The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Lose The Series vs Orioles Still 1 Game Ahead Of Mariners In AL West, MLB Expansion/Realignment?

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

Astros Lose The Series vs Orioles Still 1 Game Ahead Of Mariners In AL West, MLB Expansion/Realignment?

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Morning and welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Toppish show with Ross. SportsRV. I'm Matt. Jonathan Allen's our producer. You know, part of me coming to the studio and driving in the hollacious traffic that is Houston, Texas, is being actual to see my producer. Jonathan Ross is gone later this week. I'm working from home.

I don't even see you. I mean, seriously. If you knew what we're doing with this, Matt, it's going to sog with these cameras. don't even start. Don't even start. Jonathan, I'm in the Kingwood Studio Thursday Friday. I'm just giving you a little heads up on that. So in the olden days.

Actually, Friday, no, because Eddie Nuneo is coming in Friday. So I'm working from home Thursday. The wrestler? Eddie Nunez, the athletic director of the University of Houston. Oh, okay. Even better. Even better. Don't even.

You've been back in studio for five seconds and he's already on Lauren Chihadi. We'll see, now you don't even know. Okay, so for those don't know, we used to have like a see-through window, like if you think of Frazier and Raw. Yes. If you go to Frazier, how Roz would talk to Frazier, they could see each other through the window. And 90% of the radio stations in this country, well, actually, not 90% because I heart runs all of them, 70%. But now we're in separate rooms, so we have a camera so we can see. And it's actually more important than you would think to see the expressions of Jonathan. And to tell him things and nonverbal communication. It's actually important to see him, but our cameras have been down for a few days.

Okay, so I will be here Thursday if they are working. If they're not working, I'm working from home on Thursday. Friday, I'll definitely be here because we've got any new news coming in. Okay. Thank you, Matt. And you're going to be gone later this week. I will be gone. I'll be out of town.

Get on the road and experience life. Yeah, I'm going to be road tripping. By the way, let's open the show with whatever one's talking about. How about a nice hat tip to C.J. Stroud? Oh, yes. He wears a Seattle Mariner cap. Oh, my God. And everyone's losing their mind over.

Are we going to get to that right out of the game? Yeah, I think we said, because look, do you want to break down the Astros or else for yesterday? Not really. You want to get into a deep dive on the John Metchy train? Not really. Okay. So let me give you my take on it. All right.

And I think it's level-headed, I think, honestly. Oh, no. I'm usually just a sizzle. I know. I know I'm the king of sizzle of this job. I think it's level-headed. So let me just take you through how I saw it on. Saturday when it happened.

I'm like, so I see him walking with a Seattle cat. Okay? And I'm like, what are you doing? Mm-hmm. It wasn't like he hates Houston. He's pro-Mariners. He's what I was just like,

what are you doing? That's, but that, but I moved, you know what I did after I saw that? What'd you do? I wouldn't cook breakfast. Oh, okay. You didn't fire off 10 angry tweets about it. I did that.

So, I put one tweet out about it. I said four hours of C.J. Stroud hat wearing talk on Monday. Uh-huh. Then there is a certain collection of Twitter people who want to shame you and say, it was to honor Nipsey Hustle, boom, Shackalaka, leave me alone. Know you know who he is. And I'm like, okay, angry person, enjoy your weekend. I'm going to go watch Texans.

I'm going to go watch my daughter play volleyball, bada boom, bade a bade bing. Then after the game, somebody asked CJ about it, and he's like, I just like the hat. And so the Nipsey Hustle stuff was a non-factor, which that person was wrong. I didn't go after him because I'm not, I don't want to get into Twitter fights. I'm busy watching below average volleyball, okay? I mean, oh, hey, come on now. It was a rough weekend for the old King wearing mustaches. The girls are trying.

They are trying. God love him. I'm timid. So to me, it was this, in a nutshell, Rossi. Okay. I thought it was an improper read of the room, but I got over it very quickly because I don't think CJ would do it to just intentionally piss off Houstonians. But for people to say, oh, you shouldn't have taken nothing out of it. We are a city, Rossi, and you and I have, you've lived here in your entire life.

I've lived here 90% of my life. I lived in Austin for six years. Okay, so you lived here 94% of your life. We do, we're very proud of our city. And that goes along with the sports teams. So when someone who we think we love is representing the other side of things, people tend to get a little upset about it. And you know what?

I'm okay with that. But upset is a relative term. Do you have a picket fence? Do you go out of the middle of the street and with a picket sign? No. Do you say, I hate you, C.J. Strout? No, you just go, come on, C.J. Hook, let's be pro-Hustin here a little bit.

and don't pick, if you had to pick the, I don't know, Baltimore Oriole, no, that's a bad example, because they were in town. If you had to pick the Cincinnati Reds, no one would have thought two things about it. If you had to pick them. I feel like people still would have said something. You picked the Seattle Mariners, the team that has been on your ass for two months.

So I do believe there was a small section of me that said, CJ, I love you. I've defended you. You need a better offensive line. But this was a mistake. But I moved on. Apparently people did not move on and it became this complete social media blank circus that went along racial lines. It went about there's two different Americas.

I was like, good God, can we just say, CJ, wear a Milwaukee Brewers hat for the love of God. We'd be okay with it. Yeah. I just think in general, we all need to have a little bit more critical thinking sometimes. And the people who are very upset about it, well, I'm with you that like, okay, if you're an initial reaction, was what the heck is he doing? Okay, I move on with my day. Like, that's fine.

That's literally what I never thought in a million years it was going to be a, well, you don't know what nipsey hustle did. This is what the kids in the L.A. do. He never brought that up in the post game. All he did was bring up, I like the hat. Yeah. But that also could be, just because he didn't bring it up, doesn't necessarily mean that that wasn't what he was going for. But I don't know and I don't care.

Yeah. I didn't hear about it. And I saw your tweet. And I was like, oh, CJ Stroud wore a mariner's hat. That's weird. And then I saw the video. And my initial actual reaction was, oh, that's an ugly one. I like the one with the teal brim.

Like, my reaction was more to the hat than to that he was wearing the hat. I didn't really care. And then I saw people getting so upset about it. So then unfortunately, well, not unfortunately. I put out a tweet. I saw what you wrote. And I knew that was coming. People got upset with me.

They should be. You're dumb to say that it's dumb. The people think it's dumb? I'm like, okay, whatever. I said, yeah, I think if you get all upset about it, you're dumb. I didn't say you're dumb. I said it's dumb to do that. Smart people can do dumb things.

I do dumb things all the time. Matt, you can speak for yourself. But people can do dumb things. And it's dumb to get all up in arms about a guy wearing a hat. Because if you take five seconds to think, you'd say, okay, ask yourself, why is he wearing that hat? Probably just because he likes it. probably just because he's hat guy. We know hat guys in our lives.

Trey Campbell, our former producers, hat guy. Mo Morge over at a different station. He's hat guy. There's hat guys all over the place, and they just wear a bunch of different hats because they like hats. They like hats. Again, I don't know CJ at all. I don't think CJ was like,

I can't wait to wear this hat to piss off Houston. Now, I'll say this. Jose Al-Tube came to the ballpark next week. We're wearing a Tennessee Titans cap. It's going to get the same reaction. Yeah. It just is. He's like, what are you doing?

Titans cap. So that's, my reaction was, and this is as honest as I can be, was, C.J., what are you doing? But it wasn't like, I hate you. How dare you. It was, don't do it again. It was a non-story overall to me. And I think it's a good example of people need to realize we're not all in the same bubble. I will guarantee you, not guarantee you, but I will bet you, 99.9% of the people who are all up in arms about it are diehard Astros fans.

because you're in your bubble and you're looking at this Seattle Mariners race and you're looking at the American League West and it's a good teaching moment Matt. You know how you go to, well, you talk to like your wife's friends, husbands and you start talking sports

and they don't know anything and you're like, what? You don't know anything about the Texans? And you don't know, they're like, oh, who's on the Texans? Who do they play this year? And they say stupid stuff and you're like, how do you not know anything about sports?

There's people outside of our bubbles. Correct. And C.J. Stroud is outside of following. following the AL West. If you said, C.J. Stroud, how many games back are the Mariners of the Astros?

He doesn't know. Do you think C.J. Stroud knows who Cal Rale is? Probably not. Maybe because he's so famous. Does he know Dominic Canzone? I don't think so. All right?

I don't think he's breaking down J.P. Crawford's shortstop defense. All right. So let me, we're going to scoop past that. We're probably going to come back to it again eventually. You don't know I'm more upset about? First of all, so I cleaned up my DVR on Sunday.

And I had old match games on there from with horrible host Martin short. Oh, he is bad. And terrible, I don't know who the hell these celebrities are. And I'm not even call them celebrities. Okay. He's on the Mount Rushmore of cringe, unfunny people ever. He is one of it.

He is, he is the Bruce Springsteen of comedy. I'm putting him up there, Pete Davidson, and we'll figure out the rest of the list of life. All right. So there were two bonus. There's two, the supermatch is the bonus game part. Okay. And there were two different contestants, each played for $25,000.

All right. contestant won in the first half of the game. The bonus was Blank Cruz. C-U-R-I-S-E. And I want you to think of an answer. Carnival. Boom, boom.

You get that your answer? Boom, boom. Boom. Boom. Okay, so what's your final answer? What do you want to go on? Tom. Okay.

The contestant said gay. The celebrity said Tom. Okay. That's pretty funny. Okay. That's $25,000 in a hold of this. She'll never get back and she's going to think about them going, what the hell was I thinking?

Okay. The second part of the game, the supermatch, here it is. You're ready? Yes. Iced. I-C-E-D. Bound-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B- You have an answer? Tea.

Contestant? Coffee. I'm going to be honest with you. The first word that came to my head was coffee, but then I was like iced tea is probably more popular. Slaverty said tea. Hmm. I think that's one, too. Kay Cruz.

That's it. I was like, I know there's Jay Cruz's, but that's the first thing you thought of? Well, like I said, different people are in different bubbles, Matt. So that's okay. That's a segue into what we were talking about is that sometimes we'd think really out of the box. C.J. Stroud is not locked into the AOS race. Otherwise, he wouldn't have worn the hat. And we just had to move on.

Yeah. So I just, it was an interesting weekend. And it didn't hurt you. It didn't cause any harm. It wasn't. People like, this is bad PR. PR for what? He's a football player wearing a hat.

if someone wearing a hat is ruining your Saturday, you need to re-examine your life. Yeah. I just, my guess is that CJ won't wear it again. Then he now he's like, hey, bro, this is a guy, this is our main rival in town. So again, that was it. The most important thing was the Texans got away, not hurt anybody. Their first team did okay. And then CJ Gardner Johnson couldn't jump on John Metch's uniform number fast enough.

Was that true? Oh, yeah. He tweeted that bad boy out. Metch you traded the following tweet, AJ Garner Johnson, eight ball. Oh, I was wondering what the eight ball was.

I thought he was picking up an eight ball. I don't know. That's flying over your head. Yeah. That's okay. That's exactly right. The sheltered life. Yeah.

That's not sheltered. It just I didn't know what it meant. Sheltered means I'm in a room. It's a drug reference. Oh, oh, so you know what? You know what an eight ball is? I don't know what an eight ball is.

Good. I'm glad I don't know the drug references. I feel good. What a square. That's right. All right. Intense 53 man break. down. From Matt? From all of us. Oh, no, I'm good. Give us your 37 through 46 players today.

Astros. Or counting down. Generally speaking, suck this weekend. Yes. And we'll get to that. To tell the truth is coming up today. Hitting coach has got to be better. You know what, though? I have a feeling or it's going to be changes. I just think that there's just... You think so? Yeah, most teams don't. We have had very few... Right changes right now in the middle of the race? We have positional changes. Not what I'm saying right now. I'm talking the end of the year. That could happen. what's the name, Gary Pettis got the heave-ho and that team won the division. So you know what I'm saying? I'm just...

Okay. They're the wrong fall guys, but I'm just a little feel. Jordan Alvarez? Maybe. Massive realignment and expansion to Major League Baseball. Maybe. What? The Big Ten Conference wants to have a 96 team

in college football playoffs. Absurd. And that's a lot. And to tell the truth. Plus, believe it or not. 10-14. Sports Talk 70. It's a full show. What did you please join us today at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

10-20. Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-2-7-90. So I went on Channel 2 last night. Shout out to Rainey McAboy for the invite. Zoom's my friend, by the way. It's a long-ass drive to Southwest Freeway. Yeah, it's just too far. I didn't catch it. But congratulations. That's cool. How was it? It was fine. I was asleep. You were asleep at all when it was on?

Yeah, yeah. We taped it ahead of time. So, and, you know. How'd you look? You didn't have any boogies in your nose or anything, did it? I don't think I did. That's good. I mean, McAvoy certainly didn't say anything, but he probably would be like, yeah. That'd have been rude. That's embarrassment on a major market.

Congratulations, Sammy. He was inducted into some kind of Hall of Fame, right? Texas, like a high school Hall of Fame thing for covering high school sports. Well, that's cool. I've been in the Maine Creek Hall of Fame waiting for you. Congratulations. Texas Radio Hall. I'm just waiting for you.

I guess I got an enrolled. I have not heard back from Nimitz High School yet. You should be up there. I mean, seriously, it's you, Brittany Griner, Aaron Glenn, and who else? Jason Glenn. And Jason Glenn. Dante Hall. Ooh, you're not to wait a while.

Yeah, might be a minute. Sorry. You know, they don't do it like the asterosierling's bringing like nine people in the first year. It's going to be like a Terry Pool class. Man, when Junction Jack's going in next year, that's going to be a real tough one. Billie Wagner made it. finally got his number retired. He gets 10 more of Hall of Fame votes,

so now his number deserves to be retired. Look, Billy, I told you before, Billy Wagner is one of my favorite all-time Astros. He should be. He was, first of all, he was really good at his job. Secondly, he was, when something wasn't right, he told you and he didn't want to, he didn't mince words. Yes.

He would not work well with the medical staff of the Astros. But it, with him playing for so many different teams post-Astros, it kind of took some of the, of the luster off of him being in the Hall of Fame because Philly's Mets, Red Sox, and Braves. Yeah, he moved and he was all, he was good to the very last moment. Yeah, 16 years, nine of them with the Astros. So remember our guy that called it today and wanted Billy Wagoner come pitch?

And then I played a soundbite of him calling. Sorry, I'm still recovering from that. He sent me a very mean email. He says, how was that mean? It wasn't polite. You forwarded it to me. I did forward it to me. I did forward it to you.

He wasn't polite, but it's not like he called you a jackass. But I thought my response was really good. I forgot what it was. So he basically said, why would you make fun of me for saying something like that? Yeah. He's like, I used to respect you, Matt. You used to show respect to your callers. And I can't believe that you would treat me this way.

Yeah. It's great. Are you hearing yourself? So then I respect. I said, it's funny. You know, I said, to be fair, you also basically said that Joe Espada was a major, wasn't a major league manager. I said, how would Joe Espada feel if you heard you call the show? basically saying he's maybe a nice coach,

but he treats games like spring training games in the church. And then I said, if you called a show and asked for a pitcher to come back who'd been retired for 14 years. Literally just got inducted into the Hall of Fame. Yeah. I said, if I say something like that,

you must call me out on that. Ross, I don't even know. What's the most preposterous thing I've ever said to you in the history of you and I working again? Is there something that comes? I don't know. I don't think they're... I mean, we've all said goofy stuff to each other.

But as if it's something that you're like, you are smoking something terrible. Players shouldn't be played. That was back in the day. Well, yeah, I mean, yeah, I was firmly... And then I realized what hypocrisy was at the college level. But that wasn't the war. I mean, there was a lot of people that shared my sentiment on that.

