The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Nick Chubb Is Coming to Houston? Astros Win 2 Out Of 3 vs Cleveland, OKC Wins Game 2 Of NBA Finals

Episode Date: June 9, 2025

Nick Chubb Is Coming to Houston? Astros Win 2 Out Of 3 vs Cleveland, OKC Wins Game 2 Of NBA Finals

10-1 in H-town. Good morning. And welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Tava show with Ross. Here on Sports Talk 790, I hope you had a happy, relaxing weekend. Lots of different things to get to today. Astros take two out of three. A five-hour French open that Ross will be giving you the complete rundown on. Because truth be completely told, I didn't know about it until I went to Twitter and went, oh my God, this thing went to five hours

so that I turned it on and it was the last point. How much of it did you catch? You get the literally the last point. Wow, that's good. So. It was a good point. It was great. Guy fell down on the sand.

I'm not sand. The clay. The clay. Yeah, there we go. It's my tennis knowledge. We have the NBA finals last night. And we have a nice long break in between games two and three. Really to build the momentum of that.

We have maybe the worst programming ever on television. around a game. That ESPN NBA halftime, pregame, post game is a complete and utter disaster. TNT's inside the NBA can't say that

that network fast enough. Well, at least they slapped a couple of clip art Larry O'Brien trophies on the court. And they went to the cursive for a couple of quarters too.

That was so bizarre. Brought to you by Mo Mo Moob TV. Moo Moo. By the way, everybody hates Moo TV because all they do is jack their rates up

and you don't get a lot of sports. I know. That happens It's happened everywhere. Yeah. Mubo. Yeah. We have mentioned the asteros and we have a chub. And that is...

Well, we have a potential chub in Houston. Yeah. Is it confirmed chub? Or is it potential chub? How long are we going to do this? Are we going to end this in the first segment? Are we going to let this go to 2 o'clock this afternoon? Are you talking about chub puns?

Are you talking about the story? No, the story's going to be talked about. It's going to be how much of the chub puns, how many times is... How about this? Anytime somebody makes it... Chub pun, we've got to put a quarter into the jar. Or a dollar. How about a dollar? A dollar been very expensive. Actually, dollars, probably right.

But the problem is you probably could get all the Chubb puns in and have the Friday open already locked and loaded is Jonathan's trying to get ahead of the game a little bit. That's true. All right. And I decided this weekend, I'm going to go on Thursday and Friday. I'm taking my son, my middle son, paint to Vegas. I'm going to do an I'm sorry

taped for you. Really? And I'm going to tape the I'm sorry's before I leave before I get to Vegas. So you're going to apologize for getting mad at people at the blackjack table before it even happens. You don't even know that. That's exactly right. That is exactly right. And then also... These poor old ladies and their nice wigs that they've been having since 1976. Just play cards right. That's all I ask. You know what you didn't do. Why don't you go to the casino store? You buy five basic

strategy cards and you just hand them out every table you sit at and then you collect them back up when you leave and then you can just keep handing them out every time you go to your table. If I bought, how much, what do you think those cards are? $2 a pop? $0.99, yeah. Okay, so if I bought 20 of them and it helped me win $100, I'm still plus 80. Yeah, there go. Okay, yeah, in your mind, all it does is hurt you.

So, yeah, you'll save yourself money. Yeah, I will give him as a gift. Now, the mathematical reality is it helps you as much as it hurts you. I mean, Bernice from Bismarck and the Cote's like, this very attractive bald man gave me a card and he gave me all the strategies, and I won money, thanks to him. I think she was from sulfur. Well, yeah, same difference. Bismarck, sulfur, whatever.

And then today at 1150, I think I brought this up to you folks many a time. And you brought up a great question. Do you take any medication at night to sleep or any medication? I don't take any medication at all. I take some medication during the day, but not at night. Seems like you're on a six to seven. So, and I've talked about this for the last four or five years.

I have the most peculiar dreams that I know of. I don't know if anybody has weirder dreams than I do. I had a doozy last night that woke me up at 1.15 this morning. And it involves a member of the I-Heart radio staff. Really? Mm-hmm. It involves one of your food passions. Mine?

Yes. Okay. And it involves a former owner of an NBA team. Hmm. Donald Sterling? So at 1150 today, after to tell the truth, which we'll do at 1130 this morning. Okay. I will give you my dream, and I'm going to need Jonathan and Ross and anybody that would like to do so to call in and try to evaluate what the hell is going on in my mind. I also think it's very important we decide which dream song we're using.

Oh, Arrow Smith. Arrow Smith, Dream On. Oh, great song. Let's go with that one. I vote, how about sweet dreams? Oh, Arithmic. Oh, 1150 today. What's the, is that a Roy Orbison song or something?

Dream. Dream, dream, dream. That's not Roy Arboron. Oh, who is it? I don't know, but it's on here. I vote for Mr. Sandman. Bringing you a dream. That's OG.

Yeah, I know, but it's catchy. We're going to figure it out. This will be a regular bit because if you know, know me, I have these most peculiar dreams. And so I was so perplexed by this dream. about my wife was awake by ironically enough because you can see me tossing and turning and I'm explaining to her and she's like, go to bed. It's just the most bizarre thing.

Again, thankfully, when I was younger, I had erotic dreams like the rest of us nine-year-olds did, 12-year-olds. All I have to do is dream, the Everly Brothers. There you go. That's, yeah, that's who it is. Okay. So, my weird-ass dream at 1150 today. And I need analysis. Because it is forced-related. This is you getting erotic with an NBA owner.

No, no erotic. This is a serious. erotic dream. I'm just dreaming. I'm dreaming of an erotic dream. All right. So let's, what do you want to go first? I don't know. I'm stunned. I'm stunned. I'm in stunned silence. I'm sure you are. I've done it to you made a good time. Astros. Yeah, two out of three, ain't bad. Ain't bad. They keep meatloathing. They keep meatloafing. 667. They're winning percentage on the trip. As they took two out of three from the pirates and then two out of three from the guardians. By the I'm proud of myself on Saturday. I did the on deck in the 10th inning show

and did not mention award Indians one time. Oh, that's well, yeah. Okay. Until now. But I mean, you get, you know. It's been, but you got to remember this is. I still say San Diego Chargers from time to time. That's been years.

I am still unfortunately saying, Renit Raid Mark. Yes. Did you do that on Saturday? Nope. They were on the road. So I got that going for me. What about Oakland A's?

I've dropped one of those. We got four with the Sacramento. Sacramento. Okramento. Ocramento A's next week. I'm going full Sacramento. They're not in Oakland anymore. But since Sacramento I don't want it.

They don't want that. Yeah, but Oakland didn't want them and they don't want them back. You're going to go with Las Vegas A's? No, I'm not going to say just the A's. Ridiculous. I've been saying just the A's. It's stupid. I'm sorry.

That's what I've been doing. It's not like they're barnstorming across the country. They have a home and it's in Sacramento. It is funny. One of their sleeves has Las Vegas on it. And the other one is like a bridge. I don't know if it's Northern California or not. I don't know what it is.

There's no bridges in Las Vegas, is there? No, but one is that the New York, New York. Which I'll be at probably on that $25 roller coaster in a few days. All right, so let's get to it. Aster's 2 out of 3. We could do a, believe it or not,

is this an Astros pitcher or not? Because these people that are throwing for the local nine these days, I mean, I just started getting to know who Colton Gordon was. I was just getting to know Forrest Whitley. Oh. We got to get to that soon.

So when you get DFAed, and if you have not heard, designated four assignment is what Whitley was yesterday to clear the yesterday a starting pitcher Brandon Walter

Brin Walter did okay from six innings quality start I mean you can't ask six six innings two runs I mean come on

for a guy making his first start yeah sure why not so you can either be traded during this DFA time it's I think it's 10 days you can be accepted demotion

to AAA if you clear waivers or you can be or you can I think you can just say I'm out of here. You can't. He, normally you can elect free agency, but not if you have not.

Yes, less than three years of service time. Right. So he can't. No. Taylor Scott elected free agent. He got DFA, nobody claimed him, so he elected free agency because he had service time. My thought is, is that he will go on waivers and someone will claim him. Yeah, he can get claimed or the other. Then he'll be at AAA Sugarland. Yeah.

Back with the boys. Not the biggest surprise. He moved back to his condo in Sugarland Very comfortable They're not going to retire his number there Are they should? By the way I'm going to a space Cowboys game this week You are?

Yeah That's great They're playing in Las Vegas And my middle son and I are going to see the game on Friday Can I piggyback on this? If you want to leave? Yeah, we'll live on Wednesday You gave me a little bit of blank stare

Like you didn't want me to start No, that's okay It's 8 o'clock in the morning there Thursday I'm supposed to, I'm taking those days off Oh wait, you're going to say, it's kind of early Going to see Manilone Wednesday, Thursday, very excited about that If he makes it

he's doing fine. He just didn't finish a... He was like in his mid-80s. He was just in Cleveland before the Astros were there. Brian McTaggart took a photo. He filled up Rocket Fieldhouse, sir, whatever the hell they call it these days. Tell them to crank up the backing track, 10 more percent. Speaking of that, I went to a concert this weekend. Oh, yeah.

We should do Matt's concert reviews. You're not going to like it. Of 80-year-old octogenarians that he's seeing across the country. I will give you the concert review for this weekend. Great. I can't wait. All right. That's going to be probably in the 12 o'clock hour. We're pretty loaded up until now. So we've got to get a lot to get to.

So Astros 2 out of 3. Defense, I've mentioned this on Saturday. Defense wins championships in football and basketball. You don't think about defense and baseball, but it's helping the Astros in first place. The Astros' bullpen has been, now yesterday, notwithstanding, but generally speaking, you're not giving them an A plus. you're probably not even giving them an A, maybe an A minus for the year, all things consider? Yeah, I'll go B plus. No, I would say I'm going to go a little higher.

I'm going to go to B plus. That's fine. A minus. I'm going B plus. Being real. So you got a great bullpen. You've got outstanding defense. And for a team that has thrown at you one different starting pitcher after the other, with really only two of them giving you any sort of deep length on a regular basis,

this team is two and a half games in front of the Seattle Mariners who have, who finally won yesterday over the halos, but they have had a horrific last week. Getting swept earlier this week by Baltimore in Seattle. And the third best record in the American League. All right. So we got that to get to today. And we also have today, Nick Chubb is apparently going to sign a deal with the Houston Texans

if he passes the physical. Okay. So Texans honks who think everything they do, is the greatest thing ever, are like, this is a win-win deal. If it doesn't work out, it's no big deal. Which in theory, that's correct. And there's really to me no downside. Because from what I'm guessing is that the Texans don't have a lot of money to spend. You don't have a lot of money to spend in June. You've done your heavy lifting in free agency. So whatever Nick Chubb signs here, it's going to be a minimal contract probably with some incentives. So in theory, that's

absolutely 100% correct. But does that mean that, the Texans are getting ahead of the game and grabbing Nick Chubb? Or are they just a little bit nervous about what's on the depth chart right now? And they're going to get Chubb on June the 9th is a sign that maybe something else here in camp isn't spectacular. That's what I was thinking. We will discuss when we come back. I have a sneaking suspicion. There is a plan.

There's a reason for this Chubb madness. Oh, okay. I think I know what that is. 713-212-5-790 if you want to join our radio show today we are open line at 7132-2-5-7-90 7-1-3-2-1-790 we have to tell the truth at 1130 today we have your phone calls we have an analyzed match dream we have the deep run of what's a good tennis song for a French open report maybe something French I guess so we need something Spanish for Alcoran No, it's the French Open. I think they don't like when you call it that. They don't like when you call it the British Open. What do they call it?

Roland Garros. So if we were in Paris, we went last night, congratulations to that dude who won the Roland Garros. Yes. Are you sure about that? I mean, I don't, I'm going to trust that you know more than I do. I think people like it better. It's very Americanized to say the French Open, like the British Open.

I mean, you could say it, and nobody knows what you're talking about. Okay. I'm just saying. How much of the five hours? hours did you watch, by the way? I would say four? Good for you. It was started at 8 a.m. I flipped it on in bed and then I kind of

was watching... Now were you on their computer or were you having breakfast, were you vacuuming in the house, or did you like sit and watch the whole? I was in bed for the first two sets. Like, watching for 20, sleeping for 30. You know? Then when the third set started, I got...

I felt about West Coast Astros baseball. That's when I got up. And then I watched from the third set on. All right. 10.14. It is the Matt Tom show with Ross. 1019 on Sports Talk 790. We are the only radio show in the marketplace that will give you

Nick Chubb conversation. And nobody else has been bringing it up. I don't know why that is, but that's fine. You do your own thing. We are your official Chubb station. Sports Talk 790. 713.212. 5.790. So the Astros did take two out of three. All Jake Myers does is hit.

Period. I mean, screaming lines. No, no, no, no, no, no. XBA a thousand. No, no, no. Listen to you'll XBA, dork. How many hits did he have yesterday? That was before. How many of them were basically fisted off the handle of the bat?

Probably four. That's why, again, I don't give a damn about XBA and launch angle. Guess what I care about. Our man, as me, the vice president of the Jake Myers fan club, he got on base. That's the most important number to me. He's on base. That's good, Matt. slugging and there's the singles

but his on-base percentage is good his batting average is good and the expected June swoon of one Jacob Myers the third is a non-story looking all right

four hits for him yesterday take what we can get at least he's hitting contact that's really been one of the keys to him is he's just not swinging and missing as much no he's swinging especially early in counts and it's looking good. He's doing well. Yeah, I

mean, again, as long as your expectations are realistic like if you see him batting fourth or fifth, you know that the team is offensively in a serious, serious problem. Well, he was fifth yesterday, right? Okay, well, I didn't mean to bring it up that early, but... Altuve and... No, no, uh, the Penae was out.

Paine was a D.H. Yeah, yeah. It's, you know, again, there's no slug on that. They've got some other guys hurt. But honestly, I mean, I don't know, and you're still winning games. That's the crazy part is. You just finished a four-ins your trip. Now, granted, Cleveland is a contender. Pittsburgh is not. But you'll take what you can

get. And if Jake Myers walks to the ballpark every day, or takes the team bus, and gets you three to four hits, you know, every couple of games, you're more than happy with it. Yeah, Jake Myers did bat fifth yesterday. Oh, Lord. I mean this. kind of a joke and I didn't realize where he was in the lineup. Well, I'm sorry, how did he do in the fifth position, Matt? His OPS is 773. That's good?

