The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Win First Game Of The Series vs Rockies, Yordan Going to See Another Specialist.. Should We Worry?

Episode Date: July 2, 2025

Astros Win First Game Of The Series vs Rockies, Yordan Going to See Another Specialist.. Should We Worry?

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-01 in H-Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Wednesday edition to the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. And as a heterosexual man, I do love hooting the blowfish. This is going to say that right now.

Why do you have to qualify that at all? I don't know. It just feels like that there's some qualification on that. Turn it up. Are a hooty and the blowfish gay icons? No, but I just think that when guys say the other guy bands are really awesome, they people like, oh, look at you, how weird you are. Matt, just be yourself.

Don't worry about it. You don't have to qualify, Madding. Just say you like the hooty and the blowfish. Let's go. I like hooty and the blowfish. Yeah. There's no problem with that. No shame.

Hurrah. It's one of the old time. Let's go. You donate your hand to science to give it to your dad. No. even though we are both left-handed. Yes, most geniuses are, Jonathan. Well, there's always exceptions to rule.

That is correct. 10 to two weekdays. All right. We could have played highlights from last night, and we will do that, certainly. We've got to have a little Rocky Mountain High with John Denver, but... Okay. I mean, come on. What?

You want to make everybody depressed in the first five minutes? Thanks, you did it. I don't have to. I have to be a realist. We call ourselves Real Talk 790. Okay, we can talk about it. We're going to have to do a whole thing with Darius Rucker and the boys. We're going to play some wagon wheel later.

Can we do that? Yeah, all-time pivot, right? He's like, man, this hooty stuff is not selling. It's time to swap the country. That's a nice. By the way, it's a good late career pivot. Yeah, I don't want me called a hooty anymore. I want to be Darius Rucker.

Yeah. I want to sing other people's cover songs and make millions of dollars. By the way, he can put on a performance. I can tell you that for sure. Oh, okay. I saw him at Cynthia Woods a couple of years back. One of the greatest showman of all time, Darius Rucker. I don't know if I'd put in that case.

Well, Your Don't' hand is messed up. He had a setback at the Florida Complex League. Literally just got there. Yeah. Has anything good ever happened at the Florida Complex League? Well, here's the thing back. I didn't hear this. What?

Jonathan. Jonathan, Blake, Jonathan. I was going with the, I was going, I was like, you know, you know,

you don't even have to open your microphone to say this to tell everybody. But you know, people don't know. People don't know. I'm just like,

no, everybody knows who's following the sports. And you went home and, yeah, you were watching Love Island and everybody else

is worried about Yordon. It was a good episode, but you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right. I took the score and everything,

though, I took all stats. When he said Yordon highlights, I was like, what's going on. You know, I didn't. I was going to wait.

And you didn't investigate further? I was going to wait. I was going to give you a little heads up. We're not going to play any ditty music today, just saying? Even though he got off, it sounds like. He did what? What? You know, from his most serious charges, of course.

No, but what did you say? Nope, not saying it. Did he did what? Nope, not saying it. You said it. No, I didn't. No, I didn't. Erase that.

I'm actually tweeting that right now. No, you're not. And I quote. No, no, no, no, no. I don't need that. I don't need the ditty people on. No, no, no, no. There's ditty people?

There's no ditty people? You're fine. I already tweeted. Well, I mean, you tell me, I mean, are there people that were huge Sean Combs fans that were... I would say most everybody think that he's a criminal and a creep and a cretan. Especially after all the baby oil. Excuse me? Yeah, and Johnson and Johnson Stock has gone.

out since he's been arraigned. Wow. Well, okay. Well, this shows off to a amazing start. It's your fault. You brought up Diddy and you brought up Darius Rucker.

I was on a sports topic, see? But Jonathan didn't know the reason we were playing you're on the highlights. That's pretty funny. How are you? I didn't know. I enjoy the wild card element of Jonathan

what he does and doesn't know, but yeah, that was interesting. Wow. Okay. So I don't know if you heard Dana a few minutes ago with Sean. And look, Dana's trying to, you know, be as politically correct and as honest as he can be. He's not a doctor. He's waiting to hear words from his medical team, from the specialist.

Ross, I mean, we got a deal in realities here. If he comes back this year, it's a bonus. I have no basis for saying that. I don't, I mean, I'm not a hand doctor. Right. I think normally, if we were talking about a knee or something else, I'd be with you. But it feels like just from my little to know research that hand injuries aren't necessarily, there's three months left in the season, aren't necessarily that debilitating. Even if he had hand surgery, doesn't, I know that Hammett bone surgery, I was looking all this up last night trying to figure this out.

That's like eight weeks. So, I mean, I don't know what kind of hand fracture surgery he could have that would be more than three. months. So I have to believe he could be back this year. But I'm not a hand doctor. We can get a hand specialist on Matt. I know you know a couple. You and your boy Bagwell. But I do not know any hand specialist. Okay. But yeah, we're not doctors, so I have no idea. For me to say, I think he's out for the year. I would be making that up. I have no medical basis to say that. But I also have no medical basis to say and maybe I'm just being optimistic that he's going to be back this season. Yeah. I'm going to say with zero medical

adventures in my life that if Jordan Alvarez comes back before the end of the year it's a bonus I don't think that's out of

context to say that I just I mean he's been gone since May yeah and that's two plus months and he still doesn't feel good and he's going to see a special

I don't think the recovery process just all he doesn't go to the specialist get an injection and go oh things are better now there's a reason why they're going to specials and you know you're right Ross you and I don't know

but I mean, we're kind of, this is, he's had this hand issue before. It's two plus months. And he, it's all of a sudden he's not going to swing differently when he comes back. I don't know if this is something that's going to recur. I know. He's got violent swings. He's got good hand speed, a lot of bat speed. Yeah.

But we'll see. And I will also say this. If he's not back for the playoffs, they're not winning the world series. I'm sorry to say that. And early, I just don't get it. Why didn't they go to a specialist in the first place? Oh, I'm sure they did. Yeah, I mean, they had him look at, look, I know everybody wants to blame the Astros and all this,

but I think they're not getting a bunch of incompetent doctors out there. And I'm not saying that's what you said, Jonathan. But I'm just saying, like, they have some of the best doctors in the world. And people, I think a lot of people are being ignorant on this and like, why wouldn't they do this? And why wouldn't they do this? And we have one of the best medical centers. in the world, yeah, they have the best doctors in the world. Something got messed up, for sure.

And maybe I'm wrong to kind of give them the benefit of the doubt, but the astros are a multi-billion dollar, at least in valuation, operation. And I don't think, and Jordan Alvarez is arguably their best asset. I don't think there was some sort of medical malpractice here, at least at this point, even though they did say they rushed them back probably the first time. I would absolutely 100% agree with you. Again, if you want to criticize the Astros for their lack of transparency, I get that. If you want to get upset because the message has been muddled, I get that.

And do I think there has been some protection from some members of that medical staff? Absolutely. But I don't think they're incompetent. I don't think they're, they didn't go to Jordan Alvarez and say, take two Advil and toughen up, Nancy. Yeah, exactly. It is there. Rub some dirt on it.

They didn't say go get a bottle of windex. He usually fixes everybody's problems. Yeah. But no matter how forthcoming they were, or not forthcoming, if he ain't playing it ain't playing, again, they could come back tomorrow and say he's playing tomorrow, and if he doesn't,

then, you know, again, as I've told you before, with all this going on the last couple of years, when I see a player play, I'm excited. but to have Dana try to forecast it or Joe Espada try to forecast it, you're putting those guys in a spot they just don't have the answers to. You want them to say, he's just back. You want him to say, oh, the reports are good. Obviously, think about this.

Something happened with Yordan to take some swings off the tee last week. He's not going to run down to West Palm Beach and get some more swings in against some live pitching just because he wants to see what it's like in South Florida in June. He obviously felt something that was good, right? I mean, let's put this in perspective here. He's not going to run down there, again, because he hears that the ocean, the ocean's beautiful this time of here.

He wants to get back and playing. But when you go to swing and you do what you do and you are taking 10, 15, 20, 50 swing, I don't know how many he took, when you wake up, you're in pain, and if he is in pain, that means what you thought was fixed is not fixed. It's like when you have, I mean, for all of us that are adults, you know, you have back pain. You take, what is it, don'ts, pills, whatever the back, you, oh, I feel great. And two days later, your back, your back feels terrible.

That means probably something is wrong. You need to go see a specialist. Yeah. Setbacks happen. It's just, I don't know what you call it like a series of unfortunate events. It just keeps on a piling up on the Astros. Yeah. But it's, yeah.

it sucks. It absolutely 100% sucks and it's going to hurt the Astros. As well as they're playing and as many different heroes as they had, including Victor Carotini last night, it's going to ultimately cost the Astros. Which probably then puts a significant amount of pressure probably on the front office to go to find somebody. If you can't find, whether it's a left-hand bat or just a bat period, you need someone to get in there and help because God love Victor Caratini and Campsmith's been awesome

and Jeremy Payne, I mean, we don't to lose Jeremy Payne now for whatever length of time. Yeah, and you've got fans blaming Jeremy, them for Jeremy Payne. It's like he got hit by a pitch, they held them out, and then now he went to the IL with a rib fracture. I mean, yeah.

Standard operating procedure. And Yordon had seen three hand specialists. That's what Dana said. About 20 minutes ago, as a matter of fact, so yeah, yeah. Gang, this isn't great. It is what it is. But again, I'm not going to give you all sunshine and rainbows on this. It's just not possible. Not when you've been gone since May. I got some good news for you, Matt. When we come back? No, no. Day one yesterday.

There's 17 games above 500, folks. There's seven games ahead of the Mariners. Shout out Royals. And something I saw yesterday in the game that I think is one of the greatest things I've ever seen in my life. Oh! No, that's a professional radio teas 713 212 5790 712 212 5790 it is a matt thomas show with ross things already broken you're hitting the blowfish you got john depper on the show today and you're not getting ditty unless ross wanted uh no i do not want ditty you don't want ditty okay me either all right 1023 it is the matt thomas show

with Ross. All right, so I teased the greatest thing I may have seen in my entire life last night when it comes to that home run. It was in the distance because, look, everybody hits bombs at Corseville, right? Yes. I'm going to tell you this, and I've been watching baseball for 45 years.

That might have been the greatest bat flip of all time. Oh. And there are some candidates, the Barry Bonds, the Ken Griffey's. I'm going to stick with the Jose Batista. It was kind of a bat toss.

Go look at it again. I'm telling you, I was mesmerized by it. Okay. I mean, huh. I saw it, but I didn't give it really a second thought. So I will, you know what? Cam Smith had a great one last week against the Cubs. We're getting back into some good backflips, and I love bat flips.

Okay. Yeah, Louis Val Buena, may he rest, had a bunch of great bad flips. Great bad flips. but I was I watched the highlight maybe 15 times and I just like I love that bat flip it wasn't even a flip it was more of a

it was like a shove boy then the Astro needed all that as they came back as they won the game by a run look Colorado's scrappy but they just suck I mean it is what it is yeah hopefully Astros will be able to get a couple of more wins there and then head off the Los Angeles for a World Series preview Ross

what do you think yes Yes. I will go with the Cam Smith one over the Victor Caratini one. I'm retweeting it at SportsRV on Twitter right now. And you tell me what you think. Well, first of all, it was impressive too. But I'm, as you would say, I am recency biased on this. Oh, here we go. I didn't fit the term.

You did, but I'm using it more than I ever did before. That's good because it's important to think about, Matt. These cognitive biases control us all. Okay, you just put it on Twitter, you just put it on Twitter, the Cam Smith. bat flip? Yes. Okay. So let me tell you, I'm allowed to under FCC rule to change my mind. Absolutely. But I

absolutely loved Karatini's bat flip yesterday. Let's take a look here. I'll give you time. Once you promote... On my Instagram, you can still, I'm still following everyone back until I get to 400 followed.

You know what? If you do it in the next 10 minutes, I'll follow you even, I'm sorry, 500. I'm at 492. Oh my God. But anybody who follows me at SportsRour review on Instagram. I'll follow you back in the next 10 minutes. Okay. It's a magical bat and flip from Gams with against the organization that traded him away so it's that extra twist of the knife.

Oh, the flip behind the catcher. Oh, damn, I don't know what to do now. It's pretty good, isn't it? Oh, my God, is it good? The casual, whoop. All right, now I'm going to go look at keratini somewhere. They're both great. Hey. I can do this on live radio. They're all great. Yeah, you can do it on live radio. It's fine. And we got callers waiting patiently, but that's all right. I know, I see him.

Let's get to some people here. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-79. Luis and Katie is first up on the Matt Thomas show at 1026. Louise, good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. Can you hear me well? Yes, sir.

Yes. Okay. My question is about the rockets. I don't know. I haven't heard anything in the programs on the people calling. it's regarding the Capella, okay, the hiring of Capella. I think the move is great

because I think everybody's looking for a center so they got a cheap contract. So I understand very well that. However, and also the second point is I feel that Emeka really likes the play in the two bigs. And the playoff played Adams and Shangoon. It was a great move,

but Adams couldn't really go full time so maybe Capella could help. However, I was calling about Dante. Dante really impressed me last year with his blocking. His free shooting is better than probably a lot of the guys in the Rockins. And I haven't heard him. Definitely he's going to be in the final roster, so he's going to be back in the Jee League. I was calling about him because he really impressed me last year.

And I thought that this may have been the position that he could have filled instead of Capella. Okay, I'm going to hang about listening, guys. Have a good one. I didn't have my bingo card and a Folly Dante call on July 2nd. The same thing. Kevin Durant, Dorian Finney Smith,

who's in the starting rotation? Where does Tarisin fit in? Astros are 17 games above 500. Oh, I appreciate y'all follow me on Twitter, but I was talking about Instagram. I'll be following back. But thank you.

Sorry, yes. But yeah, in following my Instagram. No, no, you don't have one. No, you shut it down, right? 2,681 people. Thank you very much. I think I've gained about 200 in the last time. Oh, man, you're making me upset.

We will get to some more in Faday-Dante conversation. Oh, wow. I believe we're going to hit that at Never 15 on the show. No, that's all right. I don't think that he's a future rotational player, but he could develop. Yeah, there's no room for him here. I'm going to be brutally honest. I don't know if he's going to be with another team.

G-League. it didn't cross my mind. And I'm sure he's a swell fella. Mm-hmm. By the way, I looked at the carotini home run too. God, I don't know what to do. They're both so good. It's great.

The carotini was the shove. The The cams was behind the catcher. As you know, things are good is when you're breaking down bat flips with your team. 51 and 34. Yes.

