The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Start 2nd Half Of The Season, Damian Willard Returns To Portland, KJR Softy Joins The Show

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

Astros Start 2nd Half Of The Season, Damian Willard Returns To Portland, KJR Softy Joins The Show

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. You're sick. Oh, I'll tell you. The faster Jonathan talks, the more we can interpret our own way. Interaction.

Interaction. I like to say erection is an interracial erection. I'm like, what? I mean, I have to look it back on it. I mean, that's a category on your... Ebony and Ivory, is nothing wrong with that matter. It's a category. That and the...

Okay. What? The stepbrother and the stepmom? All right. Are you doing this at 10.04 in the morning? No, I'm just saying it was just a category. On God's Day Friday? Good morning, everybody.

1004, Sports Talk 790. Isn't it it goes Friday? 45 seconds. It goes Friday. Oh, my God. goes Friday. Oh, man. Hey, Matt. I'm watching this British Open, or excuse me, the Open, and they're all, I mean, they're, they got heavy coats on. It can't be fun walking the course at 51 degrees or whatever it is. Oh, they're having a nice time of the Don't lose course in Northern Ireland. It's the Open Championship here. Scotty Schaeffler is on minus four through three. Do you think when we do Irish, Irish accents, that of, that's, that's, that's, that, that's, that, that's, that, that's, that.

Scottish sports host do American accents back to their audience? Probably, but those accents are much more fun and lively. The American accent is just flat. We have a boring accent. This is not fun. Right. It feels like to me that if you are doing, if you're doing Scottish radio in Edinburgh. Okay.

Well, I'll give you one. I think maybe they would do. And they probably do New York and Boston accents. I was going to go south. Oh, we could do that too, yeah. That's low hanging fruit. you can talk like this, Maddie. Right, right, right.

But, I mean, you can't do a Kansas City accent. Is there sports talk radio in Edenberg? I don't know. Now, I've done, I've been on London radio, but I don't know if it was sports radio yet. I was a prank call, actually. It wasn't? Oh, does that sound like they knew what they were talking about? But yeah, that's, I don't know if they get mad at it.

So if you're Irish, are you mad that we do the occasional? It's such a wonderful. Yeah. I'm honoring it, giving it reverence. Yeah. I mean, I'd like to try to do a four-hour show in an Irish accent. I think it would probably hurt. But I do appreciate, like, actors and actresses who are from other places.

Like, Shiv, we were talking about success. Shiv is from Europe. I don't know where she's from, but she has a very thick accent. And she goes with an American accent and she pulls it off. Okay. Yeah, I would say it feels like, almost 50% of working actors have European accents and then just do American acts. Doesn't Kate Winslet have a thick accent?

Yes. She's from England. You look like you're hesitant to verify that? No, yeah, yeah. She is, right? So it's maybe not as difficult as we think it is. Because both those ladies pulled off brilliantly. All right.

It is that anything goes Friday. Clearly. If you'd like to be a part of our radio show today, you may do so. we give you a long leash Monday through Thursday. The leash is extended on Friday. I got to tell you, by the way, our phone numbers are 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. What do you got to tell me, Matt?

The CEO and the woman. The memes. We're so good. They are absolutely going bonkers. Now, what I try to do, and it's impossible to do, because where we're trying to do an entertaining radio show. I try to think about the spouses. And so it's terrible. And I can't imagine being the spouses, being the, our husband and our wife being the joke of America, because they are the joke of America. I mean, everybody, even those

of people that are not, like, active on social media, are somebody showing somebody this. It's appearing on Facebook. And even people that are not on Instagrammers or on, on, Twitter or whatever or Snapchating. They're still seeing it on their Facebook feeds. It's taken over. It is, and by the way, the number one beneficiary of all this is that band. You can say it, Matt.

You don't want to give them any more shine? I feel like we're done. Cold play, they're not done. We took the loss yesterday, and we took it bad. Yeah, you said they were doing 10 days in a row in Wembley. Yeah, which is a huge stadium, right? 75, 80,000 people. So, I mean, yeah.

That's ridiculous. I thought you were going to say When you said, I got to tell you guys something I thought you're going to say You've changed your mind And you will never say another bad word about brisket No, brisket was good It was actually great

Thank you, I was going to impress you No, no, no We went to a place They don't spend money with us And frankly they don't need to Because they're always busy Oh my God So

We didn't, we She's Australian people are saying Oh, that's okay, whatever I knew it was somewhere not it was yeah so in Australian the great down under and yep so when Shib's doing

as native Australian and she's doing it that's amazing to me Sarah Snook why did you make that noise no I'm just saying mm that's mm that's mm as in

oh thanks for that yeah she's from Adelaide South Australia I miss succession I just do all right so what I watched it again didn't go anywhere

but I kind of know what's going to happen and now the dad second watch, man. And the dad is doing McDonald's commercials for the last five years. You want a four-piece nuggets

and a choice of a McChicken or a McDouble and fries and a drink for $5? Yeah, he's been a... A great actor for years. Let me tell you that's, I'll take that dude over that Burger King guy. Oh, the Burger King song? No, that's a bad guy.

I want to hit him. Oh, what? That's a jam. I can't stand it. You know what? Thank you. No. Oh, yeah, that's a jam. He's the one that's going freestyle. Want a wopper to run rings. Then you get it for $5. Then you shove it in your mouth.

Then you get sick. BK. Oh, hell no, I don't want to meet that guy. I want no part of BK guy. I told you he was the freestyle king, Jonathan. Jonathan kid focused up. I'm actually impressed. That was pretty funny.

No, I, now I will say this. has gotten a little tired. They have running into the ground. Wanna get a chicken sandwich, then you get some fries and then a chocolate chip cookie. Also, Jonathan, another thing, he like tends to run things into the ground. I'm done.

One more, well, Oh, here we go. We'll talk Astros, then we'll talk some rockets and the Texas training camp. You want one of those three things. Join us right now.

See, that's what I've done for me. It's a catchy-ass tune. I don't care what else said. But I will agree that it's been run into the ground for sure. BK's like, okay, it's got, what do they call it, Q scores or whatever, like people like it? Well, it's interesting. They moved back to their old original logo on all their restaurants.

Yeah. Everybody always goes back to retro because people get nostalgic and then they like it and they go back to retro. But I mean, the Burger King logo is not spectacular. It's a bun with the word Burger King and a bunch of one. It reminds me when their food was actually good. Hey, hey. I mean, I think of Wopper Jr. right now.

Yeah. It feels right in front of you. I'll take a whaler too. That's what used to call the fish sandwich. Oh, I thought that was what you used to do in college. Wish I could get a whaler back then. Guys, everybody listening, I'm lost. Just if y'all are.

Yeah, you should be lost. It's probably in your best interest to be lost. All right. We're talking about the latter, not the former. It is, and anything goes Friday. Softie is going to join us at 11 o'clock today. Oh, really? Oh, man, I'm too tired to be smack-talking.

We're smack-talk in Seattle. We're smack talk in Seattle. We just are. We just are. I'm sorry. These are coming up at 1130 today. Should we apologize to Colplay for the harassment we gave them for the success they have not only with our audience, but they're filling up stadiums across North America and in Europe?

I mean, they get scoreboard on us. They do. We honored them with, believe it or not. Yeah. We got that going on today. We've gotten on. Florida stories coming up. And we have hell yeah or not.

will give you frequent British, excuse me, the open updates. Yeah, watch out now. Seriously, how entitled can you be if you have to call yourself the open? It's like the Ohio State. It's the open championship. If you put the in front of anything you do, you're just a little smarmy. Okay. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Sports Talk 790, 713, 212, 5790. Anything goes Friday? Come on in and join us here on 790. Did you listen to the Sean Salis? Salisbury show this morning in the 9 o'clock hour sports RV. Do you want me to tell the truth or you don't be to lie? I would like you to lie. Please lie.

Oh, man, I caught the whole hour. And what was your favorite part of it? When Sean was talking. Oh, by the way. About the Open Championship. What are our prizes today on Believe it or not? Are they any good? Oh, we got to give passwords.

Because here's the thing, we can't give these things away. So we can't do passwords for prizes that no one really particularly is interesting. Yeah, we can tease them, though. That's how you build interest, Matt. because at least one person listening would love to go see Wang Chung. It's funny because, and this is come as no surprise, I was telling our promotions person, I said we're having a hard time giving these bad boys away.

I mean, like, not hard, it's impossible. And we're trying, though. And he's like, man, we can't get rid of him fast enough on Sunday. I'm like, well, you may be able to go to our prize vault if you want to at the end of the show today. The Sunny audience loves them some Wang Chung. Really? And who else is going to be there, Rick Springfield?

And there's somebody else going to be there, too. I forgot. Paul Young. Paul Young. I think the keyboard is from Bananaorama. I think we'll be there well as well. Was not Was. Was, he'll be there as well.

There was some stuff in the 80. I mean, Prince 80s, Madonna, Michael Jackson. Later 80s. But like, like 84? You look at those charts and they're like, oh, what a load of crap this is. You know, it's funny because I am not a huge fan of the 80s in general, but Duran Duran, I like. It's so inconsistent for me. My life is inconsistent.

Like Depeche Mode. No Depeche Mode for me at all. Uh-huh. No aha. Although take on me was a song I used to wake up to every morning in the seventh grade. It was on the radio every day at that time when I woke up. Culture Club. Carmelian is a banger.

Yeah, like I said. Cindy Lopper. Oh, God. Nails on chalkboard. Yeah. The Bengals, no thank you. It was a dark time. What else?

E. Bricel, New Bohemians. Oh. Oh. God, bad. Okay, moving on. So I was listening to the Dan Salisbury show featuring Dan Matthews. Okay.

And they were talking about the Astros series coming up. And they were like, and Dan, I mean, out of nowhere. From downtown. He went deep in the bowels of his hot takes. He said, if the Astros get swept this weekend, they're not one in the division. Wow. Now, in theory, that could be. the sign of future devastation for the Astros.

And in theory, it's not the hottest take of the world. It would be. But it would be a very hot takey to say this in the middle of July was still two months of the season left to go. Two plus months left to go. Hold the phone. Was there not a certain host in this town who said that a Friday game against the Rangers was a must-win game like a week and a half ago? Yeah, because of the travel considerations. And they lost that game.

Yeah, it was. that they did. And there's still five games ahead in the division. So it basically tells me that stop talking about how bitching a morning about your flight schedules. Yeah, that's true. Also, you know what they did? The Rangers got to Houston last Friday at 6 a.m. in the morning, okay? They put their head down on the pillow. And they woke up at 2 o'clock

and said, we're going to whip that Lance McCuller's ass, and they did. Well. And I mean, they did over and over again. He couldn't locate his pitches, and then when he did, there was meatballs. ERA on the road? One. And the air in the road? 26. I hope you. At home, you know. Yeah.

I honestly, I mean, it's a hot take. It'll be a big hit to their odds. It's a sizzler. But I don't think it's the most sizzling take I've heard on this station. Oh, we've heard way worse. Trust me, over the years. Moorge back in the day. Oh.

That's some doozies. Moor Morge said that when it's all said and done, that Yordon Alvarez will be the greatest astor of all time. See, again, first of all, he does, he is the, All-Time Astros leader in OPS Plus, number one. Number two, that wasn't the craziest thing. As someone once told me, attendance is part of the grade. And number

three, that was under the auspices of a segment called. It was called Hot Takes with Mo Morge or something like that. What was it called? I don't know, a Hot Take of the Week or something like that. So he had to come up with a hot take. Well, that was a sizzler. Yeah. I'm not going to

ever declare a team not winning a division after a sweep of a series. No, I didn't have them to win the division, and I still felt confident about that. Okay, you know, when you frame it that way, that they're going to lose the division with a two-game lead in July? Yeah, I mean... You're right. You're right. You know what?

