The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Win 5 Series In a Row!! Are the Rockets Making Moves??

Episode Date: June 29, 2026

Astros Win 5 Series In a Row!! Are the Rockets Making Moves?? 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Ain't no mountain high enough sports RV. They're on the cusp of a division lead and a wild card. Just as we anticipated after that one and nine road trip. After they fell behind, you know, 8, 7, 8, 9, 10 games under 500, just as we anticipated.

We all said it was coming. Yes. Five straight series. Five straight series wins. It is possible to play 667 baseball and get back into a pennant race. All the goobers out there that don't know Jack's squad about baseball, you got to get you a sweep. You got to get two or three sweeps. No, you don't.

No, you don't. Who said that? Goobers. Who's talking like this? Hey, go, cousin, his name sweeps. Jonathan, one minute in the show, Jonathan? No, no, no. I'm talking to Huntsville, Alabama, Radio.

Okay. Jonathan, this has got to be a record, Jonathan. It is not a record. And we're talking Astros, and we're happy, and the team is winning, and you're doing this. I feel like it's a triple penalty in the jar. Come on, Matthew. Yeah. You know what you're right.

All right, we're going to do Korean barbecue based off of the entire tip jar, which is overflowing at this point. I think we're getting the A5 Wagyu beef for that one now. We would afford that. No lunchtime special. Hey. Hey. Look at you dinner shaming me. Hey, that's he's dinner shaming me because I paid for the lunch special.

It's Matt Ross. I didn't see him complaining when he was chopping down that fried rice. That's good. Good morning, everybody. 1004 on this Monday. To make tree all out there. Good morning. seven o'clockers.

Kenny and Katie, good morning to you, my friend. He said he just emailed me and said he's a 955er. Oh, wow. He was in before the show even started. Appreciate it. Shout out to him. Yeah, five series wins, 667 baseball. Yeah.

Frankly, better than that. They were 750 over the weekend. They took three or four from the T. Beautiful. Just beautiful. Boy, Kenley Jansen. He's got him and, who's the other one that's had a lot of troubles against the Astros among the league closers? Ken Jowse.

No, no, no. Craig Kimbril. No, Kimbril had his issues, too. Kenley Jansen, there was somebody else. Closing for somebody. Oh, God. A Rollis Chapman in 2019. Boom.

A Rollis Chapman and Kenley Jansen, outstanding careers. Except the local team from Southeast Texas. Well, in big moments, for sure. Yeah. But, by the way, those of you... Chapman is still doing it at 38, by the way. Oh, yeah. Both of them are.

Jansen went like this longest of the season. yesterday again and he kind of fell flat. Chapman's got 16 saves this year. Yeah. They're still pitching. Yeah, good for them. Well, I don't know if Chapman's a good guy. He's had those domestic issues, so maybe not good for him. I know. Hey, so

those of you that are Joe Espottish to be fired because Sunday lineups guy, you're welcome to calling in it, 713-21-21-5-7-90. He's getting full credit for this winning run, correct? All these series wins in a row? Joe's spot a full credit? No, there's no chance. No?

You know what? We're going to do We've won five out of six And we've never done this before We're going to reverse aO We're going to go back to Saturday's game Okay It was Saturday or was it Friday or so?

Oh Friday they get their ass kicked Mm-hmm Spencer Ergetti By the way My God, where have you been? That's the regressure I mean he wasn't going to have a 150 yard I mean you was awesome in May

but he sucked in June We talked about this We talked about this Okay so we're going to go back In reverse AO We're going to go back to Friday's game The Astros lost and I've not looked at the tweets,

but my I'm assuming is that Joe Espada will not be the number one candidate on the Who's the blame? Obviously Spence Erigetti would be that guy. Okay. But he'll be sick. Oh, maybe, no, a lot of people probably called in and say they didn't pull him fast enough.

Oh, that's true. That could be possible. Anytime a starter gives up four runs, it's immediately Joe's fault for not pulling them fast enough. Even when there's literally nobody warming in the bullpen and the guy gives up like three straight base runners and there's no time. You should have pulled them.

So Saturday they bounced back. Kauai Tang did, tongue, excuse me, did not look good. And I would say probably a surprising move. Not that he didn't, not only did he not go to the bullpen, but they said, you know what? Why don't you check out Sugar Land for a while?

We'll see what the Sugar Land area has to offer. So I saw that, but I must admit, I wasn't super tuned in in the weekend. Did they mention they want to keep him stretched out down there? Or is this a retooling move to the bullpen? I don't know if they exactly know at this point, but I can tell you this. I don't think he's going to throw very much.

I think this is a de facto, you have options love that other pitchers don't have, go rest, we need to back your... There's no doubt about the... They said to the Florida Complex League? That would be really... Is he hanging out with Jose Abraeu and West Palm?

If you were in an Arkansas diplomat jersey, that's not going to be a great thing. That's be Carlos Christi, actually. But the point being is that they're going to just... He's going to get probably a little bit of a mini vacation. honestly because they just feel like his innings are way too high and have been and he's pacing on a high level and that's maybe the reason

why he's regress the last handful of starts. You got another decision coming up. You got Christian Javier's ready to go. There's nothing else he can possibly do. You got Lance McCullors who is not far behind him. Now, the question is what do you do with Javier? Do you insert him in the starting lineup?

Do you put him to the bullpen? And who do you get rid of? Aniel de la Santos has been terrible as it. I mean, I know he got to finish things off yesterday, but he was not good. Yeah, he's in Joe de los Santos. He's a jag. He's just a guy. I mean, we appreciate him getting the five saves he's gotten this season, with Hayter being

down early especially, but he's regressed predictably. Yeah, life is rough. What's our man, Logan Van Wye? Goes two straight games. That's great. What does he get? He gets a demotion as part of it. So baseball's cruel that way.

One way ticket to Sugar Land. And so, you know, And this will be more for Joe probably. I'm sure he'll get asked about it today. We'll have a chance to visit with him tomorrow about that. But there are too many starting pitchers. Yeah. Which means?

I don't know. I mean, I really don't know because I don't. Six-man rotation? You don't need it. Guys in the bullpen? Yeah, you don't need it. But it's the middle of the season. You can always keep guys along a little extra rest.

If it was a stretch of games where you could give six, but you're already getting days off and you're getting the All-Star break. You know who needs rest, Ross, is the bullpen. That's what you need an extra arm down there. I don't think it's, I mean, I would say, look, if Joe comes out today and says we're going six, man, I mean, it's not the worst decision. But honestly, he's better, the construction of the Astros pitching staff is better served with five starters. It just is right now.

Well, Tong was one of your better relievers, and he's not there now. Yeah. So I don't know what's going on. I just can't see any other way, because McCullors did bullpen work last year. He didn't like it. But you know what? look, you're a free agent in the year. You've already been hurt.

You weren't great before you got hurt. You have no leverage. He's walking off into the sunset, it feels like. So you've already lost that deal as it is. So if he can say, look, you can go to him and say, Lance, look, I know you don't want to do this, but we need you here. You've been gone for a long time. You weren't great when you were here. You're making a lot of money.

If you're making a lot of money, you kind of owe us. Yeah. That's how I would kind of see it. Now, I think they'd be a little more eloquent of how they say it, but that's the just. of it, right? Yeah. He can't control his destiny. He has no foundation in the last three years to dictate what he

should do in the lineup. He's going to be a team player. No matter what it ends up happening. Especially if he retired. I mean, there's a chance you can retire at the end of the year. Right, but I don't need to retire in the middle of the season. I mean, I guess he could. No, no, no, no. Honestly, with him, it wouldn't shock me. Just because of his personality of like, you know, he's kind of independent.

Does what he wants. He's not. He's... You're working your way back like. as he wants to pitch. All right. So we got the Astros to get to today. We have a lot of NBA little things moving around

including some stuff with the rockets. People have been clamoring sports RV for the rockets to do something. Well, Fred Frambly did something today. We'll just tell you what he did. And the Rockets may be in on another point guard who haunted

us about two months ago. Okay. How about that for professional radio T's? I'm confused as hell. I'm ready. That's what we're here for. But a lot of NBA things going on, including opt-outs and renegotiations. And, you know, the NBA, I guess the free agency period starts tomorrow. Tari Easton, been given a qualifying offer. What of that is just to preserve him here or to get an extension with him or a sign and trade? You don't know. A lot of little things going on, which is kind of nice. Yes, it is nice. I will say this. Even before I was calling games,

I think the best offseason in sports is basketball, don't you? Most intriguing, yes. I would say so easily. Because usually... Baseball, hot stove can heat up a little bit. Baseball can give you on trade deadline. The basketball is like a soap opera. Yeah.

And football, to me, it's more about just resigning your guys. And the only reason why you don't resign with a particular team is because your team runs out of cap space. It's probably mid. Like Pat Mahomes is not going, man, I cannot wait to go into the city. Yeah, he does. He just doesn't. I mean, Josh Allen, unless he falls off the map. is going to be a Buffalo bill for life.

We're close to it. And then just an awful, awful story today and Good Morning America about a guy that haunted the Texans for a lot of years, now battling a very, very terrible illness. And I watch it today, and not that we're going to spend a lot of time talking about it, but Chris Johnson diagnosed with ALS.

The Randback? Yeah, about a year ago. Oh, no. And he's already lost the ability to speak. I watch it today. Jesus. I'm telling you, there are two diseases, is not that we get all clinical on you here, Rossi, to get depressing in this early part of the show.

But it truly saddens me, there's a lot of different illnesses out there. But the two that just hit home to me so hard is ALS and pancreatic cancer. No one survives either one of them. No one says I beat ALS. No one says I beat pancreatic cancer. No one ever does it. Now you can, there's medications and there's trials and there's what, but nobody wins the battle. Everybody loses.

and it's just kind of sad and to see this amazing running back who a year ago to this day was holding up his daughter and now he's confined to a wheelchair and can't speak oh my god it was just... Yeah, it's crazy. I'm just reading it right now. It's a sporadic ALS which apparently is very fast acting

and had no history in his family at all with it. No family history, wow. Which then the question becomes does the number of hard hits that he hit to the head? Does that... Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, who knows? Yeah, but a very sad situation. But we will try to focus on the positive thing

of life. And that is your Astros on the cusp. On the wall of card. On the precipice of grace and greatness. That they are. 1014 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you'd like to join us, 713, 212-5-790. Ross is going to host to Tell the Truth today.

Now, Jonathan got great news. You either win or lose a point today, one way or the other, because if John... Not against me. No, but no, against the field. Because he can make up ground if he gets it right. No, he can't make any ground. But if he gets it wrong

No, I'm not paying it. Listen to me. You win if you can fool him. I guess. Right, fine. Put your money on your mouth this. Okay, you want to pay a bet? Let's do a $1 bet on it. No, let's not.

I'm going to save a dollar. Now, you've not, and I told you about this yesterday. There's no way you thought of these cards. Oh, man, I thought of one, but I can't remember it. Okay, well, it requires four, but that's neither here nor there. 1021. Good morning, Houston, Texas. We appreciate you spending some time with us today.

Matt and Ross with you on 790. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. If you want to join us through Twitter, you may do that as well. At SportsMT, at SportsRV. Instagram is also up and running as well. Ooh, yeah.

I believe the last picture of Ross put up on his Instagram, the list things have changed, was those pair of rib-eyas you put up there. Yes, I did. pan-seared, pepper-crusted, delicious. Mm-hmm. We could do a cooking class, you know, like a segment on the show. They do it on TV.

Why can we do on a radio? They used to do that on KTRH in the mornings. I used to produce that, and we had to hook up the, they would go into the kitchen in our old building. Did you know that? I did not know that. Yes. On Love it? No, no, no.

Oh, the old one down the street. Okay, I got it. Down the street. Okay. They were literally like hookups, and it was on the board. I could turn it on. the microphones that they had in the kitchen. On KTRH in the morning? Yes, Lanham J.P would go do like a cooking segment.

Yeah. Damn. I used to be with them in the mornings. Yeah. Going back quite a while, but man, I did not know that. And how did it sound to the person's ear? It was not, it was, it sounded like they were doing it on a morning show, but you couldn't see anything.

Well, here's the thing you can do now in 2026. You can just go get some bunch of sound effects. You can't be like, look at this fluffy omelet. No, you can't see it. It's the radio. We could just get, we could have Jonathan dig up 15 ingredients on sound effects. Okay. And just start playing them. Let's go ahead and scrap this idea.

Yeah, it's not a good idea. It feels like a lot of work for not much of a payoff. It's not. We're good. Although, I will tell you something, something we did Friday. We did it sponsored, maybe. On the show. Okay.

We did something that was so spectacular that we, again, some of the funniest things we've ever done are things organically done. Uh-huh. And we're going to have to do this like in December of next, the other of this year. I thought we were hilarious, and I don't want me to Tudar on Horn here, but it's okay. When we were recording lines for the baseball labor negotiations and the lock-up. Yeah, that was good. So I think we need to do that once the season is done.

All right. Just take a segment and just record everything. So if Ross, you and I wanted to sleep later or take a segment off or go get some lunch or something, we could just play these sound, we could play these soundbys. And we were talking about the labor negotiations are not going well for those of you that are on baseball. then it's it's it's two sides arguing about each other's side saying what are you talking about this is ridiculous we're insulted by this and it's only going to get worse until it gets better yeah the owners are negotiating in bad faith they're floating stuff they know they're never going to get agreed yeah and the players are saying

under no circumstance are we ever going to have a salary cap which i mean you kind of had to say it but if it doesn't get if the owners say we're not playing baseball again until you get a salary cap then they're going to have to acquiesce somewhere so someone's going to have to give him. It was to be who's going to do, who's going to blink first. All right. So we will do that. We'll say that for like maybe All Star Week. Oh, All Star Week? That'd be great to do that. Oh, okay. I thought you've been into the season. I did too, but then I'm thinking about All-Star. So about the first week in November. Oh, you hear what he did, folks?

Hopefully. And I'm going to say this for the five millionth time. No one should apologize for the American League West. somebody hasn't but somebody not no no no no no we can say it suck but don't apologize for it it's the division the astros are in yeah it is what it is it is what it is so nobody it's ours and we love it yeah it's like if you grew up in beaumont i mean as a kid i grew up in the national league west converted the national league central yeah and now i'm an american league west bro i miss all those matchups with the pirates of easy wins is it crazy that you only played one league for the longest time and then people lost their mind about you're going to do what play 18 interleague games how dare you do you're going to play a

natural right no no no no you know who was the worst the astros are switching to the american league i'm never going to watch them again guy you watched you're a fraud and a liar well this is not real baseball the pitchers don't hit i'm never watching this again you're at the world series parade shut your bum ass up well there was two different groups people that said that That was the first group and the second group was, I'm never watching baseball again after 1994 strike. Yeah. Because here's the thing that the owners and the players both know,

you're going to get very mad at them. They don't care. There will never be a point where you will hear, we've got to come back for the fans. Now, if they say that, they're lying to you. Remember, the average person lies three times a day. I lie significantly more than that, and I'm uncomfortable telling you that.

Yeah, we know. But the grandiose is they do not care. They want to get back on the field so the owners can make their profits and the players can collect their own, their large salaries. They're not worried about the sanctity of the game. They're not worried about opening day in the bunting around the stadium. They're not worried about mom and apple pie and cracker jack or the playing of the Star Spangled Band or the seventh inning stretch. These two sides have dug in their heels and will continue to do it. do so until somebody blinks.

