The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Lose Game 1 vs White Sox, Texans Mini Camp Day 2, NBA Finals Game 3 Tonight!

Episode Date: June 11, 2025

Astros Lose Game 1 vs White Sox, Texans Mini Camp Day 2, NBA Finals Game 3 Tonight! 

H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross, right here on your home of the Astros and the Rockets and the Texas Longhorns. Sports Talk 790. With Ross, I'm Matt. Our producer is Jonathan, and we are with you today until 2 o'clock. Where today we will get into a deep dive of the Astros set back to the Chicago White Sox last night. Not one, not two, but three double plays. one for six, I want to say, runners in scoring position. Nine hits compared to four for the Chicago White Sox. And unfortunately, Lance McCullors did not get you that third consecutive quality start.

Five innings, four runs, four walks. He was just one off each way. One more inning, one fewer run. We're almost there. That's like telling a fat guy, if you were thinner and out of hair, he'd be a better looking guy. Yeah, he would be, probably. I'm on talking about him. I mean, I think Lance is doing okay for himself.

It's close to quality. It was a half quality start. I mean, I'll give them credit for getting to the five innings. Quality adjacent. So basically you're creating a new metric. Yes, I am. All right, that's... So basically a Ross quality start is significantly different than the rest of us having a quality start.

Exactly, because my quality is normally a notch below everyone else's. Well, it's funny because, and I'll give this as a terrible parallel, when you see a girl in Houston, Texas, we will grade her a certain number. Okay. We have that number, and then we have what we call a road number. Numbers go up on the road. Yeah, you get a little bit more of a, how would you say, a boost, a grade on a curve? Buffers? Well, you would want a buffer, wouldn't you?

So a Houston 6 might be a road 8. Yeah, I don't think this works for quality start because he's at home, but you're trying, Matt. I'm trying. Out of the gates. I'm just going right to the analogies right away. All right. On the radio program today, we will have an update on what's going on over at Texans minicamp. It is the second final day of that before training camp starts late next month.

We have an update from the NBA finals, our friend Vanessa Richardson from Space City and now working for ESPN this series. She's doing a, I think it's called Hoop Streams, I think is what they call it. Okay. What is that? It's like a pregame to the pregame show. Okay. And her and Amman Shumperter have been on doing on an ESPN Plus. Rockets Legend?

Rockets, Legend, Amman Shumper. Number of words I said to Amman Shumpert as a Houston Rocket. Ah, hello. Hello. Three hellos. I'm going to put it at the over under of three. Did I go over that number or under? Okay.

How about a number of words that weren't high or hello? Greetings. I'll go 0.5 and I'll go under. I would say if you put the words hello, goodbye, how are you in there? There would still be zero. Okay. I don't think I spoke to him. Well, that's rude.

He's a nice guy. I'm sure Vanessa will brag about him quite a bit when she should joins us later today. Brian Bogus Evers is going to join us at about 55 minutes from now. Yes, he is. Give us a little Astros update. He was working the presentation of Astros baseball last night with my friend Shelby over there on Space City.

And we have shut your bum ass up and ain't nobody got time for that. I have something at 1130 that is affecting my trip to Las Vegas tomorrow. That isn't nobody got time for that. You said all this hair and dust? No. Is that in Vegas too? I don't know if it's

in Vegas or not. It's not even the weather. The weather is not going to be great today, but I think they were forecasting doom and gloom all day long. I think it's going to be cleared by two or three o'clock this afternoon. Thank God. Yeah, but yeah, something is going on with my trip to Vegas that I'm not happy about and I'm going to have to call out a particular company. But of course, rhyming because I don't spend money with us. Okay. I think if you're negative, you don't have to rhyme.

Okay, then I want to be negative then. Unless you want to go to the all press is good press card. Well, whatever, we'll figure it out. And we believe it or not today at, am I going to do Dead or Live on Believe it? You said you were. I mean, I'll do it today. That's my, that's my contribution to the show. You know what's funny?

I've been writing, I keep a document that I look at every day for the show. I have been writing down names that I think would be good for alive or dead. Do you want to give them to you? Please do. But that way you can't throw them to me. No, I won't throw them to you today. Okay. Yeah, but if they're good names, let's do that.

713-1-2-5-790. If you'd like to be a part of the radio program today, 7-1-3-2-7-90, our lines are open. I also have to attack on shut you up a mess up. There's a, you know the guy, the guy Christian that called, the show that calls me a horrible Houston Cougar fan. Yes. So I blocked him on Facebook. Yes. I've blocked him on

Twitter. He can't call the show anymore here. And now he's crushing me on the Cougan message board. What? I mean, it's like he's got a person. So you're like me. It's crushing you on, what is it? Cougars or Shagg fans or something like that.

Shast is Dinn? I'm like, I didn't even know about it until a friend of mine said, who is this guy? Why is he attacking him? Because I said, I think he's probably clinically arranged. Yeah. I want to keep that guy in arm's length, Matt. Well, I have done everything I can. Mm-hmm.

But, I mean, to not call me a real cougar is, because I went to, he went on the post and said, well, Matt went to North Texas his freshman year. I got news for you. About 80% of people that go to the University of Houston and get their degree started somewhere else. Why does that disqualify you from being a cougars fan? That's so stupid. You went to the school. Your degree says University of Houston. You took the classes.

You bribed your professors there. You've been on campus. Yes. You've been calling their games football, basketball, etc. over the years. I went from, I took a red eye on my own dime to fly to San Antonio. You know what? I'm signing up for Coogs. Send me the link.

I'm signing up for Coogsfans.net. And if I get attacked, that's fine. I've got to come after this guy. I'm happy for you. Thank you for having my defense on that. All right. Well, that guy's a jackass. It's just, I mean, life's too short to be just an a-hole.

Well, some people disagree. But I agree with you, but a lot of people disagree. Yeah, I guess life isn't too short to do that. Astros fall again last night by a final score of four to two. Lance McCuller suffers the loss. He's now one and two on the year. Shane Smith is even with the league now with getting the victory last night. Who? Shane Smith.

That's made up. By the way. The freaking white socks. I mean, come on. The white socks have 23 wins this year. Don't even say it. Oh, dear, dear. Go ahead.

Three them against the Astros. They're three and one against the Astros, correct? Three and one, that's right. Now, let me just put it this way. There are some teams that you just don't compete well against, either because of matchups, or it just happens to be the crazy sport that is baseball. I can remember a couple of years ago, Rossi, help me out with this,

there was a homestand where the Astros, had Kansas City and Oakland. It might have been the year where they were just 41 and 41 in home. Or 40 and 40. 23. Yeah, whatever it was. And it was like they're going to get fat and happy. They're going to get above 500.

This whole bit about them not winning at home. And I believe, again, I'm just throwing this up there. I think maybe the Astros went one in six during that stretch. Something like that. You remember the good. I know what you're talking about. It was something horrible. So I don't think it's that the White Sox had the Astros number.

I just think sometimes you just run into series matchups that for some reason just because of the fact that somebody's due for a poor performance or you've traveled a lot, had a lot of games. There really is no rhyme and reason because in theory you would think if the Astros played the Chicago White Sox a hundred times, the Astros would win many more of them, 75, 80 percent of them. Well, it just happens to be the first four times they've played. the White Sox have won three of the four. Yeah, it doesn't make it hurt any less. There is good news because the Diamondbacks destroyed the Mariners last night. The Astros have a three-game lead still into the American League West. I mean, in the 8th, you get the bases loaded with no out.

And you get one run out of it. And Rossi, three. I mean, can a corn devil plays? I mean, there was no unbelievable grab or base running yet. It was just a good old-fashioned 6-4-3. Yeah, Taylor-made double plays. One for six with runners in scoring position.

Seven left on base and you lose by two. Yeah. All right, so we've got to get that today. We've got the NBA game number three. The NBA Finals are finally playing a game. We'll check him with Vanessa in a couple hours on that. We have a Texas minicamp. We have a listing of the worst stadiums in Major League Baseball.

Uh-oh. We'll go through that. And when we return, the New York Knicks, may be botching their coaching. I mean, maybe. They're definitely botching their coaching search. We'll discuss that a moment. If you'd like to be a part of the radio program, 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790.

With Ross, I'm Matt. 7-13-212-5-7-90. 1019. Good morning. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We are with you today until 2 o'clock. 713-212-5-790 if you'd like to join the radio program 7-1-3-212 5-790 is the Astros drop 1-4-2. Texans are back on the practice field as we speak. My guess is there in the bubble because the weather is not spectacular right now.

In fact, yes, I'm watching. Jonathan Alexander reporting the Jalen-No-L, one of the early Texans draft picks, wide receiver, is not practicing today. He has been out since the last day of OTAs last week. Hmm. Okay. C.J. Stroud is still throwing. That's good. That's good.

That's a gut feeling. I don't think I put on the gut feelings, but I didn't think he was going to throw it today, so that he is throwing. Yeah. He's ready to roll, Maddie. He's ready for game one of the season at the Los Angeles Rams. Yes. Huge. I do want to go to that stadium. Why? So far?

Yeah. That whole area is crazy. It'll be half empty, and then the half that it's full is with Texans fans. I was going to say, if you want to go to a road game, you got two shots to go to LA this year and tickets won't be an issue for either one. Probably my guess will be easier to get your charger tickets than the Rams. Because the Rams have a pretty good following still in LA. I just don't stay in downtown L.A.

Oh my God, what a mess down there right now. You know, it's funny, all the years I've been calling rockets, we've never stayed downtown L.A. We've either stayed in Beverly Hills or Marina del Rey. Where is Staples? Downtown. Okay. I didn't know that. Or I'm sorry, what is it, whatever it's called now.

Yeah, crypto.com. Ripto rot rom. Marina Delray? Beautiful. No, it's great. I mean, unbelievable. Very nice. Very boogie.

Well, until you stay in Beverly Hills and then it trumps that boo, that's the ultimate boogie. Is that the ultimate boogie in the country, you think, Beverly Hills? For me, yes. I'd I tell you about when I was trying to buy a pair of socks when I was there. And they're $40 or something like that? Yeah, and I went to go get them at a drugstore. They had the Hershey Kisses logo on them and they were $13.

Like, I'll just take those. But yeah, I mean, I almost did a double take. I had to go to the Rax Smith Mavineau, and it was like $44 for a pair of socks. Oh, they might have been really comfy. I'm sure they were wonderful. You get a per diem. Yeah, but I don't want to spend half my per diem on a pair of socks. A lot of times you spend stuff on designer stuff, and it didn't last longer.

I don't doubt that. More durable. I just wasn't prepared to do it. It's not like your mood of the moon socks that fall apart after six wears. I do. So I called every drugstore in the area. Like, no, we don't care of sucks. You called every drugstore?

Yeah, I pulled an Indie Caloo. Oh, wow. That's interesting. And here's the thing. There's no marshals. There's no T.J. Max. There's no Rej. There's no Rej.

Racks. None of that in there. That's unfortunate. So, yeah, it is, of all the places we go, the most that you feel like you are not in your real world would be Beverly Hills, for sure. Okay. All right. Oh, let me get until we were talking about the NBA.

So the next fired Tom Thibito after his team lost in the Eastern Conference finals to Indiana. Yes. And said that we're going to find a coach that's going to get us over the hump. Correct. So it's... What they did, Ross, is they broke up with their girlfriend who's a seven, okay? Stay with me on this.

Because they went to go get nines and tens. Yes. Who were all had boyfriends. Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah, they went to go after people who, were already attached. Correct.

Minnesota has Chris Finch. The Knicks asked for permission to that. Minnesota said, shut your bum ass up. The Knicks asked for the Rockets to talk to E. Medoca. The Rockets said shut your bum ass up. And apparently, the Jason

kid stuff is about to come to it head, and pretty soon Dallas is going to tell them if they haven't already to shut their bum ass up. I don't think you're the Maverick you can afford to possibly let Jason Kid go. Because that would be mean you just have completely lost the infrastructure of your franchise. You've already got a general manager who's on the hot seat.

Why would you get rid of a coach who, first of all, was beloved as a player there, and it's been a very good coach for the Mavericks? Would it take, it would be draft compensation? How would this work out? Can they let them out of the deal? I don't. I have no answer to that. I'm trying to remember.

Was kids still under contract with the Bucks when he went to the Nets as a coach? I thought it was other direction. Was it the other way around? Yeah. I thought it was a Nets coach very first. Okay. Yeah. Maybe you're right. I'm trying to, I can't remember.

But point being is this, if you're going, if you're going to make that move, I get it. If there is somebody that's out of work that you think, like, for instance, if you think Michael Malone who was firing in Denver is the answer, then you go get Michael Malone. If you think there's some assistant on your staff that you think is the cat's meow, you go get that guy. But why would you, and this is not just talking about the, the Knicks, this is any organization. If your foundation of trying to replace a coach for any particular team is involving going to get successful coaches elsewhere who have shown no indication they wanted to go there, that's the absolute worst way to go for higher replacement.

Well, maybe they're just shooting for the moon. They had the seven, they broke up. So yeah, they're chasing the nines and tens, and they just might end up with another seven. Let me tell you right now, if they end up with a seven, that's going to be a win. My guess is whoever the coach is going to be, it's going to be something of very underwhelming nature. Now, I have to preface one of those things.

I personally know someone that is going to be applying for that job. So if that person gets the job, I will congratulate him. But I know the national perception of this person in his job will be not spectacular. Sham says that the MAVs have rejected the Knicks. Yeah, as I'm saying, I think it said this morning they just came out. So that's why I'm saying, you've Jason Kidd, they're saying no. E. Mae Doka, the Rockets have said no, and Chris Finch

in Minnesota has said no. It's just... I mean, I guess you get... The worst it could happen is they tell you no, and then now you move on to other candidates. But you're replacing Tom Thibito, who got you the Eastern Finals. Yeah. We're probably somebody... Why, he respected, multiple-time coach of the year. I mean, he's grumpy.

He doesn't ever use his bench. But, I mean, it's... It's not like they were for one and down in the playoffs. They got to the final for the NBA. Again, sometimes you have to be really blessed to have great ownership. And the Knicks have been chasing that great ownership for a very long time. You can, there's always this disease of more in sports. And the pursuit of a championship is important and all this stuff.

But it's crazy this day and age. Nobody trusts the process for the most part. I mean, I think the rockets are going to trust the process. I think they're an outlier. I mean, we'll see what happens with Kevin Duran. If he ends up in a Houston rocket uniform, then they won't be that outlier than a lot wider. talking about. But it is just always, I mean, one out of 30 teams, we are seeing way to

win the championship. We are seeing way too many coaches in sports, either A getting super short leash or unless you win it all, you're done. Yeah, I mean, we went through the list. I think you might have been out when, no, you were here when the Tibbs news came down. But then we went through like the coach of the year, the recent, okay, Akkison-Dajun are the last two coaches of the year. Mark Dagnol. Yeah. I'm a Dagonal. Yeah. I always call it. I always do the off gym. Designol sounds really good. Designal. He's from Palina.

Dejeanour. Dejean. Okay, before that, Mike Brown. Out. Monti Williams. Out. Tom Thibito. Out.

Nick Nurse. Out. Mike Bootenholster. Out. Dwayne Cacey. Out. And then Mike Dantony's back to the rock. So we're talking about years and years and years of this most recently stuff.

This is crazy. It is crazy. You win coach of the year. You almost don't want to accept the award. Right. I'm good. I don't want to be coach of the year. I'm also feel the same way about guys getting the hook too quick.

We got college coaches being fired for two years. I know. You have to, in college athletics, in college football, you have to build a program. Absolutely. Programs cannot. Now, maybe they're thinking because of NIL and the transfer portal, it should take you a faster amount of time. You should whip it up quicker, but. There's no issues.

Athletic directors and university presidents are saying, you've been given two things that coaches 20 years ago can't use any, can't have, not at their disposal. You need to get it done faster. Even when the portal went free-for-all, before that, coaches are getting fired after one or two years. And I always bring this up. Matt Brown, his first in at North Carolina, his first two years, he went one in ten. Both years. One in ten and then one in ten. If that happens now, he's fired.

