The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Sweep The Phillies! Sitting #2 In the American League With A Record 48-33, Astros vs Cubs Tonight !

Episode Date: June 27, 2025

Astros Sweep The Phillies! Sitting #2 In the American League With A Record 48-33, Astros vs Cubs Tonight !

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1002 in H-town. Good morning and welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. I got news for you. You're stuck with me for the majority of the rest of your career. Yeah, great. It's depressing as hell.

Let's stop of a reaction. I'm sorry. I'm going a happy hour at 2.30. Who's coming with me? And you go find, you make a lot of money, you go find a trophy wife who's younger and, well, older. No, you find a younger wife. Well, Gavin Durant's old though. Yeah, that's true.

Well, you go for a cougar, I guess. With a lot of money and experience? And fakes? You're getting the Trevor's girls' DMs? I'm not in her DMs. I've never DM'd her once. Liking all of her photos. I didn't like any of her photos.

I went and looked through my likes. So it was a case of mistake and identification. No, it must have been a story. or something. I don't know. The finger must have slipped. Bert Reynolds is dead. And Hage is dead. These are all people that have been S&L. Perry. I think French Stewart is alive. That's true. Fred

Stewart is alive. It was a deep pole just for me and you. That was a very deep pull. Wait, what? He was stealing something and was getting chased by the police. Yeah. And said, hey, that ice rink looks good. Looks like a soft

landing spot. He thought it was pillowy. I mean, wouldn't you want to go? He thought it was snow. Wouldn't you want to run to the playland at the gallery? Like landing where the... No, you'd want to run to the exit, Matt. Yes. Your backup sucks. Yeah, I do.

You know, you suck. You know, Frank, you suck. You don't even listen. You don't even listen when I'm talking. Frank. I said Jalen Green. He scored single digits in four games. Frank, I value you, my friend.

We are friends of the end. What's fear of armadillos? That's what you have. Armadillo phobia. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Is it because they roll? I'm actually really... Because they just exist. They don't touch them. They give you lepros.

Okay, I'm not going to touch them. Free touching show. Now, we've touched critters before, but never one of those. That will never happen again. Good morning, everybody. It is 10.4. That's how you get the Friday started. It is an anything goes Friday here on a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross Sports RV. How the hell are you? You were rocking the dock. I'm doing great, man.

Last night. Yes, I was. Rocking the dock for Sunny 99.1. Did they ask you to play some Whitney Houston, followed by Celine Dion music? No, they had a 90s cover band out there, and I was just handing out some stuff with some wonderful, lovely people from our promo team. We got two promo people at the Sunday 99.1 remote. How many do we have a sports talk 790? I think we haven't had one in six years. All right.

So 90s cover band, what was the definitive song that they, what was her show style? I don't know. I didn't go for it. It was for 7.30 and the appearance was still eight. So whatever the showstopper was, I was not there for it. What is the greatest song in the 1990s? The greatest song of the 1990s? I don't know. That's too much work. They're playing some Green Day. Mambo number five by Lou Bega, the greatest hit of the 1990s. I was going to go Chumba Wamba. Yeah, that's pretty good. We've actually done this in past years. We did decades, worst number one songs. We did do that.

And I want to say one of us chose Chumbalamba, do we not? The most popular song of the 1990s, according to Google AI, was One Sweet Day by Marrari Carey and Boys to Men. Now, that was a jam. It was number one for like 13 weeks or something like that. Gosh, right. Yeah, I've never been a huge... Oh, it's 16 weeks. I've never been a huge Mariah fan singer, but it's appearance-wise she's fine.

Singer? She wanted an all-time great singers. Who's hitting those high notes but Mariah Carey? Oh, I want to give a shout-out to what? two of our callers for giving me song suggestions. Oh, really? Will and D-Man. Will gave me Summer Breeze, the Isley Brother edition.

Fire. Okay. That is good. And then Hair of a dog by Nazareth, fire. Hair of a dog by Nazareth? I want to give a shout to them then. You guys made to my playlist.

What about Breeze Inn by George Benson? We've played that before. That is a fantastic yacht rock selection. I recently found out that was a cover. Really? Mm-hmm. It was written by Bobby Womack and some Hungarian dude. who shall remain nameless.

I don't remember. You probably can't pronounce it. It's difficult. It's Hungarian. All right. Here's the radio program today. Anything goes Friday. Anything goes Friday.

We have mentioned Nazareth. Yep. Mariah Carey. The chema boardwalk. Mm-hmm. And no sports items yet. Well, that's what we're here. I mean, we still have three hours and 53 minutes to cover here.

Anything goes Friday. Yeah. I mean, look, the Astros put a day game yesterday. I unfortunately, and thankfully, and thankfully everything came out okay, but I got caught up the I-45 mess yesterday. So after the show yesterday, I didn't laugh and matter, actually.

It was kind of sad in respect. I would say a mentally challenged woman or whatever case may be. She had some issues, I guess. And a gun. And so she gets on I-405. And I told you I had to lunch right after the show yesterday.

Oh, that's right. Did you make it? I got there in time. It was getting back. It was the problem because I went and saw some friends after that lunch yesterday. I thought it was in the woodlands. It was.

But it was like a Cypress Ward in 45. Yeah, that's more spring. But I was coming back in the city. Oh, from the lunch, yeah. Okay. So, yeah, I would mention the place, but they don't spend money with us. That's like, and then I got into place. Oh, screw up.

So what was I going to say? What did you do? Did you go around a Beltway? I did. I went to the Grand Parkway, snuck around and got onto Hardy Toll Road, and then made it way back in the city. Okay. So, yeah, that was a tough ordeal for her. And thankfully, she surrendered and,

traveling or Zoom, but man, I mean, I don't know what's going on in her life, but to sit on a freeway, just to put the chair down and with a wipe, I mean, ooh, what a, wow. You can't be doing that. No, that's not good at all. All right. So what are we going with this? I don't know. Oh, so listen to the Astros.

That was fun. Astros' part of day game. One, scored one run. Yes. First game. Yes. Two runs a second game. Yes.

Two runs yesterday. Exploded. So that's, my quick math tells me. That's five runs in three games. Five runs and a sweep. That's a 1.66 runs per game average. What is this guy? I went to U of H.

You know these things. Can you text his instruments, Thomas. T.I. Little known story. T.I. over there in Sugar Land used to have a hilariously big softball league. Oh, really?

Yeah. And 21 and 22-year-old Matt Thomas would try to go over there and play softball and meet some ladies. And they realized, that A, I sucked at softball. B, I was poorly. And C, I wasn't making a whole lot of money.

So it was just kind of a It was like a golden suburbos of losses for me. Well, they could have you umpire the games. I'm sticking at catcher. No, well, catcher felt rude. Umpiring, sure. Because you usually put the slow guy that unathletic, does I want to move around?

You just said all those things applied to you. I didn't say it. You did. That's true. Get your knee pads and get in the catcher spot. Not wearing knee pads with a soft. ball game pop a squat mattie get you a little step stool to sit on i got on one knee okay then the ball hit you in a wrong spot and you're hurt and you don't want to look like you've been pain but the softballs hit you they're gonna hit you wear a cup not one of them might want a cup to a softball game

what why not who wears cups of softball games you got to protect the jewels at all times man that's what you cover you use your left hand all right uh it is that anything goes Friday the astros win oh so then during this large rainstorm you know they had a huge rain delay in Minneapolis yesterday. Yeah, what the hell? If we were doing Wednesday, I want to tell us, shut you a bum ass up weather,

or ain't nobody got time for all these storms every other day or sometimes every day. It's ridiculous. We got a chance of rain this afternoon to, but the entire country. So I think, and I didn't know the,

I didn't look at this, maybe we can find out. The Seattle, Minnesota game had, I mean, multiple hour rain delay. Okay. Because the game, I think, started around

the same time the Astros did, and it was like 530. I was less in the game. Seattle, the twins score eight runs in the sixth inning and win the, and it was 10-0 when I got out of the car. I don't know what the final score was. But thank you, Minnesota, for finishing up that game. Thank you, Carlos Crea for being a big part of that eight-run, six-inning. And the Astros lead continues to grow where it's almost time.

Not quite yet. Probably got 40 games or so to go to do it. But for what? I could tweet, what was your favorite Seattle Mariners is a 2025 baseball Continental moment. Don't be scared? Put your name on it. I don't need that. I don't need that. Just get your boy Softie coming after you.

I don't need Mariner fan coming after me. Yeah, they are rabid and angry for whatever reason. And unsuccessful largely. Yeah, what the hell's wrong with you? Seattle fan? They act like they've won 15 World Series. They're insane. Trying to think you here. I want to see what the rain delay was. Okay. Fan graphs odds to make the playoffs for the Astros, 94.4%.

Division 81.1%. The rain delay? No, I'm talking about the Astros odds to win the do. I'm going to tell you the rain delay right now. Okay, go ahead. Four hours and 22 minutes. Woo! That's meaty.

That's Minnesota being cheap skates. First of all, it's too cold to play there in April, and it's too cold to play there in September. And it rains in the summertime there. Your fault. It's a lovely place to live, I heard. It's very nice. but it's just ridiculously balls the wall cold.

I can't do it. So that's why I'm here with you. All right. 10, 12 on the radio show today. We've got open line. It is anything goes Friday, which means anything you want to get into, whether it be the Astros continued dominance,

the American League West, whether it's the fact that the first place fell off if you filled this game to town, I got swept. Whether it's Kyle Tucker and the return of Ryan Presley as well for the Cubs in town. Huge. Are they going to play Johnny Cash for him when he comes in? No.

They'll play nothing. Sometimes they do that. guys when they come back. I can't imagine Ryan Press. I'm not saying they won't. They're going to do the whole light show. I would think not. But you can put the song on in between innings.

Why not? Oh, I'm talking about when he comes on the... I thought he's coming into the game. Yeah. Just between innings. I'm going to put that as a minus 600. Didn't they do that? They did that recently, I thought, for a reliever who came back somewhere.

Didn't the brewers do that for Josh Hader or something like that? Yeah, but that's the brewers. I'm asking about what the Astros would do. Okay, I'm just saying it's been, there's precedent. Okay, I'm sure there is. I don't, it feels like Ryan got squirly down the stretch here with the asteros. Okay. Which is not fair because he was awesome in 2022.

Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. He got his ego hurt because Josh Hader, the best closer in baseball got signed. Wee, we don't you cry about it, Ryan. Ryan Presley, friend of the show, might be listening right now. You never know. I'm sorry, Ryan, I love you. That was Ross. That was Matt.

713, 23, 212-790. We got our, I'm sorry, as I get two at 1130 today. people always think things I said You said anyway so I'm just going to put everything Everything bad is on you Why doesn't, like we had Joe spotted In our day and he doesn't differentiate Our voices

I mean my voice He didn't like my question So you were like Oh that was Ross That was Ross, it wasn't me Oh I was me Joe please He despised your question It was the big Astros news of the day

Sorry Well but the thing was He's not going to comment on that Yeah We might just say I wish I'm wishing him the best That's all I wanted But he can deflect the question as well which is right. Here's what you could have.

So Scott Boris is going to cost you another player. Your thoughts. That's that. If you're going to go all the way in. See, I didn't do that. That would have been the real play. And then you'd be like, 713, 21, 212, 5790. Now in Florida stories, we have hell yeah or not. I'm sorry, he's at 1130.

Matter of fact, Ross should apologize Joe Sputter for bringing up Scott Boris's name of the show. 1014 on Sports Talk 790. So just how big Is the Astros winning margin going to be in the America League West? I mean, my God. They are just, they don't, they, they don't even have a good offense on a win games.

They let Jake Myers back clean up again yesterday. Hey, what do you mean they let? He's not a make-a-wish kid. He's on the team hitting over 300. Well, it was, I think he bought an auction out of him and he got a lot of the bat clean-up. No, he didn't win an auction. Yes, I believe that's like exactly what happened. That's just, it's crazy.

I mean, look, Jake should be. the lineup. Yeah, he went one for four. He's it in 306. Who should be up there? Him or 214? Christian Walker. I would say maybe Yonnier. Oh, he's it in 238. With an OPS is 649. We're halfway through the season, folks.

It ain't early no more. It's literally a midway point. 81 games in. And Yiner and Christian Walker are still doing this. I wonder if Joe has told the beat writers. Don't ask about Christian Walker. We know, we know. who he is.

I mean, he would never ask. No, he would never say that. Not publicly. No, but he's like... But yeah, I mean, he talks to the guys off record, of course. Yeah, and by the way, athletes do have down years.

The problem is you just hope it's not a down part of the rest of his career. Right? Is it a client? Just somebody needs to leak out he's been playing the whole season with a torn oblique. Well, he's had the, he had the oblique injury

early in the year, yeah. It'd make me feel better. That's like crackle is back, yes? No, I don't hear it. No, yeah, I do. Okay. Sorry. Our phone lines work at this point, right? I keep making sure I just don't have shampoo in my ears. I'm just going crazy. Our phone lines aren't working, I think. By the way, they resolve that thing and they never said anything. That trouble ticket I made. Like, oh, you said it's gone now? All right, bye. Not our problem. But anyways, Joe,

Christian Walker and your energy is. What's the deal? Um, Yanir is slumping, season slumping. Christian Walker, is it... Could he be in decline? Look, declines happen, and here's the thing, we don't know when there happen, the players don't know. It comes down to, to me,

and again, I'm not a trained baseball mind, but Ross, Mike thought would be probably bat speed at the end of the day. It's the number one culprit, right? His bat speed two, last year, in the year before was average 75 miles per hour, which is considered, that's the line of demarcation for what they consider,

a fast swing, 75 miles an hour and above. He's at 74.1. Fast swing rate, 52.8, this year, 41. But that could be a number of things. He could be beating pitch differently. He could be chasing when you chase more. You're out of the zone. You're not going to be able to get good swings on stuff.

Yeah. So just the raw bat speed doesn't tell you everything, but the numbers are declined that way. So I would say this. And look, we're not going to try to over metric you this show because I think it just goes in one or at the other. But I think we should take the numbers you just gave us and look at him a month from now. Yeah. I mean, it's just like I said, very simple. 75 is a fast swing? He's at 74. He was at 74. He was at 75 last year. So 75 considered fast.

