 or whatever the hell we're going to go with. Then go support the new stuff. Yeah. I know. I definitely do. I hate that. That's the culture.

See, I don't mind. it because I don't like what I currently see. Yeah. Right. That's fair. So if I don't like what I currently see and I'm looking to consume something else, I want to go find something that I'm comfortable with. It's also safe for the consumer, Matt. If you're going to watch two hours of a naked gun remake,

you know you have a baseline of the amount, you're going to enjoy it. If it's two hours of some movie you don't even know and then you hate it, you feel like you've wasted two hours of your life. It's like what is my favorite kind of movie? Biopics. Because I know those people. I want to see the behind the scenes of that kind of stuff. See, you know, that's a different, that's a whole

different topic, but I agree with you biopics to keep going, because I feel like that's new, because you don't know those people's lives. Yeah, but Wikipedia can solve that for you in about 30 seconds. But you can't, you won't ever know. I know, I know, you live it. All right, there you go. If you have something you don't get, we are here to help you here on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-1-12. 1148 is our time.

It's Matt and Ross. We're with you today until 2 o'clock. We're going to play a special edition of The Tell the Truth for you chance to win some... You know what? I'm going to tell you what you're going to play for today at 1230. I'm going to look it up really, really quick. We are playing four. The prizes. Oh, we got Motley Crew. Oh, ACDC tickets we're playing four. Oh, let's go. We've got believe it or not today, too. We've got two different games to play today between now and two o'clock. When's ACDC at what venue? It is at NRG Stadium. What? Wow.

I bet that's probably a pretty good concert. That's going to be a pretty good people watching concert, too, if they think so. What do you mean? Like defibrillators? Walkers? No. Makeup? Customs?

No, I wouldn't think of that either. Ross is closer than I'm than you or, Jonathan. Hmm. Hydration stations? Insulin stations? It's okay. What don't you get? Please help us out here because I don't want to talk to these Dubronies anymore.

713-212-5-790. All right, we've got the news at noon coming up in a few minutes. We're in through some of the headlines. We'll also, be a little rolling stones here to give you the unfortunate low lights of yesterday's game in Denver. I think Joe, I think a Spada's handling all this.

I mean, let me tell you, the way of the world might be on his shoulders right now, he's like, man, I'm down a year left of my contract or less than a year. Dana's like, I'm down to less than a year.

Well, let's run through it. Joe Espada. First year, 2024, you have, I believe, Yordon was hurt a lot of that year.

right or no actually he played a lot that year but you had you had everybody underperforming Kyle Tucker got hurt wasn't Jose Abraeu on the team at that point yep they had to release him middle of the year you had to release Jose Abraeu

I'm bringing up players with most played appearances in that season yiner Diaz actually played pretty well but it was like Jake Myers Dubon you had John Singleton out there for 119 games because of a brayu yeah They were kind of filling the pieces of first base.

The Kyle Tucker debacle. That was when Verlander was regressing and hurt. They started off horribly in that season, and then they rallied. Made the playoffs and they were out in two games to the Tigers. Then the next year, you had 19 players on the IL at one point. That's been great.

So, from a tactical standpoint, there's been very little that Joe has done that has sent the team in a wayward track, battle with the most part. I mean, I think we can question some of the bullpen decisions, and we question some of the pinch hitting decisions, which he's normally actually very good at. People were mad he left Ryan Weiss in as long as he did,

but they basically had like three pitchers available what the state of the bullpen was. And so Ryan Weiss just had to wear that one. And you could argue if you went to Eniel de Los Santos a little bit early, earlier than they could have salvage it because they did come back and score seven runs in that game. But there's never been a point where I was saying, I have no clue with this guy's thinking. Because, I mean, in fact, probably there has been more scrutiny, if you think about it. There was way more scrutiny about Dusty Baker decisions. And he's the one that has a track record and has won a bunch of games.

And it's going to be a hall of fame as a manager. Everybody's questioning Joe, everybody questioned Dusty, people questioning AJ Hinch. Yeah. Still get the occasional call about Garrett Cole in the game seven of the world. series. I don't think AJ's going to ever love that one down. Yeah, for Pete's sake, put me in AJ. Where's my Scott Boris hat? You and I

always argue about that, by the way. He came to the game, but you, Matt, you know, you've been in the clubhouse. What they wear to the game, they wear out. Again, typically to back you a little bit, you don't wear your team hat when you

leave a, I mean, even Carlos Crea, who's Mr. Astor They're not wearing the gear out. They're not wearing the gear outside. But when you are a pending free agent to put the borough's hat on, it was an awful look, and I will not step a lot off of that. It was a

ill time. Or not a faux pa, snafu or something. It was a one of them. It was passive-aggressive is what it was. 100%. You don't, first of all, nobody... He didn't want to speak. You don't need to be wearing your agent's hat. I was there. I was there

when he was like, I don't want to... Do I have to talk? I'm not an employee. Yeah, he had already checked out. He was pissed off. He wanted to play. He wanted to be in there. He didn't want to talk. He wanted to leave.

And by the way, here's my hat, and he's going to get me a big fat contract for the team I always wanted to play for. Yeah, $330 million. I would have signed it too. Point being is this. Joe has not... He doesn't have to go get his manager for dummies book

to learn how to manage the game. There is... So you could say, He's a byproduct of some terrible, terrible look here. But... Every team's got to go through injuries. And how do you navigate those waters? But the problem is, you're going down to AAA,

and you're getting guys that are just guys. There aren't phenoms coming up. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Zero satisfaction in Denver. Bless you went to the dispensary if you so choose those things. 12.07 Sports Talk, Severnati. Matt and Ross with you here until 2 o'clock. We have a special foodie edition of The Tell the Truth.

And Ross will be abstaining from this because we've had probably 5,000 meals together in the last 16 years, give or take. It's somewhere around there. Yep. All of them pleasant. Yeah, we never gone, man, this has been a horrible conversation. I don't know. I don't think so. We've discussed food temperatures.

Never really got any fights. Mm-mm. It's been good. Yeah, you got cheese from dripping from your chin. He's got what? Yeah, wipe that drip off your chin, Matt. There you go. Time now for the news.

At noon, we've got a little bit of University of Houston breaking news. Oh, well, you bring us that, Matt. That's all I'm going to give you. What? Chris Cinnack is going to declare for the draft. Oh. Zero surprise. Dang.

That's a shame. And apparently Kingston Flaming's going to. to do the same thing later today. That's how they're here nor there. I mean, that was to be expected. Yes. Are you kidding me? Guys are going to be a top seven pick on the NBA draft? Got a good recruiting class coming in, right? There's five stars coming in. I can't name them, but I'm sure they're wonderful. Hey, hit the portal.

You've got to learn the team every year now. All right. The rest of the news is yours. The rest of the news at noon, of course. The Houston Astros get swept yesterday as it's just a bad situation. You heard some of the highlights. We cannot get any satisfaction. As the Astros get swept in Colorado. 9 to 7, 5 to 1, 9 to 1.

It got progressively worse. As Christian Javier was pulled from the game with right shoulder tightness, so now he is in all likelihood going to hit the IL as J.P. France is headed to Seattle according to Brian McTaggart. And also Taylor Tremel called up as Jake Myers left the game with lower back tightness. and immediately after the game was shipped back to Houston. So that is not good news. Immediately going to be IELD, immediately shipped back to Houston.

