The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - MLB Post Season Starts Today Without Astros. Dana Brown & Joe Espada Speak

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

MLB Post Season Starts Today Without Astros. Dana Brown & Joe Espada Speak 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-1 in H-town. Good morning and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. We are back in studio. I have to hang out with our good friend Kevin for a little bit yesterday. And the training camp with the Rockets officially gets underway today. They'll have their first preseason game, I believe, next Tuesday against the, I believe, hated Atlanta Hawks? Can I say I believe any more times in the first 30 seconds of the show? It feels like it's a good segue that I'm going to be. I'm fairly certain I'm

accurate about all these things. Do you believe, believe, believe you're falling in love? Yeah, I also believe from Cher as well. Oh, I hate that song. Oh, I like it. I like anything share. I'm team share. I thought, oh, you of all people would hate the auto tune. It's horrible. It is. Daddy, I mean, it's not one of my favorites, but I still can listen to it. You still jam it. Is it on my phone?

No. It is. you know, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm letting that sleeping dog lie. You could, that's fine. That's fine. It only took a minute for you to criticize something about my life. What did I criticize? I didn't say anything. You were quiet.

I said I let it go. You wanted to say something. I need points for personal growth. I let it go. All right, that's true. That's true. I hope you guys are in a good mood today. It is a little surreal.

The Major League Baseball playoff start today. The Astros should be playing in two hours. We would be an on-deck moate. at 11 o'clock today, but we will not be because the Astros went three and three in that last trip when I thought I was team 5 and 1. Yeah, well, you were team 5 and 1. They were Team 3. Literally.

They were Team 3, unfortunately. It got close. I mean, they literally tied the Tigers. Yeah, one game away. They beat all the really, really good teams. They somewhat good teams. They couldn't win the season series. Yeah, they had no tiebreakers against basically anybody. Yeah. That was a huge problem, and they knew that going in.

but, you know, they could have taken care of their own business. I mean, think about this, Rossi, 3-0 Friday night. If they hold on to that. We're talking about a 12-05 first pitch. That would have been real nice for us here on Sports Talk 790. Because we're big baseball fans, clearly. That's exactly right. Instead, Joe Espada and Dana Brown.

It's actually an interview Tuesday instead. It's great. I mean, it's not fantastic. It's not good. It's not good. Who are we getting down there? Sam Clanton down there? Getting sound?

No. Oh. I didn't mean to pregnant pause. I was a little stunned by... That was quite the eye roll you gave me of the century right there. I mean, put it in. Adam's a little bit of a get there and two and leave it's a six guy. We love him and everything, but...

You can be cashing in the overtime checks, put that way. You know, I set that up. That's my fault. set it up. That's my fault. All right. Well, that's fine. We love you so much. We tease because we care. And we care because we tease. Yeah. I mean, look, I, uh, my philosophy is I tease a lot. I have to take it. I do not accept teasing from people that do not take it well. Okay. So that's just my, you know, if you, if you, again, if I dish it out, I have to take it, but I do not take it from people who can't handle me dishing it out. So, and Adam can't clan. So it's good. We're, we're all big family members. All right. So we got baseball. Today, we've got Dana Brown and Joe Espada speaking at 11 o'clock. It is interesting.

And again, this is all conjecture. Bob Nightingale kind of runs hot and cold. Sometimes he's really on top of things and sometimes he couldn't be further from the truth. Yeah. He's mostly his hit rates back up. Well, I'll say this. He was batting about, let's say we're using batting percentages. He was batting 246 for him.

long time. He's batting about 275 now and his OPS has cleared 800. So he's considered good now. He missed one recently though. Oh, I think it was Isaac Pared us out for the season. That's right. And that dropped. That was a 0 for 11 streak. I mean, that's what everybody thought.

That's probably the intel he got was that he ain't going to make it back. And he did just come back in DH for a handful of games. And frankly, Isak was about 40% of what he normally was. But I give him credit for coming back because nobody I mean, we all thought it was surgery, goodbye see in 2026. So stick with baseball. we'll say he had some hard hit contact on that but it found a glove.

Yeah, he did throw out there. And I don't think he's the only one that did it, that it's not a foregone conclusion that Joe Espada stays. I would have to, not without a shadow of doubt, disagree, because it's only one person that counts. It's the owner, it's the Astros. It's what he wants to do. But I don't think they would put Joe Espada on a podium on a two days after the season.

if they were ready to make a change. I don't think so either. I think you can never say never in this. Well, I'm not going to say never in this situation, but it seems like he's going to be back. Everybody else? Seems like Dana's back. Joe is back.

Everyone else will see. Yeah. Now, things are moving... Pitching coaches are safe. Things are moving very fluid around baseball. Bob Melvin out in San Francisco, Roccoe, Beli out of Minnesota. I like Rocco.

Bruce Bochi leaving the ranch. Rangers. Yes. And all the Bay Area folks are like, well, come on back. If you're really going to retire, you're going to retire with the team to help you win and you got a World Series with. Now, let that man rest. Maybe it's his decision.

How old is he? Got to be early to mid-70s? He's 70. He is, oh wait, I thought he was older than that. He's 70. That's it? He looks older. That's what I said.

It looks significantly older. When he goes to get somebody from the dugout, when he comes to get a pitcher, it's like, you can go and, you can go and, go to the bathroom, get a couple dogs, and then come back, and then the pitcher's not even warming up yet. Yeah. I mean, they're supposed to a major league baseball. You're supposed to walk briskly. Yeah.

But I believe the rules, once you get 65, they don't adhere to those rules. Yeah. He waddles slowly. Yeah. So there's rumors of that. Now, apparently he has been offered a job within the organization, but that could be just... The Rangers? Okay. Yeah.

Now, one of the thing, the Detroit Tigers are in contract negotiations with A.J. Hinch. Oh, really? Yeah. How does Detroit Tiger fan feel about that? Well, I mean, they're in. They made it. But if they lose too straight, probably going to be a fairly quick get AJ out of there. So the question would be, is that something in the back of Jim Crane's mind?

We don't know. I don't have Jim Crane on Speeddoll. Jim and I have not spoken personally in a couple of years, and that's fine. I'm not going to these avoid me or anything, but I just don't. He wouldn't give me the sense anyway. but, you know, it's, it's rumor time, Ross, and it's, hey, do the stars align? I mean, we've seen, you know, Alex Corr get his job back in Boston. We've seen guys that have been gone away going back to previous teams, Bruce Bochy.

Again, rumors about him going maybe back to San Francisco. These things can happen. So I would say never say never. But again, if you were to, I mean, if we were on odds about Joe not being retained and being replaced by AJ, that would be probably at, what, 2501, something like that? Maybe a little lower?

Slightly lower. Okay. That's semantics. Okay. That's semantics. So we have, so those two guys, Joe and Dana will speak today at 11 o'clock, and then we'll have got feelings at 1130 today.

We'll have the news at noon. We were supposed to have Joe spot at 1230 today, but even if they were playing, we wouldn't have him at 1230, because they'd be like in the second inning. So that would be hard to get him. That actually would be really nice. Call us from the dugout phone.

We're interrupting to broadcast of this playoff game to do a five-minute interview with Joe in the middle of the game. Joe, that was way out of the zone. Your thoughts? It's a little screaming at the umps. But I'll say this one, you know, and I hate to go to the when I was growing up card,

but I'll do it. When I was growing up, managers got a lot of leeway. You put together back-to-back losing seasons or not making the playoffs, and it feels like everybody's jobs in Major League Baseball, are really tenuous. They really are. There's no room for we're growing, we're building.

It's everywhere. It's every sport. NFL coaches are fired at a higher rate than ever before. Same thing for college football. I mean, you've had two college football coaches fired within like the, what, the first three weeks of the season. Replaced by one of them by Bobby Petrino. Sam Pittman's already been fired. It happens. Basketball. Remember every time we go through the coach of the year list, it's all dudes that have been fired recently. Michael Malone gets fired before the Nuggets make the playout and just about to make the playoffs? Yes. Yes.

It's everywhere. It's now, now, now. It's no time to rebuild. It's let's get this done and let's figure this thing out. And some of it is warranted to me because of the opening of free agency periods. Now you have transfer portals. You have, you know, guys building teams that way. To where in the olden days, you couldn't, your team was your team for like five years.

Yep. So, yeah, you expect. faster turnarounds. It's just natural and it's happening everywhere and it's the I don't know what do you call it. What do they call it? Microwave generation. I don't know exactly what the phrase people use. You know what it is? It's also

the money. Nobody's making cheap money being in charge. I mean, we got guy, you know, either you are winning right away and getting extensions right away and making large money because you don't want other teams coming after you and poaching your coaches or you are out because you are making so much money. I'll give you a great example. The New York Jets last night

lost to the Miami Dolphins. The Jets are now going to go to, I believe, London to play the Broncos. They're probably going to lose that game. Then you got the New York Jets off a week. And then you, I mean, the Jets go to Cincinnati,

where is that, I mean, is Aaron Glenn going to potentially be won and done in New York? Nimitz legend. I hope he gets a little more grace than that, the Jets. But I'll give you an example. I mean, before the, uh,

How many Dodgers fans have won Dave Roberts out? Absolutely. Over and over and over again the last year and they win the World Series. Jerry Depoto, the general manager of the Mariners. Mariners fans hate him and think he wants to be out. He's built a great team, given the time,

he's built a great team over there in Seattle. Because I don't think the ownership in Seattle, not that I'm intimate to the details, but they don't come across the team that spends a lot of money. No, they don't. They don't spend a lot of money. And that's why Jerry DePoto has had to try to figure things out, and he's been able to make some trades,

build up the farm system, and they're in a good position. I don't know that they're going to make the World Series or win the World Series, but I think they're American League favorites or they should be. You know what? Selfish, I need them to lose in the first round again. That'd be great. The Division Series. Because they're just so obnoxious.

You already had Mariners TV guys putting on the Astros postseason schedule and with a blank card. Who did that? It was somebody in Seattle TV was like, oh, before we get to the Mariners, let's go ahead and check in on the Astros' postseason schedule. and it's Astro's logo and then like just like basically a blank graphic. Like come on Mariners, Mariners TV. It's funny because I was on Seattle's radio last week before, actually two weeks ago before the Astro Seattle series and they said, all right, tell us the truth.

What bugs you about Seattle? I said it wasn't because I said, well, first of all, you got significantly better at the trade deadline. You got an MVP candidate and I don't have either one of those two things. But I said, your fans think you won like three. four world series. Bro, you guys went like 109 and 50 something and got dropped in the America League Division series a couple

20 years back or whatever it was. Crazy. There are sports fan bases that are arrogant but they win. Like, for instance, Red Sock fan is arrogant. Yankee fan is abusive. I mean, they were apparently, they were all at the Ryder Cup this weekend. But they have at least

have banners. They have penance. They've got World Series history. The Mariners are just like the most nondescript, barely been the playoff, losing. Two games and out kind of thing.

But they act like they've won four World Series in a row. Are they still the only franchise? They've never been to a World Series, right? Yeah, because the Marlins have gone, the Diamondbacks have gone from the newest teams. Who has not gone to a World Series? Angels have gone to the World Series.

I think it's just them. Yeah, it's got to be just them. Yeah. Even the Rockies have gone. Yeah, the Brewers, Padres, Rays, and Rockies have all gone. Mariners are the only ones that haven't gone. But yet you feel like they've won't, they have like nine American League pennants hanging at their stadium.

And their fans are obsessed with the Astros. As you mentioned, we're more worried about the Yankees and what's going on with them and other teams in the American League. Rangers fans. We hate Rangers fans. It's like Mariners, you? What? All right. 11 o'clock, we'll hear from the general manager and manager of the local 9. 1130, we got gut feelings. The news at noon. And today's edition, I believe it should be

about bad bunny your halftime act at the Super Bowl. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. You're big bad bunny guy? If you said, Matt, I'll give you $5,000 for every bad money song, you know. You'd be keeping your money. Just start saying Spanish words, you know. I mean, put it this way. Here's a gut feeling for you. We're going to watch it, and half of us are going to go to Twitter and say it's the greatest act in the world. I can't believe how much fun that was. And half America is going to say, this thing sucks. just like with every act you cannot put an act

at the Super Bowl in 2025 or it's just closely like we'll do this today we need to run through the list of of the previous 15 or so years and we can stop when somebody didn't say that guy like not universally nobody loves anybody universally

Prince was probably the last one Prince would be one that was like 20 almost 20 years Michael Jackson would have been one yeah that was 30 years ago but you know I'm saying there's probably been the last 40 years five or six acts I go, okay, that's about as mainstream as everybody likes. The weekend was good.

Oh, everybody loved Shakir and Jennifer Lopez. Well, it was spectacular. I thought it was spectacular. I don't know what songs they did. But I got one for you. Well, we'll get tomorrow when we come back. 10-16 is a time. Manor-Raw, 7-1-3-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. All right, so let's go in reverse photo really quick. Bad Bunny this year. Lamar last year. That was 50-50. That was an Emmy winning performance, by the way. I'm not arguing with you. Usher 50-50. Rihanna 50-50. Actually, more 75-25, you know what I'm saying. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Newtog, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar. Wow, two for Kendrick. Great for him. The weekend.

A weekend, I thought most people liked. Right? Yeah. Weeking got some hit. Very, very poppy. Yeah, yeah. I would say more 7525, right? Secura Jennifer Lopez, 100 to zero. That's my number one all time, man. I don't think J-Lo sings very well, but I'm not really worried about her singing. When they had the twerk off at the end. Maroon 5. Corona-ass men didn't like that. That was crushed.

Yeah. Justin Timberlake, probably 7525 on that. Lady Gaga, 7525. Coldplay, 2080. Yes. Tell me when I'm wrong. Oh, everybody. Katie Perry was kind of people hated it.

Remember the sharks? 50-50. Bruno Mars, probably 75-25. Biancee? 100 to 0. Talking about percentage of like. Madonna? I mean, 100%. Okay.

It wasn't 100. No, I don't think so. But I mean, still universally more appreciated than under, than not liked, right? Yeah, I think so. Let's go to the other order real quick. Let's go back to what it was back in the early days. You got to go to the black-eyed piece. 1967, the Arizona and Grambling State marching bands.

The Who? Everyone thought that they were going to die on stage, and that's when they went to the younger acts. Florida A&M University Band, Doc Severnson back in 1970, with Lionel Hampton, Carol Channing, and the Southern University band. I don't know who any of those people are. You know what Doc Severton was,

was the band leader for Johnny Carson's Tonight Show for all those years. Oh, of course I knew that. Anita Bryant, up with people, southeast Missouri State. Ella Fitzgerald, Carol Channing, Al Hurt, and the U.S. Marine Corps drill team. Okay, I can get down with some Ellefitzgerald.

I don't know if it's really Super Bowl. 1973, the University of Michigan Marching Band, Annie Williams. Andy Williams? 1974 Rice Stadium. Judy Mallet was on the fiddle in 1973, she was Miss Texas. Behind her, the University of Texas marching Longhorn Band. Wow. That's the show band of the Southwest for those you're playing at home, folks.

Grambling State in 75, 76, up with people. I'm trying to look when they started to get like a, real celebrities. Let's take a look here. Up with people was very popular. A lot of marching bands. I don't know. I think I want to say like a touring kind of a theatrical musical kind of thing.

