The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Lose Game 2 vs Guardians 10-6, Still Comfortably #1 in AL West & Trailing 4 Games From American League #1 

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

Astros Lose Game 2 vs Guardians 10-6, Still Comfortably #1 in AL West & Trailing 4 Games From American League #1 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. H-Town. Good morning and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Hunter Brown tonight.

Quality Start Plus. I'm telling you. Are you making it this metric now? Yes. I just made up Quality Start Plus. Quality Start Plus? I'm talking. Six innings, one run. Write that down. Six innings. One run. ball.

Rank 2-2 is driven deep to right field. It sends back Smith and he will just watch that one go. Jose Ramirez homers for a second straight day. His 16th of the season, it's a two-run shot and the guardians have a two-to-nothing lead. Here's the one-oh and that's crushed, right field and that's going to leave the ballpark. That's about 10 rows deep into the seats and Rokio out of the nine hole has a double and a homer. And Martinez lifts it to left and pretty deep. It sends back Hummel against the out-of-town scoreboard, and it is gone.

A grand slam for Anheil Martinez. Into the first row of the Landry's Crawford Boxes, and Cleveland has a 10-6 lead, and folks at Dykin Park are heading for the exits. Now the two-two. Swing and a mess, got him on a breaking ball away, and that is the ball game. The Cleveland Guardians hand the Astros just,

their second series loss at home this year as they use an on-hill Martinez grand slam in the top of the 10th BPA. It was a lucky home run and that metric has been out there quickly on the social media street. It's only one ballpark that leaves. And it's the one in Houston, Texas. It was the one that they were playing in. That's all that matters.

That is all that matters. What was that at the very beginning of the show? That is Mr. Quality Start Plus, Rossville, or Yale. I need you to give me a quality start. start plus on the show today. Now, see, I thought we kept it lax on gut, Felix, but now I know, all right, all right, all right, I know how the game

is played now. I think it's frankly really rude, really rude that Jonathan pulled that up. I mean, why would you do such a thing, Jonathan? Okay. That's terrible. No, no, no, no. Now I know now I know how the game is played. There's no evidence I called you or texted you. Now that I know the rules,

ha, I fully want shame on me, but I can't get food again. Oh my God. It'll take you less than a week to find something I've said. Oh, don't you worry. Paration-wise, it will work. Ammunition going to get loaded up. I see

how we're rolling now. I'm ready. Working alongside Sensitive Sally here, I'm Matt. Very pleasant, even keeled, easy-going. No, I'm not being sensitive. I'm just telling you what's good for the goose is good for a gander. All right. Why are we in Louisville? Oh, no. Yeah, you

worked that last night. What the hell was that? Hunter Brown did suck. First of all, it was a really long game. Hunter Brown was having control issues, and when he wasn't, he was getting hit hard. I even was kind of thinking to myself at the beginning of the game that's like,

it almost feels like he's tipping or something. And then after the game, he said himself, they were all over everything I was throwing, and I don't know why. And then asked by Chandler Rome if he thought something mechanically they were picking up on. He said he wasn't sure, but he never felt like that all year.

So if he was tipping, I don't know. He was also having location issues. Whatever you want to chalk it up to, it was not the Hunter Brown that we have been used to all year long. Six-innings picked six earned runs given up. But the Astros did come back eventually made it a six-sixth game. Jose Altova gets a second base and then immediately is like, oh, I'm hurt. I'm like, no.

Oh, my God. I was going to start crying. And then I wanted it being just a cramp. He finished. As a matter of fact, he went from second to third on a play. Yes. Which I was like, okay, that's good. and then he batted the next inning and played defensively.

And so, whew, not defensive. I think he was D.H. He was D.H. He was D.H. He was D.H. He was teaching the guys on hard in the dugout. But weren't you wigging out? I'm like, oh. Yes. No, I was freaking. I was like, I cannot believe this. I was in disbelief. I thought he was going to be out. And thankfully he came back, said he had kind of like a little cramp or something, and he was okay.

And he continued to play. And then they came, when he knocked in two runs to tie the game in the eighth, I was like, they are going to get a bad start from Hunter Brown and come back and win this freaking game. This team just can't lose. That's a second straight time against the Guardians in which they came back after being down big, only to lose the game.

Only to fall short both times. And then Josh Hader goes in there after pitching 18 innings, I'm excuse me, 18 pitches in the ninth. He goes out there for the 10th. And in 29 ballparks, we are headed to the bottom of the 10th with a tie score. Mm-hmm. At Dyken Park.

it's a grand slam. You know, it's funny because every once in a while, and it doesn't happen a lot, there'll be people that will say, hey, should the Astros try to make left field a little more pitcher-friendly? The reality is, Peske's Pole's been there forever. Even when New Yankee Stadium was built,

they use the old dimensions at old Yankee Stadium. Now Tampa Bay has the same dimensions. Yeah. I think obviously when you play in that building 81 times, it helps you a lot more. I mean, let's face it. I mean, Jose Al-Tuvae has had some big home runs in his life, but he's also put a fair number in the boxes over the years.

Yeah. Everybody has. So it happens both ways, but it does, man, it just, it hurts definitely when it's a moment like that where the game is out of reach. If it was a solo shot, okay, well, you know what it is, what it is,

but they just completely puts the game out of the reach when it's a grand slam that's only out in one park. So the Guardians who had lost 10 in a row coming in, beat the Astros 2 straight. You didn't let me finish my sentence on Monday. The Astros, who just finished off a six and, was a five and one, yeah, five and one road trip.

Three loss in those games. Come in and drop a second one. Taylor Tremont, another couple hits for him yesterday. That was nice. Now, the Astros collectively, I don't like to use the term god awful very often, but they were god awful with runners in scoring position. Two for 21.

Have you ever seen that? Two for 21. Well, the worst part was Dubai, I don't know what anything was. Leadoff double. Strikeout, strikeout, pitcher chain, strikeout. Oh, no, by the way. Got feelings yesterday. Mm-hmm.

Cooper Hummel, friend of the show. Great conversation. Yeah, why did we pull that one? That backs up my argument that maybe I didn't tell him to do it. funny how this works funny how this works we put one prediction that was wrong and that's right John it's funny

I know I'm seeing I'm getting targeted all right Cooper Hummel yesterday O for four with three strikeouts Don't you worry you pretty little heads You didn't draw a walk though Yeah Maybe he accidentally meant three strikeouts

Because that's what happened Well he had a chance for a three run Homer Yes That I thought well you know that's That would have been just as good If not for the three heads counted that. Yeah, for sure. We'd have to give you like a half on a gut feeling on that. All right. I have not looked at Astro's Twitter today. We'll organically look at 1030.

What are we going to call this segment, Matt? Does it have, does it have a name? It does have a name to it. Oh, man. Really? It's been a part of the show for many, for the last two or three years. We don't pull it out a lot. Are we doing this 18 games above 500? Not you, Matt. I'm talking about the fans. What do you think? I want to honestly ask you. When we go look at it, what's it going to say? Okay. Don't look. Don't look.

I don't want you to look because I wanted to be organic for both of us. Okay, I won't look. So we will go look and see if there's any Astros overreactions. That'll be coming up at the bottom of the hour. Brian Bogus Civic with us at 11 o'clock today. We look forward to talking with him. We got shut your bum ass up coming up at 1130. We have the news at noon.

We'll have Joseph Tortay from the Big 12. Media Days in Dallas, I think they're Frisco, Arlington, I don't know which one they're at, but it's, from what we understand, it's not being heavily intended. Because again, it's, it doesn't move the needle in the big markets. I mean, did Phoenix send nine radio stations to the Big 12 media days? Probably not. Did Waco? Probably so. Did Manhattan, Kansas, Sports leader, go? Sure, because they need that kind of stuff. Big 12 just And I like the Big 12 Clearly because my coogs are in it

But it just doesn't care Everybody even the ACC media days Probably don't have the kind of carry that cachet It's Big 12 It's big it's SEC and it's Big 10 It's the two mega conferences And everybody else is kind of fighting for third place And we'll get some thoughts about

Joseph Tortay from the Chronicles up there In the Metroplex And we'll talk to him at 1 o'clock And we have believe it or not at 150 And we have a two game losing streak Now, fortunately, the Yankees did throttle the Mariners last night, so the Astros don't lose any ground. They're still up six and a half in the American League West.

Still sitting pretty for people who want to overreact. But they're overreacting, I'm sure. We'll look in 19 minutes. 713, 212, 5790. I have this one guy, Mike, who sends me emails, and I never respond to them because he's a nice guy, but he just sends the same ones about Astros suck, gutter, gutter trash. I mean, just anytime, when the Astros are beating the

Dodgers three straight times. My friend Mike, I've never met, doesn't send me emails about, man, that was impressive. It's only when things are going poorly. Okay. So he sent me multiple emails yesterday. You respond to these? No. Okay. Mike, Mike knows I read them. So, you know, and he's listening right now. So I appreciate, I'm sure he's listening. Thanks, Mike. But I'm not going to, you know. There 18 games is a 500, Mike. Like, you wish, I'll pull up the emails just, from yesterday. Real quick, by the way, give up the phone number and give out my, my IG account there, Rossi. I'm not giving that out. But mine is at SportsR. on Instagram, I'm following everybody back

who follows me in the next 10 minutes at Sports RV on Instagram. And by the way, you know Christian Walker as well now for the Astros because he's on the paternity list. Here it is. Mike said me the first one. Hayter in too long, where the hell is

a break you terrible loss? That was the first one. Okay. Second one. So-called all-star pitchers was his subject line. It said give up combined 10 runs. Yes, they did. Does that mean they shouldn't be on the All-Star team? Apparently not.

1013 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you'd like to join us, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-5-790. We'll get a full show until 2 o'clock. Please be with us all the way through it here on Sports Talk 790. 1018 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We will check in on AOs coming up at the bottom of the hour. I'm a little worried how it's going to look.

You and I have not looked at it, nor have you. I'm just afraid that we've got some people that are going to be quite cranky coming up, and we'll have that for you in about 10 minutes. Not a super big headline day in the world of sports, although I did, and again, this is basketball. I know we're not a huge basketball town in general, especially when it doesn't involve the rockets, but did you see that Chet Holmgren of the Oklahoma City Thunder got himself a brand new rookie extension? I did not. He is getting a five-year deal worth $250 million.

$1. Apron's going to come a knocking on Oklahoma City. I told you it's not going to be a dynasty. They were getting done now. That is a lot of money for a guy who has missed a lot of time. Three months this year is entire rookie season. See, Matt? Injury prone?

We can say it all we want. He's still getting paid. It wouldn't be, though, I mean... Just a made-up word. If he was that injury-prone, they wouldn't give him this deal. Yeah, maybe they're thinking, you know what? We're going to pay you $50 million. in a year to play really good 65

games of basketball. 50 regular season and 15 postseason. That's a lot of money for potential mistime. For a guy who's had multiple already bone injuries. And he looks like he's not even gained a single pounds since leaving college. And didn't he get

his whole year when he first had in the league? Yes, yes. It was a Lee Frank injury. Liz Frank. Apparently this girl Liz Frank Jonathan really beat the crap out of him. Bitch. All right. So, point being, when I think about

Shaggilders-Alexander is going to make $75 million next year. He's making $50. What's Jalen Williams situation? He can't be far behind. He's got to be thinking, wait a bit. I think I'm going to be better than SGA, and I'm way better than Che Holger. There was a few games.

It was like the first four or five games of that series. It was looking like he might be finals MVP. And, oh, by the way, they're paying a boatload of money to former Rocket Great Isaiah Hartenstein, too. Don't forget that either. I think is Caruso a free agent this year? I can't, or where? He's he there?

Still? I can't remember. So this is another yet example. I feel like I do this to you at least once a week on the show about how insanely rich are professional athletes. What do I say to you once a week? You always say, well, how insanely rich the owners are. And that's exactly right.

You have these owners that are about to. And the reason why part of this, they're spending this money is because this new television deal kicks in. Every team is going to be extremely cash flush with this new Amazon NBC. ESPN is not a new deal. It's a recurring deal. But for people that are missing and crying, woes me over the TNT leaving, the NBA ain't shedding a tear over this.

No. So with that, you are now able to, because you have to spend a certain percentage of the overall revenue has to go to the players. That's always collectively bargain between players associations and owners. Correct. And so the NBA has to spend it on its players and clearly Oklahoma City is doing that.

I just wonder, yeah. When does Shay Gilges Alexander's extension kick in? Is it a few years? When does this extension kick in? And then, yeah, what's going on with Jalen Williams? And what he... man.

That's a lot of money. for those guys. And it's like next year, you know, Kevin Durant could sign a new two-year extension beyond this year, which he's being paid for. He could sign a deal, but he may come in as a quote-unquote bargain. Yeah, we haven't heard anything about that. Yeah, I think it's, I think let's get him into town,

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, talk to his people, see what's going to happen, kind of, you know, take a week off. As a referral said, they're going to Las Vegas today, as a matter of fact. They start summer league later this week. It kind of feels like a lot of the heavy lifting has been done. there'll be some talks, but it's more about what's going to happen next year as compared to what's happening right now. Okay.

Crossing the T's and dotting the lowercase J's. Yeah, you never hear that phrase, but I think you've created that. It's a Wayne's World Reference. It is such a, I don't do movie references. Dame Matthews does. But it just shows you the professional athlete, the professional owner, just lives in a different stratosphere.

Yep. Like, we know Marvel. Like, I don't even, I mean, it wouldn't take us long. to figure out how much Scarlett Johansson made for this Jurassic part movie. I get because I can look it up. But we don't ever, we don't, now we don't host entertainment tonight.

So maybe we would do that if we had a daily show like that. Have you been thinking about that? No. But don't you get daily blown away by the money that is being spent? Celebrity Net Worth reports that she makes about 10 to 20 million per film. And she's probably in what? Two films a year, probably? I would say two films every,

no, I wouldn't say two films a year because they do take time. Yeah, but she's been in all those She was in like a bunch of those Marvel movies back to back to back. Yeah, okay, so let's say she did one movie a year. Okay, even then. But that's pennies compared to what these athletes are making.

She's not making pennies. She's making Alex Caruso money. She's the Alex Caruso of salaries. But think about it. Put that in perspective for a second. there are significantly a large number of players in the NBA that are not as good at their job that she is at her job

and she doesn't make even close to that kind of money the money those NBA players are making we had John Wall here from Houston Ross didn't play a game was he making $40 million a year to sit out yeah let's see Scarlett Johansson in two movies although it was a smaller role in the Phoenician scheme by West Anderson

the two movies last year Two, yeah, she's about doing about two movies. Okay, so let's say she's making $20 million just from the movies. And she's probably doing, you know, she's doing cosmetic commercials and stuff like that. So there's probably some payment there too. Mm-hmm. But that's crazy. Chad Homegren's making $50, we'll start making $50 million a year to play 50, 50 regular season games and, you know,

depending on how long they go in the postseason. He's going to play, well, they plan for him to play more than 50. They, of course, they plan to do a lot of things. We plan for Yardon and Alboros play 140 games a year. And he's putting his body. through more than Scarlett Johansson is. I never quite thought of it that way. Wait a minute.

First of all, she's using her body in Jurassic Park. Yeah, I guess she's doing some kind of... And she's memorizing lines. Yeah, she could get eaten by T-Rex. Yeah, that's true. 1025 on Sports Talk 7-90. By the way, I was watching the Today Show today. Okay.