So we'll see what happens in terms of prognosis for Jake Myers. But he and Javier down, of course Hunter Brown already down. Astros get swept in Colorado. Mercifully, they will not lose today because they have a day off. But a big series starting tomorrow, 841 pitch, Matthew Astros taking on the Seattle Mariners. It's the Astros ace. Tatsuya Imi. And then the Astros number two starter, Lance McCullors Jr. on Saturday.

Hey, you start the series with your one, two guys. You got to be feeling pretty good. You declared that. Nobody else did. No, it's been the most popular answer in my tweet at SportsRV. At this exact second, who is the Astros number one starter? Most everyone's saying, he my. Who's the second option?

Cody Bolton. Stop. Okay, I'm kidding. The second most popular answer has been Lance McCullors Jr. So that was your one to guys. What do you want me to say? All right. Back to what we talked about at the beginning of the show today. These are the Pips.

Yes. These are the Osmans without Donnie. The rest of the family was in a band too? Oh, yeah. The Osmond's were big before my time. But they were traveling back today. I'm going to go with Dave Matthews band, just the band, without Dave Matthews.

Okay. Nally Merchant subtracting yourself from the maniacs, making it only 9,99 of them. Sure, why not? How about Huey Lewis? Oh, just the news? Nobody's watching that. Yeah, that's what left. Do you ever notice how Oates isn't doing Scott without a Hall?

Yeah, poor guy. How's Garfunkel doing? Oof. He's begrudging that for 40-plus years. Yeah, but he's got to have a lot of cash, right? Residuals? It's just stuff's using a lot of movies. That ran out, didn't it?

I mean, to an extent, you still get some kind of Spotify check. All right. You see what we did there? We just gave you the Astros rotation off of people that said, you know what, we're good by ourselves. Excuse me, Rockets. It was bad when it was Astros, Rockets, and Rockies. Trying to say the right team name the last couple of days.

Rockets playing the 76ers. Line has been fluctuating. It was three and a half, now four and a half. Now back to three and a half. I believe, Matthew, you mentioned earlier. Tari Easton listed as questionable with an illness. He's in. Rockets back to back. Philadelphia tonight.

Eastern Conference playoff team. Minnesota locked in number six. Can we have the Rockets win and play the Philadelphia 76er song? 76ers. That's a jam. Jonathan, we put it before you here. Yeah, he liked it. Yeah, I liked it.

Why don't you play it again? Right now? Right now. Why not? Yeah, go ahead and do that right now, Jonathan. Well, I break down the 76ers versus the Rockets line. at three and a half, 227 and a half is kind of a high total for a

Rockets game, I'm just saying it. Rockets average 114.8. Tyrese Maxie and Joel M.B. expected to be available for this. M.B. is on the injury report and upgrading with Tyrese maxi. Rockets currently in the fifth spot in the Western Conference standings

tied with the Los Angeles Lakers at 13 and a half games behind the Thunder. Hopefully, Rockets, here we go. This is a jam. This is such a jam. Give us a little Rockets win, Maddie. It's a... Rockets win!

Against? Them. You think Daryl Dawkins made love to this song? I don't think so. Julius Serving? No. Bobby Jones. Hey, what happened back in the day?

Never mind. All right, fine. What happened back in the day when you had to turn the record over? in the middle of it. That's a good question. Because nowadays, you just play the playlist and you're good. CD, you got a good 80 minutes. Well, how long are you planning on going?

It gets the mood. Yeah, you got to start. But don't you feel like you got... If you're using a record player... Did you have to get over and flip... What if you had a, yeah, like a 78? You get up. You had a single?

You have to turn it over and then resume. Turn over and then turn over. And that's the news that. I just I'm just asking you said turn up and then turn over I'm just curious no my guess is if you don't want to turn it over you have to get going a little faster we got some old cats listening y'all right old cats let me tell us let's let's go call it's a biscuit what'd you do back of the day Yankees key I know you're out there somewhere 60 plus, listen to this show,

and you're willing to acknowledge what you did when you were 20 or 25 and you're putting on what would be the jam back? Oh, you'd put on on a Marvin Gay. A little Teddy P. A little love T.O.

Yeah. Turn off the lights. Barry White Night. If you're it's 1973 and you're putting Barry White album on and you're worried about the album running out. What did you do? You make it to the B side. The what side?

The B side. Okay. Were you on the A side? Or you start with the B side? I don't know. These things I cannot speak to. My day started with CDs. This is one of my favorite segments.

You go to break. 713-212-5-790. 1222 on Sports Talk 790. Our friend Jones asking for a master's update. And do you need one? You giving us one? Well, I mean, I can... Pull up the leaderboard.

Yeah, we can't do without the leaderboard. That's what they call you Maddie Golf Game. They do? Yeah. Maddie golf game? I've never heard that one. Well, there was a certain host called you Maddie Ball Game. Yeah, that's true.

Are you ready? I just going to play the music anyways. Yeah. I mean, it's iconic. It's top five. Absolutely. The problem is the first names of these people on my leaderboard are not there, so I don't want to say S. Burns.

So I'm looking... What? I'm trying to find the full scoreboard with the player's names. I think if you go to, uh, whatever. You know, we've brought this up before, and it's worthy of bringing up again, no matter what you do in your life, if you put the master's music behind it, it softens the blow. Yes. Case in point.

Mike gravel to his wife. Honey. That's not coming. Maybe not in this case, but go ahead. I was in Sedona. and I took a nice tub. The CBS has the full names. CBS supports.

Okay, thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you. And I was in Sedona and I was hanging out. And I was hanging out with a touchpad. Very inefficient. I know. And we may be having a relationship, but I don't want to tell you that.

Honey, who is this woman in your phone as fun bags? She's not in there in fun bags. If me Diana Rossini I know baby that I called you average before But average is still good Average keeps you Your job

And there's nothing going on with Mike Vrabble and I Except that I've got a lot of stories from him And I don't know why I've got them from him But I love you Because I'm working the source The one of the The picture of Tiger Woods in the car

And then it says Diana Rossini's husband been as waiting in the car while she works a story. That was the best one. All right. As promised. Okay. Thank you.

Patrick Reed and Sam Burns, a pair of Americans. Oh, all right. USA! USA! 400 through 11. For Reed, 400 through 13 for Burns. Tommy, don't call me Mick Fleetwood. His minus 3 through 11.

Askay Baja? Batia. Bless you. Mine is 2 through 11. K Batya. Zander Schaffler. Zandhi Shafali. You know Zander Shafali?

American. Minus 2. Zandar Shafle has had an excellent weekend of the Masters. Did you see? If that is a golf name, then I don't know what would not be a golf name. Roy McElroyce minus 2 through 9. Freddie Couples is tied for 4th, minus 2 through 3?

Freddie couples? Let's go, Frederick. There's your master's up there with the music gone. Oh, they ruined it. No, it didn't ruin it. You talked for two minutes. You were trying to. Uh, you're going Mike Vrable on us.

If you're going to divorce your wife, you use this, don't you? Honey, it's not worked out, but you'll still get 50% of what I have. I hated you for years, and I've been sleeping with my secretary. Enjoy your divorce papers. I'm sorry, it's not secretary. It's executive assistant. I'm sorry, my executive assistant. There you go.

Watch this, Jonathan. SFA. Open enrollment school. It's fine. That's rude. I've had a great time with you. as you a bitch. Okay.

I know we hooked up at the Christmas party, but I'd like to just remain friends. I'm Greg from the IRS, and we're going to audit you for the last five years. How's that sound? Your sales numbers have been down for three quarters. We're going to let you go. But now you can file for unemployment at the Masters.

