The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Lose the Series vs Mariners 2-1, Can The Astros Ever Catch A Break With These Injuries?

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

Astros Lose the Series vs Mariners 2-1, Can The Astros Ever Catch A Break With These Injuries? Longhorns Are Crushing Recruiting

Ross v. Reyes is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. H-Town. Good morning and welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. How are you feeling all right? Sports RV, the local 9 finally got us a win in Seattle yesterday. By the way, any excuse to play Joe Cocker on this radio show will be found. We found awake, and so we are feeling all right.

Your Astros. up four in the AL West. I'm feeling all right. It's the way to describe it. Not feeling great. Not feeling immaculate. Like if they had a slept them. I think it's a perfect song.

I could have gone, I feel fine by the Beatles. Could have gone feeling groovy. That had been a little too past the show. The Astros got by with a little help from their friends. Oh. From Sugarland? That's another Joe Cocker. I mean, banger.

Yes. Which he did better than the Beatles. two completely different songs. I would agree. So. But one's better than the other. Are you starting already? No, you're right.

I'm sorry. Jonathan, it's wonderful to see you. I hope you had a very good week. I wanted to make the get by with the help from their friends from Sugar Land. That's all I wanted to say. All right. So what we're going to do today coming up in a few minutes, we had figured out on the 26-man roster last week,

that 35% of the team probably would be at Sugar Land if everybody was healthy, or at least most parts were healthy. How are the space Cowboys getting by, by the way? Are they doing okay over there? Does it really matter at this point? Are they going to go in the two-man out field? We're going to, in a few minutes, we're going to figure it.

I brought this up on Twitter yesterday. It might be 40% now. Yeah. Because Shay Wickham is here. Jay Wickham. John Singleton is here. Oh, boy. Isok Prettys shredded his hamstring rounding for his space.

Boy. They didn't waste any time. He pulled it or whatever he did. I mean, it looked like a pull to me. Yeah. And they flew his ass. I don't if they flew him right eye back or the 6 a.m. flight, but he's like, oh, yeah, we're sending him to Houston.

He went straight to the plane from the field. Now, does Jim Crane use miles on that or do you just pay the airfare? Now, can you get on the plane with those cleats? No, he probably, he probably showered. Okay. I don't think he went in uniform. I've told you this story really quickly. That's a good way to get an upgrade.

Really quickly. When I was doing Rice Baseball in the 1990s. late 90s. As soon as the game was over, you would think the boys would go take a shower, get dressed, and then we'd go, you know, get in the car, van, truck, whatever, or the bus. Nope. The guys in cleats, in full uniform, we'd go eat right after the game. So it was Wayne Graham, some of his players, some of his coaches were all at a Denny's just knocking it back. Like in Little League. Like in Little League. You go to the Pizza Inn buffet.

You got to do what you got to do. The mold of morale? Oh, big, big fan of minor league and college teams. So, yeah. So he got on the. plane and said, I'm out of here, and they haven't said anything about, I'm assuming they'll give us an update on him later today, but they did I-L him immediately, which is never a good sign. Not a good sign. And it's a re-injury, not a good sign. Different hamstring. Oh, a different one, okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That actually makes me feel a lot better. The first one was three days. This one's going to be probably, which can happen when one is hurt and you compensate and then

you hurt the other one. That's very often. Our track athlete probably has heard of that. Yes, yes. Yes. We're going to play some Dana Brown audio. And as I told you before, and I told you for the last month, when we play the Dana Brown Audio, I will not give you any sort of commentary on said audio because he's only being, he's only answering the question that was asked to him. Okay. Doesn't mean that it's the truth. Doesn't mean it's the lie.

Doesn't mean he's trying to hide something. He doesn't know. And as I said before, and I maintain my consistency on this, when they arrive and they play, I'll be happy. I'm not going to hear getting close, sooner rather than later, on the, cusp of, man, looking good, none of that. You know what? I've been saying that too, but I'm backing off on it. At least when I get, how about this? I'll do one rider to that. When I hear rehab assignment, I'll start to get a little.

Now, if you want to believe that, Javier, rehab, exactly. Erigetti, really good rehab, Garcia rehab. Yeah, so I was trying to take my stance that I didn't care, but then I heard, oh, good rehab started all right, I'm getting excited. Nope, nope, nope. I know, I'm trying to. I got suckering in my head. I got suckering in before sports army. I know. I know. We're fighting the rational versus the emotional. The rational says don't worry about it. Don't think about it.

The emotional's like, ooh, Eric Getty's looking good. No, I'm doing it. Okay. Fine. You choose your own path, Houston, Texas. This man's path is when they put the word Astros in their jersey, and they're in the lineup, and Bob Ford screams their name, I'm all good. Okay, Matt.

And when Yorda and Alvarez gets a see-you-later for Robert, then we're going to do it. Okay. But until then, audio's played. We provide information. I will not react to this audio at all. Is that going to be you? It'll be like AI and Matt.

We can record a response for you. Hi, I'm Matt. And now while this news sounds encouraging because of the past transgressions of the Astros, I will not be getting excited. Here's what I can do. Can we record it right now? Can we record it?

Hold on. Let me get some reading music or something like that. Here, hold on. Okay. Oh, good jam. Okay. Hi, it's Matt Thomas. Co-host of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Weekdays 10 to 2 on Sports Talk 790.

Here's the latest on Yorna Alvarez. Here's the latest on Jeremy Pena. Here's the latest on Issaac Perides. Here's the latest on Spencer Arigetti. Here's the latest on Luis Garcia. Here's the latest on... I sound out. Various Astros.

Not Renal Blanco. He's done for the year. Just say various. Here's the latest on the latest astro injury. All right. Part two. And that was Dana telling us that things are getting better. And that was Dana telling us that things are encouraging. And that was Dana telling us that it looks like it could be a few more weeks.

And that's Dana sounding bullish on the return of. Okay, we're done. We got it. Turn our music off. You got to tell us you're taking it with a grain of salt. You didn't get that part. Oh, hold on. Turn it, music back up.

Let me start. No, for back over. That's right. Did he say sooner rather than later? I take everything with a grain of salt. When he returns, he returns. I look forward to his return. Man, I miss him.

Imagine what this line up will be like when returns. Can't wait for to hit the take them out. Let me try that again. Take two. Three, two, one. Can't take. Take three. Can't wait for

to return to the Astros pitching rotation. Is that the real we're seeing out there? Man, the reports at Corpus are good. Man, the reports at Sugar Land are good.

Oh, dang. Another Astor injury, too? Put in bubble wrap. I'll give you one. Put Jose Altooubae in bubble wrap. I think I've just finished the show for the last two months.

16 players are currently on the Astros injury list. Oh my God. Major League Baseball Network has a list of all of them. Oh, my God. Oh, I forgot Sean Dubin and J.P. France and Zach DeSenzo. How could you forget Luis Giorme? And Brendan Rogers, who by the way got collided with a player over the weekend in Sugarland. God, he's really...

He's on a 60-day I-L now. He's doing a good job of DeLing his DFA. Jake Myers. Jake Mel. I don't count Pedroeone. He's a Sugarland Space Cabo goat. He's on the space. Cowboy Mount Rush War.

It's technically 15 players. I mean, I know it's literally 16, but it's only 50. John Sittleton's working his way into Space Cowboy Hall of Fame. If he's not already there. Now, I did see a tweet this morning. Do you know the number he's wearing for the Astros? Somebody took his number, right? Yeah, so he's got a new number.

What is it? 35. Oh, Justin Verlander? Past tense. Verlinder's not winning any games for the Giants. He's long gone. I got something to say. Oh, say it then.

If Roy Oswald's number ain't retired, Justin Verlander's number should not be retired. Sorry. We appreciate the two world series, but he didn't put in the time. It wouldn't be tantamount to the Clyde Drexler one because that was worse. Because Clyde Drexler was only, what, like three, four seasons?

But it would be in that ballpark, I feel like. Mount Rushmore Astor pitchers quickly. Roy Oswald? Yep. No, and Ryan? Do you put Larry Durker in that, group? Don Wilson? Stop.

What? Shane Reynolds? Could you? Here's... Joe Necro. Joe Niko is the all-time winner, right? Yeah, but... Or is it Phil? Is it Phil or Joe? No, no, Phil never played for the answer.

Okay, there's Joe. That answers my question. It's your Nicos right. Bo! Wait a minute. Joe Niko is the all-time leading winner. What's his record? I don't remember. it's like he's got, okay, I'm pulling it up.

144 wins with the Astros. Joe Necrow is never starting a game seven for me for the Astros. Okay, but you're talking about Matt Rushmore. Yeah, well, I'm putting Randy Johnson starting to game seven, but he didn't play right. All right, all right, all right, all right. We'll discuss this week.

When is the All-Star break? Oh, it was last week. Oh, dang, we can't do it then. Yeah, we can think about it. All right, 1013 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas Show. Ross. Hope you guys are in a good mood today. We certainly are. Your Stroes did win a game and convincing fashion with a bunch of people. Taylor Tremel. Is he the goat? He used to go to playing at

Team Mobile Park going against his old teammates. I like Taylor Tramel. Make it play. He's throwing people out. Yep. Bryce Matthews got his first hit as a major league over the weekend. As you predicted. That's a gut-feeling win. I mean, he hadn't done much since then, but it's neither here nor there. Right. He's working on it. And then Lance McCullors. much to discuss dominant performance at the Open Championship over the weekend I actually watched some of that You did Longhorn legend Scotty Sheffler

Yeah by the people don't like him Yeah he's um But I'll explain They tried to show a softer side to him After he pulled away and destroyed the competition Uh huh Ross has been spending a lot of time discussing the WNBA labor strife I can't sleep man

I mean, those t-shirts were something else. Yeah, well, we can discuss that too, Matt, actually. You said we weren't going to bring up the WNBA? You lied. I know. But it's not as cut and dry as it should be. I mean, I'll just say it this way. It's not cut and dry. I would agree. But I'm not going to say that it's, they did the right thing. I'm just going to say that there are just better avenues than putting up shirts like that.

All of you did was spark social media outrage. Dante Robinson thinks it's a great idea. He does. Yeah, he did. And you know that Texans don't have one of their second round draft picks signed? Yes. Which one? Hold on. It's not the receiver. It's going to be one of your starting amazing offensive linemen in 2020.

Oh, is it Arionte Ersary? Yes. So the second rounders, a lot of them haven't signed, though. They're starting to come in a little by little. Because of the fully guaranteed deal that the Texans gave out. Uh-huh. So really Nick Casero is hated by 31 other general managers. Mm-hmm. That's fine.

All right, 713, 2-1. I'm not in the front office. I don't care. Yeah. He's going to play. Will there be ursary angst if he doesn't show up for the first day? Wow. You just came up with a headline for Houston Texans. No, they wouldn't do that.

No, they wouldn't say anything negative. I'm sorry, for the Battle Red Times. Deep Steel low down. Yes. I'm sure they get a credential for everything too. The Liberty White dealer, actually, that's something else. Isn't that any play, like a green sheet rip-off? Do people even know what the green sheet is?

Let's ask. See, this is why we love having Jonathan here. Jonathan, do you know what the green sheet is? I don't. Okay, don't worry about it. See, when we say, do the kids know what this is, we can go directly to Jonathan. You are a kid. You are a kid.

You know, I kind of like it, though, because I really don't know what stuff. No, we love having you on the show. Are we going to tell them? Uh, when we come back. 713, 212-790. 713212-5-790. If you're on Twitter, want to follow us there,

it's at SportsMT and at SportsServia. Are you hungry? You're thinking about lunch coming up in 45 minutes, aren't you? All right, the rice, I just say the green sheet, for those that, I would say that 90%

our audience knows what the green sheet is. We need to get that number lower. Yeah, we want to get it. Not that we don't appreciate those who that know what a green sheet is, but we would find not minding in a few more that don't know what it means. it's a week was it a weekly magazine uh not magazine but i believe it was weekly uh i would just call it uh yeah like a n't

well not a wan ads it was a um place to put your goods and services into like a magazine format yeah community newspaper is what they're calling yeah they didn't have news in it but it was like hey we've got this set of stores on harwin has this going on uh if you need yard service done go to this if you need if you're looking to have sprinkler system put in... I would look at buying cars. There would be classified ads. Yeah, it's a huge class...

I'll put this way. That's that. It's a huge classified section. I mean, like 30 or 40 pages deep. Mm-hmm. I used to just pick up the green sheet, just read it. And see what people had for...

Well, odd things people had for sale. Hmm. And then I believe the first car I bought I might have saw in the green sheet. Really? I don't know what. why I went like this when I said it. What car was it?

1993, Honda Accord. Emerald Green. And back in the day, you could trust that because people were spending money to put ads in the green sheets. So they were obviously legit. Yeah. And my dad tried to hardball the guy and he only gave us 50 bucks off. $50 off.

You got a deal. What dad did a Gila real? He's a tough negotiator. That's funny. Yeah, I don't. Because it was a great price. It was a great price. It was a great price.

Green sheets not print anymore. I'm sure if it isn't online only, right? I don't, it says on the Wikipedia, it is a local community newspaper. Oh, it's still around? I don't know if they're still printing these bad boys. Okay. And a limited release. Very limited. Limited editions. Yeah, you could basically, and they would give you to sections of town, Northwest, Cyprus, Southwest, you know, if you were in League City or in, you know, Galveston or whatever. Uh-huh. Yeah, it was fine. I mean, it served a purpose. on their website, the last post

is from February 5th, February 5th, 2024. Well. Yeah, they had jobs. You could find jobs there. Yeah. Did you have more fun looking at the green sheet?

Mm-hmm. Or did you have more fun going at the back of Houston Press and linking up those various nightclubs that would have adult entertainment? Oh, that would you, I didn't do that. That was me at 16. I'll see 100% admit that.

100% admit that. You'd call the escorts? No, I would just, see what was there, what kind of strange ads there would be. There was some classified looking for this, looking for this. Uh-huh. They used to have, what would you call, what were the dating ads called? Dating ads, I don't know.

Oh, no, there was a word for it. Not single. But I mean, you could find like the 1,900 numbers, 9, 76 numbers. Jonathan, this is before the internet. You could go, people would date off of there. They'd put like age 35, interested in, I don't know, arts and crafts, looking for. Yeah, it was. in the back of the Houston press.

That's some serial killer stuff, man. You had to meet some people somehow back in the 1990s. Yeah. Yeah, you could definitely... First of all, that could be serial killers on dating apps. Correct. I mean, I would think it's more easily to find them now than it would be that. Then, at least you had to go spend money on the Houston Press to go get your date.

But you did have to go blonde. No pictures. Mm. Well, you're more of a picture, man. I see. I got you. All right. But people would describe their bodies.

They would say, like, fit or... Which could be completely. lose a few. That's like under the movie Friday or he said like Janet Jackson. You look like Janet Jackson. Look more like Freddie Jackson. Or Jermaine.

No, that's from the movie, Matt. Oh, I don't know. You haven't seen Friday ever? No. Matt Thomas. It's a comedy. Okay, I would love you. Now, see, I forgive Goodfellas.

I'm forgiving all these other. Oh, you said you actually saw a casino, right? I did. I'm forgiving. That one's more violent. No, that's pretty close. But I forgive these violent movies because you don't like But a comedy and an all-time classic like Friday, you have no excuse.

