The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Lose First Game Of The Series vs The Athletics 3-1, OKC Wins Game 5 Of NBA Finals vs Pacers With The Series Sitting 3-2

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

Astros Lose First Game Of The Series vs The Athletics 3-1, OKC Wins Game 5 Of NBA Finals vs Pacers With The Series Sitting 3-2

H-town. Good morning. And welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. I think I went like 619 feet. Good Lord. I got caught the jet stream out there. This is my top five song y'all played today. Really? A little three-d-d-night. Okay. Not one of my favors, but I felt it was appropriate because there was only one run. I get you. I'm picking up what you're putting down, Matthew. I'm trying. Trying to, a little, little theme for the opening moments of the radio program that we called the Matt Thomas show Ross. Good morning. I'm Matt. He's Ross. That is Jonathan. And we are with you today until 2 o'clock, where, I mean, I don't think there's a huge dissection into the Astros game. First of all, was at 9 o'clock last night. So a lot of people went to bed.

Second of all, there were only four runs scored. Three swings made the difference in the ball game. Astros after dark. And it wasn't great. initial thought about watching a game from West Sacramento, California. It's weird. I just don't like, it feels like spring training. This and when they play in Tampa, you can just tell. With the crowd, with the fencing, with the signage, everything about it. Everything looks minor league.

Yeah, everything looks minor league. As you say, yeah, during the broadcast, you can tell. And I just don't like it. It cheapens your product, Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball. And it's disappointing. And the crazy thing is, they're not. going to have their stadium ready in Vegas until 2028. They get three seasons of this crap.

You couldn't come up with anything better? I mean, oh, 25, 26, 27. Obviously, they're not worried about revenue. I mean, the place only seats probably, what was they announced crowd last night? I think they're drawing around 9,000 a game. I looked yesterday. Yeah. I mean, and there's probably some.

Comps in the mix. Oh, yeah. There is not 9,000 people in the building. You know, I, that's a lot of revenue missed. Now, yeah, obviously they've got 8766. Sorry good. Yeah, they've got a lot of, they got a new TV deal coming up next year because the ESPN deal will go away. Then I'm presuming will not be nearly as financially rewarding as what the deal is right now with the ESPN because ESPN's like, we're not paying for this anymore. We don't get much value out of it. We clearly don't think it's much of a sport because we get rid of, we get rid of baseball tonight except on Sundays. Carl Ravich is a play-by-play. I mean, it is what it is.

I mean, they just haven't put a whole lot of thought into it. Yeah, it's concerning. But whatever, just go take the streaming money. You know, it's crazy. When ESPN got the cable package in, I want to say it was about 1990, or 89, give or tick, I think it's 90. You don't remember this because you were a young lad. They had a single game on Mondays, a doubleheader on 10. a double header on Tuesdays.

Okay. A single game on Wednesdays. A double header on Fridays. Wow. And a Sunday night game that was the, that was John Miller and Joe Morgan, the game, they used to call it the game of the week. I don't know what they call it now,

but that was one, three, four, six. They had seven games a week. So they went all in on the baseball package. Now, again, Fox came in shortly after that and took a lot of those games way and put some games on cable and obviously did the huge games of over-the-air stuff. But man, ESPN used to really give a damn about baseball. I have a stupid question.

Why can't they do multiple games a week in the summers now? What are they putting on in the summers at nights? Well, honestly, college world series is on. You have WMBA, you've got College World Series, and then they just kind of go into off-season mode for like a month, month and a half. You know, they carry spring games. they just, you know, live events cost money. So, because of all the investment in college football, maybe?

It starts to August. Yeah, but I mean, yeah, if you're going to, if you're going to, if you have a budget for live event coverage, are you going to put on a rando SEC game that's going to get five times the audience and say a, let's say a decent game between, let's say between the Guardians and the Tigers. I mean, yeah. Who's really going to watch that? It's not going to get you the race. ratings of the SEC and college football packages.

Yeah. I got you. Yeah. But I mean, for a while, if you had ESPN, which most people did at the time, you got a tremendous amount of package of baseball games. I didn't have it in 1990. You really didn't? No.

I remember as a kid not having HSE, which was the cable channel. And to be able to see a rare home game. I was rubbing wires together and holding bunny ears in the greens point, Maddie. That's what I did with Playboy Channel, ironically enough. Bunny ears off the Playboy Channel? No, you rubbered something else. Excuse me? No, no, no.

I got that one. Oh, no. That's him, not me. Yeah, when I was a kid, the Playboy Channel was scrambled. So if you played with the remote control thing on the top of your television, you just hit the right spot. You can be able to see a few seconds, if you wanted to. Those of you that know those old cable boxes, you know what I'm talking about.

Okay. There's some people who are like, no, man, I don't know what you're talking about. There are some that do. And for that, I respect you. Remember the scrambling and the de-scrambling? Oh, yeah. You can do that with a lot of any TV channel you wanted to. I just happen to say.

Back in the day. Back in the day. Now you just pirated on the internet. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's, and that takes a while too because there's a lot of pop-ups and whatnot. And you could be using some malware in your computer. And then you start loading up hundreds of dollars to give that girl some coins.

And then you finally get to the game you're trying to watch. Yeah. Yeah. You really nailed a difference. all the way through. It's almost like you know what you're talking about. All right. Today on the radio program, we'll hear from Joe Espada coming up at 1230 today. He will be with us from West Sacramento.

Oh, no, they're actually staying in downtown Sacramento. You know, interesting note from last night, he played in the first game ever at that stadium. He was a second baseman for the West Sacramento River Cats, which was an A, I think it was an A's Farm Club at the time. And so he was there in 25. years later, he's now back. Wow.

Does the East team lose three to one? Yeah. On a walk off. On a walk off blast. I mean, that was an angry home run. I don't know if the wind was blowing out that direction. I'm petitioning Rob Manfred to outlaw

how far that home run was hit. I want to say, and I know there's an official measurement, I saw on this. Yeah, I saw it yesterday too. 438 maybe something like that. I flipped the TV off immediately and went to bed. Yeah, boy, I took.

You, 447. 447. God almighty. XBA, Matt, 1,000. I believe it said XBA was Mach 3.

111.7 off the bat. Woo! That was a rocket. And Altubei was a rocket as a rocket as well. Yeah, for sure. It was his hardest hit home run of the, a hardest hit ball of the year.

So think about this. You have Altubei hits the home run of the first inning. You're thinking this is going to be a 9-3 game. While they're raining. booze on them. Yeah. Felt good. Yeah. I mean, again, that's John Boyce followed and now John Boy is a prod partner of Major

League Baseball. You know what? Can I admit something to you that I don't want to admit? Ooh, this is deep. I want to go and say yes, you may. In general in life, I try not to allow things that I cannot control, bother me or anger me. You don't know me. I try to channel and control my emotions. I don't always succeed. It pisses me off. it pisses me off and I don't want to admit it I don't want to say it out loud

because again it's something I can't control it's something that I have nothing to do with but it pisses me off that Jose Altovae is getting the booze that he did because of exactly what you just said a made up buzzer thing with John Boy and of course to a lesser extent

the cheating scandal as a whole but still it became magnified and it became much much worse and he became the poster boy of the cheating scandal because of the made-up buzzer theory. And it makes me angry. I was sitting there on my couch, upset at a bunch of people in Sacramento, California. I don't want to be here, but I must admit to you the truth.

I was angry. I understand it. And I was once that way. It doesn't bother me anymore. But, I mean, there are certain things that you have to hear about over and over and over again that does bother you. It's just a made-up buzzer theory. and now this guy's getting millions from Major League Baseball.

We don't know that, but I'm sure he's getting something of a financial advantage. I mean, the Major League Baseball bought a minority stake in the John Boy. Yeah, and he's getting a boost and he's getting access to, I mean, he used to get like copyright strikes for using their intellectual property and their highlights and stuff like that, and that's all gone. I was talking to Ashurst officials and I'm like, you know, if John Boy Media calls and say we want a player, you're going to probably have to acquiesce and get those players on because if you don't guess what John Boy is going to do.

A lot of the phone called to Major League Baseball offices, and the Major League Baseball offices are going to call the Astro and say, hey, he's a partner of ours now. I'm going to tell them to shut their bum ass up. Tell them, issue an apology and we can talk. How about that? You know what it is again? It's the reality of they have a young audience.

They have a huge New York audience. Yes. That has a lot of people that get on the Internet. And lastly, it kind of admits that Major League Baseball does a poor job of tuning and connecting with the youth. They went with a group of people that do connect with the youth. youth and it's John Boy Media. It's pathetic.

I'm upset. I don't mean to get you upset. All right. On the radio program today, besides Joe Espottal, we've got gut feelings coming up at 1130 today. This is where you make your predictions about anything in the world of sports you'd like. We have also on the show today, Ross's NFL Rewind at 120. All right. You do that.

I sent out the calendar on Saturday. Oh, yeah. I've been studying it. You don't have to study it. We've been doing NFL Rewind at 120 for weeks. I got the magnifying glass and everything. Mm-hmm. It's funny, you didn't do I'm sorry as on Friday, and I sent that out a long time ago.

Oh, that's because we had so many stuff to get to. Are you sure? Yeah. That segment, we took Jay. If we did, I'm sorry, we wouldn't have got our young 10-year-old caller Jay. Yeah, I'm not blaming him. I'm saying it gave us, afford us opportunities of great content. Well, the most important role we have on the show is that the caller, good callers are better than any mid-bits that we do.

Yes. So sometimes you have to be flexible and change things. So you know what? I missed it and I'm sorry. And because people are probably holding, they wait until 1130 into Friday to say they're I'm sorry some things. Get it off their chest. That's true.

All right. 713-212-570. If you'd like to be a part of our radio today's show, we'd love to have you. That's 713-212-570. Did Lance McCuller's ailment happen while we were on the air or did the A team drop that dime in their show open? think it happened during their show. They get every break in the world.

I know. It's just awful. They don't do on decks, except it's in their own time slot. They don't do the 10th innings. They don't work on the weekends. They get major headlines dropped in them nine times out of 10. They'd be ashamed of themselves. 713-212-5-790. It is 1021. Good morning.

Matt Thomas Show with Ross continues. We're with you today until 2 p.m. Got feelings again coming. up in an hour from now. That's where you make your sports predictions. And again, the thing I do appreciate about sports, about the gut feelings is if you hit, please call him and brag on yourself. We do our fair share of bragging here. I mean, yesterday I declared I was number one dad available out there in the world. And so if you hit on your gut feelings, let us know, and we'll give you their proper props. Thank you, Matt. Thank you. Yeah. So McCuller is on the

injured list with a toe injury that apparently happened during what they call a freak weight room incident okay you know who's flexing too hard in the mirror I don't know if that's necessarily the situation okay

you know they did provide what happened and you can take it for what it's worth no it's fine I like it the injuries literally as far possible as it could be from his elbow. So I'm feeling good. It's funny. If you were listening to a radio show,

hopefully this station's in the A-Team, if you say Lance McCuller's injury, the first thing you think is, okay, is it the elbow, is it the forearm, here we go again. And when it was almost like when you found out it was his foot,

you go, okay, sign of relief. Yes, so I got, I had, I don't know, I was at home and doing whatever, and I wasn't on Twitter and wasn't online, and I just kind of flipped to Twitter for a second, and I got a DM from just a random listener

who sends me stuff every now and then and it said, so Lance is headed for T.J. surgery, huh? That's what the DM said. And I didn't know it was a joke. So I went in a panic and had to find out what the heck was going on and saw that it was a foot injury.

But like you said, yeah, your first thought is like, oh my God, your first thought is the worst. And that's what happened to me. Very, that's totally normal. I mean, I would have done the exact same thing. It's a foot injury. That's why you have to be careful that you have to listen to everything because you would have, if you would have said Lance McCuller's hurt, let's say you turn the station going, oh, I can't believe this. Now I'm in a bad mood.

You would not have known it was the foot, not his arm. Yeah, if I would have texted you or you would have texted me, Lance McCuller Jr. to the aisle. That's what had been our first thing. I thought would have been elbow discomfort or something. I should have done that. I should have slow-plated. Why are you trying to put people in a panic? I think it's part fun.

It's part fun. No, it's not fun, Matt. making people worried? Yeah, I guess it's true. Like, it happens all the time when people send stuff like, did you hear what that guy said about you? No. What do he say? What do you say?

He said he liked you. I mean, it was one of those things that you go, oh, okay, now I got goofed on. All right, so the Astros fall 3-1. Now, the good news is that the Red Sox beat the Mariners in Seattle yesterday. Let's go, Sox. Boy, the Mariners don't want to win very many games lately do that. Well, yeah, they swept the Guardians.

But other than that, they've been losing their ass. A lot of home losses, in fact. I think it was 2-0.0. The final score last night. Poor Mariner fan. That's a shame. Well, I mentioned it to you guys, mentioned to you last week, we went through the American League West rundown. Being an American League West fan, with the exception clearly of the Astros, and to a lesser extent, the Rangers, because they are two years removed from a World Series, it's painful. I mean, the Angels have spent money. They've not spent money. They've spent money. They've spent money. And they're always going to be the Baster. stepchild and the little brother to the Dodgers. You have the Mariners who have had a great baseball community, a huge sports town, and a beautiful

facility, and that team never has a history of spending any kind of money. And then you have the A's who are in Sacramento now, and I guess they're going to be in Las Vegas in three years, but damn, I mean, what are they slow playing this stadium? Yeah, it's, I don't know. I was starting to explain to my son. I said they're going to be in Sacramento for three seasons. They go, what do they? Are they working like 20 hours a week with long vacations or what?

I don't know. They're planning for a couple union strikes? I mean, how long, I get these things we don't know, but how long would it take to build a stadium? I guess at least three years. I don't know. I guess we can go look at recent constructions. What's the newest stadium in baseball?

I'm going to assume it's the Marlins Park down there. I don't know Global Life Field as well Google says Okay How long did global life field take to build? Google losing too, right? I'm Googling, geez

What do we do without Google in our world by the way? I don't know without ever the answer to Somehow though we got dumber We have the answer to every single thing In the history of the world that ever happened at our fingertips And the society got dumber It's pretty crazy actually Well it's funny because they call and ask us these things

when all we have to do is check on Google ourselves. That's true. A section of the roof caught fire in 2019 while under construction. It said the official groundbreaking for Goldblight Field took place on September 28th, 2017, with construction being completed in less than 30 months. That includes what Ross just said. So you're talking about 30 months. That's way less than, I mean, hell, are they going to be ready in time?

They had to be ready by March of 2008. Yes. So you've got three and a half years to get this bad boy ready to go. I don't know. Our construction costs higher in Vegas than there are other places? Perhaps. Maybe it's the hot conditions. Maybe there could be maybe some labor laws, but don't they have a soil too and how the terrain is over there?

I was just there. It's all cleared. It's, you know, there is no signs of the Tropicana anymore. It is the whole hotel has been gone. So they got rid of that. So we need a construction expert on the show. How do you take three and a half years ago? Again, it's going to be a small stadium too.

It's going to be about, what, $34,000 you said yesterday, somewhere in that range? I don't know. It's not like you're building three or four decks. It's not like you're building a permanent roof over the phone. Well, you're installing the slot machines. That's going to take extra time, Matt. Yeah. The blackjack tables.

That's how you draw a third. In five years and the a year's losing 95 games every year. That's how you draw. You bring them in that way. Yeah, look, they get down 5-1 in the third inning. Head to the tables. Yeah. I mean, they had slots at the airport.

Can't you have slots? They should do that. They should pick better payouts in the slots when the team's losing or something like that. Hmm. Well, the problem is these casinos want you to go to their hotel and gamble when the games are done. Like, if you try to go to a Raiders game or, for that matter, a Golden Knights game in Las Vegas, you can't park. And there's no parking anywhere. They want you to park at these hotels.

