The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Lose First Game Of The Series vs Blue Jays, Is The AL West Slipping Away?

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

Astros Lose first Game Of The Series vs Blue Jays, Is The AL West Slipping Away?

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 103 at H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Tuesday. Wednesday. What day of the week is this? Wednesday. It's Wednesday edition. It's a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show, Ross. This is Sports Talk 790.

I come to you. First of all, Paul Simon, one of the greatest crooners of all time. I didn't want to play this song. I've had this song on the playlist. Hopefully it was not going to happen. Love me, Paul Simon. You know what? Yeah, we're stewing our way to the end of the season.

You're right, Ross. That's exactly right. Singing, Paul. It's more of a talking. I'm going to listen to this song on my home today. Okay, well. I'm going to sing to it loudly. Don't take any melatonin, too.

Now, We went to see Paul Simon, and he greatly disappointed us. Because I think he fell asleep on stage. I mean, he was just near his 80s. Not near it. He was in the 80s. Now he's firmly in the 80s. I mean, I'm giving it a harder time than it. I mean, it's more for the bit.

It wasn't that bad. It wasn't that good. It wasn't that good. There was some hits. I mean, yeah. Me and Julio are down by the schoolyard. He didn't play 50 ways to leave your lover, which is an all-time jam. Art Garfunkel came out at the end

and swept the floors. Yeah, Art's, Paul's like, get out. I kicked your ass out 40 years ago. Get out. All right. I have had to, and Ross, you have it as well. I have had to dodge Astros' Twitter this year. And epic levels.

Woo, mute button's been on fire. We have had to dodge Joe Espite as a bad coach calls. Yes. The team is trying to lose intentionally to get Joe a spot of fired. Yes, I took one of those last night. Large amounts of hitting coaches must be fired conversation. And I've worked my way through that maze because I am a, I mean, I don't mean to brag, but I'm an accomplished sports broadcaster. You are.

You're very accomplished, Matt. I have been there through good times and bad. Thank you. By the way, I did not make a nominees for the Astros Media Wall of the office. honor yet again this year, which is fine. That's okay. You're in the Maid Creek Hall of Fame. That I am. I value that tremendously. Seriously. Yeah. I mean, I can never take that away from you. Shout out to you May Creek High School. I'll never take that away unless, I don't know, you commit some sort of heinous crimes. They could take my name down easily. Just don't murder anybody.

Thank you very much. Okay. Back to it. I have tried to have glass half full on this radio show, on the 10th inning show on my social media. Mm-hmm. Yes. Oh, Lauren, good morning. Yesterday was my one was my breaking point. I have, I'm not giving up because that's too, that's too cheap. That's, that's too easy. Especially when you're in first place. And you're in first place. You can't give up when you're in first place.

And again, even if things even get worse, which they could, they're still in the wild card, at least for now. But again, the teams that are behind them are winning too. So it's not like the wild cards at safe landing space. But yesterday was as frustrating. pitiful, disgusting, sad on Luis Garcia's front, kind of loss that I have seen and heard for longest per time. Let me preface something ahead of time. My daughter's opened up district play yesterday.

He lost a five-set match. Heartbreaker. They had triple match point in the four set and didn't win it. Oh, no. They pulled a Yonik Center. So I was already in a surly mood to begin with. But I'm watching the game on my fourth. phone as I'm announcing the

you know the PA at the high school I get in the car listen to Robert and I'm listening to Brian and Brayu ball one ball two base hit ball three ball four ball five strikeout Brian and Brayue doesn't say I'm trying to measure myself

No say it let it rip baby I don't trust him as a closer I just don't well and I know there's the one off there's the every closer is going to have a bad day I get it. He ain't looked right in three weeks. The three of the last four times, he's gone out.

He's given up runs. And the velocity has been down and he hasn't been able to locate his pitches, especially his fastball. That tells me he's hitting a little patch of fatigue. Okay. Or dead arm or whatever you want to call it. So I have that. His first four save opportunities, as when he became the closer, he converted them all. When Brian O'Brien was on, he's got no.

97, he's dotting corners, and he's hitting up 9899, sometimes touching 100. But they're off. And he was throwing 9596, okay, 9596, you can get guys out. But 9596, exactly what you said. 9596, and way out of the strike zone, that's when you run into issues, especially when you're a two-pitch pitcher. Yes. And you cannot locate your

fastball, then you got to go all slider. And you don't have an off speed really. I mean, the slider's a hard-thrown pitch. It's supposed to a darting action. It doesn't gather. there are a lot of strikes as you would typically felt with a slider. When you're looking to induce swing and misses for Toronto team as a listen to the broadcast that doesn't swing and miss a lot. They don't swing and miss a lot.

And you as Brian O'Brien, you don't induce a whole lot of ground balls and double plays. Okay. So that's one issue. Game goes to extra innings. Jose L Tuvae at second base last night, 10th inning. Ground ball to the first baseman. That would naturally mean on a full hustle, going to second to third base in extra innings,

even if it wasn't extra innings, the chances are you being successful running from second to third on a ground ball to first base is really good. Unless you're blind Guerrero, apparently, and unless Jose Altuve took a circuitous route or he took off a step late. He says to tie his shoes.

He went to get a snack. I don't know what it is. But I have said this five million times. He's my favorite asses. of all, well, not my favorite. He's the greatest astros. I'm my favorite. My favorite's Nolan Ryan. But the greatest astor of all time, I'm done with his base running.

It's hot garbage, and I'm disgusted by his base running. He, as you said before, went on the show today, he invents new ways to get thrown out. Yeah, you've got to be impressed of the versatility. No, you don't. I've never seen that. I'm disgusted by it. Have you ever seen that? No, I know. I don't see

first to third in the tithening of a ball game get thrown out. No, I don't know. see that. No, Ross, I don't. Have you ever seen a three? A three six? It's supposed to be a six three. I'm sorry, three five. And so the Astros closer, first of all, can't close games right now. Second of all, his pitch count is extraordinarily high, which means he is gonzo for today. And Craig Kimball is just a player. Craig Kimbrough can't get three strike ads. Can't, Crank Gibbro can't induce a pop fly. This bullpen is, again, this is a byproduct, and again, I'm going to be consistent about this.

This has been a team that is a byproduct of too many injuries for too long. There hasn't been a stretch where this team has been healthy on a 26, now 27-man roster. It's, we've gone too far. So that's what I put. I've lost the faith. And I might get it back in two days, but I speak to you right now as an honest and true. man as an astro fan since 1979 and it's an astro

observer and cover and broadcaster since, you know, the mid-90s. I am, I need Billy Joel to help me keep the faith because I ain't got it right now. Yeah. And while I would ask you to what extent, do you think they're not going to win the division and miss the playoffs or you just think

they're just not contenders? Because I'm more the latter personally. I would say if you're booking October vacation plans. I'm not going to hold you to it because it's not feeling good right now. I'm not going to hold you to it or anything. If you're booking October, mid-October travel plans, you can feel pretty safe. They don't have it.

They don't have the offense. Christian Walker. I try us away from Jose Brayou references, but this team has sucked at first base since Julie O'Learyo's left. Can I give you a real-life example to tell you where I am of the team? We'll do that after I tell you about the Shell Federal Credit Union. I was going to do that too. Wow, we're in sync for one segment. Yeah, we've got 12 more to go

We won't be 713-212-5790 Sports Talk 790 All right 1021 it is I spilled the water already I'm already off to a great start Look at me All right you were supposed to say something

Anyway before I interrupted you Is there a leak? There's a leak in the cut That's the reason why it's I didn't spill it Jesus Ah You've had no Come on Astros Ah

Hurry up go get the It's spreading like the blob There's a 1950s reference for the kids. All right. If I say the blob, Jonathan, do you have any clue what I'm talking about? No, but I know. Okay. I know the movie.

It was like a hokey science fiction, yeah, science fiction movie from the 50s where the blob was eating everything. How did you know about the Paul Simon song, Slip Slip Slid Away? You know, it was good, but then I had it just playing. I was eating my McDonald's in the car. And I had it just playing over and over again. Yeah. Then I started getting a headache. And I was like, I can't stand it no more.

Like, it's like a good, you know, like every other month you put it on. for driving around, but it's, it's, it's, I think it's fantastic. It's a good once a quarter.

No, we're playing again 12 o'clock, so we'll be ready for that. Here's your quarterly poll, Simon. It's a good, it's a good vibe if you're feeling that way.

If you're a slipside in the way and you're, I am slips sliding away. It's not what I'm saying. Yeah, it fits, it fits the mode. My Astros are, they're leading a slip sliding away.

It is. Are you going to say, okay, yeah, so I'm going to tell you, it's funny because she kind of, you know, sometimes, um,

subconsciously you feel certain ways and then something happens or you react a certain way and you're like, oh, okay, I didn't realize that. So every year, the Oklahoma, Texas game is the first weekend of October, generally, a first or second week, weekend. And every year, the last several years, I've been like, I can't plan it. I don't have to do, you know, I don't want to get tickets because I never know if the Astros are going deep in the playoffs. And then so I was talking to my brother like a week ago, I'm like, all right, yeah, let's start planning everything. And I was like, oh no, that's how little confidence I have in the Astros. I'm already ready to start planning this OU trip without even realizing. So I'm ready to book hotels and get tickets.

And if the Astros are still, it would be game five of the ALDS, I think, would be Texas OU. Let's just say I am feeling as safe as I had and having a very long time in planning this OU Texas trip. And Dan Matthews might be coming with us as well. Shout out Dan. Come get some Fletcher's corny dogs. Have a good time. What a chip, Dan drive? Is he a good driver?

I don't know, but I don't want to drive anywhere. No, I'll drive. I mean, I don't mind driving. Okay. Point being for me is this. This is to me, if you were to take the, if you were to split the aggravation pie, which I'm currently eating right here on the Astros,

70% of its injuries. I would agree with that. I'm having injury fatigue. Because every one of the pitchers that was supposed to come And this should be a formula for future analysis. When you rely on injured pitchers, at least I can give you the 25 example, they're not going to come save your day.

Arrogetti, done for the season. Garcia, maybe done forever. Javier has been mid. McCullors has been bad. Who am I forgetting? Colton Gordon. Brandon Walter got hurt. But I mean, I'm talking about the guys that are like,

Oh, JP France is back. Okay. Well, JP France? Yeah. I mean, it is what it is. I'm not going to do that anymore. I am done. So if you are a team that needs pitching at the deadline,

maybe Dana has learned from this as well. You can't just say, well, I'm getting my healthy guys back. You've got to be more proactive. But that isn't even the real issue. The issue is the Astros offense has been a D plus this year. It really has. If you were to grade out the Astros offense, D plus. Now, when you have Yaron and Alvarez gone for 100 games, that hurts.

Jeremy Pena has been gone a certain length of time. That hurts. Diaz is starting to hit a little bit. Altuva is in a horrific slump. Camp Smith hasn't been the same since spring training, frankly. Walker has expectations weren't spectacular, but didn't reach the minimal expectations. Who am I forgetting?

Corey has been okay. He's been good. Yeah, I mean, that home running yesterday was a... He's hitting close to 300 with an OPS of close to 800 as an astro. But let's start with what you first said. I think if we waved the magic wand in late July and gave the Astros one of the best farm systems on the planet, they would have made a move for a starting picture.

I think Dana Brown wasn't like, oh, we're all good. All these guys are coming back. I think it was like, you know what? We kind of have to rely on these guys because they wanted Spencer Airy. What did the, what did those deal and C. C's deal with Spencer Arrogatti plus three prospects? You got, you got Arrogati under control. Well, unfortunately, he's hurt, but you know what I'm saying.

Under control until like 2028. That's just too much to give up for one rental of Dillon C's. So they couldn't make a move there, unfortunately. And then, yes, the hitting has not been consistent. And I keep going, we can go up and down the lineup. As you said, Jeremy Ping is having a breakout year, but he missed a little bit of time with the ribs. Yordine Alvarez has been fantastic.

but he's missed 100 plus games. Carlos Corre has been good, but he's only been on the team for like a month. Al Tuvei, when do we go from the word slump to decline? Because we have a full season sample of last year it was his worst OPS since like he was like coming up out of a double A. See, I can't do that because he still leads a team at home run. He's got 24. Exactly. He can get on a hot streak as fast as anybody can, especially when when people are.

saying it's over for him. So I will continue to say it's a slump. The base running is not a slump. It's a epidemic. Yeah, that's not going, that's degenerative. That's not going away. But I mean, several years ago, I don't know, around 20, 21 or whatever, he kind of changed his approach to where he was the hit king, where he was spraying everything everywhere, to where he became a more pull power hitter because he was getting a little bit older. So yes, the power has been there. 24 home runs for Jose Al-Tuvae at age 35. That's damn good.

But everything else has basically gone down. His OPS the last three years, 915, 797-667. And he's 35 years old. Now, can he wake up? Can I say this on air and that he's in decline and then he wakes up and he gets eight hits in the next three

games? Absolutely. Can I say that if the Astros win the division, that Jose Al-Tube is going to be a large part of that? Absolutely. I can't. Yes. but we're into 145 game sample here. Walker's in decline, unfortunately. You didn't get a brayude quite?

Oh, I forgot to mention Isok Peradis, who has been a delightful surprise. It hasn't been seen in two months. Isok Paratus was one of your best hitters, if not your best hitter, when he went down, and his hamstring came off his bone. Jake Myers was having this breakout crazy season,

and then he went down with a calf injury. And he freaking got, Rob by Dalton Varsho with a deep hit to center yesterday. That's another thing. Yeah, they went two for 11 with runners in scoring position. And I keep saying this on postgame shows, but they keep adding up, Matt.

If the Astros were five games in first place and they lost this game like that yesterday, but man, two for 11 running score in position, a lot of hard hit contact. I know you don't like XBA, but their XBA in the game was 341. It was like 204 for the Blue Jays. They had hard hit balls.

They just found gloves. And we would say that's baseball. But because this keeps happening and because this keeps piling up, it's harder and harder to say that. It's just like, when is this going to turn? When is this going to get better more consistently? And it's just this malaise that they've been into now

where they're 23 and 32 in their last 55 games. Best of loss of faith. And I apologize because I'm supposed to, I think I'm supposed to be trying to keep everybody even keel. And look, they can finish off the road trip with five wins, and it'd be great. But yesterday's loss was exception. exacerbating.

Umbrae you couldn't find the zone. You had Altube's base running mistake. You had Christian Walker with opportunities to drive running. Two for 11 with running and scoring position. The same RISP, that's the running as scoring position, was a disaster. Yeah. And you just, and you knew when the game was going extra innings, that there isn't a reliable reliever behind a Brayu who struggled terribly yesterday.

