The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Breaking Down Texas vs Ohio State Game, Interview with Joe Espada

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

Breaking Down Texas vs Ohio State Game, Interview with Joe Espada

10101. N H-Town. Good morning and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm Matt. He's Ross. Frankie is our producer today and tomorrow. He's not, we didn't get rid of Jonathan. I mean, the thought has crossed probably Jonathan's mind, but he's here for now. Today and tomorrow, correct?

Yeah, today and tomorrow. Extended weekend for Jonathan much earned. I mean, much earned is a relative term, but that's fine. So there will be some technical issues and we'll get past them. Why? He's running live shows? You're on Doug Pike or something? He's not done believing or not. That's going to be an utter train wreck. Well, I mean, that's part of being initiated here as an I-heart-board operator.

So if you hear things that don't sound professional like we work in Tyler, you'll figure it out why it's going to be Frankie's fault. Ross, how was their Labor Day? Labor Day was great. Labor Day weekend was good. Had a good time, I guess. Let's see, Manchester City loss, Texas Longhorn's loss, and the Astro split a four-game series with a terrible team. sports-wise it wasn't great personally it was pretty good last Thursday I

we got feelings while you were gone and I had the Texans I had the Astros going 6 and 4 in their homestine because I was just like there's second tiered teams and I thought I felt I felt dirty saying it they have three losses so far in this homestand oh okay it's still going so the Yankees are in town there's three

of the Yankees now they can sit up in their chairs though because the Yankees are here well it's what the asteris do they play against the upper actual on teams and blank the bed against the mids sometimes it's like you have beautiful relations with that supermodel 10 and then that three and four walks in and you don't know what to do with her I don't feel like that analogy works at all I think it's pretty good actually okay I have a friend of mine and I won't mention his name oh no are you doing movies again no no just three seconds into this show we will definitely do that at some point sure but it's almost more fun when we have yeah how old is he how old are you Frankie Frankie Frankie you look like you're in mid-term 20s.

26. No, he looks like he's in. No, he said 26. Would you say he looks like he's in his what? He's mid-20s. He said he was 26. Oh, okay. No, he looks older.

It looks like he's a... It's just the glasses. He's a professor or a community college. Yeah, exactly. He looks polished. He looks... Yeah. He's ready to give you,

tell you to do a thousand words tomorrow. Yeah. Exactly. He's in the wrong business. Yeah. He's going to make some funny, like, chemistry puns before he's his class. Yeah.

And he's got girls out of the yingang coming to the house. There's, it's like, like one one after the other. The chemistry professor? Oh, yeah. There's no way. Oh, for sure. They need to get this past class.

Unless he's being a predator. Let me, he's teaching an HCC Chem 101. He's got to be able to work his way so those girls can get into four-year institution. All right. Anyways. Can we get back to sports? You started it. No, I'm finishing it.

Here we go. Uh. Oh, uh, I've-hroses are three games up in the Mariners. Oh, they're up three on the Mariners. By the way, the Mariners absolutely suck on the road. They got crushed by the race last. night. I don't get it. How are the Mariners fans

feeling about the Mariners hitting coaches? Can I read you? Oh, no. Mike is... No, I really don't want to. Too late I put it on Twitter. I don't need it. I've actually had enough. It's too bad. Of hitting coach discourse.

Well, a friend of the show, Mike, Mike always listen. So when God love you, Mike, for listening. Oh, wait a minute. Is this the guy that emails you a bunch of angry stuff? Correct. He said he was done with the team. Yeah, he has multiple times. You said you were done, Mike. That's right. Stop sending Matt emails about the team if you said you're done with them. It's okay. It's part of the bit. No, no, no. I'm sick of these people who whine and cry every single day about the team because they have nothing else better going on in their lives.

I'm actually tired of it. It's, it's, he has to understand. I said he's, I'm going to make fun of him. And he, it's only in a very loving way. He sends me this email on Saturday. I did the, I worked Saturday in Monday, by the way. Okay, deep breath. Just stay with me honest. Okay, all right. Staying with you. The subject line of the email was garbage. Okay. Here we go. He's talking about waste management. Mike, this team is toast. He's calling you, Mike? Correct.

All right, Mike. Stay with me on this. Bullpen is taxed. Coaching staff is blah. Team morale has vanished. The leadership conflict with Correa joining. Pitchers blaming defensive and hitting. No strategic batting.

Only measuring miles per hour off the bat, angles, etc. This season is finished. right near Lassen's All-Star Break and All-Offensive Stats. It's time to regroup and change front office and team management. We are at best three big league position players deep. Automatic seals for opponents. Managers asleep with his new glasses.

No fire from him and team is the same. Altuve pouting on his own performance. Just a disastrous. Didn't even argue there about being out of baseline. Sad but the end of the era has arrived. Signed. Mike, good listen to the show. Calls occasionally.

Don't watch. Just don't watch the team. If they're bringing you down and you're that negative about a team that is three games up in first place, don't watch the team. Seriously. And certainly you should block him. I need you to block him for me. It's an email.

I think you can block email accounts. I guess you could. That's true. That's all right. It's fine. No, it's not fine. It's bringing me down. It's fodder for the show.

No, it's making me upset. Okay, next time you read a mic email, let me know I will leave the room. That seems fair. Because all that does is all that negativity and that BS is just bringing me down. Yeah. Yes, the team is not where they were in 2019 when their lineup was like Correa, Altuve, Brantley, Tucker, Yordon, and whatever hell. Springer, when they had one of the deepest lineups in baseball and they were one of the best teams in baseball. They are not the team that they were even three years ago when they were World Series contenders.

We need to readjust our expectations. Oh, Mike doesn't. And by the way, they're so horrible. They're in first place by three games. By the way, shout out to the hitting coaches. They did whatever they told them yesterday before the game. Beautiful A-Bs. Beautiful A-Bs by Alex Intron and Troy Snicker

in those clutch runners-in-scoring position situations. Six or 15, by the way. They had a tough week. After a good weekend in Baltimore, the hitting coaches put together some great plate appearances yesterday. You're doing this. I'm doing this to pokey. It's working. And I got more stuff to poke you.

I'm falling for it. Oh my God. People. Now look, maybe Troy Snicker and Alex Inton are going to be gone at the end of the season. I don't know. I don't really care. Guess what? When they hire new hitting coaches, if and when that ever happens, I'm going to say the same thing.

The hitters need to do their job. And that's that. Oh, yeah. They've had a big slip in production this year. Yeah. Esoc Paredes is one of their best hitters. he's been gone for months now. You had,

Yordon Alvarez has played like 30 some odd games since he's come back. Oh, all of a sudden he's drawn a bunch of walks, hitting home runs. He looks pretty good. Looks like that guy is all right. And then it's been a mixed bag of like you've had Cooper Hummel and Maricio DuBahn

and Taylor Trammell and a bunch of Jay. They didn't turn Jacob Melton into Ted Williams. Oh, these hitting coaches, we got to fire him. Jose Al-Tuvve had three runs back. added in yesterday with a big home run at the end. Let's get all the credit to the hitting coaches. Christian Walker's

been better. Carl's Cray has been hitting good in an Astros uniform. Jeremy Payne is having a breakout season, by the way. Well, hitting coaches are the worst on the planet because production is down because everybody's been hurt and the lineups just not as lengthy as it used to be.

You really did this to me. Yes, I did. How's it how we start the week? It's fine. I haven't even drank all my coffee. You know, to take a pause, I'm going to sit for my coffee. I'm not going to pause because I want to get into a deep dive of Texas, Ohio State from the weekend. I've come to... What's the deep dive? The assessment is this.

You want to break down all the 15 touchdown scored in that game? Who told you to take the under? You told me to take the under. Thank you very much. You know what? I oversold myself on Arch, even though I told myself all offseason not to buy into the hype. Can I tell you, and this is the God's honest truth? Uh-huh.

I would not schedule these week one juggernauts. No, they shouldn't do it in week one. I've been saying that all offseason two. I'm serious. We can't wait until week two? You have to have, I don't care if it's a new quarterback. Here's the reason why. For the foreseeable future, as long as the transfer portal and NIL and moving guys around year to year to year continue to take place.

And I don't know if there's be any sign of that changing ever. You've got too many new faces and too many new schemes and new way to quarterbacks. Restrictions on practices. They're not doing spring games now. I would, ultimately, I would, I like to see two things. I'd like for all schools, especially the juggernauts, to schedule down. I know that doesn't make you feel very better, but Texas, arch playing San Jose State would be much better for him this past weekend than playing Ohio State.

In the shoe. In the shoe, yeah. You could play in the shoe with San Jose State and be just fine. Part of it is true. I would also, and I was going to say this for to tell the truth, but I'm going to move it on. I would also, if I was college football, I would schedule a preseason game. And I don't know if you do it again.

You could play a one double A. I mean, do something. Charge $5 a ticket and give it to the kids for help your NIL. Well, they did that. They called the spring game. Then they got rid of those. But I mean, I just thought, because I think Texas is a really good football team.

They are. They're going to be just fine. Just like I think Alabama, I don't know about how man, but that was a bad, bad loss. I'm trying to think. Notre Dame was going to be just fine. But there is too much full optimism in college sports after a week one victory, and there's too much woes me after a week one loss.

And if I'm an AD, as much as this intrigues me, I mean, as much as the hoopla of Texas, Ohio State had us going this weekend, you had LSU Clemson, you had Notre Dame Miami, which was a great football game. TCU North Carolina was supposed to be, but it didn't turn out that way. yesterday. Poor Bill. I'm telling you, if I'm an AD,

if I'm a football coach, I want a lightweight. Give me UTEP every damn day you can. Now here's the thing about it too that makes me sad. If you're a lightweight, you're going to get called out

being a lightweight. I mean, I don't what show I was watching, but they were talking about, you know what? Thank God Texas a chance to get really, you know,

back on their feet after playing Cupcake, Sam Houston State, Cup, Cup, Cupcake, who you guys got, San Jose. stay, if I went to those schools,

that's embarrassing for me. Yeah, but you've got to know your role. Sorry, bear cats. And remember, you're taking a check to be called the cupcake. Exactly. So I'm not going to feel too too sorry for you. It's a win-win.

And you can win the game and pull a upset, like Appalachian State at A&M. But I feel bad about that. Why do you feel bad? Because I don't want any more. There are a lot of great institutions of higher education that shouldn't be called cupcake. It's about the football program.

And I think people understand that. But it still doesn't mean that you feel. feel bad about it. Well, those guys probably don't feel great when they hit the field. McNee State was catching strays all their game day on Saturday. I think Hermestrie mentioned McNee State twice in the same paragraph. Oh, I didn't even know? Well, isn't it just, was he saying State or was he saying McNeese? He said McNeece State, which everybody calls a McNee's Day, but they call people of McNice called McNice. Why do they hate that now?

Who knows? Okay. I don't know. It's like Louisiana Lafayette. Louisiana calls themselves Louisiana. Sorry, Louisiana. You're Louisiana-Lafia. You're U-L-Lah, and you'll never change. And take that page. check it and get your ass kicked. Even Rice went there to beat them this weekend. Really? Yeah. Ooh, you don't want to get beat by Rice. A bunch of nerd showing up.

Kicking your ass? Get Frankie the producing teaching chemistry 101 at Rice? Yes, he is? Yeah, he's got a lot of camera. He's doing a lot of teaching. Is he in the Robert C. McNair building? That Robert C. probably never went in? Bob may have.

I mean, Cal may have. It got Cal and NBA from there. I don't know if he ever went to the building. Yeah, that's true. All right. Astros win, raised, beat the Mariners, three-game lead. We'll get to that. We've got Joe a spot at 1230. We got gut feelings before that at 1130. We have NFL rewind at 120 this afternoon.

We've got, believe it or not. We've got college football. A lot of little things. And oh, by the way, the Texans' depth chart is out. Excellent. We'll talk about that. A deep doubt. Well, at least, I mean, we should talk about it.

We'll get to it for sure. I mean, it's football. Football. We should talk a little bit about it. Yeah. We're going to. Okay. Even at anger's 80% of our audience.

We're still going to talk about it. or 80% of them. It doesn't please them. Angus 50% of these hosts. Who's that? I don't care. Because guess what? The L.A. Rams, baby.

Might lose the Texans. What's that dance? The Houston, Texas, baby. Might win in Los Angeles. What's the line? I didn't even look. Two and a half, I think. Rams?

Three and a half? Rams, yeah. As a staffer can move, apparently. Is his back okay? I don't know. Is he going to be wearing a back brace the whole game? He met Dr. Injection and Phil's just fine, apparently.

How are we going to see Rumi Roraparo? God, if the Texans lose of Rumi Rorapolo? That wouldn't be great. I'd take the under on that one, by the way, too. Ooh, total's 43 and a half. Under 1014, Sports Talk, 790. All right, what a weekend for college football.

What a weekend for the Astros in both good and bad ways. Again, the Astros did not look great. They struggled offensively, and they scored eight runs yesterday, and the Mariners lost again on the road. I got news for Ross. If the Mariners just don't want one on the road, This mid-astros team is playing under 500 the last two months. Maybe good enough anyway.

Yeah. Maybe the Rangers are the team we should be scared about. Because right now, the Mariners can't win away from Seattle, Washington. Those Rangers not going away. They are not. Those pesky Rangers won six in a row. Bastards. Four and a half back.

The Astros either will be good enough to win the division and make some hay in the playoffs, or they won't be. We'll see. Nobody's going to die over it. We don't need to send 500-word negative email. to everybody about it. That's what I've been getting. I listened to Gordy on Sunday. There was a are the players laying down

for a spot to get him fire? That was interesting to me. That is one of the dumbest things I think I've ever heard. Yeah. What else was that I did I hear that was awful that or day? I've been starting to write them down now. See,

I need you to not write these down. I actually tweeted about it. Let me see what it is. because look, when it's a, like yesterday, we had a good conversation on the, I mean, I had one call on the 10th. I think so it was, I guess it was. All right, nice. I was bad at 1,000. No.

I actually thought about it. You were busy. Talking about how great the hitting coaches did yesterday. No, no, no. They had a banner day. I mean, six or 15, runners in a scoring position. That's a 400 average for those you plan at home. The caller also criticized announcer Mark Ford for not being a big enough homer.

Robert's a big enough homer. He does just fine. proper homeroism. I thought his name was Mark. No, his name was Mark. No, I'm Mike, he's Mark. It's very confusing. It is what it is.

All right, 713, 212-570. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7. I don't think we're going to get into a deep dive at TCU North Carolina football. But we can talk about it on a macro side of things. Okay. So ESPN makes the Labor Day game about him. There's endless interviews where, you know, Bill Belichick does not get out of his shell. He's got the cut-off shirt.

again. He's got the 25-year-old hussy. Why is she a hussy? Because she is. You're dating somebody 50 years older than you're a hussy. Seriously. I'll say it with the old hussy. Let me look at the dictionary for a hussy. You'll be called her a hore? Is that what you want instead? A whore? Well, I mean, yeah.

That's turning it up a notch. Okay. I'm going to go drop it down to hussy. A girl or woman who behaves in a disrespectful or inappropriate way who has many casual sexual relationships. Okay. I saw you Husse and down on Main Street. Jordan Hudson.

Where do you go to find dudes and women 50 years older than you? They're on a plane next to each other. Matt, that's the story we're sticking with. That's exactly right. I didn't buy her on an escort page. It wasn't a high-end escort. Matt. See?

Hussie. They fell in love. Hooker with a heart of gold. Haven't you seen pretty woman? No. Oh, you haven't? No, of course I have. What are you kidding?

I actually have not. Have you not? No, I've seen like half, you know, on TV, but I haven't seen sat down and watched the whole thing. Okay, really fast. I mean, I've got the gist of it. Richard Gere falls in love with the hooker, the end. Yeah, it's pretty much a gist. I was going to say, I was going to ask you quiz questions about it, but you pretty much nailed it there.

