The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Shut Out Phillies Again! Game 3 Of The Series Starts This Afternoon, Can They Keep Climbing? NBA Draft Talk

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

Astros Shut Out Phillies Again! Game 3 Of The Series Starts This Afternoon, Can They Keep Climbing? NBA Draft Talk

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Hey, in H-Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. I've got to admit something to you. I've got a client meeting to go to right after the show today, and I was going to listen to you host the On Deck, but I might have to listen to Smelton John instead.

That's fine. I wasn't expecting much support from you. You know what, I just tease. I will listen to every minute of you running through the glorious recap of another Astro shutout. Yes. Phillies had not been shut out in six weeks. And the Astros did it in back-to-back games. And let's face it, the reason why it was because of the amazing lineup that the Astros were able to put out the last handful of days.

A lineup of pitchers? Yes. Lefties? Yeah, all lefties. It's a lefty party, baby. You think somewhere Dusty Baker's like, are you serious? I couldn't get a lefty the whole time I was here,

except for Brooks Raley? Oh, man, you dropped the Brooks Raleigh on us? Yikes. I mean, it fits. Yeah, I need a lefty. No, you'll get nothing. James, click, you're out of here. I mean, Adam Clinton, you're out of here.

God, Rossi. It's a lefty brigade. Love it. One after the other. Five of them total yesterday. Mm. And they shut out. the Philadelphia Phillies who are a really good hitting team.

Yes. Stars, Ross, they do. Yeah, they're missing Bryce Harper, but they still got a lot of great hitters. I am, help me out with this. I feel like I'm like on a dream date. Like Starl Johansans is like saying, yeah, Matt, let's go here. Let's go here. Let's go to a Hawaiian island.

Let's go to Vegas. Let's go, I mean, we're not going to wake up from this time soon, are we? I think it's only going to get better Oh, with the guys coming back Is what you're saying Mm-hmm Yeah, that means you're going back Back to the crib with Scarlett Johansson

Oh, okay Okay, no make those noises Certainly not That didn't come across on air, did it? Certainly not while you're at home Gosh, we need you focus It's 47 and 33. It's not just a, yeah, they're the best team in the bad division.

Right. They're one of the better records in baseball. Yeah. Third best record in baseball. And the second best record in the American League, which means if the Astros, the playoffs were to start today, Sports RV, they would have a buy in the first round. Let's keep that going.

Yeah. We don't know. This is crazy wild card stuff that we got last year. All right, may I do this? I'm going to put the cart before the horse for the rest of the month of May. All right. June. June.

And then a little bit of July. Are you doing, are you doing playoff rotation again? I'm in schedule watching. Okay. I was like, man, we're going to do schedule rotation every day starting in June. Let's do it. It beats the alternative. They're not doing it in Denver.

I can tell you that right now. No, they are not. They're not doing it in Sacramento. No, they're not doing it there. They're not doing it in Washington. All right. So you've got one more at the Phillies. got three with the Cubs this weekend.

And then you have July, the end of June and July, three at Colorado. And then you're going to go from, I mean, feasting to, now I wouldn't say famine, but the Dodgers obviously are a significant step up in class. Six-game roadie to Denver and to Los Angeles. Then you've got three with Cleveland, three with Texas before the All-Star break. I mean, that's not terrible sports, RV. It's just not. I mean, we've been talking about it,

and it continues to be true because they're playing good teams now. They have the easiest schedule strength remaining in terms of opponent win percentage. Yeah. But would you argue with me if I said that using that in baseball is the least important of the mix?

Like, for instance, if the Texans had to play Cleveland one week, followed by Carolina one week, followed by, let's say, tennis. see, you'd say, oh, those are terrible teams. Those should be three Gimmy wins. Rockets, let's say they played Washington, followed by Charlotte, followed by, let's see, Dattles without Kyrie Irving and without Anthony Davis.

Okay, those are three wins. I want to be able to tell you the Astros could run off a slate of games against Colorado and maybe Cleveland in the mix. But, again, baseball to me is even the worst teams lose or win, what, 38% of the time? Yeah, but any given Sunday Anything can happen in a football game You can lose the Titans randomly and stuff like that I don't know

I would say probably basketball is the safest Yeah, right? Like Wizards coming in town You're like 18 and a half point favorites You're generally not losing that game Even though a team can get hot from three or you can bomb from three In a bad way, bad bombing I would say the most sure thing is For sure

Yeah, it might be third but I don't think it's I don't know. Still, you've got to win the games. The Rockets opened up. Remember who the Rockets played in game one last year? Yes, the Charlotte Hornets. Yeah, and they lost. It was like, big deal for Albuquerque,

oh, here we go. Jalen Green sign an extension. Rockets are going to the Western finals, and we lost to those Hornets. Yeah. And then they won 52 of their next 80s. Yes. Those last three didn't even really count.

Yeah. It was like they were coming on a wedding party to be introduced to everyone, a bride fell on her face. But she got back up and everything was great. Are they happily married to this day? Well, there was a little bit of a slight change. Did somebody gain weight or somebody was infidelized?

I don't know. Some 37-year-old guy from Phoenix showed up. Oh, no, no, no. All right. So your beloved Astros win again with this combination of Colton Gordon, Stephen Oaker. I was doubting that. I tried to, you know, I tried to rinket.

You know, I tried to rain you in again, and you came a little bit to my side, and you were right. You got to stop, let me rain you in, Matt. What were you? Help me out. Because we were talking about Zach. I was like, Zach Wheeler tomorrow. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So let me ask you. So you were right. I was wrong. And I haven't looked. What is he over under on today's game? First game had one run. The second game had two runs. I see the line.

I don't see the total. Hunter Brown, by the way, pitching today for the stroves. Six and a half. That's low for baseball for folks that don't know. Yeah, so let me go back to this murderer's row of lefties. Gordon, Ocert, Sousa, King, and Hater. Josh freaking Hater. Astro's MVP right now? He's pitched five of the last seven days?

Was that accurate, I saw? Yeah, hasn't lost a game. Has 21 saves and his earnings 1.73. That's a good sample size. Plenty of sample size for closing. Who told you preseason 40 saves for Hater? Because this offense wasn't going to be that great and there'd be a lot of close games. I believe it was Dan Matthews.

No, I don't think so. Did you have Bennett Seuss's Ernie at 1.57? Actually, no, I had it at 1.56. Do you think Stephen Okert's family's like, son, you got a 2.52ERA? Yeah, dad, I do. Or yeah, Mom, I do. Or yeah, girlfriend, I do. Yeah, but we know who you are.

I mean, you were just a mid. He was good like two, three years ago, right? I can't remember who. Brian King. Earned run average of 2.97. Baller. Baller. And that includes like two ruffies on the road trip.

Yeah, he was running into some trouble. It was three hits allowed. Well, I mean, he got out of it. I mean, it is what it is. Base is loaded. I mean, base loaded one out and they didn't score. But imagine Philadelphia fan. Do you think Philly fans calling WIP and Philadelphia losing their mind?

No, they're still basking in the glow of an Eagles Super Bowl. Go birds. I feel like that's a huge football town. I think it's a huge sports town in general. Yeah. Very angry sports town. Oh, God. Angry and unattractive and high.

cholesterol and just grumpy. I think our show would be canceled in like three weeks there. You guys are soft! You guys are trying to be you having a light-hot in a view. I went Boston and you went New York. I don't know what a Philly accent is. What is it?

What is the accent sound like? If you're from Philadelphia, would you please call us and give us your thickest Philadelphia accent? Oh, no. Here you open up a Pandora's box there. I had a buddy mine who I met through a former radio partner of mine. His name is Lenny. call him Philadelphia Lenny, Philly Lynn, and his Philadelphia accent, and he was not

attractive. I thought I was sitting there looking at a man, you're a handsome dude, but I'm just saying. What's wrong with that? You couldn't recognize a man's handsome? I can't, but he wasn't. Sorry, I'm just, it is what it is. I mean, the biggest complaint I have about you is the fact that people think you're attractive because of your main, and I just know, I know you too well.

