The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Get Swept vs Athletics… Is There Any Hope Left? Joe Mixon Is Out Nick Chubb Is In.

Episode Date: July 28, 2025

Astros Get Swept vs Athletics…. Is There Any Hope Left? Joe Mixon Is Out Nick Chubb Is In...

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-01 in H-town. Good morning, and welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. To left, kiss it goodbye. A long home run off the bat of Shea Langalears down the left field line. Second home run of the inning.

Third straight day, Langalears is homered. And the A's have a 2-0 lead in the first. for 17. Lifted in the left and that's down for a base hit. Langalear scores when's around third. He will score as well, a two-run single for Max Schumann and it is six to nothing A's. All out to center, but this is playable for Butler. He's back waiting for it, makes the catch. And that is the ball game. For the first time ever, the athletic sweep of four-game series at Dykin Park as they beat the Astros today, seven to one. You know, Ross, my kids are sick, or I've been sick in the past, my wife.

It's a tough decision if they're sick at 2 o'clock in a morning to take into the ER, because you've got to get dressed. You're thinking, can it wait to the next day to go to the clinic? Can you go see your doctor in two days? But sometimes, Ross, you've got to go to the ER. And the Astros are in the ER right now. What a difference four games made. I mean, my God. We were riding high talking about out there, the Miracle Stros.

Number one C, number one, C. It's the greatest thing ever. We're flying to the World Series. And now the season is over, folks. Four games later. Well, we will have AOs coming up in the next segment. Okay. I have not seen them yet, but I'm going to presume they're not going to be overly pretty.

Okay. I would like to hear from the Ryan Gusto fan club. about Friday start. You know what you did, by the way, Jonathan, besides that, I don't think Cooper Hummel's had a hit since you talked to him once. I don't know. The first thing I wanted to say,

since we got swept, I feel like the Gusto shouldn't go out to me. I feel like they were just that much, they were just a better team. Gusto is not very good right now. Cooper Hummel's ERA is at 36. Cooper Hummel's ERA is higher than his batting average. Well, that's, yeah, not good.

The Astros had huge crowds and had nothing to celebrate. I mean, I did the Saturday post game show. Oh, you did, Matt? I did Thursday, Friday. Yeah, that's fine. We all pick up the slack around here. What about the? I mean, it's not more than others.

Wex is calling you from Texans. I'm not going to get too much. I'm not giving him grief until. For real this time? Well, I don't know. He responded to your text? He's worse than you are. He is?

Yes. Which is hard to believe. Yes. The worst texters at this station, you're number two. Jonathan is, Jonathan, you're three. And Wax is number one. All right. I feel it can get better.

A little bit. Okay. And not the current players on the field fault. Okay, we're just going to just flat out say that. But Joe Espott is putting out Sugar Landline lineups now and has done so for a long period of time. And you've been able to somewhat thrive on those. Sugar and Lineups for a while. Case in point, Arizona. Case in point, some of that Sugar and Lineup helped out in Los Angeles. But really, week before the All-Star game to where we are

right now, this team is 5 and 11 and have lost considerable ground to not only one team in the American League West, but two. Because the Rangers don't want to lose ever anymore. So that pesky Arlington fan that won that went to the parade a couple of years back that was in front of the Roland Ruralin Rural celebrating Go Rangers we win. He's very loud and very boisterous right now.

I think we were talking about like 80% to win in the division recently. It has dropped considerably, has it not? 57%. I'm getting a little concerned. Trade deadline looming large coming up Thursday afternoon. Now remember I said it

for sure and I think you backed me up on it. that you're willing to change our mind on things you can't the one thing you're to learn about sports you just if just because you have an opinion three weeks ago doesn't mean you have to stay on it especially make you sound stupid especially if five more pitchers go down well i mean the reality is this i'm still not going to crush them if they don't make a trade but i'll be disappointed there's a difference in being disappointed in your and and and job malpractice yes because here's the reality of it. And we'll spend the next handful of days talking about

until the deadline comes up in a couple of days. I don't know if one utility player can fix this. You are looking for something in left field. You are looking for something in center field. You are looking for something at third base. You are looking to

get Jose Al-Tuvre to probably to D.H. Moore and get him off the field at second base. You are looking for starting pitching. You are looking for a right-handed reliever. I mean, you've asked Dana Brown to go get everything. Yes. And what does he have in return?

He's probably got three or four guys in his system that he absolutely loves. And I think he wants to hold on to them. Because part of the reason why this organization has had no left-handed hitting to call up and been productive is because of all the different players that have left in previous year's trades. You do have to pay a price when you sell them. So again, I want them under all circumstances. to make a trade. They've got to bolster this team. And I'm not waiting for Yarnon Alvarez.

Jeremy Pena sounds like that could be somewhat in the near future. I've heard nothing about Jake Myers that makes me sound very good. Esock Paredes is done for the year. I mean, that's what it sounds like. They just don't want to say it. And we'll get to that a little bit later on. Brendan Rogers doesn't matter.

Jacob Mountain, if he comes back, that's great too. But it wasn't like Jacob Mountain was OPS and 850 when he was here. you know what I mean? Cam Smith looks like he needs a vacation. Yes, he does. Bryce Matthews has come down to earth. I mean, you've just sugar land the hell out of this team. Yeah.

And we keep talking about this, how those resources are limited. We keep talking about how tough of a job Dana Brown has to do. But this is like this is the biggest. I want to say, I don't want to call it a test because it's not a pass or fail. Correct. But this is the most difficult situation he could possibly have been put. in to where a hard situation of building up this farm system and contending at the major league level continues to get more and more and more difficult.

Now we can argue over how much of this is self-inflicted if you want to blame the Astros and their training staff or whatever. That doesn't have to do with Dana Brown. Dana Brown's not on the training staff. Dana Brown wasn't telling guys to go play or not or whatever. He's got to figure out how to construct this team. What's going on with the guys who are coming? back and when are they coming back? But I'm with you. It sounds like Esok Paredes is out for the year,

if not even plus the playoffs. That's not good. And then you have to go and make some trades, but a lot of the most desirable names, you're getting into bidding wars. And the Astros. And again, say what you all about the Yankees, their farm system has been for about five or six years considered significantly better than the Astros. I mean, the Astros have been anywhere from 27 to 30. I haven't seen the war Yankees in 27 to 30 and I don't have spent

a lot of time looking at baseball America. I expect I spend no time looking at it. But the Yankees have done it the right way. They've been able to keep their draft picks.

They've been able to spend wisely. They don't overspend like they used to. Now they do spend for their super players. Aaron Judge being one of them, by the way, he's really hurt it sounds like. Could have been worse, but it doesn't like it's right around the corner.

It's got an elbow injury. The reality is this. You can't have it both ways. You can't have a, A flush minor league system. Because look, anybody that, I mean, who's been the most impactful space cowboy since he's been up here? I would have said Brandon Walter, but now he's got elbow inflammation.

That doesn't count. I mean, they've all helped out in small little pieces, right? Trammell? Taylor Trammell? Taylor Trammell's been, yeah, I would say the nicest surprise of the group. But I don't think you're building a lineup around him playing six days a week. Not John Singleton. Where's how can you keep benching John Singleton guy Put him in the lineup

How's that guy doing? Oh, who's doing that? Oh, it was happening. I swear to you. Are you sure? 100%. I was, yes. Have you seen this fan base?

And now we have Fire the Hitting Coaches guys back. They can't turn Taylor Tremel into one of the best hitters in baseball. Fire the hitting coaches. Jesus. Save that for Wednesday. Yeah. Yeah. There's people sending me fire the hitting coaches' tweets, and I think they're just trying to make me angry.

Yeah, it's probably working, right? It worked. Got me angry at 9.39 a.m. when I was sent. All right. 10.11 is our time. 1130. Today we'll have to tell the truth. Coming up later on. Some point, Wex is going to join us from Texans training camp there, putting the pads on. And oh, by the way, I don't know if the Astros are the Texans are going by the Astros rules, but remember when Joe Mixon was put on the non-football entry list and everyone's like why and they're like I can't hear you

microphone's out. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. And then Ian Rappaport two days later says that he's going to miss most of training camp if all of it. Battle Red I would not be happy about that. It's weak. We'll see what happens. It's football. People get hurt. What do you want me to do? Why can't I be happy? I mean, I'm not happy about it.

just pray for Nick Chubb pray for a chub yeah I think they're clocking him with a sundial his 40 time 713 212 5790 I just caught that late that was like a tape delay

all right Jonathan get the AO music ready we're going to play it next here on the Matt Thomas show with raw 713212 5799 I'm sorry Houston Texas I just had to go check

See what's going on Ross, we usually do this in April We're in the middle of July Before the trade deadline I got one thing to ask you Are you ready for something We'd like to call? Yes

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That's tough. That's terrible. Let's see here. Ranger fans is drunk in. Oh, here you're drunk, AJ Hinch says fire the entire medical staff. Let's see. Yeah, the A's fans are jumping in. At Jonathan Lee, only three more losses until the trade deadline.

line. God, almighty. Come on, they're not getting swept by the... You know what? I'm calling it. They're not getting swept by the nationals. At Rocket Man 2K, we still number one in the division,

and Rocket Apologist is still obese. I win regardless of this weekend. Sounds personal. Very personal. Let's do a few more here. Go F yourselves, you effing bums. Wow.

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embarrassing how bad they've been Nathan Simcoe says pitiful Angel Garza says garbage garbage At Javier Samiego y'all got Ben Verlander on suicide watch That's pretty good one That's funny

Tommy just says L and let's see here Let's do one more here Make a try Oh, Amen Thompson says it make a trade already. And that is your AOs for a Monday. It's going to get better.

Well, at least the nationals are in town. It's a guaranteed win Monday. You know what? Don't ever listen to me. Oh, God. We just could play this every. All right. All right, Jonathan. There's worse sound bites.

Lord knows I got to, you play a bunch of my stuff on this show. That's not true. I don't ever play anything. I'm just trying to reverse jinx it. Just in case we're not. I see what you're doing. All right, I'm going to start clipping y'all. I see how the game is played.

All right. Yeah, Ross, they're leaving men on base. They're not getting much on base. They hit one home run in the entire series, I think. I didn't pay attention to the 19th. I know they scored a run, so maybe I'm wrong about that. I don't know. I mean, I had it on, but I wasn't really watching at that point.

You know what I'm saying? Oh, Dubai got a double. I was playing Brick-Brick. Macormick, yeah. Yeah, they scored. I did what, you know what I did? Suck you, A's. You can't shut the Astros out. Nick Kurtz just basically owned the city of Houston for 24 hours.

It wasn't heard of much since. That was, at least that was all-time, like, arguably the greatest game in, like, baseball history. He was about, what, two feet away from a five-home-run game? Yes. Has that ever happened in baseball? I don't think so. There's been 24 home-run games. Yeah, that's fewer than the amount of perfect game.

It's rarer than a perfect game. That is correct. And he tied Sean Green's record, I believe he had a four home run game when he did this too, for all time, most total bases in a game with 19. Now, four of those came off of Cooper Hummel. So there's a little bit of an asterisk next to it. A little bit. But he had already done punting damage beforehand.

Yeah. And hey, don't say that doesn't count because it came off of Ryan Gusto. That's a rude, guys. And they just count. We didn't say that. Did you say that, Jonathan? No, I didn't say that. I neither.

No. I mean, I'm kind of speechless. You know what I did? Honestly, after things got on a hand on Saturday? Ass-wamping. Four-game ass-womping. I watched the first half of the Billy Joel documentary Saturday. Oh, really?

And then when the Astros were getting blown out yesterday, I watched the second half. Okay, great. How did that go? Really good. Who was that really hot piece he was with in the 80s? Christy Brinkling. Okay. That was wife number two of four.

Okay. Two and four. Two, three and four were, I mean, he's in with four now. Three was pretty good, too. I imagine they were all pretty attractive. One was okay, but she's obviously his age, so it's not like, you know. Okay. I mean, she's aged.

But they were, I mean, they were loved birds for a long time. That's beautiful. Yeah, if y'all want to talk about the Billy Joel documentary, I'd be willing to take your phone calls on there. He loved her just the way she was until it was time for divorce. Well, that was, it's ironic that song was made for his first one. wife. And then he divorced her. Well, they were gathered like nine years. That's a good run. That's a good run. That's like 25 years in Hollywood times.

In Hollywood dog years, I was like, what are going with this? Yeah. All right, we've spent the first 26 minutes talking about, unfortunately, a AAA lineup. I mean, I don't know what else to tell you. It's not like the guy, it'd be, it'd be one thing to really come in here and be upset if Jeremy Payne was batting 157 or Jose Otuvie was two for his last 31. Or Christian Walker was 4. Well, that's a bad example. Yonnii, it's a bad example. Or if

Yard on Albares had not had a home run in three weeks. But, I mean, honestly, Ross, the lineup yesterday, Tremel lead off. Karatini, who I love, is not a three hitter. It's just not. Maybe in the beer league. I mean,

John Singleton hit fifth. Cam Smith, 0 for 3 yesterday, batting 6. Cooper Hummel, O for 3. 7th. Kbramlin 1-fitty. I mean, Zach Short, I mean, they just they mustered nothing yesterday. Seven hits.

Yeah, and how many times... How many times I feel like I've heard this year? And insert pitcher has had the best start he's had all year. It was the best start all year for J.T. Ginn. Yeah, a matter of fact... Who has the, I believe, the tightest pants in Major League baseball. Mark Katsy went to go up to the mound.

Everybody's thinking he was going to pull him, and he said, nah, you go, you got one more. and he got him out. Six innings a shutout ball. Great. That's fantastic. All right. We've said enough.

I'm going to start crying pretty soon here. All right. Let me ask you all this. Would you like to have your voices heard on a major market radio show? Or hear Ross weep for the next segment? That's your weep? What was that? Sorry.

I felt sad during the Billy Joel documentary. I cried. I had a few tears. Oh, you did? Yeah. What happened? I'm not going to spoil it. I can go to his wiki page. Okay. Get the gist of it.

All right. I'll just say this. His mother, unfortunately, was bipolar, and his father left the family in age eight. Oh, man. And so, you know, he struggled with that for a lot of the time. And I felt bad for him. Blame in a bunch of hits and, you know,

drinking a lot of strange things and trying to kill himself multiple times. but he's obviously going through some issues now, but, you know, played 100 straight at Madison Square Garden. I mean, that's pretty good run. He's in a better place now. Oh, he's alive. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I mean, I was, yeah, I know you're going with that.

All right, 1029 on the Mad Tava show at Ross. Next segment, either Ross cries or you call in. We do both. I mean, we can do both probably. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. 1032 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

We've got to tell the truth coming up at 1130. So when we heard about Joe Mixen, I don't think it was a complete surprise. It felt like Nick Chubb was brought in his extra, I mean, because you already had Damien Pierce. Drafted Woody Marks. You drafted Woody Marks. You had a Gumbulambley.

So, Daria Ogunbo Wale. Agumbo Walee still here. Nice. It's fun to say. It's not. It's not fun. I think it's... But if I was calling the games, I mean, it'd be fun after a while.

It's sort of practice it. So they've known about this for quite some time. And that's okay. I mean, you don't have necessarily to give out all the deeds on the injury information. Lord knows we're having a difficult time with our sports franchises with that. But, boy, the pressure now, I think on Nick Chubb is... Again, here's my point. I don't know this for a fact, and it doesn't necessarily mean you have to have training camp.

It doesn't necessarily mean you have to play in the preseason. Lord knows we've got a lot of guys that skip on preseason games. But I would think for a guy that has been battling the ailment that he's had all off season, that he's just not going to step on the field and pick up where he left off from last year. So I think it's going to have to be seriously a running back by committee, at least probably the first two or three weeks of the season, provided that Joe Mixon is 100% healthy. I'm not worried about it.

As long as he's ready for week one. he's a veteran guy doesn't need preseason I mean they need to limit his workload in the first place which is one of the reasons that they tried to shore up the running back position my concern level is very low okay I'm gonna go a little higher than yours okay I just I don't think you go get a guy

that's best days are long past him just to bring him in for Katrina can't buy it they had to have known something about makes it for quite some time but again you need insurance policies why not and again sounds like Damien Pierce Maybe he sneaks to win on the roster if Mixon's not ready to go for the start of the season. Yeah.

