The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Lose First Game Of The 4 Game Series vs Athletic’s, Texas Training Camp Day 3, POTUS Weighs In On NIL

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

Astros Lose First Game Of The 4 game series vs Athletic’s,Texas Training Camp Day 3, POTUS Weighs In On NIL

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10 in H-town. Good morning and welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Oh, yeah, that's a jam. He's the one that's going freestyle. Want a wopper to run rings. Then you get it for $5.

Then you shove it in your mouth. Then you get sick. Okay, oh hell no, I don't want to meet that guy. I'd rather look at you and have a conversation than to like, you know. How are you going to get neck kisses in, though? Unless you're sitting next to you. Why are you at Rillies having neck kiss? Why are you not?

What do you mean? You neck kiss at Bapplebee's? If you know this or not. We mentioned it very briefly on the show yesterday. The W.W.E. Raw was at Toyota Center last night. Oh, man, it was a great one. What was a fair part of them? Wouldn't that guy, an oiled up guy, pinned the other oiled up guy in his underwear?

But this thing has brought a lot of joy to the rest of us. I thought it was hilarious. Like if you and I were to caress like that, take a photo. What? Why would you go in this direction? You just swerved so far off the past. Why are they putting Megan the Stalion from the Astros game on? Wait a minute.

You're crushing me earlier. Sorry. Okay, Megan the Stalian, though. Turn around. Oh, good cracious. Like, I can eat ribs twice a week. Comfortably. I can eat sausage twice a week.

Oh, Jesus. There is. 7.30. You know what? Don't ever listen to me. Ever. I'm wrong too often. Can you clip that for future purposes?

I knew you're going to say that. Hours of Texans. Maybe not. Let's go, baby. No. I'm built for this. That's boring. Oh.

That is, it's. It's not entertaining. We got other things to get to. We're way more entertaining than guys inside the bubble working on Texan training camp with the rain over there at over NRG. Well, football is king, Matt. It is king. Well, it's king with cities that go to the Super Bowls. And the Texans are the sleeping giant.

They have been heavily sedated for a while. They're like Cinderella waiting for the Prince of Kiss him. I think that's snow white, but that's okay. Whatever. Same difference. Close enough. Yeah, Robert McNair ate a bad apple. A poisoned apple?

actually all the thing that Snow White's been kissing is one of those dwarfs. I can say dwarfs. It's... Matt. No, no, I can say it's not snow. It's Snow White and the seven little persons. No, no, no, no. It's Snow White and the seven dwarfs.

It just is. Doc is going to come knock you out. As long as sleep he's available, but... Okay. Grumpy's going to come knock you out, I guess, would have been the battle line. I think I've been working with Grumpy here. Let's restart. Yeah. Good morning, everybody. 1005 on this kind of...

Friday. What's a... The weather's not going to be good today. It's supposed to run like a mudda. Oh, the weather's bad. Houston, Texas. No. That's why you need your Generac standby

generator to listen to this radio show. Just saying, throwing that out there. We have a interesting show for you today. I feel like we're inching. I've never come here and go on what the hell we can talk about. Now, there are some days that are media

and others. You have an intimate knowledge and breakdown of everything in last night's A's Astros game. Well, those pesky A's. Yeah, you want the full breakdown. I'll let you know. Well, I mean, the Jason Alexander stuff wasn't great. He got beat up a little bit.

Yes. And Mason Miller threw, I think, a pitch of 164 miles an hour last night. 104.1, the fastest in the Statcast era at Diken Park that began in 2008. Do you think, and I think I know the answer to this, I'll go ahead and say the answer, like in Jeopardy. The answer is no. Are all speed guns calibrated the same? I say no. They are. It's in Statcast. Really? Before it's not speed guns. before it was different yeah somebody people would have

the gun behind home plate or somewhere else or whatever so yes it was much more inconsistent in the 70s 80s and 90s is actually a big baseball nerd argument actually really what are they arguing about I don't know just velos and whether or not they've gone up and stuff like that but a lot of people agree that that people do throw harder now but then some people argue well uh uh rabbit hummel in the 1940s he threw as fast as a bullet drain.

I saw him throw faster than secretariat. I don't know. You know, it's funny. You should have taken John Lubbitt's role in a league of their own because the phrasing that you use, John Lubbitts basically got 10 minutes of a movie out of it. So that was your miss calling there. When I was a kid,

you know, I don't want to say way back in the day because that makes you sound like, oh, but I don't say when I was a kid, we were all kids at some point. you could watch Dodger games. Why did I say Robert Hummel? I meant I'm not thinking of Cooper Hummel. I meant Bob Feller.

But anyways, go ahead. You said Lefty Grove. Could have said that too. There was a guy at Dodger games that wore a white hat and a suit. And he would point the gun every time somebody would pitch from a team. And if you watch Dodger games in the 70s and 80s, I don't know if you did it much in the 90s, but you would never not see a Dodger game without that guy pointing a guy.

and he had like a super expensive, like right now, $500 seat doing that. So maybe that's part of the reason why it's like, you know, we can't have speed gun guy getting good seats. Yeah, they don't use speed guns anymore, to my knowledge, or at least everything is consistent. I'll put it that way. Well, put it this way. How about do they think they use stat cast in the monol leagues? I mean, you're telling me. They do now.

They didn't use to. So there's no, so I can't buy a speed gun if I wanted to. Oh, you can, I guess. You're going to go to the thrift shop. Got a nice estate sale coming up. I want to go on eBay and get one. Sure. And just, you know, radar gun? I don't know. Do police use them anymore? I don't think so. Maybe. Well, they're doing 59. Apparently not where I'm driving home, but we're coming to get you.

They should. All right. 10.08 on Sports Talk 7.9. It is the Matt Thomas show. Ross. We are with you today until 2 o'clock. Brian McTaggart, who didn't tell me he wasn't available yesterday. I had to find out through the United app. Oh, I saw him at the game. Yeah. And he will join us today at 11 o'clock. Do you guys break bread last night? No. Why not? All the beat reporters were complaining about how tired they were because they flew in this morning and then they had to work again. Poor guys. How was media dining last night? It is funny, you asked that. It was one of the worst nights of the year.

What was on the... It was like grilled drumsticks and stewed cauliflower. Really? And now they had a baked potato station, but I don't want to do all that. It's funny because we've been ordering these meals. I don't want to gut bomb. We've been pre-packaging these meals. Who's we?

The Thomas family. As a matter of fact, all of us have them. And one of the mainstays they put in these meals, which I do not like, is cauliflower rice. Oh, it's not that. It's better for you. Oh, it's for sure better for you. But there are some things in life that I'd rather have none of it than have the foe. I understand.

And I don't think there's a lot of things, but cauliflower rice to me is it's just, first of all, it's flavorless. And I guess you can put salt and pepper on it, whatnot. Yeah, you can flavor it, Matt. Yeah. It's still a tough eat. Don't include, oh, gee, don't even clip that. No, that's fine. Don't say, yeah. I'm not going to clip that because I agree.

It's a tough eat. Because, I mean, like, for instance, I like, in theory, I think brown rice is probably a little bit better for you than white rice. I can eat brown rice without a problem. Yeah, I think cauliflower rice is still supposed to be better. I'm sure. I think it's probably the best for something like that. It's just, it's just not very delicious.

And my life at 50, whatever, I'm. I'm going to eat delicious food. cauliflower rice stir fries, not bad. Because as you said, you flavor it, you get a little... I have lots of protein in there. Soy sauce, some hoisten sauce. Perhaps you stir fry some broccoli. But the problem is you put a lot of that soy sauce in there.

Then your sodium intake goes up. Yeah, well, keep the low sodium soy sauce and don't put that much, Matt. Sorry, you got to take care of yourself. You know what? No, actually, go with a high sodium, Matt. You're always wanting to make illnesses for me. I don't want you to die. But you just want me to have illnesses.

I'd be really sad if you died for, few minutes. Yeah. You know, that brings me to our sorry is coming up at 11.30. I have to apologize. And not to you. Does something it happened? Then when did it happen?

Recent. Oh, it's involving this show? We'll find out. All right. So 11 o'clock, Brian McTaggart. 1130, your chance to apologize for the week that you were. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for telling you to get high sodium. I'm used to it.

Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe you should be sorry for all the Hulk Hogan hate you had out there. Man, maybe you're on to something. Because, look, nobody's perfect, and the things that he got fired for were horrendous. I mean, 100% horrendous. There was a lot of grave dancing on Twitter. There was actually a fair amount of both. Oh, there's a ton of.

There was, the combination last one of Hulk Hogan was, oh, my God, I remember my childhood, I grew up watching his dad. there was a section of this guy said all terrible, horrible things, which he absolutely did. Go to hell. And then there was, I'm really sorry that he said what he said, but he tried to atone for it and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, God raised to so. So it was, it's just like with anybody's death. I mean, the only person that's going to ultimately is going to die that no one's going to say anything bad about is Adam Wexler. Everybody, everybody else is going to have something bad to say.

Well, we'd have to talk to his family for that. I think even people were trying to cancel Mother Teresa, weren't they? Like when the Pope died, nobody said anything bad about the Pope. So people are anti-Catholic, you know, the whole abuse cover-up thing for a while. Yeah, but that Pope wasn't attached to that. That I know of. That's true. All right.

It isn't anything goes Friday here on the radio show, as you can clearly tell in the opening moments of the program. 713-212.5.7.90. We'll get to the Astros yesterday. I mean, honestly, Ross, a Blase game, to say the very least? kind of expected in a sense I mean you play the day game you finish the sweep you got the lowly ace coming in you can't play

you can't win every game was it was on the tee to kind of get a little bit of a kick in the you know what yeah the full 162 as you know Matt you'll get some thrillers you'll get some stinkers you'll get some blah that was blah it was blah last night are we a little worried about Cam Smith

at all I'll tell you when we come back 1013 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross 713 212 5790 and oh by the way the trade winds are flown in the American League West does that give Dana Brown calls for concern 713

212 5790 All right I brought a question up to you about our favorite right fielder who's having a very productive rookie No he's with the Chicago Cubs And you're going to lose a bet on how much money he's going to How many years?

Lunch, how many years are going to get? Seven and a half? Yeah. You're still taking the under? I mean, it can be seven. Okay, you want up? You still be a win. Okay, you want up from Hibachi?

The problem is, what do you do from Mbachi? Do you go frozen yogurt for dessert after? Hmm. Oh, okay. You want to go to the creamery after? I know, there's a couple nice ones around town. Hmm. Yeah, a little cherry on top of that bet.

Let's go. We're going to be so full that I think we'll do this. Oh, okay. Let's do a drive-through before the show starts breakfast. We already did drive-thru bet on. We have a drive-through bet on Yordon ever plays 130 games. Yeah, that's drive-thru and includes Jonathan. We'll get him breakfast too.

Okay. Because we don't need him going to McDonald's. Apparently, he pisses people off when he goes to McDonald's. That's true, and he's very confrontational. We got to work on your anger issues, Jonathan. I'm a very mellow guy. That doesn't sound like it. But if you mess with me, I'm just going to make sure you know.

Okay. All right, so it's three combo meals on the line for the add it. We're going to add to the Kyle Tucker bet. Three combo meals? So that's an extra $23. Okay, nobody's it. First of all, we hardly ever even pay off on these things. It takes hours and days, I mean, years and months because you're always busy and

try to, especially when you win. Somehow, it's always hung over my head longer. Stay with me. Okay, sorry. We're going to up it or not? Yes, I'm down. our additional fee. Okay, so how about just one drive-through?

You want to do three-dramers? For three of us? For the breakfast for three of us? Oh, there's three of us. I was like three drive-through meals. It's a lot. No, no. I see.

No, no, no, no. Okay, yeah, let's do it. All right, the deal is. Plus drive-through for whoever our producer is at the time. Yeah, provided you're still with us. We want you here, Jonathan. We don't think you're going to die, but you probably could spot a better job with benefits than I are hourly wage.

That got dark. You're trying to get him, Hulk Hogan? By, wait, how did you sit a photo of me in 2009 with him? You got a 2009 with him yesterday? I put that on there? You've lost a lot of weight. I have lost a lot. You're looking good.

Yeah. Somebody's like, you look like you're sick. Because the Hulk is 6-8. We were actually sitting on a table. He is not 6-8. Yeah, he is. Yeah, he's 6-8.

Was. Okay, you were standing on something? We were sitting on a table. Oh, okay. So there's no way that I was, like, somebody said, you're like 6-3. No, I'm 6-1, and that may be even a tinge generous. Was he billed at 6-8 or was he actually 6-8? I think he was really 6-8.

Okay. I only talked to him one time in person, and he was obviously a hulking figure, thus the name. Okay. Oh, okay. And then Hogan for Ayur, Vince McMahon, what is it, nice Ayurzman in WWE? Yeah, he says 6-7, but yeah, okay.

I'll give him 6-8. What was he billed at? Nine foot? No, I think he was built at 6-8. All right, so going to Cam Smith, what are you thinking? Is he going through the, man, it's a lot of A-Bs? He's hitting the rookie wall. Yeah.

He's going to be fine. Hopefully he can power. through it. Chandlerone put out a good article about how the Astros try to limit him. He is a gym rat. He wants to be in the cage. He wants to take the first thing. You know how they do this in the NBA as well.

There's first bus, second bus, third bus. So they put him on the later bus because he wants to take the first one to get out there and work and do everything. He's a perfectionist, all this stuff, and it's kind of wearing on him. They're working on it. They're aware of it. He got the All-Star break for a little bit

of rest. He's never played, I mean, the step up is insane. And it is the same in the NBA. You go from playing 25, 30 college games, whatever it is, to 82 games. And we see it with NBA players. It's almost like being in the gym too early or going, or like during the summertime, there are some parts of an NBA season or offseason where you shouldn't be shooting a basketball. Yeah, exactly. He shouldn't be working as hard as he has. The Astros are aware of it. They're working on it. He's never played. I can't remember what the number was. but it was something like 50 games with Florida State.

And, you know, they get a bunch of days off in between. Yeah, they only play on Thursdays. Well, they play, what, Tuesday, midweek, and the weekend series. Exactly, exactly. So, I mean, the grind of a 162 game season is just something else. So he'll be fine. I think he can push through the rookie wall, but that's what's happening to him right now, I think. Yeah.

So that third, I'm a third bus guy myself. So I totally appreciate. You don't get those early shots up, man? Come on, man. You're not putting it at work. That's what your free throw percentage is suffering. I've given you what my life is like on the road, right? Yeah, you could stay at a fancy hotel.

You don't really go and see the sites of the city, and then you go to the games. I've been to Denver 35 times in nine years. Can I not go to the same? I mean, do I need to go? I mean, there's one place I normally go, but that's... How many hikes have you been on? Zero. Okay.

But I'm on a hiker. Go on a little three-mile hike. How about I go for a walking downtown in Eadoh? It'll take care of it. Okay. I walk up the mountain of the casino. I do that. How many times you've been in the casino?

Three or four? Yeah, exactly. That number shouldn't be that skewed. Fair enough. The seesaw shouldn't be that high. Casino side. It is in the mountains. You have to walk up to the casino, so it is what it is.

Okay. Where are we going with this? Go with Craig the next time he's high school. Okay, so my routine is this. If I'm in the central time zone, 10 to 2 the show, I will try to either eat something or take a nap right at 2 o'clock, get up at 3.30, prepare. And then the bus will probably leave at 4.45, 5 o'clock. We have to get the arena.

Coach and I talk at 530 and the game's at 7. So, you know, it's a pattern of routine. Okay. And I might go on one hike. But he's a, he goes in that 11, 12-mile range. Just tell him to be, you know, when you're hiking with people who aren't experienced, you just go at their pace. But he's fine. But he doesn't work except the games.

