The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Weekend Doesn’t Go as Planned; Is This a Pivotal Week? Wolves Even the Series.

Episode Date: May 11, 2026

Astros Weekend Doesn’t Go as Planned; Is This a Pivotal Week? Wolves Even the Series.

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10.1, welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Here on Sports Talk 790 where I try to think of a song to open up the show. We got a few more losses ahead of us, I think the rest of the way. I'm checking out. I want the world to know the Astros may blow. City of Houston. I'm checking out.

I want the world to know. Aragutti can let it go. Kai. Waiting. Went. Too long. The old 3 plus. Yeah.

That wasn't a quality plus start. No. It wasn't light. There was nothing quality about it at the end of the day, unfortunately. You got a quality start plus, though, from Mike Burroughs on Friday. 10 nothing felt good

and then the weekend went down hill I don't want the local line to go two and four per week it's not a great that's 333 baseball It's not a recipe for success but they've been pretty consistent

with it all year long So I guess at least you have that Oh that is terrible That is terrible terrible terrible I mean Eraghetti was pretty good All things considered Braden Shumake

Hitting home runs Yeah Got something I guess I don't know What do you want to tell you? They're 16 and 25. Can I just say that? Yeah, you can say that.

We can swap. We can focus on, I don't know. You want to break down Timberwolf Spurs? We're going to have to. You're a liar. It's probably against our best interest to do that. Maybe better just start doing the summer of fun right away. It's fine.

We're getting close. Once an hour? Giveaways? I don't know. Story time with Jonathan. It is our job. It is our responsibility to keep you entertained and ready to go to sports. Although you do have options, you're like, I don't want to hear this.

I don't want to hear about my Astros baseball team not succeeding. I don't want to hear about the fact that the summer fun is going to come into play. I don't want to hear that there's going to be trade rumors about superstars and second-tier players and worrying about general managers and worrying about managers. How do we feel? Yeah. Well, you know what lets the people know what we want to talk about? 713-212-5-7-90

Maybe some Bobby Cox memories if you'd like It's an open-line summer Did he die or something? Yes, you did. Oh, man. That'll be, should be believe it or not today? I might have that loaded from a while ago. Bobby Cox?

Yeah. Really? That's interesting. Yeah, we're doing famous coxes. Courtney? Bobby. Doey? I'm pretty much...

Cox Communications? Uh, yeah, it's got to be... That guy's got to be a cox. Yeah. I'm sure someone in there is cocks Peacocks? Yeah, that doesn't work. All right. That's fine. That game cocks.

Ross, how was your weekend? Weekend was interesting but good. Okay. Sure, why not? We're going to really peel back the curtain in our lives a little bit. I don't really like doing that, though. I know you don't, so I'll do it. Yeah, so you do it. Go ahead.

At a fantastic Mother's Day lunch with my mother and my wife and my kids and the whole family, so that was nice. That's great. I'll be honest with you. For those of you that have children that are in, I didn't realize graduation party events were such an event. What do you mean? I mean, we are having, we've had the paint down in the house, we've had the siding. We're not siding. We've had, uh, put down a new tile.

I mean, our house is, you didn't have to do all that. I don't disagree with you. Yeah. I do not disagree. The misses. The misses. Well, you know, our house has been 15 years old, so it kind of needed it anyway. So it was kind of a fine.

I'm sorry, I was going to say minute made. Dykins, 27 years old looks good. That's right. We're, we got tents coming in. We've got tables coming in. Yeah, we've got Carly's high school graduation parties. And do you know these graduation parties are themed parties now? No.

What's the theme? I don't know. I thought it was just, hey, come to our house and drop some money off. Student loan debt, is that the theme? Thankfully not with her. It's crazy. It is absolutely crazy. So we got one of our great listeners, Roddy's Barbecue, is going to be catering on Saturday.

That's good stuff right there. Make sure you get some beef rib? I don't know. I didn't order it. You don't know. So you're just signing the checks. I just saw the bill. Yeah.

I'm like, this better be the party for the ages. Oh, wow. You know what? This sounds like it's your fault. You sound like you're being hands off. You sound like a good dad to me, Matt. Thank you very much. Thank you, Jonathan.

He's not involved at all and just cutting the check. I guess that's what a good dad does. But bros don't have grad parties. Did we? Did we? I didn't think... I had high school graduation party, yeah. Had the family came over, we got a mariachi band. Yeah, I don't, I remember having a party. I was graduating and being done with it.

It didn't feel like it was for me. It felt like it was just more for the family to get together and get drunk and go to the pool. Oh, mine was COVID, so I got money in a jar. That's tough. Yeah, I almost feel bad for you. You feel like you need a new round of things you missed out of. Honestly, you got... Jonathan, let me tell you how you missed the boat on everything. Trust me.

You guys got screwed. There's a generational divide between like COVID kids and non-COVID kids. How many different high schools did you have to go to? I went to two. Okay. I was just curious if you had to go to different school because whether it was flooding or COVID or, you know, moving kids in and out of stuff, it was going to be a big deal or not. So, all right. Well, but yeah, COVID kids, I feel bad for y'all.

I do. Yeah, you do get an extra year of eligibility and you get to get to work from home. Every adult around you has got brain fog. Extra eligibility. That just means we had to face 25 years old, 25 year olds. Yeah, that's true. It was worse for us. You're saying grown men.

You were running track against people that had two kids. Literally. And social security accounts. I got you. I got you. All right. So here's the radio program today. 1130 we have to tell the truth and it'll be coming up today.

Are you going to do three? Let me guess three truths in one. You've been mailing it in. Mailing in is not the term. It's not easy. Well, you know what? Not today because I'm not prepared. But let me do next week.

Yeah, and that's fine. Just remind me. Yeah, yeah. I handle it today. We have Missing You at 130 today. Oh, wonderful. Well, we won't be missing Framber Valde as the way he performed it last time. We don't have that last appearance in the missing you files.

Yeah, did you go missing you if you've been suspended for your start? I think the Detroit Tigers are like missing you. They've been missing him too because they also got Terrick scubled down in another pitcher, I think. Yeah. Yeah. They're at a mess. We've got, believe it or not today, which of course should be Bobby Cox. Yeah, we're doing famous coxes.

Oh, who's the Cox that, Nikki Cox that was married to Jay, uh, oh, oh, uh, Jay Moore? The redhead from that. Yeah, that's true. It was the rip off of the show from married her children. Is she okay? Last time I saw her, she looked great. Oh, her and Jay Moore got divorced in 2018.

Yeah, and then he married Jeannie. bus and they live together. That sounds like a great arrangement. Well, I'm sure there was pre-naps and values. They both had their money. I mean, I think they live... I think she's doing a little better jail. I think, yeah. I think they live like in a three-bedroom condo and they have like their own floor or something like that. Yeah, I don't know how much she's making off of those

residuals off the Showtime specials. Well, she's got the 10Billy from the Los Angeles Lakers. Yeah. So she's doing quite well. All right. So the Astros, look, you can't get into a deep dive when a team collects three hits on Sunday. We can break down each one of the hits. Matt Thomas is going to break down each of the Astros three hits. It's all I got to do?

You know what I was doing yesterday when I was looking at the box score? Yeah. I was just looking for like, you know, left on base. Just, you know, box score out watching after the games, what you do. Sure, sure. And I was like, I don't know. It hasn't been published yet. They're runners in scoring position opportunities.

Why did it show up? It's not loading on the box score. they had zero zero opportunities with runners its going position. Could y'all guess that this, in May 11th this is what the aster was going to be? 16 and 25 didn't really see that coming.

I mean, I would say that well, first of all you can't see that Hunter Brown's getting hurt. You can't see the German Pena's going to miss as much time. I mean, there are something like your 4A players if they get hurt, it's fine. I mean, Ben and Sousa going back on the injury.

List again. Everybody's been hurt and then the pitching is bad. I didn't think the pitching was going to be bad. I remember we were coming. We were like, hey, what is our underrated storylines for the Astros? I think the pitching depth's going to be all right, guys. Well, everybody's arm fell off within the first two weeks of the season. So that happened.

So EMA has been an on factor. Hunter Brown, we didn't anticipate getting hurt at all. Right. At least Mike Burroughs is turning around some. But it's kind of been. But the group of Gordon, Alexander, Weiss, Emi. You scored one run in the last two games. You've got nothing out of that group of, what Dana would call depth.

Yeah, the pitching's been good enough to win in the last couple of games, but I mean, Chase Burns is really good, and then you got shut down yesterday. So, yeah, you scored one run in the last two games. Man, Jose Al-Tube's Ops is down to seven. It's not good. Wow. Decline continues. Sorry. I don't know. I'm even going to look at the DRS leaderboard. No, no, no, no, no, no, no need to do that.

Perretti's is OPS 731. It's okay. I mean, you still have got too many guys in your lineup. I mean, it's, the lineup has cooled off considerably. Let me give you an example. Altuvius OPS is 702. OPS should be about 750. 800 puts you in a good category. Alvarez, even despite an 0-4 with four strikeout yesterday.

He was a little in Sombrero. Unfortunate. Pret is OPS is 731. Christian Walker's OPS is 876, which is good to spend over 3 day for him. Cam Smith is OPS as 642. That's not going to cut it for everyday right fielder, it's just not.

Bryce Matthews being your everyday center fielder OPS is 701. Nick Allen playing a lot of the left side of the infield is OPS is 515. That's Nick Allen though. Yeah, it's Nick Allen. Salazar having to get an occasional start. Salazar is Seizar Salazar.

Oof. I mean, Zach Cole's giving you some power. Bryce Matthews, I mean, he's cooling off some, but I mean, he's had a little bit of power too. He's got four home runs. I mean, you're not going to, and I don't think I'm speaking out of school here, you're not going to win a game when the five pitchers that take the hill for you are Ting, Blue Ballton, Murray, and Van Way.

Sweet kids. I'm sure they're lovely heavy beings. But that's not a major league lineup of pitchers that's going to be able to piecemeal you a bullpen game. And it feels like Rossi, we're getting a bullpen game a week at this point. At the end of the day, gave up just five runs, but five run, you know, could have scored. You score zero.

They could have given up one run. It wouldn't have mattered. Yeah. So we have to shake ourselves. We're going to continue to pound it until you get into some positive. at least something because we're going to we can't the summer can't be full of this i don't want to come to you guys on a monday and go here we go again the astros lose i mean that's all right a co-aise peter lambert on the hill tonight in a car way tang bounce i mean sorry tatu yi bounce

back tuesday emai bounce back tuesday how important is this week i put this on the pre-show tweet oh is it a must-win week for the astros i don't i don't want to do that but i do think we need a of start thinking a little bit about this because I think we're not the only ones that have been talking about how important this week is. Because of the fact that you are starting to lose a little bit of more ground in the American League Central, not because you're playing this godawful baseball, but the top team, meaning Oakland, is playing a little bit better. And you cannot continue to hope and pray that the team that is the top of the America League West, i.e., the athletics, is playing at around 500 baseball. And it's not only just the A's you're chasing. You have to, the mariner, they all have to, like, kind of stay stagnant while you surge.

And that's just, that's kind of happening. Well, still, sort of. A's are five and five. Rangers are five and five in the last ten. Mariners are four and six. The angels are four and six and the Astros are five and five. Yeah, but you're slipping and you're five and a half back now. And last week it was, what, three or four?

Yeah. You can go from four to five and a half in a very short period of time. Well, they did. They're tied for last place with the angels. So it's, everybody has to stay. sleep while you wake up. Meanwhile, the Mariners, is Cal Raleigh ever going to hit again? I mean, it was, yes, he will. But it was an outlier year for him last year. There's no doubt about that. All right. We got so lots of really nice people. Steve, Doug, Mark and David,

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This may be one of the most overrated songs in the history of music. When you have to take four minutes to get to the big crescendo the chorus, don't stop believing. It's too long. Let's go. Speaking of not too long. Are you serious?

Shahati's dress is not long enough. As the kids say, are you dead ass? What? I'll take it with a dead asking. It's called building up a song. Building up, it takes four minutes of build up. I know you're used to the two minutes of nursery rhymes and we're out from the Beatles. Let's go to 75 seconds here.

Sometimes you got to build a little something. I don't need to take a nap. Go get some lunch, take a stroll, and then wait for the crescendo. What? The whole song is don't stop believing and you can't believe in until the song's over. I can't believe it's taking so long to get the chorus. Go to one symphony. bro. It's like 60 minutes of

of a crescentilla crescendo. I mean, come on, dude. Are you serious? All your music takes are now. What is wrong with you? Oh, it takes too long to build to the chorus. Journey, don't stop believing. Matt Thomas, y'all heard this. Why did this movie, why is

this movie over 90 minutes? It's about the story. It's about the journey. Oh, I didn't realize we had a journey when we were listening to a five-minute song that could get to the Don't stop believing. Let's get to it like in 90 seconds, two minutes.

This is one of your all-time worst music takes. I don't believe that to be. I don't think so. John, you don't even count. You don't even count. Hold on. He counts. You know what?

If he agree with you, you would say, I bet you won't. No, it's fine. Sometimes you got to build a song up. Come on, man. Build it is fine. Take six months to build it as something else. It's not six months. why can't they just get to the guitar solo and stairway to heaven?

You got to build it up, baby? Why don't that free burn? Do you hate Freebird too? It's okay. Oh. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. What about American Pie I like? But at least you get the chorus of American Pie a few times.

So you're worried about where the chorus is? What about Brohemian Rapt City? That's got a slow build. It's okay. You don't like that song? No, I mean, Oh my God.

It's five minutes and nothing. Even the late Freddie Mercury would admit this. No, he would not. It's five minutes of nothing? Yeah. What was it about? It's one of the greatest songs. It's just about a poor boy.

And nobody loves him. Okay. This is the only time. I would recommend you getting cyberbillate on Twitter. It won't be the last. Wow. Wow. It's a good song.

I just wish the chorus would come a little bit longer. Faster. A little faster in the song. That's it. That's all I'm saying. It's not my favorite journey song. A lot of good ones. And by way, going to see.

We're going to delete this from the podcast. That's fine. I'm going to save you from yourself. That's fine. It's fine. Stairway heaven's fine. Free birds. fine and Bohemian Rhapsody's not good and journeys don't stop believing to all too

slow buildups. You know what you are? You're like a TikTok 8 year old. You got no attention span and you're saying this needs to happen right now. Where's my chorus? Sometimes things are better when you build up, Matt. And that's exactly what's going with the Astros. You can't stop believing.

So you think don't stop believing is the Astros of 2006. If you want to go with that parallel, I'll buy it. We're hoping. You know, maybe they can spend on. Get some wins back. Yeah, Matt, sometimes you've got to build up slow before the explosion. Are we talking about music or our love lives? Okay.

Just throw it out there. Look, I'm going to state of vulnerability. I can't fight you. You don't have to fight me. I just said that it's a good song that just takes too long to get to this. You called it the most overrated songs of all time. One of the most overrated song, not the most overrated. Would that be involving anything involving Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen?