It's crazy because ratings are the highest since 2017. You just got a brand new TV contract. Attendance is the highest ever. The last two or three years of attendance have been highest ever in baseball history. Everything is growing. Even a sucky Tigers team yesterday who is now 14-500 and 33,000 at their game on Sunday. Attendance is up, ratings are up, social media impressions are up, and then they're just going to dig their heels in and have the game.

go away. People love the world baseball classic too. Terrible. All right. So let's get to what we're here to discuss which is the here and the now. And the Astros Christian Walker, God bless you, young fella. I know he's regressed a little bit in the last 60 days, but

the Astros are doing it, and I know that Kevin Ashenfeld have brought this up on TV yesterday. The Astros are doing a lot of their heavy lifting in the seventh inning and beyond of games. Yeah. They were down 3-0 yesterday. Yeah. And... Which is no way to go about life in baseball.

take it we didn't get it. But it also means you're a clutch team. And that also gives you the hope that. Well, how about this? That you don't give up. Never going to give you up. Never going to let you down. Oh, were you saying Joe Espott is not letting, he's letting them fight to the end? No, nobody's saying that. Oh. No, you're the first one that said that because no one would possibly think that Joe Espott is fighting. They won nine out of 12. If they lost nine of 12, who'd be getting blamed? Dana would be looking for work. Joe Spot will be looking for a for sale sign. Only two games below 500.

I love that. Now, to be fair, this is the softest part of their schedule and has been. Yeah. And they had to do this. But they're playing 600 baseball. But they're taking care of business, Matt, every day. Mm-hmm. And every way.

Yeah. And they're doing it with different. I mean, look, Eastlock Predes has had a hell of a week. I don't they, do they do player the weeks in baseball? Yeah. Okay. He needs to win it. Because three for five yesterday with him, two more rubies.

How many rubies has he had in this road trip? It feels like he's got at least. He's one every day. He needed to wake up and we kind of talked about that of where he was, he wasn't terrible. And his OPS was like around 740s or whatever. But yeah, for him to be waking up and being a centerpiece of the lineup or a big piece of the lineup, I should say, that they need. It's been huge. Your buddy, Jake Myers got one hit yesterday. It was a double. Oh, that's a hot streak, right? No. Oh. Batting average is down to 205. OPS of 582. He's simmering. We're going to come to a full boil. And again, it's crazy folks. Really quick. Let me give you the option. field numbers of yesterday.

It's just one game, small sample size, but it's frankly an indicative of what the team's been. Loporffito gets one at bat and two plate appearances draws one walk, one strikeout. Cam Smith goes 0 for three with a strikeout. Taylor Tremel goes 0 for one with a walk. Bryce Matthews, O for three.

Jake Myers, one for four. You got two hits out of about five different outfielders yesterday. You know what? I'm writing that down. Ask Ask, ask Bogey, what that's going on with Jake? Yeah, because it's pronounced. He's worse than even like his worst. This is his worst season of his major league career.

So he's better than this. I know some of you are laughing when you hear me say that, but he is better than this. Well, you're worried about your fan club enrollment. Well, I'm worried about that. I mean, that's fine. I don't take news. It's all about the vibes and the love. But the vibes are low right now, Matthew.

There's not much love either. Not a lot of love. Yeah. All right, 1029, sports talk, 790. It's like Israel-A-Ran levels of love right now. It's not good. Who's getting more love? Those two countries or Jake Myers?

Probably those two countries. I just mean the love between them. Oh. Okay. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-5-7-90. 7-1-3-2-1-7-90. Look at Chilin that putting in some new music.

I like it. I don't understand. and the word he's sent this person saying, but I'm sure it's great. Okay. Is it a master plan? Is that what I heard you say? Mass appeal. Oh. All right.

1037, Matt and Ross, with you. By Gangstar. Gang star. Is it two words or one? That's two. St. A-R-R. Oh, there's an extra R. Oh, we used to, you know what I should have let him spell it, Jonathan?

We used to do a hip-hop spelling bee with Matt. Oh, I know he failed. Like, for example, mystical. I did fail, but I would get, uh, we used to do like 10 or 11. I would get two or three right. Mystical? Yeah, mystical, the rapper. Okay, I know how to spell regular mystical.

There's no chance at that. Oh, by the way, mystical sentenced to 20 years in Louisiana rape case. What the hell? Mystical, what is going on with you? Okay, let me write it down. Really quick. Okay, here we go. M-I-S-T-I-K-A-L.

That's correct. Yes! Wow! Look at that right there. I wrote it down there. I wrote it down. Look at that. Damn.

All right, let's do one more real quick. One more real quick. From one half of the duo Outcast with Andre 3000, that would be Big Boy. Big Boy. Yeah, be Big Boy would be two Ys at the end, so I'm not into that. Big Boy. May I have the number, can I have it in a sentence, please? Big Boy is the same one taking the knuckles to your eye.

Country of origin, please? It would be Atlanta, Georgia. Okay. Oh, see, I'm confused. I think I know how the front of it starts, but the back I'm confused with. Mm-hmm. Oh, all right, I'm going to go wrong here. I'm just going to go B-I-G-G-B-O-I, big boy.

B-O-B-O-W? B-O-W-B-O-Y. B-I-G-B-O-I. The same M-F taking them knuckles to your eye. See, I put the rhyme in there for you. I tried. You know what? You know, I usually use an accent puppet.

You're going to give me the spelling bee puppet. That's fair. That's because we're fair and balanced. 1039 on Sports Talk 7-9. If you want to chime in on the Astros, we'd love to have you. Are you okay? Are you okay? Your stroke is your microphone okay?

Well, that's what makes sure we're on the air. Boy, they lost five out of six. It'd be fire everybody time. Let's call in. Can I ask you that for the nine million's time? Yes, it's too easy. Too easy. It's right.

It's okay. what's been your favorite part of this Astro Surge? Let's be positive on a Monday. 713-21-2-5-7-90. All right, what have you loved in the run that has seen them go to two games under 500? I'll just throw... What have you been most impressed with? I'll give you one.

Please. Yeah, the late comebacks. Yeah. The clutch late hitting and the extra inning wins as well. Because there have been some times where they have been struggling in some. in some late innings. They've been struggling, especially on the road. It's been not so great over the years in extra innings. Can he listen to show?

Last 30 games, Astros are 18 and 12. What's been your favorite part of the 18 victories? Beautiful. It feels like they've been better than that, actually. I'll give you another thing that I've loved. Please. Josh Hater. Boss.

Now, he did walk, did he walk, the bases loaded yesterday, I think? I actually wasn't sure. I think he did. Yeah, three. Yeah, he did. And then he just Do the gas. It's okay.

So what? The last two pitches were over 97 miles per hour. He's got a .75 ERA. Yeah, he's giving up one home run. It was a home run in a game There was a two-run cushion, so it was fine. By the way, Dillo Santos. Engel de la Santos.

Almost cost the game. The fly ball with the deep right field. Yeah, well, he's the Nio Della Santos, man. That's fair. I get it. Yeah, it's just He's got to fit his role, Matt. He's the Burger King of Relievers.

Yeah, you can't make Padden Oswald the lead the lead man. Stop. What? Did you just hear that analogy? It was okay. Jonathan, he's the Burger King of Reliebysion. You'll have him, but you don't desire it. He can get the job done.

Yeah. Yeah, but you're really just piggybacking off of my Galvison as the Burger King of Beaches. So I don't want to give you full credit for that. That's why I kind of glossed over it. I'm going with that you can't have Pat and Oswald as like Batman and the leading man, you know? Is he the Michael Keaton of Batman? Inyo de los Santos He's more than George Clooney

Who was the worst Batman Although George Clooney is a leading man George Clooney See I only saw George Clooney And Michael Keaton I don't have seen none of the other ones You've never seen Christian Bale No

Or Robert Pattinson No Christian Bales Or Ben Affleck Christian Bell's what Is he the best Batman? Jonathan you're wrong That's okay

You're thinking of Heath Ledger Heedger Yeah I was mixing it too It's okay. It's okay. Don't try to correct me, and be wrong. The last, the last Batman movie I saw, I think, was when the Pingu was in it, Danny DeVito. Are you serious?

That's not my genre. Okay. Have I seen more rom-coms in Batman? Of course. That's, okay. You should say to each his own, Ross, move along. To each his own, I'll move along. Shee, on 790.

Shea, good morning to you. No, Val Kilmer either. Maybe. Good morning, guys. Hi, Shane. Man, uh, hey guys. How is y'all's day going?

Amazing. I'm a little bit floored right now. I, I think I'm a little floored too, Ross. I wanted to talk Astros, but now I got to think I, we got to shift the attention back to Matt. No,

Christian Bail Batman. The Dark Night Trilogy is one of the greatest trilogies of superhero movies ever. I don't doubt that. I just, it's just not my cup of teeth. I've only seen one. on Spider-Man. Is I going to make you a bad person, too?

The Spider-Man's a great girl? What are we doing? I know. I know. I don't say a lot of movies, except when they're on Netflix. Yeah, he's watching all the Lifetime movie networks, but he's not watching Batman. Okay. Can we move along here? Let's get to some Astroshae. I'm sorry. Yeah, let's keep it Astroshae before our heads explode. That's all right. That's all right. Yeah, it's okay. I think, you know, yes, what was the best part about this road trip? I'd have to say, you know, Yordon has been going through a little bit of a skid lately, and, you know, that's expected with any baseball player, especially someone as incredible as Yordaun,

and the production we've seen for him. But, man, I got to throw much love and respect to that guy, Isok Paredes. I don't think anybody has stepped up better than he has in the time that Yordaun has kind of been on this little bit of a downturn. So a player of this road trip has got to be him. He had, what, like four games in a row with an hour? RBI. He contributed our first, I think, first run batted in for three games in a row or something like that. I mean, pretty incredible what he's done. And I think that's been a pretty awesome and

welcomed kind of turn of events for this Astros team, especially. And if I had to sum up this road trip in one word, resilience, man. Like, how many times do we kind of get in a position where we were either behind or, you know, ahead, let the other team back in it, and we still clawed back and wound up winning a couple of crucial games, despite the one dud, where we lost, what, 8 to 0, but we're not going to talk about that. Focus on the positive. So, yeah, I think ESOC and the resilience to this team is really coming out to playing.

Man, what a welcomed turn of events for this Astros team. Very well said, Che. Thank you for the phone call. I appreciate you. I'm going to tell you how crazy a season is when it comes to Isak Pred is. And it goes back to when Ross, you and I were in spring training in February. Okay. I'll explain when it comes back.

1045 Sports Talk 790. It's Matt and Ross. We are with you today until 2 p.m. To tell the truth coming up in 45 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. We've got some juicy NBA stuff going on. We'll get to more of that as the morning progresses and show does. But Fred Van Vleet has opted into his 25 million. dollar player option for

$2,026, 27. You're saying, well, okay, that's a lot of money, and sure. That will make him a free agent at the end of this year. There has been at this point, nothing in terms of an extension where he could have rejected it and signed the new deal. It also eliminates his

no trade clause. So if the rockets wanted to trade him in any point this year, they would not have to get his blessings on that. The rockets apparently are close to signing markets. smart away from the Los Angeles Lakers. So if those two guys were together,

it would be a veteran-laden point guard position, which then means you're probably not using Reed Shepard and or Man Thompson to ball handle at all, in terms of primarily ball handlers. Yes. And Draymond Green has opted out of his contract to stay with the Golden State Warriors. Doesn't mean he's not going to go back there,

but he's opting out because the warriors apparently would like to have enough financial freedom to bring LeBron James to the Bay Area. Hmm. That's speculation. The speculation was I saw a trade yet. What did you say trade for Anthony Davis? And sign LeBron is what I saw. That is.

Okay. Whatever. They're trying. On the rumor mill. They're trying, it feels like to me Golden State is going to try to look. We don't have enough young talent. So let's get all the old talent. Let's get as old as we can, been there, done that.

teams have done that before. It doesn't normally work out. It does not. Who's the oldest team to win a championship recently? Probably the 22 Warriors. Yeah. Normally does not work. Five years ago.

But they're going to go with tried and true as compared to the... Look, some teams don't want to go in a rebuild. Let me tell you something. It's painful being in a rebuild. I've called three years of a rebuild. It's painful. It's painful and there's no guarantees. That's right.

The Rockets came away with zero superstars from their rebuild. Yeah. No disrespect to amend Thompson, who is. a star and Alperin Shingoon who is an all-star, they're not superstars. Golden State is so financially successful that they can go over the second apron and don't care. Yeah, at some point you get hard cap, though. That you do. But I don't think they're at that point. But obviously, Draymond Green is well aware of the situation. Now, it doesn't

mean necessarily, they may say, we're spending all over money on getting Anthony Davis here and getting LeBron here, we don't need you, but my guess is normally these guys, teams and these players are in the same spirit and going, all right, here's what I need you to do so we can open up some space and then you take the rest. Who knows? I don't want to get into a warrior cap conversation. I'm just saying that

the if-then pieces are starting to come together that this helps out LeBron in terms of trying to come to play for Golden State. So Steph Curry, Draymond Green, LeBron James, Jimmy Butler. Nope. Jim Butler was out. Would Jimmy Butler be out of it? But again, he makes a

hellacious amount of money. It's funny. All these teams want to trade players that have little trade value. Jimmy Butler is hurt and overpaid. Look, there's people that are saying that the rockets are trying to move during Vinnie Smith. I don't doubt that. Okay, to what? Where?

But what do you get back in return? And how do you get, how do you, that's a lot of money. To the Australian League? So I think it's sometimes easier than done. Okay. Oh, it's our friend Gary on line number four. Oh, I love it. I hope he's calling you out about something.

There's nothing. I've done nothing to be just a pure angel for the last week. Gary, you're on 790. What do you want? Hey, good morning, guys. Nice show so far today. Thank you. Just to give you my view on the road trip that we just finished,

there's three or four things that really stood out to me. One of them was the Astros used to always be able to come from behind in the latter innings in the previous years. Well, they did that two or three times in this road trip, so that impressed me. The other one was, of course, Paredes, and I love it when he gets up there. so many times he gets an 02 count.

You can almost expect it to be a full count, and then he does good after that. He impressed me. My old buddy Emi, with that last start he had, all those strikeouts, you can see he's getting more at ease. You can see he's expressing his self more freely, tensed up. But my MVP of the road trip was Josh Hader, man.

what nails having that guy back out there. And to me, that made all the difference in the world. So that's what impressed me on the road trip, guys. Keep up to good work. And we'll talk to you soon. All right, Gary. That was a good call. Nothing wrong with that call at all.

Yeah. I wish you would have taken a couple shots. But that's all right, Gary. You know what, Gary's maturing? So can I. You don't call takes shots. So can you. I'll hold my breath.

Gary is welcome to call back and whatever he wants to now. That's beautiful. How about that? And Josh Hader has been a beast. Yeah, even with the three walks. That's fine. ERA of 0.75. Well, the number one thing it does is it backs everybody up a little bit.

To rely on Ocard and King for as many high leverage, it's not fair to those guys. Abreu is just a guy at this point. Unfortunately, yes. Della Santos, frankly, is getting put into more important positions than Abreu is. That's not good. So you're just kind of holding your deep breath on that. Yeah. I'll tell you another unsung hero's been A.

J. Blueball has been really good, too. Yes, he looked sharp the last couple times out. Hashtag eating's eater. Yeah, I mean, yeah. It's been up and down for him a little bit because he was giving it. He looked sharp at the start of the season, then started giving up some runs, but last few times out, he's looked better. Back to what I was saying about spring training. Do you remember, I don't know if you do, but we would go into the clubhouse every morning before our show started when we were down in spring training.

And when the position player showed up, there was a player that always had his back to the media, the back to the chair, and facing straight ahead of his locker. It was Issaq Pradesh. Because he didn't want to answer questions about his future. He obviously knew that his name was being brought up in trade conversations. And they were being brought up in trade conversations. Now, you can't say, well, I'm certainly glad they didn't get rid of him. If the Astros were healthy all the way through this course of the year, Isok Pradesh will still have been brought up as a trade chip.

But because of the situation with Pena hurting himself and the fact that in Colorado's Korea, yeah, the dominoes fell to a certain situation to say ESAC Predis is not tradable at this point. You need him to play. And he's been very, very good. So anybody that was saying, you know, I told you you shouldn't have rid of him. Well, duh, because he was the insurance policy.

