The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Hitting Bombs, Rockets 8 Deep & Should Astros Buy?

Episode Date: August 5, 2020

It's larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12-01 in H-town. What's happening in lunchtime? And welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show here on Sports Talk 790. You know Rossi. And that's driven pretty well and pretty deep to left field.

Going back as Varsho, looking up. See you later. Jose Al-Tuve. with his second home run of the year and the Astros jump out to a one-nothing lead. I was just going to say, this song is just so addictive. We can play a...

It's a Gap Band classic, man. We can play a song about a golf tournament, and I would figure out of way to put some highlights in there. That's true. Long shots off the T. Now, I would think about doing it for soccer, but they don't score, so that'd be kind of a waste of time.

Play some more highlight sports, Arvier. That's not true. Okay, one goal. One one. And Correa drives this one pretty deep to left center field. Farsha was going back, still going back, and that ball is gone. Carlos Correa goes deep, and the Astros go up, 2 to nothing. Correa's second of the year. Keep him going.

And Tucker rips this one down the right field line. That'll get down for a base hit. Correa scores. Everyone moves up 90 feet, and it's 5 to 1 Astros. 1-1. And that's hit in the air. shallow left center coming in Springer. He's there, makes the catch, and that is the ball game.

Astros take the first game of this series in the desert, defeating the Arizona Diamondbacks 8 to 2. Used a big five-run fifth inning to put this one away. So we can celebrate, right? Absolutely should. We've had nothing but horrific Astro News this year. This has got to be best game of the season? Well, best beat down, one of them.

That's what I'm saying. Biggest beat down. Madison Bumgarner goes four in a third, which isn't a surprise for starters. But what is a surprise for him is he gave up eight runs. Seven earned. Velocity wasn't there. One of the lowest velocity nights of his entire career. According to your favorite website, Matt, statcast.

I'm a huge fan of statcast. I think Robert Ford brings it up like 90 times per broadcast. It's okay. Just more information, Matt. Do you think Stackcast could be a decent dating website? Because, I mean, if Robert's looking, he could, I mean, the member mentions he gives that. There's a lot of Hottie Astros fans, man. You've been to the games.

I would say number one in terms of Houston sports hotties fans. Wow, you have opened up Pandora's box on this. Three minutes into the show, I've already got you off track. That's just baseball in general. I don't think it's an Astros thing. I think you think so. Yeah. Maybe.

I don't know, maybe Laker, Laker fans in. LA maybe. Let's talk about the sexiest of each of the three. Okay. I go to, I'm at every Rockets game. Yes. So I have a tremendous sample size. Oh, that's true. Especially when like the Lakers come into town.

That's when... I got news for you. Sidepiece Thursday is something like when the 10s show up. Yes, that's the, the playoffs start. Well, the playoffs are, those are almost like 11s. Yes. The talent level the talent level between a Minnesota Timberwolves Tuesday matchup

and a playoff game against the Golden State Warriors, it's a little different, Maddie. I got to tell you, the hottest of the hottest rocket girls from Minnesota are going to be an eight. It's pretty good. Yeah. Like a midweek Astro hottie, could be a seven, be pleased with that.

That's true. A lower floor at the Astros is what you're saying. But I'll say this, weekend Astro Girl? nine and a half, ten, comfortably. Whoa, what about weekend Laker matchup NBA Rockets Girl? Depends on what your taste is. What does that mean? Like some girls will show up over makeup, too much makeup, wearing like full-length cocktail dresses.

Yeah, it's nice. But sometimes you want a cute girl wearing a tank top Astros with short shorts. Okay. Flip-flops on with a smile and a charm and a couple of cold beers in her hand. Yeah. dinner with the Rockets playoff girl is going to cost you a lot more. Yeah, because you're not, first of all, you're going to go eat before the game. She's going to order steak and lobster.

She's not going to eat but half of it. She's going to get like five cocktails. They're going to be top shelf. Well, no, here's what it is. Really expensive Rocket Girl is going to get a salad, and then she wants a bite of your crab cake, too. No, she's going to order expensive stuff and then not eat it. Well, that goes without saying. And then she wants to go out after for a couple of drinks.

Oh, then she wants to go to Spire or some kind of pompous club like that. What is that? The Ritz, uh, the Ritz right across street. The Ritz? They got a great bar. Oh, no, the Ritz is down 45. Not, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not your Ritz. Oh.

I'm talking about the average person's Ritz. Oh. Sorry. You know, it's not Ritz. Excuse me. It's the four seasons. Yeah, I didn't. Four seasons right across from Tota Center has a really great bar after the game.

Is that the one we went to? No. I was with your son and had a drink? No, where were you? We were somewhere else. I can't remember. No, definitely not four seasons. Four seasons I saw in a...

It was a nice hotel. I saw an NBA reporter who I will not name because I want to protect him. David Aldridge. That had probably six really attractive women with him. And I was bragging on him and said, man, you can get it. I mean, this is good territory here. Stephen A. Smith. I'm not going to tell you, so don't even bother asking.

Okay, fine. All right. Brian Winhorse. So where were we? Oh, the Astros won. And we went from Astros won. This is the problem with you. We went from Astros winning

to talking about which girls are hotter. Astro fan girl, Texan fan girl. To talking about Brian Winhorse having six hotties on his arm. It wasn't him. We did not mention Texans hotties. Oh, that's, well. Would you say it's the least of the three?

Like Texans Karen on her best day is going to be a six. What do you laugh about? I don't know. I just, there's things I'm not going to say. That's all. So you let me say them. Yes, I do. See, Brendan, if you want to add more to the show, you're more than welcome to any point.

She's got her pink chalice with the Texans logo on it, and she's drinking red wine out of it. Well, she's wearing jeans shorts. A homemade cardboard Texans hat. She's wearing jean shorts that are two sizes too small. You got to breathe a little bit, if you know what I'm saying. Like, you ever wear things, when you were out on the dating probably, do you ever wear things intentionally small so you look, you know, yote?

I've never been, I've been more of a big hoodie so I can hide the flab. That's my move. I work best in winter environment, Maddie. That's why I said in Minnesota, it's great because if you're fat, they just put a hockey sweater and call it a day. Yes. That's my go-to move.

I'm going to trick this girl. I need, you've got to come with me when the rockets are back traveling. We need to go to a northern city and go to a hockey game. Because first of all, NHL hockey is fun to watch. I've never been doing an HL game. It's 25 times better to watch it in person than it is on television. I loved going to Arrow's games when I was a kid. It was always fun.

I'm probably going to five or six of them. But there's a different atmosphere. These are the best of the best. There's usually every game I've ever been to has been sold out. I mean, I've been to Dallas games. I've been to a lot of Minnesota games, frankly. But yeah, it's a great atmosphere. Wait, one of our last Vegas trips, I was like, let's go to a night's game and you said no.

because I was there to gamble but I will change my mind you and I when we go to Vegas which is the plan would be October of next year provided that we can actually go and have a good time

and the tickets are like 300 apiece we will go to Las Vegas Golden Knights game I would love to by way you go to Las Vegas airport you see Golden Knights gear everywhere really and I'm sure if you went to

Las Vegas airport now you'd see Raider gear everywhere right? I guess so yeah I think the Raiders are gonna be mega stars in Las Vegas but there's no locals there

there are but you know what I mean everybody there's a trend nobody's there is like I was born and raised in Las Vegas. But it'll still be the hottest ticket in town. Okay. Although, again, if I'm going to bet on sports, which we normally do, I'm not going to spend an entire day at the Allegiance Stadium in Las Vegas to watch the Raiders

when I can watch them on television or go to a separate time. I'd go to a game there if it was on a Monday night or Thursday, but if I'm going to Vegas to football, I want to make sure I got every one of the televisions in front of me betting on all the games. I thought you could bet at the stadium. You probably could. I think you can. But part of the charm of going to Vegas is sitting in the book.

They need a big nice sports book in the stadium. Oh, yeah, no one would be sitting in the stands. That'd be awesome. It'd be like the club level of NRG Stadium. Everybody's drinking beer and not worrying about the game. Or the club level at the Toyota Center. Yeah, we are, I think Houston's a great club level town. Yes.

We club level better than most other cities club level. Because we have a ton of Fortune 500 companies who buy and they want to cowtow to all the people who are visiting from out of town. And they're not like to. And they're not like to advertise on Sports Talk 790. Call today, salesperson, the day. We'll give it to, what do you want to be a salesperson? Missy always.

Missy Spurs fan. Give her a shout. Yes, and tell them you want to ride with Ross Villarillo. Yeah, forget about me. It's about filming Ross's call for it. It's quite empty. Okay, so the Astros beat up on the Diamondbacks. James Click was on with Sean.

We'll play some of that a little bit later on on the show this afternoon. Didn't provide a whole lot on the updates, but at least hearing it is something. My guess is we'll get a feel of the determination about Roberto Osuna probably by the end of the week, right? I mean, how long do second opinions, too? I don't know. And as Brian McTaggart said on the previous show, how often do you get a second opinion and say, oh, no, he's good. Go ahead and pitch. Yeah, I'd like to know what second opinion is like, oh, who did you go to first?

Because he didn't know his head from his ass. Yeah. I see a clean elbow here. Yeah, it's like Osuna got checked out in the back of a van in an alleyway or something. Yeah. I mean, I don't think Roberto Osuna went to an ER or one of those. you know, like, ready clinics? Yeah.

Like we go to the H.E.B. He didn't go to the chick at Walgreens. Yeah. By the way, those work. Well, remember one time you and I went to Vegas and I had to go to one of them? Yes. I mean, those things work. Well, when I had my ear infection, they screwed me, they put me in the wrong direction twice.

Really? So I'm done. I'm done with them. I've had nothing of a great success. Shout out to all of you guys working at H. And Walgreens that are giving me pills. They're like, they're not real doctors. They're like, what do they call them, physicians assistants?

Yes. But they can still look. look at you. What's not registered nurse or what's a level above that? Nurse practitioner. Yeah. That's not, yeah,

they're not physician's assistants. They're nurse practitioners and they can prescribe things. Well, they prescribed me the wrong medicine two straight weeks. And then the real doctor I finally went to, my ear infection was knocked out in a few days. Well, that's why Web.

It was quite painful. That's why WebMD is there for you, SportsCovary. All right, on the radio show today, we will brag about the Astros performance. We will think about the future of the Astros. We will also talk.

talking about last night's Rockets game against the Portland Trailblazers. A former rocket, and it's a loosely used term, comes back to haunt his old team. Also, Rossi, there is some crazy-ass stuff going on in college athletics. Colorado State University, Texas Tech Women's Program. Uh-oh. And Yukon football. 1212 on the Matt Thomas show. If you'd like to join us today, we look forward to having you. We are open line most of the way, which means you and I and Ron. and Brendan, we're going to make fun of each other and talk sports. That's what the essence of this show is at 713-212-5-790.

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Now, that's the Lord's Azar. Back to the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. Coach Dan Tony will join us tomorrow at 1230. Really? Yeah. Wonderful. Tomorrow, Thursday, Rockets Launchpad. Okay.

Look at you. What? You're going to play, you're going to rip off part of the show. Rip off? To help you carry a part of an exquisite, an entertaining, highly informative Rockets launch bag. Do you think people want to hear me

run through stats of the latest Lakers game, or do they want to hear from the Rockets head coach, the man himself, Mike Dan Tony? 1230 tomorrow here on Sports Talk 790. Now, you know, I have been a huge Rockets fan since I was a kid.

Same. My first love in sports was for the Houston Rockets. My first love was going to the summit, sitting in the very top row, and unscrewing the light bulbs. I don't understand how you did this. I did it.

This doesn't make any sense. And quite frankly, I think maybe made up. How can I make that up? How do you get up there and start unscrewing light bulbs? They weren't very high. Okay. I remember going to the summit a couple times. I'm not talking about large, like the ones in our office here.

I'm talking about light bulbs that you would put up by your lamp by your bed. What are they doing up there? They were all around the arena. Somebody backed me up on this. Somebody went to the summit way back in the day. I went to the summit. I was just a kid. I don't really remember.

Okay. Well, I'm telling you. Can you go up to Lakewood Church? right now and unscrew the light bulbs? I have not been inside that building since it was and by the way, compact center's fine but first of all, there's no such thing as compact anymore, right? No. They got by by HP.

We're going to call it the summit. That's what we're going to call it. It's the summit. That's a great name. What a wonderful name for an arena. You know, I don't mean to be back in the day, guy, but go ahead. I'm going to do it. There were some amazing names of sports arenas. The forum, the Omni.