And a lot of the hotels that are around the same. stadium say this way to Olegian Stadium, this way to T-Mobile Arena. So free parking, running shuttles, probably. I don't even know if it's free. I mean, I guess if you got a player's card or something like that, probably take care of your tickets. But yeah, all the hotels we walked around on the strip, the one night we were in the strip last week, all had signs to say, this way to T-Mobile, this way to

Allegiance Stadium. So obviously, they've gotten cahoots with the hotels. Imagine that, cahoots and government and facilities in Las Vegas, Nevada. Corporations. Wow. Probably the most corrupt city in North America, would you say? I was going to go Baton Rouge Oh yeah

Any Louisiana city is corrupt That's for sure Atlantic City probably is pretty corrupt Yeah probably Vegas one Vegas one Baton Rouge Metro area two Yeah

Shreeport 3 Monroe 4 Alexander 5 Alexandria 5 I think I'm tapped out New Orleans 6 Uh huh Like Charles 7

Sure Knocked out. Oh, Lafayette 8? Can't forget Lafayette. Yeah, we stop naming Louisiana cities. I'm sorry. I couldn't help it. It's a nervous switch you have. It is.

All right, 713, 212-5-790. So the Astros game didn't provide much offense. Did the NBA finals give us much drama? We'll discuss that coming up in a minute. 7-13-212-5-7-90. If you want to be a part of our radio show today, we'd love to have you. We do invite callers. We invite really good ones to call.

If you're a lousy caller, we'll, still accept you, but we could make fun of you. But it's only just done in good fun, right, Ross? We don't generally hate people. It depends. I hate some of you. I just had to call her call in and wanted to say to you, Matt, that she loved the intros and the songs you pick every time,

and she wish she did it every day. Wow. Is that her name Anna? Yes. I just saw her name pop up on the screen. Shout out to you, Anna. Thank you, Anna. Yeah.

We try to find songs that fit the theme of the highlights. And one was the loneliest number we had last night. Especially, Ross, that was one, nothing. And I swear to God, I was thinking, I was telling Kim, I said, this can be a 7-1 game. I can scrunch the highlights. And being in a while, I was just waking up and going to sleep, opening back up. It was 1-0. And it was 1-1.

I got to watch this thing. And then I watched that home run that I don't believe is landed yet. Still in the Northern California jet stream. Yeah, it's always horrible when you stay up late-night West Coast to watch and then they'd lose. Mm-hmm. Makes you extra cranky. 713-212-5-790. Please bear with us as we make.

mention the NBA score from last night. Yeah, you know, it's funny because David Barron used to write TV radio articles for The Chronicle, and he would put in the Houston ratings for just Houston events, how a particular game did, or an event, and so I don't think

Greg Rajan, who does some TV and radio reporting for The Chronicle, puts that in his columns or stories. Well, let's go. Get it together, Greg. What are you doing down there? I got ten things going on. I don't have you noticed me. I know. He's very good. The news favorite business is not particularly thriving. Yeah, I know.

He's doing court reporting. Yeah. He's selling ads. Is that what's her name? He's running security. Livy done? Yes, Matt. See, look, we even get a live sporting event on and you can't focus.

Did he just whistle? Yes. No, that was, I didn't whistle that. He dog whistled. Now, that was you. That was a cat. That was a cat, Thomas. That was a cat call.

Yeah. Why are you stomping your foot and dog whistling, Matt? That used to work back in the day? you whistled like with a, you get a girl like that? No. No. And by the way, back in the day is 1964. Shut your bum ass up.

That is back in the day. Yeah. I was not around the cat whistle in 1964. Okay. I was hooting and hollered in 1989. Would you call 1964 back in the day in 1994? Ooh, is 94 back in the day. 94's back in the day.

Okay. Do you want my opinion on this? No. No, we didn't ask for your opinion on anything. Go ahead. What do you got? No. No, I said no.

No, I'll listen. But whatever. Nineties is now throwback guys. Yeah, of course. Yeah, I know. Oh, hell. No, we knew that when we had it. Remember we had that, we had some interns like 10 years ago and they were doing, they were talking about their sorority had 90s parties.

And we were like, oh, we feel old. Yeah. The thing that air changed. Now it's like 2000s parties. Well, it's like my son, my oldest is like, man, dad, I've been going back on Netflix or Hulu. This show Friends is funny. Yeah, the kids caught back on Friends. Yeah, they did.

Which Friends sucks. By the way. Overrated. Overrated. Way overrated. If it's on, it's like the Burger King of sitcoms. If it's around,

I'll eat it. Therefore, I'll watch it. But you're not going to go out of your way. Correct. Now, it was a part of the one of the greatest television nights in the weekend in TV history, Thursday nights. But, yeah,

I didn't necessarily. Yeah. I liked it when I was 12. I thought it was hilarious. Yeah. And I grew up. Yeah. I mean,

first of all, Jennifer Anderson's character, she was such a smoke show. First of all, yeah. And Ross, I mean, please. There's no chance that Monica, is there any Monica? Or no, Rachel.

Rachel would ever want to hook up with a Ross. By the way. Yes, please. Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox. Best one-two punch in sitcom history? This is my forte. Jennifer Anison was so hot. She made, Courtney Cox is like a smoke show.

Television history. She somehow became underrated because she was on the same show as Jennifer Aniston. So you're talking about two stars in their primes. Okay, let me give you some. I know people like the Gilligan's Island. Oh, Marianne and Ginger. That's going to be in that list.

Ginger Marianne, Rachel, and what's her name, character's name, Courtney Cox's name, Monica. Monica. I can't remember either. We are old. You could go Chrissy and Janet, but Janet was a pretty far drop-off. Chrissy was such a prime, though, on three's company. Mm-hmm.

Let's do one more than we'll go back to the NBA's. I know people are waiting for NBA. Elaine Bennis and George Costanza, it's a pretty good one, too. No. Oh. No, no, no. Who's another great one-two punch? Just think of it.

Marinate on it, Matt. You don't have to do it right now. Okay. All right. So last night... You can tweet us at Sports RV and at SportsMT. We need a fourth one, and then we can put them on a poll question. It's going to be friends.

It's got to be. Yeah, I would think so. I'm trying to think of the shows that I watched. I never watched two broke girls. Are those girls? How are those girls? Okay. Let me give you the rundown on two broke girls.

The blonde was unbelievably hot. Still is at this day. Okay. The brunette was thicker and probably did things. Did what things, Matt? Everything. Like what? Pilates, hot yoga.

Let's say she was... Basket weaving. My guess is her character came across someone that would be not necessarily difficult to conquer. Conquer? I don't know. That's the word you picked this conference. I'm just... All right.

Well, moving along. What were we talking about? NBA. Okay, the NBA finals. It's funny. We'll get more tweets about the one, two punches. It got a little close there. It did start to feel like one of those games where the Pacers were kept,

they were keeping within 10 or 12, keeping within 10 or 12, and then they make their move. So I was going back and forth between that and the 9 o'clock, and every time I would go, it would be a 14, 16 point leading, and then I would turn it back, and it was 4 or 6, and then they'd go back. It was like Indiana would waste all this energy, not waste, but it would use all this energy to get within two baskets, and they just couldn't get over the hump. I'm going to get you a second TV, Matt.

Let's put it on a rolly cart I was in bed I don't want to get it Oh in bed that's fine Yeah I can't get your iPad out I got a call saying Chrissy and Janet

For a one two punch Are you not listening to the show What did I just say two minutes ago Are you talking to the call Or Jonathan or both Both of you Jonathan you're right here I just said Chrissy and Janet

He's very busy back there Doing what texting his girlfriend Probably so I was looking up Chrissy and Janet Xxie Yeah Chrissy probably over

Jennifer Aniston in their prime but Courtney Cox way better than Janet in their primes. So you win with the second part? Yeah, I'd have to go

friends because the two is better than one and a half. Okay, back to NBA, here we go. So, yeah, their one went away. Oklahoma City is going to win this championship. I think they're going to finish them off in six.

By the way, game number six is going to not be in two more days, Thursday. That's okay. A couple days off. Everybody, let it marinate. Jeez. I was thinking about it because I woke up this morning about three o'clock and didn't go back to sleep. I was thinking these NBA finals, you know the playoffs started, what, third week of April? We're about to hit, we're in mid-June.

Two full months to play a 16-team team term. tournament. It's pretty wild. But it's calculated. And honestly, again, I've said this 100 million times. The NBA can say they don't care about the ratings, but their sponsors are going to care about the ratings. And I don't know if it's ever going to be a change to that. But the NBA has already got their guaranteed contracts coming in. Now, again, you're going to have these sponsors. The NBA is going to say, we can't build momentum when you're playing twice a week. that's exactly what they've done. Now, you and I are sports fans, you and I are basketball fans, so we know when it's going to be on.

But the average person, I go to the barbershop, they don't know what the game's on. They don't know when they play. They don't want they play next. That's tough. Yeah. That's the one thing I do credit baseball about, because baseball is obviously a different sport.

You play two games, you take an off day, two games, and you're done with these series in a relatively short period of time. Now, a lot of that is because, first of all, baseball plays consecutive days a lot. Secondly, if you started taking three or four days off in between games, you're going to run into some weather issues. You don't even November 15th playing in Boston at 24 degrees. Well, Aaron Gordon of the Nuggets said he wanted every playoff game to be two days off

in between. Well, that isn't surprising that an athlete would say that. Extra rest is? He got hurt, yeah. Yeah. Extra rest gives you an opportunity to ail what, and get you back on the floor. Cure what ills you. Exactly.

All right. So we're looking for one more common. Is that what we're doing here? Let's see if we can get anybody on Twitter has got one more combination for us. Oh, Ashley and Hillary Banks. Now, she was very young when that show started. We're talking about late seasons.

Yeah, we're talking, because the rule is we're talking about is in their primes. And I'm not going to go to the Ashley car. Now, Hillary, oh, hell yeah. Yeah. He's a big Tatiana Ali fan, though. Yeah, what is she doing these days? I don't know.

Looking beautiful. Okay. Oh, uh-oh, we got it. Bourbon and baseball. Pamela Anderson and Yasmin Bleath. What sitcom was that? It was Baywatch. That's not a sitcom.

Yeah, but I'm going to talk about TV shows. Okay. Were they on it together? Yeah. Or consecutively? Together. Okay. And you also had Nicole Eggert, if you wanted to go that way on that one?

I'm not familiar. The blonde? I didn't really watch the show. Oh. Go Google Nicole Eggert. I mean, that show, I'm sorry. That show sucked. It's terrible.

I mean, I understand you want to watch. Oh, nobody. Nobody wants. I know. You want to watch bouncing bosoms in a bikinis. I get it. And the issues with this things are? I didn't say there's an issue.

Okay. I said other than that, the show is terrible. All right. I mean, yeah, David Hasselhoff is ridiculous. It was so cheesy. That is peak. Was it late 80s, early 90s cheese? I'm sorry.

Frankie Valley says, B Arthur and Betty White? I don't think so. That's a good one, actually. That's actually not terrible. 713, 212. What is Rue McClanahan thinking? She's thinking she's got to get her energy up.

Are any of the Golden Girls and the mom alive? Yes or no, quickly. No? You sure? No. But I'll say no. They're all dead. 713-212-5-7-90.

All right. The thing that makes our show so good is that we show prep in the middle of segments. So we've decided to keep it just a comedy. We have a poll question up right now. at SportsMT at SportsMT and also you don't if you want to mind

retweeting out I'd appreciate that oh man gosh I gotta build you up in their prime the best one two female sitcom duo look I'll even give you a like look at this

okay it's easy Chrissy Janet from three's company Rachel and Monica from friends Kelly and Jesse from saved by the bell

that's good and Caroline and Max from two broke girls Rachel and Monica running away I would agree with you. But like I said, this is Reagan in 88.

This is a beat down. What a poll by you. I'm going to start calling you Mr. Political Science. Please don't call me that. Too late. That's your tag. So what I want you to do, Jonathan,

is I want you to look at those four combinations yourself, and then when you decide at the end, when you've decided which four are your favorites, let us know which one of the four is your favorite, okay? Okay, go on. All the way now. So far, the early votes are in.

Chrissy and Janet, mono-a-mono with Rachel and Monica. Hmm. Okay. The things you learn about the audience. Again, my philosophy of this is Chrissy was the number one of the group, but Janet is a significant drop off to the second seed. By the way, I got Lisa Turtle ahead of Kelly. No chance. She was cute, but it was Jesse and Kelly and Lisa Turtle was a drop of third. Well, currently it's a turtle for sure.

Yeah, what happened to her? She went crazy. Is she? Yeah, unfortunate. Let's talk to some people. I'll talk to you. Okay, sure. We've got to get back to sports because that's what the people listen for this show for.

Jim and Missouri City on 790. Jim, good morning. Hello, Jim. Let's try this one more time here. I know what happened. Somebody must have restarted this computer. Go ahead. He's got it.

Hi, Jim. Hey, can you guys hear me? Yes, sir. Go ahead, please. Hey, man, real quick, before my quick sports take regarding the topic, before I get to the topic about the sitcom, yesterday, I didn't get a chance to call you, Matt, but you swerved in to one of the greatest lines that I've heard you say, it was absolutely awesome. You guys were talking about naps, and if you ever needed a four-hour nap, you'd listen to the A-team.

Yes. Freaking standing. That is a mic-drop moment. That's a golden radio goal moment Because there is a case to be made That you could change that name Of that show to the Sleep Aid team Because absolute mic drop moment

It was outstanding You know I was just teasing them So that was just an easy way to tease You tease but they're okay I won't I won't go there but good Because apparently somebody called Sean this morning And ripped the crap out of me This guy named Jim in Cyprus

Who I blocked on Twitter I know this is Jim for most people I know there's different gyms It's a very popular name but thank you. It was a, I love jabbing those boys, and they take it because they jabbed me too, and it's all in good fun. But continue on your Astros and or one-two punch combination conversation.

I hear you. And then real shout out to my Aggies winning the outdoor track and field championship. Yes. Let's go, baby. Let's go. Peggy, no, no, no. Peggy, no. Oh.

You needed a, you needed, I brought it up. I brought it up because you need it. I brought it up because you needed a fourth. I did have a fourth. We have our four locked in. I know I missed that. Don't hate on Katie Seagal like that, Matt. Did you ever see her as Gemma and Sons of Anarchy?

Because she, like, stepped up her game. I did not. Now, I've had a thing for Christian Applegant for a long time. So you do get points for that. Yeah. Real quick on the Astros. If yesterday was just such an astro thing to do, as great of a run as we've been on for over the past,

you know, close to 10. years. It's like how many to be determined or somebody called up from the minor league starts against the Astros and just shuts us down and I'm like, it was such a frustrating game to watch yesterday. You get one run.

You can't, you know, it's the A's for Christ's sake and every once in a while they'll pull a game out of there, you know what. But, I mean, that was just like such an astro thing to do with the starting pitcher that we were facing.

our guys don't have much of a hitting game plan about trying to go opo. I mean, the guy was throwing nothing but breaking pitches. And, you know, you're trying to pull them. And the only time we ever got good hits is when they left the ball up, you know, and you could pull it. But everything else, they're trying to pull stuff that you shouldn't. So it's a, it was frustrating. But, you know, I'll take, I'll take where we're at with the Astros,

all things considered with the injuries. And we just absolutely have to get Yorda on back soon. And this is, I don't know how much longer we can keep doing this. But anyway, so those were my comments. Thanks, Jim, for the phone call. Don't be a stranger to the show. We appreciate you listening very much. It wasn't, I hear that such an astro thing to do.

I got news for you, all, baseball fans. You're going to lose games by scoring one run. Everybody loses games by scoring one run. Even the Dodgers will lose. Even the Yankees will lose games. It's going to happen. And oh, by the way, your worst teams in baseball, not counting the Rockies,

typically wins 60 to 65, even if they're one of the worst teams in baseball. So I don't chalk it up to it was an Astro S-type loss. It was a loss where a team that isn't crushing a baseball and never has this year continues to do what it normally does, and that's score and low numbers. He's talking about the opposing pitch. not being a lockdown guy and locking down the lineup.

