The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Win 13-3 In Game 2 Of the Series vs The Athletics, Cam Smith Is On Fire! Astros Keep Closing In On #2 Spot In The American League

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

Astros Win 13-3 In Game 2 Of the Series vs The Athletics, Cam Smith Is On Fire! Astros Keep Closing In On #2 Spot In The American League.

10-1 and H-Chown. Good morning and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. That is an ass kicking right there in West Sacramento. Born and raised. Who was? I don't know. Chikowski?

Yes, he was actually. People forget. He's Russian. He's from West Sacramento, California. I didn't know who they was from there. 13 to 3, Matthew. And five nothing, by the time he got into bed and started to talk to your girl. And it's the summer of George with Jason Alexander.

Yeah. I feel like I'm saying this daily. And I'm not the only one saying it. Who the hell are these people? The 11th different starter for the Astros. Right. And it's June 18th. Yeah.

Now, I think the Dodgers have had more injuries than the Astros have had. So what? But it ain't by much. But, you know. And it is funny that Major League Baseballs, Baseball America, baseball perspectives, blah, blah, you know, those different websites and publications who dig into the minor leagues. And that's their primary focus. Yes. Have routinely said the Astros have the 28th, 29th, or 30th best farm system.

Yes. So I would have to respectfully tell them, well, I could say at 11. 30, but it's not mean. But really shut your bum ass up because look at the plethora of mids that have come to the Astros and in their own certain ways helped out. Jason Alexander. He's not a prospect. He's 32. But my point is that he was in the minor league system and your minor leg system is supposed to help you out when the major league system is letting you down. Yes. He claimed him off waivers a month ago. So maybe you have to, and Alexander's not necessarily the better example, but the cost. The Colton Gordons and the...

Who else? I'm trying to think of some of the guys. Ryan Gusto. Ryan Gusto, who was supposed to start. Remember the last game of last year before got rained out? Mm-hmm. These are guys that were not highly regarded. These are guys that were not considered to be high-in prospects.

But all they've done in their own certain ways help the local nine win games. Brandon Walter's been very good. You really, and I've never done this in the history of the game. we've never played believe it or not is this person a real astro and if we would have done this we're about done it in 2013-ish we that's true if we would have done this four months ago uh-huh there is no way brandon walter been like who's brandon no brandon walter he was a cast member of friends like a guest episode he was a monica love interest for like three episodes yeah three starts for him two of them quality it's been very good it is um just truly i mean if you're dana brown and you are

Joe Espott. You know what you're doing, Ross right now? You went after the game last night, and you went and found the hottest bar in West Sacramento, and you had a couple of glasses of wine. What's the hottest bar in West Sacramento? I believe it's a Rappelries. No, at least upgraded to a Rillies. I'm telling you, Rillies can get you, the $10 burger,

chips, and soft drink deal is hard to beat. Yeah. In fact, as you load up on the salsa and the chips early and you wind up taking half the burger home, you're really in a good spot. Like you said, the best bar in town, you have a nice Kianti. At a release.

Yeah, it works that way. So the local line took care of business. Now, the Mariners did squash the Red Sox last night. So the Astros find themselves still four and a half games in front of the Mariners in America League West. Do you know they're only a half game behind the New York Yankees for the second best record in the America League. I didn't know that, Matt. The Yankees have not scored a run in 29 innings. They've hit their kryptonite, the Los Angeles Angels.

No one has ever said that with the exception of maybe when Rod Carew was playing there in the 80s. Or around 2002-ish. Yeah, for that one year with that damn monkey. All right. So all is good on the local front on the Astros. Split the series. I had them going five and one during the last six games this road trip. And so far they're one and O.

So I'm pacing nicely on that. Got Fromber Valdez going today. Let's go. you'll have the on deck show at 8 o'clock Oh yes I will And it's already basically done What does that mean? Well you had Dana Brown on at 930

You'll play that today So what? Yeah Gotta do a recap Yeah I read the injury report Yeah I'm saying Ross's work

For the on deck show Will be minimal I gotta write out an entire script I have to get all your Great year path to future success And things like that Mountain matchups starting lineups And this day in Astros history

Yeah I gotta come up with a key to victory We don't do that I don't do that in mind I'm gonna go with the Back into the lineup, man, I think really needs to come through for the Astros today. Well, the back in the lineup yesterday did fantastic. Uh-huh.

Also, I would say, Framber Valdez avoiding giving up the long ball in Sacramento. That'll be your key to victory as well. And not that I've ever watched a game on television in Sacramento until these last two, right? Mm-hmm. Does it feel like every home run that has hit there are these monumental 465-foot blast? The ball flies out of that. There's no cheapies in that building. For sure.

Yeah. It's, uh, I looked at it up. yesterday. I can't remember the exact numbers, but in Team OPS, the A's are like eighth, and OPS Plus, which correct for ballparks, they're like 19th. Well, my guess is also...

Also, my guess is the A's are a really, really good hitting team in Northern California, not so much outside of Northern California. Like the reverse space cowboys. Everybody's like, oh my God, they're scoring 15 runs. Yeah, they're in the PCL on the road in Reno. It's funny, because

the player of the week from the PCL was a guy from the space cowboy's first basement and he I think he slugged 1600 in Reno. I mean, I don't consider myself much of major league hitter, but I think I can slug a thousand in Reno. I think you can get one out there, Maddie? Get one out to left? You know, it's funny. Wait, do you bat right or left?

I bet right. Throw left, bat right. Okay. That's part of the reason why I'm probably a little more peculiar than the average person. You are peculiar. Who else does it? Is it Chas McCormick? There's actually quite a few players to do it.

It's a handful. Mike Hampton used to, I think, bat right-handed when he was a, you know, obviously he's a left-in-and-throat for the asterer. Yeah, Chaz McCormick bats right and throws left. It is kind of a rarity in baseball. But I mean, I ask you this. But how did I, how did that happen in my life? My parents didn't force me to throw with my right-hand and throw up my left. I just naturally do it. Brain injury. You're probably dropped. But lefties are a little weird. I mean, generally speak, but I'm not a true lefty. I don't.

Lefties are weird. You are, that's right. You are a lefty. You do lefty all the way through with everything, right? Okay. I kick with my right foot. Anything I swing with is right. Anything I throw with is left. What about writing?

Right. Eating. Hold on. You right, right, and you throw left? Yes. What the hell's wrong with you? I would have to agree with you on those things. You throw left.

Yeah, throw left. He throws left, but what about you eat? What about you eat? A fork and left hand. So you can eat with your left hand. and write an essay with your right hand. That is accurate. No shot.

No shot at what? That's crazy. I don't believe you. They need to donate your brain to science for a number of reasons. I mean, I would. I think we should. We're putting in a jar in the Houston Radio Hall of Fame. What do you think I kick with?

I don't know. Left. Left is right. Really? You're like a Leo Messi. I think it's a compliment, if I'm reading the context of that right. Only the greatest player to ever walk the planet. Yeah. Who's the guy in Miami that sometimes plays?

Luis Torres? No, the guy for the MLS team that's the international player that only comes a handful of times in place. Is it messy? You know, Messey? Okay, I don't follow soccer. I know who he is, but I don't really follow him. That's like saying you don't know who Paley is, Matt. I know who Paley is.

Matter of fact, my two favorite teams of all time are the New York Cosmos in Tampa Bay Routies. Okay, who's your second favorite New York Cosmo? Phil Jones. You could have just. said any Hispanic name and had a shot. But that would have been stereotypical and probably critical. She said Mike Jones? Phil.

Phil Jones. Oh, Phil Jones. Phil Jones. All right, there is a fire alarm going off in our offices, but it's a drill, not a real thing. It's a fire drill, but we can't, we're on the air. We can't go. Yeah, I don't think people can hear it. I can hear it. But I don't think, no, I don't think the listener came. No. The most famous fire drill in the Matt Thomas show history. When we come back.

When we come back. and Jonathan hasn't heard this. I don't think he has. No, I don't think. I don't think he has. The most famous fire drill in moment in Houston sports radio history, would you say? I think it's number one for me. All right, Brian Bogus epic 11 o'clock,

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but this radio show did not. leave the building because we are committed that's right marksman we are committed to quality sports talk radio programming on 790 so let's hear the alarms and then we're going to replay the greatest fire alarm in the history of the Matt Tomas show at Ross

there's a guy talking right now here it is go y'all hear that okay we are still doing radio greatness despite that yeah well greatness is relative so Jonathan do you remember where you were

this is like six producers ago Maybe seven. This is, I was producing. Oh, you were? I was in Los Angeles. So it was pre-night 2019. Okay, so yeah, this is, yeah, 2019. This is what happened for those of you that are just new to the show.

First of all, where the hell have you been? Second of all, we're here every damn day tended to. This is me in Los Angeles the last time we had a fire alarm during the show. I'm just telling you they were the best team they ever had lost in the divisional playoffs to probably to Baltimore one year and New England to the next. Yeah. They just never could overcome that. Thank you for the phone call.

There's an alarm that should be going off on your home, and that's if you have dirty carpets. This is really, excuse my French, annoying A.F. Seriously. Fire alarm testing is like five times, not 50. I'm trying to do a major market radio show here in downtown Beverly Hills, California, and this damn... Oh, really?

Oh, you got my attention. Yeah? This testing will proceed for another five to ten more minutes, Ross. Five to ten more minutes. Jesus. We're doing fine. There's no fire. I'm trying to discuss the Texans game against Tennessee.

Oh, now you're putting a sweet little ginger voice on there. Hi, honey. How are you? Back to the alarms. Good Lord. How am I supposed to create radio greatness under these conditions? And that was in Beverly Hills. In Beverly Hills at a ridiculously posh hotel.

Still one of my favorites to this day. We don't say there anymore, not because of the fire alarm, but just be this one of it. You've been blacklisted. I don't believe it to be the case. I don't believe it to be the case. That was the hotel where several members of a rocket's traveling crew were in the same elevator was Justin Bieber. Really?

Yeah. Wow. Yeah. No autograph? I wasn't there. And you know what? I got terrible news for it. I probably want to know who he was.

But now, I did see his roast recently on YouTube and so now I know who he is. Okay. Great. You watch the whole thing? No, bits and pieces. Yeah. Yeah, I'm a rabbit whole guy when it comes to that kind of stuff.

That's fine. All right. So let's get back to the ad hand. The Astros. Cam Smith. I mean, my gosh, pretty good evening. Real good evening. And I'm good, I'm glad for him because, look, he was the chosen one in March. He was the quote-unquote phenom. And you had everybody in their mother saying, that guy can't be in the minor leagues. And then he gets the major league call up and mom's in the clubhouse and all that kind of stuff. And then he gets off to a ridiculously sluggish start. I mean, we have to call it as we see it. And it was a disappointing start. And there were some people that said maybe, hey, it wouldn't be the the worst thing in the world if perhaps he went down to Triple N got some A-Bs. Zach DeSenzo came in, took some

of the playing time, and you're thinking, all right, are you going to have to platoon right field? What are you going to do about this situation? And then Desenzo gets hurt. And then you're like, you know what? You don't have a lot left. And so let's go with Cam Smith and see what he can do. And what he did yesterday was four hits as the Astros took the game

13 to 3. And I want to look up his most recent numbers. I'm going to do that right now. I'll tell you. No, I'm sorry. I want to build drama. Okay, build drama because I'll tell you that he is the fourth youngest player in Astro's history to have a four-hit game with two home runs. Not one. And again, it might be easy to hit home runs in that ballpark, but boy, they go a long way.

The other three, Carlos Correa, Joe Morgan, and a rusty stob, the only one's younger, I should say. Of the three, there's one I've never seen playing a person. Which one was that? Joe Morgan. The Joe Morgan is correct. All right. Let's go. Here it is. Cam Smith batting in the seventh spot.

Four for five with three runs scored. He had three RBIs. He's now OPSing 748. Mm-hmm. And in today's world, 748, ain't bad. You'd like it to be closer to 800? That would put you in not a superstar category, but star category. but where it was compared to say a month ago,

it's a pretty nice rise. Yeah, we looked at league average the other day and it was like 7-10 or something around there. Right. Because apparently there was a big evandrillic story about the balls are de-juiced to something again. Yeah. Which can we just keep...

Here we go ahead. You want consistent balls. I want to phrase this so I don't make it down to Friday. I would like... Just say it. Say it with your chest, Maddie. All right. I want the balls to all be the same.

I don't want big balls. don't want small balls. They're all the same size, Matt. I don't want them spinning differently. I don't want them to have extra things inside those balls. Some have more loft. Well, it depends. And then you got Cooper Hummel playing it. Cooper Hummel. He's my accountant. Yeah. He's my CPA. No, he's, no, he's bad flipping homers. Did you see him bad flipping? How about the 7-8-9 in the order yesterday? It hits. the 27 Yankees are jealous about that. Pretty good. It was the A's and it wasn't Sacramento

but they didn't score 13 runs. Nope. I mean, a highly, highly impressive day for the local nine. You had Isak Pertits back at third base yesterday. Joe Spada told us that was going to happen. You had at least Luis Guillaume playing some second base.

Boy, they are putting this, look at this lineup. I mean, even Christian Walker went yard yesterday. Well, hey, don't say even Christian Walker. You mean your big money slugging first basement went yard. And after his two hits yesterday, his OPS is at 653. So work to be down on that as well.

But his batting average is up to 216. Uh-oh. Well, not 215 by the week. You lost. I know, I know. Sorry. So needless to say, it was fun to see and hear. I listened to a lot of the game.

You know what I did last night? I did something that I was did when I was a kid. I put the radio on my phone and listen to it in bed. Oh, wow. So Steve Sparks and Robert Ford helped me go to sleep last night. They were in bed with you. You were in bed with Steve Sparks and Robert Ford. No, they were in Sacramento.

I was in bed with my wife and one of the dogs, not both. Okay. You alternate or how's that go? No, just one can't get up there anymore. Oh. I know. I know. One can't get up and one is deaf.

You're going to have to take a day off? Oh, by the way, RIP to our hamster cheeks who passed away two days ago. You got a hamster? Yeah. Okay, who named the hamster Cheeks? My daughter did. That's pretty funny. Rest in peace, Cheeks.

R-I-P Cheeks. Let me tell you what Cheeks was. Cheeks was one of the cutest old things we ever had in our house. But he was an angry S-O-B. Every time we tried to pet him or touch him, he bit us. Yeah, that's how a hamster's going to be like that. But he was a grumpy son bitch. I want his, I want a sweet, lovable hamster.

He wanted to be roaming free and you caged him up. I didn't cage him up. We got him as a gift. What was supposed to do? Yeah, he didn't want to just sit in wood. wood chips covered in urine his whole life. We did. We gave him plenty of cotton on the second floor. On the first floor, a lot of seeds and corn on the cob.

And we gave him a little wheel to jump around around with. And he did fine. Okay. Basically, he was in prison. No, he was in a retirement community. Okay. You know where he is now? It's really weird. I don't know. Want to know.

The dumpster? No. You buried them? We're going to. We're afraid the dogs are going to pick it. So we're trying to figure out what we're going to do. Go by the creek? You got a creek around there?

No, everywhere in Houston's got a creek nearby. He's in our freezer right now. Oh, that is disgusting. Don't know. That's a health code violation. No, it's not. Nobody wants...

No, the votted hamster hair on your ice cubes? The vet put him in this little plastic case or whatever. The vet did it? Yeah, we did you a vacuum? You know what a vacuum? You know much? You know much we loved the cheeks? How much?