The Spectrum. Mm-hmm. One of the bad ones was the barn. Reunion. Arena, Hemisphere Arena. The Barn was a nickname. That was Barn Hill Arena in Fayetteville. But there were some great...

You know, we did our weakest link that other day, and we had a really good time with it. And our first round category was named the arena. Yes. Do you see as I was writing them down? I think all but one of them was a corporate name. The only one that wasn't a corporate name was Kaufman Stadium where the Kansas City Royals play.

Yeah, I was surprised you didn't put Angels Stadium or Oakland County Coliseum on the list. Joe George would have put Saccharacterial. Sacramento is his answer. Joe George was, was he the first out? Yes. He, well, it came down to he and Brendan. Brendan there was a vote. He emiliated himself. He was awful. And I hope Joe that you're listening. You sucked. You were the weakest link. The weakest link. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, if anybody went to the summit back in the day and sat in the very top row for a concert, for a game, there were light bulbs that you could actually reach. Now, I wasn't unscrewing 20 of them,

but I'm just doing five to six when the rockets were getting their ass beat. I mean, because the rocket's early rocket days, this is post when they traded Moses Malone to Philadelphia. Rossi, and this was pre-Sampson-Eleged one, they were awful. Did you have an oven mitt? Were the, were the bulbs hot? No. I apparently could handle pain much more at the age of 12 and 13 than I can now. Okay.

Now I'd be a pansy and not want to try it. The only two things you went for Rockets games in the early 80s was to unscrew the light bulbs and to get the free Big Mac when the Rockets would score, I think it was 125 points. So this is when the Rockets, you first got the Big Mac and you didn't have to order anything else. Really? Which was nice.

You just take your game coupon. Like I think now Chick-fil-A you do that. You just hand your coupon, your ticket from the game, and you get a free sandwich. They don't make you to buy anything else. What if you got a digital ticket? I guess they'd give you one at the door. Yeah, they print them out.

Digital tickets print out. So then years later, it was, we'll give you for a big Mac, but you got to order fries and a Coke. Well, if you're 14 years old, that's still $4 you don't want to spend. So it wasn't nearly as sexy to win the 125 points. So you got to steal money out of the change jar in the living room. So basically, could you imagine now, if you try to do the free Chick-fil-A, if you scored 125 points, they'd be given out, Chick-fil-A would have no business left. Yeah, that's why they do the free throw thing in the fourth quarter only. Correct, right.

I think that's fun because it gets a crowd. out into it. Oh, for sure, no matter what the score is? You're excited about it. All right. So, what was it going with us? Talking about our old arenas. Oh, well, rockets lost. It was not fun. Oh, it was, how many, Matt,

how many wide open corner three is the rockets to miss last night? By my soft count, 76. Yeah, Rocco missed quite a few. PJ missed some, too. PJ is not having a good return. Yeah, Rocco was two of a, roco was two of eleven from three. I don't remember what PJ.

it was. It was not good. He didn't take as many shots. P.J. is just not going to be that big of a score. He's not, but if he's wide open from the corner, that's supposed to be his shot. That's what he's there for. Well, the problem is, is he's going to be left open. He was two of six. He was left open a lot, and will continue

to be so. And until he starts knocking those down on a fairly regular basis, that's going to put extra pressure on the other team to put a second person on either James or Russ. And that's where you run into problems. You know they've been the best player so far, I think, in the, we've got two players, frankly. Jeff Green has been phenomenal off the bench of the Rockets as he was last night.

Agreed. And Daniel Houseman, good, too. Really, really, really, really good. Yeah, he's averaging 18 coming into last night, scored 17, 4 of 10 from 3. So here's the question that I've been getting. People are already wiggin out about the 8-man rotation, which will be 9 when Eric Gordon comes back. I got a call about it last night on the post-game show. So let's do this.

And I don't want you to do this exact second because I want you to focus on the show, but let's be honest, how many other teams in the NBA are going with eight and or nine-man rotations? I can tell you right now, the Blazers played eight last night. Okay. So why don't you just go find another game from last night? I don't care who it is. I don't care the result.

Go find another game. And let's see how the minutes are being distributed. Well, we'll skip the bucks because they didn't play their starters. It doesn't even count. Right, right. Ooh, the Mavericks played 11 players. Two of them got fewer than 10 minutes, though. So they basically played nine.

Okay. Same thing for the Kings. They basically played nine. Because unless you want to count three minutes of Alex Lynn. Don't count. Okay. So that's nine and that's nine. Let's go to Clippers' sons.

The Sons played nine. Significant minutes, the Clippers were very deep. They played 10. Okay. So the Rockets, when Eric Gordon comes back. Although Beverly got hurt, he only played eight minutes. So the Rockets, when they get back, and Eric Gordon is back, they'll have nine.

That's what a normal NBA rotation is. It's normally about what an NBA, yes, absolutely. But it felt like to me, at least people on Twitter, people that were watching and or listening to the game, if you were listening on 790, thank you. It felt like to me that people are already concerned about a tired basketball team. And I think there's a little bit to that because the problem with last night

was all five of your five starters were well north of 33 minutes. Yeah, and I mean, James Hardin had to sit early in the third because he was in foul trouble. in foul trouble. But that's the thing. And I talked about this on the post game show is Mike Don Anthony says, I got nine guys. And if somebody goes down, a lot of coaches will say, I'm still going to play nine guys. I'm going to put somebody else has to step up.

Mike Dan Tony says, now I got eight guys. He cuts them down rather than filling the number, which is fine because he's trying to win games. And he only wants to go with guys he trusts. But I understand the frustration from people on that. Okay. Let's just, let's cut to the chase on this. Tyson Chandler is not going to play. No.

Bruno Caboclo is not going to play. Who? Chris Clemens is not going to play unless it's a complete blowout. Michael Frazier? Michael Frazier, same deal. The only guy that I could actually see getting a little bit here and there, basically for energy, would be Damari Carroll, right? That's about the only one.

I'm not understanding what Damari Carroll did to be in the dog house. Maybe he's not in the dog house. Mike Dantony clearly doesn't trust him or think he's fit to play right now. Yeah. And again, these are guys that have been picked up. Scrap heap is not the fair word. They've just been... Off the street.

They've been available. Buyouts. It's scrap heap. If you're a buyout, you're a scrap heap for the bar. But I'll say what? You can't call Jeff Green a scrap heap. You cannot. Well, good things can happen off the scrap heap.

Austin Rivers was on the street. Gerald Green before was on the street. Daniel House Jr. was on the street. Doesn't mean they can't play. And that's what you have to have, frankly, if you're going to spend a lot of money on your top-end players. You've got to be able to... It's like any team.

LeBron's going to carry a large salary. Does Mike Miller help a squad? If you're committing $80 million dollars to Russell Westbrook and James Harden, you're going to have to pinny pinch somewhere else. All right, it is the Matt Thomas show. We are with you today until 3 o'clock. We've got some of the conversation that James Click and Sean Salsbury had this morning. You'll hear that.

We got some whacked out things going on in college sports. We have the Astros picking up a big victory. And how aggressive do you think, or do you think James Click will be when trying to fix this baseball team? Or do you go with these rookies who, generally speaking, have been doing a pretty decent job. And I'll tell you this. Are you more alarmed about the thought of not getting a reliever or not going to get a starter, especially if JV is done for the rest of the season? 713-212-5-790.

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Eliza won back to Kenny. Another three. Kenny tries one more. Yeah. Clutch City. This is Kenny to Jet Smith and you're listening to Sports Talk 790. 1232, Sports Talk 790. By the way, we are gaining momentum for my Plinko and Powerbombs podcast. Oh, really? Yeah. You got sponsors lined up? No.

Oh, no, let's not get ourselves. Well, that would be gaining momentum. So what's the momentum that's gained? Momentum was, hey, that sounds good. I'll come behind a guest in your show. I would almost guarantee that Planko is trademarked. There's no way you'd be able to call it that. Well, what's the rule about that?

What do you mean? If it's trademarked, you can't use it. So you're telling me, I can't go, I can't call it Plinko and Powerbombs. I don't think so. Why don't you call it the Price is Right discussion show? I don't think you can do that. Price's right seems like me much more copyrighted than Plinko. So as soon as a rocket season is over with, and hopefully that it's not until like mid-October.

We will start up a once a week. And we'll do us, you know, we'll have just regular listeners who like both. Plinko was trademarked. It was filed in August of 2004. Well, that sucks. I got a change name of my podcast, which I haven't even started up. Well, you can just do it and hopefully you don't get a cease and desist or anything. No, because I'm going to try to get game show host on.

Oh, uh-oh. And wrestling people, too. All right. I will come up with a definitive name. But I loved Plinko and Piled Drivers, but Pile Drivers is an illegal wrestling move now because too many people getting hurt. It seems quite dangerous. Too many neck injuries. Yeah, I was saying when someone's dropped on your head, it doesn't, oh, you feel fine.

Well, I'm glad it's outlawed, Matt. We got to keep these wrestlers safe. Have you ever been given a figure four leg lock? I know, I have not. I haven't either. It doesn't look like it hurts, but they certainly sell it that way. Yeah, it should be fine. All right, how about this after the show today?

I put you in the figure four. I don't even know what that is. Well, then you're not putting me in any, I'm not getting any. Brandon, close contact with you as a no. Does the figure four, can I put a figure four or something? I don't think you giving it would hurt now. Why do you mean? Yeah, it's strong enough.

I don't have, my legs are strong. That's fine. Oh, this looks so stupid. How do you even get into this? You just twist people's knees and legs around and fall back. You're like a pretzel. And then you flip your body over and reverse it on me. Okay.

And then I'm going to inject myself with steroids and rub myself in body oil first. Such a hater. You will not be invited on... I'm just asking a question. You will never be invited on Plinko and Powerbombs, the podcast. That you said pile drivers. Well, I like it, but I'm not going to use an out... Power bombs?

Yeah, power bombs. We'll think of something. The slamies. I don't know. We'll figure it. Okay. 713, 2,1, 2, 5, 790. Derek's in Tomball, the Matt Thomas show.

Hi, Derek. That was going to... I just wanted to talk... I talk about the eight-man rotation. Soon to be nine. You know, most teams, you know, most teams in NBA, they go eight or nine-man rotations, but the problem that with Mike, you know,

stuck in his old ways is he doesn't stretch out his bitch the way he should, and he puts in the wrong rotations. It's very small tweaks like that is why they can never get over the hump, in my opinion. Because yesterday they threw in the non-rest, Russ and hard lineup, right? And the bitch held their own.

So why not ride that momentum, you know, with that bench into the fourth quarter and just give you, you know, give Russ in the starters an extra two or three minutes for that game. Because when they play, you could tell, you can see the difference in the French legs from the bitch and from the Houston's bitch compared to Portland

who they had started in the game also because Austin Rivers was locking down he was flying he was penetrating getting it in the paint so it's like why don't I keep Austin Rivers in you know stuff like that it's just small things like hey I just can't trust Mike Dan Tony it's not just

the eight man rotation it's just using the right the right rotation you know what I mean they did let them play in the fourth quarter yeah they did play because James was I mean missed much of the third because of the fountain. Let me ask you this. And this is the argument you could have with about any team about using bench

players. You would have to think, Derek, that these coaches, these scouts, these people in the basketball operations have a really good feel of how effective a player is based of the number of minutes they play, right? Yeah.

Is there any part of you that thinks maybe Austin Rivers in minutes 16, 17, 18, 19 can hurt the team more than it can help, that playing Jeff Green in minutes 29, 30, 31, 32 might ultimately hurt, that Ben McLemore is best accustomed to playing no more than about 25 or 26 minutes a game. I'm just saying, I'm not saying that what you didn't bring to the table wasn't accurate, but what I'm saying is don't you think the Rockets, and part of it is feel,

but frankly in 2020, part of it is what the computer says, that guys will run out of gas and will not be nearly as effective as you push their minutes to levels that they're not normally accustomed to. I was somewhat agree to that because if that was the case, Eric Gordon, when he plays over, I think, 30 to 32 minutes, he's a dud, basically. There was stats that backed that up. When he played under 30 minutes, the guy wasn't, he was EG.

He played like EG. So I saw him get what you're saying, but it's like you got to go off your eye test and not go off a stats. all the time. You know what I'm saying? Austin Rift, like, why are you playing Covington? You know, on the fourth quarter, two, four, eleven, whatever you said from three, when Jeff Green and PJ took, they were doing good on the big, so you could have took out Coventon and had in Austin, who was locking up on the guards, the quicker guards. It's like stuff like that. I don't understand. You need Austin to play against the quicker guards because they did

a hell of a good job on CJ and Dave, who I was afraid of because Houston is a horrible team against quicker guards. So it's stuff like that. I just, I don't understand when it comes to Mike. I'm not even tripping off the eight, man. I'll go ahead. I'm just going to say, what got me yesterday was the fact that Russ wasn't shooting well again, and that when you get James Hart in foul trouble, which he has been in foul trouble, I think all the three games, right?

