The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Lose Game 2 vs Rangers, Nico Collins Gets a Pay Bump

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

Astros Lose Game 2 vs Rangers, Nico Collins Gets a Pay Bump

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. The Texas Rangers score eight in the first inning and then have to hang on late. As the Rangers pick up, the 10 to 7 victory, ending the Astros win streak at four games, ending the Rangers losing streak at four games and evening this series at a game of piece. So not only did Jason Alexander have a wretched first couple of innings, Ross, as you watch every moment of it and talk about on the 10th inning show last night. Yeah.

Joe Spada says, you're going to go out there and wear that. Multiple innings of it. And he did. I mean, he was great. Z.R.A. after the second inning wasn't bad? The first two, not great. Yeah. Sorry now.

Five innings of one-run ball from Jason Alexander. in innings two through six. Yeah. Brian McTaggart had the stat I'm pulling up to make sure I get it right. He's like the first guy since 2008. Yes. First pitcher to throw at least six innings

after giving up at least eight runs in the first inning since Mark Redmond of the Rockies in 2008. So you saw history last night. What a bizarre stat. Yeah. Giving up eight runs in the first inning and then he threw six.

So for those of you. Appreciate you. For those of you that don't know, the Elias Sports Bureau, I don't know, I'm assuming teams pay for the service because they always had these crazy stats. I mean, when I was doing TV work for the Astros, they would give us a sheet of information, and they would have Elias Sports Bureau would provide this.

So it must be TV networks, must be individual teams, must be all sorts of different folks. They come up with the wackiest crap. So as much as I tease on pro football focused, the real hounds maybe aren't working at the Alliance Sports Bureau. Yeah, they are. I mean, it's the original. It's a goat. It's the OGs.

And they always find stuff, including an eight spot in the first inning for the Texas Rangers. I mean, could you imagine if you were an Astro fan and you went to that game last night and you sat down and got your hot dog, get your cold beer? Oh. Peanuts, you're sitting down. Man, I'm in this new ballpark. I'm wearing my Astros orange. And I'm ready to yell at the Ranger fans because we just know hit your ass. and then

we're going to the second in Arlington. It's the Astros down. Ain't nothing. Yeah, I feel like baseball's the only game where you can be completely out of it in like 15 minutes. It's over. The first 15, that's it. The Cleveland Cavalers kind of feel that way too.

No, you can wrap. Teams rally back from down 20. I don't know. Teams rally back. You can get down 20 in about 15 minutes in a basketball game, but teams come back from that. Nobody comes back from 8-0. Or at least it's very rare.

I remember, and I don't, I can tell you, was St. Louis in Atlanta. And it was in the fall, and I was in an airport. Okay. I don't know where I was. It must have been something football related. St. Louis and Atlanta were playing, and it was either a wild card game or division series, and now I'm going to have to look it up because it's going to bother me. I remember being at the bar eating at the, and I think the Cardinals scored 10 in the,

the first in like a deciding playoff game. Okay. That sounds vaguely familiar. It's been within the last 10 years. But could you imagine playing, and I was saying this to the people that I was directly with, could you imagine Rossi being at Atlanta's deciding

playoff game? I'm presuming it's a divisional series game. And St. Louis scores 10 in the first inning or something crazy like that. 2019 game 5 NLDs. Cardinals Braves. Final score? 13 to 1. Card will score 10 in the first?

Yes. You're paying, and you're paying playoff prices. That's what I'm saying? Baseball, you run that risk. It's rare. And what do you do if you're a manager? Guys, we can get this.

I mean, if they score 10, we can score 10. Do you drop that card on it? I guess. They can do it. We can do it. Yeah, after it was 80 in the first, 98.2% win probability, which seems low.

How do 1.8% teams come back from that? There's no way. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, the Astros did put together a professional effort. I mean, they did. They did a bunch of runs. They slugged four mega mammoth home runs. Yordon's country strong too.

Okay, good. He is so strong. He's back to country strong. He is USA country strong. And Cuba country strong. I was thinking about that yesterday. I was like, I don't know if Christian Walker lists more weights than Yordon or who does or who does it.

doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Yon is strong, strong. He is like, he's like incredible Hulk strong. Yeah, he's, he's awesome. The two hardest hit balls off of his bat, 112 and 110 miles an hour. And he hit those crazy long home runs. The longest one was Cam Smith, 457 feet. Now, I'll be honest with you, I did not watch every moment of the Astros game. Did Cam challenge anything yesterday? I don't think so, no. Okay. That's fine. And I want to be respectful, because we don't, challenge. We are, we are Cam fans. We are Cam fans, but he's challenged more than anybody on the team, and he's missed nine of them. So yeah, they got to be finding him. But this would be a question for Brian Bogosavik. I mean, if the dude can hit the ball 457 yards, I mean, I'm going to say, yards would be really something. I would have him tested immediately. If he can hit 457 feet, I mean, and he's got a 462 foot home run this season, like, I, I don't.

Obviously, obviously, the power is there. How do you get him to unlock it more consistently? Yeah, that's a great question. You'll get that for Brian, but I'll say that for you. Well, thank you, man. That'll be your spine. Four home runs yesterday, and the Astro still lose by three runs. Seven, as Brian McTaggart put 1782 feet of home runs.

And they lost. And even Pena going deep. I mean, what a nice surprise on that. And that was a tank shot, too. Yes. All four of their home. All four home runs and 30 out of 30 parks. Like they mash those bad boys.

Yeah. And then they lost. Yeah, it was a weird one. I'll be brutally honest. It was kind of a rough sports night. First of all, the Astros getting their ass kick so early in the game was not fun. And then you wanted to sit down and watch your little Spurs versus Thunder.

And that game really was never in doubt. It was, yeah, it wasn't like a complete blowout. I think it got it within like 10 or something, like 15. And it was like they had him in arms length the whole game for sure. I never thought, wow. The Spurs are one, 12, two run away from winning this basketball game. And the Thunder are one game away from winning the Western Conference again. I don't want to say Go Spurs Go, but I don't want to root for the Thunder either.

Oh, no, no, no, no. You know, no, this is easily an opportunity for all of you to be completely indifferent. Let me tell you about why. It's good basketball, though. I'll give you an example. SGA is just a foulbator, and nobody likes a falbator. Right. What's his name? Lou Dort's a dirty basketball player.

I like rooting against Chet Holmgren because we kind of wanted him here in Houston and he's not here. We had that draft party. Oh, no. Everybody went nuts when they, oh, go ahead, take him. Take him Oklahoma City. Take him too. And then I was like, yeah! I mean, it was, I think the roar for the thunder taking Chet was louder than the rockets taking Jabari Smith.

He's better than Jabari. Well, I mean, yeah. Yeah, I mean, the career's been better for sure. Now, remember, too, Holmgren also missed an entire season, too. And that was always the issue about him was, would he be able to stand up to playing a full 82 game schedule? And he really hasn't. He had the pelvic fracture and then he had the Lefranck fracture. He missed his whole first season.

Jabari's been way more durable. Yes. But per game, numbers. He's wrapped up more war for putting it up. wins above replacement. That's exactly right. There you go. But Chet went on the floor.

I mean, Chet is, yeah, first team all defense. He finished second and defensive all player of the year, and he was an all-star. Yeah. So it is what it is. It is. Doesn't mean that Jabari can't grow and there is growth? The book is not written on him. My thought is, and I didn't mean to get into Jabari-Smith conversation, I'd like for Jabari to get to 38% from three.

He's been sticking around 35-36. He told us 40. I'm all for that. I'm all for that. I mean yesterday. Last year. I'm all for 40. If your bargain's of 40,

that's a solid NBA starter that you would put in your lineup every single night. So, but that's, he's got to get to that point. Someday. Hopefully soon. Now, if he does it as a rocket,

they'd be better. Maybe he'd be doing it somewhere else, you never know. He signed. He's not long term. It's all good. Oh, you're talking on, you know, he'd be doing in Milwaukee is what you're saying.

I'm Boston. It would be involved in Cleveland. Why don't, why don't we go, why don't we as human beings go something change our voice when we don't want to say. Why'd you say Baustin, like B-A-W-S? Balson. Bowston. But them boys up there I'm bowson doing. I've spent a lot of time. You should see my United app. I have nothing but Providence trips coming up in the next six months.

Oh, that's good. I mean, sounds cheap. Oh, my God. Providence is so expensive. Oh, my God. Different issue, different time. But point being is, I may come back with a New England accent. You may be, you may be seeing a transformation. Oh, really? Yeah, we heading over to Duncan. Left side, Shangoon, 14-footer. God, and that was wicked awesome. Okay. I could put some Boston vernacular in there.

You should be doing some recon on Jalen Brown. Well, I mean, yeah, I'm going to be in New England a lot over the next six. Let's get you boots on the ground. Mr. Rockets inside the ground. I'm going to have real stand on the ground. Let's go. All right. 1013, it's Sports Talk 790.

Matt and Ross with you here. We love you 10 o'clockers. Thanks for being a part of our show today. We love all of you that stay with us until 2 o'clock today. 713-212-5-7-90 if you want to chime in on the conversation. We'll have Brian Bogus ever coming up at 11 o'clock. Also, we've got to shut you, old bum-ass up at 1130, the news at noon. And I'm curious what the Texans did with Nico Collins.

And we'll get to that a little bit on the show today as well. Astros on the conversation piece. Jason Alexander, I believe Gordy Cook called in sick today. Is that correct? Because his buddy Jason Alexander got hit pretty hard yesterday. Yeah, he's on the fritz. But I give Alexander credit, he's like, I got to wear this. And he wore it for six.

You did. 713-212-5-7-90. It's 1020 on Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you here on a Wednesday. It shut your bum-ass up. Ain't nobody got time for that coming up in about an hour in 10 minutes from now. 7-13-212-5-7-90. If you want to chime in on our conversation, again, phone lines are available for you.

we are, we let everybody in whether we want to or not. Can't wait for Gary's call to come in? Really enjoying the conversation, guys. Matt, you're so rude to Tatsuweima. Yeah, he's a brilliant... Take it easy on him. Gary or Tatsui Amai?

I don't know, neither, actually. Yeah, it's fine. But both, actually. It's okay. Look. Oh, Jonathan wasn't here. Matt was getting yelled at. Yeah.

I was going to get admonished by Gary and Spring. Yeah, Gary and Spring was coming after Matt because you know Matt's been crushing Tatsu E. Mai for like a month. Crushing. That's what I'm going to change. Crushing him. For no reason whatsoever. I missed that? Mm-hmm.

It was good stuff. It was fine. It was fine. I was a little uncomfortable, but it was fine. How uncomfortable were you one to ten? One to ten by six. Really? That's a high. That was a Monday.

I didn't get that much sleep. Monday was a moral day. You got plenty of sleep. No, well, like I fell asleep on Memorial. You know, you're your nap and then it throws off your whole sleep schedule. That's what happened. I had to take a lazy Memorial Day nap in the middle of the afternoon, and then I couldn't get to sleep at night. Are you a napper in general?

Yeah. I love naps. I do too, but I'm trying to not do that. I'm trying to stay on a consistent sleep schedule, Matt. Well, the reality is this. Sleep is the key to unlocking your potential, Matt. And, well, I'm not good at it. Am I working with Dr. Oz over here?

What's going on? No, I didn't offer you any snake oil. Did I? I don't know. So today, not that generally if you care, but it's my four hours, what we're going to do. Today, I will work till two with you. Yes. I will race home and get home by three.

Yes. I will nap immediately from three until five. Okay. And then I'll do, get ready for Astros on deck from three until five until six. We'll do the on deck show because I'll be up to probably 10.30 tonight. Yeah. Thereabouts. So, yeah.

Yeah, I was doing the show to like 10.30 last night. Yeah. I have also decided there's a lot of things in my life from trying to change. Yes. One of them is not get angry at traffic and just a, just, just basically know that I live in a city of 7 million people. Yes. And I live 37 miles from here. And it's never going to change until unless I make a change for it. This is good. This is great, Matt. I figured you'd be happy. Things that are out of your control. Just take, just relax. But I'm going to be okay. People are idiots. I understand. But what I've also decided, I'm trying to get off as 610 as much as I can. The less time I'm on 610, the better because 610 sucks. I just hate it. Yeah, 610 is the worst.

It is the worst. So I'm trying to get off of 610 as much as humiliably possible. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. Game 3 of the series tonight. And again, I'll have the On-Dex show at 6. If you missed in a Brown's conversation, nothing earth-shattering from him.

I mean, it was largely a positive conversation. Just look, the team's playing a little better. Yes. And Ross, I can't write these, I can't make these t-shirts, hashtag only something out because it's fluid. Now we're two straight days of only three and a half out. You're going to have to get those t-shirts that have like the electronic ones. You can change. And have it updated with the standings.

So put it this way. I'll have a master control. Uh-huh. And I will have a number. And then your shirt that you'll buy from me will have like a little buzzer to it. It'll be like a little pulsating vibration that knows the number is changing. Okay. Now, they're only three and a half out, but they still have three teams to pass.

Well, the A's lost again yesterday. Seattle is moving up. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, that's the problem. It is an issue. But look, you keep saying that and you're not lying. Yeah. But I'm remarkably encouraged.

You're locked in in the A's. I got to. I get you. I'm locked in. Playoff odds have gone up. They were 7% last week. They're 14% now. So they doubled their playoff odds.

Let's go, baby. But I just feel like if the only way they're going to get into the playoffs, if they are going to get into playoffs, beaded by winning the division. Well, let's get Hunter Brown back. Let's get EMI settled. We'll see. We keep collecting data, I'll say, on Mike Burroughs. So far,

the data's not great. Two and six with a five 75. ERA. I was going to ask you, how did this happen? Part of it probably is because he is being asked to do, he's in a much more important role for a team that has had a legacy of winning. You play for the Pittsburgh Pirates. You give

him five innings and give up four runs. A nice job. Appreciate you. He was expendable the pirates. Let's just put it that way. Oh, I think that you've done it that way, but I get it. I mean, the pirates have a lot of good pitching, but he was expendable for the pirates. So, oh, think about that for a second, folks. You went to a team that has not been in the playoffs in a long time, hadn't celebrated any sort of real postseason success, what, since 19? I mean, I know they won division titles in the 90s with Barry Bonds when he was young, but.

Yeah. I mean, no World Series appearances since 79. Mm-hmm. Oh, think about that. Think about Pittsburgh. Really good sports. I mean, would you say Pittsburgh is a really, really good sports town? That I think if they had a winning baseball team would support them because they support the Penguins.

They support, obviously, to support the Steelers. They have not been to a World Series since I was seven years old. Yeah. There are droughts, folks, in sports. And then there are droughts. The Lions, if you mentioned Detroit. Great Sports Town, too. The number one station in Detroit is a sports radio station.

Oh, really? Yeah. Overall, any format. Any format. Wow. There's like four or five cities that have been... It's not the Motown oldies station? No.

There are four or five cities in this country. That the number one station in town is a sports station. Where I used to work in Minneapolis. Well, we're number one in my heart. Yes. That's about as far as it goes. Not the ratings. No, but that's fine.