Five stars. We stay at their hotel where they stayed. Oh, really? Yeah. I can say it. It's the Beverly Willshire. that's the AKA Hotel Pretty Woman

Oh really? Yeah Do they have like Can you sleep on the bed Where they got after? No I mean I guess you could But that was also almost 40 years ago I imagine they cleaned

Changed Sheets I would think so I mean That's gone down And basically every hotel room You've ever laid in in your life Just saying Dust mites too

And all that kind of stuff Mm-hmm Gross I don't know The hotels I stay at the fan You know the five stars All that's even worse Are you sure?

You were telling me there's nobody taking escorts. Oh, that's even one. That means there's like six women on the bed at once. All right. So, college football. This is your fault. I'm going to blame you again. You're talking about hussies.

So North, how much? Did you see much of the game yesterday? It was on while I was doing two fantasy drafts, so I was not really super invested. Yeah, that's fine. But every time I looked up, TCU is getting like a 75-yard touchdown. So, So North Carolina

scores on our opening drive And I mean In very, very quick fashion They have this transfer quarterback At South Alabama Major Applewhite Was his coach Shout out to Major

A friend of the show And they are up 7-0 And I mean that I think it's called Kaysar Stadium is where North Carolina I've done a game there before Those people are going

We're losing their minds And then the rest of the game took place Oh, bad And every time they would show of a picture, a video of a shot of

Belichick, he was like a deer in headline. He didn't know what to do. Was he even speaking into the headset? Was he... Was it turned on? Was there anybody? Was there anybody making any sort of act? And then poor Belichick's son, Steve, was feeling the heat of this too, because he's probably the one that's the most alert of the two guys in the left.

I mean, the memes of him were pretty good. And then Max Johnson comes in and backs up after the starting quarterback gets hurt. Yes. The former Texas Santa Ana Maggie. And you know what? I did not realize? What didn't you realize? His dad was Brad Johnson. Yeah. I didn't know that.

You also didn't realize? He's the same age as Belichick's girlfriend. 24. Correct? Yes. So he's not a hussy. He's just a regular old 24-year-old. I don't know. He's been horrid around program to program. Yeah. You're 24 and you're still in college. I mean, I was

in 24 and still in college, but at least I was working. He's trying to be bros of 18-year-olds. LSU, A&M, and North Carolina. Two seasons apiece. God bless it, portal. And COVID and injuries. Mm-hmm. All that helped out.

Yeah. He was supposed to save LSU. Then he was supposed to save A&M and now he's supposed to save North Carolina. Mm. Well, I mean, I'm sure dad did okay financially, so he didn't have to worry about necessarily. Yeah, I just get a degree from someone.

North Carolina is a decent athletic school. I mean, academic schools. I mean, LSU's not, but everything other two are nice. They're very good. Yeah, exactly. LSU, they have like shoe weaving. Yeah. I believe what they call LSU is open enrollment if the kids would say it properly.

Cajun Spices 301. That's the expert. Yeah. It's the expert class. How to make a good rue, masters agree. I want to put a cayenne in now with a paprika now. All right. Sorry, sorry, Gordy.

Sorry, anybody that's infallia with LSU, but you guys know you're, it's, you don't have brains to go there. I mean, let's be brutally honest. Okay. So we're going with this. I don't know. So they just got their ass kick. There was no other game to put on. There was no like regional broadcast.

There was no other. We're burying this game on ESPN Ocho. That was on ESPN Labor Day night. Everybody's trying to get settled back into bed because schools in the north are starting up today. People are going back to work after a long weekend. You put the game on and you just watch it get from bad to worse. But I thought it was quite entertaining. Well, the question is, was,

The hype was significantly higher than what was the talents that's there at this point. And I have him muted, but it still ended up on my timeline. Skip Bayless, like early in the game, was talking about how they had a championship level, like a national championship level offense, North Carolina. Yeah. Well, it's funny, because one of my very good friends is a North Carolina, a guy, lives in the Charlotte area, and I was, he and I were texting the first quarter, and then the game took place after that, and I was like, I'm going to leave him alone.

By the way, shout out to me for saying sorry, not sending you this hard for your law. So you want a pat on the back for not sending me a mean text. Correct. You know what? It's showing a softer side of me that frankly you haven't seen in a while. Now, if you lose the next three games, then I'm going to have to do it. Any of the next three is fair game, I guess. But that won't happen.

And then Florida played, who they play, some sloppy... Texas plays at Florida after that. Yeah. Schedule's tough. I don't know if they'll be on the latest rankings, but they were 15th. Talking about the Gators. And then OU after that. which I want to go to.

But Astros playoffs. Well, Astros could be going to Toronto. Do you think our company are going to go to Toronto? You know how expensive Toronto is? Carbock brewing. Let's go. Carbock's like, I've only got certain. My passport is in order just in case.

Gordy's? I don't know about that. I think you see, I don't have to get that felony cleared out. 1029 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. All right, so we're going to give you a chance here. I'm going to step away from the. the microphone and you're just going to talk at nauseam for about two minutes like a what would you call it a homily about what you saw a Saturday between Texas and Ohio State.

Me? Yeah. Okay. If you want me to. Yeah, just too. I'm not asking for the whole segment, just two minutes. I think I can do it in one minute. All right, a minute is fine.

But I'm going to stay on your way. Did you see all the scoring? I can do it in 10 seconds. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-21-2-5-7-9. We had some dangerous weather the last couple days, at least parts of our town did, and that meant trees could be an issue. And Joe will be with us coming up today at 1230. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790. Yes, the Astros starting three-game series with the Yankees 7-10 tonight, 7-10 Wednesday, 640 on Thursday. Okay. And tonight's game is on TBS. If you live in the Houston area or areas where space city should be, you cannot watch the game. So please don't call and say, why can I watch the game on TBS, even though I don't have space city now. Listen to the game here on Sports Talk 790. Your home for your Houston Astros.

Perfectly said. All right, one minute. Oh, can we start a clock on you or do we need? Do you want to? Yeah, I'll do a clock. Hold on. Give me a one minute buzzer here. Uh, okay.

You can only go one minute, huh? That's not going to go one minute? All right, he says it's on. What are you mean? That's a marathon to me. I don't think I've said that to you many times. Where does you can only go a minute at the time? Yeah, what's wrong with that?

Yeah. Is there time to cuddle after or no? No, that's included. Oh, is it? Okay, very good. Start the clock. This is one minute Ross talking about his beloved longhorns. And let's face it, again, I would rather play San Jose State, same Houston State or Central, whatever the hell you're playing the next few weeks to get fat and happy before the start of playing real competition.

All right, Matt. Yeah, obviously it was a big game in the shoe over the weekend, and it was going to be a defensive battle. I was very foolish of me to think that it wasn't going to go anywhere close to over. I thought Arch Manning would play a little bit better. He was certainly off target early on, especially on a couple of short area throws, where it seemed like Sark was maybe trying to get him in a rhythm,

and he just wasn't very good there. Then he made some good throws later in the game. The run game was good. They outperformed Ohio State in terms of yards gain. I think it was like 330 to 203. I'll pull it up. 336 to 203. Couldn't get it done in the red zone.

You got physicaled up front. Sark did play it close to the vest with the play calling and try to rely on the defense, which he's done a lot and a lot of big games. So the criticism that he's a little bit too conservative in these big games, I think is valid. But also when you have one of the best defenses to the country, it makes sense to kind of try to rely on that. So I would like to see Arch Manning turn it loose a little bit more, but he was having some trouble processing the defense of Matt Patricia

and could have been better. Patricia, wow, what a star now. I mean, he was always a good NFL coordinator. He was a lousy head coach, but boy, these, and by the way, another one for you, how about Gus Malzana's a new OC at Florida State? He got his flowers this weekend, too. Yes, he did. You know, the reality is this, you can get really, really good coordinators

because you're paying these coordiners multi-million of dollars. You can be good right away quick. And you know what also helps coordinators? having a bunch of five-star athletes all over the field. I think, Matt, you could design a good defense with Ohio State players. That's true. That's true. So I have a few more assumptions, not assumptions, assertions after watching the college football this weekend. Okay.

You can be lousy in 2025 and be really good the next season, or 24. I mean, the opportunity for you to be really good on a fast turnaround is incredible because of the portal and because of NIL and because of the $20 million that these. schools can now spend on these programs and these athletes. The chances of you being a long downtrodden program, especially if you're considered one that's had success in the past, if you're bad for five or six years, you're just not doing it right. I mean, I'm not saying Florida State's going to go all this and go from two to ten and ten

and two, but you beat Alabama. And now, granted, Alabama's five and five in their last ten games, but still Alabama. You won in your home field and you had massive changes all over the place, and you won that football game. Yeah. But it's to a level. I mean, but there's also, there's 10 or, you know, we went through a list, whatever it is, 10, 12, 15 programs. We all think they should be winning the national champion.

Their fan bases think they should be winning the national championship. Especially when those fan bases are asked to supply more money for these kids. Pressure on these programs, especially from your high-end donors. Let's, I'll use Texas Tech as an example. How in the world does Cody Campbell, like, I think it's a guy's name, that's a big NIL booster for them. He goes to all of his buddies and say, hey, need you just. to kick in a million dollars. If Texas Tech goes 8 and 5 or 8 and 4 again this year during the regular season,

they'd be like, I gave you all this money for what? The pressure, especially for schools that do have money, is going to be intensified, which is, you know what? That's what college athletics is all about now. Pressure. There's no more for the love of the game. Although, as I say that, just sitting around flipping the channel Saturday, Sunday, Monday. This is fun.

I didn't worry about it. Exactly. Nobody thinks about NIL on Sunday. People are, it's ruining the sports. stadiums are full, ratings are good, it's not ruining the sport. No, it's not ruining it, but it's putting pressure on some people. Caleb DeBore took Washington in the national championship game. They're already talking about replacements for him after one game.

Yeah, he's got like a $60 million buyout or something like that. By the way, I saw this and I wish I would have saved it. Apparently there's not trouble, but apparently there is a lack of NF NIL funding at Alabama that other schools in the SEC are not having to worry about. That kind of makes sense. Right? In Alabama?

Middle of nowhere? Well, all it takes is one big booster. I mean, that's Lubb is in the middle of nowhere and that guy. Cody Campbell's writing checks left and right. Eugene Oregon. Eugene Oregon, what would Oregon's on I.L.B. Without Phil Knight. Yeah, but you're talking about

multi-billionaires. But I don't know. You didn't have to wear shoes at Alabama in class. So I don't know if there's bunch of billionaires coming out of there. I'm just saying. Another assessment I made. Okay. Notre Dame Miami on Sunday night.

Miami spent a lot of money too. Miami spends a lot of money. Miami also has a full stadium. Miami is a private school that has a distinguished football history. A distinguished academia. And it's a very, it's the most difficult school to get in in the state of Florida. It's way harder to get into Miami than is it in. to get into Florida state, way harder to get into Florida.

Central Florida, like they're inviting you in. Come on. I mean, they're basically the, I mean, they're the, they're the, they're the, they're the, I mean, I know what you were going to say, I know what you were going to say, but Jonathan's not here. No, I was going to say, I was going to take an SFAJ yet, but there's no reason to do that. Yeah, they'd be rude. Their city was full. They, Miami has something.

Now, again, remember, it's been dormant for a while there. But when they're good, their city rallies around the University of Miami. And my question is, and I know the answer this. So I'm going to go and let you have this. This is a little softball for you. Okay. Why can't Houston have that with Houstonians? Tell me the truth.

If we all of a sudden, on a regular basis, on a regular basis, won nine, ten games. Nine and three, ten and two. It has to start with a history. Okay. That seems that's fair, obviously. Miami, did they start winning in the 80s? Yeah. But did you see the crowd yesterday?

I thought it was going to be, or on Sunday, I thought it was going to be heavily Notre Dame influenced. It looked like 90% of the stadium, and that's an NFL stadium, was wearing orange. One of the things you can sell recruits on, first of all, everybody's paying now, and Miami's paying a lot of money. They're getting a ton of money as far as

transfer, both transfer portal and for recruits. So first of all, you need a bunch of people to put a bunch of money in. But a reason to get a bunch of people, U of H, like there's a lot of rich people who are invested in U of H football, but you invest more when there's a history, I suppose, when it matters more. Does that make sense? Well, okay. It's a legendary program.

It feels like more alums are more likely to pour more money in there. But they don't have the alums, though. Miami is a quarter as big as University of Houston. What's the enroll? Is it? I'd have to look, but I want to say it's about 10,000. Maybe I'm wrong about that. But it's a very difficult school to get into.

Yeah, it is. Well, that's another thing too. Maybe they end up producing a lot more rich people. I don't know. That's true. But if that was the case, why is it? This is 19,000 in Miami. That's actually larger than I thought it would be.

But compared to Florida and Florida State, that pales a comparison to those schools. You have the history. It's huge. You have a fertile recruiting base. Maybe there's less competition. than for U of H. I mean, because they're already behind in history and money from Texas and A&M and Oklahoma you have to put in the mix.

LSU you have to put in the mix. And what's it? Florida, Florida State, and then Miami would be, that's the big three in Florida. Yeah. I just say this. I was jealous. Well, you know, at the end of the day, cut the check, Maddie.

Let's go. But that wasn't cutting the check. You can't cut a check. But you can't cut a check to get 50,000 people in the stadium. But it's not even only the billionaires. It's you get that much more from, say, the regular U of H alum who is a grad can donate $500. Maybe if the program had a rich history and they really wanted to be good and you wanted to make your Longhorn or Aggie buddies mad, maybe you bump it up to $750. I mean, you know what?

You think proximity to UT and A&M hurts the University of Houston? Because think about Miami, Florida is in the very north part of the state. Florida states in the north part of the state. I mean, Miami's in South. Miami's in the deepest south part of the state. You just you just don't have the history. I don't know what to tell you.

Well, there's no question. Miami football has a distinguish. Now, some of it's not good. I mean, criminals versus convicts was brought up many, many times. I mean, but mostly, you say the you. People know what that is. Yeah, I get it.

There's some prestige there. I get it. 1045. It's Matt and Ross with you here on the program. We have gut feelings at 1130 today. Joe is spotted with us at 1230. here on these airwaves what we call Sports Talk 790 713-212-5-790. John and League City on the Matt Thomas show at Ross at 1052. John, good morning.

Hey, good morning. What's on, guys? Hi, we're good. Oh, so, you know, talking about, we've talked about this before with the Cougars attendance. You know, we got also, you know, they were four and eight last year, you know, and you get 30,000 out there. I guess that was about what I'm going to do more out there. I mean, that's the committed section, I think, from what I understand. They pull their load, right? So it's like, it's like these fans I see on the internet all the time. It's like, um, if we're complaining about, oh, the garage or the parking and all this other stuff, it seems like it's always something with super football fans, you know?

You know what it is, John? We just aren't great fans. I mean, it's just the reality of it. We're just not. I mean, we've got probably the best basketball program in the country. Yeah. we fell into it and thank God we have a stadium that we'll fall we to fill up which we don't fill up we don't fill up that arena either we have a difficult time filling I mean the seats are sold but they're not sitting in those seats I mean go watch a game there are empties all over the place we as a university Houston fan base have done a horrific job of supporting our programs and it's and it's taken its toll it just has oh you're absolutely right it's and it's not for a bunch of great donors you know like two minutes

and so on, you know, we wouldn't be where we are and have the facilities and stuff that we are. If not for Tillman, there would be no for Tita Center and we would not have the hopefully national champion-s-type team again this coming up this year. But, I mean, we just, you know, thanks for the phone call, you got a lot of static and background noise there. We just don't draw flies.

We just don't. It's just a reality. And I know that SFA was not a, it's not a team that you can hang your hat on. And the conference is, I mean, playing in Conference USA and American football, I mean, there's a variety of factors. But we don't have 40,000 people that say, we don't care who you play, we're going to be there. Never have.

And so that's just the reality of it. And I wish that was the case, but it's not. I mean, look, A&M's got Utah State coming in. I mean, who gives a crap about Utah State, although the friend of mine is their voice? They're going to have 100,000 people there. They're 106,000 or whatever it was for UTSA. your squad's going to play San Jose State.

