The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Opening Day, Dr. Fauci On A Mobil & Fantasy 5

Episode Date: July 24, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Launch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 1201 in H-town. Girl. A, 2020, and the Astros play here on 790. Balls hit well to left field. Going back on at Ward, he's on the track.

Still looking up, gives it a shot, and it's out of here. A homer for girls. A two-run shot down the line, and the Astros lead five to nothing. Swing, and this one's blasted. Need it one to nothing. This is one of the greatest white people songs of all time. The white man moves are in full effect on a Friday afternoon on Sports Talk 790. You're missing this, AT&T.

This show should be on television for multiple reasons. I wasn't going to say it, but then you brought it up. Yeah. Oh. Yeah, just keep this going. I, as long as there is blood running through these veins, Ross, the

first game of an Astor season as gimmicky as this one's going to be very weird. This one's

going to play. This is the definitive baseball song, right? Yes. I mean, take me out of the

ball game, obviously, but that's... No, this is not a radio. As far as, yeah, as far as popular song,

popular music that's baseball related, this is number one. And there really isn't even a second place, is there?

Boys of Summer. Ah, we'll play that too. Uh, there's some Trace Atkins Batta swing song. We'll find it.

Bada, bottle swing. Sing it, Mr. Fogarty. And to think we didn't, maybe know what I haven't had a baseball season. Well, let's see what happens with the Nationals after Juan Soto yesterday. Yeah, that's right. You know he's 21. Oh, is that right? Yeah. And by the way, did you see Garrett Cole in his first ending as a National?

Mm-hmm. Gave up a home run that would have given the Yankees, the Nationals, the lead anyway? Well, they were already up to two to nothing because of the Jean-Carlo Stanton to run home run. I'm just trying to go back to what happened last year. And that was also the only hit he gave up the entire outing. Yeah, but there was also lightning too. We did five innings of one hit ball. It's not bad.

How many strike counts did he have? Five, I think. Okay. So he's averaging one K per inning. That's pretty good. He looks per. I know everybody wanted to get excited when he gave up the home run. He looks pretty good after that.

God, I was like, get out. Get out. Get out. Home run nationals. And I'm like, I can't believe I'm rooting for the nationals. Are we rooting against Garrett Cole now? Are we rooting for him to fail? Is that? Or I didn't find myself doing that. Well, there's a philosophy that I live by, either you're with us or against us. Schadenfreude, for Garrett Cole is what you have. I don't think he's a bad person. I think he's exceptional what he did. He's done. We'll do. I think he wanted to be a Yankee really bad. And so was zero surprise that he wound up wearing a New York year. And they backed up like six brink trucks for him as well. Yeah. You know, I was like, you know, this is my dream to play for the Yankees. You know,

I'd have played for them when they offered me $83,000 a year because I just love the Yankees. That's funny. He never said that. Yeah, if the Detroit Tigers had the highest bid, he'd be a Detroit Tiger. I love it here down in South Florida. The Miami Marlins are committed to winning. Yes. And I can't wait to where they am across my jersey. A rich history, multiple worlds. Series championships and that's what we're doing here in Miami again. Beautiful stadium, beautiful people, beautiful weather, and $335 million reasons. So, um, it's still an adjustment. I don't think I sound like Garrickle.

I was just talking. I don't know who you are, but I'm just going to let that slip, Matt, because anything goes Friday. I feel like I'm in, I'm just, I'm just from Central Texas. It was a way, it was an adjustment period. Now, we'd seen him without the facial hair, but still for five straight innings without facial hair, that was an adjustment period for me as well. He looks like a kid.

All right. So a couple of things about the game yesterday. Okay. I know Dr. Fauci's been very busy. Oh, geez. Dr. Fauci, come on. But, I don't mean to use JC very often, but JC, get the ball closer to the plate. Come on, Anthony Fauci.

And he was sitting in the stands yesterday, right? Oh, was he? I didn't notice that. Did you see him sitting in the stands or was he sitting somewhere else? Oh, he was watching the game. I didn't remember that part. I was like, why are you in the stands, bro? You've been telling the whole world not to sit in the stands.

stands. Well, he's by himself, wouldn't he? No. There's a lot of people in the stands? No. Was he distancing? Okay, he had a mask on. Didn't wear it, though. Hashtag, he was not wearing a mask and was he not distancing? The one time I saw him did not. Was he like putting his hands in other people's popcorn? He chintstrapped the mask.

Come on, Fouch. I didn't think you've got to be consistent. One-hudy. Oh, maybe he's recovered. So he doesn't not worry about it. Yeah, but you've got to leave by example. That's true. If the president's going to get crushed, so should Dr. Fauci. That's that's startling point number one. Well, yeah. Who had a worst first pitch?

Him or 50 cent? 50 cent, but not by much. And we talked about it. We had Dr. Fauci on, believe it or not. He's an athlete. He was all district and basketball, like in the 1940s, hitting up some set shots and some hook shots, presumably. I'm going to ask you this, and you can say no.

Is there a chance Dr. Fauci and a mobile could call the show today? What does he sound like? Yeah, there's a great chance he could call. If anything goes Friday, what are going to do? All right. So he had a, I really wasn't that. bothered by him sitting in the stands. It is what it is. There's nobody there. So, no harm, no foul. But I was offended by his terrible, terrible opening pitch, first pitch. And then,

so then they go to Rob Manfred and they go to interview him. And then in the background, you see lightning strikes. Yes. Maybe that's your sign. That's never good for baseball. Well, clearly, we didn't even get a nine-in-game out of that. So there you have it. On the radio program today, Kevin Ashenfeld is going to join us at 1 o'clock. He's filming in for Todd Calus, who has COVID. And so Ash is going to call the games starting tonight, the television. Now, I don't care if you watch it or not. I do want you to listen to it. Robert and Steve are going to be at the ballpark. Those call the game. I think Michael Connor has the on deck at 7. On 740. It's over on 740 tonight, so it'll be on the blow torch. We have, oh, and by the way,

the Astros game will also be here on 790 as soon as a rocket's over with. Rockets open up their scrimmages today at 630 with news today that Austin Rivers has left the bubble. What? More family situation. Also, the Clippers Lou Williams has left the bubble. That's three clippers leaving the bubble. Can I be somewhat inappropriate for five seconds? Okay.

As compared to what you would say the normal three hours. Are you going to say they're going to get late? No, I'm not. Okay. Are you going to think that? No. But I do want to openly ask, we've got at least two clippers

that have left, a rocket. We've had, what, six or seven different guys in just the last four or five days leaving because of, oh, Pat Beverly Montres, Harold Lou Williams. That makes now three clippers. Landry Shaman, I don't believe, is even there yet. Is it striking you as a little odd that this is happening that all these family emergencies are popping up?

I mean, we're talking about four or five out of 340, whatever it is. So the answer could be no. I'm schooling no. I hate that there are six or seven NBA players that have left because of family emergencies. Well, and then we're in the midst of a global pandemic. Maybe their family members are getting sick. But what could those players do to help them out? Oh, it's a COVID-free Friday, Matt.

What did I say? Oh, I thought, no, it's just me. Oh, I'm sorry. I can not talk about it too. It was pandemic I went for. Put me on the list. He wants on. I want on the list.

No COVID talk. Okay, don't even say the word. It's a blank, blank Friday. Oh, okay. It's a blank free Friday. Yeah. Okay, well, maybe their families are getting sick by some sort of viral infection that's going around. Can I say that?

But the problem is, what can they do to help that? I don't know, but if your mom's in the hospital, you want to go see her. This is just terrible that it's happening so, I didn't say so frequently, but there have been four to five players just the last three days that have taken off. We don't know what the family... Look,

maybe they're procreating at a very high rate. Maybe they're having babies. Let's see. What other family emergencies could there be? Did you see that Caruso...

Alex Caruso? Alex Caruso isn't going to his sister's wedding because of this? Yeah, I did see that. Yeah. It's like, I know what you look like. I'll get you big ass if I'm an NBA player. I mean, they've known for a lot.

while that they've been doing this and tell her to push it back. Yeah, it's on her, not him. He's a millionaire, right? Presumably. He's playing for a ring, which he won't get. Is he on league minimum or what? No, I bet he's making more than that. Caruso's not probably not making that much. Well, he's certainly, but he's comfortable. Okay. So, it's just weird. Today, Austin Rivers leaves. Today, Lou Williams leaves. Harold, Beverly. There was somebody else that left. It's just, I hope, I, it's unfortunate that we've got so many.

family emergencies, but man, they've been a lot. Again, I hope it's just not because they're antsy. Because bra, all of them, they got about two more months in there. Yeah, I don't think they would just intentionally miss two weeks because they're antsy. Because here's the thing. If they're gone for a significant period of time, they have

a chance of missing their first regular season game, which will be coming up next Friday. Now, many of the teams may not care. I mean, it's all about the playoffs. But wait, is Lou Williams not going to miss any games if he leaves today? Well, if he left today, there's a chance you could miss, you know, you have to, because you have to go back into quarantine right away.

But if you get tested while you're gone, like Zion Williamson did, Zion Williamson, you think you can come right back? Well, it's the shorter time in the in the quarantine period. Okay, then yeah, they're lying. They just want to miss time before the season starts. I thought they had to miss like 10 days or something like that when they came back. Not guarantee. If it's not 10 days and they're not missing games,

yes, some of them probably like, I'm with you now. So I'm not saying I'm with me. I'm not saying I'm with you. Okay. I'm just saying it's just peculiar. Ain't that peculiar. 12.13. Anything goes Friday. Here's the show.

1 o'clock Kevin Eshenfelter from AT&T. 1.30, a sports RV revival for our Astros injured list players. 2 o'clock today, Brian T. Smith. The Fantasy 5 at 2.30. Brendan, I think you're going to like this one being a seventh judge. We're going to take... Because we haven't done enough females in the show lately. We've done a lot of food, a lot of music.

We haven't been objectifying women enough on the show. We believe. even just calling sexy women, sexy women, right? We're going to go with sexiest, host, or judge of a reality show past or present. And Ross, do you get the first pick and do I get one? Who won the last one between us? I think I took the crown back, I thought. I thought you did.

Because you'd won two in a row. You'd won three out of four. I've actually done very well against people not name you. And then I think you'd won three out of four and then I won one. All right. 1214, Matt Thomas Show. We're taking you today until 3 o'clock here on Sports. Talk 790.

This is James Arden. It goes to hard. Three to shoot. Jacks up a three hits. This is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Are you kidding? This town ain't big. This town ain't small.

It's a little of both they say. Our ball club may be minor league, but at least it's tripling. We sit below the Marlborough men above the right. All right, rate this song, one to ten. Uh, four. With ten being the best? Yeah. I mean, it could be worse.

Four seems about right. But I think it's like, it's definitely a baseball song. Yeah, you play it once a year. Or you play at the ballpark before a game. We'll have better ones. How about that? There you go. We're kind of pacing ourselves.

It is the Matt Thomas show and anything goes Friday. We are happy to be joined. And again, sometimes Ross does a great job. chasing down guests and is able to do this for us right now. We say hi to Dr. Focci on a mobile, who is joining us from our nation's capital. First of all, Dr. Focci, good afternoon. Thanks for joining us on such short notice here today. Yeah, no problem, man.

It was great to be on the show. Excuse me. Just really happy to be, have a good time with you. How are you doing? I'm actually good. We are wearing our face mask, as you have told us to. We are doing the social distancing. We are just doing the right things.

and we're not to having big groups of 10. So I hope that your message continues to be spread to everybody in America. Yeah, absolutely, Matt. This is one of the things that we know, this global pandemic that we're going through right now, is we have to make sure that we're taking care of ourselves. We have to make sure that we're taking care of others. And I'm glad that you're practicing that. I know that the cases are really high in Texas right now.

And, you know, I think you should preach your folks that are listening to your show and tell them to be careful as possible. Are you kind of fighting a cough yourself right now? Oh, no, I don't know what you're talking about. I feel, excuse me, I'm feeling pretty good. You know, just out of the game last night, had a good time throughout the first pitch, and, you know, wore my mask the entire time,

make you a social distancing. That's actually not true. We saw you with her mask off a couple of times yesterday. No, I don't think that must have been somebody else. You know, they've been putting fans in the stands with CGI. Maybe it was what you saw. It wasn't me. I had my mask on the entire time.

I'm a big believer of practicing what I preach. I like to wear my mask and make sure that I distance to her way and sanitize it all times. All right, well, I stand corrected. I apologize. Dr. Fouchon, I'm always joining us here on the Matt Thomas show. All right, so Dr. Farch, let's get to this first pitch. And you are a self-proclaimed diehard Washington Nationals fan. Is that correct?

