The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Take Game 1 vs Red Sox! Josh Hader Might Be On IL, Astros Sit 67-52 With Mariners Still Close By

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

Astros Take Game 1 vs Red Sox! Josh Hader Might Be On IL, Astros Sit 67-52 With Mariners Still Close By

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. That'll score Smith. Pena stops at second. Carlos Correa drives in the run and the Astros are on the board. It's 2 to 1 Boston. He works on that guys. He works on that exact thing right there.

Hit the ground bowl over there with runners and scoring. Racing back on it is Raphael. He won't get there. That one hops off the wall. Scoring is Pena. Correa right behind him. The throw to the plate not nearly in time. A two-run double for Christian Walker.

And the Astros lead in three to two. Trills this one. Deep to left center field. And Chaz's first homeowner of the year is a two-run shot. And the Astros lead in five to two. Baby Seuss. The Houston Astros take game one of his three-game series from the Boston Redstocks.

Seven to six, the final. It got hairy late, but the Astros able to hold on for their fifth win in their last seven games. No problem. And I mean, hold on for dearly. Heck, Nairis, congratulations in your 10-year service time. But, bro, I mean, I wouldn't be buying real estate here. See you later. That got super dicey down the stretch.

That's all right. And then there were some pitcher that came in and played yesterday. I have no idea who the hell it was. What's your favorite anio de los Santos? That's a lot of it. Are you doing a Walmart commercial? Come on now. Hello.

How'stas? Haritos de Tavarindo at Walmart. Walmart, a proud sponsor of the Matt Tommas show at Ross. God love them. Express delivery with an hour. Let's go. And we don't have to rhyme them. No, we don't.

Market? You're still in the old. You know, I'm going to order you some chorizo on Walmart. No, you're not. I won't eat it. Turn it up. Jam. Total.

Good. Tier 3. It's fine. Jonathan, that's the first time you've ever heard this song, I'm assuming. No, of course not. Oh, are you Team Toto? Yeah. This is one of my jam.

Yeah, he was listening to this in the clubs. By the way, a very happy, belated birthday to our producer, Jonathan Allen, who did not tell us it was his birthday yesterday. No, he did on Friday, right? I said on Friday, but I appreciate it. Yeah, but I forgot. Happy birthday to you. Don't do it. Don't do it.

Don't do it. Happy Bert. I'm buying lunch for the three of us today. You're really trying to shut me up. Yeah. See how that worked? It worked. I'll shut up for some lunch.

I figured you would. Good morning. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross at 10.04. So, um... Okay, that's enough. We don't, he doesn't need it. Grown ass men shouldn't be saying happy birthday to each other. Okay.

I'm trying to express my love through the majesty of song. I mean, the reality is this. When everybody floods my Facebook page, Happy birthday, Matt, make it a great one. First of all, you're using the one that Facebook created for you. This is what you should do. Did you do this? Or somebody I knew was making it their birthday every day.

Oh, no. Yeah. And then we get messages every day. So really quick. That's pretty funny. Really quick. I'll go back to sports because the show is the essence of. There are people that are my Facebook friends that I know for a fact are not really checking their Facebook page

because people will wish them a happy birthday and they won't like it. And then I scroll down that person. page in the last post they have are other people saying again happy birthday so they literally don't check their Facebook page. Or they're dead. No, I know they're alive. Oh, okay. But I would say dormancy in all forms of social media can happen.

And it's funny that I will not wish a person a happy birthday on Facebook if I know they're not checking it. So I text instead. That's rude. And I think really the most appropriate way from here on out is if next June 5th, just Venmo me some cash. Okay. That's the gift that really means something.

That's exactly right. All right. So what a mixed bag yesterday. It was a while. For a variety of reasons. First of all, the buzz in the stadium looked incredible. I see what you did there. What I did?

I didn't do anything. Buzzers. Altube, Breggman, Correa. No, I didn't do any of that. That wasn't the reason for I didn't it. Alex Cora. They were getting the band back together. Stop.

Highly entertaining game. Excellent tribute. We missed on the timing of it. Yeah, they did it before. Before the game. Just smart and good. That's good, yeah. Bragg was awesome about it.

Yes. And then he smacks one to his favorite spot in the stadium. No, Christian Javier grooved him a flat sweeper. In the middle, middle. It was a gift. It was a gift from Christian Javier. It was a... We appreciate him.

A meatball as a kid would say? Yes. And so you're thinking, oh, this could be a sweeper that didn't sweep. So you can think it's a long night. And then Christian Javier settled down five strikeouts in five innings. Yeah, that was a little. over, which I hit. I hit the under on hits. I got

wrong on the innings. That's okay. But he got the win and the Astros won it and then come to find out that people didn't know who Della Santos was, nor did I, and that's fine because I've lost track at 50 relievers. His team has gone through

this year. And then Bennett Suisse has come in and finish things out. He's the left-hander you weren't anticipating, but he was the one that came out there and did it. Yes. And then you had to worry about Well, where's Josh Hader? And then finding out after the game that he came to the ballpark not feeling great and is going to get some test done today. I would say the chances of Joe is spot of telling us how he's doing right now at 1230 would be 0%.

I mean, literally there's no chance in a world he's going to tell us how he is. Yeah, we're still waiting on some test guys and we'll see what happens. He came to the ballpark with some discomfort yesterday and we're kind of waiting on the results there. And we'll go from there. Yeah, that's exactly what he's going to say. Let me tell you this. What can I do that's so incredible if he tells us what the results are? Post it all over our social media and get us some attention.

That's not a bad idea, actually. So, yes, he had the 36 pitches on Friday, was not used Saturday, did warm up Sunday, and then apparently when he got to the ballpark and started doing his plios, they called pliometrics, like stretching and stuff, that's when he felt the discomfort. According to Joe Espada

last night. Okay, so we will ask, again, the chance of him giving us the true answer, whether he knows it doesn't want to say anything or they're still testing things is 0%. We will not get the definitive word, but we will ask. But a very nice

victory, a great comeback, lots of home runs. Eurias, the home run last night. Yes. Cam Smith with a huge double last night. Yes. McCormick with his first blast of the year. It was a fun one. It was definitely a nice energy to the building yesterday.

Was a place sold out or close to it? What did they announce as attendance here? I think multiple people talked about, I listened to a little bit of the post game, which is rare for me. 39.3.30. That's really good. That's basically a sellout. It was the biggest Monday crowd of the year. And multiple people in the post game talking about it, feeling like a playoff atmosphere. That's outstanding.

And a desperate need a victory, you do gain a half game on the Mariners because they did not play yesterday. You also now have a lead of one game in the American League West. It is way too close for comfort. I like it. I'm telling you. I don't know why. I'm sick to my stomach. It's been too easy. Don't be sick to

your stomach. It's baseball. Like my favorite quote, and we'll play it later on from Joe Spada last night, they're like, what was that like? Having Eniel de Santos hold on and then Susan, he was like, That was fun. He said it was a good time. Like, it's just baseball.

A Brayu King and Hayter were down, and he found a way to get the win with Hector Nairis trying to blow the game. It's fun. I just don't want to see Hector Nairis anymore. I don't know that you will. I'm sure he's a very nice fellow, and he's beloved by his teammates and whatnot,

but I just can't do it anymore. My favorite thing is people going, you got to get rid of Hector Nair. Let's get Ryan Presley. I'm sorry, what? You want the guy that was DFAed from another team that is shaking and passes prime? And you're like, now let's go get the other guy who is DFA because he's shaky and past his prime? Well, I know as I think that Ryan Presley of 2022 could walk in that door any day now.

So could Hector Nairis. Hector Nairis was great. Was it 22 or 23? Whatever those years it was. He had like ERA in or two. Yeah. All right. So we do want to get in on the text of the Asteros with you folks.

And if you'd like to join the radio program, it's 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We'll mention the numbers a couple of times throughout the course of the hour because we want you guys to be a part of the show. I mean, maybe you're in the Ross category of, hey, this is what a pennant race is all about. This is what mid-August baseball is supposed to be. I'd like a five-game lead. I mean, I know you would too.

I would too, but hey, you take what you can get. You roll with the punches, and it's, I would say, interest is up in every game, and I think that's cool. Yeah. I just felt like a little more breathing room. Because the fact of the matter is the Mariners are playing better baseball. And Frank, and I hate to say this, the Mariners right now, especially if we find out something about Hater, that's a better baseball team.

And you got to hold on for dear life here. I'll tell you, who else likes the tight race? Jim and Crane. More interest, more ticket sales? $39,000 in the ballpark yesterday. Now, of course, that's the Red Sox. Yeah, they would have had that regardless. I will say this.

I would say if they had a 10-game lead, it wouldn't be as many. Just a guess. No, I'll say this. I will disagree with you because I believe that you have- Correa coming back and yet Bregman playing his first game. Oh, today you don't even want to count because that's going to be a dollar dog night. It's always dollar dog night. Ooh, I got a gut feeling about that, by the way.

What? I got a way random off-the-board gut feeling about that. Write it down so you don't lose track what it is. And if I hit, I need massive credit. And then, of course, as gut feelings go, if I don't hit, who cares? No, I'm okay with that. By the way, let's do this. You're talking about meaningful games.

I'm looking in September. The Mariners come into town. The Mariners game is like the weekend of the 20th. Okay, so that's a Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Yeah, that's right. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Seattle, Seattle, Seattle. I bet you that Sunday game gets moved to tonight.

To ESPN, I bet. Just throwing a, just, just, just, doing a guess on that. Good feeling? Write that down, so I don't forget that one. Yes, sir. That was actually too early. All right, a 7-13-212-5-790.

I'm premature about a few things. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Serious, serious sounds like Texans injury. Happened yesterday. We'll get into a little bit of that on the radio program today. We've got gut feelings. We've got the NFL rewind today. We've got Joe Espott at 1230, and we have you at 7-1-3.

212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We're with you today until 2 o'clock. We want you guys be involved in the show, whether it be on the phones at 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 or on Twitter at SportsMT at SportsRV. And please wish the birthday boy, Jonathan, a very happy birthday from yesterday.

I don't know if he'll be here a year from now, so you might as well get it out of your system now before he decides to go find a better job with more money. will you stop saying that out loud? Every time you say that, we lose a producer. Oh, it's my fault because I say it? Yes. Mm-hmm. Okay.

Jonathan, you're doing a great job. We want you here forever. Jonathan, we look forward to having you here until the first of the year. 713-213-5-790. Yeah, I can't run to that Megan Rapino podcast fast enough. Oh, my God. Woo! See?

There's a lot of crappy alternatives out there. Thankfully, we're not one of them. I mean, there's a lot of crap out there. Trust me. maybe some people think we suck that's fine well I know some people think we suck I know it's funny I was looking at today at some people in Twitter lines up

that's like there are people that have blocked me and I don't even know who these people are that's a shame so if you want to yeah you know what I might do I might start doing a top five block list of the week people that have blocked me give them a little shout out no who cares all right we won't do it then

leave it alone Matt I will doesn't matter you're always my you're always like my balance somebody's a shot I say this or should I do this? No, don't do it. Somebody's got to keep you in line. I think you've done a right, great job so far. 713-212. You've had some failings.

713-212-5-790. Purely speculation on Josh Hader, but. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't sound good. Doesn't sound particularly good, honestly. If you want to take good news at least, it's August 12th. And if you can try to hold up. on you got some time left in the season. I don't know.

It's better to hear this August 12th than September 12th, hopefully. You don't want it to be surgery or anything like that. I don't know. Yeah, we're pretty purely speculating, as you said. So that's what we're going to do. Reverend Jordan, more speculation on that.

Apparently fell down, yelled. Guys were a little shaken by the whole situation. Reverend Jordan fought hard to get back after just missing most of the last year and then... Well, we'll see. Well, everybody was on a knee praying for. see you guard to Johnson and apparently he's fine so we'll see what the happens on front of George.

They were like a small church service. You're like team building exercises. That's right. Like in Talladega nights where they act like that one guy was dead to try to inspire Ricky Bobby and then he wasn't. That's right. You know, we take a knee here every time we hear a bad sports take and

two to six, we're dropping knees all the time. Matt's on his knees the whole show. Hey, what? No. You can't say that. What? Friday News. Oh, I'm not even hearing. on Friday. Oh, you know what? Are you going to Are you out on Friday? And Thursday, too. Going to Austin, your town. For what? Carly's

volleyball. First, uh, big tournament of the year. Mm-hmm. By the way, shout out to Kingwood volleyball, playing our first game of the season tonight. Wonderful. Uh, there'll be a great PA announcer there doing the call. Huh. No, I heard that guy's sick and they're using you. No. No. No. No. No. It's, uh, all

ready to go. Uh, that's pretty good. How much you charge? Zero. I do it. I do it for the love of the game. No. You better tell me. throw you at least 50 bones. No. Come on. That's some work. No.

I announce my dog. Can't give away the golden pipes for free, Matt. Well, that's true. I wonder if I can ask him for, if I can invoice them. What do I? Should. If I invoice Humboldt school district or the Kingwood. The Kingwood Mustang.

All right. So if y'all want to see an outstanding Division One setter, getting ready to do her thing, 630 to 9, Kingwood High School. Yeah. I'll show up. I'll be there. I'm telling you. The divorce says?

I know. It's a good group. I glue playmate full of Miller-Jillard lights. You cannot bring alcohol inside of a high school. Okay. I'll put it in a Stanley Cup. There you go. Much better. Let's talk to Mark on 790 at 1023. Mark, good morning and thank you for holding.

Hey, thanks, Matt. And I'm a king with dad myself. There you go. Your daughter. Thank you. There you go. Absolutely. My daughter's actually on the JV and Varsity tennis team.

so very cool. Well, if you ever come to a game, come to introduce yourself. I most certainly will. I appreciate you guys. And listen, Matt, I know what a pet peeve of it is with this whole wave thing.

I'm literally sitting, I'm literally, listen, I'm literally sitting there. Chazzy just raped a bomb. Everybody's fired up. Smith walked, and then all of a sudden, people in left field stands

are trying to start some kind of freaking wave. I said, are you guys trying to kill the momentum and ruin it for every, everybody, I'm trying to pay attention to the game with some of our big dogs coming up. And what ended up happening? Nothing after that. You know, there was one out.

So, man, guys, just stop it. Wait till the eighth inning when the game's out of control and nobody's paying attention to anything. But not in the middle. It's the fourth freaking inning, man. Come on. What is going on with you? I just, man, I just don't get it. I know, my friend.

I know. Mark, I'm right there with you. And so I stood up and I was waving my head. I said, no, don't do it. And some Boston fan was sitting behind me. And she's going, yeah, do it, do it. Because, you know, she's a Boston fan. But anyway, that was a fantastic game last night.

It was so much fun. I'd rather it not have been 7 to 6, but my gosh, they found a way to get it done. And it was just fun being able to go there and watch that game with all the extra stuff going on. And I agree with people. It was like a playoff atmosphere. It was lots of fun. Great. Thank you for the phone call, Mark.

