The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Lose Game 1 vs Dodgers, Texans Want to Stay In Harris County, Wolves Surprise Spurs

Episode Date: May 5, 2026

 Astros Lose Game 1 vs Dodgers, Texans Want to Stay In Harris County, Wolves Surprise Spurs

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-1 in H-Town. Good morning and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Three. Yeah, the Dodgers have all the luck and a lot of the payroll. I don't know, would I take a contract where I got paid like $40,000 this year and deferred to like $3 million in 30 years?

That's what Gordy's contract is. Hi, Chris. Hello, Matt Thomas. Nice to have you with us. Ross is doing a little, I don't know if he's bar hopping or he went to go see some band in Austin. I don't know who it was, but he's off today, back with us tomorrow. And you have been nice enough to hang out with us for a couple of hours today. I know you've got 40,000 million things to do, but we appreciate you spending some time with us.

As the Dodgers come in, can I give you a terrible Houston take? those blue uniforms and the two grays they have and the white the Dodgers, I hate them because they're everything wrong about baseball. They have the best uniforms in sports. Their unies are nice. They're really, really nice.

What's with all the Dodger fans are there last night? I know they travel well. But in that middle week game in Houston, Texas. And what's crazy is that's not people from Santa Monica coming over or El Segundo. This is people... Look at you dropping the suburbs. This is people in Galveston that or my dad was a big Dodger fan, so I'm a Dodger fan, so I'm a Dodger fan.

Maybe the Santa Fe Dodgers fan club is huge. Maybe the Sugarland Dodgers fan club is huge. Yeah. I live in Lafayette. Let's drive over. I'm a Dodger fan. You know... That's more New Orleans.

That was, yeah. It's under the category if I just don't get it, because if it was a weekend series and you had people that lived in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, New Orleans, you could figure a way to come here. It's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. The kids are still in school. I mean, this is, that what you just described was Houston. Houston's got Dodger fans.

Well, I'm going to assume most Dodger fans are unemployed, so maybe that's why they're able to come here. And believe in violence. Yeah. Start fights. I'm looking for positives out of yesterday. I guess one positive is that Shohiotani did not have a hit. So that was,

good. He's going to pitch tonight. He did have two walks. Did you see his ERA? I did not realize how well he is pitching. He's actually a better pitcher this year than he has hitter. 0.60. Don't bring it up. ERA. My buddy texts me last night. He goes, well, I mean, I guess our better

chances against Othani or Glassnow are. I said, please go look at how Otani and Glass Now are pitching. No, your best chance to win was tonight in a game that I think at that point we were down seven to two. I said, this is your game to win tonight. Because the next two ain't happening. It was so strange because the score was fairly high.

It was what, 7-2 after 3. And I thought, well, the over-underer is going to be met. Vegas had the over-under at 12-a-half last night, and it still didn't reach. Yeah, well, I mean, Yamamoto's been pretty good for that. I mean, it's three runs is about the most he's given up on the year. So you got him for three. I mean, you did that. You said, all right, the Astros pitching has not been good.

And they're going to a bullpen game. And the Dodger bats are really good. I mean, yeah, I mean, O'Tani, Freddie Freeman, Will, is it not Will Smith? Is it Will Smith at first? Yeah, the catcher. Jaska Hernandez. Kyle Tucker goes deep for the first time and a long time. Max Muncie does his thing.

Although they didn't do anything yesterday. Did draw a couple walks. Freeland's at second base is a good nine-place hitter. That's just a really good, excellent World Series challenging type winning again and again and again team that we saw last night in the Astros. when they said they were starting Okert and then Ryan Weiss was going to pitch the bulk of it I said you have no chance I can't describe like what's that helpless

feel like when you just feel helpless like there's nothing you can do Go ask Joe a spot I'm sure he feels this exactly what you're about to say In Okert I mean I guess he limited the damage He gave him three hits and a run and then ended up getting pulled Couldn't even get the third out in the first Ryan Weiss comes in strikes out Pahas And then you get the two runs in the top

of the first, you're like, all right, two to one, we're in this. And Ryan Weiss comes back, home run, RBI double, you're losing. And then the freaking wheels fall off in the third inning where just, I mean, everything that could go wrong goes wrong. And you're down 7 to 2. And this team just as currently built is just not built to overcome a 7 to 2 deficit. No, again, in a bullpen game, you've got a lot of guys that are being worked. Hell, a brie worked again yesterday after pitching over the weekend in Boston.

Kiwi Ting has been really, really good. Ryan Weiss has been given every opportunity to kind of take the bull by the horn, so to speak, and become a member of the starting rotation. And that has not happened. In fact, I think Ryan Weiss probably by the time I get to the ballpark today, will be a member of the Sugar Land Space Cowboys. And it's not because you're giving up on Ryan Weiss, although Ryan's been, frankly, terrible this year. O and 3 with an ERA of 7.62 after getting bombed yesterday.

But you need arms. And it's kind of weird. Weird, Gordy. Tonight might be more interesting to go to see a space cowboy again than it may be to go see an Astros game because you're going to see Josh Haderthroat today. You are going to see, who else? Tatsu Emi is going to go today.

Somebody else is going to. Nate Pearson, who has not made his... He was one of the acquisitions in the all season. You thought, okay, maybe he can contribute. And I watched him in spring training through a couple bullpens, and he's got good stuff. So I'm intrigued. Dana said Sunday they're going to...

to use them primarily out of the bullpen. Maybe down the road they can use them as a starter and see. But I'm intrigued by him, but you're right. I mean, and speaking of the Sugar Land Space Cowboys, I mean, I'm watching this outfield last night, Bryce Matthews, Zach Cole. Cole went deep yesterday. But he had perhaps the moment of the game that really made this thing out of reach. It was five to two.

Freddie Freeman crushes one to center up against the wall. Zach Cole up against the wall jumps up. gets a glove on it, but kind of mistime to his jump, and the ball falls out, and two more runs score. Yeah. It goes to five to two to seven. Yeah, it felt like a product of a guy that had not been at Dike and Park in a while. Yeah. And Bryce Matthews, we'll join us on the show today.

He's actually holding his own in the center field. He's coming on. And his bat's been okay at times. I mean, he's doing what he can do. I like Bryce Matthews. Yeah, the reality is this. And, you know, what Bill Parcell said many years ago, you are what your record is, or what paraphrasing him. the Astros are playing to a level of 14 and 22.

They can, they're not going to compete against the upper echelon teams. They're going to beat the, I mean, they beat the Red Sox 5 out of 6, which is good. But pitching issue is, are just issues and the Dodgers are just a class above everybody else. And, you know, that's why I was half teasing yesterday. They can get one on the three against the Dodgers.

It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I said that Sunday in the post game show. I said the goal in this series should be win one. Yeah. If you can win one, I'll take that. Again, you're still losing ground. This is what sucks of like all the series you can. losing is if you keep losing

two out of three, two out of three, you're never going to get out of this hole you're in. But the good news is the Reds who you get this weekend at Sinci, they were hot, they've cooled off a little, they've lost four in a row. So, well, if you stay within five or six games in the division, which is at this point very possible because the A's are in first

place, your five back out. I mean, you could be in much, much worse condition. Usually when you're eight games under 500 and you're in second to last place or last place your division, you're probably staring in about 9-10 back. Well, thankfully you're in this spot right now. Think of this homestand you get next week.

It's a seven-game homestand. Four against Seattle, three against the Rangers. You can look at this glass half full, glass half-empty. Glass-half-full? Hey, man, we got a chance to make up a lot of ground in the division. If we could take three out of four against Seattle, two out of three against Texas, we're right back in this thing. Glass half-empty?

Oh, my God. If we get swept by the Mariners and lose two out of three of the Rangers, this hole is astronomical. And we're coming out of this. It's almost like it, and you don't want to put too much into a early mid-season series, but the reality is, yeah, you've got seven against your own teams and your own division. You didn't play well against the Mariners was in three there. You're going to taste the Rangers here.

Look, nobody's playing well. The A's are in first place. Everybody else in the division is under 500, and the Astros are in fourth place. I mean, they are playing 390 baseball, and they are five games out. So if there's any a year where the Astros could be struggling, it is certainly that case. All right, so on the radio show today, we will have gut feelings at 1130 this morning. I'm still kind of battling larynge. I went to the nurse practitioner, winner yesterday, got some more steroids.

So I'm a little charged up, Gordy, especially hearing from dumbass callers in the previous show. You're like Mark McGuire in his prime. Exactly. But I actually feel great, and you can attest to the audience. I look spectacular. We got that coming up, gut feelings at 1130. We've got the news at noon. We've got Joe Espotted at 1230.

Bryce Matthews is going to join us at 1.30. and believe it or not today, Cinco de Mayo. Are you a Cinco de Mayo connoisseur, or is it just a day on the calendar for you? It was more college thing. Cinco de Drinco we did a lot of. I like that. Yeah, that was more a college thing. All right. Other things to get to besides the Astros, and look, we want you guys a part of this radio show. 713212-5-790. Remember more of you and less of me, it probably is a good thing as I try to get my voice back to 100%. 713-212-5-790.

We've got the Astros set back against the Dodgers yesterday. And again, why are somebody Dodgers showing up is a good question. And then we've got also yesterday late word that the Texans do not want to leave Harris County. And the rodeo is like, yeah, that's fine. So that then becomes a question, what are you going to do with the land? Are you going to tear down NRG or Orion again? Are you going to once again get the Astrodome collision course in play? Do you use the ground against the other side of 610?

Do you think of somewhere outside of that area? Because just because you say you want to stay in Harris County doesn't necessarily mean you're going to want to stay over there in the Reliant Energy area. Also, we heard the last half hour yesterday, the show about IMA Adoka and Rafael Stone and their press availability and whether or not you want to comment on that. We got that.

And speaking of the NBA, the Minnesota Timberwolves with San Antonio last night and beat up on the Spurs in a very interesting ballgame. So we've got a lot to get to today. But remember, again, take advantage of the fact that I'm not on 100%, at least voice-wise. and come join the show. 713-212-5-790.

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There was a call of Ray in Miami who was horrendous on the previous show. Not a fan, right? No, he's stupid. I mean, and look, there are, not everybody's smart. I mean,

I'm not smart of everything. I can't, I don't talk about economics or politics or religion. I kind of know sports, I think. But to say that Kevin Durant, it was giving up on the team

and quitting was one of the dumbest stupidest takes. Ray, please don't listen to our radio station anymore. Go to someone else. I don't want you. First of all, you live in Miami, you don't care.

And second, oh, your calls are dumb. Stupid. And if I have stupid calls, call me out. Don't be calling Jonathan to call and complain about me. You got issues with me. I'm right here, 10 to 2 weekdays.

Let's go. Hi, Gordy. Opinions are like butts. Everybody's got one. I was posing the question to you because this was a hot topic of debate last night. Now, how hot of a topic was? I mean, social media was pretty fired up. I almost put it on our Facebook page because I knew they would get fired people up.

Sure. The question is, Kyle Tucker, to boo or not to boo? knowing Kyle Tucker was returning to Houston last night, guy, that you'd love to here, Houston, everything he did here. I saw somebody on social media, he left us. No, he was traded. He was, you know, he didn't leave you. You traded him. But there was a reason for that such trade. Right, because you knew he wasn't going to sign here long term. Yeah, yeah. So the question was, if you were going to the game last night or tonight or tomorrow, do you boo Kyle Tucker? booing is the lowest of hanging fruit. He did not do anything intentionally to hurt the Astros.

He just said, I want to get paid sick amount of money. The Astros don't want to pay me sick amount of money. That's the end of the story right there. If the Astros would have offered him, Cordia, and you didn't, I didn't come up with an answer until just now. If the Astros would have offered him fair market value length and number of years that he wanted, and he said no, then I could probably give up for an argument. on that but you Kyle was looking to go strike at rich

the Astros were not prepared to do so or never really gave them I mean all indications were they weren't going to do that when they got into an arbitration fight with him a couple of years ago they moved on they got good value you hope that Cam Smith is your long-term third basement. Issaq Predis has been or

right filter you hope that Isac Pertes continues to do what he's done largely is and then if you get what's the pitcher Parker oh not Parker who's the pitcher they got hurt the Astros guy from the Chicago trade. I'm staring at him right now.

I mean, previously Kim Smith with the two pieces. There was a pitcher, too. Okay. Hayden Wisnowski. That's right. Thank you. Thank you, Cole. I can pull you out of mind. Gosh, forget about him. It's been a while. Nice guy. So I would, to answer you a long-winded question, answer to the question, I would say, no. I think it's largely indifference. You cheered him last year when he was here with the Cubs.

Why does he become public enemy in one? Now, if you want an enemy number one for him because he's a Los Angeles. Dodger, I get that. That's where I think it changes. I think Kyle Tucker comes back here with the Cubs. You applaud him. Did they do a tribute video? I assume they did a tribute and all that. Yeah. But now you go to the Dodgers. Dude, you could have gone anywhere. You go to the freaking Dodgers.

But that's not true, though. He couldn't have gone anywhere. He wanted to go strike it rich. He was not going to go strike it rich with the twins or the Royals or the Reds or the Guardians or the Marlins. I'd go in. I mean, anybody could have given him he signed four years 240? I mean, he could have gotten that

from a few other teams? No, there's no chance. Yankees. No, okay. Yankees, Metz, not the Angels, come on. No, you know exactly what it is. The reality is there were three or four teams that were going to put in themselves

in the Kyle Tucker sweepstakes, and all of those teams were bitter enemies or people you don't like in baseball. So I understand why some booed, I would not personally have done it. I just think it's ridiculous that M-OB is allowing this to happen to defer the Otati dollars. They're not.

that you could go side a Kyle Tucker. We're going to see this changed. We're going to see this change. That's why we're going to get a lockout next year. Yeah. But, I mean, look, he comes up and what hits the RBI single in the first, then he hits a home run. Yeah, you know what?

Boo Kyle Tucker the rest of the series. Wait, me, you just, you went from ambivalent to it until a strong opinion. He's hurting you. He's hurting you. He's literally causing bad things for the Astros. But you don't boo Max Muncie. I know. But this.

You don't boo Freddie Freeman? Well, Freddie Freeman's got, had the sick kid, right? So, you mean, you... Oh, okay. So, as long as you got an ill child... If Kyle Tucker had a sick kid, I give him a pass. All right, I see where you're going. No, I would say large indifference. Kyle Tucker is a Dodger or Yankee, you're booed.

Kyle Tucker has an Atlanta brave? Yeah, that's right. Good job, Kyle. Yeah, that's... So, the answer is this more about the organization he plays for than the individual himself. Yes. Let's go to Gary on 790. Gary at 1024. Good morning.

Hey, good morning, guys. Great conversation, as usual. Matt's not there, so I guess I'm allowed to come in. I'm right here. I'm right here, Gary. I know you are, Gary. But see, McCary, I want to tell you something. Even though your calls usually are dumb ass, I let them on.

So that means we're still friends. Yeah, you must be having a cold or something because it doesn't sound like you on my end. But anyway, on the, a couple of things. Everybody knows the Astros. It's on their, when they negotiate a new. contract. Their yearly amount is close to what they can get, but their problem is, they're not the problems, but they don't do long term, which I admire them for that. Some of these 10 years, 8 years, that's too long, but their yearly amount is right on par. But anyway,

on Kyle Tucker, my deal, if I was there, the first time up to bat, I would cheer him because he gave us some good times, and then the rest of the time I would boo him. So, but that's, that, that's my deal on Kyle. And so Astros today has gone from the frying pan into the fire or fire to the frying pan, whichever one you want to take it there. Because with Otani pitching today, they're, they're probably, probably not going to win. Anyway, guys, great shows, and I'll talk to you later. All right, look at that.

