The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Have A Interesting Weekend Both On & Off The Field. Endless SEC Baseball Talk

Episode Date: June 2, 2025

Astros Have A Interesting Weekend Both On & Off The Field. Endless SEC Baseball Talk

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Good morning and welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. It is very nice to have you with us. Hope you guys had a very, and ladies, had a very restful, exciting weekend. The Local 9 gave us really bizarre games over the last four days, which we'll get to on the radio show, both on and off the field. We have to just, I got some breaking news from, the SEC Commissioner.

He wants all teams that from the SEC that make the college baseball tournament to go automatically to Omaha. It's interesting. Yeah, that's a good idea. Greg Sanky says that we are such a powerful conference that we automatically should go all the way. Yeah. Take up the luck factor in these wacky baseball regions. I know. Just put the top seeds in.

I actually put on the ESPN Plus yesterday and watched Texas lose to UTSA and thus the Longhorns are out. Vanderbilt. Roadrunners are tough. Yeah, road runners are tough. The Longhorns are number two overall seat, Gonso. The number one overall seat was Vanderbilt, and they're also Gonso. A&M wasn't even in the tournament, but kept their coach around. So they're Gonso? They're Gonso. And I don't know who else is in it. Okay. It doesn't matter.

Yeah, it doesn't matter. All right. We are with you today until 2 o'clock this afternoon. Ross, good to have you back after a couple days. Good to be back, Matt. Yep. It's nice to have you. You look great. It's nice to see you. What, you're tired? I mean, yeah. I'm always tired. All right, I'm just trying to start the show with a compliment.

Well, I mean, it was nice. Usually I started the other way. I know. It's turning over a new leaf. Maybe that time away helped you reconfigure your life. Yeah, I went on a darkness retreat like Aaron Rogers. Yeah, no doubt. So you see, you were in a small box with no power, okay?

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Which is Houston every hurricane season. That's true. That's why you can come to the house whenever you want to. Appreciate that. Get you that generator from... Oh, here comes the plugs.

Man. Quality home products of Texas. Seamless. What a professional. I've done this for a few years. We are with you today until 2 o'clock, as I mentioned. We've got to tell the truth at 1130, believe it or not at 1.50. And really an opportunity for us to kind of gather through a few things, including the Astros in Yordon.

That's a tough one. And there are a lot of layers. I guess there shouldn't be a lot of layers to it, but there's going to be some layers to it that I'll certainly address on the show today. The Astros get blown out twice. and I mean creamed twice and then have two pitchers duels. It just shows you how crazy and how unpredictable baseball is.

Yeah, it feels like we have to go back to the old crutch phrase, that's baseball. It's bizarre. It is absolutely bizarre. What was the run differential in the series? Well, I mean, the Astros bullpen Friday and Sunday, well, we didn't have to worry about it on Friday

because Fromber throws a complete game. But Sunday, the bullpen was good yesterday. Hunter Brown was good as well getting another victory. He knows he has, what does he have eight wins now? I think the Rockies have nine. He's coming for him. Coming for you, Colorado. Could you imagine being, I don't even know if there's such thing as a Rockies fan,

but they're 9 in 50? Rockies fan is locked in on Denver Broncos OTAs right now. Oh, no quite. Imagine if we were doing Denver Sports Radio, it would be like, does Nicola Yokich need some help? Well, they wouldn't even bring up. No, they don't care about that. No. Who is going to play?

Can Bo Nix make that? leap this year. Who's going to play the backup defenseman for the avalanche? You know what? I bet you Colorado Rapids soccer gets more run than really the Rockies do it. I'll take your word for it. I'll think good. I imagine. They can't be worse than the Rockies. That's true. They're absolutely horrible. All right. So the

Astros get two out of four and are a half game behind the Mariners because they came back and walked off the Minnesota Twins yesterday by a final score two to one. It was a one-nothing game, tied in the ninth and then their defense lets them down and Seattle wins at two to one. Cal Raleigh hit another home run by the way. Big Dumper, as they call him. Would you ever call that nickname to a fellow human being?

I mean, obviously he likes, I guess he likes it. I've been to a couple places on Richmond. I've seen some big dumpers. I'm trying to make the Friday clips. one segment in. Yeah. I mean, I guess after You set me up. That was your fault. I guess after a heavy meal, too. I mean, it is what it is. So we got that to get to.

We have the... That's what they call you at Buckees. Cleans rustrooms in America. Shout out to them. I'm sorry. I take a low-hanging fruit. I'm going to reel it back in. Yeah, I mean, we've been on there for four minutes. I don't care if you've been gone two days.

I'm rusty. Get those reps. Sid. It's funny. We had maybe one of the most, would you say, Jonathan, one of the most unnerving

non-flora stories in the history of the show this past Friday? I would like a run back at some point. Can we run that back? That non-flority was disgusting. Like, who was it? Mine.

Of course. Joe Giorites? No, no, it was not. It was mine. Okay. My second worst story of all time was when, you don't know this,

Jonathan, you weren't here, but we had a story a few, years back where a woman that was living in San Antonio was laying in her bed and she started to notice that there was blood dripping off of her roof of her apartment complex. The person above her had died and been dead for several days. Yeah. It was a great story. It was a really uplifting.

Yeah. What day was that on the Wednesday or Friday? It was on a Friday, years ago. It was one of the early now in Florida stories. And then this past week, Ross, we had a woman that had been complaining of a sinus infection for seven years because of her ex-boyfriend's flitulants. X? They broke up over it?

Well, she was hurt. She had a foot injury or ankle injury and had surgery. So she was immobile and he blew gas and it reached into her nose and she got E. coli through that and has had the... No, that is, no. This doesn't add up.

I don't believe it. I need a, we need a medical doctor to break this down. I mean, we could get, had You know, I don't think the astrodocuses are basically. Something else is going on. Yeah, I think so. I think anybody could put two and two together could probably figure that out, but that's a different issue for a different time. Oh, all right.

Non-flora to stories, every Friday guy. Every Friday, one-thirty. Let's just pack up the show. That's fine. We got four more hours of this? We do. Love it. All right. I have to, I've been thinking a lot about the whole Yordon hand situation. By the way, his hand is at 60%.

according to what Dana Brown said over the weekend. That's good. So the first thing I would have thought of was, okay, so if he's been gone since early May, and he's at 60%, obviously he would be at before 60%, say, April 25th, right? I would think so. So using the fractions and the equations, if you're at 60% from April 25th, to June 1st. Oh, no, it's going to be accelerated.

You got to get, stay with me on this. You got to get the other 40% fixed, right? Yes. So if it takes a month and a week to get to 60, is it another four weeks to get to 100? I don't know these things. It's not one for one. Maybe he's an accelerated healer.

What do you call that when you, you try fractions? You know, what is like two-fourth is the same as three-sixth? You're trying to do it. Rations? Rational, rational. I don't know. Jonathan's been in school more recently. It's not rational.

I was liberal arts, man. No, don't give me that math. All right. So that was the first thing I thought is if he's at 60% now, how, when do you get to 71%? When does it hit to 84%? I don't know. I even said, I said this last week before this all went down. Just tell me when he's back in the lineup.

So Dana had to speak Saturday in the dugout and he was going through a lot. And he was going through a lot of medical terms. Clearly he was uncomfortable doing this. Inflammation. There was all sorts of phrasing that I never heard. You know, all the things that you would think a medical professional would be saying and not the general manager of a major league baseball team. But you know what?

If that's your title, you're going to have to wear some additional responsibilities. So the number one thing I think out of some, and obviously we've got really good media here, Chandler and Brian and Matt from the Chronicle all do a really good job. They're on the beat every single day. They're asking to write questions. They're trying information for their readers and their audience. And we certainly do our fair share as well.

But the overriding factor was, how did this happen? How do you take batting practice on Friday? And then all of a sudden, this shows up on Saturday. I mean, should he have even been on the field taking batting practice if there was a fracture? And, you know, Dana had to, unfortunately, had to try to describe that the inflammation wasn't, the fracture wasn't seen until they went and gone. looked at the additional inflammation, which unfortunately you're not complained

of after the batting practice. So again, we're getting very, very convoluted on this. And there is obviously a concern that the Astros are not being overly forthcoming with their injuries. Not overly forthcoming. They're basically not giving you any information at all.

So I kind of did an informal survey of my friends that I would consider Astro fans. Okay. Because again, when you're in the media, you may think you may know what your audience wants. Yes. Or you still want to figure out what they want. You can be a bit out of touch to an extent because the world we live in and the access is different than the casual fan.

So what I've deduced, and I brought this up to somebody this morning, I've deduced that the social media aspect of the Astros are incensed about this. that the Astros will not be more forthcoming and more honest about their injuries and what it comes up of them and how they're described or not described or whether it's making the trainer available or not. That's that group. That's the P1 die hard on the edge of your seat. Can't get enough. Well, they're mad when a pitch-hitting decision is made.

So it's social media. So I went to people this weekend that are either, and I would not say they're not on social media. media, but they are not running to Twitter every 15 seconds giving us what their thoughts are on the Astros. I would say, and this is a group, I probably talked to four or five people this weekend. You know, some fathers of some daughters of my friends and a couple of buddies as well. Those people, that group, whatever, and again, this is a very, very small sample size. That group is like, yeah, it sucks that your rounds hurt.

It sucks that the Astros are not more forthcoming with their injuries, but I want him back. because when he comes back, he's going to help this team. So I would just say, and again, in my very, very small sector of my life between what I see on social media and what I see from friends who actually are real human beings and are people that I don't see on Twitter that are people that I have conversation with Rossi. It's this sucks. I wish the aster is more forthcoming, but I'm not losing any sleep over it. I can get that because especially the media members and the people who are on social media every day posting 100. times with the Astros, they're invested. And in 10 hours or two days or whatever of this Yordon thing dragging on,

feels a lot longer than somebody who's like, I'm cooking dinner. I'm going to flip the game on. Somebody who's casual is not as invested, it's not going to be, they're not going to experience as much of the ups and downs and the lack of information and all this stuff. It becomes a drama, basically a soap opera at this point when you're invested in every day, rather than the casual fan who's like, oh, what's the score? Let's see. Let's put this on for a minute.

Let's flip on 790. Let's let's into the game. Right. Right. So I feel like, and I've talked about this before, I mean, I've been a fan of the Astero since 1979. I mean, I've been way more of a fan. I don't know if that's necessarily true. Because I've been in the media since 1991. So more of my life has been as a member of the media than it has been as a fan. But you can be both the same time.

When you're not a beat writer or something. Yeah. So there is no, make no mistake. I am a fan of the Astros. That's my team. It's my only baseball team. So I feel like I can come from two different angles. And I feel like I can have two different opinions.

That may not be the satisfactory answer to some. But there is a part of me that is really upset that the Astros don't give out more information. There's a huge part of me that says, what are you trying to hide? And there's also a lot of part of me that says, this sucks. And I know the Astros need a left hand of bat. And I know that Yoron is going to hopefully come back and pick up where he left off. not necessarily this year, but the previous years. Just get back, get healthy.

And if it's 70% today, and it's, excuse me, if it's 60% today and it's 90% in two weeks, let us know then. Yeah, there's multiple sides of the coin that we want them to be forthcoming. We want to know and because this is something that we talk about and people are writing articles about it and we fill shows with that type of content. And then I get the coin that they don't owe you that. Hey, somebody breaks their hand. That's personal information and they don't owe it to us.

But what I don't like is when it just becomes flat out lies and incorrect information. Either keep it, yeah, keep it close to the vest, that's fine, or to be forthcoming, that's fine. But the misinformation is where I really have an issue. So I've come up with, I think, a pretty middle-down-the-line response to this future injury talk. Because there are going to be other players that are injured too. I mean, there have been, I mean, look, Kyle Tucker, lack of information. That's two fractures in back-to-back seasons. Yeah.

We've chronicled. Jake Myers, it took James Click, basically, admitting that they brought him back too soon. I mean, that was well after the fact. So, and again, this could be happening with a lot of different major league baseball teams, a lot of sports organizations. I don't think the Astros are in this exclusive category of keeping things Uber close. We'll talk more about that when we come back. 1015 is the time. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

713-212-5-790. Where do you sign on this? Do you, are you the information seeker? Or you know what? When he comes back, he comes back. Let us know what side you're on. 713-212-5-7-9-8. So is there a side to pick on when it comes to how the local baseball team disseminates information?

Do you go, hey, please be more forthcoming? We are your ticket holders. We are your fans. We are vested. We care. And we're not going to hold it against you. I don't think giving out medical information is intelligence. that other team can take advantage of.

I mean, if you, you can't take advantage of Yordon not being in a lot. I mean, obviously, again, teams will be disappointed or will be happy that he's not playing because he's been beating up teams for a better part of five or six years. But it's not like they game playing differently because Jordan Alvarez is not in the lineup. So after talking with some friends, and like I said, I tried to find people that were on social media, but not like, you know, look, Ross, you and I live and breathe it because it is the easiest way for us to communicate with our audience and it's also for the most part, a great

place to find information. And hilarity at times. Yes. Yes. And anger. Well, a lot of anger. A lot of anger. So, I've thought about this and I was thinking about this again driving into work today.

We will continue to ask the questions about player injuries. We will continue to ask whether it's a minor element like a Zach DeSenzo or it's a major element like Luis Garcia or Jordan Alvarez, Chas McCormick, whatever.

But I'm going to unfortunately take everything with a grain of salt. Because more times than not, the information that is being given out by the organization does not really match the end result. Now again, they're not, the people that are speaking on behalf of the

Astros are not doctors. The only people that can really give you the prognosis of a potential of a player's ailment and how long, first of all, it's two things. everybody's human body is different. I may take three weeks to recover from something. You may take you five or six. So it's an inexact science.

Or flip it. You may be done in two or three days, Ross, and I may take me two weeks. I know it'll make you feel better now. Thank you. But asking non-baseball people, I mean, a non-medical people, how someone's going to recuperate from something

unless they're getting it straight from the source and they're probably holding a lot of it back. So I'm taking everything I hear from baseball. all personnel and PR people, and that includes Joe and Dana, who I respect tremendously, I'm going to take all of it with a grain of salt. I just can't fully go, oh, thank goodness Joe said this or Dana said this because you're probably been burned more times and not off of that. And again, I don't blame them.

There's some dynamic, whether it's the athlete, whether it's protecting the athlete, or it's protecting the medical staff, there is a line of protection that is, over this organization. And it's every organization. I mean, I'm sure the Rockets have done things in the past that have been like, what's really going on? Or the Texans or any other sports teams that you may or may not be fans of. But it just feels like this has been a recurring theme the last handful of years.

And so I go, you know what? How am I supposed to believe you? So I'm guess what I'm not. It's, you want to call it a one-off, but it keeps happening. We go to the Kyle Tucker thing. Then we go to this. And then they tell us this story about discomfort and the swelling has to go down. And then all of a sudden there's a fracture.

And it feels like the same old story. It's very bizarre that this keeps happening. It's an I just don't get it. It is a real. I just don't get it. And again, it's not going to ruin my passion for the baseball team. No. It's not going to ruin my passion for the sport.

the Astros won yesterday in that low scoring affair it was exciting to see them beat the race that ninth inning with that Taylor dude from the race

that got tossed for tapping his cat I mean that is great that is amazing that's why I love baseball and I want the Astros to win

I want them to win the division they are I want them to get at least a wild card and I want us to have a good old time talking about them

and what they're going to do in trials and tribulations but in a six month season where there's hundreds of storylines, this is just not a great one. And it's not enjoyable to discuss. I'm disappointed that the organization has gone in this direction, but it is what it is. And I think it frustrates probably the beat writers. Clearly it does, because all they're doing is trying to get information. Chandler and Brian and Matt, those are the three

beat guys. They're not, I know all, I know two of the three of them extraordinarily well. I don't know Matt very well. It seems like a nice enough guy. He's a swell fellow. They're not going to get-get-you moments. As much as you think Chandler is a guy that likes to chide people and get... Which he does. He's a professional. But he's a professional who's just trying to do his job. They're trying to do their death's the way that I...

