The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Win, Rockets Win! Houston Might Just Be On Fire; Rockets vs Bucks Tonight

Episode Date: April 1, 2026

Astros Win, Rockets Win! Houston Might Just Be On Fire; Rockets vs Bucks Tonight 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Tonight here inside TOTA Center, the Knicks scored the first point. It was their only lead of the game. At that, an awesome first quarter and four great quarters of Rockets Basketball. As they defeat the Knicks, 1-11 to 94. You're hot. You really shoot your shot.

I don't want you to pinch me under any circumstance, Rossville, Real. I will never, ever, ever, ever. Unless we're at the blackjack table together and, I don't know. Share walks by. Or you and I hit four black jacks in a row between the two of us. I'm not going to pinch you. With fist bump. Hug?

It depends. Are we doubling our bets every single time? We are certainly pressing for sure. Okay, if we're pressing, yeah, that sounds. Actually, that just made me happy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the two local teams last night kicked some serious acts.

They just did. Let's go. That's why I said, don't pinch me or maybe pin, I don't know. Is this a real life that we're living right now? It is real life. All right, so I make sure. I was puzzled why the rockets were

dogs to the Knicks and well, they proved the Vegas odd maker wrong. The Knicks were dogs last night. Yes, they were. And I will tell you this, and we will balance obviously what's going on between both the Rockets and the Astros last night. But it's hard in an NBA game

to lead the entire way. Now, they were down 1-0. It's especially, and you think this is nuts for me to say this, it's kind of hard to hold on to a double-digit lead in the NBA. It is. The three-point shot can quickly get rid of deficits, ebbs and flows.

teams can go on shooting slumps. The Rockets never, it got cozy a couple of times, but that's his, it never got tight, put it that way. Everyone makes a run in the NBA. Everybody does. And the Knicks did make a little run. Not much, though. It wasn't enough.

Not enough. Then, down the street, who are these Astros? They were three hit on opening day. Yes. Lost the second game. Yeah. Yeah. And now they're like the Bronx bombers are 27.

They're looking pretty good. Hunter Brown doing his thing. That guy, Yordon Alvarez, seems like he's pretty good when he's in the lineup. And he's pacing to play 162. Yes, he is. He is OPSing 1440. Cam Smith going yard yesterday. Yes, he did.

Woo. Good pitching. Good defense. Some dude got a save for the aster's yesterday. I never heard of until this morning. I believe it was Michael Bolton, correct? How can we be lovers of it can't be friends, sports RV? How am I supposed to live without you, Matt?

Only if you have time, love, and tenderness. Oh, wow, I'm done. I could probably go a little deeper on that. He did a bunch of covers. Yeah. Ain't a mountain high enough. And he did bed down Nicola Sheridan for a while. Good for him on that.

that's okay i think i don't know if bolton's as good as jeters but i bet you bolton's up there yeah michael bolton was rolling and yeah 1990s cruners did quite well for the yeah you had long hair in those days oh yeah now he's old and bald just like me still a handsome devil okay sure good morning it is the matt thomas show at ross and we are with you today we have a

brunch size edition of the show we're only on 10 to 2 today 10 to 12 today. Yes. And then I will take you for on deck at 12 o'clock this afternoon until a 1240 network join. 110 first pitch, Garrett Crochet. Going to be a tough one. He's good. Although, was he?

Oh, never mind. Is he a RA zero? So he must have been decent his first time out. And got to win. The only one they have so far. Maybe I'm thinking of like a spring train. I thought I saw somewhere he was not doing well. Maybe it was a spring training start or something.

Maybe you're speaking it into existence. Yes. You know what? I saw that one time on April 1st. He was terrible and got shelled. And Mike Burroughs was spinning a gym. Can I give you something? And this is an early, ain't nobody got time for that.

We'll do that at 1130 today. We'll shut your bum ass up. I despise April Fool's Day. I don't think it's funny. I don't think it's intriguing. I think it gets people in trouble. I think it, yeah, especially with social media, you can go run to your Twitter account and put you a bunch of stuff out there.

Yes. Today I already saw. This again, I want to make sure I preface this five times in front of it and five times behind it. April fools, April fools, April fools, April fools, April fools. There was a report that Jason Kidd was fired by the Mavericks and that's not true. April, April, April, Fools, April, Fools. Yeah, I'm still recovering from the time the girl I was with told me she was pregnant on April Fools. Shut up.

Yeah. That's especially crazy because you didn't have sex with her either. Yeah, that's true. I'm saving myself for marriage. That's what I'm talking about sports. I said, don't ever do that again. To anyone. Look, I can live with St. Patrick's Day.

That's just a day to drink. I mean, I get that. Sinking a mile obviously is interesting. Again, Valentine's Day, Galentine's Day, side piece day. I can live with all these things. I just don't like April Fool's Day at all.

Okay. I mean, I think it's mostly for children. I don't know if I've really gotten deep in the April Fool game. as an adult. Well, I hope you wouldn't. That'd be weird. Yeah. All right.

So we have that to get to. We've got the Astros, dominant performance, slugging like muddhas. Me leading the majors in runs. Yeah. And they have seven home runs, and especially after they were just, couldn't find the back of the yard on the first couple of games of the season. You'll find it on the home run counter today during Astros. Oh, look at this guy. So we have that.

We have the Rockets. I mean, absolutely annihilating the New York Knicks last night. I don't know who Tar Heeson, who was the first 14 or 15 games of the month, but the last two were pretty good, actually. Yeah, Tar Easton got the start. Rockets' Twitter losing their damn mind. Amidoka needs to be fired, blah, blah, blah. They're going to be down 10 in the first quarter.

They got up, what was it? 19 to 2 or whatever it was, Matt. Didn't they shoot like 75% from the floor in the first quarter? Yeah. Well, now Reed Shepherd's going to have to come in and fix this mess because the Rockets are going to be down 10 in the first five minutes. I know. I know. Where does a tough bunch? They like the tough bunch. No, they're idiots.

Okay. Let the coach coach. Maybe it was a mistake. Maybe it's not. It didn't end up being a mistake. Reed Shepherd was great off the bench. You got bench scoring. Literally the 20 points from Reed Shepherd off the bench, two points from everyone else. You need bench scoring. Tari Easton was a better defensive matchup against a very good. potent offensive with the Knicks, where they want to switch stuff,

where they're running a lot of actions with Jalen Brunson and Carl Anthony Towns, and Reed Shepard would have got picked on. Like you got picked on in the fourth quarter of the game at Madison Square Garden. You just did. There's something called a Scouting Report for a reason. And film. Well, everybody in Twitter is breaking all that down, so. That's good.

But anyways, Rockets got up, yeah, it's 16 or 17 in the first quarter. Mm-hmm. And that was the difference, really, from the rest of the way. It was within one. Yeah. Yep. So honestly, a really good night for Houston sports teams. We also have today on the radio show some comments.

Jonathan Alexander, the Chronicle Beat Writer, is in Phoenix of the owner's meetings, and he had a chance to sit down with Cal and Hannah. Hannah had a lot to say, and Cal just nodded his head for a bunch of the 20-minute conversation of sir. Oh, he did? He did not offer nothing? Did he have, like, those glasses with painted eyes on? he wanted to wear single and ready to mingle t-shirt

at the owner's meetings and Hannah's like you're married to me I think Cal's shirt had number one dad on it too yeah with like a coffee steam yeah built to barbecue

I like that kiss the cook apron cow's like wait a minute I'm not doing a cookout like I do during training camp do you like my apron Hannah cow

put the shirt on I got out for you. Cal, you were saying all these things. Cal's worth billions and billions of dollars. That's true. A lot of hard-earned work. You don't know that. We don't know the behind the scenes of McNair family. I mean, he's got an NBA from Rice.

