The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Take 2 Out of 3 vs Rangers! Altuve is Out??

Episode Date: May 18, 2026

Astros Take 2 Out of 3 vs Rangers! Altuve is Out?? 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. His second home run of the season, and it is 8-0 Rangers. You know, Rossi, you and I have, I think both agree that meatloaf is overrated. Okay, who's rating meatloaf? Is he have his own wing in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Is he in the Hall of Fame?

I don't think so. But this is a really good song. It's fine. It's a jam. It's for what it is. Jonathan, we always want to go to the younger vote. Yes.

This is my first time hearing this, and I kind of like it. Yeah. That's kind of a jam. I just thought he was like a gimmick. Like Casey and the Sunshine Band gimmick? No, well, no. That was more serious music, I guess.

I think Mealb's more serious than Casey and the Sunshine Band. Again, that's terrible cross reverence on my part. It's fine. Yeah, because his name is meat. So I thought he was like, I didn't know he's like a serious musician and actor. It's funny. I wonder who gave him that name. I don't know.

I mean, we could do a believe it or not a meatloaf, but I just feel like. So the rest is his band, the mashed potatoes? I don't know. That's a good call. All right. Can we turn off the news? Yeah, turn that off. I've seen explosions and bombs.

This is great. I told this to Ross, what, 11 minutes ago? What did you tell me? I said the only reason why I ever come into this radio station is for you. Thank you. I'm glad you commute to work like the rest of Houston. Let's go. I appreciate you, Matt.

I want to say that. You caught in traffic. Go ahead. 6-10 sucks. Go ahead. Go off the steam. And let's get it out of the way. Go ahead.

What happened? Start screaming, yelling. Let's go. Just move it away. Don't bottle it up. No, because nobody wants to hear it. Process and confront your anger, Matthew. I just...

God, I just hate it. And it's got me by the detest. I said by the balls, but it's basically the same thing. The same thing. I have to go and ads. Oh my gosh. Ross, that was your weekend. Weekend was spectacular. I worked on Friday or went to the game with Pops for his birthday on Saturday. Shout out Pops.

You were there too, huh? Yeah. You should come hang out with us. Or you were schmoozing in the suite. No, they didn't let me in. Oh, I'm sorry about that. They said, specifically, there was a man named Matt who said you cannot come in here. That's not true at all. By the way, I want to make sure I get this right off the top. So Saturday there was an Astros game. Okay. And there was a dynamo game. Okay. That's going to happen sometimes in an area.

Ooh. And there is been sure. Now, the dynamo game still had 30 minutes left in the game because when we were driving by Shell Energy Stadium, the time of the game was on the big board. Okay. What was the score? Oh, hell of I know. I thought you were going to say zero zero. I tried to set you up. Well, I think, Ross, there's just something people assume in life. One of them is a zero-zero game. So it was in the 65th minute.

So people were still, if you were at the game, you didn't leave in the 65th minute, I'm assuming. Correct. All right. Traffic again for the second time. Now, one time I was leaving when the rockets had ended at the same time, the Astros. So that's 17,000. The Astros game that we went to on Saturday, you were there to hit 30,000. Because the upper deck was not largely empty, but it was quite a few empty seats up there.

Yeah. So, and let me go back to my original preface. I love going to watch the games. I don't get to go to a lot of nine-inning games because usually I work and then I will go back to either this studio or the home studio to do the post-game show. We said the whole nine innings. Astros got four home runs. Front of the show, Kai Wei Tang with a big five innings of work, solid almost, what you say, quality start light. Is that what you're calling it?

Yes. Okay. And the Astros won. The game was over in like two hours and 20 minutes. was like basically a perfect night for baseball. Mm-hmm. And then trying to leave the stadium. And I don't know if that's the Astros' responsibility.

If it's the cities, if it's a combination of both. I understand traffic. I understand construction. Were you in B or C lot or A? A lot. Okay. I'll tell you exactly what happened. Were you on Chartres?

Yes. A, B, and C lot all try to go out through Chartris. But to get on I-10, it's all closed off. Or 59, right. Do you get to, yeah, you can go to 10 or 59. That way, the 59 entrance that normally everyone, I'm sorry, I 10 interests that everyone takes, it's completely closed off. That's what happened. It happened to me on Friday because I went to the game and I was like you, I leave the game.

It was a freaking no hitter, but I had to leave to go home because I don't want to do the post game in the middle of fireworks. Right. That I10 entrance is closed. So it's normally really bad traffic. It's 10 times worse right now because of the closures. It's 10 times worse. And so what's happening is is that people are now

just not following streets. There's no, well I would say it would be the situation. I think there needs to be more foot traffic cops, whatever. Just something. Relying on the lights, people do not believe in the lights anymore.

They're not buying the lights at all. It's because there need to be signs like I10, like for blocks, I10 entrance close. You don't realize and then they're trying to get to on to I10. and then it's closed and then it's an entire mess and then everybody has to disperse left or right so people are getting caught the hell they're going so you have green lights and you have people in the middle of the street that can't go green it is just it's a it's a terrible bottleneck so I don't know if it's

it's a clustering it's a cluster or what we've decided to do is we're starting to go through edo now to get around yes you have to go down navigation you have to go down navigation and get out that's that's what ways told me to do in the way that's so funny because they really people don't care about the lights no more there's no they do not care and that's why I think you have to have the human element in play here because if we as Houstonians do not believe in the lights, put on your yellow vest, put on some blinking lights on that cop. Whatever. He's going to get hit by a 250.

I hope he's okay. Houston drivers do not care. So here's the thing. Okay. So what you said, if it is in play, which I totally believe to be accurate, then you're going to have, you have to go to plan B because you do not want to have $30,000 at the Astros. Let's say the Dynamo game got out at the same time.

have been even worse. Oh, yeah, they need detour signs. Something. But what's going on right now is it's got to, I would say this. And again, if you, it's like going to a restaurant and if the service is bad and you have to wait forever for your food, you're like, you know what? The food's great, but I'm going to go. I'm not going to go there because I don't want to wait that long. It was like the game took 220.

It took us 70 minutes to get home yesterday on Saturday night. Yeah, you got to go one way that. It wasn't even 40,000 people. No, it's, it's a. It's a mess. It's a cluster. All right. Let's get off of my chest.

But yeah. So I think I've decided Rossi, when I retire, I'm never going to leave my house. I've just been bitching about traffic for six minutes here. Terrible. Yeah, people need to go west or east. That's what they need to do. Because otherwise, it's just, it's not. All right.

So Saturday night, the Astros hit four home runs, one on by our good friend, Jose L. Tuve. And then Jose swings for the last time and leaves the batters box about a full. put two feet to the right and then says, I'm not going to finish it out. Now, he was out on Friday and then got hurt on Saturday. And now he's got a grade two oblique strain. That doesn't sound good. Well, he's going. Why is everybody got to be grade two or above in Houston when they're getting hurt?

Let me ask you about this oblique. Yes. Again, you and I are not doctors, we put them on the radio here. Is, are people just not stretching properly? are we not filling our bodies full of something that would give us a little fat in the middle or something? This oblique stuff has become the injury du jour of the 2020s. It's happening everywhere. I mean, it's all over baseball too.

I don't know. I mean, there has been more emphasis on bat speed. So our guys just swinging harder? Now, I will say this. I don't think it's because of 2026. I mean, guys probably in 1983. had oblique strains. Yeah, I'm sure they did.

Because you're swinging hard. The body is only going to let you do it so many times. Yeah, but in 19706, you're swinging more to contact than for power. Everybody, people did swing for power, of course, but now it's more all-out power than it ever has been. But he swung and said, I'm not even going to try running to first base. And he went right to the clubhouse. Oh, here we go. 2025 article, bat speed link to the rise of oblique injuries.

Bing, bang, boom. Okay, so if that's the case, how that's the case. How do we do that? Do we tell him to slow down a little bit? Oh, yeah. You go tell Christian Walker to slow down his swing and try to just a loop a single over the second basement. So is this a metric, Rossi, that is causing injuries? And how many metrics in our life are causing injuries? Velo, spin rate, bat speed, all of them.

Yeah. So if we said, don't worry about any of the above, do we think we get a 40% reduction in injuries in baseball? I don't know because the guys are still going to, because they know about them now, the cat's out of the bag. You're not going to just stop swinging hard. Who knew if you told the guy to swing hard, he'll hit the ball harder. It took about 150 years to figure that out. Yeah, why are we doing, why are we talking about this now in 2020? We started doing sports radio back in 19.

That was Babe Ruth's secret? Did Babe Ruth have oblique injuries? Or he just had like a curiously strong obliques? And wouldn't like a good old-fashioned shot in the oblique take care of everything for us? I don't think so, Matt. I guess it clearly doesn't. It really doesn't. All right, so you got the two wins on Saturday and then yesterday.

Oh, my God. Eight nothing. And I honestly, I was only passively watching because we had a Carly's graduation party in our house. And it was just, oh, two nothing, oh, three nothing, five nothing, seven, and then it was eight. Yeah, Peter Lambo hit the shop. Which we thought was going to happen. Peter's not going to give you seven quality innings every five days. He was great to say, I think the first four innings, he was no hitting them.

He was no hitting them for four. And then, well, we're not to talk about it. It was on track for a quality start premium plus. Just trying to make you bad. You know what he sounds like? He sounds like an airline. No, you know what I sound like? I sound like Disney.

You kind of got a, Rossi tweeted that. You kind of got a good amount of traction on. I'm telling you. I'm telling you, it's catching on. Okay, so what was? Much to Matthews is chagrin. Well, no, it's because here's a problem. Now I'm doing it.

See? Six runs and three, six innings and three runs shouldn't be the same as a perfect game. You've got to delineate. Okay, so I want you to read the line to me, and I will describe what it was. Oh, six innings, five-heard runs for Peter Lambert. Quality start, basic economy. Yeah, it's a basic economy. Basic economy.

You cannot change your seat. No, we won't give you a seat until you get to the plane. He was in the middle with a backpack for a week-long trip. One carry-on, that's it. You better bring your quarters for the laundry, pal. And by the way, you'll be sitting in a seat with zero recline, which is not a bad thing. All right. Today on the radio program, Ross will handle...

Oh, crap. To tell the truth at 1130, you got an hour of 15. That's fine. We're doing dead of our live today, I'm believing or not. Oh, love it. That'll be coming up at 150. We got missing you at 130. We have the Astros.

We have 2 out of 3 ain't bad. We have Jose's oblique. We hashtag Save Al-Tube, which I think we've used that several times over the years. Nothing's going right. Even when you win two out of three, Altuvae goes down. down. But you know what though? You know what I did today?

What? I looked at the standings. They're only five out. Okay, they're five. Yeah, saying only five out is, I guess, decent enough. But I would say they're already five out. That's how I feel. I will have my glass half full. Okay, good. They're only five out. Okay. When y'all call the show today, Hey!

A little 10 o'clockers. 713, 2, 112, 790. everything you must say when you discuss the asteros today will include hey Matt and Ross they're only five out 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-790 1016 Matt and Ross with you today until two here on 790 10-22 Ross Matt with you

Jonathan our producer Hope you guys have a good weekend Great weekend Matthew how are you I am grad partied out Well I mean you should be covered for a while while, right? Yeah, but I mean, between going to and hosting. By the way, I raised a Gradzilla. What does that mean? Oh, like a Bridezilla? Oh, my God. That's great. So she gets invited to 30 parties. Uh-huh. And guess, and like, you have to send gifts with all these parties. I'm like, well, then get them a gift card or something.

Mom, I need $20 here. I need $20 hours here. I'm like, why do your parties cost me money? Her popularity is costing you. It is. I'm sorry, Matt. And then we had a party. yesterday at our house. You wish you had a loser shut-in kid. Hermit would have been nice. A loner would have been just fine. Well, you know, watch out. Because probably, you know, these girls, they have their buddies in high school.

They have their team. They have their athletic friends. They have their club friends. They have their church friends. I mean, good, God. It was like a revolving round of a 17-year-olds coming to my house. That's exactly right. So, graduations in my way.

And Friday, my daughter's getting finally graduated from high school. So I'll be three for three done. Finito Gonzo. Bye. Great job, Matt. Yeah. You got a bad, I think you said you got about 1,000 with your kids when it comes at least high school graduation, right?

Everything else is. At least when it's high school, yeah. After that, who knows? College, you never know. Yeah, well. You're still doing well. 713, 212-579. If you want to get in, 713, 2-1-2-790.

Matt and Ross with you today until 2 o'clock. And again, we've got to tell the truth. raw style at 1130. I'll do, believe it or not, today, which will be alive or dead. And we've also got the news at noon. And we got a little NBA to get to. We have a new athletic poll out, The Athletic. That's about some NBA stuff.

But it really crosses over to just general fan. We have more anonymous polls? Oh, yeah. When in doubt, do anonymous. Yes, all right, good. Oh, speaking of that, and this is something that I, nothing to do with necessarily basketball. Yesterday, it was officially announced that Chey Gildes Alexander, the Oklahoma City Thunder,

won his second consecutive MVP award. And as you guys know, when you're talking about big business with TV networks, each of these networks get certain little bonuses. You get to carry this many games. You get to carry this many playoff games. You get to carry the all-star game. You get to carry the all-star announcement. You get to do the trade deadline.

Well, Prime was the official home of the announcement of the MVP. Okay. Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime. By the way, they had the game on last night, which was... On Prime Video. It turned out of being a complete dud. It was a dud. James sucked yesterday. And it didn't even matter.

It was terrible. Everybody else was great, though. He's not supposed to be the number one option. You know what? He still had six assists, but yeah, he did not shoot well. But Jared Allen, your buddy from Texas was great. Don Mitchell was great. Max Drew.

Longhorn legend. All right, so back to my point. So, the number one reporter, for those that don't know, in basketball is Sham Sharania. Shams works for ESPN and is their intrepid reporter. He's supposed to break all these news. Yes.

Well, ESPN is also a partner of the NBA and a big one. I mean, they carry a boatload of games and they carry the finals and they're the number one television partner. All that stuff. Shams breaks the story. And Prime's pissed.

Ooh. I wanted to hear Matt's how about this. This is a good topic. So what do you all think about this? Does Shams sit on this? Or do you think ESPN is like, I don't care if Prime bought this? You're our reporter. And when in doubt, I can go to, we don't tell our reporters to sit on stories,

regardless of whether we're a television partner or not. It's a little bit of a muddy water here. You got Schaefter and Rappaport holding back on leaking picks, but that's because they're both with ESPN now. Because Rappaport was always NFL Network, but ESPN bought NFL Network. I think you just let Shams do what his Shams going to do. That's his job, no? Yeah.

I mean, if he gets the information, he gets the information. Somebody gave it to him. Somebody in the league offices gave it to him. And it wasn't supposed to do that because I guess the bigger issue would be is who gave Shams that report or the number. And the NBA should be getting mad at that dude, not necessarily Shams. But, but again, if I'm prime and I've spent a lot of money. I'm the one that's supposed to be announcing this, not Shams. Yeah, so Shams, Shams posted on X at 9.50 a.m. Eastern.