I didn't know we had Skip Bayliss on my show. I didn't know what his takes are. I don't even care. Let's talk to Steve on 790 and 1025. Steve, good morning to you. I'm going to make a bet with you guys. And you know, I call in all the time. If the Astros win five games in, I will buy you guys dinner at any restaurant you want.

and I have never been so certain that this bet will never be hit because the Astros are in a whirlpool of trouble. And the reason I say that is, you know, when Dana Brown left the Atlanta Braves, they were in a downspin. I believe they have the best record in baseball, don't they? Yes, this year. Yeah. Okay. So they've been building this up to this point. Dana Brown has the thumbprint of this team on him

because there's nothing that he can say and every time he comes on your show talks about, oh, we're fortunate, this and that, and he's going to come out of it and he's got one game. He's great, you know, he's great, he's coming out of it, blah, blah, blah. I think Dana Brown needs to go. Number two, you know, Joe Espada, great guy, probably one of the nicest managers out there.

But I didn't realize that there is actually a key and a point that a manager has to know when to take somebody out and when to leave him in. And here lately, Joe Espott has been leaving a pitcher in usually one batter too long. And I don't know if it's just me or if you guys are seeing it too. You know, we used to complain about Dusty Baker going in and grabbing a guy too fast. Why is he doing that? Why is he doing it? Well, I think because Dusty Baker has been in it long enough that he can see when a pitcher is to the point

where he's got to come out. Joe Espina does not have that. And terrible to watch. I mean, when somebody gets a run, I'm watching something else. I'm watching bowling. That's how bad it is. I'm watching bowling instead of the Astros.

Picketball or whatever in the hell they call it. This team is terrible. Pickle ball. And there is no way, whatever, pickle, whatever they call it. It's more interesting. Yeah, and watching this Astros team. It's just terrible.

And I don't see, like I said, if they went five in a row, I'll buy you guys dinner. Don't worry about that. Thank you very much for the phone call, Steve. Look. Okay, hold on, I mean, a spot it. People always called in and complained about Dusty Baker leaving guys in too long. Yeah, all the time.

And in Joe's case yesterday, he went to Kai Wai Tang and said, how do you feel? Can you give me another inning? And Kai Wei Ting said, yeah, I give me another ending. I feel good. Now, you balance how what a player tells a manager and what a manager's gut instinct feels. And yesterday was, that didn't turn out well because Kai Wei Ting went out in the fourth inning and got beat up pretty badly. I don't remember that happening a lot. And frankly, again, and if you want to say I'm to defend it in a manager, that's okay. I mean, I'm just telling you, this is just my opinion. I think, I might remember this. spot of family that if you have been trying to manage that roster with this pitching staff this

year figuring out who can start how many how many innings guys can go and when you are trying to give your bullpen a day off or try to at least not use as many relievers you take your chances now the only reason why I think people that's a little brushback on yesterday is because the bullpen would not been used a whole lot on friday and Saturday and that if you were going to go to Kiwi Ting, don't even give him the option of saying, I'll give you another inning. I think I got it. Most pitchers are going to probably tell you, yeah, I got another inning in me. He clearly did not.

And the Astros got beat up on the inning that Kai Wei Ting went out there for the fourth inning. And they also scored zero runs. So, I mean, I get that. And Joe has been leaving guys in there. And a lot of times it's like, not necessarily leave him out to dry, but guys have to go out there and eat innings. It's like, okay, you've given up four runs. We're out of this one. But the bullpen has already tacked.

So we got to keep leaving you out there. So Joe has been leaving guys out there, but that's a lot of times just because we're probably out of this game anyways and the bullpen attacks. Like, all right, Lance McCullors, you've given us nothing. So please try to give us at least one more innings. You can get to three. And he can't do that.

So to me, I haven't seen him leaving guys out there too long. That's always a hindsight thing too. Absolutely. Oh, you left them out there for one bad or too much. When a pitcher gets out of a jam, nobody says anything. It's on the pitcher. Good job pitcher. When the pitcher doesn't give it out of a jam, it's on the manager. Bad job manager.

If you want to describe while the Astros are poor off of what Kiway Tanks to have there too long yesterday, then that's certainly using a microscope. If you want. I don't think that's the reason why. I think it'd be zero opportunities with three hits and no opportunities with runners in scoring position all game long. Yeah. There are lots of issues keeping Kai Wei Tang out there. for two or three extra batters, probably

and the big picture of things is not the main one. But I could be wrong. I'd still rather watch the actual pickleball. It just added it to the frustration because you didn't score any runs and you thought Kiwi Ting can give you another inning. Maybe you could find yourself a potential spot

starter. And Kai Wei Ting, I think the evidence now clearly dictates. He's a guy that gives you two, three innings the very, very most. 1032 on Sports Talk 790. Good morning, everybody. Thank you, 10 o'clockers, for being a part of our show. 713-212-5-790.

It is an important week. The question is, how important a week of it is it for the Astros? It is 1037 on Sports Talk 7-90. Matt and Ross with you here until 2 o'clock. We've got to tell the truth at 1130. Missing you at 1.30, believe it or not, at 150. The news at noon. And will Wembe survey suspension?

that penalty two elbow to Nas Reid that was set fire and hit direct hit I mean he cocked back he's like I'm gonna hit him and hit him hard and he did little fire from Wimby it was funny he goes to Harrison Barnes and says what does that mean penalty two I mean get your ass out of the arena goes okay I'm out of here and he didn't fight it he knew it he knew he did them frenchies get a little angry do they I thought that they were passive. I thought there were Laus et al-Fail. I don't know. Rudy Robert comes across kind of an angry guy too.

They invented French kissing. That's true. All right. So, what do you think? You think of serious? Well, I think one game out. It's the playoffs. That should be enough.

I cannot tame my opinion because it's part of the tale of the truth today at 1130. That's called a professional radio tease, folks. Nick's last night absolutely destroyed the Philadelphia 76ers. Joel M. Bede saying he apparently wasn't really thrilled that the 76ers made a trade with Oklahoma City for Jared McLean for a second round pick and got nothing out of it,

got nothing in return, didn't fill a spot, and they got blasted four times enrolled by the New York Knicks. Darry maybe in a little bit of trouble there is the old VP of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76ers. Speaking of complicated legacies, we were talking about, I mean, James Harden, of course, his legacy

a little bit tied to Darry in a way. Yeah. what darrell morey's like i mean undeniably revolutionized basketball well i like darrell uh i like his family unfortunately or fortunately thank you for liking my family matt it's got to get a little garrick you get a little gyr cole mix in there too

i don't think what are you talking about aren't you just find as a general manager by championships aren't you? Not second rounds? You can also be defined by revolutionizing the game. I discover three is more than two. Great job, Daryl. I don't know. I think Daryl's, I think if Daryl really wants to be known as one of the all-time grades,

and like I said, he doesn't care. He's made a lot of money. He's done very well for himself. My guess is, and he's really, he's really, he's really, He's not a bad dude. I like, here's the thing it's hard for him because I like him. But I do think you, if you're going to be judged among the great front office people in any sport, you do have to have a championship banner attached to it. Yeah, but we don't even really talk about, I mean, who's the greatest general manager in basketball history?

Probably, you get Jerry West, Red Arbach would be in the mix, yeah. Yeah. Rob Polinka. Rod Thorne with the Bulls. Yeah, it's like. Oh, Jerry Krause. Jerry Krause, I guess. It's not one of those things that you can...

It's not something you know. We don't make... Hey guys, coming up in the next segment. We're going to go with our Mount Rushmore of NBA GMs. I don't think... I don't think that you know, fans are doing that, but I think among your own brethren you're doing that. I think Darry is on the short list, though,

just for the way he revolutionized the game. Obviously, didn't win a championship. Also ran up against a Warriors dynasty and Chris Paul's hamstring. Mm-hmm. And the 76ers, I mean, honestly, I'll probably shuffle it around and tinkering a little too much over there.

And it's not his fault that Joel Embed is, I mean, he's injury prone. He's seven foot two and giant. Constantly. He's constantly hurt. Let me ask you this. And I'll go back to the phones just a second here. Joel put his kid up there on the podium yesterday. What are your thought about?

Oh, shielding? Was he shielding? Well, that's what I'm saying. Do you think putting your kid up there makes it soften the blow of you? You just got your ass peep by the next four three times. Try to humanize themselves. Remember when Mark McGuire was getting asked? Hey, Mark McGuire.

You injected your ass with steroids for several years, right? And he's like holding his kid. We're not going to talk about that, are we going to, buddy? Like, you want to bring your kid up there on the stand with you, too, for your perjury? I just, I think it's a bad look for all sports teams in wins or losses. Remember Steph Curry put his kid up there with him win. Dad, but they do it when they win, too. I mean, Jason Tatum's always put, what's his kid's name, Deuce?

I just think you, I think that's not the time. I don't put a kid Deuce. You don't put three-year-olds on a podium. I think you put them at, you're using the sort of mascots. You're using them as a shield. Whatever. But, I mean, that's answering questions following games as part of your responsibility as an athlete. You're trying to humanize yourself.

I mean, it's a good PR move. I mean, would you imagine if my little kids up here and did the show with you and had them up here talking? It would be really weird. Yes, I'm saying. I don't know. Why does your dad hate good music? No, they would not. I thought all your kids have varying different.

differing opinions about your music tastes? They all, yeah, my middle one, my painting loves everything I listen to. Okay, who fights with you the most? By music, Cameron. Yeah, but he's just like, as Cammon Contrarian over there. Yes, he is. Yeah, I want you go over, shut up and root for the Panthers, Cameron. Yeah, he, I, Cameron, my oldest, for those who don't know.

Of course I mean that with all love. Doesn't root for the team. He roots for the players. Like, he is, my, his sister, Carly's going to play volleyball, and they're going to play Davidson this year. in Charlotte and he's like dad please if the if the Panthers play i've got to go see carly play volleyball on Friday and Saturday and watch the Panthers on Sunday I'm like I raised a Carolina panther fan it's weird it's so bizarre he loves Bryce Young more than Davis Mills or less than

Davis Mills uh probably more because at least Bryce plays hurts my heart what did I what What are that? He loved Brett Farb when he was a Viking. I mean, that makes sense. He was in Minnesota. He was in Minneapolis. That's true. That's true. I get, he gets a pass on that.

But he, my son is a generation. He's 25. Loves the athlete more than the team. Yeah. We, you know, I fight about that all the time. How that it possibly happens. No, I mean, I get it because you're also in the day and age of a free agency.

Back in the day, your player wasn't going anywhere. That's right. Well, they wanted to or not. Exactly. Well, you're either going to sign this contract or you're not going to play in this league. Yes. Now it's quite different. All right.

David, Mark, James, and Doug, we'll get to all four of you. I promise, as the Matt Thomas show at Ross continues here on Sports Talk, 790. Well, let's talk to some great people of Houston, Texas. Thank you very much for being a part of our show on this Monday. It is Matt and Ross. We are with you today until 2 p.m. Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 is how you reach our show today.

And we will go next to... Oh, Mark in Cyprus. Hi, Mark. Good morning, gentlemen. Thank you so much, guys, for taking my call. Sure. I just want to talk about the Astros. You know, we all talk about, you know, the injuries and, you know, all that stuff that's empowered.

But we look back at the last 10 games segments as we go along, right? So we go one in nine, two and eight, you know, three and seven, blah, so we go five and five, right? So I'm thinking I'm trying to stay positive on this. So, you know, I'm thinking that's a positive sign. Then we go to Cincinnati. We out hit them, outscored them by three runs, not a lot, and then we should still lose the series. You know, something just is not clicking just right.

I would like to see a little bit more chemistry, a little bit more fire. And then I'll leave this at that. leave this with the spot. I would like to see him getting their butts a little bit. Show a little bit of fire desire, you know, to maybe change things up until

we get everybody back. And I get we have, what, about 120 games left? There's a lot that can happen. But I'm just going to try to stay positive on this because they can turn it around. And at the plate, I'll leave it at this. Stop guessing

what's coming. React to what coming and I'm going to hang up and I want to hear your thoughts. That's hitting Coach Mark. That's hitting Coach Mark. Let's go, baby. Appreciate it. Well, Al Tuvae does sometimes, Al Tuvae is like, I'm swinging no matter what. Watch this.

Yeah, bam. What was the first thought he said? Oh, a little fire. Let me say something. He wants Joe Spotted to flip some tables, put some fingers in some people's chest, get these guys fired up. Come over here, Nick Allen.

Logan Van Wakey Get your ass over here Listen here Bring you and your translator Because you're getting a piece of my mind Colton Gordon Get over here right now You better stop throwing

Some strikes And on the balls I don't know why Joe's getting a country accent But he is Yeah I don't Woo

Shewee Oh sorry That's somebody else All I will say is this, not being privy to a major league clubhouse. If you start acting a way that you want him to flip the switch, he's dead man walking. I mean, everybody wanted Dusty Baker to get run from games. You know what it is? Everybody's angry about the Astros losing, so they want to see some anger from everyone else.

I think it's like some kind of transference or something like that. Everyone, but I want Joe spotted, not everyone. I'm obviously just painting with a broad brush. Everybody wants Joe is spotted, get mad. Dusty Baker never gets thrown out of a game. Like, why doesn't he show a little fire? Why doesn't he care? A.J. Hinch, like, we can just go back down the list.

Well, once you hit Jimmy Williams, that guy got fired up. Everybody hated him. Guy's an a-hole, by the way. Sorry, he was. He was a bona fide a-hole. I hated him. Why, they're much more successful when the more players' manager, Phil Gardner came in.

May he rest? I mean, we can basically just go. all the way back there. I'm just going to give you a blanket statement. And if I'm wrong, please call me out on it, Ross, when I'm wrong. Okay. If the Astro is making a managerial move this year, which is very well in the possibility. They might.

Okay. We're not going to see a change. No. I'm with you. I mean, I think all of us have eyes. Some have two eyes. I'm at four eyes. Oh, wow.

Depending of your contacts or glasses. Okay, there. We know who this team is. We just do. Playing, look, Cam Smith has yet to turn it on offensively consistently. My thought is that Bryce Matthews, much as we love him in a great defensive work and had a big game last week. He's probably not a six-day-a-week player. Any Omar Lopez-led team is not going to be able to all of a sudden reinvigorate the pitching rotation when you have.

Burroughs as your co-ace. I mean, you know what I'm saying? Hey, hold on now. Peter Lambert and Spencer Arrogatti are co-auses, Matt. I think y'all get what I'm saying. How the Boston Red Sox's been doing since firing Alex Cora? They're about 500. Oh.

But they're not, they're not, they're not significantly better. Same thing for the Philadelphia Phillies. Not that managerial changes don't work. But I'm just going to say, through these my semi-trained eyes, of watching baseball in my life. Carl's Korea being golf. All of a sudden, Carlos Correa is not going to be able to have his tendon

put back into place because they make a managerial change. You still have Allen playing five days a week. Nick. Nick. You said you were going to learn his name. I know. I'm sorry. Nick Allen playing five days a week.