I still know the NAL is a hot mess, but that's... It's way out of my scope of... knowledge at this point. By the way, Eddie Nunez, I thought a director of the University of Houston is going to come in and spend an hour with me on Friday. And you guys are going to talk NIL for an hour. Well, we're going to, I'm going to say, I need the, what's it, the dummies book. Is that what they call it? The basic course for dummies? NIL for dummies. Yeah. Because I'm confused by it. Does anyone get NIL? Well, I think this, I mean, at its most basic, how did they even come up with $51 million to pay athletes? So sure. They didn't pay that. They didn't pay that. that five years ago. That was $51 million that just all of a sudden showed up.

I don't know. Well, yeah, four or five years ago, they had that big pop where they got eight five-star recruits and then they're all gone within like a year. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't work. Then donations went down for a little bit. Okay, so back to the Asteros here, and we will get to some Asteros conversation. Okay. I felt terrible because

I am proud of the fact the Asteros have a game and a half lead. I am proud of the fact, and I think I did a pretty good job explaining. I said, with all the different injuries and the lineups and guys not performing, up to expectations. This team realistically, and I feel like we're a broken record on this, should be about 10 to 15 games under 500.

It's a miracle they are where they are. And even with as good as Seattle, generally speaking, has played, now they've had a tough week. They did lose two or three to the Mets. Two or three to the Orioles. And two or three of the Orioles. Even as bad as the Astros played. And they've been playing really at about a little bit under 500 level for about a

six weeks now, give or take? They stand in the lead at one point with seven games. I get that. It's still a game and a half lead here. Now, we do have about seven weeks left to go on the season. They could be the two seed after, they win this series against the Tigers. They're the two seed.

I'm going to say, it's not a question of deserving it, but it's, it's almost hard to fathom. No, it's not hard to fathom. It's impossible to fathom. It's impossible to fathom that this team that has had down years from Christian Wall, that has seen a

steady diet of Taylor Trammell and Jacob Melton and who else? Give me some other randos. Cooper Hummel. Cooper Hummel. Shea Whitcomb.

Zach Short? Yeah. Seriously. The second basement got hurt and got hit and Brendan Rogers. I mean, Brendan Rogers! What is this lineup?

What is this team? We are going to go back. This is going to be one of the of those scenarios where we're going to go back to this team in two or three years even and be like, oh my God, you're going to go through the list of names? Because you can do that with like 2019 Astros. You're like, Cameron Mabin, oh yeah, I forgot about him or what, whoever else. Hank Conger.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Like, oh, I barely remember. And there are sometimes you're like, I don't even remember that guy. We're going to have like five. I don't even remember that guys. In 2000 and, what are we in 25? In 2020, believe it or not, this guy was a part of the 20, 25 Astros.

Exactly. Enel de Los Santos, Logan Van Wye, like Jordan Weems. Remember, I already forgot this. Rafael Montero pitch games for the Astros at the major league level. I already forgot. The pitcher that got sent to Miami. I've already forgotten it's in the five-letter name.

Ryan Gusto. Ryan Gusto, yeah. I've already forgotten Ryan Gusto's name. Exactly. They are taping it together. and people are living it and some people live it every single day for whatever reason they don't treat baseball it should be week to week and month to month and they go day to day and they don't see the forest for the trees the forest right now is they're in first place and

they win this series against tigers they're literally in the second seat in the american league it's a miracle what's happening right now in front of us is a miracle and and honestly And this, and Miranda asked me this question yesterday, you know, Seattle has a better team. Oh, I'm sorry. Somebody says I'm wrong? What? About the, they're a half game. Oh, I'm sorry. They're a half game behind the Blue Jays.

I lied. They can't be the two seats. They have to sweep them. They have to sweep them. Okay. Sorry. Yeah, that's right. The Mariners are a better team on paper.

But on paper, the Astros still have a game and a half lead. So I don't know how this is going to end. I wouldn't be necessarily planning a parader out right now for the World Series. But my God, it is absolutely incredible to me what this team is still doing at this stage, knowing that Yordon Alvarez is probably at least a week away from getting back on the team if he does. And what he does when he comes back, who the hell knows? It's a jumbled mess in the starting rotation. I don't know what ever happened to Sean Dubin, but my God, I don't want to ever see him pitch again.

after loving him the first two months of the season. Can't love a guy for two months and then be done with him after a weekend? Yes, you can. Astro, Twitter says I can do that. Okay. 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-2-1-790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We have to tell the truth today at 1130.

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We'll make sure y'all are still alive. I think we have listeners. I thought we'd have people complaining about the Astros. Or C.J. Hackgate or any of that kind of stuff. I can't believe he wore that hat over this weekend. He loves the Mariners. Why does he sound like you're from Beaumont?

You said it, not me. I think Beaumont person sounds like that, yes? So seven, nothing. Not a good. weekend for the run differential. When Chas McCormick is your most efficient pitcher, that's also not great. So Friday night, you know, when you go to hotels, my family was in awesome. My daughter was playing in a tournament, and they didn't have Space City out in the hotel.

So I got a hold of a great illegal feed. Okay. I'm not going to tell you who gave it to me, but it's somebody here at the station. All right, snitch. I thought I said, we have a lot of employees with us here. Oh, my God. No, we don't. So we tell you're probably right.

You're probably right. Fantastic feat. And I'm sitting in the bed watching the computer. Kim's watching God knows what. Real housewise. Something on Netflix or how I met you or whatever. And this is, they're getting not just no hit for a scrappy guy. You're going to call him a scrub, aren't you?

I was going to call him a scrub. That's okay. I had to do that. Lumberton's far enough away. I don't think our signal works in Lumberton. Oh, we're, by the way, $7.90 comes in in Austin. Good.

Yeah, I was very happy about, nah, parts of it. Okay. Especially as you're ranking your way out of $2.90, it's really strong. It's good. The point being is that it took a barely base hit. I mean, it was a base hit. It was not, it was not a friendly ruling.

It was a single with an error. That was scored 100% properly. Yeah, it was, well, I feel like it was like $70 properly. You could have almost given an error. But the errors are for routine plays. That was not a routine play. If the ball would, have gone right to the mound. It was the right call.

It was the right call. Single on an air was the right call. But even so that was the only GD hit. I don't want to say GD, but. The guy was 0 and 6 with an ERA of like six something. Yeah. It was, oh, God. And see, and then Saturday. I've been defending Frammer Valdez. I've been defending the Astros hitting coaches.

I've been defending that they can beat bad teams. It's not a good weekend for me, Matt. No. then you're going with fights over hat people Oh my God I should just stay offed I you know what I had more of a free Saturday night

than I had in a long time So I've spent too much Are you complaining or? Yes because I need to be more busy Because I was on social media more than I had been On a Saturday in a while Okay yeah I had volleyball to worry about And so that was pretty

But And then Saturday's game We get back to hotel And I'm watching the game there And it was like Nobody wanted to win that game nobody deserved to win that game and the error and by the way again i don't know the position players and i apologize for it but the play was to third go home on the play get the out he was trying

to get that third baseball was trying to be too fancy trying to get that double play one of force on a bad throw and then the asteros win the game on the extra earnings so it was just oh an ugly one on Saturday, which you'll take. And then I was telling my wife yesterday, I was like, could you imagine going to the game on Sunday? They had a huge crowd again there yesterday. You're sitting down. You got your Astro hat

on. You got your jersey on. Not your Mariners hat. Your Astros hat. You're not wearing a Dallas Cowboy cap. You're wearing an Astros cap. Well, somebody probably was. And your team just got their ass kicked 12-0. By the lowly Baltimore Orioles.

At least it was a slow burn. and if not for Jesus Sanchez, robbing not one but two plays in Wrightfield, that some bitch might have been 17, 18. A grand slam and a three run home. So that's 712. 19,

it's been 19 nothing. Minimum because those endings ended, right? The endings could have kept going. Well, the one run scored, so it'd probably been 16 or 17. Yeah, whatever it was. So you're right.

Oh, God, it sucked. And then the game yesterday between the Mariners and the Mets, God bless the Mets. Bless the Mets. Thank you, Mets. Love you, Mets. The Mariners drop two or three of the Mets

and the Astros now in Detroit to take on, I don't know, a ridiculously good Tiger team who had a bit about a month of doldrums and now they're back to playing being good again and again it's going to take a sweep and Tarc Skuble is going to pitch tomorrow. Yes, get you popcorn ready. Erigati Flaherty is

a nice little appetizer to Hunter Brown Terik Scouble. Mm-hmm. And then Framber and Charlie Morton. It should be good. When is Framber going to come back? Sweep City, you ready? You ever notice since Framber's gone to Twitter,

he's been a completely different person from personality to his performance? He was a quality start on Friday. That's true. Only three of the four runs were earned. Quality start just goes to earned runs, correct? That is correct. It's six innings of three runs.

Now, he doesn't play very good defense. No, he doesn't, and he never has. But, however, however. The apologist coming in. I'm not being an apologist, actually. you cannot call out your defense and then have bad defense. We've forgiven Framber for bad defense for years because he's a very good pitcher, and he's just not a good defender.

It is what it is. If you're waiting, he's 32 years old. If you're waiting for him to win a gold glove, it ain't happening. That's easy to forgive unless you're going to be calling out your defense in the post game, which you can't do. Now, he took full accountability to an interpreter. He said it was 100% on me. I got to be better, and I was wrong.

Right. But it's a two-way. Street, pal. Don't be calling out your defense and then your play, you're doing that. Literally, literally cover home plate. All right. The Astros men an offer to Garrett Cole, correct? Did they or did they not? I don't know.

The Astros been it offered Alex Spragman. Yes. The Astro's been at all for Carlos Carras. Springer? I don't think they did. I don't think so. Not anything competitive or real. When Frommberg's last pitch for the Astros in the very last game of the year, they might have his boxes already packed up. I think we could hear of a, I think I did a gut feeling months ago for whatever reason

that we hear something leaks, a non-competitive offer leaks. Okay. Because my feeling is there's going to be no offer at all. Yeah, I think we'll hear of some offer. Now, they offered them four years. Now what they can do is they can offer a qualifying offer. Yeah. That's the lowest hanging three can do.

No, that doesn't count. Yeah, we'll get a qualifying offer. offering. Yeah. We'll see here. They offered them 4100 or something. Okay.

Let's go to Chuck in Baytown at 1041 on 790. Hello, Chuck. Hey, I love y'all's show. I can honestly say when MD and Uncle Greg

shut it down, I thought there'd be nobody to could ask them, but y'all have done it, man. I love your show a lot. Thank you, Chuck. Nice to say that,

I appreciate that. No, yeah, and I mean that. But the other night when we got one hit, I always listen to the 10th inning show. Sometimes I call him every once in a while. And we had some people from,

that claim to be Astros fans, they were saying, well, you know, now that we're getting beat, I was sure was praying that he knew us through a perfect game. Let me tell you something, 57. If you're true boo like me in Houston in every sport, you were praying that this guy gave up a blue single with two hours in the night. you were praying and I was

what is up with these fans that take your Astros gear off you're not Astros fan I mean you're not and these people that are getting on CJ's proud for a hat go get in your safe space go in your attic

get your mom get on your Atari have to bring you a grill cheese and everything's going to be okay I mean for real the Astros are going to be fine it sucks when we get blown out but 20 to nothing or 1 to nothing

and it's an L. We're going to come back. Just Astros fans and Houston fans, do everybody a favor, man, and stay loyal to your team. And that's just ridiculous. Like I said, I'm older, and that's not cool at all. Thank you for the phone call, checking the nice words. I appreciate it.

No, the baseball group in this town, Astros' Twitter in particular. They're an emotional bunch. Yeah. So he's talking about people we had on the post game that were like, if you're, you had to be rooting for that perfect game or you're not a real baseball fan. Multiple people on the post game show. Do you host it on Friday? I did. Right?

What did you say to those people that said that? I said, you can call me not a baseball fan. I was rooting for a hit. Under zero circumstance, do I want a team that I root for? And I do root for the Astros. Under zero, do I want them to be no hit or perfect game? I have no interest in watching that. No, me either.

I did a post game show when the Giants. pitcher. Who was it? I have to maybe you look it up. This is when we were in the Uber suck days. I know what you're talking about. Was it a West Coast tent that in game? I know who it is, but I can't think. Matt, Matt, something? Matt. Matt Kane? C-A-I-N? Was it Matt Kane?

Remember U. Darvish got to it. Did you do the U. Darvish? Marwin got one in the bottom of the knife. But I did the Matt King one. And that's when I had this producer, Matt, you gotta go to 1230. I said, I didn't want to mention his name. I said, Matt Cain, yeah.

You should remember he's got your name. I said, bro. The 10th inning show is about talking about what happened in the game. I'm not doing Giants recap of every single one. My clock says you gotta go at 1230. Yeah, we used to have rules. Now we have no rules. But yeah, I didn't want them to get a perfect game.

But people were saying because he was from Lumberton, Texas, and he's from the area and his parents are in. It had been nice for him to get a perfect game. You know what Lumberton's good for? Probably a delicious Dairy Queen down the spot. You think so? I think they got a nice rexas rigger? Oh, I got a dip cone on Austin on Saturday.

Okay. Good hit. You're in Austin, Texas, and you're getting dip cones? Yeah, and you need a little treat. Wait. Is that what you like about Texas? That's what I like about Texas. All right, that's enough.

Aggie Doug is going to join us next. We'll get some more phone calls in. 11 o'clock. Rob Manfred, this might be a really terrible hot take. I like what I'm hearing from him and I may be in a minority. That's in 15 minutes here. He's been doing good things.

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And, of course, our 790 account is at Sports Talk 700. Gordy hosted the 10th inning show yesterday. was that, by the way. Is this on? Yeah. He said it wasn't that bad. It actually wasn't that bad. We got, you know, I was expecting Armageddon.

It was, for the most part, I mean, I didn't get about three callers who said Chas McCormick needs to be playing every day. And our rhetorical was, why? He needs to be pitching every day? He's batting what, 220? You want that every day in the lineup? That's the problem is, there is no answer to the outfield right now. Jacob Melton is overmatched. He should be in AAA.

By the way, Bryce Matthews back down AAA doing his thing. I think he's about to enter the 30 Steel Club. But yeah, it's just Melton's not ready. Taylor Tramels. Taylor T's falling back to Earth. Sanchez is in a funk. Tremel is. That's who Tremel is.

And, you know, it's just kind of is what it is. But the question is, so when Yordine gets back, we think he's going to be D.H it every day, right? Like, they're not just, they're going to throw him in left field. Probably not. Two days playing more second base now than he had in the first month of the season. Yep. And they've been D-Hing him a lot. You're just kind of going to, I mean, it's amazing.

We are counting down the days until Jake Myers gets back to lockdown center field is a 300 hitter. Let's go, Jake! The savior of this team, Jake Myers, let's go. But the rest of the group, they are what they are. I mean, there's no really good player out there. Yordon Alvarez and rehab stint, how are we feeling? When he shows up, I'll be happy. What's my philosophy about this?

Have I gotten off this train? No. That was a number of this year. Let's go. That was the shot here yesterday. We're talking with Joe Spotted pregame. And Brian McTagra, I think. What's the latest on your own?

He goes, he's on his way to Corpus. Or he's on his way here. He's going to go to Corpus. He's going to rehab. And I think Dana Brown, on the pregame, clarified he's going to play Tuesday. They're going to give him Wednesday off to have a day break. And then he's going to play back-to-back Thursday Friday. And if all goes well, I think he's in Astor's lineup next week, next Monday, maybe.