And certainly have been at least two of the three. Derek, he's not nearly as effective. He's going to not take chances that he normally would take if he was sitting there saddle with one or two fouls as compared to four or five. And I'm not saying that was the only reason why they lost yesterday. But that was a different James Hardin we saw last night. That's an easy look. I get it.

And then we can go on about the office here. You know what I'm saying? So it's like they knew into the game knowing Portland was going to double, soft trap, hard trap. They knew they were going to double hard. So why not? And they did a few times in the game. It has to say, so why not have hard and offball?

Because when Rush had somebody one-on-one with him, he would just get him to the pain with ease. So it's just little things like that, Mike and Tony. It just irks you. It's like, man, just, just Twitter. We can just a tiny bit and you'll have success and probably get a ring. It's just little stuff like that. He just needs to fix.

Well, I hope that's it. Thank you, Derek, for the phone call. I hope it's little things because that means that it's little things. We'll hopefully get them over the top. But you got to remember sometimes, and I think James has this issue or sometimes he has the ball in his hands too much, and you want the ball in Ross because he can dribble-dry penetrate. And then sometimes Russ Ross has the ball too much in his hands,

and he winds up settling for contest. to two-point shots that aren't going to be a very high percentage. He'll take an occasional three, which he's not done a whole lot of. What Russ continues to be, and at his best, is a guy that attacks the lane, gets foul. Now he's got to hit his free throws and make his lap. He was 5 of 12 last night. And last line he was under 500% from the line. Yeah, he missed seven free throws.

That was huge. And he was 512 from 2, 0, 2 from 3, 512 from 2. And one of those three-pointers was a bad take. And a couple of those mid-range, I don't want Russell Westbrook taking Dirk steps, dribbling into somebody and in derk stepping. I just, it goes in sometimes, but it's not an efficient shot for him, and I think he has to know that.

And sometimes he goes a little bit, it wasn't full-blown crazy rust last night, but it was like half of crazy Russ for a couple of possessions last night. And he, sometimes he presses too hard. And when James Harden got into foul trouble, I felt like he was pressing a little bit too hard there in the fourth

quarter. Yeah, in Portland, by the way, we've got to be honest on this. had way more to play for in last night's game. Not that the Rockets didn't want to win the game. Not that the Rockets haven't thought about maybe going as high as the three-seat in the Western Conference.

But Portland desperately needed that game. And they did a good job of making. I mean, that dagger that Carmelo Anthony made off of a scramble off of an offensive rebound and some of the shots at Damien, Damien Lilliver was making some tough shots as well. After being a non-factor in the first half. You have to tip the cap to them.

I mean, they played well as well. Yeah, I'm not, I didn't watch and call the game last night going, oh my God, we're going to see much more of this. It was just important and play better. It was just a play better. 1242 on the Matt Thomas show, a college update. For those of you that are Houston Cougar fans, will tell you what's going on there. And then Rossi, we've got to get to Colorado State because I know you were tweeting about it. And as soon as you did, I had to go look and find out what they did.

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Whatever it was? Velocity was not there last night. You were not in the business time. You were young, but the Astros win Doug Drabeck and Greg Swindell. I remember that became Houston Astros. That was the first two big moves that Drake McLean made. And it was, wow, this owner in town is going to spend money. And Drebeck was average.

Swindell sucked. I was over the moon about both of those signings. I remember being super happy. It was like, wow, the Astor was going to be amazing this year. They were not. They were just, yeah, it was a very meh time in Astros history until Bizio and Bagmar grew up and became superstar heroes. All right.

The American Athletic Conference with the Houston Cougars play. We've got some Cougar fans listen to the show. Oh, I would assume. I mean, tons. Millions. Millions. Millions. On millions upon millions.

The American Athletic Conference officially announcing today, they're going to let everybody play each other one time. It's a 19 league because Yukon left the conference, like Gonzo. Yes, they did. And they're going to let them play as many as four non-conference games, up to each individual school. And again, you will determine the conference. championship based off of your record in league.

It's going to be difficult to find dancing partners there, right? Well, I'm glad you brought that up. You obey to this point, the only non-conference game they got axed, was axed, was the Washington State game. What is still on the table and has not been confirmed to me yet is North Texas at home at Rice. Wow, what a slate. And the game at BYU. BYU is looking for people. So that should probably stay.

And that's a home game. Why would be why you shouldn't cancel that? So at this point, those are the three. All my U.S. brethren are like, Matt, let's go play some of the Big 12. And you know what I say to that? Absolutely. I would be more than happy to take on any Big 12 opponent on their home field. And if you don't know, the Big 12 is going to go with their conference games

and let each of their schools play one non-conference game, provided the game is at home. Now, that's, first of all, revenue for them, maybe. Who knows that there's fans. But it's basically more for protocol. You're under our watch. Here's how we're going to get our guys ready for the game. We're going to make sure that our facilities. We're not going to take our kids to a different part of the country,

playing non-conference game, them get full of COVID all over the team and cause a pandemic that may screw the whole conference schedule up. But we're going to make another team do it. A little self-centered, I think, by the Big 12. Well, that's the big. I mean, the Big 12 is self-centered. I'm never going to the Big 12 media days again.

I'm done with it. done no oh yeah we're done we go to in and out we have it's a nice trip that's fine we get in and out on in stafford that's true I haven't been to stafford in a minute though is the big and is the in and out the same when stafford is the line still crazy it always is my son's working over there he says there's still a whole massive massive line man dang it yeah all right I got a gift card from somebody so let me ask you this what do we do if you're a university Houston fan like I am and like you are and like everybody is in the city of Houston and you got one more non-com or do you are you are you just play the three?

Because let's put it this way. Even if you were to schedule the fourth, you're still taking an additional risk. And if you're playing a road game, what kind of payout will big 12 schools want to pay to play the University of Houston? And I'm not saying the University of Houston's going to be a national champion. I mean, I'd like for them to be.

It's not going to happen. But bringing U of H to a school to play you is a little different than bringing, say, Kent State. You know what I'm saying? It's not one of the, you don't normally, pay oodles of cash to play the University of Houston. And if you're not getting a lot of cash to go play

the game isn't worth it. Why would you go? That's exactly right. Because again, one more game means one more potential chance of testing players, one more week of testing, one more week of potential positive test, and one more week of potentially closing your season down. I still, Rossi, I don't know how we're going to do this. And I tell you this every single day. I know the NFL, all the teams, teams are practicing right now or somewhat practicing on conditioning and running through some non-contact

drills. How is this going to happen? We're going to see games canceled or postponed. There will be outbreaks. So do you think everybody right now that's involved with college and pro football, especially the pro side, is playing with fools gold? Is that what you're saying? I'm just saying, I think it'll be what's going on the MLB. Would you call that Fool's Gold? I think it's just going to feel different. There's going to be there's going to be outbreaks. There's going to be seasons pause. There's going to be games postponed. There's going to be games shuffled around and moved around, possibly to December or something like that. It's just, it's an inevitability. I think we would be foolish to think they're not going to be outbreaks at various schools. So we have come to the realization that not every major league baseball team, there are 30 of them, are going to play 60 games. It's not going to happen. There's going to be some in the 56 category. There's going to be some of the 54. There'll be quite a few that will be in the 60. The Marlins are going to play about 12 games. It seems like at this time. I think. I think. I'm going to be some in the 56th category. I think. I'm going to be some of the 56th category. I think. I think. I'm going to be some. I think tomorrow of the season is done. And we really didn't care.

But my point is that we're going to see winning percentages play a much greater role than we were had before. Yes. Let me ask you this. How will we treat the NFL if the 32 teams play and not everybody plays 16 games? I guess you do the same thing. Can the NFL get away with that? I guess. You have to.

You have to. Or do you, if you're Roger Goodell, do you say, what's your alternative? Push the season back, push everything back until you, until you, until you, you, can make up those games. That's the easy alternative. You have time to do that. If a game in September gets postponed because of an outbreak, you reschedule that game for January the 14th, and you push the playoffs back. But you push the baseball's on a calendar. You push the entire league back because of one outbreak? I don't know. I'm throwing that out there. No way. There's no way the NFL playoffs to push back. The question, no, I believe they absolutely could be pushed back.

Not because of what I'm just saying, but I'm saying if you're still, if there is an outbreak, the Thursday before a Sunday playoff game? Oh, hell, yeah, they'll push it back. Absolutely. I'm not against a push-out. My question is, does the NFL, who is the greatest, most grandiose out there, have the Texans playing 15 games, the Patriots playing 14, having the Buccaneers play 16, having this wide, because look, the baseball season, boys, as we've already discussed, is beyond gimmicky. Is there a gimmicky notion to the NFL season if everybody doesn't play the full

16th? Yes. I think it will happen. So the answer is games will be canceled, yeah. Okay. I think, and my guess is, if I was a betting man, I'd probably bet on your side. But I believe that Roger Goodell will not allow the NFL's 32 teams to play an uneven number of games. I believe they will go with a full 16. It's going to be out of his control. No, those push games back. They'll have to, they'll have to, if the Bengals Chargers game has something to do with the playoffs, and it's in week three, they will push the playoffs back a week in order for that game to be played.

I absolutely believe that. In the play, yeah, if it happens in the playoffs, you put about, I'm talking about 16. I'm talking about it. If the Bengals and Chargers are in a division where they playoff spot is up for grabs, and one of them is in or not in because they've played one less game, I think the NFL would be smart to leave. an open week in between the end of the season and the wild card round in order for games that were missed because of the pandemic to be played.

We're a pandemic week, week 18. I think that's absolutely right. That's how I say it. I don't think Goodell allows uneven number of games to be played. Well, aren't you going to need to miss two weeks? If somebody's testing positive, if there's an outbreak and say 15 Houston Texans test positive, aren't they going to need to miss two weeks? I don't know.

That's a great question. I haven't thought of logistics. I'm just saying I don't think Goodell. lets the Rams play less games than the Buccaneers. I think you might not have a choice. You may be right. 1257. We'll start the second hour.

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Hi, Matt. The James Click conversation from earlier today, the best of it coming up at about a half an hour from now. Okay. I was thinking about if I was interviewing James Click, see if this run sounds familiar. What you have before? how is

Roberto Osuna How is Forrest Whitley Yes How is Justin Berlander? Yes How is Jose Orquide? How is Jordan Alvarez?

Ding Who else we got? Austin Pruitt Austin Pruitt Ding That's six deep, right? It's more than that even though I think Oh, how's Chris Tivinsky?

Geez. Ding. Do you should know what I was saying this yesterday? I don't know. Was it on this show? I said we should just do, you should use word association. Can you give me,

but make him go like three, I'm going to name an Astro that's hurt, just give me three words of an update on him and just go rapid fire on him. But if you're, but if you are, you don't have time to give updates on everybody. You just can say nothing new to report,

which is four words. That's true. Nothing new. Nothing new. No new news. No, actually each player should, be a sound effect.

Like Jose Arcitti would be a, hmm. Okay. Yordon Alvarize would be a... Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Roberto Osuna. Oh.

Joe Biajini? Oh, we forgot about Joe B. Joe B. Jeannie. Hmm? Ding. You forgot him. How could you forget Joe Biazini, Matt? We forgot about him yesterday.

That's true. We didn't even think about Joe B. Eugeny until after the show yesterday. Did you say a Ledman's D. Ding. Brad Peacock. ding. It's actually easier to announce the healthy players, and it is the healthy players.

Yeah. 10-day injur-less is not looking great for the Astros. How active do we want the Astros to be? And let me just... How active can they be? Lay this out. If you win this this year, it's not a real world series. It's going to go down in the history.

turn your neck at me and put your eyes up in the air. I saw what you did. And people, if this show was on AT&T sports, and they would see the exact same thing you just did. If the assholes want to ring, I'm buying t-shirts, I'm getting a bumper sticker, I'm doing all that. I know how you feel. I'm getting more pictures with the trophy.

Brandon, let me ask you that question. And we'll ask the audience, too. Would you sell your soul for a World Series ring in 2020? So, yeah, I would, but I think that has a lot to do with what you talked about yesterday. You said the walls are collapsing. So I don't care what the season looks like.

It could be the gimmickyest season in sports history. You try and win before the walls collapse. Oh, because the future isn't bright. Yeah, you got, look, I don't care how gimmicky is. Oh, see, that's what it is. That's the factor. Because 2021 could be a hot mess difference. Yes.

