The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Win 4 Series Straight! Rockets Made a Pick! Jaylen Brown Rumors Continue

Episode Date: June 25, 2026

Astros Win 4 Series Straight! Rockets Made a Pick! Jaylen Brown Rumors Continue 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Good morning and welcome to the Matt Thomas show with Ross. On Sports Talk 790. Warner, let's see. This is extremely close. Is he a grazer? He is, and that is the ball game. So the Houston Astros take two out of three in Toronto, winning tonight, three to one.

You know what? When you're at home on a... regular old Wednesday night, you say to yourself, Hey, give me some more Canadian rock. I go to Loverboy. And we were loving every other. Oh, thank God. I love the Canadian Rock and Roll Hall of Famers at Loverboy.

Are they in it? I just hated it up. That feels about accurate. I would put them in. I mean, why wouldn't they be? Is there a Canadian Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? I was looking at the top 100 Canadian rock songs. There's a Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

it's a pretty good group I mean you know the the guess who which is way before your time a lot of hits nickelbacks in the Canadian music all thing

oh yeah looks like lover boy is not in oh you're kidding me right how does lover boy not get in there the guess who's in Gordon Lightfoot in oh Oscar Peterson according to Z98.9

FM Oh lover boy inducted in 2009 yeah so apologize you're good sorry lover boy The greatest Canadian rock song is, and we've played it this week on the show. Taking care of business. Summer of 69. Okay.

In the top 10, and this is a great way to open up a sports show. I love this. Just let it happen, please. New Orleans is sinking at number 10 by the group called the Tragically Hip. Never heard of it. Tragically hip? Yeah, I've heard of them. Okay.

Joni Mitchell. American Woman? That's a great song. Oh, Paul Anka. Number eight, if I had a million dollars by the bare naked ladies. Are we doing more Canadian or not? not. Bob K. Gion by the

tragically hip boy. They're in there. Working for the weekend, lover boy. Oh, really? I think they're Australian. And number five, Life is a Highway by Tom Co-Train. I'm more of a fan of the Rascal Flats version. All right. Number four, Corey Hart's sunglasses at night.

That is a banger. It's a jam. Number three, Tom Sawyer by Rush. Yeah, Rush. Number two, taking care of business by Bachman Channel Overdriver as a kid's call them BTO and summer of 69. Did you just pull this up? No, yeah, Z98.9.9. Greatest Rockets of Canadian. So there you go.

Oh, so you pulled that up before the show. Yeah, I did the last night because I was like, I want to find a good song to open up the show with. We call you Mr. Prep. I appreciate you, Matt. I try. I try. It's 105 on Sports Talk 790. Good morning to you. It is Matt. It is, Matt. It is Ross. And we are with you today until 2 p.m. Yes. 10 a.m. 2 p.m. The Matt Thomas show is Ross. And I am. so excited in Houston, Texas. We get to really enjoy standings watch 790 today. We need like a little sounder, don't you think,

Jonathan? Standing, you know, I'll get our imaging guy, Mike Bowie on to do it. Yeah, you know how you get him to do it? Be like, oh, you know what, if not, you're busy, Mike, we'll use AI. Let's get mad. Let's do brainstorm. Okay, what type of sound do you want? Like a zoo. Like a whoosh. Wush. Wooning's watch.

790. You want a little news bet? That's the breaking news sounder. We don't want to interfere with that. We just want to do that. Domitio. Okay. So let's do that standings watch, Houston, Texas.

And I know that you have been against it, but I'm going to prove to you yet again why it's fun to do it. Guess who is in second place in the American League West? Who's in second place in the American League West? It's your beloved Houston Astros. What? They are both four. The Astros and the A's are both four under 500.

Okay. But the Astros have played two more games. So they are winning percentages, 0.476. This is pathetic. This is the slowest race. Is this like when you watch the babies race to the halfway line at the basketball game? This is sad. And then you feel bad because the kids don't want to be there.

They're crying. They're sorrow to themselves. Right. Also in second. The A's are also in second place. The Rangers are also in second place. Okay. Meanwhile, as the Astros were beating the Toronto Blue Jays yesterday,

The Seattle Mariners were getting their ass kick by Pittsburgh 9 to 1. So, the Astros have won 6 of 10. Let's go. The Seattle Mariners have lost 6 of 10, and your beloved Astros are tied for second place, two and a half games out of first place. But you want some more news? Yes. Six out of 8 they've won as well.

Four straight series wins, by the way. Woo! The Wild Card! Wild card weekend. The Astros are, as I predicted, one game out of the wild card. You're saying, damn, here comes the obligatory Rossville Real.

Well, how many teams are in front of them? Well, how many teams are in front of them, Matt? One. See, now that sounds better. Now I'm happy. And the team that's in front of them, if the season was to end today, and that team wasn't the same spot,

the Astros would have the tiebreaker because the team right in front of them, the Toronto Blue Jays. I'm feeling good in the neighborhood. Fanggrass playoff odds up to 33%. So you're saying there's a chance. Let's go, baby. Woo!

See, now I feel good. I don't feel good when you got to hop five teams. When you got a hop one? That's better. I wanted to play moving on up of the Jeffersons. Ooh. It feels like this would be the day to do it. It might be.

Because you've got to use it why you can't. If they lose three out of four, we're not going to be moving up anywhere. Is there a song called Falling Down? Yeah, of course. I'm sure there is. Free falling? Tom Petty? Ooh.

It all falls down. Free falling would be like a nine game losing streak. Remember when the Astros went one and nine on that road trip to open up the year? All falls down by Kanye West? Let's not even speak that into existence. I don't want to do that. Yeah. Is it weird playing Kanye?

Where are we at Kanye West with the whole Nazi thing and playing his music? Michael Jackson, if he still do it. R. Kelly, I feel like he's out. Kanye West is like on a borderline. What did you say, Jonathan? apparently he apologized for all that Nazi stuff Oh okay you said I'm not a Nazi more guys Because I need to because my new records coming out

Yeah yeah so I gotta tell you boys And you you opened up this Pandora's box There's a handful of different artists that you are really curious When Gary Glitter comes on in the Toyota Center I cringe That's the example I was gonna go with Oh you know what I stole your thunder I'll shut up turn my mic off

That's okay You know it's like you're finishing my sentences Gary Glitter Is what you know the song Rock and Roll Part 2 right? Jonathan? If I heard it, I... Go find it. He knows. It's in the system. Go find it. It's called rock and roll

part two. Do not do part one. It's part two that we want. Do not Google Gary Glitter, Philippines. And certainly do not do it on a computer. It's owned by IHartMedia. You'll be out of work. This song is such... I mean, it is the definition of

playing a song in the arena. It's arena song like, it's the number one pick if we were picking one. Yeah. Maybe we'll rock you. We will Rocky would be right there. But when you, when we were doing the Rocket's championship years in the 90s, this was unbelievably a song that even, remember, this was 94, 95. That was the song was still 20 years old and people were going, losing their mind. I never do this.

Give us a little rockets. Oh, of course another song. Okay. So what happened when we say time out? Give us a little like, yeah, anything. Just O-T, time out. Nick Yes

Crowd I mean the summit It feels right So you know this Jonathan right Yeah yeah This is the arena song The arena song Everybody

Hey Yet you know He was Yeah so what he Yeah He had some run-ins with minors Yeah Little child pornography

I want to say too Maltz well He was guilty He was guilty Yeah Yeah It wasn't a case Dismiss situation

It was You can Google his name But that'd be as far as you want to go with that? No, that's what I'm doing on the break. I'm pulling up his Wikipedia. Jonathan, let me ask you this.

Yeah, he was convicted in Vietnam. Ooh. Yeah, pornographic, yeah, child porn. That's... Uh-uh. Okay, so that song, Rock and Roll Part 2. If you ever noticed, Jonathan,

the show of ours is dragging. That would be... That would be... Play the pedophile song. Well, but I'm saying, don't you... Don't you use songs... How about where you will rock you? Yeah.

Or, you know, dun, dun, dun, literally, yeah, that's fine. Charge. Any sound effect that you think you can add. We used to do that. We used to do that. We used to do that. We used to do that's funny.

All of you guys did you want I'm getting by the way. How many likes you when I'm getting by the way? Normally I put up a story. I get like five last. I got like 40 likes on that one. And then you send it to us in a group text. Jonathan, what do you do with someone who sends you a text of their meat? You just go, that's good meat?

I don't know. You just ignore it and hope he sent it to the wrong person and release the messes. Oh. Is that the, uh, unsigned? Yeah. Thank God for the unsigned feature. It's like if my wife was looking to me, Jonathan. I mean, you know, he's a good, he's looked over-cooked?

He's the best cook of ours of the three is, right? medium rare. I've never seen a steak like this or meat like this. Yeah, you get it's pan seared with the crust. You got to bring some to the station. All right, you know what? I'll make you a steak. Problem is it won't taste nearly as good.

That's true, right? Yeah, do we get, can we bring a hot plate? I'll bring my cast iron pan. And you bring your meat, Matt. So you're saying, I bring the meat. Yeah. Jonathan brings the heat. You buy eye fry.

Okay. I don't know if we're a portable hot plate, Jonathan? Are we allowed to cooking here? You have like a George Foreman grill? I've never seen I like, I've never seen Grittle in the offices of I Heart. Nobody's ever brought a portable hot plate up here.

I don't think so. Make some eggs and bakey in the morning. 1021 on Sports Talk 790. It is Matt. It's Ross and we are with you today up until 2 o'clock. We'd love for you to be a part of the radio program. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-2-1-2-7-7-9. You know what I did yesterday? I have a serious X-M radio because I love my 70s on 7 and the bridge and all that are goofy stuff. that I can't hear. Paul McCartney channel. Beatles channel, of course.

The meatloaf channel. It's pretty good. There's no meal channel. There was an Eagles channel for a short period of time, but that's going away. And then they also... No, I want recognition for my meatloaf joke that it's a channel 203. That's good. All right, move on.

Okay. Take your flowers. So they also get MLB channels. Yes. And I listen to the Toronto Blue Jail. Jay's call of the game. Just to get a little bit of a different flower. I never listened to opposing radio of a game involving a Houston team because if I'm doing a Rockets game's game, I can't hear what my other counterpart is saying about the Rockets because I'm calling the game itself.

To me, it's interesting. It's a normal game. Two competent broadcasters, but the Canadian accent kicks in. Oot is the number one thing you hear. Two utes. Yeah. Sorry. And I wish what I should have done, and I was in the car, so I couldn't do it because I wanted to be safe. But I should have written down every word that sounded a little bit different.

Yes. But that's the one that was the most pronounced. It's not out. It's out. It's out. Bague. Yeah. It's just a little Canadian. He put his foot on the bag.

It's a little Canadian twang. Yes. Is that a fair way of saying it? Yeah. I mean, there's southern twang. There's Boston twang. There's Canadian twang. Wang.

Yeah. It's funny how that works. It's crazy how French, Spanish, and Portuguese, and Italian all came from Latin. Yeah. Things evolve. And it's funny because, you know, I was born in Detroit, but I left Detroit in 1979. I was seven years old.

I've lived in the south. Imagine a little seven-year-old Matt with a, what's a Detroit accent? It's like a little Midwestern? Kind of like Hunter Brown's got a little Michigan accent. A little bit. Yeah, Hunter Brown for sure does. You can definitely tell he is from the up, from the Midwest and Michigan. Michigan. But yeah, I'm lucky because

in our business, it's not cool. It's not really good to have an accent. It just isn't not. It depends on the accent it feels like. Now, if you are loud talking. I would go sell everyone loved, but that was also the 70s. But if you're also doing the show on 66 WFAN, they don't care about Jackson. Who is the most? I don't even think. I mean, you know, most everybody's clean. Like Harlan,

Tariko, Nance. Oh, in terms of accents and Penn & Play guys? Jackson back in the day. Marm Albert's got to pronounce East Coast Act true. Well, he's retired. Mike Breen's got a fairly decent East Coast accent. Yeah, a little bit. That's a good one.

Iron Eagle does not. No. Harland does not. this all the time. They're like, like 30 or 40 years ago, you had such different styles. Keith Jackson was completely different than Pat Summerall. You know what I mean?

I'm about that. Yes. Now everybody's the same. Vin Scully and Harry Kerry were built on two different planets. Yeah. Now it's more, and I hate to use the term, but it is the term, it's more cookie cutter. Yeah. It's a lot

of things in life. I would say, like jump shots, all the jump shot forms. You go watch a game in the 70s. You go watch a game in the 70s, you see 10 guys shoot, there's 10 different jump shot forms. Now, there are guys who have wonky jump shots here. It's still today, but it's like stuff like that. They get trained. Yeah, even like, they train the accident out of you.

You had George Gervin with an amazing finger roll. You had players that would put the ball high above their head to get to the lane. Yeah, Will Chamberlain would do like this little flip shot you never see today. Magic's finger rolled. You don't see that much anymore. I mean, it's, yeah, but it is interesting that play-by-play broadcasters. How about batting stances? in the day too same thing yeah a lot more varied jeff bagwell i mean guys are a little bit different

have their little nuances see i would just if i was a left-hand hitter i would just replicate can griffick is whatever that was that was like craig counsel anymore nobody nobody probably should but yeah batting stance guy was kind of popular 20 years ago he's gone he's 50 minutes are over with he's still out there making content with his backwards hat but it's just not is he backwards hat bro of course Oh, Lord. I thought you might, I don't know if you turned on Space City Home Network. I thought you might say something. I don't have a problem with it, man, but you don't like backwards hat.

Gordy put on a backwards hat yesterday on the, on the Space City Home Network. Did he really? Oh, Lord. Come on, Gordy. Love you, Gordy. I mean, I love you too, Gordy, but no. I don't want a stereotype. I don't ever see you wear a hat, any kind of hat.

Because my head's too big. I thought we could at least get you like in a, like one of those cabby caps. Now, when I would, when I go play golf with leather. I'm going to play anymore. I wear the big straw hat to protect my head. Oh, right. I got you a hat for a training camp. Where's that hat? It's in my office. I mean, my closet. I got Matt a big, like, uh, uh, it was basically like,

Curious George's buddy. I was like an Indiana. I would go more Indiana Jones. Yeah. Yeah, because you're more like an adventurer, Matt. What's that? Curious George's buddy, the yellow man. Yeah, the yellow man. What's that dude's name? The yellow man with the hat. I think it's yellow man with the hat. No, he's got a name. No, it's literally yellow man with the hat.