Maybe even faster. I wouldn't push Saturday Sunday. No, he's not going to fly up there for one. game. He should. They need it. What's their schedule next week? Is it Colorado at home? It's, uh... Yeah, something like that. Three with Detroit, four, Baltimore, and then I don't know what to do. Oh, it's Baltimore. Send him to Baltimore. Remember his rookie year. He hit like three home runs in a game out there, California. Home three, well, they're off Monday, actually. So that would make sense to give them those extra days. Yep, yep. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday against Colorado, and then a Friday, a Monday set

against the angels. But here's what Yoron gives you. Because I had a few people in the postgame show say this too. It's not like he's going to come back and bat 300 and be this incredible hitter. But he gives you an occasional home run. If he can give me one to two home runs a week, it makes this lineup that much better because look at where they are now, guys. I think they're 17th in a league at home runs. The Astros, for the last decade, have been consistently top 10, top five in home runs hit.

Well, they've had Yoron for a lot of that. You lost Tucker your locks breakfast. He got hurt. Issauc Pradesh helped pick it up. And then he's hurt. And then he's hamster he fell off his bone. But Yorna can help get that power bet. That's the problem right now is there's no pop in this lineup.

Who's your power hitters? Christian Walker isn't a home run in a week. Yeah, I mean, he's. Al Tuvei. He's got 22 home runs. Yep. And? And he topped last.

Yon Air. He's got 17. Al Duve surpassed last year's home run total. Yeah. He's got a little bit more power. Yes, he's having a better season than he did last year. Better OPS. and all that. You know what I

underestimated was, unfortunately, Josh Hater's situation saying, oh, Bray, you can just pick up the pieces. What I failed to really take a deep dive in is you're not necessarily worried about Brian Abram moving in the ninth inning role. You're worried about those other guys playing meaningful 7th eighth inning roles. You should have listened to

the shows on Thursday and Friday. We talked about that, Matt. I was busy. Okay. I'll tell you this. O'Kert's been pretty solid as of late. He's better. I like what he's doing. Front of the show. Sean Dubin needs to be in Sugar Land. like now. He was good for a couple months.

No, he was. He was awesome his first two months. I remember talking to him in the clubhouse. His first nine outings, he didn't give up a run. And I was like, Sean, what's going on, man? Like, what are you doing here? What did you say, Sean? What's going on?

Hey, Sean, you suck? You suck. Ask normally, what's going on? I think I interviewed Oker earlier in the year, and I was kind of like, what's this magic elixir you guys got going on here? Because the whole bullpen had an ERA of like sub two. Yeah. Well, not anymore.

Nope. Going to the weekend, they had the fifth best ERA. I'm scared to look now. Who's my guy Delos Santos? He's been a nice little fun. Yeah, exactly. It's going to work for a little while, and we'll see. They change up the repertoire, and then their team gets a book on it, and then we'll figure out what's going on there.

Were you guys encouraged, though, by Dana's talking about haters saying he needs three weeks to shut down, the three-week ramp-up? No. It sounds like he needs surgery, and they're going to try. Done, done. Why would they say this, then? Because the class is half full all the time. They put a timeline on it, though. Like it's...

Yeah, they did. If all goes well, he's back by the end of the last week of the season. If all goes well, it sounded like a hope and a prayer. Now, if you read the comments, it sounds good. If you listen to what he acts... If you listen to like the audio, it doesn't sound good, which it'll give me a minute. It's fine. No, he's not pitching anymore this year.

Not even for the post season. Nope. He's definitely not going to be ready for the regular season. Dana did say, like, in his speech about it, said, like, this is a guy who's got, what, three more years on his deal? like he's important to us long term. I wonder if we'll ever see him get six hours under again. You're going to ask a guy who will have not pitched in five weeks to all of a sudden in a meaningful October game,

go to the ninth inning and throw 98 miles an hour. Sure. That makes plenty of sense. Best closer in baseball, sure. Yeah, he's hurt. You can't be the best closer in baseball when you're hurt. How are you feeling today? That's a lot of asking.

How you feel, Josh? He's going to tell you. He says, I feel good. How about yesterday? Christian Javier leaves in the fourth inning. Oh, here we go again. Now he's ill. What?

Have you ever seen that before? I'll be transparent. I was in a clubhouse per game yesterday. He's walking around the clubhouse. He's got his travel bag. He's going over to Victor Keratini. They're going over the game plan. I didn't see him coughing.

I didn't see him having the runs. I don't know. What are you going to see him in the run? Were you going to see stains on his pants? Are you in the bathroom? I mean, he was probably sick. But I'm just saying like, it's just weird. Jeremy Payne got everybody sick.

Jeremy Payne is like sniffing and snot all over his batting batting glove. It's gross. When is the last time that happened, though? the pitcher just leaves the game after three innings because of illness. I'm not sure it's happened before. I don't keep trying to. I mean, he was at 50 pitches.

He worked up a lot of pitches. But, yeah, his velocities were down. I'm concerned. I'm concerned that it's more than an illness. See, I'm treating it just as an illness, but I understand why you would say otherwise. Okay. Well, he's so sick, he can't throw hard? I don't know.

Is your voice, if you're sick, is your voice as strong as it could be on a normal day? your windpipe and you're getting a respiratory infection and your windpipe is different than your actual arm unless he has arm muscle infection. Yeah, I want to hear Nolan Ryan's take on this. Nolan, why do you feel about pitchers leaving? Well, okay. After three innings with an illness.

He brings up Nolan Ryan. I'm not just talking about you, Gord. It's like, yeah, he's one of one, okay? Hammond's like Cy friggin' young, throwing 6,000 innings. Nolan, what do you think a guy's not pitching into the seventh anymore? Because there was only one Nolan Ryan. Bob Gibson went there with walking pneumonia.

You threw eight innings of one out of him. Even five years ago, pitchers were going into the seventh. This year, like, nobody goes into the seventh. They're trying to preserve these arms. Look at all the injuries. They're trying to preserve these arms. All right. So we're going to sit down tonight.

We're going to watch some Astros baseball, right? Gordy? Watch some Astros baseball. Grab an ice cold Crawford Bach from Carbock Brewing. I was out there at the ballpark yesterday. Plenty of Crawford Box in people's hands. And look, the game sucked. But at least you can enjoy an ice cold.

Great beer to watch Astros baseball with. We've got some early starts, too, in Detroit. Astros 540 first pitch today and tomorrow. So if you're heading home, heading to your local watering hole, make sure that they're serving up the Crawford Bach from our friends at Carbach. Burring goes perfectly with Astros baseball. Doug and I'm in Hank Tai. We get to you.

We also Rob Manford saying something I kind of like and to tell the truth all the next 40 minutes at Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Power number two of the Matt Thomas show. We're also got a lot of folks that are waiting online. I want to get to you guys. I want to get to you on Rob Manfred. We have to tell the truth coming up, Rossi. We also have a deep dive breakdown on the Texans game against the Panthers.

I'll knock it out for you real quick. Texans' offense looked good. C.J. looked good. Nicolk Collins looked good. Nick Chubb looked good. So you like Chubb? I like Chubb. Mark's did okay for himself.

Defense was tenacious. Carl? No. What's his name? Woody. Okay. And... Groucho?

And John... You think his brother's name is Groucho? And John Metschie got traded yesterday. And C.J. Garner Johnson said, I want that jersey back number as quick as possible when he got it. Or I'm assuming you did. I don't know. Wishing John Metchie the best. A good spot for him. I mean...

It was a number's crunch. Yeah, there was no where he's going to go. And have not heard word of one about Joe makes a little late. By way, I cannot wait to hit on that gut feeling. I am counting down the days until I hear it. It's looking good for you. It looks great for me. By way, real quick, we have a...

bet and you and I a little fun fodder on Twitter about it. Oh. Kyle Tucker got booed out of the stadium yesterday in Chicago for not running a ball out. Yep. And we've seen that in Houston here a bunch of times. Yep.

And I'm not going anymore. I'm very confident in the Habachi Plus drive-through lunch. Okay. Now the opt-out, the, what are these contracts that are called these one-year deals with opt-term? Opt-out deals?

Yeah. That feels very good. That's a very big thing for me. That's the only way you win. Are you sure? Yes. not signing a shorter term deal. He's not signing a three or four year deal or something or five or six.

Seven is long for me. He wouldn't even do seven. Okay. Well, he would do an opt-out deal. Oh, God. So opt-out deal is looking good for you now. It's looking great for me right now. We got a lot of baseball left. And in a home running like three weeks. Looking great for me. Yeah, well. And then Cubs have imploded by the borrers have won 98% of the games the last month and a half. Things are looking better for you. It's a call it. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go tarotie chicken.

whatever you want. You're paying. I don't care. No, you're paying. What I win. Let's talk to Aggie Doug at 1104. 80. What's a good word? Howdy, boys?

How are you all? Amazing. Excellent. Hey, you were asking about the Aggies with the NIL earlier before I get to the Astros. That's because A&M made that deal with the sports management entertainment company for like $500 million for 10 years. So that's how A&M gets $50 million. a year for their NIL. Good for them.

That's not even, and that's not even donor money. That's not even the collective. By the way, you know, I work for one of those companies with Houston. It's a rival of now, it's, the two main companies are called Playfly and Learfield. And Learfield's been around forever, but Playfly is now taking over and buying all these programs. I did say when Playfly signed their big multimedia rights to deal with A&M, there will not be an inch of Kyle Field that will not be sold to a sponsor.

So I don't know if there's any pristine area that you've been. going to 80 over the years and saying, oh, this is hallow grounds. Yeah, like Revely's Graveyard. Like Revely's Graveyard is going to have sponsors. It's going to have like beep jerky signs all over it. That is literally the only thing they came to mind. Whenever you all, like, there's nothing sacred to know all the go. There is one thing.

If they really do naming rights for Revely's Graveyard, then that would be a new, I guess I would say new low for the Aggies. It's going to be, it's going to be. It's going to be. It's Revely's back. Burial spot brought to you by Farmers' Dog. Or MetSmart. MetSmart.

Or some sort of soil company or something like that. Oh, that's a good one. That would be. Yeah. So, hell, I mean, you can talk to Michael Berry. He'd have soil sponsors backed up, you know, in a line for Aiden to get sponsor rights on that. But no, guys, I was talking about this yesterday on a podcast about a, the fact that the Astros pitchers coming back, dude, we're going to need some longer levers.

Because if Christian Javier and Erigetti are going to go four, three, and four innings, we've got to find some guys that are going to eat innings on the backside of them. At least they even try to get them to Susa and Abra you at this point. Because if we don't bring back a Garcia, a J.P. France, and these guys, I mean, even Lance McCullors, you have to say, look, dude, we've paid. you for two years for doing nothing. You need to do exactly what we need you to do at this point. So I think the Astros really need to consider this almost like a piggyback situation

for the last, you know, month and a half. Well, I'll tell you what, Doug, I think honestly, and thank you for the phone call, I think Jason Alexander is going to have a semi-pivotal role in that whatever he's discussing. I don't think he's completely whack on that assessment, which is crazy because 80 usually has crazy takes. But you've got Javier who hasn't gone deep yet. McCullors will not typically go deep. Garcia's, they're all going to be on pitch counts.

You're going to need solid, solid, metal relief guys. Who can be that fifth, sixth, seventh inning guy to get to your leverage guys who get there? And I think Jason Alexander has done enough to probably fit that mold. You're going to end up. I think we glass count, depending on what's going on with Brandon Walter. He's been throwing sides, but he's throwing. So that's interesting. building back up. You're literally going to have nine

starters and you've got to figure out what to do with those guys. And you are running out of time of the season and you're in the thick of a race so you don't have a whole lot of time for everybody to kind of figure their bleep out. Figure a role. So yeah, they might have to get creative with

a piggyback type of situation. The only problem is is piggy, if you say, yeah, we're going to throw this guy for three innings and this guy for three innings. Well, what if the guy's getting shelled out there? What if the pitch counts are racking up And then one if you want to get somebody, you know, I lost my train of thoughts, sorry. Yeah, you have to figure things out with everything not going according to plan if you want to be in a piggyback situation.

And, oh, by the way, you're about to hit a stretch after this next off day of what, 13 straight games, something like that. I mean, you've got a lot of games coming in a short period of time. You don't have off days to give him guys natural rest. And I think I asked this to Joe two weeks ago. I said, you having to manage this part of the game is probably the most difficult part of your job. I mean, lineups are lineups, right? You can move guys in and out between seven and eight or give a guide day off here and there. But trying to, you can't will a pitcher to go 90 pitches, especially if he's struggling,

especially if the pitch counts high in the game. You can't even guarantee that Hunter Brown. and Fromber Valdez because those guys are not going to be able to give you 90 and you throw seven innings every single time. You'd like for them too, but sometimes things just don't work out that way. Yeah, you're short on arms.

It was a 12-0 game yesterday. Thankfully, it was getting enough of a blowout. You could use Chas McCormick. But Aniel de Los Santos gave you two innings a day before. I'm sure he didn't want to go to him. You have no off day this week, by the way. You're playing seven straight games. I mean, Ocert gave you six outs yesterday.

And, yeah, you're down. That important arm, with Josh Hader now out. And then you've got to go to guys that, okay, Enel de Los Santos has been good, but how long is that going to last? What kind of track record does he have long term? He was DFA like a month ago from the Braves.

Yeah. So I'm saying, eating will be an easy ride. I thought it was going to be Ross. I, and Hater being out now, you're not asking your sixth inning guy to be your seventh inning guy, your seventh inning guy to be your eighth inning guy.

And every time I want to jump on the Bennett's, who's a train? home run giving up. Yes. But he'll be fine. Again, you are a lot to give up runs. Nobody's perfect. Nobody is perfect.

Let's talk to Ivan on 790 at 1110. Ivan, what's going on? Hey, Maddie. I just wanted to say I love y'all show. You and Ross. Thank you. Thank you. You're right.

I still believe you should Mr. Texas. You are Mr. Texas. What? Yep. No, he's not, Ivan. Guess where I was this weekend. Ivan, I went through awesome. The absolute worst candidate.

I went to Brenham this weekend. I drove through Hempstead. I went to Buckees twice. I am Mr. Texas. How many barbecue joints you go to? Zero. I don't need to have barbecue every same time. You went to all through Texas and had no barbecue.

Mr. Texas, you're fire. I went to a scratch kitchen, Ross, and enjoyed myself very much. That's a good one. Yeah. Go ahead, Ivan. Compa, compere, we're going to be okay. I mean, I know right now things are looking bleak. things are not looking that great.

No, they're not looking bleak. They're in first place. Yes, that's what I was going to say. We are still in first place. We're not out of the playoffs. We're in the playoffs right now currently, correct? Yes. They're the division leaders. Yes. Yes.

So, I mean, yes, there is cause for concern because there's a lot of injuries. And I told my brother, if Espala is able to make us to the playoffs, do I feel he should be manager of the year? You know what? He absolutely should. thank you for the phone call. He's got competition. I mean, AJ Hinch, doing what he's done in Detroit all year long. He's been obviously a

very pleasant surprise. Is anybody else the American League that's up for grabs? John Schneider? Blue Jays manager. You mean the former Duke's Hazardt Star? No. Get our girl Shahadian and see if she can give us an intake on what's going on. Relax.

I mean, I don't know you finish with the number one seed in the American League. You should probably be in the running for American League manager the year. What is being discussed around baseball, I watched Ken Rosenthal the other day on a video podcast. People on our know what's going on in Houston. They know. They know that Yordon Alboris hasn't been around since May. They know that all the rotation's been hurt.

They know the guys have underperformed. They know the value of what's been going on. So he will get plenty of votes. It will not. If he loses, it will not be a shock. But he's not going to be like, oh, how could you even forget about him? Joe Spotted will be a top. I'll be safe to say top two finish in America.

I need him to win. I would love for him to. Just as he deserves it because, man, the mess has gone through. It's been a lot to go through. Of course, I'm biased because he joins us every week. I think he does a good job. And I think he gets way, way, way too much undue hate. I want to rub it in the face of the fire a spot of folks, which there are still plenty of them.