Yeah, Pierce is on the pup right now. What the heck's going on with him? I don't know. It's, I just, I think Damiko, even though you've got this explosive young quarterback and you've got all these wide receiving targets, I still think he, you know, like most coaches, they want to, they want to time control the clock. They want to run their offense. they're not looking to score in two minutes. They think they love 8, 9, 10 play drives. Keep the quarterback up, right?

The running game is going to be very, very important. I mean, it's important to every team in the NFL. Yeah, but it's more important to defensive coaches, and we know that it's always run the damn ball, and we're going to win with defense. Right. And, you know, he's generally been conservative, on the conservative side.

He's been aggressive here and there, but generally with kicking decisions, fourth-down decisions. Right. Very conservative, yeah. He's not an uber conservative, but one of the more conservative coaches. And my guess is, I don't know if Nick Cayley is going to come in here and let him open D'Amico's eyes to some different things. That kind of got the, you know, look, they have been throwing Bobby Slok under the bus since you can't begin. They really have.

I mean, it's interesting to me, you go from this great innovative mind two years ago to he stale. Getting head coaching interviews. Yeah. To he stale and doesn't know anything and just cuts and paste. They have thrown him under the bus. I mean, all the way through. Yeah. So, you know, we'll see.

But I don't know if D'emico's ever going to change it. I think D'emika would rather go, well, who's to say? Would he, I mean, you don't want to go 70-30 run pass, but he'd like it where the running game was chewing up clock, keeping his defense off the field, keeping the offense. And more importantly, for our offensive line that's going to be growing, I mean, I would presume Ross with all the commodities, the Texans have picked up in the last couple of years in the draft, Ursary being one of them, that you'd like to build some sort of consistency on the offensive line.

It may not happen this year, but you'd like two or three years from that to happen. So as you're still in this transition phase, and Cam Robinson is, whether he's the short-term or longer-term solution at left tackle, Band-aid. You want to ultimately be able to have some sort of running game. And that's the value we talked about on Friday show

is that Joe Mixen had a beautiful set of eyes in terms of awareness in the field, and then you can cover up for some of those offensive line mistakes. Yeah, so you need him week one. And, I mean, the latest is that he's going to miss the majority of the preseason with an ankle injury. Now, remember, when that happens, when they say that, they usually means the entire preseason. Yeah. Like I said, it's fine.

He's 29 years old. You're letting his workload. I mean, how many, let's say he's 100% healthy starting week one of the preseason. How many snaps is he going to get anyways? Six or seven? Not many. But at least if he was healthy, you'd feel a little bit better about the situation. Yeah, I would, but I'm really not that concern, like I said.

You need to limit his workload anyways. If they're saying he's going to be ready week one, that's okay. Honestly, it isn't a daily conversation, but I do believe that when you get later in the preseason around maybe August 15th, 20th, you'll want to hear some sort of he's ready to go or he's on his way back or we're going to have to slow play this. If we were talking about a rookie or somebody or CJ Stroud or somebody that needs to get a little bit more in rhythm, I would be more concerned. And I guess I shouldn't say I'm zero percent concerned, but it's. It's a one out of ten.

It's not a zero out of ten. It's like a one or two max. It'll be fine. And then if not, yeah, you can split snaps with some other young guys. We'll see what happens to how Nick Chubb develops. If Damien Pierce is ready to go or Woody Marks or whatever. Woody Marks is loving this, by the way. Even Dario Gunboale has been a guy who can get some spot snaps here and there.

Good pass catcher out of the back field. Third down back. Yeah, my concern is low. Yeah, I don't think it changes the focus of where we are with this offense in terms of what we're worried about. That would obviously be, can the offensive line keep the quarterback upright? You know the crazy thing about it is, and this is in all honesty, is that the Texans will have probably, and look, it's not on paper, but it's online, the worst offensive line in the league. Cross, there have been quarterbacks that have had the number three offensive line in the league, and they still get hurt. Absolutely.

Some of it's just flukish. I mean, if you're the third offensive, best offensive line in the NFL, guess what you? you still give up sacks. You still do. Yes. Well, if you also have a quarterback who's running himself into sacks, which C.J. Stroud was doing. Or holding on the ball too long, kind of that kind of stuff.

Yes. So it's not a, it'd be way too simplistic for us to say, well, if the five guys at front can't protect, he's toast. I think C.J. To make the adjustment for year three for him is going to have to know to get rid of the football if the coverage breaks down and probably just a hair tick sooner than he did a year ago. That'd be nice. And he's going to be healthy, ready to go, determined, smart, a leader. Does the hit hit?

He's got 76 handshakes for everyone on the roster. He's ready to go. I mean, that's a lot to think about. You have the play calls. You have the opposing defenses, and you get the handshakes to worry about. He's got the mental capacity for it, Matt. I hope so. Went to the Ohio State.

Yes. Did he finish? I don't think so. Most guys aren't finishing, right? I'm not worried about it. They didn't come to play a school. They came to play football. Did you hear what Cardell Jones said about Ohio State?

I did not. You don't remember that quote? He put it on Twitter. We didn't come here to play school. We came here to play football. Why do we have to go to class? How is Cardell, by the way? He's probably, I think he's playing in the Venezuelan football league.

Oh, is he right? Okay. I think he's coaching the lingerie league team in Columbus. wishing him the best it's one of the biggest arms i've ever seen and accuracy was always an issue i'm trying to find the exact quote here why should we have to go to class if we came here to play football in all caps

we we ain't come to play school classes are pointless jim tressel had zero issue with that comment right there i can tell you that for sure last played with the massachusetts pirates in what year on twenty twenty three of the indoor football league. You know there's an indoor football team in Beaumont? No. American football? Great arena football.

Great listener of ours lives in Beaumont and we met him in Vegas and he and his wife were telling us they go to arena football games in Beaumont. They play like a six or eight team league. It's a bunch of, you know, Beaumont-sized towns. Really? Because I love arena football. You do? I did. Yeah, I did almost every Thunderbirds and

a terror game in the history of the franchise. Before it folded. Yeah. Let me taste it. I've folded some franchises back in the day. Comets. Comets. Thunderberry slash terror.

Hot shots. Hot shots. Oh, I did a game for the Minnesota swarm of the major lacrosse league. That team folded too. Did I ever do a Utah game? I don't think I'd do. The whole league, I mean, the whole Arena League folded. It's not your fault, Matt.

Yeah, it's usually bad business. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. I just called the games. I promoted it as best I could. It's not your fault. Check's still cleared, though, thankfully. All right. For a while. Any of them bounce? Do you ever have any trouble with getting a check from any of those leagues?

No, because the Thunder Bears and the comets and the, it was terror, were all owned by Lesley Alexander. So I knew where to find him. Oh, okay. Now, some of those teams, it would write you IOUs. They would have issues. Yeah. Best story I ever heard, the Milwaukee Mustangs were an arena team. Ironically enough, that was JJ Watts' first love was the Milwaukee Mustangs Arena football.

Okay. He wore a shirt on his Twitter account just the other day with the Milwaukee Mustangs. And they were flying from one city to the next and they had to change planes in St. Louis. The owner of the team used to travel, he was like they're Mark Cuban. And some Milwaukee Mustangs told us that they were so tight that they were having to put like 15 people on one. plane 14 because they want to get the low air ferrets. They didn't put everybody on the same plane. Okay. And he snuck on a flight before everybody else was supposed to. And he turns around with a bunch of players sitting in the St. Louis airport before they're going to go take off

and have to their delay for the next flight. He turns on and says, see you suckers in Milwaukee double rods all of his players. What? I know, in that crazy? It is crazy. As long as they got there. He had to take it the bus. I mean, I can't imagine. I don't know. They wouldn't still be at St. Louis Airport, would they? You're a long-ass wait. Twenty-six years. 1043 on Sports Talk, 790. If you'd like to join us, 7-13-212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-2-5-790. If you think it's bad for the Astros, Tigers won yesterday. They beat the Blue Jays 10-4, and they have snapped their sixth game losing streak. They're playing about 150 baseball. At least the Astros won those games in Arizona. 7-13-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-7-0. 7-1-1-1-6.

790. We have to tell the truth coming up at 1130. We'll check in with Wax at Texan's practice when it's all said and done. And we've also got this today on the radio show. Oh, believe you or not. Thanks for the advanced prep. 713-212-5-790. All right, full lines are full Rossi. Which one in go to first at 1049 on Sports Talks? Let's go to line 76. We've got 76 full lines here. All right. Come on now, Houston, Texas. Y'all are damn grumpy on Twitter yesterday. Can't imagine you just want to go into silence. You know what it is?

You know what's like sometimes, and I'm not counting like dorks like Eric and Basie and James and Klein, you know, meet some better calls. My point being, we love you both equally, but it is what it is. We're like therapists.

Oh, you don't want to talk about it, huh? Oh, you have to pry. Yeah, I'm going to pry. No, I mean, shouldn't a therapist let you go at your own pace? Especially you can rack up some more sessions. We'll talk about it next session.

But we're free you. We don't charge you. What's your co-pay? You know what you could do? You can just call right now at 71321, 125, 7-9 if you want to, and just say, look, I'm tired of seeing the Sugar Land of Space Cowboys. Yeah, that's the thing, though. What can be done? I feel like if you're fully healthy, you'd say, okay, shuffle the lineup or do this or do that.

Yeah. This guy, Gusto needs to go to the bullpen, but you can't put anybody in the bullpen. You can't shuffle around this lineup, really. There's nobody on the... Some guy was all mad that Cooper Hummel was still in the lineup. I was like, brother, who do you want in there? On the Cooper Hummel stuff. And again, such a good dude.

I hate when we have to unfortunately bear out the numbers of a good dude. I didn't know he had 82 miles an hour in the tank. He was out there spinning it, man. Yeah, but Nick Kurtz didn't care. No, he didn't. But, man, Cooper Hummel can't hit. And I feel bad because when nice guys come on the show, I mean, there were some guys we've hit over the years.

I wouldn't care if he'd get another hit again. Okay. But he's not one of those dudes. No, he's nice. Portland Pilots legend. I mean, he was literally let go Baltimore earlier this year. He's 30 years old. He's not some diamond in the rough.

No. And that has to be very difficult as a human being. I've been playing baseball since I was, I'm going to assume Cooper was five years old, six years old. Probably. you know and he was a star in high school got to play college baseball he got drafted he got to the show and you reach the crescendo and you just can't do it yeah but i mean everybody he's somewhere in like that's right he is not the only one there'll be millions of others that will have done it

in the past that way there'll be millions of others that will play professional sports that will be in the same spot as he is so he's by no means in his own world there there are millions of and of others have never got as far as he did, Matt. I'm sorry, I had to gasp at his career OPS Plus. Now remember, 100 is average. 50.

So, I mean, I don't even know what to say. What's his OPS plus and AAA? Can you look that up? I guess. I don't know if they have those. I mean, that'd be nice if they did make a story sound a little bit better?

No, they only have OPS. Career OPS and the minors is 848. Okay, well that's good. Career and the minors, 525. Career what? I mean majors, I mean. Oh, OPS. 848.

Minors 848, majors 525. Yeah. So our old friend Howard and Memorial, may he rest, used to always call me and say, is this guy just a 4A player? I mean, Cooper is a 4A player. Can get a hit in the major leagues once in a while? Nothing more he can do at the AAA level to prove anything. but is a main...

And this is, again, this is not an indictment exclusively to him. In a matter of fact, it's not an indictment against him. Cooper Hummel probably is just a organizational body. Yeah. John Singleton, 4A. Organizational player. Taylor Tremel, kind of making the most of what he's given, been given in playing time. OPSA 828. Exact short, same kind of thing.

I mean, and Bryce Matthews probably needs to go marinate a little bit. Hmm. Okay. I mean, we pull the cookies out. out early. We still ate them, but... I like them, Doey. No, I like a, I like a crispy cookie. My wife was out, this is funny, I figured that up. My wife went out Saturday night with some

friends, and I said, can you, I was working post-game, so I didn't have a chance to go out with them. And I said, hey, can I, can you bring me home some crispy cookies? She's like, what are you talking about it? She was, I said, you... I mean, sorry, like Mips, Momoy? Like Mips'Oi. Those are crispy. And I like them softer.

Oh, no, we, well, the Thomas household is a crispy cookie family. Okay. But I mean, but point being... Through and through. Yeah, but some people like it soft. I like a cookie that's hard and crispy. You like it soft.

To each his own. She's like, why would you call it a crispy cookie? Because I was like, I don't want you going to somewhere and going to give me a soft batch. The reason why I didn't like soft patch was when I was fat when I was a kid, I would eat like a whole sleeve of the soft batch. You would eat a whole sleeve of the dough. No, I didn't do that. I wasn't going to go cook something.

No, the whole sleeve of the soft batch, and I got sick and I'm like, no, no thanks. Okay. I think I chased it down with some orange drink, too. So you like it hard. My cookies, crunchy. Not soft. Not soft.

How do you like your cookies, Jonathan? You know, hot take. I don't like cookies. What? That's not a hot take. That's ridiculous. That's the worst take in the history. How do you not like cookies?

What do you mean? They're sweet, delicious, and baking. soft or hard, however you like them. It's too inconsistent. What? What is inconsistent? I open up a bag of Chipsa Hoy. I see the exact same cookie every single time.

Every Oreo is the same. See, these are different. Cisohoi and Oreos are different than just cookies. I'm not going to go and see some cookies. Oh, cookies, no. I'm not going to try those. They're bad. You know what I mean? No, I don't.

We have no idea what you mean. So like Chips of Hoy are always going to be the same. So if I'm going to eat a cookie, it's going to be like an Oreo or Chips Sooy. That's right. So why would you say I don't like cookies? I don't like cookies. I wouldn't, I wouldn't, like, if there were sweets around, I'm not going to pick a cookie. You get what I mean?

No. I don't like cake. I don't like... You don't like cake? What? Like, you know what I mean? Cheesecake. Oh, you're getting on the Matt Thomas list of banned food takes.

Hold on, I got to apologize somebody real quick. Our buddy James and Klein. I said I liked them, James. I just don't like some of your takes. That's all the thing I was saying. No. Hi, James. How are you, friend?

Good to hear from you. Yeah, I didn't even an apology. If you call me a dork, how am I a dork? I didn't call you. a dork i said your takes were bad no you said you call me a dork a dork like brad and james from plow oh did i really oh okay i'm sorry

just you're not a dork it's just and you need to apologize to ross as well what i do to him no idea he said that he's urinated all over the the urinal on the outside of the urinal okay you're having my point james you're a dork you're a dork i didn't say ross did that

hold on everybody knows it ross everybody knows that ross piece is sitting down so how can he You're in a... Oh, my God. You're the terrible. Go, go away. Yeah, what's wrong with that?

You can get on your phone. Sometimes a one turns into a two. You've got to go sit down there sometimes. What are you trying to turn a double play in the toilet? Sometimes it happens, Matt. Sometimes you turn two. Sports talk seven, that, everybody. Yeah.

We've just given you a new definition of turning two. You think it's a double playing baseball? Ross has other ideas. Thanks, James, for the phone call. Did I call him a dork? Like Brad? I think he's a dork. I don't think he's a dog.

I said, I said you're definitely a bad call. He's got some of the worst takes ever. They're bad. And he's pompous about it. That's the worst part. But at least he's confident in his bad takes. He's confident in his dumbassery. 1058 on Sports Talk 7.98.

The Tell the Truth is coming up in one half hour. We'll check in with Wex. Let's see if Wex has texted in yet. He was, again, what a horrific texture of Wex was. Nope, nothing near. But we've got some odds on some players the Astros may or may not be interested in. We'll tell you about that coming up in the second hour of the Matt Thomas Show at Ross here on Sports Talk 790. It is 1101 on Sports Talk 790.