I appreciate the nice words and the analysis. I mean, look, I don't want to sound like a drunk record. I apologize. So you know how I feel about the wave. You know how I feel about the people that do the wave? Most important of those that start the wave. And it just shows you that we're still struggling with baseball acumen in this town. We just are.

And I have to, I've come to accept it. I cannot continue to beat it over your heads. Because I think most of you that are smart people don't do it. But the dums are out. out gaining the smarts. Now, I'm with you, Matt. I go to Diken Park to watch baseball. Not to throw my hands up in the air when the crowd is going around and around and around.

Certainly not in critical moments of games. Yeah. I don't know. Some people crush you for it, and I think it's funny, though. They do crush me for it. Because, like, oh, the kids. Well, teach, you know what? I went to the games with my dad when I was a kid, and we talked baseball.

We talked about how the best arm in your outfit should be in right field. we talked about situational hitting. They don't do double switches anymore, but we talked about double switches a lot when I was a kid. I just did. I just, I just want a smart audience. We would play games with situational baseball. Like we'd be sitting in the game watching my dad and he'd be like,

all right, you're the third baseman, balls hit to you on this play. There's a guy on first, two outs, whatever. What do you do? You know, just like talk baseball with your kid. That's a crazy idea. Do you hit run here? Yeah, exactly. Do you even lay the bunt down?

I mean, again, we're not super big bun fans, but there's an occasional news for it. The thinking man's game. Yeah. It's the hardest sport to intelligently discuss because there are so many nuances. Okay. I'm going to tell you this. I'll say football.

No, I would disagree because I think football's the strategy and all that is, there is, I mean, either a good play call is made or not. I mean, it is what it is. But I think baseball to me, look, I've been doing baseball post game shows, give or take, for 25 years. There are still things about baseball that I see. still learn about every single day. I'll give you an example. Yesterday, you know, the cut, you know what a cut fastball is? Yes. And I just thought, are these baseball nerds just trying to

get too into the weeds about what a pitch does? A fastball is a fastball. But a cut fastball has some significant movement very late in the pitch when it's thrown effectively. So you know what I did last night while I was watching the game? What? I went to YouTube and I looked up cut fastballs and I watched two minutes of really good pitchers with cut fastballs. Okay. Mariano Rivera. Yeah. I mean, I just... Great cutter. And it sinks late.

No, not a significant of a sink. It's a little bit of a sink. It does go to the glove side hand of the pitcher. Yes, glove side run. It's like a half slider. So, yeah, it's incredibly when thrown right, it's got this really biting late movement, which really defies physics in some respects. But some saying, I'm as a 53-year-old man who loves baseball and has been watching baseball all my life, I wanted to get into the weeds about cut fastballs a little bit more. So I did.

And that's what you have to do. It's a constant study. It really is. Okay. Not doing the wave. It's not a study. Let's take a short time out. I think we were polite that way, right?

I mean, we're going to be politer on the show. I mean, I want to be. I mean, there are some people that I'm going to just... Well, I've made it two segments without crushing Fire Joe's spot of people, so I'm very proud of myself. I'm not going to let you do it today. Okay. I'm going to back off. I'm not going to let you do it.

We'll give me a day off. 713, 21, 2, 5, 7. What did I just tell you? Sorry. 713, 2, 1,000. 1-2-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-9-0. Injuries with the two sports teams in this town.

And by the way, I'm a today's show watcher. I guess my wife and I watch it. We drink our coffee the morning. They had clutch the mascot was there. The bear. And they're announcing the NBA's opening night schedule. And of course, by now everybody knows the rockets are playing the thunder on opening night in the NBA.

I have to make a change in the greatest theme song in television sports history. And it's because I'm hearing it a lot in the last six months, and it's fantastic. 1029. Sports Talk 790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Matt Ross with you at 1033. Sports Talk, 7-90. We have a little bit of breaking news.

Rossi, we've been on a second one in or no? I think it's a two. Don't you think? Sure, why not? Hey, day, go ahead. Whenever you're ready. He's getting a call. Oh, is he okay.

That's fine. One is fine then. That was the second one. Oh, now it's three. Where's a two to half? It's two. We don't really count your fake. Okay, fine.

That's rude. Jonathan M. Alexander, first on the scene. The Texans plan to place Brevin Jordan on the injured reserve after his injury in yesterday's practice per source. Followed up by Adam Schaefter with accreditation to Jonathan M. Alexander. So congratulations to him on that. Texans placing Brian Vervin Jordan and you reserve as John M. Alexander reported. So we talked about the injury yesterday.

We were wondering if everyone was just doing a team building exercises, but no. Brevin Jordan on IR, no specific mention of what the exact injury is. Yeah. Just came back. Well, I mean, my guess is that D'Amico will speak to the media today and give you an update on that. Brevin with a torn ACL in 2024. And you know, sports is cruel. It just is.

Football the cruelest of all. There is a guy, and I don't know who it is. And I apologize for not knowing who it is. But there was somebody that just spent a season on the injured list this weekend played in a preseason game and got hurt very early

and is going to be gone again. I mean, the body is the body just only going to do so much. Like, for instance, take down. You know, as much as I love him for being a Houston Cougar, you know I was not carrying the flag for him being drafted because I was afraid of his frame.

And 5, 5, what is he, 5-7, 165, somewhere in that range? You're just, you're going against big safeties, linebackers, corners, and even though the injuries were flukish in both regards, does somebody at 6-1-219 have to worry about such things? I would say the second injury for sure. I mean, somebody flew into his knee what he was catching a top. touchdown. I mean, that could happen to anybody. And that was kind of a freak thing, but

it kind of doesn't matter. I think it was such a major injury for him. We're wondering, I mean, if he's ever going to come back and if he does, how effective he's going to be. So Brevin Jordan, I don't know how long that's going to be. And again, my guess is you'll get a further update when the Texas

are hit the practice. Yeah, injured reserve isn't the death knell it once was. You can be on IR and then be designated to return later. There's two guys that can do that, right? I think per team? I think it's more now since the pandemic. I knew for a while it was you could take two guys to come back

at a certain period of time. Let me tell you, Dalton Schultz, my man, you got to have a great season because I mean, Brevin Jordan was really was really, was going to, was that right?

That's a lot. Brevin was going to, first of all, double-tied insets is always a quarterback's best friend, especially on short yarder situations. And Schultz did not have a good season last year.

Now, the camp he's having this year apparently has been pretty good, which is an encouraging sign. But so far, the value of his performance since signing that was a three-year deal has not been good? And if you're still going to be a run-oriented offense, which I still believe that's what

D'Amico wants at the end of the day, double-ton insets are very big part of it. Yeah, it would have been nice to have him back. I'm not super worried about it from, I mean, you can just stretch out defenses and people are playing too high safety anyways, a bunch of just, no matter what

kind of sets people are playing. Yeah. So, it certainly hurts, but you dealt with it last year. You're going to deal with it again. And while Brevin Jordan is kind of always feels like a breakout candidate, it's not like he has this story history of being this huge impact player. They know what it's like to play with Adam.

So it's like it's a significant change of plan. All right. Let's go to Mike is where it's at 1037 of the Matt Thomas show, Ross. Mike, good morning. Hey, how are you guys doing this morning? Fine, thank you. Hey, real quick, I just wanted to share a different perspective on me. whole wave thing.

Me and my wife go to five, six games a year, and do I think the wave is stupid? Of course I do. But I understand why it happens, because, I mean, if you look at the row on the right or the left when you're in an Astros game, it's usually a family of four, and three of the people in that family of four

don't give a crap about the pitcher's ERA or the guy in the batter's box, what he hits with runners in his point position, And they're there because cops do them in the car and took him to the game. And it's hello kitty night or it's friends night. So, I mean, that's why it happens. I just think that, you know, the Astros and Major League baseball promote the environment.

And, you know, that's what's going to keep people interested in. Let's be frank, baseball is slower sport than basketball or football. So there's roles. And I get it. I think it's ridiculous. But that's just my perspective on my mind. ticket goes down. Yeah, thank you for the phone call.

I appreciate it. I think baseball is a family-friendly sport. It's a sport that has tradition and history, and there's the mascot, and there's the girls, and there's the giveaways. There's plenty of things that make the sport pace well. Yeah, the shooting stars. Shout out to Astro Zappi if she's listening.

Former Astro shooting star. I mean, I don't know. No, okay. Look, first of all, let's say this. Matt, you hate the wave and you rail against it on, but it's like nobody's going to die over this. No, no. It's not like, I mean, I've never gone and said, hey, honey, we got to leave the stadium because the wave is going on. Yeah, exactly.

We just make fun of people. Exactly. I think you should be there to, I agree with Matt, for the most part. Now, I'm okay if it's like 10 to 1 in the fourth inning or something, or the game's completely out of hand, whatever. But I have this, I have this crazy idea that Matt agrees with that if you go to a baseball game, you should watch. the baseball. Because it now it has happened

at Texans games but it's extremely rare because people are engaged in the game. I have never seen it happen at a Rockets game. It just seems to always happen in the baseball and yes it does happen because the game is slower

but also as I said if you're just taking the kids there to be in the ballpark and then sit on their tablets and do the wave the whole time you're wasting your money. Yeah, stay home. Part of being at the game

is putting the phone away watching what's on the field and enjoying the sport. I mean, again, I didn't focus, when I was going to baseball games in 1980 and 81 at the Astrodome, I wasn't worried about the wave.

I was worried about learning about Nolan Ryan and learning about Billy Doran and learning about all my favorite early Astros. Alan Ashby, Bob Nepper. It is a different time. Sure, it is. And the world's greatest babysitter is phones and tablets.

But I'm just, I don't know. It's just a crazy notion. go to the game to watch baseball. Yeah. That's all we're saying. And by the way, and if it offends some of you, which clearly it does.

That's fine. I mean, I was what it is. Yeah. And the caller brought up, I mean, was very polite about it and understood. I didn't get it.

It's like, yeah, it's families. And yeah, but also the wave, sometimes it doesn't happen at all. And if it does, it happens for like three minutes. So you're just looking for three minutes

of entertainment for your child? I don't know, whatever. I just, I just don't get it. I just, I raise three children to enjoy sports. They didn't say,

We got to get to the baseball game so we can put our hands up in the air. Now, my kids do like the wave, and they antagonize me about it constantly? Of course. And guess what? Nobody died over it. Nobody died over it. It's just a disagreement. They just know that when, like tonight they may try to do it at the Kingwood volleyball game,

I will not partake because I'll be announcing. They do that? No, but they, when the club season back when I was, when Carly was younger, all the parents knew that I didn't like the wave. So they'd say, hey, let's do the wave. And then it would go, parent, parent, parent, parent. And they were doing it just to spite me. And I put my hands down.

That's funny. Because I'm a Wavebuster. Oh, you didn't put your hands up? By the way, if you do not like the Wave, follow the official WaveBusters H-O-U account on Twitter. It's WaveBusters H-O-U. That's not that interesting. Well, it's not going to follow me back. So why should I follow?

No, it only follows one person back. Yeah, it's you. It's my burner. Yeah, that's where you go to, well, actually, you don't have to go anywhere else when you're blocked by somebody. No, no, no. You used to. Right. But not anymore.

Now I can still see your block. Great idea, Elon. Yeah, I was like, I don't get, I am blocked by, people are blocking me like a mutter. Like I'm some sort of pass rusher or something. Hmm. I'm the pass rusher of social media. I come at you hard and if you don't like it, you block me. And of course, there's people on there, I've never even had any conversation with my life that have blocked me.

Okay, man. How does that make you feel? It's okay. I've lived. You've brought it up twice now. Well, just because we're bringing it blocks and waves and stuff. Wave Busters, H-O-U. Give it a follow. There's 1,00050 followers on there so far.

I think you need to move past it, might. I will. Okay. All right. 713, 212570. We got a gut feelings coming up at 1130 today. I do want to get into how Alex Breggman's reaction change from AB1 to AB2. That was interesting last night how it came out that way.

We'll discuss that. Plus, what do the Astros do if we're worried about Mr. Hayter's left arm? 713-212-5-790. It is the Matt Thomas Show. with Ross 713-212-5-790. All right. We've got a few things coming up at 1130. We've got Joe a spot at 1230.

So Clutch the Rockets Bear is in New York. And today, the worst kept secret was announced officially by NBC. The first set of games on NBC since 2000, I think it's 2002 since the NBA has left NBC. double header opening night. It will feature your beloved Houston Rockets against the Oklahoma City Thunder in OKC. It'll be ring ceremony night. And the game will be here on Sports Talk 790.

Of course, I'll have the call. But the television is going to be on NBC and Peacock. And I've been listening to this song, Ross, about 100 times in the last week. That's weird. My all-time favorite theme song is Monday Night Football on the ABC ESPN. But I think I'm about to trumpet into this. This might be the new number one for me.

Because we're going to hear it so much. Would you say your previous goat was? Monday Night Football. No, this is the goat. I told you that. When I beat you in these sports themes, Fantasy Five. I didn't ask your opinion. I'm just telling you my opinion.

Okay. Yeah, this is the goat. This is the goat. And close. No, no, no, no. No, no, no. Don't say it's not close. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Get it out of here. And it's because, of course, this reminds me of 1994, 1994, 1995 Rockets.

I understand that. When I truly and fully fell in love with sports. But see, this will always be number one for me and it's not even close. And see, for me, I fell in love with football as a kid. You're listening to, ah, wed, go sell. When you would hear, you got your homework done. at 7 o'clock because at 8 o'clock

and if you can find the Monday night football theme I think Jonathan's talking to somebody but that's fine if you can find the Monday night football theme Oh my gosh I wanted to make sure my homework is because at 8 o'clock I wanted to hear and then Howard Kosell would narrate the introduction

and that's when I fell in love with football so I guess it's to each his own when you fall in love with something and you I mean this is nice this is number two Tup. Ted Marino, the slinger from Pittsburgh,

finds Mark Tupor in the corner of the end zone. Miami with an early 7-0 lean. Back comes Richard Todd. Hands it off to Wesley Walker. And Walker down the sideline. There he goes. Chats put up two late scores. The rematch from the sunny orange bowl.

It's the dolphins and the jocles. Jets on A, B, C, oh my God, so good. Forget what I said. This is still number one in my mind. Oh, my God, you're so hilarious. Round ball rock is too. You did a whole segment on how Roundball Rock is number one. I've changed my mind.

Five seconds. You said you listened to the other one a hundred times. I did, but I haven't heard this in a while. Now I'm back in love with this song. No, this is great. This is like an old girlfriend from high school. You haven't seen her in a long time. You go into the reunion.

The one that hated you and spit in your face? No, no. Colette never spent in my face. Is he called me back when you're Agne clear? up. Well, or you can drop some weight, Matt, at some point, which I've done, but it's a little past my prime now on that. You're looking great, Matt. Yeah.

