The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Houston Is Finding Its Groove! Will They Keep This Up? Brian McTaggart Joins

Episode Date: April 2, 2026

Houston Is Finding Its Groove! Will They Keep This Up? Brian McTaggart Joins

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Welcome to a Thursday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Boston today, 6 to 4. Rossi, do you like it hot? Because the heat is on. What the hell is this? Is this the 80s jam?

Okay, I agree with the power station. I agree with the first part of that statement. Okay, way to T. up. Hold on. Let's see his guitar solo is not bad. I like Robert Palmer. May he rest. He has jams back in the day. As a soloist,

and as a power seat. Now, they mostly sounded the same. That's fair. To be irresistible, very good. Turn up. This is not bad. But it sounded exactly like addicted to love. I like it hot. I'm more of an Arnold Palmer. Are you?

Yeah. Okay. Lemonade NIC mixed together. I got you. I'm just meeting his golf game. Oh, I see. But you don't like to drink. Too sweet. It's fine.

Good morning, everybody. Sweet tea, yeah. Remember, if the Astros are going to win 100 games this year, I've got to come up with 100 different songs. I mean, we'll rotate some through here. Some will be on the weekend. I know. Well, okay. 80 of them.

Happy Thursday, everybody. Hey. This is your last workday of the week for most of you. Tomorrow, we're going to go BS crazy because 99% of you are not working tomorrow. Now, can you and I are working? Can you have meat on good Friday or you got to wait until Sunday? I believe it's Sunday you have to wait. Oh, dang.

All right. So you're still getting a filet-o fish tomorrow. Mm. You know who's got a good-sized fish is pop-wrought rice. Oh, really? Yeah. A fish sandwich is good? The rock rice, the fish filet itself is bigger than the bun.

I would never go in there in 10 billion years and ever not get chicken. So. Well, would you like tomorrow to go get a rot-rise fish filet? my treat? No, I'd get chicken. So you're saying, if I'm at Popeyes, it's like if I go to a fancy steakhouse, and I'm getting fish sticks. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No. No, no, you can go get some salmon at rortons? You can, but you're wasting your time. Get a steak. You're going to the rortons of chicken. Popeye, you know, I'm just saying it. I'm not dumbing this rhyming stuff. It's stupid, okay? The rhyming is stupid? I'm going to Popeyes, okay? They don't spend any money. It's the kind of care.

They're never going to spend money ever. I'm not giving them free plugs. You can do that. I'm getting too confused. I'm at Dortons. I'm at Rappies. I'm at Reed D. Biden, Brighties. I don't want to be in all these places.

You know the best part of it is? No. Is that people call in and do the same thing? I'm sick of it. I'm not going to Rappies. I'm going to Friggin' Popeyes. Because everybody knows what we're talking about. Jonathan doesn't know

Jonathan, do you know what we're talking about? Of course not, you don't. I'm going to say you don't. You're supposed to go along with it. I'm getting some red beans and rice and some chicken from Popeyes. And I'm getting a hockey puck biscuit and I'm going to like it.

Let's go tomorrow and go to Nupyes and I will get the fish fillet and we'll see how it is. We'll do a little taste test. Can I get one in addition to the chicken I get? Yes. Okay. I mean, because you're eating a lot.

I get it. Yeah. It's fine. I'm carboloding. That you are. I'm a marathon this weekend. Okay, so another day of double wins. Yes, two or so.

The Astros disposed of the Red Sox early in the day. Yes. And then the Rockets beat the Wisconsin herd of the G League yesterday. Ooh, barely. A win's a win. A win is a win is a win. That's 100% of a heckering. It still was ugly.

I mean, the bucks were shooting out of their free in mind. 10-3s alone in the third quarter. Yeah, AJ Green had six catches for 86 yards and a touchdown and he also made five threes. AJ Green is the epitome of a white boy in basketball. I mean, just Chuck, Chuck. I mean, forget about defense. Forget about playing 94 feet.

He'll go 70 feet max. Yeah. And just throw up a logo three-point shot. I didn't even know who Pete Nance was. I don't either. I know who Larry Nance did. Do you know who Carmack Ryan was? No, I know Cormac McCarthy.

That doesn't count of all these pretty horses. Cormac Ryan was. Oh, are you kidding me? Cormack Ryan is guaranteed. named after Cormac McCarthy, right? I'm just telling you this. I was fully prepared to have the worst broadcast on my NBA career. And I didn't

because I was professional about it, but the reality was there were so many names in that group that I had no idea of how they were. Yeah. I'm sure the worst was for me. I knew Jericho Sims. Gary Trent, I knew but he got hurt in the first half of the hip contusion. So they started the game with eight active players and they finished with seven. Crazy. And a game was frankly

too close. I know we brought up the line and 17 and a half. That's why you got to stay away from lines and basketball. What do you mean? If you had the bucks, you're all good. Yeah. Not that I would give you a thought or two either way on that. I feel like, oh my God, I got up to 19 and a half.

Feels like when the rockets are massive favorites, the other side's not the worst idea. The views expressed there by Ross Fielder Real, one half of the Matt Thomas Show at Ross and the two sports talk 790. I'm just going on recent history. I understand. That's all. I understand.

All right. So we got a lot going on today. We have Brian McTaggart. You're going to join us at 11 o'clock? Oh, Brian McTaggart. Yes. A good Irishman? Yes.

Scott's Aggress. Will not be joining me in Indianapolis because I'm not going either. Oh, yeah. You guys, why not? Because there's not a team that I care about? Do you know Mattress Max doing this promotion where you buy the bed? The closest team? Who is the closest geographical team?

Okay. Really? Yes. I've heard the commercials for them, obviously. Okay. Yeah. If the close. closest team to Houston playing in the final four is Illinois.

This is a little advice to TNT and CBS. I don't know which network is carrying the championships. Don't look at the Houston numbers. It's actually funny enough. Oh, wait. It went away. There it is. It's actually TBS and True TV.

Okay, yeah. You think they just try to get viewers on those channels? As many networks as possible. And it's on HBO, of course, Max. Yeah. So, yeah, they're just trying to, they, every, I think it's every three years they move it to the cable stuff. So, yeah, they're trying to put as,

many networks out there they can put the game. Now, way back in the day, they used to do Homercast where you have a local flavor to the team, but they don't do that anymore because they don't want people. Well, because people get confused. Yes. People are like, oh, these guys are just flat out Duke fans. Yeah. It's the Duke version. It's the Duke

broadcast, you idiot. Now, I do believe, and I wish that all sports networks would do this. They do this in college football. You know, ESPN's got like nine different channels. One of the channels has the broadcast of the radio call from each of the team.

So if you're like, let's say you're watching Ohio State versus USC for the championship, just throwing two schools out there. One of the channels in ESPN, whether it's SEC Network or Big Ten, whatever, would have the Ohio State call and one would have the call of USC.

People get confused and then they get angry. Yeah. And then they have, it's old people. I'm going to be honest. It's old people. They're just looking for the game and No. That happened at my, I'm not going to out who did it, but it happened at my household at the Super Bowl.

It was hours before the Super Bowl, but they had the wrong broadcast on. They had the Nickelodeonian version on or something? It was the, it was like the Pat McAfee cast or something. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe it was in the Super Bowl, maybe it was a playoffs or something. But, yeah. Now that's why they put the games on, like, some of them, like, they'll put the same game on ESPNN, ESPN2 or ABC.

That's what they're doing for TV. And TV. They're just giving you opportunity. ESPN ABC, like, just spray a wide now. They'll find it. Do the guys from that true TV show realize they're being bumped? The impractical jokers? Yeah, because that's a channel that runs something but that.

Are they making new stuff? I thought they had broken up or there's been scandals. What will be the scandal? Just fake stuff? I think it was like in the proprieties with women or something. Oh, God, that's a terrible situation. Don't quote me on that. I won't. I won't. You did sit on the air though, so. I said don't quote me. Liable and slander coming up in three, two, and one.

I said I'm not sure, so we should be legally covered there. Thank you. I heart legal team. All right. Astros get a win. We will discuss that. Rockets get a win. We'll discuss that. We have Brian McTaggart, 11 o'clock. I just don't get 1130. And we're going to do something for the first time today in the history of AOs. We're doing a reverse AOs. Oh, there we go. Joe Gatto accused of sexually assaulting a woman while she was 19. There you go. Go ahead. Thank you for that. Well, I wasn't wrong. We're trying to clear my legal name. You cleared it beautifully. All right, so AOs usually are for ASTRA overreactions when things are going poorly. Yes. I have not taken a look at the Astro's Twitter account.

I'm going to assume here we're going to do reverse AOs at 1030 today that things are significantly more positive, right? Yes. I've not looked at it. I don't want you either. Okay. Let's look at it you and I organically when we do the segment at 1030. Are we seeing World Series bound tweets? or are we seeing hitting coaches made the difference?

Is Joe Espada getting all the credit? I don't believe he's getting any credit at this point. Well, when they lose, he's a bumbling fool. Correct. Well, now they're winning. We got a call last Friday. It was Joe Spada? Was that guy Frank?

Mm-hmm. It's like Joe Spott is on the train out. How's Joe Spottie doing now, folks? So at 1030, we're going to read Reverse AOs. Yes. Now there's that one dude I forgot his name Because look at Twitter accounts

I don't usually ever remember But there's that one guy That always crushes every single loss And he doesn't like five street tweets in a row When we see the name, we'll recognize it He's probably muted You've muted him Because you've brought out how much you disliked the guy

Well he sucks Yeah whatever that dude's name Nobody's got time for that negativity in my life Life is beautiful Everything is beautiful Not everything is beautiful But life is beautiful It's a beautiful day says you too

There's beauty and the struggle Matt And the hard times Make us enjoy the better the good times better. Huh? If it was all good times, we'd have no context. I feel like I want more good times.

Yeah, exactly. Who would play the role of Thelma? Are you talking about the show? Yeah. All right, relax. What? You watch good times, haven't you, Jonathan? That's an OG goat show.

You know what? We're going to make you put a dollar in the jar every time you're lusting. I lost for only one thing. We'll be millionaires. Let's stop. 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-7-90.

Some deets on the Astros win next. 1014 on Sports Talk 790. 1019 on Sports Talk 790. It's Matt. It's Ross. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. We'll have reverse aos at 1030.

I'm very curious. And I thought about doing this literally this morning as I was driving to work. I said, I wonder how the Twitterverse, because you know how we know how the Astros are when they lose, how people lose their minds. How is Astros universe when we win, when the Astros have won five consecutive games? Yes. You could, overreaction doesn't just mean negative overreaction.

That's what I'm saying. I'm very, I get, I've not looked at it. Okay. So when we look at it at 1030, it'll be organically for the very first time. Okay. Yardon Alvarez, two for three, two runs, double, hit by pitch. By the way, if you hit him one more time, he's going to come after you and grab those creet and grab him. his hands, the ones that are like surgically repaired, maybe allegedly, and those creaky knees,

and he's going to body slam you. He hasn't had creaky knees in like six years, Matt. I thought you'd be rooting for him to take one in the ribs and miss a couple. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, because you want him in for 48 games. I want him in for 150. 145. 155. 155.

75. 7 days off, plus the extra time off? Yeah, yeah, yeah. His OPS against the Red Sox, you know, this is 1,300? Yeah. I mean, seriously. It's the most... Lou Gehrig's jealous of that number. Lou Gehrer...

He's ahead of Babe Ruth and all those guys, but they have a lot higher sample size. Babe Ruth's career OPS against the Red Sox 1147. Lou Gehrig 1100, Frank Robinson 1087. And Marcel O'Suna's on that list. And Xavier Edwards of the Miami Marlins.

You're like, who? Carlos Cray went deep for the first time this year. Yes, he did. Off a Garrett Crochet. Do you know that Garrett Crochet finished second, the Syong Award winning last year? Mm-hmm. You did know that? Mm-hmm. Okay.

That's nice. Hunter Brown finished third. See, I don't keep track of postseason awards. Maybe that's... That's okay. I mean, I just maybe came across it. It's okay, Matt. Oh, so you didn't know it 36 hours ago?

I didn't remember. I remember it while I mean... Okay. Yeah, there's so much things... There's so much information in my head that sometimes I forget things. Yeah, but mostly it's about the 60s episodes of... Be Witched. It's 70s.

Oh, 70s. I didn't want to see you. Yeah. That's actually fair. I can give you every host of every game show probably in the last 50 years. That's trouble. Gary Crochet? My son's eighth birthday?

No chance. Wow. The lineup for the 86 Astros? Absolutely. Okay. Isn't it funny how the brain works that way? Priority, folks. Yeah.

Priorities. It is. All right. Lines are not full. If they were two and five, they would be. y'all out there today. Hello, y'all ready? Why are you talking like that? Dollar in the jar. What's wrong with you?

Come on, let's discuss the Texas draft order. Should we trade up and trade down? Let's go. Go look at the latest mock drafts. By the way, I'm going to try to get Bruce Feldman on from the athletic next week. Okay, good luck. I mean, I don't know if it's going to happen. He's an athletic guy. Yeah. I always, when I send emails to athletic reporters, I say, I am a subscriber.

I actually pay for you. Yeah. So listen here, Biocch. Come on my show. I'm going to... Dane Brugler used to come on when he was NFL draft.net. Now he's big time with the athletic. He's all, oh, I'm... Guys, I'm slammed. Is he slammed, really?

You know what my favorite is? Let me tell you something, Dane. When you lose your job eventually, we'll remember this. Because you're going to lose your job. Oh, no. Dane Bruechler's a boss. But that's rude, Matt. What's wrong with you?

No, I just... I'm tired of people that go big time on us, and I want them to lose their job. I mean, I wish Dane the best. No, you don't. you brought him up. You said he big-timed you. Why would you wish someone that big-timed you the best?

He's big-time. Maybe I don't wish him the best. By the way, speaking of that. I'm not saying that I don't want the man to be able to feed his family. Damn, whatever. He does great analysis. I read his guide every year. You're nicer than I wouldn't be.

I'm slammed. Let me tell you the list of people that were slammed. Ken Rosenthal, slammed. Who else is slammed? Mike Tirico. Mike Tyrico. Slammed. Hopefully get Mike on the show.

because I tell you, what do I said about Mike two weeks ago? Pound for pound, the best broadcaster. Mm-hmm. I know you put on the... I aspire for a perfect broadcast. I think Mike gets perfect broadcast once a week. You placed him on the all-time Mount Rushmore. Can we get a fifth person on the Mount?

No. It's too difficult. Let's get them on the all-time. Just say top five. Top five. Rushmore plus one. Mike Torrico. No, here we go.

Rushmore plus. Rushmore plus. Okay. Like if Mount Rushmore is four, what's a great thing in this world that's five? We got Disney Plus, we get Apple Plus. Let's get Mount Rushmore Plus back in the day. I don't know what that is. That's a game show reference.

How did I do on my Quality Start Plus for Hunter Brown, by the way? Oh, I did good, I think. Go ahead. Now, first of all, describe it was. It's better than six innings and three earn runs. He did six innings and one earn run. That's a good old-fashioned quality start. Not a Quality Start plus.

No, that's a quality plus. I don't think so. Only one earn run? Are you changing the goalposts again? Yes. Okay. So I can be right. Okay.

That feels right. You're new here? 713. 212. Hello. Are you out there? Okay, look, Matt. Look, guys, you hurt Matt's feeling sometimes when there's no caller.

So if you want to, Matt, feel better. 713. We take your calls when they're grumpy and bad. I want you when calling when they're happy and good. Call and say, what's your favorite thing about the Astros start? I'm going to go with the Ordon personally. 713, 212, 5, 719. actually a good idea. What's the favorite thing?