Shark Week is coming to Netflix. Oh, really? They're going to try to reinvent the Shark Week bit because when it first started back in the late 90s or the 80s, they would draw like 50 million viewers. The viewers have cut in half and they're thinking maybe that they need a fresher approach. So Netflix is going to do something a little more of a uptempo Shark Week bit. Well, isn't it a, I mean, it was a Discovery Channel thing, right?

Right. Yeah. I don't know if Discovery is still doing it or not? But they have their own, is there, don't they still have their own streaming service? Discovery Plus? Could be. But they're doing their, they're doing their own version of it. I don't subscribe to that.

And I think, and they're thinking that it's going to do very well because this year will be the, they're going to not reboot, but they're going to re-release the 50-year anniversary of Jaws. Okay. Which I will not be going to see under any circumstance. Why not? Because that's a scary AF movie. You've never seen it?

Oh, I have. I saw Jaws 3D, and that took years off. I was in therapy between the ages of 7 and 13. Okay. All right. 1975, it's the 50-year anniversary of that one. Right. It's a 50-year anniversary of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Mm-hmm. 50-year anniversary of the Stanley Kubrick epic Barry Lyndon. It was a big year in film at. They're doing a lot of re-releases. So you could be busy this summer. No Jaws. Okay. What's the other one you said?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? You've seen that? I've not. No. Okay. But I obviously heard it's wonderful. You've heard of it. Yeah, of course.

I think Jack Nicholson won best actor for that. Yeah. All right, 1027 on Sports Talk 790. Jack Nicholson, properly rated, overrated, and underrated. Oh, proper. Rated. Properly rated. One of the all-time grades.

One of the all-time grades. For sure. And a good Laker fan for many years. I mean, Laker fan number one? He puts it in his movie contracts that he has to go to games. I think, well,

Dying Cannon would kind of give him a run for his money. And I think Samuel L. Jackson would be up in that list, too. Dying Cannon alive? Yes. Yeah. I'm saying yes. Well, I'm just asking. All right.

Astros overreaction is coming up. next. How did social media handle the second consecutive loss for the local nine? 713-213-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. All right, I've done some intelligence before we get to it. The Astros' Twitter account, 1027 last night, said Guardians 10, Astro 6. Okay, 68,000 views. 174 replies, wonderful. 56 retweets.

192 likes and two bookmarks. Now, the retweets could also include quotes on top of it. Okay. But we'll tend to probably just focus on the replies, 174 of them. Now, my guess is 174, probably at least half of them are non-astro fans that are, you know, slithering their way into the site. Rangers fans who are upset that their teams below 500. We will not be reading theirs because that's just, you know.

Ranger fan. The Astros won 14 in a row. They'd figure out a way to get mad about it for somehow some way. All right. We are ready to go. We present to you something we've done on a semi-regular basis. Don't do it a lot, but you know what? It feels like when you win a huge series in Los Angeles,

then drop the next two at home to Cleveland. It's time for little Astros overreaction. No matter what happens and how good this team is, Ross, these will never, ever go away. You know what I mean? What are these, Matt? We wait for you to hit the post. And here it comes.

Hey, oh, let's go. Hey, oh, let's go. Astros, over. Reaction. Right here on 790. All right. Walker to Crawford boxes says, where was it? Are you?

My guess would be needed a day off, right, Ross? On that? Yeah. Peter said he felt good. And literally, it was a... People! It was a 96 mile an hour sinker up and in. He barely got to it.

It was a perfect pitch. And it's an out in 29 out of 30 parks. Sorry, go ahead. Albert Calderon says, Espado walks a batter intentionally to put the double play in play with runners at first and third. First base runner takes off and no throw. Why? Then we waft the batter to low the bases.

Talk about putting pressure on the best closer in MLB. Grand Slam, game over. Okay. He's supposed to be under pressure. Yeah. He's the closer. Yeah. Yeah.

Let's see here. Boy, the Ranger fans is jumping in all over the place. This is ridiculous. Every bit Texas says, what the heck? You smash the number one rated Los Angeles. and then lose to those clowns? Very, very sad. Let's see here.

Oh, here's one. How did Hunter Brown make the All-Star team in all caps? All right. That's tough. Its ERA is still 2.21. You got me yelling at these people. Something called Trevor Hauer says Senyaneer Diaz to Neptune. Why?

They really send him out really far away. They don't want to go to triple. I want to go to Neptune. Let's see here. That heartbreaking, but please save the series tomorrow. I don't realize people's hearts were breaking over this. You can keep playing the music. We'll let go on there.

Let's see here. Boy, the Ranger fans just jumping in here. This is really not as bad that I thought I was going to be, frankly, Ross. Okay. We're so spoiled, L-I-M-F-A-O. All right. At Crypton Mortis says, Why Just Why?

Jacob with a bunch of numbers says, Can we please get healthy? That's a regular, that's a proper reaction. Can we please get healthy? That actually fair is pretty, that's pretty good on that one. Let's see.

Four loco says, did all, For loco, did all that just to lose? I can't wait for the days. I never got to see guys like Hummel and Short on this baseball team. Ouch.

Hey, Short was picking it, man. Next one from Black Lance says we're going to be put back in the wild card race before the break gets here. Wow. Dr. Doctor just says, boo. Waterburger Gamey says, that's it. I'm done with this team.

All right. A.B. says, get us out of the series. We're banged up like an MF. That's very true. Emortis says fire everyone. All right. That's too much. Veronica says Hater really screwed up this game

SMH Julie says embarrassing A summer donkey says Gets is our turn to be bad Let's see Blue says Come Back Stronger

That was a sign of positivity I like that cheese That's good That's good Let's see Pathetically came back down to Earth Says Rick and Sugarland Banana says

What in Tarnation Mag Eye says Lost to Who? King is King says All Star Break Police with lots of Zs And let's do one more Here you sweep the best

This is from Matt Thomas MT Taps 611 That's not me What are you doing on there? Matt, that's this guy Your burner No This guy's got 11 followers

23 followers And he follows 11 people You sweep the best ML team in their own house and can't be a team in your own or on their house and you can't be a team in your own house coming in on a 10 game losing streak. I don't even understand. And then Ohio Japan says fire Espada.

And that, my friends, is a small sample size. I thought relatively tame of Astros over reaction. Hey, oh, let's go. A way to close the segment properly. Right. Here. A 790.

You're learning this, Jonathan. He's a freestyle king, Matt Thomas. That was good. That's impressed me. I'm not a lie. Some say it's the little flip. I say it's Matt Thomas, the freestyle king. A little flip, huh?

I'm the Little flip of sports radio. Yeah, the Clovaland Soldier. Come on, man. Okay. Whatever that means. That's before Jonathan's time, too. Yeah. He was just a baby.

He was a mere embryo. All right. What else you're thinking? I'm thinking we have to talk about this Josh Hater thing because it came up last night somebody was arguing with me. It came up multiple times in those aos. Yes, he had 18 pitches, but coming up was a lefty and two switch hitters. Nolan Jones and Jose Ramirez and Carlos Santana.

So, and Josh Hader said he felt fine. They went with a sacrifice fly. First of all, they pinch hit with a righty with Will Wilson, who came in it. Why do you use a pinch hitter to bunt is beyond me? I don't know. but then they intentionally walked Jose Ramirez and then Carlos Santana unfortunately Josh Hader talked about it after the game

it was a bad at AB and then there was the Grand Slam but Josh Hader said he felt fine he felt like he was pitching well he wanted to be out there you had the lefty plus the two D.H. guys that you wanted to flip around that's why Hater was in there. He had been one of the best pitchers in baseball all season long.

Come on folks. You gave up 10 runs all of them were given up by Hunter Brown and Josh Hader and somehow that's on Joe Espada. No, why is Joe Espada catching heat on this? I'm telling you. That's what I'm saying. We've got to talk about. Would you rather have Brian King? I mean, if you want to say lefty. Yeah, I guess so. But if Josh Hater says, I'm good to go, you put Josh Hater out there. You pay him a lot of money to pitch and get games when you've fought your ass off to get back to 6 to 6.

And it's a light, as high leverage as it gets, even though it's against the Guardians. 10th inning makes it with a runner at second base, makes it a high leverage it begin with. It is what it is. It is what it is. I mean, I don't want them to end the first half of the season. You know, if they were to lose another series of Rangers, it wouldn't be fun. But they have been playing some exceptional baseball.

They hit the break in first place. I don't even care if it's first place by a half game. It's a huge one. Well, that's not going to, that couldn't happen. I know, I know. And by the way, again, Seattle got, crushed by the Yankees last night, so we're all good on that. Yeah. They're going to be good in the division,

because mostly because nobody else is, and they're going to get healthier. Yeah, their lead is six and a half over Seattle in the America League West. What are the rest of the teams doing in the division? Let's take a look here really, really quick. Standings tell me that the Astros are six and a half in front there. The Rangers did win last night, but they're playing 500 baseball. They're 10 back. The Angels are 10 and a half out, and the athletics are 17.5.

It's a two-team race. now you do not want to give Texas any sort of momentum actually what you know what you could do really Ross is you could really bury them this weekend if you wanted to if you're close to yeah if you take if you get them to 11 or 12 back at the all-star break they might be sellers which are then and really in theory make it a two-team race between the between them and by the way the mariners aren't going away mariners have the hottest hitting home run hitting guy in the sport right now they've always got good pitching

and they don't have enough bats overall but they've got a good enough pitching that's going to keep in ball games and Cal Rally's got to he's got a cool off at some point catcher is not hitting 60 home runs I would think not I don't think he's going to play enough to get to 60 home runs he's got 35

is crazy by the way the Astros now are three and a half behind is Detroit going to have the number one record in the American League it feels like 36 for a count but No. Who is? Honestly, you can sound a fake your way to your heart's content.

They would be a heavy, heavy favorite defense of the best record of America League. I would imagine they've got a good lead right now. Right. And again, they're playing a lot of teams in the Central that have underperformed still ahead of them. Yeah, their division blows. It's worse than the, it's worse than the American League. West. So the reality is I think the Astros, their number one goal should be to finish is the number two seed. And take it for what it's worth after that.

Okay. Win the division first, then focus on holding on that number two seed. All right. 1043 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you'd like to be with this here, we would love to have you at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. And want to let you know that we'll have Brian. Voga Sevek coming up at 11 o'clock today. Please make sure that you are sticking around for that.

And we'll get to some more Astros conversation with you. And of course, again, Bogie joins us 11 o'clock. Shut your bum ass up at 1130. Baseball's a crazy sport. Would you say a sports RV last night? I would say, of all the major sports, the luck factor is the factors in the most in baseball. Yeah, I just, you always find, and it's the oldest sport by far.

But it always seems to provide the craziest endings in some times. And we had that last night in the Bay Area with the San Francisco Giants. Who were they playing? Let's see here. They were wearing those god-awful uniforms. They have good uniforms. The ones they were wearing yesterday sucked. Let's see.

Oh, they were on the Phillies. It was a 3-2 game. No, excuse me, a 3-1 game. Phillies were up, bottom of the 9th, runners at first and 3rd. And the catcher Would you like to describe a catcher In terms of foot speed generally? The slowest on the team?

Oh, by far, right? You're out of the fat first baseman. Depends, usually the catcher. Yeah. So usually the catcher is a guy that's not going to be 4-440. Here's Patrick Bailey at the plate. Patrick Bailey is a wise fellow.

Bottom of the ninth in San Francisco. First and third one out. Patrick hits a high drive. Deep right center field. This one is off the top of the wall. And it ricochise and it's rolling on the warning track. Two runs are in. Bailey coming around third.

Patrick Bailey. And inside the park, walk off home run. Now we've seen everything. Okay, walk off grand, not grand sign. walk-off home runs are cool. Walk-off inside the parks are really cool. And for those of you didn't understand the description, the ball went to right field, hit the top of the wall,

and then jetted left. Yes. It was going from west to east on the morning track. Yeah, way past the left fielder. Yep. So not only is it Patrick Bailey doing this, that was his second home run of the year, Ross. Okay.

His batting average after last night is now 194. Wow, he's swinging it. With an OPS of 553. Oof. But he got to walk off. Three run homer. Man, it hit brick. So it just flew off that brick.

Yeah. Wow. And I'm going to tell you something, and I know this is, I'm going to try to relate it to what the Astros went through. The one thing I find really charming about baseball is that no bark is no ballpark, two ballparks are the same. You have

different dimensions, you've got different little nooks and crannies, you've got little nuances to them. I think it makes baseball charming. Yes. And that wall doesn't get hit a lot, but it's violent when it does. Now, I've never seen a ball go

again east to west like it did. I mean, it went off there like a tennis ball. Yeah. It flew off. Yeah. And again, it wasn't like you had Who's the fastest runner in baseball today? Ellie Delacruz. Yeah, it wasn't Elida Cruz hopping and skipping around the bases. It was a slug-o catcher.

I can go look at his percentile for a sprint speed. I don't think it's great. But you don't get that in the NBA. Every basketball court is 94 feet. Correct. And the arenas look generally the same with the luxury boxes and whatnot. Football stadiums sometimes have a little charm, but it's still a hundred-year-in football field with lots of seats and lots of luxury boxes.

12th percentile Sprint speed Patrick Phaley It'd be like you and I trying to score on inside the park He's probably faster than us I got a hamstring thing too Right now

I'm feeling good Why are hamstrings hurting What do you mean? My roller Yeah Hi roller He has rolled up high up on me I mean I was I was asking

As a concerned friend Why are hamstrings hurt I mean just because General Soreness I'm over 40 now Okay Do you need a reason For to pop any muscle

when you hit 40. If I could only pop a muscle. Let's go to Mike in Richmond on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Mike, good morning to you. Hey, I'm glad you liked my emails. Oh, it's fine.

Hey, Mike. Mike, I had a question for you. Why don't you ever send me emails when things are going well? I didn't hear from you at all this weekend. Because that's the way it's supposed to be. No, no, no, we don't live that world. We have the two best players play terrible, and they're not supposed to work so hard to tie a game and then just crater.

Like they did, they also did that in Colorado last week. I should have sent you an email on that one. They're supposed to go to Dodgers stadium and win 18 to 1 and the biggest win in the history of that stadium? They're supposed to do that? Well, not to that extent. Okay. But they should be winning.

They should win every game they should win. No, just some irritate me. That one last night and then the San Francisco game, early in the season when Hunter Brown had a five-to-nothing lead, and the relievers just, you know, they stayed that game away. What do you got going on back behind you, by the way? A lot of noise behind you. What's up?

What's going on back there? Oh, I was just in the Kroger's. Oh, that's nice. You're calling us where a grocery shopping. Any good deals over there? Oh, yeah. The blueberries are good. Oh, yeah.

Blueberry, by the way, the Kroger's have an underrated sushi department, by the way. I don't know if you're a sushi eat or not, but we get some of our sushi from there. No, I don't. I just, I don't have Twitter, and so that's my only way I can really. What does that have to do with sushi?

If I had Twitter, you would have really. Uh-oh, I'd really been scared. This morning. Well, Mike, I never, I always look forward to your email. I was just no in my heart of hearts. I love you like an older brother, but I'm never going to respond to them, but I do read them every single time.

You know that, right? Okay, we'll see you later. It's cheaper on Wednesdays. Yeah. He should pick some up. Is Wednesdays blueberry reduction day? I don't know. They were $1.77 a pound at Raytree this week.