Those two are the tops. Okay. And I don't know if, I think number three is probably Fox NFL Sunday, but that's a drop. That's a significant drop. I don't remember. I'd have to go through our... Don't do it. I don't want to do it. I lost. I went to Wimbledon and lost it, which is fine.

I ran out of things to talk about. Breakfast at Wendham. Oh, I'll tell you what's three. Huh. Or maybe two. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, go ahead. CBS? Oh, college football? College basketball.

Oh, Rossi, don't do this to me. Don't even play it. Why not? Because it hurts back what happened in April. Oh. I want no mention of college basketball until it's college basketball season. What happened in April? I don't remember.

I don't think I was even there. I was sick. I had a fever. Now we've got to hear your Jim Nance. Another disappointment for the Houston Cougars. As they fail yet again at the final four. A record, a whopping seven final fours without a championship victory. Can they do it again?

The most futile basketball program in history goes to choke once again at the final four in Indianapolis. Look, if we let Ross go today, it won't be a huge loss. I can bring somebody back in here really quick. They had to write better believe it or not. Chris Weber thinks that the Cougars choke too much. On CBS. Yeah, this is, this is that, I'm locking it in.

Top three, whatever you want to put them. What do you think? Yeah, one, two, three. Fox is four. And how about ESPN Sunday night baseball music? I don't know why we got into this, but part of being is this, Round Bar Rock is getting me in the mood.

I told you that's 100 times before. A lot of people were complaining about TNT losing the NBA coverage. I think NBC is going to do a magnificent job. First of all, Mike Tarrico is an excellent broadcaster. Even though he's a Syracuse guy, most of those guys are puds. I think he's outstanding. Everything he does is top freaking shelf. And so there are.

in a good spot. I'll be curious to see how Amazon does their games? I mean, will they try to reinvent the wheel a little bit or just keep it as traditional NBA game? Maybe. Clip coupons on toilet paper in the middle of broadcast? That'd be actually pretty funny. Past left side of MedTops and

9 foot are up and good. And coming up for the next 15 minutes, you can get a toaster oven for just $14. You cannot throw commercial. You cannot throw discounts in the middle of a call. Tell me Amazon won't. Well, they have clickable ads in the middle of the prime video of Thursday Night Football. I have never clicked on one of those before.

Me either. That's just on principle. But, I mean, they've got Ian Eagle and Kevin Harling doing the games over there. I mean, we're going to be in good shape. But yeah, today's show had to clutch the mascot got up there, a free trip to New York, just to announce that the first game is going to be October 21st against Oklahoma City. Beautiful. I got to watch that ceremony live.

Everybody getting their rings. Well, that'd be cool. and then the rockets are going to beat him. Katie goes back to his old stomping grounds. Dropping 40. Close friend of the show, Kevin Durant. Sonny's not that close of a friend. We haven't had him on.

Do you think we can get him on to follow us on Twitter? No. I'll ask. It'd be a huge kid for us. It would. Yeah, you know, people. I'll ask him. Honestly, it's been a failing by you that he hasn't been on the show yet.

He hasn't been on anybody's show yet. Yeah. But, I mean, if there's any show he's going to be on, it should be this one. Yeah, well, we got a shot at all. on Media Day. For sure. You're our official

Rockets insider. I'm an insider, yes. All right, 1057 on Sports Talk 790. Let's get the second hour started at the show and that will feature again

coming up in 35 minutes gut feelings. News at noon is coming up. We have a very exciting Astros game. Oh, you know we forgot to do. We'll do this start in the top 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock hour. How did you think the reaction was for Alex Breggman

as the night progressed? We'll get to that after Ross. Tell us about Senator Jenick. This is to Matt Thomas show with Ross. Matt and Ross with you at 1101. All right, so Breggman gets the warm round of applause. And he goes tank to left field.

And after that, did you hear the second AB? There were a few booze. Yeah, why not? You know what? I can tell you for a fact that he didn't care about it, and nor do I, nor should anybody else. This notion of, well, he was one of the greatest Astros of all time, which he was, in my opinion. Yes.

But he's in enemy territory. Nine years of greatness, he'll get his orange jacket. Yeah. He will get his orange jacket. He will be a, they don't do ballots, but he will be an early candidate for Astros Hall of Fame. Oh, they're desperate. Well, the problem is they put too many people in too fast. Yeah, I know.

And still Tony Usabeo can't make it. It's ridiculous. But anyways, I digress. Yes, you should. Some, as I told you, I was listening to the postgame show, which I don't normally do last night. Somebody was saying that they were in the crowd and maybe people can tweet us or call that a lot of the booze were kind of tongue in cheek.

Like boo, ha ha ha, ha, because he hit the home run. Yeah. But they still love him. Yeah. I can tell you this. Dylan Brooks will get a nice round of applause and first time he comes here.

Oh. The second night? It would be a different story. His first foulies get a big good. Back to hating him. Yeah. Look, I think the first, everything was handled by the Astros yesterday beautifully.

The ceremony was nice. the tip of the cap, the standing ovation for Carlos Correa. Everything went well. I mean, obviously the result was the most important thing. But you know what? 1AB is plenty. 1A.B is more than enough. Say, do what you do.

And now you're pregnant. You're with the boss at Red Sox. You are playing for your playoff lot, not playoff life, but you are staying in first place to life. And you need to strike him out or get him out. Yeah. Don't let him hit cheap shots to the Crawford boxes. That's which has been his M.O.

And that's okay. Now, I don't know. My guess is that his went about, what, three or four rows deep, I think? I'll tell you the distance in how many ballparks it was out in. Oh, can I mad guess? Sure. And I get a plus or minus one. No, you got a nail it on the head or you lose.

Okay, I cannot do the feet. Plus or minus two. No, no, that's too much. No, it's good. Of the 30, well, out of the 29, it gets out of three. Eight. Real? So it was pretty much a bit better than a home.

Oh, eight. Yeah. It's still not a lot. Yeah, I think it was 350, 3501 feet, and it was out of 8-8 ballpards. I had to go check. I'm telling you, I have only, this is really strange. I've only sat in the Crawford boxes twice in my life. And the first time, it was not, it was 2017 sports RV.

Okay. It was the double header in September. It was fresh after the floods. It was Verlander shows up in the middle of the game to go sit with his teammates. Crata was it was that was a series against the Mets I want to say it was a double header and the Astros I think won both games and Springer hits a home run and I'm telling you I don't know who I was sitting with I don't know if it was family or it was co-workers or whatever the case would be but and I'm going to go ahead and say it and be perfectly honest with you I'm a wuss that ball was sizzling to the Crawford boxes the guy one row behind me and to my left shoulder caught the ball. I've never seen a man's hand physically swell up

before my eyes. But he caught the thing and all I remember was hearing we could find the date and find the exit velo. You really can? Yeah. Watch it be like nothing. Let's be like 74. No, I mean, no. I want to say it was September

it was a double header against the Mets, 2017 for sure. Okay. And this would be, you said he would, Verlinder was just traded, so it'd be like early, well, that was the August 31st deadline. Yes, that was when he used to have that.

Yeah. So he literally got the town. First game or second game? I want to say it was the first game. Don't hold me to that though. Okay. But I was in the Crawford boxes like, I have, I mean, all the years, I've been going to Minutemate Park,

whatever name it was, or now Diken, since 2000, 2000. That was the first time I ever sat back there. I thought, this is pretty cool. Until that ball came a sizzling through my, and it almost clipped my left ear. Yeah, that's why I would never get mad. People crush people for...

So I'm just going to give you all some advice if you've never sat out there. George Springer, home run, second inning off of Matt Harvey? Yeah, that's it. Okay. Now I've got to go chase down. I'm so happy you could do this for us. There's nobody that cares about this except me,

and for that, I thank you for it. Well, keep talking. I've got to chase this down. All right, follow me on Instagram, at SportsMT. I got over 2,800 yesterday, and I want to thank all of you, all 2,800 of you

that have followed me on Instagram. And if you'd like to follow me on Instagram again, for the first time, thank you very much. You can do so by going to at SportsMT on Instagram. We're going to have a party at 3,000. Oh, my God.

You're such the worst. No, we're not going to have a party at 3,000. Why can't we have a party at 3,000? Okay, whatever. Folks, please follow me at SportsRV. Matt wouldn't mention his Instagram at all. And then I started doing it, and now he pimps his every day. Because he got jealous because I was getting follows.

You were going to, you're a good influence on me. Yeah, actually, I knew that was going to happen. So I did do that on purpose. Thank you very much. George Springer home run, 97.3 miles an hour off the bat. Is that what? Am I okay for a second? I mean, 95 is considered hard hit.

Okay, so I didn't feel bad then. I didn't try to go catch that thing. Hardest hit ball. Two, the hardest hit balls in this. game. J.D. Davis. You had a home run and a double at 108.8.8 and 1.08s are being hit and I was getting mad at 97.

No, 97 miles and hours flying out of there, Matthew. I just want to make sure. That is funny. We could look that up. Hmm. What a day. You know what a great day in age we live in. I must start calling you Mr. Research. I do like to research you're very good at it. I have a curious mind and I like to look things up. So what?

All right. No, I'm not, I'm actually plotting you for this. I'm shocked. I know. I'm shocked too. Follow at Sports RV on Instagram. Go ahead and follow SportsRV. You won't find much except these really strange videos with stats behind his head and his hair wafting around.

But, you know, do you. Well, what's the great content on yours? Pictures of me with Hulk Hogan. Oh, okay, from like 12 years ago? Well, I mean, it puts things in perspective for sure. Yeah, okay. Yeah, somebody dies. Let's make it about me and put a picture of me and the guy up.

Yeah, I get you. It did quite well, actually. It's cool. It's great stuff. Oh, by the way, here it is. This is from a friend of the show, Ryan McMaggart. You're talking about their doublehead of the first home games after the hurricane. A.J. Hinch made a big emotional speech pregame.

I listen. I love Brian McTaggart. He's great. He is the best. He is an American hero. He is. And I find Scott's Irishman. Yeah, he's there at a lot of, he's,

Brian McTaggart has in a lot of the most important astro events of the last gazillion years. He was there. He was there. If it happened to the Astros, generally, he was there. there. Yeah. He and I went to school together at University of Houston. We're like two peas in a pot.

Including you cowering from a 97 mile an hour homer. I did. I would. Could you imagine if I tried to catch the thing and it would have not only not caught the ball, but my hand would have swollen up. I'd miss days of work. I'd not have been good. It probably might have hit you in the noggin.

Oof, we can't have that. I'm questioning your hand eye coordination. Oh, I would too. I'm a quote-unquote non-athlete to 790. I get that. I'm very well aware of that. Who is the least athletic person on the station? People don't know this.

Wex has got game. He's a good point. See? I know. You're skeptical. I played in three-on-three tournaments with Wex. He was hitting me with dimes over the top on pick and rolls. Ten years ago.

Into my hands. Ten years ago. Like, though, he was teleporting the ball into my hands and we were getting the layoffs. We're getting buckets, Maddie. No. I'm telling you. That was yesterday year.

Ten years ago, I was more than. Where did he go to high school, St. Pius or something like that? One of those. One of those private schools. He was a point guard. He's like the mugsy bogs of the league. Is that right? I was thinking more Mark Price, but that's fine.

You do you on that one. Is it the hooper for real? No, there's zero chance. No, there's zero chance. Probably not anymore, but. I mean, once you're a hooper, you're always a hooper. That's true. Well, I used to play back in the day.

I'm telling you, Jonathan, we were running picking rolls, and I wasn't even expecting to get the ball, and I just look up in the balls in my hands. He's dropping dimes. I'm serious. Dead serious. We got to get, when Matt's off, you got to get one of the stuff.

What? Okay. I buy it, I think. All right. Game two of the series tonight. And again, Joe Espada is going to join us coming up in about an hour and 20 minutes. Okay. So how worried were you about that?

What ending would they score the four runs last night? In Los Santos? In Hector de los Santos? I was pretty worried. Oh, my God. It was one hard hit ball after the other. It was tough. I mean, Brian O'Brien

was down, Brian King, I think Joe Spott has said after the game wasn't available. He pitched twice in that game series. Josh Hader wasn't available because now he's got shoulder discomfort. So to navigate that lineup, the Boston Red Sox lineup, and to fight them off and get enough run support to go out there and win that game,

I mean, Stephen Oaker gave up a two-run shot and he's been great all season. I'm going to give you an unpopular take. Would you like to hear this? Yes. Okay, and I want to make sure I preface this 100 times over. okay i'll count Josh

Hader is one of the best closers in baseball in 2025 the numbers bear that out okay you hear what I say what did I just say Josh Hater's girl oh boy here we go

saying it so I can Josh Hater's a great one of the best relievers in the baseball if he's out for a lengthy period of time I think Brian and Brayor can do it. Oh yeah. That's not unpopular. It can be a closer. Absolutely. Okay, so while I'm very concerned, for instance, if the Astros were to lose, who is the one player that is on this roster that is super healthy that the team couldn't live without?

Jeremy Pena. Well, no, because you could move, you could actually move Carlos Corridor to shortstop. But doesn't even give you the answer. Who would be the biggest loss? I'll say Jeremy Pena, still. Can I tell you, can I fight for Carlos Correa being the biggest loss? If you want to, we're going to talk about, from a leadership standpoint or something? No, I'm talking about the entire, the entire, who is the one player that would hurt? Yorda.

Well, we forget about that. By the way, Space City Sports sent a tweet. We need different sounders because he was afraid that something was Yorda was the sounder. Well, breaking news was breaking news. We can't deal with your mental predilections. It's not up to us. Sorry. You can move Correa to short.

So the Jeremy Pena loss would hurt. Now, that's your lead-off guy. And he was good. But who do you play a third base if Correa's got to go to shorts? That's why I think... Dubon. That's why I think Carlos Correa hurts more than a Jeremy Payne loss. I think they would keep Carlos Correa at third.

They did that when Pena was out on... Yeah. That's why. right. Did they do that? Al Tuve has been hitting the ball really well. OPS is back above 800 comfortably. Good for him. But my point, going back to my central point, the hater loss is, was, we almost... Yeah, our lights flickered. I don't know if the power's going on. But anyways, I think we have a generator, so we should still be on air. The hater loss is, if it's anything of a length, it's going to hurt tremendously. Okay, well, then it's fine. I'll say Hunter Brown. But Brian Abraeu fills in comfortably there. Now, all of a sudden, your leverage guys move up a spot. Yeah, it's, I mean, who's your second best leverage guy now?

Benet Sousa? He's got four saves. I mean, I'm not kidding. Four saves is four saves. Exactly. A guy, I mean, look, he's had a good, he's been good for the Astros, but you got a lot of scrap heap guys. And that's why I thought they would get a right-hand reliever at the deadline. They did not.