We took cheeks to the vet and the vet put him to sleep. That's what. You know, it cost me $150 bucks. Dang. You could have stabbed his neck for that. And why did you just say, what did you just say stabbed his neck? What's wrong with you?

I spend $150 if he's going to die anyway. Well, that's what's what I'm a humanitarian? I'm a humanitarian. Y'all aren't. What's a little box of rat poison cost you? See? We didn't do it that way. Instead of you guys ripping on me, I applaud him.

I have never heard of somebody taking their hamster to the, the vet to get put down. Because we're a humanitarian, and you're welcome. Did you read Cheeks' last rights? I wasn't even there. And the name of the father and the son, Cheeks the hamster. It's part of our family, Ross.

I'm gone, but not forgotten. I'm so glad you're so cavalier about it. I see why your kids don't like Ross. Yeah, exactly. I'm sorry. Have you ever heard of a hamster getting put down? That's all I'm saying. Yeah. Don't act like I'm the bad guy. You'd never heard of it either.

I mean, I'm wishing cheeks the best in the great big meadow in the sky, and the great big spinning wheel of the sky. You know, I live about between a year and 18 months. He was two years. He was two plus years. Oh, wow. Yeah. So he was caged up for two years. Man, that's tough. He had a great life. We give more corn and seeds than anybody else should be allowed. Oh, so great. He bit you every time you're trying to touch him. It's suddenly he wanted out of there. All right. We're done with you.

I try to give you a little bit of I try to put a put a pet away at the very nice the best way I can't I mean I'm glad you humanely put cheeks down. How did you know it was time for cheeks to go? He unfortunately had some cancer. He had some

What? He had some He had hamster cancer? He had tumors, yeah. Oh my God! So you all paid money for the test too? No, no, no, we knew. How much was chemo? We didn't do it. We took him to the vet and the vet said he's not going to make it. We said, well, can you put him to sleep? And they said, Yes, it would be $150, so we did that.

Would they do an MRI on them? How did they... It's pretty obvious when somebody has tumors. Okay. I'm just... I'm asking. This is top ten segment. The people I work with.

All right. You need to listen to the show because I'm nice and these other two gibronies are not. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Astros 13, A's 3. More on that. up at about 25 minutes, our friend Brian Bogusevick from

Space City Home Network. So we've talked about the Astros dominance and Cheeks the hamster may he rest in peace. And by the way, I will be... Cheeks Thomas. And when the dogs pass, I will be taking a day off. Or at least working from home because

that will crush us. I'm sorry, Matt. That's different, though. Dogs are a special thing. All right. I have to backtrack. Now, I have addictions to a variety of things. What I'm is the four years... Are you okay? No.

The 4 U tab. Because I only follow a certain number of people because most people will irritate me on Twitter, but you still go to 4 you to see what's going on. I try to stay off there. Well, you're a better man than I am. So I'm going to backtrack and apologize and say I wasn't going to bring up Caitlin Clark on this radio show. But it is crazy.

She played last night. The fever played something called The Connecticut Sun. And she got her. she got beat up again last night. She's getting hit with spinning back fists. She's getting pushed behind. These screens. I mean,

and I really don't know the answer to this. And I don't know if our audience is paying attention to the WNBA. My guess is you don't pay attention to the NBA. So for you to expect, if you mean to expect you to watch the WNBA, it would be something of a little bit of a surprise. Maybe there's one person our audience can help us out. why in the hell

are they beating her up every single time she plays a game there is some sort of altercation that would be like now again what do you want to make Caitlin Clark is she the LeBron James of the NBA is she the Michael Jordan of the NBA there even bigger there is no doubt

in my mind Ross because the evidence is already there attendance drops ticket prices drop television ratings I mean crumble I'll go with I mean even bigger than LeBron James in a way because there are stars somewhat comparable to LeBron James, but there's no one comparable to her right now.

And maybe, I don't know, maybe is Angel Rees number two? I don't know. I don't follow the league. Asia Wilson, I don't know. Page Bukers. That Cunningham girls, but I think it's more because she's hot, right? She's hot. Okay. How about Tiger and Golf in the early 2000s? Whatever comparison you want to put in there,

when Caitlin... Tiger Woods is a golf. That's good. When Caitlin Clark is not involved in a WNBA game, no one watches, no one goes. That's just going to be, I don't mean to paint with a broad brush, but it is what it is. Why in the hell are they trying to beat her up? Is it, is she a dirty player and we don't know about it? Is she a sneaky, a politician on the court? Or is there just insane amounts of jealousy with every other girl in the NBA that every time they play a game, there is some sort of altercation and or fight? And last night, another example of that. Yeah.

And I'm telling you, the WMBA is fighting for relevancy. You have a star who is completely relevant. If I was the commissioner of the WMBA, and I don't even know who that is, when you go on and get a conference call and say, hey, everybody, leave her alone. Now, if she's doing something, tell us. But if she's not doing anything except just playing hard and making you look bad, back off because that's not what you want for attention

is every time you go to the 4U tab and that's what people do they go to the 4U tab and they look around and they go oh there's Caitlin Clark go she getting their ass beat again and there's another fight that's going to further

ruin what is already a very murky reputation with the WNBA Catherine Inglebert is the commissioner of the WNBA okay she had been with Deloitte for 33 years

but tell me what I'm wrong on this I can't tell you you're wrong I can tell you I don't follow the league enough and I mean she definitely got a hard foul and then she Caitlin Cart pushed back and then the other teammate whoever it was came and pushed her to the ground it just feels like to me that

every I mean I'm not I'm not trying to embellish Ross on this I'm telling you the gods on his truth every time she plays there's something extra cricketer going on yeah people are making memes that they The fever need Dreamon Green on the squad. It wouldn't hurt, right?

And her teammates come to defend her. I mean, I just, again, I don't think if I went, if I went to Google AI and said, is Caitlin Clark a dirty player? What would Google AI tell us? Google AI would probably tell you some misinformation. Okay, what if I went to GROC?

Same thing. What if I went to chat GPT? Chat GPT, what would they tell? And tell me, help me out. Is she a dirty player? If she is, then she's got a backup because she's carrying the league on her back, literally. It looks like she just takes 40 foot threes, that's what I see.

And makes them. And again, go look at any file on the Indiana fever. That's the team she plays for it. Go look at their ticket sales when she was out. You can get in the building for like $3. She plays, try it, put two zeros at the very end of that. So, you know, again, if she's the number one thing, if she's the Michael Jordan, if she is the type.

Iger Woods, then either you step up your game or you just sit back and go, okay, you know what? She's really good and we're going to do our best to try to stop her. Well, that's my computer talking here. Are you all right? No, I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get out of the VPN here. You're saying these women are being petty and jealous. Yes. I thought you thought you were going to make me say it.

You said it, though. That's right. Ross Villarreal said women are petty and jealous. I know. I said that's what you're telling me. And then you said yes. Okay. Well, I'm saying they're being.

Yes, they're being petty. They're being petty. I had a caller. I'm going to say it for him, and he thinks because she's white. She got hit, she got pushed to the ground by a white. You don't have to tell, you don't have to call in with that, Jonathan. She got pushed to the ground by a white girl. I don't know. I'm just saying, no, because I don't. Maybe.

Maybe. Let me tell you something. Maybe I'm being naive. I haven't think it doesn't do with white. I think it's the fact that she's just the best, and the number two players significantly off the rails. Yeah, there is, of course, a racial element with the, with the Angel Reese thing and stuff like that. but she literally she got hit in the face by a white girl and a white girl pushed her to the ground. Yeah, I think she's being beat up by everybody. But I bet there is a racial angle to it for sure. Can we open our eyes though?

Can you not call in like a dumbass with a call with a call like that and not see the play that happened? Of course, like I said, it's beyond my expertise because I'm not a WNB expert. But literally she got hit in the face by a white woman. and then was pushed to the ground by a white woman. So if you're white, Hispanic, black, leave Caitlin Clark alone. Leave Caitlin Clark alone. By way, shout out to our friend Randy McAvoy Channel 2. Yes.

Said that he just texted me. He says the hamster segment was one of the greatest all-time. Hashtag R-A-P cheeks? R-I-P to cheeks. You know, I'm just going to tweet that right now. You know what? I've got a picture of tweet. Cheeks.

Are you put in there? in the freezer? No, not the freezer. Just in the generic area. Like where he was. Are you all going to keep him? Is that what's all I going to do? We don't know what, honestly, we don't know what to do with him.

I don't want to talk about this anymore. I don't want to put him. But we have two dogs that will probably. Yeah, the dogs are going to dig him up. That's a good point on Matt's part. So, and I don't want to like cremate him and build a box or anything. I just mean, he's too. What are you going to do?

I don't know. I don't know the fireplace? No. I mean, he may stay in the freezer. I mean, I don't know. Just go do not keep a dead hamster in the freezer. That is disgusting. Voodoo, man.

That's a curse. Yeah, that's true. That's bad juju. So it's not like baking soda in the refrigerator. You're going to get the curse of cheeks. Cheeks, again, Cheeks was an a-hole. He just was. That's what I'm saying.

He was our a hole. Yeah. He's going to put a curse on your whole Kingwood estate. All right, Gio's going to help us out with Caitlin Clark when we come back. By the way, is Kevin Duran still a son? We've got to check on that, too. people are saying things are close oh 1043 that's a matt thomas show at ross sports talk 790 713

212 570 if you want to join our radio program today we want to talk about cheeks katelyn clark or the asteros performance 13 to 3 as they took care of the hated oakland a's last night sacchar just say sacrament northern california is how about that all right those of you that follow my twitter Kat. A.I. Thank you for that. At SportsM.T. Second of all, I did put a picture up of cheeks. And he rest? Not in a freezer bag.

No. He's got his eyes open as a matter of fact. You know, honestly, and this is the last thing I'll say about cheeks. We really treated him very well. And he just wasn't very nice to us. Sometimes it happens, Matt. He didn't reciprocate. No. And we probably would have let him roam around a little bit, but we have two dogs. Oh, yeah, that's true with the dogs. Yeah. But I used to put, there was like a ball, like a rolly ball.

We had one and they could roll around the house. We cleaned his cage. We cleaned his cage every week. He had first class accommodations. Yes. White glove service for cheeks. Two levels of entertainment. One to sleep in and one to eat on, get on his wheel.

Wow. And he got in the ball and he rolled around and the dog's like, what is this thing? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, again, if you're a pet in my house, you're going to be treated pretty well. And the kids too. And the wife, especially the wife. She gets treated really well.

All right. 1051 on Sports Talk 790. Brian Bogus Evick's going to join us in just a couple minutes here on the show. Let's go to Gio. Gio, are you one of our WNBA correspondents? I can be. Go for it. Go for it. Well, okay, but before I get to that point, let me just say, man, this is why I love the Matt

Thomas show with Ross. You guys are the epitome of a box of chocolates as far as radio shows because you honestly never know what you're going to get, man. and the Cheeks segment, that was Radio Gold, man. I don't think I've ever laughed that hard to listen to a radio show in my life. We're trying. We're trying.

I mean, I could give you Texas backup linebacker talk, but, you know, Cheeks need to get his run. I want Cheeks talk. I want Cheeks talk. All right, man. Now, with the Kaylin talk stuff, man. So that girl, Caitlin Clark, she's a baller, man. I haven't watched the WNBA since the comments who were around.

And when Caitlin came in the league, man, I wouldn't say I'm a fan fan, but if Caitlin's playing or if Angel Reese is playing, I'm watching. Like, I'll legit watch it. Now, she reminds me of Reggie Miller back in the day, all right? A great player, but sneaky trash talker and real sneaky as far as antics and things like that, you know, as far as getting under skin. Yeah. So if you really pay attention to the way she plays, man, she does little stuff throughout the game,

and I can tell it pisses the other girls off. And it's kind of rubbing off on her team, too, man, because everybody on that Connecticut team, man, it's like they're ready, man, and they just, they take after Caitlin and it, and it's really, it's really fun to watch, man. But she's sneaky. She's real sneaky with her stuff, and I think that's why, you know, she gets, beat up pretty much. I have a friend in mine who's a Rockets reporter that I will remain nameless because I don't think he

he didn't say mention my name. So I'm going to give you this comp, he just said. He just texted me. Clark has a Dillon streak in that she chirps a lot. The physical stuff is definitely overreach, but that's where it comes from. She's a chirper. Now, if you're a chirper and you are the number one player in the league,

I can see girls getting grumpy. Doesn't mean it's the right thing to do, but there's obviously a pattern to this. She's chirping enough that you had that Plus, she's the face of the league, and it could rub a lot of the players the wrong way. All right. Right. I mean, from my very limited observations of the WNBA, yes.

Michael Jordan was a huge chirper. Larry Bird was a huge chirper. Did those guys get into fights every single game? A lot. Not every single game. And I don't think it's happening every single game to Kail and Clark either. It feels like it is and I'm watching every game. That's because that's all you're seeing.

You tab can't be my friend. If you're watching every single, yeah, because if she plays a whole game and there's no fight, then you're not going to see the, you're not going to see the video of it in the four-utab, so the next time that the fever play a game. Okay. Let's see, I'll go to the four-U-tab right after. Why don't you get the WNBA sports package? Whatever it's called.

I mean, I guess I could. It's a ladies night. I don't know what's called. Ladies' night is what they called the WMBA? Okay. Chaz on 790. Good morning. Hello, fellas.

Good morning. Hi. I've got two things. First, I was listening to y'all talk about Caitlin Clark. And something that's been overlooked, I've heard some national guys talk about it, is that their sexuality is coming to play, because I was researching it 38% of the league is LGBTQ. And that's part of it.

I'd say equally probably race, but also what Ross said, because she's the most popular player in the league, and people just kind of hate us. And another thing, last football season, you all mentioned, Matt, you brought up the subject about The three best sounds in sports. Yes. Can I catch time in on mine?

Are they clean? Pretty much, yeah. Yeah. When is the, when a goal, when Google hits the cross right? Yeah, crossbar, yeah. The F1 car going to the Monaco tunnel. Okay. I love F1 nursing.

Sure. And the third one will be the sound that an accorded cover makes and she hits a backhand crossboard. That was good. That was. Thank you very much. Chaz, that was a pull from about a year ago. and she hits it way out of bounds. We were talking about a year ago.

It was last summer. That sounds like a summer kind of thing we would discuss. For sure. What were ours? Swish. Crack of a bat. Yeah. And the Doeck of a crossbar.

Doinck was yours, I thought. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I definitely had that. Did we do a Fantasy 5 on this? I don't think there was enough to do a fantasy 5. Or did we just do? Yeah, you had Doink, which I don't remember what I had. It might have just been like a net, like a soccer net

rattling from a goaler, I can't remember. Let me ask you this. What would you put the T-shot off of a... That's pretty good. In golf. Especially the microphones are in place. It's top five. Yeah. Crack of the bat is good. By the college world series, I don't much you're watching. They've got every

microphone all, everything that's hit the ping of a metal bag. Just a bone-crunching hit in the NFL. Those are always great. Yeah. Until somebody gets injured. The flag comes out. Yeah. But we don't get boxing hits anymore like that. We just have... Yeah, that's a good one.

But it was better 30 years ago, right? I think it sounds the same. Does it sound different to you? I don't know. There's a lot more dodging. Like, you can't... What? When Floyd Mayweather hits, you're not hearing that.