That's your biggest complaint? Well, at least publicly. Privately there's other things. Yeah, Matt, you got to distract him with something. No kidding. Thankfully, I don't use my hair to distract people. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

If you want to love on your local 9, who have brought the Phillies to town and they have not scored a run. And going back to last year, I think it's Robert Foreman brought this up. It's got to be over 20 innings of them not scoring any runs against the Astros. Wow.

Including 18 in this series so far. So we got on deck for you at noon. Brian McTaggart will be along the way. He's got a good main. You guys have a main off between you and McTaggart. Yeah, we're going to talk about hair care routines for the entire interview. And I'll show myself out. All right, at 10-12 on Sports Talk 790, if you want to jump into the conversation, you may do so.

At 7-13-212-5-790, that's 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Now, if you don't want to call in and talk some Astros, Ross was a, gave us a complete breakdown pre-show on the NBA Drafam last night. And we'll get to that along the way as well. If we just don't get it at 1130, Astros on deck at noon. So we're a shorter edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Come on and be a part of it. 713, 212, 5, 790.

1018 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Matt, Ross, with you here with Yudson noon. Ross will be on-deck show at 12 for a 110 first pitch inside. Dike and Park. Ross, I was at the draft experience yesterday, which was interesting experience because the Rockets did make the 10th pick in yesterday's draft,

and one of our listeners is very upset that that pick is not going to Phoenix because he wanted the Rockets that took the same guy out of Duke. Remember that? Call we had? Yes, I do remember. And I was just kind of sitting there waiting to do my thing for the draft last night and just kind of mind in business,

and a guy comes up to me and says, hey, man, you're so low-key. And I said, yeah, I'm just chilling. He goes, man, I love your show. Thank you very much. And his son comes over and says hello and says, hey, son, this is Matt Thomas. He does a radio show with Ross, and he's also the voice you hear inside Toyota Center during the Rockets games. And I said, I haven't done that in four years.

And he goes, oh, no, you did it during the playoffs. You were awesome. No, I did the radio broadcast, and I can prove it to you. and I can show you my Twitter account that says on the radio announcer. So, hmm. The legacy will grow on, my friend, my friend Ross. Hey, at least he knew who you were.

That's true. You dropped your name. That was nice. Oh, that is nice. I'm shocked. Back up anymore. Jonathan, if you're with us for any length of time, you might get your name dropped. Yeah.

I mean, I wouldn't expect it, but you're saying. Just yesterday, my brother was saying how much he enjoyed you on the show, Jonathan. Oh, actually? Yeah. By the way, we played Philadelphia Freedom. That was Elton John. A, and you had heard the song before? No, but on the way here, I like Elton John, too.

So I was like, I haven't heard this one, and I watched the biopic. That's probably, I don't get a top five Elton John song. I agree with you on that. Philadelphia Freedom is a top five. Yeah, you drafted it. We did a Fantasy Five once of Elton John's songs, Jonathan and I won. Yeah. Come on, Matt.

I even, Matt was Matt. It was the listener's fault. Can you feel the love tonight? No, the programmer of Sunny, Mark Sherman, gross. Director of FM was the first judge and he chose me. Yeah, because he felt sorry for you. That's not true.

He told me publicly, privately I should say. You're a liar. Yeah. Yeah, part of the charm of putting these songs on it's for Jonathan to open up his repertoire of music. I really appreciate it. And now you have to start listening to some of his music, whatever Jonathan likes. I got good jams. What is your number one jam right now?

Right now? You're going to put me in a spot. You're like Playboy Cardi? No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not, let me tell you to Lizzo. I can tell you that for damn sure. Lizzo? No, honestly, Matt, I think we have very...

Oh, Lizzo has some catchy teams. She's annoying. I've never listened to Lizzo. Not happening. She plays the flute, well. Excuse me? She plays a flute. I didn't not know that.

That's all I know. She's U.H. Lump. Don't care. Oh. Dang. Dang, Cougar Matt. I'm sorry. I mean, I can't love all the Cougars.

I can love most of you, but I can't love every single one of you. Hmm. All right. Back to it. Yeah, me losing to that, I'm lost two fantasy fives that I thought I was robbed. One was the Beatles one. That was obnoxiously bad when Octopus's Garden got a vote. I mean, four votes.

All of pusses gold and I voted for you in that one. Thank God you did. And you still lost. It still lost. That was on my birthday, I think, too. I think not only did I lose the fantasy five, but I lost it on my birthday. Your list was like, man, you had, you had like the murderers row. Yeah, every one on my head on.

You got beat by the 2019 Washington Nationals on that one. I don't know what happened. Oh, I couldn't win a home game, could I? No, it was bad. Yeah, that's true. You got robbed. That was for sure. Thank you very much.

713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-21-2-5-790. Do you know, because I told you I'm obsessed about watching standings, not only are the Astros in the second spot in the American League, and with a one game lead over the Yankees because the Yankees did win yesterday. Do you know the Astros are two and a half out of having the top record in the American League? Yes, I did, but that's only because I looked at the standings before the show today. I didn't, I mean, Tigers have been losing some games? Who told you the Tigers

have come back to Earth a little bit? Yes. You also said, and I hate to give you credit for anything, you also said there were going to be some aggression in the Astros lineup, but now, granted, everybody's regressing his lineup.

That's true. I mean, it ain't been, I mean, you scored three runs in two games. I mean, there hadn't been a lot of slugging, put it that way.

Yes. And that's okay, because the pitching has been great. That's the formula. You can win now, this is not necessary. I mean, it is a potential World Series,

preview. I mean, it is. It could be for sure. You need to score more than two runs every game, of course. You're not going to shut people out every game, but this was going to be the Astros formula is going to be the great pitching and enough hitting. Can I ask for one small thing? Can Christian Walker please start hitting? How long have we been saying this? He's at 2.14, Matt.

Since early May. Oh, early May. I think we're probably starting. We probably went to the... It's slow for a few weeks. Give him some time. That's right. We're getting close to the midway point of the season. Batting average of 214.

On base is 281. He's slugging 359. I mean, God. Get him to the All-Star break. I'm telling you. I'm feeling good. He's going to clear his head. Whatever, any sort of ailment he could possibly have will be get all healed up.

And he's going to have a big second half. All right, the Tuesday during All-Star Week. Okay. I want you to gut feeling just his second-half numbers. Are you going to be in town or I'm going to be in town? We're both in town, huh? We're both in town. Oh, look at that.

I don't think that's happened in years for All-Star Week. I know. By the way, I booked the trip to Hawaii next to All-Star, so just give me a little heads up on that. 20-26? Yeah. Oh, that's fine. But, I mean, I'm giving you like 13-month advance notice. I appreciate that.

I'm just, you know, I'm trying to be thoughtful. That's great. And actually, you know, I was going to take some time off next week. You're doing shows from out there? You'll be on, you'll be on. There's zero chance of that. But I was going to take next week off to work. My daughter's playing in a national volleyball event.

It's a big one every year. And I figured, how can I miss some of the volleyball? Not hers, but like other friends, like, hey, come watch our daughter play. Oh. Nobody wants to do that. See, I thought you were being true to the show. working Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday from Dallas. This guy. That's only because you don't want to go and watch some other girls that you don't care about playing volleyball.

That might be part of it, Ross, but I'm true to the radio program. This whole time I was like, wow, Matt's showing some dedication. He's stepping up to the plate. I really appreciate this. You continue, you should continue to believe that. No. No, you're a fraud. I should have known. Sometimes there are ulterior motives to things. Back to Kim, back to Christian Walker. I mean, Rossi, I can add the OPS and slugging together.