I'm sure Kerry McNair doesn't think he's worked very hard for it. Probably Carrie has his nephew. You know what? We need to get carry on. He's his brother. Excuse me. Yeah, we need to get Carrie on the show. That would be so spicy.

Maybe we do a weekly segment. Oh, maybe we could get a, them on a mobile. No, it would get in trouble. It would be pretty funny. That would be good though. No,

it would be so damn good. I have to put some filters in the radio show, Ross, and I've just put one on you. Come on, that'd be gold and you know it. Well, here's the reality. Since they've resolved everything,

it sounds like, there's only no need for it, but if it was, if they had gone to a journey, to a trial or anything, we would have could have, like, had our correspondence in there. We could have had Carrie's attorney on a mobile

on the show. We could have really, That'd be pretty good. The layers of this bad boy. That's hilarious. Oh, well. I guess they're getting along for now. 713-212-5-790.

We have a shorter time today to visit with you, so we need you guys to get in early. In fact, we've got Mark and Roger and Carnell. Oh, that's Carlo. Carlo. Carlo is back. Carlo, Carlo, call the show. Love for us. I get to step out of that during that segment.

That's kind of nice. Yeah. Me and Carlo are Brooskeys, I guess. Yeah, yes, you are broskeys. Another broskey of the show is Brian Bogussevick. He will join us today at 11 o'clock. Love it. We have, shut you, old bum ass up.

I had a tough night last night after the game. Oh, I saw your tweet. Is it related to that? Uh-huh. Okay. I have something personal going on that I was very... Well, actually, you know, because I texted you and Jonathan about it yesterday. Ooh, is that on the group text?

Yeah. Let's see. Don't worry about it. We'll get to it 1130. Oh, okay. Should I go look at the group text? It is from yesterday. Okay.

Is it about your gassiness? No. Okay. I've been pretty good. Have you? Yeah. All right. 713-212-5-7-90.

Astros baseball will have the Ondek at noon. If you missed the Dana-Brown conversation about 45 minutes ago, you'll be able to hear that as part of the Ondek show today. Astros, again, trying to go for the sweep against a week. Red Sox. Rockets in action tonight against the Miliwake Bucks, who beat the Mavericks last night in Milwaukee, then had to fly two and a half hours down here,

so they're going to be real nice and spry tonight. Rockets, what's that line Rossi, not that I would even care about it, but just for those of it are so intrigued? Last night, it was 17 and a half. I'm not sure if it's moved. Oh, it's still 17.5. 17.5.

That's meaty. That's a, that's a, that's a, that's a fourth quarter with a lot of Jeff Green and actually you're supposed to be a lot of beatdowns in the NBA Nuggets 16 and a half over the jazz ooh lordy Knicks 14 and a half on the road against the Grizzlies and how about the Sixers 15 and a half at the Wizards

all these tanking teams are getting their ass whooped Yep by the way CB Buckner screwed up again You see the video of that? Yeah We got to talk about that He needs to be fired He's Union good luck Yeah

I mean they eventually got Angel Hernandez out. What do they do to get C.B. Buckner out? And the last D.A. And then the whole put umpire last night, Mark Wagner. Free, free base on balls for Ken Smith. It's everyone. What's going on? I don't know. Do you think ABS has really gotten to their heads? It has to have gotten to their heads. We are seeing seismic blown calls in the first week of the baseball season. Yeah, umpires get the count wrong all the time, not all the time, but frequently.

I don't know. It's happened a couple. What Cam Smith did, or what happened to Cam Smith, we've seen a couple times before. You have an umpire clicker, a ball strike clicker. What else I said that's a say? Ball strike clicker for a reason, don't you? Ball strike clicker. Yes.

Or some people use the, don't they use the rope on their knuckles or whatever? You know what I'm talking about? No. Okay. They have like a little band or whatever and they, like, when it's on your first knuckle, like between your middle finger and your index finger, it's one and then two and three. I have never heard of that, but I completely believe you.

I still have my umpire clicker from when I was in softball back in St. Paul back. Oh, you do? Yeah. Really? So I bring it to the office tomorrow? When you bring it out? Tomorrow. Oh, you're going to bring it?

You're going to why not? Okay. Does it have like dust mites and stuff in it? No, it's fine. It's fine. It was a really interesting. enjoyable night in the city, Houston, except if you were trying to leave either one of the two facilities. 713-212-1-2-5-790. So we're welcome to back to the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

7-1-3-2-5-7-90. Astros go for the sweep. Rockets try to go for their fourth consecutive win. Boy, this is, do you want to circle this day in the calendar, Ross? I don't know if we've had this much enjoyment, at least in these parts in quite some time, right? It's been very nice, Matthew. I'm very happy. Very, very happy. And the lineup has been posted. Are you don't want me to not spoil it? No, go ahead, do it. Well, one quick thing before I start, Dana Brown earlier today on the morning drive with Dan Matthews and Cole Thompson said that Pena was going to be back in the lineup consecutive days, but he is not here. We'll talk about that in a second. It is Altuve at second base.

Yordaun batting. I love Yordaum batting second, by the way. Me too. At D.H. Paredes at third, batting third. Correa at shortstop. Batting cleanup. Christian Walker, of course, at first. Cam Smith in right, Jake Myers in center, Bryce Matthews in left.

Christian Vasquez. Bats ninth and he is at the backstop. Yeah, day game after a night game is no surprise. That's exactly where I was going to go. See, Matt, this is why they pay you the big bucks. We're on the same page. And it gives Yonair a second day off his feet because they're off tomorrow. Yeah, so maybe the consecutive days will start after.

Yeah, you get the day game here, you get the off day. and then he can play a couple of days on Friday and Saturday. So maybe that's what Dana Brown meant, or perhaps he misspoke a little bit, but as in next opportunity after this day game, he's going to get some consecutive games together. Honestly, to tell you the truth, I think you'd agree with me on it.

I don't think we were thinking he was going to be ready for the start of the season. So get him in the games at all at this point, it's been kind of a bonus. Yeah, it's been great. All right, let's talk to our buddy Roger on 790 and 1025. Roger, good morning to you. Hey, Matt Ross. So before I start with my take, I just want to say, you know, I love you guys like an old pair of chancel.

That's never going to change. Old comfortable pair of chancel. That's how that's how reliable. All right. Just don't throw them at us, Roger. No, no, no, no. That's only if I start messing up. The old lady should do that with deadly accuracy.

Anyway, so yesterday I was not allowed to do my gut feelings because I called in earlier. but I specifically remember and I don't have specific receipts, but I was able to call in twice when you do segments such as that. So that's why I didn't do my good feeling on the initial call. So with that, I say

at least give me some detail or, you know, touch your bum ass up and anybody at the time for that. And now, with my take, yesterday, and my take wasn't

the a shot of Rockers we're going to win, but take that for what it's worth. So yesterday, remind me of an old school slogan. It was one of the old radio stations from back of the 80s and 90s called Chief for Tuesday. And what a beautiful Chief for Tuesday was. Now, the Astros, they're doing something they'd never done last year,

and that score runs in four straight games with eight-plus runs. It never happened. And I just love to see it because now you're getting some value out of your crystal walking trade. You're getting a healthy ward on Alvarez's dose. You're getting a Jose Al-Tubei taking walks. Crazy stuff is happening with the actual. I love it. Now, on the rocket, you know, what are we looking at here?