They tried for that. They tried for starting pitching. Mm-hmm. And unfortunately, we're in, you know, that's why I'm telling you you think bringing in Ryan Presley is the worst thing you've ever heard in your entire life to be an 8th inning guy

if you think he's washed you think he's washed I mean I get that I think he's washed right now okay you're desperate I was more against bringing him in before this hater injury 1.52 whip folks walks in his per innings pitch I think there's nothing left in Hector Narris's tank

there's nothing left in Ryan Presley's tank either Yeah, look, trading one for the others, I just think, I want to, hey, let's get rid of this recently DFAed reliever who was good in the past and is 36 years old. Okay, who we're going to bring in? The recently DFAed 36-year-old reliever who was good in the past. Not trying to over to defend Presley here, but he has that horrific game early in the season. Can we take those numbers out? Are they a little bit better? I mean, it have to be.

Field independent pitching is something I like. It doesn't have to do with ERA. 502, that's a horrible number, worst of his career. And again, whip 1.524. That's a horrible number. Okay, but also part of it is too, you need another pitcher. Are you going to go get somebody that's been there, done that, or go get somebody from the minor leagues that's getting valuable?

I mean, I would rather have somebody else. Okay. He's 36 years old and he was designated for assignment. He was slippy, we saw slippage in his game the last two years here. I mean, look, I'm not going to be up in arms and say it's horrible if he comes here, whatever. Okay. But, and I don't know if it's even on the radar. If he was so good, he'd be on the Cubs.

That's true. That's true. All right, 713-212-5-790. We've got gut feelings coming up at the bottom of the hour. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you want to join us, say hello. You can do that on Twitter at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Sports Talk 790. We've got gut feelings, bottom of the hour.

Right now, I want to tell you about a gut. 1120 in the a.m. Here on Sports Talk 790. Got gut feelings on a Tuesday on the Matt Thomas show with Ross coming up in the next segment. I've already got one. I think it's way off the board. Am I going to make fun of you or am I going to go, okay, I see where you're going with this? I think I'm going to say I see where I'm going with this.

Okay, very nice. But we'll see. It involves the Astros. It is sports business related. Hmm. Hmm. And I'll leave it at that. Okay.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. You were talking about how I like a little separation between A and B, meaning the top two teams in division. And you were talking about how Jim Crane likes it, which is fair. But be honest with you, even if they were up five, we've got some sexy teams coming in.

Yankees have yet to get here. Those three Seattle games are going to be huge. You've still got two more at the Red Sox. and Red Sox, I don't know why, but still have a huge national fan base. Well, Rangers will be here. You know Arlington's going to come down and hang out for a long weekend. Okay. No, they'll be fixated on.

Cowboys will be in season by then. Yeah, but they're going to be over at that point. They're not going to be checked out by then. That's actually true. They're still going to be hopeful. They're going to turn it around. They're still waiting for Micah Parsons to be signed. Their greatest coach of all time, Brian Schottenheimer.

You know what? I've listened to a little bit of Brian Schottenheimer. He looks affable. Yeah, he's just a guy. He's a replacement level head coach. But that's what they do. That's what Jerry Jones likes. Yeah, he likes a replacement level yes men.

Yeah, I was going to say, if you question anything he does, the last time somebody questioned what he did, that was Jimmy Johnson and they haven't gone on the Super Bowl since. God, it is amazing to me. The power of that organization, despite the fact it's intense mediocre play for 30 freaking years. Yeah, it's easily the longest NFC championship drought. I think it's besides, you know, of course the Texans have never made it, but right.

It's been a longer drought at least. Well, the lines haven't gone on the Super Bowl, so. No, but they made a champion, AFC championship, NFC championship game. Oh, okay, I see what you're saying, okay. That might, if you were to, you know, we do our Thursday, I just don't get it. That might be the greatest, if you had like a Hall of Fame induction ceremony, for the I just don't get it. It would be the Dallas Cowboys to me.

Because look, I understand Texas. I understand Dallas-Fort Worth. But there are 15-year-olds that are in Cleveland, Ohio. There are 15-year-olds that are in Missoula, Montana. There are 22-year-olds in Concord, New Hampshire, Ross, that live, eat, and breathe the Dallas Cowboys. As Chris Collinsworth said last year, if we could put the Cowboys on Sunday Night Football 17 times a year, we would do it.

I don't get it either Because it's I mean it's it's a brand It's a nice logo Just a star But Even really good shows That have bad writing

Lose ratings You know what I mean Even really good shows Who lose their main stars They have a Goodbye They end their run I mean, and I'll use a terrible example.

The 1970s, the most popular sitcom was all in the family. All in the family in the first five or six years was cutting edge. It dealt with topics that were never discussed on television. It went through stereotypes. It was, first of all, very funny. But then it got softer as the family got older and they lived. And so they said, you know what? We got to end the show.

The Dallas Cowboys in the early 1990s were going to Super Bowls left and right. you had a Hall of Fame quarterback, you had a Hall of Fame running back, you had a Hall of Fame wide receiver, you had a great defense. But that was 30 years ago. But yet, even to this day for their consistent, mediocre play, they just have a grip on America. And it's not just Houston or the Dallas Cowboy Fan Club. It's not just North Texas.

Every single time. There's a reason why every opener, the Cowboys are on national television with their games eight times a year. they just have this insatiable draw that I just don't get. I mean, yeah, just the mystique from years past, and most years they're at least decent or making the playoffs. It's not like they've, I think if they went two and 15 for five years, it would be a lot different than what it is now.

We wouldn't see them on Sunday night football nearly as much. And I think also part of it is the teams they play are in super mega media markets. They play the Giants twice a year. play Washington twice a year. They play Philadelphia. Those are entrenched regional, not regional, but divisional rivalries. Yeah, I think that's true. And they're generally in the mix.

I'm just trying to pull up. Now, there were 7 and 10 last year, but Dak Prescott was hurt. And then they were 12 and 5 for three straight years before that. So it's not like they're, they've completely fallen off the map for a long period of time. I get it. But it just feels like for

a team that gets as much an exposure, and every single thing they do is dissected on national television for multiple hours per day, you would think they at least have at least one Super Bowl appearance in their mix. But they just don't. That's a shame. So their fans are really nice and not delusional at all. We've got a minute here left. If they're the most over-hyped national brand,

let me rephrase. If they're the biggest national brand that doesn't have the foundation of success behind it, what's number two? I mean, five Super Bowls is still among the best. The Yankees number two? The Yankees were the World Series last year. So that's... I would say the Lakers, but then they won in 20. Yeah.

Yankees haven't won since 2009. But the Yankees were in the World Series line. I mean, they got to, you know... They didn't win it, but they got there. They hadn't been to the World Series since 2009 before that. So we'll go Yankees. Probably so. But I mean, there are other teams like Red Sox hadn't won since, you know, whatever,

1918 or whatever was in 2001. But they were still a big game. brand and they're on Sunday night baseball every week. Yeah. Playing the Yankees. Because again, why? Part of it, rivalry. When you play the Yankees and Red Sox 15 times here or whatever it was back in the day, you had millions of people watching it. They didn't

care about either one of the teams. All right, 1128. Time for some gut feelings. Ross has a sports business gut feeling that I cannot wait to hear about. If you got a gut feeling on what you think is going to happen sports prediction wise, let us know, 713-212-5-790. Girls and boys

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Not enough Let's go We can't have a party of 2807 You only have a party at 3,000 You are so funny Instagram at SportsMT Let's go All right

This is where you make our I got seven of you Thank you at Sports RV You got seven I only got four at SportsRV on Instagram. I'm pumping out quality content and you're just putting old pictures of you and a dead guy who's racist.

Well, he said a racist thing, for sure. But, I mean, a lot of guys in the business forgave him. They did. I don't know. I only had one conversation with him. It was very pleasant. Do I think he probably said some things

he regrets in life? Yes, absolutely. Well, a lot of people, never mind, let's move on. All right. We're talking about Hulk Hogan's legacy right now. Okay. Yeah, that's fine.

713-21-2-5-7-190. 7-1-3-2-5. My page is mostly pictures of barbecue and video content that I've been putting up later. And your head does not match the screen. What does that even mean? What do you want? It's just off-putting. That's it.

What would you like my head? Not right word. It's in the bottom third of the picture. I don't see what the problem is. You want it floating at the top? Why don't you move it around? Move it around like a ghost? 7-1.

Oh, yeah. Oh, get that. It's 1135. You hear that? Get that. That's good. I wasn't that good. I'm going to listen to show Friday, honestly, because I want to hear this stuff.

Why? Because I want to see how you do it. Oh, wait. And Thursday, too. Don't forget. Lord. I sent the email out Sunday. I don't pay attention to you.

I know you do. All right. Let's see how we did last week. By the way, we got two open lines if you want to get in. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-1-2-5-790. How did we do last Tuesday? All right, Matt, last Tuesday, you said ESAC Paredes is done for the year,

which he's not yet. He's trying to come back. He's rehabbing, Matt. Okay, I ain't changing. You know it. You said the Astros need another bullpen game other than today, so they haven't had a bullpen game since. But that was when what, Ocurt was the opener and then Arrogati pitched.

You said Micah Parsons will get a new contract. Still could happen That hasn't happened You also said You of H will win at least seven games this year I imagine you meant basketball

because certainly certainly you couldn't have meant football Seven Seven wins I did not stutter Go Coogs Okay I'm wishing them the best

Thank you To an extent I had Esak Paratus out for the year as well I said Erigetti four innings pitched Wrong One earned run

Wrong I said Astros Win the series in New York Correct Correctamundo Jonathan had 5 plus Ks for Araggeti I think

He got five Did he get five? I think you're right Did he get 5 or 4? I don't know I'm gonna go look it up Oh I think to three new people Have followed him on Instagram

Appreciate you Oh my God Continue on At sports RV I appreciate you folks Let's see Yeah it was 5Ks for Aragetti So there you go

Jonathan Allen nailed that And that was last week's picks. All right. Now, your sports business prediction is, gut feeling. Go for it. What is today, Matt, the day of the week? It is Tuesday.

What does that mean normally? Dollar dogs. Dike in part. Next year? It will be $2 dogs. Got feeling. That's kind of rando. I told you it was rando.

Price of foods going up. $2. dogs is still a pretty good deal. It's been $1 dogs since they were bad. Jim Crane likes to hike things up, make a little extra cash. $2 dogs on Tuesday's gut feeling from left field.

Or really from the concourse, but you get my drift. I am going to completely disagree with you. Okay. Yeah, I can be wrong. It's a gut feeling. That's right. It's not the worst thing you've said. Trust me, two hours plus. it's almost like, hey, you now can get assigned seats on the Southwest because you're trying to raise money. Yeah, that's what they...

You're not doing it versus a convenience for people. Yeah, have you looked around what's going around? I could see them raising the cost of beer and popcorn and peanuts. Do that again? More so than trying to raise the dollar dog. Okay. Because again... Is it like the $1.50 Costco dog?

It just gets you in the door? Yeah. But... It's only one day a week. They tried to raise that. And how successful were they? Not very. Well, that's because the CEO said over my dead body or something.

I think there was a whole scuffle over it. Jim, if you're listening, appreciate all the things you've done for our community. Keep the dollars and keep the dogs and a dollar. Okay. The public backlash on that will not be worth it. You might be right. But it's been dollar dogs for what, eight, nine years? Yeah, but they were a lost leader eight or nine years ago.

You're doing it because you want people to spend the money on the ticket. tickets and the beers. I know why they're doing it. $9.99 means nine beers. $2 dog is still a good deal. It's not nearly a certain. I don't even want to argue about this. It's just a random gut feeling I had.

I hope you're wrong. I hope I'm wrong too. I got a lot of fat. I like to go on Tuesdays. Yes, you do. Media dining 12, four dogs, four. Cheapscate. No, by the end of the, I did three, and by the end of the third, I'm like, I'm going to go to the meaty dining again.

You just feel the dog grease getting into your stomach. It's not good. Gut feeling. Astros Mariners will be tied at some point this week, but after the completion of Sunday's games, the Astros will still have at least a share of first place. They will not fall into second place by themselves. They will not fall the second place at any point?

Yes. But I will say Seattle will at some point. catch them and it'll be even Stephen. Okay. Also, you said the Sunday Seattle game against the Astros in September. It's going to be flexed. If they do flexing at all on Sundays.

Okay, hold on. Let me write this down. That was a very long... Give me the short version. The first one. Astros don't fall to second. Astros don't fall to second this week. Okay. I hope you're right. Okay. And Sunday night baseball for the Astros Mariners.

Texans. C.J. Garner Johnson does not play week one. You're such a hater. No, I'm just saying because what are we learning from sports? We're getting these forecasts way ahead of time. Might be able to play week one, or you might not. So I'm going to go on the might not card. Yeah, because you're a hater.

Your Honor Alvarez. Might be available to play sooner rather than later than later. Slat. He was hitting live BP on Saturday. He's in Florida. Today's Tuesday. He's looking good. When it happens, it happens.

Okay. And by way, Joe Mixon also will not play week one. Okay. Okay. I'm good. Who's on the hill tonight for your Houston Astros, Matt? That'd be H. Brown? No one would bex.

I mean, you have to tell me quickly. Spencell Arrigetti. What do they call it, Matt, when you go at least six innings and you give up three or fewer runs? It's a quality start. Woo! You heard it here first. What's up? This is for Eric in Bay City.

What do he say? Oh, he's an eriggetty hater? He's an erigate heater. That's ridiculous. Please, Spencer, I need you to get this quality start. Or at least don't get shelled out there. I would really appreciate it. Really appreciate it.

I have faith. I have faith in my guy. Jonathan, what do you got for guts? I'm going for the long ball. Oh! Cooper Hummel? No, I stop, stop. That way he got DFAed yesterday.

Guys. I'm going to stop doing Tuesdays. Okay, sorry. No, no, I got it. We win these next two series. Astros win the next two series. As well as the first game on Monday with Detroit. The way we're looking, I'm feeling confidence.

You're saying five of the next seven, basically. Wow. I'm saying they go straight, they sweep Red Sox. Whoa. And they get the first game out of Detroit. All right. Wow. That's how I'm feeling.

That's how you're feeling. All right Wow, that's That's pretty damn bold Be honest with you All right Do you want to do a Josh Hater, Godfiel?

Nope Me either I have one But I don't want to say it No no no Nope don't do it Not allowed Not allowed

I'm just asking a question I got another one You're done back by September 1st Oh I think I had that one a long time ago No, I did actually. Wait a minute. I don't know, Jonathan.

I didn't rule it. I think I said September 1st. I think Matt said that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was early. Yeah, many months ago. No, he said that in June?

Yes. I had that September 1st bit way before you did. Now, you can climb on if you want to. I don't think you did. I think I did. Thank you, Jonathan, for that, by the way. No, it's literally not anywhere in here. No, Matt made stuff up.