Which is... That's great for him. Yeah. His career number's around 650. Your three-hole hitter is Christian Walker at 619 OPEA. Boy, you know... What? We keep waiting and waiting and waiting.

O for four yesterday. Now, he did have some hard. I think he had more hard-hit contact than Jake Myers did, that's for sure. And didn't strike out yesterday. Not that makes a huge difference. That's good for him. Still an 0-4, but there's a lot of them. Is the book written on Christian this year?

No. Okay, so if right now we're reading this book and we're disappointed how things are... We would have thrown it in the trash if we were a third way through. So if you're telling this is going to be a fairy telling to this Christian Walker of 2020. Now see, I didn't say that. Okay, well, what kind of ending you're looking for? If you don't think the book is trash, you're throwing it away.

I'm not saying Christian's trash. I think he can at least get his numbers up. I mean, I literally would just take a hot couple of weeks. A week or two ago, what was it? Jose Altuvae's numbers were in the dumps, and he piled up like 10 hits in five games, and it did everything for him. So if he can at least do that,

at some point, I think it will it'll just bring up his season numbers so much and the power has been there for the most part he's still got what eight home runs pretty good but I think he was expected to be in the 25 range

like 30 something like that y'allshare especially since you're talking about left field being an easy spot from did home runs and 81 of his games are at home in theory 26 home runs he hit last year well he's been declined for three years from a home run standpoint Wait, 36 down to 33, down to 26, now down to 8 and 63 games.

You know, it's an incredible thing. In the category of stats don't mean everything. So Pena is having an all-star season. OPS now 853, even more than O for 3 yesterday with 3Ks. Paredes exceeding expectations in my mind, significantly. OPS of 8 or 9 yesterday, even after going 0 for 4. Your three-hole hitter is OPS as 619. your cleanup hitter with an OPS of 6.57.

Those are significantly below average. Two years ago, average was about 775. We dropped it to 750 last year. I don't know what the average OPS is in Major League Baseball is this year. It doesn't really matter. If your OPS starts with the 6, you're a below average hitter, right? It really goes without saying. This year average is 710.

Oh, that is... What's going on? Is pitching significantly better this year? You know why. Perhaps. Are you getting more strikes called? Could be. Maybe the something happened to the ball.

We're getting injections at a high clip. Every other day, I'm looking at SportsCenter highlights and somebody's getting tossed for a ball strike call. Remember when the juice ball era, 2019. Average OPS was 758. Now it's 710 this year so far. Myers 773. Great.

That's a great OPS compared to arrest. Cam Smith, who plays a lot, 691, below average. Mauricio Dubon, who plays a lot. OPS is 595. God! I mean, I didn't realize he was struggling that hard. How do you have, okay, think about this.

You have somebody that plays, what, five days a week? Did theory? With an OPS of under 600. And you know what he does? He helps you win. In the game on Friday, he had two outfield assists. In the first inning alone, Ross. I haven't been hearing much from the Dubon Truthers lately, oddly enough.

Well, the Dubon Divan. The gold glove truthers are out. That's good. Because from a defensive standpoint, he hadn't lost a step. How does trade Dubon so, I mean, I trade Altuve so Dubon can start every day at second base guy doing. Yeah, that's fine. But this team still yesterday, and again, yesterday's on a great example because they got their runs in one clip. Yeah, and it was a getaway day lineup.

Here's the thing. They had six hits on Saturday, seven on Sunday. So they're not pounding the ball here, friends. 15th in Team OPS, 702. So the question's going to be, we are enjoying this. The Astros find themselves in first place. Can you continue to go along this storyline of pitching and defense is going to carry you all the way to September? It has.

I mean, it has. Can you hold on for three more months with this? Yordon's going to come back. Al Tuvae's going to hit better. Christian Walker and Yonardias are going to hit better. Let's go. But that could mean Jeremy Pena takes a step back. I mean, unless he's just going to hit, unless he's just going to challenge for a batting title.

Yeah. Which is not now because Aaron Judge is hitting like almost 400. Because hitting isn't everything. You have lousy pitching and you have bad bullpen and you've got lousy defense. I mean, again, it takes a little bit of everything. I'm just, I don't want the shoe to drop. I don't want the glass slipper to fall off. You know what I'm saying?

I just, they're doing it in I don't know how, in what kind of ways I don't know. again because you're not throwing you're you're not throwing glavin smolts and uh maddox every other i mean you are you've got fromper who's been great hunter brown who really was mid over the weekend on saturday again it's just one start he's been really good for the last calendar year and then everybody else's really turned it on yeah so you're saying all due credit to joe is spotta

oh no i wouldn't be saying that no because because aster's twitter doesn't believe Joe Spotted deserves any credit. If they were losing, he needs to be fired. They're winning with all these injuries. They're ninth in ERA. They're 15th in OPS. That's mediocre. Zero credit.

Oh, well. All right. You heard me. That's fine. Just checking. The manager doesn't deserve any credit. The pitching coaches don't deserve any credit. No, hitting coaches.

And the hitting staff out. The hitting coaches have Jake Myers hitting 300 and Payne with the best year of his career. Doesn't matter. Nothing. Doesn't matter. Sorry. All right. Just checking.

10, 28, on. Sports Talk, 790, 713, 212, 579. 713-212-5-7-90. Nick Chubb is a Texan, we believe, later today or tomorrow. Long as he passes his physical and his shredded up knees. 2021 is excited about this. Should 2025 be excited? We'll discuss that after I tell you about Uptown Appliance Repair.

How do you feel like Clayton's Sylvester Stallone there? Tell the truth. I like it. I think it's pretty good. That liner's not his best work, but I think he does a good Rocky. He's called in his Rocky before, I think. Has he? Mm-hmm. Okay.

He's got a very, what would you call it? Flexible voice. Would you somebody who does good impressions? How would you describe their voice? Multi-talented? Multi-faceted? Multi-faceted? I mean, I'm jealous.

He's great. His best is his Jim Rome. The Jim Rome's 10 out of 10. It's one of the best impression. of anybody doing anyone ever. He does Jim Rome better than Jim Rome does Jim Rome. Right. His McConaughey's probably an eight and a half. It's good. His Trump's probably a seven. Oh, I'm giving that a five. I was going to say. Sorry, Clinton. He's not listening. He's asleep. That's okay. Trump's a very difficult one. I don't think so. I think everybody tries to do it.

No. No, no, no, no, no. Mr. It's so easy? No, I'm not saying it's easy. I'm just thinking everybody tries to do it. Everybody tries to do it, but they don't pull it off. Yeah. All right. So Nick Chubb, we're going to cuss and discuss him because that's what we do on the show. We do a lot of cussing and discussing. He's going to sign a new deal. And again, my guess is we talked about earlier, it's probably heavily incentivized. It's going to be a situation where he had a chance to choose from a variety of different teams. Again, it can't be a huge deal because we're talking about June, where you're holding on any little money you have because you may have injuries coming up in training camp.

You've got maybe even a draft picker or two You've got to sign So whatever it is It's I don't think he's breaking the bank But Nick Chubb has had a very successful NFL career But has also had plenty of injuries The last, what, two or three seasons, right? Yes

Last year he broke his foot Which is less concerning to me Than what happened the year before Which was MCL meniscus Medial capsule, whatever that is, and ACL. And then when he was at Georgia, he had a massive injury.

If you ever seen the video of that one, Matt, I know you get squeamish. Don't go look at that one. I'm not going to. PCL, MCL, LLC, dislocation of the knee. God. And he's able to walk during all this,

much less run a football in the NFL? The Modern Miracles of Science. If he'd had done this in 1972, he'd still have a broken knee. That's true. He'd probably be down to be down to one leg at this point. Yeah, cut the thing off. He'd be walking around with a cane at 22.

So I would say, I don't know, I just think it's too glass half full to say you're catching a lining in a bottle. This feels more Cam Acres to me than anything else. I agree with you. I think he's washed. I'll say it. I mean, he's 29 years old. He's got multiple injuries. He's available here this late in June.

Yes. Which could indicate a number of things you wanted to tease. All right. So here's a tease. I don't know if Joe Mixon's 100% healthy. Oh, okay. You're going to go there. I was thinking you might say somebody's been looking at Damien Pierce on the trading block.

Oh, that's certainly a possibility, too. Now, remember, didn't Joe have a walking boot on, I think, at some point in the last month or so? Has he? Yeah. Oh, no. Don't hold me to that 100. But I'm pretty sure that's the case. So he's a cat body because Joe Mixen's hurt.

I could buy that. I'm not saying that so I can't buy it. I'm saying that. he is a really good insurance policy. Because if Damien Pierce is the odd man out, and who's that draft pick they have with a strange name? Woody Marks. What's strange about Woody Marks?

But he was named after a doll. That makes it weird. It sounds like a vaudeville performer. Coming up on the next on the stage, it's Woody Mox. No, no, no. I mean, he's right. The man of 10,000 voices. Woody Max.

Here I am at the Cabriolet Club I don't know about this Go ahead On the drums Legendary Mr. Woody Marks Witty Marks Yeah

Oh yeah Yeah Woody Marks I think mine's better That's fine I'm trying You know what Matt That's all you can do

You can get out of bed And you can try It's live radio I need a chance to rehearse this Nick Chubb last year, eight games, 102 carries, 3.3 yards per carry. It's never been a huge pass catcher. He had five catches for 30 yards. This is in eight games of limited work.

Didn't he split time in Cleveland with another guy? Who was the guy in Cleveland? He was spun in. Jerome Ford recently and then before that. Yeah. It was a good one-two combination for them. My memory's not great anymore on these things. Kareem Hunt was there a little bit.

But I think it was also somebody else. I was thinking of Creamhahn. I can't keep track of all these backup Cleveland. I can't think I'm not going to pay attention to Cleveland football. But yeah, Creamhound was always thinking about. Okay. So I just think this is partly an insurance policy unless for some reason Joe is slow out of the gates. My expectations for this could not be lower.

I could be wrong, but I just think he's done. He's 29 years old. He's got multiple big knee injuries coming off of a broken foot. And then even when he was on the field last year, he wasn't good. Yeah, again, just remember. It's like when Brendan Rogers signed with the Astros in February. Oh, he won a gold glove in Colorado and he batted well in Denver and he's going to be playing at Dike and Park. He's Brendan Rogers.

He was available. He had a couple big swings over the weekend. He did. He had a home run on Friday. I mean, I mean, you get my drift on this. Yeah. You just have to be, I just would, I would hope that everybody, regardless of the sport, grabbing a guy in the NBA in mid-May or mid-March.

Let's give you 19 minutes a game. No, he's not. Just strip the name off in the Pro Bowl history. I'm saying you're getting a 29-year-old running back with over 1,300 years, 1,300 career carries on his ledger, which is a lot. And he's had multiple horrible knee injuries. He's coming off a broken foot in a season where he played eight games and had 3.3 yards per carry. I'm just telling you.

And you say what? If we did a year ago, we. took Nick Chubbs name out and inserted Cammakers. I could replay this show from a year ago saying, hey, let's just be cautious about this. Yeah, and people, you know what the funniest part was? People on Texans Twitter, they're a different breed, man. The optimism that these people breed with a team that has only not even made a championship game for their own conference.

Yeah. There were people last year, they're like, look at these Camakers highlights. He's got a lot of juice in those legs. They were all pre-Aquillies tear. Like, come on, guys. We have to be re-astro's Twitter is overly pessimistic. Unless it's a prospect. Texans' Twitter is overly optimistic.

Rockets' Twitter just wants to make sure Alper and Shinggoon's numbers retire. They're constantly fighting each other. Factions, yeah. Team Green versus Team Shingoon versus this and they there. And Rockets have more fake media. That's not true. The Rockets and Texans are kind of tied one and two for fake media. Oh, well.

All right. Yeah. So just take everything with a grain of salt. But the challenge. Hustera on the social streets yesterday, Ross, was incredible. Oh, this is a no-brainer. This is a win-win. Of course it is.

When you're paying pennies in the dollar, you're not expected a guy to come in here and give you 1,400 yards. Five days ago, you forgot Nick Chubb existed. Yeah. All of a sudden, the Texans are interested. Oh! Four-time Pro Bowler! Five days ago, you thought Nick Chub was an adult film star. And now he's just running back for the Texans.

I thought that was Tyree Kill. He wanted to be an adult film star. Yeah, I think they all do. All right. 1042 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 is how you reach a show if you want to get in. That's 7-13-212-5-7-90. NBA finals are tied at a game of peace, sports RV.

We'll give it. It's obligatory three-minute run. Okay. I mean, maybe three minutes of our life will never get back as radio host in this marketplace, but we're going to give it three minutes. It wasn't the thriller of game one, but I watched. And the local. of the NBA finals and the trophy were on the court.

And Halliburton had 12 points in the fourth to go over 16 and a half for 17. That's great. Did you... I'm not going to ask. I don't want a pocket watch here. 1043 on Sports Talk 7.90 with a word for quality home products of Texas. Every Monday and Friday when he wants to. He doesn't forget, Gordy stops by at 1050 to say hello.

Unless there's some SEC women's lacrosse game on anything, he can't get away from his TV. to do that or some interview he's got to do in Biloxi. I believe the only times I have been always is when I did the morning show with Dan and it kind of negated it. So basically SEC women's softball. Yeah. Texas did win it.

Congratulations. Boy, Texas almost run-ruled tech on Friday. I mean, that'd have been horrible. They should take the run rule out of the championship series, correct? Why do you want to watch 19 to 2? Let's get over to be doing 5. I thought it was because they take it on baseball. They brought it back in 20.

23, I think to both. The girl from tech, a billion dollar Nisarie Kennedy. Yeah. Yeah, she's getting paid. She's doing all right. She did well. But yeah, that's a tough pill to swallow. But good on Texas. I mean, they can win all the sports that aren't the major ones. They can win championships in. That's good. That's good. But say, you can call it. Now, what are you saying?

Women's softball is not important, Gordy? Also, I just saying, I saw Mac Brown tweeting out Vince Young highlights last week. And I'm like, are we still living off that? Yeah, why not? 2004? Is a good time. start you want to break through maybe win one? Well, they've been to the playoff the last couple of years. I don't need all this SEC

infighting here. What is going on with the two of you? It's all good. All right, congratulations to your LSU Tigers for beating Murray State or something like that. No, West Virginia, though. The Big 12 champ. Oh, West Virginia. They beat U of H. They didn't even have shoes on. They don't even know it's not fair.