Really? What was Winnie the Pooh's friend's name? for Robin? Yes. Your? No, I mean, they were friends, I guess, but they were broskeys. They were bros. Yeah, he's called the man with the yellow hat. You mean to tell me that that cartoon slash, it's a child's book.

They're not looking for character development. But they could have just called life lessons about not eating too many bananas and getting a sore stomach. They could have called him just Doug. They could have. They gave him no name. It's more mystery to it. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, that's the size of a hat I would wear. Floppy, if you will. Not a stiff hat, floppy. All right. What the hell is wrong with you? No, I'm just saying this. It was not, it was floppy. No, I know. It happens. Especially get older. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-12. Jonathan, how many clips do you have for this week? It's like Thursday.

Enough where I don't even have to write anymore. I don't know what you're... So for those of you know, this is behind the scenes. Jonathan has a little notebook, and every time Matt says, or I say something crazy, I'll throw myself, because, of course, I do. We have a video camera. We see Jonathan, and I see him go scribble down. It's like when you say something crazy to your therapist or something, he's like,

all right, let me write that down. Oh, this guy's nuts. And so, like, he writes it down, like, he writes down the time to go pull it later. And, yes, Jonathan just said, like, he hadn't even been writing it down the last, like, day and a half, because we got too much. He's flipping a third page. for some reason. I don't know what's going on.

The reality is this, I don't know what you're writing down. It's probably not fair. It's just a time. But if you do need to save clips, you can always bank them for a week from one of us is all for something like that. All right. So how about those Astros, Houston? 713. I tell you, are you not as excited?

Mike Burroughs? I'm feeling good about Mike Burroughs. When I did the 10th inning last night, I'm like, I get to do the standings tomorrow. And I don't get to face the shame of you getting mad at me for being standings guy. All the pressure. An overworked bullpings. They're being put in the bullpen. Mike Burrows on the road in a like-to-win situation.

So he gives up the home run on the first. I'm like, oh my God, here we go again. And then he settled down beautifully. Love it. And why about Josh Hader? Since he's come back. Nails. The Ernie is 0.9.

Is that good? It's phenomenal. Nice. 713-212-5-7-9. We actually had a lot of calls on the 10th inning show last night, too. It was great. I probably had 10 calls. Love it.

For midweek game, that's not bad. That's great. You know what? People love Matt Thomas. No, the people love Matt Thomas. They can't get enough. You should do tonight, too. I'm going to do tonight, then. Thank you. You know what? I'm having such a good time. I love you. 713-212-5-7-90. It's 1030 here on Sports Talk 7-90.

1036 on Sports Talk 7-90. Your Astros are not by themselves in second place in American League West, but they have a share of it. It's better to share Six out of eight, baby. Yeah, I'm feeling great now. Four straight series wins. Quite frankly, shut your bum ass up, fan graphs. It feels like it's better than 33% now.

Well, because the division sucks. Yes. And under any other circumstance, when they're nine back because somebody in the division is good, then fan graphs would be right. It's a big start for Tatsu you may today. Keep it going.

And this is the thing I was kind of talking about. This is Corey. Every start with every pitcher, it's like, that's a big start for X today. Yeah. It's a big start for you, It's been big starts of tongue. It was a big start for Burroughs yesterday.

Next start for Hunter Brown will be big to a degree. We understand he's going to be fine. But he only threw three innings in his last start and 85 pitches. Which I was okay with him getting pulled. Somebody screamed at me yesterday. Maybe I screamed at them, but it's fine. By the way, would you like some more good news about this upcoming series of the Tigers? I would love some more good news.

Guess who pitched yesterday for Detroit? Terrick Scoobel? He certainly did. Took the loss in the game against the Yankees. That's a shame. Four hits, four runs and four over six. That's not a quality start. aren't, no. Well, he's been having, he's just come back from the IL, right? Yeah, nine strikeouts.

His record this year is three and four with an earning of 3.32. He's like, records don't matter. I'm going to go strike it rich in the free agent market. Yeah. Are the tigers feeling like they're getting good value on that massive arbitration number he got? What was it, like 30 million or whatever? So let me put it this way. If you are in the hunt to win a World Series, how much do you give up for a guy who is going to be Literally a rental. Bonified. And here's the thing. As bona fide as it gets.

Yeah. Here's the thing with the trade deadline being August the 4th, you're not getting earned. Okay, whatever. But it's usually July 31st. That's still three to four days, whatever the number may be. That, that's three less days. Yeah. You barely get to get the guy to welcome you into your city.

Yeah, it's at 5 o'clock Eastern. So right in the heart of the 18. bastards. I'm trying to get mad. You know what? I got to stop trying to get you mad. Snowking fires. I instigated that one.

Sorry. You did. You did. Yeah, $32 million for Terrick Scoobel. So if you're the Tigers, and he's not coming back because you've shown no ability to write those halations checks. See you later. Would it be really nice and easy just to do this? Hey, 29 other MLB teams, send us an email to what do you want for?

scoble at tigers.com and mull over the 29 offers and just say okay you you weed out the ones that are ridiculous and you look at the ones that are you think have got are practical and then you go from there that's what i would do if i was a trait that's like you know because i don't i think it's the worst kept secret in sports that tarc scubbles are going to get moved i mean he's and not only does he hear the rumors of it he's also said i'm not signing if i get sent somewhere it it's far from I guarantee that I would sign back for that baseball team. Now, maybe the Dodgers would be like, okay, we can do this. Who else?

The Yankees would have some serious money. Maybe the Cubs would want to do it. But no one's signing Tarek Scouble until they get this labor situation resolved. Yeah. Because you do not. I mean, if there is a salary cap, which would come to baseball, it's kind of like he'd be your quarterback where he would tie up so much of your salary cap. You've got to be really careful how you're going to construct the rest of your 26-man roster.

Mm-hmm. Rossi, it's a lot for rental. Whenever we hear, he gets moved. It will not be a, oh, man, that was great value. I guess we're going to hear that particular team's number one prospect, number nine prospect, the number 14. I mean, he's heart freak scoble. Yeah.

Back-to-back saw Young Wards, but as you said, it's a rental, and then plus, I mean, you're, but I'll say this. It happens in baseball. But if he's the missing piece, you winning a World Series? This is like the mega rental. This is like the Randy Johnson 1998 rental. Absolutely it is. And see how that turned out for the Astros?

Didn't turn out well. They still lost the San Diego Padres and I still cry about it to this day. Thanks, Sterling Hitchcock. Jerk. King Caminetti. Oh, Jim Leritz. You know, but the... So if you go grab him, you are the toast of town.

Yes. But if you don't win the World Series, not just get there. Right. But you don't win it. People are not going to forget it. There were Astro fans in Ross, you were in the business at the time. But there were when Freddie Garcia and was at Halama, but he wasn't a great major league. But there was somebody else, Carlos Guillen, I think.

Yeah. Was it part of the trade. I mean, Freddie Garcia wound up being a really solid major league baseball. There's one for a long period of time. Somebody else too. You're doing great, by the way. I would have remembered, yeah, Freddie Garcia, Guillian, Jian, Halam. John Halama was a great point.

I'm really proud of you. He was a weird dude. It was like he would go seven innings, give up two runs and four hits, and he would be sitting at his locker after games like somebody had kicked his dog. Oh, it was a player to be named. And eventually it was a series. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So.

I mean, if the Astros got John Halama, I mean, John Halama, if they got Tariq Scoobal tomorrow, I'd be like, oh, my God, you want to win, Jim Crane, we love you. Now, the Astros just don't have anything. in the minor league system that would... Okay, I think that was it. I thought it was four for one, but I guess it was those three. Maybe the player named me later was maybe cash. I think it might have been John Haloma. Oh, yeah, maybe you could be right.

I mean, it was $15,000 in cash. You never know. Who knows? Oh, man, that was electric. We were talking yesterday about trying to figure out how much money the trade was. Yeah. I can't get anybody giving me a definitive answer. Oh, okay.

Wow. You're Astros insider, too? I'm trying. You're losing your title of Texas Insider if Joe Mixon didn't shoot himself in the foot. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Did you hear that Matt? He had just admitted that you are a Texan insider. Thank you.

I'm sorry. You know what? Let me rephrase that. You can now. You submitted it. No, no, I didn't admit anything. You know what? I misspoke.

You lose the ability to call yourself the Texans insider despite not being the Texans insider. Thank you, Jonathan. I'm correcting me. I appreciate your help. Jonathan? We know how I feel about Joe Mixon's foot. And the bullets? And you do too.

You know what? Matt does know some stuff. He tries play coy. He does. So I'm not completely ruling it out. I will buy you. I want a pistachio croissant. I want nothing.

Except you just grovelling. You're going to get your coffee. I'm like grovelling. Ever. Ever. Even if there's a fire. The reality is this. In all seriousness,

he probably didn't get shot in the foot. But for the sake of this radio show, I kind of hoping he did. Keep digging in. Stubborn empty. 713-212-5-790 is how you reach our show if you want to get in today. 7-13-212-5-7-90. A very strange NBA trade today.

Not that we get in a lot in a Minnesota versus Charlotte conversation, but it goes to a better point of one team got rid of a glue guy to keep another teammate happy, I think. Stay with me on that. You get rid of a glue guy to make a glue guy to make. another teammate happy. I'll explain that next. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. The song close.

I've only asked for... I've only asked for 10 years for this on me. Joe Mixing hit the thunder in his foot? I only asked for 10 years of this on a new band. Dude, that scares me every time. It's fine. People understand what's going on. I got Greenspoint. PTSD, bro. You are shaming Greenspoint.

You know what? Oh, I wasn't the one that called it Guns Point. You know, I told you the story about that. The first time I've ever reached radio was when our traffic reporter said, I-45. Oh, my God, it was bad. Oh. They changed it.

They call it the North Houston District or something like that. They changed the name. Yeah. It doesn't matter. We still know it's guns. They took it off the water tower. Is even Greenspointe, the mall doesn't exist anymore. No, it's there.

Yeah, it's just that rickety carnival. Don't go to that carnival, folks. They just don't have the regulations. Probably, I'm going to give you all little life's advice and your friends. sports empty. Don't go to any carnal in a mall parking line. Any carnival or for that matter, these amusement parks. Another people got stuck again the other day. I mean, you can go every single day to your social media and find some park with a ride where like 14 people have their heads upside down stuck on a ride. That's not good. We went to that place at Cedar Park in Ohio in like

two weeks after we got back. The bolt fell off of the roller coaster. Sorry, Jonathan. Things aren't maintained well like they used to. I'd never like roller coasters. Well, even now there's like, you know, they, never mind. I'm gonna shut up. It's fine. No, it's not fine.

I'm again, our advice, don't do it. Don't do it. Don't go on a roller coaster. I got things. I told my wife today, you are never allowed to go on a skydiving adventure. Oh, really? No.

No, you can let her do that. You heard the plane crash last week? What? Yeah, where? On the way. Well, don't ride that one. Taking off. Like 14 people were on that.

thing. Is everybody okay or no? No, they're dead. They're not okay. Where is this? Where is this? Skydiving plane crash. Put that in there. Oh, God. I know. We don't know. I don't want to see it. I'm going to see some pictures. No, no, the plane, but I mean, it took me, barely took off and then it crashed. Okay, moving on. Butler? Butler, where? Butler, Missouri? Yeah, it's out of Kansas City. It was a professional company. All right. Go to a big city, folks. Kansas is big city. Okay. And then I told her, I said, you are not allowed to go in a helicopter over again? Oh, yeah. Choppers. I'm out.

and get to the chop button? No, I'm good. I'll walk, Arnie. I took a helicopter ride through the strip of Las Vegas, and I will never go on a helicopter ever again. I was holding on for deer. Meanwhile, the pilot for our helicopter thought he was doing its amateur comedy hour. I'm like, man, just focus on driving. Oh, yeah. Does it feel like pound for pound, it's the southwest people who tell the most jokes? You mean the airlines? Yeah. I don't mind them being funny, but they have to be funny. Yeah, sometimes it's like too much.

It's not good. And then so no hot air balloon, no helicopter, and no skydiving. The hot air, too. I mean, you get caught up in those. Okay, let's move on. Yeah, it can suck. 500 ways to die.

All the bad time of show with Ross. Let's talk about something more positive. Joe makes it. Now, we have a caller to the show named George. That is bizarre. So I'm leery. Do we have his phone number here, by the way? Why is he bizarre?

Because he calls with crass stuff. Now, this may be a different George. Yeah, there's a million Georges. How many George's about... It's could be George Glass. Or it could be George Springer. Or it could be Jorge. Name another George Behanon that you actively talk about.

George Blanda? George Kittle. No, George Blanda's dead. Oh. You don't actively talk about either one of those people either. George, you're on 790. Good morning. George Clooney?

Yo, with Mr. Matt, yeah, I don't look as good as George Clooney, but that was a great intro to me because, yeah, I'm a little odd, but I do have a real, real thing to talk about today. Go ahead, George. Oh, also, also, Ross, it's called City North One. It's a great office building. Do you need a broker, let me know.

All right. To go to Greenspoint City North One. George, by the way, is in real estate. Oh, I got you. Go ahead. Nice. Oh, commercial real estate. Yeah.

Commercial little estate. Hey, Joe Mixon. So, you think Allison Futter tweets every time he rushes for the Texans the last couple years? Like a Roberto? Allison Footer. I get it. Also, one more thing, one more thing.

Do you notice anything special about Sports City Southwest Home Network or whatever? Who the reporter was in Toronto this weekend or this week? They finally lifted the vaccination ban so Julia could finally go to Toronto.

I did not notice that. Do she not vaxed? Yeah, I didn't either. I have no idea. She's not backed. That's why she was. I don't know, George. And I'll say, bring back Ho-Kin.

Remember him? That guy was awesome. He's over at ESPN now. Yes, he is. Yeah, I know who Ho-Chin. He needs to wear gloves. He used to wear gloves. He used to wear gloves.

And the Crawford boxes. It was awesome. Appreciate it, Matt. Hey, FaceTime me. You know what? I didn't know. I wasn't familiar. Was this when I was gone?

George started calling in? No, George's been calling for years. I'm not familiar with his game. George, since you are listening, one of George's buddies, and I had a coffee yesterday as a matter fact. What? Yeah. Okay. So we simply have mutual friends.