Who told you? Who told you, Matt? The tigers were going to slide some. Two games behind the Tigers for the best record in the American League. They are three in front of the Yankees for the two-seat in the American League. Yeah. But they might be batting down the hatches for a storm. You got a hold on for dear life.

There's a tropical depression up there. Yes. The forecast is not good. It could improve, but it's not good right now. the the American map says it's headed right for southeast Texas 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-790 our time is 1030 it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross we will hear a little bit from Dana Brown coming back plus your phone calls and Brian Bogusivik at 11 o'clock and shut you bum ass up at 1130

1034 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross Brian Bogussevich joined It's in about 25 minutes. Shut your bone, my stuff at 1130. The news at noon, believe it or not, today at 150. Let's, Rossi, if you could help us out on this one, let's get to some of what Dana Brown said just about an hour ago. If you missed it when it came to the news on Jordan Alvarez, which obviously is not good.

He is going to see a specialist. The Astros should report something the next couple of days. But needless to say, the trip to West Palm Beach was to get some swings in and hopefully get back on the field, and that it's not going to happen anytime soon. Yes, we'll first go to Dana Brown on Steve Okert and the way he's been pitching. What?

Okay, I'm kidding. Let's see. A number of questions and answers, and we have some clips for you, of course, as you said, Dana Brown 930 Wednesdays with the Sean Salsbury show. Dana Brown asked, was Yordon 100% before this setback? Did you guys, with the imaging, was he 100% before he took live BP?

He cleared 100% by the doctors. Yeah, I mean, he felt good. I mean, if anybody was at the ballpark on Saturday, and I saw him hit the ball all over the place, he was hitting rockets. And so, you know, we were very, very optimistic. And, you know, we were, you know, so optimistic that we got him down to Florida on Sunday. And so we were going to start their lives. And then on Tuesday morning, you know, he still felt some pain.

And the most important thing right now is to just get him back healthy. you know, the team is playing well. And so, you know, it's been a little, you know, tough to deal with because we need this guy back in our lineup. But, you know, we picked them up really well. And, you know, let's try to figure out now what the specialist says that he's going to see today. But, you know, let's be hopeful. Well, I mean, yeah, hopeful. I don't know.

I've been beaten down. No, no, I just have. I mean, I'm trying to be helpful. But, you know, that's what I'm saying. When he shows up, and this is a very any player, when Jeremy comes back, whatever, whatever that may be, Ross, I'll be happy. Can't wait. Can't wait to see what this team does at a full lineup. And what they've been able to do so far with the fact that they have not been able to be at 100%.

But I can't. I'm done. As I told you before, I hate the term sooner rather than later. And thankfully, no one said that today. Well, I hope he's back. Quicker rather than slower. Is that better? Instagram account is suffering.

At Sports RV, following people back still. Dana, we mentioned this in the first segment, Matt, asked if this is the first time he has seen a hand specialist. No, he's seen three specialists. So we've had guys on this. You know, this is, as I mentioned, this is more of the complexity of the the hand itself. And so, you know, he's getting the best of care.

You know, it's like anything else. You've got to figure out what this problem is. And I think, you know, we're digging deep, you know, to get to the bottom line. And I feel like, you know, this specialist, I'm actually looking forward to see, you know, what this is going to, this diagnosis is going to be. So three specialists. for Yordon Al-Ros, according to Dana Brown. Yeah, again, I don't think they're, I mean, say what you all,

and I know there have been some criticisms about their lack of transparency, but they're not cheap. They're not going to take a guy they pay a lot of money to, who is their quote-unquote franchise player, power hitter extraordinaire, and they're not going to just say, well, tough it out, you know, Nancy. I mean, it doesn't make any sense. right now is every doctor in life going to give you the results you want or diagnose things properly I mean they're I mean look we've all gone the doctors in our life and they thought it was one

thing it wasn't it was something else that's true and so just because you go to three specials doesn't necessarily mean you're getting the right advice so that I can't speak to but they are getting multiple opinions yes and well they're going to get some more and they're going to get some more I mean, four times of charm is what the kids say. That was the name of the horse that I didn't have Dean Wayne Lucas four times the charm. That was actually a decent one. Thank you. Some of those were better than others.

I'll put it down. I liked my bestie, too. That was the worst one. See, I was going to be nice. I wasn't going to bring that one up. I was just going to say some were better than others. But you brought it up. That one was terrible.

It was terrible. And it worked. It absolutely 100% work. Okay. Quickly, though, with one more. thing with Dana Brown. Something you kind of brought up, Matt. Any concern this could be

major season ending? No, not at all because of how he feels and because of what we've seen on the imaging. So now the next move is to see the specialist because part of this is like you know, he wants to make sure

that everything is fine as well. He really doesn't want to feel any soreness. And so, you know, sometimes getting the, you know, opinion of another doctor can get you over that hump when you, you know, maybe there's something that you have to fight through or something like that. But, you know, ultimately he's dying to get back and, you know, to feel the soreness, we just want to make sure.

I appreciate Daniel's optimism, but he can't speak to that. But if I was in Dana's spot, I'd say the exact same thing. I'm blaming him. God, I hope he's right. I'll say this. I hope. hope he's right. Yes. We've, unfortunately, over the last couple of years, heard optimism from Dana Brown that did not ring out to be true. Because we put it this way. Let's say he flipped and said, and that's the

reality. If he said, if the question was asked, if could this be season ending, if he would have said, well, there's a possibility, that would flip the city out. So he's probably going, you know what? I don't need that on my, on my plate. Yeah. I like that he was unambiguous about it. He just immediately was like, no. Came out strong. That's good.

And it kind of sues you for a second. But then I've got to be honestly, you know, we've heard some of these interviews and we've played some of these clips and be like, yeah, it's going to be fine. Everything's good. We're not worried about it. We'll see him in a couple of weeks. He's out for the year. So that's why my philosophy is pretend you're Dana. Pretend you're being asked the question.

And this is what a politician does. This is what a, uh, a boss at work you know how's business oh it's great we're so we're bullish i go look at the numbers we're 14% down you know what i mean everybody everybody's going to it's easier in life to give you the uh glass half full approach and like i said if i was in danish shoes i did the exact same thing but there's no guarantee of it i mean again he's been out since early may and and right now at this moment in time on july 2nd there is nothing at this he's going to see another specialist which means obviously A, B, and C couldn't figure it out.

Or A, B, and C are like, yeah, we know what's going on, and they're going to get, you know, a fourth opinion to see, you know. Again, hopefully it's not surgery, hopefully it's not, what do you call it when it's, oh, not hereditary, it's when you have it all the time. Degenerative? Chronic? Yeah, chronic. No.

You're saying he's got the arthritis? Well, Fred G. Sanford had arthritis. He didn't have arthritis. Okay. But my point is this, even if he gets healed now, guess what he's going back to do? He's going back to a profession in which he must use his hand to be successful. And he swings hard and he hits long fly balls and he has lots of highlights. And he's been one of the greatest power hitters in Houston Astros baseball history.

It's like, I mean, here comes a terrible, terrible analogy. This is going to be the all-time worst. Okay. If a cop is a cop, right, and he gets hurt in the line of duty. Huh? He gets in, they want to keep him to be a cop. He goes to get a desk job, right? Okay.

He gets him off his feet. Doesn't have to go through the hours and the running around and physical activity. He's working behind a desk. Well, if you want it, when your dog comes back, he's got to do exactly what he was doing before. Not change your careers. Be a power hitter using his hands. Hmm. What do you think?

Isn't that the worst you've ever said? It's a bottom 10. I don't know about that either. make a little do a fantasy five worst mad time you know what that was mean I'm sorry yeah I'm used to that that's why you should not follow Ross on Instagram at Sports RV

get my numbers up though I'm not for that yeah no I'll get two more just right now thank you everybody thanks everybody for following me on Instagram at SportsMT much appreciated on that I got nine plus 15 I got like 20 something all right appreciate you guys at Sports RV trying to get to a thousand And remember, he's going to tell you, he's going to follow you, and then he's going to either mute you or unfollow you.

One of the two. One of the two there. That's not true. 1045 is the time. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We've got Brian Bogosiv for more on the Astros coming up in just a few minutes. 713-212-5-790. If you want to chime in, 7-1-3-2-5-7-90.

Thoughts and prayers to maybe one of the top three halftime entertainment. Things you'll ever see at a professional sporting event, namely a basketball game, Ross. Did you hear what happened in Minneapolis yesterday? I did not. My close personal friend, Red Panda. Oh, yeah, yeah, I did. I didn't realize it. I didn't realize it.

She fell off her unicycle yesterday. Oh, no. And crashed on the court during intermission of the WMBA championship, a commissioner's cup, between the Indiana fever and the Minnesota links. she apparently was grabbing her left wrist after the fall she fell forward off the unicycle onto the court and was helped off by a wheelchair um can i say something and i guess you can call them tell me if it's mean or not you'll probably say yes oh this is okay so we're going to go ahead and assume whatever you're going to say is rude how rude it mean one two ten go you tell me she's kind of lost her fastball for a few years right um I think Father Time always wins. Yeah, she'd been dropping more plates and bowls. Am I wrong?

Well, she was in Houston. Excuse me, during the playoffs. And she batted a thousand. That's good. Meaning she didn't drop a plate. She performed last month in Oklahoma City at game five of the NBA finals between the Pacers and the Thunder. I don't know how she did there.

I will have seen Red Panda in my life probably 10 times over the years, different venues. Ross, I'm proud to say, and the 10 times that Pan and I have hung out, I've never seen her drop a plate ever or a teacup. Oh, really? No, that's not true. I feel like I've seen her drop stuff at a Rockets game.

Well, I may not have been there. Yeah, you're probably, yeah, you were drinking in the back or something. In the back, just the proverbial back. Yeah. I was looking for a halftime treat or something, you never know. Maybe. I would say Red Panda, maybe losing a little bit of the fastball, but her swing, I mean, she still got pop.

She still has an OPS of above a thousand. Okay. It's like Albert Pooholz when he went back to the Cardinals of the final time? Yeah, he didn't leave on a down note. Okay. Or like Barry, Barry Bonds, I think his OPS was over a thousand in his last season or close. I mean, didn't Kobe Bryant got rest his soul? Have a great last season for the Lakers?

He had a great, he had 60 points in his last game, but he got up 50 plus shots. Okay, that's maybe not the best example then. I mean, it was crazy to why. It was one of the most unbelievable things I'd ever seen witness live on TV. How about Hall of Famer, Billy Wagner, with a great last season in the major leagues? That's true. Is Red Panda the Billy Wagner of acrobatts? There's only one show, Matt.

It's only one show. Let me tell you, other stations of town aren't giving that crossover. Yeah, Barry Bonds, how about this? His last season, 42 years old, 126 games, OPS of 1,045. Yeah, he left on a high note. It's pretty good. I'm just going to tell you, there will be no besmirching the great name of Red Panda on this radio program. Okay.

I'll stop. I was just asking a question. I feel bad. I saw that video. She felt real hard. Yeah, that was horrible. was heartbreaking. She's one of the, I mean, she's,

she's the goat halftime act, right? There is, oh, man, this is going to go down an avenue here. Oh, those guys with the roller skates and he tosses the girl around? There's the dog that catches the frisbee. Oh, do you know what the guy that makes the paintings by just splashing the paint on? That's pretty good. Or he does it blindfolded?

Yeah, there's also the, I think the people from QuickSwitch, I think the guy passed away, got to rest his soul as well. Oh, the Quick Switch guy died? and there was one dude that would dance and he had four stick figures attached to his body oh I know what you're talking about but yeah red panda is better than all them she's the go red panda her act doesn't change

her music doesn't change literally you know like if you like I've seen this is a terrible cross reference but it is what it is I've seen Barry Manilow five or six times in my life. Yeah, he's throwing Ephes' pitches. He changes things up a little bit.

He still sings I write the songs and Copacabana and all that. But at least there's a presentation. When you go see any of your favorite groups, Dave Matthews is still running around every year. Dave changes his act up. Red Panda, she gives zero Fs. She gives you the same thing. The unicycle, the teacups.

Yeah. The plates. that's it but if it ain't broke don't fix it she's like the Shaquille o'neill of acrobats well she's a cow Ripkin of halftime entertainment she just goes on and on and on the streaks in doubt well yeah now the streak's over sandy on 790 at 1056 hello sandy hey I've been listening about Alvarez's hands have they said whether or not the bone is broken or it's just soreness initially it was a fracture and with this setback they have not said they said he's going to see a specialist within the next 48 hours.

Well, from experience, if that is a scaphoid, which is the smallest bone in your hand, if that's broken, it requires surgery, and it's six to nine months recovery. Oh, my God. My son, I'm sorry, but my son broke it and he was a deep snapper. And we went through that route of not doing the surgery. and as soon as he used it again, the pain was back. So the bone is important. If it's not the scaphoid, then I'm just, don't worry about what I'm saying.

But if it's the scaphoid, it's hard to heal, and you cannot do anything with that hand. Sorry. Clearly your dog is upset with your commentary. He's as sad as you're making us, Sandy. Sandy, your dog would have said, Jack's squat, if you had given him some positive. who's not you set the entire city in a massive downer situation. Well, that's why I keep asking, are they saying that it's, I mean, if they're not saying it's a scaphoid, then it's nothing to worry about. I've never heard the word scaphoid, so I can't tell you.

I can't tell you that if it's enough. Thank you. Well, I have some good news, hopefully. The Fernando Tetis had a scafoid injury in 2022, and it was a three-month recovery time table for him. Three-month recovery time, as in he's good, then he's going to start his process, or three-month-heets? Three-month recovery time is he's back. Jonathan? Like fully back.

Stop trying to be rude. No, I'm asking the right questions right now. I know how people think about it. Three months from today would be August, September, October 2nd. Just in time for the playoffs, baby. Just in time to have that week off before the DS. Hmm? Hopefully.

I see what you're thinking. I like that a lot. Brian Bogus Civic is next. Second hour of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross moments away on Sports Talk 790. 1101 on Sports Talk 790. Let's clean a couple of things up before we get to our guest, our regular Wednesday feature with Brian Bocis Sevik. Jill on Twitter says your previous caller was 100% wrong.

My son broke his scapoid eight weeks to cast. Absolutely no surgery. So apparently Jill telling Sandy to shut her bum ass up. And then Anthony also is a nurse and said scaphoid is in the wrist. Oh, see, you know what? We can't play doctors on TV. we just can't on radio. That's where we leave up to Brian Bogusevic.

Well, we'll don't worry. We're going to let Dr. Bogusovic get his two cents in. And quickly, David Haas of Quick Change passed away from COVID a few years back. Sorry to hear about that. And my friend John, who he was in the sports entertainment business, says he's seen Red Panda drop those teacups at least three times.

