The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Joe Kelly Guy & Who Is That Pitching For The Astros?

Episode Date: July 29, 2020

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Long set, the 3-0. And that's over Breitman's head and goes to the backstop, a 96-mile-an-hour fastball. that was closer to the letters of the back of Redmond Jersey than it was to home plate. I'll tell you. I see some baseball, and that looked intentional to me. Me too. I get the pitch. And that's over the head of Correa and goes to the backstop.

Both runners will advance. It was a breaking ball that was behind Correa and head high. And a wild pitch moves two men in a scoring position. Correa, looking back at Joe Kelly, but as you described, it was a breaking pitch. He's got no idea about a release point at this point. Another 2-2. Swing and a miss, got him on the curveball downstairs. And Kelly gets his man.

Astro's dugout has something to say to Kelly as he walks back to the Dodger dugout. Kelly turning his head to return fire. As Correa also has something to say to Joe Kelly, and now both dugouts empty as the umpires are trying to keep everyone socially distant. He was staring back at Correy as he walked off the field and Reddick in the on-deck circle. I got one simple question. And I think I can do this with minimal screening.

713-212-5-790. Just how big of a bitch is Joe Kelly? I mean, can you all answer that to Houston, Texas? I know that you're out there. I've got some showers popping up already. but if you believe that Joe Kelly is a bitch, just tell us how big of a one he is. You can say Maddie's a little one.

He's a regular size one. Massive? He's a massive bitch. He's like a route, he's like a route 44 at the Sonic. Wow. You know what I'm saying? That's a big one.

Easy ice bitch. Or as the kids would say, biotch. Kids don't say that. Oh, they don't? Okay. Not in 2020. Yeah.

I like saying it, but I don't say, I think I've said it too. much already in the first minute and a half of the show. So if you'd like to answer the question, 713, 212.5, 790, 713, 212-5-790. Just big.

How big of a biotch? It's Joe Kelly. The bigger story about this, and look, everybody's been talking about it so far, at least anybody that's been the biggest story in sports. It was trending nationally number one with over 100,000 tweets last night. Yeah, and if you're talking Texans right now, you just aren't doing it right. But that's to each his own.

I want to know how big of a biotch Joe Kelly is. 713, 2,1, 2, 5, 790. Keep it nice and simple. Here is the grandiose big part of it. Okay. This is going to happen again. I can't tell you it's going to happen tonight. I can't.

It might be five or six series. But what we saw yesterday will repeat itself. And my guess is it might even get a little more intense, especially if it involves, say, the Oakland Athletics when they get after it with crowds and whatnot. Could you imagine, Ross, how crazy it would have been last night if there were 40,000 people inside Minutemate Park? It would have been.

Joe Kelly would not have been able to leave the ballpark safely. He might have gotten hit. I would say he got hit with beer bottles, but there is the netting there. Might have saved him a little bit. People would have to be throwing it up and over. And what is this little slither tongue he slips out? I thought that was kind of funny, actually.

Everybody's all upset about it. I'm not upset, but he did a little baby naninana boo-boo type of deal. Yeah. We've all had these things before. We wanted to get revenge on people. And trust me, there's a couple people I want revenge on. And I'm going to get it. You've got a whole list, don't you?

No, it's actually very small. But they're already getting their desserts, but that's on the here nor there. Okay. would you slip the tongue out there? And that wasn't a full tongue slip. But it was like a little lizard, right? A little, a little in and out. You know, like,

what is just, I don't know. This is making me very uncomfortable. I can't believe we just got the verbal of what we watched last night. Well, Matt, that's what Matt Thomas gets paid the big bucks for. It's noon to three on seven out of you.

Come on now. I had to watch it. I mean, he was just acting like a baby as if acting as to demonstrate to Correa that he was acting like a baby, basically. Yeah. In his mind, that's what Joe Kelly was doing.

And look, I mean, do you want to hear him talk about the face he made at Correa? Go ahead. I don't remember the words. It's kind of the moment I think. I guess my expression was what I interpreted in my head. What he was saying. Slipping that tongue out there. Yes.

I don't think I have that captured on I took a photo of us I don't we're going to use that for a long time right no matter what team Joe Kelly plays for yeah I would think so yeah that's that is stuck in our in our mind that's a gift right now last night was huge last night was as we call these days a viral moment it was it was massive in sports and it transcended sports and it was everywhere it was awesome if you ever get revenge on somebody are you sticking your tongue out even if it was just a little mini tongue out in a little mini tongue thing I don't see what the big deal is. Correa was John Adam and he just went, it was just funny. I thought it was funny. No, at the end of the day,

it's hysterical. But if I'm, if you're getting scoreboard on me or you're going to tell me something, I'm probably going to use swear words and talk about your heritage. Well, he did. He said,

well, heritage, that seems mad. Like your mom or something like, you know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. I'm talking mom and family. He's not going to call him a dirty Puerto Rican or something.

No, I don't think so. No, no, no, no, that's what I meant. Well, he said nice swing little bitch or something like that

didn't he? That's what started the whole thing. And then the tongue. Yeah. And then Correa was like, excuse me? And then that's when the tongue happened. Because Carlos Correa got bowed about it. He started taking off his elbow pad and he started walking, he started waltzing up to Joe Kelly and Joe Kelly scurried off to the bullpen. But slipped the tongue in there

before he left. Yes. I thought it was hysterical. Yeah, it was beautiful. It was wonderful. You know what? Now, I'll say this. if I want to tell you how I really feel about you, I'll middle finger you to hell for a long period of time. Really? Oh, for double rods, of course you would do that.

That's an ejection, I think, if you do that on the field. But would you slip a tongue? A grown-ass man, major league pitcher. His right arm could throw 98 miles an hour. Now it's erratic as hell. But do you go to the slip into the tongue? I mean, I thought, yeah, I guess. At that moment, it's bizarre.

So you're mad at me. You're really mad at me. me at something for something I've done. And you've gained revenge against me. You're not going to, you're going to call me names, you're going to double rods me, and then you're going to slip a little tongue on that might happen. Let's say Matt, I know this had never happened in real life, but let's say you snapped at me for some reason and got mad at me. I'm never going to, yeah. And then, okay, go ahead. Yeah, that would never happen. But if, and I thought you were being unreasonable, yeah, I might go, you, I might give you that. You're like, Ross, why weren't you ready for that

segment? Shut up, Matt. I would totally do that. May I please record that during the break and put it. We're going to record that, Brendan, put it on Twitter. It is going to get thousands of likes. Kind of behind the scenes of the mat time of the show. Why wouldn't I do that? You should do that more.

That makes you look great. Well, you would never snap at me. That's exactly right. Everybody on Twitter is just like, how big of a B is he? It's like a match game question. Joe Kelly is a real big B-Och. How big is he? he decided to throw at the head of Alex Breggman yesterday.

And you know that Breggman trying to keep it cool and calm could not do so. Well, he did actually do so. Yeah, Breggman just took his base. Took his base. He said he was mad about the result of the game yesterday. Didn't give a whole lot in the postgame press

availability. It was more awkward pauses than anything. He got a question and then he just wouldn't say anything for like 15 seconds. Yeah. again yesterday. Oh, gosh. Matt, I think you might get cold out of the bully in a couple of weeks. Let me be honest with you.

It's getting guys who haven't even pitched above high A ball making their major league debuts last night. I am not kidding you with this. I am keeping a roster of astro pitchers with me at all times. Okay. Because I just don't know who they are. You know who they are. And they just traded for another one who had never heard of.

Like yesterday, Andre scrub with two bees. Yes. So you got a, you moved, you got a scrubbed in for a be a genie who really was probably a scrub too. one run on two hits. Nivaldo Rodriguez, two scoreless things. In fact, the bullpen, for some, not the most part,

but the sum of the part, kept the game close, yeah, it didn't get completely out of hand. Yeah, score up and Rodriguez. Nivaldo? Okay, Navaldo. N-I-L-D-O.

Naval. Never pitched above A. High A ball. They were talking in the broadcast yesterday about he last pitch, for the woodpeckers of Fayetteville who followed me on Twitter and then unfollow me because I guess I got mad I didn't follow them

I don't follow single-A baseball you don't want to follow back to woodpeckers nothing offensive towards them but I don't follow single-A baseball team followback oh I am you got a ride or die though okay but he he pitched for them nine months ago that was the last time he appeared in a game

and now he's going against a team that's one of the contenders for the World Series. And he threw two scoreless innings. And he was fantastic. It's been a, there's like a Cinderella story. The yesterday was Brandon Belak. And I mean, sorry, two days ago was Brandon Belak. And then now it's the, uh, Nivaldo Rodriguez Cinderella story. There's been, we're like six days into the season and there's already been, look what I have in my hand. How many guys have made their major league debut to the Astros. Tell them, I'm not lying. And you're not lying, Matt. I have the pitching roster here because I just don't know who they are. How many of them do you know?

Should we do that? Astros bullpen or not, and believe it or not today? Oh, that's terrible. That's terrible. All right, bottom of the hour, James Click was on with Sean Salisbury this morning. We're going to play some of that. One o'clock, Mike Dan Tony to join us today. E.G. got hurt yesterday. The ankle.

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Sometimes you got to sweat it out. Yes, you do. And I was perspiring. It was a sweater. It was a sweater. But it absolutely worked. You're waiting for the Framber alert and it finally got there. bases loaded nobody out.

I mean, I was like, winner, winner, you knew you were fine. I was good. Let's go to Cindy in the Woodlands on 790. Hi, Cindy. Hey, how are you doing? Good. What's going on? I just wanted to point out that Joe Kelly is a known instigator in the MLB winning with the Bozokx versus the Yankees.

And my husband considered him to be a terrorist of an MLB at this point. The terrorist. Yeah, okay, I got you. Yeah, I mean, you know, come on. So anyway, he's holding us hostage, and he needs to go away. He needs to be suspended or fined or something. Thank you for Cindy for the phone call. I appreciate it.

Does Major League Baseball do anything? I would think they would do it already by now because it's 1220 in the games early tonight. By the way, we're going to do a big city wings at 6 o'clock this evening. We are? For National Chicken Wing Day. Marky, I-10, and Silver, and my buddies over ram shirts are bringing some new stripper shirts over. We're going to hand out a few. Stripper shirts?

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We're going to watch the game, drink some beer, eat some wings. There's 75 cents a pop today. So that's what we're going to do. at Markey Center, I-10 and Silver will be there right at 6 o'clock. I'm going to get a nap in case I, you know. Oh, are you? Yeah.

I want to be spry, so when Joe Kelly, do you think Joe Kelly plays tonight? Pitches? He might, yeah. No chance. Why? Zero. Zero. What if they need them?

They're not. He can pitch today. It's fine. It's baseball. Let's go. Seven to one answers. It's a new day. It's a new dawn.

You sure? I'm not. I mean, if the situation merits. I think they need to let him stay in the clubhouse and relax. If he's available and he's needed, there's no reason. If I were Dave Roberts, which I'm not, there would be no reason to hesitate to go to him, I would say. Let's make a dollar bet. If a pitcher, any given night, no, I need odds.

I'll give you odds. Okay. Three to one. Okay, 20 to one. Yeah, 15 to 1. 3 to 1. I said 3 to 1. Okay, 19 to 1.

3. My final, I'll go 4 to 1. That's my final. make a bet something, well let's do something big are we staying for the whole game? Yeah. It's an early game. We said it on nine. Something how about something has to go down at Big City Wing? Somebody has to take, how about a loser takes

a shot? Yeah. But if you do it, three to one, you've got to take three shots. No, I can't do that. It's just a straight up shot bet. All right, Brendan will take him for you. Straight up shot bet. I say he does not pitch them. I can't say he's going to pitch for sure. Then don't make the back. Who's start? I don't even know who started. It's your favorite redhead. Oh, Dustin.

May. Yeah, he'll get chased off in four or five innings. Lee in downtown on Seven on a. Hi, Lee. Lee. Hello, this is Lee. Yes. Yes. Yes. You are the Lee that I went to. Yes. Go ahead, Lee. Yeah, let me tell you what I think about Mr. Kelly. Am I own right now? Yes, you are.

