The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Ronel Blanco Is Expected To Have Surgery. Astros Destroy A’s 11-1, Can Astros Still Stay Strong With Another Starter Out?

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

Ronel Blanco Is Expected To Have Surgery. Astros Destroy A’s 11-1, Can Astros Still Stay Strong With Another Starter Out?

10-0-1 in H-Town. What's happening in Houston, hello. And welcome in to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1980, number one hits. Is it number one in 1980? I think so. Wow. Maybe 81.

You truly are the Casey Ksum of Sports Talk 790. Dear Matt. By the way, real fast, 45 seconds of editorial. 610 sucks, 45 sucks, side roads suck, y'all suck as drivers, Apple Maps sucks, Way sucks. Oh, that sounds like... Okay, I took me an hour and 40 to get here today. Yeah, I had to fight through a few lights. It took me about 11 minutes to get here. And if I would have stayed on Apple Maps on 610 coming here, it went from Arrival 930.

I'll have on 934, 937, 942, 940. Once it hit 10.05, I'm like, screw it. So I took 45 in around the 10. And you're here, Matt. That's what's important. And I have a doctor's appointment today where they're going to measure my blood pressure. And it's going to be off the freaking wall. Let it out, Matt.

You got to let this pressure go. I need my family to let me get an apartment here in town. Either that or just work from the Kingwood Studios every day. I want to call you high-rise MT. Let's go. Let's get you in the city. Let's get you a city. High-rise MT has a good name to it.

You've been a country mouse for too long, Matt. It's time to become a city mouse. I do not disagree. So if anybody would like to buy my Kingwood estate, take it. I'll give you fair market value for it. And I need to get in the city. It's shaving ears off my life. If you autograph every single wood panel, maybe the market will go up.

my gosh my goodness all right so the local nine did really well yesterday yes they did thank you very much hitting coaches oh my god incredible performance by troy snicker and alex intro yeah and and frankly even hose l toby in the postgame show mentioned something about alex intron so yes he did i don't know if we have the sound of that or not but it was certainly worthy of it it's probably not cut up but we can get to it yeah because that morning show just can't get us enough cuts in a morning hey come on now day i'm a surly mood sorry very very surly You're crossing lines, man. I'm crossing lines. I mean, you're not wrong.

Feisty MT is in the house today. So if you'd like to... Come out of them, bro. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-A. I need somebody to call in and call Matt a clown so you can go completely off on them today. No, because here's the thing. I literally am getting my blood pressure checked to two and a half hours.

It's going to be like 200 over 100. You need a pressure release. And they're going to put me in the hospital. I don't want to be in the hospital. Well, let's get you like a tie massage in between. Relax you. A T-H-A-I massage, right? Time massage?

Okay, I think you said time massage. I'm like, well, I don't know. They're going to time you and I'm going to let you there forever. Let's get you a little half hour. Can I get a gift card from me? I need some help on that. All right. Hey, listen, we only have a show today till noon because of the Astros Day game.

That's a shame. It is a shame. I mean, we have got so much to get into today. That's true. We have the Astros crushing it last night when you dropped the bomb on us. You know what? Four home runs. Four home runs.

Two by Jose Al-Tuvie. Is Jose Al-Tubi trying some sort of new yogurt smoothie or something? Because he's been feisty at the plate the last 10 days or so. What was it? Was it eight hits in the Seattle series or something ridiculous like that? And then four for four yesterday? Didn't go five for five, which we can discuss. Now you're rolling your eyes on this.

Uh-oh. This is why I love this show. we didn't pre-discuss our opinions. Go ahead. The thing of it is, is I don't think he cares about that. Obviously, if he would have said, Joe, I want to go for my fifth hit. Joe would have acquiesced. And that's what's important.

So I don't think there's an issue. Very reliable sources say Jose had the go-ahead if he wanted to go for five-for-five. And he did not. He doesn't like making things about himself. You let Zach DeZenzel, a young player get an AB. It's 11 to 1. It's a blowout. He's about the team and winning, and he doesn't want to be the main story, so he didn't do it. And that's what the greatest of all-time Astros does.

He thinks about other things besides individual numbers. Five-for-five hits a day would have been great. But honestly, not that I'm a huge historian of sports, but I know important numbers, like 3,000 hits and 500 home runs and stolen bases and go-gloving. but I don't know how many five-for-five days Pete Rose had in his life. I don't know how many five-for-five days George Brett did. It's a nice little anecdotal thing, but I don't think it necessarily creates some sort of, I don't even know how many five-hit days that Craig Bissio and Jeff Bagwell had during their day.

And those guys are on the Mount Rushmore of all-time Astros. Yeah, I would like for him to have get it, gotten it. It would have been a cool story, but it's not this huge thing that these Twitter idiots, these twittites are saying, let's, uh, fire Joe Spada. No, they're not. Yes, 100% it's happening. Did you find evidence of this? Are you just assuming?

I'm not assuming. Matt, have you been in this ocean of stupid? Yeah. Yes, it's happening. Well, that's ridiculous. So no, I, let me tell you, there are about three players in that clubhouse and probably, well, I mean, I don't know, it used to be three. Who absolutely can tell the manager, I love you, I respect you, you've got a job to do, but I'm going to go. Your Don?

Uh, probably you're out. Jose. I don't necessarily think maybe Hater because of the longevity. Oh, he can tell him when he wants to go two innings and when he doesn't. Right. He wants to go back out there and he won't do it. Right.

Bregman had that kind of control. And I'm not saying, Hunter Brown's getting that leash. Mm. He hadn't sit Joe back yet. But it's starting to feel like he can get that, that Justin Verlander type of leash. Yeah. At some point.

And you know what? And the key to this is, when you're a good manager, you're a good coach, you have to know that you don't treat every player equally and you give power and authority to a handful of guys that a there, been there, done that. And, you know, James, Mike Dan Toning told me that a long time ago. If you decide you want to treat every member of your NBA roster the same, you'll be out of work. I think A.J. Hinch clearly did that with his tenure here in Houston, especially when it came to Justin James Verlander and Jose Al-Tube is going to have some editorial control over when he sits, when he wants

to play. Again, he is so, not I wouldn't say indifferent, but so that makes kind of sense kind of thing. Again, if Jose Al-Tuvia wanted to go for the fifth hit yesterday, he would have had the opportunity. So I don't know who's making this story, but you ought to be ashamed to yourself. But frankly, we have people in this town that do YouTube TV shows that think they know things about sports. So it doesn't surprise me.

You're in rare form for today, Matt. I'm looking forward to this show. There's two slugs you ready through. I tell your friends to tune in, folks. Sports Talk 790 free on your IHeart Radio app. Absolutely free. Make us the number one preset, too, by the way. Great things will happen to you.