You're not going to believe what I saw this weekend. And I'm glad you don't look on your Facebook page very much. No, I don't. I have no idea what you saw. I caught the last three, last three quarters of still magnolias. And it still makes me cry every single time. It still makes you cry. Still, steel makes me cry.

First of all, great cast. Second of all, I mean, weeping for, I don't want to give a way. I don't want to watch. I don't like to watch movies like that. That movie's 36 years old, by the way. 89. Wow, it can run for president. I was going to say hashtag Shelby.

That's all I want to say. Okay. Okay. Back to the Astros. So how many times are you seeing Steel Magnolius? Ten. Steel Magnolius 10, Friday, Zero. Yeah, well, I'm going to end that.

I'll go watch Friday this weekend. Okay, do it. Yeah. I'll report back to you Monday with a Friday review. All right. We're going to look at the roster coming back. Who's the roster? The Astros.

No, you're just pissed me off. Or the Space Cabo's, whatever you want to call it. It's kind of a hybrid. Now remember, I would not necessarily, if you were worried about the Astros, yesterday's victory doesn't make you feel significantly better. Personal ads, that's what they're called. Okay.

Sorry, go ahead. But it calms you down a little bit. Okay. Not the personal ads, the Astros performance. Well, that could calm you down, too. Because, again, Taylor Tremel did help the cause. Who else? I mean,

Zach Schwarz helped a little bit. Cooper Hummel helped a little bit. But the Astros used Matt Dominguez and he helped a little bit. You know what I'm saying? Carrotini swinging a big bat. He is. He's going to have to keep doing that.

But I mean, you're just you know what you're doing? You're in the deep end of the water of the pool and you are just trying to stay above water, right? Aren't you? I like that. Right? You're just trying to stay afloat. Yeah.

You're trying to breathe a little bit. You're treading water. Until the lifeguard gets there. Okay. Or the lifeguard's got a fractured hand. All right. Some Dana Brown audio coming back on the variety of injuries. And again, I will not comment on anything he says.

I will listen. I will accept what he says is gospel. But I will provide no other analysis besides that. 1029 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We thank you for spending part of your day with us. Hopefully you can hang with us all the way until 2 o'clock today. Where you've got big three basketball tickets to give away.

By the way, our boss, our broadcasting programming boss, Brian Erickson went to the 80s show on Friday night and said that John Wait was the star of the show. John Wait, the star of the show. Said everybody else was kind of mid, but John Waite was really good. He can still let it sang. So Wang Chun didn't do his Wang Chung. Wang Chung, he did, so he did not Wang Chung that night. I can't name a second Wang Chung song. Everybody Wang Chung tonight.

I mean, basically, do you sing Wang Chung and then covers everybody else's songs? Or what are you doing? I don't know. I'm going to look it up, Matt. I don't know how many hits Wang Chung had. It got enough to tour. Imagine if you went to the restroom and you missed Wang Chung. Yeah, you could probably do that.

I'll go get some popcorn. Yeah. Get one of those long margaritas they serve. Don't let go. Dance Hall Days? Oh, that's a good song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's enough. Let's go.

Number nine hit? 1987. Hmm. Those songs aren't for me. Okay. Dance Hall Days, is it what you said? Everybody have fun tonight was a number two hit. Oh, yeah.

That is an 80s banger. All right, so to the Astros now. Dana Brown visits with Robert Ford on Sunday on the pregame show if you don't catch it. So we give you an opportunity to catch some of the sound. Yes. Honestly, Robert had to do, and it was the right thing to do, is he had to spend 80% of his time talking about the health of the team. Yes, and we need some proper everybody on the team has injured music.

Oh, yeah. Now, wait a minute. Isak Boris! Let's get the latest on Isak. Go ahead. No, it's my RCS. All of a sudden stop working. Hold on.

It was working literally last segment. good God. Yeah, absolutely waiting for the MRI. You know, hopefully it's not as bad. You know, it's always tough when you lose the guy that's been the most consistent for you throughout the entire season. That's both defensively and offensively. He's had a pretty good year for us. So, you know, we'll be paying close attention to this one.

You know, it's going to be tough, you know, playing these next stretching games without them. Continue. You have anything you want to add. I want to add that Dana is always super optimistic. And so when there's an absence of that, I'm concerned. That's what I would like to add. These untrained eyes look like that was a full pull. Like months.

They're calling it a strain on the website. You just continue to drink the Kool-Aid over there, fine, all right? You knock that Kool-Lay back. That strain is a little. That's code word. But I'm not commenting. Remember I said that one comment. Okay.

You're not commenting. I'm going to comment. And let's get a plan for Yordaunt Alvarez. Yeah, I mean, the deal is we're going to let him swing the bat, get some swings in, you know, off the tea, see how it feels that on this day off. And then, you know, bring them back the next time and try to increase the intensity each time. And, you know, so we're going to, you know, gradually get them built back. up, but it's been really encouraging to know that he's swinging a bat now with no pain. Of course, he's not cutting it loose, but he's at least taking his tax and he doesn't feel

anything. So that's a great sign. This music is making me much. It's optimistic. Maybe this was a bad idea. I try to add production value to the show, and it's just making tears stream down my face. Well, the problem is I can't comment on any of this. I would add production value with my commentary. That sounded a little bit more optimistic, I would say. Okay, hold on.

Play that again. I want you to listen very closely to what he said. And then I want you to give the real answer. Okay. Yeah, I mean, the deal is we're going to let him swing the bat, get some swings in, you know, off the tee, see how it feels that on this day off, and then, you know, bring them back to next time

and try to increase the intensity each time. And, you know, so we're going to, you know, gradually get them built back up. But it's been really encouraging to know that he's swinging the bat now with no pain. Of course, he's not cutting it loose, but he's at least taking his tax and he doesn't feel anything. So that's a great thing. That's a great sign. That's just like perfect timing with the swelling of the song, I think.

He's fine, Matt. He's not cutting it loose, but he's swinging. And then we're going to get him back and reevaluate. Everything's cool. Nothing to worry about here, folks. Continue on. I have no comment. First of all, here's my comment.

I have been an Astro. I was an Astro buddy in 1980. Okay. I love this Astro's team. I grew up with this team. It's my team. Period of story. And I'm moving on.

Okay. Dana Brown, how's Jeremy Payne looking? Yeah, I mean, look, there's a chance we could do it without a rehab assignment. Although we may need to let him get some type of timing back. Hopefully he can get that while in Florida. but look we need him back ASAP it seems like when you know Jeremy Pena went down that's when things started to really affect the club you know as a whole you know because he was leading off he was really consistent with the bat this year he brings a lot of energy and leadership you know so anytime you lose your shortstop that's you know at the top of the lineup and he's right in the middle of all the energy it's going to be a difficult thing I have multiple Astros jerseys like I've got a rainbow one. I've got a 90s one and I'm thinking about going to get these new

Space City. The new Monday ones. Space City ones. I didn't like lashes. I like this year's Monday uniform. That's all I have to say. First of all, it sounds like a buffet of pitching, which I really like. You know, those guys at some point we're going to be able to use all three of those. You know, I think Erigetti

could be the first guy back, you know, because it wasn't an arm-related. was more of the thumb. And so he may be a guy that, you know, you could, you know, sort of expedite a little bit. It looks like he had, you know, three really good innings. And, you know, once the Velo start to come back and if he can hold it and maintain it, you know, we could see him, you know, being built up partially back here when he arrives, you know, but we got to get him built up somewhat to at least be a starter. So he's going through his early stages of spring training right now.

I was to say a little bit into spring training mode, you know, right now. And hopefully, you know, after a couple more starts, we could really start to think about, hey, is this the guy that we can go ahead and turn the corner on and bring him back sooner? He would be huge. Javier seems like he's throwing the ball well, 94, 95. You know, he could certainly, you know, get back here. Probably be after every ergeti, but I could see him getting back here too as well. and then I think Garcia is probably behind both of those guys

the fact that he's you know touching 93 with ease and you know that those are all good signs and so you know we'll see as we continue to progress and they continue to get built up but certainly we could use those three right now I was there when Mike Scott who had no hitter in 1986 I was in eighth grade and I skipped school that day I went for a half day and I got called by on the fire It's principle that got mad at me.

Okay. They're four games up and first. It's all good. That's exactly right. Up four games. A certain member of the 790 staff, I won't mention his name. Dan Matthews said if the Astros would have been swept,

that the Astros would have lost the division. We're feeling all right. Oh, we're playing more Joe Cocker. Yeah, and maybe less of this. It's bringing me down. All right, is it it? Are we getting anything on? This is what you put on when you're breaking up with your lady.

Okay. Divorce, Cam? You think that song was played by the CEO of the Astronomer 2, from his wife to the husband? I don't know. What are they going to do? It might as well stay together. No, no chance.

He's no longer the CEO, by the way. They seem like they were having a good time. He resigned? Yeah. And that video is over 100 million views. You know what? I want to actually talk about that. When we come back.

Okay. I have a question that maybe, I'm not trying to get, I don't think it can be canceled, but. You can get you canceled? No, you canceled. No, why am I, why are you trying to cancel me? I'm just playing sound bites of Dana Brown. I just have a dumb question.

Oh, I know. I'm here for it then. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-79. Neidels wants to talk about, oh, he's going to apologize to me? Ooh, we get that. Can we get that before your comment? No. All right, Neal, hang tight. We're going to get to your phone call. Trust me on this.

So we asked Gordy what he wanted to talk about when he came into this morning for his drive-by. WMBA labor situation. What are your thoughts on that, Gordy? Pay them, yes. I don't know. Oh, wait, what happened about? I was supposed to have a dumb question real quick. Oh, yeah, what's your dumb question about the CEO?

Why does he have to get fired and lose his job? He didn't fire. He didn't fire. Okay, you know he got coerced into resigning. Absolutely. Ethics related. Ethics. They're public.

How many, okay, if I got 100 CEOs, how many of them are only sleeping with their wives? Okay. That's a generalization. Let's drop this down. I'm just wondering. I mean, if he does a good job. What if the chairman of the board of Iheart, Bob Pittman, stuck with his HR director?

Was he doing a good job? Is he making the shareholders money? I think there's an ethical to a publicly held company that you have to kind of watch your piece and cues. That's for PR. You're held to a higher standard. I guess. It's only PR.

Okay. Like I said, it was a stupid question. Like the President of the United States had an intern in the White House. Yeah, he didn't get, he kept his job. He was impeached. Yeah, there was another president who was in peace like three times. He kept his job. Yeah.

So maybe the standard is lower. Yeah, maybe you should. Not much of a standard for president. So let's move on from that, I guess. I thought this way. No crimes were committed. What if they were both single, probably it's not the best look, but they probably keep their jobs. If they're both single, there would be no issue.

But you've got, you've got an HR boss and a CEO who are both. It's optics, is what I'm saying. Did you see the videos? But optics are a huge part of employment. I've never heard of astronomer. All the videos they did at the minor league ballparks over the weekend, all this. Somebody tweet out, they said, look, there were two families here that suffered a lot of emotional. But this thing has brought a lot of joy to the rest of us.

I thought it was hilarious. Like if you and I were to caress like that, take a photo like that. What? Why would you go in this direction? You just swerved so far off the path? We'd get a lot of hits on it. It would not be a good look for you to one of us. There was a fork in the road. and you made a U-turned.

Yeah, yeah. Nice, that's funny. That was a dad joke right there. Yeah. All right, anyways, Gordy, what's going on? Yeah, Gordy, what are you up to? Well, I know we're going to talk to you about. Did you see the University of Texas got their fifth five-star recruit this weekend?

Let's go. Good for them. Seriously. They were Miami and Georgia. That means they didn't pay any. It was a little bit of a Friday news dump, but the SEC Media Days media poll was dropped. And Texas overwhelmingly picked to win the SEC. doubled the votes of Georgia.

Look, I had somebody. They played Georgia on the road. Somebody brought this up. Look, I'm all aboard the Archmanning bandwagon. I think Sark has done a great job. But they rarely won the Big 12 the last decade. Do we think they're just going to come in the SEC and run roughshod every year? What is it?

Nobody thinks they're going to run rough shot. Well, they were picked last year to get to the SEC title game. They did. Which they did. And now they're picked this shirt out just to get there to win it all. Okay. So far that's two years in, two years picked to go play for. for the title. Okay, so

one year in they've done it and we'll see what happens this year. I think a little bit of a disappointment. Here we go. Anybody but LSU is getting love in the SEC? I picked Georgia to win it. So, not show any bias. Aggies are eight. Yeah, Georgia's a fine pick and they play Georgia on the road.

Ace. Oh, two against Georgia. Your beloved Aggies are eighth. Okay. That's not my beloved Aggies. That felt very low for a team that started, what, seven and one and five and five in the SEC last year? And then what happened? They lost four or five. All right. Big 12 decided not to because the Cougars are the consensus number one selection. Okay, I have a quick question.

How are you 13th of the Big 12? There are 16 teams. Thanks for paying attention to the latest relignment strategies there. I needed some clarification. It seems like it's not good if you finish 13 to the Big 12. I think they're going to be better. Thank you. I appreciate that very much.

It's going to start with the complete dusting off of SFA. Stephenville, or Nacadoches High School, and then we'll go on a bigger fat. I can tell you right now, that's what Willie Furts wants. He wants them to be the underdog again. Because they will exceed expectations.

That's true. And you're picked first to win the SEC. Anything less is a failure. I've got U of H. 6 and 6 getting a ball game. 6 and 6. I haven't gone through the schedule yet. Say again?

Let's see. They should beat rice. Go ahead? Yeah, they'll beat Rice. They'll beat SFA. Oregon State. West Coast, that's a long-ass trip to play up there. Okay, so what?

How about this? Upset alert, Friday night. They beat Deion and Colorado here in Houston. Easy peasy. Couldn't agree more. I'll be at that game. I will be at that game. Let's all go.

I don't know where I'll be. I got a lot of vacation time. My daughter's like, you're going to miss a volleyball game. You can watch Colorado versus Houston? Yeah. Friday, September 12th. Ooh, a 630 kick. I like it.

Be home in bed by 10. Hmm, it's on ESPN 2 or what? ESPN? Oh, Andre Ware will be there and everything. It's the main crew. Thank you very much. That Oregon State game may not so much.

Yeah, that's okay. SFA... Why are they going to Rice? You got you on the Lifetime Network. It's the last game of the series, by the way. That stadium stinks. I don't disagree. What stadium?

No offense, Rice. No, there's plenty of offense. When you say no offense, something, it means you're going to offend them immediately. It's like an old wooden ship. No, it's not. It's a dump. I feel bad because there are some people that do care about Rice's athletics are just too few of them.

When Central Campus is in care about athletics, you're doomed. It wasn't a Super Bowl played there? 1974. And JFK spoke there. Yes. And the Vikings lost to somebody. The Dolphins. We choose to go to the moon because it is hot. Not because it is easy.

Was that your Kennedy impersonation? It wasn't bad. A little Mayor Quimby. Yeah. Well, Mayor Quimby was a Kennedy impersonation. All right. Very good. Anyways. And by the way, real quick, I worked all seven days last week. Can I get a comp day?

Sure. All right. Thank you. I do that routinely. You don't ask for comp days. I'm going to ask for one. I took calls to 1.30 in the morning on a Sunday morning. Okay.

