The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Hold On To First Place! Astros Take The Series vs Yankees 2-1, Texans’ Reserves Got Work vs Vikings

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

Astros Hold On To First Place! Astros Take The Series vs Yankees 2-1, Texans’ Reserves Got Work vs Vikings

Thomas show with Ross. And welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Start spreading the new. Pitch on the way. And Al-Tube crushes one deep to left field. And you can kiss that one. Goodbye.

The first pitch to run Homer for Jose Al-Tube. And the Astros have a 2-0 lead. Altouvae's 20th of the year. Boy, the booze haven't even died down by the time he swung at that first pitch. In his eyes, eight rows deep inside the foul pole in left field. Williams the 0-1. And that's hit high in the air, and deep to right. Rosario was back at the wall.

Looking out. See you later. Tramel with the insurance. A two-run blast, and it's five to two Astros. Tramel goes deep for the third time this year. to left field, and you can kiss that one goodbye. Jose Altuve hits his second home run of the series, and his 19th career home run against the Yankees.

It's 1-0-0 Astros. Al-Tuve's 21st of the year. Al-Tuve is an igniter. That's his sixth home run in the first inning this year, and the Astros draw blood first. 0-2. Swing and a miss. Good morning, good afternoon, and good afternoon,

Good night, Anthony Volpe, and that is the ball game. Brian King strikes out the side in the ninth as the Astros defeat the Yankees 7-1 to take two out of three in the Bronx. And this board's Army. That sounds awkward. Wow, that's suck it Michael Kay. It means in the metaphorical sense. Yeah, metaphorical, not a literal sense. You know what I meant?

You know what I meant. Sing it old blue eyes. Sing it. Turn it up. About a city. period, end of story. Greatest song. We've already discussed this, right?

Yeah. The goat. Okay. I'm not going to argue with you. Damn, Frank. Oh, blue eyes and his mafia ties, allegedly. Allegedly. And thank you, Mariners.

Oh, no, excuse me. Thank you, Rays, for blank into bed three days in Seattle. Absolutely nothing. Absolutely. The marriage have won seven consecutive games. They're not going away, Matthew. Half game. made.

How we, as you would say, how we feel? How are we feeling? I'm nervous. I'm nervous as a Allie cat? Nope, nope.

How am I as nervous as a what? A whore in church? What? Yeah, you've heard that one, right? I mean, yeah, I have. But you always say nervous as an alicat, which you made up.

Yes. And so I'm not going to say anymore. Okay. What is it? Okay, if you can't say a horror in church, what are you nervous has? A Nelly. I was so prepared for that.

Good morning. It is the bad topic. I was. spit up my coffee on that one. You did. I would have been so happy to. I know you would have. But this is a really expensive equipment. We have to protect in here. We don't want to use 90% of it. But it's nothing here. It always works 100% of the time too. Man, thank God for Gordy. He's in here trying to fix stuff for us. He's our best. Since we laid off both of our IT guys, he's the best IT guy we got. Seriously, let me tell you something. I'm an illicit people I want to see leave the station,

Gordy is the last one I want him to leave. Wow. Like when he, when the lights of 790 get turned off, he's the one to get. Now, I'm the O G. Okay, now who's first? Oh, that's easy. All right, fine. I'll walk out. No, no, you get to stay two. You right, believe it or not.

You have some value. It provides some value. Well, good series win for the Astros this weekend, Manning. Yeah, it was. Didn't go perfect. You're supposed to win two out of three in New York. That's great. Two out of three is great.

You won two out of three in Miami, and that's great. You obviously blanked the bed in Boston. And you can do everything you can in terms of lineups. and pitching and whatnot. But if the team behind you is playing better than you are, nothing you can do. And that's just a reality. The Mariners have won 9 of 10,

seven consecutive games, and there's a reason why they made up four games in a week. Because they're playing better than the Astros are. So as much as you want to say, well, the Astros aren't doing this. The Astros aren't doing this. Guess what? The Mariners are doing more.

So it makes me think about something. Okay. Ross, that I want to give to the audience here at 1007 on this Monday morning. To get to the audience. Okay. This is you normally a win- day at 1130?

Nope. This is a passage. I'm about to read to you. Oh, really? And it was written by somebody you know. Oh, okay. Life becomes beautiful when you decide to see it that way. Put love into what you do.

Make it your priority. Believe blindly in your potential. Appreciate everything even what you don't understand yet. Life changes you for the better when you do. Is that Jim Velvano? Fromber Valdez 59 on Twitter. Oh, okay. That's great.

Thank you, Frumber. That's a great outlook from Framber Valdez. It sounds like the Jim Valvano speech. If I would have read you that and said a current athlete or a former athlete would have said it, how long would have taken you to get to Framber Valdez? That would have been a while. I don't know if he had a translator for that or what, but I mean, that's a great inspirational message. And it rings true, especially for a guy who had a bad start on Saturday.

So what I'd like to say to Framber is, of course, thanks. I appreciate that. You should actually respond with the thanks. At Game Cox Dubbs says, Excuse me? That's what his Twitter is. Love you, Framber, but we need you to lock in again when he quality starts. It's like, this phrasing is all cool and everything.

Well, okay. It wasn't, the dude couldn't find his curveball the entire game. His strikeout was super low, too, which is very atypical. Right. Well, as his strikeout pitch is his curveball, and he couldn't throw it for a strike. So if you're losing your best pitch and you're battling out there and he went what, five

and a third, five and two thirds, gave up four and runs. It's honestly a miracle he gave you what he did. When he clearly did not have his best stuff. So I'm going to be forgiving for Farmer Valdez who still has an

ERA of 297. He's still having a really good season. Aggie Doug continues to... Who? You know our buddy Aggie Doug. No, I don't. You know who Aggie Doug is. Apparently, he has a podcast.

I don't know how many listeners he has. He probably has as many as the YouTube media does. But he wanted, he's like, I can't believe that Matt would think my take of trying him trade Romer Valdez for two other prospects was one of the dumbest takes I ever heard in my life. It was for two pitchers. Yeah. He's like, trade him for two starting pitchers.

And I try to defend Aggieville as much as I can because my son is in it. Why? My middle son is in Aggie. Yeah, but they're a weird cult and you know it. Well, they're a cult-like, but they're, they're a cult-old. but they're still an excellent institution. My son had a wonderful time, and he loves his Aggie, so I try to be understanding.

And they think they should win them to national championship every year, despite never doing it since Hitler invaded Poland. Okay, that's fair as well. But it was just a horrific take that just keeps getting worse. Because sometimes you, look, I've had terrible takes before. You listen to the daily on the show, and you have to sometimes fall on your sword on one of them. Like, for instance, if Ashton Gentie gets for 1,000 yards,

I'm going to get it. Wait, I want you to draft them on the Toros is what I want. I'm going to get it worn out by you by saying this over and over again. People. Framer Valdez has an ERA of under three. He's had a really good season. It's been back-to-back bad starts in different ways to me. He did have a bad, like he can't feel to save his life.

They even tried to, but at least he felt, well, Christian Walker bailed him out on the bunt that the Yankees did. It was a bad throw from Frommer. We know that he can't feel. That's been his deal ever since he's been up. But the Boston start, there was a lot of bad luck, and then he was a bad fielding by him on a bunt. And then this past one, curb ball just wasn't working. Like, look, you go out and there 25, 30 times. Sometimes your best pitch isn't going to be working, and it wasn't working for Framber.

So I understand everybody wants to harken back to the good old days of him blowing up and being horrible. But if you watch that game, it wasn't he's just having a blowup game and he's completely lost his mind. It's just he was struggling to go out there and pitch. and still on the season he's got an ERA of under three. So I understand we can heighten our concern for sure. And I think part of it also was that you're going to lose him because you have no signs of signing him. He's one of the hottest pitchers.

You can go get two pitches in return, which would be ridiculous. If you're going to go get Farber Valdez, you're giving up on the season. That's strike one. And there was no year in first place. So I don't want to get into any more. It was just stupid. And just our man Doug just wanted a podcast about it.

I didn't listen to it. Okay. But, you know, I'm not going to, but I just... Would he tag you in it or something? Well, he's like, yeah. And we responded to my thinking that Matt's take on my take was the worst thing ever. And it continued to be horrible. So, all right.

Two out of three for the Astros Mariner's. Rossi, real quick, before I get to a break. I did do a survey. You did? I think I want to see if you do the same, if you mind doing the same thing. To see if your Twitter audience is significantly different than mine. I don't think... I mean, we've got a lot of shared accounts.

I would say it's very similar to two years, unfortunately. What do I mean, unfortunately? I mean, I get rid of the bots. Yeah, you got a bunch of weirdos. I don't know. I love my Twitter audience. You do? How much of the Texans games did you catch on Saturday?

Okay. The four choices were all of it. Some of, none of it. Back and forth of the Astros, because there was a two-hour difference between the game, I think. It was on at three. And the Astros are at 1. And then I put, recorded it after Astros.

You know, you don't want to, you want to watch the Astros live, then you can catch the Texans a little bit later. And 220 votes is not terrible. It could be a bigger sample. If you want to vote, go to my Twitter account at SportsMT. Okay. 73% said none of you watched it at all. Which is weird because we're such a football community.

Yeah, but it's Davis Mills was starting. I mean. Yeah. So I don't know if we're going to get into a deep dive on the Texans game of the Vikings. I did watch the first quarter. Then I turned it off because I was at a pool party and, you know, things happened. Well, 50% of people don't watch the Super Bowl bat. Which is crazy.

I want to meet those. people. I don't know what the hell they're doing. Yeah, but the 50% of those people are, I would say 80% of my audience watch Super Bowl and yours as well. Maybe. Maybe even a little higher. You know what? We actually need to do this to calibrate. We do. We do. We do. Next year, we'll say how much of the Super Bowl did you watch. That's exactly right. All right. The Athletic has a survey out of quarterbacks. I want to get to on that. We have the Astros. We have Bregman coming back. And how long do we cheer before we start booing Bregman? That's always a little crazy little. I would never

boo him for one second. Nor would I. You know how I feel about Alex Breggis. He's a friend of mine. But there's only a certain length of time before, I guess, imbivalence before booing, right? I guess they don't boo losers. Or they don't boo nobodies. What's the Reggie Jackson quote?

I don't know. They don't booed nobody's, I think. I don't know. 713-212-5-79. It was a nice try. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you want to join this radio program, if you want to follow us on Twitter, you may do that as well, and vote my poll question, how much of the game did you watch on Saturday? I'm good.

You don't have to. And also today, I'm going to once again reiterate something that none of us need to ever say again. It is going to be a taboo phrase that I never want to hear you say again. And I'm going to ask our front office people, our coaches, our owners, never to say again. Injury pro? No, no. Must win game? No.

No, just... Okay, you'll know. 713-212-5-7-90. I love Mus-Wid game. I'm not anti-mus-Wid game. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you're on Twitter, you want to follow us there.

It's at SportsMT and at SportsRV. So I can't say nervous as an alley-cat because I created that and there's no steam to that. So people are like, how about this? Nervis. as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. That's an actual saying. That's good, Stephen.

Thank you very much. I have heard that. And Jones says, you know, I'm talking about horror in church. He goes, nervous that they never say a John in church. Like the pimp. The pimp should be nervous, too. He's the one that got the money in his hands. So these are relevant things that people bring up on a Monday.

All right. That's because of the Johns of the pulpit. All right. Wait. What are you all sharing over Texas? over there. What's going on? I was giving them some more nervous than jokes. Oh, okay. Are you coming out on in 1050 today?

What? Is he coming on at 1050? I don't know. You go. Sorry, RIT guys in here helping us out. Gordy on IT. It is Matt and Ross. We have to tell the truth today at 1130. He just showed me a nervous ass that I'm not going to say. Is it on Facebook? Where is that? That's probably on some LSU chat room. Tiger droppings?

Nervous is a tiger. Nervous is an LSU. at a what? Not a spelling bee? Nervis as an LSU fan week one with Brian Kelly coaching. Oh. How about nervous as running back J.T. Lindsay arrested after allegedly hiring

murder suspects in off-campus apartment, on-campus apartment. Now, come on. You wouldn't help harbor a friend who was accused of a crime. That's terrible. Oh, my God. That's LSU, man. That is you, baby. I wish would you guys to know.

If you ever committed murder, you needed a place to hide out, You could come stay at my place. I love that his homerism is going to defending guys who are hiding murder suspects. He hates Alabama but loves LSU no matter what they do. What if an Alabama running back did this? Oh, my God. He even had a special live broadcast.

Oh, did you guys see the big story? Say this for $10.50. We don't need you right now. John Brun is going to come back to college. How about that? We don't need this right now. Get out. He keeps taking my microphone.

You know what I'm out of here. No, you stay right here. I don't have you than him. We got enough Gordy coming up 1150. We got our topic at 1050. Yes, we do. Let's talk to Joe on the Matt Thomas show with Ross at 1023. Joe, good morning to you.

Them Texans has got me more nervous than a lesbian eating a hot dog. All right. Jesus. We are done, and I'm going to hang up and listen. Okay. All right. It was a preseason game. It's just the pre.

season. We have any of still in the bank? Probably somewhere. All right. We're having some issues, though. Hold on. Yeah. None of our equipment's working. We're surprised, actually, these microphones are working.

Somehow, we're still on air, though. Yeah, it is nice. It is nice. No, Ross, and all honesty, I take nothing away from the game. I mean, if Davis Mills plays for the Texans this year, he is a good, numbers. I mean, they didn't score one touchdown on the game. Nothing means nothing.

Oh, yeah. I tell you, the macho man is here you tell you. It's just the preseason. Yeah. Couldn't have said it by myself, Motch. We need a Hulk Hogan one for the special heavenly wing. Yeah. You're with the

dead wrestlers ring of just the preseason? We could have quite a list there. I'm kidding. Ah, you need to calm down until it is just the preseason. We used to have dozens of these, but most of them have not survived our multiple server moves. That's fine.

But yeah, I mean, if Davis Mills plays any length of time this year for the Texans your season's over with. I mean, I would say no disrespect to Davis Mills, but it's, it's, frankly, it's disrespect. It's some disrespect. It's actually a lot. He can fill in for a couple of games and do all right. Outside of that, you're in some deep water. Yeah, he's a placeholder, yeah.

But you need to keep him up, art. And again, Urstree played on Saturday, but forfeits the offensive line. I didn't know who they were. They were backup guys. Blake Fisher sucked. I mean, it is what it is. I took very little. I was more mad about the.

Astros. Ursula is very good. Yeah, he's going to be fine. I mean, obviously he's so good. Feeling good, baby. That he could place, take over anybody in that offensive line spot because the offensive line of last year was not very good. I think we made a gentleman's bet, nothing on the line that the Texans would have a top 20. I have them in a top 25 offensive line.