I mean, I can have the on-baseball slugging. If I can do that, that's a problem. 640. I'm going to tell you what's a problem and where the brave stuff is starting to come shine through. I know you're not a wins above replacement guy, Matt, but he's at negative point nine. Explain what that is first before we're in.

I'll buy into it. Whatever you're going to tell me, I'll buy it. Best players in baseball are going to be like 7, 8, 9 wins above replacement into the season. above a replacement player, basically somebody from AAA who comes up. Basically a Cooper Hummel who's actually been pretty good. He's negative. You want a good player, like for example, right now Jeremy Payne is around four or five wins above replacement.

Positive. He's at negative point nine. As in he's been worse than a quadruplea quality player. So basically you're saying he's worse than John Singleton would have been. Yes. I had a home run last night for the Space Cowboys. How about that? Oh, boy.

We know he's going to mash in AAA. He always does this. If there was a AAA Hall of Fame, John Singleton's in the group, right? He's close. No, I don't think it's close. I think he's got a better case than Pedro Leon does. I think Tyler White's got a great case. Tyler White is a wonderful case.

He's hitting 376 in Sugar Land. Call him up. The Great White. Who else would be in the AAA Astros? David Hensley? I'm trying to think. Oh, Shay Wickham, for sure. She crutches.

Oh, yeah. But usually on the road. Cesar Azazazazar, maybe? Yeah. He's a baller. Can we go to the Sugar Land Space Cowboys franchise index? Well, you know that Robert Ford, our buddy, it got inducted into the Frontier League Hall of Fame. Is that independent or is that?

I don't know what that was. He was doing Kalamazoo Wings baseball, I think is what it was. Back when he was a youngster. Okay. Now he's a long established major league broadcaster. So if he can get the front, there's got to be a Hall of Fame of AAA, right? I hope so. He's like the Crash Davis of, uh, of, uh, of, uh, John Singleton is, yeah.

Yeah. John Singleton, over under and when he shows up in an Astro uniform this year. You want to set a date? Can you do it? You know there are Astros fans already calling from to be called up for Christian Walker. They're there, they're a, they're a monocical bunch. All right. That's where it's come.

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We'll have I just don't get it coming up at 1130 today. And mine is going to be a... my I just don't get it for maybe the fourth or fifth time I brought up this category on the show. So it'll be a repeat topic from at 1130 that just happened to me last night as I was leaving the TOTA center. Oh, real quick, guys. Matt, I got your question for my top song right now. And I don't know if you guys know these guys, but from the 70s, it's Seals and Crofts, summer breeze. That's my top jam right now.

You know what? If I could adopt you, I would. You like to talk to, I'm telling you. See, we have those little days. I'm telling you. Matt loves those. 70 soft hits. It's a jam.

I'm in the car every morning. Matter of fact, come back in the next break of that song. That's hilarious. I got you. Summer breeze. You've been hanging out with Matt too long. It's infecting your brain.

Jonathan, I never thought I could take in somebody underneath my wings, but I'm going to take you underneath my wings. I'm going to send you to how you've never been before. I'm telling you, this song is a, I listen to it every morning.

That's interesting. You know what? I'm going to put a moratorium on talking about your girl on a ranch dressings for one month now, now that I know this song is one of your favorites. God bless you. God bless you. That's what it took. That's what it took. All right. So last night,

Ross, the draft took place, and I think after Cooper flagged, no one cared, right? I mean, basically, we're brutally honest here? Yeah, and basically half the Rutgers roster who had a losing record. How does Rutgers have two top five picks, and they suck to know in? I don't know. How did Coward get drafted,

by the way? Colin Coward got drafted? Dick Gower got drafted. Good for him. Yeah, what an odd NBA draft. I mean, it was just, again, when you have

college basketball just does not resonate to the general public because there are so many players that you can't build any sort of relationship with it in terms of following because they're won and done. And that's just what the league is all about.

And like I said, like Stefan Castle, was a rookie of the year in the NBA. Okay? And he played really well for a San Antonio team that wasn't great, but they were better than they were the previous year. And obviously Wembe helped that a lot of that way as well, right? Stefan Castle, I had no idea who Stefan Castle was three years ago. Now, I know he helped Yukon Win a National Championship,

but I'm not really paying a whole lot attention to Yukon basketball. Did you know that? I mean, Dylan Harper is Ron Harper's son. Did you know that? Yes. You did, okay. But, I mean, I heard it. few weeks ago or something it was some kind of drafting vj edgecom went to baler played against my cougars twice

twice got his ass beat twice sorry to hear about that but it is what it is concanepel i knew because our family watches 30 duke games a year so i knew exactly who it was and then this other ruttgart's kid ace bailey who apparently told rossie told everybody i don't want to talk to you uh-huh and one of the teams he didn't want to talk to i mean didn't want to visit didn't want to have a zoom didn't want to like Text chats. Yes. Was the Utah Jazz? And they drafted him.

He did not want to end up in Salt Lake City. They said, shut your bum ass up. Get over here. There's a couple other ones. One, the ninth pick, South Carolina's Colin Murray Boyles. Wait, why are you skipping Longhorn legend Trey Johnson? Why didn't you respond to me when I texted poor Trey Johnson when he got picked by the Wizards?

What did you say? I said, poor Trey Johnson. I didn't see. I was busy. Did you just see the guy? I don't know what team got. I think he got to the Raptors. and he like said a death bomb.

Okay, I was about, I'm just about to mention his name and you were on. You got ahead of me. I pulled it. I pulled the Ross my bad. No, hold on. That's a mat. No, I just said Colin Murray Boyle's name. I didn't mention the team. I mentioned a school. Let's see. Where's poor Trey Johnson?

I don't see. Group check. Oh, see, it was in a group. I missed it. And no response, no ha-ha. No, I understand it. I'll drop a ha-ha on it right now. No, it's not, it's too late. So here, even though Jonathan, my new son got way ahead of me here, is the knife pick of South Carolina. First of all, I found out that South Carolina Ross only won six games last year.

Is that bad? I don't think it's good, especially when you probably fatten up with a non-conference game. You know, you're like playing Central Missouri in your first game or something. Georgia State. So I don't know. I want everyone to spend two minutes of their day today going to YouTube. and looking up what Colin Murray Boyle's reaction was when he was picked by the Raptors at 9.

Because the prevailing thought is, as soon as he got drafted, he dropped an F-bomb. Now, AI can certainly affect things. We're not the greatest lip readers, but I would have to say, I think he did drop an F-bomb as soon as he got drafted.

So you have... You think he was mad about the Raptors? I don't know. Did he say... Why would you say F? Have you seen the video, Ross? Yes, I've seen the video. What do you think?

I mean, if you think it isn't, then I'm moving on. Maybe he thought he was going to go before 9, and he thought he was sad that he slipped that far. He's like, he was just happy that he stopped slipping. Because here's the thing, if you go Google search, Connemary Boyles, two things are going to happen. They're going to... You're going to see the viral reaction he got.

and then you're going to look at his girlfriend for a couple of minutes. Holy smokes. She seems nice. Oh, she plays at South Carolina, too? Yes. She's a first rounder in my book. She's a lottery pick. She might be the Cooper flag of this year's draft.

What kind of draft, Matt? Of talented players from South Carolina? Uh-huh. So apparently he had to go clarify his reaction after dropping the EFB. Yeah, what did he say? What was his excuse? Let's see if I can find it. The number one headline is clarifying it.

Oh, he said, just disbelief. What I said was not a bad thing by any means. Thankful. Believe him, Ross, or not? Toronto was the first team that I worked out for. What I said was not a bad thing. Just very thankful. Maybe he was a relief.