Okay. I'm sorry. I was at Sonic getting a footlog. Did you get around 44? Kelly. For me? What did you get to drink? nothing. I had a bottle of water here in front of me. Oh, fair enough. And then I'm headed back to, I'm headed back to go to work.

I understand. But anyway, this guy, Kelly. Can't say, yeah. As you know, also, we cannot use swear words on the air. But I appreciate it. Enjoy that footlong. Excuse me. You said he's got a footlong for long. A footlong Cody from Sonic is a solid eat, Matt.

I haven't had one in years. Realistically only for desserts and drinks. That's not true. I have been massively disappointed with their food. Halapeno Super Sonic Cheeseburgers Fantastic What are you talking about?

It's about 14th in a place for hamburgers. The boneless wings are good. Okay. Chicken nuggets you mean? Look, I'm not a marketing firm. I didn't name them.

This is what they're called on the menu, okay? If you want to call them nuggets, I'm okay with that. I just know they're far superior to your grisly chicken elbows. Chicken elbows tonight, 75 cents, big city wings.

I10, Markey, come on by. Don't swear. Jonathan and Sugar Land on 7-Oney Hello Jonathan Hey, how you doing? Wonderful I just want to let you know about this Joe Blow guy How big of a bitch he is?

All right I would say he's one big Texas Effer bitch Okay and seen on that one Thank you very much We probably should say B word right I think we probably exhausted too many.

Well, you're the one that's been saying every five seconds I'm not going to say anymore until 2 o'clock. Okay. I feel like there's a 90

minute respite right and then you're back to being clear. You always reprimand me for this being a family show and then you just go off and... Well, because that's what he is.

Now, by the way, we should also talk about this. That's what he is. He's been erratic his entire career. Yes. But that doesn't count. If you're erratic,

that means you should not be allowed to pitch. correct? If you let balls go get away and they go after someone's head, then you probably shouldn't be on a major league man. Well, he had knocked out his own window in the offseason. Which it further puts you in the case of

you probably shouldn't be out there. That's why it's questionable whether or not he was going after Correa. He definitely went after Alex Breggman. Yeah, Correa, I will argue on that one with you. No defense on the Breggman. Joe in the gallery on 790. Hi, Joe. Hey.

Hi. This is Joe. Not that screwball Kelly. Kelly, let me tell him how big of the bitchy is. Okay. He's a punk. He's a punk, okay? A pure-ass punk.

Okay. And for a grown man to stick his tongue out of another man, that's disgusting. Thank you, friend. I appreciate it. John and Cyprus before we hear from James Click. Hi, John. Hello. Hello, John.

What's going on? Hey, this is Josh, but it's okay. I was outside talking. That's all right, Josh. I want to thank you and Ross so much for that gambling degenerative tip that you gave. Thank you. You're welcome. By the time I got home, they had moved the line to like five and a half, and then it was like minus 105 or something.

And this is my first time ever gambling on a sports book. And I put down some money, and I was extremely mad when they didn't get the sixth run. And I woke up this morning to realize I placed the wrong bet, and I won anyway. So I was really happy. So, I mean, the over under it when you bet it was five and a half, right? Yeah. For the first five innings? But they still scored seven.

Yes. You still took the over, correct? No. Yeah, it was seven. Oh, that's how I messed up. I thought it was only the Dodgers to score five. No. Oh, it's combined, my friend.

Oh, well, don't see. I tried to watch YouTube videos on gambling. We are here to educate you, Josh. If you want degenerative advice, degenerate advice, degenerate advice, I don't have to say three times, then we're your show for sure. Yeah, and if you develop a problem, have your wife call Matt Thomas to complain. No, just Josh spend that money in the right place, perhaps on a sports MT client. Wouldn't be the worst thing, right? Okay.

All right. James Click addressed it, sort of. You'll hear from him next. It's the Matt Thomas Show, 1227, Sports Talk, 790, with a message here for Improve Myerection.com. Dr. Rourke, his wife, Doty. We're so glad that they're a part of our 790 family. And look, if you've had extra intimacy issues because you've had extra opportunities to become intimate at the house,

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I tried to watch a game, and I couldn't find out on television. It was on Facebook.com. Okay, see, I didn't realize that. I guess I should have. But the Astros are starting, it was Astros Dodgers, versus a scrimmage against all the scrubs of the Celtics. Yeah, the Celtics didn't play really anybody that you would recognize.

Although Taco Fall at 7-7 is interesting to watch, but that's not the hearing or there. All right, 1234, Sports Talk, 790. It is the Matt Thomas Show, 713, 21, 5, 790, 713, 212, 790. 713, 212, 5, 79. And by the way, I just want to make sure, before we go to this, James Click, we know the aster is cheated. We are not hiding that.

Yes. We are not hiding the fact that there's going to be retaliation. Yeah. We're not hiding the fact there's going to be hate. We're talk to host. We're going to take what's being presented to us and try to entertain the hell out of you for two and a half hours. I thought last night was awesome.

Yeah, I'm not Matt. of the Dodgers. No. I think Joe Kelly slipping his tongue out is a B-ass move, but that's to eat, you know, that's each his own. I like how he was talking and then quickly shuffling himself off to the, to the bullpen. That's what was the weak move to me. He talked, and then it was

like, quite a pretty fast sprint once Carlos is like, okay, I'm throwing the pads off once we'll go. Yeah, when it was Tyler Austin, he was like, let's go. And do this for me, please. It was 6'4 Carlos Correa. He's like, I'm going to go to the bullpen. And why is Dusty Baker an American Hero? Why is Dusty American Hero? Well, because he had some words.

Well, allegedly Dusty Baker. I think it is. Just play like three more times. Three more? It's just never going to get tiresome. That's when Joe Kelly was on the mound at first base and Michael Brantley was legging out of ground ball or a double play. And Michael Brantley stepped on his foot and turned his ankle a little bit.

That could have been dangerous. And he had a stern like he was going to beat some ass too. Yeah. That's a no-no. The pitcher's, I mean, I don't know. I don't know that Joe Kelly did it on purpose, but... We're going to hear from Dustin the next second, but right now we're going to hear from James Click,

who was on with Sean this morning, and the question posed right to the general manager was, what your take of the events of last night? Well, look, I don't know what was going through Joe Kelly's head at that moment, so it's not up to me to determine, you know, whether it was intentional or not. You know, whether or not it was, it was scary and is dangerous. And, you know, if that was intentional,

there needs to be consequences for that kind of thing. James, I'm just a fan and speaking to those consequences and a guy who loves baseball and watches, and maybe I'm a little too old school. Do you respond if you're a pitcher on the Astros? Well, MLB has strict rules prohibiting, intentionally throwing at batters. They wrote these up in the spring. They talked to all 30 teams about it. They reinforced it to all 30 managers before the season started a week ago. I think they were aware of the anger around the game back in February and March, and they assured Dusty and me and Jim Crane that intentionally throwing a batters at us or at anyone would not be tolerated. You can only take so much, correct, if you're a team and putting your own players in danger?

Yeah, look, we can't have our players or anybody's players in danger. That's just the bottom line. Amen. We got to keep everybody safe out there. There's too much going on in the world right now to get calls. caught up in these kind of things. And, you know, we can't let our emotions get away from us. But we have faith at this kind of thing, you know, if it is determined that it was intentional, that it will be dealt with and it won't happen again.

George Springer struggles. I think Dusty made the point. There's not cows. There ain't cows in Texas if George can't hit. It's only a matter of time, right? Do you guys see anything in the swing that's bothering you? Well, first of all, I wish I could turn a phrase like Dusty Baker. I know. Isn't that the truth? I got the biggest grin under my mask when I saw that one. He's got some lingo, some stuff the week of you. I mean, it's great quote stuff forever. He's one of the all-time classics.

I'm with you 100%. Yeah, I mean, that one ought to be on a T-shirt somewhere. So, yeah, with that in mind, George is going to be okay, right? Oh, yeah. Look, I mean, it's, I know everybody is looking at, you know, the batting average on the scoreboard. And, you know, it's been five games. guys go through five game stretches. You know, normally you can say, hey, it's a long season.

We can't say that this year, but we have every faith in George and his talents play out. I don't see anything that's concerning me. Brent Strom, Pettis, and Dusty Baker, contracts extended for next year. Great news and great continuity to keep them together heading into next year already. We were excited to be able to do that and to know that all three of those guys would be will be with us next year. You know, I think their experience and their quality, both as

coaches and as human being, speaks for itself. When you've watched the first five games of the season, just overall, we'll get to the injuries in a second, just overall the way the clubs approached it and their performance on the field. Evaluate. Well, they're going right after it.

They know that it's a short season, and they know that, you know, while it's only been five games, you know, it's a pretty good chunk of a 60 game season. So it's nice to see them hit the ground running and come out with the urgency that we all need. Any updates on JV and is it just kind of a wait and see? Yeah. Right now, the doctors have told us the best thing to do is just wait for two weeks, kind of give it two weeks to calm down and then we'll reevaluate. But, you know, I mean, this guy's thrown 3,000 in the major leagues and,

you know, his track record speaks for itself. James, can I ask your honest feelings when you were watching and heard that you heard strain, you know, and four and. arm strain as a fan, your initial first thought. Well, any injury to a guy of J.B.'s caliber is obviously concerning. It's not dissimilar to the spring when he came out of that game. Port St. Lucy with the lat injury. You're crossing your fingers and hoping for the best. And the initial read on it was just a forearm strain.

And so we'll see. And hopefully that's correct. And it bears out. We can get him back on the field sooner rather than later. James, it appears that we're headed to lease some good stuff with Yord. on and Orkidi, at least getting back to work? Yeah, they're both down in Corpus Christi at our alternate site, and they're both getting back there out on the field. The main thing is trying to get them ready as quickly as we can

without rushing it, which I know it sounds like a contradiction in terms, but we have to resist the urge to bring them back before they're ready, because the last thing that we can have is them come up here and then, you know, a couple games in suffer some kind of injury that takes them longer. So as soon as they're ready, we'll be excited to have them, but we can't rush that. Do you also have to resist the urgency, or do you have to push the envelope on seeing what's out there? And I know you always spoke about improving your team whenever that opportunity presents itself. Is it presenting itself as we speak? Well, we're going to find out about that. We wouldn't be doing our jobs if we didn't find out what was available elsewhere.

But the nice thing is that we have a lot of arms that we feel good about. And while they are, you know, short on experience. Some of them, again, have any fish above A ball or double A. I think the talent speaks to itself. But, you know, we'll obviously always look to supplement the team and get guys what they need to give us the best chance to win that series. All right. And finally, back to these, the rookie pitchers are almost unprecedented at how many are out there on the mound. You mentioned about the lack of, you know, of major league baseball work. When you can trust that, hey, maybe these guys are ready for big league baseball, even though they didn't get a lot of minor

League work? Well, sometimes you don't have a choice like we have in a couple of these games. I mean, you know, the fact that we brought Inoulli Paredes into that situation, you know, in the fifth game of his major league career, I think speaks volumes about the faith and the trust that we have in him and the rest of this bullpen. And, you know, whether we trust them or not, we got to put him in that situation. And I think that we have every faith that they will show that they deserve that trust. I I think their performance, you know, I know everybody would rather be 5 and 0 or 4 and 1 at this point, but given everything we've had to deal with, I've been really impressed with the performance of the young arms in particular. All right. Speaking of arms, the Astros did make another move today. They traded for Hector Velasquez from the Baltimore Orioles. 31 years old is Velasquez spent last season with the Red Sox making 34 appearances, eight starts. His numbers, 5.43 ERA. He pitched in,

parts of three major league seasons, all with Boston. He was acquired by Baltimore via waiver claim, and then he did not make their 60-man player pool. So who? who. Who? I said Mr. Velasquez. Hector Velasquez. Who?

Mr. Velasquez. Who? He's going to Corpus Christi. Should we do a Hector Velasquez, believe it or not today? That is zero, unless you want to make up eight straight questions, except for where the city he was born. There's no way there's any pertinent. You see how quick Brendan he gives up on the, believe it or not, you want to do it? I said I could do it. It's going to be eight knots.