You don't get rid of insurance policies if you put that insurance policy in play. But I just think it was kind of crazy that Isak just felt uncomfortable, didn't know his position and his place in the Astros Clubhouse. And now he's a key part of what this team has. has been able to do the last 30 days or so. It's been beautiful. I mean, it's, it is interesting how it kind of played out.

And it was one of the scenarios we laid out all offseason. We talked about how it was going to be a foregone conclusion that he was going to be gone. Is it, well, what if an injury happens? And then it did. Carlos Correa out for the year. And he's been huge. And he's been stepping up. Last 15 games, Matthew, 339 average 942 OPS.

And we ain't missing Alex Breggman. No, we're not. Or Kyle Tucker? By the way, I was watching the Padres Dodgers game on Saturday because I got no life. Kyle Tucker took a strike three right down on the main street against the pods. It happens. We ain't missing him. I miss him a little bit.

I miss Hesu. Right field. That's been great. Who would have thought on June 29th, I think again we're going to be missing Hesu Sanchez again. Is he still hitting? Those words never spoken. I would have ever thought on this radio show. Oh, wow.

Cam Smith is, he's got a full win above report. placement for Game Smith. He must be really dealing out there right field. Yeah, because the bat's still aren't doing enough. No, he's hitting these gargantuan home runs. He's been better, yes. OPS up to 660 for him. You know what?

Let's get to 700. That'd be nice. That means he's obviously doing something the better in the last half of the season. If he could get to 700 and play Gold Glove caliber right field, that's good. Yeah. It's kind of what you thought you'd get from Jake Myers. 700 OPS and Defend his position. All right.

Second hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We just lost audio from our earphones as well. I think Jonathan's touching something back in there. Yeah, Jonathan, I don't know. There it goes. Thank you. All right. We'll start with Will and Memorial.

The rest of you come on in and join us. 713-212-5-790. Matt and Ross with you till 2 o'clock today to tell the truth. Ross style in 30 here on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Astros come from behind, go to extra frames and knock off the Tigers. We have the Rockets Fred Van Bleet opting in. We have World Cup play over at Houston Stadium coming up in an hour from now.

We had Yankees and Red Sox on Sunday night baseball. Tell me if you've ever heard that before. What else we got going on? Garrett Cole's been giving up a lot of home runs for Pete's sake. Do we need to get Garrett on a mobile here soon? Maybe. It's been rough going for the Yankees. for me in the Yankee uniform.

It is funny. You know, I'm standings whore now. Why are you such a standings whore, Matt? Because I like to see how the local nine are doing there, Garrett. There are two teams with a 578 winning percentage or higher. There are 15 teams that play America League Baseball. Okay. Two of them have a 578 winning percentage.

If you had a 530 winning percentage, which was basically what, five games above 500. Hold on, I'm writing this down. You'd be in first place in two different divisions. Okay. By the way, you know who won't... Just say the AL sucks. AL sucks. And the National League is so much better.

You've got the Braves playing 600 ball. You have Milwaukee playing 620 ball. You have the Dodgers playing 643 ball. Damn. Now, things can change in a seven-game series, but... Of course. Go ahead and crown their ass. The Dodgers are winning it all.

Plus 152 run differential. the best in baseball. I'll say this. I'll be very curious to see who ends up with Paul Skeen's. Not Paul Skeeons. Tarich Scoobel. Although the Pirates may get rid of him too. You never know.

And Paul Schoen, well, Paul Schoens eventually. Yeah. Pirates. It's a matter. Well, we'll see what happens in the new CBA. That's true. Maybe Pittsburgh is going to have the force to spend some money. But Tarx Scoobo will not.

So where will... I need Tarc Schooble in the National League. Is that okay? Can one man ask for just one small little thing? National League. That'd be nice. And it's funny, if it goes to Dodgers... Actually, you're asking too much. American League is already trash.

That's true. By the way, congratulations, I guess, those of you that are Ranger fans, there's a couple of you in town. Your team at 500 is in first place all by yourselves in the American League West. They've won four in a row. The Texas Rangers.

Run differential, negative 8. God, what a crap division. It's awful. Even the Los Angeles Angels, who are 13 games under 500, are only six and a half out. Oh, they have a better run differential than the Astros Angels.

They've had some bad luck. That's a shame. Yeah. And then I'll conclude our angel conversation for the day. 713-212-5-7-9, unless you want to bring up, I don't know, Juice Newton's songs. Let's go to Will in Memorial on 790 to open up the 11 o'clock hour. Will, good morning.

Good morning. Hey, I apologize. guys you guys I had to drop off a few minutes ago. No worries. I heard you guys talking about the CBA when I first got in the car. And so here's a question to you. If you're a player and the owners vote to have a ceiling and a floor as for a salary cap goes, wouldn't that benefit you as a player?

Yes. But the ceiling and floor that they've proposed so far is 70%. The floor is 70% of the cap. And in the other leagues, it's 90%. so there's more of a golf yeah yeah I would think you want to kind of copy of the league wouldn't you they were pretty successful the owners haven't done that

that's the wiggle room we're talking about that will probably have to be changed is they're going to have to raise that floor a little bit okay okay that's that one okay second point did they bring uh I thought yesterday they brought Louola up I guess that's how it's pronounced yeah Eulola

yeah yeah say again are they auditioning him no he's not going to start he's supposed to come out they've been using him in the bullpen because he can't throw strikes. He's got terrible control issues. So he's out of the bullpen, he's been throwing

strikes a little bit better, and I think they're trying to make him more just fastballs, I think fastball slider. Okay, okay. And the reason, the only reason I'm asking is supposedly what I read about this guy, this guy's stuff is impressive. Yes. He's had very impressive stuff. He had very high strikeout numbers, but he also had very high walk numbers.

Walks have been a real big problem for him. They've been trying to keep him as a starter, but they recently moved him to the bullpen. I think the results have been pretty good. So now he's getting a call-up, so he's going to be a bullpen arm. Okay. So last comment, you know, last year when the Dodgers played Toronto, I think the Dodgers were like overwhelming favorites.

Yeah. Went to a game seven. Absolutely. And we saw what happened, right? Yeah. So you and I made this comment about three weeks ago, that all we want to do is see the Stroes get in the play. That is correct.

Just get in. 100%. They would not be the favorites. Yeah, thank you, Wolf, for the phone call. They wouldn't be favorites. Probably in any series they play. but you don't have to be, you got to play at your best in series,

not necessarily over a lengthy stretch of time. Yeah, the Dodgers just give themselves the best chance. There's no guarantee. Nope. They did win, by the way, just because they got pushed to seven. I mean, they won. The Thunder got pushed to seven two years ago.

They won. Yeah, they were the better team. You still want the best team. I would take the best team over the hottest team. But in baseball, well, I don't even have a luck factor than others. I would say that, 2019, hi.

Yeah. It feels like to me that more NBA favored teams win than more Major League Baseball. There's less of a, I mean, there is a luck factor, obviously in basketball because of the three-point luck and stuff like that, especially recently. But if you go to baseball, I feel like there's most, look, the Dodgers in 2017 were better than the Astros. Who won the series? Astros. In fact, the Astros had to go to Los Angeles to win the World Series. Yeah.

So you knew that the Dodgers had home field advantage. Yeah, they had the better record. They were the better team, but, well, things can happen. Especially. You win a crazy game two, you win a crazy game five, and then you win the series. Well, again, not even count the championship series or the World Cards, the World Series. The Wild Cards are best of three. You can have two bad days in a row.

Oh, absolutely. You can have three bad days and five out of a series division series. You can run in a Terrick Scuba one game and then a crazy AJ Hinch bullpen game, the next game. Yeah. I mean, so if the Astros make the playoffs, in my mind, they would have just as much chance of making the American, American League Championship Series and anybody else would. I mean, to forecast the raise in Yankees is to be the ALCS, I mean, it would probably be the favorite to pick,

but it wouldn't be the one I would put a whole lot of money on. Somebody's going to get hot. So just get in and let Tatutsu Yi-Mai throw a World Series perfect game. Or six innings. That'd be good. How many complete games have we had in baseball this year? I think one? Is that true?

I don't know. It's not been a lot. Was it an eight-in-complete game? That's a great question. We're losing complete games. we are losing 20 game winners and we are never ever

going to have another 300 game winner in baseball or yeah or 30 game winner in a season was a Danny McLean? Yeah but that's yeah I'd even say that before the event of the ballpen of a 20 game winner yeah 20 might happen but that's going to be very very rare

like Verlander is struggling to get to 275 he ain't getting that. Poor guy I'm just saying actually he's not poor guy No he's fine he's married to a voluptuous woman and makes a lot of money A lot of money got a storied career Yeah first bout a hall of fame He's an all time

A highest earning pitcher of all time And I think maybe even player Or is he He's definitely pitcher And player I'm not sure Tiger or Astor are going in the Hall of Fame With the cat tiger Yeah me too

I do come on I agree All right 1110 on sports talk 7a Ross We have to tell the truth coming up at 20 minutes Okay I've given you like three time stamps to make sure. But I feel like you've been typing over there so you kind of know what's going on. Oh, yeah.

Mm-hmm. See, sometimes I give on-air clues to what's coming up. Yeah, I got... And Jonathan, you're going to be off next Monday. But I think it's your turn to be doing some tell the truth, too. But I'm going to give you like two weeks head notice on that. Okay, okay, okay. Because you've jungle a lot of things back there.

713-21-5-790, 7-7-1-3-2-1-1-2. 257. I'm congratulations to Freddie from the World Cup. He's now got a hotel room courtesy of

Gordon Ramsey. He went from a slum in the middle of Vermont to a five-diamond hotel. Okay. What a racket.

He's enjoying our great country. And capitalizing on using his social media platform to get stuff. Good for him. I'm really happy

for him. You seem like it. I am. I was verified life, by the way. You haven't got any free stuff yet. No. I don't know. I'm not tweeting enough.

I mean, the X platform is dwindling. It's not growing. Let's go. Let's get those numbers up. I can't. I can say, please follow me on Twitter. On exit, at SportsMT, and I'm not going to get a bump. You've got to tweet more.

You've got to say more salacious stuff. You've got to start breaking some news. You're Mr. Texans insider. You haven't broken one story. Don't, you mean. Yeah. I have the gold. and story. The one for the ages.

Okay. He shot himself on the foot. Correct. And remember, if the Texans don't make the AFC championship game, I got Nick Casario in trouble. Okay. And when those are... No, you said he's out. Did that really? Yes. You put your name on that. Are you sure I put my name on it? Yes.

We have a bet, but we never made the terms of the bet. I don't think. Let me look. Let me get to the no sure wrong. How many bets do we have right now? I feel like we got a lot on the burner. What was the most recent bet? We didn't make terms. We had a goal and a half.

And somebody had won. No, no, like a long term bet. Oh, 60 and a half games played next year in baseball. I might be backing off of that. But you're going to win because Yonon's going to play 130, so you're happy about that. Well, we'll see. He could get hurt. No.

Don't put that into an existence. He can tear an oblique tomorrow. That's enough from you on that. We need our man healthy. Let's get to the All-Star break because I was worried about those backs. I think, by the way, that's probably factored in him not doing the home run derby. Just get some rest. I don't disagree.

You know, last week I said, you shouldn't play. I am, I mean, I'll just put it bluntly. I'm talking about with the CBA, 60 and a half games. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't like anything about any All-Star. I don't like the games. I would rather just give everybody a long weekend and start the second half of the season on time. Okay.

I mean, especially in basketball. I mean, the football does this ridiculous Pro Bowl thing with flag football and Tug of War. It's in between the Super Bowl. Yeah, so it doesn't really matter. It doesn't really matter. It can't hurt you, Matt. Just look away. I don't worry. I do look away. All right. Everybody's losing our mind because Fred Van Vleek got rid of a bunch of his Instagram stories and notes and pictures, post.

Anything involving the Rockets? He's down to three posts. Hope we're okay. I was saving this for next segment. Oh, I'm sorry. You should have told me. I will have something to say about that in our next session. All right, now, this happens quite a bit. People clean their post a lot. He is still following a lot of people that are involved with the Rockets.

Players, associates, that whatnot. So it's just to tell the truth, huh? That's a little tease. Cause for concern. Or is it? Now, the rule again is, since you guys are not going competing with each other, Jonathan, you're either going to gain a point this week or you're going to lose a point because you're going mono-a-mono against Ross here.

That's fine. And you're down like seven or eight, right? You're so far off. No, I'm down five. It's 10 to 5. Okay. That's close. Okay, so it's a mono-a-mano direct.

That's a beating. It is. Not good. It's like in soccer. Nobody wants to be down 5-0. That's different. Oh, man, that's funny. Happy opening Wimbledon and Wimbledon for everybody.

Wimbledon Day? No, I'm locked in a World Cup. Let's go, baby. Japan, Brazil, the knockouts are here. Let's go! And by the way, that game is noon over at Houston Stadium, and I guess everybody will be in their seats at...

You know what really sucks? What do they don't say, kickoff? What do they say? First touch. Or kickoff. Okay. Kickoff works. Oh, doesn't you want to go to America.

I appreciate that. What are you going to say? Do you know what time it is in Japan right now? You know what? I don't look. Okay. It is 122 in the a.m. They kick off in 40 minutes.

They got to get to. get up at 2 a.m. if they want to watch their team. Well, it's funny because I get low-key obsessed about time. Time zones? Time zones. Okay. Not infatuation like standings, but it's just, I'm always curious what time something is. So the rockets are going to play in

China later this, during the preseason. Okay. In Masiao? That's you. You'll be going. Macau. McCau. Excuse me. I don't believe I'm going. And I'm okay that I don't want to I mean. You know, they got casinos there. I know You know they got Venetians? They got the Venetians very nice over there.

I know, but I don't want to miss that much time. I only get a certain number of days. 13-hour time difference. They got an MGM. They have a win. They have a Venetian. Do they have a roll and rugged? It does not look like they do.

13 hours in Macau. 1222. Can you get our flights there? Let's go. I don't want to go. Why not? I don't have an international bug in me. You don't want to gamble and have some delicious food?

That's called Lake Charles in Las Vegas. You don't want to rub elbows with Chinese businessman or losing billions? Are you sure I don't have my feet put in cement? No, I don't. How are you going to get your feet put in cement? You don't know. What are you talking about? There could be some sinister crime there.

Well, who's going to target you? You don't know. What do you get mixed up in? If I'm hot the tables? Well, you're hot at the tables. Oh, okay. You're hot at the tables is like you want 150 bucks. Do you think they're going to come out to you?

They got a legit high, high. high, high rollers there. Like American, like poker players will go over there and play for millions. Apparently that's where all the big whales are. Hmm. Then I'm safe. Yes, you're going to be fine, Matt. Okay.

So not going. I don't have an interest. That part of the world I don't have any interest in. Look, you have to be priming that when I'm going to London next September. That's about as far as the craziest I want to get. I'm proud of you for going to Galveston, quite frankly. So I'm proud of you for you for. leaving Kingwood for five minutes voluntarily.

That's because I'm usually working. That's right. We're proud of you, Matt. All right. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. Do we have any idea who we want to win this match coming up? I don't think this is, this is not affecting the United States. I can pull up the bracket. Bosnia plays Herzegovina.

But yes, when we, no, United States plays Bosnia. And Bosnia doesn't play each other. They have a combo country match. Yeah. They get Bosnia and Arizona. Govina? That's not fair. Hercocovina. Well, I'll also have an opinion on the United States in the bracket

coming up in the next segment as well. He actually got these things ready to go for to tell the truth. I'm kind of very excited about this. Well, let's see. Brazil, Japan will play the winner of the Ivory Coast versus, also known as the Colt Dev Wall, versus Norway.

Oh, man, Norway was like a sleeper. They're going to run up into Brazil if they win the next one. Well, Japan could upset them. Brazil trading at 73%. on Calchie. Use that promo code 7-9. It'll take good care of you. $20 to get you 20. So, World Cup question for Ross here.