Hmm. I'll take blueberries are gross. I agree. They're all right. I like blueberries. I prefer blackberries. In my muffins. But I don't, like, I won't pop blueberries.

Like, I can pop blueberries. grapes, easy. No, they're good for you. Antioxidants. Oh, no, they're excellent. And it's, it's really inconsistent for me to say, I like blueberry muffins, but I don't like just plain blueberries. Okay. I don't like blueberries in my salad and my cereal. They just get a little Greek yogurt and put them in that. I don't like yogurt. Oh. By the way, today's edition of Believe or not, I will handle.

Oh, thank God. I like this. I like this. You know what the category is? I must be doing really bad. You're doing a lot of these. If I like this food or not. Oh, actually. Well, I'll be, and there'll be Some of them that I will put in there. I will have some insight information on that. But some of them I won't. So I'll stay away though.

Yeah. I will put some that are in there that we've talked about. Okay. And I will put some things in there that I have never discussed before. Okay. So we'll do, believe it or not, do I like this food? Why don't you like Greek yogurt? I don't like yogurt at all.

What? It's gross. It's protein packed. I don't care what it's packed with. I don't like it. Okay. What about mayonnaise? I love mayonnaise.

Manas, yes. What about sour cream? Yes. Okay, now I'm really confused. Now I get when Clanton wipes them all off the board and Craig Ackerman. So mayonnaise, yes, sour cream, yes, yogurt, no. Yes, that's correct. I'm confused. I like frozen yogurt.

Does that count? Okay, so if it's fro, if the yo is fro, you're in. I like it when it's fro. Okay. All right, Brian Bogus Tevick will join us next. I know I'm confusing. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90.

Brian Bogus-Evick will talk all-things Astros with us as the Astros fell 10 to 6 yesterday to the hated. Are they hated the Cleveland Guardians? I kind of feel like we do hate them, right? 7-13-212-5-7-90. And again, if you want to follow me on Instagram, I'd really appreciate it. At SportsMT. There's really no other IG account that is attached to the radio show. 1103 Sports Talks.

7.90, it's time for us to spend 10 quality minutes with our friend, Byrne Bogus Sevik, working the last couple of games for Space City Home Network, and joins us here every Wednesday on the radio program. So, Brian, when you hear the stats about that ball would only have left one ballpark, does that go, does that irritate you, or does that make you go, well, that's what Dyken Park is, or are you completely indifferent to hearing things like that? You get pretty numb to it when it's your home park, right? You know, when you go into different stadiums as a visitor and the quirks of a stadium kind of play themselves out, it'll drive you crazy a little bit.

But when you see it on a day-and-day-out basis and you kind of get a feel that, you know, sometimes you get burned on it and sometimes it helps you out, you just kind of get numb to it. And it is what it is. You know, it stinks when a game gets decided on something like that. But, you know, it could have just as easily been a ball that went in the Astros favor. Brian, it was a rare off night for Hunter Brown. I mean, everything was hit hard. It felt like the guardians were seeing the ball very, very well, and that always comes up with the, well, is he tipping pitches?

You have been out of the game for a while, but you were obviously in the game for much of your adult life and childhood life. When do you, as an analyst, see that there's something peculiar going on? And was it different that if you were watching and playing the game itself in terms of, oh, I see something going on that helps me figure out what this guy's throwing. Yeah, you know. All right.

We'll try to get him back here. Do we have him? Brian, you back? All right. Well, we'll try to call him back. Ryan is so upset with that question. Just hang it up and try to call him back. We've been having some phone issues, but I don't know if that was his.

Didn't sound the same. So who knows? I know. All right. We'll see. We'll get him back. Momentarily, Matt. But yes, Hunter Brown did say last night.

they were all over him and he hadn't felt like that all year, which is interesting. Yeah, I think it's, and again, I never played the game. We'll get Brian's perspective on this. My thought is, is that you have to constantly work to make sure that you are keeping a level of unpredictability in your game. Okay, I think we got them. All right, I'm sorry, Brian, you were so upset with that question I asked you, but now your chance to answer it. Yeah. Hung up on you guys.

No, so here's what I look at. Like, it's always on your radar, right? Especially when you're throwing the ball as well as Hunter has been, and then all of a sudden, guys are on everything. But I think, you know, the first thing you have to look at is what are the pitches that they were hitting? You know, where were those pitches located? That pitch that Jose Ramirez hit, that was a change that got yanked right down the middle. The pitch that Rokio hit for the home run, the nine-hole hitter.

It was a cutter that landed right in the middle of the zone. So I think, you know, first and foremost, you've got to look at quality of pitch. And that will tell you a lot. Now, if you're just dotting up your pitches and if you're throwing nasty sinkers that guys are staying on and if, you know, bats are beating you to the top of the zone on well-located four-seem fastballs that guys don't usually hit, then you might look a little bit deeper and say, oh, man, am I tipping something? Do they have something on me? I think it's just one of those nights where, you know, there wasn't really a consistent amount of well-located pitches,

especially with the off-speed stuff. and you know you chuck it up more to that than I'm doing something that's given it away. Staying with pitching for a second. What did you think of Cade Smith intentionally balking to get Dubon off a second base last night? Interesting. I understand the logic of it. If you think somebody is able to pull something out of your glove, then, you know, you don't want to risk that being relayed at the same time.

I mean, he threw a wild pitch the following inning. know that I'd be too, you know, quick to put guys on third base when I'm, you know, spraying 98 and bouncing sliders in there. But, you know, I would have to imagine that's something that they discussed before the series and before the game, certainly, of there's certain guys that we think might be able to pick stuff up or, or maybe he thinks that people have been picking it up on them in the past. So it's a different strategy, but, you know, you know, whatever makes the pitcher feel comfortable, I guess. You know, and on both of those things, uh, the tipping and the kind of picking, trying to pick up grips.

What exactly are you looking for? What's some examples you can think of in your career that you saw? I mean, we've seen people talking about the way the glove is held or certain cadences or if you could just give us like specific examples. And then also kind of explain the looking for the grip thing as well. Right. So it used to be when you were at second base, you used to be able to pick up signs and see if you could decode the signs. That doesn't exist anymore with the pitchcom. So really what you're doing is you're focusing on the glove and the set position of,

the pitcher. And first, first thing you're looking for is, do they do something different on, say, fastball versus off speed? Is the glove turned a little bit differently? Is it a higher set or a lower set? Something that you could pick up that maybe the hitter can't see. The other thing that you can look for is if a pitcher's glove is open to you, right? They don't have it closed tightly to their chest. You can sometimes pick up the hand positioning on the ball. And specifically a change up where they'll throw three fingers on there or if a guy throws a split finger or if they have a distinct curveball grip

where maybe they spike their finger or something, you can pick those things up in the glove as they set the grip. And if you can get it early enough, you can then relay that to the hitter. So, you know, a lot of times you'll see pitchers as they come set, they'll be turned around looking at the runner,

seeing if the runner's peeking in, they'll be trying to really close their glove off and keep it tight to the body. But there's a lot of guys who are really good at peeking in there. And they might not be every pitch that they get, but there might be one particular pitch that every once in a while will give away. And, you know, sometimes that's all it takes. Brian Bogusevic with us here on Sports Talk 793 hits yesterday for Cam Smith.

We've been kind of talking about his progression throughout the season with you. So what have you been seeing from him lately as he just continues to get better and better? Well, a real understanding of what his strengths are. A real understanding of what he needs to do to continue to progress. talked about the adjustments that he's made. But, you know, one of the things that is the most difficult thing to get better at is how quickly you can adjust, how quickly on the fly you can make adjustments to what either pitchers are trying to do to you or what you did wrong the day before and try to, you know,

take an 0 for four and not turn it into an 0 for 10. And, you know, what he did yesterday was making an adjustment day to day, which sometimes it takes hitters, you know, a week to make an adjustment. He got pounded in with sinkers in the first game against Cleveland. And a lot of times a young hitter, you start to feel that fastball in on your hands. What are you going to do? You're going to try to get quicker. You're going to try to get the head out. Okay, I need to pull that ball. I need to get around on it. But he immediately went back to what do I do well. And that stay inside the baseball, hit it the other way. His first at bat, he got that fast ball in, but he really kept his hands in tight, got the barrel inside

of it, shoots the line drive to right field. he does the same thing with a breaking ball, shoots it to right field. And, you know, how quickly you can get back to your baseline of what makes me good minimizes the downs of the ups and downs of the season. And, you know, that's the key to hitting. That is the key to being consistent over, you know, a 600 plate apparent season is how often can I be either good or great and not be in a won't. From your eyes to what you've seen the last couple of days, and that's obviously the Guardians putting up a lot of runs, the lineup card has been an interesting one to say the very least, especially back half of it. A lot of it's because of paternity, a lot of it's because

of Jake's ailments and Pena still. If I was to surmise, or have you summarized the last two games, was it, you know what, you're coming off a huge series winning in Los Angeles, natural letdown. Is it that maybe the back third of the lineup is kind of acting as advertised? Or is it a case where maybe you've got some guys that are just trying to crawl to the All-Star break to get some time off? What do you think it is? Could be a combination of things or could all be none of those things?

Yeah, honestly, what I think it is is it's baseball. You know, one day you can be a world beater and the next day a team on a 10-game losing streak can come in and beat you. And, you know, every team throughout the course of the season is going to have to fight through some injuries. They're going to have to, you know, dip into the depth of the organization. And, you know, fortunately, the asteros have gotten themselves to a spot to where they don't have to force the issue. They don't have to try to rush guys back. They can be cautious with Jake Myers.

And, you know, if it's Catholic is feeling tight, give them a couple of days. You know, the back half of the lineup, they've actually gotten production out of there. You know, Taylor Tremel has had a couple of big games. You know, not everybody's killing the ball down there, but that is rarely the case. I think it's just, you know, it's just the natural course of the season that things can turn very quickly. And, you know, you look at the game yesterday, the Guardians put up 10 runs on Hunter Brown and Josh Hader. You know, if those two guys are going to get beat, you know, the Astros are probably going to get beat, and that's just the way it was yesterday and you move on.

I don't think that you can really point to the lineup as being, an issue for any of these last couple of games. It's just the way it is. And sometimes you take your lumps and move on. Well, Bogey, final game of the series and Texas comes in. Could you be thinking? Should you be thinking, look, you know Seattle's not going away. Cala Raleigh is having a great season. Mariners have good pitching. Never going to be killing it with the bats. So can you put away a team in late July if you were to take two out of three or do you not even think about it as you get ready for the All-Star break?

No, it's too early to say, you know, putting a team away, but you can put a lot of pressure on them. You can force them to kind of play out the rest of the season in a way that a team doesn't want to, which is, you know, pedal to the medal for the last essentially two and a half, three months of the season. That is a long time to be full go. And the Astros were in that situation last year where they got behind it from basically mid-May on, and it takes a lot out of a team and it's not easy to do. So no, you can't put them away and say, okay, these guys are going to be out of it, especially a team that has the quality of pitching that they have where they can just rip off a bunch of really good starts every day.

But you can really force them into a spot to where they're having to go out there and execute and be good day in and day out, which is a difficult thing to do. And the All-Star break coming up, and it's just four days off, Brian. What do you think about that? Do you think that's enough as far as complications with getting pitchers in and out of rhythm and stuff like that? or do you think it should be a little bit longer? No, four days is enough. Honestly, four days feels like a lot.

When you're used to playing every day and maybe having one day here or there, four days off is a lot. And honestly, by the time you get back and you have that, you know, I think it's an optional workout day now, it's needed. You know, you need a day to get back into it. So now four days, four days is plenty.

Thank you very much. And we're going to give you next week off. What are you going to do? Oh, gosh. I don't know. Nothing. That's my typical All-Star break plan is I do nothing.

Well, then we're calling you next Wednesday then. We're going to call you, right? We'll talk about the home run derby. Yes. And how many Astro pitchers get to pitch in the game next Tuesday night? We'll have a game. We're going to ask you to break down the All-Star game like no one's ever broken down an All-Star game in the history. So we're calling you next Wednesday.

You're not off the hook. Then I'll have to do something that I don't often do, which is watch the All-Stark. Just watch three innings. And you can go to MLB.com and watch it on speed. Thank you, friend, as always. We'll see at the ballpark tonight. Thank you for the time. You got Brian Bogus-Evic.

We just put him on assignment. That's good. He's going to watch the entire All-Star game for us. Nice. He'll be the one. Yeah, I'm three innings at most. I'll check it out. Unless the Astros, we know.

If Hunter Brown starts, I'll be more locked in. His regular turn is on Sunday. Which means he could give you an inning on Tuesday if you want to. They have been going six, man, right? Altered Gordon Gusto. We'll find out today. Okay. I'll go chase it down.

Look at you. Yeah. I'm the insider. You're the what? 713-212-5790. All right, so I put together the list for Believe it or not today, which is foods that I like or don't like. You have to get three in a row. How many are on this list, 10?

It'll be 15. You know, that's the original, believe it or not. I know. I know, you know. I'm saying, too. Yeah. So you're going to do, you have to get three in a row. But these are quickies.

So that's the reason why I was... Can you believe that, Jonathan? He made me write 15 questions every day. 15 questions. For believe it or not? Yes, and you had to get three in a row right. And we had a programmer, I won't mention his name, wanted to do believe it or not, every hour on the show.

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212-5790. 713 212-2-5-790. I've told you about this guy, Brett Your Mark. He is the commissioner of the Big 12. I've never met him before. You never did? He's very much a salesman. That's what the commissioner

of the Big 12 needs to be. I mean, I'd rather him be aggressive than passive. Yes. He knows he's battling an uphill climb. He knows that they aren't the big dog. Now, granted, basketball-wise, were every bit as good as the SEC and the Big Ten. Matter of fact, I think we're better than the Big Ten basketball wise.

And SEC had the national champion. SEC had a great year. Yeah. Yeah, SEC and Big 12 faced off in the championship game and the SEC won. That's because they were SEC officials calling the game. That's fine. Okay, the SEC officials made, who was it that dropped the ball and just kind of stared at it?

I didn't bring his name up. So, moving on. So this cat, this Brent Yor Mark, and we're going to talk to Joseph Dorsey more about it coming up at about 1 o'clock today. He's always trying to reinvent, reinvent the wheel. He wants to play some big 12 games at international areas, which I am firmly against. I think it does no good. I don't think playing, and they were supposed to play a game, the Cougar was supposed to play in Mexico City last year and they scrapped it. I think playing a college game in Mexico City does nothing.

I don't think it helps branding. I don't think it helps. It's college. The pro game I get, the college game I just don't get. So today they just announced that, and this is smart, the Big 12 conference is going to have a sign a deal with the WWE. They're going to put four Smackdown shows in Big 12 cities the day before the event to kind of say, hey, come to this city, catch your Smackdown and catch your Big 12 game. Oh, really? And catch Arizona State, Iowa State. Well, I'm glad you brought that up because you're probably saying to yourself, which games are they choosing?

Friday, August 22nd. Okay. Smackdown will be in Dublin, Ireland. Dublin, Ireland. The day before. Oh, you can catch a Smackdown and watch some Big 12 football. Seamus, of course. Oh, Seamus will be there in my lady, Caitlin.