The stars didn't come out until George Burns and Mickey Rooney. 1987 George Burns, Mickey Rudy and Grambling State and the USC marching band. Chubby Checker and the Rockettes. What do you do? The twist three times

and go home? I would the twisted half time and if they were there, that'd be great. How many other hits do they have? All right. Elvis, no, it can't be Elvis Presley. Elvis Presco. That must have been a mis-booking foe. Yeah. Yeah, guys, we got Elvis Presti. No, guys, you got Elvis Presto.

What the hell's that? New Kids on the Block? It's an Elvis impersonator. No way. In 1989. That was the halftime? That's terrible. 1989 was a Elvis Impersonator? Okay, here comes the Stars. New Kids on a Block in 1991. Gloria Estefan in 1992

Oh Michael Jackson 1993 Clint Black Tanya Tucker Travis Tritt and the Judds in 1994 Olympic figure skaters with Gloria Estefan

They got some I'd They threw down some ice I guess Pad LaBelle Teddy Pendergrass Indiana Jones Tony Bennett in 1995 Diana Ross in 96

The Blues Brothers in 97 Yo they had Teddy Pendergrass out there Yeah Was he in like soap pajamas getting everybody to lay themselves down sweetly. I mean, I didn't, apparently he was endorsing making love. Yeah.

Oh gosh. Boys to men, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations in 1998. I'm still waiting for like the super heavy hitters. Gloria Steffon and Stevie Wonder. Boys to men and Smokey Robinson and Martha, and the temptations are heavy hitters, Maddie.

Phil Collins, Christina Aguilur in 2000. Aerosmith and InSink in 2001. Those are also heavy years. Tony Braxton. So about 2002 people started to really, you know, get going. Ramp it up. Yeah. So there you go.

Pete Diddy was there in 04. Oops. When Janet Jackson got our wardrobe malfunction. What was that? That was Jonathan. Turn your microphone off. Your phone off. You're right. I don't know what it was on, then. I got you. All right. Let's go. Good thing you didn't say anything bad about us under your breath. Oh, he's

texting his girl. Those guys disrespect me so much. Blah, blah, blah, blah. I know what they're doing. Barry Maniloh is horrible. Barry Manil is not horrible. I'm a fall on the sword for that. You know what? Why did we ever not play this song Space Cowboys? I just listened to it this morning.

Why did we never play that on air? Barry Manolo? Space Cowboys? No, it was Barry Malo. I forgot what... Hold on, let me get it. Who had a song called Space Cowboys? It was actually a really good song. It was in Sugar Land? Space Cowboys.

That's a Steve Miller band, right? Yes, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. We should have played that. That was a good. What reason would you bring this up? I'm curious. Astro season's over, and then I was like, Space Cowboys, all summer, we could have played this song when the House Cowboys roster was up.

Oh. He was thinking about the show, Matt. He's an idea, man. So why don't we regroup on this conversation, maybe like April 2026? I hope you're still here. Let's, I mean, we anticipate you being here unless you get a bit, you know, better paying job. But that's, you know. Couldn't happen.

Impossible. Impossible. He loves it here so much. Let's talk to Thomas and Glendale, California, the Matt Thomas show, Ross. Thomas, good morning. Yes. I want to be opine. the Astros season.

All right. Here's my take. Astros, too many occasions did play smart baseball. In other words, some good teams, smart teams,

can score a run without a hit. Our guy gets on first, he's still second. You know, He's a situational hitting. He loses him at there. He scores.

Either on a butt or fly ball. Okay. I'm in California, and I listen to the Astros all the time. And it frustrates me because a lot of times it would be nobody out, runners on first and second, and they don't score.

Now, you don't have to have a hit to score. So I heard, another guy alluded to that earlier with Sean song bear but to me

they didn't play smart baseball you know and that was that was my cue during the whole season I would listen to a game and run on

to be on first and second and the guy had like the next guy was going to hit a home run you know and a runner on on third base and he pops out.

Well, a smart play would be to blunt, you know, you've got a better chance to put the ball down and somebody making a mistake a runner on third base, you can score. So those type of situations occurred far too many times during the season that added to losses rather than wins. And that is that, to me, was the real, issue with the Astros not being in the playoffs this season.

Only a few games. The only guy that did anything was Sal Tumay. I've seen him in situations where, I mean, a shock to the announcer, you know. He bought it and, you know, and scored a run. And I thought, wow, that's a smart guy, you know. That's my issue with the, with the, with the assholes. They didn't play smart baseball. You don't have to hit a three-run home or two-lawful to score.

The only time they got runs without, you know, a base hit, but somebody to walk with the bases loaded. And so that's my take. I want to hear what you think about that. 1030 on Sports Talk 790. Ross has tweeted out umpire auditor's analysis of the 2025 baseball season, and umpire auditor is a Twitter account, and it says umpires missed 26,500.

and 667 calls during the 2,025 regular season, including 1,200 of them being strikeouts. And then the video shows the 10 worst called strikeouts. Only one, by the way, Ross, this is glass half full. Only one involved the Astros. One of the

10 worst calls. Oh, that's good. Gosh, these are bad. Shout out Las Diaz. It's complete incompetence. It is complete and utter incompetence, and I've tried to defend the umpires because it's a tough job. It is a tough job. But man, oh man, oh man.

It's, and again, I honestly, the box does them no good because it makes a bunch of amateur umpires get even crankier. Yes. Because if you go look, look, you know what I mean? I'm a huge YouTube guy. I like looking at old games and stuff because it's nostalgic for me. There were a lot of calls of 1991 that were missed. Absolutely.

But you didn't feel nearly as bad because I want to box staring right at you. The data shows the umpires are getting better and better and better. Yeah. It's just the box hurts. Yes. but what if you could get every single one right? And they're installing the technology to do it. Yeah.

Well, I mean, Ross, can I just tell you this is someone that you have been pushing for every single? Small steps, big, Brian. Okay. Small steps. Yeah, I'll take it. It's a minor victory. Nothing for me.

But we must push forward, Matt. I want to thank our friends at Walmart. Big sponsors of the show. Yes. And hearing your commercials, in the history you and I working together, it may be your best work because what I do is I listen to your commercials for Walmart and you all that spanglish you say.

Yes, sir. And I don't know a word it means. Uh-huh. But I wind up trying to talk like you. Okay. And it's probably offensive and probably shouldn't do it. Okay. Well, this is not good.

But I'm just saying it's just like, I'm just making up little words. And it's like, did you order your haritos de tamarindo? See, that's what I'm saying. I would go, uh, but it didn't do you know, it can be to your door within an hour with Walmart Plus, folks. Yeah, you hear that? You hear that? You hear that?

You hear that. You hear that. You hear that. You spend money. Your company spends money in the station. or a heartfelt message from me. Your choice. I can give heartfelt spanglish.

Yeah, you know, we can do tag team. I'll do full English, you do Spanglish, or I can do Spanglish, you do English. Because if you give me the script, I can read it. Okay. Wouldn't that be hysterical? No. All right.

By the way, somebody sent me an email. I listened to the show and said, hey, we love you guys. Could Ross do a Spanish, good morning strippers? You don't speak Spanish? Not really. Spanglish. Could you do Good Morning Trippers in Spanish?

I don't know how to say strippers in Spanish. I'm giving you an assignment. that time. I'm good. Yeah. Well, it wouldn't take you long to figure it out. Why don't you next time I'm out? Do a good. I'm good. Okay. 713-212-5-790. Ivan with her. So the Matt Thomas Show, Ross. Ivan, good morning. Mr. Texas. Yes, sir. I'm here.

Oh, my God. The worst candidate ever. It is not. Ivan knows. Ivan knows. He knows. I wanted to say the good morning strippers in Spanish is when the strippers, I don't know how to say strippers in Spanish, I know how to say, Buendia. Good morning. Good, okay. Okay.

First, I want to say about my Astros. I love them. They tried their best. They gave it their all, like Correa said. That's all we can ask from them, honestly. I think there should be changes, of course, but I don't think they should fire the coach. I think a spot is really good. He just needs to have a healthy lineup.

And my second thing is about the bad bunny. Honestly, you should try listening to him, Matt. He's actually pretty good. He's good music. I went to his concert. He's actually really entertaining. You know, the last time I saw a bet, and I don't know anything about him. And, again, for me, it's so low-hanging fruit to go, this guy sucks, you don't know him.

It's just too hard in today's world with so many hundreds of millions of people watching to find something that's universally loved. I mean, so, again, you could have 50 minutes of dead air, and I wouldn't care at halftime. But the point being is, I did see him on Saturday Night Live. It's pretty funny. I don't know really I know anything about him and I'm going to watch because it's halftime.

I mean, what am I going to go do? Go mow the lawn during halftime? No, am I going to go work on my kid's homework? No, I'm going to watch the halftime. Crush some wings. I mean, I may do that too. I may go to the bathroom after crushing those wings, but that's a different issue for a different time. Okay.

But point being is the only thing I would say is this, not about bad bunny. I think of all the genres, you probably could find the biggest mass appeal by frankly what Taylor Swift a rock band right when you think a a really awesome rock band would be you know NFL's trying to be more

international and bad bunnies is the epitome of going international some of the biggest stars on the planet yeah just doesn't have to be here but it does but again they're not doing he's a huge star here too yeah but I mean still still a lot of people don't know they know who he is the name by name but you couldn't point out a song I think a lot of people could in different spheres spheres? Like in the Vegas sphere or? Yes, in the Vegas sphere.

All right. I don't know. Does 104 play them on a regular basis? I don't even know. I don't listen to 1004. I got you a good song. You do? Yeah, just so you get the vibe of how, you know. Like a rate of record kind of thing?

Well, you don't even know the Raider Records are. His last four albums have hit number one in America. And the one before that was number two. So he's doing okay. Yeah, he's at the Super Bowl. And again, yeah, I mean, the NFL ain't going to be stupid about it. I just... By the way, I saw something that Jay-Z contacted him.

I thought Jay-Z wasn't doing this anymore? Because you said, wasn't your gut feeling it was going to be jelly roll? I thought it was going to be a country. I think I said country. But maybe he said jelly roll. I mean, he's country rap, right? I don't listen to his music. I'm sorry.

I'm sure he's great. I mean, I'm sure he's insanely popular, right? Yeah. People can, if we've discussed, people can be insane. popular that you don't know their music. That would be bad money for me. That's a lot of people. But I mean, let's say that you got, who, I mean, if you got, I don't know, if you, if Pearl Jam would play at half time, would that be University of Beloved? I mean, I don't know. I guess. I don't know. I mean, Bad Bunny was, he was at, uh, Minute Maid recently a few years ago, right? He tore up the turf. Yeah. Everybody was upset. We're down with Bunning. You just. chair at the turf. Cost the Astros games.

It wasn't his fault. Talk to Jimmy C. Yeah. No, Jimby's like, we can do this. It's fine. It's fine. All right. 1043 on the Matt Thomas show, Ross. We are about 15 minutes away from hearing from Dana Brown and from Joe Espada over at Dyken Park. 713-212-5-790. Well, there's a huge issue here with me. It's I don't speak a word of Spanish. This does something for me. All right. Just imagine it being sexual and like

okay. And so then you get the vibe. Oh, that's more of my cup of tea then. Okay. That's right. Now imagine, close your eyes, Matt. I'm closed.

Imagine you're at the club. Well, I am at the club. By the way, I'm wearing a suit, a top hat and a cane. Jonathan. Exactly. You would rock a top hat. The light of flashing.

Yes. The fog machine's going off. Yes. Could I be dancing to this? Absolutely. The beats getting ready to drop. Yes. And you're surrounded by big booty

Latinas. sounds fantastic there you go it's not I mean it's fine that's one I mean again now there are some people I'm trying to think of

okay go to do we get that list in front of I got rid of the list you know I'm trying to think of anybody that's now look Kendrick Lamar I don't get and I I can't pretend to go oh that's fine I don't get it but that's it's not he's not looking for me

just I kind of get I mean, young people who like that kind of music, dance music, I bet I say, it's going to have that kind of appeal. I just don't like hip-hop. I just, I've never really have. He's the king of Latin trap, Matt. Latin trap of what? What are you trapping? Trap music.

Oh, okay. He's like the, he's just a sex symbol, basically. Yeah, he is, actually. But it was on Saturday Out Live. I mean, you know, he's obviously, they're popular enough to put them on there. Mm-hmm. Yeah, like I said. He's big in the Astros Clubhouse.

Is it? Yeah. Everybody that says, I'm not going to watch it. You're going to watch it. We are the, our world is the king of I'm not going to do something, but yet you wind up doing it anyway. I'll give you two examples. The Astros, moving America League. I'm never watching the Astros again.

Yes, you are. Before that, Major League Baseball went on strike in, what, 1994? I'm never going to go watch a baseball game again. Yeah, you did. You're going to go. He came back. He came back. Big or better.

It took some juicing, but he came back. Well, I mean, it did. Whatever means, that's serious, I guess. Mark McGuire and Sammy's toast to juicing, but hey. Thank you, Mark. It's all good. Thank you, Raphael Palmero. Thank you, Mark. Whatever the case, but, yeah, we...

Barry? Barry's like, oh, okay, I see how the game is played. You know, and honestly, check this out. What I'll do is the last time I've done something where I've said I'll never do something is really about restaurants or gas stations. You said you'd never go somewhere again, and you did? Yeah, there's a place in Porter,

and I won't name the restaurant. we had one terrible experience there and I drive by it probably twice a week at minimum and I always go remember that time we went to that one place and we never go back and we never went back and we always think to ourselves

man I wonder how they're still open because they always put a special up on their board and it's not really a special like it was like a barbecue stuffed potato 1999 I'm like who would pay $20 for mid barbecue stuffed potato

so that's the only thing in my life that I say I'm never doing something again it's restaurants I'm trying to think of anything I swore off and possibly went back to. Well, probably drinking several times in college. Oh, people do it about smoking? People do it about waking. I'm never going to eat another fried apple pie from a water burger again.

I never say that. I'm never going to this. I think it's easy. It's the lowest hanging fruit. I'm never going to go to a restaurant. Because there's 900 million restaurants you can choose from him. You get bad service. You don't go back.

Everything else you kind of guy. I love baseball. Like, I don't even know if Larry and Stafford listened to show. Larry's dropped the Texans more time that I can care to think of. But every year he comes back to him. You're back to the Larry Stafford of the show. You bet you've been through and through with the Texas. You're never leaving them.

No, I'm not going to leave the Texans. Battle Red Ross for life. But you know they're never going to the Super Bowl as long as McNair is on the team. That's not true. It is. That's a ridiculous statement. I think it's a very extremely valid statement. And so far I'm one for one on it. You ain't going this year.

Okay. The Pittsburgh Steelers are never going to the Super Bowl again. I would be safe in saying that Steelers are better off going to the Super Bowl before the Texans do. I've been right for like 12 years. But they've gone and won. Yeah, but they're never going again. Oh, they're not? No, I've been saying it for 10 years. You have?

I didn't know you said that. Yeah, I didn't check down your gut feelings. Yeah, sure, why not? Good for you. Let's go to the phone. 713, 212-5-790. All right, so Statman wants to talk about the Lions, the Texans, the NFL, and the Astros. you get like 60 seconds here Stamance

you got a lot of work and do at a very short period of time What do you got? Let's talk about the Let's talk about the fact that Ross doesn't like hip hop Just turn on Pandora and make a station Called Akon A K-O-N

And he will learn that hip-hop Actually is pretty damn cool And Eminem is for Detroit I like hip-hop What are you talking about? I thought Ross just says No, I'm the one who doesn't like hip- It's Matt

Oh, well, then you need to listen Matt's not going to know. Matt's going to be closed-minded. I've listened to Bunby is one of my besties. I don't like it. What? Yeah, I mean, come on. I don't like it. Listen to Eminem.

