The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Take First Game vs Marlins, Texans Offense Not Up To Par? Astros Second Game Tonight

Episode Date: August 5, 2025

Astros Take First Game vs Marlins, Texans Offense Not Up To Par? Astros Second Game Tonight

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10.1 in H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. This isn't their number one hit, but it's catchy. Come on, Ross. It's meant it's catchy. The Miami Sound Machine.

Playing all your hits on KJGM. Just good music. All right, Jonathan, real quick. This is probably the first time of your life. If you ever heard this song, give you a quick thought. It's very 80s, but I won't lie that. I wasn't checking my hips a little bit. There you go.

It's pretty bad. Hogman's shaking his hips. Good for him. All right. It's catchy, though. It is catchy. Turn it out. I stayed away from that phrase all yesterday.

Yeah, too late. And it took you five seconds to say it. I mean, I'm not going to call you that on a regular basis. Please don't. It makes me uncomfortable. I had people all over the weekend. Yes. Just randomly.

Like, I went. back on the podcast. Like Jonathan's admission of who he is and what he carries is quite impressive. Turn it up. See, you're in a better mood today? You beat the Marlins? This is quintessential 80s. Oh yeah, for sure.

Synthesizer and beats and drums. Ever hot on your scale, Gloria? I guess I missed the boat on Gloria. I think she's all right. I think she married a guy about her dad's age. Well, young love, old guy. Some women are into that, I guess. All right, that's enough of that.

Thank you. Before we played again at noon. Good God, no. Can we switch it to literally anything else from Miami? This is a number eight hit in 1986. See, you're just a hater. Yeah. Oh, you know what?

It's a top ten song. It must be played again. Conga's better, and Conga was at number 10 hit. If Miami Sound Machine was at Cynthia Woods, would you go see with me? Oh, come on. It'd be fun. No. I'm going to sit in the lawn with you. I don't even know what that lawn is, but I'll go see.

I'll sing it often. The lawn is nice. You're such a hater. You're so far. You're so weird. I just want to be close to the action. You're just not a man of the people. Plus, a fans. You know, Ross, yeah, your fans ain't missing with the song, man. I just got Doug yelling at me back here.

Why was, would Doug yell at you for this? He said you ruined his road trip, man. See? Now I was stuck in his head all day now. Let me tell you something, Doug. Why don't you call the show right now and be a man? Let's got any of you hate this. this song so much. Call the show right back. Doug.

Come on, Doug. Good to have you back, Matt. It is. Hey, by the way, a quick thank you to everybody. And look, I'll say this very quickly. I appreciate anybody that responded, hey, and I wasn't looking for a sympathy from anybody. I wanted to let you know that, and just like many of you, we all have parents that are going to get older and we're going to have some issues to tend with. And that's the reason why I was not here yesterday. I wanted to be with you. because I love playing to tell the truth. And I love that when you get mad when you don't get it right and you always justify it. It's one of the Monday charms.

If I either get it right or you have bad takes. I mean, it's one of the other. He went to the defense on that really quick. It's pretty straightforward. Now, do you have some yesterday? Yeah, you want to hear them? I want to hear them. And we'll do them at the bottom of the hour.

Okay. And see if I get them right. Which one right? But yeah, my mom had a procedure yesterday. And we've got a little bit of some hurdles to overcome. But I appreciate those of you that checked in on us. And I appreciate that very much. and she's home, rest and comfortably, so that's good.

And, you know, like I said, I'd rather take vacation time to be away from you because I need it from you. I'd be away from you, but sometimes mom needs some little help. So that's why I was able to do it yesterday. And now I'm here with you to hopefully try to cover the next four hours of the beautiful world that we call Sports Talk Radio. Good to have you back, Matt. Thank you very much. Glad everybody's doing well. Yeah.

All right. So the Local 9 did win yesterday. That's very good. Yeah, I know. That's your phone. It's hauling oats. I can't go for that. Is that your ringtone?

No, I hear it in the background. It's on air. It's on air. Why is this happening? Are you got, you got a holl and oats back there going? What is happening? What is wrong with you?

I promise me my father, but I know. Is that Doug online too? Oh my God. That was hilarious. I was hearing. I assumed it's your phone because it's always your phone. I do have that song on my phone. You're always on there looking at video.

when you shouldn't be. Put Doug online, too. We don't use a take call in the first time, but I want to make sure why Doug is... Doug, get him. Doug, why are you so mad to me, Doug? Hey, what are we a bunch of chicks out here? Come on, Matt.

You and whoever sings that song, shut your bum asses up. You shut your bum ass up. Doug. No. You love that song, Doug. If Gloria Safon came in your house and said, take me, Doug, you'd say,

all right, I'm going to take you because my name is Doug. Whole different story, Jack. I wouldn't listen to the crap, though. Yeah, you would. You'd love it. She sang in your ear, you'd be going, oh, baby, that sounds so good, Gloria. That's what you'd be saying. You're just a fraud. I figure you out. I'm a friend. Yeah.

Uh-huh. Get your panties in a ward, black. All right. Get out of here, Doug. He calls him something. You dropped a blot on you. Yeah, he did. He don't care. Gameson is Doug. Oh, man. All right.

Astros won. Astros did win. We played a song from the Miami Sound Machine. Yes, and we're doing it again at noon. Please, can we switch it to? All right, you know what? Because you are 50% of this show, then I, then I, you know what, Jonathan,

even though I love the song, I will acquies. Can we play some, uh, at least we get some pit bull, some Mr. Worldwide? He's from Miami, right? Mr. 305? Is pit bull from Miami? I see, I don't know. Okay, I guess we should.

I mean, he is one of the greatest American artists. He's the Kendrick Lamar of the 305. Okay, let's not besmirch the good name of Kendrick Lamar. Pulitzer Prize winning artist. Can't wait. Can't wait to see him being honored by the Kennedy Awards. You just don't understand how prestigious of Pulitzer is, I guess. Okay, you're right.

You're so wrong every time about this. It's actually astounding. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Kennedy Awards. Getting the highest honor in music will be the following people. Billy Joel Paul McCartney Paul Simon Crosby Stills

Zanesh and Kendrick Lamar Yeah Things you'll never hear He's ahead of most of those None of those guys have a Pulitzer that you mentioned All right Kendrick Lamar does Okay

22 Grammys Suck it Name your favorite Pulitzer award winning singer It's only him It's literally only him That's how prestigious it is All right, so the aster was yesterday.

Good God. All right. So were you worried about being no, the Astros being no hit in the first three in the game yesterday? No, I wasn't. There was a lot of hard hit contact. I was worried about them only scoring a couple of runs because they were rocketing the ball over. You know, I'm at, as you know, high XBA. And they were running into some bad luck.

But eventually the luck turned their way in that fourth inning when they scored five runs. It was quite nice to see. And they smacked the ball around. Everybody in the lineup got involved. Jason Alexander was amazing. He'll be on the show today at 1.30. And I had to put Jason Alexander the pitcher. I didn't have to do it, but I don't think people would have thought that I was getting actor Jason Alexander. Just in case. If we had a former producer here, I won't mention his name, David Artis. He probably would be chasing down David Alexander, the actor. And I'm like, bra, it's a pitcher. Do you think Jason Alexander's tired of talking about Seinfeld in every single interview he goes?

into. First of all, how many interviews have he been in his life? A hundreds. Okay. I have the definitive question. Okay. And it's going to, if you if you're okay with this, I'm only going to ask it once. Okay. I think he's got a Tony award. Like, he's an accomplished actor. Oh, for

sure. It was in a pretty woman. He was obviously Seinfeld, done a bunch of little movie things here and there. He was in that Tony Cornheiser show that lasted for like six episodes. What was it called Listen Up or something like that? That was horrific. Okay. here's what I'm going to say do you ever when your name is called

at the airport do people run to see if it's really the other Jason Alexander that's how I'm going to phrase it when does his name getting called well if he's getting a new seat assignment or maybe standby or maybe he wants to sit next to his friend

or I don't know if he's married or not or has anybody that you know sometimes if you're separated from your family that you go to the counter and say hey I'd like to Well, you have actually with family that actually like you. Yeah, I just go basic economy. I know. I'm not getting upgraded. You are Mr. Basic Academy.

So people trying to get out of 29E, Ross. I don't know that. You're at your special spot. Jason Alexander, please report to the guest here at C-19. Oh, yeah. And people run up. People are flocking from other gates? No, I mean, in the air, like,

I know Jason, like, I know Jason Alexander. Jason Alexander? That's a pretty, I would guess. Let me say, if you had heard, if you heard H. Elijah one. Would you not turn your ends? I would. Jason Alexander.

Me, Hakeem Elijah, and yes. But what if it was Howard Elijah on? Okay. You know what I'm saying? His cousin? Yeah. I don't know.

I don't know, Matt. Michael Douglas, please report to Gate 19 for a seat assignment. That's a common name. Michael Douglas? I'm just saying, that's how I'm going to do it.

I'm not going to say, are you tired of hearing all the Seinfeld jokes? Because my guest, Jayce Alexander probably has, I mean, he's had to have watched the show. He made them a lot of money. Oh, they're still putting their repeats out there, right? They get money every time they go to those shows. Yeah, it's on Netflix too.

That costs them money. All right. So on the show today quickly, we will tell you that we will have gut feelings at 1130. Minor, I got a lot of gut feelings today. You do? A lot. Okay. One involves one of our new favorite third baseman, or not a new, but one of our favorite third baseman trying to toughen it out.

Okay. He's rehabbing Matt. He's electing to rehab rather than go for surgery. How's like a man, Rossi? You'll tell us coming up at 11.30. And you will agree or disagree with me? I think he'll be ready in two weeks. 11.

To get surgery. 12.30. Don't be my bitstealer. You brought it up. I know, I know. You walked us all to the water. We just took a drink. Speaking of water, there is a former Texans

offensive line coach carrying the water of a former Texans offensive line. We'll talk about that. Joe Espada at 1230. The Ross's NFL ReWan at 120. Jason Alexander at 130. And you may join us right now at 713-212-5-7-90. 7-13-21-5-7-90.

It's 1014. It's a Matt Thomas show at Ross. And we appreciate you very much listening to Sports Talk 7-90. 10-20 on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. 7-13-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-2-1-2-7-19. Shout-out to people. at work in the hospital industry.

First of all, you're doing God's work. Number two, your cafeteria just suck. I know they're trying to get better, Ross. You've been to a hospital cafeteria lately? Oh, my God. Not really. Oh, so yesterday they had these cafe at the Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Woodlands. Okay.

And it was a Philly Cheese Steak place, I thought. It was called, I don't know what it was like, Philly Cheese with a kick. K-O-R-E-A. Korean kick. Oh, okay. So I thought this is going to... It was a food truck? No, this was a stand. This was one of the little areas inside this deli. I was like, man, this can be great. I'm going to get like

a Philly cheese with some Korean spices out of it. Oh, we know you love kimchi. I do love kimchi. My stomach doesn't love kimchi, but I love it. Okay. So I said, I'll have one of those Philly cheese steak Koreas. And it had some spicy salon and it had sweet potato fries and then it had I take a bite of it. It was

roast beef. It wasn't even like Philly cheese. Oh, no. It was, I took one bite. I'm like, damn, I spent $16 for this. You need some sliced sirline in there. You have to sirline on a Philly cheese. Do you not?

Yeah, I think so. Oh. I think they kick you out of Philly. It's just saying, yeah. You'd be arrested. Massive shout out to the people that have limited options to eat. Roast beef. Oh, I mean, I like roast beef, but.

I do too, but it just didn't fit. Okay. So it's just my daily food option for that. Thank you, Matt. I think you and I would have actually agreed on this. Sometimes we do. We do. Very rude.

But most of the times you're wrong. You had a little zing in there. That's fine. You know what? That was rude. You're right. I'm sorry. Welcome.

It's good to have you back. I got to catch you up not taking any shots yesterday. Oh, you didn't, you were nice to me? Jonathan, was he nice to me for a full four hours while I was gone? I mean, didn't even mention his name?

Not really. Other than go follow me and I'm at. That's it. Oh, yeah. I did mention that you only started pimping your Instagram when I started doing it. So follow at Sports RV on Instagram. I did say that. My Instagram.

But also, go ahead. At SportsMT, for those of you who like to follow me there. Appreciate it if you do. That's great. Astros win tonight, again, if you follow me on Instagram at SportsMT. False promises. Let's talk to some folks before I get back to the Astros conversation. And we've got to get to some Texans talk here, too, and a little.

Because there's something I've been noticing about what's going on, whether it's in Houston or in Virginia. Jim on 790. Jim, good morning. Hello, Jim. Good morning. Sorry about that. Sure. First of all, I'm a first time call, we're a long-time listener.

Thank you for taking my call. And I do appreciate you shouting out to the hospital industry. My son goes to Texas Children's and the Woodlands. Every four weeks, I've been doing it for about nine years, and they're a phenomenal staff, and the food there is awesome, just to say. But earlier, you guys were talking about hauling oats, and I just recently learned the calling Oats Emergency Hotline is still active. And you can call 719-266-2837.

What is that about? He's given on, what was that? What do you mean? He was getting on a phone number. Yeah, he said calling Oates. For like the song, the people. Like emergency like a... Yeah, he was talking about, was there a hotline called calling Oats back in the day?

Because we're talking about hollow notes. Are you okay? No, I think I said that was, because I just... Who am I... No, I didn't hang up. I just put him on a hold and he hung himself up. Oh. That was a rib, I think.

No, he. No, wait, that. You weren't. Okay. You weren't paying attention. He was talking about there. There's a hotline back in the day and you can still call it today to call. I don't know.

Was there something called calling notes back in the day? I've never heard of it. Okay. But I don't like giving numbers out of way anywhere. Okay. No, yeah. He was just being nice and genuine, I think. But then you want to do you hang up all of a sudden?

I don't know. Well, no, I hung him up. Oh, you hung him up. Okay, y'all hung him up. Oh, I didn't hang him up. Yeah, man, he was just trying to tell us, I'm Googling it now. Call the Notes. It was a popular hotline that played Hall & Oats songs on demand.

Well, I apologize. I just, I had never heard of that before. And I just don't like giving out phone numbers because that's the last thing we need. Okay. Okay. It was harmless. Okay, good. Let's want to make sure.

And shout again text Children's Hospital. Shout out of anyone. Shout out of him. Shout out of all. Yeah. If you're in the healthcare industry, God bless you. On multiple reasons. All right.

So let's get back to the Astros conversation. A to the final score. Can we call Colin Oates on air? I'm not doing it. Why not? I can't do it. Oh, okay. Because I don't want to get in trouble.

How are you going to get in trouble? I don't know. Who's going to give you in trouble? I won't get you in trouble. Is Daryl Hall going to get pissed at you? Well, Hall and Oates don't speak to each other anymore. Yeah. Okay.

Well, then, yeah, they're fine. I was just curious. So apparently you call the number and then just Hall of Notes music is playing. Just rando songs? I guess so. Huh. Okay.

Sandy Alcantara was throwing BV's Ross for a while. Okay. Until the Astros put up a five spot. Mm-hmm. Well, he was getting hit hard and they were getting some bad luck. And then they finally, uh, the hard hit balls started to find the ground and not gloves. Yeah. So it's, it's incredible that the,

The Astros went from one hot team to another hot team. The Yankees went to South Florida and got swept. Uh-huh. Now, I don't like to make a lot of bets on sports because it ruins the fun for it for me. Hmm. Makes it more fun. But didn't it feel like the Astros were the play, especially after the emotions of the Marlins, having three huge crowds at their game, beating the Yankees three straight times?