That's considered fast. Okay. Well, so if he's 74, it shouldn't be that big of a decline then, right? I mean, I'm trying to do that here. You think so. Yeah. All right. Let's talk to some great people here. Anything goes Friday. Ryan and Montgomery at 1022 on 790. Ryan, good morning. What's on your mind? I'm not going to lie. the lady in 45. We've all thought about it because I hate 45. But my whole drive home from work yesterday was screwed up

because what people didn't know was in Magnolia. A dude killed his stepfather with a machete and then drove head first into a garbage truck on 149. At the same time that was going on on 45. What? What? Yeah, I just had to park it. That's a non-Florida story for you right there. I don't think so. I'm going to go

I'm going to go and say thanks for giving that to us right now. We're going to just go and say we knocked that one. Yeah, what's going on in the HTX? Nah, that's Magnolia. That's where crazy people are, man. Well, I'm from Cyprus originally, so I don't claim it entirely. That's good.

The Astros are killing it. I'm so excited for the rest of this season. Killing it. Hey, yeah, use a different phrase, right? What? I'm just kidding. Go ahead. Put intended.

And don't say it's a murderer's row lineup either. Don't use that one either. Well, because that won't be true. Took the words right out of my mouth, Matt. But now, I'd schedule my entire work. schedule around listening to you all on Fridays. So excited. I'll talk to you guys later. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.

By the way, we're getting word from our friend, Grace. It says when Springer came back, the first time they played poison in his first at bat. So there's a precedent of that. I remember Josh Reddick going to Oakland and they played, what's that song he used to walk up to, Careless Whisper? Yeah, I wonder if relief pitchers are a little bit different because they usually use it as motivation to go in and get the final outs of a game.

Oh, yeah. I don't know. I'm just throwing it out there. Just saying it. May not be true, but... Yeah, it's overblown. Josh Redick proved that, walking up to Carol's Whisper.

Well, you know, you tease me about what my... What would be your walk-up song? Sleep Now in the Fire, Rage Against the Machine. Oh, is that right? I just made that up. I was going to say, who am I talking to? What's his face from me? Jeff Passon, that would be his walk-up song.

Yeah. He might go with Gorilla Radio. He'd go with... He'd go with, I'm a loser. That's what he would go with. Right back? Yeah. Okay.

Hmm, what would I walk up to? See, the... I'll go Family Ties by Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem. All right, here's what we're going to do here. What's wrong? Can we play that song? Is it got... Has it got cuss words in it?

Yeah, but I'm sure it's fine. Well, can we get a... Here's what I want to do. I want to get a clean version of that song coming back from the next break. And I want you introduce the segment, because you will be the one to get the next segment going. So if the song works, that means... We got it right now. Oh, you want to wait?

I want to wait until the 10.30. Okay. We'll do it. I'm going to introduce. Yeah, you introduce a segment. And you're a PA guy. You got to call me coming up to the plate. No, no, no.

No, I want to see how this show flows based off of this song. Okay. Because don't you think walk-up songs are a way to motivate yourself? I guess. Wait, Matt, you never heard this song you did there? Matt, please. You don't like family ties? Why are you shaking your head?

It gets the people going. No, it's not horrible. It's not horrible. Whoa. I like it. That wasn't really in a selling point. No, it really wasn't. No, but it fits Ross, like, if it was his walk-up song, though, it definitely fits him.

I was at NRG Stadium, and 60,000 people were jumping up and down going nuts when that song came on. I would probably be, I'd be someone that would choose a song almost every different home stand. You'd go with Salem by Christopher Cross. I'd go with something that would make people laugh for sure. Okay. Like, if you had a walk-up song and you put on, like, if you put a couple of cabana on, people, But people who cry like, this is funny. We did Fantasy 5 walk-up songs and you won.

Yeah. I took Mo City Dawn and people were upset. A bunch of 70-year-olds calling in. And we love all of you. Robert on 790. Robert, good morning. Good morning, Matt. Good morning, Ross.

Man, it's been a long time since I've talked to you guys. Where you been? You been hiding? Yeah, what the hell? Yeah, we've missed you. So I work overnight now. So I'm basically sleeping when y'all come on. but now I was running late today, so I decided to give you guys a call.

Well, that's nice. What do you think? You think Sam Presti's kicking himself in the butt about the Durant? I mean, I feel like the Rockets, and you're the perfect one to communicate with me about this, I think they overpaid for Durant. I mean, what do you think? I'm sure y'all probably talked about it, but I... Overpaid.

You are you. be the only one robber. The first person that would have said that they've overpaid. I mean, in fact, if you were to go Google, was there a fade trade value? You'd probably hear that you see the term underpaid probably a hundred times. Really? Yeah, because again, the guys that the strongest commodities the rockets had in their mind were Alperin Shangoon untouchable, Amen Thompson, untouchable. And if you want Jabari Smith and or Tari's, and you better add to the trade. And neither one of those guys were a part of it. So Jalen Green was the kind of the guy that was talked about more than anything else.

You didn't have to give up any more first round picks, and you already did the number 10 pick that was already there to begin with, and you gave up a bunch of second round picks. Who really cares? I mean, I'll say, Robert, it just wasn't much of the – there was no one that thought the Rockets overpaid. So basically they sacrificed draft picks for, you know, hoping that Durant can help them win a championship now.

Yeah, I mean, first of all, you can't decide who wins a trade until it plays out, whether the Rock is going to go to a championship, whether Kevin Durant can play, whether he's healthy. I mean, so, but no, at this point, you know, look, we've got to figure this out on the court first, but the term overpaid is something that I mean, even Phoenix fans are like, we didn't, we didn't get enough, I don't think. Really? Yeah. Yeah. All right.

All right. Well, thanks for your feedback, and I love y'all show us. Thank you, Robert. Thank you very much. Oh, I have a funny story for you. Well, let us decide if it's funny or not. I had to move to Fort Worth. That's not the funny.

That's depressing, actually. Yeah. So the first time we went to a grocery store, we told the cashier we moved from Houston, he goes, oh, well, I guess you got to switch baseball teams now. I said, not a chance in hell. And I'll hang up and listen. Thank you. And then he checked your food out.

By the way, I'll tell you, I got a hot take. Robert's closer than the people that say the Rockets gave up nothing that they overpaid. Say it one more time. it's closer to and both are wrong, but saying the overpaid is closer to the truth than saying they gave up nothing, which some people have been saying. Yeah, I mean, look,

if Jalen Green, 25 and 6 and all of a sudden doesn't do what he did against Golden State and has a great playoff series, yeah, I mean, you give up 20, what, how old's Jalen? 23? 23 for 37. It's volume scoring, but somebody's got to score, and it's 82 games of value got out of the last two years. Yeah. And Dylan Brooks,

a good role player and he was the Rockets best three-point shooter. I have the right over the season was Dylan Brooks. And frankly, it wasn't even close. Now we'll see what happens to what's his name, Malawak. The draft pick, number 10. The Duke player, yeah, the Rockets drafted, who put the cap on. The 7-7-wing span. That's insane.

Yeah, but Bull Bull's got a 7-7 wing span and he just doesn't always play. He didn't go number 10, I don't think. We'll see. I'm just saying, you look at the history of 10 picks, like Paul George was a number 10 pick. Austin Rivers. Oh, yeah. I mean.

Cason Wallace has been good for the Oklahoma City Thunder. He was a number 10 pick. I'm just saying. Yeah, but the Rockets couldn't control that Mala Walk was there at 10. I like the move. They're swinging for the fences, but they didn't give up nothing. But they didn't overpay either. Robert, sorry.

Yeah. And look, we'll judge us two years from now. There were a lot of people that thought the Astros overpaid for you sake of coaching. Oh, my God. It was a firestorm. Remember we had to be like calm people down. I mean, Joey Lopafito. I mean, there were people that were crying in the streets.

They were crying in the... There were people that were printing Lopofito jerseys. Well, there's a lot of... Let's be honest. There was a lot of ladies because he's handsome. It's a real talk on the show. So it would be like, if I left, it's a real talk Friday.

It would be a lot of ladies that would be in the same spot. Yes. All right. I don't know what the next segment of the show is, but it's going to be introduced by Ross. We'll see if his... I'm not introducing anything. Well, you've got to bring up the topic.

Okay, sure. So we're going to find out if Kendrick Lamar's song, what is it called again? It's called Matt's number one. Matt's number two. What is it really called? It doesn't matter. It's called Family Ties. It's called Family Ties.

Will this song make him a better host in the next summer of the show? By the way, a lot of people are saying Captain Teneal, that feels fair. Yeah. Love will keep us together would be a great way to get this. Is that what gets you going? We'll try it. Get you ready for a three-pitch strikeout? Yeah.

Seven, one, you think I would start. right out on three pitches? Yeah, you went up three times it'd be immaculate inning. That's okay, I'd do the same. I can't hit, I haven't hit a fast pitch. I can't hit one foul ball. No, you're right.

Oh, no. No, there's no chance. All right, 713, 212, 579. 713-2-790. Isn't anything goes Friday here on the mat. Tom is show with a word for talliard brewing. Oh, this, this is melting. Oh, this is so good.

This is like Picasso of radio of music. Crank this up in your car right now. Come in that, five. Go ahead, Matt. Freestyle with it. This is so good. Half the words are getting bleeped out right now.

Welcome back to the Matt Thomas show. It is 10.38 in the a.m. here on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas Show with you until 2 o'clock. We got the news at noon coming up. We got non-Florida stories at 1.30. And I'm sorry, it's at 1130. I'm sorry, is at 1130. You need to do a lot of apologizing, Matt.

What would have been my biggest apology this week? I don't know. These are all your misgivings throughout your entire life. Don't need to apologize for the spam calls that I get that I interact with? You should. Leave those people alone. My wife gets so mad at me. She gets mad at me.

She gets mad at me. Why? I think it's funny. I mean, it's kooky. It's, it's, I'm deranged. I swear violently at them. It's like a pressure release for you, I guess. Yeah. Let's go, a release valve, a pressure valve.

Two things I do, I swear at them. Yes. You belch at them? Yeah. That is bizarre. On command? Yep. Yeah, you got one ready to go, locked and loaded?

I mean, I have turned my phone on, you know, normally I have a silencer, meaning that if someone don't know their number, he goes right to voicemail. I've turned it off today. I'm kind of in the mood. You just pick whatever day you want to do it? Yeah. I'm kind of in the mood to do it today. Oh, that's interesting.

Yeah. Well, Matt, that last song we came back with, was Kendrick Lamar and Baby Kim. It's called Family Tows. I think it's actually a Baby Kim song. But anyways, did you see the news? It relates to Kendrick Lamar, the Super Bowl halftime show, and Antonio Brown's attempted murder charge. All wrapped in one.

Please connect the doubts for me. Okay. The man who protested during the halftime show, I don't know if you saw this, he put a Sudanese flag up and said, Free Gaza or something like that during the middle of the halftime show. It popped up briefly. Some people noticed it. Some people didn't. Louisiana police said they weren't going to arrest anybody. Well, they put out an arrest warrant for the guy. They found him a 41-year-old New Orleans resident named Seul, Carnain, Kwame, Nantambu. It turns out he's the same guy that Antonio Brown is wanted for attempted murder. The guy he's shot, he

shot at is the same guy that was a dancer during the Kendrick Lamar halftime show and was protesting with the Free Palestine flag. Isn't that a bizarre conflict of events? That is an odd connection. Yes. That is weird. Antonio Brown put out some tweets talking

about how he's innocent. This guy's been harassing him. This is probably not his social media manager. Yesterday or last evening, Antonio Brown saying the guy's a fraud, liar, stalker, and criminal. arrested in 2022 for stealing six figures of jewelry from me then showed up at my show at Rolling Loud in 2023 trying to assault me

Why is Antonio Brown doing it? Rolling Loud is like a music festival? Why is Antonio Brown doing a show at Rolling Loud? I don't think Antonio Brown knows where he is. CTE, definitely got him. And then in May he snuck into a gate at the event came right up to me trying to steal for me and threaten my life. The media has not told this story yet. Instead, painting a false picture

of me that night I was fighting for my life with his intentions. First of all, why is the guy getting arrested for just flying a flag? I bet you Kendrick Lamar steps in and somehow takes care of this guy's legal fees or something. Although maybe if he's a real criminal and I don't know what's going on with the Antonio Brown situation. This is just a bizarre story. All these dots are getting connected.

It's a bizarre story with people that I don't think anybody can relate to. I can't relate to this story. Antonio Brown? No. That's your guy. You love him following him on Twitter. I think he is hysterical on Twitter. I also believe that when you told me

you don't think it was him, I'm going, okay, maybe it was. It's a social media manager. But there you go, Matt. You wanted me to tie it in? There you go. Okay, so let's do this. Jonathan is a consumer of this radio show. Forget about you being an employee.

Did you enjoy how we've taken the show in this direction? Yeah, I think it's very, you know, everything's, you know, everything goes Friday. You know, that's the whole premise. Anything goes, Matt. Including a guy who, including a Super Bowl halftime dancer, getting shot at by Antonio Brown. It's a preview to non-Florida story.

That's a little bit, everybody. Oh, I should just save that for my non-Flority. That's a better story. Yeah. Yeah. You can save it if you want to. I'm good. All right.

Different audiences. You're right. Yeah. 1042 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you'd like to come in and say hello, you may do so. At 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-7-90.

We've got to tell you about this Utah jazz draft pick drama. Okay. I think it's pretty filthy, but I want to get a phone call before we do that. And again, Astros certainly on the brain, as they won again, they swept the Philadelphia Phillies. They have won five of six. And now that league continues to grow in the American League West. Milo on 790. Milo, good morning.

Milo. Good morning. Good morning. Hello. I was wondering if this could be the, you know, the great. greatest era of Houston sports ever, and what would it take? The Astros, I just read, they're on pace for 95 wins. That's with most of their starting pitching out.

I mean, we know how injuries have impacted them. The Rockets just won 52 games and look poised for a deep playoff run next year. The Texans, I think, could win at least 12 games, and we've seen what they're doing in the playoffs. So what do you guys think it's going to take? Now, are you asking, is it the greatest era of Houston sports history now, Or it could be. Yeah, do. Is it now and what would it

make for it to be if you guys don't think it is? Okay. I'll answer that question for you in a matter of moments. Wow. Professional radio teas. We do a few things professionally around here. 713-212-5-790 if you want to get in. I've got an easy answer for that, right?

This is a perfect walk-up song. It gets people cheery. You grab each other arm and arm. Fans don't even know each other, warm and embrace. Root for the local team. Ghostros. It's a great way to start this segment. Captain and Tenil, which one is alive or are both dead?

