The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Sweep The Minnesota Twins With 2 Back to Back Walk-Off Home-Runs, Sitting 1st In AL West & 3rd In American League

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

Astros Sweep The Minnesota Twins With 2 Back to Back Walk-Off Home-Runs, Sitting 1st In AL West & 3rd In American League Overall

10-01 in H-town. Good morning and welcome to a Monday edition on the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. We are very happy to have you with us today. And we are here until 2 o'clock this afternoon. I don't hear anything, so I just want to make sure we're on the air. Are we on the air? Hello. Tasting, tasting. Are we on? Okay. Well, you don't have your headphones on, Matt.

I know, but I'm... That's why you don't hear anything. That's how the radio studios work. We've got some glitches here in the studio at this point. I should come as zero surprise to anybody. working for this company. That's a different issue for a different time. Starting Monday, Australia.

Rossi? Somebody's got a case of the Mondays. No, I'm actually not you. I'm saying Monday, yeah, we're not in our engineering. So, it is fine. And we, we try her at this. I mean, we are one of the largest markets in the country, and we have sitting there's every day, but that's not a year. Yeah, it's fine.

Hey, I hope you guys have a good weekend. I did. I will be. Happy fathers A.U. Thank you very much. And all the fathers out there? I happen to look on Facebook yesterday, and a lot of people put pictures of their and photos or whatnot. I have the best dad and he's the greatest and there's no one else like him. I got a little breaking news for all y'all.

I'm the greatest dad. That's not what I heard actually. Multiple sources. Oh, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. Let me tell you something. Multiple sources are now confirming. No, no, no.

Peyton Thomas for sure could say I was the greatest day. I guess we had a great time in Las Vegas this past weekend. Cameron Thomas, for numerous reasons can say it. And so for that matter, Carly. So I'm going to go ahead and declare all of you on Facebook that you said, you have the greatest dad. That's just not true. I'm the greatest dad.

Now, if you want to go to your Facebook page and say, hey, I've had a chance to kind of survey the territory. Matt, you are the greatest dad. I'll accept that. And hit a like on that. Okay. It's good to learn you've those days off that you had. You learned some humility. I have.

I have. Rossi. Maddie? I heard you had a great caller to the show on Friday. Yes, I did. You're talking about the young lad Jay. Yeah, Jay. 10 years old.

10 years old. Now, a couple of questions. Was dad feeding him material or was it organic? See, I'm glad you said that. Because some people were like, why didn't you answer his question about in the beginning of the call and all this other stuff? And I'm like, for the exact reason you said, Matt, because we always get kids who call the show. And you can always kind of maybe hear somebody in the background feeding somebody material. So I wanted him to keep talking so if I could hear his parents.

because he started off his call saying I got three things. I was like, okay, what's the other thing? What's the other thing? I was trying to keep him talking to see if it was really Jay. And he was saying stuff off top of his head, talking about Cam Smith, not going to spring training. I brought up Charlie Morton and immediately like he's, yeah, he's still pitching. He's with the Orioles. Like, 10-year-old Jay.

That's impressive. Yes. So you couldn't hear the dad in the back. No. It was all Jay. I think. Well, I don't know if y'all know this or not, but we don't have any backups here. So, Ross, the next time you want to get a day off or whatever,

Oh, yeah. Me and Jay can do the show. Actually, multiple people already said that Jay's taking your job. The second he's eligible for work, yeah. Well, he's 10, so I think what's the youngest you can work in Texas? 15? Well, you can work like provisionally 15, but normally it would be 16 years old. We're in contract negotiations.

So I got six years to get this show back in order or I'm losing the spot to Jay. Something like that. Okay, I got you. But yeah, great call on that. You give away a lazy boy, your sofa. Well, a $500 gift card, yes. gift card. That was nice.

Great weekend sale, Matt, with the lazy boy furniture galleries. I'm sure you heard about it. I think I just got a repeat of it right now. Thank you for that. You're welcome. By the way, real quick, my Vegas weekend, Manilow, spectacular. Of course. I mean, unbelievable.

Caratop, ridiculously funny, ridiculously raunchy. Ridiculously funny. Yeah. Oh, you are crying laughing at the Taylorton's at the Caratop show. No, but constant laughing. Okay. And again. And you, how about you and the other 17 other people in the theater?

No, it was actually pretty full. Now, it was also 51 degrees in the theater. I don't know if comics like it, cold. Probably not. I was shivering how cold it was. Maybe he's a heavy sweater, so he tells him to crank it down. I don't know what it was, but it was awful how cold it was. That was the biggest downfall.

What theater was he at? He was at. El Cortez, correct? No, he was not. The Luxor is not bad. Oh, Luxor is not bad. You know what? People rip on the Luxor.

I looked at the rooms and whatnot. They didn't look bad at all. And it's a really good spot vacate on the strip-wise. No, it's way down there. Luxor? I think. It's a little too far south. You could go to Mandalay Bay if you wanted to.

Exactly. And Mandalay Bay and MGM are down there, but that's about it. Yeah. It's not more smack mid-strip like, I don't know, Harris, Caesars, Belagio. I didn't, I said downtown. Oh, yeah. I love downtown. And did not have any issues with anybody playing blackjack because here's the thing.

I was way more proactive than I normally would. Are you serious? Did you hand out the, did you hand out the, did you? hand up the strategy cards like I told you to? No, I verbally helped people out. My gosh. So I probably played, I don't know, six, seven, eight hours of blackjack while I was

there and I did not throw, hit my hand on the ground or yell or passively aggressive cuss somebody out. There was a couple of people that hit some bad hands, but they went to the hand, so I just kept quiet, but they were, when they went against the odds. But generally speaking, it was a really good time. Good.

Stop looking at the mat. Just stop. I can't because if they're a fact of my car playing. No, they're not, this is likely to help us hurt. We've been over this. I don't think so. You just said they played it wrong and it was fine. But that was one time out of a hundred. Oh, okay. I'm going to start logging this. My son, paint my middle one,

who's 22, played blackjack for the first time. Oh, really? How did he like it? He was okay. Very first hand he got was a black check. So that was a very good owing on that. That's nice. You're playing 32, right? No, we were playing 6'5, but they give you a bonus spin wheel, which gives you some extra money. So I wouldn't say it evens out. It always helps the house, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

And the one thing I will notice, too, and last before we get to the Astros, and boy, they had a great weekend. And by the way, I did cash in beautifully on Friday on the Astros. A rather large wager on the over eight and a half, and it was done by, I think, the fourth inning. I hit that number. So I was very pleased about that. Oh, on Friday. Yeah. Okay.

The number of women in full-sleeved tattoos, I'm not kidding you on the first. this? I don't know if it's because it's downtown. He's down. I think the answer is it's downtown. Yeah, that's fine. 40% of the women I saw, which I, which is the highest number I've ever seen in one area. I mean, not just the little heart tattoo that you get because your best friend got it or maybe a little butterfly.

I'm talking about full sleeve tattoos. I know, that was interesting that the tattoo world has gotten so popular that women are not, first of all, getting them as much as they are. But secondly, they're going from shoulder down to the wrist. That's all I got. Yeah, that's pricey. I don't even know what tattoos cost. Hundreds and thousands of dollars, depending.

But, I mean, it was just, it was like, we, my painting and I were like, let's go look at 20 women. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And probably at least eight or nine of them had full sleeve tattoos. Google says $50 an hour. Full sleeve in Houston can range from 1,500 to 6,000, depending on the artist. So I'm assuming, well, again, grand, nobody's getting those tattoos in Vegas. They're probably bringing them in. Some of them are.

Yeah. So that's it on that. Okay. That was the weekend. Thank you. When are you getting your full sleeve? That'll be never 31st. What are you going to get?

I'm getting zero. It's going to be like six pictures of yourself. That's what I'd figure. In various stages of your career. That's one of the rudest things you've ever said to me. Is it? Yeah. I mean, I have mirrors in my office, but other than that, I,

I kid, I kid. All right. So the local nine. Yeah. How are they doing it, Matt? Well, your tweet on Saturday was absolutely hysterical. I don't think you intended to do it be as funny. No, it was one of those weirdest things where I'm like, why is this going viral?

Why is it must, it ended up in the four you tab somehow. Yeah. That's the only explanation. Go ahead. You said, how are the Astros 40 and 30? It was the most innocuous. And there were some people that said, it's funny because clutch hitting, Bullpen, you know, starting pitching's been good, good defense.

And those are all logical answers to that question. The funniest ones to me were because they played 70 times and they've scored more runs 40 times than their opponents. I mean, it was a chuckle the first time, but then the 75th time it was less funny. Numerous people doing it. Yeah, so I tweeted that, how in the world are the Astros 40 and 30? I did that on Saturday.

And I don't know, somehow it got 1,700 likes. It's just most random, ridiculous. No, it's funny. Because when Forrest Whitley got traded to the race over the weekend, I had a bunch of people, I put my obligatory, what was your favorite Forgis Whitley as an Astro moment. And I had the normal people that were following me, but I had a lot of people who don't follow me that were sending me responses.

So obviously, my tweet got in the 4U tabs. I was just wondering which of your tweets ended up in the 4U tab. That was the one for the weekend because I was like, who are these people. And I don't know who they were. They said they were Astro fans. I don't know if they were crypto bots or whatever. case would be, but they were talking about when he got traded or when he was healthy for that one time.

When he got busted for drugs and got a 50 game suspension. That was my favorite moment. My favorite moment was when he would always come into camp either losing weight or gaining weight. He became a spring training story. He was like a woman because he couldn't keep his weight fluctuating. You know women fluctuate with her weights. Well, men do that too.

Luther Vandross? Name another. No, your weight's been pretty consistent. No, I'm fluctuated sometime. What does that mean? Oh, I've lost, I mean, a couple of times I've lost like 35 to 40 pounds and then gained it all back. He saw about 2011 when we first met. That's not accurate.

You've been steady. Okay. Like, we have a friend of ours we work with. No, in 2000, what's today? 2020, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to talk about it. You're just wrong. Okay, well, that's fine.

But men should not talk about weight. Why not? Because we fluctuate more than women do. I think we do. It depends. How do we get on a wait? I don't know. You started it.

Oh, but Forrest Whitley's way that's right. So he's now... Anything goes Monday. It's now he's at Tampa Bay, Ray, and good for him. Yes. And again, the Astros spent first round money on him, but they didn't have to spend a lot of money after that because he didn't have much of a major league tenure. Mm-hmm.

It was like $3 million he got out of first-round deal. Which, you know, unfortunately, first round picks sometimes don't pan out. A matter of fact, a lot of them don't pan out. Yeah, but I mean, he was the best pitching prospect in baseball for a little while there. until he gets suspended and hurt. Tommy John. If there was something that Forrest Whitley had wrong, ankle injuries.

He got it. And then when he had his opportunity this year, this wasn't very good. And now he's at Tampa Bay Ray. And now if he goes to Durham, he's going to be like he might be eligible for the minor league Hall of Fame. They are out of,

he is still out of options. Yeah. With the trade. So they have to keep him up in the major league level. And my guess is he'll have a spot there. At least to figure out one way or the other. Yeah. But the Astros got a nice win again yesterday, come from behind fashioning game that I thought frankly for a while had a no no feel to it.

Unfortunately for the Astros, it couldn't get much going offensively. But the Astros did win. They swept the twins. Now, I know Carlos Correa is obviously feeling very good about his checkbook, right? Mm-hmm. But is he got to be thinking, what am I doing here? I'm in Minnesota. We're not going to win.

Our team is up for sale. We don't spend a lot of money. Now, granted, I've got a lot of money. But I'm never going to, I'm never going to win a World Series again. As long as Carlos Correy is in Minnesota, he's never going to win a World Series. They won a World Series in Minneapolis, and I know this guy I used to live there. Since 1991, Ross, they have like no playoff wins in 20 years, much less World Series. Well, like you said, he's got paid.

He didn't, this is not what he expected when he wanted to bet on himself, not take a deal from the Astros and hit free to. agency. He thought he was going to hit New York and become a huge superstar. Yeah. Instead, he's in Minneapolis. He's in Minneapolis eating juicy Lucy's. The burgers, for those of you that. We should probably clarify that a little bit. What were you talking about? I was talking about the burgers. Well, you didn't say that though. If the average person's listening to show right now going eating juicy loosies, he doesn't know who that. I think most people could figure it out. Look at Jonathan shaking his head. He's like, I don't know what those are. Do you know what a juicy? Yeah, we talked about it. I thought with him.

No, I could have been another producer. Yeah, we've only had. If I say let's go get a juicy Lucy, you don't know what I'm talking about? I'm thinking what Matt was thinking about. I don't know what you're talking about. What was Matt thinking about, Jonathan? Let's go to break.

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here on this Monday Riss on Outsider at 64. Matt strutting around on his new t-shirt on Father's Day. This is his number one dad. I'm just telling you, you guys are lying on Facebook. That's all I'm saying. Matt, you are a great father, great loving, caring father to your children.

There you go. I got you. Hey, congratulations to the Astros again. We'll get to some NBA stuff because there's been, again, the endless rumors about Kevin Durant are funny. But again, your local nine. Christian Walker's having a Jose Abraeu type here. It's getting really close. I still don't want to use that word.

Someone pointed out to me yesterday. They didn't use them as a pinch hitter in the ninth inning, did they not? Correct. You're an off day, correct? That's good. Clear his head. Get Caratini in there. So you're going to use Caratini over Walker in a chance to win a ball game.

Mm-hmm. Well, who's been hitting? better this year. Just let that sink in for just a minute. You get him a full day off to clear his head, Matt. Okay. Good for Joe Espada. I mean, hey, they won the game, didn't they? I'm just, yeah.

But I'm just telling you, that should put to perspective how bad it be. And it's too bad, because I do like Christian Walker a lot. And hopefully he'll bang a bunch of home runs out of the, I don't even know what the name of the ballpark is in Sacramento. By the way, today's edition of Believe it all things about Sacramento. Really? Yeah. Okay. Sure. Why not? Because it's the Okermento.

A's against the Astros. I'm going to stick with Sacramento. Because they're trying to run away from using the name. Like they're not there. It's ridiculous. Yeah. And you know who doesn't care about that? Sacramento don't care.

That's rude. At least like 7,500 of them care. That's true. They don't even fill up their stadium. I wonder what the average attendance is. I don't have to look. But that's, yeah. So, all right.

So you got Christian Walker having, unfortunately, Jose Ibrayu type numbers. Oh, all right. You've lost. lost 60% of your rotation. You got guys going every other day you've never heard of before in your entire life in that starting lineup, or at least the rotation.

Brendan Rogers, your free agent in-field acquisition has done nothing offensively. Kind of basically what he did in the last couple of years. Yes. Let's see, what else has been? Down years, generally speaking, for Yarn Air Diaz. Yeah, he was bouncing back for a little bit. Yep.

And then over for you yesterday. only two hits over the weekend. Batting average of? 243. I was going to get better, though. He's going to be fine. I did have him as my sneaky home run leader for the asteros. Well, he's got nine.

I think Paredes is leading with 15. Yeah. So I got a chance if Paredes misses a more time. Oh, by the way. And Yoron misses more time. Isak Paredes is out. Yes. Yorda Alvarez is out.