I have to do the four-hour show. That's true. So we were just talking about that last night. I don't know what, how kind of TV money he's getting, but it's crazy. That's not here nor there. Luis Severino was good yesterday. Try snitching. Try snitching.

I'm going to Greg's money. I'm full in jealousy is what I am. So, yeah, there was just not a lot of sizzles of the game yesterday, to be honest with you. There was very little to no sizzle. And yesterday was Chris. in July. And you got worn out on Twitter and you shouldn't have gotten worn out. I like Christmas music the week of Christmas. I like it even day after Thanksgiving. I'm good. I like Christmas music. I love the Christmas season because also my birthday's around then.

So it's like, hey, it's time to celebrate some Ross. And then that guy Jesus. What did you just say? What? Did you just celebrate yourself in third person? Uh-huh. I said it's time to celebrate some Ross. So one day a year where, you know, man, I'm giving all year. What are you giving? I let you just. you, I let you say all these crazy things and I'm helping others. And, you know, then, you know, for one day a year, though, it's, it's me. I get to choose what's going down. See, I get a day and a half. Okay. I get a father's day. No, no, no, half a father's day. Why half? I got to split it with my father-in-law. Oh, I'm sorry. So I get, I get a day and a half. Okay. So, yeah,

to the Christmas and July to me, um, I think some people, you know, I think some people, find an intriguing. I don't. Like I said, I love Christmas lights. I'll even put a Christmas movie on. Christmas vacation is an absolute must in our house multiple times over. You're talking about regular Christmas, not Christmas in July. But Christmas in July for me, not really. I love the music. I love the spirit of the season. I think it's great. The weather gets, well, somewhat colder. And I was open-minded going into Christmas in July last night. So you got into the game last night. And the Christmas music started and I was like, this ain't right. it's way too hot for this BS.

It didn't feel right. It was making me angry. I couldn't tell you why it was making me angry. It was some kind of like something in the recesses of my brain was getting triggered. The best tweet of the day was some dumbass that said, hey, Ross, why don't you go check out the calendar? You can figure out what day is what's going on. Obviously, the guy was on a listener, and I don't know who he was.

I don't know. I muted him right after. He's like, you can figure out when you want to go, Ross. and you responded, bro, I'm working. Brother, I am working the game. He said, if only they listed Dean Nights on a thing on the website, you could avoid them so they aren't,

if they aren't your taste. Don't be snarky in Twitter. Just miserable people. Just stop being snarky. Or you can take five seconds to look at, my profile says Astros on deck and 10th inning on it. How about this one the other day?

This guy knows who I am. I've seen this guy. He had some other Twitter account with some podcast. I think he's a weirdo. But anyways, how about this the other day when I was talking about how

Bryce Matthews should not keep Scott Boris away from Bryce Matthews it was a humorous right

did you take it as a humorous thing or did you take it some douchebag on Twitter added that Boris Corp and I'm like

first of all I don't care but seriously you did that because you wanted somewhere to see that yeah could you not

understand the gist of what I was saying people are stupid well they're just trying to be a gotcha hey I know you did. I got a bookmark for this. We have to try to remember that you got like 35,000 views or whatever on that tweet.

And it was one guy that did that. That's true. But it's just, I was just like, are you really doing that? I know. I'm with you. Because let me tell you something. If Bryce Matthews wants a sign with Scott Boris, there's two things. One, he's going to get the best possible agent he can humanly can. I put a big smile on my face. And number two, he's probably so good that Scott Boris is like, yeah, I'm going to go get you some big money. which means Bryce Matthews done a lot of good things for the asteros. Exactly. So it's not necessarily a negative thing. It was just me being on a very small attempt in humor and people just don't get it.

Yeah. Bryce Matthews signs with Scott Boris. That means he's the truth and I'm all on board with it. Now, do I want him to leave in six years? No. No. But again, if he's got, if he went to the, if he went to Craigslist for his agency, that means he's bad about 165. I'm going to tell you something crazy.

If he does sign with Scott Boris, the Astros can have him for life. It's not a death knell. Oh, I think, well, as far as I'm concerned, it is. No, it doesn't have to be. I know. I'm going to tell you something crazy. Jim Crane can sign these people. And he's going to sign some people.

Rather than giving Lance McCullors a big deal, well, we'll see what happens there. Rather than signing Jose Abraeu and Rafael Montaro. Yeah. It is possible. I get it. All right. 713-212-5-79. if you want to jump in. It's an anything goes Friday, meaning anything you'd like to get to in terms of conversation.

We will discuss it. All right. Gordon just came in at 10.50. He will be giving you a review of Happy Gilmore 2. Now, he said he will watch it this morning. I'm assuming that's because he saw it online. Is that movie theaters or is it online or is it both? I don't know. I think it's just online. I think it's just on Netflix. So he woke up that early and did. That's kind of weird, right?

He's a huge Adam Sandler fan. Huge. Hmm. Okay. Oh, yeah, it came out today. So, yeah, we will get the first review coming up in 15 minutes of Happy Gilmore 2. Okay. Happy Gilmore 1?

Amazing. All time great. One of my top, I'll say, I'll even say it, top three comedies of all time for me. What's up? Top three comedies. Friday and Happy Gilmore in Flexi. and then the debate starts for me. Okay.

Airplane one, that'll never be dethroned. Caddyshack 2. No, not Caddyshack will be numbered, not Caddyshack 2. And then I got a muddled mess at 3. Yeah. Let me just throw a bunch of them out there. Okay. Big Lebowski.

No. I'm kidding. I'll throw mine. Hold on, hold on. Let me think, okay. Okay, well, wedding crashers. Sit in silence. Well, I'm doing my top three.

I'll give you, we got four hours, bro. We're waiting at a time. Wedding Crashers. Stepbrothers. The Christian Wing movie, when a bridesmaids, those are right three at the top right there. Okay. Anchorman?

Stept brothers? I already mentioned stepbrothers. Oh, yeah, I put it's stepbrothers three. Sorry. That would be right. And I'm sure I'm missing 10 or 15 other ones. Okay. Walk hard.

You have to walk hard. Walk hard. Watch walk hard. Oh, the first naked gun was really funny. I've been begging you. What movie did you say? We were begging you to watch and you said you were going to watch recently? Oh, Friday.

Okay. I need you to do a double bill. No, actually, just one bill. You're on planes all the time. Yeah, can I download? If I download it, I'll watch it. I think, I don't know. What service is on?

Oh, you want an illegal one? No, no. I use a thumb drive with it on there. I believe legally. I know people. I do things legally watch. I feel like John can get us hooked up. These young kids and they're, they're, they're, they're, they're,

They're computer whizzes. Yeah, what's I need? Yeah, see? I told you. Look at that sly. Look at his face, too. So you can do a legal stream over there. Whatever you need for the right price.

It's going to cost you McMuffin. So what's your battle for three then? I'm going to, you know what? I'm going to go stepbrothers, I think. If I need a website, I got one. Okay, that's enough from you. We don't need it on there. We don't need the FCC coming after us.

Old school. Ooh, old school is funny too. Jesus, Ross. Coming to America Coming to America fantastic Oh Oh God yeah I mean there's so many actually

Oh Dr. Strange love Funny? Really funny Oh that's great My son my middle son Blazing he's Blazing Saddles in his top three Really? Yeah he he sends me clips

Constantly blazing saddles That's hilarious I liked Blazing Saddles a lot I'll tell you this I didn't like cat And most of these I've watched within the last seven, eight years. Caddyshack was kind of mad to me. I'm sorry to say. That's okay.

It didn't really hold up. Animal House, I would say the same thing. But Blazing Saddles was frigging Saddles was frigging hilarious. That was the most time. Strives is funny too. Never saw Strives. Strives is really funny. I don't hate me, but I never saw it.

Oh, vacation. Hysterical. You know what? I got to read. Forget this list. I can't do it. I can't narrow it down to three. I just can't.

Okay. I'm going, happy you go more. Friday. step brother. Yeah, happy Gilmore, not in my top three, or probably my top ten, but still a very funny movie. Okay.

All right. What were we going with this? Oh, so the movie review coming up in about 10 minutes from now. All right, so the Astros play game two of a series. You'll once again have the On Deck show again? Yes. I guess Clanton and Waxel were unavailable to do the On Deck show

in Ten Benning tonight. That's okay. And I don't know if I'll be from the ballpark. We're having some equipment issues yesterday. I mean, you sound like you were doing it from a phonograph in 1963. Somebody tweeted me Some guy on his computer underwater And said this is Ross doing the pregame

What was, were you on the, did you use the hardwired? I used the new one, yes Huh I don't know Hardwheres. Sounded great on my end. Let me just tell you, can we put the curtain back on the industry? Sure, go ahead.

We have, we use voiceover IP for our remote broadcasts, whether that's me on the road with the rockets or that's a location. But we're going to be a tag of brewing in August. We just found that out today. So looking forward to that. Yeah, we'll take care of you. We got you taken care of. Just ask it.

And the hard wire is the perfect connection. And then you have a 4-5G card, which we use primarily, which is just about as perfect. But the hard wire is the absolute best. And that's surprising because if you use hardwiring, it was giving you crackles, you know, that's not a good sign at all. No. Probably the equipment more so than the connection. Exactly. We'll get you cracking it open.

Well, there's no chance. Zero. All right. 713-212-5-790 and anything goes Friday 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-9 we're going to get to at 1120 because we don't have enough time to really dig into it now you see Poetist is getting involved in the NIL game yes so I read the story and you know we'll do it we got time here now

might as well so I read the story in ESPN okay and I have had and I'm going to be brutally honest with you Ross I'm having a hard time comprehending this okay So President Trump yesterday issues an executive order, and it's basically to clarify employment status for NCAA athletes. And he says that school should not permit athletes to accept third party pay-for-play payments. That's NIL essentially.

So the order states that they should use future federal funding decisions among other tools to force schools to abide by the administration policy. The NCAA has always prohibited pay-for-play payments from third parties. Well, that's not really true anymore because NIL is that. I mean, you are technically supposed to give something away like your name, image language, you're supposed to do something to earn that money. But in reality, that's just been swept under the rug. So he's basically looking, he wants, he says, here's the executive order states that endorsement deals from third parties should continue to be permitted so long as they reflect, quote, a fair market value. So aren't, isn't that confusing to me? That he's saying, don't flat out pay them, but you will let you pay them as long as they give you something in return.

Am I reading that right? That's why I'm confused. Oh, yeah. The College Sports Commission was created this month in an effort to vet all third-party deal athletes signed and make sure they are reasonable payments for endorsements rather than a veiled pay-for-play arrangement. Every single one of these deals is pay-for-play. I mean, we can't be naive to this. When you're giving an athlete $9 million over three years, there's no way that Texas Tech, Texas, A&M, Alabama, and the Power School, need to pay somebody $3 million for a name,

image, and likeness deal. They're paying it because they're playing for the school. That's why I'm confused by it. Again, I pardon my ignorance to this or my nativity on this, but you're not signing autographs and putting your face on a car dealership in Tuscaloosa is not worth $3 million. If you took that in front of a commission and said,

what is that worth? That's not worth $3 million a year. So that's why I'm, I'm, I'm having a hard time connecting the dots. I don't just say it's worth whatever wants to anybody wants to pay. Well, that's what this commission is saying, that's not right. I'm not trying to argue with you. I'm just telling you that's what they're saying.

That's what they're saying. This is just a huge mess. This is just a huge, huge mess. So what is, so essentially what is this? I mean, what is there's no real law, right? This is that. What is, what is enforceable from this? Well, I don't know.

What does? I understand an executive order can establish, I don't know, whatever. I mean, I'm sure executive order can do something. Heirs of government and whatever. Yeah, that I don't know. But it's, what he's saying is he doesn't want a school to say, you come play for us, we'll give you $8 million over three years. Well, that's exactly what's going on.

And you could hide it under the NIL. But that's really, I mean, again, it's, I mean, any logical person, let's say that you were at Texas Tech. Any logical person said, all right, uh, John Smith, Autummelma, motive in Lubbock is going to pay a softball player a million dollars, John Smith would never pay a million dollars to market his dealership. It just wouldn't make any sense to do that. Now, if the Ford Motor Company wanted to do it, the entire company, then you could justify saying this athlete is worth $1 million because you do pay athletes millions of dollars for national brands. But why does anybody have to step in and be the judge of that?

Because he believes it's a broken system. We're talking about it. We're talking about it. We're talking about a free market. And then if somebody, nobody else can be the judge of that. Some people might say sponsorship dollars are wasted here or there or whatever. Here's what the order says to answer your question. Agree or disagree. A national solution is urgently needed to prevent this situation from deteriorating beyond repair and to protect non-revenue sports, including many women's sports that compromise the backbone of intercollegiate athletics.

So you're trying to protect the backbone of intercollegiate athletics. What's compromised? Um, they're saying it's, it's a, a system of just paying athletes straight up. The TV deals are getting bigger than ever. Ticket sales and sponsorships and everything. It's all growing. What's compromised? Well, I mean, he believes it's compromised by the statement.

He's saying this is a system that is broke. That I'm sure that, you know, again, the athletes are going to be starting being, are going to start getting paid by the schools that are in part of this plan. But just to pay them just to go play their. from a third party is unacceptable. Again, I don't know how the hell you, you, because again, if all of a sudden you say, no, you can't have these NIL deals and you're going to get more lawsuits, then if you say, we're going to watch over these things and we're going to have these people judge whether or not your deals are fair,

then they're going to start me under the table again. I mean, you and I five years ago had this argument about how crazy this was going to get, and you kept promising things were going to settle down. I promise you that there were going to people getting the donor fatigues, and it's happening some places, but it's been, it's like a whack-a-mole. Texas A&M, they had that huge class where there was eight five-star players. It was the most all-time.

They all transferred out. And then for a few years, they were quiet. Mole got whacked. Then they popped that back up. They spent like $50 million this last year. I do you think they can continue to do this year by year by year? Maybe. And even if the money doesn't calm down, then who cares?

Oh, no. College players are getting millions of dollars. This is ruining my life. I don't understand. I don't understand the meddling. It doesn't make any sense. Sorry what? They just want control of it, right?

I guess. Why don't they go to the sponsors and talk to them? Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Go to the sponsors. Go to the alums and say, don't pay as much. It's definitely a broken system, but this is what we've got, especially if the NCAA is going to dig in their heels, despite losing Supreme Court decision after Supreme Court decision,

that they are amateur athletics, it should have been, it should have never got to this point. Basically the second TV money got involved is where it needed to go away from amateurism, but that was never going to happen because they want to keep their tax exempt status

and keep all of their money, the NCAA. And so then it became this under the table deal. Then it became, okay, there's no way to get in front of a judge and sell that they are taking in these billions of dollars of revenue and giving a scum. a scholarship, an academic scholarship, is anywhere close to fair value. It's not.

So this is the workaround. And it's sure, you got a big leak right now, and you're putting a piece of duct tape on it. But the only other solution is to completely blow the damn up. To me, and that's what I've always said. I've always said that. The system is way too broken. It needs to be blown up. It needs to be a completely pay-for-play professional league.

A minor league, essentially, maybe even partnered through the NFL, or this is what's going to happen. You're going to have a complete mess on your hands, but at least now players are getting paid, so I'm happy about that. It's a compromise, and it's like the worst compromise ever, but at least players are getting paid now. Yeah, I had a meeting yesterday with a friend of mine who was in this business,

and we are due for break. We're way late. He says we're too far gone. We're too far, that this is out of control. and that you can put any executive order you want to. If you're a rich alum and you want to get that player to come, the under the table deals are back. We're in a little, I keep making this argument, honestly,

with our governmental systems and other things going on. We're at the, we're at a little log cabin at the bottom of a mountain, and there's an avalanche coming our way, and we're saying, how do we stop the snow? Yeah. Ooh, you went snow reference. Okay. All right.

