The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Lose First Game 2-1 vs Nationals Despite Having 19k’s, Astros Lose Their Last 10 Out Of 11 Home Games

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

Astros Lose First Game 2-1  vs Nationals Despite Having 19k’s, Astros Lose Their Last 10 Out Of 11 Home Games

This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Thanks, Town. Good morning and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show. This is Sports Talk 7-90. Here it comes. And that is pulled and passed a sliding walker and into right field over toward the warning track. Bell on his way to third. He's around third and coming home.

The relay to the plate, not in time. Bell scores standing up. And the Nationals on Nathaniel Lowe's RBI double tie the game at one. Here's a pitch, and it's driven to right field and hit deep. Tramel back on the morning track, and it's into the second row. Riley Adams, an opposite field, Homer, makes it a 2-1 ballgame in the 7th. Against 2-2. Swing and a mess, Belton strikes out into splitter in the dirt, and that is the ball game.

The Houston Astros suffer their fifth consecutive defeat, season high losing street. As the nationals take the first game of this series, two to one. Astros have now dropped ten of their last 11 games at home. The question is, was there some sort of misunderstanding

or is Framber just really pissed? We will try to discuss that today on a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. Good morning, Sports, every. How the hell are you? I'm doing great, Matt. I'm just looking up Nathaniel Lowe's projected spray angles on different batted balls.

Well, the B. Rep. As it relates to Framber Valdez's repertoire. Yeah. Okay. Framberg? Yeah. Brian McTaggart's tweets probably the best, not that we don't love the other guys.

Wow. But he has the video of where Lowe hit it. And obviously, there was a lot of room in right field. Mm-hmm. Now, all the beat reporters that cover the team did a really effective job of saying, here's the sprays on Nathaniel Lowe. and that he has tended to have a little more

oppo power but this year's even more opo than it has been in years past. So, but if you pull a ball and you pull a ball, you know what I mean? And that was pulled and you had what's his face,

Josh Bell, who usually gets traded by this time every year, moving around the base paths. Yeah. And the Nationals tied the game, the home run given up by King in the next inning. And the story,

for me, and this is just a little bit of a the whole Frumber stuff is more about just what stays in a clubhouse and what doesn't. Eight runs in five games, friends. I mean, that's to me, and that's what I try to say more about anything else. You can't win anything. You can't win your Pony League championship

scoring eight runs in five games. Okay. Well, maybe if it's Arroghetti going against May Greek. Oh, God, he did throw two no-hitters against him. That's true. I forgot about the things for bringing that out. It's going to be tough. Yeah, the offense has been bad. They're hitting a really bad swoon there. Four hits yesterday, two doubles.

Dubon get you the RBI, Walker with the other double, and two singles and that's it. A couple walks drawn, but a lot of gooses. And another good start from Frommber, but they lost. The streak is over. What was it? 13 straight games he had played. He had started. They had won.

That ended. He gets a quality start yesterday, despite the loss. No, he gets no decision because King is the one to give it up. You know, if you only look at the Astros pitching part of the box score, you're like, wow, Frambrough gets you six with run run. Brian King gave up one, but that's okay. A Brayu and Hater closed it out. By the way, 19 strike counts.

19 freaking strike counts yesterday. 19 strikeouts. A Brayu and Hater closed it out. Would the Astros win like 5 to 2? It's funny. I think you were listening to the 10th inning show lesson. For that, thank you. No, I was not.

I said, you went with your number one starter, you're leveraged guys in the 7th, 8th, and 9th, you struck out 19, you held the other team to 4 hits. Tell me it's a 7-1 Astros wait. Two hours and 18 minutes? Ooh, daddy like that. I'd be honest with you. No, I didn't listen, but we do think similarly more than I care to admit.

You know the best part about you is you do admit it more these days? And it means my wise, the knowledge I've been able to give you in all these years in this business. clouding my brain for 15 years. All right. So last night, 10th inning show had Trade Yordon. Trade Yordon? Yep.

You're talking about one of the five best hitters on the planet on a team-friendly deal? Well, because they're just afraid he's always hurt. Oh, well, it's true. I've been listening to you. Which would make other teams just want to jump and get into and grab it off an injured player. Trade Yarnere Diaz.

I've been seeing a lot of that lately. Hold on. Hold on. Where's fire dusty? Because he won't play Yiner Diaz. He's the greatest catcher in the history of time since Yogi Berra. And all of a sudden it's trade yiner time? Then it was fire hitting coaches. And I told the guy directly in there, I said, you didn't call two weeks ago and ask him for the coach to be fired. The hitting coach would be fired. Yeah. When they were on a four-game winning streak, I mean, just basically on fumes, nobody was complaining. That's the funny. That's the funny thing of it, is that we still do this. We still do this as Astros fans when you know it's 162 game season.

Yeah. And hopefully this downturn stretch is going to be short-lived. I mean, this is the low point of the season for many reasons. One, it's your longest losing streak of the year. Secondly, you're losing two teams that are not even going to be close to the playoffs that are well under 500. And third, you did it at home, where this was supposed to be your best place to hang out and get well. We talked about this, right?

Didn't we? What? About the A's and the nationals coming into town after a four-game winning streak. Now it just seemed a little too easy. That was a little unsettling. You know what it is? Honestly, we had to stop talking about who's got the easiest schedule between now and the... I mean, I won't let you do it.

Because that's one of your go-to spots. I am curious about it. No, they have to do it. They also have 18 guys on the I.L. And I won't tell you. Is it 18? Right? Yeah, 18 with...

Colors. Or in Walter. Brandon Walter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So how's y'all's day? Like, it's just baseball, but... I know. And everybody's cranky.

Frobber's really cranky. Frobber was also mad eating in a strike call. Well, there was a lot of bad calls. There was a lot of bad calls. By the way... I mean, he should have struck out. Nathaniel Lowe's. should have struck out. Yeah. It was

nipped on the edge. So it wasn't like an egregious call. Like it was, what was it like the, what was the one that I quote to? It was Oros. Oh my God. It was middle, middle and that was called a ball. It wasn't that bad. But also there were some miscalls in the other side. I can't remember exactly, but the Astros should have had a strikeout too. And I think they got a walk.

Dubon guy called out on strikes in a play late in game. That was not cool. Okay. Yeah. Look. Human element, folks. But that's not why they lost. No, I mean, frankly, we're trying to figure out other ways and other people to blame. And that's what happens when you lose to the caliber teams they've lost at home on a streak. And oh, by the way, it feels like the Rangers and the Mariners don't lose anymore. And you were getting perfect out for five innings by Brad Lord. Who, by the way, was on a pitch count, or at least he was going into the start.

He was a guy that went back and forth between the starting rotation and the bullpen. and you learned that because you listened to the on-deck show yesterday during the pitching preview. Thank you. And well, yeah, 0 for 3 with runners in scoring position. Four hits the entire game. You scored one run. You scored first, by the way. That was nice.

Yeah, that was cool. That's another thing to add. Struck out 19. You had three leverage relievers, your number one starter. You were at home. It was the Nationals. And you scored first. That's supposed to be 6 to 1.

Well, or maybe 2 to 1. Yeah. I mean, you just in a vacuum, the games like that happen, of course, but you pile it up against four losses against the A's, it hurts even more. I got news for you, too, and I thought about this as I was listening to A.J. Prasinski on with Sean this one. It was a good conversation, by the way, worthy of downloading it. Is there anybody except Eugenio Suarez that's going to really move the needle trade deadline-wise? That's really going to make you say, it's like a smash move. That's really going to go, oh, my God, you're putting this team on the next level.

Hell, even the Yankees moves. What was the utility guy? What was the first basement that can't hit outside of Denver? I mean, so that's not going to. Now, you need reinforcements. But the Yankees are not going to win the World Series of Aaron Judge is playing at 40% the rest of the year, whenever he comes back. You know what I'm saying? I mean, this year's trade deadline, while it feels like it's going to be a ferocious amount of activity here in the next couple of days,

You're Henni Oswarez, that's it. I mean, Zach Gallen might get moved from Arizona. That's a quality arm. Who's the guy that would, to Seattle, the first baseman? Josh Naylor. That was a pretty good move by Seattle. That's a good move. But there isn't this Verlander, Randy Johnson, 1998, or, you know, going to get Juan Soto.

I mean, I'm just don't even know if there's a U-Sacacacic Cacucci move out there. Yeah. If you can't get a Kikuchi. If you can't get Kikuchi in late July, when are you going to get it? At this point, I'll take Kikuchi. Yeah. They struck out 19 nationals. And lost.

And lost. All right. We return. How do you think Fremberg handled the situation last night? I will tell you. I cannot wait. I cannot wait to tell you about Italian brewing, too. 18 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

713, 212. 5-790. So Fromber Mm. May we read the quotes, would you let me to do that? Sure. Now this is through an interpreter and this is the reporters going off of what the interpreter

said. Yes, and apparently started talking about the positioning unprompted, according to Chandler Rome. Yeah. Let's go here. Okay. Fromber I can read it if you want.

Well, I'm just trying to get the right one here. I'll give you a second. At Sports RV on Instagram, folks, if you want to follow me. I'd appreciate it. I hear something buzzing in the back. I think it's okay here. Yeah, I hear a little humming now, too. I think it's...

The coffee machine. Oh, that's what it is. They're working on the copy machine. No, I thought. I don't know. All right. It doesn't make sense that that was a double. We're talking about the Nathaniel Lowe, not Lowe.

We got Lowe's everywhere. I have to double check every time I think about one of these players. Wait. Nathaniel Lowe, because he's with Brandon Lowe, and then there's a Lough somewhere in the mix. Yeah, on Tampa Bay. It doesn't make sense that there was a, this was a double. It doesn't make sense that right fielder was playing centerfield with a lefty that was hitting. That should have been a single.

That shouldn't have been a double, and the runner should have been at third and not at home. It's Brandon Lough. Yeah. And there's Nathaniel Lowe. and he has a brother that's low. Sorry. Okay, thanks for that, Ross. I think it out loud.

And then Chandler jumps onto more of those quotes on that and says, did you ask any of the coaches about that? And he says the following. He says, I don't have to ask the coaches about that. I feel like baseball is a game of common sense. With me as a lefty pitcher, they don't have a lot of fly balls against me. That's a frustrated pitcher who wants offense, who had a nice long street going. And while, again, major league baseball teams Rossi, generally speaking, do a really good job of positioning their outfielders.

Yes. And also, situationally, they were playing far back because they wanted to not allow any doubles. There's the gaps. And unfortunately, it was a double. It was a pull hit. Now, remember, you had Josh. spell running on the play. So you already had started.

Even though he's super slow. Well, yeah. But, I mean, he was going to be at second base by the time the ball landed. So there was still a possible. Now, I think, I think, Frommers right, he would have been at third more still than he would have been at home. But the spacing of the outfield would have guaranteed him to getting home. So I will just say, as soon as I saw these quotes and talked about him live on the show

last night, my thought was, part of it was. the Astros, just like all these major league baseball teams, do not have malpractice when it comes to positioning their outfielders. Those outfielders have these little note cards they keep of players. Plus, you have a coach in the dugout that is positioning players as well. So I don't think it was teaching malpractice. But even if there was a mistake, we should know about it. You got to keep that bad boy in house.

because tell me what good came out of what, except for talking about it with us on the air here, what good came out of Framber going, I don't know what our outfielder was doing or outfielers were doing. That should have been a single,

the runner should have been at third base. I. Was he traded maybe? Just showing discourse? Oh, go ahead. No, go. Yeah, we need spacing here, friends. My bad.

I don't think it's that big of a deal. I know that I'm probably in the minority. Now, if he had a call, let's say Taylor Tremel went out there and was chasing down a ball and mishandled it or threw it to the wrong cutoff guy or whatever. And then he started calling out Taylor Tremel specifically. I would definitely feel like that was a line that was crossed. But for him to come out there and say, yeah, I don't know. Now, of course, it was through an interpreter. We don't know exactly how venomous things he were saying.

Obviously, the quote sounds like he's pretty frustrated. And you bring in the fact that he brought it up pretty much unprompted. But, yeah, he's like, hey, I'm a lefty. And then so he's asking the questions. And he's like, I don't know if the positioning was correct. And then Joe's spot is going to take him into a room and say, hey, this is what we had. This is what we thought. Or they're going to say, hey, Taylor Trammell looked at his card wrong and he was in the wrong spot.

And then they just, and this all goes away. I don't think this is just like a mid-season frustration. they've lost five games in a row. We know that Framber likes to wear his emotions on his sleeve anyways. And I don't think there's any real harm that it's being done by what Framber Valdez said. Because I was thinking, we were all thinking the same thing. They were talking about it on the broadcast. Like, why are they positioned over there?

Well, it's fine because Bogus Sevik brought up on the post game show, because I went back and listened to him after my show was over with. And his philosophy was, you don't want to put it in the alley. You don't want to give the alleys up. And so, see, there's the answer. So Framber's asking a question. I was wondering it when it was happening. And then you brought Chandler-Rome's article in The Athletic has a lot of the spray charts and stuff like that.

Nathaniel Lowe is a guy that does go up a lot for a left-hander. Fly balls to right field don't happen a lot for left-handers against Framber. So it sounds like they were positioned properly. So I don't know. Yeah, Frommber probably should have addressed somebody that was somebody. Because he was out in the 6th. You got the 7, or, you know, if he hit the showers immediately and then,

I don't know, he went and going and played Xbox. I don't know. But he probably should have talked to somebody about this, for sure, I will agree. But also, I don't think, you know, this is like some irreparable harm that's being done to the Astros clubhouse or anything like that. I don't want to make sure I'm very clear in this. This is not going to

split the clubhouse. Losing splits clubhouses. Well, not one person. That's happening, too. Not one person in front of a microphone. Yeah. But I will just say when it sounds again, and I think I'm correct on this, I don't think this was, were you concerned about the defensive positioning on that play? I think that was Robber saying that just because he wanted to give that up.

And no, this is not a tactic to get traded. I don't think so either. You're not trading your ace when you're in first place in division. No. Come on. Let's start thinking a little bit here. You know what I'm talking to. Let's start thinking a little bit.

here. Just trade your on, trade from or trade. They're in first place folks. Everybody relax. Don't feel that way right now. They're still in first place. There's still favorites to win the division. But yeah, I just I'm just saying that and I'm not you know, I'm not in a baseball clubhouse and I mean I've been around

baseball for a while with this job. And maybe there are shock waves being sent through that he did this. But to me this is just like, Frumber being Frumber. The difference is that Joe Espada, and he will be with us at 1230 today, does a very, very good job of protecting players. And I think probably if you're Joe Espada,

you want that in return. Even if there was a miscommunication or there was a tactical error in their defensive positioning. Which I can't, Ross, look, no team is perfect, but those guys go through intelligent reports they've seen Nathaniel Loe play a bunch of times

whether it was an Astro or an National they're very familiar with his work I don't think it was again not knowing it maybe somebody will whisper something in my ear down the road but there was not a malpractice and where those guys were positioned and I think part of it too is to me

and this is just me is that part of it is that he was madding at the strike call to get the inning out and that you just, you exacerbated things by not only getting that not strike three, but low gets the hit, the runner scores, and you lose the chance to win the game. Yeah. Because he knew his pitch count was high and he wasn't coming back out for the seventh inning. He was frustrated and obviously he was frustrated after the game.