Yeah, the ones that say maybe a good coach but can't coach a major league game on a Sunday afternoon. 1113. All right. We've got Rob Manfred in appearance on ESPN and said a couple of things interesting, very interesting about the future of the sport. 1113, Sports Talk, 790. 713-212. 577. Well, we were going to play some audio of Rob Manfred, but we can't do it.

Our phones are also not working. Computers aren't working. Audio. Our phones aren't working. It's all being worked on, Matt. Yeah, it's good. Very happy. So, I'm going to have to paraphrase.

I don't like to paraphrase. But Rob Manfred was on the Seattle Mets game with the Little League game. But I love baseball that does this. Again, I know Manfred gets a lot of crap, frankly, because of his horrific treatment of the Astros during the whole cheating scandal stuff. Okay? They cheated. I get it. They did. And they deserved a punishment. But to think the other teams were not doing it,

and they were using the Astros of a sacrificial or a scapegoat or whatever you want to call us. It's in my mind true, and I'll never be changed of that opinion. Buddy, again, you and I like the Manfred rule. We like the pitch clock. The games are moving faster. They're about to get a new television deal. They are doing

well. Their attendance is really, really good. Now, the biggest problem is he continues to have markets that don't do very well, and he's just trying to blind eye to them. Lowing Sacramento, the A's Plan, Sacramento is just a complete travesty. It's a hot mess. And he bears responsibility on that. I don't blame him for the Tampa Bay situation this year,

but Tampa Bay baseball has been largely north for 20 years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yesterday, he brought up that, you know, they got a new, they got new television deals coming in next year. And much like the NBA, they're looking to go with the streaming folks, whether it's Peacock, whether that's Hulu, whether that is Amazon Prime,

whether that's Netflix. Quibi. What is Quibi? Is that anything made up or is that something? Tube. Tube. I don't think they're going to go to be. They didn't get rid of the Roku stuff because that's... Now, I have Roku on one of my TV, so it's not a problem, but it's still a pain the ass people to figure out what ROTU is.

As long as they cut the check, they're going to put them on there. So he's talking about two things. expansion and a massive realignment in the sport. In what way? He didn't get into specific details but he said

he wants to put the teams as close together regardless of the league. And he said the main thing that's hurting his sport is that he would like to see Eastern teams play Eastern teams in the postseason as long as possible.

He wants to see Western teams play Western teams in the playoffs as long as possible. Meaning he cited an example yesterday, Boston playing the Angels doesn't help out the East Coast audience. When you have to put the Angels and the Red Sox on it 10 o'clock at night in a postseason game, it hurts. Ah, I get it.

And I completely understand that. They need more eyeballs for more money for these TV deals. And I don't blame them for that. Yeah. I mean, that makes perfect sense to me. Because, yeah, one of Angels or Boston Red Sox, you're going to lose one of the audiences, a portion of one of the audiences. You are.

And my guess is that if Boston's got a larger national brand that having the Red Sox play at 9 o'clock, or 10 o'clock Eastern Time is not advantageous to the large section of the East Coast. First of all, not that the Angels would be in the playoffs. You get the drift. Is that he's saying that if I could get the Mariners to play the Dodgers in the playoffs, I have the whole West Coast. it's going to be completely invested in that. And I can put that at a West Coast time and have Aubrey in the West Coast eating that crap up.

So he would just blow up the traditional American. He didn't say it per se. But I think he's certainly if you read between the lines, he's saying first of all, my guess is they probably would expand two teams to go to 32. Then the question would be what do you do at that point? Do you go to an NFL model

where you have eight divisions of four? Or do you go with two leagues of 16? Do you not have any leagues at all? Do you, I mean, my guess is they will do some sort of West versus Midwest and then an east and a South. But he's saying that the travel is killing the players and that the playoffs are hurting because of potential cross-country matchups. If you're a Dodger fan and you're playing the Pittsburgh Pirates, that example, again, the Dodgers, you're playing the Mets and you're playing at 1 o'clock. you're playing the games at 10 o'clock in the morning

in the Pacific time zone, that's not good for them either. Yeah. And that way you would only have cross time zones in the World Series? No, my guess is you probably would have it in the American League championship series.

You could probably figure out a way to do a playoff to stay in your time zone. Why would they do an all west and all-eastern conference? They could. If that's what he's going for, then it doesn't make sense to cross the the time zones at all.

right well he i mean i could see a west i could see nationally americally going by and going west and east yeah that's what i'm saying yeah and then maybe western league and the eastern league and then having probably even a series within your division that keeps you on the coast for at least the first round and um most of your traditional rivalries would stay together for instance you if they do this massive realignment the mets and the yankees will be in the same division the dodgers or the same convalries Conference, yeah. Or whatever, division conference. The Dodgers and Angels will be in the same division.

The White Sox and the Cups will be in the same division. You're going to see... Dodgers, Angels, Mariners, Rock. You could see Dodgers, Angels, Padres, A's. Why not Mariners? Because you're going to create a division up there with Seattle. Well, I'm thinking of conferences. Yeah, I mean...

And then Rockies, Diamondbacks, Padres has got to be in there somewhere. I would think, why wouldn't you just do East and West and no divisions? Yeah, you could. I mean, there's... East and West, no divisions. divisions, top six teams. But if you have divisions, though, Ross, you can then say you're going to play your own division more often,

which means the angels play in Los Angeles more. They're going to bust the San Diego. Yeah, but you can just schedule that as it is. You can do like the SEC has a, they play the rival every year, right? You could name a couple of rivals or whatever that you play. You play Texas more than everyone else, but then after that, who cares? They want the players off planes. How about you get one rival named?

Now, the Dodgers probably get the Giants. I guess the Padres would be left. the Dodge would be the Angels. I mean, I'm serious. They want travel reduced. No, no, I'm talking about like if you did like an SEC style where you have the same rival you play every year. So basically we're doing that now. This is conjecture.

But the general, and I wish we had the audio we could play, they're basically saying we want to get these guys off along trips. We want to play playoff series with teams in their own time zone. So it gives those audiences a chance. to thrive in those spots as compared to setting a team from one another country or the other where you could potentially hurt your audience. It's pretty well. It's pretty well 1515 at the Mississippi. Well, they're going to probably have two teams.

That would be 16, 16. Now, the question's going to be who gets the expansion teams. The teams that are being talked about the cities that you say. Yeah, but one in the east. But maybe you shift two. I mean, I'm saying, Ross, you don't understand. They're thinking about shifting more things over. You could put the Astros in the eastern half of the country if the wind things shake out.

they would. I'm just looking at a map. But what it, I mean, I just, look, this is conjecture. I'm trying to explain to you. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. Well, it's what I'm saying. I want to plug out of you. No, I'm just saying that every, it depends on, does Portland get a team? Does Nashville get a team? Uh-huh. Does Salt Lake City maybe get a team? Uh, who's a fourth of us a four city? But they're doing it geographically, right? There's, there's not enough, I'm just saying there'd be 15 teams west and 15 teams east or 16 i'm sorry in the dream world

the astros i think rob manfred like the 14 division he'd like to put the astros together with the rangers and then maybe with kansas city st louis something like that would be your four teams in that division if you did it that way but you can't have the cardinals of the cubs out not in the same division that's exactly right that's exactly

right but you can't but if milwaukee's 90 minutes away from chicago you can't how can you not have a division that involves the cubs the brewers the white socks you might split the Cubs and the Sox? You're going to have to do some splitting. Just the map I'm looking at.

Can you go six divisions of, I don't know. I think you go east and west and call it a day. I guess it depends on what the two teams. And the closer a team is to you, the more you stack the games. But does that make it fair? Just because a bad team is close to you? I mean, there's good divisions and bad divisions in baseball right now. thankfully the AOS has been pretty bad the last several years.

Well, I'll say this. The reason why I like this, honestly, is because I think the days of the Astros playing the Mariners 14, 15 times a year or done. If Manfred does get it through. And that the Astros can play the Rangers a bunch. They can play, if it's Kansas City, Seattle. I mean, it could also be Arizona, Colorado, who the hell knows? Because you've got a huge quadrant of Pacific Coast teams in that little spot there, too.

It's all dependent. Again, I think it's going to largely depend on what, If Portland wants a team bad, Salt Lake City wants a team bad, Charlotte and Nashville probably is going to get one. I think Nashville's probably got their act together more than anybody else. So who gets those teams? And how radical? Will there be enough baseball support to say, blow up the American League,

blow up the National League? Because there's so much passion behind the history of baseball. But you also got the DH. It's a universal D.H right now. What separates the National League from the American League now? Just history But most of the history would be preserved If you're going

If you split it up to east and west I'm all for it That's all I'm saying Okay Is that I'm all I The days of well Back then in the 1940s

No it's time to be It's time of realistic Get regional rivalries in Get these teams away from travel Which again the question would be Do you then have to play everybody every year There are many years you didn't do that Now you do that every year

Yeah you can still keep that Why not? Because again, you're trying to get people off planes. They're trying to eliminate the long travel. Well, they need to quit boo-hooing. I'm sorry, you're under private plane. Going three and a half hours on a private plane? As someone who flies private planes, I understand this issue.

Oh, you poor babies. I'd love to play the Mavericks in the Spurs 11 times a year. You see the NBA schedule? 10 o'clock games to cross it. No, I didn't. Oh, my God. NBC contracts like, like we give two blanks about, East Coast. You'll be fine.

Play at 10 o'clock Eastern time. Or 10 o'clock central time starts for a couple of games. Late night with the Rockets. All right. The Tell the Truth is up next. 1128, Sports Talk, 790. 713-212-5-790. So, night, you're trending about.

I never know why you don't know how. 1134 on Sports Talk 790. Now, our man, Jonathan, we've liked to tease about a variety of things. This has been very busy with the IT folks. So you know what? You're catching a break today, my friend. You know what? I appreciate that.

What does that mean? All right. I have four take... I did this yesterday as a matter of fact. Gentlemen, three of these, I believe. One, I do not. Jonathan, how many am I not telling the truth on?

One. You tell a lie. One. Okay, only one lie. Only one lie, which means how many do I believe? You believe three of these. That's right. Good God.

Here we go. boys. There we go. So, what is our favorite time of year in March in sports? Big 12 basketball tournament? Go a little further. Oh, NCAA tournament? Yep. What do we love about it?

We love watching the Cougars lose every year. Okay, we don't love that at all. The bracket. All right, I'm sorry, I'm just kidding. Bracketology, the one and done nature of the tournament. Everything is on the line every single game. We're going to huff and puff and puff for a while.

but when this college football playoff goes to 24-28 teams we're going to embrace it we're going to love the bracket so anybody getting all huffy and puffy about how stupid the 24-2018 bracket is yeah we're going to watch we don't have to like it stay with me on this I'm sorry go ahead

we're going to love the bracket the college football playoff bracket how many of these do you believe three okay you're saying we will love the 20s We're going to love the 24th. Okay.

Number two. She could be an NBA analyst. But did you hear what Monica McNutt did on Friday's first take show? She got her Sanders as confused. Yeah. She had a comedian on and he was wearing a Sanders Detroit Lions jersey on with the number 20 on it. And she thought the guy was representing Chador Sanders. And he goes, oh, no, no, no, no, no.

I'm Barry Sanders. America knew that. Even the most novice sports fan knew who he was talking about. And he knew the jersey. And he knew who Sanders was. And he knew that Chador Sanders wasn't wearing 20. And he knew the Chodoran Sanders wasn't a Detroit lion. My philosophy is this is a kind of mistake that cost you a chance to host a show.

You can do NBA analysis. But if you're ESP and you cannot bring Monica McNutt back to do a general talk show. because that is a unforgivable foie Okay Okay Number three I have zero problems gang

With little league teams Trying to steal signs Okay What happened? There was a controversy A couple weeks back there was I missed it Yeah

I've been locked into a little league World Series sorry Well there was it was happening I don't it's happening this week But they had it two weeks ago Where they stopped the game Because they were afraid the second basement was who's a

guy standing at second base was stealing the science. Oh my God. So there's a sign stealing scandal? There was. There was. There was. Wow. So my philosophy is, me and science stealing, so what?

It's been part of the game going on. And number four, I looked at the Texan September schedule. They're going three and one. Which one of the four am I not telling the truth? One. What are the games? Rams with no stafford. Buccaneers, Titans, and, uh,

Jaguars. Okay. Okay. They can go 4 and O. Okay. Especially Stafford's out. Number one. We love March Madness. We will eventually love a 24 to 2018 college football playoff. Okay. Number two. She can be an NBA analyst, but with Monica Minnet, not knowing who Barry Sanders is and was, she cannot lead a non-sport sports, non-basketball show ever again. This is a unforgivable mistake. Okay. Number three. I have no problem with Little League team sign stealing.

And number four, the Texans. will go three and one in September. Which one of the four gentlemen do I not believe? He seems really, really convinced about the Monica McNet, so I'm just going to pass that one. That's definitely, he believes that one. You think he believes that one? Yeah, because Barry Sanders is a Hall of,

not even Hall of, that's a staple in football. If you know football, you know. He's the greatest running back to ever walk the planet. I would agree with that, along with Jim Brown. Never saw him play, but I believe that as well. Texan schedules easy enough to start three and one. Right. I don't know.

I honestly don't know Matt's thoughts on Little League, so I really can't judge his opinion there. That's so out of left field. He also said he was going to have an off-topic one every week, and he didn't do that today. That was a lot. I think I'm going to take the Little League. There's no way Matt believes it's okay to sign still

with 10 to 12-year-olds and all those, like, drunk parents and stuff. Yeah, I just don't have. feel for what Matt's opinion would be there. I'm not going to call you crazy for picking that one. I mean, eventually we'll go to we will love the 2014 format. I'll go with that one. Okay. Number one,

the Texans are going to go at least three and one. Maybe as you said, even go four and no in September, so I believe that. Okay. Number two, Monica McNutt, you made a ridiculous mistake. Unforgivable. We'll never be let

down on that mistake ever again. You cannot host a show. If I'm ESPN, one, God's Green Earth, would I trust you to host anything if you don't know who Barry Freakins is? So I agree with that one. She can be an NBA analyst, but she cannot host a show. That is an

unforgivable mistake. And number three, Ross, and Jonathan, I got zero problems with little leaguers trying to steal size. No way. Zero problems whatsoever. It's a part of the name, baby. You got to teach him all they're young. Which, by the way, Stephen

A. Smith continues to host, and he gets stuff factually incorrect all the time. So, I mean, Monica would be enough to me, fine. But I believe you believe that. I do believe it. Rossi, you can mix up players, but you can't mix up one of the two greatest running backs in the history of a sport. With the Detroit

Lions jersey on. And the war 20 and Sanders. I'm sorry to say this, Matt. Go ahead. When was Manna McNutt born? It doesn't matter. She's got to be in her late 30s. She had to be a 12 or 13 years old.

When did Barry Sanders retire? Honestly, I don't know. Late 90s? Late 90s? But even I know Barry Sanders. Okay. Yeah, and that's you and you're young. You know what I mean?

Like everybody knows. And by the way, he wasn't wearing a Cleveland Browns jersey. He retired in 1999. Did it say Lions on it? I didn't see it. It's in the St. Lyons, but it was the Detroit Lions jersey with the number 20 with the word Sanders across. the front. That is an

unforgivable mistake. Okay. She's 35. She's born in 89. Sanders retired in 99. But if you know somebody's coming up on stage weren't a Sanders, and you're not sure, don't you ask about it? It's a faux pa, but it's not unforgivable, and

she should never ever host any other show ever again. I did not stutter. You cannot make that mistake. You cannot make that mistake. But I figured you would believe it. So anyways, I win. You do win. Let me tell you something right now Yeah, I picked one

Yeah, he won No, no, no, I know I'm just, I'm still surprised I think literally Let me tell you, if the NCAA, If the NCAA, if the college football playoff goes to a 2428, I've checked out.

