The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Lose Last Game of the Series Vs Marlins, Relentless Texas Training Camp Coverage

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

Astros Lose Last Game of the Series Vs Marlins, Relentless Texas Training Camp Coverage

Lunch timers. Ross v. Reh out is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 7 o'clock. The Seattle Mariners beat the Chicago White Sox. And Rossi, we got ourselves a good old-fashioned pennant race. The fight in the finish As the Astros

Leave the American League West shaved to two games It's going to be a battle, Matt. Down to the wire. Some have declared it over, but I would say I think it's still an ongoing battle.

Don't make that face of me. Hey, I don't need haul and oats to kiss and make up. Why? Because I want them to go back on tour, I'd go back and watch them. I thought it was all haul, or is it all oats?

Well, it's together. Yeah, but who did the bulk of the work? Darrell Hall did most of the same. Okay, yeah. Well, then beat it oats. You beat your oats? Terrible. 40 seconds into this show.

And the obligatory laugh from Jonathan. That's what we are. We should have that on a sound by a sound drive. Just the old, like if we think a joke's going to fall flat or our attempted humor, we just hit that. Yeah. Yeah. Last track always works.

I mean, it worked for decades in the comedy. Oh, my gosh. Is there any show that uses live tracks now? That I don't know, because I don't watch sitcoms. Not usually. Most everything, most sitcoms are documentary style like The Office. Yeah, yeah. All right, good morning, everybody.

It is 1004 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt telling the show with Ross. That's Ross. I'm Matt. Jonathan's our producer. Ooh. What was that noise? He's just throwing stuff in there.

Woo, whoa. I think he's got a nervous Twitter. something back there. We need some medication or something. He got the two rits. Those are stuff from that? We're sorry. Yes. We're wishing you the best. All right. I am. Raising awareness. So can I peel the curtain back in my life yesterday? Yes.

I did not realize, and this is why I said so many nice things about WACs, and I have 30 days to be nice to add them. You're counting them down, aren't you? Down to 29. I did not realize it yesterday, and I should have. I didn't put two and two together. The Astros yesterday had a game at three. 40 first pitch. The previous two nights were at 540. And I was going to do the 10th inning show.

And then I realized that I had a, we had our Kingwood High School had their volleyball meeting. All the parents got there and my wife's involved with collecting money. So I was helping her out. She's shaking people down? No, like paying for like uniforms and getaways and, you know, prepaid lunches and that kind of thing. She said us in kneecaps threatening folks.

Well, I mean, you know her. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Why do you think I'm asking? definite possibility of that down the road for sure. So I was going to miss part of the meeting and I didn't want to do that because I'm trying to help her out. So I texted Wax. I said, hey, can you do the 10th inning show and he gladly did it? Wonderful. So the meeting ends at about, I don't know, just shy of 7 o'clock and he's on the show talking about the game and breaking it all down and playing highlights like a good

host does. I mean, I don't know if Adam Clanton would be a know how to run that format of the show, but that's a different issue for a different time. They had a call. and I had Josh C. and I was thinking about playing it on the show today, but I need an intervention, and I think I'm going to give my own self-intervention on this. You're going to self-intervene.

That's good, I guess. The guy called up, and I've heard the guys, I've heard his voice before because it's a very distinctive voice. And it was, from the moment I heard his voice, I thought this is going to be a wretched phone call. And it was. He said, I know, I think,

Joe's probably a pretty good coach, but he's not a good manager. Huh. That's actually not dumb. To have that, I mean, to phrase it that way, it's not a good opinion, but. It's a horrific opinion. The Astros are in first place. They've had 95 different lineups. Yes. They've got double-digit injured list players.

The number one most prolific offensive player for this team hadn't seen the field since May. You've lost, I don't know, 40% of your starting lineup. You've lost 40% of your rotation. You've had to go with a blue ball. You've had to go with Gordon. You've had to go with Erigeti who got hit hard yesterday. But that's no surprise on that. And he was just like, he says, how you sit Jeremy Pena in this game is not a reason.

And again, I'm just paraphrasing. I was yelling at my car. You were? Yes. And Wex is much more polite than I am. I would have destroyed the guy because, again, first of all, Jeremy Pena. is back after missing, how many do you miss? Several weeks, correct?

Yes. And then the first or second game back, he has a hamstring. First game back, he has a hamstring cramp, can't even finish the game. Correct. He does play the Sunday game. And he played the first few games. Then you want him ultimately to be ready for the most important games of the trip, which would be the three in New York starting tomorrow.

And I thought to myself, there are too many people. that continue to believe that baseball is played like it is in 1974. Yes. Or you have to play all 162. I know in theory that sounds like the right thing to do. I know in theory that yesterday stars did that. I get that. I grew up in some of that.

I watched Cal Ripkin play thousands of games in a row. I watched Nolan and Ryan pitching the 11th inning more times than I care to think about, I understand there is a mentality of, well, back in the day when I first watched the game, I appreciate that because I'm also, I've got a lot of back of the day even me. But the reality is, you must adapt with everything in life. And that does include the player participation habits in 2025. I know people would love for their stars to play every single day. It's A, not going to happen.

be the game is more demanding than ever has been before. The players are better, they're bigger, faster, stronger, they're asked to do more things. And the reality is, especially for a guy who's fresh, awful week off, I'm missing basically a month, if I'm going to give a day off to Jeremy Payne at some point between now and the end of this road trip, it's going to be yesterday against the Marlins. By the way, he did have a pinch hit roll.

So you had him off your bench yesterday. I'm going to use him for an off day yesterday than I would against the Yankees, which you wouldn't think in theory would be a more difficult competition. If Jeremy Payne sat out one of the Yankees games, the same dofess that called the show yesterday, what are you doing? Why are you giving Jeremy Payne a day off when he should have had the day off in Miami?

And then people will say, well, they have an off day today. A lot of players, and this goes back again to the last 20 years, when players, especially guys that are playing a lot, get days off, they typically get a day off before the scheduled day off. gives him two full days. Now, again, Jeremy played yesterday and I actually got on the field and did pinch hit.

So it was like he got a full day off. So I've just decided that I love hosting the 10th inning show and I love talking to the people of Houston, but I don't know if I can listen to it when I'm not hosting it because I want to get in a car wreck. Well, I never listened to it when I'm not hosting it.

Is that bad? No, I think you're mentally. it's like a playoff game or something. Right, right, right. And remember this. The organization, and look, it certainly has taken its bumps when it comes to the way they medically take care of their team. Whether it's information, lack of information. Return to play policy.

Return to play policy. Transparencing, non-transperting. Misdiagnosis. It has been a hot mess over there. And they will never say it. And I wouldn't expect them to, but it's been less than spectacular. But the reality is they have sports science people. Joe Espott is a manager who is with those guys every single day.

He has been with those guys every single day since training camp began in late February. He has the temperature of the team way more than Ross-Villerao does, way more than Matt Thomas does, and way more than said caller. And I just have to say, if you want to criticize, I get it. But look at the results, friends. Your team, not playing great baseball and hasn't played great baseball for basically a month now, is still in first place. And those losses where the Astros have been playing by about 400 baseball for the last month or so,

many of those games did include Jeremy Payne. Now, a lot of them didn't not as well. But you can't beat the Miami Marlins after a seven. smack him around two straight days because you need to give your guy a day off, then having him a ticket day off in the three New York games, then maybe your team isn't as good as you think it is. Yeah, and here's the thing that I always go back to is, is how long have we been paying attention to the Astros?

I'm not saying watching the Astros. I'm saying paying attention, because you mentioned Joe Espotted doing this, and Dusty Baker did this. And AJ Hinch did this. This is not new. not a single astro since 2017.

I did this while you were talking about. I can go further back if we need to. Has played 162 games. Not a single one. It hasn't happened. It doesn't happen. This has been happening for years. And to get upset about this,

it tells me again, you're just not paying attention. But again, I will say that was one caller in the whole show, right? Was there five people? Okay. I couldn't do it. I'll have to ask Adam Wexler. It wasn't five people up in arms about all this.

Well, I put, I mean, you want to hear the call or do you want to? No, there were people in Twitter talking about it. I think people are in Chandler-Rome and Brian McTaggers mentions, as they usually are, calling Joe a spot an idiot for doing this. And it's like, you were just not paying attention.

This is extremely, extremely normal. And especially for someone just coming back off an injury and who tweaked their hamstring on Friday. And sat out Saturday. Wasn't tweak. It was a cramp. Cramp, I'm sorry. Tweek usually means something was pulled. Whatever words they're using. I know, I know.

But he was able to go on Sunday, so obviously wasn't something severe. That's all I'm saying is that I need... What did they say on Seinfeld's Serenity now? Serenity now. But that doesn't work, Matt. That's dust the emotions down. You have to confront the emotions. Process.

I feel like you've been to a therapist to get this information out. I went this morning. Good for you. We talked about you the whole time. Oh, that's terrible. You've been terrorizing me for two. long. Have any of you listened to any of you gone to the show

gone to a therapist because of me? 7-1-3 2-1-2-1. Why are you put that left hand down? We have meetings. Hi, my name is Ross, and I've known Matt for 16 years. So sorry. Hey, Ross. Hey, my name is Ross and I work with Matt. Hi, Ross.

Hey, Ross. Well, we all know each other. It was like a group meeting, right? That's what I'm saying. Yeah, you can blank tell me. That's fine. I deserve it. 713-212 We got a little doll of you What? With an aluminum bat

Yeah, that's what we say You would strike me with a bat? No, it's an aluminum doll of you, not you It's quite cathartic I'm hurt 713-212-5-790 7-13 Bring this doll to tell you a brewing tomorrow

You want to? That's pretty ravaged. We've got to order a new one. Oh, it's been beat up that bad. Yeah, that's terrible. 713-212-5-790 the worst part is things are getting closer in the american league west bad news from the texans i'll have that for you next 1015 on sports talk 790 breaking news sounder let's hit it yep we got hold on the way that you're saying yep is not good hit it again are you serious one more time are you double serious that's great what's the max five yes

one more your don's out for the year no it's about the Texans oh okay oh mix in surgery Texan safety CJ Gardner Johnson

carted off right leg injury he got hurt tackling John Mechie in major pain evidently and could not put weight on it he is inside with trainers next stop MRI practice has resumed that's from Aaron Wilson and we will try to check in with him

sometime in the next couple of hours He also goes on to say Look serious appears to have to be his knee Field his silent prayers Players are all taking a knee Okay Ooh I just got fake Schifter Be careful out there folks

Mute I'm muting that Yeah by the The Shams fake account you want to get rid of The Schifter you want to block I mute all of them Well I block I just don't even change you get them on the page

So mute block Whatever the case may be Okay, this is four? I would think so. Okay. Maybe he's all right. Maybe a little twist of the knee. When do players go down on a knee and he'll be fine?

Cam Robinson. They didn't go on a knee for him. There's no chance. They didn't even know who he is. Well, well, well, that's not good news. They were scrimaging, by the way. Uh, gonna happen. This is the nature of football.

Camp injuries happen to teams all over the country every year. Yep. Damn, man. And he was looking, from what I read, he was looking to try to actually stay somewhere for more than a year. That's not going to happen if he's done for the year, year. Well, maybe it's more likely to happen. Got to get a little prove it deal. Oh, yeah. You know what?

What's his face? You know who loves Proof-It Deals? Who? He loves a new, yeah. Going to be on this station later today, correct? I believe you. Or tomorrow. No, it's today.

3 o'clock hour, I think, yeah. Awesome. Texans GM. When's the last time the Texans general manager was on this station? I interviewed Rick Smith many moons ago. Years and years ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's good.

I mean, I'd rather hear from Domeco, but, you know, you get what you get, and you don't throw a fit. Well, Texas General manager, you're using Texans. Do you think he's going to do the A team at 345? How about this? Do you think he'll do the interview today knowing that we don't know about C.J. Garner Johnson?

Yeah, you know, we're waiting for more information on that. Obviously, C.J. Gardner Johnson, a big part of what we wanted to do this year. Great player, good family man, good locker room guy, has really been a leader on and off the field for us. So an unfortunate loss, like I said, we're kind of waiting to see how long he's going to be out. In the meantime, it's a next man up mentality. and we're just going to have to push forward. Do you think he even does the interview? Do you think he calls it off?

I wouldn't think so. I would hope not. I mean, Wex isn't trying hard for that. Maybe a C.J. Stroud's arm fell off. Yeah, he's got Ging Green in there. We're going to have to figure something out because Davis Mills is not very good. So, I've done a few of these shows over the years as of you.

When you get carted off on a cart, the chance of return? I will say non-zero. I can't remember specific names, but guys have gotten carted off, and then everything blew over. But you said the whole team was taking a knee? Correct.

Okay. All right, so let me rephrase. Percentage of players that when your teammates take a knee. When you sprinkle a little team taking a knee on top? That's when it gets pretty bad. The guys are crying and doing the sign of the cross. It's not good. When the Pope comes in?

Yeah. I don't think that's the case. Somebody's reading the last right? No, they're not doing that. Okay. That's good. You're not that bad. All right.

Okay, so help me out of here. Yeah, players are taking all and he's making a jay hook with one of his legs. That's not good. J. Jalen Reed got hurt in camp a little bit. Jimmy Ward is out. C.J. Garner Johnson, that's a, I mean, whoever this MJ Stewart is. You know what? You know, Casero may not be available because he's got to go out and get some street free agents or some sort.

Well, you always have a lot of bodies in camp for these types of situations. Yeah. Okay, so Aaron Wilson is going to join us later today once the media availability. Now, again, my guess is coach is going to say, we don't know he's in there. Yeah, but you have to be there to say that. Dimeco's not going to give us anything because that's his MO. No, no, I don't even think he could have any. I mean, they're going to know something in five hours. They're not going to know something the next time any minute.

Well, we'll see. We're waiting to see him on Matt. Man, you scared the hell out of me. When you went to four, I thought Yorraudon died. Did I go over the limit? I thought he put his hand in it. a meat grinder. I think I starting safety for a team that's a Super Bowl caliber defense.

Oh, no. Okay, now I'm questioning myself. You got to recalibrate. Five is nuclear war. When is the last time we did a five? We did a five this year. Okay, we've done it something since then, have we now? Oh, Durant. Durant was a five star. It was a five star. Yeah. You get one of the greatest

shooters and scores to ever walk the planet on the Houston Rockets. I apologize for giving you one too many sounders. That's okay. We're always calibrating, Matt. C.J. Strait hurt? That's five. Kaimi Fairbair? What if it's an ankle injury?

That's like three. Kami Fairbair? Kami Fairbairn? Mm-hmm. Domingo says it's a five. That's his guy. That is his guy. Yeah, we're going to go ahead and send in Kaimi.

All right. Hey, coach, it's fourth and two on the 46th. What are we doing here? Send in the kick team. Let's go. Coach, Fabern's got a 12% chance of making a 63-yard field goal. Get him in there. We're indoors.