But I just, in general, as a rule of thumb, I like when guys are honest like this. I like it. I understand. Keep everything in house. We don't want to, it's us versus them, whatever, brotherhood. But Fromber was honest. That's all he did was tell his truth. He said, I don't know what the heck those guys. guys are doing out there and not in so many's words and I'm a lefty and he's a lefty and

we needed some common sense. I'm going to slightly disagree and say that there have been times that Framber has lost his mind on the mound and I've never heard a single player go, I really wish Frommber would cool off. Yeah, exactly. Well, he didn't go after a player. That's what I'm saying. Oh, I think you did. He went after combination of a player and or coach. You think he was going after Taylor Tremel? I think he was going after somebody. He wanted to know why a right fielder was playing right center. So either the positioning coach who decides that, whether he was going after the manager,

whether he's going to have to the player. I'm just saying that nobody's perfect. And there's a very difficult time right now that Astro Clubhouse because they are underperforming. And the last thing you need is for someone to be starting throwing somebody out of the bus. That's just my personal thing. Yeah. To me, this is not different. But you know what, a three-game winning streak or getting back on the bump today and winning fixes a lot of that.

We would forget everything. Absolutely. I mean, you go ahead and win the next two games and we're not talking about this. Yeah. It's not that different from, I don't even know, a football player saying, yeah, I think we should have run the ball in that situation. Or why aren't we running the ball? Or why didn't we pass? Why didn't we do this?

He's just like, hey, I don't know, why wasn't this guy in right center? It was a pretty funny quote. He's over there in center field, but we have. have a center fielder for that. Yeah. Yeah, I just, nobody's perfect, and I think you open yourself up for, well, you know, if Framber went out and thrown seven straight curveballs, they didn't know it was coming. I just, it's, it's just, that's the kind of stuff.

You want to shut the door and yell at somebody, that's going to happen in a clubhouse. To think that no one goes after anybody in a clubhouse is ridiculous. But I don't know, to do unprovoked to a bunch of reporters, it was to me more. frustration and you do things look i'm the king of it i do a lot of things in frustration i later apologize for good god okay i don't need you adding a p s to this oh sorry let me have my moment i'm reacting okay let's go to some phones next louise and gary will get to you 10 30 is our time we will talk to joe a spot at 1230 gut feelings today at 1130 this is sports talk 790 all right 1130 we've got gut feelings which you get to make sports predictions at 1220 we will have uh wex's

training camp report, which features some variety in the offensive line. 1230, Joe Espada, 130. Jacob Melton will join us, fresh out the injured list, about at fifth last night, and we'll have him at 130. And believe it or not today, at 150 is all things Ryan Sandberg. May he rest in peace. For someone that grew up, like many of my age group and a little bit younger, certainly older, you grew up watching the Chicago Cubs on WGN.

and Atlanta Braves on WTBS. And Ryan Sandberg, you got to watch 140 Cubs games every year. And he was amazing. I remember getting a Don Russ Ryan Sandberg All-Star Card. And I was like, yes. Yeah. He's really, really, I mean, one of the best hitting second baseman ever to play. And by all accounts, a really good guy.

Fought cancer once and beat it. And unfortunately, did not do it this time. So, RIP to Ryan Sandberg, and we will honor him with, believe it or not, today at 150. Well, you think you'll find a question of why mom and dad, Sandberg, Ryan named him Ryan that way? I want to say, we've done this before. And I think it was when Ryan Stanick got signed or traded or something. Right. There is a, I'm pretty sure there's a reason.

I just can't find it in the recesses of my brain. Well, I'm going to give you a little advice. As a father of three in a rush, you don't have any children and don't plan on having any that you know of. Don't. Excuse me. Oh, man, it's getting choked up here, folks.

Don't spell your kids' names weird. They're in for a life of, is this how you really spell it? Yes. Because I, even though I wrote Ryan, R-I-N-E on my pre-show tweet, I had to go back and check just to make sure I did it right. Yep, look, Ryan Stanik and Ryan Sandberg from 2021.

Got the archives. Okay. But you know what I'm saying? We just got a, like Carly's name, C-A-R-L-Y. Okay. Is the most recognizable name of the word Carly, maybe larger because of Carly Simon. Okay. But probably the most famous Carly I can think of.

I think that works, yeah. But there is 15 ways to spell Carly. Mm-hmm. And it just, you got a K, you got an extra E, you got a Y, you know, I-E, it's a hot mess. Go tradition. Now, as your son Peyton, with an A or a E? He's with an E. Okay. But our good friend

Peyton Pardee, who is Jack's grandson, who's working with a Buccaneers, his office, he's and a coach, he is P-A-Y, and he was named after Walter Payton. Ah. Because Jack coached Walter in Chicago, so... Okay.

That's beautiful. It's a little different, yeah. Why not Walter? I mean, I guess he could have. So, yeah. The picking names and keeping the most famous version of that name probably helps. Okay. Not that all the time.

Maybe there's some family tradition to it, but I just was like, Ryan, R. When I was a kid, I was like Ryan Sandberg, R-Y-A-N, nip, no, no, R-N-E. I'd never seen it that way. Me either. Not much since. Since Ryan Stannick. Although it's Ryan Sandberg, and it's

Ryan Stanik, even though they're spelled the same. Ryan. It's what you do it in one syllable, right? That's how you do it. Ryan. Ryan. Well, I don't know where you're barking it like that. Let's talk to Luis on 7 out of 1038. Luis. Good morning to you.

Hi. There's something that just doesn't really sit right with me about the prospect of trading for Ehio Hennio Suarez. And it's that, you know, this offseason, we made a series of moves that were sort of designed to extend the window of contention for the team. And, like, because if you're planning on doing everything you can to win in 2025, you don't trade Cal Tucker, right? So after making those moves and after seeing like through the course of the season how much young talent you're going to have to leverage into years in the years to come, guys like Melton, Matthews, et cetera, it really doesn't make a lot of sense to me that you would be willing to pursue the guy that's going to cost you more of that young controllable talent than anyone else on the market. Yeah, it's very simple, Luis. They want to win the World Series. and they need help at the plate.

Now, I don't think they're going to get Suarez anyways, but the point is that Jim Crane has shown us that his mantra is penance over prospects. And I get what you're saying. A lot of that also was trying to stay under the luxury tax and get something for Kyle Tucker. They're towing the line of planning for the future, plus still trying to contend in the now.

And you're dealing with incomplete information in the offseason. Now you have more complete information. You have over 100 games that they've played, and they're in first place, and the American League is imminently winnable. So they want to do everything they can to win a World Series this year. Not everything they can, I should say, but within reason to win a World Series this year, rather than also just plan for the future. You know what? Honestly, Louise, it's a fine line. You have to balance it.

And would Kyle Tucker have helped this team for sure? No question about that. but the Astros knew for many years that Kyle Tucker was not going to come back. And the editorial is, and so you kind of keep guys around that last year in hope that you can renegotiate, you can start conversations. Kyle want to know part of that. And so that one kind of made sense to me. I agree with that.

I know that there are players out there that are definitely like movable to potentially help this team. It just feels like the price on Suarez might be almost counterpenter. productive. I would have to agree with you. I think they don't have enough. Thanks, Louise, for the phone call. They don't have enough. And if he is the most recognizable name Rossi at the deadline, how is the general manager that Diamondbacks doesn't have his phone constantly ringing or constantly getting text messages from probably five or six different baseball teams? Yeah, I don't think that they don't have the facilities to get into that bidding war. It would be a wild move, but while moves also involved sending high-end prospects

to the Arizona Diamondbacks. It'd be cool. I mean, you got to give to get. Remember the Justin Verlander trade? We're like, oh, my God, they gave away what? Ryan Clifford and Drew Gilbert? What are those guys doing? I don't even know.

That was kind of crazy. The Cacucci move, of course. Loparfeetos hitting now, but you might not even win the division if you don't make that move. I'm with it. We'll see what happens. It's funny.

We will tend to say, I don't care about the future. I want to win for now. And there is a certain amount of that you need from your general manager, but the general manager is also in charge of the foreseeable future. Yes. But also the general manager follows the orders of the owner. And Jim Crane has shown us time and time again. Let's go and win this thing.

Yeah, he has. That's to his credit. He has said, absolutely. My only system be damned. I know. And Dana's like, wait a minute, you brought me here to fix this. I need you to move your players.

I'll take care of you. It's all right. That's right. Let's talk to Gary in spring at 1043 on 7-90. Gary, good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. Yeah, it's kind of odd. The deal last night is it's just, they're just on this homestand.

They're losing all these games and everything, and they're kind of getting frustrated, just like Ross said. It's just frustration bubbling over each loss. this own stand they're getting madder and matter and he wears his like you said he wears his feelings on his sleeve and it just bubbled over he probably woke up today if he's awake yet and he

he says oh I should have said that and everything's okay and like you said earlier a win will make everything right but he wouldn't even won the game anyway because the next pitcher came in and he gave up a run so he wouldn't he wouldn't have won the game anyway but so I think

everything's going to be right because Calvary's coming. The shortstop is going to go play tonight, and he'll be back this weekend, I think, when they go up to Boston and everything. So it's just frustration bubbling over, and everything will be all right, getting the pitchers back and all that. So if they don't even make a trade, I think they'll still be all right. But the main thing is we've got to remember that these teams that are coming in, they're not all that good. They're playing a AAA team, basically. Yep, and that's what you said before.

Yeah, their pitchers are looking like superstars because four out of five of the last batters or AAA players not even hit 200. So there's a lot involved here, and things are going to be coming together at the end, and we'll have extra energy because people have been out on injury. So I think everything will be all right. So anyway, good show, guys.

Just wanted to chime in on that. Thanks, Gary. We take a short timeout, 1044 on Sports Talk 790. everything's going to be All right Oh Oh Okay

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Oh yeah what's it called Everything's going to be right? We're talking about jamming? Yeah, the song is three little birds, but yes, every little thing is going to be all right. So that's our 11 o'clock open with the lone astral highlight from last night's offensive performance. All right, Jonathan Alexander is the beat writer for The Chronicle. He's one of the

few legit members of the media that go to Texans practice every day. Adam Wuxer coming up later on the show. Yeah, he's legit. That's about 80% of it right there. Boy, John and Alexander, boy, he can run through some stuff here. I'm just reading through his timeline.

I mean, seven on seven drills underway. My mentions from you don't really show up in my feed. That's weird. Mine of yours? Yeah. Oh, there it is actually. Never mind. I'm trying to do, I don't want, some of this is minutiae. So I'm just going to get,

three minutes ago, C.J. Strav was five of six on the day, much cleaner day for him, some really nice throws. Okay. It makes me feel good. I guess, but you know, to keep stats like JJ Watt said. Second team off. No, it's funny. JJ Watt came out last week and told all the tweet geeks out there to stop doing this, and it doesn't stop.

But John's a beat reporter. I mean, John's different. I mean, he, if there's anybody that should be doing it, it's just him. Rest these fake media don't deserve to be out there. False start on Blake Fisher. Uh-oh. Mm-hmm. Davis Mills completion.

Nice. I heard he's looking good. Dylan Horton gets past Austin Deccles for a sack. That's not great. The offensive line for the first team today. Oh, I've got to go scroll, scroll, scroll. Boy, there's a lot of scroll. I'm going to Wex.

Maybe Wex will help us out with this. Again, it's just a lot of stuff to comprehend. Oh, here it is. Ersary, Howard, Andrews, Tomlinson, and Robinson is your offensive line from right to left. Hmm. Okay. I don't like it necessarily moves the needle for anybody, but I'm just, for those that are into that kind of stuff, that gives you what they're doing. Yeah.

And then Wexer retweeting a few minutes ago that it was Jared Patterson at center. So I don't know if it's going to be Jake Andrews, the draft pick. Where's Drew Scruggs? A couple years ago. Juice Scruggs? He's been in there at Center. I thought he was the first day, right? Yeah, but I've not seen his name brought up very much at all.

don't know by way jalen Petrie returned to practice today you're happy about that I am actually I was a big loss for them oh yeah I mean the reality is

now his tackling skills are something to be desired but his coverage skills are pretty good no you got it the other way around no his coverage skills are bad he's good tackleer yeah he's good he's good around the line of scrimmage basically as like a like a strong

safety or I can't remember what they call it the joker position or whatever you want to call it. Yeah, he's got a good nose for the football. But he doesn't wrap up, or he does wrap up. Okay, he missed like a couple tackles. You're overblowing it, Matt. He's missed a couple of times. Overblowing to be taking this grandiose big sound effect.

I just said what I said. Yeah, he's missed a couple tackles before. No, who hasn't missed? I think Jalen Petrie is pretty good, and he's best going downhill. I would say his biggest, the blessing and the curse of Jalen Petrie is that he is so aggressive, he can blow up running plays, but also sometimes he can bite too hard on play action, and then he's left scrambling

and coverage. But he got a new contract. Derek Stingley got a new contract. But he's great. He's what Domingo Ryan's wants. He's flying around the field, swarm mentality, whatever you want to call it. Jalen Pitchie's really good at that. Yeah. All right. So that's and we'll get a much more practical report from Wax at 1220.

Okay. Very little minutiae I would hope in that conversation. He was good with us yesterday. He said to minutia for his show 2 to 6. Okay. We can take some. Uh-oh. Oh, no.

MLB Network is talking about this, this, uh, Framer Valdez stuff. Yeah, I'm, uh, I'm, and he just, Josh Bell just barely made it even as is. Hmm. Keeping the clubhouse sports RV. Okay. Well, he just went into his, he just spoke his truth.

He vented his frustration. The truth will not always set you free. But he didn't call anybody out specifically, like I said. Oh, but, I mean, it doesn't take much to figure out he was talking about. He was talking about the positioning, yeah. So it's either the position, whoever in the outfielders or the player itself. Mm-hmm. You wouldn't, he wasn't calling out Stretch Suba.

He might have been. No, there's no chance. Stretch wasn't there. There's no chance. It would have, you know. You're not criticizing Javier Bracamante. He might have been. No, there's no chance.

Maybe he warmed him up. I don't think it's how it's fault. You don't make him. MLB Network if you don't say what you say. And that's, for a team it's struggling, that's the last thing you need. Yeah, but it's not. Yeah, but if they're on, does anybody watching, I guess maybe they're watching MLB Network at 11 in the morning? No, but I mean, it's, it, when MLB Network is taking their cues off of what the baseball reporters are around the country going through.

I think it's much ado about, and I won't say nothing, but, because he's going to be told, don't do this by Joe Espada. And whoever, and we can talk to, we're going to talk to Joe Espada coming up at 1230. Mm-hmm. But to me, it's, he shows that he cares. frustrated and he didn't understand it. I didn't understand it when it happened. The only thing is he had like three innings to talk to somebody.

Three innings plus a cooling off period to say, hey, what was the deal on that positioning? Yeah. And he didn't do that. Or at least maybe he did and he still wanted to vent his frustration. Oh, no. When you go and say these things in front of a microphone and the interpreter is doing the heavy lifting for you without somebody asking about it,

you wanted to make sure that you weren't to blame for that runs being scored. It doesn't mean he's going to be traded. It also doesn't... He doesn't mean he wants to be traded. Well, he might want... One and getting are two different things.

Yeah, you're not trading your ace when you're in first place. I mean, if you really wanted to... If I'm really wanted to get traded, he said, I am sick of being around this baseball team. That would have probably helped. Maybe he said it. The interpreter was like, uh, let me go and walk this back. I'm just kidding.