You never drop an F bomb when you're, relieve Matt? You know what? I have. See? But it wasn't in a public setting wearing a tuxedo. So, he was just upset about the tax bracket he's going to be in now in Toronto? He's probably upset about, you know, it is a pain he asks to travel there. You have to go through customs every single time.

When you're an NBA player, the Raptors, you don't get any special treatment. By the way, you can renew your passport online. Super easy. Just did it last week. Oh, thank you. I got to do my mind runs out in September. Mine goes in October, so I just wanted to knock that out. Okay.

So here's what I want changed. How do we pronounce the Duke player that got picked by the Rockets last night? Maluk, Malach. It is common Malawak. Malawak. And he was tearing up. He was very blessed. I believe he was in the Sudan, if I'm not mistaken, worked his rear end off to get to the NBA.

good for him. Yeah, the NBA Academy Africa project. I mean, what a very nice story. So he gets picked number 10. Mm-hmm. And he gets to shake the commissioner's hand, like those players that do they get invited to the draft. And he has to put a rocket cap on.

This has to end. I thought somebody said they weren't going to have to make them put on a rocket cap. It's not fair to the kid. I mean, it's not a big deal, though. I don't think. I think it is a big deal. Is it? Oh, you put a half a cap.

on. Oh, poor guy. Oh, you're going to be a millionaire and you had to put a hat on for five seconds. I don't see it that way. Okay. I see it as he is a Phoenix son. Hmm. Oh, this poor baby, he had to put on a hat. Everybody knows? I don't know. It doesn't bother me. It just got to start. Yeah, I wish they wouldn't do it. But I mean, nobody's dying over it. My resolution is this. And you tell me if this sounds okay. If you know you're being traded in this draft literally this trade happened what three days ago having wear a lottery hat an NBA draft

hat or an NBA logo hat. Yeah NBA logo hat makes the most sense I was thinking the same thing that's that's all I'm saying Ross is that don't deprive him of the opportunity to put a hat on and take it because those pictures will be taken for the rest of his life I mean I still see pictures all the time of all those great NBA players putting their hats on

when they're on for the team for the very first time I'll tell you one reason they wouldn't do that I just thought of it in case the trade doesn't go through well that's one but also because they make these drafts hats specifically for the draft and people like to buy them. And if you're a Rockets fan

and you happen to be watching it and you're like, oh, you know what? That hat looks good. I want to buy that hat. It's kind of a showcase of the draft hats. Oh, so basically then... It's marketing. Because the Rockets don't have a draft pick

that's really theirs, you wouldn't be able to see the Rockets. Yeah, you're not going to sell any Rockets draft hats and nobody knows what they look like. I never thought of it that way. Yeah, I don't know if that's part of it. Because I remember that happened to me There was like four or five years ago

I was like oh my god those hats are amazing and I bought one So Maybe they get rid of the hat in general Or are too many kids Are too many kids wearing the hats? Oh I mean have you seen some of these people Do buy like 7,000 hats? Like two heads for like happy people

Exactly Yeah what do you call what do you call hat sneaker heads? I don't even know Hat heads but that makes sense The hat goes on your head? I don't know We'll figure it out It's a good question We're going to figure that out

All right we're going to a little summer breezeman come back. It makes me feel fine. 1045 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you'd like to chime in, 713-212-5-7-90. See the curtains hanging in the window in the evening on the Friday night. Ross, next time to do a karaoke, we should do a duet to this song. Ross, you got to try, though.

Am I going to be Seals or Croft? Croft. Okay. Does Croft sing? I don't even know if either one of them, line. Flowing through the Jasmine in my mind. Hmm. All right. Okay.

As you hear this song, would you like to play Guess Who is a cleanup hitter today for the Astros? Okay. One of Seals and Croft is alive. Guess which? Croft. Crofts. Crofts. Excuse me. Crofts. Uh, yes, that is correct. And how old is he?

James Seals died in 2022. Mm, RAP. And, Crofts is 86. 86. What a life. I think he's doing the casino circuit? Can you do?

I think he's in a wheelchair. You don't know that? Maybe he's walking too much. Dude, I can't even find a Wikipedia page just for him. It's only Seals and Crofts. Well, I mean, does John Oates have a Wikipedia page? Because I know, you know, Daryl Hall certainly does. I don't know.

Our Garfunkel's probably got one, even though, Paul Simon became the star of that group. How is there no page for Daryl Crofts? You don't know. You don't know that. I'm serious. I'm putting it in and it's only Seals and Crofts. He's the one that outlived Seals and he can't get his own Wikipedia page.

Something's wrong. Their Wikipedia page is only like two paragraphs as well. Why are you on Wikipedia? What do you mean? That's my jam. This is how I write, believe it or not, every day. Yeah. What do you mean?

Wikipedia's your best friend. imagine when Wikipedia we were in high school how easy our term paper would be you guys will get a fact check it yeah no maybe it's a horrible it's mostly it's mostly good I fact check stuff when it sounds crazy who has better accuracy home put umpires in major league baseball or Wikipedia Wikipedia man that's harsh now that's after something happens like somebody will be like oh the astros it's they list them as the owner of the

Yankees but generally the people the the Wikipedia nerds don't let that go They ban and block people and they take it very seriously. Yeah, and they always ask me for money, and I have never given Wikipedia a dime yet. Oh, I've given them money. Have you really? Absolutely. Good for you. Why not, Matt?

Because I always think of other people that probably deserve my charitable donut. I use them every day. Yeah. It's almost like a service. Exactly. I use them every day, so I try to support. All right. Rossi, let's get to it.

Name today's cleanup here for the Local Nine. Oh, I already saw the lineup. Sneaky Snake Jake is once again batting cleanup for the Astro. What's the problem? There's no problem because the Astros are 47 and 33. So I don't see any problems. I just see it's another one of those. Again, if I would have told you Jake Myers was going to be in the series against this week batting twice and five days batting cleanup.

And I told you that in February. you'd have been like, okay, literally half the team is on the injured list or quit or got traded, right? Or they all got a stomach flu. Yeah. Little food poisoning ravaged the Astros Clubhouse. Yeah, that would probably be my thinking. So if you're Joe Espada and you're putting Christian Walker who's batting six today. Or if you're Dana Brown, I guess it's better for Dana.

You go up to Christian Walker. I mean, do you see how much I'm paying you? and you can't bat higher in the I need my manager trust Jake Myers to get one more A-B in the game than you that's Wouldn't that be the momentum

The motivator? The motivator to go Yeah I gotta start hitting here I mean I'm sure Christian Walker Jake Myers are bros But I mean Jake Myers having a really good season Career year offensively

Yeah 3.07 766 OPS Get your ass in the sixth spot Yiner? Christian Walker. And Christian Walker, too. Yonner's better, seventh. Yeah, I'm sorry, Yiner's is seventh.

And by the way, when did the left field spot become de Jure? Cooper Hummel's in left. Taylor Tremel was there last night. And Al-Tubei, again. A lot of deaching for him. I love Jose Al-Tube. I like it a lot because he's not good in the field. And, you know, I'm sure there's communication between Jose, like, man, I know.

I've lost a step. I'll do whatever you want, but I know I'm probably better serve as a DH. Now, when Yoron gets back, that's going to be how much, who's going to be DHing primarily when Yorah gets back, whenever he gets come back. All right, Ross, if you are a subscriber to the athletic. I am. And you're a fan of one at Chandler Rome. I am. He has given us a little precursor into how Jeremy Pena has decided to go about things.

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This is the final hour of the show. So if you would like to come in, let your voice be heard at 7-13-212-5-790. You 10 o'clockers, your 11 o'clock is a little slow to wake up. But come on in, we are here. We are friendly. We are ready to talk with you about all things. Astros baseball.