Hmm. So he brought up Julian Morales's Vax record. Ho Chen, who worked for CSN for literally a cup of coffee. And, uh, oh, Allison Footer. Okay. Joe Mixen getting covered by Allison Footer.

See that. I see what he did there. May I get? If it's something super peculiar, because Joe, Because Nick Asario said it wasn't peculiar. I don't believe him. You think he's been dating Elizabeth Shue? If he was a wrestler, would he do a heel turn?

Oh, see? You know, he's got an athlete's foot. Oh. Here we go. You know, seven days ago, great way to kickstart your day. Your turn next. I'm good. I'm giving you three in a row.

I know. I was going to say planters fascia or something. You can't. See, I kept it in the... Sometimes you're going to keep it in the bully. You'll save it for later. Oh, back to Casario. I don't believe him.

I think there is something that's bizarre. So anything bizarre, short of bot surgery, I get my flowers. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He has to shoot himself in the foot. That was the bet. Jonathan, I think I deserve more than that.

I'm trying to have walked out. Your puns were so bad. Look, he doesn't even in there. We are a runnerless right now. Better not break. Can't break on this one. Where do you go? Let's talk to CJ on 790.

Hi, CJ. Good morning to you. What's good, man. You tell me. Good. It's been a little minute. You know, I tried to wait for the season to die down and let this all season start to take up

before I start getting in on these rockets, man. Are we on the, on a path to actually getting somebody or are we just like basically getting everybody to buy into running it back? Because right now I don't understand what Raphael Stone is doing. To take those picks and move

up to get an undersized point guard makes zero sense to me when you already have Reed on this squad and you're saying that he's supposed to be the future of this team. What are we doing? Like, can anybody explain to me how they're barely in conversation from Jaylen Brown from what I'm hearing?

No. No. Oh. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. I understand if you're anti-runniback guy, I get that. But how do we know it's barely having conversations? We really don't know that. I've seen multiple reports right now that I've seen on Twitter and on other sites that's saying that insiders are saying that the Rockets aren't too high on trying to get Jalen Brown,

which I don't understand. Well, I'm going to go look that up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you can look it up. But yeah, I don't even understand because if they're saying they're looking for a center, I know everybody doesn't want to hear this, and I know it's going to suck to hear, but Sangoon is probably on that list. So I don't understand what we're doing. I don't know that they'd even want Shingoon.

They would take more than that. I bet you they're asking for a men in Thompson and Rockets are saying no, and that's part of the reason while the talks have cooled. I think they would take Tari and an Alford and Sangoon pair. I think they would take that. They were going for Yonis. They wanted a one-for-one Yonis swap. They threw in two first round picks, CJ, but the first offer to them was Yonis straight up.

Two-time MVP. The Rockets cannot match that. The Rockets can match a deal with Picks, Sangoon, and I think Tari gets the job done. I don't think we have to gut it. Tari, the inconsistent shooter and the Malkington who's had leg issues, and then Alperin Shingoon, who got exposed defensively in the last couple of playoffs and also did not shoot well the last two playoffs. That, to you, is worth Jalen Brown?

We can also say that Sangoon has not had help both times in the playoffs. Let's be clear. It's been him and whoever, because Kevin Durant was not there in the playoffs, but one game and Dan Green was a shell of himself. And Alperishangoon shot 45% in back-to-back years in the playoffs. You know, the Celtics saw that too, right? You know, they saw those games. You're absolutely right, but I know one thing, I know Sangu can go up against Wembe,

and that's one thing that everybody is looking for. They're in the East. ...and say legitimately, I got a guy that can go at Wemby that can give him bucket and is not afraid of him. That's one thing that Alper San Gung has on check, and a lot of these other centers in the league that he's willing to go up against the wendy, which is what you need.

So me personally, that would be what I would be pushing as far as the rocket. I don't think that's going to be enough. But, CJ, do you want to give you a little bit of credit because you're a good man? We love you, CJ. Zach Lowe, who we respect, correct? Yes.

Zach Lowe, I looked on Twitter because I wanted to give you your flowers, CJ, if you were right. Zach Lowe quoted today says he's surprised the Rockets have not come up in any of the Jalen Brown talks and heard that Houston is not, quote, unquote, super into him. So, fair is fair, C.J.

So thank you for giving us that little bit of tip of information. Thank you. Oh, yeah. All right. Well, I would say if the rockets,

if it were Alper and Shingun and Tari, the rockets would do that. Tari's an unrestricted free agent, by the way. Yeah, it'd be a sign and trade. So you'd have to sign him and trade him. And trade him. I don't think,

there's no way the Celtics are like, Shingun and Tari, done deal. There's no way. There'd be draft picks involved too. Yeah. CJ, good conversation. Yeah.

Go ahead, finish your point. picks would be included. I think the picks would be included, but if I was also the Rockers, I would look into seeing what we could do to get white with that deal. I think his value has went down a little bit because of the last season, and if you pair him with Jalen Brown and we get him

here, I would take that deal even if you got to include Fredman Fleet, because that type of shooting is what we need. And that's the only bright side that I do have with the guy that we got in the second round is that he's a shooter, but him being undersized, I think, is a value that we're going to basically end up having

get rid of because either you're going to keep him or you're basically planning to get rid of Fred Van Fleet I think because there's no way we're going to have three undersized guards on this team. Again, second round picks. Thank you, Jay. Thank you, Jay. To me, you know, if he plays, it's great. He'd be replacing Aaron Holiday. I mean, that's just a reality of it. I mean, it is what it is. He's not, you're not getting a friend. Bruce Thornton is not here to save the franchise. No, no, Reed's going to still be here. Fred's still going to be here. You're looking for a third guard. Let's get to the second hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross coming up in mere moments. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

114 on Sports Talk 790. I love good debate on that. Again, we're not general managers. And I don't know what certain values are. Again, contracts have to matter because you are inheriting a lot of money. And you also have to realize what are you giving up in return? is a man really untouchable? It feels like he kind of is.

But Raffel doesn't come out and say, you can talk to anybody you want on our squad except of men Thompson. It's not. Yeah. You don't know how Boston feels about Outper and Shengu, and you don't know how Boston feels about Jabari Smith. You don't know the...

But if Zach Lowe is accurate, and he says the rockets are not involved in these conversations, and it's kind of a moot point here. Yeah, I think I would imagine, look, have Ralph Lestone and Brad Stevens talk. I imagine they have. Sure. But perhaps there was just some sort of non-starter.

Maybe it's a men Thompson. Maybe it's whatever. Maybe they don't value Alper and Shingh. I think we value him here more in Houston and was being valued more by CJ and his call than the rest of the league probably does. We love Alper and Shingun. We like him. But he's not one of the top 10, 15, 20 players in the league.

The question is going to be. and that's in the eyes of everybody run the NBA, whether he's wearing rocket gear or some other gear, what is the crescendo? What is the absolute peak of Outbrin Shingun's career? Does he have an opportunity to play even better than he has played the last couple of years? Or is who he is, let's get to it. Low post threat.

Is a guy that can not afraid to go against big boys? Sometimes. Not a lot. He gets Stonewall. But he gets known well by stronger guys. Sometimes. But I mean, Jim on Green shut him down.

And then who was in the playoffs? It was DeAndre Aiton is giving him big problems. Good ball handler, excellent assist, got good court vision. Yes. Negatives. Doesn't hit shots outside of the free throw line in theory? And the Flamingo goes in every now and then, but it's not really a reliable shot. Defensively, there are issues there.

Bad issues. He gets attacked and he gets highlighted. In every playoff series he will ever be in, the game plan will feature attacking him. Yeah. It's just, that's just a fact. But last year for 90% of the year to his positive, he was 2011 and 7.

Exactly. So that's a positive. That's why I want to make clear as well. I don't sound like Alpern Shingun is trash. He has no value. Alprin Shungoon is a great player. Alperin Shungun is not an elite player. So you can win with Alperin Shingun is your second or third best player on a championship team.

But also, you need to pair him with. like a big who can shore up for his misgivings defensively. That's the biggest problem. He does have great core vision. He averaged 20 points, nine rebounds and six assists last year. That's awesome. Back-to-back All-Star. That's great.

Even though he was injury replacement this past year. Yeah. To me, All-Star just doesn't move the needle for me. Not when you're an injury replacement as well. And I mean... When I think of, I want to put something on the marquee, I'm not putting All-Star Ross I'm putting all-MBA team. He's not first,

second or third-all-team NBA. He's never has been. And can he be at some point? Maybe. But I'll say this. For a guy who is a mid-level, first-round pick, yes. He does improve every single year. That's a huge hit. And he's 23 years old. He can get better. There has got a long shelf life

left in the NBA. But also, we do have to realize that he has been a professional since he is a teenager. So, I mean, he came in with a lot of ready-made skills. So how close How much closer to his ceiling at 23 is he than someone else? If you're an Alperin Shengu's truther, you'd say if I want my guy to get it better. If we're on Turkish sports radio, we're talking about how he's got the goat.

Let me tell you something. If you are on Turkish sports radio or Turkey A sports radio and you are not speaking glowingly about him, they will find you and hunt you down like a rabbit dog. Yes, they will. He's got to at minimum being a more prolific top of the key shooter at minimum. If he got a three-point shot to say 35%. That's a significant bump because he's about a 30. 28% career.

30 last year. 28% career. Got to get to 35. I just don't think it's going to happen. And where is he going to be in terms of defense? Is he going to be a sieve for most of his career? He's gotten better. Yeah.

That's another thing. He blocks some shots. He's gotten better. He recovers better. He's more intelligent, positionally aware. He just slow-footed. Yeah. Side to side.

He can get down here. Hill. Yeah. On guys, especially with the ball in his hand, he shows some speed and quickness. Like, how many times, man? I mean, you call the game. He's like, oh, my God, that was a great, got back to block his shot. He showed explosive mood or he can get back.

But yeah, the side to side, lateral quickness. And is he in the right place at the right time? Or he's running. Without email, he wanted to just strangle him. If he was at the NFL Combine, we're in a three cone drill, it might take a while with the stopwatch. That's because he's 611. He's big.

I want to call him a plotter, but it's close. Not a plotter. Just not super quick. The Lopez brothers were plotters. Yeah. You're not a plodder, but he's not going to be a shifty guy, so to speak. So there is value. And I like Al-Bio a lot.

Yes, me too. And there is value to him. He is a guy that has been, to your point, all-star material in the conversation and or made it. So you do get some flowers for that. Yeah. The value he has right now is maybe that he is, a stock that can grow.

And I think that's where the Rockets are. But that's the question I brought up 20 minutes ago. Uh-huh. How sexy is that stock going to be? Is it going to be just a nice normal performer? We don't know. Or is it going to explode? That's the thing.

And that's what the Rockets kind of happen. Because no matter what the Rockets do, CJ wants a trade, he wants Jalen Brown here. There's a chance Jaylen Brown comes here and you win 52 games and you're out in the first or second round again. And then what? Oh, you failed. Oh, Raphael Stone sucks.

Oh, they're terrible. No matter what you do. The most likely pathway is failure, no matter what you do. So if you want to say, hey, maybe Kevin Durant, we run it back with him, maybe Jabari continues to get better. Jabari got better last year. Jabari made a leap, not elite, but Jabari made a pretty good jump of growth last year. Can Alperin continue to grow? Can Amin grow?

Can regrow? And you keep these guys. Because when you say run it back, that sounds like everybody's 29, 30 years old. And you're like, yeah, we're going to dance with who brung us. When you say run it back with the Houston, you're also looking at it. for the players you have to grow and get better. You were looking for seismic advances in Jabari's game, a men's game, Kevin Durant to stay

where he is or close to it, which he did last year, to his credit. Maybe Donnie and Finney Smith, another year removed from his injury, is better. You can get something because that was a nothing. That hurt. That really, really hurt. Yes. That you could not. Because, again, if the Rockets, probably from a scoring perspective, either 29th or 30th in bench scoring, that's just numbers

that's not that's not personality driven that's not being subjective that's what the and it's not like that ameemate tries to play all of us like tom thibedobito used to be the coach the next he would play his starters 35 36 minutes and regardless that was not what he may wanted to do he would try to get Kevin Durant off his feet

would try to get a men Thompson but if you got nothing from a scoring perspective off your bench you had to go back to what was working for you and that was putting starters in all right real quick one more NBA note, and I promise I'll get back some other things. So,

La Mella Ball has been traded. Oh, it's done deal? Yeah. To the Minnesota Timberwolves. Interesting. Really? So Lemae and Josh Green to Minnesota for Nas Reid in a series of draft picks,

which includes a 233 unprotected first round, three second rounds. Charlotte also gets first round pick swaps in 28, 29, and 30. And again, this is So in the weed, so I'm going to keep this as brief as possible. I love Nasreed. Minnesota loves Nasreed.

I mean, you talk about, I want to say a previous six man of the year winner? Okay. I think so. I love bench scoring. And frankly, a lot of it is because I've missed it from the Rockets. Rafael Stone says, what are you talking about, Willis? We didn't have that last year. This has got to be to keep Anthony Edwards.

happy, right? I mean, you're adding a huge scoring boost to your starting lineup. Yeah. But I mean, how much is La Mella Ball just a... Chucker. Big score on a bad team. Yeah. 40% field goals, 37% 3 is good, 36% career.

How much is he like... And has had an injury history. Like Boogie Cousins dropping 30 on the Kings, but how good is he really? Yeah. back in the day. Nasreed to me, I mean, I used to do Minneapolis Radio so I could probably do it, but Minneapolis Radio can't be happy today.

Let's call him in. The Ball family just I don't want any part of that. How's Lavar doing these days? I haven't heard from him much. Well, he got a foot amputated, I think. What? Yeah. Always got a medical disease. I don't know what it is. Apparently, they divorced,

wife and him divorced, too? Oh. So he's had better times, basically. Yikes. I don't waste that on him. He was annoying, but I don't want to get a foot appetitive. I just, sometimes when you get rid of glue guys. Yeah, six men of the year, Nasreed last year.

I'm sorry, two years, three years ago. And then fifth and fourth. So he's been in the running last three years. And been a rocket killer. I can tell you every time I go to Minneapolis. I know. Damn, Nazreed again. Damn you, Nasreed.

Now, center, 37% at their crescendo, at their best, ball is a better score and shooter, but Nasreed has a lot of intangibles that ball will never have. So I'm just, I don't know. This felt like to me that there is some unhappiness and these moves that are being made by the wolves. They got rid of Julius Randall, sent him to Brooklyn.