No. That'll be the two o'clock tip. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, all right. Let's get some more phone calls in. Mike Dan, Tony, on the update on Eric Gordon in 18 minutes. It is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790 with a message here for hoops, basketball goals, and sporting equipment. I've been speaking for hoops. You ready for this for over 10 years? Something's going right. You know what? They may great basketball goals that are fully adjustable, that have russummer protection, that have a fully temper glass backboard, and they're fully 5 to 10 feet. Plus, they're manufactured right here in Houston, Texas. So support local, support a company that has been doing basketball goals the right way,

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This is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. 1248, Sports Talk 790. It is a Matt Thomas show. What's so funny, Matthew? I got to be brutally honest with you. The stuff we talk about off air is way better than this content you hear. on air. And the content on air is

from fantastic, magnificent, amazing. It's okay. And by the way, we're playing Elton John again in the 2 o'clock out. I'm not going to let you two, you know what, to ruin my love for that song. I like Elton John. That song is not, it's not even top 10. Let's play a little dusty real quick before we get

to these calls and then we got Mike Dan Tony coming up. We're just the same thing. No, no, no, no, just. I thought you wanted this. He was just I mean, I'll never get tired of hearing that, but he was also generally speaking really pissed about yesterday. Yeah, Dusty Baker speaking to the media after the game yesterday. He was, well, he was not happy about Joe Kelly when it went down in the sixth inning. Well, I mean, you can, you know, balls get away sometime, you know, but not that many in the big leagues.

And, you know, you throw a three-old fastball over a guy's head. I mean, now you're flirting with his, you know, ending his career. Then a couple other guys, balls are close. And then, you know, what really enraised everybody is when, you know, he told Carlos, when he struck him out. And he told him a nice wing bitch and see, what he's supposed to do then? And then what upset me is that the umpires warned us. You know, why don't you warn him?

You know, he's the one throwing a ball. and, you know, he's the one that started this mess in the first place. I didn't like it at all. You understand that Dussie's been in baseball for 50 years. Yeah, he knows a thing or two. He has seen everything. Yes. He doesn't know the Chronicle list sometimes, but that's, again, that's a simple mistake.

But he knows everything else. He knows what he saw out there. He knows that Alex Spragman got thrown at. Yes. Correa, if you want to argue that one, teach his own. Yeah. Mm-hmm. You could make a case for it.

there's no defense of the Bregman attempt. It just isn't, especially in a three-o count, fastball up high going, I mean, it's uncalled for. That's why Joe Kelly is a biash. I mean, also saying something to Carlos after you struck him out, like, is this your first strikeout dude?

And Carlos, by the way, he ain't a choir boy either. I mean, he went around the basis pretty well and wanted to make sure that it's, he knew his asteros. And he did, well, there was his, a pointing to the dugout when Bellinger grounded out, possibly pointing Belmont. injury to the dugout people say? I don't know.

It could go either way to me. We ain't choir boys in Houston, Texas. Of course not. We're reels on this show. Reels. Benjamin on 790. Good Ben. What's going on? It's the bad joke, Ben, coming through to see. Oh, no. The James click, point click to make

the trade. And we got a trade coming. All right. But you know what? Where's Fultonavich? We went some Fultonavich on our sandwich. That's what I, some of that Fulton David's socks. Anything else, Ben? What do you think his trade value is? Uh, well, not much because the

Braves have basically said we've given up on him. So I would say there's little, I think he's available. He'll be available, but I wouldn't give up much for him. So, and on another note, his Chandler Rome issued a statement about the whole Verlander thing, the report being wrong when he came out with. Uh, he's not wrong at this point. I mean, unless,

of running her throws again. He has not issued a retraction. Yeah, he's not retracting his story. I got you, I got you. He's a nice guy. Bad joke, Ben, you've never disappointed me ever before. Thank you again. Thank you very much. Let's go to Todd and Plannersville at 1253. Hi, Todd.

Hey, guys. Thanks for having me all. You got it. I just wanted to give a little speech about Joe Kelly and I got some underground people in L.A. There are fans of him and the Dodgers over there and they have said he has a weird pregame ritual. He said before every game, The guy eats a ding-dong and washing it down with a protein shake.

And unfortunately, I'm not talking about the delicious chocolate hostess snack. And that protein shake is... Okay. I'm good. I'm good. Yeah. This is all Joe Kelly's fault. Play Elton John.

Yeah? Now? Well, I'll save it for two. What an interesting first hour of this show. This is getting Matt fired up. It is. I just... I don't accept that he says that he is wild by nature.

Then you shouldn't be on a major league man if you're going to be throwing pitches that could be hurting people, right? I mean, he is wild. So, if you're wild, you shouldn't be in the major leagues. Effectively wild or wildly effective? Josh James is effectively wild. Well, he's just sometimes effectively wild.

He wasn't terrible. But, yeah. By the way, again, I hate to be right yesterday on the over-under. But Framber Valdez, in the fifth inning, you're just humming along. Yep. They're hitting line drives, and your outfield's playing it right. That's, yeah, that's the thing about the Framber alerts, Matt.

You never know when they're going to pop up. They spring on you. Let me go and delete that prediction off of my nostrilongous pad. No, no, no. Please keep that one. What do you mean? You never give me credit. I had the over, and by the way, I am not under any circumstance giving you a thought about tonight's game.

You're out? Zero. away. As I told, I was texting with Ross yesterday. I don't like betting on sports unless I'm in Vegas because that's the culture, that's the atmosphere in which you're in. If I started betting on sports here in Houston, I would be miserable because I was sitting there sweating out an over under on a regular, nondescript major league baseball game.

That's not what I was built for. You're going to tell me if Tillman opened up a spot downtown, you wouldn't go? Okay, I probably would. All right. Or Galveston. Yeah. Or if Lake Charles has sports betting, what I get the eight? app probably

just drive to the border make a couple bets and come back yeah as soon as the phone will realize where you are location services

yeah or yeah or you can you can VPN it's a now you've exposed me for the fraud that I am

that's okay Matt that's what I do daily here Matt Thomas show noon to three Sports Talk 790 we are okay save we're

save we're gonna is there any other songs the word bitch in it I think there are uh yeah but we're not playing it here have you heard

of hip hop music Matt. You're telling me a lot of songs? Yeah. There's a move bitch by Ludacris. Okay. Don't, yeah. Isn't there Cheryl Crow of a song too?

That's true. She's also a mother. She's a sinner and she's a saint. And that's all the other. And loves the, apparently loves the Astros as well. Well, who doesn't? All right.

Mike Dan Tony to start the second hour of the Matt Thomas show, if you'd like to join us right after that, you may do so. 713-212-5-7-90. James had 30 points last night. against the G-League Celtics. Well, he's looking good.

He's ready. We've got to check Eric Gordon's ankle. We'll find out next. 7-13-212-5-790. Mike Dan Tony, in moments on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show. One o'clock, Sports Talk 790. It is our pleasure to have with us on a weekly basis,

hopefully through the end of October. The head basketball coach of your beloved Houston Rockets. Mike Dan Tony with us here on the show. Coach, good afternoon. How are things? Good, Matt. How are you doing? Good. Really enjoyed the game until late second quarter with EG.

Obviously, at least somebody's checked in. What can you tell us as of right now? Well, you know, it's sore and it's a good spring. And it's going to take, you know, I don't know how many days. I have no idea how it responds. But it's going to be a little bit. But hopefully he'll get back, you know, and we can hang in there until he gets back.

We'll know more in a couple days. how responds. But I guess obviously the thought of the x-ray being negative was probably the best news you could have gotten in the whole situation yesterday. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And he's, you know, working hard of already getting treatment. And one good thing about the ballway and get treatment about 10 times a day, because that's all

that's what he's got to do. So, you know, they'll work around the clock on him. And, again, it just depends on how it responds and everything. But we just got to hang in there until he gets back. and hopefully, like I said, that's not true. You know, I don't want to put it to date up because I have no idea. No, that's all right. That's okay.

We understand that. So do you have a definitive answer to who's going to replace him? Because I know that was a big deal going into this was that you wanted Eric to start. So what's going through your mind right now? Well, we'll figure out some. I'm sure Daniel House is right there ready to roll. So, you know, we have guys that are playing really well. And next man up and we'll just close rank.

and push forward. I called the Memphis game and then watched the game yesterday. Ben McLemore and Jeff Green. I'll go back to those two guys in particular. Whatever you fed him in the pregame in the Memphis, I hope they can feed it to him during the regular season because those guys were shooting lights out for you a couple nights back. Well, better than that.

I mean, they can shoot and we know that. It'll be nice for them, but they're doing all the little things. Ben is because they run the floor. They do exactly everything to a lot. Hans, Russell and James, and everybody else. They're just playing great basketball. And so those are two guys. Then Austin has had a great practice thing,

and then he missed those days, but he'll be back ready. And Daniel's been playing great. So like I said, it's a next man up, and, you know, we got our work cut out, but we can definitely do this. Ross here, coach, and as you mentioned, Daniel House playing great for you. What has changed or improved in his game? Because obviously last year somewhat fell out of favor in the rotation, but this year looks improved, defensively, more comfortable.

Just what are you seeing from him this year? Well, all that you said, more comfortable. But I think the biggest thing is that during the five months that we're out, he worked extremely hard, and he's on a different plane athletically. And he's really improved his athleticism, his balance, his ability to run the floor, his stamina, and just a lot of the same, more confident. And, you know, again, he's played well.

I know last year there were some defensive lapses that probably didn't please you all that much. Where is he on the defensive side, and is that going to be still a work-in-progress for a young player like that? Well, it's always a work-in-progress, even if you're old players, but no, he's one of our best.

And his athleticism gives us the ability to be able to play small and get to the boards and run the floor and a shooting. But there's a lot of good things. You know, like I said, we have a good opportunity that if we can do the things that we talk about and consistently play well, we're pretty good shape. Yeah, I will say DJ's got a lot of steals. James has gotten in there. I can sense that passing lanes aren't easier.

They haven't been the last couple of games for opponents, and that's got to be a good sign for you. Well, they just, they bowed into knowing that, you know, we're always going to have one of the best offenses. So, you know, where can we be real effective or improved? And that's on the defensive end. And if we come together, chemistry-wise, and the way we're doing it and just be conscientious and boxing out and talking and rotations, then we become very good defensively and would be a handful for anybody if not, you know, the best out there. So far, so good.

And I think everybody's in a pretty good place mentally and athletically. And like I said, I'm excited about getting started. We'll know more in the next eight games, but it should be a good trip. Coach, you mentioned the offense, obviously, one of the best in the league. And Robert Covington, as the addition has helped Russell Westbrook on the floor. But losing Clint Capella kind of takes some of the pick-and-roll, verticality element from James Hardin's game. And it looks like, are you guys thinking of Jeff Green, and I've seen you also using Robert Covington some in the pick and roll? Is that some of the

options you guys are going to go with to try to maybe plug that gap a little bit? Yeah, a little bit. I mean, we'll try, but we're not going to be like Clint. He had a special ability to be to be able to do that. So you've got to solve it some other way. And there's other ways to do it. small and spreading the floor. You have, you know, Russell can get to the realm. And so there's just different ways you've got to be able to solve the same problem. And, you know, we have to be efficient. And we have to hit certain marks analytically that we feel that makes the offense great. And we can do that without lobs or, you know, some of the stuff you're used to see with Clint and James the last three or four years. Just do it a different way, but just as effective.

Mike Dan, Tony, with us here on the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk. I think that like 40 or 50 can go first come, first serve, other players. But, you know, because all the games are on TV and, you know, you're in your, you know, we have a middle room where we sit around, watch games and the big screen. So it's really, you could go over there, but really no reason. You know, they keep you socially distant. So there's really no benefit. fed of going over.