Look, Gary coming in. It says it's a great show, Gordy. Maybe you, maybe you're the chair. Maybe Gary hates Ross. I don't hate me. I thought he said the wrong name at first. He did. He thought I was somebody else.

But that's fine. Yeah, again, let me largely tell you. This is just my opinion. I'm not going to say how to fan. Now, I'm going to try to steer you in a right opinion about things, about who should be blamed for things or who should get the credit for things. I kind of feel like I can do that. But if you are going to go and boo the hell out of Kyle Tucker because we're in the Dodger Blue,

I mean, I can't crush you for it. I wouldn't, like I said, I wouldn't do it myself. But there's very few people I would boo. And Kyle Tucker, again, the difference in my opinion on this is if Kyle Tucker went to the Dodgers and went for a comparable deal because the Astros and Dodgers had the same offer on the table, in theory, then it's one thing. But they never were going to have the same offer on the table. If the Cubs come here, right, later in the year? No, the Astros go to the Cubs this year.

So they don't do, they don't do home in a way? Not in the National League. Okay. Used to. If they were, though, would Alex Breggman, would you cheer or boo? How about a complete indifference? That's not a good answer for you, is it? You don't like that answer.

Well, I feel like you got to, you know. No, I don't. I mean, let me tell you, I'm root for, let me tell you, I root for the Astros. So if you're telling me getting Alex Breggman out requires booing him, I'm okay with that. They do this crop to us. Everywhere they asses goes on the road. Now batting, Jose Al-Tubei. That's because there's stupid baseball fans out there.

And by the way, he's also made your life miserable for 15 years in Major League Baseball. I saw a TikTok video this morning. I guess some Dodger fan is in town. He was incensed that there's some wall art downtown of Dike and Park and it shows the scoreboard and it shows the Astros beating the Dodgers and this guy was just incensed by, oh, because it was the game five from the 2017 World Series. He was like, how do you? dare you cheaters celebrate this.

I can't believe you're celebrating. Why does the Dodger fans all in New York? Because he probably is. What's in L.A.? Oh. Hey dudes, I can't believe these cheaters are doing this. I like an infante coffee, please. You mean a large no venti?

Sorry, I was just me being a coffee guy. By the way, there's a Dodger fan, a New York Dodger fan that made the trip to, he's got to be a Houstonian. He just does. I'm still claiming my spot on this. I almost want to go to the game tonight and go up to every Dodger fan I see and go, where are you from? I'll do it.

How are you doing it? I'm doing on deck today. I can do that for sure. I go, oh, we live in Katie. Oh, yeah, hey, we live down in Paralayan. Big Dodger fans. But there's a handful of teams. I mean, there are Yankee fans in every city.

There are Cub fans in every city. There are Dodger fans. There are Brave fans. And in the NFL side, you got Cowboys and Steelers fans in every town, too. Don't forget that. I'll say the root of it, though, being from New Orleans. growing up there, people, we had no team. So people there were either, you picked Yankees, Red Sox,

Cubs, Braves, Astros. That was kind of, it was a hodgepodge because you didn't have a team. So if you're in a city that doesn't have a team, I get it. If you live in Houston, freaking Texas, I'm sorry. Whether you were born here, moved here, whatever, learn to root for the teams here. Ah, it's easier said than done. Your Saints guy threw and threw over the Texans.

But no, but like I, Texas became my second team. now Texas were my second team before I even moved here. Say, I got to argue with you about that. I don't even do second teams. I think you're one of the other. I don't have four NBA teams. Now, I've got a few college teams because I've paid for a lot of colleges. So, I mean, I've met a few people that they are, they love, they're born in Texas

through and third. They love Texas. And say they root for any team from Texas. So like in the playoffs, they're rooting for the spurs because. because they're a Texas team. That's not happening on my watch. I know. Wemby got a triple double yesterday and they still lost.

How many blocks did he had? He was about to set a record for blocks. Like at 11? Something crazy? Some stupid. But like imagine that. Were you a Rockets fan in 2011 going, you know what? Mavericks? Go Maths. Go dirt. Now, I did predict the Mavericks to beat the heat in the championship. That was my first ever, Nostra Thomas.

Correct. Yeah, that was the first one. You got feelings at 1130 today. News at noon, singing to myo trivia on believe it or not today at 150. Joe, a spot at 1230. 130, we'll hear from Bryce Matthews. We want to hear from you, 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Somebody on Twitter just sent me a message and worthy of repeating.

Doesn't follow me. You got to follow me at maybe. Come on, Crazier, maybe. Let's follow me. Let's go. Very audible, let's go Dodgers chance in the telecast, suspectable. And the reasons those fans are at the game is because they're ruining their own state. They decided to move here in the last six months. They could ruin ours too.

It feels about right. I have heard that. A lot of folks in Austin are, if you go around Austin, there's a lot of California plates and California IDs of people who have newly relocated to the state. You know, I do like California. I like Southern California a lot. I do not like Northern California a lot. Now, granted, traffic is a pain in the ass. The gas costs are astronomical. And it's a little politically, maybe too far to one direction for me, but that's neither here. Northern California, where the girls are warm? I don't believe that.

Northern California, where the girls are on their phones going to their Google jobs. Take it up with Steve Miller, ban. All right. Let's go to Scott and River Oaks at 1037. Hi, Scott. Hey Matt. So I wanted, you guys were talking about Tucker last segment. So I was at the game last night.

I also went to hit the game last year, his first game when he was with the Cubs. Yeah. And last year, last year I wore my Kyle Tucker jersey. And, you know, the fans were more than welcoming. Obviously, we had the tribute video for him and Presley. Sure. And everyone in Wright Field was wearing their King Tug hat. So he got his flowers.

If I was Kyle Tucker and the Los Angeles Dodgers offered me $60 million, I would have done the exact same thing. I would have signed with them. However, you don't get to have your cake and eat it too. Choices have consequences. I had not booed a player since 2006 or whatever year it was when everyone had fun booing Carlos Beltron when he left us to go to the mats even though. I don't think we made of an offer, but I was just a little kid, so I didn't know that.

And I do it just like everybody else did. But yeah, you don't get to have your cake neither, too. That's his choice. We had to worry about Dodgers fans booing Altovae in our own stadium last night, and we had to fight those booze. So I don't have any sympathy at all for Kyle Tucker getting booed. I had literally not booed a player since Beltron, and I took part in it last night, and I have his gold 22 championship jersey in my closet.

So, you know, when the time comes when he retires, if we honor the 22 team, I don't dislike Kyle Tucker, but you're wearing Dodger Blue. That is our arch nemesis. We had every right to boo. And it is what it is. Enjoy your 60 million. That's the trade-off you get for it. And, you know, I got news for you, Scott.

You know Kyle Tucker doesn't care if you cheer a year or boo for him? He doesn't care. We're in 2026. We have been in this vibe of our favorite players leaving for teams for 30 years, okay? It just happened. I mean, I was devastated when Noon and Ryan left the Astros the first time to go to the Rangers in 1989. That killed me. But I got past it because that's what the economics of the sports are.

To have one player staying with one team all throughout their career, especially when that team has said, look, we love you, but we only have a certain threshold. I don't blame the Astros. I don't blame Kyle Tucker. It's just business. And, you know, you can boo. It's the team. Yeah.

Like I said, last year when he was on the Tubbs, he was treated like King Tucker. Everyone wore their crowns in right field. You asked about Breggman if he would have to come back this year. He would not get booed nearly as loud. George Springer doesn't get booed when he comes back into town. Carlos Creel was indifferent as a member of the twins. Yeah.

You know what? Here's my philosophy about life, Scott, and I never told you this. And the guys in my office know this. Either you're with us or you're against us. So it's not an indictment against Kyle Tucker. It's an indictment against the Los Angeles Dodgers. If Gordy was to go to one of these half-ass radio stations around town and leave me, I'd boo Gordy.

I would. But Gordy's not going anywhere because he's a 7-90 for life. And Gordy, I'm an Ole Miss fan, so I can't wear this September game up coming year, and you're going to be like, oh, why did they boo-lane Kiffin in Oxford? I don't understand. I don't understand that. Blu-blu-blu.

Oh, here it comes. Here it comes. All right, good news, Scott. I appreciate it. Yeah, that's, to me, it's. To me, it's 99% about what the jersey you wear in front of you, not the name in your back. It's just how I am.

This is going to be the true test for me. How many of those, these Astros from the Great Run, we've seen so many great athletes when they hang it up, decided to call Houston home. Craig Bigeo, Jeff Bagwell, when their careers ended, they could have moved elsewhere. They stayed here. They call Houston home.

So many former Texans stay here. I think, and we'll see what happens, I think when Bregman's career is done, I bet he comes back and calls. Houston home because his wife, well, his wife's from here. See, that's the thing you're forgetting about is the wife he's got a lot. The wife's like, you're going to make me bounce around

from Chicago to Boston to Houston to Baton Rouge where we hung out. I'm going to, you're going to decide. I'll give you an example. Ryan Presley, who I saw at the Rockets game last weekend has been doing stuff for Space City Home Network. He lives here and I said, what are you doing? He goes, I'm going to live here

because cat, his wife, his wife, his wife's cat's name? I think so. And then there's a mom. Yeah, cats, the wife. She's from here. So, first of all, real estate is good here. Right. You don't have to worry about state income taxes, which for guy, weather is generally pretty good except for myologies, but that's a different issue for a different time. And the fact is, if the wife says you're going to live here, you kind of want to make her sure she's happy. Now, I think is Kyle Tucker's wife from here? I think they met here. Or is she from Florida? Oh, they're all from Tampa. I would assumed that Kyle would have retired to Tampa.

But that's 10 years down the road. I think Springer, when he hangs up, may end up coming back to Houston. Well, they live in the Connecticut and the off season. Okay, well, we'll see. I just think that's the ultimate test. Does Kyle Tucker come back and call Houston home?

I think the ultimate test is how many years you wear in an Astro uniform. That's always the ultimate test for me. What they do? They're all future Astros Hall of Famers. We need some because the Astros Hall of Fame list. We kind of went overboard the first few classes. Way too many, way too fast.

Wow, because I think some getting up there in age, they had to pull the trip. Look, they got Phil Garner in. I mean, it's like you got to move quick on some of these guys. Oh, geez. Now you're throwing a death card in there. That's terrible. But fair. Lance Bergman's like, they could have waited on me.

Not going anywhere anytime soon. What they should have done is they should have just, instead of having like four or five the first handful of years, just two or three and kind of spaced them out. Like Oswald one year, petted the next. Dirker and all that. Nolan Ryan on that group, correct? Is he not? I don't think so.

That relationship is very icy. Yeah. And for not reasons about his playing career up. Well, John McMuller maybe, but then some other stuff happened to, but that's, you know, that's their own individual business. Who's guaranteed from this Astros generate or this like run that is definitely a future out of something? Correa is in for sure. Altuvae is in for sure Yordon is in for sure

Yordon? Okay. Absolutely. Small sample size. Big enough. Big enough. Springer. Springer.

Brighman. That's five. Tucker? Would you do Tucker? I would do Kyle Tucker. Sure. Yeah. But like a Michael Brantley.

Yes. Okay. Josh Reddick? I don't know about Josh. But point being is that you now have got a batch. Yeah. You were worried about having that badge of dwindle a little bit. Now you're waiting for guys to retire.

Oh, Martin Maldonado. All right, that's enough. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Any thoughts about what Eme and Rafael had to say yesterday at their press season closing out? We carried it at the last half hour of the show. We'll get to a little bit of that. We'll get into a little bit of Minnesota beating the Spurs last night,

despite Wimby with a triple double with blocks. And we got gut feelings at 1130 plus more on the Astros. They fell to the series opener to the Dodgers. So we got a lot to get two gut feelings in 45 minutes. It's Matt. It's Gordy. And for Ross today, 713212-5-790 with 10-50 on Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross, normally with you, Ross, for the day.

I'll back with us tomorrow. Astros and Dodgers show, Hey, Otani. Do you want to give us a guess line of how Gordia that's going to go for the local nine tonight? I will put the Astros run total off of Shohei half a run. I'll take the over. Okay. That's me being Mr. Positive. Now, it's off Otani.

If they get one off the bullpen, okay? Oh, I see what you're saying. Okay. I will put, how many runs they scored last night? Three? I'll put the over-under total runs for the Astros tonight at two and a half. Shohei Otani will throw today for the Astros. Or for the, excuse me, for the Dodgers.

I love them to throw the Astros. Mr. Peter Lambert, one and two with the 352 ERA will throw for the local nine. Otani's 2 and 1 with a 0.60.

I got to know how Otani lost a game with an ERA at 0.6. Must be a goose. Fush. Yeah, this is going to be rough these next two nights.

Tyler Glastano is he's having a hell of a year too. Oh, man. You know what it is? It's easy being a Dodger fan. They spend money. Oh, yeah.

Great stadium. Great history. It's like being, A lot of crime. Being an Alabama fan in the middle of Nick Saban's run. That's easy. Yeah. Easy to her for them.

Yeah. I mean, I want to see where a Marlins fan is right now. Well, Marlins' man, he goes to a lot of other games. That's true. He wears Marlins man gear to other cities. 713-1-2-1-2-5-7-90. Stephen is with us in L.A. at 1052. Stephen, good morning to you.

Hey, guys. Appreciate you taking my call. I just wanted to talk about the aster's for a little bit. Truth be told, I wasn't able to watch the game last night because it's blacked out in Los Angeles unless you pay an astronomical fee to watch the Dodgers, which I have no intention of doing, which is why they get to be the highest payroll in baseball, but I'm digressing. You know, last night just felt like a prime example of why this, you know, just the amount of

games that they're back already and out of the division feels astronomical as opposed to a couple of years ago because they just have no answers in pitching and specifically starting pitching. And it kind of brings me to my point, which is I got a really gut feeling because I'm not going to be able to call later when you do the segment. I think you guys were talking about this homecoming series in a couple of weeks. and um seattle and texas yeah i have a feeling my gut feeling is uh if things spiral after that home stand and you know they lose six out of seven five out of seven um that joe spot is going to be fired as the manager

of the astros and i and i say that with a caveat that i don't think he would deserve to be fired um it's certainly not his fault with the amount of injuries that um that this team is sustained and he's certainly not responsible for the astronomical walks that the pictures are throwing. But as we see with a couple of other teams, you can't fire all the players, you know, and it's the one thing that, you know, owners seem to do when they want to shake up a team that's spiraling. And so, like, I really hope that that's not the case because I do like Joe, but I think if it gets ugly, which I think it's going to continue to be just because if you're running Ryan Weiss out there or having a full-pin game, you know,

two out of your five starts or whatever the case has been to start the year. It's just, it's just, the results are what they are. They're just not going to be good, you know? And I just wonder what you guys thought about that. Like I said, I don't want it to happen, but it just feels like things are going in the opposite direction relatively fast, and it doesn't look like there's much help on the way. So appreciate the call, guys.

Thanks, Stephen. I'll hang up in here what you got to say. Yeah, I mean, the reality is this. You knew that Dana and Joe were going to be on a short leash when they did not get extensions after last season. You're lame ducks. That kind of gave the sign of say, hey, I need to see some results. Now, the question is going to be that Jim has his side is, if I get a fresh movement in the dugout, is that one thing going to turn this thing around?