Hey, Christine, you can stand a loose 10 or 15 pounds. Yeah. Touchier, A. Mai is the Astros Ace. We can do this for Ashros for Houston Sports. Christian Javier left the game with right shoulder tightness. The Astros won't miss a beat defensively with Bryce Matthews and Joey Lopoferito playing center field. The Astros have called up J.B. France in his stead. J.P. France's glasses? Killer.

Fashion statement. Breaking stuff, not so much. Glass wearing? Excellent. So this is proving our point. if there's anything in your life that has to be a difficult decision put the master's music behind it and it will soften the blow they can't get possibly mad at you i think no i feel like assaults can still happen with this music in the background let me ask you this i'm gonna beat your ass what if i what if i put this behind music as i'm driving

to work think i'd be in a better mood honestly i want you to listen to like do do whatever you can because you come in here all fired up and angry i do it makes me scared shouldn't be scared i'm a little scared it's troubling i get it at the Masters. But Jim Nance's voice was meant for the Masters. It was. It's perfect. The azaleas in full bloom. And right down the street, there is a R.B.

So you can get a beef and cheddar for $2.99. Is that true? Oh, yeah. Apparently, it's in the middle of just like strip shopping and cheap hotels. And, you know, basically, like, it's like Harwin. then you got Augusta. They had the $1.50 pimento cheese sandwiches. When's the last time you ate a full pimento cheese sandwich?

Zero. I've had hot pimento cheese. Okay. And it was pureed. So it actually tasted okay. But I would never consume a pimento cheese sandwich. My dad loves pimento cheese sandwiches. So I tried them when I was young.

I was like, Dad, what are you doing? This is not good. You like pimento cheese? Jonathan? Jonathan? You know, Cole was talked to me earlier. I don't know what that is. Google it.

You've seen it before. I know you have. What is it? Pimento cheese. It's a struggle meal. I'd struggle to eat it. I don't think I have everything. It's like a cheese spread with like...

What is the pimento? Is it pimento? Pimentos? I mean, don't tell us the pimento stuffed olives. It's like a pimento, whatever that is. It's like a little pepper or something. It's a wonderful segue to food. I would like to send some people to go see ACDC.

Good. And we're going to do it right here with a soft. special Thursday edition of the Tell the Truth. All right. I have in my hand four things. I can read it. Four foods. Now you're not eligible for this.

I'm recused. You are recused. Jonathan, you're involved in this, by the way. Okay. And so is anybody that calls in, anybody that calls in the next segment that gets on the line and hold, can win a pair of tickets to see ACDC. All you got to do is figure out which of these four foods that I'm going to tell you I love,

I don't like. 713-212-5-790 back in studio back to get away some prizes would you like to go see ACDC ladies and gentlemen we got our contestants ready to go here for it to tell the truth

and this is a little bit of a different variety of the tell the truth it is very simple it is I've got four items of food and I like three of them one I do not like Ross you are ineligible for said competitions and you've had hundreds of meals with me over the years. All right.

I can still get it wrong. Let's see. I won't say anything, though. Yeah. I want you to write down your answer and then see if you got it right. Okay. Here we go. Jonathan, you are not playing for a prize because you're an employee, but we'll see if you get this right. Number one, again, I've got

four of these things. I like three of the one I don't. Number one is something I've just started enjoying them in the last calendar year. and it actually happened again when I was in New Orleans last week. I had shrimp and grits at a seafood restaurant in New Orleans last week. I wasn't anti-grits, but salt and pepper and a little bit of cheese in it. My gosh, just delightful. What a great combination.

I am team grits. All right, that's number one. Number two. Now, if this runs hot and cold, a lot of people, I have always been very hot on this. I love deviled eggs. A little paprika, the mixture, the mayonnaise. Delicious.

Number three. Especially when they char them up, put a little bacon in them as well. A little bit of vinegar to spice them up a little bit. I love Brussels sprouts. Delicious. And number four. delicious of barbecue.

Delicious. And that's just... And number four, I like it as a dressing. I like it as a crumble. I love it as a prime component. I can just eat it right out of the little container. I love blue cheese.

There you go. I like three of those things. One, I do not like. Which of the three am I telling the truth? And more importantly for you to win the game, which one of the four am I not telling you the truth? Now, I'm not going to say, of course, but two of them I'm not sure.

Oh, really? Two of them I am and two of them I'm not 100% sure. No, no, no, no, no. You cannot, under any circumstance. No, no. I was saying you, Matt, run through it one more time. Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure. I love grits.

Okay. I love deviled eggs. I love Brussels sprouts. Okay. I love blue cheese. Okay. Which one of those four am I lying about? You look like a devilette guy.

Excuse me? What does that mean? What does that mean? What does that mean? What does I mean I'm a devil-egg guy? You racist? You didn't look like you love devil-o. Is that white-boy food?

Is that what you're trying to say? No, it's like... I like devil-de-egs. Personally. Do I like devil-deges? So, a sudden vibe, you gotta like double-egs for it, you know? What? You're making that.

There's no vibe of devil-degg vibe? I'm a people guy. All day. Okay. Brussels are good. I'll be disappointed if he don't like Brussels sprouts. Mm-hmm. Fluid cheese, Matt?

We got listeners here. Let's go. I'm picking the grits. You're picking the grits. He says grits. All right. Let's see what the people say. We got a chance we have as many of four pair of tickets to give away for ACDC here to tell the truth. We'll start with Jamie.

Jamie, which one of those four do I not like? It's got to be Brussels sprouts. All right, write that down. Thank you very much. Jamie says Russell sprouts. Shall I write these down to help you out, Jonathan? I like all four, by the way. Do you really?

Okay, I like three of the four. When I was a kid, I didn't like devil's eggs, but I like him now. Scott in Jersey Village, which one of the four do I not like? You know, it was between the deviled eggs and the sprouts. So when in doubt, I'm going with the vegetable, Brussels sprouts, baby. All right, Scott, I respect your game, my friend. Thank you very much. Jimmy in the Heights, Jimmy, which one of the four do I not like?

I'm going to go with Brussels sprouts also, man. All right, let's go with that, Brussels, it is. Let's go to Ryan and Montgomery. Ryan, which one of the four do I not like? Man, but listen to a long time, I felt like I had a good idea. Russell Sprout seemed like a solid answer, but for some reason I feel like I've talked about blue cheese before with like wings, because I saw you all one time at Big City wings.

I'm going to be the outlier. I'm going to say blue cheese. All right. Thank you very much, Ryan. Appreciate it. Thank you for being a part of one of our sponsor events out there. Let's go to Cody on 790. Cody, which one of those four do I'm doing?

not like? It has to be blue cheese. That stuff is disgusting. Okay. Thank you, Chris, for that, Cody. And last one, Scott. Scott, which one of those four do I not like? I'm going to go. Devil's eggs. Devil eggs, it is. All right.

So, Jonathan, you have, you don't like I like grits? I'm just throwing them off a little bit. All right? But I'm just, I know it's more, I'll be disappointed if you don't like Brussels or, you don't like Brussels or. Okay, here we go. Ross, do you now want to say which one you want to make your own vote now that everybody's done? It's one or two.

And I'm honest, I'm just going to go with deviled eggs. It's one or two, so it's grits or double eggs? I think so. Okay. Number one. And I've got bad news for you, Cody and Ryan. I love blue cheese. I knew that.