Yeah, that's interesting. Does the interpreter also filter? I would say, sure. People have talked about interpreters getting things wrong. Or keeping things out. I guess. But I don't think that happened in this case, no. No, I think, no, the interpreter clearly said what he said off of what Fomber said.

Again, to me, if there's a strike three called on load in the inning, this isn't, it was a terrible combination. Giving up the hit after the non-strike call. And the positioning was probably just a double doozy of I'm pissed off. Yeah. And it's Frumber. I don't know. I don't know why for whatever reason. I'm like, eh, it's fronber. He's just being fromber. Well, I mean, we won't talk about this much longer. It's not about having to worry about it.

Oh, worry about him being stalwart in the rotation and eating up 200 innings and finishing top 10 of the Sion. Oh, no, we're not to worry about that anymore. I want him here. I just know it's not going to happen. I know you want him here, but the luxury tax says otherwise. I get it. Well, they've, they just, I think he wants a long-term contract. And, I mean, there hasn't even been an offer to him. No.

I mean, at least you. You have a bet that he's not going to get more than five years. So why wouldn't the Astro sign him to a five-year deal? Because I don't think, I think they've said, and how I want to make sure. They haven't wanted to go more than five. They offered Bregman six. What's the longest they've ever offered a pitcher? I don't know.

Because Verlanders were two years. Mm-hmm. I believe Jim Craig wanted to offer him 17 years. Christian, 17 years in a free belt. Yeah, and also, yes, eight rounds a year. Well, how about this? Let's look this up real quick. How much is Christian Javier's contract?

But that's also arbitration years. They bought him out of arbitration, but I'm sure it was, I think it was, was it, six, a hundred or something? How long was Lance's deal? Lance was 575? And that's also arbitration out of that, too. Or was it, 575 or some like that? 585? 585 might be right.

Maybe the songs should be played for like the entire two hours and whatever, how many minutes the Astros game is tonight. Although my oldest and his buddies are going tonight. To the game? Yeah, they're doing the 9-99 thing. Okay, so that's got to be Cam. Yeah. That's an easy guess.

Man, you say you like biopics. Have you seen the Bob Marley one? I have not. It's a good? It's more about like his spiritual and like his personal life. Not so much about his music, but it's really beautiful. All right. I love when a girl man can say beautiful.

It's a really good story. I saw the trailer and it kind of felt like the guy. Now the guy that played him was Jamaican, right? Or no? It didn't. He fooled me. He was like, hey, mine. I am my body mine.

And I'm like, I don't know if I can do this. But it was okay for you. But doesn't everybody do that kind of impersonation now? not in a movie when it's a biopic. After the first ten minutes you forget. Okay. Okay, you get over it. Hey, man.

I just didn't want to be snickering. Hey, man, they amputated my leg, man. I was like, oh, okay. Well, I just didn't know if I was going to be able to make it through. So basically, Jonathan, you say it's beautiful. And Ross said the trailer sucks. He didn't watch it. So what am I supposed to do here?

I was wary. No, the trailer is like sketch. So I agree with Ross. Okay. You buy into his character for the first ten minutes. Okay. You got to buy. That's anything.

You got to buy in, Matt. If you don't buy in, you're not going to like it. The story is really well written, for sure. Speaking of which, I finished Happy Gilmore 2, we can get to that in a bit. Best biopic, not in terms of acting or lines. We did a fancy five of Best Biopics. I honestly don't remember who won. To me, the person that looked the closest to the person he was pretending to

You want to guess? Daniel Day Lewis and Lincoln. He was in Rhapsody, the guy to play Queen. No. That's not bad, though. Dinsal Washington and Malcolm X. No. One more guess.

Robert De Niro and Raging Bull. No. Jamie Fox and Ray. Oh, okay, that was great. Let's go. Jamie Fox is great. I'll put Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln number two. Both of them won best actor.

It's funny because Miami and Rhapsody, I loved. I thought it was really good. But Cameron, my middle son, Peyton loved Rocket Man, the Elton John biopic, a little bit more. That's my girl, that's her favorite, is Rocket Man. Hmm. Oh, Oppenheimer.

Oh, didn't see it. Won't be seeing it. You've got to watch it. What's the topic? Go ahead to say what the topic is. No, it's not for Matt. It's not for Matt. No, no, no, don't even try.

I want you to tell what the topic is. It's slow-paced and intellectual and a good film. It's not for Matt. But you get your, you know. No, no, no. No. You need slapstick like airplane or you need moms at the Christmas tree farm on the Hallmark Channel. That's what Matt needs.

Or Ray. Ray, yeah. Or Rehemian Rhapsie. Ray had some bad talk about. Oppenheimer. You're so weird. Literally just like swept the Oscars. It was a great performance by Killian Murphy.

First of all, Oscars. Oscars will never tell me what I like and don't like a movie. I know they won't. Mr. Lifetime Movie Network. Oh, excuse me. I'm this epitie film critic, and I work for the master's man, and I need a masterpiece. I understand. You know what?

I want to go to a movie theater, have some popcorn, have some peanut M&Ms, and a Coke Zero, and enjoy the movie. Not worry about what the French phone press has to say about it. You want to watch Young and the Ressels, and that's fine. That's your taste. Yeah. I want me entertained. I don't need to. Like, I had a communications professor when I was in college freshman year, and he was, he was you.

say my wife and I would go to this movie and we wouldn't speak to each other for 30 minutes after so we could digest the movie and have a thoughtful conversation about it. That's beautiful. Did he take notes? Yeah. I don't think so. I like the guy, but it was like... Depending on what the film is. Could you imagine after Superman, you don't need to not talk for 30 minutes? If you and I went to a movie and we didn't speak for 30 minutes after so we could just put our thoughts together? I speak to you 20 hours a week. That's enough. We're not going to movies then. All right. Back to sports. talking about?

Okay, we started talking about the Bob Marley biopic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you musical biopics almost feel like a different category than actual biopics. Because the greatest biopic of all time is Goodfellus, Henry Hill.

I'll take your word for it. You've spoken highly of it, as have others. Oh, yeah, you haven't seen it. All right. All right, seven, can we get back to sports, because that's what people are turning in for us. They don't need us having... We're sports, sports, and more...

We're 20 hours of sports per week. Come on, now, let's go. Got feelings. Okay, yeah, let's talk about the Astros. They've got 18 guys in the aisle. They've lost five in a row. They have no resources to make any trades. And the Seattle Mariners keep climbing up to standings.

It's fantastic. Everything's going to be all right. That will... Well, that's what we play Bob Marty for. These three little birds are getting shot dead off the stoop. It's not good. All right. Yeah, we may not...

have Joe at 1230. He's got a couple of meetings. I'm not hiring of that. Oh, okay. Are they with Dave Clark and Tony Perry's, Tony Parrishika and Taylor Trammell? I don't know who the meetings are with, but get that figured out. Let's go. Okay. Well, if I said what were you meetings about, what was it going to say? I can't tell you. Let me tell you all something. Let me peel the curtain back. We have meetings around here. Oh.

I don't tell you all about the meetings. Yeah, well, I call them more interventions. All right, to other things. Because now you're just a... The whole Bob Marley song is now out. You pooh-poot it so quickly. I poo-pooed on it? Mm-hmm.

You know what? We will play feel-good songs the rest of the way. We need to. Okay. All right, speaking of a feel-good story, did you hear what happened in New York, sadly, yesterday? Oh, there was a shooting. There was a shooting. Now, it wasn't at the NFL floors,

but it was at the building where the NFL is. apparently the guy went to the wrong floor. Oh, he was trying to go to the NFL. Yes. Took the wrong elevator. You know how elevators can have like two to 19 and then 20 to 29 or whatever the case would be? Yeah, apparently he was trying to get to the NFL offices after shooting several people yesterday in the building to the lobby, but accidentally ended the wrong set of elevator banks.

Jesus. Well, now you pooh-pooed on it, Matt. Well, thanks for bringing us up, Matt. Any more on this? This man had a history of mental illness and a rambling note. on his body suggested that he had a grievance against the NFL over a claim that he suffered from chronic

traumatic endofo... insephalophily which can be only diagnosed after someone has died. Yeah, CTE. He played, yeah, CTE. Why don't they just, they should just said that? He played high school and football in California

nearly two decades ago but never played in the NFL. Apparently, the TV, the reporters telling the police telling him the reporters, quote, he had seemed to have blamed the NFL. The NFL headquarters was located in the building and he mistakenly went up the wrong elevator bank. Very sad. Not necessarily a talk to a show topic, but I just wanted to pass that along. Boy, there ain't nothing good. Look at this. You got Cubs Hall of Famer, Sandberg dies at 65.

We have New York shooter targeting NFL headquarters. Jesus. God, wait. I'm going to demand that you find us a piece of good news. All right. Well, it's time for a break, thank God. Okay. So if you are on the phones and have a piece of good news. It's a good news Tuesday. Well, we need some. Dion Sanders is cancer-free? I mean, that's not terrible news, for sure. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We need something of good news. Our strows have lost five straight. Oh, by the way, people are saying Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman. That was pretty good, too. That was a really good one, too. Apparently, he really got in character to that. There was a documentary about how, like, he stayed in character.

or the entire time. Well, I think Andy Andy Kaufman's life was in character. He was never himself for a very long period of time. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

We need some good news from somebody. We got gut feelings also coming up in 15 minutes. This is Sports Talk 790. What a song is this? Y'all hear that? It's time for me to put Matt on some vibes. Hold up. You know about that to bars.

Maddie, come on now. Oh, what are you? know about that to bars Jonathan? Come on now. You got to get the move back back up. This is supposed to make me in a better move. You're saying this is not a jam? Crank this up, Jonathan. Tell Matt to shut his

bum ass up. Here's some more good news. Spirit Airlines is furlowing 270 pilots. Oh, great. Well, you haven't heard this? Yeah. I'm telling you. No, I know you've heard this because I remember Al-Farb playing this.

Maybe he got to go out with those chorus. We heard the chorus. I mean, well, yeah. Sounds like a bad Michael Jackson ripoff. You're so disrespectful. No, if Matt brought us this song to the table, he'd be talking about how it's the best. But since he didn't bring it and he doesn't know it, it's the worst. Well, I mean, it takes a while for someone to appreciate a song.

Yeah, you got to buy in. So you know what I'll do? On the way home today. I'm going to give the DeBarge's greatest hits. I will pull DeBarge up and listen to it. I will give you a more objective viewpoint of it tomorrow. This is a very Matt. I feel like it's a Matt Thomas type jam. Okay.

Yeah. All right. Philip wants to talk to us. Let's get that screen and ready to go. Find something else. Man, is that what we're supposed to bring now? What? It's just bad.

I mean, no. Oh, I'm supposed to find some good news. Yeah. You were supposed to find some good news during the time off we were had there. Hmm. Okay, let me get to some good news. Go ahead. We have college football coming up in a few weeks.

Yes. We have, which is supposed to be an amazing opening weekend of football. Thank you, college football. And for all the things that is wrong with NIL and whatnot, we're getting still great matchups. Texas, Ohio State. I mean, that is the lid lifter. The what? The lid lifter.

I'm not familiar with that phrase. The lid lifter? Yeah. You pull the lid off of something that's the very first thing you see. And the very first thing you see is Texas versus Ohio State. Are you making this up or is that a phrase? No. No, I'm not kidding.

I'm just not familiar with, if I walked up to you, Jonathan, I said, this game is the lid lifter. Yeah, I'm going to look it up. Okay, no, I'm not calling you a while. No, because I want to make sure I to make something up. Lid lifter. Lidlifter. I thought that's what they did. Oh, yeah.

I thought that's what they did at frat parties. Lidlifter, me, the first game played. Yeah. Now you make it be doubt myself. From where? Oh, it's a baseball term? Yeah. Oh, it's an opening day.

Yeah. I mean, it's a lid lifter for it. It is football. Oh, okay. I didn't know you were bringing like, Joe DiMaggio, first in the lineup for today's lid lifter. Why does every 1940s announcer sound the same to you? Vince Scullin ever sounded like that.

He was a broadcast game in the 50s. The Cincinnati Redlegs are in town for today's lid lifter at Crosby against the Boston Red Sockings. Actually, there'd be interleaks. That wouldn't work. I just, I don't know. I hadn't heard that before. Sorry. But yeah, college football should be good. Ohio State. I already told you,

Moneyline the Texas longhorns plus the three. Okay. We got that locked in. What's up? Texans are going to West Virginia next week. And then by the time they get back, they're going to go to Minneapolis for their first preseason game. We're going to the green bra. I thought you were, I thought you were, I thought you were booking a

trip to the green bar we're going to go to the casino uh we don't have that in the budget plus if we went and wex didn't go he'd lose his mind oh that's true honestly yeah but wax gets gifts yeah he would just he would start lifting lids he would not be lid lifted he'd be splitting wigs kicking those lids open now heard a wig splitter haven't heard a lid lifting what is a wig splitter I'm curious I have not heard that phrase all right anyways Jonathan you ever you ever split a wig before What? I feel like I know what this is and I don't respond to it.

I don't know. Do I have to go to Urban Dictionary for this? Mm-hmm. All right. Wig splitter. Okay. I thought lid lifter was something you'd heard before. No, I didn't, like I said, I'm...

You know, you try to teach people things new every day on the show. Tris Spreeks, Speaker and the boys out there lifting lids. You know what it is? You have to think of different ways of saying, opener. Oh, no. Try something. Of course. Open the vocabulary.

It's like, thank you. Yes, Matt. Teach me about vocabulary. There's a jambit of games to watch. They're gamut as well. Yeah, like when you're writing pregame, you've got to say the local nine, you've got to say squad, you got to say Houston, you got to say Stros, you got to say Astros. And you don't say Ernie all the time, ERA, Ernie.

I say Ernst. Sometimes you just say it out loud, earned run average. Yeah, you do all, mix it up. Mm-hmm. I got you. Yeah. It's a broadcasting 101 with. Matt Thomas.

Well, that's because it makes, you know, you have to use the common vernacular of today with phrases of yesterday. I'm like, I'm like Sonny playing your hits of yesterday and today. It's beautiful, Matt. What a cunning linguist you are. Thank you. Philip in Pearland, the Matt Thomas show, Ross. Philip, good morning to you. Good morning, gentlemen.

Interventions, want to hear more about that. Lidlifter, I've never heard that phrase. Well, now you know something. Yeah, Matt's here to teach you, Philip. Come on now. Yeah. Ross, I love your voices, man, especially from the 40s. Oh, thank you.

Now, yes, sir. Yeah, do them more. And when the two of you do the Louisiana thing, that's fun. I like that. Good, I'm glad he's laughing. Now, for the good news, we have a great team. We're getting a boatload of pitchers, you know, in waves. We have a great owner.

And the Yankees suck. I mean, it's a good day. right? You're right, Philip. Thank you. It's a beautiful day to be alive. He just dropped off. He said, I... Good owner, good player. Yankees suck. Good players. Be all right. Still three games in the first place. What is going on with the Yankees? They are in second... They're five and a half out of first place. Are they... They're still in a wild card. Oh, they're the first wild card. But only by a game.

Tampa, Texas, Seattle, all those teams are very, very close. Just beat the Mariners, please. who got Josh Naler and might make more moves because they have one of the better farm systems in baseball and Dana Brown might have to sit on his hands. In Cal Raleigh is still crushing the baseball. Oh my God. He's on pace for 63 home runs now.

Yeah. So, you know what? I'm burying something today on the show. Go ahead. I still don't want my guys doing it, but I'm not, I'm going to officially bury that if you compete in the home run derby, it doesn't ruin your swing for the last of the year.