Matt and Ross with you here. Congratulations. We forgot to mention briefly to Billy Wagner, Ichiro Suzuki, among those in the Baseball Hall of Fame. I got somewhat of a hot take for you. And I told this to somebody this weekend, I loved Billy Wagner as an astro because he was a badass. And when he sucked, he wanted to tell you,

he sucked and he sucked and he admitted it. And when his team didn't do the right things, he would go after ownership and say, we got to do some things. And ultimately it cost him staying with the team because Dr. McMahon's like, I'm not going to have that. I don't want anybody talking bad about me.

But yesterday didn't carry the same cachet for me as bag won't be as you. I don't think that's... No. that's bad towards Billy because for such a long period of time he was such a great player for this team but he played for four other teams

yeah he was an Astor for what like seven seven years yeah I mean the best the best of Billy Wagner was obviously as an Astro but he wasn't like he was bad as a white sock one I mean as a white sock as a Red Sock wasn't bad as a Mett I remember him as a Philly yeah he was good as a Met

I think he finished his career with the safe and again as a Red Sock I think is what it was something like that but Atlanta oh Atlanta okay 2010 he was still throwing? Wow. But it took him a long time to get in. Yes.

And glad he got in, but it just, yesterday to me was a, I was flipping through the channels. I stopped it. And each year old was a very good speech. Yes. He's like, there was one of you Gibranes out there that didn't vote for me. Yeah, he was talking about to the Miami Marlins when you contacted me. I didn't know who you were or something like that. Yeah, he's like, I didn't know you existed.

Man, that's true. Yeah, it was a Ichero Wagner and Sabathia. CCB1 is a Yankee, by the way. Okay, rather than a Cleveland Indian. That's what they were. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I think, I mean, yeah, he got in because he was Yankee, right?

I didn't look at the rest of his. Oof, yeah, ERA plus 116. Billy Wagner's was an Astro cap, and Eichiro was a Seattle Mariners cap. So it's, you know, again, 250 wins. I do want to go to Cooperstown. I don't know if I'm a six-time All-Star.

Very borderline for C.C. Sabathia for me. How many wins? 251. You know what? I think 250 is a new 300. Yeah, but he was part of the old guard. I mean, older guard. He started in 2001.

I would still say anybody in the 2000s, then some, the numbers change for the pitcher. ERA plus 116. Not spectacular. but obviously good enough for the Hall of Fame. Six-time All-Star, one-time Sy Young winner. Well, part I think is helping, and it shouldn't help, but it does, is he played in the biggest medium market. Yeah, he was Yankee.

And he was also considered a pretty decent dude. I mean, if he stayed, well, yeah. He worked through alcoholism problems, too. Yeah, but I mean, when you're affable, you're going to get the benefit out on some people. When you're in A-hole, you take longer to get in. Five top-five finishes in Sion. That's pretty good.

Yeah. Borderline. but it was just you know again the coolest part was that somebody the former astros were there bagwell abigio burkman was there uh i mean the aster's put out a list in their PR set me it was like 20 players that were teammates of his were in uh larry durker was there his former manager so yeah bradledge was there he was on the tv broadcast on the phone how that sound it was odd i don't remember they remember taking a phone call on the tv broadcast that is a weird kind of thing it was cool. But it was like a quick

one, two, three inning. So they only had them on for a couple minutes. Well, they were trying to save money on a long distance bill. Remember we used to get long distance bills? Yes. Remember we used to call, collect? Oh, you know the scam we used to put together back in the bag. Uh-oh. Here we go. What do you got? What do you got?

What do you got, scam Thomas? No, it's actually, we learned it from a TV commercial. Go ahead. Does the name, How to Baby Eats a Boy ring a bell to you? Uh, yes. That was, uh, Yes. It was the wife and the wife and the husband were talking or something? Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it was collect call for, yeah. Yeah, we could decline it. So what we would do is back in the 80s, we would fly home from Florida, and we would call my grandparents or my father and my mother's parents at the time, and we would say, collect call from Sergio. Yeah. And that was the key name that once you knew Sergio called you and you got home okay, you can say no I don't know who the Sergio is

and that was a sign that you got Hummer right. Okay. That's how it is. Okay. There was a commercial that said had a baby eats a boy. That was the way to tell. You could decline. You could decline that.

The baby was born. Yeah. That's pretty fun. A little trick of the trade back in the day. Yeah, nobody needs that anymore. Well, remember, I mean, at that point in the phone business, probably what, calls were 75, 80 cents a minute, maybe something like that?

Something ridiculous. Yeah. Now you get like unlimited. I don't think I have a minutes plan on my phone. I mean, we're in a family plan, but I've never heard, hey,

you got to be careful about your limit. Now, I've heard about your data issues. You used to get text message limits. Yeah. I got in big trouble in high school with that. Did you really? They were like,

you sent 2,000 text messages? How does this happen? 2,000? Yeah, that's nothing. You do that in a week these days. Who are you cupcake in 2,000 messages? That's not your business. That's a lot.

No, it's not. For those playing at home, I'm... Two thousand? Hold up. Hold up. You've probably said $5,000 this month. I'm a good context, cool guy, but I want to hear the exact definition of cupcakes.

Like, you're like, sweet talking to girl. Like, you know, what's going on? How was class? You know? Oh, I missed you today. You know? Yeah. Just a little sugar on it, a little cupcake.

Yeah, but you couldn't call it cooking because you don't like cookies. No. I mean, dude, cookies, this is a lot of people right now listen to me that I agree with me. cookies are overrated. They're just not that good. I mean, you've had some brutal takes on this show. That might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. No, the worst one is SFA.

Yeah, that's going to... All right. Until we win, until we win, you're never going to beat the University of Houston. U of H just became a power five, man. We were at the same level, basically. No, that's not true. Texas State beat U of H. U.S. football has been horrible.

Who is the coach from Texas State? one, was it major? Or was it somebody else? No, I think it was... It was James Dickie. No, it was not James Dickie. I believe it was... Who's the guy that owns the...

Oh, the Chick-fil-Ais? Tony Levine. It might have been Tony Levine. Don't hold me to that. I won't. We're not... We have never been on the same level of SFA, ever. Except maybe the same number of Sonics in the vicinity of the campus.

If Texas State is now a Power 5, quote, unquote... It's not a... Power 5. I mean, they're not a power. They're not a power five. It's not the same level. Look, hold on. You know what?

I don't have much to say in August 28. Okay, I don't have much of saying. You ain't cupcake in here. I can just say that right now. You ain't cupcaking. We got a month from today. A month of today. Oh my gosh. Anyways.

Anywho. All right. So there's a, there's a website that sends us odds on players going places. Okay. And it's a, it's just, It's just for fodder and they're looking to get a plug and they're not going to get it from us because they don't pay the money to get the plug. Well, they gave you the odds.

Yeah, but I didn't ask for them. Okay. Astros are 7 to 1 odds to land Dylan cease. No way. Nah, it can happen. O'Neill Cruz. Oh, that ain't happening. Eugenio Suarez.

Not even in the top eight teams listed. That makes sense. Stephen Kwan outfielder, three to one odds for him. Hell no. They don't have it enough to get Stephen Kwan. He's a gold glove left fielder, and he's one of the best contact hitters in baseball. And a lefty? Five to two to land Zach Gallen, who they just beat up in a day?

All right. Where do I go to short these odds? These are just made up. This is some dude. Stephen Kwan's under control until 28. He's a three times. He's been in the major for three years. won three gold gloves and left.

I mean, I would love it. Yeah, I, this is just some service trying to create something so Houston Radio can talk about it. Well, we just, we gave you your, well, we didn't give your company the 30 seconds. We just, we just stole your material because you gave it to us. All right. So in order of preferences, yes. It's the lefty bat one. Problem is Ross, any bat.

I don't care what. It's not going to take, it's going to take more than one bat to fix this lineup. It's going to require pain you coming back soon. It's going to require Alvarez doing something before the end of the season. You need Pena and Yordon plus a bat and you're actually not in a bad spot with as long as the pitching. And who's playing the center field the rest of the year? Who's playing third base the rest of the year? You're going to hope that and get that via the trade, right?

Taylor Tremel can play center and bat ninth. I mean, it's not ideal, but. Who's playing third? You're a bat you trade for. So let's narrow it down. The Astros have got to go get themselves a third baseman. that's why the big man signing by the Yankees and that trade probably heard a little bit because that guy would have been perfect for this team yeah he would have but he's terrible outside of

he doesn't he doesn't hit but he mean he'd be going from one hitter friendly ballpark to the other one but the problem is as i say that though ross every ballpark it feels like it's a hitter friendly ballpark not everyone but i mean of the 30 not yeah 22 of them are cozy well yeah because offense is better offenses can't so you would think okay i can hit the ball at corersfield probably can hit it and that can park oh okay like Brendan Rogers. Oh, what a great example. Not a great example at all. I mean, Brennan Rogers, I am working to get back from my ailment and I balk into a player and I'm not concussed like going to 60 to an injury list. It's probably the safest way for him to keep making a major league salary.

Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't, I would necessarily be measuring him for the Astros Hall of Fame jacket. Like in three years, we even remember Brendan Rogers' name. Probably not. My names are terrible. I'll be like, who was that guy that played like a handful of games in second base that couldn't bad for a squad here. I'll tell you what, Brenn Rogers. It'll be a good name to keep for your opening day roster trivia. Oh, like, name. Opening day starter. Yeah. Name the opening day

lineup of 2025. And you're like, all right, Al-Tuve, Yordon. You're never going to get Brendan Rogers. Never, ever, ever. And he served a purpose because he was a late signing. They got Al-Tubei out of the second base spot, which they've always been trying to do at least for the last year or so. And now Al-Tubei is

playing it on a semi-regular basis. Although with Bryce being here, he's played exclusively second base. The problem is Bryce is feeling a little bit. Need some more home runs. It's going to be strikeouts and home runs. Maybe mixing in some walks would be nice to. Something to get that OPE, get the batting average out. Well, the on-base percentage up, that's for sure.

Anything. Get it all up. 1113. What? 713-212-5-7-90. Go write that down. That's not even a good one. Then repeat it.

Get all of you. Your number is up. No, no. You didn't say that. You said OPS and I said, yeah, get it all up. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-790. To tell the truth coming up in just 15 minutes.

Ross, I believe three things. One I will not. One. Three-truths. Okay. One lie. One lie. Three truths.

Okay. 1114 on Sports Talk 790. Rossi, I've noticed a little bit of change in the demeanor of D'Amico Ryan since he has taken over as the head coach of Texans. You have? I have. And I think I've got a good example of it right here, right now. Yeah, nothing's changed with Joe. Joe is still working, you know, in the background.

I know we get reports about Joe. Nothing said he's still working. Whenever it's time for Joe to be back, he'll be back. I know a lot of people want to report. a lot of things about guys and injuries. My thing is this is, are you really concerned about our guys? Are you really just trying to get something out there?

Right. And for me, I always put my players' health and safety first and foremost. So I care about the guys, so you guys don't hear me talking a lot about injuries because that's their personal information guys are working through that. And there's nothing to report or get in an uproar about. Like, our guys are working, and that's, it's always sensitive to me

because I've been there, I've went through that. So it's not just to report something to report something like, I want people here who truly care about our guys, I care about our guys and what they're doing throughout their process, and it'll continue to be that way. Mm-hmm.

He is getting a little combative. A little cranky. I got to respect it, though. Well, wait a minute. Let me, let's, if you respect it, let's get to the conversation here. First and foremost, somebody in the building said something to Ian Rappaport. So this sentiment of it doesn't lead the building is complete hogwash.

If Joe Mixon, I don't think the agent ran to them and said, this was going on. Now, agents can run to reporters all the time. That happens. Yes. But if it's possible. It's very, very small possibility. But somebody's got a set of loose lips. somebody wants to use Ian Rappaport to say, all right, Ian, I gave you this.

And if something comes up where I can get myself a job, I want you to float my name. I'm not saying that's a position coach or a coordinator, but somebody wanted to make sure that Ian Rappaport. I believe it was Ian Rappaport that said it, that reported over the weekend. Again, if you're an agent, you're not telling it the world about Joe Mixon being heard. That's the last thing you wanted your player being out there told that, unless the team was telling you, the only way you want to play an agent telling a reporter about an injury is if the if the team is saying well we don't know where he is we don't know why is he not out there nope that that's not the message that that can't be it either number two the first 15 seconds I want you're caring about the player or are you caring about the news honestly domico love you but we care about the news I mean it's just the reality of it look um as we've said before uh Cooper Hummel, the sweetest kid in the world. Really nice guy. Had him on the show. Very pleasant.

But Cooper Hummel plays for a baseball team that we talk about a lot on this radio show and is asked to produce for a team that people care about, that people are interested in, while getting to know Cooper Hummel personally is cool. The results are you want Cooper Hummel to hit when he's in the Astros lineup. Fans do you want to know about the player? They care about the players, so to speak, but they also care about the player to be good. So this whole notion of, well, what are you out here for? No, you're out here to report.

You're out of to report what's going on because the people that you're reporting to want the team to be successful. So I just make it get a little cranky. Yeah, I understand where he's coming from, though, as well. I do, too. But it's not a witch hunt. That's not, when you have your number one running back on the physically, a non-football player injury list, that is a story. I'm sorry, D'Amico, that's just what it is. Just like when the Astros say, you know, one of their variety of injuries, it's not a story.

It is a story. Injuries are stories on sports teams. Yes. But, I mean, I will also say that increasingly, and it's always been like this to an extent, but I feel like increasingly, questions are asked so people can put out quotes. so they can get their interactions and their likes and all that type of stuff. True. And people, when injury stuff comes out, then you have sectors of fan bases who attack players and call them soft

and tell them they need to get back on the field. Which I'm not seeing with Joe Mixing. And all that type of stuff. I mean, I don't know if it's happening or not with Joe Mix. And I'm just saying it's like, I guess I just understand where Domingo Ryan's is coming from, but I also understand that, hey, this is a football team. Injuries happen.

People report injuries. most everyone in front of you as a reporter or working for some media. I mean, seriously, if you were to take a look at the people that Dermico O'Reyans are asking questions for, half of them should not be credentialed. That's just, they're just fanboys that want to create their YouTube pages. But there are some that are there that are supposed to report on the team. You report on the X's and O's. You report on the salaries.

You report on the contracts. You report on the positions. You report on the battles. And you do report about injuries. Yeah, and if a part of the team, a very key part of the team is injured, it's a story. It is. Now, some people try to make stories out of things or blow up things that aren't stories, but Joe Mixing being heard is a story. And frankly, to me, it's D'Amico going after the wrong crowd.

The Houston Texans, the people that are in Houston covering the team, they're just going off of what the national report was. What are they supposed to do? Say, oh, Ian Rappaport must have reported, so I don't ask a follow about it? That's crazy. Yeah, and that's the thing, too. It's... It's the national guys that are getting this stuff. Isn't that the local guys?

It's, to me, with all this stuff that the Astros are doing and the Texans and stuff, everybody moves on from stuff like in five minutes in 2025. So if you say, yeah, Joe Mixing has an ankle injury, he's probably going to miss most of the preseason. Boom. You don't really get asked about it more after that day. Unless, but you do have, unfortunately, a situation where there are people that you talked about, like fanboy media that

they want to make sure they ask a question because then they record themselves and they upload I asked. Yeah, when you find somebody on Twitter that says,

I ask this, block them, mute them, don't follow them because they didn't ask it by themselves in a one-on-one situation. They asked it

because they got, they screamed louder over the other reporter. It's just, it's, oh, don't get me started. Sorry.

I know. I understand. So I'm saying I kind of, I get both sides on this, but I think, I think transparency is the best policy

especially. Now you don't have to give everyone's intricate medical details, but you're saying, yeah, Joe Mixon's got an ankle injury, he'll be out a few weeks, we think. Boom. We're not going to, and it doesn't become a story. We don't ask him today, tomorrow, the day after. And there's probably one or two follow-ups, and you knock it all out. And you say, hey, I'll have another update for you in a week or we'll have an update in six or seven days.

But I don't know, I just. Too personal. He got too personal. That's exactly right. Not that he went over the line. It just got too personal. How dare you ask about this guy like he doesn't have feelings and emotion? Well, of course he's got feelings and emotion. Even being all of us do. But he signed that contract, so we didn't know.