To me... How about Christian Big Dog Christian Vasquez? I'm going to go Big Dog Christian Walker. Okay. He was the... Let's kick the dog while he's down. We should do it Astros Christian rankings every week. Right now it's Walker, Vasquez, Javier. I mean, I don't think you do a full segment on it. I remember, I've already come up with a new segment.

Yeah, I know. By the way, I told you this off here. I'm telling the audience on here. Okay. This is going to be a 52-week bit now. Okay. Because there's a lot of people left. NFL players will move on from teams. So we've got to see how other former Texans have done. Yes. We'll have rocket players that will have left.

So missing you, John Wade every Monday, 1.30 from here on out. Something like on Labor Day Memorial Day. Okay. Sounds great. We have to set appointment listening for various things for people that go, man, I wonder how Verlinder is doing. Oh, Madden Rawls will tell you I'm missing you. Monday's at 1.30.

We could also do missing you of old girlfriends. And top three Christians of the Astros. You could give me your five former girlfriends in your life. I can Facebook look and see how they're doing. Okay. And see how Ross's exes are doing their life. I don't care. But the audience, Mike.

I wish them the best. I kind of care. I wish them the best. Any of them successful? And I'm going, man, I wish I was hanging out with a midday radio host like Rossville Real. I wish them all the best. Okay. 1027.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to try something brand new. Ladies and gentlemen. You want to go a little PA with the ladies and gentlemen. You want to go full PA? Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, we're going for the very first time, time, time, time, time. Going to go with reverse a.O. We'll only use aos when things are down and out.

If things are going well, we have to do the reverse aos. How does the Astros Twitterverse feel about the Astros with a five-game winning experience? week. That's next here on Sports Talk 790. Look at the people calling in. I love this. Let's go, baby. Man, y'all are in a good mood. It makes me happy. Oh, snap. They're hitting the outside pitch. Oh, is that our guy? Thank you for taking his call.

All right. 7132-1-2-5-7-90. 1032. Let's get to it right now before we go to the phones. We've got a lot of excited people to talk some Astros baseball. But first, we need some Astros and some A-O's. This is our first time of 2006. the post on time. I got to wait one more run, right? You got it. See, this is where I usually start it. I got a cheat code in front of me. Do you really? That's all. See, you have the post.

Here we go. And this is it. Hey, oh, let's go. A, oh, let's go. Astros, over. Reaction. Right here on 790. All right. So, yesterday, the Astero's Twitter account, when they reported the final score, The very top of the line said Chipley greater than Duncan. Because that's the donuts that are associated with the two cities. Okay. Final score, Astro 6 and the Red Sox 4. First response, Shippleys called The People Have Spoken.

Next, donuts yes, coffee, no. Next, man, I got to watch the Peekest episode of Invincible, followed by an Astros dub. What a day? Hmm. I must be the... I don't want to. What is that show? I don't know. Next.

You're unhealthy all season and we are the best team in the A.L. Next. Stroes are rolling. Next. Shipley, you must not be from Houston. Next. Man, I love Shipley's, but the Dunkin' Donuts on sophomore was where it was when I was a kid. Next.

By the way, Starbucks is the Houston equivalent to Duncan in Boston. Next, if the Astor estate like this, 100 wins. Next, sadly Shipley is not owned by Houston anymore, owned by a California firm. Shut you bum ass up. Next, Dunkin' Donas are little trash.

Wow, they're not. Next, you're off to a great start, boys. Next, Shipley always wins. Next, we love y'all. Go Astros. Next, that's the end of the game, your final score. You're Houston Astros 6 and a Boston Red Sox 4.

Astros win. Next, keep it going, fellas. I love to see the best. Bats get going at home. Next. Yes, always and forever. Next. Boom.

Next from Mason. Both are ass. I don't think there was some of the ass for Red Sox. I think he's talking about Chipley and Duncan, perhaps. Could be. Polar Bear says darn Tootin. Cow says that's facts. Cow?

Not that cow. McNair? Spin, not even close. Cumulus. This is damn good coffee. Quoting Howard Schultz, founder of Starbucks. Now let's take a look at the retweets and the post. Frankly, this has been 50-50 donuts and coffee talk over the Astros.

That's funny. I don't think that was the intention. Shipley is the correct name. I know people like to say Shipleys, but people are trying to correct them. This is from Roxanne. As someone who is from Texas but now lives in the Northeast and has Duncan a minimum five times a week, this is correct. Next, Texans forever. Next.

Talking about them nuts What? Don't nuts, not them nuts. Next, Swept them socks. Burrell looks good. Korea, a big knock. A bray, you shut the door.

Five in a row. Got to like this. Next. Swept them bitches. Next. Talk. I can't read that one. I almost read it.

Next, that's a sweep. Nicely done, gents. Hashtag chase the fight. Next. Astro is from Cam Sanderson. Astros run the MLB. Hashtag wow. Andria, yes.

Astros fan, DE. Happy, happy, joy, joy. Alu says, I miss Shipley so much it hurts. Hmm. And let's go one more here.

Go Stroze. A warm out of the, fresh out of the friar. Freshly, glazed Shipley. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I don't disagree with you.

I do not disagree. Yeah. And I'm talking like, Let me tell you when I get the best ship, the best, okay, I'll say Shipley, whatever, is, when I used to go, when I used to work morning drive, I'd bring donuts here sometimes. Yes. And you get them at 5, 12 in the morning. Oh, my God.

Melt in your mouth. I mean, literally, you could feel the grease going down your throat. Don't get you. I didn't hear him correctly. What did he say? Nothing, yeah, it said nothing. I think with that with my awkward giggle out of confidence. Texas is going to be perfect because I went,

uh-huh. Don't capture that under any circumstance. You gotta get that one. See you, see you, see you tomorrow. That's it is why we call you full-throat Thomas, man.

Nobody calls you full-throat Thomas. They call me Mr. Texas. You don't call me full-throat. Nobody calls you that. A lot of people. Nobody that's being serious. You don't know that. Tongue in cheek.

All right. So how do you, let's quickly great. How do you feel the reverse aos one today? I think they're great. Everybody's pumped up. Everybody's happy. Nobody said all full credit to Joe Espada in there, unfortunately. There's no Joe Espada love. No full credit to the hitting coaches? None. Okay. But they'll be blaming them. Don't worry. You lose two out of three to the Sacramento A's tomorrow this weekend. You'll be hearing it.

Yeah. All right, let's talk to some great listeners here. We've got Brian Mee Tagger coming up in about 25 minutes here on the show. We'll start in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Aaron, good morning. Hey, good morning. How are you all? Excellent. Thanks for dialing in. Hey, just want to give a quick shout out to Brian King, McNeese legend, obviously doing really well for the Astros. My question actually pertains to pitching. So when Spencer Aregetti fully gets healthy, how do you feel like the Astros are going to navigate that situation?

Who's going to go up, who's going to go down? I mean, we can be looking at a six-man rotation. Aaron, you answered your own question. It's going to be a six-man rotation. There's a stretch of games now where the Astros will not have a day off for two weeks. So they're going to go six-man. It's 13 days in a row, starting on the 10th, I believe. Yeah, I'm getting to be called up here.

the next handful of days. Gotcha. Gotcha. All right, yeah, I just wanted to talk about that and kind of bring that up. And then obviously, my next question was, do you think that the Astros might have retired those blue jerseys? Obviously, they don't really wear them on Sundays. I'm just pulling y'all's legs. Shush.

I love those jerseys. I love them. That was Fromber's uniform, too. Yeah, I wanted to wear the white jerseys, apparently. So they wore them on Sunday. So I guess we'll see if we see them breaking out again soon. Yeah, no. I bet you, you know what?

Thank you for their phone call, Aaron. Shout out to our Lake Charles Brethren. It's the first major league start. Let them, let them wear them when they first came out. They would wear them every Sunday regardless of who was pitching. Now they let the pitchers kind of decide a little bit more. Can they change once he gets pulled? I mean there's only like two innings? You mean them, all 26 of them change uniforms mid-game? Just go and put the blues on. Once he mize out, once he gets his photo up and in the Astros whites?

I'm going to go and say, no, you can't do that. But it's a good idea. It'd be funny. If you're getting no hit through six, you just go changing the oranges or something. Yeah. You know, it's funny. Do you remember what was it during,

it was Game 7 of the World Series against, was it the Nationals? That there was such a big firestorm about them wearing the oranges. Oh, yeah, I think it was. They're going to win. Go ahead. And they wore the orange

because people were losing their minds and they still lost the game. Yeah. They're losing. because they're not wearing the orange uniforms, you idiots. The best uniform is the Navy Blue, in my mind. They're losing because they're whiffing

on all the pitches and can't score. But yeah, if anybody wants to buy me a gift for my birthday, June 5th, give me... Are your birthday's coming up? Not really. It's still two months. Happy birthday.

Proud of you. Not proud of me. I didn't like an accomplishment or something. No, yeah, it is. I guess it is a little bit of some respects. Two-ton Common died at 19. suck it king tutt i'm going to start calling you mr history thank you let's go to oh we're going to accept this call james and alvin on seven o't james good morning james good morning gentlemen thank you for accepting my call

it's our pleasure listen i want uh i want to talk a little bit about the a bs the strike system that the league done implemented i think they're taken away from the integrity of the game the game is is the only game that don't have a clock. They don't install the pitching time clock or battles, get in the box time. But the game is not decided until somebody score. With that ABS, even with the, if it was so important, why they only, why did they only implement it?

Each team has two calls to challenge certain pitches. why is it that the pitcher and the catcher can challenge calls, what the umpire sees is totally different from what the pitcher and catcher sees. And when the batter only has himself to challenge a call, I think it's just another way to manipulate the game, control another game. If the game was so perfect, Why do the batter has every major league batter swings a 34 to a 37 inch back?

The plate is only 17 inches wide and width. That's a very, how you would say, adjustable account when it's a pitch is one inch out of the strike zone, but the battle swinging a 35 or 34 inch back, and he'd say, I can't hit it. It's out of the zone. Most umpiles from what I've seen is a hitable pitch. That was a hitable pitch. I'm just saying, I think they're taking away from the integrity of the game.

Thank you gentlemen for accepting my call. Of course. You want the plate wider? By the way, let's make sure we're clear on this. You get as many challenges as you want as long as you're right. You can challenge it to your blue in the face. Ask CB Buckner. Yes.

If you're wrong, you lose one. If you lose two, you lose both of them and they're done. Yeah. I have no idea what the hell he's talking about. The plate is 17. He wants them to have 17-inch bat. I think he wants to say. He want, listen to me.

James wants 17 inches. Imagine if they went out there with a little... First of all, your hands, James, take up some of the bat. Have you ever held 17-inch bat? Okay, see... Come on. Try to talk baseball here, Matt. Keep your elbow up, by the way, too.

Oh, okay, thank you. Or actually close to your side. You're like, you're ripped to a jury. Thank you. We're getting you in a hitting coach. Don Mattingly over here. Yeah, let's get you working out your dog. Oh my God.

They had little mini-bats like they give out at the game. This is so ridiculous. He's thought about this. No, he's overthought it. Let them swing the bat. Who cares how long the bat is? Who cares how long your stick is? Tim, on 790, good morning to you.

You know, first of all, sometimes there's some mornings I wish I had, have had what the last caller is having. Whatever he's having, it sounds like he's having a very good morning. in a very intellectual morning. There's no question he's enjoying his day, for sure. He is enjoying his day. So I was thinking, since we had four Christians on our team, I know ones in the minors want, and currently have three Christians on the team,

does that make the Astros' God's team? I think yes. They're looking pretty blessed right now. I think we're God's team. Aren't they looking blessed right now? They are, and I think it's because we're God's, it's finally, The Astros are God's team.

And I think the rest of the MLB will have to love that. We should call JC on a mobile. Absolutely. All right. It's, I mean, it's a good Friday tomorrow. Yeah, let's do it. We can do it tomorrow, right? Well, he's dead on Good Friday, right?

I'm just saying to me, the Astros are now God's team. And that is what I'm most excited about. Yes. Now, who's the devil's team? That's what I want to know, Tim. You got an idea on that? Well, we all know. That's the Dodgers.

All the Dodgers, right? Yeah, yeah. Live in L.A. that's where Hollywood is. That's the Dodgers, absolutely, the devil's team. Thank you very much, Tim. There it is. We just declared,

the Astros are, not the Angels, by the way. You would think the Angels would be a God's team. Yeah, it seems like an easy pick. The Guardians would be like a godlike team. Guardians just seems to work as well. Dodgers, definitely not. Devil rays, no. The Devil Rays, no chance.

The Diamondbacks? No. A snakes? Yeah, you're right. Maybe it is the Diamondbacks. they're for forbidden fruit who else would be potentially oh we missed a big one

hold on is god's team or are the devil's team god's team it might take you a second okay hang on let me so there's somebody screaming at the radio right now the halo and we mentioned the halos the angels is the obvious one this is probably number two

okay let me stay go ahead and think go ahead and think it's all right take your time hold on let me look at the MLB standing's because I know no no no go ahead just say it then just say it The Padres. Duh. We're not God's team.

The Padres are. They call them friars for a reason. Astro's baseball is on the air. More of that. I wish we had more time to discuss this with you, but we'll do that next. Gabriel. Jim. Gabriel?

Who else is on the line? Peter and Paul? And Judas? Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are also on the line. And Jeremiah, 1048 on Sports Talk 790. We got a lot of folks that are very happy about the Astros. That makes us happy. By the way, we did get worried that the New Jersey Devils are Devils team, clearly.

Of course. Any more Henelik? sports teams Pious I don't know I don't if the Dodgers feel like a devil's team Right We've got to think about this

It's got it yeah I mean angels and the Padres are pretty good Angels and Padres are no brainers 76ers for historical perspective I don't know No that's the independence right Yeah we'll think about this Anheelic teams

And devilish teams Yeah, Guardians is a good one. Guardians is really good. They're protecting us. Yes, they are. Oh, oh, oh, definitely a devil's team, the Nashville Predators. Oh, my God, that's pretty good. Definitely.

Now, here's one for you. What do you do with the Orlando Magic? Oh, is it the devil's magic? The devil! Or, you know where you're going with the Miami? heat. They're going straight to hell. That's true. That's a good point. All right. Back on the phones.

Brian and Pearland on 790, Brian, good morning to you. Good morning, guys. Yeah, the last caller, Ross got to the last Christian, Christian Roa, before I had a chance to... Not on the active roster, but once he gets back down there, we'll have an extra segment. But what was to begin the season? But I like the... the lineup we have and I think this team this year, especially with Correa being back up full season and this is kind of his team to kind of take charge of again last year he was kind of coming in midseason but after the way he kind of responded yesterday after Yordine got drilled and he hit the three run bomb that was that's that's that fire that we've seen from previous teams have

gone deep in the playoffs and I you know I don't know what has gotten into Christian Walker but maybe it's the fact that you take him out of the four hole and he's batting fifth or six in some occasions. But I like this lineup the way it's going. I know it's still early. And so this isn't, you know, let's start getting our parade spots for the World Series title. But I just like the composition of this team. And obviously, I think a lot of it just comes down to that these guys can stay healthy,

but being able to get parades in there and giving guys days off. I think that actually will help in the long run. Now, I know everybody wants to play and have that. But I think so far, and Granted Jeremy's been out and they've been cautious bringing them back. But I think Espada has done a good job of managing this roster and getting guys playing time enough to see the ball and kind of stay in rhythm. And also, I don't know what the new hitting coach has done with Al-Tube, so he will get props. But to already have that many walks 10 games into the season is fantastic. I want to see more of this Al-Tube.

if this is what we get from him, his chance of 3,000 is actually pretty good in the long run. But hopefully the West Coast swing won't get to us too bad. But enjoy the show, guys. Have a good one. Thank you very much. Two things. Actually, three things.

One, I'm rooting so hard for Jose to get it. It's going to still take several years. The 200 hit seasons are a thing of the past. It's going to take him a while, right? It's not a foregone conclusion. And if it is, it may not even be as an astro. Who even knows? Who even knows? I don't even know.