That was going to be able to keep the game close. Yeah, that's another thing. The middle of the season, you had three reliable back-end Relievers. Josh Hater, out. Brian Abraeut, not reliable right now, and Ben and Sousa, out. That's what I'm saying. It's a lot of his injuries. Your depth and your relief core, which was a strong suit for this team for much of the season. I mean, first half of the season, this bullpen was nails. All right, those of you on hold, we're going to you next. 713, 213, 212, 5, 790. 7.790. It's 10.30. It's 1030. Brian Bogus Hivik with us at 11 o'clock Shut your bum ass up at 1130 We're going after the media at 1130

Out of town media at 1130 For shut your bum ass up Although I can probably find blue look at this town Really quick And Willie Fritz at 130 What do you laughing about? I don't know You're funny

That's all that Willie Fritz and the Cougars Taking on Colorado this Friday We'll talk to Willie at 1.30 Plus I know Plus believe it or not today at 150 Busy show here on Sports Talk 790 All right, a lot of you are on hold

Let's go to you. You've had a chance to listen to us, bitch and moan. And like I said, I might be in a better mood tomorrow. Hopefully I will be. I may be in a better mood in three or four days. I don't know. But this is as closest to get in the Rangers. Both won yesterday, as did the Mariners.

And the Astros long. The game's the league. It's one game league. How huge is that series coming up next weekend? And they're playing what, what did you say, 23 and 32 now? since July 4th? Yes. So that's, was it, 425 baseball, something like that? 418.

To the phone. Robert in Stafford at 1036 on 7.9. Robert, good morning. Good morning, Matt, and Ross. Hi. You say, we have to listen to your mood the way you are today, tomorrow, and what you need to listen to yourself when you talk about the ask. or any, any, any, any, uh, Rockets or Texans, what you're saying, how you're feeling.

And then I have to listen to that. I think you need to kind of, kind of hold back a little bit and say, hey, what do you think? Their feelings, how they are, you know, it's physically and mentally, you know, and if they make a mistake and then, and they lose or you kind of like to rub it in and, you know, in a, in a, in a, In a nice way, you know, I'm not saying you're, you know, like another, another now. Time out, time out, Robert. What do you want me to, what do you, what do you, okay, stay.

What do you want me to do? I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I do a radio show, listen, let me finish. I co-host, I do a radio show for four hours a day where my explicit duties are to discuss the events of sports. And I, no one gives two craps about the NFL, except for the Texans. No one gives two craps about anything non-Huston-related on this Houston-rated show. So guess what we're doing? We're talking about Houston sports. And when my baseball team that I follow and discuss and been a fan since I was a kid,

blows a 3-1 lean in the ninth inning to a very good team that helps them hold on to first place, I'm not going to hold back. What do you mean hold back? I don't get that. Well, it's like when, if they win, how do you talk or you hurt? I mean, does that kind of bother you more? No, you say, well, they won and then they might win again. But they can't win, win, win, win, okay?

And no, don't give up, you know, don't give up tight. I say, hey, I listen to you. If I listen to you, that's good. That is good. I appreciate that very much. But, no, I'm not, you know, I'm just trying to. I think, I mean, honestly, Robert, I think I've been pretty reserved, honestly. I think I have given benefit of the doubt, and thank you for the calls.

Yeah, go on Astros's Twitter for five minutes. Yeah. And you're going to hear that Matt and I are the most optimistic Astros fans that we're like in the fifth percentile of optimism. Yeah. I think I have I have been very, very wait and see. The sky's not falling guy. And I'm not saying it's even falling now. Yeah.

But yesterday it was a kick in the nuts. It just was. Their pitcher left with elbow inflammation and they blew the game and the end of the game and they lost in 10 innings and it was a heartbreaker. And as I said, they're 23 in, what was it, 23 in the? 32 in the last 55 games. They're playing 418 ball for 55 games out of 162 game season. I think robbers misunderstanding what this show is. This is not pom-poms and cheerleaders show and everything's going to be all right show. This is Matt and I, we're at a sports bar, we're talking to each other and how are we feeling? And we're not feeling great. I was sick to my stomach when the

Rockets lost the Golden State Warriors. They won three games in the series, but they lost four. I was pissed. I didn't want him to lose. Matt, have you been an Astro fan? You're hoping. life. My entire, well, since I was seven. Matt, I've been an Astro fan. My whole life. Okay. I want them to win. Yeah. Ross, how long have you been a Texas fan? Two years? Okay. How, ask me? Matt, how long have you been a Texans fan?

Never. So when they win, they lose, they lose. Maybe he's looking for that even keel. It's been a rough two years. Well, it hasn't been that rough, but it's been a stagnant couple of years. It's a Monday a must-win game. Shut up. All right. Carl and Dickinson at 1039 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Carl, good morning. Hey, I just got a question for you.

I know this is hard to believe, but I don't know what Dana Braille's smoking. I want some of that jolly locked in weed if he's got any for sale. I'm just kidding. But anyway, yeah, man, that was a disaster. I love the Astros, too, but that was ridiculous. And I'm going to say it, I'm going to be the horses ass. Somebody's got to be the horses' ass. I'm going to be it today.

Those three or four guys keep doing the same thing over and over and over. We get runners on the base. That game should have been seven to one, maybe two. Springer would have got lucky and got two home runs. That game should have been a, I don't care if a brave who did screw up. We should have had seven runs. That is unacceptable. And I'm tired of all the cheerleading from Dana Brown, okay?

and the stupid mistakes that veterans are making. Now, I'm going to give Al-Tuvae a pass, and I'm going to give our veterans from the past. They've been hitting the ball. They're getting on base. The bases were happy. We had runners all game long. Okay, I'm giving our regulars a pass.

But those four guys that Dana Brown brought in, I'm telling you, they're washed up, okay? I mean it. And they're killing the Astros. I'm sorry. I love the Astros. unless I'm not looking for a miracle, but I don't know if it's coming. Okay, I'm going to hold on.

Carl, which four guys are you talking about that are washed up? Well, I don't want to say their name. Yeah, you do. No, you have to say, no, no, no, they're not listening. They're not listening. Trust me, you can say their name. It'll be okay. Okay.

Well, they're up and down. Now, Sanchez, he got a blast. Okay, but Urius and Walker, what's the other two guys that's feeling. Cam Smith, he's been in and out. He got it with the home run, but those four guys are inconsistent. We need a big hitter at the bottom of the

lineup to get these guys in, you know, and Al Tuve, like I said, I'm giving him a pass. Why? His running at third base was awful yesterday. Why does he get a pass? I love, he's the greatest pastor of all time. But if Jose Al-Tupe was in the studio, it's like, what the hell are you doing going from second to third? And getting

I understand. I understand. I understand. Totally. I'm mad about it too. But what I mean, he kept us going during the season when we were having all the ups and downs. I mean, you know, he did. Yes. He won a lot of games for us, man. But he'll come around. But right now, I'm not planning any, any, I'm going to make my regular plans. I'm giving up, man. I'm not going to get myself tore up anymore. All right. Well, go get that Mexican vacation knocked out. Go down the can. Koon. Go do all-inclusive. That's nice. I've never been all-inclusive.

Matt, you of all-people like getting waited on hand and foot. Now, when they say all-inclusive, is it really mean you don't get into your wallet out ever? Uh, you tip. So it's really not all-inclusive. Okay. You can't toss a bartender a couple, a couple pesos? You put that the reservation, too. Oh, life is just.

You know what, John, I'm working. I got two jobs, baby. I got to go. Yeah, your bartender makes you drink, you tip. That's how it goes, John. And I'm sorry. Welcome to the real world. Jonathan, Jonathan ain't a great tipper. No, no, no, no, no.

Let's not, no, no. Uh-oh. I'm a moral tipper. If you do a moral tipper, if you do a new service, I'm going to give you a good tip. You know what I mean? Like, I'm not, no. If you do a good service, I'm going to be genuine. But if you're not, if you're going to BS me, then I'm going to BS you?

All right, well, why are you assuming you're getting BS? Wait, wait, wait, let me, let's walk through this. Hello, Mr. Bartender. I would like a gin and tonic. What kind of BS? So it was it going to give you like a Coke and say? I'm going to spit in your face. I'm more shocked.

I'm more shocked that you do that at the reservation as well. Like, you know, the reservation. We're going to. We're not going to chalk towel. Why are you a talking stick? No, the resort. You're surprised that you tip at the resort when they make you. If it's all paid, like I didn't, you know, I'm just surprised.

Have you been on a cruise? All right, you're just young. I've been on a cruise about 12. Okay. Oh, yeah. Were you tipping the bartenders? No, I had C-Sic. Okay, well, a lot of times, cruises, you can buy the food package and all that,

and yes, you tip your weight staff and you tip your bartenders. Again, I'll tell you, it's to help them make a living wage. That's why tipping exists, and you don't have to. All right, back to Asteros. It's not compulsory. Back to Asteros. You can opt out if you want. Mark and Kenneth will get to you next.

Brian Bogus Civic at 15 short minutes. I don't know if he's going to be able to get us off this ledge. I like how, yeah, somebody's tweeting about how Cam's is old and washed up. Yeah, well, he was one of the four. We couldn't name the two of the guys. All right. All right.

713, 212, 790. I'm watching M-OB Network. The Rangers are 14 and 4 in their last 18 games. I think this is a date. 13 and 4. No, because this was... This was from yesterday? Maybe from yesterday.

I don't know. Well, you know, let's treat it as it really happened. So 13 and 4 in their last 7. team. Unless he's at Dave Raymond's at the ballpark at 10 a.m. That's what? He wouldn't be there at 10 o'clock at a morning, would he? I don't think so. Well, you know what? Do they have a day game today? They could. Okay, so let's go off. 13 and 4 in the last 17 games of the Rangers are averaging six runs a game.

They have 26 home runs during that 17. They play the Brewers at 135 on MLB Network. Okay, so that's right. And their ERA for the Rangers is 3.08. Damn it. Nobody said it was going to be easy. And you, again, I kind of said, I said, this I think yesterday or earlier this week.

It's either they're going to either earn it or they're not. It's been in front of them. They didn't take care of business against the Rangers. They're not catching bad breaks. Exactly. Well, injury-wise, of course. That's exactly right. Injury-wise, of course. But they could have won more of those games in Arlington.

They could have won that game last night. They didn't step up to the plate and come through enough. You get 11 opportunities with runners in scoring position and you didn't come through. Yep. By the way, Brian sends me a tweet depends on the all-inclusive any sandals properties tips are prohibited by their rules they pay their people a good wage oh that's good and you give them kudos and a good rating for an employee which will get them a bonus normally you know what i would rather do and this is just everybody's different i would rather you charge me more and say do not get your pot your your

wallet out yeah that's good that's a good idea i would much rather do it and i'd rather pay more and give them the tips so there's not awkwardness yes but i will say so when i went to uh korean in Taiwan, there's no, you don't tip, but also you get some rude service every now then. So, I mean, that's funny. The lady's, like, slapping your hand away from when you're trying to grab the tongs and flip the barbecue, Korean barbecue. By the way,

I almost tweeted this to you, and I was like, I'm not going to do it because I'm already in a bad mood. Your friend, Kyle Tucker is on the injured list for the Chicago Cubs. He's got a calf injury. Do we have any kind of prognosis on how long he's going to be out? I saw that. He's never going to play

again. Okay. Yeah, that could be good for you. You're looking for, you're only, he's not going to sign a five-year deal somewhere. So you get a three, four-year without doubts. You could win your bet. I want this result quickly for two reasons. Okay. One, I want to win the bet. And two, I love Korean barbecue.

Oh, we're going to habachi, I thought. Oh, Habachi. That's true. Well, also, but if it drags on, that's also probably good for you. Yes. Because those late signing guys, Bregnant being one of them, he would have signed like a week before. spring training even started.

Yeah, basically. Yeah. That's your hope is that it does drag out. If you hear breaking news the day after the season's over, it's probably not good for you. I want to tell you

this is a oath we have between the two of us. We've been friends for a long time. The winner of the bet brags enormously. No, I'm not going to brag. Oh, I'm going to.

Okay. I want you to. We'll see. I would expect nothing but. Jonathan, you hear me? Jonathan. Listen, when SFA was, you thought they were going to beat you, Bage. Okay. Why'd you laugh?

I was wanting you to brag. It wasn't going to happen. But the winner of our Kyle Tucker Habachi Bet needs to brag. I mean, endlessly. Yes. For those of a don't know, we have years on the contract, 7 and a half. I have over, he has under. When did you start this, though?

Oh, we did a year ago. Long time ago. It's not more. Right. And the latest Jeff Passon projection was the Mookie Betts deal, which was 12 years 365. Jeff Passon thinks that Kyle Tucker can get $400 million. But also, he's been underperforming for a month plus, and now he's hurt. Well, thankfully, because I'm...

You had no chance. Now you get some chance. Thankfully, we didn't talk dollars and cents because I'm terrible about the dollars and cents. But I feel good about the... I don't feel great. I just feel good. But when he was starting to hit the ball like two weeks ago, I didn't feel nearly as good. Steve is with his son, seven outing at 1055.

Steve, good morning. Hi, how are you doing? Good. Hey, my question has to, you know, again, came up last night, right? Astro pitcher injuries, and maybe every team has had this, but the last two years Astros have had, what, eight or ten starting pitchers go out for long periods of time, mostly the whole season with arm injuries. How does that, and I'm sure there's analytics out there,

but maybe every team has had this, but seems like the Astros have more arm problems than any other team. And, you know, someone should be asking Dana Brown or asking somebody, what's the deal? Is it the off-season program? Is it what they do between starts? Is it too much focus on spin? But, you know, it's an epidemic, right? And, you know, how do they explain it, I guess?

I'll hang up and listen. The answer is we don't know. They're not giving us an in-depth rundown of how they treat their staff when it comes to trainers and doctors and the players and performance. There is a lot of, and this is not just the Astros, you're not going to get a deep dive into any team sports and their sports medicine program. I know the Dodgers have had a bunch of, I think, elbow and arm injuries and pitchers hurt this year. I'd have to go, we'd have to go through team to team. You know a name we haven't mentioned in a while that I forgot about? Renal Blanco.

Renalcco had elbow issues too. So we can go up and down the list and find a bunch of people with elbow injuries. But the answer is we don't really know. How much of this is bad luck? It would be pure speculation either way. For me to come out here and say, no, it's all just bad luck.

That's speculation. For me to say, no, the Astros are mishandling their pitchers. That would be speculation. Because I don't know. But the injuries have been piling up. It is something. Definitely worth investigating by the organization, whether it be training staff, strength and conditioning staff, any of that stuff. I would just say that Jim Crane is a billionaire and has been a very successful businessman and just by anything he's touched, right?

I mean, I'm sure he's had his share of failures before and he's run a very successful Major League Baseball operation. Unparalleled success for this organization. I don't think Jim is turning a blind eye to this. My guess is Jim will do a very thorough investigation. Because forgetting about Jim the businessman, Jim's a baseball fan too. And by the way, Jim is paying all these players and all these replacements and all this medical staff millions of dollars to keep them healthy. And whether it's the pitchers, whether it's the spin rate, the types of pitches they're throwing, whether it's the amount of work they're getting in, whether it's the off-season training, whether it's a misdiagnosis from trainers and or medical staff,

it would be criminal if he didn't do a deep dive into it. So I fully expect him to do it. Will we ever find the results? The only way would ever really know the results, Ross, is that they make no changes, then he's going to say everything's on the up and up, or if he scratches everything, if he gets rid of everybody, then he means that he saw something that he didn't like, and it's time for a change. And that's the same can be said for the hitting coaches.