The next day, Iowa State plays Kansas State. It is what it is. Come and catch Iowa State. in Kansas State in Dublin, Ireland after an evening of WWE. Now, I don't know if those WWE fans are going to translate to college football, but again, you're trying to figure

out an interesting new ways to market. The second... Can they travel internationally with their steroids, the WWE wrestlers? That felt rude and inappropriate. I'm just asking... No, don't ask that question. They're all on the up and up. No, you have to have under 3.4 ounces of baby oil

with you. So the next time they're going to do it is October the 3rd. Smackdown will be in Cincinnati. The next day Iowa State plays Cincinnati. So you are not far off. Oh, wait, I'm sorry. It's not Irish. You can't do Iowa State in Cincinnati.

Columbus, Ohio or wherever. Cincinnati. Cincinnati is the same thing. All right. The next day, next time I do it is Friday, October 24th. It'll be in Phoenix, Tempe. Smackdown will be at something called the Mullet Arena.

Apparently you must have long hair to enter the arena. The Mollet Arena. The next day, Houston plays at Air. Arizona State. Now, depending on my rocket schedule, I may go to that. You should. You can double dip that bad boy. I could double. I could get a little Smackdown on Friday. I'm getting the rocket schedule. Probably not going to let me do it. But point being is that... That's okay. And then the last one is Friday, October 31st, Smackdown will be at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City. Then since I will play Utah the next day

in Salt Lake City. I just think it's weird. I don't think it's creative. It doesn't make... It's not terrible. It can't hurt. Is Hugh Grant asleep at the Wimbledon. So you're basically, my guess is if you're in the crowd you're going to see signs that are going to say, hey, go check out Big 12 football, and maybe that sells a few extra seats for those stadiums for those games.

Can't hurt. They're probably like 15 bucks for both these games for nosebleeds. So, again, this Bet Yomeyer, dude, he's always trying something different. That's good. And you kind of have to. You got to get creative. It's what they call. They got grassroots marketing is what they call. Or out of the box,

maybe. Yeah, outside of the box. I wouldn't called partnering with a billion dollar corporation in WWE grassroots. But I haven't seen another sports or well, you know, now WWE has a long-term relation with ESPN. Outside the box, for sure. And they're on Netflix now too, right? SmackDown is on USA.

Okay. Raw is on Netflix. And then all the pay-per-views are on, not paper views, all the, what they call these big-time events, that are what they're called, are on Peacock. Okay. Who's the Big 12th deal with now these days?

Big 12 has deals with QVC, I believe. TNT. Oh, okay. Brand new this year. Really? Yeah. Turner? Football? Yeah. Because they're looking to fill dates because the NBA is gone. All right. So TNT and then there is, there are the Fox, big Fox package, and

some ESPN. You. Not necessarily. Plus. Not necessarily that either. Not necessarily. Hey, at least you announce your deals, not like the Pact 12. We've got great television coming up in 2026.

When we feel like we're good, well, I'm ready to tell you, we'll tell you. That's very creative and good on Brett Yormart for trying to build up interest in the Iowa State, Kansas State game in Dublin. Well, here's the thing. Here's what he really wants to do. He really wants to, and I'm not trying to put words in his mouth, but he really wants to brag about how we're at the bad. basketball is. And that's great. But basketball doesn't move the needle. It's football stadiums. Nothing more profound was when Indiana's coach was here in town for the Lombardi, not Lombardi, the Bear Bryant Awards. And he's like, you know what? We're known as a basketball school, but 90% of the athletic budget comes from our football program.

That's just a reality. Yeah. If you don't have a successful football program, no matter how great your basketball program is, you just, I mean, that's why Kansas didn't get invited the SEC, right? Mm-hmm. Kansas I mean, historic basketball program. Football. Three all time? Doesn't draw flies.

No. That's what they have on the outside looking in. Mm-hmm. Because it is Kansas City TV markets. I think it's a small market. Football is king. Yeah. All right.

You ready to shut your bum ass up? Hey, what did I do? Well, I can probably tell you that Hunter Brown wants you to shut your bum ass up. I got something to say about the opening of this show today. Oh, it was, it was great. entertainment. If you want to tell somebody to shut their bum ass up, you get the next half hour to do so. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Ain't nobody getting time? Ain't nobody getting time for day?

Ain't nobody getting time for that? Hey, nobody getting time for day. Oh, the show that we do off-air is significantly better than what is on the air. Would you not agree with that sports, Harvey? We can't say any of that on the air. Yeah, what we just said was impossible to discuss. Now, if you want to meet us at Talia Brewing tomorrow, we could tell what you were talking about. That's right. I'm already looking up the flights.

I'm looking up the round trips. Talley Brewing tomorrow we're going to be in Sugar Land on Imperial Boulevard. Okay. If you love craft beer. Which I do. Pit barbecue. It what you do. Great pizza oven.

In which you do. Tire brewing. 10 o'clock, till 2 o'clock. Come have a lunch of this. Come up some beer. and as Ross is going to likely do tomorrow, one, two, or your way over? I probably will.

And bring the dogs. But I'm not going to get drunk. Bring the dogs. Bring your kids. They have a huge playland, three and a half acres. It's really, really big and fun. Why are you making that face when I said,

I'm not going to get drunk, Jonathan? Yeah, Jonathan. Why are you being Judge McJudge over there? I didn't make a face back. I was just going up with you. He's facing me. I don't know what I'm going to be talking about. Hmm.

Hey, is your girl working right now? Or she's out of school, right? Yeah, no, she's at a school, but she's at a camp right now back home for volleyball, like getting money like that way. Okay, I was going to say, we should bring her over and have an interviewer on the air. To the station? No, to tell your brewing tomorrow. Oh, she's going to go, but not him?

Correct. We don't care if you go. We see you every day. For sure. I know that. That seems. All right. I'm a bad idea.

Well, we got to eventually meet the girl. I don't care. Oh, I do. I want to say. you know? No, I mean, as long as he's happy. I'm sorry. It's not like... Callis Ross. You know what I'm saying?

No, we know exactly what you're saying. I want you to be happy. I don't know. I get you wrong. You know, that's and I just don't get it for me, I guess. Like, we're friends and like, yeah, you're happy with your girl. I don't need a meet her. I wish you were the best. If you want to talk about her, you need some advice, then I'm here for you, but I don't know. That's because you're an antisocial person.

A-social. Anti-social is a personality disorder, Matt. Oh, then you're a... you social. Thank you. Okay. All right. Ross, what's the matter with you? What? How much time you got? I'm just going to go for the people last night, all upset. I mean, come on, folks. You read some of the Astros organization, I mean, overreactions. I got a couple of calls yesterday. Most everybody, and I'm sorry to do this, to kind of pick on the people who are

being negative, because most everybody's being reasonable. But if you're talking about fire a spotter, this is on him, 10 runs given up by Hunter Brown and Josh Hater. Not his fault. Come on. It's 162 game season. How many times do we have to keep telling you folks? Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. You just told Mike our caller who just admitted. He only emails when things aren't going well. Yeah, exactly. They won three games in Dodger Stadium. He's like, well, that's what they're supposed to do. They're supposed to sweep one of the best teams in baseball on the road. That's ridiculous. That's not what they're supposed to do, especially with all these injuries. What they're doing is special. Come on now.

Buddy mine, Ed, just texted me. He says, Matt, I'm an intercontinental airport. It's 55 degrees in the terminal. Ain't nobody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time to. Why are we trying to freeze out America? It's chilly. We are the most air-conditioned city in the world, right? Yeah, we have to be. According to a study done by

Reuters. Deakin. Well, you would think so, right? They did that study a years ago. You think they're like, oh, you know what? Let's advertise in Houston. Let me ask you this. And this, I want you to honest, don't be afraid to hurt my feelings. I'm always afraid. I bring in sweatshirts and or hoodies and or have quartersips to most restaurants because

I feel like I'm always going to be cold. Does that make me an old F? That means you probably got a blood disorder. Are you anemic? No, I've been checking that all the things. I thought one of the things. I'm not anemic. Okay, well, that's good.

That's fine. I always make sure I bring a hoodie. Remember we were at the molden mugget? And it was freezing. I brought a hoodie in it. We were in late May. So I always tried to bring one to the casino. And especially the poker room, it gets freezing in there.

Oh, Gordy's coming in. I didn't do it. What's the matter, Gordon after? Hi, Gordy. The Rocket fan boys. Uh-oh. Uh-oh, what they do now? Who are so obsessed with the youth movement.

And oh my God, I can't believe we got rid of Tai Tai Washington. and all these great, this KPJ, this great young core we were building. What are we doing? We're giving it all away. Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. I love the gorty drop-bys.

Cam Whitmore stands. Where did they come from? Who was that caller, that lady they used to call all the time. She was the biggest Cam Whitmore fan ever. Oh, I don't know. Maybe she was in the Whitmore family. She called every day asking why he wasn't getting more playing time. I'm like, are you here?

his mom? Well, he's going to get playing time in the Washington with the Wizards. Lots of playing time. Plenty of possessions for him to chalk. I'm just not saying future star, and clearly the Rockets agree with me. Well, how about the fact that you traded him for two second rounds? Yeah. And that he was not even a high first round to begin with.

Yes, he slid down boards. He's a good volume score, but his usage rate is like 75% when he hits the floor. That's not going to be the case in wherever he goes when he gets a consistent. playing. Just know this. If you're a 21 year old on Twitter and your take is I like Kevin Durant, but not giving up Jalen Green, shut your bumass up. That's on time off.

Get your boring. Yeah, but you know what? These kids got to learn. Go ahead. I told you all. Gen Z did not like the trade at all. I know. Now see, but also... I got a problem with Gen Z. See, but I used to be like that too. I remember I was on to see back in the day, now it's Twitter. Back in the day

it was message boards. I was all over message boards convincing myself. that the Rockets were going to win like three championships with Tracea McGrady. I was like, oh my God, they got Stroll Miles Swift. This team is going straight to the championship. So you know what?

We were all younger and dumber at some point. Now we're a little older and hopefully a little wiser. Speaking of that, what's the matter with you, John? And I'm going to go, I'm going to piggyback on Ross, but this is the point I want to make. The people that are getting on to Zach Short and Cooper Hummel, like, and I'm being serious, but dude those guys showed up when we had nobody

and they're a part of why Asher was so successful so ain't nobody got time for all this bitch in the moment and like it doesn't make sense to me because I mean if we're going to say that we love the Ash or we love how our team is then why are we criticizing and getting on people that showed up when they got called up out of nowhere and still perform the best they can do shut your bum ass up man tell me you

do that's that short haters out there shut your bum asses up you know what? How's fire the hitting coach's guy doing? Offense has been better. Now they went two for 20 with runners to scoring possession.

Two or 21. Let's not short them here. They were top, they were fifth in and runners in scoring position OPS coming in yesterday. Now they're ninth. But still top 10 with all these injuries. Fire the hitting coaches guy.

Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. Ryan on 7.90. Ryan, what's the matter with you? Man, my buddy Nick. I love the guy to death, but he is the epitome of toxic Astros Twitter. This guy needs therapy.

He needs to go talk to somebody because he vents all of his frustrations. You'll find some of his tweets. They're insane. And also, I wake up every morning to like, morning, bitch. Like, he's just so rude to me. And I'm his best friend. And you know what, Nick, shut your bum ass up. I know you're listening on your I heart radio app.

Getting out of the office because you want to hear what I got to say. Shut your bum ass up, Nick. And also, we should go to Talia Brewing. tomorrow for lunch. Yes. That's what I'm talking about. Meet you tired. I'm looking at Nick's tweets.

He said Gladiator 2 is mid. That's correct. It was actually bad, I thought. How many Gladiator movies have I seen? Zero. Correct. We know what? We're doing foods you haven't eaten.

We should do movies you haven't seen. Have we not done that before? Believe it or not? No, I think you just brought up movies to me and I was like, nope. Nope. Nope. Yeah, saving pride, Ryan? Nope.

Good fellas? Nope. Cascino? Yes. Okay. See, this would be good. There will be blood. Nope. No country for old men. Nope. Oh my God. 2001 of Space Odyssey. Nope. Full metal jacket. Nope. It's going to be all nose. Are you okay?

Jurassic Park? Nope. What? You haven't seen any Jurassic Park? No, not a single one. Okay. But 76 Lifetime movies. No, I don't like those either. They just have to be on. I would not have you seen them. I'm asking if you've seen them. Of course I have because they're laying in bed.

I'm just sitting something's on television. Hey, you shut up back there. Jason and Roger, you're up next. 1143. If you want to tell somebody to shut their bum asses up, let's go. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-0. 1150 on Sports Talk 790.

Ross. We have the great, we have a half hour a week. like to have our audience go tell that certain special someone to shut their bum asses up, mate? Mm-hmm. Ain't nobody got time for the... Shut your bum-ass look, man.

Both work, it's fine. Nick and Ryan are just like arguing in our mentions. Why are they fighting with each other? They said they're best friends. Yeah. That's what the bros do. Does that bros go to Twitter and fight with each other? I guess.

That's a very Brian Leema thing to do. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-2-5-7-90. Jason and Katie. Jason, what's the matter with you? For the Astros D team to march in to Chavez Ravine and play a team with a billion-dollar payroll and put it on their ass for three straight games.

When you have a guy with the name Oral, he can't give it to the past. He talks about the Astros, no old pitches coming. Oral Hershizer, shut your bum ass up. That's my boy. Shit your bum ass up, man. By the way, to Mrs. Hersheuser, what were you thinking?

Oral. Is that a oral? It's a traditional German name. Probably a biblical name maybe. Oral. Got to be right. Oral. It's Hebrew, apparently.

It means God's light. Oh, so that was right. I don't know. I think Robert would have been a lot easier. It is an ideal pick for a Hanukkah baby. Is he Jewish? I guess is Hirschild. Is that a Jewish last name?

I don't know anybody last name. It sounds German, but they're, well, Germany. Never mind. Yeah, let's... Your crossover segue is terrible. I just say it sounds like a German name. I'm sorry. I didn't do anything.

I didn't do anything. All I said is it sounds like a German name. It doesn't... 1001, 1001, 1003. Roger on 790. Roger, what's the matter with you? Same little thing, but to all the fans for bitches and they're talking,

send out all their little videos with the Ratuwek, call, you know, telling us, Jack and home run after home run. I think it's Roger's phone in this particular case. It's got to be, Roger, we'd love you, but you gotta get you get off that ricket phone.

I don't know, it sounds like the blipping, though. No, no, this is with Roger, because it was it like that. Was it Roger last time? Yeah, I remember Roger's back calls, because Roger's a good friend of the show, And also line 5 is the line of doom. Seems like it.

By the way, Hershey are descended from Hessian soldiers, which were German soldiers. What's up? So shut your bum ass up! Shut your bum ass up, man. 713-212-5-790. Karen on 790. Karen, what's the matter with you, Karen?

She got problems. Karen, you're your, Joe yours, Karen. Rick Flair on local commercials Oh, it's our phones I told you I thought it was our phones To our phone system Shit! No, we do shut We're shutting people's phone asses up

It's terrible. Let them talk. Yeah, talk as much you want You there? All right, Karen, one more time. It's blipping. Try it. You there?

Yeah, this is terrible. That was two different lines. Two different calls. We are a radio station that takes phone calls. That's go my ass up, man. Man, I'm sending this part to the IT people. Be nice. We appreciate any help we could get on the matter.

This is a call-in talk show, and it's part of the lifeblood of the show is interacting with our callers. So we've been having issues lately. And thank you to the IT department who continues to work on this for us. We do thank them. Okay, that's the part you do. Yeah, yeah. The other part you don't. Well, sometimes they might pull the air check, so it'll still be nice.