I'm sure a swell fellow. I'm sure a wonderful human being, that's not going to change around the fortune of a baseball. You can hardly hit his weight. And that's just who he is. So if you want to go run to Twitter, that's where people tend to run, and yell to the top of your lungs about how a manager will change needed

because Joe Espada doesn't end in the fire in the belly, you're probably going to win. I mean, I, I mean, the leaning is towards this not ending well for him. And I think Joe understands that. You all know, the negativity, and this is just, you're always going to win. if I call for Joe Espada to be fired every day from here until eternity, I'm going to win eventually. Yes, you are.

I will win. If I call for EMAA Doke to be fired from here to the mountaintops, eventually I will win. But the question is, is he holding the team back now? Is Joe Espada holding back to Houston Astros? The answer is no. And you know what? If he gets let go or whatever, we'll see. I'm not going to shed a tear for the guy, heavily compensated.

But he's also getting... We'll have work again. He's got an name and it's impossible task right now. He was interviewed around many different major league places and was never hired. There is that. Other teams didn't see him as the top candidate to be their leader. Dana Brown, same thing. Dana Brown, same thing as well, yes.

So I'm not acting, I'm not acting like Joe Espada is some, you know, master stroke pulling all the right levers, baseballing genius. I'm just, what we're trying to say is life ain't fair. Joe knows that. Yeah. But I would not expect, you know, for instance, Jimmy Williams openly just didn't get along with the players. And that's just, that's bad. And when you have Jimmy Williams going my way of the highway, even back in the late 90s, that just wasn't going to work.

Yeah. 2000s. Ask Matt, who are the back-to-back World Series champions? The Los Angeles Dodgers. How do the Dodgers fans feel about Dave Roberts? They hate Dave Roberts. They hate him. Despise him.

And they're back-to-back world series. It's the players. At the end of the day. Yes. Now, if all the players hate the manager, then that's right, right, exactly. Exactly. If they go to a, if they're having a private meeting,

they're like, I don't think this is a guy. We'd rather have Omar Lopez. And they want to do that, that's fine. That's fine. I think again, we'll go to the low-hanging fruit, low-hanging fruit. And maybe Joe will be gone. And maybe things will turn around,

but I think it'll turn around more if Hunter Brown comes back and is good. If Tatsu EMI can show us a little bit of anything. And you get those two pieces with Lambert keeping it up, Aragetti keeping it up, something from Mike Burroughs. That's a good one through five, potentially. But we haven't seen that yet. No, we have not. I mean, we have a huge, I mean, Tatsui EMI has done nothing at the minor league level

to inspire us to have confidence to get back on the major league He's ready to dominate, baby. Got feelings tomorrow. Oh, is that right? Oh, I can't wait for that 1130 tomorrow. Maybe a QSL? QSL.

It's catching on. Quality Start Light and Quality Start Plus is catching on, Matt. Must of your chagrin. There's no one, I don't see, when Buster only brings it up, it's fine. How come nobody ever chagrins unless it's something that they don't like? Have you ever heard anybody chagrin anything?

How often to use a word? chagrin in life. Unless it's much too. Yeah. Or susceptible to. When you are susceptible to anything good? Well, I think it's susceptible. Yeah, it means weakness, probably. Right? This is the Matt Thomas show With Ross.

Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you here until 2 o'clock today. 713212.5.7.9. Thank you very much for listening. It means a lot to us that you have spent part of your day with us. 713, 2-1-790, 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. I actually, I'll be fully honest with you. I was going to think,

saving it for tell the truth, but I'm not going to do it. I actually watched a little bit of the Dallas wings versus Indiana fever. Yes. And remember, I called WMBA games 30 years ago. They actually make more baskets now than you did in the past. Okay. Would it be safe to say that the women's sport of basketball,

has improved more over time than any other sport in America today. Like, for instance, we talk about bigger, fast, stronger with athletes and baseball. It's everywhere, yeah. You can still watch a 1992 baseball game and go, man, this is incredible. We're watching an NBA game in 1992. You watch a 2000, you watch a 1997 WMBA game, and you're poking your eyes out. I'll tell you another one that you're going to roll your eyes at. Soccer has gotten a lot improved.

They changed a couple of the rules that you used to be able to pass it back to the keeper as much as you wanted. You can't do that anymore. They changed. They altered the off sides rule. And then they awarded instead of two points for, it used to be two points for a win, one point for a draw. They traded it to three points to incentivize winning. So scoring is up and like all that type of stuff in soccer the last, I don't know, 30, 40 years as well. And I'll be honest, I've told you this before.

I don't know what's going on with me this summer. I've had some more downtime, unfortunately, because the rockets are not. playing, but I watched a WMBA. I watched UFL, not this weekend. Oh, okay. Because that's awful. But I've given it, I'm trying to give it a try. I'm trying to diversify my pal a little bit.

Okay. Now, I'm not going to intentionally sit down and watch a WMBA game. Mm-hmm. But the one I watched, the one that was talked about the most that had Kately, I mean, frankly, Clayton and Clark wasn't even like the best player on the floor that day. They were making threes. there weren't layups that were hitting the window and going back to mid-court. I mean, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.

Yeah, it's good. I mean, it's like, to me, you have to just, yeah, nobody's ever going to be. It's like people who are, it's like looking at college basketball. You just have to think of it in a different way. Because the women athletes, obviously, they're not going to be as strong and fast and jump as high as NBA athletes because those are the best basketball players in the planet. But they are hitting, they're hitting jump shots. They're not bricking as many.

Because look, the NBA can break them too. I mean, there's no question. I'll tell you the one sport that I am watching a little bit this weekend that I was like, this is not good. College baseball is not really good. Again, you can enjoy college baseball, but you just kind of just have to look at it through a different links. Yeah. Exactly.

They're going to miss, you know, they're not going to, the exit velos aren't going to be as high. Even with the aluminum bats, they're going to miss a lot of pitches. The pitching is just not anywhere as close. Not a close. I mean, look, the Astros pitching isn't even any good. They're all better than college pitchers for the most part. Yeah. So that's just what I did this weekend because, again, I'm trying to get over whatever I've got going on in my life right now, which I'm hopefully going to fix a lot of this week.

But it's, to me, WMBA wasn't as bad. I will watch soccer I can't get into because it's just hard for me. But I think when we get closer to World Cup, all of us will be because it's just a once. in a four-year event and it's going to, it's in our country and it's going to have huge, huge ratings and a lot of conversations about that. The UFL remains awful. But college baseball, I watched Texas Tennessee yesterday. Texas had a 4-0 lean the first inning and gave it up, and I mean, in a millisecond.

It just wasn't good. It was like watching not batting practice Ross, but there was no definition to really good pitching. And a little of bats will let you make mistakes. And even if you don't hit the ball square or you hit it up the end of the bat or you hit it off the fist or whatever, you still got a tremendous pop to it. I was just looking up WNBA points per game average. First year, 97, it was 69, then 70, 68 points per game. The last year, the last two years basically 82 points per game.

So it's scoring up. Yeah. And it's not because defense takes a step back. I think the shooting has gotten better. We've got ladies that are shooting, you know, in the DBMBA, if you're shooting 35% from 3, that's considered excellent. Yeah, I think it's also a higher-paced game as well. Higher-paced game, shootings up, percentages up a little bit, like 41, 42%, now it's around 44%. So that was today's edition of not on my lawn guy.

Yeah. I was getting off of somebody else's lawn. You were letting people on your lawn? I was letting people on my lawn. Hmm. That's good. I'm proud of you, Matt. Yeah, well, again, it just wasn't a lot to watch.

And the aster's weren't doing much. So what was I supposed to do? Yeah, that's true. What was I supposed to do? I got to keep the sports of love alive here. You do. The World Cup's coming for you, Maddie. Let's get you at a World Cup pool.

You know, the crazy thing is it people that are diehard World Cup fans are complaining about the ticket prices. Well, yeah, everybody hates FIFA. And FIFA's like, we don't care. Yeah, people who love the tournament in college basketball, they hate NCAA. Yeah. Or even college baseball football.

College anything, everybody hates the NCAA. FIFA is the worst Things you won't hear Oh, I got tickets to see Notre Dame versus Miami In the second round of the tournament game The football playoffs CFP All these prices are very affordable

Ever I think I'll buy a section for a party No Jam on seven Or James and Klein on seven honey James what do you got? Yeah the problem is The whole city and surrounding area

Has been under a curse And it goes back to when the Longhorns didn't make the playoffs The Aggies lost in the I mean, yeah, the Aggies lost terribly in their playoff game. The Texan's lost in their playoff game. The Rockets lost. The Cougars basketball team only mentioned the Sweet 16.

And the problem is we need to find a slum buster. I mean, we could go out and try to find some Poon Teng for Tang, but that's not going to get it done. You already tried to do the Japanese sex thing. That's not going to work. We need to find a slum buster and get this curse done and over with. That's all I got. Okay.

I have no idea what it's all you said. Thanks, Jim. Well, he wanted Kai Wei-Tang to get a slump buster too, since you wanted Tatsu-I-I-I-Mai to get one. Even though he's happily married and his wife is pregnant. I am not endorsing Tatsu-I-I-I getting a slump buster. Are you sure? That's all you could talk about last week. Well, I didn't realize he was 27 with a kid around the way.

It's not, I mean, because it meant, what you wanted him to cheat on it? You wanted him to cheat on his pregnant wife is what you were asking for. What if Tatsu-I-I-Mai's wife was listening to the show. I felt terrible. Yeah, well, maybe she is. Trying to learn English, listening to Radio Talk Radio to help. 10 to 2 middays on 7. Yes.

That's what we do with us. We're trying to get to get. Can you get live translations on the I-Hard app? I don't know. Well, you should do. Isn't there a Google app you can just hit? There's a transcription they do on the, I know for sure on Spotify. They do it.

Yeah. It's, of course, a lot of time it's inaccurate. Because we don't always nunciate word good. They don't like our slang. Yeah. Yeah. when you're talking about Tatsuya I'm getting hookers. Softly just text me.

I'm going on their show tomorrow at 6 o'clock. Oh, you are for what? They're going to be beat your ass. They're going to beat my ass. They've got the reigning world champs in football, and the Mariners are not very good, but they're better than the Astros. They're going to drop a disastrous on you.

And you're going to hear about, yeah, you're going to hear about cheating and trash cans. And how the Rockets lost in the first round. I don't want any. of that. What is wrong with you? Why am I a recipe for disaster? I don't know. Astros didn't score yesterday, Ross. Is that bad?

It's not... You've never won a game where you haven't scored at least a run. Unprecedented in Major League history. Yet it's Joe Spada's fault. They scored zero runs. How we feel about the hitting coaches? They're having a bad couple of weeks. Rough couple of days from the hitting coaches. Altuve, Peretti's, and Salis. Salazar, three singles yesterday. That's it. You know what? I think without create, you know, maybe we can do in the next segment.

We need to, what is the long-term outlook for this offense? Okay, because I think we've got to go to some individual people, right? Yes. All right. We'll do that coming back. 1113 on Sports Talk 790. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. 1117 is our time. It is Matt and Ross with you on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-125-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-790. So here's the God's honest truth about this.

When there are athletes that we deal with that we don't like, we revel in their misfortune. Schadenfreude? But there are athletes that we generally like that we want them to succeed. And I would say most of them speaking, honestly, are guys wearing the word of Houston or Astros or Texans are rocked across their chest. Guys we get to interview, guys who are good, nice, like rooting for Christian Walker. He was great.

He was rooting for Spentz. I'm glad he's bouncing back. Well, he's been slowing down a little bit, but he wasn't going to hit 300 all year. I mean, he just wasn't. Spencer Argetti, always a great interview. So, it's. Zach Cole is a nice young man? Oh, my God, he's too.

Zach Cole's too nice. He's like, bless you guys. Yeah. I say, I'm praying for you guys. Yeah. Thank you, Zach. Yeah, I mean, Lord, if anybody needs prayer, it's us. Yeah. So we're, frankly, folks, and this is speaking gods and truth when it comes to the Astros. Look, the rockets have won for the last two or three years.

We don't deal with a lot of it. I mean, I deal with them because I travel with them, but I don't, we don't do a lot of kabutsing with them, so to speak. We have no relationship with it all with the Texans, and that's fine. That's the situation they've dealt in. whatever, but I mean, they're still a local team. CJ Strott is an utterly likable guy. Will Anderson is utterly likable.

Derek Stingling utterly likable. I mean, Jalen Petri. I mean, the only guy that was kind of salty was Joe Mixing. Bang, bang! No, he didn't do that, Matt. Where is my pastry? I want to coonamund and some cold brew. Yeah, I feel like I've embellished just so much.

I'll serve a higher end. I'll take a pistachio creole. Okay. So we don't have a lot of putzes around here. Okay. I mean, I can probably in the city, the Houston sports seems I can probably name the pusses on one hand and maybe have a couple of fingers of spare. So it's hard for us to come on a radio show and say, man, I like this guy, but, but I feel like Ross, we're in a position where we're, I like this guy, but. You're talking about some of the hitting woes. Uh-huh. I think I'm going to start with the lead-off guy. I love Jose Al-Tuve.

Literally love him. I have no relationship with him and all except to being just a fan boy his for the last 15 years. Super nice. We've interviewed him several times. Yeah. Get him in fan fest. Always super nice. Always super nice. Always signs autographs. Does charity work. We had him on when I was a producer. He was like, hey, how are you doing? I was like, what? Yeah. Put you on hold, Jose.

But you don't want to. You don't want your leadoff guy. Now, granted, he was not batting leadoff because until the Carlos Cray injuries happened. But you don't want your leadoff guy with an OPS 702. He's in a major, major slump right now. Yeah. I'll give you the OPS pluses too while we're here. League average 100, he's at 96.

So not a guy that you want playing as getting the extra AB per se. Right. I got better examples for, unfortunately. We love Cam Smith. I mean, you cannot root hard enough for Cam Smith. Smith. Cam Smith's OPS has dropped to 642.

He is, now, you can somewhat live with 700 at the top of your lineup, but the heart of your order, your run producer, your number five hitter, six hitter. Rossi, Cam Smith, OPS, you cannot continue to win. That's why I'm saying.

If Cam Smith was striking out and hitting ground balls and lazy fly balls to spite Joe Espada, it'd be one thing. And that he's like, if I get Omar Lopez to run this team, my OPS can jump 100 points. Probably not. OPS plus of 80. That's bad. That's real bad. That hurts. Because Cam Smith is a first round pick. You traded Kyle Tucker and got what you thought was a steal of a first round pick of the Cubs of previous year. He's not a professional,

he's not a major league hitter right now. You can't. 642. shouldn't be playing six days a week. No. He had that little run where he was doing so well. If not for Yordon, if not for Christian Walker, where would this offense be right now? I think the selling that this offense has kind of carried its weight so far hasn't been necessarily true the last week or so. You got beat up bad by the Dodgers twice, and you got shut out and scored what one, running two games against Cincinnati.

Yeah, eighth and runs per game. But it scored one run in the last couple of games. That's out of 15. That's middle of the pack. No, I'm sorry, eighth out of 30. Oh, well, that's upper third. It's pretty good. Yeah. It's still better, but it was, you know, there were top.

There were top two for a while. And unfortunately, things are coming a little bit back down to earth. You're hoping, especially like in the case of Cam Smith, that he would at least be able to hold his own. you're just asking for some of these guys be 100, 1005, 110 OPS plus. Nothing crazy. Al Tuve's got to be better. And we didn't get the call.