Yes, I love the Washington Nationals. World Series champions. Sorry, I know you folks in Houston are probably, Not very happy about that, but, you know, the nationals are the champs right now. Who is your favorite national, may I ask? Oh, geez, probably Bryce Harper. No, he's with the Phillies right now. What?

I know, unfortunately. Since when? Last year, well, all last year is in Philadelphia. Well, you know, I've had multiple dinners with Bryce Harper. I didn't, you know, I guess we kind of fell out of caught. Let's see. Anthony Rendon. No, no, he's at.

actually left, too. He's with the Angels now. Oh, my goodness, really? Yeah. Oh, geez. Well, uh... It's, it doesn't really matter. Ryan Zimmerman is really, uh... He's one of my favorite Washington Nationals. He's great. I love Ryan Zimmerman. I thought he was fantastic last night. He wasn't there either, but that's not the owner there. He's... Yeah, he's taken the year off. Is he taking the year off?

Is he ever right? Is Zimmerman taking the year off, I think? I don't think he's supposed to be. Oh. Oh, well, I respect his decision to take his time off for his family. It's a great decision by Ryan Zimmerman. All right. So let me ask you this. What in the world was that pitch? It was awful, sir, with all due respect.

Oh, well, you know, I'm more of a basketball guys. You know, it came up, and I've been getting buckets for about 60 years here now. I used to play in Rooka Park with Dave DeBusha and Earl of Pearl Monroe. And I'm more of a basketball guy. I'm not really much in a baseball. It really wasn't my thing growing up in Brooklyn. I was just more of a basketball guy. Okay, so if you're a basketball guy, and by the way, Ryan Zimmerman isn't playing this year, as I thought.

Oh, sorry about that. No, no problem. We're visiting with Dr. Focci and Mobile. You could have just said no and said thanks, but no thanks. Because, frankly, and again, you and I don't know each other, but you did yourself no favors yesterday. Well, you know, sometimes you get up there on a big stage, and there's some nerves. For example, when I'm talking with Donald Trump and we're having a private meeting, I can handle myself. But sometimes you get in front of the microphone.

You get a little nervous. And unfortunately, you know, it's just one slipped out of my hand. I'm not a baseball guy. We had a couple of practice throws, and I've got to be honest. I was bringing the heat in the practice with some movement. But unfortunately, I didn't move the way I wanted to when the game happened there, Maddie. All right. By the way, we're visiting last question with Dr. Focci and Mobile.

Dr. Focci, any thoughts from the president when he found out? Are you okay? Sorry. Go ahead. Any thoughts on the president when you were going to tell the first pitch out, and he was not going to? I'm sorry to say that again, Maddie. Dr. Fauci, you threw out the first pitch. President Trump did not. Did he say anything to you about that? Give you any advice.

Dr. Trump, I mean, I'm sorry, Mr. Trump. President Trump, I guess I should say, before they come after me. Yeah, you know, he hasn't been answering my calls the last couple of weeks. So I really don't know how he's been feeling. If you get a chance to talk to him, just let him know. I'm trying to reach them. Okay, Dr. Fauci, thank you very much for the time. Are you looking forward to the Astros Nationals repeat World Series this year coming out?

Well, I don't know about the Astros. I'm sure they can have a real banger of a season. But the nationals are probably going to go back to back, Matt. Okay. Bryce Harp is going to be the World Series MVP as well. That makes a lot of sense. Dr. Fauci, thank you very much. All right.

Dr. Fouchi, joining us. I didn't know if I was supposed to COVID buzzer, Dr. Fauci. Oh, not during your interview. Okay. But you are. I'm glad you kept an eye on that. Reviews already coming in on Dr. Fauci. At Texan's propaganda.

Your Fauci sounds like crap. His voice is lower and way more gravelly. Hold on. Ross is coming. Ross had to go to the bathroom. Come in here real quick. We got some reviews of Dr. Fauci to Mobile wanted you to read here. Okay, what do we have?

Who you said? I just kept... I know you're in the bathroom. We had Dr. Fauci and mobile. What? I know. It's a big deal. Oh, how was it?

Yeah. Texans Communist, at Texan's Communist, says, your Fauci sounds like crap. His voice is lower and way more gravelly. At least try when you are going to do dumb bits to fill airtime. So Dr. Fauci didn't sound good. That's unfortunate. At Ashnell Snyder says,

thanks to Dr. Fauci didn't. I almost wrecked my car laughing so hard. Next. Kill this bit ASAP. Next, I'm proud of Matt making Dr. Fauci so comfortable he called him Maddie. Let's go to Texans communists for a second. Everybody's a critic.

First of all, it took you 10 to 12 minutes to find Dr. Fauci. We had to track him down, Matt. I had to go to the national directory. So for Texans propaganda, To criticize anything we do. Let me tell you something, Texans propaganda. I want to know what the rest of your day is like so I can come criticize the hell out of you,

douchebag. And Drew Blom, 21, 2, kill this, but. He said, no, this is not a bit. We had a major guest on the show. No other show on the marketplace is doing. And other people are talking Texans D-Line. I got Dr. Fauci and a mobile. Don't be jealous.

Sometimes the phones do weird things to voices. You never know. Clearly he wasn't feeling well. he was with this wispy cough that he had, which he could have gotten to the game because it was rain and lightning yesterday, right? Dr. Fauci was coughing? Is he okay? No, he's not good. Oh, no. Hopefully he's all right. Jose Rolpice says it sounded like Texans. Karen? It's funny.

What do I mean all these people sound like? Dr. Fauci's Dr. Fauci. I can't, we can't recreate it. 1227, Sports Talk 790. Coming up at 1 o'clock. Well, at least Ashley liked it. That's all that matters. Yeah, the rest of you people, gee many Christmas. y'all are a bunch of duches of duches. Why don't you go find other people that try to do some stuff?

I mean, I'm sorry that you're having such a miserable day that you said, I'm going to go to Twitter and tell you how much this sucks. Screw off. Ouch. I'm serious. We got Dr. Fauci. Nobody appreciates it.

Why don't you go find your best outside linebacker of the Texans in the last 15 years? That's what you want. If that's what you want, then go, you know where to go find it. We're just trying to have some fun. Kevin Ashenfelder, well, he may not be on a mobile, he's probably just at home.

We'll be with us at 1 o'clock. And I got news for you. We're going to have a revival at 1.30. Uh-oh. To help out these astro players that are hurt. I hope you guys aren't offended by that. Right. Please.

Man, everybody just thinks, they know how to do a radio show. This bit sucks. You guys suck. Do you suck? Get somebody to do it. Go to hell. Hey guys, Lance Scullors.

Regular season through postseason. Straight shots, pop a bottle. October happens here. Playing in October. Listen to the home of the Astros, Sports Talk 790. Sports RV, this is the second most definitive baseball song, right? This doesn't get me pumped up for baseball, though. This feels like there's like a, this is like the middle of, like the two-thirds into an 80s movie,

and there's Starcrossed lovers and they just got in a fight because there was a misunderstanding and he goes out and sits under a tree in front of the lake because he's contemplating his life and all the mistakes that he's made. I'm trying to envision what you just said. Could you see it?

And they're coming back and forth. The girl's crying. The guy's just thinking on his steering wheel. Is he on the Pacific Coast Highway in California? He could be on the PCH. Yeah. Tears are streaming down both of their eyes. Does this get you fired up for baseball at all?

No. No, I guess what we're really doing today is we're trying to find song number two. Well, I think I have number two. Oh, I... But it's not a song that is associated with baseball. It's a song that was on MTV, this is before you were born, in the 80s, that was nothing but highlights. It was by Dire Straits. We'll play it in the next break. Okay. Macklemore has a song about baseball. Can I play that?

Yeah, but I play it like a... No, we'll do it like at 120. We know what? We discovered one last night too on the nightcap, but batter up by Nelly. We got all these. Write these down. These are all our bumps all day long.

Does he know where the revival music is? Oh, no, we can find that. It's fine. Okay, cheesy bit coming up at 130. Oh, yes. I just want to get anybody heads up on this. Sorry for we're trying to do some funny things and try to entertain you on a Friday.

Glorious Friday. Oh, I miss this show, Matt, because we just like to have a good time. No, we don't. We like the district sports, sports, sports. All we want to do is just be serious sports, dude. We can go through C-word deaths in cases if you like for three segments. All right. So the next song is going to be a song that I heard attached to an MTV video

that was nothing but baseball highlights. In matter of fact, you're going to look it up while the song is played for a little bit and you're going to be like, oh, okay, I see where you got that from. I think I know what you're talking about. Okay. Is it S of S? Yes. Garrett, Cypress, Texas, 1235.

on 7.90. Hi, Garrett. And I really appreciate you taking my call. Sure. I guess anything Friday, I wanted to switch it up to football a little bit. And, you know, Matt, I always debate with you about the Texans moves or anything. I want to see if I could convince you to be a disciple of Bill O'Brien. You know, we don't call ourselves fans. We like to use that other term.

And so, obviously, he's got some negatives, and his play calling has been questionable. times, his temper, his overall disdain for anything outside of the organization. But that being said, yeah, that being said, yes, continue. All those negatives, we're proper coordination. You know, I think in coaching can be extreme positives. And so, you know, Bill O'Brien, his greatness is how he takes his players and he gets the best out of them. You saw that with Honey Badger, You saw that with Carlos Hyde. You saw that with DJ Reeder. And I would argue players that didn't jive with him the first time due to his coaching

and whatnot when they went on to other organizations, you know, you saw them really come out and play. And so you could, I guess you can go both ways of that argument. But it's challenged this season. And I think, well, where you'll see Bill O'Brien really differentiated himself. And I'm not talking about, you know, the wide receiver question. It's what he does with Duke John. and David Johnson.

And so the challenge is to get 2,700 yards, maybe 3,000 on a really optimistic season, out of these guys. And so how I get to that is Duke Johnson, he needs to raise his combined yardage to about 1,000 yards at one point. And then David Johnson needs to get about 1,500. And so he's got 2,000 in the great season, so he can do it. And so if Bill O'Brien continues to coach these guys up, I think that's where you're going to see the underrated Bill O'Brien really come out. And, you know, everyone hates his public persona.

But, you know, they've had a winning record under the record, or I guess under the radar. So anyway, I just wanted to give you, I guess, a couple of notes on Bill O'Brien and going to see what you guys thought. Let me ask you, Garrett. Are you a fan of the Astros? I am a fan of the Astros. like the Rockets? I am a fan of the Rockets. Don't call me a homework necessarily, though.

No, no, no, no, no. I'm just very, very peculiar to, it's peculiar to me that those two teams are playing tonight, and you're worried about somebody that's not going to play for at least a month and a half, maybe even longer than that. You're going to have to walk me through it for about 12 seconds. Seating goes Friday, Matt. That is true. That's already on my radar.

I'm watching the games tonight. You know, 6 o'clock rockets and 8 o'clock. Astros. But I think the real discussion is what the Texans are kind of doing because we're going to see what the Astros and Rockets are doing. Okay. So there's a lot of discussion out there. All right. So let's do this. And I've never done this with my radio show over, but I'm willing to pass the buck, so to speak. And I hope you don't mind me doing this, Garrett. Garrett, I want you to ask me in as few words as possible what you want me to do. And then we'll let the audience figure out if I should do what you want me to do. So please, Garrett, in as few words as

possible. Tell me exactly the question you have about Bill O'Brien that's coming my way. Oh, good Lord. That's a tough one. So you want me to be, let me ask you this, you want me to give Bill O'Brien more benefit of the doubt. Is that what you're asking? Well, well, that's, I guess that's a state of mind, you know, because essentially you could really like, dislike Bill O'Brien or you could like him. Okay. But let's get to it. What are you asking me to do? Please get right, get right, to it. Let's not mess around. Sure. I'm asking you to evaluate Bill O'Brien

on how he coaches up players. Okay. That's it. That's good. The best in the NFL at that? The best of the NFL? Close to it. At coaching a player. Okay. All right. I'll leave it at that. Thank you, Garrett. I got you. I got you. So gentlemen. Is that 4-Jack 069? No. That was a

fake dude anyway. Did that person get outed? Yeah. It was somebody else. So, look, I get paid a salary to give my opinion about things. But I'm going to allow the audience, and I'll let you two guys jump in on this as well. Let me give the phone number out. 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5790. What our man Garrett has asked is, is Bill O'Brien the best coach in the NFL? for coaching up players. Anybody that's driving around in Houston, Texas, on this glorious Friday, soon to be a rainy Friday,

would anybody like to call in right now and answer Garrett's question? Matter of fact, Garrett is still on hold. Let me see if he's still there. Hey, Garrett, are you there? I'm still there. Okay, Garrett, if somebody calls in the next three minutes, I'll let them talk to you directly.