It's not their fault. Ain't nobody got time for that. Not their fault. There's no one in Houston. We're just a major market radio show that actually likes to talk to people. Yeah. That's all I'm saying. So you're saying something about Rick Flair.

Yeah. First of all, Karen calls a show about Rick Flair. That intrigues me so. Yeah. What was she going to say? I don't know. What did Rick Flair do? I don't know.

Well, Rick Flair's always getting into trouble. He's always defined death. Yeah. Wasn't he supposed to be on his deathbed like two to three times? What's the latest? All right, Karen, you're going to have to tell us what's going to now. very, if anybody knows what happened to Rick Flair, is he still alive? Yes.

Oh, you can work on that, believe it or not, as soon as you want to on Rick Flair. Just get it locked and loaded? Yeah. I think we've done it before. I know, but we're going to have to do a new version of it. Okay. All right. Well, there is a grinding halt to today's edition of shut your bum ass up.

And anybody got time for that. Roger, we're sorry. Karen, we're sorry. Or shutting your own bum asses up for this. Anybody got time? Shut your bum ass up, man. Exactly. All right, we've got the news at noon coming up, which will

featured details of an unfortunate game last night. If you like Rod Stewart, you're going to hear a little Rod Stewart to open up the show. And, you know, Jonathan, I'll let you decide whether or not you want to play the soundbite of Ross saying what he said yesterday. You can do it. It's fine. And my guess is just to be fair and balanced, you should play the soundbite of you saying what you said about Cooper Hummel yesterday. No, don't even worry about it, Jonathan. It's not about you.

We won't get a clip of somebody else very soon. I don't think that's going to happen. I never say things I regret. Except daily 10 to 2. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you're on Twitter, I want to follow us there.

At SportsMT, at SportsMT. If you want to follow me on Instagram. All right. At SportsMT. You're so ridiculous. Look, we're going to have a party at 3,000. Whatever. At Sports RV on Instagram.

Please help me out. What benefit would there be? I'm putting great content up there. I'm going to put up a new video today. Guys, before we go on break, let's try Karen one more time. Are you sure? Let's try it. It's a different line.

It is a different line. Karen? What did you say about Rick Flair? It's not bad about Rick Flair. I want people on local radio to stop imitating Rick Flair on their commercials. Oh, I see what you're saying. Are you a big Rick Flair fan in general? I am not, but I recognize the, you know, the value of the,

thing and yeah nobody does it like him. Are you a wrestling fan or no? I have one of the quick one that's more important. All right, please do. Are you a wrestling fan? Okay. I am not. Okay. I mean, I know a lot about it because I listen to sports radio and I've watched sports forever and I'm 60 years old so I mean, you can't not.

Anyway, Astros fans and anybody else who says to the Dodgers to stop booing out to you, shut your bum ass up because we need to have that as his walk-up song every damn time for every out of station. market station. Shut your bum ass up, man. Karen, went up for Dodger Nation. Karen, I want you just for your own safety, never to go to the greater Los Angeles area again.

You'll get beaten with a baseball bat. Thank you, Karen. Thank you, Karen. And Karen called on a decent line that worked. So maybe IT's listening to us. That was line. So two and five. Yeah, that was...

The first one was five, and the second one was two. Look at you writing all those notes in your daytime. Look at all these notes of when it's getting staticky and blippy. It's the whole page. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Hunter Brown? Tonight. Quality Start Plus.

I'm telling you. Are you making it this metric now? Yes. I just made up Quality Start Plus. Quality Start Plus? I'm talking. Six innings, one run ball. Right there down.

Six innings, one run ball. Guess is show coming up in an hour and a half. He did his deep dive on Cooper Hubble. He didn't even know his first name. No, no, no. Tonight. Three hits. People just watch that one go.

Jose Ramirez, Homer's for a second straight day. His 16th of the season, it's a two-run shot, and the Guardians have a two-to-nothing league. Here's the one. Oh, and that's crushed. Right field, and that's going to leave the ballpark. That's about 10 rows deep into the seats, and Rokio out of the nine hole,

has a double and a homer. He out of town scoreboard, and it is gone. A grand slam for Anheil Martinez. Into the first row of the Landry's Crawford boxes, and Cleveland has a 10-6 lead. Got him on a breaking ball away, and that is the ball game. The Cleveland Guardians hand the Astros just their second series loss at home this year,

as they use an Anheil-Martinez grand slam in the top of the 10 to beat the Astros 10 to 6. Extras. The Guardians have all the luck. Or that Hunter Brown didn't do a Quality Start Plus. And Cooper Humbold didn't get three hits yesterday. Shame on both of you. Tis, tis, tis.

I ain't worried about it. You shouldn't worry about it. I got a list. Yeah, but you have no audio of it, so shut up. Turn the music up. Very easy to find. Rod to me, very mid, very overrated, but this song is kind of catchy. It's fine. me real bad. Have you played a song lately you just thought, what the hell was that?

I feel like you're a very easy, impressionable person when it comes to music, which is good. No, I just think you have a good take. Thank you. There was one. I can't think of the name of him, though. And he takes off the melody from, ain't got no home. The old song.

I hope that guy got credit. Rod Stewart's ripping people off. Rod Stewart's still performing in concert. He's alive? You know he was alive. Man, how scratchy is his voice now? He sounded horrible in the 80s. He did.

You're right about that. I mean, he's just screeching. I just, it's not my jam. So what am I going to do? Real quick, forget to the news it knew. What am I going to do in all these people that I did grow up listening to die? I can't go see them and hear them. Listen to new music.

Exchange your horizon. I mean, okay. Seriously. So I'm going to listen to a lot of the weekend. Is that what I'm going to listen to basically? The weekends. Hold up now. The weekend got some jams, Maddys.

Hold up. he has that one good song one yeah I'm gonna guess he's got five number one hits I don't disagree I can't argue with that

I can't have evidence but I don't either there's one that's really good okay which one was it it's his most popular um I can hear it in my head right now

is he still beefing with Drake like he was getting serious about it wasn't there Drake's home got shot up and whatnot what's the weekend's most famous song uh you're probably talking talking about the blinded by the lights one or the recent one?

No, it's not recent. Starboy. Let's see, Starboy was the number one hit. Dun, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. Oh, can't feel my face was the number one hit. What's that one I just saying? Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. That's a good one.

Blinded by the light, I don't know exactly the words. All right. Yeah, blinding lights. Blinding lights, number one. Here, let me give you all the number one hits. Do we have to do this? Oh, wait, that was number one in Canada. That doesn't count.

Can we do the news at noon? The Hills, number one. Can't Fill My Face, number one. Starboy, number one hit. Die for you, number one hit. Okay, so I need to learn his music. Call out my name was a number four. Heartless, number one hit.

Blinding lights, number one hit. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna download his entire album. Save your tears, number one hit. If I'll be honest, man, I give him like a six. I'm not a big one. Oh, man. There we go.

We can get some hits. I don't care what you say, Jonathan. Jonathan gave him of six. Gen X giving six is out there. 12.10, time for the news. Just past news. And with that, we go to the sports desk, where we hear from the Chris McKendry

of Houston Sports Journalism. Is that good? Who's that? She's on the Sports Center right now. Oh, okay. All right. Moving along here, Matt, yes. The news is it down.

The Astros unfortunately fall to the Guardians, 10 to 6. Josh Hader in his second inning after throwing 18 pitches in the 9th. He went out there, said he felt good for the 10th. Almost got out of the inning would have in 29 parks. Unfortunately,

there were the one park where he wouldn't have. That would be Dyken Park. Astros lose 10 to 6. The good news is you got three hits from Cam Smith, three hits from Maricio Dubon. Bad news, Matt. Two for 21

with runners in scoring position. I don't know if you could replicate that. I mean, you can go two for in runners in scoring position, but 21 is a lot of A-Bs. Well, the crazy thing is they still scored six runs. They had a lot of traffic and could not bring, and they could have, usually should have scored at least 10. You needed 10 to win the game. Yeah.

Crazy. Oh, those two, by the way, were both Jose Al-Tube. People not named Jose Al-Tube went 0 for 19 with runners in scoring position. And his demise, I'm going to continue to say, is being a little over-dramatic. Over-exaggerated. He's been great. He's back up to like 70, 80 OPS. Now it's still a decline of where he was last year and the year before.

He's still going to get 3,000 hits. I think you're right. As long as he stays healthy. And they continue to trot him out there when he's a negative player, which they did for, they did it for Craig Bizio. I would imagine that Jose Al-Tube would get the same grace. Vizio was a well below average major league player to get. to 3,000 hits. But I think, but how many guys that hit the number 3,000 or four in the

rare cases, 4,000, all of a sudden are at their prime hitting that number? Yeah, they're not at their prime, right. Well, I'm just saying. As long as he gets the opportunity, which I think he will. I think he gets there. I would definitely say that. By the way, Ran Rathews is Texan. The weekend concert. Is this birthday present? Oh, wonderful. I saw him at the Toyota Center a couple years ago. Very good show. By the way, since Randan is listening to the show, Randolphus, Chad Hardiman on Twitter says to your colleague Rand Mouthews, who said the bats were to blame last night. They scored six runs. What should we be doing with our pitching staff? Shut your bum ass up.

Chad, look at it. Look at Chad going right after Randolphus. Both can be true. They did score six runs. It should have been enough on Hunter Brown Day, but they also did go two for 21 with runners in scoring position. People not named Jose Altuve went 0.419. All right. Continue on. All right, Matt. Well, some other news, somewhat breaking news. You know what? Save it for the next segment. Well, we can... Okay.

I think it's worthy of a segment conversation. Well, yeah, we can turn it into one next one. Do it then. Should I lay it out here, or should we wait? No, lay it out, lay it out. No, no, no, Gordy says laid out, let it out. Gordy said, where is he? He's napping.

I didn't hear from him. When we come back, some breaking news at noon. Breaking news at noon doesn't involve a team, it involves a league. 12-13 on Sports Talks. 7. You know, we always taking sports 24-7 here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Jonathan and

Ross were debating the weekend for the last four minutes off air. We were debating. We're just talking about it. You know, I get the discussion going. Yeah. Because, yeah, we agreed on a lot of the points. He tries a little bit too hard to be like Michael Jackson. He can definitely make some corny songs, but he's got a good singing voice. And especially when he's paired up with like a really good production team,

like when Daft punk did some of the songs on Starboy, it's really good stuff. All right. One last question, then we're going to go back to the breaking news. You ready for this? Yes. So I have gone to see the Eagles. I've seen McCartney.

I've seen Ringo Star. I've seen sticks. These are bands that are well past their prime. Well past their prime. Okay. So basically 40 years past their prime. Uh-huh. When Carly, Cameron and Peyton,

40 years from now, okay. Go to see a concert in the years. 265 or Jonathan Okay Okay Who are they going to see that's in that group? Bruno Mars

Bruno Mars is a good one Being Bruno Mars 40 years from now We'll be on the You think he won't? I was asking Cynthia Woods-Mitchell Casino route He would be I think he would still possibly be doing stadiums

Okay Lady Gaga For sure Beyonce for sure Beyonce would be what In her late 70s by that point Yeah, if she wants to tour, she's about a billionaire now. I don't know.

We tell you, Paul McCarney's in his 80s and he's been touring. So, yeah, if there's money, how about when Miley Cyrus be out there doing? Yeah, yeah. Perhaps. Hmm, who's making, who's making all the hits right now? Sabrina Carpenter. Yeah, all these country bands. Oh, Taylor Swift, people can be seen.

Yeah, Taylor. Yeah, Taylor's Phil Lump Stadium's when she's 75. Justin Bieber. Justin Timberlake? Maybe. Yeah, he's older, though. He's not a crooner. But he'll croon in 40 years for you.

He won't have a choice. He's going to wheel him out there. Let's see. I'm taking... Artists that are going to stand the test of time. I would put Adele on that list. How was Adele? She's got to be in her late 30s.

Okay. So there's a batch. A decent batch, actually. Yeah, you should listen to some Adele, Matt. No, thanks. You should. That last album she dropped was really good. Oh, Matt, she could sing.

You would cry. Yeah, you want something to belt out of the top of your lungs, tear streaming down your face. You get some Adele going, Maddie. Let me think about it. All right, let's get to some breaking news. Okay. Well, there's no Captain Tiniel. May he rest in peace. May she, she's enjoying retirement. That's one sounder. Is it worthy of a second one?

I think one is half the, what do you think? One's plenty. Go and tell the good news. Yes, the good news is that for the All-Star game, and don't use the word robo-umps, for the All-Star game, the ABS Challenge system will be in the game next week. week so the players can use it. They did it in AAA. They did it in spring

training and now they're bringing it to the All-Star game. They're doing a really good job of soft launching. This sounds like it's going to come next year. Yeah, let's come put it on the board. Next year. If you're bringing out at the All-Star game a chance to showcase something that is the only game. Yeah. After doing it at spring training? Yeah. This is not a soft role. This is, we're putting this on a stage where millions of baseball fans

will get to see it in action. And guess what? I don't know how much of a bump it'll be, but I think ratings will go up. I'm more I'm more after watch the whole game now No question about this is a great move Rob Manford I honestly think Rob Manford takes a lot of heat I think they do a lot to try to grow baseball I got news for you all right here's number one

number one The automatic base runner at second base works It just does I'm sorry it just does Yeah those are who complain about it Shut your bum ass up Yeah number two I thought I heard of a little low Very very faint

There you go much better Remember I told you that they're going to have to come nice to ESPN. They're re-talking with ESPN. MLB is not stupid. You cannot have a baseball contract, a television contract, that doesn't involve ESPN. Go ask the NHL how it was for the 30 years they didn't have him. Television ratings are up. Stadiums are full.

Pitch clock. It's working, although there is some indirect problems with it. Maybe. Go ask people's arms. We need more data on that. I don't know how much more data we need. I'm not a doctor. I don't play one on the radio. There are guys who were, like when Lance McCuller Jr. was out there on Friday, he was thrown with like eight, nine seconds on the clock to try to get in a better rhythm.

Yeah. And he's the last guy that we want rushing if he thinks it's going to cause an arm issue. It still feels like to me that we're getting more and more because of it. But it was, but we also look at from back in the day, guys were taking on average way shorter. So I think it's complicated. I will say you could be right. I'm not saying you're wrong. Okay. I'm saying we don't know. Games are moving brisk, are on a more brisker pace. Absolutely.

A brisker pace. Not more brisker pace. And umpiring is a hot mess, and he's not turning a blind eye to it. We've had replay, and now we're getting the ABS. Or the challenge system. We're not getting a BS. We're getting challenged system. Challenge system.

They're calling it the ABS challenge system instead of full ABS. And I just don't like the term robo up. The umpire is still back there calling the bowls and strikes. It's just an automatic, whatever. I don't know why. Is this a stupid pet peeve? Because it pews to me. Matt? I wouldn't worry about it. Okay.

I would be happy with what it's going to do. Well, you know. Okay. Now, do we know the exact rule on it? Does everybody, how many times does every team get? It'll be the same process as spring training. Each team will be given two challenges with the ability to retain them if successful. Only a pitcher, catcher, or hitter can ask for a challenge and it has to happen almost immediately after the pitch. The player will tap his helmet, his hat, or a hat or helmet.

indicating the umpire that he wants to challenge while any help from the dugout or the other players on the field is not allowed. And so the pitcher does the same thing too, I'm assuming? Yeah, pitcher's going to just tap his hat. Catcher does the same thing? Catcher, same thing. And they can't talk to the coaches or anything about it.