It's not like you hear in the roar of the crowd. So being in the middle room with the guys and watching the games is just as good. Mike, you have great respect among your fellow coaches around the NBA. Have you been able to kind of talk, shop with any of the guys and collaborate on, hey, how are y'all handling this? How are you handling this? Or is everybody kind of in the same boat right now? We're all competitive, so we all keep our secrets.

They'll tell me about stuff I wouldn't do, and I'll tell them the same thing. Oh, so you're flat out line to them. I love it, because. Coach, that's the best. But they're great. You know, we're in the same, you know, Steve Clifford is right across the hall where we eat, so I get to see him a lot, Brett Brown, and Rick Carlis. All these guys are around, but now everybody's got in their little realm of Houston Rockets,

for many of Houston Rockets, and kind of enjoy staying there. Friday, speaking of Rick Carly, the Mavericks are in. I don't know if the word is anxious, but how are the guys going into this? I mean, is it like, now these are for real? Or do you think you really won't feel that from your players until the playoffs start, you know, basically in two weeks? No, I think they're excited. I think they're excited to work on things that we need to do and there'll be a good test.

And also, you know, it doesn't really matter if you move up or move down in all slot or maybe who you do it. We just want to play well. And in fact, you don't have to worry. about other teams who they play, and hope they lose because then we can get home quarterback all that. You don't, that's going out the window. The only thing that matters is that, for me,

is for us, the Houston Rockets to play well and be ready to go wherever we have to play. So it's exciting. I think they're excited to get the competition and then be able to turn up another notch when this day was playoff time. I feel like James already turned that notch up. I think you wanted to sit him probably

towards end of that Memphis game tonight, I don't think he won any part of that, and then he scores 30 the other night. So from what you have seen, it feels like to me he's ready to go, even if he had gotten to the camp a little bit later than everybody else did. Well, you know, not did he get here later? No, I was Russell got here a little later. James got here. He went there the very first day, was he?

Oh, I can't remember. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. But anyway, whatever. James works, and he works extremely hard in his craft, and that's probably an underestimated.

the people and and he's really working on his defense and set an example for everybody else because he knows the win and we're a good spy everybody knows that the only thing of batters to be to them anybody on team is winning and nothing else counts and so whatever it takes they're willing to do and they're working hard and putting in a lot of shops and a lot of rest and so the competition should be great. Speaking of the competition coach, first game coming up against the Mavericks. Just your thoughts on what the problems that they present. Of course, Luca Donchich being a phenom and all that, just what do you think about the matchup Friday?

A good one. They play a lot like us and five out and they got a lot of shooters. And Dante is very, very good at creating for other people but also himself and hit big shots. you know they have some of the best shooters in the league and Seth Curry and he is I don't think he's ever missed in the bubble seems like but so it'll be a good test and then see where we are and see what we have to correct see what we've got to get better and uh but that's the first step of eight of them and try to get to get to get last question has the mask saved you from really wearing on an official because if what is it like can can you get their attention

or do you have to really scream a little extra to come over and say something if you needed to argue about a call? Every once in a while they go, what'd you say? Because it's kind of muffled a little bit. Oh, but that's kind of good. But that's kind of good. Yeah. But trust me, when I need to get their attention, I can get it. So there's nothing, doesn't change anything.

Well, just tell Ross not to get any more. I think he's close to getting suspended for a game. We don't want that to happen. No, Russ is good. No, we have to worry about Russ. And Luke Baimute, what have you seen? What do we know? Is he got a chance to play for you or be a part of at least the first couple of games?

We'll see. I mean, he's a ways away. So we'll see how it goes. But he's working hard. That's for sure. He's probably swore's going to be right now. So we'll see what happens. All right.

Do you miss anything besides me being in the bubble at this point? No, I think that would do it. That would put me right over the edge. Well, that's, I'm glad you said. I'll talk to you Friday night before the Mavericks game, friend. Thank you very much for the time. Sounds good. We'll see.

Mike Dan, Tony, with us here on the Matt Thomas show. I tell you, coach misses me. Sounded like a genuine, genuinely misses you, Matt. You could hear it in his voice. Yeah, I mean, he could listen to the show on IHeart Radio, which is a bonus for him. He's got a lot of free time. He has a lot of free time for that. 113 is our time.

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This is Coach Dan Tonin. Matt Thomas is a great guy. And I always listen to the radio show. On mute. What a shot. All right, a couple quick observations from Mike Dantony. They're not going to put a timeline on EG, but think about it. torn sprained ankle,

whatever it is, that's a couple weeks. I mean, it would take you a week just to walk to romping down a four 94 feet. So I would say

if we see Eric before the playoffs, that would be a bonus. I can't disagree with that. I mean, they're playing, and this is the, look,

like coach pointed out, it's a good thing that seating is very important because you're not fighting for home court advantage. It's, yeah, they can drop to seven.

which would then mean they would take either the Lakers or the Clippers in the first time. Which might be. Well, Lakers are five and a half ahead. They're going to be once. That's true. It could be either the Clippers or Denver, which in theory at number six could be the same scenario, too, if the rocket stay at six. So let's see. Two weeks from now would be August 12th.

They have two more games left. Their second to last game is on August 12th against the Indiana Pacers. So you're talking about missing games against the Mavericks, the Bucks, the Blazers, the Blazers, The Lakers, the Kings and the Spurs. Minimum. Those are all tough. I mean, everybody in the bubble is at least playoff caliber. No one's going to embarrass themselves out there, except maybe Washington and Brooklyn.

Yeah, that's true. We don't even care about the either. Okay, so that's one observation. Observation number two. It's not good. Those are all tough games. Lupot Mute doesn't sound like that's going to be one of those that you're just racing to see him play. You mean the guy that's signed off the street isn't just.

just going to come in like gangbusters and save the season? You didn't say it that way, but I'm saying it this way. That's because Rocket's Twitter, I love Rocket's Twitter. Anybody signed off the street and anybody on the end of the bench would be an all-star in anybody's team and Mike Dan Tony is just holding them down. People are still furious over Isaiah Hartenstein not being on the team anymore. The all-time Rocket team of you guys goofed. Isaiah Hartinstein, a Chris Clemens.

Gary Clark Gary Clark is high on that list There's like Twitter accounts that Gary Clark was wrong You know What? Gary Clark Defense Fund or something like that

Yeah You could You could build an all NBA team In Rock and away I've gone other places And I haven't played either Let's see Sam Decker

Was supposed to be People were all in on Sam Decker Oh Joe Chi Joe Chi Yes Why won't they play Joe Chee? What's going on? People are tweeting

Like tweeting us, the media's going soft on Mike Dan Tony. They won't tweet, they won't ask them the hard questions such as, why don't you play Joe Chi? All right, calm down, Rockets, Twitter. It's going to be a cat. The Joe Chi hate this was definitely sincere. It's twigs for arms.

I'm a pretty big basketball fan and I recognize like two of the names you guys just listed. Chinano Onuaku. Chinano Onuaku cannot get a look. What's going on here? We need answers. It's like calm down rockets.

SpaceCity launchpad.com. Like, it's going to be okay. Anything space, rocket, launch, beard, any of those. Rocketsnot. Dot net. Like, it's going to be okay. Yeah, I got you. Pump your breaks.

I know you need content. All right. We had some fun earlier in the day because we decided that Joe Kelly was a B. Yes, we did. Or a B. I'm just to say B the rest of the thing. Okay. And we have determined that he's a pretty big B.

In fact, half of the audience called in you swear words to describe how big of a BE is. That was one of the most swear-filled hours we've ever had. I don't think, Brendan, we've had to dump three calls in one hour. And I had to dump one before you guys about Joe Kelly, too. What? On the, in the trenches show? It was actually a Cardinals fan who called in.

It was a little bit different. Yeah. Okay. So can we be real for the next four minutes here? We're going to be real. And then we're going to have you guys calling and say, all right, you guys are right. First and foremost, none of this should become a surprise to any of you.

The Astros are hated. People hate the Astros. And I got news for you. If the Dodgers would have cheated and beaten the Astros in the World Series, the way the Astros cheated to win the World Series, we would hate the Dodgers. We kind of already do. We really hate them.

Correct. But it doesn't mean that we can't analytically describe this games and call it fair and square. And Joe Kelly was a bitch yesterday. Excuse me, a B yesterday. The way he talked

and the way he decided to waltz down the pitchers mound and then get into a little bit more of a sprint when Carlos Gray was coming after him is a B move. That's the facts. The Astros are heads. They're going to get beaned. They're going to get made fun of.

No national media is going to come to the Astros defense. Even that dork, Jeff Passon. Even Bob Nightingale, who I like Bob. But damn it, Bob. Alex Franklin didn't get plunked in the back yesterday. Is he still not deleted that tweet? I don't even follow him. Does he not notice the day?

Do I follow him? He wrote a story that mentioned the ball going over Alex's here. Yes, on the USA Today. So he got that right. But let me tell you something. When you guys tweet something and you obviously put something wrong, don't usually responses come pretty quick. Like I'll say congratulations to Alex Bregman for hitting his 150th home run.

No, he's only hit 100. And people would say, no, it's 100. Right. And you'd correct it. And you correct it. And then you go fix it. So I look at Nightingale's tweet yesterday where he says that it's still up. Go read his reply.

Go read 10 or 11 of them here. Well, this is the tweet. Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly throws a 96-mile-pour off fastball that plunks Alex Bregman's shoulder. So here we go. That is factually incorrect. Couldn't have been more inaccurate. Objectively incorrect. I mean, it may be some acts.

Is he blind? But it's still wrong. And he had about six whiskeys and something. And he was falling asleep. And part of the story is the pitch where it went. Yeah. It went behind him. And above his head.

Yeah. What are you looking at, Bob? So read the responses. Well, here's one from Adam Clinton. When did you become old and blind? Even a Dodger yard, even some Dodgers blog. He didn't hit him, Bob. It missed him.

Bob, this isn't true. Dude missed it. It was ball four. This is the problem, too, because some people aren't watching the game or can't watch the game. He's misinforming some people. Some people are saying, and the baseball world cheers, I'm here for it. People are getting excited about it, and it's misinformation. Yeah.

Come on, Bobby. It was behind him. It was beautiful. Somebody is... Do you not watching either? It's only Joe? Maybe it hit Bob in the head. So let me...

Can I give you... Brandon, I try to lead example for Ross and for you. I almost tweeted the following. But I like Bob. I've known Bob for a long period of time. We're not friends. But if he was in a press box, he'd say hi, Matt.

I would say hi, hi back to him. What's your real? previous relationship. He used to live in Minnesota. Oh, I was going to say. So he'd go to a lot of Twins games. And I was doing probably, I was there three years. I probably did 100 pre-imposed twins games.

I mean, I was doing a lot of Twins games. And it was not a good error for Twins correct? It was okay, two-off appearances. Oh, okay. Yeah, one was a 163, but one was a walk-off win against the Tigers and Verlander to go to play the Yankees or the Yankees won into three straight. But that's not here to there. Well, that happens.

So I'd see Bob a lot. So here's what I didn't tweet. And this is where I want to be somewhat respectful. I almost retweeted it and said, and Dr. Fauci threw a strike right over the heart of the plate. I like that. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't want to be that guy.

I know you would have. And it probably would have gone on Barstool and it would have gone. Well, let's not get crazy. I've gone on Barstool before, unfortunately. For good things or bad things? Both. But point is this. I just wish he was more accurate.

If Jeff Passett would have tweeted that, then I would have totally crushed it because I have no relationship with Joe Passett and Jeff, and I have no interest in having a relationship. You went soft on your guy. I went soft on a guy that is a decent human being that just doesn't get facts right sometimes.

Yeah, but you weren't calling him an idiot or something. You said making a Dr. Fauci joke. And it would have worked all right. I think it was, that's a, I mean, rarely are your tweets funny, Matt? That would have been a good one. Oh, you know what my funniest tweet was yesterday? Matt Pat on myself in the back for just five seconds. What do you mean? Here we go.

Go ahead. At SportsMT, steady decline to 20,000. Yeah. Actually, moving back north. Oh, that's good. Yeah, I'm happy about that. It was whoever pitched for the Astros the ninth inning did a really great job. Some people did not get that joke.