I took calls for an hour and a half yesterday. There you go. Look at us walking the weekends. When a client and wax are going to pull a weekend to Astros. I got drunk and ate barbecue. Oh, can I say this? Look, I know the trade deadline's coming up. You don't have a GD thing in your tank, Astros fans.

Oh, you do that. You actually have one picture. That Uliola guy is pretty good. You're not trading him, though. You'd be an idiot. You actually have nothing in a tank. They have something in their tank. What about the Juan

And here's why you don't trade them Because Fromber walks at the end of this year You have to keep as many good pitchers In your farm system as possible Yeah, I don't think there's going to be a lot of wheeling and dealing I will be discussing that on to tell the truth today At 1130 And let me tell you guys

When they get some of these guys back that are hurt It's almost like you made a mid-season trade Dana Oh my God You are such GM speak now, it's nuts All right Sorry, I had a guy call yesterday You think we get Seth Lugo?

Yeah, sure. For Cam Smith. Oh, by the way. Do you want to make that trade? Stop talking about the Unileio, whatever, Suarez? Eugenio. Him. He's only got 35 bombs or something like that.

Everybody in their mother is going to want him. Yeah, role play. You beat Dana and call me and ask me for Yohinios Suarez. If I'm the Diamondbacks, I ask for 12% of the organization. I would go, yeah, let's make a trade. Okay, we're going to start. We'd like Cam Smith. Jeremy Pena.

We'd like Colton Gordon. All right. You know, like, Hunter Brown, Gordon, you might be able to part with. No, not Cam Smith. I have one guy's like, I'll trade McCullors.

Like, there is zero value on McCullors right now. Another guy, trade McCormick. Chas McCormick has zero value. I can see Chas McCormick being traded. It would be for nothing. It would be a very, very minor deal. For cash considerations.

You're going to stack up a hundred pennies just to make a dollar is what you're trying to do. Would you trade Chas McCormick for a coal beer? No, I'd rather keep it. An ice cold beer? Are you sure, Gordy? Yeah.

All right. Segway. He's trying to segue you. This is the second straight week. He's not bought the segueway. I mean, if I was grabbing a cold beer, it would probably be... Horrific attempt.

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we'll be back to the ballpark in a couple of days. You grab yourself a... Crawford Bach from our friends over there, Carbock Brewing. And again, they've been doing some great efforts over there. If you go to their website, just Google Carbock Burring. You can go find all the great stuff they got going on there right now, including continue to race funds for flood relief over the hill country. And they got some T-shirts that they're giving away as well, raising money.

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he just wants to apologize to me and then he couldn't even hang on a couple of minutes so apologize to me? Yeah, I hung up on him. You did? You didn't want to hear it? Terrible. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

10-58. We start the second hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross to tell the truth in a little over 30 minutes here on 790. 7-0-2 Sports Talk 790. It is Matt and Ross with you on this Monday. If you need to call and apologize to me for whatever horrible things you said about either on the phones or on text or in Twitter. Order your friends.

Yeah, but I'll take it right now. No way, save for Friday. That's fine. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-1-2-2-5-790. The Astros with a win yesterday. Come from behind fashion. Were you...

How nervous were you when they were down very early in the contest? A little bit worried. Hunter Brown, that's now three straight mid-starts. Actually, mid-to-belo-a-a-verage starts. Yeah. Let's hold him to the standard. What standard? Oh, my God.

He deserves more grace than Ryan Gusto, please. I'm the sad. When did John didn't start the Ryan Gusto fan club? This is hilarious. The hate you were giving him. I've never even hated on him once. I literally read it. If I read your ERA and that's hating on you, that's not on me.

That's on you. The people have heard the show. Oh, my God. You guys are ridiculous. This is my favorite bit of you guys It's a tag team But anyways He had three bad starts Matt

It's getting progressively worse Six innings, five innings, four innings Yeah He had a 30 pitch third inning I think Really I mean that's That's gotta be one of the loneliest feelings Is that you're a starting pitcher

Your bullpen's been used quite a bit And you can bring a pitching coach out there To calm me down If you can't throw strikes You can't throw strikes And it wasn't like he was being I mean it was they were just kind of nickel and diamond him It wasn't like he was, balls were leaving the yard.

It wasn't like he was throwing balls at the backstop. He was just missing a little bit here and there. And those are still going to recount his balls. And that's why the pitch count got as high as it did. Yeah, he's just, he's going to have to battle through this and hopefully come out on the other side. And he had a great start to the season. But I would say, yeah, one of the questions in the back of your mind is, okay, how long can this keep up? Because he just doesn't have the same track record of some of the other guys like Terrick Scoobel and Jake McGrom and all the other guys who are at the

top of the American League. Yeah. So we can stop talking about, I think, unfortunately, this is probably going to cost him. Sayong. Not that he was a favorite, but it probably will cost him a little bit of a stretch. But I don't even care. If he finishes top three, the Astros get a compensatory pick. He still's got a chance to do that.

He can just finish top three. That's probably all you need them to do. Yeah. So the Astros are going to have to go with a six-man here. They've got 13 straight games, and they're in game four of that ten. night. The problem is when you go to a six-man, we've talked about this before, you rely on your bullpen a lot.

Well, if you're starting rotation isn't going deep in games. Hunter Brown didn't help the cause yesterday. Astro's office was able to overcome that. Lance McCullors doesn't go deep in games. If Colton Gordon goes longer in games, Brandon Walter goes longer in games, that's why. That's your asking for a lot. And I listened to Steve Sparks this morning with Sean. Sean posed a question to him.

If you had to choose one, do you go get a bat or do you go get an arm? And I know that we just played the sound bites from Erigetti, from Dana about Erigetti and about Christian Javier and Luis Garcia. Not the cynic in me, but the absolute realist says to me, Ross, of those three, only one can make an impact. I mean, you can say that, but we don't know that. I think I have a, I think I can go off of history. that says that you really don't recover from a serious injury,

no matter what it is, until you have had a half season, a quarter season, two months of a season where you are just getting back into form. I think, you know, we would talk about this. It always takes guys that have Achilles' tears or ACL pulls or whatever the case would be. It takes them a full season to get revved up. I would realistically expect those three guys I just mentioned

to hopefully be a force of this Astros team in 2026. If they give me anything at this point, first of all, they're not going to go deep into games. I mean, Eric Getty's pitch this year, he's missed a couple of months. I don't see any reason why he can't be good. Well, because the reason why I would say it is because he's fighting the clock here. He's just ramping up spring training.

How long is an average pitch you take to get ready for spring training? About six weeks. Okay. You can't fast track it. Either you are throwing or you're not throwing. When you put your arm down and you don't throw, that means you've got to start up right where you began. Well, as Dana said, they're going to try to do a little bit of his building up at the major league level.

Yeah, so back to my point. So Steve said he'd rather go see a left-handed bat. Now, of course, you need both. You absolutely need both. Yeah. But I am under the impression that the three guys I just mentioned, only one of them shows up. Now, hopefully I'm wrong, but I'm going off an educated past performance history kind of test. because one of them has been gone two years

that McCullors is who McCullors is and at some point Colton Gordon and Brandon Walter are going to be what they were when they originally were signed at or brought up here. I'm going to make an analogy. Ooh, I love it when I'm not doing it. Have you ever done a fantasy auction draft, Matt?

I have. Okay. The Astros, you get $100 budget. They're down to like $40. bucks. They need a big arm. They need a big lieutenant bat. They need maybe even a leverage reliever. But they don't have enough money to get into those types of bids. So they are going to

have to make some difficult choices. They can't get everything they need. Not anywhere close. I'd be stunned if they made two trades. So or two players. What you would have to do is kind of bank on what you have coming through. and that being, I think, the pitching. I would love for them to make a big move for a pitcher, Seth Lugo, as we have mentioned.

But I think the more pressing need with the having of the other players in their back pocket, it's, they're going to have to go position player, I think. And we'll see. Now, are you saying that because even when the guys get back, you need additional help talking about if and when Yordon comes back

when Pena comes back if and when Paredes comes back If and when Myers comes back Yeah, I'm putting if on Paredes. I mean Let's just be honest. He's not the most Hasn't look like the most

In-shaped athlete. You know what? I don't mind that. I don't mind him carrying a little flap. No, I don't care about it either. But when he hurts his hamstring, I do. When it's like Jeremy Pena hurts his hamstring and Issaic

Paredes. hurts his hamstring mentally and maybe I'm wrong. You know, I'm not an orthopedist or whatever. I'm going to jump on you, Ross. Okay, good. It's definitely going to be a more difficult recovery, being just more weight and more, you know, not as much muscles in the back end.

See? He's trained in the first place. Track athlete's backing me up. So that's what I'm saying. I just, it makes me worried a little bit more, especially now this is his second leg injury and the fact, as we talked about, immediately to the IL,

that sounds like it's bad. And if it's a bad hamstring, that could be months. we are into, it is July 21st today. So you're saying go get a third basement tomorrow. Oh, you can't get everything. You only got so much money left in your auction tank, your pool. Your resources are so limited.

Okay, then do you pivot? If it is paraded, if let's say, let's say we're Dana Brown, we're in the back room and we know, we'd know. Ezaq Pratis is out for the year. Didn't you kind of pivot and go all in on pitching and say we're going to go try to do this 20-22 style? I got one for you too This is hard What if you Go the opposite way

And you never can say this publicly Could you get crushed for it But when I mentioned this on the I was doing the 10th thing the other night What if Crane and Dana Are the only two people in the room Door shut, locked, do not disturb Okay

They said hey We got a nice baseball team here We've got some core players. We love Pena. We love Brown. Cam Smith looks like he's going to be a star. Altube still got a lot of bang for his buck still. But the stars aren't aligning this year.

Too many injuries. We can't fix it all with the trade deadline. What players we have in the system that other teams want, we aren't ready to give up. Why don't we just punt on going after anybody at all? I think, and you know what you could do if you did that? I'm not saying they would do that. But you could say this.

We're not going to go get somebody because they're asking for too much. And we believe that when our healthy players come back, we're going to be close to full string. Whether all of them come back, some of them come back, or none of them come back. You can use the injury list as kind of a, not like adding players de facto, but kind of an excuse to say, why would we go get all these players when a bunch of our players are about to come back? What you're saying makes a lot of sense and would be kind of in line of what they did this offseason, where Jim Crane says, we're always going all in on it.

Well, you don't trade Kyle Tucker away if you're always going all in. And then, yeah, so they could say, they could pull the reins back and say, we're not going all in all this year, which would make a lot of sense with all these injuries that are piling up. But two things. One, it helps to show the fan base that you are chasing championships, even if you're not doing it full bore. And two, the American League is winnable this year. Let's just say, like, if it were like, you know, even a year or two,

when the Orioles had won 100 games and they were like, they were just kind of limping, even last year when it felt like they were limping into the playoffs, it feels more easier pill to swallow. But I feel like if the Astros can, if he can get a little luck and a couple guys back playing well, they can win the American League. I'm just going to say this. If the Astros do not make a significant move at the deadline, I wouldn't be shocked. I can't crush him. I wouldn't crush him and I can't be shocked.

I know what you're saying. Ladies and gentlemen, the stars aren't aligning. And for this team to be four games up in the American League West is truly astonishing. It really is. because we've said 35 now, you add Singleton and you add Shea Wickham to the list, you're talking about 40%

of your Major League roster is AAA quality. Yes. That's just the reality of it. Well, and they've been feeling the effects of that recently. They've lost, what, seven of the last night?

And you don't even know what's going on with Zach Short. He got pulled for the rib sorenish yesterday. I mean, what more can you the Peretti situation? was just the worst because it didn't look like a cramp to me. And they ailed him immediately. Yeah. And as we played the Dana Brown audio earlier,

normally he sounds pretty flowery and optimistic, and there was none of that in the parade. His bite, there just wasn't. 713-212-5790. If you'd like to join us here today, 7-13-212-5-790. If you want to visit with us through Twitter, you may do that as well.

at SportsMT, at SportsRV. 713-212-5-790. To tell the truth is coming up at the bottom of the hour. I want to tell you about what I watched yesterday and how somebody was trying to change his image by winning a big championship. We'll tell you more about that in a minute. 1114 on 790.

All right, a couple of things I want to get you real quick. Chris Paul has one year left in his NBA career, says he, and he will do it as a member of the Los Angeles Clippers. going back to a place that he had much of his NBA success, except for the series against the Rockets. And playing with someone he hates. Yeah. Remember about 10 years?

How long was it? Seven or eight years ago? I told everybody that all the stories about Chris Paul and James Hardin and each other were overblown. Yeah. That's when you became Insider MT slash Peach Bastards. And I said all of you that go to YouTube and Twitter to get your inside sources don't know crap.

I'm on the inside. I don't say everything. I don't say much. But when I saw all that out there about their relationship was so terrible that they couldn't work with each other, it was I said, you're getting bad information.

Right information guy came into play. That's me. SportsM.T. Great job, Matt. They're going to be reunited for one more year. So put it this way. If he hated James Hardin so much, so bad.

His last year is an NBA player. He will want to spend it with James Hardin? No. Of course not. Are they best friends? No. They play cards? Yes.

Is there some level of respect between the two? Absolutely. Are you priced out of that game? We all are. I've always been priced out of Boutre. That's easy. I don't even know how to play it. You just give them there, Ronnie.

Does that how it works? What's the background with Peach Basket? I've been trying so hard. Okay. Have you heard of James Naismith? No. James Naismith invented the sport of basketball in Kansas, and the first baskets they made were out of peach baskets.

Oh, why don't you have a nickname, Matt? So since Matt is such a font of basketball knowledge and insider information, therefore he is peach basket. It's kind of cool, yeah. Yeah, you like it, right? That's tough. That's a good nickname. Yeah, it's tough.

Peach basket empty. Just remember, when I tell you stuff, trust me on this. Yes. Don't listen to people that have YouTube. pages that have like 19 views. I don't want to say the name of the reporter that put that out, because I want to confirm it. Don't do it, yeah.

I'll confirm with you during the break. All right, so that's number one. Does it start with one of these? Yes. Number two. Congratulations, Scotty Sheffler, University of Texas proud. Yes. Winning his second

major of the year. He was happy for, I believe, 93 seconds. So my sons and I, I went to breakfast yesterday, and we were watching it at the restaurant we were at. And I said, this is pretty incredible, guys. You know, he had a six-stroke lead at one point, maybe at his highest seven, got down to four, and he just in cruise control the back nine. Cam, my oldest, is not a fan of Scott a Schaeffer.

I said, well, why? He goes, because he just looks so miserable all the time when he plays. So he doesn't smile? I texted our boss, Brian, and I, after a chef-war made a big putt to get from 400 to 500, And I'm like, well, that was a huge putty. He goes, not a fan. Wow. So, again, that's just two people that I deal with.

It doesn't mean that's a large audience, but I did do a Google search. And Scotty Shuffer would be, by no means, anything close to being popular as a PGA golfer. And the number one reason why is he just comes across as really not a overly personable guy. Hmm. The New York Times says he's a venomous trash talker. Yes. So my guess is you have guys that are more friendlier to the media will go whisper things about what a whole Scotty Sheffler is.