So basically, as long as they get a participation room in their fight. Hey, they're at 32nd. Jumping seven spots is pretty good. top Oh boy that's That's like faint praise right Top 25 Yeah top 25 offensive lines

Nice Okay That's fine I'm feeling good Oriente Ersary on the rise And by the way CJ Gardner Johnson sounds like it could be back Yes

Really quickly Which is really a good Which is a startling sign Yeah We have to take away two of those breaking news sounders Right We're going to be a little more careful about Well, no, the breaking news centers were played as he got hurt.

Yes. The severity wasn't a breaking news center because we weren't on the air. We had to issue of retraction. What did we wrong? Like the newspaper does. We didn't do anything wrong. Yeah, I know. I'm just kidding.

Okay. All right. We're going to play a sound bite from Dana Brown over the weekend about a certain player. Okay. And I think I heard it correctly. If I did, even though I didn't hear it correctly, Rossi, we're going to never, ever use this phrase again on this show. I'm going to use it all the time. No, you're not.

Yes, I am. I will not allow you to say it. You will be barred. Okay. What are we playing this? I will play the soundbite next. Okay. And then I'm going to give you the phrase that we can never say ever again.

I think I'm guessing it. Matt Ross at 1033. It is a kind of an open-form Monday if you want to discuss the Texans game. I don't know if I'm disappointed, startled, or not surprised by the few of you that actually watch the game. 71% of my 222 votes. Again, it's against a very small sample size, but didn't even watch it at all. I devired and, like I said,

watched the first quarter and it was fine. Astros, two out of three, and these damn mariners who have won seven, and you know what the worst part of it is, Ross? Eugenio. A. Eugenio?

A Eugenio? It's batting 100. I think even less than that. It's got a negative word. So you're saying he's going to wake up and the team's going to be even better. I'm saying that pisses me off that he's batting so poorly and they're still winning games. Now granted, they did beat. They were all at home and the Astros need to come up here and they need to go 5 and 1 this week, period, right?

They don't go 5 and 1. They're not going to be in first place in the week. I hate to say that. And then there's, I mean, if the Mariners lose six in a row, it doesn't really matter, but you get my drift on this, right? Just win the games in front of you, Matt. Take it one game at a time and go from there. Take it one pitch at a time.

Okay. I will go with that. All right, Dana Brown had a chance to speak about Yorana Alvarez on the Astros pregame show yesterday. Not yet. He took batting practice on the field, though, and felt pretty good. And so we got him,

he's got his day off today. And, you know, we'll see what he feels like tomorrow. So he'll get back at it. But we've got good signs, you know, coming off the field BP. felt pretty good today and felt pretty good after

to BP. So those are all good signs. Hopefully, you know, we can get them back here sooner rather than later because we're going to need them. Go ahead. I don't ask you to do very many things, Houston, Texas. I ask you not to do the wave. Yeah, you ask us to do a lot. Give me some more things I don't ask.

You ask for intelligent takes? I do ask for that. You said not to do the wave. And I asked for you to let me have my weird things that I enjoy, like soap operas and game shows. You ask us not to make fun of your bad food takes. You ask us a lot. Okay, well, if that's the case, I'm going to ask for one more thing. Okay.

I'm going to put this out on Twitter shortly here. Okay. I want you never, ever, ever to use the phrase sooner rather than later. Because guess what, Ross? What? Later always wins. Well, yeah, it's always later. But you'd rather sooner.

What? What? That was the worst thing you've said in the last 36 minutes. I'm going Yogi Berra on you. You clearly did. It never wins. Sooner never wins. That's not true.

No, absolutely it's the truth. No, because he should be here by the end of the season. Some people don't think he's going to play. He didn't think he was going to play at all. It'll be sooner. You could take that quote of his and go back to June 3rd and play it. It's been quite the saga with Yorda. I don't understand why this phrase bothers you so much.

Because it never is right. It's like, it'll be like SFA going to the locker and going, we can take down these cougars. It's not going to happen. It's never going to happen. It's not like that at all. The University of Houston could play SFA

a hundred times and the Houston Cougars are going to win a hundred times. That's not accurate. I believe it to be a hundred percent accurate. They lost to Texas state. Okay. Thank you, Ross. What have Texas played SFA a hundred times? How many times SFA way? Oh, that'd be zero. Okay, well, that's my point. Texas is better than Houston. You're down every time.

You got a very generous call in our game in Houston a couple years ago. Well, there was an automatic win for you guys. I know. It was that we deserve the win. But my point is this. I don't want to hear about sooner rather than later anymore. I'm done. Because sooner never wins. So when you, somebody says, I would like to know an answer.

Like, if you're thinking about this, if you've gone for a job in your life, you want, I want to hear if I got the job sooner rather than later. It's always two weeks after you say sooner or rather than later, and that's never sooner. No, I don't. Sooner and later sucks the phrase. They wanted Jeremy Pena back sooner rather than later. He's in the lineup and hitting well. But it wasn't soon.

You missed a lot of time. It wasn't later. It was sooner. Jake Myers. Oh, we'll get it back sooner around and later. No, you're not. He's going to be later. Real later.

think he's running now full speed they said we're gonna get you know ESox parade is we're gonna get a okay that's not happening you're so weird in your life for instance sooner rather than later it's time for you know

yeah time for you to clean your room before it really gets disgusting and gross sooner rather than later do kids to clean their room when you tell them go upstairs clean your room oh sure mom and dad I'm not cracking a whip sooner rather than leather they're not smack them they're not horses What?

I'm not cracking a woman. That's because you're not, thank God you're not a parent that you know of. All right. I'd be a great parent. No, you wouldn't. Yes, I would.

No. All right, so just do me a favor. If you go around town and you're at the bar with your buddies or you're at home or your kids or your wife, we got to start thinking about our future, our retirement sooner rather than later,

guess what? 90% of people don't think about it sooner. 10% of it. us thinking about our retirement. Thinking about our wills sooner rather than later. Let me tell you, I'm 53. I don't have a will yet. What are you leaving me? Come on. I'll do you something.

You need that done sooner. See? I know you're thinking about that. And maybe it's because maybe I've heard it too much on the Astros the last two years. I heard it with Cal Tucker a lot. And I'm hearing a lot with Yordon Alvarez. I'm done. Well, all right.

Okay. I mean, I understand your frustration. Thank you. And it's justified. It's not that big of a deal. And I almost, I, and I almost, I definitely. feel bad for Dana. Because, I mean, what else is he

supposed to say? No surgery. They're not amputating his hand to replace it with a bionic hand. They bungled this multiple times. Well, they didn't bangle it. Somebody's... They admitted they shouldn't let him play through their pain initially. So guess what? I don't need

less than 100% Yordon. Because you send a Yardon Alvarez out to the field at less than 100%. When you're 80% of something, that gives you probably a better chance of re-injuring something. Wouldn't matter what situations. You don't bring a player back on 80% of a cracked rib. You don't bring a player back at 80% off of a pulled hamstring. 80% recovery of a Tommy John is asking for Tommy John again. Yeah. Well, we talked about this. I think he does need, I think gut feeling, he needs a hand

procedure and he's going to play, he can play through it. And then once the season's over, he'll play at whatever percent he can. And then he will get the procedure. Remember, was it 2022? Martín Waldenado had a sports hernors. hernia and a broken hand and he was playing with that? Probably helped him a little bit. Did you see his batting averages? So you're telling me that non-hernia

Martine was better than hernia martin? Yes, absolutely. I'm going to say he played better without a sports hernia. Keep going on that. Call me crazy. All right, I call you agree. So, yeah, I think they're healing.

I think he's going to get to whatever percent he can and then they're going to give it a full go. And he's either A, going to re-end, himself or be played through the pain at whatever close to his 100% as he can get whether that's 70 80 60 or whatever my guess is probably the right answer should have been not that you and i are doctors immediate surgery probably should have put it the under he should have had surgery right away and been done for the season yeah well because now i get just me and again i'm not a doctor so it is what it is i don't know if i want any player coming back who hasn't played in four months

who's yet to get 100% to go out at 75% and a chance of re-injure. His name is Yordaun Alvarez and he's one of the most feared hitters on the planet. That guy I want back. He's no longer feared at this point. Now he's just M.I.A. That's okay. You want him or, I don't know, Taylor Tremel in the line of over a moment. You're right, actually.

Who has more home runs this year? Tremel or Yorda. Tremel has three? Is it close? Does Yorda have three home runs? Probably around there. I don't even want to look because you're making me upset. No, I know.

Because you know I'm right. No, I didn't say you're right. Oh, I'm absolutely right. I didn't say you were wrong. Okay, yeah, you're right. Taylor Tramel's better than Yordaun Alvarez. Three, look, they're tied. Yordons got three.

I think Tramel's got three, right? Oh, Tremela definitely has three. Okay. Yoron's got three. They're tied. I can't, I can't, Yonair can't get the lead if he's not playing. But, you know, frankly, Caratini is doing more on being the more of the complete player right now than yarn areas.

Oh, are you talking about the home run thing? Yeah. That was out of left field. I know. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you want to chime in on the Astros, you're more than welcome to do so. So if you were in charge of game presentation, how does tonight go?

because you've got Correa coming back tonight. You've got Christian Javier coming back tonight. And you've got Alex Bremen coming back tonight. It's a lot of work for the old game presentation crew at the asteros. Yeah, but don't you try to get that done by... You got 18-half innings. Yeah, you knock that out by the third. I was going to say, chilling.

But who get in what order? It's a lot of editing, but we'll discuss it next. After Ross, you discuss how to feel better, buddy. 1049, sports talk 790. Gordy's in for his Monday. Drop-in. 10.49 and now we're in. Okay, Gordy is in for his drop in here on Sports Talk 790. Yes. He went and saw a naked gun. Oh! And gave it a little higher ranking than I did.

How much out of 10? I gave it a four. You say? I said a five. I went in with low expectations, though. It's all about that for a movie. Well, you can't sing the praises of it. It's just a five. I was pleasantly sprawled. I found myself laughing out loud at several parts. That's good. Now, there were scenes where I was laughing out loud and all the other people in the theater were silent. So I think that says something about what your personality. Yeah, you're one LOL. I did not LOL.

Yeah. That's what the kids say Ross. L.O.L. Well, the kids don't really say it. That's actually more like millennials. Okay. You didn't laugh at the Jefferson Starship sequence? You have to remember.

Or whatever that was. You know, the song from Manikin 2. It's the Starship. Oh, it was okay. That wasn't what I thought. All right, so let's get to sports. A previous caller to the Sean Salisbury shows that says that one show on the station talks too much about life and music, so we don't want to do that.

We don't want to interrupt sports, sports and more sports. Well, we can mix it up. I'll tell you what. Okay, go ahead. There was nothing better than seeing Jose Al Tuve and Carl's Correa do what they do against the Yankees. That was awesome to watch. When are the Yankees? Now, again, we tease about how New York.

Tissoturo crying on those videos. God dang it. When will Yankee fans? Is it because Yankee fans are as dumb as some astro fans about they just boo? I mean, wouldn't you just go ambivalent to him and just not, if I don't think Al-Tube is fueled by it? No. But it just makes the Yankee fan looks worse.

So I dissected this because I had this conversation with a Red Sox fan at Fenway. And he brought up. He goes, look, I think there are some people booing him, yes, because of the cheating stuff. But he goes, they're booing him because he's. their best player. You boo the opposing team's best player when he comes to bat. When Albert Poole's used to come here with the Angels and the Cardinals, everybody

booed him. It wasn't because he was a cheater or whatever, it was just because he was the best player. So I think there's part of that, that Al-Tuvre's been with the Astros so long, he's known as one of the best players in the league, 17th season be damned, they are booing him mostly because he's their best player. Now, yes, they were still

the dummies who are like, you cheater! And I had a Red Sox Van of Fenway arguing with me going, yeah, duty wore the buzzer. literally convinced it was fact. He wore buzzers and I had to break it down and I'm like, explain to me what a buzzer is. How does it work? He goes, yeah, man, it like buzzes when you, I said, is it that

does it run on a battery? How does it work? I don't know. Yeah, because you're a freaking moron. Think about it. It doesn't exist. He goes, but he wouldn't take his jersey off. I'm like, I don't know why he wouldn't take the jersey off. I wish you were to take the damn jersey off because it's created this stupid conspiracy crap

all over Twitter from John Boy. By the way, part of him, he'll be baseball. Great. Good for him. Yeah, Jamboy made that whole thing up. But we are seeing some odd relationships. We have ESPN selling off 10% to the NFL.

We have John Boy being getting bought by MLB to a certain extent as a minority partner. Get some strange bedfellows here in the world of sports. This evolution of media and where it's going, I'll be curious where it is in five years. I have a friend Caroline who was doing sports radio in Nashville. left it to go work for Yahoo. She worked for Yahoo last year. I had no idea how to find her stuff. And she puts out a thing the other morning and says,

big announcement, I'm going to be doing a daily morning show for Yahoo. And I'm like, great, where do I find it? Where do you find it? I think it's going to be on, like, YouTube or something. But I'm like, it's just this weird, like, this weird world of... A bunch of AI articles and misinformation.

Yeah. Same thing with Sports Illustrated. It's horrible. But here's the other thing of Bedfellows. Ross Delinger, who I know very well, who's national sports writer, covers college football. He works for Yahoo. He just re-upped his contract with Yahoo. But in turn, they are now partnering with On Three. So he'll be featured on On Three because On Three bought

Rivals, which is owned by Yahoo. So it's this very weird. I think we're five years away from you're going to have On Three owns all this and ESPN owns all this. And that's going to be it. Didn't the guy who started rivals started 24-7? And then started. Yeah. That guy's a genius. Shannon Terry. He sells, he creates these things and then sells them off, becomes a bigger millionaire, and then creates a new thing. That's pretty smart. Why don't we do that?

Lack of ambition? There you go. That's pretty much it. What's your remote.com. Remote for you.com. Working very well. It is Chapter 11. I still encounter every week, we'll go somewhere. Thank you. Don't have a damn game on it. And then it sends a... Where were? Oh, we were at a restaurant the other night.

And I could see the people they were trying to put on a game. And it was like the Astros game, but they went to the wrong entry. And it said, blacked out. But I'm like, you're going to the wrong listing. You're going to the satellite listing. Remotefue.com. We're also to fix all that. Publicly held, by the way, on the New York Shack Exchange and NASDAQ.

I'm going to ring the bell next week. No, you're not. So what's storyline A for you tonight? Is it Javier back in the mound? Is it Correa back? Is it Breggman visiting back? Seriously, for me, it's Christian Javier. Yes.

Not even close. Now, shouldn't we temper expectations? Shouldn't we? Just like we should be there again. We should have. If he goes four innings, two run ball isn't that a win tonight? I'm feeling good. I like that.