Teneal's, they're both dead. No, Teneal's alive. Are you sure? Yeah, sure. Okay, Captain is dead. Teneal's alive. Yes. Tenil, about ten years ago, basically, while Captain was so alive,

said we were in a level's marriage for 40 years. That's fun. So basically love. Love didn't keep them together. The lack of love kept them together. All right. So the question was posed. Are we in the greatest stretch of Houston sports?

No chance at this point. No chance. Tell me when it was then. When was the golden era of Houston sports? Texans, playoffs, rockets, two seed, just traded for Kevin Durant, Astros, 2022 World Series, and it depends. Are you talking about a single year or a stretch of year? That's what I'm saying. I don't even know if you could possibly answer the question. Okay.

Without moving the goal post. So when was the better error? Because you said definitively it's not. No, because I think the only way you can ever have a golden era of anything is if multiple teams win in that same year. Yeah, but if... I mean, the Boston people have, Patriots and Celtics want the same year. But he asked if it was the golden era of Houston. Okay. So it's never happened.

And if it's never happened, it's never happened. So let's go to the two closest examples. Okay. This year would be very, very close. Okay. The 1980s would be close. The Celtics and the Rockets won to the NBA finals. The Astros went to the National League Championship Series

when there was only one playoff series in each league. They lost in 16 innings or 15, whatever it was. Oh, I don't know what to. And I believe the orders went to the playoffs or were very close. I know they went. 1986 Houston Oilers. Let's check. I'm not 100% sure on that. They were 5 and 11.

Okay, so I'm off a little bit. Now, here's the thing. Why are they close? Let's also remember the Houston Cougars were 20 seconds away from potentially winning a national championship. That's true. And then they choked. I didn't choke. It was a very controversial whistle in the second half of that game.

Very controversial. Drop the ball on the ground and stared at it. Very controversial. There was some sort of like, a legal substance on the basketball. It must have been. Warren Moon, by the way, in 1986, 13 touchdowns, 26 picks.

Ooh. Come on, Warren. Yeah, but 87 had been better. That was a short season, too, I want to say. 87 was short, right? Though the strike shortened season? Yeah. They were 9 and 6.

So, yeah, it was short for sure. Okay, so 86 you're going with. I'm going to probably go this, this is the close. So, you know, I'm a bit, I'll rephrase. This is the closest you. you can get to the greatest. Does somebody have to win it all? Now, 17 Astros won it all, but the Texans weren't good.

The Rockets were. Yeah. Again, I don't think if we got a minivan together, we took all of us, went over to the Rockets training facility, right? Okay. Do you think they'd be running around going, man, I am so satisfied about how things turned out? I think they were like, this was part two of a build, a step up.

I don't think there's, I don't think they were bro-hugging, even to this moment. I think they're thinking about we need to get better. We didn't want to go to the playoffs and have the second best record in the West to losing the first round. Now, granted, it was highly competitive top to bottom, but I don't think there's any... They lost in the first round.

They lost in the first round. It was a disappointment to lose in the first round as a two-seat. Even though you're playing a team that shot up the standings when they made a good trade. Astros won the division last year and lost in two games to the Detroit Tigers on their home field and a wallet card. 2018, I think the Texans were good. The Rockets made the Western Finals and the Astros made the ALCS and lost to the Red Sox.

Yeah, yeah. So I would give you... When Joe West made a horrible call on an L2A Homer. I'd give you 2018 over 2025. 2024. This is TBD. Yeah. We'll see what the Texans do this year.

AFC stacked. Astros are doing great. It's one of the best areas of Houston sports. Oh, by no means it's not bad. If we're doing years and you're counting the 22 championship and you're counting what, if you're doing multi years with what C.J. Stroud is doing right now, what the Rockets are doing, I'm going to say, yes, it is the best era in Astro, and in Houston sports history. I'm going to say this, I'm enjoying it a lot.

A lot more than, say, 12 years ago. If we're not doing a singular year because an era is not just one year, I'm saying it is the best era in Houston sports history. What's up? All three teams are really good. and one of the three teams is going to surprise and be better than we thought. One is going to get better and one is going to probably stay complacent and stay right where they are. You think so?

I think they're all trending upwards. I believe the experts in one of those leagues does not believe there's an upward trend. Okay. Because every time I look at one of those power listings and power poles and... You come by the Rockets? I'm talking about the Texans. I still see Baltimore. more. I still see Kansas City.

Yeah, the AFC's tough. Yeah. So they made the divisional round. So go. Back to back years. So go improve the offensive line. So I made the final four of their conference in back to back years. Go knock it out.

Oh my God. You're such a Texans hater. Go get, no, I'm a CJ apologist. The poor kids will be running for his life. We'll see. We'll pray. Yeah. We already got our bet.

We already got our season win. Can I take it? We got our season win bet. Yeah, but I think FCC regulations say they have to know they're on the air. Just say it real quick. Hi, you're on the radio. I mean, say it clearly. Good morning. You're on Sports Talks of an eye.

How are you? Hello? You're not even going to answer the phone? Hello, Matt. This is your doctor about that infection. I've been taking those antibiotics, Doc, every day. Trust me. 1057, it is the first hour. We have three left to go.

You know the first hour is amazing. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. We got 180 minutes left to go give you. Easy, breezy. Anything goes Friday. It did go quick. All right.

Next 30 minutes, you're going to have a chance to apologize. And Lord knows, many of you need to do that. Number two of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Matt is on the phone with a telemarketer right now. So he'll be with us momentarily. No, I'm back. Okay. It was not a real person, Matt.

I know. What you do is they ask you a bunch of generic questions. Uh-huh. You give them the answer they want to hear. And then a lie person goes, thank you very much for joining us when you're like, I need your social number. go to the card and then I bell to real loud and call them names and I hang up.

Oh, they hang up on me. I mean, hey, however you want to spend your time, Maddie. It's stress. Rick from Rick and Morty. It's stress relief, Jonathan, is what it is. Very stressful life. Working with YouTube for 20 hours a week. What are you stressed out about?

A lot of things. Four hour show, Rockets duties, pre and post game shows. I want that Adam, Clems for life. That's not bad. Oh, Wexler's running around town, though. Yes, I don't think he likes anybody. He just wants to go run around town anyway. Chase after stuff.

We appreciate him. All right. 1101 on Sports Talk 790. All right, I have to tell you. What do you have to tell me? The Astros are kicking ass, and we will discuss them a lot over the next three hours. Yeah, can we hear from Fire Joe Espada guy? How's Fire Joe Spada guy going, doing?

713, 212, 5, 790. Let me ask you this. All right, while you go over a couple of things, I'm going to try to go look up and see if there's a hashtag out there. Fire Joe Espada. And see if there's any traction to this. Let's see if we can get fire. I think Eric in Bay City was sticking with it, but he's got to screw loose. So we're not really worried about him.

But I mean, man, the Astros are doing great. You know what? I just put in our hashtag Fire Joe Espada, and there's a bunch of people that have done it. From what's the most recent one, though? 5-925. So a month. Okay. Some guy named Ben Dover.

Okay. That sounds legit. That sounds legit. Some guy, October of 24, that was during the playoffs last year. Oh, 24. That was ridiculous. Very painful watching the Astros get bounced because Aspada was badly outmanaged by A.J. Hinch. Let's see.

What else we have here? Badly outmanaged. They couldn't get a hit. This is a lot of this is from last year. Astrofan 78. Espada's not smart enough to be a manager. Hashtag Fire Joe Espada. Wow, this is.

These people are idiots. I will give you. We'll give Astro fans credit. This is 99% of this is from 2024. I don't see anything from 2025. But we have receipts. Okay. So shout out to, let's go to Isok Paredes fan.

Hashtag Fire Joe Espada. Okay. Isak Paratus fan? Astros Anonymous. Yordan, more like snort on. Hashtag Relentless. Hashtag Fire Joe Espada. Where is Yordon?

It's his birthday, by the way. collecting a paycheck? Yeah. This guy bend over. Hashtag fire Joe Espada. Hashtag fire Alexintron. Hashtag fire Dana Brown. Oh, my God.

Let's see what Dana Brown's done. I mean, they've got the Kyle Tucker trade. Seriously, y'all are a bunch of phonies. They're idiots. It really is embarrassing. Not everyone. Some of you are smart.

No, I would say, look, I would say 95% of Rockets Twitter is cool. I would say... Ooh. Yeah, no, I'm okay. Let's make it 75. Let's make it 25. Okay, 25% of Rocket's Twitter is cool.

Yes? 25% of Texan Twitter's cool. Oh, they're the most delusional. And then I would say 5% of Astro's Twitter is cool. Can you imagine spending an entire summer building up Davis Mills off of like five highlights? Davis Mills plays football today. What a bunch of... You're dumbasses.

How about, hey, I got my Texas training camp tickets. I can sit down in the 125 degree temperatures and get water thrown at me. Mm-hmm. You know, the training camp practices. You know, you got to throw water at them? I'm sure to keep them cooled off. They're spraying them. They're hozing them down?

Like dogs in the front yard? You mean to tell me they had some sort of relationship building in the Texans training camp? Okay. So people are copulating in the stands and they're getting hosed down is what you're saying. At Texas practice. I'm saying it might have happened. Oh, cover three shell. Let's get them going.

Oh, man. Do you see that block by a... Cam Robinson? You know a blown block by Cam Robinson? You see that pressure, allowing a lot of pressure. Joe Mixon. Got that three hard run. Oh, my God.

Get over here right now. Oh, that's the fake media doing that. Sorry. Line penetration. And seeing. Okay. Yeah. Hour number two.

The Matt Tom is with a nice... With a game against Chicago. Kyle Tucker should be warmly received, I'm assuming? I guess so. Why would you, nobody would boo him? Oh, he'll probably some jackasses a boo him. You kidding me? By the way, crowds for this series with the Phillies.

They were excellent. That place looked, somebody brought it up, I don't know who it was, it came on my four-you-tap. Somebody brought it up on Twitter like, this looked like a better day game crowd that was during the playoffs. 37,130 yesterday. It looked full for a Thursday afternoon against the Phillies. What were they giving away? Anything? Yeah, that's the exact the exact thing I said.

I didn't look. I don't know if there was a giveaway, but normally Thursday day games are they doing big giveaways? Well, no, I got some tickets for a friend of mine, and he said there were lots of school buses, so I think the daycare crowd helped out. Oh, okay. Gotcha, dropping the kids off, literally. Yeah, let me tell you something. Oh, gosh. Have I ever told you my story about my daycare experience during the summertime?

When you were in daycare? Yeah. Not like last year. I'm talking about when I was like six. That's why they got that restraining order. So in 1979, I moved to Houston with my mom and my dad. And I went to a daycare where my mom was getting her job for her teaching job. Yes.

And we went to some activity. And all of us on the bus, not every one of us, but probably of the 30 kids on the bus, apparently we didn't act very well. Okay. So the teacher as a punishment took three kids in which they thought they liked that behaved well and took them to a U-todom, which is a convenience store at the time, and got them drinks. And brought them on the bus and those three kids had a drink while the rest of us sat in the hot heat of the bus while they weren't inside the convenience store. So you were one of the bad kids? I don't think I was.

It seems like you were. But I was guilty by association. Oh, okay. You were framed. It's a frame job. I got home and my mom said how the field trip go and I told her what happened and she called the daycare. And apparently a lot of other parents called the daycare and said the exact same thing. They closed the daycare down.

Are you serious? For child abuse. Is your mom's name Karen? No. No, it was. I'm on mass son of this one. No. They get mad at that.

That's like really bad. It's crazy you say that. You can't do that. Because my brother was indebted. daycare when I was a kid and I might have been in the same daycare and something happened there and they shut it down and then my mom was on TV. The local news interviewed my mom. She was on 13. I don't remember. You'd have to ask the story for her because I was like four years old. I don't remember the story. She was on TV because they shut down the daycare that they were bringing us to.

Thanks, mom and dad. Yeah, shut it down. How many daycares are getting shut down around here? Well, I mean, I again, I don't know that game at all, but I'm going to assume. that you can't take three of the children and get them something to drink in hot June-July temperatures in Houston and you leave their 27 on a hot bus no air conditioning, no water, no drinks? That's crazy. So you snitch on the daycare

and they got shut down. That's awesome. I'm going to tell you, seven-year-olds are allowed to snitch especially about something like that. That's all they do. That's all a seven-year-old does. Who doesn't snitch it a seven-year-old? 53 are a little different. So, yeah. That's one of my earliest Houston stories that I remember.

member is being in southwest Houston. That was when I was living in the A Leaf. I got to ask my mom was going down. I was living on Spice Lane. I forgot what's going down that daycare. Shout on on Spice Lane. But we recorded it on like a VHS because my mom was going to be on TV. Oh,

Ross's mom. Love her. Her name is Karen. I wasn't going to bring that up. I was going to send it for you to say, bring it up. 713-212-5-790. Steve is sincerely on the Matt Thomas show. Ross, Steve, good morning to you.

Good morning, Matt. Hi. I just wanted to talk about some of the people that were writing in and saying fire everybody, you know, with the Astros. I mean, yeah, and, you know, and with the Houston teams, you know, the Texans, yeah, they had a yes, me and coach for a few years, but they were way past all that. The people need to be a little more patient when they talk about our sports teams, you know, just because they, okay, yeah, they didn't make a business decision and traded Kyle Tucker. Yeah, that was a hard blow. But right now, with what came out of it, I mean, it's like Alex Who on third base.

You know, I mean, I forgot about him already. They gave a great offer. He didn't take it. And he didn't want to be here. But all I've got to say for those guys that are writing in and they're losing their mind real quick on some of this, shut your bum ass up. A little bit early, but I'm doing it anyway.

You know what? It's always a good time to tell people that. Thank you, Steve. I feel like we get as many of those almost on Friday as we do on Wednesday. Yeah. Yeah. And then you have to apologize if you meet. Let me tell you something. If you've ever tweeted hashtag fire Joe Espada, you should come in and apologize today. 713-212-5-7-90. And you know what? We will not only let you cleanse yourself of that, we will give you your props and say thank you for doing that because there are very few people. If I went,

again, I just went to Twitter and put in the hashtag Fire Joe Spada. I went to one of those persons' websites and now their last 20 tweets are nothing but. great things about the Astros in first place and man, we're on fire and we just finish off the sweep of the Phillies. So funny. The craziest thing to me is that people don't learn. A lot of people who are on Astros Twitter, sure, they join in 2017, but that's still eight years of watching baseball.