And then the, they wasn't announced by Steve Nash until 7.45 p.m. Eastern. I mean, it was not, I mean, it wasn't a good nine hours. It wasn't, I mean, it wasn't a big secret. You're like, hold it for a couple hours? It wasn't a big secret. I mean, in terms of, it was either going to be him or Wemby, but I think it was, but it's to a bigger point. And that's the thing that I, that I'd like to explain to the audience here is that, everything now because of media rights deals boys can be potentially compromised this is the problem

though if shams doesn't do it shams one of the things that keeps shams sharper or on front of mind for everyone and makes him ESPN valuable to ESPN is because he's first so if shams holds this back and who knows mark Stein or somebody else who's not necessarily ESPN there's yahoo guys whatever. They have no affiliation with those leaves. If one of those guys break it first, ahead of Shams, then it's still broken and

it's still spoiled, and then ESPN and Shams don't get the credit, and they're still paying him millions of dollars. So it kind of feels like he kind of still has to do it. Okay, I just, what I want you to do... You can't hold everybody back.

What I want you to do those, let's think about this from a complete all angles of this. If I'm prime, I'm pissed, Mm-hmm. If I'm ESPN, I probably would tell Shams, and clearly they did, because Shams is probably going to ESPN saying,

hey, can I announce this? Right. So how about this, Jonathan? What is, if Adam Silver calls ESPN and says, bra, hey, we're television partners here. I'm giving Prime the MVP announcement. How does the boys, how does ESPN respond back? Tell them to keep your boys mouth shut.

Don't tell as many people. That's like how many people are involved in counting the votes and all that stuff. That's exactly right. Just make it fewer people, make them sign in DAs. And like Ross said, if you're ESPN, do you take that risk for other new... That's right. Let them take it.

No, I mean... Because Yahoo doesn't care. Make only two or three people involved in the counting and then make them all sign in DAs. To me, the biggest issue is somebody's got loose lips at the NBA office. Because Shams is not in the room counting the votes. I mean, Shams could just link this without knowing and be right. The betting odds are like overwhelmingly shake. Now, I can tell you this.

Shams could probably find out who all voted and do his own deduction. Yeah, they do straw polls throughout the year. Yeah. I'm certain voters. I just, but there is definite beef. And if I'm prime, again, I'm not trying, I'm not, look, as I'm saying, there is such a blurry line when it comes to this. But if I'm part, if I'm prime and I'm cutting a check and part of my check is to get this announcement, I'm mad. I imagine you are.

I didn't even know they had the announcement, though. I was just tuned in for the game. By the way, waiting until, again. Seven on a Sunday. They probably have their data or whatever. Yeah. But yeah. And then it was a blowout.

So by halftime, I'm sure they lost everybody. Well, the easiest thing probably, shame's got to have done, it's just called it's 50 reporters and said, okay. And then of the 50 reporters, if 33 of them voted, yeah. You know, SGA number one, it would, you know, he probably could have deduced that, you know, I don't think you'd go on the record with saying that, but, you know, just, it's just, just so you all know, there is all sorts of fine lines. Politics.

Politics. Local relationship with teams. National relationship with teams. Especially when talking about the big money. Yep. Congratulations to Shay Gilges Alexander. Only 14 back-to-back MVPs ever. And a number of free throws he'll get tonight will be 14.

or there's only 14 multiple MVP's. Game one of the Western finals tonight. 10.30 on Sports Talk 790. We were talking about being at Saturday's Astros game. So really fast on

I need a quick economics analysis. Why are the cheaper seats always available? If people complain about how expensive tickets are, the lower level, the midsection, are always full. Probably you sell fewer

season tickets there. Probably most of the season tickets get snapped up at the lower level and those are the people that are more going to the games. Yeah. And you're getting fewer walkups up there? I don't know.

There's also more available up at the lower level, I mean, up at the upper level. So maybe there's more volume. But that's the case in every sport. If you're like, hey, I want to be in the ballpark and I want to do it reasonably, Third deck's your friend.

But those are always empty. I would say at Rockets games, it's the lower bowl looks half empty and then the upper deck looks very full. Yes, that may be the one off there, a little bit there. But yeah, it was just interesting that because I was looking around Saturday at the game

and like 30,000, that's correct, because the lower level was jam, midsection was jam, but the upper deck had plenty of seats up there. Yeah. I guess the question is you have to balance, do I want to sit in the upper deck and not have a good seat at a small price

or a free price sit at home and watch on television. Yeah. There was a good amount of Rangers fans there, too. We had one really loud, obnoxious one near us. We had a suite. We were in our station suite on Saturday, and the suite next one was full of Ranger fans.

It was almost like that somebody from the Ranger Bros, really. Yeah. More than those powder blues? I kind of like the powder blues. I'm sorry to say. I know. I know. I'm in the Rangers, but it's fine. I like the red, white, and blues, too. I'm sorry. I'm just being honest. I told you.

Their fans suck. I despise the Dodgers, their uniforms pound for pound are the best. The white is amazing. The gray with the L.A. Dodgers and the blues. The Dodger blue ones are nice too. Oh my God. So good.

That's okay. We can be honest about things in life. What's the best Houston uniform we have right now of all three teams? For me, it's not even close. Oh, really? Oh, you're going to go with the blues. Sunday blues? Navy Blues on Sunday.

Although they wore them on Thursday. It's Thursday. Yeah. I think sometimes you let the pitcher decide what you want to wear. Yeah. Who's Thursday? Was that Mike Burroughs? I can't remember.

I don't know, but those with the, with the rainbow. I want to change it up, Mike Burroughs. Oh, tonight we got Tatsu Aima. What's he going to wear? Oh, by the way, we got to check the weather here. Okay. Because, oh, he's not going to be happy. Why don't steal my thunder on this?

I didn't steal your thunder. You brought it up. You know where I was going with it, though. Yeah, so I know. I mean, why else would you bring it up? Okay. You better get warmed up. All right.

We're going to play gas and temperature for tonight. Let's see, May 18th, Minneapolis. You want to guess? You can run all over the place here, by the way. They could be anywhere from 30 degrees to 80, right? All right, today's high. Okay, can I guess? I'll give you, I'll give you these in three degrees of the direction.

72. At first pitch, it is expected to be 63 degrees. Oh, well, first pitch, you said today's high. Oh, I'm sorry, 63. High today is only going to be 65, so, yeah. All right, so. Oh God, I hate that. He's going to be fine.

Is he going to say it's too cool if things don't work out well today? Yeah. Well, you need to get heated up. Let's get him in whatever kind of coat, like one of those Tom Brady on the sideline coats. Let's get him one of those. Keep them heated. We keep him ready to go. Will he throw more than two different pitches today?

All right. Oh, here we go. I set the over under of pitches he throws at two. Types of pitches he throws at two and a half. Please hit over. He's going to have the corporate a third pitch. I like trying to get, like, I get where they were thinking.

And that really was like the biggest hole I feel of, just from Tattoo Imai's whole run here. It's like, okay, yeah, he's adjusting. Yeah, maybe some stuff's lost in translation. But going to the two pitch thing, that smelled like a panic move to me. That really worried me. I spoke with a, how do I, I don't want to give out the identity of this person. I would do this. I would say a respected baseball voice.

Okay. And he said to me, he said, I have never heard of a team ever fully admitting to tell a pitcher to forget the scouting report. I feel like that was Tatsu Emi and then they're just covering for him. Yeah. I feel like he said he only wanted to throw two pitches and they're like, okay. Let's try that. Whatever is going to make you happy, pal. So, yeah, this was this.

it feels like a panic move and it obviously didn't work out. Hey, but as I said before, the theme of today's show, they're only five out. Okay, only five out. Only five out. As of this moment.

So, what does AI say about obliques? Oh, let me pull it up. Preventing oblique muscle injuries requires a mix of thorough dynamic warmups, balance, core strengthening, across all three planes of motion and gradual progression of rotational activities.

Can you give us the three planes of motion, Jonathan, Three planes of motion? Yeah, with core strengthening. Hold on. Northeast. Upper, yeah. Upper lower and south.

Upper lower and middle. I mean, I can look it up. I just thought maybe you would know. That sounds very sports sciencey. You were the athlete, of course, and not even close among us. I would know the scientific, like the scientific, Sagitle? Yeah, and then this frontal.

Frontal and transverse. Yeah. There's another radio show in the marketplace is going to give you this. Sagittal, like Sagittarius? Basically, yeah. Three, yeah. So let me ask you, Jonathan, you were in track and field. Yeah.

You had guys that, what was, what do they, when they throw the ball, they put the ball underneath their chin? Shot putt. Yeah. I could see some oblique injuries coming out of that, right? So actually, throwers have the strongest core, like, an athlete you ever meet. Because they're doing hundreds of thousands of ads every day because they need that. Okay.

So we need a shot putter on the training staff. that's what I'm saying. They might not be doing enough to strengthen those obliques because they're trying to get that mobility and that fast bat speed. Yeah, obliques have been played. Now, bat speed has been kind of invoked the last couple of years. So maybe the training, they need to catch up.

So do you think batting coaches, and we'll ask us to Joe to Mars, I'm curious about this. Do you think that batting, yeah, it's a good day. Batting coaches are intentionally asking the guys to swing. Do you think that Jose Al Tuve? That was a big story. In 2012, when he first became a major leaguer, is he swinging harder today than he did 14 years ago?

Absolutely he is. Because remember, he was hitting like 350, with not a lot of pop. And then the last couple years, he's been hitting 20 plus 30 home runs. He has absolutely changed. But that's also with the, I don't know how much of his,

with the times or with he's knowing he's in decline. He used to spray everything and swing everything. And now he's been, at least the last few years, a little bit more judicious and more, with more pop. So he's kind of, he's definitely evolved. I don't know how much of that is evolved with the game or evolved

because he's just, you know, you lose some of your bat to ball skills as you age. It's probably very difficult to balance these things too, because, I mean, you want to train your obliques and your core, but also you don't want to get too much

when you're swinging your bat where you're hurting at practice, because more important is to get those bat swings and, you know, batting practice, right? And I would also say, If we're assuming that El Tubei is adjusting the way he swings, I could get that for a guy who could 35, 36. We're looking at Jake Myers with Oblig.

We're looking at other players around. These are 20-something-year-old guys. What did Jake Myers tell us in Spring Training? Oh, don't say it. You say it. I asked you. You want him more pop. Okay.

He said he was focusing on more slug. And then what happened? He ripped his oblique. So, yeah, maybe there is a correlation here. We want more striders are what we want. We want more fluid swings. More Luis Arrises, Zezez. We want contact.

Like, who would you... Dude, they used to have... You go watch him in like the 1920s. They're like half swinging. Man, here comes. Honest Wagner to the mound. He's hitting 380 because, yeah, he's just popping the ball over second base. Getting singles.

Like, who has a sweet... Y'all can help us out with this. Who has a fluid... I'll give you the greatest swing that I've ever seen personally. I think I know what you're going to say. This person's dead. Oh, never mind. My person's alive.

Mine is dead. Tony Gwynn. Oh, that's a good one. I was going to say King Griffey Jr. Giffy. Giffy Jr. for me is the greatest left-handed bat I've ever seen in terms of a swing. If I wanted to copy a bat.

Yeah. The style. But Tony Gwynn would just, Tony Gwynne never worried about a lot of home runs. He never worried about a lot of slug. All that he did was just hit singles, singles, singles. Yeah, he hit 338, but he, And he never, I don't know what's the most home runs.

I think early in his career he had like a 15-16. And the problem was he didn't have a lot of speed, so he knew that the best thing he would be singles. Yeah. Great hitter. Had a lot of pop. God, dude, Tony. Would Tony Gwyn be loved in 2026?

I don't think so. Not as much. No. Did he ever have a 900 OPS? Probably at some point, but. Well, probably the only reason why you ever had that was because he had so many hits. I'm going to claim, I bet you I'm going to go. I'll make a $1 about it.

He's never had a, he never had a 900 OPS. You owed a couple dollars. Damn, how many times? Three times. $9.58 one year? Damn, good for him. Would he hit $3.70. That's going to help.

That was, yeah. In 87, then one year he had actually in a thousand OPS, but only in 110 games. Wow. But he had, because he had on base of 44, or 454. Wow, incredible. Most home runs in a season he ever hit was 7. and then he had a 9-57 but career 847

that sounds about right all-time great obviously all-time great 713-212-5-790 if you want to join our program today we'd love to have you are y'all out there today good morning 10 o'clockers

oh one more thing about the obliques I wanted to say is that there was a big story last year about the Toronto Blue Jays hitting coaches and telling them to get more bat speed and everybody was saying that's why they made the world series because the hitting coach you told them to speed up the bats I mean, it's very in vogue, and it's so we're in blue.

Obliques. Okay, so if that is the case, then you have to train your body differently. Yeah. And are the athletes, if the coaches are telling to swing harder, are the athletes doing things when they're not in the field of play and not at the batters box that are preparing themselves for that? I do think, Rossi, there's some sort of correlation to that. I think you're right.

I would agree. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-2-5-7-90 it's a Matt and Ross with you here on a Monday we've got to tell the truth coming up at 1130 today 713-2-213-2-5-7-90 right only 5-out that's our theme today I mean it's not my job to try to sell it but it's my job to hopefully keep you guys vested entertained and at least thinking about the local nine. Astro is opening up a week and three game series against Minnesota.

Tatsuui I'm going to throw. Care to put a No. Last time I'm trying to do. I mean, went out there and threw two pitches. I got shelled. You did. I think it's a stater.

I think it's a stately. Jonathan, I saw, you know, I listen to a lot of radio in this town. Most of it's horrific. Ross sold it Tatsui Emi. positivity more than any other sportscaster in this town. I was just trying, I was, I was trying to pale your negativity.

I was trying to pull us the other way. Yeah, how to go. Was it negative or was it realistic? No, you know what I wait? Hey, if you didn't give up that grand slam that two run, home run, he would have had a pretty good out. I do believe there's a difference between being negative and being realistic.

Negative is, you don't want them to ever be successful. Realistic is, you know who they are. Well, we don't know who he is, okay? He's only made fours. No, you don't. He's only made five starts. Okay, so what, uh, why, whose fault is that? What's the start? It took Mike Burroughs like nine starts to have a good one and then, well, he kind of

faltered last time, but that's okay. And Mike Burroughs been in America his whole life. Okay, so we'll give in 10 starts? So no, the book is not written on Tatsuyaeimi. How many chapters, though? One, literally one in America. What's the American chapter? It's part two. Part one is growing up

in Japan. It's written in crayon. It's terrible. No, it's just, it's just, It's a manuscript right now. It's not even published. Rough draft? Yeah, okay. Yeah. All right, we have to do this.

Okay, you write him off for the rest of his life. That's who you and I will never be a good pitcher. Matt Thomas says. No, you just said it. He's just said the book's written. No, we have to write the book for this season. Let's make a bet. I'm not making a bet.

No, I'm not betting on the guy who goes out there and only throws two pictures and get sheled. I'm not put to the money where your mouth is, boss. I'm not going to be optimistic. I didn't say it's going to happen. I'll give you odds if you want. And the positivity is within a range of outcomes. Is it not? Of course it is.

Okay. So let's go. Because if the aster's are only going to be only blank out, they need Emi to help with that. Exactly. They're going to turn this season around, which we're going to hope. He's got to be a big part of that.

We are hoping. Or maybe he's just not going to, we said sink or swim? Well, he sank last week. Can he start paddling? Or do we got to throw him a lifesaver? What does the men's have to do anything? Oh, this guy.

Sorry, that was terrible. I apologize for that, but that's okay. Hit me with a zap on that. That was terrible. You know, you got to do that. You got to dare to be great, Matt. You know what I'm doing? Actually, my blood pressure is lowering here a little bit.