There was a call on hold earlier saying like he needed to retire or something like that. But he's 36 years old. And unfortunately, the decline is happening. But he can be better than this. Everybody's got it, including himself. He knows he can be better than this. And then going back to the Degmore. macro issues of this, this is where the injuries kick in.

Yonair Diaz, for everybody that wants to hate on them, much more professional hitter, you would take your Diaz slash Vasquez combination. Yes, Salazar. Salazar just can't, I mean, Salazar thought he had the job a week before the start of the season. And they said, well, Christian Vasquez, are you in the weed somewhere? Let's go get you. I forgot that you could have a negative OPS plus. is his negative 6.

I forgot that was possible until just now. I can't remember who it was the last couple years that did it. I think it might have been sales. Now, Zach Coles got pop. Yes. But does that pop get covered up by the amount of strikeouts that he has unfortunately had in his young major league career? He went 0 for 2 yesterday with two strikeouts.

The reason why Zach Cole has not been a major leaguer for a long period time is because his swing and miss rate is exceptionally high. Yeah, what's going on with Jake Myers? Where's Loverfeet. What's going on with Loporffito? Not a word. Let's go. Yeah.

And Nick Allen, God love him. But he's not Maricio DuBahn. As even as light hitting as Marisio Dubon would have regressed to over the course of the year. It's crazy to say out loud. Yeah, you know, you wish he, you never thought you'd say, man, I wish this guy could hit as much as Maricio Du Bonn. Things that we would never thought would ever utter on this radio show. Okay. So where does this offense end up?

Do you think worse than where they are now? Eighth, eighth and runs per game. I'll try to pull up team OPS. I don't think you can, even though Correa's number, he had steadily fall in the last couple of years. He's been good. His OPS plus is 120.

But you remember, he was also, he was having a good season, not great but good. He was also a top four hitter for you. You're taking away four A-Bs from your top four-hitter and giving three A-Bs to one of your worst hitters. That is a, I don't know how you can measure that,

but that sounds like to me a serious regression. Yeah. Nick Allen's OPS is 515, probably going to stay that way. And unless that Cole strikeout numbers reduce and gets on base more, his OPS is going to struggle the way because he's going to hit home runs, but he's going to strike out and that's going to even itself out.

So their fifth in team OPS, that's great. eighth and runs pretty good but why does it feel so much worse because of the hot start because I think because these injuries have just popped up and we're watching what we just saw this weekend just this weekend was not and Cam Smith man

Rossi you do we not want to wish good things to a guy like that I think if we're looking for places to where you could see some improvement Cam Smith is definitely one of the wells you would hope to be able to go to he's got to be better than 212 batting average. He's playing every day. And he made a defensive miscue on Saturday,

which exacerbated things as well, two runs of score. So Yordon's finally healthy. At this point, he's played, was it 48 games last year? Or 50, 48, I think. Oh. And so he's already at 41 games,

and it's going to be, yeah, he played 48 games last year. He's already played 41 this year. year. OPS closed up $194. Thank God. Thank God. You feel like, but it's also like,

you're wasting a season. You're not, are you going to bring up trade conversation with him now? I don't think so. People have talked about that. He's on the best contract probably in baseball as terms of guys who are out of arbitration. And he's young enough to where when you're good again and if,

if you completely wanted to blow it up, you would figure he would still be here when you want to contend again. You would want to contend again with Yordaun Alvarez in the full. Can I give you a generic take on this? If you're going to trade Yordaun, which I don't believe they're going to, but again, it takes one opinion, not ours. Wouldn't you want your general manager to make that one move? Wouldn't you want the new general manager to?

The new general manager? Yeah, I think anything's on the table depending on how this offseason goes. But I think you would trade one of Hunter Brown or Pena, probably Christian Walker, and then try to retool and rebuild from there. and if your on is to me untouchable. So even if you're going to get a crop of like three good prospects. And I'm going to play devil's advocate for you just on this. Because I don't disagree with your tape, but just to throw the other thing at you.

If you're going to move everybody out, if you're really going to go wholesale changes, what's the point of keeping everybody, getting rid of everybody except one star player? Don't you have them for two more years under the, yeah, you have them for this year and two more years? you then get a complete hall when you think because the dollar amount is good? A complete whole of guys that are you hoping one of them is half as good as Yordaun Alvarez. I know. I know. Again, I'm on your side of this.

No, Nauras is one of the most, I mean, devastating hitters on the planet. I'm not saying it, first of all, I'm not saying it's crazy. But you'd have to get the, you'd have to get the hall of like the, you'd have to get the mother load. And frankly, and frankly, to me, I would want my, the new general manager to make it. That's why I really don't believe that Yordan Alvarez is being treated. You have them for two more years at $27 million. That is an absolute steal. All right, to tell the truth is up next.

I do know how to tell the truth. While we're watching some video here, Bobby Cox may rest. Fast over the weekend. He is the best getting his ass kicked out of a game. I mean, Earl Weaver did it back in the 80s, but Bobby Cox beats him. Lou Pinella? Blue Pinell was good, too. When Bobby Cox got thrown out of a game, he really got thrown out of the game.

He got his money's worse. Yeah. Jonathan, I have four takes. I only believe one of them. Which three, I have three that I'm not telling truth, all right? Okay. So you're looking for one truth and three lives. Oh, really?

Yes. I did go the hard way in this. Yeah, because I wanted y'all get mad at me for my journey takes. So I wanted to step up. It was reasonable. I mean, you really killed it. I mean, I don't know who would agree to me. It's funny because I do go to social media to see if my

get punished for my journey tank and nobody said anything. That's not true. Let's see. I just think they know who Matt Thomas is at this point. Pedro said, bro said five minutes of nothing. Rolando said Matt eats dessert before dinner. At least I can afford dessert, Rolando. All right, here we go.

Nice one. Whatever. Bruno, you can suck it. I ain't in the moon for you. It's from an hour ago. You said nobody said anything. It was two. I win.

All right, here we go. Three falsities, one truthity. Okay. Number one. I watched all that Wolves spurs game yesterday. Guys, Anthony Edwards is amazing. he's so amazing.

At 70% he's beaten up on the San Antonio Spurs. I got to change my tune. I think the wolves are pulling off the upset. I really do. I mean, my gosh.

Gobert was great. Nasreid was great. They're doing it without Dante DiVincenzo. Dante DiVincenzo. D'A DiVenzo. Wolves, go to San Antonio win

and win in six. It's over in six. Okay. Okay. Number two. If things go awry this week, Seattle and Texas. You mean, and the Astros?

Yeah. I think changes are coming this week. This week? What do you mean? I think they're going to shut the door and they're going to say, we are going to fall for falling further and further behind. We had seven games in the division. It's not fair, but changes are coming.

And we're calling up Miguel Uyola. No, I don't think you... You mean... You know what I mean. You mean Joe's spot of gone? That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying? I think we're going to get either a front office or a manager will change.

Okay. It's just in the Seattle series or this week? This week. Okay? Like a one in six week and they're like eight or nine out, something like that. I know it's a little gray area there on that one. Feels very gray. I get too, I get you.

I think you guys get it. Number three. I never thought. I thought I would say this. But because the rockets are done, the spring sports are not doing it much for me. I'll watch a little WMBA. The Astros are obviously struggling.

I'm struggling. I'm actually kind of excited about the NFL schedule release on Thursday. Okay? I never thought I would say that. What are you chuckled over there for? No, is that, tuggling? And number four. There's a lot of names being brought up in Rocket Future Trade Talks.

Okay. There's one name that I would actually listen to. Not saying that I wouldn't fully endorse it, but I could be compelled to see if the Rockets would want to make a move on Donovan Mitchell from Cleveland if they made the move. Hmm, okay. Depending on the price. But Donovan Mitchell, to me, even though he's had a lack of postseason success, intrigues me. He's had some good playoff games. So which one of the four do I believe, boys?

One, the wolves pull off to the upset and win the series over the spurs. I think changes are coming this week if the Astros really goes south of the Mariners and Rangers. I'm excited for the first time the NFL schedule release. Or number four, I think the rocket should kick the tires and Donovan Mitchell if the cabs want to trade them. Which one of the four am I telling you the truth? I don't. How are you feeling, Jonathan? I believe the wolves are going to do it in six, but I don't think, Matt.

You are Mr. Underdogs. I don't think Matt believes that. When we got injected, I think there's still, you know, some room for doubt. So I'm not really feeling that one. I'm not feeling number one. Okay. I still think the Spurs and the Thunder are in a collision course, and I still think Matt believes that.

It's a three-game series with two left in San Antonio. I think they're going to win. I think Matt believes that, too. Changes into Astros. It could happen. I mean, That's a great area There's no way he's excited about the

I would be completely shocked If he's actually excited about the NFL schedule release If that's the truth I'm gonna have to take it down with the sword I feel like it could be two or four I'm gonna roll with number four Two All right Matt

I'm going with two I think I think the ashes are bumming you out a little bit And you're hoping for a little bit of change Okay. Number one, you're a complete dorkosaurus if you are scheduled about the, you're excited about the NFL schedule release. Yeah, that was easy. If you won't cause it is a schedule.

How many 10, 1, 3, 3, 2, 1. You are a dork. If you are getting into a deep dive on NFL schedule release, you're a dork. That was easy one. That was the lowest of hanging fruit there. Number two, I am impressed of the wolves, but Spurs are still going to win that series. Okay. I mean, that game last night changed a lot because of Victor Webbingham is elbow.

And disgust. You got re-saying it now. I like it. I like it. God, Jonathan, I'm sorry. I can't. This is our opinions. I don't think Jim Crane's going to let somebody go this week just up to this week's games. I think it would be a little further down the road. You know, I'm not mad at this because that was hard because they really could. Now, there'll be people crying for it.

I thought this was really easy, Jonathan. I didn't want to say anything. So, yeah, even though Donovan Mitchell's not... I want to let you get it wrong first. I don't... Even though Donovan Mitchell's not had a lot of success in the NBA playoffs, whether to Utah or Cleveland, he still fills up the statute.

And again, John and I do have advantages. Matt could not keep a straight face on the schedule release. You know, from now on? No, the schedule release I knew for a fact, I was like, no way. You won't get it in the Texas by the Jack Wires on the end of the game. Should I have to leave the room next time? Yeah, I'm going to turn my face

because I just can't do it. I can't look at you seriously. Well, it's not going here, and then when he's done, you go back. That's perfect. That's actually fair. No, it's not fair. You should get a buffer point. I do have an inherent advantage. Yes, I do.

I'm not going to have this one. I mean, look, the schedule release is coming out Thursday, and everybody's been talking about this Jaguars, Texans game in London. So what? If you're going to go, then go. But who cares when? Who plays when? You want to go to London?

Yeah, they always do with the leaking stuff, too. Yeah, stop leaking. Pause. Pause. Well, it's, you know what this NFL schedule leaking is like? It's like finding getting a gift on Christmas Eve. Get everything on Christmas Day and call it a day. Oh, that's a controversial topic.

It is. I'm with you, though. It's a half step. Just wake your ass up in a Christmas morning like everybody else did back in the day. Yes. Nobody in 1966 was doing one present at Christmas Eve. Can we please open up a present on Christmas Eve? No.

Hey, shut up. It's called Christmas Day. Yeah. For a reason. Yeah. I don't know what you all. And get my secondhand menthol smoke. Seriously.

My Twitter for you tab, which is not people I follow. Here's the problem with the schedule release stuff. They're putting out wrong information left and right. I can put out a schedule release. You should. Are you going to do the eye? Uh-oh. Eye emojis.

It got you a lot of run last time. Didn't you get a lot of followers out of it last time? Ooh, I want to do it right now. Hearing week one could be an AFC opponent Or NFC AFC opponent on week number one Let's discuss 1 3, 2, 1 2, 5, 7000, whewee

When is the schedule reveal? Thursday. Thursday, okay. We do need a gut feeling then tomorrow How many primetime games? I can see it going in either direction. It's been around 4-5 the last couple. A standalone games, Matt, because you got all upset last year about that.

Oh, Ross, you need to do your little gut feelings real quick because you weren't here last Tuesdays. Okay. Give us your little, what you think. For what? Just your gut feeling that you would have like. No. For today? Who's, wait, who's on the hill for the Astros again?

What do you think about this? Peter Lambert. Read that. What do you think? What my tweet? Wow. Text schedule. With the eye emojis?

I don't know. That's probably not good enough to get any run. Well, I mean, my really cool quality star from Peter Lambert. Why not? You know what? Astros upset the Mariners today. Peter Lambert versus George Kirby. George Kirby's been there, Cryptonite.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Jonathan, you're getting your ass kick them to tell the truth now. It's not even close now. We had a couple ties in there. But from now on, from here on now, every Monday, I'm going to turn to the side so he doesn't see.

me because I could not keep the straight facing the schedule release. That was easy though. You only think my time of Mitch, you like him? I like him. I'd take him. You actually believe that, Matt, really? Yeah, he's been, he's had a lot of great playoff games.

By the way, our friend who called the show on Friday Willow, oh, and send us a tweet, what are you thinking about James Hardin now? Okay, game three, Lottie freaking da. Let's see what you do in a game seven or how about in a seven-game series? He's well past his prime.

Who would you get for Mitchell, though? Be willing to. I don't even know if they would really, I don't know that they would be interested in Alpe over there in Cleveland. No, you don't need him because you got Jared Allen, so. Yeah, but I mean, it's Jared Al-Ale. Paring him with Evan Mowgli would be interesting, I guess,

because it would be, you'd shore up with some of the Alper and Shingoon's defensive deficiencies, but then you're going double big. which is kind of rare these days, but they do it with Jared Allen. But you've got to give more than Shingoon to get Mitchell, though. Yeah, it would be like Shingoon. I don't even know.

They probably wouldn't want Jabari as well. Yeah, our buddy Aaron, by the way, on the Spurs just announced Wembe will not be suspended for game four. I think that's the right move. Yeah. You got tossed for game too. Yeah, yeah, yep, yep. All right, to tell the truth for the day.

And Johnson's deficit, are you still leading or are you in? No, it's 7. Oh, my God. It's done. It's time for like a hateous for you, maybe. I was doing so good, too. Ross needs a vacation time for you to catch up. Yeah, let's see.

I got some coming up. End of the month. All right. Bye. See you later. 1148 on Sports Talk 790. 713, 2125. 790.

713-1-2-5-790. 1148, sports talk, 790. So far, Ross, my wow. Eyes. Text and schedule. Tweet. Doing quite well. Is it?

Yes. God. That's pretty funny. Again, everybody is, I guess, reporting, there's one website that apparently is more accurate than others that says the Texas are going to play in the Jaguars in Jacksonville, or in London, excuse me. You're going to go?

You know, it's funny we brought this up. The Thomas family, the boy, actually the boys, we're going to go next late August, early September to London. Cameron wants to go see his beloved Tottenham Hotspur. He wants to go see somebody else play to. I don't know who it is. Payton and I want to... Liverpool?