They got rid of Nazaree to go get ball. I mean, I feel like this is, you know what? We've got to do whatever we can to make Anthony Edwards happy. And even if they do all this, Rossi, Anthony Edwards a year from now may say, I need to get out of here. I mean, I'll go ahead and say it. They're not getting out of the West with lamello ball.

Well, I mean, and that makes me think. Do some teams, if there's, if, that makes me think a little bit. If they are not, if teams are not going all in on Jalen Brown, are they waiting to see what Anthony Edwards does long term? Maybe. Rockets top three seat. Let's go. Preach. 7.13. Healthy and a top three seed.

Internal growth. Shingoon gets better. Jibari gets better. I'm in gets better. Reed gets better. You get something more from Doreen Phiney Smith. Doreen Phine Smith's corpse reanimates. Yeah.

Stephen Adams comes back at some point. Yes. Yes. Yes, Matthew. Let's go. Jonathan's been right this whole time. Run it back, maybe. See?

I know, John. I'm coming to your side because you're not a whole lot of other options at this point. Go get some lunch. I'm all right. Sorry. 1123 on Sports Talk 7. It's Maddie Ross with you here.

It supports talk 790. 713-212-5-7-90 if you want to join our radio program. I just don't get it. It's coming up in about five minutes from now. Oh, okay. I'm trying to think what is in my life I just don't get. Let me see if I have. Sometimes I write stuff down and I forget.

It's a harder segment, but it's more interesting because people bring up their life stories to us. Oh, I know. Especially you, Jonathan, because I feel like you're in your 20s and you still, you've got so much still to learn about life that I feel like I'm like a man that gives you great advice when I can. Prococious and full of wonderment. You know, very heavy on the when you can give me good advice. How about when I try to give you good advice? Does that feel better? Hey, we can give advice. That doesn't mean

you have to take advice, John. That's actually accurate. That's actually accurate. All right. Matt's got a lot of experience, John. Yeah. 713-212-5-790. If you'd like to join us, 713-212-5-790. We have the Astros playing Detroit. No scuba this weekend. So, dodging double bullets on that? Love it. Beautiful.

and they get our ace tonight, Tatuya Emai. Is that what we're calling him now? No, I don't know. Emi, and they're getting Aragetti. And then tongue and then brown, is that is that how it is?

ESPN's always off, so I got to put the real problems. And then at some point, Javier is done with rehabs. Okay. Now, I know that a little bit behind that is Lance McCullors. Okay. How are we feeling about that? I'm feeling very good.

I told you, I told you in a gut feeling many weeks ago. I thought this was the last year. He doesn't finish the season, yeah. I feel like that's happening. I mean, you've got two. Here's the thing, Ross, and I mentioned this last week. You have too many starters right now that would, in theory, be ready to come off their injured list two weeks or so. And your month of July, you don't need five, you don't need six starters.

You got every, you don't pitch every third, you don't play a game every Thursday. You have an All-Star break. There's no need for a six starter. to the bullpen. And if you're going to your bullpen, as much as the Astros have done, you need an extra bullpen arm. You need a good bullpen arm, not Lance McCullers Jr. walking everybody. I don't know. Emi probably is going to be a little irritated by this, but he's the one that has the most flexibility.

Tongue, I'm going to Kaiway tongue. No, no, no. That's excuse my friend. Tong is the one I was talking about me. Yeah, because he was great last time out. We'll see how he is. I mean, he's supposed to get in the rotation this weekend. But then how does his arm adapt to? Because, again, if those guys fall to, you know, or there's another injury that you cannot take

Kai Wei Tung's arm and go you're going to be a starter half the month and relieve her head. It feels like every time the past two years we're like a lot of pitching depth that's come cratering. So let's just, we'll this one of those we'll come to the, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Does I say that correct?

Because I've been saying it wrong for years. I'm going to give you a gut filling on a Thursday for Tuesday. I think if McCuller's comes back, he comes back out of the bullpen. There's no room in the rotation for him right now. I will stick with my, I got feeling from a few weeks ago. He does not finish the season as a Houston Astro.

Well, that's what we brought up a couple of days ago in the show. There's too many arms. If you're going to go try to put something together to get some sort of bat for the outfield sports RV, don't you at least throw out any one of these guys that are pitching for you right now? My biggest question feels like when McCullors is a DFA, does he elect free agency? That's the biggest question mark I have right now. So you're pretty much set and sewn on this? And there's a gut feeling.

Gut feeling. We'll see. I mean, just Christian Javier? Why does Christian Javier get an automatic spot back in the rotation? He has to deserve it. He's making $20 million. Yeah, but you already, that's already a loss leader on that one too. He's making $20 million this year and next and I think the year after.

If you get anything from him, you're getting part of your recuperation of that contract. But that contract's been a loss. Also, he has a high ceiling. He's a ceiling of a guy who's been part of multiple no hitters, who's L. Rep. Teal, who can go out. there and be a plus starter. I'm going to let you play Danner White role playing. Who's got, I would like you to go tell Peter Lambert, he is in the bullpen.

Oh, Peter Lambert's staying. I want you to go tell Spence Erigetti and he's staying. Hold on. Let me write this down. All right. We got Hunter Brown. Yeah. Hunter, Lambo, and Lambogetti are safe.

Yes. Well, I mean, sort of. I mean, as much as Peter Lambert thinks he's safe on anything. Yeah. Hunter and Lambo Getty are safe. Go tell Kiway tongue that we're going to, you're going to stretch your arm out like a rubber band. We appreciate it.

you and yeah you're going back to the bullpen so tongues in the bullpen we're good there what's left Javier oh Mike Burles McCullors that's a very easy send down he's got options he's not going no we're bullish we're bullish we're bullish we're bullish we're bullish on burrows you can't be bullish somebody then send down to triple A he's still allowed more home runs anybody in the league did it give you six

innings of one run ball yesterday that's not a did that's not an invite to sugar land he can pitch his way onto the team absolutely McCullers is going to sugar land so we're good there You're going to tell Mike Burroughs, hey, bra, sorry we're going to move you to the bullpen or send you down because Christian Javier. Sorry, you have a six ERA. What's his ERA after yesterday? Five and a half? But what if he gives you six BBs against Minnesota next week?

Yeah, you can pitch your way on. This is a competitive league. I don't think it's easy as you think it is. So we're at Lambo Geddy, Hunter Brown. Okay, you mentioned Burroughs. Who are we missing? Emi, Emi, E. E. Mai, staying.

Emi, E. You're in. So we got Javier and Burroughs. and McCullors for one spot if you're going five. McCullors, I don't want to call it easy, but he's not a major league pitcher. He's not at this point in his career.

And I'm sorry, because I was on McCullors Island last year, if you forget. I built a raft off that bad boy, and we're floating. So it becomes Burroughs and Javier, and that's six right there. And I know you don't want to go to six,

but do you go to six? And if not, then it feels like, you drop. Probably Burroughs. If you go to six, you're pitching one pitcher one day per week. And if that guy doesn't give you seven or six every time, you are screwing your bullpen. I mean, even... I understand.

I understand that. But also, one six-inning start of one-run ball, Mike Burroughs, doesn't mean all of a sudden the dude is Justin Verlander. I just... If I'm a major league, if I'm an Astros pitcher right now... Feelings are going to get hurt. Ryan White got his feelings hurt. Well, but Ryan Weiss did nothing to build a resume. except tell us how he was going to be a starter.

He's starting for the Virginia Beach sand dogs right now. No, he's not. He's back with the, I think he got Sheldon in Sugar Land. I didn't, I don't look at those numbers. Yeah. All right, what don't you get? What the Astros are going to do with the rotation? I'm telling you, I think that's a great segue.

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Trying to think if there's something in my life that I just didn't. You have something in your own. of life. Did you just don't get... You know what? I got to start writing this stuff down because I'm thinking about my trip to Galveston was relaxing.

When you don't... It was good. What are the top three things you did in Galveston? Took naps. Eight really well. Okay. And the third one I want to keep to myself.

Oh, Jesus. I know. Shake your head, Jonathan. What's wrong with this guy? You can't say go to break because we just came back from one. He's got you there. Oh my gosh.

That's funny. So Jonathan, we're letting you go first. I'm looking at this Twitter video, apparently of Brandon Ayuk, dropped on his Instagram story and his pajamas in his closet, but a backpack. And just started dropping money from the backpack on the floor as a reminder of the money he's made from the 49ers. And then going on and saying to another message,

if I'm crazy or if I'm capping, tell the boys cut me today and I'll sign with the commanders tomorrow. We'll see who's cappin. What? I don't understand a word you said. Brandon Iuke has... You know what? I get it.

C-T.E. He's got chronic traumatic and cephalopathy. It's still like another Antonio Brown, but I just don't get... What's the point of this? Yeah, look, man. He's just dropping cash all over the floor and telling the Niners to cut him so he can go to the commanders. But like, dude, you haven't been to work.

Like, you haven't all season long. Here, look, man. So he's in a closet. Yeah. It's empty. Yes. And he's dropping money. He's dropping cash everywhere.

Yep, CTE. That's the only explanation. What is going on? Brandon Ayyuk. Do you understand, Jonathan, and I've said this a few times. In the history of sports, all the sports, football, basketball, hockey, golf, any of them. the most bizarre position group in sports

is an NFL wide receiver. It is. It has been. I'll give you the list. Steve Smith, nut job. I like Steve Smith, though. Doesn't mean he can't be nuts. Didn't he get mixed up enough? Chad Ocho Cinco, nuts. Terrell Owens, nuts.

Brandon Ayuk, nuts. Randy Moss. Randy Moss. Nuts. They're all bat-blanked. blank crazy. Why is that one position among, I could say baseball third baseman. I could say NBA backup

point guards. Why does the NFL's wide receiver position have I mean, Ernest Givens, for those of you that are OG, he was a weird cat for the orders back in the day. You know what? Maybe they because they get blindside earhold by more than anybody

else. Like safety, like Ronnie Locke coming after you? Wouldn't you think that the weirdest group would be quarterbacks because they have to carry so much of the responsibility? But they're not. Now, they're entitled. Maybe they just have the most brain damage. Who gets in bigger collisions than a wide receiver that's not looking?

I mean, it's obviously the running backs get in a collision every single game, but it's not just fewer head injuries. But CTE aside, what's the, what's the pool? CTE aside. Like, what are we doing here? Like, what's the message? Like, what are you going to get across? That's like Abraham Lincoln saying John Wilkes Booth aside, okay?

It's kind of a big one. All right? You had a matter. You went pre-reconstruction for that? Yes. Jeez, I don't get that one. Yeah, you do. I sort of do, but I'm not giving you credit for it.

713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. There's something in your life you just don't get rushing anything this week. People who still want to hate soccer. Look, how can you look at all the pageantry and all, all the, look, I understand sometimes the games aren't thrillers, but you can get into it a little bit, and you still want to trash it, and look at the people from Scotland and Brazil, and, Matt, I showed you some nice people from Bosnia yesterday as well. Like, from all over the world, they come together, they're passionate, messy scoring, it's been a lot of thrilling games, USA's doing well, and you know what, some people still want to hate.

I don't get it. Matt Gita, huh? It's like everything that comes around once every four years. We embrace it, but we just can't stay with it. I'm sorry. It's how we feel about track and feel. The rest of the world disagrees. But I'm not, yeah, I understand that.

But I'm not worried about what's happening in Brazil. By the way, Brazil's coming to our city next week. What do you mean? Around of 16? Uh-huh. What does Brazil bring with them? A great footballing tradition? Five World Cups.

Brazilian women. Pelle? Rinaldo? Nymar? You heard what I said. Ronaldino? Are there going to be bars full of Brazilian women rooting for their team before they get there and after? In Kingwood?

I mean, I guess they really want to go that far. It's 37 miles from downtown, but that's Teach's his own. Maybe I know somebody, you know, a hookup. So I'm saying this. It's a wonderful event. I've not fully embraced it because that would mean like I'd watch every minute of it. But I have not, I've enjoyed watching. I wouldn't categorize you as someone who's still.

actively hate it. No, I don't actively hate it, but what it's happening here isn't going to change who I am. I understand. You can't love everything. And that's my philosophy. I know. But you'll hear me say soccer sucks less. I hope so, man. So there's your goal. If you want to, if you wanted me to say soccer sucks less, you win.

Let's get you a Premier League team. Speaking of that, I just don't get why people aren't buying this Freddie scam. Continue to buy this Freddie scam. What's Freddy? you're doing now? Freddie got a VIP invitation to the pro football Hall of Fame. Really? Yeah. They're going to give him a leather helmet and stuff? Do you understand how

long you had to be waiting in line to go around and go to different? I have no idea. I've never been. Well, think about what Hall of Fames are. You're going to be in crowds. Yeah. I hear about Jim Thorpe and he gets to get, he gets the, you know what he was? I'm surprised that Freddie has not gone to Risney World and gotten a free VIP fast pass and paid nothing for it. Eventually. Oh, it's going to happen. he's getting horrid out. This cat is, is, how do I say this? He's hoodwinked all of us.

Grifting. Yes. And I just don't get it. I don't think it's charming anymore. And thankfully those of you in the social media world, people don't even follow, are starting to catch on of this thing. I mean, I get it. It's just he's an influencer and people are paying him and trying to get shine off of him. And he's gone from 11,000 followers apparently to like 800,000.

Well, guess what's going to happen in about two weeks when this whole thing is done? We're not going to care. So I say for the two weeks or three weeks that this kid is getting everything on earth for free and VIP And even Shmerican at Rerrines Give him hey we'll get you there Don't worry about it when meanwhile everybody else who

Spends $150,000 on Schmerican gets Talk to our AI on our website Take care of those of us at home Take care of those of us that have been patiently waiting 70,000 likes on these I just hope to welcome the pencil Pennsylvania with a picture of the welcome to Pennsylvania sign got 58,000. It's a key to 14 to 15 American cities.

Yeah. I don't know. It's no, you know what? I'll just say this. They might make them chief of staff by the time. It's no longer charming. Okay. That's all I got.

Thank you, Matt. Thank you. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-2-1-2-5-7-99. It is Matt and Ross. I just don't get it this year. half hour. We've done the noon coming up. By the way, normally Brian McTaggart with us, but

he's in Paris. I thought when he took a picture of himself with the Eiffel Tower, I thought he was in Paris and Vegas. He's really at the real one. Oh, really? Yeah. That's the beauty of Vegas. Go see Paris, go see New York, go see Italy, and go see the El Cortez. And you go to the medieval times, an Excalibur. All right, I need somebody do some due diligence on this.