Ask it for me to. I'll answer. Mr. Soccer Thomas. Yeah, Mr. So Thomas and Ross. So what happens now if they draw in the, because I know it's knockout. So they keep going 15 minutes. So they basically go overtime, or they call it extra time, of course. It will be two 15-minute halves. It'll be 15 minutes on one end, take a break,

15 minutes on the other end. after that they're like screw this we've been to run around for two hours it's time for penalty kicks what do you mean on one end uh you know like play both halves oh okay okay okay okay it play 15 minutes on one half then you know going to one going one way and then 15 minutes going the other to kind of even it out is there a stoppage time in that as well yes there's stoppage time in that as well i don't think there'll be a hydration breaks in those because they're just 15 minutes so they will play an extra 30 so you play 90 if nobody wins then you play a 30 minute overtime after that they've been running around for two hours they're gas so they just do people

K's, which is kind of a, I get it, kind of a hokey way to do it. But it's also high drama. Like last, in 2022, the final went to extra time and then PKs, France versus Argentina and Argentina, of all the things to potentially end in the world of gimmicky ending. Yeah. This is the least gimmicky. I mean, they, they have gone for two hours. Yeah. There's high drama about the order and who gets to do it, who doesn't. I'm all, for me, you can't be there for five hours. Like, for instance, I, hockey can go three and four over time. Yeah. And you're eventually going just somebody score. Right.

So that's what they do. And so they used to do, Jonathan, golden goal, which is like sudden death. But the problem was everybody would play defensively. Nobody would play not to lose in golden goal. So that's why they do the two 15 minute halves now.

Because sudden death sounds fun until you realize nobody's trying to attack and everybody just stands in the middle of the field. That makes sense. Yeah. I don't if you know the answer to this, but if you do, it makes you a slack or genius. What percentage of games in these type of events just end in overtime? Scoring in the 30 minutes? Yeah.

I couldn't tell you the percentage, but I would say at least half. A lot of times there is a goal scored an extra time, and then that's that. But you're correct insane. So is it first a score in the over? Especially in the overtime? No, no, no, no. You can score in the first half and then you can score back. A lot of times that happens.

Does I play 30 minutes? 30 straight minutes no matter what. Okay, wait a minute. So it's 15 a break. and then 15 more. But they play. So when you go from overtime, excuse me,

you go from regulation to a full 30 minute new game. Yes. The new 30 minute game, you can tie it 1-1, you can lose 2-0, you can win 2-0, yeah.

So if you fall behind 2-0 and score 3-0 and the last 6 minutes, you win 3-2. Yes. Okay. It can be some high drama. So no sudden death in the overtime.

No. They called it a golden goal. Well, I just told Jonathan. Oh, because somebody wants to score. Because they play defensively. Okay. It sounds good in theory, but then a lot of teams play not to win, or not to lose, I should say. I mean, I don't know if another person in the marketplace, it gives you more soccer information than this man to my right here.

God bless you. 713-212-5-790. Now, we have to tell the truth up next. Oh, one more thing. I should tell people who are betting or trading on the games. Most of the, the bet, the trade, honestly, I should look this up for Calshy to make sure, but I believe, well maybe if you're trading them to win or lose to advance okay you have to look at what you're trading you have them because a lot of times it's 90 minutes well so let's say matt you and i are at the

sports book in Vegas and we're betting Brazil to win you're not a time you're betting them 90 minutes check your trade or check your bet if you're going to a betting window because usually it's a 90 minute bet so if it's you could bet the draw after 90 minutes you have to bet which team to advance so i just looked it up and calci it's it's it's it's 73% for Brazil to advance. Ah. So just check your tickets. Check your tickets and check your trades.

Yeah. On Kalshi. All right. The Tell the truth is up next here on 790. I can tell the truth all the time. Ross, on the other hand, we make him do this once in a while. I'm a bastion of honesty. You're perhaps too honest.

I'd like you to line more. I can agree with that, honestly. Probably a lot of my family and people I know can agree with that. Way too honest. If you ask me a question, I try to answer directly. Yeah, sometimes sugar-coding things is a little better. I could pull things in for a softer landing sometimes. All right.

So, tell the truth this time. Jonathan, you are down five. You're going mono-a-mono against Ross. If I get in, I just get in for blank and giggles here. Okay. How many truths we have this week? One truth. And three lies.

Now, Jonathan, you play this every week. Is that easier or harder to determine the truth? I think finding them the lie is harder. finding the one lie? Yeah, it was three truths and one lie. But I would say to write them, it's harder to come up with three reasonable fake ones. All right, so you have three lies and one truth.

I can do it the other way. That's easier to do it the other way. Whatever. You have three lies and one truth. One truth, and it is bolded on my document. Yeah, I'm going to turn away. I'm going to actually eat. Go ahead.

All right, number one. We've got World Cup fever here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. The United States is facing off with Bosnia and Erto Govina coming up in the round of 32. And then the next matchup would potentially be Senegal or Belgium. The United States is going to the quarterfinal, baby. I ain't scared to Senegal. I ain't scared of Belgium. I ain't scared of Bosnia and Ertagovina.

The passing has been crisp. They have been running. The boys are fit. even when it was the backups in the third game, they looked really good. I've been very impressed with the United States. I can't say if they're going to go any further than that. But I do believe the United States is going to the quarterfinal. Belgium historically has flopped in knockouts.

They haven't looked that sharp, so I ain't that scared of them. USA, USA. Number two. All right, I've seen enough out of this stretch from the Astero. there are only two games below 500. They're a game back of the West. We were saying all in the last couple of weeks, will they be buyers, will they be sellers, will they be holders?

The Astros are not going to be big buyers. They're not going shopping for Bentley's, but they will be buyers to the extent where they make at least two mid-level trades. Not high-level, not impact, not all-stars, but at least two mid-level trades. And my prediction would be for a reliever who is at least like a seventh-eighth inning guy, and then for an outfielder who is at least an everyday guy who's better than Jake Myers, unfortunately.

So an outfielder and a reliever coming to the Houston Astros mid-level trades, not big blockbusters. At least two. Number three, as we discuss. in the last segment. Fred Van Vlead has wiped the rockets from his Instagram. Now, in his profile pick, he's still wearing a rocket shirt. But any

rockets-related post has been wiped and he has opted in, that sounds like he's getting traded somewhere. Because the chalk was that he was going to opt out and the rockets were going to renegotiate. Opting in makes him have no trade clause and he has wiped the rockets.

That's enough. I'm reading the T-Leaves. Fred Van Vleet is out of here. I don't know who they're trading for. I don't know how big of a name it's going to be. But Fred Van Vleet is going to be part of a trade package for the Houston Rockets. They are not running it back. Number four.

I've also seen enough from Argentina. Leodle-Messie scored the free kick over the weekend. He has six goals in this World Cup. There was some worry coming into this World Cup that the Argentina defense was not going to be good enough. They have only conceded. Now, I know you love this stat, Matt. Argentina has only conceded 0.92xG.

That is the second fewest in the entire World Cup, all 48 teams. Spain is the lowest XG conceded. Argentina is second. So the defense has been good. Leone Messi has been great. Julian Alvarez has been coming along. They have a bunch of stars in the midfield and up in the attack,

and the defense is beholding the glit. enough, Argentina is my pick to win the 2026 World Cup. Argentina's going back to back, baby. Don't you fret, messy fans. And that's my four opinions.

All right, Jonathan, this is very, very difficult for me because some of these sound believable like you really believes it. Yes. Let me do a quick recap for the listeners. That is finally on our side of things. Quick recap. United States is

going to the quarter final, not scared of Belgium or Senegal or Bosnia and Herzegovina. Astros make at least two mid-level trades at the deadline. Fred Van Vleet is getting traded and Argentina is my pick to win the World Cup. See, I can't judge number four because I don't know what the competition is. And I'll never know the competition. Yeah, I mean, number two sounds very realistic as well. I mean, Astros really do need somebody out there. Take Myers and...

Well, needing is something, but does Ross believe they're going to do it? That's the difference. Right, right. This is a really good... Good point, Matt. Really, really good job on your part of this. I'm looking for the one truth, too, so... Hmm.

Hmm. I don't believe Fred, the Fred deal, because, as I said before, a lot of athletes wipe their Instagram accounts a lot, so he could be just doing it. That's a good point, Matt. Jaylon's been talking about a lot, though. No, Jalen Brown ain't coming here, don't think. That's a bit to the Celtics, no? Well, it's also the Rockets of Tango.

Oh God, this is so, and we've only got two minutes left. I've got to come up with an answer. I don't know on this. I'm going for. You think Argentina. I can lose on this. This is my gut feeling. Remember, this is a huge swing in your chance to overtake him.

What better way to just go with my gut? I like that, Jonathan. I have no foundation for this. I think you think U.S. are going to the quarterfinals. That's what I believe is their truth. Okay. That's it. We have our votes are in.

Okay. You both each, I went with two World Cup picks and you guys both picked them. All right. Number one, excellent point, Matt. I don't have enough information. It feels like Fred Van Vleek could get traded, but to say for sure he's going to get traded, I don't know. Maybe he's just going for a rebrand. Maybe he's switching from Nike to Adidas or Adidas to Nike or something like that and you took all the stuff off.

I don't know. Who knows? It could be any number of things with Fred Van Vleet. So maybe he's getting traded, but I'm not going to say that for sure. Also, yes, another good point for Matthew. I think they need to make two trades. I don't know that they can make two trades mid-level. If I'd have said two low-level trades, that's more believable.

That's kind of what I feel. But two mid-level trades, I don't know that they even have the prospects to pull that off or the ability to pull that off. Dana Brown would love to. I don't know that the Astros can do that. Last but not least, France is really good. I don't know how we can deny France. Now, in Argentina, they played in the final last time,

but if I had to pick a team, it would be France to win it all. And that's okay. You know, Argentina would be one of the favorites. I like Spain, too. That's okay. That's okay. But you know who's going to the quarterfinals? Here is bolded, Jonathan.

I bolded number one. Sorry. Jonathan, I never play this game and I'm better than you at it. Nah. It's a one-off. It's a right-off. Because down in his heart, he wants to believe Messi can win it again. I do want to believe.

My heart. My heart says Argentina. But I don't think the defense is going to hold up. The matchup, it's been Algeria and whoever the hell else they've been playing. The 0.92xG is good. That's why I made sure to throw that in there to try to sell it. But they haven't played top-level competition. I think they're going to concede too many goals at some point.

The defense isn't going to hold up for Argentina. This is a very hard. I'm not. I'm sorry. It was hard, but somebody had to win. It was me. I'm actually going to trade right now. I'm fading Argentina.

That was to tell the truth. Sports RV style. And now Ross. Congratulations, Matthew. Thank you very much. Jonathan's a six-back. Oh, God. Does that make it 10-4?

You know what? No, no, no. Let's just leave it. If I would put a Twitter up there, should Jonathan just give up? They would go on my side and say I shouldn't give up. I have a chance to. All right, I'm going to put a tweet out there and see if you respond to it. All right.

talk to Tony and Engleton. We'll get to you on the asteros when we return. 1144 on Sports Talk 790. 1150 on 790. I would decide not to tweet about the Jonathan giving up on the tell the truth because I want to be polite. I told us to my wife yesterday. Because, you know, when you're in bed on a Sunday morning and you're drinking your coffee, you get in the for you. That's the easiest place to just do some serious for you looking.

I saw so many stupid tweets. I mean, stuff that would be either inflammatory or stupid or stupid or you in trouble and I always said I said the best tweet I ever typed out Ross was the one I never send I go am I doing anything to accomplish this am I trying to start a fight with somebody am I going to do something that's going to get me in trouble so I try to check those boxes off you have to be judicious yeah but also you can tweet through it keep tweeting it out you can say something salacious and then you get a bunch of notoriety that's what people do too So if you like some non-salacious material but sports, and I would say at times humorous, I can't say I'm always funny.

I'd like to say I'm always funny, but people don't always find that to be the case. Follow me on X on the X platform at SportsMT. I'm still calling it Twitter. Yeah, Twitter too. I got a new follower today. Hector R0604-9563. Thank you, Hector. He's looking for fun reads.

Oh, good. He found me, and I'm going to block him. Why are you blocking him? because he's probably about. No, he's not. Wait, see. What? Why would you bought that guy right now?

Because he's not a real person. You don't know that. I'm pretty good. No, because when you make a new account, it puts your first name and then he just puts a bunch of numbers. That's just what it does. He could have made his account today. This is what happens.

Because then they come to me, they're like, hey, Matt blocked me for no reason. And there was zero reason for you to block that person. If I have blocked you for any reason. I've literally at least 100 people have done this to me. Send it to Ross. Oh my God. And then I'll figure out when they're not.

I'm not trying to be your personal secretary. Well, all right. There's another option. I just literally, Jonathan, I saw him in a lifetime block this person. Now I'm going to be hearing from Hector in the next couple of days. What have a man blocked before? There's no chance. Looking for fun reads.

That's not what a person would put up there. What do you mean? Like, he's looking for books. All right. The next person that follows me on Twitter that I think is, is a bot, I will show it to you. Who cares if they're a bot? They're girls with large breasts.

You think girls' large breasts are following me? Okay. Am I right? I guess. But that was just a guy named Hector. It wasn't a woman saying, hey, here for a good time. His texts were protected. And he had an egg.

His tweets were protected? Yeah. Okay. What's wrong with that? Why is he protecting these tweets? Okay, why would it bot protect their tweets? Nobody can read their tweets. I guarantee you's a bot.

100%. You're 100%. Okay, Hector, since you... Even if it's a bot, why you block it? Because I like to have an organic amount, the true number. Who cares? I do. No, the bots get blocked and they'll go away.

So all you're doing is making more work for me. Hmm. I never thought of it that way. And for that, I apologize. You don't seem that sorry. Not really. Tony on 790. Hi, Tony.

Hey, fellas. You got, I missed earlier in the last segment. Did, we go, we've only with... France. Is that who we're going with in the World Cup, France? They're the favorite. That's what I would guess, but I mean, they're only about 23% to win it all. Okay. Okay. I want to talk about the Astros. I want to talk about, you were talking about a trade, a possible trade. Okay. Whether they make a trade or not, I think the boat sailed. You missed an opportunity to trade Breggman for pieces.

you miss an opportunity to trade franber for pieces you did go ahead and pull the trigger with tucker and it's worked out pretty well so i think uh the next piece to look at is possibly brian abray you he's a free agent 27 nobody talks about that he's going to be he's an impending free agent that's correct we need him to pitch a lot better the next month and then possibly think about flipping him to a to a somebody that's in the race that needs a right-handed pitcher and he's pitching a lot better that's number one Why would you trade him if you're in a race yourself and you're short on levered relievers? Why would you trade him? You're not in a race.

They're not in a race. Tony, they're in a race. You're in a sack race. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. The records of the teams in the division dictate that. They're not only in a division race, they're in a wildcard race. They're in two races. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. Yeah, and, and, yeah, they're in the race to win the division and to make the postseason. Correct. But if it were my money, all right, but it's not. But if it were my money, I would try to trade him at the deadline. That's the last chance you're going to get. And then the other part is paying. To get what?

For a rental reliever? Yes. Relever. Get what you can get for him, but you're not going to, he's not staying. And the other one is Pena, the shortstop. Panga could be a piece in a large trade. All right. But he's got one more year of, of, of,

with us, right? Correct. He's not free age until 28. Correct. So he may be an opportunity, either at the deadline this year or in the offseason and flipping for a big, make a big move. But as far as making a big splash, I don't think you don't have the pieces. You don't have, you know, we need out, what do we need right now?

We need outfielders in a relief pitcher, you know, and all of a sudden, Marraeu is, what's supposed to be the eighth inning guy, haters looking lights out. I would flip him and I'd flip him and I'd flip Pena if I could as soon as possible. No, I would not. You can move pain yet. They're rebuilding on the fly all the way. And they haven't been. That's why we find ourselves in this mess, man.

No, we're not, no, they're not in the mess because they let Alex Bregman go. They're not in a mess because Kyle Tucker had trade. They did because they have a starting right filter for it. They're in the mess. They're in because the outfield doesn't produce much. The draft has not produced much. And you've got injuries that have plagued this team. That's the reason why they're in this mess.