But I also feel like it is a very astro thing and it's kind of fun to say. But I think every baseball fan base says it. Like do you, don't you think opposing fan bases like the Twins fan base is like Brandon Walter? Who's this guy? How do you think twin fans about feels about Colton Gordon knocking that Minnesota lineup? Yeah. So it happens, but it does feel like just when it's your team, it's like,

this guy's got it. Now Mitch Spence wasn't that bad, but there's some guy who's barely got. 10 major league starts. He's got an ERA of 650. It's time for him to throw six shut out against the Astros. It does feel like that happens, but I imagine that feels like it happens to every fan base. Yeah, we had somebody in our group chat was like, oh my God, the Astros did this to us again. I'm like, this is going to happen a bunch more times. Brian O'Henay hadn't been given up runs.

Yeah, that was the third time this year that Brian O'Brien was given up an run run. He's doing okay. Yeah, he's playing every other day, basically. He's got, I think he's got three losses in his ERAs, two? Something like that, yeah. That means there's just not a whole lot of offense. Yeah. Honestly.

Second hour of the Matt Thomas show begins with Ross in a matter of moments on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. We'll update our poll question today. The best one to comedy punch. Not in terms of acting skills, but, you know, you just know. 1102, Sports Talk 790. We thank you for being a part of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. we don't say this enough

Ross but I think it's the truth we love having all of you be a part of our show whether you're giving us good nature grief taking unnecessary shots at us at other on other radio shows you take more unnecessary shots than anybody in the entire planet I'm going to try to be better about it

you just call you stray Thomas what you now who's calling in getting upset somebody a great listener of ours Kathy sent me a tweet that said that some douche named Jim and Cyprus rips on our coverage of baseball and then he apparently took a shot at me during the conversation. I'm sorry, Matt.

It's fine. And I looked at who this person was and I had blocked him on Twitter so maybe he has raised him mad. You know, if he gets hit by a tree, I hope he recovers. Speaking of that, I was driving in the storms yesterday. Yes. Or maybe the day before, whatever.

Yeah. The car right in front of me, a tree branch fell on top of the Well, that's because you It was like five seconds away from me. And they didn't call affordable tree service today. Well, it was in the middle of the street. Well, then that tree somewhere. The city of Houston needs to call them.

Okay, you hear that? Call affordable tree. They'll take care of you. Make sure that doesn't happen. It was on Mudmay Rive. Why are we? Oh, Woodway. They're not a, Woodway, you can't,

streets can't be sponsored. Oh, okay. Yeah, a tree, the car, right in front of me. It was very crazy. Yeah, by the way, Gordy is back in today after his long trip to California to

Corpus Christi spend the night and getting here. Where you bizarrely tried to call him a liar on air? Well, but I was not, he was like, I heard what you said, you are right. You can only keep a person on a plane three hours. Yeah, but you're not going to call him a liar. People, let me tell you something. He's a little strong.

He's not a liar. He's an embellisher. You're right. It was only five and a half Power 9 6. I have two women in my life that are terrible embellishers, and I love them desperately. Okay. Your wife? And my mother. They're both huge embellishers.

Okay. And how does that make you feel, Matt? I have to get in the car and correct them. Hmm. Interesting. What's it like for you dealing with these type of embellishments? It's minimal. Okay.

You're looking for a deep dive in this, aren't you? No, I'm just asking you question. I just said, hey, don't embellish you. Okay. You know, my stories are usually truthful. I didn't mean to make that noise Oh, that was him. Look at Charles making sound effects.

I was an accident. Oh, by the way, I'm going to say by the bell. Oh, you mean, Kelly and Jesse. Okay, I got you. Classic. All right, we'll update us a couple of times. Real quick on the scoreboard of the best one, two female duos in sitcom history. At 52% it's Rachel and Monica.

Should be more. 27% Chrissy and Janet. 16% Kelly and Jesse and 5% Caroline and Max from two. broke girls. Well, at least I got in some love. These is a guy coming in at 0%. Yeah, that's true. All right.

713-212-5-790. Kevin Durant. Do we need a Kevin Durant up there? I think by the time we get to produce. KD. Update. He'll have a team by then, right? Don't you think?

Probably. We can sing it ourselves. Yeah, I know. Okay. K.D. Update on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. KD Update. Hell yeah. We're stuck at that point.

Well, it said Matt and Ross's show is what the last one said. Oh, on Matt and Ross's show. Katie Update. Where is Kevin eventually going to go? Yeah, see, you can always use the go when we use show and go. It's classic. We're going to find something a little more original. Let's talk to Roger once get some Astros chatter going.

Hello, Roger. How it's going, guys? Good morning. So, yeah, you're missing the boat, man. What about Lonnie Anderson? Jan Zittenden. Oh, from WKRP in Cincinnati. What the hell are y'all talking about?

Oh, yeah, that was a good, that was a good. Then don't sleep on Thelma, Thelma Evans and Alona Woods, you. No, no, Thelma, I get you. Well, Loma, I was not into. By the way, we forgot Ginger and Marianne. We mentioned, though. But I didn't put them on the list. Well, that's your list.

I don't know. I'll do a second list. Who? Charmed. Oh, that wasn't a sitcom. Yeah, but still honorable mention And by way, Laverne and Shirley

No and no Serious hell knows on both What do you mean? Those are Milwaukee 8s No, they're not They're Houston minus threes Worked they in Milwaukee? They were

Okay I got that right Yeah, but they're Yeah, they're Houston Both alive, both dead One alive, one dead One a piece They're both dead

In fact, I don't believe Anybody from that show is still alive Even like the grip, the key grip? Lenny and Squiggy are alive. What about the boom operator? I don't know. I don't know behind the scenes. But I think the big ragu is dead.

I think the mom and dad are dead. The big ragu? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, this is Milwaukee 8s. They're not Milwaukee 8th. I've been to Milwaukee. They're like Milwaukee 4 and a half.

The rest of America, minus threes. I thought you always talk about how the girls are from Wisconsin are big. They are big. They wear a sweater and shirt. Surely aren't. Yeah, but they're... Okay. To Kevin Durant.

Are you... Are you over consumed by the amount of people tweeting and saying that they know things? No, I haven't even seen it. Tell me what you're talking about. You never want to give any... I don't know what you're talking about. I can go on the 4U tab. Okay, let's do it.

I'll give you an exercise in this right now. I'm going to go to the 4U tab. Uh-huh. And I'm going to look up anytime I see Kevin Durant stuff come up. Here we go. Okay. Start the clock. go past the AI

large breasted ladies and then that are in the your for you tab here we go something called the summit commish who is that I don't know you gotta mute these people Rockets acquiring Kevin Durant is equivalent to the Astros getting Verlander

in 2017 Young up and coming core poised for a chance at a title needing one future Hall of Famer to push them over the top don't overcomplicate this and then he puts in all caps go get Kevin Durant and go win a championship. Agree or disagree.

Next. I disagree. At NPA. At the Dunk Central. An NBA scout says teams trying to trade for Kevin Durant are just looking to sell jerseys. Most teams that want him are teams that just want to sell jerseys. At this stage of the game, though, he's 36, 37 years old. I don't see him being a real benefit.

Let's see. I don't see a real benefit in giving up much for him. He's not leading anyone to the promise line anymore. A team could take him as a rental to move merchandise for a year, and that's not a terrible idea. Just don't mortgage the future. Anyone from that 35 in overcrowd isn't worth it these days. Kevin Durant is part of that crowd. Now, who put that?

You need to mute that person. That is so stupid. That's from an NBA scout telling Amico Hoops that. Who is Amico? A guy named Sam Amiko. He is a senior writer for HoopsWire.com. He's got 75,000 followers. Jersey sales are evenly distributed between all 30 teams.

So no matter what team he goes to, every Kevin Durant jersey, every team will get a 30th. All right, I got one more for you. The Phoenix Suns reportedly have no leverage in Kevin Durant trade talks and may have to reduce their high ranking price per Dwayne Rankin. Who is that? Rankin is an award-winning covering Phoenix Suns for Arizona's local newspaper. He's got 31,900 followers. Okay. Shams follows him.

All right. Now, did he tweet that or somebody aggregated it? He tweeted that himself. Well, it sounds like he might know something. Yeah, that makes sense. They're having low leverage to get rid of Kevin Durant because everybody knows they want to, want to give him away. The Rockets Wire says the ringer says the rockets are the cleanest trade for fit for Kevin Durant. Yeah, you are getting all this.

I told you I'm not making this stuff up. I know. By the way, another report, I don't know who accredited to, but I'm going to go and tell you that their report says the rockets will not be moving out in Shangoon and Orman Thompson. part of the Kevin Durant trade. I got news for you. I could have told you that three months ago. Shams says Kevin Durant has no desire to be in Minnesota. I believe Shams. Shams is as connected as it gets. Shams lives for this. When Woj retired and said, I can't do this anymore. Shams like, give me your phone. Minnesota wants to give them a lot, I think. Yeah. But man, do you do that with no guarantee he's going to sign?

So I was watching TV last night and they were saying that if Minnesota was supposed to pull this deal off, you would give then Anthony Edwards an entire year to convince Kevin Durant stick around long term. You would. And now, Dame Lillard signed with the bucks, correct? Correct. Okay, I'm trying to think of other

players and teams that got traded to where they didn't want to go and then stayed. Kauai Leonard did not stay in Toronto. Paul George didn't stay in Oklahoma City. He signed with the Clippers, and then that became a whole thing. I'm trying to think of other, like,

big name players that were traded somewhere that stuck stuck around stayed around or even didn't for like one year deal basically where Kevin Durand is for a one year deal Paul George to L.A. Yeah I'm sorry I was

That's okay you're on your four U tab I get it Are you panace of Matt? Oh is that right? Is that right Janet and Chrissy? Is that right Janet and Chrissy? That's why he's saying that By the way Jay just sent me an email Sophia Vagera and Julie Bowen from Modern family is a one-two punch?

Hmm. We have to have a round two. I know that one. Do we even have a bracket contest on this? Throw up eight of them and we'll just see. All right. Go back to your question. That is a good one.

Sorry, we're going to go on the second bracket. Oh, Julie Bowen's spectacular. Sophia Vigar is spectacular too. I think I still go friends. But that's closer. Nope. I'm sorry. Okay.

Because I think Julie Bowen is very sexy. She is. Over prime, Aniston? Over prime Courtney Cox. Sophia Vigarro is prime over Jennifer Aniston. No, I don't think so. I think you're having recency bias. Recent, that show's been gone five years.

Oh, you're talking about among those two shows? But Jennifer Anson, I see her out all the time. Yeah, if she's not in her prime. I think she's still in her prime. You see her in wedding crashers? She's late stage LeBron. Horrible bosses.

In that in that coat she was wearing as a doctor? Yeah. 40-year-old LeBron still got game, but it ain't prime LeBron. Okay, that's fair. Is she a LeBron James of hotness? Yes.

Or Sophia Vergara? Both of them, actually. There's a lot of the... The modern miracles of science. Yes, they've all aged well. Really helpful. All right. Okay, so...

point being is if I'm Minnesota, if Kevin Durant does not want to come play for me for a couple of years after this, I don't do that. Yeah, you'd have to swing. You'd be swinging for the fence. What other choice do you have, though, if you're Minnesota? Stay the course? You went to the Western finals again.

Stay what course? Anthony Edwards? I mean, that's not a bad course to follow. I'm just throwing that out there. Yeah, but you're not winning the arms race right now with the Thunder and the Nuggets. I mean, even though you made the finals and the Nuggets didn't. Okay, if that's the case,

and then why aren't the Rockets pulling the? off too if you're saying the same thing about the line. That's why I said yesterday. Yesterday it was the first day I said I lean towards trading for Durant. Like I said, it's not because of what's happening in Houston, it's what's happening in the West. Because Oklahoma City looks like they're not going to slow down. They're not slowing down. They're not a bunch of aged veterans. They're not gathering up for one great run. They're all Janet Williams in his prime.

SGA in his prime. Home grant, if you ever gains weight, will be in his prime. They got a couple years of that. The second apron will get them. They can't pay everybody. Keep paying everybody. So they will have issues. Hardinstein makes a lot of money. Hardin makes a lot of money. Chet Holmgren's going to eventually need an extension. They already paid SGA and they're going to...

They're going to pay. They're going to pay SGA. Jalen Williams. Third year player, so he's got one more year before he gets... Exactly. They can't pay everyone. That team will... They can rip off two out of three championships or something like that. But then I think they'll get broken up because of the way that the CBA is. All right. 11.15. It is

the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We've got gut feelings coming up at the bottom of the hour. If you'd like to join us before then you may do so at 713-212-5-7-90 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 we take you until 2 o'clock today we have the news at noon we've got to joe a spot at 1230 and the NFL rewind at 120 so a busy show today we want you be a part of it all the way till 2 o'clock right here on sports talk 790 7 to 3 LSU leading UCLA they're resuming a game they got rained out at the college world series I got a question for you now last year my wife and my Middle Sun went to the National Championship three-game series. Oh, why did they do that? Because A&M was playing. Now what happened?

They lost to three in Tennessee. Dang, that's heartbreaking. Okay. It was very expensive. Flying to Omaha on the last second. Now, we had relatives that lived in Omaha, so we didn't have to run a car or they didn't have to go to a hotel. But let's say you're a fan of LSU.

You know, LSU fans travel well everywhere. another else. I don't know how. Where are these Louisiana is getting all his money? You're spending it all on Joe shots. These are all elimination games. How do you afford to go? Okay, you find out, let's say, let's say, I ain't going.

Texas goes the College World Series, okay? Which they've been more than any other program in history. And you're like, I want to go root for my team. Yes. First of all, who can take two weeks off to go do that? Out of nowhere. With minimal notice. Okay.

That's number one. Right. Number two, flying from Austin or Houston or Dallas to Omaha, short notice, probably going to be about 700 bucks per person. And you're not traveling by yourself. What's the drive? Probably 12 to 15 hours. Okay. Let's just go with flights.

Let's go to flights. Then you're going to rent a car on short notice. You're going to go stay in a hotel or an Airbnb on short notice. short notice. And by the way, Airbnb's in Omaha probably aren't cheap because they're holding out all these rooms at the very last second. And you're going to eat and drink on short notice. And you don't even know how long you're going to be there because this is a double elimination tournament. I have, it's under the category of I just don't get it. It's how do you do it is I guess the question. Well, you have a lot of money and you're established in your life and your career.

So there are thousands of LSU fans there, okay? Okay. All the members of their team have their moms and dads and girlfriends are there. Okay. You might have a few rich alums, but ultimately, how many people can just spur the moment if you get at one summer vacation, plan on going to Omaha, Nebraska? Now, that's a great city. But again, everything I just described to you is not cheap. I think if you're going to do it right and you want to go see your team, it's got to cost you $10,000. bucks. I just put in some Airbnbs for this weekend in Omaha. Yes.

Most of them are minimum 350 to 400 a night. Are you serious? Now this is one you can stay with Carl in his upstairs room for 186 a night. Carl's also a predator. He's got five stars. 4.83 stars.

Okay, excuse me. Seems like a sweet dude. Carl is a lurker. Yeah, he may have a... He's going to watch you get undressed. Yeah, he might have a nanny cam installed in the feeling. Now, I'm watching this game right now. There's a bunch of empty seats out there, but this is a game that was also rescheduled. So maybe people, but I'm just telling you, how do you

do it? Now, Final Four is an Uber special experience, and it's also short notice too, Ross. But at least you're not, if you're going to see your team play in game one and all the way to the championship, you could be in Omaha for like 11 days. Yeah. How the hell does anybody do that? I don't. I would say minimal amount of people do that. Probably you either make it for the first couple games or you try to wait and see if they make the championship

series. Which is where we, which we did. When I bought the tickets, again, I paid a heavy price for them because we bought them at the last second because we didn't know if A&A. We were, Kim and Payton were not going to go to Omaha to go watch some rando team play. It was going to be A&M or bust. I just, I'm fascinated by who that group of people are and how much, I mean, think about if you're UCLA, flying from L.A. to Omaha.