They held U of H out of it. No. They were using widowed wood bats. As we like to say it is Go Maha, G.E. A-U-X. Mahah. Well, they'll be knocked out soon enough. You know that Omaha is happy that LSU go.

Is baseball a major sport now? I can't keep track. Because they drink a lot. Yes. It wasn't last year. They're doing the two years ago. Yeah. The Jelloshot Challenge is going to be.

I mean, it took Todd Graves from Raising Cain's writing a check to buy everybody jello shots to break the record. Who? The CEO of Raising King. We don't mention them and they'll spend money with us. So let's move on. Amazing Mains. There you go much better.

And they're overrated chicken tenders. I think they're fantastic. Overrated. It's the sauce. The sauce. Exactly. Your tenders aren't good if it's the sauce that makes them. And Lanes sauce overrated.

Zaxby's overrated. Raising cake. Way to go. Wait, is Lain's a real place or is that a rhyme? Lanes is in college. I got confused. My middle son loves Lanes or Rains. You was a Lohmore, never went to college station.

I did go to college station. I'd go eat chicken tenders. I had tacos at Fuegos. Dixie chicken. We went there, yeah. Pretty good. I'll tell you who doesn't look good on the chicken tender run is Rick Ronald's. Have you seen their new chicken?

They're not very good. They look, they look odd-shaped, first and foremost. I had them, and I was disappointed. Did you see the commercial last night? Taco Bell is introducing chicken nuggets. No, they've been there for a while. Oh. And I told you about the nachos.

I've been a Taco Bell forever. Then you get nachos, when you're a big nachos guy at Tubway. Subway does nachos? No, that's right. We talked about this. We talked about it already, yeah. That's gross. That's pretty sick.

Do what you do. Do what you do. All right. So it's a black forest ham on your nachos? It's like you get into in-depth Nick Chubb talk. Do what you do well. You're going to. Another SEC running back here in town.

Yes. Georgia alone. As I said earlier, 2021 loves this story. 2025 needs to be kind of keep things in check a little bit here. That's the people, look, it's a good signing. It's a nice compliment for Joe Mixon. Oh, you. But it's not what he was three years.

ago. Had this been 21 or 22 in your signing, Nick Chubb? Yes, that is, oh my God, go ballistic. But he's been injured. He's been okay the last two years. Nothing to write home about but a good compliment back. If you're looking for a good backup running back, Nick Chub is that. So,

yes, don't be not excited about the signing, but also don't be planning the Texan Super Bowl parade. I'm not doing either. I think, I, my expectation levels are at the floor. Yeah, you play fantasy. You know what jump started.

Exactly. I won't be, guess what? He's off my draft board. Won't be taking him. To me, it feels like that this is half insurance policy, half the yearly Nick Casario, let's go find somebody. I mean, he's done this with offensive linemen. He's done it with linebackers. This is kind of the

Casario's trend. He likes to go find the late values. And if it winds up being great, it'll be great. And he wanted to figure into assignment for a couple of years. If not, he's Cam Acres and his really or somewhere else in a very short period of time. I just, I look at, you spent a fourth round pick on Woody Marks from USC, former Mississippi State running back, that like, okay, you like him a lot.

He's got versatility. He can catch the ball. But you also have Damien Pierce going into what, his final year? Like, so one of these guys is going to be odd man out. You're not adding Nick Chubb with Joe Mixing. They're not caring four running backs. They're going to trade Damian Pierce for like a seventh rounder. Yeah.

If they, if he can get something, it'll be, Damien Pierce is not going to be in this training camp roster. Yes. I would agree with that. That's a gut feeling for tomorrow, by the way. So I'll write that down. Okay. Is it a gut feeling if we all agree with it?

No, we can all share each other's guts at this point. All right? All right, what else are going on? You did the Astros post game yesterday, right? Yeah, a little technical snap food, but we got through it. Yeah, I kind of. What happened? What happened, Gordy?

We had an issue with our on-sib. But anyway, the, yeah, it was, look, it don't overshadow the fact that Colton... Brandon Walter? Well, Colton Gordon pitched well, but Brandon Walter, like, both those guys did their thing this weekend. And so I thought yesterday, O'Kard has the one bad inning, but Brandon Walter has been, like,

this is a dude, six innings of two-run ball against a good Guardians lineup. Like, that to me, like my message almost coming out of that is pressure on Ryan Gusto coming up. This next start for him, if he doesn't get through five good innings, you're to the bullpen.

But he is anyway. I think he's your Seth Martinez. But they're doing the whole, who we're going to go with a six-man rotation? Like, no. They have, no, they do. You got 13 straight games coming. You absolutely have to go to six-man.

Especially with my colors, needing an extra day yesterday. That's easy. But what I'm saying is after this gusto start, I'm geared to the bullpen. Unless he pitches well. If he puts us well, then I guess you stick with him. Miguel Uyola season.

We got to get that name properly pronounced. Is that it? I think that's right. I think so. Okay. You know what? Why can be in the advanced scouting board? We hear at 7-90 Spare, no expense in advanced scouting space Cowboys games. Wow, that's great.

Stay warm out there. What about A.J. Bluebaugh? He's already on the 40-man, so that could be a... He's just a guy at this point, although they think very highly of him. Yeah. They have this guy, Aaron Brown. Do you know that name? He threw four and two-thirds scoreless innings for the Space Cowboys on Saturday.

Was he starting? Yeah. Well, they'd be perfect for the Astros rotation right now, going less than five. He's two and six, though, record-wise, but it was a really good outing for him. I don't know. It's just, it's weird leaning on this. When that lineup came out yesterday and there was no L-Tufei and Pena's D-Hing, it just felt like this is a space cowboys lineup.

This was the Gateway Day. And Cam Smith and Shea Whitcomb all in there. I did not feel good about the aster's chances. Now, again, I'm encouraged by. It was a tie ball game, middle of the game. Yeah, Brandon Walters, six strong hitting. Is it Walters or? Well, he, Walter, but he's, but he went to posse.

Yes, there you go. It's confusing. Just don't make sure. We used to have that around these parts. Kevin Walter. It's Kevin's cousin. The output from Brandon Walter was very good. And then Cam Smith coming through with the big two RBI hit.

That was encouraging. But yeah, it just felt like that game was going extra innings of Stephen O'Kert throws. Because they couldn't hit. They couldn't hit off a bibi. They couldn't hit off of the bullpen for the... Look, you were lucky to win that Saturday game. I mean, luckily, Hater through the clean knife and you were able to go to... Bennett Sousa came in to get the frigate...

Like, this isn't going to end well. But it did. Sousa's got it. It did. Susis the man. You'll be eventually hearing from him this year. I would imagine very soon. Very soon.

Like tomorrow? No, probably Wednesday. Because they usually don't give us a play on Tuesday and they have an off day on Monday. Yeah, that's true. All right, Gordy, so you did the 10th inning show, and then once you were done with the 10th inning show with your technical issues,

I hate to hear about that. I don't seem to have those, but you on and you did it, and so you didn't rally. after that and what did you do after the post game? Well, we had a three-hour rain delay for LSU baseball, so I had to, you know, kill the time with something, so I started drinking some Crawford Box and getting myself feeling

pretty good at home watching the game. But for you guys heading back out to the ballpark, Astros back home this week with the White Sox and Twins coming to town. Make sure you guys get out to the ballpark and enjoy some Crawford Bach from Carbock Brewing, but right here in Houston, Texas pairs perfectly with Astros baseball and whatever you have in there

at the ballpark, whether it's nachos, the pluckers wings, peanuts, anything you're having there at the ballpark just goes better with the Crawford Bach from Carbock Burring. And of course, be sure you guys tune into the Crawford Boxcast, Ross and I once a week talking all things.

Astros, new episode just dropped a couple days ago. Yeah, I listened. It was fine. It's great, tremendous breakdown. And make sure you guys grab some Crawford Bach from Carbock Brewing while you listen to Watch Estros. Thank you very much, Gordy.

Coming up in one half hour, Ross, a first time ever on to tell the truth. It is a how boogey is Matt edition of To Tell the Truth? And Ross, you will not be able to answer. Our listeners will be able to answer. And Jonathan, you'll be able to answer. Because you know the answer. Could I give advice?

Oh, I know the answer. You know the answers. So you can't. All right. So that is today's edition. And I think about sports. It's about how boozy I am in my life. And that'll be part of to tell the truth coming up in 30 minutes.

And time to analyze my dream. It involves a former NBA owner, a current I-Heart. radio host and Ross's number one food. Would you call it vibe? We'll call it that way. Coming up, 11 o'clock hour, 790 next. 1102 on Sports Talk, 790. I mentioned a boogie edition of The Tell the Truth coming up in one half hour.

We have prizes, Jonathan, extra prizes. I know we haven't given. We should. Yeah. Because you've been missing a lot of days and we don't do, believe it or not, when you're out. Yes. And you're missing some more coming up. Thursday and Friday.

But I'll be back, month. That's fine. I'm going to Vegas. It's fine. So I want to reward people if they can figure out which one of the four things is. Okay. And you cannot give any editorials because I know for a fact you know multiple answers. Okay. All right.

So we got that coming up. And then we got the SportsMT dream evaluation in 50 minutes. If you'd like to be with us in the first hour, I don't think we took a call in the first hour. Maybe you don't like us anymore. I think we're pretty friendly and nice and have done a decent job in the first hour. If you want to call in and say hello, you may do so at 713-212-5-790. 713, 212-790. We do have an NBA finals series

that is at a game of peace. Really had no drama to it. It wasn't overly exciting. If you're a Tyrese Halliburton fan, you were disappointed. If you love the Shaggilders Alexander, you were more than pleased. To me,

Oklahoma City is going to win this thing in five still. Oh, okay. I'm not backing off of that. The reality is, there's 40, eight minutes in a game, right? Yes. So times two is 96.

Mm-hmm. How many minutes of that were good Indiana minutes? The eight? Indiana has led for, well, I don't know how much they led actually in game one, but after the end of the first quarter, they're behind, and they only led for 0.3 seconds of game one. So if you're the thunder, you should be thinking in your mind, we should be up to nothing. We let that one slip away. Yes.

But they're not. and the Pacers do have home court advantage. And the Pacers have been really good in their building. Absolutely. And they're really good all this postseason. And so, I don't know. Oklahoma City just looks like they're done way better basketball team. You're trying to compare Jalen Williams and Shane Gilder's Alexander

and who else? Dort's been hitting the three really well from the series. Comparing him against Andrew Nemhard and who else? Haliburton is obviously the best player by far. Miles Turner's okay. So, you know, Indiana's good. They're just not, if you play it a hundred times, I think Indiana wins 25, maybe, 20% of the time,

somewhere in that range. Yeah, Indiana's good. They're just not historically good, like the Thunder are. They have a better starting five, and they have a better bench. So Wex on his Twitter account. Adam Wexley, you're speaking of?

I mean, probably tweets, I don't know, 15 to 20 times an hour. Okay. And one of his tweets, he had to interrupt his own tweet because he was watching the postgame coverage of the game yesterday. And basically, Kendrick Perkins and is it Bob Myers or is it Bob? Who's the former general manager? Jacob Myers? No, no, no. Former general manager, Bob. Maybe it is Bob Myers of the Golden State Warriors. They're just, and then you have Stephen A. Smith there. The three of them are just yelling over each other.

over and Bob Myers. Bob Myers. Over and over and it was, and he was like, wax is like, I had to turn it off to come tweet and tell you how bad it was. What's that making? You get wax mad.

You know. The whole finals, I'm going to tell you this. I got one more thing to say, but I don't go on. So the NBA, so ESPN has done a magnificent job with college game day, NFL primetime,

their game coverage is second to none. The camera work. The announcers, typically speaking, are amazing. they've had the NBA for what, 20 years or so? They can't get it right. They have not been able to get any sort of studio show or halftime or analyst. Kendrick Perkins drives me nuts.

Stephen A. Smith doesn't even know his head from his ass when it comes to the NBA. I don't know. I can't wait for him to run for president because if you think he's bad on sports commentary, imagine him trying to get in some political conversation. It's going to be a complete joke. So my point is, how does a network who does so many things so well can't find some combination of guys that even was even close to what the chemistry was of the NBA and TNT halftime shows? Yeah, I don't know.

And basically what you said, as I was going to kind of say, like the game three of the ESPN's coverage of the softball world series championship felt like a bigger deal than the NBA finals. Did you see what TN now? I didn't watch much of the coverage, but I did see some of the post. match coverage yesterday. TNT had Andre Agassi up there, John McEnroe's doing his

thing. It looked like a real sports with like TNT uses Wayne freaking Gretzky on their NHL coverage. You get the great one as compared to ESPN giving me Stephen A. Smith and Kendrick Perkins? I mean

excuse my French, but bitch please. I mean, come on now. Right? Yeah, Bob Myers. I mean, what? Yeah, it's not good. And you know what NBC's doing next year? They're hiring Michael Jordan on a part-time basis.

Yeah, and I'm not even talking about the pre-and-post game and halftime coverage is lacking. But even just the presentation, like introing the game, like no, no national. They don't do any national anthem. No end-ups, no lineups, no last or two nights ago. Right. I mean, there's no. Bob Kossis intro. Yeah, and CBS did it.

There's just, it's just here we are. Let's get the game on. can run our 95 ads. And yeah, we got to shove our sponsors down your throat for the most amount of time possible and not have throw anything into game presentation. The Bob Kossas introductions, the Marv, Albert, and that's where NBC is going to crush it next year. I hope so. They're going to crush it because they know, they've already said they're going to carry the lineups.

They're going to use the dead guy's voice, which is kind of weird, but that's AI. But they're going to build drama because that's what sports is. sports has drama, not just putting a game on with 19 sponsor tags to it. And look, we sponsors make the world go around and we appreciate our clients here, but we still, in essence, perform a radio show. We don't, you know, it's just, it's disjointed, and they can't get their broadcast teams narrowed down properly, and they can't get their studio shows, and it may not be a much to them, a lot of people, but, and then the NBA can't get their days off right. Three days off between game one and game two. Then three more days.

all between game two and game three. I mean, give me some momentum. Give me something because I am an NBA fan. I love, wow, can Indiana fight back after being kicked in the teeth in game two? Oh, we'll find out Wednesday night, 8 o'clock. It's just, and I know that it's the bucks, it's the sponsorships, it's the dollars that make the world go around. But damn, I'm vested. I will watch. But I'm going to forget about it on Wednesday. I just am. they do that because they want to get two Sundays. They want game two on a Sunday, then they want game seven on another Sunday. I mean, they space it out.