Is this a bad April Fool joke? Is this going to be like a tease of what they could have been or what they can be when they fly around and play defense like they mean it? And, you know, the body language is different. It just looks like it's just like, I don't know, like a metamorphosis just happened overnight. Well, you know, since the last three, four games. And I'm asking you, is this a statement?

from this group? Is this what we're going to watch from here on out? Because they got, you know, you know, and they had a lot of excuses with the injuries. I give it that. But some of these losses were all self-induced and it was, you know, blowing leads, turnovers, stuff like that. You tell me, Matt, what are we looking at here? And with that, I'll say, I have a good one, brother. Thank you very much. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I actually, can't predict the future. I'd like to. I can tell you that the Tar-Eason of the last

three or four games has been missing for a better part of a month. I think the temple, I thought the fast breaks, I thought the pacing was a lot better last night than it had been in previous games. I do like the fact that the fifth part

of the starting lineup is fluid depending on matchups. I think that that means the rockets are scouting opponents. Alperin has been highly, highly efficient. Kevin Durant continues to bury you from three-point range and from the elbows like he's done every single moment of the season. A man continues

to just perform on both ends of the floor with rebounds and block shots and amazing dunks. I mean, you know, you always said that term, Ross, no disrespect to. Well, I'm going to disrespect Memphis and New Orleans. They suck.

Those were games you were supposed to beat them up. Last night was a coin flip. The Knicks are a good basketball team. They may not be good enough to win the East, but they're still a top three team in the East. Yeah, I'll also say that, yeah, the Rockets have struggled against bad teams. So taking care of business is still a good sign, especially the way they did it on Sunday. And it was, I mean, fairly comfortable in Memphis, even though the margin wasn't huge. But, yeah, a big part of this is Tari Aeson.

And, you know, a couple weeks ago, we're arguing with people. Never played Tari Easton again. He's horrible. Leave him off the bench. It's like, if this team is going to unlock their potential, Tari Isan has to be part of it. And Tari Isson has been a part of it. And since Alperin Shingoon had those couple of days off with the back spasms, he was shooting coming into last night like 62% and then he was 4 of 5.

So that's going to go up. So he is starting to come along and played to the potential we know that he's capable of. Tari Isan is a big part of it. Reed Shepard continues to flourish and blossom. And in this team, while I'm not saying they're going to win the NBA championship, they look a lot closer to what we were hoping for, even without Fred Van Vleet and Stephen Adams, than they did even a couple of weeks ago.

So what does that mean? Because when they're bad, we say they're not this bad, when they're good. I don't know, do we say they're not this good, but we know at least what they're capable of. That's right. So to be determined, rockets, one source had them as the fifth hardest schedule left in the season,

and then it quickly corrected to the fifth softest schedule. My brain was not working. Thank you for list. you for listening, Matt. I was like, what an idiot. I was first of all, I didn't feel, I felt bad for you. I knew what you meant. And I'm like, he'll figure it out. But then secondly, I was just so pissed off because of trying to get home last night that I was just,

you were a nice deterrent. Oh, thank you. Oh, you were in a lot of, yeah. So what Matt's referencing is last night, I was pulling up the remaining schedule strength in the NBA. And for some reason, my brain flipped the upside down as in like one would be easiest when one is hardest. So I read it wrong. And I corrected myself later. Rockets have the 26th most difficult remaining schedule. So fifth easiest.

Right. Clippers, excuse me, Nuggets are one. They have the most difficult schedule remaining in the entire NBA in terms of opponents win percentage. Lakers are seven and the timber wolves are now 18. including Rockets Wolves in Toyota Center, the second to last game of the season. So of all the teams you're battling with, you have easily the easiest road

to try and make some moves up the standings. Yep. 713-212-5-7-9. If you want to chime in and say hello to us, we are with you today until 12 noon. We'll have Astros baseball on deck at 12 with the first pitch at 1-10 inside Dykut Park. And again, we will see the Astros go with

Mike Burroughs making his second start of the season and second start as a Houston Astro. Man and Ross with you on Sports Talk, 790. 713, 212-5-790. If you want to chime in on the conversation, we've had a good visit so far with Rockets and Astros so far. You are welcome to join either one. Again, a couple of comments from Hannah and Cal at the owner's meetings about the team and about C.J.

and we will try to dig deep into the quotes. A little bit later on here on the show right now, Carnal is with us. Carlo, Carlo. Carlo. What's that? Hello.

I know you're working double today. I like it. Look, so I'm sorry I miss the beginning of the show. So what's on you? play chair again or not? No, we played the Ohio players, fire.

Oh, really? Yeah. Ohio player. So what is about? Sing it to me. I like the performance of Carter's Korea is turning about time, right? Yeah.

Yeah. He's hitting over 300. Do you think Cardinal answers his own questions, Ross? It seems like he does. Okay. Got a walk? I mean, the slug hasn't really been there, but he's been hitting. Yeah, I know.

Altooui, walking. Yeah, what do you think about Altoou? Yeah, he's getting a lot of walks. Altui, he's patient. He's being patient. He is being patient, yeah. So what happened with the guy from Honduras? What happened with him?

I haven't seen it. What is he up? Who's the baseball player from Honduras? Yeah, yeah, tell me, you know. Oh, you're talking about Marisa Dubon? Yeah, what is he at? He's in Atlanta. Atlanta.

He got traded for Nick Allen. Oh, okay. So, yeah, that's great. And so what do you start off? Oh, you said, no share today? What's up? Yeah, and he wants more share, Matt. Okay.

I think we're going to end this conversation. Hey, thank you so much for listening. We appreciate you. Thank you, Carlo. I guess calling? Yeah, you had a few modellos called in. I like Carlo. He's a nice guy.

Do you day drink at 1030 on a Wednesday? I mean, yes, you could. I don't. I mean, usually you and I are on the air. Oh. Well, Carlo wants more share. You can get on board with that. I'll tell you what.

If he likes share, that's good. We had a very popular edition of Believe it or not yesterday with all things. Didn't like I could turn back time. Okay, I think we're done with that. Why? All right, so what else you want to get to? We mentioned the Astros.

We mentioned the Rockets. You know, I'm kind of in a really good mood today. You should be. Now. Okay, how are we feeling about this offense? Because as you said yesterday, and you're totally right. If the offense was terrible, we'd be like, everybody be patient. Now they're great.

So, I mean, some, Yordon's not going to OPS 14. Well, I mean, he could, and if he is, he can carry an MVP trophy. He's going to win MVP. Yeah, Al-Tubei's not going to OPS-1300. Well, if he is, that means he can get to 3,000 hits by the end of the year. But it's still been nice. It's been encouraging.

Cam Smith with the home run. I mean, you had Bryce Matthews the other day with the home run. Like, that wouldn't a cheapie either. 111 off the bat. I'm telling you, the Jose Al-Tubei thing, a lot of it has to do with the fact that they said, put your left field glove away and never go get it again. Okay. If you say so. I'm just saying.

I just think that's part of it. Okay. Let me think about this. When we were asked to do the two to four show. This is totally, this is a bad analogy, but go ahead. We did it. We didn't enjoy it. Uh-huh.

We got back to our midday routes and we had a bunch better time of things. Okay. just saying okay and he's not butchering second base I mean do it have you been looking at his

fielding numbers I mean are we I have not is he holding his own at this point I don't know I'm scared too not that it would even matter

because the Astros just keep pound the ball so they can they could have a subpar defense at this point it really wouldn't even matter he only started 44 games and left last year I'm just talking about

the second base so far in 2026 no I know I'm talking about his his attitude or whatever we're going with. He's a breath of fresh air. The new hitting coaches. Everybody just loves everything new. Could be a new voice, and that's what we talked about.

We argued with people about the hitting coaches and stuff, and of course, can always concede that maybe just a new voice is going to help things out. And that's of anything. That could be a new voice. I think that even the D'Amico Ryan said, not to move over to the Texans here, but he was talking yesterday about how much he liked Gerard Johnson.