Dan, be better than that. Stop sizzling on this station. You're convincing me. I'm coming over to your side. All right, good. Yeah. Saying they're not going to win the division when they have a two-game lead in July is a little much. Oh, by the way, remember at the end of the year,

you do have games in your back. pocket. You've got a seven game road trip to end the year with games in Sacramento and the Angels who will be long out of it. So you got those in your back pocket. If you want to be down a game in the division with seven left to go, you got a punch a chance. That's what I'm saying. Now, you just can't go on the road to the West Coast and goof it up, but I'm, but you've got a, you got a spot to be good. And you can't have 18 people in the aisle or whatever it is. people I was I was getting some gas yesterday

and buddy of mine called him and listened to show yesterday he's like do you really not talk about Astro's injuries I said yeah I'm done talking about them I can't do it Rossi I can't do it I can't hear about

what I'm supposedly hearing about what's happening in West Palm Beach or what who's throwing on a flat ground I'm fatigued I thought we were going to the Florida Complex League sounds good right Yeah. I think my tagger's going to beat us there.

Somebody, they need some live bats. You can go getting some swings against Christian Javier. By the way, speaking of that, I forgot to mention this. So they did the swing off the other day in the All-Star game. Did you see who was throwing the ball for the National League? I did not. Dino Ebel. Oh, okay.

He's a coach with the Dodgers. Huh. I don't know if he's a third base coach, first base, or a bench coach. Okay. Dino Eble, when I moved to Salt Lake City in 2000, 2005, yeah, 2005 was the manager of the Salt Lake Bs, the AAA team of the Angels. Okay. And they invited us out to go hit batting practice one day.

And that's when I hurt every bone of my body because I didn't wear gloves and I had not swung a bat. And you had a wooden bat? Oh, absolutely. You did wood bat with no gloves? I have never been in that much pain in my life. You did wood bat raw. Point being is... And your hands were raw.

Who was throwing me the balls? Dean O'Ebel. Okay, wow. He was the manager. I said, how fast are you thrown? He goes about 45 miles an hour. He got 13Ks. I did make some contact.

I did hit pole side of the shortstop. I was pretty pleased about that. That's good. But there was nothing that left the infield. You hit a lot of six four, six threes. They called me back in Salt Lake automatic out Thomas. Put out Thomas. Six three Thomas.

F7. So I'm going to give you. you guys a recommendation. If you ever get invited to go to any sort of swing practices, whether it's, well, frankly, if you're at a batting cage, you have to wear gloves. You're going to, and by way, stay away from wooden bats. They're just going to be heavy. They're going to hurt you.

And you're not going to be able to move out of your bed for four days. Thank you for the tip, Matt. But, I mean, my hands hurt, like, Your Don's hands are. Maybe my hand, maybe I got arthritis there and didn't even know it. Maybe you could give him some tips for hand, hand healing. Clearly he needs some. I mean, I think he uses his hand more than I used my hands. Clearly.

Yeah, that's true. So I'm just, but back to my original point. Yes. You know, and the Astros have done a much better job the last month giving us reports on all the intro players in their game day notes. And they'll do that. I'm sure they'll do that today. I would imagine. But I don't care.

It's all conjection. I will say, yeah, I care a lot less than I did a month. I won't say I don't care all. but I mean, yeah, I'll read the updates, but it is what it is. I mean, Luis Garcia, we're over two years for Tommy John? Yes, he had multiple setbacks. Christian Javier? Where are we on that?

How long is that? It's been about a year. I think it was June of last year. Okay, so that's somewhat on normal progression. Spencer Aragetti, I mean, the worst. The worst thumb fracture. In the history of thumb fractures. Yeah, it was April 7th, I think.

J.P. France, is there a all points bulletin out for him? I haven't even heard a word about him. Poor JP. He's like, man, do I even get the injury report? I mean, I'm not even on the damn injury report. Brendan Rogers, same thing. Brennan Rogers heard himself second base. Now, granted, it didn't hit a lick, but he was decent enough defensively. Hadn't heard a word about him. Yeah, I think the next thing we hear about him might be DFA. That's probably true. All right, 1027, it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Coming up at 11 o'clock, we will visit with our friend Softie from K. J.R. radio in Seattle. We've got to talk a little about the NBA.

They didn't get a whole lot of good news from Commissioner Silver. They didn't. No, they didn't. They didn't get a, we're definitely on the path artist's expansion. They're like it's more, they called it more from the owner's curiosity. Oh. Curiosity is not a bad thing, Matt. When you've been waiting for 20 years to get your franchise, I think you're sick and tired of hearing about curiosity.

It's like you're curious if your girlfriend's going to, you know, take that next step in your relationship. What's the next step, Matt? 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90. Come on and join us here on Sports Talk 790. I don't know if this moves the needle at all because I was trying to read through it today and I couldn't even get through the whole article because I was so bored by it. The executive director of the NFL Players Association resigned today. Yes.

and I don't know how to do with the collusion reports out there or there was some conflict of interest in some other things that he was involved with that I think and that's where I fell asleep. Okay. So what do you, did you read the whole story? I did not. But I saw Pablo Tori taking a victory lap so I imagine it did have to do with his reporting that the NFL owners via an arbiter, they determined that they were colluding or were encouraging

to collude against the players and Lamar Jackson and big guaranteed contracts for quarterbacks and yeah that reported come out and Pablo Tori was basically taking a victory lap on Twitter last night I saw but it looks like to me that the main reason why he is resigning is because there is some sort of group licensing firm called one team partners that is involved with the financials of the NFLPA and the MLB Player Association and that apparently Mr. Howell, the man who is the player association, was working on behalf of the group that was handling this and that's of the group, what I just call it, let me see. Something How?

Yeah, no, how. He's a consultant for that group that was trying to see. It's just very convoluted. Well, also this in a story I'm pulling up is also. a report by ESPN. Revealed two player representatives who voted for Howe were not aware that he was sued in 2011 for sexual discrimination and retaliation. Ooh. While he was a senior executive at Booz Allen.

Yeah. So there's some side business deals that did not seem like they made a lot of sense. Maybe the players are like, why are you turning a blind eye to this collusion stuff? And oh, by the way, you've had a checkered past. All of the above. and the Players Association Chief, Lloyd Howell, less than two years on the job. After DeMorris Smith has been,

that was there forever. Yeah. So. Well, they're looking for a new chief. You know, it is interesting that you would have one person do it. I mean, I guess you have to, but you have your union. Maybe I'm not a union expert,

but you have union with players that are making $70 million a year. and you've got a union, in the same union, guys making $100,000. Not a hundred, but veteran minimum or yes, for angi dollars. It's hard to really keep everybody satisfied when you've got different agendas based off of the income they're coming in.

And generally, veterans are going to look out more for themselves than young players. Yeah. And generally owners want to do the opposite because young players are cheaper. Yeah. So, not getting, not a huge conversation point. I'm sure Mike Florio can't talk enough about it,

but it's for the sake of this show, it's just interesting that they had had a lot of, I mean, the Morris guy was there forever, and now this guy's been, this Lloyd Howell's been there in a very short period of time. I don't know if it impacts anything. I think a labor situation in the NFL is good. Major League Baseball, by the way, not good.

They're careening towards a lockout, aren't they? That's what everybody says. Yeah, at the end of the 2026 season. And the word salary cap is, not going away. Yeah, but I think you get a big little fat, shut your bum ass up about that. So with you and I having zero legal experience. Okay.

Yes. If I wanted a salary cap based off of money that is made by the league so it can fluctuate, could I give up and have a salary cap if I gave up some years of arbitration? You have to. But I'm saying does... Arbitrationism has to go away completely, I think. So if you're on the player's side, you have to give up arbitration completely? There's no middle ground in your mind?

It'd be, right. So what is it nowadays? Three years and then three years of arbitration. Three years of arbitration go away. For those I don't know, it takes you six years from the time you start playing major league baseball for you to earn service time to be a real true free agent. There are some caveat, some different rules, super twos and whatnot. Yeah, because baseball is so much different because like when you're in the NBA, you're on the roster, you're on the team. now they have two-way contracts

where you can go up and down but I mean, that's not the norm. You generally have one or two of those. I think you can only have two. Yeah, and with baseball, I mean, you've got an option guys. I mean, how many,

it was an alarming amount of different players, I don't even want to say the number because I don't remember it, that have played for the a, just the Astros this year because of all the injuries that they've had. Well, the Diamondbacks, I think, have had 31 different people pitch for them.

Yeah. The Astros, I think, are in the upper 20s. Let's see. They have had 27 different pitchers. Yeah. I think the Diamondbacks are number one at 31. Oh, but that also counts Cesar Salazar. So let's do 26.

Okay. But hey, Salazar threw an inning. Did he get out? Yes, he did. Yes, he did. He's got the best ERA on the team at zero. So if I was, and I'd have to ask a labor person, if I said, if Major League Baseball came to the Players Association and said, we must have a salary cap. and the players came back and said,

okay, we'll do a salary cap, but we're going to do it based off of league proceeds, which is what everybody else does. And oh, by the way, we want you to get rid of arbitration that we are now free agents after four years compared to six. Is that an easy resolution, or is it a lot more convoluted than that?

Yeah, I don't know. I'm sorry, I was adding this up. It's 22 players have had a plate appearance for the Astros. And service time. And 26 pitchers. So we're talking about 48. You have a 26 man and they've had 48 people. That's crazy.

But, yeah, I don't know. I just don't know that it would happen with a salary cap. Why would the Yankees or the Dodgers ever agree to anything like this? Well, I'll put it this way. Do you have to have a salary floor when you have a cap? Absolutely. Because guarantee you the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Miami Marlins, the Cincinnati Reds, they're not hitting any sort of number at this point.

If you're going to have a cap, you have to have a floor. And I don't think, yeah, exactly. don't think those bottom teams would agree to that. So I don't know. Are they going to try to come to the table with it just as a bargain? Are they going to come to the table with salary cap knowing it's going to get struck down, but that might get them some give on some other things? Yeah. Because this isn't a question of the league struggling.

They have a new television contract coming up next year. Attendance is good. Merchandising is good. The international game has helped. I mean, Major League Baseball, not thriving like the NFL, for that matter, the NBA. but it's... I think they're very well afloved. But they're doing very, very well for themselves.

And that's why Rob Manford can stay as commissioner as long as he wants. Commissioners are kept not because they're sweet personalities. It's how much money they're bringing to each of their respective owners. And majorly baseball owners, 30 of them, are all doing quite well. In the public, you take the flack and in private, you make the cash. Yeah. And that's what he's been doing. And that's what three different, four different men do in this country.

They get ripped on. Gary Bettman gets booed on every NHL game. Even Adam Silver, who is largely well received when he first got the job. Yeah. He gets booed now. Yes. Cadell's, he wakes up. He's getting booed. And Manfred's hated.

But guess what Manfred's done? He has given you shorter games. He's given you shorter pitch. He's the pitch clock. He has given you better attendance. And the ratings are up and tell of it. I mean, every week, Fox. Extra wild cards.

Extra wild cards. Extra revenues. Yeah. keeps teams interested where half the teams around this time of year were selling off. I hated the third. Yeah, it was 22 they brought the third wild card? I hated the third wild card. But I respect that it keeps more fan bases invested and it keeps more teams invested.

And at the bottom line, it makes them more money with more playoff games for TV packages. And I respect the fact that Major League Baseball doesn't waste time with playoffs. I mean, you get that your season ends on Sunday. You're playing Wild Card on Tuesday. Yes. You get one day to rest. travel. They're kind of used to it.

But we're going to be talking about this. And I really believe that there's going to be that. But the thing is, are these owners doing this against themselves? Are they looking at what the Dodgers have done the last couple of years and said, you cannot continue to backhaul this money. You cannot continue to Pistowip or Cash Whip us on, if you're Boston or New York, because you're making more money because your television deals

get it that way. Could you see ultimately television deals being split up among the 30 teams on the individual front? I don't know. I mean, it feels like to me

that when these arguments come into playing these lockouts that these owners and sports are fighting with each other as much as they are the Players Association. Yeah, they're going to have to band together, Matt. Sometimes your enemy, when you and your enemy

have a common... We were talking about unions. What do the New York Yankees and a Florida Marlins have in common? they both make money, but one makes significantly more than the other. Yeah, that's true. You know, I guess, yeah, two owners groups and two unions. You know, it's, now that I think about this, there is, it's hard to get collectively everybody in the same page and everything.