They're staying away from Saturdays. That's point blank they are. They believe Saturdays is the TV black hole, so to speak. Now, when it was on NBC, when I was doing the Rockets PA, we played on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. I think ultimately the best thing they can do is they can play day off in between, when the teams are at home,

and then give them two days off if they're traveling to a different city. Yeah, it's two full days off again between every game except for... Next weekend. Yeah, well, Wednesday, Friday, I think. Oh, let me see. No, it's two full days off every single game

except for game three and four. Yeah. And that's because they want a potential game seven on a Sunday. So they're going to go Wednesday, Friday, Monday, Thursday, Sunday. Just stretching this thing out. It's not for rest.

It's not to recuperate. It's not for travel. It's for because the networks have said, we don't want to be on a Sunday night. Excuse me, a Saturday night. It's definitely network-driven, but you even had Aaron Gordon talking about how he wanted every game to have two days in between. He feels like the product will be better.

So does it give us a better product? More time for people to heal from injuries? I don't know. My God, it's June Ross. It's for the NBA finals. Nobody's healthy. I mean, nobody's healthy. You're on adrenaline.

You are, you have, you are on E in the gas tank. It's who gets the finish line and wins the damn championship. Yeah, two days in between, like going from Oklahoma City to Indiana, that makes sense. But for every single game, yeah, it feels a little bogged down. It's a good way to have people forget the things they're even coming on. And again, if last night was a epic matchup, then we'd be like, we're dying for more. Now it's, that game was a blowout for most. the contest. They were up 15 to 20 most of the game. People probably checked out early.

Games on Wednesday. It's easy to forget. And it's too bad because I love the sport. And I'm disappointed that it takes this long to play a seven game series. Remember the playoffs? Remember the playoffs? Remember the playoffs? We're looking at two full months of playoffs. Then you have the draft next week after that. And then before you know, you got Summer League. And then, you know, the first of the free agency time. Oh, I think

Kevin Durant's going to be traded before the draft. Yeah, you said that as a gut feeling last year. Yeah, I really, I do believe that. I was just randomly looking at the 94 finals.

It was every other day for the first three games, two days off, then every other day for three more games. Wednesday, Friday, Sundays, what they were. They played on those three days. Yeah.

And then they got two days off before game seven. Which the Rockets won. And I was there. 90 to 84. I remember Elijah won in game 6 tipping John Stark's shot

to my left like it was yesterday. That's good, Matt. I remember saying my guy that was my game ops guy, he touched that ball because it was a bad shot. I mean, the shot never even hit the rim. It was that bad of a shot. I mean, for people in Oklahoma City in Indiana,

they can't get enough of this. And good for them. We'd be the same spot. We wouldn't care about the television. ratings. Yeah. We, they've been bad. I don't know if game two came in yet, but game one was terrible. One of the worst since like the 80s. Yeah, they're like

even COVID year was better like, ooh, yikes. All right, 1113 on Sports Talk 790. Dana Brown gives us an update on Yordon Alvarez. Believe him or not. Uh-oh. Did we get a percentage? You're going to find out. 713-212-5-790.

118 on Sports Talk 790 is a boogey edition of the tell the coming up. And you can't play because you've been part of this booginess. So just throwing that out there. And then we've got Matt's dream analysis coming up at 1150. Great. I mean, we could, how much more do you want to get into Nick Chubb?

No, it's fine. No, I like hearing you're crazy as dreams. I know what you need to do. What do we need to do? We need to play the Dana White, Dana Brown. I was one of some color. Dana Brown's Commentary about Yorna Averas.

Dana Black. He was on, you know, he does an appearance every Sunday on Astros Radio. Yes. So it's only appropriate that we get the latest on Yarnan Alvarez.

I think it's sealing a lot more. And so he's close to picking up a bat. It could happen with this week. So, and the goal would be once he gets back to taking some swings, we'll probably do what we did before.

Try assimilate it. game instead of sending him out to AAA because we really like to have him back ASAP. All right, I know he was talking about the plan for him, but don't say we're going to do what we did for him before. Oh, you mean when you didn't know what was happening

and he had a fracture? Any other way to phrase it, please. So you know my stance is this, and I made this stance a week ago when this story dropped. Okay. When he comes back, he comes back. I'm not giving you guys any optimism. Right. I'm not giving you any pessimism. I'm just listening.

going, okay, sounds good. Sounds good. Yeah. I mean, there is nothing that I would take from that and going, uh-oh. Better get that Yon-Avarez jersey back on quick. He's ready. He's like intimate knowledge of how well he's healing now, which is good. Well, it was 60% last week. We didn't get a percentage, unfortunately.

My guess it was even asked. No. Because, again, that's putting Dana in an uncomfortable spot. Yeah, nor should it be asked. But Dana Brown with a little bit more on the plane. for Yordon Alvarez. Batting practice for sure. You know, off the live arm.

You know, he's going to have to do some off the machine. You know, so he'll get his share of batting practice. And then once we feel like he's got, he's getting through that well with no pain or anything like that. Then we'll set him up with potentially, you know, a live BP against the pitcher. Get him some at bats that way and get him back here in Houston. Get them with the live arm. Let's go. Well, again, we provide that as a service because Dana is nice enough to join the Astros broadcast team on Sunday to give that. So we want to play it. You can then take your own, you know, thoughts off of that.

Again, I have been not burned, but I'm just... Burnt. Well, we have been burned. Things were... You could say it. Things have been said that just weren't necessarily completely forthcoming and or honest. And again, Dana's just a... a really tough spot.

Like you said, when he's back in the lineup, he's back in the lineup. They're winning games, they're winning series. It'll be great to get one of the best hitters on the planet. Then we can get to hear, you know, this is like making a deadline deal, getting Yorda on back. But here's my problem. And not that I'm a doctor and everyone would want to play one on the radio. This could flare up again.

How are we supposed to? And this is, I'm not talking about Yorna and the individual. I'm talking about the average human being. When people have back issues, they just. You know, if they back surgeries or back ailments and they go through rehabilitation or they tell them to, you know, don't carry lift things. Usually backs tend to help, you know, come back and hurt neck injuries. I mean, how are we, he's going to be, he has to intimately use his hands to perform his job. Yeah, so that they're going to let the hand fracture of heel and hopefully we're right from there.

But how do you fracture your hand? You swing very aggressively and hard and that's what Yoran does for, let me. It's, help me out. Give me an example. Well, he's been, I don't know. Have we heard of other hand fractures? How many years has he been since 19 he came up? He did have hand issues once before.

Yeah. It was a muscle thing, but that's also what they said this time. Yeah. I mean, we know about the creaky knees. His knees have been fine. He got multiple knee surgeries in 2020, and I don't remember any knee issues since then. Well, that's because they've done a really smart job

and not letting him to play a lot of outfield, not doing a lot of running around. And when you hit home runs, you just try it. That's what we want. No running the bases, no stealing, none of that. No. No headfirst slives like Carls Pena? Don't even leg out of chopper to third.

Yeah. Oh yeah. If there's anybody that's allowed to loaf, it's him. Yes. Groundball, deep short, nah. Well, Kyle Tucker says me too, but in your own too. Oh, God. Off the top rope sports RV.

What? That was rude. You look at all these shots and taken to former athletes that aren't here anymore. I'm not taking it. shots. I was talking about his fractured leg, Matt. What are you talking about? I'm talking about the fact that you took an unnecessary shot at a former Houston legend.

He's not even here. You're not a legend. Was he going to the Astros Hall of Fame? Let's see. Yeah, they'll run out of people. They'll put him in. Oh, yeah. Because he's not going to the Cubs Hall of Fame. It may go to the Dodgers Hall of Fame. Could be. All right. Tony Yusebio, still snub, by the way. I know you call him the Astro Clipper.

Well, that's what he is. He's never going into the Astro's Hall of. of honor. Yeah, you heard me. Why would you say that? Ever, ever. That's rude. Because I'm sick and tired of your usabil love.

It's ridiculous. Wow. Sounds like, you know what, you shouldn't be jealous and hate the goat like that. Yeah. By way, didn't his hitting streak take two months to get to the number? 24 game hitting streak. Over how many days? 73.

47 or something. That's a testament to how good he is. wasn't used every day, still came in there and getting knocks, baby. Well, how about if they were so good, then they would have put him in a lineup card every single day? But they didn't do so. They did that like the next year. And then he was a replacement level, but that's all right.

Then he finished his career as a diamond. What was a jersey? Oh, Rocky. He was the Rockies, but he never played a game for them. They told him he was out of shape and sent him home from camp or something like that. Yes, I do. Why don't you ever wear that? I guess I could.

I don't wear jerseys. What was the last time you saw me wear a jersey of anyone? What was the last time you saw me wear a jersey? I meant talking about me because you're asking me. Why has it got to turn it to you, Matt? Like always. Okay, sorry. I've never seen you word. Is it any hostile today? Isn't any hostile? I'm hostile? Yeah. We just came off the weekend and this just... Hold on, hold on. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm talking about Tony Usabio and then Matt's trash and Tony Usabio one of the all-time Astros greats. Sorry, I didn't. I have to, you know, babysit. You're babysitting.

Exactly. He started it. You do sound like a younger brother. I am a younger brother. No wonder your mom likes Ray Moore. All right, 713, 212, 5790. 713, 212, 579. All right. To tell the truth segment, which I really enjoy, it's just hard to sometimes come up with stuff. So we're going to know a figure out if Jonathan knows me well enough.

How long have you been working with this, Jonathan? About three months now, give or take? Yeah. When you're putting your two weeks in pretty soon? Because the overrunner on producers for this show, Ross. What is about eight, nine months tops? It depends. He's doing great.

Why would you stop saying that? Well, I mean, I'm still in reality. Yeah, we stop saying it. Okay. You keep pushing people away, Matt. All right. So the question is, you have to decide how boozy I am, Jonathan, okay? I got you.

And we're going to let our audience as well. Did you go to the prize vault? What do we have in the prize vault today? We only have one prize for, believe it or not today. We don't got an extra prize. But the prize today, later today will be a pair of tickets to see the heart at June 17th at Smart Financial Center. Okay, so we have heart tickets. We only have one set or we just have one.

We only got one set. We only got one set. Wait, wait. We just got the prize email the other day. How can we only have one set? I mean, I can take it from tomorrow's. No, no, no, no, no. We've got to think about this.

All right. Well, we're going to see, we're going to see how well you do. That's too bad. We have zero prize giveaway people. We have like some like some coosies or something or, uh, I can give a shirt. Yeah, why don't you give them like your game worn sock? You know they give game worn gear away? You should give like show worn stuff.

Why don't want to give way one of your petons that you give When you're at Western Kentucky Not No those are special All my tons I got I have I have I still a hurdle too For long as he didn't drop it You drop that one?

Okay I dropped it at Texas Realize by the way Yeah All right So Jonathan Since we can't involve the audience We wanted to We have no prizes

Unless people just want to have Self gratification People usually don't want prizes Right Yeah All right So Jonathan Not one prize

We didn't do believe it or not In the last A couple of days or something We got a lift over Can we steal something from the 8 team? They don't like their prizes, right? Jonathan's signing up all his cousins for tickets. I see them.

For Hart's tickets? I don't even know how Hart is until the day. How come my oldest prize winners got the last name, Alan? All right. Up next, how well does Jonathan know me when it comes to my bougie activities? 1128 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 if you want to join in the conversation. It's 7-13-212-7-90.

And on Twitter, you can follow with. at SportsMT and at SportsRV. All right, 1134 on Sports Talk 790. This is for you, Jonathan. Ross cannot partake in this because I believe he knows the answer to this. There are four things that I think are uber-boosy in someone's life that I'm going to tell you about,

and three of the four are true. It is up for you, Jonathan, to decide which one of the four I am not telling the truth. Are you okay with that? So three of the four that you do not think is bushy. No, no, no, it's not a question. you, these are three of the four things that I have done in my life, one thing I have not done.

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. All right. Number one, in 2004, I attended a live broadcast of Saturday Night Live in New York City. And I snuck into the cast party after party after I was with the general manager of Channel 2 at the time, who was my friend that went with me. He got us a tickets.

I dropped his name and they invited me into the cast party. after. And it was unbelievable. All the stories you hear about the cast party are 100% true. Lots of debauchery. 2004. It was amazing. So I went 10 that an SNL live concert or live broadcast, drop the general manager's name at Channel 2 and got into the after party cast party where I think I left at 4.15 in the morning, give or take. All right? That's number one. Okay, okay, okay. Number two, going to local. I have never sat in the upper deck at Diken Park.

Minutemate Park, Astros Field, Enron Field, whatever it was called. I have never watched a sporting event, a concert, anything in the upper deck at Diken Park. Okay. All right. Number three. I have never in my life sat in the last roll of an airplane. Never in your life. Never in my life.

Not once. The bathroom is behind you? Not me. Never in the last row. That's like the ultimate worst. That's a worst role on the flight, right, basically? Probably. That's like you barely got on the plane.

You can't put your seat back. Huh? You're first to the snacks. Snacks right there. You can't be stealing snacks from people back there. I mean, first to snacks. They're the first to offer you in, you know?

No. I usually go upward and then come back. You've got to go to Economy Plus and take it back. It's a lot of times since it's been an airplane. All right. Number four. I once spent the night in a 2,000 square foot suite in Las Vegas. Okay?

And I mean, this thing had everything. It had a library. It had a full kitchen. It had multiple bedrooms. It had a living room. It had big screen TVs all over the place. I once spent a night in a 2,000 square foot suite in Las Vegas. So the four things again is, one, I went to a live broadcast in 2004,

sent out live and went to the after party with the cast. Okay, like you're at a frat party, said his name, got inside, yeah. Yeah, thanks to the channel two, general manager at the time, Steve Wasserman. Number two, I've never sat in the upper deck at Dyken Park. Number three, I've never sat in the last row of an airplane, and number four, I've spent the night in a

2,000 square foot plus suite in Las Vegas. Which one of the four am I not telling the truth? Three of the four are true. One is a lie. One is a lie. Okay. Three are there. Okay. I'm going to say I believe the first story just because that seems like a mad thing to do.

And it's something I've done. You know, you get free places when you get, you know, people. $20, the Las Vegas one, that sounds like Matt. You always love five-star hotels. There's no way you haven't been in one that's that big or that expensive. Lower deck at Dikin Park. I've never sat in the upper deck at Dikin Park. part.