Yeah, one person did. And said I should probably know who the player was. And that was the joke is that we don't know. We really, Rossi, don't know who these people are. We don't. We have no evidence. We have no storylines. We've got, we don't know who any of these people are. We didn't even know there was a Chubb in the organization with two bees. You mean scrub. What, the same difference. Chubb, it's.

Right? Nick Chubb? I remember scrub from, I remember making, we made scrub puns last year. We did? Yes. Are you sure? Yeah. Okay. I think he made an appearance or two last year, I think. or he was traded for and we made a bunch of scrub puns. I remember that. But I don't, now, what is his background?

What's the guy's repertoire? I'm not there on Andre Scrub. But you will eventually. Someday. 128 on the Matt Thomas show with a message here for TGS Insurance. Would you like to save significant cash on your home policy? It can happen. Please, please, please.

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You've got Sports Talk 790 flagship station of your rockets. All right, so I want to ask you all a serious question because I love y'all. I love most of you. 713-212-5-790. 713-21-25-7-90. Are you all mentally prepared for this for the rest of the season? And if not this season, all bets are off in 2021,

Rossville Real. It is going to, because you're going to add fans eventually to this bad boy, and it's going to intensify. If it's juicy after game five of the season, imagine when it's going to be like in game five of next year when there's actually going to be maybe 20,000 people in the facility. It's juicy because it's the Los Angeles Dodgers.

There's nothing happened in the four. What was the most contentious thing in the first? just thing in the four-game series against the Mariners. Nothing, but the Mariners are a AAA team. Exactly. And as I said, it's not going to happen every time. But the heavy hitters, the Yankees, the Red Sox, the I think the A's will probably have something to do with it. The Angels

may have something. The Dodgers, when Astros play next year again? Yeah, I'm saying maybe next year. I mean, the Yankees and the Red Sox aren't on the schedule. So as far as opponents left this year, I don't imagine the A's being a problem. This was the series, and then of course they play the Dodgers again.

in L.A. what later in the season? So this is pretty much the only thing on the schedule that I was really thinking was going to be contentious and it lived up to the hype last night. Last night felt like, I mean, we've been going through so much in 2020 in the pandemic and sports

stopping and all that type of stuff. Last night was one of the most fun nights on Twitter with the whole nation watching Astros and Dodgers. Because the game was on FS1. And Joe Kelly and Carl's Correa getting after. Unfortunately, the Astros lost, but I don't know. It just, it felt good.

It just warmed my heart. The people were just, we were getting engrossed in sports again. And Joe Kelly, smack talking. We're used to that. Guys do that all the time. He got in a fight with Tyler Austin, what, a couple years ago or whenever it was. But he slipped his tongue out. Stug his tongue out.

That was pretty funny. Then, then, that was social distancing. It was almost like it was jets and sharks. Because let's be honest. Think about this. if you're a Dodger and you're trying to play by the rules and you don't want to have any emotions towards the Astros

but tempers flare well this happens in life that's what yesterday was to a small extent now it was just you know take your time around the basis it was why don't you hit this oh you can't because you cheat I'm paraphrasing what was probably said by somebody

in the Dodgers dugout there these types of situations open up wounds So anytime the Astros fight with any team wounds, the easiest material you're going to go to is what that team did in the past. It happens in your everyday life.

It's going to happen between two majorly baseball teams, especially if one is fighting the Houston Astros. I'm just saying, if you're in a situation where you're asking majorly grown men to grow up, there's still a lot of resentment out there. and it might take years Ross for it to happen. So I would just say, with all due respect, please don't ask for these teams to stop

because they have zero interest in satisfying Houston Astros fan. They just do. The only person that stops this is Rob Manfred. I have to imagine there were conversations. Yeah, Rob Manfred hasn't done anything, right? He's not going to do anything, which is fine. But I'm with Dusty and that's something, there should have been warnings and stuff like that.

But I just don't think, I think most of the, of the series are going to end up being like the Seattle series rather than what's happening here because it is the Dodgers. That is the team they beat in the World Series. There was the Cody Bellinger versus Carlos Correa offseason thing. This was bound to happen against the Dodgers. I just

don't know that it's going to happen much more of the rest of the season. If Lance McCullors was on the mound tonight, how does this play out? That's a great question. By the way, that's a good shout out to

Maddie Ice M. If Lance McCullors is on the mound tonight. Mattie Ice M-A-H suggested that. Mookiee Betts gets one in the ribs first pitch

of the game. Why Mookiee Betts he didn't do anything? He's leading off. Somebody. Well, who else? Oh, you want Bell? You want Codes?

Cody Bellinger? I want, if you're really pissed, you go after Don. Like, for instance, I think you just go after the first batter just to send a message. Or maybe you wait for codes to come up there.

He just seems like he likes to be called codes. I just feel like that asking, as Dusty Baker said last night, as matter of fact, you play, play it. He doesn't need these young pictures. Like, for instance,

Christian Javier, it's not the guy you send up tonight against Cody Bellinger and try to explain to him what life is like going against the Astros. Yeah, noted Astros Enforcer, Christian Javier. Here we go. Here's what he said to say about possibly retaliating last night.

Dusty Baker. Well, but you don't retaliate with the rookie that's out there in his first time out there. You know, that's not right to put that, you know, to put the rookie in the situation. We had all rookies come in after that, you know, like, you know, you don't do that. I mean, a guy in his first game and then he gets suspended, you know, for retaliation, you don't do that. You know, that's something that you don't do. So like I said, it was in the hands of the umpires to, you know, stop it before it got start. So what Dusty's mad about is, and here's the thing, do you think the whole system, what

Major League Baseball does is kind of whack, where, and Dusty brought this up last night on the post game, the first person does something usually gets away with it. It's a second person who tries a retaliate, and they wind up everybody getting warned. And sometimes you get warned or you use a bench warnings, and you haven't done anything at all. Unfortunately, that's probably not the right way to do it, but it kiboshes a lot of it. We have seen before where the benches have gotten worn before first pitch. Do you think that could happen today? Yes.

Absolutely. I think we should all pay attention. We eat our wings tonight over at the Big City wings. Markey. Tonight we're going to be there at 6 o'clock. We've got some new good morning stripper shirts. We want to give away to some people. So if we want to come on by, come see us.

Ross and I will be there at 6 o'clock. Eat wings, 75 cent wings. Yeah, I believe the umpires with the pregame line. Well, they don't do line-in-card switches and exchanges anymore. They do electronically. Yeah, that's not proper social distancing now. And by the way, did you notice yesterday and the old sked-dattle they had? There was not social distancing between the two sides.

There was a little bit. It was almost like a trench. No. I'm talking about Dodger players. Well, yeah. Social distancing from their own. Of course. With each other.

There wasn't not a whole lot of commingling, but there was a little bit of a line-drawn. I didn't notice. Are players coming down from the extended dugout seats? Yeah. Did somebody have to hop down like 10 rows? That's a good question. Like over the netting? How did that happen?

What if a guy's eating a footlong? Oh, hell, I got to go down there? Oh, geez. Let's go to Tony and Katie on 790. Hi, Tony. Hey, guys. I've got a question. Didn't the commissioner make a rule?

I guess maybe it was only for spring training that no one could throw at the Astros because of all the stuff that came out about us telling the truth, I guess? Not a rule, but the players, Association. See, the Astros went to the Players Association and said, everybody is going piling on us and we feel like we're being. So what the player association did is they went and heard from the Astros and then they went to go talk to every other Major League Baseball team. So it wasn't like Manfred. Now, I guess Manfred has done some things, but per se a rule that says if you go after the Astros, you're going to be punished, there's no such thing in stone

on that, no. Well, let me ask you this. The picture that threw last night at the players, wasn't he on the Red Sox team that cheated that year when they won with Coral? Yes, he was Joe Kelly was a part of the 20, was it 2018 team? Or was it 2017? He was 17 and 18. 17 and 18, I believe I can look at him. Yeah. So I don't understand why he would want to be throwing unless he's trying to get, you know,

some attention from his players now with the Dodgers. Oh, yeah, he gained points last night. Well, he's just a red-ass bleep starter. That's what he is. But he also got points. Justin Turner loves the man now. He says, welcome to our clubhouse. Welcome to our team.

No question. All right, guys. Talk you later. See you later. Joe Kelly is that one guy in your group. Like you go out to the bar and everybody's chilling and you're all maybe had a few and you're feeling it. And he just starts, is like, is that guy looking at me? Do you see that guy?

I was trying to get a drink and he cut me in front of me. You know what? He bummed with his elbow. And you're like, bro, calm down, dude. Let's do this in next segment. Yeah, okay. Here we go. Who is Joe Kelly guy?

Yes. All right. I'll start it 713-212-5-790 and you guys I want you and Ross to collaborate give me an official Joe Kelly song here's what Joe Kelly guy is

hey guys I got I'll get XL for all of us and then he looks and goes oh I didn't change my credit card could somebody get this that's what I believe is Joe Kelly guy okay if you know what Joe Kelly guy is

let us know on Twitter at SportsMT, at SportsRV, at Brendan Riley underscore, or give us a call right now. Who is Joe Kelly Guy? My example is Joe Kelly Guy. It wants to buy the Uber XL for the six of you going, that are bar hopping, but his credit card is expired or it doesn't work on the Uber card, so he needs somebody else to pick up the tab. That is Joe Kelly Guy.

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She a one hit one? By the way, at Real Frog Dog says Joe Kelly is that single guy who's friends with all the girls, but secretly you know that guy is angling for your girlfriend. I like that. Ross, who is Joe Kelly guy? Joe Kelly disappears when it's his turn to buy around at the bar. Brendan, who's Joe Kelly? So I think Joe Kelly is actually that brother who tries to antagonize you.

and then the moment that he gets you to fire back, he's telling mom and dad on you. So you're making him a little bit younger. Okay. I think Joe Kelly is the kind of guy that's going to go to your boss and talk about how bad the culture is around the office would say, you didn't hear this from me? Let me tell you to tell you something what Joe Kelly does.

You didn't hear this for me comes out of his mouth at least once a day. Okay. Just between us? Yeah. He's definitely making up stories. He's a gossiper. Oh, he's embellishing stories. Like, he's embellishing sales figures. Hey, guys, I build $140,000 in sales last month when he really only built 105.

I got the Joe Kelly, bad tipper. Oh, horrible tipper. Like, lucky to get 15%. If that. Okay. And then he might even write something snide on the receipt. Like, hey, if you don't like it, get a different job. Really?

Yeah. Does Joe Kelly go to the waitress and say, Are you having a bad day? Oh, by the way, Joe Kelly always reclines his seat immediately on the plane even before it's time to do so. You know how I feel about reclining seat guy to begin with. And when you land, he immediately stands up and he's in row 36. Trying to get the advantage.

Yeah. Like, where are you going, dude? Oh, and by the way. Sit down. Is this your first plane ride? He's screaming tight connection, tight connection. When the flight gets into the city half hour early. It's impossible to have a tight connection.

Who is Joe Kelly? Oh, Joe Kelly looks like Joe Goldberg from you and Netflix. Oh, Eric, nice call. Huge friend of the show, you. I haven't watched that. Really, really good. Two really good seasons. Really good seasons.

You know, I never... You're saying it like there's a lot of nudity in there. That's the only thing I feel like you would recommend so strongly to me. There's a little bit, but it's really not a part of the show. I mean, it helps, but it is not hurting. 713-212-5-7-90. Who is Joe Kelly? Line 1, Rob and Katie. Rob, who's Joe Kelly? Joe Kelly is the guy that will talk bad about all your accomplishments and one-up every single accomplishment that you can come up what? Yeah, like, you've got a promotion, but yeah, I'm due for one myself next week. I already got one too, right?

I mean, he's never going to let you congratulate in your accomplishments. He's going to want to one-up your accomplishments. He's the guy that if you went out and you killed a bear on a 300-yard shot with a sniper rifle, his response... Rob, that is Joe Kelly. Thank you very much. That's Joe Kelly. That's Joe Kelly. At Serpico 1, 2, 3, Joe Kelly eats a hot dog with a knife and fork. And by the way, he's got ketchup all over it, too.