All right. So we have the Astros winning a game yesterday. And now they're in the wild card. Playoff start today, I guess so. It's the Astros and the Cleveland Guardians in Cleveland. Oh, that's huge. Are you scared of Cleveland? I ain't scared.

No, I'm saying, yeah, we'll see you at 2.30. 2.30 on a Wednesday or whatever? Well, that's actually not accurate. It's more like a 1 o'clock. It might be, or 12 noon, one Easter time. Both those sound great to me. Listen to you. We have Texans O.T.S.

I wonder how the OTAs are going today with his wet stuff out there. I don't know. I saw Adam J. Wexler is out there with his wet pad. Can I wait to tell him to go home? Why? Get a nap in. He's taking some notes. Okay.

For their show today. there busting his hump. Yeah. Bringing great content. I appreciate him for that. You know what you're doing to do? You ought to go as soon as Astros on deck is over. I can't. You go over there. You got plenty of time. No, everything's be over. Oh, that's true. And it's thunderstorm. Yeah. I got eyes on

I got boots on the ground. I got sources. You have people inside the building, if you will. Rhymes with Radham Rexler. Yeah. All right. I don't know if we're going to get any sort of detail. The only thing out of OTAs is just don't get hurt. I don't care if the offensive line looks bigger for faster stronger. I don't care if this guy looks bigger. I don't know.

That's fine. I could give two craps about OTAs. Well, I look forward to as long as they don't, nobody gets ready. I look forward to the storylines and news and notes about the upcoming Texan season. And which they're probably going to be, again, divisional playoff and out. I mean, you know. We'll see. Depending.

I don't know. Can they kick the door down? We'll see. It's a very difficult AFC and they're a very good team. With a makeshift offensive line. I can do that to the Astros. They might win the AOS and they're going to be out. That's very well consider the same thing.

No, you know what I don't care what they're doing. they win last night that's 162 game season who cares I'm excited about it I just know the history repeats itself with the Texas so I'm just kind of you know wait me up when they when Nick Asero doesn't come across

as you know I know more than you guy well that's what I'm saying just just do that every general manager that is actually true I mean I you know it is funny that's funny

and quite frankly they should know more than us yeah because they're paying They're getting paid like 14 times more than we are. They should know that it's all right to give up Joey Loporffito. Hey, Dana's like, man, he needs to drop a shut you a bum ass up on his next interview. Yeah, can I shut your... See, the thing is, I don't know how I can shut your bum ass up on traffic because we all lived it today. I mean, if you drove in it, you spent part of your life.

Yeah, you can, though. So did... He used and drivers are bad. They're like NASCAR drivers. Did somebody started today that was like there was the... Was there a person today that said, I'm going to slow 610 down? or were there just too many people on the freeways at one time that 610 said, no, you're not going to get on my freeway and take over my lanes?

You have too many extremes. It's too many people trying to drive like NASCAR drivers and then too many people driving like 100-year-old grandmothers. And then especially in the rain, it just magnifies itself. It was a complete recipe for disaster. Oh, it's 1015. Let's get a quick time out in. Time is 1021. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

We've got a shorter show today. So if you want to get in, we'd love to have you. And again, sorry the weather is terrible, but, you know, rain's going to happen and we live in with 7 million people in the metro population and man i just you know what when i die at some point when i die it's going to say matt loved his family loved his friends wow loved the business in which he was in i love this co-host ross uh yeah it's probably on the list um he's going to say he hated traffic how about this for one final time he shuts his bum ass up yeah i'm going to say that it's your eulogy yeah you're on the

You're on the speaking list. Oh, I'm nice. I mean, I, yeah, okay. You're looking forward to. I bet you did. I got some material. It's almost like a roast. I got a tight 15.

Yeah. You don't have to go. They don't, I guess I put a calendar or the clock on it, but yeah. There's a clock going off. All right, all right, folks, I got two minutes. And then when it's in two minutes, it starts blinking. Hurry, I get it over with. Yeah.

I mean, there's a lot of things. I mean, I tolerate a lot of things in my life. Just traffic isn't one of them. And I live, it's. totally my fault, totally my decision. No one forced me to go live out in the livable forest. I know. It's cheaper out there. More room. More house. I have a big family. Yeah. Now, granted, again, we were doing the show at 12. It never bothered me because I could leave it 1030, 1015 and get show could take an hour. And, but I'm sorry. And I do want to apologize. You guys don't want to hear about this. Yeah, you should. But I'm, but I'm just, it's, I'm literally fresh off of the freeway, literally minutes ago. And it's just a little rattled. So I have you to calm me down. Okay.

All right. So the Astros got the nice win. Jose was great. Christian, I mean, Pena, I mean, it's, here's the, the problem is this. Oakland or Sacramento, I mean, or whatever the city you want to call. Let's go. I'm going to Sacramento. Did you notice on the sleeve?

They had the, they had Las Vegas on the slip. I didn't know that until I watched the game. No, I didn't notice. Yeah. I was at, you know, I was at the game. So I didn't even notice then, I guess. Yeah, on one of the sleeves it says Las Vegas. I did.

I left my binoculars at home. But it's crazy because for so many years, if you followed the A's, the Oakland athletic uniform, the road always said Oakland on it. And it was weird and said athletics on it yesterday. Sacramento. Give Sacramento some shine. Do you know Sacramento doesn't want the shine? That's true. They hate them.

They're like, we don't want you. We barely built our, we're serving old hot dogs from last year's minor league Sacramento team. We're not building any improvements. We know that we're your bitch for a couple of years. We'll take your rent. But that's about it, right? Yeah. So on Al-Tuve that you brought up.

Yeah. The start of the Seattle series, he was hitting 238 with a 629 OPS. Okay. So we're talking about five games since then. Five games. He had eight hits in the Mariners series, four-for-four yesterday. He's up to 272 with a 739. Is this what I'm talking about?

Like, it can turn quick. Now, this is just ridiculous. this is Jose Al Tuvei, like we're not even surprised, even though this is extremely ridiculous. Yeah. But Christian Walker can turn this thing around in a hurry. Same thing. His overall numbers have gone up. Things can turn in a hurry within a week or two if you strike lightning, which is what is happening right now.

There's lightning in the bat of Jose Altuve. And it's great to see because I have been using this word, the word decline this season, Matt, and I haven't wanted to do it. It hurts my stomach. No, because everything in life, your favorite quarterback, your favorite TV show, your favorite, your favorite aunt. I mean, everything declines. Hey, man, don't talk about Aunt Jane that way. By the way, can I give you a small, and this is maybe, maybe there's no correlation to it? Less left field, better numbers offensively?