He's like a genius. I mean, this guy can write like nobody. I mean, I'm serious. Just put on the Acon, on the Pandora, and see what you think. And give it, give it a fair chance. And I would just like to say that the lines will, but they're back. The Texans look out their back. And I hate to say it, but the Texans have the best defense in the whole league. They've given up the least amount of points. And unfortunately,

the offense is lacking an offensive coordinator, would you not agree? Yeah, Nick Kili has had a very mixed bag so far. Probably more to the, more to the disappointment to anything else, yeah. I would say that Nico was yelling at him the other last week even though he refuted it

and looked like he was yelling right at him saying, get going. Like my father used to say while we walked on the streets of New York City, get going. Thanks, stat man. Appreciate it. Thank you, Stetman. I appreciate it.

We just had to call her Dave going at that point. Matt, you were saying never do something again they're watching when people said they're never going to watch the NFL again when they took a knee. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yes, yes. I'm, you know. Good times. There's a lot, he has a lot of not a, not doing things.

Ratings have grown every year. As has revenue. And it continues to grow. I always thought they would never have a Super Bowl overseas. I'm done with that. They're going to play something overseas. Probably. Probably.

Hopefully the field's okay. Well, I mean, wouldn't decide, couldn't decide Arabia write the NFL blank check. So let's put it here. They could. Will the NFL take it? They've big enough stadium there? I think so.

They play soccer there, right? They've had, yeah, I think so. Okay. Yeah, Chris Ronaldo was over there. There's no way to have a big enough stadium. I don't know how big those stadiums there. By the way, I'm not a big overseas guy. Okay.

I want to go to Dublin. They look at, everybody was having a great time there. Okay. I mean, I've been to London before, and it was just mid to me. I didn't have a great time. Now, granted, I was working. about 80% of the trip. But I didn't like it.

It was cold, dreary that people were mean. They got terrible teeth. I mean, it was just a bad experience. Okay. I would like to travel to every country. I just don't have the means or the time. But, I mean, tell me, is double. Did you watch in that early game?

No. Oh, I did. I was, I was, I thought it was up. I mean, the Steeler fans were all over the place there. I mean, I was up, but I was at the, I was at the NRG Stadium, Orange Lott, getting buzzed. Join yourself. Getting buzzed.

That's fine. All right. Let's hear from Medina Brown next. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Let's go over to Dike and Park right now for Dana Brown and Joe Espada. You know, right now. But I will tell you that I'm, I am the GM of the Astros. So.

As I said, I'm the GM of the Astros. As I said, I'm the GM of the Astros and that's what I would expect to be tomorrow, the next day. Next day. Okay, Matt. Okay, Matt. A exception to further clarity about what Joe will return is. Can you speak up, Matt? Sorry. Have you just had any further clarity that a couple of days ago about what the Joe

will return next to me? Look, I mean, I made it very clear that, look, Joe is the manager, and Joe's under contract. Another question? Go ahead. You guys promoted Cam Smith very early lost-year service time. I guess, in retrospect for you, made the same decision

and what do you think he gained in the big league club all year? Yeah, I mean, look, we needed an outfielder, and so I felt like Cam Smith learned a lot at the major league level this year. And I think this season that he had

this year is going to be important for next year's development. And so I would expect that he's going to have a really good offseason, and he's going to come back like gangbusters. So I really feel feel like that need that we had in the outfield and using him and letting him develop and get some time. I mean, at one point, he, you know, was hitting over 285 with over an 800 OPS. And, you know,

just like everything else, you know, you run into the ups and downs of this game. But I think he's going to learn a lot and he's going to be better for it. Okay, Dan and Brian. Joe first and Dana, if you want to hop in. Statistically this year, you guys were middle to lower of baseball, is there anything to lead you to believe that it can improve with the current structure you guys have in place coaching-wise? If you feel like that's something you'll have to look at, it'll be honest. Middle and bottom of what you were referring to. Runners of the scoring position, average OPS, home runs.

Yes, I think there is areas in our offense where we can improve on. I think throughout the year we made some adjustments and we got better in center areas, but I think that's an area that we as an organization need to look into how can we have belly quality of bats, how can we improve on getting on base more frequently and be better throughout the entire season. Yeah, and look, I mean, anytime you get your and I missing four months, you get Paredes missing two months, you get Pena missing a month and a half, you get Myers missing two months, I mean, your numbers are going to be down. You know, those are everyday major league players that you don't have on your team.

And so, you know, we'll address, you know, some of the things like taking more pitches and being a little bit more selective. But make no mistake, when you take pillars out of your lineup, it's going to affect your team. It's going to affect some of their at-bats. When Yorna and Alvarez is in a lineup, you have to pitch him, you have to pitch guys around them differently. And so I think the absence of Yoridan really affected us big time. Hey, Brian. Joe, have you, have any of your staff members said that they're all coming back or have you had a chance to reevaluate your coach and staff of the future of those guys going forward?

You know, Brian, you know, season ended 48 hours ago, and we are really trying to have some conversation and see how we're going to move forward. So that's what we got right now. Okay, Chandler. As you look at the injury situation in the season, do you think this team has an injury prevention problem or is it something that needs to be looked at in the return to play? How do you guys get injured players back on the people?

Look, I think this is an industry-wide issue with the injuries. And, you know, but like everything else, we're going to take a look at, you know, every one of our departments, right? And so just to make sure that we're not missing anything. But I think we have these industries. The injuries are industry-wide, and there's, you know, there's guys throwing harder. There's guys chasing spin. I don't think there's a magic bullet to why there are so many injuries.

I know we were affected big time from it, and I think it cost us, you know, the postseason because of all the injuries. I figure we two or three more wins if we had all of our guys. But I don't think there's a magic bullet. And as for just taking a look at this, we'll take a look

at every department in baseball operations. And you guys look back at both the Alvarez's hand situation and Myers as Kaff in August. As you reflect back, there anything you guys could have done differently in those situations?

Yeah, I mean, look, for Alvarez, potentially more imaging. I think that may have helped us. But it's difficult when imaging's telling you one thing. And, you know, so you try to go with what you're seeing. But maybe we would have got more imaging, you know, with Alvarez. I mean, I think what Myers felt like, you know, he was trying to push it. He knew other guys were, you know, hurt and he was trying to, you know, push it a little bit. and, you know, we just, we need to get away from this injury bug that we're up against.

Okay, Matt. For both you, you mentioned just the emphasis on, you're seeing more attention and being, you were selected, that was also an emphasis going into this season. Just what have you done differently going to the next season is pretty difficult in the game. Yeah, part of it is, as I said, look, you know, with some of our guys being out, I think that affected, you know, us. I think we, you know, when Paredes went down, we started seeing less pitches, Pyrr at bat.

And so, look, I think that's going to be a big focus, you know, for us, that you got to hunt your pitch, stick with hunting your pitch, and get to more two-strike counts because you're making the pitcher work a little bit harder. And I think the fact that we chased a little bit early, it's just, I think our guys were pressing a little bit because we had guys missing in the lineup, and we tried to do too much. You know, just to add, and I think there, you know, there was a period of time when we had some younger players at the Major League level trying to fill some of those holes. And so it takes them time to set their feet in and what the Major League at Bat would look like, potentially trying to do too much because of the void of other players.

But I think they handled themselves really well. there was a stretch during June and July where we had younger players performing at a high level, you know, grinding abats, putting great abats together, doing little things very well to help us win games. So that's also going to take away from overall numbers on pitch selection and stuff like that. But I think as a whole, there's ways that we can address that. And we'll do that. We're in offense that when we do the little things well, we take pitches. We drive the ball in hitters count.

We've done it in, you know, all the years that I've been here. We just got to get back to that discipline approach where we know that we are an elite offense when we all work together. And there were times where we kind of got away from that. But we have to do a good job of bringing that mentality back. And we will. We will. There's no doubt about that.

Do you both think that that message was kind of deliveries to the players the right way or are effective way? Yeah, I was in the day. I was in there all the time, and we did. But there's times where, you know, there's the level of game that we are playing, the platform, the expectations that sometimes, you know, players get away from that approach, which is very normal. We just got to continue to emphasize the importance of controlling the things that you can control and be the best hitter you could be in that in that at bat. And if you do that, it will trickle down. And now you get a whole entire offense working together.

Okay, Ari Christy then, Brian. For either of you, you guys have 20 hours to look at stuff. What have you been able to evaluate so far and what are your priorities to evaluate? Yeah, I mean, so we first, of course, been able to evaluate that, you know, you came up a game short, right? and you dwell on that for more than you'd like to. And it's frustrating. You start looking back at every single close game, some of the ones that you blew,

and you just play that back in your head. And so that's something that we've been dwelling on a little bit. But, I mean, that's a big part of the first 48. you know, it's just hard to envision that you're not, you know, playing in the postseason and it's been tough. So that's pretty much what I've been dwelling on. I haven't really gotten to much after that. You know, for me personally, it's having conversations with our players. I want our players to be proud of the effort and their fight till the end.

So it's me having conversations in the clubhouse or, you know, picking up the phone before they start the off season. Let them know that they fought till the end. And we came out short, and I could hear in their voice how they're ready to start next spring training. You know, this is going to put a ship on our shoulders. Like we are a postseason team. We are built to play in October, and it was disappointing that we're not playing today. I'm not happy about it, you know. but also we are learning from things that we could have done better, how can we improve our club,

and our players are hungry to get back to spring training and play. That's what my 48 hours have been, aside, we're spending time with my girls. All right, Christy Bryan, and then Dan. Joe, I mean, obviously, you certainly don't want injuries, but because you've had so many, and you were able to get so many young players meaningful advance. Do you believe that will help you guys moving forward to have to have? that experience? You know, I think that's a positive that gets kind of lost out on the narrative of the injuries, and I don't want it to be part of the, I don't want the injuries just to be

the narrative. Let's talk about also our young players who came up and did exceptionally well, and we're going to need those players moving forward. We have been able to sustain the success because young players come up, and they play, and they turn out to be great players, all-star players. And I think we were able to find that out through these injuries where, hey, we got some young arms that came up and, you know, help us get to this late run position players who came up and, you know, fill some big shoes or some big-time players because they knew they need to do it. So that, that aspect, not only performing, but knowing that, you know, what, this team needs me. I'm also, this is, I'm showcasing, showcasing myself,

next season. I want to put my name on the radar where I think this team can count on me moving forward. And I saw that development on our players, which I think is very important when you try to sustain winning the organization. Okay. And I know you talk about evaluating players, evaluating your staff, but do you, like, do self-evaluation? No, 100%. Yeah, it's all right to cut you off, but absolutely. I look at myself in the every night after every game. WACET I've done better. How could I communicate myself better with the player, my staff?

This is my second year on, you know, managing this club, and I continue to grow. I'm open-minded about suggestions and ideas. How could I make myself not myself better and make my players better? Absolutely. If not, I've been, I would not be helping this organization if I'm not holding myself. accountable because at the end of the day, I'm the manager of this team and I'm responsible for what goes on in that clubhouse. So I care about that deeply. I care about the organization and I care about putting the best product on the field because our fans expect us to win.

And I take that very seriously. Okay, we'll go Brian, Dan, Michael, and Matt. Brian. If you guys going into spring or healthy, seems like you have a log-down players on the infield with, you know, Kretis and Kena and all those guys. How do you see that play now in the off season and going into the next year? How can all those guys coexist? Yeah, I think that's what the off season is for. I think it's a great problem to have, but I think that will solve this itself by itself.

Okay, Dan. Dana, two parts. Financially, where do you guys feel like you're going to be in terms of how aggressive you guys can be this off season? And when it comes to trades, do you feel like you guys have any untouchable guys on your roster? First, nobody's really untouchable. I mean, you have to keep every avenue open to try to get better. And, you know, if there's an opportunity to make a trade, we'll make a trade. But, you know, right now our roster is put together very well.

I think we have a really good team. If we stay healthy, we will for sure be back in the dance in October. So what was the other part of that question? Financially, just how aggressive you guys can possibly be? Yeah, I mean, Jim Crane has never held back. So, I mean, I would think that we're going to have the full ability to go out and, you know, acquire and get better. And if there's areas that we think we need to improve on, whether it's a starting pitcher or left-hand bat, you know, I think we'll be, you know, in the market. Okay, Michael, Matt and Jesus.

This is for Joe, but they can ask. Also, usually in October, you guys are playing baseball at the ballpark. You guys have any plans for your off time in October? I'll tell you, I'll share you. I'll share you a little personal story of my little one. She was very disappointed that we're not playing in October. And, you know, I asked her, you know, daddy's home. We get to spend some time. And she wasn't very thrilled about the fact that we're not in the dance. And I told her that, you know what, maybe we're going to work really hard to get back to. October because everything she's known is October, which I, you know, appreciate that from her.

But, you know, she said, Daddy, you guys are a good team and, you know, thank you for being here for the next couple of days, but I wish you guys would be in the postseason. She mentioned Halloween. We've been in hotels for Halloween, all this, you know, nice stuff that a 10-year-old would. And that, you know, it touched my heart because, you know, how much I care about my kids, but also about playing October and I was expecting to play today. And it's really difficult not to be on a baseball field today, suiting up and representing the city. But at the same time, it's time for us to, for me to reflect and, you know, honestly,

how, you know, grateful I've been and how lucky we've been to be in a postseason for a very long time. So for me is it's time for me to, you know, reflect. And how can we make this team better? How can I make myself better, my staff better, so we could get back to October. Okay, Matt, Jesus, and then Jason? Just a couple of quick things about how two days roll, obviously, how do you do that going forward? Well, you know what, for me, Matt, we're going to sit down and go go through that.

obviously, you know, things were shuffled around because we were missing players. So you go from plan A to plan B to playing C. And what I do want to say is that it's important to, again, remind how important Hoselle Tuba is for this organization. You go in there with a plan A injuries happen. Number one, this guy is posting every single day. You know, he plays through pain. ups and down, easy in there. Joe, where you want me to left field?

Okay, second base, yes, D.H, yes, here we go. That's very important. Now, my job is, our job is to, you know, once all these guys are healthy, put another plan in place where we could maintain all these guys healthy throughout this season. I think that's going to be where my main focus is going to be. How can we play these guys where there's D.H.

stays for everyone and, you know, who's going to be playing here and there? so we could keep this guys healthy. And once we do that, once these guys are healthy, we're going to find ourselves playing deep in October. For me, is Altouret, he's always open to do whatever is best for the team. And respect him immensely for that. Also, with their team coming your creation, and how do you feel just kind of the organizational that they catcher

and would be any interest in possible working with that? Yeah, I mean, we would have interest in bringing that. would have interest in bringing them back and, you know, having some conversations. Because if you don't bring him back, you definitely need a backup catcher. And he's been, I think, one of the best backup catchers in the league. And so we would like to bring him back. And we'll have conversations about it, you know, but if he's going to be a free agent, so if he decides to go somewhere else, you know, we have to be in the market for a backup.

up. But we would have definitely have interest in talking to him. Okay, here's just Randy and then Chandler. Dana, can you address this and then for press Joe afterwards? Can you tell me what your rotation options look like for next year and how realistic is it

that you could go with these arms without adding something to create a if you use for Amber? Yeah, I mean I think you know, it's going to be headed up with Browns. and we're going to have some conversations like we've had in the past with

Valdez and then we got some young guys that we're going to see what they could do but then we're going to have some other guys coming back off the IL Javier is one

that I think he was the one that I thought once he came back he started getting it up to 95. He had a couple games where he touched 96. And so I think he could be a big part of it. You know, Blue Ball, you guys saw what he did at the end of the year.