When he, yeah. Well, we can, is Adam once coming on here or not? When everybody's done, he's getting interviews and stuff. So, yeah. So, yeah, we can ask him if, like, is he just getting hounded in the scrums? Or is how, you know, because we're not there. We're not seeing every question that he's getting asked. So if he's getting asked about it five times.

So let's play a more time. Let's do it one more time here. And again, I'm only going off, this is the tweet that Wex just literally said that we took the audit from. Here is again, this was asked about the Joe Mixing situation. Yeah, nothing's changed with Joe. Joe is still working, you know, in the background. I know we get reports about Joe. Nothing said he's still working.

Whenever it's time for Joe to be back, he'll be back. I know a lot of people want to report a lot of things about guys with injuries. My thing is this is, are you really concerned about our guys? are you really just trying to get something out there, right? And for me, I always put my players' health and safety first and foremost. So I care about the guys, so you guys don't hear me talking a lot about injuries because that's their personal information guys are working through that, and there's nothing to report or get in an uproar about.

Like, our guys are working, and that's – it's always sensitive to me because I've been there. I've went through that. So it's not just to report something to report something like, I want people here who truly care about our guys. I care about our guys and what they're doing throughout their process, and it'll continue to be that way. Well, then maybe you should lob a phone call to again, rapid port, and to Adam Shepter and to who else is out there,

the Tom Peloceros of the world. Because they're the ones that are hunting this stuff down. Local guys aren't getting this stuff. Yeah, well, I say I would maybe put, who do you think breaks, Aaron Wilson breaks a lot of stuff locally? I don't know if he was on this ankle thing, but... No, it was definitely. I believe it was Rappaport that got it.

Okay. And again, unless the agent is lob in a phone call to saying, hey, my guys hurt, which that would be really odd for them to do that. But they work closely with agents. They certainly do. They certainly do. All right, Rossi, I've got four takes. Uh-oh. Three of them. Yes.

I believe. One, I do none. Jonathan, you are on a long losing streak. No, no, you won last week. Yeah. So let me ask you this. If Ross loses again this week, Jonathan, will he be bitter and argumentative with me about it? I'll think you'd be 10 times more.

What was your horrible take you were wrong about last week? I can't remember. Oh, about the University of Texas. They don't want a national champion. It'd be a major disappointment. Yeah. Fire everyone. I didn't call for anybody.

If that's the thing, as you added words to it. Well, if a program's a major disappointment, why wouldn't you fire the coach? Uh-oh, we're not doing this again. Bye. I'm turning my mic off. To tell the truth is up next 1129 on Sports Talk 790. Our I Heart Radio Music Festival, presented by Capital One, is back in Vegas. Needmole Arena.

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Joe is, the nice part about me is I do know how to tell the truth I will lie to you frequently and have zero issue doing it And one of the four things I'm about to tell you is a lie, Ross But three of them, Jonathan, will be the truth Three of the truths. All right, you liar. Here we go.

Which one of the four am I not telling the truth? Number one, when Dana makes a trade this week, I truly believe that it will involve an active member of the Astros right now. Okay. Now, there could be some minor league deals too, but I believe that on the 26-man roster right now, somebody is going somewhere else this week. Not an IAL, he's active. Active. You're not going to train an IL player. I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, make sense.

I know. Okay. 26 guys in this roster right now, somebody is going somewhere else. I mean, you've got a lot of options of guys on the IL to trade. I know. You're like, 40, you get about 45 players if you combine active on IL. Number two. I believe the Texans are soft playing the mix in an injury situation.

I would be surprised if he's ready for the start of the regular season. Hmm. Okay. Number three J.J. Watt is a given. The next player, I think the Texans will put in their Wall of Fame, will be Arian Foster.

Isn't J.J. Watt already in there? Or no? Did they do him yet? I thought he got indicted. Indicted. Indicted? I'll be thinking it indicted. Is J.J., I don't know. I thought it was Andre. It's the latter, not the former. Oh, geez. Ah, boo! I feel like indicted better

Maybe Maybe JJ isn't a wall of honor already Let's see here Wall of Honor A bunch of Janice McNair stories here Oh it is Andre, Bob and JJ Okay so the next one's going to be We'll be Aaron Foster

Okay Okay And number four We'll NBA for you I think these are Braun James stories To Dallas have a lot of steam to them I would not be surprised if at some point LeBron James is a Dallas Maverick

to play with Anthony Davis's buddy to play with Cooper Flag and Kyrie Irving What? I think his days in L.A. may not be this season, but I think before it's all said and done, LeBron will be a Dallas Maverick.

You believe one of these? I believe three of them. This slop? Yep. When Dana makes a trade, truly believe it'll be involved an active member of the Astros. I think the Texans...

Sorry, that was rude. That was rude, but you're all to a good start. I called it Slop. I think the Texans are soft playing the Joe makes an injury situation. I'm like you'll be ready for the start of the season. Now, again, I know there for gospel, but I'm getting... I feel it in the air. Okay.

Number three, JJ Watt is already in. The next player to get no Texans' Wall of Fame will be Aaron Foster. and number four, LeBron is going to be a Dallas Maverick at some point in his NBA career. Which one of them I'm not telling the truth? I mean,

you want to work through this, Jonathan? And then you can disagree with me and be wrong? Yeah, but real fast, was Aaron Foster that guy? I just, you know, I'm younger, so his days were like when I was like 16. Yeah, I think that's probably the one I'm going to go with because it is the not a long enough tenure there.

But I also don't think I mean, unless Matt's got some inside information, the Texans aren't soft playing anything. They didn't say anything. The report was from Ian Rappaport. Okay, what said, the report was, look is going to miss the reciprocity. I think it's going to be more than that.

Okay. So, yeah, I don't, I mean, Ian Rappaport is soft playing it? Okay, whatever. I'm saying that I think this is a much more serious injury situation that's going to cause him to miss some references in time. But again, I'm not a doctor. I've not seen the x-rays.

Just telling you. Just a little bit of what it's in my crumb. I'm aware of your lack of an MD. Excuse me? All right, what I can go with? Let's go. LeBron is not going to Dallas. I don't think unless, I mean, I guess I'm missing some trade wins that I haven't been reading.

Some tea leaves on his 4 U tab. Then I just haven't been. I'm going to go with 3 because it's not going to be Aaron Foster. He didn't play long enough. Yeah, you know what? Yeah, I'm going to go with 3 as well. I don't think, I don't think, LeBond's going to Dallas. I don't think Dana Brown's not going to trade anybody, so I'm going to three.

All right. Number one, I do believe that a current member of the Astros organization will be traded as part of the deadline if there's a trademate. Okay. Okay. Number two, I do believe that Joe Mixon's going to miss the first, going to miss some time in the regular season. Based on what? Based on what? Ian Rapaport is lying to people?

No, I think he didn't say, he didn't say, and we'll be. ready for week one of the season. That didn't come as part of the tweet. The beating around the bush, he's trying to say. I'm saying that we've sitting around these parts. Oh, he'll miss a couple weeks. Well, a couple of big speeds pretty much. But again, that wasn't put out by the Texans. No, I'm saying, I'm just, okay, so I'm telling you that I would not expect Joe Mixing to be a part of the Texans in week one. Hope I'm wrong, because God knows I need them.

Okay. It's going to be four. gentlemen, I 100% agree with you that Arian Foster should not be in the Texans Hall of Fame, but the Texans don't have rules like you and I do about having not about what shouldn't be up there. They are so void of players putting up there that if they go five or six years without putting one in, they're going to be like, what's going on? So I do believe that Arian Foster is going to get in the Wall of Fame. He doesn't deserve it. I agree with you on that.

But I think the Texas are going to do it anyway. So the one I don't believe is LeBron going to be a maverick before the end of his NBA career. Mark Stein put a story out this weekend about LeBron is open to going to Dallas. LeBron's open to a lot of things. I think Mark Stein just got a little nibble

from somebody and he went with it. But LeBron, I mean, do you want to just I mean, you want to be more than Jordan so bad. You just can't keep bouncing around and around and around the rest of your NBA career going from team to team to team.

If he was going to go, anywhere else, Rossi, honestly to me, you'd better going to Cleveland, or at least it would be a faster path to the Eastern Championship, right? So I don't think he's going to be a Maverick, so that's the one I was not telling you the truth. I figured there might be something on your 4U tab that I missed.

Yeah, it was Mark Stein, not me. Because you're all over the... You're in the NBA trade wins on 4U tab. But Aryan Fosters should in no way be... I don't, you know what I just said? In the Ring of Honor. What did I just tell you? I remember playing him on... I don't think it's going to happen either. I just remember that. I just remember

I'm being mediocre. Okay, so if JJ's in, Andre's in, Robert is in, and now Janice is in. I mean, are you going to go five or six years without having us?

Jay J.J. Watt and Andre Johnson, why not? Why do you have to have a limit on it? Why do you have the time limit? Got to be exclusive, though. If you're not good enough, you're not good enough. I think they're going to be like,

we've got to put somebody up. For a franchise, it has been around since 2002 to have four people in it, and two of them are your owners? Yeah, but you can only, I mean, you only have so much room in the rig around the stadium. You can't just be putting people in there willy-nilly.

For the 100th time, I do not disagree with you. I just know how the Texans roll. Okay. I mean, why do they put Janice with Bob Biden together? I don't know. I mean, they're... What did Janice even do? Was she even lucid during her tenure as the owner?

That I don't know. I wasn't speaking to her on a regular. Okay. But she did, when Bob passed, she didn't run it for a few years. until Cal and Kerry got sideways with each other. Well, now it's officially Cal. Yes. But he was basically running the day-to-day.

Well, Janice was, I mean... Yeah, I don't think Janus was crunching numbers. She was signed a deal. Just my guess. Yeah, I don't think she was, yeah, breaking necks and cash and checks. She wasn't like, can we get a third and a fourth for this guy? So we try to trade down? Yeah.

She wasn't calling Chris Olson, the team. Catapologist five, seven years ago. go saying, do we have another three main dollars or go get a backup tight end? No, I don't think. Maybe she was, though. She's in the ring of honor now. Does she go next to Bob? How does this work? I haven't even seen this ring in the stadium.

That's how I touch I am. My point is that they're not going to be able to Okay, so let's go over the candidates. Real quick. Deshawn Watson, nope. Dwayne Brown left on terrible situation.

That's a no. DeAndre Hopkins left in a scurly situation. That's a no. Yeah, just leave it blank. DeAndre Hopkins is more deserving than I would agree. See, that's the thing, boys. You don't seem to understand we are an agreement on that as well. So we're basing your opinion on some fiction you made up in your head. No, I'm just telling you, I think I know how the Texans think.

Okay. Yeah, fiction you made up in your head. I cannot wait from to get in. I cannot wait from to get in because I'm going to. because I'm going to be like, I told you so, I told you so, and I told you so. Okay. He had, what, four 1,000-yard seasons, I think? Three maybe?

There was a stretch where he was, I have to look up his numbers, but I want to say three or four of those. Okay. Yeah, he had four, one-th-thousand-year-s seasons. Seven years. He was only there for seven years, four-thousand-yard seasons. Not good enough for me. Not ring of honor-worthy. But guess what?

They never asked for us to be the judges. Okay. Because honestly, I mean, why is Janice going in? I mean, in brutal honesty. Because of Bob. Yeah, I mean. But Janice wasn't on the field, Matt. She was not a four-time pro bowler.

All right, I got one free. Let's go on. Okay. Gary Kubiak, in or out. Out. You don't think Gary's going to get a shot at it? He might. Just saying.

I don't know what's doing. Remember, we're not the jury on this. You've got to talk to Hannah on this. What's the criteria? There is no criteria. That's what they do. The criteria is being an all-time great. They put Andre Johnson in eight years ago,

and they've only done one player since then. J.J. Watt played more recently with the Texans and Arian Foster did, didn't he? Mm-hmm. But you weren't going to put Arian Foster in before you're going to put it in J-J-Watt. That had been stupid. That wasn't going to happen. Okay.

We have a juicy major league baseball story to talk about when we come back. Juicy? Juicy. Okay. 1144 on Sports Talk 790. If you want to join the conversation, should, I know, no, you know what, this is in an argument. Aaron Foster should not be in,

but I think the Texans will put him in. Okay. I'm already to put my name on it. Do it. I'm going to write this down. Save it for tomorrow. Can't do it right now. No, that's a gut feeling.

You put your name on it. That's a strong gut feeling. Say, what's a chest, Maddie? A strong gut feeling says it. Oh, it's a strong gut. We don't have a category for strong guts. It's not quite a. Put my name on it, but it's more than a gut.

Okay. It's like a fat gut. I mean, like a dunlap your belt gut. Excuse me? 1145 on Sports Talk 790. Listen to the show, Kerwin, sent us a tweet and says he thinks that Arian Foster's going to get in. He also says, what about Bill O'Brien? Bill O'Brien was a more successful coach than Gary Kubiak.

More division titles. I thought Houston hated Bill O'Brien. We do hate him. Oh, okay. All right, I'm going to make a statement. please the Texans are a joke of a franchise if they're putting Bill O'Brien and Arian Foster in their ring of honor I'm going to make sure and be very clear about this neither deserve to get in Bill O'Brien is not going to get in

Aaron Foster is going to get in the Texans Hall of Fame okay doesn't deserve it but he's going to get in okay I'm just making that statement I know what you said and I'm again I'm not arguing with you let me ask Wax Waxe over Texanville Wex I we don't believe that Aaron Foster should should get in, but I believe the next Texans, we did this on to tell the truth here, I believe the next Texans halt ring of honor guy is going to be Aaron Foster.

Agree or disagree. I agree with you, Matt. What about my statement that the Texans are a joke of a franchise that Bill O'Brien and Arian Foster get in. Bill O'Brien's not getting in. You don't worry about that. You got a turn signal line. Are you going left or right? Left. I was going to say left because it's been a while. Right.

You're usually right in there. Yeah, you usually go quickly. All right. Pat had practice today for the first time. Give me two or three initial thoughts from your eyes to our audience. Biggest pop of the day, Kaelin Bullock, popped Cade Stover on one of the very first place in front of the fans. Everybody got up, no problem. Pass was incomplete.

Probably about as you don't want much more from a hit stick standpoint when you're only practicing against your teammates. But it wasn't anything too big of the deal. And Jalen Noll, very good practice today. probably his best catch was a nice little floated pass about 30 yards down the field from the backup quarterback Davis Mills Miles Bryan in coverage for a 40 yard touchdown lots of scores lots of red zone work so minutia details coming up on the 18 I was going to say we like to leave the minutia between two and six all right another thing we brought we played the sound by that you got of DiMico I gave the audience and look you see him a lot more than I do he's getting a tinge more grouchy with these media availability. Not every single time, but once in a while, and I thought his comment about Joe Mixen's injury status was kind of grouchy.

I think if it's a... That's his phone, not ours, right? Correct. But everybody doesn't talk about it. It's the old guy's personal injury business. When they're back, they're back. I just don't like to get into all that kind of stuff. And when a report comes out over the weekend,

trying to throw everybody into a tizzy that Joe Mixon. Availability for the start of the season is in jeopardy. It's not necessarily untrue, but it also isn't necessarily a differing viewpoint from what they had internally, which is probably more accurate. They knew this wasn't a couple weeks. They knew this was more like four or five weeks, and that's how long we still have until the season. So whenever a question about a player's status, especially we're still in the offseason, when that comes up, he has zero interest in giving details, but would prefer to tell you why. don't bother asking him. And that's what he did. Well, I just thought it was weird that he said, you know,

I want people around here that care about the person, not the, you know, the injury status. I'm like, well, first of all, why don't you go tell Ian Rapaport and Adam Schaefter that and Tom Pelliserro because their life is living for talking about injuries? Secondly, we do care about these people. We don't just consider them bots. But at the same time, they're players on an active roster, which people care about and how the team's going to go.

It's not unfair to ask follow-up to a report that was like. let off by a national reporter because somebody in the building said something to somebody. I don't think the agent would go run and tell this to Ian Rappap report. I think somebody in the building wants to get some good graces with the NRAP report and thus that the report came out this weekend. Yeah, the manner in which you described it, he didn't have to worry about having people around that care about the players because all three reporters you mentioned, they're not around. They're not here.