As promised, the update on Billy Madison. Is it Billy Madison, too? Happy Gilmore, too. We're going to get Billy Madison, too, eventually, right? 1047 on 7.9. Okay, Gordy's here with an update and a review of Happy Gilmore, 2. You woke up this morning early? When did it drop now?

2 a.m. On Netflix, Netflix only, yeah. You watch it right at 2 a.m.? No, we woke up early this morning. Wait, you and the lady? Like six or seven. Do you all snuggle during this or just to watch the movie and call it? No, she had to do work, so we went in the living room.

You can snuggle the living room, but that's a different issue for different. time. All right. So 7 a.m. I'm not sitting on any your couches. Did you have coffee, breakfast, and you watched. Yeah. And you sat back and you said, I'd love the first one. And now you tell us here that number two is... First one's an all-timer for me. It's like probably that and Billy Maddice are my two favorite comedies of all-time. Up there with the Big Loboskey. Extremely quotable. Yes. All-timer.

Very quotable. Mm-hmm. I thought they did as good a job as you could do with a sequel 30 years later. I actually heard Sandler in an interview said They originally had a script 20 years ago Or 10 years ago That was going to be a sequel That was going to focus on

Chubbs played by Carl Weathers Who dies in the first one It was going to be about Chubbs's son Enacting Revenge on Happy Gilmore And Chubbs was going to make appearances Throughout in dream sequences While Carweather's died So they couldn't use him

So they had to rewrite a whole new story That's good It's enough cameo It's enough callbacks. They use clips from the original to like kind of remind you of different things. That's saving money. Well, but it's kind of cool. It's a cool ode and tribute to the original.

So I liked it. The storyline's kind of cheesy. It's, there's some great shots at the Live golf tour because there's a whole new rival golf league. Product placement. Okay. Well, it's, but it's not,

it's mocking Liv. But they got a ton of golfers in this. And I'm surprised, like they've got legends. They've got new golfers. And the new golfers play pretty big roles. Rory McElroy, Scotty Shephler. Like, they're all in it.

So that was kind of cool. If you're a golf fan, I think you'll like it. Okay. Would you bet it'd laugh at any point during the movie? It was a few. There's a few moments. Okay. Well, I mean, I've heard worse reviews of sequels.

Yeah. Out of 10. What do we got? I give it a seven and a half. What's rotten tomatoes? Anything on rotten tomatoes yet on it? You want to know how fresh it is? I'll go look.

I think I want to watch it again. You know what? I think a couple of it. comedies you got to watch twice for sure. Well, almost anything to really truly evaluate you got to watch at least twice. Go in with low expectations. That's what I was saying.

Nobody wants to do that. Hold on. You just said seven and a half. Well, I put it this way. Like the new Superman, everybody and our brother's like, oh, don't see it. Oh, it's trash.

So I went in with low expectations. I liked it. But had I gone in with like, oh, this better be the best superhero movie I've ever seen. It's got a 7.7 on AMD. It does the thing. No, I'm sorry, not have to go more. I'm talking about Super Bowl.

Oh, okay. It's not on rotten tomato Or what the hell? Maybe, I mean, it's just came out. Okay, so it is definitely worth watching. I think so. 64% fresh by critics, but some people value the popcorn meter,

which is people who aren't critics, she's regular people, 72%. See, I'm a golf fan, though. Would you recognize Colin Mara Kahlo if you saw him? No. Okay, so like, if you're a big golf fan, you're like this. Scotty Schaeffler and Roy Macaroid.

Lee Trevino. He's back in it. Not Arnold Palmer He's the other one I was in Iraq Jack Nicholas Jack Nicholas Okay

Yeah What about Jack Nicholson Travis Kelsey's in it? Oh geez Is his 15 minutes Overworth by the way He's a very small role And he's good

Okay He was funny on SNL I will give him that He's been in the league for like 12 years They do use some AI stuff That's pretty funny too At the very beginning You know what you've

You've done a pretty decent job But I'm gonna watch it now I already subscribe to Netflix I'm like I'm painting for it, extra. Right. I'm just surprised they wouldn't do a... Because didn't they do early Netflix movies they would do in the theater too?

I'm surprised they didn't put this in the theater. It would have crushed in the theater too. I think we're done with movies in theaters, aren't we, basically? No. They'll never die. I know, but they're not anything close to what they used to be. The new F1 movie, somebody told me it's really good, but see it in the theater.

You're not going to appreciate it at home. There are certain experiences you can't pass up in the theater. Wow. Now, the one that did die 3D, I think we're done with that. Remember, you had to go to the movies and put the glasses on. I saw Superman 3D last week. You saw it in 3D?

You put the glasses on too and everything? Yeah, but it wasn't really made for 3D, so it was kind of a waste. I think those are dying, yeah. 84% for Superman on Tomato Meter. Yeah. 92% audience score. Happy Gilmore, 64% and 72%. Okay.

There you go. You're going the Astros game tonight, yes? I will be, and I'll be grabbing a Crawford Bach from our friends at Carrbach brewing. I believe, they still do the Friday Happy? hours? I believe so. You have to get up there in the upper deck and enjoy a couple of...

You get some fireworks in your mouth. What is this upper deck you speak of? You know, the... Oh, it's fancy. The right field upper area, I forget what they call it. It's the party deck or whatever it is. It's... Oh, I don't remember.

Here's the tough part. They offer, I think, it's like $5 discounted beers, but the line gets so long, you better double fist when you go up there. But anyway, make sure you get a Crawford box from our friends at Carbock Brewing. Maybe that was a problem last line.

Maybe not enough people had Crawford Box watching the Astros game. That's why they lost. So let's hope you get the Crawford Bach flowing tonight out there, Carbock brewing, and get an Astros win. And by the way, we were out of Carbock the other day. They are starting to mail out those Hill Country T-shirts for those who donated to the Flood Relief Fund out there. And thanks to all who donated in tremendous cause and support from our friends there, Carbock. Thank you, Gory.

We'll talk to you on Monday. Up next, McTaggert, on the Astros Beat, 10-509. on 790. Sports Talk 790. We normally get a chance to visit with Brian McTaggart every Thursday on the radio show, but he had a flight, did not get the upgrade from Phoenix to Houston, and is joining us here today

on the Matt Thomas show, Ross, on a Friday. Tags, how are things? Things are going well. How are you guys doing? We're fine. It's Friday. What are you going to do? Hey, last night, to me, was one of those, we just finished a three-game sweep.

We flew home. We're tired. the A's don't necessarily present a huge challenge. I mean, I hate to use an eagle song, but one of those nights, basically, for the local nine. Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head. Just one of those nights. I mean, you know, you're not going to win every game. And, you know, Severino pitched really well

against the underman lineup. You know, they've had to kind of scratch and claw for every one of their wins on the road trip, and they just weren't able to do it yesterday. They still had the time run at the plate in the eighth inning. but yeah I mean they try to catch lightning in a bottle again with jason alexander and it didn't work so i mean it's just where there are i mean when you're when you're relying on on some guys who probably wouldn't be here because of injuries it's just not going to work out some nights so it's just

yeah but you know you got to come back and if you're the asteros try to get these next three and at least get a split in this series but yeah if you could try to win the series now that's probably the goal i'll be honest with you as i was following the game on televised television and radio and watching your tweets. I was more frankly intrigued to what was happening at the minor leagues. How about you? I mean, we've got some guys that are double A, triple A, and again,

my philosophy has been on this show since all these injuries is when they wear the word Astros or Houston in the uniform, I'll really, really care. But at least we saw some tangible minor league competition for some guys that were hurt for quite some time. Yeah, I'm right with you.

About the third inning, I called up the Sugar Land Box Score. sort of falling along and seeing what was going on with Christian Javier, making a rehab start yesterday. And threw 49 pitches in two and two-thirds inning. So that's a pretty good amount through a lot of strikes, do 30 strikes, give up one run on a sack fly. Touched 95 with the fastball.

So I think he averaged like 93 something with the fastball. So the VILO was there. Only had three swings and misses from 20 swings. So, you know, didn't miss a lot of bats, but still it looked like a good amount of volume. It looked like he was, you know, getting closer to returning. And then Jacob Melton also played in that game and absolutely crushed two balls. One of me hit off the wall for a double that was over 111 miles an hour.

So, you know, he's still a rookie, but I think he's a guy who can come up here and help you a little bit. And then over the weekend now, we got Spencer Arrogatti pitching tonight at Corpus Christi. You have Luis Garcia tomorrow on Corpus Christi and JP France tomorrow on Corpus Christi. So, hey, look, I mean, these guys are on rehabs at the upper minor leagues. Within a week or two, we're going to start seeing some guys activated, and then the help is on its way. So, look, Jason Alexander knows he's probably headed back to AAA. That's an easy one.

Give me where you think there is not necessarily huge debate, but a little uneasiness with some guys that are in the rotation right now that might lose their spots. Yeah, well, you have a couple of shirts. things, of course, in Fromber and Hunter Brown. I was looking yesterday, and those two guys, or dastas are 29 and 11 when those guys start. And when anybody else starts, they're 31 and 32, so they're under 500. And they've also thrown, I think, 43% of the innings by starters this year. So they've carried the biggest part of the workload. I think Brandon Walter has put

himself in good position. I mean, he's just, he's stacked good starts. He's had a couple of ones here and there that aren't so good. But, you know, he's a guy that's, you know, he's a lefty, he's deceptive. He's got that cutter that he spots really well. So I think he's put himself in a good spot. You know, Colton Gordon has done a nice job as well. You know, Ryan Gusto, who pitches tonight is a guy who can go to the bullpen. We've seen that in the past. So I was suspected to get a reliever or two back here.

You know, we could see Gusto go back to the bullpen and sort of be that swing man guy. But, you know, if they get like three or four starters back, it's just going to come down to who's pitching better. I mean, if Walter is out pitching somebody else, then, you know, he's going to pitch. But this is good news for the Astros that, you know, all these guys, they seem so far away when they got sent to Florida and they're, you know, they're throwing bullpins and live BP's. But now they're, now they're double-A, AAA, and rehab games, you just start to feel they're just around the corner. And it's got to be pretty exciting for the Astros. The McCuller situation just seems extremely unpredictable. Bull feels like it's easier to get rid of him if he just can't turn any corner easy to keep him if he does turn the corner but what if he continues to be up and down and you have all these guys getting healthy of course he's on the aisle now with the blister issue but I am extremely interested to see how that unfolds.

Yeah, I'm with you, Ross. I think it's going to be really interesting. You know, if he's going to come up and not get deep in the ball games and they have other options, I mean, they have to go with the other options. It's just the way it is. I mean, you know, Lance has done a lot of great things for this team. And he's, you know, he's got a big contract through next year. But this is still a performance-based business.

And they need pitchers who are going to go deep in the game. So, yeah, the whole deal is a weird deal because, you know, when he got done with the start the other night, in Seattle, he didn't say anything about a blister. He just said he's got a pitch better, and you could tell he was frustrated, but there was no talk of a blister. I didn't see him looking at a blister at any point in that game, and then we find out he flies back to Houston because he's got a blister. So he wasn't there yesterday.

He didn't get a chance to talk to him. So kind of a weird deal. Not sure where you go with Lance or what you do at this point, but I guess first of all, you've got to figure out what's going on with this blister. and then, you know, see if you can run him back out there and what he's got. Brian McTaggart with us here on Sports Talk 790. Josh Naylor to the Mariners yesterday. So the arms race has kicked off for the deadline.

What do you think about what the Mariners gave up for him and kind of where that puts the Astros in their search for help? Yeah, I think this is sort of the one that's going to get things going. I mean, this is the big first big domino to fall. great addition to their lineup. I mean, they had Luke Rayleigh playing first who isn't very good, frankly. So you know, Naylor's a guy who doesn't

strike out who's got some power. He's going to fit in really well in that lineup. He's going to make the Mariners a lot better. I believe they give up their number 13 and 16 prospects. And their prospect list is much deeper than the Astros. So those are two guys that are probably

if they were in the Astro system or probably top seven or eight prospects. So they give up some good prospects, but I don't take anything that at the end of the day, you know, they're going to be kicking themselves down the road. Who knows? But I mean, I think all in all is a good trade for them. And now they're still very much after Eugenio Suarez. We saw him over the weekend in Arizona. He played with Seattle before. They would love to get him back. And they have the prospects to do it. I think they had nine of the top 100 prospects on MLB.com's pipeline list. The Astros had one, which is Bryce Matthew. So

the mayors are much better. position to make another impact deal. That's not to say the Astros can't. I think they will make some deals. They definitely need a bat, a left-handed bat. They are interested in Suarez, just with, it looks like Peretti's going to be out a while. So whoever Suarez, wherever he goes, he's going to make that team a lot better. This is a guy who could hit 50 home runs.

So it's going to be really interested. That Astros also need a right-handed reliever. They could put in that high leverage pocket with, Brian King and Bennett Sousa, a guy like, you know, just a right-hander, they could mix in there if they have a pocket of right-handed hitters. I wonder if they're going to push hard for starting pitching at this point. Just with, like we said earlier, they got guys coming back that you feel pretty good about. And maybe, you know, you shift your focus now to getting a bad and a reliever. But definitely going to be a very, very interesting next week.

But Astros will make a trade or two. and this team could look a lot different in Boston next week. Clearly, Suarez would be a huge addition, especially because if Paredes' hammy is as bad as it looked when he limped off the field, it could be a while. And we've spent time, and you have, and all the writers and the people that follow this team, begrudging the Mono League system

and how that Dana has had to go to that system so many times when he was trying to stockpile. So let's put the cards on the table. What could the Astros possibly all? offer that other teams wouldn't offer, they would offer less that would make the Astros a spot that Arizona would like to talk to. Well, I mean, they have some intriguing arms in the minor leagues. Miguel Ulloa is, you know, one of their best strikeout minor league pitchers.

I mean, there are a lot of teams who would love to, you know, slot him in the AAA lineup and think maybe he could help him down the road. AJ Bluebaugh is a guy who's got some value. they have some up-and-coming outfielders like Joseph Sullivan, who's Pat Sullivan, the former Heisman Trophy winner. That's his grandson. I mean, look, they got players in the minor leagues. Do they have, is the top-end players of a lot of teams?

No. But if they're going to trade for Suarez and you're going to send two or three prospects, they have enough to get it done. It will be a little more challenging. You're right, because other teams have probably better prospects to offer. But they're also, you know, are they going to be one? willing to part with some of these prospects as well. So it's tricky. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a chess match here for the next six days. But, you know, you know, look at all the,

like I've said before, look at all the prospects the Astros have dealt year after year. And none of those guys really have come back to bite them. You know, maybe Teoska Hernandez, when they traded him to Toronto for Aoki. That's, you know, that's one you want back. But the four guys they sent to Verlander, you know, So far, the three guys they sent to Toronto or the low perfido homered last night. And it's still early for those guys. But, you know, Jim Crane is very much of the philosophy, hey, we're here to win now. Prospects, you know, deal them. Let's get players that can help us win.