Okay. I just don't get it. We'll go to John in the Heights just one second. Okay. There is an Instagram account, which I don't follow, but it always shows up on my timeline because I've looked at some of his reels. This guy named Vegas Matt. Okay. Vegas Matt, that should be you.

I don't disagree, but let's move on. He goes to this casino in one in particular, and he brings with him thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars and stacks of money. to bet like, hey, here's a video of me spending $12,000 on three black check hands. Is this a bit or is this the real thing? And if it's the real thing, what does he do for a living that makes him able to do such a thing? He's just an influencer. He probably gets money from whatever casinos he's at. Because if I break out a camera at the casino floor when I'm betting $1,000,

yeah, there's no way. Unless you get pre-authorization. Now, one time, I was playing a blackjack hand. I think I took a photo of it. I did take a photo for sure. I had drawn a 17 on six cards, which is very difficult. Not impossible, but it's very difficult to draw a 17. I did not win the hand.

I did not lose the hand. It was a push. But I did ask the dealer, I said, can I take a picture of this? Because it was the biggest, it was the most cards I've ever had for the smallest number. You can get six cards to get the 21. And you're like, yes, I did it. Yeah. Six cards of 17 is not great.

That's pretty funny. Yeah. So you let me take a picture of it. That's good. But I don't think it's 100% you can't do it, but you have to probably get prior authorization. And this dude, Vegas, Matt, who shows up on my timeline on my Instagram is like, I'm going to put three hands down of $12,000 each. Who does that? Yeah, he's playing slots. I'm looking at his YouTube.

Like, he's playing slots on his YouTube. This can't be profitable. Yeah. Just throwing it out there. He's got to be sponsored. He's got 1.59 million subscribers on YouTube. You know what that does to me? That makes it less authentic.

It makes it less authentic of this. Because if he really was just a Joe Schmo from Kokomo and coming up there and putting that kind of money, I'd have an emotional tie for him. He's just sitting here clicking on a slot machine. It's got 315,000 views. I don't get it. Damn. What are you doing with our lives? That's what I'm saying.

How does this, how do I? Why am I not Vegas Matt? I'm getting on to YouTube. I'm starting to YouTube. You know what you should call yourself? Just roll the dice. Look at my meat, Ross. Wait, Lake Charles Ross.

Why don't you just cook your meat and take video of it? Yeah. Call me Delta Downs Ross. No, no, no, no. No, get out of the gamut. You do this, like, tenderize your meat and put a video of it out there. Yeah, but how many, but you have to keep churning out content. How many different times can I show my meat?

Oh my God, the guy's, the casino. I mean, Blackjack hands can I look at. That's true. I'm doing it. He's got 1.59 million. You could do, you could make money off of that. Tenderizer Ross could do a, I'm starting a YouTube tonight. A filet on my money.

Monday, a rib eye on Tuesday. Y'all go follow my YouTube. I don't know what it's going to be called yet. A flank steak on Wednesday. Yeah, flank steak Ross. Skirt steak Thursday. Beefy Ross. You call whatever you want. I don't care. I'll follow. I will watch your

VRV. I'll watch you take care of your meat. Thank you, Matt. John 790. Good morning to you. I'm sorry. Well, as that's a bunch of meat talk that, I hope, was clips. For future reference. One thing I don't get. And not to poo-pull on my guys for winning the last,

these Astros winning their last couple of series. But at least for the last three years, I think the sophisticated audience that you guys have and the geniuses that you are on your radio station, we always talk about Astros' needs. And for some reason, regular fan can see that we need Alphals. or we need pitching or something like that.

And then Dana Brown comes on and tries to talk about, you know, the guys that are coming up and not ever fixing the grand needs that we need. Like we've known we needed a centerfielder or some type of outfielder for the last three years since we lost our boy George. We've known that we've needed or probably going into the issue more so than ever. We probably should have had a contingency plan. you know, ready to go because we had guys on the

IR and just have, I think just was traded Garcia. So why is that the typical fan or even the casual fan who could see glaring needs and talk about it

at nauseam on radio stations about the office that the front offices never really kind of address those needs? What's up with that? I don't get it. Okay. Thanks to John. for the phone call. A little bit of a bad connection there.

You may want a power hitting outfielder. Yes. They don't grow on trees. They don't. Hey, why don't we get an outfielder who is great on defense and hits 30 bombs with 800, 850 OPS? And fits our budget plans. Yes.

You were hoping that would be Cam Smith. You had a long shot, obviously, hoping that it would be like Cole, Zach Cole. Jack Myers, up until this year, has an equality major league baseball player. Not exemplary, not a silver slugger.

He was third on the team in war last year. But you get my point, you're not going to have nine all-stars. You're not going to have nine guys that are going to be OPSing 1100. They were shopping, Esock Parade is all off-season to try to get an outfielder. Yeah, they didn't hide it. So I would just say, and maybe people don't

want to hear this, but it's something, it's easier something done. Everybody's crushing Raffel Stone. Oh, what a horrible draft he had. What? They didn't have draft pick and he traded up and got a guy he liked at 31. Yeah. Like, it's not that easy. You can't just wave a magic wand.

And even if you wave that magic wand and get Jalen Brown or get whatever draft pick you thought it was going to be, there's no guarantee it's going to work. Now, there are other effects. There are levels to this. Why can't we trade for an outfit? Well, because maybe the minor league system has not been able to replenish. Well, somebody bears responsibility for that. And that is the scouting director.

That is the farm system. is the general manager. I mean, so yeah, there are indirect effects to all this. But right now, Cam Smith, you traded Kyle Tucker

and you thought you were, you got, you thought you were, you got a first round pick, a middle of the first round pick who you used in the big leagues right away, Rossi,

right away. Now, he hits 450 foot moon shock of rockets, but he also grounds out six times out of seven. That's seven time when he makes contact. It's pretty good.

All right. Forrest on 790 before the top of the hour. Forrest, what don't you get, my friend? Let me tell you what I don't get, boss. I don't get why I'm still using my Astrodome souvenir cup made out of bulletproof material. And my current souvenir cup that I got this last week at the stadium won't even have the straight to press in my ice dispenser on my refrigerator without caving in. What's up with that? That feels very fair. Thank you, Forrest. Oh, no, I get it. things cheaper and charge you more. Yeah.

Let me tell you something. Forrest, he's got that cup. He's got Astrodome Cup. I have a mad of respect for that. Yeah. I know. Things are made more cheaply and cost you more. That's how they do.

That's how they do you. And then when you want good quality stuff, you got to pay three times. Honestly, it's not. I used to be like really anti-designer stuff, but like designer stuff actually lasts longer. You want to buy like a designer hoodie? That bad boy, it's, it's, it's, uh, thick and strong? And will last you long.

It's funny. My wife was saying the exact same thing about the other thing just the other day. Go to break. She wants. You're talking about the designer stuff she always buys?

Yes. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. So the Houston Astros take two out of three in Toronto winning tonight. Three to one. Where you love it every minute

of it, sports RV? How about? Much maligned, Yarnier Diaz, with a challenge on a strike call that Josh Hader did not originally get, and the Astros win their fourth consecutive series. Ooh, unstoppable, baby.

Ain't no stopping us now. Ooh. You can't use that tomorrow of our Friday open, which apparently is going to be an hour and a half long with all the things we've said this week. Yeah, it'll be the entire first segment. Yeah, we can come in starting 11 o'clock tomorrow. Yeah, it's fine.

Let's let it play over and over. It sounds good. All right. Sleep in. sleep in yeah that's right you still are a late sleeper what time are you getting up normally these days 8.30?

Yeah yeah let's go with that Jonathan do you hear in that you don't believe him do you I can believe him he can be up yeah you'd be up scrolling the phone I don't get out of bed I thought I'm on the row in the Rockets man I'm in that bed those latest possible

and then order room service yeah pay for $48 pancakes jikes and those are covered You don't pay out of pocket. No, but it's still money. I mean, it's still income.

I get taxed on it. Yeah, that's what it's there for. It's there for food. Yeah, but I could also walk downstairs and get it for $3. Well, go do that then. Go to Rennie. See, okay, well, then stretch my ass up. Let's get to the news at noon.

Yes, Matthew, the news is that the Astros were able to get the victory and win the series. You're sure I call them the rubber Astros? Excuse me? Yeah. They won a rubber game against the Tigers. Then they want a rubber game against the Guardians. Then they want a rubber game against the Blue Jays. That's three rubbers in a row. So they use

extraordinarily big amounts of protection. Yeah. Lots of rubbers. That's three rubbers in a row. Four. Four. No, the fourth one wasn't a rubber. They lost that rubber. So three and one, their last four rubbers. So there you go. The rubber, if that's the case,

all right, here we go. Just do it. I can't do it. I'm going to think about it, but I won't say it. Thank God. All right, yes. Shout out to Ripley's. Your coffee usually blows. Your coffee's been better the last few weeks.

The cold brew's not good. I don't do cold brew. The hot brew is good. I'm just letting you know. Okay. So I'm giving a little run to Ripley's. Y'all are doing better when your coffee. Cold brew is not good.

And they actually do it. If you say you want two creams, one's fun, they used to hand it to you all in your hand and your car. Like, I don't have time for this. The donuts are good. They put it in there for you now. All right. Massive expansion.

Sort of like Rutterer Burger. I mean, Marinerberger's been doing all over the place. I'm sorry. All right. Astros is at 39 and 43. They are only two and a half games back in the American League West, and they're actually in second place. So I'm excited.

Give them a wild card update, sports, RV. They're tied with the A's and Rangers, by the way, in the West. Also tied to the A's and Rangers in the wild card. But they are one game behind the Blue Jays, and that's that. They're in second place in the third wild card, as well. Now there's six and a half games back or yeah, something like that. With

the rays and well behind the Guardians as well all you got to do is get in and then Tatsuya I and Spencer and Lamborgetti are ready to dominate with Hunter Brown as the Astros push for the playoffs. Fan Gryfts hasn't been 33%.

Feels like it's more than that. But things are going well for the Houston Astros who start a series in Detroit today. Tatsuya I Mai on the hill. Again, Troy Melton Astros Slight underdogs in this one

540 start here on Sports Talk 790. 430 Ashro's on deck coming with Adam Clayton. Adam Clanton alive it and I'll have it and I'll have the 10th inning show. Yes I will be feeling in on the 18 to 430 Matt will be on the post game so it's covering all the bases. It's Matt and Ross all day on 790 at this point

this will be four welcome Houston four consecutive 10th inning shows for me this is like I've got a record this is like 2011 Matt I was going to say you do have the all time record. Do you do weekends too? I have done weekends. But I'm saying back in those days. Typically no. But next weekend,

if you want me on Saturday and Sunday, you're getting me for July 4th weekend. I love it. Celebrate America's 250th with Matt Thomas. Thank you. We appreciate you, Matt. All right, elsewhere in the sports news, the Houston Rock, it's made a pick in the draft. They took Bruce

Thornton of Ohio State 31st overall. They were picking 39th. They traded up. They now have their guy. Ohio State Buckeyes Guard, Bruce Thornton listed at 6'223 pounds. His draft profile,

Matthew, lists them as not necessarily a defensive stalwart, but as a strength, he is an efficient, low turnover scorer with a solid offensive profile for a backup guard. Gets to his spots, makes good decisions, had a strong career at Ohio State, and is a stellar

offensive player. You will have to maintain his excellent efficiency marks to stick in the NBA with his upside limited to a bench roll. There you go. Undersized and on the heavier side is the negatives. He's not thin. Is that a fair assessment there on that? Get him in strength and conditioning, baby. Let me tell you, what is he, the all-time winning score in Ohio State history?

Maybe Houston's not a good city for him, food-wise. Do you say that all-time-leaning Ohio State score? Sure, let's go with that. I didn't see that in the profile I read. No, I mean, I don't want to make things up. I'm not saying you're making it up. But he's six feet tall. And I would, if I was to check in him with Carl Stone, he would say, Matt, we're bullish on our second round pick.

They traded up for to get him. Yeah, so they liked him. They zeroed in on their guy. They had two picks in the second round and moved one away from one and moved up to get the other one. Also, big NBA news. The Hornets have traded for Lamello Ball and Josh Green. Hornets getting back. I'm sorry, I should say the Timberwolves have traded for Lamello Ball and Josh Green.

Nas Reid coming back to the Hornets and a series of draft picks and swaps. Hornets get a 2033 first round pick and three second round picks. They also get swaps in 28, 29, and 30. So Lamello Ball and Aunt Edwards, along with Rudy Gobert and Company, going to headline the Minnesota Timberwolves

as they try to win the Western Conference next year. So the wolves made two significant moves moving away from Julius Randall. He's a net. He's a net. And then going to get Lamello Ball. You don't want to make moves just to make them because that could be a little bit of,

I'm getting super nervous. I don't stay true to my plan. But I bet there are some rocket fans that would like to see the Rockets do something. I think run it back. Angers people. It's not going to be sexy. It's, what I'm saying is it does bother people

when you don't hear about my team. whatever my team is, whatever team you're following, doing moves to constant change. Sometimes no moves is the best moves. Sometimes no moves mean that you're a little skittish. It's up in the air. Sometimes making a move doesn't guarantee you anything. Sorry.

It's not going to get Jalen Brown for Alpern Chingun and Tari Easten and Picks, and all of a sudden, you're bona fide number one championship contenders. So we'll see. All right. Anything else going on? We've got to break. All right, we go to break. Gill is normally 15 minutes late to segments,

and he's right on course on that as well. Yeah, just don't get why you're so late, Gil. Come on, Gil, the Gil's until 1130. But we appreciate you. Gil, we love you. Thank you for getting in. Yeah, we're going to let you. You're the goat.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. 1222 on Sports Talk 790. It's Matt and Ross. This is your home of the Astros. You're home of the Rockets. Your home of Texas Longwood Football. Teams that win championships, baby.

Occasionally, you're home of LSU football. occasionally. Now, Gil, you keep dropping and calling in. Oh, we lost him just now. He just called a second time. Is he okay? I don't know, but what, I mean, he's got a bad of phone line or he's got very impatient. He might be, he might be on Primeco.