So the Astros were the play against the Marlins who had won nine. out of 11 and you're Jason Alexander who last couple of starts weren't great and Sandy Alcantra's last two starts he threw six innings of, excuse me, 12 innings of shoutout ball. I'll give you a comp on this. Okay.

What did the Astros do when they went to Arizona? They swept them? Correct. Who was waiting for them in Houston for the very next game? I don't remember. The athletics. Okay. And then they got swept.

Correct. A natural letdown. Oh, okay. Hashtag, natural letdown. Hashtag, so Sandy Alcantara was letting down his team because they had swept the Yankees. Not him personally, just the Marlins, the collective group. They drew 35,000 each game there. You know, nobody goes to 35,000.

It takes three games to fill 35,000 seats in Martin and Miami. They had 10,000 the game yesterday, and that's probably a little bit of an embellishment. Well, it was close. It was minus 130 for the Astros, plus 110 for, I'm sorry, minus 130 for the Marlins. So there were slight favorites. So you could have got your plus money, Maddie? What's what I'm saying?

I thought they were going to lose. We can gamble here in Texas. It would have an easy piece. Well, we can't. We cannot. We don't have autonomy with our own money. We have to go to Louisiana or Oklahoma. It's fine.

It's fine. I just give them the money. Yeah, whatever. Things are going really great in the Texas legislature. I don't even think I know what's going on. I'm just confused by it. I have so many things. I have Republican and Democrat muted on my.

timeline but still stuff leaks through. So I definitely don't have a clear picture, but I know that it's a mess. Yeah. That's why I spend my life just watching AI videos. Exactly. That's fine. Just go ahead. Let's live in the clouds, folks. Let's get, you know, the societies and hospice care? Let's just get comfortable. Let me tell you something. You know what I do every day?

I send out 10 AI videos I think are funny to my buddies. Oh, okay. I don't get any. Would you like some? No. They're really rude. If they're sports-related. No. Okay. They're usually about 75-year-old, 80-year-old men

talking about things that 80-year-old men should not be talking about. And if you know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah. Like body and raunchy. Can I send you one during the break? Yes, but don't make a habit of it. Well, that won't do it at all. Okay.

Just give me one. I'll send you one. Just give me a... I'll send you a doozy. Okay. 1028. I was going to say something that'll be a clip, so I'm not going to say it. 1028.

It's about Thomas Show and Ron. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Are we getting enough good news, Rossi, on the Texans training camp reports? On the defense. But aren't you noticing it? We'll discuss more, plus more on the Astros in a minute here on 7-90. 1034, it's Matt Ross with you on Sports Talk 790.

Anthony, stay tuned. We'll get to you in a matter of moments. So you're noticing the exact same thing that I am. And, look, truth be really true. told, there's only a few respective reporters with the team in West Virginia. But everything I see among those I respect, the offensive lines get into ass kick, Ross.

Now again, I can't be, well, JJ told us not to worry about this stuff, so I'm not going to worry about this stuff. But then I can't come to you and say, I'm concerned. But it is just a trend. And they are also going, where did pro football focus have them a defensive line? Like top five, right? They are going against an elite defensive line. And frankly,

the question that I continue to think about, I'm sure many of you that are Texans fans through the execs. Can this defense be so good that it can cover up a lot of the warts on the offensive side? I think it's going to be the formula that DiMico Ryan's and a lot of defensive coaches have always wanted. It's win with the defense and the running game. And C.J. Stroud is a luxury. If he need to pull a rabbit out of the hat and he needs to win you a game, he can do that he's done that before yeah pro football focus had them fourth a defensive

line in all of football I mean so let's go let's look at Jonathan Alexander's because he's the beat reporter for the Texans for the Chronicle does a great job and does a nice job so let's I mean and today it feels like it's a little better than yesterday one three yard run by Nick Chubb

two six yard run by Chubb three three are run by Daria Gubbo Waleh which again what they're trying to do is hand the ball if they were not trying to reinvent the wheel no there's no play action to it. Play one, 15-yard run by Chubb, two, C.J. Stride tried to get to Nico Collins, but was intercepted by Camarie Lasseter. Three, Chubb, four-yard run, four Stroud sacked.

Not great? I mean, it's not great. So I'm just, I'm just, Damien Pierce, by the way, passing a physical off-the-pup list, expected to be a practice that I have not heard his name being called any of these play by play. drill. So I don't know. I'm just, and it's hard for us to be able to get a real gauge until we see

them actually compete. And they'll be Saturday, Minneapolis, against the, the Vikings. But yesterday, especially, because let me tell you, I was in the hospital waiting room for altogether nine hours. So I'm, I'm just scouring Twitter all day long just to see what's going on. And everybody that was there that I respect, and there's many of the people that I don't respect, that's a different issue. we're talking about how bad the offensive line was. It's been a concern. And then you also had, yesterday we were talking about how Cam Robinson went down with an injury. I don't know if he was back practicing today.

Have we heard anything about that? I have not seen him there, no. Okay. And that Blake Fisher wasn't even considered to be one of the tackles. They bumped Ariante Urstery to left tackle. Then they bumped Titus Howard back out to right tackle. and went from there. One of the reasons for optimism for me this off-season was saying,

hey, Blake Fisher went from, well, horrible in losing every rep at the beginning of the season last year when he was thrown into the fire because of injury to at least kind of holding his own. And I was hoping, you know, off-season workout program, another year of growth. Maybe we'll see him emerge as an optional tackle. And at least based on these very small samples of a couple of practices, it doesn't seem like the Texans feel that way, feel like that they can trust him at right tackle. Otherwise, he would have been, I think, inserted in that situation. But again, we're just going off

a couple of reps at practice. That doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot. But it did raise an eyebrow for me and talked about it with Texans Wex yesterday about how Blake Fisher, I mean, you don't want to call it a wasted pick and a bust at this point. But I would say planning for him to have more of a role than he has so far in practice. Now the Texans did release a depth chart for Saturday's game, but it's very loose because again, the number one quarterback is C.J. Stroud and I would be completely stunned if C.J. Stroud through, even put the uniform on to play against the Vikings. But this is the unofficial depth chart leading into the game on Saturday. Left tackle Cam Robinson,

who did not, I don't think took part in practice today. Lakin Tomlinson's at left guard. Jared Patterson at center Titus Howard at Wright Guard and Arionte Ursary the rookie at right tackle Jew Scruggs and Blake Fisher two relatively high draft picks in the last three years sports RV

at second team on already what was a suspect offensive line to begin with. Yes. Two recent second round picks and if you take linemen in the second round a couple years into their career

they're supposed to be starters for you. And that's not happening. That's why everybody says, draft offensive line, draft offence of line, draft. Well, Nick Casarra's been drafting a lot of offensive line, and they just haven't been working out. Yeah. I wonder who if there is a, there's got to be somebody in his, in his room, not his room, but his office department. That runs around the country chasing after and scouting offensive linemen. Some guys have our expertise.

I've got a good set of eyes for cornerbacks. I've got a good at defensive back strategy. I know how to look at defensive line. I look at wide receivers. I mean, Casero's got to be like, okay, granted, it is early August. We're still a month away from the start of the season. But seeing the depth chart with those relatively high selections, second and third round guys that have been a league now a couple of years, not in the starting lineup,

at least on this very, very unofficial debt chart. And plus, that depth chart matches the type of performances we've been hearing about so far for the Texans of training camp. Yeah. It's got to be a concern. It does. And as far as, yeah, Nick Casario and evaluating, I just don't know, you know, where was juice grugs on the entire, everybody in the NFL's boards relative to Nick Carcerio. Same thing for Blake Fisher. So if you take these guys, it's such an inexact science to where you can have somebody who everyone thinks is a polishing great product and then they just don't work out. Yep. And again, not every second round pick works out and every third round picks out. but if you've got one particular category that you've spent upper drafts. Yeah, you're just like somebody's not looking at the same tape that other teams are looking at.

Let's talk to Anthony wants a little astro conversation. Anthony, good morning to you. Hey, good morning, guys. Hey, first of all, I appreciate you guys. I do work for Memorial Herman and Matt. I do have to agree. However, our cafeteria in the medical center is a little bigger and a little better than those of the outline campuses. What's the go-to meal?

for you in the medical center. I'm just curious. Honestly, the cheeseburger is pretty solid down there. I do work nights, so I try to stay away from eating at the cafeteria. But the cheeseburger is pretty solid.

My question for you guys is, this is, of course, if Perettis is able to get back this year, the question of who is the odd man out in terms of the starting lineup has started to swirl. And I know that the Astros were intending on now maybe moving Paredes to second

base. Dana says he likes to put his best foot forward and win right now, even though he's set the team up for future success as well. And my thoughts are, is Cam Smith out of the starting lineup? And this is assuming everybody's healthy. Do you move Jesus Sanchez to right field and now two beta left and Peretti is playing second? I mean, I'm curious how you guys see them maybe shuffling those things around. Anthony, I hate doing this to you, but I can't give you an answer because I don't know who's healthy and who's not. I'm sorry.

I just, I can't use Alvarez in the conversation. I can't use Paredes in the conversation because I'm just not sure one or two or both are going to come back and have a meaningful role. I hope I'm wrong on this, but until I see 26 healthy men on one roster with players that you just talked about, like Jake Myers, we don't know about that. You know, they've already sent Jacob Melton down and Jacob Mountain was supposed to be a guy that was going to be allegedly a corner outfielder. Urios was brought here for additional depth. I'm sorry, I'm a fraud. I can't give you an answer. I just can't because I don't deal with the when everybody gets healthy card because I felt like I've been doing that since start of the season.

That's fair. I feel like the Astros, I mean, even in their current state right now, I feel like they're in a decent position in terms of depth because you have Dubon and Ureas that can, you know, kind of play. You can mix and match those guys. That's right. And Taylor Tremel has been a very pleasant surprise. And I do think even if the Astros get 100% healthy, I do think Taylor Tremel has a spot on a playoff roster just because he can really go get it. in center field and he takes pitches. He has extended at bats. He gets on base. So I think Taylor Tramel has been a really pleasant surprise as well, but I appreciate you guys taking my call. Thank you, Anthony. Don't be a stranger to the show. And again, thank you for all your hard work.

I think you're just going to see Platoons. I think you're going to see Hazo Sanchez against lefties in the playoffs and then Cam Smith against righties, either of them in right field. I think in center, it's going to be a mixture of Trimel, Dubon, or Myers, if he's healthy, depending on matchups and then I would say the same thing with catcher with Diaz and Caratini. You're just going to go based up on matchups

and then probably in theory I mean we could figure out what's going on with Altuve and left field and Yordaun I imagine they're not going to want him even though it was a hand injury I don't know if they're going to still want to try to put him out in the field

but you'll be able to mix and match some guys I don't know it's not going to be everybody's going to be the odd amount at any one time unless Cam Smith who can kind of turn things around to where you can feel good about him against both righties and lefties to where you say, you know what,

he is he's just banging on the door so much and playing so well against no matter who it is that we have to keep him in the lineup every day. As of right now, I would guess assuming Yordon comes back, that would be the situation. And I'm ill prepared to do that right now.

Okay. So if you want to deal on the current, you need better defensive work in left field and bigger ballparks. Yeah, and Al-Tuvae could be at second, and then you could play Sanchez and Smith. Yeah. But Bryce Matthews not being able to step up beyond that three home run spurty had probably simplified things a little bit. And that's the reason why they got Urius who can do that. You got Altuba they can do it.

I mean, it's not a mess, but there's a lot of puzzle pieces, and you can just create different combinations. even a mess. It's tools in the toolbox. It's depth. It's what this team has been lacking. It's very, very good. And guess what? I think Joe Espott has done a great job all year of putting guys in positions to succeed, finding the right matchups for them, and getting guys

off the bench and pitch-hit situations and having them thrive. So I think it's a good problem. I think it's a very good problem. I wouldn't call it a mess, but it's a jumbled puzzle that you're still missing in a couple of pieces, and those pieces are on the injured list. Yeah, and even yeah, when you get those pieces back,

because the biggest piece, of course, is Yorda. This lineup's going to be nasty with Yordon in there. If you go Peña, Altuve, Alvarez, Karea, and then, you know, Sanchez, Walker, Diaz, whatever order you want to put him in. What is that? That was, did I just six? That's seven deep. That is a World Series caliber lineup.

With Hunter Brown and Frommber on the mound, games one and two? You feel good. It feels real good, Maddie. Which Frumber? Oh, stop. Stop. I did the post game on Saturday. Don't even do that.

I'm just saying. I'm just saying. He's going to be fine. That was ugly, Frommler. Yeah, but that was a lot. First of all, he can't feel to save his life. We've known that his entire life. And so did Alex Garner.

Deez didn't do him any favors. Hazard Sanchez didn't do him any favors. Throwing a ball home, allowing a run to advance when they had no shot, they had no shot at throwing anybody out at home. And then there was a lot of soft contact. Framer still good. What's up? I ain't scared?

I need awesome from Rebecca. I didn't like what I saw this weekend. 1046 on Sports Talk 790. Matt Ross with you 1052 here on Sports Talk 790. It is a Tuesday edition of the show. I got Philly's coming up at about 40 minutes from now. That's where you can come in. And you get to make your predictions on a variety of things.

Hey, we were supposed to do the to tell the truth. Let's do it right now. Let's get some music going here. Okay. Because I want to see if I get this. Oh, do we have to fold. on sell these? I just want to read them. Just do a quick read. I can try and

sell them like I did yesterday. I don't care. Okay. If we want to add production value, that's great. If not, it's fine. Oh, quick note, Astro is starting an opener. A spotter would not announce whom tonight, and then it'll be Aragetti tomorrow. Yeah, that's good. I don't think

he's going to tell us because he probably wants to keep it secret for the Marlins. And who's there? Is Clayton McCullough? Is he still the manager? I thought it was Don Maddenlingling until like two years. years ago. Okay. Turn it up.

Half the managers in Major League Baseball have been fired this year. It feels like. Yeah. All right, Matt, number one. Now, this is before they won yesterday. Remember, we were all doom and gloom after losing against the Boston Red Sox. So you've got to put yourself in that mindset. Despite the sweep against the Red Sox, the Astros will still win the AOS by three games.

Erigeti, Javier, Garcia, coming back. lineup is going to be stacked. Astros still win the West. How many of these do I believe? By three. I only believe one. Oh, you'll see, the Astros win in the West by three. Okay, go ahead. Number two. After a weekend of pass balls and not throwing out anybody, Yainer Diaz will not be the Astro's primary catcher. Come playoff time, too much of a

defensive liability and Victor Caratini has better offensive numbers overall. You're not predictions. It's just your general take, though, right? It's your opinion. Okay. Continue? you. Number three, Isok Paredes will be the odd man out this offseason among him, Christian Walker, Carlos Correa, Jeremy Pena,

Bryce Matthews, Ramon Urius. They're going to have to move on with somebody, and it will be Ezoch Paredes. Now, there was a sportscaster that said, don't be surprised if Paredes is a one and done with the Astro. Remember who said that a long time ago? That's true. But that was, you know what? That was just kind of, you're going to take the wrong approach

and might maybe be right on that? just because he didn't rip his hamstring, they probably don't even trade for Carlos Correa. That's accurate. And then none of this happens. But that's okay. We'll see what happens when that happens. All right.