And he said, look, sometimes you need to do. different voice. But that's a hard way to lose a job, isn't it? Hey, we think you're really good and we know that you're going to land on your feet, but we need to get a different voice. That also means perhaps, yeah, you're just not elite or especially in baseball times change and maybe they want to go with a different philosophy. Is that just a polite way of saying we're tired of your act? I think, I, no, I don't, I think it depends. Also, also when it, paired with bad results. Like if the Astros were the number one in OPS last year,

you wouldn't want to change the voice. Which I don't know how they weren't with Marisa Dubon and Jesus Sanchez and Zach Shorten the boys. Taylor Tremel, don't freaking him. Hey. By the way, Taylor Tremel had a good game last one. You'll find out in the minor league report. Oh, great.

Look at me just teasing constantly this on-deck show. Thank you, Matt. It must be a real banger coming up. It's going to be fine. Mm-hmm. You know, I've been doing these on-deck shows for, let's see, 5, 20, where are we in 26th?

Probably 25 years of on-deck shows. Wow. I could get you some kind of a medal or something. Well, I should have gotten the Astros Media Hall of Fame, but that's a different issue for a different time. You should have, really? Why not? There's a chance.

You've got to vote me in. Can you put me as an at-large vote? I mean, do you want a serious answer? Oh, no. No, I don't want a serious. Not from you. I want it from a young and Jonathan who I've tried to blend his

curing and mend his curing and go in here. Jonathan will have my back. I'm not going to know. All right. Brian Bogusovic's going to join us in 15 minutes. You may join us right now at 713-212-5-7-90. Brian Boguseth will join us in about 10 minutes. I'm going to step away for a segment to work on the Astros on-Dak show,

so it'll be Ross and Bogey talking things up. He'll join you from Dakin Park, I believe. Really enjoying seeing Brian Gubbogos Evick's media career jumping off to a really good start the last couple of years. And we always look forward our visits with him Wednesday at 11 o'clock here on 790. Let's go to Andrew at 1050 on 790. Andrew, good morning to you. What's up?

How are you guys doing? Great show, as always. Thank you. So I called you a, about five years ago, and my morning routine started with drinking a bottle of wine four, eight o'clock in the morning. Wow. And I used to have this liquid courage, and one day I called you just hammered out of my mind.

Anyway, after the call ended, I think you went on for about 10 seconds about my day drinking, and wow, this man must be day drinking. Anyway, just to give you a medal that you just talked about earlier, you kind of incentivized me to quit drinking. So about five years ago after that phone call, maybe two weeks later, I ended up checking myself in a rehab. And here I am today. Andrew, you and I have never met. I don't really remember the phone call.

You obviously do, but this phone call will be the phone call of the week, maybe the month, and maybe the year. I'm very happy to hear of your sobriety. That's excellent news. I'm thank you very much for calling and telling us that. Yeah, sir. You have a good one. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Appreciate it. Later, man. Yeah, we're just trying to entertain. And that's great. Great story. Nothing more I can say that, but congratulations to your sobriety. Let's talk to another front of the show, Ross.

Terry, our buddy in Ohio on 790. Terry, good morning to you. How are you doing? Who is this? Is this Terry? Yes. Sounds like somebody else, Ross. I can't really pinpoint it.

No, it's me. Terry, what's on your mind today, friend? When do the Astros play the Guardians? You mean in Cleveland or in Houston? In Houston. I mean, hold on. Can we get some lookup music? I'll be happy to help you out with this.

Just give me a second. I've got the Astros calendar on my desktop and my computer, but I've got a bunch of different files opened up here. This is an awesome radio right now. Astros. 2020 6 schedule there we go which have for breakfast today Terry just curious

bacon sausage eggs and home fries wow did you cook that yourself or did somebody make that for you no I made it wow that's you would double on the proteins huh okay uh let's go with the Astros Play the Guardians at the end of this month April 24 25th and 26, I think.

Oh, excuse me, 20, 21 and 22. All right, I'll tell you what. I'm planning to Houston for that. Oh, I'm sorry, that's in Cleveland. Let me correct that. Let me correct that. That's April, 2021 and 22 is in Cleveland. The games in Houston are going to be...

I'm looking. Oh, June 19, 20, and 21. Okay, I'll tell you what. I'll make a bet with you. Uh-oh. Well, I need to go ahead and tend what the bed is. I'll fly to Houston. Mm-hmm.

And I'll guarantee you the guardians take the series. And you could take me and Ross out for brisket. But you got to eat brisket, too. I love brisket. You're a liar. Yeah, Mr. Texas. Oh, get him, Terry. Terry.

Terry is rounding into one of my favorites. Terry? Terry is a lot of my favorites. legendary color on this show now apparently he's now the problem is I will not be able to do it because that is my son my oldest son's birthday weekend and so I will be spending time with him not that I want to spend quality time with you Terry but that's my son's birth my oldest son's birthday

well how about if I say extra couple days you still take ross and me out for bruska yeah you're taking us out no the winner of the series now if the Astero's win the series. Do we have to still go get barbecue or we can get something else? If they win the series, you can choose.

Okay. We'll go get some ribs and some jalapeno sausage. How about that? That sounds good. All right. Thanks, Sarah. Appreciate you calling. The bed is in. You just stand back there, Ross. You don't need to comment anything. You're going to get a free meal

out of this, apparently. Sounds amazing. What time are you going to go eat? Like at 4 o'clock? Yes. sounds good can we talk politics no all right Javier yeah Javier Javier you you let Javier first of all thank you for calling thank you for listening you're always working when you call the show what the hell is

going on behind you well I work at a company in life precision I'm a saw operator so I'm cutting a home with the metal tube while I'm listening but I just want to talk a little a little a show that you can hear me yes morning, do you think this hot start is going to continue? Are the Astros back to the one we used to be? And, oh, another thing, last night, I'm looking into the Rockets game. I have it. It's kind of inappropriate.

I'm listening to the game with my old lady. She's telling me, why are you more focused on this guy? Who is this guy? I said, that's Matt Thomas. That's a legendary Matt Thomas. She said, okay, well, come that Thomas and come to the bed. That's all I wanted to say. Go on the show.

Let's go, baby. Is that your wife or your girlfriend? I hung up. Oh, dang. Did he say wife or girlfriend, Ross? I don't know. I honestly, I didn't catch it. Let me tell you all something.

There's a lot of noise in the background. If you're in bed with the woman and you're more focused on me, that's an issue. I mean, I appreciate the honesty. You know, I'm the easiest, I'm a good way to go to bed with you. You know, you put my, you get my voice and put it against your ear at night. Oh, there's going to be nothing but sweet nothing. Well, she said tell Matt Thomas to come to bed. I mean, do we have to ask what her number is?

I mean, one to ten? Matt, you're happily married. Oh, that's right. He's probably listening right now. She goes, why do you care what number she is? You're married to a ten. All right. Ross, you got Brian Bogus Evin coming up.

Yes. Ooh, Lordy. This has been a bizarre segment, huh? It's been a good one. I like it. This is why this show exists. This is why this show's been around. This is why we take calls.

We can cuss and discuss. We have the Texas linebackers. They're going to take one in the draft. We're going to do it. No, we don't want to do that. Go to the jar. Go to the jar, Matt. All right, that's a double pay right there.

Yeah. That's like a $2 Wednesday bet. All right, we're going to custom discuss Astros baseball. Rossi and Brian Bogusevick next here on Sports Talk, 7.O. If you want to join us for shut your bum ass up and anybody got time for that,

that'll be coming up and a half an hour. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 11-0-2. here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Sports Talk 790 with you until 12 o'clock, at which point we will head into Astros on deck mode. 110 first pitch.