Yeah, I was going to say the exact same thing. They're just trying to do their jobs. Yeah. And these Asteroz organization, relative to some others, aren't as forthcoming with injury-type news. Yeah. So when you're a beat reporter, you're a conduit to the fans, you're supposed to be, it's, you're on the beat. You're supposed to be talking about what's happening every day. People would, if they weren't asking their questions about the injuries, they would go to the beat reporters.

They would say Chandler, Matt and Brian. Why aren't you asking how Jordan is? So by default, they have to do it. Right. And we certainly do that as well when we talk to Joe on every Tuesday, and he gives us updates. And I'm sure Sean does that with Dana as well. but the philosophy of the organization is less is more and maybe we aren't being

and again I don't know if it's truthful I don't think they're lying intentionally yeah what's the purpose of lying there isn't a sore and then there's a fracture it doesn't make sense for them to just lie about that yeah they're not going to lie they're just not going to give you the stuff that you want so that's the balance and again ultimately I think for most people that listen to this show

they want to know about the good stuff They want to know the good, you know, if Cam Smith's starting to hit the ball a lot better. You know, is Hunter Brown a legitimate Cyan candidate. So we're going to do the good and the bad, but it was just a really weird weekend from he hits in the cage on Friday to getting the ball. He's close. He's close. Brian McTaggart even went to the lineup car like he did on Saturday. He says, no, you're on the lineup today.

Okay, well, that's maybe he needs a day off just to rec close. Yeah. Maybe it's Sunday. Maybe it's in somewhere. in the Pittsburgh and Cleveland trip. And then all of a sudden, Dana goes up there in the back of the dugout and has to have a 10-minute conversation with a bunch of media saying he's 60% and it's now got a fracture. Tough.

But that's what additional media, and that's what also doing, you know, when you're a successful team, people care about this stuff. You have a bigger fan base that really does care. We did have times when nobody cared if anybody was had anything. I don't think, you could have nine members of the Rockies with fractured. to their body and no one in Denver would care. Yeah. So, and we'll obviously get to more on that later, but most importantly, the Astros did split the series.

They are half game out of first place. They have a day off today. And then they'll start a three game series with the Pittsburgh Pirates starting on Tuesday from the Steel City. All right, 1029 on Sports Talk 790. Things we're going to get to today is the Tampa Bay Ray who got injected last night. That was, I put this out on Twitter what had happened. It was one of the best ejections of her seen in my life because Taylor Walls. I don't even know who Taylor Walls is.

Taylor Walls. But now I do. By the way, he doesn't look like a Taylor. It looks like a Bubba. Bubba walls. Okay. That's what you can call him. He will come after me.

Why is he looking like that? Huh? Was he wearing camouflage in the batters box? I think he had something between his cheek and gum. Some chowl? I think he's just a fringe major leaguer, from what I understand. Okay. So if you didn't see what happened, and he got the strike one call on him.

was horrific. I mean, Ross, it wasn't even close. It, if you look at the, well, it depends on the, yeah, on the Astros screen, it looks like it wasn't even close, but I saw one of the MLB, basically from the MLB app, and it looks actually super close. It was like millimeters. I'm only looking at what I saw on the TV. On the TV, it looks worse than when you go. And I believe that the MLB.com data is supposed to be like the real box. That's good.

But from my eyes watching the game, it was a shul-laced strike call. He obviously, Mr. Wells was not pleased, takes a step out of the box. Oh, yeah, that's, yeah. I mean, your MLB, that's close. That's not how I saw it. But again, I will trust the data. We're going to trust that. It's like millimeters.

And then he taps his helmet three times. Which is the international sign of, I want it reviewed. Yes. The umpire calmly goes from the back of home plate to the front of it and turns around and stares up to the press box. And I guess he said, you can't do that, get the hell out or whatever it was. And that's when Taylor Wells lost his mind. Yeah.

And I mean, he's lying. He's 100% lying. He's exactly like he didn't tap in his helmet. He completely showed the umpire up. Yes. And I know that these umpires, Don't think they make any mistakes. I have the feeling that the Empire behind home plate feels terrible about what the call was.

And again, maybe the data will say wasn't that bad of a miss after him. But to tap and say, I was just suggesting my helmet is a flat out lie. Remember, what I tell you, the average person lies four times a day. Tyler Wells lied in the Taylor, yeah. Taylor, I don't know what I was going to be talking T-bone. What I'm going to worry about his Hall of Fame speech? I don't think so. Man, it's funny because he's acting like he didn't do it.

Come on, man. They got you cut in 4K. Everybody can see this. We hit replay over and over and over. The game was on Tampa TV, Houston TV, and anybody that wanted to watch on the extra innings package saw it. You're a liar. It's all right.

Yeah, own it. So yeah, go check the data. And then somebody sent me a tweet, said, well, you know, he spent a lot of time in the minor leagues. Maybe he forgot where he was. No, I don't think. When you have the word raise across your jersey and you're playing in front of 40,000 people, you kind of know where you are.

If he had done it immediately, I might be able to buy that. But he barks at the referee. I mean, not referee. He kind of looks at him, says a couple things, and then does it. Yeah, yeah. Like, I'm going to show you up. Yeah. Let's talk to, we're going to Lufkin.

We're going to the heart of East Texas. Oh, wow. 15, 20 minutes from my house. Jeff on 790. Jeff, good morning. Good morning, guys. Thanks for taking my call. it actually turns you on, but I think you had been, or caught you briefly a few minutes ago,

talking about the Yordaundale and all that. My question to you guys is, and it kind of goes back to the Kyle Tucker saga, they say, well, we did some further imaging. Our players being sent to, what, discount imaging or whatever? Why don't they do all of that to begin with when they're assessing these guys' injuries? You know, they come back and say, well, kind of, upon further review, he does have a fracture. Well, couldn't we find that out in the beginning?

I don't understand. I think we can get the best medical attention available. That's all I have on it. Thanks. That's what this is hard to figure out, because it seems like when mistakes are made with the Astros and medical stuff, it's players either trying to play through things or being rushed. Or not admitted.

Or being rushed through things. Yeah, he says, I want to play. I want to play through this. And the asteros said, yeah, we try to let you play through this. And even Danny admitted so much of the weekend that maybe that was a mistake. And you know what? And that's, I can respect some of that because there are too many players in professional sports that under any, if some, if an index finger hurts, I'm going to miss four or five days. So there is a certain level of respect for players who want to play through pain.

But at a certain level, you have to say, is this pain going to go away? Is there any sides of the swelling going down? Is it still an issue? And if it is, shut your body down for a while. Clearly this was mishandled at some point. By somebody. Exactly. We're not doctors, so we can't tell you the exact point.

We didn't look at the imaging. Like we said last week, we don't know if they went to FedEx Kinkos to get the X-ray. We don't know. But something ain't right. Could you imagine, Jordan walking into a Kinkos? Hey, walking to Kinkos. Rinkos.

Yeah, Rinkos. Sorry. I would like to put my right hand. hands hurt. My hands on your printer. Will that be color or that be black and white? I don't know. I'm just telling you my philosophy now is questions will continue to answer, get asked, they'll be answered.

I'm going to not give anybody the benefit of the doubt. I'm going to say when Yoron Alvarez is on the field and the lineup card will celebrate it. Yeah. But to kind of try to, you know, you always say that term sooner rather than later than later, I hate that term, you know, more than anything. That's why I like to use it. I know you do. You egg me out with it.

I'm just telling you, I ain't going with that. I ain't buying it. If somebody tells me it could be another six three or four days, don't believe it. When he gets in the lineup, this is for any athlete, then I'll celebrate it. But I'm done going, oh, I'm hearing encouraging things because I don't believe it anymore. I just don't. No, and we said the same thing last year with this Kyle Tucker thing. Yeah.

We've been here before. And probably Kyle was getting pissed. Like, man, I'm really in pain here. Tell him I'm fractured. Let him know. I'm not some, you know, soft wuss. Because he won't, because Kyle was wearing it. Because there were people like, oh, Yordon, what's he doing?

What's he waiting for being soft? Because there was the comments from Joe Spada used it, and Dana Brown used it. We're waiting for him. We're waiting for him to tell us he's good to go. Which implies medical clearance. Yes, it does. I'm not implying anymore. Yeah.

Here's what I'm done, Rossi. I'm not implying anymore. I'm not assuming anymore. I'm not predicting anymore. I'm not forecasting anymore. I'm done with all of that. Unless it's Tommy John. You're gone.

Hey, well, Tommy John. Okay, I'll give you one here. That's true. 12 to 16 months? I'm forecasting 16 every single time. It's been since June of 23 for Luis Garcia. Yeah. Okay.

Then I was wrong. 24 months. For him. Multiple setbacks. Was he a rush back? Oscar 790. Good morning. Tell us.

show as always this morning. Thank you. I have got to say, I like a lot of the fans, sometimes I hear comments from a few folks with Astros and maybe I don't understand why they might not come full out with information about injuries, but I do know this. And there's one thing that no caller will ever convince me otherwise of. the Astros are run by a billionaire. Their players are tremendous assets.

They are not going to some dock in the box on the corner that's open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and take and walk-in patients to have their players analyzed, tested, and run the full gambit of the greatest medical facilities and doctors that this city, in fact, this state, this country, this world has to offer. And when I hear these kind of phone calls, I have to just chuckle a little bit to think that they would do anything but do the very, very best for their players. Now, why we don't always get the answers, I would suggest to you guys maybe,

get some people on every now and then some doctors that could talk about that, not Astros doctors, but some that could be impartial. Well, yes, it's funny to bring that up, Oscar, because when you try to do that, doctors typically, not all of them, but typically will say, I can't give you a prognosis off of something I've never seen before. I've seen the imaging, right. So they don't want to put themselves out there to say,

well, Dr. A from this place says, Yoron should have been out there when Dr. A never saw any of the graphs or any of the x-rays or any of that. So that's why it's very difficult for it. I get that, but here's my point on that. I'm not asking them to give a prognosis. I'm asking them, maybe the question would be to them, is there many times something that you see in these x-rays or in these MRIs

or in these CAT scans that looks one way and you find out six weeks later because of tissue damage or whatever appears a different way? Does that make sense? It does. And I've seen a couple of different folks on Twitter saying that I'm a doctor and this has happened to me. And then other people have said that, I mean, it really runs both directions. How do you put him out there even for batting practice when, I mean, he had to have been pain free, right? Yeah, you'd have to think so.

You would have to assume that he was pain free on Friday when he went to the batting cage. Why would you, if you don't feel good, are you being pressure to get out there? I don't think so. I don't think the Astros are doing that. So some of this is on the player to say, I feel great, I'm going to go out there. But if he did go out there and wasn't feeling his best, then that's on the athlete. Again, who's to say whose fault it is? And then certainly doesn't be a fault.

But the if-then statement, if he's ready to swing the bat and he's. He's been swinging out the T, he's been all these sorts of things progressing along nicely. How does it all of a sudden become back as a fracture the next day? That, to me, is the part that my medical license does not necessarily comprehend. I haven't got to that chapter yet. Yeah. All right. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790. I'm kind of exhausted about something that I saw over the weekend. I may not get to it right this second, but I'm telling you it was a lot of, It was too much coverage of one event. Does that make sense to you, Sports Harvey? I'm intrigued, Matt. That's why I'm here for it. It's to intrigue.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you want to follow us on Twitter, we'd certainly love to have you there. It is at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at... Jonathan, you're on Twitter. I think I followed you there today. What is your Twitter account?

And do you ever Twitter or tweet anything? I don't tweet anything. But my handle is just JK underscore Allen. but I don't really tell you. All right, then don't follow them. You're wasting your time, man. All right, let's talk about Berkeley Eye Center. You guys running through news headlines.

That's anybody cares. But Boise State is leaving the Mountain West to go to the Pact 12. What? I know. I thought the Pact 12 was dead. Well, they're going to rebuild it. We're back, baby. I think of three teams.

I thought it was just Washington State. So here are the new Pact 12 teams. Washington State. Oregon State. Oh, man. Boise State. Colorado State. Fresno State, San Diego State, Utah State.

That's basically the Mountain West Conference just with a new name on it. We've heard ESPN has been $1 for the rights packages. Greg Sankey, the SEC Commissioner's like, so, what does this mean for us? Nothing. Goodbye. Yeah, that LeBron give him going, ooh, I'm so scared. Put your games on the WB. Knock yourself out.

Or CW. Come on, Matt. Put a UPN while they're at it. It's not the Michigan J. Frog Network anymore. It's the CW. 55 the Tube, I believe, has this. acquired the rights to the Pac-12 game of the week.

That might actually happen. That might actually happen. Because Tube is owned by Fox. I didn't know that. Oh, no, no. What's the one that was, what's the one on Sunday mornings? Quibi? Oh, wait.

Oh, they have the baseball games on. Oh, Roku. Roku. The Roku game of the week. Roku channel. It's on QVC. They're going to sell tennis bracelets with it. The top five, two teams in the mountain West or in the PAC 12, don't meet on

CBS, don't meet on NBC, don't meet on ABC, don't meet on ESPN or FS1, it's Naxon Roku. Well, what? I mean, good for them. I mean, it is what it is, but you're just going from one mid to the other. They don't even have a theme. It just goes, this is the Roku channel. We're going to put a Pac-12 game on to Tilly the Mountain West.

I'm a goopy dog doing the introduction. Wishing them the best. Wishing the best. Man, if I'm Boyst State Bronco, I might as well, yeah. I beat my chess. We're packed up, baby. We're Power 5. You're paying that on the blue field tonight.

They're like, shut you a bum ass up. There's no such thing. Hell, there's barely a Power 4. Greg Sankey, the SEC Commissioner would be like, yeah, we're going to be good with the Big 10 of the SEC, and the rest y'all can play along if you want to. It's like a Power Plus. It's like how you have to subscribe to everything now.

ESPN Plus. It's Power 2 plus, a power 4. I don't know. It's very confusing. I'm confused. All right. So I just saw that. I actually kind of giggled.

I was like, oh, the Boise State's going to the... Good for them. Pack 12 with the rest of the other schools that left the Mountain West. Big Ten and SEC are Power 4 plus. Power 4 plus. Well, you just call them the two. All those SEC... I'm surprised Gordy is not raining here to try and defend the SEC's honor.

In the baseball? Yeah. It's a game of inches. 7 to 4th on a game of inches. That was a beat down until the last Longhorn score two and I listened to the game on the radio. Oh, you did? I did. Craig Ways on the call?

Duh. Craig Ways always on the car. We had it here? No. Okay. I listened on the app. All right. That's fine.

Okay. We had a fresco on or something. What do we have on Sunday night? Could we have put the game on? I guess we could have, but what is the college baseball radio audience? Probably minimal? You would have tuned in. Well, I was one.

I was listening to the Austin station. So part of the proud I-Heart Radio family. All right. 713-212-5-7-90 so I tease this and we'll do it to the top of the hour there's something that happened a lot this weekend that I was getting a little exhausted about do you ever see something where you're looking forward to

something on television and then it becomes too much or like maybe I need to step away that's what I did this weekend I need further explanation you're going to get it in a matter of moments to tell the truth is coming up in one half hour I can't get enough of Lauren Suhati we can definitely have a lot of that on there

she's just delightful See, why did you have to say that out loud? Okay, I'll keep it to myself. I mean, she's doing a great job. She's wonderful. We don't have the volume on, but she's doing fantastic. She's network level, network talent level. MLB network, strong to very strong.

MLB network, the slogan should be, with the games mean not as much of the girls. So top talent. Excuse me, they're not girls. They're women. It's TV's top talent over on MLB Network. By far. 58 on 790. We have to tell the truth coming up in a half an hour from now.

Ross, I will give you four sports takes. I will believe three of them. There's only one I don't believe. It'll be up for you to decide which one I'm not telling the truth. Wait, what was the order this time? I got to listen. Oh, look at you jumping in. He's paying attention.

Let's go. Hold on. Yeah. Has he got a win yet? Real slowly. You know what? He's too busy texting his sex and his girl. Sexting.

I'm getting a post up. I miss you, baby. That's not a sext. Yeah, that was... Well, forget it. All right, anyways. To tell the truth coming up at 1130 on the program. I will believe Jonathan.