Did you rip your oblique on that whiff? So here's the, when you, when your blood pressure is lower than it was when it was, say, 55 minutes ago, you tell terrible jokes. You're feeling good? How was it? Oh, I mean, overall health? Yeah, I feel a lot better. The doctor got you. Yeah.

We get you roided up. We found out that daddy needs to lower that blood pressure. Oh, really? Who's been telling you to relax for 10 years? And I am highly iron deficient, so that was... I said that too! I know. And I got to cut down on my...

You'll give me a copay. And I've got to cut down on carbs. Oh, really? Yeah. You were doing that for a while. It's so difficult. It is. I matter of fact, today I brought nothing but meat for lunch today.

So you're going to have meat in your mouth all day. Well, at some point. Shout out to Roddy's barbecue. You did a great job yesterday. Oh, yes. Mm-hmm. We had Roddy's a listener of ours, and he and his crew came out to the house and to set the barbecue. We had a fantastic task.

The sources close to the party say you were mugging down on some brisket. I was. He makes good brisket. He does. I'm bringing you guys some lunch tomorrow, by the way, Jonathan. Don't know. We're getting leftovers from the party. Yeah.

Oh, awesome. He made some potato salad that was to die for. Oh, I know. It was some of the best potato salad I've ever had in my entire life. Mm-hmm. And he also made a cucumber. or tomato salad was quite delicious. So Roddy, if you listen, there's your shout-out, my friend.

And he gave me no discount. He's just a listener show. And sometimes you've got to take care of the local listeners. So. Roddy's barbecue. It's very good. Yeah, I think he's going to be, what, in the Heights and the Gardens? One of the Heights Beer Gardens this weekend?

Oh, I think it is Heights Beer Garden he goes to. He goes to, there's another one in Magnolia he goes to. I'll go out and see him. Yeah, good. Good stuff. Yeah, really good. All right. Second hour of the show is about to get underway.

We have a, uh, Cleveland, Detroit. You think you all grumpy rocket fans. Detroit, the number one seed bounce again. 60 wins. And got blown out at home in a game seven. J.B. Bickerstaff, see you later? But he's only been there. Like, this is a head guy for two years, a couple years, right?

Here's the problem. The word is out on J.B. What's the word? The word is he just spends too much time bitching about officiating. Oh, he's not game planning? Yeah. Let's see. Yeah, he's been there since 24.

That's only two seasons. Didn't last long in Cleveland either. No, he didn't. He's kind of bounced around. Because they're going to get in win-down mode right now with that core they have. James Hardin is one series away. Going to the NBA finals. For the second time?

Yeah, first time was Oklahoma City as a six-man. By the way. And he was terrible. Willa. Where are you at? Was that game seven, Willa? Where are you? It was two of ten.

Willa, where are you? And one of them was kind of a put-back layup. I didn't see the first. I don't remember what the first make was. It was bad. Did he even make a three? No. He was 0 of, I don't remember, six or seven.

Yeah, only nine points out. Hey, that just shows you how good Cleveland is. If James sucked the rest of him, he wasn't being there to be the alpha dog. He's not an alpha dog at this stage of his career. He's 37 years old. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. A little hour. Hello, 10 o'clock.

Where are you all been? There's an 8-0-0. just take the life out of the city? It does. A sweep would have been nice. Aren't you happy that I've gone an hour and five would not even bring up the Texans yet? What did they do?

Nothing. That's the thing. They didn't do anything. Okay. We could talk about the NFL. We do a few things NFL. Owners meetings this week. Your thoughts about the owner's meetings? I've been to one.

Oh, really? Yeah. You got to go cover them when? I was there. I was there. Oh, it has. It had it been when I was there covering the Astros and spring training. This is when they were in Kissimmee.

So, yeah, I was going to say probably at least 10 years or so. Okay. It's Hoity Tooty. Of course. They're staying in these amazing hotels and indoor resorts. Naturally. Sometimes the owners are affable and want to come and talk to you. And then there's other times, they don't have nothing to say.

Like Bob McNair, when he was owner of the team, would always come over and at least say hello. He wouldn't try to duck. There are some NFL owners that are probably ducking. My guess is Robert Kraft is ducking any conversation about. Mike Brable and his little hussy girlfriend. You mean his national reporter. Side piece. Side piece.

Yeah. It was weird. When the schedule release came out, some Twitter accounts reported the NFL was not going to put any, like, we need to look at your schedule release before we let you publish it. Because there was the assumption that people were going to take some pot shots at Mike Rable and Diana Rossina. Yeah.

And I didn't look at all 30. two of them. I think some of them did. I think the charters always do something. Yeah. They're kind of like the OGs of these schedule releases. It's the elephant in the room. Why do we have to act like this didn't happen? Why do we have to act like the whole country wasn't talking about this? It's pretty funny.

Well, I think the only people that didn't think that no one was talking about it was the NFL. Everybody else was like, yeah, this is top of mind. If there's some big scandal at 790 in Tampa, we might talk about it. We're in the same company. It's fine. I don't know if it was a same.

with Shams report on the first? I don't know. All right. So the Astros did fall yesterday, 8 to nothing. They did take 2 out of 3. We did play meatloaf. I was happy about that. 2 out of 3 isn't bad.

They meetloft it. You know, if they meet loaf the things the rest of the way, back on the race. Well, if you meet off all season, you're 100-win team. By the way, Phillies have, since their managerial change, have been playing some excellent baseball. They also have an excellent roster with healthy players. Yes.

Rice Harper isn't a heart of their lineup. They're doing okay. Yeah. Who is at the... What's going to be at the top of the Astros? lineup now without two way out. Oh, Pena. Just this week.

Yeah, that's true. At least Pena's coming back. They said Pena and Meyer, Joe Spott said Pena and Myers, perhaps in Minnesota, right? Yes. Okay. And it's a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

They're off Thursday, and then Friday they play the Cubs in Chicago. Oh, Friday's one of those one o'clock day games, right? Yes, sir. Yeah. Love day baseball. We love day baseball.

Absolutely. Who wouldn't? See, this generation, Like my, even my boys don't understand that when I was growing up, there were no night games in Chicago. Well, there was until I was a teenager there was. Yeah. Right until the 80s? But 88, I want to say somewhere in that range, yeah. Well, part of the reason why people thought the Cubs were never going to win was because they were so fatigued because they were playing so many day games.

Really? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I mean, I'm not lying to you. I think they were thinking, hey, 120. I thought it was because of a billy goat. That could have been the case too

But day after day after day of playing in Wow look at this guy He nailed it 1988 Yeah These fools didn't install lights until 88 I knew they didn't have I guess

I knew they didn't have night games But I didn't think that like Even lights weren't installed Yeah there was nothing There were games When they would have rain delays They would have to worry about Maybe being too dark

To finish the game sometimes That's hilarious And remember 120 games Sound really fun in the summertime and in the cool like April May, but man, you get into June July, 120, 120, 120, they were getting beat up. Yeah, I get it.

That makes sense. But they did win the Division 84, so it's not like they didn't, they weren't to have some success, but yeah. A bunch of winers. But let me tell you, there was nothing. And here's in today's edition of, man, it was cool back in the day. Yes. You'd come home from school at 3 o'clock and they'd be in the fourth inning of a game.

I'm like, oh, I get to sit back. WGN? WGN. WGN. and who was this drunk calling? Yeah. Go ahead. Harry Carey, man.

And then that's where I first got to know who Milo Hamilton was, because Milo would do the first three innings and the last three innings on radio. And then he and Harry would flip, and Milo would do the middle three innings on TV. Yeah. So, and they didn't get along. And so Milo's like, I'm getting the hell out of here

and coming to Houston in 85. And yes. continued his legendary Hall of Fame career. All right. 713212-5790. 7132-1-7-190. 57-9-0.

We do have game one of the Western Conference finals coming up tonight. San Antonio versus Minnesota boarded, I know, San Antonio versus Oklahoma City. Man, San Antonio crushed the wolves over the weekend. I'm going to be, I, this is a point, finally some appointment

playoff basketball for me. And all the games, by the way, are on NBC. So it should be very little issues trying to figure out where they are. Yeah, a little round ball rock. Let's go. Yeah. This is the NBA Finals. I don't know.

New York's playing really well. It's the NBA finals to me. Whoever wins this is winning at all. So we're not playing to tell the truth. My version. I still... Oh, dang. And I did change my mind.

It's in 20 minutes. Oh, God. It's fine. I thought... I thought I had San Antonio winning if they were going to play each other, but I think I'm going to change my mind because I really thought that Janlon Williams' absence was going to hurt Oklahoma City. AJ, not AJ Williams, AJ, what is AJ's last name?

I'm drawn a blank. Mitchell? AJ Mitchell. He is played out of his mind. Chet's playing well. Shea's getting a free throw line 15 times. Alex Caruso is a pasty gangster when it comes to defense. Okay.

What do you think I think I was going to say? Pasty gangster? Yeah. Sure, why not? That's what Jim Rome used to call John Stockton back the day, the pasty gangster. All right. Isaiah Hartnstein just floats up those little eight footers over and over again. They're good.

Isaiah Joe, Kendridge Williams. They're loaded. San Antonio loaded. Stefan Castle, Dearon Fox, Wimbunyama. Dylan Harper. What am I forgetting? Harrison Barnes. You're really good.

They're really good. I'm sad. I wonder if... Better than the rockets. Better than the fully healthy rockets. I wonder if other teams, and I'm talking about Raffelstone and everybody else understands that to knock these two boys, these two teams off the top of the pedestal,

it's going to take a really incredible offseason. I mean, seismic moves. You think we're working out here in Houston. they're flipping the, you know what, out of Minneapolis. They have Randall, who was terrible, Gobert, who got beat up in this series, and Anthony Edwards, who's going to ultimately say, look, if you don't give you some better parts,

I'm going to get the hell out of here. He recently signed an extension, right? Yeah, but those things are. I mean, no, you can move anybody. Change those things. So it's in Denver, same situation. What do they do with Jamal Murray and Nicola Yolkich? I mean, there are so many teams.

that are the Lakers. Do you give Austin Rivers, and Austin Rivers, Austin Reeves, a huge contract. Yeah, well, this is the disease we're all party to. Well, we didn't win it all. What do we do? What are we doing wrong?

What do we do? Let's reshuffle this. Let's redo that. Sometimes you're not good enough. I don't know what the, the rockets can do anything. They can trade for Yannis. They can blow it up, whatever. I don't know if they can do anything to be better than Oklahoma City.

So we're talking, you just mentioned Denver. You mentioned Minnesota. We're here in Houston. You mentioned L.A. Everybody's sitting here and when the Spurs, if and when the Spurs or the Thunderloos, how do we get better? How do we do it? Everybody's just like, sometimes there's just not enough resources.

There's not enough great players that you can get that are just going to make you win it all all of a sudden. So I don't know what you do. But it's almost like there's an insane pressure to fix things. Like for instance, I'll give you an example. We'll turn it to the Astros here for a second. everyone is wiggin out about the pitching. Well, just, and that's when although Yordon Alvarez conversation came in a play a couple weeks, like, hey, you can go get three or four line front line pitchers.

Are you sure they're front line pitchers? Just because they throw and have success doesn't necessarily mean they're going to fix your problems for now. If you were to trade Yorda, and I don't want to get into a trade Yorda on conversation, but if you were, you're not doing it to fix 2026. you're probably trading Yordon Alvarez to be good in 2028, right, Rossi? You can't fix this overnight. You can't even fix it another year. I would keep Yord on and then try to be good in 2020 with Yord on at 30 years old.

Which I'm comfortable with. He is, I mean, he's untouchable at me, but nobody's untouchable. I mean, Juan Soto got moved twice. But also is a different, that's because everybody was trying to avoid. avoid his big deal. Yeah. They wanted to get something like, we're not going to pay this guy

three quarters of a billion dollars, so let's get something. We're under that problem here. Yeah. That's true. Moving Kyle Tucker. Yeah. People talking about moving Hunter Brown.

I don't know. I'm moving, Jeremy Payne. Yordon's big money, but you're going from arbitration, which is like 15, 20 million or whatever, to 40 million.

That's a big leap. If you're going from 28 million for Yordon to 40 million, that's not as much of a big leap, so maybe it's easier to take the hit. Yeah. From an accounting perspective, I don't know. All right.

The Athletic has a survey. I love anonymous player surveys. Now, how do you feel about anonymity when it comes to surveys? Because, I mean, sometimes... You get a more honest opinion. But you also sometimes want people to put their name on things, but they won't do it. Yeah, so, I mean, it is what it is. Take what you can get.

We get a little anonymity coming in next. We've got to tell the truth at the bottom of the hour, 713-212-5-790. All right. So I think all of us have been at some point in our life, been part of these anonymous polls. Like many years ago, before you even worked here, there was an anonymous poll about the leadership of this building. Oh, really?

Oh, you ripped them a new one. No, I wasn't even here. I had left because I heard this secondhand. And they had said, people are leaving this company because of this reason and these people. It had to match exactly what my thought was. was. So when I found out about this when I was in Salt Lake City, I was pretty happy, like, man, why don't you take this survey when I was there? Yeah, you felt validated. Yeah, I did. But point being is that, you know, to what you said a minute ago, you do find yourself to be a little more free flowing when you can absolutely not tell anybody what, you know, who you are and what you said. So the NBA had this anonymous player poll. And again, some of the stuff you won't care about and some of you will. So I'm going to give you what I think will be the most important parts. parts of it.

The player poll, and let me see if I give you the number of players that were asked, this is from, they started asking these players from February to April, 161 players. It's a record high. That is pretty good. So that's a really good sample size. Sample size. Yes. Number one, they said, where do you think Janus will be to start next season in the NBA?

Hmm. Okay. Milwaukee overwhelmingly 46% Miami was two The Rockets were 7th at 1.3% Okay Next This is the one that I This is not just about B&B

It's about sports in general And here in Houston Which arena has the most passionate fans? Oh Can I guess? Oklahoma City Not Third

I don't know then Celtics, TD Garden 21% Who's second? Nix, 19%. Where was Toyota Center? It was 4th, right? Okay.

Please stay with me as I do this. One, two, three, four, five. Not there. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, not there. 11, 12, 13, 14, 14, 15, not there. 16, 17, 17, 17. 18, 19. Oh, my God.

There are 20 teams that got at least one percent. Only one percent. Others receiving votes. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. So, of the 161, we didn't make the top 25. How many teams are in the NBA? There are 30. Oh, oh, thank you.

for clarifying that, Matthew. I didn't want to clarify it, but since you asked, it's my job to clarify. I know. I don't know what to tell you. Don't look at me like that. I'll look at the other direction. You're looking at me like, what can we do? I don't know, okay?

That's what you're going to say, are you? Let's think of this from two different perspectives. If you're a, if you're a Houstonian, you get offended by this. Some, some other people would not be surprised by this. But if you're the Rockets, are you horrified by this? that you didn't make the top 25 out of 30? I mean, it's got to be a bottom five in every poll that you ever do, so somebody's got to be in there.

I want to ask Rockets officials about this. How does it, you know, Gretchen Shear, who we've had on a couple of times, the president. What can we do? If I at least could crack the top 25. We are no better. Now, again, this is 161 bros. Yeah. They play.