That's a win. I mean, if you were to run to Vegas and put how he's going to do, quality starts probably your biggest odds, correct? Yes. Yeah, he ain't going six innings of one. Probably not, but he could. So let me ask you this, and we're going to talk about this, obviously, next hour. How jumbled of a mess is the Astros rotation right now?

And I'm not saying mess, but it's convoluted. Brown and Fronber are all set up, okay? McCullors, we haven't heard Ward 1 from lately. How's he doing? How's the blister? Erigetti.

He's battling. Has Jason Alexander done enough to stay in the rotation for the first year of the future? Absolutely, yeah. So that's three more. And no hitting until a sixth inning? You got Javier.

That's four. Yes. You have to mix that up with you've got very few days off between now and the end of the season. So you're probably going to go a six-man rotation. Don't forget Brandon Walter.

Brandon Walter. Yeah. Is A.J. Blue Ball do for another spot start in the next few weeks, which means another roster move to come up on that? Do you do that? And you're moving all these interchangeable parts and you're starting a rotation. Well, guess what? When you go to Six-Man and you've got guys that aren't going deep,

what gets affected by that? The bullpen. I think the toughest thing for the team the rest of the year will be managing its bullpen, especially if you don't have starters that are going deep in game. And that's why the pressure on Hunter Brown and Framber, especially those two, is incredible right now. Here's the tough part is you've got to get Aragetti and Javier, you've got to get those guys innings and they've got to be able to work themselves back up at the big league level. Because you can't keep them in Sugar Land. They got to get here and work themselves back.

And you're trying to win the division. And you put you in a tight division race. Yep. But you got to do this now because you can't bring them back in September and have them kind of going through it and trying to work up their rings. So it's kind of you have to grin and bear it. If you're Joe, you got to know when to go get them. And, you know, the other night with Araggetti, I didn't think they stuck with it too long, but it was base hit, base it, base it.

You just kind of have to grin and bear it, let them work through it. Yeah, they have to get it done at the major league level. And they're using them to build them up. And as you said, it's a roster crunch and we'll see what happens. That's why I think there's going to be people that will be calling our shows, whether it's a 10th inning or on these airwaves that are going to be going to the Joe, a spot it doesn't know his head from his ass because he's going to keep pitchers in there longer with a longer intended benefit of,

I've got to stretch these guys out as long as the medical staff says it's okay to stretch somebody out. They also have to get outs and I don't think, I mean, how many runs was given up by Arrogate? Was it five? It wasn't like he was getting to it.

11 hits, four infield hits. A few walks. And a couple of walks. We had to five strikeouts. The strikeouts stuff was there. He got 16 whiffs, which is pretty good for how long he was out. I almost felt like they were going to keep him out there for a certain number of pitches and results not necessarily be damned.

Unless he's getting like a, he's one in a third and there you have 10 runs. Yeah, which they were still could have won that game. So what do you do with Javier tonight? If he walks two in the first and the second inning he walks two and it's two hits and you're down to... What depends on what the runs are? You're probably not losing. Look, you're not winning this game probably because Garrett Crochet is going to like... Doesn't lose anything.

He's not one-run ball. Yeah. So... It is what it is. You just got to let these guys figure it out because you want to win in October rather than August. Okay.

So my tribute tonight, we're quick, before we get to the top of the hour, it's one Javier, two Bregman needs his flowers, the greatest third baseman ever to play for the Astros, period. Tribute video.

Tribute video. And then Correa, because you got Correa who's back, yeah, yeah, yeah, but he ain't going anywhere. Yeah, but Correa first. Because he's home. He's your guy.

Can I tell you guys? Get on her pregnant. Did y'all notice that moment yesterday in the game where the bases were loaded, Cam Smith's up there, and Cam Smith's been going through it. Correa is literally yelling stuff to him from third base. Like, he's coaching him up, and they, it's just a whole other aspect we didn't really consider. How much he helps as the leader, leading by example, he's hitting, he's doing all that, but then also being that shoulder to lean on for the young guys and all that.

So it's a home run. It's a home run move so far. Yeah, we had Joe spot on last week, and he talked about Correa's like helping them game plan, like going through their, like, hitting game plan every day. Yeah. It just shows you how toxic Minnesota is. I mean, you know what? He's a good

player, but you couldn't see it. But it was out of the side of mind and it was, oh, he's on his downturned. He looks really fresh and rejuvenated here. And speaking of fresh and rejuvenating, you go to the ballpark tonight, Ross, and is Gordy, what are you going to do? Well, we'll be enjoying a Crawford Bach from our friends at Carbock Brewing. Finally, the Astros

back at home. It feels like they were on the road for like two weeks. Finally back home at Dyken Park and you'll be in the house. It's a big, big game tonight with all the big things happening. Make it even bigger. Grab yourself a Crawford-Bock from our friends at Carbock brewing. Look, I'm just saying, when you have a Crawford-Bock, a lot of times feels like the Astros win if you're watching a game and enjoying a Crawford-Bock. So do that tonight at Dikin. And by the way, great watch party over the weekend on Saturday out there, Carbock. At Orbit, yeah, the shooting stars, the World Series trophies.

Awesome of that is always out there, Carbock Brewing. That's Gordy. We're back to start the second hour with a musical trip. tribute to some people that will be back in the ballpark tonight. At least two of them. It's 11 o'clock on 790. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This song has such simple lyrics, but it's just a wonderful piece of music. Kendrick Lamar would die to have this kind of talent.

We say hello and goodbye at the same time to a bunch of friends. Christian Javier back. And Alex Bramman back. This is deep stuff. Oh, I hear this. You say yes, I say no. Oh, so good. Who could have come up with that one?

So good. It was only just one of the most amazing pieces of literature ever in music history. I'll give them some leeway because that was the 60s and they were just learning to write lyrics to music back then. And they were probably as high as a kite on all sorts of things. Well, you know, that's all right. As were most performers in the 60s. In 70s and 80s and 90s and 2000s and 20s. Probably today.

Yeah, it's okay. Yeah. The great muse. Like, how many great musical artists were just sober the entire time? Completely 100% drug-free? You don't think Elton John was not high as a guy where we were in a Rocket Man? Yeah, I know. Lucy this guy with diamonds on LSD?

Mm-hmm. All the stuff. Welcome back, Alex Brigman. And welcome back home, Carlos Correa. It is certainly very interesting weekend because you, or week, I should say, you've got So many things. I mean, the introductions and the videos are all cool, but damn it, Ross, the, the Astros lead is a half freaking game. They've won four of six.

And they are a half, their lead is one half freaking game. Can I, I don't know if this is probably an unpopular opinion. Go. I like this. It's fun. I think it's cool. I don't mind one and a half, two and a half, but half is two coats now. Yeah.

Look, we're scoreboard watching, baby. Let's go. So I can do this now. Yeah. I'm allowed to do this. I mean, it's August. It's still a little early, but it's a half game. It's the tightest race in all of baseball.

Night in, night out. It's going to make the games matter more. We're going to be more invested. Because last several, not necessarily several, a couple years here and there, September games don't even matter. It's been spring training part two. Selfishly, I don't mind that. Yeah.

I know. I get it. Yeah. But, hey, it's not always supposed to be so easy. We've been very blessed and spoiled with these Astros and how good they've been in the four World Series runs and two World Series wins. Mm-hmm. Let's get a little dog fight with the Mariners. All right.

So if the Astros win tomorrow, it's so easy by Linda Ronstad. What? Yeah. You just said it's so easy. Oh, okay. Or let's get something within the last 45 years. That is true. I get it.

All right. 11-0. 7 is about Thomas Show at Ross. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-21-2-5-7-9-0. Astros have three with Boston, off-day Thursday, three with Baltimore. Mariners, off today,

three at Baltimore, three at the Mets. So Baltimore has a huge role in this week's play on both sides of things. And they stink. Have they played any better lately since the trade deadline on that kind of stuff? Since they sold off their whole team? Yeah. Not really.

Let's see. They have lost, it looks like seven of the last 10. So the answer is no. Okay. To tell the truth coming up at the bottom of the hour, we've got... What? How many do you believe? I don't know.

I'm going to have one... I've decided from here on out one non-sports take per four. Okay. It's usually going to be food-related. Okay. How much you love tachis. Tackeys are gross. First of all, they're too hot.

Oh, my God. They're too spicy. They're like I say, they're beyond spicy chito. Yeah. Okay. You know what, man? I do agree with you on this, by the way. Thank you very much.

You ever notice how much he more agrees with me than he agrees with you? That's because you always bite his head off when you don't. Do I bite your head off when I don't agree with you? You don't agree with me? No, you nibble a little bit, that's it. I don't know. I ain't no nibbler. Oh, okay.

All right. We'll bite then. Well, it depends the situation. Sometimes you, if things are great aggressive, you full bite. 11.0. Yeah, I knew that was 30. I don't know that was coming. There will be three things I will not believe.

Only one I will believe. Only one you believe. Okay. Only one I believe. Looking forward to it. 713, 212, 5, 790. So my, in terms of honoring, like, I think Correa gets the pop before the game starts. Okay.

I think Javier gets the pop before. the game starts, and I think the tribute for Bregman, and again, I don't even know what the timing is, I would do it in between innings. Yeah. Maybe middle of the first. Get all that stuff knocked out. That's just me, though.

You could do it, well, maybe as he's coming on to the field, you want to do it as he's coming on to the field or as he's coming off the field? Probably as he's coming on. So, yeah, middle. He's going to bat. He's going to probably, he'll bat in the top of the first. Yeah. And then.

And then you play in the middle when he's coming out. Comes out there. And then what he does, he's at third base. He tips the cap. By the way, he's playing really well too. I mean, he's good. His defense is every other day I'm looking at some major amazing highlight. And he's putting the Astros hitting coaches to shame. So it was their fault, huh? That's what they're saying.

Okay, that seems fair. People were coming after me with that this past week again. Brian, on 7.9, 1110. Brian, good morning. Good morning, guys. I figured they'd call you sooner or rather. and later. Thank you.

I figured there's... I appreciate you. Warning, warning, warning. Thank you for calling us sooner. Brian. Bad call and take coming in in 3-2-1. Go ahead, Brian. No, I think it'll be

awesome to be home tonight. Ever since the trade for Korea, I was like, man, how is this going to play when he gets back home? And Bregman being there and now throwing Javier into the mix. It's going to be awesome. I can't wait to be there tonight.

should be a good time. I think though I say do Breggman's tribute before the game like they normally do, but I do think Bob Ford will be fired up when Correa gets that first at bat. You know, it'll be loud in there for, and I anticipate them playing Breggman's walk-up song for the first time like they did with Tucker. It should be good, but I think, you know, I wouldn't anticipate them getting to Max Freed, and they were able to get to him and rough him up. So, you know, Derek Crochet is due for a bad start.

Hopefully it's tonight. But we have a game in hand on Seattle. So if you can pull tonight up, you go a full game up with the same number of games played. But, you know, I would prefer to be six and a half up for the old heart because of years of Houston sports. Can't take too much more of this. But I agree with you guys. It is nice to at least be in the running for the division. and every game is magnified even more.

But to quote Framber, thanks. Yeah. Bye. Thank you very much. Thanks. Somebody on Twitter like, oh, that, Framber, you are being so poetic. There's no chance he's doing that account. Zero chance.

Why not, man? Because I can give you great example. I don't know if you all saw the Saturday post game. So the interpreter is there and Fromber is there. Frommber looks like he's pissed off. I mean, super mad he's having to answer these questions you can't go from

being irritated that people are asking questions to go running to your Twitter account giving us things you'd read in a Shell Soberstein book Why not Matt? Because Sweet and sour. No! Yeah. Sweet and fake. A.I. did that. You know he's meditating. A.I. didn't do that. No, well, Framber's best he did that, or his PR firm.

I mean, he just might have went to Michaels and read a sign that you could hang up in your house. Live, laugh, love. I just think that if, like, for instance, Francis Ross, you know me well enough. You could write my tweets. Oh, yeah, they're horrible. Okay, I didn't ask for an opinion about them. I just said, you know me in the way I do things.

You could take over my Twitter account for 24 hours, and you would be able to do a pretty decent job. There would be nothing that would go, I can't believe Matt just said that. I could probably do that. You'd want to get me in trouble. Yeah. Anything happens.

I'm coming for you, Elizabeth. this is the big one. Like I always know, I mean, how you feel or what is yours? Tough night for. Tough night for. Or I've always said these things. I mean, I know your Twitter account. I've always said Taylor Tremelican match. Yeah. I know your account.

I've got some go-toes. There's no way that Frober, who's fresh on the Twitter, is sitting there trying to write a soliloquies out there. Life is beautiful when you decide to see it that way, Matt. I don't see it that way with him. I see his face and his demeanor after post-game interviews.

He's cranky and like I'd rather be anywhere else. Well, he's only called the defense out once that I can recall. That's exactly right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. To tell the truth, bottom of the hour, the news at noon, which will feature the Associated Press poll. And you know who's on top.

We might have to play you sing in the fight song again. We did that when you were out. and they were number one of the coaches poll What's suit again? Oh! For sure. Are you kidding me? I'd be bragging about it too.

It makes me nervous. I don't like it. By the way, there is a poll out that has the University of Houston at number 31, which I, let me tell you, after going last year and the last year? 31 and the Big 12? No, there's only 14, 16 in the Big 12. Well, they were 13th in the Big 12. How are you in a conference called the Big 12 and you're 13th?

Oh, yay, yay, yay! 713, because it's a powerful conference. 713, 21, 2, 1, 2, 2, 257. Yeah, Sarah, that sounds like a great podcast to listen to. We're currently in a group chat with Adam Clanton. It is a group chat Monday. Yeah, we haven't been talking about group chat Monday last couple of Mondays.

Well, we got one here. Okay. So Clinton texts. I'm going to put this out. It's okay. Oh, boy. He says, neither of you could ever write my tweets. And you reply with something which we cannot mention.

Thank you. I thought you were going to put me off full blast. And then Clinton says, we are now in a fight. And then I responded, I just responded with, I hate the blank, I hate the blank. So that's basically that's an Adam Clinton tweet. I hate everything. Am I wrong?

Not really. I don't know. Let's see. I've been seeing his tweets lately. I don't think I haven't muted anymore. I had to mute somebody from our staff yesterday. Oh, my God. Jesus.

What? My tweets aren't that bad. No, it's not you. Not as Ivan Clinton. No, Clinton's not muted. No. I can't know. Are you kidding me? Yeah.

I can't know. I'm just stunned when he's actually in the office. He's usually at home putting these videos together. Those are not bad. Yeah, they're very good. He always puts us in these stadiums we've never gone to. First of all, there's no way he'd want to be in New York.