You've never sat in the upper deck? Upper deck, yeah. I've never sat in the upper deck. That's where all the sweets were at. No, sweets, no. I'm talking about the upper deck, like, what were they called? The sweet level is more in the mezzanine, if you will. Yeah.

He's there been nosebleeds. Like nosebleeds, yeah. Upper deck. Right. And what was the third? I've spent that, uh, I never sent in the last row of an airplane. I'm going with three. You're going with a never set in the last row of an airplane.

Okay. Now, do we have some people that want to help you? I got some. See if Sebastian wants to help you with some advice on this, which one it is. Again, these are the four. Ross, you cannot answer because you know they answer this question. I only really remember one, actually. He bailed on this.

I don't got no help. You've never sat in the back. That sounds like a lie. That sounds like humble beginnings, man. You had to come from somewhere. There's no way you haven't sat in the very right. That is actually true. People do begin and humble beginnings.

You got to start. I'm doubling down. That's my answer. All right. Number one, I have spent the night in a 2000 square foot suite in Las Vegas. Guess who was with me? Mike Tyson and a tiger. No.

You were. Where was it? Mandalay Bay. Oh, yeah, but that was... I didn't say I paid for it. Yeah, no, you didn't pay for any of these. Boosy things you say you're doing. When did the music go?

Get the music up. I actually forgot about that. We've mentioned this before. I've never sat in the upper deck of deck and park before. I do know that. Yeah. That one. Yeah.

So it comes down to, did I sneak into the cast party of SNL with Steve Wasserman, the general manager at Channel 2, or do I have never sat in the last row of an airplane? Well, the one thing I have done, I have never sat in the last roll of an airplane. I'm sorry, Jonathan. I have never been to a taping of SNL and did it certainly go to it after cast party. Wow. I thought I fooled you well because I mentioned the guy's name and the season two. He tried to go in with all these details.

I should have known, dude. He oversold it. That's actually key to getting a lot of believe it or not questions, right? I normally oversell details and stuff I make up. I'm so bad myself. I'm talking to myself. I remember that Channel 2's former general manager was named Steve Wasserman. I could have made that up.

I could have made that up, but he really was a general manager. I can Matt just going like, yeah, I know him. All right, yeah, come in. and Matt would have been chucked out of that party five minutes in. So who'd have been in 2004's party? When you really laid it on thick is when you said we didn't leave till 4.15 in the morning

like Matt, you'd have been in bed by 9.30. That's not true. The show ends at 1 a.m. So I don't know. I'd have been three hours into the party. Yeah, you'd have been there with a pillow on a blanket. So unfortunately, you do not know me as boogey as well as you think I do, as you do. We're trying.

I was good, man. I'm glad you mixed it up. I was going to say, it's sports sakes. Oh, that's for Jonathan. That's for Jonathan. All right. That's for Matt. No, that's for you.

I didn't do anything wrong. No, I just fooled you. All right. When we come back, staying with me for one more second. We've got to do this. We're going to do my dream analysis here. Okay. So for those that just didn't catch a show earlier.

Oh, we need a song. A definitive dream song. Or we could play a medley. You know what? You decide. Okay. I only care. I had a very vivid, vivid dream last night that woke me up.

I mean, eyes wide open at 1.50. Absolutely 100% woke me up. And it involved a IHeart radio employee. It involved your favorite food. I think it's your favorite food. And a former NBA sports team owner. All that coming up after Ross tells you about Cinergeny. 12.05 Sports Talk 790.

It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We do this every single day during the middle of the week. Monday through Friday. We give you the top headlines the day. And for that, we go to the news at noon. And with that, we go to the Steve Levy of Houston Sports Journalism. I guess I'll take what I can get, Matt. Well, let's start with the Houston Astros over the weekend,

taking a two out of three against the Cleveland Guard. but unfortunately we're unable to get the win yesterday. 1-1. And that is hit well and deep to right. Back on it is Smith and he will watch that one go. Bow Nailer, a two-run homer, his eighth of the season. And it's 2-0 Guardians. That Bo Nailer 2-run shot was all the runs given up by Brandon Walter.

Six innings of two-run ball. Astros were in this one late. Jake Myers leading the charge with 4. hits raising his average of 302, but Astros' bats couldn't get enough going one for eight with runners in scoring position. They fall to the Guardians. They're 36 and 29, however. Third best record in the American League and two and a half games clear of the Seattle Mariners. And I got one for you for gut feelings. I don't think we're going to be able to dodge the Yankees again. I think the Yankees are going to top the Tigers of ultimately the American League. Which means, guess what? Astros won the

wild card because it'll be the three seed you playing some day baseball for about two weeks rossi we also mentioned last week matt that the remaining schedule strength for the astros in terms of opponent win percentage 30th in baseball after this weekend against the guardians 30th it remains they have the weakest schedule left Seattle has the 17th strongest schedule texas rangers right behind them at 18th and those are probably the teams probably just Seattle, but maybe Texas gets in there, but a much weaker schedule than your divisional opponents remaining for the Houston Astros. Put in your name.

Uh-oh. Go ahead. No, no, no, tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow. Not today. All right. Well, also over the weekend with Brander Walter being added back to the Astros, unfortunately, Forrest Whitley, designated for assignment for the Astros, his long reign as one of the Astros' top prospects. And then, of course, we know he had Tommy John, other injuries,

the 50 game drug suspension as well. What a long winding road that has been, Matt, for Forrest Whitley. Gone but not forgotten. I'm going to see how much you will do at this game. How much money has Forrest Whitley been paid by the Astros organization? His signing bonus was $3 million, $3.1, $8 or $9 million or something like that. So it's a little over $3 million for his signing bonus. and then I don't know what minor league wages for,

I'm going to say three and a half million, over eight years or whatever it would be. He was making $740,000 this year, $6,000 this year while on the Major League roster. So he's, I mean, he's been really at the end of the day, what has he been worth to the Astros? About 5 million?

Probably somewhere around there. It's the first round, though. one of the top pitching prospects in baseball, the top pitching prospect in baseball at one point. And just never panned out. Every major league team goes through this. Top prospect list does not mean everything, but he was untouchable at one point in the Astros organization.

All right, Matt, elsewhere on the news at noon. An all pro coming to the Texans? Well, it's a 29-year-old running back who's had multiple knee injuries, but Nick Chubb haven't heard anything about an official signing, but supposed to pass his physical today and will be a Houston Texan on a one-year deal, of course, contingent on the passing of that physical. Last year, Nick Chubb in eight games for the Cleveland Browns, he averaged 3.3 yards per carry and then broke his foot.

If I set the over-under on Nick Chub yards at 650 under. Okay. 500 under and it gets dicey 475 here we go were you doing an auction 475 75 75 75

who says 475 75 74 74 74 for that 470 Nick Chubb Nick Chubb 470 470 470 470 and liar low under

450 4 50 450 Who wants 450 I'm gonna go still go under 4504 54 54 54 54 54 54 55 4 55 say once say twice What you say? Under 425 who says 425 425 425

4.25. I don't know. I mean, under. How long am I going to do this? Under. 400. Under.

375. No, no. You're just making me do this not to make you sound foolish. I don't need to do much. Terrible. 3.53. That's enough. All right.

All right, Matt. Last night in the NBA, it was game number two of the NBA. But as is often the case, in basketball. There was more talk about stuff happening off the floor than on the floor. Thunder get the 123 to 107 comfortable victory over the Indiana Pacers.

But a lot of talk about the broadcast presentation for ESPN slash ABC including the pre-half time and post game shows. Bad, bad and bad. And also all the criticism game one, not having a Larry O'Brien

trophy anywhere on the court, making it not feel like a finals game. well, they put lipstick on a pig. They had the graphics of Alario Barni Triophy intermixed with the finals script writing, but also brought to you, of course, by a certain sponsor of theirs. Now, let me ask you this, do this because

they wanted to interchange things and move things around, or do they do it because that they put the real, was it a placard or paint? Paint? On the wood? No, it wouldn't be paint. It would be a sticker. They put a real sticker of the finals logo on there and the real NB that people would

slide on it. I don't know. I have heard some say that. I haven't heard an NBA official or Adam Silver or anybody else say that it was too slippery of a court. I mean, it feels like when you're getting crushed from a PR perspective, everybody upset that even JJ Watt is like dunking on you, that there's no court on that. You figure

they would come out with a statement and say, yeah, we would like to do it. It makes it feel big. But unfortunately we got a lot of complaints about players saying they're slipping on the floor. Why is the NBA and why is ESPN not making this big? This is the NBA finals. This is what every June we've, as basketball fans we lived for the pomp the circumstance the celebration the theatrics and they're treating it like

it's a regular season january game there's nothing special or interesting about the presentation and and sometimes ross life is about presentation and we're getting nothing but more than just a regular old game on the logo on the court adam silver saying quote to be honest i hadn't thought about it all that much until i saw it on social media i'm nostalgic as well also i think for a media driven culture. It's nice when you're looking back our highlights and they stand out because you want that trophy or logo or some indication. It's a special event. Correct.

So we'll look at it. But superimposing it did nothing for me. It was horrible. It was a cheesy It was worse than a lipstick on a plague. Yeah, it was putting, yeah, it's ridiculous. All right, that is the news at noon, but we have one major story we have not discussed yet today. And we'll do that because Ross

is going to give us his French open report next. Did you guys find the difference? More on Chubb, more on the Astros, two out of three. Winning that series in Cleveland off day today. The White Sox will be in for a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, get together. But right now, no other station, the marketplace is going to give you a complete rundown of what happened yesterday with the five-hour-plus match.

We present to you Sports RV's French Open Update. Yes, Matt. Hold up. Hold up. Oh, we forgot to pick a French song. I was busy. yeah we need a french song and we have play-by-play apparently highlights as well from this well let me see that play by play for you man real quick uh yeah some thrilling stuff over there

rolling garrows here's some of the highlights what did you think of those highlights of matthio are you really going to the lowest hanging fruit of a stereotype what's you mean i'm getting my beret and my baguette and i'm heading over to roland garrows how did you have a shift that roll rattled coming up here before you know it I thought it was a great match. How much of it did you catch you said? The last point. 23-year-old Yonik, a sinner, number one in the world.

22-year-old Carlos Alcoran. What is it? Yonik Sinner. The only Yonix I know are ones that are in tennis. Yonnie, Noah, and I'm done. What about Yonik Falconer? Nope. I just put that up.

I don't know. Clearly you did. Cool. Yep. Okay. So, yeah, and then 22. year old Carlos Alcarez of Spain getting his first, fifth, excuse me, Grand Slam Major at the age of 22.

Already, I mean, solidify. I think that's more than Jimmy Conner's already. That's keep track. It was a great match back and forth. Alcarez getting down two sets to nil. And for the first time in his career, I believe, or at least in his Grand Slam career, coming back, fighting back in a thrill of a five.

Now, I would also say, this match was five plus hours. because the crowd would not shut up. It was pissing me off. Everybody's yelling, oh, Carlos! And the lady's like, see who play? Merci, see who play? Like telling everybody to shut up the entire time. She was polite at least.

She was very polite. But it's like, they need to kick these people out. Can someone explain this to me? This is an I just don't get it. How come if people are screaming the entire five hours, nobody wants to hear you scream, you idiots? And this happens at major tennis events all over the world. Well, it's just like in golf when you hear.

here, you to man. Oh, I do it. All right. Put down your white claw for five seconds and get kicked out of here. It's ridiculous. So that's, to me, I'm dead serious. One of the reasons it was five plus hours because the lady was calming down the crowd between every single point. It was absurd.

Huge crowd, by the way, right? Yeah. I don't know how many of these fit it. Roland Gallagallis. Roland Garros, yes. But it was great. Yonix Center, clearly, he wasn't 100% the last couple of sets. He was kind of limping around, but man, he gutted it out.

He was battling out there. It was very impressive shot making from both of them. And that's the thing where I got a hot take for you, Matt. Please. Top level, tennis, athletes, best all around athletes in the world. Hear me out. You need incredible stamina. Yes.

You need incredible speed and agility and acceleration. Power. You need power. And the hand-eye coordination, these guys. have is insane. And also think of the mental fortitude it takes. To be on the, the rate, there's always a game within a game. Every tennis point is a chess match. It's mentally draining. These guys are faking out that they're going to hit it one way or the other and doing different spins. They have different, they even, they toss the ball differently to try to hide which way they're

going to hit there. It's a cat and mouse game for five hours. That's a lot. It's very impressive to me. I got a hot take. I don't disagree with you, Juan Iota. Thank you. It was impressive. And like I said, I was kind of half in, half out the first couple of sets because I was asleep, had a few too many beers on Saturday. Sure, sure.

But yeah, after the, when the basically middle of the third set, I was locked in and it was, I mean, it was on the edge of your seat stuff. These guys are incredible. You can't take long timeouts. No. You can't rely on someone else, like on offense and defense. You can't be sub-dinner, sub-out. It's you by yourself.

Now, granted, you are getting every bit of the dollars. to go with it. I get you got 2.9 mil to win. But even in golf, you don't literally take a shot, take a breath, take another shot. You have to walk your next shot. You can think about it. You can contemplate things.

You're waiting on the guys ahead of you. Right, yeah. I totally agree. If there's any sport that makes and earns every dollar they get, it's a tennis player. Shout out to Cocoa Graf for one of the women's championship. Yes, on Saturday. Coco Golf?

Golf, yeah. Steffie Graff. Stuffy G-O-Goff. Golf. G-O-F-F? Yes. Or is it G-A-U-FF? I watched the last, like, set and a half of that one, too. And how was that, by the way?

It was good. Cocoa-Goff was good. Yeah, I respect the hell out of tennis. I just don't like watching. Yeah, I understand. You kind of have to get into the game within the game to really enjoy it. Sometimes if it's on by accident, like, for instance, I'll be brutally honest with you.

I would watch it on NBC. because that's where the French Open was for the longest, longest time. I actually forgot it was on TNT until people started tweeting about it. And that's when I turned it on. Yeah, this was the first year was there. Yeah.

But it was the coverage is great. Andre Agassiz's analysis is incredible. I was like John McElroy, anything he does. I think John McRenorneur does a great job. Friend of the show, Brian Anderson called the play-by-play, as much as a play-by-play does in tennis. I do miss Jim Nance on it. Nope.

I said I miss it. He never did. He never did. Did he do Wimbledon? He did tennis, didn't he? Nope. Who am I thinking of? Well, there was, Pat Summerald did it 30 years ago.

