The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - BRICE MATTHEWS!! Astros Take The First Game Of The Series vs Diamondbacks, Jerry Jones Hates His Players ?

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

BRICE MATTHEWS!! Astros Take The First Game Of The Series vs Diamondbacks, Jerry Jones Hates His Players?

Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. In H-Town, good morning, and welcome to the Bryce's Right. Your team has got a five-game lead in the American League West. Shout out to the Milwaukee Brewers. Thank you, Miliwake. Was that Gongwin, right? For the Goodland. Yeah, thank you.

Let me just say something. What? Drew Carey's fine. I would have been significantly better. I... Hmm. And... Yes, you would have.

Bob Barker's the goat. May he rest. You'd be great, Matt. Thank you very much, Ross. We're off to a great start. I don't know how they've kept you down for so long. Well, it's because I'm not a celebrity. That's true.

I mean, Martin Short is hosting the new match game. I mean, seriously... Isn't he in his 80s? Just kick me in the Nads. Period. Well, I mean, Was Bob Barker a celebrity before he got the job? No, but he also got the job.

Well, he hosted truth or consequences in the late 60s. Oh, man. This is why we turn to the experts. I mean, he wasn't a household name in 1972, but it took him about two years. Then he was a household name for 45 years after that. So he did okay. Yeah. I'm sorry, Matt.

Ross, if the price is right, called me tomorrow and said. I've been trying, bro. They won't pick up. Matt, you need to do the show. Yes. I would leave all of this. They've blocked my emails, text. I'm trying to get you on there, Matt.

They won't even follow you on IG. No, they won't. Add Sports RV. Oh, don't even do that. You know, I said it before. Like, my mom has won Price is Right and Met. Yeah. So I found out what year was.

April 1999, she went on the show and met Bar Barker and all that stuff. Did she kiss him? She gave him a good hug. Oh, that's right. Good hug. She was obsessed with him just like you are. But he didn't sexually harass her, right? Like he did a lot of his Barker beauty.

No, that's, well, he did that. That's true. He needs several lawsuits. I mean, unless he didn't kiss all of his contestants in the mouth like Richard Dawson did back in the day. Yeah, Debbie Donovan, Ross. Passing around a canker source.

Hey, let me tell you, for a while when the sexual harassment lawsuits weren't in play, he was... Weren't in play. He was... Lord. All right.

Diane Parkinson was the sexiest one of the Barker Beauties, and he picked the right Barker Beauty, and the price was right for him. Well, also the price was right for the settlement out of court. That's true. Do you think they negotiated? Yo, today, you're in the settlement, and it kept on going up. She said, he said, I want to see your Plinko, and she said it's going to cost you.

Yeah, we could do games. We could do Price's right references for the entire four hours. I mean, I would love it. I think it would lose the audience, but that's fine. I'd rather talk about Bryce Matthews busting loose. The Bryce Matthews experience, two strikeouts, two home runs. Well, it's funny because that's exactly what we thought he was going to be. whenever he became him a major leaguer.

Again, I, in my heart of hearts, don't believe that he was supposed to be a major leaguer this year. Everyone knows that. And Joe Spott, I even talked about it and was asked. You know, he wasn't a finished product when he was called up, but you got to get on-the-job training. If you're a 20-25 Astro, you've been getting a lot of on-the-job training.

Right. I'll say this. I think I want to hit at Chase Field. The ball explodes there. Yeah, but the... It's... The dimensions are quite deep, but they were still knocking them out of the yard. No, Christian Walker hit one like 430 feet, and it was a home run in 28 and 30 ballparks.

And it hit all, it was a double. Eugenio Suarez. Ayurneil Thuette has no issues with hitting there. He had two more tanks yesterday. Yeah, he's pretty good. He's making his Astros audition? No. The Astros don't have enough.

Okay. You know what's going to take? What's it going to take? It's going to take Jacob Mountain. That's fine. and it's going to take the Uliola picture down I don't want to do that

I'm just saying I'm throwing out there Uiola Miguel Miguel Uola What is it Are you okay Why are you retching on air

Well because it's the different cause First of all The combination of letters is a toughie ULL 2Ls is a Y A Villarreal Nobody says it that way Okay

Well only all of Latin America In Spain I'm in the US of A God bless America Only like billions of people people. That's not nobody. But I don't call you Ross, Vrerairel. That's okay.

We anglicize on this show and in this state. Would you like me? Yeah, let's hear you. Roll the ars. Verreel. Yeah, do that every day. I'm not doing that. That's ridiculous. Just call you Ross V. Yeah, just call me Ross. Who cares?

Like I said, when Ross thought at one point he wanted to go out of market, I said, I'm still trying, bro. When you head to that Shreeport radio station, call yourself Rossi V. No, why? Why should I change my family name because people can't pronounce it correctly? They're the ones who suck. It's catchy. I don't care. Let me tell you, if my last name was Rabinowitz, I would not go to Rabinowitz. I'd go Maddie. Why not? I don't know. People change their names all the time. Yeah, and like the 70s and 80s. People keep their names most of the times these days.

They already add dashes to them. All right. So the local nine get a win. The Milwaukee Brewers knock off the Seattle Mariners and your Astero. are five. Imagine just the other day it was, uh-oh, I won't mention who it was. Dan Matthews is like, if the Astros get swept by the Mariners, the season is over. Season is over. Well, they won two in a row. Mariner's lost, and now you're five up.

Yeah. Let's go. And the Dodgers are sucking right now, which is not terrible. And who care? I don't care about the national. The problem is the Blue Jays are playing exceptional baseball right now. Yes. Colton Gordon, by the way, good enough. Good enough. It's all you got. He's the number five slash six starter.

Good enough. Josh Hater, Oker, and Bennett Suz. We're all having trouble finding the strike zone, but they all didn't give up a run. It got dicey towards the end, tying run on the plate. So you don't want that late. 18 pitches, just seven strikes for Hater. Not ideal, but. No, you know what, he's, I mean, I'm in all sincerity.

He's tuckered out. He's tired. He's sleepy? He had a neck pillow out there on the mound. His arm is a dangling. I need rest. He went out there with a blankie and a neck pillow on the mound, which I thought was odd. Yeah.

By the way, I brought a pillow with me on my flight back from Rhode Island last week. A neck pillow or a regular pillow? Regular pillow. And I put it in my... Like one of your stinky ones from home? No, no, very small mini ones. Oh, I got you. And my wife's like, where did you get that from?

And I said, well, I don't want to tell you where I got it from, but it works. Why can't you tell your wife where you got the pillow for it? Well, I got it from the Rockets plane. Oh, you stole it. I didn't steal. I told them I was taken. and they said take it. Okay.

One of those little, okay, so one of those little like flight pillows. Yes, I mean super small, but I mean, it absolutely worked.

That's when you get the window. I'm not a huge window seat guy. Oh, windows. But it was a, I was on a late night flight between Dulles Airport and here and I was like,

I got to get the window. And I'm saying, Team window works. You get it. You don't just don't get it. No, I totally get it. You prefer aisle,

but you get it. I'll during the day, window at night. I just can't, I always have to curl up my knees and elbows. the reason why I always get windowed, not because...

You mean aisle? No, the reason why I get dial is because I don't want to interfere with people. If I want to go to the bathroom, I don't have to be a jerk about it. And I feel terrible when I have to, if I have to go to the bathroom, I'm sitting in the window seat. So what I normally is I just soil myself there right in the spot

and just cleaning up when I get home. That seems like that could get you on a no-flight list. That's probably true, but that's actually not accurate either. All right, the radio program today will feature at 1130 today, gut feelings. Uh-huh. At 1230,

Joe Espada. What? Now, they've had some issues with the time zone. Yeah, are we good over there? Half the year, it's an hour and half the year is two hours. It's two hours right now. Is it? Okay.

Yes. Yeah, I think, okay. Which, again, Indiana used to be that way. They've gone strictly eastern time now. Mm-hmm. Phoenix stays, they stay in the same time, and again, one hour or two. Didn't Congress pass something getting rid of daylight savings? times what happened? No, it's been discussed.

It's been discussed. Okay. Whatever. It's beyond it. Yeah, I like, give me more day. Tell me what the time is and it's whatever. Yeah. All right, we got that. We got Ross's NFL rewind at 120 today. Great. You've got three hours of prepare for it.

And usually you won't have been prepared until 119. And we have, believe it or not, today, at 150. So we got a really nice full show for you. We want you guys involved. 713-212-5-790. It's also, by the way, watching a game at Chase Field. is it super dark to you darker than most stadiums? It's almost like they set, there's obviously lights on the field, but it didn't seem bright and...

I didn't get that vibe, but I guess I can try to pay more attention to that tonight. I mean, watch the whole game. Maybe just me. Yeah. Maybe just me. It just feels like it's in a... And no one's ever gone, man, she's... Like Staples Center style?

Yeah, like they turn the lights off. Which I kind of like it. It adds a little... Like a theater. Yeah. Yeah. Theatric view, too. I didn't notice that.

but I'll keep an eye on it for you, Matt. I've never been to Chase Field. I don't even know if anybody I don't even know if anybody I know has been the Chase Field. I had three people from Phoenix called me last night on the postgame show, which makes sense kind of because it was midnight our time and 10 o'clock their time. What were they? Was they Diamondbacks fans or Astro fans there? One person who was visiting, one person, one kid who lived there,

he was a young man who lived and was from Phoenix but was an Astros fan because his dad was an Astro. Now, how old is he? I don't know. Was he trying to replace one of us or what? I didn't card the kid. He sounded like, I don't know, 10 or 11. How was the call? Was it good?

It was good. Okay. I mean, it's spectacular. Because you know those calls at midnight can get a little dicey. Yeah, nothing dicey really happened. Well, Eric in Bay City called. And what did he have to say? He was talking about picking up some old Astros manager from the 70s.

I mean, he's going full tromel. Yeah, he's almost. about to be banned because it's just it's wasting our time. And sometimes phone calls can be fun. We can have goof around with them, but sometimes they just get really whack and unfortunately Eric's getting pretty close.

Love you, Eric. Appreciate you listening, but you know, we got to have some sort of decent recognition of sports takes in this show. Because you and I aren't providing them. I think we're better than most callers, at least. Yeah, I'm going to say, we're

better than callers, but I'm only hierarchy of sports radio hosts, we're mid. I'd put us ahead against some of these shows. Which shows are we better than? All of them. What shows will be worse than? None of them. That's what I like to hear. positivity. All right. Astros

win. Yes. Jerry Jones likes to insult his own players. Was those quotes I saw? Those were real? I keep checking to see if they're real. I meant to vet them. Okay. Yeah, I don't, I mean, that is a sad part about social media today is that the blue check mark on the old X app platform used to be legit now it's not anymore.

Genius move. You know, I continue, there are two things I want to spend money on that I just can't pull the trigger on yet. One is verifying myself because it doesn't really make that big of a difference. And number two, buy... Only fans. No. I've used your debit card for that.

Thank you, though. The other one is paying for the commercial free on the YouTube because, you know, I listen to YouTube going to bed at night. And I'm listening to one of my wrestling podcasts, and boom, a commercial goes on. And look, if they're the 30-second commercials I can live with, but they're like the three-and-a-half minute ones. Well, you can skip those, but you're not going to do that when you're sleeping. Well, I wake up, hit skip, go back. And so I'm thinking, can I just get past it?

But it's like, it's like 15 bucks a month. That's, yeah, everything piles up. It does. And I have new, and Disney and ESPN and Apple Plus and Netflix. Yeah, at some point I've got to say, no, I can't spend this. money. I know, Matt. We all hit our limits. Thank you very much for that. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-2-1-2-7-190. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We are with you today until 2 o'clock. Let's celebrate Bryce Matthew, celebrate an Astro's victory, and get to other things beyond the world of baseball. We've got training camp opening up tomorrow in the National Football League. Wonderful. A lot of stories for the NFL Rewind coming up at 120? Yeah, but we can talk about before 120. Okay.

Because we've got to, this Jerry, the Jerry quotes are crazy. We'll talk about that and more. Come on up here on 790. I know we got Astros on the brain, but something we brought up on the show yesterday that we're going to get spray up a couple of times. So Memphis, again, we talked about this very briefly yesterday. Memphis says, I will give you, you being the Big 12, $200 million. And we won't take TV money for five years. all you got to do is let us in.

And the Big 12 is like, no, you're not invited. I mean, what an ego kick in the groin that would be, right? Can someone explain that to me? Why would they deny Memphis like that? Because you'd have to expand it, first of all, to 18 teams. Second, ultimately, you'd have to probably renegotiate the television deal once you got past the five-year mark. Okay. And at what level do you say, what does Memphis bring to the table?

I mean, Memphis doesn't bring Tennessee TV sets. That's Tennessee. They don't? No. Okay. They feel like a big brand? Maybe, I mean, is it just because of the John Calamary run that I'm thinking of? No, Memphis has got put on probation last week for two more years.

Well, that makes sense. Look, this league and every league, right, would you agree with me? I mean, as much as I love the basketball, the league is built on football, every league is built on football. What is Memphis football going to bring to the Big 12? Another 7 and 5 team? We've got plenty of those. I'm meaning this. I'm not trying to single out.

No, go ahead. Whatever you're going to say, don't even preface. Just bring it. I really don't want to make more U of H fans mad at me. But how are they a, how is nationally, if we want to cross the country, is U of H really, before Big 12 especially, a bigger brand than Memphis? Yes. But not by much.

basketball wise definitely. Okay. Memphis had a good run when they had final four with John Caliperi, and then Derek Rose and all of them missed like 500 free throws, and then they lost in the final four to Kansas. But, okay. First of all, Texas. I think of them on the same playing.

I'll give you, I'll give you the, this is an example that you may be not think of. Okay. If I'm playing the University of Houston, my fans are watching a game in Texas. my players are playing a game in Texas. I get to go to Texas. I get to tell them they get to go play in Texas every other year. That does play a factor.

You can shake your head. I'm not shaking my head. I'm just asking. Because, I mean, we looked at the valuations from the athletic and they had them 68 out of 68. Again, I'm not going to say it's significantly better. I mean, Cincinnati's not in Texas. But Ohio, there's the Ohio brand. I guess.

Cincinnati Barcats. Yeah. I mean, not every. Not every good player from Ohio can go to Ohio State. Mm-hmm. So, yeah, I'm not saying it's significantly different. I'm saying there's a little bit of a difference. Okay.

Medium market, first and foremost. Second of all, the state. Although medium markets, I think, are overblown, especially in college sports. In third. Tuscaloosa, Alabama is the biggest brain in football. In third, you were losing, you lost two Texas schools within the last 10 years. If you're looking to do quadrants, regional rivalries, U of H makes more sense than Memphis

when you're trying to play Baylor and Texas Tech. You mean, you can fill up a Texas Tech Houston game a lot easier than you can fill up a Texas Tech Memphis game. Okay. But no, I'm not trying to your point. I promise I'm not trying to take shots. It just doesn't seem to me. You are the king of shots.

I am. But listen, it's not the worst shot you've had. It's not even a dagger. I don't know. I guess I think of Memphis as a decent brand. And I mean, clearly I'm wrong because the Big 12 said, we're all good. Here's the crazy part. Memphis has the money.

FedEx will cut them a check. FedEx loves the University of Memphis. Yeah, they have money and they seem like a decent enough brand. No, again, the problem to me is you don't get any bank for your buck in football. You don't have Tennessee because that state is dominated by Tennessee. And lastly, every other year, you're in some sort of trouble with the NCAA. Yeah. And you have to expand on 18th team. And, I mean, look, some of these leagues got to stop expanding.

especially because somebody once put their name on there would never be a 20 team conference that's correct big 10 is what an 18 now i think it's still 16 no no no they think it's 18 now when you're out of the west coast schools yeah oh you're right good god it's yeah like i saw the big 10 standings come out the other day Purdue is predicted to finish 18th how sad is Purdue yeah they got a little football history too they do I mean you know Drew Breeze who else has been a good Purdue football player over the years? I'm sure it's been plenty. Yeah.