Yeah, that's and I just don't get. I just need that explained to me. How did that start? It's just a bit. Yeah, but how did it start? I don't know. Ask him. He started tagging you, you started, he started tagging you in places on Facebook that you were not there. Yeah, we never go.

Yeah, we, it's, and so I respond, we're not there and I always give reasons why we're not there. Oh, okay. And they're really, frankly, funnier than anything he could put out. Because, okay, I don't spend, that's on Facebook. That's a Facebook bit, right? I don't, I don't know on his Twitter. Yeah, I'm not normally on Facebook, so that's why I was asking. It's probably a better place.

Although the Facebook reels are, man. They're similar to the Instagram reels, which you can follow my Instagram at Sports RV. Hey, ladies and gentlemen, I have some fantastic news. I am three away from 2,800. Nobody cares.

Yeah, I just said, a lot of people care. I just lost two followers on Instagram. I need three of you. Probably the bots. Yeah, it's fine.

Yeah, there's a lot of chesty Russian women following me, telling me they love my posts. You know, it's funny when I get the bots on Instagram, and they always go, hey,

you're on a lot of my friend, mutual friends, Do we know each other? And I'm like, no, we don't and you're a whore. Okay. And then what do they say? They say, that's not very polite goodbye. That isn't very polite, Matt.

Oh, you know what I'm doing the way home today, besides us in the A team. I'm turning off my do not disturb on my phone so with those bot calls come in, I can harass those people. I had a good one in the other day. I can't even mention it on air. This is how you spend your afternoons? Guy says, what's your first time? I said, C-more? Oh, no.

And then what'd you say? He says, what's your, what's your, what's your, what? true last day but I can't mention what I said my last name was and he told me F-U-U-A-L what did he look up on me that's pretty good you should start recording these I just don't know why I'm such a sophomore I got to I got to show you videos of that guy that that does those he he messes with the scammers for hours hours I do it every day from my home from here to home okay and then when I get home I put it back on through that Let's go to Gary in Spring at 1124 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Gary, good morning.

Hey, good morning, guys. Good show as usual. Yeah, on the game tonight, I've got mixed feelings on this. I'm thinking that, of course, Correa will get the biggest applause, I think. And then, unfortunately, Bregman, I got a sour taste on Bregman because he dished us for money. So I'm not going to pull for him. So I would have Wait, didn't Correy do the same thing? Cray did the exact same thing. Well, he's back now, though. Oh, okay.

And he's solidified us and he now he's a captain of the defense right now. But then Corre, I mean, Bregman, I would applaud for him when he comes up for his first bat. But after that, I would hope that he would make about six errors and strike out about three or four times.

I don't have any goodwill towards him because he just dished us for the money. But now we know what the other teams have felt like in the last few years with Astros after the All-Star break coming on strong like that. Now we know what the Astros are now feeling what these other teams felt like. But anyway, I cheer for the first two, but I wouldn't cheer for Bregman only when he comes up for his first bat, but then I hopefully falls apart after that. Good gracious.

I may be the odd man out, but that's kind of the way I feel. All right. There you go. I don't think Look, I don't think it's going to be openly cheering for the entire series. He's going to get a really warm round of applause as first at bat and probably be indifferent the rest of the way. But Alex Breggman is a significant reason why we are having

the greatest decade of Astros baseball in its entire existence. Since 1962 or whatever it was. Astros Hall of Famer, Alex Breggman. Yeah. You can go ahead and give him his orange jacket now when he hits the field. You mean put it on during the game? Yeah. It wouldn't match with the gray and red.

Yeah, but it probably would limit his arm. That's true. I never thought of it that way. Gamesmanship, Maddie, come on. You know what? He can actually give him as a gold glove he earned and use that gold glove. Probably really hard to grab the ball off of that gold glove. The ball clicking off the gold glove?

Yeah. We have genius ideas right now. Dings off the glove. Whatever it takes. Here's a reality. As I said, I think you, if you don't go five and one this week, and again, things would obviously change in them. the Mariners' course.

But tell me if, I don't know, four and two keeps you in first place. The Mariners are crushing it. Again, they're doing this with Swares, not doing Jack's squat. That's fine. Cowellie's not going to hit 600 home runs. Now I know I'm predicting.

So guess what I did? I put on, so the Astros played what, oh, it was Saturday night. I was home. And they was on the MLB network. Mm-hmm. They put, they hit back, you know who's hitting home runs is,

Julio, what's his face? Horpe Polanco? No, the center fielder. Rodriguez. Yeah, he's heating up. Rodriguez is heating up. Raleigh hit a, I mean, a bomb the left center field. That place is filled up.

They are... They're really, really good. And if Svora has ever heats up, we're really screwed. Weak, because, of course, I'm the backup first baseman. That's okay, man. Houston, Houston threw it through. Well, I mean, I was an astral buddy. That makes me a wee, right?

Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. I kind of think so was I. You're a week and did too. Okay, thank you. I felt like I should have gotten to ring for the World Series stuff, but that's fine. It's either here nor there. There's no reason for you to have gotten a ring at all.

I think doing 500,000 post game shows over 25 years. Yeah, I think I should have gotten something. No. A firm handshake in an edible or something. I don't know. We'll go into David Delotti. He did a lot of those games too. David Delahe gets one.

Okay. To tell the truth is up next and what your phone calls. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. What a random poll. I was very inside radio. Sorry, folks. It's so inside.

I don't always appeal to the mass audience. Shut up. God, it's a good line. Go ahead. No, I'm not doing it. Go ahead. No, no. I'm not as rude as you are.

No chance. Not as, not as rude as you are. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Thankfully, your favorite midday radio host does know how to tell the truth. I, gentlemen, and I'll go start with this, Jonathan. Jonathan, I have four takes. Three of them, I do not believe.

Thus, how many do I believe? Oh, no. Thank you. Ross, how many of four do I believe? Three lies and one truth. Yes, that's exactly right. We can see Jonathan now. That's nice.

Well, he's in a freeze for him. Okay. Here's how it works. I've got four sports takes. It's up to Jonathan and Ross to figure out which one of the four, I believe. Three, I do not believe. leave. And two of them are non-sports. One true. One true. Okay. One true.

Number one is it on sports. My son and I, we are bigger Ruger Ring fans than other people in our Thomas House. So this is my middle son, Peyton. So Peyton and I went to go grab a hamburger at Ruger Ring the other day. And he's like,

Dad, you're going to try this brisket Wopper? I said, you know, I'm not the biggest brisket fan. So he said, please get it. I'll split it with you. We split that in the original chicken sandwich. Okay. Which is my favorite thing they have It wasn't bad. Brisket Wopper wasn't bad. That's your opinion that the sandwich was mad?

No, no, I'm saying I was pleasantly surprised. Briscuit Wopper was pleasantly surprised. I was pleasantly surprised. Okay. Number two. I mean, I watch a lot of... How are we supposed to gauge this, whether that's true or not? This is an opinion.

These are all opinions. This is not facts. I know, but... Just stay with manless. I'll do my best. I watch a lot of the end. NFL network yesterday after the Astros game. That's a lie.

We have so many significant injuries in sport in football. It's such a physical, tough sport. Okay. That I've had an opinion change about the kickoff rules. I wish it wasn't the way that it was, or that it is now, but I kind of get it now. And if it saves guys getting potentially hurt on kickoffs, I've kind of gone with a 180. New kickoff rules, I'm okay with. Okay.

Okay. Well, don't look at me that way. I'm sorry. You're trying to make me laugh. I'm not trying to do anything. I won't look at you. So I wash them and I'm like, okay, I get it. Let's make sure nobody gets hurt on something simple as like a kickoff.

So, all right, not my preference, but I now further understand it more than I did a year ago. Number three. Non-sports. Since we're doing these reboots, we talked about Happy Gilmore 2. We talked about Naked Gun. It's time for the funniest movie. made in the history of movies. Okay.

To have another reboot or airplane three or whatever it is. It's time for airplane. You do an airplane in 2025. Like I could see like Dave Chappelle, like, writing it. You know how politically incorrect he is? Yeah. Doing an airplane. Get your guy, Shane Gillis on it?

Shane Gillis. I think it would be a smashing success. Okay. Okay. And number four. A lot of you are having fantasy football drafts coming up. Rodo's going to join us late next week. Really?

Yep. Dang it. I wouldn't draft Joe Mixon, gang. He ain't getting to 500 yards. I think the Texans are hiding how severe his injury is. So do not draft Joe Mixon. You will wind up regretting it. Do not draft.

Especially with Nick Chubb behind him. So there are my four. Here it is. Number one, I tried the brisket wopper. We didn't eat a whole sandwich, but tried it. And I was pleasantly surprised. Number two, I now totally get the new kickoff rules

in the NFL because again we're talking about trying to keep these guys on the field and not hurt. Number three, a reboot of airplane would be unbelievably successful. And number four, don't draft Joe Mixon. He ain't getting to 500 yards this year. My opinions are all opinions. Not 500 yards?

Because I think he's going to be hurt a lot of the year. And with Nick Chubb, I think you're going to be very careful with him. Those are my four, which one of the four do I believe? Gentlemen, you may now discuss. I'm not like a lot of Ross. I'm stuck. Okay, airplane, you can totally turn that off. Matt hates late reboots.

He doesn't want the legacy of one of his favorite comedy ever rebooted. That one's the easiest one to throw away, in my opinion. And he's not liking the brisk of Wopper, right? There's no way. I could see him not liking that, but this is the problem. It's not like Matt to care about players' well-being. So number two would be quite the 180. But at least he admitted as much.

could he be telling people not to draft Joe Mixing because he wants Joe Mixing? No, I don't think so. He hates Joe Mixing and he hates the Texans. You always have to remember. I don't hate the Texans. Very true. I hate the YouTube channels that follow the Texans. This one's difficult.

So it could be the Briscuit Whopper one. I don't know. Actually, Matt did it. Normally he does a horrible job with these opinions. That feels rude. These are pretty good. I'm complimenting you, Matt. Thank you.

It's funny. You always go when you want to compliment me on these. You would go, usually you suck. Just say, how about, Hey Matt, these are tough. Thank you for making this difficult on us. We're taking the circuitous route, but we're getting there. You know what?

I'm going to take the Wopperer because he actually might have pleasantly was surprised. He didn't say it was amazing. I'm sorry, can you rehash the Wopper opinion again? I tried. It didn't get a whole sandwich, but I tried. A couple bites. I was pleasantly surprised how good it was. Pleasantly surprised.

Okay, I'm taking one. I don't know. I'll just go off board. so I don't agree with you. I'll go with two. No, no, there's no way. Sure, why not? I'll go down with the ship.

Let's go one. Okay. You both go number one? Sure, why not? If they did a reboot of airplane, I'd probably be massively disappointed. You're right in the streets. You can't touch a classic like that.

And I think you couldn't get away with 90% of what made airplane the greatest comedy of those all time. 90%, excuse me, 95% of that you couldn't get away with. You'd have every whole group in America get mad at you for some. reason. So no, you got to keep the classic right where it is. Because these reboots aren't disappointing us. They just are. But people would say that

about what Shane Gillis' monologue. Nobody's come after him, right? He offended a lot of people. There's no, has the woke mob come after Shane? But the thing about Shane, what you appreciate is he offends everybody. He offended the SBCD hosted, yeah. He offended the left, he offended the right. I was appreciative of that. I just think it's

overblown that people say, oh, you couldn't get away with that. Well, people get away with stuff. all the time. I mean, Sean Gilles is getting booked for stuff. He's got a Netflix show. He'll be here in Houston too. And literally, go look at the comments that he got, he did get canceled off of SNL. That's true.

All right. So yeah, I don't want to see another airplane. I don't know. I do want to. I just don't think that's good. That was the easiest one to throw out. Number two, I really tried Ross to watch these preseason games and appreciate the kickoff rule. It still looks stupid.

It looks unorganized. It looks not unorganized, but it looks like it's a component of the game that doesn't even really count as a real football. It just looks terrible. So no, I want my real kickoffs back. Football's a physical sport. You know what I just... Yeah, Matt doesn't care about the players well-being. No, I do

care about the players well-being. I just don't care about that stupid kickoff rule. It's just it's either you play the game or you just get rid of the kickoffs. I think it's a good compromise to not have to completely get rid of them. Because that's the only way to truly eliminate those and you got a lot of touchdowns from it last year. So I understand it's kind of hokey for sure. That's

word I would use. Hokey is a good one. But look, I mean, Hokem is in, well, not every sport, but we've seen it in baseball with the man on second base and stuff. You try to make these compromises to improve the game. All right. I don't think the Texans are being honest about

Joe Mixon at all. I think they've said foot, but there was an ankle brace on during practice. I think this is, I think him and Chubb could split time, especially if Mixon's not ready for the year. I would not draft Joe Mixon as in my fantasy football. Wow! Good thing I pivoted last second.

Look, you know I like a good brisket. You've taken me to a good brisket. Yes. I can't imagine in a million years the brisket at Burger King would be something I would enjoy. And having meat on meat is an issue. Bacon on a burger I can live with. Maybe a pastrami once in a while, but I ain't putting that kind of meat on that meat. I'm putting brisket in a burger together.

It's not, not especially Burger King brisket. Love you, Bird King. Love your onion rings. Love your chicken sandwich. Oh, wait. So you didn't like it? I didn't try it. I didn't try it.

Oh, which one's true? What's the true one? Finish. Don't draft Joe Mixon. That's the truth. Oh, Joe Mixon's off. Wait. Yeah.

I'm not reaching 500 yards this year. In my opinion. It's ridiculous. Oh, here we go. All right, let's set the over under. 500 yards. I'll go over. I will take the under.

Okay. We're not bending on it. You know, we're going to bet a brisket wopper on it. 499 and a half. I thought it was. was a now see I was confused. I thought it was a the patty was made out of ground brisket. Oh, I don't know. I just, I saw brisket wopper. I'm trying it.

Does it have slices of brisket on the wapper? I don't know. I made it up. Oh, okay. Well, I thought it was a brisket patty. I said she did it back-checked it. Yeah, I know. Well, let's see what the description of it is. You talk for a few seconds. What is a brisket wopper? and Burger King Go ahead All right, we'll figure this out during the break Follow me at Sports RV on Instagram

I just put a nice recap video It's getting a lot of likes I would appreciate it And I'm feeling good about it At Sports RV on Instagram I'm trying to get my followers up And post more content Oh it's slow cook barbecue biscuit

It looks like it's on the burger Is that I'm okay Joe Mixing completely off So if Joe Mixing's available for you In the 12th round of your fantasy draft You're not going to take them heard me. It's going to let you down. I'm glad you're back in the league. It's good to have you back. You know what? This kind of hazing is going to get me out of the league. I don't need this. I don't need this. I don't need this. I'm going to have hazing at home. Why don't I need this in my office? You know what? Sorry, Matt. You're a great drafter. Actually, you're ever since Dr. Roto's whipped you into shape. Your drafts have been pretty good. So I've been hurt by injuries. At least you admit that. It happens. I've been for sure. I'm not misplaying my lot of

Look, I've won back-to-back-back championships, but I've had a lot of good luck. There's a lot of luck involved in fantasy football. I just get lucky. The football gods need to straighten this out. You don't deserve anything more than what you've been getting. I'm just disgusted by it. I certainly couldn't get four in a row.

