The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Take Game 2 vs Marlins Sitting 64-50, Texans Training Camp Coverage, ESPN Making Big Acquisitions.

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

Astros Take Game 2 vs Marlins Sitting 64-50, Texans Training Camp Coverage, ESPN Making Big Acquisitions.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Go to NHTown. Good morning and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. You know, Ross, they don't make instrumentals like they used to. I don't even really watch his show, but I love this song. I have very little context for this show or this song. but

I mean I was going to go with Thank you for being a friend by the Golden Girls theme Okay I know that one I mean we can play that I watch way more Golden Girls that I did Miami Vice Can I just tell you

What can happen sometimes at the house Like if you're looking Like for instance Last night The Astros had finished about What 835 840 And you're like You need an hour to kill

Before the news comes on If you were to watch such a thing Okay So I'm flipping around And I already watched my story So that I couldn't watch those. Yankees, Rangers was on? You know, I did

not even take a look at that. I probably should have done so. You could hate watch the Rangers, but that means you're love watching the Yankees, so it was a tough spot. Look, I hate listen radio. I can't hate watch TV. I hate watch the Rangers all the time. So, you can flip around

and I'm, I mean, there's a damn Golden Girls on on the Hallmark Channel or whatever, and I mean, you can laugh your ass off. I don't know how it's been able to stand the test of time, but obviously, I mean, they play multiple hours of the show. It's really, for a show that wasn't meant for, it was meant for a certain demographic,

there are like 20-year-olds that think the Golden Girls is hysterical. It's a timeless classic, Matt. I can't disagree with you. I don't know why it is. I don't know why it is. I don't know why it is. I don't know why it is. But, I mean, it's just, it's basically,

it's like a frat house for women. You have the slut. Okay. You have the naive girl. Okay. And you have the one that tries. to rain them in and then you get the mother who's just kind of overbearant. It's a really damn funny show.

And that's how we introduced to you a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show. Rossie, a little under the weather. If you need to go home at any point, I'm not going to begrudge you. Because it's looked like to me. I'm going to try to stick it out. You looked very, at least from your tweet last night, you were very cranky on the old tentating show. Well, a peek behind the curtain.

I told you I had kind of some soreness. You know you could kind of tell a cold's coming on. Absolutely. You get throat soreness the day one and then it worsens day two. That's where I... You get drainage today. I got drainage and soreness.

Well, that's why I'm not looking at you. So for one, I don't get the germs and two shahadis on... And I need to wipe this whole thing down for Adam Wexler about 2 o'clock. Don't let me forget. Apologies in advance. If Wax was listening to show, which he probably isn't, he doesn't even know what this is happening. For viruses and or bacteria. So, yeah, I'm going to try to make it.

I'm getting my coffee. I'm a little fatigued for sure. It might have to do like a little cherry on top, a little extra cup of coffee. Get going today. But I'm going to power through, I think, Matt. Okay. Tomorrow we'll see.

Okay. So. I got to rest up for talliard. Oh, Friday, we're going to be a Talier brewing. Oof. I'm going to buy you a paddle ball of beers. Paddle ball. Pickle ball.

I've been saying paddle all week. Why am I saying, you know, because I'm thinking about the paddles when I'm thinking. There is a game called paddle. It's a pickleball. It's a pickleball. Is it comparable to pickleball? Isn't paddle ball the one you play up against the wall? No, that's racquetball. What is paddle ball? Did I just make up a sport? Is it like

ping pong? I don't know. Pointing. We're going to be a tire brewing. Everybody's got to get a paddle of pickleball paddle of beer to enjoy while we do the show on Friday from 10 to 2. And then the Astros play at 6. It's an Apple TV game. So if you don't have Apple, you can stay there and have a couple pints and consider yourself. I might just be sick and get out of there. We'll see. Fair enough. All right. So back to your aggravation. Can you read your Twitter, please? Oh, would you like me to? Yeah. And I want you to then context it, please. At Sports RV. So I was tweeting about the Astros. And then of course, I did one of my kind of favorite

genres of tweets that I put out, Matt, is when people say stupid stuff for a long time and then they get proven wrong. I like to say tough day, tough couple games. Love it. So yesterday I put tough couple games for Fire the Hitting Coaches guy. That's been happening a lot this year. Fire the hitting coaches guys having a couple rough games. Because the hitting's looking pretty good. So then people are arguing with me about, oh, it's just the Marlins.

Who cares? It's just some Marlins. And this is the same fan base that when the Astros play against bad teams, which they have a winning record against, by the way. They normally win, but if they lose, Oh, they're horrible. It's the worst thing in the world. They can't beat bad teams.

And then when they beat bad teams, which, by the way, this is another discussion for another time, the Marlins aren't a bad team. They just finished sweeping the Yankees. They won nine out of the last 11. They're one of the best teams in baseball since June. They're not a bad team. And then multiple people going to me on Twitter.

It's just the Marlins. Martin Dropy Dogg done in the conversation. And why are you victory? the Marlins. Shut your bum ass up, man. That's in 1130. Ain't nobody got time for any of this. 1130 as well.

If you're going to get all mad when they lose the teams below 500, then we can celebrate a win against anybody. And again, do your research. Take five seconds of paying attention to current baseball right now and know that the Miami Marlins are not a bad team. I like your droopy dog. I can do a droopy dog too. As we beat the Marlins two straight.

games can they win in South Florida three straight off they win that they're probably going to lose a series in the Bronx that's fantastic man 10 out of 10 it was great I'm really happy my bill cos are really happy you did that my bill cause is better so anyway

grouchy RV is in the house today I love this I'm not going to think anything you say it to me personally today good you shouldn't ever actually you know I respect and I love you there you um funny that so my tweet It's funny that the same sector of the fan base that laments the Astros can't beat bad teams is saying, who cares about these wins?

It's the Marlins. Christ, some of you are insufferable. And how'd that go over? 259 likes. Most people, 27 replies, most of them, if not, no, not all of them. I would say, of the 27 replies, like, 23 of them are supporting me. And then there are some people like, it's just the Marlins. just horrible.

And then there's this guy, Randy. I want to be nice. He's normally nice, and he always complains about the hitting coaches. So when I put out tough games for higher fire the hitting coaches guy, he always responds. He thinks that Troy Snicker and Alex Entron are these bumbling fools, even though they've both been at the helm since 2019. And since then the Astros have been a top five offense in baseball over that span. They're like 10th and OPS this year. And that's with Yordaun Alvarez missing the entire season. Most of the year, Yiner Dia is underperforming alongside Christian Walker as well.

Up and down season from Jose Altuve. And they've still been, I mean, a very good above average offense for the balance of the season. How stupid can these people be? And this is the problem that I run into is that we can never, almost everybody who's an Astros fan has been an Astros fan for multiple years, unless you're like six years old. So can we have a little bit of perspective of watching 162 game season and writing the ebbs and flows

and not overreacting to every little thing that happens? I'm going to ask you a question and you don't get involved in it because... Okay, I'm going to take some time. I'm drinking some coffee. Yeah, we take ourselves out of this. So we have to paint... We have to walk a slippery slope.

You heard that phrase before? Yeah, yes. Well, slippery slope is like when one, you're giving someone an inch and they take a mile, right? Like our geopolitical systems. How about this? We walk a fine line. Ooh. That's even better.

You walk the line like Johnny Cash. Exactly. Okay. So our jobs are to talk to the people of Houston, Texas. And if you take the opportunity to talk to us, we feel on it because you have alternatives. You could talk to another radio station, which if you're going to talk Astros, you might as well forget about that. Secondly, you could talk to your neighbors. You can talk to the online community, right?

You've got avenues to go besides the airwaves that are 790 a.m. So we really do appreciate the fact that you've chosen us as your place to give us your commentary. Now, here's where you walk the line. the line is the commentary that we get sometimes you just and I brought this up the other day

you want to bang your head against the wall because it's alarming concerning both A and B that there are some people that just have horrific baseball takes

so that's the line we walk here on the Matt Thomas show Ross it's the line we walk especially when we do the 10th inning shows, which you did in the last two nights, and I'll be doing tonight, after hopefully the asterisk of the might be Miami Marlins. So what are we supposed to do?

If I said only smart baseball calls come in, then I would only, then it would limit the number of people. If I said anybody can call, which we do, then I'm supposed to, I'm going to be mad and yell in people, and I probably yell at one person per tent inning show. I think I was a two this weekend,

because the red side. were sweeping the Astros. Oh, well, yeah. That was, it tends, the number goes up if the Astros lose. Right. So here's my question that I will throw out, we'll do this a couple of times,

but I just thought about this as you were rambling there. Hey. Not rambling. You were, uh, ranting. Come on, man. Can't want to ramble. What do y'all do when we're not here? Like, if there's no, like, if there's no, like, you,

they're on Facebook. You woke up this morning at 8 o'clock and had a cup of coffee in English muffin. Uh-huh. And you were sitting with your family, or you were on a conference call with your office or your bros got together on a group chat. How do you do it, smart Houston fan? How do you do it when you have a dumbass on your group chat in your Facebook group, on your phone, on your Zoom, or unfortunately maybe in some situation, sometimes in your home? Oh, that's true. Some bad fandom in your family sometimes. So let me ask you this. Not mine.

Not mine. Well, my oldest got some questionable takes. Not mine and all. They're all of them. Perfect fans. How do you do it? How do you have a conversation when the term, the Astros need to bunt more comes into play?

Or you hear the Astros have to fire the hitting coach. Or the Astros have got to fire Joe a spot. How do you handle that? Because, you know what? I've been doing this for, well, you're we in? 2025? You've been in a business right. 34 years.

Yeah. 34 years I've been in it around radio. That's a long time. That's a very long time, Matt. Very proud of you. So I think I know how to do it. But the key to being 35, 37, 40 years is always adapting to the new ways that a business has created. Uh-huh.

So I want to know of you the great people of Houston that have chosen to listen to this show for entertainment, sports, whatever we can give to you. How do you do it? Because sometimes, like, I'll be at the Kingwood Home Studios doing the 10th inning show, and I'm yelling at people. My wife won't know. Is everything okay? She's trying to go to sleep. She's trying to catch her on the latest season of psych. Yeah, she's watching the Real Housewives of Sedd City,

and it's interfering with her because I'm yelling at people. You're yelling more than the women on that show. That is true. So the question I have is, how do you do it? How do you handle a situation where you have the smart? baseball take and the person you're having a conversation with is having a dumb baseball take because unfortunately even though we are in 2025 and even though the astros have been so uber successful our baseball IQ especially in the astros twitterverse it's really really really really low

713 212 5790 713 212 570 you give us some advice you're always giving you advice i'm going to take some from y'all this morning 713 212 5-790. It's a Matt Thomas Show at 1016 here on Sports Talk 790. Along of the entrepreneur sports RV, I'm Matt. Nice to have you with us on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. So just my

last point about this and we'll go on to some more important things like the Astros winning yesterday. That's the most important. They won two games in a row folks. Oh, Lauren. All right. Can you for five seconds? For what? I can do more than five seconds, probably. Probably not. That's true.

All right. Oh, God. If I turn right, I'm going to get sick. If I'm going to turn left, I got a shihadi looking at me. All right. Put on some match game or something. Well, you know, soccer season is coming back. We got a day game at noon today. We're going to get soccer season back pretty soon here.

Little League World Series right now. These boys going crazy. Premier League's coming back in like a week and a half. I got a noon baseball game too, so we're good. Okay. In the heat of the night is on. No. Oh, three's company.

Ooh, that's not good either. That's back in that. I'll make she rest. All right. Oh, American Pickers. That's a good one. All right, back to it. So I had a caller, Alan that called the show, I want to say Sunday.

Okay. And he was so nice. He was, I listen. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. It was like so nice. And then he says, you know, this coach needs to bunt more. And I'm paraphrasing here because I'm taking it, look, reading off my tweet.

I said, it's the manager and not the coach. And by the way, you shouldn't give me. Oh, that's right. It's giving way outs for a team that's offensively in time. challenge and he goes I'm not talking about the manager I said coach Marisio Dubon tried to butt last night and got thrown out

tried to bun for a hit now Altuve got a got a bun hit in this series that's fine I mean there are some guys that can do it and I'm not saying that bunting is a complete lost art it's just should not be a preferred art no I don't think you want your number three hitter which Altuvei is and he goes rogue generally he just and he kind of look

he's his bunting is his base running he's a maid man he can do whatever he wants so Alan says I'm not talking about the manager. I said, well, of course, which coach? And he says, I don't remember his name. Now, do you think Omar Lopez is calling this? And as the bench coach? So what I figured out after I talked to him after I yelled and my wife Rainon's like, you know, you're interrupting my real housewives of Orange County, which I said is Gretchen on it because that's my girl. Oh. Oh, did I get you sick? Uh-oh. Hey folks.

All right. Follow me on Instagram at Sports RV. No, if you follow him on Instagram, you're going to get sick today. You can't get sick. It's not, the disease is not commutable through the internet. I believe it can be. All right. So I think our caller Alan got the general manager confused,

Dana Brown, with the coach who is Joe Espada, who all of you know is the manager. Okay. So I'm just, that's where I think the confusion came into play. But it was just, it was aggravating.

And I'm just after, you know, look, we self to fight the wave here. It's been rarer. I think maybe WaveBusters might actually be working. Thank you to all of you that follow me on WaveBusters. WaveBusters, H-O-U is the account. Hashtag burner account.

Oh, it's a burner for sure. Although, with all the people that blocked me, I don't have to worry about going to that Wave Busters account to see their stuff because I can just see it on my own stuff. It just says this person's blocked me. How stupid is that? But anyways. So, and I think we've got to finally do this next year.

We need to have a Wave Busters H-O-U-9 at the Astrosk, don't you think? Oh, with the getting the shirts printed up? The shirts print up will get an entire section. An entire section. Now you're going to give these tickets away? No, they'll peel off the pay for him. I don't get a group discount. Yeah, some money.

Why don't you talk to your boy Jimmy C? I don't call him Jimmy C. What up? You don't call him? I've called him Jim before, but I never call him Jimmy C. Okay. Maybe he insists you call him J.C. Or how about, he probably would say Mr. Cran is better.

Which is fine. I call him Mr. Crane. I don't care. Call him Big Game. games, that's what I call them. All right, so we'll get the whole section together. And so we'll do it during the summertime, because that's when the wave is in its most popular. Yes.

And George's guy is going to be miserable because he's going to see one whole section of the stadium not moving. George are coming back, by the way. No, they're not. With a certain sector. What sector would that be? Broskys. Oh, my God. I know.

Is the Lehman involved in that? Things go cycle and cycles. You know the mustaches came back. It was, remember it was the short shorts in the 80s and the long short. in the 90s and now the short shorts are back. Short shorts have been back for a while. The shorts, I just can't. I just don't get it.

I don't get that at all. Okay. Well, you know, you haven't worn any. No, I haven't. I am very out of fashion. Everything I wore and I bought it's in like 2011. Well, 2011 thinks you get no problems. Yeah, thank you.