See? I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm just saying I haven't seen it on my watch. Okay. She's the goat, though. She's the goat. Craziest thing for me was seeing Vanilla Ice said in Sacramento to game. I mean, I have the mighty phone. Vanilla Isis is doing a halftime axe.

Oh. He was in the way. Did you get in his way when he was mopping the floors? No, he was singing at halftime. What? Yeah. I'm not lying to you. All right, let's not waste Brian Bogus of his time anymore. Any more than we normally do. Yeah, he's like, do I really have to keep doing this?

Boogie, good morning. Your squad is 17 games above 500. Cam Smith and Victor Caratini are making our Hall of Fame bat flips. Do you agree or disagree based on what they've done the last week or so? I wouldn't call them Hall of Fame Bat flips. I think they're good.

There's definitely better, more iconic bat flips out there. I mean, you can go back in time. Ken Griffey Jr. is probably the most iconic from what I can think of when I was kid. You know what I'm partial to? Remember the Kyle Tucker reverse pivot out of the batters box and flip it to the dugout? I like that one.

Nice. Were you a bunch of a bat flipper back in the day? No, I didn't hit enough home runs to be a bat flipper that would be frowned upon. Yeah, probably so. All right. Well, obviously, a lot of the conversation among the Astro fan base is about Yoron's situation and obviously Jeremy's situation. And look, you're not a doctor, nor the two of us. But just when you're hearing these things, the first thing is get well soon for both of them. And second of all, I would think from a purely baseball perspective, which we bring you on for, where you're thinking about how do the Astros continue to play this well,

despite two key cogs. One's been gone for a long time, and one just missed the last weekend and probably going to miss some more time. Yeah. I mean, before our show yesterday, I was just sitting around, and I was drawing up a lineup of the guys that are on the injured list for the Astros right now. And it's really striking the amount of talent both sides of the ball that are unavailable. So how they continue to win?

I don't know. They just figure it out. And it's, you know, a lot of guys picking up slack offensively. You know, it's Victor yesterday. It's Cam Smith another day. It's going to be El Tuve one day. You know, they just kind of do that. What the pitching has done is incredible. I mean, Hunter and Frumber, you talk about what aces do. I mean, it's above and beyond. It's every time they go out there just absolutely, you know, unhittable and the depth that they keep showing. It's crazy, but at some point, you have to imagine that there's going to be a breaking point, right? At some point you just lose too much or the guys who are there picking up the slack, get into a funk or something. At some point, the injuries have to stop piling up, and you've got to start getting some guys healthy, which, you know, we don't really know when that's going to be at this time. Isak Paredes has been leading off the last handful of days. We asked us to Joe Espada yesterday, and he's going to continue to put him in there for the foreseeable few. future. But when you were drawing up the 26-man roster, even with guys being hurt, I don't think

Brian that Eastside Pratt is in the lead-off spot was necessarily on anybody's bingo card over the course of the year. No. I mean, it's not the prototypical burner that you would think of up at the top. But, you know, really what they've done, it's gotten to a point now with so many people being out and still trying to kind of piece together the bottom third of a lineup on any given day. it's not necessarily about ideal lineup construction of who's the best fit at leadoff, who's going to be our prototypical three-hole hitter or cleanup hitter. It's just let's take the guys who are swinging well, you know,

whatever three, four, or five of those guys on any given day, and let's just bunch them together at the top. And then hopefully we can play matchups at the bottom or pick the right guys based on how we feel about their swing right now in the bottom half and have that carry over because there is no, right solution. When you're down this many guys, there's not many people,

there's just not enough guys who fit that prototypical role of whatever spot you're looking for. So let's just take the best guys, try to get them the most at bat, and hopefully the guys at the bottom can put some runners on base for them. And you know, with what the pitching staff has been doing, let's scratch across a couple of runs

and hope it's enough. I want to talk about the Jeremy Payne injury real quick. Have you ever had a rib situation like that? And what the recovery like as far as how much of it's pain management, how much of it is wanting to be 100% healed, and especially for

someone like Jeremy Panyu's not only it's about swinging the bat, but I mean, if you're a shortstop, you've got to be diving all around the field as well. Yeah, so I've not done a rib. I've been fortunate enough I've never had a major like core oblique type of thing either.

But that being said, I mean, I've had soreness in there in those areas and everything you do in baseball is affected by that area. And I'm not just talking about swinging, throwing. That's obviously rotational stuff. But, you know, the idea of keeping your body under control to go down and feel the ground ball, you've got to have a lot of core strength. You know, running back on a fly ball and trying to keep your eyes focused on the ball up above your head requires a lot of core strength. So everything you do, that part of your body is engaged. So if you don't have enough strength to do it,

if you're sore in there, it's going to be affected. And, you know, you don't want to hear this, but fortunately, we're at a place where, you know, you're only halfway through the season. You do have a decent lead. You just give it time. And, you know, there's nothing you can do with a broken rib like that. You know, you can't tape it up. You can't, you know, compress it or whatever. You just got to sit there and let it heal.

And that takes time. And, you know, hopefully they can get by for however long it is. and hopefully, you know, a young guy who's in as good a shape is pain, and hopefully he's a quickieler. Brian Bogussevik with us here on a Sports Talk 790. I had to apologize to you, Brian, a couple of weeks ago. I shorted your Coors' Fuels numbers. 423 with a 1.198 OPS.

Oh, hey, I don't remember who it was, but I can imagine they must not have been throwing some very good pitchers out in Colorado those days. So three hits for a Christian Walker in Corsefield. Seems like he likes it as well. Is that ever like something that entered your mind or the player's mind, hey, I do pretty well in this ballpark because it seems like it's working for Christian Walker at least one game in. I've never come across anybody that doesn't like hitting in that ballpark. But he's also a guy.

He spent a ton of time in that division. He knows those pitchers. He's very comfortable hitting there. So it's not surprising that he has a comfort level. Also, what I noticed about his hits yesterday, number one, they were all on fastballs. Number two, he was really doing a good job staying inside of them. He wasn't trying to come around and pull any of those pitches.

And the other thing, most importantly, maybe, is that where they were located. They were middle to down in the strike zone. He wasn't trying to get up on top of those fastballs at the top of the zone. I mean, he set it himself after games talking about, you know, that fastball at the top. There's one of two ways that you can do it. You learn how to hit it or you learn how to not swing at it. And if he's going to make a concerted effort to lay off, of that pitch and get it down into the strikes.

It's just an easier pitch, even high velocity. It's just easier to drop the head of the bat on a pitch down at your size than opposed to up at your letters. So, you know, maybe that's something that can get him going a little bit is getting on those fastballs. Boogie, when you've been around players that say, oh, I love going to this stadium and hitting or I don't like hitting this place, were you one of those kind of guys that said, you know what, I don't like going to Philadelphia.

I didn't enjoy playing at Wrigley. Because I remember one of my all-time favorite Astros is Lance Berkman and talk about it at nauseam how much he hated playing in San Francisco. And the reason why I bring this up is can some guys talk themselves out of having productive series on the road when they already going, having a bad feeling about the venue they're about the playing? Oh, absolutely. I mean, it's the same as how you feel about your swing on a given day, right?

Whether you're feeling good or bad, your swing's really not that far off and confidence a lot of times will be the tipping point of if you're going to go out there and feel like you're going to have a good day or a bad day and how comfortable you are with your settings, whether it's a backdrop at a certain place or the shadows in the afternoon at Wrigley Field or the cold wind blowing in in San Francisco, whatever it is, if you go into a game with a mindset that I don't like hitting in this place, I don't feel comfortable here, I don't match up well against the pitchers, whatever it is, it definitely is going to affect you. works the other way too when you go into a place like

Colorado and most guys feel like not only is a ball fly but it's a gigantic outfielders hits everywhere and it's just a great place to hit. For I let you run and I brought this up again with Joe and I want to get your thoughts on it as well. You've got some pitchers that frankly

probably a month or two ago were just lucky to be on a major league roster. Now they're helping this team put together the second best record in the American League. They're about to get into the last half of the season. Game will mean some more, chance here for the playoffs and whatnot. Is this the same

situation as a position player, meaning that it's fun to be on a major league team, but what's it like for a young player who just fought his way on to be good and to stay on this team, knowing that... Colton Gordon, for example, okay, Colton, we thank you for your service,

and now we need you to go six innings when you can. I mean, how much more pressure does a young first-year player or a guy that has had a little major league experience fight through the times of, this is the most I pitched. This is the most high leverage games I've ever been part of in my major league career. You know, I think if a guy was good enough to get there but not welcoming of a challenge like that, I think a lot of those guys probably would have been weeded out along the way.

It doesn't mean everybody's always going to be successful in those situations. But I don't know that, you know, a guy could be competitive enough to get through the minor leagues, especially with a lot of these guys at the aster's have brought up. These are not high draft picks. These are guys who had to produce from day one just to stay on minor league roster. So these guys have been fighting for their lives for most of their professional careers. I don't think that any of these guys would come up and not want to be somebody who could be pitched, who could be pushed, you know, third time through the order, up to 100 pitches,

go out there and face the middle of the order again. I think they welcome those things. And one of the things that breeds that success as well is that, you know, the Astros, minor league system. If you look over the past, you know, recent history, they win a lot in the minor leagues. You know, those guys all won a championship in AAA last year.

That's certainly not the same as doing it at the major league level, but there are stakes. They're not guys who are just out there pitching for their ERA and hoping somebody gets hurt in the big leagues so they can get called up. These are guys who have been in situations where they're pitching to win games and there are things,

you know, other than run prevention that go along with being a part of a winning team. and a winning pitching staff. And I think we've already seen some of the signs that they're able to handle that. And I think the more that gets thrown on their plate, I think they'll be able to handle it too. Bogie, great work as always. Thank you for the visit. As always, we'll talk again next week.

All right, thanks, guys. You got it, Brian Bogusovic with us here. Under the Matt Thomas Show, Wood Ross. Appreciate his perspective every Wednesday with us at 11 o'clock. We got shut your bum ass up coming up at the bottom of the hour. That gives you an opportunity to just tell the way. world you're mad at somebody or somebody's done you wrong you want to tell them to shut their bum ass up we'll take those phone calls coming up in about 15 minutes 713 212 5 790 719 719 we're with

you today until 2 o'clock ross what is today's edition of believe it or not i believe it's scaphoid fracture or all things red panda okay no she does have a wiki i think yeah but can you get eight questions out of it i get one of you Make up six. You just gave them the answer. All right. No, 11. No, I'm good.

1115. Sports Talk 790. Come on and join us. 713. 212-1-790. 119 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. You got to shut your bum ass up coming up at the bottom of the hour. Ross, we're staying at a hotel here in Dallas, and it is a Pepsi hotel, which I have zero problem with.

What? Oh, okay. like they have Pepsi products. Correct. They're saying like the Pepsi in. Well, that wouldn't be bad. And I'm going to tell you, I love Pepsi. I'm going to say it right now.

That's fine. It's okay. I think the Pepsi hate out there is a little unwarranted. I don't hate Pepsi. I don't get really upset when you ask for Coke and they have Pepsi products. Yeah. Because then you can get Dr. Pepper, Matt, of course. We were talking about that last night.

My daughter was out of me. She goes, my dad isn't like sweet tea or Dr. Pepper. I said, yep, that's correct. Well, you don't ever drink sweet tea? No, it's too, it's too sweet. You do half and a half. I'm not a real Texan, Jonathan's correct. But I like sweetener in my coffee.

Isn't that weird? I'm just a weird person. You have, number one, you have to have sweet tea. We're going to, are we going to barbecue soon? Yes, we are. We're going to the Mooth barbecue. Yes. Sorry, we're leaving you out, Jonathan.

Our previous producer is paying, so. Is he really paying? He got the bread now. He said he was. Yeah, no, I told him. I was like, oh, I'm going to pretend that I'm going to... You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to pull this one.

Oh, no, man, come on. No, let me pay. Okay, you got it. By the way, my game on that is perfect. You go, you take your left hand, and you pretend you're going to your wallet, but you really don't even go quickly to your back half. You just slightly pretend like you're going to go get the wallet out.

Yeah, we know Alligator, Thomas. That's not true. By the way, you know, he asked for tickets as much as Rand Borrfleet. Yeah, so he owes you. He makes more than me. He owes me barbecue. I have zero problem with that. Yeah, he makes more than I do.

So he's paying. I don't care. Yeah, I just, I mean, it could be the best sweet tea in the world. I just don't like the sugar in the tea. Yeah, it's just at least two half and half. You got to do it with Texas barbecue to me. I'll do water. There's two, two musts.

In my opinion, what a burger and Texas barbecue. I'm sorry, Muddhmerger? No, they spend money here, right? What a burger in Texas, and Texas barbecue. They spend money on the Rod Ryan show. Well, it's in the cluster.

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Anything else going on? I mean, the Yorton's stuff just yesterday, bum me out big time. I got to be honest. Again, as I told you an hour ago, and I know that the Astros thought that he was close because he went down to West Palm Beach to go swing. Ross, if he plays anymore this year, it's...

Who was the player for the Texans that was always hurt? Oh, Gidevian Clown. Remember how he used to always say that when Giadioon Clownie played, it was like gravy? I thought you were going to say Christian Harris. Didn't he? Wasn't he, like, hurt? forever last year.

He still heard right now. Yeah. J.D. Clowny got hurt a lot. Yep. And he still had a pretty good career, just not a number one, number one career. No, one-dash-one, he was probably underperformed.

And where are we on the Yoron money? I have not looked at that. That's fine. I think he's making like $25 million or something like that. 25, 26. He's one of those guys that signed that bought our arbitration years and was able to. It's one of the best contracts in baseball. Even if, I mean, if he doesn't come back at all, but still, I mean,

the value that you got for what he makes for being one of the top five hitters in baseball when he's right. Yeah, it's huge. I'll pull it up. Yeah, 26.83 repeating. Million for the next. So no significant bump up then. Oh, I'm sorry. He's only making, 26.8 kicks in next year.

He's making 15.8 this year. Yeah. Do you listen to yourself when you say, oh, man, that's great value. $15.8 million. Absolutely. Shoaheotani's making $70. That's a great value. Yeah, but it's all deferred.

That's true. So when Bobby Bonilla no longer gets his deferred money from the Yankees, are we going to have happy Shohei Otani Day? The Mets, yeah. Yeah, we'll guess so. He's going to get paid forever. I want to live as long as Shoheyotani continues to get paid by the Dodgers. I believe he's going to be paid through $2,100.