I am done, Gonzo, I'll watch my cougars. No, I swear to God. Mark me down. When your cugers get in this 24th seed, you ain't watching? You got it. You got it. You got it. You got it. You got it. You got it. Biggest fraud on the planet.

No. He, why is it Big Ten acting like a complete A-holes? Seriously. Why do they want every big, they want seven Big Ten teams, they want at least seven SEC schools. I mean, this is ridiculous.

It's going to be pretty soon. The college football playoffs can be longer than the season. It's absolutely absurd. You heard me. Absurd. So I'm telling you the truth when I say I'm checking out on college football If they go to 24 to 28

Ridiculous 16 almost feels like too many But I can at least do a That's a full week event It's too much 24 to 20 Honestly I got a hot take that's probably unpopular Four was good

I'm okay with four I can live with four I cannot live a 25 Sir Jonathan we cannot live a 28 No okay we can't live with no But I'm saying no to that That's unpopular That four was crazy

I told you was a hot take but I'm sorry. I've heard how other things from you. Excuse me? Oh. Monica McNutt, good luck being an NBA analyst because you ain't host on a regular show again. Barry Sanders. I mean, I get everybody's draw.

The chairman, I think the chairman's name of the ESPN is John Skipper. Who the hell allowed this? Can't make that mistake. All right, man. Yeah, she should be fired. She'd be drawn in quarter. I mean, she's a terrible analyst as it is, but I'm best beside the point. Is she?

I don't know. I don't even know who she is. All right, anyways. That's my skin crawl. 1144 on Sports Talk 790. Let me tell you about quality home products of Texas right now. The news at noon coming up in 15 minutes, by the way. I know you have 15 minutes.

I give you a little heads up. Now, believe it not, it's two hours away, Ross. Two short hours away. That's it. We were talking about expansion. Our friend Aaron on Twitter sent us Jim Bowden. It's a guest to show. A friend of the show, right?

Jim, good friends. Yeah, you guys are buds. Yeah, we're afraid. Is it Bowden or Bowden? I think it's Bowden. Like Bobby Bowden? I don't know. It's some Jim B. That's what the kid's called.

Jimmy B. Jimmy Bucket. His proposed alignment, Midwest Division Western Conference, Cubs, White Sox, Brewers, Twins. Makes sense. Southwest, Astros, Royals, Cardinals, Rangers. And also says Western and Eastern Conference. Yep.

No American National League. Pacific Coast. Rockies, A's, Mariners, Giants. West, Diamondbacks, Angels, Dodgers, and Padre. But you would just call it Western League and Eastern League to keep it kind of league with baseball, right? Yeah, semantics on that. So the question then would be is how do you, so I guess you would have the Pacific Coast champion taking on the West champion, maybe the Southwest versus the Midwest champion, something like that?

What do you think? To keep it, because you want to stay in the time zone as long as you can. You got four division champs and then two wild cards? They're not getting rid of playoffs, that's true, that's true. They're not getting rid of playoff games. All right. With the top two seeds. Eastern Conference, or Eastern League, whatever.

Eastern would be Red Sox, Mets, Yankees, Phillies. Every one of those games will be on national television. Yeah. That would be the television package would love that. Games that would be seen by no one would be Reds, Guardians, Tigers, and Blue Jays. That's the North Division. The Mid-Atlantic would be the Orioles, Charlotte, the Pirates, and the Nationals. The Southeast Division would be the Braves, the Marlins, the Nashville team, and the Rays.

Now, what would throw that off-kilter? be is if Nashville and Charlotte did not both get franchises. Because I guarantee you Salt Lake and Portland one team is just as bad as those two cities do. Yeah, I think you could flex Easter West. I mean, I think the Astros are in that mix. And then just basically teams along the Mississippi-ish, Cardinals, Cubs, White Sox, Brewers, whatever. See, his makes a lot of sense because he put the two teams in the east. in areas where you can put them in,

if it went one and one, how much does it throw this whole thing off? What do you mean? What two teams? Like if you put, if you made it Portland and Charlotte, as compared to Nashville and Charlotte, how wonky would things be at that point?

What would he be a realignment at that point? I don't know. I'm telling you nothing. Do you understand this? Ross, there is nothing sacred anymore. It's all about money. When you know, I'm talking about the sport. In 1963, did anybody even think of the word D.H.

Ever be in play? No chance. Nope. No. But they wanted to get offense up. They wanted to get, you know why they did it? Money. Get offense and interest up.

Yeah. And also, yeah. And keep players that were probably not good enough to be on a roster to an extra spot. That's also good. Yeah. I like the universal DH. Yeah. You know what?

It is, everything is about money. You know what? I'm about money, too. That's right. Yeah, well, I mean, I have not met a single person. I've met people, but I don't believe them. We're all about money. And if Major League Baseball is doing this and it makes sense, then do it.

Uniforms are, adding uniforms not because they want to make them charming for it. They want to sell those jerseys. And if the TV packages say, hey, we want to have more games involving, we want to keep the Yankees and the Cubs in the middle of the countries compared to going out west, so be it. If that gives us less games on the West Coast, I'm all for it. For sure. I'm definitely for that. I like these East Coast games.

540 tonight, woo. Big fan. I'll be on the post game tonight as well. I think I've got it on Thursday, and I think I'm working a full pre-impost on Saturday. Wow. Yeah, that's fine. I didn't work last week. I didn't work last week.

I got a step up and do my part, Ross. Sorry, week off Thomas. No. Speaking of which, I'll be gone for a week starting Wednesday. Oh, you off Wednesday, too? Oh, I'm sorry. You can take Wednesday if you want. No, no, it's an early day.

No, I'll be there for that. I mean, seriously, if you take Wednesday... What's it like a one-hour show? It's a one-hour show and a half-hour pregame. Okay, no, I can hang up for that. You want to work that day because there's not much work. I see. I see.

Come on now. You went to the mad time of school vacation planning. Actually, I went to the Charlie Polillo school. Actually, Charlie did it more than... Because when I get back, folks, there's a Thursday day game And then I just work Friday, and then it's Labor Day weekend. Dang, you did... Yes, sir.

You did Chidal Cake. By the way, I need to talk to you about that. You take it some more time? No, no. All right. Oh, I know. We had our fantasy draft that week, right? Yeah, Labor Day Monday.

You're getting ready? How the Toro's looking. Roto, by the way, makes his season debut this Thursday. Can you tune out to anything he says? No. You draft a lot better when you listen to him. He's done me very well. Yeah, I'm very proud of him.

Yeah, he does do you well. All right. So, any other takeaways from the NFL this weekend? I'm going to be honest. I didn't pay a whole lot of attention. I mean, I'm sorry. I got to really be honest. I've watched.

Oh, Matt Stafford's practicing. Today. That's significant. Because they were ready for week one against the Texans. They would have been very secret of the last handful of days. Well, hopefully Will Anderson doesn't crack his back and half. That'd be horrible. So you're wishing injury upon an opponent?

I just said I hope he didn't. Okay. So you weren't upset when people were saying, I hope CJ breaks his leg after wearing a Mariners cap. People weren't saying that. Astros fans weren't going that extreme, were they? This is a disgrace. He hates the Astros.

He's involved with gang activity. I can't believe he's wearing this hat. The Mariners are gang? The Mariners are gang involved? When they were talking? talking about the nipsy hustle and the roll in 60s Crips and stuff like that. Like, oh my God.

Look at this hat. CJ War. My weekend is ruined. Get over yourself. There could be people crying out there, Rossi. They were. There's a lot of where Aitchtown pride is huge. You quit your whining.

What's the last hat you wore that did not represent anything in Houston? Probably honestly a Mariners hat in Little League. Ooh. No wonder people don't like you. I used to wear my, yeah, when I was like on the, I was on the Little League Giants or Mariners or whatever. I used to wear the hats. I don't wear hats anymore.

The last jersey I wore nothing revolving around Houston or a team I was calling games for. Sixth grade, I got a powder blue Cardinals jersey. Okay. Because I loved the jersey. That was me in 19. Youth XXL. Ooh, sadly.

And I wore slacks with it too. What am I, mother allow that to happen. I wore dress slacks and a Cardinals jersey. I'm humiliated by that. A yay, yay, yay. No, yay, yeah, yeah. It's what's the anti-yeyeye? A no whoa. A no whoa.

We got a thing on the hat. How did my mother, who I love dearly, allow me to go to school in dress slacks and baseball jerseys. What kind of shoes were you wearing? Oh, I'm sure white tennis ones. Hold on. You had slacks, tennis shoes, and a baseball jersey. Yeah. How old was I in sixth grade? How old were when in your sixth grade?

12. 1984 sheet, let me go to school wearing that. How, Ross? How? I don't know. I had a Cardinals blue and I had a Cardinals white. That's great, man. With dress slacks in white tennis shoes. No one I was made fun of.

That is my portly figure. I'm sorry, Matt. No, you're not. How that make you feel? Well, that's it developed me to who I am today. It explains a lot for sure. I'm sure it does. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

All right, here we go. 1204 Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you on this Monday. 713-212-5-790. Rossi, Sierra Santos. Yes, Matt. What about her? What's the other one's name?

Lauren Shahadi? There's one life raft left on the boat. Okay. Who's getting it? Yeah, I'm giving them both. I'm giving one to Lauren Shihadi. I'm giving Sierra Santos the other and I'm jumping in the water, Matt. You're like, my life's not worth living.

You two need to live. They can spread more joy to the world than I can. I'm probably going to Lauren Shihadi just because I think maybe Sierra can... She looks like she could float. At least for a while. We had the same thought. That makes me sad. All right. But anyways.

Time down for the news, dude. Good God. I want you to, we have not recapped yesterday's events. I want to hear how you do this. Go ahead. All right, Matt. Well, over the weekend,

the Astros nearly got a perfect game thrown against him with a pitcher that was 0 and 6. And an ERA over 6. Then on Saturday, it was a weird, wild game in 12 innings they nearly lost. Then yesterday they got slammed 12 to nothing, and Christian Javier's velocities were down across the board, and he left with an illness.

Great weekend for your Houston Astros with the bad Baltimore Orioles in town. They lose two out of three. Good news is they take on the Detroit Tigers today. You who do have them, the Tigers, I mean, is minus 155. Favorites, it's flared. versus arrogant it.

Then tomorrow, of course, is a cracker of a match. Hunter Brown versus Terrick Scoobel. That game might last an hour of 46. I'm feeling good about that one. The over-under is one-anders, one. Guess who's on that post game? Guess who's not giving that one up? Big fan.

Tuesday night baseball. Here on Sports Talk 7-Henny, that game will also be on TBS, by them. Not seen locally here, though. Oh, is that true? Yeah, they black them out. Oh, you know where you can catch every game locally, Matt? Right here in the 0-790. Or 740, depending on what?

as long as you don't interfere with you know who. So one and a half games ahead of the Seattle Mariners would have been nice to gain some ground. By the way, I had a gut feeling already for tomorrow, which I'll be breaking on. You did? I said the Astros would not relinquish first place

in this entire last week, and they didn't. Good job. Thank you. You've also had them guaranteed AOS champs. How are we feeling? Not nearly as confident. Okay. Well, the Astros are going to be taking on the Tigers,

as I said. If they sweep the series, they could be the number two seed in the American League. Thoughts on that? I don't think they're going to sweep. I don't think so either. Let's say we'll save our gut feeling

for the trip. I get three in Brown, three Detroit, four in Baltimore. If you go with the heavy hitters in the Detroit series, imagine who the pitchers are in the Baltimore series. I'm done predicting. Me too.

I mean, you get, no, there is no day. There's no day off. How's Javier feeling? after his illness. We need some more information on that. All right, Matt. Also, the Houston Texans in action over the weekend against the Carolina Panthers. They won the game 22-3. C.J. Strouds, 6 of 8 for 44 yards and a touchdown.

Woody Marks, seven carries for 40 yards, leading them in rushing. And of course, as you know, Irv Smith, leading the team in receptions with five and reception yards with 46. Davis Mills, also 8 of 14 on the day. your thoughts about the Houston Texans preseason game number two. Why are people so excited about how great of a preseason Davis Mills is having? When is anyone, is there anybody

that has an IQ of at least 50 that are like, if Davis Mills plays, we're not going to the playoffs. We're not going to have our normal Saturday 3.30 spot. We're going to be barely winning the division if we win it at all because we're going to be outscoring opponents 3 to nothing because our defense

is so good. Why would anybody, is that the most lowest hanging of all fruits and preseason analysis is how great our backup quarterback is, I just don't get it. I'm waiting, Matt. I don't understand. People were buying into Davis Mills life a couple years ago, as your son was, and he bought a jersey.

Yeah, I've made a fun of him ever since. My son's jerseys. Speaking of, he, I was surprised, his thought on C.G, you know, I want to get the youngman's perspective. He's like, I am the king of. of wearing other team's uniforms. Yeah. I said, well, okay, with that, he goes,

you can't wear the rivals had in your city. You just can't. So even some of the youngans are like, I understand. CJ, what are you doing? I mean, it was a question mark. It was an eyebrow razor,

but it's nothing to get mad about it, in my opinion. I'll make a small gut feeling. He will never wear a Seattle cabal jan. I would imagine he won't. Just for PR purposes. All right, Matt, well, the Ohio State Buckeyes

have named their starting quarterback Julian Sayan is going to start for Ryan Day's Ohio State Buckeyes announcing his decision saying he won a close competition against junior Lincoln Kainholz

but he separated himself. He was the nation's number nine recruit and top prospect from California in 2024. He of course signed with Alabama but then transferred to Ohio State following coach Nick Sabin's retirement. We are now two weeks away

from the opener, Ohio State, or at least the big time opener, Ohio State taking on Texas at the shoe. That'll be 11 a.m. on August 30th, right here. On Sports Talk 790. Why are you burying the lee with local foot, without mentioning the local football story? What happened?

Chase Jenkins, starting quarterback for Rice. That's the story. They still have football? I know. Good for them. Look, rice, way back in the day, It was very nice to me. But that stadium is a complete dump.

It's like a museum. No. It's like a time warp when you go in there. It's like it should be imploded. I like old stadiums. I like going to the old Cotton Bowl, rooting on Texas in Oklahoma. Do you feel safe in the Cotton Bowl?

Yeah, what do you mean? I don't feel safe in a Rice Stadium. Yeah. I think it's structured seats. Terrible. Don't they do inspections? People, there's two small bathrooms in a press box level. that people unfortunately eat too much

and have to go to the bathroom and clogs the toilet up. It's a bad situation. That sounds like you're speaking from experience. Yeah, because I had to go to the bathroom one time. Like this thing on them flushed. Somebody had too much, too many spare ribs. Yeah, going on a lot of long runs at the Rice Stadium, huh? It's just a dump.

Okay, Matt. Well, this weekend, things start in Dublin, Ireland, with two ranked teams taking on Iowa State, taking on Kansas State. Big 12 football, baby. When I think of Dublin, Ireland, I think of the Iowa State Cyclones and the Kansas State Wildcats. How long of a flight is that from that part of the country? A hell if I know, Matt.

That's a long haul. Yeah. You get all the equipment up there and everything? Yeah, because usually you truck the equipment. That's, can't do it this car around. I don't think they're going to do that. No, you can take the boat over. They could put a ship.

Put it on the Santa Anita. How long of it take the get, I don't know, Santa Maria, whatever was? You'd have to drive it to the West Coast or to the East Coast and then put it on a boat. Well, that feels like a lot of work. Yeah, I don't think it's going to work. They have to ship it out about six weeks ago. That's right. They shipped it out like a June 1st FedEx one division.