You're going to have 100,000 people. Yes, they are. You just go because you love the school regardless of the opponent. Yeah, it was, I mean, it is interesting, and I don't know how much of it has to do with just the fact that Houston is in a big city. I mean, we talked about winning and building that history. I mean, Aggies haven't won a national championship since the 1930s. And the reality is this.

In big cities, schools have a difficult time. Cincinnati, same situation. They don't draw a fly. They do better, but they're not boasting about their football attendance. Miami, I'd have to go look, but it looks like every time I watch a Miami game, the place is pretty much filled. And then it may be just because it's football, last couple of years. But what was it like nine years ago when they were five and seven?

Who knows? Who else is big city schools? New York teams don't draw flies. L.A. kind of comes and goes. Northwestern. They don't run the Northwestern games. And there's don't. USC for years was good.

Yeah, UCLA got its ass kicked by Utah over the weekend. I mean, by like 46 to 10 or something like that. Tulane, people don't go, people in New Orleans don't go to Tulane games just because it's football. Yeah. USC gets packed, but they also have a long history of winning. So I just, my point was I was just jealous and I'm just as a guy that pours my emotions out to you, 10 to two weekdays. I looked at the game on Saturday.

Granted, Notre Dame coming in is a lot more sex appeal. Now, if Miami played SFA, would a pro player stadium or whatever they're calling it? Hard Rock be full? No chance. It might be more than 28,000 though. You're right.

And truth be told, they weren't 28,000. Now, there was a strong student section. Yes. But our non-student section didn't do up particularly well. Now, I'll tell you this. We better be full for Colorado.

Say what you will about Dion Sanders and how he probably is perhaps way overrated as a coach. Would you say anything less than a sellout would be a disappointment? No, but I would say anything less than 30,000 would be a disappointment. You got 28 for SFA. You can't get 12 more for Colorado? It wasn't 28.

Okay, I'm sorry, you're right. I'm talking about live people. Now I'm saying they could at least say tickets sold. Same thing. When I see it, the game kicks up, one's the game kickoff, 6.30. Oh, this is a Saturday night? No, it's a Friday.

Oh. It's just not big time football. I'm sorry, Matt. No, it's an ESP and Friday night game. There are big games playing on Friday. Colorado U.H is set. I mean, it's sexy to me. At least you're off the plus.

We're on the real one network now. They took the plus off now. We're playing the plus on the rice on Saturday. And well, also, it's not because it's you of age. It's because it's Colorado. I mean. That's fine. No, but you haven't made,

it's a decent big 12 game. You want to put a decent big 12 game. Colorado UH will never be on a plus no matter where it is. Oh, trust me. Colorado ain't playing on the plus if it's against who they got left. We're not playing the plus against Oregon State.

We're not playing on the plus against Texas Tech or Oklahoma State. We just plus against SFAN and Rice because they're pluses. And by the way, I love the plus. I do games in the plus. The pluses in me. I mean, it's fine. It happens.

Texas and Sam Euston is on ESPN Plus. You guys used to shut, put games in the Longhorn Network, and nobody had that channel. So back off. No, a lot of people had. Nobody watched it, though. Oh, man, what a horrible blight on the program. They were so big they got their own freaking channel from Disney. Yeah, that's the reason why Disney's laying people off a lot of tonight, except for Stephen A.

He's doing all right. He's doing okay. 1057, let's get to the second hour of the show. Dwayna Lepasso on a little baseball chatter. We'll get to that. We also have got feelings in one half hour here on Sports Talk 790. All right, 1101 on Sports Talk 790. Your Stros are three games in front of the Seattle Mariners.

By the way, Ross, I did the 10th inning show yesterday on Labor Day. I had one phone call. Is that an indictment against me? Yeah, you're a bad host. Yeah. Okay. Just one double check. Okay.

So if they had a loss, I only had one call as well. Well, you were bragging about how you get the most. I do get the most. Yeah, we're proud of you. You do great, Matt. Thank you. We're all proud of you. You should be.

You should be. this of my accomplishment. Gold stars for you, Matthew. That's what I like to hear. I want more of this. None of this hate. More love. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790. Astros and the Yankees. Luis Garcia, we'll talk to this with the manager in about 90 minutes from now. Why didn't Lance McAllers go out there and say, you know what, F it. I'm going to do what Louis Garcia can do.

I'm going to go out there and just throw strikes and get people out. It's not that easy. It is not that easy, but we have soft-pedaled guys coming back from injuries and Luis Garcia is like, yeah, I gave up two home runs, suck it. I still win six innings. I didn't walk anybody.

I gave you 85 pitches or whatever it was, and I got you win. When he wasn't giving up home runs, he was very good. Yeah. And well, Lance McCullors, Jr., a bit of a struggle. Yeah, the bullpen thing over the weekend was not the great experiment. Yeah. I'll be having a Lance McCuller, I got feeling coming up at the bottom of the hour.

Oh, no. I don't think I'm going to be giving you anything breaking news-wise. It's getting a blister coming back. I wouldn't have said that. Just asking. I mean, it's within the realm of possibilities, right? It is, I would say. 713-212-5-7-90, Dwayne, El Paso, 1103.03.

Man, El Paso, U-Tep. Yes, sir. Sorry about your minors over the weekend. I'm telling you, they got cremating. but the question I got for you gentlemen is okay the Astros got to go three against the Yankees and then next they play the Rangers and then after that the Mariners

now I got another question but between those three teams how many do you believe they got a win to continue to stay in first place I couldn't take, I can't give me that answer, Duane. There's no way because, again, it all depends on how the Astros do and how it depends on what the teams behind them do. I mean, that's how baseball works. Oh, okay.

It's just there's too many games. Granted, we're down to the last month, but look, the Astros were pedestrian against Anaheimers this weekend, and they still gained a game on the Mariners. So it depends on what the Mariners. The Mariners can't win on the road. They just can't. And the Astros have got to take advantage of that. Are they going to play in Texas? or are they playing at home?

Both. There's six games with the Rangers left, three in Arlington and three in Houston. Okay. Now, the second question I got, I don't know if you can answer to this one, but Toronto has the tiebreaker. Now, the Yankees got to play the Astros,

then they got to go to Toronto, and then they got to go to Boston. Now, do you think that the Yankees or Boston have a chance to overtake Toronto? they're both two and a half games back. So yes, they have a chance. Yeah, of course. Yeah, they have a chance.

Okay. Okay. Thank you, guys, and I appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Bye-bye. This is, thank you. Appreciate it.

These are pennant races. Of course, everybody teams have a chance. Everything's a percentage. What that percentage is? Who knows? Right now, Astros, three up on the Mariners, but the Mariners do have, you might not want to hear the strength of schedule update.

Go ahead. Let's do it. Let's hear it. They have the 25th out of 30. Strongest schedule. Remaining Astros 13th. Yeah, because you've got Yankees and you've got Mariners and you've got six. The Rangers who are now hot. That schedule strength fluctuates because the Rangers have been playing excellent baseball.

And you got Toronto. They've been playing better. But also Seattle still got three left with the Rockies, four with the Angels. I mean, they're playing the Braves and the Cardinals who aren't very good. So, yeah, they have a soccer schedule down the stretch. They have played 68 home games and they have played 70 road games. Not that this should matter, but Seattle is six games under 500 and don't even look competitive at times than a road. They do have more home games and road games.

The Astros have played 72 home games. They have nine left. They have 13 road games left to go. But hell, I can't forget this. I can't figure this team out. You beat up on the Phillies, you beat up on the Cubs, you beat up on the Dodgers, you have success against whom also they have been,

the Yankees, the Reds, and you just, you split with the Anaheimers, and Colorado give you a little bit of a mess too. Well, they won the series with Colorado. They did. They did. They won three out of four with the Orioles before that. I will just tell you, I just don't think they're very good right now. I think they are good, not great.

By the way, the Astros are playing 600 baseball in their last 10 games. It doesn't feel like it. They have the ability to be great, but things have to continue to fall in place. You've gotten flashes from Christian Walker or Iner-Diaz or this lineup putting everything together, but then also you've had the six games of runners-in-scoring position was that you had before yesterday. And that is the nature of baseball. And then when you add it all up at the end of the season, and they've had all these injuries and all that type of stuff,

they can be good, but I just don't think they're to the elite level of where they were a few years ago. And I mean, that's just the reality of it. Unless some things start to happen and you're running out of time. We are now into September. This is no longer a marathon. It's a sprint.

Yeah, it's down the stretch we come. And I do have questions long term about the bullpen. Come playoff time. And this lineup being consistent. Of course, the starting pitching. Now, good thing. You got encouraging start from Luis Garcia, Spinterergetti and Christian Javier,

and then you add into the mix with Hunter Brown and Fomber Valdez, and we know what they're capable of. You're in a pretty good spot there. And the Mariners don't seem to want to pull away. That has been a godsend. I mean, if you just look at their lineup card and their starting rotation, you ask yourself, how are they not five games ahead of the Ashlands?

And the reality is the Rangers have won nine of ten. They've won six in a row. They're the best playing performance in the division. And there are a game and a half out of that third wildcard. It could be, there could be a chance. If there is a chance, we could see a Texas-Huston wildcard series. I would not want to see that. DeGromeda Valde is the one-two punch that can tangle with Valdez and Brown.

That is correct. Or Brown and Valdez, however you want to do it. But the starting pitching has been, especially in this series against the Rockies, even though the offense was largely vacant. Eragetti was good. Javier was good. Framber was back to Framber form. And then Luis Garcia, I mean,

not that I'm expecting it every single timeout, but he well exceeded my expectations. Six innings, low pitch count, quality start in his first go-round. Yeah, we didn't talk about Javier, really. Yeah. Because it was over the weekend.

Not allowing a hit. And again, the Astros just, but when they go on an offensive struggle, they're getting guys on base. but their runners in scoring position over the weekend except for yesterday was terrible. Yesterday they bounced back. I have faith. Hitting coaches are going to come through tonight.

Will the hitting coaches will their way to an Astro Series win over the Yankees? I hope so. 713-2-7190. 7-1-3-212-2-7-90. Texans are off today. They'll be on the practice field. We are officially in game week mode. I took part in a fantasy draft yesterday.

I'm not pleased with my results. Let me look at the roster. Don't do it. Let me do your roster evaluation tomorrow. We're playing in week one, by the way. ESPN gave me a B. But I think they gave everybody a B. Do they not?

Yeah, honestly, I don't have no clue. You didn't get an email right away? I don't look at draft grades. No, they emailed it to me. I didn't even ask for it. Yeah, I don't look at it. I didn't see it. I can go look it up.

I did not pick it. By the way, I did not pick a quarterback until the eighth round. I feel better when I get a bad grade. So I'm not worried about it. Yeah, quarterback eighth round is great. Yeah, I went heavy while running back and Yth round. wide receiver and then I went to a tie-in. I got Travis Kelsey.

I'm hoping all of the... I can work out, especially with the first six weeks when Rashi Rice is on ice. And, you know, he's got to make his money. He's got a wedding to pay for. I got Rishie Rice on my bench. When he comes back, my team's going to be pretty stout. Feeling good. But will you be too far behind?

As long as I can go three and three first six weeks, then I got a super squad. Okay. It's a gamble. It makes you the savvy general manager that you are. Let's go to Midtown and talk to Vince on the Matt Thomas show. Ross, hi, Vince. Hey, how are you guys doing? Well.

Good, good. Hey, I know that Estrada's been getting a lot of criticism, you know, here lately especially. Honestly, I think he's done a great job considering all the stuff that the Astros have been through with injuries and just holding it together. But at this point in time, he doesn't need to be resting in. any of the, he needs to be putting his best squad out there every day. No more rest for Altovae, any of those guys. Just what do you all think about that? Yeah, we'll see what happens.

Well, he hung up big. That's fine. We're going to comevo. Rest is a relative term. Yoran is getting rest because they don't want that hand to get inflamed, inflamed. Inflamed. So if you see him out, and as long as they're being honest with you,

They're saying they're just trying to make sure that he doesn't wind up being regressing to back to what he was. It made him miss 100 games. Yeah. And we have to stop thinking about this, folks, as if it's the 1970s and the managers making all the decisions. They are collaborating. Joe Espada is talking to the players. He's talking to the trainers. They have plans.

They have done this for years. Trying to stay calm, Matt. They've done this for years, where we talked about this with Dusty Baker. or AJ Hinch, why is he giving this guy a day off? Because they plan it. They have data on these players and how fast they're running and all this other stuff. They look at guys and when they need a rest and a day off, they give it to them. I understand it is down the stretch and all that type of stuff. And it is a difficult line to toe, figuring out putting your best foot forward and trying to win a game and also being fresh in October. But if you look at the results for the Astros over the last 10 years, when this whole time they've been giving these. days off, it's allowed them to be fresher in October, and that's what they are trying to do. So when they give these guys these days off, obviously it's difficult and it hurts the lineup when Yordaon or Altuvae or whatever gives these days off, but it's them continuing to try to play the long game. And I understand you can go out there and try to win every single game,

but if everybody's tired, you're not going to go anywhere in the playoffs. So it's a tough balance for the Astros to try to do, but it's collaborative. It's not all Joe Espada saying, all right, you're sitting down today. They work with the trainers, they work with the players, they work with everyone, and they try to figure out the best plan for everyone individually. I'll add one more thing. The Astros last off day was the 25th of August. They don't get an off day until September the 8th.

There's somebody that's going to get an off day between now and the end of the week. I'm just telling you. I don't know who it's going to be, but it's going to be somebody. Yeah. I would hope that you would not go, what in the world of these pansies need the day off for? That's a stretch of five, six, six. 10, 13 straight games. Guys just don't play 13 anymore in a row.

They don't. And it's not just the Astros. It's every team. Every team. If everybody else was playing everyone 162, the Astros would actually be an advantage because their players would be more well-rested. So everybody's resting their players more.

I mean, it's just, it's the nature of the beast. But you will probably see it less, depending on how tight the race gets down the stretch. Now, I'll say this. They have three days off between September 8th and the end of the season. So you can time it properly. Yes. They have the eighth off, the 18th off, and the 22nd.

The DH would be their friend to so many players, but you've got a lot of guys fighting for that DH spot. And frankly, Ramon Urius playing second base from a defensive perspective, helps you more so than Jose Altuve defending second base. Oh, okay. But what? I'm sorry. I didn't know.

Native Aldi's out for the year. Well, I hate to hear that. That must have happened when I was on vacation. Sorry. I don't pay attention to the Rangers, except booing them when they come to play the Astros. Point being, three off days left to go and the rest of the year.

Plus, there's only one D.H spot. They're going to do their best. Not everybody can play the rest of the way. So just, I would say this, I know it's hard for people to believe this, but trust the process. That team is full of players that want to play every day.

I've never heard of a team and say, oh, they feel I'm playing twice a week. They all want to play. They all want to win the division. They all want to go to the playoffs. There's money for them in that. There's prestige at a chance with a World Series. 1115 on Sports Talk 790. 713212-5790.

713-212-579. Boy, Jordan Hudson, Bill's girl, is, I wouldn't be checking out social media. Granted, I don't think she's overly concerned about it. But you're 24, so my guess is you are concerned about it because that's what 24-year-olds are concerned themselves with. 49-year-age difference. Hmm.

Is this true? Is this her on the sideline? Is this in the middle of the game? That could be AI, by the way. Everything is, you can always go to the, it might be AI. That's why I'm asking. I don't know. I couldn't even care to comment, but as much as he's whipped by her,

there's no way he lets her on the field. Where I didn't even ask me, show me the photo. Can you show it to me? It's a video. And it looks. Now, maybe this is pre-game. Maybe this is pre-game. Oh, there's no chance.

No chance she's that close. Oh, there is somebody walking. She's got a headset and a play sheet. Okay, I'm kidding about that part. She's doing the coaching interview at halftime. No, I'm kidding about that. She's with, what if she's with him? Just watching them.