Let's see. They have Mookiee Betts. is getting deferred money over there. Who else? I can't remember. It's basically half their roster is getting a bunch of deferred money. And the crazy thing about deferred money is everyone's like, well, if the Dodgers

can do it, why can't everybody else? And my two reasons are very simple. One, they still have revenue streams that other teams don't, the other 29 teams don't have. And that is, they get tremendous amount of money from their television contract. They don't get all of it, but they get more

of a percentage of their dollars than say, I mean, hell, I'm here in Arlington, Dallas. The Rangers created their own network, Ross. You know, when you create something, it means you hope people can pay for it. No one's paying for your network. You created this network to put your games on. Now, if you sell the advertising time,

it obviously goes to you, but there's nobody writing an advance check to the Rangers. And number two, it takes two to tango. You know, if the player wants his money now, you can't fight that. Right. By the way, basically entire Dodgers roster,

Mookiee Betts, Shohayotani, Freddie Freeman, Blake Snell, all on deferred money. This must be tough. They got to get rid of the rule that gives them luxury tax savings

on deferred money. The AAV has got to be, you've got to go by AAV. Because again, if they want to go over a threshold, that's well within their right to do that. they're just basically circumventing the system. And if I'm the other 29 owners in baseball, I'm like, wait a minute, we created this system to, I mean, look, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Miami.

I mean, there's already a bunch of squads are like, man, we can't compete like this. And then you're going to give them an out clause? Yeah. I'll tell you who won't want that to go away, the players. No, because it will still, it'll leave a few teams to say maybe we should do this. And that if I really want to go be a Dodger, I really want to be a Dodger, I really want to. want to go be a mat or really want to go be a white a red sock or a yankee i've got a spot to go to cow tucker has zero problem with this uh with this uh with this defer payment situation

you hear that sizz in the background mattie is it one of your hot takes that doesn't make any sense that's the habachi grill firing up it's fine i mean i may i make decent money i guess i yeah i'm due you've been crushing me in bets the last couple years i have i it's been a good run for me. Ladies and gentlemen, I ask of you one thing. Has somebody at the office irritated you? Has your wife bothered you with something? Has a neighbor said something? Or did you hear something from Bride in Miami that you are from who lives in Houston now? You want to tell them to shut their bumasses up. We invite you to join us right now. It's 713-212-5-790. If there's somebody at the office that's just talking at nauseam about a variety of things that you don't care about, like this great

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713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Ross, when you go through an Uber or a lift, you have a choice of vehicle size, correct? Yes. It says seats four, typically for the X. Yes. And when it says X-L, it typically. seats six.

Correct. It says six on there. Doesn't say sometimes six, doesn't say maybe six, it says six. You're right. So we've had two trips here in Dallas on Uber that the person, which picked us up, one in an X and one on an XL, had stuff in the front seat of the vehicle, thus not allowing four or six people in the vehicle. Guess what?

We paid for that. We told him to move his stuff, and he was off. put by that in both occasions. I say to those people that are Uber drivers that put stuff on your front seat and it's a massive inconvenience for you to open that spot up for me to sit down.

Anybody got time for that? XL is 4, XLS6, boom, shakalok, and let's go. Ain't nobody got time for that? I'm agree with that on this one. They made it 3 for a while. Nope. X was 3 for a while during COVID. Yep. But then it came back to

four. Yep. If you If you can't do four, then don't put four on the X-O-thing. I don't think they have an option. I know. So guess one. If you're going to drive, the rules are four is four, six is six. Did you report them? No, but I don't feel like I should be the one having to sit there and wait for them to move.

There are 19 files and there are 14 books they're reading and there are six soft drinks and there are three different. I'm curious what your rating is now. Still strong. 4.9. Hmm. Okay. You're making that up. No, I can send it to you. What's yours? 4.97.

Oh, well. I know when I got that one star, too. It was my freaking friend, we had been drinking, and he was yelling at the, the driver was like a block away where he was supposed to be. And then he started the ride, and then my friends started yelling at him, and then he ended the ride immediately. So I was out like five bucks, and then I'm sure I got a one star. Very upset. Yeah, I'm very happy with my 4.9. You can't keep everybody happy

We have thousands of people To love this show Ross We got a few people who hate the show So we can't I can't control that So that's one data point People like me better Matt 4.97 Let's go

Okay let's take a look at another data point On Instagram How many followers do you have? How many posts do you have? I have 703 posts Okay, I have 75 Well let's go then At Sports RV on Instagram

At SportsMT with 2,683 followers. God bless you all. Interesting, relevant photos. And I've had a decent dashboard in the last 30 days, whatever that means. Okay. So again, I'm going to say this very politely to all the fine Uber drivers out there.

It says X4, XL6. I didn't make the rules. Follow them. Ain't nobody got time for you muddying up the front row of your seat so I can't get in there. Ain't nobody got time for that. And I'm done. Hmm. I'm sorry, Matt.

I'm sorry that you had to go through that. Thank you. I appreciate the honesty from you. Sorry. You know, I'll skip you. Jonathan, what's the matter with you? What did I do? I went, okay, this is back to,

I don't know who's in our building that cannot, that doesn't understand the courtesy of using the urinal in the restroom. If I'm going to use the restroom and I want to take a leak, I should not be splashing in a pool of urine on my feet. Oh.

How are we straight up missing the entire section and it's all over the floor? And you don't mind. You don't, you just, you just walk away. You just walk away and just let your hot mess sit there and just stay in the floor for everybody to go just, you know, happy and jump into it. It's everywhere. It's, I think we need to have a class in like elementary school for guys. about getting your urine in the proper receptacle. Or just going in a stall and plopping an egg and doing it that way.

It's okay. It's not. It's not. What did you just say? Plopping an egg. Plop in an egg? Sit down and just sit there. Maybe you got something else in there. And everything's covered.

No spill. No leak. No splash back. So you're saying sit and squat if you can't aim straight. Exactly. And it's like, you know what? I back you up on this. It's not because the bowl size hasn't changed.

bowls aren't getting smaller. They're getting bigger, I think. Give you a little good room. Like, now I've got to check my shoes when I leave the rest of it. Like, dang, I'm going to be tracking. Tracking what? P? Mm.

What did you say about an egg again? Plopping. Mopping an egg. Hmm. I not heard that one. Oh, my God. Johnson, you've heard the one growing a tail? All right.

See, what is this? shut your bum ass up, man I don't even know that is shit your bum ass up man You've never heard that? No, that's what I'm laughing I don't, you people are disgusting Let's let's let's let's

Let's make some integrity Let's get some integrity back Read the context clues on that one I suppose By the way, Yoron's heard I don't know if you know that or not John To the Bue Yoran's not feeling that bad Ain't nobody got time for that It was a bit, it was a bit

No, I don't believe you I don't believe that for a second Ross, what's the matter with you? I'm going to go with Alex and Garden Oaks, who called last night. He was upset that Esauk Paredes was leading off. Okay. I asked him who he wanted to lead off. He said, Jeremy Pena.

And I calmly informed him, okay, maybe not so calmly. The Jeremy Pena is on the injured list, Alex. And then he said, they need somebody who gets on base to be leading off. How about Mauricio Dubon? Isak Paredes has the second best on base percentage on the team behind Jake Myers, but he has double the walks. Your top two guys and on base that are active in playing are top two in the lineup. And then he was getting mad that the Astros take it easy on bad teams. They won the game.

They won the game. He said they made it too close. I'm getting towards the end of my rope with Alex and Garden Rokes, who can shut his bum ass up. shit your bum ass up man what is the opposite of a lead-off guy your ninth place hitter yes okay I think they were trying to come up with a name

like a catchy name no no so if your guy you want to get as many bats at possible bats first yes the person you want to get in theory the fewest at bats would be batting in the ninth position correct that is correct I just want to make sure I'm adding all that up.

So Alex and Garden Oaks wants Maricio Dubon to lead off. The manager of the team says, with all due respect, I'm going to put Maricio Dubon in the opposite. I'm about him ninth yesterday. That's what he did. Now, I got two hits. I'll give him credit for that. He's got an on base of 283. That's horrible.

Yeah. The OPS is 677. Is that correct? Am I in that right? Somewhere around there. Yeah, 676. And that's including, I mean, he had all those home runs, what, a couple of weeks ago. Before that, he was in the 500s.

Mm-hmm. Not good, friends. Alex and Garden Hook, sports takes. We got some work to do on that. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Felipe on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Felipe, what's the matter with you?

Well, I got a few of them, sports and tea. Well, first one I'm going to start off with, there's a show that starts off right before the 6 a.m. And it runs with two has-bands and a cup of gas station coffee that's been sitting out for three days. The guy shows suck. All they talk about is Pat Mahomes and football and off-topics that don't even make sense.

It's the middle of the summer we're still talking about football. Like, can we get to another? the topic besides football, maybe some basketball, maybe some baseball, maybe some hockey, maybe something soccer, nothing. To them, ain't nobody got time for that. And number two, last week, I prefer to listen to the game on the radio right here on Sports Like 790. Love Bob Ford, love Steve Sparks.

But man, when Kevin Escherfelder is just on the call, his stuff sucks, man. Just please shut your bum ass up. I don't like it. I rather have you two guys' beautiful voices on there, but, you know, we can't pick everything. Man, that's, man, the guy just sucks. Shit your bum ass up, man. He's a great friend, so I'm not going to, we're not going to discuss it. I mean, I'll just say it.

I think he does a really good job. Yeah, he's a really good broadcaster. I would have to. I love you, Felipe, but I'm going to respectfully disagree with you. All right. All right. What a segment. That's fine, because I, look, I've heard my people rip on me before, so I mean, we can't

all be below. That's true. We can't be, we can't all be sports RV. No, people don't like me. Alex Garden, Garden Oaks doesn't like me. There's some other guy complaining about the way I handled the call on Twitter. People don't like me too, Matt. No, I don't think so.

I think you're universally lost. You're funny. And I tacked me on Facebook yet today, so I feel like I'm blessed on that. That's good. How's your friend Julio Franco? How's he doing? I don't know. You know what I'm going to start doing, I'm going to start doing a, you know how there's always these trends on Twitter? I think I'm going to do a weekly people who block me Twitter.

and just give you a list of people that have blocked me. That's good hashtag content. Yeah. So that's, you know, and I can, I mean, there's a few that, there's a few that you might know, but most of them I don't know who these people are. Why, well, they would block me? I don't know. Mm-hmm.

Not a bottom, a real person. I got you blocked on all my burners. I bet you do. All right. Me and Katie. Yeah, whatever. Katie's been tweeting like a mud of the last few days. Yeah, he and Yannis, right?

yeah both of them i love it i think again twitter even though it's toxic in many reasons does connect you to a to your fan base to people that that want to relate to you and i think it is if as long as you don't get personal and nasty

it's a great way to have connection with people well kevin drent does sometimes get personal and nasty but yeah that's true all right uh 713 212 5779 if you want to chime in on the show 713 212 5779 if you want to tell somebody shut their bumasses up or anybody got time for that. Come on in and be a part of the show at 713-212-5-790.

Before I go back to the phone calls on a shut-your-bum-ass Wednesday and ain't nobody got time for that. Rossi, I got to tell the new Pac-12 conference to shut their bum-asses up. Come on. They're calling themselves P-5. I'm sorry, Fresno, Utah State,

San Diego State, Washington State, Oregon State, Texas State. Y'all are a decent football conference, and you're probably a pretty good basketball conference with Gonzaga in there. Plenty of respect, but you ain't the Pac-12. You're like the new – this is an 80s reference. I'm sorry for this one. You're like Coca-Cola Classic one away, and you're new Coke, and you said you're better than the old Coke. No, you're not. You're just,

you're just a group of whatever, but you ain't a power five. So Pact 12 Conference, shut your bum ass up, man. Shut your bum ass up, man. Yeah, it's Mountain, what do you say Mountain West 2.0? It's Mountain West Plus.

When half your conference is states that aren't really states, come on, man. And you, I think it was actually interesting the way you brought it as well. They're not even near any airports. Oh, that's a good point.

Here's the reality. If all the schools in the new Pact 12 have an athletic budget that equals the athletic budget at Alabama, you're not a Power 5. I'm sorry, you're just not. It's cute, but you're not. As you said yesterday, why don't you tell us how much these new TV deals you're getting from CBS are? If your CBS deal does not publicly lay out how much you're making, You ain't power. If your game of the week is on Pluto TV, you're not a major network.

You're not a major conference. Did you say it was three CBS games all year or something like that? Well, a bunch on CBS Sports Network. Okay, that is a couch. Yeah. They're like the brother-in-law. Right. That's right before the wrestling championships.

Yeah. When you're on, what's the channel that does the Sunday Astro, Major League Games at 10 o'clock in a morning? Or whatever. If you're a game of the week's on Roku, you're not a major network. Sorry. Yeah, a major conference. I honestly, I think there are, I think the schools in the new Pact 12 are, they're all over my 4 U-Tap. There must be pain to get on these on Twitter that way.

No, they're not on mine. You just must be a huge Texas state enthusiast. I mean, I would do their games. I mean, I'm on I think it's, they're in funk. It's nice, but, I mean, come on, you are what you are. You are Mountain West 2.0. Yeah, or you accidentally or click something. thing and then the algorithm thinks you love it.

Like, I'm getting a lot of Super Smash Bros. Content on my 4U-T-I-I-I-D. I don't play that game. I never watched that game. Yeah. I don't know what's going on with that. 4-U-Tab is a weird animal. I just got one. It says, Caitlin Clark, shotguning a beer like a pro-LM-F-A-O.

Look at, man. She can hit the, she can hit the hooch a little bit there. Good for her. When's the last time he shot gunned a beer, Matt? Ooh. Well, within the last five years, I would have to say. Oh, really? recent. Yeah, I mean, I don't...

Shotgun Thomas, let's go. Yeah. I think I'm pretty sure I did it at the LSU tailgate a few years ago. That's the last time. All right. Jonathan, are you a drinker, my ask? Never know of you.

Have you ever had a shower beer? Shower beer. Bross explain. It's the pinnacle of beers. It's a cold, refreshing beer, and a nice hot shower, especially after a long day or after cutting the grass or or something

like that. Oh, you're drinking a beer in the shower? Yes. Oh, that sounds like a good idea. I'm not going to lie. See? Jonathan's on board, Maddie. If you still never done it? I've been trying to bully you and get a shower beer for like 10 years. I'm going to start eating in the shower. I'm going to start a new trend.

That's bizarre. Spinach dip. You're going to be like Kramer. Wasn't he eating on Seinfeld? He was eating in the shower and then he got a disposal? I'm going to have I'm going to have some chicken fajitas in the shower next couple days.

You're going to eat a chicken fajita taco in the shower? Correct. And video it for you. It's like to send it to you. Okay. Why don't you get some table-side guacamole for it? I don't like guac. Jaime on 7.