Oh, thank you. I've been telling you this for years, Matt. I don't listen to you very often. Oh, I know. You should listen to me. I gave you a lifter. Lid lifter. It is kind of a tongue twister.

You don't say it a lot. I don't think I've said it probably in 10 years. I haven't said it in 76 years. Sorry, I couldn't help myself. Okay, so if that's 1940s, play by play guy. Okay. Give me 1960s. I don't know 1960s.

I just going to do it the same way. Why do you know the 40s then? Because you're basically taking everybody that you listen to any old broadcast. That's 1966. Sandy Cofax of the boys. And the trolley Dodgers are in town. Here we are in Southern California. Los Angeles Dodgers baseball.

The Golden Age of Hollywood. Dodger Stadium. I mean, the only place they've ever played. Well, they played at the L.A. Coliseum for a while before the stadium was built. It is historic. By the way, do you see the Speedway for this weekend in Bristol? I did. I see an article on it.

They're going to have 85,000 people at this thing. Setting a record. Now, have you seen the dimensions yet? I have not. I've seen a photo of it, but I did not see the dimensions. Yeah, I think it's 605 feet to write. Well, you know what you could do? You can put it.

You can make it whatever you want. You can do whatever you want because you're playing it inside the circle. It's not like it's a narrow track. Yeah. There's a huge area from one side of the track to the other. You're just basically just plopping a baseball field in the middle of the track. Like where they don't call it the grains. What are they called it the pit?

No. What's the middle area of a... Yeah. Oh, I know what you're talking. The field? Or just the... Whatever that area is called. They're taking that area and making a baseball.

There's NASCAR people screaming out of it. Oh, my God. How do you all not know that? Is it the infield? Infield, yeah. Yeah, yeah. The infield. That's what they call it.

So the infield is going to... See, I love gimmicky stuff like that for one game. I love when the Major League teams go to. to Williamsport and play every year in that one game. I think it's just the infield. I love it when basketball teams play on cruise ships. All right, that was a little much. No, on the tankers? Yeah, that was cool.

They hit the wave and the ball bounced out of the goal? That was crazy. I hated that one time, John, you hate this. One of the players went to go get a basketball and he fell off the ship. Yeah. It was very violent. About, what, seven or eight years ago? I think it was Duke playing North Carolina State on the USS Ulysses. I know they actually play on the ship, but I don't know. You don't remember that when that guy fell off the boat going after the basketball? No, that's not really.

That was a technical foul. That was a loose ball foul. That would have been nationwide news. No, you're right. I've made that up. I'm trying to get away with stuff with you. This is actually becoming one of my favorite bits. I'm on it.

I'm on here. My goal is to make sure I tell one horrific lie to Jonathan per day. He's so young and gullible. Why are you taking advantage? you know what you ought to do. Next time you hear something... He doesn't know any better. Listen to me.

Next time you hear something you don't think I'm telling the truth. I want you to hit the buzzer. And see if you can figure it out. Correct. But the problem is I'm going to direct, I'll say, hey, John, remember this time this happened? So it's my, it's my opportunity here to at least tell you some things that are the truth. And you've got to figure out what time when I'm lying to you and tell you the truth.

Oh, my gosh. All right. 1129 on Sports Talk 7. Oh, no. I need somebody new to harass. Yeah. You've been around for 50. You're beating up on me for 50 years.

I'm done with you. All right. 7.13, 2.1, 2.5.790. We need some serious. This isn't maybe perhaps the most important gut feelings we've had in a while. What is ultimately your gut feeling of what the Astros are going to do at the deadline? If you think you know what they're going to get, not necessarily with player, but how do they fix what's going on now? 713-212-5-790.

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that emails me almost every day the Astros lose. Oh, you've been getting a lot of emails. Your inbox is full. You know, he calls sometimes. And I know Mike listening. every day. Mike, good afternoon to you. I'll read you. Go outside and get some sunshine, Mike. Put a smile on your

face. We'll listen to put it on a record that makes you happy. All right, so I want to read some of his, probably during the news and no, but it's just, it'll just make you sad. By the way, Charlie Martin throwing the day for the Orioles. Oh, really? In his last hour before, he might get traded? I don't know. Do you think? No, if he's getting trade, he's not a pitch of the day, right?

Maybe. I guess he could. All right? How do we do last week, by the way. Last week's gut feelings, Matt. You have the WNBA coming to Houston by 2031. Yes. I feel good about that. You're not going to feel good about this one. Go ahead. Astros 5 and 1 in their next six games. Well, I mean, if I said 5 is the L's, you have Memphis going to the Pack 12. Did that happen yet? Nope. Gonna. And you wrote zero home run. for the rest of the year for Yordon. Still a possibility. I still am going over zero.

Well, I mean, you'd be the favorite on that. So, you know, I'm obviously getting the points. Oh, I said Bryce Matthews home running the next week and he got a home run the next day? He had three. Well, it was the day after he had two. Oh, okay, I got you. I said he'll have another one within the next week and he got one. Thank God we get that one in.

And has he had any more hits than since then? We don't have to talk about that. Who's had more hits? Cooper Hummel or Bryce Matthews in the last week. Hey, Cooper Hummel got a hit yesterday. You did, one of four. Nice. By the way, shout out to the Orioles playing 1135 AM games.

That's 12.30 there, huh? I mean, that's a good way to spend lunch in Baltimore. I mean, it's safer there. I mean, Baltimore not the safest place. I don't know. Continue on. I have Lance McCullors Jr. With a quality start the next time he's out.

I might have to delete that. No, you can't delete. Now, you make fun of me. for myself that I get wrong. I don't never ask you to delete. Oh, really? Whatever. Never mind. You know, I'm going to be nice. Thank you. Every day. I said off-season hand procedure for Yordon.

Got it feeling? Sounds good to me. And I said he'll hit two home runs, at least, the remainder of this season. Okay? What did Jonathan have to say? Well, he flew close to the sun. He said Asheros had topped the AL by August 5th. Top record.

He died. They didn't get it by it. They didn't get it by They were tied. Yeah, that's not a win. They were tied. Not a win. And then they lost five in a row. And now they're falling off the map, unfortunately. And then he said six home runs for Yord on the rest of the year.

Just being whimsical. You know what? Your captain glass half full. And we appreciate that. I mean, go for the long. I do. Go for the long balls. Somebody's got a counteract mic on the emails.

Oh, you know, I'm going to read mics from the right. No, no. You don't save it? Okay, yeah. Please. Okay. Because Mike's in Murr, the last two days have been pretty good. All right, gut feeling for Thursday.

Drum roll. All right, we want your gut feelings on the Astros by Friday. Now, I don't know if Dana's going to be on tomorrow. I would almost rather listen to Dana the day after the trade deadline than the day before. I don't know what these. Well, I'm with Sean. But point being is this. The Astros are going to get a left-handed bat.

And they are going to get a. right-handed reliever. Okay. And they are going to have to move in one of those two deals, an active member of the 26-man rotation, 26-man squad, whomever that may be. So I will say that at the very end, you will see deals that will involve a right-handed reliever, a left-handed bat, and it will involve, the tray will involve sending that team an active player.

Now, I'm going to give you switch hitting bat as well because that might have. So do I get switch hits on that? Okay, I'll take the switch. And I'm going to tell you that it's... See, I'm here to help you, Matt. That it's not going to be one of those wow moment moves. It'll be a very mid-at-very-best kind of deal. That's my gun on the Astros.

I think they get a bat as well. I'm going to go six, seven out of ten bat. Like, will the Castro fit that bill? Let me ask you this. Will the bat of the player OPS be above 750? No. $700? better be.

That makes it four or five. 750 bad OPS is a six seven. You said six seven, didn't you on that on the bat? Yeah. I think 750 has to be a six seven. How about OPS plus over 100? It's the better than average.

You are so minutia-filled today. What do you mean? I'm going to start calling you Mr. Manusia. You've been calling me that for years. That's true. I've called you other things behind your back. That's okay.

I usually hear back. Don't worry. I got a voodoo doll. I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to say left-handed or switch hitting bat. Okay. As well. Pitcher? I'm going to say infielder.

Okay. Or versatile. Well, you know what? They got to get third base fixed. At the bare minimum, Ross. Because, I'm going to tell you, he's coming back. Come on. Come on.

Let's be honest about this. Okay. I'm with you, right-handed reliever. Yep. And that's it. That's it. Because I feel three moves would be, I mean, really either pulling apart, members of your current roster or what's in your minor leagues.

And Justin Verlander will not be coming back. Don't even write that down. You don't get that. All right, Jonathan, what do you have? I'm going to say after this and looking at the AL West standings, excuse me, it's going to be a dogfight between one and two games for first place by the end of the season. Between Seattle and the Rangers and Astros is going to be a one-game deficit. One game. So you're saying the Astros do not win the AOS?

Is that what you're saying? If they do win it. If you're saying it's coming, the race comes down to one game. Oh, so the winner of the division, I'll try to paraphrase for you. The winner of the division wins the division by one game. Do you want to pick a winner? Or you're just going to say it's coming down to it. Oh.

I'm saying, put your name on. Let's go now. If the Astros, you would have said it already. No, I haven't heard to me. Every week on Tuesday, we do this. I know. This is what I'm doing. It's going to be a one game deposition.

Now remember, folks, he has SFA beating you of age. So take everything he says with a grain of salt. August 28, y'all can come. I will put my Twitter public just for y'all to come home. That's how confident I am. I'm going to stand on my ground here. That is hilarious. You've been hit with a baton too many times.

I've felt a couple times, but it's okay. I got another bad gut feeling you don't want to hear. Go ahead. Mariners make significant move. I don't know for what, if it's another bat or a pitcher or what. I mean, they got pretty good pitching, but Mariners make another significant move. I got a move. I got one for you.

And this is very lame. Eugenio Suarez is somewhere else in three days. Okay. Where? I got to put my name on that? No, I have to. I'm just going to say, that should be a borderline half-star selection if I get that right. I mean, yeah.

I will also predict the sun will rise next Tuesday. Don't even count that. You're right. You're absolutely right. Why am I doing that? I mean, there's too much smoke for you, Hennio, to be there. First of all, why would they need it? Yeah.

They don't need them. They're already selling. All right, let's go to Doug, Bobby, and James when come back. Did he go back to Seattle? If that's the case, I'm taking weeks off. Weeks? Yeah, I'll talk to you to Rockets Media Day. Okay.

I'm not giving you my salary. Oh, yeah. It'd be worth your while. Yeah, we need you to leave. Split me a little 500 from me. I got you. I got you a chunk. 1140, 1144 on sports.

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Bobby Memorial on 790. Bobby, what's in your gut this week? My gut is we're not going to be able to get much because we don't have much to give because everybody's injured. But one thing that I think that we could do with what we have is do a little more stealing, a little more hit and run. Bunting? Put the ball in play.

when people are on base. We are horrific at moving runners along. As the three for 29 in the series against Oakland suggests, and the other night we get a guy on base, Altuve hits into a double play.

You know, you can disagree with me all you want, but I'm watching this. I've been watching it for a long time. The other night, the guy, I think, was for Oakland, walked, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch, and scored on a fly and we lost two to one.

You've got to do something offensively to create traffic. Eduardo Perez on Sunday night said the Giants are having trouble scoring runs. They need to do hit and run this and that. And especially since about five of our

players' career batting averages in the majors are under 180. You have to do something. Have a philosophy. And it's very frustrating to watch. If they can't get hits, how are you going to hit and run? Well, lay a bun down. Draw one, you don't hit in place.

You know, you can't. All right. This is a good feeling? Let me ask you this question. How are you going to fix three for 29? How are you going to get better players to get healthy in play? I mean, this is not a major league roster out there. No, you're to bun them home from second.

I mean, come on. Bobby, no, you can tell. I'm asking question. Bobby, do you know who it's out there? Do you know that Taylor Tremel is not a long-term major leader? Do you know that Bryce Matthews, Matthews is up here way too early. Do you know who, give me some more names.

Zach Schorne. Cooper Hummel. These are not Major League Baseball players. They're just not. But get them to hit the ball the other way. They're all pulling the ball. Matt is walking out. He literally walked out of this.

You know, if they would just listen to Bobby. He's gone for real. He's actually gone. This is okay. If they would just listen to Bobby and hit the ball the other way, lay down some buntz, move the runners, and they would be scoring 15 runs a game. I don't understand why every team in baseball doesn't just put the ball in play

and move the runners over and buntz. It's the simple fundamentals of baseball. I mean, you look at all the top offenses in baseball. I'm sure you could see, let's see, who's number one in run score? Probably the Dodgers or the Yankees? I bet you they both lead the majors and buntz. They must do that, right? It's 2025, folks, please.

Obviously, I'm being sarcastic. Move the ball around. Doug, what's in your gut? What was the guy that used to always call in? I think it was the 2019 season. Got to go the other way. Got to go the other way. James and Alvin. He still calls sometimes.

Go with the outside pitch! Yeah, exactly. He's been calling for the last couple years still, too. Oh, okay. Well, I mean, this is the perfect scenario for that to happen. But, I mean, I kind of see it the way that the last caller saw it. I'm not going to go as far as into my feelings because of that. But I just don't think we have the ammunition to get what we need at this point.

And honestly, we lose a lot of players this year, too. We're going to lose Frommberg. You're going to lose Dubon. You're probably going to lose Jake Myers. Don't forget Victor Caratini. Victor Caratini. So, I mean, it's great that these guys are kind of getting some time up here with Bryce Matthews, Jacob Melton, Cam Smith, because guess what, we're going to have to lean on those guys next year

to actually be productive and be major league players. So unfortunately, I think we're going to have to stand pat and just pray that some of these injuries work out and turn the right way. And I still think we'll make the playoffs. I just don't think we'll win the division. All right. That's his gut feeling. Making the playoffs, not one of the division.

Oh, I got a late, I got a late gut feeling. Okay. You're going to hate this. You are absolutely going to hate this. You ready? You better write this down. Okay. Put it in all caps.

Okay. I put my name out, but it's such a crazy-ass prediction. There will be no baseball played in 2007. For the entire year? Entire season. I don't think so. So, right. Write it down.

No. Put in caps. No. They will not, they will not shoot themselves in the foot. You hear me? Please. 2027, there will be a lost season. I could see a short in the season.

Okay. I hope you're right. I hope I couldn't be more incorrect. The entire... I'm going to call you from the nursing home when this happens. Why? Wouldn't you go be there? You're going to pick up your phone or your phone in room 133.

tell you something. If you call me while my night nurse is giving me my bath, there's going to be some problems. Oh, that's sick. She's going to welcome it. She's going to die for her. She's not going to bathe you. She doesn't want to me at that point. I mean, you could be right, but I think you're wrong. Just say I'm wrong. And just call it a day.

Brandon, what's in your gut this week? Afternoon, guys. I just have a quick one here. My gut is telling me that between Bobby and James and Garden Oaks, Ross is going to have a coronary by the end of the baseball. Matt was the one that got up and I'm the one that left. But yes.

James and Garden Oaks, the worst. I love James and Garden Oaks. You're always welcome to call. Eric and Bay City, horrible. We have about seven or eight that are just wretched. I'm going to say, the Astros are still winning the West. I'm sorry, we didn't hear you. The Astros are still winning the West.

