The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros in Free Fall, Rockets vs. Lakers, McIlroy Wins Second Masters

Episode Date: April 13, 2026

Astros in Free Fall, Rockets vs. Lakers, McIlroy Wins Second Masters

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. And that's the reality. I can come on here and yell and scream for four hours. I've got to save my voice. Actually, four and a half. I got Astros on deck today, 2 o'clock.

Wow. Here on 7.90. Look at this guy, stepping up. Oh, my goodness. Free fall is correct. The Astros are in. free fall. Now, I did ask y'all yesterday to send me songs

and I said, be gentle. And I told Ross, I said, hey, why don't you find the song that fits best among those that sent stuff? And you probably picked the right one. Felt right. They're in a free fall.

Your Houston Astros. Seven in a row. I did not know this until I just heard Robert Ford say it. They had not lost that many in a row in seven years. So, I'm taking a shower this morning. Okay. And that's as far as we're going on that. This is one of your 45-minute showers, correct?

No, it was actually, no, because I had a, I tried to sleep a little bit later. The game was a half an hour later last night than normally. So, Kim is like, I got a stat for you. I don't know if she saw, she must have saw it on a, oh, she saw it on something called Astros Nation Facebook page. Well, you got to watch out for some of those Facebook pages,

but go ahead. Something called a Twitter, Optistats is a Twitter account. Opta stats is real. And she sent this to me. She read this to me in the shot, and said, do you need a screenshot this and send it to me because I just want to show you,

and it's not just this person in particular, because frankly he hasn't been used in a situation that's been needed a whole lot, which is saves. Yeah, he's been clean on saves. Listen to this. Since ERA became official in both leagues in 1913, Brian Abrae is the only MLB pitcher to have a span of six appearances at any point where he, quote,

pitched four innings or less, which is what he normally does. walked 10 or more batters, allowed three or more home runs, and has an ERA of 20 or higher. Is that good? No. It's atrocious.

It's never been done apparently since 1913 bare minimum. Okay. I'd still like to verify off these random Facebooks. Well, it wasn't asteros. It was the Optostats Twitter, and they took a picture of it. Then they put a picture of Brian and Brie behind it.

I mean, it's bad. I didn't think it would be this bad, but I have wonderful news for you that those of you that have glass half full. By the way, we will not be doing aOs today because they're not aos. They're just Astros, old proper reactions. We still do those.

Yeah, I don't think I want to. The Astros are only two and a half games out of first place. That's good. The entire American League honestly is mid. The America League East, the Rays and the Yankees, and the Orioles are tied for first place, all three-way tie. Not worry about them. Eight and seven. The twins and guardians lead the America League Central.

They are nine and seven. The Rangers and the A's lead the American League West. They are eight and seven. The best record in the American League. League through 16 games against an extraordinarily small sample size. The Minnesota Twins and the Cleveland Guardians are two games of O500 and that is the best record in the junior circuit. National League Dodgers 11 and 4.

Jeez. Atlanta 10 and 6. Pirates in first place, not in 6. Wow. But that's their issues. You gotta watch out for the pirates. We'll worry about the National League. 10 and 6 looking good.

We'll worry about the National League come World Series time. Yeah, once the Astros are in the World Series. Then we can start really dissecting how the numbers are. We come back of the century. Well, they're six and ten. Okay. So, I watched most of Saturday. A little bit yesterday because I was bouncing back between a few different sports.

I was getting ready for my last Rockets game. And you were locked in on the Masters, I imagine. And the Masters I did watch as well. 7-2 is supposed to be good enough to win a baseball game. I fell asleep at about 1140. I woke up by 1215. Final year score, 8-7.

And I'm like, oh my God. Astros, generally speaking, are scoring enough runs. You can't score 6 every day. You'd like to be able to do that. But even at this point, 6 hasn't been enough. Tell me that I'm not overstating it. Because if I am, please, you'll talk me off the ledge here. This is the worst stretch we've seen in 10 years?

Yeah, first of all, it's the worst seven game losing. It's the first level of a seven. game losing streak in seven years, so we can start there, and then you add in everybody that's getting hurt. Yeah. I mean, Tai Chi, Emi gets hurt on Friday. Cody Bolton gets hurt on Sunday.

In between that, I mean, you've gotten nothing out of your starters, and when they're either getting hurt or getting pulled early and getting shelled. And then Brian Abray at the back into your bullpen has been an absolute disaster. I

and disaster. He was a lot. I mean, I don't even, you can't even say, I mean, Joe's giving him opportunities to kind of work his way out of the mess. It's just getting worse. Well, he is scoring. In the ninth inning of tonight's game, if the Astros haven't been to lead, I'd go to Brian King. I don't, I don't want to say Brian and Brayu's washed. I don't want to say that.

So I'm not going to say that. ERA's down to 16. He's scoreless the last time he went out there. Now he had a hit in a walk. And then you got George Kirby going today. Oh, George Kirby. Great. A certified astro killer, George Kirby.

Mm-hmm. I don't even want to know what he's always done. I'll have the answer for you on the On Deck Show. Okay, thank you. That's mean I want to look it up. Seattle minus 170, basically. They're favorite in this one. Mike Burroughs, your only hope.

Please stabilize. Well, J.P. France is coming back. Nobody can go five innings. Either you're not going five innings or you're getting pulled out of the game because you're hurt. it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable the injuries right now. Hunter Brown, Javier, IMAI,

Cody Bolton, of course. Not a huge factor, but he's walking guys where he got hurt. I'm still not sure what's going on with Aragutti and Jason Alexander still being at AAA. And what exactly the Astros are doing to shuffle around. I'm going to trust that they know what they're doing. So, I mean... Well, I mean, it's got to be... Well, you know what?

They have the answer. They're not doing it to spite arrogant. Right. They're not doing it to spite Jason Alexander. because at this point they're running out of live arms. Yeah. And they have, those guys have service time.

There's no Super 2 going on. Yeah. Okay, I'm just going to ask you all Astro fans. I mean, what's going through your mind right now? Because I have something going through my mind that I will be saving 41130 today to tell the truth. Okay.

At 1.30 today we have missing you. We're going to knock Jason Alec. We're going to knock Justin Verlander off the list. Okay, because he's hurt. Because he's hurt. What happened to him? You can give, I mean, you can be the quick run down. I don't even know, but I know that he's hurting.

That's no surprise. He's like almost 55. Yeah. So we'll tell you how Framber is doing. Maricio Dubon is doing. We'll throw in as many people as we can during Missing You at 130. Today's edition, I believe it or not, 150 will be RIP to Phil Garner. One of the absolute, awesome, good people.

I mean, Ross, you never got to cover him. No. I did before I left to go away for a few years and just salt of the earth. Good baseball. And here's the thing. He replaced a complete jackass. Jimmy Williams was an A-hole.

So to go from an A-hole to one of the classiest people, it was seriously a breath of fresh air. And they won. And that's, you know, you're talking about managerial changes and how things could change. You know, Jimmy got booed at the All-Star game and Drayton's like, okay, I think I know how the city of Houston feels and they moved out and he went to the playoffs.

Yeah. Then went to the World Series the next year. I think it can be especially helpful when you're going from one extreme to another, to a guy who's a taskmaster and yelling at everyone to somebody's like, hey, everybody relax. Yeah. And again, it's all depending on, now, you have to be really careful when it comes to

changes in mid-season because are you guys underperforming or are there things out of the control. I will just say this and look, I do like Joe Espada very, very much. Good person, good baseball man's, put in his time, worked and grinding his way all to where he is now. This isn't really not on him.

It's just not. It's, you know, when you lose 60% of your starting rotation, I mean, as you put on Twitter yesterday, obviously, what did you say? What was your exact phrasing of this? About what? The Joe Spotted. The Joe Spotted stuff.

Joe Spotted deciding to hurt all his pitchers was poor decision-making. Yeah. It's not him. People are calling for a spot his head. The guy I quoted wasn't, but. I know. But unfortunately. if things do get into even worse than they currently are, Jim's going to probably ask for something.

Now, the question will be, what's the point? Yeah. You know, and how much of it does the front office and the managerial staff get to the blame on that? You just can't overcome injuries. You just can't. And again, as we talked about even before all the latest injuries from this past weekend, you know, if you lose,

let's say all of a sudden, Jason Alexander has called up and he's harder JP France or even LaFlanza McCullors was to go down. You're like, oh man, we're kind of used to it. Name teams that lose their ace, who was supposed to be 26 to 30 start guy. You lose him. That's awfully hard to overcome.

Dana Brab having reinforcements. They're not, reinforcements is like next man up, that's awesome. This is a collection of just a guy. It is deep, but it's not full of guys that have won 15 games per season at the major league level. And that's what concerns me. Which nobody's going to be that. But the debt that you have, I do feel good about.

I feel decent about Sprinter Ergetti. J.P. France, me, I'm not that high on. Jason Alexander will see. You certainly would like to see. Colton, Gordon, sure, why not? So, I mean, yeah, nobody's going to replace Hunter Brown. It's impossible. But you just need guys to hold down the fort until he comes back.

and then you need the guys who are out there. I mean, first of all, we've got to see what the heck is going on with Tatsu Yi-I-I-Mai. They're going with right arm fatigue. So, I mean, it's April. Hopefully his fatigue goes away soon. So how does that, I mean, again, you and I are not doctors, but how in the world do you go from arm fatigue to the alley doesn't hurt anymore? I don't know.

I don't know. I mean, it's, he's, what do you do? You take steps, you take time away and you don't throw. Okay, well, then if he's going to be down for three weeks, then you got to ramp it back up. you just don't go from three weeks of not throwing the baseball to throwing 91 mile an hour or throwing 88 mile an hour sliders. I don't know. I don't know exactly what's going to happen with him.

I mean, he's coming over from Japan. He's never thrown in the majors before. We have no track record of, I mean, anything from him. It's just, I don't know what the situation is. It's not good, though. When he immediately gets flown home, that's cause for concern. When everybody, when the Astros on a road trip have to book like, 10 flights home for everyone?

It's not good. I wonder if they use train or they use miles or what they do. I mean, I hope you get miles on that. Is the fifth flight home free for Cody Bolton? You know it would be terrible and I hate to say this. This is just a joke. So just take this for what it is. You know, Dark Breast does the companion pass thing.

You probably take two pictures for the price of one. Yeah, I got you. It'd take Brian a Bray you home too. Too soon? I put that with question mark. Too soon? Oh, this is a pretty funny one. somebody put Astros Parade and it's a parade of ambulances.

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1016 Matt and Ross with you here we've got to tell the truth at 1130 news at noon missing you at 1 30 believe it or not today all things Phil Gardner it's 1016 here on Sports Talk 790 All right come on in we're not going to bite you 10 o'clockers

Just make sure you're out there. Hello. Good morning. Yelo. Good morning. Is it? I think it's a good morning. Woke up on the right side of the dirt.

Feeling good. Weather's decent. Two bizarre, strange dreams again last night. One, I don't want to mention on the air. One, I need interpretation on it. Oh, boy. Okay. And we each have a little small conundrums to talk about.

I'll give me my dream conundrum. Okay. Give me your conundrum later on this morning. It's conundrum Monday. Conundra Monday. I don't think it's easily off the tongue that way, but that's good. I don't forget it. I can clip that.

1022. We're off the hot start this week. 7.13. 2.12.5.7.90. We have Astros Day Baseball. We'll have the end of it at 2 o'clock. First pitch 3.10. I'll have the 10th inning show tonight. And the Astros come home.

They're going to get home. What time are they going to get home? 3 o'clock. First pitch. That's fine. Six. I mean, West to East is shorter. It's like a five-hour four. flight almost up there, but on the way back, it's only

like fourish, right? But you have to, you lose two hours, or you actually gain two hours. Yeah, that's 2 a.m. That'd be fine. Need a day off. You need lots of days off. Rest that bullpen a little bit. Mike Burroughs, seven innings of one run

ball. Mike Burroughs, you're going to throw 90 pitches today whether you get outs or not. Oh, goodness. Okay, so. Okay, who's the first position player to throw? Because it used to be Chaz. Chas is not on the team anymore. Right. By the way, I'll get a better question for you before we go back to yours.

Okay. Who's the ace? You asked that last week. I asked that last week and everybody said Tatsu Yie mine, he got pulled after getting one out. I know. It's Lance McCuller Jr. Sorry. Who didn't give you five in his last start in Denver? Hey, he had a good four. He gave you a good four. He's like a mid-level comedian.

I give you a good 10 minutes. You want 15 or more? So you're saying he's on a headliner? Correct. He's at the Ramada Inn on the goal freeway. Yeah. If you give you a good tight 10. You need more than that? It's going to get shaky. So you're saying that when he goes off script, it's a little rough. Okay. Where's your question? I'm sorry to interrupt your question.

I don't even know what I was going to say. Who's available? Oh, who's the position player? Oh. Cam Smith hit 97 from the outfield, by the way. We're talking about bright spots. No, you can't use somebody. No, it would be the, uh, who's the, who's the, Bat utility infielder. Zach, somebody or whatever? Nick Allen? Nick Allen.

I was calling him Zach Allen. Can Christian Vasquez and get out there? Get you three outs? No, he can't move. They'll just bunt him to death. I'm not going to bunt him. Come on, that's not the sporting. They don't try to give PFP practice

to position players who are out there. They would bunt them all. You don't know that yet. You haven't seen it. You're up 10 innings. You're bunting all the time. You're going to start a brawl. That's what we used to do back in the little league days.

Matt, you're going on the mound. Are you sure? No, it's time to start. throwing hands if you're doing that. That's very unsportsman-like conduct. It is. Is that a radio show I think it's? It's probably a podcast.

Probably. All right. We are not podcasts. We are live radio. We are Houston through and through. Although we will get to the Rockets coming up the next segment. A little bit of masters from yesterday if you would like to get to. I actually watched some more UFO for five minutes over the weekend. It's getting worse.

You said you were never going to come back. You lied. I'm not going to go to a game. I said you were never going to come back and watch it to watching. Yeah, I fooled you last week on to tell the truth. I can fool you. I think I fooled of the audience. Wasn't it when I said that I actually... I did get it wrong, but I was also recused. Okay.

But I should have stuck with my gut. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-2-790. Stevens with us on the Matt Thomas show. Ross, Stephen, good morning to you. Hey, guys. I hope you're enjoying your Monday.

I guess where I'm at with the Astros is that, you know, obviously the amount of injuries and how fast they're coming is concerning, but the sheer number of walks that these pitchers are allowing is it's almost speechless. You know, I think I saw a number that they've issued 96 walks and scored 93 runs, which is, I think, you know, top five in the league is, far as runs scored, but the highest, as far as issuing walks. And I think, you know, going into the series, you know, we talk about how, how poor the Mariners' offense was coming in. But, I mean, you just issue the sheer amount of walks that they did to even the worst team. And they're going to score runs, you know, and just, and I look at who they have, and I just, I don't know how they're going to get better at this point, or at least in the,

the foreseeable future. You know, I mean, maybe things are different once you start getting some guys back. Who knows when that's going to be? But it's just like, collectively, I've never seen a group of pitchers that has trouble throwing strikes like the one that they've assembled to start

the season. It's really like, I really don't have words for it. So just I'll hear your thoughts and I'll hang up a listen. Yeah. Thanks, Stephen. I appreciate it, guys. Thank you. I mean, if you can't throw strikes, you can't be a major league pitcher. And the question becomes, do they have enough people that have thrown strikes in their past to say this is just a bunch of collective guys struggling? Or is this a staff of people that are for-a-pitchers trying to get major league outs?