Every, like, like, Hannah with Cal. She's the Hannah to Cal. Questions are asked to Belichick, and unless it goes. goes past Hudson, just like questions are asked to Cal. Cow doesn't answer a question without Hannah going, you can answer that, you can't answer that. Let me tell you, though, Ross, if I'm with somebody

49 years younger than me and hot like Jordan is, you can have to play by her rules. Okay, apparently this is pregame. Thankfully. She's wearing snakeskin pants. Imagine going to spend all that money. There were a celebrity that Michael Jordan was in the building yesterday. Me and Ham was in the building yesterday.

Lawrence Taylor. Lawrence Taylor. I mean, all these big-time... UNC greats? UNC. Alums. And they got their ass kick for three hours on national television. It's hilarious. And TCU's no juggerna.

Hell, we beat them last year. Well, maybe they're better this year, Matt. Clearly they're improved. Well, the portal helps. Portal doesn't hurt. I'm telling you, this portal. First of all, do not buy jersees of your favorite player because they will be gone more times than...

not. And secondly, just Arch, Arch is going to be back next year. I told you. Maybe after that performance. Now, let me ask you this. Is every time Texas going to lose, is it always going to be as much Sark's faulted as Ars's fault? Because, man, Sark was wearing it, getting worn out this weekend. Uh,

I don't know. I would say the biggest reason they lost is Ohio State is really good and they were on the road. And they got whipped up front. They had four new offensive linemen and it looked like it. running game work though it was fine but it's not like they ran for four yards on them

37 carries for 166 yards is not you know but why didn't arch to a wide receiver in the first half I mean was he just checking down every single opportunity it didn't seem like it seemed by design with sark they wanted to do some quick one reads and well a couple of those archmanning was inaccurate to start he missed a couple of very very easy

elementary throws early on. Do you know, part of what is talked about with him is that he has this calm demeanor. He's been there and done that. Did you think he was too laid back? Is that such a thing? I guess it could be, but I don't know. I can't really answer that question unless I'm in the huddles. Yeah. Which I was not. Was there a sense of, I mean, he did have that one throw in the second half that was a 40-yard pass. I think is what it was. He had some big throws in the second half. That fourth and three throw to the right side should have been caught for a touchdown. So, I mean, I thought he looked a lot better in the second half. And again, you're on the road going against, I mean,

on the road against the defending national champions in week one. So I'm saying, if you're a good football team, I respect the fact that you want to play somebody on an opening weekend game and get all that national attention. But I wouldn't do it. I would say, yeah. Give me Nevada versus Penn State. Give me New Mexico versus Michigan every single time.

Yeah, that's what I want. Yeah, concern is a little heightened, but I'm not going to say I'm, I'm like, I'm, you know, saying go ahead and not put him out there. Because here's a reality. You're going to be three and one going to Florida. Your next real test to see what Arch has in his system is going to be in Gainesville, Florida. Hey, guess what?

Your next year, yeah, exactly. 100,000 screaming fans in the swamp. Here we go. But hey, that's big time college football. Big time college football. There's no SFA's on the schedule. None. We're done with that, too.

It's a juggernaut rice owls beat the, uh, You, buy you bucket. How's it looking? What's the line? I want to say U of H by at least two touchdowns. Maybe more. Oh, look. Last Bayou bucket game for a long time.

Is it? Why? Because Rice is one playing anymore. Why not? Because Rice wants a check. Oh, they'll go get paid by somebody. Yeah, go get somebody. Do you know the Rice, U of H?

And this is going to be. 12 and a half. Okay. Well, it's going down a little bit then, I think then. I thought it was at least a double-ditch. Yeah, it looks like it opened 14 and a half. Mm-mm. Mm-mm.

I don't need no damn sneaky cover. I need a full-throttle cover. To me, U.H. Rice is nothing for me. And I love U.S. Come on. That's your big rival. No, it isn't. Who is U.H.'s biggest rival?

Well, you don't have a rival. Sorry. No, it's fine. It is what it is. We, we, we, we, we, we, no, I figure. I mean, we're going to go to rice scene. There'll be 6,000 people here. Oh, you're just so good, you've got no rivals.

No one could possibly rival with you of age. I wasn't going to spin it that way, but it sounds pretty good. It does. This next half hour on the radio show is where you get to come in and make your predictions. And if you would like to make predictions about anything sports related, whether it be about the Astros Week against the Yankees, whether it be about the Texans week one game against the Los Angeles Rams, Rossi and I will be making our predictions for the season on Friday.

We will not do week-to-week picks because frankly, do you really care what our week-to-week picks are? No, you don't. I like to. When you get them wrong. It's a segment filler that sounds stupid. Okay. Oh, I love the Giants minus nine and a half against the commanders. Oh, thanks, because I know you've done a deep dive on that.

Picks segments are lazy. Well, I got some picks coming up for you about 115. I'll check out. Use code spotlight on Draft Kings pick six. Are you done? For now. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

If you have sports predictions, Texans game, U of H. Rice, Aggies, Utah State. There's a battle of Aggies, by the way, the Utah State, also the Aggies. Baseball, anything sports prediction-wise, we want to hear from you right now. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Gut feelings are next. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show.

1132 sports talk 790. It is time for some gut feelings. And we will do that with you at 713. Now 2125, 790. Now two weeks ago, you were gone. Yes. So we can go off of the gut feelings of two weeks ago. You don't have the ones from last week?

No, Jonathan wrote them down. Do you remember what you said? No. Oh, I remember the Astros going six and four in this 10-game homestand. How are they doing so far? They are 5 and 3. Oh. No, no, it can't be right.

That can't be right. Two, three, four and three. Yes, split with the Angels and two. Okay, I just win the series of the Yankees. You're good. I'm pacing. Yeah. But I want him to go six and four.

You're on pace. Why not? I want him to go seven and three. But I was like, I got a, the realist in me said six and four. I haven't been good enough. I know? That's why I'm going to hit. All right.

So let's go back to two weeks. How did we do two weeks ago? Two weeks ago. You said the Astros and scored at least three earned runs against Tarak Scouble. That's an L? Correct. you said they lead at least three games over the Mariners after the Angels series. I don't think they did.

That was not this last Angel series, the one before that. But whatever. No, no. There's only been one Angel series. I'm right. I actually got that right. They don't play the Angels until the end of the year. So I'm win.

Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah. Yeah. No. No, that's no. They have, they had two series left for the Angels. One was this past weekend and one was the last weekend of the season.

I set up the Angel series. Three games. Boom. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Got feelings. 7-13. That's right.

Even though our producer in here is doing the dance, whatever that was. I didn't see it. Show him that dance again. Look at that. I think he's having a stroke. I think it's a nervous twitch or something. All right. So that's a gut feeling hits on one for two.

Continue on. Hold on. I lost the document. Okay, and that's all I wrote down for you. All right. What do you got? I said, Jesus would get hit that night? I don't think he did.

That was when he was on his big Ofer. Correct. I said Christian Kirk, over 50 receptions. 6, 449 yards in the season. I think it's going to be a hit. I said Yordon back in the lineup, Tuesday versus the Rockies. And he was. That's a dub.

Yep. I said they would lose to the Tigers in the Scoobo versus Brown matchup. That was a correct answer. But I also said 3-1. I don't think I got the score right. Nope. Oh, I said Hunter Brown would throw seven innings of one-run ball. He threw six innings of shutout.

That is a loss. It's close, though. Close, but no cigar. No cigar, but it's close. And let's see. Jonathan said that the Astros are the two. score 25 runs in five games. That did not. I'm sure that didn't happen. It may take him 25 games to score 25 runs, sadly.

They're working on it. And that was from two weeks ago, folks. And at this point, we have no idea what you did last week because he didn't save the file. It is what it is. I didn't do any, so that's what's important. All right. 713-212579. Frankie is our producer, and he's chomper the bit. He's got his mouth in the microphone. He wants to say something so bad. What? Do?

You do? Look at you. You're ready. I like that thing off first. All right. So, Frankie, explain who you are for like 12 seconds. For 12 seconds. How long are you working here, Frankie?

I've been working here for about four months, yeah. And I didn't know your name until about 930 this morning. That's right, yeah. All right. Next, you went to what school? Went to UT. Did you get a degree? I did.

All right. What was your major? Film. Oh, really? I thought it was chemistry, no? No, not chemistry. You were RTF? I was RTF?

I was RTF? Was RTF. Do they even call it RTF anymore? Yes, they do. Okay. Back in my day, man, and they called it RTF. Is that in the Moody School? Yep.

Okay. Try to communicate. All right, so what do you want to be in your life? Oh, man. Where you want to be in 26? In 20 years? And I know what you're making now. We've got to step up the lastoration ladder there, my friend.

I know. Are you Uber in at night or what? Hashtag, where's our call you DoorDash? More Mash. Yeah, I did a little bit of that last year. I retired from that a little bit. All that seems fine. Okay, so what is your life goal?

What do you want to be? Man. You want to be a filmmaker? That would be amazing. Do you need to cast anybody in your films? Do you want to do a midday radio show? Hey, that sounds pretty good. Get out.

How would you rate your sports knowledge, one to ten? It ain't one. Okay. Is it a six? Oh, way, way, low. Oh, you have a low sports knowledge. This ought to be a great segment then. All right. What's your pop culture knowledge?

It's higher. Maybe seven. Okay. Did you go to see the weekend this weekend? Not this weekend. No. No, but I like the guy's hair. Okay. My daughter went Sunday. You went Sunday, too. I would have Sunday, yes. How did you get those tickets, though? You had some good seats. That's none of your business. I don't want to know how you. I paid for them. I'm not America's guest like you. They call you Mr. Freebie.

They call me Mr. Hard-earn and has benefits. Freebie Thomas. Hands out. Thomas. You're not calling it. It's out Thomas. All right, Jonathan. All right, Frank, you get one sports prediction. Just name it right now. Okay.

Go ahead. Jurs. Oh, one sports. Oh. Prediction. Oh. Anything. All right.

Five touchdowns. UT next game. Yay. Well, there we go. I would hope minimum. Is that in the first half or is that in the entire game? We're keeping it a little broad. Hold on.

I got to make a new column on this. on this uh let's see we got david artist david baker i could probably delete that column how many producers have we had in the history of this show jesus full-time part-time sort of time i got a noah column i got a joe george column hold on like i we have a guy named i got a jacobet call remember brenden riley we used to have on this show yeah how's he doing he's in chicago or something oh yeah i mean i wish him the best we went to grand rapids i thought his takes were terrific too Can he get laid off in Grand Rapids or something? I think so, yeah. That's fine.

I mean, it's fine for him. I'm sure he's bounced back. I got Trey Campbell call him. I got a Reichel Ronner column. Hold on. I got a Frankie column now. I'm going to write this down. All right, so he's got UT scoring at least five touchdowns in the game against San Jose.

That sounds beautiful. San Jose is like, I don't care. Just hand us a check on the way out. Exactly. All right. Rossi, I'm going to put you on the spot. Oh, go ahead. Texans Rams.

Who do you like? of Texans. What do you mean? It's not a... Texans. Texans 22 to 19. See, here's the thing. I don't know how Matt Stafford's back is.

All right, fine, I lied. 23 to 20. I know he's going to be on his back when Will Anderson Jr. and Daniel Hunter are getting into backfield, baby. Now we'll see Jay Straubian is back this week. Jared Verst is going to say hello a couple times. Ariante Urshry, what a debut for him going against that defensive line.

Yeah, welcome to the league. Stafford's like 40%. I don't care what the Rams are telling me. I got another one for you. I'm going to go ahead and say it. Texans win in a very low-scoring game. 1916, something like that. This one's going to be off your board.

Please. Touchdown, receiving. Dalton Schultz Hmm Now if you went to a local casino I get some odds on that one You'd get some good odds on that I mean you wouldn't be able to retire

But you'd be able to get some good odds on that You heard you here first I will Just throw another name at you Just to throw another name at you Touchdown Christian Kirk Ooh I like that

Okay 1916 Kami Fairbairn Four field goals And a Christian Kirk touchdown Boom there it is 19 to 16. Okay. Yeah. That sounds about right.

Take the under, by the way. Take the Kemi Fairbaird over. It feels like every game. That's pretty safe. That's right. As long as he's accurate. All right. If you've got a gut feeling, let us know. If not, we're just going to turn the station off. 7-1, 3, 2, 1. You don't want that. You don't want, you know what your options are at this time of the day?

Oh, my God. Oh. By the way, Astros win the series versus the Yankees. Agreed. Write that down for me, too. Okay. Astros win the series against the Yankees drop two or three in Arlington. I'll add one more to that. Say again?

You heard me. No, I didn't. Astros go three and three in the next six games. Win two or three against the Yanx, drop two or three to the Rangers. Giving the Rangers some... You're an a hole. Give some Rangers some full optimism. I'm feeling pretty good about the rotation, honestly.

I'm a little... I've never been worried about the rotation. I'm worried. about the ballpins. And the bullpen. Long term. Guys are getting taxed. I never thought I would say I missed Benet-Susa.

Yeah. I'm missing big time. What's the latest on him? Quiet. Dunzo? Don't say that. I mean, that's what we're thinking, but it's not. Okay.

A lot of that happened when I was on vacation. I don't know. All right, here we go. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. What is in your mind in sports opinion? You have to have predictions, right? So we live for.

It's a two. Maybe people are. People still taking the day off? I think that some people are for a four day weekend. Although the parking garage was not liked. No, come on in you. We know, we don't bite. Frankie's here.

You know what it is? You attack. Movie school graduate. You know, he's smart. Yeah, he did graduate, so give me that out. Maybe, maybe the way you were so rude to Mike earlier that emailed me that maybe people were turned off by that. That guy's a jackass. I'm sorry.

I'm just saying. You were rude to people. People are going to take notice of them. How did I become the rude one on this show now? I don't know. Because they call me Mr. Affable. Timper Thomas. They call me thoughtful.

They call you Freebie Thomas. You're not. They call me Mr. Pay Me My Dues. 713, carrying your ass for four hours. 713-212-5-790. Lunch timers, gut feelings continue now on the Matt Thomas show. We have the news. noon and Joe is spot at 1230

here on Sports Talk 7. I mean, we have Ross's NFL rewind at 120. Woo! It's actually going to be a recap of our fantasy drafts. Let me look at the Toros. My two quarterbacks? If I can just hang tight

until Rishi Rice comes back, I got a freaking super squad. He's going to pull his hamstring in the first week. Okay, Jamir. Now, see, you took Gibbs after I took Barclay. I was a coin toss for me between Gibbs and Barclay. Gotcha.

A. Chan, I like that pick. Higgins. You took Higgins right after I took somebody, huh? McBride. I was between those. I have Kyler Murray and Caleb Williams are my two quarterbacks. I don't mind the value got on Garrett Wilson. Kelsey will see.

Zayflowers and the flex. We'll see. I do want you to send out your preseason prognostications because I want a client to get mad at you. See, last time I did that, I made fun of Dan Matthews for taking three tight ends. I was crushing everybody's team. I just don't want to do that anymore. Oh, I want you to do it.

No. I like keeping the league where it is. Oh, I see what you're doing. That seems fair. To the phones we go. Brian at 1149. Brian, what's in your gut this week? A couple of things.

I agree. I think the Texans win, 2017, 2016. I'm going to go to touch down Nick Shub. I think they're going to get close enough to where he can go. one under five yards and he'll score it. I think he'll get in the end zone. I think we get a good

I think we got a quality start from good Frumber tonight and get a win and a prediction I hope to hit on within one calendar year from today the sports the sports M.T. show with Ross sometimes with M.T. sometimes with Ross, sometimes without either.

We'll be on Space City Home Network. You know what? Thank you, Brian, very much. I honestly, and this is no distress. I love the Space City people more than you know. I don't want it because we can't do some of the things on the show that we'd like to do because of music licensing. Music licensing. We have to be on a more strict clock, which we know Matt Thomas.