No wind. Let's go. That's fine. It's just wired in the DNA of defensive coaches. Yeah, when in doubt take points. All right. I don't really know what to say, except when Aaron joins us, he'll be able to just give us, you know, I don't know. But that's not what you want to hear, especially for a category. And we'll get more on this, Aaron.

It sounds like the safety depth chart is the one of least depth. Yeah, I would wonder, yeah, who do you even have that could be out there? in that type of role. Well, Aaron's going to have to help us out. He's more of a close to the line of scrimmage type of safety. Yeah. Mm. By the way, I'm getting already, what's your favorite C.J. Garner Johnson's a Texan moment in tweets coming in.

Jimmy Ward is just old. Isn't he in legal trouble, too? Am I getting that one? Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wasn't he arrested in Magnolia? Okay. So we've given you, here's what we've done the first half hour.

We have the Astros losing. Yes. The Mariners winning. The Yankees he beat the Rangers yesterday. That was nice. Thank you, Yankees, for once. Jesus. But the Astros leads a two-game sports RV.

I'm feeling nervous. All right. Next segment of the show. Good news only. Okay. So we have to carry a 10-minute segment coming up. Good news only. If you have any good news...

Oh, that's some great news. Is it your personal life? No. Your athletic accomplishments in life, which we... I peaked athletically at 11. Jonathan, what's your 40 time these days? 40 time. You don't ever ask the track runner. Yeah, what's your 100 time then?

I'll ask whatever it is. My 100 times fastest I ever ran, because I was a 400 runner. My fastest I ever ran is a 10-6. Same with me, too, ironically enough. Yeah, it's crazy. Neck and neck with Matt. Matt means 10 minutes and six seconds. Don't let me finish my own jokes.

Oh, you're going to do that? Yeah. I'll walk out of here. I'll talk to you on there. All right. ladies and gentlemen, we need some good news. You know, we'll open up to Beyond Sports. I've got great news.

Hold on. If you got a promotion at work yesterday, then calls and tell us. Because what we've done is clinically depressed the city of Houston for the first half hour of this show. 713-212-5-7-9. If you got lucky last night, that's good news. Does it count if it's your wife? Well, it's a bonus if it's your wife.

Or maybe in some case you hate your wife or somebody else. What if it's your mistress? What if it's, you know, if you had a blind date last night, it really went well. That'd be great. Do people go on blind dates? I was going to ask you all that. There's no such thing. At the very least, you're stocking them on Google or Facebook or Instagram.

You're stocking for sure. All right. So we need a good news segment here because what's giving you is nothing but terribleness for the first 30 minutes. All right, Ross. I got a little bit of good news in the scrimmage today. Mr. Yeast with an interception of Davis Mills. Russ Yeast Russ East

The goat We are your official Home of Rush East Russ R-U-S-S not R-U-S-T Rusty East We called Rusty No nobody calls him

Rusty not even his grandmother No Hey Rusty. No Rusty Wallace Yeah but that's not Rusty yeast Rusty yeast with an I-N-T

during Scrimmage today Good for him If Russ Yeast makes the team We're going to have them on show. He will rise to the occasion. What was your good news, Ross? I have some great news, Matt. This is involved putting money in my pocket. Yes. Okay. No, it doesn't. Oh, dang. Did you hear what Archie Manning had to say in Texas Monthly Magazine, Matt? Archie. This is Grandpa. Yes.

Okay. He says he does not believe that Arch Manning will be declaring for the 26 NFL draft. He said he's not had conversations with Arch. However, knowing his grandson, he has an idea what he will do regardless of what happens this year, this next year. Quote, Arch isn't going to do that. He'll be at Texas. So what is the good news in that? I don't care. I don't care.

I'm not a Texas fan. What do you mean? I am indifferent to him. Because of what? Well, because I was right. I told you he's not going for, we were talking about him taking the Saints tanking to get him number one overall in the draft. What if he sucks? You'll want him out of there.

I don't think he's going to suck. I don't think so either. And he could have some growing paints. He's just a redshirt sophomore. Look, the bottom line is this. The NIL has become elite players best friend. They have a fantastic alternative. I would say, and he would be, I mean, especially if he's a really good quarterback, he's top of the heap.

The name recognition. Name recognition, you're in one of the most recognizable college programs in America. You're on national TV on the biggest network at probably 6 o'clock every Saturday night. Does any college Single college athlete Or at least college football player Have a higher earning potential than Arch Manning? Well, I'll do this

And I'm not as Let me ask you this. Who's the second most famous college football player Right this second? I don't even have an answer for you. I couldn't even tell you. Yeah, Chris Gordy could. But yeah,

I'd be back from the transfer from Georgia to Miami? Maybe. Carson Beck? Carson Beck, probably. We'll ask Gordy this. That's a good question for Gordy's going to come in in a few minutes. Okay, great. So, yeah.

Jeremiah Smith, wide receiver, Ohio State? Mm-mm. You're wincing. That's not, that's a making, maybe it makes him recognizable, but that's making him like, wow, recognizable. No, I, that's the point, is if you're going to put serious money behind somebody,

well, first of all, you're doing it because you want to take care of him and you love Texas. If you're, if you're an LSU fan, you don't care that Arch Manning is, is the most recognizable college athlete. You want him to leave. But yeah, if you're Texas, you're like,

yeah, I can actually get a little bit of value back for my return. You put Arch Manning on a TV commercial. You'll know it. You put some rando linebacker from Ole Miss on and be like, who the hell is that? So, yeah. But if he sucks, well, how much, I wonder, again,

how much of it is going to be on what team gets? If he's going to be a top five pick, he's going to go somewhere that's terrible. Question is, is he going to pull what his uncle Eli did and say, I'm not going to the San Diego Chargers? I don't think so, but we'll see. I mean, it depends. I guess it depends on the situation. Can he do that?

His uncle did it? Yeah, but he was also the last one to do that. It was 21 years ago. Okay. So are you ready to make a, okay, if the saints are the number one pick, you think he'll turn that down? I don't know. We'll make a bet? Oh, my God.

No, because I don't know. But I think he's staying at Texas. Well, I mean, obviously, my guess is that Archie has a good idea what his grandson's doing. He would have said that half-cocked, and he would just- I don't think so either. But he didn't transfer out. He would have if-W-W-E-W-N-E-W-N-E-N-W-Trans. He didn't transfer out, like I told you, and you said he was.

That's because Quinn-Ewers went to the NFL and made a massive business decision that wasn't good for him. He could have stayed at Texas and made money or gone somewhere else. If I was you or I'd have gone somewhere else and collected some NIA money. You'd be the second most recognizableable player in college football. I can tell you that right now. Probably. Right now he's just a rando. So he's still at Texas, and I think he's going to stay there.

And you're happy about it. I think so. And when he throws four picks against Ohio State, you won't be nearly as pleased. Well, we'll see. And you know what I told you. Excuse me. I will say. I said, this is a good news segment.

My bad. Yeah. No, it's okay. You're a hater. No, I'm not a hater. I'm used to it. I'm just a realist. They call me mystery reality.

Gary and Pearland. What's your good news? The good news is that after 28 years, I have moved from Paraland to Brinham, Texas. But the great news is, 790 comes in loud and clear. Oh, God, love you. I get to hear you and Ross. God love you. I get to hear them stroves.

Oh. Oh. Oh, rocket swell. Hey. Hey, hey. That's great. Matt is literally on the call. Hey, come on now, Gary.

Come on, Gary. You are such a good phone call for a minute. Yeah, my son spent 12 years in the NBA. Your son did? In the NBA? What was he doing? Yes. He was senior boss president of marketing.

For the rockets or for other team? For the NBA. For the whole NBA? For the whole NBA, yes. Damn, dude, you should be very proud of him. What's he doing now? He works for a company called Sportfly. Sport fly, if you don't know.

what that is, that's the biggest dudes there is in NIL. They just signed A&M to the largest contract for the next seven years, I believe, and A&M will pay them $150 million. A&M's going to pay this

something called Sports Fly? Yes. Yeah, that was a big deal. We talked about it last year, or not last year. It was a while ago. He's the guru of that deal. The NIL, so if you ever want to play fly, that's what it was. No, Is it sports fly or Playfly? Playfly.

Playfly. I was like, that sounded familiar. Yeah, because Playfly is actually a company, thank you for the phone call, that does. They sell all the advertising, right? They sell advertising to do everything. Well, good friend. Gary's son is actually very famous. Playfly is making a lot of waves in the old sports marketing world. Good friend. Thanks, Gary. Appreciate you listening. Thank you, Gary. Thanks for bringing us the good news. He loves the Astros. He loves the Matt and Roll.

show and it's the rockets. Rockets are great. It can be great this year. Can't wait. You have more earballs listening to you than ever before, Matt. I better not screw up this year. I've gotten away with it in the past. Can't make mistakes this year. Anthony!

A bunch of off-the-cuff weird references with Adam Clinton at the end of games at the end of blowouts. Perhaps. Hello, Anthony. Hey, good afternoon, guys. Hey, or good morning, excuse me. My good news is the Mariners are breathing down the Astros neck, but they like to do this thing where they get the division lead and then they couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat.

And since 2017, the Astros are 119 and 64 in September. So death taxes and the Astros winning the AOL West is going to happen again this year. That's the good news. That's the future good news. That's great news. That's more of a prediction than it is news. Well, news is reporting something that happened. The Astros are winning the AL West.

It's happening. You heard him. He just said it. Well, that's a good prediction, Anthony. Thank you. That was a great prediction. I mean, you could have called and said, I think the Astros are going to lose it by five games in the West.

But it's not news. Gee, you're so literal. Got to have rules in this life of ours, Matt. What kind of rules are? This is 1043 and a midday sports radio show. Okay, I'm sorry. It is the news. The Astros have won the AL West.

Great news. I didn't stutter when I said it a month of I know. How are you feeling, though? You might be stuttering now. I don't feel so well at this point, but that's a different issue for a different time. All right, yeah, I'm still winning it. Because, again, you know what I got in my back pocket? I told you this is all right. I got those A's and Angels that calls up the year on the road. Well, you know how is the weakest schedule of the two remaining?

You are, don't even look at the schedule monitor. That's bad news. That's bad news. I'll give you the good news is the Astros have one of the weakest schedules remaining in baseball. Right. I will call that good news. I don't care what y'all say. They have above 500 record against teams below 500. All right. We just gave you some good news.

Let's go back to the bad news. What? Bad news spikes. No, you can wait until next segment. Bad news spikes sports radio better. I know, you're right. Am I wrong? I know you're right.

Hey, Astros. I did the Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 10th inning shows. I had like 50 calls in three days. Yeah, I mean, you've seen 9-1 over the Cardinals? Three. Have you seen the local news? Like 17 murders before they get to the feel-good story of some kind of, I don't know, cat shelter. Some 80-year-old bitty celebrating a birthday.

Yeah. Gradually from high school. She's 103. What's the key to life, Gladys? Speaking of that, real quick, again, I told you this this before the other day. I'm obsessed with the AIs and the old couples getting together and they're... Yeah. It's sophomore.

I fully admit it. That's okay. I apologize. Embrace it. But it's funny because I sent him to... with all my friends and they crack up. They're like, oh my God, they're giving you like courtesy laugh emojis? No, no, no, no, no. Because if you send something to somebody and they

don't respond to you, give it a little thumbs up on there? No, no, if you send something to somebody and they don't respond to you, it's, they just don't have an opinion about it. Like, why did you waste my time and why didn't I have to go look at my phone? Like in your case, I send you text all the time, takes you days. That's not true. The last text I sent to you by yourself, it took you 36 hours of respond. Let me see. The Gambit member? I told you that. That was a full 36.

No, this is when you were coming back from the bathroom. I have responded to that one. 1040. No, you didn't. 1046 is the Matt Thomas show at Ross. McTaggart's going to be with us tomorrow. Let's see, Saturday. Yeah, it was a good... No, I wasn't 36 hours. This was about 28.

28 hours between text. You sent it in the morning. I was sleeping. You can't send it when I'm sleeping. It was like 11 o'clock in a morning. morning. Yeah, I was asleep. On a Saturday. All I hear is excuses, Matt. On a Saturday. On a Saturday, I was asleep.

I just don't get it coming up in 45 minutes. Right. All right. Question we posed to Gordy. He doesn't know it because he wasn't listening. Are you listening? All right. If Arch Manning, now don't use your SEC bias. This is your college football somewhat expertise, I think. if Arch is the most recognizable college football player in the country today, who is number two? Ooh. See?

Gosh. It's not an easy answer, is it? Most recognizable? Yeah, because Arch can crush in an I. Right. You'd be money well spent if you were a company and said, hey, I want to put some money in Arch to stay at Texas if he stays there after this year. Well, the new NCAA video game, when you load it up, the first two faces you see are Jeremiah Smith from Ohio State and Ryan Williams, the, freshman, they were both

freshmen last year, a wide receiver in Alabama. So those two guys, I think, will become, because they're both heading into their true sophomore seasons. We're going to see them for a whole other year. So maybe we should wait and they have an answer yet. Maybe we should do that. But I don't know, Drew Aller at Penn State,

Carson Beck at Miami. Carson Beck we brought out. Garrett Nussmeier from LSU is growing a little bit more. Never heard of him. Nobody in L.A. knew who Gereen Asmire is. Not a soul. Nobody outside of Louisiana knows who he is. I mean, Colorado, you had Chidor and Travis Hunter, and they're both gone. Yeah, yeah.

But even Cam Ward at Miami wasn't like a household. Oh, I know what that guy looks like. I mean, the least hype number one pick ever, right, guys? You know who was kind of sneaky underrated? Diego Pavia at Vanderbilt. Oh, that's actually good one. He became a story last year, I think. Oh, I got a name for you.

Connor Wigman will be the number two guy in America. Now you're just sounding. What? Ridiculous. Okay. I was looking for the nicest word possible for the second there. You came up okay. Thank you. I'm trying to think of like the big, because even Oregon's going to have a new quarterback.

Like, yeah, I mean, you have a lot of newness around the world of college football. Cade Clubnick at Clemson, but I don't think you know what he looks like when you see his face. No. You know the name. I know his name. But it's Arch and whoever number two is is off the map. And it's Arch and it's everybody else. Yeah.

What do you think about Archie Manning's comments that he's going to stay at Texas? Yeah, but I've been hearing that for over a year now. People have been telling me that. I've been trying to tell people. That's a no-duff. But here's the only thing. Caviot here. If Texas wins 10-11 games, they make the playoffs,

and then let's just say win the national championship and he wins a Heisman. I don't care what happens. I don't care. He can ship him to Mars. You can't do any better than that. That sounds beautiful. But this isn't a financial thing.

The mannings are set money. And then even if he comes back for another year, the NIL deals he could get. So, yeah, barring just a year of super, superb excellence, I think he's coming back for another year. Can't wait. Now, here's my prediction. I've been saying this all off-season.

I think arts this year is good, not great. I think he's great in 2026. That makes sense. Maybe like a nine and three season. They have a couple tough games on the road where he throws some picks. Ohio State and Georgia are on the road. But I think we look back at the end of the year. We go, it was a really good first year.