All right. It'll cycle back. What you're wearing today? Yeah, that's probably so. Sweat pants and a t-shirt. shirt never goes out of style. Look what I'm wearing today. 713, 212, 570. So the Astros

did win yesterday. Yes. Dang it, Jose, stop hitting home runs. Why would he do that? Why can he just bunt? This is a couple, then this real quick on bunting. And I said this, I think, yesterday. When were you out? What's today? Today's Wednesday and it was out Monday. And I just

basically did another PSA. Folks, you have 30 teams. They all have analytics teams. They all have people who are in research and development. You're talking about millions and millions of dollars spent on a maximizing win probabilities and doing the absolute best of what is going to help them win ball games. So you're talking about these 30 teams over these 30, however many years since bunting has come out of Vogue, have spent all this money in time figuring out how to the best way to win games,

and they figured out that bunting less is good. So you need to take five seconds of critical thinking and realize, that they know better than us. Thank you. Okay. So back to what I was saying. So Altuvae went deep yesterday, which is fine. It would have been better if you bonnet.

No, I would have taken a single double triple. Yarnere Diaz went deep again. He's only three off the home run lead. Let's go. Oh, my God. Your name. Remember, that's an all-timer. If I hit that.

No, it's not an all-time. Oh, absolutely. It's a gut feeling that I would have brought. If you had put your name on it, it would be an old-timer. I couldn't put my name on that. I know. No chance. But it's a gut feeling that I will, I will let you remember.

for the rest of our adult lives. You're safe for Paredes. But, yeah, what does he get? 16 and Altuve has 19? Yordon's been out the entire year. Walker's been trash. Yep. Okay, he hasn't been trash.

No, but... He's got 15. By the way... So don't act like your past Walker for good. Altube is OPS now at the 804. He's... Oh, yeah. He hit like...

He's hitting like over 3.30 for the last month and a half. We haven't really been talking about it. doing pretty good can we say now again we're talking about two years can we imagine oh can we have to do this when we come back can we build a lineup with the ordone back it's sexy as hell

okay are we building the line up he's coming back are we building it with jake Myers too ooh if you want although it's probably that's a pretty easy interchangeable piece yeah i think jake Myers Taylor Tremel Dubon are going to be

running around center even though Jake Myers is having a better season than everybody We're going to go to God's country, Lubbock, Texas, talk to Bob. God's country. I love Lubbock. Okay. God's country. Yeah. Hmm. And I just Nacadoches.

And why does he bless them with Raider Rash? Just the cornfields down there. Yeah. Have you been to Lubbock lately? What was the year? I think it's HSV's country. It's got a P.F. Chang's now. Let's go.

Oh, wow. And a cheesecake factory. I heard the Walmart was upgraded to a Super Walmart. And by the way, you can drink beer in Lubbock County, whatever that is. Oh, wow. Oh, welcome to the 1700s. 1030 on Sports Talk 790. 7.1.3.212. 570.

Texans back on the practice field. We'll give you an update on what's going on there today in about 15 minutes. Brian Bogussevik with us in 25 minutes for his weekly Wednesday visit. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. 1130 today we're going to tell some people to shut their bumasses up. How about that, Sports RV? By the way, big story today on the today's show this morning.

The amount of fast food restaurants spicing up their menu. I was just looking at the Rendez commercial. Okay. About adding tachis to their burgers and stuff. Mm-hmm. In the efforts to make things spicy. Which you loved. That was a lie.

Yeah, but they make it fast food spicy. It's not ever really, really spicy. But I mean, there's not like good Thai food or. Hey, Jonathan, you go to Rick Ronels. Have you gotten these spicy McMuffin yet? Spicy McMuffin? Yeah. Oh, that sounds horrid.

I get this spicy meat chicken, though. Well, that's a good eat. But we like spice now. Who? America. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's not real spice, though.

But you know what I mean? Yeah, it's like... Go ahead. White people spice. Go ahead and you were going to say it. Knock it out. Let's go. I'm trying to think of a more diplomatic way to say what you did.

White people spice. That's what he said. He didn't stutter either. I knew you were thinking of that. I'm actually upset. You read my mind. Fifteen years. Ross. Come on now. Let's go to the phones and talk to Bob and Lubbock. Bob, good morning.

This is Bob. I'm in Houston. Well, it says Lubbock, so you must be in Lubbock. I spent a month there, and it's like Katie. That's what it's grown into. It's about the size of Katie, same type of, you know, retail places. But anyway, Matt, you know, I'm on pay time off, and I listen to a lot, way too much sports radio. And I, you know, I was listening when that cat called and didn't know the difference between a manager and a coach and I guess when I was in a little league

we called him coaches. I think that's what it was, but maybe he was just in a time war for something. But Matt, you know what, dude, your screeners aren't helping you out after an attempt any shows. They're allowing a lot of inebriated

callers through. And I think it just makes your job more challenging. I don't understand just because they're Astro fans, that they have access to you. I mean, if they're drunk, they're drunk. Well, you know, we don't... Yeah, Bob, unfortunately, we can't check blood alcohol levels when people call it.

So, I mean, have you ever been on the phone? I don't know, are you a drinker, Bob? You were ever on the phone when you've been drunk before? One time, I waited four hours for an oilers, before an oilers game, and I drank my ass off. I was so drunk before when I got on the phone. Wow. But, you know, that was then, and this is now, right? I know.

I know, now you've matured and everything. I understand. Hey, Bob, thank you for the phone call. Go ahead. You finish your point. No, that's it. You do a great job. Thank you.

Thank you forever. Nice to hear from you. When I was a kid, my mom's at home, so she's resting. Hopefully she's doing okay. I talked to her this morning. When she would call you, it's when cell phones were first in playing, you had too many pops. You could sober up on the phone. Could you not?

You could try to an extent. Oh, let me tell you. You don't pick up the phone when's your mom. But I mean, if she's downloading you multiple times, you go, okay, deep breath, 1001, 1002, hi, mom, you know, and you're like, you've had nine butt whispers. So, you know, you're in a tough spot. Mm-hmm. But, I mean, you've had to sober up for your mother before.

I guarantee you in Rossville, O'Rale's 40 years of life, you've been on the phone with your mother and you've had too much a drink. No, guarantee it. I mean, I've had to step out of Bible study, but that's really about it. Good line. I will say I don't mind drunk and dumb callers on post-game shows. Because I've done a lot of post-game shows of zero callers, man.

Well, here's the reality. Yeah. We would, and I'm in, I'm in all sincere, we'd rather have you than not have you. Yes. But we now have a little more guidance to say, if there's nobody calling, we're going to end. We're not going to sit there and talk to ourselves.

We're all stretched here at the radio station. Some of it more than others. Yeah, Matt is very stretched out. Matt, you aren't even going to say that, were you? I didn't say stretched out. I just said stretch. Yeah, look at Ross, man. Yeah, he's just trying to incite stuff.

That's fine. He's in the sickness. He's always trying to start stuff. So we're not going to go longer than we have to. Because people want to hear their Ben Mallor at night. But, yeah, in general, on post-game shows, I give a massive leash. Because I have done dozens of mostly rockets, but the occasional Astros.

And Matt, you know this back in the day in 2013-14, where nobody cared and nobody called. So, and an honest, another honest reality of it is the post-game radio call-in show is not nearly as popular as it was even five or ten years ago. That's right. So if you take the time to listen and you take the time to call in. 100%. Yeah, yeah, you're drunk. Yeah, you got a bad opinion. let's let it rip.

And just know that we're going to make fun of you, and it's something personal. And then a good host, like perhaps a Matt Thomas, or I would like to say myself, can make it fun. Oh, absolutely. And make it entertaining,

generally. Sometimes you've got nothing to work with. Especially when it's... Like, tonight, I mean, at 10, 15, if somebody's calling with whack-ass takes, I'm just going to end the phone call. If I was a young of a newbie doing this,

like my... We'll get to host a post-game show, then I'll be talking to anybody for buying and I get better stuff to do. Yeah, you can make it entertaining You can make it fun And also dumb callers make it easy for me to look smart It does We come across the geniuses

And if you've many than one of us Well, Ross is somewhat educated I don't know how I got through you of age I don't know But you bribed your professors That is accurate, just one Okay And it was a big bribe too

It wasn't cash, it was sports tickets But those of you that are OGs know the show 713-212-570 713-212-5-7-90. Are we going to talk about AJ Blue Ball hitting 98 in the gun over and over yesterday? Let's go! Are we like, were you like his arm,

worried about his arm dropping off? Well, we'll see. He was just letting it rip because he knew he was the headliner to the opener. I'm keeping pushing the headliner agenda, Matt, and I'm not going to stop on what you say. And I need a ruling on this.

Are we going to go with the Blue Ball jokes, or are we going to be that mature people? Well, we already know, Hognuts started talking about Blue Ball last week. That's how this whole thing started. Because that was his nickname on the track squad. Blue balls. Blue. Just blue.

Oh, but it was short for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, got to be school appropriate. You know, you know, you know. And then his mom calls him little hog duts. Better mean calling cash use. I'd say that for sure. Hey, just know, a jock strap is very comfortable. I'm wearing one right now. Oh, see, look, you're hip. You're no game. Wait, me, you're telling me today's,

youth are walking around wearing jock straps? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. No. I used to, though. Speaking of that, you see what happened in the WMBA game last night again? No. A third one of those things came out. And it hit Sophie Cunningham and she kicked it off the court.

I mean, are people getting arrested for this? One person has been found. The person that did the first drop has not been found. Okay. And what a year for the WMBA media-wise. I mean, it is, they've gotten more, don't you think that they've gotten more attention this year than they have in the previous 20 years? Say again?

The WMBA has gotten more attention this year. Yeah. Than the previous 20. Yeah, the last two years. Ever since Caitlin Clark came in onto the scene. Yeah. Not all of it's good attention. No, no, it's, it's, yeah.

But hey, Matt, any good publicity is good publicity. See, I disagree with that. I know you do. That's why I said it. I know, and you were just trying to poke the bear. 1045, Sports Talk, 7-9. 713-212-5-790. Texans are back on the practice field. A quote-unquote light workout.

I'm reading tweets and legitimate media that are there, not the ones that are pretending to think they're meeting because they have a YouTube page. Nick Chubb not practicing today, says Jonathan Alexander. Damien Pierce has gotten all the first team reps. Oh, good for him. Cam Robinson is wearing a jersey, and it's a participant today. Christian Harris and Aziz Al-Shayir also working.

out today. What? Yeah, no. It's all coming together. Joe Mixing isn't though. That's okay. Don't care. Veteran. By the way. Didn't he have an ankle or foot issue or something last year? Not that he was expected to be there. I'm just throwing that out there. And then he ran for like 150 yards in the first week against the Colts. So you're going to draft him in your fantasy drafts what you're telling me. He's sliding up on my board. Okay, that's fine. Real quick, you know who the Texans is playing week one, right? If you forgotten already? Chargers? No.

Close. Rams. Okay, Rams. Matthew, this is from Ian Rappaport four hours ago as you woke up this morning. Matthew Stafford dealing with an aggravated disc and has received an epidural to help him deal with it. Yeah, they're talking about he's hurt and basically like he's going to play all season hurt or something. This is not the sport you want to play with a back injury all year. The Rams are calling him week to week being cautious but with plans for him to be ready in week number one.

Are they the ones with Garoppolo's the backup? That is correct. Okay. Now, what Garopolo has left from the tank, my guess is not a whole lot, but if you were to go to a battle of backups, would you rather have Davis Mills or Jimmy Garoppolo? I guess Jimmy Garoppel. But ask who is the marquee named wide receiver they added over the offseason? Devonte Adams.

Remember that movie? movie, the video of him like, I don't want to be here anymore. And it was because Jimmy Carapolo was his quarterback. Let me ask you this. What happened to Devante Adams? Remember he was the most feared guy in the league? And now all he does is bounce around from team to team.

He's early 30s. I mean, yeah. You think it's because he doesn't like people or he gets in trouble? He's not in trouble, but like relationship issues with teams? He's 32. Is that what NFL receivers do at 32? Well, unless your name is like Jerry Rice. Yeah.

Well, he bounced around too. Yeah, but he. He still was turning in like a thousand yard seasons when he was like 40. But I mean like Raiders, Packers, where else? Anywhere else? Did he go to the Dolphins? He was with the Packers. And then when he turned 30, he got a gigantic deal with the Raiders.

And then he got traded to the Jets because Aaron Rogers wanted him. Remember, he did catch touchdown against the Texans, right? Yeah. Oh, I forgot about it. Yeah, I didn't forget about that, actually. I wonder where he is on the all-time receiving yards list. He's got over, he's got close to 12,000. thousand.

So do, okay, so, oh, not that our audience cares a whole lot about Devap. Don't they, but let's put the over under at 1,200 yards this year. Well, under? Under. Okay. I mean, you got Pooka Naku over there. You have, uh, who else? That tight end is really good.

Tyler Higby? Yeah, I like him. Okay. He's a height. Yeah, you got Puka, a longhorn legend, Jordan Whittington, Jordan, Atwell, Devante Adams. Jordan Woonington sounds like the University of Texas game. They're going to run the ball a lot with Karen Williams.

They just gave him a big deal. But Matthew Stafford's getting an epidural. I thought only pregnant women got epidurals. Clearly I'm mistaken. Clearly you're mistaken. Devonte Adams, 33rd on the all-time receiving yards list, just behind Michael Irvin and just head of Antonio Gates. Gates was a tight end, so I'll kick him into the curve on this one.

Okay, just ahead of Don Maynard. Maynard, yeah, Chargers. And Calvin Johnson and. Muson Muhammad. Okay, so Calvin Johnson, Michael Irvin, Devontah Adams, rank him one, two, three. Okay, Calvin, Irvin Adams. All three legendary. Yeah.

Calvin's the greatest wide receiver I ever seen. He's only there because he quit when he's like 29. Let me tell you, it's a strange. We're going to get Toby, I swear. Well, maybe Randy Moss. The two of the greatest players of the NFL, retired early, and they retired from the same team because they were tired of losing. Different times.

Yes. But Barry Sanders, to me, was the greatest running back I've ever seen play in person. Agreed. In person. Calvin Johnson was unguardable. And he's just like, I can't do this anymore. I'm tired of losing. All of them said the exact same thing.

He was racking up 2,000 yards like John Kittna. Yeah. He's pretty good. I mean, he had like Dan Orloskey throwing passes to him. Toby on 790. Toby, good morning and thank you for holding. Oh, man, not a problem, man. You're the guy's working.