Well, here's the thing. You shout? It's going to be subjective. Okay. Is what umpire is going to allow what to happen? Those are the three with the best view. I mean, we always, you know, people in the stands and the dugouts, they don't really know.

They're always shouting and then the call was correct. In theory, it would take too long for the benches to get a reaction and then go scream it. And that's where your time can't. Because they have iPads. I don't know how real time the information they have is. But this totally makes sense. That only those guys, basically the people in the line in the tunnel of the battery plus the bader and the umpire can those those are the ones that are dealing with this. So that makes sense.

And then they also, this is also in the story from Jesse Rogers of ESPN who broke this story. Major League officials say 72% of fans polled during spring training said the experience was positive with the challenge system. 69% said they'd like it part of the game. 10% expressed negativity. So you said, what was the thing about 72%? 72% of fans polled during spring training

said that it was a positive impact on the game, the ABS system. Okay, so I'm guessing, let's do this real quick. What do you think the 28% said? Well, it says 10% negative, so that means 18% was indifferent, probably. Meaning that there may be a faction of fans that say, I don't like technology in my sport, the human element, or, hey, they still got it wrong. I mean, what could be that group? Traditionalists.

Yeah, that would be the anti-technology. I like the human element. Human element means bad calls. Here's what you know who is the number one contributor to the angst towards umpiring is social media I will obviously because of the box on the TV the box on the TV plus if somebody if you're watching a game between the Reds and the Pirates and you see a catcher go outside the zone and bring it back in and the strike is called what you're doing is you're then going to your TV hitting your DVR and you're rewinding it and you're filming it and then you're putting on social media and then get

passed on and passed on and passed on. Maybe, I think I figured it out. That's why we have so much angst towards empireing is that if there was a bad call in the Royals Rockies game in 1996, we could have possibly seen it, but there was a greater chance we might have not seen it. Yeah, back in the, yeah, that's true. You see it all over the place. It gets spread.

And then you have the box now too. Remember back in the day, they would have the cam from the top and you would just see if it crossed the plate. That was the best technology we could get to. see how close it was to be in a ball or strike. I mean, I don't mean to say that I just uncovered this, but I just uncovered it. Yeah, good job, Matt.

25 years ago, not every game was televised. So, and then you didn't, you didn't have the satellite packages, and you didn't have people going to film something and then putting it on their socials, right? You didn't have Facebook to put it on, you have to put in your Twitter. You'd have to read about it in the paper the next morning. Yeah. Now, there were games of the week. There were obviously games that were plenty, lots of games that were televised. But the box, plus the immediacy

of did you just see what I just saw? as compared to seeing the next day. Like, if you were really upset about a call, you heard about, I got to watch SportsCenter, I got to watch my 10 o'clock news. I'm doing it anymore. You're going to be able to see exactly what went wrong. Like, for instance, if you went to,

if you fell asleep and you missed Josh Haders giving up the salami yesterday. Yes. Go to your social media in one second, find the highlight. Go to the Guardian's website. Go to anti-astrofan or anti-Josh Hed or, for that matter, Astrophane. They put it on their socials.

Quick. And you really didn't miss the thing. Well, I wish I would have missed it. Yeah. So does Josh Hader. 713-212-570. Joseph Dorte from the Houston Chronicles. We're going to join us in one half hour.

If you missed our Brian Bogusivic conversation, we'll part of that for you at 130. Believe or not, is already done. It's what foods do I like and not like? I love this one. Ross, your day is done. All you have to do now is contribute commentary in between. those parts. I'll see you later.

713212-5791. We're going to have Joseph Torts I mentioned from the from the Big 12 media days. Gordy's. I love Gordy's. When Gordy's on Twitter and he's better, it's just

the best. So this guy named David Smoke, who is a he works for something called 365 sports. I don't know what that is. He does some radio in the Austin in the Waco area too, a big badder guy? Yes.

David Smoke, true story. When we hired Dylan Gwyn and we did a like the rock the mic open competition or whatever, he was one of the guys who sat in and did a show.

Oh really? How was it? It was good. Okay. I mean, obviously doing... We didn't hire him, but he's doing Radio Row from Dallas and we've gone a couple of times,

but unfortunately, and it's just the real realization, I don't think talking to Kansas State players or Arizona players move the needle. So we need to do things that move the needle and the asteros move the needle for us. That's the decision we may not to go. So David Smoke has a guest on right now. It's a big get for him.

It's Cody Campbell. Who is Cody Campbell, Matt? I'm glad you asked. That's the guy that sold his energy company. He's a huge Texas Tech booster. He is a billionaire and he's the one that is putting all the money towards all these Texas Tech players spending crazy amounts of money. They got a lineman coming their way that has signed a three-year deal worth $5.1 million.

That's pretty good. Good for him. So Gordy, in his wisdom, just retweeted David Smoke and said, I think all big money NIL supporters should make the rounds on Radio Row at Media Day. Why? I think he was joking. Oh. So basically he's saying,

these guys that spend all this money, all they're doing is just cash whipping schools. And what is it like coming on? And, you know, your school may be nice, and it may have good facilities. It may be a good place to get a higher education. But these kids will never come to your school unless you paid them. Your thoughts.

I wouldn't do it. I mean, obviously, this guy Cody's got a hilarious ego. He's going to Dallas for a reason. He wants to get on these radio shows. He's trying to build the brand. He's trying to let's putting out the signals. You want to come to Texas Tech. We're going to pay you.

Now, I don't know what Texas Tech's athletic budget is. Probably not the same as others. A&M, Texas. I mean, they draw probably $40,000 a football game. They sell out their conference game. They don't sell out their non-conference. Their basketball team does well. You're not getting a lot of huge rights in terms of multimedia.

But you are dipping into the Big 12 pool and you got that money there. I mean, if not for this Cody Campbell, they don't get to pay three years in $5.1 million. I guess the same thing can be said for anybody involved with the T-Boon Pickens family at Oklahoma State, right? Tillman Fertita in U of H. Well, I mean, Tillman hasn't, that I don't know. All I know is that Tillman gave one hilariously big check to get the Fertita Center bill, but that's not uncommon. We've seen that happen all the time. all these arenas are named after these people's families and whatnot because they've made those large donations

whether tilman's doing it or somebody else doing that i don't know yeah texas had joe jamail and right everybody's got who is the guy that was he was owner he owned some teams i can't remember there was another guy but my guess is jerry jones contributes quite a bit of money to arkansas i mean you you do when you are rich the schools that you go to and claim a friend a allegiance to they come to you and usually can have them out but this cody Campbell is he's carrying Texas Tech on his back. I'm not saying that Texas Tech doesn't have money, but this guy Cody Campbell is putting Texas Tech in a new stratosphere here.

I've got no issue with it. Oh, I don't have an issue. I'm just saying that it's, it's just kind of a bizarre place for all of a sudden this money to come through unless you have this one guy. Like I don't know what the kid's name is. It's getting this $5.1 million, but like Cody Camel looking at his Twitter account. He said he was at Wimbledon. He is, I mean, all these little vacation spots he's going to.

And the finals this week, he came back? Well, he's back on a private jet. I mean, Djokovic, Sinner, and Alcarez are all still in it. He maybe, he's going back. Okay. Dude, this guy, Cody Campbell's on radio all the time. All those interviews are on his Twitter account. A little bit of a glory hound.

That's fine. Or as I say, in England, glory hunters. No, they said it that way. Mm-hmm. Thanks for that. 713-212-570. 713, 212. Now look, if I had $5 billion,

maybe I, or whatever he sold his company for, maybe I would be kicking in a lot of cash in the age. I probably would help. Why wouldn't you? Well, you would only do it to get a building named after you. That feels fair. Rick in Spring Branch on 790. Rick, good afternoon to you.

Good afternoon, guys. How are you all doing? Good. Great. Well, I must say these Astros have definitely had surprised me this year. They exceeded my expectations. I really thought this would be a rebuild year, to be honest. Especially with all these injuries and our mass units that they try to piece together, it's incredible.

Do you think we've got enough to win it all this year? Do we still need a couple of trade traits? And I'll hang up a listen. Thank you for the phone call, Rick. They're not going to be the favorites going in. They may not and be favored to win a series. But what? What do you mean, like a DS?

Yeah. I mean, no guarantee. No guarantee, but you start with Hunter Brown and Framber Valdez. But let me put it this way. And you get healthy? If you say, was Kansas City favorite in every one of the games they were played in? Probably so. I think so.

I don't know if the Astros would have that kind of run. Baseball is different than the other sports. Some teams, sometimes the better team doesn't win. Just like in football, you could have one-off game. But in baseball, you're done in a week. You could run into a team at slumps. you could yeah they lost a series earlier this year to the White Sox

Yeah Baseball's crazy Baseball's crazy But you're also lining up your best pitchers In theory Especially if you're not a wild They could be on a wild card I guess But you're also having to play the game differently

Because you're managing differently You are starting guys And letting them go shorter in games You're using starters as relievers in games You're putting Josh Hayter in the seventh inning To gain of Kia I mean I'm just So put it this way

you're not going to find the Astros on the top of the leaderboard. Does a left-handed batter all of a sudden change that? It depends on who it is. The only way I think in my mind the Astros would be considered a favorite is if they get Yaron Alvarez to come back at some point before the end of the season and it contributes and makes this lineup a little more of a complete lineup. I love that Colton Gordon's been able to do what he's been able to do. who also

in that rotation? A Ryan Gusto. A Brandon Walter. None of those guys are being your playoff rotation. I don't think those are the types of players that even Joe Espada, if you put him in a private room, said, this guy is my four-starter. I think I can go win with this.

In reality, if the Astros are going to win a series, it needs to be good Hunter, good Frumber, decent enough Lance McCullors, and what are you getting from Spencer Getty because he's been gone a long time too. Or Christian Javier and we'll see how he is.

Or Luis Garcia or any of those people. I think they're in a great position. I would, I mean, I don't know what the Vegas odds are right now, but the tigers are good. But after that, I'm going with the Astros. Blue Jays are pretty good too. Especially if you like what you said.

If Yor Don Alvarez comes back, Jeremy Pena is going to come back. Jose L. Tuvae's swinging a hotter back. Christian Walker was before going on to the paternity list. and you have this starting pitching plus a bullpen? I'll tell you this. I don't know if we're talking about, you know, odds on favorites and all that. I'm scared to nobody.

I'm not scared to Detroit because they don't know what it's like to win. AJ Hinch does, though. AJ Hinch does. The Yankees look like, and they beat you last year, by the way. Yeah, the asteros of the Yankees number for all those years. And the Yankees have been very inconsistent this year, despite their very good record. Toronto, to me, they can swat the ball, but enough pitching.

Yeah. Tampa Bay, frankly, to me, scares me more than anybody else in that group. I mean, the Tigers, I mean, so many of their hitters are hitting above their head career-wise. Oh, no, Torkels. So let's go. So let me go. So we're quick. Let's go out glass heffel.

Glass-Effel. They have just as much chance. To use an NBA example, Oklahoma City was the favorite from the jump. There isn't a clear American League favorite. I think the National League favorite still. belong to Los Angeles, despite the fact they've dropped a bunch of games. I will say if they trade for a reliable bat

slash second basement or both, then I would put them as favorites. What's up? I ain't scared. Okay. I'm not ready to do that yet. I'm ready for Yon to come back and swing and have a good month of September.

And then I'll be ready to do it. Yeah, I need to see that too. Of course. I mean, pending. Pending health of all of their players that are supposed to be carrying all the weight, like Yordon Havros. I have a sneaky Jose Altuva question. I want to throw it when we come back. Okay.

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Talia Brewing, Imperial Boulevard, and Sugar. check them out on IG Italia Brewing and online at talliard t-A-L-A-R-D-Brewing.com. All right, here's my hot take. You ready for this? Jose Al-Tuves resurgence the plate in the last two weeks. Has come with some injuries of other players. And yesterday he de-hed, but he's playing a lot of second base. Where have we not seen him play much this year in the last month or so? Left field.

Yeah. Okay. I think there is a direct correlation to his improved batting over playing in a more comfortable position than he is in second base as he is left field. Fight me. I'm not going to fight you? Fight me. Maybe you're right. I mean, the numbers are going to back you up, but what's in left?

It doesn't make sense. No, it doesn't. No. But, okay, you could, you know, you could just simply say it doesn't make sense. I get where you're going. There's the correlation, but is there a causation, man? That's what we have to find. That's what we have to dig and find here.

Why? It's not like he wasn't making a bunch of plays in left field. Wasn't overly active. No. But maybe activity keeps him more vested in the game. I don't know. I'm just throwing stuff against the wall, hoping some sticks. I mean, I think the DH days have helped.

I think the DH is out more than anything else. Keeping his legs. legs fresh, stuff like that. But could there be a, I dread going to left field. I'm doing it for my team. I understand what they're doing as compared to. I'm going back to second base. I got a little bit more of a smile on my face.

I know what I'm doing out there. I haven't crushed a team of my play at second base. I'm overall a little happier. I'm always a happy-go-lucky person, but I'm a little happier now that I'm playing a position than I'm more familiar with. I don't think so. Everybody said he's a kid in the canisterer in left field. was loving it and having a great time and learning a new position. And it was

revitalizing him to learn a new position. Okay. If you're telling me no, then I'll accept it. I'm saying you could be right, but nobody knows but Jose Al-Tube. And he's not going to tell. I do have his defensive position hitting splits. Ooh. That's what, you know, this show is going to give you things other shows just don't bother with. Well, I feel a exor. Give it to you. As a DH, he is best. Now, these are all small sample sizes, really. We're talking about under 150 ABs with all these. 97 plate appearances,

878 OPS as a DH. That really, there is a direct correlation to that, I believe. As a second baseman, he is second highest, 782 OPS, as a left fielder, 739 OPS. Just food for thought. Food for thought. But once your dog gets back, he needs D.H. when Jeremy Pena gets back

and then you can slide to Bonn and whoever else to second base he'll be probably in when Pena Yoron's going to take a while anyways so he can still D8 which is good so I'm going to give you one right now okay we're going to make this prediction

oh here we go when the Astros play that five game division series because they're going to advance past the wild card okay I hope break down the five defensive positions Jose Altuve plays in the series if it was to go of five game series

Do it. I will say, who are they playing? Are they starting in Diken Park? Yes, they are. Okay, first two games he's in left. Okay. I will put the number two.

I believe of a five-game series, he only plays left field twice. I will say three. Okay. Especially if it goes five, yeah, he'll play probably all three. They're definitely comfortable putting him at left in Dikin. Okay.

Not crazy. Kelly on 790 at 1254. Hi, Kelly. I want you to, sir well yourself good good good uh i did have a comment relative to the cody campbell discussion sure yeah yeah i will preface it with i'm a tech graduate tech fan i know you guys are u of h in texas well be it well hold on callie before we're any further hold up hold up my my oldest son went to texas tech i love lubbick and i'm very proud that he's a texas tech graduate continue on i do know that i know

your son went to the finals in Minneapolis. He did. Good for you. Thank you for that. And your daughter's going to play volleyball in Rhode Island. We're going there next week. Rhode Island. Yes. Okay, I'm not this is not my first time to listen to you guys. Oh, you're the best, Kelly. Go ahead. Reference to Cody

Campbell. A couple things. He and his partner both played football at Canyon High School, and they formed a company called Double Eagle, which was the mascot of their high school team. They were both on Tech Squad under Mike Leach. Cody Campbell was an All-American, won three-ball games, and went on to play at Indianapolis. He is a big supporter of a lot of credibility after making a lot of money. He and his partners still support Tech football and soccer and softball and soccer. The picture that Tech had this last year was a product of the Matador Club, which is a club that they

form to raise money and take advantage of the NIL in a portal, which I'm not a big favor of either of those, but that's the environment we're currently in. Fair. Cody is currently the chairman of the Board of Regents. He is also on the presidential committee with our former Alabama coach to look at the NIL. So he is a guy of great, he's very credible, and he's not just seeking publicity, although the field is now Cody Campbell Field, and he in another current Regent funded the South End Zone expansion and the athletic workout center for the football. So all that being said, I'm just saying Cody's a guy very credible, not seeking all the publicity, but has done a lot for his alma mater, not unlike, you know.