But here's what sucks. What sucks? We're in a narrative-driven business in sports talk radio and sports world. What's going to happen when they go up and lose the opener at Ohio State? They're not going to. But what's the headline going to be? Arch overrated. Texas overrated.

It's like, no, they went and played one of the top teams on the road. I think it depends on how the game plays out. I mean, yeah, if he throws for 300 yards and three touchdowns and they lose, or if he has a key, yeah, it can hinge on any number of things. They're going to spin it. Arch good, but not good enough. I know. You know what I mean?

We'll see. Right here on sports. That's why they pay the big games. But if he has a 4,000-yard season and they're undefeated and they go to the playoff and all this, I think there's a chance to go. Yeah, it would take all of that. And as Matt has laid out, if it's like, if all that happens and the Saints are the number one team, then I could see him going out. But there's just no financial reason, not no financial reason, but there's not a huge financial incentive for him to leave Texas. What about the?

And the Manning family, you can already, Eli played all four years. Peyton Manning played all four years. He's already not transferred. You can already tell that Cooper sat him down and said, hey, you're a Manning. You're not going to be hitting the transfer portal 50 times. You're going to go to school. You're going to choose the school that's right for you.

Well, you read that story, too, about the upbringing where, like, he couldn't have a cell phone in his room at night. Then it had to charge it in Mom and Dad's room. He's marching to, they're doing stuff old school with him. But I'll say this, though. If he's 1-1, there's no amount of money the NIL can give him that's going to match 1-1. and he'll know that.

But he'll be 1-1 the next year. You don't know that for sure. Probably, yeah. No, there's no guarantee of that. In all likelihood. Andrew Luck was going to be 1-1, and then he stayed at Stanford, and he came back, and he was the 1-1-1. Because he was also thought of as a generational prospect.

I'm not saying Arch is there yet. Well, somebody told me they think in the 2027 draft, it will be DJ Lagway won Arch Manning to see. That's why 1-1-1. But then again, Ryan Leif went ahead of Peyton and how that work out. What's the difference between 1-1 and 1-1-1-1-1-1-1? to contract and then factoring in, does he make enough in NIL to offset that? You know what we've got to think about is we just, we have to not think about the money because he doesn't need it.

No. It's going to be about locale. Problem is you just, again, if you are a 1-1-2, you're not going to be able to go, oh, this sounds attractive. I'll go here. They're going to be going somewhere where he's going to run for his life. New Orleans needs a quarterback. The Raiders need a quarterback, right? Or is Gino Smith going to be the answer?

Well, did you buy in the dumbass? Answer your own question. Dumbass Colin Cowherd a few weeks ago. He's a part of the I-Hard family. What would you say that? Well, he's got horrible things. He said the Haslums are close with Sabin and the Mannings. So the Browns are going to tank and they're going to hire Sabin with the guarantee that Arch is going to go number one to them.

And it's going to be Arch Manning in Cleveland with Nick Sabin. He said it was widely known. Oh, this is everybody knows. This is commonly known in Southern circles. That was no way Colin would have said that. Absolutely. Yeah, he did. You might have been out.

We played the audio. Wretched. All right. Gordy, what are you doing this weekend? This Saturday, our friends over Carbock Brewing, they're doing an official Astros watch party. It will be, you'll have orbit, you'll have the shooting stars, you'll have the World Series trophies,

and you'll have a chance to win one of those exclusive limited Hopadillo Astros hats. It is really cool if you have not seen the pictures. I tweeted them out on my Twitter account. But it's going to be fun. It's a daytime Astros game. 105 first pitch here local. So nice little afternoon out there at Carbock out in the beer garden. Of course, you got the covered patios, the big fans, you got umbrellas.

So again, it'll be warm, but it'll be fun with all the family. And again, come out and you can take pictures with orbit, the World Series trophies, the shooting stars. It's going to be a lot of fun out there, Carbock brewing this Saturday. Official Astros Watch party. Thank you very much. We got, again, if you missed the headline on the Texans, we'll give you that. Plus, if you want to talk about the Astros performance yesterday, and those Seattle Mariners are not going away.

We'll discuss that next 1059 on Sports Talk 790. It is 1102 on Sports Talk 790. It is our number two of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We normally have Brian McTagrin in this spot, but he is traveling as we speak, so we will talk with him tomorrow. And tomorrow's show will be live from Taya Brewing. 1033 Imperial Boulevard in Sugarland. We'll have some Astor's tickets.

We're going to have some golf passes and give away. Ross and I will be there signing autographs. The sausage onion pizza is spectacular. The brews are fantastic. And Ross will play some pickleball with you. Probably right after the show. Not true. Not playing pickleball on 110 degree heat.

It is pretty hot. But, you know, it's a good place. Was it covered with like a little misting stations? No. I'm good then. Okay. Tomorrow's game is not on television So if you want to watch the game

You should go out to Tyler Brewing And catch the Rappell Reve feed Oh, I gotta cancel my trial So that's what you do You subscribe and unsubscribe Every time the Astros are on No, you can't do it week to week I can't do it again today

So how you're not gonna watch the game You can skip it Figure something out There's 162 You're fine There's a well there away Oh you're going to go with the illegal streams with the porn bots and stuff?

Yeah, you're a camgirl. Give me a link. Who did? You're a cam girl. Stop. All right. The big issue of the day, C.J. Garner Johnson.

C.J. Garner Johnson. Texas. Texas safety hurt today at Texan's practice in West Virginia. We will try to get some clarification from the coaches when they visit and they get wrapped up in a few minutes. Aaron Wilson is there for a channel too and doesn't work with us occasionally.

So we're going to talk with him coming up in a few minutes. He was there to see C.J. Garner Johnson go down. Knees were taken according to those on site and went right to the card. Didn't try to stand up, walk on anything like that. He went right to the card. So if you know, you know, which is not a good situation on that, especially for a situation where that position is beset by suspensions and our injuries.

So Aaron will give us more on details on the depth chart, how severe it is. And, I mean, again, I don't expect the Texans to say anything about the situation because it literally happened about an hour ago. So unless they have the world's best MRI people there, probably hard to be figuring out that what happens. They could. They do. They should. Based on those commercials I see all the time. No, no. Don't you usually... From death it is. Don't you typically let the swelling go down first before you do the MRI? Yeah, probably. Yes, from someone who tore the ACL last year. Hey, when you had your, do you have an MRI on that?

Yeah, I had multiple. You don't have to put your head through the thing, do you? No, that one is lower extremities. You just got your, your, um. But you might as well get a full body scan, right? Yeah, I think, you know what? No, I think the first time, like, we might as well did the whole thing. I had one MRI in my life.

It was one of the worst experiences of my entire life. Why? Because I'm a little claustrophobic. And until I realize I was a lot, a lot claustrophobic. You get the restless leg syndrome. And so not only is it claustrophobic, but it's a lot of noise. They give you these headphones and listen to music. You can't drowns it out.

Put on a little man alone, just chill out. I wish. Now, let me ask you this, and I'm asking this because of ignorance. Can they give you something just to put you like to not to sleep, but just to really relax you? Uthinite. Wait, not euthanize. I don't want to die. I'm sorry, anesthetize you?

Whatever, yeah. That was weird. You know what I meant? anesthesia. Yeah. For MRI? Like if I, I'm not a gummy user, but would a couple of gummies help the situation out a little bit? Yeah, why not?

You might freak out more. That's what I'm saying. Maybe I'm freaking out even more. I thought they called you gummy Thomas. Because what they say is if you move in this thing, they got to start all over and I'm like, oh, hell. So I gutted it out, but it was. And then the open MRI is a scam too. It's just open to the side.

It's not really, it's not like you feel like you're in a area. You felt scammed. Yeah. They're also more expensive, too. and then the guy that had the chain on it got sucked in by the MRI machine that's not a great anecdotal story yeah yeah one good thing you took it off your piece and chain yeah he's like a 20 pound chain on him though yeah do you think he went in that room without anybody saying anything or somebody just committed malpractice or what i mean somebody had no i didn't make any sense where was this was this in america yes it was a

it had to have it been explained to him somebody had i mean if you were This is a very standing procedure. Exactly. It's got to be like the first thing you learn. After turning the power on. You turn power on. This is, yes, beautifully explained Matthew. Rule one, turn the power on.

Rule two, take your jewelry off. Yeah. Everything. Yeah. But yes. Oh, you're in there, butt-ass naked? No. Oh, okay.

You said everything. Well, I mean, not like, I'm not getting naked in the MRI machine. I'm not kind of that kind of person. I'm thinking about that. No, I just. I didn't know. I don't need the MRI. Not God what hope I don't need it anymore.

again, but the MRI, open MRI looks like a scam. The close MRI definitely was scary. It's like a convertible. Not good. All right, so CJ Garner Johnson being intended to and we'll hopefully get an update from Aaron Wilson. He's going to text when he's ready to talk, so we'll wait for him to give us an update on that.

Excellent. Wait, if I just don't get it, come up at 1130 today? Hmm. I don't see if I have anything written down for this week. So if I say CJ Garner Johnson's done for the year, aren't is the average fan bumping around town going, oh my God, are they like, who's C.J. Garner Johnson? I don't know.

I don't know. You're asking there's a lot of Texans fans. They're coming back. Yeah. I would say the name would at least ring a bell. They'd say, who is that? That sounds familiar. Yeah, it's like, I can't place him. Because he hasn't done anything after the Texans.

And I would say that most Texans fans had no idea he was until he signed here. Like, oh, he's that loud guy that played for the Eagles. Okay, he helped. I don't know. We'll see. I always feel like, and maybe Ross is just a miscalculation of my part, that we get in the weeds on the Astros because we have the Astros games on.

And maybe if we had the Texans game, we would get way more in the weeds on them. But for us doing a show that talks about a little bit about everything, I think people really care about who the running back is, who the wide receiver is, who the quarterback is, and maybe who the member. Like Will Anderson. People know who Will Anderson is. Yes. But I don't think there's a lot of.

of people bump around going Henry Toa Toa. I hope he has a great year this year. It's not in our job description to educate people, but I try, I mean, we and we talk about this, Matt, even off here. Like, figuring out what our audience wants to hear. Yeah.

But also, if there are people who are uneducated or don't know about things, it's, I don't know, it's an interesting line to toe. My general thought is on the offense line, I mentioned to you last week. Just protect the quarterback. It doesn't matter who they are up front. Yeah. Well, also because if he had five all pros up front, the fans would know who they are.

And Laramie Tunsell was a recognizable person. Yes. And Titus Howard was recognizable too because of the fact that he was a first round pick. And first round picks, you always got to keep an eye on. Yes. And expectation levels are very high. Kenyon Green was a first round pick. Now, even can people really know who Kenyon Green was.

Exactly. It's hardly played. Well, if a guy's getting crushed every single, because it will happen and they'll get noticed on TV. Kenyon Green was the name was used a lot on TV broad. last year and not because he was making great stops. Oh, Texans gave up a sag. Had to be Kenyon Green. Okay, and that makes a lot of sense.

Look at Kenyon Green getting moved like he's a pass blocking sled. This is not good. Like tomorrow, let's do this. Let's go tomorrow. We like to say hi to our listeners during a break. Let's walk up and say, you know, what you thought about Cedart, Johnson? Okay. What do you think about Lakin Tomlinson?

Lakin? Mm-hmm. it's an interesting first name yes dude what percentage of people that we see tomorrow and tell everybody we'll know what position he plays well how many bruise are they in oh like

actually I feel like I pull better random names when I've had a few I do that with old astro players yeah like I can give you a tie gainy I don't know who the hell that is see but I'm sober imagine I'm good it would be if I had three four beers I've been pulling on a Tony Scott for you A little Paul Baco. Paul Baco.

Brett Myers. Hey. Brett Myers was a round, rando. Tommy Manzella. Charlton Jimerson and whatnot. Oh, my God. We are sowing the weeds on the test Astros now. What's wrong with us?

You know what we're an Astro fan. Look, if you're a fan of a team and I would consider myself a diehard Astros fan, I'm going to know more about them as compared to being just an observer of the Texas. You've got work to do because you're now Battle Red Ross, and you've got to get your grips on the entire. I've always followed the team. I just haven't been a fan. But now you are.

Nothing's going to stop you now. Ain't no stopping us now, baby. Divisional round. Let's go. We're going back. Back to back to back. Divisional round losses. 10 and 7 is the bar.

And a 3.30 start on a Saturday. That's the bar, baby. I'm Peacock. By the way, we have a bet about that. Do you remember? I don't. I have 3.30 Saturday. You have the field, I believe.

For this year. If they make the playoffs, yeah. Now, the only way I win this. Is they play the Chiefs or something? If they play somebody really recognizable. See, if they put the chargers. How do you feel about that bet right now? I'm terrible.

If they play the chargers, I'm toast. If they play the Bengals, I'm toast. Baltimore, I'm probably toast. They weren't like to play Baltimore in a wildcard. But, I mean, they could. So I get the field. Do you get 3.30? Yeah.

Dang, I'm going to lose that bet. Let me remember. I'll go find the archives. Homeland will pull up the Nostorongus file. No, no, no. I think we absolutely bet this. I put it in the file, but I just had to get the specifics. Did I get odds?

No. Dang. I don't know. I think you were because they announced Peacock was going to be on, and I don't know. You thought they were going to be on Monday or something? I don't know what you were thinking. Yeah. Oh, and the dog's name was Frank just tweeted at me.

I've had one MRI and they put me under. Only way it was going to get done. No way in hell I'm doing that a week. Thank you. The dog's name was Frank. Marty. All right. For the bet.

I have Saturday 330. or no playoffs. Oh, you're toast. You are so toast. Dang it. You have the feel. I don't know what he was drinking that day. Usually I'm pretty proud of my bets. By the way, I'm feeling better by Kyle Tucker.

Oh, okay, let's up it. No, I'm not going to up it. We're going to keep it status quo. All right. It's already got a fast food meal for us and Abbachi. Yeah. I don't like what I got to buy you a restaurant next time or what? It's one franchise.

Eight years. That's a lot. Seven's a lot. Seven seems manageable. You're going to look up one projection for his contract. You're going to see 11 or 13 years. But they were saying the same thing about Breggman, and I was right about that. You're right.

Who's this girl on TV? She looks like Alicia Silverstone. No, she does not. Well, she's got a new TV show off. She was on the Today Show this morning. I have had a massive crush on Alicia Silverstone for a long time. Yeah, she's all-timer. Where do you put her on the all-time ranking?

She's Tier 2. Who's joining her in Tier 2? More importantly, Sophia Vergara is in Tier 1. Tier 1 is Sophia Vergara, Scarlett, Jessica Alba. Mm-hmm. Like, we're talking like all-timers, five rings, ten all-pros. Hall of Fame first ballot. Yes.

Elisha Silverstone. What tier you got Nicole Kidman in? Lesser than... Prime Nicole Kidman, though? She was putting up numbers, Maddie. Same category. Geez, we'll think about this during the break. I just don't get it coming up at 1130.