That's why the NIL and the transfer portal is a mess. The agenda at Alabama is way different to the agenda at Boise State, maybe Boyce State, maybe Boyce's a bad example. At Ohio, not in Ohio, say Ohio. Bobcats. Yeah, the Bobcats. that's why we're never going to get NAL regulated. It's, I think if it does, it'll just be among the power for San Diego State and Michigan have nothing in common. When it comes to their athletic budgets.

No. I mean, I'll be brutally honest. The University of Houston, I think, has the lowest budget among the 16 big 12 schools. Is that true? It's among the lowest for sure. How does that make you feel, Matt? I'm not thrilled. So are we different than other schools in a big 12?

Yeah, in some respects. Well, yeah, I mean, you even have that in the SEC. Yeah, Vanderbilt can't relate to what's going on at Auburn. Yeah. Mississippi State is one of the worst one I would guess. Yeah. Who the hell wants to go to Starkville, Mississippi? And the damn cowbell over and over and over again.

I think I would have to wear earplugs if I went to a game there. I have never been to Starkville before and have no interest. I've been to Oxford. Not on the bucket. I've been to Oxford. I love me some Oxford. Why do you love your Oxford, rent? Beautiful city. Gorgeous campus.

You keep on using the adjectives and then not the noun that I'm thinking you're going to use. Spectacular scenery. 1043. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. How would you like to join us on anything goes Friday? We've had full phone lines the entire time during the show today. Man, it's busy. All right.

So did you figure it out, John, Do we have 80s? I love the 80s again today? Yeah, we got the same. This is the last day, guys, but we got the last 80s. All right. Here's the thing. If you get it wrong today, you win the tickets anyway. No, we should give them the people who want them. Yeah.

Well, we had won this week that actually won the tickets. How about this? If they get it wrong, ask, hey, do you still want the tickets? Yeah. What does play for fun? Okay. We're like the ultimate consolation prize. You win, you get the tickets. You lose. You get the tickets. Yeah, I think I have three back here. So you got three pairs of tickets.

and when's the concert? Is it the 18th? Oh, it's today? Oh, it's tonight! Yeah, that's today. That's the, yeah. We got to get you to the concert then. Where is it?

Cynthia? Yeah, with Lynn's Babylon. It's going to be balmy. Maybe a little steam. I'm going to say sauna-like. Well, if you're in the lower level, you get the circular, the ceiling fan going. Yeah, but if you're in the lawn, you get the cool breeze. And you can make your own breeze, Matt.

Yeah, you made your own breeze when you had the burrito before the, the event. 713212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Softie KJR joins us to preview the mariner's side of things in 15 minutes on 790. Time for a gordony drop-by. He was hanging out with his buddy, Brian Kelly.

Aye. Locked on SEC was all over the place. Oh, the hotel in Atlanta, they tried to do a couple themed lunches. Yeah. And one of the days they did a Cajun-themed. Oh, no. First off, if you're going to make red beans and rice,

it should not just literally be a red bean and white rice. Like there's got to be a little bit of gravy kind of, you know, like a little bit of something in there. It was like dry, almost like kidney beans and rice. That's not beans and rice. I got one worse for you. The NBA broadcasting meetings last year, they service lunch before they start the meeting.

Fahitas. You ever had Jersey City Hotel Fahitas? That doesn't sound great. So what you do is you smash some of the beans with your wooden spoon against the side of the pot, and then that'll make a little bit of the bean kind of gravy. Don't make that face. No, that's how you make it good, Jonathan. Don't make that face.

They also had gumbo, which I would not give. That is not red beans and rice. I would not give you if you were dying. That is kidney beans with rice on top of it. That's what I said. That's what it was. Okay. So let me give you some generic takeaways, and you tell me agree or disagree.

Sure. Arch Manning, my God, the pressure on that young man is going to be intense this year. Yeah, I will say, though, the hype wasn't as big as I thought. Really? Because I got the impression it was big. He was, sure. And there was a big crowd around him. Because I even talked to Chuck Dunlap, one of the head SEC guys.

I said, where does that compare to Tebow, Mansell? He goes, oh, it doesn't even compare. Really? Okay. He goes, nothing to him will top Mansell. The year Mansell came, because that was off a frown. freshman Johnny football, Heisman Phenom. I mean, everybody in the world wanted a piece of Johnny football.

So, and then Tebow was, you know, Tebow. Number two, very little conversation about the teams, a lot of NIL, a lot of transfer portal conversation. Yeah, because that's what's on the coach's minds right now, because they're in the middle, they're in the midst of recruiting still for this class. Because the whole recruiting timetable is shifted. you're trying to get as many kids in now because signing days December. So once you get in the season, you're not really doing anything recruiting. You're focused on week to week football. So that's kind of where they are right now. But you're right.

I wish, you know, we could get back to the days of let's just talk about the damn football. Let's talk about the game that's happening. You know, it's like it's everything else right now. But to be fair, with someone that doesn't have a dog in the fight, if I turn the SEC network on, I do want to hear what Brian Kelly's thoughts are on that as compared to what's, going to happen with his backup safety. Now, there's, if you want that, there are places to get that.

Yeah. I get the grandiose opportunity for an interview for five minutes. I want the big picture stuff. All right. Number three, I don't know if you caught these sound bites. I told you this, somebody off. It's you. How does Mike Elko sell anything? I mean, you have to go. I'm sure he's a wonderful football man and a good coach, and I think people are very excited about the future there. But every time he was asked a question, I was like, is there a hard? Is there a hard? beat? Is there any, again, I don't need a cheerleader up on the stage, but he's, it's different from Jimbo. The Mike Elko radio show, Mike can't be particularly entertaining. The Jimbo auctioneer, I missed that, yeah. Hey, we got to, you know, Jimbo Fisher was always entertaining. But Elka,

Elka is a football guy, though. This was, when he first got hired, I remember hearing the stories, like, Jimbo stopped even taking recruiting trips, like, or Jimbo would come in if he came in, he was with an entourage. It was a, and it was a little. It was a football. It was a football. this big thing. They said, Mike Elko, his first week on the job at A&M was going to recruiting. He's literally driving his pickup truck to high schools, and it's just him. He gets out. It's just, so he's very blue collar. He's very tough-nosed defense guy. No swag copter. Yeah. Although I did see, and this is where, you know, media training, you want to train these kids up a little bit more, Armage, Reed Adams, their offensive line. Did you see what he said yesterday? He was asked about

how much did it mean to you that Texas game. You guys were this close to beating them. What? He almost came back. And all this. And he goes, yeah, it just lets me know we're this close to just dominating the conference. And they're like, wait, you think just because you played a close game with Texas? It really wasn't that close. Anyway, it was just, it was an addressing response. They got like a pick six the end or something at the end that made it a little closer, but it really wasn't. Talked with Billy Lucci a good bit.

He's excited. Oh, sure Luch is very excited. We go to Austin, brother. That's going to be a good game. I mean, I'm glad Texas versus A&M is back. If you had a raft and you had two of the. those, what do you call those, life, life, life, life, life.

It's you're going to have one of them. Billy Lucci or Chip Brown get the other one. Who's getting it? I like both those guys. I didn't care how you like them. Luch is a great hang at, like when you're, you get back from dinner at night and you just hit the hotel bar before you're going to bed, Luch is story time.

He has got stories for days. Are they all true, though? Yeah, I think so. Let me tell you some. I'm a good storyteller, too, but I don't tell us to the truth all the time. Oh. Well, every, yeah, every. fish tails got to, the fish has got to get bigger

after retelling, right? Oh, the other one that's a fun hang, Dari Noca and Peter Burns are fun hangs, but Dari Noca, he's a huge NBA guy, huge OKC fan, and he is just gloating in this OKC thunder glory, and I said, I said, what do you think about KD coming to Houston?

Bleep that mother bleep, I'm like, I didn't know Dari had this mouth on him. Now, Dari makes probably five times what you make. More than that. Okay, seven to eight times. Is he pick up the tab at the bar? Or Juggled Dutch? No, I mean, you know. It's one of those, like, I'm getting another drink you want one.

Like, they'll do that, you know, but they're not buying all night. Okay. That seems reasonable. I think Dari should be paying for anybody. I mean, you've given... For Chris Gordy? Yeah, you locked on SEC, locked on Dari Noka? Okay.

They gave you, like, free drink coupons. Oh, that's much better. Shut out Omni. That is nice. How's the hotel that are nice? Yeah, and it's like, right, it's attached to the college football Hall of Fame where... Oh, it's at the CNN. Ten Tower.

Yeah. Or whatever was CNN. You walked right over. Yeah. Okay. Atlanta's a good town. It's fine. How many times you've been?

Once. Well, then how can you judge it? We went for Super Bowl week. The battery in Truus Park's really nice. It's a hike to get up there. It's a $40 Uber every time you want to get up there. And by the way, get used to that, Houston. Suburbia sports teams are coming.

I'm ready for it, though. I'm telling you right now, I phone with the mouth when I get to the battery and you've got a sports bar 10 feet outside Truis Park. Like you can literally drink up until first pitch and walk right into the game. We don't have that in Houston. I was at Gillette Stadium last Sunday. The bar you thing station?

Gillette Stadium has a little, they called Patriot Place. And there's probably 25 restaurants. There's a bowling alley. There's a movie theater. There's lots of high in, there's so high in female shops, you know, like Victoria's Secret's got a location there.

Fendi, Prada. Yeah, Prada. Jerry's like, you're going to buy a prod of purse. We can come to the Cowboys game. Well, I mean, now the question is, where are you going to put that in Houston if you do? And will people go to Texan's place?

Well, where home plate bar and grow was, the rumor was Jim Crane is going to build Houston Live there or whatever variation of them. These places we're doing so great we're going on year three of just a parking lot there. And then he realized the value of downtown Houston these days. He's making a ton of parking. And then here's the other caveat. Because there's nothing around there,

how many times do you go, we're going to the ballpark tonight. We'll just eat dinner there. So Jim Craig's getting your money inside the ballpark. Yeah. But I heard I heard from sources that it is, it is going to be built up and it's going to be very nice. I hope so. You have sources? I just heard sources. I want to get the ball rolling here, though. I'd like to enjoy it before I die, you know, five years. So if you want to, if you want to drink something, you're going to do that, correct? Yeah. Sure. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Sorry, I didn't know. Didn't you, you're such a pro at a transition. I didn't know. I mean, I wanted me to remind the listeners to get back in the Astros way tonight watching the Astros with a Crawford Bach from Carbock Brewing.

I got back last night, stocked up my fridge, I'm ready to go. Astros out on the West Coast road trip, some late nights. Grab yourself a Crawford Bock while you're sitting in the comfort of your home. Maybe listening to the Stroves on the radio. Robert Ford and Steve Sparks out there on the West Coast. Joy of Crawford Bot goes perfect with your Houston Astros. And of course, bird right here in Houston, Texas over there at Carbock Brewing. Ross and I will be back out there very soon.

We'll be taping a new Crawford Boxcast later this afternoon. Make sure you check it out. All right, that's Gordy. We're going to go to Seattle next and talk to Softie. Mariners Astro Smack next on 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 1102 and H-Town. Good morning.

Hour number two of a four-hour festival that we call the Matt Thomas show with Ross. As anything goes Friday. We will apologize to people coming up in 30 minutes. and Ross, knowing your life the way that I do, you'll be apologizing to several people. Nah. You have to actually show remorse to apologize. That's true.

You've got no soul. We've got that 1130. We'll wake the strippers up at noon. We've got non-floor stories at 130. And hell yeah or not for I love the 80s tickets. And whether you get the question right or wrong, you're going to the concert. You're getting wang chung tonight.

You are getting wang chung tonight. All right, our good friend, the most successful member of the Seattle Powerhouse Radio Station, KJR. They sports leader. Softie's with us here to smack talk his beloved Seattle Mariners, who are about to drop two out of three at home to get a second half of the season off to a disappointing start. Softie, how the hell are you?

This is just so dumb. This whole thing that we do is just so dumb, you know, because I only hear from you when things are going well. Astros are five games up. You know, where were you last year when the M's were 10 games up and you guys were fading away? And then I got a phone call from you. Oh, the Mariners have blown their divisional lead.

Let's get softy on again. So once again, our relationship just proves it to be what it's always been, which is one side and it's always about that. You better call me when the Texans play the Seattle Seahawks on ESPN the Ocho on the Monday night came. Monday night. Yes. Are you coming up for that bad boy? No chance.