Right of down. Bill in San Antonio. What's in your gut this week? Well, I wanted to say one thing. I'm a long-time Houston person. I've been living in Houston for, well, I'm 74, but it's, I don't live in Houston anymore, but I always remember saying that I remember that the time in Houston when I was there, and it was Houston, we have a problem.

And that's the way I feel right now about the Astros. We have a problem. But it's not physical. You know, you always knock at all these balls. players, do you know what? They made it to the Major League. Well, 10 of them were on the Major League roster because they'd rather be Space Cowboys

if the Astros had their way. There could be four hooks on that squad ball. Oh, you're right. You're right about that. You're right about that. And baseball starts at a very young age. And from that age on up, you're told to be this kind of a ballplayers. And they made the test.

They made it even if it is up to 3A, you know. They made the test. And now they're getting a chance. play at the major league level. And we got to get in their heads. Not going to get in our age. So every AAA player can be, so every

AAA player can be a major league star, if only they just got it right mentally. Yeah. Look at out. Oh, my God. 5 foot 7. He, you know, he's five, how many,

how many more 5 foot, how many 5 foot 7 successful major league players? Are they ever in the history of baseball? like two. How many five, seven people are there on the planet? How big is people here? Oh my God.

He also has the best bat to ball skills I've ever seen. Are you leaving or you staying? I'm not to walk out of here. We can't both leave. Yeah, I'm staying. All right. It's your turn, Matt. I'm out of here.

Holy. Go ahead. The floor is yours. Go ahead. I want to hear this. Okay. Psychology and baseball. Shush.

You know where it starts? The psychology and baseball starts at that head coach. I like the head coach. When he's got to all the players, he's a great coach. But a great coach can do it with just ordinary players. He should be able to fire them up enough to get that, like the other person was saying before, that moving players down. You don't have to be a home run hitter.

You just got to do that. something positive in baseball. And right now that whole team is not doing anything positive. And any time they make a mistake to pay for it, the pitching. All right, on that, no, we're going to let it. The Matt Thomas show with Ross.

We just got a text from our buddy, Chris Gordy. By the way, happy birthday to Chris Gordy if you're listening. Happy birthday. I hope you're not listening. Huh? It's Chris Gordy's birthday? It's Chris Gordy's birthday. Get on Facebook.

For real? Wish him a happy birthday. I'm not on Facebook. I'm not 76. I'm not 76 either. A lot of people are on Facebook. Sorry, Ross. It's, you know?

Yeah, okay. It's cues a little older, but it's not like it's nothing but 80-year-old's on there. Gordy's younger than you are, right? Well, how old Gordy? No, he's older than me. Is he? Okay. God, I can't believe you would insult me like that, actually.

Happy birthday to Gordy, and he sent us the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen on Twitter. No, that can't. That's too high of a bar. I was just trying to be nice. It's too high of a bar. Something called Astros Josh. Okay. Wants to make the following deal.

Twins trade Correa and Castro. That's a utility guy. Willie Castro. He plays everywhere. He's got an OPS of 762. By way, Willie is W-I-L-L-I. Billy Castro. And include $23 million per season of remaining contract.

Astros trade A.J. Blueball. Oh, God. Caden Powell and Zach Short of the Twins. Still, I don't know if this is smart for the Astros. Is that the dumbest tweet you'll ever see of the day? Good Lord, no wonder why Astros' Twitter sucks. I mean, send this to Minnesota. They would laugh their ass off.

I mean, my God. BlueBaw, Powell, Short. You get Correa. who's your everyday third basement. Granted, he makes a lot of money, and he is got to IH. Castro, now, he's basically probably a little bit of a better offensive improvement than Maricio Dubon, but not a whole lot better, right? And you're telling the Astros, you're telling the twins to pay $23 million of the remaining contract. A.J. Blue Ball's ERA is around 6 at AAA, I think.

Why have we gone? Keep breath, Maddie. It's okay. We have been a relevant baseball town since 2015, okay? 16 to make the playoffs. 17 on, yes. Wild card in 15. Beat the Yankees in a wild card.

Thank you very much, Dallas Keikle. Okay. Why do we have these soda? First of all, that guy should not be Astros, Josh. He should be something way worse. A.J. Blue Ball's whip at AAA at age 24, 1.616. Oh, I guess he's saying that the asteros would pay the $23 million per season. Okay, okay, that makes a little more sense.

But even so. That makes more sense. You just, you're training, they're trading them sloppy Joe's and trying to get prime rib back. I like a good sloppy Joe. Yeah, underrated sandwich. Yeah. Don't be hating on sloppy Joe. I like sloppy joes.

He like good, a lot of sloppy. Time for the news at noon. Today's news and noon is that's a dumbass tweet. Be better, Houston. Seriously. Castro and Correa for Blue Ball and Friends. And Zach Short.

What does Zach Short get you in the market? I mean, I'm asking for a friend. He plays a pretty good shortstop. He's a 30-year-old journeyman. Career OPS Plus of 58 at 30 years old? Hmm. Yeah. All right, Matt, sorry. News at noon.

Yes, we have talked about the Houston Astros and their loss, but we have not, well, since the beginning of the show, reset talking about Framber Valdez, very unhappy with the defensive positioning yesterday. Speaking to the media after the game, talking about the grounder hit by Nathaniel Lowe, brother of Josh Lowe, not related to Brandon Ler. When he hit the grounder, I thought it was going to be out. When I saw it went through, I said, oh, it's going to be a hit, as in a single. But I saw the right fielder playing center field, you know, we have a center fielder for that. I feel like the right fielder should have been playing right field. I'm uncomfortable with that. That feels like there's no room for a misinterpretation, to be honest with you.

There was no misunderstanding what Framber wanted to say. He didn't like that the right fielder was playing all the way in center, should have been a single, and not a double. Josh Bell, one of the slowest runners at all of baseball, barely made it home. Joe Espada not asked about the play after the loss because his news conference was before

Framer Valdez talked in the club house. Quality assurance coaches from Chandler Oms article. Quality assurance coach Jason Bell and first base coach Dave Clark are Houston's two outfield instructors and responsible for positioning during games. Valdez said he did not approach them with his concerns.

Why don't even approach? You do your job. But of course, if you look at Nathaniel Lowe, and first of all, the history of Framer lefty on lefty, not a lot of fly balls hit to right field, not a lot of batted balls to right field, and Lowe himself is kind of an opo-type hitter. So understandable why they were positioned in a certain way,

but Frammer Valdez is not happy about it, Matthew. Nope. And we, Joe's spot is still in meetings. We're hoping to grab him in the 1 p.m. hour of this show. Yes. All right. Texans, anything new on that? We'll get from Wax coming up in a little bit.

How about that? Yeah. Was he supposed to join us? 12.20? Okay. Coming up next. All right, real quick. Mike, our friend Mike, who sends me emails.

Oh, great. This is the one from Sunday. Done with Effing Astros. Oh, don't watch. Turn off. You better not send you one more email. Tell him I said it. Stay with me.

Don't send one more email. So he sends me this and I responded back to him yesterday on Sunday. I said, you're not done. Done with a effing Astros. Worst display of baseball over four game series since before they got good. Brown is a mess and other players are horrible also. Injured players taking an extended vacation

as best as I can tell. Don't see how this gets any better. So if he's done with the Astros, he would not have sent me an email about today. Oh, and he also says, Brown was stupid to mention Paredes was hurt worse and expected.

That shuts the door on a lot of possibilities with teams not knowing we are in a desperate position. What? Brown is pure dumbass, so I doubt any assistance a move is coming. He needs to be replaced so bad. Dana Brown is pure dumbass. The guy that got you Cam Smith, Esok, Paredes, and Hayden Wazneski for one year of Kyle Tucker,

that guy's a dumbass. The guy that isn't covered along with the pitching brain trust or whatever you want to call it, guys like Brian King and Stephen Okard and Bennett Suza off the scrap heap who are effective relievers for you right now. And Taylor Scott last year, not so much this year. Who drafted Bryce Matthews in the first round in two years? Okay, yeah, he needs a little.

a little bit more seasoning in the minor leagues, but showing some promise as a young player, that guy, that's the idiot. It's just a five-game losing streak, people. They are three games in first place. Three games in first place. They've got 18 people on the injured list. Everything that can go wrong has gone wrong this season,

and they're in first place. Where did we get so spoiled? How did this happen? Everyone is acting like they're the, they're freaking Oakland A's. Okay, Sacramento A's. Okay, they just swept you. I get it.

This is absurd. We're talking about a team that's in first freaking place. What is happening right now? You're too close to it. I'm sorry. You're too close. Okay. All right.

Jameson. What are you speaking about that? I don't know what we're talking about. Wex joins us next from some Texans talk. 1215 on Sports Talk 790. All right. Let's get you what's happening at the Texans training facility. And we'll do that with our buddy Adam Wexer.

Nice enough to join us again today. We won't need them tomorrow because tomorrow in this mode will be in Astros pregame as the Astros will have a chance to win the series against the Diamondbacks or against the Nationals because they're going to win today and they're going to hopefully win tomorrow. And we're going to have better callers today than we had or tomorrow than we had today. Okay. Because today's been a rough day.

Yeah, I'm trying to, I'm sorry, I'm trying to stay calm. Yeah, I want to say calm. I know not finishing. We are an interactive show that believes the interaction is a key, but we've had some doozies today. Okay. Thank God, Lex is here for some levity. Wex, what did you see this afternoon?

And good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. Great to be with you guys. Pads again today. So a little analysis of the offensive line obviously continues. They're probably not going to have a lot of days where we say, oh, man, they dominated up front. Because quite frankly, the group across from them is just flat out better than them. And that's the concern for the upcoming season.

Continue to see a rotation at center. It looks like, quite honestly, that's really the only position battle among the five that likely will start against the Rams next month. Jared Patterson and Jake Andrews continue to each get first team reps at center. I would imagine they'd like to settle in on who is the starting center sometime soon. if I'm guessing, I'll guess Patterson. And I'll continue to tell you that, you know, Tay Ursary has gotten all the reps with the ones over at right tackle. And he continues to get reps as the backups come in over at left tackle. He's going to be starting for this team.

It looks like this year. And I think there's a real chance he's there starting left tackle the future. He better play well, but he's obviously outplaying the players or advanced further than the players he's competing with. Do you say, I'm watching this Ursary young man? man, he is really performing well, or are you like, man, they must be so bad that nursery is getting every opportunity to be a starter in his rookie year? It's much more of the latter, but second round picks on the offensive line, they start all the time. It's not crazy to think that. The problem is this is the fourth consecutive year.

The Texans have spent an early pick on an offensive lineman. And they definitely did not hit with Kenyon Green. I think it's pretty clear with Juice Scruggs running with the third team. They did not hit with Juke Scruggs, which was a massive overdraft. and Blake Fisher's running second team right tackle as he heads into a year two. Urstery's already obviously much further progressed than them. Determining whether he's actually really very good is the next thing in line. He's just clearly giving them a better chance than the guys he's competing with.

And Trent Brown, one of the veterans they signed, still has not come off the Pupp list. So he's obviously not a part of the competition yet. Now, Wax, I believe that 90% of any audience, unless it's the 10% that are just deep in the, in the weeds, on the offensive line. They don't particularly care who's up front. They just want to have improvement. So not that I'm asking you to go back in your memory banks, but when you look at them,

matter what combination is out there, no matter who plays where and who's swinging and who's playing at center, do you see, okay, things will look a little better, or is it just impossible right now to do that? Because, again, you're going against yourself, you're not going full speed on every one of the drills,

and that we really realistically have to wait until September for our first real true glimpse of whether or not this offensive line is better today than it was the end of last season. What you want to do when you clearly have problems on the offensive line and you're spending a lot on that offensive line because most of it is veteran players that make too much money, you've got to build it. You have to start building young talent on this line.

And that's where this team is kind of up against it. They're not building it. They have one player that I would say, I comfortably believe we'll be starting even in 2026, let alone 2027, and that's the real issue they have. Their idea of getting better from last year to this year is clearly not talent-based. It is coaching, technique, offensive coordinator changes. Almost everything they've put into being better this year up front is based on those things. Because we can't lie and tell you Tomlinson or Robinson or the other players they brought in from other teams are strong players.

They're not. They've had many years of starting in the league. Tomlinson's an average guard. Robinson is a below average tackle. Both of them are currently likely to start here. What do you think about the conversation from last year was that the center was making the calls and there was a lot of misprotection and rotating guys. As far as Nick Cayley here in his system, has there been a lot of discussion about who basically is the captain of the offensive line as far as calling protections? that's why they need to make a decision on who that starter is. Because I think Patterson did a markedly better job than anyone that he's been playing with the last two years. And Anders has a little bit of familiarity with Cole Popovich from their time at Troy. But both of them are learning a new offense with Kaylee. I think the sooner they get to the joint practice with the Panthers, because obviously some guys aren't going to play a whole lot in the preseason games.

When they get to those things, they should have a decision made sometime after that. The plate for C.J. Stroud is what really changes. that's what they've talked about since the offseason. He's much more in control of the offense. He's allowed to be much more in control of the offense, making calls at the line, making changes at the line, calling more things out himself. That's probably what we'll see is the biggest difference

between what he did for two years under Sloick and now in year one with Nick Cayley. All right, Jalen Petrie back out today. That was a lot of hullabaloo about that. What was he ailing? And how did he look if you had a chance to look at him at all today? uncertain, but I do believe it was something very minor with his foot, and obviously in that he only missed two practice days,

only one of which was in pads. It's clearly nothing of great significance. Daryl Taylor also had missed part of yesterday's practice, leaving a little early, but he was out there in full today. Petrie's part of the best secondary in the NFL, in my opinion. Seedag Gardner Johnson, Jalen Petrie, Kaelin Bullock could be the best safety trio, and I do think there's a chance that you've got Lasseter and Stingley is the best cornerback duo in the league.

So they're going to be in position to make plays. One of the plays of the day was delivered by Petrie. Really nice throw from Stroud to Higgins, who the ball was just over the fingertips of Derek Stingley Jr. Hit Higgins in the hands, and Petrie was there to knock it free, and ball lands on the turf. He is healthy again and a big part of this defense. Adam Wexler with us here on a sports talk 790.

The fantasy community getting hold of some comments from Domingo Ryan's yesterday about Nick Chub talking about how he doesn't move like he used to and stuff like that. What have your observations of a Nick Chubb and how he's moving around? I think after covering the Texans now 24 camps, I don't believe in what did I see from this running back in camp? It just doesn't really ever play out. I'm basing Nick Chub on he's two years removed from the major injury. He's less than a year removed from the injury that ended his season a year ago,

and he's going to be 30 by the end of the season. that's going to take its toll. He had a 300 plus touch season the year before he got hurt, and he hadn't touched the ball a whole lot the last two years. But if you recall, he's not Mr. Explosive to begin with. He churns out yards. He's difficult to tackle. He's a physical downhill runner, and he will get yards even when he's not blasting through a hole.

I wouldn't say he's looked great. I wouldn't say he's looked bad. There may be 20 touches total in 11-on-11 work over the six days of practice. So I'm probably not going to base a hole on that. But if you want me to tell you that Joward Jordan looks more explosive because he's way smaller and that's the type of back he is, I'll tell you that. He looks more explosive.

I just need you and tell me who Joward Jordan is. That was the first thought I had. Who are these people? Who are? Okay, Jerry. You've got Chubb is one. Daria Gubbo Wally is two. Jordan usually gets the carries behind that.