713, 212.5.7.9 if you want to chime in. 713, 212, 570. Somebody else got to have some, like they're Silverstone. How about Sarah? Not Sarah. Jennifer Love Hewitt. I mean, tier two? You're thinking of a bowl of oatmeal these days.

Tier three or two? Ooh. Think about it. She's had like two primes. Yeah, she had like. Kurt Warner. She had 21-year-old prime and then she's got 41-year-old prime. Like Kurt Warner with the Cardinals right now.

You hear that. No other radio show in the marketplace is going to put Sarah Michelle Geller and Kurt Warner in the same conversation. 1121, Sports Talk 790. Literally moments ago. Domingo Ryan's on what happened with C.J. Garner Johnson. Of course, it's, you know, it's heartbreaking.

You see a guy go down on the field like that and doesn't get up quickly. So I'm always, you know, nervous as a head. coach anytime I see anybody hit the ground. It's tough to watch. So we'll see, you know, we'll evaluate CJ, see where he is. But no update at this time. Yeah, no surprise.

I mean, I wouldn't expect anything. But again, we've done this a few times in our life watching about players getting cart off the field and guys on her knees. And my guess is CJ was screaming in agony. That usually doesn't help. Yeah. It doesn't sound good. there's no

little to no reason for optimism right now for him being out a significant amount of time hopefully you get some kind of news that it's not the A-words Achilles or A-C-L Yeah yeah that's too bad because again You know look he did bring in some swagger

For a limited time he was here He knows what it's like to win a championship Having done so with the Eagles Now his history is he wears out his welcome fairly quickly no matter where he goes. But it wasn't like he wasn't on the field. It wasn't like he didn't play.

It wasn't like he wasn't an integral part of the Eagles won in the championship last year. And you know what, frankly, once in a while, you want to, I mean, look, the Texans Friday was Stefan Diggs last year, trying to bring a little extra moxie to the team. And, you know, the injury to Diggs ultimately caused. Me too his ACL. Yeah.

Maybe if you're just a little bit of a smart, not smart ass. Red ass. Yeah. Okay. If you're a red ass, maybe you just wear in the Texans gear is not what you're supposed to do. Hmm. Think about this. Okay.

Stay with me on this. Okay. Let's talk about the famous red asses in Texans history. Okay. Okay. Ed Reed. Harley. Okay, he wasn't a red ass.

He was just past his prime. He was old ass. Yeah. He was washed ass. But, I mean, he was brought him because of the pedigree. Yeah, Robert C. McNair wanted him. They're like, hey, Bates a Patriotry. and we're going to beat the Patriots.

Well, they're not even face the Patriots, Robert. Okay, all right. So if you're taking them off the board. Yes. Stefan Diggs, handful of games. Okay. CJ Gardner Johnson.

I mean, JJ Watt was headbuttoned people. He was a red ass. But he's milked toast in a big picture. Brian Cushing was a red ass. Yeah, but he was also pregnant. Human gonadotropin. You remember that? Yeah, you don't.

HCD. No. It comes from the urine of pregnant women. We had Bill Roman House. on talking about that, I might still have that drop. How about the fact that Bob McNair went up to New York to defend him? Oh my God. He gets in Goodell's office.

And literally McNair is told to turn around and go back home. Overtrained athlete syndrome. Do you feel like a bad person? Like when you're a kid or something, you lied about something, or you lied on your brother or cousin or whatever. And then you get people to believe it and you're like, oh. Well, how about this? This feels worse.

Maggie Biontology. He went to go see Godell. his appointment was on Friday he went up there a day early by accident Goodell said all right come on in here and the conversation was five minutes long I mean I felt terrible for him yeah we have audio from that actually go ahead

no we don't I'm my computer's freezing how you doing Matt shit your bum ass up man we're on a 10 second delay here sorry you teased yeah oh I see what you did timing's everything on this show Dude, this is a friggin' computer.

All right. That comes from the urine of pregnant women. Thank you. That is an OG poll right there. That is for 2012. Wow. Jonathan, you were as a baby when the show began. I was getting them crayons.

Oh, my God. Oh. Yeah. Now you just eat them. That's right. Occasionally. Okay. So who are the red asses in the history of this franchise?

Oh, my gosh. Would you consider Dante Robinson to be one? No, he just wanted to get paid. I wouldn't like. We like to crack people's skulls and get penalties. Yeah. Andre Johnson, except for Cortland Finnegan. Andre Johnson was a red ass that Sunday.

That was one time in his entire NFL career. See, now you're, we go back to like, what's his name, Walker? Was it Greg Walker? Gary Walker. Gary Walker. Aaron Glenn wasn't. He was just great. Nimitz Legend.

That's a thing, Ross. Oh, stop. Well, first of all, if you remember the beginning of the, they didn't want anybody who was like controversial. To my greater point, that. There just hasn't been a lot of that. We haven't had a lot of the... Uh-oh, here comes... Not just like trouble, but here comes

spicy commentary, if you will. Aziz, I'll share your is kind of a red ass. He also got suspended for a bunch of games. As Trevor Lawrence. Ask this NFL suspension list. You know, it's the first time I've ever heard the phrase red ass. It's kind of a country dude turn. I'm going to be honest.

Man, he got that red ass. Do you understand the context of it? Yeah, yeah. Does it fit? Yeah, it fits. I just never heard of it. Don't call her girl that, by the way. I got one.

Kiki Kootie. What? Remember him? Stop. How about Brandon Harris? Bill O'Brien was a red ass. Oh, he was. His players staged a coup.

He hated everybody. Best one was when the Texans went to Seattle many years ago, and Dwayne Brown's like, we ain't going up there until this, this gets figured out. Dwayne Brown was a red ass with the McNair family. Yeah, if those three that are Dwayne Brown fans, don't expect him in the Hall of Honor, or the Ring of Honor, whatever the hell they're calling it.

that's the thing Ross is that this. Oh, what about Brett the hitman Hartman? Punter. He had red ass. He sued the organization. Well, he was spearing returnman and then he sued them when he ripped his knee on the turf. That's a red ass. You're threatening litigation. Got some red ass in you.

Yeah, suing your bosses, that's a little bit of red ass. That is for sure. That is for sure. All right. That concludes our crazy red ass Texas. Ryan Fitzpatrick. Stop. Remember?

He was like screaming and acting crazy. No, he just said, look to me when he was there playing the Buffalo Bills. No, no, no. He just had a frothy beard. That's all he had. Okay, fine. Harvard graduate, red ass. Oh, oh, may he rest?

Ryan Mallet? Ryan Mallet's dead? Yeah. Oh, man. Well, this got south real quick. Yeah. Okay. Oh, Bernard Pollard.

A good one for me. Oh, Bernard Pallard. Oh, oh, Tyra Matthew had a little bit in him. Yeah. There's a few. Not in very many, but there's a few. There we go. We've officially knocked out anybody that had a little bit of extra spice to there.

Oh, Jake Dallone was here. You know a little cage and red ass. That's not the same. I'm not talking about his cooking habits. Nobody knew what he was saying. What, Jake? What? Like Bobby A Bear?

Imagine Bobby A. Oh, hey, man. Yeah, Jack, go on, baby. I want to say I want to X-Meet all right on three. What? Jake? All right, I'm just going deep, Jake. Jake, count one to ten.

I'm Louisiana. One, two, nine, ten. All right. I just don't get it is up next. Please help us out here. And don't say this segment. Yeah, if you don't get this segment, you're joining the majority of people. If there's something in your life you just don't get, we're here to help you.

Me, the Sage one. Jonathan, the naive one and I don't even know what Ross is. This is. This is a part of our life that you just don't get. No need to worry. No need to fret. We will discuss the topic to see if we comprehend. The things that may confuse our friends, it's time to say, I just don't get it.

This is a part of our week where we kind of just get philosophical on you. Ross will have the update on the Astros at noon. The update on C.J. Garner Johnson, if you're not hurting again, Aaron Wilson's going to stop by via the phone here from West Virginia at some point in the next, I'm guessing the next hour or so. Rossi, there's been a lot of reports about Las Vegas taking a 12% drop in their revenue to the city. And everybody in their mother is attributing that to the overall general economy of this country. And I say, I just don't get it. And I'll tell you the reasons why.

I think people are going away from Las Vegas for multiple reasons. In no particular order, one, gambling is now available in just about every state in this union or within a stone's throw, case in point, Houston to Lake Charles. It's easier to get to Lake Charles and it is to get to Las Vegas. Now, you and me, especially me, I love Las Vegas. Love every time I go, I'll never besmirch the city. I'll besmirch them. But the reality is, if I need a gambling fix, I'm going to go get mine in Lake Charles a lot faster than I can by paying hotel,

airfare, ubers, whatever, to get to Las Vegas. Number two, Las Vegas has service charged the hell out of people. So it's no longer a economical place to go. If you want to go to Las Vegas, eat hotels. hotel, service fees, tips, food cost. People are spending their money to go to Hawaii or people going to Jamaica or people going to Mexico for all inclusive. If I don't care by gambling, I'm not going to Las Vegas because it's not any more of a easier

place to go on the cheap. Like 25 years ago, you go to Las Vegas and the cheap. You could go on a discount airline. The room rates were really good. They weren't charging you $39 a day for Internet and phones and all that kind of stuff. And number three, the reason why Las Vegas is struggling is because what Las Vegas has done to market itself is to market between the ages of, say, 18 and 30. And 18 and 30-year-olds are going to Las Vegas to do what? Dance, swim, and drink.

They're not going to gamble. Las Vegas has lost identity of the people who want to do things in Las Vegas that makes them the most money, and that is to gamble. So that's part of marketing of Las Vegas's fault. Part of it is because of the fact that you've got so many different options that are closer to home. And number three, you've added all these fees and side charges that doesn't make it an economical place for people to go. And I'm talking about people that fly there, people that live in L.A., they're not running to Vegas anymore because it's just not the affordable goodaway. So I say to those that are attributing the national economy to Las Vegas's downturn, I say I just don't. don't get it.

I'm sorry. Okay. So you're saying... I'm saying the national economy is nothing to do with the reason why Las Vegas is down. In my mind. I think it's part of it.

I think are airfare is down? Airfare is revenues down? If you do it long enough in advance, airfare is a whole, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, you can still go to LA, $250. Apparently Las Vegas revenues are down. Yeah.

I think part of it does have to do with young kids these days who just grew up in their phones. You have more people who are introverted, more people who are asocial and or have social anxiety. We don't grow up gambling. And if you do, if you want to gamble with the broskeys, you're just doing a bunch of parlayes, which is legal in like 30-something states. So, yeah, it makes perfect sense to me that Vegas's revenues are down. You used to get really good comps back in the day. you know this Matt.

Yeah. You could play blackjack, you know, $25, $50 a hand, and you might get a room. You might get a half price. The reason why Las Vegas is down is because it's Las Vegas's fault, not the national economy's fault. That's my thought. They squeeze a lot of things and they built all these massive things that they have to pay to maintain and operate, and then that cost gets passed down to you. And so, like you said, they add resort fees, they add all these other fees,

they give you worse odds on games. You can't hardly find three to two blackjack on the strip. unless you're betting $50 a hand. Not that everybody's caring about that, but... I'm not a big care of it, but I understand where you are. So, you know, it's Vegas's fault. Not because the price of eggs has gone up or the price of a hamburger's gone up.

Well, I think you could be go hand-in-hand. You have fewer, less money for trips. It becomes less appetizing. I think... Because you know this, Matt. When you go to Vegas and you say, I'm going to bring $1,500. And mentally, you say, I can afford to lose all of that money.

Right. So Vegas trips inherently come with an extra risk of money loss. I just see... I'm not going to lose $1,500 at the beach. I think our planes are full across this country. Our hotels are full. Our highways are full. People are still figuring out ways to vacation.

And if you are competing against Orlando and the beach in Los Angeles and Chicago in New York or as Gordy went to Boston this past week and hung out for seven, eight days. Did he hit the encore? I don't think he hit the encore. I'd hit the encore. Point being is this. You've got to make it a destination that comes across as affordable in Las Vegas

is no longer affordable. Shame on you. Las Vegas. Don. Yeah, I'm curious of the long-term health of, I don't know if they'll ever become obsolete. But I mean, you've got online casinos. it'll be interesting to see. Okay. That's all I had.

I just, I'm not going to allow that my hamburger meets a dollar more a pound for the reason why people aren't going to Las Vegas. That's my only point. I don't know. That makes sense to me. Okay. Then you do get it then. I do get it. All right.

What you got this week? Let's go to Jonathan. Jonathan, what don't you get this week? I had something I forgot what it was. That's fine. Well, now that I'm getting to like the adult age and everything and getting out of college, I didn't know that people really just quit job. just because they want, they like don't want to work anymore. They get like, they don't have a valid reason in my opinion to just lose their income and hope for another job to come.

So like, like, Geo, I call it was talking about how he got micromanaged. There's people around my age that if that happened to them, they'll just quit the job without any plan or anything like that. And I really don't understand the point because especially our age and going into any industry, you're going to have to build up something. even if it's experience, you know, credibility, you know, connections. I don't understand what's the point unless it's a prejudice, you know, big, you know, scandal or like, you know, they're heading on you, whatever. If it's something that just like that, I just don't understand why you're just quitting your job and then hoping you find something else.

Because you had a bad day at work. So you're, instead of fighting it out and working hard for it, you just quit. I just don't. You know what it is? I gave you what I said. It's the college. It's the transfer portal of life. Think about that.

As soon as you're unhappy with your copy. Ouch, you didn't you don't have an NIDL deal lined up anywhere else. You know, to that point, I'll put up in the curtain for the audience. I got kicked off of my first team at West of Kentucky, but that is because I had shown out and was outspoken on an issue that wasn't 100% received and it was disrespectful. That's something I can get, okay, all right.

But there was people even on college teams, like you said, go on the transfer portals because, oh, I had some bad races, oh, coach didn't put me in because you didn't want to go to practice on time, and then I'm going to transfer it, and then you're stuck, and you're not an athlete anymore. It doesn't make sense to me. Well, unfortunately, I do get it because I'm raising three children. And sticking it out is something that we always fight through.

Absolutely 100%. Yeah, I think a lot of people maybe quit these days too because, you know, Matt, in 2025, more parents are keeping their kids past 18 than in 1975. No question. When you were 18 in a 1975, you were either going to work immediately, going to college or the military. All right, real quick, is I got Aaron Wold. Wilson's Jordan's next time.

What don't you get? Everybody's all up at arms about smelling salts, and it became a thing. Like, I don't know. Maybe Jonathan can shine some light on this. Did you guys use smelling salts on the track? So we did it in a weight room. There's some people that definitely will get the smelling sauce in wait room. Sometimes the track, but you don't want to mess up your energy like that.