Depending on what the state of the team is at the time. Number two, I think Jose has been able to adapt to anything in his major league career. He knows he's not 25 anymore. So if he's going to take a few more pitches to get on the base paths, good for them. And number three, and this is even a super positive note, y'all like this Astro run right now? You know they're playing the next handful of games? It's the Sacramento A's who suck and the Rockies who suck.

they got a chance to really get to use a Matt Thomas term, fat and happy over the next week or so. You do like to say fat and happy. And then we're going to see a real series with the Seattle Mariners. The kids don't say that, by the way. My kids do. And if one kid says it. You said that other Rockets broadcast.

As the kids say, fat and happy, you're talking about the Rockets' upcoming schedule. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that we got that going. And oh, by the way, we're adding another team to the J.C. team, the New Orleans Saints, of course. That's, of course. That works.

And, by the way, somebody came in with Blue Devils. Oh. That's an easy one. Now, Demon Deacons. It's kind of both. Wow. I mean, they're Deacons, but they're demons. So I guess at the end of the day, it's bad. Yeah, yeah. They're not the sweet, generous deacons. They're demons.

All right. Let's go to J.C. on the Matt Thomas show at 1058 before we get to Brian McTaggart. Hello, J.C. I think that's JP. All right. JP, you're on 790, and good morning to you. You. Jeremy Payne? No, it's JP. It's John Paul. Matt and Matt, well, close enough. I just want to call and let y'all know I enjoy your show and I listen and I'm a regular listener. Well, thank you. And I was calling you in reference to you was talking about share the other day and I've been in love with her all my life.

Yes, Lord. J.P. And I want you, JP, really quick. I want you to keep his family friendly, but I want you to tell Jonathan and Ron. how good looking share was in 1978. Just tell them. Woo. Mm-hmm. That's it. Thank you.

The only thing you can do is just yell. But she has always been good-looking. That's what I'm talking about. She's still good-looking now. Yes, she is. And the last movie I looked at, in the last movie I looked at, it was called Barless. Yes. She played a go-go dancing club manager, yes.

Right, right. It's a darn good. I don't see it about 40 times, I guess. That's a shiroholic right there. But anyway. Yes, sir. Thank you, J.P. Nice to hear from you.

And please call any time you want to. Yeah, one other thing I want to say, the three of you guys, y'all really, y'all really mashed together real good because y'all make the show what it is. And I just want to tell y'all, y'all are like a well-cooked meal, regardless how you serve it up, it still tastes good. Thank you, J.P. J.P. Last question for you. How do you like your steak cooked? Medium.

Okay, I accept that. That's acceptable. Acceptable. Thank you very much. That's the limit. It is. If you just had medium, well, we'd have had issues. Brian McTaggart to join us next here on Sports Talk 7 o'ning. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1103 on Sports Talk 790.

Let's spend 10 quality minutes with our friend, a fine University of Houston graduate, long-time beatwriter for MLB.com and Astros.com, Brian McTaggart every Thursday here on the radio program. Five and two, are we raising the flag for an American League West title at Diken Park, Brian McTagher? I don't think so. Probably not a wise thing to do,

but it does seem like the Astros have gotten off the slow starts year after year pretty much. So, yeah, I mean, after the first homestine, I think you take five and two for sure, especially after the way the first two games went. All right, we were asked to this from our audience earlier. What is one or two of the most surprising things you have seen so far during this winning streak? Yeah, I think it's just the quality of the advance. I mean, they preach this all offseason and into spring training.

And even, I don't know if you remember, the first few grapefruit league games, the spot was like, oh, we drew six walks, drew seven walks. And they were excited about the different approach that they have. but it's really been a point of emphasis with the new hitting coaches and their new hitting coordinator is let's make these pitchers work. Let's stay inside the strike zone. And it's really paid off. I mean, and it's across the board. You know, I think one guy at the forefront of it is the guy who was probably their biggest free swingers, Jose Al-Tuvie.

I mean, his chase rate last year was 50%. And as of right now, it's like 34%. That was his swing rate. sorry, his chase rate is down like 16% and even swinging in the zone. He was swinging in the zone last year at like 63%. And now it's less than 50%. He's got more walks than strikeouts. And this is a guy who usually strikes out twice as many times as he walks.

So up and down the lineup, they're really making the pitchers come in the zone. They're getting the starters out of the game early. To me, that's the biggest thing. And then I think I like what I see from the bullpen. They've been able to deploy these long relievers a couple of times to chew up two or three in his blue ball looks really good. good. They got to get the closing situation ironed out, but a bray you look

quite a bit better yesterday. So, you know, a lot of things that, if you're the Astros, you think this is positive and we can sustain this. What did you know about the hitting coaches coming in? And look, Astro fan base can be a finicky bunch. They're touting them

highly now, but if they go on a streak where they only score three runs over a five game stretch, they'll be calling for their job. So what did you know about them going in? And I know there was co-hitting coaches last year. There is definitely a hierarchy chart this time around. Yeah, I think on Friday, Astros

fans wanted everybody fired again. I think all we're talking about there. The fire of spotter guys were back, and I haven't heard from them now, but they're probably having a rough time. But yeah, I mean, they thought they obviously needed some different voices in the room, and they brought in Victor Rodriguez, who has done this for

a very long time, has worked with some super elite players, some big-time hitters. And they brought in Anthony Ioposi, who had been with the Tigers. And, yeah, they wanted a hierarchy. So Rodriguez is the hitting coach. Iiposi's the assistant guy. And even they even promoted, you know, one of their, I guess, hitting gurus,

a guy who knows more about hitting biomechanics than anybody in the game probably. And Dan Hennigan, he's their offensive coordinator, so to speak. You know, Karea, talking with Korea during spring training, he says he's gotten a lot of great information from him. So it was time that they needed some new, new. leadership, I think, in their hitting room, and I think those guys have been instrumental in trying to get them to change their approach as a whole

as a team, and so far it's working out. Brian McTaggart with us here on Sports Talk 790. Kind of difficult to assess with Jeremy Pena eventually going to be in the lineup probably every day, but just your thoughts on the way that things have been constructed, the outfields, mixing in with Yordon, and Loporfito,

and Bryce Matthews as well. Yeah, I mean, you know, Joe's We talked all the last season about, oh, my gosh, they've got too many infielders. It's sort of come in handy here, the first week of the season, while they try to get Pena back into the game regularly. It's more about his legs and just feeling game ready every day. I mean, it swings there. And I think we'll see him play back-to-back games in Sacramento this weekend for the first time.

So I think we're nearing the end of having a wonder if Jeremy Pena is going to be in the lineup every day. And then it'll get a little challenging for Joe to see how he deploy his Paredes, because he's done a nice job hitting in that spot after Alvarez. Not so much hitting homers or driving and runs, but he's getting on base. But, yeah, in the outfield, left field just seems to be a little bit of a platoon, Loperfito against right-handers. Bryce Matthews, against left-handers, Lopifitos played center field. Matthews and Myers has that a couple of times against right-handers.

So I think we'll continue to see that, but Loperfito is hitting the ball really hard. You know, Bryce has the longest home run to the season that when he put in the homebrose. on the court. So this has truly been the case where everybody, every position player on this roster is getting a chance to contribute even Christian Vasquez hitting a home run yesterday. So I think if you're a jealous spotta, that's

what you want. You want 13 guys who you can mix and match and any one of them could help you on any night. A couple more minutes here with Brian McTaggart on Sports Talk 790. Christian Vasquez goes deep yesterday, which then immediately sent Astros Twitter into he needs

to play more often. Yanir Diaz, how would you describe his spring and how would you, you know, we don't ask you to describe the number so far. It's not been good at least behind the plate and behind the dish catching. So a thought or two about the long-term, in your mind, future for Yarnier Diaz,

not necessarily Christian Vasquez, pushing for more playing time, but how much are we going to spend looking at Walter Yonix development this year at the minor leg level? Yeah, I mean, the advance haven't been good from, from Diaz, you know, the approach hasn't been

great. He swung and missed at three balls outside the zone the other day. He's not making hard contact. So they have to be concerned about that. I mean, the spring, he looked okay, not great at the plate. Defensively, I think he's making strides. The colors gushed on him the other day about, you know, how well

he called the pitches and so forth. I know that Hunter Brown really trusts him as well, but he's going to have to hit a little bit. And I think if they, if you put Christian Vasquez as a starting catcher, then he's going to be Christian Vasquez that we expected and hit 200 and, you know, not to take anything away

from him, but he's a backup catcher at this point in his career. Long term, Yonik is the guy. He had a tremendous spring for them. Defensively, I think he's a major league ready starting catcher. He made some strides offensively in the grapefruit league, so he's starting out at AA, which

he hasn't even played in double A yet, but if he can hit, I think Dana will move him pretty quickly. I think we could see him in AAA, and I think we'll come to camp next year. If he has a good season at the plate. I think he could come to Camp Lexture battling for definitely a spot on the roster, but maybe even a starting spot,

unless Diaz really gets to turn around at the plate. For a let you run, let's get a thought or two about when we should see Spencer Arrogati call up. Is there any time frame? Because I know there's a stretch now of two weeks without a day off. So the presumption is a six-man rotation will come into play at least for the short term. When do you

expect that decision be made? Yeah, I think it'll probably be another week. April I think they have an off-day April 10, so maybe before they hit Seattle I think they'll have to start when they go out like this 13-game stretch so I think we're another week away from

getting the six-man rotation so Eric Getty's going to have another one or two starts down there but it's nice that they have him they have Jason Alexander and AAA Colton Gordon you know they have some guys that they would feel comfortable about coming up and adding to this rotation if they have to Tag safe travels to Sacramento

we'll talk again next Thursday thanks for the visit as always All right thanks guys You got it, Brian McTaggart on the MLB with Astros.com, and, of course, a Thursday visitor with us here on Sports Talk 790. We have, I just don't get it coming up at the bottom of the hour. Okay. That'll be at 1130. Can't wait.

When we return, when alums overstep, how do I phrase this? When alums think they run the business. When people that write checks want to run everything. Okay. I got an example of that next. 1113. sports talk 790 All right, bottom of the hour here on

790 we're going to have, I Just Don't Get it, it's our Thursday staple where Ross, Jonathan and myself, we throw things to each other and say, hey, here's what's going on in our life and we just don't get it. And most of the time we usually get each other's, I just don't get it. So if there's something in your life that reflects as you

that you don't understand, take three solid minds, Jonathan, Ross, myself, and we'll try to help you. and I just don't get it. Yes. All right. We've talked about a handful of alums over the years and as we've done this radio show on it,

I think the alum that has attached himself to his school because of the financial dollars that he has given is Cody Campbell, the big alum at Texas Tech. Yes. Oil man. Rich, ridiculously rich. Single-handedly put Texas Tech, by the way, single-handedly got them a defense. I mean, I've grown up watching,

Texas Tech football all my life. They never had a defense still this year. Well, that price is going up too. Ooh. Is he still involved or he just selling? I don't know. So Cody Campbell yesterday, or it was two days ago, three or three days ago, I had heard word that they're thinking about moving the Texas Tech Houston game, which would be the Big 12 opener, to a Friday night for so Fox can televise it. Friday night's become a big college football night. You used to be Thursdays, but the NFL took that over. So now you're getting like Mac games on and low-end ACC games.

Big 12 Friday night is a good spot for us. They do Sundays before NFL starts as well. Sometimes. Yeah, a couple weeks, yeah. But Fridays has been a, I mean, there have been some really good Friday night Fox College football games. No, I'm serious. It's been Pac-12.

I've been on them. Not Pac-10's been on there. Yeah, Pac-12. Big 12. Okay, you're... I'm sorry. Go ahead. You're just trying to throw a shade, and that's fine.

I get it. So Cody puts a tweet out And says Friday night lights are sacred in the great state of Texas It is absolutely absurd that the Big 12 conference in Fox Sports Would consider scheduling Texas Tech football and U of H football On a Friday night, which would be October the 18th I know that Brett Yormack and he acts him so he can see it Oh wow

He ain't afraid to show that to him Okay Is not a native Texan but he's Wow But I'm finishing the tweet here But he's been here here long enough to know better. Come on, man. Ouch.

6000 likes, 251, retweets, 122 replies. Brett, your mark, clearly saw it, and basically said, you don't run the big 12, I do. Deal with it. He said, in not so many words

I remember, I imagine. Cody Campbell does not run the big 12. That's the first statement. Are you serious? Are you serious? Is this real? Our board and our 80s approved playing 12 games a year, one of Saturdays, a year off on Saturdays, in an effort to raise a profile narrative and viewership of the Big 12 football. Texas Tech hosting a primetime game on Friday night delivers that. Friday night Big 12 football games outperformed the conference average rating by 64% in 2025.

All of our schools are treated equally during the TV scheduling process, and this game fits within our scheduling parameters. I am thankful that our TV partners provide us with these opportunities. Now, it's not a foregone conclusion, but there have been rumors that that's the game it's going to be on that particular weekend. Look, Cody Campbell, good for you that you've just given the check to Texas Tech and say, do whatever you got to do to get us to win football games. You can't go to the commissioner. I know your checkbook carries huge weight,

but you cannot go to the commissioner, Brett Yormark, who was a guest in a show last week, and say, bra, you can't. put our game on. I'm sorry. Did you see his follow-up? I did not. I did not. I'm like triple-checking this is verified account. I mean, it's just, I think this is him. It's got to be him. Apparently

Brett didn't get the memo. Everything runs through Lubbock. He did not say that. Oh my God, he did. That's legit. Now, I mean, it's, you can never tell his verified system, Elon Musk in his infinite wisdom. Just let anybody pay for it. Correct.

But this is the, I mean, it's the same thing from the from the first comment. I know alums think they run schools. Well, Cody Campbell thinks, he said everything runs through Lubbock.

Said no one ever. The reality is this. He also said maybe we should bring the tortillas back. Yeah. The reality is this. What's the reality, Maddie? If you have a kid that is playing

high school football, you're going to go to the game. You're going to lose that member of the audience. But they're not putting Texas Tech, to make sure Abilene gets to catch their Red Raiders and Cougars. They're doing it because they want people in Chicago, Correct. Miami, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Orlando to see Big 12 football.

I have, for someone who, you know, look, I was a part of high school football. I was a mascot every Friday night when high school days. I know, everybody knows the value of it. But it just doesn't carry the, look, when TV networks cut you the check, they'll tell you when they're going to play the games. Yeah. So Brent Yormark is not going to piss off his television partners by saying, well,

one of our alums does not want Texas Tech playing on a Friday. You can't do that. You sell your soul for the check. And if Fox says you're playing at 7 o'clock on a Friday night in front of a national television audience where there's no other game going on, you're going to play it. I have zero problem with the Cougars or for that matter anybody playing on a Friday night. I just don't.

Get 60% boosts and ratings. Take it like it, Cody. Better ratings. You're not fighting with 12 other games on a Saturday or 15 or 20 other television televised games. And the TV networks are like, hey, if you don't like it, don't take our check. Put it on Channel 7 in love it and see what kind of ratings you get. Or whatever channel they have up there.

I mean, I don't know. It's just, look, television has made college athletics a different animal. Even you can go back 10, 15 years. The amount of money. More, yeah. I mean, think about this. We grew up watching the SEC on CBS. SEC's like, y'all are nice, and you've done a lot of things for it.