You had Chris Fowler does it on ESPN with Wimbledon. Jim Nance did or do it any Grand Slam tennis? Dick Enberg did it for a long time. Okay, well, I'm wrong then. Yeah. No tennis for, no tennis for, no tennis. Now, lots of golf for Jim Nance, but not for tennis. I'm getting somebody confused.

But, yeah, John McEnroe does a great job. I think it's, yeah. Good stuff, Matt. Can we get some more on your French accent? I think I think I... What would you like to say? I think I underrated it. Talk about Chubb joining the Texans.

Could Nick Chub? I can't even... Now you're putting me on the spot. It's not free-flowing anymore. How many yards per carre will he have for the Texans? Who knows? Probably under 500 yards or 357 meters. You boorish Americans and your yards, makes no sense.

Man, you got anti-American sentiment in the conversation. Oh, the French aren't anti-American? What? You think people on the world hate us? Is that what you're trying to tell us? Who loves America? Who's America's best to? I'm a big American fan.

I'm a big American fan. Mexico. No. Canada's okay. No. England hates us. We just want Canada be our 51st state. China.

Yeah, right. Russia, no thanks. Ukraine loves us. They keep catching him checks. Do you do a Ukrainian accent? I don't think so. I was going to say, if you do, I would not. Let's not.

Let's not. No, no, no, we're good. Don't even bother. We don't need World War III right away. I'm not going to start it. It's already on the way. It's like four active wars happening right now. You're pushing the envelope on it.

Oh, the streets are burning. Everything's going great, guys. Let's just keep talking sports. That's what we're here for. So the show so far today, boozy moments by me, my horrendous dreams, your horrendous Ukrainian accents. tennis, and chub.

I'll get you a UFC breakdown too from over the weekend if you want. Oh, I got, I have time for a concert breakdown? Oh, and when we come back? All right. Full rundown of sticks. And friends. There were two other bands there too. Yeah, but wasn't it just like pieces of bands?

Pieces of bands, exactly right. Okay, well, I mean, it's about that, getting that up to that age. Guys are dying off the band. They were good. I'll tell you they were good, though. 1230 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-7-90. Back with more in just a moment.

It is 1234 on Sports Talk 790. It is a Matt Thomas Showwood-Ross. If you would like to recap your thoughts and put them on these airwaves about the Astor's 2 out of 3 against the Cleveland Guardians. We'll do that. If you are giving us your forecast on what Nick Chubb will do potentially for the Houston Texans, we'll get into that. By the way, minicamp is tomorrow on Wednesday.

Two-day event. Usually it's three days, but they usually let the guys off the last day. And so they're not even fooling around. They're just saying, look, it's a two-day event. Get out there, get some work in. And we'll see you for training camp in a month from now. We mentioned the NBA finals, a game even at a game apiece. Television winnings for Game 1 were horrific, as expected.

They're probably not going to be any better now that last night's game was not particularly close. And a five-hour French Open got things going. Crazy. And our truth returned to WWE over the weekend. at money the bank. Who? Yeah. Ron Killings.

Your truth? Our truth. Our dash truth. All right. Now we've got the sports headlines all the way. And remember again, any of those things on your top of mind, 713212-5-7-90 if you want to come in and join the conversation. 7-13-2-1-2-750. So my middle son, Peyton, has got an old soul when it comes to music just like I do.

And he has a huge sticks fan. For me, they're met at best, but it is what it is. I don't know how anybody could be a huge, like a budding huge. huge Sticks fan. It's kind of crazy. Because again, the lead singer is not even a lead singer that sang all the songs. Like you got them into Beatles, that makes sense to me. Barryman a little less

sense. But Sticks? Sticks? Sticks? So we went to see Sticks. Don Felder, who was a member of the Eagles for many, many years, until he got sideways with Don Henley and with Glenn Fry.

And now they don't speak. Oh, they're not on speaking terms? Well, with are they all alive? Glenn's past. Glenn's dead. Joe Walsh is alive. But just weird as weird a F.

Did you hear this? Yeah. Okay. Now there's one song that sticks won't sing anymore because they're one of their lead singers that's his song and they don't sing it anymore.

That lady I think is their best stick song and they don't sing that anymore. I haven't sung it for 20 years. That's a shame. All right. And then Kevin Cronin, who was the lead singer for REO Speedwagon is out with his own band

called the Kevin Cronin band. He and REO Speedwagon people got sideways so he's like, screw you, I'm the guy, I'm the talent behind it, so he came out and sang all REO Speedwagon songs. Okay. By the way, I have a stupid legal question. Do you have to pay stuff to REO Speedwagon?

That's pay stuff to everybody else? Well, it depends on who owns a publishing rights. Maybe he owns his own songs. Who knows? Okay, whatever. Okay, so first up it was Don Felder, who sang a lot of Eagle songs, and I love the Eagles.

so that was an amazing part of the concert. That was a 10 out of 10 for me. Was he a singer with the Eagles? Mm-hmm. Okay. They all had the soft country rock stuff? No, they had all their hit. They had all different hits.

I like Ariel Speedwagon, don't love them, like them, but Kevin Cronin was good. And then Sticks came on and did what they did. So we were there for four hours. Four hours in about 95-degree temperature. I was going to say, you recovered, though. That's true. Because you've never sat on the lawn at Cynthia Woods-Mitchell-Villian. This is also how bougie he is.

Now, I don't know if Jonathan has any contact for this and he's on the phone. That's okay. You have never sat in the upper deck. Yes. Of Diken Park. That is correct. And you have not once sat on the lawn at Cynthia Woods-Mitchell-Bavillian. Also accurate.

You are just not salt to the earth, Matt. You're not a man of the people. I'll be out on that lawn. It's nice out there. You get laid up with your lady? I didn't have my lady with me. Oh. You get laid up with,

nah, no, I guess it wouldn't work. No. You get laid out and comfortable. You can lay down on the grass if you want to? Well, you need to bring a blanket. They used to sell chairs.

I don't know if they do that anymore. No, I was very comfortable in my very comfortable, really close seat. I was about four rows away. It was really good. What's what the common folks are? And you get a cloud of smoke headed your way as well.

Oh my God. I did mention this on Twitter. The, the, what do you call it? Contact high. attack high was definitely in play. Secondhand smoke. Yeah.

All right. So people were toking up at the sticks slash Donfelder slash Nick Cronin concert? You're not surprised by that under any sort of sense. A lot of it was medicinal, I imagine. Okay. So here's the bit.

So Kevin Cronin has a fair number of hits, but there are a Rio Speedwagon. So what he did is he took a whole album of Ario Speedwagon and he played it. Song to Song to Song to Song song to song. And then he played a few more of Ariel Speedwagon's most pipewater songs. Okay. Well, in any album,

not every one of the songs are going to be a hit. So he plays an entire album of about 15 songs, only three of them we recognize. So we're largely bored during that. Won't you listen and enjoy the lyricism and musicianship, Matt? No. Because it was a four-hour concert. Then Sticks comes out.

Does the exact same thing. Plays three or four of the songs who really, really know. Then they play an entire album of songs we don't really know. Oh, really? Two or three songs at the very end, we do know. Do you know what album they played? No. I go to set,

You got, I'm telling you, Don Felder did mostly Eagle stuff and he crushed you because we knew the songs. Okay. And that's my review. I mean, do you get a grade or anything? I would give Felder and A. I'd give Cronin a B and it'd give Sticks a B. So overall, entertaining time. My son had a great time.

Renegade is my favorite stick song. They played at the very end. It was outstanding. Oh, they played the, I guess, the Grand Illusion. Is that the album they were playing? I don't know. I'm not a big enough sticks. to tell you what they what they played.

But a lot of the stuff, people were just sitting down going, I've never heard the song, don't like the song, whatever the song. And then we had some people in front of us getting fights. Oh, wow, I need a quick ruling on this. Wait, what happened? They got like fist fights? No, it was, um, how do I put this politically correct? Two angry women were getting mad at another woman two rows in front of us. Because the two women, four rows in front of us,

would not sit down during the concert. And she's, and these two women were, yelling of this other woman and then Cynthia Woods people had to come over and so my son is like what do you do on this? I said I think the rule is you can stand if you stand if you want to. It's a concert. People

are typically like to stand. I tend to agree. I said I didn't like it but I'm not going to start yelling at a person to sit down. You can stand in it. I feel like. Yeah, I do too. I'm not a fan of it but I understand why people do it. And there were sometimes where songs were very popular that we all stood but generally speaking

you're not going to you're going to sit down for an opera you're going to sit down for a symphony you're going to see sticks you're probably going to stand up a few times so that was the big drama of the big night at the concert Friday so what was the resolution that person get kicked out

or they eventually sit down everybody got warned and then the woman four rows in front of us did sit down and on her way down she gave the double rods oh nice two women in front of me love it it's going to throw down in the way

at the Woodlands Pavilion with a bunch of Okay, I was probably in the lower third in terms of age. What? Oh, yeah. What was your son? He's the youngest person there. Payton's 22, so he really younged it up.

Brought down the average. Yeah. But I would say there was probably on average 65, 65, 62, 63. Hell, all the members of the bands were in their 70s. Oh, jam-packed. It was jam-packed. I mean, there was not a spot in the lawn to be seen. Really?

I mean, every seat was full. surprising. And Sticks hasn't had a hit since 1983. You know what it was? Renegade. No. Mr. Roboto. Okay. A little bit of a banger, honestly. It's not bad. It's not a banger. You listen to it's a banger. You listen to it once in a while. Stop. It wasn't bad. I guess I recognize it. I am not actively pursuing hearing Mr. Roboto. It's not terrible. Stop.

I got a secret. I got a secret. secret secret oh man I went to look up sticks and I went to the river Greek mythology sticks So that is my official review of that concert Okay Overall you said A minus

B Because there were too many songs I had no idea what they were And even the diehard fans of Kronin And the diehard fans of sticks Didn't know what they were But they're not going to fill time Four hours

That's a lot of music That is a lot of music All right So only one number one hit for Stix Well, I think you must know because you guys look this up, right? Is it, it's Babe? Babe is correct. Yeah, and they don't sing that song there.

Don't Let It End was also a top. Was this top? Did they get some hits, I guess? They did okay for themselves. Hmm. Good for them. And that's your sticks review. They go to in and out after.

Always a win. Oh, yeah. Always a win after the line. Not bad. Good. It was bad when it first opened. Oh, yeah, really long. Drive-thus a hot mess.

but it's the regular going in, it's just fine. All right, Ross. This is a very important question. Oh, double, double animal stuff, of course. That's what I'm talking about. Not animal style on the fries, though. Did you get well done fries? No.

Oh. Well done's the way to go. It makes them at least, it makes them from like a two out of ten to like a five out of ten. Yeah, like potato sticks. Yeah, the in and out fries are terrible. Yeah.

All right, Ross, what's next? Full Astros breakdown. How much leash does Ryan Gusto have in their starting rotation and predictions for what? Lance McCullors Jr. will do tomorrow on the mount. All right. Speaking of McCullors, were you a little bit of the heby-jibis when you heard any of an extra day? What do you mean heby-jibis?

Well, it was a whole start yesterday. Yeah, but they're trying to keep everybody on a six-day. Or are they? It's all good. You sure? I don't know. I'm not his doctor. Until further notice, how about this?

I'm not worried about Yordon until he's back in the lineup. I'm not worrying about Lance until he's out of the rotation. That's actually a pretty fair way to put it. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-2-1-2-5-7-90. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you want to join us via Twitter, you may do that as well. You can find us at SportsMT, at SportsRV.

And, of course, our 790 address is at Sports Talk 790. 1249 of 790. It's Matt and Ross with you here on the program with you at 2 o'clock. Believe it or not today, at 150, all things about Nick Chub. All right, so when you do sports radio, you talk about games, you interview athletes, You interview coaches, you analyze things, you discuss things when you can. And you feel like you got a pretty good grasp of things when it comes to how basketball games will be played, how a football game is delivered, a basketball game is managed, whatever.

You try to be the armchair quarterback, right? Yes. There are some things that will be very confusing to us that will never be able to shake. And I believe I've got a topic for you that will be almost impossible for us to legitimately discuss that will make sense to us. and our audience, but I'm going to try for anyway. Days after a multi-billion dollar legal settlement changed college athletics by allowing schools to directly pay their athletes, the most powerful conference commissioners are bullish on their ability to enforce

NIL rules in a new system, even though specific punishments remain unclear. Okay. So, the House v. NCAA settlement was approved on Friday. Okay. Former Major League Baseball Executive Brian Seeley was named CEO of a new enforcement organization called the College Sports Commission. His job will be to lead the teams responsible for enforcement of the new rules around revenue sharing, third-party payments to players for NIL deals, and roster limits. One of the biggest questions is, what happens when these rules are broken?

So, in the category of what the hell did I just say, which that's what I'm asking. It sounds like to me, dumbing it down as much as we can, that players will now be directly compensated by the member institutions. But that has nothing to do with NIL deals. Okay. But he's overseeing NIL deals as well, right? at least making sure that things remain in the up and up.

The problem is what is the up and up? Yeah. Seeley and this team will be responsible. Yeah. Enforcement of new rules and NIL. So it's both. Quoting Brett Yormark, Big 12 Commissioner, our schools want rules and we're providing rules

and we will be governed by these rules. And if you break those rules, the ramifications will be punitive. Well, you can't give more money to, like a football player at Alabama is I'm going to make more money than a football player at... What does punitive mean? Money?

Yeah. You can't... If you're paying an Arkansas player, you're paying the same money that a Michigan player is kidding. That's what I think is on that. I think. Okay. NIL deals... There is no regulation right now for NAL deals.

There's no... I have not seen a story that says NIL deals will be capped. NIL deals will have a salary cap. Okay. Question. how do you regulate what is the regulation for an NIL deal that's what I'm saying

what does one regulate what do you regulate that has any rules to it I guess this this college sports commission is going to create some rules for the NIA like if

Texas Tech wants to give Niziery Kennedy a million dollars for two years in a row who I mean who is to what is the investigation what is the infraction I guess

again this is the category of, I don't know, I wanted to bring it up at least in conversation. To say that there was something that was really done big over the weekend and that was, the number one thing was you now will not have to worry about money going through a third party when it comes to just paying the

athletes. It'll go directly from school to athlete. Now, how does that, I mean, is this still amateur athletics? What are we talking about now? If the schools are, here we go, this is what we needed. Come on in, Gordy. This is what we needed. Oh, thank God. We get the expert in here. Yeah, so it's very complicated what went down. That's why I named it.