Oh, Scottie Shephyler is 29 years old. He has a dad about at 29. I think he's doing okay with it. Doing just fine. But yesterday on the NBC broadcast, if you happen to watch it, now, Ross, you were asleep as it was on at 1130 and a 12 o'clock. Yeah, I actually was sleeping right then. Mm-hmm.

that Dan Hicks, who was doing the play by a player, working the 18th Tower, was saying, you know, Scotty understands this reputation he's building up and he's trying to make him more, not necessarily approachable, but more of a, not a common man, but just be more personable in general. Okay. And yesterday, it absolutely worked.

It did? He brought his baby out there. Oh, smart. And he brought the wife out there. Is this like Nike getting the PR people out there? Oh, I don't know who was out there. who were representing. Or whoever he...

But the baby got as much airtime than he did, as much. That's a go-to right there. So to prove the point, so Schephyr wins the U.S. or the British Open or the Open Championship, and that might get a passing note on the Today Show. And the Today Show is a show that doesn't lean to any audience, except just general people want to wake up in the morning.

Probably maybe more female-driven than male, but people still watch. It's been around for 75 years. and they did an entire segment about Schaeffler's kid. How adorable he was. Okay. So whatever, whomever told Scottie Shufford to kind of loosen up, it worked because all the pictures and all the videos of,

oh, how cute this kid is and how cool his dad is winning this championship were plus size because of the fact that this kid was so approachable and cute and lovable, and he obviously loved being a father. So sometimes PR campaigns can be fixed. in a matter of one day when your dad wins the British Open Championship and you get to use him and the son is being used as

an opportunity to show a little bit of a softer side. Good for him. He's got to improve his image. He's a damn good golfer. Yeah, he's got, how many majors? Like five or six? Well, he needs one more. I think he's got for the career slam. For the career grand slam. What hasn't he won? Oh, the U.S. Open.

Okay. The toughest of the group. Two masters, a PGA, and open. 29 years old. You know, I kept thinking I was just watching the kid because he was up, he was on the stage and obviously he was holding him the whole time. I was like, his son never has to work a day in his life. He will.

I mean, he will do something, but it won't be probably, you know, digging ditches. He's, no, probably not. Good for him. Makes him kind of jealous. That one-year-old's life set, me and you are still grinding here every day, 10 to 10 to 10. I'm with you.

But your goal is to make things better. for the generations after you, Matt. And I think you've done that. Thank you. I appreciate that very much. All right. I don't have any children, so I keep my money. What little of it I have.

7132-1-2-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. So there's a couple of other handlines. There anything else from this weekend that I've missed out on? The Manning-Pakiel fight? He got Rob people are saying he's 46-year-old. Why is Manny Pacquiao even in the ring? Yeah, you didn't miss his bout over the weekend with dementia

Is that what it was? Yeah. He won a majority of decision over Alzheimer's. You and I, when this show first started 15 years ago, we were like, man, when Pacquiao and Mayweather Mean, it's going to be won for the ages. It came about eight years too late. Yeah, but they still made a record buys.

They made a billion dollars or whatever it was. But anyways, yeah, I think everybody said, I didn't watch the fight. Everyone says he won it, but he, there was a majority decision. Boxing controversy. shooting itself in the foot, Matt? When have you ever heard of that? It's funny.

I've been, for the 40 years of me being a quasi-boxing fan, there's something that you'll never get rid of. Judges being on, you know, supposedly on the take or just being bad at eye. All right. To tell the truth is up next. 1127 on Sports Talk 790. If you want to join the conversation, we'd love to have you.

At 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-790. To tell the truth is coming up after I tell you. tell you about the Shell Federal Credit Union. The great thing about me, Ross, is I can tell the truth. I do it. I do it every Monday at 11.30, at least for one segment. All right. The rest of time, kind of a big spag of truth and lies.

Or fibs, as the kids would say. Gentlemen, good luck to you this week. I have four takes here. I only believe one of them. So, Jonathan, how many lies are there? Three lies and a truth. So, Ross, how many truths are there?

One truth. We're getting this knocked out. Beautifully. Like there's only one truth? One is a food take, and I'm going to start putting food takes in weekly. Oh, my God. Now, if you really want to scramble my brain, give me your ridiculous, nonsensical food takes.

Here we go. Number one. This weekend, I had the Takis Burger at Wendy's. Okay. surprisingly delicious. Okay. Number two, if the WNBA goes on strike,

it will permanently ruin the league. The reason for that is the league is already image-wise, sketchy at best, and if you go on strike, you'll even get more people disinterested and more people laughing at you,

it'll permanently ruin the league. Doesn't mean it still won't exist, but you will have a difficult time with additional sponsorships, there'll be a tremendous backlash. The WNBA and the NBA have got to do everything in their power not to go on strike. It will permanently ruin the league if they go on strength. That's number two.

Okay. Number three, once the Astros go back to a five-man rotation, which will be another week and a half or so, there's got to be a move that's got to be made. Lance McCullors must go to the bullpen. This thought of him starting anymore and getting into a high-pitch count,

it's a thing in the past. Lance, we appreciate your efforts and your hard work getting back, but you're hurting your team pitching every fifth day as a starter. You, my man, need to go to the bullpen once the Astros go to a five-man rotation. Okay. And number four, the Longhorns must. What? When a national championship in the next three years.

or this latest run of Steve Sarkesian as the head football coach will be deemed not by just me, but by national pundits and alums, as a major disappointment. Major disappointment. You have all these recruits that are coming in. You've had these top flight recruiting classes. You have three years this year and the next two to win a national championship, or it will be considered a major bust of a Texas football run as a football. a program. Those are my four. Three of them I don't believe. One I do. Time for you to figure out

which one I'm telling the truth. You may discuss. I got confused. I was thinking of three truths. Three lies. Let me let me. Wait, but we just went over this. We went over five. We just went over this. It was the food. It was a food one. I was going to put me all wrong. I'm going to I'm going to be honest. All right. I'm going to say I'm lightheaded. Hold on. I'm lightheaded. Hold on. All right, here they are. One of these is the truth. One, Jonathan, not two, nine three and four. One.

Taki's burger I had this weekend. Quite delicious. Okay. WMBA goes on strike. It'll permanently ruin the league. Three, Lance McCullors must go in the bullpen once the aster resume a five-man rotation. And four, the Longhorns must win a national championship in three years, or it will be considered a stain on the football legacy of the program.

Which one of the four? which one am I telling the truth? Okay. Well, I hope he's going to be reasonable and know that, I mean, the likes of Georgia, A&M, Miami, Alabama are spending so much money. Ohio, State, Oregon, on these recruits. That championship or bust is just such a difficult threshold. But UT's been at the top of the recruiting class and money spent, Ross. We've got to, it's not the bias.

That's true. We've got to think about it. That's true. Texas Tech is number two. If they don't win a chance national championship, is it a massive disappointment? That isn't the take. My take is the University of Texas.

I know. Quinn Hoover isn't yet card. We have all this. Okay. Well, that's nonsense. So I'm dismissing it. I'm going to give Matt some grace. I'm going to give him some credit for intelligence.

We'll see. He's not eating that Fuego Wendy's. He's not eating that. That's a straight lie. There's no way. I don't believe that. Now, did you eat a whole burger or did you take a bite of somebody's? I split one with him.

No, I'm not. I'm not. Look at this. Look, now he's staring at me, though. like when he's like a poker bluff. No, we split full all the time. He hasn't been on Lance McClellar Hill. That's you.

So that's a... I'm going to go number two. I'm going number two. Okay. See, but he's been talking about McCullors going to the bullpen, but I think he's going to be off the team. So I'll go number two. This is a good one, Matt.

I'm going to go... We don't have anybody for pitching, man. Okay, I'm going on with Longhorns. Okay. I would never eat a tachis burger. I don't think so. I was like, that's spicy and he doesn't like it overly spicy. No, I don't mind spice.

My body doesn't like the spice. I personally like the spice. Okay, well, you make decisions based on your body. You don't like spice. Takis are disgusting. So no, I'm going to pass on that. Okay. Lance McCuller is just going to be a rotation guy the rest of the year.

He just is. Or off the team. I would say, the other. I can't see him going to the bullpen. I don't know what the value is of pulling of a guy. Because again, when you're looking for a bullpen, you're looking for a guy to get out there and throw strikes it right away. The bigger problem has been, is he's been his pitch count. It's been so high. You're finally listening to me. I appreciate you on that. Yeah, he's either rotation or DFA. That's what I think. Yeah. So I don't think a bullpen's going to save him. I did earlier in the year, but now that we have a good

sample says of who he is. This is tough. And Ross, you're going to get mad at it. Oh, yeah. But I think that when you have the number one recruiting class. They don't. I've seen him my side. You have all these number one, these top five selections. Yeah, they weren't the number one class. They aren't the number one class. I knew it.

I think when you are spending ungodly amounts of money that the University of Texas, I think, it's not any question of me. The alums are going to come after him hard if you do not win a national championship. That's not what you said. You didn't say the alums are coming after him. You said, you're saying it's a massive deployment. I said me,

the media critics and the alums. I said all of them. Yeah. Go back and check the take. Massive. disappointment. Okay. I think you're wrong. I mean, I understand your viewpoint. This is just my take is that I think now

the expectation levels, because Arch was so highly recruited coming, I mean, number one quarterback coming out of high school, you have this, you are the odds on favor to win the SEC. I think the semifinals is cool and everything, but I would think if I'm helping spend this crazy NIO money that the

University of Texas is getting, I'm not doing it just to go 10 and 1 and 10 and 2 and lose in the semifinals. I think if you don't win one in the next three years, it's a massive disappointment. Absolutely. And as far as the WNBA concern, if they go on strike, it's going to be as the tree falls in the force, anybody there to hear it fall. I mean, you can't ruin the image. If you don't like the NBA.

How is that not going to set the league back? It's not going to set the league back. A strike is not going to set the WNBA back? No, because if you don't want the WNBA, listen to me. If you don't want the WNB, you don't care if they go on strike or they have a flavor harmony. Yeah, but that's going to they're trying to strike where they are in hot is hot right now because of Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese,

and others, and if they try to stunt that growth in the middle of this big boom that they're having, that would absolutely set the league back. I think if you're a WNBA... Listen to me. If you're a WNBA fan, you don't want them to go on strike obviously, but it's not going to permanently ruin the league. It might be a setback.

But when I think permanently ruin the league, I think of franchises going out of business, nobody going to games anymore. If they go on strike, for two, hell, the major league baseball closed a season off and it didn't permanently ruin baseball. But it took a long, long, long time. Until Mark McGuire and Sammy still started hitting home runs. Yeah.

So I get some three-point shots, that'd be fine. Until Bud Selech started turning his blind eye to... The steroids, yeah. And that's fine. I mean, I can agree with that. But saying it's a massive disappointment, I think, is too high of a standard. Okay. I mean, Michigan won the national championship recently.

They had won since 1997. Oregon has never won an ever. national, not never, but they haven't won a national championship in any of this time that they've been spending all this money. Ohio State. Ryan Day was literally about to be fired in his sixth season at Ohio State until they got in. And so, I mean, then they hadn't won since what, I don't know, 2002 or whatever it was before, or no, I guess they won one in like 2012 or something like that. With the coach said, the vest. But that's also since Steve Sarkeesian had gotten there. Oklahoma has it won one since 2000.

Who else is up there that hasn't won one in a long time? It's hard. All these programs are saying the same thing. We have to win, we have to win, we have to win, we have to win. And they are not the number one recruiting class right now. They're behind. The number one in the NAL spending. USC?

Well, I don't know where they are as far as, and that's also, those are estimates. Don't even know. But anyways, let's put the number one in NIA spending. That's fine. They're behind. Georgia, A&M, and Notre Dame and Texas. Notre Dame hasn't won a national championship since when? The 1990s?

When's the last Notre Dame National Championship? They've been in two national championship games and lost them both. And Texas has been in the playoffs in the semifinals two times and lost. So Notre Dame hasn't won one since what? 93-ish? All right. I'm telling you, this is not fact. Yeah, you're wrong.

When is... You don't notice Jonathan winning in here or he misses. He always gets really up. upset at me, for my opinion. When's the last time Miami went all the... Miami's off there. I don't care about Miami. No, I'm asking you. No, I know the questions about Texas. Because you're looking in a vacuum and I'm trying to tell you that it's every

every booster, Miami, Oregon, Ohio State, Alabama, Texas, Notre Dame, A&M, Georgia, USC. We got to win the championship this year. I just named 10 teams. So let's ask for us. If they each one, if they each one won, that's 10 years of championships. It just doesn't add up. So if UT

it doesn't win anything, these last three years, You're going to be okay. Define doesn't win anything. National championship. Doesn't go all the way. All the way. See, that's so stupid. They didn't win the national championship

out of 140 teams so they won nothing. They won nothing. You can't use 140 teams because we've only talked about this before. It's only about 15 teams that can win national championship for here. Well, I just made you 10. And I didn't even mention Clemson or Florida State or, I don't know, Penn State's been up there. Michigan, I didn't mention. So that's just 15 teams then.

So if all 15 those teams saying, hey, we need to win this championship. Okay. It's not realistic. Here's my statement. If the University of Texas goes to the college football playoff in the next three years and doesn't win at least once, it'll be considered a major disappointment. That was my statement. So if they don't win one out of 12 one year, one out of 12 the next year, and one out of 12.

Or even 16. Exactly. You're not, you're one out of 16 and you're not the one out of 16. year of failure. Okay. Yeah, I'm going to go by that. Yeah, absolutely. At the University of Texas with the money that's being spent and the recruiting advantage you have because you've got a wonderful university with glorious facilities and you got more NIA money than you can spit at. I mean, yeah, I'm going to stand by that statement.

You must win a national championship. Okay. My opinion, and I like it. I'm going to bring this up later in the season. There's a difference between being disappointed and then calling it a failure or a massive disappointment. I'm going to call it, whatever you want to call it. I'm going to say that...

Had it has been a massive disappointment in the last two years? No, but it's been disappointing, but there's... The expectation levels this year are five times higher than they were last year. Quinn Ewers had his detractors.

They're in anybody at the University of Texas fan that doesn't think that Archmanning is going to just kick ass this year and potential next year. I'm not convinced he's going to kick ass. Why? Based on what?

Quinn Ewer's the guy that wasn't very good that he could not replace as a red shirt freshman? That's because Sark was trying to play political lines there. Who got multiple starts? He got multiple starts and did not take over the job. And I'm supposed to be 100%... The most sought after college football quarterback in a long period of time.

Probably since Trevor Lawrence, frankly. Oh, how's he doing in the NFL? Speaking of the NFL, I'm not guaranteed things. Yeah. Yeah, so there's no guaranteed things. Yeah, he was a number one, number one recruit, but so was Quinn Ewers. My statement is this. If the University of Texas does not win a national championship of the next three years,

it will be considered a massive disappointment. That is my statement. I'm staying with it. If U of H does not win a championship this year in basketball, Kelvin Sampson is a failure. He's a horrible coach. I didn't bring up to University of Houston. No, I'll bring it up.

I would disagree with that opinion. Okay. Well, no, you're wrong. I'm right, because if he doesn't win a championship, he's a massive disappointment. He did choke last year. I don't need your commentary. It's a game back here.