Is that fair? That's fair. Okay, hang on. Okay, I'm sorry. So if you would like to speak to Garrett and kind of take my job away from me for the next three minutes. We've only got three minutes left in the segment. So if you would like to answer that question for Garrett, 713-212-5-790, 7-13-21-2-5-790.

The question Ross is, is Bill O'Brien the best coach-em-up coach in the NFL? I'm going to say no, but that's one man's opinion. No, that's right. But dating, yeah, that's right. It's one man's opinion. So maybe our opinions just don't matter. Again, I believe Bill O'Brien at the end of the day is an extraordinarily average NFL coach. He's an average play caller.

He's an average timeout person. He's actually below average on challenges. He's probably an average guy to motivate. He's just average. I agree with that. But Garrett believes that he is the best coach him up player in the NFL. Coach him up coach. Coach him up coach.

So do we have somebody on line three? going to go with here? He gets very little and he works with it and he turns it into something. All right. Is this Jose? Yes, sir. What's up, Matt? Jose, my friend. How are you? All right, Jose, World Peace. I'm going to give you a chance. My buddy Garrett's on the line here.

He wants me to tell my audience that Bill O'Brien is the best coach him up coach in the NFL. I'm going to let you do it for me. Garrett, say hi to Jose. Hey, Jose. Tell me while he's not. What up, Gary? Bill O'Brien is the worst coach in the NFL. The history of the Texas football organization.

Get that man out of Houston. Good day. Wow. Well, Garrett, that was brief, to the point. Yeah. Yeah, I was looking for a little bit of player history on that one. Yeah. We all can't get what we want every day.

But Garrett, hey, you keep calling me, and remember, we got scoreboarding each other. If the Texans go 13 and 3 when the AFC go to the Super Bowl, Garrett, you're going to be like, call me. Say, Matt, I told you in the middle of Rockets and Astrosies in the Bill O'Brien's a great coach. and I'll have to eat the crow, Garrett. You know, that's what I'm here for. Hey, Matt, I call you for one reason.

Y'all've got the best afternoon drive-time show in Houston and probably around the internet or eye-heart or whatever. That's what I appreciate from you. And that's why you're always welcome on the show. We love listening to you. Thank you, buddy. You all have a great day. You as well.

I would like to disagree with Garrett, but I just don't think I can, Matt. About what? This being the best show in the after, in the middays. Well, yeah, he said afternoon drive, which is really isn't technically true. Fridays, you're probably getting knocking off at noon. Oh, there's plenty of day drinkers at 12 noon, that's for sure. All right, more of you to come back at 1243. And also, I believe this could be the next song you hear, the Defender Number 2 song in baseball.

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You made it. I'm somebody now. More Matt Thomas. Now. I've goofed. I have 100% goofed up. This, I mean, I apologize. There is a baseball video with dire straits.

And it's nothing but old baseball highlights. It's not this? I don't think it's this. I don't have to look this up. Now I'm totally screwed up. Sorry, Matt. No, it's... Well, maybe we can go to...

What was Brendan Riley? Brendan trying to drop on us? What? No, you know what it is? It's Walk of Life. Walk of Life. That's the song. Play Walk of Life. Anybody who've seen MTV videos

way back in the day, there was, I mean, there was like Ozzie Smith doing these great defensive plays. This is the song. Go look up this video on YouTube. Oh, this is a good one. I think baseball when I hear this song.

This is also the Dire Straits? Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah. You know why I hate this song, though? Why? Because when I was in third grade, we would have to climb a rope. And they would put this on. And they would put this song on. And I missed that. We didn't have to climb ropes in my day.

I was, well, that's because it's not nearly as offensive as it is today that it was back in the day. Can you imagine fat Matt Thomas trying to get up a rope? Matter of fact, thin Matt Thomas can't get up a rope. My childhood Jim Jams were

achy-breaky heart. Yeah? Wump, there it is. Oh, wow. I like your jams. A little rock and roll part two. Yeah. Great song, but a little creepy. Miss Herndon with her

stereotypical gym teacher, short jerry curl hair. Did you have any gym teachers that were attractive? No, God, no. I didn't have any teachers that are attractive at all my entire life, except Miss Green and Home Economics in eighth grade. What's up, girl? All right, I think my man Jim here in line one is going to back me up on this.

Jim, am I right about this? It's Walk a Life with the baseball highlights, right? Yeah, it's awesome. It's not just baseball. It's football. It's got a show Ernest Givens and Alonzo Highsmith, both bobbling catches. It's got a couple of shots of Bill Fitch. Oh.

About an inch from an official's face. Just going nuts on him. Okay. So basically, you can learn about the entire 1980s sports scene off of one video. Yeah, a lot of it. I mean, it's got a very good use of connection. And even they show a brief shot of Ralph Sampson. I don't think it's a shot against the Lakers.

They do show a brief shot of him putting up a shot. Okay. So there's a Houston element to us. Hey, I deny. I greatly underestimated the power of the video then. Yeah, I've got it on my little playlist here. I play almost every day. I love it.

Nice. Well, thank you, Jim. I appreciate you calling. Let me know about that. It means a lot. Thank you. Yeah, I knew it was. Yeah.

Walk a life. Okay. I had no idea that was a dark street. Matter of fact, let's put the video on the blog. Can we do that? What's on Matt's Mine show page at Sports Talk 790.com? Do we have any busty women up there today? No, I've been slacking on that this week.

Okay. Sorry. So we're not going to give you busty, flat-chested women with very little belly fat. Well, not flat chested. No, heavy chested. flat-bellied girls, we're going to give you walk a life by dire straits. And I guarantee you 20% of you listen to the show right now

will download it to your phone. Because it is a very catchy song. It's all right. It's not one of my all-time favorites, but it's catchy. Let me go to Steve and where's that Missouri City. Hi, Steve. Do you want to do it, sir? Amazing yourself?

I'm okay. I'm blessed another day. I wanted to call and respond. I'm an ex-N-Fel player. I want to talk about Bill O'Brien. You are? Hold on. Hold on.

Hold on. You're an ex-NFL player. How many years do you play? Five years. What team? Houston Oilers. You played for the Oilers? When?

1982 to 87. It was my last year. What position did you play? Y receiver? What's your last name? Last name is Bryant. Steve Bryant? Yes, sir.

I'm going to look up your stats. Now you may talk. Go ahead. Thank you for calling. He's not lying. I got some questions in reference to Bill O'Brien. Everybody keep talking about he's a quality coach. I have not seen it.

His time management is horrible. You guys gave him a medium grade. He is horrible. They probably lost at least one to two games a year on the lack of his ability to this time management and also his play calling. So I guess in terms of talking about him as a good coach, he should not even be mentioned as a good coach. He's an adequate high school coach. Wow.

Steve Bryant, by the way, you're famous. You are famous because you're on this show, and we thank you for calling. Thank you, sir. By the way, it says on your Wikipedia page, you went on pressure luck. Is that right? Yes, sir. And you won $16,655 in cash. prizes?

Yes, sir. What did you win? A boat, a pool table, and the rest cash. Damn! How many whamies you get? I was on the show for three days, so not many. So, okay, let's recreate this thing.

Steve, stay with me here. I want you to go, I'm going to go, I want you to say, big bucks, big bucks, no whamies and stop, and we'll see where it lands. Go ahead. $790. $790. Congratulations, Steve.

Hey, you're a great sport, my man. Hey, don't be afraid to call the show. You know I love the owners, because that's the last NFL team I ever watched that I love. So I always love the alums that call the show, and I appreciate you stopping by today. Hey, we appreciate you, too. If you guys got a great show, just keep the good work out.

All right, we'll try. Thank you, friend. How about that? We got a former order call to show who's been on Pressure Luck that won $16,000 and he called Bill O'Brien an adequate high school coach. Dang.

Thank you, Steve Bryant. That's bringing in strong on a COVID-free Friday. Number 81 for the Oilers for a few years. Who was the next person to wear 81? Bruce Matthews. Ernest Givens. He knows that right. He went to Purdue, fourth round pick,

1982 played four years with the coal owners, one year with the cults. Still lives here. Clearly. Love Steve. He's called before. And you've asked him those questions and he wouldn't divulge. You know why? Because he likes the show.

He finally got it out of him. Yeah. I mean, talking about Bill O'Brien's qualifications as a coach, obviously did something. Yes. And I wouldn't say Bill O'Brien is a high school coach. He's average. He's average. No, I will disagree with Steve on one thing.

He's an average NFL coach. He's not horrible. He's probably a spectacularly below average general manager. You don't have a winning season. What is it? You got to win divisions. And that makes you average. Five out of six years a winning season.

You can't be horrible. Let me squeeze. I got one minute here before I get to Kevin Ash and Feller. Let's go to John in West Houston. Hi, John. Hey, years ago, Randy Houston Marathon and overall, on Woodway coming into downtown there,

we heard the Walk of Life played by some kids in the front yard. And I always remember that. You know, it helped us out a lot running that marathon. Oh, so hearing that song fired you up. Yes. Okay. We'll take it at that. Thank you very much.

Yeah. Thank you. What song, Brendan, if you were running a run, marathon would fire you up. Oh, I don't know that on the spot. Chariots of fire. Till I collapse. Till I like that.

That's a good pick. Is it? I've played it before and you're like, this does nothing for me. I would play the theme from Greece. I'm kidding. No, you're not. You are not kidding. I'm kidding.

You play summer. What's the summer? Summer loving. Tell me more. Oh, no, that song blows. All right, let's say how to Kevin Ashtonfielder. He'll be on the television call of Rock, the Rockets. The Astros tonight against the Seattle Mariners.

We'll have him next on Sports Talk 790. Yes, is the Matt Thomas show. 102 on Sports Talk 790. It's Astros opening day. We were going to do real fast, Ross. We were going to do a revival, but we don't need to do the revival now because Jake Kaplan has,

reporting just a couple of minutes ago that Yordaun Alvarez and who else? Oh, Joseaer Keady and C&L Perez have all been clear to resume baseball activities. Do we still new to a revival?

It's the start of the season. It's opening day. You want to start the seat? You want to get the revival with the 2020 season going? I don't know. I mean, it's up it's up to the Matt Thomas. No, I think it's up to your expertise because apparently your Fouch and Mobile sucked. So why don't you suck you suck again in 25 minutes. Excuse me? Yeah, don't clip that.

Let's say hello our friend Kevin Ashenfelder, who is filling in for Todd Kellis on AT&T. Ash, have you worked in the last six months? I haven't seen you on TV in forever. What the hell's going on? Well, there's this pandemic going on around the country. Oh, I forgot about that, yeah. I haven't worked. I basically haven't worked since the rocket shut it down.

I was going to spring training. on Sunday to do that week of games, and they shut it down on Friday. So I didn't even, this was the first time in forever, but I didn't get a chance to go to spring training. So we'll give it a go tonight. So yeah, it'll be a little rough to knock off early on, but we'll be good. I feel the exact. By the way, I want to say something.

What? I want to say something. I thought Dr. Fauci was a very good try. I went on my run, and I listened to the whole first hour. So if you want to give me a breakdown, I will. But I thought, I thought Dr. Fauci was a really good try. It wasn't terrible. The thing that I take away from the first hour the most, because I know Matt Thomas so well,

was you have Steve Bryant on the former NFL player who's talking about Bill O'Brien and everything else, but to hear your voice how you lit up when you found out that he was once appeared on a game show. On pressure luck, yeah. And won $15,000 with the prizes and cash. But that was so you because he was so much more interested. Am I right, Ross? Tell the truth. He was, yes.

He was 10 times more. excited to find out he was on a game show than to find out he was a former NFL player. Okay, so let's do this. Absolutely no doubt. Ash, help me out with this. Early 80s, this is pre-Drew Hill, pre-Hawood, pre-Earnest. Who were there some of the, wasn't there a, there was a white guy that was like the leading receiver for the Texans, right? For the orders, excuse me?

For the orders, yeah. We're going to talk about Mike Redfro, right? No, there was somebody in between there. After that? Yeah, I think I might have Ross look it up. I just can't, I don't remember a lot of early Oilers teams except Archie and Oliver Luck in the last days of like Robert Brazil. Am I pretty close on that? Yeah, that's basically it.

You know what? Dave Kasper. I've been so immersed in Astros baseball here over the last 72 hours that now you start talking about Texas. Yeah, you're right though. Drew Hill was the next 81. I'm sorry, Drew Hill. Ernest Kevin, Jim. Yeah, Drew Hill was 85.

It was Jeffrey's with 84. All right. So, yeah, you know, I are just reflecting on pressure, luck, and the older. That's why Kevin Ashinfeldor is a valued guest on this show. Okay, so you find out that Todd has it, and they're like, okay, we're going to have you fill in for a few games. I didn't realize that I could not pronounce half of the Seattle Mariners starting rotation. Can you at this point? Oh, we'll be good.