Absolutely. I agree with all that, Matt. I agree with what did we get for, what did we get in return for Gregman going to the Red Sox? A compensatory pick Fourth round pick Or maybe third round late Okay so pick Hold on, hold on real quick Tony

The paying a conversation I'm willing to listen to But I'm not doing it until the end of the year I'm not doing it If the Astros are in a race Which they are in under two different accounts I need Jeremy Payne to be my starting start stop Period

Okay But you would You would entertain possibly trading him in the office No question Okay What about Abraeu? A brayu has no value. He's got a pitch better to get anything for him.

He's not going to, if he, if he represented by Boris as well? No, I don't believe that is. I'll have to look. No, I'm going to let you go, Tony. We've got to get to a top of the hour. Look, you're not trading a Brayu for an outfielder. Do you want a Brian and Brayu performance outfielder? That's going to be a guy that's got an OPS of about 600.

You've got those. You got plenty of that. And you're not trading a reliever for a reliever. You get plenty of left-hand of relievers. You could trade a reliever for reliever if you're looking variety for lefty, but you don't have that. You've already got plenty of left-hand of relievers. Yeah.

If Brian and Bray, who turns it around and he's a leverage good leverage reliever he was last year. He's your eight-thin-guy. You need to keep him. Yeah. Because they are in a race, Tony. I know, 42 of 44. Like, oh, we're in the race? Yeah.

You are. One game back. Mariner sandwiching between the Rangers who are in first place. They've won four straight. All right, now, Steve Murphy, just follow me on Twitter. Okay. He has M.U with like seven different numbers. Yeah, block him.

Let's go block him. No, he's block him. No, he's blocked him. No, who cares? This feels authentic. No, block everyone who follows you. I'm over it. I'm going to see how long this guy's...

I'm not going to respond to anybody who blocks you. I'm done being your secretary. Just block everyone. You're my assistant. No, hit him with the board. No, I'm not doing it. No, no, no, no. No, he's bought.

I think he's bought it. We were just talking about it. No, it's time to block him. I think it's time to block him. All right, we're going to see how this guy... Go DeKimbe Metumbo on him. Finger wag to? Let's go. Let's see how many times this guy has tweeted.

Okay, he's had his account. Yeah, let's launch an investigation every time I get a follow. Jesus. I don't mean... I didn't mean to get you upset. The Matt Thomas show with Ross. The Houston Astros come from behind to defeat the Detroit Tigers, seven to five and ten innings, and take three out of four.

in the motor city. We don't plan up Motown on this show, honestly. We don't, Matt. We don't. We used to do R&B Fridays. Yep. On the program. It's funny because I went to go look at the greatest Motown songs. Now, again, Motown, I believe, is still in existence in some ways.

Okay. They do put some fairly recent songs on as among the all-time greatest Motown songs. But when I think of Motowns, I think of the 60s. It's like Smokey Robinson III. Yeah. Well, Spunky's been inactive for a while. Okay. Because he's fighting allegations about it assaulting his maids.

Crazy. Yikes. All right. Thanks for bringing that up. What is wrong with the world? A lot. I would say. A lot.

All right. We have Brazil against Japan going on right now over. It's a knockout, baby. At Houston Stadium, if there is any goal scored, Ross will have this sound effect ready to go. Right about now. you'll hear this so brother right this

right about now I like how it was a stutter step on this computer is what you'll hear so far I haven't heard that yet we're in the six minute goes this goes I'm just obsessed

of this song this bump all right so that's what you'll hear turn it down we can turn it down and that can interrupt any conversation okay good

we can be paying believe it or not I can be interviewing a former athlete, a current athlete. Something happens. Yeah. Like, I don't want it to happen during Joe a spotter. That would be kind of rude. That'd be funny. We interrupted him with a goal.

Sorry, skin. Go, a goal, a goal. He'd probably want to know. Yeah, I'm curious if he's into that or not. I don't know. I'd imagine he watch a little World Cup. Who doesn't? I have not watched anything this weekend.

Tomorrow is Ivory Coast in Norway. I got Ivory Coast plus two goals. You got Ivory Coast plus the two, huh? Over Norway? Yep. Give me two goals. Nobody's giving that. The total is two and a half.

All right. We've had a great show so far. Matt's getting into this, John. I am. I don't know why. It's the winner gets, when it's winter go home, that's when it's interesting.

And this keeper almost spilled the ball. And again, for the second straight time watching a game at Houston Stadium, there is not a empty seat. I mean, every, look at that. It is like, there's like jamming, 17 people into a roll of 15. Houston doesn't appreciate energy or relying now, I guess, enough.

Well, it's just to show you. Oh, because everybody loves the stadium. I guess it's beginning worldwide acclaim this stadium. It is absolutely beginning a lot of acclaim. And I'm curious if that's done enough to maybe rethink, hey, refurbishing it wouldn't be a bad idea. Yeah, maybe the McNair's can

kind of rethink this. I'm going to go ahead and give you a little thought before we get to the news at noon. Okay. This was brought up to me by someone that I cannot name, but they said that the McNair family wealth, especially with the cow side of it and Hannah, frankly, is more into the stadium itself, I mean, not the stadium, but the team itself, and that they don't have other investments. I think I brought this up to you before, and that they don't have a lot of extra money to

so quote-unquote leverage a new stadium outside of where they are right now. So they'd be more interested in perhaps refurbishing than trying to get their own stadium. Well, you're telling me, Cal hasn't been a shrewd investor and marketing genius and venture capital? Did he do the coin flip today? I don't think so. Did he have his jersey tucked into his pants? Did you do the first kick? You know, they do first pitch at Astros.

Do you think Hannah and Cow are there? I will say no. Maybe around a 16 they'll be there? Maybe there's big budget meetings of the Texans offices. Brazil is a big matchup. Japan's pretty good. Japan's 515. I would think they're there, right?

They're in a suite or some sort. Brazil's going for their sixth World Cup, unprecedented. They already lead the way with five World Cup. Who's Brazil's most famous player? Ever? Pele? No, right. right this second. I don't know. Raphina. Vinnie.

Oh, Vinnie Jr. is a good one. Vinicius Jr. I mean, Namar is our most famous player, but he's kind of washed. He's on the bench. They have Gabrielle. Gabriel's pretty good. We have done running through the Brazil lineup. We present to you the news at noon. Yes, Matthew, well, the news at noon will be led by the World Cup. Round of 32 is underway.

Brazil and Japan into the 10th minute. It is a nil-nil-nil draw at the moment. Yesterday you had Canada being the first team to head to the World Cup last 16 as they scored in the 93rd minute. Stephen Estachio with the goal is they got the 1-0-0 win over South Africa. Now you have the United States on Wednesday at 7 p.m. taking on Bosnia and Ertso-Govina. Earlier in the day, it'll be Belgium versus Senegal, so the United States will take on the winner of that game. Also at 11 a.m. on Wednesday will be England versus the Democratic Republic

of the Congo. Mentioned you have Ivory Coast Norway tomorrow, France and Sweden, Mexico and Ecuador. This is where it's getting good, baby. This is where the matchups are going to get better and better, and it's win or go home. The World Cup, heating up at Houston Stadium and across the country. And again, shout out to those that are running the Houston side of things, because again, everybody seems to have loved this facade. And there have been some other great facilities.

It's like, I can't imagine he loved Philadelphia. That place is a dump. Toronto is too small. It's a great city, but it's just the stadium's too small. I mean, these are gargantuan stadiums that are being full. Very much of what they're like custom to when they play in their country. Yeah. All right, there you go.

And a good call, Jonathan, that Vinicius Jr., probably the most famous Brazilian player. I kind of hate that guy, so maybe I forgot about him. But there you go. A lot of action going on in there at Houston Stadium, Brazil, and Japan right now. Of course, we played the highlights. Your Houston, Ash, Don't look now. Who's won nine of their last 12? They get the comeback victory over the Detroit Tigers. They win the series three to one. Josh Hader with the victory yesterday, despite walking the basis loaded. He got a couple of strikeouts. ERA of 0.75 on the season. Hunter Brown is decent. Six innings of two earned run ball. He also gave up another run. So three runs, two of them earned a couple of walks for strikeouts in 103 pitches. ERA on the season, 1.78. But

Most importantly, Mr. Standings Watch, should I just turn it over to you? I'm glad you did that, Ross, because you know what, the best part of being an anchor is having a co-anchor. And that's what I'm here for. Well, we got him at Thomas for the Standings Watch 2026. I'm that a dude that rolls his shirt up and gives you the little... Oh, you're going to go on the board. Steve Carnacki.

Okay. I'm the Steve Carnacki. Give us those scenarios, Matt. All right now, the America League West, the Astros. Oh, Benny Jr.'s on the ground. Oh, he's crying. The cry baby's down. Oh, he's such a...

Ooh, that actually hurt. Ooh, never mind. That happens like half the time. You're like, this guy's a whiner. And then you're like, oh, my God, he got crushed. Those are metal studs too, Matthew. It's fine. All right.

The Astros find themselves in third place in American League West. The first place led by the Texas Rangers in 42 and 42. Seattle's at 42 and 43. The Astros are at 42 and 44. They're in third place, one back. In the Wild Card, they are just a half game behind Seattle. if the Astros in Seattle were to tie, the Mariners would have the advantage in the wallet card.

The Astros, by the way, Rossi, are only three-back of the second wildcard currently owned by the Cleveland Guardians. And there's your standings watch. Three back of the second wild card. Yeah. Okay. They're not getting the number one wild card, but they're not in the shot of distance. They're probably not getting the neutral wild card, but that's okay.

Just win the West. Just win the West. I'm okay with that. Whatever. Whatever will be, will be. All right, elsewhere in the news, Matthew, according to ESPN.

The Warriors are planning a pursuit of LeBron James in free agency and Anthony Davis via trade says Shams Sharania. They opening up flexibility for such a possibility after Dremont Green declined his 27.6 million player

option Monday morning. So Green has opted out. They want to trade for Anthony Davis signed LeBron James and then re-sign Dremon Green. Warriors have the flexibility to offer James the full 15.1 million non-tax taxpayer mid-level exception, regardless of any trade pursuit of Anthony Davis. They would also be shipping out Jimmy Butler, who is recovering from ACL surgery and do $56.8 million next season.

$56.8 million. By the way, Fred Van Baleen, I don't mean to steal your thunder here, but I'm your co-anchor. accepting his buy-in at $25 million for next year. Opting in, yes. Opting into $25 million. He will exercise his options, which means he has no, he doesn't have a no trade clause. By the way, you know who Fred Van Vleet is represented by?

I saw it. Rich Paul Clutch Sports. Connected out for us, please. I don't know. Who also represents LeBron James. Well, he also represents Anzi Davis. I don't know.

It could be a lot of moving and shaking going on. You connected our dots. Thank you. There you go. And that's the news and noon. And that's your news at noon. All right. Coming up at 130 today, about 75 minutes from now,

we got missing you. We found out how some former Astros are doing. And we got believe it or not today, which is going to be, was this player a second round NBA draft pick or lower? Notable clutch sports clients, by the way. Yes, Anthony Davis, LeBron James, Deerne Fox, Draymond Green.

Are those guys the mover? Is Rich Paul really the mover and Shaker in this draft? Or in this offseason, maybe? He's also got NFL figures. Jalen Hertz, Miles Garrett, Bejohn Robinson, Chase Young. He got some baseball players, too. Devers? Starling Marte?

Anders Jimenez? Damn, Clutch Sports. Good for you. How do you feel about AI characterizing things in life? Summarizing things or what? It's usually fine, I guess. We're going to let AI describe some teams in the SEC and we come back. Oh, okay.

1216. Matt and Ross, a lot of Astro chat are still to get to. 713-212-5-790. Matt and Ross with you at 1222. Sports Talk 790. We know that you're somewhat excited about the Astros. Although our last caller wanted Jeremy Payne and Brian and Bray, you traded. You already thinking about trades.

I probably just enjoy what's in the here and the now. Yeah. They won't nine. They're nine and three in their last 12. Let's go. I mean, if anything, they're going to be buyers and sellers, but to your point, back to tell the truth, they're not going to be heavy buyers. They don't much to sell.

Yeah, I think you got, something has to happen in this outfield. Something has to happen. It's too much, I mean, left field just can't settle itself. Bryce Matthews is pinching for Taylor Tremel. Taylor Tremel is pinching for Bryce Matthews. Jake Myers is pinch hitting. It's nothing but 600 OPS out there. That includes Cam Smith, sadly.

You're just shuffling around, and it doesn't matter how, which way you shuffle it doesn't look good. There's been no combination that's been able to separate itself. And that's got to drive the organization nuts. Because Zach Cole member, we remember Zach Cole made the team out of spring training. And came up here and did exactly what Zach Cole number does. He has a couple of home runs and then strikes out literally every time. What is Zach Cole doing? Not much.

Zach descends up. These are all mids. Nice, sweet people. Very nice people. But they're all 4A players. Yeah. I mean, honestly. Offensively.

Defensively, the outfield is pretty good. Hey, I'll tell you what. Obviously, Cam Smith fills his position, Jake Myers. Bryce Matthews for as bad as bad as his glove for a guy that's adjusting to playing outfield, he comes up with some really nice plays. Only time your OPS of your outfield is anything close to being decent is when Yardons playing left field. And that's just not going to happen a lot.

Zach Cole is hitting 185 with a 600 OPS. In Sugar Land? In the Sugar Land. In the Sugar Land. In Sugar Land of Sugar. How many strikeouts? I don't have that right in front of me, but OPS of 600. That's a guy that was like, I am loving this opportunity.

I'm going to make the most of it. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And sometimes you just can't get over the hurdle. Not great. How about Delgado hitting his first homewring yesterday, by the way? That was nice. In the big leagues of all things. And he didn't Detroit in far right field where that's a pretty good hit.

Actually, at AAA, he's hitting 173 with a 531 OPS. 46 strikeouts and 104 ABs. That is, oh, this is hard to say. That's where they're being released. he strikes out 48% of the time. It's not. And that's at two different levels of professional baseball. The big leagues and the minor leagues.

His Chandler would say that's an untenable situation. Yeah. Did Chandler like copyright that term untenable? I don't know. I like it though. It's nice. I've never said it more in the last calendar here than I have with Chandler involved in it. Yeah.

Okay. So back to what I was saying before. We'll get to more baseball here. So there is a dude on Twitter. I don't know who this person is. I happen to see it on the 4 U-TTA. Freddie. It's not Freddie.

Freddy's too busy getting free crap. Solensurf is the gentleman's name. The account is at least. It's called Solenturf. He's got about 7,000 followers. He asked AI to describe teams. He's done the SEC and he's done the Big 10. He has not done the Big 12 or the ACC.

Okay. So I can only go off of what Solinsurf said. He says, Ask Chat GPT describe Each SE team in the rudest way possible. Would you like to hear what they said about the University of Texas?

No. Not they're going to be rude. The rudest thing that Chat GPT said, Ross, was believes being Texas as a personality trait. Wait, it is. Ooh, that hits me. Be there early. Stay late. Wear orange. Be loud. Represent Texas well. Carry yourself with class and dignity.

So it's pretty accurate then. All right. Next. Texas A&M. Okay. Unlimited budget, unlimited hype, mysteriously limited results. Ooh. See, that's a ruder.

That's Chad. Texas got off easy. That's chat DBT. Got all the ones. Oklahoma showed up to the SEC expecting a welcome party and got a reality check instead. Ooh. Well, they just won the baseball national championship. It's got to be worth something.

It's, you know what it is? It's the scallop potatoes to your main course. Okay. maybe even a green vegetable. All right. I'm not an analogy. Hey. Thank you.

See what it's good, we don't even think about it. Yeah, because it's so far and few between when these things can be. Is this the official hydration break sounder? Terrible. One more here for you. LSU. Tailgating national champions, sometimes the party is more impressive than the game.