I can't think of any of the top of my head. I'm sure it's good. I mean, Joe Tiller was a very good coach for them for a long period of time. Best Purdue football players. We're going to feel stupid when you mention these years. Oh, yeah. There's one. Rod Woodson, Bob Greasy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mike Alls not? Yeah, we feel stupid now. Jim Everett? George Carloftus? Yeah, there's a lot of players. Yeah. All right. So we'll get back to the aster. But I just thought it was fun.

I just happened to see the little crawl about Memphis wanting to offer. You know, and I will have a gut feeling about Memphis coming up at 1130. Oh, you will? Yeah. I mean, the entire city of Houston will be so excited to hear my Memphis prediction. Wow. I mean, I can't wait. I'm writing it down on my calendar. All right. 713212-790. 7-1-3-2-1-790. So let me ask you this about Bryce Matthews.

And we can make this for gut-filling as well in an hour. Ooh. Was last night a one-off? Or was that the, you know what? he got past his opening week jitters and not the saying he's going to hit two home runs every game but the pop that we knew he had can i see a say neither uh yeah i mean yeah growth growth is not linear matt it doesn't go in a straight line can be up can be down so last night wasn't up there can be more downs but i would say overall the trajectory is positive so basically he's having he's having

a christian walker start to his career christian walker got a oh he should have a home run? I'll go look it up. How many feet was that? Did you see the pregame media scrum for Christian Walker? Yeah, uh, no. It's 20 deep. Wow.

All the Phoenix TV stations were there? 427 feet double. It still feels like you and I can hit home run out of there. No, you can't. I can't. It feels like I can hit the ball out of the infield. I don't know. Now, I did call you dribbler Thomas. I did not hit the ball out of the infield at,

the Salt Lake Bees Park. But that was in 2004. And you ripped up your hands and you were like 20 years younger. Yeah. Can we be realistic, Matt? I mean, these delusions of Granger are getting out of hand even for you.

Like when I first started umpiring softball in Minneapolis, I would do a 50 plus league just occasionally. And there were some good athletes. Are you playing the 50 plus league? No, I was 30 plus. Okay. Let me play in the 50 plus league.

You should. That'd be funny. You'd be dominating. It's like, God, this guy's hit like five home runs the game. I did play in a little league game when I was in high school. What? Listen to me,

I was the umpire for this little league team and I was a senior in high school. And they said, hey, do you want to play one game with us? They were just waiting for other team. I said, sure. And I hit two straightaway center field out of the ballpark. Is this a movie reference? No, this is not a movie reference. No, no.

You played with children when you were in high school? Yeah, it was for fun. Man, you're sick. Little known fact about high school. school umpiring i umpired a day of high school umpiring the uh the day of my senior prom and i did not wear sunscreen and i burned my nose to a crisp okay so all my prom pictures are with me looks like i have a nose like bozo the clown oh really you got a show with that i got a really bad i got i was shaving for prom and i cut i had a big cut on my cheek

so neither one of our prom photos are particularly a handsome or maybe it was on my lip i can't remember but yeah i'm shaving and i just and i never i never cut myself shaving never and i kept telling my mom it's gonna be okay it'll be fine it wasn't okay and it wasn't fine it was horrific i i looked first of all i had goofy i was not severely overweight but it's pretty overweight uh yes i did oh that's great what's her name i don't want to say rosy you're it's not too far off the date was the have i ever told you my prom story on the show

I think so. Okay. You can tell it again. We're going to get to break. When do we come back? No, we can't tell prom stories on way back, can't we? We've got to talk sports. I don't know.

We've got Texas training camp opening up tomorrow. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-790. 1030. And it's a Matt Thomas show. Ross. We got gut feelings in one hour here on 7-90. Phone lines are jammed Ross.

1033. Which we're going to go to? Line 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. We'll make all 6 people wait because they just, No, we're done. If you'd like to join us, you may come in and be a part of the radio program. You 10 o'clockers are a little early to get going, but we're here for you. Got feelings coming up in one hour from now.

713-212-5-790. If you want to be a part of the radio show today, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. You see Rich Hill's coming back to pitch again? 59-year-old Rich Hill is about to play for his 14th Major League team. Seriously, he was with the AAA team in Omaha. He's, I, what is he? I think he's really 46. I'm not lying to you.

I think it's what his age is. Could you imagine being a 46-year-old in the minor leagues? I mean, you're buying, oh, excuse me, Monday, he was 45 years, 132 days. What the hell? Does he hate his family? Does he have a wife and kids? It's like, you guys are pissing me off. Let's see if I can get a minor league deal.

It's like a Billy Madison deal, right? You have to go back and get your education. Yeah. Why would you want to hang out with people? Going back to school? Yeah. You know, love of the game, I don't know. Good for him.

Is he trying to set a record? Who's the oldest major league ever? Julio Franco? Satchel Paige? Yeah. It'll be his 14th different team. He does hate his family. Okay.

Yeah, it looks like it is Satchel Page. Last of Perth. person to appear in a game at the age of 45. Ichro Suzuki. In 2019, he's the oldest pitcher to appear in an MLB game since Jamie Moyer pitched in 2012 and he was 49 years old. Oh, wow. First of all, Rich Hill never threw fast to begin with.

He's got to be throwing Ephus pitches right over and over again. Tim Wakefield, may he rest, play to 45, Bartolo Colon as well. position player we got each row as you mentioned Omar Visckel so he pitched nine times for Omaha his earning was 5.36

now PCL games as we talked about yesterday inflated inflated but that's you're not flating it to 2.91 right I don't think so what's the ERA plus on that Matt I don't know if they do that in the minor leagues I mean dang which hill

still trying to pitch good for him I'm rooting for him as somebody who's in my 40s now you know you know what 40s it didn't hit me hard I'm not feeling great

random calf soreness hamstring when you get to 5-0 you'll be call me for counseling I'm going to be calling you where are you going to be on a beach okay I don't know

I'm going to buy next to a beach you never take vacation I know can we get you on a beach. I'm going to Hawaii next all-star break. You know, you've been calmer the last few months of, it feels like. Yeah. It's good. You know why? Because my daughter's school is taken care of. Yes.

The rockets are doing great. Astros are winning. You and I are getting along better than ever. We are. Except for yesterday we were fighting. No, that was good radio yelling. You know, that was a fight radio that was completely organic. Yes. But it wasn't personal. No. You came and we got past it. We were like, we didn't yeah. Some stations

and it was getting, and I'll be, and I will disagree with people that were saying it was semantics. I don't think it was Symanix. It was a little bit of semantics. Very minimal. Now we're going to argue if the argument was semantics. I'm going to back. I'm going to back up and saying that if the Cougars do not win a national championship,

it will be a major disappointment. Okay. And Calvin Sampson should be fired. I didn't say that. I didn't say that Steve Sarkasey wasn't going to be fired. It was implied. It was the implication. We don't do impulsation radio.

Is that a word? Implization? No. Okay. Imply radio? You can do imply. Implication. Implication radio.

We don't do that here on the show. We imply stuff daily. Yeah, I know, but it's really under our brass. 713, 212-5-7-9-0. Don't shake your head at us, Jonathan. Yeah, Jonathan, we imply a lot of stuff. Yeah, they're full of it. What do you mean full of it?

Why do you say these things? Everybody. You know what? No, you know what? You guys are right. You guys are right. Thank you. By the way, does anybody want to, I'm looking at the headlines.

It's not a huge headline day, to be brutally honest with you. And the Astros game started at 840, so there's not going to be a whole lot of folks that can really get into a deep dive of watching Bryce man, except the highlights of when they go to their office today. Can the NFLPA get a new boss? Everybody's corrupt up there. What the heck's going on over there? That J.C. Trotter dude's like, not only am I not going to go for the job, I'm quitting, too.

Oh, my gosh. There must be serious receipts of strip clubs and extra money that is being spent that was not authorized by the Players Association to spend it. Uh-huh. They busted it wide open as what they did, whatever this whole situation was. Repeat? Repeat? I don't think the audience heard. No, there's nothing that you're going to be able to get from that.

So, no, I'm not going to repeat it. If y'all didn't get it, he said bust it wide open, just making sure everybody. It's a big Lil Will fan. I have a couple of Little Will songs on my phone. Yeah, you do? I do. Oh, man. I can't think of one right now, but, you know, but, yeah.

Ex-N-FLPA boss resigns role at Equity Farm, Carlyle. That's the other guy that got this resigned last week. You know what it is? We're finding out today's CEOs are just corrupt. You'd like to sack up with their HR bosses. Hmm. You're saying there's corruption? With CEOs, absolutely, yes.

And people with positions of power are corrupt? And spending and illegal use of expense accounts. Next thing you're going to tell me is politicians are corrupt. No, don't get me started on that. This is shocking news. I want to know what else is going to be on earth or uncovered with this. Well, I mean, my guess is, and again, those don't know, the NFL Player Association boss last week resigned. And we thought it was because of a variety of conflict of interest issues or maybe there were some issues involving the collusion case against the players association, the NFL.

No, it was because he was spending money thousands of dollars on rides and expenses at a strip club. Atlanta. Okay. Maybe he was eating a lot of wings. Are the wings really that good at strip clubs? Yes. The Lou Will. Depends on where you go.

I've heard. By the way, I was never a big fan of lemon pepper until you try the lemon pepper, and it's not that bad. What do you mean? I grew up on lemon pepper. Both my parents cooked with a lot of lemon pepper. I love it. I want it in small doses, and it was good. Okay? Yeah, it was good. So I don't know what I had lemon pepper.

and pepper last, but Firehouse Lemon Pepper, Big City Wings. Let's go. Let's go. I'm hungry. I'm hungry. All right. 1040 on Sports Talk 790.

713212-5-790. We brought up Eugenio Suarez yesterday. Yes. Two more bombs. Fifth Homer in three games. No one's talking about the Astros grabbing him, right? I mean, that's... People are absolutely talking about it.

For what? And Josh Naylor. What do you mean to play? For what? Have we gotten any soccer? Paratus update? Well, we're going to ask it 1230. Paratus update.

Bada bum. While we talk to the skipper on the Matt Thomas show. He'll say he'll be fine and we'll be back in a few days. I don't believe it. I'm going Paratus update on the Matt Thomas show. Paratus update. Do they have to get a Eugenio? If Eugenio Suarez is the number one, what?

Oh, go ahead. If he's the number one potential. trade target. How does a team that doesn't have prospects going to make this happen? Unless you're giving away current players. I don't know. How much international pool money can you give? I don't think it's going to happen. I guarantee it's not going to happen. You hear me? I guarantee it. I think you're right. I mean, I don't want to be right.

If Loving is wrong. I know. I think you're going to do this. If Loving Suarez is wrong, I don't want to be right. Okay. I know you're going there because I've done the exact same thing. Luther Ingram version, by the way, the original. Okay. You don't appreciate Barbara Mandrell? Nope.

Okay. To each his own. But yeah. I mean, the asterisk have got prospects. But do you want, I mean, at some point, Ross, and I feel like we've been saying this for two years. Yeah. At some point just losing, like Steve Sparks brought this up on the,

a Sean show yesterday. You know, the last, I think he said the last six hitters, the Astros have given up, have all been left-handed? I did not know that. And so guess what the- Sparky's always, he's a lot of information. He's amazing. Point being is this, if you give that up, what are the Astros looking for right now? Left-handed bat? Yes. At some, you would think maybe of the last six, one of them would have been a major league. Major leaguer. Well, one of their left-handed bats had some interesting comments yesterday. And we'll hear from him, or are you going to read them? Yeah, we'll read.

It's through an interpreter. Oh, oh, I don't think I want to hear it. I know what this is. Oh, okay. You said you don't want these. We have to educate the people, Matt. Even if you want to bury your head in the sand. All right, you're going to hear the interpreter's comments, or at least we're going to read them,

and you're going to be like, uh-huh. This is concerning. IP or IH. All right, whatever. 1043 on Sports Talk 790. We can only bury our next topic for only so long. So we've done a very good job of 49 minutes into the show, positivity about Bryce Matthews,

the fact that Memphis can't get a gig in the Big 12. And I had a red nose for my prom. We got every other topic out of the way, Ross. We present to you the latest from Yordon Alvarez yesterday in Arizona. Yes, I'm going to read Chandler-Rombs transcription of Yordaun Alvarez speaking through an interpreter, said he hit soft toss at 60 to 65 percent effort. Is that good or bad? Plans to hit again today.

Of his setback in Florida, Alvarez said he woke up the day he was supposed to face pitching and his hand was so swollen he could not grip a bat. Okay, Matt is staying silent. That's okay. I don't want to stay silent. What do you want me to say? I mean, put the words in my mouth if you have to. That's weird. Whereas the pain is in the hand, it's a bit difficult to have surgery there. That's why I say I need a little bit of rest right now. It's an area where normally we don't get surgery in that area. but I think it isn't something that I'll have to keep dealing with.

Continue. So he needs surgery, but can't get surgery, but it isn't something he'll have to keep dealing with, he says. Okay. First and foremost, he doesn't know what he's talking about. Well, Forrest's hand specials can't figure it out, I guess. But I mean, and it's not his fault. he he wakes up my guess is he wakes up every morning with his hand feeling in different levels of pain and or hey this feels good that else got in swing or hey i need to take a step back that's human nature And people have elbow issues, knees, neck feel back pain.

I mean, that's just like anything else. Unfortunately, his ailment is he's a major league power hitter for a baseball team that we all follow in love. So we're going to care about his hand more than we're going to care about the average person going, well, today my knees feel great or my back feels great. Number two, there's no pattern to this except every time they ramp him up, they have to dial him back. and number three if he comes back this year it's fine gravy

if they don't if he doesn't they're not winning the World Series sounds like he is going to play through some pain which is not good this is no one ever goes you've missed five months and you're still not 100%

thank you for your service from a Jordon Alvarez if he will have to deal with the pain all year I wish not but I don't know I have to deal with it. It will be for the rest of the season. If I have to deal with it, it will be for the rest of the season. I think I need to rest it, but again, I need to come back and play,

and I think I'm in the right direction now to come back and play. So it sounds like he's going to come back and try to play through some pain. No, he's not. He may want to, but you can't. What are you saying? He's done for the year? I'm saying that if he plays any more this year, it's gravy. I think he plays.

I think he plays too, but to what? level. Ross, he hadn't played since early May. He's not 100% is said as much. What are we supposed to think? Well, if he needs like two months off, what if he needs like three months off?

And then it's, I mean, the playoffs will be over by the time he's fully healed, ready to go. But if he tries to play through the pain, and I don't know this, but just these comments are kind of giving me this feel, that it is something he can try to play through and then if the season ends, it ends, but he wants to try to help and contribute to the team this year.

For that. We respect him for that. Yeah. No one, no one's arguing that. But you're still telling me, not you, him, that he hasn't been in a game since early May. May 3rd? June, July, August. He probably isn't going to play until at least middle of August. We're talking about three and a half months. And he's going to come back and play through pain.

You're ready for today's dumb-ass question today? Yes. There is somebody in this country or in this world. You could be in Bangladesh. You could be in Czechoslovakia. Is there anything in Czechoslovak anymore? No, they broke up. All right, Slovenia.

It's a Czech Republican. Okay, Slovenia. Or maybe there's somebody in Japan or China. Okay, sure. That's got to be the number one hand guru. The top hand expert on the planet. Somebody is the best at everything. Well, I don't know how we determine that when it, I don't know if there's an international Olympics of hand,

hand specialists. Hand specialist. The gold medal hand specialist. Well, for instance, I will say this, if you're a cancer patient, the MD Anderson Cancer Center is a world-renowned cancer center. Okay. Is there a world-renowned hand center? Is that what you're asking? That's what I'm asking.

Now, if there's other ailments, I used to live in Minneapolis, and there was the Mayo Clinic's in Rochester, about an hour and a half south of the Twin Cities. The Mayo Clinic is renowned for a variety of different things. When you get super, super sick about a variety of things, you go to the Mayo Clinic. Okay. If you have a terrible case of cancer,

and that ain't a good case, cancer, but if you have cancer that has been hard to detect or hard to stop, M.D. Anderson is the creme della crem. My point is this. You have such a commodity. in your and Alpharis that you have spent $25, $30 million.