Mm-mm. You said zero home runs for the rest of the year. So how is he going to get back in September 1st and hit zero home runs? No, I'm saying he can play, but he's not going to hit any home runs. He's going to play for a month and hit zero home runs. He could play two games in September and go back on the injured list. Oh, okay. No, I don't have you saying that anywhere.

Just not, I remember, Matt. I'm not for sure, but I definitely remember you saying. You're wrong. You both got false memories. Offseason hand procedures, the last thing I had for Yordon. I said he hits at least two. Okay. I'm saying back by September 1st.

I don't have that written down for you anywhere. Okay, I'm not ready to put a date on it then. If you don't have it on there, then I'm not putting it. I'm doing it today. September 1st, what's up? Let's go. Zero home runs, and I hope I'm wrong. But I don't think I'm going to be wrong. You're going to be wrong. I hope I'm wrong.

You're wrong. Paul, James, Dave, we'll get to you next. 1144. It is the Matt Thomas Show of Ross. We need your gut feelings. Get him in right now. Sports Talk 790. Real quick, before I go to the phones, Jonathan Alexander clarifies one thing.

And when you get put on the injured list, injured reserve before the season starts before cuts your season is over so brev so brev okay so he's donezo donezo it's too bad for him that's two straight years my goodness that is not the way you want to think about your

20 25 season after going through the ACL in 2024 fantastic all right here we go this is gut feeling time which means you got to get in you got to talk quickly get your predictions and don't talk jonathan fast but just like regular fast 713-212-5-790.

David in Vegas, what's in your gut this week? This is a Homer call, but it's serious. I got a gut feeling that there is a rookie in the National Football League that is going to make real noise, and the Texans are going to wish they had drafted him. This is Caleb Johnson, third round picked by the Steelers running back, was the second best running back in the country

by any statistical category after Ashton Gentiles. last year. Wasn't the first running back picked in the draft this year after Gently. But he's going to win that Steeler job. He's going to be in talked about for Rookie of the Year, offensive rookie of the year. And the Texans are going to need a guy like that. They could

have had him. All right. Caleb Johnson, rookie of the year. Caleb Johnson, rookie of the year, says David in Vegas. Appreciate that. Speaking out of left field. That's fine. It's fine. Our lives are full of being out of left field. Jake and Katie. Jake, what's

your gut. Hater is going to have to have Tommy John and he's going to be out for the rest of the season. Oh, show. Shut. Shut. It's shoulder. At least go with the torn labor, my guess. Yeah, you can't Tommy John's shoulder.

You can't Tommy John an elbow and a forearm, but that's about as far as it goes. I don't want to hear season ending anymore. I've heard a plenty of that. Joe Spada coming up at 1230. 1230. Brian, what's in your gut? Hey, what's going on, guys? For one thing, tell that guy to shut his bum ass up about that arm.

Here you go. For one, hey, today we start the end of the sweep. We're going to take the Boston out like with that they did it at their house. And the guy, the arm's going to be just fun. And we've fished all year long. He's iced it up, get it ready for, uh, this weekend coming up I like that

you know what I do have a Josh Hader gut feeling please I'm gonna say it I don't think he's out for the year I mean I could coin flip and say he's out for the year I don't know I don't know I have a feeling in my gut

and that's what this segment's all about I'm gonna go with you and say it's a shoulder tendonitis and that he's going to be he's going to miss he's gone on the injure list today but it will be nothing of a season end So I'll agree with you.

Yes. Jonathan, you want to make it three? Oh, he's busy in there working. Yeah, what's that? I'm over here.

No, no, you got IT. If you're IT and that's okay. It's got a good frame rate on this, just a new camera.

A little 60 FPS over here? What is this? This looks good. What are you talking about? What are all these technical terms? 60 FPS is 60 frames for second. Thank you. Sorry.

This is a way above Matt's head. My time to educate, yeah, it's good. I felt good. Oh, I'm sorry to know what FBS was. was FPS.

Whatever. I'm working here with IBS to my right. 713-212-5-790. Clay, what's in your gut, Clay? Hey, guys. Yeah, I got a couple of them. I'm with you, Matt.

I think the Astros and the Seattle are going to be neck and neck all the end of the year, end of the season. I'm thinking if Seattle wins the division that the Astros with the Wild Card are going to go deeper, in the playoffs than the Mariners are. So you're making the prediction the Astros go further than the postseason in Seattle does.

We'll accept that. Go ahead. Exactly. But I think they're going to win the wild card. I'm not sure if I don't feel good about them winning in the division, although it's not going to matter if they're, you know, still get in as a wild card. Number two is I don't know what's going on with Myers. I haven't heard very much about him.

But I think Jordans at least, at the very least, a month away, and I don't, you know, I'm not really sure if he's going to play at all this year. It's definitely going to be an all-season surgery. And I think Myers will be back at the end of September, but I don't really know. They haven't really talked about what his status is or I haven't heard what's going on with him. He's going down to Florida.

Thank you for the phone call. He's, well, that West's going to Florida today. Or last night, I think. Coach your first class. What do you think? Connery Plus? I imagine he's in first class. a lot of money the Astros spend. That Houston

West Palm Beach shuttle. I think they get a discount. The Florida Complex League, they got a direct route, I think. Yeah. Maybe they're using a crane plane, you never know. I can't guess on injuries. I mean, I told you I'm done with injuries. Okay. When they show up, they show up. Yeah, I mean, he's,

he had been running on flat ground, and now he had been rehabbing, and now Jake Myers is going. There was a mass update yesterday with a lot of the injured guys. Derek and humble. Derek, what's in your gut? The Astros will beat Boston, they will sweep them. Nice. Nice, Derek.

Thank you very much for that. Anything else? Nope, he's done. Get in, get out. He said, shut your bum ass up. I'm done. Harry. Harry, what's in your gut?

Uh-oh. Matt. Ross. Harry. Nice to hear from you guys. Oh, geez. I'll tell you what's in my gut right now. Oh, no.

Oh, no. Please. You guys know where I'm going with it. spare ribs, spare reds or hot ducks. I cold Budweiser after getting that news today. I'll tell you what, if we lose Josh, guys, it's going to be painful. It's going to hurt. Heck, we might lose the division of the barreners, but we'll find them in the wild cop matchup,

and I'm telling you right now, Seattle's going to be gloomy and gloomy, and it's going to be a heck of a run for us. to ultimately get beat by a Ryan Presley coming out of the pen. Thank you, Harry. I'm not really offended by that. It's not the best Harry I've ever heard. I think it's...

But I'm not offended by it. It's not a Harry Carey impression. It's a Will Ferrell doing Harry Carey impression. Right. Hi! If you were a rack of barbecue spare ribs, would you eat yourself? Yeah, it's the impression.

This is the Macon. Thomas show with Ross. Last seven games. No problem. Can I ask for Jeff Bagel? We'll do some play-by-play. Play-by-play? Yeah, let's do it. Why? I want to hear it.

The first of I hear the one. Broadcasting repertoire. I mean, I appreciate the greatest astro of all time. 449 home runs, Carrero, PS-948. He's the second greatest astro of all time. One, Jose Altube is the greatest. He's only 200 home runs behind Postseason is a lot of the grade.

Sorry, it is. Okay, then he hit 190 when they won the World Series in 2022. What are his career postseason numbers compared to Jeffrey Allen Baguels? I don't know. But he hit 190 when they won the World Series in 2022, so Altuva is a playoff choker, is what you're saying? He's amazing division series,

amazing championship series, and amazing postseason altogether. And he went like 0-1 for, didn't he go 0 for like 30-something? Or what was it? O for 20-something? Altuvae postseason stats. You really want me to do this, don't you?

I don't want you to do that. I'm going to do it. It's fine. Altuwe has been great. Let's get to the news at noon. Jose Altuve's career postseason numbers. Oh, this is a...

Okay, go on first. You were bringing it up. Well, I got a... I got a bunch of... Let's see you here. This is a bad website. I got to figure a better one. Go on.

All right, man. You suck. he's hitting 271 with an 841 OPS Very good In the postseason Jeff Baguels I don't know But he certainly didn't get the plate appearances

So it's a smaller sample size Well nobody held Jeff Bagwell back From getting those postseason played appearances Yeah they did Team game Like I said Al Tuva hit 190 and 220 2020. Terrible Jose Altube is the greatest of them all

Period of his story Jeff your second Jeff Bagwell. Greatest Astro of all time. 33 postseason games. Only 33 games? 226 batting average. 24 hits, two hit, home runs, 13 RBIs, 11 runs scored.

33 postseason games. Al-Tube got 105 games. Jose the Goat. Worst base runner in Astros history? Worst base runner in Astros history? Greatest Astro of all time. Zero 30-30 seasons. Don't fight me on this.

830 OPS for El Tuve career That's it turn it off turn it off 948 career for Bagwell Time for Insta poll Let's just knock this out right now I'm going to lose it's okay No no no Because you people are emotional

We're not emotional We postseason is a huge part of the grade I know Huge Make the most of it I'm just saying who was the better player Jose El Tuvee The better player

Now back to the news at noon Hit the music I'm staying out of it Better defensively Better bass runner More power More on bass All right, anyways, I don't know why we're doing this right now.

What's the news at noon? Well, Josh Hader has shoulder discomfort. Matt, your thoughts. Okay, Matt's eating on air in the middle of the segment. Sorry. So I will continue to talk about what else is going on in baseball. No update from the Houston Astros on what's happening with. One of those two broad, one of those two people dropped an F bomb on Rastros radio one to die.

Is that true? Somebody just texted my buddy Hans did listen last night I mean F-bombs happened Never in my career But it's not either here nor there I did one Did you really

Yeah we dumped it It was on a pregame It was a Rockets pregame With me and Michael Connor for a playoff game Really And I dropped an F-bomb But I was talking about how I was like I said basically

Russell Westbrook plays so bleeping hard Something like that Oh I get it It was in praise of It wasn't out of anger or frustration. Should we allow swear words at the end of the day? I don't see why not. It's made up.

How come I can say buck, truck, and suck, but I can't say... You're right. I mean, it's just a phrase. It's just a word. It's nothing. It's stupid. It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. Why is it a bad word?

Well, there are... I mean, the FCC declares it a bad word. I didn't declare it. I know, exactly. It's dumb. It's arbitrary. It's made up. It's just phonetic sounds coming out of your mouth.

Hmm. I never quite thought of it that way. How come I can say function? It's a verb. How come I can say funk? I've called people that by their, with a using of a noun. But if I take out the end, all of a sudden, it's the worst word in the history of time. He's dumb.

All right. And that's your news and dude. We got that. We got out of that segment quick. You want some more news, Matt? D from what's happening passed away at the age of 60. Oh, my God. Which one's that?

That's the dog. That's Roger's sister. Who's that? Okay. What was the actor's? day? Daniel Spencer. Okay.

60 years old. May she. She rest. Rest in peace, yeah. May they rest. Yeah. Is that believe it or not today? What's happening was a great show.

Raj. Was it? Rerun. D. Mama, Shirley. The Doobie brothers were on there. Oh, they were? Yes, they were.

What? Rolling dubies? No, they were singing. Oh, this only ran for three seasons. Oh, this show sucked. No, four, six, six, six. 1789, 1979,

976, 1979. Oh, three full seasons, three seasons, only 65 episodes. It couldn't have been that good.

And what was a spinoff called? It was called Dee's Door. What knows? It's called what's happening now.

Okay. They grew up. And there's what's happening after that. Not much. It's happening after that. We're all looking for work. Yeah.

They haven't done anything since then. All right. This is the worst segment of this history of this show. I'm embarrassed for you and this segment.

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I'm a yell at you regardless, whether you voice your opinion or not. So what's happening? Nothing. Hey, hey, hey. All right. We got Joe spotted 10 minutes, and it can't come any faster, honestly. We're going to break it down what's happening and what's happening now. Yeah.

Did you hear about the Oklahoma quarterback? Yes. Screenshots of past references to sports gambling on its Venmo account surfaced yesterday has denied it to school officials about ever being involved in gambling. School officials became aware of the matter late last night and in planning an investigation. Screenshots posted Monday night showed Mateer, we should mention his name John Mateer, allegedly twice included the term sports gambling in memos for transatlantic. on November 22 while he was a freshman at Washington State. Both transactions were allegedly made to a Venmo account for somebody named Richard Rotin, believed to be a teammate at Washington State at the time.

As all of you should know by now, college athletes are not allowed to bet on any sport involving NCAA ties, penalties up to a loss of eligibility. First of all, another one is I just don't guess my Thursday, y'all are going to be loaded. I don't get why it's anybody's business who I've been mo to and what I do. I don't know why any of you make it out public. Yeah. Mine's on private. It will always be private.

Now, am I curious why you spend money on stuff? Yes. But you're not going to know my business. Yeah. You don't need to know which various only fans models you're donating to. If I was to do such a thing, which I'm not. But you would. I'm sorry.

I didn't ask. So, but you wouldn't be that. Now, we've all put funny things on there. Yes. But you can't. I put like foot massage. Even putting sports gambling sounds like he could be joking. No.

See, I disagree. I think if you know if you're an NCAA athlete, there are just, you know, point shaving would not be funny. Gambling would not be funny. I think he is completely in the wrong and did the dumbest, again, 19 year old. 19 year olds do stupid things. Now, you don't know and I don't know. But okay, if he knows that you don't, you stay away from joking about that,

then why would he do the actual act of sports gambling and then put that on the memo? That makes even less sense. Yeah, it actually would do, you do the opposite. You would say something else for sports betting. I just think, you just want to go shake the kid and go, what the hell were you thinking? I'll tell you something. I don't care. I don't care.

If he's betting on a game that he's not involved. We put UCLA, whatever. I don't care. First of all, you can't prove this. You really can't. He can say that it was a joke, and as long as he gets his story straight with whoever he sent his teammate that he sent this money to. See, I think you can't. I think there is a line.

You cannot bet on something that you're actively involved in. But you guys underestimate, Ross. You underestimate how connected us college athletes are. So that could snowball into, like, yeah. Well, yeah, how much money did he? I'm going to put it this way. I need to see more details. If he bet, did he send him $5?

There was no money on that. There wasn't an amount of money on this thing, was there? I would think there would be out of VATMO, yeah. I didn't see it. I don't even know what it. I saw the screenshots. Yeah. I don't remember seeing an amount.