Okay. All right. No, no, I cannot. Tim Darnell has got that scared, doesn't he? No. He's taken into boot. Yeah, it's fine. I don't get it.

care. All right. First and foremost, we're going to get to some other stuff before we get to the Mariners Astros. Adam Silver is just pulling y'all's chain and I'm sorry for you because your city deserves an NBA team. What's going on with that? When you say pulling our chain, what do you mean by that? Like he's using us as a pawn

now to get Portland an arena like David Stern did 13 years ago with Sacramento because there's a lot of people that think you might be right. I mean, there's just a lot of skepticism, man, in Seattle, right? Like this has been 17 years now since they played their last game against the Mavericks, 18 years since Howard

Schultz became a Benedict Arnold and the most hated sports figure in the history of Seattle sports. I have not been to Starbucks in 18 years because of that bastard. That's my own little personal protest. I know it doesn't mean jack squat to him, but it makes me feel better, and I'm doing it. So there's a lot of skepticism in Seattle. The NBA is using us as a pawn again, and he brought out the Portland thing kind of out of the blue the other night, and people were like, whoa, is this happening again, where he's going to threaten Portland with relocation, maybe to Seattle, unless they get off their ass and build a brand new arena for the Blazers,

you know, down there in Portland. And then the conversation turns to, well, what if they can't get an arena? And what if Phil Knight doesn't step up to save the day, which he's already said he has no interest in buying the team from Paul Allen's sister, Jody Allen, would they possibly move and would Sonic fans want them to move? And then you got all the high and mighty sports fans. Oh, I don't want to do to them what was done to us

and I want nothing to do with the Blazers. Hey, look, all of us would love to have an expansion team 100 times out of 100. But if the only option, Maddie, is the Blazers. Give me the damn Blazers. I'm not feeling bad about it either. Get some T-shirts made. Give me the damn Blazers.

Bring Kevin Collaboral back. Give me the Dan Blazers, baby. I know. Give me 35-year-old Damian Lillard. Give me, give me Clyde Drexler. Give me Jerome Percy. Give me the ghost of Bill Walton with a headband back in the day in the 70s. Come on.

Give me Jack Ramsey. Give me all of it, baby. I want it all. The jailblazers. You don't want that group. Oh, yeah. You don't want that group. David Sodomire?

Oh, wow. I want it all, baby. Well, I want you to root for the Rockets this year because former Seattle Sonic great Kevin Durant is come back to Houston, Texas, or never. Yeah. There's a love-hate relationship with him up here as well in Seattle. I love the guy. You know, he was only here for a year,

but I don't know if you remember or not. You probably don't because there really would be no reason for you guys to remember it at all. 2008, they're playing their last game ever against the Mavericks. Clay Bennett's in the crowd, sitting courtside. Crowds yelling, save our Sonics, save our Sonics. And Kevin Durant as a rookie is egging the crowd on, waving his hands in the air. Keep going, keep going. Right in front of the guy that.

just drafted him number two overall less than a year prior. So for me, just for doing that, he's kind of a hero. You know, he's been a little bit sensitive about stuff since he's left Seattle. I think he's got to stop worrying about what people say about him on social media. But let's face it, the guy is in his, he's in his mid-30s. At this point in his life, he is what he is. But I think we've always kind of appreciated him for the guy he was when he was here when he was 19 years old.

But, Maddie, that was a long damn time ago, my friend. And don't forget Jeff Green, former Sonic grade as well. We can't forget Jeff Green, J.G. Yeah. Jeff Green out of Georgetown. Hoyas in the house, baby. All right, there we go. Let me tell you, it's 907 there.

He wakes up that excited. Yeah, if it's not Starbucks, it's some kind of coffee. My wife actually asked me, why are you up so early? I said, because I can't sleep. I'm fired up to go on the air with Matt Thomas in Houston, man. I'm facing around the house all night long. I got all kinds of energy. I took a bunch of melatonin, tried to pass out, a bunch of Benadryl.

Nothing worked, man. And I just couldn't sleep. I was so fired up and I was just living with so much anticipation. So come on this radio show. So I've been ready to go for five hours. That's what I'm talking about. Softie K-JR Seattle, the sports leader up there in the Pacific Northwest. All right.

So the Ms go to Detroit and sweep the Tigers. Meanwhile, the Astros go one and five on their homestead before the break. Look, we haven't heard from anybody from the Astero's or the Mariners all week long leading up to this. But how is your local 9 feeling with a chance here to cut into the Astero lead even more this weekend? Well, I'll tell you what, I actually am shocked at how optimistic I am about the second half of the year. Normally, I'm just the big negative bastard, right? It just thinks everything's going to fall apart. The pitching is going to go down the drain.

Julio had a great series against the Tigers, but then had the All-Star break. and it was a terrible time for the All-Star break for him. And Cal Raleigh's going to cool off and this thing's going to fall apart. So that normally would be my attitude. But I just think the major difference between the second half Mariners and the first half Mariners is that at some point very soon, probably in the next couple of weeks when Bryce Miller comes back, they're going to have a full, healthy rotation. And they're almost there.

They've got Castillo. They've got Kirby. They've got Gilbert and they've got the All-Star. and Brian Wu. So they've got a dynamite rotation. And guys, here's the deal. They really haven't had that the entire season because for the first time since this foursome got together, if you want to call it a five-sum, that's fine. They've been relatively healthy. That's why so many people like me were pissed off about what happened a year ago when they blew that 10-game lead and missed the playoffs. They had great pitching. They led the American League in ERA. And they

became the first team to not make the playoffs since the Blue Jays in 2008. when you led the league in ERA. You leave the league in ERA. You make the playoffs, damn it, especially when it's easier now than ever to get into the playoffs in baseball. So last year was an embarrassment for this franchise. Absolute embarrassment. But here's the deal.

First half of the year, Kirby, Gilbert, and Miller only made 32 starts combined. First half of the year last year, they made 59. That's 27 games, Matt. 27 games in the first half of the year where they did not have Logan Gilbert, George Kirby, or Bryce Miller. Yet they're only five games out, and they got the number three wild card right now. Look out, baby, when those horses get healthy. Look out.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What the hell are you talking about? Have you seen our squad? We got Zach Short playing short. Do even know who's Zach Schroft? We got Taylor Trammell playing for the love of God. What are you talking about?

Former Mariner right there. Don't you disparage Taylor Tommel. That's my boy. That's my guy. He's a sweetheart. Can't hit, but he's a sweetheart. Ross with you as well.

Ross with you as well. Honestly, and look, I realized that your rotation has been banged up as well, right? Everybody's been banged up. I got no center fielder. I got no shortstop.

I've got no left fielder. Jordon's hand has fallen off. Yeah. I'm not comparing the Mariners to Houston. Hey, you know what? You guys may think, honestly, God, you're so

arrogant. It is unbelievable how arrogant you may think that the baseball world revolves. You know what? You're worse than Yankee fans now. Unbelievable. Oh, no. Terrible. Terrible. And you're worst to Red Sox fans. Terrible. You may think the baseball world revolves

around you and everybody compares themselves to you. No, no. You got six teams that make the damn playoffs, man. All I'm talking about, Matt, honestly, and I'm and serious about this. We've been saying this for years now with this, with this rotation, just get your ass in. Just get in for the playoffs, right? I mean, you know as well as I that anything can happen come playoff time in baseball. This is not like the NBA, it's not like the NFL.

You know, maybe there's more parity in hockey in the postseason, but baseball, anything can happen, right? So get your ass in. And I just think it would be, it would be such a downer for the second consecutive year for the Mariners to have this kind of talent. And now they're complimenting it with Cal Raleigh, Randy O'Ros. arenas an all-star. J.P. Crawford's having a much better season than he had a year ago. Deadlines two weeks away. They're going to make a move.

They have to make a move. They have a ton of ammunition, buttloads of ammunition in the minor league system to go out and acquire some talent. So I'm fired up, man, and it's not all about the Astros or beating them. Frankly, I don't even give a damn if you guys win the division. Take the division. Who cares? Who really cares

anymore about division titles and baseball? Honestly, just your ass in the playoffs. All right. You mentioned trade deadline. Ross with you as well here, Asofti. You mentioned the trade deadline. How, and Seattle being hot and cold on people? How are we feeling about Jerry Depoto?

And you said you think there's going to be a couple of moves made. They just have too much talent and they have too many holes to go out and fill those holes to not make it happen. I mean, you got four guys, I think, in the top 90, five guys in the top 100, whatever. and Baseball America's prospect list. I mean, they got a young catcher named Harry Ford, who really is kind of blocked by Cal Raleigh. There's nowhere for him to go, and he's in AAA crushing the ball.

He's a candidate. You know, Colin Emerson, infielder is another candidate. Las Montess is another guy that people are high on right now and AA, but he's a candidate to be moved. They've just got too many bullets to fire at the deadline to not go out and make a move. They need a third baseman. They need a first basement.

basement. They might need a second basement and they probably need a reliever. So that's the thing with all those holes that we're talking about. They're managing to kind of hang in there with an earshot of the west and, you know, right there on the wild card race, man. So I'm telling you this, if they don't significantly improve and that might mean going out and getting to Jared Duran or maybe A. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. O'Haney or Suarez bringing his ass back from the Diamondbacks along with Josh Naylor, maybe go grab McMahon from the Rockies, whatever, something like that. If they don't Don't significantly improve at the deadline. Jerry DePoto is going to get barbecued.

Barbecued in this town. And you will barbecue them on Twitter because you're not afraid to do that. And for that, we love you. I am not. I don't hold back, man. I don't care two craps about Seattle sports, but I follow you. I don't even mute you. I actually follow your stuff.

That's a crazy part about things. I don't even know what you're talking about half the time. It's UW crap all over the place, but I still follow you. I still read it and still love it because you have passion. I appreciate that. I got to be honest with you. I haven't seen a thing that you've tweeted I know. That feels you're at one time ago.

That feels right. Last thing. That's the right move. When Cal Raleigh appears on the sports leader, do you call him Cal Mr. Raleigh or do you call him the dumper? How do you ever heard of him? Yeah, we just call him, we call him the man. He is the freaking man, dude.

I mean, he is, first of all, did you hear about the latest endorsement he's got? Have you guys heard about that? Oh, my. Soil diapers? Is it depends or what? What do we got? Oh, Honey Bucket. He's doing a deal with Honey Bucket.

The outhouse, honeybucket. Yeah, so if you ever find yourself out and about and you got to go, look for a honey bucket. Because Cal Rowley endorses honey bucket now. Do you guys have those down there in Houston or is that of northwest? No, we have plumbing here. Yeah. We take showers inside. We take showers inside.

Well, you know what? It's not 5,000 degrees in Seattle so we can all shower outside and go to the and relieve ourselves on our lawns. but he's doing an endorsement for an outhouse company now. I mean, look, the guy is, he's on pace to have a historic year, as you know, and going after bonds is probably going to be a little bit too much. He would have to average a home run every two games, the rest of the way, to tie Barry Bonds, but can he get the judge's record? Can he be the first Mariner player ever to get to 60?

But here's the deal with him. He really is a strikeout home run walk guy right now. I mean, you know, I took some time off in the last few weeks. In the last three weeks, Kyle Raleigh's got nine hits, Matt, and six of them are homers. Okay? So he's kind of starting to remind me of McGuire back in the day when he would have, you know, 45 home runs, but 70 RBIs, you know?

Well, just know that he's going to have a worse second half. He's only going to get you probably seven or eight home runs, and you guys are going to peter out and maybe slip into the third wildcar. We'll lose in two straight games of call to season. You can focus on the Seahawks. Yeah, well, you know what? Listen, man, I see, I know what you're doing, and I don't like it. It's not really nice to be honest with you.

You've invited me on this radio show to be your guest. I think you should speak your guests better. All right. I will look forward to talking with you when the Mariners come to Houston or when the Texans play the Seahawks on ESPN where you have to have Fubu to watch the game. It's Fubo, by the way. Whatever, I don't care what it is.

It's on ESPN Plus. It doesn't even really count. This guy a thing or two about 2000. I've been trying. Matt, this isn't 1975 anymore, pal. We're not home playing our Atari with rabbit ears to get TV. We have things like the internet now, by the way.