Yeah, look, Cacucci is really the only got, Toronto is not, he is not going to be. put the club to start the season. So, yeah, there's a couple of interesting ones, but I've got it all written out phonetically, and that would be good. I'm not scared. I didn't think you would be. Yeah, I didn't think you would be. All right, so you guys are going to be in the booth at Minutemade Park for this entire homestine.

Is that correct? We will. This is how it will work as far as the broadcast positions. The radio guys will be in the booth all the time, home and away. TV, TK and Blummer will call the home games from the stadium, and they will call the road games from our studio, pre and post game will all be done from studio. So that kind of breaks it down for you.

That's the way it plays out. So it'll be different. I don't think anybody knows exactly what to expect. I know last night it just seemed like after a while you got used to it after a couple of innings, and it just seemed like now they were just playing baseball. Do you want to hear artificial cry noise in your headphones? Yes. You do?

Okay. Sure. Why not? You know, to me, I don't think it adds enough. It's not a deterrent to me. It's not like, oh, I can't believe this is on, because I went to the Astros game last Sunday. And I heard it in the stadium. And it was just, it was a murmur is what it was.

It didn't necessarily get me any more excited or not excited about watching two baseball teams play. So it's just ambient, yeah. So, I mean, it's not like a, you know, I don't think there's a strong opinion. in one way or the other. I wouldn't say take it out. Again, it goes back to, I don't know what it's going to be like. We're going to find out as we go. So maybe if it's there in the third inning, I may, you know, ask for him to take it out. I don't know. We'll find out. I got you. All right, let me ask you this. I love the everyday lineup, just like I did the last couple of years. I love the front end in the rotation. I'm really nervous about four and five

in the rotation, and I'm very nervous about the bullpen. Is that understandable about, just in a nutshell, what we've learned so little about this Astros team so far? I don't think there's any doubt, especially when you looked at the, just when they put together the roster. I mean, there's not a lot of experience in the bullpen. I mean, that's a big difference between, you know, what they have had in years past. You know, the loss of Will Harris is big, and you start getting past once you get past Ryan Press. And now the fact that Roberto Osuna, when will he be ready to go? You know, we're going to find out.

But, you know, Ryan Pressing appears that he has. might be pitching in the back end of the bullpen, and then how are you going to stack it up getting to him? Now, there's some guys with big arms that are unproven, you know, the Anoli Preventus who's been so fun to watch and Christian Houtier, guys like that. Brandon Bailey, a guy who's getting a chance, kind of a guy that they really liked, I think was a surprise

that he was on that roster by a lot of people that, you know, throw strikes and was able to get people out in that summer camp, so he really earned his way on. Yeah, there's a lot of inexperience. I think what's going to be interesting too, that is how the lack of fans in the stands help some of these younger players. And let's face it, you're playing a team, Seattle Mariners team that is there as young and experienced as anybody in baseball.

But just not having the pressure of having, you know, 42,000 people in the stadium. Yeah. I think might help as far as, you know, turning down the emotion a little bit because if you, you know, if you're able to fool yourself, you can say to yourself, well, you know what, this is really no different than throwing these exhibits. and inter-squad games and Minutemate Park with no one down. I think clearly the Astros are the more talent of the Mariners team. This Dodger team will be in next week.

And think about if you were doing the games and you had the media around that, you'll get none of that. So that might be the first real adjustment of our young season here, Esch, is that there would be so much pomp and circumstance leading into an Astros' Dodgers series that just can't be there because the lack of media access, the lack of fans, the lack of Dodger fans coming here to boo the Astros. and the Astro fans tell them the Dodger fans to shove it. The pomp and circumstances, as you said, is literally virtual.

So, you know, if you don't want to, if you don't want to hear it or participate in it, you don't have to. Yeah, I agree. It's something that, you know, uncharted territory, uncharted waters, I know it sounds like a broken record, but that's the world that we are living in here in 2020 and this sprint to the finish as far as 60-game season is concerned. We all know, though, the deal is that each one of these games becomes that much more important. Astros play in these four-game series against Seattle, Seattle Mariners team that they were 18 and won against a year ago. It's just absolutely dominated, just like they dominated everybody else in the division.

But this is a series that's important to get off on the right foot. Oh, no question about that. Well, Ash, I know you get a nap in because you're over 50 now, so you've got to get plenty of rest before tonight's game, so I'll let you go. Hey, listen, I just got back from a four-mile run, and I stopped early. I know I can hear it. So I would not be out of breath when I was on the Matt Thomas show. I'm telling you, you might be the only person that actually runs as a guest on my show ever, because I don't. Do you think Brian T. Smith runs?

Oh, hell no. Ross run? No, you're the only one that's actually physically fit, so I applaud you for that. Hey, I do my best. Don't run down Ross and Brian T. now, okay? Yeah, well, and Dr. Fauci sound like he was out of breath, too, so you never know these things. He was a little. I think he's probably still tired from that.

pitch last night. Yeah, that's no doubt about that. Ash, you'll do a great job, and we'll look forward to catching some of your action this weekend, my friend. Thank you, buddy. I appreciate it. You got it. Kevin Ash and Felt, we'll be on the television call of the Astros and the Seattle Mariners this weekend, four games against Seattle, and then two with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Also, of course, your radio home for the Astros is Sports Talk 790 and also News Radio 740 KTRH, where you can catch the Rockets first, and then the Astros have that. We've got a double-heter for you here right on 790. Our time is 11-7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Bottom of the hour, if we made an executive decision on the revival, what are we going to do? Are we doing it? Sure. Yes. We're going to revive, you know what we're going to do? After you get rid of your heartburn,

we're going to revive the asteros, the Major League Baseball season. We'll change it up a little bit because great news today that Yorlonan Alvarez and Jose Arcidi are able to resume normal baseball activities. 112, Sports Talk 790. At least now we know that losing sucks.

And if anybody knows how much losing sucks, it's Matt Thomas. I'm outstanding. This is Whitney Merciless. Back to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. See, this song is spectacular, but it's not for baseball. Here it comes. We're not moving on up. We're just battering up.

Yeah, this is for battering up. Now, this is getting the people going for baseball. In the music video of this, they play baseball. COVID-free Friday, the Matt Thomas show. That's true. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-d-d-d-20 years. What's that? This batter-up video where they're all at the baseball game.

All right. 7-1-3-21-5-7. That is how you reach a show. We're going to have a baseball. Revival. Okay. That's at 130. Brian T's at 2.

Who? Houston Chronicles, Brian T. Smith. Of course. 230, fantasy 5. Oh, geez. I got to get to work. You don't lay out for a while. That's fine.

Yeah, that's fine. All right. Here's the category. Yeah, we're good. The category in the fantasy 5 today at 230 is past or present, reality shows, hottest judges,

and or host. Okay. is a defendant of number one. Really? Yeah. Well, you do get the option of the first pick. It's all. We figured out during the break that I had actually,

the last time you and I competed in a fantasy five, I was a winner. Pretty sure. Yeah. So I'm feeling very good about taking that first pick. Let's go to Robert and Katie on anything goes Friday. Robert, what do you got today? Hey, but I know I have shows it back on TV and most normal again.

But talk about politics in sports. I do not want to see it. I believe that when I go to work, I don't wear anything political. I don't talk politics. And I believe when those athletes enter a stadium, they're at work. They need to leave their political opinions at home. Whatever they do on their own time is their own business. I do not watch sports to hear about their political opinions

because I really don't care about their political opinions or what they do on their own time. I want to watch sports. and that's the way I feel about it and I almost might give up watching sports if that's all they're going to do. Well, first of all, you've picked the right show because we talk politics almost never and I'm very proud to say that

because I'm a sports show. We have enough tragedy and things that suck in our life that I need this three hours on which I host and Ross is here with me. We need to talk about sports and goofy things. I don't believe you are alone in your sentiment, Robert, but I also believe there are a lot of people that do applaud that athletes do have the opportunity in platform to say what they want to say. Unfortunately, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish, please. 50% of America loves when athletes say something. 50% despise it. So that's where we are, like we are in most cases. We are a ridiculously split country when it comes to politics, social values, and platforms. Now you may finish.

And they don't put me on no pedestal. I'm just a human being. Well, I don't know who said that, but my point is... Well, whenever they get in trouble out on their own, they may be drinking and driving or get caught with drugs or with a woman or something. Something. All kind of things have happened in the past where people say, hey, don't get on me.

I'm just an ordinary guy. No, you're not, you know, get paid millions of dollars. So, which is it. Well, all I'll say is this, and Robert, thank you for the phone call. I love sports so much that I don't pay any attention to the things that I don't care for. Does that make sense? Yes. I don't like politics in my sports at all.

I don't like politics in my sports center. I don't like politics on my radio shows. And I certainly don't like politics in my games. But if it happens, it's 2020. And you got two options. You let them say what they want to say and you move on and you watch the games. or you say, eh, the hell with you. I'm not going to do it.

I'm not going to watch. There are some people that are saying the hell with it. Yeah. Triggered snowflake behavior. If you want to say that somebody kneeling is going to cause you to not watch a four-hour baseball game because somebody kneeled before the game even started, you're weak-willed.

And you know what? That's you? That's fine. If Mookie Betts taking a knee is going to cause you to cry and turn off the TV and put something else on and that you're just being soft. Or you don't like baseball. Well, the problem with that is there's a large,

there's a good segment population that believes that. I watch, okay, well, I'm telling them they're soft. I watched four hours of baseball last night. And I don't even remember how many minutes of it was kneeling coverage. And I think Mookie Betts, after the game, after on Sports Center, Mookie Betts got interviewed and talked about that stuff. So in four hours of me watching baseball, maybe two minutes of it was something political related.

and I didn't let it bother me. And that's what I would say to anybody that's like, what side of you on this? You're the 50 that thinks it's a awful. I'm saying if you love sports, don't let two minutes of political values you don't believe in ruin the rest of your love for sports.

Exactly. I was watching Garrett Cole and Max Scherzer. I was watching, what was that young kid from the Dodgers, Dustin May throwing 100 mile an hour two seamers with movement. That was cool. That's what I was busy watching. I'm more offended by his hair. I thought his hair is awesome. I'm so jealous of his hair. First of all, a ginger.

And then a second, a floppy hair ginger. No, I have no respect for that. I'm way more offended by that. I was more engrossed in the baseball because that's what I would flip it on to watch. I don't want to watch political stuff. I get that as well. But if 30 seconds of political coverage or what happens before with the anthem causes you to turn off a four-hour baseball game, I'm sorry, that's on you. Yeah, I, yeah.

But I have people in my life. friends and family that have said to me in just the last two weeks if they continue to do this they're going to turn me off and so it's not it's not a small segment of the popular it just not okay what were the ratings last night do we know no no and I don't particularly

I'm just saying that everybody's going to have their right I'm just telling you as you as you guys have chosen to find seven on a radio dial that I'm not going to let my displeasure of politics and my sports mixing up made me hate sports much as me yeah okay well let me give you another Drew Breeze. People got upset about him because he said he had issues with people kneeling for the flag.

If the Saints and the Texans are on on a Sunday, I'm not boycotting it because I don't like Drew Breeze. That would be stupid. So I'm not allowing something somebody says or does off the field or when there's not the time when the game is not being played to affect my passion and love for the sports. If you are doing that, to me, I think it's a lot of people who aren't really into the sports because we've talked about that, how there's people who are casual and they're not really into it. and they're going to pipe up and say, well, I'm going to stop watching. Okay, stop watching. Millions of people are going to continue to watch. And I will be with them because I love watching high-flying athletes. I love watching the pitchers who are the best in the world at what they do.

Deshawn Watson throwing deep balls to Brandon Cooks. I want to watch all that. And I'm going to. If you don't, that's your decision. That's up to you. And you're well within your rights to flip something off. I just think it makes you kind of weak. I'm not going to say you're weak.

I'm just going to say that you'll why not going back. Because you miss sports too much. You'll want to watch a big game. Astros go 48 and 12 this year, have the number one seen in the playoffs. You won't care about knees because you're going to watch a team. I don't know. I think everybody holds politics and religion differently.

And I don't want to be callous towards those that can take it way more seriously than you and I do. So I'm not going to do. So I'm not going to do. I'll try and take your ball home and watch the puppy bowl. Did you don't watch it? Yeah. So, yeah. But I'm not going to, you're not, they're not taking knees is not going to,

it's not going to preclude me from watching the Astros game, which is not. Let's go to Scott and Tomball at 125. Hi, Scott. Hey, Matt, how are you? Go, what's up? Well, you know, super pumped about the shows. Really quickly, I had a really quick Kevin Nesson felt the story. He's a, I had a couple interactions with him at Minutemade Park as he does the pregame show.