Tomi John. Jacob Melton is out. Yes. Although that's been, he's been quite injured a lot the last couple of years. Yes. Don't even say it. I'm not. Are you kidding me?

I hardly know chicken out. I'm not putting that on the tag on him just yet. But you are having career years for Jeremy Payne. Yes. Jake Myers. Jake Myers. Jose Altoube has bounced back after a really sluggish start of the year. His base running remains the most aggravating thing I've ever seen in my life.

Faffling. Guy's been in the major leagues, what, 15 years and he still can't run the bases? He should be passing Jeff Bagwell on the all-time Astros hit list very soon. Yeah. And we should still keep 3,000 alive. Yes, we should. As long as he's healthy, he's got a shot. Yeah, yeah.

All that we just said in your squad is four and a half games in front of the Seattle Mariners in the American League West. 41 and 30, they've won five in a row. Eight of ten. Fire Joe's spotta guy is going through it right now. I am ridiculously happy. Me too. Now, now the fire Joe spot of phone calls are fun and the fire the pitching coach is fun calls

and the fire and the hitting coach is fun calls and you messidentify who they are and we kind of have fun with that. But when things are winning, you and I are talking to ourselves because we know a lot of people calling in saying, oh, that's true. This has to go. This has to go. We get fewer Astros calls when they're winning than when they're losing.

That's just the nature of the game. Until apathy sets in like in 2012. It's like, for instance, when you have a great meal, you don't run to your Twitter account and talk about, oh, this steak at Smortons was amazing. Yes. When the airline, you go there and the flight's on time and they even get you there like 15 minutes early, the service was perfect.

You don't go to your social media. Nobody goes to social media. Nobody goes to Yelp or Google reviews. And go out there. That's just the nature of the game. It's human nature, and that's fine. By the way, I have a, I believe Gordy might be lying to us about something. It's a to tell the truth for Chris Gordy?

I think he's going to have to tell the truth. Okay. And I'm going to read you the tweet coming up at 10.50. Because that's normally his spot, but he's probably sleeping right now. You are one of a kind. But I think he's lying to us about something. What reason does he have to lie? Because what he said on his Twitter account this morning is against the law.

Okay. And we'll discuss? At 10.50. With him? No, he's sleeping. He slept in the corporate. Where is he? Where is he flying to or back from?

He slept in the Corpus Christi Airport this last night. It's a three and a half hour drive. What's he doing flying down there? No, no, he was coming from Napa. They diverted the plane to Corpus. I got you. Oh, yeah. They were in wine country this weekend.

Beautiful out there. I've never been. Oh. Well, you don't like wine. No. So never mind. But I'm sure, and still, I'm sure it's beautiful. Monterey I heard is amazing.

We'll send you out to Sex on the Beach country and then you can go out there. That's your favorite cocktail. I wasn't sex in the beach country. I was called Las Vegas, Nevada. Lemon Drop country. You don't want to be in Sand there. No. 713-212-5-790.

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We'll discuss that next on 790. There are a lot of things I'm obsessed with. Let me start, and you can add some more. I'm obsessed with standings in basketball and in baseball. Yes. I am obsessed with trade rumors. Yes.

I am obsessed with... Gatekeeping who and who is not, Houston Media. I'm trying to be better about that. That's good. Because I'm losing that battle. Some of the teams in this town will let anybody in their mother

have credentials and they're not qualified, but I'm trying to be better about it. Okay? I don't think it's working, is you're proud of me. I'm obsessed with Lauren Shihadi. Oh, man. What a, I mean, just what a goddess.

I mean, period. Focus. I'm going to stop turning on. No, no, no. I insist on the MLB network being on. Yeah, but then if I put on first take, you're going to look at Molly Karam. What can I put on?

I'm putting on nature programs. Discovery Channel or something. And then somehow a tree stump's going to get your, you're going to fix it on me. What? I'm obsessed with good blackjack playing. and I'm obsessed with the in-and-out burger. Oh, did you have one in Vegas?

Yes. Okay. What about Fat Burger? Have you ever had that? Well, I saw you post you had a heart attack grill. I did. How was that? Mid.

Oh, disappointing? Just way more fluffed. The basic burger is... More sizzled than steak. It's chili, red onion, cheddar cheese, and the bun. And it was great, but it was... You had to put a gurney on and the girls are hot. I get that.

And if you don't eat it, they spank you. And I was thinking about that. So you got spanked? No, I ate it. I would have thought you'd have left one bite. You think I want to be spanked by attractive redheads in Las Vegas, Nevada? I didn't say that. You did.

Okay. 7-1-3-2-1. He's writing that down. 7-1-3-1-2-5-7. Okay. So I'm obsessed with these NBA trade rumors about Kevin Duran. And obviously, I think the consensus is it's come down to about three teams.

Although everybody in their mother is trying to add teams of this mix. Yes. And I think a lot of it's fluid because and I think the reason why you're hearing other teams being added to the mix is because what Brian Winhorse is about to tell us here when he said this morning on ESPN and we'll have Jonathan play there for you right now. What I understand, the three teams on Durant's list, Miami, San Antonio, and Houston have not made offers that have gotten Phoenix excited to this point.

To this point is very important. Minnesota was aggressive at midseason. Minnesota, from what I understand, has been the most aggressive team in these trade talks. I do think Toronto is lurking out there. Toronto is making the number nine pick in this draft in addition to some players available in multiple different scenarios. And I think the LA Clippers are lurking out there as well. But I would say right now, if I had to put a favorite, I definitely think Minnesota is the team that's been most aggressive. Hmm.

But not on his list. No, Miami, Houston, San Antonio on the list. Now you're saying, well, who cares what the list is because Kevin Durant doesn't have a no trade clause. Kevin Durant has basically said, I'm going to only sign extensions with three teams. Yes, that's his leverage. And his leverage is that. And he has said that the rockets, the spurs, and the heat. Heat makes no sense except for maybe the path the Eastern Conference Championship significantly easier out there than it would be in the West.

And that's actually true. I mean, clearly, we're not being talking out of school here by saying the Houston Rockets would like to have Kevin Durant. I mean, it's painfully obvious they would. But they're keeping things close to the vest. They do not want to mortgage this young nucleus. I do believe E.M. Adonka would like to have a veteran scorer that has been there and done that. A go-to guy.

But Raffel Stone to be the cross-checker, and every organization has a cross-chequer between a coach and on general man. manager says, yeah, coach, I know you want Kevin Duran. I know that Kevin Duran has spoken very highly about being a Houston Rocket or not, not by the, he's spoken very highly about the Rockets as an organization. But we've got this capital and we have this flexibility and we've got some other guys we've got to figure out signing wise. We can't mortgage a future on a guy that's going to be 37 coming up this season. So I think that that's the internal conversation probably happening within Rocketville is

Yes, Durant has showed interest. And so if you're a coach, think about if you're the, if I'm the coach, and I go to you, you general manager Ross, and say, hey, Kevin Durant wakes up in the morning with 25 points. And he brings to the arena every single night. I can't say that about other players on my team. Kevin Durant walks in the building and scores 25. You come back to me and said, that's great. But I have to think about everything, the entire roster, the salary, the luxury tax,

the aprons, the future, the draft picks, you don't worry about that. So I think this is what my guess is they're debating about is at what point does what they offer Phoenix, does the light bulb go off in Phoenix and say, hey, that's the best we can get. And I think if you're Phoenix, you're going to wait until somebody budges and somebody says, okay, I'll add this. My guess is the number 10 pick is obviously something that the Sons would like to get back. my guess is they want to get somebody that at least starts for the rockets, whether it's Jalen Green, Jabari, Smith, Alpern, Shingun. And then probably after that, Ross, you're talking about lots more of unprotected picks

coming up in the next couple of years would be my guess. Yeah, and also in any trade, you're probably going to overrate the asset you have in terms of the market when you talk about what you said. He makes a lot of money. He's going to be 37 when the next season starts. You have no guarantee. if you're the Rockets, you're trading for Kevin Durant, not for the 82 game regular season.

You're trading for him to be ready for the playoffs, and you have no guarantee of that. So it'll be interesting to see where it goes from here and how much of a deadline or how pressing it is for them to get something done before the draft, because the draft is next Wednesday. So we're like 10 days away from that. Oh, he's being trained before the deadline.

I am no issue with the draft is the deadline for the song. Yes, yes. The deadline is the draft night. Yeah, because if you're Phoenix, don't you want, if you're going to get a top 10, which you would think you'd get out of this, that. They probably want top five. They want top five. Well, does San Antonio dangle that number two pick out to them? Is Kevin Durant worth a number two pick in the draft?

And this, if you're a team trading for Kevin Durant, do you even want him to sign with you? How much leverage is that? Anyways. We're talking about. If you're San Antonio, do you say, hey, yeah, we want Kevin Durant. And we want to sign them to $50 million a year into to the age of 40? At huge dollars. Yeah, 50 plus million a year.

I mean, the money that I'm seeing is absurd. Granted, now again, Kevin Durant is one of the greatest players in the history of the NBA. LeBron has slowed down, but LeBron is still a very much an impactful NBA player. Kevin Durant has slowed down a little bit, but he's still very much an impactful player. This is, we should, I mean, I know age is, it. is obviously a huge issue. But if you're still scoring 25 points a game and still grabbing 11 rebounds

and dishing out 4 or 5 assists, are you worried about the age? I don't know. I'm more worried about the injury. And I saw him get hurt against the rockets close up the year in Phoenix late. Yeah, age and injury. I mean, it's tied together.

They are. They are. So I just, let me tell you, I'd be beyond excited if Kevin Durant was a Houston rocket. It would give an extra energy boost to this community. I mean, Russell Westbrook,

when he was a rocket, huge energy boost. Chris Paul, huge energy boost. But, Grant, you're also talking about those guys that were not 37 years old when these trades were being made. So I don't mean to, like, I can't come to you and go, this has to happen. Because, A, I'm worried about the age, like anybody would be in part of this trade. And B, I'm also worried about if you're competing with two other teams and as Wind Horse brought up, maybe Toronto, maybe the Clippers, maybe Miami. maybe I mean if you're battling four or five teams is somebody I mean could Toronto be like hey we're in the east we need something here let's go let's let's be that difference maker because Boston's not going to be you know maybe Jalen Brown gets moved you already know that Jason Tatum is basically done for next season Milwaukee Janice's future I mean the east is a hot mess of uncertainty at this point Kevin Durant could be that missing piece but if Kevin Durant only says I'm going to Toronto for one year they've already been bitten by that a couple of times.

I mean, Kauai Leonard went there and said, this is cool and everything, but I'm getting out of here. Yeah. And also an X factor in this is the market being set with the Desmond Bain. Not necessarily the market being set, but with the Desmond Bain

trade costing you four first rounders, if you're the Orlando Magic, that makes the Phoenix Suns feel like whatever deals they're getting offered probably aren't up to par. It's almost like I wish that the Phoenix Suns didn't know about that trade, now they're like, oh, it doesn't make it to this. And Desmond's good, but he ain't Kevin Durant. 1043 on the Matt Thomas show.

Gordy is sending us endless text about his flights yesterday. Okay. And I'm going to do a ruling off of his tweet. Okay. You know what? My name is Paul. Between y'all. I'm staying out of this.

No, you're not because you're... You want to call the man a liar? I'm going to let you do that. You want him to let him call in. You wanted the name with Ross on the show. You're going to get it on the show. That doesn't mean I have to be attached to your accusation. The fellow co-workers

and calling them liars on the air. It does. No, it doesn't. I'm going to present all the evidence because he's sending us text. Yes. Okay. So the text might be able to balance what he said on Twitter yesterday. Okay. We'll discuss.

713-212-5-79 if you want to jump in. Your Stroes have won five consecutive games. They're playing the Oakland. Nope, excuse me, they're playing the Sacramento. I'm sorry. They're playing the Las Vegas. They're playing the athletics. Four game series. I'll have the on-deck show at 8.30 to 8 o'clock today. Yes, I will.

Wow. Look at this guy. Maddie after dark. It's funny. Clinton and Waxler won't have any of those on-deck shows. I'm sure they're busy. No, they're not. Oh. Clinton goes to Metallica concerts and Wex tweets out U.S. Open information. I have a question. Yes, sir. And I'm not really trying to crush Clinton. I'm just asking. What is the most amount of times you can see and act?

And I guess you just never get tired of it, some people. Like he's seen now four times I guess this is also a question for Brian T's You're asking a wrong person Because how many times you've seen Barry Manilow? Four or five Okay And his bit hasn't changed

I've seen McCartney four times You said you're done with that though I'm done because of the prices Correct And he was kind of lacking energy on the stage But he's I mean If somebody offered me tickets I'd probably go

Maybe you wouldn't pay for it Curr Probably because you're at the Dickies Arena And you paid it was a high price It's the worst seats I've ever set in accounts for my entire life. May he rest in peace, Ken Hoffman, God, has terrible tickets. Terrible, terrible, terrible tickets. At high price, 500 bucks.

It was, God, it was awful. That's what you said, I can't do this anymore. I can't do this anymore. But, by the way, for those that rip on my music, I looked at all the ages of Metallica, they're all in their 60s. So this whole thing of, well, about you only go see old performers. Every one of the Metallica people were 60 plus. How old's Barry Manilow? 80. Be 82 this week.

Happy birthday to Barry. And sticks guys were all in their 60s and 70s. His face didn't fall apart or anything, right? That's not right. Now, we've got more on the Astros, more on the Kevin Durant stuff, to tell the truth, coming up at 1130, your phone calls as well coming up all between now and 2 o'clock this afternoon. Believe it on all things about Sacramento, California. Wonderful.

As the Astros and A's will start a series tonight. 713-212-125-790 if you like to join us 7-1-3-1-2-5-790 so our friend gordy normally joins us 1050 on Mondays and he will not be with us today because he just landed in from corpus christi he was in the he was in the wine country this weekend and i mean all of us that were here in town yes you know there was terrible terrible rain in the area long and it forced delays cancellations uh and rerouting it was bad storms i think reports of some winds of up to 50 miles per hour. So, yeah, and this is, this is North Sout.

I mean, all parts of the everywhere. Everywhere. It was bad. So he tweets this morning when I woke up, and I want to make sure I get this tweet right. Let's see here. He's at Chris Gore. It's not a great follow. It's just, I follow him because he's really a co-worker. At the moment he leaves, it goes somewhere else.

A lot of SEC talk. Oh, my God. It's just too much. It's just an abundance of SEC breakdown. So he says, I'd like to thank Darkbreast Airlines for six hours of making us... Oh, are you saying that or he said that? No, he said South... Okay.

He said Southwest, but I'm going Dark Breast. Okay? I was so confused. Thank you. Would like to thank Southwest Airlines. He didn't even go at Southwest, so he didn't want him to see it. Hmm.

Why didn't he add him? Okay. Stay with me on this. Okay. Would like to thank Southwest Airlines for six hours of making us sit on the tarmac in Corpus Christi. And then the chance to spend the night at the airport at Corpus Christi, which resulted in

zero hours asleep. All because Houston had a little rain last night. Well, that's not what we had. We had a lot of rain. Okay? We had a lot, a lot, a lot of rain. So, he's, again, he's grouchy. Yes. We've all been grouchy on planes before.