And they're going to get some players. Last question. Could the Astros dangle one of their left-handed relievers out there? Because teams, you know this time of year, are always looking for situational lefties to get just an out, maybe two batters. could one of them be expendable in order to help make a trade of some sort? Yes, I think so. I know Dana is not a fan of trading from the Major League roster, but they do have a surplus there,

and if they do add a right-handed reliever, I think the one guy that's probably the most likely to be traded would be Stephen Ocourt. We saw him pitch a little last night. I think Brian King and Bennett-Suzza have just been too valuable. I think those are the two guys they would want to keep. But I could definitely see them trading O'Court. If another team wants a lefty reliever as part of a package,

then I think they would be willing to do that. Dane is hesitant to take away from a team that's already pretty under man. But, you know, that is a – they've got three lefty relievers they can put in in a latent game. So, yeah, I think there's a chance, but probably unlikely at this point. If you love Brian McTagger now, imagine with him and Ross tonight at 6 o'clock as part of the On Deck show. I'll rehash these questions somehow, Brian. Okay, I'll come up with different astros.

Hey, maybe they make a trade between now and then. Oh, no, no, we don't want that. No, no, no, no trade. Six o'clock. Astros on deck coming your way. If you're going to make a trade, don't do it until six o'clock because I don't want the E team to get any part of that love. That's ridiculous.

If I'm feeling lazy, I'll be a home. If I'm not, I'll be at the ballpark. I'll let you know. He's going to be lazy. Tags will talk to you. I'll talk to you from your home. Thanks, tags. We'll see you later.

Brian McTaggart. Brian will be the game. He'll be lazy like you. That's his job. He's on the beat. Okay, fair enough. 1115 of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713, 2,1, 2, 5, 790.

I just don't get it. It was yesterday. Today, we say I'm sorry to some people. And we'll do that in 15 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. 11211 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713, 212 5790, 713, 212, and 212. 5-7-90. I'm sorry as you're coming up at the bottom of the hour.

I don't like playing assistant coach audio. I just don't, but I'm going to hear because it's training camp. Okay. It's we're on the precipice of a new season. And clearly, this team, all we have to really worry about, I think, we're talking about the Texans. secondary should be solid. Linebacking core hopefully will be improved.

The defensive lines get Will Anderson. You got your quarterback. You got a couple of running backs without their healthy. You got your receiving court. I mean, there's plenty of bright spots, but there is one that's just got a lot of angst. And it's the offensive line. The Texans fired their offensive line coach last year, took the assistant and made him the number one guy. So I want to introduce to you, Cole Popovich.

Cole Popovich I mean we're going to cuss and discuss him for four hours But we're going to play a sound bite Okay Okay Are you seizing for a second? I was for a little bit I don't know what's wrong with me

Yeah well So well there's a lot of things But point being is this Yeah We're not going to play a lot of him Okay But today then not being a The Astros game doesn't move the needle

There hasn't been a trade Man it's totally You don't have to preface No you don't It's okay All right We can talk a little football ball, we can play something from the O-line coach.

It's all right. We don't need to lock it up, baby. It's Uber dorky, but today it's not Uber dorky. It's just regular dorky. Here's Cole Popovich on what he expects from his team's offensive line this season. Line that plays the game in a way

that like the whole team can kind of see. There's a toughness established from our group there. We're not shying away from any kind of contact. And then, you know, really the other thing would be just a smart group. I don't want to miss the side. So that's like the biggest thing is we're trying to play clean football, trying to eliminate bad football, play very tough, be a Simon sound, and I think we'll be okay if we do those things.

Okay, there you go. All right. Sounds good to me. Mr. Simons was a huge part of why. Now, of course, you had a bunch of bodies rotating. You had a reshuffling of the offensive line a bunch of times. You didn't have a whole lot of continuity, whether it be underperformance or injury. But he's absolutely.

right. And people were talking about CJ Stroud making the calls, but he doesn't make the calls in Bobby Sloick system. I don't know how it is exactly with Nick Cayley, but in the Sloic system, the center is making the calls and then they were changing centers all the time. Let me ask you this, and I know

that Bill O'Brien had this originally. He was always very braggadocious about the ability to have guys playing multiple positions. Do you think that? That was a little falling on deaf ears on that a little bit because if you have people that are moving around the quote-unquote swing positions, does it mean they're just not

particularly good at anything? I definitely think there's something to that, and I definitely think it frustrated me when Bill O'Brien said that when they would prioritize versatility, nobody's saying let's kick Anthony Munoz

into guard. Nobody's saying, now, of course, Anthony Munoz just don't grow on trees, but you get my point. Nobody say if you're a great left tackle, be a great left tackle. That's what you need. and yeah, it's okay to have guys who can swing out to tackle, especially when they're in the interior. But if this guy might be a guard, this guy may get a tackle,

that usually means when you're a great tackle come out of college and they're trying to put you at guard, that means you're not that great. Like Titus Howard, let's be honest here. Titus Howard has played four positions in his young NFL career. Titus Howard hasn't been exemplary in any of them. But he's been, when healthy, he's been able to help, But there's a reason why they're bouncing him around is because they can't find that spot.

Like, for all the things that I was 100% right about Laramie Tunsell, not being a team guy, being an eye guy, you could pencil him at left tackle and it was done. You could not be able to do that with Titus Howard over his NFL career. And I'm not saying, and Titus Howard will never be Laramie Tunsell. Yeah, that's another thing too. I mean, guys have certain limitations. You'll cook them into guard because they don't have the right arm length or they're not strong enough or whatever, certain size. Yes, there are reasons to. do that. But it's like, why don't you

just draft a guy who's going to be a good tackle? Because if you're drafting a guy who's tackle and guard, that means he's not a good tackle. And that's the most difficult position and the premium. Not to say interior guys don't matter, of course. Yeah. So we'll get you a little bit more with you. But yeah, I think today was a good day to

play. We'll make some more sound bites a minute on that kind of stuff. But I just because I think all of us, and I wouldn't put myself in Clota, I need to know who this offensive line is. I need to be able to say one position guy, is better at this position because I don't follow that kind of stuff and I don't think most of our audience

does but we can sometimes go into a little bit more of a deeper dive and so we're going to try to do that a little bit. Their biggest issue was the missed assignments and letting free runners in last year and he mentioned that multiple times that's good address it, sure it up, figure something out with

Nick Cayley and how they're doing calls and whatever because I think honestly, again with these untrained eyes of mine, I think Joe Mixon's exemplary season was in part because he was able to get some things done even though his offensive line did not give him the great run protection. His vision

he made something out of nothing and when he went down and it was that's why they were turning to guys like Dario Gwynbo Wale and stuff like that where you couldn't really go to Damian Pierce. Look, Damian Pierce had a great season a couple years ago but he's basically going to get up field and then he can go a long way.

The patience and vision isn't there and absolutely Joe Mixon has this great feel of where the flow of linebackers and linemen are going where blocks are getting blown up and then going the other way and making something out of nothing. But guess what? Younger running backs?

Slow running backs in which the Texans have both of those. I've got a rookie running back coming out. Woody marks. I don't know what Woody's vision's looking like but he's got a great name. Nick Chubb, my guess, is not going to have that kind of zip that Joe Mixon has. Yeah. I'm not

feeling great about Nick Chub, but we're getting a camp report today? TextWex. I don't want to Two days in a row. You ask Wax. Okay. See if he'll join us at 1220. He is scary. As I'm saying, I don't want to over, I don't want to over text him.

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of you and hopefully grow your business through iHeart media and sports talk 790 time for us now to say i'm sorry ross needs to apologize to some folks and we'll have it for you coming up next i'm nothing to apologize for because i'm just a nice person 713212 570 719 if you want to say sorry to somebody do it next here on sports talk 790 so now your opportunity here on 790 to utter these very very simple words. I'm sorry. So sorry. And I love it that Ross already

knows what he's going to say and what he needs to do to tell that certain group people or maybe some in particular that they're sorry. Ross, the floor is yours. Yes, I have to apologize to Holkogen,

his legacy, his fans, and people around the world who were crushed yesterday by the passing. Yes, of course, he was a braggard and a liar and a racist. But he was also a human being.

And we're all not perfect. And maybe I danced on the grave a little bit more than I should have. Adam Clinton was especially affected. He was crushed. asked for multiple hugs yesterday and you know what in those moments I was like you know people around the world

are hurting and and I'm sorry for bringing up and incessantly using the N word and lying this feels very half-hearted so I'm sorry I shouldn't have brought it up I didn't mean that much

and I'm sorry for putting his false claims and believe it or not you know what don't ever listen to me I'm gonna set a better myself so I didn't have to. I'm sorry. I do feel some remorse. I'm sorry.

Well, what he said was awful. He got fired for it, but he was able to make amends and was welcome back by the WWE. So something must have happened that he was able to repair the damage that he had with the things he said. So, you know, again,

there are some mistakes that, you know, I saw, is this true that Rick Flair put out like a heartfelt tribute? He started crying, yeah. And then said he wasn't as good as Ricky Steamboat? No, he was talking about the greatest match that Rick's Flair ever had was with Ricky Steamboat. Okay. But he's like, my match with Ricky wasn't, was the best. My matches with Hulk weren't the best, but they were still very special.

It'd be like, it's kind of a backhanded compliment. No, no, no. I saw exactly what he said. Okay. I didn't watch it. It would be like, oh, God, Ross, you're asking me to do an analogy, and this is terrible. Oh, okay. Well, your other co-hosts, they were great, but they just weren't as good as Ross.

You have been my favorite co-host of my entire life. Woo! It doesn't mean other people that I have not worked with, I didn't enjoy working with. Okay. Does that make sense? Yes, Matt. That's exactly what are you saying? Is that...

So I'm your Ricky Steamboat? I guess. Was Ricky? I don't really know Rick. Steenboat. Very good. Okay. Hall of Famer, Alzheimer?

For sure. Live or dead? Alive. Really? Yes. Good for him. Yeah. Okay.

Anyways, I wanted to apologize to Hulk Hogan, his estate, and his fans. All right, there you go. Jonathan, I'm going to go to you because I'm trying to rewind my week to see if I did something that I should apologize for. So I'm thinking, as you think, do you have something you want to apologize for? Yeah, I got something. I use my points at the Reg Ronald all the time. That's why I'm always there. Yeah.

And I never bring us anything? You should apologize for that. All I get is a house brown on a little sausage, but if you want it. With some jelly. But I'm always having a constant thing of saying, yes, sir, yes, ma'am, you know, Groverness out of. Yeah, you're very nice. And then the guy out of the speaker, he had a very high-pitched voice.

So, and I just, I just, I had said yes man like three times, and I put up to the window. You said, yes, ma'am. And he gave me the. most, like, deadly staring. Oh, no. I just wanted to apologize to all you listening, but I felt real bad. So you heard somebody, thought it was a girl, but it was really a guy. And you gave him a yes, you gave them yes maims.

And like polite yes ma'ams, too. Like, you know. That used to happen to me when I was like 13. I would pick up the phone and people would think I was my mom. That's happened to me all the time for sure when I was younger. Well, Jonathan, you don't know this story, and I have time to tell out or other talk to people. What? Okay, go ahead.

My softball story. Okay. I told you about that. I thought you were going to tell another story. No, there's other. That I'm not talking about on the air. That's not happening. 713-212-5-79, if you want to apologize.

7-1-2-1-2-5-7-90. So, Jonathan, when I was in college, the University of North Texas, I used to umpire softball games. Oh, yeah. All right. Stay with me on this. Focus. And when you play Co-reck, you had to have male at third, female at shortstop. You had to alternate. You couldn't have two consecutive same position. Oh, no.

So, God. I'm umpiring this game. And I'm watching the game, and there was a play at shortstop made, throw over to first base. And I'm like, uh-oh. We got a problem here because there's a guy at third and a guy. second. There can't be a guy at shortstop. So I stopped the game. I walked towards the pitchers, man.

I put my hands up. Time out! Time out! I point at her. Eventually realizing it was a her, not a him. Matt, no. Matt, yes. It absolutely happened. And instead of

embarrassing her any more than I did. I chuckled a little bit. I turned around and walked back to the plate. And everyone's like, why did you stop the game and point out our shortstop? God. I had no answer. I was 19 years old. My ad lib skills are significantly better today than they were in 1991.

Point being is this. I didn't want to embarrass her. I didn't say it out loud, but the Monday after the Saturday game, I got a call from the rec department asking me to come in and explain myself and there were some sexual harassment charges going against me because of that.

Oh, no way. Oh, man. I mean, it was an honest mistake. In fairness to me, she was Butch. You didn't have to say that. You didn't have to say that at all. So I'm sorry to that Butch shortstop.

for me thinking you were a dude. Oh, that's horrible. I'm so sorry, Matt. I know you that keeps you up a night. I actually don't think it does. It doesn't. The worst part was it was the Crusaders for Christ campus team. Oh, my God.

And you're going to hell. Yeah. I told it to Mark Sherman, our programming guy on the FM side, I said, you get a, I told Mark, I said, you get a straight shot to heaven. I have to stop in purgatory and I may be there for a while. I'll be hanging out for a bit. I'll see that.

I'm going to live in there. Yeah. You might want to buy. Real estate? Don't rent. I'm like the Pedro Leon. I'm going to stay in purgatory and never get to the big time. I think the interest rates are good.

All right. So I've never really firmly apologized to that Campus Crusaders for Christ, Butch it's short. And I don't think I ever had to apologize to her directly. But once I explain myself, they're like, okay. Okay, you didn't obviously sexually harassed, but it was quite embarrassing. And I could have made it worse by saying, excuse me, everybody, I thought your shortstop was a guy. But I didn't say that.

I did have the least of the smart, the intelligence to not say anything out publicly. Can we have somebody call? Because I think I've done enough. That was a pretty good. I'm sorry. All right. That was a great. I'm sorry.

713-212-5-7-9. If you want to apologize to somebody, somebody, you hurt their feelings back in college. 713-212-5-7-90. Is this our buddy Jay on line 3, the young man in line 3 that called you while I was gone, Rossi? Is that really who it is? I don't know.

Maybe you want to talk- I can't confirm that. Maybe talk some trade deadline with Jay. Jay knows ball more than you. Jay knows better more than a lot of things. 7-13-212-5-7-9. All right, 1148, if you have something you want to apologize for, let your voice be heard.

It's 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. I'd like to apologize on behalf of the person that's in our building that can't urinate in the urinal. There was urine all over the floor when I went to go to the bathroom about two minutes ago. It's ridiculous. It's a huge bowl, Jonathan. You got a wide area to just do your thing. Spray. How do you miss?

It's not even a bowl. It's a toilet. I mean, talking about the urinal. It's good-sized urinal. It sounds like a little small one. It's a big one. Sorry, guys. I was in a hurry.

God, Ross. How do you urinate on a floor? You're an adult in a major office building in the heart of the Galleria. That's when you've got to go on the go. I mean, if you're a golf game mall, I kind of get it. I mean, my God. But come on. Men drop trowl.

This is everywhere. And just hit the damn bowl. Hashtag hit the bowl. Hit the bowl. You just start a campaign. You do PSAs. Hi, it's Matt Thomas. Hi, friends.

Matt Thomas, voice of the Houston Rockets, host of the Matt Thomas Show at Ross, 10 o'clock until 2 on Sports Talk 790. All of us here understand the needs of what men have to go through, and that means urination. It could be once a day, could be twice a day, could be once at 4 o'clock in a morning, could be twice between 2 and 6 p.m.

And the least you can do, especially if you're in an office building in a high-end area of the gallery, is unzip your pants, pull them down to your knees, pull it out, and hit the bowl. So on behalf of all of us here at IHeartMedia, the Houston Rockets and Sports Talk 790, the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. Really, it's just Matt Thomas and Ross tended to. Hashtag hit the bowl.

Thank you. That's all I'm asking. Just hit the damn bowl. Hit the bowl. Thank you, Matt. All right. This is going to get awkward. Jay, my name is Matt.

Matt, you talked to Ross a few weeks ago. Jay, how are you? I'm good. Jay, how's your summer treating you? Has your dad or mom taking you to some Astros games this year? Yes, a lot. That's good. What's your favorite thing to eat at the Astros game?