I mean, all these places. You can't drive L.A. to Omaha. If you can't, it costs you two days each direction. Yeah, it went from last year. It went from June 14th to June 24th. That's 10 days. It's a day of travel getting there and a day back. Ooh, Lordy, no thank you. I mean, if you have that kind of money, like, I have never seen my cougars playing a college world series. In fact, most of the people that listen to the show have never seen the cougars playing the college world series.

What if you're a retiree, you got an RV. You just pull up. But I mean, retirees are going to spend 10 grand to watch a college. baseball tournament for a week. Well, if you're pulling up in your RV, it's gonna, you can drive up there, so no flight. Okay, so you got somewhere to stay. The RV park's probably gonna be like 30, 40 bucks a night, depending. How many gray hairs in the crowd? That's what I want to know. Okay. I just,

that's the life I'm trying to live. You must be a diehard LSU Tiger fan if you are spending that kind of money to go to Omaha, Nebraska for 10 freaking days, in theory. Yeah, you got some cash. And when the University of Houston Cougars make it up to the college world series, you won't see me for too Someone do it. I'm going to knock it out.

Haven't they not made it since, like, LBJ was in office? I believe Bill O'Rell played for that college World Series team in the 60s. Don't hold me to that, but it's been a while. Long while. Listening to pet sounds on the way. This new album. Hey, hey, hey. You all hear about this band from London, Liverpool, they're called the Beatles.

They're really good. Let's listen to him on the way to Omaha. Man, I miss Truman. All right. All right. It's on our TV. That's why we're just bringing that up. Yes.

Because Gordy came in here and put LSU baseball on, and they're winning. I don't need them getting eight championships. Why do we need to live through his life experience? It's ridiculous. I need Texas baseball to get back on track, just so I don't have to hear from Gordy. I need Houston baseball to get on a track of some sort. Let's see. Yeah, well, last college world series appearance of 1967.

Why don't we get sound effects from you? What's last time Western Kentucky went to the College World Series? What was the Lossom SFA One of the college World Series? What was the Lossom SFA won at the NCAA tournament? We beat Duke and then it got to... Yeah. Yeah, Matt.

Cheating and classes and stuff. Embezzlement. But, you know... Yeah. What was that SFA went over Duke? That's got to be, what, 10 years ago? 2019. O'S Mende that shirt?

Okay. It made the whole program. That's why SFA now is broke, the entire campus. Why is it broke? Because the president embezzled money and took it all for the new stadium after they beat Duke. and they didn't have that in the budget,

and so they had to fire them, and then it was all politics down there in Nacadocious right now. Wow. So you're saying that SFA... It's getting nasty in Nacadocious. Nacadoches is a corrupt universities, which you're trying to tell.

Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty bad over there. I wouldn't recommend if you're going to play basketball. Everything else, yeah, that's pretty nice. So you're saying football not corrupt, basketball corrupt. By the way, you know, SFA and Houston play each other in football to open up the year. Oh, really?

We're going to make a lunch bet on this? Okay, I got $50 on SFA right now. To do what? What? Just show up. You'll win that money. That's called a paycheck game. Okay. See how you didn't want to bet the bet guys? America, you're listening. Oh, stop. He's still listening. He don't want to bet. I'll make a bet.

Did you give you points? No points? No points. I'm just saying, okay, we can go over under. What do you want to do? Over under? No, he's clinically ill. Yeah, that's okay. That's fine. All right, let's make some sports predictions. You ready for that? Yes. 713. Okay, by the way, we're creating a second bracket for our one-two combination. I have three more here that I put in here.

Okay. Then we're trying to get to the final four. Ginger Marianna on our list. Laverne and Shirley on our list. Leverna and Shirley? Just because. Oh my gosh. You're cruel.

Someone wants to put Marsha and Jan Brady. That feels a little creepy. I mean when you're a kid. Oh, like Tatiana Lee is older than me. And I was always a fan of hers. All right. We're going to put, we're going to put Ashley and Hill. in. Although the hell

Ashley's just... Yeah, I get it. Don't do it. It's a weed too big. Don't do it. Somebody's Twitter. Somebody's going to criticize you. That's true. Somebody's going to flag the FBI on you. All right. Love it 28. If you have any gut feelings, that's where you make your sports prediction. 713 212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9.

Listen up, girls and boys. The segment's so appealing. Goce Ross and Matt Thomas. Yo, they got a gut feeling. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. 1133 on Sports Talk 790 for the next half hour. We take your sports predictions.

Anything in the world of sports you want to predict is fair game. If you make your sports prediction and it hits, you call us back and you brag on it, we give you the opportunity. If you miss, we don't judge you unless it's a ridiculous one, then we make fun of you. But generally speaking, most of the gut-feeling predictions we make on the show are not ridiculous. So, Ross, let's see how we did last week and we'll do that after we tell you the phone numbers again at 713. 212-5-790. 7-19. We're looking for your predictions on gut feelings. All right, Matt.

Let's look at last week where, I mean, you had a number of them. You were all over the place. First of all, you said, Damien Pierce, Texans running back, will be traded or released by week one of the 2025. Correct. I mean, all in on that. You also said Kevin Durant will be traded before the NBA draft. Feel good about that as well. With the favor being the San Antonio Spurs,

you had Christian Walker's average over 215 by the end of the week? No, was it the end of the week or end of the road trip or something like that? Wasn't it? I mean, I didn't give ourselves a week plus? Yeah, it was a week. I don't, let me, let me look. Don't ruin it for me. Okay, go ahead and look it up, Maddie.

I'll look it up right now. Christian Walker went one for four yesterday. Uh-huh. His batting average now stands at wait for it wait for it can I tell you I'm getting close

212 he was over 212 when he had that 3 hit game he got up to 218 or 27 but the ending number is what I know so it's a loss for me

all right you had nick chub under 500 rushing yards yep and the Texans with no thousand yard rushers overall feel confident about that okay

I said back to back to back quality starts for Lance McCuller's Jr. He had a loss. Five innings of four run ball and then he got hurt. I told you you jinxed him. I didn't jinx him. All right. Me talking on a radio

show didn't have him messing up in the weight room unless they were playing the show. Jonathan, he gets rather defensive doesn't he? He went for the what would he say in gambling? Double down? He doubled down on it and I told him not to and he's still going to.

Look. I try to believe in my guys. All right? Right? By the way, you... I'm sorry for showing the point. Hey, the one of your non-guise, Ryan Gusto, doing his job, two straight starts. Give the man his flowers.

What do you mean? Yeah, he's been good. Your aunt never said, no, I'm not. You have no gusto for gusto. You're such a liar. I can check the tapes. Check them. Pull it up. Let's go.

I said he wasn't getting done when he wasn't. And now I'm saying, he's doing a lot better. Appreciate Ryan Gusto. Fastball command looking good. Like that four seamers working for. for him. All right, anyways. I also said Nick Chubb does not finish the season as a Houston Texan. That's way more bolder than my prediction.

Let's see. Jonathan, I wrote down one for him. He had the Astros winning six in a row. I went five for six. Yeah, they had a five-game winning streak. Wow. That was close. Just because they lost to the white.

I know. I'm still proud of you, though. He had them sweeping the twins and the white socks. By the way, they went five and one. You need to once again apologize to the city of Houston because you have, you are up in Team Indiana Pace of this entire thing. There are one more loss from being done. Okay.

In Tari's Halliburton, is he hurt or? I think it's over. He's got a calf injury. I think it's over. Yeah, it's over. I'm really disappointed because I. Yeah, he's got a hurt calf. Folks, why is Oklahoma City only four and a half point favorites?

On the road against the Pacers, they've been five and a half and six and a half. And not only Halberton, Everybody on the Pacer team seems like they rush every play they do. And it just, it seems like the spotlight to do. They try to rush because that's what Rick Carlisle wants them to do. Because if you let Oklahoma City Thunder get in their half court set, you're done. I don't know. I still have a little faith.

You know how I become a big fan of in that Pacer series? Is Andrew Nimhart's defense? Is he just tenacious or what? He's good. I like Andrew Nimhart. Or is it Nieceman the one that's part of the claims on them? Which one? Which one?

I get those two guys mixed up. They're both doing good right now. Okay, but one of them is really making life hard for SGA. Oh, that's Niesmith. Neesmith. Okay, I got you. All right, we're ready for this weeks? Yeah, go ahead.

All right, Astros have six games left on this West Coast road trip. They're going to win five of them. Boom. You heard me. I didn't set her. Five out of six left on the road trip? Yeah. Wow.

Five and one the rest of the way. By the way, Matt, let the folks know who's holding. Oh, okay. Let me tell you all what's going on. right now. We have one caller. It's our buddy Brad. He's not my buddy. He's everyone's friend. He's not my friend. And the rule is with Brad,

we take his call. Only if there's nobody else on the line. If literally anybody else calls with a sports prediction, please, with a gut feeling, we take you in front of him. He's like, we love Braddie. He's like the basic economy of our callers.

We'll let you on the plane, but we'll let you have one carry on. And you'll get on the plane very last. Right? He's a basic economy caller. The rest of you, your economy plus. So if you want to call in with your sports predictions, remember, you call in, you get in before Brad. You don't call in. Brad comes on the show in a very short period of time.

713212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Astros go 5-1. Kevin Durant gets traded by Friday. There's my second prediction. By Friday? Wow. Let's go.

By Friday. Close the show 2 o'clock. And better not happen during the 18. That's all I'm saying. No, it wouldn't be a Friday news dump. I think it's going to happen closer to the draft. You're saying it's going to take a few more days. I will say draft day, close to the draft.

Very close to the draft. I say Friday, 2 o'clock. It's done by 2 o'clock. Okay. I'm writing that down. Because I don't think Houston, San Antonio, Minnesota, Miami are going to wiggle. If it's going to be somebody,

it's going to be Toronto or the L. Clippers are going to want to jump in there. But remember, Kevin Durand does not have those teams on his list of teams he'd like to sign an extension to. Now, it could obviously change. But right now, the only three teams, according to Sham Chirani, that Kevin's willing to sign an extension with are the Spurs, the Heat, and the Rockets. Okay. Okay. I've got a gut feeling. Please.

And it's non-sports. Southwest Airlines, Matt, what did they do recently? They assigns, starting assigning seats. And no more free checkbacks. That is correct. I don't know when, but they will go back. It will be like New Coke, where they came up with a new formula. Everyone hated it.

They lost business, and they went back, and they were as popular as ever. Southwest Airlines is going to, I'm not saying it's intentional. I'm saying it's going to happen. They're going to see how much business they're losing from all of these people, and they're going to go back to two free check bags and the old. I don't know if they're going to go back to the old system. That's what I want you to know. They're going back to two free check bags.

bags. Bags fly free. Bags fly free. It's coming back. What about the assigned seats? I can't speak to that. Because I don't think that's costing them as much as the bag thing. In your gut, it's the bags.

Yes. What do you think? I find that to be very valid. By the way, it could also be an incredible marketing plug. It might be a smart marketing ploy or it just could be accident, which we could argue about new coat. People say that they did it on purpose. others say it was just the wrong process

but the right result. But what if they all of a sudden see this big money boost because of these bags? They could. I think it's going to cost them business, though. Because here's the thing. I'm not flying them. If you get a credit card, you get the bags, right?

Yes. And if you are a frequent flyer with Southwest, you get the bags. So what percentage of the population is not in one of those two categories? Yeah, I could be wrong. I don't think it's a terrible thought on your part. Okay.

That's a good feeling. You know what I feel I can do? I need to give you a non-sports one now. Okay. But Jonathan, what do you have in your gut feelings before I started thinking of a non-sports gut feeling I have? Just real quick, so I put it in there. We're going to go into game seven in the finals. I'm going to stay on it.

And Pacers in seven? And Pacers in seven. I'm just going to stay on it. I got you. If I get it, oh, it's going to do it. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's kind of feeling like this low-risk, high reward. Pacers in seven.

Look, you've gotten this far. They won more an extra game than I thought they were going to win. I've been rooting since April 12, so I've got to keep going on. You are consistent about that. I give you credit for that. All right, I got another one now. This is also foreshadowing of the NFL ReWine coming up at 2020. We're going to have this story for you coming up at 120.

Jaguar's general manager, James Glantstone, says Travis Hunter has the capacity to play all game both ways. No way. Ain't happening. I don't care what James Gladstone is saying. It's not going to happen. Travis Hunter is not playing the majority of the game. both ways. I don't know how we want to slice this, how many snaps he's playing.

Now, he might do it for a game or two or something like that, but I bet you my gut feeling is he doesn't even do it for one game where he's playing the majority of snaps on both sides, and he certainly is not going to do it for a season. I'm putting my name on that one. Wow. Well, for a season.

Would 12 games count suit a season? Sure. Over 12. So if he plays the majority of the snaps both both ways for 12 games, ain't no way. Ain't no way. There's no way. He's either A, going to get hurt

or B, they're going to figure out this is a very stupid idea. Okay. But didn't he say he was going to quit if he can't do it? Yeah, he said, that's what I say. Everybody's talking. And then you get up to the NFL and you realize it's a little bit different.

You're not going up against Iowa State in the middle of September. It's the NFL. Okay. All right. I've got to think of a non-sports one. I still have not thought of one. Okay.

But I'm going to think about it. Brian is up next because we take Brian over Brian. We take, frankly, anybody over Brad. Guys, can you get in over? There's only one person in front of Brad. God, he's so bad. You don't know. Could you come up with some great predictions this week?

You never know. Okay. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-21-5-7-90. Remember, you're only one call away from hearing from Brad. It's up to Brian and then Brad. Or you could jump to the top of the list. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

All right, things I never thought we'd have in this office. Gordy and Ross are arguing about the director's cups. I'm not arguing with anybody. I didn't bring it up. I didn't say anything about it, but now that you did, yes, congratulations to the Texas Longhorns, the greatest athletic department in the land

winning the director's cup now four of the last five years. Thrilled. Congratulations from all of us. Yeah, like I said, I didn't bring it up. No, but I, I, I, I was asking Gordy, what is topic A on the Austin Sports Radio Station today? And he said probably Directors Cup championships. How long can you talk about that?

As I'm saying, if you are going to, if you youngsters want to get into sports radio, go to a city with pro teams. Because my God, do you want to do, I mean, what is right now, Shreveport's sports radio doing right now? Shreveport. Saints? LSU LSU baseball But that's still a four-hour drive from Baton, Bethel Rouge. Just saying.

Thank God we got the local pro teams. We got the Rockets. Maybe making a trade for Kevin Durant. We got the Texans getting ready to win. How many games for us to this year? Over under 9 and a half. What do you say? 10.

10 and 7. 11. Are we going for a auction here? Who says 12? Who's going to be? Go to 11. now 12 number two Who said the Texan

I'm going to win 12 to the Rams and 10 I'm going with 11 Okay And then we have the Astros who are still in first place by four and a half games because the Mariners lost the Red Sox last night 2 to nothing

713-212-5-7-90 Now we have two people in front of Brad so the longer you guys keep calling in with your calls on gut feelings the less chance you got to hear from Brad over the course of the next nine minutes of this radio show 713-212-5-790 is how you reach a show again that 7-13-212-5-7-9-0 and my call screen is down so ross you will pick up brian on line 2 oh i got it working now let's say out of brian on 7 on a hi brian

brian the floor is yours uh don't hear anything that wasn't my fault was it i don't know brian any there we'll put brian on hold got it fixed i thought let's try rick in sugarland rick what are what's in your gut this week? A couple of things. First, you know, the Directors Cup, man, I'm super excited. But the thing they didn't mention is the short horns do have the best mascot burgers of all time. So there's kudos to that. But who? But the gut feeling today is, you know, and it's kind of a Brad Blocker, is,

are the Panthers going to win tonight, the Stanley Cup? Well, you tell us. Well, since you guys are super big hockey fans, We are large, we are, they call us puckheads. Mm-hmm. Yeah, they call us puckheads. All right, we'll let you really get a little bit of a bad connection there. I like Edmonton to win the game tonight.