Yeah. I'm really going to miss all that stuff. Well, anyway. One day he was doing the pregame show, and they were wrapping up, and I commented on his Sunshine Kid's little pin on his lapel. I said, hey, you know, we'll work. I'd love to donate some money. I'd love to be a part. I'd love to get a pin and love to wear something like that.

You know, where can I do that? And he took it right off his lapel and gave it to me. And so I had it on my hat, and so I have a Sunshine Kid, you know, a little pin that he gave to me. He didn't have to do that, and I was like really nice. So that was pretty cool. other times, I can recall when I had, like, it was like a bobblehead day, and I would, you know, I would hand it to the him and Stanton so they could put it on the show. I know I had the one with Kemp and Altovae, the Hugs for Homers was on TV, and also my

Altuve MVP bobblehead. I handed it to them so they could, you know, display it for the show and whatnot. So they were always really nice. I'm going to miss that this year, but, hey, there'll be time for that. Go Stroes. I'm super pumped. And, you know, great show. And let's do this, man.

All right, buddy. Thank you very much to the comments. And Nash is one of my good friends and everything you said, I totally 100% believe. 127 is our time. We come back and we revive the baseball season. With good news that we don't have to do it just about a couple of Astros that are hurt. We revive the Astros season. If you would like to join our revival, 713-212-5-790, 7-13-212-5-790. This is Lance McCullors.

of your Houston Astros. Twig and a miss. Walk him out. For the best coverage and every game on Sports Talk 790. Good afternoon, brothers and sisters. We welcome you to the revival of the 2020 MLB season. I bring to the dais, the Reverend. Sponsavie!

Oh, my beautiful brothers and sisters, I am so happy to have you with me today on the most glorious of all days in 2020. Sure, it's a low bar, they have not been many great days. In this short year, there's been storms, there's been pandemics, there's been Houston Rockets faltering. There has been a lot of trepidation and unrest. in 2020, but now it is opening day, and I come to you to pray with me to the baseball lords that the Houston Astros can have a successful 2020.

Justin Verlander on the mound today, we ask all baseball lords to bless his arm, as it is nearly falling off as he is now almost 40 years old. May he have another strong year? Reverend Spoltsovia's arm is just fine now. Oh, okay, I'm sorry. Well, you know, he's getting a little long in the tooth, my brothers and sisters. And we have heard the good news from you, Lord, today. Jose Orkidi, the Mexican phenom.

Number one, we are happy, Lord, that you allowed him into this country. Number two, we are happy you allowed him to be on this baseball team. And he is now active. And, my Lord, we ask that you bless. Well, sorry, Reverend SportsRB. He's not only active roster. He's just allowed to do baseball activities. That's okay. He's allowed to do something, and that's a step in the right direction.

and that's all that we ask. We ask that we crawl to the finish line and get Jose Orquite back with the Houston Astros. And, Lord, we heard you have allowed Yordan Alvarez with his mighty swings and his thick quadriceps to swing the bat.

Reverend Spoltzovi, don't forget creaky knees. Lord, we ask that you bless those creaky knees. Give them whatever type of WD40 or any kind of oil to uncreak those knees. of Yordon Alvarez. And Lord, we have also gotten the news that Roberto O'Suna came into Camp Chunky. We ask, oh, Lord, that you suppress the appetite of Roberto O'Suna

and get him throwing all of those fiery pitches from his arsenal that we know that he can throw and get him back with the team as soon as possible. And, Lord, we ask that you protect one dusty baker. The man is old. The man is in his 70s protect Dusty Baker from the invisible Chinese virus. Don't allow it to have... Reverend Sports RV, are you okay, my brother? Haven't done this in a while, Lord.

You might have to take over for a few seconds. All right, I'm going to ask anybody in the pulpit to please take a step back. I'm going to back. I'm back to sit down. Hold on. We go to the congregation. All right, we're going to go to the congregation. Congregation, you have something full of Sports RV, Reverend Sports RV.

Reverend Sports RV. When you get George Springer a big contract? Oh, my Lord, you are correct, brother, Brendan. We would love to keep George Springer and his Springer dingers. We love that man crashing into walls, knocking balls over the fence. George Springer is a true American treasure and a true son of Houston, Texas. We ask Lord Jim Crane to sign him to the longest contract with the most money. We're ever in sports, Aviate.

Let me be a little much there. We've already seen Mookie Betts contract. I don't believe the Astros should be given a Mookie Betts contract. I shout out my name. Mookie Bets in the evil Los Angeles Dodgers with their Pantone 2-94s and their dumb fans with their ankle bracelets and their face tattoos. We ask that they be vanquished this year. And you support only the beautiful, wonderful Houston Astros and their beloved fans

and Orbit and Jim Crack. just protect them oh baseball lords Reverend Sports R.V. We're going to go back to the congregation. I want to give you your voice another few seconds of rest. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. I got in a zone there. Reverend Sports R.V., can we get fans in the

stands this year? That is up to the people of Houston if you can protect yourselves from the invisible Chinese virus and infecting the stands and all

of the various people that we may have around the team. We just asked the baseball lords to protect us so that one day we can get back to our Sheriff Blaylock's nachos and the New Orleans fried shrimp stand in left field. Do you use it, Reverend Spotsovie,

do you use a remelad or do you go with the tartar sauce? Well, I'm more of a remelad with some crystal Louisiana-style hot sauce myself, Matthew. All right, is there anything else in the congregation? Any other questions you may have for Reverend Sportsovie before he retired? to his resting room.

I'm very weary, please. I'm just wondering if he's been around Dr. Fauci lately. Oh, the evil flip-flopping Dr. Fauci. We have thrown him out of the congregation. We do not accept his tithing.

That's all he's got. And that's all I got on the evil deplorable, Dr. Fauci. This concludes this service of the Reverend Sports RV and his disciples. Man, what the hell of it happened to your voice? Man, it's just not up to par.

It's not, uh... You're not in mid-season form. Oh, I've been off for four weeks. But the problem is that we've only got a 60-game season. I didn't talk to anybody for four weeks. You spoke to no one? I mean, verily, you know, you on the phone, how's it going? Yeah.

Everybody, you do people checking on me. That's about it. Did you sing in the shower? Did you sing in the shower? I don't generally, well, I put music on when I get in the shower. I would say 90% of the time I'm in the shower, music. music is on. I sing in the shower 75% of the time. Really? The other 25%

I pretend I'm hosting the prices right. Really? Yeah. That sounds about right. And the songs that you're singing, 70% of them are Beatles? No, it's actually what I'll do is I go on the I Heart Radio app, which is a great app. Maybe a little George Jones mixed in there. And I will put on Casey Casey's The Oakridge Boys. Best of the weekly top 40s in the

70s and see how many songs I can get. Yeah, doing that voice is very taxing on the vocal cords. Okay, so we're going to keep, we've got to save your voice for the rest of the show. We have the... We're building back up. Fantasy 5 coming up at 2.30 and then, of course, believe it or not, we got Brian Teased it and come up at 20 minutes. You're going to be... You're pretty much almost done with a bag.

Yeah, I might have to call you on the sports RV show tomorrow from 10 to noon. Sports Talk 790. Who's doing the show? You? Me? I might, if I'm running out of steam, might call you at like 11 o'clock. Yeah, I can do it. I got the...

How about Matt's Astros' Report? If I stay awake. The post-post game. These 8-10 games. Ish. And I'm on such a bitch. you get baseball. I'm going to make it. I'm happy. But it feels like what? At least

20 home games or 8, 10 or later? It feels like it to me. I don't know. I didn't count. It's a lot. It's a number of them, for sure. And somebody did ask me, why are they doing this? Because they want to put as many West Coast games on in primetime. 8 o'clock here is 6 o'clock, which is early prime, but it's definitely still primetime. Oh, this is going to be

in Los Angeles. Okay. Yeah. Cool. A lot of Fox games, a lot of ESPN. The Astros are getting lots of national media attention. No matter what TV channel the game is on. Guess what radio stations you're going to have Astros on? 790 and 740. One or the other.

And sometimes both. Look, if you're looking for Rockets or you're looking for Astros, 790, 740, keep it there. It's one touch of your dial. Yeah, it's back and forth. It's a seesaw. Just look for one over the other. It's fine. It's one hit of the game. We got you.

Yeah. Rockets tonight take on the Toronto Raptors. We'll have the coverage beginning at 6. 6.6.30 will be for the scrimmage. Tonight's scrimmage, by the way, is 10 minutes apiece. get next to are 12. I don't know why they did that, but that's I've watched some of the games in NBA TV.

They look like they're real games to me. They're not treating these as, let's just throw the ball at half court and see how many baskets we can make. There's no all-star feel to it. I mean, I'm telling, yes, yes. The basketball on the court has been good. It's been fun to watch. Just the aesthetics, though, it looks a little like Vegas,

like like Summer League or something like that. It's a little weird. It's going to take an adjust, a little bit of an adjustment. I'm a little nervous because I don't know what feeds we're getting to broadcast the games. But if we get the same video feed that you guys get on TV, I'm going to miss some calls because they're taking some really awkward camera shots. I'm hoping they can tunnel you guys just one angle, the regular top angle that should be

easiest for you guys. I hope so. I hope so. All right. So let me ask you all a question. And we can do this the next segment. If you would like to join us, we will give you the phone numbers to do so. 713-212-5-790.

7132-1-2-1-2-5-7-90 There are a lot of you that go out And say hi to us at opening day We are on left field or right-field? We're near left field Opening day We'll be at home plate usually No, what's that other spot on the other side of the state

And we always wind up doing it from Next to the Bigeo and Bagwell statues What entrance is that over there? Oh, I know what you're saying the... Is that left center? Is that center field? No, it's definitely not straightaway center But point it, whatever it is.

Where there's the Astros Fest. We're normally at Astros Fest. How are y'all going to do tonight? Are you going to be at home? Are you going to go to a sports bar? You can't go to a sports bar. I guess you can go to a restaurant. Most sports bars serve food,

so they should be able to open, right? Yeah, but a lot of bars are closed. Yeah, I'm not going. So are you just going to chill at the house tonight, or are you doing something special? Let us know what you're going to do, because I'm kind of just curious. Something special?

Like a little red wine and. What do you? Where are you going on this? Candlelight, roses? You're saying you're asking people? that they're going to make love during games. Will you have sex during either of the Rockets or the Astros games?

You can get in before 810. Excuse me? The love-making session. 7-13. 7-1-3-212. You might fall asleep for the first couple of innings. Not why I'm a love-making, right? 7-1-3-212-5-790.

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That's Shaw's Jewry. This is Ricky Williams. I may have worn a wedding dress on a magazine cover, but it still looks better than any outfit Matt can put together. Let your wife dress you, man. Texas Five! Back to Matt Thomas on Sports Talk, 790. Oh, this is a good baseball. song, right?

Do you ever think about this? Songs like this go back to history growing up when things were a lot more peaceful in politics and sports and mixing with each other? There's only one problem. Bruce Springsteen sucks.

That is true. I will say this. I only like two of a song. This one is my favorite by far. I think I know which one you're going to say and then I'm just going to be. very incensed. Go ahead. Say it. Is it? What's you say it? Born in the USA.

Okay, that's fine. I thought you're going to go. Santa Claus is coming to town. Oh, no. That is the worst. I don't like Chris's music anyway. That's true. That's almost as bad as simply having a wonderful Christmas time. You shut your dirty mouth hole. Dirty, war mouth? Yeah, that too. Your dirty horror mouth is what you got. Yeah, Glory Days is my favorite brew song. It is also the answer to a very famous late-night TV question.

Do you know? So I'll give you the answer and you give me the question. Glory Days performed by Bruce Springsteen. That's the, we're going jeopardy here. It was on Johnny Carson's last show. That is incorrect. You want to take a guess? Rends on painting.

No, you were close though. Really? Late night with David Letterman's last show. Okay. So you were just off one show. I'm just guessing. You did really good. That was a great guess.

So he plays that. He had never been on Letterman before, and he goes on there, and then he goes to CBS and his late show after that. All right. You have some breaking news on the NFL, yes? Yes, we do have some breaking news. This according to NFL networks in Rappaport, at Rapsheet. I had to make sure it's the verified one and all that type of stuff.

there is a lot of news coming out of the owner's meeting and he tweeted out a few minutes ago the owners out of the NFL meeting today training camp will start on time he also said preseason will start on time but it looks like that's been deleted yeah there's no more preseason okay he deleted that he must have messed up

yeah oh well he met I thought that was big I was going to be like why is there going to be preseason because that was very confusing he deleted it because he put the wrong thing there So we over sensationalized that. Sorry. But yes, out of the main NFL meeting today, according to sources, training camp will start on time.