Yes. And then he maybe never brings North Carolina up to their heights and then never ends up in Texas. Yeah, that's the one thing I'm very happy about is that I feel like in my school, Willie Fritz is in a such spot where he doesn't, I mean, look, we'd like to get to fire. This year we'd like to get back to a bowl game. But I don't feel like there's this insane pressure to do that because when you do that, you put a lot of pressure on a coach. And more times than not, you're going to be disappointed by it. Putting these false names.

Like when Renu Kutour told the world that we fire coaches for not winning 10 games, I mean, that was the fate of complete for him. That was like five coaches ago. That was when they fired Major Applewhite, right? Yeah. Did a longhorn? legend dirty. You of age. Hey, I'm team Applewhite. Me too. I've been team Applewhite since 2001. I was too. I thought Chris Sims was kind of a pompous ass. I can I can gravitate and relate to

major Applewhite much more I ever could get Chris Sims for sure. All right. 1028 it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We've got Brian Bogussev coming up in one half hour from now. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-7-90. is on your mind. If you've got a couple of things we'd like to hear from you. A, Astros' performance against the White Sox last night. B, we've got Switzerland kicking the crap out of Team USA

and soccer yesterday. Not great. C, what intrigues you about Texans minicamp, if anything does at all. D, the NBA finals. And we have a list of the best and worst ballparks in Major League Baseball. All between now and two o'clock here on Sports Talk 790

at 713-212. 5.790. Brian Bogussevik in 25 minutes. Lauren Shihadi looks spectacular today, per usual. On MLB Network. I've got to turn this off. She's keeping you distracted. Yeah, that's the gods on is true. I mean, I could lie to you, but why it would be the point. Oh, my gosh. Transparency is back again.

Yeah, we appreciate that. I mean, there's nothing put on on sports on 10.30 in the morning. Except does. Yeah, well, of course. Well, of course. well, Space City Hill Network won't put us on, but that's okay. We couldn't do some of the things we want to do on this show. That's true. If we were on TV. Yeah, but at least my grandma would be proud of me.

So if they loosened up the purse strings a little bit and didn't have some parameters we'd have to meet, we'd be in much better shape. Like 90% of the music, we couldn't play on the show. 95% probably. That's true. All right. Plus, we are handsome enough as it is. Come see us in person.

We got to do some shows. got to replay on, so that's fine. Is it really? That's what it is? Yikes. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We go to, is that bowling? That can't be right.

Bowling Green? Robbie, where are you calling us from? I'm calling from Bowling, Texas, actually, right down here by Wharton. I've never heard of Bowling, Texas. Thanks for telling us. What's the population? Yeah, you know, we're little. Well, based on football numbers, we're a three.

A high school. Nice. That might help you out. Okay. What's the most exciting thing to do in Bowling, Texas? Uh, leave. Yes. You know, go to, go to a different town.

All right. That's a very good line, Ronnie. I applaud you for that friend. Thank you. Hey, I wanted to talk about the Texans a little bit, the backfield situation. Yeah. Now, this new offense, you know, I don't, I'm not sure. It's more of a power scheme, right?

That's my understanding, or is it just, still is still the zone type stuff? Because the one thing, the one thing that bothers me, if it is more of a power scheme, that seems up Pierce's alley right there to me. I know he's not a good cutback

guy. I'm still kind of a kind of still a Damian Pierce apologist even with the room that we have right now. I understand. I have a terrible news for you, Robbie. I don't think he's going to be on his football team come fall. Nick Cayley is supposed to do both, by the way. I mean, when he was hired, they

they talked about zone and power running and stuff like that because obviously with the Shanahan tree with the what was his name? The previous offensive coordinator got fired. It was all a lot of zone stuff and there was kind of a square peg into a round hole with Damien Pierce. But Kaylee says he's going to do both. Yeah, the reality is you took a fourth round pick on a guy in Woody Marks who you think is going to be able to contribute right away. You went and got Nick Chubb

in early June and you got Joe Mixon coming off a thousand yard season. I think it's a numbers game. I'm not, saying that Damien Pierce's career is over with, I just think it's a situation where there's probably one, too many guys in the room. Bobby Slovak, I couldn't come up with his name. Yeah, I got you. And what's going on with Christian Walker? Is he ever going to

hit again? That is a great... By the way, what a great segue on your part. That's a million dollar question. You know, and here's a thing, Robbie, and thank you for the phone call. We appreciate you listening. I'm team Christian Walker because and I this is probably terribly biased but eloquent guy willing to talk say some things you value that you value the fact that he has a track record of hitting 20 plus home runs each and every year

you have a track he's got a track record of three consecutive gold gloves at first base but man it's just it's just not jiving it's just not yeah Dana Brown mentioned this when he was on the Sean Talsbury show which he joins Wednesdays at 930 a a little bit of bad batted ball luck, but that's, it's not a ton. And you tell me if I'm getting too deep in the numbers weeds, Matt, but batting average balls in play, it can be, you know, like for example, Jake Myers, right? He put four balls in play and got four hits. How many did he really probably deserve off that contact?

Well, they were all four of them were all soft contact. Right. So that's very good batted ball luck. Sometimes it can go bad. So in first career, he's got two hits, 282 on batted balls. Right now he's hitting 260. That's a little low, but that's not crazy. That's not like totally out of the realm of possibility.

That isn't sure up for all the bad and bats that he's been having. Can I give you a dumb-down approach that I use? I mean, you know, you tell me about what the percentage is off the bat, right? Yes. But if teams defend and have scouting reports, which they do, they place their players in positions where they have Christian Walker's got a history of hitting the baseball. This could be fair any player. So that's why to me this whole thing about

the contact and the What do they call it? When it's 106.7 Oh, the exit velo. Exit Velo. To me, means nothing because I'd rather have Jake Myers soft hitting 68.7 and hitting him where they ain't as compared to, well, I know who

Christian Walker is. I know he's a power hiter. I know he doesn't hit. He hits left of second base, 99 times out of 100. I'm going to position my player as the best way I can. And if he hits it hard, I don't care. It's selling out. Well, it's like any number. It's about context. You would rather have Tony Gwynn hitting him where he ain't because he can control the baseball a little bit better. Jake Myers is going up there.

It's not like Jake Myers is manipulating the baseball and he's like one of the all-time great hits. But I don't need Jake Myers swinging out of his shoes, though, is my point. But if you get 100 guys with the highest exit Velos and 100 guys who don't, I mean, the 100 guys with the highest X Vilos are going to have the best, are going to be the best hitters. You would think in theory they would be the power guys. For example, but that's also just, I mean, he just hit long. line drives and keep hitting line drives and keep hitting him in high exit velas. If you look at the leader board of exit velo every year, it's generally

around the best hitters in baseball. Like Aaron Judge up there basically every year. I think O'Neill Cruz is leading it this year. But isn't a lot of that because they're just professional hitters. I mean, when you are a superstar hitter, you're going to have high exit velo. Yes. So yeah, there's a positive

correlation. But I'm talking, but we don't, we're not putting Christian Walker in that particular category. We're putting him in the mid-range. He's a mid-level, major league player right now. Yes. That I think is being defended properly. So for anybody, I'm not saying you in particular, for you to say, well, his exit Velo is amazing right now. It's not, it doesn't translate.

Where Aaron Judge's Exit Velo, to me, is going to mean a lot more because I know he is a sprayer of the ball. He's got a, he right now, as we speak, has a better track record of getting on base and hitting home runs than Christian Walker does. Well, yeah, he's a better hitter than Christian Walker. But also, I mean, it's the years, he's relative to the years in the past, his numbers are down talking about batted luck. And they were defending him the same way in years past. It's not like all of a sudden people just started defending in a different way. Badded ball numbers did go up when they got rid of the shift slightly.

But it doesn't matter which way you slice it and what you're looking at. Christian Walker is having a bad season. I mean, and I know that the easy narrative is he's Jose O'Brien 2.0. I'm not going to put him in that category, but he's closer to Jose Ibrahim, than he is to Yule Gouriel. I mean, we're in June now. I mean, the sample size is there. I mean, he's, like I said, if he got to 215 in his batting average, that would mean he's had some sort of spark. Because right now, he entered the game yesterday with a batting average of 207.

He's having some bad luck. I know you don't want to hear XBA, but he's underperforming his XBA. but also other things are bad for him. His strikeout percentages are way up. His walk percentages are way down. I mean, strikeout numbers. I think it's a little bit of bad luck, but it's also just bad plate appearances

and perhaps pressing, still pressing too much. Well, whatever it is, and here's the general audience. The audience doesn't want to get in the weeds of that. It's about performance. Going to the baseball game, having runners at second and third, Christian Walker, get a ball in the outfield, bring a runner home. and more times than I've not been able to do that.

He's leaving a lot of men on base. Yeah. Well, he's not going to just start choking up on the bat and start slapping singles. No, but I mean... It sticks out. But in fairness to him, he ain't the only one. You've got significant amount of players on this baseball team that are underperforming based on their previous offensive production.

Yeah. I think we, if Christian Walker weren't struggling the way that he would, we'd be really locked in on Yiner Diaz. Yeah. And how bad he's been. But Yonard did get a sack fly yesterday. So it is, you know. Thank God people were on base.

Yeah. It would have been nice. It's not just Walker. It's not just Walker. It's loaded. Yeah. All right. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790. There is a list of 30. Now, USA Today does a lot of aggregating and a lot of crazy-ass stories. They have the list of the 30 best stadiums 1-30 in major. baseball belt based on yelp reviews i gotta be brutally honest i'm not a big fan of yelp and i'm certainly not a big fan of yelp to determining what's my favorite baseball stadium i'll prove my point after i tell you about the folks at the shell federal credit union all right really quick 60 seconds ross uh i was bumping around on satellite radio last night in the gold cup friendly i guess or qualifier

or i don't know because i don't pay attention to soccer but it was something to do with gold cup involved a strip club, so I really didn't know what it was about. Switzerland played U.S. I thought it was just a friendly. Maybe it was a friendly. I mean, hell if I know. But I don't know either. It was 4 to 1 Switzerland 1.

4 to 0. I'm sorry. Don't say 0. 4.0. Oh, I thought I thought USA got a goal late. No. Oh, that's right. 4-0. Oh, there it is. Yikes. Is that bad?

It's go the gold cup warm-up is what they're calling it. Okay. Gold cup warm up. It was in Nashville of all places. How's the crowd? Let me see if I can find the summary of that. Where they play, and they play in the stadium where the Titans play? I guess so.

It says Geodes Park. No, that would be where the Nashville team plays of some sort of professional soccer. Doesn't mention the attendance. Capacity was 30,000. I'm going to imagine it was close to that. It's so crazy that a field as big as they are, and they have one referee. Well, they have side referees. the side. So basically, I think there's three and then

I don't know if they had a video assistant referee. Then you'll have a guy who is the, like the video guy. VAR as they call it. Not to put you on the spot here because we still got a year before this happens. Are you a little nervous about how Team USA is going to do in this World Cup being on the home soil? I'm also going to be honest. I watch

mostly European soccer. I'm not really locked in on the United States team. America hasn't caught up to the world of soccer how like basketball just not caught up to America. It's like that right now. And they still, yeah, they still haven't done that. And this, I mean, this wasn't even their A squad, right? You're asking a wrong person.

I don't think it was. I don't think it was. I'm looking at now. Okay. But yeah, they're not very good. I don't go see where they are world rankings. Should we just give up? Why?

Like Poland's basketball team is never going to beat Team USA. Yeah, but they still have a team, I imagine. It's still going to go for it. Yeah, but we, as USA sports fans, we just don't go, yeah, you know, if we're not the best, why, I don't know. If we're not the best. If you're not first,

you're last. Yeah. That's how I kind of feel about soccer. Okay. Well, I mean, every Olympics, they don't finish first and everything, and they don't just fold up the team.

And the women beat up everybody. Yeah, the women are great. Yeah, but the Olympics, we're usually top three in medals. Yeah. I think they've finished first, the last time, right?

Or close. I think we got first in overall medals, and we lost to China and gold medals. Yeah. Okay. I'm just throwing it out there. I mean, is there, I would say there would be, as a completely novice fan of this, I think there's significant pressure for us, us, we being team USA, to perform better than we have in previous World Cush. They are 16th in the world according to the FIFA world rankings. How many teams are it to be ranked?

I mean, over 100? That's not terrible. Kazakhstan is 113th, in case you're wondering. So we're like We're like the Fresno state of Soccer I would say you a little better than that Right?

How about Mazoo? What? Let's do Vanderbilt. No. Hey, come on, man. It's top 16 out of 210? Vanderbilt's number of been top 16 in any of them. Baseball?

Yeah, but they got bouncing the first round. Bye. That's true. All right. Who was consistently around like 16, but never really threatens? I'm going to, I feel like. Oh, Texas Tech. I feel like Missouri.

How about Iowa State? Iowa State of World Cup Soccer. That's a good pull. Not bad. Or like Wisconsin. Yeah, that works too. 210 countries are ranked. San Marino is last.

No, wait a minute. You can never be worse than San Marino. Just ahead of Anguilla. Now you're making up country names. And U.S. Virgin Islands. You're making them names. Luis and Katie at 1054. Hi, Luis.

Hey, good morning, guys. Good morning. Good morning. me up about the soccer team. I'm from Venezuela. We've never been in the World Cup, so we are like the Texas State of the... Oh, you're the Texas State.

That is phenomenal. Luis, that was fantastic pull by you, my friend. Outstanding. The 47th. 47th, Venezuela. Yes. Guys, this is like a personal theory with Walker. I think it might be that

with his supposedly replacing Bregman he is a little pressure that he has to produce home runs and when he comes to hit in the stadium he's just looking for a home run I think that also happened

with a little old school where baseball the first hitter was usually a fast guy contact hitter that could put getting base and then the fourth and the third heater was probably the best one he could hit doubles and home runs poor the cleanup hitter was the home run guy

but now it seems like he's under pressure that he's got to hit him a home run if he goes two for four with no rubies it's not a good day for him but he's not hitting the ball so he's trying to hit homers maybe that way he's striking out so much and he's done a lot of pressure I'm going to high up at least a bit also

also a tube it was he was a very good heater because he could hit everything he was hitting homer because he's a stocky guy the strong guy but now it seems like He only wants to hit a home run, and then he's lost maybe a little of that contact that he used to have. Well, guys, I'm going to hang up on a listen to your great call. Yeah, I think, I think Christian Walker's trying to figure out something just to get on base.

I mean, I know he's a heart-middle-the-older guy. He wants to be a guy that wants to provide power. He's done so for much of his major league career. I don't know him well enough to know if he's pressing, but obviously when you are sitting here barely above 200 for as long as he has been, And he's obviously feeling it. Free agent contract, three-year deal, good money. Yeah, I mean, there's got to be some. I don't think he's just going, this has just been a slow time for me.

This is a slow time that has gone on for two plus months. Well, good thing is, Matt, we have a trained eye to ask coming up in the next segment. And he will give us the answer. He being Brian Bogussevich, 1057 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you want to join our conversation, we still owe you to 30 balls. Parks, according to Yelp. By the way, I still got to owe you that. We'll get to that coming up in just a little bit. 1101 on Sports Talk 7. I ain't time for us to spend 10 quality minutes with our friend Brian Bogusevic.

He is working Space City Home Network series against the Chicago White Sox. And I told Brian yesterday, I said my good friend Shelby is working with him on the broadcast. I said, you knew throw her a curveball. So what did you throw her yesterday? Come on. Give me something that threw her off. What did you say? You know, I threw at her was that our microphones weren't working on the set, so we had to leave right before game time and run back to the studio and haul over there to get ready for the show. That was the big curveball that was thrown at everybody yesterday.