That can be same for the pitching coaches. Same for the manager and the general manager. Any owner, regardless of how things turn out, short of winning the World Series, should do a deep dive in his organization. So I have to trust that Jim Crane is not just smoking a cigar, drinking his Cavassier and going, oh, this is just a tough luck season for us.

That doesn't make any sense, and I don't believe it to be the case. Yeah, I forgot about Hayden Wisnowski, too. So you got Ronnell Blanco, Hayden Wisniewske, Brandon Walter, doesn't sound good for arrogance, Eddie. No. Hater. Yeah, well, that's the shoulder. I guess I'm thinking of elbows, Tommy Johns.

But yeah, yeah. I mean, it's worth investigating for sure. But I don't have the answers. I don't think any of us, we could speculate. And I will just say, obviously, it does not look good. When you have this amount of guys going down with this amount of major elbow injuries. 10.59. Brian Bogus Civic starts the second hour, the Matt Thomas Show, next here on Sports Talk 790. Wheel 4, Sports Talk 790. Let's spend 10.

You know what, Brian Bogus-Evick, we're going to have to talk 11 minutes with you this week because I need you to walk me off the ledge. Yesterday, exacerbation, I don't know, whatever, you know, pissed off, whatever ones. Exasperation? Whatever, that too. Bogey, 3-1,

Bray, you can't find the strike zone in the 9th, runners in scoring position. It was just another injury. It was like a microcosm of the entire season. And I keep trying to hold on to this notion that the Astros are still in first place, in which they are. And they'd be in the playoffs today at the season end of the day. But, man, it has been really two and a half months of just holding on for dear life.

Yeah, I don't think one extra minute's going to be enough to get you off the ledge that you're on. That feels fair. Thank you. But, yeah, so you're right about yesterday. I think yesterday, you know, as much as it hurt because it's a loss in a big game at the end of the season, and it's one that it felt like was in your hand and you didn't get it. That always hurts, but it's the way it happened. It's kind of all of your concerns with this team rolled into one. You know, obviously the injury that happens, we've seen too many of those.

You know, it's an offense that can't pull away and make it easy on the pitching staff. It's hitting with runners in scoring position. It's a bullpen that is, you know, depleted and is starting to look gassed, looking vulnerable because they look depleted and gassed. And, you know, every one individual concern that you could kind of point to and say, ooh, that might be a problem. Ooh, that might be a problem. We saw them all, all at once. And, yeah, that's, you know, it hurts kind of doubly bad watching it happen yesterday because that's 20 games less than the season. You can't have one in your hand and not get it.

So Abraeu inherits the closures role when Hater goes down. And I mean, the first four or five appearances were like, man, there is no slippage at all. This is going to be fun. And now he's having a hard time finding the strike zone. We talked about this in the first hour. When you're a two-pitch pitcher against a team that doesn't strike out a lot or doesn't have a lot of swing and miss, that's a recipe for disaster. We saw that again last night. Yeah.

You know, when Abraeu is right, it doesn't matter who you are, what style of here you are. his stuff is overpowering enough to get the best contact lineups to swing and miss. I mean, the whiff rates that he gets on each of his pitches individually are crazy. But they have to be working together, right? He's got to get that good crossfire angle on this fastball to his glove side to set up the big sweeping slider that comes off the same plane, but goes even further out of the zone. And, you know, if you go back and look at kind of the pitch chart yesterday, there were misses outside of the zone, that's a problem.

But the fastballs in particular that were in the zone weren't getting to that arm side or to the glove side. They were in the middle of the plate. They were hitable pitches. They were pitches that weren't going to set up the slider going down and away out of the zone. And anytime a pitcher is missing up and to the arm side, the first thing that you think of is fatigue. And then you start looking at the velocities. It was a lot of 95 and 96 is yesterday when typically we see, 97 to 98. And honestly, in a situation like that where it's a got-a-have-it game

against the first-place team in the American League, you would think a little bit extra juice running. I was waiting to see 99s and maybe 100. So it's starting to look like he's got, I don't think the closer thing has gotten to him. I don't think, you know, he's an eighth-inning guy that can't do the ninth inning. I think he's the one guy who's been the constant down there all year. You know, he hasn't had an injury. He hasn't had a injury. He hasn't had performance affect him and him floated in and out of the high leverage situation. It's been full go and they've leaned on him even when Hader was there more heavily than anybody

and it's starting to look like it's catching up to him. Yeah, and that just begs the question, what's the solution? Just a couple of days off, just something he has to work through. And I mean, it'd be nice if the office could go out there and score a bunch of runs, but they just end up in so many high leverage situations because of the nature of how the team is. Yeah, you hit it on the nose, right? There is no solution from a pitching standpoint.

You only got the guys you got, you only have the availability of what you got. And if it's a closing situation, it's going to be Brian Abrae, and you're going to have to live and die with him because that's what you got, and that's what you're going to have to do. The solution or, you know, way around it is exactly that. It's to score more runs. You know, it's not, if you lose a one-run game because the bulls, Bullpen gives it up, it's not necessarily on the bullpen. Guys aren't perfect. Guys are going to give up runs here and there.

Complimentary baseball is there being times when you score so many runs early that your starting pitcher can really settle in and just pound the strike zone and worry about nothing but getting deep into the game. You know, it's creating situations that aren't saved situations so you can throw to the guys who haven't thrown in five days who are fresh versus the guys who've thrown, you know, three out of the last five days and been getting worn out all year. And we've seen far too few of those games where it's the offense just taking over and saying, hey, pitchers, you guys essentially have the day off today. Brian Bogusevich was here on Sports Talk 790. It's been a tough goal of it the last 1530 games or so for Jose Altuve. And I find myself, Brian, questioning like,

okay, is this just a typical Jose Altuve slump? Or is this some decline? What are you seeing from him at the plate? A little bit of both maybe. You know, he's always a guy who, when he struggles, is going to get super aggressive. So you're going to see some wild swinging. He's also a guy who, you know, all throughout the course of his career, will hunt pitches and guess in certain situations. And every once in a while, you know, he guesses wrong and takes a swing that looks ridiculous.

But, you know, it's an extended kind of version of that right now, which makes me think that, you know, is he in a situation where he's having to do more of those things to kind of keep up and less and less just straight up hitting? You know, granted, he can always break out of it and look completely locked in for the next, you know, months plus and just go on a tear. That's still in there. We've seen him get hot this season. But it just looks like a guy who's relying more and more on hunting. one pitch at a time or one location at a time versus a guy who, you know, there were times when it didn't matter what speed or what location he could hit it in any direction at any time. You know, trying to get himself out of it, but it just hasn't happened recently. Bogie, the runners in the scoring position number has been the one that's discouraging so much.

We look at every single loss and we can go back to that one particular category. Is there some sort of magic elixir that you would give a particular hit? whether it's a different approach of the plate, whether it's swinging early, swinging later, trying to position the, you know, to pull the ball, go opo, whatever, because it just feels like that so much of the angst is these key hitters in this astro lineup

with runners at second and third, or base is loaded a couple times in that game last week against the Yankees, when the ninth inning with the tying run at the plate, Correa strikes out, Walker strikes out. Those are terrible, terrible ways to end game. what do you do when you get the guys on the bases and you're just looking for that one clutch hit?

Yeah, there's a lot of things that come into play. First of all, crazy as it sounds, the thing that correlates most to hitting with runners and scoring position is just team batting average in general. Generally, teams that can hit with runners and scoring position, but that's not been, you know, the extras are near, they're probably in the top third of the league still in batting average overall,

and then we see their struggles with runners and scoring position. So that's kind of, you know, can't make heads or tails of that. But I think the thing that you would look at now, right, hitting with runners and scoring position used to be all about take what's out there, right? There's a man on third, less than two outs. Just get him in. Second and third, get him over, maybe, or get him in, maybe get the guy over at the same time and kind of take what's out there. But now, you know, there's such a different approach to hitting where it's all about trying to have big innings, especially early in games. especially early in games, because that's what wins games, right?

You have to put up big crooked numbers. There are very, very few two-to-one games anymore, right? Everybody's getting on a race to five or a race to six, and you have to have big innings to do so. But when you're struggling with runners in scoring position, sometimes I would think just take a step back. You know, if you're up there, and it's a man on third with one out in the second inning, instead of taking the approach of like, okay, I'm having my regular at bat.

Maybe I hit a double that'll score and put me in scoring position, will be in position to have that. big inning, just take what's out there. Maybe a little bit earlier in the bat, earlier in the game. Cash in one, and maybe just that gets the ball rolling a little bit. It seems like a lot of times there's more focus on here's our opportunity to have the big inning versus here's our opportunity to get that one that's out there right in front of us. And, you know, mathematically, does it make sense to do that? Maybe not. But at the same time, it could kind of jumpstart things a little bit.

we kept it 11 minutes thank you very much of the time as always um are you off the ledge no uh and your boy in your boy josh reddick was losing his mind last night too so all you guys is based you're kind of feeling it right now i think i think everybody's feeling it right now all right are you working this weekend yes all right well maybe you're the met maybe you're the elixir that'll fix things because that series coming up in a couple days thank you for the time as always for and we really appreciate it all right All right, Brian Bogusevic with us here. He tried. It can turn. It can turn on a dime, Maddie. Oh, yeah. Because we're going to, remember, when the Astros win over the Blue Jays tomorrow, we're playing a Kendrick Lamar song in honor of diss and Drake.

Yes. That everyone's going to be bouncing around the streets going to go, man, I listen to Matt and Ross. They play the Kendrick Lamar song, and it was so good. I've been singing it all day long. Yeah, if we play not like us, won five Gramies. That's true. It's more than Barry Mantle of his whole life. I don't want you keep going

the Barry Mantolo card Oh me either I was thinking of a random guy Yeah It's kind of random Uh shut your bum ass up Is coming up in the bottom of the hour You're always like

You're always like the top of my list on that I'm trying to get you off that top of the list That's fine I look somewhere I like to stay All right I'm comfy I'd be worried if I wasn't Is there anything?

Okay can we do a Let's do a non-astro segment coming back I don't even know what it could be I'm going to give Texans O-line talk Okay Lolligagging? Mm. Yeah, they call you the lolligagger.

Yeah. All right. And again, shut your bum ass up in 15 minutes. If you would like to join us, you may do so. 1120. Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Sports Talk 790. 7.13, 212.5.

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That's the old spinning thing on opening night. And the storm edge the Valkyries to snag the final playoff spot in the WNBA playoffs. Huge. All right. That's what we're fighting with. And our Astros are melting down. You said we're not talking about the Astros this segment. It's too late.

Jody on 790. Hello, Jody. Hey, guys. How are you doing? Good. Well, not good. So, you know, that's melting down. But you kind of got to listen to, bogey,

kind of listen to, you know, like between the lines, man. I mean, it's, you know, we've got to get rid of math on this and kind of just go with baseball. And honestly, if you go just look at the stats, where as Altuva hit the best in the lineup? And nobody wants to do it. Nobody's, everyone's scared, you know, like, hey, I'll have to keep peeing at the top.

Got to keep in the top. Keep him in the top. fine. Put him after Altuve. Put Altuve at 1, Opinia 2, Correa 3, Jordan at 4. Yordon is the only guy hitting with runners and scoring positions and we don't have anybody getting on base in front of him.

I mean, just to look at how many times he's hit with runners of scoring position since he's been back. It hadn't been very many. So how do we do that? We get people that will get on in front of him. Jose Altuve is in a massive slump. He's hitting 200 over the last 30 games. He is. But imagine. and put him in a spot where he hits 300

where he can freaking seek out fastballs where he can, he's not getting freaking sliders all day long, you know, and he should lay off of him. And he's never laid off of him in his freaking career. He's led off the majority of his career. I mean, honestly, Jody, I don't know if I want him betting more.

If I'm going to give one extra at bat to a guy, I want Jeremy Pena and Yorna is getting that in Korea over Altube. I mean, and I love El-Tube, you know that. I mean, he's the greatest. them all. But he's in a massive slump right now. So if I have to decide between those four guys, who's getting the one fewer at bat, right now, speaking today, things could certainly change. But on September the 10th, it's Jose Altuve. Okay. Well, okay, so there you go with the mathematics thing, right? So you're saying he's getting one more at bat. Is he really getting

one more at bat? Go back and look at the top four guys and see how many times that the top three, top two have batted more than three and four. It's not mathematically happening. If the top four of the lineup are getting four at-bats, five at-bats a game, they're all getting the same number of at-bats. We're 18 games left the season. We're not 162. And 162, yeah, that might play over the course of the entire year.

Not in the next 18 games. Next 18 games, the top four, the top five, are going to bat the same amount of times. So you want the out earlier in the bat, than you want it later in the inning, is what you're saying? No, I think it's a mentality thing too. I mean, you know, think about it like this. Again, yes, he's in a slum, but put him back where he's comfortable,

put him back where, you know, he's not put in a fresh situation of having to drive in a run. He's not driving in run. You're overthinking this, Joe. He's coming to the plate and he's looking at the pitcher and he's thinking about the pitches. He's not thinking about what position of he's in. It's certainly not in mid-game. and the first inning he even talked about Jeremy Paney gets on base more

he's got a lot of speed he's got a higher batting average he's got a higher OPS you want him on in front of Yoron Alvarez more very simple he's batting second he's batting second if he is in front of Yordon Avara

Jordan in the two holes not working So you got a guy who's been an automatic out and you want him first up he's not well y'all are missed what I'm saying I guess because it's just like we're talking in circles Thank you, Jody.

I appreciate it. I want my higher percentage hitters, my guys that are non-slumping to be in front of the slumpers. And I go on math on me, Matt. First place hitter. I hate math. You know that. First place hitter doesn't get more A-Bs, Matt. Listen to Jody.

Well, I mean, it doesn't, on a per game basis, no, but if you add them up over six or seven games, yeah, there's a chance. There's a significant chance. And that means he's coming up more when, you know, the stray Dubon or Jake Myers, whoever gets on base, that means he's coming up with runners-owned scoring position where he hasn't been good. Would you rather have Jeremy Pena, then you're on Alvarez? Let's say,

Jake Myers and Marisa DuBahn get on 8-9. You want Pena and Alvarez coming up, or do you want Al-Tuvae and then Pena and Alvarez? It's very simple for me. And look, if Jose wants to get two hits a game for the next five games and moving back in the top three, I'm okay with that. That's the beautiful thing about lineups.

They fluctuate. They're constantly fluid. That's why you have a lineup. That's why when you put a lineup, out there, you can change it the very next day depending on who's hot and who's not. But right now as we speak September the 10th, Jose Al-Tubi is not one of your top three

hitters. And that shouldn't be in the top three. He's hit 069 in the last seven games. He's hitting the last 15-1-75. We got the numbers up there from Josh C last night. Thank you. Thank you, Josh C. Shout out to you, my friend. All right. Let's squeeze in very quickly before I get to shut your ball mass up.