Oh, Shake Shack, yeah. Oh, okay. I got your respect for that. All right. And let me ask, what else? Do you do the wave? Yes. Ross, the rest of the conversation is yours.

Hey, Jay, why did you call us today? Because so far it's almost a straight deadline, so I want to talk about the stray deadline. Yes. And when I was last time on the call, I told you about Bryce Matthews. You did, Jay. You came in to brag about how you said Bryce Matthews didn't need a whole lot of season in AAA and he was ready? Yes, he was ready. Yeah, he's got three home runs.

He's hit, he's got three home runs. He is hitting under 200, but he does have a lot of power, doesn't he? Yes, a lot. So what are you thinking about for the deadline for the Astros? Now people are saying like anyway, so west from the Diamondbacks to the basement. Because, but it is injured. There's no news on it, but it is. So maybe talking a third basement.

Mm-hmm. A lefty bat. Like a line on home, the land from the red sox starting picture. And that's it. Are you concerned about Lance McCullors? Yes. What unnerves you about him right now? I mean, he's always injured.

Every time, bad against the mail and he always did good against the Dodgers. He didn't do good at home. Mm-hmm. He sucks at home. But at the world, he's good. Yeah, that's true. So what kind of prospects do you think the Astros are going to have to give up? Because, you know, Josh Naylor is a mariner.

I know you know that. Yes. Josh Naylor got straight into the mailings. All right. So let's put things in priority. We're wrapping up our phone call, Jay. You want a left-handed bat. You want a right-hand reliever.

Yes. Do you want a... Starting pitcher, I think you said. starting pitcher, are you worried about Jake Myers and his potential return? But I don't know, maybe the dogs are they're going to do an al-boys. I don't know. Okay, that

seems fair. Jay, I want you to have a wonderful, when are you going back to school? August 12th. And what school is that? Gardenville and the entry. And what grade will you be entering? Fifth. Fifth, you said? Wow. Yes.

Well, I'm so proud that you called the show, Jay. Have a great rest of your summer. You know you can always call us. And you cannot call during recess or lunch. Your teachers will be mad at you. All right. Thank you. Bye, Jay. We'll see you later. All right. Jay's got his priorities set up. We got your replacement lined up all day. Why is he replacing me? You do you hear that? What do you mean? I mean, Jonathan, you're the first, you're the favor of the board to leave next. Am I wrong?

And we got to get you to retirement age. Look, I will leave you in 12 years. Does that seem fair? No. That's only about, that's only about, no. That's only 4,000 plus days. I'm going to cry. 12 more years of this?

I'm not holding you back. You can go where you, you know, I'm tell you. Let me see what's going on here. Why don't you go around? I'm looking right now. Go around to Tulsa, get that dream job of yours. 1202 and. In H-town, the Matt Tommy Show at Ross.

This is Sports Talk 790. This thing has brought a lot of joy to the rest of us. I thought it was hilarious. Like if you and I were to caress like that, take a photo like that. What? Why would you go in this direction? You just swerved so far off the path. Very briefly in the show yesterday,

the WWE Raw was at Toyota Center last night. Oh, man, it was a great one. It was a fair part of it. When that guy, an oiled up guy pinned the other oiled up, guy in his underwear? So it's not just Matt. Chad? Chad is, I just got back.

Matt has to leave, so I really went and got some coffee. I'm back now. Chad. Yeah, that's a jam. He's the one that's going free cell. Want a wopper, two running rings, then you get it for $5, then you shove it in your mouth, then you get sick. BK.

Oh, hell no, I don't want to meet that guy. Why are they putting Megan Lee Stalian from the Astros game off? Wait, you're crushing me earlier. Sorry. Okay, Megan the Stalian, though, you're not. I'm only human. I don't know. I want to look at you and have a conversation, then I happen to like, you know.

How are you going to get neck kisses in, though? Unless you sit next to you. Why are you at Rillies have a neck kiss? Why are you not? What do you mean? You neck kiss at Baplebees? Like, I can eat ribs twice a week. comfortably. I can eat sausage twice a week.

Oh, geez, 30. 30. Don't ever listen to me. Ever. I'm wrong too often. Yes. I hope that for future purposes. I mean, you're going to say that. You got that right. 12.05. Sports Talk 70. We are down the home switch.

We have an hour 55 left for this show. That's it. Flying by, Maddie. It is flying by. Those of you peeling the curtain back, Eric in Bay City has been waiting to talk to us for an hour in eight minutes. and we've yet to take his call. We appreciate his patience.

And there's a chance we make, get his calling before the end of the show. I mean, it's not going to be good as a 10-year-old. Whose calls are better? Jay, the kid. Jay. Or Eric in Bay City. Jay.

Now, how long are we going to let Eric wait? How much longer? Well, I'm not, I don't know. It's up to you. It's your show. No, it's our show. Well, we can take them after and then the beginning of the next segment. All right.

But we've got to get to the news. You texted Wax. Do you respond? Oh, I forgot. You forgot the text again? No, no, I texted him. I texted him. I forgot. Look at Cee's responded. Geez. You know I'm a bad textor.

You are the worst texter. Gosh. Remember, the rule is if someone text you and it's before 10 p.m. You have two hours of respond to that text. Or your phone gets locked in. Bleep you.

Do what I want. You know what? I should apologize for that. I'll apologize for it next next Friday. Because there was, man. Yeah. There were some big ones I missed. I should have responded to. You know what?

Don't ever listen to me. With that gospel, it's time for the news. What did I get wrong that I said that? Everything. All right, Matt, you do got the news at noon here on Sports Sox 790, a lot of stuff to get to here. All the docket. Unfortunately, last night,

the Ashrose had to deal with the fast. fastest fastball in Diken Park history. Oh, Wanda Smith. And that is off the plate away. 104, by the way. That last pitch, I don't think I've ever seen that here. 104.1. Yeah, that may be the fastest pitch ever thrown in this ballpark.

Mason Miller is a friggin Lamborghini on the A's, playing with a bunch of Honda Civics. But he was awesome last night. he got four outs. Civics get the job done. Exactly. Get you from point A to point B. They're major league players.

Yeah. Now, you're not going to go turbo. I didn't call him broken down gelapis. Jalapis. Okay, continue on. The ASQL, hey, those Honda Civics were Vroomin. Five and two over the Astros. As they got the victory,

unfortunately, Jason Alexander was not very good. He gave up 11 hits. Five earned runs. Hector Narris with two scoreless, but Astros was 0 for 5 with the runners in scoring position. Of the 162, we talked about this, Matt, mostly a bleh game yesterday. But the Astro's loss, they looked to bounce back today with my guy, Ryan Gusto, on the hill. Yep, we are gustavolics.

We're calling it quality start for Ryan Gusto today. By the way, the Astros lead has been shaved a five because the Mariners last night won. I got news for a gang. Friggin' angels. Seattle has won seven to ten. the Rangers have won eight of ten. The Rangers are seven back. And Seattle just got Josh Naylor.

Yeah, I might be wrong. This might be a three-teamer. Hmm. After I've seen about it being a two-team. Well, you've already declared them champs. They're going to win the division, but it's just, it may not be as silky, smooth, and easy as I thought it was going to be.

Okay. Rangers are playing better. Maybe this is going to... I want it the Josh Naylor move is all of a sudden perked up the ass of Dana Brown in terms. I think it should because I will bet you this. That's not the last move the Mariners make.

At least water. That would be so out of their comfort zone to do that, by the way. Why? They're not big spenders and free agent. They're not big spenders, but they got prospects. They can make moves. Well, apparently the Astros are going to have some prospects. They want to give up.

They want to make these moves too. And they've made some big trades over the years. Oh, you see a report, Eugenio Suarez. I, Eugenio, whatever. A Eugenio. I don't know if I believe that, dude. Francis Romero? Do I believe that there was a phone call made?

Of course there was. But interest in phone calls are two different things. Yeah, he's on their radar. Sidney's on my radar. Cindy Sweeney. I'll fall for it. Don't fall for it. Sorry, what were we doing?

Oh, news at noon. Yes, Matt. Speaking of that, yes. We had a Sydney-Sweeney moment. Josh Naylor traded for two of the top 30. I believe it was the number ninth and somewhere in the top 30. Another prospect for the sounder mentors. Yes, I know I should know this information for the news at noon, but I forgot.

But Josh Naylor, most importantly, is a Seattle mariner bolstering the lineup. They've already got good pitching. They are coming for the Houston Astros, man. How are we feeling? Confident yet still. You know what it's like? It's like a tropical wave of moisture out way, way out in. It's not even a name storm.

It's like, it's, it's, it's, it's, like southeast of Cuba. But I still got to pay attention to it. Okay. OPS Plus a 123 for Josh Naylor. He's got 11 home runs on the season in 93 games

and a lefty first baseman much needed for the Seattle Mariners. What does that mean for the Houston Astros and their trade prospects? We shall see. All right. All right. Elsewhere in the news at noon, Matt, you have

President Trump putting out an executive order for college sports with regards to NIL and pay for play. Trump's order sets out specific guidelines for preserving athletic scholarships based on an athletic department's annual revenue. Also declares that schools

could not permit athletes to accept, quote, third party pay for play payments, end quote. Future federal funding can be used. used, among other tools to force schools to abide by the administration's policy. We were talking about this with Gordia Offair. The only way you really do this, and again, this is an overly

simplistic view, is you just basically make it a professional organization, correct? The union of players or whatever. Good feeling this order is not constitutional. As many executive orders, I'm not even just talking about this guy. It may be just done in theory to say, hey, I'm at least trying

to do something to put some sort of regulation behind it. Mm-hmm. Scarlet Johansson or the other girl. Sydney? Yeah. You can't even remember her name. There's your answer, brother.

Sydney, Sweeney. Come on now. The answer is? Come on now. Just say the answer. The hips don't lie. Scarjo. All-timer.

Even though, you know, she's past her prime and she can still get something by you. All right, young. Sydney, Sweeney or Scarlet Johansson? Is your girl listening? No, Scarlett Johansson, don't fall for this Sidney-Sweeney hide, dude. Yeah. No, don't fall for that. I know what he's saying, a little flat in the back.

I've seen too many of those. Is that the issue that she's flat in the back? No, she, uh... Ha! Scarlet Johansson has class. Oh, snap. Any guys going to tell you that Sydney Sweetie just, like, you just saw the... She just had an American Eagle commercial with just straight breast.

That's all it was. What's wrong with that? I'm sure I MDB hated it. You're seeing that she's never mind. All right. That's the. I'm walking out of here. That's the news of dude.

Unless you want something else. Maybe Wex calls at 1230. We don't know. He has not responded. Oh, geez. All right. Up next, we've got some NCAA interesting things I want to talk to you about. Okay.

We've got a commissioner of a sport that has got his head in the sand. And we have one school that may be wanting to jet from one conference to the other. We'll get to that. Okay. Maybe a Wax update at the bottom of the hour. If he pays attention. He's not a great texture either. He's not, he's better than you, but he's not a great one.

It's a low bar. Adam Clanton is the best texter at this station. Okay. Bottom line. I mean, for the things he doesn't do, the one thing he does do properly is text. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-2-7-9 with a word for affordable tree service. 1219, sports talk 7-90.

It is Matt and Ross with you on Anything Goes Friday. Ross, do you have you just one of the essence of an ending goes Friday? the audience today? No, you never asked, Matt. Hey, Ross, what's the essence of anything goes Friday? Anything goes Friday. Anything you want to talk about, phone lines are wide, open, and available, whether you are 10 years old and no ball or you're Eric in Bay City, and you don't.

713-212-5-790 is the phone number 7-13-212-5-7-90. Wide-ranging of topics. We can talk about the Astros. The trade deadline needs. you would like to see happen. Corsi Texans into training camp as well. And also the summer heat is hitting. If you want some tips on how to cool off from Matt Thomas,

we can get those as well. My number one is dip your toes, your entire body in the pool. What if you don't have a pool? Go to your neighbor's house. Or a cold shower. Cold showers? Yeah. Seems too short-lived.

And aloevara, if you burn yourself. Alibara, and put it in your refrigerator. Cool you off. Always. Refrigerated aloeira? Absolutely. What? Yeah.

I've never heard of this. Yeah, we have alivara in the refrigerator. The freezer or the refrigerator? Frizer. Not next to cheeks. He's still in the freezer. Are you checked? That's sickening.

It's fine. All right. Don't look. Did you see who's thinking about leaving their conference? I did not. North Carolina wants to go to the SEC. Now, see, is that a real. report?

No, I'm asking. Usually on three is pretty much on brand, right? Okay, cool. I saw the executive order thing from then. I was like, is this real? Dony T's getting involved in the sports? Actually, there's another story from On3 that we need to talk about as well. Did you see the Memphis DB was giving defensive signals to the UTSA quarterback?

Okay, so first of all. Okay, what did you bring up first? Just real quick, is North Carolina would like to kick the tires and go in the SEC? It's just basically what the Aggies did many years ago. They didn't care about playing Texas. They didn't care about playing Baylor or Texas Tech or Oklahoma at the time. They wanted to go to greener pastures. North Carolina has been entrenched in playing Duke and North Carolina State and Miami and all those Wake Forest and Virginia for all those years.

And they're ready to give it up. Now, does the SEC want to be? want to expand. I don't know. It comes across the same. The report is from inside Carolina. Yeah. Whatever that is. That's bros talking to bros. I don't know. I don't think there's serious legs to it, but it doesn't startle me. The problem is North Carolina's football brand is right now pretty high because of Bill Belichick. Yes. But would you characterize North Calanis football brand is good enough to carry in the SEC 10 years from now? Tier 2 to tier 3.

You got to think about the other sports as well. No, that's where I disagree with you. I don't think you think about it at all. They don't care. If that was the case, Kansas would have gone to the SEC. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. It's all about football.

It's all about football. So I just thought it was curious that North Carolina was at least whispering out there. That's no surprise. But you cannot have a great basketball program and drive yourself to a different league. It requires football to be good. All right. Story number two. Memphis had a player, a defensive back,

who sent text messages to the quarter. Is it the quarterback at UTSA? These look like IG DMs, all from the screenshots. Is it the quarterback at UTSA, that what it was? Yes. UTSA played Memphis last year, and UTSA won 44 to 36,

I think it was the final score in that game. A Memphis safety, Taj Rael, who was transferring, by the way, leaked elements of Memphis's defensive playbook to UTSA ahead of the team's November 2nd Showdown. Roadrunners won that game 44 to 36. UTSA quarterback Owen McCown

and the direct messages between the two were obtained by something called Tiger Sports Report. That would be Memphis, not LSU. Here's the Tim Pernetti. We're going to bring up Tim. Tim is a commissioner of the American Athletic Conference. He says the following. I think a lot of it has been sensational

and some of it, quite frankly, is clickbait. Okay. He says, I'm aware of the situation. I've had very open dialogue with Coach Trailer and Coach Silverfield about it. Those are the two coaches. They're going to address it. There's not really much of the story. I think a lot of it, again, has been sensationalized and is much to do about it.

What is sensationalized? There's literally screenshots of like this clipboard or notebook. And he says, far left is coverages. I'll send you a better list showing you the calls. They run quarters and none of the safeties can cover, by the way. sensationalize the wrong word. If you want to say Photoshopped, that's different. Sensationalized means you've embellished something that may or may not have happened.

If there was any communication between those two players, whether it was minutia or anything beyond, hey, I like my team, hey, I like my team. That's not sensational. That's frankly, that's openly one person helping another team. This, yeah, this doesn't look like clickbait. Literally the message says no reroutes on the slot. the field. Safety is the weakest link in the defense. His hamstring is hurting, but if you run out of eligibility, when you play him, he's number zero. He's talking about a safety with a hurt hamstring and how they can't cover. Okay, this is, okay, this is Tim Peretti. This is the commissioner talking about.