We're there. We're the ones who are out there every day. But one has nothing to do with the other. Reporting on injuries are trying to get details about players. availability, not counter to not caring about the player. They don't go hand in hand. So, you know, the pattern path that he took on that,

probably not necessary, but very minor issue. Very. Christian Harris, what's going on with him? I know he's still walking around, but not putting any pads on or working out. When is that going to start becoming even a bigger alarm in terms of when he's going to actively get back on the football field? Yeah, I guess it could just be a roster situation, but I don't understand why he doesn't start on Puplist.

He's not practicing. Why do you have a player on the active roster who is not practicing? This is their fifth practice. He hasn't practiced at all. I saw him walking across the field one from the facility before practice. He ran across the field or jogged across the field at Hockeed without any issue. And then I watched him come out of the practice bubble for their beginning of practice. Same thing.

He was jogging into wherever he and the linebackers were headed. And again, it didn't look like there's too much going on. And so when Domingo in the off-season said, he expects him to be ready. He hasn't practiced. He obviously is not ready. But I do not think this is something that will continue to linger beyond this unless there's a reoccurrence. And I state that in Harris's case because that's exactly what happened last year. Last year he was missing time at camp.

He returned to camp. He re-injured himself. And then he played the entire season or had to deal with it the entire season, which essentially turned into a completely lost season. They're equipped to not need him. him. It's why EJ. Speed is here. It's why Henry Toa Toa is ahead of him on the depth chart, which is essentially what you did last year. So it be nice to have a

player with those athletic abilities, but they're at least in a position where they don't have to count on him, and until he practices, I don't really have much of a thought on what he'll do for this team this year. Back to the running back situation, I'm assuming that we're getting, what are we getting on terms of balance? We know that Damien Pierce is

not taking par, but how are the wrestling running backs in terms of a number of carries? How is that being distributed? at this point? Well, the only running back that's expected to get more than 15 carries this year for the Texans that's had even one carry at training camp is Nick Chubb. The other four and now today five guys running behind him because J.J. Taylor was activated off the pub list today.

J.J. Taylor, British Brooks, the rookie Woody Marks, Darya Gunbollale, they're not carrying the ball for the Texans. Woody Marks would be next in line if they had injuries in season to Mixon and to Chubb and if Pierce makes the team. So it's Nick Chubb running as the one, and that's really all that's of great consequence. You're going to see a ton of Woody Marks and joint practices, and you're going to see a ton of him during the preseason game activity.

But beyond that, what we're sitting out here, and today was still the only day that truly gives you any actual analysis is when Nick Chub is going to football. Does he have to choose, you know, things like that. All right. That will do it for Wex. Thank you so much. I don't know if it's our fault.

Usually it is. No, this sounds like just to say. He's driving. No, don't say that, Wax. Now you're clear as a bell. No, it doesn't sound the same as the other issues we've had. Yeah, I think he's driving. Yeah, he's driving.

So, Wex, what will be the most minutia thing he will bring up today, 2 to 6? The third offensive line group, how they lined up. That's Radio Sex right there, is what that is. Wax is going to join us tomorrow at 1220, Ross, and you're doing the entire... What? You're doing the entire interview. tomorrow. Why? Because you did the entire segment off today. I'll be prepared. I was ready. You cut me off. Wax, we love

you. We'll see you in about two hours. Talk to you then. Close to you then. Will you leave the studio? No, he gets here early. Yeah, but will you go out there and see him? Yeah, I go get some water, some coffee. Stress my legs? So tomorrow, at 1220, before we talk to Joe Spott, it'll be

Ross and Wax. That's great. For a full segment. All right. Nally do I have... It'll be actually good. One... What was wrong with the segment I just said? Nothing. I got Astros we're going to get to the news at noon. At 1220, I have two juicy baseball stories. Okay.

I like juicy. News at noon. Two juicy stories at 1220. Juicy sounds good. And your phone calls. Wonder may or may not be juicy? Who knows? 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-790. I believe the Astros are in the emergency room. Can they get out? without a huge co-pay. We'll find out next on 790. Free O. And that's hammered deep to left. Kiss it goodbye.

A long home run. Off the bat of Shea Langalears down the left field line. Second home run of the Yenig. Third straight day, Langalears is homer and the A's have a 2-0 lead in the first. Number 17 for Langalears. That's lifted in the left and that's down for a base hit. Langellier scores when's around third. score as well, a two-run single for Max Schumann, and it is six to nothing A's.

He has hit it well out to center, but this is playable for Butler. He's in back, waiting for it, makes the catch, and that is the ball game. For the first time ever, the athletic sweep of four-game series at Dykin Park as they beat the Astros today, 7 to 1. We just out of the emergency room? They're asking for our co-pay. We want to make you better. you some players. It's going to cost you some prospects. You want to pay that co-pay? We'll see if Dana Brown. I don't know if he's got the funds.

He's like, can't we just get some time long solve this? I can get in a payment plan. Rough, rough goal of things for the Local 9. Four straight I mean, not even competitive games either. Four non-competitive. And the crowds were amazing this weekend.

30,000 plus all of them. Robert 4 was listening to the game yesterday. He said there were 36,000 at Dyken Park. He said it was the quietest Dike in park spend in years. That makes sense. I mean, they got their ass kick for four games. What do you want? Yeah, there's no. I mean, y'all did your part. You showed up. You ate, you drank, you cheered. Yeah, the worst was on Friday. It was a 15 to 3, but people had to hang out for the fireworks. Oh, yeah. The Astro did the Dodgers on July 4th. Don't forget that.

All right. 12.05 on Sports Talk 790. I have two juices. see major league baseball stories. A third one has just popped up. It's part of our news at noon. Yes, Matt, News at Noon. We'll start with what we just talked about. The Astros of four straight losses.

Washington Nationals coming into town. Feeling better? How are we feeling? They're 43 and 62. Wait a minute. The Asians came to town after being swept by the Rangers. What if I said this? Valdez on the hill today.

What if I said there was a professional line I'm going to be out there today? He's also going against Brad Lord. Who's actually Brad what? Brad Lord. L-O-R-D? Yeah, they're going up against the Lord. Doesn't feel great. It's going to be tough.

Nationals coming into today's game with a record of 43 and 62. They fire their manager and their general manager earlier this year. Of course, they are 43 and 62. Before the A-Series, they were at 42 and 62. You know what? Guaranteed

Astros win series. If they lose this series, you think the panic button has been hit. It's going to be like smashing of pieces. Minus 255 the Astros today. Come on, baby. Gotta get the dub.

It's going to happen. Okay. All right, Matt, elsewhere, a bombshell from Jeff Passon as the Cleveland Guardians closer, Emmanuel Claese has been placed on non-disciplinary paid leave as part of Major League Baseball's sports betting investigation. Sources to LESPN.

Claise second guardians pitcher on leave tied to the investigation. Of course, right-handed Luis Ortiz was put on leave a little while ago. And they had a couple of pitches that were super non-competitive. they isolated from him. We'll see what happens with Emmanuel Claise. Non-disciplinary leave, at least to August 31st, according to a statement from Major League Baseball.

And then there'll be some serious disciplinary action after August 31st. Well, that would be banishment for life. Yeah, that's why it's serious. If they feel like he's actually compromised the integrity of the game. I've said this a thousand times, Ross, and I think you've echoed it as well. I'm surprised there isn't more sports gambling and throwing a games.

No, I put it the other way. I'm surprised it's happening this much. Because these guys, I mean, how much does Clause they make? He's got to be making at least around 15 million a year or something. Why is he doing this? Because why is he throwing games?

He's helping friends out, I guess. Yeah, but as we've talked about it, it's in every, it's posted in every clubhouse, it's talked about, do not mess with the integrity of the game. They have, this is not like the 1970s when you just go tell you bookie and then then that's it. They have software in place that monitors if there's unusual activity on any sort of bet. There's red flags all over the place. Like prop bets in particular. And these books are

shutting down. They'll take it off the board. And then they investigate. I'm still going to stand by my statement. I, maybe here's what I'll, I'll say. I think it's happening a lot more than you want to think. It's just probably being done to a much small level. Whatever's Claise is doing or has been accused of. It's not worth it. The warning signs were going off all over the place. It's stupid. No, I'm going to say, I don't get it because you are compromising your entire.

So, yeah, Claude is still on his first contract. So he's not making big money until 2027. He'll be making $10 million. He's making $5 million this year. I mean, unless you're in deep with the mob, I don't get it. You are risking your entire career. and reputation. And it would be too difficult to throw a game in which you don't play in.

You're going to have to do it where you tell literally one person, and he makes like $10,000. But even then, that's going to be a red flag from the, if you're making all that kind of money off of one, if you're normally betting $20 prop bets and all of a sudden you load up 10 Gs in your account and then you bet, you're going to be investigated. Wouldn't you think it'd be the dumbest thing you could do is putting any kind of crazy money on a prop bet?

That's what the Terroger of the Hornets was going through. There's crazy prop bets that are getting to people. You need to find literally, this doesn't make any sense. You need to find 100 people to put down $100 or something. In different parts of the world. Yes, with different IP addresses. Yeah. I mean, and non-accounts that have nothing to do with each other with 100 different emails.

I mean, maybe somebody's doing that, but even then that's going to raise redless. A lot of work, too. They are. Oh. What do you mean? Know something? No, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, let me, just trust me. Uh-oh.

See a lot of Western Kentucky activity? A lot of Discord servers and Twitter. A lot of hilltoppers minus six and a half against, who would you all play? Middle Tennessee. I don't know. East Michigan or something, you know. Oh, yeah, East Michigan. That's fun.

Oh, what are you speaking from experience? One of those regional schools. That was very experienced. How much you win on that, Jonathan? Don't put those prop bets on SFA games. You're talking about those mess halls over there at Western Kentucky. I didn't tell I should have. Yeah, seriously, I could have made Fitty.

Bucks. All right, anything else? What else do you want, Matt? Oh, how about Luca Donchich? He looks ripped. In the best shape of his life. Who told you this was going to happen? Thank you, Ross.

I appreciate. I told you that LeBron was going to put him into good shape. Wait a minute. I said this. I think I said it too. I said it more. I also said, no, this is the more interesting point to me. Does this happen if he's never true?

traded. No chance. So that's what I'm saying. Isn't it funny how the universe works? If he had a state in Dallas, he'd probably still be tubby. Now he gets traded, he gets motivated. It's not tubby, he's just doughy. Oh, okay. Hold on, that's semantics here.

No, no. Tubby and Doey are two different things. Semantics is two to six. Tubby and Doe are two different things. Yeah. It's a difference. I want to know. Tubby is 250. Doe is 220. You know what, that's valid. I can

I can see that. He's just making things up. No, I'm not. Okay, find me a definition of tubby and doughy. Wasn't that a bigger person too? All right, let's go with, okay. Who is Doe? Luca Donchins was Doey. Who's a tubby?

Celtic Shack? Ooh. Who's that guy that was, playing the Summer League team for Memphis? No, he's played for the movie. Oh, Ed Lover. No, no, no, no, no. Love something.

Yeah, he's a junior. He's a something, something junior. Yeah, he crushed the, he was in the summer. I watched it. Kenny Lopton, Jr. That's, that's a tubby. He crushed the, the Rockets, didn't he? Yes, well, he's also playing the G-League team for some team.

That, he's tubby. Mm-hmm. Look, it was dope. Louis, Luke could still move. When you're tubby, you can't move. Okay. That's all I'm saying. And that's the news at noon.

Semantics at noon. Semantics at noon. Semantics at noon. All right. On Sports Talk 7-90. Usually we leave the semantics for 2 o'clock, but we've been very semantical the last a few days. Maybe we're taking a lead off them.

Is that a word? Semantical? Sure, why not? More semantics on semanticle. Jesus. All right. I got two more juicy baseball stories for you. Would you like to hear them?

No. Well, too bad. You're going to be hearing him in about a handful of minutes. Okay. Okay. Two, one, two, two, five, seven, ninety. Oh, Lauren, Shihadi. Oh, will you stop?

Good Lord. On a Monday, Matt. Look at that dress she's wearing. My God. Now you turned it off. That's not nice. We're watching Garage Squad. 713-212-5-790.

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thousand years what do we do okay forget it thank you everybody thank you for Houstonians for listen to our station 790 and thank you to iHeart media for keeping us employed yeah thank you i heart we appreciate it i mean money well spent i'm sure

i'm sure the uh the podcast we can't get jonathan a raise but we can promote the San Diego FC podcast don't put me in this i'm good graces you are into good graces me too You know what? We love the San Diego MLS podcast. We cannot wait to hear it.

It is amazing. I cannot wait to listen as soon as I'm home. I will not pay attention to Matt Thomas because I'll be listening to the San Diego FC podcast. I'm listening to it right now. What is you just saying? All right. Two juicy stories.

Does it get juicier than gambling on baseball? No, they're not as juicy. But one's pretty good. So Rob Manfred is the commissioner of baseball. and he gets to go to these 30 different teams to check in on things. Okay. Well, apparently, last week, he went to Philadelphia to go talk to the Phillies. Mm-hmm.

Most famous Philly would be... What's his name, Schmidt? No, Mike Schmidt. We're talking about the current one. Oh, Bryce Harper. Oh, Bryce Harper. Okay. Apparently, Bryce Harper and Rob Manfred went nose-to-nose in a meeting during the...

What? commissioner's visit with Bryce Harper telling the commissioner to get the blank out of our clubhouse what? Yes.

I thought this was juicy. Now, Bryce Harper has always been kind of a had a screw loose. Remember the clown question, bro? Stuff from back of the day.

Yes. Now. And remember he was running down an umpire or something like that? What was the running he had with an umpire? Bryce Harper?

I don't know what you're talking about. I know. I know. I want the vivid details. We'll get it in a minute. But what do you think they were talking about? What would get Bryce Harper so upset that he would tell Rob Manfred, the commissioner of the sport, to get the F out of their clubhouse?

He didn't pay his fantasy league dues. Nope. That's not a bad first guess. I mean, I'd have gone a little higher brow, but... The impending lockout. They thought of a salary cap. Oh. You know, Bryce Arborne done one.

no salary cap. Shut your bum ass up. Though Manfred never explicitly said the word salary cap, sources said the discussion about the games economics raise the ire of Harper, thus them getting mono and mono to each other with an ending by saying get the F out of our clubhouse. Wow. So salary cap is just the, it's like the words it shall not be mentioned in any clubhouse. And it will absolutely cause a lockout.

I just don't understand, though. It's not feasible. Tampa Bay is not getting anywhere closer, Pittsburgh or whatever. If you need a salary cap, you need a big salary floor. Big salary floor. And that's what they're going to say.

If you're going to put a cap on people, then you better well for the entire players association. You better make the funds available to Pittsburgh players and any players. And also, Ross, I talked about this before, they 100% are going to want free agency faster than six years. You're going to have to give it to them. I mean, they're going to want it in like three years, number one. But it's also more complicated because guys get put up and down.

I mean, even top prospects get sent back down and stuff like that. When does, I mean, I guess you got to go with the service time thing. I don't know. It just seems much more complicated than the simple, you know, you're a first-round draft pick in the NBA. You're basically on the team. Yeah. And you're guaranteed for four years. Same thing for football.

There's nowhere for you to get sent down. I don't know. Are guys going to be held in the Model E level longer? So service time doesn't start kicking in? See? I don't know. These are the things you're going to have to figure out as well.

Are there going to still be higher slot bonuses based on a draft pick? The Yankees would never agree to a salary cap. Why would they? Or the Dodgers or the Mets? So then would it be more like an NBA soft cap with aprons and luxury taxes rather than the NFL hard cap? I'm just, and look, this is way above our pay rate on that, but we're going to get some sort of aprons,

deeper luxury taxes right now than what Major League Baseball is in right now. And I think the war is traveling. They're going to want some sort of cap. The problem is how do you let the five most influential baseball teams, how are they going to let this happen when they're like, wait a minute, we have the money, we want to go spend money, why are you holding us back?