Doug is with us on 7-90. Doug, really quick, please. Hey, fellas, it's real simple. It's just like the election whenever it's the economy, stupid, right? About the elections every time. It's the injury, stupid. That is what the hell is going on with the Astros. I'm tired of Astros fans going, we're a suck or Joe Spotted, a terrible manager. Nobody's ever dealt with the amount of injuries to Astros that have had this year

any year literally that we can even find. So quit complaining, quit saying, oh, my. God, the sky is falling. If we don't make the playoffs this year, it's probably a good thing. We need the freaking rest. No, no, no, you don't get me there. I don't need my players resting, so let's give up the playoff. That doesn't make any sense. Okay. I know. I hate to go mathematical like the last guy did. Oh. Okay, how many, how many, how many freaking times had the Astro, how many more games

of the Astros played than every other team in all of baseball? Well, that's what's only two more last year. That's why we continue to break down. It's not the pitch clock. It's the amount of games the Astros have played in the last 10 years, period. Well, but the Astros only played two more than everybody else did last year. Thank you, Aguagetuck, for the phone call, sadly. And by the way, when the season ends, they go on long vacations.

They're not in the batting cage in November the 9th. I feel pretty confident. I mean, yeah, I think seven straight ALCSs, as you can say, there's some cumulative wear and tear. But, yeah, they got two extra games last year, so they should be fine. All right. Time for some people to shut their bumasses up. And if you want to tell us, shut our bum asses up, I'm okay with that. That's it.

Yeah, that's the thing. We're not perfect. Well, I'm closer than Ross is. But the point is... I figured you'd follow up somehow. Yeah. If you want to tell us to shut our bumasses up, we're here for it. But I don't think you're going to, because we're friendly.

You could. No, we've both been told to shut our bum masses up on this segment. 7-13. Generally, Gary comes after you about the... Hello. I'm Gary and I want everyone to do the wave and tell Matt to shut his bum ass up. I'm Gary. I'm Gary.

Now you're going Bradward on us. Okay. I'm sorry. I mean to go Bradward. I do sound like Bradward. I'm sorry, Gary. I don't mean to insult Bradward. 713-212-5-7-90.

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If you know somebody that's a bad tipper, tell them to shut that bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. I'm going first. 713, 2,1, 2, 5, 790. 713, 2, 1, 2, 5, 790. I had no idea who Haley Sawyer was until earlier this week. Haley Sawyer?

Haley Sawyer. Who'd at? She's an associated, she writes for the SoCal News Group. She writes, she covers the USC Trojans. Okay. She's also an Associated Press poller. She gets to poll. She gets to put together our top 25 poll.

Now, the Associated Press poll is meaningless. So it really, in large, it should just go away because the only poll that matters is the college football playoff pool, which will be coming out in a few weeks of the first go-around. Okay. Do you know what Haley did? No, I don't. South Florida, University of the Bulls in Tampa, went to Gainesville this past week, took a $500,000 check from Florida for playing the game, and they beat the Florida Gators in Gainesville. $5,000? 500,000.

Oh, he's going to say. No, 500,000. So Associated Press polls can be released to the media of who grabs, who puts what teams where. She moved Florida two spots up the top 25 poll. For losing. For losing. And when asked on a video why she did that, she said, I have my reasons, but it really doesn't matter anyway because our poll doesn't mean anything. So Haley, shut your bum ass up, B.

Shut your bum ass up, man. Wow. So you know what? If you don't like it, you obviously give two blanks about filling it out properly, then don't do it. But you're embarrassing yourself. And frankly, you know who the people are going after, who's going after her the most? Are female sports fans. And I'm glad for it.

Because we as guys do it, we come across as misogynist. But women are going, you're embarrassing. us because there are lots of legitimate female sports reporters out there. Haley, you ain't one of them. Wow. Very strong feelings. That's what I'm here for?

Heyley Osborne? No. Haley Joe Osmond? No. Her name is Haley Sawyer. Okay. All right. She can shut her bum ass up?

Yes. I'm good. Okay. Shut your bum ass up, man. Thank you. What did you get this way? Do you think? Can I just do Astros?

Like, I mean, it just keeps happening. Right. Luis Garcia His velocity First of all He's throwing 88 miles an hour When he goes out there When you saw that

Did you flip out It was not encouraging I didn't see it I heard it And it was not getting better Then he waves to the dugout Points to his elbow You know sometimes they come

And the trainers come Look at you and you give a couple Of warm up pitches And they're like Ah you're out They didn't even do anything He's like Yeah you want to get out of the game

Yeah we're out of the game It was so deflating and it keeps happening. Ain't nobody got time for all these elbow injuries. Ain't nobody got time for that? You feel like you could send out the last four months, right? I know, but it keeps happening. You feel like at some point is it going to stop?

It's relentless. It's ridiculous. I'm sad. But you get over it. It's not there here. Don't, don't, don't scream it. Okay, I won't. Keep it at a whisper.

It's not there here. Jonathan, what's the matter with you? Bill Belichick was coming out on the press conference and I don't know you guys saw talking about how there was a rumor saying that New England Patriot recruiters for the team weren't allowed in his stadium to recruit the kids or be around there

Bill Belichick didn't want them around Yes that's correct And when asked about it he goes Well I'm not welcome there So why should they welcome here But my thing is it's not about you You're not no These kids want to change their lives

feed their families and you're up here whining because you have a vendetta against a program that didn't like you. No one cares. This isn't about you. This is about the kids that want to better their lives and get an education and go forward in their dreams. Ain't nobody got time for that. Woo! So what he's saying is that they're not allowing scouts at North Carolina games from the Patriots because he's not welcome to the Patriots any longer. And Belichick's probably thinking, well, I don't want my guys going to the Patriots. I want them going somewhere else. Yeah, but then Reibel said that Pelichick is welcome, right?

Mike, Mike Rable said that. Yeah, there's, it's, it's, it's a long confusing

storyline that Frank Light. It is very confusing. And agents of recruiters talk. If that recruiter sees you, a agent, they're going to be talking to other, oh, he's a good,

we can't get them, but they all connect and he's worried about himself and, oh, because it's this and this, that was the only reason. And I, I think that's so distasteful.

Belichick, distasteful. Belichick spiteful. Disasteful. And he could try to us about mess up. according to Jonathan Allen. Yeah, you know, it's...

Have you separated who's whom? That was me. Okay. You know what? I'll do one more real quick. Please. And you know this hurts me, Matt. Steve Sarkisian.

Uh-oh. Oh, you better report. What was this? What was that? You're coming after, you're intimidating a young reporter who is asking a 100% fair question of something that's circulating online, where it looks like your starting quarterback, And the most famous college football player on the planet,

earned or not, looks hurt. You get asked about it that is totally above board. Then you try to intimidate him. And then you say, nobody films you in the bathroom? What does that even mean? Shut your bum ass up, C. Sarkeesian. Shut your bum ass up, man. And why are you so glistony?

Glistony? You see him? I don't stare at him now. It looked like you just came off a run at the beach. putting on some SPF 75. I don't know what he was going on in there. I was just more concerned about what he was saying. Yeah, it looked like he was getting ready for a

and by the way, he was looking for a, he's going to go to Smackdown. He's all oiled up. The rumor is that Arch soiled himself, and that's a terrible thing to put on your quarterback. See, that's not the rumor. That's what Steve Sarkeesian implied, and then everybody's running with it now. They're calling it Poop Gate. Oh, yay, yay! Did Arch Manning soil himself?

We all have to wonder because Steve Sarkeesian won't shut his bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. To those of you that are creating those really cute baby videos, it's time for you to fresh up your material. I'm seeing the same eight or nine over and over again. Anybody got time for the repeat of the baby videos. Ain't nobody got time for that. I do not.

These do not hit my algorithm. This is so funny that you're. Now you're tired of it. Yeah. Because I'm looking at the same one. and they're saying the same things. I love my mom. I love my dad because my grandma gives me all these extra treats before and after dinner.

I wake up at 2 o'clock in the morning and cry because I want someone to change my pants. I mean, that's fine. They were funny the first time around. Let's freshen these bad boys up. This is octogenarian humor. I like it when they're a six-month-old baby swear violently. Yeah, and then you repost them on Twitter when they're about the long horns. I wouldn't do that.

I mean, I thought about it. You did it. Oh, I did. Geo and Steve. We'll find out what's matter with you, folks. If you have something wrong with you, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-5-7-90, we have the news at noon, and I believe Ross, unfortunately, the Astros are slip-sliding away. I would say they're free-falling.

That's a different artist. Is that tomorrow's song? Hope not. Oh, God. All right, so here are the options tomorrow. If they win, we go with Faith by George Michael. Ooh, okay. Kendrick Lamar, which was a song,

will no, we'll understand, or appreciate. What? Yep. It was a massive, massive number one hit. Not with our audience, but that's a different issue for a different time. And then number three, do we go with free falling by Tom Petty if they lose? I don't know. Well, let's play some sing, sing, sing from Benny Gutman on the show.

I don't even know who Benny Goodman is. Yeah, right. 1150 on sports talk 790 let's go to the phones see what you guys are mad about and ladies too maybe I had a lady call the show says such a bum ass up maybe a couple it's happened several times yeah you guys on vacation well you take a lot but that's okay I take a lot because I get a lot you'll be out Monday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday where you're going New York City for what NBA broadcast meetings oh okay you're gonna call in about what for the win was to call in what's calling with some basketball calls.

Steph Curry, 30-footer. More news on that. Coming up at noon. You got some good news? We're also going to play Rank. Who's got a better non-conference basketball schedule? What are you talking about? University of Texas and University of Houston both releasing their non-conference schedule today.

Well, I would hope Houston's playing more. I mean, the Longhorns are going to rebuild. What are you guys ever rebuilding anything? They just hired a new coach. they got a bunch of new players every school's got a bunch of new players they got a rebuild no that's and the first game they're playing against duke

you hear this johnson the best team in the country last year excuses excuses one-on-one right here sports talks today why we're basketball heading a jack since 2003 that means you've got to fix things fast exactly y'all garbage oh lord geo what's the matter with you at 1151

all right can you guys hear me good yes sir okay perfect So I want to before I get to it, I got a I got to set your boned ass up for for you Ross Villareale and for Dr. Roto. But let me let me let me let me go back and just just preface this before I get to it. All right. So last Friday when Roto called, I asked them if I had made a good trade by trading Breeze Hall in a gooka for Brian Thomas Jr. and Ted McMillan. And you guys hype me up so much.

Dr. Roto said it was a steal. Yes, it was. You know. And so, yeah, so this past week, and Buka scored 23, and Breed Hall scored 20, and McMillan scored 11,

and Brian Thomas scored 9. And just, you know, you guys hyped me up so much, and I was calling my cousin saying, I finessed him so bad. I said, I was this, that, and the other, and, yeah, I got egg on my face, man. So, so, you guys, shut you bum ass up.

Mm-hmm. Get him. It's one week, Gio. It's one week, baby. It is one week. Trust the process, baby. It is one week. I'll give you that. And I am going to trust the process, but you guys hired me up so bad that I was just missed that and the other to my cousin. And now I got egg on my face. Yeah.

I thought Braylon Allen was going to get more carries. Thank you, Joe. He said he had to know one. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, I'll find you hug up on him. I know, you know, I put him on hold every time. They hang themselves out. You're a jerk.

Let's talk to Gary the waiver. Hi, Gary. Get him, Gary. Gary, what's it matter with you, Gary? Gary, what's it matter with you, Gary? Gary, what's it matter with you, Gary? Hey, guys, good show. Thank you.

Mainly. But, hey, man, I have arrived. You know how I know I have arrived on the Matt Thomas show? Have you arrived? Because you, a little while ago, you put me one rung below Brad on the ladder on your show. A massive dupuses, yes. You're on the list. I have a lot of.

Yeah. So anyway, my call is about all these people that call in after the fact, 2020 hindsight, perfect vision. And Mr. Thomas, this includes you earlier today. Everybody calling in about that. They should have done this. They should have done that. They shouldn't have put this man in.

They shouldn't have done that. I didn't do that once at all. What are you talking about? You'll miss listen to a different radio show. Get your ear, get your ears, get your ears clean out all that nasty-ass wax you got in there. How could I listen to a different show when I heard you say that I'm a wrong below Brad? You're actually right, you're there right there, mono and mono with them, actually. Anyway, so all you, all you sorry people that call in over and over and over again,

they should have done this. Let the team players and coaches and doctors run the team, not you people that. that want to try to hang on to it. So all you guys with 2020 perfect hindsight, shut your bum ass up, maim. May. Man? Yeah, me, ma'am.

Man. Thank you, Gary. Thank you, Gary, for joining us on the show. It was such a pleasure to have you on. Why are you talking like Dana Carvey's impression of George H.W. Bush? It wouldn't be prudent at this juncture. Oh, okay. You're doing, sorry. I was close enough. That's fine.

You're doing church lady. Wouldn't be prudent. You've been that special. What the hell's going on out here? Our lines one and four. Are those shut your bum ass up? Are they just generic old astral calls? Comment on poop.

Oh, no, no. Robert is talking about the poop gate. All right. Let's go to Robert. Robert, what's the matter with you? What's up, Governor Thomas? How you doing today? Amazing.

Thank you for asking. I do have a shut your bum ass up too, okay? Go for it. Let me do that. My son's a waiter, you know, and he's a good one. to the old man that yelled at him for no reason. That old man, and I'm not a young guy, okay? He needs to shut his bum ass up.

There you go. Shut your bum ass up, man. That's right, because my son's good. He's a good waiter. And then I was just going to say, you know, I know there was SpyGate and Deflate Gate, but Poop Gate, how it does them all. That's all I got to say.

Poop Gate's the best. You know, it's, I don't think he's told himself. He might have let one out. I mean, it's going to happen sometimes. Right, Ross? It happens everywhere. Could happen to church? Can happen to place of business?

Could happen on a football field? Yeah. You said you like to blast off on the plane. I do not. You dirty. Actually, that's actually not true. If the people in first class are giving me those looks like, I'm in first class and you're not.

Yeah, I'll knock one back. Absolutely, I will. Oh, my God. I'll have you, Duster Thomas. I'll leave the right leg of if I have to. All right, Dusty. All right. That's it for shut your bum ass up.

Thank God. Stephen and James Hankton will get to you guys after we get to the news at noon. And are the Astros slip-siding away in the America League West? That's up next. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Is the Matt Thomas Show. with Ross.

Oh, his plan sucks right now, frankly, Rossi. The information's unavailable to the model man. Well, that's because the trainers won't tell his information available to us. This song really fits. It's sad, but it fits. That's great. It does fit. Thank you very much.

It's amazing. Thank you. Thank you very much. Incredible stuff. Thank you. Wow. You know, Jonathan, you got a future in this business. You know, another hand, I don't know.

Me? Yeah. Yeah, probably not much longer. Stop. You're never leaving us. What year can, till when can you use your car for Uber? If I was going to go Uber, I would go get an electric car. I'd buy it and just go from there.

Oh, okay. Yeah, let me go pluck some money off my money tree and buy an electric car. Craig Ackerman, voice of the Rockets on television, got an electric car. Yeah. And he shot me, he was calling me on it. sent me a video, video time, FaceTime me. He doesn't have, he doesn't have to drive the car. He just sits in it.