Oh, let's not do that. I'm just, you can, if you want to refute it, please do. I don't have any evidence to do that. How much left field did he play over the weekend? I know he was DH yesterday, which is good. He played some second basin at Seattle Series. Yes. I mean, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

No, I mean, look, it would be up to him and what he would say. You're saying the long trot is tiring in him out? No, I'm saying that I think there's a comfort zone that clearly Al Tuvei has by doing things not involved in less year. I think he just finally went up against some left-handed pitching in J.P. Sears and he's not very good. Yeah. Okay, I mean, that's what I'm saying. If there's nothing, nothing to it. We always have to contextualize everything, especially with baseball.

There are so many different factors. is in play. Let's see. He played left. Wait, no, no, I'm stupid. You're not to nod your head so furiously. I got the wrong box scores up. Let me pull these back up. But he was DH yesterday for sure. And then I will pull up the box scores. Well, the one thing I did bring up with Joe Espondi was with this yesterday is I said, you know,

you used to have to fight guys to be DHing. I think Jose, as he gets into this twilight of his career, knows that keeping himself off the field on occasion isn't the worst thing in the world. Yeah, he's been having a lot of days off and they've been deaching. Not as much the last say year or so, but that's been something they've been doing for a couple years. He did play left field

at least one game of the Seattle series because he had that throw at home plate that got the runner about 30 feet. Well, it was probably the worst send of an ever third baseman would ever coach would ever send. But you know what? You still have to execute the play and he did. Let's see. On, yes, Sunday he played left field.

Okay. that he did on Friday because I did the Saturday show, that's at least twice in the series. So there is no correlation to it. That's fine. Okay, I can live with that. Saturday, he was at second base.

And where was he on Thursday? Yeah, as you said, Friday, left field. Thursday, he was in left field. Okay. So three out of the four games he was in left. Yeah. And yesterday he was DH. But it is interesting that it went from

occasional second. It feels like a little more, I don't wouldn't say it's a 33, 33, 33 split, but it feels like 50 left. I think that part of that is Yordon being out. I think when Yordon gets back in the lineup every day, he's going to be more back in left field. Yeah, I think you're probably right. By the way, Dana Brown was with Sean a few minutes ago,

and we will have that airing of the entire, most, I shouldn't say the entire, the best parts of the interview coming up on the On-Dex show with you at about 12, 15 today. But just to say a couple things, they don't want this thing to linger on but you know it's kind of frankly lingering at this point we're now one of the three week mark

give or take that's a linger yeah I mean it's got to be a story every day just because of the nature of how important he is and the fact that they've said you know a week he was supposed to maybe start over the weekend

um I remember two weeks ago we asked Joe if he was going to play in a particular oh by the way we have breaking news how many sounders It's expected breaking news, but it's significant news. If it's still breaking, hit it. Let's go to.

You got to let it flush out. They call that in Radio Jonathan the tail. Don't go. Yeah, you got it to let the tail waggle. Okay, well, it's still two folks, still two. Right-hand pitcher Renel Blanco will undergo right elbow surgery next week, which will sideline him for the remainder of the 2025 season. he has anticipated to return during the

2026 season that from the official Astro's Twitter account. This is funny because Dana said less than an hour ago they'd have an update after the game. Yeah, we can cut that one part out. We're not going to play it, yeah.

So there was an update that just didn't want to announce it until they felt the time was right, and that's fine. Let's keep this shrouded in mystery for two weeks for, I don't know, bleeps and giggles. It's fine. you know, that's what it is.

Oh, man, they probably got the second opinion, and second opinion said, go back to that first one. Yeah, second opinion said, yeah, that bad boy's ripped. So let's get out of here. I'm acting in ignorance here. Is there something different between elbow surgery and Tommy John? Are they talking about the exact same thing? Is there a...

I'm presuming his Tommy John. They always like to soft play this, the Astros. I don't know why. Say Tommy John. It's okay. Well, because you had... You just had somebody had Tommy John last week. Why, you got a softball it?

And by the way, is there a better job in men? medicine than the second opinion doctor. Imagine if Tommy John, who by the way is still alive, could get a cut of every surgery ever made. Oh, like a trademark? Yeah. No.

I want to be a second doctor opinion. You talk about things you want to be in your next life? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to be second opinion doctor. Yep, first opinion's right. Yeah, that'll be 500 bucks. So it's like doing all,

none of the heavy lifting and gravy training off of the first person's opinion. I want to be only the second opinion, doctor. Yeah. For the Astros, especially. That's actually not a terrible idea. I think they're about 15 for 15 confirming the first opinion. 1030 on Sports Talk 790.

Brian Bogus Evick and one half hour here on 790. All right, so we're now Blanco's going to have Tommy John. It is what it is. My goodness. To have two guys in the same lineup. Tommy John in the same year. Probably well within about two weeks of each other. Yeah, not even halfway through the season.

And I'm sorry, and this is every team that does it, not just the Astros, I do not anticipate either one of them pitching next year. I think it's 12 to 16 months and tell me when you give me somebody gives me 12 months. Yeah, I think it's, I find it interesting that that was placed in the release. But same thing was done with Hayden Wisniewski too. They're saying we hope to, you know, the thought of having him back in 2000, 26 is reality. They're not saying they don't anticipate him back, but

the arm and the elbow and you know, human body is going to tell you what's going to come back. Take me through this. Why does that sentence need to be on the release? Who says, who says to do that and why? Because as you said, I mean, Christian Javier setbacks,

Luis Garcia, setbacks. I mean, any number of guys that we can go through, it's not normally a 12-month injury. It's an indirect, positive spin to something. But every team does that. Every team will say, we, you know, what is the last sentence of the statement? He is anticipated to return. He is anticipated to return during the 2026 season. Okay. If he does have a very clean recovery, there have been some pitchers. I don't really remember any that have been lately, but there have been some that have been recovered in back on the mound in 12, 13 months,

which would put him at about. I mean, you could get a pitcher back by the All-Star break of next year if it worked out well. But that's about a 13-14-month recovery. I'm just telling you the recent Tommy Johns and the recent injuries the Astros have had with their arms, nobody has ever come back on the small side of that. It's been Luis Garcia two years.

Lance McCullors, two and a half year. I mean, there isn't anybody, and maybe there is. bias because of the local flavor we've had with our injured players? Maybe there are three or four angels or Blue Jays or Cardinals that have come back 12 months after. We just haven't seen it around here. I just don't get it.

I just don't get it. Why could you say we wish him a speedy recovery and hopefully he can return to the as soon as possible? It's an indirect positive spin. But I mean, you're basically, I guess it's not a lie. We're anticipating he returns in the 2026 season. That just seems ridiculous to me. Do you know there's always indirect spins in life?

You understand that. For instance, and this is a horrific analogy, but I've not given you a bad one in a long time. Thank you. When someone gets let go, what's always the last sentence of every one of those statements? We wish him well in his future endeavors. Maybe you don't.