That feels fair. It's not bad. That's the rudest thing they could say. This does sound like it's written. about a robot. It's not very fun. Let's see. Oh, here's one more for Arkansas. Maybe a few of Arkansas fans listen to us. Masters of convincing themselves, this is finally the year until it's not. He's written by AI or a seventh grader? Chat GBT.

Okay. Now, again, I cannot wait for the Big 12 to come out because I think I've, I know how chat GPT can be. It can be rude. And Big 12 might not be important enough for chat GPT. That's not nice. Maybe a Solon Surf hasn't asked. I would like to see what they have to say about Texas tech. By the way, again, you got caught, you got lucky, believes being Texas as a personality trait. That means you're just high and mighty. That's all you mean. What do you mean high and mighty? You know.

1228, sports talk, 790. It is Matt, it's Ross. We're with you today until 2 p.m. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. For you rocket fans, are you finally happy the rockets are close on some things. They may be signing somebody. as early as tomorrow. We'll tell you who that is next on 790.

Gold desks. Gold desks. Go ahead and give the update. We can let the whole thing play. Japan has scored. They lead Brazil 1-0 in the 33rd minutes. An absolute banger of the goal sneaks. Of a goal sneaks pass Alison as it.

was scored by Sano. The Japanese player, Matt. Your thoughts on Sano and the strike off of his right foot into the left corner? Yes. How big of a surprise? Kishu or Sano. If this score holds, how big of an upset is this? Well, we said they were trading at 72% to win was Brazil to advance.

So it's about three to one favorite. Okay. But Japan's played very well. They've had a lot of corners. They've had some set pieces, and they just got a shot on goal, but it was saved. Ha, ha, Vinny Jr. I'm rooting against them because I hate Gabrielle. He plays for Arsenal, and he makes me mad.

He's always messing with my guy, Early Holland, and Vinnie Jr. is always eliminating Manchester City. So basically, I hate watching Brazil, and I'm very happy that Japan's up 1-0. In Houston Stadium. Place is rocking. Jonathan, you know when I bring up things in the show, you don't have any idea what I'm talking about? You go, like, I don't know.

That was just me right there for 30 seconds. You had an impassionate plea about a player for a national team. Yes. Who you hated. Oh, Henry Butler's there. Sorry, go ahead. Again, this is furthering my point. Henny Butler is there.

Himmy. Jimmy. It's Jimmy. You know Jimmy Butler. I thought it was really somebody else differently. You say he's him. Himmy. Oh, is that not Jimmy Butler?

Hey, we don't all look like, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Hold on. Hold on. That was mad on Friday. Oh, Lord. That's funny.

Okay. So, point being is that you bring up a lot of things. It's just gibberish. to me. I'm sure it's wonderful. That's fine. But I don't understand it. It's all you know is I hate watching Brazil and right now I'm feeling good because they're losing. Brazil's trying to score though.

A lot of congestion in the box. A lot of shots. Hey man, do you think there's too many men in the box, Matt? How many men are a lot on the box? Unlimited amount. You can get as many men you can fit in the box. You can get in the box. Depends on how big the box is, right? No, it doesn't change. So it's like a one size fits all box?

Yeah, I think it's like 18 meters or something like that. That's a big box. How big is the soccer box? Oh, you're looking it up. Mm-hmm. Oh, 18 yards. Sorry, 18-yard box, yeah. That's different than 18 meters.

And the smaller one is a six-yard box. I prefer a smaller box. Well, you have more chance of scoring in the smaller box. Yeah, but do you want to score in always if it's that big? Yeah, but it's harder to get to the smaller box. That would be accurate. I would believe that's, yeah. But sometimes the smaller box is more rewarding.

Well, yeah, it's the, you have a, you have. have a higher chance of scoring from the smaller box. But not as much scoring has done in the smaller box. Sometimes there's a lot of congestion, though. That's true. There's a lot of bodies in there. Okay. What?

None of the radio shows of the marketplace is going to give you a soccer breakdown like the two of us did. Are there two people that... You can hit a banger from outside the box like Japan did. And it was quite a banger. It was a great goal. Got a by on their feet. People are celebrating 1-0. Oh, now they're on the counter.

Let's go, Japan. on baby. All right, anyways, what were we talking about? Trade deadline. Oh, trade deadline. Oh, okay, here we go. So, a word comes out 25 minutes ago that, yeah, see, it's Jimmy Butler's there. Jimmy Butler's a big Brazil fan.

Is he sort of, you know what? I was right, Jonathan. Yeah, Jonathan. Oh, what? You said it wasn't him? No, Matt said it wasn't. When he started going heme or whatever. Himmy.

I was like Himmy, because they call him him Butler, because he's him. You never heard that? No. I know him as Jimmy. I think, can you explain? He's Tom Balls, Jimmy Butler, by the way. Not Houston's. Don't confuse that.

Matt knows. He's got a daughter. He knows. He's hurt. I don't know. He's very confused. I get the vernacular from the daughter, that is for sure. Can we get back to sports, please? Let's get you an hydration break. Some people have said people we don't talk on sports in the show. That's true. We're talking World Cup. Yeah. That's sports? What do you mean?

I don't think the audience. It's literally the world's the biggest event. I think we had a lot of people. We had a lot of people come out on Friday. We did, by the show. They were watching the World Cup. Yeah, that was fun. Right. Our guy Reed stayed for the whole show.

David came by, had us sign in jerseys. I was, Jonathan, you've been so proud of me. I signed about almost everything that I autographed, Mr. Texas. Oh, my God. Did you actually? Oh, absolutely, I did. The worst possible candidate, but that's okay. So Marcus Smart is declining his player option.

Marcus Smart. To stay with the Los Angeles Lakers at a paltry $5.4 million. Okay. The streets have Marcus Smart coming to the Rockets coming tomorrow. I'm with it. Is Marcus Smart as a perfect EMA Udoka player? He played for Emeadoka, right? And Boston, absolutely he did.

So I was impressed. Honestly, and you know this, Matt. When you go to a basketball game, you notice more than when you're watching on TV. I was very impressed for those playoff games how much Marcus Smart was affecting those games. Being in the right place and the right time, anticipating passes, finding loose balls,

predicting where loose balls were going, predicting where passes were going, deflecting in passing lanes. He is just so, I mean, forgive my pun, he's just so smart. He's a heady player. He's very intense, high basketball IQ. I came away very impressed.

For a guy as as as as old as he is, he still plays hilariously good defense. He had huge impact in that series, more than the box score shows. So I'm on board with Marcus Smart being a rocket. Let me give you the box scores of the last four seasons, because it's been to league over 10 plus years. Last year were the Lakers,

you played 62 games, shot 30, 33% from 3. So shooting is going to be mid, although he had one game where he shot lights out and helped them be. He can go crazy, yeah. Played 15 games a year before that in Washington and shot 39%. So I won't even count that as a full season. And then a year before that, he was with the Memphis Grizzas where he shot 32% and 31% from 3.

The year he was with EMA in Boston, he shot 34%. So you're not bringing him so much for the outside shot. Career 39% from the field and career 32% from 3%. from three. You are bringing him for steals, defense, and the intangibles, he's a tough sum bitch.

Yeah, he's literally a defensive player of the year winner. Like, yeah. Now, I will say this. Two things I'm going to deduce unless there's something

in terms of a roster scratch that's really something. Fred Van Vleet and Marcus Smart together are your new point guard duos. One will start, one will come off the bench. I'm presuming that it'll be Fred starting

as long as he's healthy and smart will come off the bench. that to me means you are of a veteran-laden. I need someone to control the offense. And what was one of the things we talked about as Rocket fans that people were looking out is, there was no art form out there. There was no communication.

There was no... Yeah, you're missing your pull, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, and then shoot with five on the clock. Isolation, but yeah. Marcus Smart and Fred Van Vleet, or I could put and or, are going to run your offenses, whatever the offense is. Yeah, I mean, Mark is smart I don't think of as like a crazy good ball handling and distributor and playmaker or anything like that.

But enough. Yeah, he can help out. He can help out. And it also means to me they just aren't sold on a men, Thompson, and Reed Shepard playing serious minutes as a point card. That maybe they had the deduction that, you know what, a man, you are way more dangerous, off ball, moving to the dunker spot, showing your flexibility,

going to three or four different spots on the floor, then it would be with the ball on your hand as much of this. Or maybe you're just hoping he comes off the bench and plays the minutes you're hoping to get from Dorian Finney's Smith. He could just be a 25 minute a night guy comes in, defense, a little change of pace. You can play some matchups with him. You can start occasionally depending on... You're talking about Marcus? Yeah. Okay. What you're playing? Yeah. And contribute off the bench.

Yeah. But to me, this, if indeed Marcus does come here, it's the sign of Fred, of, at least for one year, not long term, but for one year, at least guaranteed. Fred and Marcus split in the point guard time. I think he's kind of an offball guy too, though. I mean... Yeah, four assists, four point four assists in his career. I mean, the reality is that when a men play, he's going to have the ball in his hands quite a bit. Yeah. The guy, it's the NBA, you don't have like a traditional, this is no doubt about it. This is our point guard. He's going to bring the ball up every time.

All right. So is that enough, adding another veteran latent piece. Now, the Tar He used in factor is going to be very curious. Well, he accepted the qualifying offer over the weekend. Okay. That's going to be a minimum of $8 million. That means the rocket still control his destiny. if he would have declined the qualifying offer,

he would have become a free agent immediately. But he did not refuse that. So now, anybody wants to make an offer to Tar Heason, the Rockets have a chance literally to match it dollar for dollar year for year. Okay. So we'll find out more about that once we start finding out who indeed really has offered Tarisan contracts. So much to discuss this offseason.

As per usual with the Rockets. Jalen Brown is going to get traded. By sure, by now, 100% will happen. We've already seen Janus get moved. LeBron, I would say, what would you say, Ross, less than 50, 50, that he's going to be a Los Angeles Laker? Steph and LeBron going to play together. We don't know that for sure. Yeah, but Sean's reporting it.

Or this is LeBron's spin team putting it out there to put a little more pressure on the Lakers to try to keep it. That could happen. That could happen. John Morant's going to get traded. For what? To who? Yeah. That's, that's, you're going to lose value on that. Anybody else?

Darryl's gun range? Hmm. Hmm. And meanwhile, the Charlotte Hornets are turning off every one of their players too. So that's been, it's been very interesting to see. Miles Bridges got moved to Phoenix over the weekend. So, I don't know. What the heck are the hornets are moving and shaking?

I don't know. I can't figure out their clear path, but it is what it is. But for the most important thing, the Rockets are at least finally getting going because I think, at least Rocket Switter, the second most top. Twitter out there. Yes. Has been losing its mind over it's inactivity.

But you really couldn't do anything activity-wise until today or tomorrow. Yeah, I got to tune out Rockets to Twitter. They're ridiculous. For a 52-win team, it has a superstar and Kevin Durant and young fun pieces, they're too miserable,

way too miserable. Yeah. I'm talking to a lot of people who will follow the Rockets and fans and people in our business. We all agree. It's gotten worse for whatever reason. Yeah, by the way, Astros Twitter, you'll always be the worst.

But Rocket's Twitter is making a play for you. What? Astros Twitter is the dumbest. Well, that's thus making it the worst. I'd go with Rockets. I don't know, though. Rockets is a very dangerous, lethal combination of dumb and miserable. No, Astros to me is the worst because they want Joe a Spotify

after literally every loss. Hey, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying Astros' Twitter is a bed of roses. Okay, I was going to make sure. Matter of fact, I'm going to go check. A chock full of idiots. I'm going to go look at Friday's loss. We'll read the Twitter.

We'll do AOS. We haven't really done that in a while. All right. Jonathan, we're going to do a retro A.O. segment back to Friday's loss. Remember, the Astros had just finished beating Toronto two out of three. And they had won Thursday's game. Yeah.

So maybe it's all. Everybody's measured. You think Friday's game was measured? Yeah, maybe everybody's like, we'll go get them next time. Would you like to make that prediction? We didn't put your name on that right now. I'm good. Friday and night.

Astros and Spencer Irrigetti got their ass kicked. How did we react? We'll tell you about that next on 790. All right. This is the first ever edition, Ross, of retro AOs. We go back all the way to Friday for this. How are you feeling after the Astros lost, the Tigers ain't nothing? We simply ask you to join us and listen to this.

Hey, oh, let's go. Hey, oh. Let's go. Astros over. Reaction. Right here on 790. All right. So here we go, Ross.

Tigers ain't Astros nothing. 71 likes. 24 retweets. 47 comments, 34,000 views. Wow. So that's a lot. You see Gordy's tweet over the weekend? Who?

Who? Get over a million views. What? on his paint manning thing that's a nice paycheck good for him uh tim says ergeti went from all-star shoe in to being option back to triple a in a month hmm that's a little bit of an overreaction yes scott allen says game and a half is as close as this team will ever get to first place oh my gosh 1.6 million views now yeah good for gorty it's got worth be worth a few bucks yeah you'll verified days are a dozer dude says

says, oh, well, at the end of the season, we'll be able to look back and say we dominated second place in division for 24 hours one day in June. That's actually not true. There are only one back now. They've gained a half game. Let's see. Rodney says, damn, second straight start, Erigetti has been completely destroyed. Whatever he was doing before these two starts happened, he needs to go back to that because what he's doing now isn't working. Plus, you can't put everything on him.

Blank. The Astros couldn't hit blank today. H-town Sports says it's always the injury. juries. Rick and Sugarland says you can't get the Astros too much credit because they're going to come back down to earth. All this talk today on the social media about them three-game winning streak had they had atop the WC and the AL.

Now look what they've done. Laid a goose egg. Way too early to be talking playoffs. Then what happened to the next two games, Bucco? Xavier Hill says, well, that damn sure sucked. I didn't even watch the game. I hope they get revenge tomorrow. They did tomorrow.

And they also did the following day. They won two straight after this loss. David Morant, your buddy, says Pitching comparison, Myers greater than Aroghetti. That actually wasn't... Yeah, we didn't talk. Jake Myers' fan club would like to issue a statement. If you need more leverage innings from Jake Myers,

we're willing to contribute in any way possible. Diane, Texas girl says, I thought the asteros were supposed to play today. They must have had the day off. Hey, I'll give you a positive spin. Arrogati got Shell, but you didn't score any runs anyway. So it doesn't matter. Yeah.

So if he's going to get shelled, you might as well be on a day, you don't score zero runs. Dustin says, arrogating to the IL is going to hit like crack. Oh, come on now. Ergeti in May from your buddy, David. 0.93 ERA. Erigetti in June, ERA of 9.

Well, if you thought he was going to have a one ERA all season long, you're an idiot. Not talking about you, David. I'm just saying in general. Okay. His ERA's four now. It's more about what we were expecting. Quite frankly.

Carl Turetsky says get Trevor Bauer from Mexico. Are you serious? Trevor Bauer's not throwing in Mexico anymore, is he? Shantay Smith says that's the end of the game. Your final score, your Houston Astros nothing in the Detroit Tigers 8. Number one rule. Always put the higher score in front, no matter who the team is. If it's your team doesn't matter.

The other team, the higher score always goes. There's a lot of people not following that, Maddie. Well, that's because they're idiots. A lot of social teams as well, putting their own scores first. That's stupid. You always put the higher score in front. Always, always, always. I'm with you.

Your buddy David says Jake Myers. How many times is it? guy, him again? How many times has he commented? Get alive, David. Jake Myers, pitcher greater than hitter.

David also comes back and says Bryce Matthews, $199 batting average. Is he verified? Is he just farming for impressions? 26 MVP is Altuve. Offense sucks, arrogating meatballs.

26 MVP is Altuve. TM Kodak, IG, this team is real. David Morant, your buddy again, nice effort. Are you serious? Do you say he's got six comments?