And number four? Number four, Astros win both of the next two series against the Yankees and the Marlins. You have my personal guarantee. So four and two yesterday. Four and two, yes. Win both series. Did you get, did Jonathan, don't say what you said.

Did you get it right yesterday or no? Of course I got it right, Matt. Come on, Al. You got it right, and everybody was shocked. Yeah, I would say you getting something right. There's a shock. That's true. I believe that you think the Astros are going to win in West by three games. Damn it. Must have been an easy one.

Dang. That was quick. Yeah. That was from the jump. Sorry. Okay. That's good. That's good. All right. Now I'm sad. He just humbled the mess out of you. I didn't mean to. I mean, I was bad enough when Jonathan got it right.

Now, that's a low point. That's a low point. That was the real shock. You got, you like Jonathan? We took five collars and two of the five got it right. Three of them got it wrong. Oh, really? Okay. Are any of the three completely preposterous in your mind? None of them are preposterous.

I think probably Isak Paredes is the favorite to be the odd man out, but I mean, this hamstring thing muddies those waters. Jeremy Payne would be the longer shot. I don't think anybody's going to want to. You don't have to send money with Correa or Walker. But I think sending, I think Paratus, one, and then maybe Walker with sending some money would be number two and putting Paredes at first, which he has played before.

Oh, there is no doubt in my mind. The Astros, just by the sheer numbers, are going to have a very, very busy offseason. Yeah. So if you're a hot stove guy, you're going to love the Astros because they're going to do something, and you know what they've got to do? I still think they've got to replenish pitching.

I don't think this. I know this because guess what Dana was trying to do up until 4.59 on the trade deadline. He wanted Dylan cease. You know who could net you a good starting pitcher? Somebody with a lot of value, a couple of years of team control. Does his agent rhyme with Norris?

Somebody would be difficult for you to resign and you want to find some value? I didn't sutter, did I? Not saying it's going to happen. Can you live with Caroles Correa playing shortstop for the versus Astros? That's the monkey wrench in that plan, because when he publicly said that he's been wanting to play third base for a couple years,

it makes a lot of sense to keep paying it. But it also makes a lot of sense to be flexible and listen to offers. And if you get some sort of godfather offer, I don't know. Oh, we'll put it this way. Jeremy Payne's name 100% will be discussed in trades this offseason. Yes, I would agree with you. Now, will they be accepted? Well, it would have to be an incredible haul.

Incredible hall. And I think Dana can do that. And he's still hitting. He's at 871 OPS. He had a couple more hits. He's hitting 324. Maybe you just keep him. He's got to keep him, maybe.

And I'm okay with that too. No, that's what I'm saying. It has to be, are you really going to offer that? I'm talking, yeah, we got time to worry about that after the World Series celebration. Oh, look at you. Well, I mean, why not? You had a great time. I listened when I was on a roll with the Rockets.

I was like, Dave, bro, listen to you guys, were in some weird restaurant, were you? No, we were at a, we were at a hotel. I can't do. I'm going to try to rhyme it. No, don't rhyme it. I thought you're in front of a hotel, a restaurant that served like weird Asian food. What? Oh, you're talking about the parade.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I thought you were talking about the night they won. No, no, no. We were at hotel. We got rooms. until 3 a.m. We got friggin' smashed on air. It was good times. I did two hours, too. Did I do like one to three,

two to four, something like that? I remember doing it in my room. Not that, I mean, the show. That's not of any concern in mine. That's fine. We were hanging out. 10.59. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross, Joe Espada, with us in 90 minutes. Got fillings in one half hour. The news at noon and Jason

Alexander the Astros pitcher to join us here on Sports Talk 790. Rossi, there is Fight words In West Virginia Jonathan Alexander Kamari Lasseter has tight coverage on Xavier Hutchinson

knocks it out of his hands and intercepts C.J. Straub for the second time today. On the next play, Straud finds Cade Stover who is driven into the ground by C.J. Gardner Johnson. Stover rightfully took exception to it. Stover pushed C.J. Gardner Johnson and words were exchanged.

who had to be separated. Then, first real fight of the can't, this is not a second fight, Dulton Schultz versus Rust Yeast. What? Russ Yeast. Schultz not happy that yeast hit him while

he was going down. Schultz basically ran up and tackled yeast and they went at it before everyone separated them. My first question is who the hell is Russ yeast? It sounds like a D-line coach

I'm Russ Yice I've been in this game for 32 years now brother I mean Low Man wins Not a great name I think it's a great name actually You want to be called Russ Yist I don't want it for me

I think it's a good football name What if you're like that's yeast What do you mean man What do you know about Russ Yeast What do you're last name is the issue Not a great nice name It's a tough one He rises to the top, Matt.

He had never heard that before. Huh. Ross? Why does he want to use, why does he use Neospore, Matt? Why, Ross? He doesn't want to get a yeast infection. Boo. I'm writing this one down, folks.

Be here all week. I want to apologize as behalf of the few remaining members of the 790 air staff that are here. What is this weird synthesizer version of this song? Seriously, this is not, this is not Conti, is it? This has got to be. Oh, look at you. Yeah, you're welcome.

Wow. You're welcome. This is like a house band version, right? This is like what they do, like an award ceremony. Seriously, 20 minutes ago, if you just said, did you hear what happened to Russ Yeast? Like, who's Russ Yeast? I mean, look, that's just a name you're going to lose on.

You just are. I think it's a classic. I don't think it's a classic a goal. I think I feel bad for the kid. I hope he makes the squad. I hope he makes a lot of money because Lord knows he probably made fun of 80% of his life. Craig Russell Yeast the 2nd. What's his position?

He is a safety. He was a seventh round pick in 2022 of the LA Rams. And where do he play college? He played it. From? Thank you. That's OG game day or prime time. Actually, Louis and Kansas State.

Oh, they went to both. Okay. Oh, Rush East. Hmm. You want to try it? No. Come on. I already did it.

No, no, no, no, no, no. Give yourself some, I'm not doing it. Me? I'm not doing it. No, I'm done. I'm not doing it. You're not going to do all. Okay.

I'm trying to find my fight mail and I can't. Just think about this. Maybe the term for the rising dough was named after Rush Yeast. Go ahead. No. I'm not doing it. You just said. No, you're doing it.

You do a better job than I do. That's not true. I'll give you Bill Cosby. You give him a little way. Oh, gosh. Bill Cosby. Yikes. He's still alive, yes or no?

Absolutely. And apparently got his eyesight back. What? Yeah. I thought he had the glaucoma. No, I think it's got some of it back. Oh, good. Good for him?

I don't know. So there's not rice. Excuse me. Everyone, it's not rust yeast. It's rust. R-U-S-S Trevor on Twitter. Come on now. All right, so there's fights going down

in Texans camp. How are we feeling? That's good. Everybody's cranky. They're scrapping. I like it. Good to see the lads getting after it. Here we go. Second team secondary is getting cooked. Oh, great. Davis Mills and Jaden Higgins just dominating this team drill. That's okay. Jaden Higgins making some place. Look at this. Jonathan Alexander says getting cooked. DJ BNami says

The Iowa State wire receivers have cooked the second team defensemen Have we used cooked too much in 2025? You're cooked I've said it too many times myself I'll be the first admitted Really? Yeah I don't remember you saying that once

Oh all the time Why don't you say fried Friggaseed Slow smoked Like Paredes is hamstring Barbecued You want to go out of the bone We can do

Barbecue Chicken Alert Who's that Is that show? Jack? Oh, thank you. You got it. Couldn't have been that bad. It's fine. It's fine. So I thought Jaden Higgins is supposed to be on the first team. It's going on with a second team business.

It's just camp. Don't really. Jalen Noel? What did JJ tell you last week? He told me don't take stats. But you got some people making some observations. Camp battles are important, Matt. Yeah. I know you're keeping abreast of them for your Houston Toro's draft. Yeah.

By the way, I'm a complete fraud. I'm going to compete again in the fantasy league. As I said before, blind squirrels got a final number. I got to win sometime. And secondly... I can't win this year. I've won three years in a row. And secondly, I do want...

It helps me with other players around the league. It helps you know in what's going down. Yeah. That's good. I'm happy you're back, Matt. That's fine. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-1-1-1.

1-12-5-7-90. Matt and Ross with you today until 2 o'clock this afternoon. We've got gut feelings coming up in about 20-0. Oh, the dad jokes are pouring in. Blame me. Please go ahead, read him. He was trying to get a rise out of yeast. Thank you, Kathy.

Is Russ Yeast's favorite holiday yeaster? That was the worst one. That was worse than mine. No. You went with an issue that people occasionally have. What? if he doesn't medicate, he's going to, you still get an infection.

We're trying to do a serious show here. Are we? Since when? Well, people like their sports. I didn't get, I didn't get the memo. Well, that's why the people will listen, turn to station and go to other stations again.

I left that one on red. Okay, sorry, camp fights. How are we feeling? I mean, get to the green bra. I mean, what are they going to do? Be mad each other for all camp? No, no, they're going to go. I was going to say it's not the heat because it's like 70 degrees there.

Ooh, that sounds nice. So Dalton Shultz versus Russ yeast. Warden, you know what, even if Russ doesn't make the team, we're never going to forget about old rush yeast. I got a hot take. Got a hot about yeast. All right. See, now this is your fault now. Go ahead.

I'm resolving myself from back. Hot take Villarreal, go ahead. Why don't they just let them fight? Everybody always breaks up the camp fights. I mean, isn't that what we do? I don't know how it was for you, Jonathan, in high school. We should let's let them fight. Like, man, let's see how this turns out.

Oh, I was the kid that was at every fight with a phone. You got, you know why that you let them fight when you were in Aldi because usually guys put knives underneath your jackets and stuff. That's why people... No, nobody gets stabbed. We would fight like men, Maddie. No, you don't. No, in the football, you used to carry all sorts of weapons.

No, nobody had a weapon. You had a weapon. Underneath your shoulder pads? No, I'm sick of your blatant stereotyping, Matt. Okay. It's ridiculous. it's uncalled for. There were no knives, there were no weapons.

Occasionally somebody got scratching the eye with a shoulder pad hook. But, you know, you'd also use that to make beats. Yeah. Yeah, they didn't use real equipment in Aldi. You didn't have a hook on your shoulder pads? Wait, man, did you not play football? No.

Why don't you should let him fight? Dalton Shultz and Russ, you just want to get after it, and I guess injuries? Yeah. Plus, they don't want, My guess is if two guys fight and let's say that you're a friend of yeast, that you're going to go defend your brother and that's going to be making a much bigger deal. Sometimes in life you've got to get your ass beat.

And either Rush Yeast or Dalton Schultz needs a life lesson. I'd say just love to fight. I would say Dalton Schultz, good for him. He was so finesseed player last year. He had a bad year last year. He just did. Just get in a circle. Let him go after it.

You know what? His season wasn't the same after another radio station in town stole him as a guest for us during Super Bowl coverage. Remember that? What was the same player? Well, I think it's just because, I don't know. He just didn't look right. Wasn't blocking well?

No. Had the drops? Couldn't get open. Yeah, committed some terrible holding penalty. It was part of the best. Okay, now. He's like your fourth option. Now, who cares?

Brevin Jordan's back. We're all good. But the Stover kid, he's going to do some. Oh, yeah, Kate Stowe. Double tight-in set. I hope he both. He was a really bad blocker. He is true.

That's true. They don't need it. See, Jay's like, keep them in. I got all these water receiversers. I need an extra linemen. especially because the offensive line is Is it literally a merry-go-round? Like today in practice, they've mixed guys up again.

You had ersty playing all over the spot place. Yeah. Now, again, Training camp is experimental. But are we expecting Cam Robinson to, A, play 17 weeks and B be good at it? My dream was that at some point it's Tay Robinson left tackle,

Blake Fisher-right tackle. But clearly they don't like Blake Fisher right now, so I guess that's not going to work out. No. All right, there you go. So they're fighting in West Virginia. 713-212-5-79. If you want to chime in on the conversation,

it's 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Gut feelings in 20 and 50 minutes. Now, again, for those who have never been there before, here's how we do it. Will you call them with sports predictions? And if you get them right, we get to call back in future weeks and brag on them.

If you get them wrong, don't worry about it. As long as we're not absolutely ridiculous, we'll not make fun of you. I am stunned that my partner has not brought up the Associated Press, excuse me, the coach's poll that came out yesterday. That has his beloved Longhorns, number one preseason, getting 28 first place votes compared to 20 for Ohio State, 14 for Penn State, 3 for Georgia, and 2 for Clemson. And the reason why you didn't brag about it is for the- Jack Wright reason. Nobody gives a floor. It's meaningless.

The polls, first of all, they don't, if anything to do with anything, when it comes to who is going to make the college football playoff. They're just for blanking giggles, right? Help me out. Tell me that there's something meaningful about the American Football Coaches Association announcing their polls yesterday.

It used to be something. I'd say that the cool thing is that I didn't know this, is that Texas has never been the week one. at number one team. It's a cool, like, feather in the cap, and people do keep track of programs and how many weeks they've been number one in various polls, but if they go and lose to Ohio State

in week one, it doesn't matter. Doesn't mean anything. So it's cool. It's fun. Expectations are high. I think the Arch Manning hype is real. If their quarterback's name was Arch Dumfries. Dumpfries, okay. I don't know if they would be the number one team

in the country, but it doesn't matter, especially in this day and age of a 12-team playoff, you've got to go settle it on the field. All right. On other note, Texas, I mentioned Ohio State's 2, Penn State 3, Georgia, 4, Notre Dame comes at number 5. LSU,

for those of you that are Tiger fans coming at number 9. No Tigers. SMU at 16, A&M at 21, Texas Tech at 24, one non-power 4 school, in their Boise State at number 25.

Others receiving votes. Oklahoma would be number 26 at 221 votes. No, Houston, sorry. You can stop scanning. They're not in there. I mean, I'm looking. Thank you, Ross.

You beat me to it, but you know. They're not in there. 25 teams, excuse me, it looks like all and all like 51 teams got votes in. Houston wasn't one of them. Buffalo got a vote. And but not Houston. UNOV got eight votes, but not Houston.

Memphis got 34 votes. Army got 33. You know what? prove the haters wrong. Memphis. With a big opening week win against the Jacks. The Jacks. Now y'all got a win because it's going to look real bad in the program.

I'm seriously suggesting to Willie Fritz, we play with only one arm. I'm going to look and see if there's a line. There can't be a line in this game. Okay. Yeah, it can't be a line. There's no need to be a line. Let me see. I'm going to look.

I'm going to look. All right. Well, now that all these pop-ups, man, it's ridiculous. So, uh, story today says a Texas tech, what I'd tell you? $25 million? Yes. Just on football. Mm-hmm.

So if you're a Red Raider, and I got a lot of friends that are Red Raiders, my oldest is being my number one friend on this. Oh, wow. All right. She brosky. He's my Brozky. $25 million. Texas Tech's going to spend their football.

ball team to share. Still off the board. There will be a line. No. Oh, come on. SFA, it's not like their division two. I mean, it's basically a school

you learn how to shave and give haircuts. They're not taking on the visible changes. University, Matt. We got 23. I'm counting it down, Matt. I'm counting it down.

I mean, come on. There's a Western Kentucky Sam Houston line. There's eventually got to be a Houston and... Well, usually FCS games are not usually put on the board that way.