I get the Panthers. Okay. Want to put a Huntsky on it? No. Me either. No, no, no. I was sure I trick you. I just looked up who the favorite was and I picked them.

Really? Panthers minus 150. Total six and a half. Game is in sunrise? I don't know. Isn't it where they got an arena? I don't know where they play. It's not in Miami.

Yeah, I think it's north of Fort Lauderdale. It's like the San Jose Sharks are really Bay Area's team, but San Jose is 40 to 5 minutes. They can't get a team in Houston. Well, we're trying. That's fine. We don't need it. I'm tapped out. You would like it.

I don't need more downtown traffic. Who says it would be downtown? That's true. Just throwing that out there. Let's go to a second chance. Brian on 7-90. Brian, you there? You got me this time?

Yes, sir. Go ahead. All right. It's a beautiful day at H-Talphos. How are y'all doing today? Amazing. Thank you for asking. Well, I'm only a little bit of help here. I know last week I said the Stros, we're going to go seven and three in their next ten. Where am I on that? You are winning on that. Okay.

Better work. I'm happy. I think we can finish out. Okay. All right. Now, let's go City Race. I got Shane Van Gisberg in money by 14 seconds. Wow.

Oh, second place car. This weekend is the Tricky China, Pocono, Pennsylvania. I do not have a picture for that, because it's all kinds of crazy a player. But I just want to call and see where I was at and let you know about the NASCAR. Yes, sir.

You're like our NASCAR beat reporter. Now that Trey's gone. We'll send you to the... NASCAR on the moon. Do you... Does Texan Motor Speedway have NASCAR events? I'm assuming they do, right? I think so.

I have no interest in going. I mean, if somebody said, hey, we have a luxury box with food and drink and you can go sit in there and watch it, I'll go. I'm not trying to catch a lug nut to the dome. I don't want to be there when these crashes are happening. But I don't think in the luxury box we can have that. No, I'm good. I would do it. Oh, I know you'd go to the luxury box.

Well, yeah, I don't want to sit with the regular folks. No. I don't want a tire hitting me. Never been in the lawn at the pavilion and never been up in the upper deck of Deakin. No lawn. Wow. No upper deck. Where else have I not done before?

That's crazy. Yeah. I think so. Yeah, you're grifting free tickets normally. I get it. Oh, is that right? Yeah. How much did you spend in the last ticket that you went to an Astros game?

That would be $0. My mother gave it to me. Shout up, Mama. What's up? So you're a grifter too. Not a grifter. I accept gifts. Okay.

Mike and Beaumont, the tomato tomato. Mike, what is in your gut? I've got a great gut feeling that that dumb ass Brad won't get on the radio. Well, he's got time. He's got plenty of time, actually. Stahl. Keep talking, keep talking, Mike. Give us some gut feelings.

Make something up. Oh, who's that UCLA fan there? She's nice. Two of them, actually. You see how ESPN stared at them for like five seconds? Yeah, the cameramen know what they're doing. Yeah, they're not stupid. All right, last but not least.

I'd say very least. Brad, what's in your gut this week? First of all, Econnell Plus, I don't remember any of those Econo Pluses going to Las Vegas. Do you, Matt? Most of them stayed here in their mom's

basements like the losers they are. Ross, that little man you had on last week, that was the best. The best. That little kid blows most of the collars that called this show. Including you. Probably even me. Probably even me, but

I'm a lot better than most of the call. That's true. Even Jay knew that Brendan McCurry wasn't going to be a star. Well, I have predicted a lot. When you predict a lot, you lose. That's true. And you win more. I guarantee you, you add them all up. I've got more wins and losses. Now, my next prediction is Framber is going to get $200 million plus, and it's not going to be from the Astros. Another thing, I'm going to say that the Astros, now that Lance went on the shelf, I think they're going to get a pitcher, but it's not going to be a very good one. they should call up that ULola, that Ulysses guy.

I don't know what his name is. Ulysses S. Grant? Ulysses Yola. The one that got seven strikeouts. At the Appomatics Courthouse, you threw a shutout, I heard. ULola. Okay. Uol.

In all honestly, we got to figure out how to pronounce his name because he's probably going to be up here. Friola. Uola. Miguel Uiola. Miguel Uola. Uola. Uola.

Or other. For two L's is a Y. Like Via Rial. Yeah. Let's go. Let's go back to Spanish from eighth grade, pal. I didn't take Spanish in eighth grade. That's true.

You were hanging out with Colette. I was Colette and freshman urine. Yeah, we get it. What's up, Colette? My sweet. You have Spanish, poikito. Okay. All right.

Are we done? Okay, is that it? Hold on. I forgot. I didn't write them all in down. Frombard gets $200 million. I normally write down Brad's takes because he tries to brag on his terrible ones and makeup ones he did. What was the other ones, Brad?

There's tons. You got them all written down. No, I only got one. I'm talking about the ones from today. Frommers make $200 million, not from the Astros. 200 plus. Okay, and that's it. He says the Astros are going to go get a bad pitcher.

Yeah, he's not going to be something special because they got nothing to give. Okay. All right, thank you. Oh, I'll give you one more. Oh, great. The Rockets are not getting Kevin Durant and they're not getting the guy from Milwaukee because that will strip their whole team. It's not worth it.

too many people you're going to have to give up you'll lose all your draft picks it's not worth it they'll go after a better more down to earth somebody that's decent a star not a superstar that might that could help them okay thank you Brett there it is

I don't think they'll get Durant or Janus either that's the favorite he says a star but not a superstar there's a difference between those last one Joe and Alvin Joe what's in your gut well I got a gut feeling it's the opposite of what the last guy just said. The Rockins are going to trade the Dame Farm and all the cows and all the chickens

to get Kevin Durant's because Tillman Fertito wants to put butts and seats for the next two years. That's all I got. Thank you. All right. Thanks, Joe. Appreciate it. By the way, another, the 4U tab is doing me disservice. 4U tab says that the rockets would package a deal that would involve Jalen Green and or Jabari Smith and or Dylan Brooks.

to satisfy the financial dealings with one Kevin Durant. Believe that or not. Honestly, Ross, I like this stuff. I don't know who I know who to believe. I know who don't believe. When you have 4,000 followers or you are jazz fan for life, I don't believe your sources. But if you're Shamsarani, I believe you.

If you're a Sam Amick, I believe you. Yes. If you're a Brian Winhorse, I believe you. But that's about it. 1159. The news at noon. And one is the loneliest number. Do you understand that, Mr. Allen?

One is the loneliest number. One is the loneliest number. You'll hear why next. Just one run, Ross, in Sacramento. The Okremento A's take the series opener. Not enough to get the victory. Out hit the A's. It's funny.

when they only score one run, they usually typically out-hit their opponents. I did a post-game show about 10 days ago where I think the other team had four hits and won the game. Baseball's funny that way, man. It is funny that way. I mean, they weren't coming through with runners in the scoring position? 0 for 3 on the evening. This is all part of the news at noon. 12.07 sports talk 7.9.

We have the Tim Brando of Sports News in Houston. It's Rossville. Thank you. I'll take that as a compliment. I think Matthew. We're losing at noon. Sports Talk 790. We do start with your Houston Astros. Losing in Sacramento, Ryan Gusto, five innings of three-hit one-run ball,

also had eight strikeouts. He is rounding into form the last couple of times, just as I predicted he would. And the bullpen, pretty good. Brian Abraeu, unfortunately, giving up the two-run Jack there, the only run, the home run from Jose Al-Tuva. and we talked about this earlier on the show map. Jose Altuve gets booed in, say, New York or elsewhere.

Cleveland. But getting booed in Sacramento, California? Yeah. Anaheim. I just don't, I mean, I did it, but I just don't do. And Miami. Everywhere. Everywhere he goes, including Sacramento, California,

where they don't even care about their own baseball team. Correct. 9,000 or 8,500 people there yesterday. Mm-hmm. And this happened yesterday, after our show ended, Matt. Lance McCullors Jr. on the I.L. With a right foot sprain for pitchers, it is the 15-day IL.

So he will be missing time, but Joe Espada says he is hopeful it will be the minimum amount of time missed for Lance McCuller Jr. And we will talk to Joe Espada coming up in 22 minutes for his weekly Tuesday visit here on Sports Talk 790. That is very true. All right, elsewhere in the news at noon, Matt, the Oklahoma City Thunder, take a commanding 3 to 2 lead over the Indiana Pacers. Game number 6 is on Thursday. 120 to 109 win for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Tyrese Halliburton did not make a field goal in the game. He played 34 minutes, but he was 0 for 6.

Only 4 points, 7 rebound 6 assists. He is dealing with a calf issue and it seems like the Pacers have to be done at this point. Yeah, I had the Thunder winning in 5. give them credit, giving the Pacers credit to winning that game one there. The series has been, if you took the whole pie 80% owned by the Thunder, maybe 75%, but if the Thunder lose this series, it will be a very, very big surprise. In fact, remember we talked about it just the other day about how the odds were overwhelmingly in favor of Oklahoma City. And then you have to spend when 800 to win 100.

Is that what it was? It was over, you know, 700, minus 700-ish. Something crazy like that. To win 100. Yep. Which I wish we had betting apps in Texas. That was going to say, they're not in our state.

Legal ones. Yeah. We're trying. Because Thunder would have made me some cash, but that's okay. Anyways, yeah, Tyrese Halliburton went to the locker room early in the game before returning in the second quarter with his calf wrapped. He did finish the game. Halliburton saying, quote, it's the finals.

I've worked my whole life to be here, and I want to be out here to compete to help my teammates any way that I can't. if I can walk, then I want to play. But I ask you, Matt, is he helping or hurting the team if he's out there for 34 minutes and not making a field goal? He, they had to very much watch his minutes. I think he has to give it a go because he is the leader of that basketball team. But if he ain't got it, he ain't got it. So I would say 34 minutes playing the way that he did yesterday did not help.

I think they'll be very cautious. He will inject, shoot, whatever it takes. thrombosis, whatever the case may be, deep massage to get on the floor and try his best. But I think Oklahoma City wins it on the Indiana home floor on Thursday. All right, elsewhere in baseball, this is not going to shock you. The Red Sox leadership defending their decision to trade Rafael Devers, CEO Sam Kennedy and Chief Baseball officer Craig Breslo defending the decision. Bresel saying this is in no way

signifying a waving of a white flag. We are committed as we were six months ago to putting a winning team on the field, competing for the division, and making a deep postseason run. Do you think Red Sox fan believe a word they're saying? Probably not.

Oh, man. One of the best power hitters in sports is now 3,000 miles away. CEO Sam Kennedy, we had certain expectations that went with that contract, and we came to the conclusion that we did not have full alignment, we moved on. Or is that word alignment, Matt?

Who said that a lot? Was that Easterby and O'Brien? Alignment was a Bill O'Brien or was it a Rick Smith thing? No, it was definitely Bill O'Brien was a part of it. Yeah, I thought it was Bill O'Brien in Easterby. Nick Casario might even have said that. O'Casero is very much an alignment guy. It feels like something Belichick would say as well.

But alignment was the word of the day at this press conference. Apparently the word was used by CEO Kennedy nine times in the press conference and by the GM Breslo five times. You know, when you-14 times. When someone starts keeping track of what you say, they don't believe you. Yes. Pretty funny. All right, one more baseball note, Matt. Shohei Otani pitching last night against the San Diego Padres for the first time since 2023.

He did hit 100 miles per hour on the gun, but in one inning he gave up. one run, no strikeouts, and then he was just the DH for the rest of the way. Yeah, my guess is he's going to be an opener. I would, how about this? Do you, would you, if you made a bet, does Shoahe Otani throw more than five innings in a game this year? I would say no. I will say yes. Okay. You want to make a bet on it? Oh, we could. Let's do a ball circle. I spared you a bet on McCullors. You said he wasn't going to throw over 90 pitches.

I know. I'm glad I didn't make that bet. That was a safe. That was a big win for you. One of the note, may I step in on your newscast? Yes. Some late breaking news. Congratulations to Houston Texans mascot Toro. All right. He will be inducted in the Mascot Hall of Fame class of 2025.

Hmm. Great. And one more note, Matt. Congratulations to the greatest athletic department in the land four out of the last five years. Now, this is not according to me. This is according to the NACDA Director's Cup. The Texas Longhorns and Chris Delcante, the athletic director over there on the 40 acres, winning for the fourth time out of five years. Congratulations to the Longhorns.

Would you give up the Directors Cup for a football national championship? I'd give up 10 Directors Cups for one football national championship. Probably infinity. Just put the old infinity sign of there. And you got a shot, right? You beat Ohio State. You're going to have a nice run. Well, we'll see.

Now, will you be grumpy if they lose their house? That's not a big deal. All you got to do is make the top 12 now. That's true. You could lose that game. You can't get your asking and be just fine. Yeah, it's still a big game. Go ask them underdome about that against losing to Northern Illinois and week number one.

That hurt them. That is correct. Yeah. And that's your news and new. Thank you very much for all that good stuff. No thoughts on Toro winning the mascot Hall of Fame entrance. He's in the Hall of Fame? Yeah, I didn't know there was...

Based on what? Continued excellence. He's driving around in ATV with fireworks going on? What's the best thing Toro's ever done? Like, has Toro jump from the top of the stadium down? I think he has. I think he does repel from the top of the stadium.

I'll give him kudos on that. Yeah, I don't know the answer to that question. Okay. I mean, honestly, and again, I'm biased, but Clutch crushes it. I got it in the same place. Clutch and Orbiter 1-2. What order do you want to put him in, Matt? Clutch 1, Orbit 2.

Ooh. And then Toral 3? Shasta, maybe. Shasta is about 76. That's not nice. Don't disrespect Shasta. Sasha? They're a delightful combination. That's a good one-two punch there. Shasta's behind the Public Works mascot. Oh, my God.

12.15 on Sports Talk 7.9. We will update our two poll questions today. We are looking for ultimate one, two brackets for females in comedy shows. And we said one group of four. And we said, we didn't get another group because we just thought of another set of fine. entrance in that. Joe Espada with us at the bottom of the hour. It's Sports Talk 790 at 1215 here on 790. All right. 1221, we got Joe Espada coming up in about 10 minutes

from now. So the comparisons that I've seen for Luis Guillermo the best one I would have to say is a cross between Travis Kelsey and Evan Gaddis. You mean Jason Kelsey? Jason. Oh yeah, because Travis is

little leaner. He's got long wispy hair now. Yeah. So Jason, Kelsey, and Evan Gattis. Okay. Good comps on those guys? Sure. Never going to beat you with his speed. What do you mean? He was tracking

down that fly ball. That fly ball he caught on left field yesterday was a thing of beauty. He jumped out like a dolphin jumping out of the water. Like catching a fish, too. He was impressive. Or like a great white shark getting a seal. Oh, now wait a minute.

That's a little deep. Why? That hurts. It hurts. It's nature, Matt. Yeah, but I like the fish eating the dolphin from the dolphin much better. Why can't the dolphin eat a fish and the sharks eating a seal? It's the same thing.

Oh, okay. All right, anyways. All right. So he rolls around for a while. It was good to see Isok Proteus back in the lineup. Now, D.H. Yes, that's okay. We'll take it.

So we'll ask about how long that's going to be where he's going to D.H is compared to third base, getting back on his position. and the Astros yesterday announced a bunch of different injuries on their press got notes before the game yesterday. Nobody sounded like they were right around the corner. And perhaps of all the information that was presented to us, the thing that disappointed me most was that Yoron is still not swinging as bad yet. Yeah. Do we want to do a quick run through some of these? Please do.

Araggetti Flat ground throwing Report to the Ashos facility in Florida later this week. All right, I'll give you my vocal emotions on that. Okay. Okay. Well, if he's not even throwing

And he's got to have a full spring training Post all-star break. Yep. My gosh. Luis Garcia threw 25 pitches in a side session. That's good. JP France through Live BP on Friday, 20 pitches.