So the last sentence was the initial part of, okay, you're not telling the complete truth. His first sentence got me thinking. Okay, Matt. He says that they set on the tarmac in corporate secrecy for six hours, which made me think,

how long legally can someone be on a tarmac? I went and looked it up. You can be on the tarmac for only three hours. If it's an international flight, you can be on the tarmac for four hours. And that's where I think the lie is in play. Okay. Now, what he didn't say was, we got on the plane, sat on the tarmac for three, sent us back to the terminal, got back in the plane for three hours. That could be six.

You could do it that way for six hours. But you cannot consecutively sit on a plane for six hours. It is illegal. It is against the law to do that to a passenger. So he then follows up with some texts this morning. He says, worst travel experience ever. he says the flood attendants were telling us some of the other grounded planes had fights some people ripped out the oxygen mask one guy had a heart attack and a woman went into labor

and they wouldn't let her off leave this oh my god first of all why are you launching in this investigation number one number two according to google there are exceptions to the rule apparently if there has been deemed a safety or security risk air traffic control can advise against deplanning and there are other plans that could happen with lengthy tarmac depletes. This is according to Google. Number two, his lovely wife, Lauren, did at Southwest Airlines and she was also adding the Secretary of the Department of Transportation. Good, good. And her last tweet said,

at five hours still stuck on the plane and she put a video. up of this plane is bubbling. I don't know what's going on with bubbles and weird stuff coming out of the plane. So I believe them. I believe the Gordy's. I think this is a witch hunt by Matt Thomas. I'm telling you. Planes have been diverted many a time.

Why would they? So you think they're lying? No, I'm not saying they're not lying about being diverted. But you can't put 160 people on a plane for six hours consecutively. I don't know. Last Lauren said we are now at five hours and still stuck on the plane. Uh-oh, we're getting texts in. Are we absolutely sure it was six consecutive hours?

They had no available gates and the plane could not pull away. Three planes were stuck for six to eight hours on the tarmac. Okay. I will then say, I believe, And I would, if I'm Smish Morty and his lovely wife, Lauren Morty, I would sue the Southwest Airlines for everything they had. We're also, I think, getting word from the Gordy's. Nope.

For three inches. Four on a good day. What was that? You were having some issues. I don't know. I have no idea what this guy. Okay. So dark.

So, so dumb ass up, man. There you go. That was from the Gordy's. So dark breast airlines. You cannot divert them to Corpus Christi then. If there's no gate for them to go to, then, I mean, what else can they do? Go to another airport, a bigger one. You tell me that Austin couldn't handle this?

San Antonio couldn't handle this? Hell, they were flying from the West Coast. They could have landed in El Paso. You're going to tell me an airline mishandled the situation? I don't never happen. This could permanently sour the Gordy's on ever going anywhere again. I think this could permanently sour the Gordy's on Matt Thomas for calling them liars. No, no, no, no.

I'm just saying that the rule is three hours. Okay, so let me tell you this. I don't know if there's legal recourse. I now believe them. Okay. And I would sue that. I would sue Southwest Airlines. You hear me Southwest?

You're going to get sued by the Gordy's. So let me tell you something, Shmish Morty. Do not under any circumstance. Why are you rhyming his name? You started it. I didn't even do that. Chris, do not take a $500. Don't take $15,000.

A voucher. Yeah. You take him for like five or six flights anywhere you want to go when you want to go with assigned seats because you know

Dark Breast does they assign seats now apparently or something Oh yeah I think starting last A couple weeks ago yeah Terrible Which by the way I'm not No free bags And assigned seats

Not flying southwest So what in the world Is Dark Breast flying to Corpus Christi for You could fly to McAllen Browns There's a bunch of airports down there that have more than one gate Why don't you call the CEO and figure this out?

I don't know, Matt. I should get him on the show. Explain yourself from yesterday. Okay. So, again, I didn't say they were lying. I said we had to investigate if they were lying. And we have determined through thoughtful development and research and logical thinking that they are not lying. Okay.

And congratulations, because Gordy's going to get nonstop flights to Baton Rouge whenever he wants to on dark breast airlines. I don't think even dark breast flies of Baton Rouge. Did Baton Rouge even have an airport? No, I don't think so. I think it's got like one Greyhound station. Yeah, just lying when you want to. All right, so poor Gordy, and I will tell you this, I would have lost my mind being on a plane for that many hours.

First of all, you know what kind of meal service you have on Darkbreast? Zilf. I've had 17 packets of peanuts. I'm still hungry. The damn snack makes things I'll fill the belly. No, it's not. That's rough. We got to fix this airline. It's also weather.

We got to fix. I know what, but do you know what? Then don't take off. Keep them in the Bay Area then. If you knew this weather didn't just pop up out of nowhere. That's all I'm saying. All right. Second hour, the Matt Thomas show with Raw starts in a matter of moments.

If you'd like to be a part of our conversation to talk about your travel horror stories. I bet you can't be Gordy's. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-7-90. See, Gordy was long. Missis Gordy checking in saying they were only on a tire rank for five and a half hours. He said six. Lies were told.

I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. 1102, sports talk, 790. It is a Matt Thomas Show with Ross. You upset Mrs. Gordy. She's coming after you on Twitter. I'm more scared of Mrs. Gordy than Mr. Gordy. You should be.

713, 2.12. 5790. Hey, Astros won. We've had no calls about the Astros winning. What? No calls about the Astros being four and a half games in front. Five game winning streak. Eight of ten.

doing it with people you've never heard of until about two months ago or for that matter two weeks ago Brandon Walter for life Colton Gordon for life Josh Hater 4-0 perfect and saves Ernie under one and a half they have 41 wins he's got 18 saves and four wins so 22 of them over half of the wins he's been a factor it's funny the dollar amount being mentioned in Josh Hader's contract it's not but discussed much 1.45ERA. How good has he been?

He's doing the year with Billy Wagner. I mean, great left-handed relievers. Yes. All of fame. All right. Here's the bit. We had, when your local teams do well, you don't call in, so you have to kind of accept what you do get in from a call-in.

And Eric Nbased said he's one of our worst callers. Yes. Eric and Bass... Bar none. He's got a... He's in there trolling us every time he calls or he's got to screw loose. Eric and Bay City Oh, trust me, he's serious, what it's called.

Okay. Eric and Bay City or our buddy, Brad. If I had them both on the hold, you have to take one. And I had to take one. Yeah. I'd go to break. No, that's not an option.

You must take one phone call. I did in the show. You must take one phone. We'll go to Fox Sports Radio. Eric in Bay City on 790 and good morning. Well, I'm going to make you feel bad, Matt, because I'm going to set Ross straight from seven months ago. When he said,

when he said, did Barry Mavis Lano ever sing at the Super Bowl. Yes, Ross. He opened up the Super Bowl in 1984 with the National Anthem because he's a legend. No, he didn't do the halftime show. That's what I was talking about, Eric. Okay, no, that's true. So shut your bum ass up. You're right. Hey, okay, well, my bum asses

calling this morning because you said where are the jealous spot a haters? Yeah, let's go. Here's one of them. Okay. And I wouldn't call myself a hater. I just think he should go back to being the bench coach. Okay. I'd never gotten rid of AJ. How is he failing the Astros? How is he failing the Astros right now? I'll tell you. Thank you.

Let's just go to Saturday. Saturday, we've got Luis Giorme gets up there and draws a walk. Yiner Diaz at the plate, and he sends Giorme, who looks like he's been to every Schmolden Schmerau, from Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, et cetera, in between, and gets thrown out by a mile. Why are we still in that base with two outs? We've got Yiner up. We've got Al-Tube. Put in a pinch runner.

Not this guy that looks like a short-order cook running out of the back. of a Burger King because of the What day was this? Saturday. I was in airs, I don't know. All right, I'll go back and look this up. Now I work this game. This is the eighth inning Saturday. Okay.

Sunday. Sunday, he really got his comeuppets. He got his comeuppets on Sunday because you got Jake Myers on base and Mauricio DuBron knocking him in. This is not accurate. And none of this is accurate. But go ahead. Maricio Dubon had to walk off hit. And Jake Myers'Rourne scored the run.

on Sunday. No, that Sunday is correct. Saturday, you're talking about? Saturday when Giorme got thrown out stealing in the eighth inning. I'm talking about both games. I'm saying every single game that I sit there and watch, I can figure out something where it's like, look, this either shows that he doesn't know what he's doing with Giorme's stealing or he hasn't know what he's doing by not playing Jake Myers and Mauricio Duvon. Giorme did not get thrown out stealing in Saturday. Yeah, he did. In the eighth inning.

No. I don't know how you missed that. He looked like a sea lion at SeaWorld sliding across the dirt. He got thrown out by a mile. No, that didn't happen. I must be going crazy. I'm telling you it did. Let me look at this again.

I watch it right here in the living room. Okay, let's see. Eighth inning. Bottom of the eighth inning. Giorme hit for Rogers. He walked. There was already one out from Cooper Hummel striking out swinging. Jeremy Pena lined out to shortstop

and then Yainer Diaz struck out swinging. No, they threw him out at second base. He attempted to steal, and they threw him out by a mile. No. That didn't happen. Okay, well, I disagree. He called to steal. I have the Saturday play-by-play brought up right now.

I watch the game right here in my living room. All right, you know what, I'm going to be the tiebreaker on this. So here it is. Bottom of the eighth. Hummel hit for Dubon. Hummel struck out swinging. Yes. Giorme hit for Rogers.

Giorme walked. Pena lined out to shortstop. That would be out number two. Eric, you already got one guy saying you're wrong, man. D.S. struck out swing. Out number three. Okay. On the swing, though, they threw it down to second and they threw out.

Eric, you're a complete dumbass. One hundred percent. No, no. No, no. actually. The Guillermo went, but it was already the inning was already over. It was over. But you didn't know that when the pitch was being made.

So something that didn't happen you want Joe a spot of fired over? Absolutely. First of all, probably a hit and run situation. Wouldn't you think that? Y'all are the ones sitting here talking about one of the 37-year-old basketball player called me the dumbass when you don't

want a 40-year-old pitcher. You guys are ridiculous. You're a dumbass. Goodbye. I remember now. It would have been a strike him out, throw him out if there was an extra out. But I imagine, I'm guessing, Giorme also probably let up a little bit, knowing that the swing and miss, correct? I mean, I didn't see it. Yeah, I didn't see it. When Gierme did go, and he would have been thrown out.

I remember not. And to compare, and to compare. Thank you. Yeah, we got it. Yeah. You know what? I apologize for that segment. That's, that's, we shouldn't take an error.

That's a byproduct of us not having callers that call and congratsy of the asses of playing well. So, frankly, it's fault. Hmm. What's the kid's name that called Friday? Jay. Yeah, so we need more J's. Yes. And if you're a smart baseball fan and would like to call the show, you're more than welcome to do so.

If not we get more of Eric and Bay City. Who sniffing glue way too many times? It's not very bright. I mean, look, I'm not very bright either. I can call myself a dumb ass all the time. And we don't even know that Joe Espada sent Luis Guillermo in that situation. Yeah. Could have been.

Giorme could have gone on his own. It might have been a hit-and-run situation because I-R-D-S did swing at the pitch. I don't know much about Louisville. I'm going to guess it wasn't a hit-and-run with two outs and an O-2 count. Yeah. What was that segment when you feel, you feel dumber after taking a something talking about something? What was that? Oh, the, from Billy Madison?

From Billy Matt. Yeah. That's exactly what we just gave you Houston, Texas. Now, there are other stations of town breaking down Texans. you know, potential backup safety conversation. Maybe that would be better for us. You want, is it this one? Oh, wait, I don't know if my can...

Oh, it's computer working? I don't know. Things I have ever heard. Hold on. Let me try this again. Try it one more time. What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought?

Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul. And I know we do this on Fridays at 1130, but I want to say to all of you, the great listeners of this show, I'm sorry. Oh, I forgot to do that on Friday. I sent out a weekly calendar. I'm sorry. By the way, was Jonathan off on Friday? Yes.

Because he didn't respond to any of my text. He was getting a tooth yanked He was probably under a lot of heavy drug use You get your tooth yanked? Yeah, I got all four. You poor man. He's back here on Monday, ready to go. Did the girl, do the girl take care of you this weekend?

Nah, she's not even in town, man. She's not even in town. Wait just a minute. So the girl leaves town when you have your wizened teeth pulled? Hashtag. Hashtag for agency. We told me he's in the danger zone. You know, I saw her that clip, and she was like, what's the danger zone?

You know what? You need a DFA her. Uh-oh, you're getting DFAed. DFA. Designate for assignment. It's a baseball term. You got 10 days either trader, release her, or send her to the minors. That's your decision.

Send it to the space cowboys, huh? Tell her she can't hit 19 ranch dressing with her salad next time to keep her down to one ranch dressing. Poor kid. Can you imagine your girl Leave in town When you have four wisdom teeth pulled I cannot endorse this I thought he got scheduled quickly

Yeah She did send the door dashed with snacks So she did see you got door dashed That's good Hopefully they were easy to chew snacks And some gogerts, you know Okay She didn't give you like corn nuts

Some gummy beer She sent you crackerjack That'd be the worst thing she could possibly sit to you That'd be the worst thing she could possibly sit to you Something's not wrong with it Something's not right with you guys. Oh, we've had many an issue. Trust me.

All right. 1113 on Sports Talk 7.9. So the Red Sox make a move. Raphael Devers is now a San Francisco giant. And Devers is, is he Ross, in my mind, he is what's wrong in sports? Huge contract, right? Alex Breggman comes there. They say, hey, man, can you move, you know, can you?

can you move around a little bit? Can you D.H for us? I know I want to play third base. But we need you to D.H. But yeah, this guy just literally won the gold glove. Literally just won the gold glove at third base. We think he should play third base. No, I want to play third base. I don't play third base.

We'll move in a second base, but we're just going to tell you that to make you feel better. But when he gets here and puts the Red Sox gear on, he's playing third base. All right, I guess I'll DH. First base when the Red Sox gets hurt. When did you go to first base? Nope. I'm not doing that. I'm not doing it.

I'm not playing first base. What you mean? And I'm going to go in front of a bunch of media members and say the Red Sox are liars in their bad organization. Now, how does that work out? You sent him to San Francisco. Yes. Where Matt Chapman is, I think, is still hurt, correct? Is he?

I'll take your word for it. I know he was on the injured list about a week ago. So if his dream is playing third base for the Giants, they just signed Matt Chapman to an extension. Yes, a lengthy deal. So what's he going to do there? D.H. I guess for the Giants? I guess so.

He owed me he doesn't want to play in the field. Why do you, why would the Giants want this cat? He's obviously disgruntled. And if you're disgruntled in Boston, all of a sudden is a change of scenery and Stam's just going to make him a swell fella? I don't think so. I don't think so at all. So, um, man. 250 million he's owed till 201 T33.

Don't my Devers? Yes. Ooh. That's a big, big deal. Now, I'm assuming the Giants, are they giving up a lot in return? What are the prospect numbers on this? Left-handed?