It'll be on the board. Okay. Trust. So that is that, I mentioned the Texas Tech money, 25 million. That's less than what Ohio State spent on their players last year, and Ohio State won the national championship. Now, this Cody Johnson dude, who's just made of money, right? I mean, sold his company for billions of dollars.

I mean, is he going to lose his mind when they go seven and five again like they always do? It would be pretty funny. It's not Cody Johnson, is it? It's Cody. Cody Campbell, Cody Campbell, like Cody Johnson. Close enough. It was a Cody of something. thing.

Yes. Energy investor and businessman. And of course, former. Former Red Raider player. I think the end zone is named after him or one of the new club section seats over there is named after him at Jones Stadium. I'm going to get the stadium named after him eventually. So let's just, and this happens if every year. I mean, you know, you have big dollar boosters that spend money that they want to do them,

but now you're directly paying these guys. Is he going to sleep at night when they lose? to U of H on a Randolph on a Randolph Saturday coming up in October? I don't think that's happening. You know what I'm saying? No, I mean, this is how much do you?

I guess if you're giving that kind of money by yourself and you've got other big donors, I mean, like Texas, like to A&M spent $55 million on their athletic men's program, don't you just lose your mind and eventually go,

what is this money going towards? I need wins. Is Joey McGuire on the hottest seat in the country? Help me out. Would that not be the case? If Cody Campbell Is Kirby Hokut still the AD at Texas?

I have no idea. Who I think it is? Whoever is the AD at Texas Tech. If Cody says, I want Joe McGuire fired, he's firing him. I would imagine so. I mean, that's a pretty powerful spot. Oh, could, yes, sir.

Yeah. So. Joe McGuire? Good luck. Joe McGuire? Joey. Joey. I said Joey.

Okay. Joey, I wish you the very best. Is it Joey McGuire? Now, my son does like him? He hasn't always liked all the Texas Tech coaches in the last 10 years. It hasn't been a whole lot of reason to. No, but again, when you think of Texas Tech, don't you think 7 and 5? He's had a very, Joey McGuire's has had the most Texas Tech career ever.

8 and 5, 7 and 6, 8 and 5. That's exactly what Texas Tech is. Won the Texas and Independence Bowl, lost the Liberty Bowl. That's Texas Tech football right there, folks. And maybe the reality is if you spend $25 million, you're not getting $25 million back in athletes. You know why? because the rule kind of is you'd overpaid to send somebody to love it.

Well, they had to pile the money in now because isn't the regulation board starting things up soon? Yeah, I don't know. It confutes to me. But it's just crazy to me. Which, you heard it here first. There's going to be lawsuits against that regulatory board. Oh, you're talking about the, you can't spend that money on that player.

You can't spend $5 million on this player? Who are you to say? Believe you. It's my money and I want to spend it and I can do that. Yeah, it's a clearinghouse. If they say no, what are they going to do? Just pay them on the entertainment. table.

Absolutely. Or send him to court. Here we go. More lawsuits. NCAA's been taking L's in the Supreme Court for a while now. I'm very apprehensive about this next call.

Oh, no. No, this is Martin and Angleton is one of the least funny callers we have on the planet. He's a terrible call. Martin, you're not funny. He's sounds so coughing it. It says Russ Yeast joke.

There's no way, Martin, we're taking your phone call. So when I count to three, I want you to hang up. Because it's not going to happen. 1001, 1002, 1003, Martin, please hang up. You're not getting on the show. You can wait until 2 o'clock.

Why don't you call wax with a rushies joke? We'll give you a cell number, actually. Give Rex and Martin's cell number? Yeah, vice versa. Okay. Yeah, Martin, you're not getting on. Yeah. You can just hold.

We need some gut feelings from those folks, right? It's porch predictions time. I got one on the Astros you're not going to like. Okay. and I'll have it for you coming back. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. If you have a sports prediction,

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Ross, how did we do? last week. Okay, so this was pre-trade deadline. You said the Astros are going to get a lefty bat. They did. You said they're going to get a right-handed reliever? Did not. I'm still surprised at that.

You said they will have to move an active 26-man player. They did. Ryan Gusto. Ryan Gusto gone. You said, Ah, Eugenio Suarez was traded. Also, I believe you said the sun will rise. Yes. And he was.

And you said there will be no baseball played in 27. That's a bombshell. That is a bombshell and I really hope I'm wrong and I really hope that the MLB realizes there were two million people that watched a rando Saturday

rain-delayed game between Atlanta and Cincinnati that went one inning yesterday on Saturday night and two and a half million people stuck around to try to watch that bad boy. Speedway series. Yeah. They resumed it the next day. They did. They did. Okay.

and they ran out of hot dog buns. Yes. And nacho cheese. But they had plenty of skull. It was a fire, a fire fest situation. Yeah, they had a lot of skull.

Okay. And Marlore Reds. Yeah, apparently 80% of women there had skull between their cheek and gums. Oh, okay. All right. Not a,

never mind. Astro, my predictions. I'm glad you got a filter because I don't. Astros will get, yeah. Yeah. Astros will get a NASCAR people are great.

I'll just say that. I said the Astros will get a little. lefty bat or switch hitting bat. They did. I said they would get an infielder. They did. They did. I said they would get a righty reliever. They did not. They did not. I said that's it for the deadline. I was wrong. So I think I was implying that they would not get Carlos Correa. That was wrong. I said Mariners would make another significant move. And they did. And they did. It kind of ties ours together. Ah, Eugenio Thawadeth. And I said the Astros are still winning the American League West.

Which they're going to do. Mid-dog fight. I thought it would be comfortable. It's not going to be comfortable. But what you do have, this is supposed to be a gimmie here. You do have seven left in the final week of the season against the A's and the Angels. If they're not in full, complete,

double A mode, you can't beat them. You don't deserve to make the playoffs. That should be a six and one week. Okay, so you don't want me to tell you this. Schedule strength remaining. You are schedule strength, guys, so go ahead and do it. Astros, schedule strength remaining 24th in baseball. Yep, large part because of those set last week of games.

Yeah, seven games against the Angels, seven against the Orioles. Three more with the Rockies, three more with the A's. And three with Seattle. In Houston, by the way. Six with the Rangers, which looms large as well. It absolutely does. Seattle 28th, strongest schedule remaining. are 24th.

The Rangers? Rangers have the fourth most difficult schedule. Oh, okay. That's somewhat encouraging. Okay. But a lot of that is buoyed by seven against the... Wait, what? No, I'm sorry, reading the wrong one.

Six against the Astros, and then they got games that left against the Yankees, Brewers, Blue Jays, good teams. When did you think the Brewers would be a team playing? Yeah, I know. Crazy. Really well. Okay. So there you go. How did Jonathan do?

The only thing I wrote down for him was he said the AOS comes down to one game. And I think he didn't declare a winner. did you declare the Astros the winner? No, I didn't declare a winner. Okay. He says one game will separate the first and second place team. That very well could hit. Okay.

All right. I'm going to go first. Go ahead. I really help him wrong. But in my gut, this Issaic Paredes taking a shot as a disaster. Yeah. I'm, I, look, I am not a doctor.

I'm piggybacking that one. And the Astros and their physics. and their physicians and Perretus and the agent and the manager and the general manager have all been probably on conference calls, Skypes, all sorts of things. I do respect the player that he wants to play. But when you're hearing the initial reports of this being a serious injury, taking a shot in the hamstring area ain't going to solve this. What I'm afraid it's going to happen.

This is just in my gut. he's going to try to come back. He's going to hurt it again. And instead of being ready for the potential of the start of the 20-24 season, 26th season, or maybe being ready to potentially be using a trade, you can't trade him if he's going to wind up missing two or three months of next year because they delayed this two or three months.

I think this is, again, I'm not a doctor, wasn't given reports. I just, every time I hear that, I want to rest. I want to use this shot. I want to use oral medication when something. needs to be fixed, needs to be fixed. And I'm afraid that Mr. Paredes' hamstring is, again, so bad that this is delaying the inevitable. This is a mistake. I can't disagree with any of that.

I'm with you. I think he's out for the year. And that's okay. They can still win the World Series without him, thanks to the moves that they made at the deadline, even though he was having a great season. But he ain't coming back. I just don't see it. I mean, he is young.

maybe he's going to heal up nice and quick. What's he, 25? Yeah, I mean, he's still got eligibility left. Yeah, I mean, he's been moved around a bunch, but... 26. Yeah. Another gut feeling, Ross. We got a bullpen game today for the Astros.

Okay. We're going to see another one. This is not a one-off. What do you mean? We're going to see a spot. I have to do this again. Oh, I'll have to go with an opener? Yeah, with an opener.

Ergetti's coming back. Javier might be another week. Okay. It could happen. That's just a very moderate gut feeling, but I'm just going to go with it. This will not be the only time we see an opener. Okay. Wait, Ed's kidding you on what an opener is.

Opener is a guy coming out of the bullpen that will start the game, but by no means it's going to finish it. He's a reliever, and he's only going to throw one or two innings, and then you go basically bullpen the rest of the way. Yeah, like starting Caleb Ort for a game or, you know, whomever. Bennett Sousa. If you will. A Brian King, if you need to.

Oh, okay. He wouldn't use a brao. He's more of a high leverage. You would take a load of mid-leverage guy and start them in your game, start on one or two innings. Okay. There's your definition opener. Ross, what you got this week?

Tomorrow. Spencer Arigetti makes a start for your Houston Astros. Yes. And how's it going to do? He will go four innings. Four? And he will only give up one earn run. Okay, that's not a quality start, but it's a low run support.

Or low run giving up start. Okay. Yes, a low, yes, run giving up start. Okay. What they call it. It's like a mini quality. I have an NFL. I have an NFL prediction for you.

You do? Yeah. Go ahead. Micah Parsons will have a new contract within the next week. I can see that. Yep. Jerry Jones usually backs down. All that bluster of I want to be traded.

Just pay the man. He's worth it. I'm in a Cowboys fan. You're not? Nope. I thought you were. No. Go back to Dallas, Matt.

I know. I've heard that before. It's been about 10 years since I'm going to tell me that. Yeah, that was a while ago. Yeah. It was fun, though. It was a good, it was a classic moment in the history of the Matt Thomas show. All right, anything else with you?

I got Aragutti, I got Paredes, I got... I'm good right now. Jonathan, what you got this week? I was going to go. Aragetti goes five or more K's, but I don't think about the any of these... We could do that. But I think I want to stick with that, five or more Ks. I like that.

I like that a lot. I'm feeling like I should give them some love. Okay. So you're going to go with or you're not going with it? I'm going away. I'm sorry. Spence? Eraggette five or more case.

Astros win series in New York. You sound like you mean it. What's up? What's up? I didn't say they're swiping them. Sweeping them. They're not swiping them now. Are they going to win that series up in New York?

They don't talk like that in New York. Well, I didn't say they did, Matt. What are you doing a show in Fayetteville, Arkansas? I don't know. I don't know why I started talking like this and now I can't stop. You sound like Michael Berry doing a sports show. Ribode. Yeah, you ever had a Marlin when you were down in Miami?

Now, can they still call it Yankee Stadium, and it's not the real Yankee Stadium? I like the old Yankee Stadium. Ramon, do you know who Catfish Hunter was? Ramon, do you like catfish? I like that. Ramon, is it Jean-Cardle Stanton or Giancarlo Stanton? Or is it Mike Stanton? I liked it better when he was just Mike.

Ramon, remember when Mike Stanton used to be on the Astros pre-game show? Yeah, what's going on with him? Not there this year. They didn't hire him back. I didn't have anything to do with his. His what? Tweets. Did it? He had a friend on there.

By the way, it's another thing I like to do. I was at the hospital for nine hours yesterday. I was looking at various bots that were showing up in my 4U tab, and I was hitting them figure out why they were on my 4U tab. You know why. People that I know and follow follow the bots. They're showing up. because you're clicking.

I ain't clicking. I don't click that. Staring. No, those things are a dime a dozen. I don't got time for that. I need the real authentic ones. I mean, the bots. Okay.

All right. 713-212-5-7-90. Now it is your turn. You've heard our predictions. What's in our gut? 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Anthony and Deer Park. Anthony, what's in your gut this week?

Hey, guys, so I have two for y'all. My first one is that three AOS teams, will make the postseason this year. And my second one is Vegas has U of H at five and a half wins. I'm going to go the over by a game and a half, have them going seven and five this year. That is gospel, my friend. Anthony, I will piggyback off that.

U of H wins at least seven games this year. Boom. You heard me. I didn't stutter. I didn't stutter. What was it last season? I don't remember. I think it was like five and seven, four, and eight, something like that.

That's what I remember too. Here's what going to happen. They're going to beat SFA. They're going to pummel them. They're going to beat Rice. Yeah, come on, man. Oh, congratulations, beating up on Rice and SFA. That's horrible.

They're going to beat Colorado in Houston. DeVry University. They're going to beat Texas. Our Lady of the Lake. They're going to beat Texas Tech. That's four right there. Let me look at the rest of the schedule here. What else we're going on?

At Texas A&M, Beaumont on the schedule. We're going to beat Central Florida. We're going to beat Arizona. We're going to win at Oklahoma's There's about seven right there. I'm going to beat West Virginia. Yeah, that's good. All right.

And you go to Washington, D.C., and back to the White House. I didn't say all that. But don't be surprised, old sneaky seven when Houston's going to come in and go to a bowl game and fill up a stadium and bring thousands of people to go to particular communities. I'm definitely not going to fill up a stadium. I mean, that's not be ridiculous.

They were four and eight last year. Oh, I'm sorry. Look at the attendance records. Don't get mad at me. Because nobody's going to your games. That's your own fan base. and Cougar fans, you know that. Well, we weren't happy with the previous administration.

It's just a basketball school, Matt. You just got to stick with that. Just claim it. Well, if it's a basketball school, I will be ready to watch a national championship. U of H versus Purdue, national championship. Book it. Let's go.

This is Purdue? Oh, good. Okay. Won't be Texas. I'll tell you that for sure. Won't be SFA. I don't know. I think they've got a good portal class.

Sean Miller is loading up the portal class. I'm sorry. I'm just trying to, find the highest attended game for you guys last year. Oh, geez. Can we get some calls so I have to talk to him? 25,000. Oh, there's 83. Oh, that was at Oklahoma. You know, I'll even take Martin Angleton. Oh, will I?

Gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. I'm weighing over our bet for the Habachi lunch on Kyle Tucker. Oh, sir. Okay, what? Oh, you want to up it? No, I'm just... He's been having a bad couple of weeks, I think. His OPS is still 867. I mean, it's still outstanding. But he is slumping a little bit.

Okay. Still has a good batting. Overall numbers of 18 home runs, 61 RBIs, 23 stolen bases. That's really good. Mm-hmm. Now we'll keep it as this. No, we, first of all, it was fast casual.

You upped it to Habachi. Yes. And now we're adding a fast casual too. Didn't know you then upped it to fast food for the three of us, whoever our producer is at the time. Oh, that's right. Jonathan, you won't be taking advantage of this because you'll be gone. But, you know.

I have seven and less you have eight or more on the length of the contract. 7.5 is the line. Yeah. Okay. Y'all been out this for months. When did y'all start this? A year ago. Yeah.

We've been sitting on this for a while. Yeah. So we're talking about a fast food for the three of us and a habocchi. Now you're not about it than Habachi, Jonathan. Oh, Mac can pay for you. I ain't paying for you. Just don't, Matt. He's buying me.