Army, what's the matter with you? About Ross and that you're no issue. There's a little product. It's like a pad he can put down I've dealt with an organization to have that problem. So you just put the bad down there in the urinal and it, it catches that overflow. Shit your bum ass up, man.

What? You're talking about the extra pee. Right. He put it up the floor. He is giving us a public service announcement. He wants to help people avoid the splash. Right. And then the other problem, them fools,

is there somebody at the urinal? They go to the toilet and they do the same thing on the toilet. toilet. So when somebody goes down to squat, they got to hug the pants on their knees because there's urine all on the damn floor. Yeah, so you can

get a pad for the toilet too. Toilet pad. Thank you, Jaime. Appreciate that. Maybe you go on, what's that name of that show that Shark Tank? Yeah. Toilet pad. Toilet pad. Wee-wee pad.

Don't they have those for dogs? Yeah, they have. P pads, yeah. I mean, they have a splash pad, but when I think of a splash pad, I think of a neighborhood with a bunch of the kids run around on the concrete with waterline. Who's going to clean the toilet pad, Jaime? That's what our question is. We're just going to leave it there?

I mean, if you make 26 hours an hour, you probably would. Daryl, what's the matter with you? All right. So mine is for Mr. Jake Myers of the Houston Astros. He likes to lose his helmet every time he takes his swing, every time he leaves the box, anytime he makes a fake to second, it always seems like that helmet's coming off his head.

I think the boy needs to go ahead and put on the old chin strap and get this over with, because I'm tired of him losing his helmet every time this kid moves. Or shave his head, that might be the other option. I don't know. I'm not the guy swinging the bat and running the bases, but every single time, the helmet comes off his head.

Ain't nobody got time for that. Hey, nobody got time for that. Thank you, Daryl. Ain't anybody got time for Jake. losing his hat. You know, we're going to ask him about that one day. Do you think maybe he just has an oddly shaped head so it has to be a certain size?

Well, I have an oddly shaped head, so I'm not going to comment on that. I'm just going to say, let him be him. His helmet does always seem really loose. What do you think? He should have like a chin strap where he'd be like he's riding a bike or something? Like a softball helmet?

He'd get made fun up by his teammates. Like a big grill at a chin strap. I'm not no we're not putting a chin strap on Jake Myers he does have the loosest helmet in the biz I mean that guy's correct we look we have the Jake Myers fan club love Jake Myers still hitting over 300 and still right you know at the number two spot in the lineup doing great making five star catches they get downgraded to three star but oh don't get me started on that yeah what a disaster that is I know oh that's another five star catch and our broadcast three days ago we came at a five star I got downgrader of the three. What? What are you talking about? It was a great catch. Yeah. I don't know how that works. You know all right about that. That's a question for Statcast. I don't know. I don't understand that either. All right. This could be loaded. Bill, what's the matter with you? Uh-oh.

Man, I'm riding with some female co-workers friends and I would go on the lunch and they heard, well, what you said about eating a taco in the shower. They want to, they want to meet you. Have a good day, sir Now that was a good one That is not Part of the segments That is not Ain't nobody got time for that

No no no That was Oh my God 1159 Did that call it get too loud this time that I'm at? I'm a little flogged All right

That wraps up Ain't nobody got time for that And shut you bummed ass up. Maybe I should have How about chicken fingers? No, you said tacos, Matt. Chicken fajita tacos.

I got the perfect segue for you, Matt. How's your libido? Apparently, Bill's is doing just great. I'm going to love you. The best said. The best that's all care. Oh, God. All right.

That's enough. That's great. That's enough for both of us. My daughter asked me last night. She goes, what an impersonation do you do? I said, well, I do a Bill Cosby. She goes, who's that? I'm like, I can't do that.

She said, who's that? Oh, dear. I guess she's, what, 16 or whatever? She's 17. These kids don't even know who Bill Cosby is. These kids today, let me tell you the complicated story of Bill Cosby. All right, 1207, Sports Talk 790. Time now for the news at noon.

And let's go to the, oh, who are we going to need? You're the George Stepanopoulos of Houston Sports Media. We present to you, Rossville, or you? Thank you, bat. Appreciate you having me here on the news at noon. All the bad time we show with Ross. Why did we play Hold My Hand? Well, because there has been a setback with Yordon Alvarez.

We talked about that yesterday. Or actually, that happened after the show yesterday, but it is on the news at noon today, but also relevant. Dana Brown on the Sean Salsbury show earlier today. You can catch the full conversation at SportsTalk 790.com. A number of questions asked and answered, including is? Is this a major concern with regards to it being a possible season-ending injury?

Dana Brown? No, not at all because of how he feels and because of what we've seen on the imaging. So now the next move is to see the specials because part of this is like, you know, he wants to make sure that everything is fine as well. It really doesn't want to feel any soreness. and so, you know, sometimes getting the, you know, opinion of another doctor can get you over that hump when you, you know, maybe there's something that you have to fight through or something like that. But, you know, ultimately he's dying to get back and, you know, to feel the soreness, we just want to make sure. Rossi, I do have tremendous respect for Dana Brown.

Yes. And he's in a very difficult position because he's trying to answer questions that, you know, doesn't have the complete. information on because he's not a doctor, not a medical man. But he doesn't know if it's a season ending or not. I mean, he was supposed to say that, and he did say that. That was a no-win situation. If he would have said, yeah, it might be season ending, then the city of Houston would have been hit,

the fire lines would have been going off. Yeah, he also could have said we don't think so, or we're waiting here back, but it's a possibility, but unlikely. He just went straight out with the no. So can I say I take a little solace in that? You can't, I don't. I mean, I just don't.

I'm going to be optimistic, Maddie. Let's go. Let's go back to Kyle Tucker last year. It's a bruise. And I'll be back soon rather than later. That's true. I know. The precedent has been set.

We've been burned. Yeah. Fooled me once. Shame on you. Fool me twice. Shame on me. What if you could fool a third time? You can't get fooled again.

I'm just saying, Yordon, we welcome you back. Whether it be in two weeks or in spring, training in 2026. Guess what? We can't control it. Let's move on. The Astros on the field are winning. You've got the Astros and the Rockies. Hunter Brown versus the Rockies today. How are we feeling, Maddie? Feeling great. Feeling good, feeling great. Minus 265. We should explain that again. If you wanted to bet the Astros to beat the Rockies,

you have to bet $265 to win $100. It's a lot of money to put up in a fluky world of baseball that the Rockies can win the game tonight. They're not favorites. They're more times than not going to win the series. And the Astros are going to probably win the series, season series against them. But it doesn't mean they can't win tonight. So what's the value on a Rocky victory? Oh, I got off the page.

It's fine. It's right here. Plus 2.15. Okay. So you spent $100. $3.15 in return if the Rockies beat the Astros. It's a guaranteed win. Wednesday. Hunter Brown

going to take down the Rockies, Matt. You heard you here first. And I'll have the Astros on deck for you coming up at 6.30. I mean, my guess is this going to be a lot of Dana Brown conversation. So if you've heard it now, there's going to be no reason to listen to 630. A little Dana Brown. Maybe here and there, something from Brian Bogussevich. Of course, a game

recap and a variety there. Get your Denver weather report. Oh, let me guess. 84. I think it was 86 at game time yesterday. So you're not far off. Man, I just, I was a total guess on my part. Probably around there.

And the air is lighter, Matt. It's not like the hot, humid air here in Houston. All right. What else we got in the news? Yes, Matt, you mentioned this earlier. Unfortunately, the legendary acrobatic act known as Red Panda, the woman, that is her stage name. Her actual name is Wrong New, who rides a unicycle and throws up plates and bowls and whatnot.

Unfortunately, fell at the halftime of the end. Indiana Fever and Minnesota Lynx game at the Target Center on Tuesday. No update immediately on her condition. Although a WNBA source, this is according to the ESPN story, said that after the game, she was taken to the hospital for evaluation. Thoughts and prayers out to Red Panda. Thoughts and prayers is an understanding. We need her back as fast as possible.

Yes. By the way, we've got some breaking news from the NBA. Oh, oh, how many? That's one. Okay, you're struggling, so it's not that huge a news. No, I'll give it, let's give it a second one. Uh-oh. I'm scared?

Nope, nothing involving Houston teams. Okay. The New York Knicks have themselves a basketball coach. Oh, my God. Finally. Are you serious? Yeah. No, yeah, I just saw the name.

Go ahead. Mike. Brown. Mike Brown? Mike Brown. You fired Tom Timito for Mike Brown? Mike Brown. Now, Mike Brown is a two-time coach of the year, but... Not a poor coach, but if you were to say,

give me the coach that gets the Knicks over the hump, Mike Brown isn't coming to the name right at the top of my list. Mike Brown is like the bridge guy that you hire that you're going to fire in a couple years when you're rebuilding to me. He's an upgrade over like a J.B. Bickerstaff, if you will. I mean, he's a good defensive coach, but he's got huge offensive limitations and

struggles to win in the playoffs. That's Tom Demodona to a tee. What's that meme where the guys get the shirt for Christmas and it's a shirt he's wearing? I'm going to post that. Yeah. I mean, it'd be like,

you know, Ross, going out with a girl for a long time from Minnesota and then dropping her for a girl from Iowa. I mean, it is what it is. Feed him right in Midwest. Huh. Maybe not the greatest analogy, but you get my grip. I've heard worse, I guess.

Yeah, I know. This is the guy who tanks Sacramento Kings. Yeah. Well, I don't think he was trying to tank them. That's not how I ever do it. Well, yeah, Mike Brown is, I mean, okay. I don't know if Nick fans are going to be how's spike lee feeling about this you can't be encouraged it was a mid

hire you could have done worse you know you know is he the burger king of uh of mba coaching yeah he gets you there i mean he gets to the playoffs he's not bad he's above replacement level but yeah i mean you got a chance to get in and out and you get burger king i don't think he's a better coach than tom tibito at all no i don't think i don't think so either And I don't think Tibbs is like the greatest coach ever, but, no, I mean. Very volatile. Yeah, fired by the king. How many teams have fired Mike Brown?

Lakers. Sacramento. Cavs have fired him twice. And the Kings. Wow. Okay. All right. So let's call 66 WFA and get the latest news on the Nick.

This is unbelievable. This is the best hire ever. No, this is terrible, Maddie. Why couldn't you got a 91-year-old Humie Brown with Patrick Ewing as his top assistant? Hey. You're the New York Knicks. You got to make a move for email you doka. You do whatever it takes.

You fire Tom Tebado and you end up with Mike Brown. It's ridiculous. Give me a Kanish. And that is the news at noon. 1216 on Sports Talk 790. We just gave you 75. five seconds of terrible WFAN, and I apologize for that. We'll make it up to you.

So we need to talk about this at 1223. How do you want to handle this, Ross, the Framber. No, Framber, the Yordon updates. We're going to get one probably in a couple days, Dana Bronson earlier today. Yes. Sports Talks, I mean, you want to completely ignore it? Let's bury our heads in the same. Well, I don't know.

I don't want to say ignore, but I also don't want to go, oh, he gave us some optimistic news that it should be any day now. That's clearly not the case. No. We'll just see what they say and go from here, Matt. It's going to be all right. Either he's in the lineup or he's not. We'll move on. They've done all right without him for two months now.

Wasn't it May 2nd, the last game he played? Yeah, May 2nd or May 3rd or something like that. I think he won in the injure list officially May the 5th. Cinco de Mayo? Well, he's not celebrating. Or at least he's using his offhand. I'm sure he can still cut things, Ross.

I don't think he's like he's putting it in a bubble wrap. Okay. Well, he's going to, we're going on to hand specials. Number four, is he going back to one of the other guys? I mean, how many more do you look at? I mean, let me ask you this. And again, we're just trying to deuce things here. Yes.

If you go to four hand specials, that must be severe, whatever's going on. It's not good, but yeah, they thought he was recovering. He was swinging, apparently hitting rockets, all over the place on Saturday. They're like, oh, great, we're getting some live BP, get some good looks. I think it was kind of a compromise between rehab and going to a minor league rehab assignment and being immediately inserted in the lineup.

I mean, that's just me kind of guessing. Yeah, yeah. I mean, when is somebody going to say, all right, look, the other people have misdiagnosed this and I've got their result for you or one of them was going to say, you went to find an opinion you didn't want to hear, and I'm here to tell you that, You need to have something more severe done.

You know, surgery, whatever the case may be. This is another question that's going to be medically above both of our heads. But, like, when it's an actual fracture, when it's like muscular or bone, how much wiggle room is there in a second opinion, right? Is it fracture or it's not? There's this injury or there's not, right? Yeah. I feel like maybe there's more gray area when it's something immunoreated or organ related, but. Or if it's like veins and arteries.

Exactly. it feels like if it's either his hands fractured or it ain't right i mean but again i'm this is me dummy perhaps dumbing it down i don't know i'm not an expert and i we apologize we are dumbing this down because because what else we're supposed to do we're we're not doctors we're sports people we barely know sports we're not going to know medicine but as far as i'm concerned when he shows up i'll be happy i'm optimistic optimistic not going to be not optimistic i i can't lie I'm not optimist.

I am. Dana Brown is going to be full-season. No. What is going to help me out with this. You walk me through this. Dana Brown, is he going to be out for the season? No. No.

Yeah. Boom. What's up? He didn't say yes. He didn't say maybe. He might be. We'd have the city going nuts. I know.

Look, I got to say that. I mean, if I'm in Dana's spot, I say the exact same thing. Oh, no, no possible chance. He could say, um, we're looking into it. Your company's down 25% in profits. Any chance of layoffs? Oh, no. We'll keep everybody around.

You can say it's too early to say, but we're optimistic that that's not going to happen. There are 10 different ways he could have answered that and not just unequivocally said no. But, of course, I will, on your side, we can say that Dana Brown has been very optimistic about injuries before that have turned out that his optimism, just there was no grounds for it. All right. Let's go to Mike in Cyprus at 1226. on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Mike, good afternoon and thank you for waiting. Hey, guys. I called a couple weeks ago on a Friday whenever you're on vacation, Matt, and talked to Ross about this subject about how I was frustrated and what's going on with the assures, doctors.

And yesterday, when Adam, for talking about, you know, what had happened. I was going back and forth with my friends saying, what is going on here? So it's been a couple hours, I was pondering it. And this is going to go over the heads of many people that are younger in the audience. But Matt, you remember, I think what the Aster's are doing, they probably bought a bunch of those time life books they were selling on Channel 26 late at night and how to deal with hands and how to fix your toilet and whatever. And I come to the conclusion that that's what they're going off of right now. Because how idiotic is this guy hasn't seen the absolute best doctors that we have in one of the greatest medical cities in the world. It just baffles me.