Yeah, I was actually looking that up during the break. Left-handed started Kyle Harrison, right-handed Jordan Hicks, who I thought they had, he started the season starting and had a good start against the Astro, but then I thought they moved him to the bullpen, which he's good, throws a hundred.

I don't know how he's been doing out of the bullpen. He's got a 647 ERA this year. Hal Harrison has a 456 ERA. You're not giving them Red Sox much because you're taking on a lot of that contract. Mm-hmm. And then a couple of prospects. I don't know who James Tibb that's third and rookie league right-hender Jose Beagle. And that's a loosely used term prospects.

Think about the Astros and over their last handful of years, have given up prospects. They gave up prospects. in the Zach Granky deal. None of those panned out. They gave up prospects in the Justin Verlander deal. And those guys panned out. They gave up prospects in the Yusay Kikuchi deal to Toronto. Those have not worked out.

So it just feels like to me we got to, we should, you can't say, well, the team A went to team B and in return, Team B gave up just a bunch of Joe's. You got to call them prospects. outfielder James Tibbs is now number six on the Red Sox list of top 30 prospects, and then the pitcher Jose Beo is unranked in their top 30. Yeah. And again, a lot of this is because the Giants are paying that contract,

and they're like, I'm not giving you all, if we're inheriting this halaciously big contract, yeah. But you go from a guy that was a solid player for you that your team got better and they wanted you to move to first base or DH and you just bitched them out of the entire time. So basically, you know what that was, Ross? That's my take my ball and I'm going home. It happens in Major League Baseball for guys that make over $200 million a year. Yeah, this is crazy.

It's a pretty unique story, but it was definitely shocking when it went down. It's shocking to hear about it because nobody had heard about this trap of trade happening, certainly not in the middle of June. But when you think about it, okay, yeah, he'd been disgruntled there and clearly the organization was fed up and they made a move. what it does it gives it gives incredible power to a pitcher to a player even though the franchise is the one that said hey we'll give you the money to keep you happy and man i i i i the player empowerment is still incredible it's it's it's it's it's it's most abundant in basketball a player wants a coach fired it's going to happen yes player wants to be traded as long as our contracts aren't obscene they'll get traded player wants to stay because he likes the city and what you're going to happen yes player wants to stay because he likes the city and what you're she's in. Like Bradley Beal is right now playing for the Phoenix Suns. Bradley Bill has been one of the most overrated players, overpaid players in recent NBA history.

Till the Phoenix Suns, I'm staying here. I like it. You're paying me crazy money. My family wants to stay. And my family wants to stay here and we're not going anywhere. Meanwhile, Kevin Durant, on the opposite. Kevin Durant's like, I'm going to tell you where I'm going to go and sign an extension. Now, you can try me anywhere you want, but that team better know I'm out of there if it's not at Houston, Miami or San Antonio. Yeah, it's no accident that it's getting reported publicly where Kevin Durant will sign an extension. Yeah. That's because his agent is probably telling him.

I guarantee the Phoenix Suns, yeah, Phoenix Suns ain't saying. Sean is, is getting told by the agent. Well, I'll say this. Devers, again, I don't know if Boston's going to ever get out of their doldrums. But I like when players go to the National League. I just do. I'm not sad about it. I like every team that has good players moving into the American League.

I'm okay with it. I mean, I just do. National League is pretty stacked. Most of the best teams in baseball are, at least by record over there. And we'll get to find out late October when the Astros are playing one of those teams in the World Series. What are you calling a shot? No. That was purely the Astro Phantamy saying that.

Okay. As of right now, they are the third division leader, which would mean the three seed, which would mean another wild card series. And the winner that Wild Card Series will take on the Yankees. because the Detroit Tigers are still the top team in the American League. Although both the Yankees and the Tigers have slipped a little bit. Yeah, the Astros are only four games back of the Tigers. Only a game and a half behind the Yankees. How? I don't know.

How? I don't know. It's been crazy. It's great. A couple of one-run games. A couple of walk-offs. Doesn't matter. They all count the same in the wind column. Astros are 41 and 30.

Sitting pretty. This team was... I mean, under five, it felt like for the first, what, six, seven weeks of the season? I mean, what's their record since like, I don't know, we can look it up, but I mean, my guess is what? What are we now? We're June 16th. What is their record since like May 20th?

I'll have it before you when we come back. Okay. We got to tell the truth coming up in a few minutes too. Well, I'm right. No, you can do that. You can do that. 713-212-5-790. We got to tell the truth, but first I want to talk to James and Alvin on 790.

James, thanks for calling. Good morning. Oh, thank you, gentlemen. for accepting my call. Anything for you, James? Oh, man, you guys are so kind. And by the way, Eric and Bay City, we called you a dumbass. We still love you, but you're still a dumbass.

But that's a different issue. I know. That's okay. That's okay. I've been called worse. Not you. Not you. Go ahead.

Oh, okay. Listen, I hope you guys had a good Father's Day and all that good stuff. But listen, I was, when I found out that, as far as Woodley was traded to Tampa Bay, I was hoping I say, I hope they tried to get the channel Samson guy who I think

is a game changer you know he came up they played him a few games he's not a he don't have

what you say talk about light power like like tower power but he gets on base and he

can wreak havoc on the base so I'm thinking you know that would our depth in our outfield the core

if we could have got him him. Was his name ever brought up in the trade with Tampa Bay? Who is this you're speaking of? Chandler Samson. Chandler Samson. I'm not familiar with his work. He's really, he's just mostly a speed guy, right?

Or how is he hitting? I mean, for it, let me tell you're not getting. No, it was a cash consideration. No, I'm sure his name was never brought up. Well, listen, listen, gentlemen, everybody said the same thing about Vince Coleman. James James I got to interrupt James You sold him for cash There was no player

It was involved in this This was take this guy off our hands Well okay I understood that But maybe you could have sweeten a pot And go and get this guy Who the same guy when the Astros Was in the series with Tampa Bay

They walked him He stole he stole Yeah he's good at stealing bases He's kind of like a contact hitting like an old school contact hitting speed guy. What's wrong with that, though, gentlemen? The player you're returned. Well, what's wrong with that is the player you're giving him

as a terrible Major League Baseball player. Why would the race be interested in giving them a guy that gets some speed over a guy who has had like five days in Major League service? Well, you know, it would be like I'm really talking to him on the radar. I really would like to try to get this guy out of Tampa Bay and put him in my organization

because he is a guy that could quality depth he don't hit for power but he can get on base and once he get on base he can turn a walk into a stolen base he can turn a single into he can

go from first to home but does he hit the outside pitch the other way James that's the biggest question James James James I don't want you to ever bring up Chandler Simpson's name ever again okay Forrest Whitley Remember Forrest Whitley, a guy who's had literally like a handful, like eight or nine days of Major League service.

I lost money on Forrest Whitley. I lost money. I spent a ton of money on Forest Whitley, and quite naturally, he was a bus. And as you stated before, it's a lot of first rounders that's a bus. But at that time, his projection was to be up to the Major Leeds. and if he was to perform as they had hyped him up to beat, but he didn't do that. But at the same time...

So here's what they said. Take him off our hands. We'll take some money. And by the way, what the Astros also said was you get to order any combo meal you want off the jack-in-a-box menu as part of this deal. That's exactly what Forrest Whitley went for. You understand this, right?

Okay, but the guy that I'm speaking of, Chandler, Samson, he should Simpson he should have been he should have been on Major League radar and I'm quite sure they calls about him but they

okay all right James we're good thank you James thank you James Chandler Simpson on the on the radar yeah he's one of the raised top he's the raised number seven prospect okay so let's put this in perspective let's put this in perspective Houston Texas

Forrest Whitley for the raised number number seven prospect. Who says no? I don't want, I want none of you to comment. I want you to think about in your brain what you just heard.

For as Whitley. Yes. For the number seven prospect in the Rays organization, do you make the deal? I'd say no. Got to keep Forrest's DFA'd. The Astros DFA'd him.

He was traded for cash considerations. Yeah, Chandler Simpson, I mean, as he mentioned, when he gets on base it's fun but got a 19 stolen bases in just 35 games

Chandler Simpson I would try if I'm the Astros I would accept the Chandler Simpson trade I would accept the trade too I think the race would think you're doing heroin heroin still being used quite a bit probably

I haven't I haven't checked lately how we wasn't done that yeah just throwing it out there just asking for a friend Wait, you need some? No. You looking for a plug? No, Judge. 1131.

To tell the truth is up next. To tell the truth, have the two calls we've had so far today been excellent? 713-212-5-7-90. But I do know how to tell the truth, Ross. Now, I lie more than the average person does. One thing I cannot lie. By the way, all of you on Facebook were lying yesterday. I'm the greatest dad.

All right, number one, dad. Number one dad. You hear me? None of your dads are as good as me. Just going to tell all the truth. All right, here we go. Oh, Mr. Mandelbaum, I just wanted to come by and tell you how sorry I was that you hurt yourself. What the hell is that?

What? That shirt. You think that you are the number one dad? This was a gift for my son. Oh, I see how it works now. He knocks me out of commission so you can strut around your fancy number one shirt. I'll show you who's number one. Mr. Mandelbaum, please.

It's go time. I can't move. I think I saw one a couple doors down. That's you. You and Mr. Mandelbaum are going for number one dad? Yeah. Yep. All right.

So as the number one dad, I'm here to tell you three of the four things I'm this week to tell the truth are lies. Okay. Which one am I telling the truth on? Oh, wait. Only one you believe? Only one. Okay. I just told you this before when I'm back on the press. Three of these are lies. Okay. Three are lies.

Three are lies. One the truth. Here we go. Mack and Jerry Hankton will get to you as well. Number one. Number one. You know, in the NBA, we're going to have the USA versus the world format. Yes. Let's spice up the MLB All-Star game. I think it'd be really competitive if we had USA versus the world in an all-star game. Forget American League versus nationally.

I would like to eventually see USA versus the world in an all-star game. Okay. All right. Now that's number one. USA's getting their ass kicked. Number two. Shohei Otani is going to pitch tonight for the Dodgers as an opener in their series. I believe they're playing the Padres.

The Dodgers should shut this down as soon as they can. You're paying for that bat. Not for him to have another Tommy John, not to make. significant period of time. He's only pitching frankly right now because of necessity with all the different Dodger pitchers on the injured list. I would be very, very hesitant to do this much longer. Shohei Otani's bat is worth the money, not his arm.

Shohei Otani should not do this only when necessity comes into play. So I am not for him doing both. Okay. Okay. Number three. If the Astros win the American League West, There's no doubt on my mind. Joe Espottis should be the American League manager of the year.

I know Detroit's A.J. Hinch is going to get a lot of run because they've had the number one record all year long. But we talked about this earlier today with all of the injuries and the hodgepodgepodge lineups and the subtractions of no Kyle Tucker and Alex Spragman, and you're still winning the American League West. Joe Espottis should be the American League West manager of the year. American League manager of the year. He will be the West manager of the year. It's true. It'll be the only one over 500.

And number four, if you're all looking for a power bat at the trade deadline. Okay. You got to give up something to get something. I would trade Drake Myers to get that power bat. You're an ass. Why would you even say that out loud? Which one of those four am I telling the truth? Number one, MLB should go to a USA versus World All-Star format.

Number two, Shohai Otani should only pitch when absolutely. necessary. Number three, if the Astros win the AOS, Joe Espottish, no doubt in my mind be the American League West, American League manager the year. American Manager the Year. And number four, if you want a power bat for the Astros to get over the hump and get into competitive chase for a championship, you got to trade Jake Myers in the terms of giving up something to get something.

Which one of the four am I telling you the truth? These are actually pretty good. Thank you. I'm stunned. Thank you very much. Your mind is fresh after a couple of days off or something like that. Thank you. So I'm actually very proud of you, Matt.

I'm going to start off saying, I don't think Matt would appreciate the All-Star game just changing it up like that. Even though it's going to be a spectacle, I think that's more old school. So what is your take exactly on one? It should be USA versus the world is what they should go to the baseball. You would like to see it. Not every year, but I'd like to see it. it'd be something different. I mean, that's a reasonable regular take.

Why wouldn't you like to see it? No, I think about it. USA would be pretty good. You start, Aaron, Judge, and Paul Skeens, starting there is a pretty good start. Where's Tark Skubel from? I believe he's from Montenegro, Serbian-Marsian-Maham.

You don't know that. You're a liar. That's terrible. You don't even tell the truth. Okay. Otani. Now, see, that's ridiculous because they're paying.

him $70 million a year, but you might believe it. I think I'm throwing out number three because A.J. Hinch is going to win manager of the year. If the twins... Tigers. Excuse me, tigers. Whatever starts with a T. If the Tigers win the American League, or have the...

Not win the Pennet, but you know what I'm saying. Have the best record in the American League. Trading Jake Myers for a power bat. I'm checking that one out. Really? I'll go number one. I don't know.

I'm actually kind of lost Matt because these are very good. I'm very proud of you. But I'm going to go with number one. All right. Number one. Oh, wait, Jake, I mean, Jonathan. Jonathan, what do you get? What do you say?

I'm going on one. Okay. I've mentioned this many, many, many, many times, boys. I like the All-Star game in baseball only. I'm a traditionalist. I have no interest in seeing MLB versus U.S. world. Okay. I mean, I don't know.

I just like American League versus nationally. I'm just a, I'm just a traditionalist when it comes to baseball. Okay, that's true. Number two, I can't imagine the Astros flaunting Jake Myers in a trade. For the amount of outfield that he covers for an outfield that has so much inexperience. I was going to tell you to shut your bum ass up if you believe that one. So I don't believe you would trade Jake Myers for a power bat. Showy Otani, as you said, is being paid $70 million a year.

You use him as often as you possibly can. If he can pitch, he can hit, he can hit. You play him as much as you can. He's being paid to do both. You pay him to play both. You're right. A.J. Hinch is probably going to win it, but I can't think of a team that has had more trials and tribulations

than the Houston Astros, and they're in a four-and-a-half game lead. And there are 11 games above 500. If the Astros win the AOS, I do believe that Joe Espottish should be the Miracle League manager of the year. He won't get it, but it's my opinion. And that, my friends, is me telling you the truth. Hmm. Okay.

You okay with that or no? No, it's fine. I mean, A.J. Hitch is going to win it, and very deservingly so. I mean, depending on how things get close. But what if they have the same records? Who is projected to be better at the start of the season? Probably Detroit. No.

The Astros. Oh, no way. The Astros were supposed to win the division with like 86 wins. I think the Tiger is supposed to be in the upper 90s. No, you want to go look at win totals? Let's go look at win totals. Okay. So put this way.

Who had the higher win total going into the season? I'm sure it was the Astros. Over the Tiger, really? In the American League Central? Yes. The Tigers? Well, all right. I mean, I staying correct.

I stand corrected. Let's see. from CBS Sports. Astros, 87 and a half, Tigers 83 and a half. What? All right, maybe he's gonna win. But I still put my vote out there. That's okay. I still put my vote out there.

All right, 1145, Sports Talk, 790. We are with you till 2 o'clock today. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-570. He's my manager of the year, no matter what anybody hates on him. Okay. Good, Matt. I would imagine.