Kelly, you are 90% accurate in the statement you made, okay? 90%. First of all, very successful. What's a 10%? Not seeking attention. He went to Big 12 Media Days. That's not something but attention. You know better than that.

He's the chairman of the border region. Let me tell you. What other border regions are there? Border regions do not go to Big 12 football media days. I'm sorry, Keller. They just don't. Okay. Okay.

So that's what I'm saying, 90%. He made a lot of money. He loves his school. And he gives a lot of money. Just like every school in the country has. Auburn, Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan, everybody. I'm not blaming him. I'm in fact happy about it because my son feels good about it.

its athletic program. There's a guy that's spending money. All I'm saying is it was just very intriguing to me that the number one NIL guy said, I'm going to jump on my private plane. I'm assuming he's got a private plane, and he went to Dallas to go talk to media people for a couple days. He is seeking attention, and that's okay. You're allowed to do that. But I'm just telling you. That may have been on his board membership on the NIL, which is a presidential committee, looking at the NIL, trying to figure that out with Coach Saban. They're on that committee. They're on that committed together. So maybe that's some of it and not just, you know,

him seeking attention for Cody as much as recognition for the tech and the program and looking out for the NIL reevaluation. Let me tell you, I don't want to put words in his mouth. He does a warning regulation of NIL. I know he and Nick Seven

say they do, but they really don't. That is a smoke screen. Why would you want regulation? I thought that was part of the reason Nick got out. Well, I'm telling you, you can pistol whip the Big 12, excuse me, cash whip the Big 12 when you're giving $5 million to one player. There is nobody else in the Big 12 that can do that right now, at least from a football wise. Would you agree? I don't know exactly what Aggies.

No, no, no, no, I'm talking about the SEC. I'm talking about the Big 12. Oh, Big 12? Yeah. See I'm saying? I mean, that's probably true. Why would you want that? Then, Kelly, good phone call.

and I appreciate listening very much in all the nice words. Yeah, I don't think this gentleman, Cody, wants any regulation. Why would you? I know he and Nick Simon were talking about it, but if there's regulation, he can't pay $5 million to one offensive lineman. Well, I think it's, I don't think it should be regulated. Who's determining these values? He is.

Exactly. The market should determine the value. Yeah. Not some regulation committee. If he wants to burn a million dollars on a softball pitcher, go ahead and do it. it. Now, there's a certain segment of the population. It's going to be like, is this guy watch this guy be a bust, and

that's the risk that Cody's going to take. That's what happened when the Aggie signed like eight, five, the most five stars ever, and they're all transferred out. Yeah, they're not going there. So, yeah, look, I am well beyond the point of us worrying about whether or not

schools should have people like that. Everybody, every school's got it. Whether you're putting a name on it, you're putting your name on a building or a stadium where you're just directly handed the cash. But when you run to the Big 12 media days, you are, you want somebody to talk to you. And we'll talk to somebody

that's at the Big 12 media days next. Joseph Twarty, Houston Chronicle, Sports Talk, 790. 105, Sports Talk 790. Let's spend 10 quality minutes with our good friend Josu Torte. He is in Friscoe, Texas at the Big 12 Media Days. Joseph, we were just talking about the big money man from Texas

tech, making the radio rounds. Talking about how he's paying $5 million for Lyman. It must be a good life in the in Lubbock, Texas these days. Oh, what it is to be Cody Campbell these days. Yeah, they, uh, tech is certainly, you know, they went yesterday and they were, the talk was a lot of the revenue share and sort of what they've done to kind of, I mean, they've been one of the stories of the off season. So, yeah, that's, uh, it's one of the big things.

You know, I'm kind of monitored because I'm on with drive time Thomas right now. We're about to go on with primetime Vion here in about 10 minutes. So that's the headliner, among other things. You of H went first, and Dion will cap this thing off to end the day. All right. Have they made the announcements of who's going to finish whom and the preseason poll yet? Are they waiting for a couple of hours? They're not doing a preseason poll anymore.

They basically ditched it. They ditched it. They felt like it was a, as Commissioner Brett Yormark put it, it was a disadvantage to Arizona State last year. They were finished 16th dead last. and they ended up winning it, but he felt like because of that, sort of hurt them late in the year with playoff seating and what the protection was. So they have completely ditched.

They'll do a basketball one. They'll do other sports, but they are no longer doing a preseason poll, and they'll join the Big Ten is the only conferences not to do that. All right, so where does Joseph D'Worte have on top of the Big 12 poll this year if you were to do well? No, I like Kansas State, Arizona State, and then I think Tech and Baylor are going to be.

my guys that are, my teams that are under the radar. I think, I think it's wide open, but, you know, Kansas, Arizona State Returns its quarterback and some really good field players. So, you know, I'm sort of the believer that if you're the defending champion, you stay there and tell somebody knocks you off. So I don't think there's a clear-cut team that's just going to run away with this, but I think you could certainly see some teams that are in the mix, a bunch of teams. And then if you're Houston, I think you have a chance to bounce back.

from 4 and 8 in Willie Fritz's first year and be a bowl team. I'm getting to that six wins. I think that's a realistic possibility for them this year. What's the buzz like for Colorado with their two All-Americans or two high prospects gone? And BYU losing the quarterback because of the honor code violation, he's like, I'm out of there. Yeah, first on BYU. That's kind of an ongoing situation. You know, they didn't want to say too much yesterday.

He's still on the roster. the, I guess the expectation is that he'll eventually transfer, but, you know, there's a new rule in place that right now is proving him from doing that. So it'll be interested if does he stay there and do the lengthy suspension. But, you know, they basically yesterday said that they're moving forward, having to get, you know, some young guys prepped and ready. And then basically the other team you mentioned was that Colorado was without the two stars. You know, they're the, they're sort of the unknown. You know, they come to Houston to begin Big 12 play. It's a Friday night.

That one could get interesting because, you know, you knew what you had last year with Colorado. You knew who the playmakers were with Shador at quarterback and then the two-way player and Heisman winner, Travis Hunter. That could get interesting in Houston. And I had that being one of the games that Houston wins this year. So there's certainly going to be some. Some things going on with the different teams and a player here and there, if you're BYU, you could mean the difference between another 10-plus win season or being sort of middle of the pack. How much conversation was for Willie about Conner Wegman taking over the sent him calling for the Cougars this year?

A lot of it. You know, Conner's not with the group that came. Willie went with the veteran returners. But, you know, my conversation with Willie, we talked about, you know, just the fact that this is a chance for a fresh start, hit the reset button for for Wegman and he really thinks that that's going to do a lot for him coming over from Texas A&M. Now, a little interesting part of it was, you know, Conradell with a shoulder injury while he was at A&M. He still had some of that when he got to Houston late in the winter and he, you know, he went through spring and they said he's good to go and healthy. So, you know, that's a positive.

But, you know, Willie just sung his praise and said that, you know, he called Jimbo Fisher and got kind of a little report on, you know, just the person that Weidman was. He calls him an old-fashioned throwback kind of quarterback. And, you know, if they can get anything out of him in that position, you know, this is a team that will be much, much improved on offense. And that was the focal point. They needed to start with the quarterback and they got it in the offseason. And then everything else sort of fell in place with the line, you know, some receivers and a good running back.

A couple more minutes here, Joseph Torti, from, Frisco at the Big 12th, many days. He's got to go talk to Neon in a few minutes. Hey, Brett, your mark made a lot of statements yesterday, and he's obviously a very out-front, outgoing commissioner. He is big on this 5 plus 11 format. How much of that is genuine and how much of that is he's trying to posture because he doesn't like the fact that his conference would only get two guaranteed spots if the SEC and the Big Ten got four each. Yeah, I think that's the latter. And I, I, I, I, think that 5 plus 11 is the way that they eventually go. And he mentioned that, you know, the

ACC is also on board. And I think at some point during the SEC spring meetings a few, a few weeks ago or months ago, that that was kind of gaining a little bit of support. So, you know, yeah, I mean, everybody wants to to make sure that there's some type of equal footing on it. And, you know, some of the early ones that we saw favored the SEC and the Big Ten who are considered the two top conferences. But yeah, he certainly thinks that this is what will get past. And that's certainly, as he put it, he was doubling down on that model. And it looks like that's going to be the way they go. They need to decide by December 1st for the 2026 season. But yeah, he did a lot of preemptive stuff yesterday to let it be known and to reiterate where he stood and

what he favored. Who ultimately decides that? And what if during the negotiation process, the Big 12 and the SEC and the Big Ten say, we don't care what you think, ACC, we don't care what you think. We think we deserve four teams each. Why do the SEC and why do the Big Ten want to play nice? Well, I mean, at the end of the, yeah, those two are the movers and shakers, the power brokers. But it comes down to the commissioners and it comes down to Loderdames involved as well. now there's two sides of it now the playoff committee will we'll sort of get into the what new metrics will they use what will the criteria be when they're evaluating who gets in but from the

standpoint of the model itself they've got to reach some type of consensus or the agreement that's going to work for everyone and and I think as we see this thing move forward and you know does it stay at at 16 for long or do they continue to try to push the how much they expand. You're going to have to have some give or take. And while those two conferences do drive a lot

of the discussion, I wouldn't say that the Big 12 and like the ACC won't have some type of say when it comes down to the end. Well, let you go say to have a prime time for us. Tell them we send our best and look forward to seeing him in September at TDECU Stadium. Thank you for the visit, friend. I'll do,

buddy. Thank you. Joseph Torto, Houston Chronicle, joining us from the Big 12 media days in Frisco, Texas. You know we were talking about facilities? So the Cowboys playing Arlington. Yes. And that's a majestic facility. Yes.

Their practice facilities are in Frisco. That's far north to far southwest metroplex. It's probably, I don't know, 60 miles away from each other. We'll see what the old Google says. 42 miles, 52 minutes. Oh, I thought it was a lot further than that. That's not terrible. That's us driving to work every day.

Not me. Why you look at me like that? You suck. Way to brag. Nobody made you move to Kingwood? Well, actually, stop. What are you talking about? Well, I'm sorry, nobody outside your family made you move to Kingwood.

Yeah. Come on. Let's be accurate here. Well, I wasn't going to throw somebody under the bus, but you did. No, you did. All right. Not me. So if you want to chime in anything that Joseph had to say, 114, their facilities, Frisco is got

a 15,000 seat stadium on the premises. Well, they were among their practice facilities. It's a, it's a Taj Mahal up there. I'm sure it's great. And may they go 7 and 10 this year. They have high school games and stuff there, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. The NBA Group Cup has been announced.

The NBA Cup groups, yes. Cup groups or Groups? You said group cup. Fruit Cup. Fruit Cup, group. The NBA Cup groups have been announced. Yes. We'll tell you who is with the Rockets in their group.

And the biggest tournament of the year, the NBA Cup. Let me tell you something. Daddy went to Vegas last year. Yeah, you said you're going to take me and you didn't. I'm taking you to the Western or NBA finals of your choice. They better make it. What if they're the four seed? No case he's the one.

Can you take me to the semis? You know what? What's the segment we do at 1130? Wednesdays? I just don't get it? Nope, that's Thursdays. Got feelings? Nope, that's Tuesdays.

Not that's not Florida stories? Nope, that's Friday's at 130. It's called shit you bum ass up. There you go. Congratulations to ageless Dallas Kichel signing a minor league contract with the Kansas City Royals.

And he has moved around. Once the ace of the Astros rotation, circa 2015, I mean, kudos for him for trying to hang on, Yes. He's bored, maybe? I mean, I wouldn't think he's like short on money, right?

I'm looking up his career earnings. Okay. That can't be bad. He's 37. And has it been good in a couple years? Oh, I was going to say more than that. His career earnings. By the way, Dallas, good dude, by the way, great dude.

Last played for the twins in 2003, and he made $720,000. Looks like he threw four games for Milwaukee last year. Don't know how much he made for that. But he has not been good since he was 32 years old in 2020. Oh, let's play the... Okay, here we go, range game. I'm going to give you... Oh, dang.

$96 million in earnings. Oh, what page are you on? I saw 100 on reference. Spot track? Okay. tomato potato i mean 96 or 100 million he's doing okay he should be doing okay so let's let's put this in perspective okay if you have 96 million dollars in your well you obviously have spent that you've spent taxes don't forget taxes will knock out 40% off the top so that's 48 million and then he's

got to live and he's got to eat he's got to travel he's got to buy gas by lambos yeah um what do you think if we were to go borrow his ATM and pull out $40. Okay. I don't think we'd get overdraft fees. It would say current balance left. Oh, okay. Well, I would hope that he's got a majority of it tied up in investments and other ventures. Like in his checking account?

I don't know, a couple hundred Gs. Like, I know somebody that's got a checking account that does what you just said, a lot of investments, a lot of things. That if we went to his ATM card, it would say probably over 200. I think I would say over $200,000. Yeah, you should put some more of that in some investments, I'd say. No, this person has done that. He's just keeping that as just funny money. Funny money.

I can't think of a situation where I would randomly need 200 G's, but that's just me. You never know. You want to buy a car on a sporadic moment? You want to go charter a trip to Florida for a few days? That's what you do. Well, at least put it on the credit card. Get some points. Can you do that?

You don't need points when you know, I guess you could. Yeah, speaking of points, Lesse Alexander, former owner of the Rockets. charged to everything on a credit card. As he should. And got points for everything. Yes. So when anybody from the Rockets needed to travel, instead of calling a travel agency and saying,

hey, I need you to book this salesperson to go visit with some clients in New York, or the Rockets need a player to come in, they would have unlimited miles. They would use miles for the trip. Now, obviously, you'd want to, if you're bringing in a player, you're going to use a lot of points to get the person into a first class seat. But the regular employees

were flying coach. So it's just... I mean, imagine having... You know, all of us carry points of something. Most people, I should say. Imagine having like 39 million frequent flyer points. That'd be great. You go to Europe whenever you want?

Literally. Literally. You want anybody to come in? Boom. Is that your dream, Matt? Unlimited points. Unlimited points would be good. I got good points.

now. I know you do. And I don't even travel that much commercially. I have a credit card that's attached to an airline and that gave me a lot of points. All right, so Dallas Kiko, good luck to you. Ninety-six million dollars career earnings, hoping to keep hope alive by pitching for the Kansasy Royals.

I hope he doesn't need the cash. It's a minor league deal, right? Yes. 37 years old in the minor leagues? Oh, those 20-year-olds who can't drink yet, can't wait for him to get down there. He's buying every meal. Hit up to 92 in the workout? He was never a fast tosser.

No, I was going to say. That's what he was, as a 24. He was throwing 92. Since he was 25. That's crazy. All right. NBA real quick, announcing their group play teams for the group cup.