2022 could be even worse. Lockout or strike. And you're looking at probably at least. least five players gone. Could be at worst. You could lose every outfielder. You're not going to bring back Roberto As soon. Probably Roberto As soon as it will never throw a pitch again for the Astros.

And if J.B. has the T.J. He's not throwing a pitch again for the Astros. So that's five players. Now, do I think some of the outfielderers are coming back? There's a possibility. But there's no guarantee. Kyle Tucker will be there. Ted.

Okay, so stay with me on this. You know that there's like a balance game in life? Here's the balance game. 2021 could be a mess. 2022 could be even worse. Your last big window of opportunity to be the big bad hit in Houston Astros who lead the American League or all baseball and runs scored. Right now all of baseball. Six runs a game.

That's what their average is. Yes. Big badass Astros. They need at least. least one recognizable, absolutely fantastic pitcher, whether you throw them in the bully to be your eighth and ninth inning guy or you put him in your starting rotation. Do you do that, but then have to give up minor league prospects for a team that's going to need minor league prospects boys in 2021 and 2022? Because guess what? You may be losing as many as five everyday players

for the baseball team. You need a little something. I would say certainly on the starting pitching side. Probably bullpen as well. You need help both in both sides. If you want to go out, if you want to sell out for the 2020 World Series. But how do you do that when 16 of the 30 teams in Major League Baseball make the playoffs? Then you're not going to find a lot of buyers. It's going to

be very difficult. That's what I'm saying. You can want people all you want. And you can overspend, too, because if the Marlins are one of the teams that are not competing for a playhouse spot, guess what? There'll be 12 teams calling for their top pitcher. And we've seen the last couple of years with the expanded in the extra wildcard. More teams are in the race. More teams are in.

They're in, right. And more teams have a chance of getting in, so they don't want to sell off either. And I think that's okay. That's good. You don't have one team consolidating all the good major league talent. So it's just going to be, the Astros are going to have to do a lot with what they have now. Here's the good point from Hever on Twitter. He says, I think the fan base of the World Series champion will love it just the same. For everybody else? Yes. An asterisk season. Like the 2017 World Series championship.

love it here. We believe it's the greatest moment in Houston Houston baseball history. A rest of America's calling the Astros Cheaters. Wouldn't you guys get a little bit of enjoyment out of how upset that would make everybody else? I love it right now that the Astros are leading the entire world in runs per game. With really their top three or four hitters

not doing Jack Squat. Yes. And Brantley's hurting. Did Brantley, he's not feeling well. He took a day off. He has quadriceps. And that doesn't have nothing to do with the ankle that douchebag Joe Kelly. stepped on. He's day to day. Bro, aren't we all? Yes.

That's what Dusty was talking about yesterday. I got to get Brantley a day off. I don't if he doesn't feel good. And Brantley's not long in the tooth. And by the way, Brankle's head is got a little bit of an IH. Not as an astro, but that's only been one year. That's true. So what do we do? I'm not talking about 255 that I'm talking about right this second. What do we do? Do we root for the Astros to get aggressive in trades and get out ahead of the curve because there's no doubt in our mind the Astros need at least one starter and probably one reliever that you can really count on, especially after these rookies face teams for the second and third time during the season. Or do you say to yourself,

sometimes things were not meant to be and that if the Astros don't win the World Series and don't make a deep playoff run, guys, what are we going to say? The day the season ends for the Astros and it doesn't result in a World Series, what are we going to say? It wasn't meant to be. Look at the team and all the pitchers, both starters and relievers. We lost Justin Verlander and Roberto Asuna. Name another major league baseball team

that hoisted up the commissioners trophy after losing a Cy Young winner and a guy that was top three and top four and saves the last couple of years in baseball. It doesn't happen. Well, let me ask you question. All right. What's the, let's say the Astros in a seven-game playoff series. Who are the four starters?

Right now. Exactly. Hobby Air? Uh-huh. McCullors, no particular order. Mm-hmm. I'm going to presume Jose Arcite is going to be healthy. Okay.

And then Grinky. And Grinky. Framber is your long guy. Josh James is your long guy. Okay. And then who are the back three? Who's the 7-8-9, presumably in it in the bullpen? Taylor.

Mm-hmm. Presley. Yes. And I had to open that spot up for the... Parade is. No, no, no. The mystery person. Whoever wants to show up and show out in the last couple of weeks. Does that sound like a World Series winning rotation in Bullpen?

Okay. The answer, of course, is no. Of course not. So let me ask you this. If I go get, just name anybody. I mean, who's on a crappy team who's going to be available? Who's the tiger's best pitcher? Matthew Boyd.

You don't want him. But he was a guy that was talked about last year here. I mean, he's a guy who you might live with as your fourth stard. guy, but has other number, crappy numbers, right? I wouldn't, I would not want him here. All right, so let's just say for the second argument, Matthew Boyd comes here. He should be available. Matthew Boyd.

McCullors, Grinky, Javier. Your kitty? Somewhere in there, yeah. Is that a world... That's better? No, I didn't ask it was better. I asked it was a World Series. I don't know.

See what I'm saying? Giving up the one in order to give up... Because you know, the Tigers are going to want prospects. They mean, they're in full rebuild mode. Maybe bullpen help is going to be more. But that's okay. Fernando Rodney's coming, so it's fine. I know, like, I'm not the long-term Houston Astros fan, but just watching from the outside.

It seems like everyone who ever comes here is far better here, though, right? Yeah. So if they make a trade, maybe that guy doesn't need to sound like a World Series caliber starter to you right now. Then let's go, Matthew Boy. We are your official Matthew Boyd radio station. You know what? The Astros work well with trades in Detroit. They tend to work out just fine.

1112 on the Matt Thomas show 713212-5-790. How aggressive should the Astros be? I would ultimately say, Ross, at the end of the day, go win this thing. As gimmicky and as fluky as this is going to be, go win it. Just win, baby. Well, I mean, because again, what could be the future of the Astros in two or three seasons? Especially with a minor league system that has not been replenished because of guys not being star, and also training out prospects and the fact that you could be hurt pretty considerably in the free agent market,

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Ross, you and I've been on the air since noon. By the way, if you'd like to join us, we'd love to have you. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We've not talked about bunting in one hour and 19 minutes of this radio show. It's been wonderful. Seriously. You're a dork if you defend bunting.

Massive dork. Do you want to hear Dusty Baker talk about it? Is this from the show yesterday? It's from yesterday, yeah. Yeah, well, just in case you missed old dust. We went right to it and said, hey, we're getting crap from a bunch of old-school, don't know their head from their ass baseball people. I mean, I'm sure I love you all equally.

Clearly, but, you know, but guy just makes me madder and madder every single day. I know. You tweet your frustrations. Here's what Dustin got to say about it. People say, hey, why don't you bunt? Well, some of these guys have never run it. You know, it's easier than it sounds.

And also it depends on who's up next, who's up next after him, because they're going to walk somebody to get to somebody else, a weaker, you know, possible hitter or a double-play candidate. And so it all boils down to getting some hits. It all boils down to advancing runners, you know, for up the plate and driving them in, you know, from a lot of opportunities. There you go.

You're not going to drive any runs with the bunting. Teams aren't bunting. But I will stay with this. I do believe we will see more bunting, generally speaking, in tieball games when you are the home team and you've already pitched your inning in the top of the 10th and we're able to keep the game where it was. I think it's to be very rare, certainly on the Astro side as well. And again, every time somebody calls me and I'm doing the 10th inning on deck tonight,

which... Uh-oh. May, should I pray you call you? Matt, I know each day I should lay down more buntz, man. Only if you do... You're not, you still got to get a hit. There you go. Yeah.

Only... I like that. You're allowed to prank call me. only of you so drastically change your voice that it's very obvious who you are. No, I'm going to make it subtle. I've prank called you before on a post-game show. And how dumb were you? I called you as like somebody from Kingwood.

Oh, I was saying, oh, I remember what I said. Justin Verlander was struggling. And I said, do you think he's got on his mind that Kay because Kate Upton is pregnant? They just announced that Kate Upton's pregnant. And I was like, do you think he's worth it? I was like, hey, Matt, it's Bruce from Kingwood. You call yourself? I can't remember.

It was some Bruce. Oh, Bruce. I think you said you were the booze. And I was like, you think Justin Verlander is, he's distracted with everything going on with Kate Upton and her pregnancy. And you shut it down pretty quick. It's pretty funny. Are Justin Verlander, uh, distracted calls something you guys get?

Uh, no, I don't think so. We got that exact call a lot in Detroit. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. Well, there you go. Are you ready for this? I just looked up the stats. In the 2020 season, which is how many games?

Astros have played 10. Oh, okay. The Astros themselves, yes. So everybody has played, well, the Marlins and the Cardinals haven't played 10. You get my drift on this. The number one team in baseball with the most sack buntz is the Baltimore Orioles. They're winning games. They are tied with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

with three. I was going to say two. Colorado has two. Boston, Kansas City, the Dodgers, the Padres, the Mariners, one. 21 teams have not laid a butt down yet in a game. Or a successful sacrifice bun.

Excuse me, successful. They may have tried, but they were unsuccessful. Now, there could be some bunts hints in the mix, but these are true sacrifice buns. 21 teams. I've said thanks, but no thanks. Well, stop Bunt Guy.

Sorry, Matt. Bunt Guy knows better. Stop being a D. Bunk Guy knows that numbers don't matter, Matt. It's about what's in your heart. It's what happens out of the field and grit and determination and want to. You sound like a motivational speaker. What are you talking about?

That's what Bunk guy is worried about. Not none of these fancy analytics, Matt. Let's go to Dalton calling us from Kentucky. What part of Kentucky are you calling us in, Dalton? calling from Louisville. What's going on, fellas? I love Louisville, a very underrated town. Thank you for calling. What's on your mind today? Oh, nothing much. I wanted to talk about the Astros possibly adding some help to either the starting pitching or most likely the bullpen.

And I look at this, and I want to get your off take on it, but I'm not so sure that adding, you know, A significant piece is the right choice this season with it being kind of like a fluke. But really it just depends on their choices with Springer at the end of the season and the other guys because you don't want to take on too much money that you wouldn't be able to extend or resign George. But I want to get your off take. Should the Astros add a significant arm knowing that it could take away money from George or do they need to just go all out, assuming that the season continues?

We just talked about this about 15 minutes ago, but we'll recap a little bit. Thank you, Dalton, for the phone call. We appreciate listening to us on IHeartRadio's app. Louisville, Kentucky, represent today. I mean, just to kind of summarize, I thought I brought up arguments on both sides, frankly, on this. You don't want to give up a lot of minor league products

because you may have to rely on those types of players to help you if you lose one, two, three, four, or if all five of your free agents, or they lead because of injury or you're not intend to them. But if this is the best offensive team the Astros are going to have for a significant period of time and you think you can win enough games 9 to 8, you need somebody to still get that 27th out,

could that be another pitcher or another baseball team? Who's under control for a couple of years? That's always what Jeff Leno did all the time. If I'm going to give up prospects, I want somebody under control for a while. So Josh Reddick off the books next year, Michael Brantley off the books next year. George Springer, technically, unless he gets an extension off the books next year.

Right. That's $50 million between those three. Where does that go? Can you afford to pay big money to George Springer? And then Kyle Tucker is under control for a couple more years. The Astros. That makes much money? Do have a history in the last four or five years going after players.

They have put a lot of money in Michael Brantley's pocket. They did quite a bit with Josh Redick. They committed long-term to a lot of their courts. players. They put a lot of money in Justin Verlander. So this would, I mean, they're not miserly. But they're also not long-term big mega deals. Correct.

The Machado, Harper, Garrett Cole. They don't get involved in those. And my guess is that James Click is going to be very similar to the previous administration on that. And Springer is probably going to be, he's not going to be obviously a Harper, Machado, cold level type of contract, but he's going to be the second tier of that, I would think. Mm-hmm. Well, I mean, here's the question that nobody has the answer to. how

I mean, everybody I should say has different answers to. How bad do you want this year? How bad do you want this 60 game season knowing this may be the best, hopefully last chance, but certainly within the realm of possibility with this core group of being together? As of right now, the numbers are good.

How long is that going to hold is the question mark? Bullpen numbers are good. Christian Javier pitching well. Grinky has been up and down so far, same things for Lance McCullors, but if they stabilize, I want a starting pitcher. These dynths of four and a third, Josh James.

Framber was great, but Framber's basically body of work as a starter doesn't get you deep in the games. He's not like he's not in the trust tree yet. You can't just trust a Framber Valdez yet. The trust tree. Framber. Framber. It doesn't matter. He's happy either way.