I mean, Hinching a spot as the They're the favorites right. For sure. The drama is set. It's game one of a four game series. The A's, the Astros. It's next on Sports Talk 790. It's not next. It's about eight hours away.

I got on deck at 8 o'clock. I got time to take a nap right in between? Oh yeah, absolutely. I'm taking a nap for I watch the game. How long do y'all take naps for? I just had this question with my parents. How long? My average nap time is, and I would say the last 10 naps I've taken probably 75 minutes.

Wow. That's almost a borderline sleep, Matt. I think you should stick between 30 and an hour. Now, when I go to Rockets games, I can sleep here for like 45 minutes. I put the 8-team on it and go to sleep in about three or four. Yeah. That's a good way to get a little nap in that way. But you're right to sleep.

Like sleep, it's on your sleep sounds like. It's a deep ram at that point. I'm just kidding. Oh, geez. A team, come out of at 2 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. All right, by the way. Yeah. So what is your sleep time on the naps?

I only do now like 15 to 30 minutes. If I do any longer than that, I'm like, I can't. That's like that's a power nap. That's what you would call that. So sometimes when I'm at Rockets, for Rockets games, I will go to the arena, sleep in my, my car and I can hear myself snoring. It wakes me out every time. So I've debated this before. When does nap become sleep? Two hours. Two hours? I was thinking four. Who takes four hour naps?

Three and a half? No. If it's in the middle of the day? No, no. Over a hundred two to five thirty. One hundred. When you hit the one twenty minute mark, that's a, that is not a nap. One twenty one two to four thirty? That's a sleep. That's sleep. Okay. I'm just asking. God, it sounds good. All right. 713, 212-7-9. Let's talk to some great people of Houston, Texas, or at least our listeners. Mack on 790 and 1153.

Matt, good morning. Good morning, jans. Hi. So if at the start of the season, you told people that after 71 games, Joe would have had to play without his best hitter for at least a third of those games, that 60% of his starting pitching would be on the shelf. and his major free agent signing will be hitting, what is he, 2-10 right now, 207, something like that.

And everybody else got off to a low start, you'd have been burning candles for Joe, you know, and finding recommending psych-reactric help for him. But instead, we're 41 and what, 41 and 30, is it? Yes, 41 and 30 and 4.5 clear of the Mariners. He has fostered an atmosphere where, Myers is hitting as well as he ever has. Who gets credit for the leadoff of Jeremy Payne?

Is that El Tuva get a fault for that? Or does Joe get the credit for that? And when it first happened, it was Altuva. I think it was Joe and El Tuvae. I think it was kind of collaborative. I'm not exactly sure. The first person who did it, was it Al Tuvae that suggested it?

or was it a spot of first putting Jeremy Payne at lead off? Either way, he approved it and did it, and my God, it worked. And so I get, sometimes I think he leaves, for my taste, he leaves a pitcher in too long. But, you know, we've done really well bringing up all those rooks. And actually, a couple of them are pitching pretty well right now. The starting rotation this weekend was spectacular. I mean, it really was. much of the phone call, Mac.

I mean, Ross, we don't know who these people are. Brendan Walter, Colton Gordon, Ryan Gusto. I mean, by the way, is your Gusto hate over with now after what he did? What are you talking about? People have heard the show. They know. Yeah.

You hate Gus. No, that's not true. You have no gutt. You're not bad on Gusto. That was not hanging bad. Thank you very much, Jonathan. He had not gone five inings in like four outings or whatever it was. And he put together a quality start.

Yeah. After you said the guy should be sent down to double A. That's not true. I said, I said in the Savannah Bananas is what I said. Ryan Gusso, I got your back. Me too, Ryan Gusto. Under the category of I just don't get it. What? The Savannah bananas.

It's for the kids. But there are like adults that lose their blank over getting Savannah banana tickets. Okay. Well, yeah. Do you know that? It was on ESPN and I had it on the second TV for a little while. And would you think? I don't get it.

I mean, they're trying to be like the hard on globetrotters of baseball. It's just entertainment. I didn't get the rules because they had points and runs. It was very confusing, but I didn't have the audio on because I think I was watching the Astros or something else. And again, here's to be fair, and I need to do this before I officially make it. I just don't get it. I need to watch more than about five minutes of it. Because the tune out fact for me is incredible.

I had it on. Like I said, I had it on. I wasn't really actively watching much, but it was on for over an hour. I still didn't know what the hell was going on. You know, they're filling up like... A hundred thousand seat stadiums. They're at Bank of America Stadium. The place was packed. Yeah. They were at Anaheim Stadium, and you know, the Angels don't draw flies.

Bananas were there. 50,000 people were there. How do you feel as a Los Angeles Angels player that you're getting out drawn by the Savannah bananas? But the difference is that with a banana, if you want to say the bananas were playing six days a week, would they have 50,000 people there? Probably not, but still, it's got a bit of a blow to the ego. I'm sure it does. Jerry on 790. Good morning, Jerry. Yeah, good morning. I was just going to call and say a spot has done a good job, especially with how bad the lineups really are.

We've got what, maybe five major league players and then an awful lot of others. I mean, Brandon Rogers has been kind of terrible. Walker certainly hasn't done anything, and we can't keep a left-fielder healthy. the real question that I have is I don't see them changing anything and that means that they're going to score three runs or less most games and I'm not sure that that's a winning thing I think that they've got to do some much more management of runners

moving along especially the four guys that can steal bases take the bases and put pressure on the other defenses because if you don't do that, you're going to, you know, this is the Orioles from the 80s. You know, let's work, let's wish for a three-run homer. And we really need to be bunting more. We need to be moving guys. Oh, yeah, and then we also need to.

No, Jerry. It's 2025. The small ball, it's not happening. We're not doing that. And when I say bunting, I'm not talking about squaring around. I'm talking about their third baseman's playing as deep as they can be at third base. A couple squeezes or drag butts down there and make them come up three or four or five feet.

That makes that ball jump on them and they'll get a lot more past them that way. What if they pop it up and get it out? You know, they are major leaguers. I would like to think that they should be able to do that. How many bunts do you see in an average major league baseball game these days? Not counting Astros games. Well, you know, I saw the rays do it a bunch of times, and they looked pretty good against us last two weeks ago.

Yeah. And they stole the mess out of bases. Yeah, Tampa Bay is a decent record. A decent record. I mean, they're okay, but, you know, got a plus 62 run differential. It must be the bunting. So, you know what I mean? That's got to be it.

Yeah, Jerry, the bunting is dead. It's just not completely dead, but it's on life support. And I'm not talking about just the assholes. I'm talking about baseball teams in general. I think it happened over the weekend. They had a successful one. Can't remember exactly when. It was a guy paying you to the second base, correct?

Am I making that up? Oh, was it Brendan Ron? Somebody put it. Oh, Cooper Hummel, Cooper Hummel. That's why Cooper Hummel, Luis Guillermo, who are these people? That's why Joe Spottis should be the American League manager of the year. Look what you're throwing out. out there.

They're 11 games above 500. We'll want to them as another one bites of dust on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. That's how you reach the show if you want to get in today. Yeah, I understand the bunting. It's just, no. No, no, it's giving away outs. First of all, there's probably 10 good bunners in baseball together collectively

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Houston Astros. Was it me last year that claimed they were going to win the American League West? us on June 1st. Did I do that last year? It was it two years ago that did it. I think you put your name on it or something. Yeah, I think I should do that tomorrow? If you want.

I could. You could. 11.30 tomorrow. That's pretty good. Yeah, look at you going on a limb. Like four and a half games up. Every other team division is terrible. Oh, four and a half game is nothing, dude.

You have no trade deadline yet? I mean, I can. Yeah, but it's the Murner's the range. Go ahead. Do it. Let's go. Tomorrow 1130, maybe. All right. I may put my name on it.

Time now for the news at noon at 2-08 on Sports Talk 7-0. And with all the headlines, we have the Charlie Steiner of Houston Sports. Charlie Steiner? Okay, I guess I will take that. Matt, yes, we do start off with your Houston Astros. As you mentioned, they have won five straight. They are 41 and 30. Four and a half games ahead of the Seattle Mariners.

And right now we've got to be feeling pretty good. How about back-to-back walk-offs? Is there a sadder franchise? there is probably, but the Minnesota twins feel extremely snake bit. As you mentioned, Matt, they haven't won a playoff game in like 30-some-odd-plus years. They seem to be just owned by the Astros at all times. And now, not only do they get blown out on Friday, back-to-back, walk-off losses to the Houston Astros. How's your good friend Carlos Correa feeling right about now?

Very rich, very happy. Okay. Do you think he's okay? I think he's handling it just fine. All right. Well, as you mentioned, the Astros, the heavy favorites in the division. Of course, we always go to the playoff odds of our good friends at Fangraphs. Would you care to guess the Astros odds to win the division right now, according to Fangraphs? Odds.

You mean percentage chance you mean or odds? I'll give you a hint. It's over 60%. I'm going to put them at 68%. Wow. we can start getting the MT Metallics 66.8% 607% they have Rounding up, only off 1%.

They also have them at 86.5% to make the playoffs and as far as World Series odds 6.4%. So you're telling me there's a chance. There's a chance. But you're telling me there's a chance. Well, things can get better.

Who scares you more? Detroit or the Yankees? For me, it's the Yankees. Although their pitching's hot mess. Yeah, that's why I'll go to Detroit. And AJ Hent. is black magic. They're not going to do bullpen game stuff like that. Anyways, if you did meet up with them,

it would be at this point the way the standings are. It wouldn't be until the ALCS. So that would be a full seven game series. But Tigers have been pretty good. Astros are in that mix. Elsewhere on the news at noon, of course, Matt, Raphael Devers. The All-Star Slugger for the Red Sox sent to the San Francisco Giants.

They got left-handed starter. Did the Red Sox, Kyle Harrison? right-hander who has been a starter but also in the bullpen Jordan Hicks. Outfield prospect James Tibbs, the third, who goes on to number six in the Red Sox Farm System list and a rookie league right-hander named Jose Abeo, who is not in the top 30 of prospects. So we'll see from that. Giants cover the remainder of Devere's contract, no money going. Till 2003, he is owed $250 million.

And that's when the Giants told the Red Sox, you'll be getting no prospects from a because guess what? We're paying that big-ass contract. There's one guy and a couple of major leaguers, so still overall, a big blockbuster deal for the Boston Red Sox.

Devers, a cent for the Go Giant. And again, the players win. Player disgruntled? I want to get moved. He got moved. Giants right now, two games back of the Los Angeles

Dodgers in the National League West. Padre is also in the mix at three games back. So we'll see what that has as far as the impact. You talk about being scared of teams. I mean, National League is looking pretty tough. Got the Mets playing well. Got the Cubs playing well.

And then the Dodgers and Giants and Padres all in the mix as well. But the Astros in the American League, which not as good. So it's a much more of an open race in American League. We're like the Eastern Conference of the NBA. Yeah. I would agree with that. You know, you're not going to find another sports host in town. It's going to give you cross-roverses between two.

sports like me. I guess not. Matt, elsewhere in the news, the number one dad, according to Matt Thomas, and of course his children and family. How much of the U.S. Open did you watch, Matt? Zero. Oh, okay. Was I supposed to lie and give you more?

That's fine. I watch all Sunday. Matt, you mean, we expect you to lie on this show. But JJ Spawn, winning the U.S. Open is first time even finishing in the top 10 of a major

and he captured the title with a 64.5 foot birdie putt. Now, he could have two putt for the win, but he said, no, I'm good, especially on those greens at Oakmont, man, a 64.5 foot birdie putt to win the U.S. Open yesterday. Pretty impressive. I had never heard of him until yesterday. So I congratulate him and his family, and I'm assuming he's got an attractive wife. I believe he does, and it was nice for him to win all. on Father's Day.

Matt, first place for the U.S. Open $4.3 million. Now, he puts them in the 38% tax range, so that's going to be a big chunk to get out of there. That's true as well, but it's beats a hole in the head. Robert McIntyre finishing second gets $2.3 million. Victor Hovland, $1.45 million. And then Carlos Ortiz, Cameron Young and Tyrell Hatton, all time for fourth.

getting about $880,000. Okay. And that's your news at noon. You forgot one thing from over the weekend. What's that? Stephen Adams gets a new three-year deal with the Rockets. Oh, yeah, I did. Well, that was from over the weekend.

Yeah, we can figure out of that. We can recap things. That's old. That's old news. Okay. I was pleasantly surprised. Where are you? Yeah.

I'm not that surprised. I thought there would have been a little bit higher deal. I mean, what is it? 13 million per year, basically? Yes. that's that's back up center money it is and great news to have stephen adams still here eating a lot of steak according to matt thomas a lot of steak the man can knock it back a poor you know like a port house usually share with two or three people hopefully we can interview him on media day and he will bench press you it'll be hopefully not nearly as awkward as last year's conversation that was great what do you mean i had a big smile on my face the whole time i bet you did he wanted to squish me like a

what's that what's that what's that what's that what's that what's that instrument you the accordion the accordion he wanted to fold you up like an accordion okay but we're now best friends that's great he calls you mate I heard that he does so does Jack Mondale I'm mate made in boss and then the other players don't even acknowledge me

but then that were good people was it you or was it somebody else on Twitter was getting people were getting mad for saying mate oh he's not Australian guys well yeah he still says mate even though he's Kiwi. Yeah. And carries like this big hook with him

the whole time. A hook? What do you mean? Like I know what you did last summer guy? No, we're not, we're not condoing the highlight basket? I don't know what he's carrying him, but it's, what are you talking about? He carries someone on every trip.

Okay. I'll have to ask my rocket travelers to see if they know what that is. Is it like, yeah, is it like a highlight thing? I'll find out. 1215 on Sports Talks, I would take some more phone calls next. I don't know what it's called.

but I'm going to find out. But he brings this big stick with him every time he goes on a road trip with us. Is that legal? Is that a weapon? It's made a bamboo. All right. You don't carry a bamboo stick around with you?

No, I don't. All right. 1215 on Sports Talk 790. It's 1222. Ross and I are with you until 2 o'clock. And for that we thank you for spending part of your day with us. Hopefully he been with us a whole time. And we're going to do some more contesting like we did with Lazy Boy on Friday

because we want to just frankly reward y'all for listening to the show. That means a lot to us. And you've got choices, and we hope that you make your choice with us every single day. So we're going to do what we can to give away some nice prizes. And I hope that the winner will enjoy that $500 gift. It was Victor. Congratulations to Victor. Appreciate that.

Thanks, Victor, for listening to the radio show. Congratulations. And they had two-for-one recliners, so I hope one gets sent my way. And I don't have authority to give away Astero's tickets, but I have my rocket tickets, my personal ones. I'll start giving away more during the course this season. I like that. There's going to be a hotter ticket in town. That's true, especially if Kevin Durant is here.

Okay, so let's do this for quick. You know what? We'll get Brandon once you get a phone call. Let me get to Brandon, and then we'll get to this Kevin Durant. So, because, again, I'm constantly mixed about this. And we'll get to more of that in a minute. But right now, let's talk to Brandon on 7-90.

Brandon, good morning. Good morning. Good afternoon, man. I always love the show. Man, you'll do a great job. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. Man, just want to check in.