Oh, yeah. I knew that for a fact. Love, love blue cheese. Crumbles, the dressing, everything. So those two guys, you're gone. Oh, no. Jimmy, Scott, Jamie, goodbye. You win nothing. I love Russell Sprouse.

I knew this one too. I knew that one too. Those are the two I knew for sure. Devil's eggs or grits. Which horn of the two do I not like? I'm going to tell you right now at 1241. Jonathan? What's your middle name? Jonathan Keith. Jonathan Keith Allen. You, my man, are very smart. Let's go. I love deviled eggs. I do not like grits.

I couldn't remember. I kind of felt like I wanted to switch to grits, but I couldn't remember. It was a toss-up. I've tried grits a lot this year. Yeah, but you said you tried them and you liked them, so. Yeah, I don't like them at all. I knew you didn't like grits, but you said you flipped. And then I couldn't remember if you liked devil's eggs or not.

That was a complete lie. I know. I'm so happy for you. I told you, I felt about, I knew you were a devil egg dude. I was like, there's no thing as a deviled egg dude. He was right. Hold on now. I trust my gun.

Look, I told me. You can't deny he was right. Stop. Okay, real quick. If you are black, Chinese, Hispanic, huh? I need somebody not white bread to call me right now.

That's what he's saying. My mother loves the doubled eggs. Yeah. Who does? His mother. So you tell your mother she's got a double-d-eg vibe to her too? What is exactly a double-ed-egg vibe? I'm just curious.

I couldn't. I got to pinpoint it for you. Yeah, you need to. It's just a vibe, Maddie? It's going to come up to me on one of these times in the show. You seem like you love guzzling down a bunch of devil-ed-old. eggs. I do love double eggs.

You like bold eggs too? Not a huge fan. I would eat it, but I'm not a huge fan. The devil part of it is the best part. Kind of makes you gassy, but that's another here and there. Aren't you happy with Jonathan? Got one right? Yeah. That's good.

I wanted it. I'm mad at myself because I wanted to switch to grits. But then I stuck with my gut. All right. Our buddy James and Garnoak's going to chime in. Oh, thank God. There'll be some brilliant stuff coming here. 1243 on Sports Talk 790.

It is Matt and Ross with you today. Up until 2 o'clock. Ross, what is today's edition of, believe it or not? We're still playing for... No, no, we're skipping it. No. Because we can't away nothing. We get away nothing?

Everybody got it wrong. Gosh, you guys, come on, man. Everybody got it wrong. Except Jonathan. Good job, Jonathan. Johnth, I'm so proud. I want to give you a hug during the break. I would love that.

1243 on Sports Talk 790. The draft coming up a couple weeks. Big news. We will be having a draft party at Ross's apartment. You get a clean that bad boy up It's a little tight in there, yeah I haven't been feeling great So it's not super clean

And my TV's on the ground Because I've been trying to fix it It's not great What's the problem of the television? It was a power board But then I sent it in They fixed it and then that didn't help So now I think it's maybe the main board

So every one of those I got to install that And then if that doesn't work I'm just going to break the thing With a sledgehammer So you're basically a Cleveland Browns fan After a football game Yeah

That's not great Sam You know I'm calling them out by name. Suck it, Samsung. I hate you right now. Can't you go get another one for a relatively cheap amount? No, it's a nice OLED panel.

Yeah, the Roku TV is just a good now. He's TV shaming you. No, sir. No, I'm just saying, you know, it's not the same. I'm sorry, go to Best Buy, look at the high-end OLEDs, and then look at your Roku TV.

It's different. I'm going to have to. You're going to go look at the nits, the brightness, and then we'll go get some lunch after. And you and me will get that devil-leg vibe going. You're so offended by the deviled egg vibe that you have. You just look like a deviled egg guzzler.

I mean, they do slide down your throat easily. Let's go to the phones. Who's online too there, Jonathan? It's a nice surprise to hear from James on a Thursday. James, how the heck are you? Well, I'm doing fine, man. Thank you for taking my call, everybody, especially you, Governor Thomas. Listen, I've got to cut to this chase, man.

that guy, Cole Thompson, that works in the morning drive and everything with Matthews guy, that Matthews guy is all right, but that Cole, Cole Thompson, he's weak. First of all, he's supposed to be Paul Houston, and he don't even sound like it. He ought to stop talking such a negative, just for, you know, the third. Wait, wait, James, I don't want to interrupt you because I'm going to let you finish, but why don't you call Colin telling this? Why are you telling me this? This is my coworker. I'm not going to bash my coworker. No, but he sounds like a dweed, man.

I mean, you know, I mean, he sound like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, just a clear-cut dweed. Okay, listen, boy black. I was, I was telling him, I was telling him like it is when, when the season started, I really, I mean, put my money down. I'm, my part best for baseball. And, and it's said, I'm, I'm not even worried that George is off to a slow start. I predicted that Alvarez was going to have a good season. And I want him to have a good season because there's a lot. of fanfare amongst my wife's family and everything.

So I'm really rooting for others to have a real, like a standout season. And if he wins it or a judge wins the MVP, I'm cool with that. So I'm okay. I predicted they would take at least two at three and they swept the red sox under the rock. I was just going to town on my older brother about that because he's a traitor, you know. He turned on Mickey Manor and everything just because of Carl Ustrimski. But that's okay. That's another story.

Look, that guy needs to shut his bum ass up because he doesn't sound like he's pro-K Houston. All right, so let me ask you this. James, let me ask you this. James, I'm going to, because it's fair and balanced here, I'm going to call Cole Thompson, and I'm going to see if he wants to debate your point. Is that okay with it? Is that you okay with that? Well, that's okay.

I'm cool with that. All I know is that he doesn't sound, he doesn't sound legit. I mean, he's giving a lot of wide angles and everything. I see that his cohort has to real amen. You know, he has to rule a man because he's out there. I mean, he's not, it's far-faced. It's not out there right. Thank you very much, James, for calling the show.

Have a great day. Appreciate you listening. New York. I'm just going to say this, James, and I love you like a second cousin. But call those guys. If you got to complain, Cole will argue with you. You know, I don't want anybody calling their shows ripping me because I'm here every damn day, 10 to 2.

You know where to find me. So, but I appreciate the governor reference. I don't even make any sense. Makes me one of my run for political offices. Yeah, let's get you doing that. I mean, like, my, my old radio boss is Lieutenant Governor. Okay, well, you got it in. Other broadcasters have become, you know, leaders of countries and states.

Really? Yeah. Ronald Reagan did games back in a day? Did he really? Yeah? Are you making that up? he did play by play I don't know for sure

but I want to say Ronald Reagan He was an actor He was on radio actor too Did he ever do sports calls? I don't know I feel this is Potentially believe it or not I'm on the research

Look at yeah come on research Bureau on it Who else Who else has run for There's been a sports person that Oh he was a sportscaster Go ahead read it off 1932

Yerkerah College was hired the next year the sports broadcaster in Iowa. Yes. There you go. There you go. You know what? You're on the Ronald Reagan track. Who else has done it?

It was a sports commentator. And what about Nancy Reagan? She went to Diana Rusini route. Or actually, Rusini went to the Reagan route. See, that is so inside baseball that people are going to be driving around going, what is he talking about Nancy Reagan for? Just Google Nancy Reagan,

what she was known for around Hollywood. Allegedly. Yeah, go tell people. It's a word that rhymes with goat. Allegedly, she was that. There's no tangible evidence of it, though. Just rumor-mongering. I don't think they got out the 35-millimeter film.