Do I get a fresh set of eyes on the organization? Does that move things? or do I just say let this thing play out at the end of the year and then make my change and then make a very, very quick decision about the general manager a quick decision about the manager because I think the last time around,

especially when it came to the general manager spot, they waited too long after James Click left. They gave Jeff Bagwell some responsibility and that did not work out particularly well. I think Jim is smart enough to learn from his mistakes and so you know, I don't think, think it's fair. Joe certainly wouldn't

think it's fair. Dana probably wouldn't think it's fair, but life isn't fair. Yeah, and I think I talked about this last week. There's a history of right, wrong or indifferent, that there are some mid-season changes, or

even early season changes that you make. It moves the team. And it... Not every time, but a lot of times. There's track record of teams moving things around. Now that said, I don't think I don't think Joe's done a bad job. Like there's nothing I can point to that go,

Joe did this wrong. Like I think he does, most of the things we agree are the right moves. The reality is also this. In today's world of media, if there were some guys in that dugout that were really, really pissed about the way that Joe is managing the day-to-day operations,

we'd find out by now. Sure. And if you take your body and you say, I'm now the manager of the Astros, that's where you have to decide, is there something the Astero? that Joe has not done that if you and I were in his position

that things would turn around. The pinching staff's in a mess. He doesn't want to use openers. Nobody wants to use openers. You've had numerous injuries. You now are going to send Janir Diaz to the injured list today. I think it's already been done.

They call up says or something. This might not be a bad thing. But you get my drift on this. I mean, you can't fight injuries. You are having to deal with roster construction issues because you get got so many players hurt, including one guy who is going to pitch at AAA today that should be pitching for this Astro team, Toma, Katsuoyeimi.

That's where I look at and go, if you want to make a change to make a change, I mean, I think it's Dana. I love Dana as a person, but like that might be the move because Jim could go, look, these moves you made, the MI move, all this stuff, like it hasn't worked out. But for Joe, again, like, the only thing I go back to a Joe is you can look at it. Matt and say the two managers who've gotten fired already. Alex Corr won a World Series with the Red Sox. And who was the guy in...

Thompson. Rob Thompson took them to... Took the Phillies to the World Series at 22. What's Joe done? He lost the Wild Card Series to the Tigers in your one and then missed the playoffs in year two. And now you're three, you're in a... Feels like the biggest hole you've ever been in.

So, like, if you want to do it based off the results, okay, fine. But like, I almost feel like... Make that decision at the end of this. year. If you're going to make, if you're going to make a change, do it at the end of this year, because the injuries is the biggest thing argument on why to keep Joe. This team can't, they weren't healthy last year, they're not healthy this year. He's doing the best with what he has. And as far as Dana's concern, do you give Dana a draft?

Because the draft's coming up here in a couple of months. Do you then hand it to the lieutenants and say, this is your draft? Or do you say, Dana, you are the scout, you are the talent evaluator? we need some upcharge. I want to see what you do for this draft coming up. And I think he's drafted well too. Why would you give him that responsibility if you were going to make him a scapegoat on this?

By the way, quick tracker. Jimmy Williams to Phil Garner worked. Joe Girardi to Rob Thompson and Philly worked. Blue Jace Charlie Montoya to John Schneider. There's track records. Midseason, you know, firing a manager and then the team response. The Red Sox are playing 500 baseball since they moved away from.

That doesn't really count. How are the Phillies doing since the Rob Thompson departure? I don't look. Let's take a look here. But I mean, you could also make the argument that disastrous team gets healthy, whether with Joe or a different manager, they could turn this thing around anyway. Because if they start to get healthy and get all these pieces back,

they'll be a better club. Yep. All right. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-790 This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross 1103 on Sports Talk 790 Tarek Scubble is going to undergo surgery to remove lose bodies from his elbow

How many bodies are in there? Who's our MLB reporter that gets everything wrong all the time? Oh, Bob Nightingale Was it him that tweeted something like They think this is just out of precaution or something like that? Three months is not out of precaution. Not good. Got it, Ross.

So not only do you lose your guy, but you lose a guy that you may want to trade, because I think Tarc Skuble has already said, just like Kyle Tucker, I don't think I'm going to stay here with the Tigers. Tigers don't show an ability to spend big money on players. That was part of the reason why Alex Breggman, I think Alex Breggman, and he never told me this person, but Alex Breggman wanted to be a Detroit Tiger. He just knew there was going to be a lot of money around him. That's part of it is that when you have guys, like if the Astros would have kept Kyle Tucker,

or would there have been enough money for other players involved? And the answer is no, because Jim keeps to a very, not a tight budget, but he keeps to a budget. So if you get paid, how does your, I mean, it's almost like in the NBA when you pay guys $40, $50 million a year, how much do you spend on the guys around you? NFL doesn't have that because they basically spend every dollar they can. So that's kind of a moot conversation.

But, yeah, I think Targ's Goebbels not feeling great. This could not have come in a worse time for him. And so he's a free agent after this year? No, not a free agent, but he is, it's in the last couple of years of arbitration. I'll look at it up. Okay, you know, yeah, this is his last year of arbitration, the next year, unrestricted free agent, 2027.

Wow. Yeah, that's not great for him. Scott Boris put together. He's 29 years old. I forgot how old he was. Scott Boris put together a highlight reel of all his great moments to send everybody to remind them how good he is when healthy. With a bunch of rhymes, right?

Yeah. Man, 18 and 18. But they're in first place of the AL Central. Yeah, this is, I, I, oh, yeah. He was making $32 million this year as an arbitration-settled player, free agent next year, and loose bodies. I was getting into it with a, I got a buddy who's a Tigers fan, and we were just shooting the bull and got into a discussion on if the Astros were to move on from Joe, you know, down the road or whatever. we were talking about would AJ Hinch ever be able to be forgiven and come back to the Astros down the road or whatever?

I know he just re-signed. Yeah, kind of moved. But anyway, this guy said the statement, the Tigers are a better team hands-down than the Astros. Now, look, record-wise there are. But do you think hands-down this current Tigers team is better than the Astros team? I can't speak to the Tigers.

I'm barely checking on the Astros. I don't even know who 90% of the Astros are right now. I actually do, but you don't get my drive. Spencer Torkelson, Labor Torres. Carrie Carpenter? I don't know. I mean... They were better last year.

For sure, they got the walled card spot. We're talking Altuve, Correa, Yordon, Christian Walker, who's swinging. I think it's a moot conversation. Look, you guys know how I feel about AJ. I think he's fantastic. Not only on the air,

but as a tactician. I know they all can get pissed off about Will Harris and the whole thing about Gary Cole, but I think it's been pretty much documented over and over again. that Garretel want to come into a clean inning. And I'm not going to let one managerial move

all of a sudden making AJ Hinch the worst person in the world. AJ Hinch has to deal with a lot of crap. What I love A.J. Hinch back here? Yeah. But I'm not dissatisfied with Joe a spot under any circumstance. I think Joe is doing the absolute best he can with, I mean, safe to say not. I'm looking at other 29 baseball teams, Gordy,

but two years of impeccable, horrific injury luck. If this team's healthy right now, they're leading the AOL. If that team was healthy last year, they make the playoffs and probably way around or maybe they get to an AICS. But yours case, make the playoffs. Worse, absolutely. Because again, you hardly have your own number. Yes, by the way, the Tigers, I'm looking Tark's schoolball on the I.L. Casey Mize on the I.O., Justin Verlander on the AIL.

JV's pitched once this year. Correct. In Fromber, they trust. And Fromber's been good so far, but. It is all on Frumber for the Tigers. And the reality is, when is baseball going to wake up and start noticing that the injured list for pitchers is growing and growing and growing? Are you going to continue to turn a blind eye to this? Because if you are, I don't want to hear it about how these owners are not going to pay these pitchers.

Because I wouldn't pay crazy money for guys that I know they're going to miss long stints of time. I read a piece the other day. Somebody wrote a whole thing on their theory is they think the pitch clock has cost a lot of this. He said it's not absolutely proven, but just the amount of injuries that have happened. It's just forcing guys who used to be able to move at their own pace are being forced to move quicker. Sometimes you walk off the mound, you shake your arm a little bit, whatever. Here it's like, no, I got to get back on the mound. I got to throw the next pitch.

The wear and tear is just taking its toll. As I'll say again, Gordy, how do you not address it? You are looking at the Astros, you are looking at the Dodgers, you are looking at the Braves, the Blue Jays, not the Dodgers, you're looking at the Tigers. We are seeing the human arm say no mass. So you know what you're going to have to do ultimately? You're probably going to have to expand rosters, I think, to add more pitching.

And that means you're going to add more subpar pitching. Like at the Astros, with all the injuries they've gone through, added three more spots of Jason Alexander and Colton Gordon and Cole, whomever, I don't forgot their names. I'm sorry, but it is what it is. And you gave them full time. Peter, you know, I'm saying, you're adding more average pitching. You're not adding, there's not enough elite pitching around 30 major league baseball teams that

expanding the roster is going to make these games still tight for three games. You're going to see more 9-7 games and maybe that's a major league baseball wants. Is it more payroll though? You have to have more guys on the active roster. Yeah. It's tough. I will say, go ask average fan. Do they like games going two hours, 20 minutes now?

They love it. They love it. Speed of the game is absolute. For fan enjoyment, it's been great. So the reality is, though, you can't have it both ways. If you're going to bitch your favorite team's pitching staff being depleted by injuries, you can't be the first ones to celebrate two hours and 20 minute games. Well, and I think it's just hard to pinpoint.

Like I said, it's a good theory. Yeah. But Rob Manford would not, you know, he would get up there and say, prove to me exactly how the pitch count has cost all these injuries. Oh, I could do that. I could show him injured list. But he would say there's not a one-for-one. That doesn't show me exactly that's what's causing it. You know what I mean?

Okay, so we're just, and again, I don't mean to use the term again, but we're going to blind eye this and say, oh, them's the brakes. Is that what you want to save to your sport? I don't know. There are too many things, Ross, I'm sorry. Too many things, Gordy. We're seeing too many commissioners in sports, they endems the brakes.

Why are we, is it because they just are afraid to piss off their owners? Why do we have, we got injury issues in the NBA. We've got, we've got player participation. We have schedules. You lose five good quarterbacks every year to catastrophic. And what does Roger Goodell say? Eh, it happens. Enjoyed Davis Mills on Monday night football.

Paul is with us at 1110 on 7.90. Paul, good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. This is a really good show. Forty, I'm really a fan of yours on the post game. I'm glad to hear you from that right now. But let's be honest about why Dana Brown was hired. He was hired to be a yes man.

He was hired because the last GM was not a yes man and challenged the owner. And so you see where that got him. And if you look at Dana Brown's track record, really you look at Atlanta's track record, their farm system stinks right now too. So that's got to be partially on. him. We don't have one good player on our 40-man roster who is 25 or younger

except for Cam Smith. He wasn't developed by our organization. As Fonda, like that caller from L.A. said, it's probably going to be the fall guy, and I agree with you bad. It's unfair because there's nothing Joe could have done. He's a great guy with the media. Seems like he's well-liked

by the players, but you can't fire all the players. But I think you can fire the GM. And Matt, to your point about the draft coming up, We don't need one more crappy draft. I would get rid of Dana right now. You've got two ex-GMs of this team who still live inside the loop in Houston, who would be way better choices.

You know, Crane would have to swallow his pride and hire Clickback. But there's, Uno's paid his penance. He could come back to the majors. And I just want to hear what you guys think about that. Yeah, James, thank you for the phone call. I think James Click is with another organization right now. I'm looking it up right now. He was with Toronto, right?

Yeah. Let me look at him here. Blue Jays. Yeah, a new front office spot with the Toronto Blue Jays. No, that could be changed. Look, that was such a... And I can't speak to this, but I'm going to assume. I mean, as Joe Fan here,

that was an ugly divorce, right? You went a World Series and you let your general manager go... I mean, I guess you could go to the bygones, be bygones, but... It wasn't that he was bad. It was just a little bit of oil and water. He just didn't mix with... It was a bad mesh. And Lono, I really thought that Jeff was going to get back into baseball.

I think his skin is pretty comfortable. He's feeling pretty good about himself, running his soccer teams, watching his kids being raised. Well, and I think he got a little bit blacklisted by MLB. And to tell me that Rob Manfred didn't go to Jim Carin and say you can keep the trophy, can keep the championship, just make sure Jeff Lone is nowhere near your organization. My guess is Jim probably acquiesce to that. I don't know that for a fact, but I'm just logically thinking about it. What was the narrative too?

Was that they thought Jim wanted click to go hard at the trade deadline and he played it a little soft and that Jim wanted somebody who was going to be a little bit bolder. Yes, because Jim has been in Jim's run at the trade deadlines for the last during this championship run has been fairly aggressive. And I think that James wasn't that way. And then the other part of why Dana was brought in, he said the whole yes man thing. I think that gets overplayed. I think you want to have your GM and owner in sync. I think you want them to be on the same page. Click and crane were not on the same page.

But the other part was Dana's scouting background. They needed to rebuild this farm system. The cheating scandal lost them draft picks in the first and second round in two consecutive years. That depleted this farm system. And then all the trades you made throughout the whole World Series run, they had to rebuild this farm system from scratch. What could save Dana is the farm system and it hasn't done that? Now, some of that is because of trades. He's drafted well.

I mean, that's not, you know, it just takes time. Yonick needs to get up here. Yeah. I mean, that hurts. Bryce Matthews, and I love Bryce. And Bryce is going to join us on the show today. Offensively, it's not coming around as much as you like, but from an defensive standpoint,

you've asked him to play center field, and he's done the job. But all of the high-end guys, the guys that you want to build your franchise for for the Astros for the foreseeable future are probably two years away. Oh, his note, too, on the Camp Smith. another team developed him. Cam Smith was in Chicago for about nine months. Yeah. He went from Florida State to get drafted by the Cubs.

And you had, you had to make that trade. Yes. Kyle Tucker was not going to sign here. And you, as an organization, you could not afford to make a move again to let another free agent go and get nothing but a compensatory back and picking back. That's still a good trade. Yeah. Oh, Parades? Parades. Saved this team bacon. Yeah. 1115 on Sports Talk 7.9. We've got gut feelings coming up at the bottom of the hour.

713-212-5-790 7-13-212-5-7-90 gut feelings are up next sports predictions in 15 minutes news at noon Joe Espada in 1 hour and 15 minutes here on sports talk 790 1121 those of you don't want to Alex Cora here Wilson-Cancheris or Red Sox says after Cora got released or fired the guys got a little more loose because I felt like the tension was gone that's what this organization doesn't need tension

Yeah I'm good on that one that's I heard somebody text me that the other day. Like, we should bring Cora back. No, bro. No. I heard he's an a-hole. I've never spoken to him. So he may be the sweetest kid in the world,

but reputation says he's an a-hole. I think, didn't he, wasn't that in a book or something that he and. Jeff Blum got sideways. Yeah. Blum's the nicest guy ever. If you can't get along with Jeff Blum, there's something literally wrong with you.

Yeah. And it was, if I'm correct on this, it was, remember the storms? when they had to go to St. Petersburg and the Rangers, and everyone's trying to call their families and say, hey, what's going on?

How are you guys doing? What's going? I mean, you're all set. And I think Jeff asked for the music to be turned down on the bus and Joe and Alex Corey said no, and then they got sideways with each other after that. I don't know.