But ESP and ABC is going to pay for us to carry every single game. Goodbye. And now you've got Illinois versus Wisconsin on the Big Ten Game of the Week on the Box or on CBS. I just, I appreciate alums, but alums think they're running the company and they're not. Oh, Cody Campbell, especially. everything runs through Lubbock relax why don't you score some points in a playoff game

and then we can talk ooh well that was A&M too soon A&M I think got a field goal Do what a Texas Tech get it I think they got scunt Wasn't it like 23 nothing Oregon Tech It wasn't good

Yeah 23 zero So Friday nights are a little different At home by the way Yeah No I'm sorry no it wasn't at home It was in the Orange Bowl Oh I'm talking about the Lubbett

Tech Lubbock Redd Radio game is in Lubbock, so I'm just saying Just chill out Play the game, have some eyeball I mean, does anybody in Chicago going to watch Texas Tech Houston If it's at 4 o'clock on a Saturday?

Probably not. Friday night game, you're at the sports bar, you're at a bar, you're at your house getting ready for the weekend festivities and the game's on, you know, you're going to, it's a better chance of seeing Texas Tech Houston

when you're not going against 15 or 20 other games. Yeah. I just think it's a pitch. missing match honestly well duh and brett your mark's gonna win it's in their egos yeah for sure you could see that coming all right rossie uh what don't you get in life i know you're gonna say there's a lot of things many things many many many many things that i probably won't say on air many of them you think we should like a private behind with the microphones turned off i just don't get it we did

that for the uh what was it the 30 000 twitter follower party oh we did we had a we had a we had a ask mt anything yes we basically answered everything correct? You shied away from one question. Oh, I think I know what it was. We did open things up, though, for things that were never going to be discussed on the air. Yeah. So when's the 40,000 Twitter follower party? That's never going to happen. Why not? Because I don't get enough followers. Oh. It slowed down. The website has slowed down significantly. People have, people are jettisoning from it. Yeah. I don't think the, I don't think the community is growing as much unless it's you count bots. No, and I get rid of bots. I get rid of the bots and the porn. Okay.

All right. I like to have my, I like to have my Twitter account with Authentic because here's the thing. If you have people that are going to say, hey, why don't we advertise your product because you got all these followers. Well, if half your followers are bots,

you're not going to get results and you're going to lose money. Keep them. No. Take what you can get. I got nothing. Okay. Because I'm authentic. Okay.

Does they call me? They call me Mr. Authentic here on the show. Okay, Mr. I live five times a day. I said, That's not authenticity. White lies are okay. Fibs are okay. Flat out lies, not so much.

713, 212, 790. I just don't get it next. 1133 on Sports Talk 790. We usually have a open for, I just don't get it, but our computers are down. Stunner! Jesus. I just don't get it.

Actually, I get it. I get it. Yeah, this is just frozen. How's everything going to your world, Matt? It's good. Rockets won last night. Astros won yesterday. Rockets have won four straight.

Astros have won five in a row. Cougars thriving in the recruiting world. Successful basketball season? It's fine. Warmer? To calm us down? Is this our song? I just don't get it?

I picked out something. I just saw Beatles. Matt can be happy with. This is his ringtone. Right? It is my ringtone. It is my ringtone. You wanted to name your firstborn son Jude.

I did not. Oh. Boy, by the way, Paul, with two more concerts at the Honda Theater in Los Angeles over the weekend? What's the matter now? No, sorry. I thought my mic was off. Sorry. By the way, I was worried about your microphone yesterday.

Yeah. They got it fixed. All right. It's time for I just don't get it. What don't you get in your life? Is there something that we can help you with? Because of our sage advice and our life experiences. Okay.

I don't get why anybody would not love the Beatles. Would it give me the number one reason why someone would not? Now, you don't say that they're favorite. Yeah, I don't hate the Beatles. So if you and I went on a two-hour road trip to say, Ray Garals. I don't want two hours of the Beatles. They had some hits.

You got a lot of late-stage Beatles. Beetlemania stuff. I'm not a huge Beatlemania fan. I'm it well it's it's it was for the era it was for the time it was to get the teen girls going I mean they started to make her up with help and then the follow-up albums to that I mean it's it's an all-time run you're trying to pull up the old discography what happened after help Matt you should know right well you got uh you got uh revolver you have rubber soul over soul revolver those are my two favorite albums yeah white album yeah yeah awesome marine hmm that'd be fine

let it be Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The album. I was going to say. The song is amazing. Yeah, the song's great. All right. Turn this off,

and now I want to think, just listen to Beatles for three hours. Okay. We're going to do the show. All right. Ross, what don't you get? Anything in your life you don't get today? I'm sorry to do this

because obviously he is a broken man. But now video is out of Tiger Woods. Yeah. Go ahead. You have billions and billions of dollars. You have all these resources at your disposal for, which now he's going to rehab overseas. So that's good. He wanted to go overseas to avoid the limelight or whatever, I guess.

That's fair. Whatever. Whatever it takes, man. Put him in Sri Lanka. I don't know. Put him in the middle of the Amazon forest. Tiger Woods is one of the great athletes. I'm going to put like Mount Rushmore of best, most dominant athletes I've ever seen.

I'm putting Tiger Woods on there. You really are. Yes. And that's only a four spot up there. Leonel Messi Tom Brady Tiger Woods was tough

All right shut up Anyways I just don't get how He had the bad crash in 21 Like how many wake up calls do you need Well how much He had the incident with his wife Elyn Norgren

How many I don't get it man Does the average person Need in their life It's more than one Sometimes Yeah that's what I'm saying I'm trying to judge

I don't know his path Obviously you know His father he was like Built to be a machine a golfing machine from age zero. Correct. So he had a tough upbringing and stuff like that. And he's had massive success.

But I don't get it, man. You're driving around on pills and all this stuff. Well, I'm worried for him. I'm wishing him the best. Honestly, this probably is his ninth life. How he survived as many a car accidents and he's not hurt himself or anybody else is absolutely amazing. They said he should have died in 2021. Right.

Right. And, like, that's another lease on life. And then you're getting into another rollover accident five years later. And they didn't kill anybody or severely hurt. How many rollover accidents have you caused, Matt? Zero. I'm at zero. Yeah.

I'm not trying to, again, I'm like, it's hard to, I mean, it feels judgy, I guess, but I just, I'm... No, no, you're, you know what? I'm allowed to judge. I don't get it. You've watched this guy self-destruct. I don't want this to be having. Who's been given the gift of being the, was on pace to be the greatest golfer of all time. And Tiger's not the greatest.

golf of all time now. He's got my vote. I know he does. Higher winner percentage, higher more leading money winners, more player of the awards. Jack Nichols in 1974 was a difference than it was today. He's the money leader against his peers. Give me Nicholas, give me Palmer.

I'm going Woods. Woods could have done it, though. Woods could have, I mean, Woods was more dominant. Yes. But I think longevity does play in it. Golf is a longevity sport. How do you do it for? I mean, he won the Masters in 19 at what, 45? Yeah, but what was the in between? I mean,

What was 37 to 45? He had 20 surgeries on his knee and seven surgeries on his back. Okay, well, I mean, injuries are part of the equation. So I'm going with Tiger Woods. I mean, I don't think it's crazy to say that. It's not crazy. I'm just going to disagree with you. Okay.

713-212-7-7-19. 7-1-2-1-2-5-70. Jonathan, what don't you get this week? You know, it's funny because mine was about golf too, but it wasn't about Tiger Woods. I was just sitting in my car thinking, you know, golf probably is the only sport. where you can't, you know, play, like, like play in it and be active in it without being in a business casual attire.

And I was just, I guess I know the answer, but I really don't get, like, do you have to be there? Like, when you go to country clubs, do you have to, like, dress up? Or, like... Most country clubs have a dress coat, yes. But what's up? Like, so, like, what's the history on that?

Like, I'm paying all this money. I got to dress a certain way to go play golf, too? Like, you know what I mean? Like... What would you like to wear? Just, I mean, I'll obviously nothing, like, trash here or nothing like that. But I mean...

Well, I don't think they're asking you to look like trash. I mean, you go into the pool. They don't want you wearing cut off jeans. Yeah, there's dress closing. Like, when you're going and you're going on the fairway type of thing. Like, you get your drive on your hand. And it's like five in the morning, whatever you go up there and six o'clock. Tradition.

I would just say tradition. And in every golf course is the same way. Not every golf course. You go to a public course. You go to a public course. You go to a sharp sound. You can wear where the hell you want. Dong.

I've never seen that. I've never seen that, though. I've never seen that. I've never just don't get that. No one plays golf in anything casual. I mean, you can still go with a collared shirt and shorts. It's very casual. I'm not asking you to put a three-piece suit on.

Yeah, you go to polo and some golf shorts. I mean, I guess I understand where you're coming from. But yeah, you go to the par three course off of the beltway. They don't have a, you wear whatever you want. In Baytown, it's shirt optional. Could you imagine when that wearing a shirt on a golf course? It's Baytown. You're a tank top.

I don't say. say the other no no what you're going to say i was going to say it you can't say it no it's not was it ever was it ever okay to say it i think i mean we just did care i'm not saying it i'm not doing it you're rhyme it no let's move on no i'm at this point i don't know if i you know i mentioned earlier this week i don't get why you would have a bluetooth in your ear 24-7 i just think it's really happening yeah i don't i don't get that either but what do i know yeah as far as golf i would just say it's tradition i might i understand understanding what you want to tear down that tradition? I mean, what do you want to wear?

What do you want to wear? Because you're out there for four hours and it's 102 degrees. You can't wear khaki shorts and a polo? But you can wear like athletic shorts and like a t-shirt. So you want to be in like gym gear? I feel like I'm not saying I want me. I'm saying I feel like I've never seen that. Like why does no one do that? I think you can wear gym, depending on the course. I don't know. I don't play golf much these days. I'm telling you I've never seen in my life. And my grandpa golfs every morning. They got to wear his.

You go with them? No, no. I'm just saying like he, he, And then I have this homeboy that was, I run track with, now he's golfs and he's wearing everything. But, you know, like business attire. I mean, I think it's just part of the sport. Like, somebody gets into running and then they're like, oh, I bought a garment watch. You know, I got these running shorts and oh, I got this. So they get into biking and all of a sudden they're dressing like prime lamps Armstrong. It's just like you wear the outfit when you get into the sport.

Well, cycling is different. Like they have tennis skirts and tennis outfits that people wear. I've definitely seen people like go to tennis court and practice in the jeans. But I mean, it's just kind of like. the uniform. Nobody's playing tennis and jeans. Stop. Nobody's playing tennis and jeans. Stop. Why are you playing?

I'm just saying, like, I... You're out there walking on a hot-ass course for four hours and well, probably you're riding a cart too, and yeah, khaki shorts are comfortable. I don't know. I mean, if you want to work out, we're at the... You're not working out. It's an event.

You're going to play golf. You're not going to lifetime... You're not going to lifetime fitness to go to a bunch of iron and video yourself on Instagram. It's like an event. Well, women are. We're going to play golf, so I'm going to put on my golf outfit. And you can get your steps in golf.

You don't have to get a golf card. Yeah, you could, but yeah, if you really want to labor. You get what I'm saying? Like, that's just the only sport. Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying you're crazy. It's not the only sport. We just mentioned tennis and I don't know, whatever else.

Cycling, you can go on a bike and go outside. No, no, no, no, no. That's different. If you're in a competition. No, I'm not talking about you're going with the boys to the, the Valero station on your bike. I'm talking about you're like cycling. My dad's a cyclist. I'm telling you, you can go out of a cyclist.

Yeah, you wear bike shorts. That's different because that's the aerodynamics and the house how you get the speed. That's totally different sport because it has all the physics inside of it. When you talk about tennis. It's not totally different. But you go to the tennis court, you don't have to wear a certain attire. You can. No, you don't have to.

But I'm not normally wearing MC Hammer Puffy pants and a jester hat on the tennis court. Golf is a different sport where you see everybody that participate. in it is going to wear their little uniforms. Not everybody. There's not 100% head rate like you said. The majority. It's the only sport that is. Again,

I don't think a collared shirt and shorts is necessarily bucking it's some sort of official uniform. That's what it is. You just describe the uniform. I mean, I've seen people golf and regular athletic gear. You're not required to wear knickers when you're athletic. I've seen people golf in athletic shirts and non-collared shirts.

What do you want to wear? What do you want to wear? Ross is describing is what I've never seen driving and seeing people at the golf course. You've never seen anybody in just a regular like Adidas Moisture Wicking T-shirt? No, I've only seen. I've never seen. All right, we'll drive around more. All right, let's get off this golf conversation.

Apparel. I'm sure Rikey and Mametus is really happy about this talk. Easy, J.R. Mikey. Hank tight. We'll get to the three of you next. 1144 on Sports Talk 790. You better not say you don't get very much. Manelow, that's all I'm going to tell you right now. Your career's over. I don't get it. I just try to guess what song is your favorite.

They're all my favorites. I mean, he's got a couple of jams, but I mean, this, this is, you're going to get mad at me because it's going to be cliche. This is probably the best. Most famous? Most famous. Most famous. Not his best. Oh, snap. I didn't even know it's the song. This is Barry Manil? Yes. It's not bad. I might have to apologize on Friday. Thank you. You got to sell your sorries. How's your list, by the way, for Friday? Me? I got nothing. By the way, on the show tomorrow, we will have Jaylon Rose. We'll be with us at noon.

Oh, what? Part of the college basketball coverage this weekend. The Jalen Rose. And we'll talk a little NBA with him. Eme Adoku with us at 1 o'clock tomorrow as well. And we have, I'm sorry, he's 1130, non-Florter stories. Friday edition of Matt Thomas Show, Ross. Be there, be square.

It's good Friday tomorrow, which means you need to be with us tomorrow. You're off. Miles will call in and say hi. Mm-hmm. Blessed is he who listens to the Matt Thomas show with Ross tomorrow. Easy. 790. Good morning.

Good morning, gentlemen. What don't you get? I got a couple of. I don't get. All right. I got a couple of them. First one is when somebody asked you, are you sure? I've been in my profession for 25 years.

They come to you with a problem and you offer them a solution. And then they ask you, are you sure? You're a normal user. I've been in this profession 25 years. Apparently, you're not sure if you're asking me about it. So I don't get that. The second one is. What are you in?

IT? I think, yes, sir. Yeah, that makes sense. And the second one is when people use the word we, casual sports fans, use the word we when they refer to professional teams. I watched the game Saturday when DMI was having his trouble with the pitching. He was struggling a little bit. And the guy said next to me, he's like, yeah, we paid him all this money.

I was like, wait a minute, are you part of the crane family? Are you associated with the Astros? we did not pay anything. Also with the Cougars, you know, they took their fall. Yeah, we lost. You're not an alumni. You're not a booster. You probably can't name two people on that team.

How is it we? I just don't get it. All right. And going back. Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. I was going to say, let me answer this. My we descriptions of the following.

If you went to a school, you're automatically a we. All right. Number two, if you work for a particular team, you can be a we. I also believe if you have been a fan of a particular team for some or all of your life, you can say we the Astro fans or We the Rockets. I'm okay with that. I don't think media should do it unless, again, you're employed by the team. Because you're supposed to be, even though you are root for the team or supportive of the team,

you're not technically a member of said team. So as much as I'm an Astro fan, I don't ever say we need to hit better in runners in scoring position. Now, I do but clarify myself as we as a Houston Rocket because I'm a Houston Rockets employee. Yes. I've been winning them for 10 years, 13 overall if you go back to the first time. So, again, everybody's got their own definitions. I generally don't mind the use of we in most situations. And I get it.

And then to Jonathan's point, shout out to my boys at the Melrose Golf Course. You can come in there with no dress code. You can come in with a tank top and flip-flops and play 18. That's all I got, gentlemen. Thank you, easy. How about that? If you all know of a place where Jonathan can go wearing a thong, a tank top, no socks, and shower shoes. Yeah.

He wants to go play golf at your course. He's going to all the money on these clubs. I'm not trying to spend more money than clothes. Golf is an expensive habit, my friend. I've given it up. I had shoulder surgery 10 years ago. I haven't played since. And honestly, I hate to say this.