You know, obviously, it's always one of those things where, you know, less is more. I always use that saying sometimes, and I can't really think of a better guy right now than Joe Spada who's really pushed all the right buttons in the 70 games. It's crazy to see. Like your callers have said, they've lost that two-thirds of the rotation, the injuries

over the past two or three years with all the Tommy John surgeries. Plugging in guys with not a top, you know, top 100 prospects in the top ranked farm system that was there probably about 10, 12 years ago. But it's amazing. I commend the front office and, you know, watch these guys play together and come together. be interesting to see what they do at the trade deadline if they do anything at all.

I think part of it, Matt, could be getting, you know, players back healthy on the roster. It could be their trade deadline. Yordon, of course, Parades, maybe add an arm or something like that. But I was going to get your opinion on maybe another left-handed back. I know sometimes they kind of get a lot of right-handed eccentric. Yep. Ryan O'Hern with Baltimore, Cedric Mullins, if they're available. What about that?

I do believe, and thank you for the phone call nice words, Brandon. I do believe they're going to kick the tires on a left-handed bat. I also believe that they feel like that a lot of their issues could be resolved with the returning guard on Alvarez. A left-handed bet. But the question is, when is that going to happen? And we don't know that. And even if they told us, I wouldn't necessarily believe him, because let's say, let's be honest, they haven't been overly honest with their injury issues.

I'm going to tell you all something that I don't know if y'all are going to like or not or be indifferent. two. I do not expect the Astros to be super aggressive at the deadline. The only kind of deal I see honestly them making is a move to maybe move Chaz McCormick. Because

especially when Alvarez comes back, you're now adding another outfielder to the mix. Now, granted, he's primarily your DH and may not play much at all in the outfield. But you're already congested out there to begin with. Unless Jacob Mountain is gone

for a significant period, at a time and I heard the ankle injury is pretty severe correct? Yeah, they put them on the aisle basically immediately. Yeah, I thought I saw four weeks is what the report was. So that may play into maybe not moving Chas.

But the issues to me would be a left-handed bat who could obviously play some second base. I don't think you're looking to get other outfielders though, right? I mean, am I missing something here? Cam Smith is playing just about every day.

him to get looks. He's getting better. Zach Descenzel will eventually come back and get his looks as well. I don't see them going for outfield help. Yeah. Mullins is good out there in the field, but it's not like he's the best bad out there.

Although I'm pulling up his OPS this year. 780, that's pretty good. Let me tell you. Carra 747. 780 and 2025 is really good. He can rack up some stolen bases. And Ryan is hurt again. Brandon Lowe has been mentioned

the second baseman who is a left-handed bat for the Tampa Bay Rays the question is and has come down to is how much can the Astros offer if other guys are involved in these trade targets as well

Back to O'Harn why I mean he plays Is he play outfield in first base? I was going to say you don't need a first base I mean you're going to live in I'm going to stay with me on this I'm just kidding. Don't even get that thought.

What's John Singleton up to? You don't need outfield. You need second base. If you're really going to go make a move for an everyday position player, you need second base. Brandon Lowe makes a lot of sense from the race. I'm assuming his array he doesn't make a lot of money? No. He doesn't. Let's see. He's a 10.5 million this year. He's got a team option for next year with a first year. $500,000 buyout.

This is funny. The option increases for each top five finish in the MVP vote. That will be an issue. It is not an issue. So yeah, it's a team option for next year. Which actually the Astros might be interested in. 11.5 million. No, which one is the low and which one's allow?

Nathaniel. Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on. Brandon Lau. Yeah, you're right. It is Brandi Lau. When you said it, I'm like, I got confused. I didn't want to out you like intentionally. No, it's okay.

No, it's okay. It is Brandon Lowe and it's Nathaniel Lowe and it's Nathaniel Lowe on the raise, right? Whatever it is, they both should go to low because Lowe is, there's just no. No, you're right. I get those confused all the time. Nathaniel, it's Nathaniel Lowe, and then there was another low. Doesn't Nathaniel Lowe have like a brother or cousin or something? All right, here are the numbers for Lowe.

756 OPS this year. OPS plus 114. Yeah, they have Josh Lowe. So they have Josh Lowe, who is Nathaniel Lowe's brother. They used to have Nathaniel, and now they have Josh the brother, and then they have Brandon Lowe. Oh, hell. You've just confused Houston, Texas right there. I forgot.

That's my bad. But I remember, I thought Brandon was allowed. You're right. Okay. Now that kind of fits. Left-handed bat, second baseman. Problem is the raise. They're going to watch your prospects.

And I don't know. If you want your pitching prospects, you should be scared. I just don't know. Dana's like, man, you've forced me to give up prospects two straight years. It's so difficult. It's so, there's nothing left. Yeah, no, those guys haven't turned out to be anything. But when the trade was made, now, of course, it was an overreaction.

But you still gave up guys that you thought were prospects. Absolutely, you did. Otherwise, Toronto wouldn't have taken them. So, we'll see. I'm a standby original statement. I think we're going to, if you're thinking the average, Astros are going to make it a super impactful move. In fact, you know what, Ross?

I got news for you. Uh-oh. I can see Jose Al-Tube getting back to primarily second base before the season is done, more so than the Astros are going to get a second base one. I think they don't want to do that. I don't think they want to do it. I think they're going to be, by necessity, going to have to do it. Because do be, again, nice enough player, but you don't want them playing six days a week there.

Burn then Rogers can't hit. Who am I forgetting? Anybody else has played second base? No. there's a young man named Bryce Matthews who's been playing second base for the Sugar Land Space Cowboys You know bring him up right now

The middle of a pennant race Fresh Young start service time guy already Hardly knows a word Yeah you don't know that I'm just kidding those He maybe he That was the that was from Talladega Nights

That's good pull by you Uh 8 pound 6 ounce Bryce Matthews Hardly knows a word Yeah I know, I'm getting what you're saying. I'm going to put it in this right now.

I don't think Bryce Matthews sees the team this year. So Brandon Lau. Mm-hmm. Future Houston Astro? Let's just leave it. Let's be consistent that way. Okay. When people call, say, what player would you like to see the Astros go after?

I will say Brandon Lau. Okay. And I will also say it'll say King's Ransom to get him. Kings Ransom? Because he's affordable. And an affordable team option next year. Yeah. All right, 1230, Sports Talk, 7.90.

All right. How do we really feel about all this Kevin Durant stuff? All right. So I mentioned this earlier today that I'm obsessed with these rumors that I hear about the Rockets, but there's only one person I trust, Shams. I mean, everybody in their mother has these what I'm hearing stuff. I'd go with Wendy. Okay, but I'll put this way.

Wendy, Mark Stott. Brian Winhorst. Brian Winhorst. Not Wendy from the burger joint. Yeah, or the association. I don't trust Stein. Really? Mike Scotto.

I don't know who that is. I trust Mark Stein. Yeah, he didn't have hit no one. Crispy Haynes, don't care. Haynes has got some stuff, but he's usually later. But no one's going to get this story except Shams first. Okay. And if it is, if it's anybody else, I mean, if you were on the betting board,

Shams is a minus $14,000 to get it. What about your dog, Sam Amick? Nope. Okay. No, he only handles Northern California stories. I tease him about it all the time. So if it's Deere and Fox trade from Sacramento. You know what? I'm going to get Sam on Thursday. You should.

Because you guys are boys. He doesn't respond to me anymore since he's big time. All right. I'm going to get him on Thursday. I like that. Because my tagger is in Paris this week. Oh, that's right. Yeah. We're not going to get him calling from Paris? I don't think so, no.

From a cafe in Paris? That'd be nice. With a French Bahre. Barret? Yes, and baguettes. Say baguettes without a French accent. Baguette? You did it. The default is baguettes.

Yes. It is Matt. Mateo. Sorry. I'm not bringing up Colette again. I don't care how many times you ask. Colette. Okay.

Merci Bocou. Sorry. This is your fault somehow. I'm not blaming my... You brought up Bigtager going to Paris. I did. So we're getting Sam Amy on. Okay.

I'm going to get Sam on Thursday. Okay. Okay, back to my point. So you have been a huge Kevin Durant fan since he was spent one year at the University of Texas. Yes, I was there. I touched his hand. What's up? And it's easy to be a Kevin Durant fan because he's one of the 75 greatest players ever to play NBA.

Now, is he a little different in terms of burner accounts and loner and not necessarily a team leader? Only one time he had burner accounts. Now it comes after people on Maine, as the kids say. What is Maine? On the Maine account. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. That's fine. I appreciate the hell out of him. He will go down as one of the 75 greatest.

I don't know where you put him in the all-time list. He's top 20 for me. You can probably put a top 20 in together. You know, but what we're going to get or whoever's going to get him ultimately is going to get 60% of the player that he was in his prime. But he's still 6-11. He can still shoot. he's still a terrific downhill player defensively is a mess

always been a high turnover guy but nobody's perfect not yeah not his fleet of foot as he used to be defensively but in his prime he was very good and Kevin Durant with whatever team he goes to will make a huge splash in the NBA it will be a number one topic in sports yeah

outside of Janus the biggest possible trade to be made this summer no question and there's not even a thought there may be a thought of the Yonis stays in Milwaukee. He might. Which will make it the number one story. Rumors are, again, you're talking on wind horse who's pretty connected, that the asking price is way high or the haul that the sons are being offered is not great in return. Right. Not helping matters for teams that want to get Kevin Durant is the Desmond Bain trade, where the Grizzlies sent Desmond Bain to the magic.

for Cantavius Caldwell Pope, Cole Anthony, and four first-round picks, unprotected. Unprotected. And a future swap. But if I just throw this out, forgetting about what is given up in return. Because look, there are some Jalen Green detractors in Houston, Texas. They find out haters. And it certainly grew with the performance against Golden State. It wasn't great.

I don't think, and again, I don't mean to paint with a broad brush here. don't think people will be mad at the Durant trade because they're giving up on Jalen Green. I think they'd be mad because they're worried that Kevin Durant is going to come here, get an extension beyond this year, and he's 40% of the player that he used to be, and he's hurt. And guys that are 37, 38, 39, making 50 plus million dollars a year typically don't turn out to be game changers. Because if you're Kevin Durant, Ross, if you're the Rockets, and you are bringing him here to win a championship next season. It would be championship or bust, a team that went to the playoffs, second best record. The thought would be you're going to rock the boat after maintaining this ebb and flow line of improvement.

You are coming, you are bringing him here to win the whole damn thing. Right? Championship or bust? Yeah. We haven't had that conversation in these parts since Chris Paul was here. So that would be, and that's what Raphael Sone has to weigh in team building. If he agrees with the championship or bust doctrine with the way that they're building this team. Because if you want the championship, you need all the cliches. Alpha Dog, go-to guy, whatever you want to say.

You need that and you don't have that right now. Because here's the thing. Oklahoma City didn't build on championship or bust. Indiana didn't build on championship or bust. New York? Maybe then with Carl Anthony Town. town's trade. Who else is in the Minnesota?

Probably getting close to it. Milwaukee swung for the, yeah, most of the time you're going to swing for the fences and miss because only one team out of 30 becomes a championship team. But that's a hard conversation to have with your fans if you don't win it. You go to the championship or bus, and whether you say it or not, Durant does that. For any team, San Antonio, all of a sudden, young team with Devin Fasel and Jeremy Sohan and Victor Wemagnama and last year's, Stefan Castle. You go from a nice little San Antonio team to you're bringing Kevin Durant. You need to win a championship.

Now, do some teams thrive with that and go with it and say, yeah, we're ready to do that? I'm okay with that too. But we haven't had that kind of talk around these parts in a long period of time. it's tremendous pressure on everybody involved. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, I understand. Swinging for the fences, generally you're going to lose.

But if your goal is to win a championship at all costs, you also have to do something. Hoping and praying that Jalen Green becomes that alpha dog, I think he's going to be fringe all-star type of guy, not superstar best team on a championship team type of guy. That's my opinion.

Raphael Stone and the Houston Rockets might feel differently. he puts in the work he works hard he's gotten better and all those things then you have then you go to what alper and shingoon anaman thompson that would you would put the big core of three players that you're hoping are all-star level maybe jabari smith junior on the fringe of that list you don't win championships without all-star players multiple all-star players

and go to alpha dogs so the balance you have is does this roster have that player that one more year is going to change it, or do you go get a guy that's done it, but you might be afraid that he may never be able to do it again. Again, if it's done here, I'm going to tell you, I'll be fired up. I'm going to be purely honest with you.

He's still Kevin Durant. He's still less than my check scores 25 points again. Now, has Brooklyn worked out for him? No. Did Phoenix work out for him? No. So how much of that do you all of a sudden go, just because Kevin Durant goes to your team does not, what do they say, does not guarantee success.

Right. Past performance is not guarantee future success. God, yeah, I feel like I'm doing the show with the If Hutton. Thank you. You're welcome. I think where that guy is. Morgan Stanley. Okay, no.

Charles Schwab. Same thing. So that's what we all wrestle with. Now, put on the other side, if the Rockets don't get him and he goes to San Antonio, are you flipping out that a team in your own? own division and your own Western Conference you're adding another title contender to the mix. It'd be ridiculous. You just hope he and Wimby aren't healthy

going forward. Hoping to pray. Yeah, all of a sudden is a rocket Kevin Durant. He's the best. As a spur, hope he gets hurt, the bum. Yeah, but you, you to win a championship, you got us,

you swing for the fences where the rockets are right now, I think. I think if they stay where they are, they'll be good maybe they can make the occasional Western Conference final but you're not going to be anywhere close where the Thunder are right now. And there'll be no championship or bus tag, which again, the two teams in the NBA finals, don't have that on their attachment. Can the Nuggets retool around Nicolioch,

who's still the best player on the planet? I mean, he pushed the Thunder to seven games. I mean, and that team was not that good. They can get better. Yeah. Also a full year with their coach. A full year with the Lakers and Luca Donchitz. Where are they going to be?

Ant Edwards and the Timberwolves. It's tough out there in the West. It's true. It's very difficult. All right. So I'll throw this out. We'll see if we're many calls on this if you'd like to. Do you, without doing too much dissecting,

do you want Kevin Durant? Any cost, whatever it may be. Could be loaded per, it could be a bunch of draft picks, could be Jalen Green, could be Javieri Smith, could be, Ken Whitmore. I mean, it can be a variety of things. Price has gone up. Thanks, Orlando Magic.

But if Phoenix ain't happy, they may have to wait for somebody either to step their hand, offer up or just accept what they have. and Kevin Durant says, I want to go there. Do you want Kevin Durant? Simple question. 713, 212.12. 5790.

713, 212.790. All right. So again, if you'd like to give us a response to Kevin Durant as a rocket, what do you think? Ross? Check those phone lines. 713-212-5-7-90. They're lighting up like crazy. Appreciate you guys.

Like Christmas trees. Yon easy on Twitter says the following. good comp bad comp you ready okay rocket's getting kady is like getting your dream car it now has eight to ten thousand miles on it or times of miles times of miles it has carfax problems and multiple owners still your dream car what is your dream car

my drink i don't know anymore i'm not a dream i'm not a car kind of sewer 1979 pontiac trains am okay so you're going to get that how about a six i'll go to a sexual i'm going to go with a 68 Camaro SS. That 68 Camaro SS has 60,000 miles on it. I thought maybe you were going to go to. It's like marrying your high school crush,

but she's got a divorce and two kids. I like that count better, actually. Okay, so you're divorced. Stay with me on this. You go to your high school reunion. Okay. And there she is. And all her glory.