We try not, we try to keep our hold times very low. And he's calling for like the ninth time in the last 15 minutes. Well, maybe he's lost the connection. Well, then we get him a better cell service. Maybe he's getting work calls. Maybe he's busy. All right? You're calling a midday sure you can't be that busy.

Hey! And maybe you're going to give a Verizon. ever know. Home with the big three. Just saying. All right, we better get him in here before he drops. What are you smiling me for? Nothing. He shouldn't be smiling at me. You should admire me. Gil. Gil, what's going on, Gil?

I had a callback three times. Keep getting bad, a bad connection. Let's get you a better phone. Couldn't possibly be our fault. It's got to be. That'd be mine. Anyway, this is what I can't figure out. I'm at my favorite bar last night. a little American Legion neighborhood place. Go there all the time to watch the Astros. All right.

And I'm sitting in front of the big screen. You know, they got a big, I don't know, 60, 70 inch in a little room. And, of course, at the bar. And all of a sudden, this group comes in, fills the back room where I'm sitting and changes to soccer. Don't ask anybody anything. Put it on the soccer mat. So why go up to the girl in charge of the, hey, what's going on here?

They just come in here and check. Well, you can sit at the bar and watch the game. with a little 25-inch TVs. So I'm squitting and watching the game at the bar instead of where I was sitting, had my phone plugged in so I could charge it while I'm watching the game. So I basically went up to a bar, sit here,

close my tab out, and went to the next down street and watched the assholes there. Couldn't figure that out for the life of me. Well. The people that showed up, well, they're my color. I'm brown, you know, I'm Gonzales, but still, it took over my doggone bar.

Okay, so. I can't figure that out You can't You just don't get it do you I don't This is a conundrum in which you're in Remember it's going to be when in doubt You got to go with what the bar

The bartender believes is the bigger crowd What could you sense He had all the regulars in there All of us are regular to go watch the Astros But these This thing is they didn't even ask They just walked in took over the place And one of the girls that was with them

Just went up to the TV and changed it to the Doggone soccer match and of course it was Mexico playing so you know I almost wanted to call ice and come to get them out of there but you know I couldn't do it my conscience

wow well I'm sorry you went through that Gil and I appreciate you calling you're telling us your story I don't think that you're not going to be by yourself on that what I would say this if it's Team USA which will be playing are they tonight or tomorrow tonight 9 o'clock versus Turkey

but I mean they already won the group So they don't have any of the play. Let me ask you this. If you're a bar owner, 830, people start coming in. Astros are playing the Tigers in the 8th. That should be about almost wrapped up by that. Well, yeah, because the Tigers game is a 540 first pitch. So you're all good.

Let's just say it went long. Okay. What would you do as a bar owner? I would be probably putting on the United States World Cup. So if you have one, what kind of bar are you at? You have one TV. I would split them. Yeah, I was going to say if you're going to a bar that has only one remote, then you've got to

read it, exactly. I would say two-thirds World Cup. Five-five Astros Tigers. I love the Astros. We love the Astros. They're 500 or 500. It's in October. And they're not, they're four now.

It's October. If it was a playoff game, yeah. I get you. Playoffs, but it's a June tilt versus the Tigers, and you're five under. 400. Oh, 400. Sorry. My bad.

Why don't you walk up the standings like I tell you to every day? I did. When you look at the settings today, it makes you very happy. It's as happy as it doesn't make me happy to see them 39 and 43. Oh, I don't care about the record. It's something about the game's back. It's like being, never mind. Hey, it's the American League.

What worst? It's like being valedictorian and graduating class of like eight. Does it really count? Does it get you automatic admission to A&M or Texas? It should. Ain't anybody got time for that. No, it does it? Because two out of eight would be 12.5%.

That's right, because you're top seven now percent. who graduates with eight people in it though now Peyton I don't know my middle one yes his graduating class was I want to say 16 very very small private school in the Kingwood area

the percentage oh but he loved it I mean it didn't matter you know that's good he got an A&M didn't have a problem with that that's great so wait with the prairie view for a little while he did got there go go Panthers I made that drive a lot for him because he wasn't

of age to drive yet so we would drive him up to p.V. It was a good time. Beautiful campus, by the way. It's one-on-one time with Pops. It's nice.

You listen to we listen to Beatles Channel primarily, I think. All right. So what are we going with this? I don't know. So poor Gil. Gil, you're going to lose this one.

It's a once every four years, bro. Yeah, I don't know if I can necessarily argue with this one. Again, if it's a playoff game, it's World Series. Mexicans are taking over bars in Houston when they're on World Cup. I mean, welcome to Houston. It's my peoples.

I was going to say, you can say that. Yeah, I don't want to get into that conversation at all. 1228 on Sports Talks 790. The Mexicans are all over the field. They're Mexicans, man. They're Mexicans on the field. They scored three goals over Chequia. You throw the record books out when Mexico and Czechia get together.

I got some news for you. How many times have we heard of a country that we never heard of before until the World Cup was being played? Cape Verdi I wasn't super familiar with. I'm going to be honest. Chechnya? Chechnya, you know, Czech Republic? Oh, they're just renaming it there.

Yeah, it's not Chechnya, not the one that was getting invaded by Russia. Curacao I'd heard of. I'd heard of Curacao. Yeah, as an Andrew Jones or somebody, there's like some baseball ties with Curacao. I think they have a good team. They have like good squads over there. All right, continue. Well, you tell me, Cape Verde we haven't heard of.

We can't get the proper pronunciation. I mean, you know to Congo. You know Uzbekistan? No, I really didn't know you's Beckastan. Maybe I heard it one time before. Well, you know Iraq and Iraq and Iraq. Yeah, Iraq number one. Iran number one.

You know Bosnia, but maybe one's big on Erzegovina. Everyone else is pretty normal. Qatar, you know Qatar? No Qatar. Qatar spends big money. Scotland, Haiti. Now, is Australia a continent or a country? Both.

That thought they crossed my mind. Yeah. Because I always knew of it as a continent. They're one of the few teams who have different colors in their flag. They have red, white, and blue flag. but they are aware green and yellow. Green and yellow. Yeah, because I am watching a lot of Australian.

See, no, look at that, Matt. Wow. I must admit, I've watched more World Cup than I, how much I watched it yesterday? The answer would be zero. I watched a little bit. You know, when I am focused on doing Astros 10th inning call-in shows, I'm laser-focused on the Astros.

You're locked. 1237 on Sports Talk 7 out of it. It is, Matt. It's Ross, and we are with you today until 2 p.m. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-79. I got to tell you, we have some interesting people that like to send us various players. We're talking about what kind of outfield help could potentially

Dana-Bry and go get to the deadline if he was so-chose. And want to shout out north of Highway 59 on Twitter, DPP 1980, said, hey, there is a guy that may be available for a team that will be in the cell mode, and that'll be the San Francisco Giants. And his name is Jung or Young, Who? Lee. Young Hu Lee.

I don't know his contract status. I can't imagine it being a guy we've heard about being a super multi-millionaire. A really heavy contract. He's batting, well, he's batting 333 this year with five home runs, 27 RBIs, and OPS of 841. He's having a career year because his career OPS coming into this, or at least adding the numbers plus his previous years, is $750. 50. That would be a name. That would be intriguing. Now, you'd have to give up some things in return. So what I did is during the break, I was looking to see, you know, does he bat? Because I think they want a left-handed bat. Getting a left-handed bat with a little bit of pop, good OPS, and this Jung-Hoo Lee, again, I don't watch Giants baseball.

So I couldn't tell you if you walked in the room and you introduce himself, you know, like, oh, nice to meet you, Mr. Lee. Are you any good? But I also noticed, do you know who else is in that outfield for the Giants? Who's that? Drew Gilbert. Oh. How is Drew Gilbert doing? Well, I'm glad you asked. 234 is batting average. Is he putting one missing you? Three home runs, 15 ribbyes, an OPS of 6991.

His career numbers are 217, 6 home runs, 655 the OPS, so he's got a limited time. A former number 28 pick first round, 2002 Houston Astros. Now, A, he's in the big leagues. B, you traded him as part of the Justin Verlander with the Mets trade. But C, the Mets are like, we don't need you either. We're going to get you out to San Francisco. Yes. So you want yet another example of how just because you're a first round pick does not guarantee success,

Drew Gilbert is your great example right there. Yeah, I mean, he made the major. That's good. But, yeah, we went through the list the other day. We would not be missing you, Drew Gilbert. Drew Gilbert, Corey Lee, Seth Beer, J.B. Wukakis,

stop me when you love someone here. Forrest Whitley, Das Cameron, Kyle Tucker, Alex Breggman in 15. Yeah. And again, to fill up your roster and be good,

you don't rely on first rounders exclusively, more so than any other sport. I mean, the NFL draft is seven rounds, so you get guys in rounds 4, 5, 6, 7. NBA drafts 2 rounds,

so it's essentially a very top-heavy first round, round. In baseball, teams are littered with 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th round picks. It may not be all-stars. It may not be potential Hallfamers, but they're solid major league starters. So you have to be successful in baseball all throughout your draft and not just exclusively rely on what's available for you in rounds one and two. But it does help that your rounds one and two guys, I mean, think about it. The heyday of the Astros, Ross, revolves around first round picks. Lance McCullors, first round pick.

Alex Breggman, first round pick. Carlos Correa, first round pick. George Springer, first round pick. Yes. They hit on a lot of first rounders around then. And Kyle Tucker and Breggman, as we mentioned. Yeah. Forrest Whitley?

Not so much. But also, Springer 11th overall, Correa first. Now McCullors was 41st, so that's a nice hit. So he's a high pick. And then Bregman was second overall. Tucker was fifth overall. So those are like... What did you say about McCullors?

41st overall. So he was a second rounder. But they overpaid him or something like that. Who was the compensatory that got into the third spot? Help me out with that. Who was the third picked? It was one year was an Astro draft where somebody was third. It's called the 41st overall, but I guess technically a first round pick because of the compensatory.

Yeah. That doesn't make much sense because there's only 30 teams. They're not 11 compensatories. Everybody in their grandma is getting compensatories. Man, I wish I was a compensatory pick. It paid first round money. Point being, you missed on a number one overall in Mark Appell. You missed on a number one overall in Brady Aiken.

Remember, they didn't sign them. Right. But that got you Bregman the next year because they didn't sign them. But yeah, those guys are all top. Well, Correa 1, Breggman 2, Tucker 5. McCullors 41 and George Springer 11th. So those are top 15 guys. But you don't want to be always in the top 10,

which means if you are in the top 10 on a regular basis, you suck. And we went through what the Astros sucked, 2010, 11, 12. Those were miserable years. Yeah, they were not fun. Walker Yonick 28th, Bryce Matthews 28th, Drew Robert 28th. I don't know. I mean, I... Corey Lee 32nd.

Seth Beer 28th. What was Corey Lee drafted? 2019. 32nd overall. Yeah, there's another miss. You know there's a reason why the Astros, monoling system sucks. It's because there's misses all over the place.

Yeah, but you're more likely. But they were getting top five picks and hitting those. It's a lot easier to hit top five, obviously. But let me ask you this. Here's top five in 2019. Adley Ruchman, Bobby Witt, Riley Green up there, C.J. Abrams, and then a couple of guys,

JJ Bladay, Andrew Vaugh. Help me out here. Had the Dodgers and Yankees been the top five lately? No. Aren't there are minor league systems considered They're doing much better. Yeah.

Yeah. So you're right. It hasn't been great. With Dana Brown and previously James Click and... I wouldn't put it on Luno. No. I mean, Luno was in a sweet spot. His teams were terrible.

He was drafting all those players. I think you and I would be considered geniuses if we had those top five selections available to us. It would be nice. It's just you need good eyes. You need good intelligence. You need good.

Cross-checking. You need luck. You need a little bit of luck. You do? Because some drafts are better than others. Case and point. The last two days of the NBA draft. Really, really good.

Rockets have the number three picked three or four years ago. It's considered one of the five worst drafts in NBA history. Yeah. Some of these things you cannot control. Right. But Walter Yonick. Walker. And his brother Walker.

They're twins. They come as a package. Mm-hmm. I would know his name if he actually was a major leaguer. He was supposed to be the starting catcher by now. He just was. The pedigree, the over-excitement about a Sam Houston catcher was incredible. Let's go Bearcats.

Well, he's ready defensively, they say. Yeah, but they've been saying that since the time you left. That's all right. We've got our guy Jason Chavoni. He's going to be the catcher of the future, hopefully. Because I don't know, I don't think Yonair Diaz is that guy. Chivoni's been playing some first and like D-Hing, but they still think he's a catcher.

Okay. Well, somebody can do it. Because look, I know that the Christian Vasquez fan club is huge. Yes, it is. Might be dwindling, though. He's just old. Let's see. Chivoni 863 OPS in Corpus Christi.

Still good. That's probably another year away? Yeah, maybe. He's 23. Ooh. It came out of nowhere. I mean, Yeah, he's going to the George Springer.

I'm 25 route. 11th rounder. So if you can hit on that. Love that idea. Nice. Love that idea a lot. 713-212. 5 is 7.90.

It is Matt and Ross with you until 1 p.m. Until 2 p.m. 1. No, we go 2 hours. We're going to give you four full hours of entertainment today. Yeah, we've never been to 1. That's where'd that come from. I don't know.

Matt's trying to do one more segment. Maybe I'm dreaming. Oh. Do I have a rocket flight to catch? Yeah. Maybe I'm going to Vegas early. Hmm. For Summerlee.

Sounds good. 713. 212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Zach Lowe did say the rockets have not shown much interest in Jalen Brown. Is that concern you, rocket fans? Are you like, you know what? You're going to have to give up a lot to go get a guy that is going to make a lot of money.

A 52 on Sports Talk 790. How are y'all doing? Hi, y'all doing. It's Matt and Ross, and we are with you until 2 o'clock today. We have on one of our televisions here, the sports pack mix, where you can watch four different TV shows at once, and one of them is Rat Rackery, one is Malin Moorherd. Rat Rackery.

Rat Rackery. And he's talking to Ian Rappaport in his car. Why do people do that, by the way? How about just go into your apartment or your hotel room? Why do you do this in the car? I just don't get it, I said. I almost said I just don't get. I was going to use that because Brian Winhorst was like in a room with with like earbuds on.