They don't learn about the ebbs and flows. They're still like this series. And you got to trust us when we tell you, it's a long, long marathon. Yes. But nobody did trust. 10th ending calls in the first month of the season fire quit centron Miller Jones you all just inventing coaches of fire

Snicker yeah coaches that aren't even here Jack Bagwell needs to be fired what Dana Brown's ineptic Kent doesn't know what he's doing now I'll say this In fairness At some point letting somebody go is going to hurt That's why I'm keeping a very close tab on this Hunter Brown

slash Jeremy Payne's a choice No, this is two, three years away Can I keep a tab at all? Yeah, sure. Not not close. Not worried about it. Okay. Jeremy Payne is here.

For the foreseeable future. Yes. Is he 28 or 29 free agent? This year, next year. He'll be a free agent in 28. 29 is Hunter Brown, I think. I think so. Okay.

Yeah. All right. It's a long year. Long ways down the road. Need not fret. I'm not going to. I refuse to fret. I'm fretless.

Oh, I'm just preparing. I'm prepared, Matt. I'm prepared that one of those guys are going to be here. It's fine. And so the Astros hope that Bryce Matthews or whomever else is in the Astros pitching staff can come through and replace the guy that's going to be probably a top three finalist for Siong this year. Ryan Gusto is ready to take over for Hunter Brown.

About time, you started having some positive comments about Ryan Gusto. There we go. There we go. You hear that, Jonathan? I mean, how long it take him? Two months of five something nice about Ryan Gusto? A long two months too. Yeah, it's five ERA. He's doing great.

Got you win last time out. You'll have six innings of five run ball. Sup. Got a win. So, yo. Granted, the Astros' offense helped. I guess they did.

1113. On Sports Talk, 790. 7.13, 2.12. 5.790. The Cubs have a three game leading the central. The Astros lead in the West. Six and a half games. How good is that?

All right. We got to tell you what's going on with the Utah Jazz. And we don't know one to bring that up. on the show. But I find this potential saga very interesting. Okay. I'm intrigued. Two friends of the show, Stephanie and Grace sent me notes.

It said that there was no giveaway at the Astros game yesterday. You said, what was the crowd? 31,000? 37,000? 37,000? On a day game Thursday? They bring their radios by any chance? I hope so.

We love that you listen to games and watch them at the same time. It's very possible do that. 37,000 for a day game? Okay, so any of you that were at the game yesterday, how many thousands of buses were there, like the yellow buses?

Not like, you know, like the charter buses. Okay. You know, good for the Astros. Good for them. Good for Jimmy Crane, yeah. If I was, again, if I was in charge of marketing, I would give away something 81 times a year.

Because I get, my thought is this. Okay. Giveaway something that costs you three or four dollars to make and you're charging $39 a ticket. You're still net gaining a lot. I think there is a line to toe. First of all, you're not doing it when like the Yankees coming to town or a big brand or something. But see, I think that makes it look bad if you do it like that. They don't care.

They do dynamic pricing and they don't do giveaways with the Yankees or Rangers come to town. That's just me. You come to a game, you're going to get something in return. I guess there is a point of where people get used to or comfortable to things to where you want it to give away to be special and to have a pop. Yeah, and I feel like you weed out the actual watchers and actual fans that way, too. It's like if something's on sale all the time, it's less likely to be bought. Okay, so they just put stuff on sale like 75% of the time. This is an open, honest question then.

I don't know. Of the 81 games, there's a marketing term for it, a camera box. How many games are giveaways? I don't. Would you say 40? I bet it's more than that. I mean, we could look up the Astros promotional schedule. Yeah, go look it up.

All right. Well, we got this coming up in a few minutes. It's generally weekends for sure. and then two Hello Kitty nights. They want 81 Hello Kitty nights. Place goes nuts for Hello Kitty. My girl got so mad at me when she realized I didn't get tickets for the Hello Kitty game. I have one of the little Hello Kitty cats.

Do you want it? I was going to give it to my niece. I was coming up. Oh, wait, if you're going to your niece, though, it was different. I was going to, but then my mom got two of them for them. So I have an actual one. It's for you. Y'all hear this, right?

Yeah. You got it, bro. Just got to remember to bring it. I got to remember. I can tell you. Yeah, tell me because I'm very forgetful. Do you order the daytimeer yet? I did.

Oh, did you really? Ships today. Okay. Can I buy you another one when I get my new one? No. I'm going to buy you an 18 month. You're going to give me one of those big ones. It's like the size of a giant check from.

I told you I would video. Price is right. I would video call you from Ruffus Rouse. Yeah. I want a nice leather one. That's, I wasn't going to, I don't even get my. Look at mine. I don't even have an old.

No, I want Italian leather. Real quick. What's a daytimeer? Show them. It's like a calendar. Look. Look at the screen. Matt puts a bunch of stuff.

Oh, that's nice. Yeah, they're very nice, very convenient. Nowadays everybody uses Google calendar. But I'm like, Matt, we're old school. No, yeah, that's, yeah. Because here's the thing. With this thing, I can look at my entire month as compared to looking. If I'm on my phone, I can't look at my entire month.

All right. Let me get to this Ace Bailey thing. Okay. So Ace Bailey is the fifth pick of the NBA draft was by the Utah. jazz. And I don't if you guys know about this, but he was a young man that did not go to

any pre-draft workouts for any team. He was at the combine. He obviously had his college day. He played at Rutgers, right? Was he the second Rutgers player, I think is the top five? Yes. Okay. But he... Dylan Harper?

Somebody Harper. Ron Harper. Ron Harper. Ron Harper, Sonia. So he is, he might have been a diva coming out of birth. What are your name is Ace? Clearly. God, I think you're pretty cool. So,

he made it known through circles. There was only a handful of teams he really wanted to play for. Now, that list has not been identified, but they're presuming it's probably some of the Eastern teams. Not necessarily the championship teams, but just teams in the East Coast that there were a lot of the smaller market teams he didn't want to go to. Danny Aange runs the Utah,

jazz organization from a front office perspective. And he's like, I don't care. We think you're a special basketball player. If we're the Utah Jazz and we're going to be good, we have to use our draft. We can't, we don't normally get a lot of freedoms to come here. We got to use our draft. And once you get here, go out of Mr. Mitchell. You'll have a good time.

You'll win a lot of games. And then you'll eventually get unhappy and get forced to be traded. You know, we're in Cleveland. So he gets drafted and he's trying to say all the right things. but he's just not saying all the right things basically saying it wasn't an indictment against Utah was an indictment against everybody everybody knew where I was

and what I could do there was no sense of me going through all these things usually the day after a draft pick is announced they fly to that city that night and go and they get in the private teams playing and they go sleep well and they do a couple of things and PR yeah well the Utah Jazz also had

another first round pick by the name of Walter Clayton Jr. Walter Clayton Jr. Ross gets drafted, and he loves being a Utah Jazz. He loves being a first-run NBA draft pick. Gets on the plane, goes to Utah, and is ready to have a press conference. Guess who's not ready to have a press conference? Ace Bailey. Uh-oh. He apparently has had minimal if no contact after the decision was made of the Utah Jazz drafted him. How do you do that? The GM calls you? So Danny A. Danny A.m. is running things, right? But he's, is he the president or is he the GM or whatever he is. You get called

from Danny Age. You're like, man, I'm good. You're leaving Danny Age on red? Yeah. That's crazy. So the Utah Jazz have announced that we're not changing who we are. They're telling Win Horse, they're telling Shams. We drafted him for a reason. We're not going to acquiesce.

We're not going to, you know, because he's mad he got signed with Utah. He's going to be Utah Jazz, man. We're going to make sure that happens. There is a Monday press conference scheduled to meet the two first round draft picks. And the big question is going to be, will Ace Bailey be there? If Ace decides he does not want to play for the Utah Jazz, he is well within his right to do that.

He has to sit out an entire season. That's an entire season of money he would not be making as a number five draft pick. That's really, really, really, really Ross, great money for a rookie first round player. I mean, first of all, if you're a first round pick, you're making good money, but it's a slotting scale. Cooper Fly is going to make the most. the two guy, the three, four. So he's number five. So that's still going to be good money.

If he decides he doesn't want to play for the Utah Jazz, which is well than he cannot play for any other team this year unless the Jazz trade him. And the Jazz has said, we ain't training him. His only other option would be to set out this entire season and then do one of two things. Sign as a free agent or go back in the draft. I don't know who this kid is,

but if I'm a Utah Jazz fan, I hate this vibe. And look, this is not a, I've never heard of this recently. It happens in the NFL occasionally. I don't want to this, you know, this player to go to this point. Elon Manning being the greatest example of that.

But is this the next generation of our, of our basketball players? Or do you think this is a one-off? Yeah, I mean, it's one guy out of the whole draft did it, right? Right. And also it's Utah. As far as the least desirable places for, people, for NBA players to want to go.

I think they're on the short list. Oh, I think it's number one. Okay. Having lived, though, I can tell you. It's probably number one. But the reality is this. You don't have to live in that city all year long. No. Number two, you're the number five draft pick. If you get redrafted next year, let's say you go 22.

Or you don't even get draft in the first round. Think about the millions of dollars you are leaving on the table because, again, it's a sliding scale. Yeah, I'm trying to see how much the number five pick. I actually can't believe. The NBA rookie skill. I think he'll show up eventually. There's so many other athletes deserving of the spot.

You're not even bringing up how many athletes at home that versed him or whatever didn't get a chance or didn't get a pick that are sitting there screaming at the top of their lungs. Like, are you serious right now? Number five overall pick. That's a four-year contract, $41.2 million. So let's do this. Let's say he skips out and gets redrafted next year in the 23rd selection.

Do you think he would go down? I don't know. I'm just guessing. Okay. What does the 23rd pit get? 23rd pick gets $15 million. So it's going to cost him because he doesn't want to play in Utah. If he was a good draft to 23rd,

it could cost him $26 plus million. Life lessons learned. We'll see what happens. For somewhere, for some dude who doesn't, now look, Salt Lake is not advantageous for African-American athletes. It's just the reality of it. But remember, again, you get there in October.

If you leave in April, you can go spend any time you want to anywhere else you want to. And if you're there in June, that means your team is really damn good, right? You're playing for NBA finals. Yeah. I think this is a terrible, terrible mistake for this young man. We hadn't done anything yet. but the but we have we don't talk about these stories very often now i do believe he'll be there monday i think so too but why are you doing this that'd be interesting because especially now i mean

players have more power he now i know i don't know how much he was making at ruckers but the reason they had like the somebody at ruckers is shell out a bunch of cash they've been winning a bunch of recruits he had offers when he left high school from ohio state oregon and texas and he shuns all of them to go to Rutgers. I believe because there's NIL money a lot, for whatever reason, a bunch of NIL money is popping up at Ruckers. Which is odd,

because they weren't very good. Tony Soprano. I don't know who's doing it. You know where Rectar's is? Piscata, no. Piscataway. Piscataway. That sounds like a perfect name.

Piscataway, New Jersey. Piscataway. My daughter was being recruited by Rikers. Okay. She didn't get any of that big Ruckers cash? No, we're hoping the Rhode Island cash is good. All right. But I'm not looking forward to it. If it happens, it happens.

I told you, didn't you say there was something I could donate to? Yeah, you can. I'm going to do it. You're going to do it? If I get my bonus. I like that. If I don't, that's so well. This is very intriguing to me that a first round pick, a number five overall selection,

with guaranteed super really great money for a fifth pick, is basically saying, I want to choose where I want to go. And if I'm on happy where I get to go, not going to play. In theory, it could cost him tens of millions of dollars. I mean, I think the draft next year is supposed to be pretty good. Excellent. A pretty deep draft. Yeah. Jonathan Giovanni was on last night talking about how low the draft is for next year. Yeah, he going to sign. He'll be all right. I think you're right.

All right. Time for you to apologize. And Lord knows, Ross, you got a lot of apologizing. You know what? I actually, I keep a Google Doc. Let me see if I wrote anything down that I need to apologize to you about this week. All right. If you want to say sorry for anything you've done wrong or said wrong. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. It's one of our favorite times the week because we get to cleanse. We get to say we're sorry for things that we've sort of said or done.

And your chance to apologize is next. With Ross. 12 H-town. And welcome the third hour. The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Bert Reynolds is dead. Anne Hage is dead.

These are all people that have been S&L Perry. I think French Stewart is alive. That's true. Fred Stewart is alive. And it was a deep pull just for me and you. That was a very deep pull. Wait, what? What's fear of armadillos?

That's what you have. Armadillo phobia. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Is it because they roll? I'm actually really... Because they just exist. They don't touch them.

They give you leprosium. going to touch them. You're getting the Trevor's girls' DMs? I'm not in her DMs. I've never DM'd her once. Liking all of her photos. I didn't like any of her photos. I went and looked through my likes. So it was a case of mistake and identification.

No, it must have been a story or something. I don't know. The finger must have slipped. The crescendo, the big chorus at the end is really powerful. We'll keep it up. And gets you going? 10.03. Ridersmith. Ridersmith keeps you up.

And then you go fine. You make a lot of money. money, you go find a trophy wife who's younger and, well, older. No, you find a younger wife and you... Kevin Durant's old, though. Yeah, that's true. You go for a cougar, I guess? With a lot of money and experience?

And fakeses? You know, you suck. Yeah, I do. You know, you suck. You know, Frank, you suck. You don't even, you don't even listen. You don't even listen when I'm talking. I said Jalen Green. He didn't even, he scored single digits in four games.

Frank, I value you, my friend. We are, we are friends of the end. He was stealing something and was getting chased by the police. Yeah. And said, hey, that ice rink looks good. Looks like a soft landing spot. He thought it was pillowy.

I mean, wouldn't you want to go? He thought it was snow. Wouldn't you want to run to the playland at the gallery? Like landing where the... No, you'd want to run to the exit, Matt. Everybody, get ready for the final two hours of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. So I got an email and it said, Matt, I'm sorry for being so hard. And I was like, I can't read the rest of this.

And then I realized it was signed the ice in the galorea. Hmm. Hmm. All right. Thank you to that listener. Yeah. For listening. Thank you to the ice in the gallery that had time to send us an email.

No. They broke that poor chap's legs. We've had a couple of weird, like, we had the woman in the freeway yesterday. We got the ice guy in the Galleria. And that dude he was signed. There's never a dull moment in Houston, Texas. And then the machete attack in Magnolia? Yeah, Magnolia.

Yeah, the Magnolia machete attack. That's right to it though If there's a way to go down in life That's not going to be it I'd rather not die via machete I'm going just My favorite on the board is Death by Natural Causes

In My Sleep Okay We'll see Lease in the list Being hit by a tree We'll see Wait That wasn't a thread

It's like Okay I mean if you got it We got odds up on the board Oh, you know, I didn't want to have this conversation. It flips me out. Man, everyone's going to die. I know this.