Three of them. One, I will not believe. It'll be happy for you to decide which one I don't believe. All right. So, game number six of the Eastern Conference finals took place on Sunday night, or Saturday night, and the Pacers won and knocked out the Knicks and the Pacers and the Oklahoma City Thunder. will be playing for the NBA championship. Indianapolis versus Oklahoma City. I want to say those are two of the bottom five media markets.

I got to be. I want to say Indianapolis has got to be about 25 maybe. And Oklahoma City has got to be about 40 somewhere in that range. I may be off a little bit on those, but that would be my guesstimation. Oh, by the way, probably the biggest gut feeling in your intention. Oh, yeah. There we go. Get them. Why don't you say it up to tomorrow?

No. No, that's true. Tomorrow's coming too. Oh, you're going to do it today and tomorrow. It's a all week. It's an all week celebration. I see how he is. So the game was over,

and that was the final time in 36 years. The NBA and then TNT will have come to a close. They have, and this is weird, because I'm a TV sports geek. This may come as a surprise to,

none of you, but I was not a big social butterfly when I was in high school, especially younger. As I got older in high school, I was involved. You did blossomed. Yeah, my weight did blossom too, but that's a different issue for a different time. So my freshman year and sophomore year, I did not go out and have quote-unquote dates. I wasn't going to dances. Me and my buddies would watch the NBA on TNT. We'd grab, we'd get pizza.

Yes. We'd rotate different guys' houses and we'd go watch doubleheaders of basketball on Friday nights. the NBA on TNT was like, you're giving me a cable package of all these games that I normally would only see in the weekends on CBS. This is amazing. So it was a little bittersweet for me to see the last TNT game. Now, again, the contract for the NBA for the new TV deal is 10 years.

So in theory, it's probably going to be longer than that. But so it was a little surreal. And they've done an excellent job. You've had guys like Vern Lundquist, Marv Albert, Kevin Harlan, Dick Stockton. I mean, all the legendary goat broadcasters. So it's a little surreal. And that to me was the saddest part about Saturday's game beyond the result itself was this network,

which basically took over when Michael Jeffrey Jordan was really going and got going and made this what it is today. And look, TNT and its NBA brand has been magnificent for many, many decades, obviously. That to me was the sad part of it. the inside the NBA guys that part of it to me was a little overdone why you may ask because all four of those dudes are still employed

they're going to be on a different network you would hope that ESPN wouldn't rock the boat in terms of changing its format or how they do it but they're going to be all in the same spot matter of fact they're not even going to Bristol Connecticut where ESPN is they're going to do their show from Atlanta and they're going to send it on a satellite feed to Bristol to air from there. Now, they may not be as on as much. They're only going to do, I think, games after the first of January.

They may do a couple of games on Christmas and some big super games, but they're going to work less than they did this year. You know, for years, those guys would work every Thursday night. I think Charles said third to half of the season or something like that. Yeah, something like that. So they're going to work. They're going to be less games, which may make it more fun because it'll be nice to have those guys on the bigger games as compared to them doing a Memphis Sharps. or something like that. They'll actually know the players.

But none of them are out of work. They've all signed new contracts. They're all insanely rich and got richer. And so to me, I thought the farewell to inside the NBA part of the NBA and T&T was a little overdone. I could see that. Yeah. And they're also, I think they're doing another show on T&T. It's going to be, I don't know if it's going to be like a first take style, NBA style with those guys.

Okay. They're going to be on another show. So they're, yeah, they're not going away. So it was, I didn't watch it. So it was basically like great run guys is the best. It was almost like it was a farewell. And even when Ernie Johnson said what he said, he says, our crew stains here?

Yes. We got people that are on this crew that are going to get jobs at Amazon. People are going to jobs at NBC. That's good. Now, I'm assuming that some people will be lost in the shuffle. I mean, that just comes with natural moving year after year. But it felt like to me that everybody was just like, yeah, it's sad. but to me the biggest storyline of the weekend was not the inside of the NBA show.

It was the game coverage, which was exemplary. I mean, you had Hubey Brown, you had Chuck Daly, you had Steve Kerr when he was doing games, you've had, you know, Reggie, give or take on Reggie. He's better. But my point is that they did an excellent job. And I have Kevin Arland and Ion Eagle calling games and Brian Anderson now. top shelf people that I admire as broadcasters. There was nobody on those broadcasts that I said, man, you're our fish out.

Even Chris Weber was good until he became a divin and then he eventually got the hook from there. But my point is that I would have liked to have had them spend more time talking about the game coverage because that's what T&T is losing. That's what we as fans are losing. We're going to see a different brand of broadcasting with NBC and Amazon. But the TNT brand was excellent for 36 years. I guess to me it's kind of always been there. so it's not as special.

I'm just like, all right, well, we're bringing back John Tesh and NBC, so I'm happy about that, Amazon. And I brought this up on Twitter. I think the coverage next year is going to be fantastic. I think NBC is going to do a great job. Peacock's going to do a great job. Amazon's NFL coverage is awesome.

I mean, these networks they're going to are not startups. You're putting Mike Tariko on the main game. They are? Yeah. Oh, yeah. This is good. You're putting the lineups back on. when the teams go when the games are on NBC they're going to carry those starting lineups from the PA now

man you so you want to go back and do PA now don't you no chance I'm very happy doing what I'm doing I don't want to move I'm very happy but you're going to get more games now again I don't know if people are not necessarily here but if you're an NBA junkie you're going to get more games than you ever have done before you're going to have NBA games on about six days a week I love it so for you and I who are junkies yes it's great to the casual fan it's when the one of the rockets playing in I'm done. But I just thought it was it was a lot about if there was any moment that should have been the moment, it should have been Ernie who has been a Turner

employee all the way through. And remains a Turner employee. Not that these four guys won't see each other again. You're going to be right back on our television. My guess is opening nights. Millions and millions of dollars. It just felt like to me it was oversaturation of that

portion of the T&T broadcast. Again, this, maybe I'm just in the weeds on this. No, I can see. No, I can see how at a ring hollow. If they're just, they're not going away. They weren't going away. We just have,

we have to press a different channel number or just open a different app however you want to put it. We're going to go to a channel that we're more familiar with. Yes, absolutely. I mean, I know 245s TNT, I know 206.

You know the craziest thing about this, I don't know if people know this or not, but next year, this upcoming season, you're going to see Big 12 football and basketball games on TNT. Okay. That was a tradeoff. Coming up next, it's Bones.

Followed by Houston versus West Virginia. Exactly. Isn't that weird that TNT's like, all right, we'll help you do this and we'll produce everything, but we need something back from you. We need some games. So they're going to get some games. Oh, good for them. Now, granted I know how good the games are going to be.

It might be Utah versus Arizona. I don't know. But I can tell you from a basketball sample, it'll be great because you'll have a TNT. I'm sure they're going to do a big job of selling the college. basketball package because they people are going to go they're going to who's going to be on their studio show uh i don't know but i think i think uh grand hill's going to be part of the broadcast so i'm just saying i just it was just weird that you would sell a show for a set of games it's like i think al michael's going to nbc involved a cartoon going back to abc flintstones i don't know what

it was but you go google look it up i'll look it up there's some strange transactions on that but just i just think tv sports business is kind of fascinating to me that's all i got on that Thank you, Matt. Thank you. You appreciate it. Yeah. But yeah, for somebody, I watched for 36. I mean, I watched since I was in the seventh, eighth grade.

So I know I watched every bit of the TNT that I could. All right. Astro was going to win yesterday. Hunter Brown? Cy Brown? Sae-Valdes. Do you understand? You know who did the 10th inning show on Friday night?

Oh, so you appreciated it. Two hours in six minutes. I heard a lot of people were clamoring for me to host that show. Yeah, you had two people that said they missed you. That's great. I appreciate that. And I quickly said that you were suspended without pay and that you will hopefully get back to work with a better attitude.

I guess technically I was suspended without pay because I wasn't on the clock. No, you got paid. Okay. I think you got paid, right? All right. But yeah, it was a good win, quick. The night before they get their ass kicked, the night after they get their ass kicked.

It just shows you how crazy baseball is. It's bizarre. What was it? 30 to 9 they got outscored or something like that? in this series? Yeah. I'll go back and look. Bullpen ERA,

David and A-Leaf was one of our Twitter. I said, you guys don't want to calculate it. Well, he calculated it. Not looking good. Well, it's funny because you take those two games, and all of a sudden, that filthy ERA that the Astros bullpen had got heavily inflated. Yeah, that's why, especially for relievers.

ERA can be a little wonky. Well, yeah, because, again, you could pitch six good innings of one inning and give up four and one, and all of a sudden you have an ERA of, you know, five and a half. Yeah, you did your job 75% of the time as a reliever. By way, Josh Hader continues to be filthy. How many else starts going right now?

Hater for sure. Jake Myers. Hunter Brown for sure. Jeremy Pena. Jeremy Pena is probably in the mix now. By way, a lot of people are clamoring for the Astros to put a deal on for Jeremy Pena. I think that ship has sailed.

Think so? Unless the deal is really, really rewarding. Let me check the old reference page who his representation is. go look at his arbitration years. I don't if he's there at this point, but if he's not,

they better start talking about it immediately. Because you know what? He has solved the Astros lead off problems. His agent isn't listed. Normally they do it on... I believe it's Thomas Sports Enterprises. Yeah, you'd like to get... I'd like to be involved in that change, wouldn't you?

Absolutely. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. As the Astros do their thing, split the series of the race or a half game back of Seattle. The Astros have the day off. I believe the Mariners do as well. Let me check real quick for you.

Oh, come on. You're scoreboard watching on June 2nd? Oh, are you kidding me? You're sick. I have an illness. I really do. Yeah, the Mariners do not play tonight, but they will begin. Oh, never mind.

Oh, they're home for Baltimore starting Tuesday. Baltimore sucks. Baltimore sucks. What did you go for? I miss Red Mariners and Marlins. Because Marlins are playing the Rockies. I was like, uh-oh, some easy wins for them. Is that a Roku game of the week?

Marlins Rockies? I don't think anybody's got to watch that. If Marlins Rockies happens, I mean, nobody cares. Did it really ever happen, Matt? Yeah. Do you even put the announcers on? Do you even pay them? No, if they're talking to themselves?

Just run a crowd, Mike. That's pretty good. Ambient noise the whole time. 713-212-7-9. If you want to join our show, we're an open line here on this Monday, giving us a chance to recap all that. was. And by the way, are we worried at all about the television ratings? We're worried about people not caring about those NBA finals because it is two of the three small market team, two of the

smallest in the league. You know who's not worried about it? The NBA. They got a fresh 10-year ridiculously large financial contract coming from two new networks. By the way, Oki. Now, of course, there's only 28 markets because there's two LA teams, two New York teams. The Oklahoma City is 26 out of 28, 22nd out of 28 for Indiana. Who are the two smallest? Sacramento and Memphis and New Orleans That's why Las Vegas is needed. It's fine.

Look, if everybody's If the ratings are low, who cares? It's going to be great basketball. I'm going to be watching. Promise, I got news for you. Well, we'll save it. Oh, where we come back? 1114 on Sports Talk 7.9.

11 at 19 a.m. here on Sports Talk 790. Rosvier, we out back with you. We got to tell the truth coming up in the next segment. Matt Thomas will give us four opinions. believes three of them. Writing down, Jonathan, he believes three of them.

One, he does not believe. That should be fun coming up at 1130. Phone lines open right now if you want to get in. We've been talking about the Astros, the series split, where they got two blowouts, two one-run victories against the Tampa Bay Rays. Anything else you want to get to, the Yord on Hand saga, it certainly is a complicated issue and like, I don't know, a lot

of meat on the bone to argue and discuss when it comes to the Yard on hand thing as well. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number if you'd like to get in. 7-13-212-5-7-90. So you missed the fun on Thursday and Friday during Texans OTAs. What was Wednesday in Friday?

Oh, yeah. I hadn't talked. Is everything? What's happening? What's happening to my sweet boy, C.J. Strauss-Stra. Is he okay? I almost texted He's only doing handoffs.

Yeah. So Wednesday he didn't partake and you were here for that. A short show. We didn't remember. They didn't make the media available on Thursday. My concern level was small. It was zero basically. Right.

Now it's. So Thursday, they don't, the media see it. Friday he goes back. Now Wednesday, D'Amico Ryan says he's on a throwing schedule. There's a throwing program. Meaning maybe Monday, Wednesday, Friday you throw. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday you rest. Okay, whatever.

Mm-hmm. I didn't really super buy it. Mm-hmm. Like, I'm not buying a lot of things when it comes to teams in their injury situation. That's what I was going to say. They have the same doctors of the Astros? So he doesn't

throw again on Friday. He does the handoffs. This, okay? And Nick Cayley, the offensive coordinator, says, hey, I'm not concerned at all. Oh, no. Why does that make me feel worse?

So he said he's not concerned. So, there are dumbass non-media members that go to Texans that practices that should not be credentialed because they're not a media member. Okay. I don't know why they get them. So if you guys want to go to Texans practice, just send an email of the Texans. They'll let you in call you media because they let some Jibonis. Talk.net.

Just make them a website and put it in. You should be good. You should be good. That's not the point of the conversation. The point is. It never is. So everyone's like, it's a dead story. Don't bring it up.

First of all, when you're starting quarterback doesn't throw during organized team activities, because maybe he doesn't feel great. Something got cleaned out. Maybe he doesn't feel 100%. Say it and you're done. Yes. Very easy. It's very, very easy to quell fears.

Just come out and say something. Because guess what? 31 other teams had OTAs and their quarterbacks through. So throwing schedules kind of cool, but it wasn't necessarily the truth. Thank God Aaron Wilson came to the rescue. What did Aaron Wilson say? Aaron Wilson said he was not throwing because of tight shoulder muscle, not considered serious, no concerns whatsoever, and could return

to activity as soon as next week. I 100% buy that. Because this weekend, did you see CJ Stroud? No. He was over at the Fertita Center shooting baskets. That's different. If you had told me he was throwing BP to Yordon Alvarez, I might have been a little, that might have felt a little better. So let me tell you, fake media.

Oh, Jesus. Go ahead. And some blinders on Texans fans. When your quarterback doesn't throw... It's a story. It's a story. I'm sorry, you don't think it is, but you can say on your podcast, it's not a story,

I can say on my radio show. It's a small story. And guess what? When Aaron Wilson came out and said, he found out it's because he's got some... It's got some soreness, right muscle soreness. That's okay. Hey, I'm living with that.

When I saw that, I didn't go, aha. I went, whew, because guess what? You know what C.J. Strowd does for most of his season? He uses his right shoulder, and he throws the ball a lot. Practices, scrimmages, and in games. And my guess is the human body says, we need rest. And the right shoulder said, you're a little tight, fine, relax. So I'm telling you.

You're telling me. to you battle red Ross. Yes. Need not worry. All right. But you don't believe me. Dr. Thomas, I'm a little bit worried. Just a little bit.

Now, I'll say this. Shoulders can be bad. If he doesn't throw during mini camp, which is next month, then you saw the alarms. And even the fake-ass media can't get mad about that. Okay. So.

But to tell me it was a throwing program, and it wasn't his day, yeah, I would, you know what I would have done, Ross? When that came out, I would have said, you know, let's have a throwing program where you actually throw so people don't smell the scent of you not being 100%. Okay, maybe it'd be okay. Maybe I'm more worried about,

I think if pitchers, shoulder injures can be really bad, like laboral tears and stuff like that can be like. But even Rossi, if he got things cleaned out, let's say that he got scoped in the office. I'd be okay with that because that's very typical for NFL quarterbacks to have that. He was not 100% in the off season. Yeah. I mean, during the regular season and playoffs last year.

You could just tell the way he was moving and throwing. He just didn't look 100%. Yeah. So to me, you took something you could have just said as a declarative statement, and you made it more than it should have been. See, that's why I kind of, as we said earlier, last hour with this Astro stuff, that's just the I just don't get it. Hey, what Aaron Wilson reported, why couldn't Domingo Ryan's or somebody say?