So it'll be great for the parody of the league long term. It will absolutely. Parity leagues are better when they're salary caps. There's no argument to it. But a player doesn't want to hear that, though. A player doesn't want to hear that. The NFL has been able to thrive off of the fact that Green Bay can't, that the L.A. Rams can't spend more money than the Green Bay Packers. That Kansas City will not be outspent by the New York Jets.

There are no aprons. There's no luxury tax threshold pay. If you're over the cap, you have to release players to get under the cap. And for us, as sports fans, it's easy kind of us for figure out. Yeah. Now there's signing bonuses and roster bonuses and that kind of thing that kind of get, they're minutia-esque. But generally speaking, there's a dollar amount, period,

based off of player revenues and league revenues that is given to the teams every year and you can't go a dollar over it, or you are going to lose draft picks. It's not happening in baseball. I don't see it. I'd like to see video of Bryce Harper stepping and poor old little Rob Manfred. What do you think? I mean, isn't Bryce Harper like

6, 4, 2.30 or something? What in the world is, how does Rob say, okay, thanks, guys? I mean, he probably felt like he was three inches tall after me. When Bryce Harper gets in your grill? Get out of our clubhouse! Okay.

I'll hear you guys later. All right. A second juicy story. That's not nearly as interesting. Bob Nightingale reporting over the weekends at. Uh-oh. Now, again.

No, you just started the sentence with that. All right. You start the sentence with Bob Nightingale reporting over the weekend. I'm skeptical. Go ahead. There is some talk of the World Baseball Classic going during All-Star Week. Hmm. Now, I hate the World Baseball Classic.

Yes. I'm in the minority on this, and I understand that. No Astros were going to be in it. What was the crazy thing you said? I never want to, I never want to Astro in it again. I can tell you that for damn sure. What's the problem with it? I don't want to get.

Jose L. Tuvei broke his thumb when he was. in it. He got hit by a pitch and he was out for months. Now, that could have happened in a spring training game. I'm just saying I don't need my guys getting ready for the season playing games like it's Game 7 of the World Series. And you saw that in March when they weren't ready. I said zero Astros

in the WBC. Next year. Yeah, okay. So, you know, I will fall on my sort of that. I'm going to lose that one. There's me at least one. I mean, there's too many international players in the Astros. I just don't like it. I don't like it. I just think it's a meaningless exhibition, but obviously it's not meaningless to that.

To the players. That's the only thing. And that's the most important thing. To me, it doesn't mean anything, but to them it means a lot. But putting it during the All-Star break, oh, when you need downtime, Ross, you're going to play an international event? I'll put that at 0% chance that's happening. I don't think there's never a good time for it,

but the All-Star break would be the worst time for it. Unless you're using minor league players. That's what you can do. It's not going to happen. I don't know about it moving. Yeah. How long doesn't it take longer than a week? Or how long does it WBC take?

I'm just saying that I just saw the tweet. Group play. Oh man, I put WBC and Google. It came up white blood cells. That's not what I'm looking for. Maybe WBC finals, maybe? You could see that. Oh, the finals?

You do group play preseason and the final or like the final bracket or whatever. The kind of, you know, because baseball does, there is some open time, nothing going on in sports. Wouldn't you think? I mean, you could, you could slight put it in there. Average attendance for the 23 WBC, 24,000. or eight. Oh, I think it's going to be a hit here. First of all, baseball is a hit in this town.

Yeah. Whatever games are going to be here are going to be very good. All right. 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-79. A lot of interesting little baseball tidbits. And D'Amico was grumpy. D'emico hates people.

No, he doesn't hate people. He loves his people. He don't really care about us in our feelings and our hamstrings. you only care about reporting in clicks. I don't think it's clicks. I think it's just I got the story first. Well, that's clicks. Yeah, you get the story first, you get the most clicks.

That's true. One leads to the other. Like Doee leads to Tubby. By the way, shout out to our friend on Twitter for giving us the complete definition of Doey versus Tubby. I'd rather be called Doey than tubby. Doe means I could probably stand to lose 20 pounds. Tuppy means get out of a diet right now.

Okay. 713, 713, 212, 5-7-1-3-212-5-7. Do you have face-time with his lady back there? What are you doing back there? Who's the head-knit? You and these crazy sound effects you got going back there for some reason. Never mind.

7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. Either you call in or Jonathan's giving you more sound effects. It's the Matt Thomas Show at Ross on Sports Talk 790. So we do. just brought up Luca on the men's health where you look shredded, Ross. So we're going to use that term.

Non-dowy. Fit. Yes. Best shape of his life. And there is a scam associated with this, apparently? Not a scam. Would you say scandal or scam? Yes.

Well, somebody from the Locked-on podcast network, shout out Chris Cordy. The dude who does Lockdowne Mavs. Now, I kind of saw this and I was like, huh, okay. They mentioned in the article that Luca Donchich has a 42-inch vertical leap from the scouting combine. And a couple things, I was like, well, he was in Real Madrid. Was he at the scouting combine? And then I was also like, 42-inch vertical leap for Luca Donchich? That would be insane. So in the article, it talks about how he had a 42-inch vertical leap and it's much better.

the only problem is he was never at the 2018 Scott & Combine. And also, apparently this author for men's health basically put into Google, Luca Donchage vertical, and the Google AI says he has a 42-inch vertical, but that's actually Dante de Vincenzo. So it's printing in this men's health article misinformation that somebody got from Google AI. Check your sources, everybody. Yeah, check your sources. We used to have standards and practices.

I already learned that I can't trust Google AI. I've told you all this when I do, believe it or not, I have to fact check everything I get. I Google something and then I look for an actual article. Sometimes I fact check Wikipedia. I'm like, this doesn't sound. How do you feel about Grock? Grock, yeah, all of them.

Fact check all of them. Grock is terrible. It's like I got caught up this weekend on Grock. Somebody's been, they've been doing this, hey, Grock, who is your most famous? Yeah, I know you would do that. You know I would do it. It's very Matt Thomas of you. I was learning off of others.

The most famous person, apparently, the follow to look at my Twitter account was Brian McTex. And that's stupid and not even true. Tate Diggs follows you, doesn't he? Yes, he's got way more followers. Darryor Mory? Darry, yeah.

I love following Matt Thomas. Yeah, he's more famous than Brian McTaggart. Yeah, and you had somebody that was you were the most famous person. Yeah, and they were followed by Adam Clinton. He's miles more famous than I am. Yeah, so Grock, shut you bum ass up, Gron. That's what I'm saying.

I got Grock muted. I was curious about it. Because I know you were. I wanted Grock to give me the list of everybody that's blocked me. That's a long-ass list. Yeah, there's not enough characters on Twitter for that. There's like people that have blocked me that I don't even know who they are. You can do that?

Yeah. Oh, you ask Grock that? Yeah. And you've got a list? No, they didn't give me an answer. They said they couldn't figure it out. But I'll look at very sweets and stuff and I'll look at and see if there's any replies and it says this person's blocked. There's some Gibrony down in Victoria.

that's a sports writer, it blocked me. Nice. Like, what did I do? You're probably being an ass. To a Victoria sports writer? Yeah, you were probably talking trash about Victoria, Texas. Not an indictment against that kid. He's just working hard.

He's going to probably not stick there in Victoria, but I hope he does now. As a matter of fact, he will hope he loses his job. Block you, block you old bum ass up? No, there are some people that have blocked me for the right reasons because they're frauds, but that's a different issue for a different time. Jordan Schultz at Pro Football. Oh, he's got Lego from Fox. He's independent now.

He didn't even have a job. I mean, I know his coffee's damn good, but damn, you blocked me. It's not damn good. Oh, I think it's good. It's fine. It's mid. Anyways. Anyway.

What's he doing now? It just says NFL insider. Yeah. But I got about... Wait, does he not have me blocked anymore? Or no, he's blocked. It's so stupid. You can read somebody who's blocked.

You can read their stuff. I know who blocks me now. Elon did that because everyone was blocking him. But anyways. Anyway, we're going with this. Oh, so AI is giving out ben information. The men's health writer, did not fact check and printed that

that Luca Donchage had a 42-inch vertical. He's got about a four-inch vertical. If Luca Donchage had a 42-inch vertical, he'd be scoring 40 points a game. So that was pretty funny. Now, the end story to this is, if you go get the men's health, and here we are, the Ben's Ralph magazine.

You don't have to rhyme a magazine. Yeah, they don't. They don't spend money with us. Why should I get a ready run? What would a magazine spend money with us? Do they want not want subscribers? Everybody's a potential advertiser. A print magazine in 2025 has got a marketing budget.

That's true. Point being is this. He does look better. It looks great. And he needed it. He needed to do it because it was wearing him down in the playoffs. Secondly, he wants to kind of show Dallas what they're missing out on. But yeah, to answer your question a few minutes ago, if he's still a Dallas Maverick, he can

doing that. He's drinking beer and eating. cheeseburgers. Oh, of course. Let me say it's like a scorned lover. Your girlfriend drops you because you're not performing. You want to look better. So when you go back out on the streets as a free agent, you look better.

Yeah. You've got a lot more free time. Well, I've done. You're not hanging out eating ribs with her. Don't you use it as motivation? Absolutely. Yeah. Got to get your best self.

So yeah, the Dallas Mavericks of the Scorned ex-girlfriend. He's going to make him, you know, absolutely. And he's going to make sure that he scores 40 points a game against the Mavericks every single time. Yeah, there's no doubt in my mind. He's going to be in his best shape of his life this year. But I wonder if it's going to continue. That's what I'm wondering. It's hard to stay in shape for a long period of time.

Let me tell you, Matt. Tell you what? I'm agreeing with you. I was going to say, yeah, you're. I got to tell you, Matt. You're somewhat in shape. Doey. Maybe tubby.

Maybe tub. See, you know what? Maybe a little tubby. You are not tubby. Are you sure? You're a little doughy, but you're not a tubby. Thanks, Matt. I'm working on it.

713, 212.1.5. Go to gym today. Are you really? No, I'll go tomorrow. Hamstrings, actually, we were up to 90%, but then back this, I messed up this weekend. I'm down to back to 70%. Wait a minute.

Are you getting your hamstrings measured? No, I'm just saying how I'm feeling close to 100%. Oh, I see what you're saying. Measurely. Okay. Okay. By whom? I don't know. By the way, we have an update from yesterday on 1.1.

person's hamstring. Oh, well, it's a non-update update update, but it's a read between the lines. This ain't looking good update. Yeah, but I think we're going to play it and we're going to go on the Doom meter 1 to 10. How bad is it? 77. Yeah, it's not good. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-790. If you're on Twitter, we want to follow us there. It's at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Sports Talk 790. Okay, we got Astros. I have one quick thing. You were talking about the Claise. The thing that people were looking at with Luis Ortiz, who also got suspended, was the first pitch prop bets. They have Clazze wasting first pitches.

They have a lot of video of him basically skipping pitches on the first pitch. There is a guy who uncovered, you know, I'm going to give them their proper due because they looked it up. I think it's called Foolish Baseball. Yeah. Yeah, it's like a YouTube Twitter. or whatever. First pitch waste percentage. I don't even know how they calculate this.

17.5%. Every other pitch 5%. So he's doing it three times more often? Yeah. And there's clips of him on the first pitch like basically skipping pitches. It's... And he's the first pitch of the Guardians

they found him. The second pitch. I mean, look, he's bouncing these bad boys. I don't know, man. Very interesting. You know what it is. at the end of the day, it's just better not to get involved with gambling

at all. You know, you and I enjoy it, but we probably should find a better hobby. No, I like that. It's too much fun. Or just take to blackjack. Stay away from the sports books. Oh, blackjack's fun too. But if you're involved in any sort of athletic competition where you get paid, like professional athletes,

to even associate yourself near a sports book probably would be professional suicide. Because look at that website just did. it is putting so much evidence out there. And it could be just coincidental. But man, you put this out there according and then Major League Baseball says, hey, we're suspending you because we think you're doing something? I mean, judge jury and, what are they called?

Judge jury and executioner. That's damning evidence right there. Doesn't look good. And yeah, I don't understand how this is not, I mean, every, not even like every month. then you'd be like, hey, guys, they have data on all this. If you're trying to do and game the system with you and your broskies. You can't, no, it would be too much to get your broskies to do $100 bans. You need literally one person to do like $50.

You want to throw your friend $50 and throw a ball on the first pitch? Like a wedding gift. Here's a free one for it. I'm going to throw this first pitch in the dirt. There's your wedding gift. Congratulations. And your account's probably still going to get flagged. All right, 713, 212-790.

The news about Isak Perid is we didn't want to hear. We kind of heard it yesterday. Day. 1243 on Sports Talk 790. Can I give you a hot take? No. I don't want any takes. Certainly not from you. Simon Agarfunkel, top five duo in American music history. Oh, Christ. All right. They're definitely behind Outcast and UGK. Well, let's start there.

Hall of notes, they're behind. Okay, hollow notes are on my list. Simon and Garfunkel on my list. Who else? Steely Dan. I just put top duos in music history. Hold on. Longings and Messina?

No, because Loggins is more popular when he dumped Messina. It looks like Rolling Stone might be with you here. Let's look. They got Simon and Garfuckle three. I can Tina Turner, too. Who's number one? The Everly brothers? What?

Yeah, they got to have UGK and Elcast up here. What the heck? Oh, Eric B and Ryan. Yeah, they're behind them. Who? Oh, the white stripes. Yeah, I got Simon and Garfunkel behind the white stripes. Richard and Linda Thompson.

Who are they? No idea. Huh. The Carpenters are a duo? Oh, yeah. But Richard never sang. He just played the music. Oh, they're welled behind Daft Punk.

Oh, yeah. That punk got them hits, yo. Sam and Dave's 14th. Steely Dan, I'd rather listen to Steely Dan. over Simon and Garfunkel. They ain't close. Sunny and Cher. Ashford and Simpson.

Peaches and Herb? They get the Black Keys 20th. Early Black Keys, yes. Late Black Keys. They were just mailing it in for like 10 years. Marilyn McHugh and Billy Davis, Jr. Oh, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. I got them ahead of Simon and Garfunkel. Well, I thought you said you said me they were number five.

They didn't have them number three. Oh, really? Okay. Oh, you're saying that you were, you were judged. What was in my personal list? What do they have? Captain and Teneal, but Toneal was the only one that's saying. Does that count as a duo? I guess it does, right?

I mean, Eric B and Raq.m. Rock Kim was the only one rapid. Duh. All right, back at it. Yeah, I'm going Outcast 1, UGK2. Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell 3. I'm just saying I'm happy that I'm able to stand firm on my top five duos of all time. Simon and Garfunkel.

There you go. Milling and vanilla, not on there. Millie and or vanilla? Hall of notes, not even on this top 20 list. That's surprising. All right. Reason we're applying this because we have the sounds of silence. We don't have the sound of silence because we do it 20 hours a week of radio, so we can't have silence.

The righteous brothers? Really? How do you feel about them? Air supply? Was that only two people? Those are two guys? Air and supply? Yeah.

Oh. Which one was your favorite? How about the Bellamy brothers? I'm not familiar. Oh, Tears for Fears with the duo? They had some hits now. Can we get to the sound of Isak Predis? Oh, Wham?

Sorry, go ahead. Yeah, why did we play this song? This is your fault. It is. Number one. It's a jam, though. Number two. Well, you can keep this sad song up.

What the heck's going on with Issoc Paredes, Dana? It's a little bit more severe than we had projected. And, look, ultimately, I think he's going to get this second opinion. We get them to get a second opinion and we'll know more, you know, probably in the next week, less than a week, I would say. But the fact that it was a little bit more severe is it's more painful to us, you know, and it's tough to be optimistic, you know, when you know that it's a little bit more severe. But, you know, hopefully the second opinion clarifies a few things for us and then we could move forward. Yeah, my guess the clarification is, we'll see you in 2026. I told you, when they put that strain on the IL, it was over.

That wasn't a strain. You know what that was, boys? That was a full pull. Like, he almost probably tore it, honestly. Yeah. It's probably as bad as you can, I mean, what can you do to a hamstring? You can pull it off the bone? You can tear it off the bone.