Russell, the on deck at 12. First pitch with Hunter Brown. The co-ace. Is he co-a-e? or the ace. I say co-aise at this point. Because Framber has had two months of excellent baseball.

It's been, yeah, it's been a neck-and-neck race right now. Good problem to have. Yeah, I would say, okay, Matt, let's do it. Playoff series starts today. All right, I got an answer, by the way. One, two, three in the answer, okay?

Ready? Mm-hmm. One, two, three. Fromber. I didn't hear you. You're such a flaw. Seriously. Let's do this again.

Here we go. Here we go. Stand by. One, two, three. Hunter. You just changed your mind five seconds ago. I know. It's a good problem to have.

It's a great problem to have. You know, honestly, my guess is it could come down to who's needed in the last week of the season. If you don't need those last games, then you can set your rotation the way that you want to. If you need one of those two guys to help you win, like the last week of the season, the Astros go to Sacramento. into Anaheim. If you need them at any point in those series, especially in the last four or five days, then maybe that would affect, well, actually, no, because if let's say the Astros of the two seed, then you would skip the long card.

But just acting today, you say Hunter over Framber. Again, I can't argue with you. Either one of them would be fine to me. I'm with you. The only reason why I probably would lean Frommberg is because he is the more veteran of the two, kind of a hat-tip kind of situation. I get that. Also, I mean, I think it would mean, depending on the matchup and who would be,

if it's a more lefties, possibly lefty stacked lineup, then you probably want Frommberg to get more turns through the rotation. I'm trying to think. Yankees have a couple lefties, but not a ton. I think do the Tigers have a bunch of lefties up in their lineup? I think so. I think they do. Okay.

By the way, speaking of the tigers. Speaking of former Aces for the Astros, I don't know if you've paid any attention to this or not, because I didn't really do any of it until I happen to see something on the 4U tab. The 4U tab and I are getting along okay. It's tailored to you, Matt. That's fine. But it does help in some respects because there's going to be some things I'm not going to pay attention to that. I happen to see this and go.

Do you know who's 0 and 5 with his new team? Oh, and five with his new team. No, I don't. Justin James Verlander. Well, okay, he's back from his injury. He has made 12 starts. His ERA is 4.52. I think he pitched yesterday.

I'm going to go back and look in just a second. But he has been a giant for, what, three months? Yeah, I have his stats. What are you looking for? Just how he was last, did he pitch yesterday? 12 starts. Okay, I can pull up the game log. He's got a 452 ERA and 12 starts,

and he has a negative war, by the way. He pitched yesterday, no, two days ago. Five innings. One that series, too, I think. Five innings, three earned runs. Not quality. Nope. As the five of Major League Baseball.

So he signs that contract. He's trying to figure out his future. he signs with the Giants and he's not won a game yet. Now, granted, some of that could be, I'm going to presume that some of that is bad luck. Yeah, it looks like he said like four quality starts and won any of those.

But can you imagine here is a guy that is, I mean, he's first bout Hall of Fame, right? Of course. Okay. And you know how there are sometimes that players stick around too long and there's been plenty of examples of him? Are we going to look at the last couple of years

of Justin Verlander and go, did you are you just here for the paycheck and the answer would be yes I think he's I think he in his mind thought he was going to get 300 wins he ain't getting 275 bro no

262 he's sitting on guess where he was sitting on March the 5th 262 guess where he's sitting on June 26th 262 I mean my goodness that's tough

All right, one more thing before I go to the phones. So our friend of the show, Chandler Rome, I mean, he's, he's, he, what is he, is he our cranky second cousin? Hmm. I'm going to go first cousin. Yeah. I, I, and I don't mean to adore men, but I adore Chandlerone, because he's, there's just, he's just, there's no, there's no one like him. He's very unique. He's great.

And I like to be really good at his job. Really good at his job. Really. there's no sugar-coding, there's hard work, it's putting phone calls, it's making connections, and he's unique,

and I like to be around unique people. I don't work with enough unique people in my life, but Chandler's certainly one of them. So, I would invite you to, first of all, subscribe to the athletic. It's not the daily,

Astros won this, this happened this. It's kind of, it's behind the scenes, it's not necessarily analytical, but it gives you, it doesn't give you the rip-and-read headline. It gives you some thought

of what's happening behind the scenes, scenes on all the sports. They do a really nice job. You're a better, more well-informed sports fan if you read the athletic, I feel like that. That is exactly right. So he's talking about, and I've not read it all the way through, but I've read a little couple of the paragraphs this morning about how Jeremy Payne and Carlos Correa have this offseason worked out a lot together.

And basically, Cardinals Coria is like, man, you're going to go to the All-Star game. You're going to become one of the premier short stops of this game. And it made me think. how much did Carlos Correa whisper into the ear of Jeremy Pena if you have a good season, you need to make a change in your agency. Because this offer, I'm sure that Jeremy told Correa how much he was getting offered by the Astros.

And Carlos Correa, I mean, say what you will, ended up with good, really, really good money, but didn't cash in, He was going to the highest bidder. Was it the Giants in the Mets at one point before he couldn't pass physicals? Is that right? Well, the two teams, I thought. Yes.

I don't know how much money he's missed out, though. I mean, he'd been making over $30 million a year. He's probably looking for like $300 million in 10 years. He's looking for the 10-year deal, you're right? Yeah, but he's, I mean, he's been gone since 22, and he's made over $30 million every year. And Karea's, he signed a four or five-year deal this off season, right? So, yeah, he actually has, yeah.

So he's, it's, it's. just not he's not hitting in the one big deal. He's getting in his little chunks. He's getting more than whatever the aster. What was it? They said it. What was it like $6.150, I think? Yeah. But my deduction is, is that I bet you,

bro to bro, player to player, competitor to competitor, friend to friend, he's probably going, go kick ass and go get an agent who's really going to get you the big money. And that's why it's not ironic that in the middle of an all-star season,

his best offensive year, that the word comes out that Jeremy Payne has got new representation. It kind of all, Ross, the puzzle pieces are kind of being put together here. I mean, yeah, that's what Jeremy Payne should do. Yeah.

And meanwhile, he's probably going to his old agency, man, I was worth more than 5105, but at that point in his career, he wasn't. Yeah. It's, it's, he's having this huge career renaissance right now. And we'll see where it goes. And honestly, I defend the Astros

and I defend Major League Baseball in this. As I talked about with you yesterday, Ross, if you overpay him, people are going to be like, what the hell are you doing? And then as soon as the guy steps up a little bit in his game, and Jimmy's been a good Astro,

but this season season, he's been a great Astro, right? He's one of the best players in baseball right now. One of the best of baseball. Should no doubt about being on the All-Star team. That makes a difference, but he's got a chance to do a variety of postseason superlatives.

You take a half year of this and he gets to take that half season and turn it into a financial windfall for him for the foreseeable future after having a couple of good but far from great seasons. It's very unique. It's very interesting. The career arc of Jeremy Payne.

To where we thought this was going to happen three years ago. It does benefit the player. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, you hit I mean, he's been a, he's been gold glove than quality and a really good shortstop this whole time. But when he was World Series and ALCS MVP, we thought he was just going to, he was just on a freight train to superstard him. And it took a couple of years.

And then the offensive aggression, and then a resurgence, and now everyone's worried about keeping him a couple of years from now. We weren't even thinking about that before the season started. Yeah, Correa was different. I mean, he was a number one overall pick, phenom, he was an all-star by the age of 22. Payne is 27? He's definitely older,

because he didn't start as a major league until he was 24. So there is a... He'll be 28 in September. Yeah, there is a little bit of a balance of what benefit, does the current financial situation benefit the team? Clearly, again, if you've got to be with a team for six years, unless you get traded. Which is crazy.