That's because he's the greatest, arguably the greatest defensive boxer of all time, along with Sweet P, Pernell Whitaker, as you know, Matt. Love sweet pee. Who doesn't? All right, let's get to Brian Bogus Center. We'll do that to start the second hour of the Matt Thomas show with Raw, 713, 212,

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Okay. Dude, is that, is that a thing when you go, you go shopping for hamster cages? There's like the deluxe model. We want to go buy levels. It's got like a back massager. Two levels. Okay. A wheel. And plenty of

cotton swab down on the first floor. So he could just nestle in and get a good night's rest. And then like a little water spigot in the corner. Yes. That always was full. And we clean his cage out. You put heavy on in there. About every 10 days.

Yeah. Yeah. You're an animal in the Thomas household. You're treated very well. Sleep where you want to. We don't even, when we go out of town, we make sure if somebody's at the house the whole time, we don't put you in a cage or anything like that. It's all good.

All right. 713-212-5-790. Brian Bogusevick will join us. 11-0-2 on the Math-Talmers show at Ross. Time for us to spend 10 quality minutes with our friend Brian Bogusevic of Space City Home Network. Astros dispose of the Oakland Days. Why, you've got to hit myself every time I try. That's I've done it twice today.

I'm going to bring a taser up in here. The A's by a final score of 13 to 3. Bogie, what were your expectations of Jason Alexander? And I guess more importantly, did you even know who Jason Alexander? or was say three days ago. I was quite unfamiliar with him, besides his work on Seinfeld, I guess. Yes. Expectations for him personally,

I have no idea what you're going to get, right? It's a guy who's really new to the organization, a guy who doesn't have a ton of big league experience. But expectations for a pitcher coming up from this Astros minor league system, and what that's looked like over the course of the last two to three years, there's been kind of a shift change in what we've seen from guys coming up. You do start to get a general idea of guys who really understand themselves, know what makes them successful, know how to pitch to their strength,

willing to attack the strike zone, you know, rely on the defense, hope the offense gives them some support, guys who aren't necessarily going to go out there and beat themselves. So that's kind of the expectation at this point. I mean, it feels like, Brian, that everybody that has been given at least some sort of opportunity, maybe with exception of AJ Blueball has come up and somehow some way contributed. And I don't know of another major league team at least in 2025 that has gone as deep into their minor league system to grab guys for the spot start, for the give me five innings to start a day ahead of schedule like Gus did a couple days ago and kept their teams alive,

especially when a team like the Astros have not been with exception to last night, a team that's been scoring a whole lot of run. No, it's pretty remarkable. I mean, it's been essentially two full seasons of trying to constantly backfill your rotation and going not just six, seven deep into your organization, but eight, nine, ten deep into your organization. And, you know, it says a lot, first of all, foremost about the scouting department, not just the amateur scouting, but you're seeing guys who they're bringing in from other organizations. So you're pro scouting as well. and also just the development and finding traits that you like, guys who can pitch with their fastball,

guys who attack the strike zone, and then getting them there and making them feel comfortable enough to do what they were doing in the minor leagues at the big league level. That's the biggest hurdle initially is, you know, you're all of a sudden standing on a major league mound, oh my gosh, I got to do more, I got to be nasty or I got to throw harder. And they really seem like they settle these guys right away and convince them that they can just pitch their game,

and it's worked for them. So it's a lot of different things. It's clubhouse culture. It's the communication between the coaching staff and the players and the players understanding what it is that makes them successful, and it's them just kind of relentlessly going out there. I mean, it's not like they're doing this with guys who are top ten draft picks. These are guys out of small schools, late rounds,

scrap heaps from other organizations, and they're getting a lot out of them, and it's just it's kind of an, an entire organizational effort, you know, and it really what it does also, it makes you pretty dubious of these organizational minor league rankings that get put out every year. Brian Bogusevich with us here on Sports Talk 790. Brian, I just looked this up. Did you know in your career in Colorado, you hit 341 with a 989 OPS?

Well, I should have gotten traded there, apparently. Yeah, you should have spent more time in Colorado. I bring that up to say this. What is it like when you're playing? The ball is obviously flying out there. in Sacramento and they scored a bunch of runs. When you're at the plate, do you just want to keep everything normal? Or what is it like psychologically for you in a place where the ball's flying out like that?

Everything. Everything is good. You know, when you're talking about a place like Colorado or Arizona, you're talking about Sacramento, now where the rays are playing. And then, you know, there's a long list of minor league stadiums out on the West Coast where the ball really flies. There's a lot of things that work in your favor there. first of all, just thin air.

The ball travels. You don't have to get it, you know, very much to get it out and over the fence. But a lot of those parks are also big and spacious trying to combat, you know, the thin air. So you have a lot of room to find hits, you know, big gaps. Outfielders have to cover a lot of ground. They're usually playing deeper so you can bloop hits in in front of them. And one of the best feelings as a hitter is knowing that you can easily hit a ball out the other way, right? If I just barrel a ball up for me, a left-handed hitter to left-center field, it can carry over that fence. I don't have to do any more. I don't have to try to pull.

I don't have to try to swing harder. I don't have to try to elevate. And that keeps everything in line. And then if you do catch one out front and you pull it, it goes even further. But to not have to try to get anything more out of your swing or your approach or whatever and just keep a good hitting approach. And then add the fact that the ball flies, that, the fact that there's a ton of room for hits, those are just awesome situations to hit in. It also helps when you're facing some teams that have pretty bad team ERAs as well. Yeah, the A's certainly do,

but Cam Smith taking advantage yesterday, do we temper our enthusiasm because it was in Sacramento, or did you see some really good A-Bs there? I temper enthusiasm based off individual games in general, good or bad. But when you're looking at, at over the course of weeks or months, there's a ton to love about what he's doing. If you look at those two home runs that he hit yesterday, yes, they were on off-speed pitches, but where he hit that ball, right, out in front of the plate, where he hit it in his swing,

you know, swing working up underneath the ball to try to get some elevation, those are points of contact and, you know, pitches that he wasn't getting to early on in the season. And he's really embraced mechanical changes. He's really embraced philosophical changes, trying to get more aggressive, trying to get the bad head out front. Those are mindset things. And to do it not only at such a young age and so quickly, but also he was asked to make these changes before he had ever really failed. Right. Like he's been an awesome player his whole career.

He got drafted in the first round out of college. He tore through the minor leagues. He made the major leagues in his first spring training. Why would you change? Well, the coaches came to him and said, hey, if you're going to hit here, you're going to have to do X, Y, and Z, and to buy in before you have any real, real struggles. I know it wasn't, you know, tearing the cover off the ball from day one. But to kind of preemptively make adjustments like this, it's pretty remarkable and says a lot about just character and why the Sras would be willing to push him as hard as they have this year. A couple more minutes here with Brian Bogusevick on Sports Talk 790.

Bogie, we're seeing D.H for Altuve. We're seeing left field. We're seeing second base, probably perhaps more. And I think I brought this up to you a couple of times. Is this the strategy they should be going with, Jose, is to kind of not necessarily keep him always not on alert or trying to change things up. But is mainly about what the lineup is around him that makes a decision where to put him? I think so.

I think that the plan, look, he's not kept in the dark about anything. right? When you are a player of his stature and when you're in an organization that is as open with communication as the Astros are, he's certainly kept in the loop on everything. So it's not that you don't have a role and you're just floating around. It's that your role is to float around. And it's in order to allow us to maximize offensively when we feel like we need to maximize defensively when we need to play a hot hand. you know, Maricio DuBan is hitting as well as he has all seasons, so we want to keep him in the lineup, so maybe that means more left field. Just whatever it is we need, you know, he's kind of the cog that gets moved around to facilitate all those things. And number one, it takes a selfless player, which everybody knows he is, but it also takes really good communication and trust between player and coaches. And that obviously exists as well.

So, yeah, I think that is the plan. Now, if anything ever materialized where there had to be something more concrete, I think he would be open to that. I think the coaches would be open to that. I don't think anything is off the table at all. So, yes, as of right now, I think the plan is just day-to-day match-up to match-up. You know, you're going to be the guy that we move around to get the most out of what we need that day. And this may be premature to ask this now because we're still six weeks away from the trade deadline. But if you're going to four-and-a-half game in your division,

and you already have a minor league system that has been used with current players now, and you weren't necessarily deep at a lot of positions, and your two or three guys that you absolutely want to keep a hold of are non-tradable. If Dana said, let's go have a glass of wine and a hamburger somewhere and said, Brian, what do you think about what we should do about the deadline? Right now as we speak, and we can obviously change this conversation in a few weeks, but what do you think they need if they're going to take that next step from being a team that potentially wins the American League West to a team that could.

knock off the Tigers of the Yankees in the playoffs? Yeah, I think there's, it's kind of too, too faceted at the trade deadline. Are you thinking more about we need help to get to the playoffs or, you know, we need help to win the division or is it we need help to get us into a position to where we can make a run out of title? We feel like we're going to be in, in the playoffs. We need help to run that title. And if you're talking about that, you're talking about going in and acquiring high end,

high-end bat, high-end pitcher, high-end reliever. And I don't know if you have the willingness or the assets at this point after, you know, 10 years of buying at the deadline to go out and do that. But if you're in a point to where, you know, the Mariners and the Rangers, they're still kind of hanging around and we want to kind of maybe put ourselves over the top on a depth basis and try to try to put ourselves in a better situation for 162, can you add somewhere kind of in the middle? And I think that can be done probably more easily in pitching.

You know, can you find somebody who slots into the middle of the rotation and take some of the burden off of these young guys? I think the answers from an offensive standpoint are in-house. Like, you're not going to go out and find anybody better than a healthy Jordan or Christian Walker getting right or Yainer getting right, right? Like those answers are at home. You're not bringing anybody to jump those guys in the batting order. But you can't find somebody to go in and slot in the middle.

So if that's where it ends up being, I think that would be the move. You're also not, I mean, you're not going to bring anybody to be at the front of the rotation when you got Frumber and Hunter up there either. Bogie, great work, as always. Thank you for the time, my friend. We'll do this again next week and enjoy the rest of the series and we'll talk with you soon. All right, cool. You got it, Brian Bogusupik with the Space City Home Network with us every Wednesday here at 11 o'clock. Time is 1114.

Ross, what are you having 15 minutes coming up on the radio program? Oh, ain't nobody got time for that. And shut your bum ass up. There you go. And like I said, I've come to you today with right now no complaints about my Vegas trip. That's startling. Can't come up with one? I'll think.

But the car playing, because I got aggressive and told people what to do, worked out. It's a winning trip. I do have to issue a retraction. I shorted Brian Bogusevic on his numbers in Coors Field. I put against Colorado, which are those numbers I said? but in Coors Field, he hit 423 with a 1.198 OPS. You're going to text them and apologize? Yeah, I will.

You can do it Friday 1130. That's true. I'm sorry. I'm throwing it out that way. 713-212-5-7-9. If you want to be with us, again, we got shut your bum-ass up. And ain't nobody got time for that in about 15 minutes. Not necessarily some breaking news, but interesting news in the last half hours so ago.

Sportico, is that how you pronounce it? The business website, I think it's what they call it. has a story out that the Tampa Bay Rays are going to be in advance talks to selling the team to a group led by Jacksonville homebuilder Patrick Zolupski. The selling price, $1.7 billion. The hell kind of homes is he building? Good ones, apparently. The billionaire? 1.7 billion.

I think that's comparable to what the Baltimore Orioles were sold for. Really? Now, what I, they might, I'm going to go to a paywall for the rest of the story. I'm not doing that. But I guess the question would be, does this group say, all right, Tampa, you want because Tampa would be the biggest market. There's Jacksonville. Orlando obviously would like to get involved in some sort.

That's a big, it's a big metropolis as well. My guess is they'll give Tampa every opportunity to build them a stadium. If they don't get a stadium the way they want it, that they'll move the team either to Orlando or Jacksonville. The Jacksonville raise. I mean, it makes sense. Okay. Right. I have never been to Jacksonville.

I don't know if they could support a baseball team or not. Well, Tampa Bay can't. So they needed to move out of there for a while. In Orlando could. I mean, there's a couple million people there. I mean, that's easy. Tampa could support it. I mean, Tampa supports hockey, supports the Buccaneers.

Well, they don't support the race because they're cheap. Yeah, they're not anti-raised because raises don't ever spend any money. Yeah. And by the way, they have the number one wild card right now in the America League. Isn't that crazy? Yes. And the Astros have had trouble against them so far this year.

And they got Forrest Whitley, too. Yes. Astro, former phenom. Was he ever a phenom? He was, I mean, you could say a phenom, yeah. Sure, yeah, yeah. You're the best pitching prospect in baseball. You're a phenom when you're untouchable.

But he was touched. By a Tommy John surgeon. And by, yeah, by Majorly Baseball. And by law enforcement. I don't want to say the law got it. Did he really get in trouble the law? When he got that drugs? No, it was just a drug suspension, right?

He didn't get arrested. I don't think the, drug traffickers came in. Yeah, he said he took some Adderall because he was on a long road trip or something like that. You were taking Adderall before? I have not. Yes. You know, man, it's not bad.

I mean, we know people that have taken Adderall. I've never taken Adderall before. Okay. I don't know. You get you through those long days, right? Exams and paper writing and stuff. Yeah. I'm no longer admitting to drug abuse on the show.

That's probably a fair statement on your part. Let's talk. Somebody slipped it in my drink. Hashtag Roofies. 1122, Sports Talk, 790. 719. 1-2-5-7-9. If you want to be a part of our show,

we have shut your ball-ass up, but ain't nobody got time for that coming up in about 10 minutes from now. What are you laughing about over there? Nothing at all. You put me on uncomfortable positions, so I get to do it early to you as well, so, you know, to each his own.

Uh-huh. So it makes it tend to show work. Biscuit on 7-90. Hi, Biscuit. Hey, what's happening, my brother? You tell us. Hey, before I get to my C-C take, man, and you just mentioned Tommy Johns,

that kind of, y'all remember, one of Teraholt's finest, used to be over there with the Rockets. And I was watching the game the other night. And I seen him with a microphone with ESPN is. Has my girl moved on to ESPN already? Who's that?

The girl from Tara Hope. No, Vanessa. No, no, no, no, no. Vanessa got a chance to do some freelance work for ESPN. She does a Hoops 30-minute show on, I believe it's on YouTube. Hoopstream. Yeah, her and. She was doing it with Shumper, but she was doing with somebody else, I think.

Lance Stevenson or something? or no no no Lance was big three No I can't keep track Shumpert was doing Shepert sent him every time and they had like Shams was on one time and they had Windhorst on they've had some other people on So that's just a freelance assignment for her

and she got called into doing some ESPN radio because Lisa Sultes has an ailing mother and she got taken off of the TV broadcast ago That's why she was on the sideline So the radio guy does the TV and then she moved radio So there we go so that's up

But good for him Glad she's getting this opportunity Yeah, me too, man. Now, getting the C-C, man, and you're talking to me, man. I'm a WMBA fan, and I've been a WMBA fan when they hit mine more. I mean, way, you know, so I'm not new to it. So, first of all, women's basketball is way more physical than men's basketball. So some of this stuff that's going,

it's C-C-A ain't the only one getting closed line and slack in the face and everything. That's just how women play. They play a physical brand of ball. All that being said, I think you got a few factors. Race is the, that is the fact that you got the Reese crowd that hate Kaelin Clark, and then you got people on the other side that are pumping up court. They don't even like basketball.