Woody Marks. Now that J.J. Taylor, is back and British Brooks. And if I ran through a list of I can't believe these guys could be carrying the ball for the Texans, yeah. That's what it sounds like. Woody Marks is the rookie that will probably play a ton in the preseason. And Jordan was the rookie last year.

He essentially didn't see the field, spent much of the year on the practice squad, but a smaller, quicker, potentially a return man type of, you know, back that they just don't have. So his opportunities go up dramatically when two of the presumed four running backs ahead of him, Pierce and Mixon, obviously Mixon's not likely to be here at all before the season starts. And we're running of no off-season work on the field for Pearson. We're a weekend at training camp, but he obviously has not come off the puck list.

Last question. There are John Metchy fans out there because John has overcome a lot of things medically, that has nothing to do with football. But needless to say, his career as a Texan has been overwhelming in part because of that. I know he was catching some punts a few days ago. He seems like he needs to have. an amazing camp in preseason to keep a spot on this squad. I agree or disagree?

I think every wide receiver that was brought in beyond the rookies because the rookies are making the team. Jalen Knoll and Jaden's are probably your third and fourth wide receivers behind Kirk and Collins. And I do think Xavier Hutchinson is your number five. But Justin Watson and Braxton Berrios, especially if they want him as the return man, these are guys that could easily push John Metchie off the roster. I think Metschie actually does have some special teams value,

both in return game down the depth chart. And I do think if he's active any given week, he would be a part of your coverage teams. It's difficult to trust his hands. And for a wide receiver, that's about the worst thing you can say. And I just haven't seen much difference in that here in camp. Sometimes he'll hang on to a catch, but it's bobbled.

Sometimes he makes a great play and had two or three really nice catches today. It's just how do you balance out? Are three or four really good plays okay if one or two of them aren't? And on a game day, that's the difference between extending and drive. and punning the football oftentimes. So I do think he's no better than sixth on a depth chart that may have only five or six wide receivers when they get to the season. All right. DiMico, in a better mood?

Was he grouchy today, or is he okay? As I've said on my show, ad nauseum, grouchy, D'Amico, honestly, I don't even know if I've ever seen it. And I certainly didn't see it yesterday. He was asked a question about something that in his mind, I don't think the injury situation with Joe Mixon dramatically changed over the weekend just because Ian Rappaport reported about it. I think the Texans were, you know, he even said that. He goes, nothing changed with Joe. But injury questions are his kryptonite, his Achilles heel. He hates them.

And usually you get responses that you don't like when you ask them. We're going to keep getting asked. Awesome. Thank you very much for me. You got Joe Espada. You are the appetizer to the Astros manager. Thank you very much, my friend. Can't wait to hear it.

All right. That's up next. Joe Espada here on 790. All right. So our manager of the Astros, Joe Spada, has out of his meetings, was able to graciously join us at his regular scheduled time. And Joe's with us here on Sports Talks. I want you taking deep breaths too because, look, this is a marathon run you going through here.

This is obviously difficult time. These are a lot of the guys you're not using. But frustration is starting to kick in. Your pitcher you last night, Framer was fantastic. 12 strikeouts with six innings, loss for the first time and a start in a long period of time. Obviously he was very disappointed

in the outfield strategy in the contest. Is that something that has been addressed with you? Do you plan on talking to him about it? Do you say, hey, we had the optics on Nathaniel Loe being an opposite guy, and oh, by the way, you know, it was part of his frustration. He didn't get the strike three called.

That would have never allowed Lowe to get that hit to begin with. Listen, so, you know, for me, I like to make it clear that, you know, teams go through stretches like this in a 162 season. You know, there's going to be 10, 12 days where you're having a tough time to score runs or you having a tough time to getting, you know, quality starts or you having a tough time, you know, you make defensive mistake happens. This is baseball. And as a club, you have to know how to navigate those moments, right? you have to find ways to, you know, press the reset button tomorrow's a new day. Let's try to find a way to win today. And we're going through that stretch, right?

When he comes to Framber, Framber is a competitor. He's passionate. He wants to win. He's a winner. You know, there was some frustration. He threw the ball extremely well. And there was that one particular plate that I will sit down with him and I'll address that. I do like when people show passion.

care about every single detail about our preparation because that's what we do. We are really good defensive team and we take pride on our defense and our strategy behind our defense. Now, I wish he would have come to me first, but he's, that's his emotion. And I don't, that's what makes Framber the person that I care for and I love. He's passionate. And I will have that conversation with him today. But again, that happened yesterday.

Today we have a new day, today's a new day and we've got to find a way to win today. Yeah, last question about that, because I honestly think, Joe, look, every company, whether it's the Houston Astros, this radio station, or the restaurant that you'd like to go to, some days, not everybody's on the same page, some days guys have got to be frustrated, but you have, I mean, my guess is, Joe, and your time as a manager and as a bench coach and being in a clubhouse, that time the door gets shut and things are said. And I guess the only question would be is, would it have been better if he would have just told you, hey, I got a problem with this as compared to kind of just on his own saying what he said to the reporters that were in front of his locker last night. You know what? I'm going to have a conversation with Frambert today. You know, it's an emotional moment for him. And I'll address that today with him.

We'll have a conversation and we'll put this behind us. This is not, you know, it's not a big deal. doing time of competition and when you're trying to accomplish what we're trying to accomplish, emotion stakes over. And, you know, we'll address that today. Is there any part of you that wants to sneak a little shuttle over to Sugarline to see how your shortstop's doing tonight? No, he's going to be just fine. He's going to go there today.

He's going to DH, try to get, you know, as many as the bats as possible. but he was here yesterday. He looked good. You know, we are really happy with where he's at right now. Physically and mentally, we can't wait to have him back. Do you feel like you should get a medical degree with all the injuries you've had to deal with this year? I mean, how many different muscles and wrists and elbow? What have you learned about, have you learned everything about the human body this year? You know, I've learned a lot of terminology, and I did not know there was ligaments,

in certain places, you know, bones in certain areas. You know, it's been a crazy experience. But, you know, what I'm looking at, the fact that these guys are coming back, they're really closer to having our full squat back. And we're going to continue to grind until we'll get everyone on the field. Aschow's manager, Joe Spottel is here on Sports Talk 790. And with that, weighing, getting guys back and where they are and projecting they are, both on the pitching and position player sides,

What have conversations with Dana been about? Is it been more difficult this year as far as it's not as necessarily as cut and dry about team needs? No, you know what? We take it in consideration that we have some guys coming back, right? So we're trying to strategize around that, trying to improve our roster, taking, again, consideration of the guys that we have in back and how close they are getting back. So we are just exploring different areas. And, you know, hopefully we can, you know, if there's something that fits our club and it makes sense. I'm sure Dane and he's staff and we'll talk about it and we'll address that and make our club better.

The yearly question I ask a manager, whether it's you or anybody else that preceded you, how much without naming names do the guys on the active roster come to your room, shut the door and say, hey, Skip, my agent's hearing this. I'm hearing this on social media. What do I make of it? And what do you say to them? Yeah, you know what? It's hard to avoid, not avoid the rumors.

And there's always guys who have questions and I have an open door policy and those guys come in and, you know, they understand the business side of things. I haven't had that many conversations with our guys in the last couple of years. But if I sense there is something going on, they have. have a question. I like just to pull them on the side on the outfield grass or in the clubhouse in the kitchen and we will talk. I want to make sure that we all are on the same page that we all are, this is a family and I want them to, if there's any concerns, let's talk about things. But it happens and it's hard not to have this conversation when they, you know, with social

media and there's so much information out there in today's game. All right. So it sounds like the clubhouse is really jammed right now. that's a good sign. You're seeing some people back. Balance, and I'll use Jacob Mountain, for example. Jacob wants to play. Jacob's been out for a while. Jacob doesn't like to be hurt. He knows his team is looking for healthy bodies. Did you have to have that? Are you 100% ready to go, locked and loaded, pain free? Or are you sometimes afraid? Not necessarily with Jacob, but just some players in general.

Hey, I got to do whatever I can. My squad's disappointing on a tough stretch. I'll get out there even if I'm not 100%. No, you know what? No, we're not going to do that. We're not going to put our players in a position. This is their career. I'm very mindful of that. You know, I play baseball.

I understand this is their livelihood. They have families, they have kids. We're not going to ask the player who is not ready to go and put their career in jeopardy if we could wait another three or four days. It's very important, you know, that we make sure that we take care of our players if they're not 100%, they're not going to be able to perform at their capability. So we make sure that those guys are in a good spot

before we bring him back and be able to perform. Skip, you are needed. Thank you for the time. Good luck tonight against the Nationals. All right, man, thank you. You got it. That's Joe Espada with us here on Sports Talk 790. Question asked and answered.

Appreciate the emotion. He's going to have a little chit-chat with the Frumber and say, hey, come talk to me. It's about what we would expect. Yeah. And you know what? Winning will cure all these little issues. Absolutely.

Except our phone lines. 1244. Deep breath. It's all right. I'm sending an air check. I had to stress him back here. I know. And poor you.

I feel bad for it. That's all Jonathan's fault. We really love having. Phone lines are fine for you got her. We love having people here on. We love having. All right. All right.

It's okay. It's okay. It's all right. Let me tell you about Shellopoly. I saw a blumber yesterday at the ball yard. It is funny. Do you hear, I don't know if you heard AJ Prisinski was on with Sean and Dan this morning. Good conversation.

It's funny. AJ is a really good analyst. He's the number two analyst on Fox behind John Smoltz. Still universally hated by most people in baseball. Just because he was just, say a dirty player, right? Said things. Ruined universally hated? AJ Prisinski?

Is he? Yeah. I know a lot of people hit him, I guess. When I was in Minneapolis working in the three years, he was with the White Sox, he got booed every time.

Just deep-seated hatred for guys, but I think he's great on the air, and he was talking about Blum, excuse me, and saying that, you know, he was, they had a 20-year White Sox reunion,

if not too long ago for him, you know, 2005. What happened then? I forgot. But all Blum wanted to do is talking about the Astros of AJ's like, dude, we're here to White Sox.

reunion. Stop. Fitch your ball ass up. And it's funny because AJ does the games for the Braves, too. So everybody's moving on in television. But yeah. We're going to see AJ in the playoffs, Ross. He's going to call a playoff series. Are we? Yes, we are. I'm just asking.

How are you feeling about putting your name out of the Division Races? I already did. It's done. I did it. I did it. I did it. I didn't stare. I didn't stare. And I'm still not. I mean, I'm a little petrified, but not completely scared. It's okay. Thanks again to AJ for joining or AJ for Joe Espada for joining us. It was about AJ a minute ago.

Look, not easy. I thought, frankly, and let's peel the curtain back a little bit here. You know you can hear a tenor in someone's voice if they're like, all right, do I have to answer this? I'll get it out of the way, or can I be up front about it and get it out and knock it out? And we asked two questions about it.

They were two fair questions, and he answered them really good. He's going to have a conversation with Frommber. but the number one sentiment I got out of it from him and this is maybe I think you agree with me on this is that you know what this kind of comes to the territory with Fromber

and I think he's I don't again I think the door shut you can MF anybody you want to because that happens all the time we just matter of fact MF some people around here last segment but you don't know so I'll put that out there

for public consumption and so I think you probably thought hey I understand it just come talk to me first because if you are that open door guy and I don't think Joe's not an open door guy I know. It's got to work both ways.

But these are the moments why Joe, I'm not, this is why he builds these relationships with these players. These conversations are easy to have. When you keep the lines of communication open and you talk to the players and you build these relationships, then the highs are good. And then the lows like this are easier to handle as well.

That's why I think he's going to do a good job, and I think he is a good manager for the Astros. Yeah, because if you only are there when times are good, if you're only there to chew people out. Or if you're only yelling at them every single... That's why I think, you know, there are coaches in sports. Like, for instance, I heard very little bit of Bobby Knight ever being a man that just was team me or team, you know, team us. It was, I'm going to tell you it's my way or the highway.

And if you did something wrong, you're going to hear about it. There's no flexibility. Look, Calvin Samson is probably the toughest coach in this town in terms of what he's. wants. But there must be a level of love and admiration that goes in a direction that we don't see it because those players, the alums that come back

love on him like nobody's business. Yeah, I think there is. I think he's talked about that about loving his players and... But he's very hard on them. Yes. And you don't know, you don't see the real soft side of it. But I can tell you when they're celebrating and popping shit, not pop pop chint, they're popping coax.

Coolades? Coulades, whatever. Capricons. That there is a side that we don't see of Kelvin that those players see. I think absolutely. And I think that's the key of being a really hard coach, but being affable enough to be not so rigid. And I think that I respect guys like that. And I think Joe is probably a softer side of Kelvin.

I'm like he's a taskmaster like he is. Well, also Kelvin couldn't do that in the NBA. No, he couldn't. And I think Kevin will be the first one to tell you that. I think a lot of college coach would be the first one. Nick Saban, I think in the NFL got a rude awakening that his, kind of strict mentality doesn't work with guys that are making more money than he is. Yeah.

And Joe had to adapt, but Joe also watched really good managers, watched A.J. Hinch was a, was a, eyewitness to the way that Dusty Baker ran things. He probably took some things from both of those guys, plus his own style. So, to me, Framber was, A, upset, no question about that, but it was also probably pissed at everything that was happening. No run support, frustration. Not getting the strike three call on low that would have ended the inning.

Major frustration. Yes. I mean, umpires literally put runs on the board and we just let this go by. Yeah. 91% accuracy yesterday. Not good enough. I wonder what Major League Baseball thinks is good enough because nobody's perfect in life. 100% would be good enough.

They have the technology to do it. Just do it. Challenges would have been good What if you from Probably would have been out of challenges by then I'm telling you Ross If I'm a manager Major League Baseball

I ain't touching the damn challenge system to the sixth inning of a game And think about this At least in baseball You get two shots at it Yeah If you're 100% sure Then you do it

But you have to be 100% sure There was a strike missed Yes It has to be middle middle Like in the Orioles game Orioles Blue Jays game Go look at social media From yesterday

Go look at at Sports RV I think I retweeted. Now, did the framing of the of the MET hurt? Obviously, it did. But it was still a strike. Yeah, they were set up outside and then it was middle middle. It was right over the quote-unquote heart of the plate. Insanely horrible.

All right. It was, I would have to say the worst call of the year. Probably. I mean, I imagine somebody's going to down on that. The Empire looks and says, I'm sorry, I got mixed up. That's possible. He did get mixed up. That's a strike.

But if an umpire gets mixed up, you should have an opportunity to get it corrected. And that would have been this easy of a correction as possible. It's just crazy how much of a strike it was. It was not like almost a strike. It wasn't an abd or corner. Yeah, exactly. It was on the corner. You know what it happens.

Yeah, I mean, the Fromber missed call was bad, but it wasn't as many of the five worst of the year. All right, let's get the final hour in. James wants to get in on some Astros conversation. We will visit with Jacob Melton coming up at a half an hour from now. And believe it or not, oh, we get the NFL rewond in 20 minutes.

What's going on the NFL these days, Rossi? You're going to find out. Yeah, I think you're going to find out right now in the next two minutes. And then we've got, believe it or not, today, all things, Ryan Sandberg. May he rest in peace.

Rossi, Ryan Sandberg was a part of my childhood. And now he's dead. Dang, Ross. He's going to say, damn. You win dark quick. Fast. What?

What did I do? He died. You could have said, yeah, tough loss for baseball. You said, and now he's dead. My bad, Matt, as a child, I'm feeling for you. You know. Thank you. I threw up the soft landing spot and he crashed it.