It's a massive problem. And I think sometimes you were talking about any team losing their ace has a problem, true. And we can get tunneled in on just the Astros and not looking around the league. but they are by far the team walking more than anyone else in baseball. They've issued 96 walks. Angels are 29th with 86. Like, it's not even close. Their whip for people don't know, walks and hits per innings pitch.

Like a one is elite. 1.1 is fine. 1.2, whatever. They're at a 1.7. Next best in baseball, 1.53. Like, that's significant. They are worse by far. than the next worse in baseball.

And it has been the injuries. It has been all that, but it's also been underperformances. The guys who are out there aren't getting it done either. Okay, so let's go through the list, and I will try to this as quickly as possible because there are, well, the Astros, you've used 15 pitchers already. Okay, so I'll have to do this very, very quickly. Matter of fact, let's do this when we come back. I'll give you the walk total that matches the pitcher.

Okay. And you tell me, is that underperforming, now, granted, all of them are underperforming. but is that underperforming base of what we expect of them or underperforming because that's just who they are? Okay. Do you understand the difference on that? Does that make sense to y'all? Yeah, I think so.

Okay. 1029 will do that and we'll get a little rocket chatter coming. Because the rockets, I think, caught a, I don't know if I can say a big enough huge break. We'll get to that in about 20 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. You guys may join us as well, and ladies too. 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-7-90. Matt and Ross with you at 1034.

All right, so let's do this very quickly because, again, there are 15 pitchers. 7-13-212-5-7-90 if you want to chime in on the conversation. All right, Hunter Brown, two starts, six walks. That's way too much, right? That's a player giving up too many free passes. Lance McCuller, six walks and three starts. two walks a game, but again,

not a lot of innings. That's 15 and over 15 and a third. It does have 17 strikeout, so the ratio is almost 3 to 1 on that. Mike Burroughs, 3 starts, six walks, 16 innings.

Whip is 1.75. What is good whip? 1.1 or 0.2? Okay. Ryan Weiss, six walks in 11 innings. Terrible. But again, Again, there's your first case of what are we expecting?

Never been to big leagues before. Overseas guy. Wants to be a starter. I don't think it's a really thrill with not being a starter. You know what I'm saying this? Well, it gets them out. So just a guy. Tatsui Emai, 11 walks in 8 and 2 thirds innings.

That's atrocious. There's no other way to say it. Cody Belton, 7 walks over 8 in a 3rd, just a guy. Brian O'Reyu could not have a worse start of the season. 11 walks in five innings. The area of above 16. Brian King, three walks over six and two thirds. His whip is 1.05.

That's good. Kai Wei Tang, two walks over eight in the third. Ernie's 2.16. He's been okay. Bluebaugh, five walks over nine and a third. That's horrible. Roder Rionios gone. Actually, back to the AAA.

Stephen O'Kert, three walks over seven and third. That's too high. Christian Roa, just a guy at this point. Boy, you know what, Ross, there's just too many to just a guy's. Javier before he got hurt, nine walks over his nine and a third. This is, this is, I mean, and again, what do you want to call Christian Javier? Is he washed because the injury? because he wasn't good last year when he came back and hadn't been good this year.

Is he just a guy at this point? He might be. Jane Murray's small sample size. Jane Murray. Who are these people? I mean, honestly, and again, I will, full admission, I will get a deeper dive into the Astros when my rocket season's done. You might not have to waste your time.

I do want to waste my time. I mean, I want to take time to do it. Does that make sense? It might not be that big. give a deal. An average walk rate is around like 7 to 8%. Astros collectively are at 15%. That's 15% of plate appearance, correct? Yes. They're walking 15% of the batters they face. How is that possible? I don't know if a worst ratio I've ever heard in my life. It's not great. Walks are up league-wide. maybe because of the ABS system

we're not sure yet we'll see how things shake out but this is just still egregious this is still well above average I'd like to be able to blame me ABS I can't blame you can't they're way worse than anybody else in baseball way worse

Jay on 790 and 1038 hello Jay I was listening to Chris Gordy last night and he did say two positive things Astros keep losing This spot is going to be looking for a job

And they're right behind them The Godfather, Dana Brown, needs to be replaced. I think this team is quitting on their coach. Do you think they quit? Jay. I think they quit on their coach. Hey, Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay.

Hey, Jay, Jay, what gives you signs of quitting? They've had 60% of quitting. They've had 60% of their starting rotation leave the game in the middle of the game. What part of quitting? Too many injuries. Jay. Jay, is injuries? Jay, Jay, is injuries a byproduct of quitting?

Hey, I honestly think they're not hurt. Ah! Jay, I'm out, bye. I'm out. You're stupid. Sorry. Dumb, dumb-ass cold. Hey, he hurt.

Dumb-ass call. You are. Jay, they're faking... That was a dumb-ass call. They're faking injuries, Jay? That's horrible. You got to be embarrassed. These million-dollar athletes who've pushed...

They have pushed their entire lives and careers. Some of them through Japan or foreign countries. They've come up through AA, AAA, AAA. They love, live and breathe baseball and live to compete. And then they've said, you know what? I don't like Joe Espada. My hammies hurt. My shoulder.

So, so name names. Who's quitting? Hunter Brown's not hurt? The only ones that got hurt. So Hunter Brown is not hurt. He is just faking. He doesn't like Joe Espada.

He doesn't want to be out there. Dumbass call. So who's picking these pictures? No, you tell me, no, answer my question, Jay. Hunter Brown does not like Joe Espada, so he's faking injury. Well, he might be one not fake. Okay, Tatuya I. Mai comes all the way from Japan and has something to prove,

and he signs his contract. He's on a prove-it deal, by the way. So it's going to behoove him to pitch as well as possible to try to make a big contract. Tatuya I Mai wants to pitch well, and you're telling me he's quitting on Joe Espada as well. We'll see what Joe Espada is going. We'll see how to ask for him to do.

So all the pitchers are going to come back when this spot is fired because they're faking injury. All right. Thank you, Jay. I appreciate your call. No, no, thank you, Jay. Have a great day. Terrible, terrible, awful, ridiculous.

bad, woeful, sucky. If I was on a podcast, I would be dropping F-bombs on you. Horrible, horrible, horrible call. Terrible. Jay, you may be a very sweet person, and I can't wait to meet you, but never call my show again. Well, stay off the roads, Joe.

And he's calling with that. And he's driving. My voice hurts now. What did I do that for? Why am I yelling? Are you okay? No, that was a dumb-ass call. That was as dumb. That is a top-five dumb call in the history of the 16 years of this

show and we've taken some doosies. And probably four of them are Jay. And Jay's probably, he's like the Astero's rotation. 60% of the dumb, worst calls I've ever taken to my life involve Jay. Jay, thanks for listening. I mean, my God. That was fun. Here's the thing.

Jay's not trolling. Jay really believes us. I know. I've seen y'all on Facebook. You hear your little Astro comments. There are lots of Jay's out there. And Jay, again, you're probably a. sweet fella and if we ever meet each other and face to face, I will shake your hand, I will say

thank you, Jay, for listening. But that is, I wish I would have gone to college and had studied English because I would like to come up with some new words for how awful that phone call was. And note to all of you that want to get into our business, take as many

English classes, take Latin, get this deep of a vocabulary as humanly possible. So when you get a dumbass call like that, you can come up with other atrocious, ridiculous, preposterous ways to describe that phone call. I've been telling you to read just not Tori Spelling's book. That's fair. But it was good. Tenets doesn't count either, Matt.

Excuse me? Peanuts doesn't count either. How about Encyclopedia Brown? That's good. That's a start. I did read quite a bit of those back in the day. I was actually in halfway decent mood. I took a wrong turn today and took me an extra 10 minutes of drive.

What happened? Out of your own neighborhood? No, at I-10 and 610. I had to get off on Old Katie Road and then turn left. It was a big mess. And you were swiping only fans models, weren't you? 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-78.

Oh, Terry in Ohio wants a rag on me. Terry. Terry. Oh, Ohio. Terry. Do you live in Cincinnati, Ohio, or Cleveland, Ohio, or Cleveland, Indiana, or somewhere like that? I don't know where it is. I love Terry.

I'm looking forward to us. Terry, you're first up. If you thought Jay was bad Oh, Terry, you won't get you. He's going to get me. You never know. 713, 212, 570. 713, 212.

Did I go overboard? I don't think so. No, you're doing great. I think I'm doing great. I'm very pleased in my work. Very pleased. Yes. Hey, I'm still running this country.

Ross, tell folks about synergenics. Energy. Get going. Well, you know what? Yeah, you sound a little low energy, Matt. We love taking phone call. It is what this show is about, unlike 90% of the shows in the marketplace. And when you have great takes and they're amazing, we will applaud them and accept them.

Like we had Stephen Collin earlier, talking about all the walks. Good stuff, right, Ross? No problems there? Incredible. But you do take a chance. Just like I take a chance and just like Ross takes a chance, we're on the air 20 hours per week. If something is said by one of us that's so ridiculous and so preposterous and so ask, and I, we must be called on on it.

Same goes for the callers who we want to be a part of the family of this radio program. Yes. And Jay, again, we love, sweet kid. Just pound for pound brings up some of the worst stuff I've ever heard as a Houston caller ever on a radio show. Thanks, Jay. Thank you, Jay. Friend of the show. Another close friend of the show joining us now.

Sports Talk 790. We go to our, hey. Let's go to Lexington, Ohio. Oh, I mean, Cincinnati, Nebraska, or whatever. Terry on 7 on a. Terry, good morning. Yeah, Matt. Hi. Hey, Ross.

How's that brisket dinner, son? Sounding great, I guess. I don't remember what the bet was. Guardians will take four out of six from the Astros. Oh, okay. I think they might take six out of six at this point, Terry. Yeah, I wouldn't doubt the way they're playing. No, I'm the big, I'm the big Astros fan too.

Good. I'm glad to hear that. I'd like to see the Astros and their gardens in the ALCS. As would any of us? Oh, it sounds like a dream matchup. All right, you all have a good day. Thanks, Terry. Now, wait a minute. Jonathan, you put on their rag on Matt. There was no racking on me.

That's what he said. He might have ticked out. The pandemic is that the president has no intercourse whatsoever with the rest of the kind of the world over a billion 200 trillion 200 billion dollars this doesn't feel right I was an eight handicapped yeah eight this is never but I have you know I'm seeing you swing I know you swing 713 two one two five seven nine zero remember we want you to call believe it or not but trust me believe it you get if you hear something something stupid for me, you must come at me. Daily.

Daily. I got my partner for all these years. Comes at me daily. Gentlemen, Jonathan, you've been with me a year. You're coming at me daily. Yeah, more often. More often, probably you should.

Training him well. Training him well. I'm buying his lunch today in hopes that he doesn't do it nearly as much. How's it going to working so far, Jonathan? Good luck. It's working good. It's fine good. All right.

Let's go to Brian on 7. 90 before we get a little rocket chatter going. Hello, Brian. Hey, good afternoon, guys. I won't be as bad as Jay. I mean, good God. That was just a low bar. Not an overly terrible weekend, and I think Mr. Villarreal might know why it wasn't all too, too bad. The Schlaas coming to Bluebell and getting what was rightfully his. A two-game loss and sweep at the hands of the Aggies. So, you know, humbling Schlaas a little bit. By the way, real quick, help me out with something, because I was at Rock.

So the game yesterday got washed out. I don't know if you know this or not, but the game was supposed to start at 1 o'clock. Yes. Didn't they keep the guys at the ballpark till almost 10 p.m.? When did anybody not realize that rain delays sometimes wash games out? I know they wanted to play it. So normally there's a rule that if they have to fly back that they have to wash the games out. But since they're coming from Austin on a bus, they could hold them longer.

But even so, don't you know it for? 15, Brian, if the field is unplayable? I mean, when was it all of a sudden going to dry out? It's probably the Aggies. It's probably the Aggies trying to keep the longhorns there longer. They probably knew. They all went home and they were just lying. They were lying to Schloss and the players.

Brilliant strategy. You know, you know, I was kind of surprised they were talking about a 930 first pitch. I was like, there's no way they're going to get that pulled off. But I wish that they would have played the third game, but, uh, I mean, yeah, I don't think they were going to ever get it in.

But I think the Astros is part of overall that Jim Crane and Dana Brown, just some of the contracts. And they've signed, I think too many of these guys they signed a little too much bargain bin for me, these, you know, one-and-a-half-year type guys, guys from free of too many like, hey, we think he's got the stuff to do it. And, you know, granted, they didn't have the most flexibility anyway. but I think sometimes they went a little too much bargain bin, and now it's starting to kind of come back to Biden.

And yes, you want guys with control and options and all that. But I feel like they've almost went too, too far, where it's like, you know, you get your Christian Roe is in your wife, and yes, you want to have the flexibility of sending guys up and down. But at the same time, it's also like you have so many guys who aren't established. You know, you got Tang who, you know, hadn't pitched a ton in the big leagues and wife, and, you know, Christian Roa, who hasn't had a ton of time in the league. And then you go and get Rotary Munoz off the scrap heap.

And it just feels like they did so many of those guys. Now, it doesn't support anything for Brian at Brayu and what's going on with him. He obviously, can I handle the ninth inning roll? You know, overall, I think Ogret's okay. But I just, I feel like too many of these guys that you've got are in that situation and where now it's like there's no way out of this, except hopefully they just figure it out and start pitching better.

But, and he just don't have a cap flexing, but unless you start trading guys. But I know y'all are up against the guys. Have a good Monday and good show. Thank you very much. You don't have an option. Dana Brown, it's not like Jim Crane said, here's an open checkbook.

And Dana Brown's like, no, I'm good. Don't assign anybody. I'm not going to spend any money. He has to operate under the bounds that he's given from by the owner. He has to look for these guys. has to uncover all these stones where it's guys coming from the KBO and trading for Mike Burroughs and hopefully he works it out and you like his repertoire and trying to find, plug the holes somehow, and then you have to throw Javier McCullors out there because of the money

they're making. And by the way, the Tatsuni EMI acquisition was a jolt of positivity to the organization because A, you went and spent money. B, you did it with Scott Borris client, which you know how tricky that can be. And number three, you went to a part of the one. world that you don't normally tap into. That was universally beloved. And it's been a disaster

so far. It's been terrible. It's been a disaster and your ace is hurt. That's a huge, that's the topic A, as we say is Hunter Brown is out. Yeah. He's supposed to give you 30 starts of ace level pitching and he is out right now. With no signs

of when any of these dudes are coming back. To tell the truth, 1130. They're right here. All right. Get out of here. I'm going to tell you to shut your bum ass up, I feel like. That's fine. I'll save it for Wednesday. Rockets are going to play the Lakers.