You can charge it for free a lot of places, right? Yeah. But he just sits in the car. He doesn't, he has the hands free. It's the, what do they call it? Not auto driver or whatever. Autopilot. I was so jealous. Maybe it made me a less crankier if I get a vehicle

that someone can drive me around. I think that's the key. You're trusting that, though? You really trust him? He trusted. aren't you supposed to still be attentive? He is, but it's not like he didn't take a nap. I mean, he's still sitting up. Yeah, don't take any nap or don't do anything else.

Matt, I know what's going through your mind. What would be going through my mind, Ross? Please explain. A ludicivious axe. Please. That's why you miss driving so much. That's where your best work was done. Er.

With that, time for the news at noon at 12.06. And the news at noon is brought to you by Sports Talk 790. Yes, Matthew. Well, you just heard the highlights there or the low light, shall I say. Unfortunately, Astros lose to the Toronto Blue Jays. A number of things went wrong for the Astros. They were two for 11 with runners in its scoring position. Blue Jays were two for 10, by the way.

But you lost in 10 innings after in the first or excuse me, second inning, Luis Garcia lifted from the game. Of course they are awaiting tests and more information, but Luis Garcia, I believe, right elbow discomfort. See you in 2029.

That's what they're going with. After a 28-month recovery from Tommy John's surgery, unfortunately, he has another elbow injury. Did not look good because he just immediately came out of the game. So not good. Joe Spotted after the game calling it a gut punch.

Then also at the end of the game, you had Brian and Brayu blowing the save, giving up a couple of runs there. And the ninth, Craig Kimbril, giving up the unearned runner. He still hasn't given up an earned run. We're looking for the bright side.

Greg Kimball. But how would you describe his performance overall? Not great. No, he looks like he's just holding on. This is why I tell you. ERA doesn't tell you everything, Matt. I'm not to disagree with you on that. Especially for relievers.

I would think inherited runners is the, is the metric I would want to use. Oh, okay. How many of the inherited runners scored? How about his field independent pitching? Please. Which is at 3.14. That's not bad, but it tells you a little bit more than the ERA. Anyways, three of the last four times out, Matt, Brian Abraeu,

three earned runs against the Angels, that three run shot against the Yankees, and then two earned runs given up there. He did have a scoreless outing against the Rangers over the last weekend. However, three of the last four times, times out, he has given up runs. Velocity was not great on the fastball, nor was his location of that pitch.

And Joseo Tube got thrown out first to third on a throw by Vlad Guerrero. I forgot about that. And Christian Walker had a chance to be a hero late, didn't come through. I never heard of that. I mean, top me off the ledge. Bogus 7 couldn't do it an hour ago.

Can you do it? There's always today. You'd say that. I've been, I think I, did I say this last one? Friday. It just doesn't feel like their year. I said it on the post game that Friday. I think that's when they lost in 12. How were the calls last night?

Well, one guy did say that Jose Al Tuvei is spearheading a campaign to get Joe Spada fired, therefore he is tanking the games. Now, apparently, I saw this on Twitter today. I did not hear it for myself, but somebody called Sean today and asked why Joe Spada would make the terrible decision to put Jose Al Tuvei at second base to start the 10th inning, you know? It was, well, they had to do some shuffling around Because there were some pinch hits

And keratinin pinch hit for somebody I can't remember the exact order of everything He would have been their last recorded out, correct? Jose Al-Tuva, that's why he was on second. Yeah, that's right, that's the answer. Why? Oh, why was he on not playing second base? Why he was at second base.

Okay, yeah, I'm sorry, Al-Tube started the game at second base. Yeah. I thought you're talking about defensively. No, offensively. Yeah, offensively, yeah, there's no choice. I mean, no even talking about. So it's baseball one-on-one. We're still fighting with.

Sorry, yeah, I got confused by your question. All right, what else going on? I'll give you a ball. How about some silver linings? Please. A.J. Blueball, got you 10 outs of no, no hit 10 outs. He's been good. What a lonely feeling that is, hey, come on the mound and warm up.

We're all sitting here waiting for you to be ready. Yeah. You get as much time as you want. Now, you know what I would do? I would test that. Or you would wear out your arm? I'd be out there for half an hour. You would throw 70.

warm-up pitches and then you're out of the game. It slows down the momentum. That is a ridiculous statement from you. That's what I'm going to move on from. Please. All right. The NBA is changing a rule, Matt. Did you know that now, of course, a lot of players at the end of quarters, you've seen this.

They don't want to hurt their field goal percentage. So there's 0.5 left in the clock rather than heaving up a prayer and wanting to keep their field goal percentages where they're, are, they'll just do it right after the buzzer. We've seen many people do this over the years. Steph Curry, by the way, one of the ones that just lets it fly, which I appreciate. Well, now the NBA has announced a rule change regarding how that goes. According to the league, any shot classified as a, quote, heave, end quote, will be counting towards the team's field goal percentage, not the players.

To be classified as a heave, it must occur in the final three seconds of the first three quarters and be launched from at least 36 feet away. And the play has to start in the back court. Can I ask you who was really concerned about this? It must have been player driven, correct? Players, players, players. They look at their field goal percentages. They love their field goal percentages.

They're checking it throughout the game. So let me get this straight. If the basket, if the shot goes in, do they get credit for that? I think it's a team play no matter what is my understanding. Okay. So there you go. I don't think the general public could even care. What a waste of time.

It's just a reflection of the diva-like nature of NBA players, which I defend the NBA. I love watching the NBA. They're number one. But if you are not, if you, it costs you nothing to try and score three points. You should heave it 100% of the time, but they don't do it because they don't want to hurt their own field goal percentage. So it'd be like, to give you a parallel, it'd be like an NFL quarter. saying, hey, if I throw a heave-ho Hail Mary at the end of the half, it's intercepted,

it shouldn't count against me. Right. Which is ridiculous. It's ridiculous. It's a pass, is a pass, or shots a shot. I agree. Just ridiculous. Elsewhere in the NBA, Malik Beasley is being investigated over gambling by the NBA.

There was a probe by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. And at that time, the NBA said they were cooperating with. that investigation. Beasley apparently was not named a target in that investigation, nor was charged in the federal investigation, but now the NBA is conducting its own gambling allegations investigation against Malik Beasley. I tell you this all the time, and it's worth repeating. I'm surprised we don't have 10 of these a year. I really don't. I'm honestly surprised we have as many as we do. These players, I mean, come on. Anytime we say, anytime somebody's prop gets slammed, It's red flags for every one of these.

They have guardrails in place. All of these sports books. Have you met the average athlete? That's what I'm saying. They're not the brightest bulbs out there. Exactly. There's 150 NBA players starting a game or whatever it is. Wait, five times.

Yeah, 150 NBA players starting a game, then plus bench players. If they notice one of the props is getting slammed at their book, they're going to shut everything down immediately. Ridiculous. By the way. Speaking of this on a crossover, the NCAA announcing that three men's basketball players at Fresno State and San Jose State bet on their own, each other's games, or manipulated outcomes for betting purposes and are permanently banned. Now, see, that I get. It's an I just don't get it for NBA players who are making millions of dollars and these are being monitored.

A bunch of dumb college kids getting together. It shouldn't happen, but it's... I'm not going to go to the, well, they didn't know any better card. They're 19 years old. They should have known better. Well, I did some dumb stuff when I was. I was 19. You're doing dumb stuff at 40.

Exactly. Imagine how much dumber it was when I was 19. That's true. Thankfully, I didn't make those mistakes when I was younger. And I thought I knew everything there was to know

in the world. And that's the news of noon. Thank you very much, Sports RV. Thank you, Matt. We are going to, I don't know, should we compare non-conference

of the University of Houston versus Texas? If you want to, is UVH playing Duke? No, but I can tell you who they are playing. I would say the best programs the last several years,

Duke and Yukon are up there. Texas is playing them both. All right. Let's do this. We'll do this for one minute. Are you serious? One minute. We're not going to spend a whole lot of time on it.

One minute. We'll do it next. Nobody cares. One minute. 30 seconds each. Total one minute. Go cooks. 7-13.

Go cooks. That's for tickets for a universe use and versus Toronto. I guess how programs have the same amount of national championships. I know that. We can count those. You turn personal on me there. Not what? 713.

213. 212 5790. Back on the phones in a minute. You guys want to join us. You may do so at 713, 212. 579. 713, 212.790. Coming up at 120. If you missed our visit with Brian Bogussevick, it was awesome, as always.

We'll play that for you. At 130, Willie Fritz will be with us. Our Cougars playing in Colorado this Friday at T.D.E.C.C.U. Stadium 630 kick time. Huge matchup. Going to be big. By the way, we've got... Where do you get your tickets?

UHcougars.com. Thanks. Slice tickets or 713 go coogs. Be there for that. Congratulations. We've got a new richest man in America. It's the world's richest man. And you're saying, well, Matt, what does that do with sports?

Well, it's interesting. The man who's now on top is Oracle Chairman, Mr. Ellison, Larry Ellison, now worth $101 billion. What? I thought Elon was worth like $200 billion. I'm just telling you, world's richest person after Oracle stock surge. Who's saying this? This is TV stations. You got Forbes saying it.

I mean, it's all over the place. Forbes said it. I guess we trust them the most, right? Yeah, Oracle stock leaped yesterday at 40% was potentially heading for its best day since 1992. Bloomberg reporting Ellison's wealth increased by more than $100 billion to $393. Oh, okay. Musk is now worth $3.85.

Well, you're saying, well, what does this have to do with anything? That trickle down economics, baby. It's all going to trickle down to us, right? he is a huge Michigan Wolverine super booster He's the one He's the one that help with the quarterback Don't bring it up to Gordy

Gordy's not going to like that Yeah he was the one that That helped Bryce Underwood say Yeah LSU, you're a community college I'm going somewhere much nicer for better education University of Michigan Yeah The guy with the fan boat shop

Couldn't pony up the cash Butros, Crackland's and Lafayette could pick a step up the NIL money. Larry Crawlady Farm couldn't pony up the cash now, baby. We can't compete with Larry Allison now. Humma? Is it Huma? Homa? Homa.

Louisiana? I got the Tiptoe. Tipado's ice house didn't come through for under one day. We got to sell a lot of crawledaddies to get the $400 billion now. You know, I was thinking about this yesterday. And I, you argue with me about it. But you're actually right. Everybody is...

Don't clip that. Don't clip that. That's for every argument we have. Go ahead. So we've got about 30 schools that are just cash whipping everybody. Yes. There's only one national champion per year. Yeah.

29 are going to be like, damn, we didn't spend this money properly. Yep. But some are spending more than others. Again, in my mind, and I was teasing you by Texas, I think the school that probably would have the most to lose if they don't do anything outside. of what they're normally doing, would probably be Texas Tech. Because Texas Tech is new to the party.

You also got to pay a premium, though. Didn't know what was the quote? It was like 30% extra. You tag a million? You got to make that 1.3 if you're going to Lubbock. Yes, because everyone's admitted you can't get athletes to go to Lubbock, Texas. That if you are Florida State, if you're Miami, if you're Notre Dame, if you're Alabama, you can get those five stars. Yeah, what's so great about Tuscaloosa?

Tradition? Yeah, is it? But hell, they're six and five in their last 11 games. I mean, if Nick Saban's there, it's something, but I don't know if Caleb DeVore is going to make... That's true. It also helps when you have the greatest coach of all time. Yeah. All right, to the phones we go.

Let's go to Ray in Miami at 1225 on the Matt Thomas show. Ross, Ray, good morning. Hey, how you doing, guys? I wanted to talk about the Astros, but, you know, as we're on hold, we switch our takes. my take is I'm the one I called in about CJ yesterday my take is Matt I would love it

if you would I'm working and listening I would love it if you would continue your Mark van der Meer family feud takes because my co-workers and I is just hilarious well I'm glad you like that

continue that please continue the Mark Van Damir family feud the Mark Van Damir family feud talk and the pilot talk Thank you very much. I actually use the pilot talk to romanticize the misses occasionally. She likes it too. Now, Adam Clinton is the number one at the station because he does Trump. He does everybody.

He does them all. He's way better than I. My better than I am. I fully admit that. Only in that though. That's all I want. Everything else I'm far superior. All right. Thank you very much for the phone call. Yeah. I zoned out. What's happened? If you missed it, we were doing Mark Van derby play calls discussing the Carrie McNair Bob McNair, Janice McNair, Hal McNair, Cal McNair, Hannah McNair, family feud. Yes.

I remember that. Yeah. And how probably he's not going to mix the brotherly non-love in the middle of his playbby play calls. What's the latest on that? I need some more. Let me ask you this question.

This is a serious question. They're not going to respond to the owner of the team getting called out for having a fake degree. Mum's the word. Are we more interested in it than the general public is? I know you are. Okay, taking myself out of this.

I guess I am, but yeah, we haven't. Why don't you put a poll question up? Is this being addressed by Texans media people, media folks? No. This is kind of radioactive, is what I'm saying. No, the Texans have declined comment. As is anybody from the McNair family? And that's what they should do.

say they should that's exactly what our favorite attorney Tony Busby wants to do he wants it to be a war awards and media and the McNair's like no I'm not doing that I would have a right thing to do has Jonathan Alexander said anything about this or there was a story there was a story that was based off of the fact that pro football talk got the information leaked to them probably by the Busby side probably not probably definitely of course I mean I'm just curious it feels like this is I think calling out the owner for getting forced out by his,

forcing out his brother and then getting called out for having a fake degree, it feels like it should be like firestorm worthy. And also, by the way, part of the reason why Kerry apparently was also forced out was because he did not like the way the Texans handled their business during the Deshawn Watson and also the minority owner's sexual assault charges, kind of thing. There's some things to go beyond just the Mrs. McNair likes one

one summer. I haven't seen this on ESPN. I haven't seen Adam Schaefter address this. Ian Rapaport. Now, of course, all of them are protecting the shield. Yes. But is that... And I get FOIA credit for not doing that. Yeah. Well, yeah, Florio

hates the NFL. Floreo gives him great pleasure. But Florio also works for an NFL NFL partner, too. He's on NBC. That's true. So I do give him credit But he likes coming after Roger Goodell He likes poking the bear

I mean I don't I only hate listen to other stations And the few minutes I was I was not hearing any information We talked about this being About journalistic integrity Possibly being compromised With ESPN and the NFL

Getting in bed together I don't have definitive proof Of any of that But it feels like this is part This is happening But couldn't you also And I'm not disagree with you But couldn't you also say

This is just Tony Busby Trying to gain media attention Yeah yeah but Tony Busby is a well-known big-time lawyer. Cal McNair is the owner of the Houston Texans. An owner of a franchise is being called out for not having a degree in forcing out his brother. And I haven't seen once second a coach that we're getting more coverage on. Is C.D. Lamb, the WR1 for the Cowboys.