Now maybe now nobody loses their life over hand ailments, you would think, correct? Now people have lost their careers over it because if you can't work with your hands, it's hard to do some things. But wouldn't you think, like Dr. Strange?

Exactly. Wouldn't you think that you would, that you, not you, but somebody in your group, your agent, the astros, somebody would go, we're going to fly you to Ecuador

and meet with Dr. Suarez. Are you henial? No, not related. And we're going to get this figured out. I imagine the four, three or four specials that he's seen are among the best in the country. I would agree with it. I don't think they're taking

some broskey down the van in a van. They're not doing on the cheapest At the Monterey Mexico area And find the hand guy in the yellow pages They're not crossing the border in Tijuana and going Well, hey, a lot of people do that That's true for plastic surgery, yeah It's cheaper

I'm just In dentistry I am befuddled and disappointed That he still is having this issue That to me This sounds like And again, I'm not trying to put the panic button on this Okay

But He's going to have to have to have some sort of procedure, which is going to ultimately probably be after the season, which will then put next season perhaps in jeopardy of some sort. I think it'll be something that he can do after the season and then he can heal up and be ready to go, but if he does it now, he's going to be out for the year.

So he doesn't want to do that. That's my gut feeling. Could he put on bigger gloves? I don't even know if that is... I don't think that matters. No. I think it's about gripping and ripping the bat. I mean, he's got exceptional hand speed.

and baseball is a violent game on the hands with the when you're hitting 100 mile an hour fastballs. Do you think he was just dealt a bad set of hands? Because if this was the camp, there have been a lot of sluggers that have had to worry about hand injuries before. Yeah, but I mean, this is, how long did he miss?

I don't even remember his other previous hand injuries and how much time did he miss. Well, it's in his sixth year, seventh, seventh year? I just, I feel bad for the organization. I feel bad for him. And I feel bad that we don't, get that kind of positive juju of the three months off has paid off

that he's going to come back if he comes back. Because he's had multiple setbacks. Yeah. He hasn't. And it resets the clock every time. Yeah. Maybe if he just stayed off it from the from the get-go, we'd be in a better place. And maybe that's on him to say, stop.

We have got to, we've got to, if you have any sort of ailment, stop what you're doing. Maybe it's learning from that. Stop. Get some help. We'll get to gut feelings in one. half hour. We will get to Joe's spot at 1230 today. I hope. I don't know. The time zone thing can be really wacky. You don't know in that situation.

And we got NFL rewind, and believe it or not, it's 1059 on Sports Talk 7.90. 11.03 on Sports Talk 790. Bryce Matthews, two home runs, five RBIs. Astros beat the debacks last night by a score of 6 to 3. Game 2 of the series. I'll host the on-deck show at 730 with an 840 first pitch. Oh, you got the easy one. Why do you say that? We'll hear Joe Espada coming around 740. Yeah, 745.

I got a long recap. You two? Yeah. Lengthy? Lengthy. Two swings knocked in five of the six runs. Oh, maybe it'll be 740. That's fine.

And then the first pitch at 840, and then I'll be hosting a post-game show. And if it's too late, I'll be... Jonathan, I may be at the Kingwood Studios on Wednesday, depending on things go too long. If it goes to extra innings, I'll call you. You will not. You should be asleep. I don't want you. No, I'm watching the game. But you can go to sleep once the game's over. You mean you're going to call me during the extra innings?

Yeah. They would be cursing me out. Let me tell you what Ross does. This is Jonathan, you don't know this, because you don't return text either. He does, when I'm doing a 10th inning show, and the game is like 4-4-in-the-eighth. He always sends me this phrase. Not always. I smell extra.

Isn't that the rudest thing ever? That's so messed up Because I imagine you think you'd be done with the shift And you got Ross taking the... At least there's a pitch clock now. That is true. It used to be three-hour games. Every game was three hours plus extras

Would be fury. Then you're getting into four-hour territory. Yeah. And it helped you under night Even though I didn't even hit the air until What time did I hit the air? One. I don't know.

I want to say by 1240, we did a game in Seattle. It was Saturday night. They lost. It was about 1145 for me last night. I took about 10 calls. So like I said, I will make every effort to get to the Houston Studios tomorrow. But, you know, if I'm on the air at 132, I'm going to need my rest.

Whatever. I'll take the dogs out too. It would be a long night. Why are you taking them out? Because if they're out of late, if I'm up late, they're going to be out late too. Obviously, they don't wake you up early. Correct. I got you.

You can take cheeks out the freezer and, you know, get the cold. Hey, hey, hey. Is cheeks still in the freezer? I don't know. You. Oh. The air of death is in everything you put in there. Your Gorton's fish sticks have an air of death in them. I don't know. I think I should know, but I don't know. I would assume that we've gotten rid of minutes by this point. I can't guarantee that, though. All right. So let's get to Jerry Jones for a minute.

Uh-oh. Look, we have a goofy owner here. I mean, there's no way fans or butts about it. but he stays out of the public Hannah does a heavy lifting when it comes to talking and Hannah's going to talk tomorrow on the day after and she's going to wear her sundress and everybody's going to go oh you look so cute can I take a photo of you I mean fake media that goes out that covered Texans practice to be like hey Hannah how you doing you want to come say hi you know stupid crap like that

but you digress but I digress Jerry yeah what do you well he wasn't particularly polite about Micah Parsons. Oh dear. Now, what is your thoughts about Micah Parsons?

He's one of the five best pass rushers in football? Yeah. So he takes jabs at him. And he also took jab at his quarterback. And I'm trying to get the exact quote to you because I don't want to I don't want to paraphrase it here. Okay.

Jerry Jones asked about Micah Parsons. Leadership is really big. I'm appreciative of Michael being here. That's good? That's a good part. That's a good part. Jones says there's no disappointment that a deal is not done. We're here with everybody under contract.

That was training camp, okay? But he also goes on to say basically that because Micah gets hurt so much and that Dak Prescott gets hurt so much, he doesn't necessarily think they're going to be the go-to guys. Oh, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry. Micah Parsons games played in his four seasons. 16, 17, 17, 13. Five games in four years in the NFL.

And that's not completely uncommon. Although in 21, 21 was that just 16 games? or no, was that 17? 17 games. And I think he, the only reason he didn't play is because they, I think the Cowboys had already had their seed wrapped up or something like that. And that's, I see it was the last game of the season. And that happened last year with the Texans. Remember we were worried about who was going to play and who wasn't going to play?

Yes. So really, at the end of the day, he's missed four games in four years. That's nothing. That's nothing in the NFL. Quoting him while discussing Mark, Mark, Mark, Michael wants a new contract. Of course. Just because we sign him doesn't mean we're going to have him. He was hurt six games last year. Seriously.

It was four. So what is he trying to do? Is he trying to win the war of words to lower the price of Michael Parsons? I guess so. He is not going about the right way. It just doesn't make any sense while he would do that. This is dumb by Jerry. I don't know what he's thinking.

It's funny. if there's been one theme that this show has had for the last 15 years, it's why does Jerry Jones continue to run the organization? Into the ground. Well, not into the ground financially. No, no. I mean, he's the greatest

sports marketer in the history of sports marketing. He took a really good brand and made it the most dynamic brand. He gets more bang for his buck for lack of success than any team in sports. More so than the Cubs.

more so, who else is a major marketing? Well, the Lakers have won championships. I don't really count. I'm trying to think of teams that are more so than Knicks. I mean, the Dallas Cowboys have helped, and Jerry Jones by himself have exploded every team's profits. Yeah, he is one of the most important owners in franchise history. It was one of the most important figures in football, NFL history.

No question about that. Considering ones that weren't commissioners. Right. And as you said, the ratings are huge, the interest is huge. And it's kind of like, I don't even know what. And I just don't get it. Because he knows the Dallas Cowboy brand is exceptionally large no matter what they do. If the Cowboys went to $215 every year, it would make any difference.

Well, I think that would make some difference. And his whole family is like a nepotism into the... Well, yeah, his son's worked there. But Stephen Jones, his son has been with him side by side for 30 years. And his daughter... Wait for him to croak. I don't know about his daughter. I don't know about the daughter, no.

I know Stephen's been very active. And Stephen's been kind of waiting in the wings, but how Stephen's like 60 now? He's like he's been the owner in waiting for like 30 years. That's exactly right. It might be in the history, and we don't do this until Thursday. It might be the greatest I just don't get it. Because now, to his credit, he has a lot of football people around him. He has assembled a large football operation staff.

But everything still goes through him. He still is the one that makes the call on the contract. He still is the one that makes the call on draft day. He is still technically owner slash general manager and has been that way since he took over the team. Is he still making draft picks, do you think? Or is he like kind of advising or maybe has final say? No, my... He's not breaking down.

Here's... No, no, no. My guess is he's got a huge football operation staff. They hand him the card and they say this is the reason why. and he goes, okay, I believe you. Yeah, that's what I figure. The last time my guess is that he really wanted to get involved was a well-documented.

He wanted Johnny Mansell and Stephen Jones, his son pulled the car away and said, we're not letting you draft him. Physically ripped it away from him. Yeah. Which was the right move. It was the right move. By way, Johnny Mansell trying to get an NFL career started yet again.

Oh, money's drying up, huh? Yeah, pretty much. You just go do some signings. Go on the SEC Network and make a boatload of money. Why? I mean... Think so? Yeah.

I mean, if Tim Tebow can make great money in that network, why can't Johnny Manzell? He's a stiff personality. It's not great. It's not great. Does he still have the same spiky buzz cut? And that I don't know. Okay. How's his hair looking?

But if you're Micah Parsons and you're sitting here trying to negotiate with a guy who just basically said that we're not going to, we're not counting you to play a full 17. Yeah, and you only missed four games last year. And you've got 17 and 17 games played before that. I mean, we can say all the goofy things that Cal says. but he doesn't get involved in the football operation side to really create a bad feelings between player and front office. He just doesn't. No.

Robert C. did. Robert C. created some issues. Rick Smith created some issues. Yeah. But really since Cal has taken over in Hanna. Bill O'Brien, players hated him. Well, that was just a bad decision on their part. At least we don't have an owner that is interfering with the procurring

with the progression of a football team. When Derek Stingland needed to get signed, they signed him. When Nico Collins needed his new big contract, he got signed. When C.J. Stroud... That was a bargain. It turns out to be. C.J. Stras is going to be a $70 million quarterback. That's where Cal and Hannah were like, are you sure? I'm sure to save this for gut feelings?

Nico Collins holding out next year. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. Save it for like 12 months. Okay. You have to write that one down. Yeah, 1114. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-7-90. If you want to follow us via Twitter, you may do that as well. It's at SportsMT and at SportsRV. I just got a very interesting email, and I want to read it on there. And I just told Wayne I'm going to. And I want to get your perspective because you're on the outside of this particular genre of entertainment. I don't know if you know this or not. We mentioned it very briefly on the show yesterday.

The WWE Raw was at Toyota Center last night. Oh, man, it was a great one. What was your favorite part of it? Wouldn't that guy, an oiled up guy, pinned the other oiled up guy in his underwear? You know, when you ask stupid questions, you get stupid results. You didn't think that was thrilling? No. All right.

Wayne says to me, Matt. He says, good morning, Matt. That was nice. Somebody said, good morning. Good morning. Yeah, I never tell you good morning. No, you never do. This is completely off topic.

I took my kids to see Monday Night Raw last night since they're into that stuff and have begged me to do so for a while. Never in my life have I been surrounded by so many foul-mouthed, obnoxious, low- IQ having blank blank like I did last night. F-bombs, MF bombs, a few N-words, and sexual comments were being screamed out over my kids' head all night. Now, I haven't been into wrestling since Paul Bosch at Houston Wrestling, but I don't recall fans being absolutely. degenerates like they were at Toyota Center. I'll never attend another of these shows. Nothing to do with the performers, though I thought I found them all

a bit lame. But being around the bottom of the gene pool with their fake belts and stupid chance isn't worth the hundreds of dollars I had to pay to be there. He says, I just had to get that out. Kids like the Roman Raines guy and the Yeat guy, otherwise they seemed uncomfortable too from Wayne

the Yit guy. I don't know who that is. I don't watch enough for the current stuff to know. I know who Roman Raines is. I don't know who the Yeet can. I don't Claint-Lone's now. Yeah, he'll tell us who the Yeat guy is. All right, first of all, Wayne, thank you for the email,

and I'm going to give you an audio response meeting this show. J. Uso. Uso? J. Uso, yeah. I knew who that is. I just know what the Yit means. Jay Uso.

I think he screams at or something like that. They can't come up with a better name. They tend to use their real names more than they using their gimmick names back in the day. That's not his name. There's no way his name is J. Uso. Okay.

Well, it could be something like he's about maybe he's from Tongar or something like. that. Joshua Samuel Fatu. Okay, so there's some sort of connotation. Where is he from?

San Francisco, California. But no, he is, his heritage is, I don't know. Simone. Simone, okay. Well, Wayne, I'm here to tell you that God's honest truth. They may say they want your kids. They may say they want you because you're

spending the big money in the raw tickets. But they want 18. to 34 year olds and they know that 18 to 34 year olds swear, yell at people, make suggestive remarks.

All the things you brought up in the email, WWE's like, yeah, we know. If you look at any of the female wrestlers, they barely wear any clothing. Uh-huh. I mean, barely wear any clothing.

unless they're really big. So he's saying not a lot of road scholars at the WWE Raw event. So put a bunch of testosterone-filled 18 to 34-year-olds that like to watch men beat each other up, allegedly, and scantily clad women? With fake storylines. Yeah, that's true. All that is what you're saying is true. To me, it's, now, I don't watch the current stuff anymore. That's why I go to sleep.

I listen to old stuff. They bring back stuff that I was a kid. But it's very, very popular. It's a multi-billion dollar operation. They merge with, they merge with, not the UFC. What's the name?

They merge with like an ultimate fighting group. Oh, was it UFC? Yeah. It might be UFC. There's a name of a group that's run by Tony Khan, I believe, is a name. Yeah, UFC. Is it UFC? Okay. They're literally printing.

money. Their ticket prices are astronomically high. They're selling out stadiums left and right. Their merchandise sales is crazy. Their television numbers. They're getting billions of dollars from Netflix, hundreds of millions of dollars from NBC. Where were they? Toyota Center? Yeah. Okay. Every Monday they're somewhere and every Friday they're somewhere. They do a few house shows, which are non-televised events. And they do the... They still do house shows? Very few. They've cut back on that. Okay. They did a house show down in the Valley this weekend, as a matter of fact. Hmm. Okay. So, Wayne, I have terrible news for you. It's not going to change. Those that are 18 to 30, 4-year-old, primarily males want to hear that. And the WWE is going to provide it for him.

How big is the ring? This is saying sold out for 13,400. Yeah. They take up a large section of one inside of it because of the big jumbotron and the fireworks and all that kind of stuff. for the entrances. Yeah. So there's a section of the stadium that's not like sectioned off, but you wouldn't be able to watch anything from that area. It says it's sold out. Yeah.

Google wouldn't lie. No, no. I saw a few of the highlights last night. There wasn't a seat to be found in the arena last night. And the average ticket price, Rossi, I'm going to probably say is probably over $100 a pop now. It might be more. That's crazy.

Great for them. So it's adult, how would you say, adult superhero? Fake superhero stuff, real-life superhero stuff? Adult soap operas? Yeah, adult soap operas. It's adult Power Rangers. That have, again, the fan base.

Again, there are probably some college graduates in a group. There are. Associates, associates. There are some doctors, lawyers. Well, those are the people, the medics. Those are the medics that oversee them pumping in their steroids. Mattress Mac was sitting front roll last night. Okay.