That's further ahead than side sessions. Do you think either? one of them pitches in 2025. If you were betting, man. Well, JP Friends sounds like he's close. You could use the arms. I mean, I know... We have to...

Honestly, how much better is J.P. France than Ryan Gustor, Colton Gordon, or... Well, right now, the answer is significantly worse, but... He had a great first season that he fell off at the end of. Yep. And then he had five starts last year. Never got on track. He was not good. Right. And then he was hurt.

I think of them kind of in that same vein. six-seventh arm to me. And let's see. Javier, 40 pitches in a side session. 20-pitch bullpen, that's good. The last step will be live hitters and then rehab for him. So honestly, it sounds like he might be getting kind of close. That sounds good.

Javier coming back, what a shot in the arm that would be? When did he miss? When did he go out? It was around this time last year. I think it was June of 24. Okay. I think it's been 12 months. So I'm going to go ahead and give you a small gut feeling,

even though we're about an hour away from where we did it last. Yes, June 7th of last year. If I'm going off of those three reports, Javier, to me, sounds like he's the closest one. So it's been 12 months for him. And they always have been saying 12 to 16 months. 16 months, yeah. The one guy that should be back probably faster than the other two, in my mind,

would be Luis Garcia. Yeah, he's been since June of 23. It's been two years for him. Yeah. Okay. Continue on. Yordon Alvarez and DeZenzo are in Houston. they're not on the road trip they have not progressed to hitting post all star break for both of them

so you're looking at another month my god at least i'm gonna be optimistic and say before all start i'm they call me mr realistic and i'm gonna go after all star i'm gonna be optimistic all right okay chas mccormick is in houston as well he is hitting and throwing and then pedro leone i don't care about that yeah yeah he's hitting and throwing okay but you know what i applaud the asteros for giving us updates. Transparency. Yeah.

And updates. Didn't hear anybody? No, we don't have to spend half of our interview with Joe Espada talking about it. We just gave you guys the updates. Yeah. And I think the thing about Paredes is going to figure out where he's going to play, how much D.H. he's going to play. Yeah, we can ask that for sure.

All right. So at least we got some news from the Astros, and we appreciate that. It's all we're looking for, and we got it. Now only the bats get going. And I feel like we've said that since, what, day four of the season? Yeah, it's around then. Remember, I told you. about a month ago, I said this is who they are.

Doesn't mean they can't win. They are winning with these bats? They've gotten better. I think they're third and team, now average, of course, and OPS do different things. Right. As of a couple days ago, now they'd only got one run yesterday, but they were like third in baseball on team average, but like 14th in OPS.

So we need a little more slug little on base, guys. And you know, it's crazy though, is all the runs that are scoring after the seventh inning, too. That's true. And with two outs. For a team that is challenged offensively, their clutch ability to score runs is incredible

doing what they do after the 7th. Yeah, 15th in Team OPS. Middle of the pack. Yeah. Yeah, it shows you. Middle of the pack with good pitching, one new division. Christian Walker, turn it around.

Yerner Diaz as well. Yoron gets back, creeping into the top 10, keep the good pitching, and you're competing for an ALPenet. And we'll have all the games in 790, all the playoff games. Love it.

We'll play a deep playoff run. Joe Espada joins us next here on Sports Talk 790. He will be with you after Ross tells you about. We are very happy to be joined by the manager of the Houston Astros. Joe Espada. Last night his squad dropped 3-1 to the whatever they're calling the A's these days. Skip, good afternoon. First of all, it was a great note from your PR department.

You were there for the very first game in West Sacramento. Do you remember that game vividly or not? I do remember parts of the day, don't remember much of the game itself, but I remember teammates, remember, you know, walking into a beautiful, brand new ballpark, the excitement, the energy in the stadium, I remember that aspect of that day very well. Do you have any good, like, 32nd Joe Espada Minor League stories? I mean, you were well-traveled during there. I mean, if you have to protect innocent people's names, I certainly.

respect that, but give me something that pokes into the mind and soul and body of Joe's spot as a minor leaguer. Man, you know, I, uh, I did spend, you know, 10 years into minor leagues, uh, great experiences, uh, travel a lot, you know, ran into some really good people, teammates, friends of mine who are still, uh, close to, uh, close to me. Uh, you know, man, I think about the, the hours on the bus to grind the, you know, the, the, the fight that you had to have, the desire to get to the big leagues,

the, um, it was, it was not easy. I never got to play in the big leagues. As a, you know, obviously,

uh, as a minor league player, I worked really hard to try to get there, never, never got there. I just think about the journey and, and how my, my minor league career just kind of shape out to be who I am today.

You know, I learn a lot. It put myself in minor league players' shoes to understand what they go through. So when I had conversation with my players, young players, remember what they went through. So that's kind of what I took out of my minor league career. Well, all right.

Next Tuesday, I'm at Dyken Park. I'm going to ask you an off the record story then. You can't sit on there. I get it. I'm just teasing you, but it'll be good. Hey, I thought last night when Altovae hit that blast, it was going to be a fun night. And the pitching for Oakland, Oakland,

for whatever they're called, stepped up. It was another low-scoring game. Are you just, that's just kind of the trend right now. Nothing's going to be easy, but you've had a lot of success. as of late. What's it like going through these feel like for the most part, not using Friday as an example, but just generally speaking, these games that are coming down to one

run, last and that kind of efforts. You know, for me, I look at the positive math. You know, when you play low-scoring games, there's a lot of things that you do, you have to do really well to be able to stay in the game and have a chance to win it at the end like we've been

doing. One thing that this team does very well, we're good coming from behind, right? Like we played hard till the end. So, you know, we are doing a really good job pitching and we're playing some really, really good defense. If you do those two things, you're going to find yourself in every ballgame. Um, they hit, you know, the hitting kind of goes and goes throughout throughout the season. It happens. You know, we ran into some, some good arms yesterday. We were able to score a lot of runs, but we were, we were close. We were one hit away, uh, from opening the game up

and winning that ball game. But for me, it's, I'm going to look at the bright side of things, man, you know, Rusto asking him the night before, hey, we need you to pitch tomorrow. He says, Joe, let's go. I'm ready to go. He goes out. He points out eight in five innings. Those are positive, man. Our defense, you know, we're grinding through some of bats.

And eventually, you know, we're going to open things up. But I really, really like the way we are playing right now on both sides of the ball. Escape, you got Isak Pradesh back. You DHs them yesterday. How much DH? How much their base do you want to see or do you feel like you can get it back out there at some point? in the field this weekend. Yeah, so he'll play third base today.

And we are, you know, I'm monitoring really close. I want to be careful on how much volume we give him right off the bat. We were very lucky for that injury, you know, not to be something that will keep him out of the line for a long period of time, and I want to make sure it stays that way. But he is playing third base today, and we'll continue to keep an eye on him and the rest to the boys since we are in a pretty long stretch of games here. Joe spotted with us here on Sports Talk 790. Christian Walker had that big three-hit game a few games ago since then has slowed down a bit.

What are your conversations like, been with him? Just take us from maybe the start of the season to the struggles and to where he is now, especially mentally. You know what? Mentally, he's super mentally tough. I think the mindset of Christian Walker is one of someone that understands that, understands that, you know, the journey of how long a season is and the ups and downs that come with playing in atmosphere where you're expected to win.

And he understands that. I do like the fact that he is open about how he feels. He's open about, like, sometimes he finds himself trying to do a little bit too much. And, you know, he is working every single day through mechanically trying to get himself. self, right? And we see moments where we, okay, he is fully out of this. And then there's a game or two where he hits some balls where he's unlucky. And you see his frustration at times, like, man, I just need to get a couple of knocks and get going here. But he's added to his, it's good. We got him an off day. Two days ago, he came out yesterday. I just went about,

well, got a knock. They pictured him really tough, which I expect him to. He's, you know, hitting behind, hitting in the middle of our lineup. But at the end of the day, I think he's going to have a solid season for us. It's a lot of baseball left, and I expect him to get going here, and we need him to get going.

He's a big, huge part of our lineup. Would Luis Guillermo be your dark horse in a team high jumping competition? Man, what a great play. You know, in the dugout, we started talking to Perret. We started joking with Perretis. But he's like, you think he could have made that play

and he's like, Joe, of course I could make that play. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. But, man, I tell you, that was. Joe, he went like 225 feet to left field. That's way too far for him to go out to the left field, isn't it? Yeah, but Isaac, you know, thought that he could make that play.

But, you know, one thing about Guillermo is something he's done his entire career is he can really defend. Everywhere you put him in the infield, he can really make some plays. he takes pride in his defense. And he made those two plays, bare hands, low rollers, which, you know, kept us from, you know, innings to get out of control there for Gusto. So I really feel comfortable when he's playing defense, and he'll give you some quality of bats when he's in there.

So what is the doctor said for Lance to do during this downtime? Obviously, you know, getting a day extra two is good for rest, but two weeks may be a little bit different. So what can he do with his arm and his forearm while he's obviously nursing the toe? You know, you know what? And I think he could continue to throw. You know, this is something that it's not going to pull them back from continue to do his throwing program or anything like that. You know, he is getting some treatment done for his foot.

So hopefully we could get him, you know, continue to play his flat round, play catch. And once the foot starts feeling better, we get him on the mound. get them to throw aside. But I don't expect this to be longer than the two weeks. So hopefully we get some good news here in the next couple of days and we get them back on the mouth. Do you ever call the Dodgers, anybody in that organization, and they say, man, we got a lot of injuries on our starting pitching and you say, hold my beer.

I mean, these two baseball teams have been beset by, and you're powering through it. That says there's depth in this organization. and maybe people the outsiders don't know about. You've also got a bunch of guys that feels like to me, Joe, that are making the most of their opportunities right now. Yes, yes, you know, Matt, and I've said this before, how proud I am of this group. We do an incredible job developing players in this organization,

you know, especially on the pitching side. You know, I always feel like when we sit down and we try to put this piece together, this puzzle together, and when this picture goes down, who's the next guy up? And there's always someone who we feel strongly about, okay, this guy can come up because he could do this things very well. Our pitching department does a really good job, you know, putting it playing together for every individual when they get up here. This is what we do well. Let's just get by this storm here because once we get our guys fully healthy, we are going to be fine.

We've done this for years. you know, it really sucks that these injuries are piling up. You mentioned the Dodgers, you mentioned us, but this is happening throughout the industry. And we have to find ways to weather the storm. It's really hard. I do get credit to our boys that we keep our eyes on the prize, man. We know that this will pass. We know that this is part of the season.

And, you know, this is a group that knows how to play. This is a championship team that know how to play. championship baseball when you need it the most, which is right now June, July, August, man, you grind. This is a grinding right now, and we are grinding through this. Big picture. If I gave you five, if I gave your pitchers five more seconds on the clock, big difference, little difference, no difference at all.

There will be, there's some difference. You know, there's a lot you can do in those five seconds, you know, when it comes to either, you know, gathering your thoughts or, you know, a breather. or, you know, there's much you can do with five seconds. You know, there's this mental game of baseball you can really put yourself back. But we don't have those five seconds, right? You have to just do the best you can with the time that you get on the mound. And it's important to keep your momentum and your focus.

And, you know, but, you know, five seconds. if you can use it well to your advantage, I'm sure that we can, I'm sure that you could do it, especially after the picture. Yeah, I don't know if it's ever going to happen, but I think, because there's so many arm elements,

Joe, not only with your squad, but around baseball, that at least it needs to be a conversation to say, what can we do to at least slow these things down? Because our arm problems are always a part of it. Yeah, and I think eventually, you know, we are looking, and the league is looking at ways to,

um, how can we, you know, do best, job of protecting the pitchers. You know, I'm always thinking about, you know, why not, you know, giving us one more pitcher throughout certain time of the season. You know, maybe it could be April or May when we, when teams are going through 15, 17

game stretch, maybe providing doing those long-term stretch of games, like maybe one extra arms where we can actually, you know, carry someone else that we could expand the rotation. It would be easier for your bullpen instead of having about a seven-minute. man bullpen and you know there's ways that that and that we can potentially help our pitching but you know it's it's a lot of it's a lot of conversations that that need to happen and eventually we do what's best for for the sport last question you saw two pretty seismic home run actually three pretty good home runs yesterday two unfortunately for the a's and one for yourselves how does the ball carry there generally speaking and is that a

Different atmosphere playing in Sacramento as compared to playing in Oakland, where last night I looked at the temperature was about 65 degrees at first pitch. Yeah, no, it was, yeah, it was a beautiful, beautiful night in West Sacramento. You know, I think all three homeruns would have been homeruns in any, any ballpark. You know, the ball, the ball carries well here. I think the energy at the ballpark was awesome. It was a really nice crowd. You know, temperature, like you mentioned, was gorgeous.

You know, I do meet the college team personally. You know, the history of the ballpark. But I'll tell you what, the river catch board park, it's really nice. I play there 25 years ago and continues to be one of the best ballparks in the Monoliths in America. Great business is always, friend. Thank you very much the time. We'll see you back in town. Have a safe trip and get some more wins on that left coast.

All right, man. Thank you. You got it. That's Joe Espada Astros manager with us here on Sports Talk 790. 45 is our time. I got a quick question for you, Ross. Is it okay to play solitaire while you're at work? We'll discuss it next. 1245, Sports Talk 790. 1250, Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Future presidential nominee, Stephen A. Smith, is getting a lot of grief for video that,

as most things Stephen A. Smith finds, turns viral. Whether he says things that are erroneous or crazy analysis or just general attention seeking. He was getting scolded, I think, by Jay Williams

for saying, Janus is an underachiever if he doesn't get another championship. Correct. I mean, he got roasted by Jay. Yeah. Pretty heavy-handedly. So the other night, not last night, but the Before game four of the NBA finals, somebody was shooting video of Stephen A. Smith playing solitaire.

In the middle of the NBA finals. In the middle of NBA finals. Uh-huh. Now, let's diagnosis from a variety of angles. Okay. There are some people that just need so much, what is it, not sensory overload? It's, they just stimulation, over-stimulated. They need stimulation of all sorts.

Okay? Yes. For instance, watching a movie and talking the phone at the same time. Watching a TV show and checking your Facebook. Yes. Listening to music and typing in your computer. I mean, there's a lot of things that people can do. Stephen A could be one of those types of people that, as he's watching a game, just can't sit and watch the game.

The phone has become a crack source for a lot of us, including myself. Yeah. Quick dopamine hits. Yeah. So can you not necessarily justify, but understand that he's watching an NBA game. He's been to thousands of them in his life. He'll be going to thousands of them more before his career is done. And that an NBA finals game, as strange as it may sound, may be been there, done that, and I need something to stimulate while I'm watching this game.

I'm going to play a game of Solitaire. there. Now, during games, what I'm calling a game, now it's different than him watching it. Yeah, you can't be on your phone. I cannot be on my phone. Right. But during commercial breaks, yes. I will check my phone for text. And I always text you during games. And or tweets, I am guilty. I will do that even on this show a lot like all of us do. Yeah, I'll text you. Check out Section 108, Row 12, something like that. And I'll say, oh, your best friend Greg is there. Okay, that's nice to hear Ross and Gladys there. during the game.

Point being is this. I'd love to be able to say he's the worst human being alive because he's got the best job in the world and he doesn't even care about it. But in today in 2025, the way that we are addicted to our phones, honestly, I think it's much to do about nothing. I disagree. And I will say this. I don't call the games, but when I'm doing pre and post game shows, I'm there.

And I have my laptop open and I'll get distracted on Twitter or something. or I have this tension span issues. I try to lock into the game. I take game notes when I'm there at the arena. But yeah, I'll lose focus for the occasionally. However, here comes the however. However. I am not on the national broadcast for ABC pregame, halftime, and post game,

where you're supposed to be giving your analysis. If I were doing that, you got to put your phone away. I'm sorry. If you are being counted on to give your analysis of the game and you speak the loudest and in these loud, holier than now, I know ball, don't question me, I'm Stephen A. Smith-Tones.