1208 Sports Talk 7.90. Time now for the news at noon. Oh, yeah. Every day at 12 o'clock or thereabouts. We give you the main headlines the day in sports. And with that, here is the Garrett Crochet of Sports. That was the first name I saw on the list there. Okay.

Here's Ross. Yes, Matt. How about your swinging stroves? Okay, maybe they're swinging their arms. arms and pitching more than they're swinging their bats. 2-2. And Smith lines in. Over the leap of the shortstop turner in the left.

Around third parade is, and he will score without a throw. Cam Smith pumped up at first base. Astros lead at 2 to 1. He has come up with some big hits here at Diken Park and does it again right there to give the Astros a lead here in the eighth inning. Two hits for Cam Smith yesterday. Philly's scoring one run in three games. How about you score five runs in a three game series and you sweep the series?

Impressive stuff for the Houston Astros. Cam Smith, as I said, with two hits. Matt, average up to 271. OPS up to 744. And how's that right field play? Right field play has been excellent. He's been bumped up into the lineup to the five spot, deservingly ahead of Christian Walker and Yarner Diaz,

and he's responding well. And the Astros have the Cubs in town this weekend for a three-game set, where Ryan Presley and Kyle Tucker will receive a warm welcome, I imagine, from big crowds this weekend, I will predict, because A, the Cubs are a heritage brand. Yep. B, there's some good giveaways, I think. Yep.

And C, it's a weekend summer series. And there'll be a lot of Cub fans. I'm telling you, there's going to be Cub Nation. I said, that was the first thing I said. I know, I'm saying, but I'm backing you up. Cub Nation will be there in full force. Mm-hmm. What are they call themselves?

Is it just Cub Nation? I don't know. I made that up. I think it's just going to be... Riggly Villers? Well, probably... Riggly villagers? We've been 25 years away from them being on WGN every night.

I don't know who they are. I used to watch them all summer and the Braves. Maybe just generations of fans that were just Cub fans because mom and dad were Cub's fans. I don't know. When the Astros were out of the playoffs, I would, as a kid, don't hate on me. I would root for the Braves just because I watched them so much.

Oh, I spent my summers watching the Cubs and Braves. Yeah, exactly. I didn't have HSCs, so I didn't get to see all the Astro games. The only Astro games is a kid I saw with road games. The Cubbies? They called them the Cubbies? Yes. What?

The Cubs? This is not breaking news. No, but I'm just like, I understand. The Astros. I got some more for you here, Jonathan. You ready? Yankees? The Yanks.

The Red Sox, the Bow Sox. The Bulls? The Phillies, the Phil's. Mm-hmm. The athletics, the A's. Celtics, C's, Mariners, M's. Mm-hmm.

What else? Steelers, the Steelies? No. The Steely dance? No, they don't call them a steel dance. Oh. That was a little bit. You tried one too first.

Now, yeah, I confused them. Continue the news at noon, please. The Twinnies? Well, they actually call them the... I think I can say Twinks, right? Twinkies? Well, it has a certain kind of... It's not great.

I've never, someone won't do it again, but. Twinkies? No. Okay. Let's move on. Happy Pride Month, everyone. Moving on on the news at noon.

Oh, hold on, Diamondbacks, D-backs, Pod Race Pods, according to Tim Bond Temps and Jonathan Gavoni, or Giovoni,

whatever you say. Ace Bailey, of course, who so far has not reported to the Utah Jazz, there was a team in the top five who was told by Ace Bailey's reps to not pick him. Bailey, though, after being drafted by the Jazz,

said, quote, I can control what I can control. They feel how they feel. But my team and me focusing on basketball and them doing what they're doing, so it happens. Whatever that means. Very cryptic for a number five pick. Who should be happy to be in the top five of a draft. 41. What did we say? 41.2 Millie?

Yeah. Woo! That's his first. First contract. That's of the fifth year option is picked up. Yeah. Yeah. And most teams pick up the fifth year unless you're just a complete bust. Okay.

I think it might be four years for a five, I don't know. But is fifth year option NFL or is fifth year option in the NBA? I thought it was first, fifth year option for all first round picks. The contract was on spot track was four years, but I don't know. Could be honest. Still great money. Either way, he's doing all right. Hey, the money goes further in Utah, right?

But they like you. Then it wouldn't, L.A. I'm looking, we can get into a deep dive on Utah. Okay. Because I can give you a personal experience about Utah having lived there for two years, two and a half years. Mm-hmm. The news and don'ts. I'm good.

Way more cosmopolitan today than it was when I lived there. That's good. They still have near beer, right? It's getting better. They don't have memberships anymore. And the women are ridiculously attractive. I mean, beautiful. Stepford wives.

Come see, Kansaw. And that's your news at noon. Thank you very much. By the way, there are rumors about Cam Whitmore potentially being traded. For what? I don't know. But that's the name that has been brought up by many an NBA expert. Here's the thing.

You are going to have to limit it play in the first two years of his career, right? Fair to say? It was the 20th pick to begin with. So maybe the reputation wasn't spectacular coming out. Yes. But he slid in the draft. Yeah. So I'd be curious what you'd get in return.

I'd be very curious. Could you even get a late first? A couple seconds? I don't think you'd get a first. But I think if Camette Ward winds up getting Trey, which I don't know if it's the case. He's going to go score points. Now, is he going to defend? Is he going to, I mean, obviously the same thing for the rockets.

If the Rockets love him and say, hey, we've made some moves, we got an opportunity for you to come in and play 15, 20 minutes a game. He score 15 points. I'm all for that. I'm not opposed to that. If they've had their eyes on him and he's been around the organization for multiple years and they trade him away for a couple seconds or whatever, then clearly they don't think the stock is high or maybe he needs a change of scenery. Yeah. Same thing with Jalen Green. All right.

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You know what you ought to do is you ought to write the questions and then read them and then see if I could try to help people out. Because if there's anybody in this marketplace that knows the DJ screw, it's me. That's true. You're such a screwhead, Matt. That what they call the fans of his? Yeah. You got all the screw tapes from back in the day? I do. It are on cassettes.

Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah, they were on cassettes, actually. See, I told you. Look at this guy. They call me the screwmaster. 713-21-25790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90.

Let's brag on the local 911 when we come back. Let's do that. And we have breaking news here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. That's one. That's all you get. Source is telling Shams Sharani, ESPN, that Jay-Shon-Tate, Aaron Hawley, and Jeff Green will all be getting new contracts to play for the Rockets next season.

Oh, that's good. Feels about one sounder, right, for those three? Hmm. I mean, that's, in theory, 13, 14, 15 on the roster. Maybe Aaron Halleys a little bit up, depending on if he backs up and plays some point guard minutes. If amend doesn't shift over there? Yeah. It's good to have all those guys.

I mean, those would be, in theory, your last three guys. Pretty much. that's okay injuries happen yeah welcome back uncle Jeff they're like your Bennett Sousas of your world you know

Benisus has been a productive part of the team good yeah more than Nick Hernandez was Seth Martinez go man I could be doing this where is Seth Martinez who is that was a sacrificial lamb I was a Ryan Gusto before Ryan Gusto before Ryan Gusto became a Ryan Gusto

oh he's on the Marlins who just finished off sweeping the Giants in San Francisco he has not pitched at the major league level for them. That's fine. What are you going to do? All right, it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We are very happy to tell you that the Astros did pick up

another victory yesterday. Brian and Bray, you opened the year at O'N3 and 3 is now 3 and 3 on the season. His Ernie is 1.72. Finished up the game last night. He was throwing some nasty stuff. Janair Diaz, America's catcher. Good, the single RVI. Is he America's catcher? I mean, at

least for our squad he is. Okay, he's the Astros catcher. Of the future. Well, he's not the present. He's like, what is he? He's not young anymore. He's like 26. Yeah, I keep waiting for that first base transition. I thought maybe, you know,

obviously I thought Christian Walker would slow that down. Maybe he's not. Yeah, I don't know if they're slow down at this point. Jake Myers, again, was your fourth place hitter. What's wrong with that? I think he's third on the team in OPS, right? Yeah, 762 is third highest behind. Pena, 871 and Paretas at 820.

Jose Al Tuve, do we have to talk about? He was 0 for 12 and then he had a broken bat single, so at least he broke up his 0 for 12. Yeah, did strike out twice yesterday. 738 OPS in the C. We're halfway through the year. He has had some bad batted ball luck, folks. Mm-hmm.

So he can improve. Mm-hmm. I mean, look, I think Jose Al-Tube, if this team is going to make a deep postseason run, if they do, presuming to get to the postseason, you'll have be a part of it. You mean your top four have got to be whoever that top four is, Pena, Paredes, Al-Tubane, whoever that fourth person is.

Could be Jake, could be Yordon. Maybe it could be Christian Walker if he gets a second half. No, Yordon has to be a factor if this team's going anywhere in the playoffs. God, see, as much as I want to agree with you, they're doing this without him. It's not going to keep happening. No, yeah, I mean, look. They're going to regress. I understand.

They could, if everybody comes back, they could have a lucky, first half in a second half where they're actually just really good. Because quite frankly, I think there's been a little bit of luck. You especially you look at one run ball games. I think they're what, 16 and 7? In one run ball games? Something like that? Also a factor of having a good ball. You have a good bullpen, you're going to win

a lot of one run games. Yeah, I don't think that necessarily has to regress the mean. I think that's a byproduct of what has been your strength. It could, but history has shown, even regardless of bullpen strength. Things tend to even out, but sometimes they don't over a full season. It happened to the Mariners a couple years. And Brian King has been a little leaky as

of late. Would you be fair in saying that? I would also say I don't think that Hater and Abrey are going to have under two ERAs all season. It could happen. But we'll see. Relievers, especially towards, especially high usage relievers.

Well, we're very happy at this point that Brian and Bray, his arm is not falling off. Yeah, they've been great. What's he got? 37 games? At least he's well under half. It feels like it's a lot less than he was at this point a year ago. I think he was 78 last year. I'll look it up. And I think he's at 37. this year. He, 78 last year, yeah, 37 this year. So at least he's under, he's pacing well under half the games, which is good.

By the way, the Astros with the game yesterday played 80, have to play 81 with 81 left to go. 48 and 33, that would put them if you're on-paced guy at 96. On-pace is fine when you're halfway through the season. I'm okay with on-paced guy. On-paced guy, like two games in? And what was Vegas is over under beginning of the year? 87? 6 or 7 and a half. Do you think I pegged them for 88, personally?

We have to go back and look at our season prediction. You know what? Now halfway through the season wouldn't be the worst thing to check those out. Can you still bet on those at this point? Or is it too late? Futures? Are the totals? No, it'd be adjusted.

Okay. Or here we go. 790 hosts make their 2025 predictions on the Chris Gordy blog. And? Matt Thomas picked for the home run leader for the Astros. Your Naird is. You remember.

Astros win total you had? Don't remember. 88. Really? Okay. A.O.S. Champ? Astros. Do you remember your World Series pick?

Yes. Go ahead. Orioles? Yes. Those birds are dead. Dodgers are National League? Dodgers are. Correct.

I had Home Run Leader Yordon. Keep it simple. Man, he's been hurt. I also had 88 wins. Astros Oh, this is poorly copied and pasted, but that's okay. At Astros as the AOS

champion. I also, we did the same thing. Did he just copy and paste ours? This actually makes me angry. At Dodgers Orioles as well. Because the Orioles had won back-to-back playoff appearances. One of those two years, he had won 100 games. J.K. Allen had 84 wins for the

Astros. Said J.K. What a hater. Mm-mm. Hey, the way they were hitting, it seems like it was going to happen. Chris Gordy had as the Asheros home run leader, Christian Walker. Ooh, well, these are, any other, who was the best of the group, so on that group? Everyone did Yordon?

You went off chalk with Yiner. Jonathan Allen had Jeremy Pena. But it's Issaq Paredes right now. He's close, though. And the most wins anybody had was Gordy, he had them at 90. So he's feeling pretty good about himself But everybody was mid-A, 89 to 90, 88, 8, 8, 89, 90.

And when we made those numbers, that was not, again, that was coming off of losing Bregman, Tucker. Losing Tucker and having probably, we made those predictions at least one guy on the Tommy John list? We were, yeah, that's true. Two guys, yeah, two guys on the Tommy John, having Tommy John, Spencer Erigetti's missed time.

We didn't know what Cam Smith was going to be. We thought he'd be good. And we didn't know who 60% of the bullpen was going to be. We were like, oh, he's just getting thrown. in the right field. Turns out he's just a freaking phenom because he's like one of the best right fielders in baseball. And

he's doing well at the plate. I don't think they were stupid picks. No. And remember again, we hopefully knock on one that won't happen, but there could be, are the Astros if I even put this in existence people get mad at me. I was going to say, there's a chance like every other baseball team,

but there could be a little slumpage in the second half. There could be a streak of losing seven to ten or something like that. Look, I'm just going to put out there. I'm just going to say it. Yeah, the one run ball games, look. It can sustain for a season, but generally, it can even out as well. Don't get mad at me. So, don't get mad. So, don't get mad. So. Don't get mad. So. 1230, Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We are an hour away from

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We can, but no. Unless you want to talk about Maasai Ujiri being out for the If we went to a bar right now. Oh, geez. I'm trying to turn this video off. God. It's my fault. I'm going to take your phone away from you. You should.

You should. You should. Here, look, we'll put them in the corner. But, I mean, I'm scrolling. I wasn't like a... Stop. I saw you in the DMs. That was not in the DMs.

Oh, so it wasn't Ross. It was used whole time. I'm just kidding. By the way, a friend of the show, Hans, listening to us in Denver. Jonathan says a few more for you. The Cardinals are known as the Redbirds when you hear that. Yes. Angels are the Halos.

Mm-hmm. That's pretty cool. The Nationals of the Nats. The Brewers are the Brewers. And the Dodgers are the Seasuckers. Oh, okay. I didn't realize that. Whoa.

I didn't realize they read the name. They had a nickname. The Pirates are the Bucks. The Bucaneers, the Buconers, the Buccoes. Oh, the White Sox are the Pale Hose. See, that's correct. Don't use that one. That's so, it's really old.