We appreciate you. It's a flawed system. It's a flawed system. It's super flawed. It's only flawed here. Yes, yeah, correct. But point being is that the Lions never been to a Super Bowl. U.S. Texans fans have been fans of this team since 2002. We're talking about 20.

They're going to celebrate 25 years of franchise this year. Yeah. And there's not even an AFC championship game banner in the building. A lot of division banners, but no, no, no, no, no, uh, championship Sunday. banners. I'm already wary and I'm only three years in my Texans fandom. I know. Rockets. I mean God love me. They always ask me to do things

for their celebration. The 95. We're looking at 30 years here. Yeah, 94. 95. I've been married with three children since the championship. And it's Chuckie Brown, everybody. I was single. I mean, you can only toss Carl her out there so much.

Droughts and sports happen. Yes. That's why. That's why. That's why I'll say this for the 100th time. Even though things are dicey this year, we've had tremendous enjoyment from our local baseball team for the last decade. Look at you.

You're showing gratitude. Who are you? You're trying to not road rage as much. I'm so proud of you. This is excellent, Matt. Trying to keep the blood pressure down. Well, no, no, because I have a story to tell you at 1130 today. Oh, really?

Matter of fact, you know what? I don't think I can even win an hour. Okay. Because look, I mean, the phone lines are not... You just don't get it? Well... Or do you do get it. Or now you get it?

No, because I had an unfortunate situation happened yesterday with a restaurant. I'll leave it at that. Look, man, you're always causing ruckuses. A lot of astro calls ready to come in. Yeah, you guys want to get in about the game last night? All right, you're either going to hear my story than I do with sports or we're going to talk some Astros. Okay. You make the decision.

I do give you a peek into my life. a lot of times. Sometimes my detriment. Sometimes it's just, it's cathartic, Ross, and so I'm going to give you a chance to be cathartic here for a moment, if you don't mind. It is a Matt Thomas show at Ross. 713-212-5-7-9. We're going to get into some Nico Collins chatter here in the next

segment, but I just, since I teased him, I might as well pay off on it. All right, so Thursday night, I had family and friends in town for Carly's graduation on Friday, so we went to a restaurant to have dinner on Friday, or Thursday night, excuse before the graduation ceremony. And as I typically do probably once or twice per year, I leave my credit card at the restaurant.

Oh, okay. You forgot it? Yeah. You know, they go to pay it and they put in the little binder thing and you sign it and you forget to check. Check presenter? Yeah, whatever that is. Yeah. And so when it happens, I usually call the restaurant.

They go, hey, yeah, we got it. Come on, man. Bring your driver's license and we'll hand you the card. And it happens, I would say two to three times a year. Oh, wow. It should happen zero, but it happens two or three times. That's okay. I'm trying to keep an open mind and not joking.

judge about that? You should judge. Okay, no, I'm not. It's too dangerous. It's fine. So I called the restaurant on Friday after Carly graduates and I said, hey, I was at your restaurant last night and I left my credit card. And the woman says, I need to get the manager because the manager handles all the credit cards. And I said, okay, so the woman comes on and I said, hey, my name is Matt Thomas and I had dinner at your restaurant last night and I left my credit card. And she said, okay, well, you describe it to me. I said, it's a Chase credit card. It's blue. Uh-huh. And it has

my name, Matthew L. Thomas on there. Mm-hmm. Be right back. Sir, we have a card with Matthew Thomas, but you did not describe the card well enough. Hmm. I said, ma'am, it's a

chase card. How many Matthew L. Thomases leave their credit card at your restaurant? Okay. I was trying, I was like biting my tongue so hard. Okay. I said, what if I give you the last four digits of the credit card? Oh, that'll work.

Uh-huh. So I gave her the last four. Okay, we have it. Duh. Uh-huh. And you can go pick it up. Okay. So it being, yeah, that was a Friday.

I get to, I leave here after you yesterday and I drive back to this restaurant. Okay. And the same manager is there. Okay. And I said, I'm, I talked. to you on Friday. My name is Matthew Thomas. I had a Chase credit card.

Sir, we don't have it. What? Oh, something's fishy. I said, we talked Friday. What time? So I went back to my phone log. I talked to you at 1225. You were doing on decks.

I wasn't like, you know, I was not trying to cheat on you or anything. Okay. But I forgot the credit card. I said, you and I talked. So she comes out with 20 other credit cards, and she's running through this card, this guy. I said, my card's not there.

Another assistant manager comes over and says, well, we sometimes we shred cards. I said, sometimes you do. You got 20 credit cards here. Huh. Okay. I think she threw my card away as soon as I talked to her on Friday because she was mad that I questioned because I did not give her a good enough description about my chase card.

How do you get yourselves in these Larry David Quagmire's? What is wrong with you? This is weird. I swear to God. Can we call her? I want her side of the story. I don't want to speak to her again. And I'm not going to that restaurant ever again.

I think I'm on Matt Thomas' side. Yeah, no, this is nice. I swear to God. I'm telling you guys. I've never heard anything like this. I swear to God, you guys. When she said, you didn't describe Baccarb well enough to me, I paused. I didn't say.

Yeah, but you were nice. I was nice. I was like, are you sure? I swear I said, I said, I just, here's exactly what I said. man I said I gave you my name I gave you the bank I gave you the color of the card yeah what more do you want well I mean I guess you know you know with different chase cards you have like chase freedom or chase sapphire reserve whatever I didn't remember I didn't tell which one it was I didn't remember which one it was yeah so I just said so I went back and the two managers there and I said man I this has been a bad it's been a bad day

for me and they just looked at me and said have a nice day. How do you go to, we destroy, first of all, you didn't destroy cards. You had 20 of them sitting there. We shred them sometimes? Yeah. And it was on, it was on Thursday night now. You checked your transactions also good? Nobody's done anything.

I'm just telling you, I think that woman, and I've now since called her a lot of nasty names, not to her face, because that'd be not very pleasant. Okay. That's good. At least not to her face. But I was in a bad, but I drove. I said to her face. Hold on.

No, because I don't want to do that because I can't present. anything. But I talked to the woman. I saw her face to face. She said I had the card. I gave her the last four digits of the card and it miraculously was not available to me when I got there yesterday. This is again, I had dinner at the restaurant

Thursday. It was Tuesday. Memorial Day weekend. People don't go down. It was in downtown restaurant. I'll say that and I'm done with it what it was. So I didn't have a great day yesterday. We had a great show. I really enjoyed working with you again being back after the long weekend. I had a no hit or discuss. Yeah. And it just kind of ruined everything. for me. I'm sorry, Matt. That's weird. That's odd.

I swear to God, John, that on a stack of Bibles. I was as polite as I could possibly. Because, again, she's holding my card. I have to be polite to her. So, got home, I screened to my wife, told her situation, she goes, honey, I got this taken care of. She ordered me a new car. We're good to go. Okay, good. Yeah. Now you've got to change it on the websites. Correct. That's the hard part. That's the hard part. That's a shame. I'm sorry, man.

That's my friends, let me tell you some. There are another show in the marketplace that's going to let you peek in their life like this one does. Thank you, Matt. I mean, we can be talking about a lot of different things. You want to talk about Jason Alexander's first inning if you want. No, I mean, we already did. We did it for two segments.

How's that Ernie, by the way? Skyrocketing? Yeah, I was going to feel like it only, it only went down. It could have only gone down, which it did. I mean, he was throwing BBs after that. 933. No. He's S.

CRA this season? 933 Whip of 158 Oh God Poor kid I felt like that beard was graying As the game was progressing He settled in

He settled in He settled in for six innings A nine run ball What are you a team employee? Good Lord He did settle in Hey five innings of one run ball After whatever happened in the first inning I forget

After that it was five innings At one run ball How can I forget? It's eight It was an eight I mean, if you lop off the first inning, it was a quality start light. You didn't build your chart, by the way. I really want you to build a chart.

There's a lot of judgment calls. Judgment. I don't, what do you possibly call a start that allows eight, I mean, complete HS? Complete HS. Yeah, I can't say the word. It's illegal. FCC fine. I'll tell you off air.

Okay. Talk to our buddy, Roger, on 7.98, 1040. Roger, you even called it a while? You're looking to win some prizes at about 140 today, 150? I don't know. If I'm on the airwaves, I've been really, really busy with it. It's glad to have you. Absolutely.

Hey, Matt, that was crazy. I would have gone scorched dirt on her. Good old to you for having some kind of patience on some kind of a strength that I would have won't scorched dirt. I mean, you, she's lying to me. You gave them money. And you frequent their business and you make things better all around spread the world. And that's what that's how they, that's how they don't take care of you. The bill was, the bill was $300 too.

And I was just like, because Ross is always trying to me to calm down and things. And I just was like, man, I said, man, I caught a tough break. I just had my card here on Thursday and all of a sudden miraculously it's gone. Oh, well, it is what it is. Yeah, I guess, do you like, do like, I've heard, I've heard this one. Before look up, take a good look around, because you ain't going back over there again. That's it. So on Raphael Stone, I want to confess this from you guys,

where do you all consider him as far as ranking gems throughout the NBA? You consider him middle of the pack, top tier, bottom, bottom of... You're talking about Rafael Stone you're talking about? Yes, yes, yes. Well, first of all, I can't even name five general managers. So that's on me. Rob Polinka. Sam Presti.

If you used to say Darrymore, I mean, that's like, how about this? Derlemore is out? How would you consider his job? Like, his A, B, C, B minus. Throughout his own tenure. Because I try. I say B minus.

Yeah, I just don't think he's just like, like putting together the part. He puts the players there, but I don't think he knows how to mismatch the parts which way that to make them a really well let me do this let me be polite here can

can I get can we do a better grade on this when we find out with Fred and Stephen or Fred and Kevin are like on the floor at the same time they got hurt with a bunch of injuries last year I mean the team did fit together the team fit together quite well well and I got one more last thing

I'll say this let me say it's the biggest the biggest blemish so far in Rafael Stones and I think Raffell has done, generally speaking, a really, really good job. I mean, the only misstep has been the Dorian Finney Smith move. The Doreen, Phenny Smith was a minus minus player this past year. Reed Shepard over Castle. Read Shepard over Castle, but that could also, yeah, and look, that could be scouts telling him it, but ultimately that's on Ruffel's resume.

Jalen Green over Evan Mowgli. It was a miss right now. Yeah, but, yeah. I would say, yeah. But it got you to rant. I mean. He, what is Raffel? he typically finishes top seven when it comes to GM surveys,

and he was a top five GM of the year, Canada, what, two years ago when they got back to the playoffs, you know. I think it's been good. Yeah, I don't, I think that to me, the ultimate grade will be determined once we figure out what ultimately happens with this franchise when it comes to how far they get with Kevin Durant. Because you brought Kevin Durant here, Roger,

and thank you for the phone call. Ross, you brought Kevin Durand here to advance further to where you had been, and you're looking right now at two first run exits in the playoffs. Yeah. It's been, I would say like B minus. I'm going to stick with that. It feels about right. I mean, I don't think every move that Raffel has been,

and he's going, man, I'm so happy about that. And there's also been some sneaky good hire. I mean, you got Stephen Adams, basically for multiple second round picks. What else has been? The M. Thompson pick is good. Yep, that's the win. Honestly, look, the output.

Prince Shingoon's not perfect, but you got him a two-time all-star of the 16th pick is great, great return on value. Great return. Tarisen, not a lottery pick, correct? Yeah, he was like 17th or something like that. So that guy's about to make probably north of $20 million a year. So, I mean,

it's about what you choose and where they eventually go. Now, whether you spend that here or it goes elsewhere, that's, again, that's another thing to me. Maybe the Raffel grade has to be further evaluated after what, because again, they were going to Tarat crazy money and Tarry said no.

Yeah, ping pong ball luck was bad. That's not bad. There was no ping pong ball luck. I'd say that three times bad. Yeah. You missed out on Kate Cunningham. You missed out on Victor Wambayama. Those are the biggest ones at the top of the drafts that went number one. And you did take in that draft of Jabari, Holmgren, and Ban Carroll, you took the third best player because you're the third pick.

Yeah. unfortunate so I don't know Orlando not the biggest Bencaro fans I like him but there's a lot of money attached

he he got a lot better this year I feel like he's kind of just kind of like an ISO type of player but he scores he scores 25 points a game or whatever got coach Jamal Mosley out of work

and then he got work again in New Orleans all right 713212 5790, 7132212-5-790. Speaking of getting money, Nico Collins-Rossey, we just found out

the master classic having to get an extension by telling that nerd Jordan Schultz that his name is being brought up in trade conversations. That directly, I think, got the Rockets, the Texans to open up their piggy bank a little bit. We'll discuss that. They don't care about Jordan Schultz. That guy's a fraud and a loser.

Yeah, but he was the facilitator to what I think ultimately got Nico this contract conversation. We'll explain that next. 1046, Sports Talk 790 with a word for uptown appliance repair. Okay, so do you remember what happened? Was it the day of the draft? The day before there was the Jordan Schultz, according to Nick Casero erroneous reports of, The Texans are kicking the tires on trying to trade Nico Collins. Yes.

Now, we don't know what level of inaccuracy or accuracy that is. And basically, Jordan Schultz said teams have been inquiring about Nico Collins. And Nick Casario shut that down. Now, Nick can lie, by the way. Yes, Nick can lie, but also so can Jordan Schultz. So this is the only problem I have is that he's made up a bunch of stuff that has proven to be inaccurate. And also, it doesn't necessarily have to be inaccurate. It could be, oh, teams are asking about Nico Collins.

it could be, yeah, Nick Serio told him to shut their bum ass up we're working on an extension. Yes. But it's like, well, technically, I was right. Again, you can't be, but you can also be a reporter and everybody's going to call, I mean, look, for instance, if the, if the Astros called about trying to go get Aaron Judge. Okay, well, I mean, that technically might have happened. Right. And also, I mean, we mentioned Nico Collins being underpaid, like, as the offseason was starting. And the potential of him maybe holding out or what.

whatever. I do believe, though. And here is what, and I've heard this from two different national websites, a podcast. Okay. The belief is, is that this story, if you really vetted it out, is more about trying to get Nico to show his value and that maybe it was that the talking of potentially him being moved was more driven by the agent. maybe making up stories as compared to necessarily teams and or Nick Husserr. Ross, we cannot underestimate under any circumstance the power and what an agent will do for its client. Now, I'm not saying the rumors of Nick of Nick trying to trade him all of a sudden sparked it. Not directly, but maybe indirectly, hey, we like you. We're not trained. In fact, we like you so much.

that we want to make sure that you are now paid. Now, the Nico Collins contract when originally signed was tremendous value to the team. Well, they bet on him. It was kind of a gamble. It was like a Lance McCuller's junior contract if it worked out. And it worked out. So now he is going to be making some serious cash. Which no longer puts it into the grid value.

some of the best organizations in life, whether it's baseball, basketball, or football, you have to have value contracts. It's no longer a great value. It is you are paying him prime WR1 money. So is there, first of all, the Nico Collins family is like, we deserve it, give it to me.