All I said was that now he's dead. Is my lying? Did I say something incorrect? This is not factual? I could have said passed away at least. He's dead. And we're going to, you could have said, and we're now, we're going to miss him.

A true Chicago Cup great. Oh, and now he went Sleepy Pie. I'm sorry. I didn't. Sleepy Pie? Not your condescending. Yeah. Yeah, that's you are.

I'm going to Mr. condescending. Oh, yeah. He went to the great baseball diamond in the sky. I'm sorry. You could have said, now he and Harry Carrier having a Budweiser together. It's not like I said, he croaked.

And now he's dead. Ross Villarreal was a great partner for Matt Thomas back in the day. And now he's dead. Yeah. I'll be dead. 1258 on Sports Talk 790, Mr. Softie. It is 102 on Sports Talk 790. A lot of meetings going on over in Astroville.

No surprise. We were able to sneak Joe in between one and was called to one way. We were just about wrapping up. Busy times. So let's put in perspective here what the Astros need. Okay. Third base. Yeah.

Starting pitching. Nope. Wouldn't hurt. Now, I've always been team starting pitching, and I would never go against that. It wouldn't hurt. And also you have a general manager who's said you can never have too much pitching. He's been right if you have eight starting pitchers on the IL right now. Yeah.

Okay. So let's go third base. Yeah. Let's go right-handed reliever. Mm-hmm. Let's go. Second base to send Bryce down and say, we'll try this again in 26, short-term higher, utility infielder kind of thing. Second base.

Slash utility? Remember that goofy-ass tweet we got about Carlos Correa last hour? Uh-huh. No, he didn't get it, but somebody sent it to us. That's true. Well, it was Correa and Castro for, like, Blue Ball. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Correa would be a rental.

Because he has, he's got one of those option-year deals every year, right? Doesn't he not just like Breckman has? Looks like he, no. He does have a long-term deal. He's making the 32. This is according to baseball reference. He has a team option not until 2029. So he would be under contract for this year and three more.

He's not that big of a deal with Minnesota? Really? I was totally unaware of that. His option does guarantee with top five an MVP voting World Series or championship series. This is why Craig doesn't make any sense to me. Because if you were to go get Correa, Payne is your shortstop. Peretti's would be your third baseman

unless you moved Peretti in the off season, but I don't know how somebody with an injury as severe is what we believe Issaq Perid's injury would be... Can you play Cray at second? No, I would think... You mean like for next year? Yeah, why not? He's 31?

I'm sorry, he's 30 now. He'll be 31? That I can't answer. Most short stops When they make the transition go to third base I would agree Yeah I don't He'd be a better You know what he'd be a better third baseman

Than Paredes I think You can move Paredes a second Could you not? I think Correa's got a bigger arm and more range Yeah but Paredes has really been This problem is what is Preritas going to be And how long is this going to be Paredes is good when it's hit right to him

For the most part Yeah range is an issue Rangy. So that would, you'd also be losing, that would be also a big problem at second base as well. He had good hands, accurate army.

Why would you hold Bryce Matthews back for 26? Are you going to let Paredes stand in the way of Bryce Matthews getting a chance? Correa doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It just doesn't. I would be surprised. Oh, I would be more than surprised. A, people's theory is that the twins are trying to unload salary.

Well, you know why? Because A, they're five out of the wallet card. B, they're trying to be. sold. They're for sale. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? You want to sell your team.

So what you do is you sell a team by stripping it down so you have a lower margin. So when you get, when you buy the team, you're not giving this new ownership group a lot of high contracts. Yeah. Which then means you as a new owner are inheriting this baseball team and you're starting from scratch, i. what Jim Crane did. I mean, when Dr. McLean was selling, he stripped it down. He told the general manager of the time,

Ed Wade, just get rid of everybody. Get rid of Hunter Pence. Get rid of Juannie Rodriguez. Get rid of Lance Berkman. Get rid of. There was something of other people. I mean, everybody in their mother was rid of. Just strip it down.

That's tough. Imagine me in this new owner. Hey, I can't wait to be the new owner of the Minnesota Twins. And we've got a payroll of $81 million. and we're going to finish 16102. Come check us out. Well, you know, you want them to move out the furniture when you buy a new house, Matt.

Build it up your own way. But don't you? Let me ask you this. If I was to sell my house tomorrow, I would spend money to improve on it, not make it worse. Mm-hmm. You got to make it attractive.

I mean, I got to get new carpets because the dogs have done, God knows what. I got to do a new paint. Maybe put a new roof on it. I got to make the look good. Okay. You're not making the twins look good

if you move Carlos Correa. Well, you're winning twice. You're spinning, less on payroll. You don't care if you're winning. I'm probably on the way out. You're trying to sell the team. You're spending less on payroll and it makes it easier to sell. Well, if there's no doubt in my mind, it makes it easier to sell

because we see this all the time. When teams sell, typically they like to shave payroll. Funny though, Minnesota Twins, I mean, Minnesota Wolves were sold and Anthony Edwards, big contract, Rudy Gobert, big contract. Julius Randall, big contract.

Yeah, you can do it after. You can build it your own way. Yeah. And then, again, NBA construction is a lot different than the best baseball. And generally, teams that are about to be sold are not World Series contenders. No. Wolves are going to be good this year. Man, I cannot wait for the NBA. You're going to have to.

I'm going to, unfortunately, I can't get the schedule yet. Yeah, what's going with that? It gets always mid-A August. We will get next year's Astro schedule before we get this year's NBA schedule. It's whack. That's how it works. Sorry, Matt. You're not sorry.

I'm really not. No. See, the next time you are, you're the boy that cried wolf. Me? Yeah. What wolf am I crying? You're sorry. Like, the next time you're going to tell me how sorry you are about something. And I'm going to know, are you really meaning it?

Probably not. Yeah. Ryan Sandberg, one of the greatest all-time Astro, or Chicago Cubs, a kid of my childhood, and now he's dead. I'm sorry for standing in fact, man. Mr. Warmth over there. James is with us at 109 on 7-19. James, what do you have? Yeah, this is more of a gut-filling, but I think the answer is going to make a

scenery change kind of trade. The guy would be better if he's over here. And I think they're going to make that trade with Detroit and get Mallory at third base. And they're going to give up Whitcomb is what I think the trade's going to be. Or they're going to trade to Baltimore and get Ruiz for Whitcomb. But I think Whitcomb's gone and we're going to get one of those third base. That's just my good thing. Yeah, I don't know.

What kind of, what kind of, I mean, Wickham's 26 years old. Who are you trying to get from Detroit? He hung up. Lowry? Jet Lowry? No, not Jed Lowry. He's already been here nine times. Can't come back to your tenth. Shea's 28.

No, excuse me, 26. Career batting average in the big leagues is 174. Is that good? Batting 107 this year with a home... Tell me where am I seeing the value on the other side of this? Again, remember something and I've said this. a million times. I talk about this in the Kevin Durant trade.

When you trade something to someone else that has to hurt. If the asterisk goodbye to Shea Wickham and unless it was a part of a package, they're not going to hurt anybody. And Shea defensively is just not very good right now. Shea Wickham. Remember everybody's all upset, not everybody.

A lot of people on Astros, Twitter, upset that he wasn't getting A-Bs. Was anybody getting mad that Seazar or Salazar wasn't getting any A-Bs? There were people, actually. I'm still trying to figure out who the heck he was talking about I think he's making somebody up Okay

Maybe you can call back and tell us But not on there That's fine We can move on Great stuff there No the kid from the twins A utility player Makes a little bit of sense

Multiple position player Probably a little bit of a better bat Than Dubon But man You know A lot of better bat than Dubon Come on please But I'm team Dubon

I understand But we also can be realistic Yeah I know You don't Dubon playing six days a week is a tough watch. It just is. It's not ideal. But I love his versatility. I love that he's

I mean, frankly, last night, I mean, it drove the only running game for the Astros. Well, you know what? Casual pop. He's okay. Six home runs. Kind of what you expected? He's got a 700 OPS. That's actually better than I thought. He's been hoving around like 600 most of the year.

Doesn't have a lot of smack, but it's fine. I mean, he was at like $5.50, and then he got like three home runs in a weekend. And most importantly, Ross, he plays. He's been hurt. Yes, true. It has value. I mean, that, you know, as a friend won so many attendance is part of the grade. Well, he's got good attendance.

Not going to be on the honor roll. No, he's not going to the honor society. He's not going to have one of those strange vests over his chest when he graduates. We'll give him a gold sticker. All right. Hey, gang, we got NFL rewind to get to. What is happening around the National Football League besides what's happening of the Texans? We'll get a little Texans niblets if you want.

Plus, big news around the NFL. If there's any, Ross will find it because he does. he is the Ian Rappaport of Houston Sports Radio. Wow, thank you, Matt. Irritating Domingo Ryans whenever he can. Okay. And I believe Jacob Mountain's going to join us at 1.30, and the Orioles dropped a fly ball in right center.

They just lost in the sun. Don't show that to Frumber. And a 3-4 game. Matt, you messed up. 7-1. No, what score, 3-4-4-game? What? 3-4-3. Orios.

There goes that lead. Oh, whatever. 4-3, whatever. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 All right My favorite time of the week Because I get to sit back and watch the genius It is Rossville, you're welcome Plus I'm going to check on my Instagram account

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in a camp today. D'emiko Ryan's talking about things turning. This comment from Jonathan Alexander, of course, covering the Texans for the Chronicle. D'emico Ryan saying he's seeing things evening out in a practice.

The defense with a strong start in the first few practices, but today was all about the offense. D'emico Ryan's praising his quarterbacks for making accurate throws and wide receivers who have made contested catches also singled out

Jaden Higgins, who apparently had a pretty good day making some tough catches for the Houston Texans offense today, man. Yeah, I can't wait to see it when they play Minnesota. Well, actually, when are we going to see these players play? Week one? It's going to be, there's some joint practices coming up. Don't they have them

with the Chargers or somebody else? And they're going and who's the second one with? I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's a Niners or no? I can't remember. It's got to be NFC because they're probably. I don't know. Come on with 2 o'clock. He'll tell you all about the joint practice. and what's going to happen in every single one. First team offensive line combo for the Texans today. Starting from left to right,

Cam Robinson, Lakin Tomlinson, Jake Andrews, Titus Howard Arionte, Ersary. We got the report from Adam Wexler earlier in the show. Sounds like Taye Ursery is going to be the starting right tackle. Of course, a long way to go right now. Who knows what's going to happen?

But the starting right tackle with maybe future left tackle written all over him, but again, we must caution that it is early for the Houston Texans on that front. It is funny when I ask Wex if it's a case of Ariante Ursarii winning

job or doing it because of the guys in front of him aren't very good. Wex's thought was, and I trust his eyes, that it's more of Ursula getting the spot because there's not a whole lot of competition in front of him. So, again, if you listen to Wax, and look, he looks at it,

he's not trying to, you know, Glad Han, Hannah and Cali. He's out there actually trying to watch the team. This offensive line is going to be a mess this year. I'm not hearing anything in the three or four reports from him that make me think that all of a sudden this is going to be a fluid situation.

We're going to have to find five hot guys performing at their best at the same time to protect the quarterback. Unfortunate a minute. We also talked about the running back situation. So as I mentioned, this was going everywhere in the fantasy round. yesterday quote from Domingo Ryan's on Nick Chubb guy's age he's been through a lot

it's not always going to be the same as his early years in the NFL but what I hang my hat on with him is that he this guy loves football he's physical he plays and prepares the right way really sharp guy in the protection scheme hey how explosive and fast and strong is Nick Chub looking like that guy's age he just puts the sock on one one leg at a time. He's been through a lot. He knows the playbook well. Yeah, but how's he running?

You know, he prepares the right way. We're going to love him in past pro. Okay, but how is he running? We call him Turtle Chubb. What does that mean? When he gets out of the pool? No! You know, turtles don't run fast? Oh, I thought you mean he was going into his shell like he's an introvert.

I thought you were talking about his personal life. No, I'm sure he does quite well on that. All right, Matt, well, that's all my notes on the Texans right now. Unfortunately, we do have to get to the news. We've mentioned it earlier. The shooting at the NFL headquarters yesterday in New York City, 628 p.m. 911 calls began pouring in from Midtown Manhattan, the same highs that houses the NFL League headquarters and offices for several other prominent companies. Authorities believe the shooter was focused on the NFL.

when he entered the building and killed four people, injured a fifth, and then shot and killed himself. A note found in his wallet was critical of the NFL and mentioned CTE. Of course, the brain disease associated with concussions and repeated hits to the head. Nothing but I'm sorry and that's an awful story. Nothing more we can really comment on that.

Yeah. All right. Well, we'll move on from that. A couple of other things going on. Matt, we talked about this. So the last couple of weeks, As you said, the Saints are going to starch for arch? Suck for arch. Parched for arched for wands for arch. Banning for Manning?

March for Arch. You've got to find some cliche to her. Okay. They're standing for Manning? Anyways, Jimmy Havis says there's no bad ideas in a brainstorm. She has them said, quote, that would be Brown its owner. I bet Arch Manning stays in college two years not worth discussing. Oh, he's so sly, getting people off the scent.

Jimmy Haslam says, I think you know the Manning family. I would bet, and I don't know Arch at all, but I would bet he stays two more years in college. I don't think it's even worth discussing. Now, let me ask you this, the timing I'm made. He has to, will he know the draft order by the time he declares one way or the other? Yeah. Because the playoffs will go into December. That's true.

You'll know who the teams are that don't make the playoffs. So you'll know the draft order of the top seven or eight teams, provided that he's one of the, he's considers himself one of those top seven or eight players. Yeah, first week of January, he'll know. You don't have to declare by then, I don't think. That's what I'm saying. I wonder how the calendar's over.

Well, if the Longhorns are, like, making the playoff finals. I don't know. You and I don't know arch. I don't. But I think playing. in New Orleans would intrigue him. Well, we'll see what happens. I think it would.

I think it's situation-dependent as well. We don't even know that he's going to be the number one pick. Right. We don't even know that he's going to have a great season. Correct. I will also say, I just continue to believe the fact that he made a decision. You're listening to these interviews with Cooper and the Manning family

and how they raised him and how they want him to be a normal kid. And a normal kid, who makes my man's dad? a year. Exactly. That was going to be my next sentence. A normal kid who's making $8, $9 million a year and doesn't have to go into the NFL to be the number one overall pick and would like to enjoy college life, especially at a wonderful campus like UT, and be a little bit different. It would make sense for him to stay. And the last name that I can remember that would did this would be Andrew Luck. But I'm going to give you this. I want you to put this in the back of your mind. Okay.

If he is considered top three quarterback, he's leaving. Because if he was to break his leg in his senior year or get some sort of injuries. It would probably still be top three. I mean, these days, unless he's going to rip an Achilles or both of them or something. All right. How about this for a little late gut feeling? Okay. If Eli, well, I'll get one manning right here.

If Arch Manning finishes. Eli. No, Arch. If Arch finishes top three in the Heisman, he's going to the NFL. After next year. That's just a gut-gut feeling on my part. Just like you said he was going to transfer out.

Well, he would have, when, Quinn, you were, I mean, Quinn saved him from a transfer. Do you know, have been to be in the University of Houston? No. Yep. I mean, kind of way we would love you. You are so delusional. What is wrong with you? It's closer than New Orleans.