I'm running that tab. Just not. Steak of shrimp No We can eat my good friend ribby Get yourself a chicken breast and call it a day Getting some ribbies I'll order the food for us

I know sir I'm upgrading to fried rice I'm already letting you know You're gonna upgrade's $4 more I'll get the tip No no The winner gets everything I'll get the tip

That's fine I'll take it by that If you win If I win I'm not getting the tip Let's go to the phones Kevin and Pearline Kevin what's in your gut this week Oh, I have a gut feeling that you're going to tell me to break up with my girlfriend.

I'll make this pretty quick. So I went last year with my daughter to Boston. And, of course, Bregman, you know, lit up the red socks. We swept them. We went to two out of the three games Friday and Sunday. And then went this year, went ahead and took my girlfriend and her daughter. and you know what happened. So that's one gut feeling.

Actually, it's going to be your gut feeling that I'm going to go with. No, wait a minute. Hold on a hold, hold a hold. Forget the second one. You like your girlfriend, correct? Like, yes. Do you love her? Well, you know, you tell them that, so you get what you want.

Oh, my, dude. I know. I don't know. More, come on now. You're such a fraud. I love it. All right. Let me ask me this.

Do you like the daughter or no? Not particularly. No, no. She talks like Mickey, Minnie Mouse for some reason. She has a professional job. And she does, I'm sure, talk like an adult. But yeah, anyways, neither here nor there. Kevin's got issues.

So moving on. By the way, I'm not going to have a gut feeling about your relationship with her at all. Okay. Thanks so much. Ross. Of course, I'm yourself. annoyed. Oh, no. Favorite listener.

Oh, see, these are my people? This is great. Yes, yes. But secondly, I've got feeling, although I think you already did her earlier in the year that the B-O-I-N topic is going to be Lani Anderson. She just passed away, you know. Yeah. But maybe not. Who?

So that's a gut feeling. Lonnie Anderson. You don't know who Lani Anderson is? No, for me. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, Lonnie-Hers, though, is a point guard for the Warriors in the 90s. No, no, L-O-N-I. Okay.

Also, I've got feeling that Jesus Sanchez has already went to the Jose Atouva school of base running. The first thing you were at, you know, ran into third. He misread a couple of fly balls yesterday, too.

Yeah. Oh, thank you, Kevin. He's been misreading fly balls, throwing things to the wrong base, and had a bad base running gap so far. Jesus, and it's been like four years. He's been, I would say overall,

because you do have to give him credit for the hits. He's getting hits. He's had an average start to his Astro's career. But yeah, the running and the, on the overthrow of first base trying to get the extra any feet against Boston, I was like, oh no, he's a deer in headlights. Yeah. And then twice yesterday, he came in on a ball that went over his head,

and then he did it again. But he caught the second one. Yeah, he did catch the second one. I'll say it. He's with Sanchez. still a plus edition. That's not really that's a feeling. That's just an opinion.

That's something, yeah. Let's go to Grayson at 1155. Grayson, what's in your gut this week? All right. Eric Gates can go five innings. He's going to give up four walks. He's going to get three Ks and he's going to get three darn runs tomorrow. Mm.

And Walker's going to go three for four. A home run, two singles, and he's going to strike out. Okay. That's very, very detailed. if you would write out roll over. Oh, yeah. All right. Okay. Well, you get a call next week and either brag or apologize.

You ready to do that? I will definitely either brag or apologize, but I pretty much can be bragging. Okay, but it's good. I like your confidence. Thank you, Grayson, for the phone call. I appreciate you listening. Rapping it up, James on 7. James, what's in your gut this week?

The asses are going to start winning at home again. They're going to be a home field advantage team again. You're going to have a winning record on the next home stand. Oh, okay. Let me look and see how they're what they're doing next. Let me see what the next home stand looks like here. It's Boston and then... I had an Astros calendar somewhere.

Baltimore, right? Boston and Baltimore? They should win those games. Yeah, I mean, that's... But I mean, I don't want to be four and three in a hole. Here we go. And let's see, July. They've got our August.

Three with the Red Sox. Three of the Orioles. They've got to go four and two, right? Don't you think? Sure. I don't want to go three and three. A must win series. Must win homestand.

It's not a must win home. Nobody said that. Oh, okay. Don't be making stuff up. Just ask something. You and this, you know, you're very much, you're very much a must win person. I don't get it. I don't know why that is.

What was the one you had? Was it the Rangers on a Friday? Yeah, was it. Yeah, was that. Remember because they got to Houston Solace? Yeah, so you were tracking their, I tracked their flight in the middle of the night. And then they kicked the ass.

I mean, kick their ass. So I never want to hear another. sports team complain about their travel accommodations. All right, that's it for gut feelings. The news at noon is coming back. Oh, what? What song? You know what? I don't even want to know. You and

Ross discuss what song because I want, we use bad boy, open the show today, and Ross didn't like it. Because I want Ross to be happy. We're going to find another Miami sound machine song or something with Miami to honor the Astros win in South Florida.

That's right. The news that dude is next. Jonathan, your thoughts about my thoughts about this song? I think you hate it. I don't hate it actually at all. You like it? Turn it up.

This is a good white person dancing song. It is. It's pit bull. It's fine. You see me as a white man dancing on the floor of this song? You're hurting yourself. Stroking out. What I do in my own personal time is my own time.

I can see Matt breakdancing. Wait, this is kind of the jam. This is not bad. I'm very pleasantly surprised. I was still wanting to hear my song Bad Boy by Miami Sound Machine, but this is not bad. This is way better than that sound machine machine song. This is not. I'm Rossi.

This is good. I'm actually very happy with your performance. Do you know that I've been to Miami, what, nine years in a row now? Nine years in a row for what? For the Rocketeet? Oh, okay. How many times you've been to the beach? Zero.

There's beaches in Galveston, Ross. I'm fine. Don't do Galveston like that, Ross. Seriously, don't listen to him. But the thing is, I've had... Come on now. I've had incredible... Even you've got to laugh at that. I've had incredible food in Miami.

I've also been to at least 60% of the restaurants they don't speak in a word of English. I'm going to tell you. The scenery in Miami Beach? Good. Galveson Beach. Stop. Just stop right.

Stop right now. I'm just saying. I'm told you I'm done with the beach. And I'm not going to go work on a beach. Sorry, it's not going to happen. You don't have to go lurk. Why don't you go relax on a lot? I need you to relax some more.

Okay, we'll go out of the pool. I need you on relax time, Matt. I'm not going to. How do you get nine free trips to Miami Beach and you go zero times to the beach? You're very special. Because I stay in a ridiculously nice hotel and a beautiful part of Miami that's got a lot of great people watching and great food, Cuban food, which I do like a lot. I think you should take better advantage of these opportunities afforded to by the wonderful Rockets organization. I'm sorry, I'm working four-hour radio shows with you.

I don't get that kind of time. Yeah, then what? You get up in the morning, you can catch the sunrise at the beach. Please. Sunrides all over the place. Gawson, I love you. 12.7, time now for the news at noon. Here is the Don Johnson of Sports Media News.

Hey, let me roll my sleeves up here. Yes, Matt, you just heard the highlights. Astros in the midst of a three-game series against the Miami Marlins, Jason Alexander, six innings of shutout ball, out dueling, Sandy Alcantra, who had two great starts in a row. combining for 12 innings pitch and no runs given up. Well, he gave up six earned runs against Astros in seven innings. They were able to get eight runs on 11 hits.

They were six for 12 with runners in scoring position. Let's go. And they get the comfortable victory, despite a couple of solo shots given up by Brian King. Hector Nerris closing the game out. Astros go for a win. We'll talk to Astros manager, a series win. should say they go. We'll talk to Astros manager Joe Espada coming up at 1230. Who will be the opener? I don't expect him to announce it because he wants to kind of keep that thing that close to the vest, but should be an opener tonight.

And then Spencella Araguete making his not 2025 debut, but his return tomorrow 340 first pitch. So the 8 team worked two to 310 tomorrow. Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't ask us to do it. Oh, that's not happening. Us working five hours on air and then working zero? No, I know. I'm just saying I'm surprised they didn't ask it. Oh, it's true. I'm sure it crossed their mind for sure.

And I'll have the 10th inning show on Wednesday. Wex hung out for an hour yesterday. Yeah, wax is fine. You have the 10th inning show tonight and I'll have it tomorrow. Yes, and I had it yesterday. Okay, that's good. What else you got? Let's see.

What else, Matt? How about your Houston Texans continuing to practice at the Greenbra in the West Virginia? first real fight of the camp, according to Jonathan M. Alexander, covering the Texans for the Houston Chronicle. Dalton Schultz versus Rust Yeast. Schultz was not happy that Yeast hit him while he was going down. Schultz ran up to tackle Russ Yeast, and they went at it before everyone separated them.

So the yeast separated? Yes. I literally, when the show began, at 10 o'clock had no idea who Russ East was. Well, he's on the 90 man, or whatever, how many men they have left. Are we going to follow him for the rest of his NFL career? No, I don't think so. Okay.

Also, in practice, Camari Lasseter, getting a little handsy with Xavier Hutchinson, and then C.J. excuse me, Kate Stover, driven into the ground by C.J. Gardner Johnson, Stover, taking exception. there was some pushing. Words were exchanged, but the two players were separate. Oh, I forgot to give you a gut feeling. Okay. Do not go buy C.J. Garner Johnson jerseys.

He's a one and done here. Okay. All right it down. Yeah, I mean, how many more years he's under contract? One, but he's been with four different teams, I think his NFL career. Okay. Okay. Anything else?

Yes, Matt. Oh, okay. The holdout for Kyron Williams is over. He signed a three-year $33 million deal. Who, for the holdout for whom? Kyron Williams. Okay. Rams running back? Yeah.

That's three years. That's it. It's all I got was $3.33. Three year, three-year $33 million extension. We'll talk about it more in-depth, Matt, coming up with the NFL rewind. I don't know if we don't want to go in depth and that. Oh, we're going to break down the guarantees. Oh.

Bonuses. Signing bonus? Yeah. bonus. Okay. That sounds fun. Can't wait. 120. Why did you go a little Mac Brown on us? Can't wait to break down the Rams running back situation. Matthew Stafford's shoulders. The Texans are going to win the game three to zero on game one week.

And that's your news at noon. Okay. Thank you very much for that. It's pretty lean. I'm going to be honest. There's a lot of NFL stuff, but I'm saving it for next hour. No, no, save it for 120. I'm saving it for next hour. We've got an offensive line to, Texans offensive lines, sorry, I want to talk about and we come back from the break, but I want to talk to Charles and Victoria before we do that at 12, 12

on 7. Hi, Charles. Hey, Matt. Hi, what's up? So I have four gut fillings for this week. Oh, Lord. Yeah, they're really quick, though. But I got Erred Getty

going about five-inning, 75 pitches, probably going to be his max, and what they let them go. Get about 6Ks. I got a I have the Astros winning both their series this week, both against the Marlins and the Yankees. Okay.

And then I have only two A.O. West teams going to the playoffs. They'll be the Astros and the Mariners. And for the playoffs, which I'll have the Astros winning the division as well, I've got a funny feeling that the playoffs will be in the wild card. Seattle and Boston in a series and for some recent you know

well not some reason but we'll probably end up facing I think probably Boston is we'll have a red hot Alex Breggman coming back to they can park come playoff time so that would be fun Charles wants to write all that down so if you get any of that right call us back

when we get close to the end of the season and brag about it all right because that's a lot of work you just gave us you give us a lot of stuff. All right. Well, you guys have a good one. Thank you, Charles. Appreciate it. All right, there you go.

You know, there's six teams that can win the America League. Do you understand how crazy this is going to be this year? This is going to be the wildest playoffs that you and I have ever had as a show together. Oh, okay. Don't you think? I don't know if it would be the wildest. It's be fun.

We'll see. Houston. Good. Seattle. Toronto. Yes. Yankees have they ever get their act together. Red Sox Tigers?

Red Sox Tigers. Red Sox Tigers, six, right there? That would be six teams in the playoffs, right? Mm-hmm. Got to get the first or second seed. I've got to, but be nice. You would know, I think it's very crucial, actually. It'd be nice.

All right. A Texans offensive lineman, former Texans offensive line coach carrying the water for a former Texas offensive line men. Details on that in a moment. 713-212-5-7-9. Joe Espada, bottom of the hour. All right, 1220, Sports Talk 7-90. Not that we need to get into a deep dive on this,

but I think it was worth anecdotal to bring it up at least. So, Texas U7 offensive line coach named Chris Strausser, and he got let go. And I don't know if he's just trying to be broskeys with Laramie Tuntzler or not. But he was quoted in a story from the Washington Post about the problems that Laramie Tunds had here in Houston. Now,

I'm not I told you so guy, but I never bought into the Laramie Tunsel. As a past protector, absolutely. As a run-stop protector, not really. And as a man who committed lots of penalties, I was absolutely all in on that because I thought the hype

and the money and the faux leadership that was given by the team was just that. I didn't buy it. Now, doesn't mean I have a great character assessment about everybody in life, but this one I could see from a mile away. So the Texans said, look, last year's room was toxic and they needed to make change. So this coach, Strausser, says the following, I don't think our room was good last year. It was a combination of a lot of things.

By no means, Laramie being the issue or the main issue. It was a combination of so many things. A lot of guys trying to figure out an offense, and honestly, we were not that well. educated in. Another slam towards Bobby Sloick. We did have different personalities in a room. Our chemistry was not just right,

but it was not at all Laramie's fault that our chemistry was not right. It really wasn't. I've always told you I don't like guys that miss OTAs. I don't like guys that miss the workouts that only show up when they have to. And that was what Laramie Tunsell was

for 95% of his Houston Texan's career. Laramie Townsill was a me guy, more than a team guy. Doesn't mean he didn't perform well. Doesn't mean that he didn't have the back of the quarterback and didn't want his offensive line. But Ross, the very simple question that we talked about the day he was traded was the following. You had the worst offensive line in the NFL and you got rid of your best offensive linemen. As an old boss would say to me, walk me through that. So for the very last time before we move on to other things, walk me through what?

walk me through what you would think of a team that had a very poor offensive line with a franchise quarterback getting rent of their best linemen. It's because he was not a good leader. His penalties and his run blocking were a main issue and it wasn't good. His past protection and his salary were not good enough. His lack of leadership, this full captain BS that they were giving us was all full of bunk. Reality was, Laramie was up for Laramie and nobody else. At least as I see it. or sought.

Yeah. You can certainly have that opinion. I guess I don't necessarily know enough, but the reports that, you can read the tea leaves, like you said. D'Miko Ryans wants guys and has said publicly, he wants guys that are team first,

and they want to get rid of guys who aren't. And he said that in tandem with the news that Laramie Tunsell was let go. And you talk about all the penalties that he racked up. My theory is, is that he was doing that because he wants to keep his pressure rates down and he would always make sure that he was

off right at the snap count and there were times where he could have been called for more false starts than he was than he was. And Strausser in these comments talks about it, oh, being the cadence and blah like, he'd been working with CJ Stroud for two years. And he had had these problems under multiple quarterbacks. And I do

think it was because Laramie Tunsell was just trying to keep his pressure rates down and he didn't really care if it cost him five yards. He would rather take a penalty than give up a pressure. And that's not caring about the team. And now he's gone. And this guy who was his offensive

line coach, it makes a lot of sense that he would defend him and say, I was the problem and it wasn't Laramie tonsill because coaches protect their players. This is kind of definitely above and beyond going into this Washington Post article. But clearly, he was not a fit.