Well, the reality is this. The biggest thing that Tony Busby has going against McNair's is that he believes that his client was kicked out in help by assistance by the NFL. The NFL should have no business involving themselves in any family business at all. Unless they were just trying to make it all go away and be like, yeah, let's just get this thing to Cal and let's move on. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't think Roger Goodell is like, yeah, let's get court carry out of there. And maybe Cal came to... No, no, but could the NFL help in pushing Cal to a more favorable stance over Kerry? Absolutely. It didn't have to come to a vote to get Cal to take over for Janice? Didn't the owners have to vote on that, I think? I thought they negotiated that out before I got that level. Okay, I could be wrong.

But clearly, I'm saying, clearly Kerry is, he needs cash. Pro football talk is a major outlet, whether we like it or not. And I just feel like I haven't seen this talked about anywhere else. And maybe I'm just not looking in the right places. 1230, sports talk 7.7.1. So we went away from the Astros for a minute. We're going to give you more McNair family feud slash Astros talk to anybody else in the marketplace.

Does Brian Abray who shrivel on the mound in the ninth? Coming up next. 1235 on Sports Talk 790. Madden Rawls with you until 2 o'clock this afternoon. 713-212-5-790 if you want to come in and be a part of our conversation. 713-212-5-7-90. Tomorrow Astros have a day game in Toronto. We'll go 10 to 1 and then Astrozondek will go at 1 o'clock.

McTagra will make his normal appearance with us at 11. We'll do. I just don't get at 1130. So I've got a lot to get to between now and 2 o'clock today, which will feature. They are visit with the Brian Bogus Civic from earlier today. If you missed that, plus Willie Fritz and our Houston Cougars off to a 2-0 start. All right. Really fast.

One minute here. That's all we're giving it. Non-conference schedule. University of Houston. I'll go first. What? Yeah. Okay.

This is non-conference basketball. We're going to give two points for a good opponent. Oh my God. One for an average and zero for anything that's a gimmee, okay? Is that right? Here we go. Are you adding these up? Okay.

Mississippi exhibition doesn't count. Lehigh, zero points for me. Townsend, zero points. Okay. Oakland, zero points. Oakland's tough. Auburn, two points. Ryder, zero.

Syracuse, two points. That's four. Okay. Tennessee, 2.6. Okay. TBD, probably give me somebody in good in Vegas. I'll give myself two points for that too.

Eight. Sure, why not? Florida State. One or two points? I don't know. What is the criteria again? Two is a really good opponent. One's a decent opponent.

Okay, I guess. Okay, that's two. Okay, why not? Nine points. Jackson State, zero. New Orleans, zero. At Arkansas, in New York, two points. It's 11 points.

Middle Tennessee is zero. So I have 11 points in my non-conference. Okay, great. Are you counting these points? Let's go. Go with your taxes. Here we go. Duke.

Two. That should be three. Stop. Two points. I'm sorry. You're trying to give Florida State two points and Duke is... I only gave Florida State one. Okay.

So Arkansas is two points and Duke is two points. The same amount of points. Every team changes. Duke could be a very big disappointment this year. Duke and Arkansas are on the same plane. Okay. Two points. You get.

That's four points. Okay, so four points for Duke. No, you get two. Lafayette, that's one point. Zero. Oh, my God. Fairly Dickinson. Jesus.

Fairley Dickinson won. Didn't they beat a 15 as a 1 or something like that? Or a 16 and a 1? Sorry, 15.2 or 16?1. Fairly Dickinson, that's two points. Kansas City, oh my gosh. That's difficult. We'll give it one point, though.

Ryder, if that's a zero, that's fine. Arizona State, that would be James Hardin's alma mater. That's two points. Let's see. Maui Invita, Washington State or Shamanad, probably going to be Washington State. We'll give them a point. Why not? Championship round of the Maui Invitational.

Who knows? Virginia, Powerhouse. that's three points. Southern, they're pretty good, they can be plucky, we'll give it one point. Yukon, they were back-to-back national champions recently, that's three points. And then Le Moyne, very difficult team out of, I don't know, somewhere in the northeast, that's zero points. Maryland, eastern shore, quite frankly, sounds made up. And then it's into the conference play. I try to be honest and objective with you folks.

And Ross made it a, honest and objective. Made a terrible bit out of it. where you have Duke in Florida State, you want to be the same amount of points? I didn't have a grandiose scale. I had a small scale. I wanted to keep it a brief segment. You were extending it. Okay.

I'm going to tell you something crazy. I think Duke should count more than Arkansas. Maybe Arkansas goes deeper in the tournament this year. You never know. Okay. Someone sounds bitter. Mm-hmm. Okay.

What's a more difficult non-conference scheduling? I'm talking about Matt. Okay. What do I sound better? I'm just trying to be objective. Yeah. Yeah. Get them.

Our schedule is more difficult. and we will win more games and we will celebrate our national championship. They're a better basketball program. No question about that. You got the number one recruiting class. You got the same coach and now their coach fails in the Final Four a lot. But you've got the same great coach every single year. And the Longhorns are in a rebuild.

And their first game of the season, they're playing Duke. You're constantly rebuilding. Yeah, they are. It's a hot mess. Absolutely. It's a hot mess. It's nothing but disappointment. Rodney Terry never should have been retained.

Sean Miller's there now and we'll see. It's like a B higher. not an A plus. Who would have been the A higher? Calvin Tampson. You can't have him. He didn't want to go to, he don't want to go somewhere. I can't remember the basketball recruiting our coaching cycle, honestly.

All right. Well, our attempt to try to balance out the non-conference schedule to not work out very well, and for that, I apologize. We'll try to do better next time. Conference late comes out. We have two big Monday games this year at Iowa State and at Kansas. admit you missed the Big 12 basketball. give a minute.

SEC was a better conference last year. Oh, do you have more fun playing Ole Miss and basketball or do you have more fun playing Baylor? Baylor, of course. Come on. Yes. Come on.

Big 12 basketball, low-key is better. On the highest of keys, they weren't better last year. On Alicia keys, they're much better. On all the keys. On the Florida keys, they're much better. On the black keys and the white keys. And all 88 keys, they weren't better.

On the price is right, it's much better. I don't know. Kentucky sounds pretty tough. They're pretty good. That's prestigious. They're not in the Big 12th. Of course, Florida, the national champions. Tennessee. Alabama's very good.

Very favorable calls in the second half of the national championship game. You got a rivalry there. Auburn is great. Oklahoma is a classic and they're not in the Big 12. LSU. Reigning national champions who slap U of H. You got them on the schedule. Oh, slap is what I'll.

Who absolutely destroyed and mauled. Get them, Kookefans.com. Get them. Get them. Let's see. You're playing the reigning national champs. Do they even play? don't see Kentucky on the schedule.

Oh, there it is. Yeah, they play in Lexington. All right. We attempted to get away from our Astro Blues for a few minutes. Let us have this time, please. Tennessee and Knoxville, that's tough. I'm really looking forward to that Maryland Eastern Shore game at the Moody Center. Can you name Maryland Eastern Shore's mascot? Yeah, they're the Hawks. You don't even know.

I see a little bird mask. You had to guess the bird. I hope that's right. It looks like a hawk. All right. For 10,000 M.T. bucks. Don't look this up. Okay. I'll let you look at the logo. Kansas City's mascot is?

The Buccaneers. That is incorrect. Hold on. Let me look at the logo. Look at the logo and see what you can figure it out. Le Moyne looks like they're the dolphins. I don't think eastern, Northeastern New York would be a place for dolphins. Oh, they're the kangaroos. Or the ruse.

What do you think it is? It's the ruse. Kangaroos is right. You're right. Yes. I've done a game in Kansas City game in Kansas City. See? That's a tough one. Maryland, Eastern Shore are the Hawks.

I was right. Suck it. You really guessed that right? It was the logo. It was literally a hawk of the basketball. That's awful. You get no credit. I mean, it could have been an eagle.

That's true. You had a 50-50 chance at it. That's right. All right, Mr. Lehigh and Towson. Hey, we play superior competition in the league play. We've got to have a little bit of a warm-up. Not superior competition in league play. Let's look at the top 25.

How many teams are the SEC versus Big 12? A few. Iowa State. Probably Baylor. Big 12 is a very difficult and toughly. Arizona, probably all going to be in the top 25, you think. Okay. Jeff Borzo.

Kansas. Let's see. Who, reigning champion Florida Gators. Oh, Yukon's number four on this list. Texas is playing them. St. John. Oh, BYU is up in the number. six.

Remember because they got all those recruits? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're spending money. Oh, Kentucky's number nine, another SEC team. Oh, you know what? Arkansas's number. Actually, Arkansas is 11 ahead of Duke on this list. There you go. 11 and 12. You're welcome.

So you win out. There's a point for you there. All right. We've got two really good competitive teams and hopefully at some point this year we'll talk some college basketball. Not likely, but we'll try. It's top 25. As you mentioned, Jayhawks are 24. This is just on some ESPN guys list.

Tennessee top 25 NC State Wolfpack is out the Maui Invitational There you go Longhorns are playing there 24th Head of the guitar heels at 25 Longhorns Others are receiving votes Let's go baby

Let's go hey you win a couple of those games In that Maui invitation You'll get that top 25 You shouldn't make fun of me I spend more time on college Texas basketball than I should And I've suckered you in How do you mean suckered me in?

For massive disappointments and sadness No I watch I disappoint myself I don't know why All right, 1243. That will conclude our college basketball talk because I think we've lost every listener we had. Woo. Hook him horns.

Let's go, baby. Sean Miller. Taking him on the promised land. He's going to be sweating through his shirts in the tournament. Let's go. That's a great line that nobody understands. Somebody did. You did?

I'm the only one. John did. Do you understand that? Zero chance. Come on, guys. Y'all know, I don't know. I thought he was going to go, come on guys. Of course, I know.

When in doubt, the answer is he doesn't know. I had no idea. Just go through just Google Sean Miller's sweat. Actually, I want to hear his live reaction. Do it real quick. That's disgusting.

Sean Miller sweat. This is not, this is not appropriate for major market radio. Why not? I want to hear his live reaction. Sweats. All right. Hit enter and then we're going to put the...

Oh, that's disgusting. Is that real? That's real life sweat? See, I wanted to hear his reaction. Oh, that's gross. Jonathan, you can believe this. I was on his flight one time. Oh my God.

And the pilot was sweating so much that it was like pouring out of his hair. It was disgusting. So we made it safely. We landed. We were in a middle of a thunderstorm for a couple of hours. And we took forever to get down because apparently everybody in the flight got sick. And they had to get somebody from the passenger crew that was a former pilot. And he was super nervous.

It was awful. It was one of the worst thoughts I've ever been in my entire life. And just let you know, I didn't have the fish. This isn't. It was terrible. There's not many plane movies. Oh, come on. And they ran out of coffee, too.

I guess what it's called? What plane movies have I said? This sounds so familiar. You're terrible, Matt. What could the movie about planes be called? All right, let's take a break. Take a break. There's a couple, though.

There's a couple. For sure there is. There's for sure there is. You know, the red zone is for unloading and loading only, by the way. Or it's at the white zone. I forgot. 713. 212.5.7.9.

All right. So we opened the show today at 10 o'clock with perhaps my most down moment as an astro observer this year. Let me be fair to say. I mean, we've had, the astros have had some bad losses, and that's going to happen over a 162. But it felt like yesterday was, first of all, a very winnable game, a tough luck loss in a very important week. when you're holding on it for dear life in the America League West and you lose Luis Garcia to more elbow discomfort, which means only the worst.

It came right out of the game, right out of the game. Yeah. No try to rethrow, no trying to have small talk up there. It was bad. Like, yeah, let's get out of here, guys. It's not good. So how am I supposed to treat? And I'm asking for your advice.

Okay. And you on the radio audience as well, 713-212-5-790. The Astros have 27 games left. Is that right? Let's see. 15, 40. No, less than that.

They play 145. I think it's 17, right? 17, not 27. 17 games left. How do I responsibly treat these next 17? Here's my initial answer. I am fully vested. I fully want them to win.

I want them to win the America League West. At the very worst, I want them to get a walled card spot. I want them to get out of this runners in scoring position horrific slump. I want Brian and Brayu to act like he can be a closer in the big leagues on a consistent basis.

I'm not asking for Christian Walker to about 300. I certainly would like him to back closer to 250 than 200, but you know, it is what it is. I need my runners in scoring position. I need Jose Altuvae to not take any chances on the base paths at all under any circumstance and be I mean, I can't even ask him to be a decent

base runner. I'm asking for, right now, putrid, I would go to just below average. Do I need to dumb down my expectations or still have this, hey guys, everything has gone the wrong direction for a better part of two months and when it comes to the injury angle that has been bad for six months and we're sitting here with 17 games left to go in the season and the Astros are still in first place. Walk me through these turbulent waters the next 17 games. I just think I feel like there's a number of different directions we can go

because you could always rest back on the fact they are still in first place but why did why didn't yesterday hit me so much in the gut as compared to other frustrating performances like when they lose to Oakland or they lose a game to Baltimore or they nearly get no perfect game why am I why did yesterday hit me so much harder than the other losses in the last month just piling up it keeps happening they've lost what seven of the last 10 now at this point it keeps happening in the same similar fashion with the runners

with respect to the runners in scoring position you had it all yesterday you had it all your starting pitcher left the game with elbow discomfort you were crappy with runners in scoring position Jose Altuve got thrown out and then the one guy you're supposed to be able to rely on in the back of the bullpen

blew the game it just added it all hit you at once in one game as everything had been piling up. And to Brian Abrayu for a second, it feels like if he doesn't get the very first guy, we're in for a 25-pitch multi-minute inning where it should be up and down, up and down, and get the three guys out and get out of the ballpark.

I like Brian Abrae, who's still been very good this season. His numbers are very good, but yeah, he just looks like he's a little taxed. And it happens. It's September 10th. Bullpins look taxed right now sometimes. And Robert. So how, if he,

he's taxed, how are they supposed to hold on? Craig Kimbril is not an anything guy. Go ahead. Sorry. No, I'm just, give me the second best reliever. I mean, is Brian King going to carry the Astros during these turbulent times when Brian and Bray, you can't? I mean, that's a lot to put on a situational lefty.

I have a crazy idea. Go ahead. Win a couple games by more than three runs, so he doesn't have to throw for two days. I can't. Can we get that? is this is this the craziest thing you ever heard well maybe we don't have to use your leverage guy every other day or three out of four days all the time you have to use leverage in a Saturday 11 nothing game

exactly yesterday just hit me harder and I was and maybe part of it was because I just watched my daughter lose a five-set match it was pissed off about that yeah it didn't help but yesterday was terrible a bray who couldn't find the strike zone uh astro situational hitting has been porous all really frankly 90% of the season beginning tagged out at third for all two of me my the greatest astor of them all

that really hurt Ross that that that sometimes very rarely in baseball does defensive plays really fire you up like taking a home run away can fire up a team off the wall but a ground ball the first base is not supposed to get

whatever the crowd was at Rogers Center all in a tizzy. Did you just see that? And our friends in MLB Network are like slow moan on the big, on the big wide view of it. They're saying, look at Al-Tubi how he did it. I've never seen that in my life. Or the Astros are inventing new ways to get out. Especially Jose Al-Tube.