Now, if you were a real gentleman, what you should have done is got one of those guys that has a bike, you know, that right around downtown that gets you from one spot to the other to your parking spot. A rickshaw? Yeah, Rickshaw. Get you a Rickshaw next time. That'd have been really funny. That's a good show. First segment of the show from the Rickshaw.

outside of Deakin. That, you'd have gotten some serious TV ratings to get you a little salary bump. Just telling you, Bogie, this is how we do things. So go a little outside the box. Hey, uh, had a couple of calls in a first hour, Brian, about Christian Walker. And it, it's not a slow start. It's a prolonged slump for him offensively. And every time you think he's going to turn their corner, it just goes back into a slump.

What are you seeing with your trained eye? What, is it pressing? Is it bat speed down? combination of both because every time I think he's going to turn the corner, he unfortunately doesn't. It's too bad because I do like him a lot. I do like his glove at first base. I know he's trying. It's not a question of want to, but the results just aren't in right now. Yeah, it's a lot of things. I'll say, first of all, I don't see anything physically. I don't think it's a, oh my gosh, this guy got old over the offseason or the bat speed's gone or there's

some big hole in his swing that needs to be fixed. I think it's a combination. of a lot of outside factors. I know, you know, y'all mentioned earlier the batting average on balls in play. You know, there's a little bit of bad luck, you know, some balls not falling, some good plays being made against them, balls hit right at people. There's also, you know, he's had some pitchers make some good pitches on him. You know, bad luck that way where a borderline pitch doesn't go your way or, you know, the first pitch is a perfectly located pitch that you're not going to swing at,

and now you're in a hole. and when things aren't going your way, those things in your mind get magnified. I mean, I remember there being times standing in the batters box thinking, okay, here's my time. I'm going to get a good first pitch right down the middle of that one to hit and get dotted up in your 01. It's like deflation. Oh, here we go again. And you can see some at bats from Christian Walker here or there when something doesn't go his way where you can just see him thinking like, oh, man, here we go again.

It's happening again. Today's not going to be the day. I think there is also something to be said about just the Astros middle of the order in general. I mean, it's been inconsistent at best in those three, four, five, six spots throughout the course of the year. You know, I think not having healthy, productive Yordon in there, having Yiner being up and down, Housel Tube has been up and down. All of a sudden, Christian Walker can be more of a focus from opposing pitching staffs and how they're game planning for the lineup as a whole.

You know, if you've got Yordon hitting in front of or behind him, maybe they're saying, hey, Christian Walker is going to be the guy that we're going to go after. And then all of a sudden, he gets some better pitches to hit. So, you know, it's usually a combination of a lot of things. And when you're in the situation that he's in where you're struggling, you know you're struggling, you're pressing because you want to get out of it, all of those things feel even more magnified than necessarily what we're saying from the outside. So, yeah, I think it's just a lot of things going on and swimming all in his head at once.

Last question about him. Don't go to some other things. If we were to find out, Brian, that his bat speed was down a tick, a significant amount. How do you fix that? How could you fix that? What adjustments would you make? If you found out yourself, Bogie, that your bat speed was down from a year ago, what would you do? Well, the first thing I would do would be look and see if there are mechanical reasons for it,

not necessarily strength, age, injury, physical types of things. Is there extra length in your swing that's slowing it down, or are you trying to do? You know, are you overswinging, therefore not being as quick as you need to be? I would first look at that kind of stuff. And then what you do is you look for, you know, game plan adjustments, approach adjustments. You look at ESOC Parades. He doesn't have elite, elite bat speed, but he can turn on anything that anybody throws at him. And it's just a matter of what pitches you're looking for, kind of how you set up in the batters box, how you're working in at bat.

So bat speed isn't necessarily the end-all be-all of being able to hit, but it is a big part of the calculus in how you go about approaching an entire bat and how you're going to attack certain pitchers with different repertoire. So even if bat speed is down a little bit, that's not really an end-all be-all of what you can do at the plate. Brian, Bogus'ific with us here on Sports Talk 790, and not just Walker, but just Diaz or anybody who's struggling. Can you just kind of take us through, like, what is happening behind the scenes right now in your mind? As far as you mentioned, changing game plans and approaches, what is the kind of mental battle that these guys are going through where you don't want to reinvent the wheel, but obviously what's happening right now isn't working? Yeah, I think one of the biggest battles that you're fighting when you're in a prolonged slump is not trying to do too much and therefore digging yourself into a deeper hole. You know, oftentimes you're not as far away as you might feel, especially, you know, sometimes you'll feel like, oh, my God, my swing is in a terrible spot. And then you go watch the video and you're like, man, it doesn't look a whole lot different from what it normally looks like.

So you don't want to go do major overhauls, you know, unless you absolutely have to. But it's small things. It's maintenance work in the cage. It's watching video to make sure you're not, you know, doing something in your setup. There's kind of low-hanging fruit things that you can fix pretty quickly. You know, oh, I'm a little bit more closed off than I want to be. Or a little bit my hands are drifting away from my body a little bit. Those are kind of quick, easy fixes.

So you're always trying to stay on top of that with video stuff. and a lot of it has to do with the game planning. You know, who are we facing today? What does he like to do? What is he going to try to do against me? And how can I try to tip the scales in my favor? You know, if you're feeling a little bit long in your swing and you're having trouble catching up to fastballs at the moment,

well, what's this guy's best off-speed stuff? What counts does he like to throw his off-speed stuff? When can I hunt something soft out over the plate that I can use the whole field and not necessarily have to turn on high velocity? So doing things like that that can maybe get you going a little bit because, you know, what you perceive as happening when you're struggling, oh my gosh, this guy made a pitch against me, I'm screwed in this at bat. You brush those things off very quickly once those balls start dropping in. And all of a sudden, an 01 count is like, okay, he made his pitch. I'm going to get him on the next one.

So it's just about trying to play these little mental games and almost tricking yourself into thinking, okay, I'm fine now. Because once you think that, you usually are. do you think at this point maybe Walker and some of these other guys are just like get me to the all-star break like a mental break some days off and some rest and relaxation to kind of just reset for the second half of the season it can help you know a couple days off a couple days away from it to just kind of decompress but also you know you can get a fresh start without necessarily having to have that natural break in the season if all of a sudden you have a good series and you can say okay from this point going forward, what is my season? That's as good as a restart as you need.

If you can look, you know, at once you get to this point, 200 at bats or so, you know, if you're in a hole, you're not going to dig your way out. Like, Christian Walker's not going to hit 300 this year. But he can look and say, hey, starting on, you know, June 15th forward, I hit 300 with an 850 OPS and just kind of play those games in your head. So, yes, any kind of a refresh, restart is helpful. but it doesn't have to be necessarily a break in the schedule. Ball Gia, the Astros are in the midst of a 13-game stretch of consecutive games without a day off

or going back to a six-man rotation. Are we, should we be further preparing? Should Major League teams further prepare for the eventual rotation to go to six more times and not? And the biggest benefit obviously is keeping your starters with the extra day arrest. the biggest negative is you're down an arm in the bullpen. Yeah, I think teams are coming around to the fact that if not using it on a very regular basis, being able to go to that six-man rotation at times, it's just with the amount of injuries that pile up, first of all, you have to have the depth in the organization, so you might as well

use it. And also, any mileage that you can take off of your guys is probably worthwhile. There's always the balancing act of, you know, if we're one short in the pen and we get a short start, how do we make up for that? But, you know, that's the manager's job. The manager can figure that out. The pitching coach can figure that out and you kind of have these swing guys that can go back or forth. But, yeah, it's quite obvious now that at some point during the season, you're going to have to go to a six-man rotation. At some point during the season, you're probably going to have to dip into your, you know, ace, ninth, tenths guys in the depth chart.

So I think we're going to see teams start signing, developing, trading for just these gluts of starting pitching because you're going to need them at some point. You know, going into the season, oh, my gosh, how are they going to find endings for all these guys? Trust me, you'll find them eventually. And I think teams are just finding that it's just going to be worthwhile to start stockpiling innings. A couple more minutes here with Brian Bogussevich from Space City Network here on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. I am frankly surprised how much second base Jose Altuve is playing. Are we going to see more of that because the spot has not been offensively a good spot in the fact that Melton's been playing some left field.

You'll get Yordon back eventually. You can throw Dubon out there. What is your take on what you've seen so far? And if you were to get your crystal ball out, how much second base will Jose play the rest of the season? Well, yeah, I think there's a lot of things that play into it. First of all, I think the coaches have done a really good job this year. With all of the moving pieces defensively that they have all the different guys in the outfield mix, the rotation at second base, they've done a really good job maximizing whatever they're doing on that day.

They have a really good feel for what the matchups are with the pitchers and who should be where. So I think we're going to keep seeing guys moved around. The biggest question is when Yordon comes back, what does that do? How much outfield is he going to play? Is he going to occupy that DH spot all of the time? I do think it is a huge weapon, especially on the road, when you can go Melton, Myers, and Cam Smith in the outfield. That is a really good defensive outfield.

And if you're playing somewhere that has a lot of space out there in the outfield, it's a pretty big advantage. So if that results in Jose moving to more second base. And look, until somebody, you know, until Marisa O'Bahn or Brendan Rogers goes over there and starts consistently hitting for an extended period of time, it's going to be a rotation, and moving El Tuvae in and out of the out of the out of the H to second base is going to be part of that.

But I can foresee a scenario if it comes to this where if Yoran is occupying a ton of DH when he comes back and we're trying to get these three outfielders mixed in or DeZenzo once he comes back into the mix of Jose playing more second base, just based on what you're trying to now maximize from an offensive standpoint. And speaking of those guys, you mentioned the outfield. Another week of sample size with Jake Melton, what you're seeing from him at the plate, and then Camp Smith as well.

And I thought over the weekend that a bat where he knocked in those two runs was a great at bat from him, seeing the cutter outside and then sending it the other way knocking in two. Yeah, I think, I think, you know, from a mountain standpoint, the tools have always been there. Everybody's really always raved about the physical tool, speed, power, to defense and everything. The question has always been, how much contact is there going to be, how well can he handle the strike zone?

He's done a pretty good job. I know he struck out some, but it's not like these overmatched, blow your doors off type of strikeouts. He's battling. He's seeing pitches. He's laying off of tough pitches, getting pitches into the zone.

And that's a very good sign. I would have to imagine that the asteros are pretty pleased with how he's handled the strike zone since he's been there because that will allow the tools to play. And what he brings athletically is pretty impressive.

If there's enough contact there, there's going to be a lot of tools to play. And from Cam Smith, he just continues to progress. I mean, the adjustments that he's been asked to make on the fly at the big league level, his first time seeing major league pitching,

it's been pretty amazing of what he is now versus what he was at the beginning of the season in terms of his setup, his rhythm, his ability to get on fastball, his ability to turn on pitches, you know, where are these contact points there. So it's been a lot of really good developments at the big league level, which is really difficult things to do. Boggy, great stuff.

It's always look forward to catching you and Shelby on TV tonight. Astros and White Sox game number two. Thanks to the visit, and we'll talk again next week. All right. See you guys. You got it. That's Brian Bogus Civic every Wednesday with us in 11 o'clock right here on Sports Talk 7. We have shut your ball mess up and ain't nobody got time for that coming up in 15 minutes.

You got some things you got to get out for chest? I'm feeling all right right now. guess I can come up with something. Yeah, I mean, your life is full of aggravations and disgust. That's not true. Oh. Oh. You know what?

What did I do? When you pipe, something that Ross did or something that happened in your life? What happened in my life? I'm going to let you go first then. Okay. And I got to go after somebody, too. Not happy. All right.

Okay. As promised, how does Yelp think Major League Baseball parks look? We'll give you details in that in a minute. 1115 on Sports Talk 790. Generally speaking, Ross, about Yelp reviews. Do you believe them? do you take them with a grain of salt? Do you, are they treated by you as gospel?

Definitely not gospel. It also depends on the place and the restaurant and the type of restaurant. I always look at it for restaurants, but sometimes things can be skewed one way or another, depending on a place that can have great food but bad service. And generally on Yelp, it's going to be lower than Google. Because I think people want to go to Yelp to complain. If you had a great experience at a restaurant or a normal one that was fine, you're not going to run to Yelp.

If somebody pissed you off and you got bad service, you're more likely just human nature to go online and be spiteful or look for revenge or want to get noticed or maybe even try to get something free out of the deal and put something negative out there. All right. So I didn't know Yelp did ballpark reviews. I didn't know they did either. So USA Today Today did a story about Yelp reviews of ballparks. Okay. I'm going to give you from, we'll do from five down to one, and then we'll put in perspective a couple of other ballparks. And I think this list is frankly ridiculous.

Coming at number five, and this is a scale, I believe, out of one to five stars, at number five is Wrigley Field in Chicago. It feels good to me on that one. Yeah. Okay. And I don't want to get into a deep dive on that on why it is, but let's just, we'll get to the deep dive on a couple of other ones. At number four is Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the Orioles play. And I've been to that ballpark, and I would agree that is a top five ballpark for me.

So, so far, I'm pretty good about this. Okay. At number three, Fenway Park. Fenway Park has got really great food, but it's a pain of the ass to get around. the seats are extraordinarily narrow. People used to be smaller. Well, because the food at Fenway Park is good. The food one is good.

People would be skittier. That's right. Squeeze it in there. So if you love history and you love nostalgia, it's your place. But if you love to be able to figure out where you're going and the concourses and being able to get restrooms that aren't with troughs for stalls and whatnot, it's not your place. Okay. Number two, Oracle Park in San Francisco.

I've been there before. I've seen two games before. It's a nice stadium. I wasn't blown away by it. I was blown away more by the ambiance. You know, with McCubby Cobb out in right field. It's beautiful. The pier and all that.

You were cold, right? Well, I will never go to a night game there ever again. I can tell you that for damn sure. That was unbelievable. Let's put your long johns on. Quit your whining. And the number one ballpark, which I have not been to is PNC Park in Pittsburgh. And I think part of it is because,

of the fact that you've got the bridge and all that right there. It's gorgeous. It looks like the perfect setting for baseball. So noticeably there are some ballparks that are not on the list in the top five that I would have put in. Let me tell you where some other ballparks that I think a lot of our audience has been to that you could grade it on. Coming in at, let's see here, number 12, Petco Park. I have been to Petco. It's spectacular. I love it.

It's in my top five. I'd put it in a top five. I have not been to T-Mobile Park. Have you been to T-Mobile Park? Yeah, in Seattle, yes. And I thought it was great. Okay. Let's see here.

A few more. We're getting towards the middle of the pack here. Coorsfield at 17. I loved Coorsfield. Part of that is because the fact the team sucks so bad. You just get in there and feel miserable. I got great. I got like 20 rows back behind home plate for like 50 bucks. It was pretty sweet.

I hate to tell you this. Yankee Stadium, New Yankee Stadium is really very spacious and comfortable and food is good. It got ranked 18th on the list. Which one, Yankee? Yankee Stadium.

Maybe it's a lot of people hating on the Yankee. Yeah, this is just hanging. It feels like that's more... Although, it could be lower good. I think it's Yankee hatred. I think, well, you could be going there and getting heckled by Yankee fans and they're throwing beers at you.

I'd give them one stars. One star. This is the one that really stuns me. No, that's not true. Oh, here we go. At number 21, Dyken Park. What's the overall rating? 3.9 out of 5. That's pretty good out of Yelp. 21. Jennifer G. writes, giveaways at a ballpark this year are not like knowing what the secret code is for a hideout. You are there more hours before the game starts and still not receiving the promotion. Even with boxes of giveaways left, they are either set aside for others or if you go on the entrance, it doesn't have the item you can't get one at another entrance as reentry is not allowed.

Two stars. Levy A writes, great ballpark, but the security has the biggest power trip imaginable. Also, there is a nasty lady who is one of the security guards who cussed me out because I forgot my jacket and I had to go back down to get it. Three stars. There's nobody cussing this guy out. I'm calling BS on Levy. So this is why, in my mind, Yelp sucks. Or Levi.