Worry about your families didn't seem to be a huge thing. Again, Alex Corr may be the sweetest kid in the world. Don't think so. It is what it is. Let me just say with Joe. I mean, everybody loves Joe and you go on that clubhouse right now.

I mean, there's no, there's no issues. There's no, I mean, everybody's getting longer. Everybody's happy. Everybody's still in good spirits. So, again, you know, your narratives and stuff created, but there's none of that right now. If you literally poured truth serum down every one of their throats, you have injuries being one of them,

and lopor fetal being gone, painia being gone. now you've got you got yonairdiaz going on the injured list today serum pitching staff you lost your ace you lost you're in theory number two you would thought that christian havier could be that and obviously that's not going to be the case you haven't had your clothes are all season long brian abrayu has not adapted to the role of being the ninth inning guy and you're trying to get him back into good graces with the work these in the last couple of days now as i defend joe and continue to do it, there has to be a fall guy. I don't want him to be Joe, but there's been a lot of different bandagers I've worked with over the years that have lost jobs that didn't deserve it in my mind didn't deserve it.

But somebody's got to go. As you guys have pointed out many, many times on those phones, it's easier to let one guy go than the 26 active players. And Joe understands this. Dana understands this, especially when they were both not given contracts at the end of last year. they know that their rear ends are on the line for success this year. And Jim doesn't want to hear about injuries. Yeah. And the only reason why I think it could be a, that why it's even,

you would even be considered is they have a really good option in Omar Lopez, who was also beloved and just took Venezuela. Venezuela to the World Baseball Classic and won that. So, you know, it's a good viable option. But, I mean, again, I would need to, I would need to point to, show me what Joe has done wrong or, you know, to deserve being let go. Well, the question would be, and this is what Jim has to answer, not you or I. Would Omar's voice echo a difference in the team performance-wise?

Would Omar have run the team yesterday any different against a Dodger team that can hit that has good starting, pitch, and has a good everyday lineup against your team that's got a mid-starting lineup and pitching staff that's using bullpen games on a regular? Yeah. That's just a reality. And that's what Jim's decision is, not our decision. That's what I was going to say, results. I mean, the only thing you could stand by and say to Joe is,

look, man, we're in a win-loss business, and you've, you haven't won as many games as you need to. If you want to make that the reason, okay. But, again, the injury thing is a pretty big, it's an excuse, but it's a pretty big excuse for last season. I mean, let's put it in the real world for a second here, Gordy. Let's say that you were running a business. and your business is down 20% from year to year.

You could say, well, the economy's not in great shape. People are worried about gas prices. People are not wanting to spend money. I mean, how many car dealerships, managers of car dealerships, are flipping the F out right now because nobody can afford new cars because they're afraid to fill them up with $4.60.60 gallons of gas. That manager is going to go, I've got elements out of my control. I can't do this. Owner is going to say, yeah, sorry. But you're losing.

I mean, I wish life was fair in everything, Gordy. I wish everything was. The economy of a radio station, an economy of a restaurant, an economy of grocery stores are largely decided by things out of your control. And that's again where Jim's got to decide, Jim Corinne, the owner has got to decide have the decisions that Joe has directly made cost us the record that we are where we are today. That's where I think next week is huge Because regardless of what happens These next two days in the Dodgers series Regardless of what happens this weekend in Cincinnati

Next week you have a seven-game homestan with all A.L. West opponents And if you lose Four to row to Seattle, two out of three or all three to Texas And that thing is We've suddenly gone from five games back in the division to, I don't know, 10? Then maybe Jim's like, I got to do some pressure, public pressure to do something.

I get it. Let's talk to us. Stan on 790. Stan, good morning to you. Hey, how are you doing? I think, you know, first of all, you've got an injury problem, but where does that come from? That comes from the only people that haven't changed are the strength and conditioning, and I think that may be a big part of it.

These guys aren't prepared for the season, so they're getting injured. So that staff needs to be looked at. And then Joe Espada's track record over the past a couple of years. It hasn't been that great. He got to the playoffs and got beat by a bad Detroit beat. He didn't make the playoffs last year, although it was due to injuries. But still, and then this year,

it's just been bad baseball and bad decisions in the bullpen and lineups to keep changing. Hold on. Stan, what are the bad decisions that he's made in the bullpen? What would you say were the bad ones? leaving people in that can't throw strikes to reply but you understand

Stan you understand this is a system-wide this is a team-wide problem there isn't anybody that's been a huge strike-fower this year I understand lineups to keep changing what are, hold on Stan what are the bad decisions that he's made in the bullpen what would you say were the bad ones

leaving people in that can't throw strikes to reply but you understand Stan you understand this is a system-wide this is a team-wide problem there isn't anybody that's been a huge strike-thower this year I understand that so why is that the pitching coach

did they lose somebody below the pitching coach that may have made a difference why can't our pitchers throw strikes it's frustrating to watch somebody give up a hit and then walk the next two batters and he got the face slowed in nobody out and it's been that way all season so there's got to be somebody

to take responsibility for it I haven't really done much yeah I'm gonna my answer to that is and thank you stand for the phone call you went and spent money in EMI and he's been a complete disaster am I forgetting. But that's small, I mean, small, small, small sample size. Oakard is, uh,

Ocurt is still, I mean, middle relievers come, come and go. I mean, you relied on Stephen O'Kert the last couple of years. I'll say this. I mean, you know, Gordon, Gordon had eaten up a ton of innings for you last year, but O'Curt was, was pretty reliable. Jason Alexander turned out to be night's fine for you.

He fizzled in September. But there was about a month stretch where Jason Alexander was your most reliable pitcher last season. But Jason Alexander probably is a 4A pitcher. Probably. Right. But by victim of circumstance with all the injuries, you had to lean on him. Brandon Walter was another decent fine. Bennett Sousa, this season notwithstanding, it was really solid for you. No hater yet. Dillo Santos is just a guy for this point.

Mike Burroughs probably has had a quality start, but he needs to get going because the Astros did make a move. I want to be critical to the Burroughs trade. That is not worked out yet. Nate Pearson isn't thrown yet. McCullors kind of is who he is. He can't do it. We're not blaming Dana for McCullors. No, no, no, no, no. I'm not trying to blame. I'm just saying take a look at roster construction. Burles, to me, need to take the next step up. Yeah, absolutely. That was one of your, you traded Jacob Melton, who was one at one time, one of this. organization's top prospects.

You also got rid of Framber Valdez. You didn't even really kick the tires in Framber Valdez because you were bringing in Emi and you thought Burroughs would fill those two guys could fill in that spot. But go ask an average Astros fan. Majority of them met were on board with letting Framber walk. No, including me.

He was a head case. Right. Because you didn't want to put a lot of money behind a guy that you could mentally think was strong enough that would crack like an egg, you know, once a month. Right. He's had one of those disastrous starts already this year. other than that he's been pretty good I mean it's not great gang

it's just not but here's the crazy part because I got asked again on Sunday Benissusa just came back is Bennett Suza supposed to be the savior for this coal pan? He's supposed to be a reliable arm Yeah

I got asked on Sunday you know who's an arm out there where we can go get I'm like they're not going to get an arm you got to deal with what you have because here's the problem Matt you get Tutsu Yamai back you eventually get Hunter Brown back

Christian Javier back guess what around All-Star break, Rono Blanco and Hayden Winskes are supposed to be back from Tommy John. Suddenly you got a surplus of pitch. I'm not doing that. You don't think they're going to be back? No, why?

I watched the Astros the last year. Most guys a year after Tommy John are back. Hell no. Some guys are better. Hell no. No. If Wisneski pitches and Bronco, that's gravy. I ain't counting on any of those guys.

Are you kidding me? I'm just saying suddenly, if they are, they ain't got too many arms. When is the Astros and suddenly an injury has been in the same conversation? Not in the past year and a half. Okay then. I'm learning off experience. Please. Well, you get these guys back.

You got a surplus or what? We had a surplus. I'd love to have that issue. All right. Gut feelings time. 713-212-5-790. Time to make some predictions. Listen up, girls and boys.

That's been so appealing. Goes Ross and Matt Thomas. Yo, they got a gut feeling. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. 1139 on Sports Talk 790. We forgot Ross is off today. So I'm going to assume, Jonathan, we did a lousy last week on gut feelings of both the Astros and a Rocket. Would that be fair to say?

Yeah. We're taking massive losses on those. Loss, loss, loss. All right. We got C.J. Montrose. Stephen and Montrose and Brad is on with gut feelings. Now remember the reward of gut feelings with Brad is we take him very last. So if you have any other gut feelings you have, get it in now at 713212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We've got gut feelings to the top of the hour. The news at noon, Joe Spotted joins us in less than one half hour. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Jonathan, you got your notepad out, ready to go? Here we go. Gordy, anything in your gut this week you'd like to explain the audience. It is a revolver on the SEC.

Yeah, I've got a few. I've got an Astros and I've got two NBA ones, which one you want? Any, I'll take all. All right. We heard from Jeremiah Raffel Stone yesterday. I was there in person for the presser. Yes. He was asked about having a

complimentary point guard to play with Fred. Now, he corrected it and said, you must mean a backup point guard to Fred. Did say they still believe very much that Reed Shepard is going to develop into a big-time player. But Ruffel seemed open to the idea of signing a veteran proven backup point guard that maybe can shoot, but what do we know what they want most?

Defend. You've got to be able to defend to play for the Houston Rockets. I think the Rockets will sign a free agent point guard for next season, a backup Fred Van Vleet, and that point guard will be Jose Alvarado will be a Houston Rocket. Jonathan, write that down. Who was in the Jonathan Alvarado train, Jose? Jonathan Aborado. Who's Jonathan?

No matter. Who was in the Jose Alvarado train earlier this year? Me! I would have loved him. There were a lot of guys. Jose Alvarado, huh? Free agent, right? I'm assuming for the Knicks.

Unrestricted free agent. Okay. That's not a terrible gut feeling. I don't know if it's going to hit, but that's not terrible. Now, he can't shoot, but he does everything else well, and he is a burn the ass of other players. Yeah. They've been missing that.

they miss Dylan Brooks this year. That gritty, in your face, pest. I got you. All right. Next. I'll go next. This is from my son. This is a gut filling from my son Cameron that I got to put on there.

So if I get this right, it really goes to camp. He believes the Knicks are going to sweep the 76ers four straight in the Eastern Conference semifinals. And if one game is any indication, he's probably right. The Knicks, I mean, destroyed the, uh, 76ers last night. They're going crazy. Final scoring that game was, you ready for this?

137 and 98. So I will back my son up and say Knicks sweep the 76ers. That's one that, like, if we end up with like a Knicks Thunder Final, I'm all aboard the Nick train.

Those fans have endured heartache and pain for so many years. Go Nicks. I'd have no problem with the Knicks winning a time. What? Yeah. Your team Nix?

is better than the Thunder 2 peating. They're not winning the West. They're not one in the whole NBA. They may win the East, though. Unless you think the Thunder winning two in a row would then lead to a lot of those that team breaking up, like a lot of

guys run off for free agency to go get paid. Isaiah Hartnstein's going to be a free agent for the Oklahoma City. So, not that end of that makes a big difference, but that's a little bit of the crumbling of that. You don't feel a little bit bad for those Knicks fans. Spike Lee, Tracy Morgan, all those diehards that have had to endorse sucking. Mine is personally, strictly personal.

One, the people in New York are rude there. The worst ushers in the NBA are at Madison Square Garden. It's the worst viewpoint for calling an NBA game by far. It's cold. It's expensive. People are rude. No, screw you, Nix. Bye.

Would you, Jonathan, would you want me to say, I'm Team Nix? No chance. O KC. I don't know. Oh, KC is harmless, except the foul baiter. Oh, Ness. Let it win back to back. titles. They'll be going, oh, first time since

the Houston Rockets, or I don't know, is anybody going back to back? Golden State. That's true. Lakers, there's been others. The New Warriors. Oh, the Spurs. O'K.C. Thunder. Is this dynasty better than the Hakeem Rockets Dynasty? Don't let national TV dictate how you hate somebody or not. I would show their predictions.

You had some more, Gordy? Yeah, at Wemby, this is my other NBA pick. I have Wembe will set an NBA postseason. He set an NBA postseason record last night with 12 blocks. I believe sometime this postseason he will break that record. 13 or more.

That's sick if you can block 13 game in a game. They took one away from it last night. He probably should have at 13. All right. John, then what you got? I got one NBA and one MLB. I'm going to kind of go

opposite. I think Aunt Edwards and the wolves got this. What? I truly think... After one game? I just... It's in my gut. Like, last year it was a Pacers.

I feel like the wolves have that momentum. Something about their chemistry. I really think they can take this. I'm going to, I don't want to say six, but I think my gut feeling is saying to win six. I'm still taking Santern to win the series. Not really a gut. It's just it's a prediction. We don't need that here.

By the way, shout out Chris Finch. He was always nice to me when he was with rockets. Yeah, good guy. Then when he was in the assistant with the Pelicans when I was doing my New Orleans show, he'd come on with, I text him all the time, hey coach, come on. Yeah, absolutely. Come on, do interviews. Good dude. I like him. Deserves a good fate.

Absolutely. I will go with the pelicans on one here. Oh, God. Not that anybody cares, but you brought up the pelicans. Rajan Rondo will be the new coach of New Orleans Pelicans. I saw that. He's a finalist. That's random as hell.

I knew he was going to be a coach at some point in his career. I got like that, though. I don't understand. Why is I not calling Chris Paul? He's the most beloved player in the history of that franchise? Because Chris is a politician. He's doing Pat McAfee appearances now. He did a lot on SEC appearance.

Well, he wasn't on my podcast, but... Oh, sorry. Well, yeah, I'm going to Rajan Rondo coach the Pelicans. I just said it. Their final... Sam Amick, his final four for them, is Raj and Rondo, Darvinham, Sean Sweeney and Steve Hetzel.

Yep. To which my buddy said, I'd rather Sidney Sweeney, but... Jonathan, Sydney Sweeney's like doing lots of nudes now, right? She don't care anymore, does she? No, I told you this a couple months ago. You know what? Go watch Euphoria Season 3. You can see a lot of her

to you give it on me in. And it's like a dog outfit or something like that. Yeah, you'll see her. And it's all 10, right? I mean, it's... Not to me. I'll give it a 7.5, but you might give it a 9. You just gave Sidney Sweeney a 7.5? I told... I'm not a fan. I don't see it. Are you warm, blood? I'm just checking.

I don't see the appeal. I got a friend who thinks she's kind of ugly. See? In her face, it is not a fan of her face. I can see whether You know, I can see you I'm just seeing it All right I'm going to break on this horrific conversation

She's a goddess And you're all trying to find something wrong with her That's terrible What is Cherise Theron Not looking good enough for you these days either Who? Who? Charlie's.

Whatever, Charlize Cherries She's so perfect to me What are you going to bitch about jihadi too? I didn't think so Everybody's got different tastes That's right. and all my tastes are perfect.

713, 212, 5790, Gio, Stephen, Brad, Brian, we'll get to all four of you, I promise. Next. All right, Gordy's got one more and he's going to leave us with here before you've got another conference call to get to. Gordy, what is this grandiose gut-filling you have?

Matt, the last time Lance McCullers Jr. pitched against the Los Angeles Dodgers. We're going back to July 4th of last season. Oh, okay, yeah, five innings, right? He went six innings. allowed one run off four hits with four strikeouts.