The players feel like, you know, what, this is not fair to us. And I do agree with them. I mean, six years a long time. But then you have a guy that has had two good seasons, but one great half, and all of a sudden, you've got a fan base, and you've got a new agent, and you've got this dollar amount that is astronomically projected to be astronomically high. What if that comes into play or not? Who knows? But it is interesting to me that maybe Carlos Correa was able to whisper in the ear of Jeremy Pena. If you're good, go get an agent who's even better than you.

And Scott Boris is that guy. 1113 on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. If you'd like to join us, 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-2-2-790. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, I just don't get it. What don't you get? I mean anything in your life, whether it be sports, whether it be your relationship, whether it be your best friends at work, whether it be your bros down the street.

you just don't get it. What do you want to know? 713-212-5-90. Matt Ross with you on Sports Talk, 790. Our time is 1119. 7-13-212-5-7-9. If you want to jump into the conversation, 7-1-2-5-7-90.

Gary is a new cany at 1119. Gary, what do you have today? Hey, Matt, this is Gary. I called you Friday on the... I'm sorry. And I talked about your wife meeting her at the country club, and I have felt so bad all weekend and all week that I want to call and apologize to you. Well, that was nice. That was out of line, out of line.

So I listen to you every day. Well, thank you very much. I don't want you fretting over anything. We're family on this show. Well, I appreciate it, sir. All right. Thanks, ma'am. How about that?

Huh. Wow. Yeah. Thanks, Gary. Yeah. I mean, he made him at him. my wife at the country. I don't think he did, but he came to apologize anyway. Good for him. That was awesome.

You're right back there? No. By the way, the Astros have a TBA as they're starting for Saturday's game against the Cubs. Joe Espottis telling the local media down the ballpark that it could be Lance McCullery's. Oh! Okay tomorrow. That's good. He's been throwing off a mound, right? Doesn't want to rehab? Start. You'll have some more news with that with Brian McTacken. We joined you in about an hour from now.

Perhaps. Stay tuned. For the Astros on deck show. We want you to stay with us all day long. Now, if you want to turn it off after the game is over, that's fine. But at least until the Astros game is done. No, you should listen. It'll be the A team.

And then it'll be a Crawford boxcast special edition with Dan Matthews and Kevin Eshenfelder. Now, wait a minute. The Crawford Boxcast is usually with you and Gordie. What's going on with that? Oh, I was tabbed. I got called up to the big leagues today, Matt. Yeah, I know you're going to be doing something with Sunny.

Sunny 99.1, yes. The first seven people they have to do it, couldn't do it. So I'm ready, baby. We're going to rock the dock at the Kema Boardwalk. Now, are you introducing somebody or what's going on? There's a 90s band. It's called Joy Lux. We'll also be giving away some scratch-off tickets via the Texas lottery.

It's presented by the Texas lottery. There's going to be a 90s band. There's going to be, I mean, it's rock the dock on the Kima Boardwalk. Should be fun. Good timeout. there i'll be there starting at six o'clock at the kema boardwalk and how long you're planning and staying uh for as long as they're paying me two hours so at 801 you're out of the chema boardwalk okay yeah should i get a room down there and just get hammered i mean it's a long

i'm aware i mean it's really long in that area i mean you could ask just mctaggart lives like ten minutes a man why don't you know yeah can i sleep on his couch i won't throw up on it Brian? Yeah. Oh, boardwalk. Boardwalk ends, 130 a night. That ain't happening. Is someone that on the couch?

170? I think, Jonathan, I think Ross is thrown up on couches before. He was just kind of a little precursor on that. No, I haven't thrown up on a couch in years. Six weeks? There you go. No, years. It's been years.

How about this? How about this one? Last time you threw up, period. I got a stomach bug about Yeah, I did two Months ago. Mine was not alcohol related. I want to say it was about 18 months ago And it was it was

Both ends It wasn't pleasant I got one for you I'll tell you who it was too It was uh Do not folks at the end of the night By the Pokeable from Rach Rie Re You got a Poked you got a midnight

Pokey Bowl? Yeah, I'm sorry It was a mistake I was so sick. I was taking a shower because I had thrown up somebody. I was trying to eat something healthy. I was trying not to eat. I was not trying to get like a large pizza.

But yeah, the place was closing in like five minutes. It was bad idea. Rockonell is your friend at midnight. What are you doing? Come on. Yeah, because your stomach would have been used to that.

I was trying to keep it low cal, high protein. Pokey Bowl. Didn't work that well for you. No. Thanks for giving us the update on both ends. It did work out. I lost about six pounds. Okay.

Did someone hold your head? during the whole thing or why? No. Do you just let it like when you're like, you know, do you just let it fall in your face and you're just in distress? In distress?

Yeah. I don't know. I'd normally, I would say I keep my hair up 90% of the time. The keynote great relationship, a little mat pro tip for you, is when your girl is sick, hold her hair.

Yeah, I've been there. Tell me I'm wrong, ladies and gentlemen. Alex on 790-11. 25. Alex, good morning. Man, boys, y'all are hitting some serious points for me. I came in with one thing and now I've got like five things I want to talk about, but I understand. Dude, midnight food calls are

really actually a critical moment in your day. About 10 years ago I was visiting some friends in Corpus and you know, we were drinking, we had some beers, we stopped at as stripes and I got a barbiccoa taco around midnight. Oh, God. Oh, God. Now, I'm pro-strived tacos, but not 1 a.m. tacos.

The other things have been sitting there since about 6.30. You know that, right? Come on, Matt. Let me live in my innocence. So, yeah, no, around 1 a.m., they showed back up, and it was pretty rough for a couple hours. But, dude, so y'all know I've gone through some insurance problems and some car problems and everything. And about April 25th, I was riding my Harley on my lunch break on a Friday to my mechanic. to my mechanic to get something

and the guy pulled out in front of me. I teaboned him, completely his fault, broke both legs, was in the hospital for a while. And my buddy's staying with me to help me out because I can't do everything quite great yet. And he got a stomach bug, dude. While I'm in the middle of having two broke legs and so he can't do anything, man.

It was the worst. For like two days, I'm going back and forth to HV like hobbling in and out, trying to get pediolite and all these things. It was horrible. I don't wish that on anyone. But going back to your Justin Verlander conversation, y'all are honestly making me think that y'all are going to get,

y'all are going to get Crane's attention talking like this because if Lance doesn't come back strong, if Spencer has any issues, what's to stop Crane from going, hey, let's go ahead and let's try it one more time. No change. No way. You know Jim Crane is in love with Justin Burlander. You know it is. Yes, he is. But he also let him go two different times.

Don't worry about it. Do not sweat this out. Jim Crane would polish Justin Verlander's white belt if Justin left. Oh, the white belt is a key. I give you that. That's a good point on your part. No chance. No way. No how. Thanks, Alex. We'll see it. Rossi, no chance. No way, no how. It ain't happening. Not the way that your fill-ins are pitching. I mean, Brandon Walter had a good start. He is ERAs better than Justin Verlanders.

Probably the same, at least in the same area for Ryan Gusto and whoever. they're trying to send her the tax and those guys are on league minimum not a $15 million deal which of course will be prorated at this point but still no that that time has passed let me get to uh john on 790 1127 hi john hey yeah yeah uh i had a question with all this free agency you know with the rocket's talk and all this going on uh okay for instance if uh you know somebody signs in New York for $100 million compared to signing in, you know, in Texas for like $80 million.

Supposed it kind of evens out because of the taxes, but what if a player does sign here for $80 million but gets traded? Does that kind of like screw him over later or do they keep the same agreement and like the same taxes? No, if you work in a different state, you have to adhere to their tax rules. Oh, so that the player will get screwed basically

if they get traded. Yeah, that's a good point. why generally players don't factor that in. No, they don't. Thank you, John. Although I think Corbyn Burns did when he signed with Arizona instead of Toronto. Yeah, I don't know if players necessarily are wiggin out about it when they hear about it. Usually if you're getting traded, it's, well, I didn't say that because sometimes you are going to a worse place.