But they play. And they all go to every other arena. Every one of them goes to every arena, unless they got an oblique injury or whatever. Well, they only play home games. Nobody got a home-only schedule, like late stage Bill Worell. They're not Roger Clemens in this bad boy. Yeah, I'm not getting on that plane. You shut your bum ass up. So 161 guys, we don't make the, we don't get the best we could finish is 26th.

Let's assume for our sake. They're 26th. The best possible landing spot, 26th. Is that because we have other fans of other cities that infiltrate our arena? Is it because we have a later arriving crowd? Is it because it's very corporatey downstairs? But, you know, Ross, I travel on the NBA streets. A lot of cities are corpority crowds in the lower-dove.

That's true. Okay, well, you travel the NBA streets. You go to all 30 arenas. Where does Matt Thomas have them ranked? we need to do better. I don't want to punish. I don't want to rip on fans here. No, you want to rip on them.

But the reality is the reality is that one. It's a lot of corporate. The lower half ball is low. As we were even mentioned earlier in this show, you do have a lot of people that are up in the top. It does get passionate and get going for the occasional, I mean, playoff game. You also haven't had a lot of sustained success to have the city latch on.

I would imagine the Astros, if we went to every sport, I would imagine the Texans are probably bottom third, and then the Astros are maybe more middle of the pack. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So let's go to a couple more here for you. Which arena has the most obnoxious fans?

Obnoxious? I'll go to TD Garden again. That's correct. Okay. Let's go to the Rockets. One, two, three, four, five. Oh, they're on there? You don't know that yet?

I'm asking. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14. So we're not in the top 14 of that. That's good. That's good. Because nobody's in the last. lower bowl, you can't be obnoxious. Here we go.

Now I'm going down the list of others. Attendance is part of the grade in obnoxiousness. I'm going on the list of people that get less than us in 1%. Okay. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Okay, nine, nine. So we're at worst case. We're the 24th of most obnoxious fan base. Yeah, that's a good, because no. I'm just reporting it. I'm not trying to editorial. I would imagine there's a direct correlation between for the most.

part between obnoxiousness and rottingness and best, at least some correlation. Okay. Because you just said number one is Boston and both, correct? Yep. Last one on the list. And this is more about organization and or city. You tell me which

what's the first team on your no trade list. Utah. Utah is 6th. 5%. What do you think, John? Really? I'll let him guess and I got another guess. What did you say? Memphis. 35.8%.

Memphis is first. Look at this guy. Nailed it. Well, think about this. This is a direct correlation to crappy hotels. Well, it's just going to be a Well, they don't stay at the hotels when you live there. You would want to go to Memphis. That way you don't have to stay at the hotel.

I never thought of it that way. Is there going to be think pieces all across the country about this one too? When it happened when LeBron James said he didn't like Memphis? Oh, how can he do this? Memphis is such a wonderful community and I can't believe that LeBron James would say this. This is unconscionable. Here's my

5,000 word think piece about Memphis. So top six, you mentioned jazz six. Brooklyn 5, New Orleans 4, Kings 3, Wizards 2, Grizzlies 1. I think to me this is this particular survey. Wizards 2? Is about the futility of the franchise.

Yeah, I mean, Wizards can be better though. Now they got Trey Young and Is Chris up there? Number one pick? No, he's Portuguese for agent. He traded. But he was with Golden State.

Okay. All right, so here we go. How did the Rockets do on this? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Oh, 11, 12, 13. That's at least 1%. That's good. Here we go.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. We are 19th on the no trade list. Oh, okay. It's good. That's really good, right? Yeah. I guess. Rather be like, you know, 26 like the other lists, but that's okay.

Lastly, what do the smartest team spend money on? Players? This is interesting. Players? Organized investment fan-facing measures. I don't even know what that means. Like the Clippers Wall? What do the smartest team spend money on beyond player contract?

Excuse me, let me make sure. Okay. Organizational investment fan-facing measures, 6.7%. Like the rowdies and stuff? I don't know. The family experience 7.4%. Okay. Like players families?

86% player comfort, staff, facilities, etc. Oh, really? Imagine that. The players voted for player comforts. That's interesting. I can't believe that. That's not interesting. So we're not among the rowettiest places.

People do not. Well, here's the reality, too. Think about this. Some of the worst losses the Rockets have had in the last 10 years have been inside this arena. The Golden State game. The Golden State game. Last year's Golden State game.

Rim Ron Tamps wouldn't shut up. This year's game six. I wanted to punch him right in the throat. Rim Ram Rams? Yeah. Why were rhyming him? You're not a sponsor? Because they went over 27 and three and basically every three they miss.

He was, oh my God! Oh my God! I've never seen anything like this! Shut up! Was he spasming or something? Yes! That's not good. All right Jonathan

It's a double play Wednesday Monday here on the show If you get to tell the truth from Ross You get two points Oh is that true Oh when is this segment Oh God next Oh Christ

Leave Ross alone for a moment Just a moment here 713-212-790 To tell the truth is up next 1130 on Sports Talk 790 So the question is Can I look at you as you read these takes Sure why not

Because John's got a good view, I think. Yeah, I got a good view. You know what I'm going to do? This is the state of the mind. So I'm going to close my eyes. Okay. As you read these four takes, I will not look at your emotion. I will not look at your potential smirks or you're laughing or your small pauses to figure out which one.

So what do we got this week? How many takes you got? Four. I have four. I believe one. Only one of them. It's an all Astros edition. Ooh, this is a special edition.

Remember, John, you get two points if you get this right. I like this. Tell the truth. Ross, the floor is yours. No, he doesn't get two points. Okay.

He's not going against me. It's ridiculous. I was just trying to help him out. I'm going against you. No, you're not going against me. You know what? First of the vote. Oh my God.

Let's give him a six points. No, why don't we give him ten points? Whatever. All right. Let's get this bad boy started. One of the bright spots this season has been, of course,

Spencer Erigetti. He is 5 and 1 with a 1.50 ERA. I've seen enough. Now he's not going to win the Cy Young or anything like that. He's not going to stay at a 1.50 ERA, but I think he will hover. Now, I wanted to say under 3, I think that's a little much. And I feel like 350 was a little high. So stay with me here.

I'm going to say under an ERA of 3.40 all season long for Spencer, Araggetti. The sample size is good. He's striking guys out. Sure, he's walking, so he will give up a few runs. But easily,

under 340 ERA on the season. Felspensel, Elrgetti. I'll write these down. This is, okay. Number two. The latest injury, unfortunately, for Jose Al Tuve.

He's been getting hurt the last couple of years. He's been declining. His OPS is, what did we say, Matt? It's hovering around 700. He's 36 years old. He's at 2428 hits. He's not getting there.

It hurts me. It pains me. An all-time great number 27 retired Hall of Famer. Jose Altovae is not getting to 3,000 hits. And I don't even, like, I feel, I can hear people yelling at me when I say that. If you're yelling at Ross, I feel the pain. I feel the pain. How long is he going to be out with this oblique? How is it going to be healthy at 37, 38, 39, 40?

He needs to average 150 hits for four more years. He's got 40 hits this year. 156 last year. I just don't think so. Number three, the trade deadline will come. and Christian Walker will be moved. I feel like it's pretty close to a guarantee, and I'm going to put ESOC Paredes at a maybe. You're talking about guys who are easily expendable and replaceable when you get fully healthy, when you get Correa back,

when you get Jeremy Pena back. So I think for sure, Christian Walker, the way that he's been hitting, even though he's in a little bit of a swoon, other teams are going to be interested in his services. You're five games back. You're going to be, I feel like, at least, in two months, probably well enough out of the race to have enough people to take the bait on Christian Walker. He's gone. Issaup Paratus I have is a 50-50 shot of being traded away.

Number four, this might surprise some of you. But Joe Espada is going to make it through the end of the season. Dana Brown, I can't say for sure. I think he's going to make it too, but this is more Joe Espada. They're going to get some. players back. He got Jeremy Pena coming back. He got Jake Myers coming back. Hunter Brown's supposed to be mid-June, so that's about a month away. They're going to round into form to get to 500-ish. Jim Crane is not a rash guy. He doesn't just want to do rash things. They're going to turn it around enough to where Joe Spada is going to keep his job till the end of the season. Now, after that, of course, I don't know. I'd probably guess he's going to be gone, but I say Joe Spada makes it

through the 162 for the Houston Astros. You only believe one of these, huh? Only believe one. All right. Jonathan, you and I cannot debate because I believe that Ross and I talked about this off air, so I'm going to recuse myself from giving you my answer until you're done with yours.

So I hate to do that to you. No, that's fine. That's fine. That's fine. I'm up in air for two and four. I don't know. I know Ross has been very... Oh, let me write my big...

Defensive on, you know, Espada. you know, don't blame the manager the players we got to execute. But Jose Al-Tube is at 2,400 hits and he just got hurt. That's, I don't think he's going to get it. I don't think it, but I don't know if Ross thinks he's going to get the dozen hits.

And that's the way I'm falling apart right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If I lose some Ross's questions, is that worse to losing to him? Wait, do I get two points? Hold on. Do I get two points? Do you misses it? Hold on now.

I believe there should be some additional value in going against your competitors straight on even when the rules are changed. But I'm not the judge. We'll figure it out. I got my hands up. I think the safest one is that Ross does not believe Jose Al-Tube is going to get 3,000 hits. So number two. I also believe that Ross believes that Jose will not get the 3,000 hits. So I will go right there with you at number two.

It's going to be a bad sign. Can you get this one. All right. Dang, you guys got no faith in Spencer Arrogatti, huh? Yeah, me either. I think you look at the XERAs and the X-FIPs and stuff like that. He's been extremely lucky. I think he could very well have an ERA around three for the season,

but I think there's impending a blow-up or two so he could get- They're human, yeah. Yeah, he's a human being, even if he hits around 350 or under four, that's going to be a good season for Spencer Arrogati. I do think he'll be under four. I don't know about 3.40. Okay. Yeah, if I'm going to tell you on one hand,

that Joe Spot is making the season, then they're probably not selling off. Christian Walker very could well be traded away, but I'm not going to like guarantee you that he's traded away. So I'm going to go with the, that was one I don't believe either. How about this one, boys? We can obviously say this for gut feelings. If there is a player to be moved, who's the number one, isn't Paredes on the top of the board? I would say Walker or Paredes.

I think Walker, honestly. See, I think Paredes is because A, he's cheaper, B, two, he's younger, and three, he can play multiple positions. Yeah. That's true. I don't have control. Yeah, but Walker's

been great to at first base. He has been good. He's, yeah. Okay. All right, so that one,

so it's down to the last two. I think Jim Crane is going to do everything in his power to get hell to 8 to 3,000 hits. He's going to

trot him out there at like up to age 45. They're going to get him there. It might take longer than we think. And I know we did

talk about this earlier, Matt. This is why I threw you a curveball, baby. Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. You threw me a curveball. You threw me a circle slurve.

Change. No, because we talked about it. And I was like, I don't know that he's going to get there. But I didn't say he's not getting there. Oh, he got me. See, look, here, look. I didn't touch it. I didn't touch my laptop.

I know. I know. I get you. Number four. I think they do turn it around a little bit. You get Hunter Brown back. Tuts you at my, we'll see, whatever. But Burroughs, Erigetti, Lambert,

they can at least get to 500-ish. and then because what's it going to help to get rid of Joe Spada? I don't disagree. And I think, again, I think they're going to have, the fans will riot if Jose Al-Tube is not allowed to get 3,000 hits in an Astros uniform. He's going to be like Craig Bizio at the end of his career. He's not going to be a plus player. He's going to be a minus war player.

I do not. I do not, under any circumstance, want Jose Al-Tube wearing another uniform besides the Astros. Yeah. So there you go. So what was your truth? Joe Spott makes it through the year. I feel like I got hoodwinked on this one, Jonathan.

This is a hard one. During a break, Matt and I talked about it. I was like, I don't know if he's going to get there. Because of the oblique. You really think a spotter was going to say the whole, if they, I think so. Yeah. I can be wrong. No, no, I'm all the time.

I'm with you. I'm with you, I'm with you too. If these, if I did those, if you, if I said those four things, I would have said the four thing. The thing I would have believed was Joe Spott survives. I'm way wrong then. No, no, no, no. Me's you're a wise man. hanging out with the right people.

Oh, damn it. All right, that was to tell the truth. Nicely done, by the way. All right, so Jonathan, you're just... Have you won in the last month? Do I get two points now? I haven't won since March, dude. Oh, my God.

I think I get two points now, right? I think you get two points. No, just kidding, Jonathan. Don't worry. Mark it's zero, dude. It's okay. Just like the Astros. We got time, baby.

It's okay. It's October. All right, there it is. 713, 2,1, 2,000. 5790, 7-1-3-212-5-7-9 if you want to get in. Phone lines open, baby. Phone lines open. Y'all got nothing of y'all's mind today?

Now, why'd you do that? And phone lines open, baby. Woo! I'm doing all the Bat Rouge KBT. We're going to the muddle-land. We're going to party for the Sanis game, baby. By the way, shout out to LSU Master's degree graduate, Shaquille O'Neill. Yes.

Good for him. How many degrees does he have now? Because he didn't. Well, he graduated Police Academy. Right. And he has at least two degrees from LSU. Right? He's probably got about a handful of honorary degrees too.

He graduated from DJ school. Yeah. DJing. Jack Diesel. By the way, he was asked about, and my wife told me this is the story this morning. Yeah, when he flies commercially,

he flies first class, his kid's flying coach. You know, he's a penny pinncher. I do this exact same thing. Where else could he go, though? He has to be in first class. He's seven foot two or whatever. Well, he's also big too.

Yeah. He doesn't have a choice. So that's the reason why probably he doesn't watch the NBA because he's too busy working on his graduate degree. No, he's talked about like saving all his money and his philanthropic efforts and stuff like that. He's very money conscious. Good for him? Yeah. He's on like a billion commercials too.

Yeah. A foot powder, Micey Mott. That general dude. Yeah, general. Like he's America's pitchman. Doesn't he sell like a shakeroni? pizza or something like that. Who's in more commercials in check? Right now? Yeah. He's got to be up there. Charles Barkley's in a lot. John Sina's in a bunch.

Yeah. Is he? Yeah. I don't watch WWE. Is he on everything there? Well, he's a voice of a dealership. Oh, that's right. Johnson and Johnson baby oil, I think he's been doing. What's wrong with you? And the jorts. Jinko Jorts. I should just shouldn't even bring up wrestling to you because it's just... He's on the Rogain recently as well. All right, that's enough. I'm sorry. 1146. 1153 on Sports Talk 7-9. We know that you guys, most of you cannot call.

But if you can call, you're always welcome to come in. Now, we may to argue with you. We may think you're the callers the worst ever. And that could be the case right here with line one, Ross. Let's go to it. Hey! I mean, pound-for-pound Jim's calls are, generally speaking, horrific. Jim, I hope you're having a great Monday.

How are you? I'm doing good because you know what happened on Saturday? they win or winner chicken dinner or it's a gamblers win but that's not why I call good thank God because why why does Joe a spot continually want to go with a six-man rotation he's only probably got four starters

that you think when they go in they can actually win and he wants to keep this six-man rotation you have any idea why he just doesn't go with a four-man rotation you know first of all no such thing as there's no thing as a four-man rotation anymore so in what used to be in 1968 there was

James in 1968 there was was a former rotation. James, I don't know if you know, you woke up in 2026 today. And Leo DeRocher's not just going to go in there and rip everybody. And what was your Leo DeRosher day class? He loves Lederosher. The players are all multi-millionaires. You can't just flip tables and rip everybody. And yeah, it's not, it's 2026, James.