Frommberg. Like the trust tree. Is that like where a bunch of guys are on the top of the branches? Hey, what's up everybody? It's a reference to the movie Old School. And they're in marriage counseling. And the council's like, we're in the trust tree. Everybody is okay in here and it's a place of trust.

And then the guy starts talking about some waitresses underwear. Will Ferrell does. It's funny. It's funny. The most memorable part of old school for me was the scene with the women sitting around discussing, well, 713, 21, 2,5. I can't remember it. I was going to go with Will Ferrell getting a dart in his neck. That was the best part of that movie.

A lot of the good parts. I know what you're talking about. That's why I can't bring it up. They were in class. Yeah. There was a teacher and they were taking a class. And they had samples. Yes.

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This is Sports Talk 790, your home for your home teams. Best of James Click coming up from the Sean Sonsbury show momentarily. Right now we say hello to David and Albin at 133 on the Matt Thomas show. David, good afternoon. Hey, Matt. Good afternoon to you. Hi. Big baseball fan here. We talked yesterday.

I want to make a comment, a bone to pick, and then I got a question. Oh, let's go to the bone to pick first. Okay. yesterday I called. We talked about Justin Verlander and Osuna. I said, when Verlanner came to the team, he had my respect. When Asuna came, he didn't, and those roles have kind of reversed over time. I hung up and listened.

I agreed with most of what you said after that, but you said Justin Verlinder hasn't done anything since he came to the Astros to make me not like him. Then you proceeded to explain a few things that he has done that have made people not like him. So I wanted you to elaborate. Yeah, I will. It didn't bother me, but it bothered the sanctimonious. Is that a good word to use? Sanctimonious baseball media.

Yes. Well, it also bothered fans. I mean, I'm an Astros fan. I'm an MLB fan. And I just get to the feeling that Verlander only cares about one person, and I think you know who that is. Oh, but let me tell you something. Let me tell you something.

I knew that before I even started talking about him. I mean, I call him the diva every time I can. It's not because I like to call people diva going to they're not. He is a diva. but the greats are divas. So by him acting the way that he did, didn't surprise me. It wasn't like that was so, like if Jose Altube would have done that, that would have been out of character.

That was George Springer doing that. That would have been out of character. Justin Verlinder wants to control the narrative as often as he can, and he's not going to let a Detroit reporter or a Houston reporter dictate how he handles his business. So if you thought he was this choir boy coming in, I'm not acquiring. Not acquire boy. I wanted him to be genuine and likable.

No, no, no. That's not Justin Verlundan. No. No, it's not. And I didn't really know that. But he's not a bad guy. He's not a bad guy. I want to make you.

I don't think he's evil, but he's not a good guy either. He's not a, he's not approachable. Is that fair to say? Okay, well, I'm glad we can meet an agreement there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm glad you're so willing to speak the truth when he could actually hurt your career. I'm glad, you know, I'm not in a position where Verlantic can hurt me. I'm glad we can't reach.

No. Two other short things. First of all, it has to be Framer because Framer the bomber doesn't sound too good. Yeah, Frommel. I wanted to see how much of a check you, Matt, and maybe Ross. I've got to see some of the rookies around the league, namely Lewis, who we saw obviously versus the Astros earlier. And, man, I don't know if you're supposed to call him Louise Robair,

because it sure looks right, but everybody's calling him Louise Robert, the white socks outfielder. That guy is going to be a stud. So I wonder if you got a chance to check them out. I have, I've got to, I'd be honest, I have not because I, any baseball I'm watching involves the Astros and I'm right in the middle of my rocket season. So I'm not watching a whole lot of White Sox stuff. I might have to ultimately.

And here's the biggest problem to be brutally honest with you. And thank you for the phone call. I'm glad we had a chance to visit again today. They don't really come into play until the playoffs. So I'm really focusing on what I'm seeing from the, from the Western team to this point. Yeah, there's, I'm just not a big, oh, White Sox Indians game. on, it's going to be background.

Yeah, White Tucks are playing the Brewers right now. I haven't been watching much of that either. No, we haven't. But Kyle Lewis, we did see against the Astros, and he looks really good. Yeah, Kyle Lewis, ironically enough, is the nephew of a former PR director for the Houston Arrows,

who is now in charge of the Columbus Blue Jackets. I'll take your word for it. I mean, that's a very vague thing, but I just wanted to pass along that we're kind of watch him a little bit because I know his uncle fairly well. Okay. So, yeah. I will say this, and I'm not meaning to push off of this and go on the other thing,

but we were watching Pittsburgh, Minnesota, just in the background, as we would normally do on a day like this. Did you see the game got delayed yesterday? I did not. It did. Brendan, don't say if you know, but do you know why I got delayed? I believe I sent this to you. Oh.

Well, I saw it happen live. Give me reasons why, Brendan, don't tell him. Why would games be delayed? Rain. Of course. Bees. It's happened. Hurricanes, tornadoes.

Cold. You're not going to have it this time of year. Yeah, not going to be a lot of wintery mixes. This is so 2020. You ready for this? Oh, yeah, I did see this, actually. A drone was flying over target field. Yeah, I saw that yesterday.

Because people were saying, oh, look at the astros are over there. So people were saying on Twitter. By the way, we have not got any phone calls, but the number of hit batsmen in yesterday's game. Four. Yeah. Why isn't Yahoo Sports on a page one expozy on this?

I'm sure they are, but I don't follow them, so it's fine. Let me let you hear from James Click. Was a visitor, he's every Wednesday was shown at 930, and the conversation today focusing, at least as far as I'm concerned, most importantly, was about what was going on with the health of his pitchers. Yeah, obviously our first thought with Osuna and trying to get him everything he needs to get healthy and make the best decision he can based on the medical information from our doctors.

It's never a good moment when a pitcher, any pitcher, especially your closer, motions to the dugout for a trainer and points at his arm. So, you know, we're just, we're focused on him and getting him what he needs. And, you know, we'll sort out the rest of it. You know, obviously when you look at the bullpen right now, Presley is a guy who has, I think, more experience than the rest of the bullpen combined. So, you know, and obviously the talent to close out games that he's shown in the past. So my guess is that he would step into that role.

But at the same time, you've got a lot of young kids that are showing that they can get out to big spots. And, you know, if we are in a situation where we don't have one guy who does that every single day, I think that's more of a testament to the strength of the bullpen than anything else. Short-term, long-term prognosis on force wily. We're still getting that assessed. and we're still talking to him. You know, we will wait to get the full report before we make any sort of guess on what's going to,

what his future is going to look like. But again, you know, as with Osir in the priority, he is the player making sure that he's taken care of and getting what he needs to get healthy. How about JV? He's still in that scheduled no-throw portion. So at this point, there's nothing to do except kind of wait for everything, calm down,

wait for that forearm to the swelling to decrease. and so that the healing can continue. How do you delineate between, at this time, looking at your club? Is it a trade of desperation or movement of desperation, or one that's really, really great for the club? That's got to be a tough thing for you as a general manager. Well, I think if we're making desperation trades, then we have not done a good job preparing ourselves for that transaction.

So we don't ever want to make something that's a desperation trade. However, obviously we have to deal with unforeseen circumstances. We have to deal with injuries. We have to deal with things that sort of are remote possibilities. And so that may require a little bit of a fire drill in terms of trying to find some help. But again, it all goes back to why it's so critical to have players like Javier, like Blake Taylor, like Correda's young kids who are willing and able to step into these roles so that you don't have to go do something because you're, you have a backstop there who would prevent any sort of real slide and talent. Christian Javier, it didn't even supposed to be here, but he looks like a guy who went going anywhere.

Two impressive starts. Seems like there's some poise under pressure, got good stuff. And his command, not only of his pitches, but on the mound, this cat looks like he's something different, James. Yeah, obviously, don't want to overreact the two starts, but they've been two very impressive starts, especially when you consider, you know, the first one especially was against a team like the Dodgers and obviously the Diamondbacks are a veteran team and, you know, they know what they're doing out there. But he has poised beyond his age. He has definitely looked very impressive out there. Without all these injuries, if things were normal, this is your minor league pitcher of the year

last year in the Astros organization. When would we have seen him under normal circumstances? It's always hard to say. There are so many factors that go into something like that. Sometimes it's an injury to your starting rotation. Sometimes it's a prospect just forcing your hand and just beating the door down and showing that they deserve to be here. And obviously with Christian, it's a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B and then probably a few other things that I'm not thinking of off the top of my head. Carlos Correa is locked in, man.

This is what everybody here in this town, and you know being in baseball for a long time. He's swinging the bat about as good as anybody in baseball can right now. must be pretty impressive to sit back and watch. It's impressive. It's fun. It certainly takes a lot of pressure off the pitching staff, which is something that I think all of us really need right now. And the ability to spark that offense, put those runs on the board,

get us some separation from the Diamondbacks last night, and allowing us to just kind of take a breath and work through a game where there's not a lot of high leverage moments for our young pitchers to deal with is one of those extra benefits of having a guy like Carlos swinging the bat as well as well. Look at this roster today. Are you a World Series roster today? Well, with 16 teams in the playoffs, it's getting harder and harder to say that, you know,

when you're sitting here in August. So we're always going to be looking to supplement the roster if we need to. And those were conversations that we will have all the time. But at the same time, we have the luxury of having a team that's swinging the batts pretty well. and some pitching that's kind of finding its feet underneath it. And so if this is the Army that we have to go to war with, I feel pretty good about it, but obviously we're always going to be looking to help them out

and get them some more ammunition if they need it. Astro's general manager, James Click earlier today on the Sean Salfbury show. You can find the full conversation at SportsTalk 790.com. I'm going to take a quick break here on the Matt Thomas show. When we come back, we've been getting a lot of bad COVID news when it comes to sports, but some good COVID news. We'll get to that next.

This is defensive tackle, DJ Reader. The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790. Real Texans, talk here. All right, more great news from the NBA bubble. 343 tests is what I saw, I think. Zero positive. Ross, we all as Americans need to go find a bubble. Basically stay at home.

If you think about it. The bubble is helpful. Yeah. Stay at home. Proper social decency. D distancing. D distancing? You believe in Dese?

Social decency? Well, social decency. I don't always show. You don't want that. But distancing, yes. Sorry. This is my fourth hour on air. I'm getting tired.

Yeah, I can't have you like this tomorrow. I want you fresher. You're not working. Wait a second. I'm fresh. You don't sound it. I'm carrying this bad boy for two hours. Is trenches?

Are you on trenches tomorrow on too? No, I'm not. Okay. I am on this show. nightcap, launch pad, and Rockets Wrap tomorrow night. Rockets Lakers, by the way. Yeah, good game. Just hope I can cobble sentences together at my 11th hour at work.

How do you think I feel calling two and a half hours of a basketball game after doing a three-hour show? You're fine. All right. I'm not worried about you. All right, so zero positive tests. That's wonderful. That's amazing.

So in the bubbled environments of the NHL and the NBA, you've had a very few positive tests. MLS has cooled off too. Oh, that's good. Thanks, FC Dallas. We're trying to ruin everything. So, yeah, the bubbled environments have been doing well. So far, the non-bubbled environment of the Major League Baseball, a little shaky. So do you think we're going to spend an extraordinary amount of time talking about

breakouts in college and pro football? My answer would be yes to that. Yes. It feels like the percentages. I was actually optimistic that Major League Baseball was going to be holding it together. It took, what, two days? Oh, so did you find out what's going on with these teams? A bunch of Cardinals went to a casino.

allegedly. Oh, we don't know that for sure? I think John Heyman said yes and then St. Louis Cardinals officials said no. But, well, who do we believe? Because the Cardinals officials will lie. John Heyman. And John Hamon just gets bad information all the time. It's true.

You know, I forgets him and said that. Do people just prank call John Hayman? And he just runs with it. Hey, John, this is Jeff Passon. I'm wearing a suit right now at 4 o'clock in the morning. You think he wears a suit when he goes to bed? Like in bed? Yeah.

No. You think Mrs. Pass is like, baby. He wears jammies in a nightcap, an old school nightcap. And he calls his wife mother. No, he does. Oh, mother. I got to be on first take. Oh, yeah, he does.

So yeah, let's prank call Heyman. How can we do it? I don't. I don't want to. He makes enough mistakes on his own. Why would we want to contribute to further his, any further mistakes? It's fine. Okay.

So while Rossi, the NBA is behaving itself, there's a screen. school in the state of Colorado, the Colorado State Rams. Yes. Do you know where it is? What's sitting? Fort Collins. Beautiful place. I will take your word for it.