You need to be watching the game. And the worst part of it is that he's lying about when he pulled the phone out to play his game. The games were going on. You could see in the upper right-hand corner, there were people, guys running up and down the court. There was a, yeah, some people, there were two different.

First thing I saw was the screenshot. And so he replied to this. that and was like, oh, it was during a timeout. And no, completely false. People found him. There's video. They show the court and then they zoom in on Stephen A's phone. He's playing solitaire during live

game action. It's not, look, I understand what I mean, it's not a good look. He's obviously embarrassed by it, but he doubled down the wrong direction on it. Oh, shocking. That he didn't admit fault and say that he did anything wrong. Yeah, if you're on

pre-post game and half-time, if you're giving half-time, If you're saying, hey, Stephen A, what did you see in halftime? What do the Indiana Pacers need to do? And he's getting asked these questions. Right. You can't be on Solitaire. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I understand.

I guess I'm guilty of multitasking a lot as I'm doing my job, as I'm, again, mine are mostly, not mostly, all of them during commercial breaks. It's hard to have a conversation with you as a host. If I'm sitting there scrolling Twitter, unless I'm trying to find some information. Like, you can tell when someone is, on the phone and they're texting somebody. I do it during this show. I'm sorry, Matt. Would you get off your phone right now?

I'm not on my phone right now. Yeah. Not right now. My question is, it kind of brings down the whole industry of sports broadcasting as well. If he's the figurehead of all this, seen going on his phone, especially people like me coming out of broadcasting.

Right. You're ruining for all of our, the people that we want to pursue this career, right? Right. So it's just a really bad look. Yeah. Yeah. You have lost,

I'm going to assume not knowing you very long, I'm guessing your thoughts about Stephen A. Smith have changed it from the first time you ever saw them on television to where they are right now. Would that be fair to say? A lot, yes. Look, and he went on some rant about, you know, yeah, I got to do this and this and this. I'm on a sports center. I'm on that. And I'm on my phone sometimes.

No one's forcing you to do it. And you can make $20 plus million to do it. Yeah. So it's, I mean, I'm sorry if you're on the NBA finals coverage and you're on NBA, NBA and this is who has the finals and they're making you the poster boy for all this. It's a very simple request to ask you watch the game. And if you're going to play Solitaire, which again, people do check their phones or breaks, make sure you're not in view and you're doing it during commercial during timeouts.

It's an unfortunate part of this. It's a bit of an invasion of privacy, but also, I mean, he's getting exposed for something that's true. It's unfortunate. Like I said, if somebody was sitting behind me during a Rockets game, I'll be off on Twitter or something for a few seconds and I'll miss something. Could you imagine me trying to call. a game and check in texting during the game.

People wouldn't know, understand what the hell's going on. No. Yeah, that's just different. That's a different animal, for sure. All right, final hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross will feature the Astros setback. We will get to the NFL review from this week. 120, we'll have it for you. Believe it or not, today is Googled, I'm assuming?

It is, I mean, somewhat Googled, but it's college world series related. All right, there you got. That's coming up in about one hour from now. I'm proud of us here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. we have gone three hours and two minutes and not mention Jason Alexander's name. He will be starting for the Astros today. Not only do we not mention Jason Alexander,

we did not play the Seinfeld drops or anything that involved in the show, Seinfeld, not the music, not the sound bites. Significant shrinkage. Yeah, none of that. I was in a pool or... I think I have those. One of those.

I used to have some old Seinfeld drops bag in a day. Yeah. Is that O.G or is that A.G. or is that ancient now? It's, yeah, both. It's been off the air since 1998. That is crazy. Yes.

And I ran into Jerry Seinfeld in Phoenix and didn't realize it was Jerry Seinfeld. Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? Hmm. There we go. We ended the drought at three hours and three minutes. Is that going to have what he's going to say when he gives up a home run? Was that wrong?

Should I not have done that? I don't know why I have these. We've never been, never been a... Significant shrinkage. There you've never been here. huge Seinfeld talkers on the show. Not usually. The show has been gone a long time.

But you make a lot of LeVernan Shirley references. I made one today. Oh, by the way, real quick on the poll question. How's your poll? We talked earlier today about the top one-two female one-two-punch. We just said one-two-punch, Matt.

Yeah, and there's one another thing more we didn't say on that. On sitcoms. Now, a lot of people are putting in dramas, and we brought up dramas momentarily. We kept it to sitcoms. And if you want to vote, it's on my Twitter account.

Two different polls. Bracket number one. Rachel and Monica from Friends at 44%. Chrissy and Janet from Three's Company at 31%. Kelly and Jesse from Saved by the Bell at 18%. Caroline and Max from two broke girls at 7%. That's in bracket number one. Two broke girls up to 7%.

Good for them. I bet the second one would do things. Just saying. In the number two category. Okay. Glory and Claire from Modern Family, 44%. Ginger and Marion at 30%. Jennifer and Bailey from WKRP in Cincinnati at 15%.

And Laverne and Shirley. And Laverne and Shirley's got 10%. 11% for Laverne and Shirley. Who knew? See, Matt? People love Leverne and Shirley. Shirley was such a prude, though. And Leverin wasn't.

In the show? Yeah. Well, it's just a show, Matt. That's true, but I mean... I guess are we talking about the characters or the actresses? the actresses. I mean, the big ragu tried to get with Shirley Forever and all she wanted to do is hang out with Boo Boo Kitty.

See, yeah. This is all going, sailing way over my head. As I figured it would. So if you want to vote on those two brackets of the one-two punch, let us know at SportsMT on Twitter. By the way, I think

people dropping Twitter still to this day, right? I think so. I've lost probably 500 listener Twitter follows in the last probably six months. I've gained about 150 in the last couple months. Maybe they dislike me and like you more. I'm trying to post more. Trying to build up the brand.

If you couldn't follow me, especially on my Instagram. My Instagram account is moving along very nicely, by the way. Follow me on IG. At sports RV. And at SportsMT. But most importantly, at Sports RV. Matt's already got way more than me. We will have a IG party.

When I get to a thousand? No, I'm at 200631. Oh, see, this is ridiculous. I need to be posting more on there. But I just, I don't want to talk about it. Let's move on. All right, let's move on. Astros and Jason Alexander

pitched tonight. Yes. Game 2 of 4 game series from not Sacramento, but West Sacramento, California. Okay. I've never been to West Sacramento.

I've only been to downtown. I don't know if it's good, bad, or different. I've never been to Sacramento my life. You're not missing anything. It's not on the bucket list. No.

But I mean, the Astros and A's could plan a wall card series. It's not even close to any. I thought it was close to Yosemite. It's like four hours away. That far? Yeah.

I know the Tows. not far. Two hours. Okay. San Francisco's like 90 minutes. I'm sorry, three hours from Yosemite. Well, if you're going to... I like to do combo trips if I'm going to National Park, so maybe I'll do Sacramento and Yosemite. I don't even know what to tell you what to do in Sacramento.

Oh, look it up, Matt. You can go to Kingsgamers fun. Yeah, I guess they can go and light the beam. I hate when they light the beam. I went to... We went there twice last year. They lit the beam both times. Yeah, that isn't fun. All right. Fifteen best things to do. Number one, Sacramento Ghost Tour. No thanks.

Oh, my God. This is terrible. Arts and Food Tour. Yeah, that's terrible. You know, that's every list. You can put in the 15 best things to do in Lufkin and the same stuff. Oh, here we go. State Railroad Museum.

Oh, wolf. Number two, old Sacramento. That's a bunch of bars and restaurants. I don't mean. Museum? Yeah, this is, yeah, I'm not going. No. All right.

So the Astros still maintain a four and a half game lead because the Red Sox beat the Mariners last night in Seattle by a score of two nothing. So the Astros, let's go, Sox. Yep. When's Breggman coming back? I don't, you know, I've not seen an update, honestly, on him. I want to say it was two months ago, a month ago? Does that make sense? Something like that.

That feels right. Oh, it's a right quad. I don't know why I thought it was a hamstring. No, it was a similar injury he had, I think, a couple years back with the Astros, where you missed a significant amount of time. We'll say, you know, I wish nothing but the very best for him.

Now, the biggest question is going to be, Devers is now gone to the Giants. If Regman does opt out, you've lost two ridiculously heavy hitters in that Boston Red Sox lineup in a short period of time. I'm with you, though. I don't think he's going to. I'm still staying when he's not. If he comes back and he continues to hit like a 900 OPS, he might opt out. But that's what it's going to take. I just don't think that's going to happen.

Yeah. I think $80 million of the next two. years, at least 40 for the next year, is crazy not to say I'm coming back. Speaking of money, I catch myself doing this when I listen to other sports radio shows. And it could be a national show, it could be a local show. When somebody brings up a dollar amount and then I'll hear the host saying, I think we've done it ourselves, that's really good, that's good value. That's, that's relatively cheap. Like, for instance, when Stephen Adams signed over the weekend,

he signed a three-year deal worth $39 million, $13 million. And people were like, man, that's not bad. I mean, Stephen Adams was great backup center. They went with the double bigs for a while. He's one of the best offensive rebounders in the association, plays good defense, good, good glue guy, right? Uh-huh. And they're like, excuse me, man, that's great value of $13 million.

Ross, it shakes me to a core when I hear good, value in $13 million in the same sentence. Why? Because it's so much money. Yeah, I'm not used to though. I work hard for my ex-wage, okay? Yes, you do. Oh, I do. Putting up with you for 20 hours a week, I deserve very dollar I get. But that pales in comparison to the 13 million, I mean, that's Stephen Adams. Nice player. Yes. Never going to be a double. digit score, never going to make an all-star team, but has been able to carve out a very nice career. Now he's on the other side of 30, but he's able to get $39 million of the next series. You don't ever find yourself just shaking yourself going, wow, that is whack money.

Not anymore. I'll give you one case in point today. When John Wall was making $40 million, that was pretty crazy. Like Isaiah Hartstein, nice NBA player, got overpaid to go be a quasi-starting center for the Oklahoma City. under. He's making like $25 million a year. Yeah, but what was the story that we got

a couple of years ago? It was how much, Tillman Fertita bought the Rockets for $2 billion? And now they're worth like six? I don't know that to be accurate. Something like that. There is a good return so far in a short period of time. Oh, here we go. Yeah, hold on.

They bought 2.2 and now it's 5.7, so not 6. But still more doubled in value. So, yeah. He bought the team in 2017. Yeah. In eight years.

Should I get a finer's fee for that, by the way? I think you should. Thank you. Because we talked about this when it made news. Remember a few months ago or whatever was? So the team went up in $3.5 billion with a B. So, yeah. Okay.

So let's shake my head at the players of what they're making when the owners are doing what they're doing. Let's put that in perspective. Okay. For so many people that tell us that football is too violent, that baseball is too slow, that basketball is not the way basketball was supposed to be played 30 years ago, every one of these sports are thriving to unbelievable proportions. And you always ask me this question. I never have an answer for you. It's like, when is this going to stop? Yeah.

When is it going? Not necessarily stop, but even just slow down. The growth. And that's why I think you are seeing to maintain these values of these sports franchises, to maintain the values of these leagues, because the league salaries are based off of revenue that come in. Exactly. Direct correlation.

They're having to go more to the international dollar, to go get that international buck. Because maybe we are as U.S. citizens tapped out. You know, I don't know if the Astros can sell a third base, ticket 15 rows up for a game against the Mariners for $185. There may be, it may be the heart of a playoff race, but a regular old main game, that ticket's probably going unsold. So what do you do when it's $185 and it's unsold? You dynamic price, you drop the ticket price down.

Who can I try, I think it'd be fun to go back to college and take a sports economic class and just see where this money's coming from. And where is it going to go? And my guess is a lot of it's coming from the television. deals. A lot of the deals are coming from the international television. Advertising dollars. And the advertising dollars. And the marketing dollars, the fanatics, the Nikes, the Nikes, the underarmors.

That's who's piggyback in these sports leagues. Every square inch of Dyken Park has advertising on. So when we hear from fans, I don't watch, I don't like, I don't listen, I don't believe,

not necessarily you're in the minority, but there's enough people that do like, do watch, do listen, that make sports franchises like the NFL, the Major League Baseball, and the NBA, worth double and triple their values? Yeah. I think you're going to see, now the NBA is already doing Jersey sponsorships. Baseball is doing it.

I think it's coming to NFL very soon. I would say if I had just a gut feeling within the next five years. You know, it's also making a boatload of money, too, is wrestling. The WWE, really, is making hundreds of millions. They made hundreds of millions of dollars over WrestleMania, a two-day event in Las Vegas. They were there for a week. They sold out hotels. They sold out Allegiance Stadium, 70,000 seats twice.

Good for that. Huge television deal with Netflix and Peacock and all that. I mean, USA, NBC. And that's a sport that's not even a sport. No, sports entertainment. Is that what we're going with? Oh, or you go acting. I mean, it's fine.

Sports entertainment. I like it, too. I mean, there's physicality. 114. Steroids. Stop. Everybody's clean now. I mean, not 30 years ago, but now they're clean.

713, 212, 5, 7.90. And again, I don't mean to get all philosophical on you. But I do think about that. No. I hear, oh, man, Stephen Adams, shoo, 13 million dollars a year. Ha, that's a great value. No, I don't think of me personally. $13 million a year.

Do you think of the billions that the NBA is making? I'm not trying to say he's overpay. I'm just saying in these networks. I just think about how successful a league is when one of its top 200 players

can make $13 million a year. They're doing pretty well. Doing really well. 713-212-5-790. No other radio show in the marketplace will talk NFL football, so we'll do it here even when it's not the NFL season. We present to you Ross's NFL

Rewind from last Tuesday. Thank you, Matt. Always happy to be on the NFL Rewind with a little bit of fifth of Beethoven. Let's start with some news that could tie in here to Houston, Texas. Ooh, I'm liking this. Missouri, excuse Missouri Governor, Mike Kehoe, signing a legislative package over the weekend, approved by Missouri lawmakers earlier in the week. it includes hundreds of millions of dollars of financial aid intended to persuade the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals

to remain in the state. And that is to refurbish those two stadiums or to build new ones? It says, let's see. It's a, I don't know, Matt. It's just hundreds of millions of dollars. I think it's unspecified aid. because the chiefs were contemplating a move to Kansas, which is across the state line.

I don't know how it. I've heard not great things about that part of the area. And I know that they want to get. See, there's plenty of real estate out there where the chiefs are. It's not in downtown. Maybe they want to, I know the Royals want to go downtown. Yeah, this just says the chiefs in a statement saying this is a significant step forward.

Royals also saying a very important piece of our division. decision-making process, but there is no site-specific commitment for either. Okay, so still up in the air. I know the Kansas City Royals want to go downtown. Some people in Minnesota are opposing this. Minnesota. I mean, sorry, Missouri. What are I saying?

Yeah, Minnesota. Sorry. State rep Bryant-Wolfing saying this bill is unconstitutional and fiscally reckless. It is morally wrong. Mm. There was a special session called last week, and then the legislative package was ratified last, after the, on Saturday, after the special session on Wednesday. Yeah, my guess is with the Texans, and again, I'm not an expert in this,

they're going to get a sweetheart land deal wherever they want to go for their new facility if they decide to leave the energy area. Beyond that, I don't want kind of breaks it can get. Yeah, last year, Jackson County voters defeated a sales tax extension. that was tax extension that would help them finance an $800, or excuse me, 800 million renovation of Arrowhead Stadium and $2 billion for a ballpark district for the Royals in downtown Kansas City. Yeah.

Royals have not hidden the fact. They want a downtown ballpark with additional restaurants and clubs and stuff like. Downtown Kansas City, fun. I don't know how much more they can do in terms of adding more restaurants and bars, but. Yeah. apparently this bill also would help the St. Louis Cardinals get a new stadium if they wanted to undertake a project of at least $500 million. Wow. So it's a statewide thing.