Markey matchup. LeBron versus K.D. For the final time ever? Daddy will be in L.A. for a long time. Nah, two games. That's it? Are you calling your shot? No.

Dang you. I want to. If it's all the same, if you're going to beat the Thunder in the second round, if you beat them, It's much rest and much, you know, not having that series go six would be a very nice thing. I'm sorry, what did you say? Yes, if you're going to beat the thunder. Yeah, I said if.

That's true. I didn't say when. It's not a, it's not a, uh, I can say when. It's not a non-zero chance. I guess they could all get the flu. Do you watch that game last? Shet and a snap and a half. Which one?

The Rockets, Grizzlies. Yeah, I worked the post game. Yeah, but you didn't talk about, I listened. You didn't talk about the game. I watched the game. Yes, I did. I talked about Clint Capell's flip shot. Yeah, you're thanks for listening.

I listened a little bit. It's okay. I was looking to see if the Lakers were going to, the Lakers were destroying the jazz. You didn't put Gerard's clock up, so I know you weren't listening. I did. You're lying. It's okay. No, I heard the first call and then at the Friday I was like, I got to go.

That's fine. Plus the girls were in the back of the car. They wanted to listen to Taylor Smith, Swift. And Taylor Smith. They wanted to listen to Taylor Smith and Taylor Swift. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 11.03, Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you here on hour number two. To tell the truth is coming up in one half hour. We've got Astros on deck this afternoon at 2 p.m.

A long day for me. So Adam and Adam in their time slot don't do the on deck in 10th inning show, but I'm doing it. They get the full day off? Full day off. Oh, good for them at all. That's nice. It's like a Labor Day Monday for them. I don't get it. Just don't get it. You don't get it? I don't get why one of them can't be doing it. But that's neither here nor there. All right. Okay.

I need to step up because I'll be gone, hopefully, for a long time doing rocket stuff. Starting Saturday in Los Angeles. Game number one. So Spur fans are losing their mind. Why? Because they felt like that they got a tougher draw, because they will have to then face either Denver or Minnesota in the second round, provided the Spurs win. I mean, a fully healthy Minnesota is still a tough out. Yeah.

I know you want to play with that. the basketball gods. And hey, maybe the Spurs, maybe Victor Wimbeniana says, I want the toughest route. Bring it on, Nuggets. You want to come out of the West? You got to earn it. So the Nuggets went to San Antonio

and won. Yokic played a lot of the first half and then Yonis Valentunis went off in the second half. It was the Yonis Valentunus show. Seriously, I'm calling this Rockets Grizzlies game. And in the lower right corner, Adam Clinton's got the Denver

San Antonio game on it. I was getting excited. I was like, this is amazing. By the way, Isaiah Crawford for three in a foul. Oh, look at the David Rodney's scoring. Oh, yes, J.D. Davidson with a dime. J.D. Davidson was balling. So here we go.

We're all locked in. Rockets Lakers. Saturday night, to no surprise, ABC put on the primetime game, 7.30 on Saturday for game number one. Don't crush me for this. I kind of was hoping for this. the Nuggets just from a pure entertainment standpoint. I think the games will be better. It's obviously we want the Rockets to advance.

I don't think they're going to make the finals anyways. And so we'll see what happens against the Thunder. But just from a pure entertainment standpoint, Nuggets Rockets' first round is like a knockdown, drag out, slug fest, which sounds more fun. I would like to advance. I know. And I'm not saying the Rockets couldn't meet the Nuggets,

but the percentages with no Luca and no Austin Reeves is significantly higher for the Rockets to advance. advance that it would be the rockets and nuggets were to play they would be a heavy underdog especially with Denver having that heavy but tell the folks right now how the rockets like your size up right now they're eight to one favorites eight to one favorites that sounds less sexy to me than going up against nic nic niccoli yokic and the nuggets I'm just saying from a pure basketball standpoint purely basketball not with narratives and what I want I want the rockets to advance but I don't think they're going to get on the second round anyways well you can keep your shut your mind not beating the thunder I'm sorry Um, well, we'll get, we'll, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. Okay. They're not. And I'm going to, I'm going to walk across that bridge. Beat the Lakers.

I'm a high step. Okay. Like Diana Ross did in the whiz. Hmm. She ease on down, ease on down the road. Okay. They had a reference. I'm sorry.

713, 212, 5, 7. I'm trying to get better with not as many of those, but it's just in my DNA. Well, you need, you don't consume new media. You know why? You don't consume. to consume new media. It sucks. No, it doesn't. Like, let me tell you something. New shows,

new movies, new music. I'm good. I got my curb. I got my playlist on my phone. I'm happy. Okay. It's like what... You're not going to be able to make new references if you'll watch new media. So I'm just going to say who I am. You're not going to invent them. No. Oh, I could.

I have been in Car City. See how that went? Okay. Sure. All right. Invented a media empire then with TV. shows, movies, and music. I invented Toro Town. No, you didn't. Other people were saying it. People were telling my name. I haven't heard anybody say it. I heard.

Okay. 713, 212.5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-08. You mentioned it. Do you know how I listened to the post-game show yesterday? Oh, okay. You said it is a must-win series. It is a must-win series, isn't it?

But you even coined it a must-win series. It's not, isn't it? You want to advance. It's the playoffs. Here, and it's really the Rockets, and we'll get to Casso in a second here. The Rockets are damned if you do, Dan, if you don't. Because if the Rockets beat the Lakers, people are going to say, well, you're supposed to be the Lakers. Yeah.

Well, they need to do. It's a must-win series. And if you lose it, it'll be a catastrophic. You couldn't beat the Lakers without Luca Donchich and Austin Reeves? You can't do that? That's, that's, so you're not going to get any, you, you know what it would get a buzz if you beat any team in a series. Because it now becomes the semi-final. and it becomes you're now down to the final four in a conference.

Rockets won't get that, I think, that super huge buzz from the general sports public of our community. Unless it knock off Oklahoma City in round number two. Is that fair? Must win series. I was listening. Because it's the playoffs. Every series is a must win. Yeah, but you coined it.

And I wanted to make sure I was like, okay, thank you. Must win game, Astros Mariners today? That's not a must win game, but I'd really like them to win. be really pissed when they don't. I don't think they're going to win. Koso on 790 and 1108. Koso, what your Chile can comment? Hey guys. Matt, I was kind of going to say exactly what you just said.

This Lakers Rocket Series, kind of like a double-edged sword. They're expected to win, even though all year long they have been playing down to the competition. Still, it's the playoffs. I think EMA will keep them motivated. but at the same time, if they lose to this Lakers squad, I was going to ask what kind of, what would you see that outcome be like? Because I don't think EMA is going anywhere,

and it would be pretty terrible to see some of the young guys get shipped off. Just kind of one of your thoughts on that. And quickly, I'm going to acclaim my very first gut feeling win today if that's okay. Go ahead, do it. Yeah. So last week I called the phone cut out, but I went on record in my office, and I said, the Rockets heard and go 9-1 and face the Lakers.

Boom, that happened. I'm claiming it. Thanks, guys. Claim it. Thank you very much of the phone call. No changes are happening. It will be a highly disappointing loss. But I see no signs of, first of all, they're not going to lose.

I'm not going to guarantee it because then I becomes bold and more material. I put my name on it. Rockets beat the Lakers in the series. He did it. Barring injury. What? I didn't hear you. Barring injury.

Okay. So I'm not going to do that. I ain't going to guarantee anything. But the Rockets are healthy. They're winning this series. They're significantly better. Yes. I'd love to see Tarisse and get back to what he was first two months of the season.

I've been kind of waiting at for a few months. Doreen Phenny Smith is what it is. It's essentially your six versus their six. And Rocket Six over their six is significantly better. Yeah. And plus you got the DeAndre eight. Hayton versus Clint Capella battle. By the way, did you see Clint Capella knock down that three last night?

Yes, I did. That was his first three-pointer in his NBA career. Did you hear afterwards, what Clint Capella said? You need to make sure his feet were placed properly? Well, Ime Adoka set the playup for him and asked him which corner he wanted to shoot from. What a friend. He wanted to be, yeah.

Oh, no, everybody hates Emeadoka. Players are quitting on him. The vibes are bad. He's the worst. He needs to be fired. Udana's Haslam Only NBA player in history That's played more games

Or played more games without hitting a three Clint Capella was second Wow, I did not know that Matter of fact, you know what, I'll get my phone on right now The top of the key one was bad before that You mean the one that touched no rim Backboard or anything? Yeah, it caused a crater in the floor

They had to stop play All right, here we go I have the stat here this is from the Rockets media department Elias Sports Bureau Clint 739 games before he hits his first three

Udana's Hazelman 752 Hmm I mean I was frankly ill-prepared for because I was ill-prepared for the first one And then got the expected results You were shocked in the call Yeah And we played it in the post game

Thank you for that I tried to find it Oh not a lot of highlights last night Here Davidson out, right side, baseline. Clint wants a three point out. Are you kidding me? He set. He fired.

He hit 103.71. One for two, Capella from three this season. Is that your first retroactive set, fire, and hit? Yeah, because I didn't know what I was like, what are you doing? What are you doing? I went in. That's why you go to Rocket Games. You never know what you're going to see.

It's like a box of dollars. $1,000. $10,000 yesterday at the half-court shot. banked it too. Oh, really? Yeah. Not the 25. So that means he didn't hit the, he didn't hit the three.

You got the other stuff first, right? Yeah. Imagine going to a sporting event and leaving with $10,000. Now really, it's $6,000. Right, $6,000. Yeah, taxes. Uncle Sam needs his cut. You can get some of a big cut.

Kenneth in Orange, we'll get to you to tell the truth. Boys, Jonathan, listen to me very carefully. Three truths. One. Lie. Three truths, one lie. One lie. Great.

How many lies, Jonathan? Three is. I don't even want to do this. Why? Because you're going to say some stuff about the Astros that I don't want to hear. There is one Astro 1 in here. 1113 on Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you, 1117.

On the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. I'll be with you until 240 today. We'll send you to Astro is on deck of the network. Astro's trying to avoid another sweep. Oh. You got sick to saying that. Two out of three lost, the A's in Sacramento, got swept by the Rockies,

and now looking to stave off a sweep to the Mariners. Not great, Bob. At least you'll be tied for last place if you beat the Mariners, rather than all alone in last place. Glass half full? Let's go. You know what?

Astro are taken to tell the truth today. All right. We're all proud of you. No, you shouldn't be proud. You're just going to think about what I'm going to say, whether I'm believing or not. I don't know. I can't keep track of these crackpot ideas you have in your head.

You give me no faith. You don't even know. Three, these four are solid, strong, strong takes. Okay. Let's talk to... Check record says otherwise. And you know what? If you hear my takes you do, get what you do.

You call the show... Well, where are you? Write that down. That was an unnecessary. A dinner. A dinner. I'm going to bring you back a souvenir from LA. What's today the 13th?

Mm-hmm. Okay. You should try to eliminate it down to two shots on me per day. That'd be 10 a week. That'd be like, that's a wonderful segment. You know what happens? Every time I see people and they're like, keep Matt in line.

You hear that? People tell me that all the time. Yeah. I don't doubt that. Your family members, even your friends say it even more. Somebody's got to keep you in line. You're a lot behind my back. If you weren't so out of control, it's really your fault.

True. Kenneth on 790. Kenneth, good morning to you. You brought up a couple of famous men before. About the traffic on one occasion and it's about to park. And this is making this kind of, they both kind of correlate here. And you said something last week about the city plan as well as they're thinking. You know, you're someone that outborn and raised here in 1961. And this city wasn't ever meant to be this big. and it ate up a bunch of incorporated areas.

Bel-A. is one of them that never get caved in. But a lot of it just ate it up. And in my lifetime, 610 went from being our, like, Beltway 8, but now it's consumed by it. And on about the parking thing, and these sports revenue, these sports venues,

that rail now that's one thing that was planned is that all three venues line up with the rail for less than $5 you got a parking ride your ticket is good for 24 hours on your park

and you get to make a trip all the east of downtown you're there under 20 minutes okay somebody said well I don't do ride public transportation and suit yourself but for five dollars, man, and I use myself all the time.

I try that in Chicago or somewhere like that, you know. And, you know, I had to stay on there. Thank you. Thank you, Kenneth. Yeah. Ross, the thought of that? A traffic talk, 790. Houston traffic is getting worse.

We're closed. People stop coming here. That's enough. Stop you, all you, spring breakers. You four million spring breakers who came here. It was at least four million. According to some metrics. You're not in a lot of stay.

No chance. Not in bite. We don't want you back. It's ridiculous. I, yeah, thank you, Kenneth, for that. And you know what? Some things are just better not to be further discussed than with Kenneth just gave you. Thank you, Kenneth.

Thank you, Kenneth. Roger on 790 and 1122. Roger, good morning to you. Good morning, Matt, Ross, and Jonathan. I hope your Monday is doing better than the Astros. We'll see about our rockets here in a little while. first of all for all respects

and and condoluses to scrap iron Mr. Phil Garner and his family a lot of fun memories with him and Danny Rawling in that third base bag in 86 and for him being the coach

in 04 and 05 and helping this skips that first world series so that being said there's plenty of blame to go around here there's no there's no one finger to point the blame at this guy

just one person. There's plenty of plenty of blame to go around here. So with that I'm going to ask you guys who would be the hottest seat of all? Would it be Dana Brown for not getting us any feeder for replacing

an inning leader in Frable? I know his days were not here with the asses, but he'd be felt to get us another top-not starter here or is it his name Miller There is no See that thing is Roger

Roger there's no blame You know what you can blame You can blame modern The human body No team can Really I think realistically withstand losing Three-fifths of starting rotation

Even if they're all going to come back You're still talking about probably all of them What minimum Ross? 30 days? Feels about right, right? I mean, a tired arm doesn't mean it was seven days to come back. Miller, I mean, you're a hater, and you couldn't replace them not even for a little while with a brave who's been largely horribly ineffective. So, yeah, it's crazy that none of these little twigs are panned out.

You know, you have EMI and you have burrows, and, you know, you were thinking that there were going to be reclamation projects and they were going to be successful. And that hasn't worked out as well either. So, yeah, a lot of things haven't gone our way 15 games or 20 games, what was it, 16 games into the season. But however, the way it's looking is like, you know, it's not going to sustain. We're going to be like horribly down in the basement before we get right. And with such a large hole dug, are we going to able to climb out of this thing? I don't have an answer for you on that. Thank you, Roger.

Anyway. All right, thank you. I don't have an answer. I mean, how are we going to climb up? I don't know, not walk people, clutch hitting. Anything we can give as far as reasons and for as far as how this is going to turn out is just, it's just speculation. But that's what we're here for. That's what we have four hours to feel.