You can stream shows. Hey, what time is a fabulous sports babe on KGR? That's all I want to know. The fabulous sports babe, Nancy DeNellen. You know what? I never got a chance to work with her. I've been here for 32 years, and just as she was going out, I was coming in,

which probably would have been a good thing, because I'm not sure two of us would have gotten along. All right. But I'll tell her that you said alone when I do talk to her again. She lives in Florida now. Nice. The legend, Softie. KJR, listen to him.

Five to 9 p.m. Central 3 to 7 Pacific on the I heart radio app. How about that? That's what I do. That's what I do. All right. He's out. Ron Burgundy. Screw you, Houston. He drops his mic on that. That's what I'm talking about right there. That's what Softie does.

Entertainment. All right. 1117. He should apologize for us. You should apologize. Not breaking on time. Yeah, that's fine. It was good content. It was. What are we going to do? I don't know. It's anything goes Friday anyway. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2. 212-5-7-9. If you want to come in in Smack Talk, Seattle, we can do that here.

I'm sorrys are coming up in about 15 minutes here on 790. All right, we're going to do some of my sorries coming up in about 10 minutes from now. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. I have a topic for us at 1220 today. And I want you to think about the topic. Okay. No answers yet. Okay.

But at 1220. 1220. 1220. Damian Liller is going to sign a three-year contract to return to Portland. Now, he's out this year, so he'll sign a three-year deal, get $42 million. It's not bad. It's really good for guys that's old. Wait a second.

He's getting $42 million while he's not going to play? So essentially, it's a two years. He's going to play three years. He's only going to play two years, but he paid 42 over the two. What? But it's technically a three-year contract. What? Yeah.

Why? Because he loves Portland that much. No, why would Portland do that? Honestly, Ross, there's probably something left in the tank. Not much. No. He's not going to be a gimp. He's going to be so much of his game, he's not a good defender,

and so much of his game is predicated on his quickness, and he's going to be coming off an Achilles injury, and he's 35. That's what, $14 million a year. I mean, I know that this sounds stupid for me to say this, but that's not a lot of money in today's NBA, honestly. Yeah, it's not. So it made me think, if we could bring back somebody here to Houston. Oh, don't even count the money.

Don't worry about the money. Josh Christopher. Who do you want to bring back at any one of the sports? 1220. Come up with your answer. Okay. Real quick before we asked for you to call and apologize people. I got a new Twitter account for you to follow. I've never asked you to follow an airport before.

I'm not going to do it. You have to follow you have to follow at the Tampa International Airport. Twitter account. Are they crushing people? Well, at FlyTPA is the name of the account. And I happen to see a couple of their tweets. The one I saw this morning was the best in the mall. Is it real, though?

Is it verified? Let's see how many people they have. They have 121,000 followers. Yeah, but it's not verified. It's his official account. It doesn't really mean anything. Yeah, this is official account of Tampa International Airport. United follows them.

Yeah. Todd Callis follows them. Yeah, I mean, Tampa, he's from, he lived in Tampa for a long time. So they did it a couple of days ago where they added a bunch of tweets. It's a good morning from the giant. Flamingo. That's something within their airport. Homework, crocs are not allowed, and having a beer at 8 a.m. is acceptable. Okay. Okay, that was pretty funny, right? Sure. Did you see what they tweeted out just a handful of hours ago? I did not. Three hours ago, get your girl a plane ticket to see Colplay or her boss will. Oh, that's pretty funny. Everybody is using this as a jumping off. Every body. Everybody. That's great. So when you have an airport doing it, You know you are making headlines.

That's great. And there have been multiple fake statements floating around. Has there been any official statement from CEOs? I put the fake statement on the, This is Fake, Don't Believe This. Oh, okay. Because Colin Coward put it out there. Oh, my God.

Anderson Cooper put it out there. There were a bunch of different people that were of national recognizable. They got duped by this. And the first three paragraphs sound legit. Yes. The fourth paragraph is where it goes off the rails, and you're like, come on. I liked the other one that I saw, the unofficial one, where it was like, you know what, I like to apologize with my family, blah, blah, blah.

It is true. I am a fan of Coldplay. Even their later stuff. Like, I will read to you the fourth paragraph because it was the part of it that made, okay, that makes sense. Let's see where it is. Oh, here's the fourth. I'm taking my picture of myself eating the brisket. That was good.

Check it out at SportsMT. on Instagram. So apparently this Peter NSCBS is a fake and that's why I got away with it. I can't read it. I can't, I can't unfortunately I cannot read the final paragraph because I didn't retweet

the itself. Ross, promote your something important. Yeah, why don't you follow me on Instagram at SportsRV? I just got over a thousand. I appreciate to all of you that have followed me. You're just disappointed. You just are. I've just been trying to put more stuff on there, more content. grow my media career to get out of Matt Thomas's shadow.

So if you would like to help me do that. Damn, I felt rude. Get me at Sports RV on Instagram. I would really appreciate a follow. You can meet me right after. I just need to get the numbers up for sales staff. That's all I got there. Is it helping?

No. At Sports RV on Instagram, please. Yeah, I'll have to find it. But point being is the fourth paragraph was... Oh, my review is... My review of the Ruth Robberqueue Briscuit Philly will be. be dropping later on my Instagram. My review of the brisket was amazing.

Let me tell you my order really fast. Okay. Briscuit A. Mm-hmm. The cheese sausage. Poblano cheddar. Pabon cheddar. B.

Oh, you're wrong. It's A plus. Ribs A. Uh-huh. Cone pudding. Corn pudding. B. A little dry, but still good. The Kostlaw, which people will say,

why do you get Koso? I happen to like Koslaw a lot. Coleslaw and barbecue is a classic combo, but I just don't like coal salt, so I never get it. My wife's like, why did you get coleslaw? I'm like, because I like coleslaw. Coleslaw, A minus. The pickled onions, A. The pickled pickles, pickles, a.

And the bread. Barbecue sauce? Barbecue sauce, very little bit of it. A. Better than Casey Masterpiece? Um, about saying. Oh, you're so, you're such a fraud. I love it. You're a fraud and a liar.

You don't know that. Yes, I do. I know more than most. Banana pudding, A plus. Oh, man, that was good. Carrick, A plus. The desserts were as good as the meal. The banana pudding was smooth, creamy, not too sweet.

Not too sweet. And yet you kept saying, I'm only going to have one bite and you wind up having four bites of it. Yes. We had three grown men at the table and we split two desserts. Yeah. And we were very confident in our masculinity as we were doing it. and you gave me a lot of your meat. Yeah, I gave you a lot of brisket.

I put my meat on your plate and you ate it. It was delicious. It was delicious. All right, ladies and gentlemen, knowing the way I know you people out there, you need to apologize. Really? You've had some issues this week.

We give you the opportunity, free and clear, to say you're sorry. If you're ready to do that and be responsible, 713-212-5-790. Houston, Texas, it's time to come clean. I've met you. I know who you are. I know what you're all about, meaning Ross.

It's time for you to say two, well, actually, three very simple words. I'm sorry. That's three words. So sorry. Apologize to the people of Houston, Texas, Rossi. Me? And those of you on the radios. The great listeners of the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Right now? No, I will go first. Give me a minute. You need to apologize to an entire cut of meat. Look, I like brisket. I loved what I tasted yesterday. But I'm not going to go get brisket today. It's just not one of my favorite things.

Like, I can eat ribs twice a week, comfortably. I can eat sausage twice a week. Oh, geez, there it is. 7.30. Why do I even stop myself anymore? I don't even know. But point being is this, that kind of meat, I'm only going to devour once or twice a quarter. Like the next, or we're going back on a barbecue run in the next, what, 60 days before the start of the NBA season.

That's good enough for me. I just don't love brisket. I'm going to kick you out of the state. I love ricks. You know what? The turkey was good yesterday. The turkey was good one-two punch. What is that?

Briscuit enchiladas. Oh, hell. no. Two things you don't like. I can find you brisket enchiladas that you like. Did you see the new Merger Ming burger? No.

They're doing a brisket wopper. Everybody's getting a hold of brisket now, man. It's crazy. It must be cheaper than it used to be. Darbys is doing it. By the way, that Philly looks good, but I saw a bad review from somebody I know. On the Arby's?

On the Darby's Philly. Hmm. Things you learn. I wanted to try it. It looks great. And I love a good Philly. I had the brisket at Philly at Mooth Marbecue yesterday.

So real quick, we've been to Pinkertons and we have been to Truth. Yes. Truth, greater than Pinkertons. In my opinion. Truth is one of the five bestings than the state to me. So we're going to go to the next place, the Rit Room. Are we going to

Ratlins? We'll see. There's a lot of options. There are a lot of options. All right, I'm going to say I'm sorry. There's a lot of options with great brisket. But it's the whole package. It's the sides.

It's the... So you want the whole package. It's the package, it's the meat, it's the dressings, it's the service. As somebody would once say, from soup to nuts. Yeah. All right, as soon as Jonathan gets off the phone, I'm going to apologize. I'm going to apologize, man, actually. I got to apologize to Chris Gordy.

Yeah, go ahead. To a lot of people at the SEC media days and people in general. And it's not really for me necessarily, but it's on behalf of my people. I mean, who are your people? The Longhorn family. Oh, okay, continue on. Very stuffy. arrogant, wouldn't give Chris Gordy or Dan Matthews any guests.

Very kind of rude and short. The Texas Sports Information Department should be embarrassed about how they treat media. And I understand a lot of the famous is arrogant and elitists. Yeah. I'm not like that, but I still would like to apologize. Especially to Gordy, who was extremely annoyed. And it's been that way for 30 years. And we are literally their radio partner here in Houston.

Oh, sorry. So sports information department, you ought to be ashamed the way you treated Schmishmorty, who is going to give you great coverage. So I'd like to apologize. All right. I want to apologize to Jonathan. SFA is a very nice campus. SFA is a great place to get, especially for teaching, for education degrees.

SFA has a very competitive volleyball program. They do? Yes, they do. Very, very competitive. SFA is a nice alternative for a lot of folks that want to get away from Houston. but not be too far away from home. It's got a very friendly 90% acceptance rate. I mean, that is accurate.

I believe you have to have basically eighth grade English as far as you, as far as you have to go to getting in. I don't know. If you have the former or the latter. Oh, oh, oh, oh, my God. You know what? Hold on. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'll stop. It's after today, no more, no more former ladder jokes. I'm sorry. Okay. I'm sorry. And but the most important thing

I want to tell you is I'm sorry that the Cougars gonna whoop the SSPS! I knew it. I knew that other shoe was going to drop, Jonathan. I got a clip. It's okay. It's okay, Houston.

I got another clip for him. 52 to 6. Somewhere in that range. Sorry. I have a lot of friends that are SFA grads or like got in just by giggles. They just wanted to have 40 bucks to burn on the app fee. All right.

So if you want to... You know what? I've only been in Nacadojas. Maybe two or three times in my life. Is there a good place to hang out there? It's more like you get there and it's like a cozy set. Like everybody who gets there and goes to... Cozy? Cozy. What the hell is?

You know what that is? You know, like you got a little bars and go to. Everybody... No, no, no. That's what the apartment renter mat that's showing you the 400 square foot studio. You're like, man, this is kind of small. No, it's cozy. That's when you use cozy.

When you're as a euphemism for small and nothing to do. It's nostalgic. Once you leave, you're like, dang, I miss knack. Do you miss knack? A little. Okay. All right. Bits and pieces.

Bits and pieces. The snack of doches is the number one thing to do is to hang out on a sonic. Is that the number one thing to do in there? No, it's like go to Benita and just drink or Cutter Flash or Shack. Maybe we should do the show from Benita. Oh, you? Okay. Bonita, like the fish?

You can't. If you want, I mean, it's, it can't. It's a what? Have you ever been in the south of the Gulf when the Benita run? No, I'm not. Okay. I don't even know what that is. Somebody tweet Matt with what that's referenced to.

Say it one more times. Have you ever been in the south of the Gulf when the Benita run? Do I need to go to Urban Dictionary for that? You should know. You've seen that movie. Okay. So if you want to apologize, the only person is ready to apologize for something is John. And John, we thank you for that.