The NFL, by the way, has changed it a little bit. You're allowed to bring your own smelling salts. I think it was misread or something. It was firstly misreported. But, yeah, you can bring your own smelling salts. But there have been studies upon studies upon studies that say it doesn't really do anything. It doesn't help your athletic performance. Well, they're saying they mask

the concussions, which I've never had to need to use smelling salts. I can't tell if it does or not. It does give you temperate alertness. Okay, so then maybe I do get it. I was going to say, I don't get why it's like everybody's up and arms about smelling salts. All right. Aaron Wilson's going to join us from West Virginia next. 1143 on the Matt Thomas

Show at Ross. We'll give us an update on CJ Gardner Johnson. This is 790. Channel 2's Aaron Wilson. You hear on some of our radio shows here on Sports Talks, 70, we appreciate him taking a couple minutes on very short notice to join us here. Aaron joining us from West Virginia,

where today he happened to see a Texan safety go down, and Ross put him on the line for me there. Aaron, first of all, thank you for joining us. Take us back to what exactly happened, as you saw yourself. Yeah, very unfortunate situation for CJ Gardner Johnson and the Texans defense. So, Matt, what happened,

And he was covering wide receiver John Metschie the third. And he went down, immediately grabs his right knee area, and he pounds the ground in frustration and obvious pain. And then it was a real somber scene as got very quiet on the field and guys took a knee out of respect for a guy they call CD dues that they've come to like in a very short time. He's become a very popular member of the team. and obviously, you know, a big play guy that likes to talk, likes to have fun out there,

and very feisty competitor. And then he's carted off the field. The guys came over to wish him well. He went inside the Green Rider Sports Performance Center. And shortly ago, we talked to D'Amico Ryan, who called it heartbreaking to see him go down like that. And he did not have a specific update. Obviously, there's going to be an MRI and X-ray.

and all that and that'll happen today but doesn't look like there are going to be some sort of good news situation out of this people are bracing for the worst which would be a season ending injury for CJ Gardner Johns. We don't have a lot of specifics

yet but it was very very serious injury and wasn't it only got to fall today. I saw Christian Kirk fall on the field. I don't know if the surface was bad or not. I did talk to E.J. Speed about his reaction to what happened to

C.J. Gardner Johnson and it was upsetting. He says he's glad he's got a good family around them and he says they're going to be praying for him and trying to give him all the support they can and definitely cast a pal over the final day of practice. It would have been a productive four days here

at the Greenbrier. It could have just seemed like happened back in Houston, but it happened here before the Texans even play a real game. Now, not the depth charts mean to everything, but you know who how many players occupy the safety position the debt chart was already rather lean there how much trouble is a franchise in right now at that particular position it's an issue because

they were counting on him to galvanize the other safety spot next to kalan bull bull it's excellent he had five interceptions last year but jimmy ward's coming off foot surgery he has a felony case out in montgomery county that is still unresolved he has in august 13th court date. We don't know about his availability. We don't know the outcome. I can't predict the future for his case or for when his foot will be ready because he's still on the CUP list. One option for them is to have Jalen Petrie play safety again. I think that's something that they will at least entertain and think about as a personnel and a coaching staff, which you can do there. Then you could have Arthur Mollett, who's been a veteran starter as of NACL. And we've seen

some pretty good plays out of mouth. Bryant in the past, including in the playoffs. So that is an option. You have Rush East, and you would have had, I think, a guy that could have stepped in in Jalen Reed, but he sprained his ankle. He'll be out about three weeks. So not having Reed right now,

but, you know, I think he's going to be back during the season, so that will give them some flexibility. But, yeah, life without CD-Duce, not as good for the defense, but, you know, safety position. was looking pretty good with him. You know, as an inconceivable with the Jimmy Ward, who, you know, even though he's

34, has still made some plays, made some plays last year, like the pick six against the Titans that they couldn't get him in there. But I just don't want to speculate, Matt, because, you know, that's a felony, third-degree felony. We don't know what's going to happen with him in Montgomery County. Understood. Lawyers told me that

he'll be vindicated, but, you know, we'll see. That's what lawyers say. Ross, with you here as well, Aaron, and you mentioned a lot of different options. in a lot of different ways that they can kind of address this. Do you think they will keep it internal with all those options? Or you think Nick Casario could look external as well? I think he'll look around.

That's what he always does. He'll look around. I don't know if there's like a surefire option out there that makes a lot of sense. We're going to plug a guy in it. It's probably already the thing on the Internet. Like, oh, well, let's get this guy. Let's get this guy.

Let's trade for somebody. I don't know. I mean, I think you can get it done with the people. he has. I think, you know, Petrie, that's one good option. You know, Arthur Millett, he's a starter for Pittsburgh and Baltimore. He's still a pretty good player. That's something they could do. You know, you could kind of have some flexibility there with nickel with him and Miles Bryant or a combination of Jaylen, other guys, maybe some people, other people cross-training

at safety. But, you know, probably the next fan up, if you're just not wanting to shuffle, will probably be M.J. Stewart because there's experience with Jalen Reed still sideline. And, you know, it's not the worst sprained ankle ever, but it's a decent sprained ankle

in the sense that, you know, it was pretty, you know, turned his ankle pretty bad. So at least he was able to walk. But he's working hard trying to get back and take time. But I really liked what I was seeing from him. There were pick sixes.

And I know they weren't hitting, but I know that he's a big hitter for Penn State. He had like 98 tackles and force and fumbles. He's about 210 pounds. He looks like a little line battery. He's short and stocky in, met him a couple of times, including when he worked out with all those guys on the middle school field in the area.

And he would see him out there. And, yeah, he's a serious ball player. I think he's a good player, and then he's going to be hurt from at some point once he's healthy in the safety position. And, you know, we're not trying to, you know, right, you'll be a little bit on season just yet, but it didn't look good. and you got to turn the page sometimes. That is the hard reality of injuries and pro sports.

And, yeah, I feel bad for him. And I got to know a little bit. And a lot of fun to talk to, a lot of fun to watch play. And this definitely takes a little bit of spiciness out of the defense, not having him. Aaron Wilson with us here on Sports Talk 790. So we know that the defense had been looking good. We'll await some further news on the CJ Gardner-Johnson situation. I saw a couple reports that the offense was looking a little bit better today, including the offensive line.

I think they did a decent job of Stonewall and the rush. It was a scrimmage situation, but unfortunately the receivers didn't really do their job. They can play better than that. Nico Collins had a drop. What was a easy touchdown, and he didn't catch the football. And then there were some couple of where he was another play where he was open and CJ missed him. So there were some lapses there. But, yeah, they looked okay.

You're not going to have Nick Chubb in this game. He's got a head injury, so it's like code for a concussion, probably. So he's not playing. It would have to be a bunch of the young guys with a lot of woody marks. We don't know yet to see his droughts going to play any snaps. I don't wonder if this injury today gives them any pause. But you can't put these guys in glass and break in case of emergency. At some point, they have to play a little football.

He wants to play. We'll see if he plays at all. Last year in Pittsburgh, he played one series, went five for five. They got everything they did done they needed to get done. I think Tank had a touchdown. Or Tank Dell, who will play next year, not this year. But, yeah, it's a tough deal, Matt. I think he had to get ready.

I was just talking with Nick Cayley, the O.C. It'll interview with him that will play on Cape AirC. And he's pretty excited about the rookies, like Jayden Higgins and Jail O'Nole, and those guys are definitely playing. We get them out there and get their feet wet and, like, so you think, for Marianti orsury and some of the things, some of the things are having an offense that are not alarmist, and there's a lot of skies falling kind of stuff. And, yeah, it's been rough.

Well, we don't know yet, segue, is it just that the defense is so good, and the offense is going to look good against, you know, some teams that don't have a defense like the Texans, or would it be like this against any defense? You know, I don't know. I can't answer that question yet, but it's a concern. Lastly, for Aaron Wilson, he is in West Virginia with the Texans. Aaron Wilson underscore NFL is on Twitter. Aaron Wilson underscore NFL.

When are you due to get a update on Joe Mix? And I know that coach was not overly excited about even talking about that a handful of days ago. With Nick Chubby, as you mentioned, being out potentially for a concussion, that running back, quote-unquote, room is rather lean as well at this point. So when do you think the next time we'll hear something about potentially that this one, two-punch for the Texans on the running game? I think as we get closer to the first game, that's when they'll see if they can get him on the field. And I know that he's not a big fan of the preseason, but he's made a bunch of progress.

So some of the information I've gotten on him is that it's definitely a chance he can be ready for the first game. It's not a lock that he will be, but that he's got a shot to do that. and they're a different offense with Joe, the smash-mouth element they have with him, and breakaway threats occasionally with Joe. Right now, it doesn't look great. I mean, you've got, you know, no Nick Chubb. It's a preseason game, but, you know, basically what you have available is Star Eagle Moale. Damien Pierce didn't practice today.

Under the ramp up that they're doing, even though, yes, he's ready, they're not going to let him after one walk-through practice go from zero to 100 and play in a game. So no Pierce, Jahar Jordan, and Woody Marks, and you're just going to have a lot of those type of guys out there playing for the Texans. And so basically this is going to be like kind of a backup bowl, is my expectation for the Texans. And I just don't know if we're going to see these starters. If we do, they'll be out of there really quick.

I do think we're going to see the offensive line. Maybe they're the exception, and I'd love to watch that. I don't know if Jonathan Grenard is going to play, and he had a great game against these guys. and we'll payback. He was mad when they didn't sign into a new contract, and he left to go to the Vikings and cashed in there. But he had a point to prove, and he proved it.

We'll see if it's any action like that. It's just very fluid with preseason, especially the first one, getting guys out there and seeing what they're going to do. Not, I guess, for anybody out there that loves to watch, I would say just enjoy the backups. That's probably what we're going to have. Well, unfortunately, the Seattle Mariners did not miss the opportunity to gain some more ground on the Astros. It is getting sneaky, sneaky close in the American League West.

White Sox trying to make it a game last night, but the Mariners won 8 to 6. Friggin' white socks. Hulu Rodriguez with three run, a home run. They scored five in the second inning. They were up seven to one. Did you see the Blue Jays Rocky score? Yeah, but that's not out of the ordinary for Denver, right? I think it's a little out of the ordinary.

20 to 1 was a final last night. I mean, goodness gracious. I mean, how many people were at the game to see it? Don't look. I'm going to see if you know that you need the answer. I'll show you. I have the box score. I don't have the, I don't have the, it was a Wednesday.

Wednesday afternoon. Daytime in Denver. 8,600. 21,749. Well, I'll shut up. My bum ass up. The only people that only draw 8600 now are the A's and the race. That's everybody else draws at least. Yeah, at least.

Marlins draw 12. You know about the Rockies get their ass beat. At least it's pleasant out there. It's a beautiful ballpark. Yeah, I've only been on the outside of it many times. I've never been inside. I'm kind of jealous. I went.

It was great. Yeah. All right. And they scored. Now, this is just rude by Blue Jays. They scored eight in the ninth. God. Just get some outs.

Don't you have like the mercy rule? Yeah. They should pinch hit all pitchers at that point. Time now for the news at noon. What? And with that, we go to the Jamie Erdahl of Houston Sports News. It's Ross, Villarreal. Yes, Matthew, as you mentioned, you have the Astros losing to the Marlins yesterday.

They do have the day off today. And they're setting up for a weekend. to set in the Bronx. Probable pitchers. It'll be Brown versus Schlitter. On Friday. Then it will be Colton Gord. Wait, what?

I thought I heard it was Framber. Why does ESPN say Colton Gordon now? This gets shuffled around? Well, no, Chandler-Rome brought that up yesterday. Maybe they're wrong. The ESPN can be wrong, right? ESPN is often wrong. It should be.

I heard it was, I read it was going to be Brown-Fromber. This ESPN is saying, Cortland Gordon on Saturday. But I'm going to go with what I saw yesterday. Here it is. This is as of 23 hours ago. Brown tomorrow, Valdez Saturday, to be determined on Sunday. Yeah.

I'm going to go with that because ESPN's always wrong. Okay. How are we feeling? Weekend said in the Bronx. I'm happy that Carlos Pena Jeremy Paine will play all three games in that series at sure stop. How about that? Boom. Okay.

Happy to see that. Also, Matt, have you seen the news? According to Texas Monthly magazine in an interview with Archie Manning, he believes that Arch Manning will not declare for the draft after this year. He expects him to be at Texas for four years. Some saying the bigger question will be, does he stay in school after his redshirt junior year? So you have Archie being there two years?

Arch, excuse me. Arch. Okay, yeah, that's not crazy. This year or next. That's fine. It's fine. It's fine. Okay. 1-1 may change things, but who knows?

But it might not. We've seen it before. I think if he's 1-1, he leaves. If he is the number one quarterback thought of in college football, he leaves. And I will stand by that. And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I will stand by the fact that he is marched or arched.

Okay, I'm sorry. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Arch to a different drum. I knew this is coming. He's marched to a different. drum beat. Okay. Pretty good.

By the way, the Mariners are playing today against the White Sox. Go White Sox. And then they have a three-game weekend home series against Tampa Bay. Go Tampa Bay. It's going to be a little high drama between American League East teams and American League West teams this weekend. Do you want the schedule strength update, Matt? No, I don't.

Don't even say it. It's actually pretty good. Go ahead then. Because it's even better after they play the White Sox. tonight, today. Okay, go ahead. 25th and 26 teams in terms of opponents'

schedule, opponents, one percentage, schedule, strength, Astros, and then mirrors. So, while you go over the next story, I want to see what the Astro, the last seven games of the year are the Astros against the A's and the Angels in California.

Okay, those are going to be two teams. Must win games. So the smart person is going to say, well, the Astros have it. how do the Mariners have it? I'm glad you asked. The Mariners will close out the season. Home for the Dodgers, the final week of the series. Final weekend series.

We'll hopefully have something to play for. God, I hope so. There are two games up on the Padres right now. I do have some bad news. They have three with the Rockies at home. They end with the Rockies? And the Dodgers. So it ain't as easy as the thought I was going to be.

Because the Rockies will be in the 110 loss category by them. Or 105, somewhere in that range. Yeah. And you heard the news on C.J. Garner Johnson. Nothing official from the Texans, but it does not sound good. And there's your news at noon. Oh, yeah. Cidney Garge Garnson.

The leg might have fallen off. No, it didn't. The knee probably cracked in multiple places. A lot of owies, a lot of pain. PCL, UCL, MCL, LCL, ACL. But yeah, when they go to a knee, Ross, I'm going to say the last 100 times somebody has gone to a knee and anything. 98 of them resulted in a season ending injury.

I fall into my knees. Even little league kids, when they fall their knees, they have to kind of, you have to be careful. You know what I mean? I mean, you've seen kids get hit. All right. You flustered me there. I didn't make you bring up little league devastating injuries. You know what I'm talking about.

All right. 713, 212, 570. 7.1. One, two, five, seven, nine, zero. Can I please talk to somebody in Houston, Texas? I'm tired of talking on the guy on my right. We just had Aaron Wilson on. Literally, I talked for three minutes this segment.

He was so late. He did most of the time. He talked more than I did on this show. That's actually probably a good thing. Matt Thomas show with Aaron coming up. You know, advertising makes the world go around. And for not for our great 790 sponsors, this show wouldn't be on the air. This is the reality of it.