Astros going for a sweep against the Boston Red Sox after taking the first couple of games in this series. And right now, pleased to be joined by our weekly baseball guest, Brian Bogus Sevik of Space City Home Network, and of course a former Astro himself. Brian appreciate the time as always. Let's just go ahead and start with this offense, leading the entire majors in runs scored.

First couple of games scuffling a bit. Let's just kind of do with more of a macro before getting into some of the individual hitters. But just how are the Astros doing this piling up all these runs? You know what? They're doing it a lot of different ways, which is a good thing. If you're going to score runs consistently over the course of the season,

and you're going to have to be able to do it in multiple ways. And, you know, we've seen the long innings that they had a couple of times against the Angels. We've seen more of a power, quick strike offense show up here against the Red Sox. There's been some aggressive base running. They're working walks, so there's a lot of traffic on bases. Extra base hits are piling up besides just the home runs. They're driving the ball all over the field. So, you know, right now they're scoring runs a ton of different ways, which is great.

and it's a lot of fun to watch. But, you know, if you're going to try to look at it further down the road and say, what does that mean for the long haul? It means, you know, there's going to be times when you're not doing one or the other, but, you know, you can continue to go out there and have an offense that can put up runs no matter what. Astros second in team OPS in baseball right now. And, well, let's get into the micro, some of the individuals, starting with Yordon Alvarez. That guy's pretty good.

It's crazy. It's just, you know, having a season like last year where he was out so much, and when he was here, he wasn't fully healthy. You know, you almost forget what it looks like when he's fully healthy and totally locked in, which is what he is right now. It just looks like everything at the plate is moving so slowly for him. When he gets a good pitch to hit, you just unleashes a swing that, you know, hitting the ball a mile.

But it's the takes that are really impressive for a guy to have that, you know, violent and powerful a swing. When he takes the ball, he doesn't flinch. It's not a bunch of check swings. It's not starting early to get the bat head out. He had some tough takes on two-strike breaking balls yesterday that he's seeing it out of the hand. And when

you have a guy who's seeing the ball that well, the swing is so pure. He can drive the ball to any part of the ballpark. It's just, he really does feel dangerous on every single pitch. Yeah, and we hear that a lot, Brian. seeing the ball well and it's something that kind of comes and goes.

Can you explain that to us? Like, what does that mean? I'm seeing the ball well, and what does that mean when it pales to? I'm not seeing the ball well. Well, you have to pick up different cues to tip you off as to what pitch is coming, right? A fastball, a slide, or a change up, there's different things that you can find. And when your timing's not right or maybe you have a little bit of head movement, it takes longer to recognize those things.

the ball seems like it's sped up on you. But when everything's kind of moving slow, when your head and your eyes are real still, you'll see the little bit of different arm angle that a pitcher has on a fast ball versus a change of. Or you'll see the breaking ball pop up out of the guy's hand just a little bit earlier that'll tip you off as to what pitch it is. And for your down right now, it almost seems like as soon as that pitcher's arm gets up above his head, he's recognizing what pitch is coming. he's doing the calculation on where it needs to start versus where it needs to land for it to be a pitch that he's going to go after.

And all those decisions that are happening in, you know, fractions of a second, it seems like he's got way more time than he actually does. Brian Bogusevic with us here on Sports Talk 790. Jose Altuve eight walks in the first six games. That certainly has jumped out at us. What are you seeing from him as far as meshing being the same old Altuvae who is going to be a Hall of Famer into maybe a different approach. Is that what you're seeing from him so far? Yeah, and, you know, I don't think the approach is necessarily be more patient in terms of him walking as much as he had.

But I think it's an approach of being committed to hitting the ball in the middle of the field, using the other way, not being so pull-happy, not trying to force pole-side power. And what that's allowed him to do is see the ball a little bit longer and make better swing decisions. A lot of the pitches that he's laid off of, especially later in counts, have been breaking balls down in a way, pitches that, you know, he would have committed early to and maybe swung over the top of or chopped into the ground last year. He's waiting just a little bit longer because he's comfortable hitting the ball in the middle of the field and able to lay off those pitches. But the thing is, is that he's not giving anything up to do that. We saw the two home runs

the other night. Both of those were on the pole side. So how does that? that happened. Well, he's seen the ball long enough to make good swing decisions, but the swing is in a good place to where he's still quick enough when a hanging, breaking ball shows up or a sinker leaks back in, he's still quick enough to get around on it and drive it. And it's just, he's in

a really good spot right now where the swings in a good spot and the approach is in a good spot, and he's covering everything. Brian Bogussevich, continuing with us here on Sports Talk 790. Why was Lance McCuller's junior so good and how does he keep

it up? Well, you saw it in spring training. You saw, first of all, the stuff being a little bit sharper than it was last year, the velocity up a little bit, the breaking ball spin a little bit tighter. But you also saw a more committed approach to attacking the zone, and a lot of that probably comes from just the confidence in the stuff being a little bit better. But what we saw in that first start was even turned up a little bit more from what we saw. in spring training. It was a guy who looked like every pitch that he was throwing, he wanted to induce the swing. He wanted to induce contact because he was confident that his stuff was going to beat the hitters in the zone. It looked like, you know, at times last year where he wanted to get chases,

he wanted to get swings at pitches that weren't going to be able to be put in play because he didn't trust his stuff to be to play in the zone. And this year it just looks like he's got to increase confidence in what his pitches are, what the shape of them are, what the velocity of those pitches are, and going out there and say, hey, I hope you swing and I hope you hit it because I know that I'm going to win. We'll get to

Jeremy Payne in a second. He is out of the lineup today, but just kind of a general question. What does that, when we always talk about in baseball, day game after a night game, and that being a grind, can you just kind of take us through that? How much those extra couple hours change your routine? Of course, Christian

Vasquez in the lineup today. Of course, you try to keep catchers off their feet at a day game after a night game. What happens? What changes with those extra six hours or so that get shaved off with the day game? Well, you know, the obvious thing is just the quick turnaround. You know, you're on your feet running around, finishing the game last night at 10 o'clock, and now these guys are already back on the field. They just finished taking ground balls here at, you know, 11 o'clock. So a quicker turnaround, but it interrupts your regular routine of getting ready for the game.

A lot of these guys, you know, they, get here 12, 1 o'clock in the afternoon. You eat, you start to get stretched out. You do some work in the weight room, get some work in the training room. And it's this slow buildup to work into batting practice to then get yourself ready for the game. And you just don't have time to do that. So it's an abbreviated routine. You have to get on your feet a little bit quicker.

You maybe don't have as much time to check all those boxes. You just have to hit kind of the main points that you want to get to. So it's a combination of quick turnaround and just not. having as much time to recover, but also the abbreviated routine for whatever it is that you do to get yourself ready for a 7 o'clock game. Did you ever have an injury similar to Jeremy's? No, not something like that that I was still kind of working through on the buildup back. I mean, I've had broken bones and stuff, but by the time I was back into gameplay, I was 100% full go. I mean, where he's, what it looks like he's at right now is a guy who's recovered from the injury, but still in the buildup phase.

And it would have been a non-factor if this would have happened earlier in spring. And he could have used the last week or two to do that more natural buildup. You know, in spring training, you're not going to take a guy with him played in a while and just say, okay, you've got nine innings back to back to back to back days. So just kind of the timing of it, it's more of, it feels like it's a buildup of we are particularly. protecting your body, not necessarily trying to baby or nurse an injury. Yeah. Brian Bogus is having with us here on Sports Talk 790. Mike Burroughs on the mound. We were very excited about his results in spring training.

First start didn't go maybe the way, well, really anybody on the Astros side wanted. What did you see from him in the first start? What does he need to improve today? Honestly, you know, besides two swings, it wasn't really a whole lot different. than what we saw in spring training. He gave up the five runs, four of them were on a three-run homer that landed in the front row, the Crawford boxes, and then Mike Trout locked in like that, gets a whole lot of guys. So really the stuff didn't look all that different.