I'm enjoying my day off, so I don't know what I'm waiting around. I kind of wanted to weigh in a little bit. I was listening on, I'm driving on the way home. And, you know, we're talking about being the guys that due to the post-game shows and having to deal with drunk callers and everything like that. me to giggling. I've been blessed to have been listening to sports radio talk

shows, man, literally since like the early 90s. It seemed like every office I ever shared at the job that I'm at was somebody who dig listening to sports talk radio and everything. And of course, you know, back in the day, man, you know, it seemed like the

other sports talk radio station in Houston was the one to listen to. But over the last couple of years, I've really have been enjoying what the format that it's done at y'all's station. I know this is a sacrilege to sit here and say this in the state of Texas, but I'm not exactly the biggest football fan. I don't have anything against it.

I'm just not the biggest football fan in the world, and I get bored to listening to nonstop talk about it. So one of the things I really enjoy about y'all's station is the fact that you are not afraid to talk about the rest of the franchises in the greater Houston area that have actually won championships. So that's just something that's the caveat there. Also, as somebody who has a little bit of a smart ass sense of humor as well, I get real tickled.

Listening to y'all having to dissect, you know, some of the people that just call in, myself included. I'm not going to sit there and say that I've been the perfect orator every time I made a phone call. But, you know, it is fun to sit back and listen because, you know, man, personality goes a whole lot of way. And I think it's really cool that the shows that I enjoy listening to on this station, it seems like everybody does have like that wonderful dark sense of humor and a whole lot of wit. So, I mean, it is, it's a lot of fun.

This is a fun radio station. And I just, I just wanted to call in and say, man, that, you know, hey, I dig what you guys do. And, you know, and that's about it. Much appreciate it, Toby. Thank you very much for the phone call. First of all, we're never going to talk about one sport all day long. That is wretchedly boring. Number two, we are all incredible smart asses.

I might be the worst of the group. Might. I didn't ask your opinion over there. I would just make sure the vocabulary you want to use. Okay. I am the biggest smart ass of the group. But I love all my co-workers. I like most of them.

Okay. some I tolerate, some I'm confused by. But that's a different issue for a different time. But we have a good time. We do. And yeah, this show will never be 24 hours of Astros. It'll never be 24 hours of rockets. Now, if they win championships, then we're going to go with that.

But it'll never be 24 hours of Texas. And we're going to mix it all up. We've got some other things to get to, including Brian Bogussevic who will join us next. I also want to get into what ESPN's been doing. Do you see what ESPN did yesterday with two big moves? Yeah, I saw one of them. You're going to see. There's another one came out this morning.

Two major moves by ESPN. Brian Bogusivik, next after Ross tells you about Senator Jeff. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross is stepped aside for a couple minutes. So it's going to be me and Bogie for the next 10 right here on Sports Talk 790. Bogie, as we've talked about for 9 million times, the baseball season can be a roller coaster ride. You go up to Boston, you watch them lose three games. You go to Miami.

The Marlins beat the Yankees three straight in their home field, draw huge crowds. The next two nights the Astros come in town. And the Astros have beaten them up pretty good. This season has not made a lot of sense for many reasons, and I think this last five days is a great example of that. No, I totally agree. You know, my first kind of thought and reaction to, you know,

the last week, week and a half is kind of like, let's not get too high on, you know, beating up on the nationals and the Marlins. but if you look at what the Marlins have been over the course of, you know, a good chunk of six to eight weeks and what they were doing coming in to this series, you know, the Astros have looked pretty good against a team that's been playing really well. And I think it's the way that they've looked. It's the offense. It's, you know, kind of a different looking team post-trade deadline than we had seen throughout the course of much of the season. You know, some of that is addition. Some of that is, you know, Pena coming back healthy.

but I think it's kind of rounding into form. It's certainly not the team that you think of when you say, okay, what's our best? But it's definitely a team that is different for the better than it was maybe three or four weeks ago. It is amazing to me. Look, this team, I would say, more times and not, has been offensively challenged.

But there were a night in particular in Boston. We get 14 hits. And so that's supposed to win your baseball games. And that just didn't happen. There's one thing about getting on base, another one getting into scoring. There's really no rhyme or reason to why that is, except for, you know, sometimes your heart of the lineup guys don't come through. And sometimes your seventh, eight, nine guys come up at the worst possible times. What is your take on how this team at least schizophrenically the last 60 days has been so up and down offensively?

Yeah, I mean, when you look at the runners in scoring position numbers, whether it be for an individual player or, or a team or whatever. I, for one, I do not, I try as hard as I can to not diminish hitting with runners in scoring position because it's not the same as every other at bat, right? A pitcher is not going to pick you the same with runners in second and third and one out as they are with two outs and nobody out. That's a given. You have to be a better hitter to hit with runners in scoring position.

However, when you're looking at over the course of time, over the course of the season, the greatest predictor of can you hit with runners in scoring position is just can you hit in general. Are you a contact-oriented hitter or team? Do you hit for average as a team or as an individual hitter? And when you have situations where, you know, you're racking up a ton of hits, you're racking up a ton of base runners. Maybe for a game or a couple of games, you don't drive those runners in, that can just be attributed to it's just baseball. Sometimes you hit a line drive at somebody with two outs and, you know, you don't score. But over time, if you're doing the right things, eventually you will hit with runners in scoring position and therefore score a lot of runs.

So when I look at a team, this team post-trade deadline and what the lineup has been doing in terms of just volume of quality at bat, the volume of guys on base, I think it's a better option, a better chance of scoring a lot of runs consistently than it was, you know, not that too far in the past. Brian Bogus-Sivik with us here on 7-90 for his regular Wednesday visit Bogie. You played with Jose for a very short time, very young part of his career towards the end of yours. And then you've watched him as a broadcaster and as a guy that goes to the ballpark and sees him firsthand. He's still racking up hits. I think he's going to get to 3,000 hits. It's going to take a lot of work, but I think he's going to get there. But just when people want to all of a sudden say, all right, here comes a significant downturn.

And maybe Jose has had that defensively. But his OPS is above 800 yet again. He's hitting home runs. he walks into the ballpark with two hits per night. Have you noticed anything about his swing changing? Obviously, it's probably slower than it was as a rookie, but he's still getting on base. He's still making solid contact.

Is there any noticeable difference than maybe even seven or eight years ago, the Jose L Tuvae swing that you see now? I think maybe the one thing you could say is that when he's, you know, hunting for power, he has to become a little bit more pull-dominant, than he was in the past. And in order to do so, maybe have to have to guess or cheat a little bit more. But that's,

I mean, that's a very negligible thing. Nothing with the swing, nothing with the approach. You know, I think at some point, especially when you're talking about this lineup functioning as it should,

you know, with everybody back where it should, and he doesn't have to be a power hitter type of guy or maybe later in his career when he doesn't have to be that. He still has the ability to rack up a ton of hits. He can still, if he wanted to just spray balls the other way and get base hits, he could easily do that. But he's trying to be more of a complete hitter, trying to hit for power, trying to be a middle of the lineup guy. So maybe he has to sacrifice a little bit of risk of swing and miss in order to do that.

But, I mean, that's just hitting. Sometimes you've got to give a little bit to get a little bit. And I think that in terms of just pure hitting ability, he's still every bit as good as he ever was. Bogey, we saw the Astros go with an opener yesterday, and then we saw AJ Blueball get his second appearance in a major league uniform. And, I mean, he was hit 97, 98 in the gun. I don't know if that's going to be a regular thing for him. But for a guy that goes from his first start many months ago

to a guy who got passed up by at least two pitchers, if not more, to get this opportunity again, it looked like he was just very comfortable that the way of the world was off his shoulders, and he can just rear back and get people out. Yeah, you know, a lot can happen over the course of whatever it's been three months down in the minor leagues and getting work in. And he's pitched a lot of innings down there and there have been tweaks made and adjustments made. And, you know, when you're sitting down in AAA and you're seeing guys get called up, get called up, get called up, get called up.

And it's not you and it's not you and it's not you. It'll create a sense of urgency. and it'll, you know, kind of push you to get better and kind of push you to, when you do get that opportunity, try to make a good impression. And I think he certainly did that from a stuff standpoint. I mean, you can go a long way with high-end stuff. And when you're, you know, there's a lot of room for error when you're pitching when it's 97, 98 miles an hour. And it's certainly different than a lot, you know, a lot of guys that we've seen come up. It's been lesser stuff, but more of a plan, more of an approach for pitching.

you know, having a guy who can come up and say, hey, if we need, you know, two, three, four innings where somebody can just go out there and try to blow guys away, here's our option and differentiate yourself a little bit. I'm assuming that you knew that you probably in the back of your mind thought the transition for Cardl's going from short to third base will be a piece of cake, and it feels like it certainly has been. Yeah, when you're that talented at a shortstop, I mean, there are some nuances to third base. It's a little bit different footwork, maybe a couple different arm angles on throws, but I mean if you can play shortstop at the level that he plays shortstop,

you can slide right over to third base and honestly probably pretty much anywhere else on the diamonds. Urias gets an opportunity, makes the most of it. You've got now, I think another additional utility guy, not so much pressure on Dubon to play every single day. It feels like the lineup is coming together, clearly, because guys are back and noticeably Jerby would be the first one on that list. Ross and I want to do this in a few minutes and we may have time to do so.

We're hoping that at some point Yordaun gets into play on this. And if he does, that's the missing piece to this lineup being filthy 1 to 7, right at this point, you think? Oh, absolutely. I mean, he, as good as other guys have been,

as nice as the additions are, Yordaun coming back healthy and being the hitter that he is, everything then revolves around him. You build your lineup around him. team's game plan around him. It's also, you know, another left-handed bat that has to be accounted for. And now you're looking at the top half of the batting order being righty-lefty, right-y-lefty.

So, you know, looking down the road to a seventh, eighth, ninth inning, playing matchups, it makes it really difficult for opposing managers. So, yeah, I mean, you're looking at a lineup that really at some point is going to be, you know, one through eight, one through nine really solid because, you know, you've got guys who, for a good chunk of time, we're hitting, you know, Taylor Shremel hit a bunch of leadoff. He's going to be maybe your nine-hole hitter. You got, you know, Cam Smith sliding into the seven-hole when he was hitting fourth for a good chunk of time. Victor Keratin, when he's in the lineup, he was their best hitter for, you know, nearly a month during the course of the season.

So, yeah, you're looking at some real lengths and, you know, yiner's getting it going. So all of a sudden, you're looking at a lineup that's really deep and really dangerous in every spot. Last question, Bogie. Last night, it happened in back-to-back innings once for the Astros and once for the Marlins. There was massive miscommunication between the two teams

center-fielder's and the right-fielders. You have played out field. Take us through the protocol on that. And was it strange to you that it happened in back-to-back innings? I think that's just a fluky thing. Look, I've played down there in Miami. I don't think it was a function of the crowd being too loud

and the guy's not being able to hear it. So here's the protocol, right? Center fielder has priority over everybody on the field, and then outfielers have priority over infielders. And when you get into that little Bermuda triangle where there's a center field or a right fielder and an infielder going out, you've got to be loud so that, you know,

the other players can hear you. But also you've got to know who's calling it. If you're the right fielder coming in and you hear, I got it, you've got to know if that's your second baseman or if that's your center fielder. and whether you need to call him off or lay back. And, you know, you've got some guys in there who, you know, Duby hasn't played a tonner center field.

You've got Urias who's not used to playing with other guys. So you've just got a little bit going on to where guys aren't totally comfortable. But, yeah, it's one of those things where it's difficult, especially on a ball that's just on the edge of range, where you're not going to be camped underneath it and you're comfortable to take your eyes off the ball and look down and say, okay, is my second basement, camp or is that my center fielder coming over.

When everybody's looking up and you just have to listen and know the voices of who's calling it, you kind of need some guys who you know their voices. And it's just one of those things where they haven't worked together a whole lot. Last question. I don't know how many times you played at Yankee Stadium over your career because you were a nationally guy primarily. But let me ask you this. You've got a bunch of young men that will be going there for the very first time.

And it feels like to me, especially if the Rangers continue to beat up on the Yankees, that the crowd may be more angry at the Yankees than they are at the Astros because they are in a massive slump. What advice would you give when you go to a hustle facility like that for some young men that may not be at Yankee City, but maybe for the very first time? Yeah, first of all, I think you hit it on the head. Like that that team is reeling right now. So know that there's a heck of a lot more pressure on them to perform in front of that crowd than there is on you to perform in front of that crowd. But anytime you're going to, you know, one of those historical stadiums or, you know, guys who are in the big league, for the first time going to a new stadium.

I always think get out there early. First day that you're there, go out, even if you're not doing early work, walk around the stadium, just get comfortable. Look up into the stand, see how high the third deck is. Take a look at the lights. Just get familiar with your surroundings. You know, be in awe at 2 o'clock in the afternoon so that at 7 o'clock, you know, it can turn into somewhat of just baseball,

even though, you know, first time at Yankee Stadium, first time at Fenway, Wrigley, it is a little bit different. but try to get all of that out before the game. Grace up, as always, friend, talk to you next week. Thank you for the time. All right, cool. See you. You got Brian Bogus Civic with us every Wednesday at 11 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790.

We have shut your bum ass up coming up at the bottom of the hour. Shut your bum ass up. And ain't nobody got time for that. But when this radio program returns, ESPN made two major acquisitions in the last 24 hours. One of them might affect how you watch the world's. most popular sport. Well, no, America's most popular sport. I correct myself. 1116. It is the Matt Thomas show, Ross, shut your bum ass up in 15 here on 790. 1120. Matt and Ross, Sports Talk, 790.

713, 212, 570. Ross was eating four bowls of oatmeal during that last segment. He's like, Matt, you can handle the U and bogey? It was the best bogey conversation we ever had this year. For sure. Good questions. Would he really? Parte. Well, I think one of those things maybe was true. Okay. All right. So you went to bed last night hearing about ESPN. Yes. And the NFL network thing? That is right. ESPN is selling, let me get this right. The NFL is selling their network, selling the Red Zone, selling some more games to ESPN. Okay. Okay. And there's some other digital platform kind of stuff. In return,

the NFL now owns 10% of ESPN. Isn't that insane? Okay. I mean, that's wildly insane, right? 10% of ESPN? Well, first it shows you what the value of the NFL

properties are. We're talking about four regular season games, red zone, and the NFL network. Okay? And apparently the NFL network is still going to be run by NFL people, but ESPN is going to probably have some sort of cross- There better be Scott Hanson. Probably Scott Hansen for my cold dead hands.

He's all locked and loaded. People are asking about that. Oh, thank God. So the number one thing is, wow, that's crazy. Number two is that, you know, Roger Goodell has always walked this very fine line about how the NFL feels about gambling. The NFL, ESPN has a very strong gambling presence, i.e. ESPN bet. And now the NFL owns a piece of a company that has a direct tie to a gambling. Yeah, ESPN bet is done through, I believe, pen gaming.

Point being is this. NFL now owns part of ESPN that owns ESPN bet. That's the, you know, over the case. So there are people a little bit winging out about this. There are also people that are winging out about the journalistic integrity and how can, if Adam Schepter finds out something that he shouldn't be reporting because ESPN owns 10% of it. That is very valid.