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We have the A's Nationals game on. Yes? The Nationals have never had a corporate sponsor on their stadium name. It's always been Nationals Park, I believe. Is that true? I think I'm pretty confident about that. Yeah, you're a nerd about that stuff. I'll trust you.

So that in itself is surprising because very few ballparks don't have some sort of corporate sponsorship to it. But I'm looking at their patches of their uniform. Do you see who sponsoring their patches? Yes, I do. It's AARP. The American Association for Retired Persons? That is correct. Yes.

Or retired people, persons, people, whatever. It's a lot that what would, I mean, now I'm talking about them, so I guess they win. Oh, there you go, Matt. But it is a little weird that. If you put together a list of potential people that put on an arm patch, I don't know if AERP would have been on top 20 in my list. How do they make money? You pay dues and they get you good discounts on Cinsidine?

I get sent stuff all the time because technically when you hit 50, you are... Are you remember? No, I'm not. I signed you up. I know you did. You signed for me up when I was 31. I was really offended by that. I didn't know you there.

Stay with me, please. No. Just hearing me once. I'm sorry. Yes, Matt. That was a great prank by me. I should have said 40, then you definitely would have. Oh, I didn't know you then.

You knew me at 40. I'm going to throw up. I knew you in your 30s. Yeah, you did. What the hell? Mm-hmm. I've aged beautifully, haven't I? I don't even look that much older than I did 15 years ago.

15 years. We're about that 16 years on the show. Woo, baby. I'm happy about it because it means we've got great audience. You're always seen to be very sad. Save me. I had that job in Jackson, Mississippi for it. You didn't take it.

Save me, people. They didn't call me back. That's true. Okay. All right. So I want to do a little bit of a barometer test for you Astro fans out there. Okay. How nervous are you 1 to 10?

It's a 2-game lead. I don't remember the last time it's been this lean since the Astro's inherited first place. Just lean this late, yeah. Yeah. One to 10, honestly, to me, Houston, Texas, I'm going to 5. You know what? I am remarkably comfortable. Even though it gets closer and closer.

It could all change in a heartbeat. Remember, the Mariners are playing really good baseball. They've got two power hitting corner infielders now. They're at home. The Astros are playing in New York against a Yankees team that their home fans may boo them a loter than they may boo the Astros. And that's saying something because those are Al-Tuvres in town. I'm just, yeah, I'm going to say I'm going to five out of ten.

10. Because the reality is this. Fine is about right. See, I did, they were 7 and 15 in their last 22 at the end of the Red Sox series. So they won two or three that puts them at nine. They're 9 and 16 in the last 25 games if I'm doing the math on that properly. That is not a great percentage. If you play a stretch of 25 games and you win nine every time, you're going to be significantly under 500.

So this is not a little rut. This team really hasn't been the same since the week before the All-Star break. And my guess is what? They went to L.A. won those three games against the Dodgers, right? Yes, that was the, like, the highlight of the season. The high point felt good. But ever, it feels like ever since that point, it's not like there's been more injuries. Now, what did happen during that time?

Jeremy Pena was out for a significant period of time. You did lose Lance McCullors on the injured list, but it's out of loss. He pitched great in that series. Yeah. People forget. You got Carl's Crea back. By the way, he looked really good. He looks like not the fountain of youth because that would be like an old time or going on and doing one more time.

He's not old. He's just in the twilight. He's just in the back half of his career. He's been around a long time. Yeah. We told you folks that he had been hitting a lot better since May. And he's picked up. Yeah, he's right where he left off since May.

So you're going to get Christian Javier back when the team returns home. You got Arrogati back yesterday. Now, he got beat up a little bit, and that's to be not completely surprised. It was a weird start. 11 hits, a lot of hard hit contact, four infield hits, and 16 whiffs. If you get 16 whiffs, like, you're getting a bunch of strikeouts, and you're having a good... But he's always been a high-strikeout guy. Yes.

But he's also been a high-pitch guy, too, and that got really high in the first inning. He had, it was a mix of everything. It was good whiffs. It was bad luck with four in-field hits in one game. I mean, come on. And then he got tattooed a few times for sure. Mm-hmm. So it's kind of a mixed bag.

He had it all up. He would have liked to have done better. He said as much himself. Yeah. And the great thing about his injury is that that's something that doesn't, you're not, first of all, you're always going to worry about people's arms and elbows. That goes without saying. It doesn't even matter.

But in this particular case, you're not worried. Like, for instance, when Garcia comes back, Javier comes back, you are going to, and for that matter, the rest of Lance McCuller's career, as long as he's an astro, you're going to worry about his arm. You just are. Yes. Well, how long that career is, we'll see. But Rossi, there's nobody pushing for Lance McCullors to be released at this point. I mean, I'm not suggesting that. I'm just saying that there isn't enough in.

the depth of the Astros that anybody should be worrying about anybody's long term. You should be worrying about the here and the now. Erigetti's thrown for you. He threw 86 pitches yesterday. Joe Spada saying he expects, or I don't remember the exact phrasing, he expects and or hopes that Christian Javier's next start will be with the Houston Astros. And apparently, as I was listening to Robert Ford yesterday, he threw a bunch of pitches in the AAA game,

and then he went to the bullpen and threw 10 more. pitches to build his arm up a little bit. Good. That beats the alternative. You know what? I've got to pull him up to 50 pitches. So, I mean, there is something to be said for that. So it sounds like Javier's next. Garcia and France, I don't know. But

you're starting to get a little more depth. Doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be a positive every single time out. But you would hope that five days from now the next time that's been to irrigating pitches he will be better and not getting the same trouble that he got in in the game against the marbles. He's going to be better. he said he was going to be stuff to build on well i mean i'm going to say tomorrow's going to be better today but i can't prove that to you

i personally guarantee you spencer ergettys start will be next next start will be better than this one to call your son a quality start no okay so it's going to be better but i mean it won't be great you need quality quality be nice quality is difficult still thinking about the bullpen still thinking about fine you're going to yeah i mean nick hernandez when he gets up here Okay, he's not pitching in the playoffs. I'm not talking about to for the regular season. Okay. If you're going to have guys that are going to be worried about pitch counts

and worrying about meeting extra days off here and there just not to prolong and re-agravate things, you're going to need long relievers. Well, Erigatee went 86 pitches. If you're getting up to 90 pitches, you need to be getting five innings minimum. So he's got to pitch better. 11 hits, not ideal.

And man, he had some bad luck with those infield singles. Yeah. And Fromber has got to bounce back. It was, there's been good Framber this year. There's been bad Framber. There's been excellent Framber. We've seen more excellent Frommber. He's been mostly great.

Yeah. His ERA's under three, this far into the season. But it was a meltdown of, and I don't want to say typical Frommber proportions, but it was, we've seen that act before. And we don't, and hopefully that was a one-off. The worst part was he couldn't field the ball, but we've also seen that from him before. And then he had, look, he's a ground ball pitcher. Sometimes the ground balls find the outfield. Yeah.

there was not like there was these big tank job home runs I ain't worried about it and Fenway is so I didn't realize until I was there for the very first time it's so gimmicky what pesky foals center field

the green monster the little bit of foul territory I guess I'm an old fogey but I still don't like seeing it plastered with a bunch of advertisements the green monster well you remember when I was growing up there was nobody above the green monster Now those are Primo seats. Yeah, remember everybody in Boston was up in arms about that,

and then they were up in arms about the advertisers like, hey, guys, we've got to make money. Yeah. And it's funny, I was listening to Gordy coming in the morning, that he says half the fans he ran into her like, we need a new ballpark, half are like, this is our museum, we can't get rid of it. And the number one reason for those who have gone to,

and we've got to get to break here, is that it's very uncomfortable to watch a game there. There's a lot of obstructed seats, and in 1943, we were more fit, society. Well, we also had less food. It's true. But there was no... Food was more scarce. But you didn't have... Everybody was about 5, 3,

and 108 pounds. There were no Rick Ronalds and Ruger Ring around the stadiums. Uh-huh. You're eating bowls of dirt for dinner. It's a little bit different. You were eating corn and you raise on the farm. 1232 on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. 713212.570. Come on and join us. 713-212

570. All right. I'm very curious. Jonathan, you are the screener of the phone calls on the show, correct? They must talk to you before they talk to us. Of course. It says Willie and Friendswood, who's called the show a few times? Hey, Willie. It says Richter's Scale U of H.

Uh-oh. So it's two things. One of the Richter scale he wanted to talk about. I didn't want to explore the topic. No, Willie. I think it's a girl. No. Willis are called the call all the time.

He's a guy. That's a different Willie. Sorry. And then we're talking about U of H and whose recruits are coming into the basketball program. Hmm. Okay. Richter's scale and U of H conversation. Willie on 790 and 1237.

Good afternoon. Hi. Yeah, this is Willie. I am a, I am a one. Yeah, it's a girl. Jonathan, we've, we knew who this was. Apologize, Jonathan. Jonathan, please apologize.

He said it with such confidence, too. He don't know. No, no, no. He said it like we were dumbasses. No, Jonathan. No, cut the audio. Don't ask me every time and I get confused. Cut the audio, Jonathan.

I won't cut the audio. This is a part of the problem. You were like, no. Say, sorry, 1130. Yo, you gave us the side I know and you know it, Jonathan. I knew it. I knew it. I know it.

I apologize. This is a whole other mistake. I'm sorry. Willie, what do you got to? Let's talk about it. the Richter scale first. What do you got? I was referring to the Astros. On the Richter scale, I think most people

think the Astros, I feel most Astros fans are nervous about the Astros. I mean, on the Richter scale, I think there is some concerns there. But anyway, I haven't heard any talk about Aragetti today. I just turned radio on a 12th. But my husband said

this morning that U of H is looking at recruiting Coach Samp Ekeem Olajou Juan's youngest son. He has been offered. I don't know if he took the offer, but he has been offered a job. Offered a scholarship, yes. Oh, I was surprised.

I was surprised to hear that this morning. I knew he had some children, but I didn't realize he had one playing basketball. So, yeah, let's keep our fingers crossed. I think that would super for the program. It'll certainly have a celebrity in every game, that's for sure. I don't know how good he is. I don't follow high school basketball at all, Willis. I can't tell you.

but you know what Kelvin has one of the top five recruiting classes for the second consecutive year we're going to be preseason number one or two depending on what poll things are going really well just going to finish it off you know get all the way back to where we got last year but just play maybe 20 more better seconds of basketball

yep that's sure well I'm one of these sore losers still that think the game was rigged but that's all right me too thank you Willie I'm right there with you that championship game in San Antonio was rigged. I couldn't disagree. I couldn't agree with you more. Ross, I don't. Who is that that?

Is it Emmanuel Sharp? Just stared at the ball. He stared at the ball on the floor. Well, he couldn't pick. I think he's still staring at the ball, actually, people have said. He couldn't pick it up because it would be called for double-drift. I know. But how is that rigged?

No, the refereeing in the game was, there were two different half. First half, nothing was called. Second half, everything was called. U of H fouls everybody. Everybody in U of H gets in foul trouble every game, and then y'all blame the refs. No, I blame. That's because you're mugging people on the floor.

It's called physicality. Straight up committing assaults. Felony assaults on the floor and don't want fouls to be called. Not true on any of those things. It's called good, clean. You think Calvin Samson teaches fouling? No chance. Does he teach physicality and aggressiveness?

Well, of course, but it's legal. Guess what physicality and aggressive leads to. Foul trouble. You see Ice Cube agrees. Yeah, Ice Cube. You know what you can do with your cubes. What? What?

He's got hog cubes? Yeah, are his cubes like your size of year? You know what? All right. Aziz Olazsche one is a four-star recruit. What is high school? Clements. I didn't know these things.

Oh, Clements. It's a smart school. Is it? Which one's a dumb ones? Don't even say it. Oh, yeah, you know. You're not going to rent. not going to make fun of Dulles, are you?

Nobody says... I was, and then I was going to do High Tower and in... Oh, sugar land smack. Just as long as you don't say Nimitz. I'm surprised Nimitz still has accreditation. I think that's in a jeopardy. They're a probationary period.

I thought, didn't Akeem Olajone have another son who was like in some hot water? Or am I thinking of somebody else? No. You know, the biggest misnomer is that just because you have a great player's son come play

if you'd mean it's going to be a whole, Big of difference. Clyde Drexler's kid played for the U of H and he wasn't very good. Michael Jordan's son played for UCF, Central Florida. He wasn't very good. Oh, yeah. Hakeem Olajuwon's other son lost a ruling after a road rage incident. Oh, I hate to hear that. Who other sons that you know of that you? Carmelo Anthony's son is a top recruit.

We had, didn't we just have somebody? It was if, who was the, we did the believe it or not for them? Was it Gilbert Arenas? his son is a five-star recruit. Okay, but yeah, but I'm talking about off of the past. Like when you heard of, oh, this kid's son's going to play here.

Oh, David Robinson's son played a Duke. He didn't, he was never very good. Jabari Smith Jr.'s good. Jabari does okay. Who is the best player in the NBA, Tim Hardaway, Jr.? Who is the best player? That's a junior?

Okay. That their father played NBA basketball. I guess, does Kobe Bryant count? Yeah. Jelly Bean absolutely played. Yeah, but he was kind of like a fringe. But he still played. Okay. Who is the best NBA player son of an all-star?

Gary Payton, third, no. Hmm. Kobe Bryant. Jelly Bean wasn't an all-star. Mike Dunleavy, did Mike Dunleavy ever play and make an all-star game? I'll give all credits to Google. Dale Curry was an all-star, correct? I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know about Del Curry's. career. Well, his son's pretty good. His son's really good. No, never mind. Del Curry, six man of the year. Oh, that's a pretty good award. That's, honestly, Ross, that's better than All-Star. No. Oh, come on. That's a full season award. All-Star was a great great hat year. Would you rather be an All-Star or a six-man

of the year? I would take both. Are you kidding? I would take both. Six-man means you're the best guy who's not good enough to start in the league. No, it means you are the instant spark plug off your bench. All-Star means you're one of the best players in the league. I'd love to be an all six man of the year. I'm not saying that's a bad award, but all-star is better. Okay, what about? Michael Thompson. Oh, Michael Thompson, All-Star.

Was he an All-Star? I'm looking it up. I mean, long and big career. No, he was all rookie, but that's it. Okay, well, we'll have to come up. Somebody can just tweet us at... We need a son who's a good player, but his pop was an All-Star. the Berries

Arvita Oh oh oh oh Rick Barry was a Hall of Famer Absolutely was an all-star And was Brent Was Brent ever an all-star? John and Brent John probably not

Maybe he both had decent NBA careers Brent won a dunk contest He'd dunk from the free throw line Oh how about Arvetus and Demontas the bonus That's a good combination there too Both All-Stars Yeah

Okay we'll go with that We got some All right 1244 we'll get back On the phones in a minute 713-212-2-5-7 97-1-3-212-5-7-9. Thank you, Coach Sark. Really fast.

Are you... Now, look, it's all resorts-results-oriented. But does Sark based off of the two playoff appearances? Is he in your top three of your favorite UT coaches? Well, yeah. Got to be Mac Brown 1. Sark 2? I guess.