Yeah, if you want to bet on a baseball game or something, I don't have a problem with that, but you cannot bet on something that you're actively involved in. And I think every league says the same exact thing. No, I get. Okay. I will understand that, yes, there can be some sort of point shaving, whatever, and there have been college athletes that are doing this. but I mean a bunch of things have to happen

he has to be stupid enough to be putting this on there to be actually betting on sports and then he has to be stupid enough to have connections to UCLA or USC where he's compromising the integrity of the game and I just don't I guess I just don't necessarily buy that So what I think you would In all I don't know taking the layer pushing everything back a little bit

he opened up a can that should have been closed he probably opened up this investigation for all the wrong reasons there's there's probably nothing going on but you are just asking for trouble by just trying to be funny. You're just asking for trouble. Yeah. Well, if he knows that he shouldn't be funny in doing that,

then he also should know that he's not going to be betting on actual sports gambling and put that on there. So I don't know what the hell he's doing. And unless we find out that this was like hundreds of dollars or something, I don't know what the threshold would be. I think the threshold is $1. You just can't bet on anything. I think it was $20 against his friends.

I don't care. Well, NCBLA certainly cares. No, that's that they don't have other fish of friends. I don't think you should lose your college eligibility because as a redshirt freshman, you stupidly bet $20 with your friend on a game. And not with a bookie and not with a sports gambling website or whatever. Part of me says, if I'm sitting on the couch and watching a game with you and I say $20 bucks on USC, I mean, where is the compromising of the integrity of the game?

But we need more details. But, and if you're going to do it, which again, we have to, we can't be naive to this. If you're going to do it, don't put it anywhere where anybody can see it. If you and I are football players and we're making a bet on Penn State, Iowa, and you and I are playing ball at Texas, then you and I can do that and we just keep it between ourselves. But to put it on the Venmo, again, my guess is that's probably, it could be, you know what, it could be an alias for weed, honestly. Yeah, who knows? That's a very good point. I mean, it could be an alias for rent for anything.

But that would be stupid. Come up with literally anything else. Literally anything. That's what I'm saying. That's the thing that's crazy about this. He literally could have found any other terminology for weed, hookers, booze, whatever. He chose sports betting. Yeah, I've sent a friend's money and put like foot massage or something like that.

Yes. Like I sent one, you made the most amazing egg salad sandwich ever. You did? No, I'm just using it as a rough. I'm starting it out there. It's weird. I, oh, God. Now, what I do want to chalk it up to is at 19, we all did stupid stuff.

We all said the wrong things, wrote the wrong things, misinterpreted things, thought we were funnier than we were. So that's what my guess is this Oklahoma quarterback did. But, damn, you're opening up a can of worms by even putting the word betting. Ross, I just think there's very little if zero tolerance for betting as a college athlete on an NCAA event. I just do. Because as Jonathan brought up, you were opening up a whole new avenue of is this point shaping. Did you call buddy yours that you played against or you went to high school with or you played in a college camp with? Well, they're both teammates on the same team, right?

Yes. Okay. I mean, more will come out on this, but I'm going to say this is for me, a nothing burger, unless hundreds of dollars are spent and there's some investigation needs to be launched. I just don't know if you did to do sports betting, why you couldn't say, no, stupid. No, we're all on the same page. He's stupid.

He's just not right. That's the reason why is at Oklahoma. I mean, kind of open enrollment there too, right? He was at Washington State. Oh, okay. Washington's, if anybody's really playing, who goes to Washington State? He's from Little Elma, Texas. I know some people. Was he supposed to play for Mike Leach, 2022 commit?

No, no, no. He was in Mississippi State. Yeah, sorry. All right. Let's get a quick timeout. I just want to pass that along to you as today's edition of what were you thinking? We can actually do a segment on that eventually. Joe Spada is with us in about a handful of minutes. His Astros won in a very impressive. playoff type atmosphere. We'll talk to him about that in just a moment. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

One of our favorite times of the week is to spend 12 quality minutes with the manager of your Houston Astros. One game lead over the Mariners in American League West after yesterday's win over the Red Sox. Joe Espada with us here on 790 Skip. Good afternoon. Do you thank you for the time as always? We've mentioned it many a time so far on our show today. It felt like, like you were in game one of the ALCS last on at your ballpark. Agreed, right? It did. It did feel like it.

Yeah, the energy in the ballpark was it felt like a playoff playoff game. The game itself, you know, the scoring, right, trying to keep, maintain that lead, trying to navigate, you know,

through our bullpen. It really felt, like a playoff game for sure. I'm assuming you have no update for us on Hater unless you do and we'd love to hear it. But let's go back a little bit. Tell me what your conversation was when he first came to you and said, Skip, I don't feel good. It's not, that's a last thing you want to hear from any of your pitchers, any of your players. Yeah, it was not a great feeling.

And we'll, you know, we'll get more results here this afternoon. You know, I don't know what has happened in your world. You deserve a much better faith than this because I feel like every time something's going right, and I tease you about having a bubble wrap guys, but man, oh man, I would say this, at least it's the shoulder, not the forearm and elbow, because we kind of hear when we hear that kind of stuff, we automatically think Tommy John. So who's to say? But what was it like you said navigating? and you've had to navigate quite a bit this year with a variety guys in your bullpen.

Has that been your biggest perhaps change from year one to year two is having to massage? Who's getting days off? Who's throwing enough? Who needs to throw that kind of thing? Yeah, it's been a challenge. You know, we have been blessed. We're having some guys that can actually have in really good years in our bullpen guys who have been asked to do a lot with not having a ton of experience and they have done a really good job.

So that does make it a little bit easier. But, you know, to keep everyone healthy and to try to win as many games as possible and protecting your assets just for to finish the regular season has been, I think, one of the biggest challenges for me, for me definitely as a manager. You said something last night in the post game that struck me funny. You said that was fun trying to go through that with all. You have your leverage guys. I don't know how much of the fans agree, but clearly I love that attitude from you that like, hey,

this is just a baseball game and you're enjoying this late inning strategy, especially being down your guys. It's kind of you don't have any other choice. Right. You know, it's for me, I was talking, you know, I know for, you know, as a fan, as as a manager, you want things to go smoothly and you want you guys to all be up and available. but that's not the reality of these games. And when I said fun is as more personal, the fact that, you know, I think about my career,

my journey, and be in a position to manage a team in an organization that would be so successful and be in that spot, you dream about those moments, right? That's what as a leader you want to lead players into putting it. in a position for them to have success. They get big out, like Susa the last out in the ninth inning. You know, that's exciting because I know how hard he's worked for that. Delosanto is getting an opportunity to get big outs for us. He's been bouncing around all year. O'Kert. Or, you know, that's exciting for me and it's fun to watch my players step up and have big moments in their careers. That for me, I enjoy that aspect of my job.

Christian Javier got to start for you. What did you see from him out there? Of course, settling in after that two-run shot from Bregman and just conversations with him after about how he's feeling. Good. I was, you know, again, another player who has work. He's way back. I thought he stuff was really good.

Aside from that two-run home run. I thought he stuff, you know, we saw his fastballed to 94-95. He had the hop that we know when, Javier is healthy, that that's the movement that we're looking on his fastball. He's breaking ball through some good one. His change is okay. Like, we're going to work through those things, but he looked healthy. He looked like he came ready to compete.

And moving forward, I felt really good of where Javier is at right now. So these guys go through these rehab appearances down in the minor leagues, and they don't necessarily go deep into games, three and two-thirds, maybe four, maybe seven. 70 pitches. So when you sent Christian Javier out there, you didn't know how much to expect from him. Or did you guys kind of have a game plan to say, hey, I'm going to watch you through the first 50 and we can try to get you to 75. Take us through what that is like, taking a guy that hasn't seen major league competition and then asking him to go beyond what you expect from a starter when it comes to number of pitches thrown. No, you're right. And another thing is, like you mentioned earlier, it felt like LCS game. That's also another thing that you have to take in consideration.

There was a lot of stuff going on in our ballpark yesterday, the energy, the Korea coming back, the Bregman there, you know, you're as Javier as an individual getting back on the mound after missing and all the entire season. All those emotions play into your performance. So, you know, he's pitching in AAA. The lights are not as bright as it in the major league game. We're in a pennant race. I'm looking closely to see how he reacts and how he acts from, you know,

doing that. Not only the pitch count, but I'm also looking at his effort, how he's breathing in between innings, my conversations within, how you feel, how he's handling the whole in time. There's a lot of stuff that goes on that goes into my evaluation of his performance on that day. You're about to hit a slippery slope because you've got 40 or so games left, give or take, and then you've got a one-game lead. You've got just a few days off. You've got some stretches of games coming up where you'll play 10 in a row or 13 in a row, something like that and you're custom to that. How do you feel like you're going to balance off time with, damn, we need to win this game coming up. And I need my full lineup in there as often as possible.

Yeah. And, you know, I think I will use my DH, the DH spot to give those guys off their feet some. Also, I will start asking these guys to show up to the ballpark a little bit later and trying to make sure that we sleep in, we recover and do all that kind of stuff. You know, we do have 40 games left. We do have some guys that are getting close to coming back, so that also could help give some of these guys a breather. But, you know, that's another thing I need to watch closely. If we're going to be in a position to make a push year at the end,

we need these guys to be in a good spot physically. Astros manager Joe Espada was here on a sports talk 790 Spencer Eric Getty throwing for you again How do you assess where he is now and what he needs to do tonight? A little bit of bad luck in his last start He also did get the 16 whiffs but the four infield hits but also did get hit hard Yeah and you know and I think I think you know I expect him to be much better today I've you know you know commanding his pitches

Getting to the lanes that he needs to get to to get some swinging misses, to get some quicker out. This is the rest of the lineup. You have to pitch ahead in the count. You can't fall behind this guy. They don't grind up bats. They put the ball in play. They hit balls hard.

You know, I expect them just to have a couple of lefties in there today. So you got to be on top of your game. You've got to have confidence on your pitches, on your game planning, and being able to throw your pitches in different counts for strikes and expand when you have to. You know, I see the Spencer throw the ball. bowed really well against these guys last year in Fenway. I remember that start, and I know he can go back there and do it again.

Speaking of starting pitching, Jason Alexander was brilliant for you over the weekend. Look, when you're on the cusp major leaguer, sometimes battling between AAA and major leagues, you've got to just take whatever role you're given. But has he done enough in your mind to say, all right, let's get that arm ready for every fifth day as compared to bouncing back between middle relief and starting? You know what? I think he's done well enough to get an opportunity for a next start. Things changes every single day.

Like you mentioned, we're going to have a long stretch of games here coming up after Thursday. So we might need to change some things up just to keep everyone fresh, to keep everyone strong. We do have some guys really close to coming back, some starters really close to coming back. So those guys will also play a factor in our, in our push. All right. So let you run again.

Let's reiterate. So do you feel like when you get to the ballpark today, you'll get a better feel of Josh or what have the officials told you in terms of how long it's going to take for them to evaluate what it was causing the soreness? Yeah. So we're going to do more testing this afternoon. So, you know, by by two, three o'clock, hopefully I have, you know, a better diagnosis of what, you know, what the discomfort is.

So, yeah, I'm just, I'm here right now. So, you know, hopefully we get. some good news, you know? You don't want to ever want to hear one of your pitchers, you know, shoulder, elbow, like you mentioned, right?

But hopefully we get to speak to the doctors and we get some good news. I'll say this, Skip, and you know this. Abreu's been nails for you this year. You've got four saves out of Bennett-Soussa. I mean, of anything, and look, nobody wants to lose Josh Hater, but you've got some great lieutenants

that are ready to help out of necessary. Yes, yes. And I think yesterday was a perfect example, hands-on deck, you know. I'm going to be using everyone at different times doing the game, different pockets, right, these lefties, and they'll be ready. These guys, they understand where we are at right now in the season, and they know they need to pick Josh up. Thanks for the visitors, as always, and I hope you get some good news out of Josh.

We appreciate the time, as always. All right, guys, thank you. We'll see you. Joe Spotted with us here on Sports Talk 790. He will meet with the media today at 4 o'clock like he normally does on games, start at 7, so there'll be something. Okay. The most positive thing is, tired shoulder,

needs an IL stent to relax it. I don't know how much. Inflammation? Yeah. Get him some Tylenol back in a week. A lead maybe? If he hits the IL, it's got to be 15 for a pitcher. Yeah.

Good icing. Ice and heat. Wrap it up. Ice and heat, heat and ice. Whatever. Rice method. Yeah. I just, he's going to be fine.

To me, when it's forearm and elbow, he's got to be fine. I always get, I always think the worst automatically. He's going to be fine. Okay, you heard it here first. It's a gut feeling. Or he's not.

That wasn't the, I'm sorry, he's going to be fine. Ross, people need reassurance of you. Well, I don't know. I haven't seen the charts yet, Matt. Then you can't say he's fine. Just say hope for the best.

Hope him for the best. He's fine. He's fine. He's great. Matt and Ross, with you, we're here until 2 o'clock. What is believe it or not today? Is it all things,

what's happening. Hell if I know. All right. That's coming up in one hour from now. I'm going to try to do an advance, believe it or not, and do it out of the, before $150. Because I think the prize horse... Oh, okay.

Yeah, just let me know, Dave. Take them off the cent. Okay. I like that. What's the prize today? We have sets of tickets. You ready for this? Let's go.

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Well, yeah, I mean, we need to go PJ Morton there, Norr Jones Oh, geez, my phone Joe Satriani and who was Stevey Vine, Joe Satriani? Favorite Joe Satriano song? You know what mine is? What is it? Crowd chant. I thought it was sketch, scotch, boogie,

sketch. Crowd chant. Okay. You've heard crowd you before, haven't you? No, I don't know what you're talking about. It's playing in sports aren't all over the place. I don't listen. All right, 713-212-2-5-780. Any takeaways from Joe? No. We'll know more on Josh Hader. He kept a good poker face. Didn't sound Chopinistic or pessimistic to me. I think probably he knows already. Just can't say. I get it. That's fine.

There's things I know already about us that I want to tell in the public. Really? Yeah. Like what? I can't say. I want to be coy like Joe is. I want to be coy like Joe is. All right. That sounds like you're a single from your debut album.

That's true. Okay, so the Astros with one game, we are rooting hard for the Baltimore Orioles the next three days. Yes, we are, and then we're rooting very hard against the Baltimore Orioles of the weekend. So here's how it's going to work. We want the Orioles to win tonight, Wednesday and Thursday. We want severe weather in Baltimore on Thursday,

so there's plain interruptions. Okay. So the mariners don't get here until the middle of the night. Although the last time we worried about that, the Rangers came in here and killed the Astros. But that was also with... That's true. It was a must-win Friday.

They lost. That was the Lance McCuller start. Somehow they lost the must-win game and they're still in first place. They are. They've been in first place a long time. For now. Brevin Jordan on the injured list, he's done for the season. Injured reserve, yes.

So that's no surprise on that. Texans depth chart. Well, you've got who's, I forgot who the backup is. Davis Mills? No, no, no. Tight end. Cade Stone. That's exactly who it is.

You big Kate Stover guy? I don't know. He was never a good last year. I don't think so. I'm just, all I could tell you is that everybody in their mother was bragging about how Brevin Knight was looking so good in camp. And Brevin Jordan. And Brevin Jordan.