But that does in the big picture, what does that do? Does that shave money off of C.J. Stroud's future deal? Does it shave money off of future for aid and say, may want to try to get in the next couple of years? We don't have the answer to that. But things become a good value until they don't. And now Nico has to play to the level of WR1,

which I believe he will do. But you don't have that good value contract under your belt. I'll give you the Aster's example. You're an Alvarez. That's great value. It's amazing value. If you all of a sudden reworked his contract and gave him an extra bump of $15 million a year, It's no longer good value.

It's just you're paying your at cost. At cost. So I'm just, again, if I'm in Nico Collins camp and I've earned this, and I should be among the top five receivers in Payne Wise, and I don't particularly care. But if you're a Texans fan, what does that do now to other future moves you may be making? Does Nico Collins getting not an unnecessary, but an extra added salary bump, what does that do to the future of other people?

positional players. That's the question we don't have it this way. Yeah, I mean, you want to play a wide receiver one. He is a wide receiver one. He is one of the best. I mean, we've been arguing. He's certainly top 10. He has been fringing upon one of the top five wide receivers in football when he is

healthy and when he is out there. He's had some bumps and bruises along the way. But, yeah, I mean, he's going from basically $20 million to $29 million this year. So $9 million in cash increase $8 million in cash, increase in $2027. And both those gears are guaranteed, correct? Drew Rosenhouse. I'm saying. Drew Rosenhaus is not running at Jordan Schultz.

I don't think so. Maybe I'm just being a Jordan Shult's hater. Well, it's easy to do that. I'm right there with you. Perhaps I'm just being a hater because Jordan Schultz sucks and he's the worst. But either way, no matter what, it was something that should have been on the table. I don't know if it should have been on Nick Casario's table. I don't know if it was on the back burner or on the front burner.

or whatever, but it's something that needed addressing and got addressed. So I'm on board with this. It's totally fine. $9 million extra dollars. Cool. Let's go. Salar cap keeps going up. CJ's job may be the guy.

He may not. And we'll let Nick Sario figure it out. CJ's like, congratulations, man. I can't wait throw it to you. By the way, did my name come up in conversations? You need Nico Collins. Bottom line. You're going to go anywhere.

Here's the question. Was Nico so upset about this? that he would potentially hold out for a new deal? I don't know. We don't know that answer. I don't know either. Would he give them some grace because they paid him early and bet on him and then he came through for them? Or would he say, hey, this is the NFL, non-guaranteed contracts, pay me.

I don't know. They worked it out. Well, the one thing that Casario and the rest of the NFL teams have in their piggy bank is that every year the salary cap goes up. Yes. I mean, the league is so flush of money that any time anybody gets contracts, you go, oh, you're over, paying, well, the NFL salary cap goes up. Because guess what? You're playing games internationally. You're signing new television deals.

That's why every NFL player, anytime the NFL does something quasi controversial, like potentially adding an 18th game, which they will do, potentially forcing every team to play international game, you will do it. You will shake your head and go, damn, I don't want to do this. And then you realize that your $8 million bump in salary is because of that opportunity because the salary cap is going up because it's directly based off of revenues. that the NFL makes. Thank you Netflix.

Thank you Amazon. Thank you. All of them. All of them. International games. Revenues up. Rating's up. Interest, always there.

11 o'clock. Sports Talk 7.90. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Let's spend 10 quarter minutes with our friend, Brian Bogus Sevick. He is of Space City Home Network. The kids call it S-C-H-N. So, Brian, you're settling. in last night you and Kevin Eshenfeld or you're like I'm going to go get something to eat after doing this great half hour pregame show and then boom it's 8-0. Boy, baseball strains that way from no hitters to 8 in the first. It's why it's the most unpredictable game. Yeah, it can change day to day. It can change within the course of a game, which we saw pretty much the last two days also. It's unfortunate. Those games, they stink. They're tough to watch. They're really tough to play in.

you know, you want to at least feel like you have a chance. And even though they got back into that one about as good as you could hope for, you put up an eight spot in the first inning. The game's pretty much decided. And if you're going to win consistently, if you're going to put together a win streak, if you're going to put together a good month, whatever you want to call it,

you've got to give yourself a chance to win because you're not going to go out there and win every game, certainly, but you've got to put yourself in position to do so. And those ones like yesterday are, aren't fun. They don't happen too often, but they happen to every player, no matter what level of professional or collegiate baseball, for that matter, high school. When you have been a part of those games where your team has dug a hole that quick, what does a manager do or say, or sometimes maybe some things just left set on with no conversation? No, everybody knows the deal, right? Because

like you said, everybody's been in it, everybody knows what's going on. And a couple of things specific to yesterday. Number one, you know, it's not like they blew the game open in the seven seventh inning and you only had nine out to play with you you have the entire game so everybody knows that hey we as steep a hill as it is we still do have a chance if we could throw up some zeros and put up a couple runs um but you know the other side of it is hey we're professionals we get we get paid to go out here and do our job in a professional manner and have quality at backs and and put a decent product out there but also there's the idea of you know we're in game two of a four-game series, we have to try to make it difficult on the other team. We have to try to

run up a pitch count on the starter and maybe get into the bullpen, maybe make them go to the back of the bullpen, which they made the Rangers do yesterday. See if we can do something in this game that maybe if it won't get us to a victory today, if it could make our path to victory a little bit easier tomorrow. They did a lot of those things. It doesn't result in a win yesterday, but it puts you in a more favorable position today. On the positive side, the bats, you said certainly rallied, including, I mean, four absolute bombs coming from the Astro side of things, frankly. Yeah, it was a pretty loud night offensively, and it's good to see them

scoring in bunches. It's good to see the big innings showing up. We haven't seen a lot of those lately. It's good, not yesterday, but the previous two games. to see kind of the knockout blow type of innings. And honestly, as fun as it has been to see all of the power and the power from a lot of different spots yesterday, it's also been enjoyable to see the manufacturer runs

and the last couple of games see them play a little bit of small ball. They score to run the other day without getting a hit in an inning. And if you can do both, if you can have that balance, you know, you're going to have games where you're going to score a lot of runs, but you're also going to have games where you can win a game maybe just because of one swing or maybe just because of one inning where you pieced it together and found a way to push one across. And good offenses can score different ways. Good offenses don't have to rely on the home run.

They can do it in different ways. And we've seen more of that recently. Seems like we talk about a lot of hitters with you, but one guy we don't talk about much because he's just so special is Jordon Alvarez. I mean, can you just kind of describe it? for us. Why is he so good as he is? And he feels like he can get to

everything and the power that he possesses as well. What makes, or some of the things that make Yordon so great? Balance. He's always on balance. It never seems like he's taking a bad swing. You see sometimes guys reaching for balls, you see their butts flying

out and the bat's slaying. Number one, he never does that. It always seems like he's balanced in his low half and seeing the ball well. He's got great timing because he doesn't have to cheat to fastballs for as well as he can turn around a high-velocity fastball. It doesn't ever seem like he's hunting it and making himself susceptible to off-speed so he can run into the two home runs that he hit yesterday were off-speed pitches hung in the middle of the zone. You're not going to get away with that and have a guy kind of have him spin off and accidentally roll over

a hung breaking ball in the middle of the zone. He's going to going to be on all of those. He's just such a pure hitter who also happens to be one of the strongest guys in the league. And nothing kind of demonstrates that more than the home run he hit on Monday, which was, I mean, you could not have located a fastball down in a way better from Kumar Rocker. And as a pitcher, you're thinking, worst case scenario, this guy takes a great swing and hits a line drive to left field and it's a base hit. And he stays in position to where he can get underneath the ball, get behind it, and then he's absurdly strong enough to hit the ball out into right center field. You shouldn't be able to put that good of a swing on it, and you certainly shouldn't be strong enough to hit it that far to that side of the field, but he can do both.

Brian Bogosevic with us here on Sports Talk 790. Well, the furthest home run hit yesterday was 457 feet off the bat of Cam Smith. He also has a 462-foot home run this year. So, I mean, obviously, we can see some flashes of the power. He does have a potent bat. How does he get to put the bat on the ball more consistently? Well, it's the position that he put himself in to hit that home run yesterday looked very similar to the position that he was in when he hit that first long home run,

which was, I think, in Colorado earlier this season, which is getting behind the baseball. And to hit behind the baseball, that's where power comes from. That's where elevation comes from. talking about your body position relative to where the bat makes contact with the ball. He has a tendency to kind of be late with his timing and then he's starting his swing sometimes as his body's still drifting forward, which never really allows the bat to get out in front of your body. Seeing a little bit more recently, he took a swing like this in the Cubs series on a double. He hit the left field where he's getting his foot down.

He's starting his swing kind of rotating around that front side. and getting the bat head out in front. And when he does that and he hits the ball in the air on its full side, he can hit it as far as anybody. And he is incredibly strong. He's explosive. He's twitchy. It's just about putting himself in position to take that swing more often.

And he's so young in not just age-wise, but so young in his development, the amount of that bats, not just in the big leagues, but professionally as a whole, there's a lot of growth to be had, but you obviously can see that. in there. Brian Bogus-Sepic, Space City Home Network with us here at 11-11 on Sports Talk, 7-90. All right, so this American League West, it's hot garbage. I mean, let's face it. The Mariners are playing better. I think it's the Mariners division in terms of eventually taking over the A's. The Astros are three and a half out. What's going through the minds of a front office right now? What's going through Hunter Brown's mind as he tries to get back? Thinking about this glass half full,

Brown comes back, Hater comes back, Altube is resuming some baseball activities down in Florida. What has to happen beyond the obvious to get this team to kind of hang around three and a half, four games out? And then the big decision will be coming up around July in terms of this team, a seller or a buyer at the trade deadline because the Astros for a better part of a decade have always been buyers. Yeah, I think, you know, you've certainly had some fortune on your side that nobody's run away. with it yet because this is, you know, you're getting pretty deep into this season for nobody in the division to have gotten hot. So you're fortunate in that aspect. And now you're getting to a point to where you are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. And I guess the biggest thing you want to see between now and, I don't call it a month, a month from now is how consistent are we

on both sides of the ball? Because we've seen now a stretch of pretty good pitching and the ability to add Hunter into that and add Josh Hayter into that and then how does that have everybody kind of shuffle and fall into place? Where are we at? How do we feel about our pitching staff moving forward? And also, what is the offense? Is it the offense that we saw the first two weeks plus maybe this last week or is it something in the middle with a tough stretch that we've had? And if we're pretty good on both sides, I think you have to feel comfortable with are we the team that can go on a run. Because, you know, you look at Oakland, I don't think Oakland, Sacramento, the A's, whatever they are.

They don't necessarily, I think, have the pitching to go on a hot streak and really separate themselves. Seattle certainly can, the Rangers have the pitching, maybe not the hitting. But if, you know, the Astros feel comfortable with being, you know, able to do it offensively and on the pitching side, then there's no reason to think that they can't be the team that goes on a run because one, one really, really. good months might be the separator for any team in this division. I think there's an exact same thing right now in Seattle as we speak.

Brian, thanks for the visit. Looking forward to catching you tonight as part of the Astros and Rangers on SCHN. And we'll do this again next Wednesday. All right. See you guys. Thank you very much. Brian Bogus-Ceptic with us here on Sports Talk, 179. 1114 is our time.

We have shut your bum ass up, but anybody got time for that coming up at the bottom of the hour. We have last night, San Antonio. Wembe did something that, needs to be better. Even for the youngens. We'll explain that next. 1114. Sports Talk 790.

713-212-5-790. If you want to chime in on the conversation, 7-13-212-5-7-90. Jonathan, we love you on this show, and we had AAA filling yesterday, and he put some different music on. This garbage cannot be playing on the show anymore. I'm sorry.

It's so bad. What are you talking about? You know. You don't like a little lightning? in a thunder? No, I don't like any part of it. I know what he was going with on the Thunder part. So I give him credit for thinking about Thunder and NBA, unless it was just

purely bad, so it's populated. Random way I'm out. That's okay. I almost gave you credit for Senator, Jonathan. I mean, I could put some music on, but, you know, sometimes Matt Thomas gets a little off the topic. No, no, I'll stay on brand, I swear to God. Yeah. All right. So last night, Victor Wimbunyama

went four for 15, Rossi. Oh, oh, he's a bust. Oh, for five from three. Uh-oh. six rebounds, one assist, two turnovers, two fouls, and three blocks, two steals. Was a minus eight. We had 12 points, though? Yeah, but volume, 4, 15, got, it was 12 but 12 for the free throw line.

That's pretty good. Got beat up a little bit there, obviously. So, when you win, you can't run to a microphone fast enough. When you lose, you're supposed to go to the microphone. This is a huge pet peeve of mine. He didn't talk to the media? Did not talk to the media last night. Yeah, that's soft.

I don't know, generally speaking, how America feels about it. I would think more sports fans, it's a large one I don't care, but there is a responsibility. There are questions to be asked about, what do the Thunder do to you? The media is not going to go up there and go, why did you suck? The media doesn't do things like that. like that. And I know you're pissed because you're lost and you're down three, two, and your season maybe over in one game. I get all that.

But that comes with the responsibility of being a professional athlete, especially when you use that podium and that microphone to brag when you win a basketball game. Yeah, it's obviously especially important in years past

more than today with social media and we're highlights and we're TikToking and we're IG reeling and all that type of stuff for the sport and trying to popularize the sport that way. But it's still matters. Yeah. I just, it's not something that's going to crush him.

It's not that he's a bad human being. It's just the hardest things in life are to have the uncomfortable conversations. And it was last one. It was uncomfortable. I mean, you're down three, two. Just go up there. Ask the question, answer the questions that will be obviously very, not necessarily soft, but will be warded in a soft way.

not to interrogate you or talk about how bad you played or the fact you miss 11 of your 15 shot. It's just, that's not how we, media doesn't work. By the way, also, the game is at 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock and night. People are tired. I want to get in and get their questions to answer to get out of there. They want to write their stories and they want to go home.

Yeah. So I just, not a good look at all. Just a couple of quotes. What happened? What went wrong? I mean, it's just part of life as a sports as a sports athlete who's making millions and millions of dollars. Because if they win game six, guess who's going to be on the podium? You'll be there.

Victor Wimonyama. So I just small with you. So we'll move on some other things. The Texas Tech quarterback situation. Have you heard about this, Brendan Salsby? So yesterday he got denied eligibility. Afree Sorsby. Did you see what he was betting on?

Goofy stuff, right? He was betting on like Turkish basketball and he was betting on the hot dog contest. This guy's an American hero. Free him. They're not freeing him. He was betting like 20-cent parleyes. So here's the thing. He has a gambling problem.

When you bet on crazy things and as much, regardless of how much money it is, it's a problem. Maybe he just likes to have a little fun. Here, this is from the action network. I guess I need to find a note of court documents reveal he was betting on Turkish basketball, Romanian soccer games, doubles tennis matches, Nathan's famous hot dog eating contest. That's a problem. I like this guy. I figured you liked this guy a lot.