Yeah, yeah. Massive disappointment. Go back and get you. I'm massively disappointed. I would say this. If the University of Houston does not win an national championship based off the recruiting the line. You know what? I will change it. It will be a massive disappointment.

Yeah, yeah. Doesn't mean there's a bad coach. I didn't say the Cesar. He should be fired. He should be fired. Hold on. Now you're adding things. I never said that Sarkesian should be fired. I didn't say to see if Sarkation wasn't a good coach. I said it'd be a massive disappointment.

Okay, so you do a job and I hire you and you're a massive disappointment and I keep you? Yeah, typically, same time. This show turned to two. If he's a massive, well, this show hasn't been that. I got one for you. If you're a massive disappointment, you should be fine. Hold on, hold on. How should you not hire a message?

Will you let me speak? Yes. The University of Houston massively disappointed me last year. Okay. There he goes. And I've lived. Yeah, you've lived. I didn't, did I say Sarkeeses should be fired?

No. You've did. Cut the program down? No. You've been disappointed, but is the program a massive disappointment? It's a massive disappointment that we did not win the game. You're massively disappointed, but is the program a massive disappointment. No, it is not.

Okay. You're saying Texas would be a massive disappointment. I said the alums will consider it a massive disappointment. Whatever. 1148, Sports Talk 790. You know I'm right. 713-212-5-790. I don't if I'm more offended it with your take or the Seattle Mariners' uniforms they wore on Friday night.

What the hell are they wearing? The black pants, I mean, what is going on with our Major League baseball? Wait a minute. You don't like those with the Trident? No. I don't like those. Everybody's wearing these softball gear. I like them.

I like that. Now, I guess I'm just a sucker for any kind of like royalish blue. or that's I wouldn't call that royal blue I guess but I like them I like the trident logo too I mean the Seattle Mariners had some cool uniforms way back in the day but they're just mixing it up now

you mean like the like they're really old school when they first were around in the late 70s the trinant was there but it was a much more of a much more paler color of blue now they're putting black in the uniform then they had black in the uniform before okay all right that's just

uniform stuff. By way, ATX, Hobo Girl sent us a photo. Do you see the Steelers retro uniforms or not, whatever, they're alternates, whatever they're wearing this year? Steelers alternates? No. Haven't they always been black and yellow? Yeah, but they're just going with a different, I can't even describe what they are.

Have you seen them yet? No, I have not. Go look at my Twitter account. I put them out there. At SportsMT, by the way, if you want to follow. By the way, if you also want to follow me on Instagram, at SportsMT on that as well. these look like

I don't know I mean I don't even Georgia Tech alternates or something well like the 1930 you'd wear these in the 1930s with the black stripes down the middle of it and the white numbers

and he's slinging the pigskin down the field with his other helmet coming up next the Canton Bulldogs on the unit against the Pittsburgh Steelers on the game of the week that's pretty good the lads are only playing

for $35 this week $35 and they've got jobs at the refinery they'll be going to as soon as the game's over. They can't go to overtime. Ah, three of the young fellows are wearing their workboats. Hope this one doesn't go to overtime.

I just wanted to point out, Ross. Yes, uh-oh, here we go. My girl was listening, and she played the game, and she texted me. Okay. Saying that the Texas one was the truth as well, so she was running. Where did she go to school? That's fine. Steve of Boston as well.

I mean, first of all, it's just semantics at the end of the day. Massive disappointment. disappointment. So let's go back to your point. Oh, I don't really want to. You put U.H on me. I will absolutely be a hundred percent massive disappointment. Doesn't mean you don't, you doesn't make changes because coaching changes are difficult, especially when you're talking about, like for instance, the Knicks were massively disappointed and they lost the Pacers in the Eastern Conference.

That's the thing I guess, as we can talk about is exactly what you're, what you're meaning with that. Is it a massive disappointment to where, and maybe I took it as you're meaning massive disappointment, meaning it's time for a regime change. No. If a coach. That would have been one that would have been so hot takey that you should have attacked me. I never mentioned a coaching. I'm just saying that I think because I'm just like you, I'm a consumer of social media.

I'm a consumer of what's happening in the college landscape of things. And every day it feels like literally Rossi, I'm looking at somebody telling me that the University of Texas stole another one recruit in a particular category. Yeah, but that's the thing. This is all just happened the last couple of weeks. and that's good for them. I'm just saying, if I'm a Texas, let me tell you, I would dream Ross

to have the kind of positive publicity the University of Texas has. And if that comes with, like, for instance, we get that with the University of Houston basketball. I think there's pressure that comes with that. And as a University of Houston alum, who doesn't get to ever feel that, yeah, I'm going to be massively disappointed.

When they beat Duke to advance in the national championship game, I flew my ass from San Francisco to Houston. because I thought finally, after 40 years of being a university of Houston fan, I was going to win a national championship. So yes, I was massively disappointed. Yes, you were massively disappointed, but the season wasn't a massive disappointment, and the program isn't a massive disappointment. That's what I'm saying is we're kind of, I think we're just on two different wavelengths. A little bit, sure.

Because I'm saying, to me, I took it as you saying, the program is, if I say, hey, this coach has been at this program, that'll be seven years and it's a massive disappointment, that means it's time for a regime change. I get that. But I'm going to say, let's just, let's just dumb it down before we get to the top of the hour here. What will your take be? Will you say, oh, not, oh, golly, gee shucks, but damn, I'm disappointed, but man, the competition is so strong. If the University of Texas is not won a championship. It depends. What if Archmanning tears his ACL?

Well, you know what I'm saying? Provide everybody's helping. Yeah, it depends. I don't know. Who are they going up against? How do the games play out? Do they get blown out in these games? Do they lose?

You know, it depends on so many different factors. I can't make a blanket statement like that. I can as a simplistic sports fan say that my cougars are in the one incredible hand. It'd be like, for instance, the Atlanta Brave fans won one World Series during their 90th dominance and a lot of second place finishes. There is a lot of Atlanta Braves fans. If you go to Atlanta, I would say we're disappointed. The team did not do more. Yeah.

We're disappointed the Astros didn't win in 19. Oh. But were the Astros a massive disappointment? appointment. That's different. I will say real quick that UT football, you and me growing up, has never been at this caliber until now. So I won't not since the Mac Brown, not since Mac Brown was winning a championship

with Vince Young and then following that up with Colt McCoy where they won a Fiesta Bowl in 08, they went to the championship in game 2009 and Colt McCoy got hurt in the first quarter of that game. And his dad came on the field and delayed the game for a long time. That's not true. His son was hurt.

I still don't understand. This is that I just don't get it. His son was hurt and he went on to the field to check on his son. And then he got crushed. And then he won a headset for the second half. It's crazy. Oh, my God. I would just say, because I'm experiencing it now, the University of Houston's got will be preseason number one

coming up. Yeah. That's a massive disappointment to me, Ross, if we don't win a national championship. Okay. That's just me. That's not you. That's me. Okay. time. Ross and back with you here. I'll tell you what's not

been a massive disappointment this show. Oh, I know. We've enjoyed it. And when we argue, I got news for y'all. It's authentic. Yes. And it can try it. It's not staged. It's not definitely not staged. Certainly not as vicious as two to six. Oof.

Was that you just grunting over there? Yeah. What are you grunting over there for? It was a grope of me. All right. Are you all right? What does it happen with both of you? Turn out some Joe Cocker. There's only five minutes less in a segment, so I can't tell you.

The most... We had a... We were talking about soulful voices. Oh, yeah. Was he number one on the list? Blue-eyed soul. Van Morrison? White guys was soul.

Excuse me, that's what it was. Van Morrison, check. Joe Cocker, check. Michael McDonald, check. Oh, not on my list. I thought this is a black guy Bobby Caldwell No, he's definitely a white guy

Um Yeah, Bobby Caldwell, I'll say Michael Bolton, you don't think Michael Bolton is Hayday? Oh, no soul Krooner? I guess. Okay, Michael McDonald has soul.

I'm sorry, you're taking the L on that one too. All right, 1208. Let's get to... It's not for me. Let's get to the news, a dude. I feel like there's... Oh, Roy Orbison? What was his most hard driving?

I could see you putting him in the conversation. I wouldn't take him over the other guys that brought up, but I could see him in the conversation. Okay. Go ahead. The news and new. Here's Roy Orbison of Soulful Sports headlines. Ross Vittorio.

Thank you, Matt. A lot going on in Houston sports. Of course, you're Houston Astros, salvaging a game against the Seattle Mariners, avoiding the sweep, avoiding their season being over. but Matt, the injuries continue to pile up. Esoc Paredes immediately I-Led with a hamstring injury.

The Astros have lost seven of their last nine. This I found a little concerning. Dana Brown on the Astros Radio Network yesterday on Esauk Paredes. Yeah, absolutely waiting for the MRI. You know, hopefully it's not as bad. You know, it's always tough when you lose the guy that's been the most consistent for you throughout the entire season. That's both defensively and offensively.

He's had a pretty good year for us. So, you know, we'll be paying close attention to this one. You know, it's going to be tough, you know, playing these next stretching games without them. Normally? No comment from me. I've got to say consistent. I will comment. These comments are normally dripping with optimism.

I just did not get that feeling. With that comment from Dana Brown. Put it this way. If it's good news, you'll hear about it today when, Joe speaks with the media. If he says we're waiting on results, that's never going to be a good thing. Not usually good.

Hoping it's not as bad as we think is also not a good way for him to phrase it. Astros with 16 players on the injured list. That is the most in baseball. Five of them on Houston's opening day lineup. This also pointed out by

it's kind of a content creator on Twitter. Cespitus Family Barbecue. Baseball content. Excuse me. What did you just say? Sestbitus family barbecue. You never heard of them? Are they as good as delicious? I don't know. All right. Anyways, pointing out that the Astros have nine hitters on the injured list. No other major league team has more than six. There are a lot of teams with a ton of pitching injuries, including the Orioles, Diamondbacks, match Dodgers, Red Sox.

Astros have seven pitchers on the aisle, nine hitters. Nobody has more than six, and they and the Orioles are the only teams with more than four. I think they're the second most used pitchers. I think they've used 27. The Diamondbacks are at 31. I knew that from earlier last week. And they've lost seven of the last nine? How are we feeling?

We feel like how in the hell are they four games in front of anybody? They'd be a hard time being four games up on a 14-year-old pony league. Yeah, thank God the AOS kind of sucks. Mariners have been playing better. they still won two out of three gained a game on the Astros. I've gained a lot of ground on the Astros the last couple weeks.

Your third in the American League, two and a half games behind the Tigers, a game behind the Blue Jays, two games ahead of the Yankees. How they're the better than the Yankees is an absolute miracle. Although the Yankees have had their fair share of injuries as well. They've had a lot of injuries,

and their run differential is almost double. Baseball. And their number one in home runs, by the way, and it had been most of the year. And by the way, what was this Brewers thing you sent me? Oh yeah. I was inebriated at that time.

I know. So you're betting on the Brewers to win the World Series? No, I'm just saying that every one of those dorky stats that people like to use about how great a particular offense is, they're like second or third worst in baseball and they're 20 games above 500. That's all I was saying. Okay. We'll see if that wasn't a sledge of them. I'm just saying that sometimes the numbers don't necessarily bear things out.

Sometimes there can be outliers. And I'm sure there are some numbers that can back up and figure out what's going on there. I'm going to be honest, I haven't done a deep dive into. the season numbers of the Milwaukee Brewers. Whose pitching has been very good. I was looking at Lauren Shihadi. I'm sorry. Are you okay? Can you focus for one second? Sorry. How about you focus on

Chris Paul reuniting with the LA Clippers? I was going to say NBA Clippers, which I guess that's true too. For his 21st season he's going to try to continue to pat his lead. Do you think, okay, I'm not saying this is why he's continuing to play.

but he's got LeBron hot on his heels in the all-time assist leader. Do you think that's factoring in a little bit? 100%. Okay. Because the money is $4 million. That's a lot of money. But for him, he's been making $10 times out of it in the last few years. Where is Chris Paul on the all-time point guard list?

Ooh. Well, I'll tell you where he is in the all-time assist list. He's still second behind John Stockton. He's got basically $12,500. LeBron James is about 1,000 assists behind. All right. If I need a point guard for a game, John Stockton or Chris Paul? And you know what? Chris Paul in his heyday was great defender. John Stockton was pretty good defensively.

Chris Paul's a better score. Yeah, Chris Paul. Okay, I got Chris Paul Magic Johnson. It's Magic. Magic. Yep. Chris Paul. How about this one? Magic Johnson, John Stockton. Magic Johnson. Okay. How about Isaiah? We're forgetting about Oscar Robertson. We never saw playing. I was going to say Oscar Robertson, I'll give you one. Chris Paul, Isaiah Thomas.

Chris Paul. Chris Paul, Gary Payton. Ooh, great. Gary Payton is considered the best defensive guard ever to play in the NBA. The glove. Yeah. Pretty good score. That goes for something.

It goes for a lot, actually. He was getting 20 points per game in his heyday, right? Yeah. I mean, look this up. Not the assist guy that Chris was. He had, looks like five seasons of, 20 plus points per game. Gary Payton. A longer career

to Chris Paul. Defensive player of the year once. Top five, it looks like five, six times. Come on Chris Paul? I'm talking about Gary Payton. He only won one defensive player the year award? Yeah, I know, right. Who did he lose to all those years? Six times, Chris Paul, 12-time All-Star, six-time Steel champ,

five-time assist champ. Chris Paul over Gary Payton. Nine-time all-defensive team. Chris Paul over Gary Payton. With longevity, giving him some bonus points. Two seasons, 20 points per game or more. Those were both in New Orleans early in his career when he was just getting up a lot of shots. Anything else?

Is he the, is he on the Mount Rushmore point cards, huh? Magic Stockton. Chris Paul. Oscar Robertson? Oscar Robinson? Robertson? Yeah, Robertson. Okay.

That's your news at noon. No WWE Raw tonight at the Toyota Center? What hell is that? That's wrestling? Wrestling? Okay. That's cool. A lot of baby oil, a lot of steroids?

No, no, they don't do steroids and they don't use big of oil. They don't do steroids. Maybe back in the day, but not currently. 1215, that's the news at noon. 713-212-5-790. An open-ended, serious question for you folks that are thinking about the asteros of the trade deadline. I'll pose it to you next here on 790. 1222, it is the Matt Thomas Show at Ross.

We are with you today until 2 p.m. Ross, what is today's edition of believe it or not coming up at 1. 50 this afternoon. Hell if I know. All right. That's good. All right. I brought this up an hour ago.

And I want to just see if it marinerates any more with the audience is listening. By the way, if you'd like to join us today, you may do so. It's 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. There have been times when we've been two weeks prior to the trade deadline where we are right now that you and I have been quite demonstrative. Actually, it's not two weeks. It's 10 days now.

It's the 31st, correct? On the deadline? Yes. We've been pretty demonstrative in saying, hey, this team is really close. This team's got a chance. It would be criminal if the general manager, whether it be James Click or Jeff Lenovo before him.

Jeff Bagwell. Jeff, let's not, no. Or in this particular case, Dana Brown, it'd be criminal if they didn't do any if he didn't do anything. It would feel that way. I got to be honest with all the horrific juju this team has had this year. And the fact that this organization does not have the prospects they are willing to give up and perhaps just as important, maybe don't have the prospects that other teams value as prospects.