It's just completely horrible the way. Wait, well, wait, whoa. Hold up, Mike, Mike, hold on. How do you not know that? How do I not know that they're using the books? How do you know that they're not seeing the best specialists? I mean, I've never heard one person's name brought up. Well, it's been going on.

No, it's been going on for a while now. I mean, you guys went to, indicated there was multiple hand specialists. Three, at this point, three, yes. I'll hear what the heck. I mean, what's going on? a hand. It was, they can't diagnose

a broken leg. I know imaging and all that stuff, but good God, it was two months later that it took to find out they had a broken leg on Tucker.

I mean, this is crazy. And I'm happy that we're winning. I'm not complaining about that. But this is our man. I mean, he's,

we need him if, you know, once we do get to the playoffs and win the division, probably the AL division. I mean, the best director of the AL, but I'm optimistic.

What in the heck is, I just don't see it. It's been going on for not just, this isn't a new situation. You had hand issues before. I don't know. So let's, hold on a second, Mike. Let's deduce this. If you have a multimillion dollar player who is such a huge pivotal part of your organization,

do you, okay, in your heart of hearts, do you really believe the Astros would have gone to the Acme School of Hand Specialist? Do you really, really believe that? no i don't but i don't want to believe that but it's just not making sense that it doesn't well okay situation seems to be approving i mean that's what here's the thing you are it's a boy who cried wolf situation where the astros downplayed the kyle tucker situation and they have downplayed other injuries in the past and it's come back to hurt them to create skepticism and mike i would have to say and i want to put words in your mouth but i believe

you are extremely skeptical of what you're hearing, and I can't change your mind about that, and in some regards, I don't blame you for that. I'm just trying to be at least partly responsible in saying that the Astros have the ability to go get anybody they want to. This is a very important player to them, a huge part of them going from being just a playoff team

to potentially a World Series champion. They're not going to slow play this. They're not going to go tell them to put some, antibiotic equipment on the hand and say grow up and take some Advil. They're trying to figure this out. Do they give us the details as fast they want to? Do they hide some things? There's been evidence of that in the past.

I cannot argue with that, and I would agree with you on that. And I guess that was the original reason why I called that Friday is because I was like, man, what is the big deal here? If he's really heard he needs handsurge or something like that, what are we going to do is going to change the way other teams are playing? I think they are overplaying to keep everything close. I remember it's just, let me, come on, if he's in and get the shout, he's out. And lastly on this, if Yordon was not feeling good, think about this last part, Mike,

if Yoron wasn't feeling good, do you think he would have jumped on a plane and said, yeah, I want to go hit baseballs in Florida for a week? 100%. Yeah, I agree with you. Yeah, I think he wants to be out there. He wants to be out there. Yeah, thanks, Mike, for the phone call. And I enter again, I do not disagree with your skepticism.

It's warranted. The Astros have had a problem. And that's why, I don't know, Ross, if you think this is, they have been more forthcoming with their injuries than the last two weeks. Yeah, they've been giving updates and it's been spouted out by the beat reporters. If you follow them, it's been in their media notes. This is they, they recognize the criticism, they heard it as far as the lack of updates and lack of transparency. And I can go to literally yesterday's. I was reading a lot of it off on the pregame.

There was extensive updates on Erigetti and Luis Garcia, Christian Javier. Yordon was on there, unfortunately. It talked about him reporting to live BP in Florida and DeZenzo's not hitting and all. It's updates with everything. They're being more transparent. They heard the criticism. Yep. But Yordon is not jumping on a plane and flying to South Florida because he hears Joe's Crab Shack's got a special on crabs tonight.

He wants to go out and hit the baseball. It's not Joe Stokeb. It's Joe's Stonecrime, not Joe's Crab Shack. Yeah. Don't crack the crabs with your hands, Your Don. Yeah. All right. 1232, 32, Sports Talk, 790.

I went a little longer, but I thought it was a good conversation. And again, I understand a lot of folks like the previous caller are, you're in the same spot. Wake me up when he's there. And that's my philosophy. Wake me up when he's Bernie to play. The updates are cool, but only really a handful of people know when he's really able to go. Yorda and the hand doctors, which apparently are now four of them. 1232, Sports Talk, 790.

maybe he's not feeling his very best, Ross. You never know these things. Maybe it needs a little extra energy boost to get that hand feeling better. 1237. It is Matt and Ross with you till 2 o'clock today. I'm still Mike Brown, the Newton coach, and Knicks. Wow. It's not only that.

It's that you fired the guy that brought you to the East finals and the East is wide open. Right. To where, I mean, they've got to be the second favorite behind the calves. and you fired him for Mike Brown? So let's do this real quick before we go back to the phones. What coach could you have picked up

that wasn't under contract that would have been available, that would have been a stark improvement over Mike Thibbado? Yeah, that would be... Tom Thibodeau. Yeah, it's always tough to say. I mean, let's see.

I don't know how you feel about Taylor Jenkins. Taylor, here are the candidates. Michael Malone, formerly Denver, Taylor Jenkins formerly of Memphis. Jay Wright was a thought, perhaps the former Villanova coach. Yeah, but I don't think that was realistic. I don't think it was.

I'm just talking about these are people that would have been a quote-unquote upgrade over what Thibbado would have brought. I would go with Malone. What about James Barago? Who else did they interview? You couldn't, there would be no assistant coach in the NBA that you would hire it.

Go, wow, better than Thibb. I'd have to do a further investigation because clearly the whatever Taylor Jenkins's act was got tired with the Grizzlies but clearly whatever Tibbs act was got tired with the Knicks it seems like Well Jenkins just got sideways with

John Moran. John won that That's a classic case of player over coach When Sam Casalga ever gonna get a shot with somebody? Like who is, well no that those days are done Sam's not getting another job in the NBA as a head coach never getting a half job

he's applied for 25 jobs. I mean, he just, he is zero for 25. It's crazy. Who's the number one college coach in America? Not the guy at Florida, just won the championship. Be the young guy. I mean, he's nearlis.

The, what's the Yukon coach's name again? Hurley, Hurley. He said no to the Lakers, so. Yeah. But he is also an East Coast guy. Maybe he would have said yes to the next. Who knows? They probably, as you would say, Matt,

kicked a tire on that. Yeah, the reality is they just had such a small group of people that could have been the quote unquote, oh yeah, I'm replacing tips for this. That's true, but it just seems wildly underwhelming. But also, what you're laying out is the best reason to

retain tips. If there's no doubt about it, smash home run higher out there, then what are we doing? Unless Jalen Brunson or whoever or enough of the players said, we've had it with this guy, which is possible. Which is possible, which would then make Jalen Brunson a stone cold liar because the day that the Knicks lost a championship to the Pacers,

Brunson was asked about it, and he's like, that's my coach, that's my guy, I love this guy, why are you even bothered on asking me this? And then 48 hours later, soon thereafter, you got to let go. Yes. John in Los Angeles at 1241 on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. John, good afternoon. Hey, man, how y'all doing? Actually, I'm back in Texas, so, yeah, especially I lay out. Anyway, you talked about people being angry with the Astro's organization over the Organt thing,

and I find myself being angry with Yorgon because to me it's looking more and more like this injury occurred in the winter league, not here. How do you start teasing with a broken hand in those signs of ever getting hit in hand? I mean, he played up into the injury, John. I don't know what he could have done besides just play that maybe he played 30 games 29 games

yeah maybe he played right but even but ever since yeah ever since game one from the get go everybody was noticed well people around me

were noticing what's wrong with Jordan why is he swinging his game one what were people saying then he was looking sluggish he wasn't his back speed didn't say and then what did he get

what did he hit fire or six a month did that I don't buy that I don't buy the people were talking about him looking hurt from game one. He started off the season slow, but do you remember that, Matthew? He looked slow, but why are you looking slow

when you already went through spring training? It just seems like there's no signs of him ever getting in spring training or in the, in the, with his hand being now it's a fracture. That's looking more, more like an altitude thing got hit by a pitch. I need you to quickly wrap up

what you think you're saying. Give me a one sentence answer of what you think is going on. These guys are going to the winter league and playing ball, and if they get injured, they struck it up until the season starts. So the medical can't get over here because they can't get fixed over there. So you think he was hiding an injury or he was playing period? Yeah.

I think he was hiding the injury. He got injured in Winterball and was hiding it when he came out when the season started. Okay. I don't think I don't think Yardard is. playing Winter Ball. Not that I have seen any stats. Now, could do players hide injuries?

Yes. Where's my guy, Lou? Ross, players do hide injuries. Yeah, they play hurt. Ross, they play through them. That is correct. This is guilty for any of the ordon things. Oh, they said he was playing a little bit with the hand injury, yes.

He tried to play through it, and then he hit the IL. Yeah. Because, I mean, Guys do play hurt and they want to play and they want to succeed. They want it the best they can. And sometimes it can cost you. Yeah, wasn't it after they won the World Series? It turned out Maldonado had a, Martín Maldon had a broken hand and a, like a sports hernia or something.

I mean, I've called a playoff game of laryngitis before. I mean, I know what it's like playing hurt. You should have set that one out. Improbly. Point being is this. I have a headache. I mean, that's fine. I mean, that's just made up conspiracy theory.

Nobody was talking about in the beginning of the season and being hurt. No. And he never announced he was hurt. No. Until the very, very end, but we don't know how long that was. I'm just going to give you a general statement of players can sometimes hurt their team by playing hurt. Doesn't suddenly mean that's true or false in this particular situation. I'm just saying there are guys that, you know, wasn't there a player we talked about recently, Ross,

that got admonished by the team because he didn't announce that he was heard. I don't think it was my colors, because that had been years ago. In Astro, getting in, not saying, he's not really ringing a bell for me. I want to say there was a Houston athlete that was heard that didn't,

that did not tell the team, and was trying to play through it? Was trying to play through it. Was it Bregman with something? I don't know. But point being is it happens. Yeah, and they admitted that he played a little bit with a hurt hand and that he just became too much and then they put him on the aisle. But the things were finding out right now, these, he went to go hit.

He went to go play. He went to go swing. He thought he was good. Yoran Albaris, this is the thing we cannot escape. Yorna Alvarez hit off the tea. He was hitting quote unquote rockets at Diken Park this weekend. He went to go on a plane to go to West Palm Beach, Florida, where it's hot and it's human and it's expensive. He went to go hit and swing because he thought it was better.

He wasn't forced. He wasn't blindfolded onto a private plane and was kidnapped to go down to Florida to hit. He wanted to do it. so I don't want to go to conspiracy but I think that the player felt good and the player said yeah I'll go to Florida he wasn't going to Florida

I go down there and swing and get into more pain because they're forcing me down there nobody forced him to nobody had a gun to his head no he's like I'm not going to go to to Wawa to get a bunch of of sub sandwiches I like Houston food much better 1246 on sports talk

7-90. 1252, Matt Ross, with you on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. A couple folks are saying the rockets are going to wave Jack Landell and still looking to move Cam Whitmore in a potential trade. I would say zero surprise on both. Would you agree, Ross? Yes.

No, I'm sorry. No, not a surprise. That's a see-you-later on both, I imagine. Yeah. My guess is Whitmore's for some second rounds and Landels just get rid of. $8 million. Nice guy.

Couldn't do double big with him, though. No. Wish him the best. By the way, a lot of folks are like, man, why do you have all these centers? Because Stephen Adams is not going to play 82 games. Sorry, he's just not. And the reality is,

Clint Capella, greater than Jock Landau. Yes. Especially if you do, and you can play Clint Capel at the double, with the double big spot where you couldn't do that with Landau. I mean,

I mean, they did it a little bit, but it's just not, I mean, like, Jock is just not as good as Stephen Adams. Nice guy, though. I mean, super guy.

Mm-hmm. Call me mate. Oh, yeah, wow. What a great term of endearment from him. I mean, so far, I'm mate. Wasn't you, people got mad at you,

people got mad at you when you said mate about, Stephen Adams and they're like, he's not Australian. He's from New Zealand. He's like, yeah, he still says mate. They both say mate. Yeah. But was that you people were getting mad at when you were posting on Twitter or something? Or that was that somebody else?

I don't think so. I don't think I'm mad about that. No, people got mad at you and they were wrong. That happens on the internet sometimes. Oh, you're telling me the people go on Twitter giving you an or audience information? Yes. Yeah. Jabari called me boss.

Okay. That's, hey, at least he calls you something. You've been called worse I have not been called my name by anybody on the current team What about Big Dog? What's up, Big Dog? No, I've got to know

That's what I say to everybody. Yeah, what's up, Chief? You know who we don't Ryan Holland says And I'm not trying to talk out of school on this? Brosky. My guy. Okay. What's up, my guy?

I like that. That works. Like, I'll randomly text him NBA names and he'll go, my guy. Well, they're all his guy. As a matter of fact, why don't we do this? He played with everybody on the planet. Let's do this.

You give me an NBA player in the last 15 years, Ross, and let's find out if Ryan Collins calls him a my guy or not. It would say you'll probably get a 98% hit rate. Yeah, it's at least 90%. Yeah, maybe there's some guy from Latvia who played like two games, and then he wouldn't know that guy. No, no, we don't need that. So let's try this.

Give me somebody. Oh, you're going to text him? Yeah, you give me the name. Random NBA player from the last 10 years? Corey Brewer feels like that's an easy one. No, that's too easy. Yeah, I know. I'm trying to think of kind of like Toray Bragg.

Who? Exactly. All right. What's it? B-R-A-G-G? G-S, I'm sorry, Braggs, Toray-Brags. T-O-R-R-E-Y. T-O-R-A-Y-E.

Who is it? I have never heard of this. T-O-R-R-R-A-E. Tori-R-R-E-E-R-A-E-E-R-A-G-S. I thought this was more, this wasn't really that recent. This is from 2005, so maybe he doesn't know him. Okay, well, I'm going to give you an internet. I'm going to let you work out.

Let's go to Nick on line one. Another guy. Nick on 7-90. Hi, Nick. Hey, how are you doing? and Matt Ross. Good. All are doing a great show.

Thank you. So I'm going to do the Brian Windhorst finger conspiracy thing for a second. Please. We signed Durant, traded for Durant, and I was like, okay, now we're all set. We can sign Jabari. We can extend, we can sign Tari. Yeah. And we can roll with that group.

Yeah. Immediately after the Jabari extension came down, and I was like, all right, cool. That's step one. and we haven't heard anything about TAR yet. And then there was the Cam Whitmore shopping around rumors. So am I crazy to think that maybe we've already agreed to some type of sign and trade with a team involving Tari Eason? And if not, why did we go out and signed Finney Smith when I feel like Tari should have gotten those minutes?