And? Tomorrow. Lance McCullors, Jr. will hold this Dodgers lineup and check. The Astros will defeat the Dodgers tomorrow, and Lance McCullors will get his third win of the season. Write that down. Lance, no pressure.

Gordy's got it on you. I think they lose the Otani tonight. So I think they'll take one out of three. Get out of here, Gordy. Gio on 7 on a Gio. What's in your gut? What's up, guys? Great show as usual.

I got an NBA take here, man. I think I'm a piggyback out of Jonathan. I think if the Timberwolves stay healthy, I think they could take it all the way, man. My finals team's prediction is I got the Timberwolves and the Detroit Pistons, man. Finch and Biggerstaff, to me, honestly, are the two best coaches remaining.

They know how to make adjustments. And when it comes to the playoffs, it's all about adjustments. So I got the Pistons and the Timberwolves in the finals. Pistons, and now if it hits, Gia, you got a call back and get your flowers, okay? Don't forget to do it. Oh, you know I'm a call back. That's what I'm talking about.

Thank you, Gio, for the phone call. Let's go to Brian on seven. Brian, what's in your gut this week? Unfortunately, I think by the time Hunter Brown gets back from his injury, unfortunately, I think we're going to be seven games out of the division. I hope I'm wrong. I'm happy to take an out on that. I think Terek Scruble, after this injury, I think the Tigers will deal them

because they realize, get something for them while they can, especially after this injury, diagnosis he has with the bone spurs. And I do think Alperin Shingoon gets moved in the offseason because I think he's going to be the most desirable piece that the Rockets are willing to part with.

All right. For who? I don't know, but I think he leaves. Okay. Thank you for the phone call. You got Alpi Schengoon moving. I do not believe he is moving, but, you know, again, Raffell Stone and email are not texting me with their daily updates.

Last one. Okay, Stephen says he doesn't want to have any gut feeling, so we're going to hold him to the top of the hour, so we will let you have your just general astro take. Our buddy Brad is with us at 1155. Brad, what's in your gut? Remember I called you when Ross was out? out sick and I was like screaming.

I told you you don't trade Ferretis and you wanted him traded. But you see how he is? He's a star and he belongs to playing and you don't trade him when he's under control. And I was right.

Brad, Brad, Brad, no, Brad, you're getting zero flowers. Brad, you can't get flowers for a team. It's got numerous injuries on the infield and outfield. You cannot get flowers for that. This team was before the season started. I told you and you wanted to trade because they said we've got too many infields.

Yeah, but guess what? And I said, Brad, barring injuries. There were injuries, lots of them. Well, we didn't know that at the time. Well, of course not. Yeah. So it was an insurance policy. But I would not be claiming flowers because the Astros did not make you,

it's like Pradesh move. They didn't move him because they needed him to play every day. That's a difference. Well, they still need him to play every day. after the trade deadline. They should move Walker. That would be the perfect. He's getting paid a lot.

But you get that money off your books, and now he's shining. And some team would love to have him for one year in a couple of months. Somebody would. And then I would like to switch over. You know, I'm one of those hater, Kevin Durant. I'm sorry.

I don't think he's good for this team. I love the young guys. I think they call the Miami Heed. and see if they can get Hero the guard and maybe even Bam out of Bayou because we need a center two in the worst Why would he do that? Brad.

Well, you might have to add the draft picture next year. I can't leave the studio. Kevin Durant is no good. They will never win a championship with him on the team. I can't leave the studio. I can't. Thank you for the call. My fault. My fault.

When Ross is here, John, I could leave. What will you give for BAM anyway? Why? I love BAM out of bio. Why would he do that? Can somebody help me with that? I mean, younger? First of all, you're paying him.

Let's see. Look at the contracts would match up. all. He is under contract through uh, 2000, 2020, yeah. They're making 57 million dollars against the cap. That's a lot. Bird rights guy. No, no. What, why? What, what? How many why the heat would want that? To put him with whom? If you're going to put Kevin Durant with somebody, you're going to put him with Bam out of bio.

You're not going to put him in spite of. That's just, that's just Brad talking out of his ass. which we appreciate. Thank you very much. All right. Last one. It depends on how his phone works. Roger, what's in your gut at 1158? Can you hear me?

Yes, sir. Okay. Yeah, Albrez does get 50 plus on ones this year. Unfortunately, absolutely wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, 50? Yeah, 50 plus.

50 plus? Oh, yeah. Damn. Let me see what I'm some pace guy says about this. Maybe I should know this. Now, his OPS is 1100. I'll give you that.

50 plus home runs. Who's going to hit in front and behind him? He is on pace to let's see. He said 12 home runs through how many games have they played? 40. So it'd be, he'd have to step it up a little bit, frankly. And by the way, not miss any games.

Yeah, he'll get there. He'll get danger to close to a triple crowd problem as well. So, yeah, we're going to miss the postseason. One of our, one of our, one of the, one of our three stars from the rocket gets moved. I don't think it's not going to be on, man. I think they're going to do a sign and trade for Mr. Tarry Easton. And that's it. So yeah.

All right, there you go. Now, if you want to talk about sign and trade with Taran, it's a trade possible with that, it is certainly possible because he is a restricted free agent. Now, the Astros can just match the offer whatever he gets offered by the Astros. The Rockets could match him whatever he wants. Now, you're not, come on, Brad. Bam, out of bio. Anta-Hour hero for 38-year-old Kevin Durant? Come on.

The news at noon is next, and some guys, although the Lock gets the Dodgers for sure. Stephen and Montrose will get to you on the Astros as well. This is 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Los Angeles Dodgers take the first game of this three. game set defeating the Astros 8 to 3. And we will speak with Joe Espada

coming up at about 25 minutes from now. As we welcome you to the third hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I am subtle this hour, but we'll have Joe Espada coming up in 23 minutes. Bryce Matthews, in an hour you heard the rundown of the games. Other things happening, we present to you the news at noon. And we will start tonight with last

night in the NBA, the Knicks, Destroyed the 76ers, 1.37 to 98. Jalen Brunson had 35 points in that game as an extra of 1-0 in that series. Meanwhile, in San Antonio last night, Anthony Edwards came off the bench, scored 18 points as the Wolves beat the Spurs 104 to 102. The Wolves scored 35 in the fourth quarter to win the game. Victor Wenbinyama was a filthy biotch. I should say. say that, but it is what it is. He had 15 rebounds, 5 assists, 12 blocks, and

11 points. Now, he didn't shoot well for the game, but man, it was still very impactful, but the Spurs are down 1-0 in that series. On the NFL side of things, the Texans announcing yesterday at their charitable golf tournament

that the Texans and the rodeo want to stay in Harris County. It's kind of a vague statement, Does it mean they want to stay by Reliant? Does it mean they want to go out by Toro Town out in the Burgland area? Is there another pocket of area? But the thought of Fort Ben, Brazoria, Angleton, all those other counties out there, not in play.

Walter County, you're safe. So the Texans and the rodeo want to stay in Harris County. And we've got game two of a three-game series from the Astros and the Dodgers back to the Astros for a second. Shohei Otani will be on the mound today for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Peter Lambert will throw it for the Astros. I will have the on-deck show for you at 6 o'clock. First pitch at 7-10. I'll be from the ballpark.

Are you Dodger fans really going to show up in force? And are you Dodger fans that are from L.A. in town, or are you Dodger fans or are you just T-shirt Dodger fans? Matt, let me tell you. Tell me the truth. Me and my girl went yesterday. Oh, you did? Yeah.

You pay for tickets? No, no, no. We're lucky, thankful this company. Love Eye Heart Radio for that. that good for you. Got lucky. Matt, there were so many. I mean,

diehard Dodgers fan. It was like women that were like moved from L.A. over here. Uh-uh. On a Monday and a Randall? On a Monday, the woman had an anti-A. Astros club on the side of her LA Dodgers hat.

I've never seen that many Dodgers in one place at a different city. And I don't know if their bandwack is. You know what I mean? Let me tell you all something. If you live in Houston and wear a Dodger gear, I'm actually more pissed off at you than I am, the people that would come in from town out of town. Like if you're a Bat Rouge person,

or you live in Lafayette, or you live in, I don't know, Nacadoches, you don't get to see your team, but once every couple of years, I get it. But if you're a Dodger T-shirt wearing you live in Houston and you're an Astro fan except when the Dodgers are here, shame on you. Shame, shame, shame, shame.

Kyle Tucker went deep. I don't care if you boo them. I don't care if you cheer him. I don't care if you're indifferent to him. He wears the word Los Angeles or Dodgers. Dodgers on the front of his jersey. He must go down. And that's the news that knew.

So did you just keep quiet or did you try to say something to some people? Because I don't need you throwing hands against Dodger fans. It was like we were outnumbered and that's what that was horrible. And there was even some guys speaking. There was like Japan natives there to watch a tiny too like behind us. Oh, so they got here early. I'm telling you there was so I didn't. I know they won the World Series but I didn't think they traveled like

That you're not, I'm going to try to deduce this properly. You're not going to go from, you're not leaving L.A. to go see a Houston series in the middle of May. We're going, we're not a road destination. I mean, the park is cool. And maybe there are a couple people that are trying to knock it off their list, but there aren't hordes of what you saw last night, Jonathan, was Houstonians being Dodger fans. And that's, that's even worse. And that's why this town sometimes.

sucks. We have so many fans of other teams in this town. Do you think they're bandwagon fans? Like if we were to watch the Dodgers play in Boston, do you think we'd see loads of Dodger fans at Fenway Park or at Yankee Stadium? After yesterday, I can't give you a for sure answer. I'm like

maybe. I don't know. I didn't know that many Dodgers fans. Well, I'm going tonight. I'll have an eyewitness forecast for it tonight. You'll see. I promise. Especially because Otonney's pitching? Oh. Oh, yeah. Tonight there's Otani lovers out there are going to be there.

for sure because he does cross generations i mean i mean there is a there is a ethnicity that follows him because he's he's got to represents them which is cool i didn't ever see that much star power in one place before really and if o't tony was wearing a asteroid you'd see other cities too i mean yow ming when he was a rocket people from china would go watch him all around the NBA so i can't crush that but they can't name five dodgers i don't think they can't 713 212 5 790 713 212 790 713 2 1-2-5-7-90. Joe Espata at the bottom of the hour here on Sports Talk 790. Joe Espada, 10 minutes on 790. Matt and Ross with you today. Actually, Ross, is off.

Thanks to Gordy for stepping in for a couple of hours. Bryce Matthews going to join us at 130. And Cinco, believe it or not, today is a cop topic on that segment of the show, which will be at 150. Stephen, you've been very patient at 1220. Thanks for holding good afternoon to you. Oh, to be a Houston sports fan. know? Yeah, that's fine. Well, look, I wanted to hit on

the Astros, but real quick while I was sitting here, I thought about something, and you're obviously tuned in with the Rockets. You may squash this pretty quickly, but the rumor on the streets is that with Tillman, you know, being the ambassador to Italy or whatever for Trump,

Patrick, his son, is basically running the show. If that's true, I don't really love that. I don't love the prospect. for what's going to be a huge summer for us. But you can kind of hit that on the end. The thing I wanted about that out...

Let me get that first. It's not going out. It's not going to knock it out. Patrick has always been intimately involved in the organization, even when Timon was here. But now with Tillman helping out with Italy, he's taking him more of a role for sure. There's no argument to that.

Patrick is daily involved in the decision-making by the team. Now, whether that's a good thing or bad thing, again, they don't offer me. decisions and advice. If they would, I would love to tell them a couple things, but that's not what they ask for me. They ask me to call their games, and I happily do that. But yeah, Patrick is not jumping in feet wet here. He has been with this team since the team was originally purchased by the Fratita family.

Understood. Understood. Well, look, as far as Astros goes, I think, you know, unfortunately, I think this is just the reality. This is where the team's at. They're hitting the, the ball well, which is great. We just don't have the arms. And you lose Hunter, you know, you lose some other guys early,

and it just, it really shows just the glaring holes organizationally. One thing I think people don't really ever talk about is losing those draft picks from the sign stealing scandal. It ruined our, our farm system.

You know, that's four picks, our top two picks in 2020 and 2021. You know, while the other teams are drafted, drafting Connor Griffins and Kate Anderson's and they're drafting guys in the top ten. We didn't even have those picks to fall back on

and you look at our draft history. You know, you hit on Tucker, you hit on Bregman in that draft, but then you got Dads Cameron, you know, Seth Beer, Bukakis, who you all traded.

You know, we're not on these picks. Yeah, they were all used for trades. I go off of what Dana has chosen and the one that's staring me right in the eye is the fact that Walter Yonick is not batting his weight right now at the minor leg level and you need him because from a defensive standpoint he can be the professional catcher for this team for the foreseeable future

but the Astros just don't have trust as bad at this point and any of the other problem there's no top hundred prospects in the organization that Baseball America represents you brought up Bryce Matthews you had Cam Smith, who was the top hunter prospect, but there's a different team. But doesn't matter. You made the trade, so he's not yours. You need the minor league to come through, and it just hasn't.

Again, you're losing four picks hurts. But that was also, you know, that's seven, eight years ago now. When we're talking about you have to replenish, it's major league baseball drafts are not six players each. You have 30, 40 rounds. Do you not? I mean, you kind of need a hit on some people here. And I don't think the minor leagues have given the Astros enough depth to replenish, especially when you are a team that says we're only going to pay so much for players.

And I don't necessarily disagree with that philosophy because these long-term contracts, by and large, don't pay off. But if you're going to have that philosophy and not take a chance once in a while on these guys, you've got to have your minor links come through. And I'm going to look up Walter Yanuk here right now, but I have not heard anything that makes me go, okay, this is the guy that's ready to take over as the first round pick the Astros had of a couple of years ago. And, you know, the plan was, I think, ultimately to move Janard Diaz to first base. And, again, I can't do this while I'm doing a radio show.

I'm sorry, but he's not doing the job. He's not ready. And all the prospects in where the Astros feel like they've got some work are at the A&A level. You can't bring these guys up too fast. they've got to go through the growing pants. They're going to move up the system. They're not super elite guys. It's frustrating.

It's absolutely frustrating right now. I get it. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Tom is with us on 7-90. Hello, Tom. Hey, good afternoon, man. Hi.

Well, I was hearing your earlier segment on is there a lot of big Waggners here in use in which yes there there is i mean let's be honest with ourselves whenever it comes to any type of sports sure but i wanted to actually give you an answer of why there's so many japanese uh personnel over here during this time so we have the energy corridor and my wife works for one of these japanese oil companies in fact today because otani is pitching the entire company has rented out sweets wow and watch him him pitch and they have personalized jerseys made

for their company to go and watch him pitch. They're going to be on the field before the game because that's how big of fans they are of Otani. So that's the answer sir. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you, Tom, for the phone call. I appreciate you dropping that in. He's an international star.

Otani is not the surprise to me. Did people go to see Yamamoto pitch yesterday? I don't think so. Otani, yeah. Five tool guy. Two different positions. Star.

Dodgers are good. Otani played for the Reds. You know Tani played for the Marlins. You wouldn't care. But you're putting a perfect storm together. You're putting a major superstar with a very recognizable baseball team. Real quick before we get to Joe Espana. I just found you, Walter Yonick stats.