Aren't they, aren't they shelling out millions and millions of dollars for Brian Winhorse and Ian Rappaport and Pat McAfee's show? He's in a car with a sunroof on. He's like he's about to go hit a basket of balls at the range. What's going on? So that's not the most ridiculous part. So the third screen we have this, the women's PGA championship, which is fine. I don't really follow it.

But that's okay. And then you've got Stephen A. Smith. How's Michelle we doing? She's fine. Stephen A. Smith is interviewing Seth Rollins and WWE. I mean, is that shameful? Not that... I don't know. I guess.

I mean, you're... They literally get into bed with the WWE. Yeah. I don't know what they're doing. I mean, there's no way that Stephen A. Smith could have not a decent conversation with Seth Rollins without every single question. being posed to him. And I would be in the exact same spot. Look, I don't want to defend Stephen A. Smith because he's a big boy, makes a gazillion dollars.

And when the network tells you to interview a wrestle, you're going to do it. But Seth Rollins, what do you think is going to happen this weekend at Royal Rumble? Did you see my Knicks win the championship, Seth? Who is the Jalen Brunson of the W.W.E? It just feels stupid. Yeah. I don't. I don't get it. again

he when you know when they pull the chain you're going to bark i mean that's what stevie he's got to do he's got to do but it's just he's probably not happy but didn't they say didn't they say mac if he's getting like 60 mill a year or something now they're talking about it how is he generating that amount of revenue

for them and again who are you competing with what's the walkaway leverage exactly who you're fighting with fs one then i'm going to pay that they told skip bills to shut his bum ass up now he's podcast and they did about 20 cents on the dollar Yeah, how is that, but? Skip Bayless podcast. Who's tuning in for that one?

I don't. You'd have to make a concerted effort to go find it. I'm too busy to listen to the John Wall podcast and the Cassidy Hubbard, Philippine basketball podcast. It's funny. I'm too busy watching paint dry. So that's how it works for me. Oh, man. So back to my point.

Yes, go ahead. So Zach Lowe, who we do respect. Yes. Doesn't return our calls, but that's okay. He used to when he was S-I. And he got big-timed. Got big-timed. That's fine.

He says the rockets are not that high on potentially grabbing Jalen Brown away from the Celtics. Now, I know EMA likes Jalen Brown. How would you not like a guy that's 27, 7 and 6 every night? What you don't like is the money that's attached to it. And how you would have a seismic change, whatever team Jalen Brown of the Celtics goes to, whether he's traded or not, I'm presuming it's going to because they keep floating his name out there. He's got to get traded.

You're going to rock your front. franchise. And there's something scary about rocking franchises. Why are they doing that? I guess because he's disgrunted because he wants out. Has it been reported that Jalen Brown is the driver behind this? No, but you certainly aren't hearing from

Brad Stevens, the general manager. We love Jalen Brown. We look forward to keeping him here for the foreseeable future. We haven't heard that come out of anybody. No, we haven't. Maybe Joe Mazzal is like, ah, the coach, I'm done with this guy. He was like MVP candidate for 60 games of the year. But there was like a tipping point.

We said as soon as the Yonist deal got done, that he was either going to be, you need to go in there and calm the waters down and say, we love you, bra, or we're going to continue to float your name out, and his name continues to get floated out. It's just not attached right now to the Houston Rock. Namish Keita.

I'm looking at the rest of their, wow, Derek White, Tielen Brown. Tatum. Yeah, Jason Tatum. Maybe they don't want to carry too ridiculously large. Maybe it's time for Peyton Pritchard to shine. Hey, Petrodele Sheff. You know, he is the Caitlin Clark of the NBA.

Oh, that's right. Who was saying that to her? That was Reggie Miller, right? Kendrick Perkins? Oh, Reggie Miller, you're right. Somebody who probably shouldn't have said what they said. Yeah, he's wearing, worn out for that. That's a shame.

Maybe that's it. Maybe teams, when you have so much money attached to your Alpha Dog A and Alpha Dog B, filling out the rest of the roster is tough. I think that's what the Lakers are going to have to run into right now. Luca Dantius makes crazy money. They just paid crazy money to Austin Reeves. LeBron's like $85 million. Austin Reeves, $185 million.

Who doesn't play a lick of defense? Great offensive player. What a time to be alive. But it just shows you, if you only have half your game, but you're really good on that half, you make $45 million. The team are throwing their hands up and saying, well, we've got to pay them. And the dollars Is that you're getting $50 million a year?

He didn't play a lick of defense. Yeah. And he's a chucker too, and not even a real pure shooter. I think you could post up Tray Young, Matt. I would like to try. Getting some buckets. Hey, Matt, you know how to play basketball?

I used to. Yeah. What do you used to know how to play? Well, that would be when I used to run up and down the floor. When was that? Sixth grade. They called him Mr. 94 feet. No, are you kidding me?

when I was in school, I would never play the 94-foot game. I would play the game. You know how you can split a gym and the baskets who are on the baselines? Yeah. That's what I'd go one side and baseline. You're a lot of the other. You're Mr. 50 feet. What would that be?

What is the width between us? 50, isn't it? Is it? 34 by 50? But that was in junior house. They're probably smaller courts. They call you Mr. 37 feet. Now I can tell you this.

Round man, I can't rebound. Jonathan, I would go work at McDonald's until 12 1 o'clock in the morning. We'd clean up the grills and get it been cleaned up. we'd go to a basketball court in Katie. At 1 a.m? Oh, absolutely. You're running fives at 1 a.m., Maddie? We played, and we would play basketball until 2, 3 o'clock in the morning.

Wow. What was the rent, the nets were made out of net. It would be the chain. The chain nets. Well, chain, that's their best nets. We would. No, they tear your ball up, dude. We'd have a few beverages.

Sounds good. Get the got a ball on the court. You like the chain swish is nice. The chain switch makes you feel like you can actually shoot. The ball is all mangled and carved up. Okay, continue, continue. So then we'd have a few beers. Which was really I wasn't supposed to have because I was not 21.

You got to hydrate. You got to hydrate for the basketball. And then I would run by stop and go and get me a brownie and a milk to cover up the milk, the beer just in case my mom was awake at 3 o'clock in morning when I got home. And woke up bloated because I was playing basketball, drinking beer and drinking cold milk and brownies. Those were the days. That sounds like an awesome. That sounds nice.

It's a dope time. It was fun. I didn't have a great teenage life, but I had a good one. Sounds good to me. I would have wished the girls back in there would have said, Matt, you're cute. That had been a part of a great part of a man. You had to turn the charm on, man.

I mean, look at them now probably. They probably. Oh, my gosh. They are all over you. Oh, my gosh. Every time we go on location, we just got to have security all over the place. They are like, man, we goofed up. We should have been with you.

By the way, speaking location, we are tomorrow at Big City Wings. Yes. Edo location. Yes. Edo. Navigation. 10 o'clock until 2. Yes.

There's going to be soccer after. Okay. And there's going to be wings during. Yes. Wings after? Wonderful. Wings. Well, I don't know. Wings before. I don't think you can get a wing at 930, but that's not here nor there. Yeah. We'll do what we can. Edo location. 10 o'clock until 2. Tomorrow, Matt and Ross, from Big City Wings, Edo, right here on Sports Talk 7.

I'm any final hour next. This is the Matt Thomas show. With Ross. It is the final hour of the Matt Thomas show at Ross at 105. We would love for you to be a part of our radio show at 713-212-579. If you're just listening and saying, hey, Matt, we're enjoying the conversation. That's good, too. But remember, we are the world's most friendliest radio show.

Wow. Unless you have dumb takes, then we make fun. I don't know. You tell a lot of people to go to hell to be the most friendliest. And I just heard Terry say you hate veterans, too? Yeah. Wait, no, wait a minute. Why are you doing that to me?

Terry was wrong. Love veterans. Are you kidding me? For the ability for us to cackle like this for 20 hours a week is because of veterans. Thank you very much. Terry, you can always call in.

No. I do love Terry's calls. Terry stops to show to a grinding halt. That's part of the beauty of it. You know, some people like cringe humor. Who? Anybody who watches the Eric Andre's show or what else?

I don't know. There's kind of all kinds of Rosed. I do like Rosed. Nathan for you show. Have you ever watched that? What's that? Eric Andre's,

that's, you think that's funny? Is that your jam? No, it's not my jam. I'm just saying some people like it. Like cringe humor. Matt, you know who that is? No idea.

You know what? Matt didn't know who Michael Sarah was. Oh, that's right. But that's okay. Team USA looking for a three and O starting group stage. Apparently there are four players with a yellow

card that probably shouldn't play tonight. Would you say that would be fair? Yeah, I think so. They're not going to have it because if you get a second yellow card in this game, you will miss the next game. So it's not worth it. Does the yellow card bit start in each round? Does it start over again? It'll start over for the knockouts. But so if you have zero and you get one tonight, you're fine. It goes back to zero. Right. But if you have one and it goes to two, you miss it. It's almost like flagrant accumulations in the playoffs. Yeah. It's basically like that. I get it.

Yep. 9 o'clock start time. Turkey A, who is not at any point yet, they're 0 and 2. Yeah. They've had over 4xG in the tournament map, but they scored zero. What? Over four expected goals, but they have zero. Now you're just trying to poke the bear. I'm just telling you. There's expected goals.

There's XBA. They have expected points in basketball. Okay. I didn't make it up. Spected goal. Either the ball went through the net or didn't. Mm-hmm. Specting goal.

It's ridiculous. Well, it's like you're at the free throw line, Matt. It's like the Cleveland Cavaliers had four expected wins against the New York Knicks. If any NBA player shoots at the free throw line, you would expect them to make 100 of them, but none of them do. Not even the greats. Right. So they each have a different expected point out of the free throw line, correct? Yes.

And that is it a controlled environment. They get to do the same thing of repeatable shooting stroke every single time, but they don't make it every single time. right sometimes they miss sometimes step curry misses two in a row but you would expect them to make it about 90% of the time it's not that difficult i feel like i'm in a college algebra class when i'm doing the show with you it's very easy there was no algebra there was no solve for why all right i just think sometimes metrics are made to make people look better than they really are by the way speaking of expected catches an awesome four star five star whatever

todd cows wants to give it the cam smith play out in right field you yesterday was magnificent. I'll say this. Cam Smith, ridiculously inconsistent hitter. Fielder, pretty damn consistent. Gold glove caliber. Goes against the wall and then

brings the ball back into play. The runner for Tampa, I don't know idea where the hell he was. A rocket arm. Double played it out. And that throw to third base on the attempted pickoff move a low for Fido, that was one of the dumbest. First of all, Who in the world is ever trying to pick anybody off at third base? It's Little Leaguers.

It was a right-handed... Not Pittman. Who was the pitcher for the Blue Jays? Freeman... I'll think about it in a second here. But when you're a right-handed pitcher, you get to see what's happening at third base. The third baseman wasn't even guarding the...

Wasn't even on the bagger close to it. It was as brain-dead of a play as I've seen in a long period of time. And frankly, it helped out because the Astros then recorded the next two. two outs that wouldn't have scored a run. Jeff Hoffman. Hoffman, yeah. Brain dead. And then the brain dead base running the following inning. I mean, sometimes, you know what, you got to catch some breaks and the Astros caught the breaks in Toronto. Huge crowd, home field, full lineup with Guerrero and Springer and the second-leaning vote good in the American League. Ernie Clement

Ernie Clement Which I would have never envisioned But that's the next one good for him Oh do you want some more good news? Yes The Razor beating the Royals ain't nothing So you're going to be good in the wild card You're going to be lighter in the wallet for that

No we canceled the bet when we couldn't see the game I thought No I said the bet was still on you said yeah I'll go with it All right you got change for a five Yeah of course I do Give me two bucks All right and the better part of it is You ready for this Matt and I always make a little dollar bets on games

and I'm now we got a little drama that's hot that's a crisp five by the way it is crisp I think I want to oh look at listen how crisp that I know you hear that I wish it was a 20 Pirates lead the Mariners

3 to 1 in Pittsburgh top of the 6th there are two outs but the Mariners of the base is loaded Let's go pirates Let's go pirates Oh Colt Emerson's hitting

He sucks Let's get him out the Astros might be able to gain. We are in full standing watch and watching mid-games for a team that's four games under 500. It feels weird. Isn't America great? It feels a little weird. Oh, it's not feeling. I mean the American

League West. It's 100% weird. But let me ask you this. Remember many years ago when the Seahawks won the NFC West with the losing record? Yeah. And they were 7 and 9. And they're like, we're 7 and 9. We should feel sorry for his

no, you shouldn't. You should probably just the ball to Marshawn Lynch a bunch. Yeah, let him have a beast quake. That was the beastquake game, right? And he went to, and he had a home game, and New Orleans got up there and kicked their ass. He dragged like seven New Orleans Saints into the end zone. That was awesome. I'm just telling you, that's one of the greatest runs of all time.

With his quick for the beast quake. With as crazy as this baseball season is with really only two superlative American League teams, why can't the Astros win a wildcard series? Why can't the Astros win a division series? Why not us? What better time than now? Just throw them out there. 713-212-5-79 if you want to join in.

7-1-3-21-5-7-90. What is believing or not today? I don't know, Marshawn Lynch. That was a rando drop of his name. Now, if he wants to do something spectacular. Oh, it's a beastquake right now. Oh, my God. He took how many people were in that in that last run?

He's stiff-arming everyone. The entire defensive line of the Saints was there. Yeah, and the best part was in how he, he, uh, he jumped into the end zone backwards and grabbed his junk. That was the best part. That was when all the whole Kittles thing, not Kittles. The Skittles thing started, right? He loved Skittles, which who doesn't? And then didn't want to speak to the media and all that kind of good stuff to?

No, that was in the Super Bowl a few years later. But he still didn't want to talk to media like that. But you know what? If he has anxiety issues and he doesn't want to be in front of a microphone, I'm okay with that. That was fraudulent though, but he's doing, he's doing podcasts and not media stuff now. Maybe he's gotten over it. You can get over your anxiety issues. I think he got over him when he's in the new season of Euphoria, too.

Yeah, you know what he got over, Jonathan? Not getting a check for speaking. When he got a check, he spoke. I mean, that makes sense. Got the check, maybe. It's funny. It's funny those phobias go away when somebody's all good. Got a nice contract in front of you.

Maybe he's healed up, Matt. You don't know where he is on his healing journey. You're absolutely right. I have no idea how he's doing. Yeah. But apparently he's on Euphoria. Is that what Sidney is in that movie in that show, too? Well, that's where she blew up at is the series Euphoria.