You want to get picked off first? We got you. You want to be going to trying to stretch out a single and a double getting thrown out? We got you. Bad stolen base. We got you. Picked off. Yeah. A back throw from the catcher, we got you. He thinks it's a pass ball, so he runs for second,

and it's in the catcher's glove, and he gets thrown out. We got you. First, ground ball hit the first, and we're going to third, not lollygagging, as CJ Stroud would say, but not full sprint. We got you. Any kind of way you want to get thrown out of the bases, he's doing it. It was not a lollaggagg, but it was not run-on content. It was more of a, yeah.

What's a tick down from a sprint? Let's ask the sprinter. A stride. Stride. Okay, he's striding to third. Was he strutting? Was he ambling? I like that. Striding to third, not sprinting to third. This shows you where we are because the squad, we're watching the different ways of implosion.

And we're supposed to be celebrating hopefully an America League West championship. Boy, I'll tell you what, next week at Diken Park, y'all better be loud. And if I dare catch you doing the wave, I will find you and hunt you down like a rabid dog. Who cares? They're doing, just win the games. They do the way for nine innings. I don't care if they win. Let's go.

You're saying to me the only way the Astros win is that the fans do the way for nine innings? I did not say that, no. All right. Final hour of the show will feature our conversation with Brian Bogussevick. It will also feature a visit with Willie Fritz, the University of Houston coach. Cougars are going to take on Colorado on Friday night. And we got, believe it or not today, the category is? All right.

Hell fine. By the way, rotten five tomorrow. What? At 1250. So you could actually go home today and do it. Do the Texans deserve to be in the rotten five? I say no, but it's not my rotten five. I'll get my research team on it.

Ooh, who's your research team? There's several of us. All right. 713-212-570. 7-1-3-212-5-70. You're saying, Matt, where's all those Texans talk today? They didn't practice today. They were off again.

They've been a lot of off days. they haven't seen the field since what Sunday gonna have to go hard Thursday Friday Saturday and then the Buccaneers and baking refield here on Monday night we'll get a deeper dive on that later in the week 713-212 5 790 this is the Mac Thomas show with Ross

all right Ross and I just talked during the break and we're going to try a little example here and we're only going to do this for one second because we've got very limited time here so Ross here goes nothing We have doomed and gloomed And we have tried to be as positive as we can For the entire season

Yes We don't take things too seriously When things are going well We don't think the sky is falling When the team slumps Or goes into a semi-long losing streak It could be worse We've seen worse

We've seen worse We go back to 2010 It can get worse But today was the day That was the breaking point Last night for me was a breaking point I'm going to I don't know if this is going to work

What? Is there someone out there that can get me off the ledge because Bogusovic couldn't do it? No, he couldn't. Is somebody to steal a phrase from one Bill Joel

keeping the faith? If you've been listening to show for any length of time today, I'm down. Ross is concerned. I don't know if you're all the way down, but yesterday for me was a tough one. Seven or the last ten,

and then another starter got injured and left the game. with elbow discount. Not good, Bob. You already had two starters get Tommy John this year. You don't know who your bullpen is. You don't have your faith in your ninth inning guy. You don't really have an eighth inning guy.

Lance McCullors is just going to sit in the bullpen and do nothing. Who can hang out? Who gets in a game first? Logan Van Way. Van Way. Van Way. Way. Why? Then why?

Or Lance McCuller. Who's next to get in the game? Logan. See? that's not the answer we want. You're not paying Logan Van why $18 million a year. All right. So now, okay, shake myself.

Okay. If you can call this show in the next five minutes, all we got is five minutes. Uh-huh. And talk me off this ledge. I'll take it. Because you know what? I do that for y'all.

I mean, I can give you positive things about the team. I can too. You still in theory have a great one-two punch and Hunter Brown and Frommervaldes. You got a great one punch. one two punch. Framber is an egg. It was good.

He was good last time he went out. He technically gave you a quality start. That's true. Well, seven innings of four run ball. It was like a quality. But it wasn't one of unearned? Was it? Maybe, I don't know.

I hope you're right. You're right. You're right. It was close. Seven innings of four. You can win games like that. Cray has been good. He's going to turn around.

Altuvae's going to snap out of what he's gone. And then Pena and Alvarez are good at the top of your lineup. That's all you got Is your case closed? Your Honor Diaz had three hits yesterday Ooh Yeah His bat's waking up at game 145

Okay Took a while but it's there now It's there It's there Victor Caratini's a good pinch hitter Jack Myers is back He's got a hit every game since he's come back That feels good

I predicted four hits this series He's got one So he's 25% of the way there. Let's get three today, baby. Let's go. All right. I'm ready.

Okay. Between me and you and that, Ross, how do you think you're doing so far? As I watch a Cal Raleigh highlight of a home run. What's he got? Like 60 home runs now? I don't know. No, he can't have that many. I know.

I think he's got 53 maybe? Oh, they're bringing up the AOS standings and I did a jump scare. Dare I check the Fangrass playoff odds? We got bogus epic in five minutes, thank God. Okay. Okay. So here we go. Okay. Can you do something that I feel like I've done for you for the last 16 years in this radio station? Talk you off the ledge, sports RV. I've talked to you.

The Astros have the highest percentage to win the AOS of anybody in the division. That's good. 47.8%. All right. Remember, when the rockets were down 3.1, did I say the season was over? No. Did I tell you the Astros? Astros would have suffer against Oakland and Kansas. Yeah, it would so on divisions?

Yes. Yeah, over. When the Germans bomb, Pearl Harbor, we say it was over? We brought up history in the show? Motivational. It's a movie quote. Some of y'all got that. I appreciate y'all.

Okay. Here we go. Charles 790 at 108. 108. Hello, Charles. Remember two years ago when the Astros needed to win one game to win the division, or the Rangers need to win one game to win the division. Yes, sir. And the Astros won the division.

Yeah. It's going to be okay. It doesn't matter how bad things look. The Astros figure it out when it's over and done. The Astros are going to be the champions of this division. Boom. Thank you, Charles. Charles filled it up for us, Rossi.

He's got you feeling good now? Better. Okay. Jose and Laporte on 790. Hello, Jose. man listen dude when you got blue balls on the mound nobody's scoring not bad first blue balls reference on the show today yeah as hog nuts approved sheena oh sheena you're on seven oh hello good afternoon so you know just when i say you know it was a gut punch last night i agree with a lot of what y'all is saying but what i keep in the back of my mind is the team that's hottest going into the postseason can make a run for it. We've seen it before.

If this team can figure it out and get hot, we saw it in 2011 with the St. Louis Cardinals. They were over 10 games out at the beginning of the September from making the playoffs. And they made it in the last series of of the season. They were actually playing Houston.

They made it because I think the Braves lost. And then they go on to win the World Series. You get hot at the right time. And we know these Astros can do that. We saw them do it in June. Get hot at the right time. They can make a run for it. And surprise all of us. Mike drop.

Thank you. 17 games left for us. Beat the Mariners in the series, beat the Rangers in the series. You gain a game on both of them. You reduced, stay with me.

You reduce the magic number. Yeah. You got three with Atlanta who's mailing it in. Oh yeah. And then you get six with the A's and the Angels who are thinking about

where they're going on their Vancouver vacation. Astro dominate bad teams. where they're inviting Jonathan to go as long as he tips, but he doesn't like to tip very often. He's going to get the prepaid, all-inclusive. See, and then I'll just tip that every time I get a beer, a beer or a little shy, or you know what? Matt loves the lemon drop.

I might get a lemon drop. I do like that. Matt likes lemon drops and sexes is on the beaches. And the drink's pretty good, too. But oh, all. All right, let me squeeze in Jerry and Tomball, and then we're going to get back to our buddy Brian Bogussevick. I think that's the call.

She ended, they all did great. Do you feel a little bit better? I have felt amazing. Remember, tomorrow? And kind of sleepy. Kendrick Lamar's song? We'll see. Or Faith by George Michael?

Sure, why not? Or Free Fallin by Tom Petty? One of those three will be the introduction songs tomorrow on the show. Jerry on 7 on a hello, Jerry. Hey, guys, glad to be part of your show. Hey, I've been an Astros fan my whole life last 58 years, and I just don't feel this team has the, uh, has it to do. too many injuries, too many

not enough enthusiasm out there. About two days, not getting hot at the right time. I'm not feeling it this year. What the hell? Obviously we were looking for it. We were looking at people to pump us up. Now he just depressed ourselves. He was supposed to be pumping you up. Yeah, it worked. It worked just the opposite. What the hell, man?

Didn't work at all. Not at all. Brian Bogussevick is joining us next. Willie Fritz is going to pump us up. for the Cougar football team coming up as well. So we got that. But first, Ross, let's take that football knowledge of ours and make some money, please.

Yes, it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Cougars head coach, Willie Fritz, coming up in the next segment right now. Going to bring you a good conversation with Brian Bogus, Sevik Space City Home Network. Of course, former Astro always brings us great conversation about your Houston Astros. Unfortunately, conversation surrounding them isn't great

as they lost a heartbreaker yesterday. Brian Abraeu giving up the game in the ninth inning. Conversation started off with Brian Bogusevich talking about what he's seeing from him. Yeah, you know, when Abraeu's right, it doesn't matter who you are, what style of here you are. His stuff is overpowering enough to get the best contact lineups to swing and miss. I mean, the whiff rates that he gets on each of his pitches individually are crazy. But they have to be working together, right? he's got to get that good crossfire angle on this fastball to his glove side to set up the big

sweeping slider that comes off the same plane but goes even further out of the zone. And, you know, if you go back and look at kind of the pitch chart yesterday, there were misses outside of the zone. That's a problem. But the fastballs in particular that were in the zone weren't getting to that arm side or to the glove side. They were in the middle of the plate. They were hitable pitches.

They were pitches that weren't going to set up. the slider going down and away out of the zone. And anytime a pitcher is missing up and to the arm's side, the first thing that you think of is fatigue. And then you start looking at the velocities. It was a lot of 95s and 96 is yesterday when typically we see 97s and 98. And honestly, in a situation like that where it's a got-a-have-it game against the first-place team in the American League,

you would think a little bit extra juice run. And I was waiting to see 99s and maybe 100. So it's starting to look like he's got, I don't think the closer thing has gotten to him. I don't think, you know, he's an eighth inning guy that can't do the ninth inning. I think he's the one guy who's been the constant down there all year. You know, he hasn't had an injury. He hasn't had performance affect him and him floated in and out of the high leverage situation. It's been full go.

And they've leaned on him, you know, even when Hater was there more heavily than anybody. And it just, it's starting to look like it's catching up to him. Yeah, and that just begs the question, what's the solution? Just a couple of days off, just something he has to work through. And, I mean, it'd be nice if the office could go out there and score a bunch of runs, but they just end up in so many high-leverage situations because of the nature of how the team is. Yeah, you hit it on the nose, right? There is no solution from a pitching standpoint.

You only got the guys you got, you only have the availability of what you got. And if it's a closing situation, it's going to be broken. Ryan Abrae you, and you're going to have to live and die with him because that's what you got and that's what you're going to have to do. The solution or, you know, way around it is exactly that. It's to score more runs. You know, it's not, if you lose a one-run game because the bullpen gives it up, it's not necessarily on the bullpen. Guys aren't perfect. Guys are going to give up runs here and there. Complementary baseball is there being times when you score so many runs early that your starting pitcher can really settle in and just pound the strike zone and worry about nothing, but

getting deep into the game. You know, it's creating situations that aren't safe situations so you can throw to the guys who haven't thrown in five days who are fresh versus the guys who've thrown, you know, three out of the last five days and been getting worn out all year. And we've seen far too few of those games worth the offense just taking over and saying, hey, pitchers, you guys essentially have the day off today. Brian Bogaisevic with us here on Sports Talk 790. It's been a tough goal of it.

last 1530 games or so for Jose Al Tuve. And I find myself, Brian, questioning like, okay, is this just a typical Jose Al Tuvei slump or is this some decline? What are you seeing from him at the plate? A little bit, a little bit of both, maybe. He's, he's always a guy who when he struggles is going to get super aggressive. So you're going to see some wild swinging. He's also a guy who, you know, all throughout the course of his career, will hunt pitches and guess in certain situations. And every once in a while, you know, he guesses wrong and takes a swing that looks ridiculous. But, you know, it's an extended kind of version of that right now,

which makes me think that, you know, is he in a situation where he's having to do more of those things to kind of keep up and less and less just straight up hitting? You know, granted, he can always break out of it and look completely locked in for the next, you know, months plus and just go on a tear, that's still in there. We've seen him get hot this season, but it just looks like a guy who's relying more and on hunting one pitch at a time or one location at a time versus a guy who, you know, there were times when it didn't matter what speed or what location he threw it and he could hit it in any direction at any time, you know, trying to get himself out of it, but it just

hasn't happened recently. Bogie, the runners in the scoring position number has been the one that's discouraging so much. we look at every single loss and we can go back to that one particular category. Is there some sort of magic elixir that you would give a particular hitter, whether it's a different approach of the plate, whether it's swinging early, swinging later, trying to position the, you know, to pull the ball, go opo, whatever, because it just feels like that so much of the angst is these key hitters in this astral lineup with runners at second and third

or base is loaded a couple times in that game last week against the Yankees. When the ninth inning with the tying run at the plate, Correa strikes out, Walker strikes out. Those are terrible, terrible ways to end games. What do you do when you get the guys on the bases and you're just looking for that one clutch hit? Yeah, there's a lot of things that come into play.

First of all, crazy as it sounds, the thing that correlates most of the hitting with runners in scoring position is just team batting average in general. Generally, teams that can hit, hit with runners in scoring position, but that's not been, you know, the extras are near, they're probably in the top third of the league still in batting average overall, and then we see their struggles with runners and scoring position. So that's kind of, you know, can't make heads or tails of that.

But I think the thing that you would look at now, right, hitting with runners and scoring position used to be all about take what's out there, right? There's a man on third, less than two outs, just get him in. Second and third, get him over. maybe, or get him in, maybe get the guy over at the same time and kind of take what's out there. But now, you know, there's such a different approach to hitting where it's all about trying to have big innings, especially early in games, because that's what wins games, right? You have to put up big crooked numbers. There are very, very few two to one games anymore, right?

Everybody's getting on a race to five or a race to six and you have to have big eating to do so. But when you're struggling with runners in scoring position, sometimes I would think, just take a step back. you know, if you're up there and it's a man on third with one out in the second inning, instead of taking the approach of like, okay, I'm having my regular at bat, maybe I hit a double that'll score and put me in scoring position, will be in position to have that big inning, just take what's out there. Maybe a little bit earlier in the bat, earlier in the game. Cash in one, and maybe just that gets the ball rolling a little bit.

All right, that again is Brian Bogus-Evick. Every Wednesday, 11 o'clock, we replace some of that in this hour of the show. it's always good insight. I've been so happy that he's been a part of our radio show and gives us that unique player insight. All right. Willie Fritz is up next, Rossing and after Willie Fritz. Frommber's back on Twitter, and

I'll give you the date it hasn't been pretty. The replies are not great. Hopefully he doesn't read them. He needs to learn that button you can turn off replies and people only if you follow them or something like that. Yeah, we'll give you that. So Willie and Frommber on Twitter, 127. Sports Talk 790.