Well, let me tell you, if the boys can do in the afternoon, we can do it ourselves. I know we can do it. We can do it. I know. We have to. They have some parameters that I just don't like. And it's not anybody's fault. You can't have as much, you can't go off script as much.

How about we'll put it that way. Yeah, it would be a significantly more sport to your show. And Ross would not be able to work blue. That's not true. They're going to put a muzzle on me, are they? I'd have to wash my hair more often. Put on better clothes. Oh, man, but I like wearing sweatpants in this old drab.

Yeah, but you got stains all over half your shirts. Is this stain? It looks that way. Oh, there's one right here. Let's go to a toothpaste. Grayson on 7 on a. Grayson, which in your gut? All right.

Well, I think the Astros can go five and one in their next six against the Yankees and the Rangers. Wow, I like the optimism. Yeah. And I think that the Texans are going to win by two touchdowns because I don't think Saffer's going to play. Well, he is supposed to play. So unless he gets hurt in the next couple of days, he's practicing, right? I don't think he's going to play.

All right. That's what my gut feeling, Matt. Okay. You can't tell a man what's in his gut? Yeah, I can't. When the injury reports, he's healthy, I can actually tell him what's in his gut. And if you want to say he wins by two touchdowns, I'm okay with that. But when you're telling me a player is not going to play when the Rams are telling you just the opposite, that's not a good.

That's his stupidity. But I love you, though, Grace. You know that. That back, though. Come on. All right. Hey, you know what? Graysson, how about this? How about this?

You have a gut feeling that Will Anderson is going to crack Matthew Stafford's back in half. That's a better gut feeling, right? There we go. There we go. We're going to knock him out early. There, that's what I'm talking about. That's the positive thinking I'm thinking about. Thank you for the phone call. If I was an NFL quarterback, I'd be Matthew Stafford. Big rocket arm, Ross, and chubby. I mean, I wouldn't call him chubby.

Jared Lorenzen was chubby. No, he was fat. Marcus Russell was chubby. Fat. He's just not the picture of, uh, yeah. He's at a dad bodd his entire and I feel life. He's not going to be in the cover of men's health, but neither would Eli Manning or Tom Brady for most of his career. He's got a dad bod.

He's doing all right. How's his wife doing? We like her. Who's we? America. She was playing both sides. She was like, I'm going to find me. The guy's going to make me some more money.

Yeah, she said that, right? Yeah. shoes with the other shoes with the backup quarterback? Yeah. Yeah. Jeez. I can't even say that phrase. I don't think I... See, there's the things on the show. If we were on Space City, we couldn't say some things we want to say.

What are they going to do? Kick us off? Yes. Oh. Yeah, that's exactly what they would do. They kick us off. Oh. Can I say Hussey on Space City Network? I'm sure you can. Now, whore, I don't know about that.

Slot? Oh, right. See? I believe the SEC... Can I say slut when it comes to... To Bello Checks girlfriend. Why are you calling her that? She's got... She's a slut.

I mean, come on now. She's with one man that we know of. This week, probably. Oh, my Atlanta. Mylla, what do you... You stomach left for a while? I used to say that when I was like in sixth grade. All right, let's go to, uh, let's go to, uh, Rich on 7.

Honey. Rich, what's in your gut? Hey, guys. I'm still laughing about chubby. Uh, first of all, um, I want to say, uh, love to say, uh, uh, love your content on Insta at Ross R at SportsRV. Yeah, it's at, it's at Ross RV.

That's exactly where you can find it. At Sports RV on Instagram. At Sports RV. At Sports RV on Instagram. That's not great. Yeah. It's not talking about, Rich. Fantastic.

Hey, guys, I think guys... I'll get a room. Long as he pays for it. Wasn't Matt the one of the Astros is going to be Luis Chacha Garcia? He's going to come back and pitch well. And I just think he would do for some luck with one of these guys that's come back off injured one of our pictures, and I think he'll do it. Great show. I enjoy it.

Thank you very much. And he's right. Follow at Sports RV on Instagram for great content. I would appreciate it. Follow SportsMT if you want your 401K to grow. Oh, my God. Your blood pressure to drop. And people will like you more.

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up who's a worst candidate for Mr. Texas you're general Santa Ana and you won as in you were the worst candidate because you're the people that follow you are mean and smell bad and a low income employee so it's fine see this is why you're a bad

candidate for Mr. Texas. It was close though. 61 to 39. I love, let me tell you, Mr. Texas loves all four corners of the state. I love Galveston. I love the Valley. I love El Paso. I love Lubbock and I love Amarillo. You don't like sweet tea and enchiladas. You're out. You're out. Oh, I'm sorry. I don't need sugar in my diet. Oh, screw me for that. Whatever. Gross. Yeah, that would be like I can go keto Thomas over here. Yeah, I got some chips over here.

Mike on 7 on a Mike what's in your gut this week Hey guys I just wanted to preface Mark a call by saying I'm not crazy Mike that's been emailing you Oh thank God He gives apparently he gives people named Mike a bad name But my gut feeling Is that the Astros take two of three this weekend And the Texans win by three

And score two defensive touchdowns Two defensive touchdowns Let's go Man, y'all are optimistic. Let's go to the Super Bowl, baby. I would love it. Then we would gain a fan. Battle Red Ross, ready to go, baby.

Liberty white man, let's go. I wouldn't hold my breath. I hope for a divisional round loss would I be holding my breath for. Thank you, Mike, very much. Two or three against the Yankees, and he's got two defensive touchdown. I like that.

I like that a lot. Jalen Petro get one of them? Sure, why not? Stingling the other. Sure. Let the secondary do all the heavy lifting. You pitch one can pitch back to the other. Last one, James and Garden Oaks.

James, what's in your gut this week? Okay, fellas, thank you for taking my call, Governor Thomas. And shout out to all of you. Look, I did fairly well last week, you know, as you know, the boys did well. And this week, I believe my boy's going to go four and two. I'm sorry about that, Governor. The Y'all's going to take two out of three, and this is going to be a judge special. He might, he might, AJ 1 off your boy, allegations.

Alexander at make-believe guy over there for your Astros guy. And now my quick tip for the football is I got, I got my team, my adopted team, the chief. They're going to stomp all over them charges. The charges, they won't be able to get any more connections after they finish with them and finish them off. And also, I'm sorry they say to all your boys over there in Big D, the Eagles is going to stop them too. Okay, thank you, Governor Thomas, for taking my call. You got it. Thanks for joining us, James.

You write all that down? The chargers aren't going to be getting connections. Respect his attempt and humor. The news at noon is next. What? 1158 on Sports Talk 790. 123 in H-Town. Hour number three of the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

With Ross, I'm Matt. John them with a couple days off. back with us on Thursday, and right now we present to you as we do every day at this time the news at noon. And we do that with...

Go ahead. The Holly Roe of Houston Sports. Oh, thank you, Matt. What a high compliment for us here on the News at Nood on Sports Talk 7. Honey. We'll start things off with a great performance from the Astros hitting coaches. They were able to get six hits

with runners in scoring position, the last of which a two-run bomb. from Jose Al Tuve. Or maybe this is not playing. And you can kiss that one. Goodbye. All right, we're going to start that over. Let's do it. 2-2.

And that is hammered. Deep to left field. And you can kiss that one. Goodbye. Trees Crawford Boxes, a two-run shot for Jose Al-Tube and an 8-3 lead for the Astros. Number 24 for Jose. A wonderful.

home run off the bat of Jose Altuve Astros score 8 runs. Luis Garcia with a quality start. Maybe things are turning for this rotation. We're going to feel a little bit more confident. Framer was good. His last turn you got Christian Javier over

the weekend not allowing a hit in six innings and 85 pitches Matthew and then yesterday Luis Garcia six innings pitch three earned runs on 79 pitches economical as well. And a zero shout out to the several thousand dorks that did the wave six times while the Astros were batting yesterday during the game.

It was close too, right? Yeah, one run in game. I'm sorry, Matt. I'm sorry. Also over the weekend, a big week won of college football. Unfortunately, headlined by Ohio State's home win over the Texas Longhorns. They won 14 to 7. Archmanning, not good to start that game.

Got a little bit better, but was on the road going against one of the best defenses in the country. did not perform well. Texas A&M beat UTSA, 42 to 24. And then you also had Miami defeat Notre Dame, 27 to 24. And LSU beat Clemson as well, but for some reason I'm not seeing it. That 17 to 10 LSU over Clemson, the final score there. And I'll give you a second, Matt. I'm so emotional with this picks. I know you're very emotional.

You're upset that I didn't mention U of H's win, but that was on Thursday. Yeah, I shouldn't do that. coming up in week two San Jose State right here on 7-90 visits DKR 11 a.m. on ABC.

Why do you want any part of that roaster? Also, Matt, I did not mention that the University of North Carolina as the red carpet was rolled out for Bill Belichick on ESPN on Monday night, got embarrassed. TCU 48 to 14 over UNC.

Bill Belichick saying afterwards, we're better than what we thought we were tonight, but we have to go out there and show that and prove it. Nobody's going to do it for us. We're going to have to do it ourselves, and that's what we're going to do. If you're better than that, you lose the game like 2721, right?

You don't lose by 34 points at home, correct? That's a massive talent mis-evaluation, correct? I mean, 48 to 14. There's no sugar-coding that. There certainly is not. I don't know what else you would say. What a weekend for TCU, my goodness. I mean, literally, did anybody care anything about the frogs?

Yeah, they weren't mentioning the frogs at all. It was all about UNC. And then, well, sometimes you got to remember there's another team playing too. You got to go out there and do it, as Bill Belichick said, which they did not. Yes, that's what you got to be thinking about this weekend for those Spartans against the Longhorns. Yes. Spardes are flying all that way. They're not coming over there just for blank and giggle.

they want to win that game. All right, Matt. Elsewhere in the news, Micah Parsons never planned to sit out the season for the Dallas Cowboys. According to his agent David Muligetta on ESPN's first take, said he was never going to sit the season, said Micah loves the game too much. He was going to play no matter what.

He also said the most important thing for Micah was to be a cowboy. I don't believe that. He could have signed for $41 million. in a year. And been a cowboy. The most important thing was to be a cowboy. That's exactly right.

The most important thing was money. Why can't you just say that? The most important thing for me is money. Me, myself and I. As long as I'm fairly compensated, it's fine, but I'm not going to overstretch. I know what my value is.

Mike is like, I think I can get better value somewhere else. I will take better value over being a cowboy. $41 million for him was not him being underpaid. He went and tried to find the bananas. And he found it. Yes.

I mean, and that's okay. Yeah. I don't know what he can't say his first priority has been a cowboy when he turned down $41 million a year to be a cowboy. That's exactly right. That's why I always appreciated George Springer. I'm going to get me the check. Garrett, call, I'm going to give me the check.

Toronto's nice. Yeah, Toronto's lovely this time of year. All right, elsewhere, Matt, we got some college football news. We have a spat between two head coaches. Mike Gundy. Oklahoma State. taking shots at Dan Lannning and Oregon. Mike Gundy talking about the money spent

saying Oklahoma spent around $7 million and it seemed the past three years. Talking about the Oregon Ducks, he said, quote, I think Oregon spent close to $40 million last year alone. So that was just one year. Now I might be off by a few million. Gundy, of course, making several comments about Oregon

and their resources, talking about money and money, money basically throughout his press conference ahead of the clash with the Oregon Ducks this weekend. So apparently none of that money coming from the Pickens family at any point in Oklahoma State, huh? No, guess not. Let me tell you something. Blankets David. They're all hypocrites. Every one of them are. Money makes college football go around, period. Dan Lending responded to the comments, quote, if you want to be a top 10 team in college football, you better be invested in winning.

We spend to win. Some people save to have an excuse for why they don't. I can't speak on their situation. I have no idea what they got in their pockets over there. So the dude that runs Oregon, Nike. He basically said, get your weight up, son. He's 82 years old, right? Something like that.

Phil Knight. He's in his mid-80s, yeah. So when he dies, is he just going to give all the money to Oregon? Is that the plan? He has earmarked a lot of his money for different things. I can't remember exactly what. Yeah, he's 87, Google says. I'm waiting a long time.

Look how Dan Lanning says, yeah, we're not pocket watching. We can't, we're not worried about those pores over there. Mm-hmm. That's the proper response from Dan Lanning. Oh, man. Kirby Smart made similar references to Oregon's resources last year during SEC Media Days. As I told you last week, Ross, when you are spending as much money as some of these schools are, you're either going to get one or two responses from the general public that don't follow those schools.

If you spend the money, well, duh, you're supposed to win and you spend on the money. And if you don't win and you spend on the money, then you're really ridiculed. Like Texas Tech is in a no-win situation. Nobody better win situation. You better win there because nobody would choose to go to Texas Tech. I mean, I love Tex-Tech, but nobody's choosing to go there. Over the Blue Bloods. Over the Blue Bloods.

But now they're in the Blue Blood Territory because that dude, Cody Campbell, is cut, is writing checks and he's also on TV commercials every five seconds. One more quote from Dan Lanny. I'm sure UT Martin didn't have as much money as them last week and they played. So we'll play it out. There's some spiciness in the old college football world. Calling them out for scheduling UT Martin. Well, how about Indiana?

Like the coach, what's the guy's name, kind of cranky guy, Signetti or whatever? You see, he's scheduling nothing but pancakes. He doesn't want any, any good competition. in non-conference play. They've got Old Dominion, Kennesaw State, and Indiana State, the Sycamores.

I play at Larry Bird Stadium, I believe. Larry Bird Stadium. What does that look like? Kind of run down, bad back, smack talking your way in. Yeah. Welcome to the stadium. No, you're not welcome. Get the hell out.

I didn't even know they had football, but Indiana did. They found out. And cutting that check. And that's your news at noon. That is the news that dude. 12 on Sports Talk 790. If you would like to chime in anything that we've discussed and if we try to comprehend what we try to discuss, we appreciate that as well.

Manager Joe Espada with us coming up in about 18 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. You may join us before that at 713212-5-790. 7-1-12-1. 1219 on Sports Talk 790. We've NFL Rewan at 120. What is today's edition of Believe it or not? 150 coming up. The weekend? I think so because my daughter went with her one of her girlfriends. You went last night. Two nights ago.

Two nights ago. How familiar were you with the weekend? I know mostly from his first two major albums. I didn't really listen to much of Don FM or the one before that, which I can't remember. But Starboy I listened to a lot and then the one before that. Yeah, all things about the weekend. Not like Saturday I don't know what I'm trying to bring up his discography

Yeah beauty behind the madness Starboy listened to After hours I listen to some And then the last two albums I don't want to say I'm checked out I just haven't gotten into him So did you have a good time I had a great time

He had two energy full stadium crowds Yeah he's legit He had I mean he played for two hours and 20 minutes Now he was you know Taking breaks and the in between songs He was like soaking up the crowd And you know working the crowd

Is he talk or is you talking? You're talking a little bit. What's his real name? Abel, something or other. Okay. People were chanting, Abel. Abel Tesfaye. The weekend's a little easier. Yeah, the weekend works.

He's working. Never mind. Yeah. It was great show. And by the way, guess how many number one hits he has? I didn't realize he had so many number one hits. I can only name one of his songs. He says seven number one hits.

Really? Yeah. Like on the Ryan C.crest Top 40? He does that? On the actual, yes. US top 40. He's got seven number one hits. We can get some hits, Maddy.

I only know of one. What's that? Dun, dun, you know. Oh, blending lights? Yeah, that's a good song. You probably heard I can't feel my face without you. I can't feel my face when I'm...

Oh, that's it? That's not bad. That's a number one hit, Maddy. Come on. Maybe I should have gone to the concert after all. Yeah. Can't feel my face was the number one hit. Let me pull this up.

Starboy. I don't know if you're going to know that. That's not on the bridge. You're terrible. Call up. My name was. recent. Yeah, blinding light was a mega like. Blinding line is huge. Yeah. Oh, save your tears.