Yeah, he's got some muscle sorenness. It should be fine. We're not concerned. Bing, bang, boom. We're done. We're out of here. We can all move on with their lives. Because the problem with that would have been, there would have been 20 follow-up questions.

There would have been, okay, that's fine too. But that comes the territory. He's a start of quarterback. Yeah. You make it a story for, you make a one-day story, a five-day story, because you don't say anything. And this Yordan thing, we're going to evaluate him in two weeks. Not this every day.

He's on a tee. He's on a cage. He's doing coaches pitch. Like, what? Okay. He's at the Pony League in Aldean. like just tell us or give us a little bit of something and then what you're doing is you're making it less of a story it goes away especially in 2025 we'll move on to the next thing in 30 minutes

when you don't tell us anything and it leaves us to worry we keep bringing it up I'm trying to think of an analogy uh oh oh it's like if you were caught as a kid doing something yes if you tell mom you did it yes take your let's mad at you for 30

minutes. But if you don't tell her for weeks that you did something, then she gets more mad because you're trying to hide it. That's not the worst one. It's like when I stole her quarters to go play video games. I should have told her immediately I did it. I used to fish out every quarter I could

find in the house. As compared to she caught me red-handed playing on the video game. To go get double cheeseburgers from burger ring. By the way, guess what I did yesterday. You went to Rugger Ring? No. I went to Rick Ronald's. Okay, Rick Ronalds. I have a change dish.

Yes. So I went to the Oh, no. The coin thing. Oh, CoinStar? Yeah. Okay. You know what they're charging you now? Oh, they take a chunk.

You better pull up about $100. Do you know what it is? I don't know what it is. 12.9 cents per dollar. Woo! 13%? That's pretty pricing. Nah, you just roll that up and take it to the bank, Maddie.

Put one of your kids on it. Not on Sundays. Oh, that's true. So you could wait until Monday? So I did. So I did the, so I took the coin dish to the coin drop. No, okay. And I had almost $20 in change, which came back at $17.

Oh my God. Took that $17 in cash, went to Rick Rennels, got the two double cheeseburger and the basket of fries. $9. Uh-huh. Two T's, $14. Total cash meal. That's kind of proud of myself. I'm proud of you, Matt.

But I was like, man, I got to buy me one of them coin star machines. You got grifted, yeah. 13 cents on a dollar. I used to have a little, when I was like a kid, you're a coin. bank and you put the coin in there and it sorts it for you. Oh, yeah? You can roll it up. Oh, that's actually not bad.

You get fair market value in. Because if you go to your bank, they'll do it for you. Yeah. But no banks were open on Sunday. No. That's all I got on that. You couldn't use a card. So, point being is, I could have used the card, but I want to be a cheap skiskskin.

So I was a cheap skin on Sunday. Point being is that CJ, I mean, if there was something really, really wrong, he wouldn't be shooting baskets. Okay. That's my philosophy. I like it. I like it. Because I'm concerned.

I'm frankly calmer. day than I was when he didn't practice on Friday. I got Astros medical team PTSD because they tell me he's fine. Oh, he's shooting baskets. Oh, he's hitting in the cage. Everything's cool. Okay. So you know, labor care six months.

These trainers are doing this to us. Why do these trainers have these mystical power over the Houston sports landscape? I don't know. I wish it didn't. I wish it weren't like this. All right. To tell the truth is up next. There are three things I believe.

There is one thing I do not believe. For you to figure it out next here. Sports Talk 790. Some of you are very funny. You are saying me gifts of looking for change. I mean, it's true. Shout out at this guy,

6931. Shout out to Stroze relegation. Who else is in there? Something to him here. Ross, you've one of me in there too. Damn, you, Ross? It's got the big, Why did the water jug become the receptacle for coins?

Like universally. I don't know, but mine was, I just have a, I just had a dish. Like any, like relative grandma, whoever's house I would walk into it. Like an Ozark and multi-gallon one, right? Exactly. Like a big sparklets. Yeah, yeah. Marklets.

That's funny. A big marklets thing full of coins. Can I tell. How did that become the industry standard? So, Kim wanted to cook a. bunch of food that I don't like. They wanted to have salmon last half of dinner, and I don't like salmon. I don't like salmon at all.

What if you make it on a cedar plank? No. With some rosemary and time. No. So I was like, why don't we just go to use my change? Because we're trying to, we try to eat at home on the weekends. So you convince them to pivot from salmon to McDonald's. With loose change.

Correct. And it worked. Wow. Matt one. Matt one, Kim, Zero. Let's go. Open up the coin purse. Let's go on an adventure.

Get you a double cheeseburger bundle. Two double cheeseburgers. Got rid of the ketchup and mustard added mac sauce. Delicious. In the basket of fries, more fries you could possibly stand. Best $9. Oh, my God. It's pretty clutch.

It's immense. By the way, those make crispy chips, strips. And I never had one yet. They're all right. I was expecting better. Stop bringing Venn's chicken. Right? I was expecting better, right?

I thought so, too. And I was like, after the third one, I was in. Yeah. So there's mid, huh? They're mid. Okay, here we go. Four sports takes. Sports show.

I know. Three of these four, I believe, boys. You ready? Number one. Yes. If Yannis does not come to Houston, not saying it's a high percentage, low percentage. There's just no percentage at all. He's going on an Eastern Conference team.

Okay. For the simple reason of he thinks it's going to be easier to win the East than anywhere else. Okay. But it might not be a better Eastern team. It'll just be like a mid-team that he wants to make great. Okay. It's number one. Number two, the only team the Astros will have to worry about this year in the American League West will be the Seattle Mariners.

It is, I'm declaring it right now, June 2nd, 2025. I am declaring the American League West a two-team race. Okay. Number three, the NBA final start on Thursday, which is by the way, my birthday. Happy birthday. Thank you. The Thunder are winning in five games. That's it.

Five games. Okay, I mean, okay. And number four, I have figured out a way to entice college football players who are draft eligible to stick around and play in the college football playoff. You ready for this great idea of mine? Don't they already mostly? But some do. I'm just saying you want full participation? Okay.

Create a winner's pool for each playoff victory. They split among the teams. A prize pool? Okay. who is sanctioning this pool? The NCAA, I don't think to do that. When did we let the NCAA stop at anything? Yeah.

Get a corporate sponsor to do it. So if you win the first round game, a corporate NIL deal. You win $2 million to go to NAL. Brought to you by Rate Rarm and the team that wins gets to do commercials for money or something. I think you'll have 100% participation. It sounds like a lot of red tape. Oh, please.

College Athletics is nothing about red tape at this. point. Exactly. So here are my four takes again. If Yannis doesn't come to Houston, he's headed east. The only team of the Astros will have to compete with this year in the West would be the M's. I'm saying that on June 2nd. The Thunder winning over Indiana in five games and

create a winner's pool for each playoff victory to keep players in the college football playoff. Three and the four, I believe, one I don't. Which one am I not telling you folks the truth? All right, Jonathan. You want to talk through this? I think he believes one.

Yeah, because I don't see him going to the West. At least when I was half paying attention. And after all that Twitter stuff he was doing, it doesn't seem like it was anything. Yeah, two and three, to me, I could take a relief. Matt might believe it. Matt might not. They seem both reasonable. And I don't want to say ice cold vanilla takes because that would be rude.

Yeah, I'm taking out for it. Ice cold vanilla. What are we talking about a Frappuccino or what? Yeah. That's your take. That's what I'm compared. Parapuccino or tasty? People love Frappuccino.

That's what I would compare your takes to. An oat milk shaking frappuccino. And you know what? You get that for $8 at Rarux. Yeah. Heavy profit. It's a very heavy profit. A fratino at Rarux, heavy profit. Yeah.

A black coffee, minimal. And then you could fund your son's crappy careers and NFL Insider. But anyways, Winners pool for college football. I mean, that seems ridiculous and a lot of red tape. I'm just going to go with it. that. Yeah, I'm going to go over for four as well. I don't think he released the

college pool. Hurry up. Hurry up. Okay, how's the game work? You pick it and then he tells him if we're right. No, he's saying, how's it work? You win the game, you get the money, and you split up among the active players. Oh, okay. So, think about this, if it's, you're making

$2 million of the first game. Let's say you make three and a half for the semifinals, you make $5 million, you win that. Winterpool, you're talking about splitting $11 million over 60 players. I'm confused. I don't think I'm confused. I think it's pretty damn simple. That's why we picking this one because it is. I mean, I guess you can believe it, but I don't think it's ever going to happen.

I mean, it's just not price. It's me, remember? Yeah, right. I know. See, that's true, Jonathan. You've got to get in the mind of a madman. He definitely believes that Houston's going to be maddened only the competition. Well, like I said, the other ones are like vanilla for Appalachino's.

This one's sizzling. It's got a habanero teacher in it. Make your decision now. I'll stick with four. Whatever. What do you say, Jonathan? I'm sticking with four. All right.

If Janice doesn't come to Houston, he's going east. I think he thinks the quickest path to getting to it. I think he's living for a championship. And I think if you go to a West team not named Houston, then you're going to be thinking about Golden State may be too old. Denver, you know, are you going to be the, are him and Yokic on the same floor together? San Antonio, you're still worried about whether or not Wembe can be a guy

that can play 60 games a year. I think he's going east. I think he wants to go to, you know, look, there's a lot of names of Toronto being mixed in the mix there. Get him out of here. Yep. The West is too tough as it is. Number two, I do believe it is the Astros and M's for the American League West. I don't think the Rangers will provide a threat or the Angels or the A's.

And lastly, I do believe the Thunder are going to win in five games. I had a real hard time coming up with that one that I didn't believe. So this was not my best word. That's normally the case when you go with three out of four. Yeah. It's a difficult. segment, man. You know, I like to make funny you and your horrible takes. But I want to keep doing it. But whenever you're out of town, which is, you know, half the year, on Mondays, I, yeah, it's difficult when I have to do the second.

Yeah. So, yeah. You know, the reason why I thought about this is because, you know, Doug Gottliebys, right? Yes, I know Doug Gottlie. He's the loser Fox broadcaster. We employ on this network, sadly. He's also the coach at Wisconsin Green Bay. They win a conference game, like one? No. Okay, they didn't win him. He's trying to take his team to play in this TBT winner take-all million-dollar tournament. Okay. I don't know if he's successful in doing it, but he wants to take his team. The amateurs. The amateurs go in that

tournament for winner-take-on. I'm thinking maybe you could do that for college football, like two entice players to stick around. Though, yeah, I thought they couldn't be active college players. He's trying to skirt those rules or doesn't matter? I see he's trying to force his way in there. Usually those are, it's like former players of a

college squad. They're like, you know, it's the former Villanova Wildcat guys who were taking a break from playing in Greece and heading over. So that's why I thought. You know what? Maybe we'll figure out a way to entice him. I mean, it could happen, but it's just, everything's complicated because of the amateurism.

The better answer would have been, do you do this for bowl games? The problem is bowl games are already financially in the hole. They're not going to add another half million dollars. And why are you going to split half million dollars among 60 players when you're going to be a pro player six months later making a hundred times that amount? That's another. I just don't get it.

how they, these, all these bowl games still making money. They don't. They, I, they're there. They funds 90% of them. It's crazy. Yeah. I think they just make rights fees.

Yeah. All right. So that was tell the truth. Nice job by both of you. I didn't necessarily give you a big challenge this week. Congratulations, Jonathan. Jonathan, that's what I feel as good.

Oh, wow. He got one couple of weeks back. He said layup drill. That feels rude. Oh, baby. Maybe I put words in his mouth. That's an understatement. Understatement.

Whoa. Mm-mm. Just terrible. your part. All right, 1144 on Sports Talk, 790. The news at noon is coming up at 12 noon today. Ross, what is today's edition of, believe it or not? I don't know. All right. That's what we can look forward to. Look forward to talking with you at 713-212-5-790. So betting in sports is becoming more and more prevalent. In fact, it probably takes over for

more of the analysis of an event than the actual talking about the players, the strategy, the coaches, the types of players will be drawn. It's just about what Vegas thinks, and you go off what Vegas thinks. And I don't know how Vegas does their thing. I'm always been curious about it. Whenever I get a, we've had handicappers on before, and I always like to just pick their brain about a variety of things.

This is one that it's hard for me to fathom. You're trying to, and I know that you don't always do this, but don't you want to always try to find money on both sides and get people to bet on both sides of something? In theory? In theory, yes. Okay, so let me give you why you wouldn't do this. The Thunder Pacer series is coming up.

And it starts on Thursday. The series price, meaning you have to just predict the winner of the series. Oklahoma City is a minus 750. Yes. Again, to show you what you'd have to do, you'd have to bet $750 to win $100. Okay? Mm-hmm. If you think the Pacers are going to win, that's where you get the tremendous value at plus $5.30.

You bet $100, you'll get $5.30 back. So obviously doing a little bit of logical thinking, the Thunder are heavy, heavy, heavy favorites. Yes. So Ross, you knowing this a little bit more than I do about this. If I'm rich and I want to put some money in Oklahoma City Thunder because I really believe they're going to win, am I even wasting my time with minus 750 or do I want to go try to at least predict how many games it would take in order for them? to win to get some kind of value back? I mean, it just comes down to

7 to 1 means they need to win it 7 times out of 8. Is that right? One on one side, 7 on the other, you add it up that's 8, right? So 7 to 1 is saying they play the NBA finals 8 times in theory, Thunder are winning 7 of them.

If you think that value of what is that? That is 87.5%. If you think they win 90% of the time, there's value for you. If you think they win 95% of the time, if you think they win 100% of the time, there's value for you.

So that's where you find the value. So if I went and put $10,000 on Oklahoma City to win, I'm only getting back, what, $750? Or $7,500. No. I'll put $10,00. $750. I don't think that math works out.

What's minus, oh gosh, now you're, and if you put $7,500, how about this? We'll do it. You get $1,000. Yes. I could probably put that in the stock and earn a little bit faster. What do you think? Well, people think that some people do this basically money laundering.

Like, oh, I won this gambling. Now, go for the cartel, head over the window. Can the Pacers win it? Can the pay? Of course they can. I mean. In injuries. Chey Gildes Alexander turns his ankle in game one.

It's all over. Right, right, right. And Indianapolis, I mean, look, the Celtics were heavy favorites to win the East. Cleveland was a heavy favorite to win the East. And neither one of those teams even made of the conference final. Yeah. So they're paying out seven to, basically you have to lay seven to one. They're paying out under five to one.

So they're getting money on both sides. Does that make sense? They're not getting giving, they're not paying out true value. and they're making you pay a premium. They are. So that's how they make money. I really, really, as you heard what to tell the truth a minute ago, I really believe Oklahoma City is going to win this thing.

Provided everybody. Provided everybody. Provided everybody says healthy. While I respect the hell of Indiana, they're just, Oklahoma City's too deep, too talented. Shaggildos Alexander is going to go off, and it's going to be, like I said, five games. I agree.

So to me, there'd be absolutely no value in me putting any money. money down, even if I'm very, very, the delight of winning pennies on the dollar as compared to the harsh loss that I would be taking wouldn't be worth the bet itself. It's just, do you think, actually, it looks like the odds have come back for the Pacers a little bit, what I'm seeing. So do you think they have more than an 87.5% chance to win the series? If you think the answer is yes, you bet. That's basically how I would say how you do futures.

Well, in my mind right now, I would say closer to 99%. Yeah, run your algorithms. But I mean... Yeah, if it's 99% then, yeah, lay 700 bucks, you'll 100. The value's there. It just doesn't feel like there's value. That's the only thing I'm saying. It's a $300 if they're going to win.

Yeah, it's true. And by the way, the referee extended bid is very funny. Every time I see somebody say, oh, the referee centers are out, I said, then bet your whole life savings on the other team. Yeah, that's very good. Now, I'm glad I didn't do that last time because Scott Foster did do it and then New York won the game. But it was, it was a comfortable win, right? Yeah, it didn't go to the last second.