That'd be crazy. It'd be a sad, a sad day. 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-19-15. It is the Matt Thomas Show. Ross. We're 15 minutes away from the news at noon and tribute

involving the greatest song, involving a city ever. Sports Talk 790. Yesterday's game between the Braves and the Marlins at the first female umpire ever work a behind home plate in the game. Jen Powell is her name. Umpire scorecards, which I think does a pretty good job, right? Generally speaking on accuracy, I don't think there's a huge bias one way or the other. It's all hard data. There's no bias or anything.

It's all data. Overall accuracy, 93%. Overall consistency, 93%. 95% of her balls that were... To stop. Seriously. You said it. I didn't say word. 95% of the balls that she called were balls. Okay.

87% of the strikes she called war strikes. But did it have to be the very first pitch? That was what I was going to bring up the very... Now, I think, honestly, that it was more of a strike than the box showed it as. Okay. I didn't think it was that of a miss. But it didn't help out. the very first ball she called was a strike.

And you know that bad. I was like, oh, G, D. I can't complain about this. They took the ball and they threw it out. So she's got a... Oh, really? No, authentication sticker on it and whatnot? Yep, yep, yep.

Now, this is maybe a good sign. Those numbers I just gave you are really good, right? About average, yeah. You said, yeah. Average, it called ball was 95%. average is 97. She's around average. But she wouldn't, I'm going to guarantee you, she would not be up where she is right now

if she wasn't already one of the best. No, she has paid her dues. This is not a fast track. This is a slow track. The baseball and the umpires union would not have risked this. If she was down at AAA making like 80% of the calls, she wouldn't be here. Well, I'm going to give you the encouraging part. So it sounds like to me this was a pretty good called game.

Nothing's perfect, as we know, is the human element. Yes. She was ranked 13th, out of the first. of the 15 umpires that worked the game yesterday worked home playing in games yesterday oh okay which would then mean to me if she was in the bottom three then there was it was a pretty good day for folks behind the plate probably yeah 93% or would you say 90 yeah 93% accuracy her expected accuracy was 94% I know you love expected numbers that means like for example if everything is middle middle your expected accuracy is 100 mm-hmm and

And if there's a lot of stuff on the edge, her expected accuracy was 94 and she got 93. Let me tell you, and those of you that are obviously listened to show are baseball fans. I can tell you with complete certainty, I'd rather have Jen Powell calling the game than Las Diaz and CB Buckner. Those two are horrific at their jobs and they've been that way for the longest time. By the way, Jonathan, can you hear me? We can't see Jonathan because our videos down here. I'm here. All right.

Go to my Twitter account. We have to play a little bit of AI. Can we do some AI on the show? It's okay, right? No, I think that needs to be cleaned up. No, there's no swearing on it. I listen to it. You sure?

Okay. There's like, I think ass has said, but that's, we can let that go. I like how you said it quite. I think ass. Okay. So go to my Twitter account. There is an AI of Aaron Boone. Okay.

You know, Aaron Boone got tossed yesterday. And frankly, I'm on his side. Jason Alexander, who was really good for the asteros yesterday, got a boatload of calls. You got a couple calls early, but the one he got tossed for was a strike. Yes, but I mean, it was very, very friendly to Jason Alexander. All right, let me know where we go. All right, here it is.

Here is the AI. Now, this is AI, folks. This is not Aaron Boone. This is fucking warning, warning, warning. This is AI of, and again, as I said, I'm on Twitter. AI concerns me, but it doesn't concern me. after today. Here is Aaron Boone AI on

the podium. Look, I got thrown out because I couldn't watch this trash team any longer. So even though the umpire was blind as a bat, I had to pull off my signature move and get ejected and exit the premises. We almost got no hit by a bum off the streets with

an ERA bigger than the size of that umpire's ego. I was about to have a seizure watching Aaron Fudge go up to the plate and and looked like he never swung a bat in his life. I might have to bench this overrated choker going forward. And they told me Max was our ace,

but he was out there getting fried like his last name. I'm going to call him Max French Fried from now on. Another overpaid loser on this roster, thanks to Brian Trashman. Hey, Aaron Buffoon, you were the worst manager in this league. I hope you know that. And I placed a trade on call she for you to win today, knowing you had your ace on the mound, but I ended up losing 20 racks.

Do you have any damn shame? Getting your cheeks blasted day and day out. We're throwing hands after this press conference. Thank you, Boehner. Do you realize who you're talking to? You better shut your ass up. Before I come over there, I have zero championships as a manager, even though our payroll is always top three in the league.

So you better learn to put some respect on my name, or else I will show you this old man's strength. AI, Aaron Boone. AI. AI. That was AI, folks. AI, AI, AI. Make sure you do that.

Good, it's gracious. Where are you finding these at? I'm bored. The 4-U tab. 4-U's been my... I'm going to call you Matt A.I. Thomas. Dude, hearing my own voice in AI was, first of all, intriguing

and being scared the hell out of me. We're looking to get you full-time replaced. Why me? You're exorbitant salary. That's probably accurate. Could you do a show with me, AI? That's neither here nor there. That's nothing...

Do you think the rocket's trying to replace me? maybe. Durant. Three-pointer. Got it. Nothing but on it. No. A.I.

calling a basketball game would sound like that Bobon commercial. He bounces it. He bounces it. That's Bobon. Yeah. I just said Beaumont.

I was like Beaumont. Did I say Beaumont? I think he said like Bobon. Yeah. Beaumont Livingston. By the way, Bobie is in the Happy Gilmore. Number two.

Spoilers. I'm not going to tell you what he did. Okay. So the same was in it. All right. So, yeah. I thought she did, I didn't see in the game, it wasn't on any platform, but what I came away with is, is that she was 13th out of 15th,

I mean, the guys and her behind the plate yesterday had a good day, which is a good sign. Wishing them all the best, and I wishing they all would get replaced by ABS. Yeah, that's good. Could you imagine if ABS was in play that having the very first pitch of your career as a behind the plate? You get a head tap her very first pitch. You know what? I guarantee you no matter what would have happened, the, the, the, the Marlins manager

had to have said, do not head tap. I don't care what you're doing. That's all you need. Nah. Get the call right. Woman or man. Yeah. CB. Butler can't get it right. Las Diaz can't. No. We're in call opportunity. Indra Hernandez back in the day.

Back in the day. May his career rest in peace. All right. Starts for the news, Ross. The Astros won two out of three in New York. We'll have that. Start the third hour. The Matt Thomas showed Ross with the news at noon next on 790. This is the news. to Matt Thomas show with Ross. Start spreading the new.

Pitch on the way. And Al-Tuve crushes one deep to left field. And you can kiss that one. Goodbye. A first pitch to run Homer for Jose Al-Tuve. And the Astros have a two-nothing lead. Al-Tuve's 20th of the year. Boy, the booze haven't even died down by the time he swung at that first pitch.

right through the very heart of it wins the 0-1 and that's hit high in the air and deep to right Rosario was back at the wall looking up see you later Taylor Tramel with the insurance a two-run blast

and it's five to two Astros Tramel goes deep for the third time this year and you can kiss that one goodbye Jose Altuve hits his second run of the series and his 19th career home run against the Yankees. It's 1-0-0 Astros.

One-year deal this year, Correa hits it well, and deep to left field down the line, and that ball is God! Carlos Correa goes yard and the Astros go up 5 to 1. Correa's ninth home run of the season. Wake up! 02. Swing and a miss! Good morning, good afternoon, and good afternoon, and good night Anthony Volpe, and that is the ball. That is the ball game. Brian King strikes out the side in the night

as the Astros defeat the Yankees 7 to 1 to take two out of three in the Bronx. Just to hear this song. What a jam. God, it's so good. Frankie. Who's the closest thing to Frank Sinatra right now?

Oh, God. Michael Blueble? That's what I was thinking. But he didn't even close. You've heard this song before, Jonathan, have you not? Of course. All right, so I want to make sure. We even think about old Frankie Blue Eyes.

He can really belt it out. Here we go. Don't sing. Don't enjoy it. I can't sing. I'm not doing it. People around Houston are like, A, awesome Astros win,

B, they did it in New York, and see Yankee fans. Shut your bum asses up. Where's Yankees Keith? We told him to call us on Monday. Oh, that by the way. Yeah, where the hell are you, Yankees Keith? We'll rip on you, but first is time for the news and God nooks.

James and God, Judge, give Aaron Judge and respect he deserves. 66 WFAA James and Godnokes, where are you? Are you in Staten Island right now? Aaron Judge was getting slapped by Jason Alexander. What's up? What are you getting the slice in Brooklyn off of 34th? All right, sorry. The news at noon.

Here's Ross. All right, Matt, yes, we do have the news at nude. We're going to lead off with your Houston Astros, taking two out of three in the Bronx, Jose Altuve, two. Count them two. First inning home runs. Jeremy Pena had a home run in there. Carlos Correa had a home run as well as they were able to take two out of three.

But unfortunately, them Seattle Mariners, they're pesky, Maddie. They're not going anywhere. They have won seven. They have won seven games in a row. 66 and 52 are the Astros. 66 and 53 are the Mariners. No, I know you're going to get mad at me. Uh-oh.

Schedule strength remaining. Oh, geez. Seattle 24th, Houston, 25th. So they do have both bottom seven schedule strength remaining. Three head-to-head. Astros have seven left with the Orioles. Seven left with the angels need to capitalize. Also three left with the horrible Colorado Rocky.

half game lead. How are we feeling? Nervous isn't... Nelly. Yeah, that's fine. By the way, since the trade, Heugenio. Ahuyahio, Suarez. Again, this they've won seven in a row in nine of ten.

In Hyugneal. Aeugenio. Or Jean. Gino. Gino Suarez. I like that. Four for 38. batting 105

with an OPS of 357. And they're still winning games. Be afraid, Houston. Be very, very afraid. All right, Matt, elsewhere in the news. The Texans lost in the Minnesota Vikings, 20 to 10 in the preseason. It makes a thing about the Twitter poll.

Go on. But there was some good news. I'm going to be honest. I'm just reading Jonathan M. Alexander's stock up and stocked down. Great writer for the Houston Chronicle. covering. One of the few legit members that cover that team.

Talk about E.J. Speed as I know you noticed, Matt. He was all over the place, playing well for the Texans on defense early on. Jalen Noel also had a very good game. And Ariante Ursari looking like the real deal at left tackle. Of course, it's just one preseason game.

But he's been getting all the first team reps in practice and look pretty good. You know, Nick Hacero is praying that he says, A, as a starter and B is good at it. Well, hopefully because his other second round tackle, Blake Fisher just has not been looking good at all. Even at times in practice where they have needed somebody at right tackle, he has not been put in.

He has been the second team right tackle. And then, yeah, he didn't play much and wasn't good when he was playing for the Texans. Overall, though, how are we feeling? Houston Texans? Completely different. Dari or Grimbo-Walli, RB 1. No, we're not believing that. Although, as I said, I wouldn't draft Joe Mixing.

You heard it for your first. You know, they call me Mr. Robo. Yeah, I would bump him down on boards, but he's going to, whenever he does come back healthy, he's going to get a lot of volume. And I really don't feel like Nick Chubb is that much of a threat. So I completely disagree with your take to completely keep him off the boards. But we'll see. 71% of the people that followed me on Twitter that voted in my poll to not watch any of the Texans game.

Yeah, that's fine. You know what? September, whatever, the 9th. things will change. Everybody at 325 will be in front of Texans Rams with the great Kevin Harlan calling the game. Should be nice. And Melanie Collins on the sidelines?

All right. Does Lauren Shire, how do you do any sidelines? Baseball playoffs. Okay. Just wondered for you. You know what we ought to do? We have to invite her on the show. Okay.

Yeah, you know what? We're going to cut up all the audio of you going, remember that time you wore that short skirt on the MNM&B network. Oh, right. Stop. Moving on on the news at noon. Matt, have you seen the preseason AP college football? Paul!

I knew this is coming. You did? Oh, fire up the theme song. Come on, you guys. I actually didn't pull it up because I wasn't going to embarrass you like that. Go ahead. Do it. Just do it.

You might as well brag. Ladies gentlemen, the views expressed by the next two minutes in the show. Who is the number one team in the land? Matt Thomas, take it away. I don't know. It's funny because it's only a baseball time. No. That I know of.

No. It's a great audio. Referee. What the hell is. going on. RCS News. Literally one piece of audio was brought up there. I hate this system.

Let's try this again. All right, nice. Texas fight, Texas fight, and it's goodbye to A&M. Texas fight, Texas fight, and we'll put over one more win. Tell him, Matt. Texas fight, Texas who do we love best, Matt?

For us Texas is that we're we love best. That's right. And then what are we going to do? Hail. Hail. The gang's all here and it's goodbye to all the rest. What are the colors, Maddie?

Hey, orange. Oh. Yay, white. Yeah, long horns. Fight, fight, fight, fight. Texas fight. Texas fight. Come on.

Texas fight. Texas fight. Yeah, Texas fight. The eyes of Texas are upon you all the live long day. The eyes of Texas are upon. you you cannot get away. Texas five, Texas five. For it's Texas that we love best.

Hail, hail, hail, the gang's all here and it's goodbye to all the rest. Wow. I have been in this business for 34 years. I have been in this business for 34 years. That is one of the lowest points of my career. I would say getting the helmet painted on your head has to be the low point. What was the bet on that one? Roger Clemens was going to pitch for the Astros when he was with the Skeeters.

Yeah. Do you remember why you lost that one? We did it at a bar, right? You know why you lost this bet. Yeah, there was an attractive lady painting your head. Oh, she was. Continue, why did I lose this one? That was when the Texas Longhorns roundly defeated the University of Houston Cougars in the Super Regional.

Oh, the baseball. Okay, guess because you bought off the NCAA. Says you. 34 years, a low water mark. Just saying. That was great. All right. We done.

10 out of 10, no notes. Why don't you talk about the preseason AP poll? Go ahead. Who's number one? Penn State. They had 25 first place votes. 23 for Penn State. 11 for Ohio State.

That's your top three. Clemson, Georgia, Notre Dame, Oregon, Alabama, LSU, Miami, rounding out the top of 10. And Houston receiving votes, yes? I don't see that. Well, AP, you can suck it. I think 51 in the coaches poll received votes and the Cougars weren't one of them, the Houston Cougars. I don't know about the AP. How many SEC teams in that top 25?