Keith on 790. Hello, Keith. Afternoon. How are you all? Amazing. Well, I call to extend an invitation to my wife's birthday party tomorrow, which is right around a block from where you're working at. But I guess you won't be there. I won't be there. I got a game. Jonathan, Jonathan and...

It's Ross. I was going to let it. I wanted to let him struggle on it. Whoever? Hey, Keith. Hi, my name's Ross. I've been on the show for like 15 years. I'm great.

How are you? I'm blanking out because I'm all excited about my wife's birthday party. Oh, okay. Yeah, that looks. Nice save. How crazy is this party going to be? I thought it was going to be. advertised there's going to be a live band, everybody.

And then I just found out, oh, there's not going to be a band. It's going to be a DJ. So you lied. I can't take that back. No, you cannot. I didn't lie. They told me that was going to be a live band. So, anyway, I'll tell you something special about my wife.

All right. Ready? Sure. So when I met my wife, she did like sports. She watches 162 games of Yankees baseball, 82 games, 82 games of Rockets basketball and every football team I like during the football season.

That's because she loves you. She couldn't ask for anything more. That's because she loves you. You couldn't ask for anything more. Nope. Not at all. The weirdest person I ever met. How old are you, by the way?

I'm 73 and she's going to turn the Magic 70 tomorrow. All right, so we have a question for you. We brought this up about a half an hour ago. Stay with me on this, Keith, because we need your old sage-wise advice on this. Back in the day, in the 70s. All right, Keith? Yeah.

Can you go back that far? Here we go. Yeah. So you're romancing somebody and you put an album on and you are enjoying the moment of romancing with the album on. The album runs out. Do you stop what you're doing and flip the album over? Do you go back and restart it or you just let the music play out

and just let the record go on and on and on with no music? flip it because if it's very white Barry White has a whole bunch of songs they'll just go on and on and on with the same group now I'm not talking about today I'm talking about back in the day did you flip back it you had to get up back it

oh if I had to get up I'll just restart it all over again oh so you got up and restarted it yeah and then you restarted after that hopefully Yeah, it's true.

That is a fair statement. All right, tell your bride we sent our very best and wish you a very happy birthday for us. Thank you, Keith, for the phone call. So I think we can only one vote on this is that you had to get up, restart the album, and then you restarted. I'm sorry for bringing this up.

The question popped in my head. I think it's a valid question. That you and I cannot answer because this isn't an issue. Because I would die for a whole album to be played. I mean, I just like you to get through a Twitter tweet. Twitter tweet? All right.

Final hour. We're going to look at the Astros box score from yesterday. Okay. And we're not going to be happy about it. Can't wait. We'll do that in two minutes. Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Three, Sports Talk 790. It is the final hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. The Astros with an off day. Probably needed in the worst. Way. Astros back in action Friday against the Seattle Mariners. Rockets will be back in action tonight against the Philadelphia 76ers. And then tomorrow night they'll take on the Minnesota Timberwolves. Rockets can either still be three, four, or five in the Western Conference playoffs, which will start a week from Saturday. But first

things first to start at this one o'clock hour, we get to the Astros. And look, this is five games, teams are going to go through five game losing streaks. It's not abnormal. There'll be probably another five game losing streak at some point during the course of the year. Hopefully there's not multiple ones. I think the reason why people are, I don't want to say checked out, but really early alarmed is because of A of the competition. It was second tier teams. And secondly, you not only did you lose the games, you didn't perform offensively in many of them. And then on top of that, you're also losing key parts to your team with Hunter Brown being her, Christian Javier, being her and Jake Myers. It's just been a turbulent 72 hours, to be fair.

Yeah, I think it's not your normal losing streak. We've seen the Astros lose to the A's. We've seen them lose a game to the Rockies, unfortunately getting swept to the Rockies, but it's exactly what you said. Hunter Brown, your ace is down. Christian Javier, someone you were hoping was going to bounce back and get to that form of what he was in El Reptile is now hurt as well. and we don't know how long those guys are going to be out. Jake Myers gets immediately sent home with the road trip still going on. Now they're going to Seattle, and he has back issues, and now Taylor Tramel is getting called up.

So it's not just the losing, which is easy to brush off in the beginning of April. It's the competition. It's the guys going down. It's the bullpen. It's Brian O'Brien. You're not pitching well. You felt good, at least better at some points earlier in the season, about both Blueball and Ryan Weiss. and both of those guys are struggling

and we're going to see what we're going to get out of Spencer Araggetti and J.P. France. So there's just a lot up in the air. This is not your normal beginning of April slump. And the reality also is this. If you went back and listened to our shows, if you went back and found Astro fans going, man, we got so much pitching.

Look how dangerous Sugar Land's going to be. Depth. It's a little different when Sugarland has to come where the word Houston across their chest. Yeah. So we'll see what happens with that, I mean, if it's going to be who the other candidate

is, Colton Gordon's been pitching well, Jason Alexander's not, you've got to line up the schedules as well with your starting rotation and theirs. And another thing too is, if you're saying, well, okay, Emi struggles, which would not be crazy. If you said Lance McCullors was going to struggle, that wouldn't

be crazy. Stop, stop. You can fill in Alexander France, arrogating, okay, we're changing the third or fourth guy for a third or fourth the fifth guy. There's nobody on the farm or nobody right behind Hunter Brown that replaces the gusto, not the Ryan Gusto, the gusto, the gusto. Oh, that's what you did there. Of a number one. Yeah, you're sliding everybody backwards. And so your seven guys are going to have

to become maybe at some points in this season, you're two or three guy. And that's where you don't want to be to where we were preaching so much pitching depth and you're already getting it tested just a couple of weeks into the season. It's crazy. Yeah, this is going to be, unfortunately, from me watching them, I don't think the turbulent times are over with until we get some sort of definitive work because not only is Hunter Brown not going to throw for two weeks and not be re-evaluated, that's still going to mean probably a month before he steps in the mound. So things could get worse before they get better.

That's putting a lot of pressure on the guy. But if you're an ace and you want to be the guy that ultimately wants a big long-term deal with, whether it be the Astros or somebody else, you have to kind of play that role. So there's going to be very little grace period for Hunter Brown coming back because this team is going to desperately need him because it's going to push everybody back. Just like Josh Hater. When Josh Hater comes back, it's not a slow and low progression. It's a get on the mound and start saving games because Brian Brayu, the guy that's replacing you, hasn't done the job yet. You need somebody's got to step up.

Somebody. It can't just be four and a third thirds of this guy and five and two thirds of this guy. You cannot piece me all. of winning streak when you are going four and five deep in your bullpen. You just can't. You're going to be short with the six-man rotation they want to go to. You're going to need Burroughs to

be better than he's been in the first couple of starts. You're going to need EMI to be the guy that was being paid a lot of money and was going to come over here and show the nasty slider that he's been able to show. You need Lance to be more of what he was in game one than he was in gain his second start. And then

somebody's got to catch lightning in a bottle that has been called up or has been put in this situation, whether Ryan Weiss is like, okay, maybe my mindset isn't a reliever that I'm better as a starting guy? Because I mean, clearly, if you read the story that Channel Rome did in the athletic last week, he ain't thrilled

about being a reliever. Well, gets him outs. But he's going to have a shot. He's going to have a shot for him to be a starting pitcher if the Astros go in that direction. Yeah, when we interviewed him at Fanfest, he said he wanted to start, so let's go. Let's see what he's got. I don't know, but he was just not good his last time out, and I don't know how they're going to

try to shuffle this around. Because let me tell you this, and here's the thing that's so troubling. If you had not looked at the standings, and I simply came to you, Ross, and said, Jose Altuve is batting 333 this year. Yardon Alvarez is batting 317. Christian Walker is batting 340. Cam Smith is batting 273. Give me the OPSs. That's what I'd really be feeling good. To my point, though, I just gave you a group of really attractive, should be hitting and scoring a lot of runs kind of numbers. You would think a team that has this many decent bats so far would be better than where they are at this point. But the injuries. Yeah, if you just said this in spring training, they're all good.