Everton? I don't know. Probably Liverpool. Peyton and I want to go to the Beatles thing. So we've made an executive decision that in 15 months we're going, just the three of us are going. London is one of the most expensive places to go right now in the world. I don't know why it is.

Hotels are really expensive. The cost of jet fuel is making the airfields go up. Bring your own can of baked beans. You're good. That's true. That is true. So, yeah, 15 months from now, we're going to go. Mm-hmm. And you don't believe me. That's fine.

I can accept that. This is what I'm believing you more than others, but also it just started. Didn't you say last summer that you were going Hawaii? I know. Yeah, he did. Yeah, but the problem is we also made some decisions. We're getting an Airbnb. in Rhode Island.

We didn't know we're going to do that. You go to a weekend in Cancun. We're going to go to Galveston. Kim and I. Yes, sir. Why are you laughing, Ross?

Because he hates Galveston. That's not true. You all just see Ross's best right now. No, I love Galveston. Let me take some Galveston. I love you. A deep rich history of pirates

and pirate ships and war, Civil War. Are you believing in any of this? And disgusting dirty brown water. But I mean, yeah, it's It's not brown. It's not brown. It's not brown. Are you? Are you? It's not. Are you insane? Sometimes it's blue for. You know, let me tell you. When a hurricane comes through, it's blue for a couple days. Yes. Mr. Texas loves all the state and I love Gavis. I love Galveston. I love. I go to Gavisson. Yeah. You know the best part of Gavisden is you feel like you leave? No. You feel like you're down there and you're in a different world.

Different world? Different world. You do feel like you're in a different world. Oh, thank you. You're like you're in a war zone. Yeah. Oh, my God. You're so wrong. You're like Galvison, sick him. Okay, come on now.

I love Galvison, too, for what it is. It's an hour away. You need a beach. You got to, it's like that's that good. You've been telling me to get away for a couple days. You do nothing. The Burger King of Beaches. So I'm going to go do that for a couple days in June.

I think when you get soon after you come back from whatever you're doing. It's convenient and it gets the job done. The Burger King of Beaches. By the way, I've had a whopper from Burger King lately. Yeah. It's good. Really? Whatever they're doing, it's better.

They're stepping their game up. Well, first of their advertising is spending... Wopper, wopper, wopper, wopper. No. You got rid of that dork that sings. Now I'm going to have some onion rings. B.K. Have it your way.

That was a catchy tune. They just kind of ran it into the ground. Now it's stuck in everybody's head. Well, they have... See, that's called good advertising, I guess. No, but I mean, Burger King went to the old logo. back in the 70s logo. The whopper is still...

I'm going to give me a whopper on the way home today. You don't mean a dropper? Whatever. That's right. They don't spend money with us. Do they? I don't know if they do. They might.

I know that tequila, that McCona is painting does. My God. Can we go back to the central point? Yes. I told you, everybody's going to play... Everybody's going to play international games. Oh!

I thought we were talking about you relaxing in Gausson. No, no, no, no. Everybody's going to play international games. You spend a weekend in Galveston? I think so. That's good. Yeah. Let's do four-day weekend.

Yeah, like a Thursday Friday. We'll be around on. Don't be running around. Don't go on to dolphin tours. Don't go on to see Lafitte's boat or whatever. Or blackbeard's boat. Whatever they got down there. Can we play put-putt?

Absolutely. I love put-putt and Galveston. Yeah. Batting cages? Mm-hmm. Ooh, I would love a video of you swinging at the batting cages. I can make contact. Put it on slow pitch.

It's got to be at least 50. You can't do anything load than that. Correct. I want to hit. I don't want to go through and swing and miss. Who goes to the batting cages of swing and miss?

You better bring your gloves. Oh, that's true. Your hands are going to be ruined. Yeah, that's true. You give golf gloves if you have those. You get a wrist brace too. Oh, right. That's enough.

Yeah. What do you mean to bring my walker out there too? Yeah. Shut up both of you. Get you one of those, like the cages on the mask, just in case? I'm trying to keep it sports. I need people to talk sports.

me please. We have the news at noon coming up. A lot of big time sports news, folks. I want to hear from those of you that want to talk sports with me, including how awesome Galvison is to hang out for a couple of days, including if you're making your plans to go see the Texans play in London. By the reason why I would want to go see them play is because these stadiums, these new Wembley, spectacular.

Yeah. These soccer stadiums, these are all look like they're majestic, brand new facilities have just opened up. I think those are nice and cool. Yeah. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is a new. Yeah. It used to be on a white heartling or something like that.

And I want to go walk Abbey Road. I want to... You guys are going to take the picture, right? Oh, absolutely. Oh, that's cute. Absolutely. I'll have my one foot in front of the other. The other three members of my family will have their one foot in front.

So they say, Matt is dead? You notice that one about Paul? Sergeant Peppers? No, that's when they're on Ivy Road. Oh. 1158 on Sports Talk 790. The news at noon is next. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

123 Sports Talk 790. It is Matt. It is Ross. We are with you today until 2 o'clock where Ross is promising us a complete in-depth breakdown of the Astros Reds game from Sunday. We present to you. The news at noon

All right, Matt, first up on the news at noon We will play the highlights of all the runs Scored by the Astros yesterday Played something good from the game Was there a defensive player or something? Maybe a strikeout? And that was all the runs scored by the Astros yesterday. Zero!

How many games is anybody won in Major League Baseball history scoring zero runs, Matt? Don't ask a Joe a spot of haters. Well, it was Joe Spott's fault. He left Guy Way Ting in there too long. Sure, why not? I don't know. Then you went to AJ Blue Ball.

And Cody Bolton, Jaden Murray, and Logan Van Wai. Well, Logan Van Wye. He invented the steam engine in 1866, or he pitched a scoreless inning for the Astros yesterday. They lost two out of three of the Reds. Friday was great. 10-0.

I did the post game, took a few calls. We're like, hey, maybe they're turning the corner. Mike Burrows with a Quality Start Plus. You got home runs from cold to Zinzo and Yordon. Feeling good in the neighborhood. And then Saturday happened where unfortunately you ran into the Chase Burns buzzsaw by the Reds.

Erigetti, solid enough. Three runs, only one of them earned in five and two thirds. and then yesterday, unfortunately, you score a combined two runs in the last, excuse me, one run in the last two games, I should say. Matthew Astros five and a half games back of the A's in the American League West. How we're feeling? I want to throw back at you. How important is this week?

Because I said it wasn't going to be a decision-making week, but you're five and a half out now. If it drops to seven, do you start thinking about roster moves? Do you start thinking about taking phone calls? When's Hunter Brown coming back? We got transferred to the 60-day disabled us over the weekend.

He also threw a bully, right? Yeah, but he's ramping up like it's a start of spring training again, which is sad. Okay, let me, can I hold a whole judgment until I, I mean, I guess one year, one start of Tatsuya I'm going to swing the whole season. But I mean, I feel a lot better. He had that one good start in Sacramento. It was like six innings a shutout ball or whatever it was. Look at the backwards slider. He's the best ever.

And then all of a sudden his arms hurt and everything, he's complaining about everything. I don't know, man. Hopefully he goes out there and he's good. I would feel a lot better because I'm feeling pretty good about Mike Burroughs. We feel pretty good about Spencer Ergetti. He's feeling pretty good about Peter Lambert. We'll get an eye on him tonight.

Okay, so can you hold? Here's the question, folks. Can you hold your head above water with three-fifths of your starting rotation, giving you professional performances? Four-fifths. EMI, let's go. I know you're EMI hater number one. No, I'm not.

I'm E-Mai realist number one. Sack up. That's what I'm asking for him. Well, they're throwing them out there. Tomorrow's gut feelings is going to be very important for us. I've got a good gut feeling. Do you really? I got a good feeling about this.

Jonathan, how's your gut feeling about we're all doing on an EMI tomorrow? We're all doing it. We also need to do how many schedule release coming out Thursday, how many primetime games. We need to lay that down tomorrow too. Everybody remember, we're all holding everybody accountable. We all have bad memories.

Well, Jonathan's the best because he's youngest. In the time I saw Emi, it was his first outing. Don't worry about it. He's going to be better. We'll talk about it tomorrow. All right. Elsewhere in the news at noon, Victor Wambiama will not be

suspended for game number five for his elbow to Nas Reed above the neck. He was ejected in game number four, which the Minnesota Timberwolves went on to win. ESPN Sham Sharania saying the

NBA is saying that is enough punishment. He will not be suspended for a game. And the pivotal game five as a series is tied two to two. It's funny because what he did was very intentional. What he did was an easy penalty two. Easy.

So what would he have had to have done to get a further suspension? Step on him. Kick him in the nads. Really? Like a left elbow and then a right elbow. Yeah, yeah. And then an elbow, like a dusty road drop on the head. Yeah, okay, I see how you go on that. I got you. Pistons and Cavaliers in action tonight with Detroit leading that series 2 to 1. Cavs, 3.5 point favorites in that game. We'll see how James Hardin does.

this will be the largest home underdog line for LeBron James's career. They are 11.5 point dogs at home. The Los Angeles Lakers, Matthew. Down 3-0 in the series. I'm calling it. Oklahoma City finishes them off. Yeah. By the way, I want to ask you, do you think the 11.5 point favorite's going to win? I don't care about Vegas is.

I've just been watching the series. Yeah. I agree with you. I think the thunder are better than the Lakers. They will win the series. All right, Matt. What were you going to say? there are people complaining that

what should the NBA do to make this closer if one team is better than the other Oklahoma City has no need to try to extend the series the Knicks have no need to extend the series of Philadelphia if one team is better than the other then the brakes the NBA can't do anything about that ridiculous

second round is usually a little bit more thrilling than it has been but it is what it is Matthew have you seen the story from Sham Shirani of the Bucks are seeking trade offers. Quote, they are open for business on trade calls and offers for two-time MVP. I don't know how much entering the NBA draft combine in over six weeks away from the draft. Who's reporting that?

Shams is. Yes. And did you see that the wizards are willing to listen to people for the number one overall pick in the draft? Hmm. Yel. What is supposed to be a smashing draft? It is a smashing. Who's a consistency number one at this point?

AJ DeBanza. BYU, yeah. I thought it was him. Yeah. I have to look at the draft board. I know the kid out of Arkansas. People like the Kansas. What about the,

are you remember, did you declare Darren Peterson in Kansas? He's a complete bust, I think you said. Cameron Boozer. Cameron Boozer was on people's number one. It felt like all season. Darren Peterson, okay, has had a variety of physical ailments

and minutes restrictions when he played at Kansas. Does he love basketball? Because I guarantee you, Ben, what's his face, didn't love basketball at LSU? Ben Simmons? Yeah. He flailed out. Well, he also, he had some major surgeries, too.

Okay. Well, I guess we shall see. Wizards open to trading the number one overall pick, according to NBA insider, Matt Thomas. Shams saying they're expected to be a robust market for Antinacompo as they will maintain their trade deadline asking price of a young blue chip talent and or a surplus of draft picks. Who's going to get him?

Man. I still, I think I mentioned this on a previous gut feelings or to tell the truth. I think he's going east. He better. Please. How about the Knicks? I mean, who, I don't even know. I don't want the Knicks.

I want somebody that's... I want somebody that's... You know who loves star hunting. Miami? We'd, of course, be interested in a talent like Janus, the two-time MVP. He likes trading for guys that pass their prime. Well, he'd be there to make that trade, though.

That's another good question. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Okay. Elsewhere, Matt. In the news at noon. A Florida hide now. we can't do this because it is a Florida story. A Florida high school has suspended their football coach for swindling a player out of $7,000

to represent him as his agent. Hector Clavijo, the third, is being investigated as his activity was launched. The investigation was launched in April, apparently in the Palm Beach area where he was hired in 2021. He swindled a player out of $7,000 acting as a fake NFL and NCAA coaches agent and directors of coaching. He got $5,000 in a bank transfer from a player as well as a $2,000 Zell playment as part of an NIL agreement.

The player. We're not going to hear the last stories like this before. We're going to have coaches saying, hey, I'll represent you. I'll cut you check. I'll get you, give me part of it. I'll get you the best deal possible. Yeah, this is going to be something we were going to hear. hear more of, I swear. He is praying

on young student athletes, Florida investigators say, while using his power to secure clientele. That's a nice way to end the news at noon. A lot of snakes out there, folks. Be careful. Yeah. But that feels like that's probably happened before in other situations, like in high school before. You know, guys trying to

it's almost like assistant coaches jumping on to kids, hey, hey, take me with you to your school. I'll get you better deals there. I'll get you more money. there. I get the high school kid. Oh, wow. They're calling you, don't Boris get to the chorus.

On my Twitter. That's what the streets are saying. Who says that? The streets. Let me see who these streets are. They? That's what they are saying. David and Austin says,

Liberty White Matt with his finger on the Toral pulse. That's actually accurate. I like that. Ham almost at 1,000 views. That's good. while exclamation point rolling eyes

Texan schedule exclamation point for what week number nine who the Texas are going to play oh my god get out of here

your fake news shoo-wee week 13 of the Texas is going to play to Baltimore Ravens let's get into it right now

713 21225 790 we see we see we say that shooey sorry johnson

look I'm not 100% I don't call on me I don't go to John it's true he's been like this for a long time it is

it's been before you Jonathan it has been things I don't get you ready for things this is the precipice of why we did

things I don't get NFL schedule release talk high school recruiting breakdown you don't care who those kids are some people do

some very minor Chris Gordy does Gordy locked on SEC Gordy's a little different SEC unfiltered Cole Thompson cares

But remember, every time you hear a high school coat or a college coach say, man, we love our recruiting class. I want to hear someone say, God, our class sucks. We got to find that bit from Northwest Texas A&M or whatever we're called it. Wasn't he in the, wasn't he in the... They were practicing in the Walmart parking lot? With the push carts? Matt, I'll let my kids down. I got a terrible recruiting class.

I don't know how I'm going to go to go to spurier on you. It sounds like Dale Brinson, too. Now that's a little different, Matt. Delicious Barbecue. You ever been the delicious barbecue, Jonathan? That's all Main Street. Next to the CBD plant. Next to the CBD shop.

It called something Delta 8. I don't know what that means. Now, I wasn't in the military, so I'm not sure what that means. This is a weird Monday. It's my fault. Well, you know, the part, it's the actual... It's the Astros. It is.

It's their fault. Please save us. I want all of you all to speak this into existence. In Lambert, we trust. 713212-5-790. It is really a big deal that Janus is now being talked about. I mean, that was the rumor. That was the you couldn't confirm it.

And then when Shams, who, Shams Sharani, for those of you don't know, is the lead writer for the NBA's. mean, big guy Woj was it before that. He's the king. It used to be he and Woj, one, two. Who's even number two these days? Mark Stein? No. Chris B. Haynes? No. Ramona Shelburne?

No. Probably number two news gatherer? I don't know. You'd have a large argument for number two. Sam Amick? No, he's more feature writer. And I like Sam. Good guy. Yeah, Zach Lowe doesn't really break news.

No. So when you hear that the lines of communication are open, that means somebody's going to go get him. I can't imagine a Bucks wanting to go through this again and having to go to the off season with having to figure out whether or not Janus wants to stay as a Milwaukee buck. All right, this gut feeling down now. He's gone.