Who's Brevin Knight? Former NBA player. Kentucky alum, I believe. Yeah. Brevin Knight. Brevin Jordan. Yeah. All looking really good at this point.

Got to keep your Brevin straight. By the way, speaking of that, another jailing has found the way in the Texans. Oh, I lied. Brevin Knight went to Stanford. Stanford. Dang it. That's fine. Nobody was judging you.

So let's go through every, you know, we can do a believe it or not on every single Jalen and the Texans. Oh, how about Jalen and J-Dens? Oh, God. Let me, help me out here. So that would put these people, if they're 22, 23, 24 years of age, that means that they are born in 2000, 2001. Was that name supposedly super, I mean, clearly it was super popular during that time?

Well, there was one. Jalen that was very famous that I believe was the first Jailant. I don't know if it's like on record in the history of time, but like the first Jalen. Rose. That's correct. The very first Jalen ever? Like I said, maybe there was some guy in the

1860s Scotland or something, but I believe the way the story is told. They just picked up Jalen Reed who was a former patriot. So put it this way. Yeah, he popularized it. Although Jalen, he's not the first Jalen in the history of time. But now you're seeing Jalen with

J-A-L-E-N J-A-Y-L-E-N J-A-Y-L-I-N I know It's very confusing It's like I mean I'm you got We've talked about this before

I've done Rockets Thunder games Last year That had Jalen Green Two Jalen Williams Of the Thunder on the floor At the same time

Yes Jeff Green Jeff Green Um Candridge Williams and there was another Williams somewhere on the floor. I mean it was it was like I was trying to navigate through a maze

of Janlins and Williams. Well like the true trained professional you are at you navigated the waters. I did okay. Like Magellan. Well he died so maybe maybe I like Columbus. Well got a checker too but Ponce de Leon.

I think he did some bad stuff too never mind. Where is this to go? going. Chris Cross. All right. Back to the tight ends position. The Texans tight ends currently as we speak are Dalton Schultz. Yes.

Cade Stover. Irv Smith Jr. Yeah. Who the hell is that? What do you mean? Former Vikings legend. And Luke Lechay, seventh round pick. Yes. Not a great tight-in room. it's fine whatever

is it that much better with brevin jordan well i mean they liked him for the guy to break out for five years that's true he was class of 21 yeah i don't know why people were i try to act like brevin jordan was like prime for 1500 yards and 10 touchdowns or something if you were to look at the among the most active storylines at texans training camp i think brevin jordan's name would be in the mix

yeah he's good and athletic and has some promise but well you're back where you were last year and you got more options at wide receivers so I'm fine. I'm like, I'm going to tell you, I might have to get in a gut feeling at some point about Christian Kirk. Okay, well, let's do it right now. We'll backtrack. So let me ask you this. Do you want to say a thousand-year-old receiver? No. Well, then what would be your gut feeling then? Well, what is his season total? What bet? Can we find that?

What's his player prop? I mean, no, you don't need to make a bet on the system. Just, what is your gut tell you? I think he's going to be, I think he is flying way under the radar. I think he's going to be very good out of the slot for the... All right, how about this? Do you want to say that Christian Kirk will be the second most effective receiver behind Nico Collins

that he will outperform Jaden Higgins and Jalen Noel? And John Metchie, if he makes a team. I'm going to. Yeah, John Metchie, that's easy. I just wonder whatever his... You know, I'm going to find his player projection. I'm going to find it on a fantasy website.

I'm going to go over. Whatever it is. Remember, health is part of the regret here, too, participation. That's true, and he's had some injury problems. But as I continue to tell you, and as all the best fantasy minds and football will tell you, you cannot predict injuries. Guys slip down boards all the time because people think they're injury prone, and then you can draft them and get good value. How about this is a gut feeling that when the dust settles, and that dust could settle week one of the season, how about this on the offensive line? how about Ariante Erserie being your starting left tackle?

I could see that. Because let me ask you this. If Ariante Ersa is your best tackle, why are we wasting time putting him at right tackle and hoping that Cam Robinson will underperformed and his past his prime is going to be able to protect the break? Get him a few games of seasoning. But if I'm going to place them as my left tackle,

I might as well do it. Might as well get him comfortable to the position about the play. Well, then you wasted $12 million on Cam Robinson. Well, that's not my fault. And that's, well, that's a Texan's fault for doing that. Do you help me out. When Cam Robinson was signed, didn't the whole world go, what the hell were the Texans thinking? No.

Oh, I think if you looked, I think you'd be able to find pretty, I don't think the whole world said what the hell are they doing. He's been a decent starting left tackle. He's not going to, he's not a world beater. But yes, he gave up a lot of pressures, but overall, he's been solid throughout his NFL career. I think, he's kind of, he's a warm body. He's not, to me, even though he'd given up the highest pressures, I don't think he had the highest pressure rate. And you know what? Maybe part of the reason why is because Blake Fisher sucks

and that you can't move. That is part of it. You need Cam Robinson left because you've already paid him to do so. Blake Fisher's not ready to takeover of being a starting member of the offensive line. You might as well put, you know, Arianter Ersary at one position so you get him ready for one and then move him to left tackle next year. Okay. If you want to argue that, I can go with that.

All right. So fantasy pros, season projections for Christian C, 649 yards. I'm going over folks. What's up? 50 catches. That's a lot. I'm going over. Battle Red. What's up? In full play here. Three and a half touchdowns? That feels about right.

I'm going over yards and receptions. Both. I'm hitting the polly, double bet over the receptions and over the odds. Christian Kirk, you heard of here faced. Why is WFA and care about Christian Kirk? this point. I don't know. It seems to go handicapper voice. It does. It's funny. You never hear a, like a French recruiting. Oh, Chrisomka.

Go to y'alls. Or Georgian. You know, well, down. Oh, Joe, so, man. Southern Bell here. Yeah. I got the Steelers plus the four and a half on a recorded line. Well, I need to hear from John Mateer first, see what he thinks.

But I'm going over Christian Kirk, I think. Yards and reception. What's up? I'm writing down my gut feelings. Put it down there. Good for you. What's up? Final hour, the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We've got, believe it or not, in 50 minutes. You may join us right now as we celebrate the Astros win over the Red Sox.

And we pray for one Josh Hater, 1259 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Our friend Brian McTaggart listens to this show every day. We appreciate him. He's with us on Thursdays at 11 o'clock. Just put out a tweet that should give you guys as Astro fans some energy and some excitement. Do you know what Christian Walker's OPS was in the month of April sports RV? 531. 697. Oh, okay. In May, it was 627. In June

646. All incredibly disappointing, underperforming numbers. July's OPS? Yeah. 833. Good. In August so far, 900s 969 Nice Christian Walker So people who wanted him

DFA did you shut their bum ass up Nobody wanted him DFA Oh No no No rational thinking Astros fan Okay well you can add that qualifier But then we whittled down

A lot of the fan base All right You ready for a hot take? Yes The Astros postseason success Will be more incumbent on Christian Walker, then you're on Alvarez.

Boom. Disagree. All right. Give me your argument. And I'll team, mine's nice and simple. Yeah, he's saying he's not going to be there. Yorrault is going to be ready, and he's going to be mashing homers, baby. Let's go. Okay. We're going to have a serious conversation about this. Why? You

don't know and I don't know. Here's what I can. I can deduce things, okay? How in God's green earth is somebody who hasn't played since early May, who is still going through hitting progressions in Florida, going to all of a sudden be the October hero for the Astros. The dots don't connect.

They just don't. It's August, Matt. It's the second week of August. Season's not over. Season's not done yet. He can be back by September 1st. Doing what? What if his hands hurt again?

He's swinging a bat. So all the things that he had to hurt his hand that had, that hasn't been surgically refixed. Yeah. And we're waiting for swelling to go down. Is all of a sudden going to be, oh, pain free for the last two months of the year? Oh, hell no. And if he's going to play through pain, God love him for doing it.

But I ain't counting on it. I know you're not going to count on it. That's why I said. My take is, Christian Walker will be a more valuable piece if this team goes anywhere than you're not in Avarice. Okay. And I can disagree with that. Neither of us know. But you'll be wrong.

But you'll be wrong. We'll see. We'll see. You got the guy, which is patently ridiculous. You've got the guy not playing 130 game for the rest of his career. So we don't know. I don't know and you don't know. We'll see it play out.

If he's going to get hurt every, the 28-year-old is going to get hurt every single year for the rest of his life. The dots don't connect. I understand. But I'm also going to tell you, if we're on September 12th, I'd be with you. We're on August 12th. So in a couple of weeks, I'll be ready to evaluate. I'm not calling you crazy. And I want you to do this for me, honestly.

Okay. If I'm wrong about this, I want you to pounce on this. No, I'm not going to say a word. No, you should. Because you're going to get all mad at me. No, I'm not. Because I'm telling you in advance. Okay.

If he does anything for this team the rest of the year, first of all, I'll be glad to be wrong. Secondly, it will help the Astros. The Astros, with something close to healthy Yorna and Alvarez, makes us a ridiculously potent lineup, especially if Christian Walker's going to have the better the next 40 days of his life be really great 40 days. Yeah, he could well have a setback today. Jordan Alvarez.

We don't know. I don't know. I'm telling you, I'm not, and I didn't, I'm not saying, I'm saying I disagree with you. I'm not saying you're crazy

and you're making outlandish statements. Okay. I'm saying I am just more hopeful that something will happen. It's been since May 3rd. He is swinging, he's taking a live BP. Now he's in Florida again, right? Which is known as Setback City for him.

So I get it. But if we were even three weeks later than where we are, I would feel less. confident. But if he's swinging a bat and he is just your DH, I think he, as I said, I don't know, stick with this. I think he does need an offseason procedure. They're going to mitigate the

pain. I feel like, this is totally just made up on my part, that they have a timeline to where they can manage, have him manage the pain for a few weeks to get ramped up and then play the playoffs and see what happens. And then once the season is, the second the season is over, he's on the operating table. And if he does

that, That's admirable. Okay. So now I'm going to speak to you with ignorance. Here it goes. If there is nothing structurally wrong with the hand anymore. Mm-hmm. And he's been swinging.

How much swinging does he have to do? If there's nothing wrong with the hand. Yeah. If he's going to swing. A couple of weeks. Why wouldn't he be swinging in AAA right now or double A right now? Because they're just building up, I guess. I don't know. Okay. And you know, and to be fair to you, you don't know the answer.

No, I don't. I haven't seen the charts. Well, they should let us see the charts. We'd be much better as sports hosts if we do the charts. No, well, I can't read the chart. I don't know what the hell's going on. When that, when one hand is really like full of goodness and... It looks like the hamburger helper hand. Yeah. And then one looks like a catcher's mint. You know, it's not great. It's not great. All I'm saying is this. You know I've been hesitant about this because of the fact that I, Not necessarily the Astros giving out erroneous information. It's just things have never made sense about this. And I don't know why you have to go down to Florida yet again to do this.

And now you're going from Thursday to Saturday to Saturday to Tuesday to... Well, then help me figure it out then. If he's going to be out for the season, then why are they even going through any of this charade? Just for bleeps and giggles? They're obviously hopeful that he can come back and be helpful. I think what they're thinking is, Yordon is going to call them up one day and say, I'm tired of this,

my hands are ready to go, let's play. But I don't even think, I don't even think Yordan thinks he's ready to play. Then why is he taking a live BP? Well, he is taking a live BP, but he's taking two days off in between. Major League of baseball don't work that way. We're down to 40 games.

And that's another thing, too, though. When he does come to the playoffs, you do get a lot of days off. Not really. You play boom, boom, boom, boom, off day. Well, wild cards, you play three straight days. Yes. And then you get a day off. And you start the series.

The baseball schedule came out. As a matter of fact, the day. If the Astros win the division, they're not doing it early anymore. They were thinking about starting it early, and they're not doing that. You get more days off. The first game, if they win the division series.

He's playing three days in a row, maybe like twice in the whole playoffs, probably, right? It'll be October 1st would be game 1. October 4th would be game 1, October 5th would be game 2. Off day on the 6th. Oh, so you get an off day. See?

That's travel. Rest the hands. Seventh and eighth would be games three and four. And then an off day for the 9th, you play a game 5 on October the 10th. That's division series. Now, if they... So two off and then two and then off. Yeah, that's pretty typical.

Put some mice on the hand. He's all good. Now, if you have to play the wild card, you play three straight days. 30, September 30th, October 1st, October 1st, you get one day off and you start your series on October the 4th. And again, I'm not blaming anybody. I'm saying if he's not going to help at all the whole season, then why is he even, why is he in, why do they fly in them of Florida right now?

Because they want to give this a go. They've been wanting to give us a go for three months now. It's almost like going all in on a poker hand. You're already pot committed. You might as well see if you get anything left. You can win the hand. I don't know. So maybe he's going to win his hand.

Maybe winning hands is a poor choice of words. He's got to lose again so far this year. It's been three months. There have been multiple setbacks. He's hating a live BP. And again, I'm just talking about the calendar. If we were even two weeks, if we were in the same spot,

we are even two weeks from now, I'd be more on your side that I'm keeping my expectations at zero. And my expectations aren't that he's going to come back and hit 10 home runs. It says it's going to get a couple of weeks of ramp up and then be ready to go for the playoffs and we'll see. And he's going to be playing through some pain. which he has not done a lot in his career

and probably doesn't want to do. He was playing through the initial pain. And that's possibly why we're where we are. And he has played through hand injuries before. So he's played through pain once. Yeah. What would make him inspire him to do it a second time? Knowing that he's doing it now, right?

You're not playing right now, no. I'm saying he played earlier this year in pain. He's progressing. He's trying to come back. If he wasn't going to try to come back, then they would have shut him down already. I think. I think they're so far into this that they're hoping to get something out of this.

Yeah, they clearly have hope and a prayer, so I have hope and a prayer. Let's go. If they had no hope, he'd be shut down. And like I said, that could happen two day. We could literally, we could be four o'clock newswire, Yordons had a setback, he shut down. It could happen, absolutely. All right, put it this way. Can we be meeting middle ground?

If he has one more setback, are we going to do that we call today? Yeah, that's the problem. Sure. So as long as running out. Yeah, as long as there's no more setbacks, then we have to say a small prayer every night before we go to bed in hopes that he can contribute at some point this season.

John Mateer has a release a statement. And that is the quarterback at Oklahoma. Yes. And you'll hear that coming back. 114. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports. Sports Talk 790. When you hear the fifth of Beethoven,

you get your platform shoes out, you get to the dance floor, and you say, sports huggy, RV, give me some NFL rewind. Is that what they say? No, but it sounded good. Disco ball, fat line of Coke. Get ready to get on the disco float. I had a dream last night that my wife was doing Coke on a Delta Airlines flight. She's like, what?