He was a pro bowler. They desperately need a left tackle and they said we're good we're going to go with cam robinson not exactly at the scrap yard but at least at the used car lot with at least 100,000 miles on the tread and and they're going with him over a pro bowler that tells you everything you need to know about how the texans regime felt about laramie tons. Laramie quoted after seeing the rumors that the texans offensive line room was a hot mess I think it was rumors it was pretty much based in fact it did make me feel away because our room wasn't like that.

Did we play well? No. Did C.J. Stroud get sacked a lot? Yes. I see where the rumors could be made up and come from. But I feel like we had a great-ass room. No, you didn't have a great-ass room. D'Amico Ryans basically traded you because the room sucked.

Was that Strauss or Laramie said? That was Laramie saying that. Okay. So I think basically Chris Strasser, is he, is he's employed by anybody at this point? I don't know. I don't know either. But point being is that he's trying to make sure that one of the more affluent, recognizable offensive linemen in the NFL, if someone was to call and say, hey, is Chris Strasser worthy of getting a job? Oh, yeah, Laramie.

I like the guy. He's a good kid. Perhaps. Yeah, it doesn't look like he has an NFL job right now. Yeah. He's been coaching in football since 1989. Man, this offense better be good this year because Bobby Sloick is like, what do you have? He's got a doll and he's got like sticks he wants to put.

The doll in the Houston. He's got a voodoo doll? Yeah, voodoo doll. C.J. Stroud? Everybody's... Or if Cam Robinson? All the above. Everybody's throwing him under the bus.

Everybody. This, there is some pressure on all of the offensive line, C.J. Stroud, Nick Cayley, because you've made these regime changes. Yeah. And D'Amico Ryan's himself. These were his calls. He said Bobby Sloick, one of the hot, like a year, literally 12 months ago, one of the hottest one of the hottest offseason names for a possible future head coach.

Can't let him go. Yes. All this stuff. CJ Strouds on the rise. One year later, you basically clean house. You clean house on the offensive line. You clean house with the offensive line coach and your offensive coordinator. And if this doesn't work out and this happens to coaches,

you get kind of a get out of jail free card. You're a defensive guy and you fire a bunch of assistance. Then it's going to start, the finger's going to start pointing at you. Oh, I think, yeah, this offense struggles this year. there's going to be Casario Heat and maybe Domingo Heat for the very first time. And again, I'm not talking about 10 and 7 win the EFSI South. That doesn't do jack for anybody. This got to be a deeper playoff run.

The manager of the Astros. Joe Espada joins us next here on Sports Talk 790. Let's spend 12 call in minutes with the manager of your Houston Astros win last night over the Miami Marlins. Joe Espada with us here on the show. Skip, I was talking to Ross a minute ago, and he got mad at me because I've called Rockets games in Miami for the last night. years. I've never gone to the beach. Have you gone to the beach in a trip to Miami lately? Yes or no? Tell the truth. No. Thank you. That's all I needed to hear. Oh, he's

busier than you are. No, stop. No, that's ridiculous. I think the manager of the team's busier than you, Matt. That's dumb, don't. Don't listen to it. Sorry, we're fighting. Skip, Sandy Alcantara was about to throw a no-no until things got crazy. What happened? And by the way, thank you for that because it became a different ball game after that first go around through your lineup. Yeah, I think we made some adjustments, you know, someone like Alcantra,

you know, you have to make, you know, you really got to get him away from you. If you, you know, beat his sinker on the ground, it's going to be a quicker batch, just going to get ground balls. I think the guys made a good adjustment trying to see stuff out over the plate. And then that's when

you start seeing, you know, Peña, double. You start seeing some balls now being hit in the air. We driving the ball and that's when that's when we were able to capitalize. You have been able to win games this year with a variety of different lineups and having this squad now and look you hopefully will have even more guys coming back in the not too distant future but

it feels like you've been given some more things to go to the toolbox in terms of different lineups and whatnot. What is it like having Carlos back? What is it like not being able to pencil in Korea? And then you've got Jesus Sanchez. I mean there have been some nice auditions. here that kind of deepens your lineup a little bit now. Yeah, yeah, it does. You know, you mentioned Carlos. You know, he's someone who's just going to give you quality of bats after quality

of bats. He can walk. You know, he can drive the ball. We've been seeing how hard he's hitting ball. And also, he's sharing his knowledge and helping some of our young players prepare ourselves for this August, September dog days of, you know, playing meaningful games. So Carlos has been able to do that. been a great addition too.

Can really give us a good, you know, good outback from the left side. Can really drive the ball. I feel like he sees a ton of pitches. And we're able to, you know, have guys like Ria's on the bench that can allow me to be flexible and pinch it and take shots when I need to and having him and Dubon that can cover a pretty better play everywhere on the field has been a nice, it's been a nice addition. Joe, you've given some Cam a little bit of time off.

Obviously the struggles have been probably for a couple weeks now. Is it a byproduct of maybe there's intelligence on him now or is it this is a young man that has played a whole lot of baseball games in the last 12 calendar months that this is kind of what guys go through

when they start to hit that 110, 120 games over a certain stretch of time? Yes, and this is part of, you know, a young player learning the league. learning himself. You know, I've been giving him more off days. My plan is just to be more, more proactive with him, giving him some blows here and there. He's a bat's gotten better the last couple of games.

So, you know, it's been, it's just helping him through this process. He's, you know, he's a plus defender in right. He can give you some really good at bats. And we're just trying to find him where he is comfortable, getting good pitches to hit, swinging at good pitches to hit. But I think we've got to be cautious and smart of how often we throw them out there. And I think a blow in there will help him get back on his speed and understand how long the season is. What is that like for you dealing with a personality like Camp Smith and you've had it with Bregman and others?

I mean, there's a lot of guys in this team throughout the years. Love baseball, want to be there out there every. day to kind of just have that conversation with them and let them know. Like, it's more about the long term and the marathon rather than the sprint. Yeah, and it's daily, you know, he knows, like in Kansas, he knows that this is a very long year and we have a lot, still a lot of baseball left. And not because you're not starting the game, doesn't mean that you're playing that day, you know.

He still stays ready. and I need to give blows to some of those next couple of weeks some of these guys need some rest. So it's about being smart and trying to find time just to get these guys off their feet so we could be in a good position and make a push year in August and September. Joe is spotted us here on Sports Talk 790. You mentioned the leadership of Carlos Correa. Can you expand on that a little bit?

What does he bring? We've seen him already getting in mound. visits as far as, I don't know, pregame planning or just going throughout us everything. Yeah. Can you just tell us more about that? Yeah, he's involved. He's involved in everything, you know, our prep work, our pregame meetings, you know, I know we probably got noticed this, but every time there's a, there's a visit, a mound visit,

Carlos is the first one there. You know, he's smart. He sees what's going on during our hitters meeting. He pretty much leaves the conversation. and it feels like he has never left our clubhouse. I share a lot of, you know, ideas through him, how the next couple of weeks shoot some of my thoughts. And, you know, he's got some really good feedback.

And, you know, his presence, it's incomparable. How, you know, what he brings to the table is incredible. I've never seen anything like it. Joe, if you need to give Jeremy a day off here and there, because whether it's just making sure that he doesn't overtax himself or the cramp that he had in the lane over Boston, do you envision Correa being your shortstop on days that you don't start, Jeremy, or is that kind of still up in the air at this point?

Yeah, no, I think Carlos, it's obviously, you know, he's planting a glove winner at short. And so, you know, if Jeremy meets those few off days, in the next, you know, 50, 50 games, you know, Carlos is more capable of doing that. So my plan is just to do that for the time being. I go to my ESPN app, Skip, and I see that Undecided is making today's start. Tell me about him. I don't know much about Undecided.

Yeah, he's still undecided. You'll find out here. You'll find out here pretty soon. It's going to be one of our left-hand relievers. Oh, now we get the guessing game after you leave us. I like kind of like that. Take us through that because, you know, AJ and I would talk quite a bit about this, about using the opener. Is there a lot of maneuvering once the game goes on or is it a pretty well set?

I think I can get this guy to get me six out, this guy to get me three and six, or do you have to kind of watch and see how the game goes before deciding, you know, how your rotation goes in terms of who's going to go next? Yeah, you know, you try to, you map it out and you put like two different scenarios. right. The opener, let's just say you want them to give a four or five outs or it would be great if it gives you six out and then but if there is traffic, who's going to be that first guy up, you know, out of your bullpen. So you mat that out. And then also once you get to, once to the lineup, who's going to give you the bulk and how many pitches that person

who's going to give you most of the bulk, you know, how many pitches you're wanting to get you. And then, you know, the hope is, so when you get to the fifth and six, you can, you know, you have to lead and you can deploy your back end on the bullpen. So there is some, there's some planning that goes into it. You know, you want your offense just to give you some early runs. So the execution of the game plan will be a little bit more, it'd be much easier. but, you know, this is a team in mornings that they have some really good left-hunter hitters, and they have some guys on the bench that they're, you know, they're deploying early in the game if they have to.

So, you know, we're just going to try to be ready and put our relievers in the best position for them to succeed. We did not speak to you since the trade deadline is coming past, and I think you guys were off that Thursday. So let me, let's go through what your final two hours were like. get Correa, you have Urius, you get Sanchez. I know there were some other deals that were pondered and discussed. How was your last afternoon before the deadline came? Because I'm curious what the manager's role was during all this big. Beyond the, I'm just on the phone and talking to Dana.

No, yeah, I'm constantly, you know, text messages, not only with Dana, but someone of his front office personnel, trying to figure out if we were part of this player, how would it fit in our roster? So the constant text message is I try to take those last two or three hours. I went to the movies with my girls. They were in Boston. And, you know, I missed the last 45 minutes off the movie because that's when we think got really heated. And we're really close to acquiring Carlos and Sanchez.

So, you know, I had to leave the theater so you could get, you know, these conversations with Dana and his. staff. But it's fun. You want to be in that position where you're actually acquiring players, not saying goodbye to family members, and we acquire some really good players, and I'm excited about it. I have to ask. What movie was it? It was bad guys. The name was Bad Guys. It's a kind of a cartoon movie, and we were watching it. It's bad guys, too, I believe it's the name. It was fun. We were looking forward to potentially just, you know, spend those two hours there, you know, just watching a movie and eating popcorn and hanging out. But, man, the last 30, 45 minutes for me, I had to leave the room.

Skip, I don't know how you did it, honestly. I applaud you as a husband and as a father because I guarantee you, if I'm in your spot, I'm like, kids, go see whatever you want. How about here's the credit card, you know, the popcorn you can possibly handle it. I may have a completely different roster in about two and a half, three hours of play. Yeah, you know, I, it's important for me to be, be present with my, with my family. I, you know, I need that piece, that piece of mind being able to get away from the game and try to do the best I can just to be there for them, for my wife. And I know it's, it's a big moment, you know, during the season, but, you know, it's important for us to be present with our kids. and for them to see that even doing these very important times during our job,

that we have time for them. Because at the end of the day, that's my biggest responsibility, is taking care of my kids and my wife. Two last questions, and we applaud you for that mentality. To this opener situation, do you envision this being a one-time thing? Could you see yourself doing this for a couple of weeks? I know you've got some reinforcements coming, but let's frankly be honest, they're probably going to be on a pitch count here for at least a while.

and that could ultimately mean that guys may need to skip a start. Yeah, you know, we are, this is, you know, day by day, I'll be honest with you. We are, we see how today goes. We have Spencer coming back tomorrow. You know, he's going to be somewhat on a pitch count. You know, he can take us 80 pitches or plus, but you just never know, right? So we are taking one day at a time. We've been very conscious of who can we pick?

who can give us multi-more ines, who can pitch back-to-back games. So it's all hands on deck. But right now, it's just one day at a time and see what we're focusing right now on winning today's game. You also sent two players back to the minor leagues in Melton and Matthews. Any messages in particular for those two gentlemen? Yeah, you know what? For me, it's more, you know, they need, first of all, they did a tremendous job.

You know, Bryce Matthews pretty much won us a series in Arizona. Melton, you know, he provides coverage, you know, three outfields. He's super athletic. His defense is plus. But I told me that, you know, for them right now, it's going back down to AAA and playing every day. I want these young players to play every day. They're part of our future.

And it's important for them just to go and play. And stay ready because, you know, you never know what could happen here in the next couple of weeks. And injury can occur. And then, you know, I want them to be ready. I want them to be getting every day at bats. Thank you for the visit, as always. Enjoy South Florida.

Enjoy New York and we'll talk in next week, and thank you for the opportunity. Oh, I got to appreciate it. Joe Spada with us here on Sports Talk 7-90. So, Ross, you want to play Guess the Reliever? This is going to start today? Let's go with Suza. Dang. You don't on Okert?

Sure, why not? Let's go with Oker. Play at lunch? Let's go with I don't care. Just get out, right? Yeah, I mean, yeah. Yeah, I don't think it's going to be Josh Hader. You know what I mean?

He did say lefty. Okay. You know what? I'll take the field. You take Josh Hader. All right. I need about 100 to 1 odds. Yeah.

I'll give it to you. Put my one penny against your dollar. I'm all for that. 1246 on Sports Talk 7908 to Matt Thomas show at Ross. 7.1.3212-5-790. Ross has got the NFL ReWon at 120. And we have a. Jason Alexander at 130.

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12-52 Matt and Ross with you here We have NFL Rewin coming up at 120 I am getting kind of ready for the season I will be honest with you I did not watch

but maybe five plays of the Hall of Fame game it doesn't do much for it I saw it in the background and Will Disseley got a touchdown I saw that I couldn't tell you who's

I know that the lion kicked the Chargers ass but other than that I don't know What the hell is Will Disley doing in that game hasn't he kind of a rubber regular for them or no? The Chargers kicked the lion's ass. Oh, do they have said?

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. You're a Charger guy, right? Yeah. Oh, here we go. Oh, God. Here we go. Go Chargers, go.

First of all, how can you be a Chargers fan? Is there like somebody that you know on the team or San Diego? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gregor-Gama lives right outside the Selfie Stadium. Go ahead, Maddie. Go ahead, gatekeeper of fandom. No, no, no, no, no, no. First of all, one of my best friends.

is a super big Charger fan. Second of all, I love their uniforms. And three, I like Justin Herbert. And now go Chargers, go. Either that or you grow up a Cowboys fan. I hit that about a minute ago, by the way. Can you sing their fight song? No.

Does anybody, you have a fight song? You don't sing the San Diego Chargers fight song? No. You don't sing that song? Fire. Get a fired off. I mean, he's going to have to do it. Okay.

just put San Diego Super Chargers song Play this song I want you to It's the frigging jam If this is How much better or worse Is this than football time in Houston

When you find it Just start playing Way better Don't let the get out of there You probably should pay Wait this is the right one Yeah This is the other thing

They play this in the clubs back in the day How much longer Oh Follow me on Twitter At SportsMT and Instagram Turn out Yes, crank this This

Supercharges Sandy Yeah, this is the jam The Dittal of days This is seriously This is so much better Than the Texans fight song I can't even tell you

It's not even close Hmm It's like a member of a cool Nogang saying this It's in that vein This could be somebody By Earthwind and Fire Okay, it's not that good.