Well, I think the Astros miss wish Rennell Blount. What is that? Yeah, this is bad. The Rennell Blunt. No, I'm saying that you always end a, PR 101 is to always put some sort of positive spin anything that you announced. Yeah, they could do that.

They don't have to put a date on it. Christian Javier went underwent Tommy John's surgery the first week of June, which is basically where we are last year. Is he anywhere close to it? Not heard a word. So you know what you do? You take up a grain of salt.

Orchidi as well. Yeah, not even with the team anymore, but yeah. JP France, where is J.P. France? Where is J.P.Rquit's not throwing. I don't know. They were talking about the second half of the head. I mean, he had shoulder surgery. Tommy John bounced back.

shoulder surgery feels like I can be real tough. I think it's I think it's classic doctor, my 94 year old had triple heart bypass surgery. He'll be recovering anytime now. Well, the chances are there may not be a recovery. But it is pointed and specific

to anticipated to return. I think it is positive PR spin, but I'm like, why? First of all, they don't say Tommy John. Maybe it's a copyright. They don't have say Tommy John. When

Wazniewski had his surgery in the release that they put out, they did not say Tommy John. Maybe Tommy's like, can y'all abuse him a name so much? Yeah. Okay. No, that to me is

that's wonderful. You kind of have to say it. If you and I were in the PR departments of any major league baseball team or for that matter, any sports franchise, we'd say the exact same thing. XYZ player broke his We anticipate him being back in blah, blah, blah, blah. But nobody ever holds people to that.

I found last year's release. They didn't put that for either of Erkidi or Hight. Well, Akiti was non-tendered, but he was still technically on the roster. Yeah, this says, it says each scheduled undergo right elbow surgery. They use that word. But they didn't say, this just says both pitchers would be out for the remainder of the 2024 season. I just, I don't know. Perhaps I'm fixating on this too much, but I just find it.

weird. I'm just telling you if we were to put together a list of the last 20 major league pitchers that had Tommy John surgery, my guess is 75% of them are not back within a year. First of all, getting back within 12 months I've heard is unheard of. But getting at the 12-month point where he's,

were they ready to get back on them? I mean, you know, you can do a little digging. I mean, we're all busy, But are there guys that do come back in 12 months? Or is it let we get to, maybe we have to start pushing that time parameter back. Nobody's coming back, especially the time of the year in which you have it, too.

Think about that. Why do you want to rush somebody back if you are sitting there having it? Now, granted, both Wisniewski and Blocker are having it pre-July 1st. So there is, if they were to come back next season at this point, there would be some time for them to contribute. But if you're having time, Tommy John surgery in August of a particular year, then you're essentially missing

the rest of this year and then all of next year. And ultimately, again, how many guys can come back at 12 months? I think the answer is more and more, very little. You know what's crazy to me also is before Tommy John, they just called it dead arm and then you just couldn't pitch anymore. I mean like stopped and dead were never pitch again? I think it was Sandy Kofax that had UCL tear. and they're just like

Well he got the dead arm That's the end of his career We'll see him on the farm Not again Sandy Kofax did not pitch in 1936 Well Matthew old Sandy Kofax He got the dead arm And now he's out of baseball

Like think of all the great Garrett Cole And Justin Verlander And I don't know Spencer Strider And all these greats Even back to John Smolton Whoever

How long was Justin Verlander out? It was in the COVID season, right? Or it was it the end? Yeah, it was in the midst of the COVID season. I'll go look. Port Bing is this? I mean, that's the whole thing, by the way. Remember Chandlerone broke it?

And Justin's like, oh, I wouldn't say that I have to have Tommy John surgery now because we're looking at it. We're getting second opinions. Because athletes try to be fat. That story is just false. And then, oh, now it eats Tommy John. Yeah. September of 2020.

for Justin Verlander. And he didn't come back until May of 2022, right? I believe that's accurate. Wasn't there a month where he did not start the season on time? I'll pull up the old game logs. Point B. Yeah, first April, April 9th. I think it was maybe a weekend or something maybe.

His first start of 2022 was April 9th. So when was the day that he had the surgery? September of 20. So that's 16 months, if not even longer. Yeah. Yeah, that's almost. 17-based, yeah. depending on the dates actual dates so even a guy who keeps himself an exemplary physical condition

that had not had a history of injury issues missed 16 17 months louise garcia had his Tommy john surgery uh on may 5th of 2023 he is shut down to my knowledge so that was that was two years ago from now so that's i just find it on that's all well maybe they're being maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe You know what? They're being optimistic. They're being optimistic. And, you know, life is followed. He is anticipated to return in the 2020.

In a negative world in which we live in, we need positive things. No, again, I'm not holding my breath. I don't blame the Astros or for any baseball team to say that it's possible come back in 20206. But again, everybody recuperates differently. But it feels like it's probably going to be at least 14, 15, 16 months. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 We have Brian Boga-Sovic joining us

Coming up at about 15 minutes right now Here on Sports Talk 7-90 And then we've got shut your ball mass up at 1130 And then Astros on deck at 12 noon For a chance for another sweep, Ross And the Astrosse Astros even have a sweep? Oh, they got swept by the Giants They sweep anybody this year?

Yes Is this Royals? Yeah, it was some. Somebody, well, let's all think about that. We don't want to give out misinformation. Toronto. Oh, yeah, yeah, Toronto. Yeah, they were in the beginning of the season?

Yeah, they always beat up on Toronto. Yeah, they swept Toronto. Yeah. All right. That's the only one. That's it. Thank you very much. Research department coming through.

What kind of anticipating things? All right, Brian Bogasettick to resume the Astro conversation shortly. All right, so I have been obsessed with this SEC spring meetings in Descent, Florida. First of all, kudos of those boys for picking a. a great spot. I mean, that's where you want to go to hang out with all the presidents, and health directors and coaches, right? Why? It's a beautiful part of the country. I mean, good, they didn't pick Omaha. You know what I'm saying? I heard that's where all the rich white people go to vacation. So in Kentucky, that's all they went to is Destin, Florida.

They allow all colors of people to be indestined. Trust me. It's just, you know, the rich, you know, like Matt and Kingwood. I haven't been to, I haven't been to, I haven't been to, uh, destined probably over a decade. I'm busy doing volleyball stuff because I'm a responsible father. I think they banned your white-pasty legs. They're blinding people on the beach. That is actually partly accurate. All right. So here's why I'm obsessed.

So the latest is the SEC is contemplating basically giving up their SEC championship. And you know they want the four automatic spots in this new college football playoff if it gets a 16. They're saying, you know what? If you're the one, if you're

the top two teams in the SEC, we don't you to play for a championship game. We're going to take three versus six and four versus five to play games and give you guys the two other spots. What? And guarantee one and two to make the tournament. No championship game? What are they just going to do best conference record as the champion?