Young blue chip talent and or a surplus of draft picks. Well, the Rock has to have a bunch of draft picks. picks. And young talent. I guess if you and I were the general, let's say you and I were the one-two general manager punch of the rockets. Okay. Do you have, do you put into a simulator?

Do you envision on a board? Do you envision to the trade machine out? I'm not talking about the, the, what, envisioning what, like, because you know AI can put, hell, a video game can put Janus and Kevin Duran the floor at the same time, right? Yeah, you would have to envision what it looks like. You'd have to talk to the play. you'd have to talk to Kevin Durant.

You'd have to talk to Coach Udoka. You'd have to really try to plan and figure out and think about it. Also, the payroll implications. I don't know exactly. Yannis is big money for several years. Absolutely he is. I'd have to go look up exactly how much. Can I give you a dumb down and thought about this?

There's only one basketball on the floor? Yeah. Are those two guys, can those guys co-exist with each other? Kevin Durant stepped down his game to not being a 26-point game score down to say 21? He probably would have to, in a way, kind of the way Kevin Durant could dictate where he was going to go because he could just tell teams which ones he would resign with and which ones he wouldn't. Yeah, because I'm just looking at the honest as a deal right now. He's only got one more year.

Next year he's got $58 million and then he's got a player option for $62 million. And which he'll take. You're not stupid. No, I mean, he's going to look for a longer deal. He's not going to take the option. he's going to probably want a longer-term deal. Can you give somebody that old, which would be, what, $3362 million? Don't look at me that way.

That's a decent question. Yes. He at least, maybe he won't get $60 million a year. Fred Van Vleet got like $45 million a year from their rockets. I mean, yes, I think so. So he would be, he has a little leverage in that he could tell which, whisper to which teams he'd be willing to sign an extension with. I just feel like

Now the Rockas wouldn't Even if they were going Yannis hunting They wouldn't have said anything In the press conference about it Giving away their information Yeah we want Janus We're gonna do whatever it takes

Nah Not gonna happen Or they could have dumped it down By saying hey We're we're thinking about all options Yeah I mean They never got that vibe from them There was similar language to that

In that like I think they said like We'll be receptive to improving the teams, but we like the guys we have. Something basically to that effect was said. I can't remember the exact words. But I didn't come across as going, wow, there's multiple material. We're desperate to make a move or anything like that. Because, I mean, that would be foolish for Raphael to say that.

And it's just not going to happen. I don't think he'll be here. Please. I just don't go to. I just don't want him going to Golden State. Could happen. Guess who signed who your contract

to stay as a coach the Golden State Warriors? Would that be Steve Kerr? Did you see what Steve Kerr was offered by ESPN? I did not.

Gang, we, we, and me, we rip on ESPN for paying too much for their commentators?

Which they do. They offered Steve Kerr $7 million a year to be their lead NBA analyst and he didn't have to go on quote unquote

hot topic television shows so analyst only well he probably could have gone on he could on sports center I don't think Van Peltz sports centers consider that Legler does some sports center does he do the hot topic shows

I don't watch those so I don't think so but I mean I'm assuming he's they're talking about inside the NBA and talking about First take. But not worst take. Worst take or get up or what are those stuff? Get down. Can't keep track all these stupid shows.

I want to try to dumb it down first. I'm some saying dumb it down. I'm sorry, as I said it three times on one segment. I'm going to try to think about this. If I'm an NBA fan, and I've said this about the NFL too, if the Cowboys are playing the Eagles and are playing for the NFC Championship, Eagle East or the championship, it could be you and as a championship, it could be you and Adam Wex are doing the game.

I wouldn't care who's calling the game. When did the television executives in the last decade, Ross, decide, and again, I'm not trying to pocket watch people. Because good for Tony Romo, good for Tom Brady, good for Chris Collinsworth. But when did we start seeing these national TV brands pay crazy money? Steve Kerr, $7 million a year to be an analyst for NBA games? I don't know. I think it's one of those things that you notice or you don't notice as much when it's really good.

It's like a luxury. It's like, I don't know, the seat warmer on your car. You like to have it. You don't have to live with it. Now, I'll say this. the quality of the presentation of Monday night football with Joe Buck and Tritman is very good. But those guys are both making north of $10 million a year. I think it's one of those little things like kind of, I don't know what you don't call it, window dressing or whatever,

to where when it's there and it's nice, you're like, oh, this is good. But I don't think, I don't know how much of a tuneout factor there is for, certainly for us, the diehards or the casuals. I mean, are people getting so mad with the commentary that they're turning it off? I don't feel like that. But every network is doing it, so there has to be some kind of value. May I give you a horrible analogy. Oh, yes.

Ross, you, me, and Jonathan go get us a rib-eye. Okay. Good cut of meat, right? Are you delicious. I prefer strip, but ribby's great. Stay with me. Sorry. We could go get some wago beef at triple the amount.

It would taste delicious. But we're not going, man, thank God we had wago beef, because we couldn't possibly stand the thought of a ribon. entering our mouth. What percent, yeah, what percent better is the prime over the wagg you or the A5? From choice, from selected choice is big. Okay, let's say the Texans are playing the big game of the week against the, let's say the Los Angeles Chargers. 325 CBS game. Tony Romo's maybe working the game with Jim Nance. Okay, that's fine. We'd make fun Tony Romo a little bit, quirkyness. But if all of a sudden we gave the third analyst on CBS, if all of the sudden it was Trent Green calling the game. Would we go, man, we lost the love for the passion for this broadcast because these two guys are doing the game?

I don't think so. It's like a luxury item. And there's not that much discernible difference. But I mean, clearly they keep shelling out all this cash. They feel like it's worth it. And I think maybe executives like big names, Steve Kerr's obviously a huge name. But if I'm the leader of Disney and I'm why and I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm letting people go and unemployment because of my production cost.

Yeah. And I'm always talking about how our price to consumer porn is getting out of control. And people are getting complaining because the Disney Hulu packages are too much. Or the ESPN Plus Plus to watch my wrestling or my football is too much. I want to keep those people. I don't know if I want to gouge my audience and saying, your experience is going to be better because Steve Kerr is going to be calling a game between the Bucks and the Celtics. Yeah.

If we do one-to-one, though, because he would be unseating Tim Legler, right? Or Richard Jefferson. Or both. Exactly. Like, is that moving the needle for the casual NBA fan? Or it's obviously not moving it for the diehard. Like Stan Van Gundy does games on Prime. He does a nice job.

I think he does a great job. But if Stan Van Gundy never did a game again, okay. Bye. I liked him on Turner. I think he does a good job. But you wouldn't be like... I can't watch this game now. I don't know.

Because I'll say this, in local broadcasting, whether it be radio or television, there's a certain threshold. You may have your favorite anchor on Channel 21113. Oh, love them all. But there's only going to be a certain amount of money for those guys. Oh, they're replaceable. Since I mean, they paid Dave Ward very well for a long period of time in 13, but there was a certain level they said we just can't give any more.

Of course, you and I, irreplaceable. Irreplaceable. So we've been the centerpiece of this lineup for 16 years. Hashtag, no raise in a long time. Hashtag not complaining about it. Well, maybe one of us. I'm doing all right. I'm doing okay.

I'm very happy. I just like. The moonlighting as an Uber driver is doing right. Now granted. Saving up. Curr is going to make, I think, $17 million a year. They said 17 and a half is what he made last year. I mean, isn't that like making,

isn't 17 and a half in the Bay Area like making 7 anywhere else? What's the cost of, isn't it like the highest cost of living in America? Isn't it more than New York City, I think? Or is it not? I can tell you that when I travel to the Bay Area, it's more expensive to do the daily things that I want to do, eat, Uber. Yeah, San Jose, San Francisco, New York City, and Honolulu.

Oh, Honolulu, very expensive. Really? Yeah. That's part of the reason why we didn't do the Hawaii, vacation as a family. It's too expensive. You could go to the other islands. They're not cheaper. They're more expensive. Haloos a city, at least.

Okay. 1233 on Sports Talk, 7.90. We got missing you coming up at 1.30 today. Looking forward to that. We'll see how some former Astros are doing. 713 212-5-790. 1237, and it's Matt and Ross with you until 2 o'clock today. We got missing you coming up at 1.30. Braves

are now 28 and 13 after his 7-2 win at the Dodgers. We'll be discussing Maricio Duvon and missing you coming up at 1.30. That segment almost is becoming more painful by the week when it comes to Maricio Dubon because he's not letting up. It's not going to OPS like 900 all season.

I ain't worried about it. All right. Well, got Mr. Allen. Yeah, Nick Allen. Nick Allen, 515 OPS. Now you're playing everyday third baseman. He might 515 OPS all year along. It is interesting.

I hope we get an update on Jeremy Pena and like the joy little perfidos of the world with Joe Espada coming up today. Astro's home today for Seattle and a first to four with them and then three tomorrow after that with the Texas Rangers. Big week in the American League West.

Can the Astros gain ground? Find out next on Sports Talk 790. It's almost like a tease. Yeah. Building a drama. Yes. Let's go, baby. Feeling good.

Touch you, my. Turn around C. Y. Why are you squinting at me? Because I'm fascinated by your Tatsu Emi bounce back stuff. There's been zero. You've got to be positive in this life. Is that what it is?

Is that what we're going with? Yes. Even though he goes down to spring training, spring training, two minor league games. Yes. With zero pressure on him. All he's got to do is just throw. There's pressure. And there's pitch clock.

There's the hard mound. It's really humid in Corpus Christi. The sushi isn't good. Yeah. Sugarland. Maybe they got caught in traffic on the way down 59. You don't know what happened. He only walked like five guys in three innings.

Did he give up no runs or was it one run? It should be three up, three down, three straight innings every single time. They didn't throw a perfect game down there? I would think so. Spitzer-Rigating, he wasn't throwing perfect games down there. It's rehab, baby. We've seen bad rehab and then guys come out and start. You know what you sound like?

You sound like Chris Gordy, all worried about Yordon Alvarez in spring training. Oh, no, Yordon can't hit in spring. spring it's fine Tatu Emai it's gonna be great completely the same scenario Jonathan he is absolutely going all in

on Tatsu amai with a bounce back I think people know I'm joking right well I'll tell you what if it works you're a hero and if it doesn't work some of the weirdos out that believe in this quality

oh yeah zero sugar multiple people reaching out about Mike Burroughs quality start plus appreciate you folks listening. That's quality start light. You don't even know what you're calling. No, I did. No, Quality Start Plus, he did seven innings a shutout ball.

I've done both. Oh, you see you, okay, let's make sure get this right. Yeah. You have Quality Start light. Right. You've got Quality Start, Quality Start, yeah. And you got Quality Start Plus.

Yeah, you've got Bud Light, you got Bud Weiser, and then you got Bud Ice. The real heavy stuff. Or the real alcoholics. Then you got Keystone Light. Yeah. Bud Ice. Yeah.

Comes with a court order from your ex-wife. In a mugshot from the Montgomery County Police Department. Yes. I'm obsessed with that, by the way. What? Montgomery County has a Facebook page, and anybody ever get to arrest, they put their mugshot on there.

Oh, uh-oh. I mean, I got to keep my... Montgomery County's a lot bigger than you think it is. Yeah. Hmm. Real nice folks over there. Okay, so let's go through both scenarios. We should actually say this more for tomorrow,

but we're going to do it for today because the Astros lost 5-0. We're not going to get into a deep dive of the Reds 5-0. Win. if things go right we are very very chipper we are like man the the the light was turned on

all he needed was some Corpus Christi seafood all I needed was to go to the red lobster down in Rockport some of them cheddar bay biscuits maybe he prayed at the Salinas statue you know what altering his dinner menu his dinner to eating time

yeah He's getting used to all of it. Okay. That's the good side of it. He's got a pitch. He's got a pitch. I'm sorry. The negative is going to be what?

He went down to the miners and couldn't fix it. He's obviously in his head. And the reality is he's going to have to try this again. He's going to have to be given multiple starts in order whether or not to figure out this is a complete bust. Obviously right now the answer is yes. but with all the injuries and the fact that you don't have Hunter Brown ready to start right away

and the fact you're not going to see Christian Javier and the fact that you're going to have who else has been gone you got I mean Javier or those guys yeah I mean you've got nobody that's really fighting for that starting spot

I mean Ryan Weiss is down at AAA Ryan Weiss wanted to be a starter and now he's starting obviously for AAA they're going to have to give him every opportunity to sink or swim on this you know what this sounds like though Hmm. And don't get mad at me. This sounds like Jose O'Beru.

For who? Tatsu-Imi. That's different. I'm just saying, I sound like I'm saying, give him four at-bats every game. Give him an opportunity to get out of this slump. Until the Astros eventually said, eh, he can't get out of it. I mean, it took, Mike Burroughs had his best start of his career on Friday. He's scuffled for a little while. Tattoo Yami is literally coming from another country.

But you have more invested in that picture, though. Of course you do. I think expectations from Mike Burroughs are a lot more limited than they were for Tatsu E. No, no, go run the tape back from we were in spring training. He was striking everybody out wearing number 97 in the Florida Con in the Florida Grapefruit League. We were feeling pretty good about it.

He did have a good spring tourney, didn't he? Yeah, we thought he was going to tear your airport. Stop focusing on March numbers and stop focusing on September numbers. Cam Smith you're the group. At least a step in the right direction. Yeah, if he goes, it depends. It depends. If he goes out there and he throws two thirds of an inning, gives up eight runs, yeah.

We'll be looking bad. You want at least four plus and one or two runs given up or something like that. So there's a wide range of outcomes. He's not going to go throw eight shut out. How about this? How about giving you five? Yeah. That'll be a small step. Yeah, five innings of one-run ball. Quality start light.

So, okay, what is it five? You're definitely, I gotta get these definitions down. Yes. Is it five, okay, so five runs, three runs a lot would be what? That's not a, that's nothing. That's just a meh. Quality start, meh.

It's a meh start. What's a quality start? No, quality start six is three, six and two. Would you please put this on your Twitter account so we can all gather. It's also about a feeling, Matt. Yeah, you got the metrics figured out. No, you got to, sometimes it's about the feeling. Like, I feel like he did a pretty good job.

If five innings two-run ball, feeling like you did pretty good. Quality Start Light, boom. Jonathan, there's a lot of subjectivity in this here. I know. He's trying to find some wiggle room in this thing, isn't it? Five innings, five innings between five and two-thirds, two-thirds. Two or fewer runs given up. What else do you need to know?

Quality Start Light. Book it. Write it down. for tomorrow night. Quality start light from Tatsu you might be. How will the fans feel? Four innings and shutout, ball doesn't count because you have to at least get a win. Yeah, quality start, whatever, zero sugar has got to be at least five innings.

Yeah, you've got to get a win. You got to be eligible for a. Eligible for a future. You don't have to get the win. The fact that this is getting traction is hilarious. People are picking up on it, folks. People meaning three people. No.

Dozens. I don't see Jeff Passon jumping. Jeff Passes are jumping in on this. So what? Bob Knight gets on jumping on this. That's because he's getting fit for another Paul, not Paul, but ringbearer. suit. I don't see Bob Nightingale jumping all of us. I don't see a...