The bottom line wasn't, I don't think what anybody would have expected based on how he threw the ball in spring. What I think is really interesting about his matchup today is what we saw from Lance two nights ago and then Hunter yesterday was a lot of really aggressive pitching early in the count, a lot of strikes, a lot of attacking with fastballs, get ahead, put away, get ahead, put away. And that was exactly what Mike Burroughs' MO was all throughout spring training. He was working fast. He was ahead of everybody.

And it looked like a guy who really had no interest in messing around and setting up pitches. It was just, here's my stuff, it's good, I'm going at you with it, and I think I'm going to beat you. So I think that approach that he had all throughout the spring plays. well against what this Boston offense is in its current state. So, yeah, I think from a bottom line aspect, the first start of the year wasn't exactly what you would have wanted, but I don't think what he was, was all that different from what we saw in spring. All right, there you go.

Brian Bogus, have a great stuff. As always, our weekly to, excuse me, Wednesday guest here on Sports Talk 790 throughout the baseball season. Brian, thanks for the time. We'll talk to you next week. All right. Thanks well. All right, there you go. Brian Boga-Sevick here on Sports Talk 7-9.

You're going to take a quick break here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Matt Thomas will rejoin. He will also be bringing you on deck coming up at 12, but we also got eight. Nobody got time for that slash shut Joe bum ass up coming up at 1130. So make sure you stay tuned for that, and you can get in at 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. All right, Ross and I will have shut your bum-ass up. nobody got time for that you know what you and i may take up a whole thing with just our two beefs

i got okay i saw yours i forgot what it was and i now remember what it was we're gonna get you new place to live it's all i'm gonna say no it's fine it's been totally fine okay just want to make sure i can't have you aggravated leaving the office and leaving your house i know well it's uh negligent management but we'll get to that we'll get to that all right uh so jonathan alexander does a great job covering the texans for the houston chronicle had a chance to catch up with uh Cal and Hannah McNair at the NFL owners meetings. And what I thought we would do, Ross, is I would read the quote, and then we interpret the quote very quickly.

We don't want to get into a super deep dive on this, but again, it's worthy of just initial first thought impression on this. And again, owners don't speak a whole lot, but when they do, you should probably take note of what they have to say, and good job by Jonathan to get out to Phoenix to get those conversations going. Number one, he asked who took the loss harder. He says, I think Cal handled it a lot better than I did. Yeah, Cal just went and flipped on Grand Def Auto.

Hannah wants to win very badly. For multiple reasons. Multiple reasons. Cal was like, wedding's cool. Hashtag referendum. them. Hashtag, if I'm going to build the Toro Dome next to Toro Town, I need some wins. Hashtag votes.

Hashtag ballots. Hashtag government leaders. Hashtag tax breaks. All right. When asked yesterday at the NFL owner's meetings about whether they were committed to Stroud long, C.J. Stroud long term. And whether they prefer getting a long term deal done sooner, Cal and Hannah would not say specifically what that was the case.

but they did express support for Stroud. Quoting Cal, we're totally behind him. He's totally bought into being our quarterback and all that entails. We all want to get better every year. He's doing that. We're doing that. Everyone is doing that in the organization. Everybody is trying to get better every day.

To me, nice generic. Not going to cause the firestorm. Not going to cause CJ to get upset. Not necessarily going to cause CJ. lovers to get upset, not going to necessarily have the CJ haters getting all upset. Just a good old flat, vanilla answer,

right? Yes. When asked about the contract extension, Hannah jumps in. You want to continue to draft guys that come up and you're talking about a contract extension versus talking about a draft bust. Right now, when you look at our roster, we have

so many guys that are so good. I'm thankful I'm not in Nick's spot right now because that's for him to work out. It is nice to have so many guys in a building that you want to keep, meaning basically roster construction. Cal would go on to say, and there are a lot of tools at Nick's disposal, and he'll use all of them to put the best team he can put on the field at the time. All the time, excuse me.

Thank you, Cal. Man, Cal got the vanilla card going, doesn't he? You know what he goes to, you know what he goes to, You know when he goes to 31 flavors or to Robo-Rav creamery? He doesn't get the mixings. He just gets the straight vanilla. He's good. You know what?

I'm going to push back on that. Sometimes straight vanilla's fine. Yeah, but if you're going to go to all this pomp and circumstance, how about just a little cream, milk, and sugar? That's okay. But you know what? Butter pecan taste better. Cookies and cream's delicious.

Simple flavors are good, too. Vanilla bean is the goat of all ice creams. Yeah, what's in vanilla? What's all the mixings and vanilla beans? You're calling it the goat. It's pretty simple. If I'm going to Babel Slab or Ravillab, or Ravillab,

yeah, I'm going to, if I'm paying $9 for a cone, I better get a damn fix and I want. You can if you want. It's up to you. Yeah, why don't you?

You're not going to do that. You're eating gummy bears and stuff in there. That's true. Or marshmallows. Yeah, you're a liar. You're a fraud. All right.

So as the McNarris continued to support C.J. Stroud, he does not subscribe to, the national narrative that Stroud has regressed significantly from his rookie season, does Cal. Quote, I will let them do that, and like I said,

we'll try to get better every year top to bottom. Hannah would back up Cal and back up CJ by saying the following. You can't judge somebody based on one or two games because he did a lot of great things as well. It's hard that those games happen to be in the playoffs. But I think CJ is a type of guy that takes that to heart, and what you've seen this offseason is, what he's working hard because he doesn't want to be in that position again. I'm sure

he doesn't. You know what? I actually like that perspective from Hannah. There's a couple of really horrible games. They happen to be on the worst stage. Yeah. Yeah. And what Hannah did not mention in there that she will not publicly say is if he does it again, I'm not

paying his ass. We'll see. Okay, we do gut feelings on Tuesday and we can change this almost weekly. Okay. After reading the quotes, Now, again, quotes are just quotes. And it's a nice, nice, low, low stress window of the NFL calendar. It's April, right, before the draft?

What does you got to tell you? May 1st, he's got to have the fifth year option. Excuse me, you're right? He's going to have the fifth year option. I'll go with the fifth year option gets picked up, and yeah, no extension. That seems like the chalk play. All right. Two years from now.

he's going to be their guy just a gut feeling I don't know we'll see I think it has to take honestly Ross a complete meltdown of a season yeah if he

if they if they repeat a divisional playoff game and don't win it again see here's the thing you know what I shouldn't even ask the question we don't even know what 2026 is all about but let's put it this way

let's dumb it down a little bit let's say this was the year that they had to pay the big money let's say last year Let's say last year was the fifth year option. Okay. What kind of money does C.J. Straub make? As a free agent?

Yeah, right now. Do you think he would have gotten the $55, $60 million deals? No, as a free agent, of course not. Would he have been offered 40 plus to stay with the Texans? She just said two games does not make a season? I don't know, 35 to 40. See, I don't even know. And then he would say no.

He'd probably want 50. Yeah, see, I don't know if 30. There's a middle ground. Are, is middle, aren't middle grounds for guys that have been moving from team to team to team? Don't, how to, because Dak didn't get a middle ground to stay in Dallas.

Jaylorhurst is making 50. Deshawn Watson 46. Mahomes 45. Daniel Jones got 44. Yeah, maybe like a two year deal. With like four, two years 80 or something.