Yes. Mute him. Oh my God Very busy All you're doing is making me angry And I guess this is what you're going for The H-Town General says Aragetti Linsanity Run is over y'all

Oh man, come on, that's rude That's kind of funny At least that one's kind of funny And then Huntington Horn says Won't win them all Get him tomorrow Astros I like that There you go Huntington horns

Huntington Horn Like long horns? Let's go Let's go Let's go Was that a long horn being reasonable? Maybe I don't know A oh

Let's go there it is. There's your AO from Friday. Terrible. That dude commented like seven times. He's busy. No, he's not. Actually, he's just the opposite.

Too much free time. By the way, the athletic just sent me a breaking news thing. Breaking news. 1248. Draymond Green DeKlein's Player Option with the Warriors. We've been on the year since 10 o'clock. That happened before the show even started. Well, I guess in the olden days, that'd be good enough for breaking news.

No, but we're not in the old days. It was breaking news within like 18. hours, Matt. We've got an extra here. Draymond Green is opted out with the Golden State Warriors. Where will he end up next? Why is Jerry Seinfeld doing the breaking news centers? FDR makes new proposal.

By the way, speaking of Sir Seinfeld, the new Larry David show is out. He's got a new show? Yes, he does. Oh, is it the one where he's like in history? Yes, he goes back and kind of recreates history. I have it on my DVR. Okay. Now, you know, I am one of the biggest Larry

David fans out there. I have not seen it. The name of the show is, I believe it's life let me get the name of it. I find it. You want to say it? Please, please. Life, Larry, and the pursuit of unhappiness. This is very wordy, Larry. And almost history of America.

So it's a sketch comedy series of events in history. It celebrates stuff that happened in history. That's kind of funny. Variety gave it a wretched review. Oh, really? Larry David diehards loved it. Other people said it was good, not as good as

Kerber or Seinfeld. So he's like annoyed Larry David in historic situations. Like they're in like in the Civil War. He'd rather not go over there. I'd rather not go down bull run. Yeah. Like he's General Custer.

He's jumping into these scenes. Like Larry David's General Custer like it feels like it could be a bad day today. So the funniest thing about this so far it was frankly what it was done before. There was some recording done where You know, Barack Obama is one of the executive producers of the show. And he stopped filming one day to talk to Larry about something.

And he said, Larry, why don't you try this as a funnier thing to say here? He's giving him notes. And Larry went back to him and said, thank you, but no, I got this. And Barack Obama said back to him, he said, you know, when I was president, I took advice from a lot of people and that they helped me make my decisions. I just said, you don't allow to make these decisions. And Larry goes, well, I'm the president of this. and I'm staying with this. That's funny.

It's very Larry David to be turning down notes from the president. So I want to, if anybody saw Life Larry in the pursuit of unhappiness, the first episode, it came out this weekend. Let me know how it was because it's recorded, but the reviews have been very, very mixed. 7.1 on IMDB,

which is not terrible, but it's not great. But, I mean, what does that compare to curb when it's... Curb's probably like a nine. Yeah. Let me find Curb. Curb is an 8.8. Okay, so some people that love the curb... If you have something that's an 8-8,

it's like one of the greatest shows of all time. Yeah. Well, it does. Yeah. Because it's hard for anybody to, you know, I mean, what is the most universally loved show in the history of television? Is there such a thing? MASH. No, because I didn't think MASH was that funny.

I mean, MASH was ridiculous successful. Seinfeld? Has anybody ever said Seinfeld sucks? Yes. A lot of kids say that. It doesn't hold up. Well, holding up is one thing, but being funny. Well, they say it sucks.

I mean, if you don't like it, you see. See? But I guess I should reform this. But I mean, 80% of the plots can be solved by a cell phone, as people have pointed out. If you want to say a show is dated for the reason why it sucks, I would have to discount that because you want to talk about it in the current time. But that's all you can judge you on. Jonathan can't go in a time machine. Or if he could, don't the hell he's doing here?

Now, that 70s show is really good. That still holds up. That's funny. So you prefer that 70s show to. Well, that's also was a period piece, though. And for its time. Okay. So let's, let's, let's dumb this down a little bit.

What is the most loved show on television right this second? It's reality shows. Love Island, right, basically? I don't love Love Island. American Idol? No, American Idol's not even, you know. Maybe it's, you know what? I would say probably Breaking Bad is the most universally loved show.

Strangler Things is probably the most recent. Or you know what guys we are? We're too fragmented. We have too many demographics working here. I'm going to go Breaking Bad and I feel validated because I just Googled the highest rated TV shows on IMDB and number one is Breaking Bad. It's a 9. point five out of ten over like six seasons or whatever so basically if you like that genre you're

going to love that show band of brothers the other ones of planet earth i mean those are documentaries a band of brothers chernobel which i've been meaning to watch oh and the wire number six the greatest show of all time the wire really yeah don't watch it okay it's a little too dense and slow for you is that in a shot at me or just no i just don't think you'd like yeah i think you're right i'm i'm taking it but someone says something is dense. That doesn't sound... Go to break. We'll come back to this.

Sorry. It's just kind of dense. I like light and airy. Yeah, exactly. See? We're on the same page. That's why Curb is the greatest show of all time. One o'clock on 790, final hour next.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 105 on Sports Talk 790. It is the final hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We've got missing you. We're going to welcome a new. member, not to the team, but we got somebody going on the injured list this week. I'm missing you. Which means we're going to bring somebody new in

next week. Oh, really? You've got an IL missing? I didn't know there's an IL for missing you. Well, we're going to, I like that. We're going to identify who it is. And then we will have to replace this person if he's not back in time playing. So it is what it is. But we've got somebody that has been a part of our regular missing your group

that is on the injure list. We'll tell you about that. Coming up. We are at the intermission. Yeah, they're coming back. I forgot. reason to hate watch Brazil. They have their manager, Carlo Ancelotti. Carlo Ancelotti? Callo Ancelotti. Okay. What about him? He always beat Manchester City in the

United, in the Champions League. May I criticize Fox for something? Okay. Fox, Brazil is known for having the most let's be brutally honest, attractive fans of the group, right? Next to course of the U.S. of A. Okay. I haven't said the candy, the eye candy,

so to speak. That's part of watching sports fry candy. It just is. So your big gripe. Not a big. Japan, Brazil. It's not big. But it is a gripe. You want more eye candy. Correct. Well, just go to your favorite website and search Brazil. But I mean, that's not the fresh stuff. I want to see the fresh.

The fresh. Oh, you've seen it all? That may not be fair. Let me get somebody to write that down for a product. Look, there are. Like, I already seen everything they've got. There are a lot of men that are right along with me. They just don't have a microphone in front of them. Oh.

Oh, is Indrik getting in? Oh, wow. So what's that? So Indric is like a young teenage phenoff. He's a Freddy adieu, if you were. Well, but he's actually good. And people think that Ancelotti hates him. So now he's putting him in at halftime.

This is a storyline, Matthew. Okay. maybe young endrick can spark Brazil whatever happened to freddie adieu by the way he's 19 years old freddie adieu just never developed i mean there are people who are child phenoms and they just never develop in television and music and in sports everything everything so uh yeah

andrick was like a like supposed to be the 16 year old next big thing now he's 19 and he's been kind of flagelling flailing let's say and people think that the the manager, Ancelotti hates him. Oh my God, now he's got the ball. What if he scores right here? You'll probably play if you're going to do it.

Must have to do it right. I mean, come on. You just can't stand there. I never did hot shots games. Hey, I did. I've done more soccer play by play than you have. Exactly. Maybe I should be doing a play-by-play.

I haven't done any play-by-play of anything. I've only done high school games color. How would you assess your performance? Eight out of nine? Would you say you're as good, if not better than Ryan Hollins? He does basketball better than I do. Oh, so what's your football comp? Me?

Yeah. Are you Chris Collinsworth? Now, here's a guy. Are you Charles Davis? Yeah, I'll go, Charles Davis. You're Charles Davis of high school football. I like that. That's a really, I mean, Charles Davis is doing okay for himself.

Sure, why not? And there you go. Oh, by the way, one more thing about announcing that I found out. Okay. So the bastards in Canada, and I love Canada. You know I've talked about how much I enjoy going to Toronto. The bastards in Canada. The Batch, yeah, I didn't stutter.

The Basters in Canada. Yes. They have a Canadian version of the Price is Right. Okay. The Proust is root? No. No. I'm going to give you a guess as to who's the host of the Canadian Price is Right.

And I'll give you a hint. Mark Summers. Jonathan, you get jumping in this as well. Your hint is he has hosted a game show before in the past. Mark Summers. No. He's Canadian, right? I don't know, but this person is Canadian.

Don't look it up. Don't look it up. I'm not. I'm looking up. Mark Summers and see if he's Canadian. God, relax. Okay. I'll just...

I never look anything up, and now you're trying to accuse me. Oh, he's born in Indianapolis. Mark Summers is not Canadian. It's close enough. Who is a Canadian entertainer that used to host a game show? Altshire. Dead.

Oh. Bank of cancer, sadly. Oh, thanks for bringing that out. This is, everybody's driving their car going crazy right now. Really? Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey's never hosted a game show. He's Canadian, though.

That he is. Martin Short. That's a great pull, but not the answer. Damn it. You've got about 10 more seconds. I don't know. Dan Aykroyd. Canadian, but never...

Is he a Canadian? No. He's Canadian. It's Canadian, pretty sure. Yeah, no, yeah. You all give up? Go ahead. Howie Mandel.

Howie Mandel? Good for him. Oh, yeah. And he's hosting the Canadian version of the price is right. Well, the reason why I brought this... Can we focus here? Sorry, what? is that the guy that does the announcing of the prizes.

Yes. Is the radio voice of the Toronto Blue Jays. Really? Yes. Oh, that guy? He goes getting pissed off at the Astros last couple years. So his name is Ben Shulman. His dad is Dan Shulman, who's a very talented ESPN college basketball announcer.

Okay. And Dan does the TV for the Blue Jays, and his son, there's not an epitism in sports, right? Obviously, never, does the radio. Okay. So he takes off a few weeks. No, he took off three days. last week to go record 28 episodes

of the Price is Right Canada. The series he took off was the Astros versus the Blue Jays. Okay. I was just saying. So I could take a couple of days off from Rockets games and go work with Drew Carey on the Price is Right.

Go do it. Go pitch yourself. Yeah, yeah. Let's go. Let's get your agent on. Stop talking about it and be about it. Problem is the guy that does it now hasn't been fired.

I can't replace some... Is it the guy with the sparkly jacket? No, he's dead. That's Rod Roddy. Reddy. Dead for a long time. May you rest. That was two host ago.

My bad. Well, they don't wait. The new guy doesn't wear a sparkly jacket? No. Why not? No. His name is George something. George something.

I don't know what his name is. Why won't they honor the great name of Rod Roddy? And wear bedazzled jackets. Because that was his bed. Sequin jackets. Okay. Are you done? I would like a sequin jacket.

I'll get you one. Okay. Thank you for your wedding. All right. So, yeah, if the guy from the guy George ever gets fired on the Price is Right, I will be more than pleased to take a couple of Rockets games off. Yeah. I'll pick the ones like TV and Craig can slide over to radio. Uh-huh.

And then I can just go do the show. I can do the Price is Right commitments. That sounds perfect. They tape 225 episodes a year. That's it? That's a lot, actually. I know. That's why I was joking.

One-nothing. Japan leads Brazil in the 50th minute. Japan is holding their own, man. This is a bigger episode than I think you think it is. I think it's going to send international shockwaves It was three to one But yeah, it's a big upset But three to one is three to one

It's not like the crazy It's not Buster Douglas versus Mike Tyson I think about fair part today's show Is Matt catching himself really watching this game Yeah, it's great I don't focus on it Turn to something else on No

This is the World Cup baby You know what I'm actually astonished by There is seriously there is on an empty seat at Houston Stadium Yeah But Japan is rated 15th in the whole world. Oh, so they're not terrible.

That's what I'm telling you. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to tell you. 114 on Sports Talks. No more pregnant pauses. We're going to focus on sports, sports and more sports. And I'm sorry for bringing up the prices where I can't have a thing, but it's just a personal side of another that made me mad. Brazil is number five in the world.

Japan is number 15. So that would be like a 12 beating a five seed. Sure, let's go. Is that a good comp? USA is 16th. So it'd be nice. Get a win. Let's go.

All right. 713, 212 5. 7190. 7132-1-2-5-790. We're going to bring up a question, Ross, that we brought up early in the show today.

Okay. The Astros are played for the last 30 days 600 baseball. Okay. That means every 10 times they played, they won six.

We asked the audience in the 10 o'clock hour to do this. We're going to ask our 1 o'clockers. What's been the best thing about this 600 stretch? I had two things, and I will tell you what they are.

Because again, you all like to call in and fuss and discuss things when aren't there going so hot. Careful. I know. I almost did it. Instead, I say, your team is playing 600 baseball. What's been the best part of it? I want to hear from you because we don't hear from you when they're doing poorly. You can't call fast.

But when they do well, you're kind of silent. Go. Go! Gold is gold. Brazil. Casamero with the 56 minute goal. And they almost just scored again, Brazil. Now Japan on the counterattack. Down the right side.

And they're looking for somebody. And it's Petered out. It's fine. At Houston Stadium, it is one-one in the 59th minute. Japan, Brazil. There can only be one team moving on. It is knotted up. At one apiece. All right. Let's go to the phones. I said, what's the best thing about the Astros? Okay.

Winning ways the last two weeks, 600 ball over the last 30. They've won five consecutive series. And your squad is a game out of first place, a half game out of the wild card. Okay. I said we are too much of a negative society. We hear out the Matt Thomas Show, Ross, are positive. 713-212-5-790 line number two you're on the Matt Thomas show Ross go ahead please oh that's a nice header from Casamiro all right we mess up a bad connection we'll go to line number one on sports talk 7 in line one what is your best thing about the Astros as of late okay maybe maybe got phone issues Ross I think we're fine let's go to line number three you're on the Astros are almost in the playoffs conversation go ahead

please that's all right well we'll get We'll get the bandwagoners back, Rossi, before you know it. It's all right. It's all right. People like to complain. Can I tell you one thing that does bother me? What's one thing that does bother you? Well, there's a lot of things that bother me, but this is one particular.

Everyone's like, this division sucks. Well, guess what? We all know that. Somebody's got to win it. But the rule is every division gets a division winner. Every single time. That's the rule. Maybe it's not fair.

And I got even better news for you. There are three teams that are the next three best. records, Ross, that don't win the division, get to still go to the playoffs. It's what they call the wild card. And if you're telling me a team at 500 or just under 500 is going to be a wildcard team, then you know what? And if it's going to be the crappy Astros, I'm all for it. What do you think about a rule change where the race or Yankees would get a one and two seed

over the White Sox and or Rangers are extras? You know how I feel by this. You and I argue about this all the time. I do believe there's value in winning a division. Is there value in winning the AOS? Most years, yes. This is a one-off. This is not a regular.

I'm just saying. I'm just... I know. Because it happened last year. Wasn't there a team last year out of the A.O. East that was better? Yeah. Yankees had 94 wins, which was more than the Mariners are guarded. So this will be the second year in a row.

I say this in the NFL, and I say it in the in baseball. You should get a reward for winning your division, no matter what the division is. I know. Maybe I'm... Yeah, you get in. They're getting a reward. they're in. I'm not kicking them out of the playoffs.

As part of the reward. We're not going guardians. See you'll later. As part of the reward, you're going to get home field. The guardians get in the playoffs. Yep. And if you're the division champion, you get to play a home series. So let's say there's a scenario where the Yankees and the Rays went over 100 games.

Yes. And nobody else. And nobody else wins 90. Yes. I would like that one of those teams to get a two-seat. I know you would like to have these things happen. What's wrong with that? Nothing wrong with it.

I like it the way it is now. Why? Because I do want to put good value, not just value, but good value, and winning a division. Why are you punishing the Yankees for not being in a terrible division? If they were in the central, they would win it running away. But they're not. Because they live in a different part of the country.

Just because a team in Tampa's got good players, now they have to be punished. It all evens out. It just does. It just does. I know you're asking for a friend. You're asking for sports Harvey, and I have respect to. I know I'm asking for Mac Brown. Why are you talking like Mac Brown?