You get two bitties. who are pissed off for all the wrong reasons. Bitties? Yeah. 21 under 30 because of the LPA reviews. Yeah, but that's another thing too. When you see something else... Dodger Stadium 22nd.

Dodger Stadium for being an old place and for things in California that don't have nostalgia is nostalgic and fantastic. I love Dodger Stadium. That's at 22. And then you're saying to yourself, what could be the absolute worst? Coming in at number 30, Drum roll, please. Bo da-da-bada-bidi-bid-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbdd.

That's fine. It's not Sacramento. It's not Tampa. Oh, that was a good. Tampa was going to be my guess. It is, and I'm, this is, there's so many ads on this website. That's fine. It's giving me more time to think.

Oh. Too much. Not a bad choice. Globe Life Field in Arlington. They're the worst. Okay, B-D, B-E-E, B-D. Now, first of all, name somebody named B that isn't at least 75 years old. Hello, it's B-B-D.

My name is B, and I went to Yelp to say the following. This place is a mess. Undrained staff, zero consistency, absolutely no regard for a customer experience. Why did you start talking? like a Victorian-era Dutchess. Whether you're a VIP or a general admission,

expect chaos and confusion. One star. Shut your bum ass up, B. Here's Mike B. I don't know if they're related or not. Absolutely hands down the worst MLB stadium I've ever been to and I've been to over 15. The food choices are pathetic.

Layout to get around the stadium is pathetic. No one knows how to get from level to level and you have to walk a country mile or walk up three flights of stairs to get anywhere. I would never give this place a time of my life again or my money, one star. I will say the layout did suck, and it was kind of confusing.

Yeah, that's when I was there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When we went there for the 2023 ALCS, because they gave us food vouchers, so we had to go out into the wild. They don't have media dining? No, they didn't have media dining. They probably have now, right?

I hope so. We had food vouchers. What did you get? Barbecue? Is it good? Hartato? It was good. B, D.

All right. Stop. There's no 80-year-old. B didn't like it. Are you okay? No. I thought it was a pretty decent B. That was fantastic.

Thank you. All right. Time for some people to shut their bumasses up. Ain't nobody getting time? Ain't nobody getting time for that? Hey nobody getting time for that. Hey, everybody getting time for that. All right.

Here we go, Big Baby. You ready? 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 somebody bothering you this week somebody yelling at you for all the wrong reasons somebody giving you terrible advice time to shut their bum-asses up mate then you play it

I bet shit your bum-ass up man much better or if somebody in the office is taking their time firing off sound bites not playing them in proper speed in context. Ain't anybody got time for that, right, Jonathan? There you go. Let's go.

713-212-5-7-90. Ticket Master! Ooh! You put their name on it. My son and I, my middle son, Peyton and I are going to Vegas later on tonight. Tomorrow we're going to see Barry Manilow. Ticket Master's on there. that.

My wife bought the tickets. Okay. We go to transfer them. Uh-oh. The tickets for this concert are non-transferable. What? So I get on the chat and I

chat with something called a Roger. This is not AI. This is a real person. I got past the AI real quick. And I said, Hey, Roger. My wife I was pretending I was her. I need to transfer these tickets to my husband.

Oh, I'm sorry, we can't transfer these tickets. At what point does any concert, under any circumstance, with any ticket app, not allowed transfers? Ain't nobody got time, Ticketmaster, for me to have to chase down these tickets the night before I'm going to see the legendary Barry Manilow. Ain't anybody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Wow. I'm surprised. I mean, I've heard of this, but usually it's for like very important big concerts. I understand Barry Manilow is a big concert. Clearly it's not. It's very important. This is why to get sued all the time. The ticket master, it's always getting sued. I got issued. I thought the Department of Justice was breaking them up. I think that's still, it's still in the process.

Okay. Lawyers are getting paid at least. Access, you guys are good ticketers. Ticketmaster, you suck. Ain't nobody got time for me to have to chase this down. I'm mad. Sorry, Matt. That's all I got for now. Okay. Jonathan?

The floor is yours. Yeah, you said you were going to let him go first. Yeah, but I just... No, that was a good one. I like that. Thank you. It's okay. But I need everybody to understand,

especially in this building. I got a small ton of time to go use the restroom when I can. I go into this restroom almost every week. I'm going to install. I don't care. I'm the one who gets a little paper and put it on the seat,

you know, do my thing. I go into the stall I go install one Why does it look like Hiroshima got hit again On this the toilet Like someone who dropped in the toilet Got up and left all the water

On the seat On the floor I'm like So I slip a little bit I'm just going to get out of the stall I'm not even going to think about it It's in both of the stalls But the bigger one

How do you make a bigger mess Do you know what we call the bathrooms In our offices don't you No The den of doom I found that. And it still smelled like the dude was there. Like he had just left.

Ain't nobody got time for that. And I'm so upset that I couldn't get my relief myself. Ain't nobody got time for that. Oh. I think bathroom etiquette is horrendous in office buildings. That's why the number one rule should be. And we've told us before go to a different floor. But the problem is you don't have time to go to different floor.

Exactly. Certainly not with these elevators. You'd be stuck with this 10 minutes in an elevator. Wow. I don't even have anything to say. That's disgusting. Oh, so irate. Oh.

Yeah. Nothing to say? No. 713. Two, one, two, one. It sounds like a horse barn in there too often. Yes. I told you I've been trying to eat better.

Oh, yeah. Well, that ain't working. Stay off the whore mill chili. 713, 21, two, five, seven, 90. 713, two, one, two, five, seven, ninety. I got another one for you. Okay. Backing into your parking spot guy.

What? Wait. I'm backing into the parking spot guy. What's up? You get one chance and one chance only. I'm not going to sit there and watch you curve and move your and finagle your way through. If you can't do it on the first try, ain't nobody got time for you to try four and five attempts when you're backing up traffic. Now, I would say 85% of the time I get it right first, but sometimes you got to retrain.

But if you see somebody that needs to go back, you let them go by I and that's what I would I have plenty of respect for you for saying that there are too many people that just want to try through time people aren't paying attention they live in their own world

yes I'm with you but I would say yeah I back in the spot most of the time I think Matt pulls in every time I think I see it every time pull in pull in or pull out yeah okay we're moving on

I'm trying to be better today okay good you notice I've not taken any shots of anybody today because I'm trying to be a better person. Okay. Except Ticketmaster, you guys absolutely 100% suck. Sorry, Matt. They are the worst. So here's what we've done. I figured out how to do it.

I have now my wife's email account and her password on my phone. So now I'm entering as her on my phone. Yeah, okay. And now I got the tickets. That's smart. But it doesn't need to be. Transferring should be an elementary process. Well, it's not, I don't think that's Ticketmaster's call, actually. I think Barry Manil's call. Well, I'm Barry Manil's call.

Well, I'm Barry Manil's. Shut your bum ass up for doing that. That's when they try to freeze out scalpers. It's trying to freeze out scalpers, but who's scalping a ticket to Barry Manolo? Plenty of people are. He sells on Las Vegas constantly. Sold out Cleveland last week. The man is an international superstar.

Does he come out in a hospital bed? That's not nice. 7-13-21. It's my turn. By the way, we, uh, my son and I have decided we're going to go see a concert on Friday night, too. We're going to go see Carrotop. Again? one of Matt Thomas's top five most hilarious comedians of all time.

And that was a win on the fantasy five. No, you lost. You lost. You sure I lost? Yes, you had Carrotop and you had Lisa Limele. I had like Chris Rock, George Carlin. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You got crushed.

Matt, as you should have. Maddie on 790, Maddie, what's the matter with you? To Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball. John Boy has lied and misled the MLB community for years. And now you're partnering with him while you send cease and desist letters to the Apul Boys for having watch parties. Rob Manfred, ain't nobody got time for that. Hey nobody got time for that. What kind of watch parties?

Somebody got met. Really, Matt. Ain't nobody got time for you eating med segment. I'm starving. So you asked the question. and then he eats. Sorry. I should not have done that.

I apologize. I'm just really hungry. Adam Clinton's going to have to clean some jambalaya off that microphone. No, it's clean now. I've disinfected it. Yeah, I think there was, MLB was disallowing somebody to have a watch party. I'm not exactly sure what was going on. Okay.

Oh, they gave a cease and assist for another watch party about their games, I believe, and that's what he was talking about. Okay. Yeah. universally discussed in the ballpark yesterday that it was John Boy Media was If they weren't a fan of the Yankees It wouldn't be a big deal at all

That the Yankees and their traffic Help them decide We need some more of the young people in there Like if they were yeah Instead of talking Yanks They were talking brew crew If they were doing deep dive on talking Marlins They would not have signed a minority investment

Probably not 713212 5 719. 713-212-5-790. More of shut your bomb ass up. Ain't nobody got time for that. Coming up after I tell you about affordable tree service. 713-212-5-790. That's how you reach us. Ain't nobody got time for you not to call this show. You got plenty of time to call. This is the safe space. Ain't nobody got time. Right?

Yes Did you say anything this week? No, you skipped me in and I said it's my turn and then you went to the caller. Oh. Ross, what's the matter with you this week? No, it's fine. I got to forget it. You do have something.

Come on. You live your life full of this. The audience wants to hear you across. No, no, it doesn't matter. Fine. I'm going to go with the NBA in general. Multiple days off in between NBA finals games. Horrible presentation by ESPN.

Then they put clip art, Larry, O'Brien trophies on the court on game number two after everyone complains about game number one. I mean, could you half-ass it even anymore? It's the NBA finals. It should be a big deal. And it's not. And the ratings are

bad and clearly people are tuning out and ESPN in the NBA are not doing themselves any favors. Ain't nobody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that. Bless you. David in Vegas. David, what's going on with you? Oh, I've

got nobody. got time for this that I know is a familiar complaint with you too. Yes, go for it. First of all, can you hear me okay on the phone? Yes, yes, go away. Mr. claimed to be a sports bar, but bad sports bar operator.

I just came back from a week and weekend family vacation with my whole family in Utah, and two nights we decided we wanted to go out as a family and watch the NBA finals game at a sports bar at places that

advertised as the best sports bars in the area with all the yelp reviews and everything first night for game one we go walking into a place 30 TVs right around tip off time not a single one is turned on to the game and you know we talk to the guy about it and he's okay we'll find it for you sure no problem struggles around with it can't find the channel finally says who's playing in this game. I, you know, I try not to roll my eyes. I say Oklahoma City and Indiana, like that's going to help him find it. Anyway, you know, 10 minutes into the game, we finally get it. Of course, no sound. You've got music and everything else like that. So on. Then for game two, we go in, we find a much better, much higher rated, dedicated sports car, call in advance, everything.

Also, we walk in there. There's 30 screens on there, about a single one of them are set to the NBCAM. I'm telling you, David, you got to get that name of those companies and let me know because my company RemoteForU.biz will come to your rescue. It just will. Ain't nobody got time for that. But ain't nobody got time for that. Thank you, David.

Hey, David, I feel your pain, my brother. I do. Rossi, RemoteForu.combs. I'm going to put it publicly available for you to invest stock in it. Publicly treated. Immediately. I'm ready to go. Who's your top employee?

Me. invest stock with what money Oh who's your My sons are involved in it Who's your second best employee? Cameron Thomas Oh where was he the last dispatch to Uh,

Rillies You're lying And then we sent my son Peyton to Bapplebees And we sent my daughter Carly to Rorada At the yellow stun of remote remote Yeah Rorada

Rorada They sell salads Rarada Oh Who's watching sports in Rorah At the salad place. Remote for you. Dot biz.

Yeah. Give me a Mediterranean with extra feta and put on the NBA finals. That's exactly right. 713-212-5-7-90. Brian, 1152. Brian, what's the matter with you? Hey, Matt. Hey, Ross.

Hey. Long time. That's not your first time. It's not your first time. We have you on the screen here as a frequent caller. You're a liar. First time, long time, man. What's the mean?

Yeah, okay. Do you guys know what Brian this is? Yes, I do. I don't know if Matt does. Matt's a little slow on the uptake. Go ahead. Who is this, Matt? Come on, let's go.

Figure it out. Oh, let me guess. This is a guy that would take a picture of himself and put on Instagram in his baseball uniform. Oh, here we go. Okay, all right. First of all, let's get something straight. That was 3-2-4 sports.

Check them out on Instagram. They do really good coverage of youth sports. Your daughter was playing youth sports. She does. She does play youth sports, but she doesn't take pictures of herself and put them on her Instagram. I don't either. I don't even have Instagram. Okay.

Oh, I'm sure you do. You got some burners. I know how you roll. I know you rep around town. Brian. Yeah. Anyways, hey, I'm actually out here at Men's Tea Clinic, Men's T. Clinic.com, check it out. Proud home of Sports Talk 790. So you guys went to Chili's,

Applebee's, and Salata. Is that right? Is that where your family went? For, to watch basketball, no, that's a, those are new clients of Remotefor-you. Dot biz. Oh, okay, but you guys can't say it because that's like a bit you guys do. I don't know, it's my first time listening. I'm curious. All right. Seriously. I just wanted to say, Satan, shut your bum ass up. Go for it. The floor is yours. So the guy that just called in Maddie, like last segment, he talked about Apollo, the group that I'm in, and we did get cease and desist for Major League baseball.

Oh, yikes. But Matt, you asked the question, and then you started to eat a glizzy in the middle of the radio, in the middle of the studio, and no one has time for that. Oh, God. I am being so out of by a former coworker of mine. Oh, this is a low point of my broadcast career. I mean, low. No, I just, all seriousness, I listen to you guys quite often. I miss you guys. Hope everyone's doing well. You bring laughter to my drive when I'm cruising around the city.

Because I'm a corporate guy now, Matt, Ross, you know, it is what it is. And you're making, I mean, let's tell people, let's tell people you're making. You're doing better. You're making double what Ross is making right now. Minimum. I can't confirm or deny. Trivel, triple, Matt, Matt, Ross grinds, okay? Yes.

He's a grinder or not a grind. Hey, it's good to hear your voice. Do not be a stranger. You know you're always welcome to call the show. I appreciate it, guys. We'll see you later. I miss you guys. All right, that's everybody.

That's Brian Lima. Especially if you're going to tell Matt to shut your bum ass up. He didn't say that at all. That was Lima? Oh, he didn't even say, what's up or nothing? All right, because he's rude that way. I've only had like two conversations with him. Oh, okay.

You guys are like passing like ships in the night. Yeah. We lose it, we fill it right back up. If you're looking for like oil now? Like big money, right? Oh, big money. The big money. Big money.

He's one of the best youth baseball coaches in Houston. Yeah, he and the, I don't know, the bandits or something, the banditos. And he loves going out with divorcee moms. I'm just kidding. I don't know if he does. I just put all his business on. First of all, what's wrong with that? I don't know if that's true or not.

I'm just kidding. It could be. I mean, that would be, if you're a single good-looking guy, wouldn't you, let me part of your racket, go coach you sports and hang out with the divorcee moms yeah what do you mean I can't pay tuition oh I bet you can't pay that tuition oh that seems predatory oh please that's certainly happened before I'm uncomfortable now

you can't be uncomfortable 37 year old mom says hey come over and have dinner with us give my son a lesson I'll give you a lesson give little Timmy a binadryl little Timmy's 14 I don't think he needs one okay two Benadryl two Benadryl's alright challenges are acting up Timmy two Benadry and you bring the youth baseball coach over to the house.

Half shot of NyQuil. Put it in a shot glass. What are you putting? I mean, how many drugs are you putting in this kid's body? He's sick. You're going to wake up hung over, man. Mom, what of those?

I had this terrible dream that our coach was at our house last night until 3 a.m. And he wanted to cuddle. All right. That is, that is, shut your bum ass up. But he won't get time for that. Let's get to the dude. that do. We have a little bit of NBA breaking news from Sham Shirani. We'll get to that.