And on his point about who to blame, that's the interesting thing to me. Because a lot of people are saying, well, you know, Astros put so much emphasis on velocity and spin. get, that's baseball now. That's 29 other baseball teams. Everybody's putting, if there's not somebody go out there going and saying, hey, guys, just go half speed and then we'll see what happens. And keep that spin right down because we're worried about your injuries.

So let's go to two guys in maxing everything. EMI throws two forms of sliders. Yeah. That can't be great on a forearm and elbow. Perhaps. Javier is fresh off of missing an entire season. The Hunter Brown one, that's a large. to me because that's the first thing that's ever

popped up. Yes, it's the first time he's ever hit the IL. Yeah. So that one I can't explain. No, we Especially since it's so early in the season. It's one of those things where we don't know. There's causation and there's correlation.

Is there, there's been a lot of injuries, but is it because the Astros and their organization and what they're doing is causing these injuries or do pitching injuries happen all over the place? and the Astros are having some bad luck with it. We don't know. We can't answer that.

It looks bad. They just replaced all the training staff from last year, right? People are coming out to the strength and conditioning people. I don't know exactly if they made some changes there or whatever. No, the look from the outside is horrible, and you can't possibly dispute that. It is for a team to go through this a second consecutive season. It's either tremendous...

I'm unblemnable, terrible luck. Is there a philosophy? I would lean. I'm not lean. I would heavily lean towards it not being because they're teaching mechanics that would create injuries. That's not what, I mean, these are major league pitching coaches that have been in their industry for a long period of time.

It feels like with, I mean, we talked to a lot of the pitchers in Fan Fest and at spring training and stuff. It's almost like if, if not when, when it comes to injuries. It's just kind of the nature of baseball. But they are piling up. This is not normal. A lot of injuries, pitching-wise, is normal, but losing three guys on one road trip having to take flights home,

that's not normal. It's wild. And one guy, I don't even get his name right half the time. Which one? Cody. Cody. Codes. Cody Bolton, wishing him the best. I'm worried about EMI.

Cody Bolton sounds like a leader of a country band. Okay. Joining us here at the Prickley Pair Lounge in your Nunstville, the Cody Bolton Band. I'm going to pass on that. My arms are hurting. All need is some whiskey. I mean, we're keeping a bulk right now. We ask.

Thank you. That helped separate that. Thank you. Thank you, Jonathan. We've got to keep this guy in line. Are the Savannah bananas on doing advertisements now? Wow. Savannah bananas, to me, might be an all time.

I just don't get it. It's for the kids. That's all. But they're still drawn 50,000 people. It's for the kids. They're putting games in the Superdome. It's like 75,000 people. It's for the kids.

I don't know. I see a lot more adults. I think there's too many adults. We have listeners that just can't not get enough of their bananas. I don't feel like that. They're going without their kids, are they? Yeah. It's like people going to Disney World.

If you're foreign-grown adults going to Savannah bananas, yeah, you're weird. Okay, let's call them out. If you're a Savannah banana fan and you don't have kids or your kids. Banana Fana. Yeah. If you're a banana ramma, if you've gone to a Savannah banana game without your kids or you don't have kids, call and explain who you are

and why, and we will try to be polite. Can't guarantee anything. It's like going to a Harlem Globetrotters game. You've got to bring the kids of that, right? Yeah. All right, to tell the truth is up next here on the Matt Thomas show at Raw. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-79.

If you want to come in and talk with us about the Rockets, the Astros. How much of of the Masters did you watch this weekend? I will tell you Rossi, I watch a little bit of Sunday. The Masters. Until I fell asleep. And then when I woke up, Roy and Maccroyo kicked ass. That's what Sunday afternoon golf is for. Mapping. Oh, prime

napping. Yeah, because you're talking slow on the green. But there's no action. There's no crowd. I mean, there's just polite chatter, you know? Yeah. But Roy's a perfect napping. Kicking ass two straight years. After giving up the lead big time on Friday on Saturday, came back in one yesterday. So

want to get into that and then um oh missing you coming up at 130 plus astros baseball i got a lot of work to do geez let's go i got to get going here come on now all right let's go four on seven ony uh jonathan ross you know guys i do like to tell you the truth but sometimes i do like to lie and it's now up for you to determine which one of these four takes are a lie ross you ready yeah i think i off my microphone hope you're Okay. I'm good. I'm trying to hydrate.

I got you. Jonathan, you ready to go? Let's do it. All right. Four takes. Three, I believe. One I do not believe. Which one am I lying to you about?

Number one. My wife, my family, all of us, entered the L.A. Olympics ticket lottery contest. And my wife's one of her best friends did as well. and her best friend was able to secure LA Olympic finals swimming tickets to purchase. Oh wow. Incredible. For my wife to go to that the final, the gold medal game, the gold medal day.

Okay. Tickets were $1,750 for the one tickets. I told her you only live once. You'll never go to Olympics again. buy that ticket. How much? 1750. Gold medal Final day

swimming $217.50. No, sir. $1,750. I told her to go for it. For swimming. Okay. Okay, that's your take?

I said, yeah, let's go. I said, you have my blessing. Okay. You only live once. That's not a sport take. Okay, but it's fine. It's fine. Go ahead.

Sorry. Now, back down to the sports takes. I want to apologize for this sports take. You should. And I am an astro buddy since 1979. Go ahead. On April the 13th, 2006, the Astros are washed.

Okay. This will be the most difficult year for us to talk Astros baseball since 2014. Okay. Number three We need to stop ripping the umpire so much in baseball I'm watching these games in the ABS They're missing by Miniscule centimeters

Half inch inch Whatever They're doing a really good job And the umpiring ABS system is backing that up It's ridiculously close So I would say collectively we as a baseball fandom You need to back off on these guys

They're doing a really good job It's just super close It's tough business. ABS is helping, but the constant ridicule how bad they are I think it's truly unfair because they're not missing by much. So stop ripping umpires.

This is my third take. Number four. I have a simple formula to fix tanking in the NBA. Stay with me on this. 16 teams make the playoffs, Rossi, all right? Okay. Each one of those 16 teams gets one ping pong ball. You're stealing shoes.

Sha. Was that Shaq or Chuck who said that? I'm not sure what I'm not what I'm not trying about. Then you take the 16 teams, the 14 teams that do not make the playoffs. That's total of 30. Okay. Give them two ping pong balls. You put all the balls in a big bowl. Mix them up.

Draw. That means the Oklahoma City Thunder can get the number one overall pick? I'm telling you, if you do not figure out something drastic like right away, you are going to ruin this sport because tanking has taken over the world in the last two months the NBA and it's tarnished what it otherwise has been a great season. So yeah, it is what it is. 14 teams get two balls.

16 teams get one ball. Let's solve tanking. Boom, Shakalaga, done. There we go. All right. Okay. So my four takes are. Yes, please.

Honey, go buy that ticket. It's you only live once. Mm-hmm. Okay. Number two. Yeah, I know what you got out of that. What did I get out of that, Ross? Back rub.

Thank you. The Astros are washed. They can't fix this. Number three, we've got to stop ripping umpires so much. And four, the ping pong ball strategy is very simple. Two for teams that don't make the playoffs. One, if you get in the playoffs. Which one of the four am I not telling the truth?

All right. Here's my problem. I don't think, Jonathan, first of all, the first one, Matt spending money on his wife, that's a no-brainer. I mean, come on. You know, I don't know if it was a little bit of you. You're going to say yes. Seems like I'm with you on that.

also matt does like to defend the umpires because he thinks he's one in his head so i feel like i believe that one too we're doing one lie right one lie three truth i mean the astros could be washed i've been trying to i've been trying to say the last two weeks hey hey shut your bum ass up all right sounds familiar just sounds like jonathan i'm just going to tell you something if the astros are washed it'd be a very slow summer here on the mad tom show with ross we need the asteros let's go baby come on

I feel like Matt could believe four, but it's absurd. This is the problem. The Oklahoma City Thunder having as good a chance in the Houston Rockets as others? No, no, no, no. It's a horrible fix. Why would they have a better, just as good a chance? They don't have as many ping pong balls. No, the rockets in the Thunder would have the same amount of ping pong balls, wouldn't they?

Yeah. But I mean, but you're absurd. But why? I don't, I'm tired of tanking. I want them out. Or do I? that's a bad see if he believes that it's horrible it's like one of his worst takes in the long time but he's got bad takes all the time so that's what's hard about this

all right i'm gonna go astros aren't wash i'm gonna go with two and he believes a bad yeah you know what it gives my better judgment give me four he's not no i hope you're right i want you to be right i want you to win no incis no it doesn't make sense all right one of the you guys are in yeah go ahead you have it four you have the ping pong balls rosh you have number we need to stop ripping the umpires. You're right. I'm always going to defend the umpire. Stop ripping them so much.

ABS is close. It shows how close it is. And ABS is really good. I love technology. ABS can get it all right? It's getting it close. It's so close. And we have this technology

that can get every call right, but we don't do it? I know. What the hell is going on out here? The umpires are being ripped on too much. I do believe the ping pong ball formula. You got to do drastic. You cannot continue to take the bottom five teams

and give them a higher percent chance everybody else. This will eliminate tanking. It just will. That's number two. I do believe the ping pong balls strategy. Number three. My wife gets an opportunity to go watch the swimming for $1,750 for a once-in-lifetime opportunity.

Ross, I said, hell no, way too much money. Okay. Wow. Good job, Matt. Guys. Do you think the Astros are washed? It's over? They're the best offense in baseball.

What does washed mean? We're going to have the longest season in 10 years talking about this team. So we both lost. Yeah. Yeah, your tanking solution is horrible. I love it. Thank you. I love it.

I don't want to say it. You can say it. You ain't scared. Why would the thunder get the same odds at the Atlanta Hawks? Yeah, next time I may explain why you believe this. Because I want radical change. I understand that. So I'm giving you a radical change.

I'm giving you the fact that if you don't make the playoffs and you still should be competing and playing basketball because you are prideful in your sport, what the Memphis Grizzlers have done, the Utah Jazz, the Sacramento Kings, I can go on and on and on, is humiliating to the integrity of the sport of professional basketball.

Portland Trailblazers, when they make it in the play and get the same odds as the thunder and the spurs and the pistons. If you want to give them a third ball, whatever, that's fine. Well, that wasn't your solution. No, you're right. I would say, let's go radical. Okay.

Now, it's not going to happen, but if you really want to get rid of tanking, stop giving the top four teams a significantly better percentage than the other 26. 1750 for all women's. Oh, no way. I mean, look, I will spend money on my wife. Don't get me wrong on that. I've seen a lot of superfluous spending. 1750 for one.

You said no to your wife? Oh, hell yeah. Actually, she said no. No, no. Hold on. now you're lying. You just said, she said no. He's a fraudulent.

Look at this whole this fraudulent stuff is happening right now. He has no response. He's cooking the books. It's fine. No, well, your contention with it, you said yes. Let's go back to the most important thing. The Astros are, so you're saying it's season's over. Yes.

The season is over right now. I've never in my life as a broadcaster said it this early. All right. I'm writing this down. I mean, you might not be wrong. I have to give you a take on it. Mike Burroughs is going to write the ship and you're going to apologize tomorrow on air at 10.01 a. I want you to give me the next five in the Astros rotation.

Go. Mike Burroughs, Jason Alexander, Cody Bolton, Braddon who left yesterday, by the way. Brandon Backy and Wondie Rodriguez. What's up? Suck it. I'm right.

Folks, An early, I'm sorry. Because we carry the Astros. I've been an Astro fan since 1979. Matt has given up on the Astros. He says it's over. Yes. And it's terrible.

I've been thinking about this ever since probably the 772 lead to go in an 87. You have your closer who is yet to throw a pitch yet. Your backup closer has got an ERA of 16.

you have 60% of your starting rotation out. You don't, when Joe Espada cannot give you the starter for the next day until the day of the game, that's, you're washed. Sprinter arugati. It's going to save the season. And you're going to have egg all over your face. Put your name on it. Yeah, put your name on it, Matt.

No, Ross. You put your name on it. Me? What? Why? Errigate's not say the season. Sure, why not? listen to yourselves what and i'm sad i'm you think i'm enjoying this conversation with you no it's disgusting you're a hater you disappoint me well i've been told that by many 1145 on sports talk 790 Jonathan you did not win on this week's edition to tell the truth but thank you for playing neither did i

i know so we're still 5 3 oh look he's still counting it isn't he that cute how you bought into that that's ridiculous that's my takes remember if my hey what i just say you raised earlier if my takes are terrible, come attack me. I am. Come fight me. That's the worst solution of tanking I've heard yet. Come fight me. I think so. You got to explain yourself. I just explain myself. Time for radical change. I'm a man

of radical changes. And honestly, Ross, I feel terrible. I cannot wait to be wrong. I cannot wait to be made fun of. I cannot wait for y'all to call and tell me I told you so. But I'm taking it

One game at a time, baby. I feel it from the audience. Not that the audience makes a huge difference. But I just... No. I'm watching. We're watching. We're listening.

There are no reinforcements coming up here to save the day, and that's the thing that troubles me. And the biggest issue that I have with this, which is killing, is if this team had was losing two one games, and if you could just get one clutch hit, because bats can come around. The Astros, for the most part,

you have home runs RBI's crushing it Cam's been doing great Altuva is getting two hits a day this is all unfortunately being wasted

because you cannot throw strikes Yeah well I mean it's not the craziest thing They're on a seven game losing streak They have not been on a seven game losing streak in seven years And it's also the competition

They've been going up against It was a struggling mariner's team The Rockies who were historically bad The last couple of years And the Sacramento A's Who are right now in first place But still you're not expecting them to be world beaters

It's not really your worst tick Thank you I mean the the ping pong ball solution is worse than this So you know what that was rude And I'm sorry Write that one down I mean it's also I was just speaking my truth

I understand But it I'm just hoping and I'm being optimistic If you tell me right now That you foresee you have a crystal ball And you're going to say the Astros are going to lose Like 90 games this year That's not the craziest thing

because as we note, three of their starters are down. But can Jason Alexander and Spencer Arrigetti and Colton Gordon and whoever at least hold some kind of water? We don't know how long IMA is going to be back, be out. Javier, you weren't necessarily counting on to be great in the first place. Mike Burroughs, I think, has as big of an April 13th start as you can have at the very beginning of a season where you're 17 games in. It's game 17 of the season. it's a big one for Mike Burroughs because if they are going to at least

at some point turn some kind of tide Mike Burroughs is going to have to be part of it because he was great in spring training we were all high on him and how great he is and how he's striking everybody out and spinning all the crazy stuff and he's going to be great he's got to go out there and he's

got to be good today at least you don't have to win this game but like something close to a semblance of a quality start with hey I got a crazy idea. Pitching into the fifth inning, which he's done every time he's gone out. He's gone at least five innings, which is like,

he's like your Walter Johnson or your Cy Young at this point, because the guy goes five innings. Like he's your Iron Man, which is just crazy. So if he can go out there and be decent, winning the game would be great, turning the ties, stopping the losing streak would be great, and then holding some semblance of water from everyone else, then you can get Hunter Brown back

it's also going to be on the bats as well you need the pitching to not be as historically bad as it has been which apparently I saw something on my I'm going to pull this back up the Astros are like the walking batters at a rate that hadn't been seen since like the

1880s or something like that and as I was going to slow down I can't imagine this being a trend for six months but I'm going to tell you give me another baseball team that loses 60% of its rotation

pre-tax day that all of a sudden can go deep to the farm and go get guys that can pitch every fifth day. You're asking them to hold the water for like a month and change. And I mean, we don't know

what is the latest on Tatuya EMI? Maybe something we'll find out today. Okay. At this point, Dana did not say anything yesterday on his visit with Robert and Steve. He's supposed to have tests, arm fatigue, he has not been IELed yet, correct? Correct. Okay. So we can hold out hope there. But JP France was optioned and then recalled, which he can only come up for an injury.