That is very valid. You know, my reality? reaction to all that was Rossi. You can certainly have a different one than I have. We've lost, and I don't know about the political game, because I don't follow politics like that. No, the plot is lost there, too, don't we?

But we have lost sports journalism. Well, yes. Okay, that's just the reality of it. You have team-controlled websites. You've got team-controlled access. You have networks that employ reporters. you have networks that don't want to anger the television partners in the league because they're the ones that are giving out these contracts to say broadcast. I mean, the reality is this, even before this deal came through yesterday, if Adam Schaeftrick got something so juicy, he's going to probably lobby to the commissioner first before he does anything.

Because there's a very strong relationship between ESPN and the NFL now. It's even stronger because the NFL owns 10% of the network now. So the days of there is a line between partnership and journalism, that has long been eroded. So I wasn't nearly worried about that. And I'll never, and I'll be, I'm not worried about any of this. Because again, it's not going to impact our watching of sports. It doesn't necessarily matter. But I will just say, just Adam Schaefter is a made man and maybe that's a related.

You can never get rid of Adam Schaefter if you're ESPN. But I will say, what if there's somebody that's up and coming that wants to break a big story? Or just general reporters. They're scared to break a big story. Or if they're somewhere else in the ESPN realm and they don't want to do it because they have to kind of bow down to their NFL overlords. Adam Schiff doesn't really have to bow down to anybody. No, but I think he's probably. He probably will.

He probably has. He greased the wheels. Yeah. So I don't know if the general public all of a sudden cares about this now. To me, the only shocking part is again, ESPN lives on. the gambling aspect. And the NFL has tried to be as careful as they can not to cross over the gambling world. You can't

cross over now. When ESPN bet is a huge part of the ESPN family and you now own 10% of that family, you've now gone full throttle into the gambling world. Now the NBA doesn't care. The NBA is like, yeah, do what you want. Just don't bet on our sport if you're a player. Major League

Baseball makes it very clear. You can't bet on the sports. But they're not... But they're not running into a lot of those issues. The NFL has tried to at least say, hey, we need to make sure we separate ourselves. And there's no separation. So that's, that was interesting point number one. Then ESPN late last night, and you may have been asleep, they're going to give, they're going to, yes, these special events that the WWE has. That's the summer slams, which just took place this weekend. Summer slam. That's WrestleMania. And they have a

phrase for it. And I'm sorry, I can't think it's a marquee. No, I don't know. It's an MLE or something like that. It's like a premier event. There's like six marquee events. What? No, go ahead. Sorry. You said MLE, mid-level exception.

Nothing at the W-W-E level is mid-level. PLE, premium live event. Okay. Okay. They're selling the PLEs to ESPN. Okay. So now ESPN is like, we're going to give you the chance to watch these PLEs

as part of our new bundling service in 2020. Everything's bundling now. So now in 2002, I have Peacock and I watched, I watched Somersland this weekend on Peacock. Okay. 2006, it's going over to ESPN, which means if you want the ESPN bundle, which will be your ESPN, your ESPN plus, your ESPN 2, ESPNU, SEC Network, ACC, anything tied to ESPN, you're going to get that plus these PLEs, but you're going to be bundling a $27 a month. $27 a month. Now, I have a Disney Plus package, which gives me Hulu, ESPN Plus, and Disney Plus. I don't know if my PLE, if I get the WWU stuff or not, I'm not paying another cent for it.

But it feels like I'm already Rossi. That's stupid. Picking out of a wazoo for extra programs. Games are on Apple TV and Peacock and Amazon and it's horrible. So what I want to know is who's wrong. running the ESPN checkbook. Disney? Does Disney have more money than God?

Yes. I mean, seriously. I think they're going to pay, and I've got to see the story here, I believe they're going to pay $225 million a year. Here it is. The five-year deal begins in 2006. It includes the U.S. streaming rights to all W.W.E.

PLE events. will air on ESPN and we'll see the Disney-owned company pay $325 million per year to the WWE for the broadcast rights. While WWE's PLE offerings are set to debut on ESPN streaming service, which is planned to launch later this year and will cost, oh, I said 26, it'll cost you $29.99 a month for the ESPN package of channels. Let's see, Disney owns Disney, Hulu, ESPN, Fubo, NHL TV. Lifetime Networks, A&E Networks, History Channel, Discovery, Fox. Wait, are they 20th Century Fox is on by them too? Is that true? FX.

I think so. National Geographic. Of course, they have all the Disney, yeah, 20th century Fox's pictures. Disney Online, Disney Mobile. I'm just scrolling through stuff. Disney Park. Disney Park. Yeah, they're doing, they're doing okay.

God, it's just incredible to me that, and they're the ones paying out these incredible contracts of these network. I mean, they bought the SEC off. Oh, the Marvel Universe? Oh, they're doing all right. Oh, Lucasfilm and Star Wars? Woo. Man, Walt Disney's like, man, I was born way too late. He did okay for himself.

He did okay. But it's just, I just, so ESPN got super, super busy in the last 36 hours. selling off 10% of their network to the NFL, getting the reds, are they going to put commercial in the red zone? They better not. There's no way. You can't.

There's more, there'll be more sponsorships. They already have like the, you know, the FedEx carry of the day, right, right, right. They can do more of that.

But I mean, you know, I will riot in the streets. I'm just, I'm telling you, I don't, like I bought peacock. I didn't get it for the WBWEs up.

I got it for a variety of things. I thought your son bought it because of Premier League. That's the primary. I guess I didn't want to bury the headline on that, but that's fine. Cameron Leaks coming back next weekend. And it's going to be the home of 66 NBA games. Love it. With the theme, are they reworking the theme?

Are they revamping the theme? My guess is they're going to go back to, but they're going to probably, you know, add a little pizzazz to it. Let me get Kendrick Lamarters seeing the lyrics of it. That'd be good. I mean, when I'm Bill and a stand a word he said, but that's a different issue for a different time. He's one of the greatest lyricists for our time. 1131.

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I'm trying to put more stuff on there. I would appreciate the support. I was talking with somebody yesterday as I was putting out about the hitting coaches and just making jokes on Twitter. And then multiple people are all like, well, yeah, it's Miami Marlin. So it really counts.

These are Major League Baseball games. You've been a fan for years and years and years. And you always get mad if they lose to the A's or the Washington Nationals and talk about how they never beat bad, teams. The Marlins, by the way, even though they're under 500, have been one of the hottest teams in baseball for over a month. So if you want to be the guy that complains about them never beating bad teams,

and then when they do, you act like it's what they're supposed to do, you can't have it both ways. Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. Jonathan, what did you got? I've been waiting for this because this weekend, the U.S. championships over for track and field was this weekend. And the 200 meters finals came in, and I know you guys know who Noah Liles is.

If you don't, that's the guy we'll say. Yes, yeah. He's getting the staring down, right? Yeah. So that's what it's thing. He doesn't stare down, whatever. He's cocky. No one likes him.

Even in the track world, that we really don't. We can't stand him. Okay. And so what happens is he, Kenny Benerick and Noe Lylez had this rivalry going on since the 2020 Olympics, with Tokyo and everything. And they've been going at it. Kenny Benerick, and the start of the race is, you know, beating him, beating him. And Noah Liles is his thing.

catches him, looks him down. And after that, while knows laws, before he could even celebrate, Kenny with Eric pushes the mess, shoves him, mid-sprint trying to slow down. Like, shoves him and starts yelling at him,

da-da-da-da-da. Oh, you can't do that to me. You know, just being, slower. Just being ugly. Just being ugly. I'm trying to get to the point. Because what happens is,

it's a big unsportsman-like thing. This happened a couple years ago with... So who was more out of line? Kenny? Yes, Kim and Eric. pushed them and shoved them and then afterward went to media saying you can't do that to me I don't like that. You can do that to anybody else but you got to

respect me but you got you lost Oh That's the thing in track you got one race and you got you got beat You lost championship that's it No other sport does this and this is why Track athletes get dispected This is why we don't get respected like we want And this is why there's no eyes on track

Because it's just divas oh you guys don't You just run this is and this and you show that You can't even take a loss how you're supposed to And you congratulate so no one got time for that anybody got in time for that. Just get to the point. This shouldn't be the place and track. Hey, nobody got time for that.

You didn't think you were getting track smack today, did you? That was not on the bingo board. I saw that. Yeah. So even though nobody likes Noel Liles, you're defending him here, Jonathan. I like that. I mean, I can't, all right, how about this? No one likes Stefan Diggs and what he does outside of, you know.

I think he does great outside of the field. But when he gets on the field, but a lot of people, Okay, when he's on the track, you got to respect him. Exactly. Same thing with Cam Newton. Any controversial, good player. Mm-hmm. Like we were talking about Aaron Rogers yesterday.

Exactly. Aaron Rogers is a good dog. He goes on podcasts and talks about doing a bunch of drugs and whatnot. I don't really care. I think he's one of the greatest quarterbacks I've ever seen. Okay. I don't like scratch-off tickets. I think there are a ginormous waste of time.

Hmm. Okay. Sounds like somebody who loses. But we had some extra scratch-off winners in our house. We were doing some cleaning and we found about $10, $14 worth. That's good. Oh, I know what's going to happen. So I take him to the convenience store and the guy says,

you need to scratch this little barcode area. Yes. Which again is just basically adding extra aggravation. So I said, do you have a coin? He gives me a coin and I start scratching it. He then tries to put it into the little reader. He says, you scratched him too hard. And he couldn't give me any of the money for any of the tickets.

So you know what I told him? What? Shut your bum ass up, man. Shit your bum ass up, man. That's why I hate lottery tickets. Yeah, man, that's rookie stuff, though, Matt. You can't scratch off that barcode? You know what some people do?

Tell me. Some people get scratch-offs, and they don't even play the game. They go straight to the barcode. That's real degenerates. It really, it does. Scratching off the other part makes nothing. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

You can go straight to the barcode. Yeah, you can go straight to the barcode. Yeah, you can go straight to the barcode. bar code. Which makes it again. Ain't nobody got time for scratch-offs. I saw somebody do that and it was kind of the saddest thing I ever saw. Y'all just taught me something.

I did not know this. Well, that's what I'm saying, don't. First of all, stay away from them. If you're going to spend a lottery, well, I mean, we give them out like a, you put them in a stocking Christmas, stuff like that. Yes. Yeah.

I just. Good stocking stuff. I was really pissed off. Because I didn't realize, Rossi, I had to be a delicate little scratcher of the barcode. You were putting and rolling your sleeves up, man. No, I was doing like a regular, normal, grown ass, man, scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch.

Yeah. You read, you did them too hard. He should have told you. I understand you're not deep in the scratch. Not that I'm deep in the scratch off game. Like I said, I'll get a couple of Christmas. Who is ever deep in a scratch off game? Degenerates.

Oh, that's terrible. Same guy buying a pack of marble or a carton of marble reds. All right. 713-212-5-7-0. So I, we buy them for the Christmas kit, and that's the only time of the year. I will never, and I mean ever, buy a scratch-off ticket unless it's just December 23rd, 24th.

I won five bucks for one on Christmas. I was pretty happy about it. Can I buy you a 20 for your birthday? Sure. No, why don't I just give you the cash? Wouldn't it be easier that way? Yeah, that's fine. Okay, I'll take the cash, and then I'll go buy 20 scratch-off.

That's okay, whatever works. Jake, on a mobile line, Jake, what's the matter with you? Hey, last week I called questioning Astros, Rockets, Twitter into like question about speaking Korea into existence. So I'm here to self-report. I ain't nobody got time for me questioning or shut by bomb ass up.

Sorry, Bonda, sorry Schwab. Sorry, any other. Who are those people? Thank you for the phone call, Jake. Appreciate it. The reporters in this town are Chandler, Rome, Brian McTaggart, and Matthew Carwahara, is that I?

Matt Kawahara. You didn't follow him on Twitter. I follow him. Yeah, I mean, those other guys, they get some stuff right and they get some stuff wrong. one of them said, I don't know who it was, that CIS was on the one-yard line and that was going to be a done deal. Bob Nightingale said the Correa deal was all but dead.

And then, douchebag John Heyman's bragging about how great Bob Nightingale's coverage was on Korea. Well, it could have been all but dead. You know what? I think Chandler-Rom said the same thing. John Heyman, not giving credit to Brian McTaggart. Shut your bum ass up, mate. And McTaggart was first on it, right?

Yes, he was. And Hayman gave Nightingale all the way. the credit. Terrible. First of all, we shouldn't be giving credit. Who needs credit for anything? No, I think it's proper journalistic practice to give credit to whoever broke the news first. Then you better do it the right person then.

Come on, Matt. Oh, do you didn't go, what, I guess you were, it's not really journalism school. No, I didn't go to journal. I went to a school of mass communications. In my world, shut your bum ass up. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-2-2-790. 11-43-3.

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you got somebody you want to tell them to shut their bum asses up, let's go. 713-212-5-790. 1149 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Rossie, I'm going to give you an anti- Shut Your Bowmane up and ain't an anti-any-one got time for that. I got plenty of time for this and I don't want this person to shut his bum-ass up at all. Okay.

Adam Wexler is going to do the 10th inning show tonight because I goofed on the time. Mm-hmm. Today is a 340 first pitch. Yes. I thought it was a 540 first pitch. Okay. My daughter has a volleyball meeting today at her high school, and my wife is like the team mom,

and she needs my help tonight. So. I'm kind of meeting. Kind of like, here's the season. Is strategizing? No, it's parent. It's a parental meeting. You can miss that.

No, I can't. I haven't told I need to be here. You know what I'm saying? You get the whip cracked on you. So my favorite coworker, Adam Wexler, is going to do the 10th inning show for me tonight. Are you going to hold off on?

making fun of them for not doing post games for a while? How long can I do that? This bottom a month. Until September the 6th? It's a long time. Okay, you know what? It's right. No shots at me taking that Wex doesn't put the time in until September 6th.

But Adam Clanton's free reign. Adam Clinton's free reign. Oh, yay, yay! Exactly. So in 790's employer today is Adam Wexler. I'm about to put that on on Twitter. Okay. Thank you very much, Adam Exeter, because I don't want to put you in anymore because you're

trying to get over whatever this focus and your guenna is like right now. I could have done tonight, but I offered. No, you did, and I appreciate it. And you were the backup, but wax is going to do it. And really, it's going to be kind of in this time slot anyway. Yeah. I'd have been three in a row for me. That's too many.

Let's go to the phones. Talk to Matt and Spring Branch. Matt, what's the matter with you? Yeah, so, you know, I was listening earlier today in the show and heard you talk a mess about Astros' Twitter and how unhinged some of the Astros fans are. you know, I got, on behalf of Astros fans, I got to push back a little bit and play devil's advocate here. You know, I got to measure to meter in every other capacity in my life and my family's health and my investments at work, as a father, et cetera, et cetera. But sports are my one outlet where I can be completely unhinged and irrational and just ride the wave of emotions, you know?