Apparently so. They think there's more impactfulness of playing 3V6, 4 versus 5 for the at-large spots than there would be for one versus two. And then another thing that I... Go ahead. So then the other part of it is, is that there are people that are covering the SEC that are like, you should not want the automatic qualifier. Because in the automatic qualifier, four SECs, four Big Tens, two ACCs, two Big Tens, two Big

12s, and three automatics. Right? That's 16 altogether, correct? 4, 8, 10, 12, group of six. Point being is this. If the SEC's having a really good year, well, they've got nine teams

that are all at least eight wins or above or consider themselves championship, they're only allowing themselves seven to get in. There's only three at large and four conference champions. They're never going to need more than seven. Do you understand the arrogance of SEC, fans, teams, coaches?

This is straight up cronyism. Yeah. They need to get RICO charges. What is this? This is ridiculous. The Department of Justice needs to get involved with this. So the two storylines is, one, there's a segment of people that's saying, don't take this automatic because we might have more than seven teams.

And assuming that means that one year that all the at-larges and all the automatics would be from the SEC. And then you have the other group that's saying, we don't need the SEC championship. Let's reward one and two. Then they have three, six, then play four, four. five and then you know what how many games is that matt that's two how many would be a championship game being one so you're doubling your money you're doubling your tv you're doubling your sponsorship you could also have a championship you could also have a championship game too that's why they're doing they can do three you can do three why don't why what you know this is all for money that's this is what

pisses me off and they're saying basically now we're going to add a ninth conference game to even add it to the mix so it makes our television contract stronger we're going to add these two playing games. We're going to have a championship game and that the SEC is going to be the King Kong of the world. Get on top of the Empire State Building. College football and the fact that it's been for-profit has always been kind of a sheep and

wolf's clothing. The sheep's clothing is completely off. The wolf is here just hanging out, picking off sheep, and it's got the SEC logo on its side. Yeah. Now, see, the Big Ten is all

for this automatic because there's no way in the world. you're going to have more than, I mean, if the big tank gets four in, that's pretty good for them. It used to be quietly about the money. Now, it's just, it's so brash, so brazen. Yeah. Because every question that's being asked of these commissioners, the league presidents and the school presidents and the athletic directors is, man, this NIL is out of control. And everyone's on this, like, the fine bomb shows, they're all like, man, I can't believe how NIL is just out of control. Who made it out of control?

It's the SEC that made out of control. Well, it's the money that was getting poured into there anyways. Yeah. Yeah. You can say the same thing for BYU and like under the table stuff like that. What do you mean? For like how SEC was using all the NIO or like. Oh, and that's above board?

Is BYU funneling money? All those schools do. Well, look at you just randomly thrown out a rando school. I like this. Call out the Mormons. Oh, big team. You hate Mormons, don't you? We got Mormon Church on line ones.

They say shut your bum ass up. Mormon hater on the producer line? No. Yeah, I mean, look, this has been happening for a long time in any schools. We can go back to the old Southwest conference. Correct. Not Southwestern.

Well, there's a Southwestern Conference. Well, Southwestern Athletic Conference. Yeah, when everybody was, you know, SMU, Texas A&M, Houston Cougars, multiple sanctions. I think it was, and Andre Awards. Wards, weren't they in a postseason ban in Andre Awards?

No live TV. Yeah. So, I mean, multiple infractions at U of H and other No fault of Andreuerre's teammates, by the way. I know. I mean, Texas, of course, had their, and I think it was like basically every Southwest Conference school had at some point NCAA infractions. We were running.

All of us were renegades. I think it was in the charter. Like, you must get some infractions at some point. If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying. It was so intriguing to me yesterday. All of the presidents of these schools and the A.Ds were like, what are we going to do to stop this craziness? Well, you're not going to do anything because you're saying one thing in front of a microphone

and you're cutting deals behind the curtain. And then when I heard about the four, the two extra playing games that determine the two automatic spots, and then you've got to group people like, wait a minute, we can get eight teams in this. Why do we, why do we hold ourselves back? We're going to be at least seven deep

in the 16 team tournament. There's no way that eight SEC teams need to qualify. There's no way. Let me go look at all the old standings from last year. realistically the SEC last year we have to Brian Boe Civic we'll see we have a short show

we've got to get more to we'll get to more of this the eighth team last year was 8 and 5 Texas A&M yeah and they had a chance to play for the SEC championship this past year

well then they completely fell apart and then couldn't score an offensive point against who they see as their biggest rival there A&M Texas proving once again why it was the biggest robbery in college, at least in these parts.

All right, 11 o'clock, Brian Bogusivik joins us. 11.03, Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas Show and Ross. We spend 10 quality minutes with Space City Home Networks, Brian Bogussevich. Brian, I don't know if you and Josh Reddick are in a fight for best suit wearing during competition. Whatever he wore yesterday, he took the small lead on you. What's going on with that? I didn't say, well, he's got, I mean, he's got a bigger bank role than I have, so I'm at a different thing.

Oh, okay, I see what you're doing. That does make a little bit of sense there, but yeah. Let's get to the news. Ronelle Blanco, really no surprise at this point. And you go, look, you're not, you played outfield, so it's not necessarily a situation. But you've got a lot of friends at a pitch. Obviously, you've been on teams before.

Has this spin rate stuff, has this new wave of baseball learning, are we hurting these young men's elbows a lot sooner, more so than we did maybe even 15 or 20 years ago? I think the answer is like it's like an all of the above thing. Yeah. You can't look at how prevalent elbow injuries are and have become, you know, the last, you know, pick your number of years and not say that there's something going on. I mean, it's a combination of, number one, guys are just bigger and stronger than they ever were. You know, you look at the size of what a major league pitcher is now.