19 games at AA Corpus Christi for the Astros. He has 10 hits out of 74 at bats. He's batting 135 with a slug of 2.16 and OPS at 395. That's not helping. Not that one position player would change everything, but it just goes along the lines of

the modeling system isn't not replenishing the Astros. Major League system. Joe's spot on next. 1227 Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-7-90. Again, Joe, next here on 790. Every Tuesday here on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. We spend 10 quality minutes with the manager of the Houston Astros. Drop the opener to the Dodgers last night. Game number two tonight. We'll have it for you all of the on-deck show from the ballpark at 6 o'clock. First pitch at 7-10.

Joe Espott is with us on the show. Skip, a good afternoon. Thank you for the time. more of a macro view of this running a bullpen game is it much more harrowing than I think it is? I mean, you'd love it to be a perfect formula, but unfortunately it feels like more times a not it's not. Yeah, it's never a good, you know, it's got to go as a plan, right?

And unfortunately, that wasn't the case yesterday. But we are in a position where we have to try to piece it together until we get, you know, the rest of our guys back. And sometimes, you know, it goes well. You know, I think in Boston the day before on Sunday, it was, you know, it played out our way. And then yesterday it was one of those days that it just didn't play out the way we want it. And unfortunately, when you can't get Oka out of the first inning, it pushes everybody up a little bit. I know Ryan Weiss was a guy that really wanted to come into camp and be a starter. The numbers just haven't bared out.

What are you noticing about him? And I know there has been some talk about maybe a move down to Sugar Land. And I don't know if you've made that official gist yet, but just a thought or two about Ryan, because I know when I talked to him during Astro Fest, he came in not only looking forward to being a major leagueer for the first time, but maybe cracking your starting rotation. Yeah, you know, and if you look at his outing yesterday, right, you know, how he was ahead. head often. And then once he got to that 0-2-1-2 count,

just not being able to execute and finish a hit or executing a pitch, more of a chase pitch, just kind of leaving pitches like that out over the plate, like in the middle of the plate where good hitters are going to handle. And that has been one of the issues for Ryan right now that, you know, he is trying to work through. when you have plus stuff the way he does hitters should not be squaring your pitches up the way

they've been up late right he should be able to wipe him away in 98 mile per hour frasball he's got a change up he's got a sweeper like he's got the weapons to do it you know but in this level once you get ahead of this hitter you've got to get him out of the box you have to you can just let him get back into the aback because then you empower them just to take over the bat,

and then it becomes more challenging for you to put him away. The one guy you can discuss that is kind of embraced this opportunity, I think it's AJ Blueball, and I hope that everything is okay with him in terms of the amount of pitching you've used him for, but he would have used him in a variety of avenues in the last week or so, and every time he's come through for you. Yeah, he's thrown the ball for a while. We know he could give you that one inning, he comes in,

just really efficient and then he could give you multiple innings like he did in Boston but he's been really good the same thing you could say about K-Way-Tang the guy that comes in out of the pan and it's just a good bridge they keep you in the game

they give you quality in and quality out lefty righties you feel comfortable when they're out there on the mound Joe Espada with us here on Sports Talk 790 Janair Diaz was pulled late yesterday where are we on him right now what's the injury how did it come into play and i know you've brought up sazar salazar but that's obviously you're looking for some additional depth in that position right now yeah and you know he'll

go he'll be on the aisle um and we will do we'll do we'll do in more tests today and and you know but right now the initial um diagnosis was that left side that left side that obliques um and happened during BP uh it was pretty sore yesterday when he had happen and then like during the game you know he did feel that his comfort throughout the day so it tells you that it's going to be something that it's going to take some time for him to recover from i hate that i have to be the doctor to you or you're the doctor to me but these obliques have turned out to be fairly serious injuries i know that uh jake's gone through that as well what what's happening are you noticing a train with guys maybe trying to put too much torque into their

body during the spring? Is there a particular reason why it's just the natural progression of playing six days a week in Major League Baseball? You know, and it's throughout the league. It's an injury that is happening very frequently. You know, we try to monitor the amount of swings, the amount of work. They do hydration, nutrition, right, you know, how their bodies are holding up. And, you know, this might be two of the reasons why.

why this injury is happening throughout the league. This is a very common injury right now in the major league. Is it troubling to you? I mean, and I could also go back to the number of arm injuries, not only you're going through, but baseball. And I know everyone's worried about their own individual teams, and you can't worry about the injured list of Atlanta or Toronto or anybody else.

But when do you guys, as managerial bros, just kind of sit back and say, can we do something about this? Because it feels like, and looking at Tark Scoobel now is going to be gone for a while, for the Detroit Tigers. I don't know of you and AJ are going to wrap about that, but your sport is so beautiful, but it's not beautiful when you're using, no disrespect,

but you've got a lot of four-A players right now that are trying to take up for these major superstars. Yeah, yeah, it's not ideal, right? It's happening too often, and, you know, fans come to the ballpark to watch, like you mentioned, the terrorist school bowls, the Hunter Browns, right, those other stars of this game.

and these injuries are happening more often, you know, guys are getting nastier. They're spinning the ball harder. They're throwing the ball, you know, harder than ever in this sport. And, you know, you carry enough arms in your pen when you try to do the best you can, trying to give this guy's opportunity for them to succeed and manage the bullpen in a way where you give them enough rest. but when you go through stretches like the one that we've been going through, you know, it takes a toll on some of these guys, and you're trying to manage at the best way you can,

trying to give these guys time off as best as you can. But it's throughout the league, man. These arms are hitting this, you know, these moments of fatigue and it's just wearing down on good clubs. Joe, you've got your own worries and own battles with the Dodgers across the dugout from you tonight, but how keen of an eye or in correspondence will you have with what's happening in Sugarland? You've got three different guys that you could desperately lead here in the not too distant future to come help out your team. They're going to pitch tonight for the Space Cowboys.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a big day there in Sugarland today. We'll be keeping close eye on on what's going on over there today. three arms that we desperately need important arms. So we are going to monitor them and then see how they feel post-game. EMI will start that game. Josh Aida will throw in the middle and then Pearson will finish the game. And then hopefully things go well and we can continue their progression. And hopefully we can get EMI here at some point after that next start.

And I know they're not going to lie to you. So I want to preface this. but they need to be as open and honest with you because my God, your right side of your notes page or your media notes is still full of injuries. You're balancing openers the last couple days. The last thing you've got to do, and we all want them back, but you can't rush them. So tell me about their DNA. I know that EMI, obviously, the tired arm and being acclimated,

Josh has been gone a long period of time. You brought him Pearson to be a guy that could fight for a roster spot. They're desperate, but you're also desperate to win, but you're also desperate to keep guys healthy enough that we're going back and forth between Houston and Sugar Land with players. Yeah, and that's the balance that you have to keep.

You know, we need them here, but we need them healthy, and we need them healthy for the duration of the season. And they're pretty honest. You know, Josh Ador is someone who takes really good care of his body and he's very transparent about how he feels. You know, EMI, we don't feel right now

like it's the, it's an arm injury, is just more trying to get him going again, get him throwing more strikes and just be more efficient. So when he get up here, he could take us, give us some quality start. And Pearson looks really good. He's someone that can give you, you know, a start, can throw out of the pen. So we'll have a better idea of where we go after tonight, after that game in Shirleyland. I'm going to talk to Bryce Matthews here shortly.

He has embraced the center field spot as best. he can. What is it like watching him? He's an athlete, so he's going to be able to do some things, but the limited time he has played as an outfield of major leagues has obviously been documented. Learning in Boston is quite a trick, and he was able to do very well for you this past weekend.

Yeah, especially, you know, never been there and how he was able to adjust to the position and goes, you know, credit to his athleticism and his coachable mindset where he can

put to play whatever you ask him to do because he understands, you know, the position, but also how to position himself, how to adjust, how to read swings, play balls off the wall, finding the wall once he gets to the warning track. You know, baseball IQ has play immensely here in his development. And like he said, he has embraced Senate feel, and he's starting to swing the bat well, too. I think the power and the speed, it's real. trying to get him just to be more consistent and make more contact so he could be like a real threat offensively.

Two last questions. Jose, you put in the five spot the last week or so. Look, he's going to do whatever you ask of him, and that's always been who his DNA has been. But I'm curious, what kind of pitch selection he is getting? Is it any different in your mind as you watch him batting fifth as compared to maybe first or second or third in this Astros lineup? No, we've been monitoring that. He's been pitching. He's been pitched the same way.

I think for Jose right now, it's just a little mechanical, you know, adjustments that he's making hitting the ball on the ground more often right now that he's, that he was doing the first couple of weeks of the season. You know, but he's getting good pitches to hit. And, you know, he's hit some balls hard. You know, I think he's got a five, six game hitting streak. You know, I know that it don't look like that, but he's got to hit the last five, six games. So he is getting that hit and he's getting on base. He just, we need to get him to be, you know, get to be your base a little more multiple times per game. But I think it's just, you know, a week where all hitters go through.

You know, they go to a stretch of games where things don't fall and that don't happen for you. But he'll get hot here pretty soon. And last question. I always thought at the end of the day, Otonic would be more of an everyday hitter as compared to pitcher. but the numbers this year are fantastic. I don't know if you want to give us an intelligent report, but the young man in Otani's got a 0.60 ERA. What are you noticing today that maybe he didn't even did last year or so while he was pitching?

No, he's healthy. I think, you know, after that one year where you're trying to get back from an arm injury, I think the year, the second year, after you come back from the injury, your stuff just kind of clicks in your arm. It's 100%. He's, you know, he's healthy and he's throwing the ball really, well. You know, he's, you know, he's one of those very rare talents, unique talents in this game. And, you know, we have, we've had some good at bets against him in the past. We've seen a lot of

him. So we're going to go into this with a pretty good idea of what he's going to try to do. Skip, thank you for the visit. As always, we'll visit again next Tuesday. And good luck tonight. I'll see you at Diken Park in a few hours. Thank you for the time as always. Thank you. You got a Joe spotted with us here on Sports Talk 7.9. You want to comment anything that Joe had to say you can do so right now. It's 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. Coming up in about 45 minutes, we'll hear from the Astro,

I guess, center field or at least for now, Bryce Matthews. We'll talk to him about the progression moving from the infield to the outfield. His series of the Dodgers coming up and facing Shohei Otani. 1244 Sports Talk 790, 719, 7-1-3-212-5-790. Thanks again to Joe for joining us. 1249, Sports Talk, 790. 713-212-5-790 is how you reach a show.

7-13-212-5-7-90. SportsHud says, you asked if there would be a lot of Dodger fans and stands in Boston, New York. Boston, New York are cities people want to visit? Better question is, would they be there in Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City, and Cleveland? That's funny. That's true. again, I don't think Dodger fans run from Los Angeles to Houston for a three-day trip. I mean, look, Dodger Stadium seats 60,000 people.

It's not like you can't get, or 55,000, whatever it is. You can get tickets at games there. It's not impossible. I was in L.A. last weekend they were talking about purchasing individual tickets. So it's not like you can't get into a game at Dodger Stadium. Now, I'm also the belief that I like to see my hometown team play in other cities. But it's May 5th. It's a midweek series.

Houston's not necessarily a national destination for vacation, except for spring break, obviously, as Jonathan has pointed out multiple times. I just had to throw that in there, sorry. It's okay. You're still bitter. It's all right. Not bitter.

I just know the numbers are going to come down. They're going to steadily come down next year. Imagine they go up. No, there's no chance. No chance are going up. I don't know. Rodeo made a lot of money. Rodeo did make a lot of money.

That's true. No, I have long felt the belief, and that's part of the reason why. I can peel the, I can peel the curtain bag for y'all. We sometimes struggle as a sports city because we don't have enough of us here. We have generations of Texans. Well, we've got a couple generation Texans fans. We've got generations of Otters fans. A generation of Cougars and rockets and Astros.

But we're a city of people that have bounced around and come here for, energy corridor and have moved here for one variety of reason or the other, and you take your fandom with you. When I moved to Utah in 2004, I didn't leave being an Astro fan. We have generations of Texans. Well, we've got a couple generation Texans fans. We've got generations of Otters fans. We've got generations of Cougars and rockets and Astros.

But we're a city of people that have bounced around and come here for energy corridor and have moved here for one variety of reason or the other, and you take your fandom with you. When I moved to Utah in 2004, I didn't leave being an Astro fan, especially when there wasn't a team there. I certainly hell wasn't going to root for the Utah Jazz. I wasn't going to be on my watch.

I mean, I respected them. I respected Jerry Sloan a lot. Got to know him a little bit when he was coached the Jazz, but I wasn't going to be Team Utah Jazz. You are who you are. And maybe that things in California, you're going to have people moving from L.A. back to Houston and maybe people are doing that kind of thing. I get it. But to me, in this particular case,

I think you got a lot of show hey fans that are just like, you know what, I've got to go see the guy play. Because he is much. I am a diehard Astro fan before I'm anything else. So it's going to take somebody really special for me to go to another ball game and go sitting. I mean, you think I'm going to watch Kansas City versus San Diego play? Now, Petco Park's pretty cool, and I've never been to Kaufman before, so maybe this is a bad example. But you go because it's your team. And I'll tell you what, even though we have a lot of people that come in to our stadium, y'all has Astro fans travel really well, especially come summertime.

I think it's part of the reason why, frankly, the Astros have done pretty well, largely, in Boston over the last five or six years. Because every time I watch a game at Fenway Park this weekend, there were loads of Astro fans there. Not that y'all making a huge difference, but it does make some. we are just not like we're like most other cities but we're not like the cities

we want to be like we're not New York in Pittsburgh we're not New York and Chicago and L.A. We're Houston. We are who we are. And part of the acceptance is is that we do allow other fans to come in here

as long as you behave yourself is not a big issue although the fights are kind of fun to watch if you know what I'm saying. So if Houston fans, if we're going to jump on planes and go see the teams in other cities. I guess we've got to be at least somewhat respectful

to the Dodger fans, although it just feels like, again, there were just a lot of them, and I'll see it more firsthand tonight when I get to the ballpark. You see it. I don't want to say you were disgust because I don't want to put words in your mouth, but you were all struck by the number of Dodger fans. Would that be a fair comment?

Yeah, I was speechless. Like, I really didn't have that mindset. And you've gone to other Astro games where you don't see, like, Guardian's uniforms all over the place. Exactly. I was just like, whoa, like, the half the stadium was white and blue. Some of that is for Otani. Some of that is that we are bandwagon fans.

The Dodgers had lost 100 games last year as compared to winning 100 and winning a world series. Maybe things would be a little bit different. You know, as far as the a aster's concern, a ticket sold is a ticket sold, right? And I would not expect. Well, again, this is strange because it's May. It's the middle of the week. It's not L.A. people coming in. It shows you that it shows you that our town is not 100% into every single team on our town.

Dude, when I call Rocket Games, mid-week games against Golden State, there are 3,000 Steph Curry jerseys in there. It's not because they're Steph Curry fans. Well, maybe because they are because it's the greatest jump shooter of all time. Not because they're anti-Rockets. It's because they cling on to the wins. That's what it is. We have got to start figuring. We've got to start figuring ourselves out in 2026.

And the answer is this, we just like to be a bandwagon. We are more the norm. Because like, Boston fans pissed off because they're just team sucks. They fired their manager. The Yankees, they're good again. But there were a long stretch of time before Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams and all. They were terrible. But those are just the one-offs.

Go to Texans games. How many Matt Stafford jersey are you going to see? You think there's Ram fans in Houston? Oh, hell no. They're doing it because Matt Stafford's a great quarterback. They're not a lot. I mean, again, if all of a sudden the Charlotte, the Carolina Panthers were a hot team, we'd see thousands and thousands of Charlotte Panther uniforms.