Group cup, right? Group. Cup group. It's the groups of the NBA Cup. Yeah. They've got to change that. No, I'm butchering it. I'm butchering.

Oh, I thought, okay, okay. It's called the NBA Cup. The championship is the NBA Cup, and it starts with group play. All right. So, I don't know who's playing who. Do we know who's playing what games are homeowner road? No, but I think you have to play each person once, right? You play each of the, yeah, you play two home games and two road games.

Now, there's this. See if you can look at that up. Oh, my gosh. That makes me sense. The teams that are in the NBA Cup group for the Rockets, and it's just a rando draw. Yes, from Pots. The Rockets will have... That is tiny writing.

The San Antonio Spurs... Oh, it's already... The Rockets have already announced it. Yeah, Houston will visit San Antonio. Go ahead. We're going to San Antonio and to Golden State. Home for Portland and home for the Denver Nuggets. Forno.

And for those of you don't remember... Forto group winners. There are six groups. Each group has a winner. And then you have a Western Conference, three group winners, and then the best record after that, there's four. You have an Eastern Conference three different pods, a winner there, and then you have one wildcard for a total of four.

Those eight teams play a knockout round. Quarter final, then the four teams go to Vegas, which we did last year. The semis, and then the finals. I didn't say for the finals. No. I believe Milwaukee went both times of the finals. Lakers on the first one, right?

And Milwaukee won the second one. Yeah. Against Oklahoma City. Yeah. So you're saying there's a chance. I think so. Is there any team you're scared of in the NBA with Kevin Durant and the boys now? Can I make a small, way too early prediction?

I think Golden State's going to have a very difficult year. Kamenga's gone, it sounds like. Yeah, okay. They weren't even playing them. Steph's old. Yeah, but he was old last year. He's still taking danger over. Cary's old. I mean, Draymond's getting older.

Uh-huh. Kavan Luni is gone. Okay. Who'd they get in Frayance? Anybody worth their side? I don't know. Jimmy Butler. They made some moves.

I mean, they have Jimmy Butler, but they made some moves. I don't want to give a hot take just yet. I'm not ready to do it. Oh, you're trying to say no playoffs. I was trying to, but I can't do it. All right. If you missed our conversation, I'm not, don't put me on that. I didn't put me out there like that.

I didn't write it down. All right. I would never play some of your audio that you got wrong. But if I'm going to say it and it's wrong, then you have to call me out on it. That's fair. Brian Bogussevick, a conversation with him, straight ahead. 129 on Sports Talk 790 with

134 Sports Talk 790. I hope Ross that our audience listens every day. All four hours today, 10 o'clock until 2. It's just simply not feasible, Matt. Well, it's possible. We can work a day shift and make sure you're off by 10.

You can catch us on the podcast. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and of course, for free on the IHeart Radio app. That's brilliant. And then make us our preset when you're out and about. Yes, first preset. First preset. Like, I'll be in Rhode Island next week with my daughter and her volleyball camp doing the show with you. Okay, thank you. But I'll be listening to the A team and I'll put it on the number one preset and then I'll be asleep within 15 minutes.

Wow. It's sweet music to listen to as you get into that late afternoon nap. I've got no comment on that. What did I say? I mean, I can listen to music, but I don't listen to 18 to fall asleep to. All right. So let's get to it. the Brian Boga's having conversations every Wednesday at 11 o'clock,

and we had a chance to ask him about something that Hunter Brown alluded to. Was he tipping pitches? And what's it like as a batter knowing that maybe somebody was being a little more predictable on the mound? Here's what I look at. Like, it's always on your radar, right? Especially when you're throwing the ball as well as Hunter has been. And then all of a sudden, guys are on everything. But I think, you know, the first thing you have to look at is what are the pitches that they were hitting?

You know, where were those pitches located? That pitch that Jose Ramirez hit, that was a change that got yanked right down the middle. The pitch that Rokio hit for the home run, the nine-hole hitter, it was a cutter that landed right in the middle of the zone. So I think, you know, first and foremost, you've got to look at quality of pitch, and that will tell you a lot. Now, if you're just dotting up your pitches and if you're throwing nasty sinkers that guys are staying on, and if, you know, bats are beating you to the top of the zone on well-located four-seem fastball. as that guys don't usually hit, then you might look a little bit deeper and say, oh, man, am I tipping something?

Do they have something on me? I think it's just one of those nights where, you know, there wasn't really a consistent amount of well-located pitches, especially with the off-speed stuff. And, you know, you chuck it up more to that than I'm doing something that's given it away. Staying with pitching for a second. What did you think of Cade Smith intentionally balking to get Dubon off a second base last night? interesting i understand the logic of it if you think somebody is able to pull something out of your glove then you know you don't want to risk that being relayed at the same time i mean he he threw a wild pitch

the following inning i don't know that i'd be too you know quick to put guys on third base when i'm you know spraying 98 and bouncing sliders in there but you know what i i would have to imagine that's something that they discussed before the series and before the game, certainly, there are certain guys that we think might be able to pick stuff up, or maybe he thinks that people have been picking it up on them in the past. So it's a different strategy, but, you know, whatever makes the pitcher feel comfortable, I guess. You know, and on both of those things, the tipping and the kind of picking, trying to pick up grips, what exactly are you looking for?

What's some examples you can think of in your career that you saw? I mean, we've seen people talking about the way the glove is held or certain. cadences or if you could just give us like specific examples and then also kind of explain the looking for the grip thing as well right so so it used to be when you're at second base you used to be able to pick up signs and see if you could decode the signs that doesn't exist anymore with the pitchcom so really what you're doing is is you're focusing on the glove and the set position of the pitcher and first first thing you're looking for is do they do something different on say fastball versus off speed is the glove turned a little bit differently is it a higher set or a

set, something that you could pick up that maybe the hitter can't see. The other thing that you can look for is if a pitcher's glove is open to you, right? They don't have it closed tightly to their chest. You can sometimes pick up the hand positioning on the ball and specifically a change up where they'll throw three fingers on there or if a guy throws a split finger or if they have a distinct curveball grip where maybe they spike their finger or something. You can pick those things up in the glove as they set the grip. And if you can get it, it early enough, you can then relay that to the hitter. So, you know, a lot of times you'll see pitchers as they come set,

they'll be turned around looking at the runner, seeing if the runner's peeking in, they'll be trying to really close their glove off and keep it tight to the body. But there's a lot of guys who are really good at peeking in there. And they might not be every pitch that they get, but there might be one particular pitch that every once in a while will give away. And, you know, sometimes that's all it takes. Brian Bogusevich with us here on Sports Talk 793 hits yesterday for Cam Smith. we've been kind of talking about his progression throughout the season with you.

So what have you been seeing from him lately as he just continues to get better and better? Well, a real understanding of what his strengths are, a real understanding of what he needs to do to continue to progress. We've talked about the adjustments that he's made. But, you know, one of the things that is the most difficult thing to get better at is how quickly you can adjust, how quickly on the fly you can make adjustments to what either pitchers are trying to do to you or what you did wrong the day before and try to take an 0 for 4 and not turn it into an 0 for 10. And what he did yesterday was making an adjustment day to day, which sometimes it takes hitters, you know, a week to make an adjustment.

He got pounded in with sinkers in the first game against Cleveland. And a lot of times a young hitter, you start to feel that fastball in on your hands. What are you going to do? You're going to try to get quicker. You're going to try to get the head out. Okay, I need to pull that ball. I need to get a round on it. But he immediately went back to what do I do well?

And that's stay inside the baseball, hit it the other way. His first at bat, he got that fast ball in, but he really kept his hands in tight, got the barrel inside of it, shoots the line drive to right field. Then he does the same thing with the breaking ball, shoots it to right field. And, you know, how quickly you can get back to your baseline of what makes me good minimizes the downs of the ups and downs of the season.

And, you know, that's the key to hitting. That is the key to being consistent over, you know, a 600 played-de-appearance season is how often can I be either good or great and not be in a slump? From your eyes to what you've seen the last couple of days, and that's obviously the Guardians putting up a lot of runs, the lineup card has been an interesting one to say the very least, especially back half of it. And a lot of it's because of paternity,

because of Jake's ailments and Pena still. If I was to surmise, or have you summarized the last two games, was it, you know what, you're coming off a huge series winning in Los Angeles, natural letdown. Is it that maybe the back third of the lineup is kind of acting as advertised? Or is it a case where maybe you've got some guys that are just trying to crawl to the All-Star break to get some time off? What do you think it is? Could be a combination of things or could all be none of those things? Yeah, honestly, what I think it is is it's baseball.

You know, one day you can be a world beater, and the next day a team on a 10-game losing streak can come in and beat you. And, you know, every team throughout the course of the season is going to have to fight through some injuries. They're going to have to dip into the depth of the organization. And, you know, fortunately, the asteros have gotten themselves to a spot to where they don't have to force the issue. They don't have to try to rush guys back. They can be cautious with Jake Myers. and, you know, if his calf is feeling tight, give him a couple of days.

You know, the back half of the lineup, they've actually gotten production out of there. You know, Taylor Tremel has had a couple of big games. You know, not everybody's killing the ball down there, but that is rarely the case. I think it's just, you know, it's just the natural course of the season that things can turn very quickly. And, you know, you look at the game yesterday, the Guardians put up 10 runs on Hunter Brown and Josh Hader. You know, if those two guys are going to get beat, you know, the Astros are probably going to get beat, and that's just the way it was yesterday, and you move on. I don't think that you can really point to the lineup as being an issue for any of these last couple of games.

It's just the way it is, and, you know, sometimes you take your lumps and move on. Well, Bogey, final game of the series, and Texas comes in, are, could you be thinking, should you be thinking, look, you know Seattle's not going away. Cala Raleigh is having a great season. Mariners have good pitching, never going to be killing it with the bats. So can you put away a team in late July if you were to take two out of three or do you not even think about it as you get ready for the All-Star break? No, it's too early to say putting a team away, but you can put a lot of pressure on them.

You can force them to kind of play out the rest of the season in a way that a team doesn't want to, which is, you know, pedal to the medal for the last. essentially two and a half, three months of the season. That is a long time to be full go. And the Astros were in that situation last year where they got behind it from basically mid-May on. And it takes a lot out of a team and it's not easy to do. So no, you can't put them away and say,

okay, these guys are going to be out of it, especially a team that has the quality of pitching that they have where they can just rip off a bunch of really good starts every day. But you can really force them into a spot to where they're having to go out there. Oh, go out there and you'll find out more. Or when Brian Bogus-Civic talks today on Space City Network. How about that? Or check it out of the podcast.

We talked earlier today about foods I like and what I don't like. Believe it or not, is what do I like? If I like a food, you'll say believe it. If I don't like it, you'll say not. Adam Client would be 15 knots in a row. He doesn't like anything except chicken fingers. Yonick's Center. Congratulations.

Picked up his 11th win at Wimbledon versus a top 10 opponent and a major. Nice. His second at Wimbledon, by the way. You're saying, Matt, how'd you know that? Well, I'm reading off the screen. He's on to the semifinals. Yeah, it needs a haircut. Why?

I think it's all shaggy and stuff. Not kept? You're doing all right. Yeah, I'm sure he's fine. I will be hosting the On-Dex show tonight. You are? Yes. I did yesterday.

And I'm doing Friday as well. My gosh. I know. Wow. Incredible. John Salisbury. Nope. Dan.

Yep. You, yep. Yep, Waxert, nope. Clanton, nope. Mm-hmm. What's going on with this place? You know? To each his own.

I like doing post-game shows. And I also like putting in the time so that I can do it in playoff, you know, so I can be a option for us for playoffs. It's funny, I don't go to the playoffs. I used to go. Well, you're usually with the Rockets. Yeah, I can probably go the first round. What about me and you?

Matt Ross, Rody. We did one. No, we didn't go to Rody, but we did one together, I think, last year, right? Nope. Or the year before. Nope. Yes, for sure. We were on one of them together. Last time I've been on the road for the Astros playoff.

No, not on the road. I'm just talking about doing a playoff post game. Oh, that was fun. Yeah, that's good. All right, 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 beat?

Believe it or not, and here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believe or Not is Do I Like This Food? Now some of these things We've talked about a lot Some of them we've never talked about at all I will read you a food

You'll tell me if I like it If I do you'll say this Believe it If I don't you'll say this If you get three in a row right You gotta get three you want a prize What are you playing for today Jonathan We got a pair of tickets to see the psychedelic furs

Live on July 12 at House of Blues Tickets are on sale now at Ticket dot com and of course we got the sports talk 790 t-shirt there you go can on 790 you ready to play believe it or not believe it or not can do i like yogurt believe it or not that is correct not food number two can i like kimchi believe it or not believe it yes believe it here we go that was a tough one can for the win i like shake and baked chicken believe it or not not oh I love shaking Who doesn't like

Shake and bake chicken? I made some internet and I'm like I want to make more of it I love shaking bake Shake and bake They called me back Back in the day

My younger days ShakenBake Thomas I thought it was waking bake Brandon on 790 Brandon what was your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show Believe it or not Brandon

I like sour cream Believe it or not I do Sorry Sour cream Yes, mayonnaise, yes. Yogure, we already said yogurt. Yogurt, no, no.

Wow. Gio on 790, Gio, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Geo, I like guacamole. Believe it or not? No, you know that one. Number two, I like sourcrow. Believe it or not? Oh, man, you're white. I believe that. Believe it. I take a little offense to that.

Food number three for the win. I like blue cheese. Believe it or not. I believe that too. You should. I love blue cheese. Man, I can't. You make no sense.

That's fine. I don't agree with Clanton's palate, but it makes sense that it's all the gelatinous, whatever he calls it. Gelatness. That's what he calls it. Sounds like a disease you get at. You got the gelatinous? Edo restaurant. Let's go to Roger on 790.

Roger, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Check your mic, man. Roger, I like olives. Believe it or not. Hurry. Not. You're right. I think it's disgusting.

Delicious. Roger, I like cherries. Believe it or not? Not. That is also correct. You don't? What? Gross.

Eating like masherino or fresh? None of the of. None of the above. Food number three for the win. I like salmon. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, I don't like salmon.

I'm sorry. You don't eat cherry pie? No. Cherry soda? No. Nothing with cherries. Cherries in a Manhattan? No. No like cherries. Period.

When you get the cherry on a Sunday, I give it to my kids because they like chairs and I don't like them. What about the fresh ones out of a bag? No. Those are good. No. No cherries at all. I put them in the freezer and then just eat them like a frozen snack. George on 790.

You ready to play, believe it or not? I'm ready, Mr. Matt. George, I like mushrooms. Believe it or not. There's not much room in your plate for a mushroom. Not. I love mushrooms. I can eat mushrooms every day.

You are so weird. I want to defend you mad, but this is bad. That is bad. It's what I like. Al on 790, Al, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, sir. I like oysters. Believe it or not.

Not as correct. Food number two, I like cucumbers. Believe it or not? No. I do like cucumbers. numbers. I mean, they're fine. All right, we've got no time left. Really quickly,

Adam Clayton, I like enchiladas. Believe it or not. Ooh, he doesn't. You say not? Not. That is correct. You weirdo. You've got to kick you out of the state. I like cantaloupe. Believe it or not. You don't like any fresh cut fruit because you make fun of it in the media dining before Rockets games.

You disgusting human. Hashtag nobody likes these melons. Up next. It's Cussin and Discussing with Clinton here on Sports Talk 790.