And she's been in some nude scenes, correct? Oh, that's all season three basically was. Season three, huh? Let me write this down. So I know to avoid it. Right. I'm going to email myself. Do not download season.

Do not watch it. Just like I told you earlier today, do not listen to Gary Glitter. Mm-hmm. Oh, Fiel Macs. Yikes. Gary Glitters on HBO Max? Is it a documentary? 713-212-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. 122 on Sports Talk 790. We take this program until 2 o'clock this afternoon. Tom Condon is the new owner of the Portland Trailblazers really quick. You know, he bought the team and immediately fired a bunch of people and didn't put T-shirts in the Trailblazers playoff building and didn't send people practice squad players on the road. And it was kind of cheap.

he met with the city of Portland yesterday, a big town hall meeting and said, we need you to refurbish Motor Center where the Blazers play, and I'm not giving you a dollar for it. If you want to keep the Blazers in town, I need you to pick up the tab of the $600 million it's going to take. Wow. Sounds like a really swell guy.

Well, he's basically, but he basically says it's not my arena. You own it, so if you want us to be a tenant, you need to fix it. They love their Blazers in Portland. It's a one city, it's a one sport town. I know. No disrespect to the soccer team there, but it is what it is.

Hey, come on now. Timbers are looking good. Now, the timber, are they what they called the timbers? Portland Timbers, I think. Yeah. They've always been talked about as a potential place for a baseball team down the road. But I don't think Major League Baseball is in any hurry for expansion at this point. Don't they have the pickles?

I thought baseball was talking about expanding. I think it's been cooled. Okay. Because of the Las Vegas move? I don't, I just. And there's big labor disputes happening. I can't imagine that being on the front burner at any point. Let's go to the phones and talk, but it's just funny.

Owner just said, hey, you want the Blazers stay here. We will stay in the motor center. We're not asking you to build a new arena. We just want you to fix up the one that you got. It's the oldest arena in the NBA that has not been refurbished. Okay. So it needs an uptake. For sure.

Yeah, it's time. But, you know, these refurbishments for us, you don't, aren't cheap. Mm-mm. I think Hannah's about to find that out with the Texans over at Houston Stadium. You mean Cal? in the McNair group. No, I mean Hannah. Okay.

Cow's like, cow don't care. Cal doesn't care? No, he's living his best life. He's a coin flipping at World Cup games. Yeah. He's doing well. He got probably invited to Taylor Swift's wedding.

New GTA's coming out soon. I don't even play GTA and I know what GTA is. Let's talk to. Is it on hell or angel? We'll find out by the person's voice. Hello, on hell or angel? Hey, how's it going? I'll go by Angel. How you doing, Mr. Texas? Hey, it's a pleasure to have you on our show, sir. You must have called the wrong show.

No, he called the right program. I think you made a mistake. Good afternoon. Do you take as much time as you'd like? Matter of fact, take it all the 2 o'clock if you want to. Absolutely. Well, I want to start off, Ross. I saw your meet on Instagram yesterday. Incredible. Thank you, man. Thank you, Angel. I appreciate that. Yeah, no problem. I'm surprised you announced that publicly. Yeah, I mean, it is what it is. But whatever. The reason why I'm calling,

and I wanted to bring an unsigned, undrafted signing that Houston Rock has just picked up a couple hours ago. Not the biggest of names, but the reason why I'm excited is, you know, I was a sports information director during his junior college years. His name is Oscar Clough. Maybe you've heard of him. I can't say that I have. Tell me about him. Yeah. Yeah, so definitely this is the reason why I wanted to bring this to your attention. And so he transferred from coaches college in Arizona. He's a big man. So if you're a big man basketball fan, you're going to like him.

He's 6'11 from Australia. He transferred to South Dakota State, Washington State University, and then finished last year at Purdue University and helped lead his team to the elite eight against Arizona. But a big guy, 6-11, just a big rebounder, offensive guy too. He can probably put some minutes off the bench if needed. but he is going to be going to the summer league with Houston in Vegas. So definitely somebody to keep your eye on.

You know, hopefully you guys can do your research. We're excited for him here in Arizona. You know, so I just, you know, want you guys to kind of keep your eye on him and take care of them for us. But we're definitely excited to see that he's signing with Houston. What's there? Oscar Clough. Oscar Cluff.

Yes. C-L-U-F. Just a fun fact about him. I mean, he's 6-11, but he's. he's a hell of a surfer. Oh, wow. He's a good guy. Australia.

Yeah, definitely. Yeah, so, so, yeah, he's from Australia. You would think so, right? Yeah, those Aussies can surf. Yeah, for sure. So, you know, he was an All-American here in junior college, NJCAA. Again, if you like Big Man basketball, he's something that you definitely want to keep your eye on and see what he can do the next couple of weeks in the summer league.

So I'd definitely like to follow up with you in a few weeks and see what you think of them. Well, how about this? Are you on hell or angel? Tell me what you really are. Angel. Okay, Angel. What? I could say on hell, right?

Yeah, go ahead. I didn't say that. Yeah, yeah. Either way. No, no, you're Angel. If you're Angel, you're Angel. What's your mom call you? I can't tell you that on radio.

No, just kidding. It's Angel. Okay. So Angel, if he makes the team, you're going to get your flowers, and I will make sure that when I talk with him, when he makes the team, that I will say that Angel called my radio show and bragged about you.

And I promise you, you live in Arizona, I'm assuming you said correct? I do. Yeah, it's 11.30 in the morning right now. So I have to listen to you every day. Well, thank you. I'm going to make sure, Angel, that your former friend, or maybe current friend, gives you great seats for the Rocket Suns game if he's on the Rockets roster. I will make that guarantee to you.

Awesome. Yeah, that would be great. All right. Well, Angel, thank you, first of all for calling me. Mr. Texas. Second, you're always welcome to call no matter what it is. Don't. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I thought my mic was off. Don't listen to him, Angel. Thank you very much.

I appreciate you. Angel, obviously. A dedicated listener. Appreciate it. Yeah, we love, are you kidding me? We crush in Phoenix. Oh, we're killing. You know what we crush in. Phoenix, Los Angeles, Sal's in Central Florida. Mm-hmm. Who else? Oh, we have the guy from New Zealand. Arj. Arj. R.J. Right?

Sure, went on. RJ New Zealand. He came back though, I think. Well, whatever. He was crushing it for us in New Zealand. Yeah, we appreciate him. We do mid in Houston, but we do really well all other places. Oscar Hogarth Clough. How do you spell the last name? KLUFF? Mm-hmm.

Give his measurables again? 6-11-255. Okay, and where did he play at college? Last of the boiler makers, but he also played with the Hold on. Let me pull this back up. San Diego State. Wait, South Dakota State, I'm sorry. South Dakota State, known as the

Jack Rabbits. Correct. And then Washington State. And I believe he was with the Jukau with him or before that. Wow, the guys traveled a lot. So he went from Washington. Well, he's from Australia. Then he went to Washington State, South Dakota State, and then Purdue.

Last year for Purdue, 10.7.5 rebounds a game. 68% from the field. And block shots? 0.9. Is he a picking roll guy? Do we know? Yeah, sure, why not? You could say you could.

I've done some good pick and roll. I've done some intense study on him. Pick and roll. He's not going to do a pick and pop. He didn't shoot threes. Maybe they could develop that. No, I want to pick and roll. Okay.

So he's not the next Jack Landale. No, Jock was, for the nine teams he played for last year. He was knocking down threes on a regular basis. Yeah, Jock was stroking it from distance. Brick. What? Stroking it from distance? He was knocking down threes.

What? Oh, why didn't you say that then? Yeah. Jock was stroking it from distance. I don't see what the problem is. Why are you making faces at me? I don't make anything. I'm thinking about what you got, believe or not in 20 minutes.

He shot 39%. Have you worked on Believing or not yet? Not a lick. What's it? Well, Australian or not? You never gave me a category. It's not my fault. What do for believe it for a lot?

Yeah, what's the category? What's the category? Matt? Canadian Foods. How about Bosnia? That's fine. You got 20 minutes. Canadian foods?

Yeah. Like what is in... Like, Putin? What is in Putin? What did you say? Putin. You said it wrong again. Are you doing this on purpose?

No, I'm not. Poutine. That's on Friday, too. Everybody listening to tomorrow? And what is pea meal bacon? What? Pmeal. Can we go to break?

Yeah, I'm sorry, Jonathan. This is Matt's fault. All right. 7-1-3-2-1. A mellow ball. That makes more sense. Wait a minute. Ross is off this next segment. Jonathan, you and I are talking about smart things next on 790. Sometimes you guys are the great producers of our radio show. Not that we don't love Jonathan, but you guys send us some stories. And this is good. Shout out to you, Pedro, at this guy, 6931 for sending this to us.

Oh, Pedro. He was always listening. Hey, love you, Pedro. Jesse Rogers covers baseball for ESPN. And he just put out a tweet seven minutes ago. You were said earlier this week, and I don't want to put words in your mouth, that you were encouraging. by so much conversation between the players association and the owners. Yeah, they're talking and we are, how many months from a work stoppage? Nine months? Ten months? No, December will be the end of it. So they could have technically lock them out. Well, they can't. They can negotiate, though. They can negotiate, but there'll be no baseball, any sort of winter meetings or free agency. Yeah, but we're 10 months of negotiating. Right. Well, we're 10 months from a season. The league.

proposing a max contract of five years for free agent players switching teams six years to retain their own players no deferred contracts a la what the Dodgers have been doing qualifying offer is gone too also five years to free agency for players 30 or older they know that's not getting past that's one of those things you throw a negotiation

to piss them off. That you know, that you know that's going to, you're like, oh, well, you know what, I made a concession.

I gave up this five-year thing, guys, so we're making concessions of things we want. It's demand you make when you come to the table when you're negotiating and you know you're not going to get,

but at least you can say you conceded them. That's what that feels like. There's no, they have to, unless they are that out of tune and stupid, you think they're going to go from 10-year contract? I know it makes sense. Now,

because the NFL's MAG, you can only sign so many years. To be fair, the Super Deals, the 9, 10 years, those are falling by the wayside. The owners just want to make sure there's none of that. Nobody's making you sign them. Well, they would like it on paper. They got to limit themselves. This is a, we can't control our own house, so we're going to do it collectively.

We want to make sure our friends in Los Angeles don't spend nine years on the next player. They're asking for a lot. they want, first of all, they want no high school draft picks. You know what that is? That's to cover your own ass. That's the same way. Let the colleges pay it. Exactly. Let the NIL and the boosters pay all the money to those players. Let them develop and then you get a high, because obviously it's a lower hit rate with high school players and college players. But you know what? If I was an owner, I don't do the same thing. Say, hey, there's a new avenue called NIL. Let the colleges do it. And by the way, the colleges, if you're an owner, think about this for saying, Ross. If you're an owner, the colleges benefit from this. Because there's a lot of kids that would go playing college.

that never would if they didn't have a high school option. There's a college and there's more benefit from them as potentially for the players to develop there. It's good for the health of the college. College baseballs and sports is like, oh, yeah, we'll do this in our speed. But then they're gone after two years. I don't know how much that's going to help like interest. No, but it does. It hurts.

It helps their programs. You're not losing kids. They've got to spend more money on NAA. Well, thing about this, if you are, well, yeah, but if you want to be a good college baseball program, guess what? N. N.L. is going to infiltrate its way into. college of baseball.

Cut the check. Over there, Schlaas. So I got word from Tark's scubel on this breaking news. And he said, shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. Because most players, not every one of them, look for long-term security and long-term money. Now, some guys will bet on themselves and say,

all right, yeah, I won't sign a super mega deal. Like Alex Spregman, bet on himself to sign a short-term. term deal with the Red Sox. Remember that? Yes, he did. With opt-outs. He got paid and he got paid. It took him a year longer than he wanted to, but he got paid ultimately. Yeah, some people bet on themselves and lost. Jared Kellanick was one of the top prospects in baseball,

and he got a huge deal offer from the Mariners when he was one of the top couple of prospects, and he turned it down. And now he's been middling around. He's been with the Braves, White Sox, and Rangers this year. he lost he bet on himself John Singleton well they kind of bet on him they paid him and then they the Asher's lost on it yeah yeah all right so to repeat again the league is proposing a max

contract of five years for free gym players switching teams if you stay with your own team you get an extra year you know who loves this Jim Crane loves it's kind of like bird rights Jim Crane loves this by the way this is the Jim Crane rule yeah Jim Crane probably is all over this no deferred contracts players will never I, that's, yeah, maybe you're right,

work stoppage. Because here's, at least they're talking. With these dumbass proposals. But they're talking, but they're talking to each other and they're just pissing each other off on each side more and more. Yeah, okay, so they can smooth that. It's June. Now it's time to be pissed.

Then it's going to get nut cutting time in December. They're going to lock them out. And then eventually they're going to come to the table, hopefully by March or April. And we have a season of over 100 games. Hopefully. If I set, okay, your glass is a little more fuller than mine is.

If I set the over under of a 90 game baseball schedule in 2020, are you taking the over or the under? 90 I'll go over. Let's do 81. Where do you feel about 81? Lower. What about 75? Lower.

60. You play a 60 game schedule or you don't play anything at all. Uh-huh. Sweet spot. 61, I would say, Under. Okay. 59, I would say over.

All right. I'll bet you. I'll go over 61. We've got to write this down in the file. We've got to think about this thing about this. Okay. It feels. Okay.

I don't know. This is so ugly right now. And they're never pleasant going in. But dude, we've been talking about these work stoppage of potential loss season. 60.5. No, you're doing that's terrible. Well, 61.5. I'll give you another game.

I'll take the under. 61.5. Okay. That gives me 60 point. It gives me 60 and it gives me no season. I've got two options. Mm-hmm. I'm going to play 50 games.

It can't play 50 games. Can't play 48. That would be a joke. All right. Let me write this down. What's the bet? Let me think about it. Believe it or not, it's up next.

Korean barbecue. No, I don't want to make it that big because I had to pay that Tabachi last time. That was not. That was expensive for you. I got the lunch special. It was still kind of pricey. We'll talk about it. No, we got negotiable.

You know what? We got to negotiate. Like the owners and the players. I'm going to go for preposterous. I'm going to go with a filet-a-mint chateaubriand. Oh, okay. You come back with chicken nuggets. 152 on Sports Talk 790. Listen to me very carefully.

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