Hell, I got a son. My oldest is a Bryce Young fan for some stupid reason. That's what it is. Jonathan, it's your fault. It's your generation's fault. Y'all are a bunch of bandwagoners. Stay with the local teams. You know, I can't even.

You can't argue. You cannot argue it. I'm definitely an outlier on my generation. I'm sticking with the teams that I represent. Yeah, you are a Charger fan. You're the only one. And I'll rep it. You are reping it.

And I can't. So you know what? I cannot crucify you for being a Charger fan because you do have L.A. connections. But that's the only one. Like, my folks are Dodger fans, all stuff. But I'm an Astros fan. You know, like, that's just. All right.

You know, so I'm saying. That feels fair. You and your Charger thirst. I can't help it. I can't help. It is weird. You and my buddy out are the only Charger fans I know. That's each his own.

All right. Final hour of the show, Bryce Matthews, in 35 minutes. You guys jump in and join us here. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790-12-157. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

101 on Sports Talk 7-0. We've got an hour left to go. Bryce Matthews is going to join us in 29 minutes or so. Believe it or not, today all things. Sinking a mile boy doing this show kind of solo. Thanks for Gordy for stepping in. You've helped out too doing, believe it or not, doing this, I got Astros on deck. I'm not getting paid enough here at the radio station.

Then you saying you missed Ross? No, I didn't say that. No, I do miss the Ross. It's good. We'll be back tomorrow to hang out. We've got a shorter show tomorrow between 10 and noon and then Astros on deck at 12. Oh, that's right. Hopefully celebrating an Astros victory on Sinko to Mayo.

I was thinking about giving you a Sinkin'amio question, but no, this is an easy, jeezing question. This is an easy day. Just go to Wikipedia. You can figure it out. Sink on a mile. I'm believing or not, that's the category today. 713212-570. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

We've not talked about Eme and Raffel's comments. We carried the press conference yesterday about 23 hours ago, so if you want to chime in anything they had to say about the future of the rockets, you may certainly do that. We have the Astros with Shohei Otani on the mound for the Dodgers in Game 2 of the series coming up tonight. We'll have that coverage. I'll have the on deck 6 o'clock here on 790. And we got a couple NBA playoff games.

Last night, the NBA had given us Minnesota versus San Antonio. And the Minnesota Timberwolves won that game. Last night, it was the Knicks destroying the Philadelphia 76ers. If you are so an NBA fan tonight's games, we'll have the Cavaliers and the Pistons and the Lakers and the Thunder. Jonathan, do you know the spread now on the Oklahoma City? Los Angeles game for tonight is? Do you know what it is by any chance?

12.5. 15 and a half. 15 and a half. So, not that anybody cares, but if you're a gambler, and if you partake and such, if you think the Lakers are going to win tonight, you're going to get six to one. You put $100 down the Lakers. You're going to get $600 back.

If you think the Thunder are going to win, you have to give the casino $900 in order to win $100. So I'll repeat that. You give the casino a hundred bucks and you say, I like the Lakers to win. You'll get six times your money back. If you go to the casino, which we don't have them here, make me sad. If you have the thunder winning the game, you must give the casino 900 in order to win 100.

50 and a half points. Cleveland, Detroit, by the way, the game before it, the pistons are favored by three and a half. Also, late yesterday, the Texans announcing that they're going to work with the rodeo to keep the stadium, whatever they're going to do with their future stadium with the refurbish reliant or build a new one or build something else. They're going to keep it in Harris County. Fort Bend, New, Brazilian, nah, Waller, Ne. Galveston County, eh. They're in the counties in this area? I don't think.

I think I've knocked them all about. So there you go. Keeping in Harris County. The reason why that's somewhat notable is because we've seen a couple of other teams. Kansas City, the chiefs are going to move apparently out of Missouri altogether go to Kansas, which obviously be a different county, and that the Chicago Bears are probably moving out of downtown Chicago to go to the suburbs would be a different county or maybe even move to a different state in Indiana. Just because they're saying they're staying in Harris County does not necessarily mean they are 100% satisfied,

ready to go with a refurbishment or a new stadium on the current reliant stadium site. 713-212-5-790. Derek is with us at 106 on 7-90. Derek, good afternoon. Thanks for holding. What's going on? Hey, man. How are you doing?

I'm okay. So I just wanted to call and back up Johnson. I went to the Astros game last night, and there was just way too many Dodger fans there. It was almost embarrassing. I sat in section 150, and had somehow managed to get the whole section of myself. but right there behind the bullpen next to me

it was just all blue and white and they were super loud they had chance going it was just yeah it was not good not good for us when you mean not good for us meaning are we embarrassed by it I mean every team's got I mean

especially when the team that's in out of town is in front don't they tend to typically brag about how things are going right yeah but I I mean, it's supposed to be Houston. We're not in L.A. Yeah, but if the Astros go, look.

There's a way to see me Dodgers fan. I don't think they're traveling fans. I got to tell you, we are a traveling fan. Do you not watch the Astros games? We travel every city. I went to L.A. years ago, and the Astros beat up the Dodgers, swept them in law or took two out of three in Los Angeles. And there were thousands of Houston fans yelling.

I think we do travel quite well, actually. Say what you about homestands, but road trips, every time I watch a game on Space City, there's always showing somebody there. Yeah. Well, I mean, these Dodgers fans last night, they see more local. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's fair.

Yeah, we've deduced that. But they're not local if the Dodgers are 70 and 90 every year. They're local because they've won a couple of World Series in the last couple of years, right? Yeah, I guess they did pay for those, yeah. Well, you know what, you know what, Derek did it? They deferred paid them. They haven't paid them yet. That's for sure.

They've deferred them. Yeah, they got them on loan. They got a layaway. The Layaway Dodgers, not the Los Angeles Dodgers. Thanks, Derek, for the phone call. I appreciate you listening. That's actually not bad. The Layaway Dodgers.

That was going to have a point. I'll get a minute. Ladies and gentlemen, here coming on the floor on the field. The layaway Dodgers. Kyle Tucker makes $1 million this year. And in 2053, he's going to make $29.3 million. And next year, he's going to make 37. Oh, it pisses me off.

Layaway Dodgers. I may have called that during the show today. on deck 6 o'clock the layaway Dodgers I'm gonna steal somebody's bit let's go to Sal in central Florida on 790 sound good afternoon to you hey Matt

all of this talk about all these Dodgers fans remember the old days in the dome when it used to be packed with Braves fans when they were the TNT darlings on TBS yeah the Cup fans would always come on when they were WGN they had a national fan base

again I think Sal we've been able to deduce this their Dodger fans and a not because they grew up watching Bill Russell play or watching Steve Garvey. They grew up watching because Freddie Freeman hit a home run to win a game of the World Series in game seven. You know what I mean? Yep, yep. They show up late and leave early also in L.A. That's true.

Anyway, would you agree that right now Correa is playing Gold Glove shortstop? You know, I don't think he's embarrassed himself. How about that? I mean, usually the gold gloves sometimes gets attached to what you do offensively, which isn't fair, as you know. But, yeah, I think for a guy that transition has played as much as he has, and I know that Joe has tried to get him off his feet at short, but there isn't anybody there to do that right now.

Yeah. See, this is my question. I think this infield they have right now is the best defensive infield they can put out there. And when Peña comes back, somebody's got to sit down. It's probably going to be parades. I'll give you a really radical idea, and I have not been drinking or anything. Are you sure about that? I'm not completely sure you haven't drinking. I am positive. I haven't been out in the sun much either.

Okay. What about paying you playing left field? Is that such a radical idea? It's too radical. Why would you take a guy that is your future shortstop and give him a new position? Well, I'm thinking he's going to walk after this next year. So wait a minute. Now, if you really want him to walk, if you really want him to walk, put him in left field. No, there's, you know, look,

no. The only reason I say that is I don't want to see Parades sit down. So what do you do? Well, unfortunately, though, Sal, it's kind of leveled itself out because guys can't stay healthy for a long period of time. I mean, I hate to say that, that maybe you need him around as an insurance policy, because here's the reality,

you probably need to get Jose Altuva off his feet occasionally. Paradeus has played a little bit of second base. do that. You need as much offensive firepower as you can but to move, to do it for Isak Predace, where he's probably going to be, he's no guarantee

to be here any longer than Jeremy Payne would be, so why are you trying to rock the boat with two different guys? No, I thought he was controllable for a little bit. He is, but I mean, but you're still got to figure out what you're going to keep him a long term or not. Yeah. And when Jake Myers

comes back, he's not going to, he's not going to play as long as you know, the guy in center field is doing a good job. Why would you put Jake Myers in there who doesn't hit worth a lick? Well, we've got to get it back out there. I mean, I think, and you can also, by the way,

move Bryce Matthews to second base once you get it too. So all these are like strange, they're all strange connection points. And I know none of them are optimum. But Prudis hit the ball well. He's going to be a guy that's going to get up a lot of playing time. And the reality is this, Sal, and I didn't want to bring this up for a second consecutive year.

But damn, this team is injury. It just is. And to think about making any moves or moving radical people around from position to position when you're just trying to field a healthy roster, it's tough enough as it is. Yeah. Okay. All right, Matt. Appreciate you.

Take your call. Good to hear from you, Sal. 212-790. Tom is with us in Victoria. Hi, Tom. Hey, how are you doing there? I'm okay. All right, so I'm 65 years old.

I grew up at Corpus Christi, moved to the Real Grandi Valley when I was. 25 and moved to Katie in 2012. Well, in Corpus Christi, 50 years ago, and the Real Grandi Valley, 40 years ago, there was no Astro baseball. They didn't play it on the local networks. They didn't play it on the radio. They played the Texas Rangers, and they played the Dallas Cowboys. And that's what we heard.

That's why we were those fans. And then when we moved up here, we were Texas Ranger fans, not Astro fans. Oh, like that? Okay. But honestly, Tom, you're sorry. 65 years old, that's not who was in the ballpark last night. There were not 65-year-olds up and down wearing Dodger gear. That was a younger group that was out there.

I look pretty good for 65. I never met you before. I can't judge you on that. Is that true? Are you sure you're good looking for 65? My mother said so. How old is she? 92.

Oh, good. Well, then age is working well for you guys then. Tom, thanks for the phone call. I appreciate it. I mean, there are some families that grew up. up being Dodger fans because the San Antonio 18th was there for a while and they're a fan. I mean, but that

that's so far in the past. Jonathan, what you saw last night at the ball yard were Shohei Otani Truthers, Freddie Freeman Truthers, Max, what's the guys in at third base? Muncie, I think. Yeah, that's who you saw.

You didn't see generational Dodger fan at Dyken Park yesterday. These type of fans, they even had the plastic World Series rings on them. Oh, no, they did not. Oh, that's terrible. That's terrible. Like, you know, show it in people's faces and everything.

I'm like, okay. All right. Now I'm sick to my stomach. Plastic ringwheres of games. Where they buy them all? You know, they bought them off of eBay. They weren't even there. They weren't even there.

They weren't even there. That's nuts. All right. Let's get to Bryce Matthews in 5th. 10 minutes. I've got those of you online, we'll get to you as well. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90.

Bryce Matthews in about 10 minutes. Believe it or not, all things about Cinco de Mayo here on 7-90. Let's go to Patrick West University on 7-90. Patrick, thanks for holding. Hey, what's up, guys? Hi. Going to beat the dead horse about so many daughters fans their life. It was awful, but whatever.

It's the 30-year-olds that are my age and Dodgers fans that are from Texas. Like, grow up, dude. Be a freaking Texas man. But anyway, I can understand Rangers. I just can't understand the Yankees and Dodgers if you're from Texas. It's just weird stuff to me. But, Tam Smith hit a ball last night that might have been the hardest hit ball I've ever seen it. It went foul.

It hit off the windows in the outfield in like the seventh or eighth inning. And my hot take is once you hit a certain age and have a certain amount of injuries, you should not be able to play shortstop anymore. That's it. Thanks, guys. Who don't you want, who's done with shortstop? You don't want Carlos Korea playing shortstop? He hung up.

Yeah, I think so. I got news for him. We don't have much option at this point. When Quinnia comes back, Korea goes back to third. I don't know if there's anything more simple we can say than that. And by the way, don't worry about his second produce. Joe's going to figure our way to get him in the lineup. He just is.

Play some second base. Get held to off his back feet. give Christian Walker Day off here and there. It's going to happen. Now, if the team was healthy and competing for a championship and needed an outfield arm or an outfield bad or an extra pitcher, then I would still kick the tires on moving him. But the asteros are not in that position right now.

The Astros are in zero position to be trying to move anybody from their active roster for a trade. In fact, honestly, if the team continues to play the way that they are and hopefully they will not, there'll be more sellers than buyers at the trade deadline. It can't be both, but you know I'm going to this. We haven't had that in these parts in a long period of time. I don't want to even think about it.

That's why what Gordy brought up earlier made a lot of sense. You got the Dodgers for two here at Cincinnati this weekend, and then you've got seven games against the Rangers and the Mariners in one week. That's going to help you determine largely where this team is going to be around Memorial Day. And then you got to start thinking about who you're going to move, if you're going to move anything, or you're back in the race. Thankfully, the American League, generally speaking, sucks, and the West is a team that two games above 500 that has a five game loan in the Astros.

It ain't over just yet. Richard, League City on 790. Richard, good afternoon. What's going on? Hey, Matt, long time. Good to hear your voice. Yeah, I wish it was 100%, but thank you very much. What's going on?

Yeah, so as a as a, as a, as a, as a, a rocket span first foremost and an astros fan second. My depression at the end of the season is still in full effect. So I'm seeing everything. Glass half empty, the world's looking pretty dark. Right. And so my comments may just be coming out of that. And if I'm still here next week, I'll be calling my sports therapist.

If Memorial Day, the Astros are still on this grind, what if we take Carlos Correa aside and Altuva aside and say, guys, you're going to be our senior statesman and we are entering the youth movement. And then we move every tradable asset that's not young and under contract for three or four or five years to restock our pond and bring some new blood in to support Hunter Brown. Aragetti and see what we can get from other teams. But that means trade Yordon. That means trade Pena. That means trade Walker and Paredes. Well, if you're doing all those things, you are basically saying this is a complete

rebuild coming up. Now, I don't like the chances of Jeremy Pena being the long-term shortstop. I don't like the long-term chances of Hunter Brown of being the long-term pitcher. Not because I don't appreciate them, not that I don't think there's tremendous value in them. the history, Richard, says the Astros don't keep their guys long term like that. And that's what it discourages me a little bit. So I'm not ready to make the trades right now, but I think the next season or so of offseason conversation with those two guys in particular will go a long way.

And if the Astros don't get a vibe that those two players want to play for the money they're willing to offer, they should absolutely talk about those two guys in the same breath as the Kyle Tucker trade. You're absolutely right. I can't argue that with you of that. I got a history on my side. All right, Richard. We'll keep it at that. Thanks for the phone call.

I don't think it was Richard. I don't know. Yeah, I'm not, look, I'll make sure I'm very clear on this. Jeremy Pena is the shortstop of the now. I'm not saying that Jeremy's shortstop, Jeremy Payne is going to be the next shortstop for the next seven or eight years. I'd be foolish to say that. These guys, they want these super mega deals.

Now, will the super super mega deals be around? whence baseball reorganizes the way it consumed its finance? Yeah, of course it could be. But I'm not ready to say that. But I'm telling you, when Jeremy Pena is back and healthy, he is back in the shortstop for this team for 2026. And Carlos Cray goes back to third base. And by way, you cannot trade Jeremy Paine right now.