Yeah, that could have been, can be the case for sure. Good God. You lost your lead-off guy. You lost your number one homeowner hitter, probably, wait. He's got a shot. He's got a shot. He's still four behind El Tuve. Just saying, throwing it out there.

And he's Yider Diaz. Gander's swinging Miss Diaz. All right, one more from Dana. How does this affect a deadline, Dana? I mean, we were already looking for a left-hand bat and, you know, potentially, you know, maybe an infielder. But, you know, look, we're still looking for a left-hand bat, so that didn't change. If it's an infielder, great. If it's an outfielder, we'll take that as well.

But it really didn't change much, but it's just more of a preference to be an infielder now. Turn it up. The Wall Star guy. Thompson Twins? Yes or no. What are their three best songs? I don't know. I don't know.

All right. Let me see. I'm going to have to dig more into this Simon and Garfield. Funkle. Folk music's just not my jam. Let me get, okay, first of all, if folk music is not your jam, you're not going to appreciate it. You're right. Just like, I don't like hip hop.

Okay. But let me give you top 20 bona fide Simon Agarfunkle hits. Top 20. What time do we have? Sounds of silence. Yeah, me and Julio down by the school yard was a jam. Cecilia. Oh, that sucks.

It sucks. That's a good one. Scarborough Fair. Not familiar. Bridge over Trouble Water. Oh, that is such a jam, too. The boxer? The boxer's, the boxer's my same.

What is this? This is Scarborough Fair. Hold on. Let this breathe. This is depressing. This is the Astros. Oh, okay. Matt.

This is, I tell you this is depressing. It's folk. Okay, give us a good, like an upbeat folk one. Mrs. Robinson. Go give Mrs. Robinson. Okay, okay. That's got a long intro, though.

That's a jam, though. That is a jam, though. Also one of the greatest movies of all time to graduate. This is a jam. This is, this is a jam right here. and bankrupt back in the day Outcast's better for sure She was a Betty

Name what's the outcast's the most famous song Well probably most famous would be Hayah but I mean we're talking about Southern playalistic Cadillac music was an all great album A.T. Elions was even better and then a Clem and I You're talking about going into stankonia Woo! Woo! Woo!

A little Spotiote Odie Doopalicious Angel! Come on now! I don't know what any of that meant but it sounded good. You gotta go you gotta see the movie The Graduate. It's funny, Jonathan. I had a friend of mine. I don't know if you know this. He's this young guy. and he wound up hooking up with this woman way older. I mean, way

older. It was his girlfriend's mom. You buried the lead. It was his girlfriend's mom, okay? And this girlfriend's mom, Jonathan, would not leave this young guy alone. My buddy's like... She seduced him. She's like seducing him all the time. So he finally hooks up with her.

But he winds up falling in love with her daughter. And the daughter's marrying some doucheback and they go to the wedding. And he's like, I got to stop this wedding. So he goes in the middle of the church and grabs her, puts her over her shoulder, and leaves the wedding. He banged on the window first. Isn't that crazy? Yeah.

That's what my friends are like, Jonathan. I feel like I know this plot. You know this plot? I just told you about a buddy of mine. No, it sounds familiar. It's Dustin Hoffman and the graduate. See, I was part of that movie, actually. See, I don't think Simon and Garfunkel got anything better than riding

dirty. There's just no way. See, this is their most famous song. We is why people can dance at this That's what I'm saying. That's why I put it on. This was from the album The Love Below

where Andre 3000 was doing his best Prince impression and he made a bunch of crazy songs and tried to go off the wall. We did have a call earlier today saying you guys are too depressing. First it was Ozzy Osbourne, then He's like Peretti's.

Well, things happen in three. Simon and Garfunkel don't have anything. Hulk Hogan. Simon and Garfiel don't have anything. Ozzy Osbourne. Okay. And Isaac Paredes hamstring. Okay.

All right. they don't have anything that can touch international players anthem and that's just a fact but yeah this is this is jam turn this up oh good yeah this is yeah now i'm in a better mood by the way got a funny quote from somebody says that uh major league baseball is considering this very serious allegations against the cleveland guardians and by the way you can use clause a and get 15% off your first bet at mgm dot com oh but i didn't think of it i didn't think of it i saw on the four you tab so you're saying this song is better than that you're the one of the one of the one you tab so you're saying this song is better than anything that Simon and Garfunkel put out.

No, I literally just said I don't like the song. All right. I mean it's a jam, but, yes, absolutely 100%. No doubt in my mind. Outcast greater than Simon and Garfunkel. What's up? Who's more influential? Influential.

Who did Simon and Garfunkel influence? Much of guys with acoustic guitars? Pedro hates the segment. He's tying a new sarah on his neck and wants to hang himself. Okay, well, let's turn it to the out. Let's get out of here. We're way over anyways. All right.

hour left to go. We're going to go into, you know what, we're going to sit. We're going to play. How cranky was the head football coach the Texans coming up next? How about that? 1 to 10 on crankiness. 713212-5-790. 7-1-2-1-2-5-790 12-59 on Sports Talk 790. 104 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Toml's show with Ross.

Astro start a series tonight with the Washington Nationals. Ross, I will be on the on-deck show. beginning 6 o'clock today. I will be on the 10th inning show after that. Man, I'm proud of you, Matt. Thank you. I appreciate that very much. I mean, especially because this whole weekend, I thought I was doing it. I forgot we swapped.

So I'm really feeling relieved now. Yeah, I've got Astros on deck on Monday. Wow. I've got the 10th inning on Friday, and I'm working again this Saturday. So let me just say something. Good God. You want team player at the old 790? Yes, sir.

You're listening to the guy right here on this show. You're the ultimate clubhouse guy. Yeah, not the clubhouse lawyer, just clubhouse guy. You're like the late stage Michael Brantley of this operation. Yeah, we appreciate you. Just don't expect me in September. Yeah, much. Getting a lot of injuries, not moving as well as you used to, but you're really holding...

Wait a minute. I'm doing fine. I'm leaner. Yes. I'm no longer doughy? I was certainly... You look like you're falling apart. This tapeworm's doing a number on you. It's been about a five-year tape wharf. Yeah, I know. You think the, the antibiotics would have killed it by now. I know, no kidding. All right, 713-212-5-790 Texans of their full practice today, sports RV. Yes.

Offense did great. Defense sucked. No Christian Harris. And we want to hear what DeMico Ryans was asked about, which was the number one thing coming into the practice, as far as I'm concerned, was the report over the weekend that Joe Mixen is going to most likely miss the entire preseason with whatever ails him. And when asked about that, D'Amico Ryan said this. Yeah, nothing's changed with Joe. Joe is still working, you know, in the background. I know we get reports about Joe.

Nothing said he's still working. Whenever it's time for Joe to be back, he'll be back. I know a lot of people want to report a lot of things about guys or injuries. My thing is this is, are you really concerned about our guys? Are you really just trying to get something out there? Right. And for me, I always put my players health and safety first and foremost. So I care about the guys. So you guys don't hear me talking a lot about injuries because that's their personal information guys are working through that. And there's nothing to report or get in an uproar about. Like our guys are working. And that's, it's always sensitive to me because I've been there. I've went through that. So it's not just to report something to report something. Like I want people here who truly care about our guys. I care about our guys and what they're doing. throughout their process and it'll continue to be that way. Well, then you need a lot of a phone call to the NFL of Nash reporters who get these stories

99 times out of 100? I got a crazy idea, man. Please tell me. By the way, it's foot injuries we're talking about here. It's a very easy way to blunt reporters wanting to get in front of everything and wanting to be first and digging around his organization. Should I write this down? Yes.

Okay. This is an insane idea. What if he went in front of the media and said, yeah, Joe Mixon's dealing with an ankle injury. We'll reevaluate him in a couple of ways. weeks. I got one better for you. Joe Maksin's got a foot injury. Yes. There's nothing new to report. Yes. And I will give you an update one week from today on the latest on that. We're working through it now. I don't have any new information for you. He's trying to get better every single day. Yeah. Instead, he got cranky at the some legit reporters that are there. Most of them are not, but some

that were legit. And he got cranky about it. Yeah. And then they get in front of microphone and he's going to make a godfather reference Frank Pantangeli. What? I don't know. Joe doesn't have a foot. He's what? No, I don't know. Just play dumb and then that makes people want to dig more into it. That makes it a bigger story

than it would be otherwise. And we've gone through this with the Astros. Yep. It's almost like we need us as sports media. And we're not again, I don't think you and I are ever bombastic. Do we have some fun? Rarely. Do we embellish on some things just to kind of for goofiness?

But we're not going to embellish on serious matters. Like being stupid is, is Joe Mixon should he retire? That's the kind of stupid stuff. I mean, we don't do that. Is he injury prone? Well, we've done that with some players. But that had foundation to him. Point being is this.

The more you're, if you go to these teams and say, hey, we know you want to protect certain things. I respect protection. I don't give out our company secrets here at 790 to everybody. We don't have very many, but we don't tell everything we do. I'm not expecting that. But if you're just giving off the impression of I can be as transparent as I think I can be, then we're going to go, okay, non-story. But for Domeco to go, why are you all asking about this?

Just because the reporter wanted his clicks? No, the reporter had reporter news. Reporter news was Joe Mixon is not going to participate in the preseason. You could have told us that the very first day when you had a microphone in front of you, but you chose not to. And just because you don't think it's new news, doesn't mean it wasn't new news because guess what happened? Interop report reported it and it became a conversation piece.

Joe Mixon is a starting running back in the National Football League, who had a very successful season, who wasn't seen at OTAs, who wasn't seen at minicamp, isn't running for the start of preseason camp. I'm sorry, D'Amico, I respect the hell out of you, but that's a story. It just is. Now, how severe is it?

You can tell us that. But the more you don't say, the more you're trying to hide. And that's the thing, yeah. This has been a thing for football and sports for, I don't know, 100 plus years at this point. And if you are more transparent and get in front of it, that's it.

The more you shroud things, the more that other people are going to want to dig. And the more that people are going to want to know what's going on. And again, what I want to know is, we'll never know is who told Rappaport. Maybe it was Joe Mixing himself. It could have been Joe. I don't know. Because I got something for you here. Let's say that Rappaport's been in, like he's been on top of texting stuff for years.

So somebody's in there giving himself. Let's say I took a two week. I was on the show for two weeks. Ooh. And we didn't talk about it. You didn't talk about it. Uh-huh. Rehab.

Now, that's up to me to say it. That's true. So maybe I wanted to go tell Ian Rappaport or my agent. Again, I don't think that's the case. Because the foot injury wasn't a complete silencer. I mean, he had the foot injury in the off season. Yeah, but it's different because there's not an injury report on Matt Thomas every week. There's an injury report on every football player every week, and that's just the way that it has been.

Now, I don't know. If the players or coaches are feeling that that dehumanized, them. I mean, I can understand that. But somebody felt it was good enough to go tell Ian Rappaport, who's got a huge following and is known for breaking news of all sorts in the NFL. So you didn't go to some, you went to whoever you wanted to tell, you wanted to make sure a lot of people knew. Whether that's somebody in the Texans organization, whether that's D'Amico himself saying, you didn't hear this from me. And there's no way D'Amico. That would be pretty funny.

Oh, my God. Domeco leaked this to Ian Rappaport. Coaches and general managers lie all the time. And then went and scolded the media about it. That's actually the best way to try and cover up that it was you. Yeah. Is to be overly defiant about it. That's true.

Oh, oh. You're talking about like when Lance Armstrong, didn't he sue the guys that were trying to out him for using drugs? Or how about when Raphael Pimero in front of Congress says, I did not take steroids. He's pointing his finger. He's pointing his finger. He got caught.

down on the table in like a week later, and he's popped for turrets. Gio on 7.90, Gio, good afternoon. Good afternoon. So as far as the topic at hand, which you guys are talking about the Texas and the Joe mixing injury, I think D'Amico is just being grouchy, like you said, Matt. I don't know why. I mean, it's just, it's news where they're asking about it, either answer it or move on. You know what I mean?

So, but I also wanted to circle back about the best. duo in music. Who did you say yours was, Matt? I don't have a particular go-by. I just said... He put Simon and Gar-Fingle in top five. And it's really an indisputable. Thank you. It's actually, I got a reason to dispute it, but I'll let you go first. No, so I got my answer, and I think it's going to go over your head, Matt, but I think Ross and even Jonathan might get it. And I'm going to answer it with the question. Ross, do spaceships come equipped with rearview mirrors?

No. They do. not. There we go. Have a good one, guys. They just dip. The atmosphere is now ripped. I'm so like a pip. I'm glad it's night.

As you guys were discussing that, I was looking at Sophie Cunningham. Okay. I imagine she's attractive. Yes. She likes Barbies. Ew. I mean, ooh. What did Barbies ever do to you?

Barbies? Barbies. Barbies. Oh. She wore, she plays the Chicago. sky, the WMBA. I got a reason to dispute. Oh, my top five?

Your top. Please. Continue on. Go ahead. Quick. There would be a big boy or an Andre 3000 without each other. Would there be a Garfunkel without a assignment? To be one of the greatest duos of all time, you both got to be great. Well, then Hall and Oates wouldn't be great. Okay, well, then put them down the list. Pimsy and Bunby, both amazing.

Okay, I mean, a big boy and Andre 3000, both amazing. Tammy Terrell and Marvin Gay Both amazing But Tammy Terrell didn't have Neal the success at Marvin Gay Well yeah because she had a brain tumor and died Matt Garfunkel had a couple of hits Did he?

Yeah Okay I don't know about the Everly brothers I'm breaking them down Yeah split up Split an Everly brother up Split a Death Punk Amazing together

I don't know They do projects on their own All I want you do is this Don't do it right now Do it when you're like bored When you're on your phone Because you're on your phone Late at night

Sometimes I want you to Google top music duos of all time. Yeah, I did. And Simon Garfunkel was third. Go to four or five different lists. Get a wide list and see if I bet you Garfungell makes the top five on all of them. Okay. Well, I'm just saying those lists are wrong.

Okay. Because Garfunkel sucks. A Garfogle made a match a mistake. Should have got along with Paul. I'm not talking about Ashtra Ann Simpson. Oof. Who broke up and both did well? I'm talking about mainst.

stream top 40 hits. Hmm. Who would have done both? Call on outs, no. I mean, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, but they were a duo within the Beatles. Yeah, that's not going on. All right, 115.

These are things we pontificate over it because the Astros lost four of the A's. You want to break that down? We can do it. What was the low point of the weekend? Probably Nick Kurtz. It had to be Nick Kurtz. I mean, that was, honestly, I just thought it was awesome.

I mean, that was baseball history. I know a lot of people were mad and like, he's the worst, and I hate Nick Kurtz now. No, I didn't enjoy it. I'll be honest with it. I thought it was horrific. I thought it was awesome. Dude, it was incredible. That's because you're Sacramento.

That's because you're Sacramento. Oh, here we go. I'm sorry. I watch sports to watch all-time greatness, and that was all-time greatness. I watched the Astros because I wanted to win every single game. And you don't. You're a fan-boy homerific, and I'm, you're objective. Fanboy radio, sports radio.

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the funny hair what's that dude's name bob ross yeah put bob ross number one he's long dead number two he doesn't do paint by numbers whatever connect the dots whatever he's doing i was bob ross back when i could growing afro. I was Bob Ross for Halloween once. How did he ever get as popular as you did? It was just because of his weird look. Very soothing, soft voice. And it's very therapeutic for people to watch him paint and make trees and wonderful things for you to look at.

I watched a whole Bob Ross episode the other week. Did you really? I was just curious. I don't remember why it popped up on YouTube or something. And I thought I was going to watch it for like five minutes. I watched like 30 minutes. I'm just painting it. in a log cabin in some trees. It was quite therapeutic, man.

It's very nice. Watch Bob Ross work. Okay. He wasn't that great of a painter, but... No, I mean, again, it looked like paint by numbers. See, that's just rude. That's disrespect and the legacy of Bob Ross. Well, where's his most famous painting, where can I go watch?