There wasn't like Scott Foster's taking this game over. Correct. Correct, correct. So, I don't know, I just find little things in sports going, hey, that feels like something I wouldn't. Now, if I believe the thunder are going to win, then I want to put, if I'm going to spend my money like that, if I'm going to spend $750, I want to try to predict how many games are going to do it in. That's where I could see you getting a little bit of money. correct? Yeah. That's true, but

can be difficult, I guess. I mean, they're going to take your money no matter what. So, yeah, on the flip side, would you say the prices were, five to one, basically? Yeah. So that, that means if you think they can win one out of six,

no. No. Watch this boat be wrong. We could. That's why, you know what? I'm wrong all the time. That's why sports betting just, eh, my jam.

We were wrong at the old Raf Rings sports book a couple weeks ago. We were definitely wrong. Thanks very much, Hunter Brown. Appreciate it, Hunter. Not blaming you at all, or am I? Bandbox field. Humidity. Warm.

Wind blowing to the left to right. Left to right. Canter corn home runs. Brutal. All right. The Astros get a gem. Speaking of Hunter Brown. Nice bounce back.

Cy Brown. How about that 7 and 3 homes? By the way, I had a, remember I had a gut feeling in the middle of last year that he was going to throw a no hitter by the end of this year? You're still holding on to that, aren't you? I mean, it's very difficult. It was very bold by me, but he was, what was it, through five? How many no-hitting two, three, yeah.

What are we getting there? But the problem was his pitch count was elevated. That's okay. Yeah, you're struggling with command and he was still throwing five no-hit innings. He's going to put it together, man. He's going to get close. Let's go. All right.

Maybe I'll re-up on that gut feeling tomorrow. The news at noon is up next. You are welcome to join us throughout the course the next couple of hours. It's 713-21-21-2-5-790, 7-7-13, 212-5-7-90. We have the news at noon, believe it or not today. And again, all things about the Astros to get to the agenda, C.J. Stroud, shooting baskets over the weekend. It was diagnosed that Aaron Wilson said there was a little bit of a shoulder muscle that was sore. You know what? Tell us. We won't bite. Gordon's hands fractured. We won't bite. We're very friendly, aren't we?

I think so. We're very friendly with the New York media. People think you're a vicious media member, but I'm very nice. Who says that? I want names. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. 12-0-2-H-Town. What's happening at lunch timers? This is our number three of four. The Matt Thomas Show at Ross with Rossville.

I'm Matt Thomas. Our producer is Jonathan Allen, and we thank you for spending some time with us today. We're not going anywhere until at least two o'clock. We'll be with you to talk all things about the local nine as they split the series of the race, which all things consider is a win, because. they got beaten badly twice. We have the NBA finals are set for Thursday. We've got college baseball, you SEC fans.

Are you disappointed, sad, or did you even realize your team was in the SEC in the baseball tournament? And we had CJ Stroud, did not throw on Friday, but was busy shooting baskets over the weekend. Aaron Wilson of KPRC said, yeah, it's a little bit of a... Oh, excuse me. Time now. No, it's the news of noon with Matt. No. What's going on here?

No, I'm walking out. Time now for the news, the dude. And here's the Barbara Walters of Sports News in Houston. Gosh, you're a bit stealer. It's like you're the opening act for a comedy show and you stole all my jokes. I'm going to watch Lauren for a minute. You just do what you need to do. Lauren who?

Shahadi. What do you feel about these college baseball players with like four buttons undone? That has some hair in the chest. Jose Abrasey stuff. That's disgusting. Do you think that guy shaves his chest? Absolutely. Unless he's just a hair.

This has got alopecia. If y'all shave your chest, let us know. 713212-5-790. Actually, if you shaved your chest, please do not call the show. I mean, we appreciate you listening, but I don't want to hear Matt talking about men's hair. All right, anyways, the nose at noon here on Sports Talk 790. Basically, can we just replay everything Matt laid out for the last minute and a half? That's pretty much where we are.

Well, we will start with the Astros. A wild four game set over the weekend. against the raise. They lose 13 to 3 in the opener, win on a walkoff 2 to 1, lose 16 to 3, and then yesterday, this happened. Bradley delivers, and Walker doesn't take it,

and he bloops this one in a shallow left field, and down for a base hit. Around 3rd Pena coming home. The photo of play by Mangum offline, and Pena's score standing up. Christian Walker, a blue Barbie single, and the Astros have a 1-0 lead. Well, you can go on contact,

Jeremy Payne from second base, so anticipation was key. But the way he cuts third base is textbook. One run scored, but that was enough for the Astros. Hunter Brown. Imagine if you got to the game in the second inning. Right a little bit late. You saw a pitcher's duel, Matt. Yeah.

No offense. You can, yeah. It's like a one-nothing soccer game. It's about the tension. Ugh. It's about boredom. It's about the threat of scoring, Matt. That's what gets the people going.

So yes, one-nothing. game for the Astros. Some people call that a bore. I say it's good razor on the edge of your seat, baseball for the Astros. Matt, outscored 30 to 9 in the series. 30 to 9. Last time I checked, the scoreboard said two wins a piece.

Well, we'd have to check out of the run differential for the Astros. They are plus 15, which is leading the American League West. Yikes. Rangers at a plus 3. Mariners at a plus eight, but more importantly, the Astros is a half game behind the Mariners. Both teams out of action.

Astros start a three game set. I wonder if there's a lot of people in Houston heading over to Pittsburgh. That's supposed to be one of the most beautiful parks on the planet. And Robert Ford right now is at the Roberto Clemente Museum in Pittsburgh. I saw that. I saw his post on Instagram, where he doesn't

follow me back, but that's okay. You can follow me on Instagram at Sports RV. They had a piece of the Roberto Clemente airplane, like the fuselage. I was afraid you were going to say that and then you said it. Isn't that a little dark macabre? However you want to say it? Like macab?

Gosh. Oh, macab and gosch. Nobody has a little sports radio show is bringing that up in those names. I got one for you. I know somebody that owns part of the plane, the, the, what do you call when you open the door? The cockpit or the door of Jim Crouchy's plane that crashed in Nackettish. Louisiana.

Really? Yeah, isn't that creepy? I know somebody's got a part of the Otis Redding plane crash. I just made that up. But he did die in a play crash. May he rest? All right, so you can see the fuselage of the plane?

Yeah, that is really weird. It looks like, I don't know if it's a propeller or what. Oh. That is a little dark. A little bit. And a little odd. But yes, Astros in action against the Pittsburgh Pirates. We'll talk more about this on gut feelings tomorrow, Matt.

but Lance McCullors Jr. On the Hill tomorrow. How about a quality start for him the last time out? We talked about it last week. Actually, I didn't talk about it, but was it full-blown coverage on the show on Thursday with Lance McCullors Jr's quality start with 12 strikeouts? You know, it was quality, but he still got hit pretty hard.

You know what I mean? No. I do. Only five hits. What you mean? I think they were slowing pretty well. There's some rockets out there. That's for sure.

Well, another thing that we've been talking about, Matt, with the ad. We mentioned it earlier on the show. What are we calling this now? Do we have to put gait on the end of everything? Is this fracture gate? Can we go back to Pittsburgh for a second? Yes.

So the most famous place to eat in terms of a sandwich is Pramati. Pramati brothers. That's where they stuff French fries into the sandwiches. You can get a, let's see, a cheese steak, which would be topped with French fries, koslaw, tomatoes, and onions. Okay. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

I believe jamming French fries into a sandwich is, spectacular idea. Jam is much cholesterol into a hoagy roll as we can possibly get. Yes, I'm sorry to separate you. But I was just like, man,

every time I think of Pittsburgh, I've only been to Pittsburgh or three or four times. I've never had Primonis there. Oh, really? I'm kind of sad. You've been, but haven't been. I've never been to Pittsburgh.

Not necessarily in the bucket list. The only reason I would go would stay in the PCP. That'd be the reason. All right. Moving along, as we mentioned, yes, Handgate, fracture gate.

Fracturegate 2.0. After last year's saga with Kyle Tucker and his fracture. Now, Yordon Alvarez has a fractured hand. Despite taking BP on Friday, everyone talking about how close he is.

Joe Espada and Dana Brown saying, oh, you know, it's up to him. Whatever he wants to be. No, it's not up to him. He's got a fracture in his hand. Although Dana Brown said he is 60% healed, Matt. All right. So again, I want you to use your fractional equivalence here. Okay.

If he's 60%, and he's probably been hurt since late April. When does he hit 100%? I don't know. That's algebra for you. Don't. Hold on.

April 30th. Yes. Zero percent. Uh-huh. June 1st, 60%. So that's a month. So that's six weeks. So we're talking about six weeks so he's 100% healed.

And then he's got to go on a rehab assignment for probably a week. So we're looking at seven weeks. Do you want to play guess when you're on his back? Yeah, but isn't it like one of those things where the last 10% is the hardest to get. You're 90% healed, but it's that last 10% Now you're ruining my percentage. Can't that happen, though?

All right, I got one for you then. Real quick. Is he back by September 1st? September 1st? Yes. Please. Is Zoom Matt? He better be back.

Then answer my question. I'll say yes, he better be back. And by the way, is he IP or IH? A hand fracture? He hasn't had a bunch of hand issues. He had had a bunch of knee and juice. I mean, look, he's a violent swinger. One of the highest average exit velas in baseball.

But a big, bulking guy has had a variety of ailments. Yes, he has. Does the body frame do it? Does the sport do it to him? I don't know. I'm not an orthopedist anymore. I would say he's more eye. They revoked my license.

Because there are plenty of outfielders that don't have hand and knees and leg injuries. All right. Well, Dana Brown, do you wish you handled anything differently with Yordon? I think the big point here is, you know, when he has, you know, had the first injury in terms of the muscle strain and the hand, you know, maybe we, we shouldn't let him fight through that because he said it wasn't the normal pain that he usually gets in his hand, so he thought maybe he could grind through it and it was just, just soreness. And maybe at that point, we probably should have shut him down maybe for a week,

giving it a chance to heal and not let him, you know, try to fight through it and potentially cause more damage. So I like this. Admission from Dana Brown, hey, maybe we rushed them back. We shouldn't have done it. Admitting a mistake. Hey, it's okay for the organization to do that.

When's the last time you had a sore hand? Now. Because? General hand soreness? Me too. Okay. Can you grip a baseball? I can grip it and rip it.

Spence. I can grip it and rip it. Spencer Erigetti can grip a baseball now. That's good. Makes me happy I'm him. When's he back? I don't know. Don't care.

I told you my philosophy. When they come back, they come back. I like that. When he's out there, he's out there. All right, man, the athletic took time because, well, it is a slow time for college football to rank the top college football recruits of the 21st century. Now, unfortunately, I do not see any University of Houston Cougar recruits on this list. Maybe Ed Oliver could be in there somewhere, I guess.

Do you know who is number one on the list of top recruits of the 21st century? Well, knowing how you like to think, I'm going to go Vince Young. Oh, Vincent Paul Young Jr. Madison High School of Houston, Texas. You're such a fraud. The first prospect to receive a perfect 1.00 rating. Number two, Travis Hunter. Number three, Trevor Lawrence. Number four, Adrian Peterson.

Rounding out the top five, LSU class of 2014 running back, Leonard Fournett. again, I'm scanning. There is, yeah, no Houston Cougars recruits on this list. Are you done? Unfortunately. And thank you for that update. Quinn Ewers, by the way, number nine. He is not. Arch Manning number 23.

Oh, Quinn Ewers was a big recruit. Now, he went to Ohio State first, of course. Got his Millie from there, correct? He was a huge recruit. Yeah. Didn't live up to the hype for sure. I forgot about this one. Doriel Green Beckham, the Missouri wide receipts.

By the way, let me ask you this. Going yours real fast. So he was a seventh round pick or a sixth? Seven. So remember I gave you that take that maybe he should be better served by staying in college, go get the NIL money and then try this again? I was actually right about that. No, I told you you're not wrong.

I told you Quinn wants to, Quinn feels like he has enough money and he wants to start his NFL career. Because for him, another year in college isn't going to do anything for him. Well, no, I see, I disagree with that. obviously another year of college could have held this draft status and another year would have given him more guaranteed money. Nobody even you didn't think he was going to slip to the seventh round. I thought he was a third or four.

So we thought it was going to be around there for a couple million dollars. I'm going to imagine that Quinn Euras thought he was going to be there as well. So did he take an L on? Did he bet on himself? Yes, we've seen players bet on themselves and lose. So right now, he's losing. If he can turn into some semblance of an NFL career, which is unlikely for a seventh round pick, according to the numbers, then yeah, he bet on himself and he lost.

We also don't know what kind of big offers he had if it was true, the rumors of $4 million because there was the rumor that who is the Carson Beck, the Georgia quarterback? He's supposed to be getting $4 million. Apparently, that was a lie. And then Nico Yamaliyava or something like that. So it was a whole big mess with the NIL. You don't even know it was out there. You know what?

NIA money is being largely, I think, overshunders. stated, don't you think? Overinflated. It seems like it. All right. That's the news at noon. 1215 Sports Talk 790. We are with you today until 2 o'clock. If you want to get into your beloved Astros, only a half game out of first place, we'll do that fair game. If you like to give us a prediction on the NBA playoffs, if you are no longer worried about C.J. Strau, that's me. If you are slightly worried, that's Ross. 713212-2-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790. Today's edition, believe it or not, will be all things about the NBA on ending a 36-year run of calling NBA games on the network. By the way, Charles Barkley says inside the NBA group taped a pilot for what a show will be like on TNT without any NBA rights. Quoting Charles Barkley, we won't have basketball highlights. We taped a pilot about a month ago. It was the stupidest blank I've ever seen in my life. They can't get any rights to highlights?

No, they just did it without. Oh, they did it without highlight. I'm confused. like, hey, let's try something, let's try to expand our horizons. You know, honestly, and give credit where credits do, I mean, Charles has become one of the most sought after television media personalities in the history of television sports. Kenny has carved out a niche. I mean, not going to necessarily rock the boat. He's a level, he's the level-headed guy.

Ernie is the guy that, you know, kind of is the traffic cop. Shack doesn't do much for me on the television side, but Shack is one of the most successful business people in the country today. Yes. And he's America's pitch man. Yes. He's doing insurance, foot powder, Miceymont. He owns all sorts of restaurants and different kind of companies.

He's a mogul. He's a full-on mogul. It's funny because Magic did that for a long period of time. And now he stepped away from that. Now he, I think he's just in team ownerships. Yeah, I know he has got a piece of the Dodgers, which I'm sure is very profitable. Doesn't he own part of an NFL team too?

I want to say. I think so. Was it the commanders? I think it was the commanders, yeah. So these guys, I mean, say what you all about Shaq. And if Shaq was to walk in here right now, we'd find him engaging. Yes. He'd probably buy us a meal.

He goes to restaurants all the time and buys meals. He goes to breakfast club all the time and buys a restaurant out. He'll buy the restaurant out. He's a very good tipper. He's very generous. I saw like some, he had given, like, somebody his uncle's. or somebody in his family like a range rover. He seems to be very, very generous,

very profitable, smart, sharp business guy and makes a lot of money and is very good pitchman. Philanthropic with it. Yeah. I mean, all positive things. Analysis, does he know the Detroit Pistons roster? No. No.

Do you know that John Moran isn't active? He's like, my key for the game is John Moran. He's not playing, Shaq? That was a Rockets game, right? Yeah. That was crazy. My favorite segment they do, the last couple of years is can they name the team which this player is on?

Who he play for. Yeah. Yeah, they call it who he play for, but they go like way deep on the roster. Like Garrett Temple. Yeah, exactly. I have no idea. I don't remember. I believe it's Toronto Raptors. Oh, sure, why not? Yeah, they do guys like on the end of the bench and go who he play for. So it's, I don't get mad at them because I can't get those either most of the time. Do you think that Shaq knows that Aaron Holliday is a Houston rocket? No. Jay Sean Tate? No. Who else? Jack Landell

Ooh, Jack would be kind of a curious one. Would you see Jack got a little bit of Shall we say spicy commentary on a podcast last week or two weeks ago? No, what did you say? He said it was part politics of the reason why Stephen Adams played over him during the part of the season. Like Kiwi versus Ozzie politics? I don't know what it was.