A little heavier than you thought you thought she was going to be. Some crow's feet in the eyes. She needs some work done or has had some work done that maybe not I'm going 100%. And she's got the two kids. She's been divorced. Oh, I hate to tell you this. She's been divorced twice. Oh, no, no.

This is too much. But the benefit is she's not. You can take a strike one. You don't want to be strike three. She's not looking for a long-term relationship. Oh. She's not looking to get married again. Okay.

It's a one-year deal with an option. Well, there's a chance to build on a relationship, but you're not getting married. It's a three-year commitment. Yeah, but she's got a list of three teams that, I'm sorry, three guys that she wants long-term deals with. No, they're not long-term. I'm not hearing a long-term under, I'm hearing this plus two more. I guess long-term for 37-year-old, maybe, but that puts them at 40 when the deals are done. Yeah, that's pretty old. But it's not long-term. It's not long-term.

I think it is kind of long-term. you can be locking things up. At least you can be shacking up. All right. Twice divorcee, but this was your dream girl. You loved her for a long time. Yeah, but things are different.

I would take Kevin Durant. I'm going to tell you why. I would still take Kevin Durant too. The number 10 draft pick does nothing for me. Now, if they get the number 10 draft pick and keep it, that's fine. I'm not going to live with that too. I'm just, I'm so

bullish on E. Me Adoka's relationship with so many players in the league that I think Kevin Durant would love to play for him. And the reality is, and you hear this not just for me from other people, there are a lot of people that would like to play for E. May Adoka. Because he is, first of all, pretty close in their ages. Second of all, he's been there and done that. He worked his way up the top.

No BSer. He ain't politically correct. Played the game. Played the game, coach the game. Comes on this show and will tell you that God's honest truth, whether you want to hear it or not. Doesn't sugarcoat things, which some players don't like, but I think the best players should like.

The best players should like. The best players appreciate the honesty. And that's a double talk. I think Kevin Durant would as well. Yeah. I, it would be tough, but I would do it because you do get the, that certain something that you need to push towards championship success. that is the alpha dog, no doubt about it.

As you get deeper and deeper in the playoffs, this Rockets team, by the way, was out in the first round. Let's not forget. Everybody's good. Everybody's great. Every coach is good. They game plan for everything. You cannot game plan for Kevin Durant going 10 to 13 from the field.

But the argument would be you can't, you can game plan for Kevin Durant if he's hurt a lot and is on the court. But that's an if. I'll tell you what I do know. I'll tell you he can go off for a 30 to 35 or 40 in any given night against anybody. I don't know if he's going to be hurt. I don't know if Jalen Green's played 82 games in the last two seasons. Maybe you could say that he's due to be hurt. Who knows?

And I'm not saying that's happening. I'm just saying we're dealing with unknowns. And it is a risk. It would be a huge risk. But I think after I would do the deal. Are the Rockas as an organization ready to take that first risk since this redevelopment? because really there wasn't a risk in Van Vleet

in Brooks you just paid a lot to get them and it worked out this team's better today you know what's the risky thing they've done

the last five years honestly the last five years I'll tell you what abandoning ship and getting rid of everybody that was pretty risky well trading away

James Hardin is I guess James letting Russell got a good deal. Not resigning Chris Paul kind of trying in Oklahoma City? I'm trying to think beyond that. They haven't done anything.

There's been nothing risky. And there's a little nervousness about it. And anything you do. And that's why you and I are having this conjecture over this right now. Yeah. Look, if they want to trust the process and say, Green's going to get better, Shangoon's going to get better, a men definitely has the biggest room for growth, I think.

And that's where the basketball. minds, either you're a great basketball mind or you're praying and hoping that they self-developed. I mean, Jalen Green, there's just published reports. I'm like, hey, I want to get better. I don't want to be this repeat guy that I was last year.

Easier said than done. I'm not ready to give up a Jailing Green either, but you have to give up something to get something. I don't think they want to move away from outbrinching. There's a difference between, I think Jalen Green will be a good NBA player. I think he's going to play for 10 years plus and I think he's going to be a good 22 to 25 point score at a certain level of efficiency.

But blossoming beyond that, I'm just not sure. All right. There we go. 713-212-5-790. Call still pouring in on the Kevin Durant should be a Houston rocket. Astros getting ready to start a series in Sacramento. All things Sacramento, believe it or not today? Yes.

Sacket tomato, as you call it. sack of tomato. I got that from the late Cleet Dumpster. It was the ring announcer and a former Cleet dumpster. Used to be a psychic on 93Q way back in the day when he used to play top 40 music. Cleet? Clit dumpster. Okay. That was not his role name, obviously.

All right, there you go. I wrote a question on it now. You did? Good for you. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. It is 105 on Sports Talk 790. Ross, before we get to all these, Kevin Duran. Calls will get to the Astros and their win yesterday. Five consecutive wins.

The hottest team in baseball, baby. Maybe not the hottest, but one of the hottest. We'll call them the hottest. Why not? Yeah, it's our local team. Who else is one? What if they won? Is it, uh, you said eight of the last ten? Yep. I think it's 11 of the last 14. Four and a half game lead over the Seattle Mariners, who by the way, disposed of Cleveland, but the guardians have fallen off the map.

Cleveland. Jerks. Yeah, they're at five. 500 now. The Gadiens. That was a division that had all the wall cards in it at one point. I don't know if they still do at this juncture of the season, but so a long way to go. All right, so the Astros will start a series

with the Oakland slash Sacramento slash Stockton slash Modesto A's who are in their rightful spot in the last place in America League West. I'll have the on deck show for you at 8 o'clock. There'll be no 10th inning tonight because it's a 905 first pitch. Oh, man. No, actually we're called it. You hadn't heard. There's a special session

tonight. You will be on 10th inning. No, I won't. You know, I'll record it. Watch this. You're going to record it? In 3, 2, 1. Hey, everybody, the 10th inning show here on Sports Talk 790. The Astros beat the A's by a final score of. And what a performance for, as he got. Meanwhile, the pitching was spectacular led by who threw innings and recorded strikeouts

and only through pitches. Let's take your calls next. 713. You can say Lance McEller as he started. Well, but I mean, what if it was the bullpen? What if it was a bullpen game? You have to, what if they lose that? Let me give you a few more.

Okay. Is Josh Hedder been great this year? Stop. Boy, I love Jeremy Pena in this lid off position. Man, I can't wait to get Yordon Alvarez back. We should do AI Matt Thomas segments. I don't think so. That would get GROC segments.

Is that what they call it? Gronk? Yeah, or GAPT? Yeah, I'm good. Okay. Asso is still with the weakest schedule were remaining. So what I did, I just did the 10th inning show already, all you got to do is lock

and loaded it in. Let me give you some scenarios. 64, 63, 7, 2, 75, 81, 1-0, 2-1. That's what I did when I was doing NBA 2K. You were doing that for 50 hours. I did. Oh my God, it was terrible. Like 64, 65. They haven't you back this summer?

No. I didn't go back last summer either. Because I'm no longer a PA announcer. Oh, what a bunch of jerks. I was an officer. The legacy, they were putting you on legacy. I was a legacy and then they didn't need me last year. You're still the legacy. I don't disagree. You were popping up all over my timeline because it was 30 years. 30 years ago. Yeah. It's a small world introductions. Who came up with that, by the way? Had it been our game operations. Oh, you weren't surprised by it when it happened, though, were you?

I don't remember. Okay. You want to plan when we come back? No. Okay. Yeah, I don't remember if I was told. I'm assuming that I was told before. I would assume too. Bill Walton. and Marve Albert loved it. You're probably too busy brushing your hair. God, that hurts. Why? It was a nice quaff you had. It looked good.

What were you put in that thing? I looked at myself like, what the hell? No wonder I didn't get women back in the day. What do you mean? I thought you'd met your wife by then, right? No, no, no. Okay. How old were you when you met your life?

Well, we got married in November of 97. I want to say we met in 90. I don't think I was doing PA, so it might have been 96. Okay. early 96. Oh, that's quick. Or you were like, I need to lock this up. I'm trying to think.

No, because she went with me to London for the... It had it been fall 95. Matt, there's no pictures on the internet with you with hair. God, I hope not. Why not? I thought it was a nice, you got a nice, curly quaff. Okay. Jonathan, I was significantly heavier than today.

yesterday than I was today. Let's put it that way. Oh, I'm sure. There is no pictures of with you at here, like, even on Google. That's good. Now, there's an old media credential that is around, when the order is media guide that had a picture of me in there, that I think it's hopefully been destroyed, but yeah.

Oh, and I just talking about, we had the, what do you call this? The band around? Yeah. That was most of my life. Yeah. I had the Colts logo on my head. Hmm.

Can we talk about something else? I'm sorry. How did we start about this? We were talking about you doing the PA. Yeah, 30 years ago this weekend was the celebration of game. I think it was game four with the Rockets won four straight of Orlando. Uh-huh. Now, did they do, it's a small world on game three or four of both? The Orlando. Okay. You're doing a lot of drugs back then, I guess. There's some things I remember vividly. That's not one of the things I remember. But it was funny because Shaq did a podcast recently and said, we did not take the rocket seriously.

What? Yeah. I don't believe that. He says he and Dennis Scott partied a lot and he takes responsibility for the not only Orlando Lusinette series but by being swept. At what point did they take them seriously? I'm calling BS on that. It's the NBA finals. No, no, no.

The Rockets had just beaten the Spurs, the Sun, the Jazz. Who did Orlando be doing the, was they beat of Chicago? I didn't beat Chicago, I thought. Well, they beat Chicago in the second round. Indiana? Indiana, maybe. Indiana, maybe? I think you're right.

But no, he's, I, I buy that. I don't. You beat the, you beat the Bulls and you beat the Pacers and you get to the NBA finals. And you think, all your hard work is done is if you're a young 23-year-old Shaquille O'Neill, yeah, I buy that. They beat the Pacers in seven. And the Rockets had beaten multiple 60-win teams. What was it, the Jazz? Who was it, the Jazz Spurs and Suns?

No, Spurs were last. Jazz Sun Spurs. I'm not saying in an order. I'm not saying. Spurs. Because the Spurs series was the year that David Robinson won the MVP. And then when did they start taking them serious? They got down 01? 02 at home. He said, he also said in this podcast, we're not blaming Nick Anderson from missing a free throws. It was just a bi-proving. Well, no, they shouldn't. But the reality is, if you think about that series, you think about Nick the Brick.

And the Elijah Wond Tipin, too, right? Was that in game two? I was there for that series. That was in overtime. I think it was game one. I think? I could be wrong. I don't remember. I could find it. Wasn't that the overtime in... Oh, my God, I'm getting a lot of ads popping up. Hold on. That's all right. I wish my memory was better than that stuff.

I frankly remember 94 a lot more than I remember 95. Mm-hmm. Yeah, overtime. Wasn't the tip in an overtime in game one? It might have been, yeah. Well, yeah, because the game went to overtime because of the Nick Anderson is free throws. Right.

So, all right, there you go. There's rocket history of the day. We weren't taking them seriously. I mean, go tell Shaqie's lying. You tell me he wouldn't be. revisionist history as an excuse of why they lost for nothing in that series? I'm telling you that if I just beat Michael Jordan and I just beat Reggie Miller, I could think that beating Elijah Juan and whomever,

an old Clyde Drexel was going to be that big of an issue. Elijah won who had won MVP in 94 and the Rockets just beat all these great teams. Colin BS. Okay. He's making excuses. When Shaq joins us. Oh, that's what you say to your brother when you lose in the driveway and horse. I wouldn't try

I didn't care anyways You know what You may be convincing me Shame on you Shaq for not giving the Rockets proper credit For beating your ass four straight times Yeah Okay I just restrained myself from doing a Shaq impression

So I'm gonna leave We want to hear it people want to hear I wasn't trying anyway All right Shaq More mumbly More mumbly Is that word mumbling I'm done

I'm walking out of here All right 713 212 577 713-212-5-790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Believe it or not today is all things about Sacramento, California. I'm looking at an NBA Central to aggregator.

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So the wolves have been the most aggressive and yet he doesn't want to go there. You know why? Because it's cold A-F. It's brutal. It hurts your bones. Dane Lillard didn't want to go to Milwaukee, but did he sign an extension with them?

I can't remember exactly what happened. And then, of course, he tore his a kill. Isn't there some sort of player option with his contract? I can't remember. Oh, yeah, there's a player option. for next year, I guess. Not this upcoming, not 26, but 27. If cold weather was a detriment, which in some cases it can be,

then why isn't every Southern team in sports good? Because you can only have a certain number of players per team? I mean, it's a cap league. You can only, yeah. It's just, yeah, I mean, nobody, like Utah can't, Utah cannot grab free agents unless you overspend because it's Utah. New York is cold. Yeah.

The New York's one of those dynamic cities. Yes. Some call it the greatest city in America and the world. Ne. Nice place to visit wouldn't want to live. Okay. Is that fair with you? That's fine.

I don't care. Okay. I can't afford to live there. Yeah. By the way, it is game five tonight of the NBA finals. It is? In Oklahoma City. Nine and a half point favorites, the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Yeah. I thought for the first two and a half quarter, Shaked Gilges Alexander looked like he wanted to take a nap. And then in the fourth quarter, he went. bonkers. He was getting torched defensively. They were hunting him out. Now, of course, I mean, among the other options, defensively

for the thunder hunting out Chey Gillard's Alexander, who I think is a good defender not great when he's healthy. But he was also kind of gimping around. He looked like he was tired. And then he got at the free throw line, made some shots, made the mid-range, and they just pulled away. He made some huge... One more thing about the NBA

and I think we're done for the day. Okay. Did you see and hear what Rick Carlin the Pacers coach did the other day before the game? I did not. I don't think. He went on, and I don't know how long it was, but Rick Carlisle defended Scott Foster. Oh, really? Yeah. That's good.

I want to get you the quote here. I've known Scott Foster 30 years. He's a great official. The ridiculous scrutiny that's thrown out there is terrible, unfair, unjust and stupid. Get him! Get him, Rick Carlisle! Now, a lot of critics,

meaning everybody, fans, thought he was terrible that her night in that game. There was a big push-off that he missed from Chey Gelges Alexander down the stretch. But why is he wearing as compared to the other two guys? Because it's Scott Foster.

Because it's Scott Foster. Yeah. I mean, he's had obviously big run-ins with most famously with Chris Paul. They call him the extender. And so he extended the series, which again, I say, if you think Scott Foster is manipulating the outcome, bet what you think he's doing and what he's there for,

and you'll never lose and you'll be a millionaire. Yeah. It is funny to me, however, Scott missed two plus months with an injury. And I think it was the second time this year he'd missed time an injury. And he still got to call playoff games and finals games. So basically he was hired off of reputored. And how do you feel about officials,

and no matter what the sport is, being graded on reputation? Don't you think, though, if every fan base hates him, then he's probably doing a good job as a referee. Wow. That's an easy answer to, of course, yes. But there are, I watched the,

look, I hate to bring up the Final Four championship game again, but that was uneven to say the very least. Which was? The championship game, Florida versus Houston. First half, nothing was called. Second half, everything, and then some was called. And it really irritated me.