I don't miss it. I miss it. I used to play when I was on the morning shift and I would get off at noon and I would have nothing to do so I got into golf. I got addicted to golf, quite frankly. I was going hitting balls every day, going every weekend. That's a straight on your wallet right there. That it is. Golf needs do a better job of making it cheaper. I think you price people out. They don't care. They don't. But I see a lot of golf course. It's like by camping. Yeah, camping gear. Everything's $300,400, but the problem is with golfing is, it's expensive to maintain these courses. I mean, it is. Between

watering and you want nice ones. You want good, I mean, those greens, they don't just, or organic. It look really pristine when you get there. You got to be manicuring and love done. So I get it. So I get why golf is expensive. I mean, I like it. Let's talk to, we haven't talked to J.R. in a long time. J.R., good morning. Where are you been? Matt, how are you doing, my friend? I know, it's been a long, long time.

What's, you now, are you in Denver now? Is that what I'm seeing? No, sir, no, sir. I'm chasing Cruz throughout the middle of nowhere, Oklahoma. Oh, my gosh. Well, hopefully you're safe. How are things? Let's go ahead. Oh, it's going good. I just wanted to tell you what I don't understand, but first,

I got a question. Do we all agree that Tiger Woods is the most successful golfer in the last 40 years? Yes. Okay. Now, do we all agree that Tiger Woods has made more money than any golfer ever. Yes. Okay. Why didn't this Joker, what I don't understand, have a driver to take him wherever he needs to go?

I know. I mean, if he has, if he wanted to go to a restaurant, I mean, hey, I want to go to a restaurant. I'm Tiger Woods. Come pick me up. I mean, I don't get it. Somebody, please tell me what's going on with. do. There's nothing I can say, Jarre, except I just don't get it. Thanks for the phone call. Good to hear your

voice. Been a long time. The reality is this. The reason he gets, well, go ahead. You don't want to be, you know, I don't know if, it's, it's not a question of paying somebody. I mean, is it the logistics of having to call somebody and have come pick you up? Or is it,

you know, hey, I want to go get a burger. Or is it just, you know what? I can get away with stuff. I'm Tiger Woods. I can, I'm fine. I'm not under the influence of anything. I can drive easily. Nothing to worry about here. What do you think it is? Yeah, I think he said privacy. Or that hire a bro that's a super private dude.

Make him sign an NDA. Do you know? I think it's because he's, I don't know. Let me tell you. I, I, I, there are the most,

the most incredible athletes that I've ever been covered or worked with or worked around all have guys. They just do. I mean, but there's, we hear of athletes getting in DUIs and stuff all the time. Car crashes. and incidents. So, I mean, it's pretty common for

millionaire athletes to not want to pay for a driver. Well, I would think one with an addiction problem that's had multiple car accidents, probably should think otherwise. He probably should. Real quick, before we get to the news at noon, I just don't get it. Do you know who had teams,

you know who had security at the game on Tuesday night, the Rockets and Knicks? Craig Ackerman. NBC did. There was some stoic bro who, did not crack a smile for the entire time that I saw him. I think he was Reggie Miller's security person. Oh, really?

Do you think Reggie Miller needs security in 2026? Probably. Why? People are crazy. If he feels like, I don't know, we don't know, maybe he's gotten some threats. That's just, I don't, I mean, I guess that you'd help me, you just help me figure out why I don't get something. In theory, I would hope he wouldn't need it. I mean, he's a Hall of Famer, though.

Yeah, but it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, yeah. I mean, Joe Montana's a Hall of Famer. He didn't have security. Doesn't he? Do you know that? No, I don't think he does. Maybe it's only when he's in arenas. Maybe he's been attacked.

Maybe he's been threatened. I don't know. Too many autograph, you know, like I get away from me. Yeah, back off it, right? Too many bad takes. He's gotten better. He used to be horrible. It still isn't great.

I think he took the criticism of Hart and improved. So good for him. He's fine. All right, let's get to the news at noon. you want to? I would love to. But sometimes the heat is on. Hmm. Thank you, Robert Palmer. Thank you, Power Station.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm 7.90. Good afternoon. We were going to give you a nice musical interlude with some highlights of last night's rockets and Astros, but our computers are down. So. Is what it is? We're working on.

We're working on. Great to have you with us here on a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We've got Believe it or not today at 150. We have a recap of the Astros and Rockets game to get to as we present to you the news at noon. There we go. Yes, Matthew, we'll go in chronological order, which means we will start with your Houston Astros,

six to four victory over the Boston Red Sox. Mike Burroughs was solid. five innings pitch, two earn runs, three walks, six strikeouts. Did have some slight control issues here and there, but he was spinning the breaking stuff and getting a lot of whiffs and some effective pitching for the Houston Astros. AJ Blue Ball continues to be a dude as he came in and did his thing. Kai Wei Ting did give up a solo shot, as did Brian Abrayu, who is now perfect one for one in save opportunities. Brian Abrayu with his ERA down to 19.29.19.29. You know, I did get some strikeouts.

No blown save. Yeah, he struck out the side after giving up a solo shot to Roman Anthony to start the hinting. I almost said start the segment. About the same. The segment of the game. So Brian Abraeu, a perfect one for one in save opportunities. So far, my gut feelings looking good. And his ERA is, uh, his ERA is, uh, you know, just above the voting age.

So that's fine. It's going to come down. I would certainly hope so. Although they're going to play in Sacramento, which means that's true. Everybody's ERA is going to get a little higher. ACHRO's offense is going to be just fine in Sacramento. They are now five and two.

Your Houston Astros. Of course, the big one yesterday was Carlos Correyes' three-run bomb off of Garrett-Crochet. So Astros' offense, looking good. Carlos Corre with a home run, Christian Vasquez. had a home run as well.

By the way, Chris and Vasquez, for any of you that are fighting, well, let's put it this way, catchers typically aren't going to be the leanest machines out there.

He's healthy. Eating well. Well, I mean, he got called off the couch a couple of weeks ago, so. So you want to say it? Go ahead and say it. He could drop a couple. You know, I would dig, you know, no.

No. secret? No, I don't Yeah, he, yeah, I don't know. His waist size probably could go down a couple inches, sure, why not? Rockets beat the Milwaukee. No, we can't do that. He did. No, I cannot. Rockets beat the Milwaukee Bucks 119 to 113. Reed Shepard inserted back into the starting lineup for the

Rockets. Nine of 15 overall, 9 of 14 from 3. He was on Figa. And he was hitting him from 30 plus last night, Matthew. It was. Career high, as you mentioned. Rockets with the victory now go to number five in the Western Conference, a half game

in front of Minnesota, who, by the way, played the San Antonio Spurs, I think, tonight. Say it with me. Five seed. Go Spurs. Now, do you want to be the five to go on the road to take on the Nuggets? In theory, wouldn't you rather be the six

to go on the road to take on the Lakers? Both are tough. Okay, as let me give you the two different perspectives. Okay. The fan in me says I like the chances against the Lakers better. The competitor in me and the competitor that's in the Houston Rockets are like, we need to be playing good basketball going into the postseason. And I guarantee you that every NBA team is going well.

If we're going to win a championship, we're going to have to be beating not one, not two, but probably three excellent teams. Wherever the chips fall with, they may, we'll play who we have to play. So to answer your question in a long form there, you can't dog a game just to drop a spot. I'm not saying they need a dog a game. I'm saying which would you rather happen. I would rather play the Los Angeles Lakers.

Okay. To answer your question. So we'll see what happens. Game in a half behind the Nuggets are your Houston Rockets. Home court, I would like home court advantage over any of it, I think. So you'll take home court over anybody as compared to playing a road against the Lakers. I said differently last night, but I've reserved the right to change my mind. Oh, that's fine.

We change our mind here constantly. Home court over everything. Try to get in that four spot. half game ahead against Timberwolves. Gut feeling. How much does that second and last game matter between the Timberwolves and the Rockets? I could see it going either way. Gut tells me it's going to mean something.

I think you're right. Yeah, again, these teams have been separated 4, 5, 6 by about a game, game and a half for about two months now. The Lakers, the only team has really kind of pulled away. Yeah, they are a game and a half, but just one in the lost column. Oh, sorry, two, three in the lost column. ahead of the rockets, but never mind. All right, Matthew. Also, I don't even want to talk about what Victor Wimbanyama did last night against the jazz.

Just do it because we provide information in our audience. 127 or 113, Warriors Over the Spurs. Wimby had 41 points and 18 rebounds. He sucks Adam Clayton. Yeah, he's a bum. I believe the words were bum. What a bum Victor Wimbunyama is. 41 and 18

41 and 18 crazy three blocks as well he's making an MVP push very late MVP push so is it SGA him wimby

Kate is disqualified can Jalen Brown get it Jalen Brown's not the craziest thing Jason Tatum's playing well for the Celtics right now too yeah but he's not going to be it's an eligible so that's a boot to point All right. NFL news, Matthew. Do you have some? Yes, Kirk Cousins agreeing to sign with the Raiders.

Now, it is listed as a five-year deal for $172 million. But it's actually just one year $20 million guaranteed. And then it will have a club option for two years at $80 million. According to Adam Schefter. I'm going to tell you this, and I've brought this up 500 times. You know when you want to come back as a different person in life? Yes. I think coming back at Kurt Cousins has got to be on the Mount Rushmore of the list.

Currently, career earnings, you know what? Yes. Kirk Cousins, career earnings. How many years? 14-year career. 540 million. 330. Okay.

But still a lot. Let's put this in perspective. I mean, if you add this 172, he's there. Well, let's not on all that end. Let's talk about what's guaranteed to him. Kirk Cousins, when you think of a quarterback, how many years is it taking to you think of Kirk Cousins being an elite one? Many years, many, many, many down the list.

$33 million. Kirk Cousins, double franchise tagged by the commanders. Big money from Minnesota. Decent money from Atlanta. and now these really good money from the Los Angeles Raiders or the Los Angeles Raiders

the Las Vegas Raiders Yes Kirk Cousins $333 million. Wow. Fernando Mendoza likely to be selected first overall

by the Raiders and that makes sense but there's a reason why you're bringing this up he skipped out on Indiana Pro Day yesterday yeah it's done he's like

I ain't got time for that No, we're good. Sign me up. So Fernando Mendoza, number one overall to the Raiders, with Kirk Cousins, putting him under his wing. All right. Bust or All-Pro? Oh, one of the other? One of the other, Fernando Mendoza. I don't know.

Just make a guess. All-Pro then. Okay, I guess. I had to pick one. Yeah. You would think 1-1 should be an all-pro, correct? You would hope so. Yeah. But apparently, I don't know, some people don't think this is. the greatest draft year of all time, but who knows?

Okay, well, I'm going to try to get a draft expert on to the show next week. Okay. All right, Matt, your thoughts on Iowa State Women's Basketball star Audi Crooks, entering the transfer portal for her, excuse me, final year of collegiate eligibility. She will have offers. Wouldn't she dropping like 30 a game and stuff? 25.8 points per game. Woo!

65% from the floor. Beast. Why did you bring her up? I don't know. It's just listed on the ESPN top headlines. Have you seen her play before? Yeah, I've seen highlights. Yeah. She's physically imposing.

She's bawling. Mm-hmm. Okay, well, you want more on Tiger Woods? He's going to rehab overseas, getting in the help he needs. Yeah, the video release with the Sheriff's Sheriff Deputy Tatiana 11-R saying, I do believe your normal faculties are impaired and you're under an unknown substance. So at this time, you're under arrest for DUI. Wood saying he was looking at his phone and changing the radio station when his land rover clipped the back of a truck and rolled over onto its side on a residential road on Jupiter Island.

Police officers also on the video found pills in Woods pocket after the crash. I hope this is the last time I'm going to bring this up, honestly. I don't know. The next time he runs into trouble, he's going to go to jail. And that's ridiculous. Because he has been given so many second, third, fourth, fifth chance. opportunities. I'm wishing him peace and healing. I hope this out of the country treatment center that he goes to, I hope it works for him. Me too. Hey, let's brag on the astro numbers. You want to? Yes. We got some good

aster numbers to get to. Okay. And we'll do that. Plus your phone calls. Remember, today, we asked those of being the 10 o'clock hour to call in and talk about what you love so far about the local nine. We should do that again. If you love the local nine, which we believe that you do, what have you loved most so far after this five and two start? 713-212-5-790. It is nice to talk about the winning baseball team, and that's what we've got in our city. Astros 5 and 2 day off today. We'll take on the hated Sacramento A's for our three-game set beginning tomorrow. I know they're not really the Sacramento A's to just call themselves the A's.

By the way, construction, right-along course for the start of the 2008 season for the A's in Las Vegas. I like saying Sacramento A's. That's where they play. I don't disagree. Stop being weird about it. You're trying to sell tickets and get people to come out there and you won't even name the town you're playing in? It's ridiculous.

You know what? I mean, I would say I get it. They're not looking to fill 9,000 seats, I think, is what it is. Yeah. How's that going? So absurd. Everybody we talked to a spring training hated that place. One of the other than a couple of players you asked about the play on the road and stuff.

Mm-hmm. They're in AAA, they're in AAA Ballpark with dimensions that are not far enough because the ball travels really far there. And then on top of that, they're in these major league clubhouses. I mean, they're accustomed to going into borderline hotel rooms and they're just not as good as they used to be. Terrible.

It is what it is. But the Astros have their first three-game sweep since September of last year against the Rangers, five-game winning streak. I mean, just, Mike Burroughs looked better. I don't think he was outstanding, but he looked better. Gave you 84 pitches. Astro bullpen's been good.

Has it been overworked so far, especially when you've had a couple of seven-inning performances, the two days before that. And Blue Ball dominating. Blue Ball already a guest on the A team earlier this week. Yeah. As you predicted. Yeah. Did I have that?

Yeah. I think Christian Roe, as long as he was on the team, but he's been sent down. All right. Christian Roe, by the way, fourth in the current Astroats Christian rankings. So how is your rankings going, Now, this is, are you going off a 40 man here? Yes. Okay, go ahead.

Walker, Vasquez, Javier Roa. What do you think? I can't argue. Okay. Now, let's go into Christians in general. Okay. It's everyone. McCaffrey?

Oh, okay. I thought you were going, you know, Corre-Al-Tuve McCullors. Oh, no, no, no. Let's go with, okay. Christian Wood, probably not on the list anymore. Oh, man. Is he done?

He, I thought he, Does he hurt? I've not heard from him forever. I thought he was somewhere overseas or something. That makes sense. No, I thought he was going to China. But no, I guess he last played with the Lakers last year. Christian.

He was fighting with people on Twitter calling him casuals. Yeah, it's got to be McAfry's got to be won, right, over any of our Christians? Walker's got a case. McCaffrey, I guess. Yeah. McCaffrey won. Walker two. Is there any other Christians we're forgetting about?

feels like it I'll go look it up Braun Brown Oh Christian Yeah the nuggets Nuggets yeah B that's BRA A U-N

by the way Yeah that's why I said Braun but it's brown Yeah brown That's not a bad call on your part Alright let me look at Let me try to Christian Brown or Christian Walker

That's a good one man I never thought I would compare our Denver Nuggets to an Astro Got a ton in baseball Well most of them aren't the Astros Yelich Beth on the court Arroyo?

All right, this is enough. Yeah, I was going to say, I think we're losing the audience. I'm losing my own audience here. I'm losing myself. Let's get to the guys we actually do care about. Jordan Alvarez, two for three, two runs, a double hit by pitch.

His OPS against the Red Sox 1305. Carlos Correa home run first of the year, three run Jack. First home run at Diken Park since being traded from the Minnesota Twins. Had it been that long. Wow. It was career number, home run number 140. Christian Christian Correa

How would you describe Carlos Correa's career? Ooh! Can you even do it? Now, was he the number one prospect in baseball? Wasn't he 1-1? He was a 1-1 pick,

but was he the number one prospect in baseball? I don't think so. Wasn't Brian Buxton in that group, too? Like 1-1 started in that same range? Yeah, people wanted them to take Buxton. They didn't. And, I mean, they've both been hurt in their careers. Both have been very good.