You know, he still had the consecutive scoreless innings. You know, so we'll give him, you know, a good look. And so look, we're going to have some options. We're going to probably be in the market for sure to you know, trade for an arm. But, you know, we definitely have

options. And, you know, I'll let Joe talked to some of the other guys because he wanted to get in on this too. But I do feel like, you know, we're going to have enough options in terms of our rotation. Yeah, and, you know, just to, I think he touched on Havi. I think Havi was really show towards the end of his season that we're going to see the heavier that we saw in years back. Obviously, Hunter Brown, Sall Young candidate. For me, he's one of the best in the game, feeling great about him, you know,

coming back and being that workhorse that he was this past season. And there's some young players that we're really excited about. We were talking August, September, about, you know, some pieces, some of these younger players that are coming up, which we will have conversations once we start putting this together. But I'm really excited about the future, guys. I think that it's going to be a fun offseason for us, trying to figure all these out and trying to put the best team on the field.

I'm looking forward to it. If I could follow up on the catcher situation, some people within baseball wonder if your catchers really had the respect or the authority that a Martine Madano have with your pitching staff, where he kind of kept them in line. Did you think the sense that your catchers have gained that trust where, say, if an ace kind of goes out in line, that you could keep him in line? Because Martine did a really good job of managing your pitchers. Yes, to answer your question. I think our catchers did a really good job on that aspect. Okay, Randy. I mean, they led to league and strikeouts. Randy and then Chandler?

Two-part question, guys. The impact Carlos Correa had coming back, we could talk about that since he arrived. And the leadership he brought back on the field in the clubhouse and moving forward to go to the spring. and the second question. The sample size of Zach Cole, what did he show you in this time up and looking forward with him? Yeah, obviously, the Carlos huge impact. I'm happy to have him back,

and I'll be, you know, touching base with him in the next couple of days. We're going to go have dinner and we're going to talk about a few topics that I want to bring up. But he'll be very much involved in my discussions about you know, how are we going to make spring training, how things that way we're going to address

in spring training. I personally like to empower some of our leaders to have a say in how we're going to address these, you know, the aspects of our games that we need to address. So Carlos would be in the middle of those conversations. And Zach Cole obviously came in, and, you know, I was very impressed with the power, the, how calm and collective he was doing, he's at bat, how well he played center field, the throw he made in LA that last, the second game of that series, that was really impressive. That was a big out in a big moment, and he was able to execute that throw, which I thought it was very impressive. So I'm really excited not only about him, but a lot of the younger players that came up this year, and as we plan for our future,

we got to really, you know, consider some of these guys because they did show some ability to play at the highest level in doing a playoff run. Okay, Chandler. If you look back at this deadline, you said that you guys were going to count on a lot of the pictures that were coming off from the dial. So I'm sure that was in part also with the prices of why you guys went so they were heavy. I guess looking back and looking forward because you guys do that picture on the aisle going to the spring, do you have to maybe temper your expectations for what pitchers can provide you coming off of the injured list after such long layoffs? Yeah, look, I would say that, you know, we were really relying on, you know, Javier. He came back.

I thought he did pretty well. You know, Araggetti, he came back off. You know, he had some good moments and not so good. moments. But, you know, we really have confidence in those guys and, you know, we felt that they were going to be good. And so, you know, could we have maybe addressed some pitching? I think our focus was more on the bat. And so, but, I mean, I still believe in some of those guys that, you know, we had that were coming back. But, I mean, I think the bat was the way, the bats were the way to go because we were, you know, so beat up, you know, and we needed also to get a left-hand

back. You talked about, you know, when we're talking about financial wise, where you guys are going to be money-wise next year about, you know, Jim is always important. And you guys, if you guys spoken to Jim since the season ended, just about what next year is going to entail and kind of laying out of a plan going forward to the next year? Yeah, look, sir, I talk to Jim on a regular basis, and, you know, we consistently talk about, you know, the major leagues team, the staff, you know, front office staff. And so our conversations are constant.

Yes, yes. Okay, one more in English. Kim. Hi, I don't know if you already addressed this. So if you do, I apologize. I have kind of a two-part question. You were talking about pictures. Have you talked about and thought about what you guys do with Lance and a great update on the rush?

Yeah, so Lance, I'll answer that one. Look, the plan is for Lance to come into spring training and try to compete and help this club. I mean, he had some really bright moments, you know, this year, and it's very difficult coming back off an injury where you haven't pitched in two years. And so I think that, you know, he gave us his all, and he had moments where he was really good, particularly the one in Los Angeles against the Dodgers. But, you know, we would expect that, you know, pitching this year, we would expect that, you know, them next year to be even better. And so we're hoping, you know, that, you know, he comes in and he's,

you know, ready to go because we can use him in that rotation and we can get, you know, the lance that, you know, he's capable of being. Second part, what was it? Hater. Hater update. Oh, sorry. Oh, yeah. So the Hater update, you know, we continue to get imaging consistently. He's getting better. He feels better. And so I feel like, you know, confident about it. But, you know, of course, we won't know fully until he starts to throw it. He's going to start throwing at some point, and then we'll know more.

But it's moving in the right direction. Okay, we'll switch over to Spanish now. All right here. All right. That will be our post, it'll be our coverage, I should say, of the press conference from Dana Brown and Joe Espada, trying to think about these things. Hey, we'll do it. We're going to push gut feeling this to 1230.

Give us a chance to kind of let us breathe. read about what we heard there. Catch up on a couple of breaks. We go commercial free on that because we wanted to let you hear everything they had to say. So Ross and I wanted through a couple of things. If you heard something interesting or not interesting to you or something that was of a concern or, hey, I like what they said. You are now free to jump aboard and let us hear from you at 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

Good half hour of questions from the media to both Joe Espada and to Dana Brown. We'll hold off our commentary about what we thought was interesting, what was surprising, not surprising. We'll get to all that coming up after I tell you about Big City Wings. Since we kind of skipped through our first break of the hour, we're going to make that up. So we're going to take a call here real quick and then get back on the clock to the best of our ability. But again, sometimes breaking news, you've got to fix things, right? Rossi, any initial thoughts about anything you heard? Nothing breaking?

No. No. startling, no. Dan are saying that he's going to be the guy. Sounds like Joe is still going to be there as well. I did think the question, I think it was Dan Matthews asking the question

about basically asking the hitting coaches without saying the hitting coaches. It didn't seem like it was a ringing endorsement saying we're going to evaluate that part of it. So I feel like there could be something in the works for as far as a change there. did say they need to trade for arm

So only brought up Fromber really one time And kind of I thought in passing I mean please No one should think that Framber Valdez Is seriously coming back He's gonna hit the market It could be a scenario I mean could we if he's like not signed in February

And the Astros say sure whatever We'll bring you on a one year deal I could see that happening I could frankly even if the Astros don't sign him I could see Framber having to wait a while Yeah look at how late these regions have been waiting these last couple years. They've been waiting a long time and while you were bad for two months of the season.

Yeah. And you threw a pitch that hit your catcher in the chest and he wasn't ready for it. That's not going on the resume tape. Not great. Kathy and Dickinson 1134 on 7 on a. Hello, Kathy. Hi, thank you for taking my call. Sure.

I think it's my first time calling in. But I'm a general, you know, viewing, listening fan. I don't keep up on statistics or some average. But what I'm noticing on my end is after watching the Astros for many years, especially this year, they need some help and not just in their team, like their players. They need some changes and some help. You know, I might have brought it up in their training staff. I'm a physical therapist, but I'm just saying the athletic trainers have got to do some adjustments, some isolation of soft tissue training, to get them to be stronger and prevent some of the injuries that they're getting.

And I know they're trying to do their job, but I'm just saying, as an observer, looking in. And also, the press conference was kind of blasé to me. There was nothing to say, Mo, Say, Mo, we can't wait for the spring training. We're going to change you and do things better next year. They say that every year. And especially this year when they didn't make playoffs. But something in general, you know, you know, Yes, of course, we need some players just with different things changing their coaching, whatever.

But something has got to be done on a, which I guess you could call not a lower level, but in athletic training, in the trainers. They're not addressing what needs to be addressed to prevent injury, and injuries are recurring, and we have had quite a few this year, which some are accidentally or Yodon slip on home plate, whatever, but he's been out quite a bit. But yeah, so that's basically my external comments on the whole situation, and I just, I love him the death.

And hopefully, hopefully, don't get it together next year. Thanks, Kathy, for the phone call. We'll address what she's concerned about next. 1136 on Sports Talk 790. It's pretty universal from those that have sent us some messages on social media. It was, I mean, honestly, I don't know if I was expecting a lot of breaking news out of it. I did want to play it because it's easier for us to let them say as compared to us paraphrasing so you can get the context of what is being said.

clearly the injuries were a huge part of the team and I would expect if I was in their shoes I'd say the exact same thing but you have to also remember ladies and gentlemen they're not going to give you a lot of intelligence literally two days after the season they're going to have to evaluate the medical staff they're going to have to evaluate the hitting coach

they're going to have to evaluate themselves they're going to have to evaluate the current 26 man roster yes the current you I do believe and this could be the case with every major league baseball team, whether you're healthy or not. You simply can't run it back. There's too much fluidity in sports in professional leagues to just say, we get everybody

back, we're going to look forward to Lance McCuller. I mean, if you're banking on Lance McCullors helping you in 2026, that's foolish. And I don't think they believe what they said. No, I don't think they are either. A quick, can I, devil's advocate, Kathy from last segment? I mean, we had to get to a break. Yeah, go ahead. She was talking about how the trainers aren't doing good

and they're not doing preventative medicine and Jeremy Randall who's come under some fire for some people on social media. He's been the trainer since 2015. And I'm just talking out loud here. Let me just put it that way.

They won like training staff of the year early on in his tenure and this is his 10th season. And this is the worst the injuries have ever been. So what we have to parse out and what Dana Brown and the Astros have to parse out, and I think they will probably make a change, is, okay, so was the training staff really good for all these years and the attention to detail slipped,

or their training methods became outdated? Because it's not like this rash of injuries that seem for the Astros is completely unprecedented. And can I say also training staffs and athlete, it definitely relies on the relationship you have with the person taking care of you and how they feel about you and what? Which in itself, and it's a good point by you, Jonathan, if there's a relationship issue between trainer and athlete, that could be the core problem.

Not their diagnosis. You know what? Yeah, I can ask this, Jonathan. Professional, D1 athlete. So the guy's been a good trainer and, like, training, they've been training staff of the year and he's been here 10 years, and all of a sudden this year, he forgot how to be a trainer or? That's what I'm saying.

Because he sounds like he's been for 10 years as well, but even in track, and I've been to two institutions, there's been training people I won't go to but my teammates will they like it this is NIST they help work but if I'm working with this woman or this man or whatever

trainer and I'm like I'm not getting better I've been my cast this is hurting I haven't fixed anything and I go to a different trainer he's all right do this this this is NIST oh you're doing this and this and they listen to you it's a lot about relationship as well and your own recovery and everything else with the athlete

and trainer so it's an individual basis yes I mean I can't imagine Imagine, look, it'd be hard to us imagine that a trainer for any sports team is going to have 26 strong relationships. You'd like it to be, but we've got to do in realities here. Some trainers may say you should be pushing yourself. Other trainers should say you should be backing off. Exactly.

The player doesn't say, well, that's a good idea, or the player says a bad idea, I know more. Or my own personal trainer knows. Yeah, a lot of these guys have their own teams. Yes. All I will say is this. if they don't do a ridiculously deep dive, it's malpractice to the organization.

Uh-huh. Yes. And I think, talk to the players. I promise you there are going to be two different sides of the story. And the question is going to be up to it's going to be able to Dana and it's going to be able to gym as to which side they believe.

There's no way in the world if you are in that clubhouse and you have so many of your players, your fellow teammates hurt that you're not scared that the medical attention that you're receiving on a day-to-day basis isn't flawed in some way. That's just, I mean, I'm sorry. It would just be the case. If I was a healthy player for the Astros, I'd be thinking, it'd be part of me thinking it's not a matter of if I get hurt a twin because something

we're doing in this building is not right. Now, that may not be true. Yeah. But that's the player's perspective. I would see it if I was a player. and last year was basically the first we talked about it, I think. Right? I mean, we weren't talking about the Astros training staff in 2021.

Ever since Kyle Tucker situation. That's what I'm saying. The Kyle Tucker thing, everything, and then this year, everything has kind of come to a head. And again, silence isn't always golden. They didn't say a word about it last year. Now, this year, they were a little more transparent with the injuries. Once, yeah, after a lot of climbing. Once after a while, it took up an entire page of media notes section.

It's just the truth. All right. We are now going to take our final break of the hour. We'll catch us up. And then we're going to get some more phone calls with. The news at noon coming up. Oh, wonderful. We'll do gut feelings at 1230.

Yes. We got NFL Rewind at 120. Lovely. And we have Bad Bunny, believe it or not, at 150. A lot of Raiders running game on the NFL run at Rewind. Uh-oh. He did catch two touchdowns, right? Ran for a 64-yard?

And ran for one. Yeah, I saw that. I was expecting a text in a matter of seconds after that happened. I watched it. Sometimes I leave you be, Maddie. You don't need to. Remember, I give it, I shall take it. And that's what we go to break.

1147. 1147. 1147, Sports. All right, we are now all caught up back on our regular clock. We thank everybody for listening to the show and allowing our great advertisers to speak for themselves. Rossi and going to Walmart. Mark can get me some more of the sloppy Joe makes I make. I got lunch for lunch today.

That's good. Sloppy Joe's underrated. Love sloppy Joe's. My kids, boogey, not so much. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, my girl, man.

I don't know. Who raised them? What's wrong with sloppy Joe? Me. I don't know what we did wrong because I love me some sloppy Joe's. I got to sneeze. Ross, bring up here on Instagram. Yeah, you know what?

Follow me on Instagram at Sports RV. You can see me smiling like a seven-year-old child standing next to Kevin Durant. I would say in the 16 year history of this show, almost 16 years, we've probably fan-boid less than five times. We completely fan-boid yesterday. Well, I was holding it together for the picture,

and then he put his, Kevin Durant put his arm on my shoulder. And I was like, oh, my God, Kevin Durant is putting his arm on my shoulder. So if you want to see me smiling like a schoolgirl, as Kevin Durant puts his arm on my shoulder, go check out my Instagram at, sports RV. It's following. Ben DuBose, who does the logger line, was like, why don't you ask him about that time that you were so mean of the lineups of the Golden Sit Wars? I'm like, I got to be

honest with that. First of that was 2000, what, 18? Yeah. Secondly, he's been announced seven million times. Rudely. Yeah. I don't think he was like, oh, man, I was really shook by that. That'd be fine to bring, but I mean, we only get nine minutes with them, which we appreciate him, obviously, for making any time. Yes. But yeah, I mean, we could spend an hour plus with him. I mean, he was so, he was thoughtful, engaged, making eye contact with

both of us the entire time. It is funny because, again, I was not the Walter Cronk out of journalism, and I said, I was like, Katie, this is surreal, and he goes, yeah, I know. You're trying to get him busted for tampering charges. No, I was not. I mean, yeah, you were trying to Woodward and Bernstein.