Yes. I like that. That's a good one. Christie Bowl 300 says Joe Kelly buys rounds all night and then walks the tab. Oof. That's not happening anymore, is it? I hope people don't do that. The only way you really get in trouble for that is if you're buying rounds and you're so drunk,

like tonight it could happen. We could be at Big City Wings and I'm buying rounds. But if I leave because I've vomited or if I had too much a drink or I passed out in your car. Well, hopefully they're holding your card. That's true. That's a good idea. Good problem to have. Daniel in Aldean at 152.

Daniel, who's Joe Kelly? Joe Kelly reminds me of that girlfriend that will tell you that she doesn't want anything to eat. eats all your fries and then makes fun of you all night for mentioning it. Hmm. So she doesn't want to eat, but to eat your fries. And then when you bring it up to her, she gets mad. She will not let it go all night long.

Okay. I got you. All right. Yeah, I'll go with that. I got one. What you got? Joe Kelly is always, like, you want to go out to, you're going, you and Joe Kelly are going to go out to eat.

He's like, you know what? I'm down for whatever, man. Whatever you want to go. And then you suggest like 16 places and he doesn't want to go to any of them. I have a lot of Joe Kelly's in my life. I won't tell you where I met them or who I hang out or we hang out, but they're definitely some Joe Kelly's. At Serpico 1, 2, 3 says Joe Kelly shows up at a sit down, a restaurant 10 minutes before closing. Yeah.

And he wants the full service. He wants the warm bread. He wants the salad when they're all trying to clean up in the back to get home. Yeah, I can do that. Adam and Katie at 154. Adam, who's Joe Kelly? Joe Kelly is the guy who pays for a stripper or a hooker and believes her when she tells him she loves them.

Oh. Oh. Yeah, Joe Kelly's the stripper. Man, I think this chick really likes me. Oh, Joe, hey, Joe Kelly, Adam, is the guy that thinks the stripper gave him her real number. Exactly. And then keeps trying to call her because she thinks he's going to get lucky. That's very good, my friend.

Thank you, Adam, for the phone call. We've all been there. At Hugh Fane 28 says the guy that shows up to a pot like without food. Oh, I like that. Yeah. Oh, how about this? Joe Kelly shows up to a barbecue when all of the guy that's running the barbecue, like if Ross, you said, hey, I'm having a barbecue, Matt, come over.

What do you do? Just bring what you want to drink. Yeah, what do you want me to bring, Matt? I'll just say bring some to drink. Okay. And you want to bring anything because it was a Sunday in the, and the convenience stores and liquor stores were closed. So you want him drinking my beer because I had actually went up the night before and got something.

You drink my beer at a barbecue is what you're doing. My cold refreshing Coors light. Joe Kelly has 15 items and the 10 items are less line and when confronted will fistfight and Rochambeau everyone. Yon easy. Joe Kelly is Frat Pledge who gets me, who gets the frat on campus violation for public intoxication during an on-campus event. Ouch. Joe Kelly is this is from Mr. Scrigal.

Joe Kelly is the guy who invites friends out for drinks at a bar then brings a backpack full of cheap beers for himself and drinks them in the bar. You don't bring your own drinks to a bar, do you? Unless you're Joe Kelly. I don't know. I don't know. A couple more. Jimmy and Tomball.

Jimmy, who's our buddy Joe Kelly? So Joe Kelly, he's the guy. So I coach Little League and my kid's not any good, but we have fun. And, you know, you got a group text. And once a week time we've got practice tonight. That's about it. But then Joe Kelly's the dad that calls you nine times a week to tell you all about his kids, private practice, and how good he is if he needs to play first base. And he just, like, you almost have to block his number.

That's definitely who Joe Kelly is. Gotcha. Thank you very much for that. Last one. Is it Marcus? Yes, sir. Marcus, who's Joe Kelly? Joe Kelly is the equivalent of speak to your manager lady.

Oh, Karen. Is he a Karen? Guys, is he a Karen? He's a Karen. Joe Kelly is a Karen. It took us a half an hour to figure it out, Marcus, but you helped us do it. Thank you very much. I had no problem.

Appreciate it. He's a, oh, Joe, Tascasita Slim, Joe Karen, or Joe Kelly is a guy that asked for seven samples at Baskin Robbins. I like that one. Rod shop, Joe Kelly is a kind of guy that says, thanks for nothing. Joe Kelly This is from Mark Vincent Joe Kelly offers to help you move But has something come up the day of

Ooh I hate that guy That guy is a super Joe Kelly Ouch I like that one Joe Kelly This is from double deuce king Joe Kelly is the guy That takes selfies in a mirror

At the gym and post him on Instagram With the hashtag Arm Day Y'all get who Joe Kelly is Dusty Baker is going to start speaking, I think, in a few minutes. We'll get to some of that in the final hour. It is a Matt Thomas show at 713-212-5-790 with a message here for Shaw's jewelry at the corner of West Gray and Montrose. They have been there since 1966. No gimmick sales.

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That's West Gray and Montrose, Shaw's Jewry. Is the Matt Thomas show. Do you mind if I read a few paragraphs in a column? I don't. One of the biggest LA hack jobs. Do we need reading music? Yeah, we need some reading music.

I would go saw, oh, Breezen, yeah. That's what we used for. Yeah, let's go out. Get this ready to go. This is Bill Plashke. Oh, geez.

I mean, this is zero surprise. I don't know you're going to read an absolute hack before I agreed to this. He is a hack. He's one of the all-time hacks. He's Hall of Fame Mount Rushmore Hack. If you were to go to the Hack Hall of, of fame. Bill Plashke was there.

He would have a bronze bust. The people at McDonald's would make a burger name after me, call the McHack. Hit it. Give me a little louder. It makes me feel good. This is, by the way, this is Yacht Rock, which is now available on Sirius X-M. Not that you should

buy a serious X-time. You have it in your car. Okay. Channel 105. But keep it on Sports Stock 790, where the I-Heart Radio app. That's right. I'm just going to read. And Ross, you tell me when enough is enough.

You hit the buzzer. Bill Plashky 1106 this last night. Thank you, Joe Kelly. Thank you for banging hard on the trash can that is the Houston Astros. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Thank you for making sure the Dodgers didn't get cheated again. Oh, my God. What?

Bless you, Joe Kelly, for a fearless, vengeful, an amazingly scoreless inning that... Fearless? I mean, yeah. That will amazingly scoreless an inning that will live in forever in Dodgers, lore. In their first game at Houston's Minute Made Parkins, they were robbed of the 2017 World Series here. The Dodgers let long-bottled emotions finally explode through Kelly's wild right hand, his sharp tongue and his mocking expressions. He not only stood up for a raw and clubhouse, he spoke for

an aggrieved Dodger nation. And it was a sight to see. The Dodgers spent the first five-inings carefully controlling their rage as their fans surely watch in frustration. Then Kelly stepped in the mound in the six inning and let it all out. The Dodgers won the game five to two, but Kelly owned the night. He knocked a batter down, rattled another batter into a staring match, used pick-off throws to continually pound a base runner into the ground, glared at another base runner, and eventually walked off the field screaming at the Astros while scrunching his face

into that of a crying, pouting baby. The bench is emptied, and the Dodger fans' newfound respect for the previously maligned Kelly will be overflowing. For one moment, a thoughtful team that is sometimes

too reserved for its own good was shaken awake with rare, honest emotion. For one night on a club that thrives on teamwork, there was no better teammate. Uh, skipping, skipping, skipping. By virtue of his newness, was always on the outside of that controversy.

It obviously didn't matter. After a rough debut season in Los Angeles last summer, Kelly is a dodger now. One out, Alex Bregman batting three and O count and Kelly threw the ball over his head for the walk. It just slipped, right? Right. What happened next, perhaps,

was a clear window into Kelly's intentions when he threw three straight times to first base to force Breggman into three straight dusty dives, even though there was a little chance he was steep. The next batter, Michael Brantley, beat out a potential double-play grounder to first and appear despite Kelly in the process. The pitcher glared at him. Somebody from the unsettled Astros dugout shouted, just getting on the mound with an expletive. Kelly got back in the mound all right.

He walked Yuleguri, he sailed his next pitch over Carlos Correa's head. Of all the lame apology attempts by the Astros in the wake of the sign stealing scandal, Bregmans and Carreas were the work. First. Correa stared at Kelly as if he couldn't believe this sort of anger was being shown by the ever calm at Dodgers and dodge another ball inside. Then with runners at second and third, Correa stranded everyone with a lunging swing and another ball out of the strike zone. Kelly indeed shut the Astros up. They collected but one hit in the final three innings against three other Dodger relievers.

Not that manager Dave Roberts could acknowledge Kelly's inspiration. of course, nobody in baseball ever admits to this kind of stuff. Hack. Hack. I can't read anymore. Hack. Don't. Don't. Hack. Hack. Bill Plasky is a known.

Hack. He always had the worst. Is he even on around the horn? I don't watch that show. Okay, I don't watch it. Hack. We here at 790, we're rooting for the Astros and Rockets. We just do. Yes. But we also, when this crap went down,

we knew they were guilty. We didn't take the other side. We didn't go Astros Karen on them and say this could this possibly couldn't have happened. It did. We believe it to happen. We knew they were going to get punished. And frankly, I don't think we've been like, oh, poor Astros. This is not a poor Astros radio show.

It is a pro Astros show, but it ain't a pro Astros show. That hack out in Los Angeles, the next time you write a negative article against any L.A. team will be the first one. yeah he's just terrible Bill Plashky is an idiot he's had the worst takes for decade plus I don't know how he has a job or how he continues to keep a job I guess people like reading him but well he's been there forever yeah okay and he probably makes three times what we make well so he's doing okay God he's such a hack he I just I don't have any respect for him at all zero he's such an L.A. ridiculous homer. And by way, you would give, you think Joe Kelly gets respect from anybody around the country

when he slips his tongue on after that? Give me a break, hack. People are embracing Joe Kelly across the country, not just Bill Plasky. The Astros are hated. Hated. Public enemy number one in baseball. Absolutely. And zero surprise they are. And like so I said, as much fun as last night was, there'll be more of it. Just nobody get hurt. Yeah, the last night was harmless. Could have been harmful.

The pitches went over Bregman's head, so that's good. And Carl's Carrey didn't get hit. That's fine. Well, Michael Brantley could have gotten hurt. That's for sure with that whole, with putting his foot on first base while Michael Brantler is trying to leg it out and avoid a double play. and then of course Dusty Baker rang in on that

Dusty Baker wants that little bleep on the back on the mound On Twitter This is at D Carcass At SportsMT at SportsCherby Damn you guys sound a couple of Joe Kelly bitches right now Have some pride in yourselves

I don't know what we did I believe I've got pride of myself I do too This is a girlfriend drive That's funny By the way my son Cameron driving home from work He says Joe Kelly guy

Is the guy that is on the automatic runway You know as you walk from terminal to terminal You know there's the left side of the walk The white side? Skywalk or what do you call it? What do you call those things? I think it's not an escalator Skywalk

On the left hand side it says walk On the right hand side it says stand He stands on a walk side I hate that guy Especially if you're running a little bit late If your flight is running behind Yeah The worst.

Okay. I think DeKarkis, his name of his Lee and his avatar is still pretending there will be NFL. My guess is he's not a sports fan. I don't know who he is. I just muted him. Let's move on. He's irrelevant. 713-21, Sean Salsbury follows him.

7-1-3-212-5-790. Let's go to Mo and pass a get-down, Dina. Hi, Mo. What's going on, Matt? What's you got? You know, Joe Kelly is, he is crack-carin. Cracks, Karen? She calls the cop because she goes and buys crack, but they gave her plaster,

so she has to explain to the cop that she went to go buy crack, but they gave her plaster. It's called getting Zulu. Damn. I didn't realize you're going that direction. You had a little blue on us there. Thanks for the phone call. 713-21, 2-2-5.