So probably EMI is going to hit the IL. I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it. I'm sad. But this is a show that has sports takes. And if they're wrong, then you come after us. If they're right, then I told you so, but it's just because here's a thing. Ross and I live for the summertime because we do and talk about the aster's. We have lots of Astros' guests. we love the sport. It's great going to Diken Park talking with you all. It's fun to chat.

Again, I don't care about if the Texans get extra linebackers. That doesn't do anything for me. Baseball does something for me. A deep long playoff run for the Rockets does something for me. Win today, win the series against the Rockies, and we feel a lot better. All right. I like your optimism. Maybe you can spread some of that to me because right now I ain't feeling it.

Well, I've been trying to do it for 15 years. It doesn't work. Easy. Easy. Good morning. Matthew George Thomas Yes sir Why after 17 games Do you think the season's over

Sorry for real Do you remember the season When they were 12 and 25 I do And they came back But that team was not riddle with injuries This is not because of play This is really there's twofold

One 60% of your rotation is gone Two The bullpins being overused And three, Brian and Bray, you were supposed to be your holding on until Josh Hader comes back, has put together the worst month that a single reliever could possibly have. That is in an impactful, high-leverage situation. I'll tell you what.

Let's do this. And I'm going to be at lunch with you and Ross. I tell you, between today and May 13th, there will have a winning record. And I'll pay for it. And I'll hang up. listen to them. Thank you. You know a lot of lunch bets out there. So, too many lunch bets. We appreciate you. We love you. Yeah, you know what the biggest

bets. We eat during, we were on the air during lunch. Yeah, I would just say, yeah, we can't be, yeah. If you want to do like a Morton's at 530, we're on to that. This is different than guys underperforming. If this was Jeremy Payne with an OPS of 640,

okay? If this was Jose Al Tuve not feeling his position well, if this was Yornaon, one for his last 19. I wouldn't have said something like that. But pitching is literally half the game. And if you don't have enough pitching

and the those that you're asking to step up this, I mean, look, Ross, no starting rotation goes 26, 27 weeks, one time for the order, round and around. You do have injuries. That goes without saying. But if you're talking about three guys that are probably going to miss anywhere between three weeks in a month

you can't hold water like that not when you can't throw strikes what if they were bad anyways Hunter Brown is a big miss obviously that's the huge one you're expecting a lot more out of them he might have been good anyways so I mean

we'll see what happens with that miss time and it could be Christian Javier's career could be washed anyways as well so it's possible that that is no huge loss I'm just trying to be more positive I don't know I understand where you're coming from. It's not the craziest thing. I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it. I know. It's not the

season's over. It's not the craziest thing you've ever said. I just I'm hoping for better. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Play Tom Petty Ross. Properly rated? May he rest? Underrated?

Yeah, it's all of very good. Properly rated. Because if you shame, if you go after Tom Petty and saying he's overrated, then you're going to get the Tom Petty can be a cup from that. I don't think he's overrated at all. No, I think he's probably a rated now. Yeah.

American Girl. Last Ants of Mary Jane. Won't back down, running down a dream. Yeah, there's a lot. There's plenty. You got lucky. He's not great. Oh, the waiting.

It's the hardest part. Waiting for the Astros to be good is the hardest part. Here's the thing. I asked people yesterday, Ross, to give us some songs for the open today. People have plenty of options. I like the sound of silence. It's a classic. There's a song.

give you the Johnny Cash hurt. It's a good one. The morning after by Marie McGovern, I believe. There's got to be a morning after. There's got to be a morning after. She sings. It's an old 70 song that I was never going to play. That sounds horrible. It wasn't great.

Okay. All right, let's get to it. 1209 on Sports Talk, 790. We present to you The News and New. Well, the Astros are free falling, folks. They've long We lost seven games in a row. The bats have gone quiet.

The pitchers are getting hurt. Our pet's heads are falling off. One run against the Seattle Mariners yesterday. Cody Bolton got hurt, got pulled between the first and second inning. Jaden Murray came in, and I don't know. Then Christian Roe and Eno Dolo Santos.

You want a silver lining, Matt? Please. How about a scoreless inning from Brian Abrae? now he threw 27 pitches issued a walk and gave up a hit but a scoreless outing from Brian Abrayu a step

in the right direction you think that's how they see it you would think they don't you don't have a choice you got to keep putting him out there he's got to figure this thing out I mean unless he's literally hurt you got to put him out there

because he's your your best option or has been or what we're supposed to be in terms of close him but the Astros are free falling. They have lost seven games in a row. It has been seven seasons since they have lost seven games in a row. Does it become eight? The odds makers say yes.

George Kirby versus Mike Burroughs. We're going to get the full mound matchup for Matt Thomas coming up later on the program. Minus 170. Mariners' favorite against the Stroes today. How are we feeling? I'm going Astros in the upset You heard of here first

You know what Positiveity needs to happen I think so Mike Burrell is going to give you Strong six innings George Kirby's going to get it a little bit Who's closing the game

Brian to Bray Or Brian King I don't care Starting it out there Yeah Known closer Brian King It's not good No matter who's out there

Maybe you need a blow out All right There you go And also Also, I know in the news at noon, Matt Thomas declares the season over for the Astros. I don't want to. I know. I mean, I guess I could have hitting it.

You could have. You got to let your... Love flow. I was going to say freak flag fly. Either one. Rockets beat the Grizzlies yesterday. 132 to 101. Didn't really matter because they were locked into the number five seed, no matter what happened.

but they did match last year's win total with 52. Funny enough, Matt, where were the rockets seated in the West last year with 52 wins? Number two. Where are they seated this year with 52 wins? Number five. What the hell's going on out here? Spurs finished second with 62 wins,

Nuggets in the three spot because they defeated the San Antonio Spurs. And they said they ain't scared. I mean, you understand why the Nuggets lost. I'm sorry, I went out there and won. Spurs didn't win, so they're sad because now they have to take on those nuggets in a potential two, three series, but the Nuggets have to get past the Timberwolves.

First, we'll see who the Thunder are playing and who the Spurs are playing with the playing games. But Nuggets, Wolves, and Lakers Rockets, locked in, rockets take on the Los Angeles Lakers Saturday 7.30 p.m. here on Sports Talk 790. We have some late breaking news.

I will be also out at the Rocket It's watch party at Kirby Icehouse in the Heights. If you guys want to come see me, I'll be out there for the pregame and hanging out for the game and do postgame there as well. Huge plates. I drive by it every damn way home. Yeah. It's like 610 and T.C. Jester-ish.

That area over there. Heights. Prime Heights. Yes. All right. Congratulations to Roy McElroy. Winning his back-to-back Masters. There are two bits of audio in our sound bank that we're going to play coming back really quick from the break.

One is about how Rory McElroy did not want to come play in Houston. I wonder why he said about that. that. Okay. That's really a great precursor to the Masters is playing in Houston. Yeah. He said he's too crowded while of Spring Breakers. And Scotty Sheffler apparently roast a reporter. Okay. I don't know this happening

yesterday, but we're going to listen and find out exactly what he said. Plus, more on the Astros, more on the Rockets. And at 1.30 today, we have Missing You segment. How are former Astros doing? 150. Believe it or not today, rest in peace to the late great scrap iron. Bill Garner.

That's one. That's two. Two's fine. I'll be the judge. I don't know. But it's a twofer. Then it probably should be another one. All right, sure, why not? Tatu Yumi I is hitting the injured list.

That's no surprise. With right arm fatigue. Jeremy Pena is going on the aisle with a great one hamstring strain. Colton Gordon called up. Shea Wickham and J.P. France as well. Jaden Murray

has been optioned. This all from our friend Chandler, Rome. Covering the Astros for the Athletic. Colton Gordon's going to hold down the fort. Colton Gordon can't be worse than Tatsu E. Mai has been. Right? That's quite a spin on it. Jason Alexander or Spencer Arrigetti can't be worse than Christian Javio.

air was. That's a good spin on it. You've got a backup with Jeremy Payne down. It's Coray. It's short and you got Paratus at third every day. That's a great, great depth. Season's not over, baby. Let's go. Would you please play

a George Michael hit? I can be your father figure. Oh, I don't know. Would it be that song? Wake me up before you go-go? Would that be the song? What's the song with

I don't know because you were waiting for me with Ritha Franklin? I don't know. We have somebody in the office that literally has a

picture of George Michael in her office so she she's yelling at her. Yeah. Oh, careless whisper?

That's a good one. Now it's careless whisper is that George Michael? Is that Wham? That's Wham? Okay. Yeah. Go ahead, Jonathan.

When are you find last Christmas? I mean, you could. I gave you my heart? Yeah, I play father figure. No, he's asking for

I was trying to talked in without you guys hearing it. It's fine. Fast forward this. I want to hear these sad organs. I guess it could be not. Isn't this? If I could touch your body, isn't it that one?

If I can heal your body. Okay. I can heal your arm. Yeah. Thank you. This will get everybody in a better mood. If I could heal your shoulder. Or your hamstring.

Go ahead. I ain't freestyle in George Michael. Why not? I haven't had time of hair for this. He's on the I-L. Where the bum's shoulder. On time for days off four. Astros on the 15-injured list.

Oh. One after the other. Getting hurt on the road trip. Gotta get some more from Mike Burroughs. Today on 790. Gotta have faith. Gotta have baseball faith You gotta have faith

The faith the faith On Astros faith Faith the faith I'm going to out Ross for something He just said before we went on air No you're not Okay, we'll do it That's fine if you want

Go ahead It's minor He suggested this summer I'm gonna start out of you for things you say off air Oh mine's way worse Go ahead That you suggested maybe we need to find a TV show That all of us can watch together

and kind of running through. I like last dance. During COVID times and there's no sports and we would do recaps of the last dance on Mondays. Well, next year, when the Astros and the rest of baseball

go on a lot, that we'll have the... We're ringing back Summer of Fun. Oh, yeah. Summer of Fun, we'll be back. Gotta have faith. How much faith you have? Mike Burroughs faith.

I got Mike Burroughs faith. The faith. All right, we're done. We apologize. Lance McCullors, Jr. Not on their show in the marketplace, can give you George Michael and Astros in the same conversation. Colton Gordon.

Colton Gordon is going to rally the Astros. I'm ready. Sal, how are you, friend? Oh, I'm terrific. Season's not over because the division's weak. But the real question is, how long will Jim Crane be patient? Because I think that this in my contract is Dana Brown's Jose Abraeu contract. And I also think that if they want to, they don't really have any trade chips if they want to go and get any pitching.

So how much more control do they have on Jeremy Pena? Jeremy is two more years of a lot of mistaken, correct? Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, this year, he only had another year. Maybe use him as a trade chip. He's got Boris as his agent. He's not going to come back here.

But I don't see these reinforcements in Sugar Land coming up here. They're pitching like they're pitching against AAA hitters. And, you know, you can't be in the major leagues if you can't throw strikes. And I think that Blum and Callis are doing their very best to try to sugarcoat this, and they really can't. So, anyway, I'll hang up and listen, guys. Thank you. Yeah, when they spent more time, you actually talking about Julian Morales' birthday,

that's a problem. Not that we shouldn't celebrate Julia's birthday, but there's a lot of, it was a lot of birthday talking about. I thought it was weird. They were running through her whole present, all the presents she got. And she read her cards from her grandma. Really what to say? Happy birthday. Miss you?

Yes. I don't think cards got sent to her in Seattle. Did you deliver them to the hotel? What do you do on that? This is a Western Union. It's so cute that everyone's like, what's going to happen to the trade deadline? Let me tell you something right now, ladies gentlemen. Jeremy Pena. See you later.

You do not want us to discuss the trade deadline right now. Under any circumstances. Hunter Brown, see you later. Shut up. I'm terrible. Wouldn't be the craziest thing. I mean, if they're well underwater, why wouldn't you blow it up? I'm just saying, let's hold off on that a little bit.

Jose L. Tuves got about to be 36. Carlos Carraise in his position beautifully yesterday. Eastside Paredes. Okay. You're on primus career, healthy, playing well. Yeah, he'll be here. No trade deadline conversation on this show until the first of May. Two-imoratorium.

You just said the season's over. Why can't I talk about how the trade deadline's coming up? Because that's different. Okay. You sound like you're talking to your child. Because that means you are in full rebuild, and I don't want to discuss rebuild just yet. Will you want them to run this back? With Hunter Brown and Jeremy Payne in the last year's their deal?

I want them to chase health. Let's forget about chase the fight. Chase health. Chase the health. That's what I hashtag yesterday. You're stealing my bit. Nope. I didn't have put the V in front of it.

1229 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. Matt and Ross with you here on Sports Talk 790 for a good news Monday. Go ahead and repeat what you brought up in the last segment just in case people were jumping in late. Oh, you want the news? The news? Yeah. Jeremy Pena, 10-day IL with a grade 1 hamstring strain. Tatuya E. Mai on the 15-day I-L with right arm fatigue. Jake Myers, Christian Javier, Hunter Brown, Josh Hader, I don't know, Bennett, Suza. Let's throw on a random Nate Pearson while we're there as well. All on the injured list for your Houston Astros. First pitch coming your way, 310 here on Sports Talk 7.80. George Kirby throwing today George Kirby versus Mike Burroughs

Astros win Guaranteeing it Put your name on it Put the assholes on a money line All right very nice Very nice Even though George Kirby has crushed them Oh I know we're gonna do here

What are we gonna do here? The Masters, I want to play the audio Oh okay What do you got? All right Jonathan let's go to the Royal We're going to the audio vault Rory McElroy Was asked

Why he didn't play play Houston. I don't, would you want to guess what the answer was? He wanted to spend more time at Augusta? Didn't he get there

early and he was playing a bunch of rent? I thought he was there for like, he's been there for like a month. I will go with that as a very solid answer? I don't think he, will he bring up humidity and allergies?

Yeah. That was always Tiger's thing on with it back in the day. Yeah, I think he said he couldn't get a table with the clubs. They wouldn't book him because they're all booked up. All the spring breakers are getting there.