But we've met a lot of you. You have a lot of things to apologize for. We're going to give you one more chance for you to make fun of you collectively. 713-212-5-790. John, thank you for being first up. What do you want to do? Who do you want to apologize for? Of course, there's multiple things now.

Not as I remember that back in my days, we used to have a bumper sticker on the back of my truck and said, go rubber date loving two. I'm sorry, but I had the sticker around. I understand. I understand a word he said. That's what I was dating to come about me out. Go rovers need loving two. What needs loving two?

John, have you been huffing paint today? Not anything that sparkly. Go ropers. I didn't mean that. What the hell was that? My man mixed wrong medications today. I'm crying. Wait.

Oh, God, it's a mixed medication Friday. What? He's hallucinating. Pain killers, glue, and Jack Daniel. do not mix well. Oh my God. It took anything else on. What the hell was that?

That was incredible. That was actually incredible. That was the most Texas. You know what? He called us from Nacadocious, probably. It says calling from the SFA alumni hall. When I was working, when I was working, the radio station,

SFA, those are the calls you would get late at night, try to get some. Oh, man. Well, at least he was able to dial the numbers. I mean, that takes some effort. He might have dialed the wrong numbers. Maybe you're trying to call somebody else. All right, if you want to apologize for John, you can do that if you're related to John.

No, that was great. I literally don't want to send a word he said. That made part of the segment okay. 713-212-5-790. We know we're going to wake the strippers up at about 20 minutes. By the way, what's the stripper life like in Nacadojas? I never asked you that before. Are there strip clubs?

There's one. I know for a fact there's one. Cigarette burns. A little sketch. You might have an eyeball missing when you come out. Yeah. Oh, they're going to beat you up? You know, because it's like, you have to go down like 50, like maybe 10 miles off campus to even go.

And it's like in the woods. What's it called? I can't tell you the name, dude. I got to look it up. Oh, he's trying to play dumb girls. Listen, that's smart. I thought colleges had a lot of strip clubs because they needed to pay their bills. Yeah, but it's Nack of Nowhere.

They literally call it Nack of Now, I've had. We don't call that dead for that. Now, I've had dinner at the billies in Lofkin before. I'm going up to Shreveport. Oh, really? Yeah. That's where everybody goes. They got a great route back.

Route back make house. So actually answer your question. People in Nakadoches, we just go to Lufkin basically if you want to do anything. You go to party and Lufkin. You're like, you know what? Hey guys, we got to hit the big party town this weekend. All right, where are we going? Lufkin.

We can go drive two hours south. No, no, no. Let's go 15 minutes north. Lufkin's much more exciting. You got money. You go to Tyler. Tyler. Tyler?

Big party. Like, hey, when you get really feeling good, you go to the big party town. Tyler. They got a Ruby Rouge days there. They can really get lit. Woo. It might have a MiGi-Mirida is a dollaridus.

Yeah. But then you got to drive back. RIP to Renegans, cheap margaritas. Renegans was really cheap back in the day. Happy out of it. You pushed them out of business. Maybe I did.

1143. You want to apologize for something? You want to apologize for your ears? Listen to our radio show. I get that too. 713-212-5-790. I'm exasperated. Exasperated.

That too. Thank you, Ross. That was an honor, Jonathan. Exasperated. No, you've been mispronouncing words, Mr. Run the Gamut. Yeah, but I'm not running the gambit right now. And you've been running the gambit of your fictitious. fictional, fictitional,

fictitional words. I used to have a list of those. That's fine. That's rude. I just delete that list. It doesn't matter. Yeah, we all wink. You know most of good words.

We all make mistakes. You most read good words. Well, I mean, I couldn't get a graduate's degree from SFA, but who could? You know what? You know, yeah, you're right. Matt, we need to pump the way out the gas. No, no, no, no, no, I want this.

No, right. Oh, we need him to build this up. Just until the beat down. Until the beat down. The T-D-E-CU beat down. I mean, this. You got to get him tickets, right? Yeah, of course.

Oh, and see, let him do this, because I want to be at the game with making a video and sending it right to the group channel. Screaming. Oh, it would be your first text in there. Yeah, usually we get the exclamation points or got it. You don't really offer much beyond that. That's fine.

That's okay. You should apologize for being a... Actually, I texted Ross yesterday. He didn't respond to me. That's not true. No surprise. No, I texted you. You should apologize.

Tell you're sorry. No, I texted him. I sent him a meme. Not responded. You're right. I should have responded to your response. I'm sorry. Yeah.

Ross. Look, I just gave you a heart. If you ever wanted Ross's number, he's going to disappoint you with his lack of, the two people that I work with are horrific returners of text. I give myself a B plus A minus. You guys are in the C minus D plus group. You just are.

And you should say, you're sorry for that. You know what? I am sorry. I'm been trying to be better. I think I have been better. Honestly. I'm sorry. And I'll say sorry too. You know, sometimes I don't see the message. And I'm just like, you know what?

Forget about them. And I, you know, I have to get hurt your feeling. I apologize. Thank you. By the way, I found that last, yeah, I found that last paragraph from the fake Andy Byron statement. So the first three lines are I want to apologize for disappointment. I want to apologize for my family. and he apologized to his company.

Here's the fourth paragraph. I also want to express how troubling it is that what should have been a private moment became public without my consent. I respect artists and entertainers, but I hope we can air. We can all think more deeply about the impact of turning someone else's life

into a spectacle. It's not real. Not real. Oh, I thought that was real. No. No. Even AI said immediately that's not what it was. AI jumped in it.

Your dog Grock? Yeah. By the way, are you tired of people asking what Grock for interpretations? I muted Grock. You can really do that? Yeah, I muted GROC. Oh, yeah. Good idea.

All right, we got a couple more minutes left. You're telling me we had one drunk ass pill popper calling in for a say he was sorry about something? I'll read you the other one I saw that was funny. Go ahead. 713-212-5-790 by the way 7132-1-2-5-7-90 Let me start by apologizing to my family, my wife, and our wonderful employees. My behavior is inaccusable and the shame I'm receiving is well-deserved. I tried to hide my actions, but the truth has finally been revealed.

I am a cold play fan. And not just the first two albums. I also like the recent stuff. I'm going to take some time to contemplate my future. Please respect our family's privacy at this time. I was rolling when I read that one. So if you think, do you think if we went and found Coldplay right now, they'd be embarrassed by their, what happened?

No, that guy. Apparently that guy, what's his lead singer's name? Chris Harris or something? Yeah, he's the one I called Mel. He was calling more people, like the whole show, they were putting people on the Jumbotron. And he was like, are you guys together? Or are you guys on a day? Or he's asking if they were married or like SIP? I can't remember the way he was phrasing it, but I saw it on the internet, so it must be true. That's funny.

Yeah. So, yeah, if you're cold play, don't feel bad what you did. People generally speaking like to be on the Jumbotron, unless you're having an adulterous affair. And you don't want to be on the Jumbo Trond. But then you shouldn't be out in public places. My favorite part was the girl to their right on the left that clearly knew everything.

I was like, ugh. By the way, about that girl, I don't know if you guys, no. She's actually a part of that company as well. Yeah, she was in HR as well or something like that. honestly was this diabolical by her did she set this up so that she could become the new HR chief? Do you think she went along with it because she knew if she

said something to somebody about it that she would get in trouble with her own job? Like you know what I'm doing is illegal but you're not telling anybody because if you do you're going to lose your job too? You're saying you don't think people would climb their way to the top? I don't know if I was saying that.

Snake their way to top? Okay. I was saying that I think she is. I mean she could be. Yeah. I don't know. That's a good question. But she obviously knew exactly what was happening. But she's thinking, if I have a chance to go to a concert in a suite with my boss and my boss's boss, I got a chance at career advance.

At worst case. People were all saying like she was the tag along so that people would be like, yeah, it's a work event. Oh, there was work and being done. She's complicit. All right. Last before we get to the strippers, we wake him up. Let's say how to Josh. Josh, what do you need to apologize for?

I need to apologize. guys for retaliating against the 18-wheeler that cut me off pretty bad in traffic, and I break-checked them pretty hard, and I guess a few people almost died, and it called my company and got me yelled at for today. So I'm not really that sorry about the 18-wheeler, but I guess the other innocent families. But that's about it. And hey, thanks for letting me wake up to strippers a month ago or so when you were out. It was the highlight of my life on my son

thought I was pretty cool. Oh, Josh did it? Yeah, he did a good job. Well, there was mixed reviews, but I thought he did really good job. Let me tell you something, Josh, I'm going to give you an open invitation. Anytime I'm not here on a Friday, you're more than welcome to come in and do it. I'll try to, I'll try my best on those

very rare Fridays at Mr. Matt Thomas Mrs. Oh, is, what are you talking about? He's on Johnny Carson's schedule. take you something. Thank you, Josh. And in two years, I'll be missing most Fridays. You're traveling to see volleyball. Oh, you know what? I'll leave on Thursdays to do the show on the road on Fridays. It's important for us to hang out as much as we can't. Thank you, Matt. All right. Yeah.

Breaking in front of an 18-witter, it's going to cause some issues. So just do what I do. Just middle finger them. And yeah, you did it in a company truck, so I guess he received complaints. That stuff. You ever still, am I driving safe if not? Call this number? I've called those numbers. You have? Absolutely. That's hilarious. Yeah, you know, you would. That's what we call you, Karen Thomas. No, let me tell you, that's the reason why you do it. If the guy's driving like an A-hole, you should call him out. Not as saying that you were doing that, Josh, but...

It sounds like he was. He's not driving 18-winter, no. It's 1157 and he already had yelled at. That's a tough way. All right, let's wake the strippers up. We'll do it next. We'll hear our noon open, and then we'll get to coming up at 1220 in 25 minutes from now after the news at noon. Damien Lillard is going back. to Portland. Who do you want back in Houston? Don't worry about money. Don't worry about contract. We'll get to that, but the strippers are next here

on Sports Talk 790. This guy that wrote all these songs is not only a great SFA alum. He might be the greatest alum of any person alive at any school. Or he not alive is dead now. Sorry, how do you die? It was a horseback riding accident.

That's a lie. Just wait to this next song. Or was it? I don't know. I don't look it up for you. All right. We have non-Floro stories coming up in 20. It just says following several years of declining health, he died at his home. And the party town, Tyler.

How old was he? 80. Okay, good life. 80 years, baby. Let's go. Songwriting Hall of Fame, 2006. And all he's given us is one hit after the other. No duds in that group.

There's probably a few duds. All right. Non-Florist stories coming up at the bottom of the hour. Mine is from Morocco. Morocco. Morocco. Really? Yes. Okay. And involves a Paris man.

A Paris man from... So is this in French Morocco? I don't know where it's from, but I'm just telling you. A Paris man in Morocco is my category on today's edition of... A Paris Man in Morocco. Yeah. That's an album by Will Jennings. Will Jennings wrote a song for Barry Manil

called a Paris Man from Morocco. In Morocco. I'm going to write this down. Put that as a knot. A Paris man in Morocco. Now, if somebody says that's a believe it, we will end the game and say it was a good run. 713-212-5-790.

Astros and M starting a three-game series tonight. 9-10 first pitch on deck 8 o'clock here on Sports Talks. I will have the 10th inning show and on-deck tomorrow. Dan Matthews has just the on-deck tonight. Astros own a five-game lead on the M's in American League West. Astro is starting a, would you say, a semi-important road trip? I think a semi-important is probably a fair estimation. A must-win road trip for the Houston Astros.

It is not. Don't listen to him. Three with the Seattle Mariners. Three with the Arizona Diamondbacks. I don't know much about the Diamondbacks. I don't think people in Phoenix even know much about the Diamondbacks. They're sellers. I know that they're sellers.

What's their record right now? It's got to be bad. They have been talked about with plenty of players, for sure. Because Corbyn's had Tommy John, right? Or he's hurt. Yep. And then I don't know what's going on. The rest of the squad.

Let me pull this up. Yeah, they're 47 and 50. How far are that from Wancard Nationally? I bet that's quite a bit. Probably not that far. But I think teams who are not that far off still, they're five and a half. That's enough to kind of pack it in. That's selling mode.