I didn't mean to, that was purely bad accident, clearly. But yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, this is the surrounding, he goes, yeah, I know. I guess I've been coming to this building for 15 years and I turn left right away when you get in and now you've got to go a little bit further down. Yeah, yeah, that was funny.

Good stuff. Yeah. So if you want to catch you those interviews, they're available on the IHeartRadio podcast on our Sports790.com webpage. Yes, they are. All right, let's go back on the phones and talk to Brian and Pearland

has been patiently waiting. Hello, Brian. Good afternoon, guys, and good job with KD yesterday. We're off. I'm sure you were thrilled to know that KD also has not washed his hands since he made you. Yes, I was. It's been a thrill for you as well.

I had a suspicion, yeah. Yeah, that you were as big a celebrity as he is. Of course. That's got to be thrilling. No, I mean, anybody who thinks on that Astros press conference, you were going to hear earth-shattering news that, hey, we're training Christian Walker tomorrow and moving Paradeus the second or, you know, you're not going to get that.

A lot of introspective, but, you know, the one that did kind of surprise me is, you know, the question about all the infielders, because you do also have Bryce Matthews waiting on the wings. So I think it was a good question. I would love to, you know, maybe kind of figured, see how like Bryce Matthews fits in the plans because you do have a glut in the infield when all those guys do come back and get healthy. I think also having that left-handed starter and Frommber is huge. Not saying bring Frommber back, but if you're going to address the starting

I hadn't looked at the free agent list to see who might be out there maybe to get another left-handed starter. And seeing one, if you guys know roughly, I know you're taking into account arbitration, but, you know, getting Abrae you off the books, Jose Abrae, you're not Brian. Montero Presley as well and not having to pay Frommberg 20 plus in arbitration, roughly how if there's a projection of how much money the Astros would have to work with, obviously you're going to have Correa coming back on the books and Al-Tube's money and all that. If that number is roughly out there. And then finally, for those of us who did join late to the Jake Myers fan club,

knowing the fact that he rushed back, what other benefits are we going to possibly get to make up for that time loss that we did not get with Jake Myers? So that question specifically to the president of, you know, what we plan to do moving forward to alleviate those concerns. Thanks, Brian. We're just, we're going to support Jake whenever he's out there. Apparently, according to Dana Brown, and kind of pushed himself a little bit too hard with the calf injury.

I mean, that's not shocking news to anybody. And he wanted to be out there. And there was a lot of guys trying to, trying to gut things out. You know why you do this is because you're thinking, all these guys are hurt. I can walk. I'm not 100%. But I want to be the difference in this team making the playoffs and not making the playoffs.

And that's what Esak Perrides did is like, man, we're still in first place when I went down. I want to make the postseason. I play baseball to win. Best team I've been on since I've been to Major League. Look, Peridius had a little bit of a sketch, kind of a reputation coming in.

I mean, two-time traded for probably for a reason. And for me, 100% respect for that guy for fighting through all that. Yeah, he did not have to do what he did. And he wanted to be on this team and he wanted to contribute it. And he came back. Same thing for Jake Myers. I mean, and Yordon probably was managing some hand pain when he came back.

But then unfortunately, the ankle thing happened as well. It's a weird season, man. Now, the roster is currently put together. It's hard to even do that because you've got some guys that are going to have arbitration bumps and salary. So it's hard to even gauge on that. You are going to lose Framber off the books. You still have Christian. And then you get the El Tuvae money starting to kick in.

McCuller's still on your on your table Hazer Sanchez may be non-tendered I'll give you another one Yeah Maricio Dubon Non-tender Supposed to get a bump

But I mean do you feel like he's He's Just an extra need that you don't have to have him With you have when you have Well the question is You have Ramon Urius who could cover the infield And a lot of guys who can play outfield I don't know if you have Romone Urius

And Jose and Marisio Dubom on the same roster in 2020. Right, exactly. All right. The news and noon is coming up in a matter of moments. Come on in and join the conversation. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We will also play a little bit of some of the comments once they get clipped into our system of what you heard about a half an hour ago. If you just are just joining us, Dana Brown, Joe Espada, meeting with the media together. Dana Brown saying, yes, he is a general manager today, tomorrow. He said Joe Espada is the manager today, tomorrow. Okay.

Again, I'm just trying to put the PR spin on this. I don't think you put both those guys out there if Jim Cranes are ready to make a move. I would say, yeah, I would agree with you. But there could be, what if Jim Cranes on the fence? What if he still needs to evaluate, wants to talk to players and. And I guess you could say, well, if you wait much longer, what are you waiting for you? If you're going to have this end of season, media availability, you might as well do it, right? Yeah.

All right. 12 o'clock sports talk 790 this is the matt thomas show with ross here we go at 12 o 5 it is the matt thomas show with ross coming up at the bottom of the hour we'll do our gut feelings master gut feelings you got yes baseball predictions on the playoff gut feelings hitting coaches gut feelings i don't think they want to be listening to those gut feelings i don't think they wanted to listen to that press conference i don't think so there was there was a lack of endorsement that's for sure Also at 120 today, it's Ross's NFL Rewin, which will be a lot of Ascenti highlights, I'm sure. Over and over and over and over again, which is fine. And believe it out today. You brought it up last week when he struggled.

Someone bring it up when he's running for touchdowns. It's only fair. It's only fair. And then we got, believe it or not today, all things about bad bunny. Right now at 12.6 is time now for the news at noon. And with that, we go to the, let's go with you are the Carl Ravage of Sports Center anchors in Houston. Yes, Matthew. Well, at the news that dude,

we do have to start with the baseball playoffs getting underway right now. The Tigers and Guardians just getting started. Terrick Scruble on the Hill for the Detroit Tigers against Gavin Williams of the Cleveland Guardians. Later on, you'll have the Padres

facing off against the Cubs. Red Sox and Yankees on ESPN. I know that's going to shock you, Matt. Actually, all four games, there are a... on ESPN. As are the Reds and Dodgers, the late night, 8 o'clock game. Dodgers, big favorites, every other game fairly close today. How's it

feel? The postseason is underway and the Astros are not involved. Can I just tell you all from the bottom of my heart? This sucks. I know there are some people out there won't mention names that want to, I don't want the answer to make the playoffs. I want them to get healthy. That's ridiculous. rooting rooting interest macro or micro for you. I'll give you mine real quick.

I am rooting for Aaron Judge to fail. I am rooting for Shohael Tani to play well and pitch well if he does. And I'm rooting for Kyle Tucker to have a big postseason. That's because you're a selfish hungry, don't want to get your credit card out

to pay for a nice Habachi grill dinner. I'm just telling you what I'm rooting for. John, you're going with us, by the way. You don't have to pay. Oh, you added, we added a writer. There's a fast food writer for all three of us as well, by the way. Then I'm running for both of you all. I don't know.

No, you're just working hard. That's what. Okay. If he goes one for 11 in the series, I don't think you'd make a series worth a losing money. I mean, I think, I don't know. I think. But if he goes like five for 11 with two jacks.

If he winds up being the National League MVP, Playoffs MVP? Okay. Yeah, I think he can help himself more than he can hurt himself. So I will say this. Kyle Tucker, you're a nice fellow. I hope you go 0 for a 9 with six strikeouts. And you pull a quad. Oh, man. Pull a quad? I need habachi on your dime.

Wow. Okay. So a couple of news and notes as far as baseball on the end of the season. Carlos Mendoza, the Mets manager, as the Mets collapsed down the stretch, he will be staying. Okay. Rocco Baldelli, Twins manager, who I like. I think he's smart. Yeah, I like him too. He is out after a 7 and 92 season for the twins.

They only won seven games? 70. Oh, I was going to say, and Bruce Bochy is out as the Texas Rangers manager. And either he will be retiring, getting an advisory role within the Rangers organization, or he'll be back wearing Giants gear next year as a manager as Bob Melvin got let go. One quick note, as I was talking about Otani and the Dodgers,

he will probably start a potential game three. How about that? Game three series on the line, Shohei Otani hitting and pitching. That would be cool. I'm rooting for it. You know what? So go Reds for one game. Go Dodgers for the next.

Let's get a game three with Otani on the mound. That would be get your popcorn ready right there for me. Anybody wishing for the Tigers to be two and done? So maybe the AJ Hinch rumors won't go away? you want them to be too and done? Yeah. Does that mean more likely he would come here? More likely that he may not survive in Detroit.

Yeah. All right. Again, his contract runs out of the end of the season. Hmm. All right, Matt. As we know, it's Media Day across the country, or it was yesterday as well for the NBA. We had Rockets Media Day.

Shout out to all the great folks, the Rockets, for helping us out, get us some great players, including Kevin Durrent, and Thompson. Jabari Smith, Jr., and Coach E. E.M. Well, of course, a lot of talk around the NBA about Kauai Leonard. He says the allegations of his no-show deal are inaccurate. I understand the full contract and the services that I had to do.

I don't deal with the conspiracies or the clickbait analysts or journalism that's going on. I would have rather him said, yeah, all caught me. I'd rather him to speak to my lawyer. Yeah. I mean, he doesn't talk about you in the first place. Oh man, y'all got me. Yeah, I took the money on the side. I apologize.

So there you go. Also, LeBron James says he's not worried about his, he's not worried about his timetable with the Lakers, not worried about his contract situation. There was a Instagram video of him posted on his IG with the Lenny Krabbit song, It ain't over till it's over in the background. Do you think he plays somewhere else besides the Lakers?

before his career is over to him. I can't rule it out. I can't rule out him saying, I mean, wherever that opportunity may be, the best place for him to get a ring. Because the reality, he's not getting six, but he's chasing six. He is, the only reason why he's in it is to get the six. Yeah. Yeah. It's not happening for him? If I'm him and I want that six ring so bad, unless something dramatically changes. He's only got four. He needs to win two more. Well, as I'm saying, because look, Jason Tannen will be back next year. Tyrese Halliburton will be back next year.

It still even feels like the East would be an easier stretch and run to go get that ring as compared to going to the West. He joined the Lakers. Might as well join the Celtics. God, he'll be bouncing around more. I mean, he and Katie, both. I mean, when you've been in the league as long as these guys have been in, they're just going to be bouncing around. Lately. I mean, Moes and Malone bounced around a lot.

Who else? I don't know. Dominique, who can we think of guys? Chris Paul. Chris Paul's bouncing out. But, I mean, Moe was the first one to do it, for sure. And this will be mentioned on the NFL rewind, but it also was big sports news in general.

Unfortunately, Tyree Kill, a dislocated knee, which is much more severe. People have heard of dislocated knee caps. He dislocated his knee, which means there's a lot of ligaments shredded in his knee. It's just located so bad, it's behind his left shoulder blade.

That's how bad is his bad. He had, his ACL and other ligaments in his knee were torn. He's having, surgery today and apparently it's not even going to be ACL surgery today. He's going to have multiple surgeries on his team.

So we'll see him at all. Yeah. He's kind of not been as effective as he was earlier in his career. I think he is he 32 now? So you're saying that was the last time we ever saw Tyree Kill play? I don't want to say that. I will say this. This is the last time we've ever seen him as a dynamic NFL player for sure.

So he'll catch on with somebody. I don't expect much for him the rest of this career. Could he be the Devante Adams to a team down the road? See, Devante Adams is a big, at least a big red zone target. Tyreek Hill, a lot of his effectiveness was predicated on his speed and not his 40-yard dash speed, but his quickness. And I just don't see it. I mean, I'm wishing to the best, I guess. I mean, I hope it works out. Or you can say you hope it doesn't work out because he does have multiple domestic violence allegations? I mean, he hasn't been acquired, boy.

That's to the very, very least. But, yeah, his knee completely shredded last night. All right, we've got at the bottom of the hour, gut feelings because we push it back because of the Astros media availability. So if you've got any sports predictions, baseball playoffs, Astros' future, Texans at Baltimore with still the undetermined situation regarding Lamar Jackson. 713-212-790. That's at the bottom of the hour. 713-212-5-7-90. Seaman in L.A.

wants to talk about the Astros. you want to talk about the Astros and their injury status and how they handle things. We'll do that next at 1214 on Sports Talk 790. At 1 o'clock, we'll play some of the highlights of the press conference that hopefully many of you heard earlier today here on Sports Talk 790 between Dana Brown and Joe Espada. We've got gut feelings at the bottom of the hour and the NFL rewind at 120. So I've got a nice busy show for it, plus Bad Bunny.

Bad Bunny! And that girl in the background screaming about the 2025 I-Hart Music Festival. So how rude she was, right? She loves it. Do we promote that? Bad money going to be there? It's already happened. Thanks, sir.

You missed him. You must have missed it. Must have been a great show. Oh, it was great. Lots of people there. Lots of high-end people there. Let's go to Stephen, Los Angeles, California, 1222. Hello, Stephen.

Hey, guys. I appreciate you taking my call. You know, I was just listening to a little bit of the interview. And, you know, obviously, injuries happen in baseball. You know, they happen to every team. You look up and down. Most teams have one or two pretty significant injuries

that they have to deal with throughout the year. The biggest transgression for me, and I wanted to get you guys' opinion on this, is the way that they handled the return policy for your don, and basically had them taking batting practice on a fractured hand, which kept them out in additional six weeks. Maybe it was even seven. and I lost track at this point.

It's especially discouraging when you literally only missed the playoffs by one game. Just one game. I mean, you're telling me that he could, if he had followed the correct procedures to play, and even if he had dipped into a little bit more time to come back before pushing him to take that batting practice, that he couldn't have helped you out in a three or four weeks span to get you a run. I mean, that's how important he is. is to this team and how much of a significant impact he can have. And so that's really what bothered me the most about this season is how they handled that

particular injury. So I just want to get to you guys take all, hang up and listen. And as always, appreciate you guys on the show. Thanks, Stephen. I mean, we're not in the medical room. I don't know. I can't. I can't have medical degrees.

Yeah. We don't know what was looked at. We do know the result. The result was bad and it was multiple setbacks. The result was a really horrible issue with Kyle Tucker last year. The result was Jake Myers tried to come back too fast and he got hurt. The result was ESAC, right now was a different hamstring, but how much of that was compensating for his other one that he did hurt and was back playing on?

Who knows? Yeah. And I apologize, they're just not going to give us intelligence on this. But I would say if there is any seed of doubt organizationally and or especially within the players, then you cut bait and move on it. Maybe that's not fair to the training staff. Maybe they did everything right.

Maybe they did everything correct, but the optics are bad. Or the athlete just doesn't listen to rules. I think there is mistrust in the back of the minds of us as far as fans and pundits. And it wouldn't shock me if there's mistrust in the back of the minds of players in management in the team. There is no way in the world. You are an active member of the Houston

Astros and you go in that training room and you go in, my guy's got me. There's just too many players that have missed too much time with whether it be severe injuries or minor ambulance that turn into big things. Well, let's do the same thing. What if you're, say

you're Dana Brown, Matt and I'm the trainer, I come to you and say, hey, this guy's got a muscle injury, but he's good to go. You're going to be like, are you sure? Are you sure you're sure? So there's got to be mistrusting Dana Brown's mind or Joe Spott is mine. Joe Spott is getting the clearance to put these guys back out there and they're getting hurt. And then people are blaming. I know idiots are blaming him.