And who's three? I mean, since I've become a fan, which is what? 19 what? I don't know. I mean, I was kind of a casual fan in high school. And then, of course, I became a big fan when I hit campus in 2003. Okay, so you're looking at 2009-ish.

Mac Brown got there in like 98. So that really wasn't even the best of him. Yeah. So, yeah, he's got to put him too. I don't really have any My favorite John McEvick. Go ahead. I'm going to go with I'm going to go with David McWillams 1.

Yeah, he left in 91. I was five years old, six years old. I'm going to go with who was the The one after that, you remember? He sucked. One after, who was? I'm going to say it and you're going to know it. Give me the first letter.

Jay. Oh, John McEvick. That's two So yeah I've got Mac Brown number one McBrown the best Texas coach He's the whole time And the Texas Longhorns football

Is going to be in a great place Yeah you used to This is for the for the kids out there Can we ever do a show When we mentioned Mac Brown's name And never do a Mac Brown impersonation No it's never going to happen They used to call the website

Macbrown Texas football.com They had the literal football website Was named after him That's how big he was Right Charlie Strong Pff Charlie Strong 3

Stop. I remember the smart and strong era that was supposed to be like the takeover for Texas athletics? Well, how about the fact that Tom Herman was the hottest coach in America? And he's going from Ohio State Offensive Coordinator, winning a national championship, to taking U of H to a BCS bowl, to getting the dream job, even after LSU was courting him hard. and now he goes from that to Florida Atlantic and now what is even Tom Herman doing now? He got fired from Florida Atlantic.

Oh, he did? Yeah. I have no idea. He's got plenty of money, but damn, I mean, a fall from grace is an understatement. Yeah, well, he made a lot of cash along the way. He's doing all right. Guy like Sark.

Who's your third favorite then? Tom Herman? I mean, you did win some games. Didn't you want a guy? You won the Sugar Bowl with Tom Herman. I remember that. Yeah. We're back, said Sam Ellinger, and then they weren't.

Didn't our man Joe Testore say we're back? Texas is back when Charlie Strong won the game? When they beat Notre Dame, and they were lifting them up like Rudy. Yeah, that was a little worrisome. Little worrisome. A little premature. A little bit. All right, 1254 on the Matt Thomas show, Ross.

Believe it or not, today is highly Googled about our previous conversation piece about NBA fathers and sons. Once I come up with something better in the next 20 minutes. We got 55 minutes so we play the game. Let's talk to Biscuit on 790 and 1255. Biscuit, what's a good word? Hey, Hougar Mac, Coogey Matt. Yes, sir. You brought up McAvish, man.

I show love those days, man. Me too. We were running them stars up, baby. Me too. We were putting 60s on the old Texas Longhorns. I love that. Hey, man, it was fun times at the dome back then, baby. Hey, man, I remember.

Back in the day, man, La Juan's brother and Larry Bird's brother, both played for Indiana State, man. And they were both garbage. Now, that's not very nice. What if they have wonderful personalities and are good members of society today? You don't want to call Gussimae Garbage? Well, garbage basketball players. Oh, that's much nicer. Yeah, sure.

But I'll tell you what, though, I put my trust in Kelvin's fans. But if Kelvin put out an Alphaner scholarship, then it must be something you can do with them, you know. So I'll go with that. I'm told you, Matt, hey, look, listen, Ross, I already got my own reservations set, man. I'm back in Naphtown, man. And, Matt, you know, since we, you're going to be the home team for the Sweet 16 since we let Wright be the home's host. And we could be the home team, man. No excuses.

Rossi got over there. The roster he got? No excuses. The thing for me, the number one thing for me was when Tuggler said he was coming back, I saw it's a done deal now. It's a done deal, baby. I'm confident.

Cougar. Coor is going to be ready this year, baby. All right. That's what I like to hear, Biscuit. I need national championship. And those of who have not heard, the University of Houston was supposed to host the South Regional at TOTA Center this March,

but you cannot be in a building in which you are the host. So if the cougars were to finish as a top seed, or even if they weren't a top seat, you couldn't go to the South region. Well, that's now out of play. They have given it up to, I believe, Rice or somebody else. I think it was Rice.

Oh, okay, so they skirted the system. They cheated. No, it's been done before. Yeah, they cheated. They're a game in the system. Nothing's, no, again, you... They're cheating for home court advantage. You respectfully say, we do not want to be...

Is Rice even going to make the... No, Rice has been determined since 1971, I think. Oh, 71. Fly house fly. Could you imagine being at a school? Well, actually, you are, Jonathan, that hasn't had any sort of success athletically in 50 years?

We beat Duke. I know. One win against Duke. Hey, hey, hey. Take what you can get. You guys got a tournament win, don't you? It was before your time. Hold on.

Hold on. Cougars haven't won a national championship in anything since like indoor women's... I didn't say that. I didn't say yes, if I had to have won anything. Yes, you can imagine. You can imagine being rooting for a school that hasn't won anything of substance in 50 years. We were the national, we were the national semifinalist champions. Oh, okay.

Regional, regional champions. So yes, Matt, ask yourself that question. All right, bad news today from the Texans. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 713, 212, 570. Ross give out the, I was just say gory details. They're not gory, but they're disheartening. Texans fans. Yeah, unfortunately, he went down during practice. We had Aaron Wilson on earlier,

talked about grabbing his knee. Then everybody on the team had a very somber moment, went to their knee, and he was carted off the field. I think I saw another report somewhere that even getting off the card, he had to be helped. So it doesn't sound good for C.J. Gardner Johnson. Here is the latest update from Texans head coach, Demico Ryan's. Of course, it's, you know, it's hard breaking. You see a guy go down on the field like that and doesn't get up quickly. So I'm always, you know, nervous as a head coach anytime I see anybody

hit the ground. It's tough to watch. So we'll see you know, evaluate, CJ see where he is, but no update at this time. Yeah. Totally understandable. This came about 90 minutes ago when he said that.

They've got facilities there. Yeah. They're not leaving until tomorrow anyway to go to Minneapolis. so he's done for the year. I mean, it's just if there was an odds pick something, something.orgia. What kind of sick human being wants to bet on injuries?

Oh, are you kidding me? I'm surprised those weird old websites haven't sent me 15 emails about it by now. Well, it's coming. It's given time to gather the odds. It doesn't sound good. We've talked about it. Like, guys have gotten carted off

and actually been fine or only been out for a little while. but leaving on the cart and everybody is down not good. Also, by the way, Rashon Slater, standout left tackle for the Chargers has gone and gotten carted off in camp.

So it's just one of those things. Every year it happens. There's nothing to do it. Even if you hear the pads on, the stuff all can happen. But today was a scrimmage. I mean, today was a day they needed to work hard because, let's face it,

Friday they're traveling to Minneapolis. Saturday, they're not going to play. Sunday they're not going to play. So if you're a coach and you're organizing, what am I going to use my days to hit some people and get them ready for the season, today would have been the day.

So through no fault of the Texans, through no fault of D'Amico, through no fault of, you know whose fault it is? It's the rough, tough sport of football that's going to happen. Yeah, it's the nature of the game. There's nothing to do. They've done as much as they could do

rules-wise to legislate out injuries, but it ain't going to. It's like trying to, into a, what does it call it, the crash derby or whatever? Everybody runs into each other. Trying to prevent car accidents in the Demolition Derby. Demolition Derby, thank you.

It's like trying to prevent crashes in the demolition derby. It ain't going to happen. Injuries are going to happen. Yeah, there's really no way to say, but it didn't happen to a particularly good category. We had Aaron Wilson on. Do we want to play? Yeah, we'll just summarize.

He just said, look, of all spots to have injury, that's probably not the spot to be in. Maybe they move Jail and Petrie back from going from a nickel corner to a safety on that. Yeah. Where his coverage skills are, would be considered mid? I like him better close to the line of scrimbage.

Okay, fair enough. Very physical, very intimidating, but there are some areas where guys can have some success in past routes. Yeah, he, yes. And I think sometimes, well, I mean, he'd be in a different role. but I would say Jaylen Petrie very aggressive

which can be a blessing and a curse he's good at getting run stops and getting in the back field and stuff like that but sometimes play action he can be a little bit

out of sorts but yet the Texans still gave him good money in the soft season yeah I wonder if that's the characterization of most safeties I think

go ahead what do you know I was going to say I do are there complete safeties in the NFL there have been yes

there have been for many many years I mean Ed Reed was a complete safety. Ronnie Lott was a complete safety. You never had to worry about him being in the wrong place at wrong time. You never heard to worry about their tackling skills. They always had great intuition as to where the ball was going or were in spacing.

But is that, you know, again, I don't have a list in me of who would be considered the best complete safeties in the NFL. Kyle Hamilton, Ravens. Yeah. I don't know outside. I mean, go find a list. But Petra obviously was thought of well enough by the organization. and they wanted to lock him up with a bump and race.

So we'll see. But there were some times that... Couldn't the Texans have drafted Kyle Hamilton? I just thought sometimes, and maybe Ross I'm wrong on this, I thought sometimes the hype on Jaylen Petrie was a little much. I think he's good. I don't think he's great. I don't think he's all the time.

But he makes a lot of plays. And so, yeah, he pops. He does. He makes you a lot good place. I think his name was being called a lot because he was in the play itself. Mm-hmm. And so, and he can make, you know, he's athletic as hell. He can make some gray interceptions.

Oh, yeah. Texans took Derek's thinly third. Kyle Hamilton fell 14 to the Ravens, and people were talking about him in the top four or five. And everybody said, as soon as that it, oh, he fell to the Ravens, he's going to be great. And then Kyle Hamilton is one of the best safeties in football. You know, it's crazy.

The money that is being spent on secondary guys. You mentioned Hamilton. We mentioned Petrie. Stingley got his new deal in the offseason. Sauce Gardner got a new deal in the off season as well for the Jets. you, I don't know, I would not raise my children to be defensive backs. I mean, it's a great position if you can do it well, but man, it's a dime a dozen. You can become a star one year and then one year you get picked on a bunch and all of a sudden you're looking for work.

Well, I think you'll be safe. I mean, I don't have the foot speed to be a corner. I get that. But I'm good in space. Well, Cooper DeGine's back. He's bringing back hope. Is he really? Yeah.

Okay. I mean, he's, yeah, he's out there. So, C.J. Garner Johnson, and my guess is, look, the Texans are not available tomorrow to the media. The next time you'll hear about this will be on Saturday, probably following the Vikings game. So my guess is 7 o'clock at night next, this coming Saturday. First of three preseason games. And again, poor, shout out to those Viking fans that go to the game, because you are getting nothing. I mean, is Jay Jim McCart-

You can get drunk watching football. Yeah, but you can get drunk at home a lot cheap. I don't know if JJ McCarthy is going. I think it depends from team. Ever since, it was kind of a, you know, you don't play guys for this first game. You brought a little on the second. Then the third game is a dress rehearsal.

And that's it. But there's handful players don't even touch the field. Now they've gone to three, yeah. A lot of teams handle it differently. And yeah, some guys don't play. I think it's Sean McVeigh. There's some others. They don't play their starters at all in the preseason.

Well, honestly, I think the smart thing, and we were going to see more of this, when we get to that 18 game schedule, we're going to see preseason games drop to two, and we're going to see more open practices. And honestly, Ross, I don't know how many teams do it. The Texas do it for free, right? You don't have to necessarily pay to go see a practice.

I don't think they do free. I don't think. Maybe you've got to claim tickets online, but they're free. I don't know. But what if you started to put these practices in the stadiums and started charging five bucks? Why? Then you've got to staff the stadium.

Well, you could do it as a part charity. be part for your own profit. That's what the Astros do with their fan fest now. They call it a donation to the Astros Foundation. Think about this. You know, look, the NFL is always trying to figure out ways to make money. You could charge $5 a person to come in and watch these practices. You take that money and you give it to your charitable foundation, but then you sell the beer

and the hot dogs and the Coke's and the popcorn and you keep that for yourself in the parking. Maybe you reduce the parking. Maybe you make it, hey, I don't know. I'm just, when in doubt, what can I do to? squeeze more than nickels out of our fans. Squeeze anything out. So. But yeah, the two, when do we get an 18?

I keep waiting for the ball to drop on that. They keep some talk. Yeah, Roger Goodell's brought it up a couple times. Which means another streaming service, another package of NFL games will be a given away. If I was CBS and Foxx, hey, why don't you take care of us? We've been with you for decades on Sundays at noon and three. You keep giving us the Cardinals and the Panthers. We need some more meat on that bone.

Stop giving away the good games to Amazon. Oh, that's what I was thinking of. J.F. brought it up. They could have taken Kyle Hamilton 13th. And they traded back. Kenyon Green, right? Tenure Green. Thanks, Nick.

Oh. Can you? A guard. A guard at 15th. And overdrafted him, too, right? He was never considered. Well, you don't take a guard in the top 15 unless it can't miss. And they missed.

Kenyon Green was missing on trying to pass protections. But I digress. Everybody has draft misses. Some have more than others. Kyle Hamilton going forth, 14th of the first place is a miss for everybody. It was. But some missing, you know, if y'all really want to pray for somebody, pray for CJ. Gardner Johnson?

Stroud. Stroud. Okay. I mean, Gardner Johnson, of course, you could. Well, he's the one hurt. Yeah, but he's still going to,

he's got plenty of money. He's going to be fine. So does CJ Stroud? You can breathe. Well, I mean, CJ could also be eating out of a blender before then in the season. I don't think he's going to be eating out of a blender.

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Sports Talk 790. So we opened this show today and I was like, I've got to stop listening to 10th inning shows in which I don't host. It's not good from mental health. And at the bottom of the aisle, we're going to play the call that nearly made me drive off the side of the road. And I want to know if you had the same reaction than I did. What will happen? Because you didn't hear the 10th thing yesterday. You got the call?

Yeah. Uh-oh. You said you didn't want to play it. We're going to play it. I'm scared. When is this? 1.30. We love our audience.

It means the world that you guys spend your day with us. Especially those that take the time to call in, to call in shows, we appreciate you. Because, again, we don't want to do monologue. We like when we have interaction from our audience. Even when, unfortunately, Jonathan gets the gender of the person calling incorrect. Will you let that go? No. He was pretty smug about it.