And correct me if I'm wrong on this, if I change my mind on this in 10 days. But I don't think I would, I don't think I would crush the organization if they kind of stood Pat or did something of a very minor nature. I don't think it's fair. I don't think you have to crush your team every single time a decision is made. Sometimes you've got to think about maybe they do know what's going on. Maybe they do know the modeling system better than we do, which, of course, the answer is they better know the system better than we do. And Ross, how many teams can go through the number of serious.

I mean, we're talking serious injuries. Erigetti, serious injury. Myers probably going to be a serious injury. Or you're on an Alvarez. Serious injury. It probably means that you suck preface hamstring. Serious injury. These aren't just guys that have sore shoulders or broke a pinky sliding into second base.

I mean, this is many, many weeks and or months of these guys being gone. We don't even know about Jeremy Payne. Jeremy Payne is not on any sort of rehab appearance at this point. I'm going to tell you right now, Houston, Texas. Hold me to this, please. I ain't killing the squad if they don't go crazy in the deadline. I'm with you on that. I would like to see something, but especially the position player's side, but we'll see.

Yeah, five. I was just because Chandler was bringing this up. Your opening day lineup was Altovae, Paratus out, Alvarez out, Walker underperforming, Diaz underperforming, Pena out, Cam Smith, good, Brennan Rogers out and underperforming, and Jake Myers out.

That's insane. And Brendan Rogers, frankly, was a late gasp grabbed and see if it gets something going on. To help Altuvee transition. You're trying to hit a long shot, Maddie.

Yeah. Guy who had been a gold glover, who had shown some pop, but most of it at Corse Field. And I got one more thing. A spot of attacking after the two losses this weekend. I had a dumb ass on Twitter that was like, This one's, you know, a spot of this, and a spot, I mean, and people think I were going and going, who are you?

What are you doing? Mm-hmm. You just mentioned 44% of the lineup is unavailable, or 55% if it's five, whatever it was. Yeah, it's 55% of the opening day lineup. And we're not talking about September 1st here. We're talking about this is still July. We're just about 70 games left to go. And these aren't guys, it'd be crazy to say five of the guys have hit the IL at some point.

They're all on the IEL. right now. Yeah. I just think, honestly, if you're an astro fan, and sometimes you guys, somebody's got to tell you this, just consider yourself blessed

that where they are. We are blessed. We're spoiled. We're so spoiled. This fan base is spoiled. It is. We've been saying this for a couple years. Yeah.

Because, honestly, a lineup of Zach Short, Taylor Trammell, Hey, the baller. Cooper Hummel, all getting meaningful of bats, would probably mean you're about a 2013 Houston Astros team offensively. And that's just the truth.

Well, at least they got 11 runs yesterday. I mean, what's Tucker's Kyle's brother's name? The one it was originally, Preston? Hey, come on, man. He was mashing in Korea. He also had a cycle, a five-hit cycle. I forgot about that. But it's a bunch of Preston Tucker's.

Nice kids. It can occasionally get you a hit, but it's not a lot of it. you'd want to build for the future for it. That's why the Astros didn't put a whole lot of faith into Preston Tucker being a star, and for the right reasons. And I don't know

if we have to go from sports bar to sports bar to people's houses on a crusade, a walking campaign. Say, hey, let's think about this logically for a second. Now, granted, now what exasperates situation and doesn't help the Astros is that all these players are hurt

with a medical staff that's largely untrusted. But honestly, and look, the medical staff needs to be seriously evaluated at the end of the off-season. I don't think there's any question about that. But they didn't do anything to Isak Paredes. He was running down first base yesterday. They didn't hit the fly ball in batting practice and landed on the thumb of Eric. That is a freak thing. Jeremy Payne got hit by a pitch. Hit by a pitch. I mean, some things were out of their control. Now, how do they rehabilitate them? That's within their control. Yes. was Jordon rushed back?

They said maybe they should have taken more stock into the amount of pain he was in, even though he had a similar injury that he's played through before. Jake Myers, I don't know how you could spin it that he wasn't rushed back when he hurt himself in warm-ups

getting back out there. Now, whose fault it is, that's also another discussion. We don't know, but it keeps piling up. That's the negative part. It's that you have all these injuries, most of them, nothing to do with the guys in the back room going, let's hurt the player for us.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Let's go have Josh Hader throw 80 pitches. Could be. Could be. Some former Yankees assistant or something? No, no, no. Don't even start that.

Conspiracy theories. 1228. It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790 if you'd like to chime in. Would you be okay if the Astros just said, eh, it's plenty? Or be, I throw the or at you really quick. Or do you say, you know what? Maybe we should, we, the Astros, should go get something because the American League is

wide open. It's a, it's a difficult, and that's why maybe Jim and Dana have got to be in the room by themselves, door closed, locked, and just have a heart to heart and say, where are we? Are we one player away? Are we one player away plus returning healthy players, or are we just snake been in 2025? 713-212-5-7991. 1234. It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. I need to correct one thing over the weekend. I guess I didn't catch it. Ariante Ursa, Irsary, signed his contract. He did sign. Oh, thank God. We have a tough time sleeping on that? No. So all the Texans draft picks are signed. Training camp starts later this week.

Wonderful. That will feature Jaden Higgins, wide receiver Iowa State, Ariante Ursery, the Guard, Jalen Noel, Jalen, we've got a lot of Jailens and Jadens. This is like I'm doing an NBA game. Well, it's football. You go by last name. That's good. That's right. If there is a theme to the Texans training camp, are we just going to spend all the time looking at the offensive line?

Probably. Is that what it's come down to? That's the biggest hole in the team. I'd say the biggest question, Mark. Yeah. I mean, when half the NFL websites on the internet are ranking your offensive line 32nd, that's not good. Yeah. And a lot of Nick Cayley speculation.

Nick Cayley Yep Former Los Angeles Rams assistant Now gets to run his offense Of the first time by himself Yes I'm feeling good I mean

He's a bright mind People love him But people also love the... I was going to say you're talking about Bobby Slok You're talking about Nick Kaylee Everybody Everybody loves the assistant to the assistant When you become you're the head guy

It's a little bit different So we'll see. There's nobody on God's Green Earth, even the biggest Daunch Texans Homer that can say that Nick Cayley is going to do a better job than Bobby Sloick. Now, you have to trust Damico. You have to trust,

frankly, you've got to trust CJ because CJ probably pushed Bobby Sloick out. If CJ was Team Slowick, Bobby would still be here. You've got to keep the quarterback happy. I think I would agree with that. Yeah.

And also, I didn't seem like D'Amico was loving Bobby Sloak by the end of it. It was lukewarm endorsements, put it that way. Yeah. Which he didn't really, he always stumps for everybody in press availability. And he didn't do that the last week. They're like, what do you think about Bobby Sloke? He's like, yeah, we're going to evaluate everything. Yeah, and the weather's nice here.

We're looking for a good crowd. It kind of goes off to something else. That's what I was like, oh, I think Bobby Sloke's gone. And my guess is Bobby New it. Yeah. I think when you're a coach, no matter what position is, you better not get a whole lot of real estate.

When you're an offensive coordinator, yeah, you're absolutely, unless it's one of the coaches calling the plays, generally you're going to be the guy who's going to get the biggest praise when things are getting well, besides the quarterback, of course,

and then you're going to be often be the fall guy. Any play, you can run the same play 10 times, nine times it works, you're a genius, the one time it doesn't, you're an idiot. That's exactly right.

So, you know, I don't know if the most basic elementary Texans fans going to have any thought about Nick Cayley in the month of July, and probably shouldn't. And for that matter, shouldn't have a real definitive thought on him in August. We've got to watch this thing play out. All I know is he's got, you would think, two good running backs now. Mm-hmm. depending on what Nick Chubb's got left in the tank. Oh, you're putting Chubb is a good course running back? I'll start to third one.

Damien Pierce. Okay. Pierce and or Chub is the good second running back. I'm keeping my expectations of Chubb, Nick Chubb, extremely low. It's compared to... I mean, yeah, I mean... Don't do it.

Don't do it. I was setting myself up and I didn't want to do it. He's going to have at least one... excellent rod receiver and maybe out of the second round guys could be even better, second and third round guys could be even better. I mean, there's a pretty good puncher's chance that one of the Iowa State guys is going to be

a nice working. Oh yeah, Woody Marks. No, talking about the running wide receivers. I was thinking about running backs. I got to strike. We have to turn MLB network off. It's just not, please do so. It's helping us both. Erding. Or helping.

We can't move right now. All right. Oh, no. But Canne Robinson It's a big question mark We're going to stare at him Ariante Erser he's ready Blake Fisher's ready

Juice Scruggs better be ready Fisher and Scruggs have got to make the big I mean we From what Cam Robinson No one in the NFL when he was signed here Was like oh that makes Texans offensive line better That typically was described as All right that's a guy that's a segue guy

That's a Placeholder System guy I don't know if you catch lightning in the bottle as an offensive lineman, especially with the pressure rate that he ever went through last year. Don't you agree? Offensive lineman, do you have a difficult time finding the fountain of youth? I will say this, though.

A lot of times you can see inconsistencies with especially NFL players year to year because generally guys can be playing through something. You can have a, you know, who knows? hamstring, calf, whatever. And so when production goes down, sometimes you want to make sure it's down for a couple of years. So Cam Robinson has had good years. Maybe he told them, hey, guys,

I had a real bad thigh injury. I was playing through it. And now I'm going to be much better this year. Or maybe they had some intel. I don't know. I'm not, you know, I'm speculated. Complete speculation here. I'm trying to think of a way where James Robinson can be better.

You can also get a good offensive line coach and system that would put you in the best possible position to take advantage of your strengths. And that's another thing. Like Laramie Tunsell's, a lot of his pressure rates were higher than normal last year. But a lot of that, people that I read who evaluate offensive linemen have said a lot of that seems to them to have been miscommunications. He had six different guards to his right all season long. So if you have six different guards and you're trying to, and one of the things that really bothered the Texans last year was stunts and twists.

That's going to make it harder to communicate and get the body language going or do whatever to try to make sure you're all in the same. same page all the time. So that's Larry Tunsell. That's not Cam Robinson. But I'm saying there are things that can be contributed in factors rather than he's just in a huge decline. But also he could just be in a huge decline. I don't know. Well, you know what you just

describe? You're talking about, you know, sometimes these coaches will tell you how much they enjoy the flexibility of having swing guys. Maybe you have too much swing. Maybe you have too much uncertainty that you wouldn't mind being able to put out an offensive line that stays together for a three or four week stretch. Yeah, you'd rather

do that, but I mean, it's the NFL. It's guys are getting hurt and or underperforming. And yeah, I would just put it that way. Now, as far as as CJ is concerned, if the offensive line goes from being preseason rated 31st or 30th,

32nd, depending on who you believe to middle of the pack, does it all of a sudden give him a few more seconds to throw? Does it give him a chance to be just a little bit more accurate? Because I thought maybe if there's anything you really want to look at from year to year, it perhaps was his accuracy level that probably took the biggest dip. I think with the young receivers you have, I think the addition of Christian Kirk, as long as he's healthy, as long as he's healthy, is going to be underrated.

Nico Collins back as well. I think this is the, well, last year was a great full complement of weapons, but guys were hurt. So dare I say this is going to be the best weapons he's had. provided that these lightning in a bottle guys like it doesn't seem possible that Kirk and Chubb both will be zeros, right? I'm more confident in Kirk. He's had some injury issues, but he's going to fill that slot roll nicely,

and I think he's going to be good. And you don't need him to run a 4-4. You'd like him to, but those days are long gone. No, that's, well, he's fast, I guess. Possession receivers got to be shifty. Good hands. But yeah, of Nick, first of all, Nico is one of the arguably a top five receiver in football. But yeah, of Kirk Higgins, Noel, you don't need all those guys to be great.

If you get one or two of them, Tank Dell, of course, we're just going to, I'm going to write off for the season right now. I got terrible news for you. You're right enough of his career? Yeah. I don't want to. I don't want to, but I can see this from a mile away. And it's not because he doesn't have the desire. It doesn't mean he doesn't play right,

slide-of-billed guys. I mean, he's undersized for undersized. And that was part of the problem him coming out of college, was he being able to take the brutality of the NFL. And I don't think it's coincidental or accidental. Now, granted, one of those was, they were flukeish-type injuries.

But guys that are 20 pounds heavier than three or four pounds or inches taller might be able to withstand the types of things that tank couldn't. go through. I hope I'm wrong because we got a lot more UH guys. But I think but slide of build was what was a concern going

in. Yes. He has to win with explosion and after that massive knee injury and back-to-back leg injuries where is that explosion going to be? I think that's a fair thing to wonder about. When we return I never thought I would say this is a tease a WNBA

labor discussion. Oh no. Not like pregnancy. I'm going to do five minutes of Googling and pretend I'm an expert in this next segment. All right. It's going to be a very short segment. All right, real quick. Wow.

Some, I guess, breaking news, sad news. In today's edition of Believe it or not? I mean, you didn't have any anything yet. Just being honest. Malcolm Jamal Warner. Feels a little hot off the presses. Best known for being Theo on The Cosby Show has passed away at the age of 54. TMZ has an unconfirmed, the reliable source who says Warner has died a result of an accidental drowning.

Unconfirmed. Okay, we're not doing, believe it or not on unconfirmed, but reliable TMZ sources. Accidental drowning, okay. No, no, no, no, no. They're saying the cause of death is unconcerned. Oh, okay. But he's dead. I mean, that happens.

People go into the ocean and get caught by a current. current or fall out of a boat or who knows yeah uh therore huxtable was his most famous show he had been doing some music he was on some other cartoons and he hosted a podcast his last podcast he dropped three days ago called not all hood wow i i loved the cosby show i love the cosby show i love the cosby show it's going to tell you that right now uh yeah i don't even know what to say you don't is sad, yeah. I'll just awkward laugh.

The thing about being on radio, it's kind of crazy. Like, how many times people just die on, like, and just, like. It's not our fault. Oh, yeah, this says family vacation in Costa Rica. Oh, no. Wikipedia is saying.

I was on the air, you don't know this, John, that I was on the air in Minneapolis when Michael Jackson died. No. Are you serious? I was. And back in the day, TMZ would report it, nobody believed TMZ.

It's kind of, they got on the map, yeah. they were first on Kobe Bryant too. They were. And people didn't believe it, yeah. I was in high school, no one could believe it.

All right, shut up. One more thing to make this segment even more awkward. Did you hear about the MRI death over the weekend? Somebody was wearing a chain or something, right? Long Island man got stuck into an MRI machine. He was wearing a 20-pound chain necklace. Oh, that's got to be against the nurses.

That, okay. 20 pounds of necklace. First of all, that would kill me just wearing 20 pounds of a necklace. It wasn't flavor, Flav, was it? No, guy by the name of Keith McHawser, rest in peace, 61 years old. Wow. 20 pound necklace.

Now, the question was he told, I mean, I would think. How many pounds is your necklace, Matt? I don't wear a necklace. When's the last time you wore a neck? I'm trying to, I can't, maybe in high school? In a social setting, zero times. Oh, we'll get you a chain, Matt. No, I don't have to this.