Tim Peretti. Tim Peretti is got his, uh, he's not very bright. I'm going to give you example number two. You ready for this? Sure. He was asked today about bringing all college sports media rights deals together like pro leagues. He says revenue could triple. Quote, I've seen the potential upside of consolidation. You're saying, Matt, what is he trying to say? He's trying to say he

believes the American Conference should take their media rights deal and combine it with the Big Ten's media rights deal. I bet he does. And combined it with the SEC's media rights deal and the Big 12's media rights deal and the ACC and just we could all share equally like they do

in the NBA and Major League Baseball. and in the NFL. We do have comment from Greg Sanky on this matter. Shit your bum ass up, man. Tim, you're really stupid. And I don't like to use that term very often, but I feel like I do quite a bit. Okay.

I mean, if you're Greg Sanky, the commissioner of the SEC, if you're even the commissioner of the Big 12 Brett Yormark, you are like, what are you saying, you dumbass? You're going to try to give me that UAB is going to bring as much to the table as any of my schools, Shut your bum ass up. It's ridiculous.

Now, I understand what... I understand he'd like to have that happen, but to publicly say it in front of a microphone... If you want to get everybody to laugh at you. So let's take a look at what old Twitter had to say about it. Uh-oh. Let's see here. I'm trying to think here.

Yeah, it's all what I... upside for the group of five. this will not work out the way he thinks it will. This guy named Brit says hard pass. He's a big fan of University of Texas, blah, blah, blah. Sometimes you just have to... You know, the inside voice, Ross, is a very popular thing. I think there's a lot of things I'd like to say publicly,

but I can't, because I can't use the outside voice. But I can use my inside voice and I don't give it to myself. Tim Pernanetti should kept that to himself. Self-awareness is key. You should know that you're not as big as the SEC and Big Ten, and it makes zero cents. Absolutely nothing, the American conference can give the Big Ten to the SEC that they don't get already. Yeah.

And combining the deals is going to make them more money? Make that make sense. It's not. It's stupid. All right. Eric in Bay City has been waiting one hour and 31 minutes. Do we take his call? Yes.

Or does Wexler join us? Oh. I don't think I have an answer from Wex. Let's see. What is he doing? What do you? Don't you check your phone. phone like multiple times a half hour?

No, I don't. All right. Maybe Wex joins us, maybe he doesn't. Maybe Eric in Bay City talks some Astros with us. No response. Hmm. Maybe he doesn't. You think We're mad at us? We've done nothing wrong. No, I don't think so.

We promoted the A team. We don't, you know, we don't begrudge him for not doing any Astros on decks on the weekends or anything. You call them out daily. Mm-mm. I say he's our Texans insider. You call him out daily and then ask him to be on your show daily. He's been on two straight days. Can't be a third.

It didn't be that big of a deal. You know what? I understand. We're also hearing comment from Wex. Shit your bum ass up, man. Wex, please call it. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-5-7-90.

And then it goes Friday. Texans had a very short walk-through today. They actually had to go inside of their bubble to practice because the weather was not great in that area of town. and we'll get hopefully an update from Wex sometime. We'll give us an update. If anybody was out there, I mean, well, there's, forget what I said.

We want Wex to call in with the update. With his trained eye. Yeah. He likes it. Like, there's certain things like, what is, I'll throw this out before. Okay. What is the number one thing you like about covering sports?

The big moments, like playoff games that I will never forget. being at Minutemade Park when at the time this was what was called when Yordon hit that tank that three run tank to beat the Mariners being at game five in 2017 um fortunately the rockets haven't given me many great moments but you were in the arena for the championships you cannot uh the the energy it had the the amount of human energy packed into one building and it explodes like that in a big all time moment it's unforgettable and being able to be there for those moments are are absolutely, it's the absolute best. Yeah. Being at the big moment, and again, we don't get to get to a lot of them, but you get to get to some of them. And you've been able to like, well, you went, did you guys go in 23 to the playoffs?

You went to Arlington and all that, right? Yeah. Oh my God. Jose L. Tuves, bomb at the end of game six, and then going on air and doing the post game show for two hours talking about, just talking to people calling in, man, that was awesome. Yeah, that was awesome. Just for two

hours. Like, great. My favorite times were doing sports radio on this station in the middle of the night. I think I did like a 1 to 3 a.m. shift, I think at one point during the time. Yeah. When they won the World Series in 22, we were at a certain hotel that was spending money, but they aren't now. And we were on air until 3 a.m. And I might have had a couple of bruskees.

That's fine. We know if it was great. Those are unforgettable moments. I will be on my deathbed thinking about how great that was. So our favorite parts of being as talk show host, and for me games are different because you get to call literally what's happening. But it's talk show, so the favorite part of it is being able to just directly respond and interact with people as soon as the callers are better.

There's a motion to it. There's a little bit of second guessing. There's a little bit of elation. There's a little bit of that. So that's the best part. The worst part would be for you. The worst part for me is anything training camp related. Okay. I, under the all time, I just don't get it. And JJ Watt said eloquently on his, on his Twitter yesterday. He says the people that are paying super close attention to every single thing that happens at a training camp, it's just too much. And so I would say, and I used to have the problem when I was doing Utah games, University of Utah games, when I used to go cover the elders as a young guy, Texans a little bit, go to Cougar practice. The football

training camp slash practices to me are the least fun thing I even like to do. I've cut back kind of frankly. It's just there's not enough benefit for me. Okay. The training camp doesn't bother me, but also I don't go. I would say the hardest thing about this job is the never-ending sports calendar. There's always a game. There's always

you've got to watch all the Astros games, all the Rockets games, all the Texans games, and I like doing that, but it just, the train keeps rolling. That's why I like to go and get out in nature. When I take a vacation, like I'm taking one in August, I'm not going to be on my phone. I'm not going to be watching games. I'm going to be on point. You're going to get back to Houston and got to catch up

what you lost. Yeah. But that's fine, especially with like baseball games that happened a week ago. We're not necessarily talking about it. It's good to observe at bats, defensive plays, blah, blah, blah, but you got to get away somehow. Jonathan, here's what we're going to do. Got to get away for some point. Oh, you're going to make up stuff that happened?

Here's what's going to do. Jonathan's going to say. Ross, turn your microphone off and your headset off. Okay. So Ross is going to be gone in August for a few days. Let's just throw a bunch of things at him that didn't really happen and have him react to it. Yeah. Do you see what he says?

You guys are rude. It'd be pretty funny. I probably shouldn't say this in front of you. The best bit would be knowing about it. I mean, I'll occasionally check scores, but especially that's why I like to go to national parks. And when the tower, the cell towers turn off, not turn off, but I get out of range, that's what I'm like, all right. Now, if a wolf eats you, how do you want to leave your legacy on 790? I don't care.

I'll be dead. Yeah, but you want to see. Legacy is a made-up word. It's not real. I consider Legacy Award. So in my world, I want you to say your fond farewells right now in case you do get eaten by some sort of lion or something. I hope people thought that I was, first of all, funny, kind to everyone but you,

and it gave intelligent, reasonable takes. Okay. Not hot takes, unfortunately, to my detriment, I'd probably be further along. We frankly, in 15 years of the show, we've not given enough hot takes. I know, we'd be doing better. If we were doing low-hanging fruit, but I don't care. I can sleep just great at night.

Yeah, me too, being who I am. All right, let's talk to Koso at 1238. Oh, sorry, Eric, you were supposed to go to you, but Koso's not next. Koso, good afternoon to you. Hey, guys, what's up? Hi. Yo, Ross, where are you going next month? That's none of your business, bro.

Bro, I'm going to Colorado next month. I'm a world traveler like you. I went to Japan last year. I'm going to go, you want me to tell you the truth. have a couple ideas, but I don't have a full concrete plan. But I will be going somewhere into nature, and I'm thinking either maybe a long road trip

or somewhere west coast. Colorado's on the table. I'm thinking about Vegas or Great Basin National Park. I'm thinking about going back to Big Bend, and I might be going to California. Dude, Ross, I have done two different road trips from Houston, up into

Portland, up into Washington. It is my favorite drive from here to Sedona up into the Grand Canyon to Lake Las Vegas to Lake Tahoe That's great All the way up there It is my favorite

My favorite time I love living in Houston But dude I cannot stand Being here all year long Yes It drives me nuts I went to Japan last year Have you been

I know you've been to Korea I've been to Taiwan Korea and Taiwan I have not been to Japan And I have driven to Montana and back my my my my my my my two cents is the u.s. dollar goes so far in japan absolutely they are they they need tourism so i took a little less than two grand to japan and came back with like 800 bucks dude i was there for no way what yeah man i swear bro

korea trip cost me like five geez bro all right anyway i booked i booked a round trip it cost me and my wife, Ms. Koso, for both of us $1,200. And I booked it a year in advance. Oh, okay. It's so worth it. When I heard you were going to be out next month, I'll be out in 22 days, headed out to Steamboat, Colorado, if you ever heard of it. Okay.

It looks absolutely beautiful. I know me and you share that love for nature and getting out of the swamp. Yes. Just stoked that you get to get out, man. and I know Matt's going to be super, super bummed. I know, he's going to miss me. He won't say he was, but he will. Yeah, well, anything to get Eric from Baytown out off before the phone call.

Don't Bay City. Don't besmirch Baytown. It's Bay City. What's worse? Whatever. Dude, I don't know. I live downtown. Anything outside of 610 Loop is far to me.

See, we're on the same page now, okay, so I got to live in the city. I grew up in spring. So I know exactly where Matt's talking about his little nook of the, nook of the city it's it's far man but i if it's out of the 16 loop i ain't i ain't going preach thanks caseo thanks for your chillic can call so case so what caseo essentially does he called the show and he's like i'm calling in to talk about vacation stuff and whatever i can bring is better than eric and bay city's call yeah it wasn't anything goes friday now eric in bay city's been waiting one hour and 44 minutes i'm gonna go look up steamboat car no did he call did he call it 10

clock or did he call it 11 o'clock? No, it's an hour and 45 now. So it's 1.45 he's waiting. I think so. See, you there? Hey, check and see if you're still there. Ooh, steamboat springs. Oh, my God. Eric, are you there? Yes. Okay, so I'm going to make sure. All right, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-790. If you want to join the phone conversation, and then it goes Friday, you're more than welcome to do so. We've got now in Florida Stories 1-30. Wex texted back yet? No.

What the hell is he doing? We can't call Wex live on there. Maybe he's sleeping a net, man, I don't know. He doesn't nap. He doesn't sleep, period. He put a rando double A stat text at 3 o'clock in the morning. You can't be, you know. All right, well, we were going to have Wex.

So maybe we'll have Eric and Bay City instead. 713-212-5-790 if you want to join the conversation. 7-1-3-12-12-42. It's a Matt Thomas showed Ross. If you missed McTaggart from earlier today, we're going to play that for you a little bit at 120. I'm floor storage 130. Hell, you're not, 150 here on 790.

1247. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713, 212-5-7-9. Let's go to the phone. Do you want you, Ross? Anything goes Friday. Appreciate everybody that listening. And we're going to go to Eric in Bay City.

But first, Yankees, Keith is with us. Keith, how the hell are you? Hey, happy Friday, all of y'all. Thank you, too. So I want to give out to my grandson, Blazing Benji. He's nine years old. He'll be his third year in a row in the junior Olympics. He's rated the number of within the top 20 of all the nine-year-olds in the country.

At what? Also, he's a hell of a soccer player. What does he do? Hello? No, I said he's a runner. He's a traction. Oh, he didn't say it. Okay, okay.

Nine-year-old. You said he was blazing, so I kind of figured that up. Blazing Benji. Blazing Benji. You can Google it. They called you Blazing Maddie in college, right? No, Blazing Keith when I was in college. Oh, yeah, you were rolling them up, Keith?

Hey, what was that? Damn, I forgot what I was going to raise that. Anyway, you all have a happy Friday. You can Google Blazing, Benji. The only thing I don't like is his daddy won't let him play flag football. That's your son that won't live play, or is, Is that the son-in-law? No, that's my...

The son-in-law, yeah, my daughter's husband. Well, you probably didn't like him from the job, did you? No, he's a butthole. Okay. Big time. Thank you very much, Keith. He got to respect his decision if he doesn't want his nine-year-old playing football. You need his full, narrow, ton of vision.

You got to understand that, Keith, okay? By the way, speaking of what he just brought up to end the conversation, and I'm kind of questioning whether Eric and Beard... City would have been a better call than that. Do not go to your social media today and put the words Dante Jones in. Who's that? Former Duke basketball player NBA player, Dante D-A-H-N-T-A-Y. Dante Jones, don't do it.

D-H-A-N-T-Y. N-T-Y, D-A-H-N-T-A-Y, D-N-T-A-Y, Jones. Don't do it. not discussing what he did Ross Tommy you look at it up and coming I told you not to do it all right let's go to Eric in Bay City

oh no let's go first to Willa in Parenthood at 790 8, 1250 Willa good afternoon Hey good afternoon gentlemen I was calling I didn't get to call earlier I'm sorry but I heard Ross's sorry about

you know Hollywood Hulk Hogan and I heard Adam yesterday day, you know, he was so upset. And, you know, when I first heard the news on my Facebook, I was about to write RIP Hulk Hogan because, you know, Hollywood, Hulk Hogan was like the best thing that happened to me in, like, 96th at high school. That was one of the best times in wrestling.

But I couldn't do it because he's a racist, like he said, man. And it tore me, and I wanted to say, I'm sorry to the black people. that I even thought about writing RIP to Hulk Hogan because he just went out as such a disgrace, even though I could separate that he is still the best heel of all times. Hollywood Hogan is the best heel of all times, probably top five characters of all times. You know what, about this, Wala,

he could be the best heel of all time and the best baby face of all time. Think about it. You know, that's a little bit, that's a little older than me. Hulk Hogan, I was real young during the Hoke Manny. Well, Hulkomania was the ultimate baby-faced decade. I mean, that's, he, for about 13 years, he was beloved by every wrestling fan. I mean, he was, John Cena's little quasi-heel turn as nothing.

Hulk Hogan for 13 years was, I mean, say your prayers, eat your vitamins, all that kind of good stuff. And then he turns to a heel and saves a company for. from bankruptcy and put shoe polish on his face. He did not do that. Yeah. He didn't, now, he may have gone for just for men, but it marks a lot. It could have been a Sharpie. I would say, I will say he is the most famous wrestler of all time.

He's sort of like Snoop Dogg or the rap. He's not the best, but he is the most famous, right? Correct. That's a good example. Yeah, so I would say RIP, the Holcogen and Rest in Hell to Terry Bolivia or whatever. Bolea, yeah. Thank you.

Thank you, Willa. That might make some more sex. Hey, Terry, Bolivia. As a black person myself, you don't have that podcast. All right. Before we go to Eric and Big City, let's go to Soob's on the Matt Thomas show. Hi, Suebs. Hey, man.

I know it's been a minute. I've been listening to you guys. I get Fridays off, but I have a five-course sports call if you allow me. Okay, we have about a minute and a half, so we've got to be quick. All right, we'll make this. quick. All right. The first one is they need to do a dating out for sports fans only because I'm tired of going on there and trying to explain

the Astros and the Texans to none sports Houston girls. Like, we need to do that. Second, on my wish list in life, I need to get a cameo of 1999. Playb like a PA announcer Matt Thomas with my name for the Rockets from University of Houston. Third, Happy Yomore 2 is actually pretty

funny. If you guys haven't checked that out, it came out today. Fourth, shut your bum ass up to the Dodgers, Yankees, and everybody else in the Rangers especially. And the last one, I love you guys. Hope to see all next week at the Nationals game. It's an early game. So I know you guys hopefully be at the El Temple thing.