And I don't know what politics means, but then he said, well, on second thought, now that I think about it, he played really well during the playoffs and I get it. I'm sorry, Jack. I like... If my politics, you mean back and ball playing acumen? Or like, what would you call skill? Jack's a good guy, by the way.

Jack's great. Like him a lot. Calls me mate. Yes. So to Stephen Adams. He calls everyone mate. I know. Yeah, okay.

Oh, yeah, we're real tight. He calls me chief. Yeah, okay. Well, uh... All right, boss. Boss, that's what Jabari Smith calls me. Again, there is zero chance of not a single player on the team knows my name. Mm-hmm.

That's just fine. I mean, it's fine. I get over it. That's fine. The best thing I'll ask you when he came to Stephen Adams is we were in Miami. And I think we spent the night if I'm not, no, whatever it was. He is known for his proteins. Yes, like big Tomahead.

When did you crush a whole Tomahawk steak? So this is day of the game. This is before the game against the heat. And he and I get in the elevator. And he's carrying a plate with him. How often you carry plates in an elevator? Oh, like an act, not like a, not a go plate. go box. Like an actual

pizza box. Like a real plate. I said, where did you get that? I said I had him cook it up for me. It was this. What is he walked down in his flip-flops to the grill? And then they grill it up and he walks back up there? ridiculously thick steak. I mean, it had to have been a pound.

With a big heaping of mashed potatoes. Not every day you see a seven-foot player with a thick steak and a mound of mashed potatoes on a real plate in an elevator. He's got a fuel up. whatever he's doing is working. I like Stephen Adams a lot.

Meanwhile, I'm stealing the morning muffins from downstairs next to the free coffee. Terrible. You're drinking creamer. You say I have 10 creamers for breakfast. I got to say that for the gambling money. You know what it is. Let's talk to Mike in San Antonio at 1226. Mike, thank you for waiting and good afternoon.

Good afternoon, guys. I'm actually driving back from Houston. Went to the game on yesterday. Nice. After the game. Yeah. I was curious to know your opinion, and if you know details of what happened, that guy didn't toss. But first of all, Matt, you'll be glad to know that there was no wave.

They tried to get it started. I think it maybe was like the fifth inning. Do you know something, Mike? Mike, first of all, thank you for bringing that up. Second, anything you did to make sure it didn't happen. I have seen less waves in 2025 that I've seen in Houston in years. I don't know if it's because of Wave Busters, HOU. I don't think so.

or we're just becoming smarter fans, but I want to applaud all of you that have gone to games. Now, again, the kids just got out, so things could certainly turn quick. Crowds have been light, so maybe. It started on the third base side, on the lower level, but it just never got far. You know, anyway, what I wanted to know your opinion on,

the guy getting tossed, and I saw it after or looked at it was definitely a ball, but my opinion was the option to just let it go. I don't know what he said to him. It's the only thing I don't know. I just don't know what caused all that and why the guy got tossed out. And if you guys... I do.

It's very easy, Mike. And thank you for the phone call. And please drive safely back to San Antonio. So they used during spring training this year, and it's used in the minor leagues this year, an appeals process on the ball strikes. If you believe that a call was erroneous, you tap your helmet.

Yes. All right? So that's nice and simple, right? There's only one problem. You can't tap your helmet in the big leagues because it does no good. So what that guy did, what's his name? Taylor, what? Taylor Wells.

Wells. Wells doesn't really matter. He'll be a Durham before you know it. What Taylor did is he tapped it because he wanted to show the umpire up. Right. He was being snarky or sarcastic. So I put it as a equivalent on Twitter of handing a guy, handing an umpire pair of glasses. Right.

That's what he did. Or he did like the glasses symbol with his hands. Or, you know, or John, you know, or John Sina, you can't see me. Exactly. He did that. Yeah. He lied after the game. He knew what he was doing.

He knew exactly what he was doing. He was trying to show the umpire up. And the umpire is like, ain't nobody got time for that. He'd throw him the ass out of the game. Yeah. Essentially, you can't argue balls and strikes. And essentially that is, number one, it's mocking. And number two, it's arguing balls and strikes.

He was saying something to the umpire. Yes. He stepped out of the box, called for his timeout. there was, Taylor even said there was chirping from the raised dugout. Yes. That would have been all allowed for a certain length of time.

But when you go to the tapping your helmet and he said he was adjusting his helmet. Oh, please. BS. He was trying to show him up. If I was the umpire, I would have done the exact same thing. It was a very justified ejection. Extremely earned.

We're well earned. And then he lost his mind and tried to charge the umpire. Oh, Tatee went nuts. he yeah uh as the kids would say he crashed out by where is taylor and boys name or a girl's name primary both it's a last name they got turned into both to me how do you feel about there's any anybody in 1867 named taylor i just feel like taylor's a super preppy name and that dude does not match a taylor taylor it looks like more like an enos enos okay what do you think i said i thought you said enous but i mean enous cabell is the only one i know

Enis from the Smoky and the Bandit? Yes. Wasn't that a Smoky and the Bandit Enis? Or was it Duke's Hazard? That was Duke's a Hazard. That was the deputy. You got his own TV show. I can't keep track.

That's fine. I have to watch a Smokey and the Bandit again. All right. So there you have it. So yeah, Enis decided he didn't want to stick around or the umpire made sure he didn't stick around. Then he really lost his mind. And then Kevin Cash came out there.

It was moot. There's big Enus and Smokey and the Bandit. Oh, that's the Cowan. McNair character? Yeah. I didn't know that guy's name was Enis. What'd you think it was? By the way, I recently saw Smoky in the Banner for the first time. Go ahead. Say it. It sucked.

Now, are you generationally shaming? I'm not shaming. I'm just saying it was there was just very little to no plot and the dude just drives around for two hours. All right. Real fast. Come back. And it wasn't that fun. I didn't. I don't think I laughed. I want you to name two movies. Okay. That are at least 30 years old. That I like?

That you still laugh at this day. Because I watch... Do it right now? No, we come back. Okay. Because I watch one of them this weekend. Now, 30 years old is just a 95 minute. Can you go 40?

I can go 40. Okay. You can go 30, I'll go 40. I can name you two movies that are 40 years old that I still barely laugh after. All these years. Smoky and the band you had to be there. there, I think. Correct.

And it's Southern Friday. Sure, why not? 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-790. 12-32 on Sports Talk 7-90. All right, real fit, quick to finish off we were just talking about. There are two movies. You guys know that airplanes are my favorite movie of all time.

I, we had, Caddyshack was on this weekend on one of the movie channels. Ross, I still ridiculously laugh at everything about Caddyshack 2. Not a Caddyshack 2. Caddyshack 2. Caddyshack 1. I was going to say you're the one that enjoyed it. No, no, no, no, no.

2-0-T-O-O-2. Caddyshack, T-O-O. Ted Knight and Chevy Chase's character didn't do much for me. That was 45 years ago. I thought Caddyshack was okay. And then again, this is all me recently. I don't know, the last five to 10 years watching them. airplane is great.

I'm with you on that. Blazing saddles, I found hilarious. I haven't seen Blazing Saddles start to finish in a long time. I like the animal house. I'm trying to think of the, yeah. So I like, it's hidden mist, but smoking the bandit,

I'm just sitting there saying, I just don't get it. You don't get, Caddyshack? No, no, smoking in the band. Oh, smoking the band. Yeah, I don't remember them being overly. I just remember that Sally Field and Bert Reynolds were together, and that was kind of weird. Yeah, there was a lot of sexual tension.

And Jackie Gleason was in it too. Yes. I didn't care for it. I love that Transam, though. It's an all-timer. It's one of my all-time favorite cars. Okay, so the two movies for me that still hold belly laugh funny, 40 years later would be Caddyshack for me and airplane.

You're going with what? I was going to say airplane and blazing saddles. Okay. Very good. Sure, why not? Monty Python, Holy Grail. That was good. Never saw it.

What? Mm-mm. That's your era. You never saw any of the Monty Python? Not a single one of them. Yeah. You're more of a slapstick guy. Let me ask you this.

I'm a pretty slapstick. Let me give you five movies of the last 20 years. Okay. Do they hold up? Okay. Does the hangover hold up? Yes. Does...

Wedding Crashers, yes. Stepbrothers, yes. Yes. And yes and yes. All three. Anchorman. Yes. Ricky Bobby.

40-year-old virgin. I saw that like a couple of years Yeah, maybe last year Still hilarious Bridesmaids It's dated though It's it makes Because I mean

It shouldn't feel as old as it does Talking about 40 year old virgin Like they have flip phones and stuff And they're working at the electronic store And they're like we got this new DVD player Nobody's using DVDs I loved I loved it when it was James Ingram And mom will be there

And what's his face is I'm gonna mom will kick your ass If I hear this song one more time Oh yeah Oh yeah Oh yeah Yeah, I haven't seen it recently, but I don't know. I haven't watched it.

All right, let me give you a couple more. Okay. I know this is, we're in a huge sports time here. It's fine. It's June. It's June. It's about that time of year. Vacation holds up.

I have never seen vacation all the way through. Unbelievably funny. Now, Vegas vacation, I loved when I was a kid. Vegas is the worst of the, is the best of the rest. No, no, no, no. It goes vacation one, Christmas vacation two. Oh, yeah, yeah. Vegas Vacation 3, and then European vacation is a distant fourth.

The European vacation absolutely sucked. I didn't catch that one. But Vegas Vacation somewhat holds. Christmas vacation definitely holds. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I would agree. Christmas vacation is how old?

It's almost 40 years. Yeah, it's going to be close to 40. 89. That's 36 years ago. Yeah. Back from Beverly DeAngelo was hot. What is she now, Matt? Old?

You can be old and hot. That wouldn't fit her, though. Okay. You know who she's married to, don't you? No, I don't know who she's married to. Don Henley. No, not a horrible. Al Pacino.

No, she's not. Al Pacino's married to like some 20-year-old. She maybe was married to Al Pacino. Okay. Wasn't Al Pacino recently impregnating some 20-year-old? Yeah, but Robert De Niro did that. Was it Robert De Niro? I'm getting them mixed up.

No, I thought it was Al Pacino. And the woman also had a, she had another baby with some old billionaire? I'm looking up here. Spouses here. Now I'm wigged out about Beverly DeAngelo. Whoa? I can't believe you did that. From Al Pacino from 97 to 2000.

So she hadn't been married to him since 2003, Matt. Oh, oops. Sorry. You had to update your Roll-A-X on that. The IMDB. They're only married for six years. Yeah. Hey, in Hollywood, that's like 20.

That is true. That is true. Okay. Well, the show's gone to a grinding halt. More Beverly DeAngelo talk coming. No, no, no, no. You want to cut us in Texas off-season OTAs? Let's do that. Now, I don't know what to tell you about that. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to look up this Al Pacino.

Does he have a line-up card like Derek Jeter does? It's probably pretty good. I mean, it's a little bit older, obviously. Yeah, Nur al-Fala. And how old is she? He's 83 and they conceived a child. How? I mean, I guess, I mean, I forget what I said.

You want to take you back to sixth grade? No, no, no, no. Yeah. And she was 30 at the time. What do you have to use a crane? There are phrases popping near my head that I'm not going to say. You know what? Maybe he uses rise health.com.

I'm going to show some restraint and walk on out of here. Maybe he uses rise health. I'm all for the thing. that? All right. We have to get back on to sports because this is what has made this show, the show that it is, the sports commentary. Oh, somebody said baseballs. That's a good one. Never saw it. Now, I expect you not to have seen violent movies. All right, quickly baseball. But baseballs. Baseballs. Bullderm. Stan test time? Yes. Yes. Major League. Absolutely. Of course. A Sanlot. Yes. Never saw it. It's 30 years old. That's got to be. What year was

Sanlaw? For the love of the game? Yes. Never saw it. 93 was Sanlott. Oh my God, I'm feeling old. Let's get out of here. You should feel. You look old. You're going up.

Thank you. Thank you. It's dealing with you. Major League, yes. We talked about that. League of their own. League of their own, yeah. This is a historical movie.

That's good. No, crying in baseball. It's funny. Do you ever think Madonna was hot? Do you ever think she wasn't? Well, I mean, now she's not. Well, now she looks like a gargoyle, but... It's had her day.

Yeah. I mean, you don't blame Sean Penn, Dennis Rodman. Don't laugh at me like that, John. And they look her up. She's got a lot of surgery. She got some bad Botox. Go look up Madonna 1991. She got triple Botox or something. Yeah, it didn't go well.

Something ain't right. All right. Back to sports, sports and more sports. I demand we talk sports. The city of Houston advances to talk sports. 713-212-5-790. A couple things. I did not tell Jonathan which song to play for Madonna. I just said find a Madonna song.

Jonathan, this is my favorite Madonna song. Is it actually? It is absolutely. Like a prayer. It's the coolest video on YouTube. So I was like, all right. She was the hottest she's ever been is in that movie and in that video. Is Burnett?

No, yeah. Well, she's changed her hair color multiple times. Oh. Now, some could say, what's the song? What was this name of the song that she was walking on the street completely naked? Not Vogue. Oh, God. Think of it.

You know a song I'm thinking about. Yeah, I think so. Just to find my love? Just to find my love. Good call. Yeah. Like a prayer, she's a smoke show on that. Now she's a skeleton.

She looks like she's participating on the mask singer, and she hadn't taken her mask off yet. She looks like she's inheriting a meth lab and working in the laboratory right now. Y'all are older than me. Have you? We're older than you? Stop it. Like that weird horror film. where they go to that abandoned town

and it's like a fill of candle like wax figures. Oh, kind of. And you know they find out and then like he's pretty like dipping live people in wax and like trying to like. Yeah, she looks like that. I don't what you're talking about. I can't remember what it's called though. That sounds disgusting.

House of wax. House of wax. Yeah, I think it's called House of Wax. Yeah, I just googled it. That was the scariest movie I was walking college. Guess what I'm not watching. Yeah, she looks also she looks like that guy from Saw. Oh. What's his name?

Jigsaw. Yeah. She looks like Jigsaw. By the way, I got some bad news. Tennessee is losing 1-0 to Texas in the bottom of the 6th and softball. Why is that bad news? Because the Tennessee pitcher is cute.

Tell me I'm wrong. Number two? 23. I don't know what she looks like. Number two doesn't seem like you're talking about. Oh, number two is all right. I'm talking about 23. The wind up and the first pitch.

Oh, it hit her. She hit her. She's pissed on. Let's go horns. This is the semifinal? That's what I'm talking. about. Nothing but excellence at the

University of Texas. I'm a big softball fan. Beach volleyball is my personal favorite, but softball's not far behind. Oh, you know what? She's a pretty lady. Yeah. Young lady.

That's what I said. She's cute. She's a pretty young lady. Yeah. I wish her and her 19 year old boyfriend, Matt, the best. She's of age. Back to sports.

Back to sports. Back to Madonna looking like jigsaw. Let's, my phone systems aren't. Yeah, you're not working. It's got to Nancy and Tom Ball. All right, thank you. Nancy's going to save us.

Hello, Nancy. How are you? Hi, thank you for taking my call. Sure. I have a question that my grandson, 18-year-old grandson and I are debating. We disagree on the answer. Now, is it an opinion or is it a true question? It's a true question, I think it is.

All right. Okay. They just brought up Jacob Melton from the minor leaks, correct? That is correct. Yesterday got his first major looking at on a seeing eye single. Yes. Yes. Okay.

When he came up, he was making a minor league salary, but when they brought him up, he makes major league minimum, correct? That is correct. Okay, let's just say he's only there for two days. They send him back down. What happens? They called a two-way contract. They called a two-way contract. He'd go back to minor league wages, yes.

Oh, that's what I told me. Now, don't get me. I win the argument. Yeah, so, Nancy, don't get into a deep dive on a two-way contract. But, yes, there is numbers. Yeah, you're not, once you get there, you don't inherit the contract. contract wrestler. You're up to a certain level. You have a two-way contract, meaning you make monoling money as a minor league or major league or is a major league. So let's say for instance, like last

year, Jose Ibray, you went down to the minor leagues to work on his game. He was making major league money the entire time. It's based off a service time and where you are as a major league player. But yeah, not for Jim. I understand that. He was a major leaguer and that I understood that. But this is what I told you about the minor leagues. When they come up, they make major league and then they go back to minor league salary. Yeah. And he didn't think that was true. He thought that the last, what do they call those, association, bargains. A player's association?