So let me ask you this. So the NCAA said you're not playing in 2026. Now, does that, does the supplemental draft come and go already, or is that still in play for the NFL? I think you can, I think he could still do that, I think. Now, he could also, is he,

he's not permanently barred from the NCAA. He just can't play in 2026. Do teams bid, like he would enter the supplemental draft and then teams would bid what kind of round pick they want to put on him? They would do it like a, normal draft. Pick one. Who is the number one pick? Oh, the Raiders. Do you want a supplemental? No. They'll go through the same sort of order. Oh, I thought it was like a blind bidding thing or something.

Well, that could be wrong. I don't know. We don't talk a lot of supplemental. But I remember it's, it's if you take a player in a certain round, you then lose that pick in the future drafts. I always thought it was more of a compartmental procedure more than anybody pick picking players. Because supplemental draft has not been using a whole lot in the last, what, 25 years. So here's, here's the Here is the dilemma that we have. Is the punishment too severe? And number two, is it hypocritical of the NCAA when, not directly the NCAA, but the networks that they farm out the games to, the contracts that are bidded out for SEC, ACC, ACC, Big 12 are run by television networks who use their money.

to pay for these deals based off of commercial revenue, of which a lot of the revenue, the commercials, are betting sites. A, it's hypocritical, but B, Brennan Sorsby needs to know better. And he's just, he's not really the victim here. His bets were routinely in the $5 to $50 range, apparently. It feels like to me. I love that he's betting on Turkish basketball and Romanian soccer. Now, there was, there was a report yesterday that said,

he has had all of his gambling websites off of his phone. They've been permanently banned. He's going, he had 30, I think he had 30 days of in not what do you call when you're in, in that therapy. Inpatient therapy. So he's obviously trying to get this fixed.

And again, just because you're not bending $10,000 a game doesn't mean you can't have a gambling addiction. So obviously, again, I don't know much about him. I just know because I got a lot of Texas Tech family and friends that are like, this was, the punishment is too big. Could a three-game suspension been enough? Or is this to the core of why the NCAA does not want gambling involved in anything because of situations like this? It could be a lot worse with other athletes. And you have to kind of not necessarily have a guinea pig, but a guy to say, hey, this is the reason why you can't bet and you're going to run into problems like this because you're going to have guys throwing games. I think the NCAA is really concerned about players throwing games.

Yeah, they should be. Apparently, Sorsby bet on 2022 when he was on the scout team for Indiana, and the Hoosiers were terrible. Yeah. He said he lost a lot of his bets and did not bet whenever he was dressed for the team and never bet more than 50 bucks. This is tough, but he's just breaking the rules. I want to feel sorry for him and give him some grace because,

I mean, college people bet on games. They make $5 parlays or whatever, But you just cannot. And I believe, as Jonathan has told us before, like, they make it very clear, abundantly clear. There's, like, meetings, there's, everybody tells you, do not bet on the games. So it's, he can't plead ignorance on this. He can't. And I was going to relate it to Matt being an NBA employee.

And you can't. Yeah, that's right. And that's exactly. So I don't feel bad for him. Yeah. They sit us down. And I'm saying these meetings are long. It's not, you know what I mean?

It's, you know, I don't do this. Plenty of morning. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just want to get some action on some Turkish basketball. I thought this was America.

Why can't he bet on a little Romanian soccer? Well, I'm getting the argument from my Texas Tech brethren is a three or four game suspension is compared to you can't play. I would say at least a year. Minimum. Yeah. But yeah, is he going to be ineligible forever? I would say one year suspension feels about good to me. Especially he was only, nothing over 50 bucks.

He's not throwing games. But also you want to make it loud and clear that this is not allowed. So the question that becomes he's going to have to now fight the courts. Does the Supreme Court even take time with this? Supreme Court, yeah, probably. I mean, depends. I think they can deny cases, but I don't know if they would or wouldn't. But why?

I mean, I feel like he's going to lose. I don't understand why he's trying to go to court with this. I don't know. The lawyers probably think he's got some kind of leg to stand on and I imagine. I mean, it could be Sorgeby versus the incident of LA. I mean, those are kind of landmark case. They've been taking a lot of else.

Yeah. But I think they got a recent... So the reason why I brought this up, and I don't really have an opinion because I don't know a whole lot about it except the fact that... He broke the rules. How much does the...

Does the punishment fit the crime? $50 or $500? He broke the rules. I mean, the reality is this. If I'm betting on NBA games, folks, I could lose my job. And I don't want to do that. Banned for life.

He is? No, I mean... I mean, I'm talking about you. Oh, yeah, yeah, I don't want any part of that. Now, it's funny. The NBA is like, because we have these meetings every year, and they're like, yeah, if you want to bet college football and like yourself out, do the NFL. We don't, I mean, because, again, the NBA, at least is transparent enough to say, yeah, we take a lot of gambling money from people. I got a soft spot in my heart for fellow gamblers.

So, I mean, he's betting on the hot dog eating contest. I love this guy. But he bet on football. And we'll be talking about some of these folks later this week, as a matter of fact. We're very excited about that. But point being is this, when you, when you have something. to Jonathan's conversation, when it's beat over your head,

don't do it. It could impact your life the rest of your athletic collegiate career. Then you just, even if you have an issue, then you've got to tell somebody. Take the phone on my hand. Go seek therapy,

whatever the case may be. They just don't want you betting on sports. Yeah. And I'm telling you guys with all the gambling advertisements and everything like that. Sorry, that's my phone. That's your girl calling.

I like that. I appreciate that. But with all that stuff going on, I've literally seen my age go into thousands of dollars of debt. People chasing them after money. You guys got to get told. It happened back in my day in college too. But people had bookies in our days, Matthew. Bookers are shown play.

Yeah. College bookies. Yeah. They do quite well. 21-year-olds that have like sweaters around their necks. And their names in Blaine. Mm-hmm. You used to be like Roscoe back in the day, Big Daddy.

No, it's like Robert and Blaine and Austin. A lot of Austin. There are a lot of Austin's. Aidan, Braden's. All right. Caden, Braden, Aden. Shut your bum ass up. Anybody got time for that is up next.

Okay. You anybody? I kind of did it. I wanted to tell that woman at the restaurant to shut her bum ass up. I think you're going to again, right? Probably. 1131, Sports Talk, 790. 7.13.21, 5.790.

713, 2.1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 5. 790. Ain't nobody getting time for day? Ain't nobody getting time for me? Definitely. I need this half hour every week in my life. Ross, when I retire and you retire,

we're going to call each other every Wednesday at 1130 and just do this on a phone. Okay. Or on a Zoom call. Shut your bum ass up, man. John, then we'll call you two. Sure, why not?

John's like, I'm trying to run a Fortune 500 company here, and you're telling me to shut my bum ass up. All right. I kind of did it an hour ago. To the woman at that restaurant, which I cannot name, for having my credit card saying I did not describe it to her enough. And then when I gave her the last four digits, Oh, it is you.

Come by and pick up your card. I went to get my card yesterday, and the card was miraculously gone. Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. You know what? I would be not as tame as you are. I'm going to say that right now.

I'm just confused to why they did that or what happened when she when the assistant manager said we we chop up these cards and the manager the woman who had

had 20 credit cards in her yeah what'd they say what they say when you're like no because that would have been that would have spiked an argument okay I didn't say anything at all oh she didn't say a word like he

wait they spike an argument no they just shredded your card I'm in the argument the bach cut it up when I called her and was mad about having described my credit card to her. Hmm. This is a peculiar situation. I swear to God.

You could get a lot detector test. Okay. A stack of Bibles. I am not hiding any details of this. I didn't say you're hiding any details. Except I really, I did honestly bite my tongue when she said your car, you're not giving me a big enough description of your card. I said, it's a Chase car with Matthew L. Thomas on it. I mean, I don't know what more.

Did she want the rainbows on it? Did she want the... And then I gave her the four numbers. Hold on a second, sir. You can come and pick it up. So I did. And it wasn't there. But you had 20 other credit cards were there.

Just since I had dinner there Thursday, I ain't buying it. Shut your bum ass up, bitch. Shit your bum ass up, man. I'm mad for you. Thank you. You know, I again, Jonathan, I... I'm trying to be a better human being. and I know at the end of the day that

I could have just called and canceled it, but I wanted to go get it in stupid me. Charleston, what's the matter with you? To the couple that was in front, or really the dude that was in front of, you know, about the order. I'm not going to say this place because, you know, no sponsors, but it was a nice, authentic, you know,

Mexican restaurant, and the prices were, okay, but you want to try everything, you know, pretty famous. To the dude, front of us telling his girl she had to take off stuff from the menu in front of everybody and being

loud saying this is too much money just shit your bum ass up man that is you're not a man put her on a limit like no that's that is that was most humiliating thing I could ever imagine someone going through maybe she's been getting crazy man no you can't get that tips and walk

no that was um no if you're taking her girl out man just get ready to spend it that's just I that was so distasteful man look at Q just looking out other people. I love that. It was bad. I felt so bad for her. Like, that's so, like, imagine that was that, if that was my daughter, oh, no.

So how, what was that, what was a woman's reaction when the guy said that to her? She got timid. She was like, uh, oh, okay, yeah, can you take this off? And mind you, she was ordering, too. So it was like, you're not even ordering for your own food. It was a horrible mess. And he was talking about the price. He was like, $70? No, no, no, no. Yeah, 70 bucks. That's a lot. Hey, nobody got

top of that. No, man. You might as well, you're going to eat I'm trying to think, has that ever happened in my life where I've told my wife or my kids to take something off the order because the food and order is too expensive. What if they're ordering too much that you know they're not going to eat? What if they always over-order and you end up with a bunch of extra stuff? I over-ordered this past week. But we ate it all. I told the boys, we're ordering all these wings of big city wings. You're eating them.

So we would eat wings for days. Okay. We need to bring back gentleman culture. If anybody, if y'all, any of this, man, y'all do that. That's nasty, man. Y'all don't do that. Come on now. All right.

Rossi, what you got? I'm going to go with the government proposing this bill that apparently is trying to limit athletes and their eligibility, limit their transferring. Now, obviously something needs to happen, and we've got to figure something out. But just completely limiting everything. and they're trying to introduce a salary cap as well. How is any of this going to work? I don't know. And I don't think this is going to be solved

by a bunch of government bureaucrats getting involved either. Ain't nobody got time for the government trying to limit athletes' freedom and they're spending and earning power when they talk about a salary cap. Hey nobody got time for that. Here's why I think it might work, Ross. We got bipartisan working on this.

Usually when you have one side arguing, this over the other. It usually gets kind of mucked up. Okay. You got the Dems and the Republicans. Yeah. Both on the same side on this one. I don't want to make everybody mad, but I guess I'm going to. Democrats and Republicans are idiots. So

I don't trust the government to figure this out. I already don't like that they're using the word salary cap. They're also limiting maximum eligibility to five years. What if you tear your ACL twice? Why are you limiting them to five years? Are there no exceptions on this? Seen it happen. I'm okay with prohibiting former professional

athletes from playing in college. I mean, that makes sense. But, no. From what I'm reading from this, and then you use the word salary cap? Why? Why are you capping salary?

And if it's salary, then they're employees, but you don't want to give them benefits. So make that make sense. I think they're worried about things being just completely out of control. Which I think largely college athletics is out of control. Well, if somebody wants to play a Carly Thomas,

is $5 million, why should the government be able to step in and say there's a salary cap on that? You know what? If they can take, if Carly wants to get paid $5 million, take the, it would be 38% of that? Ooh, that's a lot. Yeah. Why, why should the government be able to tell your daughter or whoever how much money they can make? That doesn't make any sense. It's ridiculous. Who's going to step in front and fight this, though? Oh, there will be lawyers. This will get struck down. I don't, you know what, mark my words. Take it easy. I'm taking it easy. Nothing to be worry about this. Okay, then this is performative and wasteful of everyone's time then. Oh, that's

government right there. That's government in a nutshell. Yeah. Yeah, I here's my thought of this. I want anybody to make my, you know, you and I haven't been in a long time. I thought we'd like free market. I thought there's America. Now we're salary cap and people? I don't know if I, I don't want a salary cap, but I, can I get a little regulation? Can I get a little bit of not the Wild Wall West?

If you're telling me no, Matt. If you're telling me no, then let's give me the answer, no. The answer would be dropping this amateurism charade and making them employees and letting them collectively bargain. But it's also just too disjointed because you have 100 different programs. If you count, yeah. Non-football, you got 350 programs, yeah. Okay. All right, are we ready to go to the phones?

Let's talk to some people after this. 1144 Sports Talk 790, 719. 713212-5-7-90. The next segment is all yours. Doseki, Koso, Ray, and Brad, who didn't get on last yesterday. He's mad. He's mad. Oh, I bet he's mad. It's probably mad at Ross.

What did I do? I don't know. It just feels easy to say that. 7-13-21-2-5-790. 7-13-21-5-790. Your calls are next. On the phones, we go. 7-13-212-2-2-7-90-7-19. 212.5.790.

Koso, what's the matter with you? You hear me all right? Yes, sir. Okay. DeShay Dildo, Alexander. Everyone hates watching you play basketball. Can we say that on the ear, by the way? Is that legal? I guess.

Everyone hates you. Okay? I can't stand the city you play in. I can't stand the way you play basketball. 32 points. 7 of 19 shooting. I think nobody got time for that. Shut your bum ass up.

Ain't nobody got time for that. Shit your bum ass up, man. And we will never refer to him in that, brain, and maybe the delay, it would be fine. Let's go to Ray on 790. Ray, what's the matter with you? First off, Ross, if you haven't been to Glacier National Park, you've got to go.

I have been to Glacier. It's gorgeous. It's beautiful, beautiful. Well, I'm driving back right now. I'm in the middle of Utah. ain't nobody got time for this sales thing will keep dropping and $5 gas and people driving too slow in the left lane. Ain't nobody got time for that?

Those are, regardless of whether the gas is $2 a gallon or $4 a gallon, if you are going slow in the far left lane, ain't nobody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that? Right. Mm-hmm. Yeah, Glacier National Park. Put it on your bucket list, please.

Where is it? Montana? Quite a haul. You can fly close into there. Can I? First class? You're going to marry out? L means left.

R means right. Ross, maybe you buy these handshands. I didn't make you do anything. No, you did. You encouraged. I've been using these headphones. I was on the wrong side.

That made part of the problem. 713. Shut your bum ass up, man. That's fair. 713212-57.9.7.12. Don't you, look at it. Look at him all deep breathing over there. I was the drive.

I've been. nice. I'm just so being nice. You're not really being nice. When you deep breath, I know what you're thinking. You're doing great, Matt. I'm not doing great. On the phones, 713,

21, 212, 5, 7. They're back in. Look. Look how good I look. Shit your bum ass up, man. Hey, I didn't need you to put that in there. Doseki's. What's the matter with you? First of all, Matt, I don't always listen to Sport Radio by what I do.