Hi, Jason. Hey, fellas, what's going on? Long time. Where you been? I've been in a way of a baseball season starts, sir I got you what you got well pretty good watching the game last night just make him observations

me and my little boy watching it Fox Fox Sports 1 took him to the fourth inning so it's our fashion Astros it's pretty biased No but that's it but I got news for you and this is why I disagree to Jason the Astros are nationally going to get destroyed

and I frankly I can't blame the national folks this is one of the biggest scandals in the history of the sport. So to think that four or five months after the punishment went down that the national folks are not

going to take shots, it's just crazy unfortunately, Jason. It just is. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, the shots are fine. I'm waiting to catch a Red Sox game. It's taking any shots of the Red Sox. That's all I'm looking for. Yeah, and by way, we're waiting for that Yankee letter, too. Thank you for the phone call.

Ross, we're going to lose that. We're going to lose. We're not going to get our satisfaction in the Red Sox, and we're probably aren't in our satisfaction with the Yankees. Get them in the playoffs. The Astros are taking it by themselves, and that's why you have to root for them really, really hard to win the World Series this year.

That'd be great. I need the Astros to win the World Series this year. I really need it. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We'll hear from Dusty Baker, fresh stuff from the ballpark within this hour. Oh, let's believe it or not today.

And what's the first question you want to give out to the audience is a freebie? Oh, you know you got to do. Is it going to be Joe Kelly? You get after. There's no way. You can find eight. Oh, geez. Come on.

You can do it. That's a lot of knots. Let's see. Let's see where Joe Kelly played. There you go. He went to Cal Riverside. Believe it. I'm going to say he's gone somewhere else.

So is it believing or or not? It's going to be a not. Okay. So I'm going to make up the college. He's going to make up the college where Joe Kelly played. Where should we say he went to? He went to. He went to.

Long Beach State. I was going to go Missouri. Oh, yeah, it'll get them in a different part of the country. Yeah, Missouri. But a good baseball program. Okay, Missouri. Is Missouri good? I don't know.

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Back to the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. 219. Matt Thomas was shooting. Matt Thomas show. I'm thinking about wings. That's all right. You're new here. Yeah.

We're going to be a big city in... Is the weather going to cooperate? No. If it's just you and me, that's fine. Yeah, that's good. We're going to eat 75% wings. But if you all want to come out and if you feel like, if you feel comfortable going on and eating, we understand that.

But if you want to hang out... We'll Skype you in. We're not going to Skype people in for... No, no, no, no. For 15 bucks a month. Yeah, really. But we're going to be there at 6 o'clock at Mark Key Center. This is a super, super, super, super low key.

There's not going to be a bunch of banners and... promo team. It's just going to be Ross and I sitting there. I got stuff I can give away. Well, I'm bringing the stripper shirts. I can, you know what? I got a lot of stuff I can get away. What are you going to bring? Just from some of the leftover stuff from my, my remotes in the last fall. Can you bring it?

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Well, I'm recovered, so I'll do whatever. Okay. So, come on, see us. We'll be out there. The world is my oyster. We're talking about wings today, not oysters. Wings. The world is my.

Fregnant. Boneless Tinder. Can you eat a real wing tonight? Absolutely. I like wings. I like them both. Just saying we're talking about one that's far superior to the other. It's the all white meat, breaded,

sauce and tossed chicken rather than grisly ass elbow. That's all I'm saying. You and the elbows. They're literal chicken elbows. And they're delicious, especially when there's a little extra crunch to them. Okay. 713-212-5-790. Jay and Pearlanded 221 on 790.

Hi, Jay. Hey, how you doing? Well. So I want to bring up something that I haven't heard anybody talk about. What happens, and we know it's going to happen, it almost happened last night, when one of the Astros actually get hit. I'm a firm believer in a little. retribution, you know.

So being associated or affiliated with a team that'll just take it, and we saw it in the last few years under Hinch, what do you think is going to be like under Dusty Baker? I've seen Astros get plunk. Don't know if there was intent or behind it or not, but, you know, depending on the situation, how do you think these guys will react under Dusty Baker? It'll be interesting to see what happens. That's been a complaint of a lot of people the last couple of years is that A.J. Hinch wasn't a guy to retaliate.

And I mean, when you're talking about today and what's going to happen with Christian J. Javier. I don't think that Dessie's going to send Christian Javier out there to go throw at anybody. No, unfortunately, the DNA of the Astros is not conducive right now to building up a let's go kick their ass. Because here's the thing, you're going to want them to say, spending a bunch of players that maybe are healthy.

Yes, that's the problem is the Astros have, they're running out of depth. They're going to, they're talking to Bud Norris. What? Bud Norris. The Bud Norris. Jay, they're running out of players. They have got nobody else to go to. They cannot use pitchers to try to retaliate against a Dodger team that only had, what,

10 players that are still part of that roster from three years ago. So, again, I expect very little, if any drama tonight in the game. between the two teams? Well, I'm hoping for drama. Well, you know what? Because you're a fine American. We'll see you, Jay. Thank you.

You know what? Because it was juicy. It was very entertaining. It was fun. We all ran to Twitter, too. We all wanted to take sides. Well, this is the thing, though. A lot of people are of the opinion of Jay.

They didn't like that Hinch wouldn't retaliate and he wouldn't throw to the guys. But I totally get where A.J. Hinch was coming from. You can't always prove intent. Obviously, there was intent last night. That's, we're not talking about that. But then you're throwing your guys out there. They're going to get suspended.

You're going to get, you might hurt the other players. And then they're just going to try to re-retaliate. It becomes a whole mess. I actually had no problem with the, with the AJ Hinch's not ordering retaliation all the time back in the last few years. And oh, by the way, under A.J. Hinch, the asshows are pretty damn successful. So it's not like it was hurting their on-field performance. Yeah, there was not a hangover from game to game because somebody got hit. Right.

but I'm telling you that's why Joe Kelly's not pitching today Dave Roberts is not going to let this thing grow in intensity I would imagine there was a conversation but I think I think Joe Kelly just was like you know what I'm Joe Kelly I'm a bleep starter and I'm going to go

get in there and I'm going to start something up and my history is I'm wild I'm erratic I can throw over people's heads and then I can do it comfortably and say the ball got away from it I'm going to stick my tongue out at you And then I'm going to walk off the mound, call out a bunch of names, and just stick that lizard-ass tongue out. And in the post game, I'm going to act like I didn't do anything.

It was an accident. Let's play his soundbites here. Let's see. One to ten. How sincere is Joe Kelly? Well, here's Joe Kelly on the pitch that went over Bregman's head. It was a ball, obviously. It wasn't my best pitch.

I mean, it was ball four and walked him and never got to put a guy on. leading the game. So something that, you know, I wasn't feeling the greatest. Wasn't the most comfortable. It took me a while to corner my mechanics. One. Well, he threw in the thing about it's never good to be going to put a guy on. So I'll give him a two out of ten.

Continue. Here's on the pitches to Correa. I threw my curveball. I guess I didn't take too kind to it a curveball. I mean, it is what it is. You know, I've watched a couple guys. I was able to get out of any. finally made one good pitch for the punch out and, you know,

was able to keep the lead where it was at, especially with us not playing, you know, the best baseball in the first four games, be able to come out and win against that team. You know, they're a good team. So that was big. Joe Kelly uses expired coupons and argues with a manager about whether or not the coupon should still be used. Yes. When it clearly says expires July 15th, he goes into a restaurant on the 29th and says,

I want 50% off. Sir, the coupon expires July 15th. What's the difference? Who cares? I'm here. I can see it. Or he takes back

like expired milk. Like he bought it. It expired. And he tries to take it back. Joe Kelly abuses the condiment bar at Fudd Wreckers. He takes like pickles to go. He takes them home.

He's taking so much lettuce off the condiment bar. He's trying to make a salad. And he takes like five to go silverware so he can have some silverware to I have not been to Fudge since the pandemic. Me neither. Do they even have connemates bars anymore? That's a great question.

I don't know. But also one final thing he was asked about, did he take emotions about 2017 with him to the mound? No. I mean, we beat him when I was with the Red So I was, we beat him in 18. It's one of those things that I pitched competitively. And, you know, with the no fans here, it's easy to hear some stuff. You know, so I like picking off a couple times.

It's fun. But, yeah. Something apparently they didn't take too kind to. But, I mean, I actually isn't the best. I broke my window because my newborn's coming two days before they were born. So it is what it is. It is what it is. A woman had sex with him.

And I think they have maybe three children or something? Okay. They've had sex at least twice. I'm actually trying to figure out that information for, believe it or not, how many kids he's got. Oh, that won't mention it. 227. It is the Matt Thomas show. We're going to hear from Dusty, and it sounds like Lance McCuller's got a few comments on this as well. You know, Lance doesn't mess around when it comes to information. We'll talk with him after we discuss delicious, refreshing Coors Light. Summertime, heat, beaches, vacation, going to Big City Wings and watching Astros baseball tonight. All can be done with a cold, delicious Coors Light. When the mountains are blue, that's on the can we're speaking of. You know that that Coors Light beer is ready to go at its peak refreshment.

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But when you do, do it with a Coors line. Sports Talk 790, available everywhere with the I-Hard Radio app. Now number one for podcasting. The pouty lips and the tongue. What am I talking about? I don't mean to talk about Joe Kelly? I'm sorry. I thought you were talking about you.

Only fans or something. Who has the best female lips? Angelina Jolie. Joe Lee's, she's a go-to-me. lips, right? She's pretty good. We ever did a fantasy five of best lips? Would you be prepared?

For what? You have like a list of top 10 lips? Duh. I'm scared to Google Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't. There was a woman. Kim and Chloe Carter. This is some

some list. Jolie is number one. Then it goes to Kim and Chloe Kardashian. But those are fake. Well, I guess Joe Lee's might be. Who knows? Doesn't matter. Megan Fox? I'm not looking at her lips.

Eva Mendez? Same. Rihanna? Couldn't tell you. Rosie Huntington Whiteley? Who? She's a model. Okay.

I think she's really hot. I mean, I'm going to assume that no model out there has ugly lips. Certainly with the modern-day plastic surgery. Do you think like a shirre? Reese Theron has a nice set of lips. I don't know. Go to the Dusty Baker audio. By the way,

George Springer is not playing tonight. Well, he's not starting. Okay. Kyle Tucker is going to lead off. Do you want an update on George getting a night off? He's been struggling. Struggling. Yes, go ahead.

I figure, you know, George is struggling right now. I've been where he's been. It seems like there's eight in-fielders and about six or seven out-fillers. It looks like there's a hole on the field, and every time you go to the play, you're owing two. Like I said, anybody's played this game,

has been there before. This is more of a clear-your-head day and to stop counting, because as a hitter, you count. Now I'm over-22, now I'm over-23. Guess what? If you don't stop counting, it'll be 0-24.

And so that's a good day to go in the cage and work. you know, clear your head. All right. So there you go. Springer can clear his head, Matthew. Let's get to some of the stuff we've been talking about. First of all, Dusty has the, has Major League Baseball contacted Dusty Baker on anything regarding last night's events? As Major League Baseball been in contact with you about what happened last night?

Nope. Wait a minute. Why didn't we label that five and a half seconds of Mark Berman and one and a half second of Dusty Baker? That's fine. has mentioned baseball been in contact with you about what happened last night? Nope. Very succinct from Dusty Baker. Another one,

unwritten rules of baseball regarding stuff from last night. I mean, there are a lot of paradoxes in baseball. You know, that's a story of baseball. But, yeah, I mean,

it's not fair to, it's not right to throw the guy's head. You know what I mean? You know, you're risking the guys. But if you're throwing a projection, out of person, most of them don't have enough control between the head, neck, or the body. You know what I mean?

You know, I mean, you have to know what you're doing. And you've got to look at a guy, you know, before you hit him unless, you know, sometimes it gets away. You're throwing a projectile. Sometimes it gets away. You know, but that's why it's hard for the umpires to determine intent. Yeah, you know what? You're just not playing with a full card here. I don't have pitchers that you can throw out there to become the hired assassins.