But anyways, you guys are great as always. Happy Friday and go Rockets. And yeah, that's it. Thanks, Suez. That was on a bad five-tier call. He ran to the big gamut. And the most important thing of that group was, if you would like me to do a cameo for you, go to,

you can go right to my cameo. click right off of my Twitter account at SportsMT. Oh, you got a discount on there right now? I believe I do. What do I cost right now? 60% off. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, I'm $20.

I'm 59% off my videos this week, so it ends. It's a limited time only. Are you kidding me? I'm doing Ryan Hollins for 15. For $20, you get to get me to do a cameo for you, whether it's introducing yourself at a game, whether it's saying hi to your best friend, whether it's wishing somebody a happy birthday.

You know what? I can have you, I can tell one of your friends to shut their bum ass up. That'd be actually pretty funny. That would be funny. So I'm only $20? Ryan Holden's 15. I'm going to get him.

I'm normally $49, but I'm $20 this week. This year, cheap whore. Yeah, they always send me emails. Do you want to go cheaper? I said, yeah, I'll go cheaper. I've got nothing but five-star reviews. That's great. Matt. And I can actually do it in 24 hours if you want to. Now, it costs a little bit more, but

24-hour delivery is available. How much are you? Well, normally I'm 49, but right now I'm $20. Julian Morales is 35. I'm go get her. Go good. It's good for her. Yeah, I bet there's a little bit of that. But right now, I'm $20 on cameo. So if you'd like to have me do something, I mean, I'm not doing anything this weekend. Sure. I'm working Astros baseball on Saturday, but that's a, you promise a quick turnaround? You do birthday parties? No, these are cameo video things. I'll get you. How much to get you in a clown suit at a birthday party. I'm not going to it, no.

Not to put nylon in the little, the squeaky noise. Why about this? Why don't we get one for your girl? Wow, Matt. What are you doing? Are you going for the throat? Talk about his lady. No, I didn't hear it.

Happy birthday. Your girl. You're marrying, are going to date your guy, Jonathan, and he's going to hit nothing but nylon. Actually, her birthday's on the first. She didn't want to hear from you. How about she sets fires and hits?

Are you, or you do? You don't like Triselo. she's going to chew you out. I mean, I could eat Teresa for $20 on Cameo. Actually, she called Matt Adiva today, so. Why am I a diva? What I? I'm glad.

I'm glad. You don't like talking. People can pick it up rather quickly. I like this. Your girl would love me in person. She already loves you now. Okay, good. Diva.

That's not, no, I just have a refined. I have refined taste. Doesn't make me a divva. No, your tastes are not refined. Very unrefined. I don't want to sit in the up for that. If you're only eating caviar and foie gras or something, yeah, we'd call you refined. I don't want to sit in you up.

Deakin Park. Sue me. Okay, yeah. I don't like flying coach. That's called Not Down to Earth. That's called being refined. It's called being stuck up. All right. Before the top of the hour, we go to Eric in Bay City.

But first, Steve is with us on the Matt Thomas show. Steve, good afternoon. Hey, hey, Matt. Tell me about, I like Dunkin' Donuts. And I know that you like them. Yeah, you do? Yes. Yeah, well, do you remember when they changed the fat they fried the donuts in?

There was a, do you recall that? That was sometimes, gosh, it's been 20 years ago. No, you know what? I am, their donuts are okay. I do love the toasted coconut. That's my favorite flavor there. But I would not, if I'm going to go get a glaze in Houston, I'm going to go to Shippley because I'm going to represent Houston. But the toasted coconut is one of my favorite donuts, but I don't know when they change their grease.

Yeah, they did. Anyway, it was real animal. Anyway, but they were just so much in so many, and I complained and lots of, lots of other people complained. Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, yeah. It was a big thing. Well, for the people that really liked them. And, you know, I was thinking about you've been going to like Mooth, barbecue.

Yes. And what was the other one? We went to Rinkertons. Rinkertons, yeah, that's it. So I thought, and, you know, we haven't heard from Dale in a while. You know, I make this promise to you, Stephen. Thank you for the phone call. We will hear from Dale from D.L.

his barbecue next week. Don't you think? Yeah. It's been a while. A little training camp report. He's going to be feeding Nick Cayley for the first time. Feeding Cam Robinson for the first time. Okay.

Yeah. So Delish Bill Brinson will be with us sometime next week on a delicious barbecue. All right. 12.58. Final hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Includes a visit with Brian McTaggart. Includes some phone calls from you. Non-Florida stories. And hell yeah or not, Ross.

50 minutes away from hell yeah or not. 5-0. What's the category? You know, we always talk about deaths on hellion. Is somebody celebrating a really big birthday? I don't know. Oh, you know, how about the fact that Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nix are putting out their first, their album that they did.

Matt LeBlanc is 58 today. You know, there was a big billboard in downtown L.A. And they thought maybe the Fleetwood Mac was getting back together. No, they're just going to, they're reprinting their first album together before. they were Fleetwood Mac. I'm just throwing something out there. I mean, I ain't perfect. They do Fleetwood Mac's first album?

We'll figure something out. We'll do Dunkin' Donuts oils. 1259 on 790. With Ross. We've got some trades going on, at least one big trade in Major League Baseball this afternoon, and it involves a position the Astros might

be looking for Rossi, the New York Yankees who do have prospects. who do have plenty of money, have made a trade, and they get a third baseman from the Colorado Rockies. Yes, a left-hander Ryan McMahon thought of as a possible target for the Houston Astros. So a left-handed bat that plays third base.

Yes. And the Astros could not get him. No, they could not. Number eight prospect of the Yankees and the number 21 prospect. Now, I think they have had a really good. in years past. I don't think they're thought of was one of the best in baseball now,

but I can go look that up as far as farm system rankings. It's all subjective, by the way. Yes, it is. Yep. Well, I mean, it's funny because we talked earlier in the week about standing pat

and how would we feel if the Astro stood pat because you've got so many pitchers coming back? Can I shift my argument to maybe they've got to go get a bat? that with if these guys are at least at double a maybe in the next three weeks come to my side mattie i mean we welcome you with open arms but i it's you could be some you can this because this situation is obviously fluid i wouldn't be saying this if i didn't think that spencer ergeti was getting

closer we had no signs of it until we actually saw him put a uniform on and throw pitches well you know you can tell when he's doing sides and rehabbing and progressing and not having setbacks of course setbacks can happen at any time and i understand why you're worried about that we've seen a lot of setbacks yeah i mean trust me i wasn't the only one thinking, oh, wait me again, wait me up when they all show up. And that's what I'll still say. Wake me up when they all are here.

Wake me up when you go-go. Exactly. Don't lead us hanging on like a yo-yo. We've seen the Mariners make a move. We've seen the Yankees make a move. You know what the overall writing sentiment is, this American League is wide open. We had Jim Bowdoin on the show earlier this week that said as much.

I mean, realistically, let me run through the teams. Can Detroit win the American League? Yes. Can the Yankees win it? Absolutely. Can Toronto win it? Sure. Can the Astros win it? That's four. Can Texas somehow continue to continue their high-end ways to get back in this race? I'll say probably not. Well, we'll see if they make some moves. I mean, realistically, there's four teams that would not feel any more confident over the other teams. Here's the deal with Ryan McMahon, though. At Coorsfield? Oh, here we go. This is the best thing. Go ahead. 248, 856 OPS, 11 home runs.

50 games. 846 OPS. When he hits, he hits for power. 50 games at each. So it's even split right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 11 home runs at home. 5 on the road. 589 OPS on the road. 856

at Coorsfield. What are the demand? Yankee Stadium? It's easier to hit the wine box. So he's a lefty. So you know, you can poke one to right. Yeah. I mean, Yankee Stadium's a piece of kicked at a home run, except for the alleys. That'd be about it. right? I don't know.

If I'm Yankee fan today, I'm pretty happy. And if I'm the Colorado Rockies, I'm like, yeah, let's move these guys out. I got two 25 top 25 prospects from the Yankees organization, who's got a reputation of having a good modeling system. And I think he's under team control for this year and next. Which something we talked about that would be very key for the Astros to do is to get somebody with team control. All right. We will talk more about this with Brian McTagher coming up. but about 10 minutes from now.

Oh, I lied. He's on a contract until this, until 2027, 16 million a year. That's, I mean, honestly, that's nothing for the Yankees. Yankees, yeah. Do you think the Yankees? Now, if we were doing Yankee talk, we would know this answer. But my guess is when they hit aprons, they don't necessarily wig out about it, right? They're not, no.

Thresholds, tax thresholds, I don't think they can. Now, have they been more responsible fiscally since George passed a decade plus? Yeah. And then they have to, I mean, they have, I think, before the judge deal because they knew it was coming. They kind of shed some payroll. I can't remember exactly. But they know. Yeah, they spend a lot of money, but they don't try to...

They don't do it like George used to do or just go get a player just to outspend people. Well, yeah, they didn't have luxury tax back in the day. And they tried to get one soda and couldn't get them. That's true. They swung and missed. Yeah. So, again, probably not a household name for people, but third baseman, left-handed, power, at least in Denver. 16 home runs.

Hey, he gets to go to Peskees pole and play. That'll be a good spot for him. Yeah. That thing is like 225 to right field. So, yeah. So two teams are in. Oh, man. And we'll never really know the answer to this,

but that feels like to me a guy that really would have fit well here. But remember, just because you have prospects, doesn't mean the other teams value them as much as you do. And when you have the 28th or 20th, 29th or 30th ranked minor league system, your number five prospect may only be a top 14 prospect with another organization. I'm a little surprised.

It's not like these have been blockbuster deals. I'm a little surprised at seeing. I mean, Naylor was a pretty big deal. This big man deal is not insignificant. And we are five more days away from the deadline. I'm curious who else wants Eugenio Suarez besides the Astros? I mean, any power team would want a bat like that. And the Yankees were thought of as a suitor.

They needed third base help. I did. Just take them off the list, perhaps. Can you play sore? Is it someone? No, they're not going to do that. When in doubt, you can dh anybody. That's true.

You know what I mean? But I think Giancarlo Stanton's got that locked up. He's healthy for them, right? Yeah. Can never tell. Is Giancarlo healthy today? We don't know. But I think so.

Yeah, we're going to pronounce his name Giancarlo or Jean-Carlo. Jean-Carno. Stanton. Was Mike early in his career? So the trade deadline is the 31st, which is a week ago yesterday in the evening time, right? Because I think Major League Baseball likes to build it up on their TV network to say, all right, we're standing by watch, just like the NBA does. The NBA puts their trade deadline show on ESPN, and they literally counted down to the very last second. Rossi, if I was still a betting man on this, I would still say very much a fringe, not going to be.

to while the socks off of people trade. I think a reliever happens. Next most likely is a bat. Least likely is a starting pitcher. Can't rule them all out, but that's what I think. And I would do this as I talk, and you'll hear this from Brian McTaggart. I might consider using an active body,

especially if I've got guys in the farm that I don't want to move. Which we know Dana doesn't normally want to. All right, let's hear from Brian McTaggart next. 112 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross 713-212-5-790 7-13-212-5-7-90 We talked to Brian McTaggart earlier today and if you missed that conversation here is

some of the highlights of it and featuring what he saw last night. Maybe you saw it last night, an off night for the Astros against the A's. Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head and just one of those nights. I mean, you know, you're not going to win every game and you know, Severino pits really well against

underman lineup that's you know you know they've had to kind of scratch and claw for everyone their wins on the road trip and they just weren't able to do it yesterday they still had to tie and run at the plate in the eighth inning but yeah I mean they you know try to catch lightning in a bottle again with jason alexander and it didn't work so I mean it's just where there are I mean when you're when you're relying on on some guys who you know probably wouldn't be here because of injuries it's just not going to work out some nights so it's just yeah but you know you got to come back and if you're the asteros try to to get these next three and at least get a split in this series.

But yeah, if you could try to win the series now, that's probably the goal. I'll be honest with you. As I was following the game on television and radio and watching your tweets, I was more frankly intrigued to what was happening at the minor leagues. How about you? I mean, we got some guys that are double A, triple A and, and again, my philosophy has been on this show since all these injuries is when they wear the word Astros or Houston in the uniform, I'll really, really care.

But at least we saw some tangible. minor league competition for some guys that were hurt for quite some time. Yeah, I'm right with you. About the third inning, I called up the Sugar Land box score and was sort of following along and seeing what was going on with Christian Javier making a rehab start yesterday and threw 49 pitches in two and two-thirds inning. So that's a pretty good amount through a lot of strikes, do 30 strikes, give up one run on a sack fly.

Touched 95 with a fastball. So I think he averaged like 93 something with the fastball. Velo was there, only had three swings and misses from 20 swings. So, you know, didn't miss a lot of bats, but still, it looked like a good amount of volume. It looked like he was, you know, getting closer to returning him. And Jacob Melton also played in that game and absolutely crushed two balls. One of them hit off the wall for a double that was over 111 miles an hour. So, you know, he's still a rookie, but I think he's a guy who can come up here and help you a little bit.

And then over the weekend now, we got Spencer Arrigetti pitching tonight at Corpus Christi. You have Luis Garcia tomorrow on Corpus Christi and JP France tomorrow on Corpus Christi. So, hey, look, I mean, these guys are on rehabs at the upper minor leagues. Within a week or two, we're going to start seeing some guys activated and then the help is on its way. So, look, Jason Alexander knows he's probably headed back to AAA. That's an easy one. give me where you think there is not necessarily huge debate

but a little uneasiness with some guys that are in the rotation right now that might lose their spots Yeah well you have a couple of sure things of course In Fromber and Hunter Brown I was looking yesterday and those two guys Are Vastas are 29 and 11 when those guys start And when anybody else starts they're 31 and 32

So they're under 500 And they've also thrown I think 43% of the innings By starters this year So they've carried the biggest part of the work load. I think Brandon Walter has put himself in good position. I mean, he's just, he's stacked good starts. He's had a couple of ones here and there that aren't so good,

but, you know, he's a guy that's a lefty, he's deceptive. He's got that cutter that he spots really well. So I think he's put himself in a good spot. Colton Gordon has done a nice job as well. You know, Ryan Gusto, who pitches

tonight is a guy who can go to the bullpen. We've seen that in the past. So I would suspect if they get a reliever or two back here, you know, we could see Gus to go back to the bullpen and sort of be that swing man guy. But, you know, if they get, if they get like three or four starters back, it's just going to come down to who's pitching better. I mean, if Walter's out pitching somebody else, then, you know, he's going to pitch. But this is, this is good news for the Astros that, you know, all these guys, they seem so far away when they got sent to Florida and they're, you know, they're throwing bullpins and live BP's. but now they're a, now they're double A, AAA, and rehab games, you just start to feel they're just around the corner.

And it's got to be pretty exciting for the Astros. The McCuller situation just seems extremely unpredictable. Feels like it's easier to get rid of him if he just can't turn any corner, easy to keep him. If he does turn the corner, but what if he continues to be up and down? And you have all these guys getting healthy. Of course, he's on the IL now with the blister issue. But I am extremely interested to see how that unfolds. Yeah, I'm with you, Ross. I think it's going to be really interesting.

You know, if he's going to come up and not get deep in the ball games and they have other options, I mean, they have to go with the other options. It's just the way it is. I mean, Lance has done a lot of great things for this team, and he's, you know, he's got a big contract through next year, but this is still a performance-based business, and they need pitchers who are going to go deep in the game. So, yeah, the whole deal is a weird deal because, you know, when he got done with the start the other night, in Seattle, he didn't say anything about a blister. He just said he's got a pitch better, and you could tell he was frustrated, but there was no talk of a blister.