You know, speaking of that, and I know it's not NFL, are you a little surprised that Jim Crane has not developed that area across the street on Texas? Yes, I am. I thought it was going to become a couple of bars, restaurants. I mean, it was, it was the, what, the bar at union station, the bus, home plate grill, which we spent some good. times there. A lot of good times there. You want to go throw up in the street right after the game, getting hammered? Do you know the reason why they didn't do this? Why? Because I think

that the Astros have said, we kind of know our audience, and they're going to go into the stadium and they're going to go right back out. I think, I mean, you do it, yeah. Houston is a city where a lot of the people are driving in from Katie, Sugarland, Woodlands, wherever. Right. And then they leave. Yeah.

We are just not a downtown hub. We're just, we've tried. We're a satellite city. Correct. And that's why I think the next stadium that gets built, whether that's a new arena or a new stadium for the Texans, will not be in downtown. I think we have given up on downtown for being anything more than what it is. There are some pockets of fun downtown,

but are not enough to sustain. I mean, think about it. If Jim Crane won't do it next to his ballpark, which is full 85 days a year between concerts and his 81 ballgames, then wouldn't that be a huge sign to you to say, Maybe this isn't where we need to be spent on our money. Mm-hmm. So, all right, back to football.

Yes, Matthew, let's move along, but we'll keep it in the AFC South. Jaguars GM James Gladstone, saying Travis Hunter has the capacity to play all game both ways. Telling Andrew Siciliano of Sirius XM NFL Radio, quote, he does not tire. He's got a spark. He's got the energy. The capacity from a physical standpoint to be able to do it is certainly there. Certain game plans might dictate usage differently. Putting a number on it on this stage is pretty mature.

And I said this in gut feelings a couple hours ago, Matt. No chance. No way. No how. Travis Hunter plays a full season of playing both ways. And my gut feeling is he doesn't even do it for a game. he does it four or five plays on defense. Exactly.

He can do that. He can what Devin Hester did. When they had him at Petraterner, then they put him at cornerback and they put him in a wide receiver. He's going to be better than that. I think he's a now. Devin Hester is a Hall of Famer, but I still think the plans would be bigger for Travis Hunter. I think Travis Hunter has more going into him than Devin Hester had. Right, right.

So it was kind of, you were trying to find somewhere for Devin Hester to contribute. I think Travis Hunter is a great receiver and is a lockdown corner. but I just don't see it happening. Okay. I would agree with you, but I think they'll try to make it as much of a story as they can. You can run a couple of plays for him, a package, you run him a couple of screens,

maybe a couple of go routes or whatever. I don't even know if he's going to be mostly a corner or mostly a wide receiver or whatever. But I will say two things. I don't think it's going to happen, number one, and number two, I am not drafting him in any of my fantasy leagues. People are talking about, like, one, to take him in the first round and stuff.

Oh, really? For any rookie at all? No, thank you. Not that I was in fantasy football anymore, but if I wouldn't, I wouldn't have to take a rookie. I get you. A rookie running back. Ashton Genty?

First round. No chance. Oh! Well, you're out of the league. When he snaps his leg in half, you're going to be... Anybody can snap their leg in half. And I'm predicting one person is going to. Okay.

Let me see where they... I'll find the old ADP for Ashton Jenty because now you got me... Now you got me wondering. Let's see. You better go to the WebMMD for Ashton Jenty, not the ADP. Hold on. Ranking. You want draft. You want half PPR? Sure, why not. Half PPR rankings. Ash and Jentee's number 10

on this fantasy pros list. Okay. That's first round. You go to full PPR, he's 13th. That would be second round of course. Do it. Go ahead. Stick A.S. Put your foot in the ground, man. What did I say, 750 for his rushing yards?

You said he will never rush for a thousand yards. Okay. I might lose on that one. You're going to lose on that one. But if he snaps his leg in half. Yeah. If he rips both of his Achilles, you're looking good. Got quad issues.

Chest muscle issues. Say your son. You know, I'm going to try to take him in every draft. You should. Just so we can talk about it. I hope you do. We already got some of the weak players out of the league with you and Clinton quitting this year. Clientz quitting too?

Yeah. He's very busy. No, he's not. What he does. Hopefully I can convince him to come back. Yeah, you need that he's. Why don't you come back? No, I'm good.

Jonathan, you want in the fantasy league? I've never played. Oh, yeah. You definitely are invited now. No, this is a great league. You're going to have a great time. It's not very competitive. Is money in it?

Yes. Oh, yeah, definitely not. Smart kid. You've got to take my money, man. I've got to get Spencer Argetti's contact info. We're low on players now. Continue on. Because Monterma Mufferin was supposed to play.

And that's your NFL rewind. I mean, I've got more stuff, but it's time for a break. Okay. Let's come back. We'll talk to our friend Biscuit at 1.31 here on the Matt. Thomas Show at Ross. It is all things about the college world series for today's edition of Believe it or not. If the story is true that the Sons wanted Alperin Shingoon and or Amen Thompson is part of the trade with Kevin Durant, I would say respectfully that sons, shut your bum asses up.

Now, those are the only two names I have heard that have been, don't you dare ask. else has been all right what are we getting in return? I would say don't you dare ask? Unless it's Janice. There's part of me that thinks that Janus may stay in Milwaukee. I think he might. He's not.

He's got four kids, no? Say again? He's got four kids up there, right? Yeah, but they can move them. Yeah. Kids move all the time. They're not stuck in concrete there. Yeah, you moved out of Sacramento or where were you?

L.A. Same thing. How many kids you got? Rod and I speak about it. Oh. Oh. Oh. No, I'm just playing. pending litigation.

Your lawyers, you're a lawyer, advised you not to speak publicly about it. I don't mean to put out your business like that. I apologize. She would listen right now, you know. All right. 713-212-5-79. If you'd like to come in and say hello,

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Biscuits with us at 136. Biscuit, what's the good word? Google Matt, what's the word, my brother? You tell me. Hey, Coach Fritz, man. You see him got that, that five-star quarterback coming in in 26, man.

I cannot wait. That'll be our national championship year. Yes, sir. I'm going to be at the Colorado game this year for sure. But, hey, man, one of the things, man, you guys talked about, before I get to that, Matt, I want to write in, man, on this dynamic duo, man. Oh, okay.

I know what you got? I know you probably don't, but I like, Pam and Gina from my end. You know what? I brought up Pam and Gina from my aunt and Ross said no. So take your shots at him. Oh, I would say Matt for this on the phone.

I like, I would go Pam over Gina. Oh, I take Gene over Pam. Hmm. I like Gina. Hmm. Now see, in the, in the show, Pam was, Martin always act like she was ugly. Right. But I was a Pam fan.

I was more team Gina. You ain't by yourself there, my brother? You think so? all right no Pam was Hey man Pam was

yeah I I specific man hey biscuit I specifically said somebody asked

to you yes because somebody brought it to you you didn't want I watch the show and I like

I was always Pam over Gina I thought you were going to go with Pam and Shanane yeah you could let me

let me say this man reason you know what Matt Every time you talk to people, they're like, man, we don't want to vote for these sports stadiums or this and that. You know when you get to talking to them, hey, man, do you go to games? And if you ask them a couple questions, you realize that they're not the ones going to the game anyway. No, no, but the reality is this, 25 years ago, we as an American society were paying for stadiums left and right. We're not doing it anymore.

I don't know about that, Matt. You just said Kansas City, can they put up some money. Well, but that's the state of Missouri Special session, I don't know what's going on But it just sounds like to me that that's not a done deal They voted against it twice, I believe, in the county that they're out So the state has stepped in Yeah, okay

So yeah, I would make this project I will tell you this right now I don't think Harris County is going to give the Texans a dime I don't know, but I think if you're trying to go to Fort men Then you might be in trouble But I think Harris County put up in money I don't know. It depends on what you want.

If you're just building a stadium, then that's a bad deal. But if you're trying to build an entertainment area a la the star in Dallas or the Texas Live or you're trying to do what the district in Atlanta, there are some success stories. It's just going to be how much a particular county is going to want to invest in that and how much the team is going to contribute. Now, do I believe that NRG Stadium is getting long in the tooth at? Absolutely. Do I think spending all the money to renovate it could make a big difference? That's not my business. I'm just saying that I think spending a lot of money to build a new stadium in that area would be a waste of money.

I think renovation, if you're going to stay over there, would be the proper way to go. I think going down 288 is where they're going to go, Matt. You think Brazori County, huh? Yeah, well, in between Bessori and Harris, you know. I think they're going down that way. Well, again, I'm standing by my statement. I don't think Harris County is going to flatly reject the Texans and any money they want to get from them. But, you know, I could be wrong.

You could have a change in government. You could have a change in mayor. You could have a change in county judge. You could have a change in the city council. There's all sorts of things. But I think right now, as we speak, this city is not willing to give, we willing to give the Texans a dime. Well, we shall see. And get into the Pacers, man.

coach had them right way they wanted them last night man they just start turning the ball over man Matt I went into the series thinking okay C was a much better team I no longer think that I still think they are better I don't think they're significantly better

I have plenty of respect for Indiana but I still think Oklahoma City was better if Oklahoma City and Indiana played a hundred times I think Oklahoma City would win 75 times at least well I'll say this man one through 10 I think Indiana's better now one through five okay C got the advantage but

I'm telling you, man. Yeah, but their one through five is significantly better than the Pacers one through five. It just is. Well, it ain't sold in the games, Matt. They've been right there. Yeah, but I'm going to roll. Thank you. I got to appreciate the phone call, but I don't know.

Shig Gilgesa Alexander, Jalen Williams, Chad Holmgren. I mean, look, Nemhard and Halliburton and Miles Turner of all had their moments. But I think, I mean, McConnell's played well for them off the bench, but you got Alex Caruso coming off the bench for Oklahoma City. No, I still think Oklahoma City, player by player, top to bottom is a better basketball team. But I give Indiana Carter for making a series.

Yeah, they did great. And they're, I mean, they're pushing the time. But when SGA was spent after, I watched a lot of game four. I didn't watch so a lot of game five because I was bouncing back and forth through the Rockets. And the asteros and this. SGA looked like he was cooked, and then all of a sudden he got in the fourth quarter. and just was amazing.

And he's been the better second half player in that series, even though Tyrese has that one game winner. Let's go to Joe and pass a get down, Dina. Hi, Joe. Hey, how you all doing? Amazing. All right. Well, hey, my take is that I know that Charlie's Angels was a drama,

but if you sit there and have a couple of cold ones, it's pretty funny, but Caitlin Jackson and Fairfossett beats all of them. Yeah, Farah Fawc, Goat, for sure. Thank you, Joe, for the phone call. But we were sticking to the comedies. By the way, Ross, you're going to win your friend's bracket over there. Good for you on that.

Thank you. And the other one's going to go to Gloria and Claire for Modern Family. Probably more glory than Claire, but I think Claire is, first of all, they're both spectacular. Shout out to Longhorn Legend, Farah Fawcett. Yep. Die the same day as Michael Jackson. Second billing there. Unfortunately.

because his was sudden hers was not she had had some problems cancer for a long time yeah that's unfortunate may she rest all right so again one bracket has Rachel and Monica at 44% Chrissy and Janet at 29%

Kelly and Jesse from Save by the Bell at 18% and Carolyn and Max doing okay for themselves at 9% that's the first poll second one we've got 46% for Gloria and Claire ginger Marianna

at 29% Jennifer and Bailey at 15% Laverne Louis Leverne and Charlie freaks out there at 10%

freaks? Well, I mean Of the eight groups there, they're the least attractive of the eight. Okay. They still claim 10%.

I'll take your word for it. You know, they like beer, they worked at a brewery. Name of the brewery for $1 million. There would be Miller Coors. It would not be Miller Coors. Shots. Shot-O-T-Z.

Okay. I'll take your word for it. Okay. And then when they left Milwaukee, where'd they go from there? They went to Kalamazoo, Michigan. They went to California. Oh, it was close. I almost thought you had me for that when you said Cala.

I was like, oh. All right, believe it or not, is up next. All things about the College World Series. I just want to say publicly, I'm okay with standing pat. If KV wants to come, And it got to be a move, that's fine. If Jalen Green wants to prove that last year's playoff performance was a one-off, I'm okay with that too.

In E-May and Rafael, I trust. Because look, I got to celebrate a playoff series. I got to get to a game seven. Second round would have been nice. Oh, really nice, Ross. Going to all those games, I was getting tired. It's nice to have you back in studio for a couple months. Yeah, Ross was going through it.

I won't lie. But now, you know, let's see. Don't go on a vacation. I'm going to be gone. Crap. First week of July. That's fantastic. Just going to volleyball.

I'll be in Dallas. That's whatever. I thought you're going to Reno. No, that's next year. Okay. Oh, the divorce moms, right. Divorcee moms. Volleyball moms?

Ready to party in Reno? You saw it first in Kansas City. I'm going to tell you. Was I lying to you? Put in one word. Maction. And I won't tell you what the end. stands for.

Five heads left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play. America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply called it be, believe it or not, and here's how it works. You will call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believe it or not is, I have no idea.

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Two believe or nots in a row. On all things about the college world series, wined you a prize. What are you playing for today, Jonathan? We got three prizes today. Of course, we got to start off with the Sports Talk 790 t-shirt. And then we've got a pair of tickets to see the big three basketball August 2nd at the Toyota Center.

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in 2020 for the COVID pandemic and in 1945 because of World War II. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, COVID got it. That was it. It was playing during the war. Sorry. That's a tough starter there. Joe on 790, Joe, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show?

Oh, Matt, the back and forth between you and Ross. It's just hilarious sometimes. The first ever college world series was held in 1925. Yale defeated Pittsburgh in a single elimination tournament. it or not? Oh my god, man. 1925. Unborn. Believe it?

No, Calbee Yell in 1947. Duh. I hate doing the Joe. Poor Joe. Felipe on 790. Felipe, you ready to play? Believe it or not? Believe it. The first sitting U.S. president to attend the

College World Series, which Richard Nixon, he was offered to throw the first pitch, but decided not to do so. Believe it or not. No. That is right. It was actually George Bush in 2001, and he did throw the first pitch. Statement number two for the win.

No player has ever won the College World Series. Most outstanding player more than once. Believe it or not. That is correct. We got a winner there. Congratulations, believe it. Nicely done. 713-212-5-790.

Josh on 790, Josh, your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show. the last five minutes of it. Florida State has the third most college world series appearances with 24 but has never won the championship. Believe it or not? Not. Oh, they have.

We've talked about it for the first two hours and 55 minutes since you weren't listening. You didn't get to hear that. Oh, well. Jim on 790. Jim, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. In 1974, the college world series was held in Lincoln, Nebraska,

rather than Omaha as Rosenblatt Stadium was damaged by multiple tornadoes. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, Ross made that up. Oh my God, Ross. Tried to bounce back. You did bounce back. Gio on 790 Gio, you're ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. The Texas Longhorns are the all-time college world series bridesmaids, having finished second, a record six times. Believe it or not? Believe it. That's right. Believe it. statement number two for the wing.

Similar to bowl games, college world series teams receive gift baskets from sponsors, which the NCAA limits to $1,000 in value. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, they just get a bunch of big league chew, sorry. I just made that up. All right, nicely done, Ross.

Part of you. I tried. All right, tomorrow we have Brian Bogus Evick. It's going to be on the show. Wonderful. We got shut your bum ass up. Okay. And ain't nobody got time. that I have no one to criticize in Las Vegas over blackjack playing. Really? That's because you were coaching.

You had a whistle and a visor onto the table. At a headset, like, you don't need to hit on that. Go ahead. I had to stay. I coach my son. He won $35. He's very happy with that. All right.

Astros baseball 8 o'clock. It'll be the debut of Jason Alexander. We had to know, believe it or not. Has this pitcher thrown for the Astros this year? Up next, Clanton, it's Wexler, it's the A.T. Right here on Sports Talk 790.