So up and down, by polar riven and call, let me be crazy, my one outlet to be just completely irrational unhinged. So to Matt and Ross, lambasting Astros' Twitter, I got to say, shut you all. bum ass up. Set your bum ass up, man. We were told. There are three games in first place. At one point, they had 18 people on the IL.

At one point, they had eight starting pitchers on the IL. Joe Espada and Dana Brown and the players who did fill in were like working miracles that they are where they are. And if you want to go all unhinged, you can do that. But we also

reserve the right to call you stupid or uneducated fans. So, Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. Ain't nobody got time for unhinged fans, 162 games season. Ain't nobody got time for it. Love you. Love you.

Appreciate your listening. Matt, as him is Matt. It's great name. It's okay. Great friend of the show. Always welcome to call. But remember, you get unhinged. We come back at you.

Have a great day, Matthew. I'm unhinged four hours a day, at least. Speaking of unhinged. Geo. What's the matter with you, Gio? Gio. Oh, Gio. Gio

And nobody got time for you not to be there Ain't nobody got time for that Oh, there he is Hi Gio Hey guys Sorry So I got Ain't nobody got time for that

And shut you but mess up So I work for a trucking company I'm a truck driver right So I just want to say to all the companies out there To all the supervisors All the managers That love to micromanage their employees. Shut your bum ass up.

Anybody got time for you micromanaging me while I'm trying to do my job, right? Shut your bum-ass up, man. Micromaging is the worst. To the match game, producers, host, writers, and fake celebrities are on that show. Shut your bum-ass up. You ain't funny.

Shut your bum-ass up, man. You're so funny. You're funny. I am funny. You bring more games. game show takes to this show. Anybody in Houston sports combined. Is that your dream at to be on a sports? Where have you been?

No, I'm, this is a genuine question I'm asking. I didn't, you know. He sounds like he's rubbing it in. No, I'm being, I'm not being for a little. Don't insigate. He's me. I would quit everything to be the host of the Price is Right. You hear me? I've been trying to get you the job. They won't call me back. It hadn't worked. You would try to get me to be a ring

announcer that hasn't worked out. You even try to get me to be the host of the Price is Right. It hasn't worked out. What are you good for? making fun of you. That's true. Stephen in the Heights. Steven, what's the matter with you? Hey, I wanted to get back at the last caller

because he's probably one of those who calls the Astros Wee and acts like he's part of the team when he probably peaked in high school. So, ain't nobody got time for that. Okay, Stephen. It's getting personal here. You know how I feel about whee's. Yes.

If you're employed by the team, you can call yourself we. If you went to the school, you can call yourself a week. If you're a fan of the team, that's a little bit of a mix. Granted, I've been an Astro fan since 1979. But I don't usually typically say we on the show. I don't really care. I like to make fun of people that do it, but it doesn't matter. I have been a Rockets employee.

This would be my 10th year calling games. Yes. I don't think I had done Wii. but maybe once or twice. I don't do it a whole lot. You're going to say, we are the champions when they win it all? Oh, hell's yeah.

By the way, you think sparks went nuts in the clubhouse? You put this guy in the clubhouse with the rocket players? Ooh, baby. Huh. We're going to go viral. I'm going to get that Twitter camera up high.

You're going to go eye to eye like you did back in the day. You don't know that story, do you, Jonathan? Yeah, I'm looking at you. That was a, no, that's not that deep of a cut, but I don't know how many of our listeners got that reference. We got time for it?

I think we do. Let's get Gary real quick. All right, real quick. Gary, what's the matter with you? All righty. I got two of them here real quick, and they're both aimed at one, Matthew Thomas. First of all, that list of God's country. Lubbock, Texas is not even on the first page, maybe page two or three.

Number one on God's country is the hill country with all the lakes and the rivers. And then the second one is I was watching Astros and the Red Sox. and man, that wave they had going was so pretty. So you can't be telling people what to do and how to have fun when they're spending their money at their ballgame. So M. Thomas, shut your bum ass up, man. Shut your bum ass up, man. Gary, put your teeth in next time you call the show.

Ooh. Love Gary. Gary just calls in and crushes you. He's honestly my top three favorite colleagues. Every time. You and Gary have been having beef. fine. And he called you a clown? Yeah. But then you'll made up.

Don't kiss and made up. Yeah, he's fine. He didn't bother me. That's fine. But I mean, you come after me. I'm going to come after you. I am way more... Come after me! Yeah. I am way more salter than he is. All right. What do you think? I mean, I made fun of the fact that I don't think he's got teeth. I thought Gary brought it. Oh, you did? I'm

sure you did. Well, on 790, well, what's the matter with you? Oh, Matt. Oh, yeah. I ain't got time for the guy who stole all my, who stole my time and left my car sitting up my brand new 2025 sitting on bricks. I walk outside.

I have no ties, no rims in my wife. Oh, my God. Where was this? Where were you? Everybody got time for that? I got a call from the guy who was the man in my apartment. I had a voicemail that said my car had been vandalized. I went outside and my car was sick.

sitting on bricks with my window busting. Wow. Do you live in 2025? Do you live in all day? Do you live in all day? Where do you live? What part of town? It's spring branch.

It's spring branch. They get salty spring branch. I ain't got no time for the guy who stole my ties. To him, the guy who has installed my speakers in my car, three days later, my ties are missing. Damn. He's the only person who's ever been in my car alone. Yeah.

And he's the only person who could have possibly known what the key to my lungs was, which was in my glove box. And my window was busted on the passenger side by the glove box real, and the glove box was open. He was the only person on the planet who could have possibly known that it was in there. Because he's the only person who has ever been in my car alone. I'm so sorry for that, Will. Thank you for the phone call.

It's a prime suspect, folks. At least he put the car back on the bricks, right? That was at least a courteous thing you did, correct? I guess. How much weight can these bricks hold? I don't know. Really quick. Jonathan, when I was a young reporter,

probably about your age, I went to go cover a Rockets locker room after a game. And it was at the summit. The locker room was super tiny. So I took my recorder and my microphone, and I went in the area, and I thought, well, I'll sneak in around this one area, and I'll get in a catcher stance to get,

because it was really tight quarters. A certain player, dropped his towel and I was staring at it Wait, why are you sitting late? I mean it was in his face. My two eyes against his one eye.

That's why I always say, Matt, eye to eye. It wasn't one eye and I was eyes two eye. And it was like it was yesterday, sadly. Matt, we'll never forget. Have I mentioned who the player was? Yes. I'm going to do it again. R.

What? Go ahead. No, I'm not going to do it. R.M. right? No. S.F. Steve or Francis? No, it was not Steve Francis. Earlier than that.

I know. Let you all figure it out. The news at noon is up next. Little Miami Vice to get you celebrating this. Also coming up today at 150 is, believe it or not, all things Howard Stern. About to get canceled on Sirius X-XM. a good run. He's got to be a billionaire

after them. A hundred million dollars a year for working like 30 weeks a year. Every time I turn on his station, it's never him. Even when he's supposed to be on. 713-212-5-790. ...of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And let's just go straight to A little news at noon.

All right, Matt, you heard the highlights there of the Houston Astros getting their second straight win against the Miami Marlins. Exploding for eight runs in game number one of the series, scoring seven runs in game number two. Fire the hitting coach's guy is in shambles, but I'm sure he'll be right back at it if they are not successful in scoring runs tonight. But that's okay.

By the way, it's a 340 first pitch. Yeah, I know. Which I didn't know. I didn't know. Yeah, I know. I'm a goof. That's fine.

We got to work on your punctuality and your scheduling. You know what? A little bit like, you know. What do you mean something? What else did I get wrong? You just, I don't know. Last week, Ross, you remember that? I don't know.

It's time. Yeah, I remember, yeah. You shut you up, my messes up. Hey, J. Blue Ball touching 98 on the gun. Uh, on, baseball's a month said as a four seamer, but it had a little armside run. I thought that. But anyways. Seventy pitches for him.

five innings pitch, a couple of solo shots given up five strikeouts. He picks up the win. He also picked up in the post game, the pitcher of the game championship belt that the Astros hand out, which comes with a speech. He said he kind of

stumbled through it, but he made it. Quick question. We have our fantasy league. Do we need a belt? No. Oh, you want to finance it? How much those belts cost? I don't know. I don't want a cheap belt. If we're going to do a good one. Okay, well, party what are you up then, brother? I can't.

All our money goes to charity anyway. Let me see. 200. 200? For a belt? For a good one. You can go for $50. No,

I don't want a $50. $200 is probably the good quality. We should cut promos, too. Okay. You know what promos are? Yeah, I mean, I understand. Okay. Okay, I'm getting a bunch of sponsored, about $200.

$179. It'd be cool. They put your face on it, crying, because you don't win the championship, it would be nice. What would be nice about that? What do you mean? You want a belt with a picture of me crying across your chest and waist? I do have the belt three straight years running.

I got to rub it in now because there's no way I can win four straight. There's no way. Hell. This league has been rigged since day one. You know, as soon as I became commission, I won like three out of four? I think I won four of the last six. We've absolutely noticed every single year. I mean, look.

You can, all the moves are transparent. It's fine. What else we got? Let's talk about me winning three championships. No. Oh, I want to keep what remaining audience we have left. Sorry. All right, Matt. There was an actual, oh, that's right.

The ESPN story, they are going to get NFL network rights to Red Zone for an equity stake. In a blockbuster deal. The NFL getting a 10. percent equity stake. I mean, that is major, Matt. I know ESPN ain't what it once was, but a 10% stake? Are there any blurred lines

or does the average person go, don't care? The average person doesn't care, but the lines are blurred. Conflicts of interests abound, I feel like. Yep. I get it. With reporting, with coverage, with spinning certain narrative, certain ways, and maybe not even direct pressure. There's

implied pressure. I'll tell you there's implied pressure with us being partners of the Astros and Rockets. That's not necessarily direct. No. And look, I have to walk a line myself, but when the Rockets lose, I don't come up here and go, well, at least you know, Jay Sean Tate played well. I don't

do that. But I, you know, I have a greater rooting interest for the Rockets than do anything else. Let's just say if we were partners of the Texans, I wouldn't be doing my Cal McNair impression the way that I do. No. But I haven't changed. I think we are going to be good this year.

I mean, look, I'm not a fan of the Texans. They wouldn't forced me to be a fan of the Texans, but would I have a little more, would I get to know them a little bit better? Yeah, maybe be less of a Texans hater. I'm not a hater. I just, my minded soul doesn't have any more room for losses. Well, they're going to keep Scott Hanson, which they need to. We'll see what kind of ramping up of advertising they do. I just thought the other guy was better. Siciliano. Yeah. He's the voice of the Cleveland Browns. Okay, well, he's, he is? Yeah. The radio voice? He's got a good voice. Yeah. San Antonio guy. I didn't know Yeah, he worked at San Antonio for a while.

Anthony a Siciliano. Not Anthony. Oh, to Andrew. Andrew a Siciliano. Yeah. Okay. Good for him. Elsewhere, man. Unfortunately, it keeps on happening.

A latex phallic device was thrown onto a court. Is that we're calling it for on radio? Because as soon as we turn... You can say it's a sex toy. I mean... You can say it's a sex toy. I mean...

You can see. say dildo, right? Well, you said it? I would rather not. That was Matt. Hi, my name is Ross. That was Matt that was Matt. We're not doing a show for kids. Everybody knows, well, I'm in theory. I would say the very least

is the PG-13 show. We do have people who are like, well, okay, talk about that. My kid's in the car. Well, we don't do a kid's show. No, we don't. If you want to listen to Mickey Mouse and Friends. If you want to listen to a kid's show, this is not a kid's show. Yeah, but I mean everybody is putting, and again, I don't want to use a word a bunch, but everybody,

And social media, they're not calling it what you call. They're calling it a dildo. Our target demo is not 13-year-old children. No, I mean, we like 13. We have our young man that listens to show. We appreciate him. We appreciate you, but get your buying power up, son. We need you in demo.

We need you 2554, baby. We appreciate 55-plus, but we really love you 25-54. Continue on. Yes. A toy landing near Indiana. Yeah, let's do it for kids. A little toy landed near Sophie. She kicked it quickly.

Yes. As the Los Angeles Sparks were playing the Indiana fever on Tuesday night, it's the latest incident to happen in W&B game in the past seven days. This is three such incidents, I believe. How are people getting them in the building? Are you putting them in your pants? Because you can't carry a package in without somebody going, what is what's in your package?

Oh, it's a sex toy. I'll let you use your imagination. on that one, Matt. Matt's going to do it for the news at noon. All right, Texans update and a highly thought of Major League Baseball Rookie gets a new deal today that could impact what

the Texans can do with Cam Smith. The Astros can do with Cam Smith. Both full stories straight ahead here on 790. We're with you today until 2 o'clock. We've got, believe it or not, at 150. If you missed our conversation with Brian Bogussevick, it was an outstanding. the questions thrown on him today were probably the best we've had in quite some time.

Brian Bogusatic replay coming up at 130 today. 713212-579 if you want to join us right now. We're kind of an open-line situation. Baster has made her roster move. Go ahead. A.J. Bluebaugh, through every pitch he could as fast as he could for a reason. He's going to be getting a flight. Well, he's going to probably fly back with the team today, but he'll be going to Sugar Lane.

We'll not be staying downtown. You'll get on the connecting bus. Do you think they've got a separate shuttle for him? You think he gets his own black car? Hmm. Now, if they travel like we do, we park at the FBO. I don't know what that means. That's a term for like a private air terminal.

Okay. They use the same plane, don't they? Yeah. Until it's our turn, and then they get this. Shut your bum ass up. You know, but I get time for you flying somewhere. But point being is that, yeah. Yeah, I mean, they have their cars there.

And my guess is he probably still has an apartment in Sugarland or some sort. I mean, that's where he's, you know. You could drive from Sugarland to Diken Park every day. I think he's like bunked up with, I don't know, J.P. France or somebody. Or that Miguel Uliola. Miguel Ullola. Ullola. I better get that down.

You better. You can be in the rotation next year. I got Romon Uriyes all taken care of. Knock that out. Yes. Beautifully. That's wonderful. So Blue Ball is going back to Sugar Lane.

Yes. What's wrong with that? Well, it's just tough. You go to Miami, indoor stadium, five-star hotel, you fly home, not only you're going back to the miners, you're in the same city,

so you're going to see the Astro stuff all over the place, and you're outside playing. I mean, it is professional baseball. He's still getting paid, so there's worse thing to do in life. Yeah. I still feel bad for him.

I don't feel bad for him. I do. He's going to be fine. But he was used. and used very well yesterday. He pitched well. See in Sugarland. Or, I don't know, Reno or Sacramento or wherever they are.

I don't know, but, oh, no, I think they're home tonight. The Space Cowboys? Yeah. And if they are, you should go to our friends over to Taggart Brewing, which is right next door. We're going to be there on Friday from 10 o'clock in 10-2. We are? Yeah.