I listen to Sir Thomas and Sports By the way, Matt, do you guys ever watch the MLB shows? Which ones? I was watching one yesterday, right after the one from Roeflow and D. Rowe. The other ones where they were talking to John Heyman, which I don't think nobody's using like that, dude, because you know after that. They always have to say something negative about the A's post. You know how they are. Anyway, they were talking about the no-hitter, okay, the history of the no-hitters.

Yes. And one of the comments that actually was John Heyman and the other guy's been on sports radio for decades. You know who he is. Anyway, they were asking him about the no-hitter yesterday. I know if it would have been a combined no-hitter from New York, from L.A., from Philly. That would have been all over. But you know what the guy said, Matt? That no-hitter yesterday was a plook.

He was flukish, for lack of a better word. You know what, John Heyman? I ain't got time for you. Shut your bum-ass up, you, cabron. Oh. Oh, do you sikees. We have to dump that? Shit so bum-ass, sir.

What's going on? Why y'all being so salty today? We're blurring the lines here. English language. John Heyman's a douche. He just is. We saw it, Ross and I saw it firsthand years ago, and sometimes first impressions last.

And guess what? That lasts with me. Yeah. That was when he wrote that story about how nobody was happy in the club. Nobody was smiling in the clubhouse and it's like, what? First of all, he was in the clubhouse for no more than a minute, walked in, no one talked to him.

He turned around and wrote a story about how unhappy everybody was. Ross and are like, what? He was like a normal clubhouse. People were talking. Yeah, they don't want to talk to any of us. They don't want us in there, and I get it. Yeah. I wouldn't want you milling around me for an hour before my show starts.

I want you milling around before my practice begins. I mean, I'll talk to you if I need to, but, you know, John Haman, douche. Yes. Yeah, I mean, the national guys, Rosenthal's okay. What's his face? It's this little squirly dude. I'm staring at him now.

Oh, Jeff Passon. I like, I used to like Buster Olney until he just annihilates the Astros every time he gets him. Tim Kirkson's awesome guy. I like him a lot. I used to like, what's his face? Tom. Berducci a lot.

But every time I send an email, I haven't come on the show, I'm busy traveling. Where are you going? Guatemala? I mean, Portugal, where you headed? He's never available. How about you say, I don't want to come on your show? It'd be better. Ross, honestly, is the best policy?

Is it? In my world, it is. I thought you said it's best to lie eight times a day or whatever. Yeah, you said white lies are okay. No, I don't care what color the lies are. I'll lie anybody, but I want them to do the lie. I want them lying to me. Oh, okay.

So I got you. You know that there's a word for that. Hypocrisy? Yes. Yeah, that's fine. Call me Mr. Hippocrite. Oh, here's our buddy Brad. Brad, what's going on?

Good buddy? Cut me off yesterday. You didn't let me speak my piece. I know you saved me for last, but not to let me speak at all. And letting that piece of crap, Brian give his two cents. Nah, that don't work, man. So I tell you what, next Tuesday, do you think you let me? me in first. So you want to be on gut feelings very first next Tuesday at 1130?

No, no, whenever I come in, whenever I come in. Oh, you want, you want your fair, you want your fair spot on the order. Like a normal guy, like these other guys that come on that are just normal. No, you should be banned for life. But you're not, but you're not normal, Brad. You're somebody special to this show. You deserve the, the treatment. You know, you're here to say the best for last. Yeah, and last is last. Not at all. No, we were going to go to you, but you hung up. I waited for like 10 minutes to the next hour, and then you still didn't come to the phone.

Did I, did I bring up your name? I said, hey, we're going to go to Brad. Brad, I like you, but Joe Espada is more important than you are. Of course he is. And I was good. That was one of my predictions that he has a one-year contract. He deserves to manage. this year, then let Jim Crane do what he wants.

All right, there you go. See, you got it. Same with the GM. You know, the GM got that Taiwanese pitcher. He came out of nowhere. Just on that pickup alone, he deserves a two-year extension. Two-year. Wow, look at you.

Anyway. Look at you giving out deals. I'm sure Jim Crane appreciates it. Thanks, Brian, for the phone calls. That's not fucking. Saving the best for last. Ross, see, this we do here on the match time we're going to Ross. So he's got a gut feeling of a...

Why do we entertain this idiot? I don't know. Two-year extension for... I mean, that's fine. And one for Jim. Akeway Tang's a good pickup. It's been fantastic. Absolutely.

Some's got to work out. Mike Burroughs, we'll see. 705 first pitch coming your way. Ooh, with me on the on-deck show. Oh, really? Yeah. Wait a minute. And 10th inning.

Did you do Monday? I did. Okay. I did yesterday. Yes. You're doing a day? Yes. I'm doing tomorrow.

Yep. Damn. And I'm working Saturday, too. It's the backbone of this station. You're doing Friday, too? No, Saturday. Oh, Saturday, wow. I'm going out of town.

A normal loft day. Yeah. But yeah, I still have to turn a vacation time in, so these things don't equal out, but that's fine. Team player. Team 790. What's Clinton doing this week? Clinton has no on-deck or 10th innings. Okay.

Waxor has no on-deck or 10th innings. All right. Just checking. Jason Alexander. Will he ever be able to shake the Seinfeld theme song? That's not. He's been getting that his whole life. He's going to get in about...

He's going to get in about two minutes after you talk about some soccer. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ending the Astros' win streak at four games. I think the Rangers losing streak at four games. And even in this series, at a game of peace. Sports Talk, Seminati, Rossi. Oh, see, he's giving me headphone advice. It's really my fault.

It's not that difficult. a little, I'm a little worried. I did go to U of H. There it is what it is. Let's get to the news at noon, please. Don't stare at me. Focus. People need to know the news headlines today.

It's like I'm at the zoo. And I'm watching a chimpanzee. John, then he just called me a chimp. I was, okay. You know what, I'm sorry. You know, let me write that down. Oh, I'm off on Friday. Oh, that's a shame.

You might have on salt me all you want to. I'm sorry. You're off the next two Fridays. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. All right. The lose is it noon. Yes.

Why are we playing the Seinfeld theme? Well, because Jason Alexander had him a day yesterday. Look, the bad news is he gave up eight earned runs in the first inning. The good news is he had five innings of one run ball after that. One run in the third inning. Overall, six innings of nine run ball for Jason Alexander. Brian McTaggart letting us know. that he is the first pitcher since 2008.

Who was it? Mark Redmond? Yeah. Colorado Rocky Great. Mark Redmond, Rocky's legend. The first pitcher since 2008 to throw at least six innings after giving up at least eight runs in the first inning. That is incredible. Astros pound four home runs of 420 or more feet.

Blasting home runs. That's a country strong baseball team right there. Jordan Alvarez, one from Cam Smith, one from Christian Wall. I'm sorry, Jeremy Pena as well. But it wasn't enough. They lose 10 to 7 series now squared at 1 apiece. Game number three of the four games set tonight, Mike Burroughs versus Jake DeGrom.

Now, DeGron has given up some runs his last two times out, including against the Astros. He gave up four earned in six innings. But can we get good Mike Burroughs tonight? What is great Mike Burroughs? He had a seven-inning shut out against the Reds, right? That's great, Mike Burroughs. Yeah.

Since then, seven-run runs against Seattle and four-runs and six against Minnesota. So hopefully we can get good Mike Burroughs. Ashras can take the lead because tomorrow's also going to be a really good one. Spencer Avigetti versus Nate Evaldi. Astros, three and a half back in the American League West. Rangers, one and a half back. Seattle Mariners half game back as they continue to win

and beat up on the A's and make up some ground in the American League West. But Matt, not a single team above 500 in the AOS. So there is hope. I will be selling my shirts, the only with an insert blank number, half back. Okay. And what will do is I will be able to hit a button at my house, and the number on your shirt will change every day. Right now, you want to buy this shirt, only three and a half back.

Okay. In a putrid American League West. but Seattle's going to get above 500, probably by the end of the week. Just a guess. Just something to keep an eye on. All right. Also, in the NBA last night, you had the Thunder defeating the Spurs 127 to 1-14. They take a 3-2 series lead.

Game number six is tomorrow. Sources close to the show saying it's a must-win game for the San Antonio Spurs at home. Tomorrow's 7.30 tip, three and a half point favorites. And we checked on Missy the Ultimate Spurs fans. You did it okay? I don't know. Hopefully she's doing okay. I don't want to root for the evil empire of the thunder,

but I certainly don't want to move for the Spurs. All right, so let me ask you this. Hold on speak to the media. Women did not speak. Jonathan, you get on this, we're going to do a little one, two, three. The rule is this. You have to root for somebody.

Oh, okay. In the remaining part of this series, here we go. The answers are either the Thunder or the Spurs. And do not head, either one of you. Are you all ready? Jonathan, you ready? I'm going to say one, two, three, and you're going to say the team.

Okay. Here we go. One, two, three. Thunder. Explain yourself, Jonathan. I can't stand SGA. I can't stand those shoes. I can't do it.

I can't support it. I get it. Yeah, but the in state I 10 rival. The Spurs already have five. Yeah, I can't in theory room for anything, San Antonio. You can't have the Spurs getting to six while the rockets still only have two. No. It's not good.

Plus they stole Wimby from us. And I'm not an SGA fan because he is a foulbator. Yes, he is. And they're a little whiny. Yes, they are. But I, there's two dislikes. Move on, my friend. All right.

Also, we have the bipartisan college sports bill proposing a salary cap and transfer limits, among other things. It is called the Protect College Sports Act, written after months of negotiation between Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat, Maria Kentwell NCAA with an antitrust exemption to enforce several rules that have been challenged in court in recent years.

Limited athletes to transfer schools only one time without penalty, limiting athlete eligibility to maximum of five years, prohibiting former professional athletes from playing college and prohibiting schools from poaching a coach from another school during their sports season among

the rules they are attempting to force. Gordy came in. Gordy's our college expert on this. Yes. He's like, man, if this gets into law, you can sue it all you want, but again, the bipartisanship of this probably helps the case a little bit here. Yeah, it could get passed, but will it hold up? The bill will give the NCAA and college sports commission, whatever that is, legal cover to enforce a spending cap for how much each school can pay its athletes. So you're telling me that And this is not, I don't know if this is cut and dry, but if I have two ACL tears,

I'm not getting a six year. That's just Dems and breaks. That's what it sounds like in here. Maybe there's an exemption. What's the rule now? Do you have to go in front of a committee or do you have to try to explain that these are injury? John, you know this. What's the rule?

It's with your athletic director and your coach so you can medical redshirt. And that's usually what typically what happens, but what's getting skewed and why NCAA wants to stop it with five years in general, is that I've met athletes their freshman year. Maybe they are like 21 foreign. They'll automatically just take that medical red shirt, even not actually being hurt. So they have those extra years to develop down the line.

So they're trying to get rid of the abuse is what they're saying. How does this work with Juko, too? Does that count as one transfer? If I go from Juko to Texas A&M or wherever? I don't know if that makes sense. Can I just say, can we let this play out and see what happens? And then when it's all said and done, what is, why are they limiting transfers?

If I want to go from, if I start my college career at UT and then I want to go to, I don't, North Texas and then all of a sudden I want to come home to U of H, I can do that. How come because I play sports I can't? It's because these big power fours are actually losing a lot of money with these athletes just going, you know, decommitting this NIL deal, this and this and that. Well, how about this? How about it? They're going to get an NIL deal to get their most money. But how about if I'm one of those schools that I'm paying all this money for these guys and are leaving me? I mean, I'm committing big money to you.

It leads you to a stay with me. when they're gone. What committee? They're not getting money when they're not there. I think somebody wants to start at Jucco and then they want to go to like a North Texas and then all of a sudden they get some shine from Georgia or in Alabama and they want to get to give their best opportunity to get drafted and be with the best coaches. Well, how long are these NIL contracts? Are these one-year contracts? I don't know.

I mean, because if I'm signing a three-year contract, I want my guy to say there of three years. I'm not speaking for Dale's Burger Shack in Denton. if I'm in Tuscaloosa. With my hot take about all this, if they make the coaches sign a contract and the coaches have to stay here for three or four years, I feel like this changes a lot and that would actually make more sense. But like Matt, you say it's a problem. You can't commit to a powerful school

and then the coach is going to leave for a 10-minute-dollar extra deal. Yeah, I mean, if we're going to start laying the hammer on the athletes, we should love the hammer on the coaches too. I mean, I remember like reading up on drafts and all that type of stuff. It was like there was a ton of prospects who had been to like three or four schools, and then they ended up in their best situation or in a good spot to get drafted. It's just ridiculous. It's not going to hold up in court.

That's my prediction. That's my very, very uneducated. You are the legal mind of 7-80. I guess I was an intern at a law firm for three summers. You're also on three, you've also watched a lot of people's court. Shout out V&E Scholars. I watch a lot of, yes, I used to love Matlock. Really?

Yeah. Oh, I watched a lot of law and order. Sam Waterson, the goat. Best legal show? Funny was Boston legal. William Shatter? That was wrong with you. That was a funny show.

I enjoyed that a lot. I thought he's going to say Judge Judy. That's your opinion, Matt, and your opinion is valid to you. Here he goes. He's gritting his tea. That's your opinion. And your opinion is valid to you. What do you want to say?

I love it. But you get mad. What do you want to say? Okay, that's a dumbass opinion. Okay. Boston Legal with William Shatner. It was funny. show. You are a chimpanzee. That is ridiculous. What's the other guy? What is the

wrong with you? What was the other guy that was a star of that show? I mean, come on. James Spader. LA law, you could go law and order. SVU. Even Matlock is better than Boston legal. How about the practice? I mean, come on, dude. Boston's legal with Bill. Bill, I got a rug on my head, Shatner. The practice jumped the shark a little bit. All right, there you go. Fine. I said what I got to say. You happy? You call me a chimp second time. in one segment. I'm offended, I believe.

713-212-5-790. Thank you very much, Ross, for the news at noon. 1222. It's Madden Ross on Sports Talk 790. Astros, you just heard the unfortunate rundown of all things that went wrong. Texans, did you mention we got a new two-year, new contract redo for Nico Collins? I did not mention that in the news.

it noon. We ran out of time and I started screaming. I'm sorry. That's fine. You call me a chimp. Okay. It's our closest cousin. Or is that the Bonaboo or whatever? The Bonaroo, the Bonobo. You know what? Believe it or not today, all things about chimpanzees. You deserve it.

$9 million in cash increase in 26, $8 million in cash increase in 27. According to Adam Schaefter via agents, Drew Rosenhaus and Jason Rosenhaus. We got the sun involved? Is it a is oh, hey.

Another Netbo baby in play. Let's go, baby. I'm sorry to my kids. I didn't do it enough for you guys. I mean, I fed you and raised you. My wife did a lot. In college. Yeah, I think you're doing it. Yeah, they got cars in their 16. What a life.

Okay. One thing we did not talk about when we originally discussed Nico Collins, and I don't know if people overly care about it, but we talked about the money that is now that didn't have to be given to him, but did to make him happy, whether that was as a sign of we love you or a sign of please don't hold out or a sign of we goofed and we need to make sure that you're taking care of and you got a tough negotiator in the Rosenhouse boys. But I'll tell you what it does do. You tell me if I'm wrong about this.