Yeah. Not only they're five and a half back. there's six teams ahead of them. And so three spots, and then there's three teams that are within two and a half. So you have to hop all those teams as well. Not only are the Mariners five back of the Astros, they are the third wild card, and they have a one-and-half game lead over Tampa Bay. Boy, Tampa Bay must have fallen off the map lately.

Yeah, they've dropped eight of their last 10. Brendan Lowe was up. Three wild cards are the Yankees, Boston, and Seattle. Tampa's a game and a half out. The Texas Rangers are three and a half out. Oh, I didn't realize that are that close. Minnesota's four back. The Angels, 47 and 4-9 are four out, Kansas City, four-and-a-half, Cleveland four-and-a-half.

I'll tell you what, of the, you have three division winners, so that's 15 to a... You have nine of the 13 teams within four and a half games of the wild card. Hmm. 10 of the 13. The only three that are really far away. Baltimore is seven and a half out. the athletics are 11 and the White Sox are 19 and a half out. So you got five, nine teams within five of the wall cart.

You know what? That list will ultimately be decreased because somebody's going to be sellers. I can't imagine somebody's going to sell. Angels, Kansas City, Minnesota will be seller. Somebody's going to sell. Yeah, at some point you got to look at yourself in the mirror and say, we're talking to tenders. Do you know we haven't, we haven't thought about that in the. these parts since 2016.

We were talking about last year. For a bit. For a little while. When the Astros were 10 back. Blow up the team. Fire Joe Spada. Not only when they 10 back, it took like two weeks to get all those 10 games back and then some. Yeah. They made it up quick.

Really, really fast. That's what I'm saying. Five games. It's a good lead. Not big enough. Not everything. Man, you were really walking into them today. Why can't I just have a logical conversation in the show without everything?

being interpreted differently? I didn't interpret anything. You paused? No, I didn't. People heard your pause. There's no pause. Definitive pause. Astro, now, of course, Matt,

Fangraph's playoff odds don't mean everything. But they have the Astros, 73.5% to win the division. And I believe in the 80s to make the playoffs? 93.4. That's scary high. Don't say that. I'm just saying.

Don't say that. Let me tell you, and I didn't stutter when I said it originally, the Astros are one in the American League West. Boom, let's go. All right. Yankees Keith at 110 on 790. YK, good morning or good afternoon to you.

Good afternoon and happy Friday. Same to you. I hate to rain on y'all's parade, but I'm just giving you a prediction for today. 94 and 68, that will be the Yankees record. We're going to pick up this third basin by the name of Eugenioz, Suarez. He's already got 3101. We're getting Louise Hill back. we're going to add another starting pitcher and two relief pitchers

because we don't mind spending money, man. So when the everything, all the stuff rolls out by the end of the year, it will be the New York Yankees, the world champions of baseball. Okay, by the way, nobody's making four moves to the trade down on. I heard here are Sputty Softie from KJR. the marriage make one move It'll be a startling decision Nobody's making five moves

We're gonna go get a third base But go get a shortstop Go go to get a next to pitcher A whole new team Come on now Thank you YK for the phone call But no Teams will make maybe two deals

Most teams make zero If it is like three One or two would be like Reliever deals Like bullpen But I mean Not like major everyday starter position or starting pitcher place

But Yankee Keith can't call 66 WFAN And say The Yankees need this and this, and they're going to go get this. You got to make some moves at the deadline. Brian Cashman, let's go. Yeah. I think the Yankees will make a move. Okay.

But they're not going to wholesale change their operation here. I'll say this. The Yankees have done it. They can do it. They have spent money. They always will. Their modeling system has been very good for them. 24th.

I was just looking that up as you brought that up. But I think it's been significantly higher in the last few years. Yeah, but they traded. a lot of those guys away. Soto deal and stuff like that. Well, the Astros used to have a good modeling system too. A lot of them

matured into great major league players, and then you lost a couple of draft picks and the scandal thing. Let's not bring that up. Should you judge a monolink system ahead of it? What? They have seven top 100 guys?

Uh-uh. Don't bring that up. Mariners have seven top one. Well, just remember, the Mariners don't typically spend money. Oh, me. Say what you will about Jim Crane. He spends money. Don't spend it as much as you want him to, but he spends money. 113 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross.

Non-Florida stories are coming up in the 130 segment. Believe it or not, hell you are not, is highly Googledable about the greatest SFA alum of all time. Jimmy Buffett? Are you kidding me? I was surprised to. He mentioned Galveston Bay? Yeah. Jimmy Buffett

Overrated? Underrated? Properly rated. Because if you say overrated, the parrotheads are coming after you. Overrated! That was Ross. That was Ross.

Come on. He's got like two good songs and these people just want to get drunk on a bunch of pinocaladas and put on their flip-flops and their Hawaiian shirts and that's fine. But it's not like he's one of the

great all-time musicians. Let's be serious. That wasn't the jam, though? No, it wasn't. Not one of his most popular songs, no. All right, so who's the blonde stranger? So let's put in perspective. Yes. Until his passing, he would fill up arenas and stadiums and all over the place. Jimmy Buffett's dead? Yes.

Are you serious? Oh, my God. Come up to you now. Well, I didn't know. When? Are you serious? Within the last two years. No way. Yeah. You thinking George,

Strait. No, George is still alive. No, I'm talking to Ross. Killa B, you hear that? Our boy Jonathan thinks that George Strait's dead. George Strait is... Hold on, hold on.

George Strait's about to do a charity performance for the Central Texas folks. Have you not heard that? I'm going to tell you, I'm not the biggest country fan ever. I will never in 10 million years confused the great George Strait with that hat Jimmy Buffett. I mean, come on, man.

Oh, my God. If you went to Nashville and said this, I mean, may he rest. I forgot. I believe he died of skin cancer, if I'm not mistaken. Oh, well, thanks for bringing us all down on a Friday. Okay. So, I have been to Vegas many times where he has performed in,

like at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Thousands and thousands and thousands of people come out. There's a big Venn diagram of people who are paired heads and swingers. That feels fair. And they have guts. The girls, too. I mean, it is true. It is what it is.

30% of women that are parrot heads have guts. Not that we're judging. Oh, people have to have to... Hey, look, Pinia colada's high, high caloric value. Yeah. Parrot heads. Parrot heads are what his fans are called. That's what his fans are called.

Oh, okay, good, okay. Okay, I would say he is properly rated. He does have some hits. Matt. How many? What are your name? Okay, after Cheeseburger in Paradise? Okay, hold on.

Why don't we get drunk in? Margaritaville's a jam. No, is it why don't we get drunk and screw one of their his songs? But did he write that? No, I mean it. Okay, okay. Margaritaville, come Monday, which that's my favorite one. Oh, why don't we get drunk, I guess it was a song.

Yeah. Cheeseburg and Paradise. Pena Collada, one in each hand. Changes in attitude. Wait, two Pena Coladas? I thought that was Garth Brooks. No, but he sings on that song. Oh, it's a duet?

Yeah. The original is? No, I don't know, but he sings one of the versions. And then another one is what? Changes in latitude, changes in attitudes. It's a good song, too. Did we say it's 5 o'clock somewhere? I didn't hear.

Is that him? He's on that too. Yeah, see? But that's an Alan Jackson song, though. But, I mean, he's still a part of it. He gets credit for it being on that thing. Okay, I'm just going to say he's properly rated to a slightly and overrated, but by no means be underrated. You know what?

Hmm. Tell me. I want to hear this. You're getting soft. You're getting soft, Maddie. Don't be scared of the parrot heads. No, no. Come Monday is one of my 25 favorite songs of all times.

It's one in the afternoon on a Friday. The parrot heads are already three pinia colates deep. They're not listening to this show. Come Monday, it'll be all right. And I do like Margaritaville. I don't know how... Margaritaville is a certified jam. I'm with you.

But that's a good song. It's really not. Oh, come on. And whatever that crap was he just played, it was horrible. Changes in attitude. Oh, you're weird. that, ooh. Rubin on 7.90 at 125. Hi, Rubin.

Hello, how are you? Calling from Bradisville, Texas, a long-time listener, first-time caller. Nice to hear from you. We appreciate that very much. I was calling to ask about the Astros. My family and I, we have tickets for the Boston Red Sox game on Sunday. I think it's the 3rd of

August, and then we're going to follow to New York to watch and play against the Yankees that following Friday night. But we noticed that some of the home dugouts are on the opposite side of the Astros. Astros have him on the first base side and some of the other ones have them on the third base side.

I haven't really noticed that until recently. It's every team's preference. There is no rhyme or reason. Some of it has to do with the construction of the facility. Some of it is they just choose to prefer to have it on one side. There's no rhyme or reason to it. Got it.

And I also heard that you were broadcasting from the Boston area last week, I think? I was in Rhode Island on Monday and Tuesday, yeah, and Wednesday. Oh, okay. Well, we're going to be driving through there probably after the Boston game on Monday or Tuesday. So you mentioned something about lobster rolls. Where did you recommend? Everywhere.

If you're in Boston, I want you to go to a place called Legal Seafoods. It is a chain, but it's still spectacular. And I don't know if you like... What is the name again? Legal Seafoods. Legals, there's about 10 of them in the Boston metropolitan area, and they're all delicious. They serve great food. there's some that are more casual

and others. There's some that are very fancy, but it's excellent. The seafood is great. The people are nice and the lobster rolls are fantastic. Wow.

Okay. Okay. Great recommendation. Thank you. Well, go Astros. Thank you for the much for the phone call. Appreciate it.

Yeah. Well, yeah, again, I don't know Boston well enough. I'm sure there's other places that are better than legal seafoods. I'm just telling I've been going to legal seafoods for the last 10 years and it's never let me down.

Yeah. And to follow up on that, If you want some good home cooking, you go to the Boston market. And if you want freshly made original donuts that know what you'll get nowhere else, there's a place called Duncan that serves just the Boston area. Absolutely. There's like 48 Dunkins in 48 places, within 48 feet of your hotel. Karen is with us at 127.

Hello, Karen. Hello. So I called earlier, but I couldn't stand the line to tell you. It's Edinburgh. Edinburgh is in South Texas. Oh, Edinburgh. Yeah, Ross, apologize for your mistake. You said it wrong first, and then I followed you.

I don't care. I make mistakes daily. I don't care. I don't need to know better. I don't know anything. Hey, my girl's from Edinburgh. Okay, so the other thing is, Jimmy Buffett is the jam, and Yacht Rock is too. So, Matt and I, probably roughly the same age, but, yeah, come Monday.

It'll be all right. Great song. Great song. Pirate looks at 40. higher looks that's not a caller talk about it just not I just know

I mean these are just thanks Karen go ahead say it go dig your dirt dig your grave go ahead these are basically novelty songs

mm-hmm continue he's a novel he makes it's shtick novelty music and that's fine if you love it

if you want to listen to it that's fine Matt asked me my opinion and I gave my opinion and that's that Non-Florida stories are next. Ooh, good segue. 128, Sports Talk, 790.

713212-5-790. We've got non-Florida stories coming up. This is Steve Winwood on KJGM. Just good music. Oh, I hit the post. Let's go. Let's go. I seriously, I want to host an air shift on Sunny.

And Mark Sherman, the program, Dr. won't let me do it. He's been telling you to shut your bum ass. He has. I really, I mean, I would be a great DJ playing today's hits and yesterday's favorites. You tell him you do it for free? No, I want to get paid. Oh, okay. Well, let's see. That's where you take the L. Real quick, SEC media poll is out.

It is? The number one team, according to the media, for the SEC championship, would be the Texas Longhorns. Number two, Georgia, number three, Alabama, number four, LSU. Coming in at number eight is the fighting in Texas. Texas Aggies. Oh, number eight. Good for them. That's nice. Eight get you the Texas Bowl again, right?

You dope. All right. Just throwing that out there. Let's talk to our friend Doug Pike. He hosts the weekend show. I believe it's called Bowling and Friends with Doug Pike here on Sports Talks. DP, how the hell are you? Oh, my God. Yeah, bowling and friends.