And then they're scoring runs. So that's all we're worried about. They must be, I don't know, 10 and 3. another dark reality right now to this early start of the season, which obviously so can change, until Josh Hader comes back, the Astros don't have a closer. Joseo Brueu is not acting closer in any one of his appearances.

No, he is not. Neither is Brian of Brayu. Oh, yeah, or her cousin, Brian. I don't, I keep doing that. No, it's Jose Abra. I mean, Jose Abrae. He was on the Astros. It's fine. Astros' second in runs per game still. 6.08. You'd probably guess who's first?

Is the Dodgers? It's the Dodgers. Jesus. How are they, by the way? Last I checked, there were 9 and 2 or 10 and 2? Okay, they're 9 and 3. Yeah, they lost one. They were 9 and 2.

They're 9 and 3. They're the best run differential in baseball. Along with the Braves, actually. I guess, well, it wasn't Monday. How's Dubon doing? We'll find out next week. Next Monday. I'm missing you.

I'm missing you. I'll be fine without Mariso Dubon. Oh, he'll regress to what he is, which is a really nice utility player. I got news for you. The Astros are under 500 through the first two weeks of the year. They're a game and a half out of first place. I'm standing for watching. Yeah, I said it.

In Texas, the favorite, the heavy favorite to win the America League West is in last place at 4 and 9. Let's keep that going. They've lost five in a row. Let's keep them buried this weekend in Seattle. That's what I'm hoping for. Who's in first place in a variety of other divisions? Cincinnati's in first place at 8 and 4. Nobody had that.

Texas leads at West at 7 and 5. Cleveland is 8 in 5. The heavy favorite Detroit is 4 and 8. Oh, wow. Yankees are 8 and 3. Hmm. Hmm. Any other masses?

It's early. Yeah. It's early. Oh, I was in San Francisco this weekend. You know, with the Rockets Warriors. Who's the manager of the Giants? brand new guy was a coach of Tennessee. Oh, yeah.

remember his name. They want him out of there immediately. Already? Yeah. Who's they? They being giant fans and they're actually very... Donnie Vodello. Donnie Vodello. Was Gordy talking to me or was that I? No. Is that on air? Any time we say the word

SEC, he runs into the studio. Yeah, they think he's overmatched, doesn't ever call to, never manage a game before. I mean, managing Major League Baseball in a college game is about the same. Now, the quality competition is significantly different. What's he screwing up so bad?

I don't know. Was they supposed to be really good to start the season off? I didn't have an NL-O-S forecast in my to-do reading list. Apparently their bullpen's been bad. It's the manager's fault. It's the manager's fault most times. We've said this before, Rossi. Is the manager the least important job among all leaders in sports?

Above head guys, yeah, but that doesn't mean he's not important. No, I'm not saying he's not, but I'm just saying if you were to put together a list of who needs, like football coaching. to me are the biggest, of the most important. Because you've got to worry about three different facets of the game. You're calling plays. You're making split-second decisions. You are determining when they call timeouts.

You're determining play calls. Yeah. Or are you talking about head coaches? Among head coaches. Because, I mean, if they're not playing calls, calling plays, I should say. But still, they're having people run their calls for them. I mean, I can't. Look, D'Amico Ryan's is not intimately involved in calling offense, but he's got the earphones on.

Yeah. And if he doesn't like the strategy of which is offense, he's always saying, hey, diversify it, open things up a little bit. Building the philosophy and the culture. The cultural. The anecdotal thing for tonight's Rockets game against the Philadelphia 76ers, this will be Kevin Durant's 1,200th NBA game played. 52 players after tonight will be in the 1,200 games play club.

Oh, wow. Ross? Oh, you want to name all 52? I would like you to name all 52. I'll cover about eight minutes of the show. Okay. Karim, LeBron. Okay, we're stopping.

Carl Malone. There is, this would be a dead giveaway, so let me think I can put it. There is somebody in the building tonight, not named Kevin Durant, that has already reached the club. In the building tonight. Darry. No, he's never played a single one game again. No. I don't know, but I'm telling you, huh, I don't know if, I don't know.

I'll dumb it down on the court playing in the potentially be playing in the Oh Jeff Green That's right Jeff Green Good for him Great year for him

Why Plays makes a couple million dollars Eats well Yes Got a name for a sportsmanship award nominee for being a guy that is You know good teammate kind of thing That's good

He's always ready to come off the bench and give some high-fives. And not burn a lot of calories? He's great. Go shopping, get a good MPA per diem. Yeah. Life is good for him. Not bad.

Joel Embed will not play tonight for the 76ers. What? He's sick. He's illing. What? I don't know. That's unfortunate. It is because Embeddead has had some really good games against the rockets.

Matter of fact, you're saying, Matt, how did he do the last time? Matt, how did he do? I'm glad you asked. I'll be happy to look that up for you. Joel Embed against the Rockets in Philadelphia earlier this year. I think the Rockets won the game, too. Did they not? Let me take a look here.

I didn't think I heard that song. Let's see here. Oh, no, the Sixers won by six. I thought that's why we played it. Oh, damn. It was overtime. It was over time. It was that a crazy comeback by somebody.

Was it the Sixers? No, it had 12 lead changes, 10 ties. Okay. Maybe it was back and forth. Man, that's what I'm thinking. Yeah, six point win for the 76ers. Joel Embed in that game, 32 points.

15 rebounds, 10 assist on 10 and 19 shooting, also one of the free throw line 12 times in that game. Not playing tonight. Tyrese Maxie is. So too, his former Houston Cooker, Great, Quentin Grimes will be available tonight as well. Okay. I wonder where's some line movement on that now? Ooh, up to five and a half.

Three and a half. That is a, Matt cannot comment on such game. You may comment if you'd like. Okay. What do you say if you're commenting? Go Rockets. There you go. Vince. at 122 on 790.

Hi, Vince. Hey, guys. Hey, first of all, I had a gut feeling last week, maybe a week and a half ago about whether Senac or one of the two Senac or Fleming's would come back and looks like my gut feeling didn't work out. Yeah, I remember that, but I didn't want to bring it up, but thank you for playing. No, that's okay.

But question on, you know, I know there's been speculation, you know, as Rockets being one of the teams that is interested in making the Giannis trade. Does that, do you think that his brothers are part of the equation in terms of the trade? You know, do they have to be with him? Do they have to have a guaranteed roster spot? They would be, if it would be, it would just be a throw-ins. Thonassus and who's the third one?