They just want to pump up cart. You know what I mean? So that's an issue. But to me, the bigger issue is she's kind of, you had a call and say she's like Rich Miller. I would say she's more like Kobe Bryant. She is a killer on the floor, and she would do whatever. And the antics you're talking about is not. necessarily pointed toward them. It's just her trying to win and pumping up stuff. And they get mad

because she hooping. She can hoop. This girl got skills, man. And this, and people are hating on her because she got skills. And most of the hate is not even due to her. It's the people that's backing her or the overhypness or whatever. And she don't have nothing to do with that. She's just trying to play. But they get mad, you know, Sue Byrd and Tarotting them like, well, I came along and they didn't give me a Yeah, but it's a different time. They hyper her up because this is how it is now. Everybody's overhyped. If you do a little,

Shea Gilder, they talk like he's Michael Jordan. It's just because of the time. And so I just think, man, but I tell you what, it's good for the WMBA because it's creating drama. Well, but the problem is, here's the thing. And I want to take your last statement for a second. It creates drama, and certainly there are people that like the fights that like the altercations.

But if someone like me who doesn't watch it, Maybe they don't care that I don't watch. But every time I go to my 4U tab, I see a WMBA fight going on, that to me is going to make it, what do I need to watch this for? Because all they're going to do is just get Matt the number one player and throw haymakers at her. I mean, I don't know if there's something that's going to draw me to watching her play. But, Matt, are you the target audience? You know, okay, that's...

Let me tell you guys, I'll say this. I'm maybe not the target audience, but if I'm the WMBA and I need to turn a profit for the first time in 30 years, I need everybody watching my eyes. I'm a basketball fan biscuit, so they need me. They need me regardless of my age or my ethnicity. They definitely need males. And that's why you see Caitlin also is the more, she's more feminine than some of the others that came before her. So that's why she gets more hype too.

She's more feminine. Well, I would say, I mean, I would say that there's probably because she is heterosexual, there's a certain group of people that would say she's easier to root for than someone that is homosexual. I get that. Again, I've never worried about people's sexuality and biscuit. Thank you for the phone call. I'm just telling you that she's the number one player. She is your words, Ross, is the Tiger Woods of that sport.

Yes. And if you constantly pick on Tiger Woods, you're going to lose because Caitlin Clark is keeping that league afloat right now. Period of the story. Yes, she is. Well, we need to get you liking some W&B highlights on your 4U tab, and then they'll show up on your 4U tab. 4U just makes it 4U.

Matt. They see what you like, what you click on, what you watch, and then they give you more of that. So if you see more fights, you're going to, if you keep clicking on fights, they're going to send you more fights. I don't know. That's the difference is that I'm not clicking on them. Or you don't even have to click it. You can just watch it. They know how long you stay on every tweet. This is terrible. Even when you're scrolling, they know how many point seconds you're on every tweet. Now, I'm not doing it because I like it. I'm doing it because I wanted to talk about it on the show today because, again, that's what I see. Damn, what am I going to do, Ross? I don't need algorithms chasing me down.

Well, that's it. It's too late. It's over. It's done. Terms and conditions, man. Yeah, you already agreed to the terms and conditions, as you said. So, Jonathan, why do I have on my four U-Tab?

Do you like these so much? Uh-huh. You know why. It's like when, for example, when Jim Schlossnagle went to Texas, I was looking at all these Aggie accounts.

And so it thought I was an Aggie fan for like three months. I was getting all this Aggie content in my Four U-Tag. I'm like, no, I was just, it was just Chauden Freud. I'm not an Aggie fan. Yeah. I mean, I appreciate technology, but also technology scares me.

And I watched like some Halliburton highlights or something, and then they thought I was a Pacer's fan for a while, too. It's just, it's whatever you seem to like, Matt, they give you more of. So you clearly like women beating up on each other in the WNBA, so they're giving you more. I'm also getting a lot of Woodgis. This one is, can you believe I'm 46 years old? Yeah, they know.

They got you to a T. I don't think that's very fair or nice. All right. If you want to tell somebody to shut their bum ass up, it's your time right now. For the next half hour, this is where you can vent and not feel bad about it. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. If you ain't got time for something, somebody's just rambling at the office and telling you stories that you're just losing interest in,

Tell me, anybody got time for that. 713-212-5-7-90. Ain't nobody getting time? Ain't nobody getting time for that? Ain't nobody getting time for that? Hey, time for that we can just relax. And, you know, we're like free therapy, Ross. Don't you think?

We don't charge you. I don't think this is a relaxing segment at all. Well, I mean... This is where you start screaming at people. Yeah, but doesn't it feel good? Yeah, it's cathartic. When that blue hair in Lake Charles Screw me on Blackjack, I tore her a new

A-hole and it felt great. She had chestnut brown hair. Now it was synthetic and from the 1970s, but it was chestnut brown, Matt. It was a nice wig. Damn hit on a 14, you dumb bee. Lucille. Lucille had a very nice head of hair.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. To Major League Baseball, again, And last week we found out they're investing in John Boy with a minority ownership in John Boy Media. Ain't anybody got time for that Major League Baseball? What are you doing? Ain't nobody got time for that? I don't know what they're doing.

Just making me angry. Embarrassing act by Major League Baseball. And I try to defend the sport as much as I can. I just can't defend that. Yeah. And then you've got Okermino fans booing Al Tuve, who hits a home run on your head, by the way. When, okay, first of all, even if you're A's fans, The Astros didn't really have to deal with you on their way to World Series championships as West Sacramento baseball fans.

I mean, I don't even know who you people are. And then you're lustily booing Jose Al Tuvei. Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. And Major League Baseball. I'll go after Major League Baseball again. How are they going to play in Sacramento until 2028? To 2027.

The 2028 will be in Vegas. You know, but they're going to play until the 28 season. Yeah. And that's when they moved to Las Vegas. You're playing three full seasons in this little minor league ballpark where the ball goes rocketing out there. How did they plan this so poorly? Ain't nobody got time for that, Major League Baseball? This is an embarrassment of the sport.

Oh, they didn't plan it, Ross. They wanted to stay in Northern California because the Northern California TV deal was in place. I'm guaranteeing you Major League Baseball would have sent the A's to Salt Lake City. Better stadium, bigger market. They would have embraced it. The problem is you'd be to go on Salt Lake City every single. game would have been 19 to 17. This is it to be like the Texans

playing in the Katie Stadium for three years or something. It's ridiculous. It's a nice stadium though. It is nice for high school. It's true. A lot of Made Creek glosses there. Why are you laughing? We got to observe. Seven Lakes guy.

Oh, yeah. You know Seven Lakes? Is that fancy? Is that fancy? Is that fancy part of the time? He's wearing. He's definitely fancy for sure. Yeah. It looks nice. Yeah.

Nice young. A lot shirt. Interprising Longhorn? Gross. Hook themhorns. All right. 713. Okay.

To the NCAA, to the power for commissioners, to everybody involved in this new revenue share, I am so confused by it that I've checked out on it. Ain't anybody got time to hear about how they're going to share revenue in sports. Ain't nobody got time for it. I'm not going to explain it. I'm not going to try to figure it out because it's probably going to change in a couple of years when the Big Ten and the SEC decided to create their own.

a mega conference. Which they probably will. Need more money, Matt. Let's go. More money from the networks, more money from sponsors, more money for the players. Let's go. And then I've got to figure out what school pays what to what

one school pays 68% to the football. One pays the 59. Oh, ain't nobody got time for that. Yeah, people think this. Apparently this salary cap system is going to greatly limit what players have been making.

It was the Florida coach said they're going to be making like 10 to 20% of what they were making under the salary cap system because you can only allocate so much to all sports. Correct. You've got to pin some numbers to a particular sport and you got to take care of the Olympic sports and on revs. Oh, what a mess. And it's going to keep the halves, the halves. Terrible. All right. To the bump off of 59 when I'm going into downtown at what's the Jackson Street exit. There's a huge bump on the road there. Oh, I know you're talking about.

Ain't nobody got time for that. I've been going through that thing for five years. And as I try to go around it, I wind up almost getting in car accidents every time. I think you need to talk to the city of Houston. Not the city of Houston. I'll say that right there. Anybody got time for that? He got time for that. Yeah. I mean Richmond and Westheimer and a Voss and all those streets have been horrible for 20 years

too. But that same Jackson Street entrance off of 59 has not changed. I'll take your word for it. I don't know. You don't go that way, so you don't have those issues. All right, John, then what's the matter with you this week? Having a good guy today

this week? I don't know. Oh, nice. I don't know. No, I'll come back to me. Come back to me. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, don't make something up.

Don't force it. We don't force things on this radio show. No, we do not. 713-212-5-7-90. Trevor, what's the matter with you? Hey, what's up? First off, I want to say, rest in peace, cheek.

Thank you. Second of all, I want to say, I've always listened. I start with Sean Salisbury and I listen till the post game show or if it's just the nightcap I'm always listening, right? Thank you.

That is until last week this past weekend I was headed to a wedding, right? And we finished up the Astros game. Me and my girlfriend were headed to this wedding. We're in great moods. And they mentioned Ross Villarreal has the post game show. You know, up until last Saturday, I thought Ross was the kindest, smartest dude I've ever, ever listened to on the radio.

I could have told you that a long time ago. That was false. My girlfriend mentions, you know, I'm the super fan. Ross does not follow me on Instagram. My girlfriend mentions, he's like, oh, Ross followed me on Instagram. I was kind of, I thought, oh, oh, oh, oh. I was like, keep going. start following me. This is going to be great. This is

awesome. And then she mentioned, yeah, that picture of sushi that I posted the other day, he hearted that. Uh-oh. And I was like, no, I don't, this is, no, it wasn't me. It wasn't me, Trevor. Who's your girlfriend?

Shut your bum ass up, man. I'm not about the doctor on radio. Okay, who are a purview audience to go follow? I'm sorry. What's your Instagram? Okay, just unfollow me and follow me back. I'll find you. Hey, are you a fan of the 49ers?

Yes or no? Me? Yeah. No. Because there's only one person named Trevor I follow on Instagram. I was wondering if that was you or not? Absolutely not. Okay, well, then I mean, do you want us to follow you on Instagram or no?

I'm questioning it now. I'm questioning it. What did I do wrong? You can be texting for us right now. I'm going to go through my likes now. I don't remember this. It must have been an accident. I was probably scrolling and I accidentally hit it.

Oh, he's a dog. I hear him. That's not true. It's not true. It's not true. Trevor. That's great. On Friday, I expect him.

I'm sorry. Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So let's get to it. So we cannot follow you or your girlfriend on Instagram, what you're trying to say.

I'll call back with my answer on that. It's not an open relationship? No, sir How long I'm in Dayton? Three years. That's too long. Put the ring on it or get out. Oh, dude, I'm putting a ring on this one.

Let me tell you something. Free agencies come around the corner for her. Oh, no, man, I got this locked up. Okay, very good. Thank you, Trevor. Appreciate it. Look at you. You slide her DMs too?

That's not true. That's not true. That's not true. That's not true. That's not true. Give her details. Yeah, let me see. I mean, I don't know what happened.

I don't know who she is. I don't remember liking any sushi tweets. while your fingers crossed they're not all right let's go to Brian and Pearland Brian what's the matter with you

you're the matter with me Matt I got a little bone to pick with you if you look at the last six Stanley Cup champions four of them are from warm weather climate so I know you are Mr. Hockey will never work in Houston no chance no chance

I didn't say that Matt you hate hockey no no no it's false false, false. You have been very skeptical that it would catch you. I am skeptical, but I never would have said no chance, no way, no how. I'm skeptical, yes. So you know what, Brian, shut your bum ass up. You shut your bum ass up. You shut your bum ass up. You put it out there in version. It's not true. Shut your bummed aside. Now, continue on. No, that's all I got. No, I think it will work here. You got Florida back-to-back

champions. It works in South Florida. It can work in the desert. It can work in Dallas. It can work here. I'm telling you. I'm not saying we need it next year, but I think if you give the NHL, I know the arrows are something different, a minor league, major league cities are just, just work different. Give the NHL a chance here. You have enough oil money, enough corporate dollars, and enough transplants to make it work. And I'm telling you it will. So shut your bum ass up.

You don't think it'll work here. Shit your bum ass up, man. Again, if you need to listen to show, I'm not worried about people getting in the building. that's only part of the equation. You need multi, multi, millions of dollars, Ross, in corporate support. And that's where I think the big question mark would come into play.

Okay. And, oh, by the way, filling up 18,000 seats 41 times a year. We'll see. I don't think it's going to happen. I am skeptical. Okay. But I'm not saying no chance, no way I never will work.

Okay. All right. 713, 21, 2, 5, 790. Look at y'all putting words in my mouth. Let me do that. 713, 2.1. 713-212-5-790. Mora, shut you a ball mask up, but anybody got time for that after I tell you about the Shell Federal Credit Union.

I'm telling you, this is the favorite half hour of the week because you just can just tell somebody off and get off your chest, your blood pressure goes down, your stress level goes down, all that. Yes. I'm surprised Shmish Mourney is not running here and wanted to do attack dark breast for keeping them on the tarmac for six hours. Well, hopefully he's got some pending litigation on that. I think he's busy doing a radio. He's going to get an offer or anything? He's doing a busy doing a radio show in Columbia, South Carolina. He's on time for this show.

That's true. It's got a lot of hits. A lot of hits. He'll be on Jackson later today. Mobile, Alabama later today. I think two hits in Lafayette. He'll be doing a Montgomery Sports Radio, and then he'll be on the Cooter Radio show on the Laf-What is the Lafayette Sports Leader?

No idea. All right. Get your job there. I'll go. You talk raging cadence 24-7? Absolutely. Eat some crowd dads, get some good gumbo. Some cracklings?

Yeah. Boone. Ryan, what's the matter with you? Oh, man, I got two of them. So the first one, Ross, every day, man, you give Matt crap for what he looks at on Twitter and Instagram. And now the truth comes out of here. You know what, Ryan, thank you very much. You thirsty dog.

And then second, I thought about this while I was on hold. Trevor, I think that's what his name was. Congrats, bro. You got a hot dude liked her post. If you're good with her, you trust her. You got to let that go, man. Let that jealousy out of your heart. But in the meantime, shut your bum ass up too, dog.

Shut your bum ass up, man. I'm telling you right now, there are people in the community, Trevor, that want to see your girl. So if you want to just let us know, we can be the judge. And if she's yours for life, that's good. We're good with that. But, I mean, we can't look. Hmm. And thank you, by the way, Ryan, for outing Ross for being as big of a little.

worker is he thinks I am. I mean, I don't even know who this person's girlfriend is. And I went through my likes. I didn't like anything from sushi, so it wasn't me. Mm-hmm. This woman's lying and manipulating. No, I'm just kidding. I don't know. I don't know what's happening.

All right, let's go to the phones again. Talk to Dana and Angleton. Dana, what's the matter with you? Well, I've been a loyal listener for 10 years. And this is tongue-in-cheek, so I don't want to get anybody's butt hurt or anything. but to be a loyal listener when you take in all the content and the advertising, apparently

I am a aged, balding, day drinking, degenerate, sports gambling, slash-divorce loser who can't keep his trees alive or his family from getting rear-ended by 18-wheeler's I have zero energy.

God bless you. And I've been pushing rope in the bedroom since 2001. God bless you. Yet, surprisingly enough, I can't get enough penis innuendo jokes for my turn. Ain't nobody got time to be in the Matt Thomas show with Ross Target demographic. Ain't nobody got time for this.

That is a man. You're advertising department to shut their bum ass up. Hey, they're the ones that pay our salaries. They're hiring, Dana. I know you're not going to do that, and I don't mean it. We love all of our wonderful great sponsors here. We love everybody, Ben. Thank you very much, Dana, for the phone call and trying to get us fired.