Oh, hell no. It's a small little little chain. Well, just don't take it into the MRI machine. No, I've never worn a necklace. I've won't, I've worn a watch probably in 10 years, 15 years. I've worn beads at Mardi Gras. I've had beads before myself, but not at Mardi Gras. In yourself?

No. No. No, no, no, no. No, no. No, no. That's not true. you just said is not true. God, what is it wrong with you?

Oh, yes. Jonathan from downtown. That's going to cost your team another touchdown. All right, we win. No, no, it's going to cost you. It's going to be, you were going to lose 56 to 7. I'm losing 63 to 7. Anyways, how did we go from the death of Malcolm Chumal?

Oh, geez. The 20-pound chain. Oh, that's right. and the beads. We believe you, Ross. All right, let's go to the phones. Please. Neal needs to apologize to me.

That's good. Would you put it on line two for me? It's not forgot my computer today. Oh, yeah, that's fine. Neal on 7-Henny. Neal, what are you saying sorry for? I'm very curious. Matt, this is a sincere apology.

You made a prediction before the start of the baseball season, and about a month in, I called you and made fun of you and said that that was the most ridiculous prediction you could have made about, Yadier Dia is leading the team in home runs, but I didn't realize that you had inside information

that he would literally be the only starter left on the team by the end of the year. That's exactly right. I'm guessing that you probably are going to be correct on your prediction. So I wanted to say, I'm sorry for laughing at your take. Thank you, Needs. You'll have a great day. And by the way, many, many kudos for calling on a Monday and thinking about this and saying, you know what, I've got a call and apologize to Matt.

Well, he's still third. Yes, sir. He is third. Thank you, Neer for the phone call. with the entire team on the IL. And I said that that was crazy unless Yordons hurt or there's a lot of injuries and it's been both.

So I'm not giving you real. I'm really not giving you credit. And he's still well behind Jose Altuve. And by the way, another unpopular tag on, but to give you from... Okay. Yordon's IP. It's just this. Okay. If you want to get some analog on me on, IH and IP,

that's fine. I'm writing it down on. Write it down. Type it in. Okay. injury prone. Matt and I have argued for years for those that don't know. Injury history and injury prone to me, these guys are pushing their bodies to the limit. Guys get hurt.

It is what it is. It doesn't mean that they're fragile. To me, injury prone means you're fragile. And I don't think you are on fragile. But not necessarily fragile, but are there things in his body that are not allowing him to participate in a sport that requires 140 games of the season?

Well, he's had knee injuries. He's had multiple surgeries on his knees. Nees have been good since then. We heard they were creaky. The hands have had an issue twice. Yes, and an oblique injury. Creaky needs. That's what, Dusty Baker said.

He's, what, 36? No. He's like 20... Okay, well, he's like 27. 8? Do you know, that's 27? No. Hold on.

I could be wrong. Yeah, 28. He's 28. Lunch bed in 2036. You ready? No, I'm not betting. In 2036? Yeah, lunch bet.

Drive-thru. Will Yorra never play 130 games again in a season? Yes. Okay. Okay. Bad is made for when he retires. Let me write this down on the file. Put that way deep in the file.

Gary in spring at 1256 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross before we get to the top of the hour. Gary, what do you have for us on this glorious hot and Human Monday? Hey, guys, great show as always. Matt, I'm not going to do a shut your bum ass on. Yeah. Why did you tell me to shut my bummed on that? I was hurt by that, Gary. Well, that's okay.

We all get over it. Hey, I wanted to bring up a couple things on the Astros, and I had no idea when I watched the Astros play the Rangers last time. That's who you got to watch out for as the Rangers. I had no idea their pitch of staff was that good. Those three pitchers they face, they were all aces on the Texas Rangers. So I'm thinking that's the one that you got to watch out for it, not Seattle. But let me tell you when I was watching the game yesterday, that was a great game.

And when they hit those back-to-back home runs, it was Walker. who's the other guy that hit it? Who? The center fielder? Oh, wait. Tremel. Tremel. Yeah.

Yeah, you know what I hollered? I just jumped up and screamed back to back. You know what I hollered as loud as I could when they hit those home runs? Oh, this is a loaded question, but go ahead. I hollered. Whee! You know why I hollered that? You're a Rick Flair fan?

Nope. Who was pitching for the other team? I don't remember What It's W-O-O-W was pitching When they hit them out I went Both times

Anyway, good show guys Talk to you later Thank you Gary I should do a better job I'm paying attention In the opposing pitchers That's fine Brian Woo's good

I mean I was watching the game But I was I had a few I was in nap mode all day Because I worked till 1.30 in the morning You know when you worked till that time You just can't go to bed at one, you know, you had to get home and you have to, you know, wake up and you have to

take the dogs out again. It's your whole day off, I know. It screws your whole day up, so I was in and out of naps. That's okay. And they won. All right, 12.50, we got an hour left to go. So what are we doing unbelievable enough? We're not doing, uh, Mountaine-Warner.

God, that sucks. He's only 54. It's not good. I could do, uh, athletics college football program evaluations in three years. 1258. They have Texas at number. one. Yep. Which means...

Whatever. That doesn't mean a hill of beans. It means a lot of... What is program valuation? You can't sell the program. Like the valuation of the Rockets makes sense. Well, NIA's got to... Texas. Texas is number one. Good for them.

Good for them, which means they need to win a national championship. Or they should fold up this program. No, I didn't say that at all. Maybe relegated to the... SFA. The Soutland Conference, for sure. 1259 on sports talk 790 My gang

104 sports talk 790 It is the Matt Tombo show with Ross We've got some folks that are online We'll get to you in just a couple of minutes Ross time for us to run through The current 26-man roster for the Astros Can you find us some music for that? I mean we can go medical if you wanted to

I don't if he want to but we could go medical Not really What do you want some Tom waits or whatever? I don't know Who's Tom Wait? Oh wait. Jim, who's that guy? Bobcat Goldthwaite. Who's the name of the guy?

He's also dead too. He is? Yeah. No way. Yeah. I don't believe you. Yeah. Definitely dead.

Well, may he rest? Sure. Here, how about that? I don't know. What do you want? I just click random buttons. Okay. I like this.

Is this player really an astro right now, or should he be with the space cowboys? I'll go by quickly on. Okay. Abraeu, check. Hold on. Am I supposed to be writing these down? No, I'll use my hands. Oh.

Hmm. See, see the end. Shut up. Go ahead. Abraeu. Brian? Yes, he's good. Brown's good.

Colton Gordon. Is he pitching won't have to be an astro? A major league baseball pitcher. He kind of is, but he's a, he wouldn't be. If the team's fully healthy, he wouldn't be on it. So he'd be number one. Gusto. Two.

Hoot. Hater check. Brian King, check. McCullors check. Naris? No. No. No. He wouldn't be picked up of there fully healthy. I don't know. Three. Ocurt, check, Oort, check. Sousa, check. Valdez, check. Brandon Walter? No. No. No, that's four. Let's go to our end catchers. Victor Caratini, check. D.S. Check. D.S.C. Tosol Zare. No, he got to sit back down. Okay. Yeah, he got that done. DuBond, check. No, Dubon's up. You told a guy. Stop.

I'm kidding. Bryce Matthews, no, that's five. Okay. Zach Short, six. Okay. John Singleton, seven. Christian Walker, don't comment. To the outfielders.

Al-Tubei check, Cooper Hummel, eight. Chas McCormick, I would say fourth outfitter, yes. Cam Smith, yes. Taylor Trevelle, nine, Shea Wickham, 10. So, 10? So, hold on. Let me get my calculator out. Don't hurt yourself.

10 divided by 26 is 38.46% of the team is really not an astro. Rounding up, 38.5. Rounding that up, that's 39. Rounding that up, that's 40. Rounding up as two damn many players. And they have a four-game lead in America League-wise. Yeah, but they've lost seven of the last nine. All right.

Ladies and gentlemen, I come to you at 107 on this glorious Monday afternoon. 38% of your team would be a space cowboy. Poor, you know what you got to feel bad for? Space Cowboys. Yeah. I can't even feel the team now. No. What's the guy's name? Story.

Trevor? No. What is the manager? Toy. Oh, it's just on the tip of my tongue. the manager of the space cap. Never ending? Stop.

I'm going to look it up. You're no good for me. Space Cowboys manager. Don't be in the car going, I know what it is. I'm looking it up. I got it. Don't do it. You want to look up.

Mickey Story. Okay. Mickey Story. Poor Mickey Story. Well, at least you get yourself another. I mean, nobody's ever going to think you need to do a better job. Yeah. What kind of record they had?

It doesn't matter. I think they're above 500. Probably, which means he's probably going to get a raise out of the old deal. Hey, the road offensive numbers have been great. I mean, I know his, he doesn't get big money, Mickey Sorre does, but he makes probably decent living. What would you guess? I have no idea. I couldn't tell you in a million years.

I don't even know what managers make. But, I mean, they get the freaking flyer miles. That's not a bad deal, right? Aren't they just getting car service from Sugar Lane? I'm talking about when they go, like, to Reno and Vegas and Aberkirkie and stuff like that. Is he booking his own flights? Well, they're going on team travel. And you've probably got a deal

to say, you know, let me in my own one pass account or whatever it is. Okay. I don't know. Okay. So Mickey Story, shout out to you, my friend. 68% of your team is with the Astros. Keep on, keeping on.

Let's see. Oh, they do this by, oh. What? They're 11 and 8 in the second half. That's not bad. You know why they do that, don't you? Because Rossers changed. First half champion, second half champion.

The roster's changed so much that if you have stuck with the bad roster, you get a chance of rebuild. First half, they were in second place of the Pacific Coast East, 39 and 36. It's not for all the, you know. Pacific Coast West, that's Vegas, Tacoma, Reno, Sacramento, and Salt Lake. Those are all a good place to go hang out. Well, that's where the ball is flying out of the park. Yeah, I mean, average score is 29 to 9, but it's fine. That's good.

Yeah. That's entertainment. You go to a minor league game. You want to see one nothing? No, first of all, you're never going to go to a game in Reno and see one nothing. If either of that, they're all running on crutches. A hundred Browns on a rehab start. That's true.

All right, let's go to the phones. Let's talk to Javier on line one. Javier with us at 110 on Sports Talk 790. Javier, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon, Matt, Ross. I was wanting to say thank you for once. I want some tickets here in your show last month to the States concert. It was a great show.

I appreciate you guys. Also wanted to say that the Astros, I think, they're doing a hell of a job of what they have. And it's still a long season, the second half. I know we started out bad, but I think we're going to get it together. And, yeah, I think a World Series is in the future for us. You know what I mean? Our pitching needs to get it together, but I like it.

I like the championship. Like, we got the experience. We're winners. We just win. That's all we do is win. We're not the Rangers. We win. And I think we're going to find a way to win.

So go Astros, and I appreciate you guys. Thank you, Javier. Thank you, Javier. I did a good time of the concert, as did I. The Sticks concert. Yeah, you were belting it out. I heard of it. They don't play their most famous song, however, though.

Sailing Away? Lady. No, Sailing Away is Chris Cross. No, Sticks has a... I'm sailing away. That's them, right? Doesn't sound familiar. Come on, no, it's got that long piano intro.

Come Sail Away. Yeah, that's Sticks, right? Yeah. But it wasn't, I'm sailing. That's their, that's what, they starts off I'm sailing the first lyrics, right? Because then Cartman had to sing the whole song back in the day. Yeah.

Somebody knows what I'm talking about. Yeah, you got it. Okay. Yeah, shut up. That's their most famous song to me. I'm not a huge Dix fan, but my son wanted to go, so I went with him. Oh, Mr. Robato might be, uh, yeah. Oh, wait, come sail away.

This says the grand illusion. Well, then you really have need to apologize. Wait a second. Okay, they did. Yeah, they did do come sail away. Hopped in hit. Yeah. But, but, uh, Babe.

Oh, the Grand Illusion was the album. The best song of theirs is Babe, and they don't do Babe anymore. What about Renegade? Renegade's good. Renegade's a jam. I'm putting Renegade ahead of Babe. Babe, I think is their most popular song. I mean, oh, no, the old lady?

I thought she said Lady. Lady is somebody else. I'm getting Lady and Babe. No, Babe is definitely their song. No, lady is sticks. 1973. Is it really? Yeah.

Oh, that's not like the Commodores lady. they've been a bunch of songs with the lady in it well duh people like to sing songs about their ladies early did you go with the ladies man towards the end of that you're a lady

all right 1113 on the mad thomas show with Ross we're gonna make it we are believe it or not we're gonna go stick songs that'd be the freshest one of the real

doubt I'm not doing it no no no I'm not doing it we can do it tomorrow if nothing else comes up Okay, stick. Believe it or not, this is a stick song? No, it's highly Googled. Oh, we didn't bring up the WMBA stuff real quick.

Oh, that's right. We'll do that after we talk to. People have been waiting. They have been. With bated breath. James and Alvin, we'll get to your WNB. No, we'll get to your thoughts about the Astros and our WNBA labor conversations. All straight ahead on Sports Talk 790.

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120 Sports Talk 790. Really quick before we go back on the phones. Rossi, look, the WMBA has not made a dime since its beginning. And it's been well documented. I do believe they are turning things around. Caitlin Clark, a lot of that. Angel Reese, a little bit of. that. We've seen the value for these WMBA franchises going up. The expansion numbers are going up in terms of money that these cities are paying to get these teams. So I believe there is a turnaround to it. And I do believe that there probably was room for some negotiation when it came to salaries and

whatnot. Again, I don't get in the weeds of that because I'm not involved with that. Don't pay attention to it. I'm just never a fan of T-shirt wearing person or putting things on my shirt. you. What I think they were going to get and they got it was you put those shirts out. Some people that were on their side really loved it, but most people who don't care for the WMBA took it as yet another example of why to make fun of the WMBA. And that's where I think the negative came out of this was

instead of saying, all right, there are real issues that need to be to discuss between this Players Association and the ownership group. all you wind up doing is becoming more memes and more you didn't lose any money and more people sending fake shirts and just general it didn't work. And then on top of it, there are a couple of girls on there, women, that were talking about the shirts and they said, well, yeah, and nobody from Team Caitlin wore their shirts. I mean, they were being caddy towards each other. It was a bad, my opinion, this will not change. a bad attempt to trying to explain their side of things. I just think the shirts were a bad, bad idea,

and they got really negative connotation on it from social media, from TV shows, from radio shows, I'm sure to magazines. When they were trying to, and they may have legitimate argument, best serve not to put it on T-shirts that make you look like you're not, I mean it looked like.

It just gave more fuel to the fire for people who don't. don't like the WMBA. And that's my only point. Okay. Yeah. A couple things. Anytime there is a labor dispute, especially one as public as players versus owners,

it is always the job of both sides to get the public on their side. Things go better, I think, for either unions or owners if the public. if the public feels like they're siding with them. So this was a move by the players to get the people on their side to make a statement. That's why they did something publicly. They're like, yeah, pay us what you owe us. It's, you know, catchy enough phrase. But then it's very easy for the public, which for some reason they didn't plan for this,

to say, you put into Google. How much money did the NBA, WNBA make? Are you doing this? I've never done this before. Oh, you want to know how much they made last year? Go ahead. They lost $50 million. So then what I saw in shirts were pay us what you owe, what is that could the shirts say? Pay us what you owe us.