I've been to Fort Collins many, many times over my life. They don't want you to tell anybody. I want you to explain as best you can. Yes, so apparently, according to the Coloradoan in Fort Collins, there are 10 players and staffers who they have sourced who said that they coaching staff has not been properly following protocols. This is what they say

they've had, wait a minute, this is a different story. I think they said that they are not properly testing them and apparently that the coaches are fudging the contact tracing data in order to make it look better than it is. Fudging? Yes. What is it? What do you say again?

Contact tracing data. Damn, that's such a... Do you have ever said that a year ago? No. Not at all. And the Colorado win also says that they have been told by coaches if they're quarantining, that they're going to lose playing time because they're not practicing. That sounds so football coaches like, right?

Yes, it does. It does. For sure. Like rub a little dirt on it, get the windex, clean your body off, get on the football field. This COVID is a bunch of crap anyway. a strange role we've lived in college athletics right now. We have some teams about to play at a, at this point, 12 games, some are playing 11, some are only going to play 10. Today, the University of Connecticut said we're not playing football all this season. You know what I'm saying

in Connecticut? You should stop playing football altogether. You've embarrassed yourself. They went two and ten last year and they can't, they went independent and they can't find anybody to play. So they came out and said it was for, for player safety. How bold? It's because they can't find anybody to play. And nobody wants to play them. It doesn't do them any good. Nobody wants to play Yukon. Unless they're going to play a 12 schedule at this point. Unless they say, hey, if your basketball team will play us, then we'll play them. But sure to that. Forget it.

Okay. So one of the CSU players says, I believe there is going, there's a cover-up going on at CSU. They could cover up so long now that we have so many cases across athletic, they can't cover it up anymore. It's not about the health and the safety of the players. They're just trying to take money off of the players. Okay. So that's

crazy-ass coaches part one. Well, also, it's been disputed by other players, though, the Colorado State story. Some players have come out and said, name the sources. When I was sick, I was urged to call my trainer right away. We have team meeting every morning, stressing the importance of doing the right thing. So I'm calling BS. Casey Irons Jr. on Colorado State. Yeah, none of this is true.

Let me ask you this. There was a story about the TCU coach Gary Patterson dropping the N-bomb. And originally there were a handful of players that said, this isn't true. true and then coach Patterson comes out and says there were some things that were said I shouldn't say. Well, the players came out and said he's not racist and he never said racist things and if you look at the context of the way

the way Patterson said, he used the word as in stop saying that word. I believe is what I read. Yeah. So it's a word he should not have used. He still apologized for. And that's word to you. But in the he wasn't calling someone. Correct. You just can't use the word.

He was just there's never a, but yeah, he shouldn't use the word. There's never a context where the word is good to be right. All right. So we got part three. Are you any more in your Colorado State? Yeah, there's still, there's another, none of y'all listened to this man, furthest from True, which he must be skipping. Tanner Hollins must be skipping English class at Colorado State. That's okay. And then another one says Kyle Neves, CSU.

It says it doesn't, that he excluded, the assistant of the coach, they have not been allowed back into the facilities, people for safety and stuff like that, but so people are upset. All right. Before we go to the top of the hour, Texas Tech. Mm-hmm. Women's basketball coach Marlene Stallings

created a, quote, toxic environment of intimidation and fear in her first two seasons at the school. Hmm. Siding interviews with 10 players, two former assistant coaches, and two parents, as well as exit interviews obtained

through a public records request. Texas SEC has seen a dozen players transfer over the past two seasons. Apparently, according to USA Today, players felt routinely belittled by Stallings and her staff and had serious concerns about their physical well-being because of a system to monitor their heart rate during practices and games. A players alleged that playing time was determined by whether they maintained a heart rate of at least 90% of capacity. In addition to a loss of playing time, those who failed to do so were allegedly singled out for scorn. Also the USA Today reporting multiple allegations of sexual harassment against former strength and conditioning coach Ralph Petrella. Come on, Ralph.

Among the allegations, Emma Meriwether, who began her career at Long Beach Dayton is now in Kansas, detailed a reported incident where Petrella alleged demeaning behavior in front of men's basketball players led her to suffer a panic attack. Patela apparently touched her inappropriately while applying a physical therapy technique known as reflexive performance. After reporting the incident to the school's Title IX administrator, the player said she learned from Texas Tech AD Kirby Holcutt that Petrella had resigned. What in the hell is going on? Know your role, coaches. Stop asking for heart rates.

What is the heart rate thing? That doesn't make any sense to me. 90% of capacity at all times. That sounds wildly unhealthy. How do you have 90% when you're on the bench? I don't know. You want them running in place and doing push-ups? So they're all having panic attacks.

These college coaches. Come on, Marlene. Because NFL coaches are paid to be power hungry, right? That's true. You're not looking. When you're a coach in an NFL or a major league or basketball team, you are supposed to be the boss. You're going to gain power. These coaches have damn lost their mind.

You got Colorado State coaches telling everybody to hide. COVID results. And now you got a woman's coach at Texas Tech who is saying basically if you're a heart rate's on at a certain level I'm going to embarrass the hell out of you. What was it? 12 players out of 21 transfer in the last

couple years? How do we talk about this? I don't know. How do you go to a game again? I got this going on. I got Ellen DeGeneres treating her employees terribly. We have got to control the power in this country. Thank God, Brendan Riley. We treat you so well here

on the Matt Thomas show. Wonderfully. Thank God, Ross, Miller, Real. You are true like a king on this program. Let's not get crazy. Imagine working with a tyrant.

Out of control. That would never happen. Not here at the I-Heart Media Studios, Matthew. What a mess. I'm disappointed in Marlene. Name her biggest win. The one over Texas? Yeah, it probably happened.

It probably happened. Probably happened. She is 14 and 17 and 17 and 10 in two years at Texas Tech. So 31 and 27. Cameron, my son who goes to Texas Tech saw that immediately this morning because he goes to a couple games. Okay. So the women's games? Yeah.

That's good. I mean, what else are you going to do in Lovic? Yeah. Go to that. What's that steakhouse? Well, there was the 50-hour line is the most popular. Okay. But it's kind of overrated.

Well, where's the one where you eat the 72-ounce steak or is that an Amarillo? That's further north and west. Okay. I think it's close to Amarillo. Okay. What's the biggest piece of meat you ever had in your life? Excuse me. You heard me.

What's the largest, biggest piece of meat you ever had? I think I've had a 22-ounce rib-eye before. It's a lot of food. Or maybe it was a strip. I think it was a strip. I'm a strip guy. Why can't you be both? I don't know.

Hey, you give me a rib-eye. I'm eating the rib-eye, man, and it will be crushed. Should we have a steak-eating contest someday? I would lose. I would eat the biggest steak? Yeah. I can make another prime rib. We can have that.

That's just rib-eye. What kind of accompaniments would there be with it? Well, in that steak challenge, don't you have to eat a whole salad and roll and something up with a baked potato? Some sort of potato, right? Yeah. So there you go. Potato salad and roll, Matt. I'm ready.

Final hour of the Matt Thomas show begins with a little salute to the Astros and their big win against the Diamondbacks or the snakes, as we like to call them. Rockets suffer a setback there first in the bubble. We'll get to that. And we will also get to the latest on college football scheduling. What a mess it is. Some teams are playing as few as nine at this point. Some could be playing as many as 12. 713, 212, 570 with a message for Shaw's Jewry at the corner West Graham Montrose.

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We'll go for the sweep. Two game series, yeah? Yeah. This whole schedule is so weird. Go ahead and say it, Matt. Say the G word you want to say. It's gimmickie. Okay.

I don't want to be that guy. But you are. But I think we had a great argument or debate in the first really mostly the second hour of the show. What do the Astros ultimately do long term? Oh, no, it's a three-game series, sorry. Is it? Yeah.

And then they go to Oakland. By the way, Mike Fires is going to throw tomorrow for the A's, which means he will miss the Astro series altogether. So let me do this. Do you have the Astros schedule in front of you there? I do. Okay, so they're supposed to put the A's the following week, right? When do the Astros play the A's next?

They don't play them again until August 28th. Oh, so we can't. can't go ahead of the schedule a little bit. Dang. Because here's the thing, you and I have a bet on Mike Fires. That's canceled. Yeah, but I want to at least tell the audience. We had a bet that Mike Fires was not going to pitch in Houston.

And we canceled a bet because he very well could pitch in Houston. It just won't matter because we'll be fans there. I still believe the first opportunity with fans, Mike Fires will be a gimp and won't be unable to go. Oh, you want to refresh it for the bet for next year? Oh, no question. Oh, let's do it. I'm doing it.

Okay. I'm a man of my word. Well. I absolutely believe that Mike fires. I got a suey throat. I can't pitch. A little tendonitis. It'll be fine.

If he's healthy, there's no reason he shouldn't pitch. Oh, there will be. 40,000 people that will just spoo him and everything and throw things in a field. Look, we are nice people here, but we're going to throw things. Are they going to boo him every pitch? Absolutely. You think every single pitch he throws. Absolutely.

It'll be a, you will never have heard more booze in a single booze in a single. baseball game in your entire. Mike freaking fires. Absolutely. There's no way he doesn't. He pitches five and a third inning. And he throws 102 pitches. 102 booze. He gets 102 booze. Sound like a Monday night football game. No way. Let's ask the

people. Okay. Right now? Right. freaking now. Oh, geez. We know what they're going to say. It's about what they're going to do. I think they're going to say what they're, you don't think they're going to let just let him just pitch and just pitch. When he gets announced and when he first comes out, there and maybe every time he comes out for a he's not going to get booed for every single page. All right. Here's how I will phrase it for you.

So two to Alex Breggman. Now they're not going to say, now batting, Jose El Tubei, boo because they're booing him. They will boo him when he first walks in a mound. Yes, for sure. I'm with you on that. And they will, I guarantee it. This is a 74 billion star Nostra Thomas selection.

They will boo him when he has in warm-up pitches. Yeah, of course. So that's at least, if he goes six, that's seven booze. Yeah, well, you said 102. And you also say he's not going out there in the first place. Yeah, it's a moot point. So it's a moot point. Rossi, I'm going to have that steak.

I'm going to get a rib-eye. Oh, please. And then it'll be so hungry. I'm going to get a strip. I'm going to say, thank you, Mike Fires, for being a gimp and not being able to go. And you'll have to pay for it. I don't think so. Mm-hmm.

There's no way. thank God there is netting because there'll be people throwing all sorts of crap. As I was saying before, we are nice people here, but we can throw. We'll throw things. We would try to. Mike Fires is going to have the attitude of he's not backing down from anyone. He's not just going to randomly have an injury and miss the games. Oh, yes, he is.

It could happen like now where it happens that he doesn't pitch there. Yes, because Bob Melvin, the manager of the A's. We're locking it in. We're renewing the bet. If there's a full season next year with fans, Our bet is pushed of 2021. Even if it's 25%. How about that?

Yeah. The next time there is a game where fans are allowed to go to said game. He will not pitch in it. Now, I'm not saying he will never pitch it. I will say he will pitch in the state. But the very first opportunity to do so, he will be a gimp. Okay.

I like my steak medium. I want saute mushrooms, onions. And perhaps a Berenet. And you want A1 sauce. No, I won't do the Bair. Okay, maybe some of that too. Well, he is a free agent next year. Okay.

So guess what's going to happen? He's going to play in the National League Central. You think so? To avoid the Astros. Absolutely. So he's going to have a $15 million offer from the A's, and the pirates are going to offer him 10, and he's going to take that to run away from the Astros.

Done. Yeah. What? You're hot. You don't want none of that. I don't think he cares. I mean, I got news for you, Rossi. Hey, people with their name on tattooed on their forearms don't care.

I got news for you. People avoid things sometimes in life. Yeah, people with Q, uh, beards on their face, they don't care about those, these things. They're not, he's not scared of the Astros fans. Matter of fact, he might break his own arm so he doesn't have to pitch. He might, he might tear some ligaments. He's going to call in sick. He's going to get his own TJ.

The dog ate my scouting report. All right, Rossi, we got two phone calls on the line here. Okay. One is from West Side Joe, and the other one is the Great Grandino. Now, honestly, I think both these phone calls are going to be train wrecks. I'm not guaranteeing that. I'm actually not hoping that. But when you self-glash yourself, you better bring it, right?

If you're the Great Grandino. Now, you put a question mark next to his name. Why are you putting in question mark next to the Great Grandino name? Yeah, what Ross said. Okay. We have his number. As a matter of fact, let's just photo it. Just in case he gets crazy. We do have caller ID here at the radio station.