All right, Jonathan, play Roy McElroy, why he didn't play Houston. I honestly just don't like the three tournaments leading up to this event. I'd rather come up here. I did a couple of days where I dropped Poppy to school, flew up here, played, landed back home and had dinner with Eric, and probably like I did a couple of day trips like that

where I felt like that was a better use of my time than going to Houston or San Antonio. It wasn't really about conserving energy, but I just, I felt, you know, the more time I could spend up here, the better. Did he say, now who was puppy? Is that his kid? Yes. Puppy. I drive puppy to school.

So he's going, he's dropping his kid off at school, flying, I guess, I'm guessing he lives in Florida probably. Jupiter. Okay. He's flying his kid to school, playing around at Augustine. No, he's, I think he's taking the kid to school, then flying to Augustine. I'm sorry, that's what I meant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

He's taking the kid to school, flying around, flying back, and picking their kid up from school? Or maybe the wife is helping out on the back end of that. Hey. What a life. What is CO2 emissions on this guy. That is a serious humble brag. I don't like the tournaments and head, so I'm going to privately fly it to Augusta, Georgia, play around and come back and fly. It seems like a waste of resources.

I don't know. He's got two green jackets in a row. I think he's not messing up with the... strategy there. It's a jet fuel costing these days. You know, and this is there used to be a disc jockey named Tom Joyner. Okay. That would do a morning show in Dallas and an afternoon show in Chicago. And he would fly back and forth.

That's absurd. Yeah, because even back when he was being a DJ, he could in theory do it via satellite. I mean, it was more of a bit than anything else. Seems like it. How many miles are you getting? Well, I mean, I don't know. You get that companion pass. That's got to be 40 years ago, probably.

Okay. But a legendary Hall of Fame disc jockey. We'll do an urban morning show and an urban afternoon show in Chicago. I'll take your word for it. Because I was like, why are you doing that? Because you do satellite. I mean, now it's easy with the internet, but it's, but it was probably more difficult, but you still could do it. Internet goes down sometimes.

Yeah, that's true. All right. Now, one more soundbite is in the audio vault, which I don't even know what this is. Scotty Sheffler apparently roast a reporter. Now, is this tongue-in-cheek fun or is this got you? I'm going to get you. Scottie seems pretty nice, right? I can't tell you that answer.

I mean, you're Scotty roasting a reporter apparently. That was a 65 today. What did it feel like it could have or should have been? That's just a terrible question. Next question. Awful. What enabled you to... Didn't seem like he was kidding.

No, there was no kid there. You shoot 65 at a gustin you're asking about what it could have been. Yeah. That's 7001 day. Is that good? It's great. You'd be lucky to get 65 and a putt putt course. Was it the winning score like minus 13?

Yeah. Do you notice that athletes are, I mean, you'd have to know it. Because coaches are doing it now. More combative towards media. Why do you think that is? is because it becomes everything is recorded that anytime somebody says something that we're going to find out more about it

than we didn't before. That's part of it. I think also part of it is you have people in there, Matt, as you know, who don't have any business being there. I don't know this journalist, I'm not saying this person. But there are people these days, they can get a little lax with the issuing of credentials. I'm going to imagine the master doesn't. I would think that would be one group that wouldn't be. Yeah. Right. Right. But. Like legit golf people that follow the sport.

I mean, if you're going to Augusta to cover a day, you're not working for the Akron Beacon Journal. People are not necessarily properly trained or experience in asking questions, asking taboo things. And I mean, do you think also with all this big money that these coaches are making, and I mean, just the egos are bigger? Let me ask you this. Let me reframe that question to you, and you tell me if this reframing is better.

Now, this is live. This is literally an athlete comes up to. you. But my guess is you had a pretty good idea what you wanted to say, hey, Scottie, you shot a 65 today, which is an awesome score, but do you feel like even left a couple of shots on the course? Yeah, you could phrase it better.

Yeah. Or you could have you could have had it lower, but you felt like you gave a couple away. It was a poorly phrased question. Listen to this again. Play Scotty one more time here. He ain't happened. He ain't happy with this at all. I mean, that was a 65 today. What did it feel like it could have or should have been?

That's just a terrible. question. Next question. Awful. What enabled you to... Could of and should have means I'm judging you a little bit, bra. Yeah.

Does he have some history? It sounds like he has maybe some history with this reporter. That feels about right. Okay. I was going to say I guess now with your question Matt, media has been portraying as they know more than the professional athletes. And I think they're being...

being more competitive that way into that? And also think about this, Jonathan. You just finished four days of the most grueling golf tournament out there. Shot of 65. By all means, 65 is an amazing day at the Masters, regardless of how you did in the previous rounds. And then you got some Gibroni that walks up who's been sitting in the press area,

eating food and drinking and writing on his computer or typing things on his phone, telling me how he could or should have been better than that? I don't think normally, I don't think normally, though, reporters are talking down to guys in press conferences. Maybe like when we're here and we're on talk shows or you're on TV shows or social media or stuff like that.

But I don't think normally, you know, that wasn't press conference. Dan Shire, whoever, whoever. That sounded like that was right outside the clubhouse. That would sound like to me. And that had to be from, he shot a 65 on Saturday. Yeah, these are these things I catch. The audio vault can help us out with some things. That was interesting.

Well, too, he made history on the last. last half, he didn't make any bogeys or pars. It was birdie, birdie, all an eagle. Like, that was the first person in history. Yeah, that's right. In the back nine on Saturday, right? 1942. Wow, you were locked in on the Masters?

I told you, my grandpa's being, my grandpa was a very big golf. Did you watch any of it this weekend? Yeah, I watched most of it. I did watch quite a bit yesterday, but I did fall asleep. Okay. Normally sporting adventure, you're not supposed to fall asleep. It's, I mean, it's golf. Yeah.

And I think also the way it's portrayed. You're right? We were talking about the fact that it's, You hear the birds, chirping. You hear very little, you don't have that gregarious John Madness type analyst out there. Yeah. Everything is. Boom.

Here's a guy. Everything is, ooh, that went away left. You have to whisper. Till 14. The azaleas in full bloom. I want to call it the golf tournament. Why not? It would be fun.

Go ahead. They do radio golf, don't they? They do. I listened to it on the way of the Rockets game yesterday. It's called Masters Radio. Oh, okay. So, I can do it. I mean, I've never called a golf tournament before,

but I think I'd like to try it, at least. Doesn't seem that hard. Let's go to 17. Ross Fielder Gowl with an 8-iron from 149 yards away. These hair locks are free-flowing. That's going into the water. Seven over today. Yeah.

31 over for the tournament. This is a whole four. I was going to say, right? Ooh. Boy, he had a massive divot there And it went 19 yards to 15 And his 8 iron is snapped in half Yes, and he's yelling at his caddy

His caddy just dropped the bag And now he's leaving Now Ross, he has to carry his own bag The rest of the way Tonight to 17 All right, there's your obligatory golf conversation For the day. Thank you.

All right. All right, so how do we feel on the rockets? We feeling good? We feel better about the rockets today than we are of the Astros. First round victory, lose to the Thunder in six.

Good season. I hope you're wrong. Why are you death staring me like they're going to beat the Thunder? We've got to live in we've got to deal in realities, Matt Thomas. We've got a deal in reality. The reality is this.

One game at a time, baby. The reality is this. The Thunder are better than the Rockets. Not for all those officiating calls they get. Stop foul baiting. Oh, okay. Shake goes to Alexander. We'll see.

It's going to be a physical series. It's going to be fun. But Lakers first. Yeah. Let's get ahead of ourselves last year. Let's stop doing that. That's a full paw on my part. 713-213-5-790.

We got missing you coming up at 130. And today's edition of Believe We're not. Things about Phil Garner. May he rest in peace. 1243 on Sports Talk 790. If you'd like to join us, 7-1-2-790, 7-1-2-790. 2-1-2-5-7-90. We forgot to mention, and it's really a full-paw-on-my part.

that Nick Casario spoke with the media today. I mean, honestly, from what I'm reading, it is not a lot, frankly, of intriguing stuff. Let's see. Let me give you, these are stuff coming from Wex who went there. If the draft was tomorrow, we'd be ready to go. Our staff is incredible. Well, thank God.

That's good. They're ready to go. You better think of You know, we're really behind. We really don't need to be Interfiring talking to you guys right now. Maybe we could handle the first round right now. Maybe, but we're kind of fine-tuning some things right now.

I mean, we're really unsure of ourselves. We've only had three months to build a board. We're not ready yet. Continuing. Ultimately, what happens in free agency has no bearing on the draft. We're a best player available team. We'll take the best football players. Thanks, Nikki, see?

Thank God. We didn't care of this. live, did we? I don't think so. I don't think so either. Next. I've said this before. He's our quarterback, meaning speaking of C.J. Straub. I don't really think it affects his future.

It was kind of a procedural thing. I'm excited to have him around here. I'm picking up his fifth year option. It was a procedural thing. No, I don't think anybody thought he was not going to get picked up, correct? That makes sense. That's a smart decision to do. Next, let's see here. Other

than quarterback, there is no position we wouldn't consider drafting. Okay? They're trying out of the first round, aren't they? What do you think? I mean, maybe. He doesn't know. I think he's got an itchy tringer figure

when it comes to trades. It might trade up if somebody falls. Yeah, it's true. And again, trade it up for Kenyon Green. How'd that work out? Great. For the team he traded, you got traded to. No, not really.

And even they let him. I think even the Eagles, I remember Eagles fans were like, oh, great, they can turn Kenyon Green around. You know what that happens a lot in sports? I think he's with the St. Louis battlehawks now. Yeah. I think he's a huge fan of the UFO experience. It is funny that a lot of teams do this and I think the Astra, frankly all

sport teams, whether they're in Houston or not, they have a feeling of bringing them into our team. The Astros have done it with a lot of pitchers frankly over the last 10 years. Bring him here, we'll fix it. We'll get them hurt. Oh. No, Dan's... Oh, sorry. We'll get them on the IL immediately. What's wrong with you? I'm just looking at the result. We don't, the astros don't bring players in to get them hurt. As soon as you get here, we're going to tear your labrum. No, nobody will think that way.

That's terrible. Got a lot of shoulder strains going on. They're contagious. Arm fatigue. Asked about Tank Dell's availability. It's probably day to day. We'll probably have a better idea when we get through the spring. He's been doing his rehab program.

I love you, Tank, but come on now. You know what? I want Tank to prove you wrong. He's not. I'll be right. Basically every ligament that is possibly involved in your knee was ripped plus the knee cap. Yeah. No, he missed all of last season.

I know, I know, but he's supposed to come back to this one? I think so. I mean, it was like LCL, PCL, ACL, ACL, MCL. If there was a CL to break, Jonathan, in shred, he figured out of way to do it. Is he 5-9? He's kind of short. 5-9-160. Yeah.

I don't think it's going to be workouts so well for him. I'm praying for him. Let me tell you some You guys are his rookie deal You guys are a third round pick Not a guaranteed fifth year I hope he's saving the money Super guy

Plus he got shot Oh you did get shot didn't he got shot at that party Things are not going hot for Tank Dell Hopefully he can produce That's gotta be rough What is your shot to party ratio Does the NFL cover your bills If you get shot at a party on the off season

I would think so Does Blue Cross Blue Shield cover that Shot at a party I don't think they call it Where did you get shot? God, it's just a bullet wound. I'm just wondering if that's getting approved. Ooh, I wonder what the copay on that is.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You've been shot at a party before? Not once. Me either. Now, I have been to a party one time in my life. They were gunshots. Okay. You were young, weren't you?

College. I knew that. I'm telling you, Jonathan, young Matt Thomas, before Kim settled him down, he was rabble rousing. He's getting in scraps. Exactly. It was a New Year's Eve party, I think.

See? In Flugerville. Yeah. We're in this barn and we're just, everybody's just drinking, drinking and drinking. And all of a sudden, bang! I said, we got to get the hell out of here. So we got in the car, went as fast as we could to get out of there. I got sick because I had drank too much.

Plus, the car was going on a very high rate of speed. I said, you got to pull over. And my buddy says, no, I'm not pulling over. So I rolled the window down and yacked. Wow. And the vomit was hitting, because the wind was pretty good. So it was hitting right as back in the face. The windshield.

Then we went to gyms and got chicken fries and taken eggs. Your bile's getting caught in the windshield wipers. That's right. Oh, by way, you have a conundrum really quick to give us real quick. Oh, okay. You want a real quick conundrum? I'm missing you in half an hour, but we have time for Ross's conundrum. It's a quick conundrum on the Matt Thomas show.

And I got a dream to tell you about, too. I went to our deli here. and I got a breakfast sandwich and I went to go pay and I was waiting for the nice young lady to make the sandwich and the person previous to me what is this?

I don't know. Okay, this is a good background right now. Hello, the person in front of me use their credit card and then just walked off. And the tip comment was up. And as you know, guys, ours says 10, 12, 15%.

So what do you do? Do you hit no tip? Do you hit any... Now, I need to be next. I need to pay. Wait, this isn't even a conversation. Why not? You cannot control what that person spends.

You hit no tip and move along. There's no way you put something else. You put money in there, didn't you? Why not? Why not? Because it's not your money. What if he would have tipped? That's his decision.

No, no. If it's your money, don't leave it in front of me. Jonathan. what listen to me you sat out of this I don't see what the big deal is of all the crap this man to my right

has given me for a variety of things I've done in my life you if I left mine I would want people to tip no you would not yes I would coming in and going how is anybody spending my money

yeah I tip what if that person has only been to that deli one time in their life and didn't realize the tip thing showed up it was literally like a dollar it doesn't matter you don't spend somebody else's money don't leave it up there

I'm giving a dollar Could you have hit no tip? I could have, yeah. Why didn't you hit it? Because I didn't, I want the people to get a tip. That's not your decision. It's his decision and he left it. What about the sentence?

That's not yours. That's what? I don't hear from bad tip Jones over here, okay? Johnman, you are bad tipper. I'm going to do that. You are a bad tipper. I thought I did the reasonable thing. No, you did not.

It was 10, 12 or 15. I hit 12. I went in the middle. No, you don't get to do middle. You're not the middler. No, I want them to get their tip. What if he was like, oh, I would have tipped, but I didn't get him anything? And then if he's like, oh, I wouldn't have tipped.

Then first of a number one, you're a jackass. Number one, you're a jackass. And number two, you could afford a dollar. You don't know that. Did he ask for a signature? I'm, yeah, I just put a line. What? Oh, please, the FBI is going to come get me because I tipped a dollar for some guy.

I don't care. That is theft. You stole money from his account. No, I could. Maybe I saved him money. Maybe he was going to tip 20%. He didn't know what the situation to begin with. I went in the middle.

You can't just walk away. It's his fault. Let me tell y'all something. This man has crushed me for a variety of things in my life for things I've decisions I made. I gave a dollar to these. I told the guy not to have a nice day. That's it.