The joint chiropractic is the official chiropractor of University of Houston Athletics. And they help us bring Willie Fritz to you every week before the big game, two days before the big game, which will be Friday night at TDC Stadium against the Colorado Buffaloes. Willie, I didn't realize you and Deanne were so tight. He said some very nice things about you earlier this week. Oh, I would not say that. And, you know, he seems like a heck of a guy. What he had to go through, you know, these last few months. Just been so positive and a remote roll bottle for everyone, you know, battling cancer.

And just, you know, I've met him a few times and always heard a lot of good things about him. Can you really talk NAL with your fellow coaches or is that somewhat of a taboo conversation piece? Because everybody's got to do it a little bit differently. Oh, you know, you talk a little bit about it. but everybody's different. You know, no question about it. And you'll talk to, you know, different schools. And, you know, I've been doing this a long time.

So I know a lot of coaches, you know, across the country and not just in the Big 12, but in other leagues as well. And you'll compare notes a little bit and see how they're doing things. Well, first things for us before we get to the game, let's recap what happened last Saturday. First of all, to hold a two football teams in two different games, So a total of one defensive touchdown, you can't be more pleased their defense right now. Yeah, they've really done a great job. You know, Austin Armstrong or a defensive coordinator and all the guys on the defensive staff,

that's a lot of them. And then obviously the players, I mean, they bought into, we're running something different than what we did last year. And we were good defensively last year. But it's something different. The main thing that we do, I think, an excellent job of is tackling, takeaways. playing with great leverage. We tackled it real good again this past week.

We tackled great week one. And that's just, you know, the scheme is very important, but it's not as important as the fundamentals, especially the tackling component. And, you know, Coach Armstrong and the staff really does a great job of emphasizing them, teaching it to the guys every single day. It was 7 to 3 at the half. You get the touchdown late to take the lead at the intermission.

Was there any sense of maybe we should let things, loose a little bit more in the second half because that Wegman 75-yard touchdown throw was very impressive. Yeah, you know, we had a lot of opportunities. You know, it's just like I've said, the first few weeks

we're just trying to get everybody together on the same page. There's a, you know, sometimes you run some deep routes and the receiver doesn't run it exactly the way you needed to run it or pat of protection, you know, wasn't firm for just another split second or count.

But on that long touchdown pass to Stefan Johnson, you know, just great protection and fabulous throw by Connor and obviously great catch and run by Stefan. And, you know, we want to be able to stretch the field vertically and have a pretty good job of stretching it horizontally, but we need to get more shots down the field. And the run game opens up the past game, and the past game opens up the run game.

And, you know, we're still getting better. And, you know, we wouldn't take another step forward this week. Well, you took the words right on my mouth about the run game opens up the passing game. Dean Conner has had a breakout game for you. Clearly, playing against his old team had to be something special. But you want to see that, obviously, through the course of the year. What attracted you to getting him to your campus? And obviously, the breakout game against the Owls was something thing.

But you wanted to do some things, obviously, during the course of the season as well. Well, you know, I'd seen him when he was at Rice when I was at Tulane. And then also, obviously last year when we played Rice, and when he got in the portal, that was, you know, we had good backs. We've got good backs. But we got, you know, there's a chance to have another guy. And that's a position, you know, where there's a lot of wear and tear on those guys. And, you know, thank goodness we grabbed him and got him because, you know,

Rashad is now out for, Rashon Sanford is now out for the season, and we're able to, you know, bring Dean in, and we still got good depth there. Stacey Steed and DJ Butler, and hopefully we're going to get Jamari and Burnett back in a hurry. But, you know, he just does everything well.

He's a good pass receiver. He does a good job running in the core between the tackles. He does a good job running out on the perimeter. He's a good blocker. But the main thing is he just doesn't make very many mistakes. You know, he lines upright and does his assignment properly. You know, that's so, so important, you know, all positions, but particularly on the offensive side of the ball with running backs,

make sure that they know exactly what they're doing because, you know, they're involved in protection. They're involved in, you know, pass-row concepts, and obviously running the ball as well. Well, all that is good. and looking forward for the win coming up here against Colorado. They went with three quarterbacks against Delaware last week. Earlier this week, obviously Coach Prime decided to go with one of the young men

and tell you who the starter was. I don't think he was doing it for your benefit, maybe just for the kids' benefit. But even with that being said, my assumption is your scout team and your defense will be preparing for more than one quarterback that may not play on this game against the Buffaloes. Yeah, you know, they're all probably a little bit different. But they've got an offensive system that they run. And it's similar, irregardless, who's back there playing quarterback for them.

Same thing with us. You know, there'll be a little bit things we do different if we played another quarterback. But, you know, by and large, it's going to be the same offense. You know, whether they play, the guy's been playing quite a bit, you know, the first couple games or a young freshman or this guy that they're saying is going to start. So, you know, we're just preparing for the offense and then understanding, you know, there really hasn't been enough plays to be able to, you know, in this season to see the difference, you know, with all three, you know, and, you know, playing, you know, two games and really

splitting duty the second game, you don't have a real large body of work. But we'll see who's playing when we get out there and the ball's kicked off. at 635 Friday night. 635 should be a real nice balmy night for those people in Denver who like the thin air. I'm sure that I don't know how Coach Prima get ready for that, but I don't care if they do or not. I hope your guys are ready for it. Cramping hasn't been too bad so far, but man, this weather has not been conducive for fall football yet, has it? Yeah, you know, it has been the last couple days.

Two days ago, heck, I think by the end of practice it was about 70, 77, 78 degrees. Not bad. It's starting to cool them a little bit. But, you know, you just got to play, you know, regardless of what's going on. And, you know, we're really lucky and fortunate that we've got a, you know, a beautiful indoor facility where we can go in for part of practice. And we've got two really, really nice grass practice fields. And then we can always go out to the stadium as well, which we did today. You know, you want to get work and, you know, the venue that you're going to be playing in.

And so we're fortunate. We've got just unbelievable facilities here. Congratulations, Coach. On this nice start. Looking forward to a big crowd on Friday and another victory and open up Big 12 League competition with a victory. Thank you for the time and we'll see you on Friday. Thank you very much.

Go Coogs. Got it. Thank you. Well, I appreciate it. Willie Fritz with us here on Sports Talk 790. He's brought to you again by the joint chiropractor, the official chiropractor of University of Houston Athletics. And hopefully good crowd out there.

Tickets are still available. Uh-H cougars.com. tickets and 713 go kook so rossi uh i did check on franber valdez's twitter account he follows why did you do that because i just thought i would frankly let's kill the time uh there are two tweets that he put out one on the 23rd and one yesterday august 23rd august 23rd okay el finel la ega solo coandro decides renderte i don't know what that means Good pronunciation though. Thank you.

So a lot of September replies are coming in. This is after the performance that he threw the ball right at Cesar Salazar's chest. Okay. You need to get your ass beat by the team for that blank blank you pulled. That's some low-life blank. Oh, Jesus. You suck. That's nice.

You are a bad player who doesn't know how to listen to his catcher. You don't deserve to be in the majors. Wow. You're already a piece of blank. How many of these people have their actual name and picture of themselves on the town, by the way? Very few. Just curious. You're already a piece of blank.

It's good that you're almost done in the big leagues. What you did today is for cowards. Biggest P in baseball. Yeah, you resign, you bum. Loser. Blank your mother, you have few balls. Jesus. Blank your blank mother, loser.

You're an emotional little B. You don't get angry because you lost your cool. you seem like a little girl. What you did last night was wrong. You need some anger management and stop being a mentally weak dude. I hope they trade you to the Rockies. Jesus. You ain't blank.

You don't even deserve to be a part of this team anymore. GFY, blank, blank, blank. You look like a girl with that hair. Live, laugh, love. Actually, that one's funny. Absolutely blanky thing to do to a teammate. Blank your blank. Total blank move.

Low key. and we'll go to you throw like a girl. That was part of the Twitter Twitter responses to a tweet that he put out a week ago. I haven't seen many girls throw on 97 mile an hour sinkers with movement. You mess with a softball. A little like World Series of softball. Devastating curveballs.

Yeah. I don't know who Frombers PR agency is that's running that bad boy. You may want to just go and deactivate that thing. Yeah, clearly they wanted to go with a little brand building as he hits free agency. Clearly it's not going the way they plan. Did somebody go, you know what, we're going to improve your brand. Let's go be active on Twitter.

Social media, yeah. And say things that we don't think you really mean. Why don't you think he means what he's saying? The 80% of his responses were thanks. Oh, that sounds great. Thanks. Why can't he say thanks? Thanks.

Nobody just does that. I say thanks all the time. But I would thank you very much, much appreciate it. I don't just put thanks. No, you don't. Usually you call people D's. I do call people D's. And just D.

And you block them. And then I, yeah, block and mute. That's my game. I don't know. I'll tell you what. D-17. You're going to need Frimer, what, three more times? At least.

At least? If you plan on making the playoffs, it's going to be more. You're going to need them. You're going to need them at first weekend, by the way. First week, yeah. September 30th. Get one day off at the end of the season. And then Wild Card Fever.

Hopefully in Houston. Maybe not. Sell out or no? For Wildcard? I'll say yes. Will they sellouts for the Detroit games? Those were day games. Remember those are like noon and one? I have to go back and look.

I don't remember if they were or not. I'm going to say yes. You're not oversold in it, though, are you? I, we can go look. I'm going to say yes. We'll have the answer. Did the Astros sell out? Oh, by the way, Milwaukee up 1-0.

nothing already in the Rangers. That's what I'm talking about. Let's go. Let's go brew crew. Let's go. Oh, a little two seamer. Nope. Bye. Nice. Let's go Milwaukee. Miliwakee, as they would say, did you know that it's, uh, is Algonquin for the good earth? Is that correct? Algonquin for the good land. The good land. Game one, 40,617. That's a sellout. Game two, 40,800. So lots. No worries. I thought it held like 42.

Oh, it's 2-0 Milwaukee now. Let's go brew crew. They go back to back. I don't know. Maybe it was a two-run jack, but this one was straight away to center. Oh, I was a catch in center field. That's fine. We're doing a lousy job doing a pub-by-play for the Rangers. Whatever. All right. Believe it or not.

Nothing brewers. Let's go. All things Anthony Rizzo, who called it a career, right? Is that what we're doing with Anthony Rizzo? Anthony Rizzo, believe or not, you're playing for University of Houston Cooker tickets against Colorado. Friday at TDCU Stadium. Come on and play with us. 713, 212.579. 713. 212.570.

150 on Sports Talk 790. Tomorrow, we will be playing either Kendrick Lamar. Faith. By George Michael, May you rest in peace. Okay. Or, um, I won't back down by Tom Petty. We play the limp biscuit cover of Faith.

how's that it's George Michael's faith but covered by Limp Biscuit is it better or worse your Mr. your Mr. second version is always better

than the first that's not true I never said see you're such a liar I never said second version is always better than the first

you're like we can work it out by Earth when fire is better than oh Stevie Wonder is better than the Beatles which is just

no that's not true I didn't say that but the earth went in fire got to get you to get you in my life is miles it's miles

it's not it's two different things. It's like Joe Cocker's little help in my friends. It's nothing like completely different than Ringo stars. Speaking of songs that are miles better than the Beatles version. I need a break from you. I was gone for a week. You're going to be gone Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Yeah, I'll be in New York

hanging out with... We're together about 40% of the year these days. That's true. All right. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play... America's fastest growing sports radio game show we simply call it be. Believe it or not, and here's how it works.

You will call 713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believe it or not, is brought to you by absolutely no one at this point. You know what, Ross? Give a little draft king's plug. Go for it. Code 987 at sign-up for $50 in bonus credits

when you play just $5, Matt. That's my gift to you, my friend. Also fade my picks. All right. Today's topic is all things about Anthony Rizzo, the longtime major league. Your statement I read to you about Anthony is completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Belief.

If the same, it's erroneous, full of bunk, a bit up, you'll say this. Two believe it or not to a row will win you a pair of tickets. See, the Houston Cougars take on the hated Colorado Buffalo's Dion Sanders. UHcougars.com slash tickets are called 713 go Cougars. Cougars versus Colorado 630 Friday. Be there. Now, we only have two people on the line here, so let's go now. Big game.

It's the, it's the, it's a Friday night for a reason. The parking's going to be fixed, right? Well, they're opening the gates at 3 o'clock, so just saying. 7.13, 2.12. It'd be like 98 degrees. That's enough from you. Rick on 790. Rick, you ready to play, believe it or not?

They're named it. Anthony Rizzo was also a football star in high school. He played a middle linebacker in tight end. It was all district at the ladder. Believe it or not. Not. That is correct. Statement number two for the win before becoming a Chicago Cub, Anthony Rizzo, was drafted by the Red Sox and made his major to the debut actually with the San Diego Padres. Believe it or not.

Believe it. That is a believe it. You're going to the computer games. Congratulations. That makes me very happy. James on 790. James, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Due to his Sicilian heritage, Anthony Rizzo played for Team Italy in the 2013 World Baseball Classic. Believe it or not. Believe it. There you go. Statement number two for the man, Anthony Rizzo, was six on the Cubs' all-time home run list just behind Ryan Sandberg

and just ahead of Aramis Ramirez. Believe it or not. Believe it. There you go. You're going to the game too. All we want to do is get people to the game. Let's go to Bradley on 790. Bradley, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? The Astros talk, of course.

Anthony Rizzo is named after his return. Colonel Grandfather, who served as president of the Italian American Defense League in the 1970s. Believe it or not? Not. That is correct. Statement number two for the win. Anthony Rizzo was the cover athlete for the video game MLB the show back in 2016. Believe it or not?

Believe it? No, it was Josh Donaldson. Duh. Jesse on 790. Jesse, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Anthony Rizzo was hit by a pitch 222 times in his major league career, which is eighth most in major league history.

Believe it or not? Believe it. That is correct. Statement number two for the win before being drafted out of high school, Anthony Rizzo committed to play baseball for the Florida Atlantic University Owls. Believe it or not? Believe it. Believe it is right.

You're going to the Cougar game. Ooh, baby. I don't like these pause. I don't like these long pause answers. Yeah, that would have taken a while, right? You can control FFAU really quick. I guess you could. We'd have like three seconds.

All right, Rossi, tomorrow, we've got, I just don't get it tomorrow at 1130. We have a celebratory song, hopefully, with George Michael at 11 o'clock at 10 o'clock. I would like a win, personally. I've had a bad run of it on the post-game shows. You're doing the 10th inning the night, too. Yes, I am.

How are things going to be? Lots calls? All right. Just don't go to extras. My God. We got Brian McTacker on the show tomorrow, too. Oh, Brian McTaggart, tomorrow. Lovely.

We got to believe it or not tomorrow? Nope. We have Rotten 5 tomorrow. Do you know that? The debut of the Rotten 5. No, that's your homework. You're going to do it during the show, aren't you? And you're going to run Astrosan?

I'll help you with Asterozondack tomorrow. Oh, crap. How about I help you with Astrosondack? I hope you write the show. Do the Rotten 5. I can't eat Rotten 5. That's your bit. I'm next.

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