The Reds are the Redleg? The Cincinnati Red Lags versus the pale host Tonight at Cabissy Park Now that's baseball You know, we need the crackling sound of old-timey music behind you when you do that What are the ones we need to let you know on

And football Oh, the Giants The Giants of the G-Men, that's the New York Giants The Dodgers are the trolley Dodgers Buccaneers, Bucks I just said that Are you dead? Okay, I love this. On your phone and zoned out

What is this? Old time music. Oh, yes. Thank you. We're all getting set it again for a nice game at Crosley Field. Where's Crosley Field? Cincinnati. Yeah, what's up?

That's where the first night game was. What's up? Yeah. You're trying to get me, Matt. You're making a fool of yourself. This one brought to you by Dr. Stanchman's Wonderpop. It kills what else you. Dr. Stonzman's Wonderpop.

That's it. I thought we were done. You want to keep going? Well, I thought you were going to give us some play-by-play of something. Oh, I don't know. I don't remember the 1926 Reds. I thought because he stopped. All right.

Y'all did okay. That was good. Jonathan, I always feel like you can add music of the show just for ambiance to accent the point. Yeah, that was perfect. That made me feel American right there. That made me a problem. That was good.

We're getting there. It's only taking you a few months to get the hang of the show. We appreciate that. Old time of music. Good times. Can I just take it. this is staying with old times I watched a baseball movie that was old time this past weekend

and I couldn't turn it off a league of their own I really really enjoyed a league of their own just like Gina Davis Gina Davis yes A younger Madonna yes

before she started looking at her gargoyle Rosie O'Donnell No um Gina Dana Davis's sister in the movie. She was okay. Okay?

I don't remember. I know who you're talking about. I don't remember her name. What was her name? I forgot. It doesn't matter. What else in that? Tom Hanks?

Tom Hanks? Great. Cameo for John Lovitz was good in there as well. Oh, Lori Petter? Petty. Lori Petty. What did I say? Petter.

Petty. I mean, if you want to. With consent. Yeah. What is she doing these days? What is Lori? Petty doing now? I don't know. She's a painter.

Oh, yeah, I remember Lori Petty. She's 61 years old. How old Gina Davis right now? Just look at it. I'll be your personal Googler here. Jeez. Hold on. People ask me out questions all the time. I try to give them answers. That's true. She is 69. Gina Davis. Gina Davis is 69 years old. Let that sink in for a second. Do you remember the movie star she was married to? Okay, maybe not a star.

I'd say pretty famous. Beelis star. That's really a wide net you throw in there. A bit of centric. He was in multiple major blockbuster movies, not as the lead, but in the 90s he had a huge run of being like secondary character in massive blockbusters. Give it up. Who is it? Jeff Goldblum. Oh, I would call him an A-lister for a short term.

Okay. But yeah, Jurassic Park. The Fly. Yeah. Gina Davis's first role ever saw her in. You ready for this? No. She was an actress in the movie Tootsie.

She was? Yes. She was very young back then, obviously. She was April page in 1982. I haven't. And she had a scene where she was wearing nothing but lingerie and she looked fantastic. Who's this? Gina Davis.

Google Gina Davis and Tutsi and you'll thank me later. Peak Gina Davis was of course Long Kissed Good Night. Do you ever see that one? No, I have not. It's a good one. I thought she was fantastic in the league of their own. Yes, she was.

I'd put that in my top five baseball movies. What do you think about that? That's fair, I think. Top five, no particular order. Here we go. Quickly. To me, one, two, whatever order you want, Bull Durham Major League.

Correct, correct. League of their own three. Well, actually, not like three, but I'm talking top five, no order. Wait, I'm sorry, I forgot. Sandlot's won, and then it's Bull Durham and Major League. Major League, Bull Durham. What's the one with Robert Redford? Oh, the natural.

The natural. And I'm going to probably go with... Rookie of the year. For the love of the game? I'm going rookie of the year. Who rookie the year? Yeah. Don't hate.

How about Little Big League? Bad News Bears? Oh, bad news bear. That's OG. Moneyball? Nope. I liked Moneyball, but that's a little overrated? A little over,

and they, an art of Hal who's, one of my favorite all-time Astros was horribly miscast in that movie. Philip Seymour Hoffman is one of the all-time great. The movie Moneyball, yeah. Oh, I love that movie.

I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know. It's all right. It's fair. But Philip Seymour Hoffman. The book is a very easy read if you want to do my ball. Terrible.

that. Okay. There you go. Philip Seymour Hoffman is one of the all-time great actors. But it wasn't Art Howe. Art Howe was mild-mannered, thin, easy-going, and that Philip Seymour Hoffman character was not Art Howe. That's not the way Billy Bean tells it.

I know, as I'm saying, it wasn't a fair indication at all. Okay. So there you go. All right. Time for a quick break. Time for a very quick break. If you didn't enjoy that last time, you're going to get more of that coming up in the next hour and 17 minutes.

We forgot to mention Bench Warmer's starring Sean Salisbury. It was a football movie. Benchwarmers? Yeah. It was a baseball movie. Are you sure? With Sean Salisbury? Why would Sean Salisbury be in a baseball movie?

He was, he worked at the, at the athletic store. In the movie. I never saw it. Okay. Well, yeah. I never saw it, but you're trying to correct me. Well, I thought it was a football. movie. It's a baseball movie. But I thought that's

on benchworms? You're thinking of the longest yard. That's what I'm thinking of. Okay. Benchwarmers. Oh, I thought Bencham was a football movie too. Well, then say I'm the only one. Okay, well, you're both wrong. You saw it? Bits of it. Did you spend? What do you bit? Oh, wait, bits of it? Yeah, it was on Comedy Central or something when I watched like a third of it. Oh, baseball loving millionaire helps the reenept nerds former baseball team to compete in the meanest bullies in the Little League. Yeah, see, Sean Salisbury is Brad.

Brad. A little league coach and proprietor of a sporting good store who picks up on Richie and Clark. See, I watched that movie replayed on Comedy Central and it probably got Sean Salisbury some residuals. So you're basically putting money in Sean's piggy bank. Aren't we all? Yeah, I feel like we're doing a lot of that these days. All right, 1244 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross, 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-79. if you want to visit with us through Twitter,

it's at SportsMT, at SportsRV. And remember non-Forto stories coming up in 45 minutes, hell you are not one hour from now about the movie BenchWomers. You're writing it. I haven't ever seen it. I've only seen third. I guess I'm ahead of you. What was the movie that was about the,

oh, the replacements was the football movie that I was thinking about. Am I right about that? I don't believe Sean Salsbury was in that one. I thought he was in like every movie, sports movie in 1990s. It's starting Keanu Reeves as Shane Falco. It's a good movie.

Good pull by you. Oh, you might be thinking of the water boy. No, I definitely know the water boy. That was Henry Winkler and Adam Sandler. Mm-hmm. A good football movie. Oh, it was great. Yeah.

I loved the water boy. When I was a kid. Well, he used to call himself a water what? Engineer or something. Yeah. An aqua engineer or some sort? Aquatic, yeah, something like that. 1246 on 790.

1251, the Astros open of a three-game series tonight with the Chicago. Cubs will be on the air. I'll have the on deck show for you at 6 o'clock. First time for Kyle Tucker after being an astro for seven years. Now don's the Chicago Cub uniform. 287. 16 home runs.

49 runs batted in. And an OPS of 922. He's been hot hitting lately because that was the... He really hasn't had any huge slumps. I mean, there's been a little bit of down days, but it's not been a... When you have an OPS above 900, I mean,

you've had a pretty good season. Obviously, an excellent season. Yeah, he dipped below 900 for a few games, but since then, yeah, he's been heating up at the plate. Let me ask you this question. Would it be, would you feel a little better if he doesn't resign with the Cubs? What do you mean feel better? I've already feel great. You've got Cam Smith's whole career. Esook Paredes under control for multiple years. And, okay, Hayden was Nessie got her, but that's still a win. Well, you're no doubt correct in saying it's a win so far. But I think it would even be a little bit sweeter if he was assigned somewhere else. I don't even care.

Just because, again, you would then back up your assumption that he was going to go to the highest bidder and that there was no chance realistically he was ever going to be asked for that. He's already going to do that. But don't you like it when the other team also loses that you win in a trade and they lose? Wow. See, look at this pettiness, Matt. No, they're in the National League. I don't care.

Who cares? You already won the trade. You already won the trade. And if they signed good for the Chicago Cubs. But I don't know. Do the Chicago feel like they've won the – they lost the trade at this point? No.

Probably not because they were going all in to make the playoffs. And I guess the question with it is, do you have to have a trade? Does somebody have to win a trade? Can both sides lose a trade? Sometimes both teams win a trade. Yeah, it was – Yeah, Jed Hoyer, that's who it was.

I couldn't remember his name. Jed Hoyer is going all in because he's probably at the end of his rope. He's trying to make them. He's trying to make, he doesn't regret the trade either because he's got a 900, Kyle Tucker has a 900 OPS in there in first place. I will say this, and I'm just going to be brutally honest with you, if he goes somewhere else next year, there'll be an extra sense of, who, not only do we know this was coming,

but we thought we forecast it a year ahead of time and we got something in return. Yeah, I mean, you knew he wasn't going to stay here anyways. Nope. So they've already won the trade. Esoc Paredes is already great. Cam Smith, you've got his whole career ahead of him. And so far, I mean, he's got a 740 OPS and playing great right field. That's value now.

And this is basically his floor. So, yeah, you're doing great. Both teams, by the way, at 48 and 33, Brandon Walter will go for the local nine. No wins yet. Still looking for his first major league win. ERA in 3.80. Wow. He's a lefty, not a particularly hard thrower.

But you know what? Has stepped in when needed. He's been getting the job done As much as possible And the bullpen's been carrying the weight And then the timely good hitting has been happening as well And if he wins tonight He'll have more wins than Justin Verlender will have had

So far as a giant That's a shame By the way, only thing I care about the Kyle Tucker trade I mean a contract is if it's over Seven and a half years Hmm What do we have bet on that? Fast casual?

It was a fast casual lunch Can we upgrade it? You insisted we upgrade it to Habachi Grill Ooh because I like Abachi Grill. All right so seven years or lower, I win, eight or higher you win. How old's Kyle Tucker? 28, I think.

OPS is, OPS of 900. How old was Juan Soto when he got his deal? Oh, younger. I think he's like 26 now or something? Okay, I'm going to throw this at you, and I don't expect you have an answer because I don't have the answer for it. How many guys above 28 years of age? not named Albert Pujols

are getting 10-year deals. Well, I just need it for 7 and a half, number one. Okay, okay, so let me rephrase. How many 28-year-olds are getting eight years or higher? Max Fried just signed an eight-year deal with the Yankees. He's 30 or 31, I think. Okay, so there's your one.

There's one right there. I mean, good for you to get that out the top. But you can see him going with this. It's easier to give the mega deals when the kids are younger. Bobby Witt got his sub-28. Juan Soto got his super deal. Sub-28.

Mani Machado got his deal. He's a unicorn. He's a unicorn. I know. We can dismiss the unicorn that is show yuton if you like. I'll give you that. He got 10 years, but also, I mean, he's a freak of nature. Aaron Judge, also a freak of nature.

Got nine years. Well, was he, hell, he's 33 now. So I think he, I think he's around 30. Pretty close, right. How old was Corey Seeger when he got that 10-year deal from the Rangers? I don't know. So there had been a few guys. Yes.

So it's possible. I'm hoping in this case that he doesn't get it. So I get the habachi. Feeling good. Can I get extra shrimp? 900 OPS. Can I get whatever you want? You're paying.

No. What if you're paying? If I'm paying? It's terriac and chicken. No, we're putting you on the beef leave. By the way, the biggest scam... We're getting you on tripe. Biggest scam about habachi grill is the additional charge for the fried rice.

They charge you more? Yeah, oh, $4 more. They do. What? Yeah. What, instead of steamed? Yeah. You've got to get the fried.

The fresh fried on this habachi is delicious. It is delicious, but with so much food, I don't need that additional fries for four hours. Oh, you're going to do it? Well, you're paying for it. I'm just letting you know ahead. I'm getting the fried rice. All right, that's fair. No, that's the best.

The fresh off the habachi fried. Oh, it's got that extra. I don't even, I don't know how to explain it. Genesee qua? Jeanne se qua. C. A certain something. It's got that extra fried freshness.

They cracked the egg on there too? Oh. Good fried rice is good, but I can use a fried rice is just a meal. Let's have a big weekend, Kyle. Let's keep it going. Kyle, if you hurt their shin again this weekend. Oh, come on now. I'm not judging.

That's not right. Yeah, that's your best shot. If he, like, tears an ACL or something. All right. We'll open with Charlie in the final hour of the show. want to jump in, you may do so at 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. One hour left to go, not Florida stories at 130, and hell yeah or not, which you'll be working

on beginning in a matter of moments, right? What? What's a category? Fried rice? I mean, could you do it? Habachi spots? No. No free plugs.

Yeah, if they want a sponsor, if you're in a botchy girl up there. Matt said he found a nice one. Yeah, I did. Oh, I got a spam call I got to take. 1258 on Sports Talk 790 103 on Sports Talk 790 One of the biggest fan bases of outside the Houston area will be here

And it's stunning to me that it continues to be as strong as it is Because the Cubs are not a I mean they didn't win one world series But it's not like they have been a Ridiculously successful franchise Year and year out over the last 30 years The television WGN back of the day You got that

But even so you would think with all the Astro fans here that they would be able to swallow up Cub Nation but Cub's fans I think are all over the place. Yeah, you've got a lot of transplants here in Houston and people who grew up or, I mean, they're a nationwide brand they are. So just don't, if you go to the game

tonight, just don't be a little wigged out because you hear a lot of Cub fans cheering. It's like Pittsburgh Steelers fans and they come to Texans games. Pittsburgh fans are bumping around here. A bunch of drunkards. Yeah. High cholesterol, sweater wearing obnoxious people. But I digress.

Astros and Cubs will have it for you. I'll have it for you. All of the On Deck show at 6 o'clock, Kyle Tucker and Ryan Press to their first games. Now, if you're the Astros marketing, Kyle obviously was a much more longstanding bigger piece of the Astros puzzle. But do you think you put a timer on who has a longer tribute? Do you do the same thing?