Save your tears for another day. You know that one? You know that one? No, I don't know. Oh. That's the number one hit? Yeah. He got some hits. Okay. The weekend. And I'm going to tell you. What? The people were showing out for the show. And the only thing it really made me feel was old. Explain by showing out. Oh, there was a lot of ass meat. Really? Hmm. You asked me?

And I answered. I don't really know what to say. The ladies dressed up for the weekend. Were they, okay, this is, this is. No. Did the outfits match their weight? Oh, not everybody. There was, um, there was some congruence and there was some incongruence.

Okay. Let's talk some extra. Please, somebody help. Somebody, I don't call anybody anything you want. people who went know exactly what I'm talking about call me I'll give you my credit cardam but just talk to me about anything yeah I uh huh then there were well you know of course as I know you said you get it but

people who just literally the whole two hours of the show just had their phone out which I just yeah I totally get it no watch put it down for five minutes at least watch the show drink it in let's be present folks it's funny because I will do a fair share of recording songs yeah and it and I'm glad I do it after because I was like am I wasting my time? And then, like, for instance, I was at dinner with a friend yesterday, and we were talking about the sphere.

Sphere. Sphere. Sphere. I'm talking about the Sphere in Las Vegas. And I was showing him the videos I took of the Eagles concert. How long were the videos? A minute. Yeah, I'm going to tell you, he checked out after 10 seconds.

But, I mean, he's like, this is incredible. I said, yeah, the sphere is the most. No, he's like, I got to go. He's like, oh, God. No, no, no. No, nobody wants to see the last 15 seconds of your minute-long concert video. You get the gist after 15. The problem I said is that some of the songs,

some of the videos I'd erase because I was singing in the background. I'm a big singer in concerts. Why did you erase them? It's all about the feeling, Matt. I don't embarrass myself. Okay. By the way, that's about as loud as I've ever heard that stadium. Save for like JJ Watt pick six against the Bengals.

That, that stadium was loud. Now, the game, the Texans will play their first game there a week from Sunday. A week from Monday. Excuse me. Could you tell their enhancements? what do you mean? They've been bragging about the speaker systems and all that kind of things. Oh, the speakers were loud A-F, I'll tell you that.

It was really loud. The crowd was really loud. I don't know, it was a good show. You know, when you go to a stadium concert, everybody's singing the whole songs, man, it's crazy. It's cool. There's nothing like it. That's how I was it, Billy Joel.

Absolutely. 40,000 people singing piano, man. It was all good. Yeah, it's cool. There's this very unique human experience that we were very privileged and lucky to get. Yeah. So you got down there. How was your Uber rides?

Well, thank you. I didn't have to Uber back. But I Ubered there. I don't live too far. It was like under 20 bucks. And there was a guy who we were talking about sports talk radio and he heard of other stations but not ours. He never heard of our station. He played dumb after I was like, he's like, oh, yeah, I know.

Oh, yeah, I know who you are. I was like, no, you don't. You probably heard other people's YouTube pages before us. That's fine. We've got to work on our brand building. Follow me on Instagram at SportsRV. That's not going to help. I don't want to look at your dumbass barbecue. I want to look at your sports takes.

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It's pictures of arena. It's not that interesting. It's pretty good. When they have Rockets win on there, it's really interesting. I can just about guarantee you a piece of Joe Spada's interview. be on my Instagram later today. Oh, wait, no, I've probably got to get that done. All right, Joe's spot is going to join us in a couple of minutes.

We're going back to sports here. That's why the guys aren't listening to show. He's like, you guys aren't talking about sports. We're trying. For our show, we're trying. We talked 90% of the time. I'm sorry, the weekend was here in Houston. It's a big deal.

It was a huge deal. There was not an empty seat. We will cuss and discuss all you want. There was not an empty seat in that stadium. It's good for them. For two days. All right. Seven one.

Money. Yeah. Astro's going to make somebody. How many Yankee fans are going to be in the game, by the way, the next three days? It's midweek. Schools in session. You would think only the die-hard Yankee fans, because they're not traveling down here. I think it'll be, I'll think it'll be like 30, 35 plus today, right?

All the crowd's will be good. I'm just worried about the Yankee infiltration. Oh, okay. Yankee fan, were you worried about fights in the stands? No, I'm just worried about just hearing about a judge goes deep, the roar of the crowd. Remember when that Astros fan got his head beat by the Dodgers fan, like a speed bag? That's not good. We don't, we do not go in balance.

Hey man, if you're wear Astros gear and getting a fight, you better be able to fight because you're getting us crushed across the country. That's true. 1227. Joe Espott is next year on 790. Matt and Ross, very happy to be joined now by the manager of your Houston Astros. Nice win yesterday over the Angels. Couple of that with the Seattle Mariners losing to Tampa Bay.

And Houston enjoys a three-game lead, opening up a three-game series with the Yankees. Skip is with us. Joe, it's Matt and Ross. to you, congratulations on the win. And I thought I wanted you to take our audience into the conversations you've had with Luis Garcia and maybe not in just the last 24 hours, but the last couple of years because a lot of guys could have said, you know what, my arm was not meant to be. And I thought some of your postgame comments kind of explained that this was a long,

physical and mental grind for him to come back to where he was and was able to pitch for you yesterday. Yeah. And, you know, during that period, you know, I've seen players. my experience where they start creating, you know, these doubts and insecurities about, am I going to be able to get back on the mound, right? Especially after a few setbacks that he had throughout his recovery. And they start second guessing themselves.

And for us, for me, who have known Louise for a very long time and knowing, you know, the character of the human and how strong mentally he is and, you know, a man of faith, It's like, you know, it's for us to continue to encourage him that things are going to be okay. It's going to take some time. And when you see someone overcome those challenges and getting back, you know, seeing him back pitching again, you know, it's special because these guys have worked really hard to get to the major leagues. To have success of the major leagues, we have seen Louise being a really good pitcher here for many, many years. And just to see him accomplish what he did yesterday. It was a very special moment.

You know, Joe, I don't want to give away company secrets, but people are like, well, you know, his velocity wasn't as good as it was pre-injury. And I'm thinking, well, my God, his arm's been in a sling for a long period of time. And maybe he'll never be to that point. But have you been told about what that could be? Or is he going to be a guy that can tap out at 92? And let me tell you, Joe, as you know, there are guys in Major League Baseball, as long as the command is good, you can live with 92 at the big leagues. You know, for me, this is what I tell everyone. We need to give him time.

There's two years this guy has been pitched on a major league mound. He has, you know, he has had setbacks. He's coming back from a very ugly injury. Sometimes he takes pitchers time to get back to their normal, you know, velo and, you know, show what they showed two years ago. And for me is I was just proud of the fact that he worked his tail off to get back on the mound. and through six innings, I guess a good lineup, and we should celebrate that.

The Velo, all this stuff, we just got to give us some time. I think it's a very fair assessment. Joe, spotted with us here on Sports Talk 790. You've had, over the last week, Skip, a lot of guys get on the base pass. The runners in scoring position numbers were just not to your level, and I'm sure the frustrations. Yesterday was one-off, but I think if you're going to win this division, you've got to have the numbers better. is an approach, is it, tell me, tell me where it is. I don't even know what possibilities are about why this team has struggled at times,

and especially in the last week, with getting guys on but not able to touch the pay station. Yeah, and you know what, for me, it's like we are getting, we're getting the guys on. So our approach, when we're trying to get people on base, understanding our capabilities and our strength, as individuals and as a team, we have really good approaches, but when people get on base, Sometimes we tend to get away from who we are as individuals and know our strength and witnesses and also recognize what pictures are trying to do to us.

So when we try to do a bit more of what we can do and we try to get the big hit when we don't really need to, we could just get what the pitchers gives us, let the guy on deck, get the job done. But sometimes in the hit moment, we want to be in that spot. We want to be the hero. We want to get the big hit. And I appreciate that about the players. We want to be in the moment. And we want our guys to have that desire to be in that spot. But also, you have to kind of control yourself, your emotions and get pitches that you can handle.

Because the pitchers, they recognize that. And they're going to try to get us to, you know, swing at pitches that they're not our pitches. Astros manager, Joe Espada, with us here on Sports Talk 790. Yordon Alvarez, looking pretty good at the plate. Looks like he's drawn a lot of walks. had the home run as well. Just overall, how are your conversations been like with him?

Is he just back to the same old Jordan, or is there still a little bit of work to be done? Yeah, you know, I think he is physically and mentally in a good spot. I think we need to still monitor his workload. He has missed four months before returning, and we want to make sure that we have him there for this, you know, for this month and postseason. if we get to that point where we could play deep into October,

we want to make sure that we take care of his body and make sure that we build him up properly because we want to keep him from the long run. But right now, what I've seen is that bats have been really good. He feels good in the outfield. His body feels good. But we've got to still monitor his workload here as we try to get him back

and some of the players who are also working, getting back here to our lineup. Yeah, what is that like for you as we go down the stretch? Because we know that this organization has always wanted to give guys days off so that you can make sure that they're fresh come October. And there's been very good results and a lot of deep October runs with that. So what is it like for you day-to-day working with players and trainers and trying to balance keeping guys fresh, but also the pressure of a division race?

Yeah, you know what? It's, you know, our workload prior to the game is also very important kind of cutting down on, on the amount of early work that we do. You know, our work in the weight room has changed. It's more like a recovery, doing some extra stretching, trying to get these guys a little later arrival to the ballpark, trying to get them to sleep a little bit longer and trying to stay home and just try to monitor their workload that way. You know, also giving this guy, I'm using the D.H. spot to kind of, you know, get these guys off their feet a bit. So we, you know, it's a grind here, but there's ways that we can do it where we can use our, you know, giving these guys a day off here and there. And also kind of monitoring our work. You know, these guys, they have a routine at making adjustments to their pregame routines or what are we not. But when 7 o'clock starts refreshing, we don't feel fatigue.

Skip, I think being even keel as a manager works, whether you're talking about a game in April 15th, July 15th, or September 15th, which will be coming up for you in the next couple weeks. You are still in a division race, three-game lead. How do you manage the – I'm still Joe Espada. I'm still the manager. I want to make sure the clubhouse is normalized as possible, but we're down to about 30 games left to go. You're holding off two teams in division. sense of urgency. How do you, how do you go through that and how did last year, as your first

time doing that, help you towards you think this year's September run? You know what? For me, the experience here, the last year, you know, 70 years that I've been here, I've always seen our guys just being the best towards the end. And it's because we have done a really good job of setting a foundation where we know and we trust our process. our work, our players for, you know, they want to see their leaders to be calm and composed and understanding that, you know, we know the job that we need to do, right? And for me, it's preparing these guys to compete every day, providing the information they need every day to be the best version of themselves, you know, pushing things back a little bit so they could

stay home and, guys, listen, spend, you know, spending an hour or two with your family, that really, it helps me when I'm around my family and my kids. and take your mind away from the game, especially when you're down the stretch. Because when they get here, it's all hands on deck. They walk through those doors and it's go time. And I've seen that in their eyes and in their work. But also there has to be a balance where they can relax.

And I want them fresh when they walk in here and understand that, you know, we have to all be in this together. We all have to be all in this together. And we are. And it's a special group. It's a special clubhouse. and I'm very always, you know, working really hard to protect what we've built here for a lot of seven, eight years. You've had to use a variety of starting pitchers.

You've had numerous up and down players at AAA to here and back and forth. You've had different guys. It feels like to me, Joe, that there is still some roster spots. Again, I'm going to put the car before the horse here for you for the playoff run with the series development and going to the postseason. I feel like there's going to be competition during this time. Is that a fair assessment to say that there are no, there are some gimmies, but there are probably a lot more guys that should be thinking about what they do in September for you if they want to play for you in the postseason. You know what? This is the way I, this is our conversation with my players is, you know, they're doing everything in their power to get to the postseason.

When we get to the postseason, we're blessed to get to that point. We'll make those decisions. But right now is if you do your job and you play your best, you're making a case for yourself. That's all it matters. Playing for today's game, doing whatever it takes to win today's game, and tomorrow we'll take care of, you know, we'll take care of itself. Great stuff, as always. Good luck with the Astros and Yankee series coming up and look forward talking to again next Tuesday.

We appreciate the time as always. Bye, bye, fellas, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Joe. Appreciate it. Joe spotted with us here on Sports Talk 790. I want to get a little bit more into what my last question was in. Okay.

Because I do believe there are guys fighting for spots on this roster, playoff time. It's not a, we've had 26 the whole way. Let's go with these 26. I think there's going to be some very difficult decisions coming up. And we'll go through some of those in a minute. And you have guys still coming back and just getting back. And then guys like Jake Myers coming back too. That's what I'm saying.

It's, that roster construction is going to be. Now, if they get there, it could be fun. But there's going to be some upset folks. Okay. That's baseball, baby. Sorry. 1243, just throwing it out there. 1243, Sports Talk 7.

All right. As a white person, I can dance to this song. You can, but can you dance well. Yes. Yeah, this is a jam. This is his most popular song, correct? I would say probably biggest hit of all time, but I can't feel my face with a mega hit.

Okay, so those are his two most popular. Probably, but he's got seven number one hits, Maddie. Let's not sell the man short. But let's go to me. No, no, no, just because that's all, yeah. Just kind of like, yeah. But I'm a consumer of. life. Well, we'll put that on your

gravestone. Let's go to me. Go ahead. How long did it take for each one of those two songs that get played? I can't feel my face was first probably 30 minutes. I can find the set list and I think the blinding lights was the last 30 minutes. It's really a catchy

tune. And again, as a white person, I would endorse it. Starboy he played early. That was a number one hit. I feel it come in. Come in was one of my favorites with Daft Punk. Great song. He played that early on. I think I know that song too. Yeah, probably.

Yeah, I mean, obviously he's a popular enough. He fills up a large NFL stadium two years in a row. He's doing okay. He's doing okay for himself. I think he might have done three shows at Jerry World. It was either two or three. Yeah. God, that's crazy.

Let me look at the tour. I mean, he's not playing in some, you know, he's not playing at the local casino in Wichita. He's not at the Rappelries on South Maine. No, he's not. He's not that place up on north side Where they charge you horrific amount of money To see bands that serve chicken fried steak for $184

Oh, this tour's been going since 2020 My God He's been the road that long No way He's got to take some time off Yeah, I mean I guess there's different levels A Latin American leg Australian leg

Good God I'm trying to find how many days It was two days at AT&T Good for him Two days in energy All right, so let's get to the position Interesting battles Starting rotation for the playoffs

And I will be doing this for you Multiple times Four days at so fine So that's got to be at least 300,000 people Since he made $35 million in those four days He personally collects or the concert itself I think that's how much it generates

Revenue generates Good for him He's doing okay That's why he tour for three years Yeah All right back to baseball Back to baseball. I still say

Hunter 1, Frommert 2. I'm still going to go Araggetti 3. Oh, Javier right now. I mean, we're just doing the live ratings, Matt. The live ratings, it's Javier. It can change. But again, at least Arrogati's given me to the six inning twice. But who's been in more playoff wars?

He has. And Arrogati's walk numbers are still not very good. But if Javier adds it to it, if Garcia adds to the mix, I mean, I think there are very few Lance McCuller Jr. Fans around anymore, but there's not a spot for him in the wildcard series.

McCullors Island is... Well, it's... I'm building my canoe. Yeah, it's... Wow. I'm sad. I really rooted for... I really wanted it to work out.

But it's just not working out. I mean, seventh inning in the bullpen in the game other day was good. Eighth inning gave up the double And he threw the ball away to first base, and that didn't help the cause either. No. You know what? I think he's untradable.

But to me, if I was Lance McCullors, I'd try to find somewhere else to play next year. I just think if I change his scenery could keep him alive because it feels like to me he's just washed here. He's tradable to the point where you have to send like 50, you'd have to cover like 15 of the 18 million. Or if not more. I don't even know how that would work. I don't know, the whole economics of baseball. And get a decent prospect. Right.