I mean, he knows. It's the great. greatest marketing out there and who's one of the greatest marketers in Houston sports history? I'm putting Mattress Mac number one. He's the goat in it ain't even close. Now, I did watch Houston Wrestling where young Jim McInville would sell his furniture on Houston Wrestling on Channel 39. That's where he got his start in marketing. So good for him. I just, I hate to tell you, it ain't going to change. And while you might not have liked it and your kids might have liked it of the 13,000 people that were there, probably 12,999 of them thought it was the greatest thing in the world.

I bet you four or five hundred the thought was obnoxious and rude and degrading and the fans were, you know, again, hearing things that you didn't want to hear. I mean, sometimes you do have that moment, though, where you're like, you know what, I think I'm over this. Whether it's a show you're watching or. Yeah. For me, I haven't really watched the mainstream stuff probably on a regular basis. I catch it once in a while. Uh-huh. But probably 10 years.

But you probably had a moment where you're like, I'm not really into this anymore. Correct. Correct. Like, you know, when I was in fourth grade and I was at Chuckie Cheese, I was like, I don't like Chuckie Cheese. No, John Cena's retiring this year. So I've been interested in the John Cena storyline. That's good. He can stop dyeing his hair.

I do like CM Punk. I think he's very interesting. When the Rock shows up, it's interesting to me. But I'm more of the old school. Yeah, what is Rock's affiliation? He just pops up whenever he feels like it or when they want to pay him? He's a partial owner of it. Oh, really?

Yes. But apparently, this is the truth. Yeah. There are some behind the scenes issues between management of W. and Rock and Rock owns part of it and so there's a little bit of a bit. Because he wants to be more involved? I don't know that I don't know. Maybe he's, I don't know.

He's on break from his latest movie with Kevin Hart for a couple days. That goes directly to Apple TV. It somehow makes it. You say right to the DVD. Direct to video. They don't do that anymore. Direct to streaming. So, Wayne, I'm sorry I didn't give you a better answer, but the reality is you create the content that that group loves and that

group's going to show up. Does that make sense? Yeah. Build it and they will come. You went field of dreams on us. It's like, put it this way. We don't have roller derby anymore. But if you go to pudding wrestling, I've been to some of that. I have been to pudding wrestling. Thriller and vanilla. I mean, we're not having a deep dive on the Chikowski's greatest works. You know what I mean? You know what I mean?

Look, there's, you know, there's something for everyone. I'll just put it that way. Yeah. And we'll put it. that way and leave it right there. All right, gut feelings are coming up next. Ross, explain what gut feelings are. Gut feelings are something that's not an official on the record prediction, but you're like, you know what, I got a bad or good gut feeling about this. Remember, my Memphis gut feelings coming up.

Uh-oh. To the excitement of probably three or five people. I imagine everyone has set their calendars and they're all going to tune in. All right, to be any sports predictions, let us know, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. You make a prediction, you get it right, you call us back in a few weeks and brag about yourself. 713-212-5-790.

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Sports Talk 790. Before we get to this week, so let's get to how we did last Tuesday. Sports RV, what do you have? All right, Matthew. Last week. Okay, I closed my 10. How are you doing?

Why are you opening up French fries right now? On the mic. No, I'm turning the mic off. Terrible. Bryce Matthews gets his first major league hit in Seattle. You said that. That was a win. Ding.

Good job. Congratulations. Thank you. You also said the NBA expansion would get skipped for a while. I don't know what that means for how long. Do you want you put a date on it? I mean, a while could be anything. I was going to say.

Five years? Yeah. 2030. Okay. By the way, I'm going to put one for this. You can put this one deep in the... The WMBA comes to Houston by 2031. Which is not a lot of...

Not a big bonus, but I'm going to say the next round of expansion. Okay. The Rockets will have a team together. I'll write that down for you now, but I'm still getting to your old ones. Sure. You also said, congratulations, that the All-Star game was going extra innings. That's a win. It didn't. It didn't.

No, it didn't. How many inings it got to? Nine. Thank you very much. It's a win. Thank you. You know I'm right. Extra innings means the 10th inning.

No. That's an L. No. Listen, Wexler. We're going to have to get you an L. No, you're not. It went beyond the nine innings. That's extras.

That's a win. I'm taking a win. And I remember this because Matt texted the Gouchead that he won. I know. And I was like, well, they only went to nine innings. So I don't know what you're talking about. Jonathan, that's a win. 713, 212, 5.7.

What do you got? Okay, well, I was feeling pretty good. I said National League comfortably beats American League when it was 6-0. I was feeling good. Then the American League came back, but the National League still won. I said ABS goes smoothly and people love it. I would say that's a win. Yeah.

And I got the Longhorns on the money line. I'm not taking the three versus Ohio State in week one. Longhorns on the money line. Week one. College football. if I had a lot of extra money I'd want you to go out of that game because I've never been to Ohio State before

No a lot of Longhorn fans I know are not going Because they heard about how bad the Ohio State fans are And it's very difficult to get out of the stadium Like worse than tech fans My father-in-law has been to many games at Ohio Stadium And it takes two to three hours to leave Yeah people know that those tech fans like to throw batteries and whatnot What are they throwing Ohio State?

Hands They really do I don't know. Are they a t-shirt wearers like they are in Texas? What do you mean? Like you wear the Texas shirt, but you've got no affiliation in Texas. You didn't graduate. You didn't go to a bunch of classes there.

You're just Texas fan by default. You mean, are they a big brand who has had a lot of success and people want to support them? No, I mean, not having gone to school there? No, I said, are they big bandwagon fans? Texas. Yeah, I'm asking. What big hugely successful college football program has 100% of the fans attended or graduated the school? Zero.

Zero. Okay. So I'm asking, are there a lot of them? So am I imagine? Yes. Okay. Very good. It's always a jealous little fan bases that always are your t-shirt fans.

Yeah, people would wear your t-shirts if your program was any good. You bitch. See, you see how he's a, he's number one instigator. What? I didn't even say anything again. I think I might just turned down a little bit. His instigate game is he's ramping it up, Maddie. He's trying to sew discord between us.

What? I wouldn't have, guys, audience, you know I would. wouldn't do that. I listen to the shows. I know what both of you're doing. And I might have to wear Ohio State shirt the Friday before the big game. I said, I don't know if I'm going to. Look, longhorns are dogs.

They're going to be on the road in the shoe. They should lose that game. But we'll see. But as a 12-team tournament, you'll finish 11 and 1 and feel just great. I don't know. You got at Georgia, at Ohio State. That could be two losses right there. Okay, you're 10 and 2 still getting it.

Anything can happen in Oklahoma. Now, please. What? You're beating Oklahoma. Not without Lincoln, right? There's always upsets there. Okay. All right, anything else?

What did Jonathan have? Oh, I'm sorry. Jonathan had the University of Houston Cougars losing it to the Stephen F. Austin lumberjacks. What a Ross do? You hear that man? You don't make a bet? What's our bet?

That's my Kyle Tucker. By the way, I'm not giving you a serious point. Oh, you know, don't take advantage of the young man like that. You said it, not me. The line's going to be like 35. Jonathan, look, I am not allowing, I'm stepping in, I'm not allowing you to take advantage of this poor young man this way. We got to think about the bet, though.

All right, how about I give you 10 points? Hey, you remember the bet we made back in the day? You lost and you had to sing the Cougar fight song? What was going to happen if I lost? Does SFA even have a fight song? Yeah, I'll even know the word. Let's not do that. I think it's got a corporate sponsor. Oh, okay.

Dale's Lumberyard. Let's go to our gut feelings now. Well, no. Do you remember what I had to do? No. I was going to have to wear the Shasta costume. Oh, yes. And I was going to bring it to the station.

I don't know if you can run the board, though, with the Shasta Paws. All the audio is the audio is best up. Just the photo would have been great. What's the difference? Get him. Get him, Jonathan. Get him. Just because you didn't mix the highlights very well, 10 o'clock. Doesn't mean you don't know if you don't know if you know if you should have put it.

We should have used the. the one from the system. You know what? You should have consulted me on that. Yeah, Matt doesn't understand. Well, that YouTube feed is like two and a half minutes. I didn't want you to restart it up because we had more in highlights. It's easier to just keep hitting playing the system.

Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Ross. Thank you. Thank you, Ross. What were we talking about? Now we're making our predictions. Okay, go ahead this week.

Astros have six games left this week. Okay. Five and one. Well, four of them against the A's. Five and one. Write it down. Okay. Five and one.

There's no way. Five and one. Even though the A's kind of are pesky. Five and one. There's no way. You're right. There's no way. So I'm willing them to five wins.

It's more of a... You know, McCullors is starting like two of those? Oh. I'm just kidding. Oh, God. I'm on McCullors Hill. I am. I am.

He's great. You're not on McCullors Hill. I'm on. You jumped off that hill. I'm on the island. No, I'm still here. You're more Team Gus on the R to McCullors. Guess what?

say it gut feelings go for it quality start next time out Lance McCullors Jr what's up what's up all right here's my Memphis take that you are waiting for the next conference Memphis is going to jettison they want out of the American Memphis State no University of Memphis yeah but isn't the American like the top tier or you're okay

go ahead sorry they're going to the Pac-12 that's what I was going to say I was like a Americans basically one of the top. Yeah, but it's got Florida Atlantic in it now. It's got Charlotte. It's got rice. It's terrible.

Doesn't it have Texas State in it now or something? Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Florida Memphis is going to the Pack 12. That makes sense. Okay. That's what my gut feeling is on that.

Okay. What else you got? What you got? I've given you two. I said Lance McCullors is getting a quality start. And is at least one home run from Bryce Matthews in the next week? Is that okay? One more?

Sure. I mean, one every six games would be what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It'd be like 20 something a year. Yeah, I'll take that. Okay. Jonathan, quickly, what do you got for yourself?

All right, y'all know me, I'll go for the long ball on these bets. So this next six games. Pacers winning it all. Detroit Tigers versus the Blue Jays in their next series. What? I like this. Tigers J's talk? No, no, no, no.

And so we're only down two games from the Tigers and we're one game below the Blue Jays. I think because we have a such an easy schedule, we're going to, and these next six games creep up to the top of the American League. Oh! You did go for the hundred. home run on that one. Top of the AL by next week or by in a couple of weeks or something.

Next week. Let's say next week. I will go over this week. By next Tuesday? That's quite adventurous in there. That's a lot. That's aggressive. We'll give you two weeks. How about we give you till August 1st? Yeah.

Well, how about two weeks? August 5th. August 5th. August 5th. You have two twos and to make that happen. Okay. I like that. All right. Let's go to on hell at 1142. On hell, good morning to you. Good.

All right, so I got a gut feeling. It's not a good one. I'm from Arizona. I'm on my way to the Astros game this evening. But my gut feeling is Yordon Alvarez is going to be out for the season. I hope I'm wrong. On hell, thank you for the phone call. I don't think you're by yourself on that. There was nothing that I got out of that conversation yesterday with the interpreter that you read to us about 45 minutes ago that made me go, ooh, when he comes back, it's ferocious. Now, coming back and not coming back at all are two different things, obviously, but what kind of impact are you expecting him to do? If he's coming back and he's already admitted he's going to have to play through pain, that's not giving me warm and fuzzy sports, Harvey, it's just not. So if you were to put a board on the board of possibilities of what Yordon Alvarez is the rest of the 20-206-5 season, not coming back at all is going to be one of the top three or four picks.

It just is. Hand procedure for Yordon, either in the offseason or whenever he calls it. quits for this year. If he keeps on dry swimming. And he's going to Hong Kong for this. I don't care where he goes. As long as he gets it done. Is it, but I mean, I think I have a slice of hand open?

Well, that's what surgery is. I don't know. No, I guess they can do, they got technologies now. They're going to do like a bionic six million-dollar man. They're going to do some nanos technologies. Put some plates in there. Put some bionic bolts in there. I don't know that.

You're right. Okay. So what do you, okay. How about this? How about this is this real quick. Between the three of us. We'll take a quick time out after this. I want you, all three of us,

number of home runs, Yorna Alvarez, hits between now in the end of the season. John, then you go first. Number of home runs he hits between now and the end of the season. Regular season.

The zero number is that no? Zero's a number. I'm going to go, I'm going to be optimistic. Let's go six. Woo. Rossi? No, you go.

Zero. Two. We'll take a deep breath on that. I'm taking over zero. I'm taking over zero. You're the worst. Why am I the worst? Tell me why.

Because you're the worst. You're such a pessimist. Give me where you... It's July 22nd. He's got a couple months. Give me where you found the optimism, please. He's going to come back with a couple weeks left, and he's going to hit two home runs,

and he's going to be ready to go to the playoffs. He's not going to be the feared heater that he once was, but he's still... 80% of Yordan is better than most anybody else that can be in the line. So, when are you expecting him back? September... September... September...

September... September 3rd. Excuse me? 18th. Give me realistically. I don't know. I'm just throwing bleep against the wall. I haven't seen his energy.

I'm going to prove my point. You're not proving your point. When do you expect him back? July 27. No, no. You said two home runs. If he comes back September 1st and it's two home runs. That's 13th.

Oh, you're joking. Now you're saying 13th. I said 13th. September 13th. Listen to me. Two home runs in 18 games. Thereabouts. Oh, he's not going to play every day immediately.

Oh, hell. I'm staying with zero. 1145 on sports. Over zero. I bet you on it. 7.13. 212.570.790. 1150 on Sports Talk 790.

Real quick, got a couple of, uh, got one, uh, tweet about our wrestling conversation a minute ago. From our friend and that is, uh, this guy 6931 says I, 40 went last night with my kid, 14, and bro 32. Great, sold out atmosphere. Yes, a lot of degenerates, but overall worth it. Sounds like the Matt Thomas show. A lot of degenerates, but worth it, right? Yes. Did you just call it degenerates?

No, he's talking about the listeners. Yeah, no, not, yeah. You and me. And me and me. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-1-2-5-7-99. Ooh, we got the Norfolk versus Lehigh Valley on. MLB Network.

Okay. Why would you... A little minor league ball? Why would you get rid of our girl and put that on instead? Lauren Shihadi greater than minor league baseball. I'm going to go minor league baseball. No, you're not. Keep you actually focused.

That's actually true. Let's talk to Brian in Pearland. Brian, what's in your gut this week? A couple of things. Sadly, I think Isok Paredes is done for at least in regular season. If he comes back, it would only be maybe as a pinch hitter or DH in the playoffs. I just did not like the way he came up so quickly on that hamstring. I hope I'm wrong again, much like most people on Yordon, I hope I am wrong,

but I just didn't like the way that looked. And I think John Singleton will get in to a game at some point before the end of this road trip, if he doesn't even maybe start at DH. And last one, when Christian Javier does come back, he will be used in a piggyback roll with somebody maybe a McCullors or a Gordon or a Walter just to cut down on some of their innings. so you don't tax them by the end of the year. So I think his role will be primarily as piggyback him with somebody else for the most part.

Very good. Thank you very much. It's funny, John's got to play pretty soon here, right? You didn't bring him up just for Blank and giggles, correct? Well, he's just insane ourselves as our spot. What's the difference? I mean, if Shay Wickham's getting more A-Bs, John's be like, come on now.

I can hit the ball a little harder. Christian Walker wants to be at there every day. can I tell you, can I make a little confession? Did you hear Brian's first one? About Isak Paredes? Oh. It popped in my head, but I didn't want to say it out loud or put it on record. I'm going to say it.

Don't, don't. Okay, I won't say it. I'll think it, though. I'm thinking it, too. Just say it. Just say it so you get the credit for when it happens. Just say it so you get the credit. He's out for the regular season.

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How? What do you mean? I mean, I've seen your material. You have your big head behind a bunch of baseball graphics. See, first of all, the head is less than a third of the screen. It's still unsettling. Whatever. Don't be jelly.

At sports, I get a lot of positive feedback. You're not. My mom loves them. She guys are going to say you get three likes. Mom, your brother and your sister. Hey, last one got 49. I think 40, yeah.

That's the other one I had like 50. One of them got like 100. I want to see your face too. Make some more videos, man. Yeah, Matt. Hater. I'll make a video tonight while I'm watching the Astros game. Okay, good.