What are we going to be doing, Matt? Four hours of amazing sports talk. Okay, don't lie to the people. Brian McTagel will be on with us on the phone. Oh, he's not going to be. there? Channel Rome may come by. Really? He was thinking about it. Okay. And then the Astros put the Yankees at

six. It's a Rappel Revy game, which means if you don't have Rappel, you are going to be in a good spot. Rappel Revy. Okay. Well, I got the free trial last Friday. When does it end? You did? Yeah. Why don't you just come to the house? We've got every channel.

We can come here. Just give me your login. I'm not going to do that. Why not? Just come to the house. Give me your login. Because you're going to want to passing it on to your brother and your sister and your mom and your dad and your cousins and neighbors. What makes you say that? Because you're a passer honor. That's not true.

All right. Other things going on today. So again, we want to see you at Talia Brewing this Friday Imperial Boulevard in Sugar Land 10 o'clock until 2. Ross will be wearing something Texas related. I'll be wearing probably a U of H gear. I'll probably be wearing a 790 polo like I did last time. I got a couple of those. I only got one.

I've been here like 15 years and got one. That's not true. I'm just saying. You've got a pack of those Kobe Stevens ones. Well, that's true. Thanks, Kobe. Yeah, stop lying. That's Dan's guy.

Yeah, I heard Dan talk about it today, as a matter of fact. Okay, so at the Texans practice, Cam Robinson was wearing a jersey. Am I supposed to get excited about that? Yeah. He's supposed to suck, right? No, he's supposed to be the placeholder. For whom? Arionte Ersary.

I thought he was at right tackle. Yeah, but, okay, he's the left tackle placeholder. the air apparent to left tackle is on air attack. Come on now. Do you think people get, do you think, and this is a loaded question. Does the average fan, could you name

the offensive line left or right? And do they really even care? I don't know. I don't know, Matt. Okay, let me continue on. Well, the, Nick Chubb did not practice today. Damien Pierce got first team reps. It sounds like to me of what they did in West Virginia was

just a button, they didn't go through full guard. They just walk through a bunch of things today. So it sounds like it was pretty light. They'll have a full workout tomorrow, and then they go to Minneapolis on Friday and play the Vikings on Saturday. I'll put it this way. If the Texans had one of the best offensive lines in football,

I think the more of the average fan would be able to name them. I'll give you an example. I mean, who's going to talk about Lakin Tomlinson and Juice Grugs? Right. When the Texans had an awesome line. Remember when they won the three straight, we knew who Mike Bryzell was. We knew who Eric Winston was.

We knew who Chris Myers was. Give me a couple of others. Dwayne Brown. There's one more we're missing. Who are we missing? Ed Wade, not Ed Wade. Something where the guy from the Chiefs, he was good. Wade.

Wade. Wade. Wade Miley. No, it was not Wade Miley. Oh, his daughter plays volleyball. Wade, oh, God. Wade Smith. Wade Smith.

We knew those guys, yeah. Mm-hmm. But if you suck, we don't really care who you are. Just get out. No. Until you, like, really suck. And you're getting, you're getting destroyed for three sacks. Then they know your name.

That's not a good way. Guess who we knew more than anybody else last year? Kenyon Green. Well, we knew him and we also knew Laramie Tunsell. One, because he's selfish. Two, he's not a real team captain. Number three, he doesn't go to minicamp. He was voted by the players.

But the players were, that was ridiculous. They were forced to pick him. No, players aren't forced to pick him. Oh, my God. Laramie Tunsel walks from him and says, I better be captain. Oh, hell yeah, that's going to happen. What are they going to do? He's going to miss even more practices.

He said, I'm going to go false start every play if you guys don't vote me captain. So a captain actually could have happened. So a captain doesn't show up to OTAs. He's a captain who doesn't show to minicamp. A captain doesn't show up and creates problems in the offensive line room. Bologna, he wasn't a captain. You may have gotten it, but he wasn't a captain. Got his ass out of here.

Good for you. You know, that's why I'm a Texans fan. Uh-oh. Because at least, you're not a Texan fan. Because at least Amico realize he got to get rid of the bad seeds in there. And bring in Cam Robinson. Great. Probably a swelter fellow, but he's not a good enough player.

It's all about Texans culture. Okay. Culture is all cool until Miles Garrett's on the other side. Oh, God, don't bring that up. Texans by the Cowboys this year? No, so we're... I don't think so. Micah Parsons ever going to show up again, or is he...

Is this been one long negotiating ploy? Jerry Jones said it's not likely he's signed, right? I don't know. So, like, you know, in the world of wrestling, they call it a work, where they create a storyline that's not really a storyline, could this be a work between Jerry Jones and Micah Parsons? To what end? Then he shows up, signs a contract, and it's kumbaya, he's good. Just to get the fans all revved up? I don't feel like that's the case, but I'm just throwing that out there.

I'm going to say, I don't think so. I don't think so either. I think he wants his cash. I wouldn't get the, that would be an I just don't get it, I guess, if you're trying to, up interest and keep the Cowboys on ESPN every morning. I guess that does work. Are the ESPN, are the Lakers and the Cowboys and LeBron ever going to get off of ESP? No.

You know why? Because people watch it. That gets them the most ratings. People always complain about the content. Guess what? Like if you put on ESPN between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. How much baseball are you getting? Very little.

Very little. Stephen A. Smith talking about inside-out swings. Like, who's the hottest team in baseball right now? It has been for about a month, two months now. The Marlins? No. Oh. The Brewers?

Brewers. I can't imagine Stephen A. Smith getting into a deep dive of Milwaukee Brewer Baseball. I would say that is very, very unlikely, Matthew. It feels like to me, in the last two years of watching those morning shows, it has been Aaron Rogers, LeBron James, Cowboy-related. and Jets related when Mike Greenberg hosts a show. Other than that, be damn with everybody else. Oh, Pat Mahomes gets probably quite a better run too, right?

Yeah. You stick with those five topics. You've essentially given you ESPN's programming for 10 months a year. That's what they keep doing. That's what keeps getting them ratings. But it's all about to change because Kevin Durant's going to be wearing rocket gear. And again, I call that short-sighted. You have to build things out.

You have to make the fans care about stuff. Yeah, grow. Because you know what? I got news for you. You all know this that are good baseball fans. We're going to have the most, may not be the game to me the biggest. We're going to have the most uncertain postseason

in maybe Ross, the history of you and I doing this show. You could name four teams in National League that can easily win it. You could name sick teams easily in the Marinling that can win the World Series. No, I think it's the Astros. Well, I mean, I hope it's the Astros. And it's everybody else.

I like your positivity. As long as your Don's healthy. All right. One Boston rookie gets a big contract. How does it impact Cam Smith? We'll tell you about that after I tell you about Uptown Appliance Repair. All right. Roman Anthony Ross.

You know who that is? Yes. Was one of the top prospects in baseball? He's an outfielder for the Boston Red Sox. He has played 41 games this year, 46 games. for the Boston Red Sox. OPS and okay.

28. His B-Wore is 1.8. That's pretty good. Explain the audience what a B-Wor is. There's different types of war. Wars wins above replacement. There's B-WR which is done by baseball reference. That's more tailored to on-field results.

F-Wore is kind of, I would say, that's FanGraph's War. That's more of like, more about batted ball than actual results and stuff like that. And there's also a baseball prospectus war, which is purely on, it throws away any sort of outcome of anything. And I don't know if that makes sense. For example, if a guy has a really high XBA or something like that, he had good expected outcomes,

you're going to be ranked the highest probably on baseball prospectus's definition of war. They try to make it pretty, I don't know. No, you did too much in the weeks. You did okay. That's good enough. So his B-war is 1.8. is OPS 828. And I know what APS. OPS. I don't care what B-WR is.

OPS is 828. If you get a war of like seven or eight, you're one of the best players in baseball. Okay. So two and 40-something games is very good for a young player. He is getting a contract that will start in 2006. This is according to, I'm going to mention who it is, include significant escalators that could make the maximum value of the deal worth $230 million. So they're buying out many years of arbitration and probably what three or four years of his free agency period.

Yeah. I don't know if it's exactly how long it is. Okay. Same class as Cam Smith. Yeah, depending on where you look, he was either the number one or number two prospect in baseball. Cam Smith is 22 years old. So he's a year older. That makes a big difference.

OPS is significantly different at 702 in his B-war. in 98 games is 1.7. So this B-War is slightly down. The OPS is significantly smaller. Yeah, and if you've played double the amount of games, the theory, if you're with one guy... Sample size, right, yeah. So he should have accrued, if he was on pace,

he should have accrued double the amount of war that he has because he's got about double the amount of games. Ouse, that makes sense. It's not a great indicator then. So I guess what everybody's trying to do, the baseball world's trying to connect, do the Astros, do something close? to what Roman Anthony is getting from the Red Sox.

And we don't have a comment on that because, again, I'm terrible when it comes in numbers. I don't know what I guess. No, stop. What? It's got two years left. We're not talking about Jeremy. I'm talking about Cam Smith. Eight years, $130 million.

Does all the arbitration in two years of, a couple years of free agency. Well, if it's after next year, then, yeah, then it's three, right? Three years of free agency. Yeah, yeah, it starts at 26. It's a year. Because you get your, you have to be a six-year player. Yeah, eight years. Three years are frenzy.

8.130. I mean, those last three years are going to look really nice on the bottom line, but you are way overpaying for what his number would be. Yeah. Arbitration, at least during the arbitration years. Just throwing it out there. If his OPS is what I tell you is in the mid-828 and Cam Smith is 7-02, but if I'm Cam Smith agent, I want 8-130. Well, good luck.

Not thought of as a prospect and not having the results. But the Astros, if he has that breakout season, because he's going to get past all this freshman, I played a lot of games, that would then come into play. Do they think Cam Smith's going to be a good player? Is Cam Smith a cornerstone right filter for this team? Or could he be a cornerstone third basement ultimately?

Defensively, yes. I would say, I don't think he's gone. I mean, we'll see. But he's been, right field has been fitting him like a glove. It absolutely has. And here's the thing. He can fill this position

and you need a really good arm in third. In right field, you need your best outfield arm at third base, and there's nobody in the Astros organization. I don't think Jacob Mellon's considered to have a prime arm. Is that correct on that? I don't think so.

He's athletic. He can run and chase stuff down. But Jake Myers doesn't have a good arm. Chas McCormon doesn't have a good arm. He's who Sanjou, Ches throws the wrong base. But other than that, come on, man.

Okay, well, just throwing out there. 8.130 for a guy who's OPS is 125 points out. 1.8 war in 46 games is pretty insane, actually. So money well spent. Well, who knows? TBD.

The Red Sox, it's a risk for both sides. Anthony, good morning. You're good afternoon. Hey, good afternoon, guys. I do have an Astros question for you, but first I wanted to comment on the ESPN, the national shows. You guys were talking about, you know, six or seven years ago, you know, I would wake up. The first thing I would do is turn on first take. But these days, like, I mean, you got these guys, y'all disagree on everything. You all have to yell and Vicker about everything.

Everything's a hot take. How many years do I have to listen to Dan Orlowski rank Justin Herbert in a top five quarterback? just because he plays for an L.A. team. These shows are garbage these days. I'm sorry if you guys like watching those, but it all feels scripted. It all feels like we have to argue about everything.

And it's all L.A., New York, and Patrick Mahomes walks on water. I mean, I'd much rather listen to you guys or Sean or the Adams. But, yeah, those shows are not what they used to be. but my Astros question is Matt, I asked you all yesterday what you thought, who would play where if the Astros get healthy.

Today I want to ask you with what they have right now and I would like to include Christian Javier and that because we know he's coming back. With what they have right now, do you guys think that this team can win the ALCS and make it to the World Series? We'll answer that.

Oh! In a moment. because we owe the audience the lineup with Alvarez. Okay. Oh, yeah, we're supposed to do that. I don't think I can do that. I'm doing it. You do it.

Can I disagree with you or disagree with you? Sure, why not? Okay. The question was posed to us just a minute ago from our good friend Anthony. Can the Astros win the American League Championship if everybody gets back healthy? All right, we're about to pose the lineup for the Astros. Ross is going to do it.

I'm going to be a conscientious objector to this. Conscientious injector. Yeah. Why? Because. When did you get so soft, man? You know my reasons. Hey, come on.

We can run through the lineup. I don't know why I'm talking like that. Why are you on 66 WFA? Yay. Aaron Judge needs to get Tommy John. Stupid-ass Yankees can't even beat the Rangers. By the way, Isock-Bredis has been transferred to the 60-day injured list. It's just paperwork.

It's fine. Yeah. It's fine. He's not playing again this year. He might. It's my gut. It tells me no. By the way. I think I'm going to be right. I don't if you care about this.

CBS announced their announcer crews for the first three weeks of the season. Week one, Texans at the Rams. Kevin Harlan, Trent Green, and Melanie Collins. Kevin Harlan? Kevin the Goat Harlan. He's great. That's a, oh, hell yeah. Trent Green's fine, and Melanie Collins is fine.

Okay. All right. Let's do the Astros lineup, please. Well, quick. Week two Monday night football, so it'll be Joe... Trey, and Joe Buck and the gang. Week three Texans at Jaguars, you get one guess. Spiro Ditas? Spiro Ditas, exactly. Adam Archiletta. There you go.

You got it. Do they just have real estate here at this point? Poor Spiro. He's done more Texans Jaguars. Yeah, he's going to make the Texans. in Jaguars Hall of Fame. He's going to have a jersey, both of them retired. Put him in the Ring of Honor next.

Him and Aaron Foster. Him, Andrew Catalan, and Gus Johnson before he became big. That's all the three guys at the game. Steve Tasker, former friend of the show. All right, Ross, time for you as me as a conscientious objector to create the beautiful Astros healthy lineup.

Go. Okay, Matt. Leading off at short, it is Jeremy Pena. Batting second for the Houston Astros. At second base, if it's not Frommberghout, is a heavy ground ball pitcher. It's going to be Jose Altuve. Batting third, designated hitter,

Yordon Alvarez. Batting cleanup, at the hot corner, it will be Carlos Correa. Batting fifth at the cold corner, it will be Christian Walker. Okay. Batting sixth, depending on the headness of the pitcher,

but we'll go with Yiner Diaz. Could be Victor Caratini in this spot or a little bit of shuffling. He will be a catcher. Batting seventh, Jesus Sanchez in a lift. field batting 8th, Cam Smith and right field, this is nice, isn't it?

And then batting ninth, it'll be your center fielder, Jake Myers, Maricio Dubon, Taylor Tremel, depending on the handedness of the pitcher is. The ninth is to be determined. Yes. That's a sexy ass lineup, isn't it? Cam Smith in the eight hole? Now, if Altuva, if they don't want

Altuvae at second, you stick him in left, and then you go platoon between Sanchez and Cam Smith, depending on what's happening there. and then maybe you fit in Ramon Urius. Ureus. You got options. It feels good. Okay, let me just be blunt.

It sounds spectacular. Dude. It sounds like to the previous call, Anthony, you can win the American League with that. Absolutely. Hunter Brown on the mound. In that lineup, I just read you? Oh, let's run.