Not good. All right, anyways, there's your news at noon. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. You're welcome. All right, Astros, Tigers, 510 first pitch. Oh, one quick note, I should have gotten in. Matt Stafford is practicing four of the Rams,

sounding like he's going to be ready for week one against the Texans. Well, they're just going to shoot him up, right? When in doubt. It's the NFL. Yeah, what has he got left? Two or three years left? Yeah. Still a high, very highly ranked quarterback.

A lot of controversy about why he's being labeled a quote-unquote tier one. I think at his best he's deserving. Jalen Hertz or Matthew Stafford? All the time or right now? Right this second. Right this second, Jalen Hertz. But I'd say all-time, Matthew Stafford. Oh, I think so.

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On Sports Talk 790. Time is 1219. We'll get back to more of the Astros chat on a minute, but just there are a few things that I'm always curious about, especially when we're about to go through something like this in the not too distant future. San Antonio wants to take the spurs out of East San Antonio. San Antonio and move them back into downtown San Antonio. And there's a new arena on the plan for it, but they're hassling over some money. The latest offer sheet between the city of San Antonio, the county and the Spurs goes as follows.

Now, I don't know if this is fair or not, because nobody is ever going to think it's going to be fair. We're talking about the new arena, everything around it, which I don't even know what arenas cost anymore. that it says the city cost is the lesser of 38% of the cost of the arena or $489 million. The county's cost, which is Barrett County,

25%, but not to exceed $311 million. The Spurs pay for everything else. How much how much those arenas and plazas cost these days? The most recent opened one was

Intuit Dome and that was $2 billion. Okay, so, and that was a refurbishing. right? Or did they strip down? Was it the old form or no? No, no. No, no. Forms still around. Okay, so it's a whole new building. Okay, so that's L.A. So we can probably cut that in half because of real estate costs. So we're talking about a billion dollars to build these arenas.

Wow, that's crazy. The Chase Center was the next now. We're talking about high cost as well. That was $1.4 billion. Opened in 2019. Which means that's now about $1.7 billion. You are actually, look at you. Am I right? There's literally a, you.

Yeah, they did a, they did a inflation cost. Flusion keeps happening. But anyways, $1.72 billion. And then the one to open after that is the FISA Forum in Millie Wauke. That cost, that was $1.2 billion. Then, so $1.5. Wow. So, yeah, it's a billion and a half.

Okay, so we take the city and county of San Antonio and Bear County. They're going to put in there $800 million. The Spurs on the right on the hook for. the rest of it. Why don't we own a sports team, Ross? I don't know, Matt. Why weren't you a billionaire? I wasn't I born to one. Yeah, exactly.

It's my parents' fault. Yeah, nepotism. Well, it feels like there's more, most nepotism is in the NFL. I don't know about the NBA. Maybe, I don't know. I'm speaking out of my ass, I'm sure. $800 million. And again, the spurs arena costs

$1.5 billion, figuring that's about $700 million of their own. So roughly a little less than 50%. And San Antonio is cheap. I don't know if it is or not, but... It's big money. I mean, would they threaten to leave? I feel like you could hold San Antonio hostage.

You absolutely could hold San Antonio hostage. 100% could. Because Austin's ready. Yes. Now, I feel like the Moody Center is too small. It holds 10 for basketball, but when concerts come, I think it holds up to 16 or 17 or more. So there's a whole deck that they don't open.

They only open it for concerts. Yeah. Now, the Spurs are going to play two games there again this year. I wonder if San Antonio's like, if we're going to build you this, you can back to a F up, Austin. We're putting all 41 games in our city. Austin is still, isn't it the biggest city without a major anything? Yeah, two, they have a soccer team. Does that count?

No. Okay. Yeah, 2.3 billion metropolitan population now. We were in Ron Rock the whole time. Oh, you're in Round Rock the whole time. Round Rock's crazy. You get some Round Rock donuts? No.

We had breakfast at the hotel. No, you're not Mr. Texas. That's okay. No, Mr. Texas. Yeah, you just ate in the hotel the whole time. It's fine. Well, they offered him breakfast for us. Well, they said no, we don't want your free breakfast.

It's fine. I just wanted to tell you, Matt, that I just told Tom that you don't like sweet tea and that you want to be called Mr. Texas, and he just looked at me and shook his head. Okay, first of all. Yeah, you don't like sweet tea. Sweet tea, so you're telling me that I don't like sugar, which is not good for you, makes me not Mr. Texas. Okay.

Whatever. You don't like Dr. Pepper? Nope. But I love root beer. What do you get at Waterburger? Water River. Good for you. By the way, the Rotter Burger's got that new Mesquite double that looks really good.

I don't know what that is. Oh, the barbecue. The commercial works great. It looks good, but. Probably like 1,800 calories. Mr. Texas gets that. Okay. Mr. Texas.

Never mind I went to Ruckies twice I went to Ruckies twice I drove through Many of town in central Texas Enjoyed 290 Stopped in speed trap cities

And slow my speed down Mr. Texas does He follows the rules 290 And then you got to spend about $27 in tolls probably No kidding What is it, 183

Is that the highway It turns into? Oh my God Pay by mail Oh almost it screwed Back in my day, you used to be able to get off the 290 for free. Nope. Not your day anymore.

Not your day anymore. These tolls. These tolls need to shut their bumasses up. Yeah. It's not and I just don't get it. I get it. They want cash. Yeah, like we said the other day, the Grand Park one, I think it cost me about $11.

Yeah, they got $1.83's got tolls now. 290s got tolls and they have $1.3.30. 71 has tolls. All, all for shame, Austin, for shame. They got to do something. It's been a mess there. Well, 35 to 30 years. Yeah.

Terrible. All right. But yeah, I do like Austin. And the Spurs would love Austin if they don't get a deal. You spend some time on 6th Street? No, I didn't even go to Austin at all. No. I was being a dad.

Well, so you didn't go to the capital of the state? You're not Mr. Texas. You know what? I spent time as a constituent state of Texas. Have you ever toured the state of Texas? No. Oh, you're not Mr. Texas? I've been in many capitals.

We're talking about Texas. See, you're the worst candidate ever. They're going to tear you down from, Like day one. I like Lubbock. I like Galveston. I like Austin. I like McAllen.

I like Houston. I like Dallas. I like San Antonio. You've been to McAllen? Yeah, many times. Oh, really? Yeah. That's cool.

But you don't like enchiladas. Nope. Jonathan said it, not me. I'm trying to be nice. I'm trying to be nicer in my old age. Both of you've been equally rude to me today. That's fine. You know what's even better than brisket enchiladas?

That's very Texas. You wouldn't touch them with a 10-foot pole. Oh, he likes brisina, right? He likes premium brisket. I like fried okra. Okay, I mean, all right. Thank you. Thank you.

I saw a dead armadillo on the street the other day. I thought of you. You should have. I want you to go there and pet it next time. Get you some leprosy. Be sick for a while. All right. So we basically dodge for two and a half hours.

How the hell the Astros are still in first place. What do you mean? Well, the Mariners lost. Thank God for the Mets. and they're going to be fine. Asher is going to be fine. Yordon's rehabbing. He's going to be back soon.

I still have the over-under at zero. I know. I'm really, really wanting you to be wrong. There are two things that are going to happen in the next two weeks. One is I'm going to be really right about something and want to be really wrong about something. Go ahead.

And I'll tell you what those two things are. Oh, wow. When we come back. That's why they pay the big bucks, folks. 713-212-5-790. 1232 at the PM here on Sports Talk 790. Welcome back to the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Phone lines open at 713, 212-5-7-90, 7-13, 21-2-5-7-90.

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in the sky for no apparent reason what a great sell that is it is a great sell and we're going to have a massive party at 3,000 how massive um and where i might buy a round for everybody i don't know we'll see okay we'll see all right two things that i'm um one i'm going to be right about one i'm wrong about you're not about 500 you know i'm like the bob nightingale sports producer is that who you want to be well i'm just saying 500's more of like like a John Heaman or a GP Verosi. That's right. I really hope I'm wrong about Yordon.

Okay, but? But until he does it, the home run, I will not stay off this thought. He's not going to be an impactful player when he gets back. When is his rehab start tomorrow? Tomorrow. Okay. He plays Tuesday off Wednesday, then plays Thursday, Friday. My guess is he'll stay here in Houston.

Whatever recuperation that is. Eight A-Bs in the Florida Complex League. Yeah, my guess is a week from today, he will be actually a week from tomorrow, he will be in uniform for the Astros, or the Rocky. Because they have an off day on Monday, for those that don't know. And then how much does he play over the next six weeks after that? Who's his say? He could have a setback today.

Correct. We don't know. That's why I'm tempering my enthusiasm. You should. And I'm not doing it just to be complacency guy or just, you know. we didn't make a bet did we didn't make a bet on that one unfortunately I am going to be wrong about that when he does

I'll be very happy to say that I'm wrong about it and I will celebrate I will do handstands in my celebration I know you won't you're right you're gonna rip your shoulder there's no chance of me doing that I'm not gonna be wrong about Joe Mix and not being ready for the start of the season I think you're gonna be right about that yeah so again I'm 500 and I didn't say that was crazy

when you said it thank you thank you but I thought that is he still in the NFI yeah and boarded what's his face. Damiko got so kind of uppity about that.

He's very upset when people ask about injuries. Yeah. He only wants players around him that like his players that care about him. That's why team control media is becoming more popular than ever. Yes. I guess. Oh yeah. All right. So

if something close to Yordon comes back, let's say he plays half the games. I don't think they would do that. Oh, I do. Why do? One you think? Half? Pay him every other day? I think they're going to treat him.

They're going to treat him with complete kid gloves. Yeah, I think he'll get off days, but I don't. I think he'll see. You've got some off days coming up. And then as soon as the season's over with Rossi, I mean, after the parade, he needs to go see a hand specialist, peel that hand off. Peel that hand off. Yeah, peel it off. Put the bionic parts in, and let's get him fixed because this is, this can't happen again.

His hands are too much a part of the feet. future of this franchise. Wow. Okay. He's like he needs to find the same surgeon like the pianists get. Well, I mean, let's look without you and I being doctors, let's logically think this. Guy's been gone since May or March, no, May, May, May, May, May 3rd was when he hit the IL, I think. Does somebody have an ailment that costs him four months of the year and it's not to be recurring?

He's had multiple setbacks. Yeah. And they didn't initially know it was a fracture, then they found it as a fracture, and then they let a heal. and then he had another setback, but then they said the pain is not where the fracture was, so it's some other thing. So I don't know. It's very confusing.

Yeah. But it seems like my gut feeling all along has been that, yeah, he needs an off-season procedure. And he's going to try to manage the pain and then go from there. And what I'm seriously worried about, and maybe I'm the only one, is that he's coming back at 70% and usually guys that come back at less than 100%

are a little further risking their chance of staying healthy for the long term. Like, for instance, Josh Hater, I mean, I would love him to come back, but there's no way in the world I'm possibly anticipating him throwing another pitch for the Astros this year. I just don't know how you go from six weeks Rossi of non-throwing, excuse me, three weeks of non-throwing, then three weeks of building. And all of a sudden, I've got to get important out to the ninth inning of a playoff game. That doesn't seem like it's a logical thinking process there.

I understand. I don't think it's going to happen either. I think he's going to be. I think they're going to reevaluate. They said they're going to reevaluate in three weeks. And I think the re-evaluation was he tried to rehabit and he needs surgery. That's what I think. My just gut feeling.

And we're not, again, we're not doctors. And it's funny because I was not there when Josh spoke over the weekend. I was very curious to see. What's that? I'm sorry. Yeah, true. I was very curious to see if there was any sort of comments about, well, Joe made me throw a second inning. And I do believe.

the second inning thing might be gone. I think it's definitely going to be gone. You're like you're finishing my sentences now. I've had a bad habit of that last couple weeks. I'm trying to stop. Yeah. I think it's gone. I think he wanted to do it under the right circumstance. It was desperately needed by the organization

for that to happen, but that's not going to be a possibility anymore. If they're protecting, as Dana said over the weekend, we're worried about the long term. The long term is he's a one-in guy. Now, does that mean that it's no chance, no way it could ever happen again? No, but that first inning better be a low pitch count. Most of the time it happened, and I think the nature of it has been just this, the Astros, of course, because of all the injuries and stuff, the offense just hasn't been good. I want to go look, how many of these two-inning appearances were him going into extra innings?

Like, how many those were extra inning games? How many those two-in-in-game games, Ross, did he throw nine or ten? pitches. I mean, I can't imagine him going 25 and then going for another set of 50. Yeah, the last time out, he threw eight pitches in the first inning and then unfortunately it ballooned up to 36 because he didn't have a good inning the timeout.

So I'm going to look. I think they're all extra yeah. He went two innings four times this year. All of them were extra innings. Like, I don't think it was ever the plan for him to get six outs. It's just kind of like,

well, we got to throw him out there again. He's paying all this money. And he said that himself, he didn't do it in San Diego because he didn't have a long-term deal. And he said last year, the Astros have committed to me, I will commit to them and do these things in risk injury. And well, here we are. And frankly, to defend Joe a little bit here, it's not like he's asked to do it a whole lot. He's been asked to do it a handful of times. It's happened four times that he's gotten six outs this year. And how many appearances? In 48. Okay. So you're talking about 10% of the time. Mm-hmm.

Which makes me, part of me of Ross thinks, is it really the second inning, or is it just the fact that he's pitched as much as he has this year? Maybe the arm says, we're only going to be able to give you a certain number of appearances. Like, what's his career appearances? Does you have a list in front of you, how many appearances he had? In his entire life? Per season. Oh, per season. Last year, I think it was his most ever.

I'll go look it up. Last year was 71. And, yeah, that was his most ever. Before that, 61, 56. 37, 60, 21 and 2020. that was obviously pandemic stuff. 61, yeah. Last year, is 61 the year before with San Diego and then 71 with the Astros.

So if he had 48 you said going into this week, then he's kind of on pace to being 60 appearance guy. So he's done that before. That's not out of the ordinary. But it is a responsible thing. He tried to give it a go. It didn't work out. I think the Astros will do everything in their power to make sure. Now, will he ever get a four-out save again?

Sure. I would say so. If you go in the eighth inning and you need him to get that out and you throw it on one or two pitches, oh, I guarantee you. Josh Hader can't go to the ninth inning. You only threw three pitches. I mean, I have to understand that.

And it also will probably, if you really can't do it and he literally gets only a one-in-pitcher, maybe they just have to at that point say, we got to trust whoever's out there in the eighth inning at that final out. We can't take that chance. Or go to somebody else just for one-home. somebody else. It's going to probably...

He'll get four or five out saves. I do feel confident. I would... I do feel it's the same example. I would say at least if it were like a playoff situation next year, he'll get... He'll, they'll use them for six outs. But... No, no, no. Sort of that. I will... You don't think ever again. I'll put it, write it down. Oh, right it down.

Here we go. Put my name on. You'll never get six outs for the Ashers ever again. That is correct. That's wrong. You think even in a playoff, you're saying me, a playoff, game, he pitches the ninth, they're going to the 10th, they're like, nah, we're good. They'll use Josh Hader. I don't know. That scenario may never come up.

Yes, that's correct. Okay. I'm saying, hold on. Write it down. I'm writing it down. Put in, you know what? Put in caps. In bold. What does that mean? Underline it. Okay. Italicize it, whatever you want to take. Whatever you got to do. Josh Hater will

never record six outs again for the Astros. Okay Right, time down too Right down, yeah 1242 on a glorious Hot August day 2025

Now, see you have two years After this year or three? I think it's three Mm-hmm Book it Oh, I've been booked Never It's booked

You know, that's the difference between me I'm willing to go on a limb And give you things Seems You're really to go on a limb And say ridiculous stuff That's true

But when I'm right That he will never again Mm-hmm Yep Okay Okay Now for outsays Sure. Five, maybe. Six.