Okay, well, why don't you just change your theme music when Joe Spottis on? Just change it to, it's Joe Espite at Time. It's Joe a Spotted Time. everything is just fine it's Joe Espite is time or anything else James No God no do not let him speak anymore It's Joe Espite's time that's what we're doing Everything is fine

Joe knows everything That just shows you James's calls suck and he kind of delivered Yeah let's not look James I've been defending you you're making it difficult Okay I've been defending you too Do you think Joe thinks everything is fine and it's cool to be 19 and 29.

Well, that rhymes too. Oh, my gosh. Stop rhyming. You know what he made me do it? It's 19 and 29. No, no, no. Don't do it. Neither one of you.

He knows everything's not okay. Let me tell you what Joe Espott is thinking, and he would never say this. I'm going to lose my job at the end of the year. That's what he's thinking. Unless things turn around dramatically and quickly. Because all these guys hurt and they suck. What do you want him to do?

Come out there and say, Tattoo-e-e-Mai is a soft A-B and Peter Lambert and he says a spare part and Mike Burroughs came over for the pirates and he's terrible. You want to call everybody out? Lance McCullors gives me one good start a month. Hey, at least it was good the last time.

It was good, yeah. Let you start light. It's good. Oh my God, what are we doing? Hey, you got to grasp for straws. We can't get a quality start. You got to go for a light one. Tarraggett, he's the only one giving you inequality starts.

Mike Burroughs didn't, and then he got shelled on Thursday or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, the pitchers, the pitchers all suck. He's got to go, he's got to go high leverage. Brian King five out saves. That's his fault. Oh, Bray, who got to be a four out save in a day. Brian, a freaking Bray who's got to give you four out save to win any of these games.

Do you think Joe Spotton wants to be there? No, he wants Hunter Brown for seven. He wants the Brian of Bray of old for the eight. and he wants Josh Hader for the ninth. He doesn't get any of that. Would you like today's edition of Damiening injuries suck? So Al-Tube goes on the injure list, right? Yes.

So Jeremy Pena comes back in and clearly replaces him. Well, guess what? If Altube wasn't hurt, Pena comes back, and guess what you get to do with Cam Smith? You get to send him down to AAA because he's now betting under 200 for the season. His OPS is just above 600. That's not going to happen now. maybe now if Myers comes back maybe you can send Cam Smith down

you have Cam Smith 0 for 2196 Bryce Matthews 204 Bryce Matthew is he your second baseman for the next few weeks I will say this about Joe Spotted why is Bryce Matthews leading leading off

why is the we're saying the player I want to get the most played appearances today is Bryce Matthews I don't agree with that Can I tell you when Jeremy Payne is back This won't be an issue Okay. Good. I know it won't, but you're saying never ever. There's no good. Otherwise, it's going to be Zach Cole or...

The line up yesterday had tremendous holes in it because, again, guys, it needed days off. You had in your lineup in one day. Read this lineup. Can you just read it? Stay with me on this, folks. Bryce Matthews at second. Yorda Nalbarez, second. Christian Walker, betting third. Zach Colt, great kid. Hit a home run. on Saturday. What did he do yesterday? He struck out twice on O-For-4.

Okay. He is your cleanup hitter. Zach Desenzo is your five-hitter. Brendan Shumach? Brendan? Braden? Brayden? Brayden?

Brayden? Brayden? Aggie legend. Is your six-hitter. Cam Smith, who is under 200. Say, ourselves, I'm not done. And then Nick, don't call me Zach Allen. Bet, the ninth.

But the thing about Cam Smith, I'm confused about with the narrative of him. What should the Astros should have done last year? Because I keep seeing on social media that he should have never even been in the big leagues. Oh, no, no, no. That's a new. No, no. That's a revisionist history. That's what I'm first.

Everyone wanted him out there. Everyone wanted Cam Smith to start immediately. You can't put the kids a phenom. I'm betting on him for rookie. We're multiple collars. I'm betting on him for rookie of the year. Camp Smith is the real deal. Well, now because he's slumping.

They're like, well, they rushed him to the big. Correct. You can't lose. Now I'm just confusing. What are we doing here? No, no, it's revisionist history, Jonathan. I'm glad you're getting a good lesson in Astros' fandom and fandom everywhere. Everybody wants them rushed up.

Everybody's all you got to do it. Dana Brown will be an idiot not to put Cam Smith up there. If you took air checks of our show, Jonathan, a year ago March. If Cam Smith is not a part of his team, Dana Brown should be fired. Yes. You know what? And I'll be honest with you. Part of me thinks that Dana got caught up in the public.

infatuation of him. Maybe. Also, they were looking for a spark, too. They didn't have a whole lot of other options. It's not like they had three. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Gashioka, his second home run of the season, and it is 8-0 Rangers.

If you were to name yourself a dinner, for your legal name one, would you call yourself? I don't even know how to, respond to this question. Jonathan, you go first then. Brisket enchiladas. I think I call myself. I think that's me. Does it get more Texan than brisket enchiladas? If you were to name yourself a food item, what would you call yourself as a name?

As an artist? Like meatloaf. Oh, like roast beef? Yeah. I don't think I would go with roast beef. Big burger. Big burger. Just compared to what a slider? Yeah.

Yeah. I like that. A quarter pounder? Double quarter pounder. That's Dave's presence? Big Burger. Yeah, I like that. I think I'd call myself the Texas Rib Eye. Okay.

Yeah, so bad. Thank you very much. Yes. It's fine. You know, Mr. Texas had to be at the game on Saturday. Rangers Astros. You were not Mr. Texas. Yeah, I was there.

You were there, but you're not Mr. Texas. I was a dike in part. You're like, Mr. Texas. Good to see you. You don't believe me, do you? No. That's good. All right, 1209.

Let's get to the news at noon. Yes, Matthew. Well, the news at noon will start with the series of highlights you just heard. Astros take two out of three against the Texas Rangers. Take the 2-1 lead in the Silver Boots series. I had to triple check this. The Astros have won the Silver Boot Series nine years in a row. Is that true?

That's crazy. Well, the thing about the last time they were winning was when the, well, no, They've been good for nine years. Yeah, if you got, they won it in 23, but then, I mean, the Rangers, of course, trumped you because they won the ALCS 4 to 3 and then went on to win the World Series. So they do have that. Obnoxious Rangers fans going home sad, two out of three, but unfortunately yesterday, eight nothing victory. Peter Lambo was a Lambo for four innings. He was no hitting the Rangers.

And then, unfortunately, things came apart. and then he got the bases loaded there in the 7th, I believe. And then Cody Bolton came in and gave a bunch of runs, and they lost 8 to nothing, did not score. I mean, it was a minor league lineup. It was, you'd be like, what the heck is this if it was, if it was spring training, unfortunately. Astros at 19 and 29, Matt, you're going to go with their only five back

rather than they're already five back, correct? So when I say somebody's five back, don't, I tend to think it's more glass half full than glass half empty. Yeah, but it, yes, in May. I mean, I'm sorry, in July or August, only only five back. I feel like in May it's a little early to be five back. Mariners are only two back.

Rangers are only one back. That's the thing too. You're five back at the A's. You also have to hop three teams to win the division. Welcome back, Jeremy Payne you this week. And Jose Altuve left the game with an oblique strain. they're calling it a grade two. Grade two.

Obliak strain. Well, he had been slumping, and he is, I mean, objectively by the numbers, one of the worst second basement in baseball. Not in my book. I know, not in your book. Matt Liddick says, I love him. Yeah, Matt Illytics are always way off, but that's okay. That's fine.

Matillics have him doing a lot better, and there you go. Also, Matt, in the news. Well, I should also say the Astros are in Minnesota for a three-game set. Tattoo on the mound tonight. How are we feeling? Give me the line. Do it. All right it is. I'm writing this down. Write it down. Jonathan, I want yours to.

Not going five. You know what? You know what? Shut your bum ass up. I got him going five exactly. On the nose. Yes. Okay. Anything you get over five. I get five and under. No.

Put some money on it. I didn't say that. Okay. Where do you? How many? You say how many innings he's going? Four. All right, I'll get the over four. That's fine. What's the bat? Bag of chips.

I'll bring your banana. You're going to give him a banana if you want? I don't want your banana. Why not? It's delicious. It's sweet. It's got a little bruise on the left side, but it's fine. Okay.

That can be fixed with antibiotic. Can it not? I'm going to get checked out. No, I just dropped it. Ah. It was just flopping around. Is that what it was? Yeah, I dropped it.

It's fine now. Okay. Let's move on. Let's eat around it. Not eating around your banana. If I'm going to eat your banana, I'm going to eat the whole thing, not eat around it. News at noon, please. So bad.

We're so juvenile. I love it. Okay. What were we talking about? Oh, I'm sorry. Five innings pitched. Three earned runs. By the way, a run.

How many runs? Oh, four runs. So that would be a quality start zero sure. Man, mine wouldn't be five and three earns. That's what I'm going to go with. By the way, recovery for a grade two oblique is typically three to six weeks, depending on severity, treatment, and adherence to rehabilitation protocols. Okay, well, I don't think Al-Tubei's going to adhere to the protocols, I imagine.

I believe it would be accurate, yes. By the way, well, a couple things. Let's start with the NBA news. Shee Gilgis Alexander, back-to-back, MVP. Matthew. Yes. Your thoughts? Deserving of it. Yeah, he gets it. Cavaliers wax the pistons, 125 to 94 in game number seven. We are set for our Eastern and Western finals. Spurs, Thunder tonight on NBC.

Thunder minus six and a half. Got a feeling. Thunder win game number one. And a matter of fact, I will give the Spurs, the points doesn't matter. I almost did this to tell the truth, but I swapped to all Astros just for fun. Yeah. Thunder and five. Ooh. I know. That's interesting.

I know. It's spicy. The chalk would be thunder in six or seven. But I think you, and I know the Spurs had a lot of success against them in the regular season, but that's the regular season. Thunder and five. All right. We're in 2026. Does Oklahoma City win two more titles before 2030?

Please tell me no, but you can say yes. I'll say one. I get three. I'll say they get three. And that's dynasty, right? Three makes dynasty. Yeah, sorry Astros. So the Astros were not a dynasty.

They were a decade of success, but maybe not a dynasty. I don't know. We're the Braves in the 90s of Dynasty. They won one. But man, they were in the playoffs every single year. That's up to you. I feel like to be a true dynasty, you've got to win three. I got you.

It's tough in baseball as well. Okay. Yeah, and then you have Cavaliers Knicks. Nix minus seven and a half in game one tomorrow. So there you go. The Knicks win the East. I think you're right. I think you're right.

That'll be interesting. That'll be a bunch of insufferable national people that are like, my Nicarbock is a winning. Whoa. What? My heart jumped out of my chest. All right. Moving along, the Nashville is expected to host Super Bowl.

What is this? 96. 64. 64 in 2030. Let's get rid of the. By the NFL voters. I got a hot day. We're getting a new stadium, right?

Yes, they are. There you go. That makes sense. Can I get a hot take? Can we get rid of Roman numerals? Just in general? I think it's unique to... It's literally only in the Super Bowl.

But it makes you add a lot of... I don't know. It just feels like it's a lot of extra work. What else do you say, name me one other time you see Roman numerals? Like in your dissertation? Help me out of Houston. Where else do we see Roman numerals besides Super Bowls? I mean, maybe if it's like a big clock?

Or like a... Oh, and a church? The Big 12? Maybe a church? Yeah, no, you're fine. No, we don't have to give me. You can deal with them once a year at the Super Bowl. Okay, fine.

It's 64. I figured it out. Okay. And what else? What else? It's time for a break. Let's do it. All right.

On the recorded line, 713-212-5-790, 7-13. Unless you want to talk about Jose Marino coming back to Real Madrid. That's pretty crazy. Who? And what? Jose-Marino, one of the most successful managers of all time, going back to Real Madrid, basically the biggest club in the world. trying to make an analogy.

It would be like Joe Girardi coming back to manage the Yankees. I don't know. Soccer people help me out at Sports RV. No, I got physicians coming to help me out. This would be like Bill Belichick coming back to coach the... Who's the best team in the NFL? The Seahawks? Who's the biggest brand? Cowboys.

Cowboys. This would be like Bill Belichick. I'm back for the Cowboys. Really? Sorry, go ahead. There's your analogy. Thank you. No other marketplace is going to give you soccer analogy.

to refer to the NFL, except this one. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Just to make sure you knew what I meant. Nickerbockers. That's their name. Yes. The name of the basketball team.

The name of the basketball team. The New York? I'm not saying. Yeah, let's go with that. My fingers on this dump button, man. That's the last thing I have. need or anybody for that matter. Yikes.

No thank you. Just to be clear. By the way, Baylor Doug comes in. Roman numerals and books and of course Chicago album titles. How about that? Okay. So Cameron and I, Malice and I went to the Astros game on Saturday.

We were talking about how there are certain bands that reinvent themselves to either stay relevant or to sell albums. And the number one group that came to mind was Chicago. you listen to a Chicago song in 1973, 25 to 64, or wishing you were here,

feeling strong every day, is a lot different than hearing you're the inspiration. Went a little yacht rocky. Yeah, they went crooner in is what they did. Peter Saterra is like, we need to make some money, and we need to do this with top 40 hits.

Hard habit to break. Chicago, a little known fact, first concert I ever went to live with a band. Now, I did see Captain T. When I was four years old, that was more of a July 4th celebration of Detroit. Okay. This was the, I saw Chicago at the summit in 1986, I think. It was after Chicago 13, I think.

The album name. Okay. That's all I got for you on that. I'll take your word for it. And I'll give you another band that reinvented themselves in order to make some money. And a lot of it was because the band guys were all getting sick. The Doobie Brothers, you listen to Blackwater. That's a similar different than, what a fool,

leaves. Okay. That's all like that. I'm trying to look up other bands that really changed their sound. Oh, this is a good one. The Beatles changed their sound. Jefferson Airplane. Yeah, but they more evolved. They didn't do it to say. They were selling a billion

records and changed it. No matter what they did, they sold them. Yeah. They wanted to change to kind of do what they wanted to do and then they became even more successful. Who else? Jefferson Airplane to Starship, people are saying. By people, I mean, I just read it. Gotcha.

Who else really changed their sound? Would you say Elton John changed the way his songs? Not really? Big rock and roll to more of a crooner towards the end? I mean, he has to take about evolution or doing it just to sell records, I guess? Billy Joel, did Billy Joel change himself much? Not really. Yeah.

I mean, he made that one doo-op album. It was terrible. But we were in the car during the 70-minute drive home, which was we were dropping F-bombs the whole time, but two of us were. and I put on Oh, here's a good one. Go ahead. But putting Chicago's like,

that's the same band, that's the exact same band. I know. People talk about Taylor Swift starting off country. I don't. Now did she just evolve? Or did she change to sell records?

All right. Last thing about music and I swore we move on. So Carly had her party yesterday. Do you ever really sit back and listen to Taylor Swift's music? No. Do you know, and again, this is going to get the Swift.

He's all mad at me. Here we go. It's, and Jonathan back me up on this. Please. With my headphones on here. Isn't it literally songs about breaking up with boyfriends? A lot of them, yeah. I mean, 80% of her songs are that way.