But you know what I'm saying? It does reflect poorly on everyone when this continues to happen. So yeah, I think there is going to be a change. And there is, there is machismo to discuss as well. We don't know to what levels. But there are a lot of athletes. That's true. Whether you're a Houston Astro or you're a Denver Nugget or you're a.

since Andy Bingle, you're going to want to play through pain because when you don't play, you may get paid, but it may ultimately impact your future. And you guys got an arbitration, you've got guys in free agency, you've got any one of things. I mean, you just, you have to be honest. And sometimes the athlete of today, that's in high school, that's in college, that's, they want to play. They don't want to be on the outside because sometimes it takes a lot longer to get back on the field after an injury as compared to all the hard work you put in.

to get on the field to begin with. Yeah, and you've got that competitive edge anyways. If you made it through high school or whatever youth and then AA, AAA, AAA, AAA, whatever, and you're a major leaguer, you got a competitive edge. You do. You like to compete and you love to be out there and you've just got some kind of, whether you call it a screw loose or whatever in you, that you want to be out there at all costs. Do I think Jordan has learned from this experience?

I would certainly hope so. I think so. hopefully knows what his hands are feeling like or when they're swollen up and puffing up and... But even, but Jake Waters... What a fracture feels like? Am I reading between the lines? Jake Myers tried to grind it out and get back out there

maybe when that calf wasn't 100%. Yeah, and then he came back again and then he was at the end of the season. He was put back on ice. I don't know, did he hit the IL? I think he did with the calf. Two days left, yeah. Yeah.

I don't want to put this all on the players, but I'm going to say the players do own some of this unless they are being given wrong information. your hand is fine. Go out there and swing. We don't see anything. There's nothing wrong. Go take some aspirin.

We'll see you at the batting cage tomorrow. That could be some of that too. But again, and honestly, it's all conjecture. And I wish I could tell you I had, you know, because I'm the Texans insider. I wish I was the Astros insider on this. But they've closed the door to the medical room.

They're not letting us in. Are we getting, are we getting McTaggart one last time or no not this week I think we should do that when Ross when something happens in terms of we get coaching change or something like that all right we got gut feelings right now

would you like to make some gut feelings about the future of the Astros the medical staff see you later how did Robert Ford into the room do you think they'll have him call them we will watch you go that'd be rude

that would be rude Dana Brown's like, Hey Robert, get in here real quick. I want you to tell these guys something. What do you want to tell him? What's your phrase? See you later. I don't know.

That's not the way I want to be fired. I don't want Robert Ford telling me I'm gone from anything. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. All right. If you've got gut feelings about what you think the asteris are going to do, let us know. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

Listen up, girls and boys. This segment so appealing. Gross and Matt Thomas. Yo, they got a gut feeling. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. I am deathly afraid for you to figure out how we did last week, because I don't think the results are going to be particularly good. Hopefully you've erased them.

What are I music going? Do you go hide? There it is. You're all right? I'm great. Okay. The document doesn't lie. A little spicy wasabi in my throat.

Who doesn't? Oh, wow. You were firing on all cylinders, Maddie. Oh, here we go. Go ahead. Astros make playoffs. Hey, I don't need a sign of fiction from you back there. Go ahead and get a buzzer for this, actually.

Yeah, we're probably. I mean some gurs. Give you some gurs. You of H. Cougars beat OSU by at least two touchdowns. Oh, damn, damn, damn. Rockets don't pick up a point guard. So far, so good. So far so good on that.

I mean, they have no options. Can I say they might, they'll kick the tires on something, maybe at the All-Star break, something like that? Or trade deadline? That's kind of a grandiose thing. Aggies beat Auburn and cover the spread of six and a half. That's another L. They didn't cover seven.

I think they won by six, right? Yes. Let me go look. Texans either blow out Titans or Titans money light. Nothing in between the line won't matter. That's correct. That was actually really on pin. Yeah.

Colts win the AFC South. We'll see. They did lose, though. Texans gain to gain on them. And them Jaguars aren't looking terrible. The Jaguars won in San Francisco, Rossi. With pretty healthy. With pretty healthy.

Well, healthy-ish. Trevor Lawrence only overthrowing five people. If the Texans lose week four, they're out of the playoffs. Well, they didn't lose, so we'll see. Er. Jonathan said if the Texans go 0 and 4, they'll go 0 and 6, so we won't see the light of day on that one. They did not lose.

I said Astros make the playoffs. Said they'd go 4 and 2 down the stretch. They went 3 and 3. I said the Texans would win, but not cover the 6 and a half. there was my confidence level in the squad. Wrong. And I said, Amin Thompson will be a good point guard for the Rockets,

whatever that means. Like, he's going to be a good fit. Stat-wise, you're backing that up. I got you. Yeah. And there you go. Those were our gut feelings, Matthew. Okay.

Nicely done. Nicely done. This week, I got Detroit beating Cleveland in the wild card. Detroit? Oh, you're saying that as they're up. No, I haven't said it before. We just were down behind.

No, wait a minute. It's just the third inning. Come on now. There's best of three. You wouldn't be saying that if you were down six nothing. Well, that is actually accurate. I got the Padres beating the Cubs that are kind of rooting for that.

Okay, Padres over Cubs. Yankees over the Red Sox. Dodgers over the Reds. Okay. That's a lot. Sure. You know what? I'll pair it all.

that. That's fine. I think you went all favorites. Yeah, I did. Call you Chuck Thomas. Well, that's fine. Well, I can't, you know what? I'm going to have to hold off the Texans, Baltimore. I'll put it this way. If Cooper, what's his name in the Cooper Cup? It's Cooper Rush. Okay. If Cooper Rush plays, Texans win at Baltimore. If Lamar Jackson plays, Ravens win over the Texans. Okay. Texans beat Cooper Rush. I don't think Lamar is playing, right?

I don't think so. I mean, they're being very quiet about it. John Harborough basically said if he could have come back in the game on Sunday, he would have, regardless of the score. Texans beat Cooper Rush. I'm going with it. Lamar Jackson doesn't out play. That'll be my gut feeling as well. Yeah, when you said one to three weeks, that sounds about right. I mean, because again, it was a 30. Wouldn't do hamstrings just miraculously heal themselves quickly? No.

I mean, it depends on how mild it is, but if you had to come out of the game, couldn't come back, yeah. Cougars. Cougars cover the 10-and-a-half against, or get the 10-5. What is it? Cougars will win by getting the 10-and-a-half. Cougars, they're 10-and-a-half-point dogs. 10-9-point dogs.

That's the last time I checked. How are we feeling? Cougars plus the points. A lot of red raiders in the crowd, too. But my name, there'll be a lot of red-refering. That's the Cougars fall. I don't care. Just fill the building up. I don't care. You don't want your own fans in the building? I want my fans in the own building, but I'm not going to beg you. If you can't, if you don't want to go see a 4-0 team, that's on you.

Wow. That should have been a strike and a guy just walked. We're affecting playoff games with bad calls. Focus Ross. In Detroit, Cleveland on the minds. Bad calls are affecting playoff games. Let's go tigers. Gosh, terrible. So you of age plus seven and a half. All right. Texas minus six and a half versus Florida I'm a stay away No what you know what I am the de facto longhorn fan in this room

As a stay away for me Texas give the points I'm taking the horns in Gainesville In general Texas And the points is not great But it did work out for us in Lake Charles Fine you want my actual gut feeling Texas doesn't cover the six and a half

What you think it's going to be that close I don't know what's my gut feeling I haven't broken down the roster. I can't name a Florida Gator outside of DJ Lagway. That's true. They didn't want to announce his name. It's just a gut feeling. Just a gut feeling.

All right. Very good. What else you got? Changes to text to Astros' training staff. Would you call that training slash medical staff? Or how I want to word this? Team doctors don't change because that's a corporate tie-in. Does one or more of the training staff members of the Astros leave?

Put it that way. You know it that way? Training staff and strength and conditioning changes. Yeah. Well, they could win 100 games and have no injuries. Also, they get a new MRI machine because the one they have, the one they have is pretty bad. Astros avoid dock in a box location. So how about that one?

Is that a good one? Is that a good feeling? Put my name on that one. Yeah. Okay. Jonathan, you've been quiet about this. What do you got about there? I want to hear from you on this one, Matt,

because I'm on the fence, honestly. Go ahead. Ooh, I hate when you put me on the fence. No, I think you're over this fence. Hitting coaches. One or both are gone. Thank you. Sacrificial lambs.

I think you're right. And you don't have been talking about this for like six weeks now. Correa loves Centro. I don't know if Jim Crane is going to care what Korea has to say. Let me tell you, Jose Atubei loved Alex Brigman. Astro said Alex and John. join time in Boston. Yes, but they also

not going to, training, the hitting coaches are getting 40 million a year from Boston. That's actually accurate, yes. Okay. One or,

I think you're probably right. Yep. Now, you guys took my, because I also believe that even if Lamar Jackson is on the Ravens, they look horrible. And I'm not even going to,

I think the Texans can actually, clinched that game and be honestly pretty... Against Lamar Jackson? Even with Lamar Jackson? They're not... No, I'm saying... He's not playing. This is a mood conversation. It's a moot conversation. That's just one.

Maybe like nine and a half point dogs. You can put my name on that. Standing on business. Put my name on. Their win agreements regardless. It doesn't matter the quarterback. It doesn't matter the quarterback. If they don't beat Cooper Rush, though... They could lose the Cooper Rush. They could actually. What was my projected line? Did I say one and a half or two and a half? I think you were in that range, yeah. Trying to see if they have it still off the board.

Oh, and then Vanderbilt upsets Alabama. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, what are you going crazy for back there? Texans are favored. I see, I know ball back here. Oh, he knows ball. I'm trying to tell you, Ravens look horrible. Like, they're horrible.

I thought they would be one and a half to two and a half point dogs. You think John Harbaugh uses that as momentum? Yeah. Bulletin barred material. is going to rally the troops. That is so funny. Oh, my God. Derek Henry's both.

All right. Does he not realize that Derek Henry's got his name in the Wall of Honor? He's fumbled. How many times in the first four years? He is a fumbler. Something's going on with over there in Baltimore. I don't know what it is, but they do not look like they used to. Can I ask for Zay Flores of a big game this week, just asking for a friend?

Oh, my gosh. You're 4-0. Shut your mouth. Okay. I've got Malik neighbors, dead, Mike Evans, out and and I also have he always like oh I'm good at receiver with Malik neighbors and Mike Evans

I'll get Rishi Rice for late season depth I'm down three receivers so I don't want to hear it okay it's not my year anything else boys and Archmanning this is his only game I think to prove that he can actually compete in the playoffs

you're saying this is a make or break game for him no I really believe that's it I have OU next week but you know Jen I hear what Kevin Durand to say about it That's why, yeah, but... SEC play. He believes, I believe! If Kevin Durant's got it, is back, why can't America?

Because he's a longhorn homer. And he also said 1-1, did he not? Remember first off of all pick? Yes, he did. Now, if he doesn't do what, it doesn't make him a good college football analyst. He may be one of the greatest players ever in the NBA.

Yeah, I don't know about it. It's college football acumen. All right. Seth and Josh wants to get to, on the phones, we'll get to you next. If any of you got got feelings behind those two gentlemen, 7-13, 2-12-5-7-7-9. 713-212-5-790 1243 it's a Matt Thomas show at Ross and this is sports talk 790 Let's go on the phone

1 3212 5790 remember Ross on gut feelings If you get them right you call us back and you brag if you get them wrong We largely forget about them unless they're absolutely absurd Ooh I got an interesting one that we can bring up yeah guys got feelings yeah Astros Enfield How are we feeling? This is purely gut. Dubon's not back. Okay.

Who's your third basement opening day? Carlos Correa. Who's your shortstop opening day? Jeremy Pena. Who's your second basement opening day? Jose Altuve. Ooh. Who's your first basement opening day?

Why are you making me wiggle like this? That feels like that could be a clip. Oh, je. I feel like there's two candidates. Well, clearly there's only two candidates. Why I'm wiggling. I was gut-feeling. I was gut-feeling Christian Walker.

But please don't hold me to this. And then what? Are you going to cop out with Yoron on and left in Eastside D-Hing? 713-212-5-790. Seth on the Matt Tombo's show at Ross. Seth was in your gut this week. Hey, guys. Throw two of them at you.

First one regarding the medical staff or the hitting coaches. By the time the World Series is over, I'd say one of those groups, one of those people is not here anymore. Can't tell you which one. And my World Series prediction, I'm going Brewers and Blue Jays. Brewers and Blue Jays. I'm sure the TV networks are thrilled to hear that. Oh, that might be, they may put that on like on, on, on, F.S2 or something. thing.

FS2? Oh, that's right. It's a Fox game. So, yeah, they're putting on an FS2 behind bowling. Oh, Milwaukee, Toronto. Their dream matchup would be Yankees Dodgers. Yeah, like they got last year. And it did very well for the mess.

No surprise. Mm-hmm. What would be the, probably Brewers's Guardians? I know. Anything involving Toronto kills him. Really? Absolutely. So Toronto would be worse in Cleveland, huh?

Because you don't even get a, you don't get a measure home market. Yeah. Toronto has some stars at least. Please. Name people in Houston, in Dallas, can they name three Blue Jays? George Springer? Everybody can name.

Yeah. Uh, yeah. Boba Shett. He's supposed to come back. And Joe Lopifido. Joey Lopofito. Joe Lopofito. Joe Lopifito.

He's going to be the World Series hero. And he's on a recorded line. Maybe not. That means. Alejandro Kirk. Are you done? Kevin Galsman fans? You're backing me up on this actually, and I thank you for that.

Jimmy and Tomball, Jimmy, what's in your gut this week? I got two. A little simple. Rents off, Billy, school series. And the main reason I call it, my biggest gut feeling is that the Cougars don't win another game for the rest of the year. Shut your bum ass up, man. They are going to win a bunch. We got Oklahoma State coming up in two weeks.

West Virginia is terrible Arizona's not good What are you talking? That's ridiculous Oregon State wasn't good either We're going bowling baby Take over time What bowl we don't go to?

Liberty? No, we're going to go to Birmingham Worst case we're going to be The 12 C could be the 11 C Salad Stop That's terrible

I think the salad bowl It defunct unfortunately It is It was the Garden State Bowl There was no seed A weed eater one right There's a week that's gone, gone too. The Freedom Bowl's gone.

There's a bunch of bowls. Oh, no, what? Blue Bonnet Bowls gone. Now we're something in the Prison Bowl? What happened to the Freedom Bowl? The Fascism Bowl? Home arrest bowl? Statute Limitations Bowl?

Oh, no. No, that's not good. All right, let's go to Josh on 790. Josh at 1253. Josh, good afternoon. Howdy. Um, I have to agree with Seth, with the Brewers and Blue Jays. I hope Springer gets himself another ring.

But, uh, I will say my gut feeling is that Walker proves to us why we actually signed him next year. I think he's going to have a bang out here next year. Okay. Um, he started to heat up a little bit towards the end, a little too late. But, um, I think he's going to prove all the haters out there why we actually signed him. Okay. We'll take you up on that. Thank you for the phone call. Now, the ending numbers. I don't really count the last game because that was meaningless. What do you mean? He's blasting home runs. By the way, Yonner Diaz finished tied for third. Home runs on the Astros.