So there you go. I saw that preseason was going to start on time. He deleted that. Yeah. I would say this. Been bamboozled, led astray. That is a win for us. Because, again, remember I said, I don't believe the season is going to start on time,

and I will be happy to take the loss on that. I'm still not confident the season's going to start on time. This gives me hope and encouragement, but I'm still betting that they don't even know what's about to happen. They don't know that 32 teams with 90 or so players massively being tested, being with each other, close confines could cause some problems. And that's why I hope, I hope, I hope, Ross, I'm wrong,

that there's undulated the season. This is a good sign, though, right? This is a good sign that we're going to start on September the 8th. Yes. That means there's some sort of agreement in place as far as because there was the deferment and that's what they're having issues with the money and all that type of stuff. So training camp starting on time is definitely a step in the right direction. Is a season going to start on time?

What are we? Two months away? Less than? Well, September the 8th and we are at July 24th. It's a little less than two months. Get these guys under control. You get the everyday testing. mean, not under control. You know what I mean.

45 days can they have a good system like baseball, basketball, soccer have, and not only have a good system in place, but also prepare for the worst, which will be there will be some positive tests coming out of it. 45 days. You don't want to answer? That's okay. No, I think that's a good thing. We've always talked about, well, we talked about how they had the most time and they kind of in slow playing it. I think that'll be enough time to get everybody tested and educated about this. And we've seen a couple of positive tests in baseball now. And it's a similar situation there with football because they're not in a bubble environment. But so far, I mean, Juan Soto, apparently it's 21. Yes, he tested positive. We haven't heard any follow-up

positives from anybody else. There hasn't been an outbreak there. Same thing with Hunter Dozier. We haven't heard of an outbreak there. So that's good. I think as long as there's no outbreaks, we should be fine. If it's a singular case here and there, everything is going to be okay. But now we're talking about dealing with way more people. So let's put it on a scale. If I was a zero about the NFL season starting on time. Today, I'm at a three. That's good. It's better. And like I said, I'll be glad to take the loss.

I'm at a five. I mean... But you were probably a five yesterday, too, yes? Probably. Okay. Let's go to Tommy in Sugar Land on the Matt Thomas show. Tommy, what's going on? I'm doing fine. How are y'all doing? Well, thank you for calling. Hey, what happened in yesterday's Yankee game? I've never

heard the results of it. They went to a... Also, could you... Also, can you tell me about Jordan Alvarez, what his problems are? I can answer both questions very easily for you, Tommy. They went to a rain delay. You got it. They went to a rain delay, and they never finished the game. So it was finished after six or whatever it was.

Yeah, five and change, I believe. Yeah. So the Yankees won the game, was on a full game. Yon Alvarez, we don't know because the Astros have not announced why he's been out as long as he has. I can't say the word. Yeah, we can't. It's a blank free Friday, so I can't say it. But it's because of that.

You really believe that? I think absolutely. Why not? That's the only thing you can't disclose. If he'd had a leg contusion, if he had a finger issue, they would have just said that. And that's fine. So creaky knees aren't a problem. Let's hope he gets his creaky knees oiled up.

Could you imagine a 70-year-old man? That's how old he is or how old he is telling us about somebody else's creaky knees. Yes, that means he has experience, Matt, so he can speak about it. He knows. You know, like, I hear commercials all the time. Like, what are we supposed to do when I get to 70, which I'm still well aware from that? Oh. I mean, it's going to smoke a lot of pot when I get older.

It'll be legal probably by then. I mean, is that going to happen with my creaky knees? Because I'm going to eventually get them. I don't, I'm not sure. I don't want to smell like Ben Gay all day long. I see hot. Yeah. Yeah.

But I don't want creaky knees either. Well, man, that's what's going to happen when you get old. And then eventually. Don't say it. You're going to pass. Yeah. I'll speak well of you at your funeral. You better, and you better feed me my food out of a blender when I go home.

I'll visit you in the home. Thank you. As long as there's not an outbreak of anything. And how old am I now, 40 or 2016? We're really going to be a difficult spot here. It's going to be tough. I can't handle any more outbreaks. Me either.

You know what we've had? We've had basically 20 years of tragedy. We need 20 years of good things. From 9-11 to hurricanes to this. We need a break. We don't need world wars. We don't need, we just need niceness. We need more rock and roll, more tacos, and more loving.

That sounds like a great Friday night, along with some Astros baseball and Sports Talk 790. Yeah, but we had no one calling and telling us what they're going to do tonight. That's because the conversation turned a little awkward. Okay. That's my fault. If you're going to have relations tonight, will you have them during the Rockets game and before their Astros or during the Astros game because it's going to be 9 o'clock at night

and it'll still be very early. You can get all in which you've got to get in 9, 9, 915 and watch 80% of the game still. Right? Mm-hmm. Or you just take one commercial break. Yeah. You must know me very well.

Brian T. Smith joins us to begin the final hour of the Matt Thomas show. We have a Fantasy 5 at 230 and believe it or not today, a 250 is to meet Astro players. you don't really know who they are that are on the Major League roster. I'll see. Or it could be something else.

157 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show. Here we go at 201, the final hour of the week here on Sports Talk 7 in 8, at least from my show. Coming up at 3, it's an A team at Adam. We've got Rockets basketball tonight against the Toronto Raptors, which will have a coverage beginning at 6.

And then when they're done, My guest is right around 8 o'clock. We'll send it over to Minute Maid Park for the Astros and the Mariners. So both games with teams playing tonight right here on Sports Talk 790. BTS is with us, Brian T. from The Chronicle. I was just telling the audience how surreal it is for us to be not at the ballpark tonight because anybody that's been around this organization covering the team, a fan of the team, uses it fan fest by now.

So this has got to be weird for all of us. I've been thinking about it for weeks, Matt, but really, today. I mean, I haven't covered every Astor's opening day since 2013. I think I missed 2014, but I believe I've covered everyone since then. The opening day is always one of the best days of the year, and every good baseball fan, every good Astros fan knows that. I mean, there's, you know, other than the first day of the playoffs, I don't think there's a better day in Major League Baseball, and it's one of the best days in sports. And I watched both games last night and how many times have I been on your show on Fridays at 2 o'clock for the last

four and a half months. And we've just talked on and on about sports coming back and the hurdles and the problems and what would actually happen. It's finally happening. But there's no way around it. It's not going to be close to being the same. And all that being said, I don't want to be negative right now because we had to wait so long for this to happen. It might not last that long. I think if you're an Astros fan, if you're a baseball fan, if you're a Rockets fan, the fact that you can sit at home tonight, have a couple cold beverages, order in, support a local restaurant, pick it up, whatever, and be able to flip back and forth and watch the Rockets and the Astros, that feels like it's been five years since a local fan could do that.

All right. So let's do this. Let's get right to the teams itself, and we'll spend more on the Rock, the Astros, and move the Rockets because the Rockets silver in the week until their season starts. Did we miss out on the Astros being somewhat aggressive in trying to go get better starting pitching towards the back and better bullpen with the

losses of Colin Harris? Did we just kind of gloss over that because of the pandemic? Or did they try and they just weren't able to get the guys they wanted to? Because it feels like those are two pretty big glaring holes for a team that offensively looks loaded, top to bottom.

It's a really good point. And honestly, on Monday this week, I had plans to initially write about their lack of pitching depth. Here's the thing about that. Number one, we didn't gloss over it because they had the biggest scandal in baseball history since Pete Rose was banned. Number two, yes, we had a global pandemic that were still in the middle of it's been going on for four and a half months. Number three, Jeff Luno was fired, AJ Hinch was fired, Dusty Baker was. hired. James Click was hired. And then, you know, the season stopped. So that, you put all that together. There's no way around it. Pre-Manfred bringing down the hammer on the sign-stealing

scandal, the Astros have been very quiet and free agency. But they also had a plan. They weren't going to spend like crazy. They, you know, they have so many issues next season when, you know, if you look at Brantley and Springer, Reddick, Correa, on and on, they knew they were going to lose Cole. But yeah, they didn't do that Jeff Luno super creative. Let's go out and get a Wade Miley type, a Charlie Morton type. That being said, they have some interesting

young arms on here. I'm Josh James. He's going to be fantastic or totally be a disappointment. He can't do one of the other, it seems like, or do both at the same time. So, yeah, it's one of their weakest points, but I think so much

happened. And when you have that much of a turnover that quickly, It was inevitable that a few things were going to fall through the cracks. All right. So with that being said, I feel like we're going to watch a bunch of Astro wins. I mean, I still think that the class of division, but it will not be, especially when Roberto Hosecuna goes out for the first time, because a lot of people think, you know, him or Ryan Presley should be closing, whatever.

I feel like we're going to get a lot more eight, six games than we may have had in years past. It feels like it's going to be really messy. Not so much bad baseball. I mean, the game's last. might weren't poorly played. But the hitters, theoretically, should be ahead of the pitchers. It may take a couple weeks to catch up now.

That being said, watch Justin Verland to go out tonight and throw eight innings of one-run ball. But yeah, by the time you get to the back of the Astros rotation, by the time you get to the back of most major league rotations of the middle of most major league rotations, then you factor in designated hitter in both leagues, the incredibly stupid extra inning role where you're starting a guy on. the idea that a reliever, if a reliever comes in, he has to face three, you know, get three out. If that reliever is getting hammered, you're going to add five runs on the board. So it feels like these games should be high scoring. And that's going to be the thing with the Astros.

You're going to want to, I mean, this is so obvious, but it's very true. They're going to want to start hot. And, you know, Dusty Baker was talking about that in February when he wanted to get the national media and all the haters off their backs. Now with a 60 game season, You lose one game, you win one game. It's going to feel like three or five. And so if you have a deep lineup like the Astros do, I fully expect this team if they can stay healthy to be back in the thick of the playoff race again.

So just I'll put myself on the record of this. I'm not the biggest fan of the starting at second base rule for the extra innings. I can live with it. I'd rather than do that in the 11th inning at least have 10 peer. It sounds like to me you hate it all the way through or do you not. I hate it all. Okay, that's fine.

It's a little league rule. It really is, and they're only doing it right now, because, you know, they, they, theoretically it's for player safety, but if players have already played nine innings, how are you preserving player health and player safety if they play two more innings? I mean, that's ridiculous. I agree. If you're going to have a less, you know, a better of the two evils, then you at least have a tenth inning, see if someone's,

can score the old-fashioned way, and then in the 11th, to move the game forward, so you're not playing six-hour games and you're in a 60-game season with crazy travel. You put a runner on second, but there's a lot. I hate the cardboard cutout. I hate the virtual fans. I'm not a fan of putting a runner on second base. I just want baseball. I prefer to have baseball with the sounds of the game and some silence and some good announcing

and reporting and analysis over junking up the game. Yeah, I have a feeling. And please give me credit if I'm right about this and just don't mention it. No, I will not. I feel like the cardboard fans, the cyber fans will be gone after a while. I think somebody will say, again, everything about this season, honestly, Brian, and the audience knows this, is very gimmicky. There is very, I mean, when you yesterday announced expanded playoffs,

the day of the first season, the first game of the season, it's just an extra layer of gimmick. I just don't know if in 40 days we're going to be still seeing as many cutout fans as we saw last night in the Dodgers game. Yeah, and look, I mean, on one hand, I don't want to be, I mean, I'm in my early 40s. I'm not 80. I'm not as old as Matt Thomas or John McLean. Oh, my God. I hate you.

I'm not an old person. That being said, I mean, I can sound pretty old, pretty quick when I started talking about this stuff. But look, it's baseball. And, you know, for all the changes, it's still baseball. It doesn't need to be gimmicky. It doesn't need to be video gameish. They don't need to junk it up.

Astros fans are excited about watching their team and their players actually play games on the field. So the cardboard cutouts especially feels like that was something that was, you know, internally being discussed with in baseball a month ago, two months ago. I think it got used in Korea, right, with the KBO. and so they were afraid, hey, this is going to be so empty and so vacant. But look what MLS has done. I think what the NBA has done, that initial glimpse is just awesome. Now, you're playing in stadiums. You're not playing in, you know, 10,000-seat arenas,

and you can kind of black it off, block everything off, and make it kind of look like Madison Square Garden, Jr. But the cardboard cutouts, Matt, in the playoffs, it's going to look so silly. And Fox's virtual fans, is just it's juvenile. It's what a five-year-old would do if they were constructing their own league. So I agree with you. I hope that time goes on.