With my fresh shave. Some help. Uploading it? Probably. All right. Scott. In River Oaks at 1154, Scott, what's in your gut this week? All right, what's up, fellas?

So with training camps starting tomorrow, time to start thinking a little bit towards football. And I have my gut feeling is this. The Houston Texan's defense this year will be the best unit on either side of the ball in the history of the franchise. You can say I'm drinking the Kool-Aid and I might be a little bit, but it will be, I mean, it's not a very high bar to climb. so I think it will be the best unit in a history of the franchise. All right, so let's put this in the perspective here so you can pay off on this.

If they're the best defense ever, that would mean they'd be giving up the fewest points ever in an NFL season. I thought he meant franchise history. Yeah, 17 games. Yeah, so based on a 17 game schedule, they're going to give up the fewest points per game in the history of the team. Is that what you're saying? Or maybe he means DVOA, Matt. Maybe he means yards per play. Jesus Christ.

Maybe he means EPA per play. Tony, Jonathan, come in here and hit him. My hands are too tender. We can judge it by points per game. Well, how you name the parameter?

I'll do whatever you want. Wasn't the 2012 or 2011 defenses? One of those was number one in football, I think. Yeah, I think you're right too. And I would say this unit on paper has more talent than that team. You know, with both edge rushers, everyone we have in the secondary and the linebacking

core, you know, do you go position by position other than maybe defensive tackle? I don't think there's a position that's not really are they not strong at, but they have depth as well. So I'm putting my name on it with DeNico at the helm as well. Best unit in the history of the... Either side of the ball.

Okay. Either. Oh, all right. Scott, you are... We will look forward and you should call us before January, but I'm just saying you got an opportunity to call us in January to claim your gut feeling. All right, I've done some deep analytical research. I love it when you do that. Points per game, best Texans defense have ever finished is fourth.

That'd be it 2011 and 2018. In terms of yards, they were the number one overall yards defense in 2016, number two in 2011. See, I think if you were to say that, like Scott just did, I would want to go off of fewest points per game allowed. Yeah, but I mean, points for game, what if CJ Stroud throws a bunch of picks? and they get easy points. You know what I'm saying? We can section those away. I like stuff like yards per play.

Like, I know, you're going to get mad at me. Points can be misleading and yards can be misleading. If you're blowing somebody out by 35 points and then you put in a bunch of backups and you give up 400 yards, you had a pretty good defensive day. We can section off things. You have to contextualize numbers, Matt.

That's what they call me, the contextualizer. No, they call it. Never mind. They like that. Last but least. Eric in Bay City, what's in your gut? Well, guys, I'm so excited because y'all announced today earlier in the show that Rich Hill would be pitching tonight. Oh, God.

That led me to call in with my gut feeling that Rich Hill is going to put on a performance tonight that Spencer Erigetti will not put on all season when he returns, and certainly Lance McCullors won't. Rich Hill is going to dominate tonight. Quality start incoming. And one thing I'll say on the WWE stuff, those fans have gotten so weird, man. They go to the shows and they sing and all that. It makes the show almost unwatchable to me. Jim Cornett has a podcast.

I suggested him as a possible Astros manager before here on this show. Yes, you have. What? He talks about these modern fans, and they found this, like, niche group of people that will pay exorbitant prices for their products. But for a lot of mainstream people, just regular viewing fans that used to enjoy the stone cold days or the Hulk Hogan days, we can't,

it's hard to watch this crap. Well, unfortunately, Eric, you and I share one sentiment. I listen to Jim Cornett before I go to sleep every night. Isn't that terrible? All right, I guess he said nothing. All right, there you go. And that's the gut feelings of the week. Thank you, Matt.

Thank you, Eric. Jim Cornett for Astros manager. We'll speak to the real manager who's got the job. And he's a very good at it. And he's been in baseball all his life. Yeah, go ahead. As compared to Jim Corvette's not been in baseball one day in his life. 16 players in the IL, they're five games up.

Come on, folks. Bubble wrap him. Manager 2. Welcome to the Bryce is Right. I'm Matt Thomas. And here's one of Maddie's beauties. Rossville or Hal. You never thought.

You never called that. Of all the denigrating things you've said on this show, I don't know if it gets any lower than calling me your beauty. That is weird. That's fine. You're not beautiful Ross? Yeah, but I'm not Matt's beauty. That's weird.

Some of these people think you're handsome. I don't get it. I just don't get it. I think it's more of the charming personality. You got a dad bod. Hey, somewhere into that. You got a lot of gray hair. Yes, it's the hair.

It's a lot. It's French. Basically 80% of the hair. And I just don't get it. I would say charming personality. No, I wouldn't say that. Women love a man who can make them laugh. And I get him giggling, Matt.

Oh, you get him giggling, all right. Again, I don't know how. I don't know why. Confused. Frankly, a little disappointed. We present to you the news. Oh, crap. With the George Clooney

look-alike of Houston Sports Radio and News, It's Ross. Yeah, you know what? I am doing news. I could do the news thing. Like, hello, I talk with an Anglo accent, except when I say my name, Rosa Villarreal, here on the Sports Talk 7.90. Well, Matt, the Astros get the win yesterday. You heard the highlights.

A couple of mighty hacks from Bryce Matthews, both over 108 miles an hour off the bat. He did have two strikeouts. It has been some of the Bryce Matthews. Matthew's experience, but as we heard from him coming up from AAA, he holds much power in those hands and that bat. And we saw it yesterday. Two mighty hacks, five runs batted in. Astros do not win the game without those five RBIs. Six to three victory. Cold and Gordon, good enough. Bullpen good, despite some walks giving up. Ashros get the

6 to 3 victory. And importantly, the Mariners lose to the brew crew, so Astros now five games up in the American League West. And Joe Espada joins us in 22 minutes here on 790. Yes, he does, Matt. One of the things we may discuss with him, we got some quotes yesterday from Yordon Alvarez via an interpreter. So via the interpreter, via Chandler Rome, talking about Yordaulvarez and what he had to say about his injury, quote, 60 to 65. percent effort he was swinging with. He plans to hit again today. Said about his setback in Florida. The day he was supposed to face.

Pitching his hand was so swollen, he could not grip a bat. And here is a couple of key items here. Says where the pain is, it's difficult to have surgery there. Also says he needs a little bit of rest right now, but normally there is not surgery in that area. And this also is key. Will he have to deal with the pain? all year, he says, I wish not, but I don't know. If I have to deal with it, it will be for the rest of the season. I think I need to rest it, but again, I need to come back and play. And I think

I'm in the right direction now to come back and play. Now, with Joe, he can't further speculate on anything more than what Yorna says. It's just going to be to the fact of, man, you wish you got a burst of really great news. And you just, you got a burst of news. It just wasn't particularly great. it was we kind of get it we understand we appreciate the fact you're trying to fight through it but if the hand swells up before seeing any live game action how are we supposed to guarantee that it's not going to swell up

at any point between now and the end of the regular season that's why unfortunately I put the number at zero home runs the rest of the way for him and I'm sad to say that profoundly sad You're ready to change your mind, aren't you? I don't want to talk about it. All right, man. Also, this goes, ties into the Astros.

Of course, their opponent, the Arizona Diamondbacks. I, Eulhenio Suarez, the third baseman there, hitting his fifth home run in three games. He is listed as a trade target. Could end up any number of places. Will it be Houston? Probably not. But you do have now the trade deadline.

two days and a week away. It will be Thursday the 31st. Are you hanging Oswara's looking like a more and more attractive candidate as he continues to pile up the home runs, Matthew? Yeah, are they four and a half or five and a half out of the wild card? The third wild card? I... It was four and a half going to last night.

I don't know how everybody else did in front of them. I'm not in on the National League of Wildcard. You know what, I'll do it. I should never ask questions. I don't know the answer to you. I got it for you. I got it for you. Five and a half now.

So you think. They're out. No, five and a half. Five and a half plus you have to hot three teams. Okay. So they should be sellers of the deadline. Yeah, the odds, I would say the odds are very low. So you might as well sell and try to get something rather than, I mean, if you break into the playoffs,

are you winning the World Series over the Dodgers and Cubs and Padres and Phillies? Hell no. Okay. So I would say they should become sellers. Also, Matt, keeping it with baseball, did you see what happened in the Phillies game against the Boston Reds? socks last night. I did. It's funny. When I go to ball games, I like to see great defensive plays in games. I like to see clutch base hits, maybe a huge home run. But sometimes you want to see a good old-fashioned catchers interference. Edmundo Sosa, winning the game for the Phillies on a

catcher's interference mobbed by teammates. Said after the game, to be honest, this feels exactly like a home run. The most important thing about is that we end up winning the game and that's what we went out to do. A walk-off three to two victory in the 10th inning for the Phillies on a catcher's interference. I feel like that's, has that happened to the Astros before? No, we've seen runs scored on but not games ending. Okay. All right. Well, there you go. And that's your news at Newman. Do you think the catchers, stay with me on this open statement. They are carrying a lot of weight. even more so than the defined position of a catcher. They're framing more. They're trying to get out. We've seen more catchers interference calls in the last five years and I saw probably in the previous 20 years.

I don't have tangible evidence, but I feel like Kyle Tucker was constantly getting on first base and asked true with all the catcher's interference calls. That's true. Yeah, I don't know. I'm going to have to look at the league average for catchers interference over the last several years. I know. Do not do that. It means you've got zero life, so I don't want you doing that. Oh, well.

It just, the catcher role is just becoming more and more important. Used to be back in the day, you're just worried about catchers trying to catch knuckleballs. Now they're framing. Looks like you're right. There's an athletic article from last year saying catcher's interference calls are skyrocketing. And it's putting players at risk. Yeah. And it's very obvious if it happens.

Whether you're placed wrong or whether you're sticking that glove out and the guy is swinging, it's not healthy for any of them. You could hurt your own hand. You could hurt the batter. A lot of bad things can happen. So I'm glad the umpires are keeping a good eye on the catchers interference. All right, man. I had a couple of NFL things to get to, but we're going to save them for next hour. All right.

We got the NFL Rewind at 120. Ross, what is today's edition of Believe it or not at 150? By the way, I know this won't be it, but poor Malcolm and Jamal Warner. I mean, the stories, you want to do him? It's been a day. That's fine. Yeah. Let's, you know, let's honor him.

Okay. such a terrible, terrible passing yesterday. You saw more details on the story? Yeah, I mean, he was caught up in waves and they couldn't get to him in time. I remember when I went to Costa Rica and we went to Capos in one of the beaches, there was warning signs all over the place. I don't know exactly where he was. But, yeah, the tides can get pretty bad over there.

Can I give you a gut feeling? I will never go into beachwater ever again. I will stay in pools. But I don't know if... Not even like a dip your feet in? Yeah, I can do that. Walks on the sand. How about that?

I want to call you crazy, but I'm not. Between the current and the sharks, you can have it. Flesh-eating bacteria. People urinating out there. Fecal matter and Galveston? Stop. Galvison's lovely.

Google it. Google it. No, I don't want to go. I didn't do the scientific tests. It wasn't me. That was the story that was in the onion. No, it was not. 1214.

The Matt Thomas Show. Cross. The tron.com, brother. Bottom of the hour, Joe Espada on 790. All right, anyways, yes. I'm going to transition to helping you out. A friend of the show, Dan Matthews, his text to Rossi, says, I used to be a huge river tuber,

but then a water moccasin wanted to jump in my tube, and I never said again, I'll stick with the pool. So a snake jumped in his tube? Mm-hmm. He went down the tubers. And then Kenny and Katie sent us a tweet. that had a headline from July 8th. It says more than half of East Coast beaches tested positive for fecal contamination.

Shocking new study reveals, how did your vacation spot do? Hmm. So there's fecal matter all over the place. You know what? Pool's fine for me. Pool's just great. You urinating the pool. We'll catch you.

You do the other stuff in the pool. We'll catch you. You know what I learned? Somebody told me recently, if you can smell, if you're in the pool and you smell the chlorine, get out that means it's activating and it's killing something that means there's something bad in there you know i'm just going to take long showers you already do that i do i'm the longer shower taker you might know is there anything safe to do anymore we can't go on the beach you got sharks and we got currents well just don't just don't we can't go to the beach you just can't get in the water we can't

You know, tubies got water moccasins jumping in people's tubes. Screws are falling off of roller coasters. Yeah. And we got people flying from Minneapolis to Minnet, North Dakota, with fighter jets interrupting them and almost crashing midair. Hmm. Ah! And Stephen Colbert shows got canceled because it's losing $40 million.

Is there no God? It's losing $40 million? $40 million? How much does he get paid? Crazy. Well, see you. Yeah, I don't, you know. I haven't watched.

I can't recall the last time I watched a second of that show. I put, you know, again, I fall asleep to Jim Cornett. He's cheaper, free, except those dumbass ads on YouTube. They get me. You've been talking about getting premium YouTube for years. I know, but it's $15. You know what? Isn't it true that you can get YouTube premium and then you, if you get YouTube TV, it's two separate charges?

I don't have YouTube TV. I know, but shouldn't they package that? I feel like it. I just, uh, I don't get, yeah. I got nothing. Okay. Positive news.

Billy Joel's documentary came out. I have not seen that yet, but reviews on that are really good. What's it called? Chug and Pinesaw? The views expressed by SportsRV are not of those of this radio show. And certainly hundreds of millions of Americans that love and see him every year. He had some good hits. He looks good.

It was a good show. It was a good show. When we went to Minutemate. Yeah. And hope it gets back on tour soon. and you tore out a divot out of the turf and it tripped up Jake Myers? That wasn't me. Although I kind of, I was out in medium center.

See? Oh, speaking of that. See? Did you see Chas McCormick last night? Yes, sir. The grab out in the center field, inning over. There was only two outs. I forgot how many outs there were.

Now, the runners scored, he would have scored anyway. Corbett Carroll is one of the fastest runners in baseball. He would have scored anyways. But you just from a mental standpoint, you just want to go, what the hell are you doing? I mean, if you're going to pick one guy to forget how many outs there are? I mean, Jose Al-Tube can get a way. with it. I was going to say him. Victor Keratin, get away with it.

I'm going to put Chas number one. He's on the list of people that can't get away with it? He's just a goober. And I mean that in the nicest way possible. He's just he's a lovable goober. Hold Chazzy. Good thing it didn't cost him anything. It's funny. And I'm not saying that he is

not bright because I don't know Chaz McCormick very well at all. When I was covering the Minnesota Twins, they had his outfielder named Lou Ford. Okay. It was L-E-W Ford. I wasn't even Oh, like Lewis. Yeah. And before I got to Minnesota, he was legendary because he got hurt in the Twins Clubhouse one night.

Four? It was an ironing incident. Now, when people have an ironing mishap, what would you think would be the problem? They used the iron while they had the shirt on. Yeah, it was fully on. I've heard of people doing that. Yeah. He was trying to iron his jersey while in the jersey.

That's ill-advised. Yeah. So I don't know if Chas would do that. I would hope that the world would travel fast around the world of common sense. Sense that you would not want to actually iron something with something going. Now, I've tried to steam something with me on, and that was even dumber. And that was a dumb move by me. Why?

It was a coat jacket. Oh, okay. You had a shirt on, and then you had the coat on? So I was doing it like this. I was like, I won't get burned by. It seems like a bad idea. But I'm going to give you a little leeway there. That's not that bad.

Don't give me much. Don't give me much. So I admitted to you what I did. Thank you. I thought I would just do a couple of quicks. No, just take the jacket off, put it on a hanger, and be done in two minutes. And then avoid not avoid having hot steam hitting your skin and or your shirt and you're screaming at you and your wife's like, what the hell are you doing? It's like when you take a hot pan out of the oven and then you do something else and you come back and you cry to pick it up because you forgot.

I've done that. Yeah. Like the last dumb thing I did at the house this week is I tried to clean this. I was cooking some bacon and I tried to clean the stove and the stove area was still hot and I was trying to windex it and that was not bright. You know it's really good, easy and set and forget oven oven bacon? Yeah, it just takes a lot longer. Okay. Not nearly as crisp.