This is the very confusing part of the world that we have to eventually discuss. So the big thing that was approved was paying schools can now pay players from the money they make from TV deals called revenue share. I got that right. Okay. I'm one for one so far. Who's in this? All the big conferences that agreed to this. So SEC, Big 12, all the big conferences.

What's going on with the Pact 12 now? It's default. So it's around $20 million for this upcoming academic year for all your sports. So you've got to figure most schools are going to take about $13 to $16 million of that to pay just for football. And from what I understand, every school can do the percentages differently, correct? Yes. For instance, U of age can give 80% to football and 15 to basketball, or they can. give 60 to football and give 30 to bat and then 10 to everybody else.

And they said about 3 to 5% for your other smaller sports. How you split it up, it's depending on how successful, my guess, is at U of H, you're going to give basketball more than you would say at West Virginia. Now, do the math. If you're putting 13 million towards your football team, what's going to be your quarterback? What is he going to make from that? You're not going to pay him a million. That's a monster chunk of what you're spending for your whole team.

So what's happening here is NIL is still going to exist. they've hired an accounting firm, Deloitte has established what's going to be called the NIL clearinghouse, or NIL Go, they're calling it. So basically, you can still sign NIL deals, but what they're going to do is basically police based on fair market value what these deals are. So take, for example, let's just say Matt, Galley Furniture,

says we would assign the U of H quarterback to a $300,000 NIL deal. The clearinghouse is they going to say, what is he doing for you? and you got to have it all planned out. Well, he's going to do a social post for us a month. He's going to do a TV commercial. He's going to come do an autograph signing. And all that's got to equal, according to their fair market value, the $300,000.

But who determines that? The commission? This college sports commission. The CSC, college sports commission, the arm of that will be the NIL clearinghouse, cleared through Deloitte. They will approve or deny that. They said, based off the deals they looked at last year, about 90% of those deals were on the up and up.

But what this is going to defunct is the collectives. They said 70% of deals that were done through collectives last year would now be denied under this new enforcement. So basically gone of the days of the big rich billionaire Michigan booster that bought Price Underwood, the big five-star recruit away from LSU, you can't do that anymore. Why? Because the money that he's getting has to equal what fair market value of what NIL deal.

I understand. But why? Why? Who cares? I agree. It's because the coaches and the schools all complain, these kids want too much money. So this is out of hand. Tommy Tuberville and Nick Saban are all like, this is out of hand. We got to rein this in. Again, they're not stopping the kids from making money. They're just stopping the ridiculous buying 17-year-old recruits and all that.

So, okay, well, getting a million dollars for a, giving a million dollars to a softball pitcher like Nisory Kennedy, we were talking about Texas Tech. Would that be probably not? Well, here's how it'll break down. she might sign the school may give her 100,000 out of the pot of revenue share and the other 900,000 will come out of an NIL deal but it's got to be all it's got to be stuff she can fulfill that's worth that.

I see I think that's ridiculous that some third party is going to determine what somebody else can get and make and possibly, I mean help their families or take care of whatever or do whatever with their own money. First of all, giving an Olympic sport or non-rev, a million dollars, a clearinghouse would never justify it. I wouldn't imagine so. Well, again, it's all on how you structured the NIL deal. And honestly, they said a lot of problems last year were from, let's say, Joe's car company signed a, you know, Nico I Amaliava,

signed to deal with a Tennessee car company. He was not fulfilling his end of the bargain. In other words, they would have went through the clearinghouse and got all this approved for his million dollars he's getting, but he didn't show up for an autograph signing. He didn't do this. So that company then has the chance to sue him and say, hey, you're not living up to your end of the bargain. So it's a very strange times. It's weird. Charlie Baker, the head of the NCAA, said the whole idea of this is to give schools the power back to get control over this, where it's not the Wild West where some billionaires is paying a kid $20 million to come play for a school.

But that same billionaire is still paying the NAL, though. Well, but it's got to be literally the gist of what name, image, and likeness was intent. for. The whole gist of that was Johnny Mansell couldn't sign autographs when he was the A&M quarterback. Tim Tebow couldn't sell t-shirts with his name on it. You can do all that now through NIL. It just has to be what they deem fair market value. So you're going to go get rich booster to go pay these athletes. Through their company. Through their company. Yes.

The clearinghouse is then going to say, all right, we're going to pay Ross Villarreal, the Texas quarterback, a half million dollars a year. Here's what he has to do for it. the clearinghouse is going to say it's it's worth it and again it's only up to them to decide what the value is on that hmm that's ridiculous but okay here's what's going to happen i'm going to tell you this you're going back to under the table stuff oh absolutely if a clearinghouse tells me no and i want my guy i'm going to pay him duffel bags of cash and backdoor handshacks are this is stupid but i will say i mean the collectives are adapting they they said that they knew this was coming for the past year so a lot of collectives have pivoted.

They're now creating platforms where they're going to go to student athletes and say, hey, we want to help build your platform. We're going to help build your Instagram, your social following, all this. And then in turn, it's on you. We'll put you in touch with the people who have NIL, but we just can't facilitate those deals anymore. Yeah, I started doing that around 2020 when I got into college. They started helping football players and like making universal university,

like people coming like hire like maybe a social media manager for some else for the school, for the athletes to reach out and make a new name, image, and likeness to grow it, almost to grow your own brand yourself. Hmm. This is crazy. So, hope that gave some clarity. Time for a break. I'm more confusing.

I want to be on the clearinghouse committee. That's the easiest thing. Do you? Deny everything except for U of H deals? You want to go work for Deloitte, an accounting firm? I can do it. Oh, my God. What if a college disputes what the accounting firm

said. What's the counter firm says they have full power? Is there arbitration process? Like what if they say no, it's not good? And we say yes it is. And then there has to be an arbitration process. Then there's more lawyers. This is ridiculous. All right. What an absolute cluster is

the same thing. One more note. It's only deals worth $600 or more. Wait a minute. What deal is not worth $600? Exactly. But like if Matt Thomas just wanted to slip a recruit $600 bucks, you can do that. So you can find a thousand people to give $500 and that's $500,000. Yep. Okay. Carly Thomas will be a freshman at the University of Rhode Island in

2006. Oh, number five, Huntsky. Would you really do? Yeah. She got to promote the sports RV Instagram. Yeah, God knows you need it. All right. Final hour, the Matt Tom. Oh, man, look at us. We're really... 107 on Sports Talk 790. I want to apologize to that last segment because my head now really hurts.

You know what? You know what we talked about last week how I've basically given up on trying to decipher what the Astros tell us and injuries. I am going to make a concerted effort not to learn about the NIL and the collective. Okay. Because there are

if you listen to Gordy during that run, there's just ways to go around the system. This isn't regulation. This is a clearinghouse telling a particular school, yes, we think your idea of compensating a particular athlete is good or bad and we're going to to tell you yes or no and if we tell you no guess what you're going to do you're going to go find

a backdoor channel to give that kid that money he wants do you think xyz school texas ohio state nebraska penn state and all the powerhouses the clearinghouse says you can't give this kid's 750 000 you think they're going to go oh well so we can't give it to so that gets going to go somewhere else oh hell no yeah and who the hell are they to say what it's what they're worth or what they're not if something wants to pay them that money who's in this group That's what I'm saying. I mean, whatever kind of accounting and metrics or whatever, it's ridiculous. I mean, I am the leader in the pack of saying this thing is out of control.

I just don't have the right answer. But what I'm hearing from Gordy, and Gordy's very, very well versed in this, this is adding a lot of bureaucracy to this. This is adding paperwork. This is adding hearings. this is adding, while why did one athlete get a clearance that athlete beat it? I mean, again, no disrespect

to softball because my daughter plays in a non-revenue sport. But if Carly Thomas gets $2.4 million from Rhode Island or wherever she eventually there's no way that clearinghouse is going to justify unless she's doing bikini shots and getting and has 9 million people on Instagram following her.

Yeah, which has got to be this. Like nobody can, you know, people overpay for advertising all the time or I mean if somebody went to let's say I don't know Texas in the stadium and there was a beer that wanted to pay X amount of dollars that doesn't have to go to the clearing house if you think they're overpaying who cares that's the whole point of trying to get name image and likeness is basically student and the athlete advertising and if somebody's paying for it then that's that's the value it shouldn't be somebody having to regulate this and say this is not

the value this is not the number X amount of dollars is not correct. Maybe they're thinking, well, if the schools are now paying the athletes, this is our attempt to legitimize NILs compared to just handing over a kid money and saying, you don't have to do anything for it. Well, again, so where is every school getting $20 million? This is where we maybe need Gordyback. Are different schools?

Does Georgia have the same budget to pay their players in their athletic department as Vanderbilt? I believe the accurate answer is yes. It's up to each individual's school to decide how to decipher the money. To put it up. Yeah, see, this is, again, this is in the weeds. And, you know, in theory, you could spend a lot of time looking at this. But first of all, these rules are going to change. And secondly, we're a corrupt society.

And we're not, there's not enough people to audit particular programs. You know what's going to take, Ross. It's going to take some athlete being told to the clear, clearinghouse said no. Underhanded money and then someone's going to have to catch them and say, we're going to, we caught you cheating. That's the next round.

I don't know. That's a good question. The next round is, clearinghouse told me no. I wanted that money. I want to go to that school. School said, don't worry about it.

We'll take care of it and figure out a way to get you that money. It will. This is stupid. Somehow it can, this is very typical at times. I guess you somehow would make a bad problem worse. Well, what they're trying to do is they're trying not to frankly just say, all right, Tommy, you want to play for Miami, we'll give you $2 million. And I think they're going, at the end of the day, that's just, we can't stomach that long term.

Now, somebody could say, well, why can't you? Why not? And that's why I guess they're trying to add a layer of direct payment to the athlete, so it feels like the NCAA is handling the responsibility of at least compensating and base off of their proceeds. You know, and people argue and talk about how, you know, the NIL system just keeps the powers it be fat and happy. But, I mean, I think it's the other way around. Anybody, if you've got alums with the money, you can turn your team into a perennial power. Like Phil Knight did it, Oregon. What's Oregon football's history, storied history as a blue blood in college football?

It's zilts before Phil Knight. And we mentioned this, the Texas tech pitcher, Kennedy. I mean, they weren't, Texas Tech softball wasn't supposed to be anywhere. Hey, they get the money and guess what? Texas Tech softball, boom, all of a sudden you're a power. So it does keep some smaller schools, as long as you've got alums with the money, you can have more skin in the game. You can get more involved.

You can get these recruits. But you know, the crazy part is that Texas Tech going to the College Women's World Series is not going to have a direct reflection on their athletic budget and their proceeds? It's got to be some kind of a little bit. Okay, then guess, well, what do it mean? I have no idea. So think about it. would it be? You could get, maybe

you get a few more eyeballs on the jerseys. Maybe. I know more about Texas Texark's off ball than I did before. But you're going to forget about a day and a half. They can at least try. But your crowds aren't going to be any bigger. Yeah, but also if somebody wants to spend the money on the herd, then why should I care? Yeah, I just, there's

there's just no in the non-rebs, there just isn't a direct correlation to boosting television deals, boosting apparel sales. It's a nice anecdotal thing. But there's no way that if you spend a million dollars on a volleyball, track and field, swimming golfer, you're ever going to get that back.

And that's okay. And maybe that's just the way it's supposed to be. Maybe you just have a bunch of alumni that say, look, we just love our school and we have a special athletes. And it's fun to see our softball team compete every once in a while for a championship. And the star player wants a million dollars. Let's just make it happen. Maybe we just got to come down to that.

Maybe you want to change your young lady's life. and get some athletic success. I mean, you can go donate $10 million to library. And, okay, it's got repainted walls and the library looks nice now. You're never going to get that money back. It's philanthropy. Athletic philanthropy.

That's what you should call it. I like that. 713-212-5-790. And by the way, trying to get 300 schools to act and behave themselves when they have 300 different agendas is never going to work. especially if you are Alabama, LSU, Florida, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Michigan, trying to explain to Colorado State that we're all going to play by the same rules.

Ain't going to happen. Sam on 790. Hello, Sam. Hey, guys, how's it going? I completely agree in general. They should not be able to say what an athlete's worth. I do agree that someone probably needs to regulate and make sure these athletes are doing what they're supposed to be doing, showing up on time.

But there's one quick way to do this without all the bureaucracy. Limit the transfers. You get one transferred throughout your college career, make it count, and then you can't play the free agent game after every year. And then the coaches still get some control, and they get some commitment from their players. But if they just continue to allow them to move after every single year, then none of this matters anyway.

And they can just keep chasing money from time to time, and the coaches still aren't happy. So, I mean, I still think they're missing the ball on this one. How about this? Thanks for the phone call, Sam. Real fast on us. What if you go to the clearinghouse and saying, we want to pay Ross Villa Real, $1.3 million? Mm-hmm. Clearing House can then say, to make that 1.3, you need to do this. Yeah, I think they're going to do that.

That feels a little bit more as compared to saying, no, you're... Who cares? Believe you. Why don't have to do what you say? Who are you? There's controlling more college students and just holding them back. I don't understand that. Yeah. It's like privatized now. And as far as the transfer thing, that was a whole legal battle. The NCAA basically had, it's like, I don't even know if it was a Supreme Court case or whatever, but they couldn't go in front of a judge and say, we're amateur athletes and we're holding these guys and making them hold out a year because they get sued by people. Because if Matt, you can transfer from North Texas to University of Houston, you don't have to sit out.

Nope. Or if I want to go from wherever to wherever, you don't. Just don't sit out either. That's another thing. If there are student athletes in there, yeah, exactly. Coach doesn't sit out when he gets transferred from school and there's a buyout and all that type of stuff. So it's unenforceable legally. Does your head hurt?

713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. I know it. Astros with a day off today. Tomorrow back at action against the Chicago White Sox. And that'll be a run of what, Rossi 13 consecutive games for the Astros. back to a six-man rotation. But it feels like there has been run as of late.

And I know that Major League Baseball tries to give you as many off days as possible. It's not easy to squeeze 162 into six months. But man, they just finished 17 games. They've had a couple of off days. And then they're on a 13 games start starting tomorrow. I have a wacky proposal for you. What if you got? Would more double-headers, but more days off be better or worse are the same?

Well, they've started the same. season in late March. So they've gotten ahead of the game more so in the last decade than they have in the previous decade before that. Where doubleheaders always just a function of raining days? Back in like 19, when Babe and the boys were swinging the bats,

they have like scheduled double-headers? 9-60. Come on down. It's Cardinal baseball here at this brand-new Bush Stadium. Today, Bob Gibson will throw game one and Dan Sean and will throw game number two. Let's play That's what Ernie Banks would say. Yes, he would.