All right. We got a little bit of breaking news here. Ooh, okay, one sounder. Let's do one more. Okay. Brian Wacker. who writes for the for the Baltimore son says Lamar Jackson

likely to miss Sunday's game with the hamstring injury per sources two to three weeks I think he said yeah all right Wackers usually on top of it as compared to not being on top of it

yeah you don't even know who Brian Wacker is what do you mean Baltimore son son who do you replace uh

Fred Flintstone no Aaron Wilson duh how do you know have your Baltimore son people down. I didn't get the lineage. I'm sorry. Christian Walker final numbers

OPS plus of 97. So that's close to average? He was, I mean, his performance this year was slightly below average, but not horrific. I mean, wasn't Jose Bray, you were horrific. 27 homers. He hit 26 the year before. Ballpark

easier to hit here than it would be in Phoenix. So it was a little bit. His OPS plus was 120 last year. Yes, because OPS Plus does factor ballpark. I mean, his season was okay. But he was supposed to be the solid wake up, hit you a base knock, a home run once every two or three days. Maybe that was unfair. Maybe we were too in love with watching the YouTube videos of him hitting home runs for Arizona and didn't look at the numbers of 0 for 4s, 2 for 11s.

I mean, when he slumped, he really slumped. Does that make sense? Is that too simplistic of a term? Well, his strikeout rate went, in three years, it's gone from 19% to 24% to 27.7% this year. That's bad. So more than once every four times he's striking out, which means he's not moving base runners over under any circumstance.

With rock rate going from 10% to 6.3, that's a significant drop. I always ask you this. Can you give me his runners in scoring position batting average? Yeah, I think it was like, okay, overall it was 238, and I think he was around there. generally year to year there's a lot of noise and risk I know people don't want to hear that but generally career numbers and year long

numbers are pretty close to what risk what they are risk all right last gut feeling go ahead you said you want to define it if you can I mean yeah 238 he hit 238 overall he had 238 so he really was no different with guys on base or guys by himself slightly better 737 OPS with RISP and 719 overall

you were hoping to get you were hoping for league average what 750 760 somewhere you wanted him closer to that number and his OPS blood and his OPS. They do leverage too but I hold on I lost that. You talk I could find his leverage. For me

there was just too many times this year I guess not too many. There were more than I wanted to see the opportunity to be the hero and was unable to be the hero but you can say that about a lot of the guys in the offense. Jose Al-Tube can say that about you said that you're on Diaz you said a lot of guys. Low leverage 782 OPS

uh-oh this isn't back at my point isn't it? High leverage, 581. Yeah. So, yeah, so I wasn't imagining things. Also, high leverage generally means close and late. You're going up against better relievers. And there's more pressure. Yeah.

Let's get to Ray before we get to closing out gut feelings. Ray, good afternoon. Ray. Calla, caller. Calla, calla. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you're on. I disagree with the last caller.

Can you hear me? Yes, sir. Go ahead. I disagree with him about Christian walk back to the bench and also. Victor carry me back to the bench. Victor carry me back to the bench and Christian walked back to the bench. They're going to be gone.

They're going to bummows and disappear. They are. Territiini was good for a backup catcher. My last one is I have a gut feeling that Matt Thomas is going to be calling game one of the Western Conference Finals for Houston Rockets. That's what I'm talking about.

Let's go! I just felt the tiredness in my eyes hearing that. But I'm ready. Why are you tired? Oh, I know while you're tired. A lot of playoff games. I got to do a lot of postgames. Well, let me take some. And the Astros will be playing, too.

We're going to spread it out. But I miss it. No. I miss it. I miss it. I miss doing post games. It didn't matter. We only did. I mean, I did it in this year, but it was game seven was terrible.

Yeah. And I took two hours of calls that everybody crying and we're all sad. Why are you laughing back there? Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. My pain is hilarious. You are here too.

You were here, too. It was. Yeah. Let me say some. Let me say some. Everybody hurts sometimes. Jonathan? Yeah, it took two hours of trade Jaila Green talk.

Then he got traded. We wouldn't back off of that. I mean, people would ask us, is he untouchable? We said, nope. Frankly, it felt like to me, now that we look back on it, it was out there was untouchable. I don't think anybody was for particularly a Janus deal. But outside of that, yes.

Virtually untouchable. virtually. Things can certainly change. All right, that is gut feelings. Game one Western Final, no, where am I going to be doing it? Am I going to be in Houston or am I going to be somewhere else? Houston, Texas, baby. Probably Oklahoma City. Now, we need to, we'll do that NBA predictions.

Now, mine will be completely biased, and I won't hide that. Because I'm not going to root for Dallas to win the West. I'm not like, oh, I got that one. I don't want that. Oh, hell no. It's okay. I will call it as I see it. I will not call it as I see it.

I will call it as I want it. Thunder are heavy favorite right now. I think I can tell you who the Western Finals are going to be right now. Okay. So you're not worried about FVV? No. Or Denver. Maybe the Rockets are playing the Nuggets in the finals, Western Finals.

That's true. Does I mean tell you? Right now? You want to lock in a gut feeling? Or next week? Or tomorrow? Or next second? Next week.

Because it's time to take for it. One o'clock on Sports Talk, 7.90. is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 105 on Sports Talk 790. We start the final hour of the show with Word. The Detroit Tigers lead the Cleveland Indians. In the best of three wild card series are in the bottom of the fourth. The Guardians of Runners at first won nothing.

Jose Romero is at the plate for the Cleveland Guardians. So here's the thing. The Astros would have won the West. they would be the home team. This game would have been in Houston, Texas today. We would have been at the ballpark. Instead, we're in this studio watching these two Giponi's teams play.

That's okay. I'm not happy about it. I'm not happy about it, but it is what it is, Matt. I want to be there. The future is now. What? I'm just making things up. I think maybe one person got that reference. I'm surprised Jonathan's not laughing back there for some reason.

That's before his time. Yeah, I didn't get that at all. All right, Rossi, we had a press conference at Dinkin Park earlier today. Let's run through some of what we heard. Yes, so many different things addressed. And a lot of the big topics, of course, about the training staff, about the team and their offense. So let's go ahead and start off with Dana Brown about addressing the training staff in the offseason. Look, I think this is an industry-wide issue with the injuries.

and you know but like everything else we're going to you know take a look at you know every one of our departments right and so just to make sure that we're not missing anything but i think we have these industries the injuries are industry wide and there's you know there's guys throwing harder there's guys chasing spin i don't think there's a magic bullet to why there's so many injuries um i know we were affected big time from it. I think it cost us you know, you know, the postseason because of all the injuries, you know, one, I figure we two or three more wins if we had all of our guys. But

I don't think there's a magic bullet. You know, and as for just, you know, taking a look at this, we'll take a look at every department, you know, in baseball operations. So clearly he does not want to throw the medical staff under the bus, at least yet. Mm-hmm. Yes.

Industry-wide problem. I mean, yeah, we talked about what. The Dodgers had a bunch of pitching injuries. The Diamondbacks had a bunch of pitching injuries. We can look around. I mean, there's a lot of teams having... Let me give you this. What if he would have said the following?

And this could be perhaps too harsh. So if it is too harsh, thinking about how the organization defends its organization, the question was asked, are you going to look at your training staff? Yeah, we are. we're very disappointed in the amount of injuries that we had and the recuperation time was a lot longer than we wanted to be. Is this because of our players? Is it because of our training staff? Is it because of just the nature of the business?

But yeah, we're concerned. That would have been probably a little bit more assertive towards we need to do a deep dive or was he just kind of broad brushing the whole industry and said, yeah, it's not us. It's more of the sport. I think it's broad brushing and I also think that's the the way that Dana is going to go about this. That's going to be his

his MO is to defend the organization and then at least outwardly, at least in this setting, and in the microphone, maybe behind closed doors, I'm sure there's some tough evaluation going down. And guys trying to figure out

and try to get to the bottom of this. I think that's difficult for anybody. For Dana Brown doesn't know for sure. I mean, look, he's a baseball guy. He's supposed to be out there, scouting and making picks and building a roster. And it feels like, you know, didn't we joke about it?

Like at some point throughout the season, like, Joe, do you feel like you're getting a medical degree this year? Because you have to learn so much about all these different injuries, too. Caves, hands, hamstrings, elbows, shoulders. I mean, it's everything. And how about this? Are you going to go get an independent set of doctors to come in here and look at your records? Yeah, what do you do? You're not going to do that.

How do you go about it? Because here's the thing. these teams are tied to hospitals and those doctors are not going to throw their fellow doctors under the bus. And some of those hospitals spend sponsorship dollars. Not some. They all do.

Every sports team is attached to a medical care group and they and as part of that you get the doctors from that medical group. Yeah, it ain't easy to just say, fire everybody. It's just not that easy. It'd be interesting. I'm very curious to see what happens. Now, you can't fire people just because your family base wants them to. But the fan base needs to know that you're doing everything within your

power to prove that everything that happened injury-wise was completely a fluke. Not a fluke, but it was the injuries happened and our medical staff did everything in their power to try to get those guys to recuperate as quickly as they could. It is interesting to try to, first of all, as we know, winning cures everything. But the Astros didn't win this year. So you want to keep fans happy, but you also don't want, you don't want to run an organization based on fan opinion. That'd be ridiculous. You can't.

You can't. You can't. No, because if that's the case you have every manager and every coach fire and every player traded, we just can't do it. All right. Continue on. All right. Joe Spott also asked about his staff and if everyone will be back. Season ended 48 hours ago, and we are really trying to have some conversation and see how we're going to move forward.

So that's where we, that's where we are right now. Okay, so it didn't sound like a ringing endorsement for anybody and also asked about improving offensively for the Astros because we know there's a lot of struggles there. Yes, I think there is areas in our offense where we can improve on. You know, I think throughout the year we made some adjustments and we got better in center areas, but I think that's an area that we as an organization need to look into how can we have belly quality of bats, how can we improve? on getting on base more frequently and and be better throughout the entire season.

Better at bats, get guys on base more. Good generic stuff. You're not going to solve something in front of a podium with a bunch of reporters. I mean, look, off-season are six months for a reason. He will first deep dive into his organization. Then if he's going to make any changes, he's going to have to go find people. And again, the players, you've talked about this before, the players do feel comfort zone with these guys.

And so my guess is Carlos Correa will say, you know, they will go to, if they make a change in her hitting staff, they say anybody with that twin staff worthy of bringing down here to do something. You know, he was there for a long period of time. But yeah, Alex Centron, I believe, Carlos Correa, those guys are real. They text and talk throughout the season even when he was with the twins. Absolutely, they do. They're very tight. Yeah.

But it's not Carlos Korea's call. No, no. The players can make their suggestions, but it's ultimately. it should be the manager and the general manager's call. Are anything else? Yeah, one more from Dana Brown. We'll stick with the offense. Yeah, part of it is, as I said, look, with some of our guys being out, I think that affected

us. I think we, you know, when Paredes went down, we started seeing less pitches, Purs at bat. And so, look, I think that's going to be a big focus, you know, for us, that you got to hunt your pitch, stick with hunting your pitch, and get to two more two strike counts. because you're making the pitcher work a little bit harder. And I think the fact that we chased a little bit early, it's just I think our guys were pressing a little bit

because we had guys missing in the lineup and we tried to do too much. I'd say the same thing. I mean, this team did press. Yeah, it was not. It was a lot of bad swing and miss. It was a lot of guys trying to be the heroes. And it wasn't because they weren't bunting enough

or it wasn't because they were taking the pitch to right direction. We took a collar and said they needed a bunton more to score more runs. Well, they also the Astros don't play smart baseball. Matt, do you know the two teams that led baseball and runs per game? Were? The Yankees and the Dodgers. And they also smacked more home runs. I was going to say, do you know who the two teams who led the major leagues in home runs?

I do those home run counters on the Astros on the show. Hey, she's just like you and I do. Yes, we do. Yep, we sure do. It's the Yankees and the Dodgers. Anyways. 114 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We've got, we'll take Scott and Tomball, and we'll also get to NFL ReW.

also coming up in a few minutes as well. Plus, today's edition, believe it or not, all things about bad bunny. Guardians have scored a run in the bottom of the fourth against Tark, Scoobel and the Detroit Tigers. It is 1-1-runners at first and third, and there is a bunt down the first baseline. Scoobel fields it underhand toss with his glove for the out number three.

Why is he bunting there? Bunting sucks, you morons. It just does. Why are you bunting? Why are you bunting? Catching him off guard, Rossi. He caught him off guard to the third out. To the third out. He was so cocky.

He pitched the ball from his mitt. Well, I guess I would try to bun versus scubilee too. You know what I would do if I was going against Tark's I would throw my entire body in front of home plate. Hopefully I'm part didn't catch that. 113 to the Matt Taube show at Ross. 713-212-5-7.8. If you want to follow us on Twitter, it's at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Sports Talk, 790.

Matt and Ross with you on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-1-2-1-2-579. We owe you an NFL rewind. We'll get that for you in just a couple of minutes. Right now on the phones we go. Let's talk to, my screen is down momentarily. Let's talk to William calling us on 790. Good afternoon to you, sir.

What's on your mind today? Hold on, hold, I can't hear you. There it is. Yes, go ahead. I say there's a sporting event that happens in Houston once a year. That is? I think it starts tomorrow at Bogies. It's a seniors one-pocket tournament.

Okay. Have you ever heard of it? You know, the Filipinos, people from all over the world come to play on it. once a year. All right. I've been playing pool for just under 65 years. I've hardly ever had a real job my entire life. I played with all these people.

Do you ever play with Minnesota Fats? I knew Minnesota Fats. He was just a Flavagaster. He was a flabbergaster. Wait a minute. So he was fat and a flabbergaster? Is Ephra and Ray is going to be there? I knew Moscone really well.

I know Ephrauny. I know all the, you know, the Filipinos. I took care of the guy that played in the color of money, the world's the best money player. Yeah? I know all these people. All right. I played with them head up.

And you win or lose? I've been here in Houston since 1994. All right. Nobody in Houston, Texas, the United States, and possibly this universe have the balls to even interview me. to this day. I'm what you would call the invisible man. Mm-hmm.

You know how none of these channels, you know, political channels, all of them, they ever talk about what the deep state really is? Yeah. Well, I got victimized big time by them people. Wow, that's not nice. I hate to hear that. I had a thousand people try to make me a suicidal mass murder for fun.

They weren't after me. They were just messing with me. And I knew the waiter that was running around when Nicole and Ron Goldman, you know, the O.J. Simpson murder. Yes. I'm familiar with that. Yes. You know what that really was?

That was the biggest wagged a dog in the history of civilization. That's where you take an incident and you blow it way out of proportion. So two people, okay, hold on, hold on. You knew Ron Goldman? Did you know Ron Goldman? No, I knew the guy that was a waiter that worked part-time with Ron Goldman that played pool. He went out of his way to let me know he was messing with me. He got murdered the same way they got murdered.

Only OJ was already in jail. Let's go back to the pool game. Are you more of a Stripes guy or a solids guy? I told you, I'm the invisible man. I'm blacklisted by everything. I'm telling you a story that's worth at least $20 million. Just to, yeah, really. What if I got Netflix to do a story about your life?

Would you be up for that? Sure. You know what was in the media? You know what was in the media for the first three days surrounding the murder and the Bronco incident that never got mentioned again or pursued? The Rockets in the NBA finals? Are you Cato Cailin's grandfather? You know where I was, I was in a pool tournament.

And when I walked into the club that this was in Anaheim, you know, they're having a pool tournament. And these two guys that were about six foot one walked up to me chuckling and they're going, hey, Bill, you've been here before. How you doing? Bill, have you heard my story about when I was in a pool hall once in a long time ago?