It's not breaking, but it's developing news. We'll put it that way. 713-213-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Also coming up in about 40 minutes from now, we're going to visit with our friend Vanessa Richardson. She'll be working the sidelines on the ESPN radio broadcast of game number three of the NBA finals from Indianapolis, the Pacers, and the Oklahoma City Thunder are tied at a game. Peace. 1202 in Houston. What's happening, lunchtomers? Good afternoon to you.

Hour number three of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. By the way, y'all can slain to me all you want for Manilow and Caratop. I'm going to have a great time. Y'all can suck it. Tell them to shut their bum asses up. I'm trying to be nice about it, but y'all be taking unnecessary shots at me. Shit your bum ass up, man. One person on Twitter.

I don't appreciate that. And you agree with it. And you would ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I don't know what's wrong about. LMAO. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Is that true? No, I don't think I did it.

It's terrible. Yeah, you put three crying laughing emojis. Oh, I was trying to interact with people who are listening on Twitter. I appreciate them. You know, man, you know, don't take it personally.

I do take it personally. No, it wasn't about you. It's just, you know, try to interact with the people. At Sports RV. Caratops the ugly one that's like really old now, right? And I was a, he's a prop comic.

It's a very vulgar show. He's a prop comic. He's extremely unfunny, and nobody respects him, and he's had a lot of work done, yes. Nobody respects him. Hey, man. Look at his face. You know what? I kind of felt bad for him.

It was one of the roasts that they were doing, and he was there, and everyone who did a roast crushed him talking about his mangled face from his surgeries. Yeah. And then they showed him walking out of there, like, man, I got to go look at the mirror. Is something wrong with my face? I kind of felt bad for him. Because I've seen him in performance once before, and it was really funny. It was, it was, it was slapstick.

It was the lowest, it was the LCD of comedy. But it's still funny. Loess common denominator. Okay. There's an LCD screen. I mean, it wasn't a highbrow sign-filled comedy. Okay. Yeah, but that's what you love, Matt.

And that's okay. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Don't steal my joy. Yeah, we don't want to be a thief of joy. If you love Carrotop, I didn't say anything about it. I don't love him, but my plans got changed. I thought the space cowboys were there and they're not. So I just said, let's go see something.

Because my son does, we're not going to go see Kenny Chesney and we're not going to go see a burles show or something like that. I mean, is shin limb there? Who? Shin Lim. Don't know who that is. It's the, it's the magic guy. I want to see him. I'm not a magic person.

I don't want to go see Blue Man Group or anything that crap like that. So I'm going to go look at, go listen to Carriott. I've been laughed a little bit. And I present to you at 1204, The News, at noon. He's at the Venetian. How much tickets? I have to go see you. When are you guys there?

We're leaving tonight. Weather permitting. Oh, yeah, he's at the Palazzo Theater. The Palazzo Theater. Hey, go see him at the Palazzo. I didn't see Ringo start the Palazzo while I was there last time. Really? And the All-Stars.

I thought Ringo was at the Orleans. Stop. Here's a gift for Nails on a Houston Sports. Yeah, he's tomorrow. 730 at the Palazzo and Friday. We're going to see Manilow tomorrow and Caratop on Friday.

Okay, never mind. If y'all gonna be in Vegas, hook me up. David, you know where you're listening to show. We'll find you. If y'all want to make a little quick trip to LV, we'll go. I promise you, you go with me to Vegas,

we'll have a good time. First of all, we'll go see some funny stuff. We'll go hear some great music. We'll eat some good food. And I'm going to help with your black check. A VI, looks like decent seats are 120 bucks. I'm good. News and noon time.

Here's Ross. Yes, man. A lot of stuff going on. in the sports news sphere and we're going to go ahead and start here locally. Sphere. Really good place. Sphere. Sphere to watch the concert.

Sphere. Stop throwing a C.H. in there. Sphere. Sphere. Sphere. Sphere. Well, you might be texting for real, Matt. Sphere. Sphere. Let's go. Let's just play this. Oh, my computer's freezing.

Go one, two. And that's lifted in the center field. Robert coming in, coming in, coming in, makes the sliding catch. Luis Robert Jr., the bent leg slide on that shallow fly ball, the center, and the side is retired. That was the Astros with the bases loaded in the eighth inning with no one out. Yiner Diaz with a sack fly, but they get nothing else. Lance McCullors, Jr., not great. Five innings, four earned runs.

He did get six strikeouts, but he also racked up four walks and 96. pitches in those five innings. Hadn mentioned, Matt, the bullpen was great after that. Bennett-Suzza with a good six-outs. Same thing from Dubin and Orte. So Luis Robert hits that home run, right? Yes. In the fourth inning. That was the last hit. They've Weiss socks got in the entire game. Now, they did draw four walks in the final four innings, but no base hits at all. Pretty good from the bully. The bully has been fantastic. And look, I give credit to McCullors to get to five, because

pitch count was fairly high for most of the game. Yes. But the Astros not able to pick up the victory. One for six with runners in scoring position. Three double plays. Three double plays. Matt, if you go to a team OPS in baseball, do you know where the Astros are?

I'll give you a hint. They're not in the top ten. Are they in the last ten? No. So they're going to be in the middle ten. Are they in the upper half of the middle ten? Oh, my God. How many hits do you want?

It's 16th. There you go. I want to go with 16 out of 20. Are they the top three of the middle 10 or the bottom three of the middle 10 or are they in between the middle three? That was kind of sneaky, wasn't it? No, it wasn't sneaky. I saw you coming a mile away on that one. Okay, continue on.

It's ridiculous. Astros back in action tonight. Ryan Gusto on the hill facing Sean Burke. Astros' favorites in this one, a minus 175. Matt Thomas, Ryan Gusto over under four in a third innings. I'm taking the over. By the way, our executive assistant here at the company is paying, wants us to buy us drinks.

You get our order right now. What kind of drinks? I don't know. What's happening? We're going to get liquored up during the show. Okay. Let's go. All right.

Ryan Gustave. You hate Ryan Gusto. I appreciate Ryan Gusto. I don't hate Ryan Gusto. I hope you're right. Okay. Oh, she's buying lunch. I just had lunch.

No, this is great. Hold on. Don't know. No, I'm getting lunch. No, you already ate. No, you had Jumbaline. You spit it all over the lunch. the microphones.

Whatever he's getting here. Get it. Get it for, get it. No, I'm talking to her. Okay, but bye. This is your update. You know what I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it.

I'll do the update. Sham Sharania is reporting Sham Sharania, NBA insider, that the negotiations and conversations between the Phoenix Suns and Kevin Durant's business partner, Rich Climman, are sorting

through trade options. The team showing the most interest, Houston, San Antonio, Minnesota, Miami, and New York. Your thoughts on those five? I didn't hear you. I was ordering, making it a lunch order. Chicken salad wrap? This is what I got. All right. Sons and Kevin Durant are in his business partner are sorting through trade options.

Oh, okay. Minnesota, Miami, New York, Houston, San Antonio among the five teams. This is the Shams. And you know Shams don't want it wrong. Normally not. Hmm. I told you yesterday, my gut says he's going to San Antonio. San Antonio feels right. You don't know that Houston wants to, look. Would Houston want Kevin to rent?

Yes. It's just going to be a question of what cost. I would say, exactly. I would say yes, the rockets would be interested, but no, the rockets wouldn't be interested in winning a bidding war. No, I don't think that's in, in Raffel Stone's DNA right now. I heard the Knicks were going hard after him, too. Didn't Mark Stein or somebody say that?

There was some talk of maybe using Carl Anthony Towns as a potential trade show. that's fine But is Carl Anthony Town is a coach killer He's gotten the same coach fired in two different cities Well he's just a horrible defender Yeah Good score Good person, great three-point shooter, yeah

Great guy, been through a lot in his life Yeah, but just can't defend Can't defend Hmm Interesting I would, I'm with you I think I would put San Antonio I'd say San Antonio in New York

I would put Houston probably fourth or fifth on this list I would say San Antonio then Houston I guess again I'm almost saying Matt we're interested. I'm just saying the barometric pressure says there is a little bit of interest. I think there's interest again, but I just don't think, I think if whoever the Phoenix GM is is going back and forth to everyone and saying, hey, hey guys, Nick's made this offer.

Rockets, can you match? Raphael sends him like, no, we're good. He's going to have a certain offer that he thinks is reasonable, but he's not going to get in a good. He's not going to get in a biddy more. There wasn't a starting point. He's going to raise his paddle at the beginning. But then when the Knicks and whoever else start driving up the price,

then he's going to tap out. That's what I think. How do you feel about people that, generally speaking, at auctions? Just try to drive the price up? Yeah. People do that in fantasy football. They start bidding stuff up and then they end up with the players on accident. That's always fun.

What do you think about? Oh, well, you're not going to be in the league, I think. Nope, I'm out. Come on. Nope. I'm done fantasy football. Have you been done fantasy football auctions? I've been in fantasy football auctions.

It's always fun. It's a lot longer. to do, though. You can be out there quick. You can put a short limit on it. Okay. All right. Texans back.

I'm finishing the update, right? Texans are back on the practice field for the second and final day of minicamp. Appreciate it. Nick Chubb was out there today. CJ Stratt was out there throwing today. Love it. And there's your headlines of that. Because until somebody gets hurt or somebody does something crazy, I mean,

these play-by-play descriptions of these great catches are nice and everything, but it's a glorified flag football practice. don't you think? Yes. Now, is there some rot running? Yes. Is there some instruction? Yes. Is there stuff that lays the groundwork down for training camp? Absolutely.

But again, we're not talking about a real training camp for at least another month. That's all right. Sounds like the boys are doing well. And that's when you really start to really do a deep dive in it. And, of course, there's nobody in the marketplace that will give you a better deep dive than us here at Sports Talk 790. And of course, Adam Wexler. Your unofficial home for the Houston, Texas. We are as unofficial as it gets.

And that, my friends, was your news. Wow, thank you, Matt. No, you're right. Thank me. I did. So are we going to go to the Rockets, not getting Durant, not getting Janus, and just staying away from the heavy hitting superstars and get a mid-level guy? Is that what you can?

You think you haven't kind of predicted that a little bit of a while back. Did you not? I think so, yeah. Yeah, that was my gut feeling. I'd be okay with that. Rotational peace, not a superstar. See, I like Jalen Green. I think to me, and we got to get a break on this one.

I think the shock of the playoffs, I'm very curious to see how he comes back from this. Does that make sense to you? It'd be a fun storyline in redemption arc and hopefully he can bounce back. Because here's the thing, if he does this again and he goes into a shell, then you know he's not built for a long postseason run. I'm not ready to say that just yet. Yeah.

And that because I'm just super pro, Jalen Greener, super anti. I mean, I don't have a favorite. But I'm not ready to give up on it. Yeah. But I'll say this. The leash to start to change your mind, I think, is very, very short. I feel like he's not going to be a superstar. He's going to be a guy who can average 20 to 24, 5 points per game, make an all-star game here or there.

But best player on a championship team, which is kind of what you were hoping for. I don't think he's going to be there. Which is okay. he was your leading score on a 52 win team. Like if Alpe takes a little step up, Reed takes a significant step up, and a man continues to progress like he did from season one to season two.

I mean, could you not get back to 52 wins next year? Absolutely. All right. Just on it out there. I'm just, here's what my gut tells me. Better deals will be for Durant will be out there. And I think the bucks, if indeed Janus really does want to leave Milwaukee, the asking press will be too much.

Correct. That's just my, not in a gut feeling. It's just the vibe I get. The vibes. Good feelings are vibes. I can be wrong. I'm okay with that. Okay.

1214 on Sports Talk 790s. All right. Ross says it's breaking news. 1221, Sports Talk 790. You know what happens? That's one. I think it's two at least. Wait a minute.

The last time you said at least two, it was definitely a three. Okay, some people is going to say, okay, do three. Me. Okay, so the action thing this time? I'm not the biggest fan of said group, but Brian Wilson. Beach Boys? Of the Beach Boys. Yeah.

Has passed. Oh. Oh. At the age of 82. Oh, good life. I like the Beach Boys, never loved them. I respect the Beach Boys. Respect the hell out of the Beach Boys.

The second most popular group of the 1960s, I would, well, Rolling Stones had a longer career, but I would say in their heyday in the 60s, it was Beatles won Beach Boys 2. Yeah, the Beach Boys and Beatles were each kind of pushing each other, changing the dynamics of pop music and songwriting and lyric writing and all that type of stuff. Could you say they had a bigger, like, brand image in America than the Beatles?

No, I wouldn't say that, but I don't know. The Beatles were worldwide famous. Beach Boys, obviously the British invasion made the Beatles here, but I mean, no, I would say, no, I don't think it's even close. Pet Sounds is one of the most renowned albums of all time with a lot of their hits on it. They were the, the Beach Boys were the Smoking Joe Frazier to the Beatles, Muhammad Ali. Okay. The radio show in the marketplace is going to give you a boxing, old boxing reference for old bands. I'm here for you

Brian Wilson 82 Was that worth three sounders? No, it was worth two. Well, people love the Beach Boys and I don't want to hate because I don't really care for them that much. I would say

if they toured, I would go see them. My favorite Beach Boy song would probably have to be... All the ones that they ripped off of a Chuck Berry. I'm gonna go with a more of a of a ballot for them. God Only Knows is maybe my favorite song. Yeah, that's probably, I would say, their best song.

Was that off Pet Sounds? God Only Knows? Is that what it was called? Yeah. It was also the theme for a TV show on HBO called Big Love. It was about the man that was married to three Mormon women. Oh, okay. This is a classic.

I just don't like the drony, whining vocals on a lot of this. This is a, I, I, see, that California surfing stuff didn't do anything for me. Yeah, that was the early stuff. It's kind of like beetle mania stuff, and then they matured. Let's give it a run. Wait, they sound like the Beatles. They do not sound like the Beatles. You stay out of this.

Yeah, this is not a jam, but it's certainly a melodic theme to it. Yeah, this was used in... Was this in bogey nights? Brian, a little thing that known about Brian Wilson. Brian Wilson, their father was very, very abusive. And caused lots of issues among members of their family. And then one of the brothers, I think, did he drown or did he kill himself? I can't remember.

And then Mike Love recently passed away. I don't even know how many members are left. Mike Love, Al Jardine. Okay. Bruce Johnston. That's what this, Wikipedia says of the current members. Mike, is Mike Love's not alive, is he? Or is he?

Yes, he is, 84 years old. Are you, somebody with Love died. Kevin Love. No, Kevin, I think Mike is his uncle. Oh, okay. Yeah, didn't Kevin Love's dad died recently? Maybe Kevin's dad died. Okay, I'm going to give this song a seven.

Yeah, Stan Love died in April. Okay. So, yeah. What did you say about this, Jonathan? Do you like this song or no? I'm going to give it a seven. What is the most famous Beach Boy song? Surfing USA?

Cocamo. Round, round, round. Is that the song with... I get around? That's them. Yeah, I think that's the one I know. Yeah, I get around, surfing USA, California. What is it?

What does it be not? Wouldn't it be nice? Oh, wouldn't it be nice? It's a pretty good jam. Good vibrations? Good, oh, okay. You know what? There's more hits than I thought.

Good vibrations is a great song. Oh, good vibrations. Get some good vibrations on there. I hate this song. Oh, no, no, no. Go ahead. Now, we will play this version, and then we'll come back with the Marky Mark

and the funky bunch version of... No, we're not going to do that. This is a jam. Don't sing over the song. When, when, where, where... You see, when something Ross is like, I don't like to be a bit. Please tell me that's such a good at to karaoke.

I just don't like it. I don't know. It's just grading to me. It's like nails on a chalkboard. It's like you and Minnie Repertin. I can't explain it. Oh, that's true. I can't explain it.

Here comes a good chorus. Turn us up real quick. Bop. It's good. It's good. I'm not understanding them. In my mind, they're properly rated. Which is one of the greatest group.