Yeah. About men problems in coming to AIDS. Yeah. But basically it's, you left me at the front door. I was sad. Then I got mad. And then I sang about you. You know, I'm just throwing things out there.

That's pretty good. That was awful. actually. I can sell out some stadiums, man. I cannot sell out stadiums. It could not sell out stadiums. I've been, I get, I get it's not for me, but she's so wildly popular. I try to understand and do,

listen to a lot of different spheres of music. Yeah. And I just haven't gotten around to it because it's like, but I sat, we were getting ready for the party and I'm listening this song. It was like, you left me and then I went down and then I was sad and then I went around and then I thought about

what you did to me and I'm the one. It was like, Jesus, it is really about her writing about a guy dropping her. And just think, I mean, that's why she's very popular because it's very mainstream girl problems. Yeah. You know, just. Mm-hmm. Dude.

Mm-hmm. Dude. I don't dislike her. I mean, I don't dislike her. I mean, when the song comes in the car, I don't get it, but I don't, like, this is not like, I don't turn it off. I don't turn it off, no. I don't, I don't think I've ever been in a car when I've been driving and Taylor Swift has

come home. You don't need to hang out with Carly Thomas. Unless maybe it was like Sunday 99.1 and her Christmas, she got a Christmas album, I imagine? I'm sure she does. Okay. By the way, I was watching Sunday today yesterday. Bubez, you know that?

Michael Bubez? Of course, Michael Bubey. He's probably the, I mean, most famous and relevant crooner of the last 20 years. All he does is sing White Christmas and he's making hundreds of million dollars. He just does Sinatra stuff. Yeah, he just does like a big band. Frank Sinatra, Mel Tourmey,

D. Martin, stuff. He's carved on a nice niche for himself. He's not as good as any of them, but he's the best going now. If it ain't broke, don't face it. Yeah. He's doing quite well. He was on the Today Show yesterday,

and he's like, I'm thinking about doing some country. I'm like, why are you jumping out that beat? Go back to what your roots are. Darius Rucker did it. Post Malone. Kenneth Lamar? No. Shibuzi? Shibusi.

Yeah, I forgot about Shibusi. All right. Paul and Meyerland at 1229. Hi, Paul. Say, a quick thing on the band of Chicago. Yeah. So Jimmy Hendricks was in L.A. back in, I think it was like 68 or 69. Sports Chicago was even heard of. He caught the show.

He went to him after the show. He said, man, your horn section breath was one lung. And your guitar player is better than me. You want to go on tour? and the rest was history. Wow. That's a nice poll. Thank you for telling us about that. Wait, Jimmy Hendricks played with Chicago,

or he went and saw Chicago? I think he saw them and found them. Oh, okay. Apparently, there's a long mini-series about Chicago, the band, that CNN did a few years ago. Better ones have been saying you get to watch a documentary on. Okay.

I don't know. To me, I'm much bigger fan of older Chicago and then they haven't put it out new lately but okay what's Chicago's favorite song I'm throwing a blank this song

there's Saturday in the park oh that's a good one 25 to 64 you're the inspiration that's the crooning a version wishing you were here I love that one

but that takes a long time I get people to get into so I'm more of a Hendricks guy than a Chicago guy Chicago's fine I would go see I mean they tour all the time they do

I don't know I don't think that's many I'll set the number at 1.5 oh you're sitting there's I think a half a body comes out? Oh, it's the number, man. Oh, I got you.

I got you. All right, back to sports. Please. What are we going to talk about? Our squad just lost 8-0. We can't break down yesterday's game. You certainly don't want to look at the box score. Yeah, it's 8-0.

And that was not a good lineup. Do you want to stay away from Sunday games? What do you mean? You should not watch them. Gordy takes them all. I appreciate that. Or go to them? Oh, I liked a little midday.

I like a little midday baseball action. I think Sundays are great chill days to go to the ballpark. Yeah, exactly. Then you go home and you settle your affairs and get ready for sleep. What exactly? What affairs are you settling? You know, Sunday stuff, you know, doing laundry or doing dishes or whatever. Take a nap?

Sunday, yeah. Do you watching the PGA championship this weekend? I have no clue. Who won or was, I didn't watch a second of it. I watched the NBA semifinals, Eastern Conference. I didn't until I fell asleep

because it was like 30 points. I watched the Astros and I watched the semifinals. I mean, so I watched six hours of sports. You did your job.

Yeah. Thank you for doing your service. All right, 1232, Sports Talk, seven out of you know. Hearing this sound like on a nice

May day, running your errands. Can't get you fired up for the weekend. Or like a Saturday in the park. Yeah. It's nice. It's a nice,

light, easy, fun. Yes. Yeah. Jam. Ross's perfect picnic basket in the park on a Saturday is what's in it? Oh, in the picnic basket. Oh, like a charcutory something?

I don't know. You create the menu. Sub sandwich? Sub sandwich, some grapes and cheese. Fried chicken. What the hell? Potato salad. Either flavor mustard or mayonnaise.

I mean, chicken's going to cold by the time you get out there, right? If you go pick it up. So you're going, you're heading straight from the Montucky Mide-Micken On to the picnic Or I could go to the grocer and get it done Well, rotisserie chicken wouldn't be terrible Okay, you're going to spin it out

You know, on the spool at the picnic? That's right, that's right I like to grill at the park Well, I'd cook myself How I'd bring a picnic basket Yeah, I'd just go with a sandwich Maybe some chips or some grapes, some fruit Cheese?

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Keith is with us on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. Keith, good morning. Good afternoon to you. Hey, how you are you doing? Good. Last week about He does way more for San Antonio than that person

That won MVP All he does is And his rebounds He's a monster There's nobody Straight up here Hit up for Victor I think they do it for Shea and Holmgren

What do you think? Do we bring that up, Matt? No We brought it up last week Is there a single player And the answer was we could not find the team Remember, there are other teams that would do it. It would be whether the Spurs would do it.

Right. So the question would be, would San Antonio trade Victor Wambayama for Shade Gilder's Alexander straight up? No, they would not. If you threw Chad Honger to the mix, my guess the answer would be they probably would do it at that point. Matt, nobody goes to Alexander, but people all over the world would go to see San Antonio, to see Victor.

Yeah, but he is the face. He's the face of the NBA. Yeah, that also has to do with the fact that, I mean, he's seven foot four. He's just, he's more of a freak of nature than Shea Gilger's Alexander is. Alexander is just a more skilled, especially offensive player. The only thing, you know, hey, let me tell you, Simon, thanks, Keith of the phone call. The only thing that's holding will ever hold Victor back, will be something that will be discussed with every basketball player that's over seven feet tall, and that's health.

Mm-hmm. it's hard to be 7-1-7-2 and not have some role in the NBA whether it's as a rebounder whether it's a shot blocker whether it's a finisher I mean look Rudy Gobert wins defensive players of the year it's not because he's got this great intuition where to be he's just got a long arms and a good body well he's got great intuition too man come on he does but he also made the foul trouble would have won it every single year I know I know but Joe Chi would have won five

Hey, let me know Joe Chi-Chio. He had like an 8-foot wingspan, and he's like in China, back in China. Yeah. Yeah, where did he, did he finish second? What was the voting? I don't even know if they released it. And then injuries have already been an issue, 71 games, 46 and 64 in three years. And if and when he'll break down.

But the Spurs are acutely aware of it as we are. They're trying to do everything they can to limit his minutes, limit his exposure out there on the floor. No, he, he, he, he. You know, his team is teasing by Zion Williamson. Wemby's never playing 70 games in a year. He already did. I'm talking about it again. Okay.

Yeah. And I don't have a problem with that. Yeah. What were the ailments this year? I wonder if he would have got, because he's got at least to get to 65 because they want to have him awards. So if he can play five more than that, I think he can do 70, depending on what they're going to do.

Yeah. I mean, I think 70's reached, but they're going to make a concerted effort. I think for the rest of his life, they're going to worry about his minutes. Yeah. He will never be, you know, like, for instance, a man played 36 minutes a game. That will never be on Victor Wenba's resume ever. I don't think so either. Speaking of a man, I want to talk to you about this.

I talked to me about all fair. So Asar Thompson, for those of you that watched, and I don't know how many of you did, I'm, unfortunately, but it's okay. But that's, we're still going to talk about it. You'll bring it home to a man. It's fine. Amanda Asar, these twins, and I don't know Asar at all, I've never met him. I love, I personally love a man. He is such a good dude

And I just love Just about every aspect of his game The other The one obvious aspect is The field goal shooting outside of 12 feet is very limited Mm-hmm There was somebody on Twitter Or maybe it was a podcast

That was crushing the hell out of a SAR Saying go Go shoot Go learn how to shoot Because you're holding back Detroit Because of the fact That you don't have a shot And I

And I asked this to Ross off here, and I'll ask it on here here. Did, you have to learn how to shoot. You just aren't born with the ability to knock down 15 foot shots. And I know a men's work ethic. I don't know ASRs, but I'm going to assume since they were bros, they were little twins, they played on the same teams. They did the same things. They're top five picks.

They have work ethic. They absolutely do. And thrive and top five picks and third. thriving in the NBA. But they still have the same element and it's crazy. How do, and if you don't know the answer, that's okay. But how do they have the same helmet? And it's not, Rossi, it ain't just not being a good three-point shooter.

It's outside of 12 feet. The Detroit Pistons have the same issues with Asar that the rockets, some rocket fans feel about a man. Now, I think a men's a better ball handler. I think Assar probably a little bit better. a defensive player, but it's not like a men's not a good defensive player. A man can play four positions. A sara cannot. I mean, they both have incredible, incredible skills to their game.

But they both share the inability to hit shots outside of about 12 feet. And that, that to me is a tough pill to swallow. They've been playing ball since they were probably three or four years old. They've been playing high school ball. They played the AAU circuits. They played the G League. And yet, you got two amazing. basketball players, two guys are going to be insanely rich.

Osara's defensive player of the year. A man may win it at some point in his life. But the outside shot, neither one of them can brag about at this point. Isn't that crazy to you? They're both about 25%. Well, they are identical twins, so they're identical genetically. It is interesting.

This year, far into their career that they haven't either of them, and they just might not have the capability. How many times is Giannis Satintacompo? tried to work on his shot or whatever, it'd be a three-point shooter. He never really turned into a three-point shooter. I think he's had a good stray year here or there. The crazy part for me, though, is they're twins.

Yeah. Is that the bull... I don't know, maybe it'd be crazier if one of them shot 40 and the other one shot 25. Yeah, because you didn't say, well, one of them put more work in the other day. Yeah, or what's the deal, yeah. But there's no doubt in my mind.

They both did... One of the Morris twins was a better shooter in the other, right? Was it Marcus or Marquief? I can't recall. That's a great question. question. I don't do a deep dive at other twins. Yeah, Janice is entire career 28.5%. I'm trying to think, how many twins in sports have there been, and do they have the same

characteristics? Seth and Steph Curry are great shooters, but also, so was their father. Everybody's got a ceiling at some point aware. Like, if you and I went in the NBA, we wouldn't shoot 25% from three, no matter how hard we worked. 25% of three maybe is a little better than we we think just because of how good these guys are. Yeah, Steph and Seth, they're not twins. And they're not. But they're great shooters. The Barry's kids were all great shooters like their dad. So maybe some of this is genetic. I don't know.

But it's... Maybe Mr. Thompson not a great shooter, apparently. But it's like, I can't imagine Mr. Thompson going, kids, go run those dribbling drills. Go work on your defense. No, of course. Time not for shooting? We're good.

I see before every game you see him in Thompson out there getting up a bunch of shots. He works on it. Everybody has a ceiling somewhere. And unfortunately, some of that's the lower spectrum, right? If they can practice until they're blue in the face, they'll only shoot 25%. Otherwise, is Steph Curry, is he's just the greatest shot practicer of all time? Or there's some genetics to it?

Of course there is. Because he's also an insane golfer. He's just got insane hand-eye coordination. But you would think for two guys that the hardest part of their sport isn't defense. Is it's harder than shooting? In theory? No, I think, I wouldn't... I wouldn't say it's harder?

It's different. You have to be strong, athletic, smart, positional, and... But there's nothing... They have extreme quickness. There's nothing enjoyable about playing defense. There's an instinct about it, too. Like, Amin Thompson can cover the whole floor

when he's just, like, when he's on his game. It's crazy. Also, as well. Kenny Atkins said, after the game, we built our whole offensive game plan, wherever Osser is, throw the ball away and give it to somebody else. And that's what shows you. That shows you how elite

he is on that end of the floor. But the core of the sport requires you to put the ball in the hoop. And Assar and Amen. Now, Amin still gets 19 points a game, despite the fact he doesn't shoot very well. I mean, inside 12 feet, he's 55%. That's crazy. Yeah. It's crazy.

He's only at 10 points a game. Amends like, what? He was 18, 17, 17, 18 this year. Yeah. It's just, it is weird how those two guys are so good at their sport at the same age, literally at the same birth, one few minutes after the other, and both teams, I mean, Detroit Sports Radio today is doing, how are we going to get Assad and take the next step? Got to shoot better.

I think there's people that are rocket fans that are here going. We might be waiting a long time. All right, 1248 on Sports Talk, 790. 713, 212-5-790. If you want to jump in, 7-1-3-212, 5-790. All right. Missing news coming up at 1.30.

We'll check on former Astros, see how they're doing. I believe, oh, I know for a fact that Frommberg out of Outta starts tonight for the Detroit Tigers after his six-game suspension. I thought he got another start already. Or did he? Okay, or did he? Find out more tonight or this afternoon. No, or in 36 minutes. Yeah, this afternoon.

All right. Let's go to B. North Shore. Biggie, what do you got today? What's going on with you there? Hold on. Let me let you my partner to talk to you all the five. I want you to take a poll because numbers matter in this situation to make it factual. You know, I want you to go and take a poll and see do CJ deserve his money right now?

I can barely hear you. A C.J. Stroud? Yeah. Yes, CJ's truck. Whoa, whoa, whoa, we're settling an argument, I think. Are you guys arguing? Are you at the barbershop? What's going on?

I'll say a lot of people feel like he wants his money, that he should get his money now. I told him half the city is split. So that's what we're talking about. He said he's never met anybody who said CJ deserve his money now. Well, what kind of, hold on, hold on, what kind of money we're talking about? Give me some dollar figures. His new contract.

We know the baby Ben's contract. The new one is coming up. I don't agree with him. I mean, I agree with him that he needs to wait, but there's a lot of people who disagree with me, and I'm being on Twitter texting Twitter all day arguing. So that's what I'm telling him. He said everybody on your show.

That's why we're calling your show. He said the majority on your show. All right, all right. What are our name? Hey, hold it. So you go slow down. What are our names? I said 50% of the people want him to get it.

The other 50% want us to wait and let's see how he play. Biggie, what's my name? Matt Thomas. That's all I was a little nervous there for a minute. I was a little nervous. Thank you, Biggie. All right. Biggie, I'm going to let you.

Who's the other guy with you there besides Biggie? What's other guy's name? He's my partner. Man, it's D-Nale, man. D-Nales? Yes, sir. We call him books. Book?

Where y'all right now? Are you at the office? What are y'all doing? No, no. We're sitting in a, look here. We write by the barber shop in a, hood. This is when we all sitting in here arguing about this. That's why I was like, let me

y'all's Matt. Hey, we're going to find out. I want to come to y'all's barbershop. I want to, because I love getting mute some good. Y'all do a straight razor shaved out of that barbershop. Man, we'll take care of you. We'll take care of you. That's what I like to hear. Yep. All right. It's mobile. It's mobile. Come to the house. It's a mobile one. Look here.