713. Now, if you're a great caller and you can be, let me tell you something, if you're, if this guy is a great caller to the show, I will be glad, I will be glad to gloss any one of you, your name. I have zero problem with that. If you don't want to be just Ross, wipe your lens. I'm not taking, putting this picture out there. I just want you to be, if you're going to be the great grandina,

you got to bring something to the table. So let's find out what he has to say. The Great Grandino at 2.10. 790. Hello, Great Grandino. Hey, what's going on? It's Great Brandino. I'm a super fan.

Brandino, not Grandino? Okay. No, sir. We'll take your word for it. Brandon, why aren't you listen to these people's names? This is not exactly a word I'm used to. All right, great, Brandino. What do you got today?

Well, I got a prediction for Mike Fires. As soon as we get some fans, we're going to boo them for the whole first inning. And he's only going to go about three innings because the action store, fuck him. That's what's going to happen. I just know it. So I'm calling it right now. Mike Fires has only going to pitch three innings when he pitches in Houston with fans, period. But he will pitch.

But he will pitch. Which means I lose the bet. That would be delicious. He will pitch, yeah. You know, he went out there crying after we scored six runs on him in the first inning. He went out there crying and telling everyone about the trash cans and buzzers. Well, you are the great brand, the great brandino. I'll let you keep your nickname

because it sounds good. I just, I hope that you're wrong because I would lose the bet. We'll see. We'll see. I think I'm right. All right. Thank you for the phone call.

Appreciate you listening. Thank you. All right. You know, the odds are that you're going to win. Why? Because he's not, he's not going to have, he's not going to have that small of a man part to be that afraid of coming to picture.

That's what I believe. But I just think it's fun to bet on things. Okay. Well, that's great. I think it's fun to win steak dinner as well. And sometimes you're the underdog and you win. Yeah, it's true. And you get to really boast. We'll see. And remember, of course, Adam Wexler

is our impartial judge to judge if it were legitimate, if there are legitimate injury issues, then the bet is null and void. If he goes on a disabled list, I win. No, that's not true. Why? You're changing the terms. We agree. Where's Adam Wexler?

So you're telling me, the only way I win is by Mike Fier saying, I can't pitch there because I'm afraid people are going to attack me. we're determining whether or not it's a legitimate injury. If he goes on the injured list and we think he's making it up, then Wexor is determining that. That's we determined. If it's legit or not.

Okay. That's fair. Okay. Like if he's going on a forearm strain, that probably means something. If he's out for six weeks, I mean, that's legit. But if he says, I got a hang nail, I've got to skip a start, I'm probably going to win that one. And Wex will be the judge.

But what if Wex isn't here? What do you mean? They can be on vacation. I'm not going to call on... I'm not going to call him in the middle of a... It's not like a... We want to dinner that night. Well, if we're hungry.

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Hey, it's Jeff Blum. Blum Fact number 14. I was on the White Sox in 2005. Yeah, sorry about that sweep, H-Town. But we're all good right now, right? World Series champion. Back to your lunchtime champion, Matt Thomas. Main headlines of the day, the NBA reporting no positives in her latest round of

testing. Wonderful. The bubble works. The bubble is working. The NFL, the Texans today sent out all their assistant coaches on Zoom meetings for questions for the media. I don't know how interesting it is to listen to that kind of stuff, honestly. Okay.

I mean, am I wrong? No. We can play a lot of audio. No, why would we do that? Well, I'm just saying it. Maybe there's something that people are like, I want to hear what Anthony Dreamweaver had to say. I don't know if they do, do they? Well, they're going to.

Right now it's just too, it's too easy to say, hey, we're doing the right things. We're doing strength and conditioning. We are Zoom meeting. What's the like in the pandemic? Tim Kelly's new offensive coordinator. Let me guess. He's got a lot of respect for Bill O'Brien. He loves him.

Can't wait to do things. Can't wait to show, you know, what he can do. I just got the feeling today was they were bringing out one assistant coach after the other on the Zoom. That the buck doesn't stop with it. you know, with any of them, that Tim Kelly, I wanted to say, Tim, you seemed like a really nice fella

and can't wait to see what you can do, but if you don't do much very soon, you'll be replaced. Just ask George Gottsey. Yeah, we talked about the first four games. What is it? It's Kansas City, Baltimore, Minnesota, and Pittsburgh.

And Pittsburgh. If the NFL schedule stays that way. That's true. That's four good defenses. Well, it's also... It's four good defenses, but it's also four... teams you might have to, well, in Kansas City, Minnesota's case, you might have to score 35

points to win the game. Against good defenses. So, is Tim Kelly still calling plays four week? Week five? We've talked about this. Don't you think that Bill O'Brien can't do that? He can't. He can do whatever he wants, Matt. Well, here's the thing.

He owns that franchise. Here's the thing. If he really hates Tim, which I don't think he does, he can pull the play calling duties from him, you can say, hey, don't tell anybody, but there are loose lips out there. If he does pull the trigger on that and says, I don't like what you're doing, we'll find out pretty soon. That's not a way you can be like, you know, there are sometimes you can keep secrets in the office about how to handle money and whatnot and where certain things go, not talking about illegal

things, but just ways of doing business. There's no way if Tim Kelly loses his offensive play calling responsibilities that the whole world won't eventually know. No kidding. And ultimately, I hope that Tim Kelly, that Bill O'Brien can trust somebody else not named Jack Easterby. I mean, no. No, that's Tim, coach, that's not the right attitude to have. You're the one that has brought Tim along with you. You guys have been together like two peas in a pod. It's a long season, Brian. You're Matt, though. Yeah. Why is it get my name and Brian's name mixed up as well? Rightfully so. So all these assistant coaches come out on a Zoom

And they're all very pleasant human beings They're all working hard They've all done something to become NFL assistant coaches But I kept watching them And it was not overly entertaining And I kept thinking You better be careful what you say Because if Bill O'Brien goes back

And look at these Zooms And you don't speak the gospel of what he says He's going to crush you Holy smokes Am I right? Probably yeah Bill O'Brien is a tyrant Matt I think

I mean, say what you will about some coach. I don't think Pete Carroll walks around Seattle Seahawks camp with this. What did you say today? What did you tell those guys? He just likes to chew gum and walk around and be a fun guy. I don't know if he's fun, but he's certainly loose. I think Pete Carroll, you have a good time of them. Really?

Yeah. Okay. I don't think Jeff Fisher was a great NFL coach, but I think Jeff Fisher was a decent coach to work for. I think Tony Dunjew was probably one of the most amazing men to work for, no matter what the sport was. or whatever the job was. Chapel before and after the meeting, team meetings.

He'd hug it out if you gave up. If you called a bad play in the fourth quarter, he says, we got another game next week. We'll be fine. Tearfully has to tell you you're not doing a great job. Like when Tony Dungy's cutting a player, it's the worst thing that's ever crossed his mind. Yes.

Come here, Ralph. I mean, when you always hear people say, this hurts me more than hurts you, this, I'm really, I wasn't able to sleep. And I know that you love to be a deep snapper. but it's just not going to happen for you. But coach, I thought I was going to make the third team. I know.

We reached you the best. We thought we were going to carry three deep snappers, but we just weren't able to do so. Meanwhile, Bill O'Brien, he let you go. I don't even think he looks at you're in the square in the face. Yeah. You think so? Now, Easterby is a guy that will look at you straight in the face. Yes.

This is a good cop, bad cop, in the meeting. O'Brien's bad cop and then Jack Easton. Mr. B kind of softens above? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Bill O'Brien is the mean guy. You have, you shed a tear in Easterby's like, come over here real quick. Come over here.

Don't let coach see you cry. Chows who we chose and we're happy with who we chose. And that's we are. Who's the, if he's the first coach ever do that, who's the next one? Of the 31, I would have to probably go with John Gruden, right? John Gruden would do that, definitely. Um, I can see Mike Tomlin going after somebody in the fans.

Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see. I bet you you don't want to... He's not a coach, but Philly Rivers. I don't think you want to piss off Ron Rivera. I bet he'll go after some fans, too. Oof.

Yeah, maybe. Who else? Mike McCarthy looks like he could maybe go at somebody. I think Mike McCarthy and Green Bay coach can. I don't think he can do it in Dallas. There's too many high-falutin people there. Yeah, but I found. That's true.

Jerry Jones didn't care. Jerry Jones would let him. Jerry Jones started flipping him off himself. But Jerry Jones might say, but Mike McCarthy, Jerry comes and says, look, I've got to talk to your second. You told a $150,000 a year season ticket holder to F off. Would you please go apologize to him? Oh, I got one.

Sean Payton? Oh, for sure. How about Mike Rable? Oh, Mike Frable doesn't, he doesn't yell. He starts climbing up there. Frank Wright? He's got like, he's got a, giant vein bulging from his neck and he's just like angry. You could just see him

a steam coming out of his ears and Rabel's just ready to climb up into the stands and go at it. Does Doug Marone still coach the Jaguars? I think so. I think he says. I think he does. Yeah, sure. So Doug Marone is the guy that he's going to scream at the fan and then realize five minutes later he was screaming at the wrong fan. Yeah, I could see that. By way, did you see Garner-Menschu talking about the COVID the other day? No, what did he say? He's nuts. Oh, he has damn lost his mind. What did, uh, what did Mitch you say?

Well, I'm paraphrasing here. Basically that he never had the Rona. He's fine. And the Rona, you know, that he and his boys were hanging out and they're all doing the right thing. But he's, he's, they're going to win two games this year if they play two games. I mean, if Jacksonville took a year off. Did he test positive? I didn't think so.

There was some rumors that he had. Oh, he said the virus took one look at me and ran the other way. Bold. Gardner Mincher. Like, should Jacksonville take the year off? Like Connecticut? Yeah, just like Yukon? Yeah.

Honestly, would we miss anything from the Jacksonville Jaguars? Except maybe two conference wins, two division wins? Here we are presuming they're going to win them both. But the Texans have had some good success about it. I think the record over the last five years under this reign of Bill O'Brien winning the division. Hell, could you imagine Bill O'Brien's record without wins against Jacksonville? How bad it would be? It's probably not great.

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That is really the most out there as compared to everybody else because everybody else basically is saying they're going to play either just your conference-only foes or you're going to play your conference-only foes plus one. Did you see what the Big Ten did today? They're basically saying that any football player that plays in a big game, and I'm paraphrasing here a little bit, that winds up getting in contact with someone that maybe has symptoms, Meaning if you play for Northwestern and I play for Rutgers and I hit you.

We're on crappy teams, man. Come on. Okay, let's change this. I'm at Ohio State. You're at Wisconsin. Okay. I'm in Ohio and I hit you. Yes.

Or you hit me or we tackle each other, whatever the case may be. And you test positive or have symptoms. Not only are you gone, but I'm gone too. For two weeks? Two weeks. Why can't I just get tested for the next several days? They want you in a quarantine process. Okay, why can't I just get tested for the next several?

Why are you asking me? I'm just a player. Come on, Big Ten? That doesn't make any sense. Eye, aye, aye. Can they attend class? Yeah, do they go to classes? Are they going to be working from home?

Virtually? Well, it's funny because my son, who goes to Texas Tech, as many of you know, we're going up next Friday to take him back to school. He is taking 15 hours this fall. Originally, it was four classes in person and one online. It has now gone down to two in person and three online. So I'm spending all this money for my son to live in an apartment to live 500 miles away from me in order to go to school on a computer.

Well, tell them to get a job. What kind of jobs are there? Yes, well, if you think the Houston restaurant scene is tough, could you imagine what's going on in Lovick right now? I'm getting an office job, work study. I'm all for that. Put them at the library. Stock in the shelves.

Working on the Dewey Decimal system? Yes. Sanitizing. That's the problem with all this, Ross, is that everybody has different rules. Pac-10 is going to treat differently. Like in the American, it's basically we're going to test just 72 hours before kick a member.

And then after that, you're free, so to speak. For 72 hours? Yeah. Okay. So if you play a game on Saturday, you'll be tested Wednesday. You pass that test. You get to play on that Saturday. It certainly means you can contract it Thursday or Friday or Saturday, for that matter, somehow, some way.

But nobody will ever know. If you get it that night, you can be spreading it by Saturday. Yeah. And that's a byproduct, I think, of just those schools not having enough test. That they're playing the percentages of if someone's going to get it and have the symptoms of it, the best we can do is try is to go out as far as possible to not put these football programs in in a tough situation because think about this if you have to wait till Thursday or Friday and you don't have the results then you basically probably can't put that player on the football field

right that person can't jump on a plane that person can't go to the hotel it's like if you pass that first round of okay you're free and clear we'll take our chances Thursday Friday Saturday, which is the truth. That's what it is. That's what they have to do, I guess, if they can't afford the test in the testing. It seems a little dicey, Matt. How are we going to write a book about sports this year? You should start writing it, Matt. Keep your notes. Because what you could do is you could write several chapters about how awesome the NBA is doing. And then you could write several chapters about what the Major League Baseball is basically doing with like some teams playing 50, some playing 60 games. Yes. And having schedules change and having rules change. And having

rules change within the season, adding playoff teams, adding doubleheaders. The negotiations. There's a couple chapters in itself. And then you can write a whole chapter about the social justice on basketball courts and uniforms. Yes. How XYZ player used to be Jones, now he's vote.