And this is purely semantics, by the way. You understand that, right? Why? Because it could be a double play and a variety of crazy things could happen. Yeah, he could go out there and have a five pitch inning and then go out for the, then get three more. That's right. And then you would win. And then you're, I'm not winning. And my credibility would be shot. That's fine. I don't think you could take any more hits in it already has.

No, because people are going to say, I remember back in the day when I was young and Matt said on 2012. No, people forget. You're not going to let them forget, are you? I try not to let them forget. You know what? Maybe that's a flaw in my part. It is a flaw. But it's part of the reason why we love you.

1240 for you. Keep me in check. Somebody's got to. 713-212-5-790. All right, we have got to get into this absolutely ridiculous college football and scenario going on with the Big Ten conference. Why is the Big Ten on crack cocaine this week? We'll discuss that next.

713-212-5-7-90-7. You know, I'm troubled by a lot of things Ross does for me, or to me, or suggest for me. All right. He had me go look up Jamie Lee Curtis's Twitter account. I know I didn't have you do that. I said, did you see Jamie Lee Curtis was going viral this weekend? Yes. Jamie Lee Curtis in 1979, 80, 81, 82 was a smoke show.

Trading places Um Halloween True Lies was in the 90s She was great there Yeah But then she did the commercials About the yoga to make you poop

That's important stuff Matt Well yeah Gotta say regular And now She's putting videos out about Freakier Friday Which by the way is a great Movie

genre A latent sequel Yes Of the original Freaky Friday Not the original Right Is a reboot

Oh yeah Reboot of a reboot The original was back in the late 70s Okay With her and Lindsay Lohan Back in the day Lohan All right

Delightful young lady A little older now Still Still got her fastball Sports RV So Okay The video you show me

Is Jamie Lee Curtis Promoting the movie Yeah She's got her cleavage hanging out. And Jamie Lee's got to be, what, late 60s? She is 66 years old. Not the greatest look. I thought you'd enjoy it, Matt.

I didn't enjoy it. You ever see training places, Jonathan? Trading places. Yep. Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd. Oh, I thought you're going to start talking about you and your friend who you were down on your luck and your sockbroker friend. I wouldn't do that to him. Switch places.

I would do that to him. Actually, I haven't seen a lot of Eddie Murphy movies. Really? Huh. He wasn't in life, was it? No, no. Life, yes. Oh, yeah, he's in life.

What do you mean? I was talking about something else. Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy, life is a classic. So, buddy mine, Jonathan, we went to go see 48 hours, and we really liked it. And then he's like, I got to go to L.A. I said, what for? And he goes, well, I'm a cop in Detroit.

and I'm really, really burned out, and I'm going to L.A. to get some downtime. I said, man, just let's go to the movies instead. And he winds up getting involved in a huge, our drug bust with a bunch of criminals in California, too. He meets these two of the cops, and they're these bumbling cops at work in Beverly Hills. This is a long story.

Long, long story. 1253 of the Matt Tava show, Ross. Why are you shaking your head over there, RV? I'm shaking my head back here, too. All right. This is the plot of Beverly Hills Cop Matt It's not, it's my friend

His name is Raxel Beff Great song Great song He is on, great song Great soundtrack Yeah Beverly Hills Cop All right

College football playoff Thank you Focus Matt We've got to focus on this For one second People's sports sports sports Sports So why is the Big Ten on crack

Explain Well, there's people trying to get this college football play. I've expanded to 16 teams. Okay, that's fine. I mean, it's not preferred, but I get it. Then they start floating out this idea that says between 24 and 28 teams. Are they doing it because they're even afraid that the SEC is going to dominate the 12 or 16 team format? They would get rid of conference title games.

Yes, to shorten the season up a little bit. they're saying seven automatics from the SEC seven automatics from the Big Ten I believe five automatics from the Big 12 and I think four from the ACC something like that there are automatics given in these conferences

it would be seven and seven for the Big Ten in SEC and ACC and ACC and Big 12 would each receive five so that's 14 and 10 is 24 and then have four at large yes oh my gosh So you're saying the four, the power fours get 24 of the 28 spots. Sorry, two at large and then two non-power four at large, I guess.

Non-power four, whatever you'd call it. Okay, help me walk me through this real quick. Yes. 28 teams. You only rank 25. That had to expand the rankings. So one plays 28 in week one. Then you play.

No, there'd be some buys. Okay, answer this question for a minute. How many weeks would that take to play? 16. You get double buys? How many weeks would that take to play? Triple buys? 12, 20 buys. That had a 16.

12 teams get a buy, and then the other 16. Playing over four weeks. I don't know. I mean, my God. You talk about a seven week post season. You have buys and double buys. 28 team. You had four, three years ago.

Two years ago. Mm-hmm. You're going to go from 4 to 28? We kind of knew this was going to be the slippery slope. That's what I'm saying. Rossi, I swear to God. I'm not, I'm definitely telling you the truth. I'm checking out.

You're a liar. The University of Houston Cougars were the 25th seed and they're playing in a playoff game. Yeah, look at Chiewey's. Look at me. I'm not on TV right now. You can't see me. No, I'm not.

You don't know that. He's sticking his tongue out exasperatedly. You know what? You're about to lose me. as it is. 16 seems even patented lips are 20, 28 feels like the season, the playoffs would be just

as long as the season would be. It's too much. It's too much. So is there anybody with just a little bit of common sense in the college football world to say, what are you doing big? This is Big Ten driven. This is not SEC driven. This is not Kirk Herb Street

driven. This is not Paul Feinbaum driven. This is the Big Ten. Why are they doing? And I know the easy Because they want all the money And under the precursor everybody wants money There's a certain link that just I'm not going to pay for an opening round game

And they want to make sure they get They don't get squeezed out by the SEC So they would want this new system With as many guarantees as the SEC Ugh It's just gross How do you say the Big Ten conference commissioner Tony Petiti?

Petiti Petit. Petit. He's a, sorry. You know he's got tea, is it, but what did you just say? Did you say titty? Batiti. No, but, but titty.

Petiti, patiti. Petitis. Stop. Yeah. He's got a huge TV background. You said he's got a huge. I was like, oh, God. Let's move on.

It's time for a break. Oh, yay, yay! What's believe it or not today? I don't know. You got 50 minutes figured out. Bleep and clue. Jimmy Lee Curtis. Boom, there it is. Are you serious? Jimmy Lee Curtis, believe it or not. She's in Freakier Friday. Why not?

Oh, it's a freakier Friday, all right. Go look at her in 1982. I know what she used to look like. I've seen Halloween. I've seen trading places. Trading places. Funniest? Is it funnier than 48 hours? I say yes. I don't remember 48 hours. Nick Nolte. Very good movie. I don't know if I didn't see another 48 hours.

I love Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills Cop or training Trini? Can you my best Eddie Murphy movie? Funniest Eddie Murphy movie. I'm going to still Ooh boy, you can go. Nuddy professor. Notty Professor with all those different characters too. Oh, coming to America?

Madagascar. Oh, come into America. Shut your bum ass up. Yeah, coming to America's got to be one. You said it. I'll put a poll question up. Okay. I'm going to figure out as four funniest.

Okay. All right. Coming to America? Final answer for me. 713, 21, 2, 2, 5790. 713215-7-9-0. Is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. All right. All question is up.

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Beverly Hills Cop coming up a little bit here. Really? America drop. Come in America is still got a 40%. It's easy. It's the easy number one to me. God, McDowell's. Too quotable.

He plays multiple characters. It's just classic. It's an old timer. All four are hysterical. Now, he got into the kids movies lightning in his career. Oh, you mean like Daddy Daycare? Yeah. What was it, Dr. Doolittle?

Mm-hmm. He's still working. He's still in movies. He did a great, um, on SNL's 50th year anniversary of great Tracy Morgan. I mean, nailed it. And he had Tracy Morgan

right next to him. It was pretty funny. Can you talk about pure talent? He's on the short list. Annie Murphy? I think so. For sure. Absolutely for sure.

Wait, did we say Norbit? He plays that right? Yes, Enormit is not one of his greatest. I'll just make sure. I'll just make sure. If you write that in there, you're trouble. I actually did on Twitter, but I was obviously joking.

Oh, God. All right. Working with children over here. It is a final hour of the show. 713-212-1-2-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. Astros start a three-game series with the Tigers. A.J. Hinch's squad playing a lot better.

But as you said, though, Ross, the Astros, that they want to... You know what the Astros really do? Well, against the first-place teams. And the Tigers have a... 8-and-a-half game lead over the Guardians, the American League Central. Now, as far as the league is concerned, The Astros are three back of Detroit.

Yes, sorry, go ahead. You're laughing about now. Nothing. Another shot at me? No. Okay, thank God. Not everything's about you, Matt. No, a lot of shots are about me, though.

Oh, sometimes. Sorry, go ahead. Toronto's got a half game lane on Detroit. The Astros are three and a half behind Toronto. Wild cards right now are Boston, Seattle, and the Yankees. Cleveland's three and a half out. Nobody's catching those three teams. No.

Yeah. I think those three teams have a pretty good feel. So here's the thing. Even if things continue to slightly head southward, it would take an epic collapse to the Astros not to make the playoffs, right? Correct. Their playoff odds, according to ESP, I don't know where ESPN gets theirs from, but 92%. That feels good, though, right? That's good.

I'd like it to be a little higher. I think a couple weeks ago it was like 99%. Now, the Astros, it would be nice if they can win some games in Detroit because the Mariners are playing in Philadelphia this week. week and the Phillies are in the middle of a National League East race. They're in five games ahead of the Mets. And the Astros, thank you Mets for winning two or three. That Baltimore series was awful.

Even the win Saturday was ugly. It's not good. It's not super encouraging, but you've got, Aragutti can be good today. Now, you made a boastful prediction about Aragutti last time around. I said he was going to have a quality start, and he went five innings and gave up two runs, so he was close. And you're forgetting one thing. What?

You walk five people. That guy squeezes on the strike zone. Is that what it is? Yeah. Okay. It's a very, very Matt Thomas explanation for that one. I'm learning from the best. You should be.

The best excuse maker of the biz. I've made a few of my day. That's for sure. All right. We'd like for you to join us. Our phone's working okay now? I don't know. Is everything all right?

Can we screen phone calls? Yeah, the phone's working out here. Okay, good. All right, so ladies and gentlemen, the phones are working. You want to test them? Yeah, let's test one. 713. 212-790.

By the way, Eric in Bay City is now barred from the show. Yeah, he was apparently cursing at our producer, Josh C. Cursing at Josh. What happened? We're trying to explain it. He cursed it Josh, our network producer, and he said bad things about me. I don't know if he said bad things about you, but he said bad things about me. Oh, nice.

Oh, no, I'll let him on. I don't mind that. But cursing at the producer, that's not right. What do you say? I don't know. We can't. Talk to Josh. We can't say cursing words on the air.

We're a family-friendly show. So literally anybody but Eric and Bay said he can call the radio show. Yes. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. So the Astros get ready for the series against Tigers. We've not brought this up at all since I've been gone the last couple days. Any thoughts about the rocket schedule coming out on Thursday?

Was it much of a conversation piece? You know what's funny is sometimes in your eyes? I look back and I'm like, oh, we didn't spend much time on that. I didn't really talk hardly about it. But we'd have probably spent a fair amount of time on it if you were in the building. Well, I'll say this. 20, is it 28? But everybody's got more.

You know, there's 100 games on NBC alone this year in Peacock? That's a lot. And then I'm sure Amazon Prime's got to be in the 60 range. ESPN's got to be in the 60. I mean, if you are a fan of the NBA, you're going to have plenty of opportunities. and he's not granted, they're mostly on cable or streaming services. Yeah, 28 national TV games. And 15 of them will not be shown locally by Space City,

which means if you're a friend of Craig and Ryan and Vanessa, you can be SOL. I'm a friend of them. But, hey, I like listening to the national broadcasts. The game feels bigger with Mike Breen on it, or Kevin Harlan. He just does. And that's no, no, no. I think Craig does a fantastic job. Yeah, for sure.

He's great. I feel bad for them because they like to. broadcast games and honestly when the local teams are not on because we love our local broadcasters those other networks hear it you know oh that was a trash crew now when you're on Roku

when you're using other teams broadcasters I can kind of sense it but look Kevin Harlan is a gym I and Eagles awesome Mike Tariko is going to call the very first game on NBC coming up so I mean you're getting the heavy hitters of broadcast games. I'm okay with 67 games of Craig Ryan and Vanessa

I think they do a great job and I'm okay with 15 games of national broadcasts. It's a good mix. There is a weird facet to this is that there are going to be some games that are going to start at 10 o'clock local time. I have never broadcasted a game that late. There have been 930s.

But aren't they factoring in the, as they call it, the slide? I don't think there are can. No, a slide would be 10.10. No, I think they're factoring in the slide. That's what somebody said. Oh, maybe that's... Wax or somebody. Okay. That start time, you've probably done games that started at 10 that were supposed to be at 930.

The latest I ever remember doing a game. Or like 950 something. It was local time 852. So that's going to go beyond that. But let me look at the rockets have got, how many 10 o'clock game, let's see here. Won a game against the Clippers on, oh, the Christmas week. And then they have maybe just one. Let me see.

Oh, they've got one in Phoenix late in April this season. There's two of games this year that will start at 10 o'clock. Yeah. But, man, if the NBA wanted exposure, they're going to get it. It was my understanding, or the way I either saw or as explained to me is that it's just, it's going to be 10 no matter what. Yeah. Yeah, see, because the first Peacot game starts at 7. Oh, on the nose.

Okay. So they do 7 and then 10. So you're like, it's going to start at 10. There's no likely to not likely to be a. And we will lump up the season. as expected October 21st at Oklahoma City on Ring Night. Kevin Durant, Ring Night.

Can you? Put up 35 against his little team on ring night? Why not? I'm telling you. They have a great defense. It's not a death nail to play on ring night because a lot of road teams over the years have gone there and won games. Yeah, I think they already got a line out. They do, really? Yeah, you want to guess? Oklahoma City is favored.

Okay, I'll say by four. Six and a half. Really? That's a large. Well, I guess you can. get your bet down. I cannot get my bet down. That's what I'm not allowed to do. All right, John, we'll start calling you Jontay Porter. Everybody other sport? More than happy

to. Pro basketball, I cannot. 114. Sports Talks 7. I'm with you. Rockets plus 6 and a half. Let's go. I'm actually taking them on the money line. I'm not doing that, actually. But if you think the rockets are going to win, why would want you to the 6 and a half? Get you some more value, right? A little cushion. What's you mean, Maddie?

Okay, just, all right. If you go go, you go be, What are you going to wear a Titans hat in the arena? I might. Okay. Everybody's going to get all mad. Nobody got all mad. He wore a hat.

He wore a hat I didn't like Mommy. Nobody called their mothers. Yeah, they probably did. Who called their mothers? Mommy, did you see the hat? No, stop. Now you're just embellishing. You are embellishing.

It won my weekend. You ain't ruin anybody's weekend. Just said, man, just read the room. The room has been read. That's okay, Matt. You have a reasonable take. people were unreasonable. Yeah, I didn't think about once the game started.

This is a disgrace. And by the way, if he wants to keep wearing, the Mariners want to keep losing, I'm all for that. 114 on Sports Talk 7-9. Larry and Galveston is going to talk about pitching for the Astros. Rossi, I'll throw a question out to you and the rest of the audience. Over the next, how many games are left, by the way, in that season? Like 39 or some?