You think this is worse? Yes. You theft. I gave a dollar to these wonderful young ladies. Get your own dollar. Let me finish my sentence. You get your daughter. No, shut your bum ass up.

This is terrible. Shut up. Let me finish my sentence. These nice young people have been working here for years since we've been here. They take care of us. They service us. They make us our food. They work hard.

They do a great job. And I gave them a dollar. That's some kind of great crime? No. Okay, Robin Hood. Let me tell you something. You get your wallet out. You pay that money.

I do. I do tip them. If you feel bad for the previous order, then tip on top of yours. No. This is awful. It's not awful. I don't feel like this is awful at all. Something is wrong with the both of you guys.

All right. Hit the Instapole. I don't care. Hit it. All right. So let's set this up here before he is. He finds the music. I don't care.

I can lose 1,000 to zero. I gave them a dollar. And a hundred under then. You should have said I have a strong take I want to tell you about. Okay. You're right. I didn't know I was going to crush this hard. I didn't think it was that big of a deal.

So let's explain the situation one more time. I could have them 15%. If it was like a $30 tab or something, I can see where you're coming from. It was literally like a dollar. You don't spend somebody else's money. He left it up. Don't leave it up. That's on him.

Don't leave it in front of me. So you want to, you want him to have it down then? So I'm going to stiff these ladies on a tip just because he walked out. That was his decision, not yours. No, he didn't make a decision. Well, a default, no decision is a default to no decision. I am for the workers. I am for the Americans.

hardworking people. Then you should have given them an extra dollar tip yourself. I tipped them when I paid. Ross every time. Tipped off another dude's credit card. Fair or foul? We'll go to baseball. I had to hit something. It's time for it. It's dope.

Fair or foul? Fair or foul? What Ross did. 713, 212, 5790. The tip option was left on the credit card machine, not Ross's credit card. It was $1.00. And said, I'm going to give you, I'm going to do the heavy lifting for you. I gave you $1 because you walked away from the iPad. Fair or foul? Line two on the insipal. What Ross did, fair or foul? Line two? Fow. Fow. I think that's one. A bunch of haters. I support the working woman and man.

You don't support the man who left his credit card out there. Line one in the Instapole. Fair or foul, what Ross did? Line one. Talk to me. Hello? Hello. Oh, yeah, that really pissed me off. Don't do that again. I'll do it again. Don't leave it up like that. He didn't give you a fair or foul. He's like, I pissed him all. Now people are just flat out mad at you.

Line six. It's not like I put 50 bucks on there. Line six. Fair foul what Ross did. I'm with Ross. Fair. Thank you. That's his mom. That's not my mom. Line five. I don't know who you are, but you're a saint.

Line five, fair or foul what Ross did? Line five. Come on. Patrick. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, Ross, you're right. Peach basket wrong. Thank you, Patrick. All right.

I'm getting some support. It's two, too. You may, you know, it's pulling line. I mean, it does lie, but I'm okay. Line four, fair or foul what Ross did. Fair. All right, three. You may win.

I may be wrong. line number three line three fair or foul what ross did Sal what if you overdrafted him about a dollar you can happen get you wait up son you broke ass don't be buying some food don't buy food at the deli if you can't afford an extra dollar it's three three I'm fine I'm feeling vindicated line two fair foul

I think that it's Darwinism at its finest stupid people should be eliminated and Ross did the wrong thing because I would have put $20 on there. Oh my God, that's crazy. Yeah, this guy I won't shut your bomb ass up and you shut your bomb ass up. The Instaball doesn't lie.

John, then we're right. No, you're not. Yeah, we are. No, you're not. You know what? You lost it. I'm going to be a bunch of cheapskakes. You know what I'm going to do right now? What? I'm going to admit something right this second. Are you ready for this? Go ahead. There was a $20 order

that could have got rewards points at that deli? Yeah. put my email in, I took their points on them. How about that? Suck it. But now they can redeem your points. No, they can't. Yes, they can. When they use that card, it'll redeem the points too. All their points go to my account.

No, no. Redeem the points. You made a mistake there, sir. I don't care. You're wrong. Stop spending my money. Stop spending that poor man's money. I win. I win. You lose. Good day, sir. And you lose too, Jonathan. Uh-oh.

Oh, hold, hold on, hold on. The guy that left his credit card. is calling us next. That's not true. 103 on on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Hour number four

of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. As we go along and start a little bit late, it is 108. We went a little along with the last segment as the argument broke out. Matt had to step out. He'll be right

back in just a moment. But is this true Jonathan on the phone lines who's this guy? You know who it is. This is this is the guy who there's no way. He's claiming it. This is the guy who is credit. Okay, I got to find out, first of all. Sir, sir, what is your name?

Am I there? Yeah. Hey, hi. Hey, this is Ross on Sports Talk 790. Is this true? Are you said you're the person who's credit card I use? My name is Jacks.

Jacks. Jacks? Yes. Okay. I need a little bit of proof that you're really in our building, Jacks. Hold on. Hold on. I've had this terrible cough.

And I'm at the pharmacy right now. You're calling from the pharmacy? Let me explain why. No, no, no. I need proof. No, no, no, no. We've got to do some vetting first, Jacks. Okay.

And what is the system of our elevations? like at our building. You have to go to a computer screen and you have to punch the number and it takes you up to a certain floor. Okay. That's true.

Okay. What's another thing I can ask him, Jonathan? What's the name of the deli? Oh, you might not know the name of the deli. Do you pay... It's on the seventh floor. Seven floor. Oh, dang it.

All right. This guy might actually... Okay, go ahead, Jacks. So what's you got a problem with me? I tipped an extra dollar. Is that okay? What's your issue here? What...

Your cough sounds really bad. Are you going to let me speak? Are you dying? Are you going to let me speak? Go ahead. Here's what happened. I went to the deli on the southern floor today and I went to get some soup. But I paid on my credit card and then I took the soup and excuse me.

That's not true. I was going to. Go ahead. Sorry. Listen to me. And then I'm at the pharmacy and I was going to get some very, very important medicine to do this call. Okay. Chest cold that I have.

And when I went to use the credit. card. I was overdrawn by a dollar 23. You're over-drawn. Go ahead, Jack, sorry. Jeez. So I cannot get this medicine to cure my cough and chest cold.

You happen to know the reason why I was overcharged by $1.23. I'm just asking for a friend. Yeah. Yeah, Jacks, you got the soup and, well, I went and I hit tip because

you walked off, so first of all, I need to wash my hands. They're not feeling well. I have a terrible cough. I got you hair in my chest. A lot of flim everywhere. I'm trying to get to the deli. I'm trying to get the soup.

I'm trying to get fixed. And this is what you do? You had no right. All right. Give me your Venmo, Jacks. I'll send you $1.20. Broke ass. My Vimmo is these nuts.

Well, those nuts are broken. Jacks. All right, he hung up. Jesus. You know what? Let's take a break. We got missing you coming up at about 50 minutes. You sneezing?

Apparently a lot of cough and cold going around. Yeah, welcome back. You missed it. I don't know. I think it was a prank caller. I'm not sure. I mean, he did know our building. There was a guy he called.

He said he was the one who was the name. His name was Jacks. Oh, you know, I don't like respect guys with the name Jacks. I don't know. He spelled it? Does it matter? Yeah. Jack's like the game when you're bouncing the ball?

Well, J-A-X is. kind of a douchy. Apple Jacks? There's nobody named Jacks with an with, that's not J-A-X. J-A-C-K-S? No, J-A-A-S. No, J-A-X. J-A-X. Yeah, it's the only way to spell it. Yeah, I guess right.

Who knows? Apple Jacks? Cracker Jacks? Oh, what's your favorite Jax? Apparently Jacks is broke because he said he was trying to get his prescriptions at CVS and he was overdrafted. Do you feel guilty now? No.

So if you would have hit zero, the guy would have got us prescriptions. Instead, he's, I told him I'd Venmo him a dollar and he said it was these nuts. I said, those nuts are broke. So you should try to take whatever Venmo I can send you. I'll send you a dollar 20 if you're that broke,

Jacks. I feel bad for Jacks. He's got that a dollar separated him getting his medicine. Do you think they gave him the medicine after all? I don't know. I hope he's doing well. Hopefully he didn't rob a CVS. We're not going to see him on the news. All right. Missing you're coming up in about 12 minutes here on 790. Travis is with us at

119. Hello, Travis. Travis, last chance. Travis and Kevin? All right, Kevin, why not? Hi, Kevin. It says Travis on the screen. How the hell are you, Kevin? Hey, what's going on? I get guys. Hey, Ron, he's good, bro. Because that was me in that situation, I would have a man in cover my tip too. Oh, so now you're now endorsing petty theft. Okay, it makes a lot of sense. Thank you, Kevin. Shout out to you. I appreciate you, Kevin. Thank you for the support.

I thought it was going crazy in here. Pedro on Twitter, fair. Chris says fair. Gray said is fair. If I don't left $50 maybe foul, but a dollar is great. Thank you. Baylor Doug's backing me up. I met these people. You're not

doing it so very any favor. IDK on Twitter. You want him to tip zero? Thank you. I appreciate everyone's support. Good. For me to leave a dollar. I'm not going to continue to do it. I hope you leave yours empty because I will heed your advice.

I tip more. I tip 15%. So you would have saved me money if I leave my own. I'm going to put in custom tip. Okay, go ahead. So let me ask you this. What if you would have put custom tip put $25? Okay, yeah.

And what if my aunt had balls? She'd be my uncle. That's a ridiculous scenario. I'm never going to put a $20 tip on there from $1 to $20. That's just a bogus scenario. I'm glad you're not doing that then. Shoo. It's relief.

It's like a walk. If you go to a bar and you walk the tip, they tip 20%. If you walk the tab, they tip 20%. So I did 12%. I don't know if that's like. I never did that. I'm always 20 plus as it is. Okay.

Unless you're the Uber driver who's trying to send it to Portland. Then where's the beef? Mm-hmm. All right. Just be careful, folks. Don't leave your credit card out there. It might cost you a dollar. What if there's an ATM card that says, do you want to make another transaction?

That's a totally different scenario. I'm not stealing money and putting it out of my pocket. I don't know. If you said I want $20. I'm saying. I'm citing a trend here with you. Mr. Analogies on fire over here.

Hey, Jonathan, he's spending other people's money. That's all I'm saying. Just be careful. He's claiming it. I understand. I see both sides.

If I leave mine, tip a dollar. Please. And thank you. So you're actually doing the guy a favor. You could have gone 15%. I could have. You're really a,

you're really a kind of. neighbor to us all. I hit the middle button. It was 10, 12, or 15. Okay. We got missing you coming up. So you know what? I'll get to my dream then. Oh, great. Do we need the song? Yeah, why not? Dream Weaver or what are we going with here? Dreamweaver sounds good. All right. Or Mr. Salmon or Dream, Dream, Dream, Dream? It doesn't really matter. Some song about dreaming. Now, if those of you listen to show for any length of time, you know. Oh, Selena, dreaming of you? Whatever. Jam. I have the world's most bizarre dreams. Yeah. Man has a lot of night

terrorism. I'm quite frankly concerned. Oh, this is the jam. This will work. Yeah. Do you know this, Jonathan? Of course. Oh, I see. I knew he had a Latin girlfriend. I knew he's I know he's... If you have a Latin girl's up on his game. I don't know who this was, by the way. I don't know who this was. All right, here we go.

I am at 59 and Kirby at a gas station. And I'm driving a... Are you packing heat? Shout out to all those in the Greenway. area. And I'm driving an old blue, big sedan. Big, big sedan. Okay. Now, I have a question. Yeah. Has anybody had a similar sedan

or have you ever driven a sedan like this before in your life? So this is completely irrelevant to your life? This is going to be a car lease 20 years old. That I've never driven. That you've never driven or ridden in that you can think. No, I may have written, but never driven. Okay, interesting. So, uh, I go to go inside to pay for the gas,

and when I come out, the car has been stolen. Wow, okay Okay Now this is your car in this dream Old car 20 years old Yes At 59 in Kirby Hold me write this down

Okay So I'm really upset I'm like how am I gonna get home Yeah So I notice there's a motorcycle In the same area Where my car was Okay

What kind of like a Like an old Harley No a really fancy Luxurious like a middle age syndrome kind of really good morph flash. It's like the big speakers on it. Yeah, yeah. It's a retirement cycle.

Retirement bike. So I get... I say, I'm going to steal this so I can go home. Okay. So I get on the motorcycle. Wow. And I leave 59 in Kirby and I'm heading south towards the old, with the Lakewood Church to Summit.

Heading south towards like Sugarland. And I'm my way there. I've never ridden a motorcycle before in my life. Okay. I say to myself, I got to return this motorcycle. So I pull off at Edlo. This is how vivid this was. You didn't get far.

No, I didn't know. Like two exits. Wesley, whatever the case we're going to. And I get off, and as I'm getting off, I'm going to pull off to another gas station. I'm going to put the helmet on that was on the back of this motorcycle, and I'm going to turn around and take the motorcycle back to the original gas station. When I see four bros in a van that are yelling at me, Okay.

On the highway? On the feeder road. On the feeder, okay. As I'm pulling off. Interesting. That's my motorcycle. Oh, oh. That's my motorcycle.

You're stealing my motorcycle. So I'm yelling at them saying, I'm going to pull off. I'm going to give it back to you. I made a mistake. I pull off. They all get out of the car and start beating the crap out of me. Wow. And I tell them, I said, hey, I'm not trying to steal it.

I just, I was upset because I lost my car. Here's your motor. cycle back. And they go from... They beat you up on the side of the road? They beat me up by a telephone. You're going to buy the Roperitos over there? Yeah.

The Rickuilet? So they stop beating me up. They lift me up, start cleaning me off, and goes, oh, we understand. They clean you off? You know, like, you know, dushed off the dirt and stuff. Maybe a little bit of blood spot. I don't remember that part. And they said, hey, we understand.

Things happened. They got on the motorcycle, and one of the guys took the motorcycle back and took off. And I just stood there. thought about I was going to get an Uber and then I woke up for my dream. That is last night at approximately... What the hell is wrong with you? Four o'clock in the morning. Hmm. Now, the old car was stolen.

Yes. Never driven before. Never, never an old vehicle I once had. Did you feel any pain? Do you remember feeling pain when you... Yeah, did you remember them beating me up, but I remember being in time. I remember getting intense pain in the dream. No. I never felt, but I was watching myself getting my ass kicked. Okay, so you were floating above yourself watching at this point. Yeah. Oh. Now, were you in a leather jacket?

No. What were you wearing? I don't even remember. Did you have a regular clothes? Regular clothes, but the thing is, I've never, I've been in a, I've been a passenger in a motorcycle, but never driven. I know you're, I know you're scared of motorcycles because you had, you knew somebody who passed. Terr motorcycle accident. Serious accident, yes.