They're so much stronger and that just equals more force, more stress on the body. You're maximizing every pitch. There's no there's no pacing yourself to try to, you know, save something for the later innings. Every pitch is maximum effort, maximum extension, you know, optimal spin. Guys throw more breaking balls than ever before. Does that put more stress on an elbow? I think all of those factors combine and just how, how, how,

quickly the ramp up has been. I mean, pitchers now look completely different than they did, even, you know, when I first got drafted. You know, guy 93, 94 used to be, you know, pretty good velocity. Now that's, you know, the bare minimum. And it's happened so fast. And the one thing that hasn't changed is, you know, the construction of an elbow. It's still a UCL holding together the bones. And there's a lot of stress put on, put on that, you know, ligament. And the sports medicine, I guess. or the rehab or the prehab, I guess you would need to do, has not kept pace with all of the things that we've done to try to maximize these pitchers. Brian, here's the reality. The NFL has downgraded the role of running back in terms of giving them big contracts, drafting them early. Their shelf lives with teams are greatly reduced because of the wear and tear that running back's taken. Now they drop from, say, season four to five.

if the pitchers don't address this as a fraternity, you're going to not see big money long-term contracts spent on these pitchers because the perception is going to be from these owners, these general managers is at some point every major leaguer is going to have to miss some period of time with some sort of elbow injury. So I would like to see the fraternity of pitchers start to say something about this as compared to just saying, well, it's just a freak of nature because we're just seeing guys dropping like flies, especially here,

but all throughout baseball over what has turned out to be a rampant increase in these Tommy John elbow surgeries. Yeah, I mean, it's almost, you know, just kind of, you know, assumed going into a career or assumed going into a contract with a pitcher that at some point you're essentially going to miss between one and two seasons with an elbow injury. I mean, there aren't many guys that come out of it unscathed. And you're right. I don't think it's, I think it's different from a running back in that it's not necessarily that we devalued what that position is. I think it's more devalued the life of the contract because

of, you know, factoring in missed time. So it's, it's an interesting concept of, you know, should pitchers go out there and start seeking more upfront immediate money and not trying to do the long-term contract and getting rid of some of that unknown, you know, that's, that's a assuming risk themselves. And as players, you know, we've been taught forever that you don't want to do that. You want to lock in as much long-term money as possible. But could they make it up by going for, you know, the high AVs? You know, if you're an ace type pitcher on the free market, if you're saying, hey, what will you pay me for one or two years? Teams would throw huge money at you, you know, assuming that this is not going to be the year that you get hurt. So there might be a shift change at some point of some of these guys

seeking out bigger immediate money and, you know, the team's offloading the risk that way. But yeah, you're certainly right because, you know, you can't have, it's such a small window of earning power. And you just don't want, teams certainly don't want to be paying players that aren't playing. And guys, players don't want to have their prime earning years missing. If you look at Renal Blanco, like the timing of this. I mean, obviously, you put in the team concept, and it's a huge blow for the, the season. But for him, you know, a guy who had finally established himself in the big leagues had a huge breakout year last year. He's not to arbitration yet. He's not even in his big

earning years yet. And this is a guy who is an older sign later to the big league's guy. Like, these are his earning years that he's now sitting on the shelf. Brian Bogusevic with us here on sports talk 790. Shifting gears to the on-field play, Jose Altuve. How can we not talk about him? 12 hits in his last five games. What are you seeing out of him? Well, Jose Al-Tuvae. That's kind of what it is. It's amazing.

You think that over the course of a hitter's career, typically guys, you know, the ups and downs smooth out and you get more of a steady thing. He's just been, he's been straiky his whole career. We've seen even when he's at his best, you know, there might be a couple of games of Ofer's right around the corner where it's like, man, where did this come from? And then he goes, you know, 12 for 15 in a couple of games. I think in terms of what is it that has kind of snapped him out, a lot of the things that I saw from him when he was struggling, very similar to the things that Yainer Diaz was struggling with earlier in the season. And

it's just contact point backing the ball up. You know, you get very aggressive hitters. When they struggle, they resort to what has always made me successful. And for those guys, it's swing. Swing more, swing sooner, swing more often, and I'll just eventually start getting hits. You could see the tide turning for Altuve midway through the Tampa series had a couple of base hits up the middle. Early in the Mariners series, he had a sack fly to right field. So all of a sudden, the ball starts going into the middle of the field. That means that the contact point is backed up a little bit. when all of a sudden you're in a contact point backs up the swing stays in a better place

and now you start getting some elevation now those balls to the pole side aren't hooking solid or staying true and you know that that's all it is for Jose and once you feel that that's a thing that you have to feel as a hitter and once you feel that and are comfortable with that it can turn this quickly because you're not necessarily working through mechanical things you're just trusting where you have to let the ball travel to And keeping with guys that are turning it around the plate, Christian Walker, we've been talking about all season long. Have you just seen a light bulb go on with him,

or do you think it's just some bad luck that is turned? What's going on with him as well? He had the walk off, of course, on Sunday, and then a home run, two-run, two-run, yesterday. Yeah, he looks like he's maybe exhaled a little bit. I mean, he was fighting. I mean, look, when you see a guy start shaving beards and mustaches and pants up, pants down, like,

they're just trying to find something. Maybe that's it. Maybe it's the beard or shaving the mustache, yeah. Keep a shave, yeah. You know, when things aren't going well, nothing goes right. And you can go up there and, you know, you're facing a pitcher who's maybe spraying the ball all over the place, making mistakes down the middle, getting behind the account. And then Christian Walker steps in and it's like,

dot a fastball on the corner, dot a slide around the corner in your O2. And you could see these at-bats where he would go, up there and a pitcher or two in, he was like, oh, man, here we go again. And I think with the walk off the other day, he finally got the mistake, right? He got the O2 pitch that just leaped back into the middle, and he didn't miss it. And then last night, he gets a pitch to hit and he doesn't miss it. So, you know, once those things start to happen, and you can say, okay, now I feel like I'm putting in the work and I'm getting myself right. Now, you know, the baseball gods aren't against me anymore, and I'm just kind of, you know, I'm going to get a mistake. Or if I stay in the

fight, I'll give a pitch to hit, you can relax a little bit. And, you know, knock on wood, it looks like he's feeling that way a little bit. Because from a straight-up hitting standpoint, it doesn't, you know, there's nothing wrong with his swing. His mechanics look fine. He's been swinging at better pitches. It's just been like everything's piling on at once, and it seems like he's starting to get out from under that now.

Brian, for I'll let you go. Not that it was a must-win series or life would have been over, but the feeling around the clubhouse probably had to improve knocking off Seattle 3 out of 4. You made up some ground to them. They could have come in here, you know, won 3 out of 4, swept the series and really left feeling pretty good about themselves. Instead, you know, after they won that impressive series in San Diego and they took the Chicago White Sox, they probably are thinking, uh-oh, no matter what we do, we can't get

rid of ourselves of the Houston Astros. And so if you're in the Seattle mindset, Astros aren't pitching deep into games. They're hitting has been sporadic. and yet they're right on our tails again. So I kind of hope it's that way throughout the course of summer, but it just felt like to me that was a beat your chest kind of weekend

and hopefully it's got lasting effects beyond just what these next two games have been with the Oakland A's or the Sacramentoes or whatever they're calling themselves these days. Just the A's. Just the A's. It's like Prince and Cher, yeah. I think a lot of the thing with the Mariners

is you draw the comparisons to last season for the Astros, like, if you don't let them, them get away from you, you're going to be in a good position. Because Seattle, you know, they've been fortunate over the last two seasons that the Astros have not gotten off to good starts, and they haven't been able to put them away. And if the Astros can just hang around, I mean, I've not heard this out of the Seattle side at all, but it's got to be the boogeyman coming, you know, looking over your shoulder for them, because they just cannot shake the Astros.