You're going to really make me count? Really quick. Follow me on Instagram at SportsMT. I got over 2,800. 10. 10 of the 25 in one conference. 10 teams in the preseason top 25, the most ever by a conference and one more than a year ago. If you're the SEC, just go ahead and leave.

Four teams in the top 10. your own league. Just do it. Then they're all going to play cupcakes in one tough conference, non-conference game, and then they're going to cannibalize each other and we talk about how tough they are. That's the SEC playbook. That's the SEC right there. That's their logo. That's their phrase.

And then when they lose a bunch of bowl games, they'll be like, ah, they didn't care. 12-14. All right. NFL's The Athletic has a ranking of the top quarterbacks from one all the way to 34. 34. A couple of backups in the mix. We'll tell you where the local

Houston quarterback finds himself on the list. You say the local. The local. Hey, like we're on 66. Yeah, we didn't get Yankees' Keith to call to show. Yeah, no Yankees fans call. We got like three Yankees fans on Friday, none today.

It's really strange. What do you how that works? You know what? They've got no energy. No, you know what? They need to go to fix my low t.com. Matt, we're off with you here. We have focused a lot the baseball and the return of Alex Breggman, the return of Christian Javier, and the

home debut of the Carlos Cray. We'll do more of that coming up in a few minutes, but right now, I want to give you the athletic, which ironically doesn't have a Houston reporter. It's really weird. They must have some metrics on what hits when it comes to reports.

The athletic has Chandlerone covering the Astros. Kelly, Ieco does the whole Southwest Division. He used to do just rockets. Now he a little bit of everybody, but there's no Texans reporter. Teach his own. Six general managers on this national athletic

poll was put together. Six assistant general managers. Six former general managers. Five other execs, eight head coaches, and 19 other coaches created a 50-person panel. Okay? So you're getting a wide variety of opinions on this.

That's a really good sample size. That's good on the athletic for putting something like that together. And the goal was simple to tier every veteran quarterback in the NFL, meaning somebody that's had some experience. There are 34 quarterbacks they deemed eligible for said competition and discussion. And they tiered them one to five, five being the worst, tier one being the best. Okay. Kenny Pickett's family probably doesn't need to look at this survey.

Oh, no. He's the only quarterback in tier five. He's all by himself. all by himself. Oh, like Eric Carmen. In the Tier 4 category, there are two quarterbacks on the same team.

Ooh. I was going to go straight to the Colts, but it could be the Browns. Well, Kenny Pickett's a tier 5. Oh, okay, yeah. Okay. Colts, it is. Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones

are considered Tier 4 quarterbacks. What, remember that literally one year ago from today, Anthony Richardson had all this hype? Yeah. And all he does is get hurt, and he sucks. Well, yeah. And Daniel Jones sucks after getting that hilariously large contract with the Giants. He's got some money, though. So that's got to make you feel very, very happy.

To see AFC South. Not only have they sat with one bad quarterback, but two of them. Two tier four guys. Now, I don't know if you're a Russell Wilson fan. or not? No. But you're also in this group at 26. By the way, 26 to 33 of the tier fours.

Mm-hmm. I mean, Russell Wilson's got skins in the game here. You know what I mean? Super Bowl champ. Yeah. Never won an MVP, I don't think. No, but I mean, has had, really, now, look, the Denver part of his career was a hot mess. It was a little bit better the last time he was there.

Was he in Pittsburgh last year, right? Yes. How would you describe him in Pittsburgh? Though he was hurt and Justin Fields was playing well And then they went to him and then they were okay Okay, but clearly the days since Seattle have not treated him well The next group is the tier three That's the Mids

That's where you find Trevor Lawrence at number 18 Hmm Interesting So your highest ranked quarterback Not involving a team, not involving your own team In the AFC South is Trevor Lawrence this is a good thing this is why the Texans are going to win the

AFC South again it's almost wait where's Cam Ward well they don't have rookies in here oh okay because these are considered veteran quarterbacks okay even and it's funny

because JJ McCarthy technically isn't a rookie but he hasn't taken a snap in an NFL game yet oh but he is in the list okay he's at number 29 it's interesting yeah Michael Pennix of the Falcons at 28

again didn't didn't get a whole lot of work So you're in a really good spot. And I don't mean to do this too much ahead of the game. But even if the Texans disappoint you as a league perspective, they're going to win the – this is the worst division in football. I don't even close. The Texans could have one touchdown per game offensively and still win this division.

This defense is going to be so good. Plus the guys are going against us. I mean, you might as to put the banner up, right? That's what I'm saying. Probably. I think NFC South has something to say about being the worst division in the NFC. NFL too. But I mean, think about the quarterbacks in the division that have experience.

Lawrence is 18, Richardson's 32, Daniel Jones is 30. I mean, woof. So let's get to the next list, which would be Tier two quarterbacks. Tier two.

Let's go. Tier two. Here we go. This is where the guy's got to be. Purdy. Love, Prescott, keep going. Mayfield. Ooh. Hurtz,

golf, Herbert, Daniels, and I forgot, I admitted one for intentional purposes. Okay. C.J.

Stratt is tied for ninth with Jalen Hertz. Boy, Jalen Hertz, not getting a whole lot of national respect. I mean, your ninth best quarterback.

It's not bad. I think you should be, I don't know, I might put him ahead of Jared Gough. Jared Gough or Jalen Hertz. You're starting a franchise. Well, starting or am a franchise. Ooh.

Well, if I'm starting in French, I'm going to be bad. So I'm going to probably go Jalen Hertz because I got room to grow. But if I got a veteran team, I may go golf. I mean, look what he did with Detroit last year. They scored 40 points at their eyes closed. Both of them are in great situations. Yeah. All right.

Great offensive lines, great running games. CJ Stroud, tied for ninth. About right where he should be? I am surprised to see him ahead of Baker Mayfield. I would also say Jordan Love had a better season. than he did last year. But I think it feels about right to me. Okay.

I would say I'd agree. Can we talk about Justin Herbert? Beloved. Why does everybody love Justin Herbert so much? Because I think part of it is they think a second year under Harwell is going to give him the best year he can have individual. First half of the season, they were running the ball 500 times a game. He was hurt. His arm was, admitted his harm wasn't 100%.

He had a good season, but he just. threw four picks in a playoff game. I'm going to touch over hype for Justin Herbert. You have five guys in the tier one. Matthew Stafford, who by the way, ain't throwing these days.

Stafford to me is interesting. That is very interesting to have him five. Four, Lorah Jackson, three Josh Allen. What? And a tie for one

between Joe Burrow and Patrick. Mahomes. All right. All right. Say what you want to say. Well, I don't want a certain somebody to come barging in here. You mean Gordy. If we're discounting Jared Gough and Jalen hurts for being in great situations,

what about Joe Burrow? They have a horrible offense, a horrible defense, and you got Jamar Chase and T. Higgins, and who, they had a third receiver for a while, but not recently. I don't know. Mike Keseki, whatever. Chase Brown's a good running back. So yeah, he's getting these pinball machine numbers to make a dated reference. But he's in a great situation with guys who, a lot of Jamar Chase's yards were after the catch.

He's now the new DeHondre Hopkins when it comes to 50-50 ball winning. He wins every one of them. You're starting a franchise. Joe Borough, Josh Allen. Now, of course, we're splitting hairs for her. First of all, let me say we're splitting hairs. I don't think Joe Burroughs I don't think Joe Burroughs like should be 15th or something

I would probably take Josh Allen because it was running a bill I would agree Lamar Jackson or Joe Burrow Lamar Jackson for me You're not even close Not okay I'm not okay I'm not going to me I shouldn't say it's not even close it's clear to me I don't know Joe got them to the Super Bowl I think that's part of the equation

It shouldn't be the entire equation Okay But it's super tight I'm going on Okay you're hymn and hon That's fine I really And then that's really the only art

I would put him fourth, but this has him tied for first with Patrick Mahomes. Funny thing is, Mahomes is the clear number one to everybody, and he's had two bad seasons in a row, or two underwhelming seasons in a row, I should say. Although I think he's going to have a balance back here.

Just saying, talking about Mahomes. Can I think, I want to give you an answer on Lamar Jackson, Joe Barwin, come back. Let me think about it. Because I don't want to be a, I want to be a fence. Yeah. There'll be a fit sitter, Maddie. I'm not doing it. I'm not going to do it.

I'll give you the answer coming back. Okay. 713-212-2-5-7.9. 713-212-5-7-9-0. I don't know if people, I think surveys, frankly, get just people unnecessarily rattle for no real. Like the top 100 is out in the NFL players. I don't care that a certain player is 37 or not on the list. C.J. Stroud was 39th, I think.

Yeah, that doesn't do anything for me. Why not? Because I don't think it's a level of, oh, we've been disrespected again. Come on, it's a list. That's a good list for it. But I like that list because it's voted on by the players, even though we know that the players are unreliable. And they vote for their guy. Are you kidding me?

They always vote for their guy. 713-212-5-7-90. Astros starting a series of the Red Sox. Is this the most important week of the season for the Stroes? Matt Ross with you, like 1235 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 7-13-212-5-790 if you want to jump in on the conversation. 7-1-3-2-5-7-9. We talked a lot about the Astros so far.

We brought up the Texans quarterback tier list. Again, lists are just for summer fodder, honestly. I'm enjoying it. I don't know if any of the players are like, oh, I got so. I mean, is Drake May going, we got some disrespected? Drake May might be feeling disrespected. I don't know. You know there are, and I don't know much about their teams.

I can't give you much of an answer. But there are a lot of people. I think the over under on the Patriots victory count this year is significant. I saw somebody say they're going to be. favored in 11 games or something ridiculous like that. Yeah, their win totals eight and a half. Is it because they're playing a last play schedule, I'm assuming, right? Yeah, and I mean, Vrabel's a good coach.

And I guess you're buying in that Drake May is going to be good and make a leap. That might be a sneaky pick for a little. Oh, okay. Do you go over or under? Eight and a half? I'd have to pull up their schedule, of course. Well, I mean, I think you'd assume the dolphins are going to take another step back and they're going to disappoint. I mean, if two is healthy in them, but, of course, that's always the big F.

Who are the Jets going to be this year? Well, there are a lot of... Their starting quarterback is just in Fields. Yeah. Can't throw. You're run, but he can't throw. He's going to be good fantasy quarterback because he's going to run for a lot of touchdowns and yards. Right.

But is he going to be a good actual NFL quarterback? I'm not convinced. Like usually at this point of the year, don't you? Their schedule was pretty cake, pretty cake. Who are you talking about the Patriots? Yeah, you want to go for it real quick. I thought we're their homeowner Patriot football. Raiders, Dolphins, Steelers, Panthers to start.

Raiders, Dolphins, Panthers, Steelers, okay. That's all winnable. Then they go at Buffalo, but then New Orleans, Tennessee, Cleveland. Okay. Okay. Maybe we're going to go take that over. They got the Jets twice, of course. Oh, they play the NFC.

South. Okay. I can see where eight and a half is coming into play. Do you think normally this time of year we should know who the favorite, like who he thinks is going to win each of the conference? I think so. We'll make our ODI official prediction show. It'll be Jonathan's first official prediction show. Like, it feels like to me, I don't know, the AFC feels like it's the same thing we said a year ago. Kansas City, Baltimore, Cincinnati, maybe Houston if they, if things, turn out right. I think a lot of people are very bullish on Denver this year. I think a lot of people

are clearly bullish on the chargers with Harbaugh in his second year there. I mean, somebody's going to win 10 games this year that didn't win 10 games last year. The AFC is stacked by far. The NACC is tough but the AFC is tougher to me.

Way more teams can win the AFC than I would have to agree with you on that. Than the NFC. All right. So C.J. Stride is tied for the ninth best quarterback. So let me put it this way. Let me ask you this. Because let's circle back to the Texans. If they're in that same group of, okay, they're going to win 10 games again because that's the over and under is, what, 9 and a half. I think so the number is somewhere in that range, Vegas says? Yes, but you and I have 7.5. We made a bet. You

locked it in. We did we bet it down? What are we betting? Nothing. I think it was Rigger Ring or something. Like a biscuit? I mean, a brisket sandwich from there? I have to go look at my file. Do I say 7.5? Yeah, I goaded you. The vision sucks It would have to take C.J. Straw getting hurt. Okay, I might not hold it to you. I really goaded you hard into it.

You must have. I did. Was I drunk? No, it was. Did I take a gummy or something? By being maybe. Point being is this. Oh yeah, off-air lunch bet.

I wrote it down. So what gets them to 12 and a first round by? The Texans? You forget it. What gets them to 11 and that legitimately thinking they can win the whole thing. So let's put it in a nutshell. CJ

is even better than he was his rookie year. That's checkpoint number one? Yeah. I mean, you know, no, you know what checkpoint and check number one is. It's what we've been talking about all season. But I think it goes along with CJ's best season is having an offensive line that gives him great protection.

Yes. You're going to need that. One will lend itself to the other for sure. sure, but Arionte Ursari has to be the real deal. If he's not the real deal, I'm not saying he's got to be all pro or even pro bowl, but he's got to be a good tackle, either on the left or right side, depending on injury and all that type of stuff. It has to happen. You have to be at least average on the offensive line, at least.

Can the Texans, throwing this out there, can the Texans still be good enough offensively if their running game is in the bottom third? the NFL this year. No. So you need Joe Mixen healthy. If Joe Mixen goes down, but I also said this last year, we said basically the three Texans that can't go down and they all went down while they went down to different places.

Nico Collins, Joe Mixon, and C.J. Straub need to stay healthy at least or at least be healthy by playoff time. Yeah. Yep. Because I just have zero faith in Nick Chubb. So Damien Pierce is a huge question mark. Everything that

leads to a team being better than 10 and 7 and probably your first or second run exit would be on the offensive side. That is, C.J. has a better year than he had his first year. CJ has offensive line protection. The Texans are not in the bottom third and rushing because the receiving room looks good. I don't know if the tight ends have to be significantly better. Dilton Schultz would be better. The team would be better if he's better, but that's not a game-changing moment for them. No, if Kirk and Jaden Higgins and Jalen O'L are good. Something, some combination. Yes, you need good past catching group.

Dalton Schultz doesn't have to be a big part of that. Or Brevin Jordan, Cates over, whoever. Health is, first of all, important for everybody. Yes. So you do not, you need for Jalen Petrie and, you know, Derek Stingley. You need that secondary. Camarra. Camarra.

Johnson, who might be ready week one. Might. Yeah. Which you really need because what's the latest on Jimmy Ward? I think Jimmy is probably in his home drinking and can't go out publicly to do it. Yeah. His nickname is Pleabergyn. They call him Plea Bargain Ward?