Boxing way more than Korea. Both have been very hurt in their careers. He's not a Hall of Famer. Platinum Glover. Let me pull. I'm wondering where he was. I can find the prospect history. But, okay, forget about the prospect.

Just as a major leaguer. But I got myself curious. I know. I'm sorry. Impactful hits, parts of world. championship teams. No, one, actually. He got as high as number three prospect in baseball or number four on baseball America.

So top five prospect. Elite level shortstop. Made the transition to third base, as a lot of short stops tend to do. Rookie of the year. No MVP. Three-time All-Star. Gold glove and a platinum glove. I think it, no, his one gold glove was a platinum glove.

Okay. So I'm going to ask you the question I asked you 60 seconds ago. describe his career. Hall of very good. Really, really solid. Not Jersey retirement worthy. We'll be in the Astros Hall of Fame. Book not written on him also.

He's got 8-11 OPS right now. He's playing very well in the field, hitting 296. It's early. Very early, yeah, right. Yeah. I mean, as we're around his career numbers. He's career 816 OPS. 200 home runs, 201.

Hall of very good. You're a three-time All-Star and a platinum Glover and a rookie of the year. Good. That's really good. But I would have thought when we first started him watching that he was headed for a Hall of Fame career.

Yeah, in 12 years. If you had asked me to predict, after he won rookie of the year, 12 years, I would have said like three goal gloves and like 7,8 All-Star Pets. Or one batting championship, an MVP, a big silver slugger. Yeah, maybe not a batting champion.

But at least like a, he's never hit more than 26 home runs in a season. I would have thought he would have multiple 30 home run seasons. Because he had 22 his first year in 99 games. I think the biggest detriment for his lack of that chase towards a Hall of Fame is injuries. Injuries, which I think slowed him. I mean, as far as like a battler, a leader, like the attitude, all that stuff, has been perfect.

Oh, I'm a... He's born to play baseball. Born to play baseball, knew at a very young age he needed to not only learn how to play baseball, but get schooling, he needed to learn how to speak English to make sure that he knew he was media savvy, which he is. It's like mentoring Bryce Matthews who heard that story, like, oh, you're not eating good, you don't want to be great. Like, he's just a leader. And I'm telling you right now, and I want to ask Carlos this when we get him on the show, hopefully at some point.

I want to know what those mound visits are like. does he you know because they all speak underneath their gloves right they cover their mouths up is he a here's the situation here's what's presenting itself or is he going in there saying all right you blankie blankies do this blank blank you know he's a more motivational speaker than he's anything else yeah and frankly when the scandal of 17 got into play he took up for a lot of his teammates that was great you don't know the facts you got to shut the bleep up i might be We have that clip? Well, I have it.

Is your system working? That's more importantly. Well, I've had to restart it three times. So we'll see. You talk. All right. All I'm saying is I'm really, I'm glad he's back. It's kind of nice to have him back.

Yeah, I love it. Especially he's hitting three-run bombs of Garrett Cochette. It was a difference in the game. And him to me, he's not going to be your best player. But if he's your third or fourth best hitter, I think you're in a really good spot. And the transition from... You don't know the facts?

Then you got to chill the... That was a great line. Cody Bellinger. Codes. It was so, yeah. Is Cody in a douche name Hall of Fame? Hmm. Now, let me give you the two names we've already thrown in there.

You've thrown Jacks and Brody. And Jax. And Browdy. Brody's a dushy name. Okay. Is Cody a dushy name? Brody and Cody? First glimpse, I say yes.

Why, you got to come at Cody Campbell like that? I'm not coming. By the way, he's still trying to go scorch earth on Brett Yormark. He's still doing it? What's he saying now? He's saying Yormark serves the presidents, which serves the presidents serve the boards. They're going to thought to throw hands.

Somebody said this is like WWE promos they're cutting. Do you think they're trying to build up? Oh, what do you think about that? You mean little faux stuff? Or do you think it's an actor? Is this legit mad at each other? How much of this is these guys playing it up? Those who don't know, Cody Campbell is criticizing

the big 12th conference because they're thinking about moving Texas Tech Houston game to a Friday night where Cody Campbell's like football in Texas is high school football on a Friday night. Oh, oh, I got a Cody coming in. Oh, Lord. Oh, oh, get him. Oh, no. Get him, Cody. Now, now, if you didn't hear the story the other day, I said that Jax was a dushy name. And our friend, Pete Mayock, said, hey, my Sepsan's name is Jax. He thinks it's hysterical.

Yes. Now look Oh Lord I'm just gonna take the loss on this Yeah go ahead No you want to call people out No I'm just saying I just ask it's a douchey name

And then people then with the name Dave Or a douchey It's that who had they didn't name themselves Okay Cody before you join the show I want to apologize I should not speak in such broad brushes Cody on line one is going to join us next

Is a awesome human being Friend of the show Listener Cody, I'm going to apologize and say I'm sorry that Cody's not a dushy name. 1231, Sports Talk 790. We lose our phone lines? I was going to talk to Cody. What happened?

It is dropped? You still here for me? Oh, there he is. Okay. This is a different radio station. All right. I'm going to apologize. I'm going to take my loss.

Why did this just go to Sunny? Cody, my friend, my colleague. my bestie Hi Cody How are you? Get him! Get him, Cody. Don't hold back.

Shut up. Cody knows I was just teasing. Right, Cody? Oh, yeah. It's all good. Oh, thank God. And Cody, Collinger is a douche.

See? I knew it wasn't wrong. Not all Cody's are built equal. You're the cool, Cody. What else you got today? No, I was kind of, I was going to call anyway. With the Astros,

talking about going to a six-man rotation, and you're seeing more of these bullpen games and stuff. Is this just where baseball is going to go in the future? You know, I grew up watching Nolan Ryan start a game and finish it. Now we're seeing pitchers going four or five innings. The reality is you're spending more money, Cody, on starting pitching, and you want to make sure they are with you longer. Middle relievers generally, not a dime a dozen,

but they don't worry about their long-term arms as compared to starters. and so they would rather, if they're going to pay money, they're going to want to make sure their guys are ready to go. And if you save them for one less start over a six-day stretch and not wear and tear them, especially early in the season, Major League Baseball teams will take their chances on it. So you can move up and down in a laborer. It's just harder to do so with starting pitching.

Yeah, I get it. Yeah, thanks for taking the call. Go Astros. Go Astros. Thanks, Cody, for the phone call. Thanks, Cody. A wonderful name and a wonderful gentleman to the show. Yeah, the day is a known.

Ryan are gone. It's always the first name everybody brings up. We're like, I remember what Nolan Ryan did this. Oh, don't forget Bob Gibson's brought up to. He was throwing 100 when he was 40. Nolan Ryan is a freak of nature. Okay.

Nolan Ryan is an absolute freak, an exception to most rules, first of all. And second of all, as you laid out, I mean, it's just a different era, different age,

and money has a lot to do with it. Yeah, I mean, you don't pay middle relievers $19 million a year to get outs in a six inning. You pay $19 million, $20 million dollars

for starting pitching. and you want to make sure those guys are upright and their arms are good because if guys I mean think about it if you if any of those starters go through Tommy Johns or forum injuries that they're not just quick 15 day fixes

they're usually six months to a year before they get fixed Josh Hayter's making $19 million hopefully he comes back soon but he's you know well I mean closures make decent money yeah but you're Brian King

I mean I don't think Brian King's gonna make a nice living but don't get me wrong but it's a different age where everybody's throwing as hard as they can spinning the ball as far hard as they can as well. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't, now six man sounds good, but it also gives you an arm less of the bullpen, which then, then you have to balance. Do you let your starters stay out there a little bit longer because you don't have as many reinforcements? And you just have to play it by ear,

case by case basis. Yeah. But yeah, it feels like to me the Astros were going in and out of this. They'll back guys off. And that's where the battle will be between, I don't know, it's between Lance and Spencer, I mean, what if Arrogatee, he throws six innings or one run? ball. Again, it's so early that I mean, we've only had what two guys go through the rotation twice. MacArthur's only

pitched once. Emi's only pitch once. Christian Javier's only pitch one. We have no sample size on what their 2026 is going to look like. Yeah, McCullors is out of options. I don't, I would imagine Burroughs is not, but you're not sending him down. No, no. I mean, if he doesn't pitch well and he needs

to just go down for a couple of starts, that wouldn't be the craziest thing I don't think. but hopefully he just turns it around and you have one of them good problems. Oh, he might see her the whole season. You think a Scott Boris client who makes that kind of money, who got that kind of publicity is going to be accepted? What if he goes out two more times and he's getting completely shelled and Arrogatti's pitching well? It'd be a bullpen.

There's no way of Scott Boris clients being sent down. Okay. I mean, I could see it. I don't know why. If he's struggling and Arrogati's pitching well, I'm not saying that's going to happen. No, I don't think they'd be. chances that are good either, but I, you know, I didn't Roki Sasaki get sent down?

Who? I don't know who Roki Sasaki is. It's a Dodgers pitcher. I'm sure he's wonderful. Scott Borris client? I don't know who his agents are. Wasserman. Well, that's another big one too.

That's another big group. I think he got sent down last year. I'd have to go look this up. No, the only way I can ever see EMI getting set down is if there's something with an injury that forced him with a rehab. or something. And look, this is,

this is, we don't, this is not even a conversation at this point. You mean, think about this. If anybody's going to move up and down, it's probably going to be Erigani

because he's got options. Because once you use a, you don't have endless, but you've got a lot of options. You can send him up and down. Yeah, Arrogat has got options and Lance McCullors Jr. does not. So.

Well, what a nice problem to have. I'll tell you this. You want to go get a slugging outfit at the deadline and you have a surplus in your starting rotation with Bluebaugh and Weiss sitting there back there? Ooh, I feel like a gut...

I could go with gut feeling here right now. Jason Alexander waiting in the wings. By the way, I think the Cowboys are 4-1. What's our win total, 96, on 144 game schedule, whatever it is? I just said they're going to win the PCL. Now, what would the parade be like in Sugar Land, if you want a PCL. You just go by the

Fountains and then the Town Center. You start at the sugar mill. You go down a consolation field. What state is the sugar mill in? See, I wish I knew Sugar Land better. And you're the first person ever say that. Because I can... It's fine.

All right. I like Sugar Land. If you live in Sugar Land right now and listen to show, what's the parade route? You go to buy the In-N-Out Burger. I'll give you the Kingwood route. A Kingw had a team. You go to the Fountons,

then you go to the In-N-Out Burger, and then you go to the town center. And then you party at that Marriott pool. It's nice. Oh, that Marriott's nice. Yeah. And you get one of those double big port chops over there at Perry's after, too.

Yeah, exactly. Wasn't there a sports bar? We used to do shows over there way back in the day? Yes. Stadia? That's it. Good pull by you. Remember, if you're not, yeah, they're long gone, though, so.

Wasn't our fault. Because they stopped advertising. No, they stopped advertising. That's what happens. They stopped advertising. And you got a business. They went out of business. That's a fact.

That's why Big City Wings is thriving. They're with us all the time. Growing. Thank you very much. 12 locations. One near you. Yeah. Kingwood's would be, we get off at Kingwood Drive.

You go to the fountains. You go throughout the variety neighborhood. You stop at all the golf courses. There's like nine of them. I'm good. That's a lot of golf courses. Yeah. Make sure you're wearing your proper attire.

Jonathan, you're not invited to a Kingwood golf course spray. I don't want to even be invited. All those silver spoon and good. goons over there. So, Span goons. Is that what they call it over there?

That's what they call it? I like that. Yeah, I don't know. Are we having technical, more technical issues? It's fine. We're good. Just do the show.

Okay. You were just talking. I was just curious. Yeah, it was fine. All right. 7-1, 3, 2. We're already, how about this? We're already creating a Sugar Land Space Cowboy

Parade route. I love it. You know, we need some more... When he went for downtown Houston in June? Rockets? What do you think? Let's go. I think you're going to be free.

Don't say that. I think you're going to be free the month of June. What do you mean? Don't say that. I know, I know you don't want to say it. I'm sorry I'm living in reality. Can I live in a mystical world where Kevin Durant defies age like he's done for 90% of the season? 90%? 90% of the season, actually.

All right, by we got Kyle's going to join us. Give us the parade route through Sugarland. Okay, great. the Sugar Lake Chamber of Commerce is weighing in. It does end to the Marriott where the pool is, right? I guess so. You got to go to the golf courses. Uh-huh.

Yeah, let's see what Kyle's going to help us out. Kyle, you're in charge of the Sugar Land Space Cowboys Parade Route. How's that going to go? Matt, I think you start a constellation field. Okay. And there's a back road that wraps around right to the old sugar factory. and then you're going to take Highway 90 right there back to Highway 6 and you just take that all the way to the town center.

Are we stopping by the airport or no? There's not enough people to be around this whole ass route. And what's the population of Sugar Land? I think we need a shorter round, Kyle. I think Sugar Land's got 100,000. Oh, it's got 100,000 people. I'm saying it's every single one of them going to be at this parade route. If you cancel school for the day, they will.

need every single one plus the in and out employees at this route. By the way, you cannot have a, you cannot have a prank in and out route. There's a parade there anyway. Cars waiting to get food. I have not been in Constellation Field. I have been by there, though. Yeah. Well, there's at least 3,000 people that go every day,

so that'll fill the route. We're going to line them up single file? Everyone's spaced out. Every stoplight at Highway 6. Yeah, put your arms, though, folks. Like, Red Rover line. You're not invited to the parade. You're just poo-pooing it.

I'm not poo-pooing it. I'm saying we got to get competitive. You guys just went a route longer than the Astros parade route. Okay? You think Sugar Land's getting more people than the Houston Astros for World Series? If you cancel Fort Bend ISD schools for day, every kid and their mother would be out there for the space cowboys. Every kid and their mother was out at the Astros parade. I know.

Let's be realistic. Sugar Land's a big suburb. Come on now. All right. Charlene, I got your back. Sugar Land, I'm living in reality. Love you, Sugar Land. you've not been to a game in Constellation Field?

I don't know. I used to go for Skeener's games way back in the day. Okay. But I've not been recently. Didn't you go and try to hit home runs over the... No, that was somebody else. I don't even think he reached the warning track. It was a good run.

It was a good run. 1245 on Sports Talk, 790. 713-212-5-790. If you want to chime in, 7-1-3-212-5-79. We had Brian McTaggart earlier today. And if you missed that conversation, we're going to play Summit for you today at 130. 713-212-5-790.

A former astro-nemesis has a job now. We'll tell you who that is and where he's playing. Next, 1245 on Sports Talk 790. For about five years on this radio show, people would call up and would say, hey, the Astros need pitching help, and we would say, man, you're right. They need an arm. Especially last year with all the different injuries. Well, there was a name that was brought up.

What about every 20% of the time? What's Trevor Bauer doing these days? Ross, do we have that answer that we used to give the people? I can try to find it. Let me see. And you're like, Matt, why are you bringing up Trevor Bauer? And the reason why I'm bringing up Trevor Bauer is because he is now going to be playing, quote unquote, professional baseball. He has signed with the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League.

And he is scheduled to pitch opening night, April the 21st. for that team. Now, I also have, I have the Trevor Bauer thing. I also have something called M.T. Bauer post-game call. Let's play that. Does that ring a bell at all?

That's going to be why I got mad at somebody. I think so, right? Let's play it, why not? Sure. Kevin's in Spring Branch on the 10th inning show. Hello, Kevin. Hello. Hey, I was just curious. What do you think that Trevor Bauer

is going to have to do to be ready once the Astros signing? They're not going to sign him. The Astros are going to sign him. sign Trevor Bauer? No, they're not. What do you know that he's doing? Kevin, they're not going to sign him.