Doesn't mean Tari's not going to get those minutes. I don't think, I think Tari Isan is going to play more minutes than Dore and Fini Smith. Smith is. Well, isn't Tari and Jabari? I mean, they were the same draft class, right? So shouldn't Tari be extended? Yeah, it doesn't mean it can't. They did it early, though, yeah.

Yeah, with Jabari. Jabari did it actually a year earlier than you're supposed to. Oh, okay. So they technically have one more. But isn't if, like, I thought that it was like if they like a player, they generally don't wait to that last year. They'll generally just go ahead and do it, you know, a year early.

Well, you can become a restricted free agent, and then you have to match the offer of another team. They just got ahead of the curve a little bit. It doesn't mean that Tari won't get a deal done either. I mean, it could happen in two days. It could happen in two weeks. It could happen in next season. I don't know.

But, yeah, I wouldn't read too much into that. Okay, awesome. All right. Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Now, the only thing I would say is, if you are going to go for Yannis, which I don't believe they're going to, you would then want to not one extent. So maybe would Tari be in a conversation with the bucks?

I mean, my guess it would be yes. Yeah, if you're going to, he's a good tradable asset. Yeah. And Matt, we don't know what goes on in the inner, you know, circle of Udoca, Raphael Stone conversations. But I'm going to just about guarantee you any conversation Udoca's having with Raphael Stone, he's saying, I want, I want Tarry Eason on this team. I think Tar Eason, I wouldn't say it's untouchable. No. I wouldn't put him in the MN touchable category.

Good. I'm glad you're not doing that. I would put him in a pretty high tier, though. Okay. For the top of the hour, Mac and Pearland on. 7.90. Hello, Mac. Hi, the anti-lead off batter. I submit it's number eight, not number nine,

because usually number nine you like them to get a little something going when the top of the lineup comes up. And if you look at who's been hitting eighth for us lately, it's either Chamele or Habel or Hubble and Trammell or whatever they want to call themselves. Anyways, and then, can Kevin Durant play the two? No.

Okay. But now I'll say this. I'll say this. There are a bunch of, in EMA's offense, in large part in the NBA, you're not defining spots anymore. Yeah, I agree with that.

You don't have a true, true, two guard on this basketball team because a men Thompson can play point. He can play two. He can play the four. I mean, your two guy is your catch-and-chute wing, and the Rockets don't per se have that. I mean, even Dorian Finney Smith is not bad at this point. You can shoot the three-ball, but there is not anybody.

There's not Tari. It's not a men. I mean, Dylan Brooks was as close as you had to that on the Rockets roster last year. Unless Shepard steps up or whatever. So last year they signed Sagoon and Green to – extensions, right? And I remember reading at that point, somewhere somebody, it sets them up to make them part of a trade package, and sure enough. So here you got Javari being signed up for an extension. Is it possible that they're making it convenient if they need some money to trade,

that they could do that? I'm going to let you go on that note because I believe you have to, Ross, help me out with us. I think you have to wait a certain length of time after you sign somebody? Yes. There is a waiting period on that. 105, Sports Talk 790. Hey, I was going to try to give a little more

clarification to the previous caller about the contracts and when you can trade them. And my head hurts. I really wanted to give you a nice simple explanation. I would suggest Googling because it's so convoluted.

Again, there's some rules to say you have to wait 60 days or someday, There's some rules that say that players don't have to. There's some old-dated things. I mean, it would have to call Rafael, and he's busy right now. I don't want to do that to him. So I would just say in a broad brush that Jabari Smith was signed for an extension because the Rockets wanted to keep him as a Houston rocket, not to use him as part of a trade.

And Ross, I still believe at the end of the day, I think if Janus just leaves Milwaukee, I think he stays in the Eastern Conference. I think he knows coming to the West, Ian ain't easy. No. I want him out of the, yeah, stay out of the West. Stay in the East. You and Miles Turner tearing it up. Let's go.

Yeah, you, yeah, Miles Turner went there because he probably get, don't you think Miles would have a phone call to Yannis? I think so. He wouldn't have signed if he thought that he was going to be traded. He's got to have some kind of assurances. Although, you know what, though? I mean, did Miles Turner get overpaid to go to? of Milwaukee?

And at the end of the day, does he really care if he honest is there as long as he getting his big bag? I don't think so. What's he making? 25, 26 a year for Miles Turner? That's reasonable, I think.

I don't know if Indiana would have given him that, though. Probably not. Well, I think if Indiana would, have you would have stayed. By the way, Indiana is going to go from an NBA finals team to a team that may make the playing next year.

Injuries and free agency. The apron comes for all. And the reality also is that Indiana is on a place that you'd want to go. It's not a huge free agent destination. Underrated city? What?

I know you're shocked. You're like that. Everybody's all mad of that WNBA player that said that she's mad that nobody wants to go to Cleveland or Detroit. And of course, everybody from Cleveland in Detroit's like, it's a wonderful city. What's wrong with you? Detroit.

Everyone loves Cleveland. Let me tell you. Detroit's my hometown. It sucks. Yeah, it's not a sexy destination. It is what it is. Nor is Cleveland. I think it was... Tristan Thompson was defending Cleveland, I think it was.

Tristan Thompson was? Yeah. Well, he's also trying to get Chloe back in his life. He said it's a good place to find side pieces, I think. Ooh, I felt personal. By the way, real quick before I go back to the baseball, the Astros, the Rockets, I should say, remain... Ooh, did you see this one from...

unnamed website, second favorite to win the NBA championship behind Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City is plus 250, which is two and a half to one. The rockets are plus 8.50. That's eight and a half to one. Wow.

So you're telling me there's a chance. Have taken over for Cleveland, Denver, and New York are all nine to one. Now, if Yonis moves, that obviously changes things. Correct. But if Yonis went to San Antonio, does that make him a title contender tomorrow?

I guess how much Wimba? Depending on how much you give up. But if it's Wemby and Yannis, my goodness, how does anybody to score? Those two guys can stand right there the paint and cover the whole three-point line.

Are we ever going to convince Adam Clant that Wemby's a pretty good basketball player? It doesn't matter. I don't need to convince him of anything. He didn't, hold on. Wasn't Wimby at 25 and 10 last year? Yeah, but he had thrombosis.

He got the thrombosis. That's not good. Oh, I'm sorry, 24.3 points. 2411 and defensive player of the year caliber. Yeah. I'm sorry. That's great. It's really good.

What else you want me to say? Yeah. I mean, again, I think if you, if Wembees were in a rocket uniform, you love him. If he's wearing spurgear, you want him to get thrombosis every year. Well, I don't want him to get thrombosis every year. I don't want him to get the guy, I mean, you get some hang nails. Hang nails. Yeah, devastating ones.

Can't dribble the ball. Yeah, it gets funky in there and there. Amputation, perhaps? I don't want him to get anything amputated. Whatever will be will be. But he's already excellent. And, I mean, literally, watch five minutes of a game he's on the floor and how he affects things on the defensive end.

There's whole compilations already two years into his career of guys who don't take fast break layups because Wimby's lurking behind. Yeah. That's right. They wait for teammates. Not only does he block the most shots in the league, he affects the most shots and and gets people, deters the most shots. His impact

is massive. Yeah. All right, 1-11 on Sports Talk 7-0. Look, we're not pro-Wemby. We're just Wemby on... I want to be real. I'm sorry. Yeah. I know I'm on in front of a microphone in Houston, Texas, but I'm going to be honest with you folks. But Boob's, boo. But Boosper's boo. That's all I'm saying.

Yeah. I don't need to be a minute. Suck at Spurs. I want them to lose. We also have to, as one, Matthew Thomas would say, deal in realities. Yes, we've got a deal in realities. All right, we have some realities on what's going on with Yorda and Alvarez. We have some realities that your Astros beat the Rockies.

Do you know that the Royals beat the Mariners last night in Seattle? Does Seattle ever win any home games? Every time I look at the scoreboard, they're losing there. I don't know. They suck. Rick, quick show of hands. How many of you had the Astros with a seven-game lead, July 2nd? in 2025. Raise your hand right now.

Rockies, I mean, excuse me, the Mariners still the only other team in the division above 500. Are we sure that Joe Espotic can't jump over AJ Hinch for American League Manager the Year? Absolutely, he could. There are what, two games back of them right now? But I'm talking about

even, let's say the standings ended the way they ended where the turret was the one seat, the Astros were the two seed. You don't think Joe couldn't get manager the year just off of the fact that the team is doing what it's doing with all the injuries? That would be, I mean, If the Tigers win 100, I don't know. I'd have to look at the paces.

The problem is the reason why Joe wouldn't get it is because what are the Astros done for a better part of eight years? Go to the playoffs every year. Yeah, but yeah, for people who are paying attention. And unfortunately for a lot of these awards voting, people aren't paying attention. Correct. It's been great, but I will stay consistent. A lot of it does come down to the players. The players have been great.

The pullpin has been amazing. And Joe's done a good job of putting them in positions to succeed, but they've also. done their jobs. And they are performing at levels that none of us thought. Ocert, Sousa, King, Walter,

Taylor Scott. Gordon. No, you can't mention Taylor Scott. Me. Doesn't count. He's your buddy. I'm wishing him the best. It's funny, you know, here's the rule. If you're serving in the Matt Thomas show,

you probably wind up being DFA. Where is he? these days. Did somebody get, he elected free agency. He's an American citizen now. Maybe he's, uh, that's good. Maybe he's selling flags or something, I don't know. Just don't be certainly. We're, we're easy loving guys. We root for you. We have these

interviews, these players, we throw softballs at him. Oh, he's with the, he's on the diamondbacks. Major league or minor league roster? He's been, he's thrown six games at the major league level. He's got a nine ERA. He has a nine ERA with the Diamondbacks? Yes. Oh, my. God.

Hope you saved that paycheck. It's probably not, yeah. You can find something. Will Dana Brown have to find something? What do you mean? That's, to me, the whole Yordon situation is that this probably says I can't wait for him, until I get the definitive word, which who the hell knows what the definitive word is?

I can't rely on Yorda on being my acquisition. if I don't know when it's coming back, that if I need a left-hand at bat, and my manager and my team needs the left-hand of bat, I can't wait for your own to come back. Oh, by the way, earlier today, Taylor Scott was outright in AAA by the Diamondbacks.

Oh. Hmm. Thoughts and prayers. Wishing them the best. Imagine playing, where's their AAA? Probably Tucson, I guess. Reno. Ooh, that's going to blow up his ERA.

Yeah. Ball flies out of Reno. Good game. gambling, but nine. Every time the space Cowboys playing arena, the games are like 15 to 12. Congratulations. Bryce Matthews went nine for 11 with seven home runs. Yes.

Space Cowboys big win. By the way, shout out to Bryce Matthews, making now the top 100 of prospects in minor league baseball. Yes. Mm-hmm. You're stealing my path to future success on today's Astros on Deck Show, Matt. Are you doing back-to-back on decks? Yes, I am. Late night, too.

Seven-40 starts. What time to get off the air last night? 1130. did you attempt to go to bed that's a personal question Matt I don't know probably about two are we going to get you to bed earlier I'm trying

I'm working on it trying I've known you for 15 years you never go to bed before like that's not true I got I was good for like a week like two weeks ago I don't know what happened I must have been at peace that week because it was great 11 o'clock one time in 15 one week out of the last 15 weeks

oh no it was around midnight but that's still really good for me Okay. All right. Dana did speak today to Sean. If you miss some of that, we'll play a couple of the sound bites coming back. Yordon. Going to see another special.

Details on that shortly. 115 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We have a chance to visit with Brian Bogus Sevik every week, and that's 11 o'clock on Wednesdays. If you missed it earlier today, that's a damn shame that you did. We'll have some of the best of that conversation coming up in about to 10 minutes here on Sports Talk 7.9.

Did you hear Dana Brown at 930 this morning, Sports RV? Yes, I did. Or at least the clips that we have. Okay. After the fact. Would you like to hear some of those, Matt? Sure, why not? Sure.

A lot of things going on, of course. You know, we haven't played this one. This is, we spent a lot of time talking about Yordaun and Ron. rightfully so, and we played the audio a couple of times. Dana Brown doesn't think it's going to be season long for Yordon. Here's what he has to say about the prognosis of Jeremy Pena. Yeah, just from talking to Pena, he's already starting to feel better. It's a 10-day I-L that will go through the 10 days.

He is with the club, and as long as he starts to feel better over the next few days, he may start some baseball activity with hitting being the last one. And so he's already doing some exercises and getting treatment. And so, I mean, the Pena one, we feel confident that, you know, he's going to be fine. It's just going to take, you know, some time and some rest, you know, for that little small fracture to heal. And once he feels good enough that he can go, you know, according to the doctor, there's no chance to do any more damage. So once he feels, you know, good enough to go, we'll start to let him take some swings. And so I feel very optimistic that this won't be too long.

Dana Brown's optimistic, Matthew. I'm not commenting. You're trying to sucker me in. I'm not doing it. I would never set you up. I've never set you up once on this show. No, thank you. I'm good.

All right. So this is an important one because this has come up. And a lot of people are putting the medical staff. of the Astros under fire and all that good stuff. Is this the first time Yoron Alvarez has seen a specialist? No, he's seen three specialists. So we've had guys on this. You know, this is, as I mentioned,

this is more of the complexity of the hand itself. And so, you know, he's getting the best of care. You know, it's like anything else. You've got to figure out. what this problem is. And I think, you know, we're digging deep, you know, to get to the bottom line. And I feel like, you know, this specialist, I'm actually looking forward to see, you know, what this is going to, this diagnosis is going to be.

He's looking forward to it. I'm not because I don't think I'm going to like what I'm going to hear. It's going to be all right. Well, at some point, I mean, what you just said is not an erroneous statement. It's going to be all right. Does that mean in a month? Two months or February 2026? It's okay to think that.

It's not what we want. It's obviously going to severely dilute the chances of the Astros making a really big playoff run. They're playing amazing baseball when you play a good team multiple times in a short period of time. You're going to need as much firepower as possible, even if your pitching staff has been good and your bullpen's been amazing. the defense has been outstanding and you've got some hit players. You need some slug. And the left field spot for the Astros has not slugged anything lately. It just hasn't.

Cooper Holmes got some bombs. Yeah. Taylor Tremel not necessarily considered a power threat among the Astros in the organization. And Joe Spott is saying we're going to see more Altovae at second with Pena down and Dubon taking over shortstop every day. And we like Dubon. We do. I mean, look, he's the only other guy. He's a perfect utility player.

He better not get hurt because I don't know who's going to play short then. Yeah. Ooh, God. You'll put these guys in bubble wrap. But the reality is this, you're now going to have to ask Dana to go get something via trade. And I just don't know. Dana's already been leery to do it two years in a row.