I'm, that's kind of a guess. If we're down to 39-ish. If the Astros win the division or lose it, is it more because the pitching doesn't come through or are they hitting? Think about that. They've played 124 games. 38 left. How do the Astros hold on to the West?

Pitching or hitting? Knowing that both are a key. But what is the most important part? Both. Nope, can't answer that question. I want a definitive answer next on 790. I just went to Facebook to see the Freakier Friday page and Jimmy and Lee Curtis's videos. Why did you do that, Matt?

because people were calling her breast strange names. What? Canons? Bazumes. Okay. See what I have to deal with every day, folks. Oh, you were looking at them to stop. You're the one that brought up to my attention. Because I couldn't believe you hadn't heard about it.

I don't need, look, if it's... I figured you spent all week and looking at Jamie Lee Curtis, that's why I brought it up to you. Oh, no, no. I'm for the daughter. She's our topic of belief it or not, I guess. She is our topic of believe it or not today. First Freaky Friday, I think, involved, was it,

was it Tatum O'Neill was into the original Freaky Friday, I want to say? I don't know. Lindsay Lohan, though. Good gracious. Proud of her. Why are you so proud of her, Matt? She rebounded. She's at a tough middle. Oh, Jody Foster.

That's right. Jody Farser, Barbara Harris, John Aston, Patsy Kelly, and Dick Van Patton. Huh. Who did I say was the original one? I don't know. Tatum O'Neill. That was, what was Tatea O'Neill in?

A cinematographer was Charles Wheeler, by the way. I think I saw Freaky Friday at the movie at the drive-in. Really? Yeah. Why do we lose drive-ins, by the way? Sex and drugs? No, I don't know. Exactly.

I guess somebody's got an answer for that. because we drove by one on 290 yesterday People could steal the radio signal And just get in there for free And watch the movie for free I guess Let's go to There's still drive-in some places

I've been one 40 years 50, 45 years Let's go Me and you want to drive you want to see a movie No I don't want to sit next to you at a drive-in All right That's nice to you at a drive-in

All right Larry How are you, sir? Oh man, I'm doing good I hadn't been at a drive-in since probably about 35 or 40 years ago up in Arkansas, but whatever. What's the most important to answer your question? Yes, answer it. What's the most important? Pitching or hitting?

I think pitching is. And right now, if Sean Dubin has not been DFAed by the Astros, I don't know why not. you know we can't put up with any more of that kind of performance two out of three games he has just basically gone up there and really dirtied his underwear yeah it hasn't been a good run

unfortunately uh it's crazy because he was so good before he got hurt but man he has not been very successful since then yeah and you know i mean if we're gonna If we're going to have the short string on Hector Narris, Sean Dubin was never any Hector Nairus. Granted, Narris was in the past a couple or three years ago, but there you go. But do we have any idea what is going on with Lance McCullors?

He had a rehab start over the weekend, and he was good. And Hector Narris is off the team. Yeah, Hector Narris is gone. Lance pitched over the weekend for Sugarland and my guess is he would probably be available. Six whiffs, but it was like five innings of one run ball or something like that. Maybe he pitches this weekend in Baltimore. You never know.

By the way, Sean Dubin numbers. First 18 appearances before he got hurt, Ross, three earned runs. Nice. Since his return, 11 runs in three outings. It's not great. No, it's not. I'm doing a Google search.

He was out for two months with his injury. Yeah. So let him work back into things, Matt. Yeah. Sean probably doesn't need to look himself up on Twitter. That would be ill advice. That's ill advice for basically any reliever for the most part. Chas McCormick greater than Sean Dubin? Well, the recent numbers bear that out.

Yeah. Chas McCormick got like three popouts and like 11 pitches. What was the fastest he threw? He got it up to close. I think the first time he got it up to like 82. This last time, I think he was hitting high 70s. I can go look. If you really want me to.

Don't let ever this dude take a shower. Put Sean Dubin in a car headed 22 miles southwest and 59. Get him a full police escort. Are we doing Dubin overreactions? D.O's. Joe Espott is a blanking idiot. I don't even blame Sean Dubin. He knows he's sorry.

A.F. That's from Mr. 713. Oh, my God. Block whoever that is. Ooh. What is that? I hear some background noise there. Is they all?

That's weird. We're hearing interference. Sean Dubin's ERA is on the moon. That's... Sean Dubin is a blanking, blanking addict. Multiple sources get him off the roster. 78.5. Chess McCormickett.

Watching Sean Dubin pitch makes me want to kill myself. All right. That seems extreme. What is it wrong with you people? that seems very extreme Sean Dubin should not be on the plane to Detroit all right stop trying to make Sean Dubin

happen it's not going to happen Sean Dubin sucks can Sean Dubin please go back on the injured list Sean Dubin effing sucks geez can we give up on Sean Dubin man yeah people are rude

sometimes it's just better than not to look. It's a lot safer spot to be in. All right, 127 on Sports Talk 7.90. 713 212.570. We're going to have a Sean Dubin free segment coming up. Are we? Yeah. All right, we're going to play that. Can we play that Ron Manfred Audio? Yes.

We finally, I think we've got it for real this time. Figured out. Sean Dubin doesn't get discussed. Rob Manford does. 127 on Sports Talk 7.9. All right. So the question I posed, to me,

Asking the Astros offense to all of a sudden have a massive uptick, we've been asking for that all season long. It's just been too much of a roller coaster ride. If the Astros are going to hold on here, they've got a, and I was talking about this last time on Channel 2. You've got all these starters. You've got two that you've been able to rely on for the most part this entire season. One of them has been leaky as of late with Frommber. You're basically asking Hunter and Framber to be. really awesome so the other guys

whoever that may be can get you five innings that's going to put additional stress in the bullpen. You're now taking your ninth inning guy and putting him and saying see you next year. You're getting your eighth inning guy as your ninth inning guy. This team Ross to win the division is going to have to rely on the arms

way more than the bats. Bats are automatically. You have to obviously have offense but I've watched this team win games when this team has not had much offense. So to me I'm way more concerned about where this Astro team is for 38 games pitching-wise and they are hitting-wise.

Of course, we're worried about both. Yordon coming back will help depending on what, you know, depending on setbacks and depending on how effective he can be when he's actually in the lineup, because we have to remember that he played 29 games this year and he was horrible. I don't remember those 20 games.

Exactly. It's like he's got a brand-new season. Yeah. Yeah. And actually the Astros' record's better with him not playing. Yes. Very much a small sample. I'd rather have him in the lineup. For sure. I don't necessarily worry about that particularly.

Because, all right, so let's, I mean, what does Jordon bring? I mean, he's going to scare some people. He scares, he lengthens the lineup. You get to move Correa out of the three spot. You move Christian Walker down to a five or six. You know what I'm saying? I mean, there's, it's going to look a little more formidable. And you're probably not going to see a lot of Taylor Tremel.

Jacob Melton playing corner outfield spots. Jesus Sanchez-O Rossi is ice-cold right now. He's ice-cold and you're going to have, you've had the luxury of putting Altuve in the DH spot a lot with Yordon out, and you're not going to, you're going to lose that luxury. So it is going to be difficult, but they'll figure it out. They'll play matchups. Joe Espada is going to have to get creative.

It'll be interesting to see if it is just going to be Cam Smith, against lefties and Hesu Sanchez against righties because they are trying to limit the workload of Cam Smith but as you mentioned Jesus Sanchez is in a deep funk and it's

what is he now? He's on a big Ofer, isn't he? Well, it's going into the game yesterday and yesterday I honestly When it got to Was it 7-0? I took a nap I literally said I'm going to take a nap

No to not To not Yeah He's on an 0 for 21 So what's the premium outfield the rest of the way? Your best outfield is one of Cam or Hesor Sanchez and Wright. One of Tramel or Melton or hopefully Jake Myers and Sitter. And then Jose Altuve and left with Yorda?

We're talking about with Yordon back in the fold. But man, we haven't seen Jose put a handful of endings in left field in the last couple months. That's because everybody's been hurt. People are coming back. So he's got to play somewhere. You're not going to, unless you're putting Yorda out and left a bunch, which I don't know you're going to do that. Certainly not immediately.

Maybe in situations where you have Fromber out there. And watching Maricio Dubon play first base, I just like it was weird. You know, when you think of first base, when you think a big hulking guy's kind of... Big target? Big target. He was...

The classic. I appreciate his versatility, but it was just... It just showed you there's just not a lot of... I mean, John Singleton's hitting home runs to the Space Cowboys is cool and everything, but we know what he's going to do when he gets to the big league team.

That did all right. didn't affect the 12 to nothing result that's true please pitchers come through can please Lance McCuller stay healthy and be somewhat productive or maybe they won't honestly look it's gravy to be where they are right now

and I'm going to need people to keep this perspective because everybody's going to be ripping their hair out oh if this team is not a bunch of games and win the division it's always going to be it's going to be Joe spot his fault and the hitting coach's fault yes and that's low-hanging fruit but whatever I mean it's a miracle they are where they are right

now. I'm going to say it again. I'm going to back your point up. It is a miracle that they're in first place. Yeah. Correy has cooled off some. For instance, if you, Ross, Joe is Spott and I, the forest went to go have a drink.

Uh-huh. What was it, Joe? What was it like? He was like, I can't believe we did this. Yeah. We have a game and a half lean late August. Have you seen what I put out there? Mm-hmm. I had Zach Short.

playing meaningful games at shortstop. Literally. Short, Hummel, Whitcomb. Who else? A.J. Blueball? Not that he can't be a fine pitcher for this team. We need a back in the bullpen. Maybe he's a bullpen help.

And I've used something called Jason Alexander. He's given me six innings every time I ask him to throw. Dude, Alexander is dealing. Crazy. Let's talk to Rick on 798-139. Rick, thank you for holding in good afternoon. Good afternoon, guys. You really can't blame the spot of, you know, what's going on now.

I mean, the guy's been doing a great job, like what you said, being creative, but what he's dealt with. I mean, so many injuries, he's been bringing up no-names to pitch to fill major voice. So he's done a great job. He's not, he can't play the game. He can't go out and throw the pitches for these guys, you know? I mean, you know, we really do need, like, another Kyle Tucker type guy. Guys, don't really miss Kyle Tucker now.

I mean, that's pretty obvious that we don't have that. bat. And you know, like you said earlier, your Don, who knows what we'll get now? If he does come back, who knows? Anyway, don't take this out on the spot on the bottom, man. He's doing what he can to the best of his ability. And, you know, to be in the first place where we're at, it's incredible. Yeah, I think, again, if you took anybody with a decent baseball IQ and thank you, Rick, for the call, and said, evaluate Joe Espottis. Now, Joe Spotton is not bad a thousand. No manager. Not Tony LaRosa, not Leo de Rocher, not A.J. Hinch. Dusty Baker. Dusty Baker. Dave Martinez. Anybody.

Joe Torrey. Nobody about the 1,000. Even in a particular season. But for what has been given to him and how level-headed he's been about this? He's a saint. I mean, come on, gang. That's when we need your IQ to step. He's been getting a little bit touch and go with some of the postgame He's getting a little cranky and I get it I just get it

Because what he does Here's the thing Is when you overly defend a player And that's if there was anything that Joe does He really protects his players Yes And when those players let him down He's got to go up in front of a microphone

It's got to kind of Not lie but certainly stretch the truth Like he wasn't over pleased that to answer a question about Framber Valdas not backing up home, playing on a playoff. Because he's been trying to protect Framber. Yes. So when asked about it, it's like, oh, Christ, I got to give a response to this.

Question had to be asked. And that's an even more fair game when Framber is one calling out defense a couple weeks ago. That's right. Whatever it was. Biscuit, I'm sitting there. Hi, Biscuit. What are you got? What's up, my brothers? I'm doing well. How about you?

I'm just fine, man. First of all, man, does Rawl qualifies the movie? I mean, y'all ain't mentioned that, man. Oh, that's a concert film. You know better than that. Concert film, I would say no. It doesn't count. Okay.

Okay. Well, I'm just saying that was the funniest type thing I've seen on Eddie. And I'm with you, Ross, on the manager, but let me say to his. They had a lost Saturday night after that butt with the man on third with no outs. I would hate to see how they could have killed the coach on that one. But my last thing is, Matt, the college football thing. You got five teams from the Big 12 and five teams from the ACC.

Why do you need to at large? The at large is going to be, what, the eighth team from the SEC and the 18? Well, yeah, they want to squeeze as many spots in it. Now, the at large could be two Mac teams. I don't think it's going to be. It could be two Mountain West teams. It could be two new pack 12 teams. I mean, Washington State could get in there or something like that.

mean, I get it. Yeah. It's, it's, it's, look, keep it at 12, keep it at 12, and I'm very happy with that. I think 16, man, and no buys. 16, no buys. Let's go with it. I mean, I think it's going to get to 16. Thanks, Biscuit.

I mean, yeah. That is another layer. And guess what, Ross, that is another TV partner that's going, look, here's the thing. You keep expanding these things. The TV networks are just saying, yeah, we'll buy it. We'll buy the game. Because they know they're going to get ratings. They're going to get ratings and then get the camera.

They're not. not buying these games if they can't get the ratings. And that means the advertisers. Those just keep buying them. But 28 teams, when your season is as long as the playoffs are, that's false. Honestly, I think the NBA playoffs are too long.

I've told you that many, many times. I like baseball playoffs. They're done in three weeks. That includes a wild card round. NBA, you start in mid-April and week before we're crowned champion in late in mid to late June? It's crazy. It becomes white noise. Honestly, to me.

All right, believe it or not, all things about Jamie Lee Curtis, will a bra size be brought up in question? We'll find out next. Excuse me? Well, I mean, you can guess. Go look at the video, Ross. What video?

You know the video you sent me to. Shame on you. Let's remind the folks how to have some better energy. Yeah, you know what? To get ready for believe it or not. Out of the category of better late than nether. here is Rob Manfred talking about

things that he'd like to potentially see in the future for Major League Baseball expansion and potentially realignment. How about a window into the future? Expansion, realignment, expansion, playoffs. I mean, can you see that down the road? I can.

You know, I think that I think the first two topics are related in my mind. I think if we expand, it provides us with an opportunity to geographically realign. I think we could save a lot of wear and tear on our players in terms of travel. And I think our postseason format would be even more appealing for, you know, entities like ESPN because you'd be playing up out of the east, out of the west,

and that 10 o'clock time slot where we, you know, sometimes get Boston, Anaheim, would be two West Coast teams. And that 10 o'clock slot that's a problem for us sometimes becomes a real. real opportunity for our West Coast audience. So I think, you know, I think the owners realize that there's demand for Major League Baseball in a lot of great cities, and then we have an opportunity to do something good around that expansion process. All right, there it is.

I think we're going to see, this is a super early gut, eight, 14 divisions? Okay, that makes sense. And you play the division winner of your next closest geographical, like, Your Pacific time zone winner could play maybe the... No, you'd have to do seating, though, right? You'd have to seat it. You couldn't just have, like, two, the two best teams playing each other because they just happen to be close.

Like, 200-win teams. No, I firmly do believe that they... The first round of the playoffs, you will play a team in your time zone. Yeah, you could do... Yeah, I mean, or close, at least. For instance, I don't think... What, there's 200 win teams and then all the four other team, now, of course, they'll be...

if they're doing six they would be probably the first two would still get buys yeah I put it I think the days of New York playing L.A. would be probably just for the World Series Well yeah they wouldn't New York and L.A. would be in different Eastern and Western conferences. Mm-hmm yeah

but the days of that being a division series are done is what he's probably trying to say I want to keep it as close as I can my West Coast teams can play my West Coast teams because I don't, my guys guess is the owners of the Eastern teams are like, I don't want my teams playing at 10 o'clock at night. I lose ratings. That's why the Yankees always play in prime time.

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