The second greatest group of the 1960s. Overrated. you're going to lose on that. That's okay. It's my opinion. That's right. It's just a bad opinion. All right. That's what you say. I think a lot of people agree with me.

The Beach Boys are over here. I think America's going to disagree with you. And I don't need to argue with you. Your tastes are crap. Pleet. I want you to go tell everybody how much you think the Beach Boys suck. They're almost as good as Barry Manolo. Oh, you know what?

Shut your bum ass up, mate. You're terrible. Hope you choking your chicken sandwich. Shut your bum ass up, man. There are these calls coming in for this. All right, we've got to get Charles real quick. Beach Boy Talk 790 apparently. Whatever works.

Anything goes Wednesday. Charles, like I said, I respect them. They were revolutionary. No, you don't. You just say they were overrated. It means you don't respect them. I mean, I respect what they did for the game. Okay.

Charles, what do you got today? First of all, I'm going to help y'all out. They're California's easy top to just make it simple. Hmm. Anyway, Jalen Green, he's going to be good. never necessarily great. I see Harden all over again. But why do we keep chasing

all these players? I don't care what sport it is here in Houston. Ashtos do well. But everybody else, we chase these players that have been injured, whatever. Why would we even want Durant? Like, wouldn't like Devin Booker, I don't know if he's

up for a contract or whatever? He's about to get a new two-year extension at the end of the contract is going to pay him $75 million a year. It's about valued. Kevin Durant's got a couple of years left in his contract. As a matter of fact, I think he's got one year left on his contract. He still wakes up scoring 25 points a game. And those guys are hard to find.

He gets hurt all the time. He's hurt at the Olympics. He's hurt everywhere. Whenever you need him. And again, I don't think you, I want you to rephrase it. I don't think they're chasing after him. Is there interest? Yes.

Chasing after him would be mortgaging the farm and giving up everything you had to go get the guy. I don't think the Rockets want to do that. Just understand them. I'd love a mid-level player. I think we have enough pieces. I would be okay with getting rid of green to get a player as good or better than him with a couple of players.

And I believe we make a deeper run. I mean, that's just my opinion. Okay. You know what? I get it. If you want to stay with a nucleus, I can argue right there for you on it. Uh-oh.

You're clenching your teeth. Say what you got to say when I get to Vanessa. I don't. see, I mean, I'm in Thompson TBV, but I don't see best player on a championship potential remaining in Shingoon or Green. That's my opinion.

Okay. And you're not the only one that has that opinion. I need one more year. They're both young. That's fine. And maybe that's wrong me to say that. But I don't want to bury either one of their professional careers, especially Jalen's, knowing that that was the first go round of the lights are bigger and brighter the playoff. See, I'm not burying them necessarily, but relative to their peers in their own

draft classes, they're lagging behind. And guys that we've seen by year four, light years ahead of where Jalen Green is right now. The Devin Bookers, Anthony Edwards, you know, even, I mean, Shea Gilgis Alexander, Jalen Brunson, whoever. Yeah, I get it. But Jailen Brunson was never considered this to be what he was going to do in Dallas. That's why Dallas got rid of him. He took a step up in New York But how many years He did? How many years was he named me

Before he took him? I don't know Yeah I can go look But take a quick time out Pat and Brian I want to talk about the Beach Boys We are playing good vibrations

By the funky bunch Because if you don't love them Because if you don't love them Because if you don't love You honor Brian Wilson's death Oh well it's not We're gonna do believe it on We're gonna do Brian Wilson

Well he's dead Put him in alive for dead You all know the song Feel Flows by Beach Boys I don't know if it's good enough Feel Flows I don't know All right we're gonna check in

in Indianapolis plus some more phone calls straight ahead. Every Rockets game on Sports Talk 790. Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I want to take you, Bermuda, Bahama, come on my pretty mama. Hey, why don't we go Jamaica off the floor? Was this in cocktail? Is this where this song became popular? I don't know. This is late stage Beach Boys.

This is very late Beach Boys. If you're not heard, Brian Wilson. passing away today at the age of 82, primary songwriter and co-founder of the Beach Boys. I believe one of Vanessa Richardson's best friends was in the Kokomo video, if I'm not mistaken. This was in Cocktail, Matt. Good job. Cocktail, good movie, great movie.

You never saw it. What? All right. Back to what I was saying. Vanessa's got close friends. One of them, I believe the name is Stamos. John Stamos was in Cocktail. Oh, was in the Kokomo video. I wish.

Stop. By the way, you're going to meet him. Let me tell you something. You got the ESPN tag on your little Instagram and your Twitter now. You are meeting John Stamos. It's not a question of if it's going to be when. I hope so. I've been waiting.

All right. You're in Indianapolis. The excitement, the thrill of NBA basketball is at a crescendo. What is going on first and foremost between John Cougar Mellencamp and Pat McAfee. Why are they bitching at each other? Yeah, there's some beef there. And it had something to do with Pat stood at one of the games for the Western or Eastern

Conference finals and cussed on the Jumbotron and jokingly told the New York Knicks fans to go home. That offended John Mellencamp, who is known to be very grouchy himself. So I'm not sure why he took to Twitter, but he made very poorly executed graphic and said that He didn't think that that was serving up. Who's your hospitality?

It was very strange. So what is Hoosier Hospital? What is Hoosier hospitality? Define in your own words? I don't. According to John Mellencamp, everybody's supposed to be nice. But I'm not sure. I'm not sure the details on that.

But some major beef there for sure. All right. Vanessa, by the way, is a major star. We know her from Space City, but she's working. Is it called Hoop? It's not Hoop Dreams. What is your show called on ESPN Plus? So it is a YouTube.

It's a digital show. It's called Hoop Stream. Hoop Streams. And it is a 30-minute pre-game show. It is half an hour before the game starts, and then it goes right up to tip off. So we are courtside. You know, we've got great guests coming through. We talk X's and O's.

We have a lot of former players on, but then we also touch on, you know, storylines around the league and fashion and all of the fun stuff. So I'm doing that, and then tonight I'm on the actual Game 3 broadcast, again for the sidelines for the radio. Well, I'm very happy for you. Congratulations for this opportunity, and you must have a thrill, because not only are you working an NBA national event for ESPN,

but you're in your hometown or your home state. Is Pacer Mania running wild? I mean, how much will it cost for an average person to get in the building tonight? I have no idea that ticket prices, but it is cool. I think it's $500, I think. It's been 20, yeah, I mean, it's been 25 years since the Pacers were in the NBA finals.

So, you know, everything that's happened with Caitlin Clark, what she's done not only for women's basketball, but, you know, I have friends that have restaurants downtown and businesses and everything's just really exploded for them over the last couple of years because of Caitlin Clark. And then, yeah, it's good for the city. Like I always say, you know, football, everybody knows Texas for football, right? And with Indiana, it's basketball. And it's not just pro basketball. That's the thing is that, yeah, I mean, I grew up liking the Pacers, right? but like it was more so like high school basketball as crazy as that found high school basketball college basketball it's just a big part of the fabric of the entire state from you know gary

indiana down to evansville so it's good for the city and it's cool for sure now you've covered super bowls you have covered world series this is your first NBA finals correct give me the vibe differently in that in this event compared to the other two events you've been a part of Yeah, I mean, it's obviously it's more compact. You know, basketball is a very intimate setting. You can, if you sit close enough, this is why I always tell people if they can, they should at some point try to sit courtside at a Rockets game because it's just the best access you can get at a sporting event.

You can hear what the coaches are saying, and it's loud. So, you know, look, I've been at the Indy 500, the Kentucky Derby Super Bowl, and like you said, every event is a little bit different, but what is cool is just the constant like high pressure situation and everybody being so excited and the excitement is definitely palpable at those events for sure. It's been hard for us, and I'm branching this on Twitter myself, and you're covering it, and you've got travels involved, so this could be a little bit of a time off is not bad, but I want to get into every bit of this series,

but the two days off in between the first three games has been kind of unsettling. Has there been any reaction from, I know the players don't mind it, but what about people that are just trying to generally drum up conversation about this finals? Because they are too small to market teams, they're not too very recognizable teams. And I would think if you've got a great series going, you're thirsting for the next game. And with such a long break, it's been hard to kind of get that right now.

Yeah, there are pros and cons. Like I, like you said, I don't think the players mind it. They're never going to mind more rest. But certainly, you know, you hear everybody on the talk shows, not just yourself, but on ESPN. talking about like, you know, all the days off, but then between three and four, there's only one day. So it's definitely an odd schedule.

Now, you are working the sidelines for the radio broadcast tonight. You've been in Rocket huddles. What's it like being around Oklahoma City huddle and or Indiana so far? Well, and I'm not just saying this because I love the Rockets so much, but it's incredible to hear EMA and his coaching staff, you know, like he, Ben Sullivan, Royal Ivy, like the Rockets have some of the most cerebral, smart assistant coaches that are so engaged with the players. So first and foremost, just that is so impressive. And it is cool.

You know, when you're, everybody says that the finals and playoffs in general are about adjustments and playing chess. And so to hear, you know, Mark Dagnold and then Rick Carlisle, who won a championship with the Dallas Mavericks, you know, to hear how both of them do their sayings is, is interesting for sure. And the dynamic of every time out and every time out and every time. possession mattering has been really cool. So yeah, it's been great.

I was going to say for you, especially too, because you and I know the intimacies of the rockets and they're the way they think, the way they talk, the way they prepare, it's got to be kind of fun for you to kind of get a different perspective of how things are addressed if you visit with them before the game or a shoot around to kind of, because we don't get to peek into Indiana's thought process when the rockets are playing the Pacers. You get this opportunity now with the Thunder and the Pacers as working for a national entity. Yeah, we're definitely in our own Rockets world, and I wouldn't have it any other way because I think the team is heading in such a fun direction. But it is interesting to see how different coaching staffs move and how, you know, the different cultures and different temperaments, shall we say, of Rick versus Mark.

Yeah. It's definitely fascinating as well. So, yeah, it is definitely, you know, the biggest stage. And I look forward to our rockets being here soon enough. All right. So who will be the celebrities in the building tonight? Ooh, you know, I think we're going to see Reggie Miller. I know we are planning on having Lance Stevenson stop by our show if Lance would like to. I know Charles Barkley is here and Shaq was an OKC.

I don't know if Shaq will be here as well. So as far as Indiana celebrities, you might get Pat McAfee, you might get John Mellencamp, um, Aunt Harris, uh, Kenneth Babyface Edmonds. from Indianapolis. I'm really trying here. Some former cult players maybe. I don't think there are a ton of celebrities from Indy, but we'll see. David Letterman's from Indy, right?

Yeah, why isn't Leonardman? Lutterman's got to be there tonight. David Letterman, definitely. And then, you know, you'll get the celebrities that want to come just to because it's an NBA final. So we shall see. Ron, our test is here. I saw Ron earlier, so he will be in the house as well. So it should be a lot of former Pacers for sure.

All right. Follow Vanessa on Twitter. Vanessa's or Twitter account. She'll give you the YouTube connection to watch your show tonight, which will, you'll start at what time? 6.30 or 7 o'clock? So we start half an hour before the game begins. All right. So I believe the game is a

yeah. So Houston time is different than Indiana time. Houston time, 7.30. Okay, so 7 o'clock then. All right. Yeah. Go ahead, Matt. I was going to say, you can listen to the radio because one of my good friends, Mark Kestershire, is the voice. of the NBA and ESPN Radio, and he and PJ and Vanessa stepping in to help them out tonight.

So it's a great broadcast. So if you're not the biggest fan of Richard Jefferson or Stephen A. Smith, you get a radio alternative. There you go. Did I say that properly? There you go. Yes. How nice of you to plug it? Yeah, absolutely. All right, there you go. Hey, safe travels. How are you getting back and forth?

Are you on an ABC ESPN Disney Jet or how are you having to fly commercial? What's going on with that? I'm slumming it. I'm slumming it commercial. But, Matt, I have to call you out on something. Why haven't you asked me about my John Stamos tweet? Okay. And we got to talk about it. So real fast, she came up with a really funny line about how the Knicks wanted to talk to IMA Doka.

And she says, I want to talk to John Stamos. It's not happening. So I thought it was really funny. I wanted to say, when I was single and younger, I wanted to talk to Jenny Garth and Tiffany Amber Thiessen. But that would be a flat out bit steal. So I asked for a ruling from our audience, Ross, if I could bit steal Vanessa, because people bit steal for me all the time. And she said, Vanessa, on Twitter, you said what?

You can't bit steal this woman? You call me a woman. Yeah, I did. I think you need to get your, first of all, you have enough bit. To be clear, you have such a bum ass up. I just don't get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good morning strippers.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're good on bits. You got to let me have this bit. That's why I didn't do it. That's why I'm going to give up. By the way, tell Ross, your buddies. that own the bar in Indianapolis and how they wear their Good Morning Stripper shirts. Really?

Yeah, yeah. They love us. They do. Yeah, they love Matt Thomas. They are actually, so they own bars in Indiana, but they are Houston natives. They actually started in the industry working for Tillman for Tita on the Kima Boardwalk. And so they are massive Matt Thomas show fans. And, you know, when they found out that I sat next to Matt on the plane and all that, they just texted me good morning strippers. Oh, yeah. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross, Vanessa.

Yeah, don't forget Ross's name. He's a sensitive salary over here. I'm hanging up on you now. No, you're not. All right, Vanessa, we'll be listening tonight. I have a great rest of your time. And again, we're very proud of you for this opportunity and talk to you soon. Thank you, guys.

We'll see you later. That is Vanessa Richardson. Major network star Vanessa Richardson now on ESPN doing that HoopStream's pregame show and working on the radio broadcast. All right. Believe it or not, we're going to do live or whatever we're going to do Brian Wilson now, right? Come on. What is we're doing Brian Wilson mean? I'll help.

I'll support you. I can do it. Pat and Brian will get to you next. 1248, it is the Matt Thomas show at Raw. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Again. Not going to be in the Hall of Fame.

Oh, this one. Actually, sounds kind of familiar. What does it sound like? Sounds like this song from Chuck Berry. They really rock it in. Bid stealing. Yo, that's way too post. That's crazy.

Yeah, Chuck Berry actually sued them. Did you win? Yes. He's got a songwriter credit now on Surfing USA. It's just straight rip. All right, now here's the problem. They're like, no, it's a tribute. It's influence.

It's not the same. So we lost Brian Wilson today. Word for word, bar for bar. We lost Slystone yesterday. These deaths happen in three. Oh, no, they don't. Yeah, they do. Okay.

Who's the next great singer we're going to lose tomorrow? I'll put some people on the big board. You ready? Sure. Harry Belafonte. I think he died. Linda Ronstadt. You're so weird.

When's it going to happen? When's the moratorium on three? Three days a row? It had to be tomorrow, yeah. Tomorrow, yeah. So you're saying tomorrow a major singer will die. No, I'm not saying, but that's if you believe in the things that happen in three, I don't.

Somebody's going to die tomorrow. You can always find three things that happened, and then you should put them together. It's ridiculous. But you're putting three really good singers together. Okay. So I would go with Linda Ronstat. Dionne Warwick?

Dionne Warwick. Gladys Knight. Smokey Robinson. Diana Ross alive or dead? Diana Ross is alive. Okay. Smokey Robinson died, I thought. No, he's a lot.

He got sued. Oh, that's what it was. Sexually, you know, wanting his maze. He was in news for something. Oh, that was recently, no. It was like two weeks ago. Yeah. He's very much alive.

Well, unfortunately, for those women. I hope it's not right. I love Smokey Robinson. All time great. All time great. I listen to Smokey's channel on Sirius XM occasionally. Yeah, you've always talked about how he's influenced your personal life. No, that's not true at all.

Pat. You might be suspended. Again? Yeah. Pat and Sugarland on 7 out of. Hello, Pat. What's going on, guys? You tell us.