Dobs. Go ahead and run that four-man rotation for the playoffs, by the way. It will be Hunter Brown, Farber Valdez. Spencer Arrigetti and Christian Javier. You know, the guy that was part of a World Series no hitter. That guy.

Got the rise ball, El Repetil, unfazed by playoffs, unless it's game seven against the Rangers and he's out in like two innings. Four is to be determined. Okay. So what? You got options. Luis Garcia. I got a wild card for you.

Brandon Walter. Four, bullpen game. No, it's not going to be a bullpen game. You can't win a playoff with one of your guys being a, one of your games being a bullpen every time out. Now, the Astros did win a bullpen playoff game before. The Detroit Tigers won a bullpen playoff game before. They certainly did.

But you can't win multiple bullpen games. Guys, it's happened. They've got a bullpen games. I mean, I'm sure I can find some history for that if we did enough digging. It's not ideal. Nope. But the Astros have options, I think. We'll see what happens, of course.

The health of the team on August 6th, let's just be honest, is not going to be the same health of the team come October 6th. Because we're presuming that every single player that is hurt is now healthy. And that no one's going to potentially get hurt. And no one else is going to get hurt somehow. What? What's with these deep size? I just gave you a lineup where the ninth place hitter is hitting like 307.

With an OPS comfortably over 700, he's got speed. He's getting a lot of contact. He can turn over the lineup. And then get on base for Penaultuvae Alvarez to keep the, ball of rolling. Now personally I would even put Alvarez in the second spot actually. I am pleased with your lineup. I think there was a reason why the Astros went for starting pitching. Don't be scared, Maddie. Who's your second right-handed reliever? Who cares? All these lefties can get righties out. I can go bring out the platoon splits to all of them. Now,

that's maybe a blanket statement that's not true and I'm being flippant. It sounds good. Yeah, but I can say with confidence and then pretend it's true. It's 2025. I got one for you. You need another the right hand reliever. Do you want... Caleb Oort? Do you want... Don't even say it. You better not say where I think you're going to might say. All right. I won't say... It doesn't... Go ahead. Bion Messley. Oh, come on.

He just got DFAed. Astros apparently, according to Bob Nightingale, we're kicking the tires. I'm sure the tires are being kicked on league minimum. I'd rather have... Hey, Hectorneris? Now, he's going to be gone. He can be gone. You'd rather... Look. Hector Naira's got DFA'd too. Ryan Presley was literally let go.

He's not good. He's 36 years old. He was slipping when he came here, and he's done slipped off the rock. Ask the Chicago Cubs. Can A.J. Blue Ball be my second reliever? You're a second right-handed reliever? No.

Look, I'll bring up the platoon split to everybody. But it feels like Susa and Ocurt have been very good at getting Ritey's out. And that's just my gut feeling. I can get the actual numbers. Okay. I'll go with it. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90

Ross, what is today's edition and believe we're not coming up in about 55 minutes from now. Okay, righties are hitting Bennett-Suzza a little bit. Let me go to Stephen Okert. No, you're all right. 691 opponent OPS. Not great this year against righties.

Stephen Ocert, 523 opponent OPS. 4-41 against lefties, 523 against right-es. O'Kert's my second Ritey. What's up? We're done. Line up is set. Who's going to be the one that tells Lance McCuller is not in the playoff roster?

Joe Espada. It better be. I mean, is even on the 40-man come playoff time. It doesn't matter. As long as you're in their organization, you can be. And so you're saying you'd be flat out just released. By the way, just for those of you know, September. 1st, as long as you're in the organization, by September 1st, you can play in the playoffs.

Doesn't matter if you're on the 40 man or not, as long as you're in the organization. What, what's the matter? You give me a sturdy look. Brian King versus righties, 592 opponent OPS versus lefties? 929? No, that's made up numbers. Make this up. Ross is making up numbers.

1258. Because of Brian King getting your right, he's out too. Sports talk 70. Final hour. Believe it or not, Brian Boga-Sovic, Brian and Friendswood, and you, 7-13, 212, 5790. 103 on Sports Talk 790. This is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. I know Ross so well that when he tells me things, I can read him beautifully like, oh, that's really going to happen or that's no chance, no way.

You all see. We just had an argument about something that I know I'm going to be right about. It's a new day. It's a new dawn. And we can't discuss what it is. A new life for me. It's just, you know, like Jonathan, if you were to wear this more than a year, we'll probably feel the same way about you about a variety of things. But I've been working with him for 15 years.

You just know somebody. All right. Shut your bum ass up. How was Ross when you first met him? 24. How old was? No, how was. Oh, how was I?

Polite, nice, respectful. A lot more optimistic. This business has sat the life out of me. He feels like his life is over as a performance. Oh, my God. Man, I've tried to get him to places. I've tried to get him jobs in, like, Columbia, Missouri. In Vermont.

You must have said bad things. Montpelier, Vermont. You couldn't even get me a job in Minneapolis. That's when I knew you were just telling people behind my back that I was no good. I couldn't send you to Minneapolis. It's too cold. Too cold. You're looking out for you.

Yeah, you're right. Thank you. I expect that, Matt. I didn't realize. Now, I knew Brian, I thought Brian King was pretty good at getting righties out, but I didn't know he's so bad at getting lefties out. in the two years is the Astros, 757 OPS against against lefties.

They call that reverse platoon splits, folks. I understand what they call it. I know you do. Are we going to get outs or not? We. Brian King, they're getting righties out. It's all good. Brian King and O'Ker can get righties out.

So you want no Presley? No. You don't want playoff Presley? Playoff Presley's been very good, but that was a long time ago. I'm sure Dennis Eckersley was great in the playoffs. We're not going to go sign them up. Okay.

I would agree with you, but I'm just saying he's going to be... No. He's going to be thought of. If Nightingale says the tires are being kicked, the tires are being kicked. Yeah, I'm sure he's probably boys with Jim Crane. Jim Crane's going to make it happen. By the way, pitching rotations have been set for some of the series against the Yankees. Friday Hunter Brown versus win.

Cam... Say his last name. Robinson? No. Smith? No, of the Yankees. What? Go ahead. You say it. Go ahead. Litter?

Schlitter? Cam Schlitter. Okay. So it's brown versus the... It's brown and schlitter? It's brown and slitter? Brown and Schlitter. Hmm. Saturday.

Valdez versus Gill. Sunday, it's TBA versus Max Free. Don't call him fried. So Brown Shud. later on Friday, huh? Happens. You're such a child. You'll be embarrassed. I learned from you. I didn't teach you anything. I didn't say it that way. You wouldn't even say his name.

How's our more yeast doing by the Texans, by the way? I'm sure he's rising to the top. That boo. Ooh, you got a boo from him. I get booed from him like weekly. Come on now. That was the easy pickings. You got a thing more clever than I guess. He asked how he's doing.

Oh, is that a pun? I didn't even realize. Hey, that's more funny. Brian and Friendswood at 106, Brian, thank you for joining us in this show. We call the Matt Tomasel Ross. How are things? I'm great. How are you? Good. I was just giving you guys a call because I had some thoughts on our prospect down there in Sugarland, Miguel Uola.

I just was wondering what his availability would be in the back end of our pin. Well, he's a starting pitcher. Now, the difference is, and thank you for the phone call, Brian. I looked at some of his splits. He doesn't go deep in games. They don't normally do that for minor leakers, yeah. No, whether they're preserving the arm or they don't want to stretch him out, I don't know what they're anticipating him being,

but hasn't he started the entire season for them or most of the season? He's got some five-inning starts. I'm trying to pull up his home and road splits. but he's got pretty good numbers but he would be what the fourth different guy if he if the Astros brought him up at any point this year he'd be the fourth different guy coming out of there

no more than that more than that you got Walter Gordon Gusto blue ball that's four and front of the show Jason Alexander Jason Alexander at home Miguel Uyola has great numbers nine games eight starts

1.7 ERA how many innings in those eight starts uh 37 in nine games. So he's going about four-ish. That's, yeah, that's... I don't know. The numbers don't jive to that.

Yeah. On the road, 10 starts 518 ERA. Whippa 1-6-5-6. How many in those 10 games? 41. Oh, yeah, he doesn't go deep at all. Don't clip that. That was just a generic baseball terminology.

Last time out, he went five in a third inning. against the Tacoma rainiers and gave up two earn runs. Okay. You know what, you know what this team, Rossi, I'm not kidding when I say this. Go ahead, sorry. The Astros need somebody that's going to go seven

and not sweat it out at all. And that's why Framber is so valuable. And that's why Hunter Brown is so valuable because they're the only two guys. You don't think Arrogate is going to give you seven innings tonight. There's no chance no way, no hell. Last three starts, Uiola's walked five guys each start.

Oh. Pitches 86, 89, 92, 91. He's been throwing 90 pitches. It got up to 98 at some point. So the pitch count's been getting up there. So he's got... He's a little polished. He's only 23. Yeah, I don't... Yeah. I don't think I've heard any rumblings of him being on the cusp. Yeah. Sounds like control issues a little bit. The name that was probably brought up more this off, this past off season than anybody else was Blue Ball. And he just been only given two opportunities. And as we talked about before, he got passed up a couple of times. He was good last time out. and got rewarded by throwing 97 a bunch last night

but the trip back to Sugar Land right after the game. Yeah. And the team playing probably not on the team plan, right? Because somebody was tweeting because they're going to New York. Or they get the day off. They're going home first. I forgot about that.

He's flying commercial back. They're going to New York. Anybody going to pick him up? Now, I wonder. Miguel Uyola. Because if you are a, and these are the things I've never asked, I need to ask the traveling secretary for the team. If you're hurt and you fly commercial,

you're going to fly first class. They're not putting Yordan Alvarez and coach between Houston and West Palm Beach. Doesn't it depend also, like what injury you have? Like, can't you, if you have some kind of different injuries, you're not supposed to fly because of the pressure change or something? Well, how is he going to get from Houston and West Palm Beach? Am I thinking too much about Deshawn Watson and his punctured lung and how he had to take a bus? Is that not happening? Is that not happening any other injury?

No, I can't guarantee it. Me either. Put it this way. The only way Yorda went from Houston to Florida is either first class. or on a crane private plane. Well, he's on a plane with the father of a listener who says he's got a fracture and he's going to be missing time. Remember that false report? Oh, well, I mean, he still hasn't been seen yet.

I don't want to crush the kid. He's only being reported what his dad told him. But yeah, so if you get demoted, you have to go back and coach. I guess it's what the team, I guess what team spent on the- You're probably giving him first class. Or maybe using miles. You can get him bumped up. Jim Crane's using his miles.

Maybe Blue Ball. You know, since you did pitch a way, so we'll give you a economy plus. You should not travel via plane if you've had a recent fracture. So he's okay. There's no way Yoron is taking a car or a train

to Florida. Any recent injury where trapped or air or gas may be present in the body? That's daily for me. Chest or abdominal surgery? Nope. Not an issue. eye surgery sore hand that's what he's got ross that's it unresolved pneumothorax let the man gis get down to florida safely comfortably i don't care if he takes a bus or a plane as long as he's

getting his hacks in well he's as the term is being used he's going he's going through a hitting progression yes jake myers is running on flat ground that sounds like a good thing i don't know why he's got to go uphill. Tals Hill's gone but he's on flat ground. Who we see in first of the three? Yordon. Yordon. Jake? Yordon.

Peridus. Yordon. Promise? You'd put them in order. Paredes we're going to see in March of 2026. On the Astros or somewhere else? No about that.

You weren't ready for that question. I was it, but I'm going to say well, if you trade him, he'd have to have the most thorough physical examination by multiple doctors. Obviously it would be contingent on passing a physical. Yeah. But he's been traded twice already.

So it's not like it's, you've got a friendly contract still has years left. And it'd be a gut feeling hit for you. And it would be. And you have it and you've got a log jam on your 2026 infield. Somebody's not going to be here. Hell, do you move Bryce Matthews because prospects are prospects? First daughter. For a starting pitcher?

Or starting pitch? Just throwing it out there. but do you even need a starting pitcher next season if Garcia and or Javier and or arrogating? You need starting pitchers. We this year. Well, yeah, you need a starting pitcher because you're already losing Framber.

We're down to about Oh, come on. Eight starts left for Fromber as an Astro? Plus playoffs? I want him to be good in the playoffs because he's had some playoff meltdowns. We just bunt towards his way and he unfortunately can't fill this position.

Jimmy Williams, former Astro manager, would just lose his mind when his pitchers could not field their position. Well, then he wouldn't like Framberv out this. He was a cranky SOB. God, I hated him. He would love Zach Crinky. Oh, for sure.

Gold Glove guy. Absolutely. All right. 114 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212. 5-7. I have Brian Bogussevick coming up in 15 minutes. Rossi was said he's edition of Believe it or not. Oh, my God.

Are we still doing that? Yes. We've done it for 14 plus years. I don't know. Who dies? Let's do Lonnie Anderson part two. We're not doing eight more Lonnie Anderson questions. Why not?

Trying to think, what's the most? Again, Red Zone, no. WWE, no. Howard Stern is losing his deal. It's serious. Believe it or not, Howard Stern? No. How many episodes?

Have you listened to a long-term Howard Stern? I used to watch that show on E. I listened for those long-term interviews, but I don't listen for just the general banter. It was that Brooke show and that Howard Stern show back-to-back on E. There's some good times. Really? Yeah. Were you alone?

No? You weren't? Oh, that's even better. It was at the bar. Oh, no, that's a lie. You were at home in front of your couch. 114-7-19. 7-13-213-2-5-7-90.

121-7-9. We'll visit with Brian Bogus-Evick coming up in about 10 minutes from now. Congratulations to a young lady by the name of Jen P-A-W-O-L, P-O-L, Would that be how you pronounce it, Rossi? Powell, maybe? Sure, no, sure, why not? She will be the first... Paul Wall.

Not Paul Wall. The people's champ. Powell. My chain light it go like a lamp. Because he's back with the camp. I don't know what anything that means. We'll make history this weekend. She's the first woman to be an umpire and a regular season MLB game.

She will be working the Marlins Brave series in Atlanta this weekend. Congratulations. Ben A in the minor league since 2016, boy. I'll tell you, you think it's hard. being a major league or getting up to the big leagues. They, the minor leaguers, there's only a handful of jobs open per decade. Really? Yeah.

Once those guys get in, look, how many years it'd take finally for Angel Hernandez to get his ass fired? A long time. Las Diaz sucks, always has. CB Buckner sucks always has. There's probably others. Uh-huh. Those guys get to get their jobs. 26 years for Las Diaz.

And 26 years of missed calls. He went to the her. Wendlestet umpire school in 1991. Do you know that he and I could have been classmates? I was going to go to the Wendlestead school. You were? Where is it? It's in Florida.

But you got denied? No, I just... You had to send in an audition video? Ha! That's how I would do it? That's like a strike! Is it like getting into Juilliard school?