Do you combo them? A great play by Tucker? Do you do something pregame or do you wait until... No, you got to do a pregame, right? Right. You do like a Kyle Tucker one day and 7.02. Ryan Presley the next. Oh, well, wait a minute. Can't you knock him both out the same day? Oh, you do one video for

combo video? That's tough. That's like when your birthday's near Christmas and you get a combo gift. It ain't right. Or like when you get the email from the people at your office. It's your birthday. You think it's your own special day and you have to share it with four other people on you know. And yours came at like two days late. Yeah. Sorry to forget about this person. Oh, but in yours was

four days ago. That's fine. I could completely forgotten one year. They didn't put me on there. It happens. I got a cake for my 40th birthday. You did? Yeah, with a picture of my face on it. Well, we had a better budget then. Man, we did. All right. Astros and Cubs, 6 o'clock first pitch.

Rocket's Summer League schedule is out. Oh, it is? Can't wait for all those great draft picks. Hey, you're going to see some Reed Shepherd playing. Come on Malawak. Rockets Legend. No. He will not be done on the Rockets gear. Okay. Never mind.

Yeah. By the way, all the trades that you will have seen the NBA and will be official on July the 6th. Hmm. Okay. Which I'm presuming shortly after that. Excuse me. Mala watch. Malawatch.

July 6th of the Sunday, so I'm guessing July 7th will be a big day for us. As the, I'm guessing Kevin Durant will be in town. We'll get a chance to say hi to him. That'd be great. I would love that. I'm getting nervous thinking about it. You should be nervous. I don't know.

I'm trying to think if I've ever really been nervous interviewing anybody. I'm always nervous about interviewing people. Oh, really? Yeah. He doesn't show, Matt. You do a great job. Well, I mean, I'm trying to think of, okay, so you are a Texas basketball fan. One of the biggest ones in the community. One of the rare ones. Hook of horns.

But you do, you did love when Kevin Durant was on your squad. I went to, yeah, I was, I went to several games when I was there on campus. Yeah. When I used to interview. I went to way more basketball games than I did football, actually. You got to understand. when we used to have Nolan Ryan on a weekly basis in the show. Yeah.

That was my fave. I used to love calling Nolan. He'd be doing something on the ranch. We've had Dream on a couple of times. Kima I just want. When he goes with us on a playoff game sometimes and I'm right across the row from him on the bus and he goes, what's that voice?

And I'm like, that's because he didn't remember your name. That's correct. At least he calls me something. Yeah, that's true. He knows who you are. Yeah, he doesn't know who I am. I've taken many pictures.

He was like, remember that time you blocked John Stark's shot? I definitely do a Chris Farley on the Chris Farley show thing And I've interviewed Earl Campbell a handful of times Those are my three favorites of all time I think Hakeem got mad at Adam Clinton Well who doesn't Because Clinton was talking about the The narrative about Jordan not playing

And Clinton was getting to that part of the story But he didn't want to hear it Yeah he was like shutting him down already apparently That's funny But Clinton can explain that better But I can tell you there have been Now the normal guy that will come on with this like on the Astros sometimes on Tuesday.

I'm very comfortable with Joe, very comfortable with all the other manager we've had. But there have been a handful of athletes that I have been, generally speaking, in awe of. Good. We're being in awe of Kevin Durant, one of the all-time greats. I used to interview Roger Clemens, and I was in awe of him.

Still am. I mean, I still, regardless of what happened with all the steroid stuff, is still one of the greatest pictures ever seen in my entire life. Now, Kevin Durant hates the media, so I don't want him to hate us. So you've got to be cool. He did a little fact-checking on the hate part. It isn't hate. Okay.

He doesn't like it. It's not one of his favorite things to do. He doesn't like hot take machines, and we're not going to be hot take machines. And by the way, do not go after him on Twitter. He will come after you, especially if you tag him. That's true. Even if you don't. And he doesn't even care.

But my guess is, do you think he wakes up and Galucks or he had his name on Twitter? Absolutely. Because somebody called him out for it. He was like, yeah, so what? That's what I love about Kevin Durant. Somebody's like, I didn't even tag you. Why are you out here searching your name? He's like, why not?

I'm bored. And another thing that was brought up, people are saying, well, you know, you bring Kevin Duran here before his leadership. There's no need for him to be a leader. Now, it won't. It would be nice if he's not a detriment to the leadership. Yeah. But he may have got the leadership thing fixed. I'm not worried about that.

And I think he's going to lead. He's such a hard worker. He's going to lead by example in that way, too. Yeah. Yeah. don't need him pep talking this team. No. There's a bunch of badasses in that locker. You got Eme Adoka who doesn't necessarily say, hey, man,

can do me a fair. Grab these kids. They're not listen to me. No, he doesn't. That's not E. May what a brought him here for. Let's talk to Charlie in Rice Military. What a great part of town, by the way, to live in. Charlie, you're on 790. Thank you for holding a good afternoon. Hey,

Ross and, Matt. I am, yeah, usually in Rice Military, but today I'm up, and this week, I'm up in Dallas. working hard on the Miss Texas Patch. It's putting myself through some tough work up here. It's going to be on television, so I'm working it for television. I think in Houston it's going to be on my 20. But anyway, Ross and that you guys have influenced me.

I haven't been on Twitter, but now I am following. But I also got to meet Ross at the baseball Astros game earlier. But I've been up here all week and watching the Astros. I really wanted a 3-0 shut-0 shut-out to the Philly. that almost turned out. That would have been cool. And I also wanted... Field of Dreams

in that baseball movies, you guys. I wondered where you would put that. Oh, Matt hates Field of Dreams. Oh. Not a fan. And I haven't seen it since... I need to watch it again. I haven't really seen it since I was a kid.

It's just such a good historical movie. I know. Yeah. Thank you, Charlie. Appreciate you. Yeah, thanks, Charlie. And good luck on that Mix Texas... Texas Paget.

Mm-hmm. You know, I went to school with a mixed-sex... Miss Texas. You did? I did. I forgot to say something earlier today. You guys, Matt, you like Yacht Rock, right? Yes. So he wanted me, call him wanted you to rate. You can call me

Al by Paul Simon. Okay, Jonathan. Matt was telling a story about Miss Texas and you interrupted him to bring an all-air caller about Yot Rock? How do you feel right now? No, you're not an idiot. You're not an idiot.

No, no, that's pretty bad. That's pretty bad. It's all right. It's all right. Yeah. It's okay. This will be clip. Go to your yacht rock. Go ahead, Matt. Yot Rock or Miss Texas, whatever you want to go out.

I'll knock out both here. You can call me out on a one to ten. Ten being Michael McDonald. Okay. One being that peanut collata song. I'll probably give Yacht Rock. Oh, you're getting Pena Colado one? Oh, that's a jemio.

Damn. Getting caught in the rain? Yeah. It's something I would hear at a cheese ball. Oh, it's cheesy. No, I don't like it. But all of Yacht Rock is cheese jam, so stop.

I'd hear it in the back of a Rappelries. You were the cheese king, so stop it. You can call me ails on eight and a half. Love will keep us together by Captain Tenil's not cheesy? That's not Y'all Rock. Oh, it's not? Uh-uh. Why?

There's a captain. That's just the name of his band. Yeah, there's no rules of this made-up genre anyways. It's made up. It's preason. You can call me out nine and a half. Miss Texas was the cheerleader. We went to school together.

Same graduating class, May Creek, 1990. Her name was Kara. Kara Williams. And she was Miss Texas 1990. And she and I went to high school together. Miss Texas USA or Miss Texas? I think she was Miss Texas USA. There's the Miss America pageant.

Right. Yeah. And then there's the Miss USA pageant. I see Suzanne Lawrence for 1990. Maybe 91, maybe? Yeah, I haven't been 91 because we graduated in 90. Rhonda Morrison? Nope.

From Cold Spring? No, I told you. Went to Maine Creek High School. All right, it must be Miss Texas USA. Okay. I'm going to look down one up. Geez, I'm not calling you a liar. 1990.

This says Stephanie Coon, Kean. Katie Young, Chris Boak, Chris Bogard? No, I might have to call you a liar like you did Gordy. Gordon may have been a bit of an embellisher. Carol Williams or Williams? Kara Williams As in regular Williams Oh, 1996

Okay, so it was a bit It was a while Yeah, you're way off Well, there you go She won, congratulations to her Yeah, Miss Texas USA There you go She and I were high school

Friends I was gonna say sweetheart So we were not sweethearts But we were friends Do you ask her out? No, I was a mascot She was a head shit litter Hey man, you missed

100% of the shots you don't take It's true Love 113 Not Florida stories. Bottom of the hour. Get to your non-floor story, Ross, and get to something on hell yeah or not. Oh, my God. Is it the show's almost over? It is almost over. What are we doing for, believe it or not?

We're going to... Miss Texas or not? No. How about Carol Williams? No. It's not nice. No. Let's say, what do we want to do? I don't know. What's the top... Number one sports news?

Ace Bailey. You want to do some Ace Bailey? Can you do it? Can you do Aida? Diamondre Lenore Arrested for obstruction charge by a 49ers cornerback. That doesn't sound like a great you believe it or not topic. How about famous aces? How about the Okay, like what? Ace Bailey.

Like Ace Rothstein? Stoker Ace. Who's that? That was a movie with Bert Reynolds in it. Okay. Can an Ace be a one or an 11 in Blackjack? The answer is believe it. Look, we're down to 35 minutes. You're right. I can't hate it. Not my fault. I'm trying.

There's no bad ideas in a brainstorm. Thank you. 114 on Sports Talk 7.00. It is the Matt Thomas show at Ross. We're with you till 2 o'clock. Believe it or not today, hell you're not today. It's going to be all things about Texas State. Congratulations, Texas State Bobcats.

You are now in the brand new Pack 12. That would be the Pacific 12. They're just next to the Pacific Ocean. Well, I mean, it's like having Cal and Stanford in the ACC. or West Virginia in the Big 12, which I guess... Oh, yeah. Cal, Stanford in the... Atlantic Coast Conference. SMU's an Atlantic Coast Conference.

Mm-hmm. So, yeah, we should just rename these things. The HABs, the have-nots. Habs, SEC, Big Ten, have-nots, everybody else. We'll coach you on that. By the way, yeah. Did you see that the Big 12 and the Big Ten signed up with Renro? to pay their athletes that way.

Ren Roe. Ren Ro is now a corporate sponsor of those conferences. Really? And Maybow? I guess they just make money off of the people who they charge fees when they want to send the money immediately. Yep. Never do that. I never do that.

No, I always wait a couple days. Yeah. But, you know, if you're in a pinch, I understand. You're dealing drugs. Got to pay for the re-up real quick. We were talking about this before off air. Ross, I have only door-dashed one time a month. entire life. In your entire life.

I've only done it a few times, and it's normally when I'm not fit to drive. Not incapacitated, but inebriated. And this is today's Matt's boozy moment of the day. Oh. So we sometimes we're on the road with the rockets, we stay in these super ridiculously nice hotels. Yes. And

there's not a lot of places to, within walking distance, and go get food. So you would make sense to DoorDash. And a lot of the Rocket players do DoorDash things. assistant coaches, a lot of those guys. I wind up paying the expensive food to eat at the hotel because I'm afraid the door dashes are going to find me.

Huh. The fees are going to be expensive. Okay. And three, do I want to hear him at this hoity-toity nine-star hotel? I get a phone call saying, hey, your Rick Relay is downstairs. Well, you can see on the app when they're close, you can just go down to the lobby. You know, Matt, my coach I grew up with, he's a runner A as well. He said he will never door dash just because he doesn't, like, the same reason you have.

It's really bad. And I'm really afraid that they're going to eat my fries. Well, generally, you can get stuff sealed these days. No, they do still, though. They definitely will get in their bag. Don't I don't want to make it in my bag. You can give a couple fries? They're not making much.

I did Postmates for a while. You don't make Jack. You make like eight bucks an hour. Can you tip off those or no? Yes. I would think if I'm going to tip. Oh, yeah. And I'm going to fee a rig rack in an order of fries.

It's a waste of money. And a Mick Flurry. Oh, my gosh. Should not be $29. We stopped spend 10 minutes rhyming everything. I'm not getting free plugs. I understand. It downgrades the people that actually spend money in this show.

You say, jick flurry, we know what you mean. It's not shrouded in mystery. It should be. James on 790 at 125. James, how the hell are you? I'm doing good. Hey, guys. Listen, on this outfield, I know they call up guys.

They called up guys like Cooper. and then they called up this is a male guy. Taylor Tremel? Yes. Yeah, why aren't they using Loporfino or Chaz? They just don't want to use them anymore, you know? Loporffino is with the Blue Jays. He was traded away for you, Sikic.

No, no, no, no. Well, I'm thinking of another outfielder. And Chas McCormick is hurt. Chaz McCormick's on the injure list, James. Okay, there's another outfieler that they were using a lot, and now they're not using them at all. I saw him on the bench yesterday, but I just got the name wrong. But anyhow, I just wondering what happened to that guy?

The guy who's... name you don't. Yeah, I can't remember. That's fine. It's Friday. What are you going to do? It was a horrible call. Sorry.

You know what? It wasn't one of your best. But at least you admit it. And for that, you get bonus points. Thanks for the phone calls. He's like, yeah, I sucked. I appreciate that. Who is he thinking of?

On the bench, outfielder? I was quite disappointed. He actually went with the Joy Loher Prafito card. I mean, we've only talked about him. That's pretty fun. Been gone for a while. And yes, Chaz has, what was it, a back injury or something? Back spasms?

I can't remember. Yeah. Yeah. I have to look that up. Sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. Left oblique strain. Everybody's got the oblique string.

I'm an oblique strain right now. Chas McCormick nearing a rehab assignment. And we'll get an update, I'm sure, from the skipper later today. I thought, didn't Brendan Rogers had an oblique strain, too? He got his in a batting cage. Oof. McCormick did take batting practice on Wednesday. That's good.

Is he thinking of Zach DeZenzo? He's hurt, too. Yeah, he's hurt. I guarantee you that's who James is thinking of. Okay. Maybe Jacob Melton? He's also hurt. And we don't need Melton hurt because that's the guy that's a high-end, that's one of the few high-end prospect guys. Yes.

Not thought of as a future phenom, but he is their number two prospect. Well, I mean, I think he's one of the highest rank. It was him and Bryce Matthews is two of the highest prospects. Yeah, he's their number two prospect. He's good enough lefty bat and good in the field. All right. Time for some non-Florida stories. Mine this week is from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

Carl McClendberg? Not Carl McLeanburg. A once guest of the Matt Thomas show. Oh, God. Gordy's getting like Emmett Smith to come on. He's getting Joe Montana. We got you Emmett Smith. Barry Sanders.

We went through the list and you apologize. I get. You're such a bad memory. You don't remember. Oh. Yeah, we figured it was just. Okay, he's hurt. Please, James.