The man I just reminded me of the Beach Boys concert I saw after an Astros game. And evidently, I think they did it in back-to-back years. But so, man, they got Astro ties. You can tie that into the sports talk. And, yeah, these guys deserve a little more respect than O'Pross has given them. So I'm never a huge fan myself. I'm a generation behind their heyday. but my sister tells the story.

She's about 10 years older than me, how they opened for Crosby's Dills and Nash when they were at their peak. They said the Beach Boys opened for them and stole the show. Everybody was called nuts at the concert and it was the highlight of the concert. But anyway, that's all I had.

Thanks for the phone call. Thank you, Patty. Yeah, again, I have a poll question up. Love them, like them, just okay, hate them. I would be, I would put myself in the category of liking them. love them. I love the Beatles. I don't love the Beach Boys. I love the Eagles. I don't love the Beach Boys. I like them. Yeah. And they're fine. You put you put yourself in the Just Okay category.

Like I said, I respect what they did. I just but don't. It's not my deal. Well that can be the same. I can say the same thing about hip hop. I respect the the art. Yeah, exactly. It's just not your deal. It's not my deal. That's what I'm saying. But you openly make fun of it. Oh, who did I make fun of? You make fun of a lot of the songs.

I didn't steal the song from Chuck Barry. They did. That's true. That wasn't me. Let's go to Brian on 790 before the top of the hour. Hello, Brian. What's up, guys? I saw the Beach Boys played in Sugar Land at the Rort Rine Antial.

The Rort Rite Rancho? Yeah, I know where that is. A few years ago. My wife and I went at the time where we brought down the average age by far by a lot. But the music was still really good. Mike Love was playing and Bruce Johnson was still there.

So two of the originals, or mostly originals, but it was Dennis who died in a, yeah, drowned in the lake. And then Carl died from lung cancer, I think, in like the mid-90s. But no, I think they're one of those bands along with

the Beatles and the Eagles, whose music can just transcend time. It can cover numerous generations yeah you either most of the time you're either love them or you're just indifferent to them most people you know there's no harm you know no harsh feelings towards them but uh i grew up on that i you know my parents grew up in the 50s and 60s so we always had you all the oldies on the house whether it was them or dion and the belmonts or the drifters or whoever so i grew up with a lot of that music so it's still it's still great to listen to there's still on my uh my phone so

when I'm driving across this big state of ours, I'll put them on, and I can listen to a lot of their songs. But, sad day, because he was the brains behind the operation, didn't tour much after. Had tremendous mental health issues. Thank you, Brian, for the phone call I gave the top of the hour. That's the thing is that I think there's, for what I've read properly, a lot of verbal abuse, a lot of pressure for the father. Kind of remind me of the Jackson's dad, the way he would treat his, I mean, Joe? I mean, unfortunately, there's a lot of abuse with families that have successful groups and the pressure that the moms and dads put on them.

It's a lot of artists as well. Just in general. John, that biopic who watched him of Rocket Man, his dad barely accepted him. Oh, what a good movie. It was okay. That's my girl's top biopic movie now. Oh, see, I thought the biopic of Freddie Mercury was better. But I might be in the minority on that.

I still haven't watched the Elvis one. the Elton one. Elvis one kind of dragged down because it was a lot of Colonel Parker POV on that one. A lot of Tom Hanks. He's what? Thanks. By the way, Trevor did a great job. He says, you've got to make sure Paul McCartney's wrapped up in bubble

wrap. Paul McCartney, Ringo Star, you're also on that list too. They could crope. No, they're not. What's some point, man? Remember, when half the Beatles are gone, you can't... When Paul leaves, I'm taking a day off. Why? To... Leaves what? This Earth of ours, yes. Okay. Well, you're not even going to go see them anymore, so what's the different?

Hey, wait a minute. You put out this Beach Boys poll on your Twitter? Yeah, I did. Oh, man, I just, I'll delete mine, I guess. Yeah, go on. I just put love them, like them, don't like them. Yeah, poll question of 131 votes in, 37% just okay. I'm going to put just okay. 31% like them, 20% love them and 4% hate them.

I'll delete mine and retweet yours, Matt. You're the best. All right, let's get the... Oops. Sorry, good. Final hour of the show. Astros, White Sox. The rebound game is tonight, Rossi.

Is it a guaranteed win night? You got to beat the pale hos, don't you? Is it a must-win game for the Houston Astros? It is not. It is not a must-win game. It would be great pre-game coverage coming your way at 6 o'clock. Well, who's hosting it? Me?

Well, great, it's a relative term. One o'clock on Sports Talk 790. If you want to jump on the conversation, you may do. So at 7-13-212-5-790. 713-212-5-7-90. Final hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We are with you till 2 o'clock. We'd love to have you a part of the show.

We've gotten a variety of things going on. We had a couple Astros calls, a couple of Rockets calls, a couple of Beach Boy calls. I kind of like it. I just don't want to just beat a single topic down your throat for four hours a day. Could you imagine doing that, Rossi?

I wouldn't want to do that under any circumstance. Coming up next segment, game-by-game predictions of Nick Chubb's rushing output. All right. Speaking of the Texans, DJB Enemy covers the Texans for ESPN. I'm reading verbatim off of him. I'm giving him credit.

It says biggest takeaways from day two of many camp, the offensive line better than day one. That's good. In the limited reps against starting defensive line. Stroud's favorite target today was Kirk. Christian Kirk, both connected on a few passes highlighted by a deep slot for 30-ish yards, 30-ish. Okay.

And is this a DJB enemy gut feeling? Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter should I each have 10 sacks again. DJ, I would hope so. That feels like a little bit of an early prediction on that based off of two mini-camp days? Well, based off the fact they're two of the best pass rushers in football. This defense can be good, Maddie. Hey, are you ready for some 16, 13 games? Yes.

Demico Ryan's is MVP, Texans, MVP, Kimee Fairbairn. All right, so what wins more in the NFL in the last 10 years? Offenses or defenses? Offense. How far can it? It's a team having both. Well, of course, let me tell you. If you think you can just have one of the other and not have a wretched one part and have a superior other,

you're going to be in the onset looking at. You just are. You have to have some semblance of a competitive both sides of the football. Now, you can probably be ranked 20th and something. and one particular category and still win. Yeah. I think it's been holding the defense has been holding the bills back. Yeah.

Bingle's defense has been holding their offense back. Yes. Who's been held back? Baltimore. I think the Chiefs made it as far as they did on the backs of their defense, though. Pat Mahomes and then offense were pedestrian. Yeah. What's held Baltimore back?

I would say Lamar inconsistency. I would say inconsistency with Lamar, some, Yeah, bad luck in football games that just didn't go their way. But I think two years ago in the AFC championship game, Lamar Jackson was pressing way too much for sure. And then the game they lost the bills. Didn't they lose their ton over battle like three or four to zero? Yes, very early in the game. Yeah, Mark Andrews fumbled the ball away.

Right. And then he dropped the pass at the very end, right? A two-point conversion that would have sent it to overtime or something like that? So was that for the win. So gimmicky endings. Yeah, they say I would say a little bit of bad. but also Lamar Jackson inconsistency, as you said. Yeah, two years ago, he was like trying to toss everything down the field when they had that

close game. What was it like 17 to 10 or whatever with the chiefs? And he was trying to bomb everything and not taking everything in front of him. So when you think of the great defenses that win Super Bowls, two come to mind, 85 bears and the 2000 Baltimore Ravens. I would put the O2 Buccaneers in that category. Could too, Brad Johnson? You think about it.

Just go find a game with an average. average quarterback or below average quarterback, and you can probably attribute it to, it was a great defense. 2012-ish, I think it was 12 Ravens with Joe Flacco. But Flacco was great. But Flacco was like double-digit touchdowns and one interception. He put together an amazing postseason. He did, but he was just a mid-quarterback.

I mean, I think we can all agree with that. Right, right, right, right. So we'll see, the Texans do not have a mid-quarterback. Now, he is a good quarterback. You and I had this playful conversation last year about Elite. Did he take the step to be elite last year? CJ Stroud? Yeah.

You can't say yes because everybody has said universally that he had a down year. So I still put him in the very good category. I don't necessarily think he's got to be great. If this defense is what you think it's going to be, and Danil Hunter does get you 10 sacks, and Will Anderson get you 10 sacks, and Derek Stingley plays the way like he did last year, and Jalen Petrie is healthy and able to contribute more than he did last year,

then you could have a spectacular, elite top three defense, have a middle of the pack offense, and that might get you to a place you've ever been before, and that's at least the AFC championship game. That's how the positive storyline is going on that. Super defense that plays above its head. C.J. rebounds

and gets just enough offense, just enough of a running game, just enough pass protection, a just enough offense with a superior defense, Can Rossi get you to the AFC championship game? Yeah, it felt like Bobby Sloak was running the just enough offense. And I'll be interested to see what Nick Cayley does and how much of that was at the behest of Domeco Ryans. And how much is it also could be is if this offensive line craters again,

then Bobby Sloak is going to be talking to you about sending messages like, hey, man, it wouldn't me, wasn't me. Yeah, my fault. Exactly. Anybody, I mean, you and I can go up draw and play. If we have a perfect offensive line who's going to hold. everybody for five, six seconds, you and I can draw up plays and they'll be successful. Right. But it's about

adjusting and I think Bobby Sloke did a poor job of doing that. And speaking of where you put CJ Stroud, a couple of weeks ago, pro football focus ranked all the quarterbacks. Now how often do they do this? I don't know. But this is off-season fodder.

Yeah, because I was going to say they're doing this to gain some clicks and they got one. They did tier one elite starters. They only put four in there. That would be the guys you would think of Mahomes, Burrow, Lamar, Josh Allen. Yep. Tier 2, high-in starters. C.J. Stroud is not in there.

Tier 3, solid starters who have flashed high-end play. They do not have C.J. Stroud there. They have him 14th under the category of solid starters but need more help. Behind Baker Mayfield and ahead of Kyler Murray and Trevor Lawrence. Say that last sentence again. Behind whom? Baker Mayfield. Jordan Love 12, Baker Mayfield 13,

C.J. Stroud, 14. Who had better seasons of those three quarterbacks? I would say that Love and Mayfield had better seasons. I would agree with that. Gino Smith 10th, though? Gino Smith or C.J. Joe Smith, that's such a great season to get trade in the off season. So let's slow that roll a little bit down.

Jordan Love or C.J. Stroh. Career or last year? For this year. I don't mean to him in Haw. I know. It's not about the armstress. It's not about the arm strength. It's not about the accuracy.

It's about how he's going to live with, I think, to be, again, a very suspect offensive line. Baker Mayfield or C.J. Straub. This upcoming season. Baker Mayfield led the NFL with 16 interception, but interceptions, but he had 41 touchdowns. I don't want to talk about any of this. Here's what you've done. we are attaching, on paper, CJ wins those battles over those two quarterbacks. The upside on CJ is significantly better than the other two guys.

First of all, he's younger. Second of all, he had an incredible first season. But what we can't do is we cannot separate the offensive lines from the quarterbacks because they work as a seven-man group. You got your five linemen, you have your tight end, and you have your quarterbacks. back. It's like Ross again, here's a terrible example. It's like your lead singer's got a terrible band

behind you. And you may think the guy's a great vocalist, but if he's got a terrible band behind him, it's still going to be a bad band. We all think about that one. I'm telling you. Shakespeare. It's not the worst thing I've ever heard. If CJ has an average offensive line and is

not thrown around like a rag doll like he was last year or running for his life, let's say he runs. How many pressure that he faced last year. Is there what you can look that up really quick? I can probably look that up. But this is the thing, though. I mean, a lot of these quarterbacks ahead of him have had bad, I mean, Pat Mahomes' offensive line was horrible last year. Yes, they were. Joe Burroughs not had a good offensive line in his career.

I don't remember the quality of Jaden Daniels' offensive line. It wasn't great, I don't think. Let's see. Obviously, Jared Gough and the Lions had great ones. Good stuff in San Francisco. So let me go Debbie Downer for a second, if you're saying. You can't blame it all on the offensive line. Okay, so here's my point. if he doesn't improve, and he's not better than Jordan Love this year,

and he's not better than Baker Mayfield, which I don't believe to be the case. But if he's not, you can't put $50 million in his piggy bank. Oh, they will. That would not be great money spent. You will because... Let me ask you this.

Is it the right football decision? I know football quarterbacks are treated differently salary-wise. Is it the right decision, Ross, to put $60 million a year into a player who is considered a mid-level. When you're a 14th in the NFL, by whatever metrics, pro football focus or your own seeing eyes,

watching it, how do you win with a football team if you're paying $60 million to a guy who's the 14th best quarterback? I think that's part of the problem reason why Kirk Cousins has never been able to win games. You spend all that money on him and he's just okay. I think he's better than Jordan Love.

Jordan Love got huge money. The highest AAV quarterback in four, football is Dak Prescott. And look where the Cowboys are. He's better than Deskot. Look where the Cowboys are. Yeah. They can't gather that one. I mean, you just have to take that leap because what's your alternative? You don't have one.

Exactly. Like, you have to take a shot. Can you win a Super Bowl with CJ Stroud? I think the Texas can. Absolutely. Absolutely. Sure. Will he win you that Super Bowl? That's up for debate and remains to be seen. So if you have one of these golden tickets, which is a franchise quarterback, unless he demands it and then gets 25 lawsuits filed against him, you hold on to that golden ticket. So he's already got the golden ticket.

Two is making six. Unless he throws twice as many I NTs and he throws touchdowns, I don't think C.J. has got that in his DNA. Two is getting $50 million a year. Kyla Murray's around $50 million a year. I mean, it's just the going rate. So basically, if you pay money

for a mid-quarterback, you're screwed. Yeah. I think C.J. Stroud's better than mid. Obviously, he took a step back last year, but I think... What I don't want is, I don't want, you and I a year from now to have the same conversation of him being the 14th best career year coming for cj

strah what's up okay let's go that's the battle red Ross we know and love 116 on sports talk 790 if you missed our conversation with brian bogus civic we'll have more of that coming for you at 130 believe or not today all things brian wilson rip to the former lead singer and lead writer of the beach boys 16 on sports talk 790 it is a matt thomas show with ross we are with you till 2 o'clock today Believe it or not, all the things about Brian Wilson, lead singer of the Beach Boys passing away at the age of 82. I told you this before. We'll get back to sports just a second here.

And it's a byproduct of the fact that I've just not much into the current music. But all my favorite people are getting to the point where they're either dying or not able to perform anymore. Well, Matt, the only thing sure than life is death. Thank you for that. So I need to start finding some current music. Okay. We're going to go for like a chapel roan and pink pony club. That sounds good. I'll try it.

You don't want to hear that, Matt. You're going to go with pop music? What are you looking for? Anything that I can go see in a casino in 40 years from now? The wheel you up at the casino in 40 years? You don't think I will be wheeled up to a casino? Oh, man. Yeah, I guess so.

Doing that later this summer. Things don't work out of any better. Do you want to break your legs or what? I don't know. You never know. Like, who's the hottest male recording artist right this second? And like, what drama? That's a hard question.

Okay. If I put on, well, we don't have an AC station here. Is Bruno Amar is still already old now? No, he's still, like, four and a biggest. It's not unc music yet, or it kind of is? That's like my... Is Timberlake still consider the top five? No, that's like unc.

Timberlake's unk, you know what I mean? By the way, my wife is watching this show called The Better Sister. Jessica Beal is the star of the show. Jessica Beal, goodness girl. gracious. All time. Good for him. They make her look older in this show than she is.

Top selling artists of 2024. Morgan, I always get this wrong. Waylon or Wallen? Wallin. That was the first person I said too. That's funny. That's good.

All right. Tyler the creator, really? Drake. Do you get some Drake? Do you see me being a Drake guy? I could see it. See, that feels like a slight because you're Kendrick Lamar. guy. So that would make you me

No, that's fine. Okay. You can be a Drake fan. Yeah, Kendrick Lamar was one of the top artists of last year. Luke Combs, apparently, people like. I like Luke Combs. He's all right. So the bass lets country music base now. Yeah, what's going on? Everybody's buying other. It's just Morgan Juan, Luke Combs, and Sabozy. So who what? Maybe Teddy Role. What's name? Teddy Roll. Jelly Roll? Jelly Roll? People love the jelly roll. I can't stand up.