But what about it? I was at Slick Woolies, and I was only 18. I shouldn't have been there because I was drinking, okay? And my buddy, Chuck, took a pool cube and tapped a girl on her ass. And he's like, I'm going to do this. And so he did it. And the guy, the boyfriend turned around and started to try to beat up my friend. I took a pool cube and hit the guy in the back queue and hit him in the back of the head with it.

And then the guy, the bartender at Slick Woolies rang the bell and said, call the police, call the police. And fat me and my buddy Chuck were. ran out of slick wool as fast as humanly possible. Because I was 18 years old and shouldn't have been drinking. That sounds like a rock and roll song to me. Listen, man. I've been to a lot of rodeos.

So you know what was in the media? I've been in the rodeo since Wynona's been there. That's been a long time because I'm in the rodeo. You go to the rider? Prison rodeos or regular rodeos? Winona Ryder was in the rodeo? No, Winoa Judd. Oh, okay.

Sorry, go ahead. What rodeos are you going to, William? is this a metaphor for something? Yeah, it's a big metaphor. You know, when you get into a situation, it's really a little bit over your head. What's the craziest situation you've ever been in? I don't know.

I've had guns in my head. Jikes. With bikers stomping me in the middle of nowhere out in a state park in Michigan where they closed that state park for two years behind because three people got murdered. I rolled under up some pine trees and well, they didn't want to follow

me. But anyway... What were you doing at the State Park? Are you just trying to camp? Were you making s'mores? We were we were, we got a little bit too boasts and...

Yeah, that's going to happen. When we got there, there were all these bikers walking around bare chested with their arms linked marching around by the bathrooms and we went up in the hills. And then we decided to go hit some campfires and say hi to people.

And when the dust cleared, we were surrounded by bikers. You ever seen a grown man naked? You mean like when you were in high school and you, you know, playing football and all that stuff? Yeah, that seems to me. Or you could be in your middle ages. I don't care. I was just curious.

Yeah, well, I don't even know why you were to ask a question like that. I don't care. That's not my vocation. That sounds like a yes. I do want to know what was in the media for the first three days that never got mentioned again or pursued. You went O.J. Simpson murdered those people? Yes. They were talking about the group sex parties, the hidden video cameras, and they organized crime people.

Those are the people that were messing with me big time. Only I knew what they were doing, and I was making fun of them for. being a bunch of low-life idiots. O.J. didn't know what that was all about. It called the game. I'm you familiar with it? So O.J. didn't murder anybody? It was just a big cover-up story for underground sex rings?

No, the cover-up wasn't about whether O.J. did it or not? The cover-up was about why in the world did it even happen in the first place? That's true. Did you know... 30 million people in this country got involved with the sex club and pornal thing on the internet. And a bunch of them got involved with stalking people that happened to wander into their coven. Yeah. I wandered into the queen that works for the federal government that became the highest paid person in pornography at the time.

Let me all under. We got to wrap this up. William, I'll let you know. I am against group sex parties. This one will let you know that. Okay. This show does not endorse group sex parties. Are you standing against them?

Does that mean you were involved? No, I'm just saying I'm against. I am Matt Thomas, a responsible. citizen of this community. I'm against group sex parties. So were you at these parties? How'd you know about them? They tried to be a drug dealer so they could send me to prison. I went to the FBI

before I left Southern California. They didn't even know what I was talking about. I know. I clearly understand it. And William, we have to go on it. We just have to go. Oh, no, that could have gone for 10 more minutes. I know it could have. But we have to get to NFL rewind.

That is a call of the century. We have to go to NFL rewind. No, it doesn't matter that Tyreek Hill Neil's knee fell apart. People are looking... I want to hear what William has to say. People are looking for sports. Oh, man.

You just let a pot of gold slip through our fingers. He went seven minutes. I could have. I know you could have. I know you, but... That was incredible. So let me... Okay, let me just preface what we were going to do.

That's all time Matt Thomas. William was calling to ask Jonathan where he could catch the Detroit Cleveland game on radio. And you and I were going to spoof us calling the game. Okay. That's why I asked Jonathan to have some music, a baseball ready, and have some sound effects and whatnot, because that's where I thought he was going.

He went in a completely different direction. William, you're welcome to call anytime. William, you are welcome to call, especially in the summer months. Things aren't nearly as... He's a pool shark, and he uncovered a disturbing sex ring that was covered up by the OJ murder. Are you pro against group... sex parties. I mean, is everybody's consenting adults? And I'm

pro. Go for it. I don't care. My name is Paul. It is between y'all. All right? I do whatever you all want in your own time, as long as you're, you know, everybody's a consenting adult. He didn't think my story about me hitting the guy with the pool cue was very impressive. He wasn't impressed because he got beat up by some

lathered up bikers. That's true. I never got beat up. I ran. I ran like a girl, too. Sick, well, is, I'm sorry. I had to do it. What's the location? Westheimer? Montrose, yeah. Oh, Montrose and Westime. I've been there.

I've been drunk there. Multiple times. Were you of age? Yes. I wasn't. I did not have a sip of alcohol until I was 21, Matt. And I'm also saving myself for marriage. This may come as to surprise some of you, but I rotated between slick willis and

Caligula between the ages of 18 and 19. I told you, I told you, Jonathan. Matt was a rabble rouser back in his youngen days. Oh, I don't know. I thought it was one of his fake stories. No, no. No, it's a real story. No.

No. No, Matt 17 to 21 was something else. Thank God I matured after that. Where? Where? All right. NFL Rewine is up next. Okay. I dare you to top that.

We can't. I won't. All right. 132 on sport. You won't hear that call on the A-Team. Sports Talk 790. I would like to see Sports RV Rossville Real top Williams' call in this week's edition of the NFL Rewin.

It's not even going to happen. It's just like asking Kaelan DeBoer to top Nick Saban. It's not going to happen. Get your expectations down. What a nice cross reference. I was not expecting an Alabama Rando SEC reference on that, but nicely done by you. Oh, man. That was all.

I mean, how many tweets did we get off of that? A few. Well, we can't talk about, let's talk about the Texans opponent, man. As you know, the Texans get the victory this weekend. of the year against the Tennessee Titans. Lamar Jackson feared out for at least two to three weeks now, as being said by that dude from the Baltimore son.

The Wacker. As he is probably going to be unavailable for the game against the Texans. Vegas thinks that as well. They now have the Texans as two and a half point favorites. Hamstring injury for Lamar Jackson. Also of note for the Ravens.

Pro Bowl defensive tackle, Namdi Madibuque. is going to miss the rest of the season with a neck injury. So he is out. And we also know Marlon Humphrey, one of their good cornerbacks, is supposed to be out with Roquan Smith and other, an offensive tackle, Ronnie Stanley, hurt as well. So Ravens are banged up.

Texans might be catching them at the right time, as they are two and a half point road favorites. We were talking about this team being 0 and 4. Are we going to Lake Charles with this? I'm going to tell you right. Now, I'd be money lining the Ravens if we were in Lake Charles. That's just my honest. I know I'm battle Red Ross, and I'm going to be rooting for him, and I'm going to be

going to cuss and disgust too. I'm going to cuss and disgust. All right. But if I'm at the bedding window, the jersey comes off. And the bank account opens up. Exactly. But I hope they win. I'll put it this way.

Let's not even think about this game until Friday because the line could certainly fluctuate between Yeah, it could. And we all chalked it up as an L, but the Ravens are banged up so it'd be a nice opportunity for the Texans to get a victory this weekend in Baltimore. At the moment, total 40.5,

Texans minus 2.5 in that one. Elsewhere in the NFL this weekend, Matt, there was a breakout game in Las Vegas. It's a handoff off left guard to Ashton, Jenny. Stutters the ball. He got, he's got the speed to the near side.

Jenny to the 30. breaks a tackle 20 Jenny Gould Duceus goodbye Ashton Genty a 64-yard touchdown and for the first time

in his Raiders career he breaks one off to the end zone 21 carries 138 yards for Ashton Jentee as the march towards 1,000 continues I should have said 1,200 by the way He also got a couple of catches, two catches, two targets, two touchdowns.

So a three touchdown breakout game for Ashen Gentiles. And they still lost. And they lost to the Chicago Bears. We're actually looking pretty solid. Two and two at least. I mean, that's got to be. If you're a Bears fan, you got to be happy with two and two. Are you kidding me?

Gino Smith, by the way. A lot of people talking about the interception machine. Seahawks making a big mistake, getting rid of him. Six touchdowns, seven picks so far. for a guy who's had a really interesting career. First round pick, then a star, big money, and then got traded. Yeah, second round pick, I'm sorry, with the Jets. Started to hit, remember they were like, oh my gosh, he could be the next big thing.

Then he bounced around. Then he was good with Seattle. Now with Las Vegas, weird, wild stuff going on with Gino Smith. All right, Matt, South Gardner also in the news now. Oh, geez. For the New York and Jet Propitons. I'm so afraid of this. He was penalized multiple times in the 27 to 21 loss to the Miami Dolphins, including a crucial pass interference.

He said, quote, he's personally frustrated. Second straight week, he was flagged for past interference. He said he is being targeted by officials, man. I totally agree. The best cornerback in the game is being unfairly treated by the officials. I watch football all the time, and I just feel like, I don't know if this is wrong to say, but I think I get called for more stuff based off of us not winning. I watch these winning programs.

There'd be some egregious things and it don't get called. They're letting the players play. So is sauce Gardner being unfairly targeted because the jets suck? Yes. And it's an outrage. And I'm sorry that you're having to go through that sauce. Thomas Sports Enterprises remains firmly behind you. Also, by the way, I forgot to mention.

Justin Gentie, could his success be owed to the fact that he went back to his Mike Myers' Halloween stance in the backfield? Where he just stands there, aloof, waiting for the ball. Well, are you not at the offensive line helped? Maybe they could have been better. Also, breaking a 64-yarder. Helps the yards per carry, Matthew. Hope it doesn't sprain his knee this week. You're so bad. That is horrible.

How do you look yourself in the mirror, Matt? Weekdays tend to two. All right. One last thing for the NFL. We mentioned this of the news at noon as unfortunately Tyreek Hill. Dislocating his knee, meaning multiple ligaments torn. Going to need multiple surgeries. ACL torn.

He is out for the year. Had been struggling the last year or two with the dolphins and was actually having a decent enough season, but a major injury for Tyreek Hill into surgery today. He will be out for the year. for the Miami Dolphins who are already having an interesting season, but they did get the 27 to 21 win over the Jets last night for their first win of the season.

I wonder if Mike McDaniel had been fired if they had a lost that game. That's a good question. Home game, Monday night, Jets, sucky team. Well, they won, and they get the Panthers next week, so could be a couple of wins in a row

for the Miami Dolphins. And Matt, that is your NFL rewind. Real quick, I want a quick thought from you on this. Is there our, my team is so, solid. Is there a chance I run the table in fantasy football? What team? My team, the Toros. Yeah, you know what, Matt? I hope you win the championship. Thank you. I'll take out to lunch.

No, I really hope you win it. Yeah. Let's go. My team is one in three. I've got Malik neighbors and Mike Evans. And Rishi Rice. Don't call for trades. I'm holding on everybody. You are? Absolutely. I need receiver help. New chance. Also my, well, actually, Woody Marks might actually be working for me. You want T. Higgins? You can have him. Yeah. the Bengals don't score.

What do you want for them? Your soul. That seems weird. I'll give you woody marks. I don't need, no, my team's complete. My team's... I'm the 72 dolphins. I've got running back, wide receiver, and quarterback issues.

Other than that, we're doing great. Didn't the 72 dolphins lose? No, they're not defeated. No, you got to know that. Before he's born. Before he's born. That's right. The other things happened before I'm born.

Who's the all-time hit king? I don't know. Jose Al-Tuvae? No, he's going to be the greatest of them all. No, he's not going to be the all-time hate king. No, he's not. He's not. He's not.

Are we going to start from? Now, you know, I've been Mr. 3,000 with him. Is he going to get to, is, he's got to still, he's going to have to go five more years probably. Hmm. If anybody that can do it, the greatest astro of them all can do it. By the way, Brian Le Lima is texting upset. We moved on the league. Brother, you didn't set your land

for the last three weeks, and you moved on to greener pastures. So, you don't set your lineups? You're out of the league. You hear that? Brian,

I would have loved to have had you in the league. Oh, you're such a fraud. Brian, it's not, it wasn't not my decision. When you take time out of your day to put nobody in your, in your matchup,

when playoff spots are still on the line, you're out of the league! Mm-hmm. And the commission has spoken. You hear that? I'd like to welcome you back as a mid-season edition. He's a liar and a fraud. I'm not.

Actually, yeah, you can take over my team if you want to pay for it. Believe it or not, it's up next. It's all things about bad money. 713-212-5-790 with a word for uptown appliance repair. All right, five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest-growing sports radio game show. We simply call it be, believe it or not.

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Not. That's believe it. How do you not know the Spotify streaming numbers? Taylor Swift, back-to-back champ, could be champ this year to match Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, and Taylor, we don't know. any music anymore in our life. That's true, actually. John on 790, you ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. Bad Bunny's lover for music, love for music. It says lover for music. Love for music. You Ron Burgundy did it. Sorry. Bad Bunny's love for music started as a youth singing in his Catholic church. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's right. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Bad Bunny also has a dance

background and choreographed his own shows. Believe it or not. Not. No, he has somebody to make it up. That's right. Nicely done. Let's go to Jay on 790. Jay, you're ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. Jay, Bad Bunny is an advocate for animal rights. He has been vegan since watching the Netflix documentary Food Incorporated. Believe it or not. Not. That's right. He enjoys a good steak. Statement number two for the win.

Bad Bunny is an extremely private person and even said he'd like to wear a mask everywhere to deflect his fame. Believe it or not. That is correct. Ross, you don't know this, but I wear a mask privately as well. He's texting. You don't even hear that. Yeah, I know you wear a mask. Joe on the parties that William was talking about.

Joe on 790, what was your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show, Joe? The one of you talking about your first fight, Matt. It's telling the story a lot of times. Thank you very much. Bad Bunny. First flight. Thanks for listening. Thanks for listening.

to win. He's such a... No, I like Joe to lose prize for. Stop it, Joe. Good luck to you. Bad Bunny has already appeared on stage at the Super Bowl. He was a guest of Jennifer Lopez and Shakira back in 2020. Believe it or not. Believe it. That is correct. Believe it. Statement number two for the wind,

Bad Bunny briefly dated Kylie Jenner, but the two have since split. Believe it or not? Not. Oh, they have been together. Ouch. I know. I'm sorry. John on 790. John. Your favorite part of today is sent the two?

It was Kendall Jenner. Then he wins. Yeah. Call back. That's a typo on my part. That's a win. Joe, you win. Joe, it's a win for you, automatic win.

John on 790, what was your favorite part of today? Send the two radio show. John. All right, he's busy. I'm sorry. Ron on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Bad Bunny is a huge WWE fan and has even competed in matches like the 2022 Royal Rumble.

Believe it or not. No what? He did. Sorry. Thank you, though. Duh. All right, tomorrow on the radio show. We're going to get Eddie Nunez.

I thought a director for the University of Houston stopped by for a few minutes. No, Eddie Nunez. No. What'd you be thinking? I don't know. We're going to smack talk Texas Tech for 10 minutes. Are you?

You're going to get your son on? Find so if it's a blood war. On Friday, we should do that, right? Yeah. Texas Tech v. Houston, the Thomas War begins. Up next, Clinton, Waxler. Thanks. team on Sports Talk 790.