He just was here last week. I forgot his name. It's Gregory. It's not Gregory. Stop it, Ross. Neither one are considered to be high-level NBA players. so they would be literally just throw in. I mean, I can't imagine

Yana's saying, I'm not going unless my bros go, but, you know, stranger things can happen for sure. Yeah, yeah. But hey, listen, I'm a child of the 70s and just on the, on having to get up and change the record. Yes, please tell us. And so I'm kind of like, you know, kind of took me back to a certain young lady

and a certain album that I was really digging back then. Marvin Gaye, a Marvin Gay album, I want you album if you're not familiar with it. Oh, that's an all-timer right there, Vince. Oh, yes, sir, yes, sir. And so that would be playing. And it depends on exactly what phase of the lovemaking you're in

as whether you get up or not to restart it. Depends on where you, you know what? That makes sense. Oh, Lord. I don't even know how to respond. I'm going to go with Marvin Gaze. I want you, sexier than let's get it on. What's up?

tough times back then tough problems good for you you know good for you Vince you had the you had to make a tough decision whether to get up or just stay where you were thank you Vince for the phone call

what's name of the song the album I want you with a song too sexier than let's say on is it I want you want you so bad I want you and you know that I want you to

that song is better than let's get it on sexier yeah put the album on trust hmm Jonathan, just letting you know. Marvin Gay's, I want you. Put the album on. Good things are going to happen for you.

Over anything with Barry White, too, huh? I didn't say that. I'm saying over that. Oh, I see what you're saying. I mean, I don't know. The heavy hitters are going to be, I mean, Marvin Gay also had a career before that, Motown. Uh-huh. But the sexy stuff is great.

Barry White, Teddy Pendergrass. Well, Mount Rushmore of sexy music. That's three spots. How long is this song, by the way? This, uh, wait, this is, um, Um, this isn't the song you're thinking. No, this isn't I want you. Sexual healing.

This is still good, though. Yeah, Marvin Gay's got it. Marvin Gay probably makes the list. Honestly, underrated Curtis Mayfield. Luther Vandross. Let me ask you this question. You're putting on sexual healing, okay? Yes.

You have to know you're going to have sex, right? What do you mean? If you're like, if I put this song on, that means she knows we're about to have sex. You can't like go and going I don't know where this is going to happen or not. Okay. Right? Yeah.

You hear this? What's up, girl? Uh-uh. I don't like this already. Why not? Uh-uh. Oh, Prince is a good one. You know this song, right?

I do. I don't like it as much. What do you... Come on now. Now imagine Matt. Imagine what. Give me the scenario. Please tell me what to imagine.

It's got the slow build. Oh, it's great. I don't have time for a slow build. I need the express lane. Oh, I'm just Googling. Keith Sweat, that's a good one. Now, you would say before all the improprieties and the lawsuits are Kelly. Now, you've got to keep this going.

I don't know, why not? Can I give you one song? Sure, why not? Female? Okay. Donna Summers, Love to Love You, Baby. Oh, that's a good one. Ooh.

See, you get the, then the horn section comes in. it's a it's a ramp up matt you imagine your ladies you're just laying on the bed ladies walking in after powdering her nose I'll try this when I get home it's building

how long are you going to build I only got a certain amount of time here I'm gonna go to bed you done now are you what uh I'm trying okay who's on the Mount Rushmore Marvin Gay

Teddy Pendergrass Barry White Loser Vandross? No, keep it. No, it's still building. How much, you cannot... We're still talking. Wait, no, go, yeah, give me some Donna Summer. Let me, this, Donna Summer. Turn her and turn this off.

You can fast forward. You can fast forward this. It was just about to climax. Oh, no, this is a slow build. Turn this off. I don't need a slow build. Let's fast forward as a bad boy. Let's get to it. Yeah, this is a good one. Listen to her when she says this. Ryan Adams. Brian Adams?

Yeah. This is also too long. All right. It's the 11 minute mark. How long is this thing? How long is this thing? I would need a cuddle too. All right. We're going to segue to Brian McTaggart. I don't know if there's anything you could do to be less sexual than Brian McTaggart.

What do you mean? Well, you're about to find out next. He's an Adonis. He is in his own mind. Brian McTaggart's conversation next, 1-29 at Sports Talk 790. We visit with Brian McTaggart every Thursday live at 11 o'clock here on 7.90. It's part of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We had a chance to replay some of the highlights of that visit for you right now in case you missed it.

Hopefully you didn't. But if you did, you get a bonus. Here's tags on Hunter Brown pitching well during spring training, maybe too much steam on that fastball. And how unfortunately he was thought of as a guy that could go a full season. That will obviously not be the case because of his right shoulder strain. Yeah, I mean, he definitely was hitting 98 in the spring. And I think it was maybe his effort, after his third spring training start, and we were talking to him after. We're like, man, you look like you're ready to go.

I mean, you're hitting 98. And he was like, yeah, I feel ready to go for the season. So, you know, these guys used to come to spring training and start throwing their bullpins in Florida. And then they would go from there. Now when they come to spring training, they're like, oh, I'm throwing four or five bullpins back home. I started throwing in January. it seems like that they're starting earlier. Right.

So I don't know if that leads to anything, but it certainly seems like they're throwing more often than they used to be back in the day, and guys are getting hurt more. So who knows? We don't know why he got injured, but he certainly looked, you know, a month ago like he was ready for the start of the season.

So let's put things in progression a little bit here, moving along. We got Jake Myers coming down here to get testing done. What do we know about Christian Javier and where he is at this exact moment? Not sure if he came to Houston or what. I mean, I guess it would surprise me for the season. So, you know, these guys used to come to spring training and start throwing their bullpins in Florida. And then they would go from there.

Now when they come to spring training, they're like, oh, I'm throwing four or five bullpins back home. I started throwing in January. It seems like that they're starting earlier. Right. So I don't know if that leads to anything, but it certainly seems like they're throwing more often than they used to be back in the day. and guys are getting hurt more. So who knows, we don't know why he got injured, but he certainly looked, you know, a month ago

like he was ready for the start of the season. So let's put things in progression a little bit here, moving along. We got Jake Myers coming down here to get testing done. What do we know about Christian Javier and where he is at this exact moment? Not sure if he came to Houston or what. I mean, I guess it would surprise me if he hadn't come to Houston on the off day to figure out what was going on there too. I mean, there's no need for him to go to Seattle at this point.

But I do know that Taylor Tremel will be in Seattle to join the team. J.P. France as well will be in Seattle to join the team. So that tells you right there, Myers, is going on the injured list. Neither one of those guys are on the 40-man, but they do have an open 40-man spot. And they can move, you know, a guy on the 15-day L to the 15-day I-L to the 60-man. I think Blanco is still on the 15-day. So not any big-time 40-man implication. but I mean they uh here we are still mid-april and they're already really testing their depth

and reaching down to triple a and bringing guys up that they thought maybe they wouldn't need till later in the season it's crazy that we kind of bragged on the astro's depth and pitching but you look at it and you're going all right it's okay to brag on it when you lose a three four and five in your rotation when you lose the number one guy the guy that you're building around as your true ace it just stings a little bit more Yeah, and they didn't expect that. I mean, Hunter's been a guy who's been healthy his entire career. I mean, they like the fact that they had Aragetti and AAA, Jason Alexander and Triple

A, Colton Gordon, J.P. France. You're like, okay, if one of our other starters are our middle starters go down, you know, we have these guys who've been up the last couple of years and have given us some good innings. You feel good about that, but you did not expect your ace to go down. And you're not going to replace him with anybody at AAA of that caliber. So, yeah, I mean, you know, we'll have to wait and see the extent of the injury and how long it is until he comes back. It's not, nothing about it is good.

Nothing about it feels good if you're the Astros. And, you know, getting swept and really the entire road trip, not off to a good start at all. So there's nowhere to go but up from here. And so they're going to need some of these depth pitching guys to step up. And that includes guys like Blue Ball, who didn't pitch well when he came in. going to have to pitch better. France is going to have to come in and pitch better and they're going to have to eat some innings and get deep into the game.