That's because he's putting out more misinformation. I don't see John Heyman jumping all over this. 1252 on Sports Talk 7. I have missing you coming up in about 38 minutes from now. Chuck up the deuce not happy with me on Twitter. Uh-oh. What happened?

He says, so what's the point of the tweet? I know... You're so bad. Wow. information point, I emojis, text and schedule 8,200 views. You're shameless. Well, chuck up the news angle and follow me on Twitter doesn't like it. So what's the point of the tweet?

I know something y'all don't know. If you're not going to say what it is, then you suddenly why bother? That feels very appropriate. Chuck it up with the deuce. Thanks for the interaction. Thanks, Chuck. The more people interact with their tweets, the more likely they are to get seen even more. Oh, Aaron ruining the jib.

He says, so you would view it and comment, pretty sure he told Ross he would get many views, LOL. Weekdays, 10 to 2. The jig is up. It's all right. Look at, man, I have to 8,300 views. Prudy, man. Wow, exclamation.

Yeah, but 4,300, those are you. That feels fair. That is fair. Okay, so I've given you, in my mind, the most overrated things in sports to watch or to care about. NFL schedule releases one. High school recruiting. Oh, I'll give you day one.

How about this one? Mock draft scoring. How do you feel about mock draft scoring? Or mock drafts in general? They're kind of fun, I guess. You do, I will say this, maybe the entire mock draft I can kind of buy, but giving a grade off of one pick seems a little tough. I think, I mean, it's far and away the schedule release.

You already have the opponents. It's cool to see how many primetime games are going to be. How cool? Or standalone. I mean, it's cool, but it's not for four months. The games. So, yeah, I mean, if they were released it, am I just, I don't even know, like you said, it's Thursday? Yeah.

I can't tell you the last time I watched. Fully invested. Well, the reality is, it's a lot of people to do it. I mean, everybody is, putting the thing I think is the most irresponsible about it is that there's so many people putting out erroneous information. There's rolling only about, my guess, Ross, 200 people in this country that are really on the schedule right now. And unless they feel like they needed to whisper to their Twitter friends, which would seem kind of odd. I could leak it to somebody, I guess.

I don't know. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Wake me up when the season starts. It's something to look at, but it's not top of mind for me. I'll say this. When the schedule comes out, you can kind of schedule, hey, I want to make sure I'm in town for this game, or maybe the team is going on a city that I want to go to.

That kind of, to me, is somewhat intriguing. But to start going, I mean, there are so many for-you tab accounts that are saying, schedule leaking, this team is playing this, or they're putting out the schedule based on what they think it is, I think it's frankly irresponsible. Now, again, Twitter doesn't hold you to any. account doesn't hold you to anything. No. I think did it leak? It's like the first Sunday night football is Cowboys Eagle or Giants or whatever. That's official

now. Okay, that's official. And that's the other thing is that the NBC folks, they're dosing it out. They were doing it. They put on the Today Show, Dallas Giants will be the first Sunday night game. And as Chris Collinsworth has said on multiple occasions, if we could put the Cowboys on Sunday Night Football 17 times, we would do so. That's crazy to me.

They have a hold on America. Yet they haven't made a championship game since 95, right? NFC. And it's not even like their coaches are intriguing. Dak Prescott, I mean, I know he was going to get married, then he wound up not getting

married. There isn't a, there isn't a Travis Kelsey Megastar, right. There isn't a boyster as Alms, Josh Allen. There's not even a blankster like Dremont Green on their squad. You know what I'm talking about? They're just a team. Yeah, Brian

Schottenheimer. Like, Brian Brian Schontenheimer looks like a school librarian. No, I'd say PE coach. Like with the coach's shorts? Yeah. The plump smugglers. But I mean, even back in the day, you had stoic Tom Landry, who just oozed respect. Then you had this wild and crazy Jimmy Johnson took over for him.

Personality, yeah. And then a little bit of Barry Switzer. But after that, I mean, did Chang Galey move the needle? I mean, Bill Parcell. Garrett? Bill Parcells. Bill Parcells a little bit, yeah. Chan Galey. Some dark times. Cowboys fans are yelling at us right now. Sorry, guys. Stop bringing it. Yeah. Who else was? Who even is a coach now that people, I mean, I think people, Mike Tomlin had some cashier, I guess. Dan Campbell. Not in terms of me. Dan Campbell.

Yeah, I mean, he's got an interesting. Mike Vrabel's one now. Mike Vrable. That's number one on the list. But D'Amico is as boring as it gets. He kind of likes it that way. He's pretty milk toast. Yeah.

But he gets kind of fiery, I guess, on the sidelines and stuff. But that doesn't resonate to people in America. What is it about Dallas? Is it just because your dad and your granddad love the Cowboys? I guess. I just don't get it. good for jera now jera is interesting because

he is 80 plus years old and still trying to run a football team like he's in the 50s pretty crazy and makes crazy trades who somebody just sent schedule league Texans will be at super bowl LXI who retweet it no it's a joke

like a mean like in the intendants or at the game or actually playing in it hey I'm ready I mean, I'm honest. I'm ready to be a Liberty White, Matt. I'm ready to be Liberty White.

But you're not, Liberty, you're not getting me until two things. When Call and Hannah come over to do an hour show with us. Oh, stop. Or be you in the Super Bowl, or go to the Super Bowl at least. Other than that. Like, I have the orders.

I'm getting orders clips. I'm Battle Red Ross. Because I am not a bandwagon hopper. It just took you 20 years to jump on it. Yeah, because it's, because, you know what it was? it was Amy Adam Strunk and the Titans waving oilers stuff in our face.

You know what? They want us to long for the Oilers. They want to make us mad. And I'm not giving them the satisfaction. I am Battle Red Ross. And also, C.J. Stroud was looking pretty good. What if he throws 14 interceptions a year? I'm still going to be Battle Red Ross.

It's for life. So once you jump to this battle red, your life. Yeah, I'm getting a Toro logo tattooed on my forearm. God, can we go watch that happen? I'm just kidding. live video of that. I'm not even going to make a better say anything. I'm not getting attention.

Don't, don't, don't die. I wouldn't even let you do it. All right, it's 1 o'clock on Sports Talk, 7.9. We're missing you coming up in a half an hour for now. We're missing you on the phones if you want to come and say hello to us. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Five on Sports Talk 7-9.

It is Matt at Ross for the final hour. Missing you coming up in 25 short minutes from now. Ross, Bobby Cox, believe it or not. How's it going? Unbelievable stuff. We've talked about this at 7 o'clock this morning. Unbelievable questions coming your way at 150. 50.

50. First team he managed. Let's give them a freebie. You ready? Oh, yeah, Pittsburgh Pirates. No. Oh. The first team he managed was the Toronto Blue Jays.

Let's give him a freebie on that one. Okay, sure, why not? Okay. Career batting average, 238. Really? I just made that up. Okay, don't. That part I can't.

I can't back up. I'm sorry. You know what you are? You're the add one more sentence to every sentence that I should have a period at the end of it. Am I wrong? I wasn't that far off. Career 225. What did I say? 238.

Period. Bobby Cox's first managerial job was with the Toronto Blue Jays. Believe it. Believe it. Okay. 713212-5-7-9-7-1-0 or was he a are you sure about this no okay well so it was clarifying might as well okay well let's get let's get it right i'm seeing it was he with the braves first yeah he was the braves and went to the blue jays and then came back to the braves you know really so with the big well say blue jays and make it a nut yeah bobby so bobby cox started as a manager of the braves and went back yeah really i did not know that Huh. Me either. Ted Turner managed the...

Yeah. Let's take a look here. I'm looking at the Wikipedia. It was a strike shortened season, and Ted Turner fired him. Manager, 78 to 81. You are right. Yeah. You know who succeeded him? Joe Tori.

That's correct. Yeah. I was a kid that watched the Braves on TBS in the 80s. I watched them on TBS in the 90s. It was very funny thing on Twitter. People were saying that with Ted Turner and Bobby Cox both dying the same week, their wedding should start,

or their funeral should start at 05. I like that. Because they never started the shows exactly on time. Kind of smart when you think about it. I guess? Well, they did it for a long time. I mean,

I guess it worked for them. Worked for us. Remember what we remember. Shawshank Redemption on 05. Shawshank on TNT again tonight? Probably. How does Charm continue to be on T&T in the mornings? Bones.

Bones. And practical jokers on, uh, What's the other, true TV? True TV. You're home for Big 12 football and the NCAA tournament and Bones. They had Big 12 football on True TV? No, they actually had the Big 12 on TNT. Oh, okay.

Cougars were on TNT quite a bit. I didn't know that. Yeah. It's like French Open and TNT is getting a little lean. You got to put the heavy hitters on there. Yeah, it's French Open and the Cougars versus the BYU Cougars. Hey, we put Oklahoma State beat them pretty good. Okay.

TNT game. All right, let's talk to the great people. of Houston, Texas, 713212. So again, when Ross says the first managerial job that Bobby Cox had was with the Toronto Blue Jays, that would be a knot. Correct. Because he was a manager of the

Braves back in the late 1970s. Let's go to Will and Memorial at 109 on 790. Will, good morning. Good afternoon. Thanks for holding. Hey, guys. I've been listening to all morning. Thank you, sir. Thank you. So, Ross, I'm going to give you some props. About five or six weeks ago, you

went off on this tangent talking about James Hardin and man did you get some pushback on the radio and I was listening to it and just laughing like crazy but last week I was listening and they said something that I did not know

said that Hardin has been in the playoffs every year that he's been in the league I did not know that I didn't know that either yeah I did too yeah 14 14 isn't it 14 playoff appearances at least for him?

17. 17. That's pretty good. That's unreal. Yeah, I remember, oh, I know what you're talking about. Matt was out and I was saying good things about James Hardin and people were getting very upset with me. Boy, did they beat up on you?

It was like he won an MVP here. It was pretty good. Yeah, I know. But I wanted to give you props for that because you had your facts straight. Yes. I got my facts straight, Will. I got questions about the Astros. So before I get there, Steve Carly earlier this morning was talking about Dana Brown.

I think Steve forgot about the fact that Dana Brown was on that brave team to beat the Astros for the World Championship. He was the vice president of the player personnel, and he drafted it. I mean, he brought in Harris, Michael Harris, Grissom, and Spencer Strider. I think Steve left that part out. Well, are we giving the credit to the assistant to the general manager? Are we giving credit to the general manager? No, no, no. The president of the draft.

He handled the draft for the Braves. Okay, well, then why? But, okay, so if that's the case, and why have we been able to take all the excellence out of that and hand it over to the Astros organization? The Astros draft has not provided a lot. He just started in 2023, and it's 2026. Okay.

I mean, the question is, how long do you give a general manager is the issue? Well, I'll give you a point. For you, people have said that Baltimore Orioles had the premieres. minor league system in baseball. What have they won? Nothing. As a matter of fact, they've gone to the playoffs two years. They lost both years, got swept,

and then they went under 500 last year and got they fired their manager. Yeah. Exactly. So my contention has always been this. I've never been a believer in blaming manager and blaming general manager. Never have. Never have done that. The only person that you can blame are the players.

Now, if the general manager is dead bad that he can't bring you players, Now you blame him. You mentioned one a few minutes ago that I will blame, and that's Jera up in doubt. I don't blame Jera for being a bad general manager in regard to players. I beg Jera for making bad decision when it comes to coaches. That's two different things. So I don't think the Astros are going to make any changes. The Braves had the same situation that the Astros have right now.

They had it last year. And if you recall the last third of the season, the brave made a push for the playoffs. They fired the man of snippet who got fired. They brought back, I believe the Swarth's Walt Weiss is back. So now the Braves are healthy. Chris Selle is healthy and what is happening? The best record in baseball, yeah. That's right.

That's right. So let us get the Braves, let us get the Astros healthy first. Problem is that. Either they don't say we get rid of them. Okay. So let me ask you this. the issue, and you may have made a lot of sense on all this, well, is the reality is you've also got a guy that's not,

that has not done enough according to Jim Crane. He's the one that ultimately makes a decision about extension of a contract. So could, do you, how do you think the general public would feel extending both of those guys if this team found finishes 10 or 15 games under 500 and not competing for a division championship, at least, or playoffs? Well, the public is not going to be happy with it, but if you recall it, you said it so this morning. I heard you say this this morning. The public was upset that we had

Dusty Baker here because they blamed them for everything. When Dustin lives in the World Series in 2022, it had nothing to do with it managing but the player. Because the public wants everybody firing every single time. So that's the... It's right.

It's exactly right. It's exactly right. They won't analyze the fact that it takes time to do things. I'm going to go back to what I said. Let's let them get healthy. Let's see what they finish. then if it comes to the point at the end of the season

that the owner wants to go a different direction, now he has a chance to change. But I think they deserve to finish the season. I couldn't agree with you more. In both cases, honestly, although I'll say this. The only thing is that how do you, wow, if you are going to

make a move at general manager, how do you let the general manager run the draft? unless you just say the draft's already in place, the board is already set, and let's go from there. Another thing, how do you let the general manager make the trade deadline trades? Because if you're not contending,

this team should be selling pieces at the deadline. I think he's going to be here. Honestly, human being to human being, I hope both guys have an opportunity to finish out the year. But it just doesn't work out that way, typically. Yeah, I'm just trying to look. It's as far as, the draft

the last three years you just don't have any top guys now obviously Dana's also been picking at the back end of the first round you can hit a third round pick you can hit a fourth fifth or sixth whatever round pick and as of this moment there hasn't been

a whole lot of fruit borne out of the draft Bryce Matthews has been the best draft pick in terms of like at the major league's levels and at least doing something that's right 115 on sports talk 790 713212-5-790 if you want to come in and say hello good conversation we will the rest of you may follow him at 713 212 5-790 we got missing you coming up in about 15 minutes yeah i would just say for professionalism stake i'd like for both those guys to finish out but sometimes the manager looks in the state or the owner looks the stadium and sees he seems empty sometimes he listens to the radio shows sometimes he reads the radio shows sometimes he reads the newspaper articles or the websites.

And he's like, you know what, I need to get a different vibe in. All I will say is I will follow my sword, like you and I talked about in the 10 o'clock hour of the show this morning, Rossi. Omar Lopez is very well respected. Omar Lopez will solve the same lineup that he'll have to sign with Nick Allen out there playing a lot. Yeah. And underperforming Cam Smith offensively.

and Logan Van Way and Colton Gordon and Cody Gordon and Cody Bolton and all these people I've never heard of before having to go get meaningful innings for you and that's the reason why Joe's

it's not managerial malpractice where this team is it's roster construction which some of it is construction become the general manager a lot of it is because of the injuries you've given you're out of

of many of your starters in your everyday nine and your number one guy who all of a sudden makes your pitching staff looks awesome. When the number one pitching staff guy on your rotation is down for a longest period of time, your rotation, your quote-unquote depth doesn't look nearly as awesome. 713-212-5-790.

124 on Sports Talk 790. Thank you very much for being a part of our program today. We very much appreciate it. I know it's not easy being an astro or a sports fan this time of year because the rockets are out. NBA playoffs don't necessarily move the needle for you. The Astros are not playing well. But this week, as Ross gives optimism about Tatsu Emi, gives us optimism of Peter Lambert, staff Ace. Oh, Ace with Ergetti.