Oh, you get it right and crispy. Do you? Oh, yeah. You got to crank it up like 425? Do you broil it or do you have? No, no broil. No, no broil. You're going to burn it.

Oh, okay. So you get little cooking tips here on the. the show. By the way, I was kind of proud of my to tell the truth yesterday about the tachies and the Wendy's burger. Why? I thought it was funny. I mean, it was funny, but I didn't think you used to use it. Would you like to put snack chips

on your burger? I used to eat. I used to put Cheetos on my sandwiches when I was in school when I was a kid. Now, I loved it. Now, I have had a chili cheeseburger with fritos on the top. I went to fat sals in L.A. and they put fries and chicken tenders in your burritos. That is, I'm talking about

snack chips. Yeah. Do you want a bunch of Doritos on top of your chicken, cordon blue? Doritos? No, I'm not putting a spicy nacho cheese on a cordon blue sandwich. All right, you're going to order a bacon mushroom Swiss burger and have ruffles put on top? No. Some people do that. If you're looking for a crunch, I guess.

You get onion straws? That is good, but that's like a side. Okay. All right. What about a fried egg on a burger? Yeah. I think it's too much. I mean, I wouldn't, I can go without it comfortably.

I can feel it congealing in my art days. No, somebody wants to cook me a burger with, like my major market burger was pastrami a Friday and a burger, and that's good. And they took it off. Yeah, they did. Because, I mean, who's eating pastrami in Houston, Texas? Not a big pastrami market. Probably in Myerland.

Why do you say that, Ross? I don't know. I don't know. I think you know. Joe Espott of next 1228 on Sports Talk 790. We enjoy spending attention. quality minutes with the I'm going to go ahead and say it. Future American League manager of the year. Joe Espada.

Skip, how are you? I am doing well, guys. Thank you for having me. Hey, congratulations on the win. Congratulations for Bryce Matthews. Tell me what it's like managing a young man who probably, as you even admitted, has some work to do, not a finished product, but comes up,

takes him all to get that first major league hit and then is certainly very impactful for you last night. Yeah, yeah, he's been you know, the game. He's had yesterday. Begging out against a really good starter in the position that we are in, right? We are fighting

through a tough stretch of injuries and these young players continue to come up and step up and have games the way Bryce just did. It just impacts. It brings his energy to the clubhouse and to our team that we need it.

And I'm not surprised about his success. We know that he's got all the ability and the capabilities to be a really good player, but how every game he's starting to settle down, calm down, understand what they're trying to do, play good baseball on both sides to the ball, has been remarkable.

And it's a great story, you know. It's a Houston kid. It's a kid that went through the Astros Academy. So the whole thing is special. And, you know, it's great to see having success, and we need to keep this going and it's excited to be managing this group

of players who are so excited and want to contribute. Are you committed, keeping him at second base. Obviously, the second base from before him has been playing a little bit of left field, obviously some DH as well, and you moved him to second. We're speaking, obviously, of Jose. But what are your plans, at least, for the short term, at that second base spot? You know what? I want to really give him an opportunity. You know, it's, you know, right now with our roster and how much is changing, and we can really predict what the future will bring. But right he has earned the right to continue to get opportunities. Like I've always

said, you know, any young player, you have to keep an eye on how he reacts and how he makes adjustments. I don't want to throw a young player out there and not be able to help him through struggles. So I'm constantly keeping an eye on all these young players and trying to put him in a position where they can feel comfortable and have some success. But right now, he's handling himself very, very well. With all the injuries and your roster adjustments, I mean, the sugar to Houston Express is unbelievable toll charges and everything, but you guys can handle that. Let me ask you about

trying to get guys off their feet, whether it's Jose, whether it's Victor, whether it's Yon Air, does it become even a bigger challenge? Because I feel like every other series you're having to kind of create and manipulate a new 26-man roster. You know what? I think

that it's challenging, but when you get guys to like Bryce, right, who's performing the way he is. It allows me to give Al-Tube a back-to-back D-Bach day. Like I'm going to do today with Hose Altube. I'm going to

deach him again. Price can get another opportunity to play second base. I could keep Jose off his feet on the turf. You know, Caritini will get a blow today. Ganyar Diaz will be back in there today against the lefty pitching. I am really trying to get everyone involved. You know, Tremel's swinging the bat

really well, so he's getting an opportunity to, you know, play more on the field. McCormick, you know, have two hits yesterday. He can play some center. So I'm really trying to get everyone a breeder doing the best I can to try it also win as many games we can. Keep it in mind that we need to keep these guys healthy and, you know, doing this next nine, ten days that we have games. But I think, you know, we are kind of controlling the volume of the early work we do, our BP times.

We kind of pushing things back, kind of trying to keep these guys healthy while we get the rest of the guys to, you know get back to us. Joey, we sincerely apologize that so much of our conversation this year has been about injuries, but that has been a storyline of this team, and you're certainly well aware of that. Let's get to your very talented third baseman who looked absolutely terrible running to first base at her day, and I know there wasn't much word yesterday. Do you have anything more you can tell our audience right now about what we know about ESOC and any evaluation he had medically here in town?

You know what? Obviously, you know, the injury did not look good. it's going to be it's going to take it's going to take some time for for us to get paredes back you know this handstring injury was different from the other one the other one what's more it was not as intense or as you know as bad as this one so this is going to take paredes some time to come back you know and and we are going to miss him during doing this stretch of not having him in there. And again, we need, you know, who's going to be the next guy up, who's going to step up and help us. And we've been doing that guys for a time, I feel like for a few months now. But I feel good about our guys, man. They fight. They understand the position that

we are in. We're protecting our house. We're protecting what we, you know, what we love. And it's continued to be the best team in the West. And as long as we got these guys fighting and trying to do the best they can. That's all I can ask for. One of the great things that Isak brought to the table was the amount of pitches he was able to take and the patience that he had. Can you just give us some thoughts on basically what is in him that allows him to do that? And how do you kind of try to coax more out of the rest of your lineup, but while still keeping guys within themselves? Yeah, you know, I think what Isak does really well. Number one, I think he has no panicking with two strikes.

when you have a hitter that, you know, he'd rather be all in one than 0 for one. It allows you to see pitches and confidence that I can hit with two strikes. And he's always being able to, you know, control the strike zone. And he knows his strength. He knows what he's looking that day against that particular pitcher, right? So we have, you know, we have some guys that are capable of doing that. So I'm trying to stack some of those guys up where our line. up can stretch out a little bit more.

We can see pitches. We can allow our guys who hit with many scoring position. I'm trying to stack up some guys that can hit with many scoring position, trying to get some big hits in certain moments. You know, it's tricky, but, you know, we're going to continue to shuffle things around and the guys are all in. And, you know, I'm going to communicate with them. My thought process, and hopefully we will keep this going.

Ashares manager, Joe Espato was here on Sports Talk 790, and one of those guys you've had to move a lot. Cam Smith has basically been everywhere in the lineup. Is it a situation where you want the approaches to be the same? Or did you talk about possibly seeing more pitches now with him leading off? You know what? He's being seen pitches throughout the whole entire season. I really like this approach.

And I'm trying to make sure that he doesn't have to change his plan. He can still be the same in that lead off spot. Just try to drive the ball of the right center field. He's come up with some men in his form. position. He got that big double against Wu in Seattle got another big knock yesterday. So I'm trying to be, you know, trying to put him

in a spot where it's not overwhelmed by this spot. You know, he has Altuba hit behind him, so he's getting some good pitches to hit. You know, and trying to, you know, stack some hitters behind Altova that we can get some big hits with, you know,

with men in scoring position. Last three starts, Joe, Four Hunter have been laborsome. the least. What are you seeing? Is there something that's happening? Is it nickel and diamond to death? Is it the corners are not getting called? Strikes? What combination of things do you see that has seen his ZRA spike up a little bit

the last two weeks or so? You know what? I think his stuff has been really good. Bats have been, you know, anytime you face someone with that caliber, you hitters get to, you know, they lock it in. And I see hitters, you know, really making adjustments to, he, he's Arsenal and how he's attacking. A lot of foul balls, a lot of long-out bat, which is driving his pitch counts up.

He's, you know, he made some quality pitches in Seattle, and those guys were able just to put some bowling play. And, but I don't think it's something that we should be worried about. I think every great pitcher goes through stretches where, um, they show their human side of them. And, and I think once, you know, Hunter, um, gets back on the mound and he gets going again. I think he's

going to get on the roll here pretty soon. One more thing about a starting pitcher. And this may be overly simplistic. So if it is, straighten me out. Can Lance is a strike throwing that is getting him in the most trouble right now that maybe he just needs to be able to trust

the stuff to get it over the plate and say, yeah, there may be some contact, but I've got good enough stuff because it feels like the pitch count, especially early in games, has really gotten him behind the eight ball. 100%. And that's it. You know, he's stuff is really good. We try to get them to throw the ball in the box and let the natural movement of his

pitches do the talking. If you're behind the count, the 102, the hitter is completely in control, you know, off the bat, and they can wait out and they can sit on pitches. And now they can control the part of the plate that they want to handle, you know, that they want to hit the ball. But when you control the bat and you get ahead in the count and now you use your sweeper and now I can get my curbel over, my two seamer, it's a completely different ballgame. And, you know, it's not easy. You know, Lance has been a really good pitcher when he's been healthy and he's shown this for many, many years.

But we're trying to get him to simplify his repertoire, how attack hitters, and just get him to be in the box more often. if he does that, he's going to find himself pitching five, six innings. All right. Before I let you run, Colton Gordon and Brandon Walter, I mean, have been, I mean, huge assets for you. They weren't even on your radar's radar and have come up and helped you out in terms of not only giving you outs, in one case, not throwing base on balls, and the strike count has been good. And then you needed a length last night, and you got it from one of your starting pitchers. So two blessings for you right now for the squad. Yeah, you know what?

When we went in the off season, you go and you sign players and you're making a depth chart. You always signing pitchers, arms that you know at some point they could come up and help you give your starters a breather. You know, you never prepared for the amount of injuries that could happen to your rotation. but we always prepare to have some depth but in case something happens we know Colton Gordon is capable of throwing strikes and giving you four or five minutes when we went and got Walters

he can also do the same so we we acquire these players knowing that in case something happens this is our second line of defense and these guys have been solid and allow us to give time to those pitches who are on the sideline who are working the way back

just to keep us in the fight and that's all we as is keep us in the fight and then when we get the rest of the players coming back maybe you know then we're in a position to make us from push in august in september skip thanks to the visit as always congratulations on the wind thank you to milwaukee for beating the mariners last night enjoy that five game lead and help it stays that way tonight against the debacks yes sir thank you guys you got joe spot it with us from phoenix here on sports talk 790 1244 is our time if you want to chew on anything that he had to say 713 212-5790 7-7190

2-790 Ross is the NFL rewind today at 120 We believe it or not today coming up at 150 And we are going to honor Malcolm Jamal Warner sadly It's just the truth It's gone too soon at 54 years of age yesterday

1244 Sports Talk 790 We have some breaking news on the Matt Thomas show at Ross at 1249. It's only one. But hopefully it's more than one. So this is good news I'm thinking. It's not bad news.

Okay. Go ahead. The Rockets have agreed on a one-year contract with Josh Akogi. Okay. 8.6.3 points per game. Spent time with Charlotte, Minnesota. One-year contract worth $3.1 million. Oh, yes!

Woo! Wonderful. I mean, I've called some of Kogi buckets over the years. I imagine. I'm just looking for the, well, three-point percentage. See, okay, you moved your nose like you smelled something bad, so I'm going to go ahead and go on the guessing game and take context clues. Okay. He's a 33% three-point shooter.

Well, you're correct. His three-point percentage stinks. 29.9. Career. Oh, 33 last year. Last year, 348. I said 33. Why did you say I was correct then? Well, correct. It's bad. Oh, okay.

All right. 29.9.9 career. Okay, read some numbers that can make me feel good. Almost nine points a game for Charlotte. In 15 games? Sample size, small. That's fine. 34.8% from three is not bad for the Rockets. It's not good for other teams, but it's not bad for the Rockets.

Okay. Continue on. Defensive stalwart? Doesn't look like it. He finished eighth in the rookie of the year voting in 2019. All right. So you're saying there was a top 10 selection of some sort? Top 10 rookie.

And that's all I got for you. Well, I mean, he's on a vet minimum. It's fine. I mean, this 15-man roster, there can be a lot of good guys that aren't going to play. I mean, I got a good thing for you. Is Jeff Green going to not. play a single game this year? I don't know. He's from Lagos, Nigeria.

Oh, all right. Jonathan. Oh, Jonathan, Jonathan. Jonathan. You are a Houston sports young man, right? You grew up here? I didn't grow up here. I went to high square, though, but I definitely... He grew up in San Diego, right? All right. No, I was born in San Diego. I grew up in the DFW area. All right. How are we going to make this a small bit here in the next three minutes? Just ask them, who is the most... Famous athlete ever to come out of Lagos, Nigeria.

And I will give you a hint. He played for multiple Houston teams. Multiple Houston teams? Multiple Houston teams? All right, I'll narrow it down even further. He played for a collegiate Houston team and a professional Houston team. That did confuse me. I was like, are we talking about the same guy we are.

Yay! You know what we got to do? What? We got to do a segment sometime. Will Jonathan know it? Will Jonathan know? Yeah, will Jonathan know? I always like doing those. When you're out, I'll do whoever's co-hosting.

Will blank know. Well, why don't we do that tomorrow? Let's do a small segment. You come up with five questions. Nothing too difficult. I got more homework. Well, I mean... You're doing pre-imposts.

I'm not doing anything. Yeah, I got all pre-tomorrow. You're off at 1.30. I got post. Yeah, but you're going to be... You're going to be out of drinking beer. It can't get that hard. You'll have some aid on me.

For the Astros game and for the post game, we'll be at Carbock Brewing, myself and Chris Gordy, for a live taping of the Crawford Boccast. Would people want to go out and literally see the two of you? People have. And what do they come away with? Kind of disappointing? No, what do you mean? Signing autographs, kissing babies.

Are you really? You're running for office? Yeah. I'm way more of a man of the people than you. That's not true. Like, uh, never mind. Like what? Say it.

It's okay. It doesn't matter. I'm out there hosting pickleball charity events. Yes. Out there shaking hands at Italian brewing? Absolutely. You're doing great, Matt. You know what?

He wants to say something. You're fantastic. He wants to say something. You hear that post? No, I don't. He wants to be rude to me. And you're doing great, Matt. I think you have this wonderful, brilliant career.

I don't believe there's any of this. You're such a star. And you're awesome, man. Yep. Yep, this is... And you just do great. The light you bring to the people of Houston every day. This is brimming with sarcasm.

That's fine. No, I can't even look at you. I'm being serious. Okay. Thanks, Ross. Very much. He's got a nervous twitch going. His eyes are squinting.

It was like you were talking about Josh... Oh, I just had another cup of coffee. You were just talking about Josicoke's 3 point percentage. It's not good. It's not great. He's just... Look, he's on a vet minimum deal at 26. He's...

I'm not imagining a huge impact. Will Josh Akogi and I have dinner together at any point this year? Does it count if you'll eat on the same plane? Nope. I mean, I'm talking about, he says, hey, Matt, let's go get some dinner. There's no chance. Will there be a rocket this year that will take me after dinner? Maybe Kevin Durant.

That'd be a great way to kind of welcome himself to the team, get to know the people. Like, hey, let's get to know you guys a little bit. Dinner on me. Okay. Yeah. Mike Dan Tony did that when he became the coach. Did he? Took us out to dinner.

It was great. We were in Miami. We ate pasta and drank wine. And he immediately regretted it. No, he had a great time. They loved us. The Dan Tonys, like I said, if you and I wanted to go to training camp up at Voice Virginia at the green bar,

we could stay at the Dan Tony house if we wanted to. Okay. Josh Okoge, season high last year, 25 points on a game where he was 10 of 15 from the field and three of four from three. I'll take it as my 14th or 15th guy. This team, Ross, this rocket team is loaded. One of the summer teams sucked. They never know those guys are going to make the team.