Yeah. There's no reason for it. The car was stolen. It was an older car. Older blue car. Do you feel like part of your past was stolen from you, Matt, at some points? Part of my future is being stolen from me. that can go

that can still say it and then the future was for you to get home and you stole for that as well but why did I turn around and say you know this is a bad decision because you have regrets

yes well it's actually a good this is a good dream I don't think it is I want good dreams involving Lauren Shihadi I don't want dreams about motorcycles and cars

I think you need to let go your troubled past you know Jonathan we were talking about this you know how he is there's gunshots and barns he's cracking people with pool cues That was great time, though.

He's stealing. Like, you know, Matt, Matt had a troubled youth, quite frankly. Did you steal something? And Matt, I think as the car was stolen from you, you feel perhaps your past was stolen from you as well.

Oh, hold on, hold on. I think you need to let go. Sports Talk 790 went to some philosophical stuff. We're here for. I can't, I don't expect the answers? I just want to stop dreaming. No, Matt.

Dreaming is good. That's how your brain regenerate. Do you want your brain to regenerate? I don't want to come to you every morning and go, Ross, you wouldn't believe what I dreamt last night. You need REM sleep, Matt. So that was deep sleep.

See, I feel like it's the opposite. I feel like if I'm dreaming that I'm not getting full sleep. No. That's no. It's every sec, every, there is zero scientific basis for what you just said. Oh, well, I'm just throwing out there. Now, you can do like regular dreams without,

getting rim sleep. Like not, I don't want to say regular, but like if you're not, if you're enveloped in a whole other world and it's vivid like you're talking about, that's rim sleep. You can have a dream like you're washing the dishes or something innocuous is happening where you're not enveloped in another world and it's not rim sleep. But you're getting rim sleep, Matt. You need that. I need you to have that too. Was it like a Harley Davidson or was like a, it was a luxurious. It was more like a retirement cycle. Like I'm 58 years old and I'm going through midlife crisis. I want to go by a night. I want to act like a tough guy, but I've got the nicest motorcycle out there.

that wasn't mine. Where were the keys? They were just in there? Yeah. I mean, obviously, I just took it off. Do you want someone else's life? That's your age? Hmm.

I like this, John. But how about this, John? Then I went towards that other life and then I realized I didn't want it, and I turned around and gave it up because you want to be back to what you have. You want to fight for yourself, but you can't for some reason. Okay. Thank you, boys. Appreciate it.

Wow. What's we're here for? That in sports. Well, you want to break down the Astros' Rotation, you know what we're going to do? We're going to give you a lot. Every Monday, there's no other radio show in the marketplace is going to tell you how former astronauts are doing, except this one. Yes.

Missingya is next at 129 on Sports Talk 790. It is a Monday feature on this show at 130, where we will do this, hopefully 52 weeks a year, provided I work on 52 Mondays. We will do this during the basketball season when appropriate. Football season when appropriate, but it certainly feels like more baseball than anything else.

We present to you our weekly edition of Missingya, where we take a look at five players at once wore Houston University. forms and how are they doing now ross i present to you mauricio dubon utility infielder extraordinary of the alana braves how's mauricio doing 15 games of the braves so far this year is he still coming for teddy ball game ops 934 wow brave's hitting coaches are doing a number on him number two we present to you kyle tucker of the los angeles dodgers call tucker how is he doing Oh, no.

One home run this year for the Dodgers. Okay. He has nine ribbies. His OPS, 659. So a disappointing start for him as a Los Angeles Dodger. But they're a great lineup. They lead the major league baseball home runs.

They also have the best record. Life's pretty good for them. Mm-hmm. Next, Framber Valdez pitcher Detroit Tigers. one and one his record. Earned run average of 4.76, three games, three starts, 17 innings, allowing 12 hits. His whip, 1.47. That is mid at best, right?

Well, he had two good starts, and then his last start he gave up eight earned runs. So he, with 10 hits. First couple starts, no, no, no. I'm sorry, one-earned run, last start, he got destroyed. All right, we welcome to the club this week. Jesus Sanchez of the Toronto Blue Jays. I'm curious about this one. How much is he playing?

44 at bats. Okay, not much. Six runs, 12 hits, two home runs, nine ribbies, no stolen bases, batting average of 273, on base percentage of 327. His OPS? 8.04. Well, he got off to a hard start with the Astros. Kind of, I think.

Jesus, Sanchez. We hope that you're in the very best enjoying your life in Toronto. I'm wishing Jesus the best. Okay. And one more on this week's five of our missing you. Alex Bregman of the Chicago Cubs. Ooh, okay.

61 at bats. Three runs. 13 hits. Two homers, six RBIs, no stolen bases, batting average of 2.13. Ooh. On-base percentage of 290, OPS of 618. Mm. Breggie and Tucker, not crushing the National League.

No, they are not. Fromber's been mid? Frankly, of the five players on this week's edition of missing you, most successful one. Maricio Dubon with an OPS of 934, which begged the question a couple of years ago. Maricio Dubon was playing so well, and Jose Ltuve got hit in the hand

in that previous World Baseball Classic, would the Astros at that point three or four years ago considered trading on Jose Ltuve? The answer was no. According to some callers. Some drunkards at 10 o'clock. Well, we got some of those earlier today. And that is this week's edition of Missing You.

Thank you, Matt. Yeah, you're welcome. I will say this, none of the five guys, well, Fromber would have helped. Framber in this rotation, provided he would have been healthy, which is unfortunately not a case for most of the pitching staff, at least starting pitching-wise. If he was in there, he would have been a help to this team. Yes.

Be nice to have Framber. Especially the deal he signed. Was it a two-year deal or three? So here's the question that I think will be addressed, obviously, is nobody knows what how long a tired arm means. Arm fatigue? Yeah, I don't know. What does that mean?

He just came over. That means you literally don't throw. It means you just, you use your left hand exclusively for everything. Yeah, I mean, it's at least 15 days. We know that. Maybe it'll be a short 15-day stint. Get a little rehab.

He'll be right back, ready to go, and dominate for the Astros. Kind of has to, doesn't he not? I don't know. I don't know. You know how we said we're done trying to prognosticate when people are coming back. We have to do it for basically the whole team now.

Because I don't know what's happening. With Josh Hayer, we said when he comes back, he comes back. Yeah, I don't know. Do we have a hater update? No, we don't. Okay. But I'd like one if we could. It'd be nice.

I mean, we kind of penciled me first kind of softly as it is. And I wouldn't, well, I'll say this. You don't get as many updates about your, injured players when they're on the road because there's less media. And so by only having two or three people to report up there, they don't have to necessarily run through everything. When there's going to be TV stations and all right down there at the ballpark, probably tomorrow until they give up starting covering the team.

Gross. It's going to be fine. They're at least going to finish 500, I think. It's funny. I was at, where was I over the weekend? Oh, I may have been immediate dying of the Rockets. What was your win total? I think I said in an 86, somewhere in that range?

I think we both had 86 or 87. You and I had the same number. Which is very, I mean, it still can happen, but... It's feeling worse. Hunter Brown's down. You can start there. Hunter Brown, comfortably, Ross, we had him for 15 wins.

Right? Was he not a Sayung top five betting of odds favorite? Think about it? That usually means 15 wins. He finished third in the Sayung voting last year. behind tech scoble and get crochet man i just i i i hate to be speechless on this but i'm so incredibly discouraged i mean discouraged the bullpen has been used as much as it has i'm discouraged that the

starting pitching has been hurt i'm discouraged that when you put a major league uniform on at worst case you got to just got to throw strikes right and in the seattle mariners to their credit basically said dare them to throw strikes our buddy Cody yesterday. Couldn't throw strikes before he got hurt. No. It's though the walks are insane. I mean, it's, it's worse. Cody Bolton had four walks in one inning yesterday. It's worse than anything we've ever seen for as far as the Astros are concerned.

Because guess what? The Astros lead in runs, bases, hits, slugging, OPS, Christian Walker's doubles and RBI puts them in the top five. Jose Altuvae is in runs. scored. Yordon Alvarez is punishing everybody except Colorado so far. The reality says there's a lot of positives from the Astros offensive side of things. Defensively, it's been okay. But the pitching staff, you can't defend walks. Can't get worse? We keep saying that and then it gets worse.

So maybe I shouldn't say that. Would you like some worse news? Are you serious? No, that's not worse. I think it's, I think it's, I think it's, NBA reporter trying to spin something half full. Okay.

Look at Dodge is expected back in L.A. on Tuesday from Spain where he got treatment on his hamstring and will be re-evaluated for a possible return later in the first round. That's fine. Austin Reeves expected, however, to miss the entire first round with an oblique injury. I don't think he's going to be that effective.

He's going to have to work himself back in his shape, and he's going to be a re-injury risk. I'm not that worried about it. You know, I just saw, a conspiracy follow-up tweet to that tweet I just saw read to you. Okay. Do you think the NBA would stretch out the Rockets playoff series with the Lakers to give Luke as much time as possible? I don't think, I guess.

It takes two weeks to play around. Yeah, it takes it. I don't think so. I don't think they're going to go out of their way. They're going to try to get the Lakers on prime time and ABC and all that stuff as much as they can because they're the Lakers. And Rockets have some cachet with Kevin Durant. Even if the Lakers don't have Luke at any point during this series, the Lakers have incredible cashé because LeBron

James has incredible cachet. Kevin Duran for that matter has been. Yeah. So Yeah. Game 1 is Saturday 730 and the Rockets are trying, we're trying this weekend to try to get the NBA to give them some update because people want to go buy tickets and you know, we don't, if you can't

sell a ticket you don't know the time for it. Yeah, we got our lives to plan. That's true. That is true. All right, believe it or not today, what are we doing? Phil Gardner? Yes. You have a couple Rories in there too? Is that what you did? And we'll see how it goes. Segments in seven minutes.

What? I know. All right, bye. I got Astros on deck at 2 o'clock. So if you love me, you're getting 35 minutes of me. If you hate me, well, just suck it up and slip through it. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Believe it or not, all things about Phil Garner next here on Sports Talk 790. Tomorrow on the radio show, we'll have our gut feelings. We'll have Joe is spotted join us. Hopefully he'll be in a celebratory mood. And like I said, Ross, I hope I'm wrong. I just, I've never felt so down before. And all the years are covering this team, though, since about 2014, honestly.

And I wish I didn't feel that way. But I feel terribly for the ownership. I feel terribly for the fans. I feel terrible for the general manager. I feel bad for the players. This isn't a question to me. of guys not performing up to expectations. You're asking guys to have expectations

that probably aren't ready to give you those numbers or just never going to ever reach those numbers. Like, meaning throwing strikes, getting out. We'll see. I don't know. We're going to see how it plays out. I don't watch the games. We're going to follow the games.

We're going to carry the games here on Sports Talk 790. I'm not ready to declare it over. Yeah. I'm not going to, like, hey, Joe, sorry your season's over. I'm not going to happen. I mean, we're going to, you know, nobody needs to hear that. Colton Gordon's ready. Spencer Arrogatti's ready.

Jason Alexander. Dotting up AAA players. Mike Burroughs, I mean, the organization could not speak highly of him. Not only when they made the trade, but the spring training stuff to. Mike, we need you, Mike. Please, for the love of God, Mike Burroughs. It's like a song that was sung by the great group, Red. I need you.

Like the water needs the rain, or is it the rain needs of water? Something like that. I don't know, man. It's fine. I don't know the song. Last week's conversation with Joe was incredible. It was actually okay. Everything was going great.

We could just say, oh, but if the aster's was today, Joe, what can we do for you? Maybe he can skip it. Let me do next week. No, no, we're going to have a game losing streak. What are we going to ask him about? His family? Good eats in Seattle. Okay.

Hopefully going back to Seattle in a couple of years. He had some of the grasshoppers? Ugh, gross. What do you got Julia for her birthday? gift? Yeah, sure. Presents, y'all. Losing the trick, y'all. Shoulder discomfort,

y'all. Okay. Injur list, y'all. Stop. You can't okay me and then say more. It's bad. I'll stop, y'all. Thank you. Five minutes left to go in the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports

radio game show. We simply call it B. Leaving it out. And here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believe it or not is all things about Phil Garner. I'll read your statement about Phil. Statements completely and utterly accurate. You'll say this.

Believe it. The statement is erroneous full of bunk and made up. You will say this. Not. Two believe it or not in a row. But when you are prize. You ready for today's prizes? They will include, oh, you ready for this?

A pair of tickets to see Rod Stewart live on his one last time tour of a special guest Howard Jones. April 19th of the Willans Pavilion. Tickets are on sale right now at Ticketmaster.com. Rod Stewart today, huh? Or a pair of tickets to see the psychedelic furs. Live May 23rd of the House of Blues. Tickets are on sale now there as well at Ticketmaster.com. Let's play. Believe it or not.

713-212-5-790. Michael on 790. Michael, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Michael Phil Garner played his college baseball at the University of Tennessee, where he was a two-time all-a-man. Believe it or not. Believe it.

Yeah. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. In 15 seasons, as a Major League Baseball manager, Phil Garner reached the playoffs twice. Believe it or not? Ooh, believe it. Yes, congratulations.

Jordan on 790. Jordan, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? I think criticizing the inability to throw strikes just killing me. I mean, say what we go about getting hammered, not hitting the strike zone as Major League pitcher. It's just disheartening, y'all put it. I think it's heartbreaking.

Phil Garner's nickname Scrap Iron was given to him by then Pittsburgh Pirates announcer, Mottle Hamilton. Believe it or not? Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two, Philadelphia and Jordan, Phil Garner was on second base for the Astros when Kevin Bass struck out to end the 19th.

1886A NLCS. Believe it or not? Not. That's right. He was actually pulled earlier in the game. Congratulations. Four statements, four correct answers. These are bad. Scott on seven. Sorry, Jonathan. Scott, you ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, sir.

Phil Garner was inducted into the Tennessee State Sports Hall of Fame back in 2002. Believe it or not? Not. That's a believe it. I said it once a thousand times. You don't know who's in the Tennessee Hall of Fame. Rubin on 790. Rubin, you're ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. In 2009, Phil Garner's jersey number 18 was retired by the Tennessee volunteers. Believe it or not? Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Phil Garner was an avid golfer and often would play with A.J. Hinch when he was the Astros manager. Believe it or not?

Believe it. Yes. Congratulations. In fact, yesterday, the... Tigers, Ava Hinch dedicated the victory to Phil Garner yesterday. Last one belongs to let's see.

John on 790, John, your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show. The backup putting in the tip for the other man. In 2012, Phil Garner had the testifying court for Roger Clemens' perjury trial. Believe it or not. Believe it. Yes, he did.

Wow, three winners today. How about that? I think four winners today. It's all right. Go enjoy Rod Stewart or the psychedelic first. Or whatever satisfies you. Or whatever. It makes you happy. Yeah. Hey, everybody, go to a restaurant, leave your credit card open so Ross can fill the tip in the rest of the way.

Up next. I will tip a completely reasonable amount. And if your broke ass can't afford a dollar, that's on you. If you can't afford coughing syrup because of that, such is life. Up next. Not the A team. Hashtag they should be doing the On Deck Show instead. I'm doing.

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