What's the matter? She wasn't, obviously. but I'm just saying, you know, I'm... You're truly one of kind, Matt. I mean, I told you I had the weirdest dreams you'll ever meet for anybody. I had three wild dreams last night. Are we doing

Matt's Dream interpretation, or are we doing... NFL Rewine. Let's go. Okay. Brevin and Jordan placed on IR for the Houston Texans. He is going to miss the season as Matt Thomas outlined.

Apparently if you're put on IR at this point in camp, you are going to be out for the year. So unfortunately, Jordan carted off the field yesterday. It happened during an 11-on-11 drill court as quarterback C.J. Stroud threw the pass down the seam. He jumped but could not corral the pass. When he landed, he immediately fell to the ground and grabbed his lower right leg. C.J. Stroud, very emotional. had to be consoled by Derek Schultz and others. Some people are calling

C.J. Stroud soft for caring about his fellow players. Who's calling him soft? I don't know. People are being ridiculous. But Brevin Jordan out for the year. Tightened room. We were hoping to be, not necessarily a strength, but some guys that could pop up, some depth. Yes, Matt,

that's a good word. Well, you're lacking in some of that depth now with Brevin Jordan out for the year. I mean, Chris. I'm Kirk season. No, the reality is you feel bad for a guy that worked all the way to get back into the team on the team and healthy and now he's got to go out again. I mean, this is football's cruel. And with being non-guaranteed contracts, frankly, two season-ending injuries in a row.

I mean, Brevin Jordan's NFL career might be in severe jeopardy here. It could be. He could catch on somewhere. There's always room for redemption in the NFL, I feel like. All right, moving along. Other stuff in the NFL. Well, James Cook, Bill's running back, returning to practice today amid his contract dispute with the Buffalo Bills, they're calling that a hold-in, Matt.

And that's becoming very prevalent in the NFL now. They're like, you're going to find me how much? I think maybe in the last CBA, they must have up the fines or something like that. Or you can't. Because more people are also not waive them off. If you find a player, that player must pay the fine. Okay. So the running back holding in, he was in full uniform and fully participated throughout

today's session for the Buffalo Bills. So wait a minute. So if you're a hold-in, what's the difference in that and just being there, period? Well, it's like you put a name tag on here and says, I don't want to be here. Like, actually, it's a Marshawn Lynch. I'm only here so I don't get fined. So does

you only go a half-ass? I don't know. No, I think you fully participate, but then once game start, you're threatening that, like, hey, once game start, I might hold out. Okay. But I'm trying to say, I'm trying to say a little cash for the summer. I got you. Trying to make sure my wallet's not as light. Elsewhere in the news, Matt, Miles Garrett.

Did you see this? Cited for driving 100 miles per hour in a 60 mile per hour zone in Strongsville, Ohio. Given a $250 fine does not have to appear in court Thursday morning if he does pay the fine. May I give you a somewhat of a hot take? Yes. if you are caught speeding at 100 miles an hour, you should have your license taken away for a year. I don't think that's a hot take at all.

I do not know of a situation in this world in which we live in that there is ever a need to go 100 miles per hour. I think the chances of you hurting your... yourself and others is ridiculously high because you might think you got a sports car then get up there, but even sports cars can sometimes get out of control of those speeds. I think Micah Parsons, you said Mikea Parsons, right? I'm sorry, no, Miles Garrett. Miles Garrett, excuse me. Miles Garrett, shame on you.

100 miles an hour is embarrassing. Well, there's even more to this story, Matt. Three years ago, Miles Garrett was issued a citation for failure, to control his vehicle in a single car crash where he was driving at least 65 miles per hour on a road with a 45 mile per hour speed limit. That even furthers my point. He suffered a left shoulder sprain

and a ripe biceps strain as well as cuts and bruises after his vehicle went off the side of the road. Also, afterwards, after that first incident three years ago, he talked about how he's never going to speed ever again. He lied, just like the average person lies. Yes, he did.

So he lied. And everybody's putting Fast and Furious memes on Twitter about Miles Garrett. Funny stuff. All right, speaking of Fast and Furious, Von Miller was recently on a podcast talking about how pass rush moves are overrated. He talked about how of a hundred hundred. 229 of his sacks, maybe five of them were on actual pass rush moves. And he tells people all the time that he just used speed to power, reacts to the offensive linemen, and then he got his sacks that way. He's just bragging about his athleticism.

That's what it feels like. I mean, he was so fast. And bendy, as you know, Matt, is important. Twitchy, too. He's also twitchy. Twitchy, bendy, high motor, if you will. Right. His ability to get around corners with bend and speed to power. I mean, it's incredible.

So Vaughn Miller talking about how pass rush moves are overrated, and that's what he tells everybody else in his pass rushing room. Maybe those guys are like, yeah, okay. We're not all built with the gifts that one Vaughn Miller does have. But 129 sacks for Von Miller says maybe only five of them came from using actual pass rush moves. Stop bragging. Yeah. We're all proud of you.

All right, Matt, moving along in the NFL, Jordan Love to have a thumb procedure on his left thumb as he has a ligament injury there, but he's expected to be ready for the season opener for the Green Bay Packers. And also, Matt Stafford was supposed to practice yesterday for the L.A. Rams. Not at practice. He was in plain clothes. Not a practice today either, by the way. Got latest word on that.

Could it be Jimmy Garapolo versus the Houston Texans in week one? You want a gut feeling it? Sure, why not? We're speculating on injuries all show. Yeah, I'll do it. I'll go, yeah. He's out.

You're saying he's out week one? I'm saying that Jimmy Garoppolo will be the starting quarterback for the Rams in week one against the Texans. Okay. 325 on CBS. Kevin Horland Melanie Collins

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John Mateer The allegations that I once Perciss participated in sports gambling Are false my previous Venmo descriptions did not accurately portray the transactions in question, but were instead inside jokes between me and my friends. I have never bet on sports. I understand the seriousness of the matter,

but recognize that taking out of context, those Venmo descriptions suggest otherwise. I can assure my teammates, coaches, and officials at the NCAA, that I have not engaged in any sports gambling. I will believe him. I'll say believe it. He's either extremely, well, he's stupid either way. Extremely stupid to game.

gamble. That's what I say. It doesn't make sense he would actually gamble on the games and then label it as sports gambling. Yes. He just needs to come with better phrasing. And whoever started this whole... Literally anything else. Yeah. And whoever started this joke needed to stop. All right. And that is... Oh, real quick.

I love retro stuff. I think a lot of people like retro stuff. CBS just announced five minutes ago that Brett Musburger is going to join James Brown, Bill Cower, Nate Burleson, and... and Matt Ryan on a retro edition of the NFL today in week three of the season. They're going to go back to the old graphics they used back in 1975 for the NFL today.

It'd be the one pregame show I'll watch that day. I'll be watching fantasy pregame stuff. I love retro stuff. Can't give me enough retro? I understand. Do you think we should do a retro show? Member berries. Yeah.

We could do a, we could do a January 2010 edition of the Matt Thomas show. The young producer named Ross, who didn't have all that facial hair and gray hair. You want to shave my head? We can do a retro. I used to get a four guard on the top and a two guard on the side. Hmm. Ooh. Hey.

Wait, man, why are you ripping on his hair? No, I just can't imagine Ross with a foreguard. His media credential still has that, I think. Yeah, I could show it. It's in my car. All right. That's the NFL Rebant. Thank you very much.

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Me doing Tomball High School football. So we may be putting that some of the little retro in the next week or so. 713-212-5-790. Potter wants, he's got a gut filling on the Astros. 136 in the PM here on Sports Talk 790.

Believe it or not, coming up in the next segment. It's going to be a masterpiece. Your best work has done the last half hour. Yeah, but I know nothing about this show. You can't make up stuff. You know what I'm saying? I got nothing. I got nothing that bases it off of. I'm going to need some help

from you during the next break. All right. Notable guest stars on what's happening, the Doobie Brothers. I'm not going to use that one. Why not? That looks good. I'll make one up. I'm doing it right now. Would you like me? You know what's made? Let's see how the

prize is. Germain Jackson. I'm going to say Jermaine Jackson appeared on a season two episode. Okay. And I will give you a believe it. Let's see. Oh, Rogers Roger, I think the character's name was Roger Thomas. Rogers' activity while in high school was to work for the student newspaper.

That doesn't believe it. Okay? I zoned out. No, I didn't zone out. I was writing a question. What? Rogers. Rogers. Rogers activity while in high school was working for the high school.

As a what? Janitor? No, as a reporter for the high school newspaper. That is a believe it. Okay. So there you go. If you guys get that wrong, I swear to God, if that one is wrong in 15 minutes,

I'm going to probably retire. I can't afford to retire, but I'm going to retire. No, you're doing great. It's a lot of pressure. on whoever's going to get that question. Ponder on 790. Ponder, good afternoon. Hey, good afternoon, guys.

Hey, listen, I've got three gut feelings to Houston, or two Astros, one, Texas. Okay. The Astros is, if we make, excuse me, if we win the ALCS, Cam Smith is the MVP. Number two is either combination or any one individual of these three individuals are on our roster,

the last game of the season. I don't know that they would make the playoff roster, but it's Justin Burlander, Ryan Presley, and here's the shocker, Martine Molinato, somehow. They either get DFA and we pick them up somehow. Why? Wait, wait a minute. Why do you need him?

We don't need him. So why are you grabbing him? I love getting the band back together. No, come on. That's, no ponder stop. No. Listen, I call you guys a lot, and I am an avid, avid, avid, astro. And listen, I'm an educated baseball fan.

Are you sure? Coach, yes. All right. Well, listen, listen, on the sport, maybe not the personnel moves. But I'm telling you that there's a weird feeling, and we have no need for it with Karratini and Diaz. I get it. But there is still that gut feeling that Verlander, as much as I do,

not want him back, winds up on this roster as a player coach. They did the same thing with Carlos Beltran. Same thing. What? Eight years ago? Ugh. Well, they better do in the next 19 days because if he's not in the Aster's organization by the end of August, he can't plan the playoff roster.

Understood. Yes, sir. I know that deadline. Now, listen, the Texans one is kind of a comical one. And no, I'm not a Texan fan. I'm a Dolphins fan. we're not going to get into that today. That being said,

I think they find a way to get the baby blue into some kind of uniform this year just to anger the type. I know, but way more than what they have. No, you can't, you can't mystery uniform. The NFL's got to know about it. You can't mystery put a uniform together. So, Pond, let's put things in perspective.

I'm going to take what you said, and I'm going to give you percentage. more baby blue in the Texans uniform, zero percent chance. Martine Maldonado, signing with the Astros, zero percent chance. Justin Verlander, leaving the Giants to go play for the Astros, zero percent chance. Ryan Presley? Ryan Presley, five percent chance. So let me ask you this on Justin Verlander.

Why was it such a big, just like Carlos Correa? It came out of nowhere. I mean, I'm sure there was something somewhere the media caught a hold of and then boom, it comes into fruition. But with Burlander, that was a hot topic for, what, 72 hours? There's no post. He's got to get released. So you don't think they would do that as bad as he's been for them the season?

Well, if he's as bad as he's been for them this season, what possesses the Astros to grab him? I don't know. why did we get Carlos Beltran all those years ago? Why did we bring him back and pay him all that money, Verlander, two years ago? Beltran wasn't that much money. Beltran was a one-year deal at limited money that it was. He was buried his glove.

Yeah, I mean, he was a DH. I mean, at least you can get some value out of him playing six days a week. You're not going to prorate the money that he made for Verlander. Thank you, Ponder. Yeah, Ponder. Are you sure you coach baseball? Are you sure your recommend in baseball is good? Maybe he's more of a, you know, teaching him out of it.

He said maybe Ben knows more about the game than he does about personnel moves. So we'll kill him that. Yeah, you know what? Are you the Tom Omanskiy of Houston? Back to back to back, to back, AAU champions? That's a deep cut, by the way. People do, today? I don't know.

First of all, there's no chance. Jonathan, do you know who Tom of Mansky is by any chance? Oh my gosh. You just talked to him and the camera just worked. I know, it's crazy. Freaking me out. No, Tom's deck here helping us out. All right, so you know who Tom Amansky is?

No, not at all. Do you know who Fred McGriff is, the crime dog? The crime dog. Yeah, the crime dog. No? He got the 500 homers, didn't he? Oh, sure. But not in the Hall of Fame, though, right?

The only baseball player I know is, I grew up over there on the coast of Arlington, so all I know is Nolan Ryan and Mike Kemp. That's the only two I really knew. Mike Kemp? Matt Kemp? I just know I had a jersey. I don't know. There's a Tony Kemp who just retired recently.

He was Matt Kemp too. Yeah. For the Dodgers and with the, somebody else too, right? There's a Tony Kemp. Jack Kemp, the former congressman, former NFL quarterback.

You do famous camps. No, it's too late. Too late. All right. I might be making up a lot of stuff about what's happening. I just gave you a believe it. Well, one.

There's eight questions, Matthew. I'll give you another one to believe it. Don't worry about it. All right. This ought to be the fait of complete right here. Larry, Hi, Larry. Matt, how are you?

Good. I just got through listening to Ponder, and I was driving my truck, and I down there ran off the road. Because it was such an insane take. I've never heard anything crazier in my life except for the one swim possibility, maybe. to get Presley back. But then on the other hand, with Presley being the attitude, the case that he was when we signed Josh Hader, I don't know if I want Presley back here.

But here's the one thing that I want to know from you guys. Where is A.J. Blueball in the pitching rotation in the minor leagues, where he can come up and help us either in the third game of the Boston series or sometime in the Baltimore series? I don't anticipate him being either one of them, honestly.

You've already got, you got Javier backing and Aragetti back. Blue Ball would only be needed if necessary. And by the way, he just pitched, I think, two days ago and was in the PCL pitch of the week. Nice. I think Blue Ball is going to be ready for 26.

I don't think he's going to be a guy that you're going to count on for anything except for maybe a spot appearance because you got tired arms. I don't know. Barring injury. Well, that's not saying much for this organization. We had to put the caveat with these 20-25 Astros.

Man, what a story this whole season has been. It's been a whole movie. It's been a horror movie is what it is. It's been a story of, you know, you've got to fall down before you get back up, Matt. Really? Yeah. It reminds me.

Jonathan, my favorite baseball team ever. You ready for this? Jonathan, stay with me on this for 30 seconds. I'm listening. So, I used to watch this baseball team play. And the owner was trying to sell the team, so she wanted to dumb the team down. She took them off planes. They were riding like prop planes to games. Strip the roster.

They stripped the roster. And then they made them go on buses to games. Because the owner wanted the team to lose. Wanted to lose. You know what they did? They rallied. Jonathan, and they won in spite of the owner. And the owner was kind of

hot. So they used this jigsaw puzzle thing they put together for it. Every time they went a game, they took a piece of the puzzle off of the girl's body. So if they won all the games, they'd see her naked. That's baseball right there. 146. Let's play, believe it or not next.

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