I didn't see him looking at a blister at any point in that game. And then we find out he flies back to Houston because he's got a blister. So he wasn't there yesterday. He didn't get a chance to talk to him. So kind of a weird deal. I'm not sure where you go with Lance or what you do at this point. But I guess, first of all, you've got to figure out what's going on with this blister. and then, you know, see if you can run him back out there and what he's got.

Brian McTaggart with us here on Sports Talk 790. Josh Naylor to the Mariners yesterday. So the arms race has kicked off for the deadline. What do you think about what the Mariners gave up for him and kind of where that puts the Astros in their search for help? Yeah, I think this is sort of the one that's going to get things going. I mean, this is the big first big domino to fall. great addition to their lineup. I mean, they had, you know, Luke Rayleigh

playing first who isn't very good, frankly. So, you know, Naylor's a guy who doesn't strike out, who's got some power. He's going to fit in really well in that lineup. He's going to make the Mariners a lot better. I believe they give up their number 13 and 16 prospects. And their prospect list is much deeper than the Astros. So those are, those are two guys that are probably, if they were in the Astro system, are probably top seven or eight prospects. So they give up some good prospects, but I don't think anything that at the end of the day, you know, they're going to be kicking themselves down the road.

Who knows? But, I mean, I think all in all was a good trade for them. And now they're still very much after Eugenio Suarez. We saw him over the weekend in Arizona. He played with Seattle before. They would love to get him back. And they have the prospects to do it. I think they had nine of the top 100 prospects on MLB.com's pipeline list.

The Astros had one, which is Bryce Matthews. So the Mariners are in much better position to make another impact deal. That's not to say the Astros can't. I think they will make some deals. They definitely need a bat, a left-handed bat. They are interested in Suarez, just with, it looks like Peretti is going to be out a while. So whoever Suarez, wherever he goes, he's going to make that team a lot better. This is a guy who could hit 50 home run.

So it's going to be really interested. Astros also need a right-handed reliever they could put in that high-handed. leverage pocket with Brian King and Bennett Sousa, a guy just a right-hander, they could mix in there if they have a pocket of right-handed hitters. I wonder

if they're going to push hard for starting pitching at this point. Just like we said earlier, they got guys coming back that you feel pretty good about and maybe, you know, you shift your focus now to getting a bad and a reliever. But definitely going to be a very, very interesting next week.

But Astros will make a trade or too and this team could look a lot different in Boston next week. Clearly, Suarez would be a huge addition, especially because if Paredes' hammy is as bad as it looked when he limped off the field, it could be a while. And we've spent time, and you have, and all the writers and the people that follow this team, begrudging the Mono League system and how that Dana's had to go to that system so many times when he was trying to stockpile. So let's put the cards on the table.

what could the Astros possibly offer that other teams wouldn't offer, that would offer less that would make the Astros a spot that Arizona would like to talk to? Well, I mean, they have some intriguing arms in the minor leagues. Miguel Eulola is one of their best strikeout minor league pitchers. I mean, a lot of teams would love to, you know, slot him in the AAA lineup and think maybe he could help him down the road. AJ Bluebaugh is a guy who's got some value. they have some up-and-coming outfielders like Joseph Sullivan,

who's Pat Sullivan, the former Heisman trophy winner. That's his grandson. I mean, look, they got players in the minor leagues. Do they have, is the top-end players of a lot of teams? No. But if they're going to trade for Suarez and you're going to send two or three prospects, they have enough to get it done. It will be a little more challenging.

You're right, because other teams have probably better prospects to offer. But they're also, you know, are they going to be willing to part with some. of these prospects as well. So it's tricky. It's a, it's a delicate time of year. It's a chess match here for the next six days. But, you know, look at all the, like I've said before, look at all the prospects the Astros have dealt year after year. And none of those guys really have come back to bite them. You know, maybe Teoska Hernandez, when they traded him to Toronto for Aoki. That's one you want back. But the four guys, they sent to Verlander, you know, So far, the three guys they sent to Toronto or the low perfido homered last night.

And it's still early for those guys. But, you know, Jim Crane's very much of the philosophy, hey, we're here to win now. Prospects, you know, deal them. Let's get players that can help us win. And they're going to get some players. All right. That again is Brian McTaggart every week. Usually with us on Thursdays, but was with us today.

In fact, he will give us a further update on the Astros when he joins Ross on the On Deck Show coming up later on tonight at 6 o'clock. Up next, non-Flor Stories. his one hour and 47 minute wait will come to an end. We will take his phone call next. All right, back on the phones we go. We've gotten on Florida stories as well. And believe it or not, it's all things, hell you're not,

it's all things Chuck Mangione, because nothing really eventful happened in the last 24 hours. We'll go to Eric in Bay City. But first, Stephen Huffman on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Steve, good afternoon. Well, Matt, you and I have always lacked horns, but you know what? I have nothing to disagree with you about here.

It's been working beautifully, but obviously we've been playing on a hope and a prayer, you know, getting where we've got. And let me ask you, you like to go to Vegas and lay money down, if we can get Suarez and if Alvarez and Pena come back and we can pencil them in the rest of the way, what's your thoughts and us locking this whole baby up?

I would put a significant amount of money, Steve, on the Asteros winning the American League pennant. Yep, I do too. But, Jim, whatever you got to do, do it. I know, but the problem is you got to get Yoraham back, and there's no signs of that being right around the corner, and you also have to go get the best slugging third basement and Major League Baseball right now.

And I don't know what the Astros have to offer that, unfortunately. 713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We will go to Eric in Bay City, but first we say how to Aggie Doug on the Matt Thomas Show. Ross. What's a good word? Howdy guys?

How are you all big? Amazing. Thanks for asking. Yeah, they got it to Friday, right? Yes, anything goes Friday. Hey, man, I was just calling the... So let's talk about all four sports teams in town. Yeah, sure.

So let's just kick it off with the Astros. I'm not super worried, but I was just really interested with this whole Brian McHaggart thing. Like, he definitely thinks we're making a move, and maybe a couple. but he didn't really say who we can move. So it's like, are we going to give up somebody active? I mean, I was just kind of perplexed on that. What are you all this is up? Well, McTaggart said nobody active.

I still think you could probably give up a left-handed reliever. If you're going to go get a right-handed reliever, I mean, it makes sense. I think you can do a package deal. I know the Astros have a couple. Uliola is a guy they love. They obviously love Yanuk. catcher. There's other some guys at the single A level that have been highly regarded to. And that's what Brian brought up a minute ago.

I just don't know. They don't have enough bullets in the in the gun to really pull off a deal to get Suarez unless they are really ready to mortgage off a lot of their future. And I don't know how much future they've got left. And even if it's enough to satisfy Arizona. Well, I mean, if I'm any GM and the Astros call, I'm like, okay, Bryce Matthews is probably my jumping. off point. I mean, that's the first guy I asked for, and then possibly more if you want somebody that's going to be on the active roster at this point. But, I mean, I just don't see the Astros. I'm more in your camp, Matt. I don't see us having the bullets in the gun to get the people that we want or the people that can actually contribute, considering that we possibly have some of

these players coming back. So it's like, dude, I mean, I get it. Jim Bowden was like, yeah, if you get more pitching, all the pitching you can get, I completely agree with that. But it's like we've got a glut of pitching that's coming back. If not this year, it's definitely happened next year. And oh, by the way, oh, by the way, you'll be moving on from Frymber Valdez. You've got at least one spot in the rotation open. You don't know about Lance McCuller's long-term future as an astro. And what has he done to solidify a spot in 2026?

I mean, and AD, thanks for the phone call, I appreciate it. I want them to do something. I think, I think Dana does want to do something. but I'm going to say this again. Rossi, I can't kill him if you can't. Because the injuries, the injury stars, at least pitching-wise, are starting to align a little bit. And if Payne comes back soon, and at some point, Yardon comes back, then you've got a pretty nice little roster put together. But there's a lot of ifs.

A lot of ifs. And isn't there a part of you that still thinks that, man, the Astros have been so lucky giving up all these places? players for all these years and it has a bit him in the ass, but maybe once in 15 years? No, you don't worry about that, Matt. I guess you don't, but. All right, here we go. Eric in Bay City, hello. It's about time.

I've only held for two hours and 41 minutes, but I was going to listen to the show anyways, and I have a speakerphone capability on my flip phone, so it was fine. Anyways, I'm sitting here, seeping quickly into the creepy sewers of perversion, watching Lawrence Sahati rocked this Detroit. Tigers jersey on MLB Network, and I've got to say I'm quickly becoming a Tigers fan. And what I'd like to say to Ross today is talking about Hulk Hogan being dropped on his head a thousand times, he makes up one make-a-wish story. He did over 200 make-a-wishes in his career. There's a lot of athletes and celebrities of his caliber that never do one. Those 200-plus

are documented. Get off him. Okay, well, he did that. He also lied about it. He also lied about being the Metallica. I know, but again, he was dropped on his head thousands of times for decades. No, he's just a serial liar. Yeah, he's, yeah. Okay, well, pathological. But, I mean, he did over 200 make of wishes in his career.

That says a lot. Okay. So he imagined that Elvis Presley was a big fan of his as well. I understand. I hear you on all that. Can I try to give you a better analogy to that? It also made him drop a bunch of in bombs and talking about how he didn't want his daughter.

That's not acceptable. Okay. You're right. I'm just wondering. I hear you on that. Okay. But he did apologize with tears on like 60 minutes in 2020. Oh, a tearful apology on 60 minutes.

That makes it all okay. For a guy that didn't need the money, he didn't have to do it is all I'm saying. I sincerely believe he was sorry for it. Yeah, well, he was an egomaniac, and he wanted to be back in the good public graces is my take. Yeah, you're possibly right about that too, Ross. I won't say you aren't. But on the last deal, to try to give you a better analogy that Matt did about Rick Flair and Holck Hogan and what Rick Flair was saying, it's kind of like if baseball was scripted, you'd have to say

the Dodgers Astros 2017 World Series was a lot better matchup than the Dodgers Yankees last year. The Dodgers Yankees is like Flair Hogan. The Dodgers Astros was like Flair Steamboat. It was a great matchup, much better matchup, much more entertaining to watch the in-ring or on-diamond activity to put it from one to the other. The last thing, if you don't mind, I would like to say, is I almost threw up yesterday when y'all listed your rotation for the rest of the year and you two agreed that Spencer Aragutti is your number three guy and let me detail why and I'll be very quick

with it much quicker than I held for anyways when you look at Christian Javier Luis Garcia Lance McCullors Brandon Walters Colton Gordon and J.P. France and compare them with Spencer Erigetti all of them have a much higher quality start ratio than Spencer Argetty Spencer Arredetti has 10 quality starts and 30 games started. That's 33%. The only one he's even... How many of those have come in on his last 20? Well, I mean, he's only had two this year.

So to quote you, it's like he hadn't pitched in two years. No, it's not like he hadn't pitched in two years. Now, okay, Javier is coming off, this is the problem. Javier is coming off of elbow injuries and those other guys are coming off elbow injuries. So yes, if they all pitch and one's pitching better than the other, then we'll go from there. Yes, exactly. what is more detrimental to a pitcher, a fractured thumb, or are major elbow surgery? I hear you, but Christian Javier's had plenty of time to recover, and he's still pretty young enough, right?

Is this not long enough? Yeah, it's fine. I'm going on in Florida stories. Thank you. I lost. It doesn't, okay. Yeah, I hit the song. Stories that occur outside in the state of Florida and share them with the people of Houston.

It's time for non. you were thinking about what you want to do for your vacation next month. Well, if you're going to Boise, Idaho, be careful and watch your back. Cops in Boise, Idaho says there's a serial butt slaper on the loose. He's been going around a dirt bike, smacking or grabbing women's butts as he drives by and rides by. Several women have filed reports of the last month.

All the butt slaps have occurred between June 18th and July the 3rd. It described him as a white man in dark. clothing often all black. He also wears gloves and a ski mask. Cops think it's either a skull mask from Call of Duty or a Venn... What? Venern. Venorn mask from Spider-Man. Is that right? Venom? Okay, I'm reading it wrong. Venom mask from Spider-Man. A security camera got a shot of him, but his face is covered and it's too blurry to see much. They're hoping someone recognizes him and calls it in. So if you're spending any time in around

Boisey this summer, maybe tie a sweater around your waist. And that is my non-Florida story. Okay, I'll avoid the serial butt slapper. Is the slapin to grab the same thing? How is Eric getting out the three? Eric's pissing me off. Anyways, my non-floor story. Yeah, please. Sorry.

And so one of the wrongs, monuments, oh my God, the Spanish steps have never been intended for motor vehicles until an 80-year-old man drove a compact luxury Mercedes-Benz A-class sedan down this landmark early in Rome. Sorry, I forgot what this is going. before getting stuck part way down

police had to come and fire department had to get a crane to get his car out even locals were saying that they don't even know if the car was his he was completely sober not on drugs and they don't know where he came from what happened to the car again he drove it down to the Spanish steps

in Rome wow that's got to be a bumpy ride right that's got to be a felony hope his shocks are okay I don't know if you get shocks in that thing Maddie All right. Thank you very much for the speed round of non-flora storage. What do you got? Do you have anything? Yes, Matt. As you know, Matt, the 2025 Tour de France is still going on.

It is? Yes, you knew that? No, I didn't even know. Well, unfortunately, the stage 19 route had to be unchanged because local farmers are dealing with an outbreak of a contagious nodular dermatitis affecting cattle. in a herd specifically where they were going to be going through. In light of the distress experienced by the farmers, they have to change the course of the Tour de France because cattle are catching a rare skin disease.

How does that affect the riders, though? Is it contagious? They don't want to be having a bunch of people coming through there. Apparently is highly contagious among cattle, but I don't know that it's contagious. How many cows are running the Tour de France? I think they're six. year. It's a record. It's a record, yeah. I believe the number one leader is Effie. I think Moor

is number one. Is that right? Okay. Of the three stories I just had, I like mine the best. That's fine. I've been right in Chuck Mangione. I just pulled this up. In fighting with Eric in Bay City. I'm not fighting with him. I mean, look, who are you putting ahead of him? You're not putting Garcia ahead. No. Javier makes sense, but Javier's got, he's been gone for a year plus. And as I said, an elbow injury and it's July. You're not setting your rotation right now. So why are you upset about this?

And the sage words I had for yesterday was it takes probably half a year just to get back to what you were doing once you get back on the mountain playing. Well, we'll see. If he gives you a rehab and you're out there, you've got to be effective. And then we'll see what happens if anybody has setbacks or how things are going come this September and October when the Astros are getting ready for the playoffs with 17 guys on the IL and Joe Espada among the favorite. for manager of the year who Eric in Bay City wants fired. Mm. Mm.

Mm. Mm. By the way, Eric, our callers did not like that you were defending Hulk Hogan. When I... Look. We can get into that some other time, but... Oh, he made up one lie about being with a make-a-wish kid.

That's about as bad as a get. You're lying about some make-a-wish kid dying, and he wrote a song about it. I didn't even put that... I took it easy on Hulk Hogan, quite frankly. He wrote a song. song about a make a wish kid that he didn't even see talking about wrestling at wimbly for him and he wasn't there until years later man hulk had a difficult time telling the truth he would not be a good category contestant on monday at 1130 pathological liar to me but i'm sorry you know what i apologize

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That was your favorite part or least the other part? Oh, man. I thought it was crazy, man. I thought it was wild. Chuck Manglioni dabbled in acting and even appeared in a season four episode of Magnum P.I. Believe it. Or hell yeah or not?

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