Maybe you can get 25% of the stadium still with actual fans. By the time we get into October, all the gimmicky stuff needs to go away as soon as possible. For I let you run, the Rockets are playing the Raptors tonight. I don't know how much are you been watching on NBA TV, but these first scrimmages look pretty damn good. There are some, I mean, LeBron James looked. very serious yesterday. You could not tell it was a meaningless exhibition. What do you expect them from the Rockets tonight? No, I've watched a lot of this. Look, I love baseball. I always say this always right. I love baseball. I always love baseball. In many ways, it'll always be my first

love and my main love. Baseball has issues. I am far more excited from, you know, if I'm looking at it from the outside, writing about it, the storylines. And obviously the NBA is going into the playoffs, so that the playoffs are always more fun and more juicy than the regular season. But I am really excited. And the first glimpse of the NBA is really promising just because it feels like it's going to be able to reach you through the TV, whereas baseball feels so empty and so odd, it's like you got transplanted into a bizarro world.

And you look at the Rockets team, you look at all those storylines, Dan Tony, Mori, Hardin, Westbrook maybe I'm wrong it feels like it's going to be boom or bust I feel like this team is going to be the Western Conference finals healthy Hardin is playing his butt off

Westbrook's doing what he was in January and February or they're out in the first round I kind of feel like this team has that type of boom or bust written all over it so it's almost like they're going to be a first round exit or they're going to be playing in the mid-October

that's a scary scary flip of a coin there. I mean, I think a lot of things would take it. But that's how this team's been all season. I mean, look at small ball. You know, I mean, if small ball going to work for four rounds in the playoffs, it might. And if it is, that's boom. That's Tillman for Tita's dream come true with this franchise.

Is James Harden going to have the best playoff front of his career? Is Russell Westbrook going to stay healthy for four rounds? That could all happen. But, Matt, this was not a great team during the regular season. I know Rocket fans are excited. I'm excited in general about getting the NBA back, getting the Rockets back, all the storyline. But they were wildly inconsistent the entire season.

They were struggling before the season was paused. And so I don't know. I don't know what we're going to get, but I do feel like it's going to be boom or bust. I don't think you're in the minority. And so that's why it's going to make an Uber intriguing to see how they get out of the gate, how they finish these eight games, and who they get in that first round. opponent. All right, BTS.

Have a great weekend. We'll do this again next Friday. Thanks for the time, as always. Thanks, Matt. Take care. You got it. Brian T. Smith from the Houston Chronock. You can follow him on Twitter at Cron

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And I'm assuming that my list is all female. I don't know how Ross's list is, but that's what I'm going to go with. I got a Tom Bergeron on there. Do you really? He's a solid tier two pick. You have that old guy from Dancing with the Stars on there. It looks like he's a butler.

The Italian guy? Yeah, 214. It is the Matt Thomas show here on Sports Talk 790. Rip it H-Town, light, by slamma jama. Yo, what's up? This you boy, Bumby, the Trillo. G with the whitest man in America. Matt Thomas. You are now tuned in in Sports Talk 790, man.

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Now put your ages in the air if you're with it, mate. It's the Houston Astros and we back in. One of the Wildcauts if the Yankees pack in. Yeah, now the Astros are in the play y'all. It's a little dated. It's fine. as opposed to the rest of the music we're playing. It's true.

No, he's going to mention players that aren't on the team anymore. Is this Chris Carter get mentioned or something like that? Tony Sip? Hank Conger, hey, Conger. Yes. Louis Vowena. Oh. Club Astros, those are the good times.

Is George Springer going to allow Club Astros to happen this year? They haven't been doing it recently. I know, but it's like he's so cranky. You think so? We haven't heard from him. We don't know that he's cranky. Maybe he's in a great mood.

Do you think non-cranky people will say no thank you to media request? He just doesn't want to do it. That's fine. So you're telling me he's happy, go lucky. He's in a bad mood. right now. You think he's in a bad mood? I think he's in a, I want my money. Why, the Astros give me that big fat check. I think he's doing just fine. I think he's smiling and having a good time wherever he is because he's George Springer. That's why we love him. I'm such a fan of his too. I don't want

him to leave. Me either. And, you know, we keep telling the audience it's one or the other. And it has that feel to it. We've been right about everything, right? Yeah. Like, we never told the audience that Garrett Cole was going to stick around. No. Right? We, we could smell that from a mile of. away. Yeah, I said he was, yeah, he was gone. We knew that Altubia would be taken care of. We knew that. Was the Bregman one a little bit of a surprise?

As early as it was. Yes. But Correa, we have not been definitive about that. Well, he's got an injury history. And he's also thinking about those pinstripes, maybe. We don't know that. Hopefully I'm wrong. Hopefully he despises the pinstripes. He loves Houston.

He indebted. Daniela. I'm just worried that he and Daniela want to go run. She's Miss Texas. They want to have a reality show and it's easier for them to do it in New York City. Yeah. Because you know. You're right.

She's going to yokeo this. Is that what you're saying? No, no, no, no. He's just as big of a yokeo as she's a yoko. They're equal yokos. So they're Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez. Is that what you're saying? I'm saying that guess who wants to buy the New York Metropolitons?

A rod. The two people you just said. Well, he's got enough money. to get a chunk of it going, right? So what would be the great way in a couple of years to welcome the city of New York to Mets baseball? Wait a second.

What? Is that what you're going with? Uh-oh. Is this a Noster Thomas prediction? I am not prepared to do that. Okay, dang. But, Brendan, you're thinking about me saying, aren't you? Let me get my Nose or wrong.

Go for it. No pad out. I'm not going to say it. You look like you want to. You want to. You want to! So bad. No, don't just hold off. Think about it.

Take your time. No, I would lean towards that being not accurate. Me too. You should get odds on that anyways. It's a long shot. How long of a shot is? Brand new owner of a team. If you buy as a team,

needs to make a big splash like most new owners like to do. It's not crazy. It's not the craziest thing ever. I hope it's not true. But it's not. All right. So we finally have, and by the way,

we have an answer to our, where the Blue Jays going to play this year. So when the Blue Jays found out they couldn't play in Toronto, guess who came to their rescue? Buffalo, New York. Have you ever been to Buffalo before? No. Nor have I.

You've been to Buffalo, Brandon? I have. What's it like? There's not a whole lot going on. It was the only time in my life I've driven by a gas station with one pump. In Buffalo? It was actually on the way from Buffalo to Cooper's. What is it?

Cooperstown. Yeah, okay. But it was not far from Buffalo. It's one of the few major cities I've never been to. I have no idea what Buffalo is like. I'm sure Buflonians are lovely. Yeah, they're probably heavier than the average person. Well, you've got to stay warm in the winter.

I mean, they lay love wearing their saver sweaters, put it that way, NHL team. So the Blue Jays are like, you know, that's fine, but you're not a major league park. Let's go somewhere else. and they're like, okay, let's go to Pittsburgh. It's boy. Beautiful PNC Park. Wonderful.

Pittsburgh's a lovely. Actually, Pittsburgh is an underrated city. I've never been to Pittsburgh. I've been there probably four or five times. There's some famous hamburger joint there, right? No, it's a sandwich place. Okay. And basically the sandwich place, and I'm trying to think of what it's called,

it's a chain. They essentially stuff, you know how, like, you go over to Kenny and Ziggy's and get those big pastrami sandwiches? Pramante brothers? Pomani brothers, yeah. So they'll give you that, and then they will jam in a bunch of fries and Kostla on the sandwich. So you smush it all together,

and it's the biggest sandwich ever had your life. It's delicious. They do that at Fat Salas in California. Yeah, same thing. Oh, so good. Yeah, you never would think fries and Kostla on top of your roast beef would taste good, but it does. It's like a whole meal in one.

Yes. So Pomani Brothers is very famous. Save yourself a little time. Yeah. So Pittsburgh's like, yeah, we're ready to do this. and then the state of Pennsylvania says, no, you're not. We're not letting you in. No, thanks, but no, no, thanks.

So then Duned in Florida gets put back into play. That's where they have their spring training, which is just out the suburb of Tampa, St. Pete. It's just too hot. It rains every day. You have rain delays every single day. That's not good. Wouldn't be good. Plus, it'd be like 95 degrees at first pitch, even at 7 o'clock at night.

No, they can play 8 in the morning. They're not playing games at o'clock in the morning. That's when all the people in Tampa St. Pete are getting up. That's true. That's not a bad call. They've been up for three hours. So that's been kicked. Then they were thinking about going to Baltimore,

which would have been really good too. Because, you know, Baltimore has not seen a lot of good baseball in the last decade, so why not put a decent team in there? They said no. So they're going back to Buffalo. And not that we'll really care, but the Blue Jays are the Buffalo Blue Jays.

The Buffalo Blue Jays. I like that. For one year. For 60 games. 60 games. Well, they'll probably make the playoffs, right? Not in that competitive East, no. They could, I mean, you've got to be around

500. 16 teams making the playoffs. Oh, hell yeah. That's what I'm saying. They've got a shot. Yeah. By the way, the Astros are a plus 1,200 to win the World Series. What? Yeah. Do you know a guy? I don't know anybody. 12 to 1? Yeah, but the Yankees are like 11 to 1. No, I thought, oh, really? Yeah. I saw the Yankees at like

four or five to one I thought. They changed it. They changed it. They changed because of the additional postseason. Okay. So they made everybody a little... Okay. What if the season gets canceled? Do you get your money back? Yeah.

I would have... I hope so. Well, I was wondering if that was factored in because it still seems... See, because I looked yesterday, yeah, Dodgers and Yankees are plus 450. I saw the Astros at plus a thousand. Maybe I'm wrong.

I just literally looked at ESPN and sell them put that up there. By the way, I applaud you ESPN for actually acknowledging pluses and minuses when it comes to sporting games. Wonderful. All right, ladies and gentlemen, We need six judges.

Female or male. Female or male. That will help us decide who are the hottest reality, past or present TV host. We had to figure out a way to get women back involved in the Fantasy Five, and we have done so. If you've watched one reality show or you've watched them all. Some have Tom Bergeron, some have Ryan Seacrest. And some have really attractive host and or judges. If you would like to help us decide between Ross and myself,

who has the best list of the hottest female, well, I'm assuming all of ours are female, hottest female judges or host of reality shows past or present. Let us know. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-790. We're looking for judges right now. The Fantasy 5, a Friday staple is next.

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You're home for Rocket Basketball. All right, and it is time for the Fantasy 5 at 232 on Sports Talk 799. We have hell yeah or not coming up in less than 20 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. Still room for one more judge if you'd like to join us. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90. It is time for the Fantasy 5. The category today, Ross, is past or present,

hottest reality television show host and or judges. I won the last time. I believe there's a defender number one selection. And in the history of the famous... we've had one person be the number one selection more than anybody else. And she'll always be this way until she probably turns 84 years old and her hair falls out. She is currently one of the hosts, I believe it's starting up her second season on a show that I find to be rather annoying. I've tried to watch it.

I've tried to give it a chance. They just put everybody into the next round. I'm speaking of the television show, America Got Talent and one of the co-host and judges of that show. is the lovely and talented and just still super, super sexy, Sophia Vergara. Very solid pick. Not number one on my list. What? I'm going to go with, of course, a reality show.

I'm going to go with a judge. I'm going to go with a Latina like you did, Matthew. But I'm going to go with someone who came up earlier on the show. She's been judging on American Idol. I'm going with one Jennifer Lopez. as my first overall solid 1A pick round 2 pick whatever

next this is where it kind of gets tough to me that was a 1-2 punch where if you had took Jennifer I was going to take Sophia I'm going to go with you know what I just have something speaking of both the women

that we've drafted so far ageless this woman is ageless as well she's been on the voice of course was first famous and whatever that band was she was in no doubt in the 90s

She's still smoking hot. She's still gorgeous. I'm going with Gwen Stefani. On the board. Okay. On the board. This next person just recently got fired from her job as one of the co-hosts of one of the most successful reality shows. And she's getting up there in age a little bit, but still, pound for pound, one of the sexiest female anchors, reporters, reality hosts.

I think of Aaron Andrews, now formerly of Dancing with the Stars. She's all right. I mean, she's great. Okay, look, I'd marry her tomorrow. But, you know, I think there's some very superior choices still off on the board. Next is a show I've never watched. Okay. But I knew of it, because, you know, when you flip, you see it.

It just wasn't my cup of tea. It's about women that would like to become models. And the host of said show is one of the goats of models. The name of the show Project Runaway. Runway, excuse minute, runway. That'd be a little bit odd. Project Runway, and the host of that show with a very, very confusing husband is Heidi Klum.

Oh, okay. I didn't, okay, yeah, yeah. Well, she was on America's Got Talent, too. So Heidi Kloom was on my list. Okay. Good pick. Ah, let's see. I'm going to go with next a singer who made some hits 20 years ago.