I have Mac Brown's asking for this. I don't know. Well, Sally and I disagree on this one all the time. She's a traditionalist and I say they should let the best teams be the high seats. What is our, what you and I have been working together for long time? What is our number one universal arguing point in sports? Forgetting about goofy stuff. I don't know.

It's not this. Because I could, I could, Stevie Wonder concert. I know that for sure. I could come back to you and say, all right, your idea sounds makes good sense. used to be for like the first five or six years of the show I used to say look you're getting $250,000 worth of college scholarships stop talking about paying the athletes

and now we're paying them and that's out of control too but that's a different for a different time I've come a little bit towards that corner I'm trying to think what we You also wanted more more steroids in sports which I thought was weird yeah okay who said that I'm just kidding Jonathan

I'm just kidding Jonathan Ross and I argue that all gunshot reports should be filed by the NFL to be released to public. Your horrible, terrible argument that 6-5 blackjack and 3-2 blackjack are the same thing.

I still play sick. I play still play. I don't want to, but I still play it. I'm going to play 6-5 blackjack than play no blackjack at all. Because if I'm winning on 20s, it doesn't matter of blackjack. You're what's wrong with America.

No, I mean, I like... You're why 6-5 is everywhere because you're like, it's fine, it's the same thing. Yeah, sure. Why not? I look more at the felt than I had before my life. Good.

I'm glad I'm going to help you. Yeah. Okay. But it's not going to, like, if I'm at 20 tables, I'm looking at 20 tables and 19 or full, the only table that's got a spot for me to play blackjack is a 6-5, I don't want to do it, but I'm going to play a little bit of it. Okay. Not I might move to a 3-2 if I can.

But we're going, what about sports? Have we ever, is there anything we universally still argue about with sports? I don't know if there is anything so. Yes. Jeff Bagwell is the greatest astro of all time. That's not true. It's Jose Al Tuve. Jose Al Tuvei is great.

He's the greatest postseason Astro of all time. I believe it's some of the parts. Me too. I believe that Jeff Bagwell gets dinged heavily for his lack of postseason play. I understand. Now that's different parameters. That's the worst thing of... 49 home runs, 948 OPS.

And about a one-time great... About an 085... Better post-season runner? 0-85. postseason percentage, I'm good. Can you say Al-Tuve had bad playoff runs? Yeah, mostly great, though. Yeah.

He also didn't have to go up against Maddox and Glavin and Smolts his old time. Well, guess what? How about this one? If Maddox, Galanick and Spolts of the ABS system, they wouldn't be nearly as great. Well, they didn't have the... Hold on, stop right there.

Forget anybody anything we're arguing about. Is that not the truth, though? Yeah, that is the truth, but Altuve's never been in the postseason with the ABS system. I'm just telling me... So that doesn't make any sense. I'm going back to the general statement of... Those guys aren't nearly as good as they think they are

because they were getting strike calls and when other guys should have been any strike calls. Was there an ABS system? So why is that Jeff Bagwell's fault? Because it would be a lot of those pitch will be balls. Maybe he'd have a better percentage. So if anything, this is more in Jeff Bad, argument more in Jeff Bagwell's favor.

He still has a swing, though. No, he's getting, he's making great swing. He's getting great, he's making great swing decisions and he's getting bad calls. So actually, you're arguing in his favor. In that particular case, maybe. But I'm still telling you, Joseo Tube is the greatest of them all. I understand.

I'm not calling you crazy. I hope not. I understand the recents of bias and all that stuff. Reasons, I've been watching him do it since 2011. Well, he was terrible in the playoffs in some years. Terrible is a relative term. 2020, 2020 run, he was terrible. And they won the World Series.

You can make me go look at Jose Altova's career numbers? Career? No, I said 2022. Okay, one bad year. How many bad Bagwell posts have had there been? Numerous. Also, a couple of those, his arm was falling off as a former street. Did he put the uniform on?

Yeah, he did. Did he play first one? Did he play? Did he DH maybe? 948 career OPS. All right, enough from you. Second greatest astro of all time. Behind Yordon Alvarez.

We're in agreeing. Worse interim GM of all time. Honestly, we're going to both be wrong. This keeps up. It's going to be Yordon. You might be right. Because you got playoff moments there too. You got playoff and regular season and the most devastating.

He's the best hitter's not even close Astros history in OPS Plus. How many more years is it going to take? Three more? You want to look at the Astros? Three more? Astros. How many more years are going to take it? You can discuss that if we were to go eat somewhere and have another great debate about this.

You know what? We can a cusser and a discusser as well. She'll be going to go eat, Ralti. She'll be going to talk about Texans linebackers and whether it's the greatest offensive line players in NFL Texans history. I'm sorry. Yordon Alvarez's 166 OPS Plus is just behind Ty Cobb and Mike Trout. Every Monday at 1.30, we check in on former Houston athletes

and we will do this. We started this with baseball and we will do this obviously for the NFL and for the NBA, provided there are other rockets doing things. And James Hardin would be a missing year, right? Russell Westberg will be a missing you. Kind of. Help me out with some others.

Oh, by the way, I did the Googling since you asked Matt. Yeah. I believe it is 64% of game, World Cup games that go to extra time go to PKK. Okay. And I think probably the World Cup folks like it that way, right? Yeah, they're tired. It builds drama. Yeah, get more advertisements.

All right, so this week's edition of Missing It features our first injured player. Hesu Sanchez, Friday night against the Rangers, ran into the wall trying to make one of those acrobatic grabs. And as he did, he suffered a right ankle sprain. It was immediately placed in the 10-day injure list. So that means if he's not ready to play, Well, actually 10 days means we're going to have a new member to the missing you list next Monday. So we're going to bump him off the board for a week. Okay.

Hesu Sanchez this year, 274, his batting average, seven home runs, 29 RBIs, and his OPS is 753. Damn. And taking circuitous routes to grab outfield balls in right field. Yeah, last I checked, he had those great numbers in a war of zero, so it must really be butchering it out there. Not great. Is he throwing the ball into the stands every five minutes?

Is the ball clanking off his head? Why the negative rating? Oh my God, he's a negative. He's got a negative. He's got a negative. Point four war. What's he doing out there? Defense must really blow. So I ask you, Ross, are you missing Hesu Sanchez?

I'm still going to say yes. Yes, the answer, of course, is yes. You're going to give me a 753 OPS in the outfield. I'll take it. I can't even get 700 in this town. Is he literally picking daisies in left field or something? Maybe he's having some routine

Even fan grass has this war at 0.0 With a 753 OPS That is unthinkable That means he just must be butcher in the outfield Yeah Maybe he could be the designated out hitter for Cam Smith Although they can only be a D.H for the pitcher

Yeah All right, 753 So Hesu Sanchez, despite the fact You suck as an outfielder, we do miss you. Next, Ross, we'll go with Framber Valde, as we saw him on Saturday. Four runs, eight hits, six innings, no decision, non-quality start.

On the year, Framber Valdez, four wins, five losses, and an ERA of 4.05. I ask you, Sports RV, are you missing Framber Valdez? 4.0, what? Five? Yes. Yes, I am. Spencer's eric getting shelled lately.

Mike Burroughs isn't good. Just say that one more time again Spencer's erig getting shelled lately Jonathan, rate that one to ten A ten being the cleverest thing you've heard in your life One being a horrible try At least give me a four At least give me a four

Sometimes he's eric getting some outs Wow One to ten That's a one point five It's supposed to be cheesy, relax The line better would be Spencer's Eric Let's see.

Oh, there we go, genius. Yeah, 0.0. Hold on, hold on, I'll make sure I say it right. A rare getting out. No, nope. See, that's not good. Oh, that's so easy, is it? Not so easy, is it?

No, but I didn't try. I gave him one effort, gave it a zero. Give it myself a zero. Let's see. He's had a, have you liked Spencer Arigatee this year? You've been okay. Is ERA's four? What's, what, Frommers?

4.05. Oh, 5. So, yeah. I would say I'm missing him. Okay. Talk to you, my 536. Next. Caiway Tong, 436.

Mauricio DuBahn this week for the Braves. Okay, he's got a cool off at some point. But the way your voice just went, he must be doing well. 11 for 29 last week. Oh, damn. That's almost like 373. I think somewhere in that range. Slap singles kind of fell a hit.

One home run, one ribby. He's got a, how many home runs does he have this year? Eight, I'm glad you asked. Oh, my God. He has more home runs than Jesus does. He has 43 RBI's. more than Sanchez does. And he plays gold glove defense. Batting average of 267, which

is about probably 30 points higher than he normally is. This OPS is 737. I say to you, Rossi, I know you love Nick Allen. I know you're a big Nick Allen guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But are you missing Maricio DuBond? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And this is the penny pinching moves that I don't like from Jim Crane. There was no

huge deal that had to be signed for Maricio Dubon to stay here. It was a penny pinching move, and it's hurt the team. Fact. Sorry. Now, I will say this. I think he probably brought with him a chipped on a shoulder to Atlanta and trying to prove the haters wrong or the Astro's wrong, and he's doing it. He wouldn't be hitting like this there.

Yeah, I'd still be better. It'd still be good. It'd be better than Nick Allen, honestly. I mean, Nick's a great guy, but it just would be. I mean, that was just on a plus plus move for the team. Alex Bregman. Oh, Lordy. Rossi, Rossi, Rossi.

Still getting bad for him? Three for 26 last week. Boy, ve. Is he okay? No home runs. Two ribbies. He needs to have another baby. He gets more dad strength. Drew four walks, but also

struck out six times. 239 his batting average for the year with the Cubs. Six home runs, less than Sanchez, less than Dubon. 27 RBIs, less than Sanchez, less than Dubon. OPS of 671.

With Delgado and Shoemake and Peretti. We're not missing Alex Spragman. I mean, I miss him the person, but I don't miss him the player. Yeah, it's because for ESOX's been hitting hard. They've been hot, hitting hot. 671 OPS. And not missing him. All right. We got one more here. Kyle Tucker.

Five for 24. Yeah. One home run. Four ribbies. Two walks. Okay. Of those 19 outs, nine have come through the strikeout. Damn.

Batting 239 on the year. OPS of 715, lower than Sanchez. 715. Higher than. Cam Smith. Higher than. Joy La Profito. Higher than.

Jake Myers. Yeah. Zach Cicenzo. Is that Cole? Trammell. Gidel Tramel. 239, the batting average. 715, the OPS.

Seven home runs, 44 rivies. Now, are recalling it a one-for-one? E-Soc or can I wave a magic wand and he's on the team with E-Soc? You can wave a wand. Okay, if I'm waving the magic wand, I'm missing. Because the rest of the trade, I mean, Cam's, game hits bigger home runs, but they're just way fewer. They don't count more.

No, they only still count for one. And that is missing. you for this week now. The question is going to be when we're bumping Hesu Sanchez off the box next week. Otherwise, do we add Miles Straw? No. There was no Miles Straw. We're not sitting here saying, man,

Miles Straw is the one that got away. Do we add George Springer? Maybe. Oh, Garrett Cole, we get out of the mix? For Pete's sake, I gave up a lot of home runs. Every time you do that, I want to start singing the Rainbow Connection. And so does the audience, too. A one. A two. One, go.

See, if you are, were really an excellent producer. You'd have the song queued up, I'm ready to go. Oh, wow. So you're saying he's not an excellent producer? I'm saying he's a very good producer. Wow. The separation become an excellent producer would have been. You know what an excellent producer says? Go to break. Oh, I like this.

Get them. With Ross. Hey, we're going to play, believe it or not. I did not give out the phone numbers. If you'd like to play, we actually have some good prizes giveaway today. We have a pair of tickets to the Outlaw Music Festival with Willie Nelson, Wilco, Cheryl Crow. Lucas Nelson, Stephen Wilson, Jr. And more July the 5th at the Williams Pavilion. So if you would like to go to that event,

pair of tickets, outlaw music festival. Tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster.com. Come in and play. Let me give you the phone number. I'll give it to you twice. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. If we got a minute before we play the game,

looking at the grass at Houston Stadium, cow, you got to put grass in the stadium. They can do it. There's no reason why they can. can't now. Yes, they can. It looks unbelievable. Looks nice. They don't want to pay for it. That's what play like MetLife. Come, Carol, it's cousin. It's getting some grass in the stadium.

Oh, sorry. Please, Ross. What is wrong with you? Please say your statement. I don't even remember. Oh, yeah. The NFL Players Association has taken note. If you remember, we were talking about this. They're like, oh, MetLife's got this nice, beautiful grass. They're hosting the World Cup final. They're going to take the grass out. It's all cost

cutting. The players prefer grass. They have data that supports that there are fewer injuries and fewer major injuries on grass as opposed to turf. But the owners won't do it. They're like, oh, turf is great. Come on, you cheap bastards. Because you install it once and then you're done. Five minutes left to go on the show.

What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game. Shall we simply call it be leaving or not and here's how it works. You'll call 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1. 125790. Today's edition of Believe it or Not is all things about, are you ready for this?

In honor of Bruce Thornton, the Rocket's second round pick. I'm going to give you a player in the NBA who might have been picked in the second round or later. If they were, you'll say this. Believe it. If they were not, meaning they were a first round pick, you'll say this. Two believe it or nots in a row, win your prize. You're going to win Outlaw Music Festival tickets with Willie Nelson, Wilco, Cheryl Crow, Lucas Nelson, Stephen Wilson, Steele Wilson, I don't know.

Sure, why not? As long as Cheryl Crow's there, I'm there. All you want to do is having some fun, don't you? 713-212-5-790. If you want to go to the Outlaw Music Festival, all you've got to do is believe it or not. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. My fault for not giving them the phone numbers. We've been doing this for 16 years.

It's okay. It is what it is. Casamiro is down. It might be dead. Who? Casamiro. By the way, are you proud of me?

I've not mentioned Capri Sons or Orange Wedges once in the entire month. You did do it once, actually. Okay, that's been less than a couple times. I'm glad of you then. Good job. Jonathan, shut up. You shut up. 7-1-3-2-1.

Wait, nobody can shut up. This is a radio show. Yeah, we've got to talk. Joe on 790. You're ready to play? This is a prize whore, Joe, that we met on Friday? Is this prize hard, Joe? That's me. It's me.

Nice. Jremon Green was a second round pick in 2012 on a Michigan state. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's right. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Lou Dort was undrafted in 2019 out of Arizona State.

Believe it or not. What? You don't know who Lou Dort is? All right. It's a believe it. Get out of here. See you a prize hore, Joe. How do you know who Luke Dort is?

Come on Luke Gintz Dort. All right. Joe on 790. Joe, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, sir. Joe Dumars was a third round pick in 1985 out of McNeece State. Believe it or not? Believe it.

No, he was the 18th overall pick. First round around McNeese. How about that? Let's go to Dan on 790. What was your fair part of today's 10-2 radio show? The Yassero show. Kevin McHale, second round 1980 out of Minnesota. Believe it or not?

Believe it? No, third overall pick. Who is that? Kevin McKell? Oh, hey. Josh on 790, Josh, you're ready to play, believe it or not? But my favorite part of the show was Ross breaking down soccer like a muddough. Yeah, you were breaking down like a muddough.

Thank you, Josh. Carl Herrera, second round 1990 out of the universe. of Houston. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's right. Statement number two for the win. Robert Parrish, fourth round, 1976 out of Centenary College. Believe it or not? Not.

That's right. He was the eighth overall pick. Rossi for 25... Put some respect on the big chief's name. 25 million M.T.Bucs. Centenary's nickname of their basketball team is? The mercenaries. No, it was the gentleman. The Centenary mercenaries.

The gentleman. Settnery mercenaries. They went out of the sentnery mercenary, gentlemen. We're out of time. For today. For today. We're back for four full hours. You've got Astros on deck at 2 o'clock, 6 o'clock.

You know what? Adam's by himself. You want to do it with him? Which one? You'll find out next. The A team on 7.9. Wee.