That's where they're going on. To fix my lott.com. and risehealth.com with the promo code MT20 for suffering erectile dysfunction. Just saying. Get that fixed. They're strips. And they work. Oh, now that guy, Trevor's sending me DMs.

I think he's very upset with me. Trevor can't be mad at you. Nobody's ever get mad at you. I don't even know who his girlfriend is. But I think there are people bump around town. I like to know. You can follow me at Sports RV. Wait, Ross, are you one of those guys that just goes and just likes me?

Oh, hell yeah, he is. Whatever it is, you said he is. I go and like what? One of those guys that does what now? I know people like you, man. Excuse me? I didn't hear your sentence. Said, you like those guys that go on the Instagram

Explore page and then if you see a hot girl, you just like it no matter if you follow them or not? No, I don't do that. That was really quick. You sure? Yeah, go look at my likes. I just went and looked at them. You could have a second account that she was talking about,

not sports RV. I don't have a burner on Instagram. his burner is man you for life aren't you man you guy or man city neither one who's your team I don't know sorry Liverpool this is a disgraceful

Arsenal I've been talking about this for 10 plus years again it's in one ear not the other who's your team Manchester City okay man city they're up 2 nil right now all right well good on uh wiyadad or iadadad yadad ad in the club world cup okay

Nick is with us. Nick, what's the matter with you? Hey, Matt. How's it going, man? Amazing. Thank you. Listen, chalk another one up for Ross there. My wife came home last week and told me about sports RV requesting to follow her on Instagram. I just want to call and tell him that this house and my old lady ain't got time for that. Shut your bum ass up. That's hilarious.

Hey nobody got time for that. I follow him ass up, man. Now, whenever I put it, look, I follow back a bunch of people. Look, who follow me on Twitter. I follow back like half the people who followed me. I'm just hitting follow back. I'm trying to be nice. You follow me on Instagram.

I'm following you back. Hey, everybody. Once I go follow the Instagram account, Thirsty RV. Oh, my God. Thirsty RV. Thirsty RV. Damn. Thirst is real.

Thank you, Nick. I'm followed by 700. I follow 400. That's almost everybody. I just hit the follow back button. That's nice of you. Yeah. And probably 90% of those you follow back are females.

That's not true. You can look through my follows. I don't want to do that. What you do in your Instagram is your own time. Oh, my God. Whatever DMs you put in there to get with listeners, hot girlfriends, that's your own business. This is hilarious. I'm under attack.

It's not attack. It's called the truth. All right. Last call for shut your bum ass up. You want to get in. 713-212-5-70. Has Ross? I don't yourself.

Get the dub button. What are you doing, swine on your own show? I dumped it. I dumped it. All right. Good Lord. Yeah, what's her name? Eric.

Eric in Bay City, what's the matter with you? Yeah, I just want to tell you two to shut your bum ass up because the other day, Guillermo slid on that throwdown, so he clearly didn't know Yiner struck out, and he still looked like a roly-poly sliding across the ground as he was being thrown out by 10 feet. Shut your bum ass up, man. Shut your bum asses up.

Yeah, and did it count as a stolen base attempt? No, so shut your bum ass up. Can I ask you one question, man? Of course. or anything for you. Hey, you've been talking a lot about this stadium deal with NRG and everything, you know, with the Texans looking for a new stadium. Do you think two counties could pair together in that area and supply funding and share

cost or share revenue with it? Why would two counties get involved? Because then maybe it might ease the burden. I mean, the thing that I worry about is that these talks will continue to sour and the Texans will be a repeat of the oilers and leave us and be like, the Oklahoma Texans or something. Yeah, yeah, thanks, Eric. I don't know.

The NFL is not letting Houston leave. That's never, never, ever, ever going to happen. I've already done it once. They're not going through it a second time. And the Texans will get a new stadium ultimately, or a refurbish energy. I shouldn't say there's no chance of that being done. I don't want to make sure I'm very clear on that.

There's a chance that could be refurbished. I think they don't want it refurbished, but I think they may have to settle for a refurbishment. Because the money's just not going, I don't think the money in Harris County is going to be there. They still owe a billion, I thought. I don't know who's owed what. All right.

1812 overture. What would you put that among your all-time great songs? It's not one of my favorites. But, I mean, it's good. Does it fit the, uh... It's a little over the top. Yeah, but this show's over the top. Yeah, I know.

Just saying. We'll hear that and put some Astra home runs to it. And it'll be properly mixed. Ooh, do you hear that? I do a shot so I can't complain. You threw shots. And by the way, what's your girl's ID? He just texted me.

He's asking me for your girl's IG account. I'm like, I don't want him to. I'm not going to ask him unless I did it accidentally on air. 1158, we get the news at noon next on 790. Bravo. Bravo. Give me more. Give me more.

Oh, tears my eyes, Ross. Unbelievable. By way, one little public service announcement, follow me on Instagram at SportsMT, and I will not follow your girlfriend. That's not true. If I follow your DMs. If I follow your girlfriend, she must follow me.

That's all I'm saying. That's what you've got to ask yourself. I just following people back. I don't go out and seek and follow people. I'm following back. I stand by my statement. I stand by my statement. I will not go into your DMs or your girls account.

I'm not in anybody's DM. Unless she gets into my DMs, and I'll say I'm very much taken. Thank you very much. What's up, girl? 1206, it is the Matt and Thomas show with Ross. 1812 overtures, that we call that? Yes.

Do you hear that only once a year on July 4th, right? That's the obligatory day of playing that song, right? No. What else do you hear it? No, no, no, no. All right. With that, let's get to the news at Nude. And here's our favorite looker.

I mean, sports journalist. sports RV with the news headlines today. This is not right. This is a character assassination being carried out right now. It feels appropriate. It's not appropriate. All right, Matt, yes. Sports and the highlights. Sports RV. Anyways, Astros win. Yes, you heard the bombs that were going off in Sacramento. 13 to 3. The Astros beat the Sacramento A's.

Jason Alexander, six innings pitched. Well, it's, of course, six plus. He didn't get an out in the seventh. They sent him back out there on the seventh with 89 pitches, but still three runs, two of them earned, three walks, four strikeouts. How is this happening, Matt? How are the Astros just picking up pitchers off the street, claiming them off a waiver?

They're not even good pitchers, even. You would figure the organization would have a beat on him more than anyone else, and he had a quality start. They're getting quality starts from people you didn't know who they were literally three months ago. And in Jason Alexander's case, two weeks ago. Unbelievable. If Jason Alexander walked in here right now and he says, hey, guys, I'm Jason.

I'd say, hi, man. He's Ross. He's a lurker. What do you do for a living, Jason? What is the lurker? That's when you, uh... Okay, move on. You said it.

You're calling me and I'm asking you. You can't call people's names. Do you want the definition of a lurker? What you're calling me? Yeah, I want to know what you're calling me? No, you know what you're a friend of... Everybody. Some more than others.

Let's continue. All right. Anyways. How about Cam Smith, Matt? Four hits. Three runs batted in. Two home runs and another extra base hit. The fourth youngest Astro to do so.

The other is Carlos Correa. Joe Morgan and Rusty Stob. Rusty Stob's nickname. Hmm. I thought that was your nickname. No, no. Do you know what his nickname is? The Gras?

Was he the Grand Orange? La Grande Orange. Okay. How do you get that? He's got a big poof of red hair. But why I'd go to the French way to say. Oh, because he's from La Grange. No, he's not from the Grange.

From LaGrange, Texas. I mean, I gotta give him. He's from Paris, Texas. Nope. That was a good guess. Those are not terrible guesses. He's not French. He just played for the Montreal Expos.

Well, they nicknamed him that. Okay. RIP of the Expos. May they rest. Do you know what the Montreal Expos are or were? I have no idea. You don't even know. You've never heard of the Montreal Expos?

Until today. Until right now. Right now the Montreal Expos. Jeff Blum. Is the, maybe one of the show? Greatest Expo of all time? Pedro Martinez. Oh, Tim Raines.

Okay. Okay. Continue on. Yes, I will continue on. On the news at noon, you have the Astros. Doesn't it feel like every third game of every series? has been a rubber game. It feels like they've been, and then they win two out of three

and they win the series. Oh, wait, isn't it? Nope. Didn't they lose the first game? Yep. Didn't they win? Oh, it's a four-gamer. You're right. I got you. Look at this guy. That's what we call you Mr. Baseball. We call you double-day Thomas. You're right. They do? It's a four-game set, but it'll be Frumber Valdez versus Louis Severino, 905 first pitch here on Sports Talk 7-19. And Ross will have the on deck show at 8 o'clock.

Yes, I will. Well, you'll probably hear a lot of Dana Brown. speak? I'm going to, this is what I generally do on Wednesdays if it's me. I'll do probably one clip of Bogusevic and then talk about it and one clip of Dana Brown. You know what? That separates you from the rest of the pregame host.

Also, it's a little shorter. I know, I did it on Monday. Thank you, though. What else you got? Aren't you doing Friday, too? I am. I'm not going to do a post game. You do the late night Friday, Maddie?

And also in other news, unfortunately, the hamster cheeks in the Thomas household has has passed. Yep. Two years and then some. Congratulations, Cheeks and a long life. Two years is a good life. For a hamster, it's a long life. And again, if you want to check out a photo of Cheeks, he's available on my Twitter account at SportsMT.

Did you cry? No. Oh. I was relieved, frankly. Oh. Why were you relieved? Because he had tumors. Oh.

All right, anyways, the Yankees have lost five games in a row. They have not scored a run in three straight games, getting shut out by the Boston Red Sox, and then two times by the Los Angeles Angels. They're in quite the sworn, Matthew, as they are 42 and 30. Only a half game ahead of your Houston Astros as the second place team in the American League. Can you believe it?

I cannot believe it. I can't believe the Yankees would go two and a half games without scoring. No, three games, 29 innings. And then the Astros would be as close as they are. It is a storyline that you and I would have never predicted if we were doing March storylines to the upcoming baseball season. Yeah. Unbelievable stuff that the Astros continue to play the way that they do.

And well, they could even get better. If it make a trade at the deadline. Will they? We had about six weeks. Well, you know, I'd like to think of Spencer Erigetti and getting him back as a deadline deal for the Astros. I'd like to think of Yordon Alvarez as a deadline deal for the Astros. Maybe Luis Garcia and or JP France, you never know. Christian Javier.

If one of those three guys come back, that's a full roster, baby. And lastly, I don't mean to interrupt your news and noon, but congratulations to the Florida Panthers for winning the Stanley Cup yesterday. Congratulations. I don't know what the final score was, but I'm sure it was a great game. It was a beat down, 5 to 1 or something? Really? Yeah. That's terrible.

Imagine a frequent fly miles of you covering that series. And then they pulled the gully and then gave up a couple of goals or something like that. Yeah. All right. Up next here on the Matt Thomas Show, Ross, a respected NBA reporter chimes in on the Kevin Durant. Are they sweepstakes, Rossi, or are they just? The sweepstakes. The market.

Sweepsie, yeah, we're not called a sweepstakes, I'd call it a market. As Kevin Durant at this point still is a member of the Phoenix Suns. 713-212-5-7-90. If you want to chime in on the conversation, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. All right, kind of proud of ourselves. We've not gone into a deep dive on the Kevin Durant conversation. Two hours and 20 minutes in the show, but we're going to need to bring it up today because it's still a pressing news item.

If you don't worry about that audio. Let's just talk it out. So there's everybody in their mother is saying at this point, and again, this could be just one person aggregating what they just saw, one person making something up. This could be some very viable sources. Here's the summation that I've gotten so far. San Antonio sounds like they're not nearly as interested today than they were, say, when the original Kevin Durant conversation came into play. Miami is in the same situation. the Rockets remain interested, but they're not willing to add additional pieces to a potential trade offer that they've already given out.

And number four, it feels like to me, Ross, that Minnesota, the Timberwolves are the most aggressive of any team being talked about in wanting to get Kevin Durant. But Kevin Durant has made an undernosed uncertain terms that if he went to Minnesota for one year, that he's not going to sign an extension to stay with the Timberwolves, which would then put a lot of pressure on Anthony Edwards to try to convince Kevin Durant to stay in Minneapolis beyond the one season. That usually does not work, by the way. So I guess there's a number of things in play. Why?

If you're the Timberwolves, would you swing for that fence to say we can get Kevin Durant here in house? Back-to-back Western Conference Finals, we need one more piece, and Kevin Durant can be that piece. Yeah, I see that. I think the Rockets are the same way too. don't want to end up high and dry

in a Raptor situation where they did win the championship with Kauai Leonard and he still was like all right see you guys. Well that entire team, that entire team imploded. I mean, look at all the guys that are playing in. Pascal Seaccom. Yeah. O.G. Anobovi. Fred Van Vliet.

Scotty Barnes probably isn't long for Minnesota, for Toronto there. I mean, long term. For Van Lee you brought up, yeah. I mean, a lot of guys are on the league that are elsewhere. If there's one thing that's consistent to me is that Minnesota really, really, really, really, really wants Kevin Durant. Yes.

Now, I'm not trying to speak on behalf of the Rockets because I haven't made no conversations about it, and I don't want to bother them about it. But I think the Rockets would like to have Kevin Durant. I think when your names are being brought up again and that Kevin Durant has said, yes, I could see myself envisioning playing in Houston beyond next year. That wouldn't treat the Rockets. But whatever Phoenix is being offered, Phoenix is scoffing at at this point. And now the new tide has been, at least if you're believing the aggregators,

and people that are supposedly writing is that maybe Phoenix needs to have a deep conversation with themselves, shut the door and say maybe we need to downgrade what we're asking for in return because I think it's very important that Kevin Durant has traded before next week's draft. I can almost guarantee that the Raptors want a top 10 draft pick in next week's draft. They've got to do some sort of rebuild, whether it's a complete overhaul or just adding some new pieces,

cheaper pieces, because you've already got a lot of money still tied up in Bradley Beale. The Suns, you mean. The Suns. That's a huge albatross. cross around their neck at this point. So the easiest way... He didn't want to go anywhere. He's already said, I love it here, and I'm not going anywhere.

So you want to try to trade me? Shut you about my stuff. It ain't going to happen. So you have to build with draft picks, and you would presume you'd build with top 10 draft picks, and they would be cheaper than getting established stars. Yeah. How long does that take? Devin Booker is 28, I think? Yeah.

So there's another story out there. And again, I don't want to give credit to credit. Not because I'm not willing to do it, but just there's so many that the sons are not interested in Jalen Green and that if... the Rockets were to send Jalen Green to Phoenix, they would have to find a third team that would then take Jalen Green from them. Yes. I was listening to the Zach Lowe podcast. I'll have the, unfortunately, I didn't pull the audio on time. It's my bad. But he says the same thing, that they would be flipping Jalen Green, and he was asked to pick a favorite to land Kevin Durant, and he named the Rockets. And he also said he doesn't think that the coaching staff and general manager are on the same page on this. as in the coaching staff is more wanting Kevin Durant than General, then Ralph Phil Stone. Okay.

Then manage it. Would that make sense? I mean, it happens. I think that's, hmm. Wouldn't that be the case seven times out of ten? Regardless of the player. The coach has, he's the one that's creating the meal. the supplier, the person that has to do the billing for the organizing of the ingredients coming to the restaurant,

it's probably more cost watching over what needs to be bought. I mean, it's a terrible analogy, but you know what I'm saying. The organizer is thinking the general manager thinks down the road. It's about salary caps, thinks about flexibility, thinks about drafts, thinks about things two to three years on the road. The coach thinks about the here now. I've got a chance to be a good basketball team right now. I want to be a great one. And this guy makes us great.