All right. I got you. Joe Jackson, man. All right, we'll see you, Biggie. Thank you very much. And D's name. It's not D's nails. And D's Nails. Or D's Nails. D-Nail. D-Nail, also known as book. Book.

I want some nicknames like that, too. Oh, we've got a lot of nicknames. Fancy Matt. I don't like any of them. High horse mat. Full-throat Thomas. Oh, my God. Mr. Texas.

Peach basket. No, not that one. I'm going to presume he's thinking $50 million a year. Would that be? Is that a lot of talking about it? Does he deserve it or does he, is he going to get it? They're asking. Are most people saying that,

Is it split that most people say he needs to get paid? I would say it's probably 80-20 say he doesn't need to get paid right now. And I think maybe even 80-90-10. And I think that 10% is saying if you don't pay him now, you're eventually going to have to pay him and it may cost you more money in a couple of years. I guess. But I think David Mulaggetta and his people are saying he needs to get paid.

But I don't think most Texans fans are saying pay CJ now. It would be very difficult to go walk around town. Should CJ Stroud get paid now? Do it. Or later? Well, how do I even phrase this? Well, the problem is, we got to put a dollar. No, they're going to call me a clown.

Like they did when I asked about brown gravy on chicken fry steak. They're like, you idiot. Why would you put brown gravy? I'm like, hey, it's not me. It's not me. Okay? I'm getting attacked. You say it's a show topic.

So you know what? Yeah, you put it on your Twitter. It just be like show topic. I'm tired of getting attacked. It's enough. I don't want you being intact over brown gravy. Exactly. Over your, your terrible food opinions.

And then I put a poll up. I always get attacked about your terrible food opinion. Shut up. Number two, what was my opinion about brown gravy? You love it? On a chicken fried steak. Did I say I prefer it? Do you love it on a chicken fried steak or don't you?

I do. Okay. But I also love cream gravy on a chicken fried steak. Okay, you're wrong. Oh, I can't. Oh, you're now gravy shaming me? You're getting gravy shamed. And gravy trained.

We just created something brand new. Have you ever been gravy shamed? 84% to 16%. Jonathan preferred brown gravy. He's the one that really got me in trouble. But I'd address. I thought you said you preferred brown. No, that's true.

I'm just saying, you know, you asked me. Yeah, we just asked your opinion. It's fine. I mean, you want brown gravy, it's fine. It's all good. But I would say the majority of people, to answer E and Dean and Books question, the majority of people do not want

CJ Straub paid right now. This is the Matt Thomas show with Rock. We'll 5 on Sports Talk 790. Madden Ross, we'll be here until 2 p.m. today. We got missing you. Coming up at 130. Believe it or not today at 150.

Let's talk to Willie and friends before we get into a little conversation about our good friend Jose Al-Tuva. Willie, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon to you. Yeah, we were watching the game yesterday. and Altuvae is so frustrating. He's played for years. The pitchers know what to throw to him because he's going to go after it,

even if it looked like it's a clitor off the plate. And then, right, yesterday he reaches for it and throws his body into all kind of torques. No wonder if he's injured. He might as well just strike out. I mean, that's where I feel by a lot of the batters. He's going for pitches like that? I guess he did strike out on that pitch. But Willie, Willie, no, no, no. You're talking about, first of all, it was Saturday.

Second of all, it was a ground ball that he didn't run out. And third, you've watched Jose Al-Tuvae play. He's one of the best badball hitters in recent Major League Baseball history. So if there's anybody that I would trust outside the zone on this current lineup, and really over the last 10 years, it's probably Jose L-Tube. Would you not disagree with me? Or agree with me, I guess? well most of the time

I would but I swear yesterday there was a pitch he went after and that was when he pulled something as oblique yesterday he was on Saturday he didn't play yesterday yeah he didn't play yesterday oh okay all right Saturday then

I'm sorry that's okay that's right I'm mistaken that's all right but too many games running through like NBA I know I know at least you're die hard for that we appreciate You're watching it good and bad. That makes me feel good.

Yeah, but anyway, it happened Saturday. Okay, so he went after that pitch. But he does that constantly. And he's gotten better this year at letting balls go by, you know, not swinging at everything. But this is, for me, it's so frustrating when you see that. Thank you. He's injured himself.

But anyway, I just want to make this one comment. We were looking up the cougars yesterday, and it looks like C-MAC is leaving the basketball team C-neck? Yeah, he declared a long time ago. Oh, I thought he was still thinking about it. No, no, no, he and Kingston Fleming's are both out.

Yeah, and Sharp is gone, and I guess Milo is gone too, right? Milo's Suzanne, yeah. Yeah, so we're basically going to have a new team. Yes, yes, but you know what? But the money is good at U of H? Yeah, chicken knolls is gone as well. Stop. I'll not be back.

Get out. Every time you bring up chicken knoll's name, you get a one-day suspension without pay. How about this? I won't mention chickenoles if you don't cuss and discuss. Forget it. You can bring up chicken. Shee! Have you made your Texas trip yet to London?

Well, the time change you call? Did you book your tickets? To London yet? No, I'm not going. You know when you're going. Come on now. No, I'm not going. A road trip to Jacksonville?

No chance. Where are we going with this? I felt like I had to... Yeah, Willie, yeah. The Cougars will be fine. Oh, I think we got a lot of money in the Cougar basketball. I mean... What do you mean?

Cash infusion? Like... From Kelvin Samson? Like, the dollar amounts I'm hearing? Okay. Somebody had taken care of the Samson family. That's good. And thus the members of the team.

Okay. Now, with them not being nearly as marketable as maybe previous years, maybe you'll see me more on ESPN Plus games. So there's a little bit of indirect benefit. Just saying. Okay. Can't wait to catch those. But Jose Al-Tube, Matt.

All right. Now with the oblique. Okay. Jose, to me, and I've watched a lot of baseball, you've watched a lot of baseball. He's a bad ball hitter. Has been. I'm not taking that out of his repertoire.

far? Now, is the bat slower today than it was nine years ago? Of course it was. But he's drawn more walks in the last two or three years and he certainly did in the previous seven or eight. His walk ratio is up this year, 10.3% from 8.4 last year, 6.9 the year before. But the question is now with this oblique injury and he is at 2428. 2,428 hits. does he get to 3,000 now at 36 years old? If he's averaging 150 for the next, what, four years, he comfortably gets there. It's a grade two oblique strain.

He's going to miss some time here. Three to six, as the doctors would say. This is not going to be the last injury he has. Look, last three years, OPS 797-71-706. Now, the book is not written on this year. Correct. He can come back and bounce back. I'm telling you, start it off hot.

I think he's getting there. It's just going to take a long time. Hmm. And the most important thing for me, Rossi, is if he's going to do it, he needs to do it in an Astro uniform. I do not want the one-off going somewhere else and let those folks, whatever a city that is, celebrate his success with 3,000 hits. I think it would have to be an Astro's uniform for a couple more reasons because Jim Crane

wouldn't want to let him go. And also because, I mean, like at the end of Craig Biggio's career, he, It's not like other teams are banging down the door to have him on their team. But it'll be curious to see how much of a contending team the Astros are in a couple of years. If they're going to have to hard reset this year or whatever and continue to put him out there if he's not competitive as a player. Because we've already seen the defensive flippage. We've seen the decline there to where they've tried to stick him in left field. He didn't work.

Now he's back at second base. And he hasn't embarrassed himself, like you say, but also if you look at a lot of the defensive run saved, out above average. He's not very good out there, and he's actually very bad. The biggest thing going against him, honestly, is if Yordon is the future D.H and has been for quite some time. Yes, right. You could easily stick Al-Tubei as a D.H every day and not worry about it.

That's true. But you can't do that if Yordaun is going to be the D.H for the foreseeable future. I'm telling you... Some people want Yoron gone. He's... Altube is going to get there. It's just going to be... It's going to be a grind.

and I think the oblique doesn't help he's got to try to stay away from the DL he's got to ultimately I think the home run stroke is largely not a part of his game anymore he only has had four home runs this year so I don't think he's swinging for the fences he's maybe just looking for more solid contact

he's still going to play a lot I mean he wasn't taking a whole lot of days off before this injury yeah last year he played 155 games but I think that's also because of the injuries I think they wanted to give him rest days half days DHJ being a half day, stuff like that, but they just haven't been able to. Honestly, the best bridge from the greatest heyday of Astros baseball

to what the future will be, will be Jose L Tuve. Think about it. I think they let him do it no matter what. Yeah, I do too. So don't worry, friends. Jose L Tuvei, it might take him a while. You may have a few more gray hairs up on top, but our guy's going to get his 3,000 hits.

113 on Sports Talk 790. Sal is going to talk to us. He wants to talk about wholesale, too, but we'll get to you guys as well. 713-213-21-2-5-790. 7-1-3-2-790. Matt and Ross with you here until 2 p.m. A reminder, once again, coming up in about 18 minutes, missing you. How are former Astros doing around Major League Baseball?

113-212-5-7-90. Oh, damn, Gremlins. Matt and Ross with you. You're going to be astonished at this week's edition. of missing you. Really? Yeah. Okay, I'm ready to be astonished.

I mean, that's maybe a strong turn. I'm ready for alive or dead. I got crash and burned in the last one. Yes. Yeah. For those who we're going to play, believe it or not, crash dead or alive, I will ask Ross first.

You don't have to listen to Ross's advice. He's just going to just jump in and try to play along with you. I probably shouldn't listen either. Yeah. Wow. I have my advice. Now, no, I was on point for like a couple times in a road to where Matt,

it's like, we're going to kill the bit. I don't want to do the bit anymore. Because you were batting like 950. I know. And then all of a sudden I just cratered like El Tuve's OPS. I know. That was rude. I'm sorry.

You know what I'm right then. Friday 1130. I apologize to the El Tuvae Estate. I'm sorry. He was like an 1100 OPS. He was walking all over the place. We're like, oh, some new L2E. So the home run he had, the lead off on Saturday was like the first for home

money had a month. Isn't that crazy? Walk rate. Yeah. He had really high walk rates actually in 2022. and 23, and it took a massive dip, and then it bounced back this year. But unfortunately...

To me, Jose will always be known as a free swinger to me. I don't know him any other way. Now, again, I will say this. When he was younger and getting 200 hits or spraying around 175, he would never take a walk. You'll be happy to hear this, Matt. We have metrics on that. There's zones, a swing, swinging percentage at pitches in the zone,

and there's pitches swinging percentage outside of the zone. And what you got? Oh, you're going to pull those up? We'll talk to Sal first. I thought you were about to throw some numbers at us. I could, but it's like, I feel like, you know, it's going to get lost in the sauce for most people, but, you know. Sal with us on 7-0-A. Hi, Sal.

Hey, guys. Really enjoy hearing the Chicago. I thought you guys might be playing a little bit of George Strait today since it's 74th birthday. I did not know that. Happy birthday to George. Yep. Anyway, you guys were talking last week about Dusty Baker's podcast. Yeah.

And I actually did watch that. and I'm thinking that Altuve is going to have to go the way that Billy Wagner went. Probably have to wait 10 years for the Hall of Fame or maybe the Veterans Committee. No, I'm going to stop you right there. No chance. No way. No how. He's getting in the Hall of Fame.

He will not have to wait. In fact, I will even tell you, I'll go one step further, Sal. I will bet you an order of what's the place in Orlando that serves the ribs. Mickey's. No. Oh, God. Whatever. I'll figure it out.

I'll bet you a barbecue dinner at that barbecue chain place in Orlando that he's a first ballot hall of fame. Cecils? No. All right. Well, okay. No way veterans committee. No chance. Shrimp company?

No. Well, I'm just going by all the booze he's taken. He's born the brunt of the whole science stealing. But you know what, though? Fans don't get to vote. It's the human beings. get to vote. It's the respected baseball reporters. Uncle Tony's?

Well, I just look at, Wagner took so many years to get in. I was thinking Altuve is probably going to take a few years. I hope it doesn't go 10. Now, the other thing, talking about fans, will he be booed in Cooperstown when he gives his acceptance speech? No, because people want

that rude. Well, you never know. Sunny's. In New York, you know. Sunnies. We're going to Sunnies for a rack of ribs. Your treat. Okay, that sounds good. When you're in town with the Rockets, I'll check out with you. Yeah, that's right, right. There you go.

Thank you, Sal. No. No, do, please don't let that happen. Look, have you met baseball fan? Have you met them? They don't know. They're booing because they were told by their buddies that Jose Al-Tuvay did something. There was literally a Rangers fan.

I was at the game at Saturday. He was one row behind us screaming at the top of his lungs. Cheater, cheater, cheater, cheater, hot Mike, Hot Mike and then Jose Al Tuve hit the lead off home run. Every time a fan does that. Go ask Yankee Stadium fan how that works. Yeah.

Then he asked for a seat change. He left because everybody was screaming at him. That was good stuff. Good for them. Yeah, that'll be, well, I'll mention that again on Wednesday. 11.30-ish. Oh, no, we got to do shut your bum ass up on Thursday this week because they have a day game on Wednesday.

Oh, we don't have an early day game. We got a few things moving on. I was going to mention it on deck. No, you don't know. And you shut your bum ass up. Brought to you by Uptown appliance repair. I think it's a smart idea. Yeah, Brian Bogus Hevick's going to join us tomorrow, as a matter of fact.

Oh, wonderful. Wednesday's a really short day. We have, I think, an hour and a half show, and then on deck starts after that. That's a shame. It's not a shame. We love day baseball here. We love day baseball. Or time to watch Lauren Shahiti.

I knew you were going to say that. Jonathan, I'm sitting in here. I watch, he's finishing his sentence. His eyes gravitate, like a moth to a flame. I'm like, oh, he's about to say something about Lauren Shahati. And then he did. I mean, she's looking good, but. You know, to what it's worth, he hasn't said it as much as he did last year.

I know. Yeah. It's because of a cease and desist. She does like sidelines for like TBS, right? Sure, why not? No, it's not a sure why not. It's either a yes or no. But if she does, we can't get her on the show.

No, I can't, we can't get on the show. It would be uncomfortable. No, I'd be very, I would be uncomfortable. Why would it be uncomfortable? It'd be uncomfortable for me because Matt ogles her every single day. Just be professional. Just weird. Come on now.

You want me to be professional? Weird. It's like if you call, I don't know. You're lusting after a woman every day and then you interview it's weird. Who's the highest woman alive right now in life? My girl. There you go. Smart man.

Number two. Oh, it's a hard one. I'll come back to you. All right. If Beyonce walked in and said, come over here, Jonathan, let's talk about my music. You couldn't handle it. It's a kid. Wait, her music is, that's what I would want to talk about.

Come on now. Oh, is that right? That's a once-in-life opportunity. She was going to be in timeless artists since like 3,000. Okay. That's like if you saw the Beatle, Barry Manelow or, you know, somebody right now. Barry Manelow. Come up to you and he wants to talk about music.

You couldn't focus? Oh, no. Well, yeah, because I'm not sexually attracted to Barry Manilow. Beyonce walks in the studio. Hi, Jonathan. It's like an interview in the studio. That'd be weird. It's kind of tight quarters.