Yeah. Summer team wasn't great. They went one and four. I mean, it could have gone a lot worse. No, not a lot worse. No, one game worse? It could have gone one game worse. That's true.

That's true. But I was watching. Summer League, though, got kind of choppy this year. I don't really ever watch it. I mean, I watched when it was Jalen Green. There wasn't, yeah. I mean, Thompson played like one game in hers ankle. Reed Shepherd played too, and they're like, we're done.

All right. Final hour of the Matt Thomas show will feature. with Ross, a NFL rewind coming up in 25 minutes. You were in tease something, right? Did she want to say for the rewind? Did you tease something? Did I pay off on it? No, you did not.

You said something in the news at noon, and you're going to do it during NFL rewind. So whatever that is, I can't wait to see that. I remember that too, Matt. I remember that too. Yep. And then we got Malcolm Jamal Warner, believe it or not, today at 150 coming up. We're playing for big three tickets. That's what we're doing here on the show.

We have a great listener of ours on Twitter. It calls himself retro pool pool guy. and he's claiming that your thoughts on chlorine are incorrect. All right. It wasn't my thoughts. I literally said, check the tape. I said I've been told. Who told you?

A friend of mine who owns a pool. Said if you can smell the chlorine, that means it's activating. And apparently a pool guy says that's a myth. Well, he said that's not true. And then I googled it. And apparently it's a very common myth. So if we smell chlorine, we're okay. Well, it could be activated.

but it doesn't necessarily mean it is what I read. There was one time, Jonathan. I was when I was a kid, I was at a pool. Oh, no. And a baby Ruth Bar landed in the pool accidentally. And everybody ran out of the pool as fast as they could. They couldn't believe it. You threw it in there?

I didn't throw it in there. I don't know who did. He's making a movie reference. No, I'm not. You don't know that. And honestly, I can't remember what movie that was. Stop. Don't listen to him, Jonathan. It sounds like a grown-ups type of the plot.

It happened. It really did. 713-212-5-78. Ross, would you stop? I'm telling stories, and you won't let me finish my stories. Caddyshack or fast times, I couldn't remember. Ross stared at my down, through his salt up on that answer. He's been doing this bit.

Now it's pretty funny, I'll give him that. But he's been doing this bit for like 15 years. And see, now he's got someone young and gullible. Yes, I'm going to continue. Jonathan, for as long as you're with us the next six months or so, until you find another job with more money and better benefits. I'm going to continue to do this. You have to figure out.

I'm not sure because you get me at most of the time too. I know. I do get you most of so precocious and full of wonderment. So believing. They do call me Mr. Prococious. Not you. 713. 212.5-790.

7-13-1-2-2-5-7-90. George is with us on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. George, good morning. Good afternoon. Hey, good afternoon. How are you guys doing? Wonderful. All right. I called a couple of years back talking about Hectorneras. Now that he's back, I was trying to tell you guys he's the good luck charm.

I mean, I know he blew it two nights ago, but I think going forward, this is going to be great for us. George. George. George, stay in the line with me on this. I have terrible news for you. Are you ready? Go ahead. as soon as any of the healthy astro pitchers come back,

they're going to release Hector Nairus. I mean, I don't think though. Okay. I'm just telling you, I told you, when you call me back, I must say, I told you so, and you're going to say, okay, you're right. As long as I'm, yeah, Hector Nairis is here strictly as an insurance policy. If there was a 26th man roster,

he's player number 25 or 26. He'll be released as soon as any of the astral pitchers come back. All right. might know more than I do, but I'm not saying I do that in life, but in this particular case, I think I know more, just in this case only, just in this case. Thanks, George. We'll see you. Hey, I didn't mad at you.

I'm just saying. I'm just saying too, and you may be a related to Hector Nouris. He's a great swell fellow, and he's a nice guy, and he likes talking to the younger kids, but this is his third team this year for a reason. He's not good. Yeah, I'm trying to go, I was like, is Nick Hernandez still on the major league team? he is not. So I can't think of anyone that would get let go or sent.

No, I don't know. He can't. It's probably out of options. Yeah. It's probably narrous. Hmm? Yeah, that's it. Okay.

That's all I got. I'm not going to disagree. Thank you very much. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-2-5-7-90. Gary is with us at 106 on 7-90. Gary, good afternoon. Good afternoon.

on the baby Ruth. That's from Beverly Hills Cop 2, but Eddie Murphy has to get into that Playboy Mansion and whatever. And also, you go on Raf Kings and look up Rich Hills' meme. It has in the Pittsburgh Pirates for a uniform.

It has in the backdrops, the Boston Red Sox backdrop, and then it has nothing about the team with. It's still showing being a starting pitcher for the Red Sox. Thank you, Gary? Well, Math Ming's needs to clear that up.

Yeah, come on. What's going with you, Math Ming's? I don't know. By the way, was there a baby Ruth in the Beverly Hills Cop 2 movie? I don't remember that. I'm not saying it's not true, but... Me either. I haven't seen that since like 1988. God, is it three years old? Yeah. I'm trying to think. 1998, you were three? 88. 88. He turned big 4-0 this year. We celebrated big, didn't we?

It was fun. Yeah, good luck with the water and food shortages, young kid. I know I came in time. I went to bask in the American glory. Yeah, I've died peacefully. It's all over my head. It's okay. It's going to happen to all of us.

It's a mad time show with Ross 10 to 2. Now, I'm trying to remember. Was there a scene? Now, what I remember, you know, it's funny. Tell the folks you were talking about Caddyshack. I was talking about Caddyshack. Okay. I don't know.

Oh, about Beverly Hills Cop 2. You know, it's funny, Jonathan, I went to go see Beverly Hills Cop 2. Oh, my God, here we go. Yeah. And I went to my car to leave the movie theater, and there were a bunch of bananas in my tailpipe. It did not turn out well. And I... You're a little rascals?

No. I feel like I know this one. No, this is Beverly Hills Cop 1. Okay. I was like, I know this one. That's what Annie Murphy ordered room service for Judge Reinhold, and he says, can you have any little mayo of the sandwich? What am I, damn, Matthews? What am I doing here?

What are you doing? What am I doing movie references on this? I'm not Dan Matthews. It's not All-Star Week. Let's talk about Bryce Matthews instead of Dan Matthews. Next thing you know is I'll be in class in high school and order a pizza and my teacher will want to be in half of it. Not from the rest of the class. Huh.

You should be, you know, we should keep a whip in here. Look, we're doing 20 hours a week. That's true. I mean, we can only talk about Nick Cayley. much. Let's break it down. The part for the Beverly Hills when the axle goes to the Playboy Mansion. Oh, that's when the Baby Ruth comes into play.

Okay. Shout out to AD over there. You know, help me out with that. Aggie Doug always come through for us. Oh, speaking of that. I want to bring this up really quickly here. Saw a tweet yesterday. So in the last calendar year, Texas A&M has front-loaded its NIL money, apparently. Yeah, because the regulation's coming, right? Yes. $61 million in NIL money has gone to athletes at Texas A&M.

Ross, first of all, that's mind-blowing. Second of all, they better win a championship in the next three years, or it's a massive disappointment. They're not predicted to win a championship. Well, they're spending all this NIL money. NIA money spent a lot of recruits. I didn't, no, NIA money does not directly correlate to that. Massively disappointed.

You got the rest of the season. You know what, he took the other day and he's not giving over it. That's fine. That's fine. You took the L. You took it. So back to my point. So $61 million. How many athletes are there in the program? I mean, I don't know. Okay, there's 80 football, 20 basketball. 80, 85, yeah. You're talking about women athletes. I don't know how much of they're getting. Actually, I'm glad you asked.

Okay. Of the $61 million that has been floated out to NIL. Can I guess? Do you know? Yeah, I actually do a million. So, as a matter of fact, I want to get sure give you the right time. I'll guess five. That would be incorrect. You want to keep guessing?

Higher or lower? Lower. Oh, my God. Lower than five? Two. 2.2 million. I want to pull up the direct number, the direct stat I saw. Here it is.

The Texas A&M Aggies between July 24th and July 25th have spent approximately $51.4 million on NAL payments in the last calendar year. Wow. 49.2 million have been allocated to men's sports. 2.2 million have been allocated to women's sports. 2.2. 2.2. I sent it to my daughter. And all she sent was a sad face and crying emojis.

Why did you send that to her? Because she's going to get $12 for NIL money at Rhode Island. No, I'm pledging 100. Are you really? Absolutely. I mean, and she can get like, you know, like, I don't want to rhyme me, but, Liquid. I'll just say, look at IV. You can get those, like, sponsors and get a bunch of free stuff. I know a lot of teammates got a bunch of free.

Liquid IV, folks, special when you get into your 30s. You can get a bunch of sponsors. You need to recover quickly. Let me take some. She loves being on Instagram. I'm okay with her making money there. That's the only side I'm, look, I'll accept her making money on. The rest of them she cannot make money on.

Just saying. You can't make money on Snapchat, can you? She's a big snapper. Oh, TikTok. She likes TikTok. Yeah, she's a big TikTok. She can definitely get some of those. How many followers she have on Instagram?

Not enough. We're going to get that up there. Okay. Well, if I'm going to spend NIL money on her. So what do you want to do for her to earn $100? I want a lot of views, clicks. And producing your... For the sports RV brand.

And what exactly is that brand? Greatness. Hilarity. Incisive analysis. Modesty. And modesty. All right. We can have her promote the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Yeah, but so, oh, okay, but you want the top name on the list, right? You want to be on the headliner? No, I don't have an ego like that. Okay. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-212-5-79. We have the NFL Rewan coming up in a matter of moments. And believe it or not, today coming up at 150, which unfortunately is about Malcolm Jamal Warner.

May he rest in peace. You bring me down. I'm telling you, seriously, don't, no one. Well, some of you. can go to the beach. But most of you, I don't want you to go to the beach. Because the currents are just terrible, plus all the shark attacks and whatnot. I mean, my goodness, just go to your pool. 713-212-5-7-90.

113 on Sports Talk, 7-9. Ross knew it when the show began today. In three hours and 20 minutes into the show, it would be time for the NFL rewind. So this thing is a masterpiece of production. We present to you that, Sports NFL. Sports RV, NFL Rewind. So many different things to get to here. On the NFL Rewind. We'll start, though, with a big article put out by ESPN.

Of course, a lot of teams coming into camp soon, including your Houston Texans. This from DJ Biennamy, as every team's writer was asked to write what the biggest storyline coming in camp was. No surprise for the Texans. How all eyes will be on the how the Texans are. offense meshes. CJ shroud pressured on 38.6% of his dropbacks. That is the third most in the NFL, according to NFL next gen. The stats, 52 sacks, second most in the league.

Of course, we understand that Cam Robinson is there. Trent Brown, Lincoln Tomlinson, a couple of draft picks as well. So how will things unfold as far as the offensive line and the offense for the Texans? Of course, that is the number one storyline. Matt, I ask you, what's the number two storyline for the Texans? How much Nick Chubb can help the Texans? Running back situation in general. How much does Joe Mixon have left in the tank?

I mean, the linebackers are still kind of iffy. Yes. But that's not one of those things I just stare at the three linebackers and go, ooh, that's a great play. No, I would say, I want to know the running back distribution in how much the running back game overall can help the Texas. help out a beleaguered offensive line or perceived poorly beleaguered offensive line. That's why I come to you, Matt, for the true professional opinions.

Thank you. No, thank you. All right, Matt, we've been talking about this storyline a lot in the offseason on NFL rewind. Trey Hendrickson, the much maligned pass ratcher for the Cincinnati Bengals as they continue to pay everyone but him. will not report with the rest of the team's veterans today in Cincinnati Bengals camp. Four-time Pro Bowl are not participated in any team activity since the end of last season where he led the NFL with 17 and a half sacks and was named an all pro selection. He is seeking a long-term deal as he enters the final year of his current contract.

And apparently he's taking Instagram photos of him. away from the training camp. Bingle's not willing to give him guaranteed money past the first year. Others such as Miles Garrett, Max Crosby, T.J. Watt have gotten much bigger guaranteed money and recently signed extensions. Trey Hendrickson wants the same. I don't know exactly what the Cincinnati Bingoes' cab situation is, but they can't be paying everybody.

Joe Burroughs making big money, Jamar Chase, T. Higgins. I mean, it's a lot. Yep. They're just going to try to outscore everybody like they did last year. Yeah. And you know what? 54-47 still is a win. It's fun.

Let me tell you. The Baltimore Ravens were bangers. I got a sneaky hot take for you. Uh-oh. First fantasy quarterback you should take this year, Joseph Burrow. I said it. All right. We'll find out when you're in the league.

We got Cole Thompson in the league now. Yes. We've got our 12. Yes. Now, am I really going to be the 12? Got to find out. Adam Clanton has agreed. he has certain conditions, which I will meet.

Which are what? What does you decide? I don't know if I want to say. He wants a certain person in the league that no longer works here. Really? Do we like this person? I like him. Does he have a YouTube channel or is he still in the media? He's got a nice mustache. Continue on.

We're not letting Jonathan Allen in, right? You've never played fantasy football? No, I'm like to. Yeah, we're not going to take your money like that. I mean, I would. I know Matt would. if Matt was the ruthless commission, he would, but I'm not going to allow it, Jonathan. I'm going to protect you.

I appreciate that. Or unless you can find some sponsors. You can get liquid IV to pony up to cash, and we'll get you in the league. All right, sorry, moving along here on the NFL Rewind, Matt. Have you heard the latest on the Washington commanders attempting to get a stadium deal in Washington, D.C.? Mayor Muriel Bowser remains confident. that the commanders will return to the city, but she has steered clear in recent comments of President Donald Trump's threats to scuttle a deal

if the team does not return to its former name. The president throwing a big curve in a matter's Sunday when he posted on social media, his desire for the commanders to go back to their former name, the Redskins, as a stipulation for building a new stadium on federal land in the district. And he does control it. Congress has leased the land to the city for the next 99 years. So then he doesn't control it, does he? No, he can, there's a,

within the last year, President Biden got controlled back of D.C. to that area. Okay. For the president, for the, for the, what branch is it? The executive branch yet. Yeah.

Look at you. Judicial? I mean, I would rather worry about, I don't know, the war. Multiple wars. Roads, education, precautionive gas and eggs, tax cuts.

Yeah. Commander, I mean, look, I don't love the name the commanders. The Redskins, to me, seem defensive. I don't think he can't go back. And again, I'm not one of those. I am far from the politically correct when it comes a name kind of thing.

But it felt like that was the one that was the, that towed the line. But if he's going to die on that hill, I guess he's going to die on that hill. Yeah, I guess. But we've been bringing up stadium deals in this segment a lot, so I wanted to bring that stadium deal up.

We'll see what happens with the folks over there in Washington, D.C. All right, elsewhere, Matt, now, of course, also something that we sometimes do in the NFL Rewind is we bring in college football stories. We do? Steve Sarkisian, yes, I have done it,

because, you know, sometimes there's a shortage of good NFL stories, so I just go to college football, and we call it NFL Rewin. Steve Sarkisian, speaking in front of thousands of high school coaches in San Antonio, encouraging them to fight off outside interests who are getting

involved with their players. During the keynote address at the Texas high school coaches association, he got on his soapbox and said, quote, the game is changing, not the game on the field, but the game off the field, NIL, revenue sharing, publicity rights, etc. Agents have gotten involved, trainers are more involved, and I'm imploring upon you not to throw your hands in the air and just say, hey, it's out of our control. I would do just the opposite. I would tell everybody, hey, it's out of control. to our school, write you a blank check.

We can't do that. Agents are new to us. I've got to deal with agents. That is real. You're the ones of raising your kids. You're still the ones that they look to for guidance. That sounds nice in theory, but... He's trying to get predatory agents off of the high school kids. When you're talking about money and these kids that have no idea what to spend and what their value is, you're going to get any.