This puts tremendous pressure on Jane Higgins and Jalen Noel to be really good receivers. I don't, it doesn't feel like the deal affects that. Why? Because I think there's only a certain budget for certain positions. And you are paying at a very high WR1 level. As in this limits your ability to go and find somebody in the free agent market. Like, I've always thought T. Higgins would be a great number two. You can't spend crazy money in your second receiver. So if you're either you are going to have to live with the draft getting your receivers,

or you're going to have to live with not having a great WR2, or you can say, you know what, we are bullish on Higgins. We are bullish on Higgins. We are bullish that Tank Dell comes back and has a bounceback season. I think this, I mean, it's a pretty good deal. I'm just looking at the other highest paid receivers. Like Jackson Smith and Jigba got the crazy deal, $42 million. Jamar and Chase making $40 million. So Nico at 29.

Feels about right. Feels about right. I don't know if it's value anymore, but it feels like you're not over. Like, as long as you're on overpaying for guys because it hurts other positions, you are paying the value of what he should be. The thing that what made it so good was when you weren't doing it and you were getting on a deal, you're thinking, all right, what are we going to do with that extra money? Well, that extra money has not been spent on him.

Yeah, that's $9 million and $8 million in the next couple of years. That should be affordable. That should be fine. He's not paying crazy money. He's not paid, of course, like a CD Lammer or Justin Jefferson or whoever, but he's in that neighborhood. He's in that ballpark. he's right where he should be.

And yeah, it would be nice to see some, some Jaden Higgins. And also, I know we've been dismissive. Ooh, I'm ready for the name of Mr. Dell. But, and I'm telling you, I don't know anything, I'm not as orthopedist or whatever. I'm telling you, reading them the way they're operating, as you said, they have the two guys, they kept,

they didn't really go in a free agency unless I'm missing somebody in terms of adding a wide receiver. You've paid Nico Collins as well. just kind of gleaning from all that is that, okay, we're just hamstrung and we're hoping that Tankdale provide something? Or are they actually believing that he can provide something now that he's missed a couple years in a row and maybe he can be close to what he was? Can I give you this answer and you tell me that's not practical? They want this young man who has fought his ass off to get back on the football field.

They want to give him a shot. Yeah. Here's the thing. You're in the NFL. This is not about hard work at your third, second, or third chance. They must think he's close, which is a good sign.

That's what I'm thinking, the way they're operating. But. No, yeah, I understand. The crystal ball in front of me says, and hell, Rossi, I said this when he was drafted. I watched Tank Dell at University of Houston. He was great. Yeah.

I was scared that at the moment they, any team would have drafted. after him because the build is so limited. He's just not physically. I don't think he can hold up, whether it's fluke injuries or legit injuries. Guys of his stature are just not going to be able to hold up. And so far, that has been the case.

He is listed. 5-8-165. That, I mean, how many, and again, I don't, I'm not great on this. So maybe there's some people out there that could say, oh, man, but you forget about this guy. how many guys of his stature have long, successful, eight, nine, ten year NFL careers that don't have to continue,

have to fight staying healthy? The only, how big was Steve Smith? That's a good call. He comes to mind as somebody who was smaller, but also very stout. Physically, I mean, built like a brick. Yeah, Steve Smith, senior, of course, listed at 59-195.

That's not a good count then, unfortunately. You said 5-8-8-165. Now, could that be different? Could that be plus or minus 5 pounds? Could be 10 pounds, whatever. But also, I mean, Steve Smith, borderline Hall of Famer, you're not asking Tankdale to be a borderline Hall of Famer. This to me is not a...

This to me about giving the additional money to guarantee is not about per se tank. It's about the other two guys. These are second round picks I picked up last year. They want to use. Just saying in general, yeah, you limit your ability to, in the future, invest in the position. If you're investing that much in Nico Collins, you've got Jaden Higgins and Jalen Noel and Noel. On rookie deals, right? You did not draft anybody at the wide receiver position.

You still have Hutchinson, who's just a guy, honestly. And now, on the positive side, you do have Dalton's. Schultz who's become not an elite past catching tight-in, but certainly an upper third. Maybe they really believe in Marlon Klein? I don't I know nothing about him. Yeah. I mean, everybody says he was overdrafted, though.

The second round tied in out of Michigan. Yeah, I don't know. It's not... Oh, that's right. They got Lewis Bond in the sixth round, so I'm sorry about that. It's not a huge risk. It's just, boy, you... Put it this way. And this is no... This is a very obvious statement.

When you have a lot of money tied about any one player you need him to perform. Does Nico's history of concussions scare you just a little, a little bit? I guess a little bit, but he played 15 games last year, but he did get hurt in the playoff. He would have played 16 in the

right, but he did get hurt in the playoffs. That was an ankle injury though, right? It happens. Heard is hurt. Yeah. It's the NFL. But it has a feeling of almost similar to what Hunter Brown is to the Astros rotation. Nico Collins is to the

past catchers of the Texas. Yeah, you love the depth of your receiving core, but if that number one guy goes down, then you're a little nervous. Yeah. 713-212-5-790. Come in and say how out of a hold of us. When ain't biting today? Well, you may be called an animal. Ross done that to me multiple times, but that's part of the charm of the show. 7-13-212-5-7. We were talking during the news and noon about how we can't root for these teams in the West. I've got news for you. I'm going to say something I haven't said ever in my life coming up next week. Okay. Let's go Knicks.

Can you do it? I think if it's the thunder, I will be indifferent. Because I don't know. It's like, can y'all do that Houston, by the way? Can you all do that? Because I'm not rooting for San Antonio. That ain't happening. No, that is not on my time. It's

Let's go Knicks for life. I'll be pulling up in orange and blue. The only thing that's going to bother me with the Knicks is that we're going to get all these celebrity gibronies out there. I've been him next fan for so long. I didn't see her ass in a game against Charlotte. They saw I saw Ben Stiller at the game. They had them at the

game in the 1999 finals when Jeff Van Gundy was biting ankles. Is he still married to Christine Williams? Yes. I think they got divorced or separated and they got back together. She's been Christine something else, right? Not Williams. What is it?

I don't know. I'm looking it up. She's hot. I just, I've always, I've always thought she was really hot. Yeah. And she was Marsha Brady in the Brady Bunch movie? Lordy, Lordy, Lordy. I don't mean, I agree. She's attractive and let's see, what else?

Dodgeball. She was in Seinfeld. Maybe she was the loser girl or whatever? She's really hot. Like, what's wrong? Like, oh, she's a loser. She's a whatever. See, I'm not an episode remember her like that.

Okay. I will tell you, the Brady Bunch movie has a special place in my heart. I think I've told you the story before, right? I don't know. Oh, is that the one you watch when you proposed to your wife or something? No, that was Pulp Fiction. Was that when you threw up in Hawaii? No.

Jonathan, I... You didn't propose to your wife of Pulp Fiction? No, that was when you had nothing... I said that. I'd make some of my stories out. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, exactly. No, no, no, no.

Pulp Fiction was something else that happened that night. That wasn't marriage. I was sick. And I proposed. Okay. So in 1994, I got mononucleosis. Yeah, okay, you were sick. Oh, yeah, and you went in super spreading at the theater.

I didn't super spread. It was the first time, Jonathan, I went out in public after being in my house for two weeks. Jonathan, he is super spreading. That's not true. You were sick. You said you were still sick. Now the story's changed. You don't know that.

Yes, I do. I remember now. They would call you Super Spreader Thomas. He's out there, yeah. You're licking the armrest at the movie theater. The doctor said, you have to stay home for two weeks. And I was like, stay. And I was living an apartment with two other guys.

It was terrible. I was basically in my room for two weeks. It sucked. And the one time, literally the day that the two-week mark had, I said, I got to get out of here. So me and this girl we were dating at the time went to go see the Brady Bunch movie. Huh? I just remember her. And I was like, whatever that girl's name was.

Yeah, it was a great movie. Very Brady sequel. Not good. No, no, no, no, no. That wasn't that bad. Okay. So can you Houston? You lovable sports.

Georgetown and you. Can you say let's go Knicks? Are we ever going to be able to ever root for a New York team under any circumstance? The Giants and the Giants have never done anything to me. They haven't once to 703. It doesn't matter who we root for it, first of all. Second of all, Knicks haven't won since 73, so I guess they can get another one. Thunder? I don't know why.

Oh, it's two people. It's SGA and the fouls. and it's Lude Dorpe being a dirty player. Period. Home run isn't bother me. Hartonson doesn't bother me. AJ Mitchell's hurt. Janelle Williams, the first one's hurt.

Second one, just shoot threes all over the place. Yeah. I'm mostly indifferent to the thunder, honestly. SGA is an incredible player. I know he foul baits, but he's great. And, I mean, if we loved James Hardin here, well, not everybody loved James Hardin when he's here. But I love James Hardin who is here, foul baiting.

I didn't have any problem with. Chris Paul foul beating. Yes, but his fouls just meant more. Okay. They were so good fouls that the NBA created a swipe rule and up and under rule that precluded him from getting his many three-point shot opportunities. Speaking of James.

So the danger for those of you, and look, I think Twitter, this is actually good news, I think. Twitter is not nearly as important as it was five years ago. People are deactivating their accounts by the day. They just are. I'm good. We're finding alternative ways.

Yeah. Find us on Instagram. At Sports Intin. Yeah. I mean, I still want you... I still want you to follow me on Instagram and Twitter on both because, again, I do communicate with y'all with some news of what's going on my life or the show or stuff like that. And it's an easy way to... But it's, you know, we've gone over this many a time.

But what was I going with this? I don't know. I hate when I bring up. Social media, Twitter. People are deactivating. The four U. Oh, no. What's going on in your four U tab now?

No, that's not what you think it is, boys. Besides all the Bucksome ladies. That's true, but too, but that's a different issue. A lot of, like, James would like to reconnect with Kevin Durand and come back to Houston. Who said that? These are these faux websites that just want to just put content. Mute them. I'm doing that now.

Good. I'm doing that with any political, by the way, too. Anything political comes up mute immediately. Oh, good. So, I'm thinking. Is this a reality? Is this somebody talking that's got some knowledge of the situation? And then I come to find out the Cleveland Cavaliers are not going to extend.

They're not going to pick up the option year on James' contract, but they're going to give him a new contract. And apparently everybody and their mother, all the reputable NBA people are saying, this is like the McMinnemans and the wind horse are saying, yeah, he's staying in Cleveland. So it made me feel confident that there are some people that really do know what they're talking about. but it also made me leery about just being very careful of what I want to believe is gospel. And there are people that will say NBA news and notes. According to this person, James has expressed interest in coming back to Houston. I don't care if he comes back or not.

I mean, it doesn't matter to me, but it's just you just have to take an extra layer to disseminate. What is really fact from fiction? And I wish Twitter wouldn't be that spot, but it just is. Yeah, it's gotten worse and worse and worse. And especially it's gotten worse when they incentivize people getting views. Because what you're talking about, it gets all views, and then it gets populated in the algorithm and people find little buzzwords and little things that'll get them in the algorithm

and a lot of times that is views and replies and all that type of stuff and then what happens is they know that they'll take say you know Matt you wrote a blog and you're like man it'd be cool if James Hardin came back it'd be like reporter said somebody will run with it and be like aggregated and be like

oh Houston Rockets reporter says James Hardin could come back to the rocket that's exactly what's happening that's exactly what's happening and by the way it's also it's happening It's happening on threads to every one of those little sites are doing it. It's terrible. So, man, the mute is just becoming more and more prevalent here.

But even if you mute until you're blue in the face, you're still going to run into stuff that makes you have to go back and double and triple check things. Because again, I don't think James and Russ and harden our adversary relationships. It would somewhat make sense those guys want to hang out with each other because if they're still chasing championships, and they still have something left in the tank, you would think they don't want to play with each other. But there was something to it. They're not getting the band back together.

Now, I do believe that Hardin did call the Rockets last season and said, hey, I mean, even, was it Shams? A couple seasons ago? It's like, yeah, he would love to come back, and the Rockets's like, eh, I'm good. Amio Doka said, ain't nobody got time for that. It is, you know, and I know we've got our friend Willa that listens to show all the time,

and he's a James Harden-truther. he was terrible in the posies again this year I mean and Shaq was it Did you even see you hear what Shaq did? What did he say? He was like doing inside the end But you know how Shaq's like

You can't understand Hey what's up Chuck 90% of the words he says And then he's like Yeah They were talking about how bad Cleveland was getting Beat by the New York at halftime He was doing James acting like a normal posties himself

You know just disappearing I mean it's just common It's just common now And it's crazy because There is so much about James's game That you do love But man it ain't good after about April 20 generally speaking, despite the 1140 point games,

his flameouts are legendary. I think, yeah, he's one of the ones that just doesn't translate to the playoffs as well, his regular season success. And the other team is zeroing in on you and game planning against you and spending every minute of their waking day to figure out how to stop you. That's when guys get exposed.

That's when you have warts and they get exposed. It happened here in Houston. It happened with Jalen Green. It's happened some with Alperin Shingoon. I mean... Oh, by the way, and James will not be the only, member of the I can't play in the playoff club. You know what I'm saying?

Playoffs are tough. You have the same opponent, seven days, seven games in a row, 14 days, they can expose every one of your witnesses. Matt and Ross with you at 1252. It is Sports Talk 790. We'd love for you to come in and join us. Not just a bang, listen, we're just a couple of guys sitting at the bar

having a couple of pops. Yes. One of us drinking water. The other one is drinking water as well. As of right now, you get your COBRA ready to go? Oh, well, no, I down that in the first segment. Sometimes you're a little energy boost. Yeah, absolutely. It's crazy.

I can, we'll get back to the Astros at the top of the hour. We got Brian Bogosific replay coming up at 130 as well. And believe it or not today, 150. Are we going, would you decide on the topic? Are we going with the birthday boys? Congratulations to the New York Knicks making the finals for the first time since 1999. All things current and past New York Knicks. You could do several layers on that, but.

I know. I will say this about New York. I don't like Madison Square Garden. It's the worst broadcast position in the league. Okay. Yeah, they have you up in the rafters, basically. Way super high up. Yeah. You can touch the asbestos.

You can get that right. The ushers are extraordinarily rude. Really? Oh, my God. Really? The rudest. I guess in New York. Hey, hey, what's going on over here?

You broadcast in the game? Here's me. Excuse me. Can you tell me where section 597 is where I broadcast? How do you not know with 597? Get you, sorry. I'm from Houston. I got your radio broadcast righty.

Oh, God, they're so rude. Oh, God, they're rude. That's just northeaster. But you, I don't know how many of you, within a sign of my voice, have gone to New York before, have trips coming up to it. Love it. I want to go back. My wife is 53. I'm 55.

How old am I? I don't know. She's 52. I'm 53. She's never been to New York before. She's going to go for the very first time this fall when Carly's volleyball team will play Fordham in the A-10. Fordham versus Rhode Island.