Yeah, not good. To his face? Probably not. I don't think so. Sorry, Jimmy. That was Matt that said that. That was Ross. You want his name on the show.

He's now got it. That's his name. Yeah, I feel ultimately confident in the defense. So then you just need running game and good enough, C.J. Strowd. That's to get you to the season. That's to get you to the playoffs. But to get to advance in the playoffs, obviously, is going to take something else. That's where C.J. Stroud's going to have to be special. And then you're really going to have to, I mean, you're going up against basically the entire, go back to that tier of quarterback list. And how many of those are in the AFC? I mean, it's ridiculous. Mahomesboro, Alan Lamar Jackson. The top four are all in the AFC.

right all right one more a little segment on the Texans because I want to ask Texan fan this

that's you because if things really haven't changed from year to year what's it going to take for the Texans to have things changed

think about that for a minute because I want to put this in perspective when we come back because I'll give you the example on the rocket side

the rockets could have stood Pat this off season and said, okay, we can take Jalen Green, Alper and Shingoon, Tari Eason, Amen Thompson, and we can win our 50 games and compete with Golden State, Minnesota, Denver. The tech, the rockets did something to vault them into the elite category, at least on paper. We'll discuss more of that and frame it back to the Texans and we return. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-7-90. Okay, so let me even my parallel, and you tell me if I'm nuts or not. The Rockets could have stood, Pat. Probably would have been on pace to win 50 games again like they did last year. And all the, you know, and add a little side, you know, tier two, like Dorian Finney Smith, that kind of, stuff like that, you know. Maybe get a Clint Capello, that kind of, you know, little stuff like that. And that's what I feel like the Texans did. Maybe the NFL doesn't allow those kind of big free agent moves like the NBA does.

Not typically. Generally, huge free agents will sign extensions with their own teams in the NFL, such as the nature of the sports. So maybe there isn't a complete parallel to each of the jury. There is not. But the Rockets felt like they needed to do something to rock the boat a little bit. And they went from a team that would be maybe considered the fifth or six best team in the West. to legitimately, I would say, would you say they're on par, if you looked at most experts, they're probably predicted to finish second in the west behind Oklahoma City as the second favorite

and maybe the third or fourth favorite overall to win the whole damn thing. Uh-huh. So let me ask you this, because you are Battle Red. Yes, I am. Do you think that you feel like the Texans did enough in the off season to get into that tier where you are bringing up the Texans in the same conversation as you are, with Kansas City, Baltimore, and Buffalo. And if Cincinnati got any kind of defense, the Bengals.

Now, the Bengals maybe didn't do anything either. I mean, they're just relying on what they resigning their own free agent receivers and making sure Joe Burroughs happen. But Trey Henderskin's still, as he, he's holding out or he's holding in? They've got a hold in now. You show up, but you're mad. Yeah, and you're angry and you're pissed off and you're ready to tell the whole world how sucky your organization is. Yeah, it's just different because you have a hard cap in the NFL.

and the Texans are basically up against this cap. So they got Christian Kirk, which I like. They drafted the couple of wide receivers, which I like. Yeah. I get why they got rid of Laramie Tunsell, but the fact of the matter is, no matter how much you want to talk about culture and all that type of stuff,

he did a great job of shutting down some of the best edge rushers in football, and we know that we know that Cam Robinson isn't that type of guy. but maybe your culture's better and then they got better defensively I think just by get Jalen Petrie back from injury, C.J. Gardner Johnson is going to be good and sounds like

he's going to be ready. Another year of growth for both Derek Stingley and Camari Lasseter. So no, they didn't do anything earth-shattering, but I wouldn't call it a bad off-season. No, I would bet I just... Or general management malpractice. There's no... There's no fences to swing for. Well, I guess

the reality, what you could have done is you could have positioned yourself, to go super heavy offensive line. Put yourself in the top 10 and get the best tackle you probably could get to replace Laramie Tunsell, a franchise-esque type left tackle because you knew you wanted to move Tunsell away from here. Yeah, well, could have done that.

That's the only thing I could think of... Well, they signed one and drafted one in the second round. But that's... Yeah, I don't know. It's hard because I don't have a core information on this, but do second round? round offensive tackles, are they guys that you can pencil in for the next seven,

eight years, or is there a reason why they're second round? You're hoping that you can find one guy. So far, they're hoping that for Arionte Ersery. Blake Fisher, not so much. He was a second round tackle as well. Yeah. Now that I think about this out loud, maybe it's to me, it's just more,

it's more difficult in the NFL world to really make that game-changing type position change or phrasion acquisition. Because in the NBA, part of it, the second is, If somebody's available, can you go get him? Can you go trade for him? Can you turn your team around or at least take the next step? And teams have to be very careful about doing it.

The Rockets have kind of been, they don't lean towards doing that with exception to this year. Bringing Kevin Durain here, and by the way, it's no automatic. Nobody should say that the Rockets are guaranteed to win 57 games this year. Kevin Durant gets hurt. Father Time hits him. reality kicks in it or does hurt. Hopefully it doesn't happen that way, but that is a possibility.

Yeah, you can swing for the fences and miss. A lot of teams, they talk with teams who win free agency aren't normally winning teams in the NFL. They just aren't. So what has to happen in my mind for the Texans to get in that elite, I can see them play on AFC Championship Sunday,

which is they've never done before. Frankly, Ross, part of it to me is one of the three quarterbacks that's ahead of them, I'm talking Casey Baltimore Buffalo, somebody's got to be hurt for the year. I mean, I don't, I'm saying I hate to injuries be a factor,

but that's not a lie. The Bengals defense is horrible. I feel like they could beat the Bengals. They did beat the Bills last year. Ravens are just another tier. I mean, if you think the pressure... They played the Chiefs twice were,

now they lost, convincingly to the cheese, but it's not like they got blown out in either of those games. I, yeah, I just... But if you're going in the last two of the AFC, that means three of those four are out that we're talking about. Mahomes, Borough, Alan Jackson. That's the list we just read from the athletic. Those are the top four quarterbacks in football, and they're all four in the AFC. That means if you're, in theory, only one of them can even be your opponent if you're making it.

That means you probably went past one or two of the others. So it's going to be difficult. I just would be afraid if I was a Texan fan. Are we repeating ourselves again? Yeah. It feels like 10 and 7 in division. But you know what? I got news for you. Baltimore has been repeating itself

and Buffalo's been repeating themselves. 10 and 7 in a division around feels about right if I was making a prediction for their season right now. I don't know what's to tell you. Unless Joe Mixing is drinking from the fountain of youth. Arionte Ursary grows up in a hurry. And at least one of the two receivers, Jaden Higgins or Jalen Noel are the real deal

and Nico Collins stays healthy a lot has to go right and how about this? How about you give us the 2000 Baltimore Ravens defense? Well, that'd be nice but they are, I think they're going to have a top five defense. Yeah. So they got a shot.

10 and 7 division round. That's what it feels like. It would help if one of the three quarterbacks I just mentioned. Okay, well, anybody can get hurt. So what happens? So Ross is asking you all to call in at 7-13, 2-1-2. 2-1-2-5-7-90. Which Texans, which quarterback in front of the Texans

would you like to get hurt? Hmm. Well, unfortunately. Who deserves a season-ending injury? Nobody. I would say the one you most want hurt would probably be Lamar because of the Baltimore Ravens have the,

I just think their whole roster is very good. Same thing for the Chiefs, though. But as we said before, if you think history repeats itself in this town, Buffalo and Baltimore, they're super cranky. Yeah. They have these elite quarterback playing the very best of their career and they can't even touch a Dan Super Bowl.

Meanwhile, Pat Mahomes gets every call in the AMC playoff game, allegedly. Pat Mahomes is, that guy's kind of good. All right. Hey, we're going to welcome some people back in town, Rossi. We do. You say goodbye. What will you say? I say.

I will say, go to Big City Wings and say hello to them. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Alex Pregman. How weird is it for him to be in a hotel right now? in Houston. Do you sell his house? Is it gone? Is it off the market?

You know what? I don't know that. Should I text him? Sure. I don't want to ask him about us. Why don't you get him on? Eh, he's busy. No, he's not.

No, he's not at 10 a.m. It's at 1 o'clock. I'm not saying now. I'm thinking, yeah, I try to get him on tomorrow. I mean, I could ask him. Yeah, let's go. I need to be a go-getter, Maddie. Oh, I know why.

Wait a minute. You don't do that. You don't do anything until Wednesday, right, on the Astros? Yeah, I'm working the game Wednesday. Okay, I was going to say, Dan, because I'm thinking about what we're doing to kill your segment on the show. What are you talking about? Oh, I know exactly what you're talking about. You're trying to fill material for the on deck?

No, I wasn't thinking about that at all. I was thinking about content for this show. All right, well, I'll text. You don't have to. I don't want to press you. Man, I feel douchy. Really? Okay, hey.

I love that you guys are boys. We are, but I mean, you know what? It's fine. It's fine. I'll text. You don't have to. don't worry about it. You seem uncomfortable.

No, I could do it. Do you guys on bad terms? No are great terms. Is he going to tell you to shut your bum ass up? No. Okay, that's good. We can talk about horse racing. He's big into horse racing now.

Yeah, he is huge. And the salsa is going national? Is it, they sell it off to somebody? It's not even called Breaky Bomb salts anymore. It's a wild soul. Yeah, I've never had the wild soul part. That's the reason why it's not coming on. You're going to take a shot at it.

I didn't say what? You went, uh-huh. We know what, uh-huh. No, I told you I've been fighting a cold off. You know, you think of that, me and my food. This one is the biggest knob to all time. What are you talking about? You didn't have to, uh-huh.

I didn't do anything. All right. I miss it. Have you had some wild soul before? Nope. I have not had it. Okay. So you don't know if it's any good or not. No, I had Breggie bombs also, though.

And your thoughts? I didn't think it was very good. There went the interview opportunity. I'm sure it's an improved formula now. We can ask him. I'll text him. Okay. You asked my opinion, I gave it.

Yeah, that's why you're not beloved by many. All right, it's better to lie. It really is. It's easier. You get away a lot more stuff. Whatever. All right, so the Astros lead is one-half game. You know, and I was, I spent all weekend.

First of all, I worked Friday's Astros post game, which was fun. Saturday watched the game. Then Sunday watched the game. And what did I do immediately after? I stared at my phone looking at Seattle Mariners. scoring reports and every one of them, with the exception of a small part of Saturday's game, the Seattle Mariners were up.

They had little difficulty knocking off the race, three straight games. They've won seven consecutive games in a row. Thanks for nothing, Ray's. Five and one this week, Rossi. Okay. It's going to, it needs to happen. The Mariners can lose games.

I want to know what it's going to be like to sit in second place. The Astros have been in second place in a long, long time. time? Early the season they were, behind the marriage. Yeah, but I mean, it's been a while. Okay. It's been a hot minute. I'm ready. Let's go. Howie feeling. Best versus the best.

What did it size of the pitching matchup? Did you size them up yet? Let's see. It's Chavier versus Gare Crochet. Crochet's got an ERA of under three. Has it lost since I believe the Red Sox created Fenway Park. and then it will be Spencer Araggetti versus Dustin May

Dustin May Now he had Tommy John He came back from Tommy John this year He was with the Dodges He's only made one start with the Before the Tommy John He was a great young prospect But anyways

Dustin May and Spencer Arogetti And then tomorrow would be Walker Bueller versus Hunter I'm sorry Wednesday will be Walker Bueller versus Hunter Brown. Hmm. By the way, I have an inside source. He says that Breggman was renting a house in Tanglewood.

I know his landlord. Customer moved back in July. Okay. So he's been looking for him. I mean, he's done a lot of hotel life here. Okay. Well, he'll be fine. And whatever five-diamond hotel he's going to be in.

Yeah, I'm sure he's fine. There's only one five-diaman hotel in Houston. Is it Post Oak? Correct. Wow. You know it's good when the employees. rate, which I can get, is ridiculously high. Yeah.

How much to sleep in one of those Bentleys for a night on the floor? Those are roomies, don't? Those Bensley's roomies? That's plenty. Yeah. You'd have to break in the car, in the dealership. Yeah, you'd probably have the SWAT team on you pretty quick. Oh, yeah.

You'd be buried in some cement. You don't get a little night in jail. No, you're found dead in cement. That's fine. All right. That's fine. So, okay, so let's predict how Christian Javier is going to do tonight. Okay.

I'll throw a few over-unders at you. All right. Over under 4.1 innings. Under. I think four exactly. Okay. I think that's all we can really do. How many strikeouts?

Over under is three and a half. Over. Three and a half. Over. Really? Five strikeouts. Four. winnings. Feeling good.

Okay. Number of hits. Over under is five and a half. Under. Really? Sure, why not? So this sounds like to me this is going to be a well-pitched pitch. We're not betting anything on this right?

Yeah, under then. Yeah. Feeling good. Boston is heavily favored at a minus 175. Ooh, that's a lot of juice you have to give up. Yikes. Plus 145 for your Astros. And by the way, the Astros don't.

This is the second. straight year they don't play well on Mondays, by the way. Kind of a low total, 7 and a half. Well, it's because of crochet. Yeah, I know. But. You could see a 5-2 final. That makes sense. I could see a 2-1 Astros victory. I could too. They got to start one of these Monday games in these

uniforms they wear. I like them. At first, when they first came out, I was like, you know, they're fine. The more I see them more, I like them. The uniforms this year on Monday are 500 times better than the space cities. Disagree. Not 500. They're better, though.

I do like the Space City hats, better than I like these hats. Mm. Okay. The Stros with the Star? Yeah. The A, they wear here, it looks like it's like a cross between a softball team and the Arizona Diamondbacks. Mm-hmm. But the Stroes uniform itself is spectacular.

Agree. Okay. All right. So we put together the list how we, if we were running game operations for the Astros, we give a rousing round of applause at Carlos Correa, but no video tribute. No, no tribute for Korea? No, no.

He's back kind of thing. He's like an intro video, yeah. I'm not a tribute, but like an intro video. I don't know how to explain it. Same thing for Javier, working his ass off, getting back out there very short. Okay. The Bregman tribute, middle of the first.

Sounds good. He gets his A.B. in the first, gets his nice warm round of applause. What if he hits a home run? Well, I'm sure he's going to get a few. There's Spragman fans in his town, even with the Red Socky. I mean, you've... What's the crowd reaction if he hits a home run? And do you throw it back?

No, you keep that bad boy. That idiot who threw away Altuve's 250th home run, probably could have got something for it. Probably an autographed jersey or something. At least, I don't know how much you're going to get slapping it up on eBay. 250's not a huge milestone. If you and I were doing 2011, the Matt Thomas show at that time, just Matt Thomas show. Yeah. And we said Jose Altova hit 250 home run.