Well, the boys still, I'll see what Matt's coming from. Fire it up, here we go. It's good. All right, I think I figured it out. Thank you for that, by the way. It was done by Captain Q-Boy B and the big boys. Ooh, top 40 on a case of case. If the Texans really get a really good fight song, I will join you.

Battle Red Ross? Yeah. You said if they make a Super Bowl, you'll join me. That's not going to happen. No, he sure won't. Could? No. No.

You can't have a bottom three offensive line in the NFL making Super Bowl. You just can't. They're going to rise above. Are you going to rise above the East is what you're trying to say? Yes. Okay. They're going to be better than bottom three. You have my personal guarantee.

So two ways the Texans, I become a fan of the Texans. Okay. One that goes to Super Bowl. And two, they get a new fight song that actually we like. Well, you don't have a sports team? Not a football team. I do not. I have the Oilers and they left me.

Yeah, they're dead. Move on. You know what? There are some people that lose their great love of their life and they don't move on. Well, guess what, Matt? Sometimes you've got to move on for a number of reasons. First of all, they moved somewhere else. Yeah.

And they've moved on from you. That's true. They certainly did. And even when y'all were together, all they did was disappoint you. Yeah. All they did was better to have loved and lost and to never have loved at all. I mean, this is Stockholm syndrome at this point. All the Oilers did was lose, lose and disappoint and lose.

Move on, Maddie, to the Texans because all they do is win, win, win, and win. Well, Jonathan, and at least they're here. I've explained this to the audience. Because I don't have an emotional attachment to the Texans, I don't have that frustration of losing. You're divorced from the outcomes. And that can be refreshing. I'm with you. I don't have an emotional attachment.

So if they win or lose, it doesn't do anything for me. Now, what it does for me is if they win the people that I'm surrounded by, which is our great audience, you, got a red. Let's go. And people that I have friendships with, they love the Texans. So I'm happy for them. But when they lose, I don't sit there and have a pep. rally over it. I just go, okay, what's a good, what's a good 325 game? You know what I mean? It's fine. Because I got news for you. Your Texans hate or Matt. That's far from the truth.

What I don't have is like the rockets have let me down. The Astros have let me down. The Cougars certainly last year let me down. I've got enough. I got enough. That's enough from you. I got enough. I got enough of disappointment. I'm content. So if they want to go to the Super Bowl, I will be the number one bandwagon jump-on fan. You start calling me a Maddie the Texan. I like that. Liberty White Matt. Liberty White Matt.

Don't talk about my legs that way either. Hey, you don't go. Translucent. We're going to be a tire brewing on Friday. Okay. Do you know that? 104 Sports Talk, 7 out of the things I hear during this brief timeouts on our show are amazing. You know what?

I've got a bad habit, folks. I intentionally lob grenades at Matt right before he's about to turn his microphone on. It's like a little game while I play. And unfortunately, he has no choice. I've said this before. We've said it for about 10 years now. The off-air podcast of our show would get us much higher ratings than the current on-air programming. We'd be canceled in seconds.

That's probably true. The things were said and done, it's a character assassination. It's not great. Not great at all. All right, 105 Sports Talk 790s. This is our hour here. What does that mean? That means you guys get to call in.

We've had Joe Spotted before. We had a little bit on the Texans training camp front. Astros were the win yesterday and beat the tar out of the Marlins after 8 to 2. Beat down. What's up? Five run. I was in a car driving back from the hospital. And man, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

head after hit after hit after hit Passing the baton It was a beautiful thing You have a lineup with a lot of length Not necessarily anybody It's going to be dropping 35-40 bombs So Yordon comes back But you have a lineup of some guys

It can get in wallop some hits And do it all in a row And they were having some bad luck early on But thankfully They got it going there in the fourth And then a couple of insurance runs there in the 8th after did you see Otto Lopez completely lost

his mind. Oh my God. And Caratini went underneath him to get the second base. You could have tagged him in a double play. I think it would have ended the inning. Yeah, it was not a brain surging game for either a couple sides. No, that's true. On both sides. Yeah. Yeah. But is it weird how Jesus Hesu Sanchez was

just a marlon a handful of days ago and now he's going against him? It is. Baseball trades workout Yeah, and he and Alcantara were very close. Alcantara. Alcantara. Yeah, it should have been a double play

because Christian Walker struck out. That would have been a double play at the end of the inning. But Dehineer Diaz grounded out, should have been a dog, an inning ending ending at double play. I got a question for you.

Are we ready to give Yainer Diaz his flowers now? Why? P.S. above 700 at this point. It's good. He's been doing a lot better. Who told you? He was going to get a,

he was going to have improved second half of the season with some better batted ball luck. Who told you he would be a sneaky leader of home runs on the team? Basically, everybody and their grandmother has got it decimated by injuries and he's still in third place. So, I don't know, we're

patting ourselves on the back for that. Weekdays tend to two. Sounds about right. Yeah, it is what it is. Look, I don't miss much. Let's run through these. What? Laramie Tensel. You're taking credit. You said he was going to lead. He's in third.

Everybody's been hurt. Yay! Day? Derby. Laramie Tensel, selfish offensive lineman. Check. Okay.

Yonner Diaz, sneaky, home run leader candidate. There's still time. There's two months left to go in the season. Let's go. I don't see Yarnan Alvarez out there batting the balls around. That's because his hand is falling off.

Can we go back to Yarner for a second? Go ahead. Let's go to Yonarna. So he's in hitting progressions, whatever that means. He's in the Florida Complex League. Yeah. It's good, I guess. And last time he went to Florida, he had a major setback. So we'll see what happens there. Okay. And I'm asking a non-doctor, a doctor question. So this is going to be a loaded answer.

I put my doctor hat on. Get my stethoscope. How in the world is a guy who hasn't played since May, who's probably, I don't even know. even matter when he comes back. How is that hand not going to flare up again between now and the end of the season? He's going to play with the pain. You're going to heal it up as much as he can. They're going to give him injections every day. He's going to DH.

He's going to have a it's going to be like a Professor Clump hand. It's going to be all swollen up. By the way, what do you think about the hand guy in Happy Gilmore 2? What do you mean? The guy's son.

Chubbs' son? Yeah. It was kind of funny, I guess. It was gross. What was gross about? I don't know. Disfigured hands aren't really fun to look at, especially when it comes to my favorite outfielder. Cheves Peterson had a messed up hand in the first one. That's true.

These are all callbacks, Matt. I know, I know. And apparently he's an incredible golf coach. That's true. So help me out again. Maybe I should bump that back down to a five out of ten. I said at five. I'm consistent.

You bumped into a six on your review. I did. I really did. I think he said six and a half. Yeah, I think Matt said nine, actually. I started out as a 10 and got down to a one. I think he has it between Citizen Kane and Godfather. By the way, on Friday's show, I'll be reviewing The Naked Gun. Oh, really? Did you watch it?

No, we're going Thursday. Oh, okay. Cool. So that's on Friday's show. I've heard good things. It's funny because I sent a family text out. I said, hey, let's all as a family go to see the Naked Gun on Friday. on Thursday.

Yes. My daughter, of course, he's the first one to opine. Oh, my friends said it sucked. I heard it sound funny. I'm like, Rotten Tomatoes disagrees. And she goes,

I'm still not going. And I said, okay, keep in touch. 90% on the tomato meter. That is the critics. 76% for the fans. That's rare for a comedy like this. That sounds pretty good.

I mean, how can anybody... Usually it's like some art house film where it's with critics like it better than the fans. It's basically sophomoric, potty, elementary humor. Yeah, it's perfect.

for you. It's basically me. That's what I'm telling you. That's why I've been telling you to watch Walk Hard too. That's why I'm going to love watching the movie and give you a great review on Friday. Dave, thank you, Matt. And like I said, the first half hour, Happy Gilmore was amazing. And then it just petered out. And they got a patly absurd towards the variant, but that's a different issue. It's like they ran out of ideas. Okay. So are we going to, what would you say if I said Alvarez plays on a Monday, skips a Tuesday, plays on a Wednesday. I mean, can you, can you nurse the bad boy until all the way? You could do that. I mean, hey, that's what the playoffs are. going to be. As long as you start at a DS playing two games, getting

a day off. We just got to walk off, manage the pain, and then after the season he'll have a hand procedure. Procedure or a surgery? Are those one of the same? I mean, a couple of years ago, we thought he was going to have a hand procedure after the year. Procedure, surgery, same thing. Tomato potato. I mean, do you like, do you like just

open the hand up, expose the skin, look in there and see what's going and clean it out? I don't know where his injury is. He's talked about how it's difficult to have surgery, where his injury is. I think, this is my just gut feeling is that surgery would end his

season. He can rehab and play through the pain, so he's going to do that and then perhaps explore surgery after the year. I really felt terrible when we did our overrunners on number of home runs for you on the end of the year. You had zero. I had zero.

I'm still feeling confident it's going to be over zero. Would you say two and a half? You said it two. Two? That breeds confidence for sure. Absolutely. Two's pretty good. I mean,

I only had to go above you. It's like price is right. You know what? I just had to go above your zero to be correct. I bid in $1. This jerk over here and bid $2. You know that guy that guy is on the price is right? We hate that guy.

I love that guy. I'm sorry for bidding smart. What did you say, Jonathan? You would stay that guy down on national TV. Oh, I'd give him a side eye for sure. All right. 113. We've got the NFL Rewin coming back. Now, you're going to fill

it full of entertaining stuff or minutiae with players we don't even know who we or care about? I think players, most people know, most people know who Kairn Williams is Matt? The first round drive pick. I'll be ready for that. And believe it or not, is we going Lonnie Anderson? Are we going with something else? Oh, God, I don't care.

All right. It's going to be, I don't care. It's going to be basically just, good Lord, it's going to be done in time. We've got Jason Alexander coming up at 1.30. You ready for that? Not only is just a great jam, but it's got great content coming up. That's right, friends.

It's time for sports RVs, NFL. Why are you giggling? I almost slides to my own joke. What was a joke? Nothing. What's so funny. Do you get a joke? I didn't hear a joke.

I didn't hear a joke. Time now for Ross's NFL Rewin. Yes, Matthew. Well, we've been talking about the Texans and the way things have been going for them. Some people, myself included, worried about how the office tackle battle will shake out.

That was highlighted by ESPN as they went throughout camp battles throughout the NFL, mentioning, of course, Arionte Ursary, how he's going to mix in with Cam Robinson and Blake Fisher. Yesterday, you had Cam Robinson go down with an injury, and it had been Titus Howard at right tackle rather than Blake Fisher. So that is something to keep an eye on. The hierarchy for the Houston Texans and their offensive. line that is certainly one of the camp battles that people are focusing and on. Elsewhere in the NFL, there are a number of different things to get into. Speaking of camp battles and the way things are going,

a lot of talk about Travis Hunter, one of the great mysteries, and it's been talked a lot about in the fantasy community as well, Matt. Travis Hunter, a dynamic talent, but how much cornerback and how much wide receiver will he play in a scrimmage recently for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He played 17 snaps with first team offense and 21 with the first team defense. Trevor Lawrence saying he's really excited

after practice earlier today saying I mean if Friday was a glimpse of it we should be excited to see him running around there talking about the scrimmage on Friday wherever it's an offense defense hopefully more offense throwing that in there for us. Do you think the Jaguars are going to use this as a marketing tool? Man this could be a gut feeling L for me I said, I don't think he's going to play the whole season both sides, at least significant snaps.

But it sounds like the Jaguars are really going to go with this. I don't know how much of a marketing. If he pitches, if he plays 40 snaps, I can see double digits on both sides. I don't think it's crazy. Yeah, but I mean, some players play like, you know, 60 or 70 snaps, depending. And he's saying, he's not going to play the entire game. He's not going to play 100 snaps in a game on both sides. No.

That's what I'm trying to figure out. I think that we in sports are trying to find nuances that make the game. Here's the thing, though. Does it really... Like, when Shohei does what Shohei does, we are crazy about it. I don't think NFL world's like,

oh, that's fun to see a guy play two ways. The Jaguars need to win football games. Trevor Lawrence needs to win football games. That Jaguar franchise has had a boatload of first-round picks and a boatload of six win seasons. You're doubling yourself to exposure of injury. You're going to tire him out. I don't know.

I mean, everybody's talked about how he never gets tired, and he continues to do it, and he continues to impress. But, I mean, I would just, I will say this. I am certainly, count me among the doubters. And that's not because I don't want him to do it. I just, it would be, you know, at least we have to go back to like the 1950s or whatever. You found a full-time two-way player.

I'll just say this. It doesn't happen in the NFL. It will make me pay attention to Jaguar game more often. That's just the bottom line on that. It would be a cool story. I'd be wrong. I'm still staying away from him in my fantasy dress, but that's just me.

A lot of people, there's been a lot of debates about where you would take him. I think you add. I think you'd say, stay away for fantasy football if he's only going to play a handful of snaps on. Some people want to take him in like the fourth, fifth round. That seems too high. But, you know, I'm not a fantasy football expert.

You don't know how many. That's for sure. Well, shut up. We'll ask Roto in a couple weeks. You don't know how many. Yeah, I'm curious where Roto is. because Roto's very smart and does a very good job. We'll have him coming up in a few weeks.

All right. Anyways, elsewhere in the NFL, Matt, you know, of course, that the Cleveland Browns have had four quarterbacks this season, or this offseason. Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dylan, Gabriel, and Shador Sanders. Added another one. Tyler Huntley, signed by the Cleveland Browns on Tuesday. What?

Kenny Pickett, Dylan, Gabriel, and Shador Sandals are all dealing with different injuries. So they got five quarterbacks now. Do the Cleveland Browns. Here, I want to, here, let's get your, I want your, your sound effect reaction. Okay, go. This list of Cleveland Brown's quarterback.

Go. Joe Flacco. Kenny Pickett. Dylan Gabriel. Shador Sanders. Tyler Huntley. How are we feeling over there in Cleveland? What Holland did I like a few years ago that

when I'm being a bust? Thomas Sports Enterprises before he got Before he came? Yeah, which was an interview. Backup, quarterback. Brett Hunley wasn't there a quarterback? Yeah, you were a Brett Hunley guy. I was a Brett Hunley guy.

I was a Brett Hunley guy. I was glad you brought that up because I forgot about that. Yeah. Look, Thomas Sports Enterprises hit on a cup. Well, it hit on DAC and it did well for us. Josh Ross. Wait, John Ross. What was his name of the receiver?

Who ran the really fast? John Ross. John Ross. John Ross. John Ross Ewing. He's now an oil tycoon. Will Levis? Out for the year.

How are we feeling? Not real bullish. All right, man. This is going to be some shocking news for you. Go ahead. Jonathan, real quick. We were talking about John Ross Ewing. You know, he was a Bengals' first round pick. And it didn't work out well.

But thankfully, he took over his dad's oil company. And it's thriving. Now, he's got a cousin Christopher that he fights with all the time. but they're still doing well. Continue. I'm waiting for Jonathan's reaction to that. Yeah. Oh, come on.

You can go from an NFL receiver to running an oil company? You can't? Let's see where John Ross is. Hmm. Probably saying six inch or foot long. He's playing with the Scottsdale's copperheads. He is not. I just made that up.

I liked my response better. Okay. Anyways. Steelers Insider Mike Defabo Matt, what do you think about his work? Who? You love it? No.