Do you understand that? Yeah, he gave up a lot. I mean, he doesn't want to, he does, this is not what he likes to do. You've already got the 29,000. best system in baseball. Yeah, but as I talked about this before, I think a lot of that is overrated because if you don't, if you have the 29th out of 30 best major minor league systems, I mean, you can't go to it and help you out.

The Astros have used their minor league system to their advantage. Yeah, they have, but it's, they don't have a bunch. It's not like they stocked with phenoms. I mean, correct. You don't have extra guys that you can throw in as part of trades and go, well, I'm missing, but are still full of talent up and down the list. The top systems have guys that are huge trade chips or who are banging on the door or, you know, I mean, even a couple of years away

and thought of as top 100 guys. Yeah. And yeah, well, it's nice to have the Ryan Gustos, the Colton Gordons, and the, who are afraid, Brandon Walters. Of the world, I mean, those guys, ERAs are hovering around five.

It's not like they're coming up here and shutting everything down. And the other thing is, do you address pitching at all, not knowing what the guys behind him and who are in the injured list? I mean, what does Lance McCutton? I mean, Lance McCullors got bombed against Chicago.

I mean, he can't bounce back from that, He's done that, but there's no guarantee what we're going to get from Lance on the next two months. The only guarantees are Hunter Brown and Framer Valdez. It pitched their ass off for a better part of the start of the season. Very few letdowns between those two jents in the last 85 games of the Stros. Thankfully. Everything else has been a huge question of part. Speaking of question marks, what is today's edition of Believe or Not coming up at one foot?

It'll be Mike Brown. Mike Brown, the brand new coat. Now, it says the deal has been offered. Has he accepted the offer or is he trying to play hard play? I thought, now Haynes said, did Chams say it was a done deal or not? I'll see what old Schaummer says. They are, Knicks are set to hire Brown, expected to hire Mike Brown.

Yeah, he says 60 minutes ago, set to hire Mike Brown. So that would feel like that's the case, right? And then he followed, in an hour ago, he says, expected to hire Mike Brown. It sounds like a little minutia involved in there, right? Yeah. I'm saying it's not 100% done deal. But it sounds like it's pretty close. All right, Brian Bogusivik, chiming in on the Astros injury situation,

chiming in on how good they're playing, and chiming in on the fact they have a seven-game lead over the Seattle Mariners in the American League West. That's all coming up. Brian Bogusivik, here next on Sports Talk 790. Welcome back to the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Here on Sports Talk 790. Ross Vioria. I'm Matt Thomas with you until 2 o'clock. We've got, believe it or not, Mike Brown coming up right now. I wanted to bring you some good conversation from Brian Bogussevich joins us Wednesdays at 11 o'clock.

Always a great conversation with Bogie. So here is some of that good stuff. Starting off talking about the injuries to Yordon Alvarez and Jeremy Pena and how the squad just keeps on churning out the wins. Yeah. I mean, before our show yesterday, I was just sitting around and I was drawing up a lineup. of the guys that are on the injured list for the Astros right now. And it's really striking the amount of talent both sides of the ball that are unavailable. So how they continue to win, I don't know. They just figure it out. And it's, you know, a lot of guys picking up slack offensively.

You know, it's Victor yesterday. It's Cam Smith another day. It's going to be El Tuve one day. You know, they just kind of do that. What the pitching has done is incredible. I mean, Hunter and Fromber, you talk about, what aces do. I mean, it's above and beyond.

It's every time they go out there just absolutely, you know, unhittable and the depth that they keep showing, it's crazy. But, you know, at some point, you have to imagine that there's going to be a breaking point, right? At some point, you just lose too much or the guys who are there picking up the slack, get into a funk or something, you know, at some point, the injuries have to stop piling up and you've got to start getting some guys healthy, which, you know, we don't really know when that's going to be at this time.

Isak Paredes has been leading off the last handful of days. We asked this to Joe Espada yesterday, and he's going to continue to put him in there for the foreseeable future. But when you were drawing up the 26-man roster, even with guys being hurt, I don't think, Brian, that Isac Paredes in the lead-off spot was necessarily on anybody's bingo card over the course of the year. No, I mean, it's not the prototypical burner that you would think of up at the top.

But, you know, really what they've done, it's gotten to a point now with so many people being out and still trying to kind of piece together the bottom third of a lineup on any given day. It's not necessarily about ideal lineup construction of who's the best fit at leadoff, who's going to be our prototypical three-hole hitter or cleanup hitter. It's just let's take the guys who are swinging well, you know, whatever three, four, five of those guys on any given day and let's just bunch them together at the top. and then hopefully we can play matchups at the bottom or pick the right guys based on how we feel about their swing right now in the bottom half and have that carryover because there is no right solution when you're down this many guys. There's not many people.

There's just not enough guys who fit that prototypical role of whatever spot you're looking for. So let's just take the best guys, try to get them the most that bat, and hopefully the guys at the bottom can put some runners on base for them. you know, with what the pitching staff has been doing, let's scratch across a couple of runs and hope it's enough. I want to talk about the Jeremy Pena injury real quick. Have you ever had a rib situation like that? And what's the recovery like as far as how much of its pain management,

how much of it is wanting to be 100% healed? And especially for someone like Jeremy Panyu, who's not only it's about swinging the bat, but, I mean, if you're a shortstop, you've got to be diving all around the field as well. Yeah, so I've not. I've not done a rib. I've been fortunate enough I've never had a major, like, core oblique type of thing either.

But that being said, I mean, I've had soreness in there in those areas. And everything you do in baseball is affected by that area. And I'm not just talking about swinging, throwing. That's obviously rotational stuff. But, you know, the idea of keeping your body under control to go down and feel the ground ball, you've got to have a lot of core strength. You know, running back on a fly ball and trying to keep your eyes focused on the ball up above your head requires a lot of core strength.

So everything you do, that part of your body is engaged. So if you don't have enough strength to do it, if you're sore in there, it's going to be affected. And, you know, you don't want to hear this, but fortunately, we're at a place where, you know, you're only halfway through the season, you do have a decent lead. You just give it time.

And, you know, there's nothing you can do with a broken rib like that. You know, you can't tape it up. You can't, you know, compress it or whatever. you just got to sit there and let it heal and that takes time and hopefully they can get by for however long it is and hopefully a young guy

who's in as good a shape as pain you and hopefully he's a quick healer Brian Bogusevic with us here on a sports talk 790 I had to apologize to you Brian a couple of weeks ago I shorted your your Coors fuels numbers 423 with a 1.198 OPS

Oh hey I don't remember who it was, but I can imagine they must not have been throwing some very good pitchers out in Colorado those days. So three hits for a Christian Walker in Corsefield. Seems like he likes it as well. Is that ever like something that entered your mind or the player's mind, hey, hey, I do pretty well in this ballpark because it seems like it's working for Christian Walker at least one game in. I've never come across anybody that doesn't like hitting in that ballpark. But he's also a guy. He spent a ton of time in that division.

He knows those pictures. He's very comfortable hitting there, so it's not surprising that he has a comfort level. Also, what I noticed about his hits yesterday, number one, they were all on fastballs. Number two, he was really doing a good job staying inside of them. He wasn't trying to come around and pull any of those pitches. And the other thing, most importantly, maybe, is that where they were located. They were middle to down in the strike zone. He wasn't trying to get up on top of those fastballs at the top of the zone.

I mean, he set it himself after games, talking about, you know, that fastball. at the top, there's one of two ways that you can do it. You learn how to hit it or you learn how to not swing at it. And if he's going to make a concerted effort to lay off of that pitch and get it down into the strikes on, it's just an easier pitch. Even high velocity, it's just easier to drop the head

of the bat on a pitch down at your thighs than opposed to up at your letters. So, you know, maybe that's something that can get him going a little bit is getting on those fast balls. Boogie, when you've been around players that say, oh, I love going to this stadium and hitting, or I don't like hitting

this place. Were you one of those kind of guys that said, you know what, I don't like going to Philadelphia. I didn't enjoy playing at Wrigley. Because I remember one of my all-time favorite Astros is Lance Berkman and talk about it at nauseam, how much he hated playing in San Francisco. And the reason why I bring this up is can some guys talk themselves out of having productive series on the road when they already go in having a bad feeling about the venue they're about the playing? Oh, absolutely. I mean, it's the same as how you feel about your swing on a given day, right? Whether you're feeling good or bad, your swing's really not that far off.

And confidence a lot of times will be the tipping point of if you're going to go out there and feel like you're going to have a good day or a bad day and how comfortable you are with your settings, whether it's, you know, a backdrop at a certain place or the shadows in the afternoon at Wrigley Field or the cold wind blowing in in San Francisco, whatever it is, if you go into a game with a mindset that I don't like hitting in this place, I don't feel comfortable here. I don't match up well against the pitchers, whatever it is. It definitely is going to affect you.

And it works the other way, too, when you go into a place like Colorado, and most guys feel like not only is the ballfly, but it's a gigantic outfield. There's hits everywhere, and it's just a great place to hit. Farlett, your run, and I brought this up with a game with Joe, and I want to get your thoughts on it as well.

You've got some pitchers that, frankly, probably a month or two ago were just lucky to be on a major league roster. Now they're helping this team put together the second best record in the American League. They're about to get into the last half of the season. Games will mean some more, a chance here for the playoffs and whatnot. And is this the same situation as a position player,

meaning that it's fun to be on a major league team, but what's it like for a young player who just fought his way on to be good and to stay on this team knowing that... Colton Gordon, for example, okay, Colton, we thank you for your service, and now we need you to go six innings when you can. I mean, how much more pressure does that? a young first-year player or a guy that has had a little majorly experience,

fight through the times of, this is the most I pitched, this is the most high-leverage games I've ever been part of in my major league career? You know, I think if a guy was good enough to get there, but not welcoming of a challenge like that, I think a lot of those guys probably would have been weeded out along the way. It doesn't mean everybody's always going to be successful in those situations, but I don't know that, you know, a guy could be competitive enough,

to get through the minor leagues, especially with a lot of these guys at the aster's have brought up. These are not high draftics. These are guys who had to produce from day one just to stay on minor league rosters. So these guys have been fighting for their lives for most of their professional careers.

I don't think that any of these guys would come up and not want to be somebody who could be pushed, who could be pushed, you know, third time through the order, up to 100 pitches, go out there and face the middle of the order again. I think they welcome those things.

And one of the things that breeds that success as well is that, you know, the Astros minor league system, if you look, you know, over the past, you know, recent history, they win a lot in the minor leagues. You know, those guys all won a championship in AAA last year. And that's certainly not the same as doing it at the major league level. But there are stakes. They're not guys who are just out there pitching for their ERA and hoping somebody gets hurt in the big leagues so they can get called up. These are guys who have been in situations where they're pitching two-wing games. All right.

That again is Brian Bogus Civic. You can catch him every Wednesday at 11 o'clock live. And sometimes we get a chance to replay some of the best of his stuff. And he always provides grand analysis here for the show. All right. Hey, I want to let you know that we've got, believe it or not, coming up next, all things about the brand new coach of the New York Knicks, Mike Brown. We've got wonderful prizes we're playing for.

And a reminder that more on the Astros tonight with Astros on deck, hosted by I believe we're going dead air between 630 and 7 o'clock tonight for the on-deck. show. Not true. All right. It's you. It should be great. I'm stepping up. Come on now. Yeah. I don't see Wex are doing it. Good for you. You said that, not me. You were thinking it, though. Up next, believe it or not, all things, Mike Brown. 713, 212, 5779. If you'd like to play, 713, 212, 5, 790.

Thanks, Bun. I think. 149. Sports Talk 7.90 Ross. Darren Revelle comes up with an interesting question. Does Red Panda have health insurance? I would imagine so. I don't know. Do you? Why wouldn't she? Well, I mean...

She's got to have some... No, she's an acrobat. She's got to have a health insurance, be some kind of other insurance. Because her career, she's losing money in her career, if she's not protecting herself. Darren Revelle says, guessing Red Panda can't get adequate insurance for what she does teams and league should pool together

to make sure all the medical bills are paid and covered I mean they use it like an athlete he has no idea what he's talking about though Darren Revelle is often off base okay I mean no he could be right I'm just saying but I mean unless she's just how many of these things does she do

a year I actually it's funny this come up because I was curiously Googled how much she gets per appearance and hold on don't can I guess yes you can 3,000 a game

I saw 3500 to 400 to 4,000 and that's not including lodging and travel okay so she's doing how many things events you think she does a year at least 50 oh I would say close 150 yeah okay 150 times 4 G's

let's even say it's 3 Gs it's not horrible she's doing all right that's not bad 450 for working I would imagine there's some kind of insurance policy for her because she's totally out of work if she gets hurt. Yeah. But do you understand the greatest part of her gig is it never changes?

No. Think about it. If you watch Red Panda 15 years ago and you watched her two weeks ago, it's the same bit. It never changes. Mm-hmm. There's no music change. There's no, she doesn't change bikes. unicycles, there is literally nothing she changes.

Yeah, like Barry Maniloh. No, Barry changes outfits and he changes the songs and whatnot. I mean, he's still singing Can't Smile Without You, and of course I'm singing with him, belting it to the top of my lungs. That's great. That's a different issue for a different time. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do?

We should play America's fastest-growing sports radio game show. We simply call it B, believe it or not. And here's how it works. You call 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-1-2-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believe it or not is all things about new Nick's coach, Mike Brown. All right, your statement about Mike. Statements completely utterly accurate.

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It was called the SoCal Elite for one year. Believe it or not? Not. Not. That's correct. Congratulations. Pill? Yes, sir.

What do you want now? I want to see, I want to go see, we let Nelson sing stand alive as always is. Mike Brown's father served in the Air Force, and Brown born as a U.S. military station in Wurzburg, Germany. Believe it or not. Man, that's all the minutia, but believe it. That is correct. Statement number two for you to go see Bob Dylan,

which you couldn't name one song if you tried. Mike Brown has won the NBA coach of the year twice, and both times he was fired by the team within 12 months of winning it. Believe it or not. If I win, let's give it to the next caller. But David. Believe it. All right, Pat.

I think he's won within 30 days. That's true. He's uneligible. Pat, you're on 7. Are you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Pat, from 2020 to 2020, Mike Brown served as a head coach of the Nigerian national team.

Believe it or not? Believe it. That is correct. Statement number two for the way, Mike Brown's brother played offensive line in the NFL for the Steelers and the Bengals. Believe it or not? Not.

He did. What was his name? Bad, Leroy, apparently. I don't know what I didn't put it in there? Anthony. Horatio. Anthony. Daniel on 790.

You ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. In 2024, Mike Brown was inducted into the San Diego Terraros Athletics Hall of Fame. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, hasn't made it yet. I'm sorry. I mean, isn't that a major snub? I think it is.

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