Some word one about whether or not we're going to see Lance McCuller's throw. Yeah, his fingernails off. what's going on? I mean, you try to pitch without a fingernail. I can't pitch with my fingernails. He must be beating the hell out of himself on that mound. I don't know what's going on. Maybe he's been stressed out.

I'm stressed out. Maybe I should be two of my fingernails. Jose L Tuvae's been doing it for 15 years. Yeah. Let's go to Jason on 790. Jason, thank you for holding a good afternoon. Hey, how's it going, gentlemen? Good, good.

Very good. Like Juan, Newstonian, big sports fan here. I'm very excited about the Texans. I believe that their off-season has been extremely productive with what they're trying to do on all things. Defense, nothing has to be done. I've never seen a team, especially in this city, or really, I mean, I pay attention to a lot.

I don't see a lot of GMs, focusing so hard on one side of the ball and actually addressing what they need to do. And they're already, you know, 11, 12-win team before all these changes. So I'm very optimistic. If the line is 12 wins next year, I'm going over that. I think we're going to dominate people. I think they're going to figure out things on the line with the coaching. I think the run-blocking skills of the old linemen that they brought in is very exciting.

love the show you all keep it rolling peace thank you well first of all it's always good to be optimistic that's the most it's number one thing number two very few teams and their fan base become pessimistic from season to season unless you have multiple departures whether you got retirements or injuries have you heard of rockets fans i'm talking about in the nfl okay everybody watches the NFL draft and says we got better we got well guess what other teams get better by their positions as well

it's how you spend your money it's how you lock guys up it's what you do to address draft issues positions of failure of the previous season before and look Keanlon Rutledge first round pick Braden Smith you got away from

Indianapolis Wyatt Teller you got away from Cleveland Rattello Ariant to Ursura you would assume be better today than he was a year before. I'm hoping. So under no circumstances should you be discouraged.

But the number one piece of the puzzle on this is what quarterback are we getting in the next season from in season number four of C.J. Straub. That's what it comes down to. Is it the guy that's going to have a more comfortable offensive line?

Is David Montgomery going to be a better running back to anything that the Texans could throw at them last year? The presumption would be yes. Yes. Although the question would be how much is left in the tank on that? Well, I think David Montgomery is going to be, he's going to, as a baseline, be better than washed up Nick Chubb. And you still have Woody Marks, who's a third downback. We said all season.

He's one of the worst of high usage running backs in football last year. In theory, everybody gets better. Did the Texans get better to overcome everybody else in the division? I think Tennessee's in a rebuild. Indianapolis can't figure out their quarterback situation, I don't think. That is fine. Jacksonville, how sneaky can they be? Is Trevor Lawrence going to have a down season after having an up season?

I mean, they played really well. He said he's going over 12 wins. That's not the Vegas line. I wouldn't do that. Do you know what the Vegas line is for the Texans? May I guess? Yes. 10 and a half.

9 and a half. Okay. Colts, 8.5, Jaguars, 9 and a half. So they're saying it's a competitive division, basically. Well, yeah, 9 and a half. Titan six and a half. Yeah, I would just say good to be encouraged.

There's nothing that the team would discourage you except for two things. One, is C.J. Stroud more like he was the last couple of years than he was in his first year, especially the two playoff performances,

and we won't have an answer to that. And number two, there is one position that probably now becomes the weakest on the offensive side, and that's the receiving core. Jaden Higgins, is he good enough? Jennewell, is he going to be the next step?

Higgins was better. Collins needs to be healthy. Tank Dell will not be ready for training camp. We got to stop thinking about Tankdell being a part of this team. Hey, people are saying he's moving good. That's what the reports are. Now, you are the Texans insider, Matt. The insider is going to tell you something.

Don't count on Tankdale for 2026. Well, you also told us somebody got shot in the foot and that never came out. Texans Insider. Oh, wow. I was ready that time. Thank you, Jonathan. I was not wrong. What?

Haven't been proven wrong yet? You're not wrong? Okay. I say he put his foot in a George Foreman grill. I was not wrong because it hasn't come out that he didn't. I got people asking me about texting scheduling. I have no idea. You're hilarious.

You're such a fraudulent person. Well, I'm just responding to text. I have no idea. Oh, my God. Can you do that during the brief? I don't think people mad at me. I don't know. CJ Stroud's going to be better.

AFC South Champs. You heard it here first. What's up? I ain't scared. Yeah, whatever. Name is... Whoa. He's not putting his in my anything yet.

Wait until the season starts. Oh, okay. We've got to make sure everybody makes it out of training camp healthy. I'll put my name on it, and then C.J. Stroud rips his ACL. I'm putting my name on it, the tank, Dell will not. be a huge part of the 2026 Texas. Okay, let me write this one down.

Let me get the file out, baby. And that hurts because I'm a Houston Cougar. No strongest file. I am the insider. I'm telling you about Joe Mixing. I told you about Sifan Diggs a long time ago.

Y'all didn't believe me. Mm-hmm. Trust. You didn't break the pick. The insider. You didn't break the draft pick. I was off that day. No, you weren't.

I was on Rockets' coverage. Your Lance Mason TSE pick, by the way. I wrote this one. down. He's, I think he was a drug... Seattle Seahawk. Undrafted free agents. Seattle Seahawks, don't sleep on him. Okay, what are you saying? Tankdale's not going to play

at all? No, what are you trying to say? No, not a non-factor in 2026. Okay. James and Alvin, hi. Thank you gentlemen for accepting my call. You guys got some of the most knowledgeable listeners in sports talk radio.

And I wanted to pick it back on. You had a previous caller, not the previous caller. caller before that emphasizes that he actually thought the Astros should that all the guys come back from injuries and see where the chips fall and that Astros is a better team

with a healthy squad than they are now this is what I and Matt you even agreed with him And nothing wrong with that. That was good. That was excellent, a good analogy on that. But this is what I'm looking at.

They don't have a pitching style. Rotation or bullpen. No matter if the Astros put up nine runs, opposition was go ten. My whole situation on the Astros is this. They made their own dilemma. Number one, they should have never got rid of, I'm going back some years, they never should have got rid of the general manager and the manager,

Jeff Luno and AJ Hinch, they did. That was fine. It was enough in the storehouse to compete for seven years. Go to four World Series, win two, win four pennants now the cupboard is bail now I'm saying this

by all-star break Hunter Brown Jeremy Piny Yordaun-Avarez highest bidder get the best you can get from and and then

this is the kind of this is the type of squad that the ownership of the Astros look general manager can't do nothing

unless the owner says you can do it and that's where the Astros at now so with that being said I appreciate the time but by all-star break Yodon Averaz have a very good friendly contract.

They can ask the world if they wanted to give up Yodon Averiz, Jeremy Pena, oh yeah, Hunter Brown, oh yeah. Then let them rebuild. Okay, all right, James. Because they're not going to pay a whole bunch of money to keep people. Thank you, gentlemen.

Thank you, we're very happy to accept your call. They might blow it all up. I, to me, still, just because of how good Yordon is, he still can be a franchise cornerstone. He's only 29 years old. But you're already paying like $30 million, so you would, in theory, be upping them to like $40 million. It's not going to be a huge leap as paying Jeremy Payne a ton of money

or paying Hunter Brown a ton of money. So I would still keep him. You want to contend at some point. Unless you're saying you're going into the tank big time for five years, which I don't think Jim Crane wants to do. If you sold off all the pieces, then I'd be thinking he'd be selling wanting to sell the team next. Yeah, exactly. Honestly. That would make sense.

I'd buy that. 40 on Sports Talk 790. I present to you, Houston, Texas, five former Astros. And I ask of all of you, are you missing them? Ross will start with the Chicago Cubs third baseman Alex Bregman. Last week, he went four for 27,

no home runs in an RBI, on the year batting 233, OPS of 681 with three home runs and 13 RBIs. Ross, I ask you, are you missing Alex Bregman? 13 ribbyes? Yes, pretty good. Missing them? How many games?

I think 40, right? Has he played? Yeah, he's playing. Okay, yeah, that's what I'm saying. 13 RBIs in 40 games? Oh, I thought you said this last week. No. Because last week you did your last week updates.

I'm sorry. Yeah. Oh, 13 on the year? Yeah. I'm sorry, no. Okay. I thought you said he had 13 in last week. I was like, damn, yeah, good week.

That'd be great. Number two, Kyle Tucker. Well, he did some, he went seven for 23 in the week. Yeah, yeah. Had a home run against the Astros. Yes. Four ribbies. Okay.

He on the year has four home runs. 20 RBIs, batting average of, 248 and his OPS is 736. I ask you, are you missing Kyle Tucker? Would I rather have Kyle Tucker or Smith and Paredes? I will go with, I am not missing Kyle Tucker.

Edwesneski, who's I don't know, healing. Whatever he's really healing. I was playing Grand Theft Auto or something, I don't know. Is that the default game of choice? I don't know. What about it? What of his NBA 2K26? Adam Clanton loves to talk about Grand Theft Auto.

All right. Next. Jesus Sanchez. Good week for Hesuos. Uh-oh. For the Toronto Blue J, 6 for 22 with a home run and two RBIs. On the year, he's got five home runs, 17 RBIs, 240 to batting average. He's got five homers? Yeah. OPS and 723. Are you missing them? Yes. David. Yes, I am.

I'm sorry, it was a cost-cutting measure for Loper Fido who's been hurt. Next. Framber Valdez. Currently on suspension, after giving up seven runs, nine hits, three home runs. Sees in a record of two wins, two losses in the area of 4.57. Rossi, are you missing him? I mean, I was, and then now he hit somebody and he got suspended. Trevor Storer, you could still use a pitching.

You could always use pitching. I'm going to say, yes, I'm missing Frumber. And lastly, but not leastly. Is LISLY a word? No. Mauricio Dubon, last week, seven for 12. Oh, my God. No home runs, five RBIs.

It's a little over 250. On the year, two home runs, 23 RBIs, batting 271 with an OPS a 741. Are you missing? Yes, Marisa Dubas. Yes, everybody's been hurt. You need a utility guy who's been at least OPS 700. He's done that. Missing all these guys.

Again, a cost-cutting measure. We can give Jim Crane a pass for not signing these big long-term deals. But you're shaving down payroll. How it works. Penny pitching. It's either Jim said go shave it. Yes. Or Dana said, I can go get other players, but I need a little bit of flexibility to cut the payroll down to bring the other players in. Remember, who did he sign that her day?

Or was Emi. And he said, we're not done yet. Well, we're waiting for that. Right? Yeah. Dana went to Jim and I was like, yeah, no, Jim, I'm going to save you some money here and send off. Mariso de Mont for Nick Allen. Come on now.

Do you think Dana's like, Jim, you can't make me do this? Dana wants Jim to open the checkbook. Come on now. Mr. Allen. His name is Nick. It's not that difficult. I didn't call him Zach. Every time you say Mr.

I don't think you're talking about me. I'm like, oh. Yeah. Maybe all are distant relatives. You never know. Could be his cousin. Never know. All right.

That's missing you this week. Okay. Honestly, of the five, If you had really name one that you really miss more than the else, probably Kyle Tucker. No, I told you, I'm kind because, you know, Isak Paredes and Cam Smith are locking. I mean, Cam's isn't bad, but Easek Pratis has been better. So I'm going to go with, with the injuries. Dubon?

Wait a minute. We can't use Dubon. Frumber with the pitching. Just because of the injuries? Yeah. Why can't we do it, Dubon? Is everybody's been hurt? you know what missing dubon would mean more new bond and less nick allen yeah you're right okay we miss you

marissa you all right believe it on is up next all things about bobby cox the former manager of a couple of majorly baseball teams 713212 5779 if you want to chime in 713 212 5 790 okay 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 believe it or not. And here's how it works. It calls 713212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790.

Today's edition of Believers all things about Bobby Cox. I'll read your statement about Bobby Cox. statement completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. If Samin C. Rone is full of bunk and made up. You will say this. Not.

Two believe or nots in a row when you eat. either a pair of tickets to an evening with Jeff Foxworthy this Sunday, May 17th at Smart Financial Center in Sugarland. Tickets are on sale at Smart Financial Center.com or a pair of tickets to see Triumph on their Rock and Roll Machine Reloaded Tour on May 27th, also at Smart Financial Center. Tickets are available there at Smart Financial Center.com. Jeff Foxworthy. Are you smarter than Jeff Foxworthy, Ross? A fifth grader? Yeah. Do you do that show? Yeah, he did.

He's a lot more successful than I am. to go with no. What's the guy that does? Here's your sign. He might be a redneck. Let's Jeff Foxworthy. That's right. That's right. Let's talk to Brian on 790. Brian, you ready to play, believe it or not?

Yes, sir. Brian, not only was Bobby Cox a standout pitcher in third basement in high school, he was also a two-way football star. Believe it or not. Not. That was made up. Nicely done. Statement number two for the win.

Bobby Cox managed the All-Star Games seven times, which is an all-time record. Believe it or not. not that is right he only did it five times the record is Casey Stingle with nine

nice to get a winner there early on John on 790 John you're ready to play believe it or not that's Jeff Dunham in 1995 Bobby Cox was arrested for simple assault committed against his wife charges were eventually dropped

believe it or not not believe it or not believe it Hmm. Nelson on 790. Nelson, what was your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show?

Everything. Bobby Cox retired third on the all-time managerial wins list, but has since been passed by Tony Larusa, Bruce Bochy, and Dusty Baker. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, he's fourth all-time ahead of Bochee and Baker. Daniel on 790, Daniel, ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. As a player, Bobby Cox is beaten out by Joe Torrey for the Mets' third basement spot. Cox was replaced by Joe Torrey when he was first fired by the Braves. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, that's not true either. It's not true.

Sorry. Matt on 790, Matt, your favorite part of today is 10 to 2 radio show. No whole show, Matt. Bobby Cox's 162 managerial ejections are easily the most in Major League history. Believe it or not. Believe it. There you go. Statement number two.

for the win in 2011. The Atlanta Braves retire Bobby Cox's number 17 jersey. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, he's number six. Duh. Javier on 790, Javier. You're ready to play, believe it or not?

Yes, sir. Bobby Cox both played in and managed in the Venezuelan Winter League. Believe it or not? Not. That's a believe it. Thank you for playing. Rossi,

For putting together the last second, which we knew about this for four hours, did a pretty good job, actually. It wasn't that last second. It was more last hour. All right, so tomorrow, we've got a serious gut feeling at 1130. Okay. Gut feeling on Tatsu-Imi. Quality start, light.

You're falling or sort of this one. Who? Who else? We had something else on gut feelings we had to put together. Oh, how many primetime games for the Tehanos? We, Texan 7, Prime. Time games. I got 15.

You do that to the Ches for a bit? Wow, that's quite a bit. All right, everybody, hang tight, relax. We've got four entertaining hours coming up with Adam Wexler and Adam Clanton. They are the team. We'll talk to you guys tomorrow at 10 o'clock. Astros at 6 right here on Sports Talk 790. We're going to