You can look at it. His paintings auctioned for like thousands and thousands of dollars. What? Yes. Now, it's mostly people being... nostalgic. Yeah. So they're not hanging... It's not like Van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci. They're not hanging in Midtown Manhattan at some famous art museum. Maybe one or two of them is. Okay. But just not... Yeah. Okay. We mentioned

very briefly. Deion Sanders, bladder cancer got treated for it. So they said tumor. Was it a cancerous tumor? I would assume so. Bladder cancer would be the case. And... Okay, so it was bladder cancer. So he says he's already beaten it. Good for him. That's great. It'll be curious. I'll be curious. You know, U of H plays Colorado this year in Houston. It's a Friday Night Fox game, I think, or ESPN, one of them, too. I wonder if Colorado's traveling.

Because part of the charm of being back in the Big 12 was having actually fans and other teams coming in. You can't sell your own tickets. You've got to hope that other people will buy. Whatever. Thank you, Ross. Oh, oh, wait a minute. Yes. Yes.

Let me tell you what A's Tavae is going to bring. Bubkis. Oh, we're going to... First of all, you don't have to be showing out. They're going to take over the state. You can't even afford gas to get from the Nacadoches to Houston, so I know we're not expecting your asses to be there. That was a good way.

Okay, I think that. But no, part of it is, and I do believe this to be the case. I would love for it to be 40,000 University of Houston fans, but that just hasn't been in the case, at least since Tom Herman. but it is fun to have four or five or six or seven thousand of the other teams fans. When we play East Carolina and Tulane and Memphis, we had 70. Isn't it part of the fun? Is when Texas gets screwed by where they sit in the games and they get all pissed off because it bans?

Like, where is... Oh, when they make temporary stands and they don't... Don't. Stay off U of H. We don't need you. I'm asking. That was a long time ago, a long previous administration. Okay. But like, you know there'll be a story when Texas band gets crappy seats at Ohio Stadium. Like, yeah, like, we only got this and we didn't really put our band here.

And those dorks wearing those crazy hats couldn't sit and watch the game in a good spot. Hey, those uniforms are pretty up to date. Out of the day. They were out of date in 1977. I get the fringe and the cats. It's not great. The band sounds good. I mean, it's fine.

Oh, I know. I was sitting next to him at the sugar bowl. I mean, we got some strange bands. My ears are still ringing. We got the mob over at Rice. We got y'all goofies. The mob is fun. At least they're doing, you know, they make statements or whatnot. Yeah, but they don't, you have to take 20 minutes to explain what their statements are.

Yeah, and if nobody's there to watch them, do they really make a statement? Ooh. I was just looking at the TD ECU Stadium attendance last year. Don't. Skip. Pass fast forward. By the way, the new football operation center is opening up this week. 25,000 for Iowa State? Yeah, because nobody, no, Iowa State didn't travel.

Let's go. Iowa State is number 18 in the country. Let's go, Cyclones. Well, the game was on TV. It was also a terrible rainstorm, I'm assuming. Wait, when was it was, oh, the Texas game was 23. That's right. You brought the officials in and helped you win the game.

I was trying to find a sellout for you guys. It was only when Texas came in it down, of course. We're going to shock the world this year. And finished 10th instead of 13th? Six and six this. year 12 and 1 in 2,026. Boom. You heard me.

I'll write that down, Matt. You should write a lot of stuff down. Yeah, you've been calling for a national championship every year of this show. I mean, it's one man can dream. I mean, let's basketball is going to shot a national championship. I'll tell you this. You got no

shot now that there's a 12th team playoff. Maybe certainly two team and 14, maybe you can get lucky. No, I'll be the other way around. I'm going to have a better shot at a 12th No, because you've got to win three or four games. Yeah, but I have a better chance of getting in with the 12 team. They have a better chance of getting in than getting the asswamping than they deserve.

Why don't they deserve it? Connor Wegman's going to rock the world. Connor Wingman's like, I went to Calistation wasting my time, my efforts. I want to come. It's like, you know what? I'm telling you, Arch Manning would have been a Houston Cougar if not for the fact that Quinn Ewer's left. What? You heard me?

Archie told me directly. Yeah? Yeah. This was in a dream you were having. You guys were in the huddle with the New Orleans Saints? Speaking of the Saints, are they going to suck for Arch? No. Why?

Why wouldn't you? There's no guarantee. I'm telling you, there's no guarantees coming up. You already told me he's going to transfer and that didn't happen. That would have happened. You know it would have happened. There's no way of Quinn Ewers is back this year that Arch would have stayed. Zero percent chance.

Zero percent chance. He wasn't going to stay. Well, you didn't know that. Yes, I do. Quinn, you were and August the last year did not say, I'm only staying for one year. He would never come back to,

he was never coming back to Texas. Now, maybe he would have taken some big NIL money to go somewhere else. All right. Back to my point. Why not the Saints sucking for him? Because you're not sold he's going to be the number one pick? There's no guarantee that he's going to come out.

You know what? Five years ago, I said that's nuts, but no, I can't. NIL money is so good now that he's going to be, he'd be just doing just fine. And going back to yours for a second, Quinn would have stayed, you'd have got more money. You mean Arch or Quinn?

No, Quint. Quinn would have made more money somewhere else. He'd have left and gone somewhere and got some money. He's going and starting his NFL career. Good for him. Wishing him the best. And the videos of him are coming out. Actually, the stuff from Shardur Sanders looks good, too.

I mean, these guys might be a little surprising after. I mean, again, I don't have a dog in the fight, but it's... You're the last person I would think would be putting stock in a camp. Oh, you are, you're right, I'm the last. I'm just saying that it's out there. The people that are fans of those two guys are certainly pushing the agenda along very well. I am not seeing a future superstar all over Quinn Ewers.

Who is a better NFL career? Quinn Ewers or Shador Sanders. Shudor. Because of? I just don't think Quinn's that good. I mean, probably neither. I mean, a fifth and seventh round picks. Yeah, I mean, Shadur is probably going to have a little bit more of an opportunity,

a little quicker opportunity than maybe Quinn. Mm-hmm. All right, 130 on Sports Talk 790. 713212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-79 if you want to join us. What's today's edition of believe or not today? Is it the Hall of Famers from this past weekend? Have you even started?

Folks, he's not started, but if you need to start feeling better about yourself, how are you going to fix that, Rossi? Well, I'm going to tell you what. You've been sluggish. You've maybe not had the motivation you've been looking for it. Maybe you're a little tubby or a little doughy. I brought up one of my takes, which I believe is that I think the Astros are going to have to move a current 26-man roster spot in order to get something. Now, I think you and I have basically been on the same page that these are going to be some minor moves. Eugino-Swarres, sounds like to me you're going to have to mortgage a farm because several teams want him.

It ain't happening. It ain't happening. So if you were to believe me, let's talk about players that would bring back something. Now, I'm not saying a lot in value. But there's a difference in bringing something back as compared to. Are you kidding me? Stop. Okay? Active players on the roster.

For instance, I'll give you an example. Lance McCullors would bring you nothing back. High salary, fresh off of two and a half years of being out. Low results. Low results. That's a player that doesn't bring you anything back. He's untradable. Yorlon Alvarez, not that they're showing any interest in it,

but he'd be untradable at this point. point because again he's missed three months and he's had his fair share of injuries over the past doesn't mean he's not going to be valuable for this team doesn't mean the astro shouldn't still count on him for being a great power hitter but the reality is you'd get really nothing and you couldn't throw you couldn't throw yordon in there as a trait we can get some other guys you're never trading yordon never trading yord on never trading yore i think before the injury jake Myers could have been a trade target. A piece he could have used.

Maybe. You need him on the field. You need him on the field. So that puts him out of the possibility. Christian Walker, you probably could trade, but that's still a pretty heavy hit for two plus years at $20 million. That's not.

Nobody's trading for him. But nobody in theory is. He looks like he's in decline. He's making $20 million a year. Yeah, you're not trading L. Tuvang. You're not training Pena. You're not training Paredes, especially who he's done for the year. That will do you no good in this year's series.

Yonir, you could get something back for? No. Then you're not trading him. But they're not trading. So you mean like one of the starters? When you said 26, man, I thought you meant like, I don't know. I'm starting to start. Ches McCormick or, yeah, Yiner Diaz isn't being moved.

Carotini's a frayed. At the end of the year, you could move Caratini. but man, you need him. You need him really bad. He's been carrying your offense for stretches. I know. That's sad because that's not what he was brought here for. Cooper Hummel?

He's already and available. Nothing for him. Chas McCormick? You could get something for him. Not much. I'm just saying being really open and honest, you could get something for him. Somebody could catch lightning in a bottle for him.

Worst case, he's a fourth out filter. Best case, he could start for you two different positions, honestly. Probably the only position he can't play as right field because of the arm. Or you could trade. Sousa you could trade. Trying to think of the left hand, the relievers. Brian King.

You're not, you could trade Brian King. You're not moving Hayter. You're not moving a bray-you. So, I mean, I would say there ain't a lot. Stephen O'Kert. You could move Stephen O'Ker. It's not looking great. This is not a buffet of options for opposing teams.

We like Stephen O'Kert and Caleb Oort. I don't think he's on the radar. Those guys are on the radar of other players. And I brought this up the other day, and you think you thought it was nuts. I'm going to give you a left-handed reliever and you can't give me a decent. I didn't say I thought that was nuts. Are you sure?

Yes. All right. I want to make sure. People crave left-handed relieving. Okay. And the Astros have a plethora of it. They got a buffet. Yeah.

Yeah, but they don't have anybody that's really, I mean, I mean, you could swap, I guess, a righty for a left-de- That's what I was thinking. That's what I was thinking. That just would be rare is what I'm saying. It would be rare. But you also are asking the Astros to remain competitive. They have to get creative.

And for a team that doesn't have the minor league prospects that other teams do. Yes, but you also have, I mean, what exactly outside of the Astros organization, the track record of all these guys. And oh, by the way, I got news for you, Ross. If you're going to make a trade, why does it have to be to a team that sucks? It doesn't have to be if it's a reliever. Yeah. I need a lefty. I need a righty.

There's got to be somebody that's like, we can call the Astros. They got plenty of them. I'm not going to completely rule it out. or call you crazy. Okay. I'm just going to say that seems unlikely. Normally it is. But there's just something in my belly that tells me that this is a gut feeling.

It's a gut feeling. And I will double down on that on Tuesday. Okay. Tomorrow. My gut feeling is they do not do a reliever swap. Well, I didn't narrow it to that. I'm narrowing it to there's going to be an active member of the team. But from a position player perspective, it's minimal.

You can see that you want them, they're untradable, or they're hurt, and you can't trade them. Man. So let me ask you this, not that you're a doctor. I'm not. But if you're a full pull hamming, that's the rest of this year in the off season, right? You mean, he would have to be ready to go March 2026. Off the bone could be up to six months. You're talking about surgery at that point.

Dana Brown said earlier, you got to go to working to go to go to a little. a second opinion. Second opinion guy says trust the first one. Yeah, I mean second opinion with a hamstring? It sounds like they want it to be a great A strain and even that that's four to six

weeks. You still have to read you know, I've had a great issue. So I guess but however if it was off the bone then you would need a second opinion, right? So maybe it's not off the bone. Maybe they're trying to decide Jonathan how severe the strength. How deep

how severe the strength? It's hanging on the bone. Or if it's a tear. Like, trying to see if it's a small tear. Like, so many things that can go wrong with the hamstring that can put you out. It's a cruel, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's not a ligament, is it? What is it a, uh, not a bone? I mean, there's ligaments to the bone that attach the muscle to the bone, right?

What is a, what is a hamstring? It's a muscle. Muscle, okay. It's, it's a cruel muscle. Cruel? Cool. Okay. Because you have to stop you're doing in your tracks. You can't run.

No. You got a hard time walking. Now, he did get on his Instagram and was getting his hair done. That's good. Could you see a wheelchair in the background? Or crutches? No, I couldn't, Ross. Okay, I'm asking.

I'm asking. Maybe he's under his own power on that. You didn't hear, v- he's not zooming around. A little scooter. Yeah. He doesn't have one of those things that, you know, gets on the first.

By the way, I got to say this for Thursday. I just don't get it. You kids and your scooters? You got to stop. It's out of control. What happened to walking to school? No, I mean, even around like you're going around downtown or Midtown or East Edo or bikes. They're zooming around these scooters.

People are getting injured. Do you know when the worst ones are for me? After Rockets games at night, what's the street I go down to to get out of the 59? It's next to the tender garage. I turn left. I go down the street. I go all the way across to get on the other side of 59. I turn left on the feeder road.

whatever that street is. Okay. And they're coming the other direction at me. That's what I'm saying. They're going on. With the lights on going really fast. First of all, you should be driving scooters at night. Secondly, slow your speed down.

I'm going to win that battle every single time. Matt? Matt. Hold on. Matthew, that sounded very threatening. I don't want to win the battle. In fact, I'll be scarred for life if I have to win that battle. But cars are always going to beat scooters.

Oh, my gosh. Believe it or not, he's up next. Ross has had three hours. Actually, he's had since Friday when the show ended. Oh, nobody's writing, believe it or not, or the weekend. Shut your bum ass up. Hey, I wrote Believe it on Sunday last week. Yes, sorry, I did.

So, shut your ball mess up. One time in 15 years. Good congratulations. You know what? Don't ever listen to me. Focus on Believe it or not. 144 on Sports Talk 7.9. We are playing for big three tickets today.

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I mean, it is what it is. Now, the crazy part of it is... I'll tell you why I'm laughing. You know who broke the story? John Singleton. Oh, Lindsay Singleton. His wife. Lindsay Singleton broke it, yeah.

Yes. I'm not laughing at John or his family or anything. I'm laughing at these idiots who go on Twitter and say Joe Espott is dumb because he won't play John Singleton. Where's John Singleton? Why isn't he in the lineup? What's the point of having him here? He's a quadruplea player, dude. He's not very good.

He's been, yeah, I mean, come on, man. That's what I'm laughing at. Yeah. So respect to the Singleton family, wishing them the best? I mean, he's not very good. He's tried.

It's just, you're left-handed, you don't play any other position, the limited amount of batch you were given, you just didn't make any differences. I mean, You know we don't have time. Five minutes left to go on the show.

What should we do? I was going to say, we'll give you the John Singleton numbers, but it is what it is. They're probably good. One for nine. Yeah, it's a 111 for the kids at home. Let's play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply call it B, believe it or not, and here's how it works.

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And we will start today with Ken on 7-90. Ken, you're ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. Ken, good luck to you, my friend. Here is your first question. Ichero's career, early in it, his father handled his finances, which can cause an unpaid taxes scandal in Japan. Believe it or not?

Believe it? That is correct. Statement number two for the win. Ichero has been very selective with his endorsements over his career, never speaking for beer or alcohol, and only partnering with sustainable companies. Believe it or not. Believe it too.

No, he'd love talking about beer. Sorry. Mike on 790, Mike, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Mike, to date, Ichiro Suzuki is the last MLB player to win both the rookie of the year and the MVP in the same season. Believe it or not? No.

No, that's a believe it. Believe it. We had that question before, I think. Paul on 790. Paul, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? I just got in the car. Yeah, there you go. C.C. Sabathia was a prolific

tight end in high school and even received a football scholarship offer from UCLA. Believe it or not? Not. That's a believe it. We talked about it all day. You don't notice, Ross, how people just get in the car at $150. Stunning. Randall on 790 Randall, you're ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. In 2022, C.C. Sabathy was hired as a special assistant to Commissioner Rob Bantford. Believe it or not? Not. He was. Believe it. Dang. Thanks.

Javier on 790. Javier, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? Detection Stark. Billy Wagner is naturally right-handed but became a lefty after breaking his right arm as a kid. Believe it or not? Not. That's a believe it. I thought that's pretty well known.

Yeah, that's big story. Multiple times, yeah. Cody on 790. Cody, you ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. Academically, Billy Wagner was supposed to be left back a year in middle school but was promoted to high school because of his baseball prowess. Believe it or not? Everything's been to believe it so far.

I'll go believe it. Yeah, you're right. Believe it. Statement number two for the win is a high school baseball coach. Billy Wagner has won four Virginia State Championships. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's correct.

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