You'd be like, what? Come on. Yeah. He was scuffling for a bit there. I mean, he was good. But he wasn't this. He's approaching what, 2,400 hits pretty soon, I want to say?

No, he's over 24. Didn't he? Or was it 2317? Yeah. That he passed Bagwell? We gotta get him to 3,000. Then there'll be no ifs, no doubts, no... No, there's no doubts already.

He's in there. Why? Okay, you sure... In my Hall of Fame? Yeah. First bow bow. the way. Even from the cranky New York reporters. Well, at least a lot of them will have died off by then.

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What are you messing with with Adam Clinton on Facebook? Because he messes with me, so I put it there. And then she responds back to me, Matt Thomas, what a weird thing to be triggered by. I'm going to get her back. Don't worry. I live to just... I live for people.

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Okay, Matt. Anyways. All right. Okay. We're going to say. Go ahead. You're going to say. Go ahead.

Well, I mean, I'm just, I guess anticipation would be the song, would be the choice of words I would use for tonight. I'm really curious about Javier. I'm really curious about how this pitching staff is going to be measured in the next few weeks. I'm going to take a look here real quick. Astros have an off day on Thursday. Then they play 3, 6, 10

straight. I don't know if you, can you go with a 5-man through those 10? You probably could. You do have an off-day on the 25th. And then you have a stretch of you're going to need a 6-man between August, 26th, and September the 7th because you have

no off-day in between there. So the McCuller stuff has been quiet. Luis Garcia, I haven't heard a whole lot about him. Arrogati, you would anticipate having a better second start. Jason Alexander has done

everything in his power to deserve an opportunity to be in this rotation for the foreseeable future. What's the latest on Brendan Walta? JP France, I think he had a good, didn't he have a good rehab start? You know, the Astros will put out their notes here in about an hour, so I bet you there'll be a much

more comprehensive list of that going in. Three and two-thirds, gave up two runs. Three walks, three strikeouts, up to 95 miles an hour on the gun. You know, the one thing, and I would not read anything into it, but what you're not seeing is length in these minor league games. Yeah, but... It doesn't say, this doesn't say how many pitches. This is a post from Astro's Future, who does a good job of covering the miners,

but I don't see how many pitches from JP France. I got news for you. This Astro's schedule is not particularly entertaining for me. That's good, Matt. You mean it's bad teams? Well, it's a mix. There is, you've got some winnable games coming up. What are Luis Garcia dealing?

You got seven with the Orioles coming up over the next 10 days. Then you got Colorado. Boy, you got three at home at Colorado. You got to get, you got to beat, you cannot lose a game in that series. Luis Garcia, four innings. And three hits, no walk, striking out seven. Look at, you know what, can I give you a little pause for a little concern? Yes.

Let me give you September schedule. Three with the Yankees. Win. At home. Three at Arlington. Win. Three in Toronto. Series win.

Three in Atlanta. Series win. Then you got three more with Texas at home. Dubs. Three with Seattle. Sweep. And then you close out the year with six on a road at Sacramento and at Anaheim. Opponents win percentage.

They have 25th out of 30 in baseball. In terms of schedule, strength. And a lot of that is because you've got seven with Baltimore and three with Colorado coming up. And seven with the Angels. Okay, now you've given me glass Half full on that. Thank you very much for that. Thank you.

They do have tough series against winning teams. I think it's seven series left against winning teams or good teams. All about this? Between September 2nd and September 11th, that's nine games against potentially nine three playoff opponents. Although the Yankees are playing so poor these days,

the Guardians might come up and snag that last playoff spot. That'd be a shame. And then Aaron Boone, to lose. Aaron Boone's done. You think Aaron Moon's done, done, period? They did win the American League pennant last year. Guess what I'm saying? It can't be that bad.

And as you and I say, man, it comes down to the players, the majority of the time. Yeah. Who was the pitcher for the Yankees? Devin Williams in the room. Boy, they hate him there. Aaron Boone does it. Oh, no, he uses him quite a bit. In fact, I want to say that maybe he was even Jeff Blumps said they hate him so much.

They don't even announce his name when he comes to the pill. No. Which I don't believe. now pitching well now in the seventh inning enjoy this free popcorn well he pitched the six yesterday so it might be full demoted

do you think the PA announcer tries to divert people hey go get yourself a steak sandwich for a half price says it really fast because their steak sandwiches at Yankee City are amazing steak sandwich oh my god is it good what do they put a rib eye on there I don't know what it is but it's delicious it's like it's a filet is it chop steak no no no it's like a real steak

sandwich like a slab of steak yeah It's got to be a tenderer of some sort. Huh. With onions? See, I'm not a fan of that. Why not? It's a good steak. I just want to eat the steak.

I don't need mayonnaise and bread slatherer all over it. When are you going to cut up a steak in your seat in a fourth inning of a baseball game? Really? You're going to do that? Why not? You're not. You get a knife and fork? You're not.

No, you're not. Oh, I like this medium rare. No, you're not. You want a baked potato loaded, too? You don't? What do you want to toss salad first? I take a wedge. Oh, my God.

What is wrong with you? Sound like me. 128. We'll talk to Lewis and one's got a Rockets question in. I like Rockets questions. Love it. NBA schedule, by the way, will be announced on Thursday. Tomorrow, ABC and NBC are going to give out a few more games.

There are marquee matchups. John Tesh is getting warmed up. John Tesh is getting warmed up. Feeling good. I got news for you. You're going to love NBC's coverage. I think I am. They're going to have double-headers on NBC on Tuesday's.

Peacock is going to have some games. and then once Sunday night football is over with on NBC, Sunday night basketball. Love it. I'll be watching. And you got Iron Eagle and Kevin Harlan on Amazon Prime games. Now, if you just can fix ESPN's, Travisy to broadcasts. Jeff Bezos is ponying up, huh? Oh, they all are. They all are.

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the ultimate fighting championship. Okay, UFC. How many UFCs you've been to in your life? Been to? Yeah. None. I've been to other MMA events, but not UFC. I'm at zero myself.

You and I have a good friend that we can get us great seats for. Okay. But I want to go for big... He said, we don't need you. Bruce Buffer's terrible. That guy's... He's got it knocked. He's locked and love him.

Yeah, I know. People love him and they all do it. It's time. And he's... It's not for me. He tries... He was a naked gun, by the way. As somebody would say about me as a host, he tries too hard.

I don't know who would ever say such a thing like that. It's not true at all. Lewis and Sugar Land at 1.35. I thought I wouldn't try enough. with a Matt and the tryhard. Hi, Lois. What's the one on? Matt and RV, the pulse of the NBA. How are you guys doing? Amazing. Thank you for asking. Well, you know, I'm not going to talk about the game tonight. Bregman, Javier, and Correa, enough said. Sellout crowd should be a great game. I want to ask you a quick NBA. Well, two questions. First, you know, the schedule makers, you know, we're on opening night at Oklahoma City where they're going to get their rings. we're finally back on Thanksgiving Christmas, but we're at the Lakers.

We just, you know, no respect, man, no respect, you know. But my question is this. Hold on, let me give you the first part on it. First of all, there's a lot of respect. I mean, there are four teams that are playing an opening night, and you're one of the four. That's a tremendous amount of respect. Secondly, if the game was the first game of the season or game 57, you still have to go to Oklahoma City and play. you still have to go to Los Angeles Lakers and play.

And I got news for you. And I remember quite a few teams have gone into the team's championship night and won the first game. So I know you think it's an automatic gimmie for Oklahoma City. And it might be because they're just a really awesome team. But I've seen teams on opening night lose their first game. So don't consider that a foregone conclusion that the Rockets are being disrespected by that. That's all I'm saying. All right.

That's a good point. maybe I just mean, you know, putting them in certain situations on a national scale. But, okay, my question is, are you hearing anything? I'm reading a couple things that they're looking at Gary Payton, Jr. Are you hearing anything about that? And I know y'all are busy, so I'm going to stay on and listen. Thank you, Matt. Thank you, Lewis.

I have not heard Gary Payton's. It's Gary Payton, the third. Gary Peyton, the second. Is it the second? I thought he was the second. John Lucas is the third. Oh, those are the third in the second. No, I have not.

I have not heard him tied to the Houston Rockets at all. The only player that I have heard not tying the Rockets that's looking for a place to play is John the Caminga. He still hasn't signed anywhere, has he? Really? Yeah. What's he waiting on? I don't know, but it's getting late in the game. He's waiting for a comminga time.

There are nights I watch him and I'm like, man, he could score 25 points every single night. there are the nights that I'm like, man, why are you even on the court? He's really bad defensively, correct? I think. He's misassignments. I think he checks out mentally. Not because he doesn't give a damn. I just don't think, I think the speed of the game or something's just not right. Yeah, I think he's got defensive issues. As we all do. I have you seen Gary Payton and Rockets anymore? I have not seen a Google search. No, I have not seen that. But maybe Lewis heard it somewhere.

There is a lot. I'm not saying he's bringing us misinformation, but a lot of times there's some random stuff will be put in a blog and then somebody will run with it and make a whole article. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, I think the rockets are, I mean,

I think they're set. Yeah, I don't see anything. Okay. You know, it's Reed Shepherd. Excuse me. It's Reed Shepherd. I mean, the grand plan would be probably to go with Fred and then Reed to back up

if he can take those backup minutes but if Reed can't you just shift a man Thompson the point card and you broker their minutes you split them up so maybe the time that Fred and the men are on the floor at the same time

is minimal. It's kind of like what they did with Chris and James. Staggering. Yeah, stagger the minutes, yeah. Honestly to me I want Reed to be successful because that means a draft pick hits. Even though it was number three pick, even though the draft last year was not considered

good. You still need your high-end draft picks to hit. Don't you? I mean, you know, it would be nice. Yeah. That's the whole reason. It makes a losing worth it. Right.

That's why you tank. Now, unfortunately, they did not end up with any number one overall picks during this tanking period. What, Jalen Green was a two. Jibari was a three. Who else? A men was a three. Reed was a three.

Or was a four? Men, I'm sorry. There's no number ones. Yeah, men was a three. four. Okay. And any twos? So you had a two, three, four, three. Yeah. You ended up with a, you lost. In theory, you've lost, you lost, you lost 300 games in order to finish with two top, four top five selections.

But no top one. Well, which is unfortunate. And then Dallas got it. Who didn't deserve it? I'll stand by that. It doesn't make any makes any sense, but I'm standing by it. LeBron is a Maverick, yes or no, at any point? I guess it could happen. What did the Lakers get off? to a 500 start. What are they going to get back? Well, I don't know. I don't think if LeBron has so much value.

I mean, it's not what's crazy to say for a guy going 25, 7 and 7. If I'm Lebron, I stick it out. I got Luka, leaner Luca, more physical Luca. That's his best shot. Fresh contract, Luca. I would, I would, if I'm, and again, do you want your lasting legacy bouncing from team to team to team? Sometimes it's okay. Sometimes it doesn't care.

I mean, he's been there since 2020. Yeah. So if he gets time for it. He spent four years with the heat the first time, right? Went back to Cleveland. Mm-hmm. And then now he's in Los Angeles. Something he gets probably like four, four, five, and five or somewhere.

Yeah. Okay. But I don't want to worry about him. No. I do need them to be out of the way, though. The Lakers? I mean, in my mind, I'm worried about Oklahoma City one, Denver two,

probably Minnesota 3 I'm not overly concerned about the Golden State even though God we that said they just knocked you out of the playoffs and it sounds ridiculous and the clippers to me look incredibly old

oh yeah the oldest team in the NBA and even close yes 2012 would have loved this team they would have been dominant 2025 ain't that big of a deal no And there is nobody in the east that gives me any pause. The east is wide open.

I guess Calabins? Cleveland, Detroit, probably. New York. Those will be your top three. Yeah, because Tatum's out and Halliburton are out. The Killies Tears. Did I see this right on Christmas Day, eight of the ten teams that play on Christmas Day or Western Conference teams?

That makes sense. That just shows you the power in this league is in this league. Yeah. Yeah. Texans are hard pressed to get out of the AFC. It's so difficult. And then the Rockets have been, how long has the West been like this? Since like 1990. There's actually quite a fit of parallels to it.

There are a bunch of, I mean, you could put Minnesota, well, Denver won a championships. I can't really count them. Minnesota. The Clippers. Clippers have had some good teams and never made it even into the Western finals. Clippers, maybe Dallas Pre-Luca. It was the Warriors before,

I mean, the Thunder before this last year. You could flip-flop them for Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Buffalo as teams that are really damn close, but man, they're in the wrong conference. That's what I'm saying. That's where the Rockets, I think, had to kind of, they didn't want to be in that

stagnant spot. They wanted to try something to leapfrog the teams that could be competitive. That's why before the move was said made, I said I was for it because of not looking at yourself, but looking at the West. So the Rockets just, by happenstance, being in the East, you wouldn't have made the trade? No.

Well, when it only costs you Jalen Green and Dillon Brooks, probably still do it. Yeah. I think you still, I think if you are, if you believe that Kevin Durant can still wake up, scoring 25, grabbing 12 rebounds and addition out four assists. Yeah. And being competitive defensively, I don't think regardless of conference and regardless of where you are in the standings, I think you make the move. I think there's more urgency having been in the West. Yeah.

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lost its first game of the season? We're finding out a few weeks. I'm sure it's happened before. You're all going to win there. I mean, I don't even like your school, but I got to be honest. Two and a half point dogs. That's nothing. You get two and a half when you're at home.

I got the long ones on the money line. They're going to take down the Buckeyes. on a recorded line, right? Week number one. You had some inside information. I got inside information. I heard from Arch Manning's girlfriend. Arch Manning will be at the University of Texas for two years.

Believe it. Even though he may be the number one picking the draft, if he is, it's going to stay. He just values the NIL. Believe it. But we got an NIL fight at the house yesterday. Oh, you and, let me guess. You and your son. Yeah.

I said, Cameron, my son of the Texas Tech, I said, Cameron, you guys are Dan if you do, Dan, if you don't. You spend all this money and you win, what's the first people going to say? You bought a championship. You spent all the money and you finish 8 and 4 like you always do, but like, man, look all that money you spent for the same results. I get a little ammo for you. Please. He always makes fun of me for being a Manchester City fan because they buy all their players. And he's like, oh, they're just buying their championships.

This is an big oil club. I'm like, hey, play, you got to feel the team. He said Ohio State buys their players. I said, yeah, but Ohio State has a long tradition of being a national championship team. This is another new for them. They're just playing by the new rules. Tell him, I said to stop talking trash about Manchester City if he's going to support Texas Tech. Or maybe I should tell him.

No, that's okay. Let the kid be. I'm coming after him. Oh, you are going to. He's been talking trash about the city. Is he really? Of course. You are soccer smack talking on the group chat?

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