You couldn't get an ebb and flow in the game. Fowl count was astronomically quick on both sides. And so those three officials were hated by both sides. It doesn't mean it was a greatly called game. So I will say, just because both sides of the fence, hate you doesn't mean you're a good official. Okay, well, I'm not talking about that game. I'm talking about Scott Foster in general.

Do you think he calls bad games? Do you think he makes bad calls all the time? I will say this. Do you more than any other official? I don't know the scrutiny or what they look at in terms of instant replay. But I know that the NBA spends a lot of money on its officials and its evaluation of officials. They take the video and they look at it over and over and over and over again. There must be something he's doing right.

There must be something he's doing right. if the coach that people say he's there to get his team to lose, if he comes out and says all this scrutiny that he's under is ridiculous. Yeah, that's one of the all-time great coaches who's been... Who just lost the game, by the way. And who's been played in the NBA in the 80s, who's been around this league for 40-plus years. Yeah, I think referee hatred is too over the top.

And frankly, if I talk to anybody, and the first thing they go to is that game sucked because that official screwed my team. I lose their, I think their basketball intellect, or sports intellect, for that matter, suffers a little bit now. Baseball may be a little bit different because I got a box that shows the strike zone. Yes. And that bad boy is right on target.

There is no interpretation of that. No, we have. Either that ball goes into the zone and is called a strike or it's out of the zone and not calling a strike. There's hard data on balls and strikes and accurate. Yeah. So that to me, if you want a bash of umpiring, that's an easier sell job for me than bashing of fishing. Because again, I think basketball officiating is the most difficult thing you can do in terms of fishing. But again, if you chose a profession, I wouldn't force you as a seven-year-old to say you're going to become a basketball official. You decide you want to be a college or NBA official,

scrutiny is going to come with it because it's the fastest sport. It's the spontaneous calls. and there's going to be room for how much contact is allowed. There's no computer stopping the game and going, freeze, foul. Where baseball, you watch a game, pitch thrown, cross the plate, strike ball. And most of the fouls that happened at the end of that game in game, what was it, four, they showed it like, Shea Gilder's Alexander was getting hit on the wrist. There was there was contact. And that's the beauty of it too.

if you think this is like the worst calls that are being made, then why isn't the coach challenging it? Because you only get one challenge. I know. Two actually. Well, if it's so obvious and bad, then the coach would challenge. I don't know.

My feeling is I think we're always as fans going to be able to criticize these things. Cones and complain. A bunch of winers. Star players and officiating. Those are the three easy ones that just take shots at. And sometimes it's justified. But as I've said to many, many times,

I think at the end of the day, it all tends to even out. And nobody wants to hear that, especially if it's a call against your team link in the contest. Because I can tell you, when I was watching that championship game between Florida and Houston in San Antonio, I was losing my mind over the fact that every five seconds a call was made. Or in the first half, there was an ebb and flow to the game we didn't have in the second half.

And I don't think the 10 players or 11 or 12 players that played in that game all of a sudden became these super aggressive guys in a second half. Well, I think a lot of those calls were warranted. The University of Houston Cougars has fouling people basically every trip down the floor. We don't commit fouls. They're very tough, tenacious defense. It's just, it's called great defense.

They play hard for sure. But they rock a bunch of fouls because they're very physical. Fow calls it remain the first half. I didn't think the officiating was bad in that game. That's because you didn't see it the way I saw it. Well, that's because you were, you had a, you weren't paying attention. You were probably at the game just on your phone. That was not on my phone.

The amount of money I paid for those tickets. I was not on my phone. 1 at 28 on Sports Talk 7-9. We have a half hour left to go. Ross, what can get to in the next segment? NBA finals ratings. We're done with NBA. Clearly, the number of Kevin Durant calls have taken.

The ratings are down for game four. No, I don't care. Okay. Also, the Stanley Cup final ratings are down, Matt. So we'll get a full breakdown from you on that. No, no, we're not. Matt's top five reasons. The NHL Stanley Cup final ratings are down coming up next.

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7-132-1-2-5-7-90. 134 on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas, Ross Villarreal. Jonathan Allen's our producer. Believe it or not, all things Sacramento, coming up in about 15 minutes from now. Also tomorrow we've got gut feelings manager Joe Espada will join us from Sacramento, California. Again, it's really, really bizarre. I was in Vegas weekend.

The A's, for those who have been to Vegas before, the Tropicana Hotel is no more. They have cleared it. It is now just land. And that'll be with the home of the new A stadium. Okay. And I think it's going to be like 30,000 seats, something like that. I mean, it's going to, they're really going to have to rely on, I guess they're not going to rely on ticket revenue to be a huge part of how they make their money, right? Not opening until 2028, and it should be 33,000 fans.

It'll have an overhang, I think, but not a roof, right? Like Seattle, correct? So you play 81 home games at 33,000 a pop. That's what, $2.5 million would be the most you'd be able to have. Usually you really get into huge big money territory when you start drawing. 3 million. You just start charging more. That's what it's going to be right. That's what you have to do. But then it's like

I don't know, does it become a tourist attraction? So I had a friend of mine he used to work with the Rockets. He works for the UFC in Las Vegas and he and I had lunch on Friday and I said, what's it like going to a Raiders game? You know, Legion Stadium is where we play and he says it's usually about

60% of the other team's fans. So like SOFA in L.A. So think about this. You have two majestic new facilities, the two newest ones, and both of them are occupied primarily by the fans of the other team coming in. They don't care. No, ticket sold us, ticket sold. Ticket sold, baby. I promise you, Ross, as long as the rockets are not playing, you and I will be at the first Astros A's game at that new ballpark in 2028. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. I mean,

I'm telling you. You got my ticket? I will get everything. Oh, hell. Yeah. Okay, let's go. Yeah, I'm just telling you. That's my gift to you.

I appreciate that. I'm writing this down, by the way. I'm putting this in the file. Now, if they play in early April, you're kind of screwed. That's fine. But you and I will do shows from Vegas at some point in 2028 with the Astros and the A's unless the Rockets are in the NBA finals. I'm ready.

Imagine if how tough I'd be if Jalen Green's dropping 30 a game. Shingoon 25 and 12. Number 10 pick. Mitcher's draft. Reader is knocking back three-pointers left and right. Now we're really getting crazy. Cam Whitmore, huge six-man contributor off the bench. Now that would be for the vipers that Reed Shepherd is knocking these threes down?

You're rude. Or the rockets. Terrible. All right. What else going on in sports this week? Oh, I was going to tell you the weather in Sacramento. Yeah, please. The high tomorrow's 89?

That's not terrible. I'm sorry, today, today, excuse me. Tomorrow is 93. Wednesday is 100 degrees. They play Thursday, too. Mezz will finish it off. Okay, sorry, Thursday gets down to 88. I forgot about that.

Now, are they on a grass field or are they on a turf field? And they did one and they converted to another phone. Yeah, it can be, it's got to be grass. Nobody can be on turf in 100 degrees. You're going to slice your arms off. All the skin off your arms are going to be gone. I know that from Tully Stadium and W.W. Thorne back in the day. You played Tully Stadium?

Yeah. Good for you. What a little spring branch reference there. I graduated high school from Tully Coliseum. Oh, really? Yeah. And then Katie said, we're going to build this monstrosity of a Fais School football stadium. Yeah, Wednesday's high of 100. What's the humidity going to be?

46%. That's pretty high, actually. That is really high for 100 degrees. Woo! All right. we'll talk to Joe about it Joe's going to drop about five pounds out there first pitch tonight's 78 that's not that bad

All right there's your weather forecast Part of the on deck show tonight at 8 o'clock on Sports Talk 790 Be listening It'll be about 91 and sunny Tomorrow It's gonna be hot Sacramento's not a terrible town by the way

It's not California I mean you could be I could drop you off at Sacramento And you'd be in any town of America I mean there's no It's in the middle of California I mean, middle of northern California. The biggest benefit you have is you're about two hours of Tahoe and two hours of San Francisco.

I think it's close. Is it close to Yosemite National Park, too? Fresno's a few hours back. Yeah, it's not bad at all. That's good. Yeah, it's only three hours to Yosemite. Have you been to Yosemite yet? I have not.

It's on the list. Where's your next spot? I've been to Sequoia. Yeah? And King's Canyon National Parks. You've been to Joshua Tree, right? Yes. I would say Great Basin.

It's going to be on the short list. The next ones I want to go to, Yosemite as well. Have wolves that try to attack you yet? No, I've never been attacked by an animal. How about a lion or bear? There's no lions in the United States, unless they're trapped in a zoo. Well, that's true. That's true.

Oh, real quick, we mentioned this before we got to, went to the break. So, story in the Chronicle about the Texans have said they have had tremendous interest in an area to build a brand new practice. facility. Not stadium, but practice facility. Okay. And that they would have to pay for all the costs, obviously, but maybe they would get a tax break on the land. The most abundant part of land still in

Harris County is up by Energy Park. Think about it. Where Asterold is, is nothing. Uh-huh. Build it there. Why not? Because apparently what they would like to have is they want to have as much their offices are all they want everybody together they want the football facade they want the administration they want all their employees in one building and that

makes plenty of sense you know the rockets built their own facility and that was cool and everything but it doesn't do anything for the general public and nor it's just facility for the texans so it's an anecdotal thing but unless you're tying it to what they want to do in building a new stadium I don't think it's that much of a story, but at least it was brought up in the Chronicle today. So I don't, you know. Now, the question is, you don't obviously want to,

you want to have your practice facility in your headquarters, probably close to your stadium. So that would be probably a little bit of a sign as to where you would like to potentially, you know, whether they refurbish NRG or build a new facility over there. I don't know.

But according to the new Texans president, there is tremendous interest in having a facility, like, the star in Plano where the Cowboys Workout. Now they also have an indoor stadium. Frisco? Frisco, yeah. Plano. Frisco. They have an

indoor facility that seats 12,000 people. And they have high school games in there all the time and graduations and whatnot. That makes a lot of sense. I don't think I'd do concerts there or not, but I think the star is fairly busy. Yeah, Jerry got to try to make some money out of that thing somehow. Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, if I'm the Texas, I'm building something

very similar to that. Because, I mean, I Imagine playing an indoor game in the hot Texas on Fridays and Saturdays. A place will be jam-packed. Sounds good. But what do we do with Atlanta across the street on 16? I don't know. It's not much of my concern. Is it called a Ford Center?

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it's the star. How long has Asteroa been gone? 30 years? 2001, I think. It's been that long, huh? 24 years then.

me look. And wouldn't that be a sign to anybody? Forget if it was sports for it or not. That that area has just been nothing that they would think maybe there's a reason for that? I put in Asterold. The first thing comes up is Travis Scott's tragedy. That's terrible. Yeah.

Looks like it closed in 2005. Oh, so it's 20 years. October of 05. So that land's been empty for 20 years and nothing's been done to it. Except parking spaces. pretty much. But haven't happened by now

is something going to happen with it in the future? I don't know. It's just weird that that area, I mean, that there's obviously somebody saying something in that area that it's not worth investing in. I guess we'll see what happens. Because that's the spot where you put your facility.

You're talking about all the bells and whistles. You're close to NRG. Yeah, I don't know what the, I'm sure there's some sort of red tape. Who knows? The land, I mean, does it do the tech? since own that land? No.

I don't know who owns it. Yeah. But, yeah, 20, God, it's been 20 years since Asterold. I lived it Asterold. In the summers? Yeah, we all did. I dreamed to pulling that girl's top off. Excuse me?

You know, the, you didn't need to volunteer this information. We've talked about this before when we were at Waterworld. I know, I'm trying to help you out. Yeah, but that was a stupid kid. You just think they were a stupid kid. No, I was like, uh, 11. Hmm. Maybe you're 16.

That makes more sense. Maybe 18 and A. Ormones, a raging for young Thomas. That's true. All right. Believe it or not, it's all things about... Why? Sacramento. California.

Yes. The capital city. Is it? No, if you don't know the Sacramento is the capital of California, you can't play this game. That better not be a believer in my question. It's going to be tough, Matt. No, they can't. Not Sacramento.

What's the capital of Maryland? I'm going to go with Annapolis. Oh, look at this guy. Proud of you, Matt. Capital of Louisiana. Ban Rouge. Capital of... No, we're not doing more.

I'm done. I'm tapping out. One more. Nevada. Jefferson City. No. I mean, okay. Carson City, sorry.

Jefferson City is Missouri. Carson City. Carson City is correct. I got it wrong, though. Yeah, that's right. 145, believe it or not, is up next. All things about the capital city of California here on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 will be the number you can play, believe it or not, if you'd like to in a few minutes.

7-13-212-5-7-90. Let's see here. At CX2 says the rodeo owns that land. The CEO is six flags, lists his job, and six flags lost millions over the Asterold debacle. They thought they could sell the land for above market value to the new stadium, and they ended up with a fraction of it because they misread the market. Well, there you go. that sounds like somebody that knows exactly what's going down over there on the other side of 610.

Now there's just that rapido over there and roperitos and a bunch of car dealerships. That's fine. I'm wishing them all the best. Yep. That's why. Gotta get out of that area. Got to build the new stadium somewhere else. Where?

I don't know. Good question. I'm still pegging. If we do a leaderboard, I would still say. Fort Bend County, the leader. I will say refurbishment, the leader. Then refurbishment. Then Brazoria County.

And I would put Montgomery County way in the back of that list. There's a lot of land out in Baytown. Oof. You want to go to Baytown? Oh, God. I mean, it'd be more teeth per capita than anybody when the Texans play a home game. What do you mean?

Oh, you know, there's some lot of gum issues out there in the Baytown area. They call them the gummers? The Gubbers, the Baytown Gumbers. That's right. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest-growing sports radio game. We simply call it B. Believe it or not.

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the way, Sacramento has been the capital of California since 1901. Before that, it was San Francisco. Believe it or not. Not as correct. Congratulations, Laurel. Almost got her twice. It's been a capital since 1854. Duh. Bill, who's your favorite member of the big three? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Michael Beasley. Sacramento experienced a boom in population in the 1840s and 1850s. due to the California gold rush. Believe it or not. I think that's time, believe it. Like old girl, just say, Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two, unfortunately, for a win for you.

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Believe it. That is correct. It's a third winner. All right. Now, is it perfect. Nobody missed one, right? Six. Oh, this is terrible. I'm so sorry, Jonathan. Six correct answers. I'm walking out of here. Big moment coming up here. James on 790. What was your fair part of today's 10 to 2 radio show? When you were talking about Kevin Durant. Sacramento's city flag has to be changed. Had to be changed in 2012 due to protest of its use of religious imagery. Believe it or not.

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It's a perfect day. Oh, my God. Winters, I'm believe it or not today. I'm sorry, Jonathan. Oh, yay, yay! Oh, yay, yay! Oh, my God. A high water or low water moment in the history of Rossville, Ariel, unbelievable or not.

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