And look, no division is going to be the sighted Memorial Day weekend or anything. But if you can just hang around, hang around, hanging around. You know, we've not even seen this offense click yet. And when you're Seattle looking at the Sastro's team saying, man, they haven't even played their game yet. We haven't seen them do what we know they can do because we've seen it. And we're only, you know, a game or two up. You know, we've not given ourselves the advantage that we should. So, yeah, I think it's, you know, not an end-all be-all series, but three out of four,

it puts you in a good position to kind of just hang around and lurk on the Mariners a little bit. Boge, thank you. The visit is always great stuff. And let's watch at 1130 to see what Josh is wearing today because the zoot suit yesterday he put on was unbelievable. So I don't know if we can get you one of those. I'd be happy to help you sponsor that, whatever a case may be. Yeah, I'm going to talk to Calvin Murphy and see if he can hook you. Oh, Murph.

Murph will absolutely let you take the lead on that. Thanks, Boogie, as always. All right. That's Brian Bogus-Evick with us here on Sports Talk 790. 1115 is our time. Somebody didn't throw today at OTAs, Rossi. Should be worried about it. Didn't throw.

Didn't throw. That's got to be a limited number of guys we're thinking of. I'll let you figure out who it is. Oh, no. 1115 on Sports Talk 790. All right. We got to shut your ball mass up coming up in 10 minutes from now. Can I just annihilate the traffic situation in our town?

It's not going to get any better. It's not. People are flocking here. Yeah. Or it's 7 milly. If you keep waiting for a housing market to go down, stop. I know. All right.

C.J. Stroud did not throw today. What? Is he hurt or is he holding out? No. Or neither. D'Amico's saying there was different schedules and different routines for players when asked about why C.J. did not throw. Okay.

Okay. Different schedules. So he wasn't scheduled. to throw today. No, he didn't say that necessarily. He just said different schedules. Okay. It's fine. Nothing worry about. Nothing at all. I ain't scared.

Franchise quarterback. Ready to roll. So his arms already sore in May. He had a minor setback for a major comeback. O-line's going to be better. Got some good weapons, young receivers. Got some dogs. As Nico Collins called them. Yeah. I don't think anybody cares about OTAs except

the coaching staff, the players just get there going. But nobody's at a bar right now going, man, I can't believe the reports I'm getting on what's going on at OTAs. I can't believe it either. C.J. Strauss not throwing. Did you hear? That, to me, if we went to a bar right after the show today and said that C.J. Stride did not throw at O.T.S. We're off at 1230.

Well, I got some real sad sacks in there. Getting licked up. We can really create some festive, some, some, some, unnecessary panic in this town. CJ Stratt. C.J. Strat didn't throw. Hey, my name is Adam Clayton, and I do a show 2 to 6, and C.J. Strad didn't throw today.

Okay. We can do that. Nice to meet you, Adam. I'm Adam Wexler, and I was at practice today. I didn't see C.J. Stroud throw. You think he's got one of those hat umbrellas? Wexler or C. Yeah, Wexler.

Oh, I don't know. CJ might need one too. I don't think, I don't think Wax is a big ball cap where, where, okay. I know I'm not. Our former producer,

Trey, were a ball cap at his wedding. And he's not bald. We didn't get invited to the wedding either. That's fine. You didn't get a gift? Yeah. It can't help.

He's, um, a little different. Yes. I mean, he's been openly outspoken about his, his autism. Yeah.

We love him. He's a sweet kid. Oh, the sweetest human being in the planet. Yeah. It's the fact that you wearing a ball cap to your wedding. Hey, whatever make him comfortable. But it's also got really bushy red hair, too.

No, it looks great. You should let that thing flow. Let it fly. I just feel like at what in the other parents are there, in-laws and stuff. I don't know. I'm going to say it was probably not hugely attended by members of family. I wonder how non-negotiable it was. You know what, we can call them.

I bet you'll pick up. And we'll wait until summertime, All-Star break. That'll be a good bit. How is? We're checking-ins with Trey. Check-ins with Trey. We should actually do that. So Trey's worst take ever

And I don't know if you Bring this up I'm going to I don't know if he was high as a Kiter Knight Jonathan or not But well It felt like some days he was on his meds And some days he wasn't

He was smelling ammonia for many many hours He made a gut feeling There was it a gut feeling There was a gut feeling yes There was going to be a NASCAR race On the moon at some point Like being dead serious I think so

Wait okay Before I live Is he like Is he actually like on the from like, yes. Yeah, we're not kidding. Okay, okay, okay. It's not something to joke about.

Jonathan. He's got a personality. He's a, you know, colorful guy. Oh, he's got a person. Oh, he definitely is personable. He's got a huge personality. And then when he does stand-up comedy. He sends us rando tweets of presents that died over 100 years ago and saying happy birthday.

Anybody, anytime somebody has died, he texts me and Matt. Yeah. Who died there? Yeah. I can't remember. Oh, Jim Ursay. Jim Ursay passed. He just texted us.

And he just gave us an update on that. I'm going to ask him how he's doing. Yeah. Hopefully he did make an appearance on Kill Tony, which is the comedy star out of Austin. He did that. And his bride was up there with him for a while. Yeah, he's had some of his hits on there have gotten like million hits on YouTube. Yeah.

Literally million. Millions. And I still haven't seen him acting in person, which is really my fault. Yeah, that's on you. I saw him three times, I think. Did you laugh a lot? He's pretty funny. Some stuff to work on.

As all of us do. He's got this awkward nervous energy that's really good on there. That's good. It's not quite, okay, Mitch Hedberg is one of the all-time greats, and I know you don't know who that is. But it's kind of like that. Okay. I hope he makes it big time, because we get some free tickets out of him.

He's a comedian? Wait before you. Well, he was a part-time. It's an aspiring comedian. Hold on, I'm asking him right now. He's an aspiring comedian. All right, so CJ doesn't practice today. Why did you wear a hat at your wedding?

Question mark. Look at you dropping Siri in the middle of the show. So CJ did not practice. CJ, DeMico says no big deal on that. And that's today's headline from Texan's practice. Everybody else put the uniform on.

They ran good routes. Everybody looks bigger, faster, stronger, can't wait. Okay. Sorry, I'm locked in on texting, Trey.

Put the phone down. Focus on something else. All right. We should make a no phones rule. I'm just as guilty as you are. We put it between us. I put my phone. I like this.

There we go. We can show you during breaks, all right? Yeah. Okay, very good. I know. Hey, we need to. You're getting the shakes already.