Columbian. Her hips don't lie. She is very hot. I'm going with one of the judges on the voice, Shakira, with my next pick. Okay. This is where it's getting tough. These late-round picks are going to make the difference, I believe. You know what?

This is where I thought, when you were saying Project Runway, did Tyra Banks ever host that? She is a former reality show host. Yeah, I know. She's on my list. I know she's on Dancing with Stars, or she was a host. of dancing with the Star. I'm going with Tyra Banks, by the way. The show I put her with is America's Top Model. Oh, she's with America's Top Model.

Whatever she's with, I'm going with Tyra Banks. All-Time, All-Times, Swimsuit Cover Model, Smoking Hot, way hotter than Aaron Andrews. I'm going with Tyra Banks. Okay. Teach his own. Next, I get the last two picks. I'm going with a pair of Brooks.

First of all, have you ever seen a woman... Brooke? You ever seen a woman named Brooke that wasn't at least a seven and a half? Yes. You have? Yeah. I don't want to see who this person is. Okay.

Because I think the name Brooke, like the name Samantha, get you at least seven points. Yeah. Okay, I disagree with both of those statements in my life experience. Before Aaron Andrews hosted Dancing with Stars, it was also on previous host. She's a little feline, a little kitten, if you will. Okay. Brooke Burns. No, Brooke.

Brooke, uh, oh, was it, Brooks. You can't read your own handwriting. I can't read my own handwriting. I got to look. I, I forgot her name. She's so hot and amazing.

You don't even know her name. No, Brooke Burns is from Doggy Dog. Do you know that is? Look up her picture. I'll take your word for it. You're thinking, are you going with Brooke Burke Burke is who you want to go? Brooke Burke and Brooke Burns.

I don't know who Brooke Burns is. Brooke Burns, go look her up. What TV shows she on? A dog eat dog. Dog eats dog? Dog Eat Dog. She's been on reality television before.

She was on a couple of game shows, but Dog Eat Dog is the reality show. I'll have to take your word for it. She's 5, 8.5. She's 42. And her measurements... No, we don't have the measurements on it. I'm going with Brooke Burke from Dancing with the Stars

and Brooke Burns from Dog Eat Dog. Okay. Brooke and Brooke for Matt. All right. Oh. Let's see. This is my last pick. Yeah. Dang, strong list. I've already won.

So it kind of is more of a cherry on top. You know what? I'll go with the voice. She's a great singer, pop singer, much more talented than one of her rivals, Britney Spears, who is also a host. I'm going to go with Christina Aguilera. I've had a thing for her ever since the genie in the bottle video. She's quite hot.

Christina Aguilera. Okay. So your list has Jay Lowe, Gwen Stefani, Shakira, Tyra, Tyra Banks, and Chris. Christian Aguilera. I am Sophia Vigar, Aaron Andrews, Heidi Klum, Brooke Burke,

and Brooke Burns. These are people that were on the list. There was one I was definitely, definitely afraid of taking. I've always thought Miley Cyrus is sneaky hot.

I didn't put her on my list. I know I would have taken the easy loss on that. Bada boom, Bada Bing. I'm fine. I also had Caryana Nalba on there.

I think she's sneaky hot too. She's on dancing. She's on the talk net, but she used to be on Dancing with the Stars as one of the judges. Okay. I'll take your word for it. All right.

So let's go with this again. J-Lo, Stefani, Shakira, Tyra Banks, Christine Aguilera. That's Ross's list. That's Ross. I have Sophia Vergara, Aaron Andrews, Heidi Kloom, Brooke Burke, and Brooke Burns. It is time for us to figure out and find out from the great audience who wins the Fantasy 5. Matt on 790. Matt, who wins, Ross or me?

You know, I'm a little disappointed. Y'all didn't go with Matt Singer, Nicole Scherzinger, or Jenny McCarthy. Oh, Jenny McCarthy. Scherzinger was on my list. I love me some Jenny McCarthy. Oh. but I got to go with my man, Ross. All right.

Thank you, Matt. Great pick. Tony on 790. Tony, who's it won the Fantasy 5? All right. This is easy. It should be sweet for you, Ross. I'm going with Ross.

Thank you, Tony. Appreciate you. Tony, don't get in the car wreck this weekend. Andy on 790. Andy, who wins the Fantasy 5? No doubt her. Because you had her. You took the words right out of my mouth.

Brooke Burns. My boy, Matt Thomas. Thank you very much. Have a wonderful. You don't forget about Whitney Carson. Whitney, who's Whitney Carson? I don't know who that is. We'll look her up, though.

Thank you very much. Have a wonderful weekend. Thank you very much, Andy. Line number four. Brandon on 790. Brandon, who wins a Fantasy 5? Me or Ross? You.

All right. It's 2-2. That's a shame. All right. Uh-oh. Robberies happen every day. Oh, I'm a little scared. You know how deciding seven votes.

Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Mr. I hate everything Matt chooses. Well, you have my list of superiority. John on 790. John, who wins a Fantasy 5? You know, when you're going for the popular vote, you've got to speak to the people. I was all over Matt until the random Brook and Brooke.

Ross is the winner. Thank you, John. Give us your cross-street so we can get the police on you. Jeez. All right, so now we're at 3-2, and we need one more listener to come in before we get the deciding 7th vote. So that's true. We need a listener right now at 7-13-21-5-790. 7-1-7-9.

7-8 because I'm definitely afraid if it goes to a seventh vote, I'm losing. So I'm rather to lose with the audience. We need one person to call in right now, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 would like to vote. Let's go to it right now. Line 1. What is your name, please? Hey, it's Sobs. Who do you got, Ross or Mood? me on the Fantasy 5.

Sorry, man. Ross has friction. Okay, we don't care. And that'll do it. 4-2. You know, it's going to be back in this chair. My first week back from vacation and being sick, and I just want to say to all of you,

I really appreciate all the love and support that I've been getting from you guys and the kind words. By the way, Texas Communist hated your Fauci and I'm over. That's fine. Absolutely. He's muted.

It doesn't matter. And it's been kind of a rocky road getting back and feeling like I'm back in this chair and back to my old self and my vocal cords on the same. But once I win and sit with the crown as the champion of the Fantasy 5 yet again. I'm back, baby. Brandon, go ahead and tell him he's won again with your vote. I think he kind of stole the win with star power. You had a lot of unknown or smaller names on your list,

but I liked your list better, Matt. There you go. Huh. When it counted. He got a lot of star power, though. No time for losers because we are the champions of the Fantasy 5. Back for hell yeah or not, 243. After a message here for big city wings,

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on Sports Talk 790. Might as well get you guys ready for opening night. Do you remember that reporter we were talking about yesterday who wanted baseball to shut down because of the COVID testing with Juan. I'm 21 years old. It doesn't matter. Some hack. You can call a woman a hack and a male hack.

We're equal opportunities. That's equal opportunities. So Major League Baseball announced the latest round of test. They took 10,939 samples. That's it? It's quite a bit. Yes. Six tested positive.

Four players, two of them were staff members. You can play some more music. We're going to get a celebration. This is a good song. Four players. Shut baseball down, says New York Pouse Reporter. Why are we playing baseball? Because the numbers are really, really, really low.

Yeah, it's good. As long as there's not any big outbreak, it should be fun, right? That's the only thing that's going to stop any of these sports. But she told us. But she took the one positive result and said that we should shut the baseball down. Well. You're a hack. There's also talk that Juan Soto might have had a false positive.

You know he's 21. That can happen. I guess. I don't know if he has anything. Let me take some. When Juan Soto is 36 years old, we're going to be talking about how old Wong Soto is. Joe Buck, who I do like, I think I'm in the minority on this, Joe Buck turned his age into a full-time bit.

I mean, a joke by the end of it. Didn't he get a jokingly? say like game seven or six or something. Yeah, because he looked on Twitter. He saw like, yeah, thanks for telling us. It's like telling us how tall somebody is. And that person's going to be stuck with how tall he is for the rest of his line. 7-6?

Yeah. In high heels? I don't think so. I got news for you. There is a conspiracy theory that people think that Yao Ming's like eight-foot tall. And people say he's shorter because there are pictures with him next to Shaq. He looked taller than chat. Do you think Yow's eight?

I don't think so, no. But there is a conspiracy. Along with, you know, Stevie Wonder can see Oh, I believe that. Yeah, he's 8 foot. Let's see, what is? Kevin Durant's 7 foot. Oh, by the way, Elijah one's not 7 feet.

Well, that's... He's 6.10 and a half. Still one of the goats of all time. Yeah, of course. And one of my three favorite players. Period. In sports. Ever?

Yeah, it's all the 34. What's 1, 2, 3? Okay, those are... Those are 1, 23. And Dream. Oh, okay. I thought you can say Stacey Mac. Great 34.

3A. For the Houston Texans. All right. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports game show. Monday through Thursday, we call it B leaving or not. But on Fridays we call it a hell yeah or not.

And here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-75790. Today's edition of Hellyer-Nod is brought to you by Houston Woodhouse Day Spaws, pre-nuch gift card for the gift of relaxation at Houston. spas.com. The category today is things about the Seattle Mariner's.

Here it is. I'm going to give you a member of the Seattle Mariner's. If this person really plays with the Mariners, you'll say this. Hell you. Oh, hell yeah. It's a hell yeah. It's a hell yeah on a Friday. I miss those. Good job. Nice job. If he doesn't play for the Mariners, he's running for Congress. Congress.

And you will say this. To hell yeah or not to win your prize. Ross, what's the prize? Matt, we got a $50 gift card. Twin Peaks where there's now curbside ordering available. No? Are we out of those? Sorry. We're back to Hooters? Well, we've got to do it today.

Twin Peaks it is. Okay, we got a $50 gift card to some sort of restaurant where their bosoms are hanging out. So whichever one... A fellow bosom restaurant will be on next week, believe it. Sorry. This is what it is. All right, let's play. Let's go to line to line to J on 790. Ready to play? Hell yeah or not.

Hell yeah Outfielder Rodney Davis. Hell yeah or not. Not. Yeah, he's running for Republican in Illinois 13th District. Statement number two, player number two for the win. Jared Golden is a shortstop and third basement for the Mariners. Hell yeah, or not?

Not. Yeah, he's a Democrat running for the second district of Maine. Duh. I have a feeling we're not going to play all these. Okay, it's fine. Just a gut feel on this one. John on 790. ready to play, hell yeah or not?

Hell yeah. T.J. Cox is an outfielder for the Mariners. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No, he's a Democrat running for California in the first district. Line three. Aaron on 790. Aaron, you're ready to play, hell yeah or not? Hell yeah.

Reliever Mike Garcia for the Mariners. Hell yeah, or not? Yeah, he's running for the 25th district as a Republican in California. Statement number two for the win. Relief pitcher Zach Gratz. DROTZ. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, that's right. All right. Nice job.

Give me some applause. There we go. Max on 790. Max, you're ready to play. Hell yeah or not. Starting pitcher, Justin Dunn. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Reliever Colin Aldred. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. No, he's a Democrat.

in the Texas first district. I don't even know where that is it. Where is that? I don't know. You just made it up? No, but he's running. I don't know where the Texas congressional first. Cabin on 790.

Ready to play. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Evan White plays first base for the Mariners. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Yeah, he does. There you go.

Nice job. Texas's first district is in between Dallas and Shreport. Ooh, so East Texas. The top right corner, yeah. The reason why I get a little leery. about these is because it would take you. You can go run to Google right away. That's what you have to add. Hey, I have to add to rapid fire. Rapid fire, if you will. So we got, we had three winners today and that'll take care of that. Congratulations to them. And we'll give away some more restaurant

food to a place that serves women with, have large breasts. Wonderful. In theory. Mm-hmm. That it was guaranteed. All right. So tonight, let's set everything up for everybody. 6 o'clock rockets coverage here on 790. The nightcap streak ends. 630, rockets and raptors. 7 o'clock Astro coverage starts on KTRH 8 o'clock Astros and Mariners on KTRH When the rockets are done We go we put the rockets and we put the Astros on top of the action So simulcast

You'll simulcast a 740, 790 at some point tonight You'll hear both games Yeah, you just watch the listen to the rockets They'll be get some weather Well if you need it They'll they're 10 minute quarters They should be Oh, yeah.

They should be done in early 8 o'clock hour. Yeah, I would assume that we're going to probably have every bit of the aster's right here. Minus the-in'clock in the-game. Adam Platton's in the post game? No, he's doing the network post-stop. Oh, okay. I thought I was going to say he was on 10th inning or something. No, it's not going to crazy.

All right. On that note, have a wonderful weekend. We had a good time today. Great time. Glad to be back. And the champ is here. And, by the way, your Fauci and Mobile sucked. It was horrific.

Thank you. Wexler, Clinton combined to make the A team. And they're up next here on Sports Talk, 7-90.