They're going to sign Trevor Bauer, boss man. Listen, idiot, they're not going to sign him. Call him idiot. Okay. You don't have to call me an idiot. All right. Why don't you listen to me when I tell you they're not going to sign him?

Oh, I mean, you're not listening to me whenever I tell you they are going to sign him. Well, who are you? What do you know about it? Tell me who are your sources? Where are you getting this from? Well, let me just say that the Astros are going to sign Trevor Bauer. Okay, listen to me.

Are you going to be able to answer a question of mine or not? If you know they're signing and where are you getting this from, let's go. What do you got? I'm not going to say who I got it. Then I don't believe you then. You don't want to tell me who you got it from, then I don't want to hear it from you. It's too close to the Astros. Well, then who is it?

It's too early, too. Too early for what? Too early. I mean, this is fresh news. No, it's not. It's not fresh news. If you want to break the news, what is your name? Let's go out and give out your phone number so people can call you and give you credit when you hit the story right.

I don't need any credit. I was just curious, what do you know that Trevor Bauer would have to do? I mean, like, you know, when a pitcher goes through spring train, he's got to work up to innings and everything. This call hurts my head. I'm just wondering, do you know if he's working out or anything like that? You know what? You know what, Kevin? He's starting tomorrow's game. So whatever your sources are are wrong. He's starting tomorrow for the Astros.

No, I didn't say he was starting tomorrow for the Astros. Then what are you saying? This is stupid. Have you been drinking? Are you on a recreational drug right now? I'm driving down the freeway. It's 60 miles an hour coming back from Angleton, back to Houston. Houston right now. All right. Well,

congratulations of breaking the story. Tell everybody where they can get all the, what other

what other breaking news do you have on the Astros? No, I don't have any other breaking news.

I just heard today that the Astros are going to sign Trevor Bauer. That's what I'm telling you, that's what I heard. Okay,

well, then you're hearing bad information. I, I think it's, if you knew how close it was to the Astros, you'd say,

well, then you think, if you're not going to tell me how close it is, then I'm not going to believe you. So how about that? Well, I understand that, but I'm just telling him that Astros are signing Trevor Bach. Okay.

It's going to happen. Okay. Thank you so much. Appreciate the information. You've given me five minutes of my life. I'll never get back. And I apologize for the three minutes of you to listen to that. I thought it was pretty good.

You called him an idiot. Right quick. I did. It was pretty much on target, too. I'm just going to tell you all something. We are highly kind of. compensated here at the radio station for reasons just like that right there. That's funny.

So we were taking calls like that all the time. For a long period of time. I forgot about that guy. He was like, it's a done deal. So he is playing for the Long Island Ducks. He is also going to be miced up for all games and practices. Quack, quack. So he, for his YouTube channel.

Yeah, for basically content. So you know what he is? He's a bit. He's not a pitcher. He's a bit. No, man. He should be signed. He's been blackball.

he's the greatest pitcher of all time and the Astros should sign him. He was the Mexican baseball league's pitcher the year in in 2012. I didn't even know that. You boys like Mexico. Yeah, that's nice. Good for him.

Trevor Bauer, a former Syung winner. This is his 15th, quote unquote, professional season. Hmm. Yeah, was he, he was, uh, playing in Japan. I'm trying to find his other stuff. Mexico, Japan, released by the Dodgers in 2003 pitching Japan last season.

Oh, he had some, well, he played with two different teams. You know what does scare me? I'm going to be honest to just a second. Sometimes people and you don't know who's telling the truth and who is not, but sometimes people will have people that will have people that will call into post-game radio shows and say, hey, I know

something's going to happen. And it'd be easy for me to dismiss it, but sometimes those things do drop. Sometimes they are right, but in the case of signing Trevor Bauer, it never seemed like it was going to be right. It was never felt like it was right. There was no whispers. There was nobody that I thought was even close to being credible in the organization and said, hey, Matt, there may be something to this. It was just ridiculous. Yeah. And if it was a troll case or whatever, but it's funny because sometimes, and this is, this is human nature. Sometimes when we find

something out, we want to tell somebody. Because the person that told this is really cool. Does that make sense to you? Yeah. I have it on good authority. Well, maybe it's because it's your boss that told you this. Maybe it's because of, let's say, you have a friend of a friend of a friend who's a celebrity saying, you know, guess what? Kevin Costa is going to be in town next week. You like to spill tea like that.

I've had people that are friends of friends of friends that have called shows that have said, hey, don't be surprised at this guy signed. So you sometimes have to take it with a grain of salt. you have it completely dismissed and sometimes you say man this sounds like a guy that's halfway credible you don't know and that's the that's the positive that's the thing that anonymity didn't do you can just throw anything you want out there just like social media too

well we do have the Trevor Bauer PSA I guess that we made after that close out this hour there are 30 teams in Major League Baseball none of them have called about the services of Trevor Bauer for a reason the reason is he's

just a bad guy His spin rates dipped significantly when spider attack was cracked down upon. He was under investigation in 2021. A separate woman in Ohio sought a temporary order of protection in 2020. A third woman accused Bauer of sexual assault in 2022 and 2022. There are 30 teams that can get his services and all have declined to do so so far. He crushed the Astros when he was in the big leagues. He has got a terrible reputation.

for being a bad teammate. He goes in that Astros Clubhouse he'll be hated immediately. No one will like him. No one respects him. You have to have a good clubhouse culture for every single day of the baseball season. Trevor Bauer does not bring it.

Trevor Bauer will not be in the Astros Clubhouse. Yes. My name is Ross Villarreal and Trevor Bauer will never be a Houston Astro. My name is Matt Thomas and what Ross said, I say as well. Trevor Bauer never an Astra. Thank you. What we should have said is, I believe Trevor Bauer will be a Long Island duck.

We could have gone with that. I would have bought that. Oh, yeah, something gimmicky for the rest of his career? Absolutely. Guy had multiple screws loose beyond whatever was alleged of his activities. And guys with screws loose don't get to be a big league baseball. They just don't. And thus he's a Long Island duck.

Final hour, the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We've got the Astros. We have the rockets to get to. We have fighting between a Big 12 commissioner and a high-end alum. NFL rule changes, it sounds like. We got that going on, too. We get to a lot of things to get to in the next 50 minutes. Ross, what is today's edition of Believe it or not?

Oh, hell. All right. Trevor Bauer. You probably could do it. I'm not doing that. All right. 713-212-5-7-9. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

By the way, thanks to everybody that called in or sent me tweets in the last five minutes. That caller Kevin was a long time ago. That was, what, two years ago, probably? What was the date on that? Yeah, I think it was a couple years ago. Yeah, that was not recent. You all think it was in the last few seconds. It was not.

Thank you by having my back anyway. Great tweet from Chad. Chris Paul picking up Trevor Bauer on his way to Houston. And it's from Dumber and Dumber. Go room for one. more if you want to go. Movie references, huh? Chris Paul and Trevor Bauer.

That's not in the same category. Chris Paul was good as a rocket. I'm not going to allow that. No, but people keep calling about Chris Paul. People are like, hey, they need Chris Paul. Rockets need Chris Paul. It's not happening. No, it's not definitely happening now.

He's literally retired. No, we took a call like last week. It was a guy saying get Chris Paul. No, but we're, Reacher's like, I got this. Don't worry. we're good. Reed's doing great. You know what you needed?

You needed another bench score and the Rockets don't have bench score. We got six players. Rossi, we got six players that score. That's a problem. Now, if Josh Coki wants it put in eight points a game,

I'm all for that, but that's more of the one-off than it is the on the regular. You know who has more than six players who can score? No, I don't. And I don't want to even ask. So sometimes you don't want

answers the questions you don't ask for, so I'm not going to ask the question. Don't ask. Okay. Just worried. Hey, we got to talk to rockets. You want to? Let's work quick here. This is the final hour of the show. We have, believe it or not, today at 150. Are you going with Christians that are in sports?

Not like religious. Christian yelling. Because earlier we were talking about how the Astros, we did the Christian, Astros Christian power rankings. Walker, Vasquez, Javier Roa. Do you disagree with my assessment? So we're putting Roa on because of the 40 man. He's on the 40 man. Okay.

He'll be back up. But if his name was Dan Roa, We would not put them on that list. No, correct. Okay, I got you. All right. Rockets won Yastine against the Wisconsin herd of the G League. Yes. Got to win those games. Got to only play what's in front of you.

They did. It was close. 119 to 113. We haven't had a loss in this community since U of H. They were never down in the game, Rockets. They got up as much as 20. Got a little close for comfort at the end. Too close.

But they won. That's the most important thing. And they're now bumped to the five seed in the Western Conference. If you can do Buck or not, AJ Green, Pete Nance, Cormac Ryan. Cormac Ryan was launching bombs yesterday.

Yes, he was. Something called Pete Nance was doing a bunch of stuff too. Yes. The boys were bawling. By the way, there was a photo that was taken of Janice hugging E. And Kevin Ray. I mean, come on.

That was, first of all, trolling it. The Rockets number one assistant, Ben Sullivan, used to be a coach at Milwaukee, when Milwaukee won the championship. Okay. So there's bros saying, hey, long time no C. Yes.

And Kevin Duran and Yannis have had a long relationship because of the international amount of competition they've played. Do not read between the lines. Because let me tell you something. Kevin Duran... Katie was on Team Greece? No, but you played against Team Greece. Oh, okay.

He could walk up and say, bro, you need to come here. Guess what? It's out of both of their hands. Might be in the little in Yonis' hands. Yannis will go and say I want to be traded and he could say I mean Kevin was signed off on being a rocket but it would not be well at least the only thing that Kevin said was no to Minnesota

he would have gone to San Antonio he would have gone to Houston he would have gone if you're a star player and you want to get out of a city you can't narrow it down just to one place because you're you're handicapping the team that you're trying this you're trying to move away from James Hardin disagrees well look how James's careers turned out

Well, he wanted to be a clipper. Yeah, and that lasted, what, a couple of years. I just, I, I, if, if Yonis wants to move, he has to be flexible in knowing that it's going to have to be one of three or four places. Now, you can narrow it down to three or four. I don't think that's a problem with that. He's earned his ability to do that. But if you all of a sudden say, I'm only going to say Miami, or I'm only going to Houston, I'm only going to Golden State, you're not helping out your cause there. I don't think he's going to say that.

Let's get him. Rockets. the east. One or the other. Yeah, I want no golden state. I don't want ever to utter the word San Antonio. How are we feeling about the untouchability of a men Thompson? Because now, Janice is a year older. But also, we were hopeful that the three-point shot would develop for a men

Thompson and it has not. So the balance is how much of the scales tipped in either way or none at all. No one's told me this. This is just me. Okay. I think he men's untouchable. Now, you've said he's not untouchable, and I understand that. Not for you. There's one component.

I got news for you. Nobody's untouchable. I think this unbelievable Yonis bit, I think this is taken away from some of the luster from this. Two reasons why. Missed a lot of games this year. And second, he got sightways with his team publicly. Now, sometimes maybe it changes.

But that's publicly. That's too publicly. Yeah. I mean, well, they're arguing about Janice wants to play. The Bucks have said, no, you're not playing. That way,

I would feel like that's a little bit of a disconnect when you agree. I guess, yeah. I just think you got to be. If he's on the Rock, is he going to play. I think you're going to, whoever's going to get him is going to get him for a hall. But he's also,

how is he now, 32? He's 31? What's it going to be, start of the next season? He will be 32 in December. Okay. So most of the next year will be 32. Stope.

pretty much in the prime of his career, but he's had injury ailments the last couple of years. The body probably is a little older than 32 in terms of wearing terror. Yeah, I guess. I'll put it. Let me just put it this way. Whoever gets him, I don't think Rossi, it'll be a seismic movement in terms of what they get back. I think there'll be draft picks involved. There may be one or two instant players.

But if you're Milwaukee, you need a complete overhaul, which probably going to mean starting with your coach. We're all happy to get Kevin Duran. He's 37. Yeah. And he's been exceptional. Yeah. He's been their best player. And it's also playing as many minutes as anybody in the NBA, basically.

In terms of a number of total minutes per game. I just, I don't think it's going, and this may be a positive for the Rockets. I don't know if it's going to be able to, I think Milwaukee's going to ask for way too much and have to settle on 70% of what are they, what they really want. Because I think Janus is, again, a lot of wear and tear. missed much of the last season. Never shot well from three ever before. Not a great free throw shooter.

Now, downhill. He's 64% from the field. I know, what's I'm saying? Downhill. But as we've seen with Kevin Durant, you have to kind of reinvent your game a little bit. And as Ron is three years from now. And again, if Janus comes here tomorrow, I'll be thrilled.

I'm not saying that. But I'm just trying to play a little bit of a devil's advocate on it. Seems like you hate Janus. Oh, I like Janus a lot. He's averaged 27.6 points per game this year. 10 rebounds, five assists, 62% shooting. But here's my question. This is just an honest question.

At 32, 33, 34 years of age, can he get downhill like he's doing it right now? Probably not. But you're trying to win a championship, I would say with Kevin Duran, he's going to be 40. If you're keeping Kevin Duran, your window is a couple years.

Yeah. So then what would be your, well, the problem is who you, you're going to have to give up a live body in return. For sure. Alpi or a men are going to be the first two asks. If not both. They're going to ask for both.

You're not getting both. No, there's no way. Again, I still think a man's untouchable. That could be up for argument. I love him in Thompson. I love him in Thompson. He's not going to be two-time MVP. No, he's not.

But that's past tense. You're telling, when you say that, and I understand where you're going with that, you're then anticipating that he's going to get another MVP. I think the honest days of being an MVP are over. Okay, here's his finishes since 21. 433-4-3. Okay. So top five in the MVP.

What a huge falloff. Third and fourth in the MVP every year. I'd take it for sure. I just, man just fills the boxes of a lot of things. Defense. Good ball handler. A defensive player in the year, Yon Zippo. It's pretty good on defense.

But is that, but is he going to do it at 32, 33? Again, these are all, we don't have the answers to that. But you have to think about Father Time. Yes, you do. It's going to be very... And this is the thing. I love him in Thompson. I'm just saying he's not untouchable in a Yonest deal.

Yeah. I think teams operate differently than we as fans. I think in their mind they think there is untouchables. Now, if you do straight up, then you probably do it. But if you're the bucks, you're not doing it. Straight up. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, the bucks would say, hell no.

That's right. I mean, if you're going to lay... If you're going to layer a deal with lots of current players and draft picks, I don't know if a men's in that group. Well, then who are they taking? You're going with Shingoon then? I think Shingoon would be talked about. Yeah, Shingun's not untouchable.

I think Jbarri Smith would be talked about. Not untouchable, but you like them. Tari, East and not untouchable. Nobody's not even signing trades. I think nobody's untouchable except Kevin Durant because that just wouldn't make any sense. Yeah. All right. 113 on Sports Talk 790.

7.1.3-212-5-790. If you want to chime in, 7-1-3-2-2-7-9. Your Astros have won five consecutive games. The Rockets have won four in a row. We've got some NFL slight subtle changes that I want to talk to you about, about not only things on the field but off. We'll discuss that next. It is Matt and Ross, and we are with you today until 2 o'clock today, 713-212-5-7.9. Which about during the owner's meetings that are being changed for 2006.

Teams can now declare an attempt an on-side kick at any point in the game rather than only in the fourth quarter. Okay. That seems still a little weird because, again, you can't fool them with on-side kicks. if you have to declare it to declare to prevent teams from intentionally kicking out of bounds in the 50 yard line

the resulting ball positions out of the 20-yard line instead of the 25? To prevent teams from what? Teams from intentionally kicking it out of bounds in the 50? That doesn't make any sense. Kickoff safety adjustment.