Udoka wants to win now. One of the things that makes him great is he doesn't accept losing, and he wants to win. And if you add right now for Kevin Durant off this team, I mean, sorry, Jalen Green off this team and Kevin Durant on this team, the team's better. But what is that, what are the implications as far as further down the road? And if you're a general manager, whether you're Rafael or somebody else says, hey, you know what? You make this trade, it's on you. Guess what's going to happen? The trade will not be attached to the coach.

So it will be attached to the general manager, especially with depending on what you give up in return. So I could see that. I mean, all I see with EMA and Raffles, they work very much, very well together. But you can't possibly agree in everything. You and I don't agree with everything this radio station does. We agree with most of it. Yes. But not everything.

A lot of it. And so you work through those things. But I could see a general manager going, I don't want to give up draft capital, which the son's we want because I've worked my ass on to get this trade capital. And there may be a player out two years from down the road that you want to give up a draft pick for that would be, say, 28 years old as compared to Kevin Durand, who'd be 37. And it'll probably have to be multiple for it. Rather than even just with a swap of 10, it might have to be another draft pick or two on that.

When Desmond Bain's getting four first round picks, it's going to cost you, I mean, not necessarily that much depending on the players going back, but you're going to have to get some pick multiple picks. But think about that. part of that trade is you're sending Contavius Colwell Pope from Orlando to Memphis. Yes, and Col Anthony. And Cole Anthony. Forget about Colette.

This is KCP. KCP got a huge contract from Orlando. And by all accounts, he underperformed that contract. Correct. Don't you have to give them something back if you're going to say, well, all right, we're going to let you inherit this contract? Yeah. You're giving the right.

Of part of the tax of giving them the contract. I would agree with that. And you're just banking that the draft. picks aren't going to be any good. Right. The east is wide open now, I think. See, I am not a huge draft holder on two guy, but the astronauts have been able to win games and get better because while they have not been franchise leading guys, there are certainly guys that you build a core around. You build around them in Thompson. You've built around them in, uh, Upper and Shingoon. You can build around a Jibari Smith.

You've been able to use Jalen Green. I mean, these are all parts of the equation that've got to where they are today. They'd be in a better spot if they somehow got the number one pick in any of those drafts. The stars did not align. Cade Cunningham, Powell Bencaro, Victor, Victor, Wimba, and Yombe Nama. Oh, and while Zachary, Riesaw-Shea was with Reed Sheppard. We'll see on that. It's fine.

He had a good second half of the season. He did. He did. He contributed more than Reed Shepard did, and that's just a fact. Yeah, Reed's going to have to have a better bounce back year next year. People are going to say that it was not worthy of the other. third pick. But that's also relative in the thing about this, Ross.

It was considered maybe the worst NFL NBA drafts of all time last year. So maybe we have to temper the expectations depending on where the number is. But Reed's got to be better. I don't think there's any issue to that at all. All right, 1228, Sports Talk, 790. It is the Matt Thomas show. If you'd like to be a part of the radio program, you may do so right

now at 713-212-5-790. All right, time is to 1233. the Astros are back to, what, 11 games above 500 after the win last night, 13 to 3 that disposed of the Sacra Oakland A's. No, we didn't call them. Okremento. That's what we called them. Old Okremento A's in that ballpark. What was the announced crowd yesterday?

They had 8,400 of the first game. I think it was 12. They got a full set that missed I had like Dada Dogs or something like that. I didn't notice what it was. Jeez. I mean, seriously, every home run, it feels like it's like a, it's like a, a. missile that leaves that ballpark. No cheapies whatsoever.

8,315. God, how embarrassing. You should be embarrassed. Embarrassed. Major League Baseball? They don't care. It's ridiculous. It's not even, I guess the only thing in Major League Baseball could have said is, no, you can't go. They allowed this to happen. Then they had a passive vote for them to play in Sacramento for a couple of years. I think the owners all voted on this. They're all cool with them going to Las Vegas.

Now it's going to raise the profile of the organization, but this just seems like it was, it was just mishandled for, for years. years. Yeah. Probably the owners of the A's said, hey, we get that TV money from Oakland if we stay within 100 miles of Oakland, so you don't blame us, do you? What are you feeling right now if you're a lifelong Ace fan? Discussed, but you felt disgust in the last 10 years. Remember, this is an organization that from 19, I mean, I don't know what they were like in

the 60s, but in the 70s when they had Reggie Jackson and they had Vita Blue and they had and then you go on to the Bash Brothers with Jose Konseko and Carney Lanceford and Mark McGuire and Dave Stewart and Dennis Eck. I mean, this is an organization that has had tremendous success. And the only thing that ever stopped them from being routinely successful was the fact that the owners, whomever they may be, said, we're not going to spend any money. Now, the owners will probably come back and say, well, we're not going to spend money because we can't make money because people do not want to go to a dumpster fire of a Coliseum in Oakland. And they tried to get stuff passed for new stadiums, and it never did. Numerous times. And I think essentially Oakland said, no thanks.

And then they had Moneyball Billy Bean era. And they were just losing the ALDS every year. They wanted to go to San Jose, and the Giants C blocked him on that and said, no, no, no, that's our territory. Right. You're not going there. Understandably so. And that's the reason why you've gotten out of them playing in West Sacramento, California. On to Las Vegas.

for 33,000 seat stadium. 33,002. You and I will be there for the first game. All right. Let's go. I'm ready. Against the Astros. Not the very first game. No, we don't be the very first game. It could be pricing. Yeah, it's going to say price credentials. Fine. Let's go to Gary in Spring on 7-90. Hello, Gary. Hey, guys. Thanks for the call. I'm calling. I've got to ask Astros question for you. God, I abhor these West Coast games because I usually find all this information out before the games.

But anyway, a couple things real quick. It sounds to me like you guys are going to have to lock up your buddy's phone there on these postgame shows. Because it sounds like he's getting in some trouble with some of these women out there. The other thing I wanted to say is I see it different than most people see it. I see Jalen Green as a rocket's top player only because I think his ceiling in the next couple of years is going to fall. exceed the other two that y'all mentioned each time so he would be the one that I would not trade. But the question I have for you is, have you heard any recent update on Yordon Alvarez's status about when he may be coming back?

Data Brown mentioned this morning that he's gripping a bat, but that's it. No swinging and not swinging and not hitting. And I feel very confident telling you, Gary, that I don't expect to see Yorda back until, I don't know after the All-Star break. I mean, that's crazy, but we're only talking about four weeks away. You and I are on the same page, Matt. When he's back, he's back. I don't care.

I don't care if he's gripping a bat. I don't care if he's holding the bad. Honestly, I don't need updates. He's bouncing on his nose. I don't care. The next time I get an update will be the one that I will go, oh, he's swinging. He's in the line? Yeah.

Or in the lineup, even better. Yeah. Wake me up when he's in the lineup. He's got a fractured hand. Come back when you're healthy. It is what it is. He hasn't played since May the 3rd. Man.

How crazy is this gang? The Astros missed Kyle Tucker for multiple months and won the division. They're going to miss Yardon Alvarez for multiple months, and they're going to win a division. Christian Walker hit a home run. That he did. Oh, and his batting average is 216 now. It's looking good.

216. We're excited about 216. 216. Let's go. I feel very confident about the... I'm bullish on the Christian Walker the rest of the year. Me too, actually. It's going to happen, folks.

If only the Astros could play every game in Sacramento. I think honestly, I'm saying, oh, it's too late for gut feelings. Post-all-Star break. First two weeks post-all-so break, he's going to go on a hot streak. What's up? Why are you waiting that long? I think he should give a little time to rest, reset, mentally and physically. What if he crushes the rest this week in California?

That'd be great. By the way, I got a question for you. I was thinking, you know, I always think of songs for us to play on the show today. And maybe I should know this. and you're not even an Eagles fan per se. Is Hotel California a reference to a certain California hotel? I think it's V. I think it was, like when they wrote the song, but I don't remember.

Because I would have loved to play Hotel California today with all those home runs we had. But I'm afraid that I think it was more of like a conglomerate, like a chain. Piecing it together of things. No, no, no, no. Like, I don't think it's a specific actual hotel, but I can go look that. All right. Can we play it if the Astros win tomorrow and score? bunch of runs. We play Hotel California

Dreaming. Why not going back to Cali by L.L. Koojee or Notorious B-I-G? I'm going to go with the first guy you said. California Dreaming. Bobby Womack version is quite nice. Just letting you know. Just letting know the folks. How about Mamas and a Papa's?

Bobby Womack, a little more so. I mean, a little bit, yeah. Yeah. Who's the more popular to have the two songs? Well, I would probably the Mamas and the Pappas for sure. Yeah. All right. So, you got this tomorrow. We're going to play. California dreaming, which version? Bobby Womack, you said?

No, we don't have to. And then if they went on Thursday, we'll play... Oh, we can't play because Friday we do the open, the 10 o'clock open on Friday. I mean, we can skip that too. We ain't skipping that. Are you kidding me? There's got too much. You've got weeks worth just off of today's show, I think, between cheeks and

somebody diving in and somebody's DMs over there on the OIG. You've got plenty of space there for the 10 o'clock open. All right, 713-212-5-790. if you want to be a part of the show. 713-212-5-790. What else is going on? We mentioned Durant is still a son. We have the Astros winning.

Yes, I have the audio I was talking about. Oh, yeah, let's play them and play. This is Zach, go ahead and set it up. Yeah, Zach Lowe podcast. He's very tuned in. He doesn't always report stuff, but he is very clued into what's going on in the NBA. He had a podcast I was listening to about the NBA finals, and at the end they talked about Kevin Durant.

And he and Kirk Goldsbury choosing who. who they think will end up with Kevin Durant. I'm going to go Houston, and they find a middle ground that is palatable to the Houston front office, who I think is less excited about the prospect of it than the Houston coaching staff. Someone reported for, I can't remember who, and I'm sure this is true because it makes all the sense in the world, is that Phoenix has already started back channeling,

what could we get for Jalen Green? Because I don't think like Jalen Green plus Booker plus Beal, I just don't understand what to make of any of that. So it would be a Jalen Green part of the package and then the son's flipping him. And that's why trades take a long time. The more teams you get involved, you have to make sure everybody's on the same page

and agreeing and cap space. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Aprons and you've got to match salaries. The whole thing. I mean, I'm going to give you the most obvious take in the world. It will, when Kevin Durangett's traded, and hopefully it's between 10 and 2. two to six.

It happens a lot between two and six. They don't deserve it. We'll have the five alarms go off, the five breaking news sounders. Ooh, okay. If it winds up being in Houston, we will have a major press conference. We will carry it.

I mean, it's, it will be a... Hopefully interview. He didn't like medium now, Matt, so you got to be nice to him. Well, I'm going to, I got a whole year to build a relationship, or maybe in some cases, three years to be signed to your extension.

Wouldn't it be so weird. He and I just going to talk about a longhorn times. What if he and I became bros? That's not happening. Are you sure? 100% sure. Would that make you jealous? I would be extremely jealous.

Well, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to, if he ever joins us live on the show, I'm going to make sure that you too, because you have been a Kevin Durant fan since you and I worked together. Yeah. It doesn't feel fair that I would be able to jump in and supersede your relationship.

No, you would care. You just admitted you'd be jealous. I mean, I'd be jealous, but then it's not going to affect my day. No, but I want your day to be better. I said Kevin, can you give Rosh your digits? I was going to use the text. You're going to text them, though.

You're going to say, great game, bro. It's like I going to do. He'll give me a little thumbs up. Yeah. Or an I wink. That'd be weird. That's on Instagram. At Sports RV.

You should be breaking. I really feel like today's not been a good day for you on the Instagram stuff. You are certainly trying to. What do you mean? I'm following back people that follow me. At sports RV. People that you don't follow. And they're girlfriends.

That's fine. That's sports RV. Okay. Oh, so if he's a rocket, this city will go, will be a, there'll be some, there'll be some, not issues, there'll be some trepidation, but there will still be a lot of excitement. Oh, please. I think, yeah. I'll leave in all these people, hell, you got to trust the process. You get Kevin Durant here.

You're going to get excited. You're going to watch the games. And there'll be a lot of Jalen Green folks that will say we are, and I'm here I'm presuming the jailing green be part of the trade. Probably. Because, I mean, if Alpi is off the board and. A man is off. Ben's on the board. What's the next... That would be... Mr. Green, you're next up.

Yeah. Phoenix is lovely. Can Jaylen at any point go, guys, you're the only team I know. I got this. Stay with me on this. I think they believe in it. I can, as I'm saying, if they don't... I really believe that there may be some disappointment,

but I hope there's going to be like a droopy downs, you know, feeling terrible about yourself if this deal doesn't get passed. Because, again, it's... going to have to be what Phoenix believes the value is. And the Rockets, at least from everything we've read and seen, has been, we believe there's a certain value in getting Kevin Durant here, and we're not willing to come off that value at this point. And then the Zach Lowe part that basically the coaching staff more bullish on Kevin Durant

than maybe Raphael Stone and the Rockets brass, or however you want to call it. Yeah, that, yeah, that I can't, I mean, I could text all them, but they're like, Matt, they're going to say new phone, who dis. Yeah. You get a S-Y-B-A-U. Yeah. Or, uh, mind you. Or none you.

Think about it, Jonathan. S-Y-B-A-U. He's thinking. Ah, got, I got, got, I got. All right, 1244 on the Sports Talk 790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. 12-45, sports talk, 7-90.

Wait, I just told Ross, today's edition of believe or not, he's all things about hamsters. In honor of Cheeks, RIP. I kind of miss a little guy. You said all he did was bite you. Yeah, but it doesn't mean we wasn't a member of our family. They put a mask on him. Isn't that crazy?

A little hamster mask. They put a muzzle on. They put a muzzle on and they put a mask. They gasped him. Put him to sleep that way. What's wrong with you over there? It's an emotional moment for the Thomas family and you're making fun of it. I'm sorry, man.

What's wrong with both of you? God. Yeah, because Kim, my wife, called the animal hospital, the vet clinic and said, we have a hamster that's got a lot of tumors and we don't think it's going to make it. And the receptionist said,

we don't put hamsters asleep. So she went back to ask the vet, and the vet, we know the vet because it takes care of our dog. He said, yeah, we'll do it. $150. But it was a human. main way to put cheeks to rest. I'm sorry for your loss, Matt.

This sounds very tough and harrowing for the Thomas family. Yeah. And I'm wishing you the best going forward and peace and love. Thank you very much. That's the most sensitive thing you said to me all day today. How big of that mask be? Where do you buy a hamster put down

mask? Where does one order? Can you get that overnighted on Amazon? If they don't normally do it at the vet, What did they do? Just like a piece of a cloth and just put it over his nose and face? I don't know. Cobium into the trash can.

I don't know. No, no. We asked how it was done. That's what exactly what was done. He wasn't hurt in the process. 1252 on Sports Talk 790. Astros go for another Wednesday. We have more on that top of the hour.

We got Brian Bogus, if you missed that conversation. We'll have it for you at 130. Hey, does a city? make a huge difference in whether or not a player wants to go there. To an extent? I knew you were going to say that because I would have said the same thing if you'd have thrown down at me. Players seem to want to come to Houston.