You know, that's something I hadn't thought a whole lot about yet, but you make the money in which the state in which you work. I mean, you're going to get taxed. Yeah. Well, yeah, even if you're like a road. games, they play the taxes. I know you knew this, Matt, but just telling the people, the road games, you make like, for example, when the Astros

go and play in Sacramento, then there, it's in California. The money they earn is under California tax law. But so you get... Jay and Green is going to be under Arizona tax rules now, because even though he's on the contract in Texas, he is an employee... It's where you play. Right. And that's for the 41 home games.

Right. Let's real quick get to Jason. Before we get to, I just don't get it. Hi, Jason. Hey, guys, hey, look, I got a, I'm making a lot of money, bet, and look at this, with the bullpen, with the starters, with no yordawn, as long as we're not playing in Sacramento or Tampa, take the under. I bet it's hitting, I don't know what it is, but I'm making a lot of money. I bet that's hitting 70% of the time on after a game. Got to be. Probably recently.

But, Jason, I was in Vegas two weeks ago, and I took the over, and I won. So I think it just depends on the pitching matchup, doesn't you think? Well, I look at Gordon. Look at the game the other day. I mean, what I'm saying is as long as it, which game was that you were betting on? Was that the one in Sacramento? No, I was betting the game at home against who were they playing. It was an Astros Friday game.

Now it's going to bug me. I'm going to look it up. Hold up. Stay where you are. Oh, Minnesota. They were up. The over-under was eight and a half, and they had gotten to 10 by the third inning, total. Which is, that's very surprising with Minnesota, because they've,

had no offense all season. See? By the way, today's a stay-away game for me. Stay away. Sorry about your gerbil. No, I already took the under. Hamster. Thank you.

It was a hamster. Thank you very much anyway. By the way, I want to give a real quick shout. I know we're like, Rossi, so many nice people have worried about our hamster. That's great. He's still with us. Even though he did was bite anybody. He's still in the freezer.

Did we get him down? No, he's still in the freezer. He's in a zip lock bag. He's fine. Oh, man. That is. And covered up. so we don't even know what's going on in there.

Oh, come on. Ted Williams' heads frozen. Why can't I keep my... Nobody's eating ice out of Ted Williams' freezer. You don't know that? I can presume. He's in the same freezer as your fridge. I think Ted Williams is a little more iconic than cheeks. We have two refrigerators and a freezer.

He is in the freezer freezer freezer. All right. This is a little better. I'm not eating anything out of there. That's bad juju. You got haunted ice cream bars. So you're saying you wouldn't eat my bluebell? No.

That's a stay away for me. By the way. Over Under is a stay away from today's game, by the way. No feel whatsoever on this game. Oh, really? Stay away. You know how I am. I'm Mr. Over Under.

Stay away from this one. Seven and a half. Stay away. Okay. Ross, give it out. Let's say you do. Let's go 1 and 0 today. What do you got, Ross?

What do you got? Over under. I don't know. Christopher Sanchez. haters probably going to be down probably a break can be back you just use a lot of the bullpen

if I had to lean I lean over if I had to lean but I'm toast on you tell you to stay away okay stay away slightly lean over

but just stay away what don't you get we're asking you now 713-212 5-790 do you have something in your life that you just don't get no need to worry

no need to fret we see if we comprehend the things that may confuse our friends it's time to say I just don't get it 713-215-790 7-1-3-212-5-790 what don't you get I got two things one Kenny and Katie backs this up

Ross I don't get how a guy who is running for the gallery would jump from one level of the other thinking he's going to land on the ice of the gallery and be just fine I just don't get that you know what's so funny I'm editing your clip for this. You're talking about that?

I don't get how that he thinks that would end well for him. I don't really get it either, but I mean, I guess first of all, probably very young and stupid. Watching too many movies? You just watch the Jason Bourne trilogy or something? He's obviously

seen too many Mission Impossibles because that guy's jumping all up from plane to playing without any issues, so he's thinking, well, what's one one Florida mall? yeah i don't get that man you gotta take the l you gotta put those sunglasses back and just say you apologize spend the night in the hammer in the uh in the prison the jail and be done with it right now he's got two legs that don't work yeah extra charge i mean shoplifting's got to be a pretty minor misdemeanor right no he got

evading police as well now yeah exactly what i'm saying like if if he had just sat there he wouldn't have broken legs and he wouldn't have extra charges yeah and then he he's at the hospital. He's like, well, you know, the hot nurse comes in and says, hey, what happened, man? I'm so sorry. What did you do? Oh, I jumped from the second floor to the first, the Gallagheria,

because I was running from cops. That can get you no brawny points. None. Number two. Guys, I left Toadena Center last night after the rocket's draft experience. And what do I always complain about on 59 or else? That would be street racing. Why are we street racing at 830 on a.

Randow Wednesday night in Houston, Texas. Nice. I mean, just the on-ramp onto 59 outside of Diken Park, I get on, I get in the right lane. I'm getting up to about 65, 66, 66, 67. I'm going to get in the middle lane and enjoy my nice drive home. Listen to some yacht rock, call it a day. Listen to the Astros. And boom, five cars are just going at 110 miles an hour, whisping by me left and right.

I just don't get street racing A and B in Houston, Texas, and C, at 8.30 at night. I mean, 1 o'clock in the morning, do what you want to do, crash. I don't care. But don't do it when there are people out in the streets. I just don't get it. I guess it's just young kids looking to live life, Matt. I tell you this, I used to go to the street races back of the day. Shout to the folks who used to go to the Rankin Road on the north side.

Let me guess Well, sometimes one time some guy There was an argument and a guy pulled out of gun Everybody was like, all right, we're out of here Gunfire, knives, all sorts of stuff Oh, there was fights. It was fun. Yeah, ranking room.

I used to go to some street racing on Katie Clodine back in the day But that was also in 1987 when people were It was a much safer time Used to do what now? Go down on Katie Clodine. road out in way Clodine. B-F-E, Katie, yeah.

I mean, way deep back in the... And there'd be street races back there? Yeah, but there was nobody within miles of the place. Okay. So, if you had the need for a street race, go 40 miles outside the city limits and call... Like, go hang out New Waverly. You can street race New Waverly.

Nobody's there. And just don't street race in general. I would agree with that. Not worth it. Not worth it. Rossi, what don't you get? I don't get our old friend Aaron Rogers. Did you see what he said

on the Pat McAfee show? That he's going to retire after this year? Not only that. He said, quote, by the way, on a nationally televised show that he goes on, I don't want the attention. I know that's a narrative out there.

When this is all done, it's Kaiser Soze. That's a usual suspect's reference, man. I know you didn't see that movie. But he basically disappeared. You won't see me. I won't be in the public. I don't want to live a public life. Are you serious, Aaron Rogers? That's a shut your bum ass up.

I just don't get it. I don't get him. How does he think that? We don't do those on Wednesday, but maybe that's a perfect case. You could. When I'm done, I'm done. You won't see me, and I'm looking forward to that. I got news for Aaron.

Did he have a gun to his head while he's on the Pat McAfee show? We're never going to care about you again. Here's the one thing that professional athletes don't seem to understand, generally speaking, when you're done playing for our favorite teams, we take you out like trash. Time marches on, Aaron. Yeah. Well, you are utterly forgettable.

Well, he's one of the old-time greats. He is, but there have been a lot of all-time greats that are utterly forgettable. Top-12-ish quarterback of all-time. Who's the greatest defensive point guard in the history of the NBA? Gary Payton? Yeah, do we think about Gary Payton? Not really, no. What's he?