And his agent David Mulligan is going to be like, that sounds cool. Maybe. I don't know. You, again, to me, and not that I watch every dollar being spent by quarterbacks or the NFL, it feels like to me that if you take the guy and he is your guy and he's been your guy and

you want to be your guy, you go from that nice rookie contract to crazy numbers. Kurt Cousins got that originally in the NFL when he was with what the commanders after the two franchise tag years. Carter Murray got the crazy money after his rookie deal in Arizona. They love that. Descott got the crazy money deal in Dallas after his rookie contract. Yeah, he's still highest AAV on the board. It's 60-year year, Dak.

It feels like to me the middle guys are the guys you just talked about, the guys that have bounced around from, not initially four or five teams, but from one team to the other. Well, Sam Darnold's making 33 and a half, and he just won the Super Bowl. and he wants that contract torn up immediately. Baker Mayfield's around there, 33 and a third. Also a guy that's bounced around.

Malik Willis just got 22 and a half. Okay. You're a friend of the show. I'm just letting you know. I'm just saying that the homegrown guys don't get the middle ground deals. They go super. It's such an important year for CJ. Oh, my God.

It's such an important year. It's an important year for everyone, yeah. Yeah. Because once you invest, that money in him. I mean, look what a bad quarterback can do. Arizona is a complete disaster right now.

Two attack of Aloas money has crippled the Miami Dolphins. Doesn't cripple everybody, but more times than not a bad quarterback or a quarterback that is not worth the dollar amount destroys you. Because you've spent so much on him.

Now, the salary cap keeps going up and up and up and up. Now, does that mean the quarterback numbers go up and up and up? Of course. man oh man young fathers out there teach your kids to be quarterbacks I mean there's like 12 good ones on the planet so I would say go for something else

auto mechanic sure you're always going to need an auto mechanic yeah A is not going to fix your car A pipe fitter would work too That's good way there too Ain't everybody getting time Ain't everybody getting time for that

Ain't everybody getting time for that Ain't nobody got time for Ross's microphone to go haywire. Is this thing on? It is. How are you, Ross? I'm good. What the hell was going on back there? I'm just going to do a quick experiment.

Oh, okay. Yeah, that's not good. That blew my endroft. I'm sorry. Weird. So two of the mics are messed up in here, and I'm on a third mic. I'm on mic. I'm on mic three.

Right. And it seems fine. Nice. Okay. Thanks to the hardworking engineering staff at IHartMedia for making that happen for us. I'm going to blame the engineers. I just said thank them. I didn't say anything else.

You said making it happen. No, I'm not making it happen. I'm saying making it fix. It's not fixed yet. Okay, well, I was, again, trying to. I got too, no, I got what you're talking about. Thank you, Jonathan. Thank you.

Ross, you're going first because you're, ain't nobody got time for that. It was before mine. Well, ain't nobody got time for these, Mike. I literally have to lean down on this mic. I have to put this chair down. It's like I'm in a child's mic. Ain't nobody got to have.

It's ridiculous. So yes, Mike one is static. Mike too sounds pixelated somehow. I don't know what the hell is going on over here. But also, okay, I'm not going to out the good people at the places where I live, unless this situation gets worse. But we have a gate that you click in and you have to click out, which I like. It's extra safety. People can't get in and get out unless they live there and they have a clicker.

Well, my clicker has been having intermittent issues recently. And then I replaced the batteries. It was still having issues. So I went to the office to the manager. And he's like, oh, I'll call you in an hour. Doesn't call me for four hours. And then he's like, I'll leave it in five minutes. Come get this new clicker.

Makes me come down there and get the clicker. And I didn't use it until the morning. And it still didn't work. If you're going to give me a new clicker, would you please at least just test it? I sat there for like 10 minutes waiting to at the gate like an idiot finally somebody came out and left behind me

ain't nobody got time for this ain't nobody got time for that and ain't nobody got time for boc and clickers and ain't nobody got time for this guy with an attitude to be giving me a clicker that doesn't even work ain't nobody got time for that very frustrating I parked in the guest parking this morning

oh really are they going to tell you no no hope not so I'm going to I'm going to go hopefully get a new clicker after this show 1201

I got you I've got three really quick ones in Memphis the do not have media meals for the broadcasters before the game they give you a voucher to go find something in the concourse

and the voucher was supposed to be for $21 they hand me the voucher I go get a meat and cheese plate from one of the restaurants, one of the concessionaires at the FedEx Forum. Woman says you owe, the amount of the food was $14. With tax, it was 16. I gave her the voucher, so that should take care of plenty of.

It's $21. She goes, sir, you owe $8. I said, I got this from the Memphis Grizzlies. Sir, it's only worth $8. I said, okay, we'll cancel it out, and I'll go get another voucher and pay for the difference. No, if you can't, if you cancel this out, it cancels out your vouchers.

How does it cancel on my voucher? You didn't charge me for the voucher yet. So to the Memphis Grizzlies, anybody got time for you giving me faux, bogus-ass vouchers? By the way, they did apologize after the game for giving me the wrong voucher. Anybody got time for that?

Didn't get time for that. Did it cost you $8? I would have paid for it. I just like, you know what? I'm hungry and I'll get something. Number two, I'm pulling into the Tundra Garage at Tota Center yesterday after the show,

and I'm turning left and I am waiting for one woman to walk from one into the garage to the other so I don't hit her. She was completely oblivious to me. On her phone talking and typing when I could have hit her. Sorry, B. Ain't anybody got time for you walking and talking in front of a garage where cars are coming through? Ain't nobody got time for that? I don't.

Oh, go ahead. Sorry, go ahead. Go ahead. You first. I was just going to say, I don't want to be old man shakes fist at cloud, but we got to do something about this phone stuff. We really do.

I honk five times. I have a five minute commute. And probably five times a week, I'm honking at people on their phone. I literally come do two lights and a right turn. I blame Jonathan's generation, period of history. Not the parents that raised our generation? Yeah, blame the parent.

It's everybody. Because it's old people, it's young people. It's me. It's me, too. You know what? Shut my own bum ass up. Shit your bum ass up, man. It's not good.

Again, I understand if you're walking on the street, if you're on the sidewalk, but you are walking in front of an active garage. Lift your head up, walk across, put the damn phone down, pause, and move along. One more thing. My normal commute from the end of Toyota Center, getting in my car to my house in Kingwood after games is about 40 minutes. it took me an hour and 15 to get home last night. One hour, 15 minutes.

Let's do the quick math on this, ladies and gentlemen. There were 26,000 people at the Dinkin Park yesterday. They were 17,000 at Toyota Center. They were all not coming out of the same exit. On the Pierce elevated 59, you know, that direction heading north, I stood. Not stood. I was in my car, did not move for 50 minutes.

If you're a member of traffic control and can listen to this show, please, please, please. Let's get a more fluid situation we had last night. It took everybody so damn long to move and get going. It was obviously a CF out there. Ain't anybody got time for an hour and 15 minute drive from Dyken Park to Kingwood. Anybody got time for that? Hey nobody got time for that? No time for that.

Sorry, Matthew. I had to listen to you. Now, Gerard did help out with his 14-minute phone call. He went about four minutes. Did he really? I didn't keep track. Sorry, I should have. Yeah, I was disappointed.

No Matt Thomas tweet. I know. Jonathan, what's the matter with you? All right. When you're talking to somebody, and I guess it's more for a man-and-man thing, and if we don't know each other, do not call me buddy. Don't call me bud.

I don't know you. Like, I call me a guy. Call us, no, I called them Big Dog or like, you know, what's up, man or whatever. But if you're coming to me, like, or here you go, bud. Man, ain't nobody got time for that. I just felt it's so disrespectful. Like, I don't like that. Really?

I'm going to have to tell you to shut your bum ass up. But it's not a bad turn. Shut your bum ass up, man. It can be. Buddy is double-edged. If it's like, all right, buddy, that can be bad. If I'm going up to you and say, all right, let's say we're... What was the scenario?