You'd have to get early for anything. It'd be like a rough trade. Like we thought, we would say it's impossible to trade Raphael Montero, but it happened. Would you just send a bunch of cash? Yeah. You send it with some bad team,

try to get some A ball prospect and prey. But at the very least, you're getting salary relief, which we know Jim Crane is very interested in getting. Let me give you another battle. Tell me where there's a roster that has keratini Now, maybe the answer is there is a roster.

Caratini, Dubon, Orias, Cam Smith, and Jake Myers, and Jesus, I feel like we're one over the limit here. I guess we'd have to go through the numbers. It feels like you can fit them all on there. I mean, very rarely you... You don't need the... Well, is there... There's limits on the rosters nowadays?

Well, it's 26 for the playoffs. I know, but I mean as far as pitcher numbers. Yeah, yeah, it's half and half, yeah. Hmm. Because let's go to the outfield. On the olden days, you would have fewer pitchers early. Because you wouldn't have more. But now can you do that?

I'll have to double check. I thought I had to be still equal to equal, but again, I could be wrong about that. It just feels like we've got one too many position players. Maximum of 13 pitchers. so you could carry 12 in theory. And probably that would be the better idea. Dubon helps you because he's a jack-of-all-trades plays multiple positions. How many left-handers are you going to see in the playoffs in that first round?

And if that's the case, does he... I mean, you can't take Hes Sanchez off the roster. No. Because he's hitting, in theory, better than Cam Smith is. Does Cam Smith absolutely 100% make the roster? if you're worried about Yordon slash Altuva being your left fielder.

You know what I'm saying? I think so. I'm just talking off the top of my head here but it feels like there's a little bit of a even if he doesn't hit it. Cluster. He provides you so much defensively, Cam Smith.

People are learning not to run on him. Yeah, they are. Yeah, they are. I hope all these things we're talking about are legitimate issues that Joe's going to have to worry about in about four weeks. Yeah, well, have a clear picture soon.

Hmm. Hmm. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, Urius and Dubon, both utility guys, but Urius more infield. You don't carry Dubon everywhere. You don't typically carry two utility

infielders. Now, back in the day, did they do when it was a LAMIS and you got DuBonne? You can carry two catchers, which is that. Generally, you have some guy at the end of the roster you never use in the years past. you know, Derek Fisher or Jake Moriznick.

Who's that white guy that used to run really fast for the Astros? I said, I don't know. What era? Like five years ago. Oh, help me out. Not Jake Moriznick? Not Derek Fisher? No, there was another dude.

It was really fast. Oh, help me out, Houston. There was a guy that would, was it the center field or they went to the Guardians? Oh, you're talking about Miles Straw? Was it Miles Straw? Was it Miles Straw was like the deep? Myel straw was starting.

But wasn't he like the designated fast white guy off the bench that would come in for pinch running? You've had some of those. Maybe that was who it was. Okay. I'm trying to pull up guys. Yeah, he was kind of like that. Maybe I was thinking Miles'roll. Oh man, I forgot about this guy.

Remember Super Jack Mayfield? Jack, you mean the governor? Whoever called him super? That's ridiculous. I mean, he was purely average of best. Oh, man. Remember Andre Scrubb? No, don't do this to us.

He was decent for a while. all right final hour the matthobba show with ross coming up stop going through randos from aster you were asking me for the of five years ago it was mild straw i think about okay mild straw it's an enterprising young man he was quite shifty he got you young er diaz he did and somebody else good what was the other piece of that's oh no this is going to bother me go look up the trade while we take this short time out back of the final hour believe or not today it's all things about time right yeah and then he puts

the wall. Well, I mean, yeah. It's going to happen to anybody. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Astros on the brain, college football on the brain. And by the way, Ryan Clark with a hilariously hot take about your favorite college quarterback sports RV. That's fine. They're coming. You know that, don't you? Look, if he's not good enough, he's not good enough. He absolutely got too much hype, and it was over-hyped. I said this all offseason. Do you know the reason for that? I said if he was so good, why didn't he unsweet,

unseat mediocre Quinn yours? Do you know why we overtalk him? Because his last name. We don't know anything about college football. We as a collective universe don't know college football. Chris Gordon does. But he's the one. Okay.

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2.1.2.5. 790. 102 on 790. It is Madden Ross for the final hour of this show. All right. So, I don't have much respect for... You know what I was saying about this? I don't much respect for anybody. He has to be on. I... Herbs shoot out. I don't mind.

Nick Saban's cool. He's got a stop color in his hair. It's just getting so dark now. It's ridiculous. I like Dan Orlovsky. Orlovsky's good. Even if he was criticizing Steve Sarkesian over the weekend, that's okay. We can disagree. So he's talking about putting the training wheels on, which, you know. So I go to the four U-tap, and that's a mistake on my part, and says the following.

Archmane, this is Ryan Clark. And Ryan Clark got in trouble for something during the summertime, right? He was gotten to beef with somebody. Oh, it was about Chardua Sanders, my guest, and all this stuff. It was about skin color stuff. Oh, he had to colorism. Oh, we don't. That's out of my realm.

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because everybody in their mother has his opinion about arch uh oh arch manning is not a generational talent oh people place expectations upon him without any evidence he's not trevor lawrence or caleb williams who beat out returning starters as freshman instead arch sat behind his seventh round pick for two years he's a good player who will be very good but let him earn it.

Arches never faced top-level competition. He didn't play high school level ball in Louisiana, nor did he compete in the high school quarterback circuit. So it'll take time, and that's okay. That's from Ryan Clark. Can I... He's so... So hot.

That's so hot takey. It is very... Look, he could be... First of all, let's say he could be right. He could be right. He could be. But you can't make that assessment against one game against a top five team. But when you're on ESPN and your hashtag embrace debate and your disposal,

we're talking about this on this show. If Ryan Clark had a measured regular take about Arch Manning in week one, we wouldn't be talking about on this show. I don't know what I'm saying as you or whatever. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, exactly. Just because I read as a man I respect you. Ryan Clark could be right as far as, yeah, putting generational talent on Arch Manning,

he's got a generational name. He's taken a generational path. but there have been no doubt there's been five-star quarterback recruits who are supposed to be no doubt about it and they didn't turn out to be much of anything. I don't know, Jimmy Claussen comes to mind. The biggest, no doubt about it,

five-star quarterback recruit before Archmanning was Quinn Ewers. And he wasn't that good, and he got taken in the seventh round. So there's no guarantee of success. Everybody in life hits their ceiling someplace. Some people, ceiling is Tom Brady. Some people that ceiling is, Quinn

yours or Jimmy Clausen or whoever. I just, I don't want anyone to judge me after I do something once. Now, granted, he had two stars last year. Yes, he did. Against Louisiana Monroe and Mississippi State. Some slapies, okay? Yeah.

Sorry, you are sloppies. This is on the road, in the shoe, Ohio State. To open up a season. To open up the season with Steve Sarkisian keeping the training wheels, which he did, relying on the defense. Again, we can talk about this. Would I like him to kind of turn it a little bit more loose?

Yes. Do I understand a coach on the road with one of the best defenses in the country saying I'm going to rely on my best unit? I also understand that. I'm going to tell you this. I'm going to assume, Ross, not that I have the numbers from the 365 sports dudes

or whatever they're on three guys, but my assumption is that when Arch Manning was coming out of high school and was being recruited by schools across this country, everybody in their mother would have taken him in a heartbeat. Am I fair on that? Yes.

So is Ryan Clark telling me that 150 different colleges thought this guy was so bad that we don't want him? Yeah. They're not true. Everybody, from U-TEP to Memphis to Florida, to LSU to Washington, probably wanted Archmanning as a quarterback, right? That'd be fair to say.

He had his detractors, too. There were people that were saying he was overrated and all that stuff. Let me ask you this serious question. And I don't mean to be rude or stereotypical, but, you know, we're going to do this. Do you think part of it that these private high school quarterbacks have a difficult time making the transition? There was some talk about that because of the school that he went to. Now, O'Dell Beckham Jr. had famously gone to that school, but it's not like it was a football factory. And a lot of the competition, I mean, you saw some of the highlights.

It looked like he was playing some pee-wee team sometimes. I mean, it just did. So there was some discussion about the fact that is how much of it is his name. how much of it is his prospect profile as far as if you change his name to Arch Jones but every single recruiting

service had him at the very least is one of the number one or number two quarterbacks in the country who played private high school football by the way and he did yes so 150 schools and I'm I'll say 100 100 100 schools said we believe that Arch Manning could be a quarterback of our football

program. So does that kind of dismay the, well, he went to a private school that he won't be taken seriously? I think it does. He was number one on 24-7 sports that year. Number two was Nico Yamaleava. He was the number two. No doubt about it quarterback. And what is his career been?

Not very good. Two schools, too, correct? Yes. So, I mean, there's just, there's no guarantee. And I'm pulling this up. The other quarterback is Dante Moore. He committed to UCLA. I don't even know where that dude is now.

Oregon. Do I, look, it'd be foolish for us not to say the name hasn't helped him. Foolish. Well, it certainly helped him financially as well. Man, the amount of commercials over completions. Hey, hey, hey now. I thought it was funny. 17 completions. First half, though. More arch commercials than completions. That's just fair. He could have been better. He missed some easy throws late. He made some good throws. I mean, sorry, he missed some easy throws early, made some better throws late, and the interception was bad.

The interception was bad. Steve, East Houston at 109 on 790. Hello, Steve. Hey, good afternoon. So what's up with Herb Street and the dog in the booth? I don't understand it. Would you, Matt Thomas, mind having your, you know, your colleague there at the booth, bringing in his dog? Well, I work for some dogs.

How about that? Okay. No, I, hey, it's kind of a bit now. Thank you, Steve. I don't care. I mean, the dog is the dog is getting a lot of run. Uh-oh.

Descending opinion? I don't want to be. No, no, no, please. Because let me tell you, if there's somebody petting out of my control room, get the dog out of my control room. I'm sorry. That's what I would be saying if I was trying to work a broadcast. It's cute. It's fuzzy.

I don't need... God knows if somebody's allergic to pet dander or something. I don't need some sloboring dog all over my control room when I'm trying to run a broadcast. It's cute. You can bring them on the plane. They treat them better than Lee Corso. They treat...

The dog flies charter. Lee Corso has to fly dark breast. It's a good bit. They went next man up. One of the dogs died. Now a new dog gets to go. And then how about this? The dog took a massive crap before the kid kicked.

the field goal to win a half million dollars. For real? Yes. Okay, that's what I'm saying. I don't need piss and poo and slobber and hair anywhere I'm trying to work. It's cool, Kirk Herb Street. Clearly this is like an emotional support situation for him. It feels like to me,

then that's okay. But I don't need it in my control. You might be right because look, I love my dogs, but I can work without my dogs. Yes, exactly. He might not be able to work without his dogs. I don't want to call it a crutch, what's a better way to say that?

There's something that, emotional support. I'll just keep it with that. Yeah, because, you know, look, Kirk travels a lot. I'm not putting my headset on a slobbering dog. He did put the headset on. Now, it was like 40, was it like 48 to 14 about that time? It added it, and it added some value to it. You got to do something. Yeah.

Okay. It was the two-minute warning, and it was 48 to 14, so maybe we're cool. By the way, here's where you can't take your dog, by the way. Listen to me very carefully. you can't bring your dog to the grocery store don't do that ever again stop doing that I don't mind you've been going to restaurants with it

it's too much on planes too people bring in like great danes on planes no they're not stop you have to know you can't do but you can't bring a great dane in a plane you can't they got to go in either your purse or a little small carriers you can now you're just making stuff wasn't there somebody no I saw it on the internet you cannot that's not that's merit doing that

well now they're bankrupt by the way did you see the story about the Australian airline that got sent to me? Look, images right here. Great Danes on planes. No, those are AI genera. You cannot bring a Great Dan on a plane. I'm sorry, you can't.

I've seen it on the internet. It must be true. So there's an Australian airline that had all the toilets weren't working. They told the people on the plane either use bottles or the sink or the vomit bag or the vomit bag or hold it. I'm going to tell you something right now. Can't they land the plane and like? Yeah, they can absolutely do that.

I'm going to, so the, the airplane plane doesn't have a bowl. It's just a hole, right? But it goes into some sort of septic system. Yes. It doesn't go over 43,000 feet. You can't just fill that bad boy up? I don't know. But I'm telling you, if the flight attendant says we're going from, I'm going to New York.

So you go into the bathroom with a water bottle. I could do that. Yeah. And can you just dump the water ball on the trash can of the bathroom? that doesn't satisfy your intestines? What if you had a How long as the flight?

What if you had a heavy salty meal before the flight? Well, then you take the vomit bag in there and you... I'm sorry! Take a break. Take a break. 1.13. it is the Matt Tava show on Sports Talks.

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Welcome back to the Matt Tommy show with Ross. It is. Believe it or not the weekend. Coming up in 40 minutes. Right now the fifth of Beethoven brings you the NFL rewind from this weekend. Which nothing happened. Uh, no. A few things happened? I mean, there's some NFL news and notes and things to get to, Matt. We mentioned this earlier on the news at noon, but that was an hour ago.

so we can bring it back up according to Micah Parsons, who is now a Green Bay Packer, his agent David Mulugeta, talking on ESPN's first take, said that the Cowboys were never told that Michael Parsons would not play, and he would have played, quote, never. I mean, Micah loves the game too much. He was going to play no matter what.

Believe him or not, David Mulligetta that Michael Parsons would have played come week. one for the Dallas Grand Boys. Not, not, not, not, not. You think he would have sat on actual games? Absolutely. Okay. He, the relationship between he and Jerry Jones was so ugly and so

nasty down the stretch. He forced the train, he got it, he won. Hmm. Okay. Well, I'll take your word on that. Also, from David Muligate. I know where you're going to go with this one, Matt. Believe him or not. I think the most important thing is Micah wanted to

be a cowboy. He grew up cheering for the cowboys. Lies. Ler the Blue and White at Penn State. Ward in the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys. He wanted to be a cowboy. We did everything we could for him to remain a cowboy.

Next story. Forty-one million dollars a year they offered and they turned down. Now, of course, they got 47. So, I mean, that makes sense. But, you know, what else are you going to do? All right, Matt, elsewhere, you have with the Giants, you know that Russell Wilson

on their unofficial debt chart is their starting quarterback. Jackson Dart listed ahead of their depth chart, ahead of James Winston. And they signed Russell Wilson and James Winston the offseason. Captain both drafted Jackson Dart. And now it goes Wilson Dart Winston on their debt chart. The depth charts are usually put out by PR people, not about the head coach.

That's true. So I will take it with a grain of salt. How does James Winston feel about all this? Are the crab legs good in New York? By the way. Probably? I did watch a little national TV yesterday since I was working for Astros. Do you know who I like on ESPN?

No. Cam Newton. Oh, you do? I think now he's got weird-ass hair, but he's really good as an analyst. Okay. So he is, Thomas Sports Enterprise's media division is bullish on Cam Newton as a Broadcaster. Okay, Matt, well, let's go locally here for a moment. The Rams have said that they expect Matthew Stafford to start the opener versus the Texans. Now, they expect them to finish it, though. Well, we'll see. Our old friend Sarah Barshop.

No. Continue on. She's not your friend? No. Old friend Sarah Barshap with the report from ESPN. I think she works for ESPN LA. Stafford missing the first month of training camp dealing with the back injury. He has been a full participant in practice since August 18th. McVeigh saying that Stafford will participate in the full week of practice leading up to the Rams week one game against Texas. So wait a minute. He's been practicing for two weeks and we're supposed to be concerned about this now?

Well, we had the caller said he wasn't going to play, right? Yes, the caller had a gut feeling on that. How are we feeling about that gut feeling? He was praying for that to happen. He's thinking about flying the New York and trying to inject a state knife in the back of Matthew Stafford's back. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. He's playing. That's a gut feeling that caller was going to lose.