They definitely want to go to New York. I think the number one factor is Mula, that most times, not all times, but athletes that they had two choices between two cities of comp lifestyle, they would take the money in the bigger city. Money and marketability. I think that's a huge reason on LeBron Jamstine with the Lakers. Okay. The reason why I bring this up is a certain ESPN national host basically had to discuss why the Memphis Grizzlies don't get free agents to come to their place and that they have to build the draft.

And he brought up that it's a very difficult place to live because of the high crime rate, high poverty, unemployment. But don't they have nice neighborhoods? I will have to say that there's crime and poverty in every big city. First of all, there is. But I would say Memphis probably is a, if there was a mid-level, they're high up on the murder rate list. They're very high. I would want, and I don't want to quote off of his numbers,

because he's only been given stuff in its researcher. But I would have to say that Memphis is probably top five in the NBA in crime. Okay. Now, if you are an. athlete, how much of that comes into play? Yeah, I don't know. There are professional cities in this country that have teams that have cities of high crime rate.

St. Louis has a high crime rate. Philadelphia. New Orleans. Detroit. New York City. New York City. I mean, it's not just too little cities that don't have a bunch of sports teams.

It's also a big metropolitan areas. They're not an NBA team in the Hampton. So John Morant came to the fence and said, hey, Memphis is a great place that this person doesn't always talking about and that people will come to Memphis because people are good basketball fans there and whatnot. Now, like in every city, there are good parts of town and there are bad parts of town. And again, all I know is frankly, I know Tunica, Mississippi, because I travel and go down to the casinos and I know part of Arkansas, which is right at the Tennessee border. And I know downtown Memphis. I can tell you for a fact, Ross, that I am way more leery of walking downtown Memphis streets than I am probably any other city in the NBA, even over New York.

Okay. Because there has been, there's tremendous vandalism, there's been a lot of robberies, there has been a lot of muggings and whatnot. So I think everybody is a little more cautious in Memphis, Tennessee, than they are other places. But does that make a difference, professional athletes? Again, to me, it's to each his own. But if Memphis Ross was to offer you, you a four-year deal worth $50 million and the Charlotte Hornets were going to offer you a four-year

deal with $41 million. I would probably assume that 99 times out of 100 the athlete would take the bigger deal to go to Memphis. I would agree. That's based off of previous experiences. Yeah, I'm just trying to find murder rate. Second highest is New Orleans in 23. St. Louis's first.

I don't see Memphis up here. Detroit's number three. Yeah. So it's not like Memphis is by itself when it comes to trying to get rid of a stigma of a high crime city. Indianapolis is sixth. in what murder rate that is surprising Memphis is nowhere near the top 10

I find that hard to believe I don't see them no Buffalo New York is 16 now this is of course per capita and this is the list I have is only the top 24 cities are we in the top 24 Houston is not Dallas is

we knew that could talk that a long time Dallas is 15th DC Atlanta 4 5 yeah DC's had plenty of issues with crime over the years I just,

Ross, we're talking about super, super millionaires that don't typically drive themselves anywhere that live in the nice parts of town. Hell, in Kansas City, those guys were getting their houses robbed all over the place and you wouldn't think of Kansas City being a high crime area. Did Pat Mahomes' house getting robbed

in Travis Kelsey's house, robbed all of a sudden going to tell people that you shouldn't go play for the chiefs? I don't think so. Especially the chiefs are good and chiefs are offering you good money. I just feel like crime is everywhere. But I understand why Memphis has brought the way that it was because, again, it's probably among the 30 NBA cities, the two or three that are, for me, least likely to go walk the streets in a rando night because I don't feel as safe as I do in other places. Los Angeles, 20th, New York 22nd, Boston 24th.

basically every NBA cities somewhere on this murder at least. Bottom line is every major metropolitan cities in that list. All I know is athletes, you should come to Houston. We're nice. We're good looking for the most part. We've got amazing food, good culture. Oppressive humidity. And horrible

traffic. But that comes up the territory with big cities. All right. 12.58. We've got an hour left to go. Ross, we're doing all things hamsters, believe it or not today. We are? And on her cheeks. May he rest? May he rest?

Two good years for that young fellow? It's a good run. It was a good run. 713-212-5-7-90. The Astros win a game, so do the Mariners. We'll give you the latest update on what's happening in the American League West and how the Astros winning ways have gotten them closer to the top spot in the America League. 713-212-5-790.

So the Astros get a bunch of home runs. Cam Smith with a huge day. Christian Walker goes deep. and Jason Alexander. By the way, we have not done a, have we done any Seinfeld puns since about 1002 this morning, 10.03?

I don't think so. I mean, it's the lowest of hanging fruit when it comes to Jason Alexander being on the Houston Astros. Which member of the A team will make a Jason Alexander pun first? Wex or Clayton?

Clint. Okay. I'm going to be listening at 2 o'clock to figure which one it's going to be. Do we have to declare a moratorium or we get a few days of it? I mean, he just pitched yesterday. Everybody's doing it. I can't tell you how many

Kastanza gifts I got yesterday on Twitter. Let's knock them all out so we know what we're playing with here. Okay. We have the golf ball in the whale in the ocean. All right. Okay. We have the shrinkage. Okay.

We have, believe it or not, George isn't home. Please leave a message at the beep. Oh, that's a great one. That is a great one. We have the hand model. The summer of George. Oh, he was a hand model.

I forgot about that. Oh, he was the Yankees traveling secretary. Yes. And we have him, didn't they? What are we doing? What are we listing? Just trying to think of George's. Things about George.

Yeah. Okay. George is getting upset. George likes spicy chicken. I mean, we can go through the list. Oh, do you want to do Jason Alexander, believe it or not? Or do you want to do cheap? Which one?

As I'm saying, you could do both if you wanted to. I haven't started. I'm going to be honest. Okay. You could also go with hamsters, too. Mm-hmm. In honor of cheeks, my friend. You pass.

Hamster. Anything else with George? Oh, the Okay, did he have the jacket that was the, yeah, because Jerry had the puffy shirt. It was the big jacket that he wore that looked like a Michelin Tire guy. Gortex. Yeah, the Gortex jacket. Or hamsters.

I've told this story on air before. I had hamsters when I was a kid and one of them ate the other one. No way. That's gross. Yeah, we went to, we went to Kansas City for, a few days and I put a bunch of food in there, but I guess it wasn't enough. I was like 12 years old. Ben and Alex.

Which one ain't which? I don't remember. You went home and saw that? Yep. And it scarred you for a sneaker. It's whole like mandible jaw and chest was all gone. Let's get to some baseball. You asked. And it's a regret. Absolutely 100% of regret.

Shout out Ben and Alex. Gone too soon. So we don't even know if we're doing Jason Alexander's or we're doing Hamsters. I don't know. We'll figure it out. So while the Yankees don't score any runs, we're going back to sports here. Thank you. The Astros do score some runs. And the Yankees should be embarrassed.

Losing to the Angels at home. Is Aaron Judge cooling off? He's not going to hit a 400 anymore? That's good. He's down to 372. What a bum. He's OPSing,200. What has their record been since John Boy got a minority stake? Oh! That's a good question, Matt. Because they get swept by Boston at home.

And then, or was it home or Boston? It didn't really matter where they got. It was still a sweep. And then they lost, they've lost the Angels game. What's her, what is their record in the last? That's a better question. What's her record in the last 10 games? I'm looking up for a quick.

The New York Yankees have a three and a half game lead over Toronto. They have won. Wait a minute. They won yesterday? No, this is an old. This is an old. I hate this ESPN app. Yeah, it's the worst. I told you.

June 10th is when the announcement came with the partnership with Jamboi Media. They've lost five in a row. June 10th. They've lost 7 of 10. Well, they won 3 in a row right after that. Their run discrepancy is only plus 98. God, oh, mighty, they can slug. They're pretty good.

That is number one in baseball, by the way. The aster is of a plus 47, and for a team that doesn't score much, that means their pitching has been really, really good. So the American League standings right now as we speak, Detroit has the best record at 47 and 27. You know who doesn't like that? Major League Baseball. I mean, Tarek Scoubles is interesting,

but Tarek Scoubles aren't going to be able to carry the ratings of a country. Although we're looking, maybe we should be caring about these ratings. Oklahoma City, Indiana are playing a great series. No, we don't have to care about ratings. Okay, we're not going to do. The NHL ratings are down. NBA final ratings are down.

Basically everything but the NFL, which is a machine. Yeah, in college football. Yeah. Yankees are the second best record and the Astros are the third best record, but the Astros are only a half game behind the Yankees. New York is 42 and 30. The Astros are 42 and 31. In what world did anybody anticipate on June 18th of 2025 AD? The Astros will be a half game behind the Yankees in anything. It's unbelievable. Much less the standings. A lot of magic. So if the playoffs were to begin today, which are not, we're not even at the halfway point. The Astros would take on the Seattle Mariners in the wild card.

No, hold on. Yeah, it would be the worst right. Yeah, Seattle Mariners. Astros are 13 and 7 in one-run games, 4-0 in extra innings. And what do they do productivity-wise between 7-8-9? and what do they do innings, 7-8-9? You would say, and normally you say the luck is going to, luck turns in one-run games and extra innings,

but the Astros have a really good back in the bullpen. They're going to win a lot of one-run games. I don't know. If your bullpen ZRA is among the top five in the sport, you would be a good team late in games. You'd be a good team leading after seven. You'd be a good team in one-run games. That's what the numbers do bear out the results of the field.

And then you have Jason Alexander. The goat. And all these other Astros pictures don't come to mine right away. Colton Gordon. Yeah. Brandon Walta. Ryan Gusto.

Ryan Gusto. You hated it two weeks ago? I never hated Ryan Gusto. I'm wishing them the best. We heard the horror in your voice. You're pushing all these false narratives. I think so. Is this revenge for the sports and teakers?

That's been a long time ago. Long forgotten. Oh, you don't forget. So Fraubra Valdives will take the mound today And the on deck will be at 8 o'clock First pitch will be at 905 from West Sacramento And they're going to play that That team's going to play in that stadium for three years

Crazy with 8,300 people And my guess is when we find out When we find out how much money each team makes I bet the a year's will be right up there Amongst the most profitable teams in baseball Yeah, they're going to collect a lot Because guaranteeing Because the rays have always been popular

in terms of making money, but they don't draw flies or haven't drawn flies, and they're playing it at 12,000 seats stadium in Tampa right now. But they weren't drawing 12,000 when they were in their own place. And now they're getting bought. Let's see what happens there. Yeah, a Jacksonville homeowner group has decided to purchase the Tampa Bay raise. My thought is, you know what, we'll save this for next Tuesday. But if this deal goes through, that Jacksonville homeowner guys will be like,

look, you get one shot. If you want a ballpark, you want to keep the raise in Tampa, St. Pete, build us a 35,000 seat stadium, put it in Tampa, and let's go. If not, I got two other cities in Florida that would love to have your baseball team. But it's funny, just because you build a new stadium does not guarantee success. Go ask the Miami Marlins. That thing down there in South Florida is beautiful, and nobody goes to those games. Well, the team's also terrible. It's got to be a combination of things.

You need team success? Is there any team in sports that doesn't spend money and yet does have? have a huge fan base? Pirates, no. Reds? No. I mean, we'll go to team payroll? No. No, you can't. Who is the most successful team in baseball for a team that doesn't spend a lot of money? Maybe Kansas City would be my guess? I mean, Tampa Bay is in a wild card right now.

I bet if we did like five-year rolling average as a payroll in attendance, there's a very, very strong correlation. Very strong. But Tampa's probably the outlier. Tampa's always competitive and they don't spend any money. You know why? Because they do have a good modeling system that's been able to replenish guys year after year after year. But they don't spend, they don't make big moves. I mean, Randy Rosarina was a guy that we kind of recognized when they raised and he got sent up to Seattle.

Seattle's not really full. They're 16th in payroll. Detroit is 18th. St. Louis is 19th. It's funny, St. Louis is 19. That's crazy. That's a city that draws 4 million with their eyes closed. That's about it

Everyone else is near the top The Dodgers, Mets, Yankees, Phillies, Toronto, Houston It would be hard for me to live in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Miami, and be a baseball fan You know what, do you know what you do, Ross? You lose baseball fans. You just like the checkout. Like if we went to Miami right now and said, hey, let's go to get some friends. Let's go to a Marlins game.

How many are going to say, yeah, that sounds great. They're not doing it. You check out when your team doesn't spend money. Even when they were winning World Series, which is immediately. blow the teams up. The two times they won, they gutted the team right after that. But Pittsburgh, I mean, great baseball town. We are family.

Bonds, Clemente, all Bobby Tom, I mean, all those years and years and years. Great sports town. Pirates are an afterthought. It's why I've got to be blessed what we've got here in town. I know that Jim Crane doesn't do everything you want them to do and then want to spend the big contracts

like you want them to spend and go make these deals and sign players. But man, we've with all the changes, this team has still gone through in just the last two years. Four and a half game lead in the American League West. Credit two? I think Dana Brown's going to get some of this credit.

Joe Spottock. Dana Brown, the players. The coaches who you guys hate and can't name? Yeah. Where's Fire Choice Knicker guy after 13 runs yesterday? You doing all right? Or the other hitting coach. Alex Centron.

Yeah. Where's Fire Alex Centron got? The Astro is the only team with two pitching coaches and two hitting coaches? I don't know. It's a lot of coaches. I've been told it's not exactly, but Centron works more with Spanish speakers, snick or more with English speakers, but they all work with everybody. For sure.

You guys have something to somebody, you know, yeah. I know for a fact that Jose Altovae credited Alex Centron for his correction, his swing a few weeks ago, and it's been a lot better the last handful of days. All right. 115 on Sports Talk 790. 719. 212-579. If you want to jump in, 713-212-5-790.

If you want to follow us on Twitter, we'd love to have that at SportsMT at SportsRV. With a reminder coming up at the bottom of the hour, you'll hear from Brian Bogus-Cific. And believe it or not today, Jason Alexander's or Cheeks? Not specifically Cheeks the hamster. I'm going to say Cheeks was angry, believe it? You know, we ought to do. We ought to do hamsters. and then when the prize horse called in,

this is an idea if we got from a listener, we should say, hey, why are we doing hamsters today? That's a good one. And if they don't know the answer, they hang up on them. But the first guy who gets it right, then everybody can get right.

Yeah, yeah. How long will it take for someone to understand why we did hamsters today? That's a good idea. Let's try. I like this. 115 on Sports Talk 780. The Texans apparently are going to

make a signing of a former Houston Roughneck. Damon Arnett is a cornerback. He spent the 2025 season with the roughnecks, and he is going to try to make it as a Houston Texan. The Texans are going to sign under their 90-man rotation. He recently worked out with a team, and according to those inside the building, he is going to be given an opportunity.

He will be on an NFL roster, so says Pro Football. talk for the first time since 2002. He was a 2020 first round pick by the Raiders. He was released during his rookie season after the release of a video showing him making threats while carrying a firearm. He was signed to a future

contract by the Chiefs in 2022 but was released after being arrested for assault. I don't know if it's two separate instances or the one. If it was the same one? Yeah. Is that a package deal? Was it a twofer? That I don't know. I can't make a show topic

segment out of this because I don't know much about him except that it doesn't sound like he's a great guy but people deserve second chances in life apparently he's behaved himself as a UFL tough neck and he'll get a chance to make the team out of training camp good for him

wishing Damon Arnett the best too they got some good good secondary over there it's pretty tough to make the squad right I would think so Jimmy always use corners We have a Jimmy Ward update, by the way. Yeah, what is happening with that?