Yeah, and then I saw a bunch of shirts that said minus $13, you owe the WMBA $13 million or whatever it is. But also, I understand, and I don't know how the details of this W&B labor dispute, unfortunately. but my understanding is that they have a new multi-billion-dollar media deal and if if the league was so unprofitable they wouldn't have a $250 million expansion fee where people are paying a quarter billion of dollars so what they're thinking i'm not naive to think those aren't true that's absolutely again if they want to have their own labor conversations i'm good with that that's what you want to do and they have some evidence going their way. I'm not, that isn't the argument.

I'm just talking about the presentation of the shirts. And this isn't anything. Shirts normally don't make a difference. And there's aggravated already a group people that just want to just attack it. Well, I think a bunch of people got a mad about any of grow up. Who cares? If you don't even watch it, I would say 95% of the people who are commenting on this, don't care about WNBA basketball at all.

They just want to dunk on WNBA basketball. So I would say that. If you don't care and you think it sucks, and it's a horrible sport, then leave it alone. Why are you taking the time to post and be all upset about something you claim to not care about? That's number one. Have you met America?

Have you met anybody? I mean, we do comment on things we don't care about. That's true. You say you don't care about it, but then you do because you keep coming. You're like, oh, well, I don't care about this. Well, how come you got 50 tweets about it? If you don't care about it, those two things aren't jibbing. In anything, yeah.

But anyways, I understand, I don't know how many years is the labor agreement going to be a four? I don't know. Generally, it's five or ten years, right? So I'm going to imagine that the owners or whoever are negotiating on the old revenues and the players want to negotiate on the new revenues and the potential growth to where they don't want to sign a deal to where they think they're going to get screwed if this league continues to be popular and start to be more profitable to where they're going to be losing out on some cash. So that's what I think to pay you what us, pay us what you owe us. I agree the optics are bad for a league that has never turned to profit ever once. They're saying things are turning better, so we need a little bit of that.

And I don't necessarily disagree with that. Again, I don't know how much better they're getting. I don't know how much debt they've been in over the years to say, well, finally we're making some money. We need this money back and be put into this league. You know. But you also get WNBA players, and this is another thing. I imagine there are players and people who are. involved in the players union who are reasonable, but then you have people who go out and say crazy

stuff like they think they need to be paid as much as NBA players, which is ridiculous. Yeah. They don't make a fraction of the revenue. They literally make no revenue as of last year. And their seasons are only four months. They only play 30 games. And the ratings aren't as good. The advertising is, I mean, there are some things that are working well for them.

But why did those two women go after Team Caitlin on that and saying those girls didn't wear the shirts? I don't even know what you're talking about. Clearly your 4 U-Tabs got a lot of WNBA hate. It does. All right. So that's the obligatory WNBA conversation for the show. And yeah. I just would say if I'm mad about something,

I'm not running a go-print a T-shirt about it. Yeah, and I mean, pay us what you owe us when your league is losing. The very most recent history of the league is losing money. I don't know what's going to happen in the 2025 season, but I imagine sponsorships are up, attendance is up. That's why they'll get it resolved. are up. That's why they'll get it resolved. They'll figure

it out. I mean, maybe they could make a short-term deal. I don't know. How long is this CBA deal supposed to be for? I don't know. And we'll let them figure it out. Okay. But that's, again, our obligatory WNBA labor conversation. James and Alvin, we'll start with you next. 127 is our time. It is the Matt Thomas

Show at Ross. If you want to join us, come on and be with us. We're not talking to WMBA labor. We can talk Astros, though. And Texans training camp opening up a couple days. Okay. And we're not doing Malcolm and Joel Cam Ramberts and the goat

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A Twitter listener of ours Appreciate everybody that does listen to show Whether you're on Twitter or not At RSJRDK sent me this Apparently the University of Memphis We'll go to James this one second here. The University of Memphis called the Big 12 and said,

if you let us in your league, we'll bring $250 million in sponsorships to the table. Okay. I.e. FedEx. Okay. Let's be honest. It's FedEx. Big 12 said, no thanks. Memphis just can't catch

a break. Big 12 is from Brett McMurphy. Big 12, quote, not interested in adding Memphis despite school offering $200,000. $150 million in sponsorship to the league. Memphis was trying to buy into way into Big 12. This is ridiculous. Why are we in the world today?

There's a graphic. You know, it normally says like a team won a championship or eliminated. It says pass. Yeah. That's Brett your mark. It's a big on. It's very unsirious. Wow.

SFA also asking for entrance in the Big 12. Oh, Matt. Ha, ha. offered a happy meal. All right. And McFlurry. I'll pray to the Lord so bad we win. It's not happening.

You can pray all you want to. It's not happening. Don't forget, though, Jonathan. I'll be here. Don't forget, Jonathan. You shouldn't forget. You started this. You started this, Jonathan.

Yeah, you, yeah, I would have stayed away from this. No, it's okay. It's okay. I said it early for a reason. Well, I got some good news for you, Jonathan. have you seen the valuations of power for college football programs from the athletic and where they would rank if they were available in an open market?

Now tell me. Now explain what this is. It's made up. The athletic basically made this up. Program valuation projections. If, in theory, a private equity firm wanted to purchase these programs, how much would they go for? They have the Texas Longhorns at $2.38 billion.

Good for them. They have them at number one. $400 million more than Georgia. Rest of the top five, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Michigan. Now, there are 68 power-for programs, Jonathan. Where do you think the University of Cougars rank on this list? Bottom 10. 68th. Yeah, okay, that sounds right right.

They just made Power 5-9 to longer, right? Yeah. I was honestly shocked to see them that low. It's not even close. They have them at 91 million in Cincinnati. Cincinnati? Come on, man. Cincinnati at 106.

So basically what you're telling me is that you have bases a group of five school and that S pays a chance. Oh. Which I was trying to get to that. He doesn't understand. Which, by the way, Longhorn fans who are, you folks who are all preening over this are the reason people hate Longhorn fans. This doesn't matter at all.

It's a made-up metric. And the only thing this does is put more of the target on the back. make it easier to say that your program's a failure if you don't win at all. I'm not celebrating over this at all. I can't celebrate something I don't understand. This doesn't put any money in my piggy bank. This doesn't stop them from emailing me for donations. We're 68.

I mean, it's cool Texas is first, but it's better than being 68th. I mean, you get telling him back from Italy. Straighten this out. Well, he's trying to. He's trying to get a trade deal with Italy and U of H. Maybe we're playing a game in Florence next year. I never know. get in an olive oil import business

straight to you of H? James and Alvin, you've been patiently waiting and for that we thank you at 137 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. James, good afternoon. What's on your mind? Thank you, gentlemen, for accepting my call. Anything for you. I had a call initially

to ask you, of all the Astros' farm hands that had that came up through the astro system. Which one of these young men would you put on the roster as of today? I'm talking about the current, the current, all the astros players that came up through the system, through the astro system. I'm talking about the, the, well, first, let's start with them boys up north of there in Toronto. You got five Astros up there, and Al-Tube, they know all of them, and they're leading the league up north.

Now, you look at Willie O'Brien in Boston down there with Brickman. I just wonder, did the Astros make the right decisions on letting guys go like Kiki Hernandez and Teosco Hernandez to Hernandez brothers down there in L.A.? And now we got all this, all these injuries. And we are, you just, you just said 38% of the team is minor league qualified. Did we make a bad mistake? Who's running that organization over there? Now, with that being said, I wanted to say this. See, y'all juggle people minds with the different topics you bring up.

Now, the WNBA, you said about players getting paid. They are talking about players getting paid. If we revert that back to all sports, the Astros offered Jeremy Pena eight years, $110 million over eight years. First off, I thought the Astros didn't do long-term contract, but they offered him eight years, $110 million. 10, then he'd go get Scott Boris. That's not correct.

It was 100 million, but I don't know if it was eight years. It was not eight years. It was five years 105. Well, from my understanding, it was eight years, 110. That's not accurate. I'm just, that's not true. I haven't seen that anywhere. Yeah, I didn't see that anywhere.

You are wrong. That's okay. We're all wrong with things. I'm wrong. Okay. Well, I'm not saying I'm perfect in all things. No, no, I don't think you were. All right.

I know. I'm not, but I'm just saying, is that advocate to say you offer Jeremy Pena, that type of money? In the words of Carlos Correel, he'd say, that off will come in a little bit low. Wouldn't you think? I'm just asking. Well, it's different than a free agent contract because he has years of arbitration left, so that keeps the average annual value down. it's not like a free agent contract the numbers would be higher it's different

well the numbers the numbers speak for itself his numbers speak for itself but they need context numbers are good but they always need context James and you make less as you make less under arbitration and team control than you do as a free agent well let me ask you this is he is Jeremy pinion going to be an astro is honor brown going to be an astro the Jeremy painting can be an astro this year next year and the year after no matter what

Well, unless it gets traded. Well, yeah, unless, well, of course. Yeah, okay. I thought Kyle Tucker, I thought Kyle Tucker still would be darned in an Astro uniform, but he's in a Chicago club. That's correct. If you listen to this, James, if you listen to this show, you would know that we knew that Kyle Tucker was not going to sign with the Astros

after this season. So they decided to get rid of him a year before he left, and they left the Astros high and dry. Thank you, James, for the phone call. And we always will accept your call. That makes a whole lot of sense sometimes. We always will accept it. Is that the outside pitch guy?

I know, but he always thanks us for accepting this hall. That's very polite. We don't have enough polite people in this world. I'm telling you. I will always take a polite people. I work with a rude person 20 hours a week. Jonathan's not that rude. I know, Jonathan.

We're trying to get you better. What? Just kidding. He's talking about me. Even though I'm not rude. I'm nice every day. Every day. All right.

It's not when Matt's not here, but you know, we have a little fun. I have been told that I need to start telling you more about the Believe it or not, prizes today. Oh, you do? Yeah, so I'm going to do it right now. What do we have, Matt? All right, listen to me very carefully on this.

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and they had a Jewish quarterback last year. Not that we talk about a religion a lot when it comes to athletics, but it is an interesting. I mean, I think it's the first Jewish quarterback ever to play up, a BYU, Y, Jake Retzloff. A Mormon college, yeah. Yeah. University, whatever.

Yeah. I'm sorry, Latter-day Saints. Latter-day Saints. And he got an eight-game suspension for breaking the honor code. An honor code is no sex. And there were some allegations involved that have since been dropped. Still got the eight-game suspension, and he said, I'm out of here. See you.

And now he'll be at Tulane, where debauchery is fully acceptable. Not that what he was doing was debauchery, but... I think they kick you out of school if you're not having premarral sex. If you're not having sex at Tulane, then you really aren't very attractive or a nice person. We're not trying. Or not trying. Maybe you're saving yourself. Which is fine.

That's more acceptable at BYU. It is. I wouldn't have left BYU if I was hoping to save myself. You wouldn't have? I didn't go. Okay. The hate for Utah, Utah, BYU, I've told you this before.

One of the nastiest rivalries in sports. I'll take your word for it. And, as a matter of fact, when Irvin Meyer was the coach of Utah, when I was there, he would not even call them BYU. He'd call them the team down south.

He would never refer to them by name. Like Ohio State and Michigan? What do they call each other? The team from up north and Ohio State, don't they call the Michigan that? Mm-hmm. What do you call Texas A&N? your biggest rival.

No, not the biggest rival. Biggest rival would be Oklahoma. What do you call the supposedly biggest rival Oklahoma? What do you call Oklahoma? Anything? They're from Oklahoma. Wow. Chokelahoma.

Choklahoma. Suclaholauma. Are you just making this out of the fly here? Chokelahoma. I had a Chocoloma T-shirt back in the day. Isn't that that that taco that you have like an ice cream? And then I call it a Choclohoma? Or it's a Chaco Taco Taco.

You're a Chaco Taco Taco? Put that one back in the oven. I love chaco taco. Five minutes left to go with the show. What should we do? Should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply call it B, believe it or not, and here's how it works. You'll call 713-213-2-5-790.

Today's edition up, believe it or not. It's all things about Chris Paul. I'll read your statement about CP3. The statement's completely and utterly accurate. You'll say this. In this statement, it's erroneous full of bunk and man up. You'll say this. Two believe it or not,

it's in a row, get you either a pair of tickets to the big three August 2nd at Toto Center at TotoCenter.com or a pair of tickets to see Nelly, Jarl, and Eve at where the party at tour. I thought you're never supposed to end your sentences with prepositions, Ross. I think it's acceptable now. Nobody cares. There's no rules.

Are you sure? You're also supposed to say fewer rather than less when it's numbers and nobody cares anymore. Or the latter or the former, right, Jonathan? That's true. Just saying that out loud. People do say that. Ticketmaster.com for the Nelly, Jarlule, and Eve tickets at the Or The Party at Tour. Let's play, believe it or not. Let's start with line number two. Sebastian on 790.

Sebastian, as soon as Ross puts you up on the big board, Sebastian, you're ready to play. Believe it or not. Yeah. In 2005, Chris Paul was named an Academic All-American at Wake Forest with an undecided major. Believe it or not. Believe it. That is correct. Believe it.

Sebastian, in 2018, Chris Paul made a $2.5 million donation to Wake Forest University, and the basketball locker room was named in his honor. Believe it or not? Not. Believe it. I thought we were going to go eight for eight today. These are not my finest work. Ken on 790.

Ken, what's your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? All the aster's talk. Chris Paul has been selected to four all NBA first teams, and seven defensive all NBA first teams. Believe it or not? Not. That is a believe it. He's a very good defensive player.

Magic Johnson wasn't much for defense. Nobody scored much more and play multiple positions. Let's go to John on 790. John, you ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. Chris Paul was the cover athlete for the EA sports game NCAA March Madness 2004. Believe it or not? Believe it.

Nope, Carminell Anthony was. Spencer Spencer You're ready to play Spence or not Spencer Erigetti Spencer Arrogetti All right Spencer

Chris Paul is second in the all-time assist list behind only John Stockton Believe it or not Believe it There you go Statement number two for the win According to Basketball Reference.com

Chris Paul's nickname include CP3 The Point God And the skate instructor Believe it or not Believe it or not Believe it There you go. Congratulations.

What was that? He said, oh, let's go. Who did that? I don't know. That was weird. Brandon. On line six. Brandon, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? All the a hat-o's talk. Next. Chris Paul is a practicing Jehovah's Witness and holds an annual event in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,

with proceeds going to the church. Believe it or not. Oh, he could be a church. Believe it. No, he's not a Joe's witness. Sorry. Sorry. You've got to guess those religions, right? Let's go to Sheldon online, number five.

Sheldon, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Yes. Chris Paul is good friends with the NFL running back Reggie Bush. The two lived in the same complex of New Orleans and even shared a personal chef. Believe it or not. Ah, man, I love so much about football. I'm a thing not. Oh, you don't know enough about football.

You got to know who shareships and who don't. All right. That is it for today's edition of Believe or not. Ross, the Astros on next show tonight starts at 7.30. Are you hosting the show or is Adam Clanton hosting it? Oh, that would be me. I don't have a bother answer. We know the answer to that.

We know the answer. I'll be on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday as well, I think. Or do you take one of those? No, I got tomorrow. Wednesday is a day game. I'll do it. Yeah, we're all over the place. Up next, Clanton and Wexler, four hours of Nick Cayley Talk as part of the team on 790.