All right, man. Speaking of unofficial depth chart, the Houston Texans is out. They have. Let's go left to right on the offensive line. Ariante Ursery. Lake and Tomlinson at Jake Andrews, Ed Ingram, Titus Howard. How are we feeling?

Scared to death. I'm feeling good. Feeling confident. That's because you're better at Ross. Top 25 offensive line in the NFL. Top 25, you heard of here first. What? No, I was saying something rude, but I'm not going to do it. I'm glad you held your tongue.

Yeah, I'm trying to be more polite. It's football time in Houston, baby. Let's get it going. It's division around lost time in Houston. I'm not feeling great about my Texans to win prediction that I made on gut feelings, but you know, you give your gut feeling what it is at the time. What was your gut feeling? I think I said 2320, Texas.

I know, I tell you, 1916. If the Texans are going to win, I'll be like you. And you're welcome because you know what? I am the Texans insider. Yes. Liberty White Matt here on the show. Also of note, Matt, listed as the starting wide receivers, you have Nico Collins,

Christian Kirk, and Jaden Higgins. Where's Mr. Noel? Noel listed behind Christian Kirk. I don't know if that's, it doesn't have an official slot designation, but that's where Kirk will operate. Okay. Also listed as their number one running back. Nicholas Chubb over Damian Pierce,

then Dari Ogunboalee, Woody Marks, and British Brooks. Over under 60 yards on Nick Chub this Sunday, over or under? Under. Okay. Damian Pierce can bust one. Yeah, all it takes is one of those guys to bust one. They'll get the over 60 number. Well, any individual Texans rusher.

Rush for 60 yards. An explosive play counts is 20 plus. That is correct. Well, they have an explosive run. they will. No, I mean, they can bust off tackles. I mean, sometimes you can do it on your own. A man can hope.

A man can dream. I will say no explosive runs for the Texans. Then you're basically saying the Texans are going to lose. No, I'm not. Offensive line is going to be 25th this week. I think the short passing game is going to be effectively the running game. To whom? Christian Kirk was going to find the end zone.

Yeah, Christian Kirk. I mean, Dolden Schultz. Yeah, Nico Collins. You can hit him on some quick stuff as well. Do the Texans have to score a defensive touchdown every week to win double digit games. That's what I said. More than 2.35 and a half. Use code, spotlight.

Draft Kings pick six. Yeah, I'm a whore. What's up? You are a whore. Me and Jordan Hudson. You and you're Jordan Hudson Hoer. Those were Matt's words, by the way. I wasn't really calling her that. That's what Matt said earlier. I was making a reference. You're the opposite of the horror. You're a queen.

All right. There you go, Matt. That's your NFL rewind. Thank you very much. All right. Vince wants to talk some asteros. We'll get to him and coming back. Vinny. Vince might offer some great stuff. Vinny and we got a Frankie. A Vinny and a Frankie. And we had a James and God Nokes on the fan.

I even sent Jonathan some new WF fan liners. hoping he was going to plan today. And we didn't find out until like 9 o'clock last night. He wasn't working today. Yeah, that's fine. And we didn't get the board op schedule still, actually. We are in the world of communication. We don't communicate.

I'm sorry, producer schedule. There you go. 128 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-790. Matt and Ross with you. Tomorrow on the show, we will have shut your bum ass up.

Ain't nobody got time for that. We will have hopefully plenty of Astro highlights against the Yankees to play. Now, does our man producing today, Freddie, what is the name? Freddie? Frankie. Can he play a montage tomorrow?

Because if we're going to play, we got to play Sinatra, right? If they win, if they win, Yeah. It's going to be a montage. I hope so. It's going to be tough. I won't.

You know who's favorite in the game tonight? No. Do I want to know? One team is a minus 115. One's a minus 105. Oh, so it is what it is. Max Fried over Frumber. The juice is going on both sides.

All right. So the Astros can hit lefties. So Frankie, talk to Ross. We're going to play a montage tomorrow. Astros are going to win. He's figured out. I mean, he's been running. Yeah.

Okay. He's running Doug Pike. You've been running a Doug Pike? Man, it's going to be great. It's going to be a great duck season, Matt. Doug, you've ever been to Beeville? I love Beeville. Frankie, you ever going to the 15th hole and taking 14 shots to pick the ball and said, I got to get out of here?

I have done that. You a golfer Frankie? No. No, Frankie's got the online stuff going on. What are you into? What's your number one hobby, Frankie? Number one hobby? Man, I love classical.

Classical music? Yeah. Okay. What do you like? a Tchaikovsky guy. Oh, man. You're more of a Chopin? Maybe, maybe Pocquev.

Oh, wow. All right. I like that guy. Why are you working here? I'm just curious. He's also got his microphone way louder than ice. Yeah, why are you talking longer than us? Back off.

It's not your show. Oh, well, now it's too low. Turn it back out. Oh, we're just kidding with you. Yeah, you've made, now, are you nervous about believing not coming up? Also, the key to producing the show is make my microphone loud than Matt's. Oh.

The key. I'm just kidding. Oh, he's actually going to do it. Hey, blow him out. The key is to mute Ross in his horrific sports takes. Let's go to Vince in Midtown on 790. Hi, Vince. Hey, you guys are talking about the position players for the Astros.

Yeah. I was wondering what your thoughts were, what your thoughts were going into next season. We're loaded on position players, in my opinion. And I'm not sure how Estrada can manage. that. You got two third basemen. And I don't know all the contractual obligations and all. So I'm just wondering how to manage

that with Fredis and Correa. Then you got Eureas, who I can see taking a lot of Dubon's I say minutes, but innings, you know, on some of the infield positions. So just wonder how you think Estrada

and Dana Brown are going to manage that. Well, it is for next season, obviously. But when this trade was made, the first thing I thought was, what do you do about 26? What is Paredes health? Can you trade a guy in Paredes who has terrific bat, good power, but is coming off of a severe, severe hamstring injury? Ureas is obviously a tradable commodity. You're going to have to probably figure out whether you're going to resign Caratini or he's going to go somewhere else.

You're going to need a backup catcher. I don't think Cesar or Sadazar is the long-term solution to be back up. I ultimately do believe they'd like to get Diaz out of behind the dish, but that may be until Christian Walker is gone as an astro. I do believe there will be some sort of significant trade in the off-season that will involve a player that has played a lot of games. Now, you're going to look this up. Actually, I can look it up.

What is Dubon's contract status? He's got at least another year. The thing about Dubon that makes him valuable is he can play more. multiple defensive positions. What doesn't make him valuable is the fact he does zero slug. He's a gold glover. Yeah. But he's also movable.

Yeah. Next year is his last year. Okay. What are you Winston over there for? It's been real. We love you, Maricio. Yeah, Maricio, unfortunately, is very, very replaceable. And when Urius may be that person.

He plays great. Because here's the thing. Jacob Melt, I know, has not been good this year. but the organization's high on him. And maybe this first year of going through rookie growing pains will make him better for next year. But I could see him competing for an outfield spot for next year. He could. Because remember, Jake Myers, this is a one-off for him.

From a bat standpoint. For a bad standpoint. Yeah, but he's always been great in the field. It's been a gold glove finalist. Yeah. This team is going to do some things. I do believe the coaching staff will be severely evaluated. whether that's the right thing or the wrong thing.

That's fine. It happens every single year. That's okay, yeah. Even teams that make playoffs get rid of championship. Gary Pettis gone after last year. Yes. So that's going to be evaluated. And I do believe they are probably a little heavy in the infield when it comes to utility guys,

especially if you're going to do a rotation that involves Jordan and Jose playing left field. I think the Jose left field mainstay thing is no longer in play. I think he may be unfortunately positionless. designated hitter. Yeah, but that's your not. But they don't want to play Yorna out there, yeah. But Yorna may be playing more outfield

than I ever thought he was ever going to play. But again, it's already happening. Since he can come back, he's played more left field than I thought he would. Absolutely, 100%. Yeah, we could ask Joe about that. I just thought of it. Dang. Next week.

All right now. Disappointing. Sorry. But these are probably, honestly, these are problems that I think we should probably show for a while. Because we've got 30 days left to go in this season.

This thing's going to be a bear. You get the Rangers playing excellent baseball. They've won nine of 10. The Mariners aren't going away in hiding. Down the stretch we go. Should be fun. Exciting.

And good for us. We want you to listen all the games here and talk about them. On Sporting good and bad. Yeah. I mean, you're not going to talk about anywhere else

because you get a bunch of wow. You don't want that. You want at least halfway decent conversation. Well, yeah, we can get to 30 minutes of Jalen Noel versus Jaden Higgins, but. We might have to.

Or who's going to replace CJ? Excuse me? What do you mean? He's getting, he's here for life. No, I'm talking about this year, though. CJ Strah is going to be here for, what do you mean? That offensive line's going to let him down. What do you mean?

You know it. Tay Erser, he's ready to rock, baby. Okay. Lincoln, Lincoln Tomlinson for life. You keep thinking that. There's no running game. Top 25 finish, folks. Now, I want you to please correct yourself because there are people bump around

going, do you hear Ross Filler has? They'll be a top 25 offensive line. There are 32 teams. It's not to brag. Well, they're 32 right now. Don't you think if you move up seven spots in a 32 team list, that's a pretty good movement, right? I believe he'll be concussed by week three. Yes, I think it'll be just fine. You know, we still have our bet that I goaded you into.

Which was? Seven and a half. Oh, geez, I'll be paying that off by the end of October. Maybe not. No, the schedule's easy. What's a week one on the road against that Stafford and the Rams? Although Mike Tannenbaum from ESPN does it the Titans, one in the EFC South? Mike Tannenbaum?

Yeah. The disgrace former Jets GM? Correct. Okay. You think somebody like put something in his coffee to say let's, wouldn't you have the worst take out there? You got to spice it up.

I got to be honest. If there's anybody winning the AFC South, not in the Texans, it's probably the Jaguars. Are they kind of due to be competitive? Isn't Trevor Lawrence due to be fond of the quarterback? It's his fifth year. We've been waiting for a breakout for five years.

I'm sitting here going, man, another massive overthrow or an underthrow. Or, hey, it was 3rd and he through past five yards. Yeah, speaking of a generational prospect who may have hit his ceiling. But Liam Cohen, the new key head coach, is supposed to be one of the great offensive minds in football. We'll see what happens. Got some good weapons.

Brian Thomas and company. They frankly have underperformed. They've spent lots of money putting people around him. Remember that last year they spent crazy money on their receiving court? I feel like if he was that great, things would have worked out with Doug Peterson. I don't think Doug Peterson's a good football coach too. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Maybe it was just a miss.

guess what? The smartest football people do miss some people. I mean, it was consensus. Remember, he was a true freshman winning a national championship at Clemson? Everybody's like, if this guy go to the draft, he'd go number one right now. Do you think football people miss more than other people's experts of other sports? I think it's, no, because there's like 30 rounds of the, well, not anymore 30 rounds of major league draft, but there's usually only a handful of them are really good. But that's also, I mean, that's the player pool.

So I don't know. I don't know. It just feels like when an NBA guy... Basketball misses happen. Also, there's only literally like three really good players every draft. We don't care if you miss or not. You're number 11 draft pick. All right. Believe it or not, it's all things about the weekend.

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show with Ross. It is all things about the weekend. And if you missed our conversation with Joe Espada, you can always find it on the IHeart Radio app and the podcast page also on our website at Sports790.com. The University of Texas falling to number seven in the Associated Press poll, Rossi. Your thoughts, disappointment. Doesn't matter. Despair. Yeah, you know what? It doesn't matter. That's right. It doesn't matter what your rank is. New top 25 poll is out. Ohio State is number Penn State to LSU 3. LSU going from 9 to 3 this week.

Ohio stayed up two spots. Penn State stayed where they are. Georgia, 4, Miami 5. They went up 5 spots. Texas dropped 6 spots. Clemson is number 8. They dropped 4. Notre Dame dropped 3 to number 9.

South Carolina in top 10. And no receiving votes for University of Houston. That'll change after this week's big win over the Rice Owls. Man, a lot of big 12 schools in this. top 25, by the way. Utah 25, Texas Tech 24, Iowa State 16. Good college football season.

Week 1, 1, bad. All right. Tomorrow on the show, as we've mentioned, we'll have Brian Bogos Civic with us. We'll have also shut your bummed up. We might even go check out what's going on in Los Angeles with the Rams. That'll be a part of the show, either tomorrow or Thursday. Astro started Thursday. three-game series tonight with the New York Yankees.

And again, if you're going tonight, it's a 7-10 first pitch tonight. It is a 7-10 pitch on Wednesday, and then a 7-10 pitch, excuse me, a 640 pitch on Thursday. I think that's because of travel considerations. But the game tonight will be at 7-10. And the pitching matchup will feature Max Fried, 14 and 5 with an ERA at 3.06. Robert Valdez, 12, and 7 with a 3.18. It's Max Fried versus a guy who wants his contract. Who's always pissed off.

Fronder? Yeah. I don't think he's always pissed off. Have you seen him on Twitter? He's very affable. He hasn't tweeted in weeks. Thanks. By the way, I...

He's put up a lot of crooked numbers for weeks. I get credit for that, by the way. What? I told the world about Framber tweeting. He sucked and then he stopped tweeting. So I say to you, for what credit do you want? Because nobody even knew he was around doing that until I had told him. the people about it. He had like 50,000

followers when you were talking about it. I think at least those people knew. But nobody on radio was talking about except me. I would. Well, I don't listen to other radio shows, so I don't know. You shouldn't because it's a garbage out there. I mean, we're the only show of quality in the marketplace. You said it, not me. You think the other, forget it.

What else? I didn't disagree. You didn't disagree. By the way, I almost took Ashton Gentine the draft yesterday. Oh, my God, he was available. Now, somebody ratted you out, that you that Dr. Rota was talking about how great Ash and Genty was, and you didn't tell him that you thought he sucked.

And then he was overrated and he's the worst. He's going to be fine after he has his season ending the injury. It'll be better in year two. He's getting a thousand this year. Let's put a bet on. Let's go. Really? Okay.

What do you want to bet? I need odds. What? Just a little bit odds. Hold on. You can't talk all this bluster and then ask for odds. I'm asking for odds. If you give him to me, that's a different story.

Let me look what his actual Let's look what his actual Actual Vegas line you don't need odds The line is the line is the line right Yeah I can't find it You talk All right

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At age of 17, the weekend won a local talent competition in Toronto when he performed Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror. Believe it or not. Believe it. That is a nod. I'm sorry, but thank you for playing. Brian, your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show. Every bit of it, Matt. In 2023, the Guinness World Records named the Weekend, the most popular artist in the world.

Believe it or not? Not. That is a believe it, but thank you for listening to all four hours of the show. Rich in spring on 790 Rich. You ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, sir. has talked publicly about his many struggles with drugs, but has been

completely sober since 2021. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, he still drinks and uses marijuana. That's fine. We gave away nothing today. Ross, some final thoughts. We've got a minute to kill here. Or 40 seconds. Hook of Hockemorns. Going to bounce back. Go Coogs.

Astros win. Minor setback for a major comeback. And go Yankees and enjoy. Go Yankees. I mean, go Astros? Against the Yankees. go Astros. Who are the Mariners playing? The race. Go raise.

And make sure you check out the Astros on deck. Coming up at 6 o'clock. And can I bring my dog to the office tomorrow? Please don't. Get your stinking, slobbering dog out of our workspaces. I'm sorry, Kirk.

No coral or no sable? You can call me a bad person if you want. Get Sadie, get a coral, get them all out of here. They're so lovable, though. I'm sure they're great, but I want their slobber and asses all in my workspace. They brought the dogs at the ballpark on Saturday. stinks. Probably feed those dogs

wolf chili and then those kind of smells they're making it over here. All right, that's it for the radio program up next. What a thought to end the show on. Hey, it's our buddies, Adam Wexel and Adam Clinton.

They did not work on Monday like I did. They didn't work on Saturday like I did. They're going to entertain the hell out of you for four hours. Or give a take. It's the A team on sports talk, 790. Thank you.