But they're going to make it a New York trip out of it. Okay, that's beautiful. So it's just crazy. You never know who's gone where in their life. But if you are a sports fan, which I'm presuming that if you're listening to show for any length of time, you are sportsmen. You have to go to Madison Square Garden.

Because you walk in and you just feel not only history of sports, but you fill history of concerts, conventions, boxing. Does it smell different? No. You can smell Jake Lamata's sweat when you walk in there.

You can smell when Hulk Hogan won the WWF Championship 1984 over the Iron Sheet. I've been to... Funny enough, I've been to Barclays. I have not been to NSG. You've not been to MSG. I've been to Barclays already. Wow. I know. That's a stoner.

I'm the one guy. You are... I guess I should be in conversation with you. you. Yeah. First of all, it's a middle of midtown man. I love how everything's off the train. It makes me mad when I go to cities that have great public transportation.

Yeah. Because I wish we had it here. I was trying to explain this. I was going to take the red line to NRG. Cool. Thanks. Because I told Cardass, as part of you going up to live in Providence or in Rhode Island is you got to know the trains. Because you can take the train from Providence.

You can take the train to Boston. You can take the train to New York City. I mean, she's going to have endless opportunities to go to a bunch of great places if you just learn the train system. Right. And by the way, the trains are not cheap. I was looking for an Amtrak to go from Providence to New York. It's like $221. What?

Yeah, it's crazy. I didn't know that. Yeah. And it takes three hours. Hmm. So Providence to New York. But again, once you get up there, you know the system. You know the subways in New York.

Yeah, no, the subways. You can figure things out. But, yeah, MSG is. It's got so much history to it. I mean, it's got, it's, it's, it's the world's most famous arena for a reason. Mm-hmm. And it is at, it's, it's, it's, there's a huge train station there.

And it's something else. And it's, again, you walk out of the great diehard fans, people, people, people are wearing their ranger sweaters and Nick jerseys and everywhere. It's just a great sport. She's going to try to go to, like, well, what's in season? What, when is it? When she going? She'll be on the fall.

I mean, she, you know, she'll be an hour, 15 from Boston. No, no, I'm talking about when your wife goes. Oh, there won't be any Knicks or Rangers. She's going on October, so maybe, yeah. Oh, baby. Let me tell you. Let me tell you. The wife ain't going to MSG.

She's going to, she's going to, she's going to be going to Soho. We're going to a Fifth Avenue, pal. I'm saying. Ooh. Chaching, ching. We knocked Rodeo drive off the list two years ago. Oh, okay. That's good.

There's a Lulu lemon on Rodeo driver close to it. And she's like, hey, you would want some of Lululmin'Lemin clothes. I'm like, yeah, I do. But I don't want to be paying these L. L. They don't be that big of the difference. I've learned my lesson on that. Nucks.

She's not invited in L.A. anymore. Yeah, maybe go to the off-sax. Exactly. Off fifth or whatever. All right. Final hour of the show is going to be getting in a little Astros conversation. Yes, sir. As they will try to take a 2-1 series lead.

I'm going to ask you a question. Jonathan, we'll get the answer on this for you as well. I want you guys to get out your crystal balls for the next 30 days for the Astros. I'll give you the schedule. Okay. And then kind of tell me what you think is going to have. You don't think of it like a record.

But how are we going to treat the next 30 days? Because we know how the first two months went. Utter disappointment. A lot of injuries. Yes. A lot of underperformance. The last week, let's be brutally honest here, it's been the three games in Chicago and the one game against the Rangers on Monday with the no-no.

It's given us a little bit more hope. Okay, I'll stay in by on this one. I'm going to run through the next 30 days. Okay. Now, once you see what you think you're going to feel like after these next 30 days. You guys can chime in on this as well. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. All right. Final hour, Matt and Ross, with you today until 2 p.m. We'd love you to be a part of our show. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. That's the number. You can reach out to us. Oklahoma City Beach.

San Antonio 1, 27 to 114. Astros fall 10-7 to the Rangers after falling behind 8-0 yesterday. Game 3, the series will be today. I'll have the on-deck show for you at 605. Scores of interest? In progress? Nope. But are we saying Go-Mariners beat the ace today? Is that what we're talking about?

No. We really don't care to it this point. We don't care. Win your own games. Get to 500. No, don't say Go-Mariners. I would say in the long term, you probably want the Mariners to lose. The A's have a half game lead of the Mariners in the American League West.

Both teams under 500. The A's are in first place at 27 and 28. This division is an embarrassment. I mean, it just is. I'm going to hit him like I'm in this crap division. Is anybody getting 85? I will say yes. That would mean...

It's a long season. It's a long... It's got 100 games left, but that would still mean... Yeah, I mean, that's... ...801 and 81 is 500. So many people can't win four games more than that? I would say yes. I'm going to hold my gut feeling as hopefully correct on that.

Oh, you put your name on it. You said 84 and you put your name on it. Just saying. I like that sound. That's a Ross gasp. It's fine. We'll see. Whatever will be will be.

So, yeah, there'd be 12 games back of the Tampa Bay Rays. Let's see. Don't even do this. Why do you do this every time? Seven and a half back of the Guardians. The city of Houston ain't moving. The division ain't moving. This is a moot conversation.

do this. Now, if you want to do a cop, three and a half back of the A's. If you want to do a cop, how would they be in favor in the National League West or Central? Well, let's see. There's your cop. Because they were in L. Central, and there was some talk of them maybe going to know West. I can't even do the math now.

10 games back of the Dodgers. Okay. 13 and a half games back of the Braves. No, that's East. I'm talking about National League Central. Oh, Central? Yeah. The brew crew, they would be. Oh, don't add it up. They'd be like 10 games behind the Brewers or something.

All right. So right now the Astros are 24 and 32. They are three and a half games at a first place. I'm going to give you the June schedule. All right? Yes. Jonathan, get your crystal ball out. Okay.

Ross, get your crystal ball out. Kind of just do a guesstimation of what you think is going to happen. In the month of June, the Astros play. Okay, let's do the end of the end of, this, we'll do the last week of May 2. Okay. Three with the Brewers who are playing 615 ball.

A series loss. Are we writing this down? Am I saying, am I predicting these as we go? You're just saying it out there. Say it silently. You don't need to think about it back your mind. Three with Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, by the way, is in fourth place,

but they're above 500 in the Central. Three with the whatever you want to call the Maze. Those are all home games. Nine game homestand. Sacramento. Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and Sacchar Tomato. On the road for three at the, the Angels.

At 3.8, Kansas City. The Angels in the last place in the West. Kansas City is a massive disappointment in the central. They are in fourth place. They are at 22 and 33. They have a worse record than the Astros. Three with the underperforming Detroit Tigers, who are in last place, have a mark of 21 and 34.

Three with first place, Cleveland, who is now seven games above 500. Three at Toronto, who are, under 500. Four at Detroit. Three with Minnesota, who you lost two or three of. Four at Detroit. In Detroit. Question one. Astros

are eight under 500. Can they get to 500 at any point of the month of June? No. Jonathan? I don't think so. I'm assuming he says no as well. I think... Because here's my question. In my thought, if they can't get to 500 with this schedule,

then how in the hell they're going to be competitive in this to race for another month? Get to 500. I think they get close. You have seven with Detroit. You have three with Anaheim, three with Kansas City. The A's are melting. Haters coming back in the first week of June. It'll be mid-June for Brown.

Correct. Maybe Al-Tube some time during the mid-part of June as well. It's not that that's a... Al-Tube, yeah. I'm sorry. It's not a big shot in the arm. You get your Joey Lopal Fido back. You get a little additional death and left.

That's not a big shot in the arm either. I'm sorry. You are tough. Jake Myers, now that's a shot in the arm, folks. Country strong. Nebraska's strong. Country fast. I don't see the Astros being like 18 and 10.

That would be playing above 600 baseball. How does a team that's been under 500 for so long? Does Hunter Brown really bring that back? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. 18 and 10? Five days. That's what you're asking for? Give or ten.

I don't even know it's 20 games or not. There's some off days in the mix. Okay. Well, think about it, there's 30 days in a month and they're off three. So there's 27 games in June.

And three more, there's five more in the month in the month of May. So that would be 18 and 9. 667 ball? 100 win ball club ball. But don't you kind of have to be at 500 if you're going to stick around? What about 15 and 12? That'd put them at four or five games under 500?

Here's my question. can this American League West, whether it's Seattle or the athletics, or the Rangers for that matter, are they going to, is somebody going to jump out? Because if somebody does, and the Astros go 15 and 12, they will be out of the race.

If I had to guess, I mean, we're guessing it would be the Mariners. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Five of the last eight. I still have a good rotation, man. It's not a difficult schedule.

The schedule is the softest month of the season coming up. Cal Raleigh still hurt with his oblique, Right? Yep. Everybody's got the oblique. Everybody's obliqueing. You know what I'm going to do in my next left coming back as an oblique technician? Oh, you'll have a lot of work?

Your team can hire me to fix your obliques. See, now you got me kill. Look at the marriage schedule. This is bad. I think they can play above 500. Yeah, they can win like 15 and 16 of those games. 18 would be crazy. 18 and 9 would be pretty crazy, I think.

I guess it's possible. This is what's going to have to happen. Okay, well, let's say how do we get there? We're looking for our target, 18 and 9. How do we get there? We get there with Tatsu. You mind keeping it up? All right.

I'm going to go on the offensive side. Cam Smith, whatever we saw last night. Okay. More of that. A lot more of that. Sure. Okay. And less challenging.

Less ABS challenging. Yes. Christian Walker and Yordon are going to have to keep it up. I believe they can to an extent. Jeremy Payne could get hot. He had that big home run yesterday. Nick Allen is going to be Nick Allen. Nick Allen is going to regress.

Jeremy Payne. Pena getting on his hottest streak of the year offensively. Jeremy Pena getting it going. Jake Myers being solid as your center field. Yeah, it's been good. Just being your what he normally does. A home run, a week. Yeah. Okay, that would be able to ask actually. Yeah, it would be too much.

If they get getting a haterback and getting a bray you, I mean, he's been having scoreless outings. 16 and 11, it requires all the things we're just talking about. Okay, 1611, that sounds fine. I like that. Into June, you're climbing towards 500.

Rome wasn't built in the day. I guess we'd have to go look at history. History does not repeat itself when it comes to baseball and playing games out. But can a team that is under 500 at July 1st, will that be good enough to be close enough to hang around in the American League West? In this bad division, yes. I'm saying it. 85 gets it there, so why would I go against my own opinion here?

85, I mean, it's four more wins than 500 ball. Let's go stroves. Let's play 565 baseball. There we go. I don't think that really fits in a hashtag very well. No, but they could work on it. We'll come up with something. You know what?

One game at a time. How about that, Matt? Tonight, Mike Burroughs, you ambush Jake DeGrom for a couple runs. We're trying to do a four-hour radio show. We get Mike Burroughs. A little plus 119 for the Astros. Feeling froggy. I'm ready to jump.

What? You've never heard that? Yes, I've heard about it, but not when it comes to baseball. I've heard about it when it comes to, I don't know, sexual tension. Huh? What? You've heard about it. I have a little, phil of a little froggy.

I want to jump on it. Swing and a miss. Hey, hey, hey, that's baseball vernacular. That's what they call it whiff. Chauti, I, we need more whiffs. Less three-walk innings. All right. Yeah.

That's okay Six innings and no hit ball Not gonna argue with that Okay, I hope this Yeah 16 and 11 in June is good 16 and 11 Let's see

Yeah All right I'll print up a shirt 16 and 11 How about the next five But that ends me Okay What do you got

Two of Texas Three with Miliwakee Um Two and three Split the next two To win the series No they wouldn't win It'd be a split

Yeah Damn it Never mind Split the next two Is probably realistic I mean, Borough's an Arrogetti. Oh, we're counting

Arugetti's win. We, Spencer's got like this wins every time out. He's been good, though. The Grom's not been so much. DeGrom's not been

last time to play the Astros. Yes, and he got beat up against the Angels last time. Ooh, hate to hear that. Which also can mean

he's due for a good outing. That happens to the Astros' offense. We know it does. No, no, no. Okay, split the next two.

And then how are you feeling about Milwaukee? All right, 713, two, One, two, five. No, being back home. Tough 10 game road trip.

Friendly confines. Nice people. Oh, no. Yeah. Mizorowski's going to throw on Sunday? Oh, no. That's the kid that throws 102, like, every fastball. Yeah, he has one pitch.

That's not true. He's got an ERA of 183. Whip a 0.83. Yeah, Astros are losing. Don't go to Sunday's game. Try to win one. Actually, it'll be Lance McCullors Union. I'm just kidding.

I don't want to scare you like that. You know what my favorite is, is that people complain about Sunday lineups. Sunday lineups for baseball for about 100 years have sucked. Yeah. They just have. It's like we had their caller last night. Alex and Garden Oaks. He's upset that Espada left Jason Alexander out there.

He threw five innings and one run ball after the first. Sometimes you got to wear one in baseball. You have to, in a 162 with a team that doesn't have a tremendous depth in pitching. You've got to wear it. You're playing 23 games and 24 days, something. like that. Yeah, their last off day was the seventh. No, that's not true. The 21st. Yeah, but it's like, I think it's like 23 and 24, 22 and 23 or something like that. Yeah, their next off day is not in, oh my God, it's June 1st, so it's next weekend. But yeah,

you get to wear it sometimes. You just do. It is 120. We're going to hear from Brian Bogus-Cevic. We had him earlier this morning at 11 o'clock. We'd like to replay some of that for you at 1.30 because you missed it. We know that all of you listened to all four hours. And for that, we greatly appreciate it. Right, Rossi? Nobody ever, when you put on 790 and 10 o'clock and you never change it until 2 o'clock that warms the cockles of our heart it does just when i ask you what your favorite part of the 10 to 2 radio show is during believe or not always people tend to say all of it of course that's my favorite part when they say believe or not meaning they're just coming to be prized my favorite part was when i yelled at you about boston legal my favorite part is me

you know what um you call me a chimp twice today I may that have the most lovingly way possible. You did. I'm not offended. Very few things offend me. Maybe it's some of my detriment. It's funny because a lot of, in the entertainment world, Kevin Hart is having to go on different shows to talk about his roast. His roast was very politically and very racially charged.

even more so than the Tom Brady one. And Kevin Hart's like, I ain't got a problem with any of it. You can tease about George Floyd. You can tease about Charlie Kirk. You can tease about my mother. You can tease about, I mean, the roast go in knowing that everything is off limit. On limits, I should say. No holds barred.

No. Because I guess there have been people that have been saying, why didn't you stand up and say that was wrong? And he's like, it's what comedy is. now if you're doing a regular set and you don't expect that and maybe people get turned off by it but roast

that's what they're going to do that's these roast are done in front of 18,000 people and are on Netflix for a reason because people want to laugh even when it's uncomfortable to laugh I still haven't watched it I mean to

I didn't even watch I think I didn't watch the whole Tom Brady one it was like three hours now three and a half hours roast can get a little long how long was this one I don't know I didn't watch the whole thing I've been watching frankly of Twitter clips.