Well, he carried about his son. His son playing for the war. lawyers causing me headaches. That's true. Just saying, we don't typically care about you when you're done. You know what? That's rude, Matt. These are human beings and you're just throwing them into the trash.

Accurate. Jonathan, what don't you get? I don't understand. Not that I'm getting older. I don't understand. Wait a way to time out. How old are you again? I'm 22 guys.

When's your birthday? You are not old. You cannot say as I'm getting older until you're 35. Shut your bum ass up on that. Your birthday is in three days? No, in August. Oh, August. But, you know, yeah, I'm getting older, and I'm realizing I don't understand the club.

Like in college. Oh, yeah. And you go to like a house party. You get, you know, like, it's, okay. All right, then you just think it translates. Oh, people go to the club. And then you realize it's these 40-year-old men flexing. Hey.

Jumping. Like, but you're not going there dropping by the, it's a waste of money. The club is the worst. And then you have other. side of inspection with the females that just think they're all of that. Dude, this isn't this. They don't have a W-2. And it's just weird. I don't, I don't

understand it. I'd rather go to a house party than go and wait in line where a bouncer might kick me out because I don't look enough. You know what I mean? I will say one thing. I was with you for the most part, but when I was on my trip in Korea, I had a high school friend of mine that I'd met up. He'd been living in Korea for years

and we went to the club and they, first of all, they paid for the bottles. I just showed up. And second of all, the DJ was playing like some of these old jams and we were all just kind of like having fun and jumping up and down and singing these stupid songs at top of our lungs it was fun that was like the most fun I'd have at a club like ever in my life If you're going there and you're like trying to hit on women and the music's too loud and it's music you don't even like. The club is the worst. But like in that instance, if you're just going out with the bros and enjoying some music and having a good carefree time, it's good. Like I'd rather go bar hopping than do that.

No, I get it. I'm just telling you that I was with you and then I had a really good time at a club in Etaywan, which is like the clubbing district in Seoul. Oh, well, I knew some people that went to Seoul for like a broad trip. they didn't come back the same it was fun I think I'm the same Ross is he the same is Matt okay I'm fine I just can't really to this conversation I don't go club hopping Ross

I don't even go pub crawling I'm saying if you're doing it with the right people and the right music and the right vibe it's good but you still spend way too much money but also bottles are way cheaper in in Korea I think you drop like three four hundred dollars in a bottle in a club in America it's ridiculous

They were like 80 to 100 bucks in Korea I've explained to my daughter, Carly, that when she turns 21 and we go to Vegas that she'll be able to get in and go into nightclubs when she wants to not pay for anything and probably get drinks for herself and all that and meanwhile, bro's got to pay $50 to get in and $25 for beers.

Yes. And that's the reason people go to the club too, Jonathan, to pick up women. I don't get it. That's what I'm saying. I don't understand. It's a weird feeling. Like, we're supposed to come out,

you know. Hey, where are you from? what's your sign? Oh, that's cool. Are you on IG? Yeah. You snap? And usually it's like the high girl's talking

just so you follow her on IG, then she's going to mute you. She's just looking to get her follow account up. Exactly. Speaking of a follower account, follow sports. RV. Empty.

RV. SportsMT on Instagram. At SportsMT on Instagram. And you know what? Follow Ross on Instagram, too. Yeah, I'm following everybody back until I get to 500 followers. So the next 55 people who follow me at Sports RV on Instagram, I'm following you back. And then he's going to unfollow you a month later.

Not true. I got breaking news on the IT. They just sent us a thing about why the Internet sucks. Oh, they did? Oh, we got the news coming up next. Breaking news about why 7 on these phone system sucks. How many sounders is that? Four.

15 at least. All right. Jimmy and Tubbo, we'll get to you. If you have something you don't get, we're here for you. 713-212-1-2-5-790 One of my sons' best friends, Chase, they had a birthday celebration for Cameron over the weekend and apparently eight bros went to a karaoke club and only three of them sang.

That's so lame. Five of the eight did not and Chase calls them bitches. I see shit. Now, if it's your idea, if you're just going along to the karaoke, and you don't sing, I think that's fair game. Is it a requirement if you go to a karaoke bar to you have to sing at karaoke? What if it wasn't your idea and you didn't really want to go, but everybody else is going, so you just go?

Then you don't have to do it. If you organize a karaoke, you've got to get up there. Yeah, if you're an organizer or you're a, hey, I'll go listen. If you're a, hey, I'm going listen, guy, but don't sing, then that makes it on you. But if you're going begrudgingly because you don't want to be by yourself and not be with your friends, then that's acceptable. but I would think 80% of the time you should sing

even if you went there even if it's one small song yeah just one song I got you like super bass by Nicki Minaj or something just to get it out the super bass

super what McNage that's got a lot of words probably Jimmy and Tomball Jimmy what don't you get so Matt but I don't go

well real quick first off back to your Galleria jumper ice jumper guy I'm just gonna I haven't seen a picture of the video just face sheer sheerly on the fact

that he's dealing for malls. I'm going to guess that he's not highly intelligent. And maybe he thought ice was soft like snow. And that's the only thing I could think of. But anyway. He thought it was a Christmas in July event. I guess so. But what I don't get, and just a couple minutes ago,

you told Jonathan, once you're over the age of 35, you can call yourself an old man. I just turned 39, so maybe I'm being an old man. But, and I'm not going to go political, I promise. but I believe in the right of constitutional right of freedom of speech and all that kind of stuff. But I do not get it. And if you want to peacefully protest on the side of the road or outside an establishment, you don't support. Fine.

But these protesters, man, now blocking traffic and beating up cars and, one, they're risking it and running over and hurt them own selves. And two, whatever agenda you're trying to push, it's not going to make me or most people sympathetic towards it. Like, I don't get it, man. You're not helping your own cause. you look like a bunch of thugs and idiots and you're in dangering yourself. I don't get it, man. Don't get it.

Rosal, let you handle that one. There are people who believe that if you want your protest to be heard that you kind of have to upset the apple cart. That if you are... Now, of course, I'm not one of these people. I'm just telling you you don't get it. I'm trying to explain it.

Especially when it comes to stopping traffic, like if 100 people get together in a park and then nobody's there and nobody cares, then does your protest get any publicity? No, and then do people know about your cause? No. And so if you do stop traffic, if you do kind of upset things and cause havoc or whatever,

then it brings more attention to it. But yeah, negative attention. I mean, so there are some people, I don't know if you say agents of chaos or whatever. And then there are some people that just join in on these things just because they want to go do these things, they don't care about the cause. They want to go set things on fire.

They want to go looting. They want to go do whatever. And so it's just, I don't know. It's been happening for years and protests and all that type of stuff. I mean, like the Boston Tea Party was a big ruckus back in the way, what? Back in the way back in the day, right? This is because they were destroying property.

If it was just like 50 guys in the square like, hey, we don't like taxation without representation. It wouldn't have got the publicity. We would have never heard about it. It would probably protest like that we'd never heard about. I got one. I was at real quick. I got 20 seconds. A friend of mine went to high school with.

Her name was Donna. And she got drunk at the prom, and she was not going to graduate from high school. All right. We had a huge protest, and we kept screaming, Donna Martin graduates. Donna Martin graduates.

And she did. So our protests worked. Oh, so the Morgan Flea movie. No. But also, you'll have situations where there are peaceful protesters and police decked out in riot gear sometimes most police officers are good

but sometimes there's one who wants to start stuff who will poke in prod who are looking to start violent confrontation and that's why I have a shirt that says don't start none won't be none is that what my shirt says Ross? Mm-hmm. Sure. I'm just disappointed at the Donna Martin thing

just went over everybody's head. I didn't go over my head, Matt. It was from that stupid show. Beverly Hills 902 and O. Back tomorrow to wait the strippers up at 10 o'clock.