Absolutely you are. This is hypocrisy. It always is. The SEC Media Day is all last week or about it. We've got to get regulations. place. No, you don't. You don't want regulations. You want to sound like a regulation, so you sound like you're a decent human being. You want no regulations. You opened up this NIL can of worms. Let it just be a free for all. And I don't want to hear about it unless you, unless somebody seriously

says, we're going to get 140 Division I schools on the same page, which I don't believe is ever going to happen. Steve Sarkisian, also making a pitch to the high school coaches to keep their kids in state. Saying quote, Texas A&M is in the best hands they've been in a long time with Mike is that a shot at Jimbo Fisher? I don't know. The programs in the state of Texas right now are on an all-time high level. Thousands that leave the state to play college football, but I would love that they go play for UTSA or A&M or Houston or Tech.

That I can buy. I believe in that. Didn't mention Stephen F. Austin, though. Sorry about that. Are you really going to do this? You know, what's crazy is that Texas schools say that, but they do not recruit in state. They make all the top recruits in any sport take from different states like Georgia, LSU. Well, Texas, like the big guy recruits they just landed were two from Georgia and one from Florida, I think.

Exactly. They don't recruit in-state people. I don't know why they're talking about that. They do recruit it, but they... This is the ones they want. But they came across as... I see your point. They're saying...

Dish ingenuous. Yeah, all we need to do is stay in Texas. You know who stay in Texas to get all their recruits? University of Houston. You know that Willie Fritz said you didn't have to get on a plane this year. Yes, people don't want to come from across the countries ago. Everybody wants to go, though, Tier 1 school. 68 out of 68 value.

Sorry, and that's your NFL rewind, Matt. We have lost a music icon? I was just going to tell you that, yeah. What do you think? Don't say his name. What happened? You'll find out next. Oh, man.

And that's where I got to go with an icon on this. His music is not my cup of tea. We will play his most famous song. Do not look on your computer or you're on Twitter. Unless he's related to Malcolm Jamal Warner, I should be good. Don't look. RIP to Ozzy Osbourne. Your headphones low?

Yeah, they were. Yeah. Something changed back there, Jonathan. John, the union? Don't crank it up because you're going to blow our ears out. I don't know what happened. Black Sabbath, solo career. Oh, there we go.

Okay, I told you it was going to blow us out. That's why I put it down a little bit. I was like, I think I know what it is. There we go. Live radio, folks. I'm going to download this song. I like this song. It's okay.

That nice. I mean, most famous work for Ozzy would, of course, be with Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath, a revolutionary metal band, heavy metal band. Yeah, Ozzie passing with age of 70, 6, he had battled Parkinson's and other variety of other illnesses. Wait a minute. he's only 76 76 he looked at in 106 that's what I'm saying

but he wasn't black Sabbath popular on like the 70s yeah that would put him in 76 sure okay RIP man what's your favorite song besides this one Jonathan on the Ozzy Osbourne collection

actually I like one of the reason I hire I knew him is because of a post Malone album and he had a future Ozzy Osbourne oh that's right I was in love with that song is I still Take what you want from me Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Came out junior in high school.

Okay. Paranoid, Black Sabbath, good. Iron Man, good. First time I ever heard about Ozzie was urinating at the Alamo. On the Alamo. I thought you were going to say biting a bat's head off. That's gross too. By the way, Bombabass Nine on Twitter says the Native American Guardians Association wants the Redskins name and logo back.

Not everyone's offended. I have seen that myself. Okay. Who are those people? I don't know. It's not happening. We're wasting our breath. Yeah, I, again,

it would be weird to hold that over their head changing the name. Guardians, by the way, were like, no, we're good with ours as well. You know, like, my two cents on this, I didn't think the Braves was offensive. I didn't think the Indians were. The Redskins logo to me was more offensive than the name itself. I mean, but, you know, again, I didn't ask my opinion.

Cleveland Indians with a big-nosed buck-toothed Indian as their mascot was a little... I thought Chief Wahoo was cute. I wasn't offended by Chief Wahoo. All right, back to Ozzy. 76 years of age. We'll do that tomorrow. No, no, believe it or not tomorrow. We have an Astros game in our spot at the 130 spot.

Okay. So we can't do it. We can't do half and a half. It's too late for that. Unless you've already, if you're at Mountain and Jamal Warner already done? What? You want to switch to what? No, I was going to say, you'll switch to Ozzy Osbourne?

No. No, no, I'm just saying you can do whatever you want. We're literally doing it after the next break. Gosh, how much you demand of me? That says, talked to you before. That's true. I've got six Malcolm Jewel Warner questions. Okay, there you go.

You can do two Ozzy if you want to. No, I'm not doing Ozzy. All right. RAPA, Ozzy, not good enough for believe it or not. We do it Friday. Ryan and Montgomery on 7 out of. Hello, Ryan. Hey, guys, there are you all?

Good. This is absolutely, I don't want to, it's not a surprise, but it is it's sad man I remember the first song I one of the first songs I ever learned on guitar was Iron Man but uh that um

that sucks but believe it or not Ozzy Osbourne snorted a line of ants yeah I heard that too that's a complete believe it I mean anybody let me put it this way if you bite the head off of a bat you probably have snorted a lot of ants right

I mean it kind of fits doesn't it? It does it does The story's crazy. He did it to prove how bad ass he was to the guys in Motley crew. But anyways, that's sad. I can't believe I had to hear it on here. That's rough, man.

Anyways, RIP to a legend. You should definitely do believe it or not on Ozzy when you get a change. Yes, Friday it is, Ryan. We're going to do it on Friday. We can do it tomorrow just because it's not 150. Actually, that'd be better. You get fewer prize horse. Ooh, that's true.

Can we do it at 120 tomorrow? 120? You know what I'll do? No. We're not doing it in the middle of one deck. No, on deck's at 1.30 tomorrow. Is that right? Yeah. Thanks for paying attention. I don't know.

130 to win. 2.10? Yeah, I'll leave. All right. Not only is this Ross not going to do on deck with me tomorrow. I'll do it. I'm just kidding. You know what? While I'm watching the Astros game, I'll do, believe it or not, Ozzy Osbourne.

I don't believe you. You're such a liar. You should be paying attention to the game, Matt. Pitch sequencing, defensive plays, umpiring, decisions. Or writing Ozzy Osbourne, believe it or not, during the game. I'll be in my office. I'm in my recliner.

Oh, your office? Yeah. The bathroom is what you call that, right? Well, I'll give me an office. I'll have a blanket on, maybe a cup of coffee, can stand up late. Good luck. Are you going to take a nap after the show? Oh, for sure.

I'm going to get a shave after the show today. I was on until about 1230, so good luck. You know what? I've been actually on those West Coast, those 840 starts we've been doing it. I've been taking naps right after the On-Dex show. Hmm. You do it. have 30 minutes.

And then what you do is you freeze the game. Yeah, you can pause it. And I pause the game and I actually catch up on baseball really fast. You can, especially when it's zero, zero. A lot of guys scratch it and spitting in. At least the pitch clock, it's a little. You're talking about the host or the games itself? Both.

All right. So there you go. Well, what a show today we've had. We have Ozzy Osbourne. Unbelievable. We had not the great news on Yordon to be brutally honest with you. So the first Black Sabbath album came out

in 1970 and he was 22. Wow. So it puts him at 48, right? He was born in 48? Look at this guy. My mom was born in 48. All right, don't do that. Yeah, but my mom didn't snort ants. That you know of. I mean, I never asked her. I guess I kind of should.

Hi, Mom, how are you? Have you ever started ants before? You don't know when she was sowing her wild oats what she was doing? Oh, wait a minute. You think my mother when she was crazier back in the 60s was snorting ants? It was the 60s. It was a different time.

No internet? I got a friend of mine, Jonathan. Oh, no. Who once snorted ashes of his dead dad? That sounds like some king with stuff. No, his name was Keith. He didn't, you know. What movie was that?

It wasn't even a movie. It wasn't even a movie. I was Keith Richards. Okay. For the Rolling Stones. What is that with these rockers snorting strange things in her nose? Can't you just go with the good old-fashioned cocaine? A fellow members of the outlaws took Tupac's ashes and rolled them up in a blunt and smoked it.

Really? Mm-hmm. I can't remember all their names. Do we have any reaction to what they did? What do you mean? Like, do they go, it was fine or? I imagine they get high. Matt.

Oh, you're taking my ashes and you're very... I'm not touching your ashes. You will... If I ask you to take my ashes and spill them, you will not do it. Where do you want to spread them? Part of it's in Vegas. I've got to go on multiple trips. Listen to me.

This is absurd. I will make sure there's money for you to go here in your trip. Okay, now we're doing. That's what I knew you're going to say that. I'm good. Part of it goes over... Can you bequeath me your points? Yes, I can.

Part of it goes over the TOTUS Center. Part of it goes over the TOTUS Center. Part of it goes over the summit, Lakewood Church. How many trips do you want? Lakewood Church. Yeah, that's what the summit was. Joel Ossie's going to lock me out, even if there's a flood. And part of it goes over the University of Houston campus.

Good God. And part of it goes on the McDonald's. I worked at when I was in high school. Yes, Matt. I will definitely do all of these things. My mom has the exact same wish, Matt, so I'm not even mad to you. Give me the money, and I will definitely do all of these things for you, Matthew. You would feel so guilty that you would do.

do it and rent it wouldn't know the difference you know i would i don't know where i was you'd be a pile ashes guess who the spirits will be looking over you the rest of your life bring it come and hang on all right uh black sabbath didn't have it as many hits as i thought or did they well we well i'll work so tomorrow it's black sabbath and uh and oziazborn believe it or not 120 to show it on okay no i just Ozzy i used to watch that reality show you show back in the day. You know, you can probably do a pretty good Sharon Osbourne, can't you? You know who does a good Sharon Osborne is

No, I don't know. The Brunette on Saturday Night Live, they used to be on there. She's like Tina Faye's a good buddy on that show. Amy Polar? That's right. She's not brunette. No, she would, yeah, the good blonde, I should say. And then she would wear a wig. She did a good

Ozzy Osbourne. Or Sharon. Oh, okay. Do you ever watch Sharon Osborne on the talk, the TV show? No. Okay, me. either. Nope. I don't think men wore a lot on that show because they just bash for two hours. All right, believe it or not, is up next. RIP Malcolm Jamal Warren. Now, these things are happening in three, so who's next?

Oh, my God. Here we go. I'm going to go. This is two off from the three. Oh, yeah. What's his name died? The guy from SFA. Oh, that's true. That's three for three. We're knocked out. We've got to knock down. He's been dead for a few years. Oh, that's a baby. Don't believe that. All right, believe or not, we're playing for a big three. We'll tell you more

about that in a minute. My Facebook and Instagram full of my friends are just devastated about Ozzy Osbourne. I mean, I get it. He had some hits and obviously a legend beyond music, but

people are really bent out of shape over this. I mean, he's wasn't playing on the radio a whole lot. Right? I would say Black Sabbath is one of the Oh, here we go. It was very pivotal band, influential, with the proliferation of head of you metal music.

Absolutely. I think people absolutely revered. And you were kind of on the fence about ICON. I don't think there was anything on the fence to me. I think you just on the other side of music, Matt. Yeah. The most of the hotline backside was Callum when I got hired here. Yeah, not a lot of it on the Rock Yacht Rock Channel.

I get it. Hey, I don't know if Ozzy ever was on the Yacht Rock channel. No, I don't think so. But Black Sabbath was hugely influential. Not my cup of tea, but. Yeah, no, I have to value. but I just, the people that I'm noticing are over this, I would never have associated enjoying Ozzy Asbourne.

But yeah, crazy train? I mean, got to go on the crazy train, right? All aboard? Yeah. That's a sports radio staple, right? Hearing that is a bumpback? Mm-hmm. I guess.

Oh, yeah, we've played a bunch of times. Yeah, you've heard this. Yeah. It's a classic. It was better when Little John remixed it. Who? What? No, there's no way you'd agree with that.

I'm just kidding. That was kind of the jam, though, back of the day. Turn this up. I can't lie. This is actually pretty good. Yeah. Did I take some right there? Listen to this song drinking my first beer ever.

You did? I was like 16, yeah. Oh, I thought you were going to say six. This song is a banger. I'm going to download this. You should. Turn this up for a second. Oh, this is really good.

And ingested a lot in his life and ate strange things. Gone too soon. Here's the Black Sabbath Influence section of Wikipedia. Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Corn, Guns and Roses, Slayer, Anthrax, Carpenter's 3rd. Carpenter's not in here.

Slipknot, food fighters. I mean, wildly influential. All right, there you go. One of the most influential bands in rock history. Yes. Not good enough for believing or not. Five minutes left to go on the show.

We didn't have time. I'm doing it tomorrow. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So what are you whining about? At 120, I'll do it because I will give him proper respect. He died 14 minutes ago. Well, he probably died earlier today. Body's not cold.

Let's play. Believe it or not, and here's how it works. You call 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-7-90. Today's edition of Believe it on is all things about Malcolm Jamal Warner, who passed away yesterday. We gave him a chance to honor his great life here. You get to two statements about, oh, but the statement's completely, utterly accurate. You'll say this.

Believe it. If the statement's erroneous, full of bunk in a minute up, you'll say this. Two believer knots in a row give you a choice of one of these three prizes. A sports talk, seven-on-a-a-tree, T-shirt, a pair of tickets to see the big three August 2nd at the Toyota Center. For tickets to go on sale at Toyota Center.com. Or a pair of tickets to see Nelly Jaru and Eve live at the Where the Party at Tour. September the 4th at the Williams Pavilion. Tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster.com.

Let's play. Believe it or not. And we'll start today with Sheldon on 790. Sheldon, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, sir. Sheldon, good luck to you, my friend. Here is your first question. Malcolm Jamal Warner was denied from the Juilliard Preparatory Acting Program the same day he landed the role of Theo Huxable.

Believe it or not? Not. That is correct. Ross made that up. Statement number two for the win. In 1991, Malcolm Jamal Warner appeared on MTV's Rock and Jock B-ball Jam, competing for team bricklayers. Believe it or not?

Yeah. Not. It's a nod. The game's not yet. Believe it or not. Not sure. That's a shame. Bill on 7-90, Bill, what's your favorite Black Sabbath song?

No More Tears. In 2007, Malcolm Jamal Warner published his memoir, America's son, with the forward written by Bill Cosby. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, bye. See you. Geo on 790Gu. You're ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. From 2015 to 2017, Malcolm Jamal Warner appeared in a revival of the PBS show Reading Rainbow with Lovar Burton's blessing. Believe it or not. Man, I used to watch that show too, but I'm going to say believe it. No, you didn't watch that version because there was no such thing. Raymond on 790, Raymond, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? I'm just bummed out about Ozzy. I just heard it from you guys.

I understand. I understand. Rest in peace. There was an extensive nationwide search for the role of Theo Huxstable and Malcolm Jamal Warner was literally the last actor tabbed to audition. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's correct.

Statement number two for the win. In his 30s, Malcolm Jamal Warner pursued a pilot's license and logged over 500 hours of flight time. Believe it or not. Not. That is correct. you win. These knots are fantastic, by the way. I mean, you do very few things well, but this is pretty good. Nealjol on 790, ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. Malcolm Jamal Warner turned into a serious jazz funk bass player, even winning a Grammy in 2015. Believe it or not? Not. He is. They've talked about it all day in the last 24 hours. Chuck on 790. Chuck, what was your fair part of today's radio show? Astros talk In 2003, Malcolm Jamal Warner won Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown, besting fellow celebrities

such as Heather Graham, believe it or not? Not. First of all, Heather Graham is a smoke show, and second of all, he didn't beat her. That's a shame. These questions are excellent.

Thank you. I'm telling you, this is one of your best work for sure. It is. And Jonathan, I got to try to match this intensity tomorrow, and believe it or not, for all things about Ozzy Osbourne. You got this. Hey gang, I've got Astros on deck.

Adam Clanton and Adam Waxor do not. Sunner on that. Up next, those two gentlemen will handle the next four hours of radio awesomeness. We call it the A team on Sports Talk 790.