There's no value for him. But you could see some moves if this team does go into a seller's mode. But you better get a major hall. And it would go basically during. directly opposite of what Jim Crane has said. As long as he's running things, he's open for business. Sometimes you don't want to say things like that because sometimes it just isn't always the truth.

I think the Hunter Brown slash Jeremy Pena Convo comes at the end of the season. I don't think either one of them get moved before the deadline. And you're on Alvarez too. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. You ain't moving. Not saying he's not going to finish his career as an astro, but it's currently under contract right now

it's the best value the Astros have. And there's just no way that they're going to have a complete fire sale for a team that's five games out of first place. Especially as sucky the American League West has been this year. Phil is with us on 790. Hello, Phil.

Hey, how's going? I'm all right. Yeah, I went to the game last night, he's a big holder. That was asking people as they were going down, you know, because I'm sitting at the top of the section. I'm like, hey, are you from L.A.?

Are you from L.A.? 90% of those people were from Houston. Yeah, I think that comes to zero surprise. I'm glad you call would say that. That's no surprise to me. Out of like 17 people, I asked, three of them were from L.A., and they showed me their ID because they were proud,

you know, that they were from L.A., but most of them, one guy even said, yeah, I'm an national fan, except when the Dodgers or Yankees come to town. I was like, get out of here, man. No, no, no, no, no. You can't do that. It's not good.

That's unexitable. If you're a Estonian, well, I'm a native Estonian, so I'm biased. I get that. But, I mean, I grew up. I bleed orange. I grew up with Astros. But if you're from Houston, support your local team is my opinion. Well, you know what?

You know what you can't do, Phil? If you're from Houston and you don't want to support the local team, I can live with that, but you can't have multiple teams. You can't be a while. I'm an Astro fan when it's convenient. I'm a Guardians fan when it's convenient. I'm excited about being a ranger. No, no, no.

Stick and stay with one team. That's my only thought. That's my only rule about fandom. I'll admit the Astros suck. But I'm still going to root for him, and I'm still going to support them. Yeah, we need you to do that. They'll come back around.

I hope so. We're spoiled. Seven years in the playoffs. Yeah, we're spoiled. We're spoiled. We still want on the win. And the reality is this, Phil, and I said this before,

now, things could change obviously a week from now. But if we're going to, if the Astros are going to suck this year, and they obviously have disappointed you all tremendously, this is the year to do it. you're five out. Things could change in a week. I don't know if it's going to, but it could. As compared to a lot of times when you are

well under 500, you're sitting here nine, ten games back, already thinking about next season already. And thankfully, we don't have to worry about that at least for now. All right, before we get to Bryce Matthews, quickly, CJ on 790. Hi, CJ. What's up, Matt, man. Can I just, earlier you was talking about the Astros, and I just got a couple of questions for you.

I just wanted to hear you back to. Sure. from me. Sure. I know we just talking about Joe. Can you tell me what exactly he does, that he's a great manager at, that he does? That's really great.

Well, I'll put it this way. This is my take about managers in baseball. It's easier to discuss their faults as compared to recognize their greatness. Honestly, their team psychologist, they take a roster that generous manager gives him and they organize the best roster spot. So I know where you're going with this, and that's fine. I can live with that. But tell me what another manager would do under the circumstance that Joe has been in

and present me a better baseball team. What fundamental problems do you see that Joe Espada does that cost his team? If you're going to say he misused his pitchers, everybody's misusing their pitchers because they have no pitchers. Absolutely right, because I can make a case that AJ Hitch would do way better with his roster. But I did that he has had bad pitcher issues. He's had his moments with pitchers in the World Series. So, I mean, I'm not going to go there too much.

But I just think as a whole, he doesn't do anything particularly well for him to still be in this position. I love AJ Hinch. There's nothing that he's done. I love A.J. Hinch, C.J. He's 18 and 18 with the Tigers, and he's lost Terrick Scouble for three months. Tell me he's going to, people are going to be running on him. They're probably going to say, well, he's not as good as manager. Well, you're not as good as a manager as your players are, right?

Very true, but we can also say that he's had better players than he has done less with more. Give me again, give me a player or a decision that you have gone, oh, my God, what the hell is he doing? That's what I want. Can you? I would think the biggest, like, oh, my God, moment for me with him would probably be last year. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We're talking about 2026, my brother. Okay, so we're not going to go.

He hasn't, it hasn't been enough game to be to credit. 2020, 2025, they tied to Detroit. In 2025, they tied for the Tigers for the final wild card spot with a injured list that went two pages deep. Tell me who's going to fix that. But he's still underachieve. Can we not? Underachieve. In what respect that he underachieve?

Tell me, you can't give me an example, can you? I can tell you that with the team, with the roster that he had. Yorna Mabor has played 40 games last year. I got to get to Bryce Matthews. CJ, I got to get to Bryce. I got a guest trimming up. Trust me. Nobody's perfect.

But look at the roster. Your triple crown threat hardly played in 2025. That usually gets people a little bit of grace. You still couldn't do it. You couldn't give me managerial dysfunction. How about moving the man of center field, Bryce Matthews, going to join us in 60 seconds here on 790. Our next guest is the pride of Ataskistina High School,

which is hard for me to say because Bryce Matthews, my daughter is about to graduate from Kingwood, and she never says anything nice about Ataskia except you. Bryce, how are you, my friend? I'm great. How are you? I'm fine. I'm fine. Hey, who is your favorite centerfielder growing up as you were a kid? Do you even have one?

I had a couple. It was Michael Born, George Springer, and Andrew McCutche, and then Adam Jones. Those are my favorite outfielder. And then you're the number five, all-time greatest centerfielder in history. Forgetting about Cesar Cedaino. I'm not going to forget that. Hey, hell of a weekend for you in Boston. What's it like playing in that stadium first and foremost?

And secondly, how much time are you still spending learning the new? nuances of every baseball field you go to when you're playing in the outfield? Well, first of all, thank you. It was fun. That's a historic place. The place I always wanted to play growing up. You see it on TV all the history of who's all played there and everything. But it's just every day you try to learn something new.

See the angles of the field, how the wall is playing. And it just goes back to just trying to be an athlete and just go make play. is whenever the ball is in the air. So how do you feel about Dyken Park after a handful of tries? It's like a hold home for you now, correct? Yeah, it's nice. I like it. I kind of understand where the ball is going to, like, travel a lot more

and center field, like, straight back. It's not going to go as far. And then left center and right center, the ball's going to travel a bit more. So it's just making the right read, getting a good jump, and just go and try to get the ball. Hey Bryce, you are trying to work your way into a major league roster for the full time and grinding it out. And I know how important it is for you.

Take me through your conversations about the infield play initially. And then Joe saying, look, we need you. We've got an open spot in the outfield. And what steps you took once you knew that your play would be primarily as a defender on the outfield at this point? Honestly, it just goes back to the preparation. I'm being ready for anything. I told them whenever the team needed, I was there to help,

there to be available. So I'm just going out there, preparing myself each and every day, whether that's on the infield or the outfield, just get my refs in. If I was in left or center, same thing. Just making sure I was mentally

and physically prepared every day. How much did you play in high school? And when you were playing, go like the Little League days. Were you bouncing around all parts of the infield and outfield? Or was just something that you thought would be something to be more of a process for you when you got to professional baseball? Yeah, I mean, when I was younger, my dad made it a good point for me to know how to play every position.

And the best ability is availability. And that's a really big thing for him. And so I played at pretty much every position growing up. And then it kept going. I was more like shortstop, second base in middle school. And then in high school, when I was like my sophomore year, I played a little bit outfield in third base. And then my junior year, I was the utility guy.

So I play right, center, left, third, short, and second. And in my senior, I was a shortstop. Yeah, that's smart that he was able to do that. Bryce Matthews, our guest with us on Sports Talk 790. The bat, how do you feel about the bat at this point? What are the nuances? You're getting a steady diet of majorly pitching every day as compared to going back and forth between here in Sugarland.

Where do you see your bat progressing? What do you still want to see done here as you get the most of your opportunities to play? Yeah, I feel like I've been having good at bats all season. Just missing some pitches where I feel like I should have missed, but that's baseball. We're just steady competing in the box, just trying to make more contact.

and I feel like if I put the barrel on the ball, good things are going to happen. So not trying to swing too hard, just put the barrel on the ball, and I think good things will happen for me. Got a few new different eyes and ears looking at you in the batting cage and in the video room. What's that been like to get a different set of folks looking at the way that you swing and you perform offensively? It's cool. I mean, just to have great coaches around, we had great coaches last year with SNET,

and, um, thing, I'm blinking on his name. That's fine. That's all right. You got guys. What, with our hitting coaches and then with Big Dan and Posi, it's a lot with, uh, with the mental side of the game. And just trying to, trying to be a complete hitter, complete player. And, um, just understanding who I'm facing during the day. Um, what, what is my plan going into that bats and just trying to, uh, have good at bats and compete and just pass the bat to the next guy.

Well, how about this? You're going to see Shohei Otani. Have you ever faced him before? No, it's going to be the first time. What advice have you been given, or any at all? None so far. I mean, it's going to try to do, like you were saying with Yamamoto yesterday, show up, just compete, like, be ready to go.

I'm going to have our plan of attack and try to stick with it. Yeah, just have a good plan and stick to my approach and try to give it. him. All right. Far let you go. You did get your retired number over in the offseason in Tasca Cicita. Who else has been retired besides you? Anybody you know? So my right tackle,

King and Green, my literally coach's son, which is like a family friend, Patrick Taylor, who he's on the 49ers. Samuel Cosme. Patrick's sister, Nadia, who is someone I hit with

during the offseason a lot. Nice. And then Carson Edwards, he's he is playing basketball in Germany, right? Yeah, overseas, that's right, yeah. All right, well, I wish you nothing but the very best.

Again, we are so happy that you're these grabs you're making in center field. I mean, are you building a YouTube page off of these great grabs or is that somebody else's responsibility? I just kind of like watching at the end of the day. I have them send me

the catch. and see how hard to play it was. I think that's the best thing in the end. Just try to make the pitchers happy, you know. Make good plays for them. They work so hard. And it's a team. Like, we're trying to win ball games and try to play together, man.

But anything I could do to save a – to take away a hit, take away runs, I'm there. Well, I like that attitude. Bryce, thank you for the time. Congratulations on the opportunity you're being given right now. Keep it going. and most importantly, stay healthy. That infirmary list continues to grow up by the days, unfortunately. 100%.

100%. Yeah. It's crazy, man. Thanks, Bryce, for joining us. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Have a good. That's Bryce Matthews joining us here on the Matt Thomas show at Ross, and we thank you for spending a few minutes of his time with us here today.

Getting ready for the game two as he will face show Hayotani for the very first time. Let's go to quickly Joe on the Heights on 790. Joe, good afternoon. Thanks for holding what's going on. Not much, Matt. You know, one of the things that I don't think you're talking about, next year it's going to be a strike. Yep.

And there is going to be a hard cap in the next two years. So a lot of the players that we think we may lose, we may not lose because the exorbitant salaries that are out there with the Dodgers and Yankees and all Mets, I don't think they're going to be there in two years. I think it's going to level out. Well, the crazy thing is, here's the thing crazy. thing Joe is, is that you got the Dodgers, you have the Mets, you have the Yankees that want a

salary cap because they're going to be like, hey, we've spent all we can. We can't spend any more. They want to kind of control themselves, and a salary cap would do that, which is then going to force other teams to say, well, we can't spend like other teams. Well, if those other teams have already overspent, if there indeed is some sort of salary cap, that is going to help some of the second-tier teams. And maybe the Astros can be part of that. Now, the question is going to be ultimately, Joe, will they get a, how hard of a salary cap will it be? You know, maybe I'll talk right now. Yeah, if you do it like the basketball and football does, I think it does a great job.

When you have a base that you've got to spend at least X 180 million and a max of 240 million so that the guys like Oakland, Kansas City, all of those guys have to pony up to 160, 170 million. And so really the players aren't going to lose any money. It's just going to be spread out a little bit more evenly. Well, they're worried about it, though, because if there's not a floor, there's going to be an issue. Thank you for the phone call. I appreciate it very much. 713212-5-790.

I don't know what's going to happen with the cap. If there's going to be a hard cap, a soft cap, a no cap. I just don't think everybody's on the same page. That's we're all kind of preparing for it, sadly. All right, let's play, believe it or not next. It is all things about Cinco de Mayo. 143 on Sports Talk 790. If you would like to play, believe it or not,

713, 212-5-790, 7-13-212-5-7-90. Nothing but nylon. Damn you, Craig. By the way, thanks for y'all for coming in today. As I said, I'm battling laryngitis. It's an allergy thing. Jonathan, tell the audience how great I look. Oh, yeah.

Okay, a little flex, okay, okay. So I'm trying these steroids And I don't know if they're going to work or not But y'all have come through We don't always agree on stuff My man was it CJ that called I kept asking to tell me Give me some managerial

Disgrace that Joe's done Now look I want to make sure I'm very clear If the Astros fall 7, 8, 9, 10 games under 5 out of first place in a team that's in a division that's 5 Joe's probably in major trouble. I'm not naive to that. But I have my opinion.

You guys have yours. My opinion is that there's another manager in baseball that could do this thing called injuries and 4A pitchers not stepping up. That would make all of a sudden this Astro team better with a different manager. I mean, I love Omar Lopez. Did a great shot for WBC. My opinion. Took an allergy pill second ago.

Stand by. In your opinion, as you said? My opinion. Angle move the needle. Lo perfeito. Myers. Pena. Starting rotation of either hurt or disappointment.

I mean, come on. Diaz now on the injure list. Cesar Salazar. Look, if you all are, I know you're a lot of Christian Vazquez, lovers out there right now, you're going to get a steady eye to him. I told you, Christian Vosquez serves a role in his baseball team. Playing six days a week ain't in it. It's not.

You're going to see it. Thank God for Yordon. Thank God for Christian Walker. Thank God that Paredes his bat's going. A little bit of cam, a little bit of Bryce. Correa isn't okay. Tupis has dropped a little bit. I'm giving you, in my opinion, again, it's just mine.

logical deduction and analysis as to why this team is where it's at. It's not underachieving. It's not equipped to be a good team right now. And maybe if Hunter Brown comes back, maybe we get paying you back soon. I'm tired. I'm tired of soon. I hate that term sooner rather than later. Ah, screw that phrase.

Get them on the field. Then we can start really evaluating whether or not this front office and this managerial staff can leave this team for the future. but this is not this is half a round rock here not run rock uh sugarland here i mean come on i sound like i sound like i sound like i'm a joe biden come on hey man come on no kidding i mean you got no disrespect to peter lambert god i hope he throws bs tonight but peter lambert against showy o'tony that's that wasn't on the scorecard for me in 2006. Hunter Brown versus show hey, absolutely. Christian Javier. Maybe sure why not.

Now, if you want to criticize them not bringing up Spencera Reddy sooner, well, okay, fine, but again, they were looking to stretch him out. They wanted to bring him up, so it ends up running back and forth between the two cities. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? Oh, I still got it. Let's play America's fastest growing sports radio game show we simply call it believe it or not and here's how it works you call 713 212 570 719 7 1 3212 570 today's edition of believe it not is all things about sinking a mile i'll read your statement about sinking a mile statement is completely utterly accurate you'll say this believe it if the statement is erroneous football come made up you will say this to believe or not to win you a

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