You had to tape yourself? I did. I would have a great strike call. No, how does one get it? You just pay the fee, right? the field. Okay. I was wondering. There's no denying. Now, if the camp fills up,

they're not going to put 9,000 people out there, but if the camp fills up, you don't get in, but you have to win, you know. Did you get way listed? I graduated in May. Where did you say it was, St. Louis? No, in Florida. Okay. June of 1990, and I should have gone. I think there's also a camp in Arizona, too. Different camps.

They have them during spring training. No, they do them in the off season. Oh, they do them in the off season? Yeah. And of like, of like, of like, a hundred people that, that probably go to these camps, they maybe grab two or three. I mean, it's,

it's tough. So can you keep going every year to try to keep making it? And who does the hiring? There's like some guy from like the PCL? Wendlestadt or somebody else that runs a, will say these umpires are worthy of hiring and major league baseball will say,

minor league baseball will say, yes, we'll hire them. I don't know if there's a direct connection, but there is a, who do you have? We'll take them. Okay, let's say,

and then, let's say you're a minor league umpire do you float around the same league or do you stay in one stadium you stay no you stay you stay in one league just it's just like them it's just like baseball players single a double a triple a okay and she's been doing it since 2016 she was a triple a empire in 2024 crew chief this past year and she now gets a chance to do oh good for her yeah so it's tough especially we got sucky umpires in front of you waiting yep because father time goes a lot slower for umpires you got 59 your own umpires you don't have 59 year old players that's true so it's it's tough joe west was waddling out there

for a long guy so out of shape terrible umpire screwing hose el tuva in that playoff game but i don't i'm not bitter andrew on seven on a hello andrew hey how's it going good hey uh so uh things are taking my call long time listener first time caller thank you just wanted to play uh devil's advocate on something uh i hear a lot of the rumblings about injuries and potential mismanagement by training staff and I tend to take the view that I'm a layman and I don't understand you know even as big of a fan as I am I don't really understand force injuries as well as someone on a professional staff might but with like you know the incredible amount of injuries we've seen this year out for the Astros I understand the grumbling

but I have a question on whether or not it might be good strategy to keep injury injury news on the down low in terms of a strategy for opposing dugouts, not knowing what's going on. And I'll take my answer off the air. What player are you talking about? A player in particular. Yeah, is there any player in particular? Well, the way that the Alvarez injury has been handled has me questioning my take on whether or not. Yeah, I was going to say, there's your classic.

There's your answer right there, Andrew. Thank you for the phone call. I'd need to do that to you, but they had to do it to you. No, hiding injuries makes you think you're the smartest guy in the room. It just makes you sound foolish. I mean, the asteros have been crushed for two years public relations-wise because of their being not very forthcoming.

And they've certainly in the last two months' chance. They've done it a lot better. Yeah. Yeah, you can't hide. And it takes a lot of the pressure off of Joe Spada and Dana Brown. They don't have to ask all the answer all these questions every single time. They're in front of people. And it also takes pressure off the player if you just tell the truth.

if Kyle Tucker's injury would have been reported the way accurately to begin with, we wouldn't be going, whoa, why is Kyle Tucker such a wuss? Some people were, yeah. KJ on 790, hello, KJ. What up, fellas, as usual, man,

my typical greetings love to show. I always listen, even if I don't call in. Thank you, friend. I had a quick question for you. I'm typically a realistic situation in regards to what we're seeing on the field, but I'm going to put my optimistic hat on today. Okay.

I'm getting, I genuinely understand the concern that a lot of people have with the ways the defense has been dog walking the offense as far as training cap is gone so far. I'm looking at it like this, and maybe I'm being a little bit too optimistic, but my take on it is this. I genuinely believe the Texas will have a top five, if not number one type defense this coming season. Would you agree? That sounds good?

Okay. If you're going against a defense like that on a regular basis, on a day-end, day-out basis, you're not going to face a team with a Daniel Hunter and Will Anderson on each end every game, or a Camari Lassler or Derek Stingley on the outside backed up with a C.J. Gardner Johnson and Petrie every game. I mean, you have literally all three levels on defense. You have all pro players. And you're just not going to see that maybe two or three times over the course of a season this coming year. So if that's the case, you're basically setting your offense up to, yeah, they're struggling, but they're not going to see those type of defenses on a regular basis. And my hope is, and I use the word hope loosely,

my hope is that because they're seeing such a strong defense, that when the season opens, they're not seeing those type of defenses, the offense will be better prepared for it. And I had one take, a question I wanted to ask you guys, in regards to the Astros. What is the contract status? I asked you yesterday, Ross, about Pena, and you clarified that one for me.

What is the contract status for Yano Diaz, Parades, and Christian Walker? Because I'm trying to see how long we're going to be able to keep this infield together because I see us having the best defensive infield in baseball next year if everybody is healthy. Yonah, not included. But I still want to know his contract status, because although he's subpart defense,

offensively, he's above average at catcher. So I just wanted to know the contract status on the end field moving forward. Thanks, man. Love the show, guys. See you, KJ. Real quick. Walker has two years left. D.S. has still got arbitration years left, correct? Three or three years after this year.

Six, seven, eight. And as far as the first part of the question is, the Texans defense will be top five. But there's also a lot of good defenses in the NFL. You need your offense to show some signs of success against your defense. And the way the rules are, you are going to, even the best defenses,

unless they're like mega elite, yeah, you're going to give up points. Unless you're going to give up points. Unless you're like all-time elite. But I mean, the reports, the first two days out of West Virginia are like sack, sack, intercepted, fumble, overthrow him, minus three. I mean, not great. No, I would have been significantly discouraged. But again, it's just training camp reports. Let's see what they do Saturday. And it won't even be the full, first team versus first. team out there, but it'll give you at least a sign of where the team is depth-wise. Brian Bogus-Evick on the Astros run last night, 131 on Sports Talk 790. Earlier today, I had a chance to catch up with Brian Bogus'evic.

We're going to play a part of that conversation for you right now, and I asked him about what it was like watching this Astros team struggle against the Red Sox losing three games in Beantown. They fly down to Florida, play the Marlins, who just finished sweeping the Ranger or the Yankees and the Astros go in there. and win the first two games of the series against the fish? No, I totally agree. You know, my first kind of thought and reaction to, you know, the last week, week and a half is kind of like,

let's not get too high on, you know, beating up on the nationals and the Marlins. But if you look at what the Marlins have been over the course of, you know, a good chunk of six to eight weeks and what they were doing coming in to this series, you know, the Astros have looked pretty good against a team that's been playing really well. And I think it's the way that they've looked. It's the offense. It's, you know, kind of a different looking team post-trade deadline than we had seen throughout the course of much of the season.

You know, some of that is addition. Some of that is, you know, pain, you're coming back healthy. But I think it's kind of rounding into form. It's certainly not the team that you think of when you say, okay, what's our best? But it's definitely a team that is different. for the better than it was maybe three or four weeks ago. It is amazing to me. Look, this team, I would say more times and not has been offensively challenged.

But there were a night in particular in Boston. We get 14 hits. And so that's supposed to win you baseball games. And that just didn't happen. There's one thing about getting on base, another one getting into scoring. There's really no rhyme or reason to why that is, except for, you know, sometimes your heart of the lineup guys don't come through and sometimes your seventh, eight, nine guys come up with the worst possible times. What is your take on how this team at least get schizophrenically the last

60 days has been so up and down offensively? Yeah, I mean, when you look at the runners in scoring position numbers, whether it be for an individual player or a team or whatever, I, for one, I do not, I try as hard as I can to not diminish hitting with runners in scoring position. because it's not the same as every other at bat. A pitcher is not going to pick you the same with runners in second and third and one out as they are with two outs and nobody out. That's a given. You have to be a better hitter to hit with runners in scoring position. However, when you're looking at over the course of time, over the course of the season,

the greatest predictor of can you hit with runners in scoring position is just can you hit in general? Are you a contact-oriented hitter or team? Do you hit for average as a team or as an individual? individual hitter. And when you have situations where, you know, you're racking up a ton of hits, you're racking up a ton of base runners, maybe for a game or a couple of games you don't drive those runners

in, that can just be attributed to, it's just baseball. Sometimes you hit a line drive at somebody with two outs and, you know, you don't score. But over time, if you're doing the right things, eventually you will hit with runners in scoring position and therefore score a lot of runs.

So when I look at a team, this team post-trade deadline, and what the lineup has been doing in terms of just volume of quality at bat's, volume of guys on base. I think it's a better option, a better chance of scoring a lot of runs consistently than it was, you know, not that too far in the past. Brian Bogus-Evick with us here on 7-19 for his regular Wednesday visit. Bogie, you played with Jose for a very short time, very young part of his career towards the end of yours, and then you've watched him as a broadcaster and as a guy that goes to the ballpark and sees him firsthand. He's still racking up hits.

I think he's going to get to 3,000 hits. It's going to take a lot of work, but I think he's going to get there. But just when people want to all of a sudden say, all right, here comes a significant downturn. And maybe Jose has had that defensively. But his OPS is above 800, yet again. He's hitting home runs. He walks into the ballpark with two hits per night.

Have you noticed anything about his swing changing? Obviously, it's probably slower than it was as a rookie, but he's still getting on base. He's still making solid contact. Is there any noticeable difference than maybe even seven or eight years ago, the Jose L2-based swing that you see now? I think maybe the one thing you could say is that when he's, you know, hunting for power,

he has to become a little bit more pull dominant than he was in the past. And in order to do so, maybe have to have to guess or cheat a little bit more. But that's, I mean, that's a very negligible thing. Nothing with the swing, nothing with the approach. I think at some point, especially when you're talking about this lineup functioning as it should, you know, with everybody back where it should, and he doesn't have to be a power hitter type of guy or maybe later in his career when he doesn't have to be that.

He still has the ability to rack up a ton of hits. He can still, if he wanted to just spray balls the other way and get base hits, he could easily do that. But he's trying to be more of a complete hitter, trying to hit for. power trying to be a middle of the lineup guy. So maybe he has to sacrifice a little bit of risk of swing and miss in order to do that. But, I mean, that's just hitting. Sometimes you've got to give a little bit to get a little bit. And I think that in terms of just pure hitting ability, he's still every bit as good as he ever was.

Bogey, we saw the Astros go with an opener yesterday. And then we saw A.J. Blueball get his second appearance in a major league uniform. And, I mean, he was hit 97, 90, into the gun. I don't know if that's going to be a regular thing for him. But for a guy that goes from his first start many months ago to a guy who got passed up by at least two pitchers, if not more, to get this opportunity again, it looked like he was just very comfortable that the way of the world was off his shoulders and he could just rear back and get people out. Yeah, you know, a lot can happen over the course of whatever it's been three months down in the minor leagues. getting working and he's pitched a lot of innings down there and there have been you know tweaks made and adjustments made and you know if you're sitting when you're sitting down in triple a and you're seeing

guys get called up get called up get called up and it's not you and it's not you and it's not you it'll create a sense of urgency and it'll it'll you know kind of push you to get better and kind of push you to when you do get that opportunity try to make a good impression and i think he certainly did that from a stuff standpoint i mean you can you can go a long way with with high-end stuff. When you're, you know, there's a lot of room for error when you're pitching when it's 97, 98 miles an hour. And it's certainly different than a lot, you know, a lot of guys that we've seen come up.

It's been lesser stuff, but more of a plan, more of an approach for pitching. You know, having a guy who can come up and say, hey, if we need, you know, two, three, four innings where somebody can just go out there and try to blow guys away, here's our option and differentiate yourself a little bit. I'm assuming that you knew that you probably in the back of your mind thought the transition for Carlos going from short to third base will be a piece of cake

and it feels like it certainly has been. Yeah, when you're that talented at a shortstop, I mean there are some nuances to third base. It's a little bit different footwork maybe a couple different arm angles on throws but I mean, if you can play shortstop at the level that he plays shortstop, you can slide

right over to third base and honestly probably pretty much anywhere else on the diamonds. Urius gets an opportunity makes the most of it. You've got now, I think, another additional utility guy, not so much pressure on Dubon to play every single day. It feels like the lineup is coming together, clearly, because the guys are back and noticeably Jeremy would be the first one on that list.

Ross and I want to do this in a few minutes, and we may have time to do so. We're hoping that at some point Yordaun gets into play on this. And if he does, that's the missing piece to this lineup being filthy 1 to 7, right at this point, you think? Oh, absolutely. I mean, he, as good as other guys have been, as nice as the additions are, Jordan coming back healthy and being the hitter that he is, everything then revolves around him. You build your lineup around him, you know, teams game plan around him.

It's also, you know, another left-handed bat that has to be accounted for. And now you're looking at the top half of the batting order being righty-lefty, right-y-lefty. So, you know, looking down the road to a seventh-eighth, ninth inning playing matchups, It makes it really difficult for opposing managers. So, yeah, I mean, you're looking at a lineup that really at some point is going to be, you know, one through eight, one through nine really solid because, you know, you've got guys who, for a good chunk of time, we're hitting, you know, Taylor Shremel hit a bunch of leadoff. He's going to be maybe your nine-hole hitter.

You got, you know, Cam Smith sliding into the seven-hole when he was hitting fourth for a good chunk of time. Victor Caratini, when he's in the lineup, he was your best hitter for, you know, nearly a month during the course of the season. So yeah, you're looking at some real lengths and, you know, yiner's getting it going. So all of a sudden you're looking at a lineup that's really deep and really dangerous in every spot. That again was the one and only, Brian Bogasevick, with us every Wednesday live at 11 o'clock. And we get a chance to replay him here for those of you in the one o'clock hour. We're going to play, believe it or not, next, Ross. What is the category? Googled.

Women-related. Women-related. We're going to honor women. Ooh, I like that. Eight questions about Lauren Shahati coming up today on the program. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply call it B, believe it or not, and here's how it works.

You call 713212-570. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believe it or Not is historical milestones for women. I'll read you on historical milestone. If it really did happen, you'll say this. Believe it. If it didn't happen, you'll say this. Not.

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Believe it. No. In 1963, Valentina Terechkova. Duh. Sally, my guess, is the first American woman, right? You're correct. Okay.

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Not. That is a believe it. Thank you for playing, though. 1805, Rossi? That's crazy. Let me tell you, two things I'm never doing. Never going to a helicopter again And I'm never going on a hot air balloon

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it or not not oh it is i'm sorry all right we're gonna give matt the tickets but we're a little leery got to be a little quicker on the uh believe it or not just saying rossi uh we're gonna be at tagger brewing on friday from 10 o'clock until two we want you to come out there it's imperial Boulevard in Sugarland. We're going to have Astro tickets. We're going to have golf passes and giveaway. It's going to be so much fun. That's on Friday. Not tomorrow, but Friday. Tomorrow, I just don't get it.

Hopefully an Astro sweep and some positive Texas news out of the offensive line. Up next, the real star of the A team. Adam Wexler and his buddy Adam Klein. They're on the way on 790.