Yeah, right. He thought that they. Unless there were something recently collectively bargained that I don't know about. I believe, yeah. Yeah. You're correct, Nancy. Okay, thank you. Anything for you, Nancy.

Sorry. Tell your grandson to respect his grandmother. Come on now. Tell your grandson, we said suck it. Yeah, tell your grandson and worry about college and not worry about arguing with his grandmother about baseball, because she knows more than you he does. Thanks, Nancy. We'll see you later. Okay.

All right. I think she said it. All right, we're done. Thank you. Thank you. My phone screener system is still not working, which is fine. Oh, no, it is. Let's go to Matt and Spring Branch at 1255. Matt, what's going on? Hey, Matt. Hey, Ross. How you doing today? By the way, it says on the screen here you want to talk about UTSA versus the Longhorns. I will pletly step aside.

No, why? No, you listen to the game. I was busy. I didn't catch it. Yeah, Longhorn sucked and disappointed America. Oh, right. How about that? Go ahead. Here we go, Ross. So a couple weeks ago, I called about my experience up there in Southern Oklahoma. I'm sorry, Arlington at the Rangers game.

And, you know, so apparently calling on Monday with dumb baseball takes is just what I do now. But at any rate, Ross, I don't remember a couple weeks ago you were doing the postgame show at Carbock, and my brother and I were heckling you because you wouldn't say birds up as we're leaving. Oh, that's right. I wonder if maybe you guys jinx your team. Just something to throw out there and think about it. You know what? Maybe I did jinx them.

Yeah, I remember you, Matt. Yeah. What is it now? Runners up? What do you call it? Go birds? Birds up. Birds up.

Well, the birds. The backup school, whatever, you know? Yeah, I mean, it's fine. It's what do you call it, the funnel school? Or if your grades aren't good enough, that's where you stay? Pretty. It's a trap school. So that being said, you know, we're not going to have a whole lot of success, probably,

but I just had to boast a little bit rather about the little bit we've had. So I had to blow it out there. you. I'm wishing all the, I'm wishing the roadrunners all the best. You're diplomatic. Enjoy the rest of the season. Yeah, well. Oh, all right. Enjoy. He just dropped and enjoy the rest of the season on you. College baseball

talk. Smack. Okay. I didn't watch the game. I didn't have to. Normally around this time, Reginals is when I get invested in starting, learning who the players are. I know they have the really good freshman closer, Dylan Valantis, but other than that, I'm not a whole lot up on Texas baseball. I'm going to be honest. By the way,

speaking to that, shout out to Kingwood Softball. team. They won the 6A Division 2 Championship over the weekend. Okay. And congratulations to the baseball team at Kingwood High School. They're playing for the state championship this weekend in Austin. Oh, really? Wow. That's great.

That's thrilling stuff there. Let me tell you something. We are your official home of high school sports. No, we're not. And when Kingwood Volleyball goes to state championship, we'll have live in-depth team coverage. State championship? It's not going to happen. How did they do last year?

We lost in the first round. Of what? Base, playoffs. Okay. What was the district finish? Third? They look. Three teams in the district?

Four. Oh, wow. That's soft. I didn't make up the rules. You know, they let out of the fifth wild card? Oh, now Texas leads two nothing. All right. Oh, God.

And that's like leading six. In two nothing and softball. Oh, my God. E5. What are you doing over the third base woman? I mean, my God. Two nothing in softball is like a five-nothing baseball league. That was horrible.

I thought it was great. I think I'm Team Lady Vols for a variety of reasons. One reason. Better UT than your UT. No. These young ladies are going to be the future of the stars of our world. There's accountants and dentists and teachers and doctors in that group. And I'm rooting for them.

Okay. 1258. It is the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. Another hour left to go. By the way, my friend Joseph, who runs a variety of cinemas in the Houston area, it says that next Wednesday, I wonder if it's this Wednesday, or the following Wednesday,

at 7.30, he's going to be playing Blazing Sallows. It's a movie theater. And then the following Saturday and Sunday, too. So if you want to go see Blazing Saddles, you can go see it. All right, let's go. Must be, what, a 60-year anniversary of it? 50-year, maybe?

Was it 75-ish? Yeah, it's going to be 50 years then. 74. Oof. My birthday is Thursday, by the way. It's on the Roku channel, by the way. Oh, gee. No, go to the movie theater and see it with popcorn and Coke and Ices.

1259. Final hour. Matt Thomas Show with Ross is next. Now Ross are the members of our staff about the 79 Transam. No, I'm not. Just talking about Smoky and the Bandit. And the talented

Lady Longhorns leading Tennessee two to nothing in the Women's College World Series semis. That was a screaming Mimi to the third baseman. Nice dig. Yeah, very nice dig You're Texas Longhorned. You're involved in everything.

What does that mean? College World Series Yes. NCAA tournament. Final four, back to back years in football. Final four, you're the rowing championship.

Your volleyball team is pretty good. That's right. I forgot about that row and chip. Track and field, are you all decent in that? I think so. I think they won a championship. A year and a half ago?

Yeah. I'm trying to get this row. They still have to shipped my rowing championship t-shirt. John, then you were a, you were a trackster. Were the Texas runners nice people, were they kind of arrogant and stuffy? They're pretty arrogant. That's what I thought.

Well, I'm sorry. Just like the rest of their clientele and their alumni. That is true. That is very humble. Please. Hold on. Let me see. This rowing championship t-shirts on sale.

It's going to be next Wednesday, not this Wednesday. The Sinopolis and the Woodlands is going to have blazing saddles. $5. it, by the way. That's not bad for a movie. Can't make it. No, that's a great deal. He's going to, my buddy's going to try to get Caddyshack and Airplane. If he does an airplane night, we'll do an airplane night with the audience. Invite you all up there. Is it outdoors? No, it's in the movie theater. I'm just asking. When are we getting good drive-ins? Do they have some? Somewheres? You said the woodlands out and the sticks out there. They got some

drive-ins. They do, really? Yeah. Where's the nearest drive-in to us? I had to Magnolia, Texas. You don't even know that. I guess you're right. You could have said, Montgomery had to be more believable. Uh-huh. I'll look. I thought there was one out there somewhere. Why did people, why do we get rid of drive-ins? Because people were sneaking people in the cars,

making less money? I don't remember. There was a reason. I don't know what it is. I don't think it was because of crime. Probably that. I mean, and you just bring your radio and pick up the chair and sit in the outside. God, I used to love drivers when I was a kid. This one says there's one off of navigation.

Ooh, I wouldn't go there. No chance. Why not, Matt? worried about getting... No, no. What's the problem? I believe it's a heavy crime area. There's a very nice big city wings on navigation.

There is, and it's great to go to. So we know, we'll do, Ross. We'll go to the drive-in, then we'll go to Big City Wings after that. I'll go to one of the Mexican joints on... You can go there. I'm going to go to one of the Mexican, one of the thousand Mexican joints on navigation.

All right, so the Astros have an off date today. It's kind of nice. Remember that run they were talking about with 17 consecutive games? Yeah, I know, they're getting some Mondays. Not nights are off. Better schedule. Yeah.

It was really weird than being Memorial Day off last week was kind of weird though. That's okay. Why can't they have? You get a holiday. Why can't they, Matt? They'll see their families,

grill it up, play with your children. Because you should play a Memorial Day in July 4th and Labor Day every year. They're human beings who need those days off with their families, Matt. I support the Astros

being off on Memorial Day. The Astros had nothing to do with it. You don't need to be doing pre and post game anyways. You can hang out with your family too. It's funny because I am the holiday worker here. You are. Like I'm taking... Adam Clinton, not so much, but you are, man.

No, no, you know what? I think the rest of the year, Adam should do every holiday. So, when they have a July 4th game, that will be on the pre and post. July 4th, Labor Day. Labor Day, Flag Day, President's Day. Columbus Day slash, what do they call that else? What, indigenous people's day, I believe it is as well. I can't wait. Whatever is. Everybody's day. Everybody's day. Anybody's holiday, Adam Clanton's in the Post. Hispanic Heritage Day. We got our schedule for... Day de los Murtos. We got our June schedules, and all I kept saying was Adam and Adam.

They're working a bunch. Oh, it's in their time slot. That's fine. That's good. Appreciate them. Great job. Two to six. The A team here on Sports Talk 790.

Sadly, Tennessee lost to Texas 2-0. Nope. Suck it! Tennessee. Was this an elimination game? Innings in softball? I don't know. No, they played seven.

No, they played, yeah, seven. Yeah, I want you cry, loser. This girls in Tennessee are crying and you're making fun of them. I'm just kidding. So they're playing for the World Series championship. Their third championship? Well, guess what? They're going to lose Oklahoma again because everybody loses Oklahoma.

And they're a dynasty, man. What do you want me to say? Also, it doesn't hurt they play their series every year in Oklahoma City. That's true. They get a home field advantage. So you know what? I'm rooting for Texas. You know who gets really mad about that?

Didn't Gordy tweet about that last year? You've gotten fights with people over it. Apparently there is a OU softball Twitter, and they are a furious bunch. They hate Gordy. They hate Chris Gordy. But his point is correct. Now, they have a big softball culture, but they hold it there every year. Because the stadium's huge.

Yeah, they're going to sell tickets, and then the Sooners are likely going to be in it every year, and they're going to make a bunch of money. Look at how big that softball stadiums is. But to act like it's not a home field advantage is ridiculous. It's like how every year the big, the big. 12 basketball championships is in Kansas City and it's 90% Kansas fans. And guess what happened this year?

University of Houston went up there and stomped that Kansas ass. Yeah. And then they choked in the championship. And it was a tough loss. Very questionable fishing down the stretch. Turn the ball over and didn't get a shot off. But yeah. By the way, DSPN, turn those girls off. They're crying. They're not so upset.

It's a great season. No, it's about emotion, Matt. No, it's not. The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. I've seen a lot of defeat in my life. I don't even want to say any more of it. L. Thomas. I don't call me the L. That's your man, Matthew L Thomas. That's true.

That's true, but not for that reason. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-790. Kyle's in Pearland at 110 on 7-90. Hi, Kyle. Kyle. Kyle, are you there? Hey, Kyle.

Yeah. Can you hear me? Yeah. Yes, sir. Oh. Well, actually. Do you hear me now? No.

Maybe. Speak louder. Can I hear me now? Go ahead. Speak as loud as you can. Are you calling from a submarine? No, calling from the blimp. So somewhere.

All right, what you got? You hear me better now, bud? It's fine. Go ahead. I'm sorry. I'm in a bad neighborhood. Go ahead. Just start to spend.

Say what you need to say. Go. Anyway, Matt, you know, I've listened to you for years, and I think you and I are brothers from another mother. That's disturbing. Now, I'm going to tell you why. We're both, of course, edge cougars, which is way better in Texas. We both like the McRib.

Yes, sir. We both love to gamble. We both love to gamble. Both love Barry Manilow. Yes. Oh, wow. And I understand that Airplane is one of your favorite movies. And it's my favorite comedic movie of all time.

What's your favorite movie of all time, isn't it? It's probably my favorite movie of all time because I lean towards comedies more than it. I mean, there's some dramas that I do enjoy, but I like to look at funny movies much more. You know, Matt, how many times did you have to watch it to get to. every joke. You miss things. I've watched it probably 100 times and I still catch things every time. Me too. Yeah. Thank you for the phone call, Kyle.

Things like the pamphlet for American Jewish athletes. The greatest Jewish athletes, it was in a pamphlet on the plane. That's stuff I didn't catch right away. Okay. I didn't know what it was like for the girl to say. I never remember the man before until I was older and figured that out. Yeah, you figure these jokes out.

when you get older. And the red zone and the... Oh, it's just... I don't want to talk about it. This makes me laugh. Okay. Terrible acting by Karim Abduljabar. No. He's been dragging Bob Lneer up and down the court for 94 feet.

Subpar acting performance. But great movie. I'm with you. One of the great all-time comedies. Thank you very much. It's one of the few things we agree with. Airplane 2? Probably a major disappointment compared to how great airplane was. I never, never, didn't catch that. They were on a spaceship. And Sonny Bono was trying to explode it with a He brought a bomb on the spaceship.

And then he ran into a tree. No. Well, that was not running into a tree. Well, while he was skiing, he was running into a tree. You are so insensitive. Just, there's evil in your heart. It really is. Nothing.

How are we going to make it this summer? We're going to be great, actually. We're going to be more entertaining than these other folks. I'm telling you right now. Are you sure of this? Yes. I've been entertained. Are you not entertained?

We could do a Texas OTA review. No. How C.J. Shrout's, we said, a shoulder update. And honestly, there better not be a shoulder update. Because if he doesn't throw it in a camp, then anybody with an alarm should hit it. When C.J. ready to throw. No, no, no. We're not doing that yet.

Hopefully not. Because even Aaron Wilson said that. Nothing to worry about. Nothing. Everything's cool. Nick Cayley said nothing to worry about. Nick Haley. Nick Cayley. Okay.

Now to be confused with drag Haley in the comments. I don't know who that is. 113 on Sports Talk 790. 713212-5-790. So I'm setting if Yaron Alvarez gets back by September the 1st, I'll be pleased. That's a month to get ready for the playoffs. Okay.

Because guess what, Ross? I'm stealing a bit from Adam Wexler. The Astros are making the playoffs. year. And I'll explain it next. 13 on Sports Talk 790. Back on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Here on Sports Talk 7. Bill Haley in the comments, not Jack Haley in the comments.

I made the mistake as soon as I said it. Was that back to the future? What was that? No. Oh. Was that a movie? It was a fan in the 50s. Oh, Bill Haley in the Comets. Yeah, Rock Around the Clock was their most famous song. Oh, man. What a great one.

All right. Back to sports, because that's what people know us. By the way, if you want to join us and not correct our stuff. I feel like the show should be fully correctable any more moment. You're a mistake. Call us on on it. We're not perfect. Certainly not. Not even close.

Not close to close. 713212-5-790. So Adam Wexler bought up this bit on their show. It was either Thursday or Friday when I was listening. Okay. And I think they're at, I think Wexler hit it on the head. They're only going to be. How many playoff spots are there in baseball?

Six per... Six per league. Per league. We don't care about the National League, right? No, we don't. He came up with seven teams playing for the division for playoff spots. And six of the seven are going to get them, obviously, right? Yes.

It's either going to be, it's going to be the Yankees and American League East. Mm-hmm. Because they're laid over Toronto's five and a half games, but Toronto is not a legitimate contender to. And I don't think Boston's going to come back. They're eight and a half out. Breggman's gone for another handful of weeks. I don't really think Tampa Bay is a threat. They're nice, but they don't have enough pitch.

I don't think. Okay? And Baltimore's already done for the season. So there's one playoff spot. Detroit's going to have a playoff spot that's got the best record in the American League. And somebody has to win that division. Then you have three teams fighting for the wallet card. Cleveland, Minnesota, and Kansas City.

So that's four teams, two divisions. Okay. Okay. Yeah. And maybe you can consider Toronto because Toronto may be a wild card. So let's put two in the east. two in the east, three in the central. And as you heard me on to tell the truth earlier today,

I believe Wex, when he says, there's only going to be a two team race between Seattle and Texas, between Seattle and Houston. So that adds two more. That's total of seven teams for six playoff spots. Here we are June 1st, 2025. There are seven teams, Ross, in the American League, fighting for six playoff spots.

I think the Rangers are going to hover around 500 this entire season, if not further below. I don't count the angels. I don't count the A's. I don't count the White Sox. We are, and maybe Kansas City could sneak in. I mean, obviously they're close. Maybe you could stretch it out to eight teams.

But in theory, you have probably eight teams, the very most, fighting for six playoff spots. That's why, as long as the Astros do something, and Yordon Alvarez comes back at some point, the playoff streak for the Astros should continue. You're going to find fault with something. That's fine. I can live with that. You said Detroit, New York, Seattle,

are in Houston for divisions. Tampa Bay is only one and a half out. You said you don't think they're going to do it. I don't think Tampa Bay. You're basically only got to win. What did the, I mean, 84 win teams have gotten wild cards before. I think the last year, I think the last year, the last wild card was 86.