Give us a scenario. I'm at Rick Sporting's good. right? Or Ricks. And I'm just up to cash, you know, getting my stuff out and checking out. And he's like, is this all you want, bud? Don't, man, don't. Oh, I.

Oh, no. You're too tough. No, no. No, no. No, no. No, no. No, no. I'm talking about.

I don't know. This is this a bad, dude. Like, you know what I mean? Like, all right, bro. Bro's okay. The term bud is not, it's not. It's not. I don't like anybody to talk about that.

It's the same thing. Shit your bum ass up, man. I'm trying to take your side. I cannot take your side. It can be, it can be somebody coming after you. But that wasn't the case. What you just described was not the case.

Bro can be like anything can be like, yeah, bro. Anything can be used incorrectly. You don't know me, man. You know what? I know those people that agree with me. I think Bud is okay, generally speaking. Buddy is a little stupid, but, you know.

All right, bud. No, buddy is definitely passive-aggressive. All right, buddy. Yeah, but it's fine. Anything else for you, but? No, that's, no, I, if you're at the line and the drive at the McDonald's and you have two cheeseburgers order of fries and you get a Coke zero and they say you would like an apple pie, bud?

That's not bad. No. I don't know. Maybe this is generational because I'm not seeing it. I don't either. I don't, I disagree. All right. We got to get a quick segment in.

Ben, Brent, Kenneth, James, all of you will get to. here. Ain't nobody got time for that and shut your bum ass up. We've got Astros on deck at 10 minutes. The last 10 minutes of this show for a Wednesday is yours at 713-212-5-790. Ben, in Pass-A-Get-down, Dina. Ben, what's the matter with you? Hey, Matt, great show, as always. Thank you.

So I went to Costco with my wife the other day, and on the drive, she said we were going there just for laundry detergent. and then we had to drive all the way back to go to Kroger afterwards to be groceries. Now keep in mind that's 35 minutes to save $3. Ain't nobody got time to drive 35 minutes to Costco to save $5. And I need some of my guys who agree with me on that because she was not having it saying, I don't know what I'm talking about. And nobody got time to drive 35 minutes to save five bucks on lodging detergents. Hey nobody got time for that.

Ben, really quick for I let you go. Did you get a hot dog or a slice of pizza while you were there? No. I didn't even get a slice of pizza, man. Just to add that on top. I didn't even get that. You are doing... Set your up my ass up, man.

You are doing Costco all wrong. Thanks, Ben, for the phone call. You get the hot dog and a Coke for $1.50. Life is good. It's not bad. Pizza's underrated, too. Yeah. I think the pizza's a little more expensive, but still a great value.

You've got a whole pie for like $8. It's crazy. that is funny. How much you spend in gas getting over there? And we've got to factor in all the costs, Matt. Yeah, because gas now like $3.75 a gallon. I ain't cheap anymore. By the way, my 401K went up $7,000 yesterday. So I'm very happy about that.

That's good. Still down about 15G for the month. Thanks for the update. Hey, nobody got time for that. Yeah, nobody got time for my 401K. I just happened I saw a positive number. I shouldn't look at it. Yeah, don't look at it.

Shut my own by a bum ass up. Yeah, you should. Let's go to the Groves. Brent on 790. Brent, what's the matter with you? Hey, man. Good shows always, Ross. You too.

Hey, man, I don't think anybody's got time for, pretend Mr. Texas that doesn't like brisket. I do like brisket. I do like it. I just don't love it. You can go back to Carolina. You can take your bum ass back to Carolina, man. Shit your bum ass up, man.

I haven't visited Carolina. I didn't married to Carolina. Man, I bet you root for Duke when no one's watching. Hey, Brent, do you like to have, hey, Brent, hold on. Do you like to have sex, Brent? Yes. Me too. Go Duke.

Hey, nobody got time for that. Okay. Bye. So shut your bum ass up. I love this. Shut your bum ass up, man. Is there any team Ross or Jonathan both really quick on this? Is there any team that your significant?

and other would like so much that it would cause a relationship issue as the team may have liked. My girl likes the Blue Jays. The what? Yeah, yeah. Why? Why? Is she from Toronto?

No, it's because Kirk, the small dude from Mexico. Alejandro Kirk? Yes, so it's like her favorite player. She is a Mexican descent. She'd be a guardian fan? Yes. No, and her words, They're a perfect team, and I had to stop the conversation there. Hmm.

Okay. Well, why? Why does she like? Did she like because he's from Mexico or other reasons? No, because he's from Mexico, and then she likes the junior and all them. E-Sac Peritas from Mexico? That's why I try to tell her. Let's go.

See, Ross's is more, yeah, I know Ross, he couldn't be with an Aggie. It's just not going to. Not like a super diehard, like one of the, Oof, one of the bag of Aggie fans. There's some good ones of you out there. But yeah. Yeah, I live with the Duke family. It is what it is.

It's not the worst. I mean, I don't want to, I wouldn't think I could hang out with a Syracuse family. Oh. A bunch of pompous asses. There's some good ones of those two. No. Well, okay, there's a couple. I and Eagle, Robert Ford, and a, and, uh, and, uh,

Eagle. And I think I'm done. Three out of all, the millions of broadcasting people that get frontline jobs that they don't deserve consistent with the school they went to. All right, but I digress. Kenneth, and Orange. Kenneth, what's the matter with you? Man, it's

Hannah McNair, man. Really, this goes to both of them. I understand you're optimistic about your quarterback and everything like that, but it's life, man. Two out of three men, you out of everything in life, man. Two out of three, three years, just a CJ turned into a pumpkin when we needed him the most.

And I'm going to tell you, man, you got optimistic and everything. Stay behind your quarterback and everything. But I'm going to tell you the first time he threw the ball or pick six to the other team this year. He out of there, man. At least with us, you can keep him. But the blue boys are coming night. Thank you. I think he was telling Hannah to shut her bum ass up.

Shit your bum ass up, man. Hey, nobody got time for that. There goes your free fried cheese in Torotown. All right. Last but least, James on 790. What's the matter with you? Yeah, the world doesn't run on free. You and Lena Hidalgo don't get everything free.

Every once in a while, you've got to open your wallet and pay for something. And then when you do pay for something, you don't turn around and go, I should have got it for free. You need to pay me back. Shut your bum ass up. What's he talking about? He said so bum ass. You and your vouchers. No, that

When you give someone a voucher and says it's worth $21, you're supposed to take him at their word. Yeah, so I think maybe James is a misunderstanding. Like when we Are you Are you okay? Are you six?

No, I'm fine. What is wrong with you? Shit your bum-ass up, man. I'm asleep apart. It took me a long way to come to get home last night. Oh, stop. You're in your underwear. I don't want to, you shut your bum ass up.

I got news for it. I'm not even my underwear right now. Shut your bum ass up and cover your bum ass up, shit your bum ass up, man. Yeah, so when you go to a media, Matt, of course, you get a voucher from the organization for food. Correct.

It's very common. I think James is misunderstanding. I don't know. They take care of the media food. James, I give you a voucher to go get for $400 in airfare on Dark Press Airlines and you go use that voucher and it's only for $149.

How would you feel, James? If the voucher says one thing and it gives you another, I'm entitled to be pissed off. So shut you bum ass up, mate. Shit your bum ass up, man. Ross, excellent show today from you. Yeah, you know what? I was amazing. Except when my microphone frayed

and fried. I was afraid you got electrocuted it there. I thought it was on your end, so I'm glad it wasn't. Yeah, we were both electrocuted free. tomorrow i just don't get it's at 1130 uh tomorrow bryan mctaggart will join the show and we'll celebrate an astros sweep and rockets went over merely walkie