Of the athletic, Steelers Insider, Mike DeFabo at Steelers Training Camp. Things are going so hot for the Steelers offense. He says this is his assessment of the Aaron Rogers offense for the Steelers. There's no

room to run. Vertical passing game is not in sync. There's no connection with any wide receiver two. And the young tackles are getting destroyed in practice as well. So basically Aaron Rogers is going to run for his life. Well, at least he's extremely mobile

coming off an Achilles injury and he's like 42. Was this how his career was supposed to end, by the way? Man, you know what? I was thinking this yesterday actually because there was this you see random highlight reels on Twitter. There was Aaron Rogers highlight reel. And I think if I go through the list of guys that gave me like the most wow moments, Aaron Rogers isn't like the greatest quarterback of all time, but, you know, he's top 10.

And I think if I go like through the list of me just going, oh my gosh, I can't believe what I just saw. Aaron Rogers is up there. His clutch. He's, yeah. Say what he's so bizarre, but he's still one of the all-time coaches. Yeah, I don't even care about that. I'm not even talking about that. That's irrelevant to me.

he's bros with McAfee which takes me down several pegs yeah whatever I'm talking about pure player in his prime 80 yards in 114 off the clock when no timeouts he ain't sweating it beast like throws you were like how in the world did that throw get me precision yeah all right Jason Alexander which one you'll find out next as he joins us here on sports talk 790 We are very happy to be joined at 132 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross by the winning pitcher of yesterday's game. Jason Alexander with us here from Florida. And we appreciate him spending a couple minutes with us here on the show.

Jason, it's Matt and Ross. Congratulations on the victory. I'll say I think the best part of it was that baseload of Jamie got out of last night to take us through the entire game and how much sense of relief you had not given up any runs in that frame. First, I'll start off by saying, thank you for having me here. Yeah, you know, it's very, I mean, that's kind of like a big point in the game for the six inning. You're trying to finish a good start and keep the team, you know, keep the game where it's at. And I was facing, I think, the heart of their lefties and I had a rightie on deck.

So I wouldn't say that I was trying to pitch around who I walked the bases with to face a rightie. but I think that's probably where Joe kind of trusted me to, you know, kind of get out of that inning and finish strong. So, yeah. Hey, it worked out, Wolfram. And again, congratulations. You're in a tough spot because you're going back and forth between Sugar Lane and here and obviously trying to get your feet wet and help out while you can while some other guys are going through a variety of elements. Characterize this go-around for you as a major leaguer. Obviously, happy for the opportunity, but still kind of trying to.

fight your way to threw a crowded mess right now. Yeah, I think I think it's one thing I've always kind of had to battle throughout my career is just proving that I belong and proving that, you know, I can be trusted to start a game. And

I'm very forced with the Astros to have taken me and give me these chances and opportunities. And, you know, it's always up to us to execute and get the job done and make the decision tough for them on what they have to do. There's been a lot of talk over the years about the Astros and they're pitching

coaching and brain trust and game planning and all that type of stuff. What's your experience been like here about how different it actually is from other organizations you've been in? Yeah, I think right away, I remember the beginning of the season when I was with the A's, there was, they were giving me kind of scouting reports on hitters and they're giving us data, but I was hoping for specific type of data. to kind of look at. And right away, when I came over to the Astros, that was kind of exactly what was handed to me.

Without even asking, it was, you know, hey, this is what we got on hitters, and it was exactly what I wanted. So it was great to kind of have that at my fingertips. Are many of your fellow pitchers asking for that stuff, or are you kind of in your own world when it comes to that? I mean, look, the Astros have kind of pride themselves on adding things to people's arsenal when they get here.

But is that a trend in baseball you see, are the aster's kind of ahead of the curve on that? So I don't know so much about changing my arsenal all that much. I think I'm still using the same pitches that I've kind of been developing. They have more so just given me a lot of info just on the hitters themselves. And I think that's what's really helps me out a lot. And we have like a video room and there's been plenty of guys that come in and out of there. So I don't know exactly what they're looking at,

but I do know that whenever there's something I need, there's always an answer for it. It's been great. And what's that like for you as a pitcher, like in this day and age with the analytics and not wanting to get too deep into the weeds on stuff like that and still doing practical things like, you know, mixing up and not being predictable,

changing eye levels, kind of blending that old school pitching philosophy stuff with the new school analytics? Yeah, I think both are very important. I think there's a lot to, you know, analytics, I think is there for a reason. I think the math kind of checks out in a lot of boxes. But I think there's also something to the old-fashioned getting a hitter out. And that's something that I try to pride myself on.

And I, you know, I think both things need to be taught. What's your brother, Scott also was a long time major league as well. How much advice have you guys given to each other over the course of your careers? I'm sure him giving me a lot more advice than the other way around, but we definitely, whenever we're together, we're always bouncing ideas off each other. But he's probably been the best pitching coach in my back pocket that I could have ever asked for. He's probably given me some of the best advice that is just, you know,

you could probably only get from someone who's been through it. So there's just been a lot of things that have kind of just shaped my foundation that I had to thank my brother for. In the backyard, wiffleball games of yesteryear, who got the better of the other guy? With me and my brother, it was kind of like the story of the little giants

where, you know, I'm facing a guy who's basically myself before years older, so I'm always outmatched, so it was kind of just that win that one time out of 100, you know? You know, if he beat me all week, I just had to wait until Saturday to beat him, you know?

I was looking forward to that one win. So it was great always having him to chase growing up. I think it's what made me work harder. Kind of always pushed me ahead of the curve. So I got, you know, I owe a lot to him. Jason Alexander with us here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. So as you, you know, establish yourself on this team, and obviously the work yesterday was phenomenal.

How are the fluid conversations between you, your two pitching coaches and your manager, about what your role is now and what it could be for? the next two to three weeks as you're sitting you're not only pitching for this team but you're also in the middle of a pennant race yeah you know this is this is a great team and and a lot of high expectations and uh they kind of keeps a lot of the talks short with me and um for you know for the most part i'm okay with that i'm fine with just being available whenever the team needs me you know whatever the team needs to win you know i'm all here for it you know i played a lot of baseball in my life and I can say that being on a winning team

is, there's nothing better than being on a winning team. So, you know, whatever the team needs, I'm here for it. All right. Last question. When you're at the airport and they say, Jason Alexander, we have your seat assignment. Do people stand up and look around and go, oh my God, Jason Alexander's here?

I don't know if I've ever gotten it at an airport. I definitely, you know, the media fans, I get the Jason Alexander all the time. So Seinfeld must have had a very historic franchise. Well, all I want to say is this, because we told the audience we were going to have you on the show today. I didn't want to be that guy, okay? I didn't want to play the sound bites and have that and use the stupid cliches. I just thought, how do I effectively do this with making sure Jason, you, doesn't get mad at me for asking about it?

I just was just curious if that's ever been a nature before. I love it. I love the No Soup for you. I love the Summer of George. I love Costanza, Festivist for the rest of us. I love all that stuff. Oh, my God.

You've fully embraced it. Yeah, yeah. I joke about it with my friends. You know, whenever it's a good game, we like looking at the memes and stuff. It's funny. I love it. Well, you know what?

You're doing just fine for the city of Houston, our version, Jason Alexander. We thank you for joining us. Again, congratulations. It was so much fun watching you. thing yesterday and get those six innings and get the victory and we wish you know that about the success the rest of the season. Yeah, thanks. Houston Nation for it.

Houston Nation, there you go. That's it. Thanks, Jason. We appreciate it. Jason Alexander with us here on the Matt Thomas show. It was good visiting with him. Nice guy. Thanks very much for having him on the show. And he could have been like, I get sick and tired of it. I don't want to hear about it. No, he did that. That's just the opposite. Well, if I don't know that, Ross, we'd have just thrown a bunch of stuff at him. Like he was in the pool. significant shrinkage

Yes And the puff And not the puffy shirt But what was the name of the jacket That George wore Oh you're the Gortex jacket Yeah the Gortex jacket Okay

Now we're really going in the weeds Yeah You know I don't I don't recite Seinfeld TV shows Like other people do It's almost been 30 years too So 1998 they went off the air

Jonathan was negative 6 Oh, negative four. Oh, snap. How many Seinfelds have you seen in your entire life? Full episodes. Okay, so like Seinfeld show? I'm confused. No, the name is show is Seinfeld.

Oh, I've never seen Seinfeld, ever. I've watched the 70 show. Like George Lopez is still, I don't know. It's all a different world that got me in right now. That was kind of out of left field. Isn't that what Seinfeld is like Friends? Okay, friends would be work because they were on the same nights on NBC at around the same time.

I'm going to go to Georgia Lopez show. It's a little out of left field as a leap from Seinfeld. Let me give you a cop. Matt, you were on track? No, Johnlin, but I did play ping pong. I mean, I guess, oh, yeah, okay. You're at this time? Okay, look, Seinfeld.

Seinfeld is on a lot. Would you watch one episode and see if you laugh at all? Okay, I'll watch one. Yeah, I'll watch one. Don't do season one or two. Yeah, it's pretty slow. If we gave him an episode of watch, I don't know, probably the late stuff,

but that's when it got kind of cartoonish. What's the humor is? Like Big Bang Theory? Oh, no. It's way smarter than Big Bang Theory. No, no. Big Bang Theory is like, I don't know. Cheesy, more cheesy, I think.

How about the contest? We can give them the contest? Sure. Yeah. It's on Netflix, isn't it still? Yeah, you can find. You can go on YouTube and find it, I'm sure. No problem.

All right. So there you is. I'll do it. I'll do it. Yeah, we're going to get you one episode. Matter of fact, send us a tweet. Which episode would you want to watch anything involving George and being the traveling secretary for the Yankees? That might be funny. That's not my bad either. All right. Believe it or not, it's coming up next.

All things about Lonnie Anderson, L-O-N-I. Ross is shaking his head about Lonnie Anderson. Get to work, Rossi. 7-1-3-212-5-790. 7-1-2-2-5-7-90. We're going to play Belize. or not, and you're saying, Matt, what surprises today, I'm believing or not? Well, I'm glad you asked. Today, we're playing for a four pack of tickets with pit passes to see Monster Jam,

October the 18th at NRG Stadium. Tickets are on sale at Ticketmaster.com. If you want to go to Monster Jam, oh God, that hurt. Monster Jam. October 18th in NRG Stadium. 713-212-570. 149 on Sports Talk 7-Aony. A couple people have asked me when the NBA schedule is coming out. It'll probably be, I think, a week from Thursday. There are people that are, there's a fake sham sharoni account out there that people are, uh-oh, unfortunately treating his gospel.

It's not even, the fake account is not even close to the real account. and when I see a fake account, I block it. But people are treating this thing as gospel. I didn't see this. Yeah, so it's talking about Christmas Day. Okay. Do I think the Rockets have got a better than, I would say they've got a better than not chance.

Better than 50-50 and playing on Christmas. I would say, I feel like it's like a 78% chance. They're playing on Christmas. Yeah. Probably against Warriors, Sons, Laker. It's going to be a marquee match. I like it to be home. Can I mean?

Was that asking too much? I understand. We've had a few Christmases off. It's been nice. Not having to worry about who's working pre and post. I want to say we had a Christmas day game in San Francisco. And I'm sure there has been at least one Christmas home game. You remember working on a Christmas for a home game?

Generally, we made Michael Connor do it because I had tenure. And so guess what? Whoever I'm doing them with this year, I've got tenure. Cole Thompson, can't wait anything. Well, who knows? I don't get one of the Adams on it. Why'd you roll your eyes as you said that? I did.

I had a little scratch. Oh, my eyebrow. It's got a scratch. Brookly-Ey Center. Yeah, it's right, Berkeley Center. Wow, look at this guy. Man, you know what? He's learning the biz.

Maybe that'll get you a field goal for SFF. That was good work for you. there. So instead of the score being 73 to 3, I may 73 to 6. That was a good one. Yeah, I'm trying to think. We had to have had maybe one Christmas

I don't remember. But I definitely remember we were in San Francisco. The rockets were depleted of injuries. The Warriors were even worse. I think the Warriors, it was the first year the Chase Center opened up. I was like 21 or something. 20?

Yeah, it's been a while. And then the rockets moved away from Russell Westbrook and James Hardin and we lost 60 games in a row three straight years. Now they won 52 and trade away their top score, but they got Kevin Durant back. It's scary how much the publicity is about this rocket team.

The hype train. Kendrick Perkins can't get enough of him. Kendrick, stay away. Stay away. This takes, they concern me a little bit. He's still on TV? Good for him. Yeah, apparently he's going to be hosting NFL Red Zone. next year. Okay, good. I saw that tweet. Could you imagine that? It's going to be Stephen A.

Stephen A and Dan O'Olofsky. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply call it B. Believe it or not it, here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-1-2-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believe or not is all things about the late, Lonnie Anderson, who passed away a couple days ago, just days before her 80th birthday. I'll read your statement about this former WKRP and Cincinnati Star. His name is completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it.

Seamins erroneous, full of all command up, you'll say this. Not. Two believe it or not in a row. Win you that Monster Jam. I guess I'm doing that. Stop, stop. Ticketmaster.com for all the information. Randy.

God, this screen is killing me here. Let me go here. Randy on 790, Randy, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Randy Anderson's full name is Lillianna Faye Anderson. She went by Lonnie for short since childhood. Believe it or not? Not.

That's a not. That's right. Statement number two for the win. Lonnie Anderson at C was both prom queen and salutatorian in her high school in Minneapolis. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, I'm sorry. My screen's not working. I need you to help me.

All right, let's try this again. Let's go to Robert on 790. Robert, you're ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. Robert Lonnie Anderson's first acting job was as an after-school special that warned of the dangers of marijuana called Keep Off the Grass. Believe it or not. Not. Yeah, that's not one of your better ones. There was an after-school special called Keep Off the Grass.

Statement number two for the wind. So shut your bum ass up. Statement number two for the wind. Lonnie Anderson was married four times, including Bert Reynolds, which ended in a nasty divorce. Believe it or not. Believe it. There you go. Congratulations. You know you're Lonnie Anderson. Nicely done. Corey on 790. Corey, what was your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show? Oh, I think I like the part best where you insulted Ross and he giggled. Lonnie Anderson was not. nominated for two primetime

Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, but she never won. Believe it or not. That is 100% Belive it. There you go. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Lonnie Anderson was a regular on the 1990s version of Hollywood Square is appearing in over

20 episodes. Believe it or not. Gosh. I would say believe it. No. She used to be on match game. Where she gave a blank. Robert on 790, Robert, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? Oh, man, talking about Seinfeld.

Lonnie Anderson audition for the role of Chrissy Snow. I already played. What? I already won. Oh, you did? Oh, sorry. Well, thanks for telling me your favorite part of the show. Let's go to Al on 7-90.

Al. You're ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, sir. Lonnie Anderson audition for the role of Chrissy Snow, which eventually went to Suzanne Summers. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's right. Believe it.

I always had a thing for Suzanne Summers. I never had a thing for Lonnie Anderson. Statement number two for the win. Lonnie Anderson's published her memoirs back in 1995. It was titled My Life in High Heels. Believe it or not? Not. It was, unfortunately.

I'm sorry. It's a good book. It's on Ross's coffee table right now at its house. Hey, we had a great time today. Tomorrow on the show, Brian Bogusevick. Shut your bum ass up. And will the Texans' offensive line protect C.J. Stroud in West Virginia? These are the stories that will continue to infiltrate and entertain and inform you during the 18.

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