Otherwise, this is going to spiral and get out of control pretty quickly. Spiral is the word I was just about to use, Brian, because, okay, it's, we know it's beginning of April, so we don't want to panic. It's a long season. But as you said, I mean, this looks like this is a situation that's not good and that when you have these starters who aren't pitching the way they are, and then you mentioned blue ball getting lit up. I mean, Ryan, why started off okay?

and then he's been getting lit up. And Brian Abray, who just has given up a run every time he's gone out there. We're focusing a lot on the starting injuries and rightfully so. But, I mean, there's got to be a lot of worries for Joe a spot in his bullpen. Well, and that goes to the starters. When these guys aren't going deep, you know, the starters aren't going in the fifth or six inning very much. Now you're putting extra pressure on the bullpen. And they brought in, you know, three wrong relievers because they knew that there were a couple of guys,

specifically McCullors and Javier, who wouldn't go deep in the games, but now, you know, Burroughs isn't going deep in the games, and now Hunter Brown's out. So it's just putting pressure on everybody. And this really started at the beginning of spring training when Hayter was injured and was going to have to start the season on the aisle. And then you move a Breu into the closer role, which, you know, he wasn't actually great at. You know, you'd rather have him in the setup role and you're moving guys around their bullpen now. And so nothing about this has gone to plan. be really frustrating for them coming off a season last year where they had so many injuries on the pitching staff.

But they do have guys, I think we'll see come up. I mean, I think Eric Getty comes up and joins the rotation next homestand. Jason Alexander pitched really well. Last time out in AAA, he's a guy that won like, what, nine starts in a row for them. But again, you're really testing your depth really early in the season and banking on nobody else getting injured. Brian McTaggart with us here on Sports Talk 790. On to the offense side, one run scored in the last couple of games.

Obviously, we're not going to panic there because the offense has been very good, but what do you think has been plaguing them the last couple of games? Yeah, it just looks like they got away from their approach a little bit. I mean, especially the middle game in Colorado. Yesterday, you know, they just, I just think they got pitched really well, but they just got to get back to what they were doing, you know, the first 10 games of the season, including in Oakland or in Sacramento when they were swinging the bat so well.

So one run and back-to-back games in Colorado is not great. I don't think it's a real cause for alarm yet. I mean, Jordans cooled off a little bit. I mean, he wasn't going to keep up at that pace. But I think their offense is somewhere in between what we saw in the homestand and somewhere in between what we saw in Colorado. They're not going to score seven runs a game. They're not going to score one run a game.

They're somewhere in between there. and if, you know, if Christian Walker keeps swinging it, you have to feel good about that. I think Alvarez, if he's helped me, obviously, he's going to have a huge year, and, you know, Al-Tuves off to a nice start. So I think pitching is really where this team needs to try to hold things together here. And because I think the offense will be okay. All right. So let's size up the Astros outfield, Brian, not only this week, but maybe for the foreseeable future. Yeah, well, I think you're going to be seeing a lot more. Loperfito and Bryce Matthews.

I mean, they had sort of been platooning in left field there, but I think there's now there's chances for both of them to play every day. I mean, they're going to sprinkle in Tramel, of course. Another left-handed hitter. But I think for Bryce Matthews, especially, this is a real chance for him to come in and show what he can do. Had a really good spring. I think has played pretty well so far.

Loporfito looks like a guy who's ready to start every day, and I think he's definitely going to get that chance. you feel good about Cam Smith and right field. So, you know, losing Myers hurts. I mean, when you had Myers in center, you had Cam and right, you had low perfido and left. That is a really, really good defensive outfield, really athletic. And you're still going to be athletic because you've got Bryce Matthews, who's a great athlete as well. So, you know, how much can he hit?

We're going to find out. So, you know, they have options there, and it'll just be a matter of, you know, how they work in Tramel at this point. All right, wrapping things up with a little pitching conversation back to a for a second. Again, he's not had a clean inning yet this year. The ERA's north of 19. We've seen Brian King get a little bit of heavy leverage situation. Obviously, the Astros got to be in a leverage situation here in the foreseeable future to make this. But how long of the leash is a brayu right now? Well, Brian would have said the leash is still there. Not as long. Hasn't been good. And your gut feeling about a brayor not belong to say.

is as warped of a gut-filling win as in the history of it. That's a hit, baby. He's been a complete disaster. So far. So far we're a hit. What do you mean? He only gave up one run last time he was out there. In one inning?

Yeah. And the time before that? I don't remember. Three run, Jack? Sacramento? I don't remember. Game ended? Walk up the mound.

What's his save percentage? How many does he have? One. Out of how many opportunities. One. So it'd be a thousand. Woo! Let's go, baby.

Tell the audience again how great he ever reliever he's been this show. Oh, man. He's been incredible. I know you don't buy that. Well, I thought he was going to be fine. He hasn't been fine. What do I'm going to say? The Ashro was thought he was going to be fine too.

And he hasn't been fine. I want to give myself a credit. I was a little nervous about him being the ninth inning guy this first month. Because I didn't think he was great last month. He's perfect. He's perfect. He didn't save opportunities. Mm-hmm.

He gave up the run. It was like a 9-1 game. Low leverage. It needs a high leverage. He needs to save opportunities. And Glass half full of ZER dropped almost four points. Yeah, see? It's now just almost at 20

Where it was comfortably over 23 Just a couple days ago All right, believe it or not Is it about the tournament or the course itself? How did you do the Masters on the Believe It or Not today? It's some about the Augusta National Club And some about the tournament. All right, so all things Masters next

On Believe it or Not, 713. Do you want the theme during it? We should, right? Yeah. All right, so get the extended, the mixed version of the Masters theme ready. Believe it or not next. 145 on Sports Talk 790.

Tomorrow we got a busy show. We will have I'm sorry as 1130. We'll wake this trippers up at noon. We'll have EMA Adok at 1 o'clock. Nine Florida surges at 1.30. Do we call soft D.K. Jared tomorrow? What do you think?

I mean, we're kind of both kind of in the doldrums. That'd be the worst trash talk of all time. Well, we could do it. I mean, he's busy. Basking the glow of the Seahawks winning. You can ask you about playoff Sam Darnel. he was very upset with you placed to eat in Seattle for the playout for NBA in a couple of years

yeah although they're waiting it's funny to add up to the commission of NBA said look we're asking for 7-8 Billy to get a franchise in these cities if you can't give us that money we're going to just go and pass on expansion really yeah so they're going to have to find people to spend that money but my guess they'll find it I guess so what's uh what's Jordan Schultz up to

I don't know but uh Vegas is thinking about building an arena for the new team. Really? Temporarily putting a team bumble but ultimately move in an arena to downtown Los Vegas. Downtown. Downtown.

Next to the... Now I'm more on board of that. City Hall area, so... Okay. Interesting. Yeah, it's interesting, yeah. People are trying to revitalize. By way, do you see the photos of the new and improved Totes that will be coming up in a couple of years? I did.

I saw the renderings. The atrium looks really cool. Yeah. That was a nice banner they're going to hang of you out there. Yeah. And I believe there'll be a special club section called the Sports MT Club. Yes. Where you get, of course, endless game shows on the big screen TV. And good times. And Sanford and Sun.

Yes. And the Jeffersons. Yes. And there's no brisket served, no enchiladas. All the music will be music that you'd find on my phone. No grits. No grits. I'm so proud of you, Jonathan. I'm so happy for you. You know, I'm still happy about that.

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