If you did double headers, you would expand your roster to, the right thing to do would be to expand the roster for 28 players on those particular days. I think if you do two double headers, that's two more off days. What's the trade-off? We'd have to ask somebody in baseball, I guess, about that.

Because, I mean, you'd have to have pictures on schedule, too, for that second game. Well, that's why, again, I think you have to at the bare minimum expand your roster for two players. They do there anyway. Yeah. Well, I don't, I mean, we've always talked about going back to 154. We need to stop talking about anybody in any sport reducing games. The NBA, Adam Silver, the commissioner said reducing schedule the games, no, no, no, no, no.

Shut your bum ass up. Yeah. Rob Manfred would chuckle at 162 being reduced. 154 makes a lot of sense It's subtle It's less It gives you It would give you at least six days off probably

But what if it pushes all the while? I wonder how much would the offsetting Could you offset it if it pushes The If you went to 154 And then made all wildcard series five games You get more TV revenue from that Theoretically

The local teams wouldn't get as much Yeah But the thing of the local TVs are going away. How much are the Rockies making in games 155 to 162 anyways? Teams that aren't, how much are teams that aren't making the playoffs making anyways? Would the trade-off be that you get, let's see, right now,

for example, the Tigers last year in the Asher, they got zero home games. You get two out of the deal. And now the 12 teams, I mean, you got almost a 50-50 shot to make it the playoffs these days. It would necessarily be about the revenue and the same would be about the revenue they would split among the 30 teams

with the new TV deal. Yeah, and teams are losing money on their local TV deals. I'm just thinking, not loud, I don't know. No, I'm going to stay consistent on this. I think we'll never see less than 162. We'll never see less than 82. And we're going to see 18 in the NFL. And that will be the cutoff mark.

They'll never go to, I can tell you, as this soul of mine is still around, we'll never see a 20 game. Never see a 20? I'll never say never. I know, I know. But it's going to be 18. By the way, there were some NBA rumors over the way. weekend. Again, just a few tweets here and there from respected reporters.

There's always this buzz about the NBA expanding about Las Vegas and probably Seattle being the two heavy favorites. The two reports that I saw said don't sit on an international team being played. Mexico? Now, you could play an NBA schedule involving one or two European teams if you wanted to. They would have five or six game homestands, five or six game roostans, five or six game, trip's five or six game homes. That sounds like unnecessarily unnecessary. I don't think it would work, but I'm saying of the sports that are around, there isn't enough interest in European baseball.

Yeah, I mean, basketball is the, would you say, the biggest global American sport? Correct. But still, if you're on a European team, you're missing, you're playing, let's say that you played seven home games and you had a six-game road trip. There, no way. You have days before you have to leave to get acclimated to the U.S. soil time. Jet lags. Game after.

So you're talking about teams missing three and four weeks every time they go. I can tell you the NBA players are cranking when they're gone for more than three days. So while I saw that, I don't buy international expansion. Maybe New Mexico City would be as close as it would be. They have the G-League team there, right? I don't know. Los Pirates or something like that. Look at you dropping them, Los Berrates.

I was in Cancun. I didn't know until I was in Cancun like last year. And then it was on TV. I was like, what? They got a team in Mexico City? Yeah. I think these professional teams in sports in... Oh, Capitones.

I'm sorry. We're just... We're so anxious to tap into the international dollar. But it's because they feel like, I mean, look, you always need more. What do all these owners want? More revenues, more revenues, more revenues. What's the commissioner of silver's job? More money, more money, more money.

more money, more money, more money. But he just got it. And so you're getting bigger deals, you're, you're maxing out your sponsorships, you're maxing out TV deals, you're getting Jersey sponsorships, you're doing every avenue you can domestically and then where you got to go?

If you need more money, more money, more money, more money. Revenue's up, up, up, up, up. You've got to go in it, you've got to expand, you've got to go international. Okay. Now, at what point does the fat pig get slaughtered or whatever? I thought you were done with clichés. I'm sorry. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.

That's what it was. I was just kidding that time. But yeah, Los Capitanes in Mexico City. They've been there for a few years now. You could play Mexico City. It could play Western Conference teams. You're close to the California, Mexico, Tex. I mean, yeah, it'd be a little bit of an extra jaunt for a...

Oh, they got Juan Tascano Anderson. Former Timberwolf? Greg Brown the third Longhorn legend is on the Capitones. Oh man. You're playing something on 2K. You're not, that's not even real teams. Oh, Greg Brown is supposed to be like the next big thing. His dad played DB for the Longhorns.

He was like a five star. He chose the Longhorns over the G League, Ignite, I think. And then he had a disappointing season. And now he's been knocking around in the G league. Yeah, I guess they don't really have an exact affiliate. They're just playing in Mexico City. Sorry, anyways. Where are they expanding?

they're staying in the U.S. Mexico City could work, I guess. It could work. London, Paris, not buying it. Although, Per, what is it? What is it, L.A. to New York to London? Six hours? That's a six-hour time difference from us.

And a time difference. And imagine having to play in Sacramento, Phoenix. Shake your head. 131 on Sports Talk 790. Believe it or not, it's all things about Nick Chub. That'll be coming up at about,

15 minutes of now? Or is it about the French Open winner? I don't even forgot to ask you. Talking about Carlos Alcaraz? Yeah, I remember you switched it up a little bit. Well, I already got five Nick Chub questions, but I got to write three more. Maybe it'll be three.

Carlos Alcarez questions. That's fine. I mean, so we can do a weekend wrap of a video or not. Five Grand Slam championships for him. By the way. At the age of 22. I'm going to ask you what could have been question. Okay.

Let's remember what the red side? did when they fired a certain manager there's Alex Cora. Then they brought him back. Then they brought him back? Yes. Do you know who celebrated his 350th victory in one uniform?

Already? Yeah. Would that be one, AJ Hinch? AJ Hinch. You know what? This pisses me off, actually. 350 went in Detroit? That's crazy.

Well, is his fourth year there or third? It better not be his third. I mean, still about 150 wins a year. So let me ask you this question Go ahead, Matt. It's his fifth year there. That makes more sense. Okay, so that's not a great.

That's about 70 wins a year. But again, that's only their second year. They've been really been good. I mean, yeah. It feels like you could add a tack on an extra 100 there because it's the Tigers. That's right. Where would this team have been

if they would have brought AJ back after a year? I think they would have won the same. One more championship? I mean, yeah. I think about the same. I mean, I look, I think Joe Espada has grown into his role as a very good manager. Yeah. People are talking about, they got mediocre bats, the pitching's been okay, bullpins have a few blowups.

And oh, by the way, they're up in first place. Where's Joe Spada's credit? Let's go. No, yeah, I can get that. And again, it says the weakest division, but every year there's going to be a weak division. Yeah, but they're third in the American League. Behind what, New York to Detroit and who else? That's the Astros will be the third seat right now.

You're talking about all record-wise? Yeah. Well, you got the American League East team Yeah, I think they're... No, I think they are... Let's see, let me look. No, they're third. Behind Tigers and Yankees, that's it.

Oh, that's it? That's it. And they're only two and a half behind the Yankees. Shut your bum ass up, Joe Spotter haters. Say that for Wednesday. Okay. I think I do it more out of Wednesday than in Wednesday. Probably so. Wednesday comes along, like, I can't think of anything.

What I want you to do is I want you to do it sometime in the public and someone to say, that sounds awfully familiar. I'd hope so. It might start a scrap. Like you at the Woodlands Pavilion. I didn't start the scrap. I just was a witness to it. The Lake Charles, I will throw hands.

With a sweet old lady. Sweet old doty at the blackjack table. I'm going to give you all a little advance. I'm going to be at the Roaldon Bugget in Las Vegas later this week. Oh, you are? Is that where you're staying? Yeah. Oh, wow.

Them. You get a deal? Yeah. That's a different issue. That's what we call you handout, Thomas. You know what? I did not get to deal through my friend the Fortitas. I am a member of the 24K club.

and they offered up some, here's a bit. Now, I can see this publicly because I do it before. They offer free rooms. Yes. They have a variety of towers. Some are better than others. Yes. I upgraded a tower for $60 a day.

Okay. So I'm paying like $70 a day. They don't charge resort fees right now. What? Which is so nice. Resort fees are such a rip. Such a ripoff. It is.

It is. So let me get back to my point of baseball. Yeah, sorry. So I'm about AJ. Yes. How many championships would they have without them? Oh. Well, they had the best team in

baseball in 2019 with AJ Hinch and they didn't win. Some people still blaming him on that. Does it make you think that maybe the manager's job is a little overvalued? I feel like we've been saying this for years. It's the players. That's why I'm joking with the Joe's spot of stuff because everybody wants to hate on them when they lose and he needs to be

fired. But when they win, what was it? Like 13 out of 15 or whatever it is, the run they go on, nobody gives them, nobody peep out of nobody. Yeah. It's ridiculous. It feels like to me that you are more a puzzle piece guy during the course of the year. Making sure lineups are puzzled and proper to make sure the bullpen is used properly. Deciding a few things about who needs a day off, who doesn't. There's maybe a decision or two to be made during the game.

And it's about when to pull a pitcher. But you don't have to make it by double. You don't think about double switches anymore because you have a DH. See, once your lineup is in place, you don't typically change it unless somebody is just having an awful day. like a better bat is off your bench. It feels like managers make their money, whether it's AJ, whether it's Joe, whether it's anybody else.

You make it in October. Because everything has a microscope on it. And then you really sit back and go, well, if I was the manager, I would have done this in this particular situation. Yeah. And I mean, you're going off, especially in 2025, you're going off of, okay, this pocket of the lineup.

You already know before the game. Which pocket of the lineup, which matchups are best, which relievers are going to match up best at what points of the game. Now, you don't, you typically go by the numbers, but as Dusty Baker brought up last week, in a Greg Rajan story, there's a book out that says that Dusty didn't always agree with baseball ops about some decisions that were made and that he still went with them even though they were against the grain, i.e. using Martine Maldonado.

And I think Yulian, I can't remember what else. It was one other thing that he went against the grain. He was Yulee. Martin. I can't remember. Now it's going to bug me. Was it a reliever? I don't know.

It doesn't matter, man. Yeah. Move on. Point being, point being is, I think the only time that we really say that manager earned his paycheck or that manager really goofed up is when we watch games in October. Or the only reason why you lose your job in the middle of the season

or you're not doing your job is. Payne a batting second. That's what it was. Okay. Thank you for figuring. That's got, I knew if something's going to bug us. But you're doing basically,

you're just trying to read the room is what you're trying to do. Get the hot guys in the lineup, no one to give a guy a day off, no one to pull a pitcher. Those are your main responsibilities. Well, yeah, I would say also, it's kind of keeping things light with the clubhouse, being what Joe Spot is great at,

a player's manager where guys want to come to the ballpark every day. I need a day off. You're not comfortable enough saying that. Or also saying, hey, what kind of new to get back in on? Keeping lines of communication open. Like, I'm not comfortable with this. I'm not comfortable with that. I'm okay with the day off.

I'm not okay with the DH day. Whatever. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I think you have to do primarily during the first five months of your job. And just, again, no one to keep a guy out there one pitcher too long, one bad or too long, whatever the case may be. Going what you've got to go to in the bullpen.

That stuff talked about it at nauseam during the month of October. not so much in early June. All right, believe it or not, is up next. It is all things about Nick Chubb, your favorite new Texans running back. That's all straight ahead. As the Matt Thomas show with Ross continues, if you'd like to play, 713-212-5-7-90. We're playing for a pair of heart tickets, and they'll be at Cynthia Woods, I believe, or are they going to be at Smart Financial?

Bullet. I'm right here. I'm right here. One second, one second. Everybody, hang on tight. It's going to be at the Smart Financial Center, yes. Okay. Smart Financial Credit Center is going to give you the opportunity.

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713-212-5-790. Now, I'm going to be gone Thursday Friday with my son for my birthday. It'll get away. You're calling from the blackjack table? No. I actually got to stand up. They won't let you do that. They won't let me do that at all. But you're going to give him away an easy boy sofa.

A lazy boy? Yeah, lazy boy. Lazy boy. That's the easy boy? What's what the ladies say to you? Easy boy. Lazy boy, and that'll be given on Thursday and Friday. You'll be giving away entries to do that. So I think the big giveaway is going to be on Friday.

Okay, great. So that's the reason why you listen to you on farting beyond the great sports commentary. Can I rig this for myself? I need a recliner. I have two recliners in my office. Game changer. The recliner is the game changer.

I know. It's a clutch. Can I buy one from me? I can't wait to hit that age. Yeah, I don't want to. What do you mean, hit that age? You know, with the recliner, just can't wait to get a cold beer, carboc, you know.

Oh, look at the, we're using the sponsors. I like that. You can also get a recliner. you're at Italian brewing, you can also do that too. You can't recline at the brewery. They're going to throw you. You're going to pull up with a recliner and unload it out of the truck?

You know what? If you want to recliner that bad, we'll get you there. So we're going to give one away on Friday. More details as the week goes along? Well, you and I need to have an executive media about it. Okay, great. How you want to give it away. But we'll do it on Thursday and Friday for enticement to listen to you. I want to give it away. Whoever says they're going to give it to me.

So selfish. Oh! Yes, I am. Joe Espada tomorrow. Gut feelings tomorrow. Let's go. NFL rewind and maybe intense Texans. Chub Talk 790. Maybe camp coverage tomorrow.

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Nick Chubb has no agent. He represented himself since 2018 and negotiated his extension with the Browns 2021. Believe it or not? Not. That is also correct. Congratulations. John on 790, John, you're ready to play, believe it or not? I'm always ready, Matt Thomas. In his last 50 matches, Yonik's Center is O'N3 versus Carlos Alcatraz and is 47 and O versus everyone else.

Believe it. Whatever. I believe that. You should. I believe. Yeah, you are. I believe it. Center. What did you say? Yonik. Alcarez. Not Alcatraz. What I call him? Alcatraz? That same difference.

People know what else was. Number two, Raphael Madal is the most open-era-french open championships with 14. Next most is Roger Federer with six. Believe it or not. I believe that. No, you shouldn't. Beyond Borg is number one and Federer only has one. I'm sorry.

Bjorga is second with six. Federer only has one. Oh, Matt, call back. When the doll was hurt. I'm winning, Matt. You left on the track. I didn't hang up on him. No, but he just left.

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