All right. What do you got against the role, man? What the role? What the role do you? I got the, he's got like serious tattoos all over his face. Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, Kanye West, Tyler the creator, Drake.

This is what Google is saying. He doesn't need mainstream, though. I feel like he's not going to like the mainstream. Oh, okay. What do you want some jazz? Yeah, what do you listen to me? You know what I listen to. 70s on 7 and the bridge.

I got issues. I'm fine. What about the K-pop group, BTS You know what I'll do Give me Give me some Who do the Blowfish

What some of that Taylor Swift? I don't know what's BSI boys I think that's I like Bicey boys Billy Elish Now

People love the Billy Elish All right Let's get back Let's get back You'd like some of that pop stuff I mean it's all the same I'm gonna find some new stuff On the plane ride today

Okay Oh the weekend Yeah Weekin's got some jams Yeah Put the weekend on When you're laying your lady now Really

So I can do that like in 245 today. Oh, you're not getting home to about 30310. Yeah, the weather. You're probably right. Sorry. I'll be home at 205. I'm going to start texting you every day when I get home. You know what you're going to say, I'm home?

What about you? And then just you. And then you'll respond in your normal way, which is curse words. Yes. By the way, Siri. What does a great job? I swear to her on the ride home all the time. And she does a pretty good job.

She's about eight and a half out of ten. She says all of them, too. You make sure you enunciate. I slow it down. Wow. I'm glad you slow it down. Astros and White Sox game two of a three-game series tonight. You'll love the On Deck Show.

What are your keys of victory tonight? A keys of victory for the Astros? Yeah. Ryan Gusto going more than four innings. That's key number one. Well, the reality is this. If you're trying to get linked from him, You got to get it tonight because the bullpen got used up a little bit yesterday. Yes, it did.

Although, I mean, it was what? Sousa, Ort, and Dubin. Yep. So no leverage guys. No leverage guys. But Hater did get up in the 9th, and he was throwing a little bit. So I don't know how much you want to count that. But I would, yes, some link from Ryan Gusto.

I would also say middle of the lineup, including Yanar Diaz and Christian Walker. Let's go. A little bit of luck. Christian Walker's luck is going to turn. I feel more confident, actually. I don't feel like we're protecting Christian Walker. But I could see how some people might think that. If you want to give up on him, yeah, that's fine.

I just don't, I'm not going to. But also, of course, as you know, I went down with the Jose Abraeus ship, man. Yes, you did. I wanted to get to $2.50. You did. What did I tell you, by next Tuesday, he's going to get $2.15? Or did I say two weeks for the $2.15? I want to go back to the gut feelings.

But right now he's at 208. Well, you're going up a point. That's good. Yeah, I mean, slow steps. I mean, if you just want to go one for four every game, Chop that wood, let's go. Do you have the box girl from last night in front of you? Yes, 0 for 3.

So go give the audience. Go look at 4, 5, 6 in the Astros lineup of yesterday. Let's see. 4 was Yonner Diaz? O for 3. Walker, 1 for 3. Jake Myers, 1 for 4. With some hard hit contact, Matt. You know what? I like Jake.

I talked to Jake yesterday, as a matter of fact. Good. If Jake is anything short of 7 in the lineup, it's not an indictment against him. It's an indictment against his teammates. 768 OPS is good Results have been good Do I expect them to continue?

Can I give you a crazy baseball take? Yes 30 seconds, we'll talk more about this when I get back next week. Okay. What if I put Jacob Myers up for trade? What would you get? I could easily move Chas and or Jacob Melton to center field.

I guess. Go give me a hard hitting second baseball. He's been one of your best hitters. He's been one of your best players. Okay. not asking you to give me the long excerpt of this. I'm telling you, if you're going to make a trade, you have to give something back in return.

What's his... Could you be selling at him in a high watermark right this second? The stock price for Jake is as high as it's ever been. That's true. I just want you to think about that for a couple days. And we can revisit next week. Well, he's got two more years of team control. That makes it even better.

Even better that you keep him. No, because I don't think you're looking to spend the next five years investing in Jake Myers. Why not? You throw him out there. He's been one of your best players. Centerfield. You can trade. Rock of the lineup, hitting 300? You're going to trade an everyday centerfielder with good average, not great average. Gold Glove finalist. Gold Glove finalist. And you're going to go get your second baseman. You're just trying to piss me off and it's working.

Weekdays 10 to 2. Sports Talk 7.09. Brian Bogus has a conversation is next after Ross tells you about Centrogenic. Today we had a chance to visit with Brian Bogus Evik. His visits come to us every Wednesday at 11 o'clock here on Sports Talks. I mean, we like to play some of the best parts of it in this segment where we discussed again some of the things we were talking about just in the last segment of our show. And that's Christian Walker and his continued struggles at the plate. And we had a chance to ask Bogie a couple of questions about the Astro first baseman and what he sees from him at the plate. See anything physically.

I don't think it's a, oh my gosh, this guy got old over the off season. or the bat speed's gone or there's some big hole in his swing that needs to be fixed. I think it's a combination of a lot of outside factors. I know, you know, y'all mentioned earlier the batting average on balls in play. You know, there's a little bit of bad luck, you know, some balls not falling, some good plays being made against them, balls hit right at people. There's also, you know, he's had some pitchers make some good pitches on him. You know, bad luck that way where a borderline pitch doesn't go your way or, you know,

the first pitch is a perfectly located pitch that you're not going to swing at. Now you're in a hole. And when things aren't going your way, those things in your mind get magnified. I mean, I remember there being times standing in the batters box thinking, okay, here's my time. I'm going to get a good first pitch right down the middle of that one to hit and get dotted up in your 01. And it's like deflation. Oh, here we go again. And you can see some at bats from Christian Walker here or there when something doesn't go his way where you can just see him thinking like,

oh man, here we go again. It's happening again. Today's not going to be the day. I think there is also something to be said about just the Astros' middle of the order in general. I mean, it's been inconsistent at best in those three, four, five, six spots throughout the course of the year. You know, I think not having healthy, productive Yordon in there, having Yiner being up and down, Jose Altuvae's been up and down. All of a sudden, Christian Walker can be more of a focus. from opposing pitching staffs and how they're game planning for the lineup as a whole. You know, if you've got Yordon hitting in front of or behind him, maybe they're saying, hey, Christian Walker is going to be the guy that we're going to go after.

And then all of a sudden, he gets some better pitches to hit. So, you know, it's usually a combination of a lot of things. And when you're in the situation that he's in where you're struggling, you know you're struggling, you're pressing because you want to get out of it, all of those things feel even more magnified than necessarily what we're saying. from the outside. So yeah, I think it's just a lot of things going on and swimming all in his head at once. Last question about him. I'll go to some other things. If we were to find out, Brian, that his bat speed was down a tick, a significant amount. How do you fix that? How could you fix that? What adjustments

would you make? If you found out yourself, Bogie, that your bat speed was down from a year ago, what would you do? Well, the first thing I would do would be look and see if there are mechanical reasons for it, not necessarily strength, age, injury, physical types of things. Is there extra length in your swing that's slowing it down? Or are you trying to do, you know, are you overswinging, therefore not being as quick as you need to be? I would first look at that kind of stuff. And then what you do is you look for, you know, game plan adjustments, approach adjustments. You look at ESOC Parades.

He doesn't have elite, elite bat speed, but he can turn on anything that anybody throws at him. And it's just a matter of what pitches you're looking for, kind of how you set up in the batters box, how you're working in at bat. So bat speed isn't necessarily the end-all be-all of being able to hit, but it is a big part of the calculus in how you go about approaching an entire bat and how you're going to attack certain pitchers with different repertoire. So even if backspeed is down a little bit,

that's not really an end-all be-all of what you can do at the plate. Brian, Bougat Civic with us here. on Sports Talk 790, not just Walker, but just Diaz or anybody who's struggling, can you just kind of take us through? What is happening behind the scenes right now in your mind? As far as you mentioned, changing game plans and approaches, what is the kind of mental battle that these guys are going through where you don't want to reinvent the wheel, but obviously what's happening right now isn't working? Yeah, I think one of the biggest battles that you're fighting when you're in a prolonged slump is not trying to do too much and therefore digging yourself into a deeper

hole. You know, oftentimes you're not as far away as you might feel, especially, you know, sometimes you'll feel like, oh my God, my swing is in a terrible spot. And then you go watch the video and you're like, man, it doesn't look a whole lot different from what it normally looks like. So you don't want to go do major overhauls, you know, unless you absolutely have to. But it's small thing. It's maintenance work in the cage. It's why. watching video to make sure you're not, you know, doing something in your setup. There's kind of low-hanging fruit things that you can fix pretty quickly. You know, oh, I'm a little bit more closed off than I want to be or a little bit my hands

are drifting away from my body a little bit. Those are kind of quick, easy fixes. So you're always trying to stay on top of that with video stuff. And a lot of it has to do with the game planning. You know, who are we facing today? What does he like to do? What is he going to try to do against me? and how can I try to tip the scales in my favor?

You know, if you're feeling a little bit long in your swing and you're having trouble catching up to fastballs at the moment, well, what's this guy's best off-speed stuff? What counts does he like to throw his off-speed stuff? When can I hunt something soft out over the plate that I can use the whole field and not necessarily have to turn on high velocity? So doing things like that that can maybe get you going a little bit

because, you know, what you perceive as happening when you're struggling, Oh my gosh, this guy made a pitch against me. I'm screwed in this at bat. You brush those things off very quickly once those balls start dropping in. And all of a sudden, an 01 count is like, okay, he made his pitch. I'm going to get him on the next one. So it's just about trying to play these little mental games and almost tricking yourself into thinking, okay, I'm fine now.

Because once you think that, you usually are. Do you think at this point maybe Walker and some of these other guys are just like, get me to the All-Star break? Like a mental break, some days off and some rest and relax. to kind of just reset for the second half of the season? It could help. You know, a couple days off, a couple days away from it to just kind of decompress. But also, you know, you can get a fresh start without necessarily having to have that natural

break in the season. If all of a sudden you have a good series and you can say, okay, from this point going forward, what is my season? That's as good as a restart as you need. If you can look, you know, at once you get to this point, 200 at bats or so, you know, if you're in a hole, you're not going to dig your way out. Christian Walker's not going to hit 300 this year. But he can look and say, hey, starting on, you know, June 15th forward,

I hit 300 with an 850 OPS and just kind of play those games in your head. So, yes, any kind of a refresh, restart is helpful, but it doesn't have to be necessarily a break in the schedule. That again was Brian Bocashevich with us every Wednesday in his entirety at 11 o'clock right here. on Sports Talk 790. Believe it or not, all things about Brian Wilson, may he, RIP. 150 on Sports Talk 790. Matt Ross with you for a final segment today.

Back for a four-hour get-together tomorrow. Brian McTaggart will be on the show. You know, Brian's taking his wife to Paris next week? He will not be with us. I mean, the man's got to go. That's great. A week vacation in the middle of baseball season. That's his beat.

Good for him. Yeah. Paris on your list? Yeah, I want to go to Paris. Absolutely, go to the Louvre. What, hold on? I heard it's dirty, yeah. I had a lot of French teammates

that were from Paris all that stuff. Yeah. It's one most disgusting cities you can go to. Yeah, but I figure if you're going to all the tourist trap spot, it should be taken care of. I hope so. Yeah, if I never live a country... Ask Chris Gordy.

You didn't go to Paris last year? He's big, big traveler. I just came back from Bedbugs too, right? Paris and the city there. Bedbugs, Paris? That's what it's called? No, but like the Olympics, basically had all those bedbugs problems

and all the hotels and stuff like that rating the whole entire city? We can't have that. I don't want any part of that. You should be fine. Quit your whining. There's no bedbugs to Louvre. Okay.

I just go on a cruise or something like that. Just go to the Eiffel Tower. Be a very romantic spot. Absolutely. That's what they had. Last year they had the beach volleyball during the Olympics. Get some croissons.

Some baguettes. You hear music in the background the whole time. Yeah. See posters of Victor Olimbenyama? And the Tony Paca. Yes. Kalal Kulibali. Balaulibali? Whatever it is. Washington Wizard?

Sure, why not? That's one of his French brother. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game. Shall we simply call it B, believe it or not? And here's how it works. You call 713. 212.570.

713-212-5-790. Today's edition of Believe it or not is all things about Brian Wilson. May he rest in peace? Things do come in threes. I'll read your statement about Brian Wilson. Statements completely and utterly anchor.

You'll say this. Believe it. Now, the statements, erroneous, full of bunk and made up, you'll say this. Not. Two, believe it or not, to win your prize.

What are we playing for today? Jonathan. A pair of tickets to see Hart on June 17th at Smart Financial Center and Sugarland. Tickets are on sale now at smartfinancial center.net. Bill, what's your favorite beach boy song? Good Bob Braider.

No, it's good vibration It's not. Oh, damn. I know, I know. Good luck to you, Bill. That's actually not a bad line there from you. Brian Wilson started in music with piano lessons from his mother at a young age, and his first musical aspiration was to be a concert pianist.

Believe it or not. It's unbelievable, but not. Not. You don't even like Hart. Why are you even playing this game? Brian Wilson's first... Brian? You don't like Bart Hart.

Brian Wilson's first band was the Wilson Brothers, but it was changed to the Beach Boys when Mike Love was added. Believe it or not. That sounds believable, but believe it. No. Get out of here. Get him out of here. Poor guy. So happy for you. No, he almost had me, or I almost had him. Or I did. Joe on 790 Joe, what was your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show?

Everything between you and Ross and. and going back and forth with the baseball and oh my god brian wilson's father said he was a musical prodigy and as a baby he hummed melodies in his crib before he could talk believe it or not oh god man uh believe it yes all right come on here we go jo we're rooting for you yes name number two statement number two for the win in 1971 brian wilson had an lSD trip that led to a religious experience and he was baptized in the church of christ but left the church within a year believe it or not Believe it? No, I'm sorry.

God, it hurts me. Joe's an all-time prize. I love Joe, but he never wins. Chris, on 790, Chris, you ready to play, believe it or not? I'm ready. Due to a nerve issue since childhood, Brian Wilson did not have hearing in his right ear. Believe it or not? Believe it.

Believe it is right. Believe it. By the way, let's go out with a good vibrations, Jonathan to close up the show today. Again, that's a good song. Statement number two for the win. Brian Wilson believed dogs could sense good and bad music and use them to guide his songwriting. Believe it or not? Believe it.

There you go. Congratulations. There's a win for our man. Nicely done. Cody on 790, Cody. No, no, we're not the shows on Overwith. We're still finishing the game. I was just trying to tell you something ahead of it.

time. All right. Cody on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. In 1972, Brian Wilson's band members staged an intervention on his drug use and escaped the meeting by exiting a bathroom window. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, that sounds believable though. Yes, geez. Good day for it. Isn't it a good day for him, Jonathan? It was actually really good. I'm actually surprised. Dave on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. In 1990, Brian Wilson wrote a rap song. It was called Smart Girls. Believe it or not.

Sounds crazy enough to believe it. You should. Congratulations. You're a winner. Nicely done. Now, let's hear some good vibrations. This is probably their Ross, this has got to be their best jam, I think. Got a little harmony in it?

Go with Cocoa. Oh, stop. You're terrible. Y'all have a great day. So dismissive. Up next, our beach boys, Clinton and Wexler. Actually, I don't think Wex has ever been to a beach under any

circumstance, right? I mean, Clinton's gone, because Clinton's vain enough to go to a beach. I've been to Galveston. Gray beach. With gray water and seaweed. That's not nice. Up next, the A.T. On Sports Talk,

have it out of it.