That's me, man. That's all I talk about. God. I'm doing all right. I heard you guys talking about the dugout thing. whether first or third for home team. And I have a theory, and I'll share it if you want it. It's that in this age of algorithms and stats

and everybody paying such close attention to tiny details, if you're in the first base dugout, anytime one of your players grounds out or pops out or flies out, it's a much shorter jog back to the dugout than it is to the third base dugout. and that just saves them a little bit more energy to maybe to chase down a fly ball for Jake Myers or something like that.

Yeah, that has been a theory ever since really dugouts were discussed. I mean, every time I've been talking about it, yeah, it's nothing new. Okay, good. It's all about preference, but I would think most teams would prefer to be on the first base side.

You're absolutely right about that. It's 12. I grew up traditionally. Go ahead. 12 teams are on the third base side, 18 are on the first base side. Yeah, that kind of shows. it right there yet traditionally when I was growing up playing ball all the way through

it was always the home team had third base that was it um but now it's different because I guess they're going to save a couple of calories well that's all I had Matt I wish I had more I don't know any bowling stuff I am I'm observing I'm watching closely the open championship by would you see the rain that was there earlier today my god it was a downpour scottie chef was coming on trunk how did he do he was he was four under through seven. He is eight under for the tournament through 14 holes. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's

he's heating up. He is heating up. Just like me, I'm about to go heat it up out at Black Hawk. Look at this little sponsor plug. There we go. Do they spend money with us? If they don't, we have to rhyme up. No, man, we're good. We're all good. We have a good relationship with them. That means you get to play free golf. I get you. I know what your

relationships are all about. Thank you, Doc. We'll see you later. Doug's like, hey, I think I go on the radio show and give him a free plug. I can play my 18 holes for free. Yeah, why not? Doug Pike's bowling and friends tomorrow at 7 o'clock. That's not true. He's outdoors. He's fishing.

He's golf. He's everything but bowling. It's just the Doug Pike show, right? Yeah. He's vain like that. The outdoor show with Doug Pike. He's vain. Well, I mean, it's not, you know, gone fishing with Pike.

Okay. All right. Let's get to some down floor. How about Pike's Place? Ooh, that'd be really good. Pike's Place tomorrow at 7 on sports. Talk 790. Let's get to the Non-A florida Stories. Oh.

What is this right now? You've got about 40 seconds to find one. I think you get about a minute and a half. You go first. I'll go first. Turn this up. This is such a jam. It's time for non- I would like to tell you about a 62-year-old man in France.

Left on vacation from Morocco with his wife and his daughter in the family car, a sports RV and Jonathan. Okay. They made several stops at gas stations along the way. During one of those breaks, something peculiar happened. At around 4.30 in the morning, the man whose name has not been revealed by the media, well, he left the gas station. You're saying, well, what's so strange about that, right?

He left the gas station without realizing he had forgotten his wife. He only realized his mistake about a hundred and a hundred and 86 miles later. He quickly called emergency services for help. It was a very bizarre conversation as a man not only had to explain how he could have forgotten his wife at a gas station, but also had trouble remembering which gas station it was. You're saying to yourself, well, what did the daughter do? The daughter was asleep during this and didn't realize that mom was left at the gas station.

Rossi, Jonathan, I'm calling 100% BS. You forget your spouse? somebody in the vehicle, you turn to your right to say, hey, honey, are you hungry? Or did you remember that story I told you 30 minutes ago? You cannot forget anybody in your car for 186 miles. You can't forget him for one mile, much less 186 miles. I think this patty man should be called out for his BS and arrested for abandonment. I'm calling BS that he forgot.

That's what I'm saying. He left her intentionally. Yeah. I'm calling it BS. So the Paris man going to Morocco, you'll be ashamed of yourself leaving your wife 186 miles behind. And that's my non-fort story. Okay.

Jonathan, you're next. Okay, mine is coming up from England with Rana Davies of Sittingborn. Ordered a baby rattle from Sheen or Sheehan for her stepdaughter. That's like the Chinese website that's cheap stuff, right? Yeah, like it's like... shine? Yeah. Or the

it's like where they get closed like she'd close but her she got it for a baby

rattle for a five month old Kent Online reported on July 2nd it turned out when she online

something came in among the rattling beads inside the toy she was

shaking it around and to her surprise it was a human fingernail inside the

baby rattle oh she went on this Karen around about how

she's getting the baby toys holy smokes Safety standards, and she only got a refund for 100 sheen points. And Sheen had no comments.

They still haven't made a comment about this human fingernail. So, uh, let's, these sweatshops down there need to, um, need close down. So what do they, what do they normally put in rattled stuff? I thought it was like, uh, the little, like, uh, those little beads, right? Yeah, I don't know. One of the beads made of plastic beads? You have kids, Matt? You like to play.

My youngest son, my youngest is 17 years old. I don't know what these rattles. You like the plastic beads, right, Matt? Clinton likes the beads, too. He'll tell you about it at 2 o'clock. Excuse me? All right, is it my turn now? It is your turn. We've given you enough time to delay.

All right, Matt. Well, unfortunately, there was a data breach for one of the biggest corporations in America. McDonald's. They run a platform, a hiring platform. It's actually called McHire. and McHire has a chat bot dubbed Olivia for job applicants. They sign in, they chat with Olivia

and they ask them a number of questions and then try to evaluate the applicants from there. The only problem is that Olivia, the McHire chatbot, got hacked. Oh no. There was a security team that put in the username and password to hack alexier.

Olivia the Chadbot. The username was 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and the password was 1, 2, 3, 4, 56. Stop, stop, stop. Yes. Sam Curry and

Ian Carroll were security researchers and said, without much thought, we entered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 for both the username and password, and we were immediately logged in. It turned out we had become the administrator of a test restaurant inside the McHire system. The information included names, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, state where the job

candidate lived, the authentication token they used to gain access to the website. They could see every chat interaction from every person that has ever applied for a job in McDonald's by using one, two, three, four, five, six to hack the McDonald's McHire system. I'm surprised how good this story is he's found so quick. McDonald's. He's quick about a lot of things. And the software company that runs the chatbot paradox both have so far declined comment. You just can't.

Look, I used to work for McDonald's. I had zero problem with them. But, I mean, thank goodness it was just some kind of security research team. Is everything mixed something at McDonald's? Yeah, you get McHired? Did you get McFired? No, I quit. Did you get Mick promoted?

I did. I was an assistant manager. Did you hit the Mick Glass ceiling? Did I get Mick vacation? Yes, I did. I got McFatter, too, when I was there too. And you gave up McFlorburgers. Ooh, I did. John, I'll tell you the Flourger stories eventually. Yeah, okay.

Look at it. There is more to that story. Whoa, Scotty Schaeffler is, yeah, minus eight through. He's one back. Lordy. All right, that's non-flora stories. Yes. A highly googlyable edition of lightning quick answers we need today.

Now what's the guy's name again? Will Jennings. William Jennings. He's an enterprise and young man. He's macadoges. The greatest alum ever at Stephen F. Austin State University, by the way. Stephen Fawson State. It's called Stephen Fawson State. Yes, it is. We joined the UT system right at their left. So. Okay, keep cutting them checks, U of H. What are you talking about? I will find out how much

you're paying you hope it's not too much you're not flying there so you're just taking a couple buses both public universities I'm sure it can be fun go ahead and make a freedom of information request man

it would not be difficult we'll get you all some chick fillet and a couple of buses for gas with gasoline come here and get your 70 to 7 ass weapon and go back on the neck of nowhere 144 on Sports Talk 791 151 This show got blue real quick

Or the off air did Adam Clinton I'm looking Saturday's On Deck and 10th ending show When is your next on deck and 10th inning show? Oh, I couldn't tell you Yeah, I didn't think so What are you doing in this final segment?

We're going to play Believe it or not in about a minute Or hell yeah or not We have some if everybody who wants to Wang Chung tonight Are we still offering tickets to losers? Yeah, anybody that wants to Wang Chung Tonight Excuse me, Wang Chung tonight can win

How did you get on the topic of beads earlier? That's what I want to know. You sent me a text that I like beads. I said, okay, it's whatever you want at him. That's one. One time when I was living in my apartment and I was a bad, oh, wait, we're on the air. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do?

We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show Monday through Thursday. We called it B, leaving it or not. But on Fridays we call it a hell yeah and out and here's how it works. You'll call 7-1. 3212-1-2-5-790 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90 Today's edition of a hell yeah or not is Did Will Jennings

Is it Jennings? I don't know it's it as a last name? Yes. I don't even know. You didn't put it on the screen. You didn't put on the script. You should know who the great SFA alum is. I didn't even know who he was three hours ago. William Jennings. Did he write this song or produce it? We're going with writing or producing or what are we doing on this?

Wrote. Wrote the song. If he did, you'll say this. Hell yeah. Lightning fast answers. If he didn't, you'll say. say this. If you get the question right or wrong, you win a prize. No, we can't

do one. You gotta get two, right? One correct answer. Are you serious? Jonathan, one correct answer. They're going to what tonight? Going to the pair of tickets to see Rick Springfield, John Waite, Wang Chung, and Paul Young on the I Want My 80s tour. Friday tonight. Tonight.

At the Willisville and tickets are on sale now at ticket message.com. Mike on 790. You ready to play? Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah Will wrote It's a Heartache by Bonnie Tyler Hell yeah or not Not

That's right Congratulations you won That's nice Renee on 790 Renee What was your favorite part Of today's 10 to 2 radio show The whole dang thing

A Paris man in Morocco sung by Barry Manilow Hell yeah or not Hell yeah Oh Jesus We just made it that song an hour ago You didn't listen to show, Renee. You're a fraud.

Brandon on 790. Brandon, you're ready to play Hell Yeah or not? Playing tongue! Typical male by Tina Turner. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. No, he didn't write that. Taylor on 790.

Taylor, you're ready to play Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. I'll never love this way again by Dionne Warwick. Hell yeah or not? He did. This way again. I know. I'll never.

Stop. This way again. Great song, Dior. Ray, what a jam. Please make it stop. John, on 790. John, you ready to play higher? Hell yeah or not.

John? Is not. Yeah, you're offensive singing. Got him to hang up. Did our winner hang up? Our winner hung up. He didn't even want to win. Wang Chung. Please, if you want to Wang Chung, 713, 212, you have to put a tweet out.

570.790. Sean on 790, ready to play, hell yeah or not. That's Wang Chung at hell yeah. All right, here we go. Looks like we made it by the Great Barry Manlo. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. There you go. You're going to Wang Chung tonight. How's your family, Ross? What is this? I just have to click on this because I don't know what this is.

Because you don't like bacon egg is fine. You don't like chorizo. I do not like chorizo no. It's a grease. Yeah, I know, Jonathan. Don't see, don't even react to Matt's food, whatever you would. Sorry. It just said Matt chorizo, so I didn't know.

Okay, we got a minute left in the show. A minute and a half. 713, 212, 5, 790. Oh, we're trying to get people. We have nobody. In the history of hellier or not. Okay, I will just play drops until somebody calls in. How about that?

713, 212570. Come on now. Play. Let's go. Let's go to Chris. Chris on 790, ready to play, hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Please remember me by Tim McGraw.

Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. You're going to see Wayne Chum. And Rick Springfield. Oh, Jesse's girl, banger. It's not bad. I mean, it's great in boogie nights. Taylor on 790.

Oh, you're talking. You know what, Taylor, you've already lost today. I don't care. Yeah, we don't care. Who cares at this point? Please remember me. Oh, forget it. Saving all my love for you, Whitney Houston. Hell yeah or not.

Oh, yeah. No, you got you wrong twice in the same game. Let's give him another one. Seriously, don't even hang up on these people. Bill, Bill, Bill. You are the goat prize whore. My heart will go on by Celine Dion. Hell yeah or not.

Man, hell you. You're going to see a way, chung and Springfield. Pedro on 7th. 790. We're going to play hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Tears in heaven. Eric Clapton. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah.

There you go. You're also going. Finally. It took us an entire week. Goodness gracious. Up next, Wexler and Clamp. Have fun with that, John. So I'll entertain for the next four hours.

They're the A team. I'll talk to you Saturday for Astros baseball. Wow. This is a late night on the weekend. I'm 840. First pitch. Dad's got to do the 10th. You're going to call you in on the 10th? You'll be busy.

I'll be hammered. A team next on 790.