Yeah. And then the NFL, by the way, do you see what's going on New Orleans? They're buying up four floors of a hotel and creating a mini bubble for the New Orleans Saints, which I think is a very smart idea. That is very smart. I like that. The players all agreeing to that? I don't think they got a choice.

What are they going to say? No, I'm not going to go in the hotel. Well, the players union can say, hey, file a grievance or something like that. If it would have to be something like that would have to be collectively bargaining. Well, it sounds like it hasn't been. But it's a smart idea.

Even though Whitney Merciless yesterday said, I've got, my sister's got a new baby. I've not seen her yet. I'm now in the, I'm in the protocol. I can't get that baby sick. I can't get my sister sick. And I don't want to get myself sick.

Guys are basically, like Blake Taylor told us on the show yesterday. he was in Southern California, right? That's where he's from. He didn't see his family when he was there. If you play sports and you want to stay COVID-free and play and compete and try to win, you're going to have to live on your own, basically.

That's just what's happening. Largely most people, most people are not spending a lot of time with friends and family. How often have we gone out and had somebody eaten in the last three months? You and I? Yeah. Once. Big City Winks.

That's right. It was his past week. week. Yes. But largely, I come to the office, I do the show, I turn around, I go back home. That's what you're basically doing. That's what I'm basically what I do. Brendan, how much you running around? Anywhere? I don't think I've been out for anything but work or grocery shopping in three weeks. So we're all following rules. We would all love to go watch the Astros Diamondbacks at a bar tonight. That serves food. That serves food. You could. Tomorrow night, you got rockets and you got Arizona. It's an unnecessary risk. Even as me,

is somebody who's recovered. I feel like I can still have it on my hands or on my person and spread it. And you don't want to be that person responsible spreading it around. I get it. Yeah. So I'm not, I don't think anybody should feel sorry for them and the athletes should behave themselves. Because they are still being paid

more than anybody else on earth. And frankly, the owners are making less money. And in many cases, especially in baseball this year, Ross, they're taking in a massive loss on this. I know the TV money is good. There's no way in the world major league baseball owners are collecting any sort of big revenue this year with every one of these stadiums having nothing but plastic cutouts.

Yeah, it's going to charity, so that's not helping them out. So just like Lou Williams said yesterday, he says, look, I've been going to that place, what was it called? Magic City. Magic City for years. Yes. The wings are delicious. The thighs and breasts are good, too.

Not bad. Not bad. But in retrospect, I probably should have gone. Well, no, duh. He says he didn't get a dance, but apparently there was. was a dancer there who said she gave him a dance. How many times have I told you this? He 100% lied.

He, Lou Williams lied. He didn't go just for the wings. Were the wings a huge part of it? Sure. But a lap dance was a big part of it too. We got to go check out the wings next time, Matt. Can we go there eat the wings and not be tempted by anything else? I mean, if I'm going to go check it out, I'm going to go check it out.

You mean fully check it out. Yeah, you're a happily married man. You don't have to go with me. Right. I will go with you and then I'll leave. No, I will bring some home to go for you. I'll go eat there. I'm not going to sit in a hotel room while you go to eat wings.

I mean, I go with you. I can just bring you some to go. No, it's fine. I'll go. Well, I mean, I want to see what made. I want to go to the place that Louis William said to himself, you know what? I think 10 extra days of being in quarantine was well worth it.

I want to know how good these wings are and how, and what allegedly dance he didn't receive. You can find out how good. good the wings are if I just bring you something. So the girl that's, that, uh, what was her name? Let me guess. It was Ariel or something like that. I don't know.

Destiny. Diamond. Is there a quote attached to her? I'm trying to find it. I saw it earlier when I was, you know, prepping the show. Well, actually prepping the show before this show. You've been on the air a long time today. Very long time, Matthew.

You're starting to struggle a little bit towards the end? You think so? No, I'm just saying that. That's not very nice. Well, sometimes we're rude here on the show. I'm trying to find it. Her name was something. Something with an A.

So she said she did confirm she gave him a lap dance. So do you want to say sorry now? No. After you kept saying, Oh, I said it was possible. It's not possible. I said it was impossible.

I said it was possible. It was not possible to go to a strip joint. Why would I apologize? Because you were wrong. The food looks fantastic. Yes, and so do the women. Apparently has his cater to his house.

I said I could buy the story. Well, you bought it. You didn't ask me to make a bet. I got a real date on that one. Of course. Of course if I had to make a bet. I can bet he got little dances.

But what always tell you? Athletes lie. Coaches lie. General manager's lie. We all lie. If Lou Williams wanted to say he just got food, it's possible. Because apparently it's a hot Atlanta wing spot. Impossible.

And I was proven right. Here we go. Her name is Ares. A-R-I-E-S. Yes. Okay, good. She confirmed that she danced for Lou Williams. And she said he walked around the club and had several dancers performing them.

Although she claims he kept a six-foot distance. Now, wait a minute. What? That's not even a strip club. That's just dancing. Quote, he tipped very well, Harry said. You can't, no, wait, okay. Now, now I'm actually defending a loo a little bit here, which I can't believe I'm doing. If the girl was six feet away, yeah, she had a mask on. Well, maybe. And maybe that was it. I don't know, can you perform that much physical activity with a mask on? Might be difficult. What I'm saying is if he didn't get any closer than him, then they were following social guidelines. Aries, a 25-year-old dancer with close cropped, a-cropped, bleached hair shook in front of a man and a woman sharing a hookah.

The woman patted Aries nude bottom with a dollar bill. Why is this story getting told? You know, what, keep going. This is much better. Keep telling the story. This is from the L.A. Times. What's that? It said sharing the hookah sounds problematic.

Yeah. Yeah, that's true. No, you know what? First of all, she's lying. she got right on him. He has... When he landed in Orlando, he had glitter and perfume all over his body.

She says, we all want to be safe. It's important to make sure everyone feels comfortable. And obviously the boss told her, this is what you'll tell the media. There's no way... First of all, no way he went there just for the wings,

and there's no way that she was six feet away. I don't know, but the manager, Lil Magic... Okay, we're done. Two-four. I don't believe anything. And then Aries... or Little Magic had to tell the media.

Sorry. Little Magic will not steer us wrong, Maddie. Yeah, he will. You'll flat out light of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. 713-212-5-7-90. Final segment of the Matt Thomas Show next here on the Matt Thomas show, Sports Talk, 790 with a message for Coors Light. Now, did Lou have a Coors Light when he was at Magic City?

Because that's a refreshing drink to have when you're having a hot, delicious wings. We were a big city last week having some Coors Lines and having the wings. And no matter what you're cooking, whether you're doing burgers on the grill, whether you're doing barbecue, going on a boat ride, whatever the case, as long as you're not driving and drinking and doing everything responsibly, you'd better be with the Coors Light. With the mountains on the can or blue, that means it's at its peak refreshment. So it's cold, it's crisp, it's delicious. And it's also light. That's the reason they call it Coors Light has a strong connection to the state of Texas because when Coors decided to move out and try the other states in the union to process and sell their beer, they went to. Good morning, strippers.

Shower with the Matt Thomas show. Wash off the glitter and daddy issues. All right. Something that has been brought up a lot is to wrap up the final segment of the show today. Not necessarily on air, but off. I was calling the Rockets game, and I don't get to see them shoot warm up, except for the time they're on the television screen. So I don't know what uniforms they're wearing.

Wex told me before the air, we went on air, yes. they were in the ketchup and mustards. Love those. From what I understand, last year was a, this is a one-year bit on the uniforms. And it hurts people's feelings because that's really out of the, it's out of the hands of the rockets.

It's up to Nike, right? It's up to Nike. It's the league. There's just so many hurdles you have to climb and jump over to get uniforms changed. But I will say this, you would hope that if you're going to get the NBA back and get people back in and buying gear and getting fully vested, especially when we're in a spot where they're not being

able to go to games, to where the team's gear is very important. Could you imagine, could tellman Fertita call Adam Sanger, Adam Sanger? He could call Adam Sanger and say, look, our audience loves those uniforms. That's the uniform that Tillman grew up. watching the Rockets is a young businessman, part owner a very small time back in the day. Could the Rockets petition the NBA to go back to the ketchup and mustard's white, in the white uniforms, those are rockets at home and say Houston the road? They're not identical, but they have been the closest they've ever been. The font of the word Houston is a lot bigger than the old school Houston.

Yes. But short of that, I like them a lot. I love, that's my uniform. Well, I put a poll out last night during the game on my Twitter account at SportsRV. Should the Rockets go to the throwback uniforms full time? And the results were? 89.8% yes. Huh.

Now, I like what they've done now. I was never a huge fan of the Chinese script uniforms. I knew why they did it. I mean, there's obviously a huge Chinese connection or was. I like these new ones. They're fine. They're okay. They're not offensive.

There's no ridiculous logo on it. There's no strange-looking letters or anything. just kind of a... But they just changed them. They had the available... Was it before this year or before last year? This is the first year of these uniforms. Okay.

Yeah, if you just changed them, you're not going to be able to change them anytime. But they're better than what the other ones were. Yeah, they are better. I agree with that. I think... The dripping R? Yeah, you know, is that what they called it?

I never knew what they called it. That's what I call it. Launching R. Like Sherman Williams arm. Yeah. So what I would think they would do is I think you go with the black uniform, which is very successful. I like that one.

The rocket's right. The rocket's right. And you throw those catching mustard out 10 times a year, 10, 15 times a year. Call it a day. Play four uniforms and be done. People love those. I don't understand why. I mean, remember when the Detroit Pistons had that?

They were teal with the fire breathing train piston on there and it was terrible. It was a horse too, right? Yeah, it was a horse or whatever. It was weird. I love it. That comes to zero surprise. Zero. Okay, well, they were terrible.

So they went back to the classic looking, uniforms. Detroit. Remember, the 76ers, they went to the star, shooting star, whatever, with the script. And those were okay. But then they went back to the classics. I thought that was the best era of logos. Jesus.

You're not allowed to talk anymore. It looks, no. So you've had these teams go and try to punch everything up and make it cool. And the Rockets did that as well. And sometimes you just got to come back to the classics. And the Rockets need to do that just like those franchises. Name a classic uniform that shouldn't be returned. The Lakers went back to purple on their front of their jerseys.

That's true. Yeah, and they never really changed significantly. There's a little alterations here there. The Celtics are the Celtics uniforms. They don't change. What else? The magic are a little different, I guess. I like the old Maverick uniforms, but they were just kind of there.

I mean, they wasn't like classic. The New York Knicks don't change their jerseys every four. five years or anything like that. There's no reason to. You do changes their uniforms every other year, the kings. I don't want to be the kings. The calves with the bunch of weird changes all the time. No, I think the current batch of what the rockets have

should be around for a long period of time. I just want to see more ketchup and mustard. And I would put the ketchup and mustard white ones on, too. This is the word rockets across it. And I would also, Rosh, you ready for this? I'd make those guys five or six times a year wear those long sweatsuit jackets with collars. Back in the 80s?

Oh, like the 80s ones? Do they have to wear the nut huggers, too? Whatever they want. Okay. Kneads. Hell, they're wearing... Neat specs. Rex specs.

Elbow pads. Yeah, they've got sweatbands all over the place. Hakeem used to go out there with the elbow and the knee pads. Seemed to work for him. Probably the guys who were taking elbows to the face, appreciate it. Do you see in sports, baseball uniforms have gone retro? Retro is where it's at. Astros went back to a more retro feel

after the brick red. A little bit for sure. It was an updated retro. Yeah. So that was the best part was when Wex said last night, he says they're growing ketchup and mustard. And I'm like, okay, guaranteed win night.

And then Carmelo, Anthony, ruins it. Well, that and some foul calls. That and miss foul shots. What should be discussed with Wex and AC? At length. Well, it depends. I don't know what their show is. They can be talking about division.

three sports being canceled this year. You never know what their topics are. But nevertheless, they're going to entertain you. Yeah, it's going to be part of the A team. And they're up next on Sports Talk 790. Talk to you guys with Mike Dan Toning tomorrow at 1230.