So is Tulane. Yeah, but he won't go there. He wants to go somewhere. He's not going to go to the 68th ranked out of 68. Power 4 school. Do you see how we're doing recruiting-wise? We're top 40 recruiting nationally. Top 40? Wow. Okay. Let me tell you. You're Casey casing me yet. Yeah. We're proud of you. Dear Casey, I had this great school named the University of Houston that deserves five-star athletes because it's a great campus, beautiful people, good food, good atmosphere, loud boisterous crowds, and excellent academics. And is the 68th most valuable program out of 68 in Power 4 football? Casey says, now you're part of the weekly top 40.

25,000 a game last year. And not holding back Willie Fritz. Will Fritz, kicking ass, taking names. Great job. Writing checks. All right, Matt. You know, I'm going to skip this Justin Field story.

My league neighbors seems okay. He left practice with a shoulder injury. The New York Giants, of course. We know he is one of the best young talents in football, but nothing to worry about. People were all worried about his shoulder injury. media reports that he is going to be okay after initial evaluation. How does this impact your fantasy draft, Matt?

Not in the slightest. Okay. Who's the first quarterback being taken this year? Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen. Jane Daniels. Flip a coin. Jane Daniels? Jane Daniels will be top three.

I think he'd be third. Not bad. But I mean, is he going to have the C.J. Stroud effect in his sophomore season? Just throwing it out there. Just saying. think about. I already said publicly who my late QB I'm keying on, but I'm not going to say it anymore.

I already said mine. If I get a chance, I'm picking up in Joseph Burrow. That's not late quarterback. They do through for almost 5,000 yards last year and he's got the best receiving court in football. Yeah, but he's speaking. That's Matt Thomas's Sleeper Pick. Hey, you know what? I got a

sleeper running back for you guys. Bejohn Robinson. Is that how you spell it? Is that how you spell on it? Keep an eye out for this Atlanta running back that Nobody's talking about. I got one for you to want to stay away from. Okay.

Ashton Genty. See, you're going to be so wrong. 129. Oh, it's going to be so sweet. Jacob Mountain next on 790. There are a handful of players that I have called games for that I'm legitimately scared about who they are. Like, I think there are some players that would, if not for basketball, would create will be criminals

and this is coming to pass on one of them Marcus Morris of the Morris twins I believe Marquief is a teddy bear don't hold me to that I can't keep track honestly

but I think Marcus is a dangerous human being that would like to crush your neck and throw you against the wall to hear your bones break now he's the one the Rockets drafted ahead of ahead of Kwai Leonard correct

Marcus Morris allegedly stole more than $250,000 from a Las Vegas casino or set of casinos. What? How? According to court documents

obtained, the NBA player allegedly got $150,000 from the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino via bad checks in May of 2024. He never paid them back when the checks bounced. A,

Officials said a month later, he performed a similar scam at the Wynn Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, netting $150,000 through checks he knew he wouldn't cash. Look at his mugshot. Does that man want to kill you? Why is he leaning backwards? Well, some people stare in the sky anyway. I don't know why for their photos. Okay. No, I don't think he looks like he wants to murder me.

He just looks like he's getting arrested. I don't know. When I watch him on ESPN and ESPN would hire him for a while, he scared me. Okay, Matt. You scare me sometimes. Why? I don't know. I'm harmless.

Clearly. Go look at his mugshot. Ain't it pretty sight? I haven't attacked you by now and ain't happening. You deserved it. I'm going to throw a wink sauce on you. In my eyes? Yeah.

Firehouse in my eyes. I'm going to throw some Cajun seasoning at you. Okay. This smells good in here. I know. It's national. Wing Day and Big City Wings brought us wings. Good Lord.

I'm very distracted now. This is not good. I told them to come out of the break. No, that's okay. Shut up. No, we want the food now. What are you talking about? Don't tell them to you.

That's not your job to tell us one to bring the wings in. I told him as 18 minutes. Yeah, you've not heard Matt eat on air constantly? That's not true. I mean, I will now, but I won't do it until the break. Okay. We're supposed to have Jacob Melton here. Yeah, what's going on?

Because here's the bit. What is the bit? The bit is... This is for Marcus Morris. We're looking for Marcus Morris. Jacob Mountain comes on, you eat during Jacob Mountain, and then I eat during believe it or not. Have you read the questions today? I have to write, believe it or not.

Oh, okay. I'm way behind on that. You know what? I'm supposed to do that while you interview Jacob Melton. I know, so I'll leave you alone. You want me just read his Wikipedia page out loud? Jacob Mountain or Marcus Morris? Ryan Sandberg.

All right, and he's dead. Oh, Matt, so insensitive of you. Why would you make the statement of fact of these past? Because I'm learning terrible examples. from you. Gosh. Unbelievable. Just say you wrong, Ross. I'm wrong about what. I said he was dead. He died.

I didn't kill him. Why are you looking at me? Charlie Morton giving the Orioles six strong innings, by the way. I'm speaking of dead. No, he's very much alive. He's 41 years old making good money. That's true. He's doing fine. All right, Jacob, where are you? Because, I mean, the scent of big city wings is in here and I'd rather eat. It's honestly, yeah, this is not good. 75 cent wings, by the way, $10 buckets.

National Wing Day. Yeah. Okay. By way, Clanton and Wexler can't have any of this. Oh, they're going to crush it. I know. I can't wait for the... Clanton's going to try to eat during the segment, and Wex is just going to give him the nastiest side eye he's ever had in his entire life.

So, Tuesday. It's true. It feels fair. Okay. All right. So we were waiting for Jacob, and... Why don't I just interview you like here, Jacob Mountain? Please do.

Hey, Jacob. What's it like to be with the big league team here now that, you've come through an injury. I know you've been through a lot and getting called up to a team that needs a lot of help. I'm very excited to be here. It was a long time away from the game. I missed it. And I want to help out the best I can, whether I'm playing in the outfield, whether I'm D.H.

and once in a while, I'm pinch hitting. I just want to do whatever I can to help this team. From Rvaldez calling out the positioning of the team yesterday, do you think he's off his rocker or would you make of those comments? To be honest, he needs to shut his bum ass up. I was playing center field yesterday. I had it handled. What? Wow, all right, Jacob.

You're coming out very strong against Framber Valdez. You have any personal beef with him or anything? Yeah, I do. When he's calling me out, playing my out defense out there, and I think that Taylor-Termel needs to me help me out in center field. You know, Taylor-Chamel, you shut your bum ass up too. Wow. Believe it.

You're very combative today, Jacob. What do you think about your place in the future and things like trade deadline? You're a guy who's one of the top prospects in the Astros system. you try to just keep your head clear of that? Yeah, I try to. I don't have to focus on that kind of stuff. I play one game at a time. I just trying to do my best, trying to figure out where I am. And, you know, look, I battled a couple of injuries of the last couple of years.

But when I get here on this team, I want to help out. I want to contribute. I want to get some home runs. I want to get my second one. And I want to help us end this losing streak tonight. Yeah, one of the things the Astros have talked about acquiring, or I should say, media, fans, pundits, et cetera, is a left-handed bet. Well, you yourself a left-handed bat.

How comfortable have you felt at the plate at the major league level? Well, Rick, that's a great question. I'm going to be happy to answer it for you. I'm a guy that feels like... My name is Ross. Yeah, okay. You know, whatever they put me in, whether they need... I can be that guy.

They don't need to go make a trade. I can be that slugging... I mean, I'm number two prospect in the Astros organization. I'm a top 100. I mean, I'm here for a reason. Yeah. You mentioned being number two. Is that something you pay attention to?

You were on some top hundred list last year, not so much this year. How much stock would you put into top hundred list, Jacob? Well, Robert, number one is Bryce Matthews, and all he does. strike out so I got a chance of bumping myself up to the top of the list. What was your favorite stop in the Astros organization? Oh, uh, being a woodpecker. Really? Where's that? It's in Fayetteville. Oh, wow. You didn't think I'd know.

I didn't know. I didn't know you'd know. Suck it. Why wouldn't you know, Jacob? You played there. I don't know if I, did I play a play there? Or did I go right to double A? Oh, you tell me, Jacob. I'm a hook. How many ABs did you get in Fayetteville? I had a lot of runner ruggers while I was down there. What was your favorite thing about Fayetteville, Arkansas? Fayetteville, the women. Really?

Yeah. A lot of women there in Fayetteville. It's not Fayetteville, North Carolina. Oh, Fayetteville, North Carolina. I didn't know that. Duh. Sorry, thanks for correcting me. How many Fayetteville's are there, Jacob?

This interview's going terribly. Arkansas, you know, you went to Oregon City. I wanted him to come on the shows. I want to S-talking Houston versus Oregon State. Oh, about the Beavers? Yes. Okay. Because we're going to win that game, too.

I don't see us losing a game this year. I was supposed to write, believe it or not, this whole segment. that's gone horribly all right let's go back to big city 75 cent wings what else we got

to mention here 10 dollar buckets correct am I got everything knocked out she don't know she's just she's like why am I here

yeah who are you I don't know who you are you're this stranger in this office oh you're a sports reporter oh trying to be staying to be

stay away from him criminal record a little dicey yeah I think most of that got expunged fine I think I think President Trump gave you a pardon.

It's got commutation. Yeah, we're trying. No, we're on the air. This radio goodness is where it's really working on the air. We used to be on the show. Okay, we're really on the air. We have, all right, we have believe it or not, coming up, all things about Ryan Sandberg. May he rest in peace.

Did they just forget about us here? What's going on? I don't know what happened. We were supposed to have Jacob Mountain on. No text, nothing. Zilch. Oh, well. Jacob, the opportunity has come and gone.

We're going to eat some wings and get ready for believing out. We're playing for Big Three tickets for the big event. That's coming up this weekend at TOTA Center. So if you would like to see a chicken Melton played, but Calvin Murphy's team, they'll be at the TOTA Center this weekend. TOTA center.com for the big three tournament. We'll be giving away tickets next. For all things, Ryan Sandberg.

It is the Matt Toma Michelle Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. All right. just got a word that Jacob Melton doesn't like us and is going to be on a 2.15 today. It is the Matt Thomas show Ross. I'm modeling right now, me and wings from Big City wings. 75 cent wing day. Holla at you boy.

$10 buckets. So watch the game. Listen on 790 and go eat wings. Pair and industry. And they're ranch dressing and their blue cheese. Mmm, delicious. So Ross, our fake interview with Jacob Melt was significantly considered a bust by most people. but you have

yeah I can't talk to you I'll talk to the audience a couple minutes that's fine we've only been on the ear since 10 and we knew believe it or not was going to be out at 930 this morning but we're still working on it that's fine no issues there

I got some ranch dressing on my daytimeer that's not good if you missed the conversation with the manager Joe Espott he was with us at 1230 today and he said look he appreciates Fromber's passion he understands why he understands why

he was upset. He just wishes he would have come and talk to him before he went to the media. That's exactly what happened. And Joe said that he would speak to Fromber when the two arrive at the ballpark today. And questions asked and answered. Thank you Joe for his transparency. Sometimes we don't get that with our managers and our coaches and our players. And we appreciate him telling us that. So if you miss the conversation, I'm sure the A team will be playing some of that later on as well besides Jacob Milton. Water my view, tomorrow's game is a day game. so we will be on the air from 10 to 1240 before sending it to Dyken Park for the finale of the series. Tomorrow we will have Brian Bogusevic join us at 11 o'clock.

We'll have shut you a ball ass up at 1130. And of course, get you ready for Astros baseball at 12 noon. Mariners play the ace tonight. That is one game and keep an eye on. It's a 9 o'clock start time. The Rangers are playing the Angels. So if you look to the standings, it's a little. scary honestly.

The Astros once had a seven game leave. They've lost four games in the last, what, five days? They're four in their last six. They've lost five in a row, and they have lost. Is it 10 or 11 last home games? You go back to the series before the All-Star break. I don't want to think about it. What happened to this team? This team loved being a Dyken Park.

Injuries. It's very easy. This is all injury-related. Bottom line, it's all injury-related. we can quibble about who should be starting where and who's injured and who should be in what part of the lineup and blah blah and our guy wants to say they want them to hit the ball the other way more and lay down some more buntz maybe we ought to do this one of you and i despise buntz now it doesn't mean you can't use it occasionally occasionally i would say especially when you get the free runner and extra inning stuff like that and if you got a guy that's slumping and is a good bunter here's the thing that people don't seem to understand and it's hard to comprehend There are professional baseball players, major leakers, that have no ability to bunt. And that hurts. Well, wait a minute.

The kids been playing baseball. It's even nine years old. You know what? Jordan Alvarez has not a try to attempt to bunt since he was probably seven. Yonair Diaz probably is not concerned. I mean, McCorma can bun a little bit, although that's been dicey the last week or so. Altube can bun a little bit. Jake Myers can bun a little bit.

That's three of the 13 position players. Rest them, I don't want him touching it. No, I don't want anybody but, unless it's just a dire situation. Like I said, it's the free runner and the 10th or whatever. If there's anybody with any slug, let them swing. If there's one out, I certainly don't want to see it. He's got to be no outs, guy on second, and you need a run to win. 10th inning?

Absolutely. Try it. Move the guy over 90 feet. Sack fly, get some home ball game over goodbye. Yeah. But that's really about it. It's almost like when I hear someone talk bunt, I dismiss the rest of the conversation. That's how bad it gets for me.

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Let's go to Mark on 790. Mark, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Oh, well, I didn't know about that. I'll play it. All right, I really hope you win. Sounds like you're ready to go. Ryan Sandberg was named after the province of Ryan, Germany, which is the region his grandfather immigrated from.

Believe it or not? Believe it? No. Not. named after Ryan Duren the relief pitcher. Duh. He wasn't ready to play anyway. I got a bunch of prize horse now.

Let's go to Javier on 790. Javier. You ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, sir. Ryan Sandberg was an All-American quarterback in high school and even committed to play at Washington State before turning pro in baseball. Believe it or not?

Not. That is a believe it. Why don't people have Washington State quarterbacks on the brain, Ross? That's what I want to say. Let's go to Randy on 790. Randy, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? You.

Thank you. Ryan Sandberg won the MVP in 1984, but did not finish in the top five in any other season. Believe it or not. Not. That's not. He finished top five multiple times. Statement number two for the win. Ryan Sandberg won nine gold gloves and was a 10-time All-Star.

Believe it or not? Believe it. That's a believing. Congratulations. You know what happens, Ross, when you go to the big three. What do you say? Let's have a good time. Okay, yay. I guess you could say that, too.

Geo on 790Gio. Are you ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. Ryan Sandberg was supposed to be traded to the New York Yankees in 1993, but the trade was vetoed by then owner Larry Heim's. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, Ross made that up.

That's a good one. Sam on 790 Sam, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? Yep. Ryan Sandberg's number seven jersey was not retired by the Chicago Cubs. Excuse me, was retired by the Chicago Cubs in 2005. Number seven jersey, believe it, or not? Believe it. No, it was number 23.

Oh, Ryan Samburg. Yeah, Chazza got that easy. Adam on 790 Adam. You ready to play believe it or not? Believe it. Ryan Sandberg's first wife was his high school sweetheart, Cindy. Believe it or not? Believe it. That's right.

Statement number two for the way and Ryan Sandberg managed the Phillies for three seasons posting a 119 record. Believe it or not. Believe it. That is right. Congratulations. Ross, I thought the last half hour of the show sucked, but the brother first three half hours really good. Jacob Melton said no thanks

to the 8 to the Matt Thomas Show Ross. He said, I want to go on the A team and he'll join you in about 20 minutes right here on Sports Talk 790.