He last heard he bonded out. And did you see, now I was in Vegas when this hat went down. Did you see when he got out and they showed him getting into a car what he was wearing? No. He had no shirt on.

Hmm. Really? So what was it? Was the jail sweaty? Was he arrested with no shirt? No, they would put a shirt out of him, I'm sure. Let him put his clothes on? I don't know.

All right. So Damon Arnette will be in Texans training, hoping to resurrect his career after a very tumultuous start. If you're a first round pick in the NFL Rossi, what are you guaranteed? 15, 16, 17 million dollars, spending on spot? Yes, depending on spot. And all you've got to do is behave yourself and nope, don't brandish a weapon. Well, if he could play, he'd still be on a team.

If he was still really good, I would think. Yeah, but I mean, the U.F.L. is there for such reasons, right? To rehabilitate guys and give him second chances? Yes. I don't know much about him, except that he's now in Texan's training camp. He was a four-year, $13 million deal. Which I'm sure he did not receive all of that because he was cut. Yeah.

Apparently, he made about $8 million in his initial contract with the Raiders and a brief stint with the Dolphins. So he's already technically been with three teams? Since 2020? Yes. Hmm. Okay. So we're keeping expectations.

low. He's from Dallas. So we're not going to build a three-hour radio show behind this. I don't think so. Okay. I'll just try it, but we're not going to do it. Ed and Magnolia at 125 on 790. Ed, thank you for holding you and good afternoon. Hey, Matt. Hey, Ross.

What's up? Listen, I always listen to you guys. Thank you. And a couple of things. Number one. Hey, by the way, Ross. Remember I used to call Rodo? I'm in Magnolia now. I was in Cyprus.

Okay. And anyway, I called Rodo once on your show. He gave me some good advice, and I won that week. And I ended up winning the whole thing, the whole Chevene. Wow. You should give him 20%. No. No, dude.

That's not going to happen. Okay. Anyway, so I called one day prior to a game, because I had Hurtz, and I had had the Niners quarterback, what's his name? Purdy? Yeah. And anyway, he says, listen, man, we don't have time to put you on with Roto.

What do you need to ask? I said, listen, I'm wondering what I should do. Should I go with Roto? I mean, should I go with Purdy or with Hertz? He's like, oh, man, Hertz doesn't need to win this game, man. You've got to go with Purdy. Well, the next day, or two days later or whatever it was, pretty put up six points for a quarterback because they had that snow there.

Anyway, so, Connor McGovern, you could change your bummed ass up. Anyway. Thank you, Ed. I also want to tell you guys this. I also want to tell you guys this, you guys are better together, okay? Because when Ross is met, when you're gone, Ross really tries to pick up the slack. Yeah, Matt.

Okay? And when you're gone, I mean, when Ross is gone, you really don't have to pick up the slack because you have all these other guests or whatever and you have the cachet. But nevertheless, I think that Ross tries a bit harder than you do. Other than that... Hold on.

What do you mean tries harder than I do? What is that? It's easier for you, Matt. I think he's complimenting you. Yeah, I am complimenting you. See? Okay. It's easier for you to get along with your guests.

Ross tries harder because he feels the need to do so, which is cool, you know. Also, regarding your line up there, Salisbury, and then you guys and then two Adams. Yes. Two randoms? Adams, he said. Okay. I thought he said two randoms. No, he said two Adams.

Anyway, Sean is a little bombastic. Bombastic. And, listen, I'm originally from Chicago. And I saw Sean in like 86,

I think it was. I used to go to a lot of Bears games. And I saw Sean get his ass kicked by the Bears defense in like 86 or whatever it was. I was like 21 years old. Sure. And he got up and he won that damn game.

And I thought to myself, man, this dude's a badass. You know, so good for him. The thing is, I can't listen to his show. He's a little loud. Okay. You guys are cool. Thank you. The two Adams, those guys are dry as toast, dude.

Okay? I'm sorry they are. And, Matt, you bitching about Klan taking all this time off. Yes. Okay. You know, dude. admit it, bro. You take more time off than he does.

Well, here's the thing, and thank you for the complete recap of our lives and our abilities as host. And your fantasy team. And fantasy team. I get four weeks. I actually get five weeks off a year. I only take four, but I get five. Thank you, Matt.

You should use them, though. But I want to make sure that we're together as much as possible. So Ross gets four weeks. Yes. So there'll be four weeks where I'm not with him, and he's on with me at least. You get four? And we get four and I should take five,

but it's a different issue. That's okay. And it's on the screen it said, Ed wanted to talk about the NHL. I don't know. There was not an iota of NHL conversation in that phone call. We appreciate you, Ed.

He ripped on Sean, yes, ripped on me, ripped on you, ripped on Adam and Adam. Yes. He didn't take any shots at Gordy or anybody else. And thanks for listening. And thank you for listening.

a complete If you wanted to It was almost like listening to a radio critic Yes Up next Dry his toast The guy getting arrested I got a collar biscuit

And tell me that he had a shirt on He took it off the cover of his face When he was coming out Ah But I mean I saw him getting in the car Without a shirt out I just thought it was weird All right

What was weird is that call And thank you Ed for listening And glad you saw Sean get his ass kick but get right back up in 1885 or 86 when that game was. Brian Bogusevich was a guest to the Matt Thomas show with Ross earlier today. He's with us every Wednesday at 11 o'clock, and you have a chance to catch some of the best of that conversation right now as we talked about last night's pitcher and the expectations of won Jason Alexander.

Quali Sart for the Astros. They beat the A's last night 13 to 3. I was quite unfamiliar with him besides his work on Seinfeld, I guess. Yes. expectations for him personally no idea what you're going to get right it's a guy who's really new to the organization a guy who doesn't have a ton of big league experience

but expectations for a pitcher coming up from this Astros minor league system and what that's looked like over the course of the last two to three years there's been kind of a shift change in what we've seen from guys coming up you do start to get a general idea of guys who really understand themselves, know what makes them successful, know how to pitch to their strength, willing to attack the strike zone, you know, rely on the defense, hope the offense

give them some support, guys who aren't necessarily going to go out there and beat themselves. So that's kind of the expectation at this point. I mean, it feels like, Brian, that everybody that has been given at least some sort of opportunity, maybe with exception of A.J. Blueball has come up in somehow some way contributed. and I don't know of another major league team at least in 2025 that has gone as deep into their minor league system to grab guys for the spot start, for the give me five innings to start a day ahead of schedule like Gus did it a couple days ago

and kept their teams alive, especially when a team like the Astros have not been with exceptional last night a team that's been scoring a whole lot of runs. No, it's pretty remarkable. I mean, it's been essentially two full seasons of China. trying to constantly backfill your rotation and going not just six, seven deep into your organization, but eight, nine, ten deep into your organization. And, you know, it says a lot, first of all, foremost, about the scouting department,

not just the amateur scouting, but you're seeing guys who they're bringing in from other organizations. So you're pro scouting as well. And also just the development and finding traits that you like, guys who can pitch with their fastball, guys who attack the strike zone and then getting them there and making them feel comfortable enough to do what they were doing in the minor leagues at the big league level.

That's the biggest hurdle initially is you know, you're all of a sudden standing on a major league mound. Oh my gosh, I got to do more. I got to be nastier. I got to throw harder. And they really seem like they settle these guys right away and convince them that they can just pitch their game and it's worked for them.

So it's a lot of different things. It's clubhouse culture. It's It's the communication between the coaching staff and the players and the players understanding what it is that makes them successful. And it's them just kind of relentlessly going out there. I mean, it's not like they're doing this with guys who are top 10 draft picks. These are guys out of small schools, late rounds, scrap heaps from other organizations, and they're getting a lot out of them. And it's just, it's kind of an entire organizational effort, you know, and it really what it does also. it makes you pretty dubious of these organizational minor league rankings that get put out every year.

Brian Bogus Hevick with us here on Sports Talk 790. Brian, I just looked this up. Did you know in your career in Colorado, you hit 341 with a 989 OPS? Well, I should have gotten traded there, apparently. Yeah, you should have spent more time in Colorado. I bring that up to say this. What is it like when you're playing? The ball is obviously flying out there in Sacramento and they scored a bunch of runs.

When you're at the plate, do you just want to keep everything normal? or what is it like psychologically for you in a place where the ball's flying out like that? Everything. Everything is good. You know, when you're talking about a place like Colorado or Arizona, you're talking about Sacramento, now where the rays are playing, and then, you know, there's a long list of minor league stadiums out on the West Coast where the ball really flies. There's a lot of things that work in your favor there.

First of all, just thin air. The ball travels. You don't have to get it, you know, very much to get it out and over. the fence. But a lot of those parks are also big and spacious trying to combat, you know, the thin air. So you have a lot of room to find hits, you know, big gaps. Outfielders have to cover a lot of ground. They're usually playing deeper so you can bloop hits in in front of them. And one of the best feelings as a hitter is knowing that you can easily hit a ball out the other way, right? If I just barrel a ball up for me, a left-handed hit,

to left center field, it can carry over that fence. I don't have to do any more. I don't have to try to pull. I don't have to try to pull. And that keeps everything in line. And then if you do catch one out front and you pull it, it goes even further. But to not have to try to get anything more out of your swing or your approach or whatever and just keep a good hitting approach.

And then add to the fact that the ball flies, add to the fact that there's a ton of room for hits. Those are just awesome situations to hit him. It also helps when you're facing some teams that have pretty bad team ERAs as well. Yeah, the A's certainly do, but Cam Smith taking advantage yesterday. Do we temper our enthusiasm because it was in Sacramento, or did you see some really good A-Bs there? I temper enthusiasm based off individual games in general, good or bad. But when you're looking at over the course of weeks or months, there's a ton to love about what he's doing. If you look at those two home runs that he hit yesterday, yes, they were on off-speed

pitches, but where he hit that ball, right, out in front of the plate, where he hit it in a swing, you know, swing working up underneath the ball to try to get some elevation. Those are points of contact and, you know, pitches that he wasn't getting to early on in the season. And he's really embraced mechanical changes. He's really embraced philosophical changes, trying to get more aggressive trying to get the bad head out front those are those are mindset things and to do it not only at such a young age and so quickly but also he was asked to make these changes before he had ever really failed right like he's been an awesome player his whole career he got drafted in the first round out of college he tore through the minor leagues he made the major leagues in his first

spring training why would you change well the coaches came to him and said hey if you're going to hit here you're going to have to do x y and z and to buy in before you have to have any real, real struggles. I know it wasn't, you know, tearing the cover off the ball from day one, but to kind of preemptively make adjustments like this, it's pretty remarkable and says a lot about just character and why the Astros would be willing to push him as hard as they have this year. A couple more minutes here at Brian Bogusevic on Sports Talk 790.

Bogie, we're seeing DH for Altovae. We're seeing left field. We're seeing second base, probably perhaps more. And I think I brought this up to you a couple of times. is this the strategy they should be going with Jose is to kind of not necessarily keep him always not on alert or trying to change things up but is it mainly about what the lineup is around him that makes a decision where to put him?

I think so. I think that the plan it's look he's not kept in the dark about anything right? When you are a player of his stature and when you're in an organization that is as open with communication as the Astros are, he's certainly kept in the loop on everything. So it's not that you don't have a role and you're just floating around. It's that your role is to float around. And it's in order to allow us to maximize offensively when we feel like we need to maximize

defensively when we need to play a hot hand. You know, Maricio DuBahn is hitting as well as he has all seasons. So we want to keep him in the lineup. So maybe that means more left field. Just whatever it is we need. he's kind of the cog that gets moved around to facilitate all those things. And number one, it takes a selfless player, which everybody knows he is, but it also takes really good communication and trust between player and coaches.

And that obviously exists as well. So, yeah, I think that is the plan. Now, if anything ever materialized where there had to be something more concrete, I think he would be open to that. I think the coaches would be open to that. I don't think anything is off the table at all. So, yes, as of right now, I think the plan is just day-to-day match-up to match-up. You know, you're going to be the guy that we move around to get the most out of what we need that day.

Really fast, Ross. Really, really, really fast. I got a segue. Remember that previous caller that basically took shots at all of us? Remember when he said about Sean Salisbury? That he went and saw him playing game one time back in 86. Somebody fact-check him? Me.

I thought about fact-checking him, but I didn't have time. I'm finished, believe it out just now. First time that Sean Salisbury ever faced. the Chicago Bears, 1992. He threw one pass. He was one for one. Okay? So win him in that game, right, Ross? Probably not.

The next time he saw the Chicago Bears was in 1993. He did not complete a pass. He had one rushing attempt for minus two yards. The next time he faces Chicago Bears, I'm going, I'm searching, I'm searching. 1996 is a member of the San Diego Chargers. He did not throw a pass. He did not rush the ball.

You lie! Do not lie to us! I will out you! Thanks for listening. Maybe he got Sean confused with somebody else. I would have to think so, yeah. Or the team. Believe it or not, the category today is about hamsters.

We'll leave it at that. Right now, I want to tell you about, if you want to play, by the way, 713, 2, 1-2-5-790, 7-1-3-1-1-7-1. 12.5.790. 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 called it B. Believe it or not, and here's how it works. Should call 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-2-1-7-90. Today's edition of Believe or not is all things about hamsters. I'll read your statement about hamster. Statement's completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. If the statement's

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Genus. Genus and species of the common hamster. is Castor Cana Dennis. Believe it or not? Wow. Believe it? No, duh. Come on. I don't even know what it is. That's for the beavers. That's the beaver genius. Beavours, okay. Kenneth on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, sir. Good afternoon.

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What was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? Just tuning in for Believe it or not. At least he's honest. Hold on, why are we doing hamsters, Sam? Say that again? Why are we doing hamsters on Believe it or not today is our topic? I caught the beginning of the show. Your poor hamster died.

Thank you very much. Worldwide, there are 24 different species of hamsters. Believe it or not? Not. There are. Yikes, three incorrect answers. Three questions. Roger on 790.

You ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it, RIP cheeks. Sorry, P cheeks. Hamster teeth never stopped growing throughout their lives, which is known as Hype Cell. don't teeth. Believe it or not? Believe it? Yeah, of course. Duh, you got that one right. Statement number two for the one, hamsters are illegal in Hawaii because of their high

reproductive rate. Believe it or not? Believe it? Yes. Congratulations, Ron. You're nicely done. Let's go to Al on 790. Al, you're ready to play Believe it or not? Yes, sir. A group of hamsters is known as a troop. Believe it or not. Not. No, it's a horde. Statement number two for the way, and scientists have said that hamsters are more intelligent than rats and guinea pigs, but they're also more independent and difficult to train. Believe it or not? Believe it.

No. Where did you get that from, Rossi? It's made it up. Okay. Hey, Seuss on 790, Hey, Seuss. What was your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show? The whole thing. Hamsters have poor eyesight.

They are both near-sighted and colorblind. Believe it or not. Believe it. There you go. Congratulations. He loved the whole show, Ross. All right. So did I.

McTagger is not on with us tomorrow. John Lucas, friend of the radio show, longtime NBA player, has done incredible work in rehabilitating people. He's going to have a golf tournament. And we're going to talk about that golf tournament. We're going to get his thoughts tomorrow in the Indiana versus Oklahoma City game as well.

among our guests. Plus, I just don't get it. And you never know how else we're going to have. Maybe we'll have a Kevin Durant trade by then. You never know. Up next, it's Clanton. It's Wexler. RIP Cheeks, part of the team on Sports Talk 790.