To prevent teams from intentionally kicking out of bounds from the 50-yard line, the resulting position is now the 20-yard line instead of the 25. I don't even get that. I'm just going through the list here. I confuse.

Yep. You have to have a full-time mental health clinician on the team. That's great. That's a good idea. Let's see. We've talked about the tampering procedures about talking to free agents. That's been changed a little bit. Here's one that I think is the interesting one.

It's the one that kind of piqued my interest. There's going to be a one-year trial by the NFL. That's going to allow the league to step in on, quote, clear and obvious official mistakes. If a, official, officiating mistakes. Meaning if they see something that's so egregiously wrong, you're going to be able to get a booth assist, a field assist, a whatever you want to call league assist to fix it. And the reason why they're doing that, you know the reason why? It's because they're preparing for replacement officials in 2006. And they don't want goobers that have never.

officiate at the NFL level. Not Goobers. They're not Goobers, I just said. They've been doing the replay assist. But this is apparently going to be an extra to that. Meaning two feet in bounds. It was clearly missed or maybe there was

a... They're going to like run it back or a hold. It says a one year trial allowing the league to step in on quote, clear and obvious officiating mistakes. This is in case a work stoppage occurs. That's kind of a backup Hey, we'll be a big brother to you guys

just to make sure you know that you don't have to carry all the heavy lifting yourself. Oh, okay. I don't see how that's much different than the replay since they do now. I guess it used to be faster or I mean, it would be more widespread. More widespread. Okay.

Now, remember when the last time the officials decided they wanted to take a little hiatus? Yeah, that's when you had the double, the touchdown incomplete with the Packers. Yeah. They got crushed. They were not good. So let me ask you this

So the next best level of people Are those Because those aren't college officials Those college guys are working on Saturdays They don't have time to begin an NFL game I don't know Who are they high school bros or what? I have no idea

Division 2 guys Who are these referee scabs I don't even I wish I really did know who they are Because it doesn't make any sense I mean who are they've got to be high school guys Why is the NFL always beefing with their referees union What's going on?

What is it what is the beef about union-wise? Probably money. Yeah. Okay. So they want more cash? I don't know. But it's just seems so weird that the biggest disconnect with the NFL has not been with its players has been with its officials. Ah, okay.

So the dispute is now. Yes. Okay. I thought it was coming next year. No, no, no. They're hiring now. They're saying in 2006 that if these scab, is it scab too hard to turn? No, there's scabs.

Okay. If these scab officials goof up. so bad. Like there is a hold. I'm assuming it's a hold or I'm assuming it's an off sides that was not called. They're going to go and say, hey, we saw this, we're going to help you out. Are they going to come in with clear and obvious holds? Because those happen like every

play. That's like every play. Yeah. I'm curious how deep they get into the, we're going to make sure we can't call everything. To me, it feels like it's more like off sides or illegal motion where that stuff is indisputable. And a current CBA signed in 19 and it expires in May. Hmm.

Interesting Let's get the real officials out there Are they really asking for too much? I mean, are the officials asking for above and beyond? Now, the NFL wants them to go full-time And the NFL, the officials are like, shut your bum ass up, I want to be able to make my money selling paint when I'm not working games.

As I told you the other day, I have to tell the truth. Making them full-time is not going to make them any better. No, I don't think so. The union is pushing back on a performance-based model for officiating accountability measures and the union is also pushing back on seniority helping guys land postseason assignments

NFL wants to get rid of seniority as a factor in postseason assignments they just want the guys a lot yeah they want the best whether you've been the union's like we the union wants seniority guys yeah by the way the NFL union the referees union is being sued as one of the three female officials last year got fired and she's suing them now for sexual harassment. And then, of course, money.

NFL offering annual salary increase of 6.45% per year. They want over 10% a year. Apparently, those are the big sticking points according to the athletic. Okay, so help me know this. They're offered a 6% raise every year or over those length of the contract. Year over year. Per year for six years. Could you imagine taking your salary and getting a 6% bump every year?

How good would that be? It would be nice. Isn't 3% supposed to be standard? 3% is what they call the cost of living adjustment, yeah. Why are you rolling your eyes? I don't feel like cost of living is going up faster than that. With them gas prices, by the way, my 401k bounce back the last couple days. That's good.

Yeah. I was wondering. I couldn't sleep last night. Well, I'm glad you checked in on me. That means a lot to be. So, yeah, we're going to have SCAB officials. We're going to have the NFL watching over them like Big Brother. It does sound harsh when you say it.

Oh, you know, I don't know. Replacement. are the union guys want to call them scabs but I want to know who they are are they they're not division ones they certainly aren't working on Saturdays I don't know maybe it's

maybe it's lower end division two division three like man this is my one chance to get the pros may work work I mean but I mean how do you if you cross their picket line are you going to be in a chance of ruining your chance to be a major NFL official this is true it was failed the fail marriage was 2012.

14 years ago. No way. I really want pass interference judged again. I really do. Give me an official upstairs in the booth that just stares at the thing over and over again. Just like, you know how Gene Seritor does on the TV? Why don't you have a legit dude up there saying, yeah, I'm watching this thing over and over again. That's interference.

Well, how often does Gene Stereatory get stuff wrong? He really backs the officials, too. Yeah, that's the problem is you have to get somebody that's completely hard enough to say, yeah, my friend, Greg, who's the official in the game, goofed up. You need a panel of three, three guys and have them a vote.

Two out of three, best two to one wins. That's what I say. But how long will that take to do that, though? Press a button. It takes five seconds. They look at it once and then boom. But I don't think they want to look at it once. A couple times, as long as anybody else looks at it.

Yeah. Because you have anchoring biases. When you make a first decision, you anchor towards that. That's anybody. Because especially in the NBA, it's like, I'm reviewing my own call. I'm going to try everything in my power, my bias to see that I made the right call.

It's natural. It's human nature. Yes. You do not. Yeah. Now, in baseball, you can't do that because the instant replay shows whether that ball, I mean, whether that ball was a ball or a strike or that guy's foot touched the bag before the ball got there. Yeah.

You order chicken fried steak and I get rib by and I'm like, dang, that looks good. Don't be like, no, I made the right decision. Like, I'm just, you stick to your own decisions for whatever reason. It's human nature. That's true. All right. Brian McTaggard on the Astros awesome start. We'll hear from him next.

129 on Sports Talk 790. We have, believe it or not, coming up in 20 minutes right here on the Matt Thomas Show, Ross. Don't go anywhere. 134 on Sports Talk 790. We caught up with Brian McTaggart, and he'll do a visit with us every Thursday at 11 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. And I kind of joke with him early on in our visit. And here's some of the conversation about the Astros raising a banner after this five-game winning streak, including a very impressive three-game sweep over the Boston Red Sox.

Yeah, I think it's just the quality of the best. And they preach this all offseason and into spring training. And even, I don't know if you remember, the first few grapefruit league games, the spot is like, oh, we drew six walks, drew seven walks. And they were excited about the different approach that they have. But it's really been a point of emphasis with the new hitting coaches and their new hitting coordinator is let's make these pitchers work. Let's stay inside the strike zone. And it's really paid off. I mean, and it's across the board.

You know, I think one guy at the forefront of it is the guy who was probably their. biggest free swingers, Jose Al-Tuvie. I mean, his chase rate last year was 50%. And as of right now, it's like 34%. That was his swing rate, sorry. His chase rate is down like 16%. And even swinging in the zone. He was swinging in the zone last year at like 63%.

And now it's less than 50%. He's got more walks than strikeouts. And this is a guy who usually strikes out twice as many times as he walks. So up and down the lineup, they're really making the pitchers come in the zone. They're getting the starters out of the game. early. To me, that's the biggest thing. And then I think I like what I see from the bullpen. They've been able to deploy these long relievers a couple of times to chew up two or three in his blue ball looks really good. They got to get the closing situation ironed out, but a bray, you look

quite a bit better yesterday. So, you know, a lot of things that if you're the Astros, you think this is positive and we can sustain this. What did you know about the hitting coaches coming in? And look, Astro fan base can be a finicky bunch. They're touting them highly now, but if they go on a streak where they only score three runs over a five-game stretch, they'll be calling for their job. So what did you know about them going in? And I know there was co-hitting coaches last year. There is definitely a hierarchy chart this time around. Yeah, I think on Friday, Astros fans wanted everybody fired again.

I think y'all were talking about there. The fire spotted guys were back, and I haven't heard from them now, but they're probably having a rough time. Yeah, I mean, they thought they obviously needed some different voices in the room, and they brought in Victor Rodriguez, who has done this for a very long time, has worked with some super... They even promoted, you know, one of their, I guess, hitting gurus, a guy who knows more about hitting biomechanics than anybody in the game probably. And Dan Hennigan, he's their offensive coordinator, so to speak.

You know, talking with Correa during spring training, he says he's gotten a lot of great information from him. So it was time that they needed some new new leadership, I think, in their hitting room. And I think those guys have been instrumental in trying to get them to change their approach as a whole as a team. And so far it's working out. Moving to the pitching side, just your thoughts on the starting rotation. And starting with Lance McCullors Jr., I'm sure you predicted seven innings of one-run brawl, right? Yeah, I said first time through the rotation McCullors is going to be the one who dominates. Yeah, but good for him.

I mean, he, you know, he seemed to be in a different place. I think we might have talked about this earlier in spring training when we talked to him the first couple of days. Seemed to be just very comfortable where he was at. He was enthused that he had a whole offseason where he wasn't healthy and wasn't rehabbing. He seemed very at peace. And, man, he came out and threw like a guy who's ready to push back the clock 10 years. But, you know, he's not the same pitcher that he was years ago. He doesn't throw 97, 98.

But, you know, he doesn't rely on the curveball and the sweeper as much. like he used to, but, you know, he's in his zone. He's trying to get contact. He ended up getting nine strikeouts. He was terrific. Now he's got a build on it, but I think we'll seem better the second time out from EMI. I mean, a couple more minutes here with Brian McTaggart on Sports Talk 790.

Christian Vasquez goes deep yesterday, which then immediately sent Astros Twitter into he needs to play more often. Yonair Diaz, how would you describe his spring and how would you, you know, we don't ask you to describe the number so far. good at least behind the plate and behind the dish at catching. So a thought or two about the long term in your mind

future for Yarnier Diaz, not necessarily Christian Vasquez pushing for more playing time, but how much are we going to spend looking at Walter Yonix development this year at the minor leg level? Yeah, I mean, the bats haven't been good from Diaz. The approach hasn't been great.

He swung and missed at three balls outside the Zolte the other day. He's not making hard contact. they have to be concerned about that. I mean, the spring, he looked okay, not great at the plate. Defensively, I think he's making strides. The colors gushed on him the other day about, you know, how well he called the pitches and so forth. I know that Hunter Brown really trusts him as well, but he's going to have to hit a little bit.

And I think if you put Christian Vasquez as a starting catcher, then he's going to be Christian Vasquez that we expected and hit 200. You know, not to take anything away from him, but he's a backup catcher at this point in his career. long term, Yonik is the guy. He had a tremendous spring for them. Defensively, I think he's a major league ready starting catcher. He made some strides offensively in the grapefruit league. So he's starting out at AA, which he hasn't even played in AA yet. But if he can hit, I think Dana will move in pretty quickly.

I think we could see him in AAA. And I think he'll come to camp next year. If he has a good season at the plate, I think he could come to camp mixture battling for definitely a spot on the roster, but maybe even a starting spot unless Diaz really gets it turned around at the plate. For a let you run, let's get a thought or two about when we should see Spencer Arrogati called up. Is there any time frame? Because I know there's a stretch now of two weeks without a day off.

So the presumption is a six-man rotation will come into play at least for the short term. When do you expect that decision be made? Yeah, I think it'll probably be another week. April. I think they have an off day April 10th. So maybe before they hit Seattle, I think they'll have to start. when they go out like this 13-game stretch. So I think we're another week away from getting the six-man rotation.

So Eric Getty's going to have another one or two starts down there. But it's nice that they have him. They have Jason Alexander and AAA, Colton Gordon. You know, they have some guys that they would feel comfortable about coming up and adding to this rotation if they have to. Brian McTaggart earlier today from MLB.com covering the Astros like nobody's business and to give us some great content. I'm sure Chandlerone would disagree with you.

Why? you said like nobody's business oh okay like Chandler Rome's business yeah like exactly like Matt Kawakar was like man I'm right here too yeah wrap it up Chandler

give it Jeremy Pena did you see the smile that Chandler had when Jeremy Pena was interrupted the conversation with Camp Smith made me glowingly happy that the Chandler loves his team so much

it's good much to the people that think that don't look the channel doesn't love the Astros he doesn't love them he doesn't love them he doesn't love them He covers them. He's not a fan. He's not a fanboy.

He's not a fan boy. It's okay. We've got a fanboy meeting this town. We need some objectivity. Yes. All right. Believe it or not today, Ross, what's the category? Christians. That are in Houston or in general? Houston Christian University. Oh, I think Christian-related?

No, it's Christian athletes. All right. But athletes named Christian. I'm being funny. I was going to say. There's no Jewish people on there. He's like 90%. All right. And Jade and Ivy on the list.

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Great content. Yep. Eme Addoke at 1 o'clock tomorrow. We've got non-flora stories at 130, hellier or not at 150, and we will do intense. And I mean intense. Rockets, Jazz preview, and Rockets and Astros A's preview. You know what? The winning tricks are going to continue for both teams.

Can't wait? Rockets are beating the Jazz tomorrow night. There, you know, if no end's about that. Okay. Don't you, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't. The Buck's game was a little close. Don't be a nervous Nelly over there. I'm a reticent Ross.

I hate to say this. Go Spurs, go. Go ahead. Play in Minnesota tonight. Yep. Go Spurs. Go Spurs. Because you want to, you know what, it's not about the five seats. getting the four. It's about being in the home court.

Home court would be great. Home court would be great. And then what else we got going on tomorrow? I'm trying to think what else. What's the biggest piping sport? We all full final four this weekend, but we'll talk to Jaylon Rose about that a little bit. Yes. And again, the closest, is it, how surreal is this? The closest team

to Houston in the final four is Illinois. Yukon. Dan Hurley. Illinois. Is there anyone to root for? There's nobody to root for. I'm rooting against Yukon. Other than that, I don't care. How about that? Yeah.

Because Dan Hurley is, I mean, I know if you're in the program and you, in your winter, you con, you love him. But he just comes across as a complete A-hole. Yeah. And he's beefing with the refs. And headbutting him and doing all sorts of stuff. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do?

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More lost. Are you winners today? Who's on line one? We taking line one, Jonathan? Yeah, but he can't hear me to see if he hears you. That's for a name. Line one. Who's this?

Who's this, line one? Well, this is Chris. I thought I already answered some questions. Did you win? Yeah, I told, yeah, it was the one about the guy that went to Texas A&M. I think you were playing on your own game when you were not playing with me, but we're going to give you a chance to win anyway. Here you go, Chris.

Good luck to you. Christian Brown plays college basketball at Yukon, Yukon. Christian Brown, Denver Nuggets. Believe it or not. No, he went to Kansas, and there you go. Four winners today. Nicely done. That's it for the radio show, Ross.

Thank you for being a part of it. Thanks all of you for being a part of it. I think it's Pistons Timberwolves, by the way. Somebody's pointing out. Say that again? Pistons Timberwolves? Oh, is it? Who in the Spurs play?

Oh, we're rooting for the Pistons for sure then, right? Yes. Okay. I get my NBA calendar all mixed. Spurs and Clippers. Yeah, I guess you misread. I did misread. That's a misreading for that, I say?

It happens. I'm sorry. You should be. At 1130, I'll further apologize. It happens. It's going to happen. Up next, Clanton, Wexler. The A team on Sports Talk 790.