Chelsea Handler getting destroyed too. What happened with her? Oh, she was like, some of this stuff went too far and everybody that was on the day, I was like, since the Rosa place, like, shut up. Tony Hinchcliff, who is of Kill Tony fame, was made fun of a lot,

and he's like, you know, all the stuff they said about me wasn't true. It was in the part of comedy. along. Again, I don't know, I can, I know for a fact that that roast aren't for everybody. I just happen to like them because we tease you to other a lot. We don't do it to the level those people do it because they're professional writers and yes, they cut a little deeper than I want to cut, but you know, if you're going to be a part of a roast, that literally, everything is on limits. Where is it available? Netflix, I'm assuming right. And again, it's strange. They've done this again. They did it at the form where Tom Brady had

his roast. Is the form just homes of like big roast now? I guess it's probably affordable. I don't know. Gets the job done. Oh, two hours and 51 minutes. Oh, okay. They tighten this one up. They did. I guess it was over three hours. I think it was. Humley look it up. Yeah.

Two hours of 55 minutes long. Okay, you know, I had to tap out of that one. It was just too long. Yeah. All right. I guess I'll see what I can make through is for the I'm going to tell you something. The key to this is just go to Twitter. Find the clips. No, I mean, I say, I don't want, no, I don't like consuming media like that.

Oh, it's perfect for me, because if your attention span, I understand. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Trying to have a longer attention span than two minutes. I don't watch a full film. Oh, I'm got a news. I'm trying to be like a TikTok brain. News item. It's on to the semifinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.

Okay, great. No, not great. I hate the spelling bee. Why? Because. Because a bivouac? First of all, excellent pull on your part. Second, all, these kids should be outside.

plane getting some fresh air. Oh my god. You know I're arguing this every year. I mean, if you say so. No, my guess is if I took the last 25 Spelling Bee winners, they're all making north of about a million dollars and that's good for them. They're all the, isn't it, wasn't there like a tie because all the kids are like too good now? Yes. Any word that's got issues, they don't have issues with. Yeah, it's a little bit different from. back in our day in like fourth grade. I could never make it out of my class to make it

to be in school. I got to the class and then I... I couldn't even get out. And then I peed on stage. It was terrible. Melissa Tan always beat me. Who did? Melissa Tan. That bitch. No, she's great. How do you know? What do you mean? What was last time you saw her? Five, six years ago? Oh, okay. Then she was pleasant back then?

She didn't rub her in your face that she beat you? No. She was valedictorian. I mean, yeah, she was always doing great. You saw the small little wink and a smile. I didn't wink at anybody. Don't make it weird. By the way, at Carly's high school graduation, I feel like the two graduates of the salutatorian and the valetorian,

they went to AI to write their speeches. Oh, really? Yeah. If you've been to one, you've been to all of them, right? Oh, man. We are the future. Enjoy your experiences. Take time to smell the roses.

You should, Matt. Relax. Smell the roses. Good, they should have had me as their keynote speaker. Oh, hell no. You know what's coming ahead of you? Oh, no. cancel culture,

we want them to be inspired. Yeah, and stay out of politics as half America is going to hate you. Terrible. It was nice, though. But I'll tell you what, though, 660 seniors in the class of 2026 of Kingwood High School.

Thank God for phones. As you look, in 1942, the winning word was sacrilegious. No way. That's like a first round word now. In 1940, the reading word was therapy. I think right now if you're the Oh my God, how dumb ass were these kids? In 1928, the winning word was NAC.

K-N-A-C-K. Yes. Last year, the winning word was E-C-L-E-C-L-E-C-L-M-E-L. Do you think if you're the script of spelling, but you have to start creating words just to toughen things up a little bit? Oh, last year the winning word was EBSAil.

I actually know what that means now. What is it? Absale. May I hear it in a sentence, please? This weekend we're going to go to California And we're going to go ab-sailing So it's a verb for the active sailing No, it's repelling basically

Down cliffs You're going to repel down cliffs in California I learned that word this past week Ebsale I'm worried about you I don't want you going on anything on You need to relax, I don't have dangerous trips I'm not doing anything that hurting You go hiking, you're literally walking on a path

Well, if a mountain lying attacks you Well then you might die but that should be fine How many mountain line deaths in the... Mountain. What if a snake gets you or something? Snakes run away when they hear your feet. It's fine. They're not looking to attack you.

This is not a movie. This is not anaconda. Animals run away from you. Animals don't want to be attacked by animals. Because you know why? Humans are the alpha dogs. Humans kill everything. They know that.

So you're mostly safe. That's what... Grizzly bears, you meant with each other. I was going to say you and the grizzly bear met with each other. It was the black bear. You can find it on my Instagram. I ran across a black bear at Big Bend.

And he was very nice. That would take too long for to find it. It's basically like a giant raccoon when it's a black bear. There's been zero black bear attack deaths in the history of Big Men Park. Ever. How many mountain lion? Probably more than that. Mountain line you to watch out.

Here we go. Mountain line deaths are incredibly rare, fewer than one fatality per year across all of North America. So if you're the one. this year. Oh, it's bad luck. Guys, you know what I'm going to do as an honor? I'm going to have someone sitting in your seat for a while. Oh, if I, once I die from a mountain lion attack, I'll choke that mountain line out.

I think it's scared. I would think adrenaline could kick in until his... I think there was a woman in Colorado who... Until his weight gets you. I think there was a woman in Colorado who fought off a mountain line. She can pull it off. I can, I feel like... But you've been losing weight, though.

You're not... Yeah, but muscle mass is bulking. Put those guns down. Jonathan on 7 out of Hill. Jonathan. What is up? So I got Matt and his noble steed. Hey, did you happen to follow up with uptown appliance repair?

Yes. Will they finally service League City? They are not prepared to serve League City at this point. Oh, my gosh. No, it's all good. They decided to buy a new dishwasher instead. Okay, well, but I'm saying, though, when you get out of the boondocks out there and league sitting come to the regular part of town. They'll take care of you. You know this, right?

I have no doubt. I manage HOA's all over the greater Q scenario. Listen, I wanted to, you know what? And it's funny because you guys were talking about the spelling B, and he went back to, what was it, 1940 something. And the community I was at, their 55 plus community, nothing but boomers. And I quickly figured out, because it was a three-month assignment I was on that I hate boomers and if any boomers are listening I dislike you very much never has a generation taken so much and given so little and you gripe about everything and listening even listening to the word that they had to get in the spelling bee and it's like really that was your word like and they always constantly want to

gripe about how us as the newer generations, we don't work hard enough, and we don't know how to do stuff the right way. And I'm just thinking in my head the whole time, I'm like, dude, you guys were given everything. Look at your spelling bee, for God's sake. You were given everything. And then you leave us what we have. So my gripe, and this is a late shut your bum ass up, But to all the boomers out there, shut your bum ass up. You gave us nothing but a crap society and a crap economy. And then you gripe at us that we don't work hard enough to get the job done. Dude, shut your bum ass up.

Ain't nobody got time for that. Did he completely, did he completely go after an entire genre of people? or generation, yeah. Genrejean. Genrejean. Yeah. And they're French. By the way, the NBA admonishing

Victor Woman Yamamoto once ago saying you will be it for future media availability that you're going to get heavily fined. Yeah. He got the stern warning just a few minutes ago, so.

Spurs PR are terrible. Are they really? Oh, they're terrible. Just terrible. I'm sorry, Matt. I don't care. I don't deal with them much. They're not helpful.

I can tell you that for damn sure. Um, hmm. I got nothing to say on what our friend Jonathan had to say. He kind of confused me, actually. Well, he's confused you. He just said the boomers ruined it for everyone. As another Jonathan speaking to another, Jonathan? I think you're right.

I think he's down the head, man. It's a little more difficult for the kids these days. Unfortunately. A lot of the wealth. Wealth inequality. I like wealth. I know. I love equality.

I love wealth, too. You know, they call me Mr. Walt unequality. wealth inequality and equality no it's inequality no no I want wealth and equality well cost of living going up

wages stagnating it's fine by gas and river oaks today I drove by yesterday my way to that restaurant where I didn't get my card 499 a gallon

is that the one though not the one there this is another one and this is the heart of river oaks this is like right on San Felipe next to the hot target oh where it turns into Vermont oh no

no not there like where weezy's is you know where weas is Weisies? No, regular Weisies. Like the one for the Jeffersons. Weesies that one. Can we go to break? Yeah.

We got a break. Our visit with Brian Bogusevick is up next. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Welcome back to the Matt Tom's show with Ross. Here on Sports Talk 790. Earlier today, we were joined by Brian Bogusevic. He is our normal Wednesday guest.

We want to bring you guys some more of that conversation. as it was a lot of good stuff on the Houston Astros where they are right now. Four game winning streak lost yesterday. And unfortunately, fans, of course, before you can barely sit down, Stroes down 8-0 in the first inning. What is it like as a player when at the very beginning of the game, things do not go your way? And unfortunately, we are having a computer issue with Jonathan.

So hopefully it can resolve itself in just a minute here. Let's get a call in while we before we get to. that. Okay. You want to do that? Sure, why not? Because, I mean, our phone systems or our computers don't ever make mistakes. This is definitely a one-off. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. Let's go to our buddy Stunna on 7-90. Hi, Stunna. What's going on? What's up, Matt? What's up, Rob? Hey, Ross, you're trying to go out there and mess with them lines again, mate? I'm not messing. I'm not going mountain lion wrestling. I'm not going hunting for mountain lions. I'm just going out in the woods, and there could be a mountain lying mine in its own business.

Man, I'm going to change your name of bad grills, man. Bear grills, okay, I like that. I got some survivorship skills. I would take Matt with you, so he's not have some of those skills, too. No, he's going to whine and cry. He's five diamond mat.

He would never come out there, Stenna. I'm not going hiking. I'm going to go to a spa and get a massage with some water. But you don't even do that. You don't even do that, Matt. With some cucumber water, ice in it? and relax and watch my shows.

Hey Matt, if you go out there now, you'll be the toughest guy when you go to Rhode Island. I'll be tough. Yeah, I don't need to be tougher around. I need to have a sweater around my neck going, could I get some Perrier, please, with some lemon? That's all right. Senator, come on now.

Thanks, Senator, for the phone call. I'm just going to tell you, maybe just for me, there's nothing in this world more serene, tranquil, fun, fulfilling, being out in nature. Just being by yourself or with a special someone and you just can't hear anything.

It's just silence. Or it's just the babbling brook, the trees, the birds. No, no cars, no nothing. No motors. No cell phones. No cell phones. No direct TV. No room service. Get actually and enjoy yourself.

Be in real life. Your phone screen is not real life. Go get out in real life. Words that live by. Sports survey. How's our computer, by the way? I think we're good. Let's it go.

Yeah, it can change day to day. It can change within the course of a game, which we saw pretty much the last two days also. It's unfortunate. Those games, they stink. They're tough to watch. They're really tough to play in. You want to at least feel like you have a chance.

And even though they got back into that one about as good as you could hope for, you put up an eight spot. And the first thing, the game's pretty much disqual. excited. And if you're going to win consistently, if you're going to put together a win streak, if you're going to put together a good month, whatever you want to call it, you've got to give yourself a chance to win because you're not going to go out there and win every game, certainly, but you've got to put yourself in position to do so. And those ones like yesterday aren't fun. They don't happen too often, but they happen to every player, no matter what level of professional

or collegiate baseball, for that matter, high school. When you have been a part of those games, where your team has dug a hole that quick. What does a manager do or say, or sometimes maybe some things just left set with no conversation? No, everybody knows the deal, right? Because like you said, everybody's been in it. Everybody knows what's going on. And a couple things specific to yesterday.

Number one, you know, it's not like they blew the game open in the seventh inning and you only had nine out to play with you. You have the entire game. So everybody knows that, hey, we, as steep a hill as it is, we still do have a chance if we could throw up some zeros and put up a couple runs. But, you know, the other side of it is, hey, we're professionals. We get paid to go out here and do our job in a professional manner and have quality at bat and put a decent product out there. But also there's the idea of, you know, we're in game two of a four game series.

We have to try to make it difficult on the other team. We have to try to run up a pitch count on the starter and maybe get into the bullpen, and maybe make them go to the back of the bullpen, which they made the Rangers do yesterday. See if we can do something in this game that maybe if it won't get us to a victory today, if it could make our path to victory a little bit easier tomorrow. They did a lot of those things. It doesn't result in a win yesterday,

but it puts you in a more favorable position today. On the positive side, the bats, you said certainly rallied, including, I mean four absolute bombs coming from the Astro side of things, frankly. Yeah, it was a pretty loud night offensively. And it's good to see. It's good to see them scoring in bunches. It's good to see the big innings showing up. We haven't seen a lot of those lately.

It's good, not yesterday, but the previous two games to see kind of the knockout blow type of innings. And honestly, as fun as it has been to see all of the power and the power from a lot of different spots yesterday. It's also been enjoyable to see the manufactured runs and the last couple of games see them play a little bit of small ball. They score to run the other day without getting a hit in an inning. And if you can do both, if you can have that balance, you're going to have games where you're going to score a lot of runs,

but you're also going to have games where you can win a game maybe just because of one swing or maybe just because of one inning where you pieced it together and found a way to push one across. And good offenses can score different ways. Good offenses don't have to rely on the home run. They can do it in different ways. And we've seen more of that recently. Seems like we talk about a lot of hitters with you.

But one guy we don't talk about much because he's just so special is Jordon Alvarez. I mean, can you just kind of describe for us? Why is he so good as he is? And he can just, it feels like he can get to everything and the power that he possesses as well. What makes, or some of the things that make Yordon so great? Balance. He's always on balance, right? It never seems like he's taking a bad swing. You see sometimes guys reaching for balls. You see their butts flying out and the bat's slaying. Number one, he never does that. It always seems like he's balanced in his

lower half and seeing the ball well. He's got great timing because he doesn't have to cheat to fastballs for as well as he can turn around a high velocity fastball. It doesn't ever seem like he's hunting it and making himself susceptible to off speed so he can run into the two home runs that he hit yesterday were, you know, off speed pitches hung in the middle of the zone. You're not going to get away with that and have a guy kind of have him spin off and accidentally roll over a hung breaking ball in the middle of the zone. He's going to be on all of those.

It's just, he's just such a pure hitter who also happens. to be one of the strongest guys in the league. And nothing kind of demonstrates that more than the home run he hit on Monday, which was, I mean, you could not have located a fastball down in a way better from Kumar Rocker. And as a pitcher, you're thinking, worst case scenario, this guy takes a great swing and hit the line drive to left field and at the base hit. And he stays in position to where he can get underneath the ball, get behind it, and then he's absurdly strong enough to hit the ball out.

out into right center field. You shouldn't be able to put that good of a swing on it, and you certainly shouldn't be strong enough to hit it that far to that side of the field, but he can do both. And that again was Brian Boga-Sythewitt with us every Wednesday at 11 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. Let's get to play, believe it or not, next, which is all things about the Knicks, the Eastern Conference Champions, 146 Sports Talk 790. Five minutes left to go on the show.

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