It's okay. It's okay. Love you, Willie. Willie been a big fan of the show for a long time. We've been a long time. We appreciate it. Yeah, we knew it and you didn't want to believe it. You figured somebody who would trust us

who had been hosting this show for years and years and years. So we love you and we want to see all of you out at Talia Brewing tomorrow from 10 o'clock until 2. Oh, yeah. It was a master of tickets. Mm-hmm. And I'll invite the person that called the 10th inning show to come on. show. Okay. Or you know, come

I and say hello. You get a headset? You actually can co-host. Sure, why not? I don't get a couple flights. Do we have three? We can get three headsets around, right? We can. One, two. Hey, we've got there. Okay, the three. We found the third one. Thank goodness. Of course, it's a headset from the 1980s, but that's not

the here nor there. We literally have one of those space headsets. I mean, it's not, you know, not literally. We actually have a headset that we use that Howard CoSell used in the 1979 edition of football. Yes, that's correct. All right. So we're going to play that 130 and then I'm going to not come in. I'm going to let you organically comment on what you heard

and just again, it might have been me just in a mood, but I heard the call and I was like, Serenity now, serenity now. But more of that's coming. Astros loses lead Ross. Are you ready for this? It's going to be a lot

more, a much more dramatic season to me than I thought it was going to be. A lot of it's because A, the Astros have aggressed, but B, the Mariners got better. We were not anticipating the Astro, the Mariners going against Suarez. What was that first basement?

I always forget his name from the Diamondbacks they got, not Zach Allen. Josh Naylor. Josh Naylor. Naylor, our buddy Softie is already like, let's sign him up long term. He must be doing great things up there. And people in Seattle are legitimately like,

this is not the Mariners that we know. The thing is, the Astros got better. So Sanchez is better than Cam Smith right now. That's just the reality of it. I would agree with that. And that's why if Alvarez comes back, at any point, you flip Flavian. He's coming back.

You flip him and Altuveat left field or whatever you can use Aureas, whatever. It depends. Whatever comments you want to use, you're going to have a much better hitting lineup. Cam's, and I mean this is not Cam Smith's fault because I'm a big Cam Smith guy. we are hard rooting for Cam Smith. Yes. But it's just coincidental, I believe, because it takes nine to tango in a baseball game, nine in a lineup.

But his fall is coinciding with the Astros not winning ways the last month. Not his fault, but just coincidentally. Yeah, he had a, I don't know, how did he do yesterday? I think a couple days ago, everybody had a hit. And he's been, he got the day off on Sunday, I think it was. Yes. Maybe it was Monday. He had a couple of hits.

He was 70 for 70. for the Red Sox series in his last 7-8 bats. So it's wearing on him. He's creeping up 100. By the way, totally understandable. You are playing in the college baseball playoffs in June of 2025. In June and July, or 2024, in June and July of 2025, you're playing in a pennant race on a major league baseball team facing significantly better pitchers.

Oh, by the way, using a wooden bat. You know what I mean? I mean, this is life. Yeah, you just got 100 games played. played and he played, I think, like, 100 games all the last season, so natural. I'm not really that worried about it. And if he doesn't turn things

around to a huge degree, then you can use Hes-Sanchez against righties and left, and then Cam Smith against lefties. It'll be fine. Here's the question. How big of a role is Hesu-Sanchez going to be for this team? And does he have to have a big role in order

for the Astros to get over this? We're waiting for Grona-Alvarez to come back. card. Yeah, we'll see what happens with Yordon Alvarez. You obviously lose a lot of lineup flexibility. You can stick Jose Altuvae at DH and play Sanchez and Cam Smith if you have that D.H. Same thing if you want to put either or both of Victor Caratini and Yonar Diaz in that spot. So you lose some of the flexibility because you don't want to play Yordan out in the field. But you can do it against, if a guy like Fromber is pitching, groundball pitcher, you could do that and then put Altuva at D.H. Well, at least I'm

Feel better that Altuve is Adapted to the DH role more He knows Yeah, that's Yeah, go hit He's been doing that his whole life The guy's only playing D8 Guys, yeah, but he's 35

He needs, as I'm saying, he's adapting to knowing That his limitations are both in left field And second base Yeah, his best, His best numbers this year as a D. You know, who doesn't have good D.H numbers Is Yonar Diaz.

Yon Niers, he enjoys himself more when he's catching. Yeah, well, it also, I mean, who knows? It could also be coincidental, too. You never know. All right. As promised, Rossi, we do have the audio of the caller, and I just want to make sure that maybe I was just in a mood,

or this call was, because you're going to hear the phone call and hear the voice. You're like, and I think you need to hear the entire phone call. Can you hear Adam Wexler's eyes rolling? He only said one thing. And I listened to Wex's response, And he was very nice. That separates Wex and me.

Wex is nicer than I am. Well, I would say everyone on the station is nicer than you are. Even Clanton? I would say everyone except Adam Clanton is nicer than you on the station. By the way, getting word, yes, you do not want to invite Jonathan to a agenda reveal. He'd get it wrong. All right. Y'all is so messed up.

That was mad, Jonathan. I'm working with straight boys here. It was a honest mistake. can see pink and blue. I was pretty proud of that. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. Ross, what is, believe it or not today coming up at $150?

Oh, cr-many. That's in 20 minutes on Sports Talk, 7-90. All right. Ross, listen the entire thing. And give me your completely non-biased thoughts if you were hosting the 10th inning show. Ladies gentlemen, we present to you. Do we want to react to the call? Is it from hosting the 10-th inning show?

Yeah, but listen, let them say the whole thing first. This, my friends, is a great moment in the 10th inning show. From the 10th inning show. We jump back into the conversation on the phones out to Huffman. Steve is with us here on the Astros 10th inning show. Wex here with you. What's going on, Steve? Well, I like Joe, okay?

He's a nice guy. He's a good coach. He's not a manager. And I'll tell you why I'm saying this. First of all, Pena had a day off tomorrow. We needed him to play today. We need to win this game. Seattle's playing a junior high team tonight.

They're likely going to beat and then gain a game. And now it's going to be two games. Really, that was really a poor decision on Joe's part. You know, if there wasn't a day off tomorrow, maybe I could see his reasoning. But we need him in the lineup, you know, particularly when we got, what, 49, 48 games left? Every one of these games are important. And Joe treats it like it's spring training at the church. You know, I don't know what's going on there.

The other thing is Alvarez. I'm reading that he's been taking batting practice for quite some time. No injuries reported. What's the chance that he'll be activated for this weekend? I'm hoping 100%. Now, remember, my initial thought, was I was yelling at the radio. I was saying, get them wax.

Get them wax. And then I checked my blood pressure and it was like 190 over 140 and I had to calm down. There was, this is the way I generally, if guys are like inquisitive and ask stupid questions, you know, there's no such thing as dumb questions. But when you get the little hint to the smugness, that's when I start to really take issue. And that definitely was some hint of smugness in that call of like, what is this idiot Joe Spada doing out there? And that's again where I say, you must pay attention, folks. They've been doing this.

Joe Espott has been doing it for two years. Dusty Baker did it before him. And A.J. Hinch did it before him. They know that they need these guys rested and ready to go. Not for August 6th. but for October. And then you add into the fact, does this guy not even know that Jeremy Pena had the hamstring issue on Saturday or Friday? And then he missed all of Saturday's game?

We need you to pay attention, folks. And again, you're not Alvarez. Well, Harry's swinging the bat. Well, I don't have put him in there. And then you're probably the one that's crushing the Astros for rushing him back because he's had multiple setbacks with his hand injury. Multiple setbacks. so they're going to treat him with kid gloves again. October is more important than August.

Now, I understand you have to get there, and there is a line to toe. But the Astros are in first place. And yes, that caller has called in with bad calls multiple times. Multiple. 101 off. I was on Kingwood Drive. Okay.

I don't know if I'd have been screaming at my radio. I was. I know. Because I know that guy. I mean, I don't know him. I know his call. I'm sure he's a nice coach. Last year the Astros won the West.

They have a two-game lead this year. There have been as many injuries on this team that have had anywhere else in baseball. Now, is any manager perfect? Of course not. No. Are there, is any manager or coach or player or anyone beyond reproach for criticizing them?

No. You can criticize them. anybody. But I would also say let's do a little bit of critical thinking. Let's realize that Joe Espada is around these players every day. He talks to the trainers every day and they decide when the days

are off and when they're going to be they have planned off days. And as you mentioned earlier in the show Matt today, that oftentimes they do do it right ahead of an off day to give them those two days off. Certainly when a guy is coming off a rib injury and a hamstring

cramp. You're a kid. You're Kingwood Drive now. I see you on the Kingwood Drive. You're right there with me. Yeah, I know. It gets you there. It does. But these little comments, these little smugness that you toss in there, it's ridiculous. Like, again, are you just watching the games? Or are you even watching the games? Are you paying attention? This has been happening for years and years and years. Not one Astro since 2017 has played all 162 games. How many players in Major League Baseball played 162? I don't know. Isn't there a guy who's got a pretty long streak?

He's like the Phillies or Somers. I'll look it up. You talk. Longest playing streak in MLB. Somewhere with a red team, I feel like. A red team. Okay, that'll narrow it down with red jerseys. That could be wrong. Anyways, I'm going to go National League and Red.

Okay, I'm looking it up. The answer is. So, for the best. Cal Ripkin, 2,632. Oh, stop, current. Oh, I had to put the word current in there. Current, C-U-R-E-N-T. Don't hurt yourself.

Well, I'm looking at AI here. Why? I don't know. Easier? Mm-hmm. Boy, this is not... Oh, is it Whitmerfield? No, that was a long...

It's Matt Olson. How many has he got? Matt Olson's over 700. Okay. Hmm, that's blue and red. Do I get half credit? Who does he play for? Braves.

Oh, yeah, you get credit. It's red in that uniform. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. So there you go. And by the way, until Jeremy got hurt, guess what Jeremy did every day? He played.

Played. Matter of fact, I think even, I even think Joe's like, when I said, you know, you gave him a day off and he goes, no, no, no, I pinch him. And that one day his streak was alive. He's like, Joe's aware. He's got guys that want to play every day.

And I'm sure... Jeremy Payne is not one of them. Well, he hasn't, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, but he got in yesterday. And all of a sudden, it did fortify your bench. It just did. But there were some guys that, I mean, again, I am of the belief, having watched enough baseball in my life,

that one guy in the lineup, especially on a rando early August day, Rossi, to me, doesn't make the difference between winning a division and losing a division. Especially if you felt like you needed to give Payne a day off for some time between now and the end of this road trip, and you want him to play three games in New York, do you not? Yes.

Games play for the Astros this year. Jose Al-Tuvre, oh, so that was... See the leader? 111. Christian Walker 109, Diaz 102, Cam Smith 99, Peretti's 94, Dubon 91, Myers 89,

Jeremy Pena. Hey, Myers, 87. We miss you, Jake. Maybe we hear a peep out of him. He's running on flat ground. Yeah. That's progression. As opposed to slope to ground? You should bring him a smoothie.

Why? Because you're the president of this fan club. I am, but... What if you put a hard workout in? He wants something cold to drink. It makes more money than me. I'm not a smoothie, bitch. Yeah, but smoothies don't cost that much. He can afford it.

Yeah, nobody's ever going to call you a smoothie bitch. Hey, Mr. Myers, would you like a smoothie? When I was first calling Rockets games, the Rockets would get smooth. for all the players. Uh-huh. And they would pre-package and order them. Uh-huh.

And some of the guys didn't want them. So we'd always go to shoot around, you know, the little morning practice. And steal their smoothies. Well, we would drive by and there'd be like 20 smoothies left. And it made me, I was kind of sad. I was like, I could grab them? No, because I didn't ask for a while. Why not?

And then you did. Yeah, you would. They could have said, no. They said, no, sure have one because nobody was drinking. Now they have them made at lunchtime. So we have a smoothie station. Oh, that's great. Oh, it's great.

That sounds great. He's really good. good. Okay. I think a smoothie right now sounds good. Although the sugar content's kind of high. Can you get a low sugar smoothie? Of course you can. Is it tasty, though?

I mean, it's better with sugar, but also, you know, your glucose level is going to spike. I don't need that. Let's go to Larry and Galveston. Hi, Larry. Hey, man. How are you doing? Larry, I'm wonderful.

Nice to hear from you. I tell you what, I'm doing great also. I cannot believe what that insane individual did. last night on the 10th inning show. You know, he has absolutely no doubt what's going on. Joe's Fata probably right now at this point in time deserves manager of the year dealing with everything that he has had to deal with for the entire year. And if he's got a problem with that, well, I'm sorry, but

he just needs to relax. And any of the Astros fans out there that are worried about the Astros for this year, they need to relax. You know, from the last three or four years, we've gone out to California and we played the athletics. And for some unknown reason, we went out there and we dropped out there. and we dropped like three out of four games or four out of four games. Well, this time it happened at home.

And then it happened in Boston. But we got Correa back, thank goodness. We got Sanchez. We got Eureas. And we're getting our pitchers back. And Arrogati had a less than wonderful start yesterday. but then on the other hand, it's the first time that he's been back for like a month

and they have to close to two months. And so everybody in Astros Nation needs to just relax and we're going to take it to the Mariners and the Rangers and I want for the Astros go pretty good ways this year. Me too, Larry. Thank you for the phone call. I've got to roll a little break. Thank you very much for the phone call.

Let's say a quick timeout and come back and take a couple quick calls if we can and get to believe it or not. Is it highly gugookable, Ross? It certainly is. 144 Sports Talk 7-9. Vince in Midtown joins the Matt Thomas show at 149. Hi, Vince. Hey, good afternoon. Hey, I'm not defending that guy yesterday on that call, but first of all, I think the spot has definitely has to be a top candidate for manager of the year based on what he knows.

through this part of the season and how well he's done with makeshift lineups every night. But when I heard the opening or the lineup, I'm like, man, they kept in Pena out of the lineup. And I think all these games are very, very important right now. And he's been hitting the crap out of the ball. And so I did question that. However, I would never go after the coach for making the decision that he knows more. Well, again, questioning things, Vince, and thank you for the phone call, is more than acceptable.

I mean, that's what managers are made to be second-guessed. But you have to kind of trust what the guy's doing that has been around that team since the beginning and knows the organization intimately. And we've said before, he's not the only manager that likes to put back-to-back days together. And frankly, he didn't get it back-to-back, he didn't get an off day.

He didn't get a day to decompress. You had a hit late in the game. Just trust. But to say that someone is not quite, it would be like, Rossi, help me. out with us. You know, I'm terrible analogies. I don't know. A sales manager that routinely

hits 105% of his goal, and then one month he's at 89% and all of a sudden he should be dropped down to a guy that works in the warehouse. I just find it insulting that a gibroni would call a show and say he may be a good coach, but not a

good manager when his team is in first place and manages 20 bodies and 26 players and in this case 40 to 45 different players. I just, I think it's disrespectful. I just think it is. Yeah, it's not quite, well, we criticize politicians. Probably do a better job of knowing the inner workings of politics than I do. Oh, I know.

I know about the interworking as of politics. They're all slime balls. Well, yeah, we all get money. It's power to follow money, folks. There's a difference to me in questioning, respectfully, and going what they're hell's going on. And maybe I'm being too narrow-minded on the man. I just feel like managers

in baseball just because people think they can coach and manage a baseball team because they play in Little League. You don't hear, you don't hear coaches say, I can out-coach Emae-Doker. I can out-coach Pat Riley. You hear it all the time in baseball. That's true.

I would just say in general, if you're looking to criticize somebody who's an expert at what they do, which Joe Espada is expert of what he does. Before you call into the show and stop and try to see the other side. Look for the reasoning and what they are doing.

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