I'm going to disagree with you and Wex. All right. So you're throwing Tampa Bay in the mix. Well, they're in the mix right now. You're saying by the end of the season, they're not going to be in it at all. I'm going to say they're going to drop out. They're going to fall so far out of the race.

I think with the nature of the third wild card, generally it keeps a lot of teams in towards the end. Right. And the Astros are one of those teams. I'm just saying I am very, very bullish on the Astros returning to a playoff spot. Am I saying they're going to win the America League West? No. Am I saying they're going to have one of the best records?

No. But unless this team continues to suffer additional injuries, which could happen. Which could happen. And I do believe the Astros will make some sort of move to get a left-handed bat and or a starting pitcher. They have to make those moves. Yeah, this is a lot of contingencies.

I don't think it's guaranteed the Astros are in all. You're two games ahead of the race who just outscored you 30 to 9 in a series. But the scoreboard said two. games apiece. Yeah, right. So then I don't say, I see how we can say, oh, well, the rays are going to be out of it, but the Astros are going to be in. They just tripled your scoreline. I'm going to go off of the recent

history of the race. Competitive for a while and then bow out. Okay. Well, I'm going to go off of the, if I'm going very recent history of the race, they really pounded you over the weekend. You were lucky to get a split in that series. Took a lot. Took a pitching. Took a walk. Well, there wasn't much pitching in two of those games. Hey,

Framber Valdez. Exactly. Exactly. against the raised lineup. Guess what? Framber won in two hours and six minutes. Well, what about the raised lineup of the other two games? So, yeah, Framber and Hunter were great in those two games that you won on a walkoff in a one-to-zero game as well. But I'm not just going to say the Astros are in the thick of all this and the rays are out. I'm going to tell it right now because my glass is half full.

Meanwhile, Battle Red is already thinking about Texans training camp. Yeah, how's CJ shoulder update? You're going to have at least a wild card team in Houston, Texas. I agree with you. I think they'll at least be a wild card, but also... No, I mean, I'd be home either. They also could be on the road, too. More than likely on the road.

You've got starting pitching issues right now. Lance McCuller, Jr., hopefully he goes out there, and he's good again, can give you another quality start. Yep. They're going after a pitcher. They need to. Bob Nightingale's even alluded to it. With what resources?

How quality of a pitcher? You're looking for probably a U-Stake-a-cucci type. Okay, well, that worked out big time. think about how that trade worked out. Now, would you like to get somebody that's got years left in his contract? I think probably would be yes. That's going to cost you more. It is.

But it costs you at this point nothing. Wagner's done nothing as a major leaguer. Jake Blas is hurt. And Lo Perfeito is still hanging out in Buffalo. Wherever they play. Yeah, he loves Buffalo. Actually, I don't think he loves. I haven't checked his numbers.

We can get a Lo Perfeito. Don't we have a Lo Perfito update sounder? Don't do it on live on the radio. That means something's positive. 54 games, five home runs. His numbers are getting better. Hits in OPS of 787. At AAA.

At AAA. How's Will Wagner doing as a Blue Jay? Oh, last time I saw he was hitting like 189. I think, do you get sent back down? I can't recall. Will Wagner with the Blue Jays this year. He's hitting 186 in 20 games. I'd have to check his game.

You're making me pull up Will Wagner game logs. I'm mad at you. I don't mean to. Yeah, he must be down with the team. He must be back down in AAA or hurt or something because he hadn't hit with the big league club since April 27th. Oh, so he's been gone for a while. Okay. So, yeah, I would expect a back-in rotation guy, but probably a guy that's got not necessarily mileage on the arm,

but at least we have a track record, Ross, of him being a guy that can throw six innings. Maybe in the area of four-ish somewhere in that range. you have to get that pitcher and it has to work out Hunter Brown and Framer have to keep doing their thing You're trying to hold the glue together with gusto and Gordon And well the one thing about this series that did get exposed Is that the Astros bullpen is good It's not immune from giving up a bunch of runs

You can't they've used them so much in the last 25 days That you had to have thought at some point There were going to be one or two games in a stretch Where they were going to get beat up and they did Yeah By the way, Forrest Whitley. Nice guy, but it's not going to pan out for him. You call him DFA, DFA Whitley?

If I was Brendan Rogers, if I was Forrest Whitley, I wouldn't be thinking about real estate. And if I were the Astros, even though Desenzo just one of the injured list, and Chas McCormac is on the injured list too, right? I think they added both of us. Yes, yes. If Chas gets back, I would try to showcase

him. I think you could get, I'm not talking about a meaningful player, but something to help you? Showcase and Chas McCormick, don't have the same sentence. It's a little tough. I don't think you're literally going to give him away. It's one of my point is. Astros bullpen or ERA,

at least last week, was second in baseball. Now it's back to ninth. That's a too terrible performance will do to you. That's crazy. That's why ERA is not greatest for relievers, but I keep bringing it up, so that's on me. You do. You do. What about I expected that ERA?

Yeah, you go with X-FIP. X-FIP is their eighth, so it's a little better. Nobody cares. 3.87. X. Field independent pitching. It's a good metric. That's fine.

It's more about hard hit contact, you know, because ERA can be wonky. Yeah, it can be. Yeah. Going from second-best ERA to ninth-best ERA bullpen in one weekend is going to do that to you. Yeah, you give up three singles and get out of the game, and then a reliever covers your ass and your ERA zero. If he lets those guys score, then you already a balloon. owns. It's, it's, it's, it's, it sucks. Yeah. Most baseball, most baseball numbers just irritate you, right? You know. Just batting average in ERA. Yeah. All right. 713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you want to follow us on Twitter, at SportsMT and at SportsRV, believe it or not, today coming up in 20 minutes. What is the category? NBA on the TNT.

36 years, RIP. May they rest. But, I mean, it's still going to be the same guys. It's going to be different guys calling games on... Yeah, like Kevin Harlan's going to Amazon. Iron Eagle's going to Amazon. You know who Tariko is. It's great.

You're going to have recognizable people calling games, for sure. Believe it or not, coming up here in a moment. It'll be on the NBA on TNT, closing its doors, kind of, as NBC and its properties, of course, Peacock and Amazon taking over some NBA stuff. NBA on NBC

also going to be on Sunday nights. That's pretty smart by NBC, trying to take over Sunday nights, basically all throughout the year, where we always tune in for Sunday night football and the big games. They're going to try to do the same thing with T&T. I think it's a good idea.

Just appointment set. Sunday night, you're a sports fan, just flip it on to NBC, and you're going to be good. Ross V. Real? with you on the Matt Thomas show, sometimes with Matt, but mostly with Ross.

Our boss was talking about LSU baseball. They're playing Little Rock today. Oh, that's a big one. Huge. Oh, you can't call them Arkansas Little Rock. They're just Little Rock. Why? I don't know. They're trying to get like the raging Cajuns are trying to get rid of there. Yeah, I'm sorry. You are UAL. McMee State's no longer in a state. It's very confusing.

It's going on with those things. It is odd. All right, well. So there you go. Wishing LSU Baseball the best time. I'm going. Let's go Little Rock. All right. Little Rock for life. You SEC people are so arrogant You think you should wear Texas, Oklahoma Auburn, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Florida

That's the arrogance How about the Florida coach? Nobody in Mississippi State is arrogant How about the Florida coach ripping the crap out of the coastal Carolina staff because they move their game Back an hour? Just torn a new angle.

Yeah, I saw that. I didn't know what this whole... I saw the story. I didn't understand or read the details of the story, I guess. I just wish... Yeah, you know what, SEC? Why don't you all this go away?

Why? Do your own deal. Oh, okay. You mean the biggest moneymakers and brands and sports? You're so entitled. Sorry. You're arrogant. You're obnoxious.

You're overrated. It says college baseball. All right. LSU is still in there? Yeah. Go and say. Say go tag us. Go say.

I don't care about the taggis. Mr. Deep Seated History of SEC with Texas has been there one year. Let's go. Root for them. I don't care. I mean, I wish them the best. But I'm not going to take a rooting interest.

Not going to be watching the game. games. It's not like I'm locked on SEC. That's other people on the station or that work for the station. I haven't seen Gordian days. Is he okay? I think he's fine. Everything all right? I think he's working from home. That's fine. That's okay. We're kind of used that around here. It's far. Yeah. Paran's not that far.

By the way, we're close. Speaking of LSU, Angel Reese, former LSU Tiger, right? Yes. There is a viral video going around of a bunch of dudes that are making bets about Angel Reese missing her first shot per game. Yeah, and she lost like,

I saw this. So I watched the latest one, and she made her first shot, and those guys lost their mind. By the way, you cannot, I don't know, it's a, it's a fake bit. You cannot bet on a person to miss their first shot. Yes, you can. Where? On the sports books. No, you, yes, you can.

You cannot go to Lake Charles and bet that. I'm sorry, you can. I bet you can. You go to that kiosk? You know how many bets are on that kiosk? I will bet you a steak dinner on that. Okay. You cannot bet the, you miss the first shot.

Yeah. Mr. Make first shot. shot? Absolutely. No chance. You can bet on everything. You and I can make that side bet. I'd be all for that. No, yeah, you can, these gambling sites have everything now, Matt. I'm still, I will bet you the stake. Okay. I want you to go to, well, we don't have a sponsor like Charles. So I was to say, just pick a Randall casino.

Can you bet it? You can bet it on those offshore bet, you know, those bedagged line or whatever the goofy-ass stuff is. But you cannot, you cannot go to a casino. know, you cannot go to Caesars and bet the first year. You can't go to the regular window, but these kiosks that have all the bets or the apps, absolutely. Is that what you're saying? I'm saying you cannot walk to a teller. Maybe the kiosk. All right.

You better get that. But point being is that this has become a viral thing, is that they're watching her miss all these first shots. And then the finally, the one I won. She made one. So good for her. And it's fine. Eric and Bay sit. Uh-oh.

Oh, no. Eric, the floor is, it says, heckling Ross, about the longhorns, the floor is yours, take your time. When you announce me from now on that, if you would say, Eric from Bay City, 08, roadrunner, UTSA graduate, woo! Last night, we put it to Ross and old Schlaas. That's right. We took the D of the year and we gave it to him. Woo! All right, enjoy your next loss.

Enjoy the pinnacle of your athletic program is winning a regional baseball game. against the Texas Longhorns. That's how big the Longhorns are. What's up? The SEC Longhorns, it feels so good to beat the big SEC Longhorns. That bum conference that won one playoff game in football this past season after all that talk.

And after winning championship year after year, I'm not going to stump for the SEC. Don't even make me do this, Eric. I don't care. Bye. You all have a good one. Yeah. Look at all this roadrunner. That's exactly. They're a lot of proud roadrunners. When you're a big heritage athletic program,

everybody's best day of their life is when they beat you. I didn't even realize there were such fans as Roadrunner fans. I'm going to tell my grandchildren about the day the UTSA Roadrunners defeated their longhorns and then went on to lose anyways. By the way, UTSA guy,

isn't your campus just full of office buildings? Is there every campus full of office buildings? But I mean, I've driven by UTSA. I'm driven by if you drive to a University of Texas, that's a college campus. You go by a university use, that's a college campus. You go by Texas A&M, it's a college campus. Okay.

By UTSA, it's like nine high-rise buildings. That's it. There's no grassy knolls. No, no... Is it that different from the Houston campus? Shut up. There's no fraternity row sorority section. No place, no college union to hang out.

No big state. And they play their football games. The Alamo Dome, that decrepit building. Okay. Just saying. It's a commuter school. You guys just got hot dog stands and government-assisted apartments.

Who's us guys? You of age. We're basically I want to say like a vacation destination. Oh really? Yes. I think it's where they're not.

Of course, what are you talking about? You know that's campus? Yeah, of course. Yeah, I think they're building Guantanamo too over there. High rises. Beautiful places to high rises. Relax.

One thing rising high up there is a gunfire in the air. You get an opportunity to... The streets are even smooth. They're all cracked up and the curves messed up, the grass-knacket. Yeah, they call it. Oh, wait just a minute, Nacadocious. Actually, everybody says Nacadocious campus is pretty. Nacadocious is pure hell.

Outside of the campus. Yeah. Yeah, U of Hades is Pothole City. They call it Pothole U. They call it God's Gift of Southeast Texas. The Harvard of Southeast Texas. They call it bulletproof glass. We've had our sheriff's crime.

I mean, who hasn't had crime issues before? It happens. Some places are worse than others. Yeah, you're right. How's that Austin crime? Low? Yeah, they're not arresting anybody. Let me go check up.

When they don't arrest anybody, the crime rates are low, duh. I can get some CBD at Texas without any issues. Oh, please. Nobody's getting high on the U of H campus? Not a person? No, we're all on the library studying. Uh-huh. Ain't got time to get a bunch of Delta 8.

majors over there. Oh, I forgot to tell you, Matt, my cousin's going to UVH next year. To do what? She's going to be an architect. Oh, see? Great architecture school. She's going to be making high six figures. She'll be giving you nice gifts.

You and your bride and your children that you're eventually having. Yeah, you'd be a good shape. All right. Believe it or... I got nothing. It would be nice. I wish you the best of you and your cousin. You know what?

She's going the best architecture. school in the country. We don't have anything that's not the best. I guess it's the best in the zip code probably. Radio television, engineering, medical school now we have. We're conquering America. There's a medical school. Solving diseases.

Law school is amazing. Leaving scissors in people's bodies. All right. Let's play, believe it or not. It is all things about the NBA on TNT. Oh, wow. Actually, it's not even the best in the zip code. I just looked up best architecture school.

Rice is one? I didn't know that. That's crazy. Thanks for that. Good for them. Go coogs. Go cooks. May.

Oh, by the way, we're going to be preseason number one in basketball, so suck it. 145 on Sports Talk 7-9. Are you much of an on-paced guy, sports army? Sure, why not? Tigers are on pace to win 105 baseball games, that according to MLB Magic Numbers. The Rockies are on pace to win. 25 games.

Are the Rockies going to go 25 and 137? I mean, if that is the case, you know how you talk about relegation in soccer? Wouldn't you want the Rockies to relegate at that point? I don't know how, I mean, good night, how bad would that be? For those of you that don't know, the Colorado Rockies are 9 and 50. Oh, excuse me, that's not true. No, this is an old, this website, God, this Astros. or this app is awful.

MLB standings. Here we go. Yeah, they're 9 and 50. There are 27 games on the first place. They've lost eight in a row, nine of their last 10. They are 6 and 22 at home. They are 3 and 28 on the road. You'd have to be, I mean, even the worst baseball teams really in the last, I don't know, ever,

have figured out a way to at least win 54, 55. games. They're at 9 and 50 at June 1st. That's 59 games. They're going to have to go, if they're going to try to get, you know, 60 and 102 is wretched, right? For them to go 60 and 102, they're going to have to go 51 and 52. They have to play 500 baseball just to get to 60 losses. Don't sleep on this being maybe the worst team now we've seen NFL teams go 116 before

but the next worst thing would be probably what the Colorado Rockies are going to try this would be the equivalent of them going 1 and 16 in the NFL this tanking is out of hand in baseball if it was only tanking they have a lottery now don't they yeah but it's not really tanking

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Thank you. John, they don't, you know, they don't sing a lady. Do you know that? That's not them? That's Kenny Rogers. No. John, on 790, are you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it? The first title sponsor for the NBA on TNT was IBM Computers. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, Rossman, that IBM computers. What a poll. I just think of something to 80s, yeah.

All right, Philip, last one. You ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, sir. The NBA on TNT theme was written by Mike Post, whose other TV. credits include law and order, the Rockford files the A team, and others. Believe it or not? Not. Yeah, it was Trevor Rabin. Statement number two for the win, according to the sports business journal, Shaq's contract with Turner

Sports is $25 million and on dollar per year. One dollar. What did you say? I know. You read it. $25 million and $1 per year, which is one more dollar than Charles Barkley. Believe it or not? Not. That is also correct. Thank you very much. Let's get out of here.

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