Just do us a favor, James. Check the injured list before you call about guys and asking why they were playing. Well, we can't have about it as a Google service. No, Google.com. No, no, no, no. James's gotten smart with me before, so I'm not going to be nice. If he was a regular caller, I would. James, Google.com.

Or Astros.com. Or Google A.I. And that's even not even being nice. I mean, it's like, we call a radio show. We're asking about guys who aren't playing and they're hurt. Let's go. Let's keep up to speed. And it goes Friday.

What are you going to do? Okay, sure. Non-Floral stories are up next on seven of a minute. Why isn't it? We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida and share them with the people of Houston. It's time for non- protest.

are a part of a way to tell the world you're unhappy with a certain vote, a way of life, a feeling, a notion, and as long as they're peaceful, by all means, you should try to do it. I got a dumb protest for you there, sports RV as we welcome you to non-Florida stories here on the Matt Thomas Show at 133. I send you to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

McLeanburg County. McLeodberg, they serve country time lemonade. And you sit on the porch and you swim with your girl. Have some sweet tea. Swat the flies. And powder and powder bake biscuits. The McLeburg County Commission meeting was disrupted by protesters recently in the of the Central Piedmont Community College Law Enforcement Training Center. That's what they have the meeting.

Okay. You're saying, what are they mad about? What are they mad about? Well, they're mad, Rossi, about property taxes going up. And I'll tell you exactly. they passed a $2.5 billion budget, including a property tax cent of hike of 96 cents per $10,000 a home value. The medium home price in Mecklenburg, North Carolina. How about this is $37,000?

The heck they're doing out there? The average homeowner will now have to pay $36 more per year. Doesn't feel like it's a huge need for a protest on that. No, it does it? Well, they protested anyway. They had to stop the meeting because someone went inside the chamber. and release crickets. What?

Yes. Hundreds of crickets. Wow. The meeting had to pause while a member of the cleaning crew came in to vacuum them up. Witnesses telling Joe Bruno of Channel 9 in Charlotte

that the crickets were everywhere. The protesters were eventually escorted out and the meeting resumed. Commissioner's releasing a statement. Meckleburg County condemns any inappropriate out-of-town comments or other disruptive tactics during a board of commissioners meeting

or any other public meeting. Civil public participation is a bedrock of democracy. The board has made it clear that the abuse of public participation will not be tolerated and get rid of your crickets. Okay, I want you to just pretend you're on the cleaning crew of Mecklenburg County. And you get this 911 phone call. Get to the commissioner's office right away. Maybe somebody on Fort, maybe vomiting, maybe there was a coffee spill. There was something that happened.

They say bring a vacuum. You're going to suck up crickets for half. half an hour? It's not a great life. Imagine having to suck up crickets. 1.35. What I said? It was wrong.

Nothing wrong. I don't know what the heck's going on. These crickets. Why are people dropping crickets everywhere? I don't know. I don't like it. What if you had your job in your business card saying I'm a cricket sucker?

Hold on. Meeting or Zoom. Just sucking up crickets for like a half an hour. I don't think that's full-time professional. I don't think there's a daytime job. What if you went home and your honey, your wife said, hey, Ross, what you do today? I looked at the commissioner's

court office. Anything interesting happen? Yeah, I had to suck up crickets. Well? Because a protester came in and laid out crickets all over the place. That's got to be some kind of crime. You would think so? An animal attack. Very creative. I don't think it's creative. It's disgusting.

They can feed them to various snakes and whatnot. What those crickets do to the commission? I mean, wasn't their fault. I don't know. Crickets are of purpose. Did they not? Yes. Eat bugs?

They're food for other people? Yeah, I'm sure they're an important part of the ecosystem, man. You get them at Seattle Mariner games? You could. Sauteing crickets? I believe they're lightly salted and roasted. I meant to try. I wanted to try them, but I forgot when I went there.

I don't want you to try it. Why not? They look disgusting. Who cares? I don't want you get sick. People eat them. I want you get the E. You can get crickets in certain restaurants here in Houston. I'm sure you could.

It's a hard pass for me, though. Give it a shot. If other people are eating it for sustenance, why can't you? Or people are using them in protest. Or it's multifaceted. So shout out to Meckleburg County cleanup authorities for having to suck up crickets for half an hour. Did you say average home price or median home price? Median.

Wow. It's $340,000 in Houston, by the way. Is that good or bad? That seems high, but I looked at Austin. It's $565. Oh my God. Drop a half a millie. By the way, I saw what I could sell my house for.

Oh, it's been a, I'm sure it's pretty good. You're getting that high rise, Maddie? Come on. One step close to the high rise. I want a doormand? Yes. He's going to kick me out. You're going to put me on the black list. Now, do I want a full-time maid or just something that comes in like once a week?

Housekeeper. Cook meals for us? Tuesday, Thursday? Because I think if you hire a full-time housekeeper. No, once full-time. No. there's only only be only two of you living in a house. How dirty are you getting?

George and Louise had it. Didn't they have kids or something? Yeah, but he was an adult. Lina was an adult. They had one kid. Okay, well, that's also a TV sitcom from the 1970s. Just saying. It's not real life, Matt.

That's my non-Flority story. I don't need a full-time housekeeper unless you, like, have young children. I don't. I got three. Unless you want to, like, want somebody to hang out and watch TV with you the whole time. You wanted to hang out and watch Prices Right with you? Play cards? Fun fact, my mom was on Prices Right and won.

What? Whoa! How did you bury this? I was just waiting for a good time. Would she get a new car? You know that's Matt's favorite show. When was she on there? What was this?

1990. Matt probably saw this. I had the video and everything. She won a bed set. She lost in the final things for a car because she overbid it by $1,000. Oh. And the guy won the trip. It was her to car.

Wow. So she wanted to the car. the showcase? Yeah, so she won a showcase. She won the entire bed set I grew up with. Her whole bed set and the whole bathroom. What? You slept on her prices right bed? Yeah. This is amazing. I got to show you out the video. I have it on me.

Did she kiss Bob Barker? No, she gave him a hug, though. Wait, wait. Why are you making these noises about his mother? Because usually women that go on the show, kiss Bob. All of them? On the cheek. Not all of them, but I was in the majority. That's weird.

You, on family feud, you had to kiss Richard Dawson the lips one time. And then he tried to slip tongue in there. He married one of them. Terrible. That's my non-floress where we go on. Okay, thank you. I'm going to go real quick. Yes, Matt, did you know that there's a burglar on the loose in Duncanville, Alabama?

Hmm. Burglar caught. Also, I guess it's the Tuscaloosa Police, so I guess Duncanville is close. a man robbing a quick stop on Highway 82 in Duncanville early Sunday. He was caught on video as he had on a face mask and a full Scooby-Doo costume. All right, yes. His name is Jay Mansell. No, unfortunately.

Well, it could be actually. Anyone who can help us unmasked this villain may call the number to submit an anonymous tip. The police said, the police also had a bunch of jokes saying, have you interviewed Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy? Do you add in this yourself or is this in the script? No, this is the new story. All right, okay.

Another one he gets caught, another person wrote, when he gets caught, this is on their Facebook, actually. When he gets caught and their mask is taken off, he's going to say, I would have gotten away with it if it weren't free-meddling kids. Scooby-Doo did not steal any snacks, but stole some cash out of the register. and Scooby-Doo is currently on the loose

making off with some cash and some change. Okay. At the quick stop. What was the last time he did a Scooby-Doo impersonation? Oh? I don't know. Hey, Rocky. That's what I'm New Year's.

I'm done. I got to write, believe it enough. I'll leave you alone. Jonathan, do a Scooby-Doo impersonation? I got a Florida story. I got that. All right, go ahead. Go ahead. Give us your Florida story.

Not Florida story, of course. Of course. A 42-year-old man contracted Beverly Hills, Texas, from Beverly Hills, Texas, police chief Corey Martin on June 13th about a package he had received from his ex-girlfriend, KWKT TV, reported. Inside was a copy of a marriage certificate indicating that the man was married. But he told Martin that while he had been in a relationship with the woman, Christine Mary Spearman, 36 of Waco, and even obtained, even obtained, even was planned. After investigating, Martin determined that spearmen had convinced a pastor to certify the marriage without the groom present and then filed the certificate at the county clerk's office. Martin said he researched the law and found only one scenario that this allows to happen. Active military overseas, unable to make it.

Even then, when that happens overseas, you still have a proxy to be in like a decision. So come to find out, she had did this on like for three years or something like that. So she was arrested for third degree of felony stalking and taking to jail. Woke up, married, and then divorced. That's my honor for your story. Thank you, Jonathan. 143 on Sports Talk 790. Let's play hell yeah or not all things about the Texas State Bobcats.

By the way, quick note, if y'all do it once around, Texas State on our fantasy five list, the best once around university campuses around the state of Texas. 713212. 5-790 7-13-212-5-7-90. All right, I've got Astros on deck for you tonight at 6 o'clock, so I'll be at Dynken Park hanging out with my friends. I did not bring a jacket with me. The press box is usually 40 degrees colder than the rest of the stadium.

It was, we're going to get the roof open between now and the end of the year, you think? Any chance? Not until playoffs, I don't think. Isn't it nice? You know what? I was ready for you to say that exact thing. Because we wouldn't have said that in March. The Astros are going to the playoffs.

They're going to win the American League West. They are only a... Let me look at the latest standings, by the way. This is going to show you, again, of the season of amazement. That's what you want to call it. Where this local team is. Again, Vegas had anywhere between 86 and 88 wins. Granted, we're only at the halfway in pole, and this team could slump, hopefully doesn't.

But right now, the American League has the Detroit Tigers. at 51 and 31. I mean, a good team last year, wildcard team, but have been playing beyond their means this year. The Astros have the second best record at two and a half out at 48 and 33. Overall, the Astros are the fourth best record. Actually, they're tied for the third best record. Who also owns that third best record?

It's a team the Astros are playing tonight, the 48 and 33 Cubs. On deck at 6 o'clock, first pitch at 710, and I will host a 10th inning show right at all. That's great, Matt. I'll be covering tomorrow. And I will listen. It's not very convincing. I might listen.

That's okay. That's fine. If I'm really bored, I'll listen. The show goes on. It does. The 10th and caller's been better the last few weeks. It was a little lean April and May, to be honest with you. Yeah.

Now you're going to have liquored up weekend drunks. Oof. Should be some good ones. And what's the giveaway today? Should I stick around for the giveaway? I always wait for it. For people to know, the press box, you get whatever the giveaway is. They give it around.

They give you the sixth inning. Unless the Telemundo people grab all of them. Well, they're feisty. Yeah, I'm just going to say you generally have to clear them out of your spot. We have two seats and generally. Telemundo is eight people there. Well, when there's big giveaways especially. And then they do photo shoots with the bobbleheads.

They knew selfies with a baller. Seriously, they put the field in the background. They were selfies. You were taking a selfie with a bobble? No, I don't think so. I don't think so I have either. Five minutes left to call on the show. What should we do?

We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We'll simply call it beat. Leaving it out and here's how it works. You call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Monday through Thursday, we call it B leaving or not, but on Fridays we call it a hell yeah or not. And here's how it works.

I'll read your statement about Texas State University. It's a farmer Valdez throwback jersey, by the way. Oh, I'm definitely getting one. Are you kidding me? In 1989. I'll be wearing that bad boy third inning. I'll read your statement about Texas State. Statements completely utterly accurate.

You'll say this. Hell yeah. If the statement too Rodney is full of bucket made up, you'll say this. Not. Two hell, yeah, and outs in a row when your prize. What are you playing for today? Of course, the Sports Talk 790 T-shirt. A pair of tickets to see Alice Cooper and Judas Priest live on October 26 at the Woodlands Pavilion.

Tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster.com. And we got a four pack of tickets with pit passes to Monster Jam on October 18th at NRG Stadium. Tickets are on sale again at Ticketmaster.com. And if you get three Texas State questions in Roll Ross, you know what you get? Anybody and an invitation to a Texas State sorority party. Huh? Well, you'll be kicked out immediately. Texans Mark on 7 out.

Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Texas State was founded as Southwest Texas State University in 1890. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No, it was Southwest Texas State's normal school.

Duh. A little minutia ask, but still... No, it wasn't. That's what it was called. Suck it. That's fine. And it had like four different names before it's Southwest Texas. So he's telling you to suck it. Chris, on 790, what was your favorite part

of today's 10-2 radio show? I love your show, positive astro vibes. That means you just turned it on. The Texas State acceptance rate is 89.5%. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. That's right. 89.5%.

I mean, statement number two for the win. U.S. News and War Report ranks Texas State as a 237th best university in the Hell yeah or not? Not. It is. Hell yeah! Top 37? Top 300.

Congratulations to them. There's only like 305. That's not true. Mike and Katie on 790, ready to play hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. The Texas State College motto is Actorius Gravatus, humanitis,

Veratus, which is Latin for prestige, seriousness and humanity and truth. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Duh. I had to get some Latin in there for you. Statement number two for the way.

The Texas State Bobcat is named Freddie after the school's founder Frederick Hayes. Hell yeah or not. Hell no. That's correct. His name is Boko? I don't know. It's a student vote. Boko the Bobcat?

They voted via the school names paper in like the 20s. Jesus. to. Ken on 790, ready to play Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Texas State University athletics were first owned as varsity but changed to Bobcats in 1921 because at the time the University of Texas used the same

nickname. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No, no, no. You can't steal anything from Texas. I get mad at you. Let's go to Kenneth on 7-0. Oh, Kenneth drop. Let's go to Mark on 790. Mark. What was your favorite part of

today's 10 to 2 radio show. Everything. Texas State boasts a number of notable alumni, including former President Lyndon B. Johnson, country legend George Strait, and Astros Media Rep, Steve Granda. Believe it or not? Not.

Oh, geez. How do you not know LBJ and Steve Grant? We talked about it, Matt, the whole show. The entire show at 1030, 11, 30, 12.30. We brought Steve's name up from the Astros like five times. Kevin and Pearland on 790. Kevin, you ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, Texas State, home with a cadaver farm.

Okay. The Texas State Bobcats' all-time football record, 541 losses, excuse me, 541 wins, 504 losses, 25 times. Believe it or not. Oh, that's Googlerable. Gosh, not. Oh, hell yet. Why don't you have that in front of you then?

Dabre farm? That sounds weird. They do a lot of medical research over there. Coming up next, one of the next two people on the show could not get into Texas State. Was it Wexler? Or was it Clinton? Find out next on the team.

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