You're decimated with injuries up and down that group. At the end of the day, the Astros cannot afford to lose a pitcher because this bullpen, here's the problem. Granky doesn't get past the fourth. Josh James doesn't get you past the fourth. What's his face? Framber gets in trouble in the fifth yesterday. You have a young, inexperienced, and it's very soon to be taxed. bullpen.

Lance McCullors historically doesn't go very deep in a game. No, I mean, 8.6. And his first start that's a great. Brian McTaggart says

Dusty Baker said George Springer is dealing with a sore knee after running into a wall the other day. Also, Brian Straw has not played because of a hamstring issue.

Miles Straw. Brian Straw is a former radio host. He hasn't played either. Miles Straw hasn't played because of a hamstring string. No, God!

No, God! Please, no. No! No! What else? What else you want, 2020? Bring it to me right now. Yeah, what was that the first or second game

where he was chasing down a ball in centerfield and kind of went down a little bit? And he flipped the ball to John. Was it Reddick? Yeah, I think Reddick. What else do they want? Oh, yes. I'm less worried about the lineup, at least.

I'm going to give you a homework assignment, and you have two days to do it. Because today we're not going to do it. No, not tonight. We have to name all the Astro pitchers by the end of the show Friday. Like Goodwill Hunting, naming all his brothers? Yeah.

Okay. Because at this point, as much as I'm an astro fan, as much as I appreciate the history and who's there and what's there, I can't do it right now. It's my fault. I forgive you. Give me two days. I'll give you two days, Matt.

It's a memorization exercise. It is. Because not only we're going to have to memorize who they are, we're going to have to get used to them because there's no signs of the guys that are right around the corner. coming back. Get ready. Matter of fact, I'm going to give you all, everybody gets a homework assignment. Okay. You have two days. You assign everybody one pitcher to learn about? No, no, no, no. I just, we'll worry about that down the road. You have to have the Astros

bullpen memorized in two days. What if it's completely different in two days than it is from today? Well, actually, if Bud Norris makes the squad, makes it easier. If Fernando Rodney shows up. Yeah, I mean, oh, I got those guys. I figure out who they are. Bud freaking Norris. Jim and Spring Branch, good afternoon. Oh, yeah. Hey, there's a food network host name, Claire Robinson. Yes. And she was eating a corn dog.

And that's good. Jim, I'm sure how you wanted to finish the story was amazing. But I've been telling you, Jim, I've been doing sports radio for about 25 years now, give or take. Closer to 30 in the business. when a caller calls a show and says, I've been watching this girl on a show and the way she ate a corn dog, that's kind of my automatic to stop the phone call.

I don't want you to be mad at me. I'm sure it's a wonderful context, but I just have to kind of go with the woman, corn dog, end of sentence. Ross, that seems about right. That's fine. He felt that was probably not going to go in a direction about the Dodgers-Astros matchup tonight.

I'm with you on that match. What a show. show. What a show. By the way, Big K. So says when Joe Kelly binds a round of drinks, he drinks domestic. No, excuse me. When Joe Kelly buys a round, he drinks domestic.

When you buy his round, he drinks imports. Yes. Premium. I like that. I have friends like that. Hmm. That when I'm buying, it's, I'm going to get the most expensive item in the list.

when it's their turn to buy I'm guilty into why don't you get one of the number of value meals well you got to call me out Matt live on air geez oh awesome about you Matt I said whatever value meal you want if you want to get the four for five

that's up to you wow would you hear the Sean Salisbury show they were talking about going to get the $20 meal a jack in a box oh and try to eat about themselves yeah none of it first of all they're all frauds in the morning all of them they all Michael Conner's the kid and I love Michael Conner like a

like a fourth cousin. But he is the king of, oh, I can do that. Nobody's doing that. Nobody is eating the $20 value meal. What's all in it?

Two potato wedges, two medium fries. I'm out already. Two double cheeseburgers, two regular cheeseburgers. Are they ultimate cheeseburgers? No, they're just the regular old doubles.

Okay. And then two tacos. Damn. I'm sure it's not four tacos? It could be four. Because the two tacos are like $1.29. Maybe there's four. But just stop talking about how much, you know, like we're going to big city tonight.

We're not going to be having a wing eating contest. There's no, there's no challenge, there's no enjoyment in eating so many wings you get nauseous and you get sick. By the way, I'm watching the A's game right now. There are actually fans in the stands. No, they're actually cut up, cutout. Carboard cutouts. Because they would never be at the game this early. No chance of that.

Let me quickly go to Ray and West Houston on 790. Hi, Ray. Hey, how you all doing? Wonderful. What's up? I just want to say, Joe Kelly is Eugene from the movie Grease. And, you know, he's a clumsy goofball who tries to fit in, but nobody can take him serious.

And I always want to kick his buck because he loves eating corn dogs. That movie is, I got to rewatch it to get the reference on that. But thank you, Ray. And I did like the movie. It's just been a long time since I've never seen Greece. It's probably top five of famous movies I have not seen. I think the most famous movie I've ever seen is Goodfellas. It was the Godfather.

And feel the dreams have not watched start to finish either. I watched it when I was a kid. I don't really remember it. Does that count? If you took a quiz, could you get at least 70% of the answers right? Probably not. Okay, then you need to rewatch it. Kevin Costner's there.

Somebody's dad died or something. But I feel like I'm locked out godfathers and have gained some good, some bonus. points on that. Good. Okay, so we believe it or not coming up next. Topic is Joe Kelly. Did you ever think that Joe Kelly

would ever be a conversation piece? I'm still not happy about it. All right, a reminder again tonight, we're going to be at Big City Wings for 75 cent Wings as National Chicken Wing Day. Come on out, drink some Corse Lights, have some wings with us. We're doing nothing else. We're not having a bunch of contests. I'm

to bring some of the new ram shirt what's good morning strippers shirts that we have that you've seen them on my Twitter account. I think ram shirt is going to bring six, seven, eight of those. So we'll give away those away. We're just going to sit watch the asteros. The game's at 6 o'clock tonight so we've got some little bit of extra time, early

time to start. So if you've got anything going on the night, we're going to meet the marquee location. If you can't join us at the marquee location, which is I10, silver, any of the eight big city wing locations has 75 cent chicken wings. So go enjoy wings, regardless of the location, But if you're going to be in the central west part of town, come see us at I-10 and sober. We're going to eat wings.

We're going to drink beer. And we're going to tell you a bunch of stories about people that we don't like. All at Big City Wings. This is Ricky Williams. I may have worn a wedding dress on a magazine cover, but it still looks better than any outfit Matt can put together. Let your wife dress you, man. Texas Five. Back to Matt Thomas on Sports Talk, 790.

It is 248 on Sports Talk 790. Tomorrow we've got non-Florida stories at 230. Brendan, can I use one of the stories you sent me today involving an NFL player for my non-Florida story? Feels like cheating, but I mean, it's your show. You called me out. Sorry, that I won't do it then. What we're talking about is Chad Johnson admitted,

and I didn't read the whole story. So if I'm missing anything, Brendan, please help me. he admitted that on game days he would use Viagra to help him down the field saying that nobody in the NFL would catch him if he was ready to go, so to speak. Get the blood flowing. That is a known performance enhancer, right? It's been talked about for years. I think he's not the only ones ever done. Yeah, no, I think I'm trying to, I can't remember names.

It's come up before as the Viagra has been used as a performance enhancing drug. Maybe I should start using it on this show. lowers the blood pressure, I guess. Or is it higher the blood pressure? I'm sure the blood pressure goes up, right? I don't. I'm not a doctor, Matt. Okay.

Consul your physician. Yeah. Or go to improve my erection. com, one of the two. Correct. Do it that way, too. Sure. Anything to get the blood flowing.

Are you going to use that? So you're not going to use that story tomorrow? No. He gilatimine into not using it. I'm not telling you you can't. We just did it. If somebody else sent you the story. Yeah.

We got to find our stories that are organic. True. But man, I feel like we at some point need to flip the storyline and just make it Florida stories because pound for pound it is the best state. It is the best state when it comes to just giving us ridiculously or bad arrest. Alligators and crocodiles appearing on people's front yards. Yes. People going through meth, bath salts.

People going through drive-throughs standing there and swinging a bat. There was a guy that threw an alligator at the Wendy's drive-thru. Because he was mad at him. Hmm. You get mad at somebody in Florida. You toss an alligator at him. But the reason why we go non-Floras is because every other radio show, you know, those cutesy radio shows do Florida stories. That takes no originality.

It takes us having to go find something outside of the country and or 49 other states. So you're depriving us of funny Florida stories and we have to work harder. Thanks, Matt. Because sometimes we will look for these sites I'll just go to some odd news website or whatever But everyone is a great one And then it's like It says Gainesville Florida

Yeah Damn You know let's have an executive meeting about this Another few days We might change it to this good old-fashioned Florida stories Five minutes left to go on the show What should we do? We should play

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The category today is all things about Joe Kelly where Kyle McNamee says Joe Kelly is the drunk guy that tries to start the wave of the ball game. Yeah, I could see that. In jean shorts, by the way. I was going to say backwards cap jorts. He has his program rolled up like a newspaper, and he's waving it. And he's trying to start the wave. Exactly. He's got a beer in his hand, but he's doing the wave with his other hand. Yes.

A one hand wave. Or he brought like a megaphone or Vuzila. For sure. I'll read your statement about Joe. The statement is completely not only accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. It's erroneous full of bunk and made up.

You'll say this. Two believe it or nots in a row. Win you a prize. Ross. What's today's special prize? Yes. Matthew, we got a $50 gift card to Twin Peaks, whereas there's now online ordering available. If you feel like enjoying your Twin Peaks favorites from home without having to get out of the car,

order online and pick up on your way home. It's quick and easy, and they'll bring your order right to you. Visit Twin Peaks restaurant.com slash order dash online. Search for your favorite Twin Peaks to order now. Joe on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? I belated. Joe Kelly played his college baseball for the University of Missouri. Believe it or not.

I know the bonus. That's a night. There you go. Good man. He went to Cal Riverside. Statement number two for the win. Joe Kelly's father, his name is Joe Kelly Sr. He played in the arena football league for the Los Angeles Cobra's. Believe it or not. Believe it.

There you go. Nice job. Listen to the show. He's getting a $50 to Twin Peaks. Let us continue. Colton on 790. Colton, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it.

Joe Kelly represented the United States in the 2017 World Baseball Classic. Believe it or not? Not. That is correct. Statement number two for the win. According to Go-Hilanders.com, Joe Kelly's favorite movies include Tombstone and Crash. Believe it or not? Not.

Believe it. Oh, go. Why didn't you go to Go-Hilander's.com? you would have seen the answer right there. So sad. Eddie on 790, Eddie, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Joe Kelly has one career home run.

He hit it off of current teammate Alex Wood. Believe it or not. Statement number two for the win. In 2017, Joe Kelly changed his grip on his change-up after watching a video of the Pitching Ninja Twitter account. Believe it or not. Believe it. No.

Oh, Rossi, where did you get that one from? Somewhere in the recesses of my brain, Matt. Give yourself a high five and a pound on the back for that one. Nice job. Line four, Joe on 790. Joe, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Growing up, Joe Kelly's favorite athlete was Jonathan Papelbon.

Believe it or not? Not. Oh, if I've said it once, I said it a thousand times. You've got to know how many people love the work of former Red Sock Reliever, Jonathan Papelban. It's so weird. He was a Dodgers fan. That is really weird.

Last one. JT. JT on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? Let's do it. While with the St. Louis Cardinals, Joe Kelly, disguised himself as an old man

and interviewed the rapper Nelly. Believe it or not. He's a tool, so you got to believe it. Yes, you do and you win. Yeah, tools would do that, right? Oh, my goodness. That's it for the show today.

We had a good show. Great show. A great way to end it right here. Adam Wexler and Adam Clayton, they're not bitches. Joe Kelly is one. Talk more about it with those two gentlemen as they host the A team. We will see you at Big City Wings if you can get out tonight to eat 75 cent wings on National Chicken Wing Day.

Drink some Corey's lights and we'll watch the Astros and Dodgers at 610. Have a great night. A team next.