Hey, Jonathan, why don't they call you hog nuts? What would you do? You'd melt like a butter. That's all the story. laughing there? He's playing cool. He wouldn't. He's playing cool. He wouldn't. There's a phrase I can't say on radio that you can't say. Y'all would do that.

Perfect. You're going to scare him. You're all going to scare him away. In all honestly, here's my list of people I could not have a conversation with. Paul McCartney walks in. I would do a Chris Farley impersonation. Remember that time you sang with John Lennon? It would be the Chris Farley show.

Yeah, he might fall asleep too. not because of you Matt No he's just in his 80s No he was on Saturday Night Live He sang three songs on Saturday Yeah how did he sound Terrible Okay

I wouldn't tell him that but Yeah why don't you bring that up No I'm not I'll be like Laura welcome to the show Laura and I you don't know this But you're a huge part of our show Oh why Ross Well pinch of Ted Thomas over here

That's a question for you And what do you say? No, in matter of fact, Lauren Shihadi will never be on this show. It's just safer that way. It's safer for everyone. All right. Missing you is up next,

126 on Sports Talk 790. Every Monday at 130. And we will do this with NBA players. Great. NFL players. And we do it obviously with the Major League Baseball season underway. We take five former Astros. And there have been more than five.

At this point, the five that are the most relevant. When we no disrespect to George Springer or to Gary Cole or who else is out there. Who else is a former? Troy Hawkins. He's long retired. Oh. Who is the reliever for the Astor? Is it just back in the big leagues after being gone for a while?

Luke Gregerson? No. They gave Brandon Beelike an ideal. Brandon B. like's AAA. So there is somebody that used to be That's somebody You all help me out on Twitter I'm Presley's on SCEHN plus

There's somebody that's back in the big leagues Robert O'Suna? No Stop asking What Trying to think of Here's name me You said name a reliever

But he was When was he on the team? What era? Within the last five years You all help me out There's somebody back in the big leagues Okay we'll move on Brian Bray, who's back in the big league.

Hector Neris? No. Raphael Montero? No. Phil Mayton. Nope. Ryan Stanick? No.

Okay. I'm done. By the way, great job by you. I tried. Mineral lever spot starter, I want to say. Okay, whatever. A Brad Peacot? No.

All right, here we go. Again, I'm impressed. We're not missing Brad Peacock. No, we're not missing him. Oh, come on. Twitter, help me out. Chris Zivinsky. That's it, Chris Tivinsky.

You only know he's back because of the incident. Yeah, Chris Tivinsky is so sick of it. He's back. All right, here we go. The circle change, fall away change. Alex Bregman, Ross. Good week for the Chicago. Cup third baseman, 11 for 33.

The home run. Three ribbies. Wow. On the season, just four home runs, just 16 RBIs, just a 259 batting average, just an OPS of 714. I ask you, are you missing him? I would say now with Altovae down, yes.

Could use some infield help. Correa for the year in El Tuvee down. I'm missing Alex Bregg. Forgetting about the home run totals. The RBI number. or low. Where's he batting that line of typically? I don't watch a lot of cup games. I don't know. I don't know.

Jesus Sanchez of the Toronto Blue Jays. Oh, you got to, you parked up a little bit. I think it's been a big, I'm going to predict a big week for Jesus. Six for 17. Uh-huh. Yeah. No home runs, two ribbies. Yes. Five home runs

on the year. 19 RBIs. He has more home runs and more RBIs than Alex Bregman does. That's what got me interested in this. The important question is, does he have more than Joey Loporffito? The answer is yes on that. Oh, great. How many home runs on the air?

Five? Damn. $259 the batting average. So the exact same batting average. He has a slightly lower OPS than Brighman does at 704. So I ask you, Rossi, are you missing him? Yes. Next.

Did you see yesterday's lineup? I might say yes to everyone. It was Sazar, Salazar, Nick Allen and boys. Okay, the next one I'm going to do, I don't want y'all getting mad at me, but here we go. What do you got? Maricio Dubon. Oh, cry many. Four for 28.

Okay, hey, that's bad. One home run. Oh, that's good. Five ribbies for the season. That's good. Three home runs, 25 RBIs. He has more RBIs than Bregman and Sanchez do. Batting average is dipping to 245.

The OPS is now at 692. Okay. I ask you, are you missing Maricio Dubon? Yes, I'd still rather have him than Nick Allen. Sorry, Nick. Nick has made a couple of slick plays. Nick can play. He can defend.

He's got, I don't know if I say this about another man, but he's got soft hands, which you need in the middle infield. Like, he's just, he's skilled. You don't need to preface it. Yeah. There are things that need to be prefaced on this show. Okay, good. Soft hands is not one of those.

You know what I mean when I say in Iln Filth has got soft hands. That's exactly right. No need to preface. Kyle Tucker. Seven for 22. About 300, right? You ever take? Okay.

No, actually a little, a little, about 320. right? Yeah. No home runs, three ribbies. Who's this? Kyle Tucker. Okay. Four home runs this year. That's it. Oh, I think you said this week. I'll go they jump out of my chair. 23 RBIs. Okay.

259 on the batting average. OPS of 766. I get, well, Cam Smith's line. Oh, yeah. Read me Cam Smith's line. No, no, no, no. So yes, I'm missing Kyle Tucker. But it's also you get, you get ESOC too. I'll say still yes. I'm missing. I'm missing him. objectively, but if I'm missing him for Smith and Paredes, I'll say no.

All right, so Framber Valdez served a suspension. Then he came back to that suspension and pitched against the Mets, one of the worst teams in baseball. Six innings, two runs, five hits, seven K's, no decision. Framber on the year, two wins, two losses, area 4.52. I ask you, are you missing Framber Valdez? Yes. Sorry, I know he lost his mind in one start, and he's had a couple of blowups.

starts, but overall. I would take two and two. You know what I would take for Vranber is pause, his length. You like Vromber's length. Good pause. Thank you very much. You can't use it for Friday.

Even I'm not even here. So you like Framber's length. That's what's wrong with that? I like his length on the mound. You like his length on your on the mound? Oh, I'm sorry. That's why Lauren Shihadi isn't coming on the show.

She hears you and says, I'm not. Oh, it's my fault. Really? Yeah. not the person drooling all over the microphone. We have to put in a trouble ticket for you shorting out microphones with your drool. It's just a few drops. All right.

So we've decided we're missing Framper. We're missing Tucker. We are definitely missing Dubon, Jesus, and Breggman. Meh. I want Bregman. And I won Hesuzis. Outfield and Indianfield. You want all five of them.

Did you see yesterday's lineup? I ask again. All right. You're very right about that. Bryce Matthews. Yordaun and Walker. Cole DeZenzo. make Smith, Salazar, Allen.

That was the lineup. You can tell me I'm not I'm missing everyone. I'm missing them all. They're not making the playoffs. See, injuries too. I'm sorry. Hey, only five back.

It's been a theme of today's show. Already five back. No, only, not already. I said only. Okay. And that's this week's edition of missing you. Three teams to hop. Yeah.

The division is fine. You're going to play those games directly mono and mono. Let's go. Oh, how'd that go with the Mariners and Rangers homestand? They went three and four. Three and four. Could have been worse. Could have been a lot worse.

A lot of people were already forecasting a position managerial change and or general manager change after this week. Neither one of them happened. I'm sad. Everybody's getting hurt and he's getting worse. All right. Jeremy Payne back this week. Jake Myers fan clubs getting back up and running.

We're warming up. Would you like me to ask you a very rude question? Go ahead. Who's next? Oh, what the hell? That's why I said it was rude. We're going to have, Adrian Peters is going to pull a switch. He will hurt me too, for sure.

All right. Oh, you had a Twitter person, had a good point. Yeah, actually on Instagram, where you can follow me at Sports RV. Let me go see what you got up there lately. We're up a 1,500 followers. For what? Movie, let's see, restaurant reviews around Houston. Videos of us in studio.

Let's see, my Rockets recap. And coming very soon, I'll have some Spencer Arrogatti discourse. We're in the works. Spencer Arrogatti discourse? Yes, Matthew. Because we'll bring you now incisive. Who speaks like that? Incisive analysis.

Jonathan, when's the last time you had discourse? every day is discord that's like an eighth grade word come on are we coming after me for that one when do you normally use that man it's good it makes you sound smart okay we talk words on things yes we did

you'll break it down for you matt we'll go to kid we'll go out elementary school if we need to then I guess what grade level is the word discourse I just don't just don't just don't I'm not really to use it. It's just a weird phrasing on that.

Grade 6 to 8. All right. There we go. Sorry that stopped you in your tracks. Oh, I'm looking at pictures of beans and olives and feta. Oh, yeah. On the curb.com, baby.

Look at that. Look at that whip fed of time. Tell me you don't want a free appetizer when you mentioned Sports Talk 790. You got 50 hundred followers, too? Yeah, we're getting up there. You know what? You follow me in the next 20 minutes.

I'll follow you back. At Sports RV. If you follow me in the next 20 minutes, I'll thank you. I will follow you back at SportsRV. And we got another video dropping very soon. Yes, we do. All right. So the point was, the lockout is the issue.

Yes, that was the point that somebody brought. You know what? I'll give him a shout out when I find his name. But appreciate that guy for listening. Lockout could very well. Thanks to Jake. Lockout's a good point. We did not bring up, unfortunately.

But lockout could very well affect Jose Altuve getting to, 3,000 hits. I hope you're wrong. We have some good news. Is there any hope that we're in a good spot we're going to avoid a lot? Who's doing on deck today? The Adams. I got your pipeline to success.

What is it? Jason Shiavvone, the A ball player, he'd been mashing an A ball, like 17 home runs. Yes. Promoted to AA. Oh, really? Mm-hmm. Yeah, the star power, by the way, for the Astros organization, pound for pound is at the woodpeckers. A lot at the lower level.

level, which means maybe Dana Brown's doing a good job drafting. Will Dana Brown be around to see these guys? Maybe. The fruit of his labors. Perhaps. Jackie's with us on 790. Hi, Jackie. Hey, Matt.

Hey, one of the, I guess I'll call it the elephant in the room talks is all of these injuries, and we seem to have the most in the major leagues. I think we have to say what about the strength and conditioning that they are getting in all of these injuries? I mean, could there be a failure somewhere there? I thought they cleaned out the strength and conditioning staff, Matt, or some of them, right? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know who's there and who's not. There was at least some reshuffling, I think.

Yeah, I think from the training staff, for sure, I don't know how deep that went into strength and conditioning, because I can't answer that question for you. you. Well, I hope they really look at that because I don't know. These injuries just seem odd and way too often. Well, the thing about Jackie, and thank you for the phone call, at least the oblique is league wide. There's guys left and right being pulled.

And Jose Alto-Tuvies' average batsby is actually down this year. Funny enough. But, I mean, he got hurt either way. All right. Alive or dead? Thanks to chef. Thanks to PBE guy. Thanks to Jay. Thanks to Joseph for the follows. You follow you back. Let me see if I got any new ones.

So you basically have to guarantee a follow back to get people to follow you. Is that how it works? I mean, you know, I'll take what I can get. I got nothing. I got nothing. You all follow me on Instagram at SportsMT. Great things will happen for you. Don't be hurt, Matt.

I'm not hurt. I'm not hurt. I mean, a little bit. I mean, not a lot. You know what? Follow Matt, please. For all of our sake. No, no, just for my sake.

Not for all of y'all's sake. Just for all of us. We have to deal with a droopy dog over here. Hey, follow me on Instagram. Can y'all... Who wants to play, believe it or not? 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. Live or dead.

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Not. Now, remember, everybody online, I'm going to ask Ross first to help you out. Or maybe not help you out. You get two in a row. You get either a 790 t-shirt or a pair of tickets to see Godsmack on the rise of the Rock World Tour 2026. That'll be alongside Stone Temple Pilots and Dorothy. Oh, I love that. May 30th at Woodlands Pavilion.

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713, 212, 570. And we will start with, I'm going to ask Bill's question. Hey, Bill, what's your favorite Godsmack song? Don't go to the hood to get a hell cut because you don't get robbed. Mine too. All right, Ross, here we go. Weird Al Yankovic. Oh, he's alive.

What do you say, Bill? He's alive, Bill. He's a live, Bill. He did, no. Now, he's alive. He's 66. Come on, man. That was, that was an easy one.

Bill, that's what you get, Bill. 713-212-5-7-90. Javier, you ready to play, believe it or not? Javier, first listen to Ross. Ross, Fernando Valenzuela. Oh, he died recently, I think. What do you say, Javier? I'm going to go with him.

Yeah, he died in 2024. Yes. All right. Joan Rivers, Ross. Oh, God. I'm not totally sure, Javier. I think she's dead.

Javier? Believe it. No, she's dead. She died a couple years ago, right? Yeah, he said Believe it. Believe it is alive. I know. I'm sorry, Javier. Believe it is alive.

I'm dead for three. You're three for three. Good for you. Matthew on 790, Matthew. What was your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show? I just want to get four. Believe it or not, baby. Ross.

Ross, Nick Nolte. Nick Nolty? Matthew, I don't know. I think he's dead, but I'm really not sure. Believe it. Yeah, he's alive. He's 85. Okay, good job.

That's your first miss. You did okay, though. Ross, number two. Gary Busey. Gary Busey's alive. What do you say, Matthew? Did he die recently? Oh, I almost cursed Matthew.

I think he's alive. Matthew? Believe it. Believe it is right. He's 81 years old. Congratulations. You're one and one. Oh, Matthew Ziggdenzagged and zagged my answers perfectly.

Philip on 790, Phillip. You're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. All right, Ross, your first. Wait, wait, what I got? I got to just make sure. So believe it is alive. Not is dead.

Not is dead. Believe it is alive, not his day. Ross, Bob Seeger. Here we go. Ross, Bob Seeger. I think Bob Seeger died recently, Phillip? Oh, God, I don't know. I don't know, Phil.

Yeah, he's dead. He's alive. He's 81. Bye, see you. Okay, it was his birthday. We didn't believe it or not. We did a Bob Seeger, believe it or not. And I couldn't remember if it was birthday or he died.

Yeah. Damn it. Sorry. Preston on 790. Preston. You're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. All right, Ross.

Casey of Casey. in the sunshine band. Oh, hell. I have no clue, Preston. I'm going to say he's alive, but I got zero clue. Preston, what do you say? I don't know what that brother's up to. Believe it. Yeah, he's 75. I still take, I still get credit because I said it. You're such a hedger. Number two, former Dodger and Tiger Kirk Gibson. Kirk Gibson, I don't know this one either, Preston. I'm going to say he's dead, but I don't know. Preston, believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. He's 68 years old. Believe it.

I'm thinking of somebody else had some kind of disease. Kirk Gibson, obviously, the big home run in the World Series against the A's. I don't believe what I just saw. All right. Let's go to Stunna on 7-0-A Stunner. You ready to play Believe it or not? Yeah, believe it. Ross, Sweet Lou Dunbar of the Harlem Globetrotters. I have no idea who that is. I'm going to say Sweet Lou is alive.

No, he's there. No, he's alive. He's 72 years old, actually. Goodbye. See, I figured you wouldn't bring him up unless he was live because it sounds like he should be dead. Brian on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Brian got one to win here. Ross, Charlie Daniels.

Duh, the devil went down to Georgia guy? Yeah. I have no idea, Brian. I'm going to say he's alive. I would say dead. Dead is correct. 2020. Congratulations.

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