Calm down, Matt. We have shut your bum ass up now. This is the, this is the most therapeutic 30 minutes. I think anybody in Houston's radio, much less sports radio, should have. This is where you just get to just lay it all out. You can rip on somebody. You can rip on yourself. 59, 45, 610, all of it.

It all sucks. I-10. 288 can be a biotch, too. That's true. I don't know how 1418 can be But it's, you know I'm sure it's terrible 242 could be a hot mess of times

Highway 6 Highway 6 can be if you If you just want to call in and just say To any of you Westheimer San Felipe Yeah Fornus plate I mean it's all bad

Fornes So down in the belly area That's plate That's what it's PL right Place or plate I figured it's place I think it's plate It is?

I think it is You go on a plate No the name of the road is a plate You know like it's Avenue Boulevard It's a plate I never heard of that. Well, when I first moved to Houston in 1979, I was fascinated by the name of streets.

So we went down to Fornes and for a short time. Is it Fornes Plate? It's not, isn't it? A place is what I'm seeing. Oh, damn, I've been wrong information. You've been saying plate? Plate for 40 years. Like a dinner plate?

Yes. Hold on, I got it. This is relevant. Oh, never mind. That's my sister. Well, tell us what you just wants. What's up with her? She says she has to get a new passport.

I don't know if she's touching me. Oh, congratulations to her. I'm getting one of those. I guess you're going out of the country. All right. If you want to tell somebody to shut their bum ass up, let's go. 713, 212.1, 790. 7.1 3212-5-790.

Ain't nobody getting time? Ain't nobody getting time for that? Hey nobody getting time for that. All right, 1133, sports talk, 790. This is the easiest part of your week. You have had a tough week at the office. You've been fighting the rain all day today. Maybe you had winds hit your house.

Lost power yesterday. You got somebody you want. want to just tell them, ain't nobody got time for that? Tell us right now at 713-212-5-790. Or you can be mad at somebody, yell at somebody.

If somebody is sending you constant tweets about OTAs of the Texas, tell them, shut your bum ass up. You ain't nobody got time for that. Shut your bum ass up, man. There you go. Ross, you want to go first? No, you can go first. I think I've been pretty self-explanatory. I've been ready to go.

Our town just comes to a grinding halt there's a little bit of rain. It wasn't like it was a downpour. It wasn't like there was a monsoon, if you will. Taking 85 minutes to get to work, ain't nobody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that? All right, I'll go, our friends at the SEC.

You want eight spots in a 16-team tournament? You are one conference? That was ridiculous. Now, me as a Texas Longhorn fan, I, of course, have embraced the SEC life. It is the most, I mean, it's the superior conference. to any in the land and most major sports that matter.

But eight spots, playing games, championship games, expanding the playoffs, it's all for money. It's the quiet part is now getting said out loud, and it's ridiculous, and this greed needs to be stopped.

Ain't nobody got time for the SEC trying to take over college football. Ain't nobody got time for it. Now, to be fair, let's make sure we're telling the story. And the big turn. At this point, the automatic qualifier would be four,

there are some that are covering the league that are saying, why would you pigeonhole yourself into guaranteed spots when maybe one year you could get eight teams in? So I'll make sure we're very clear on that. Okay. Well, either way, it's ridiculous. It's getting beyond parity. It's always been ridiculous, but now it's like, I can't, it's unbelievable.

What if every one of the other, what if the ACC and the Big 12 said, peace. They're going to lose a lot of money. To go create your little mega league. They all want SEC. And they should. I mean, it's the best teams. But I mean, man, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If they get the biggest TV deals and they get the most money and then they get the best facilities and then they're going to be able to attract the best players, pay the best coaches the most. It becomes, I mean, it just rolls downhill. Do you think that how about this? How about the ACC and the Big Ten go sneak up and say, Big Ten, SEC doesn't love you. They think they love you. They don't care about you. Let's create our own mega conference with our three leagues and leave the SEC by itself.

Then the SEC wouldn't have as much power. It's like these European soccer leagues. They have spending limits, but your spending limits are based on your revenues. So the big revenue teams basically stay at the top for the majority of the time. And that's not to say, of course, I always point out, and I will, that, look, small market teams don't ever necessarily have a chance anyways in college football. Right. But it's going to get worse and worse and worse, and the scales are going to tip further and further to the Big Ten in SEC to where there was the occasional counterbalance, especially when OU and Texas were in Big 12, or you had SEC in a PAC, excuse me, USC Oregon in a PAC 12. All that's gone.

any semblance of the possibility of parity is just getting withered away. The only way this is really going to blow up is if there's one year where the ACC or the Big 12 have three legitimate teams. Well, that wouldn't make sense because they would have the two automatic qualifiers and then that third team would be an at-large. So forget what I saw. I was going to say that could there be a year where a deserving Big 12 ACC team doesn't get in because you have to automatically give one of those spots of the Big Ten in the SEC?

I think so. All right. 713212-5-790. You want to tell somebody to shut their bomb ass? Up, but I got time for that. Let us know. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Anything from you, Jonathan, before we go to the phones?

I'm going to piggyback off of you with the traffic this morning. Yes, sir. I was cutting through, you know, traffic as a Houstonian does. And if I decide to give you the lead and get in front of me, all right, you can get in front of me. All right, you can get in front of me. All right. Why in the world do we get stuck in traffic?

Why? Why? Because I was in a good pace. I let you in and then you let four other people come. And then, oh, now we're stuck in the slow lane. Oh, okay. Ain't nobody got time for that. That's what happens. You try to be nice and you try to let somebody in and then they just, they screw you over. It's the worst. And you know what's even worse these days is you can't even put your blinker on? Because people just speed up and try to go past you now.

You're putting your blinker on means, hey, guys, I'm trying to get over. Could you let me a hand? Now you put your blinker on. That means, oh, I need to zoom. past you. You're trying to get over. Shut your bum ass up. No, you shut your bum ass up, man. It's not a NASCAR race. I got one more. To Bevan Rerevin.

Bevan. I go to get gas there at Bevan Rovem yesterday. And the price on the screen said $2.59 cents. Uh-huh. So I go to put in my credit card, I go to pump it, it says $269

on there. Yeah, you missed the little you missed the fine print. I have to sign up for Bevin Reven Reven Rewards. Yes. Or with poor pay with cash. I don't have time to sign up for Bevin Rewards if I'm trying to get my gas to get on my way. So don't put $2.59 out there if you're going to honor it. So Bevin Revin, shut your bum ass up, man.

It's a very common bait and switch right now. You see it everywhere. It's the cash price. Who's rolling up there and paying cash? Now, if it says cash, I'm okay with that. Yeah. Because I know that going in. But there's no asterisk next to it.

There's no... Oh, there's no fine print. There's no fine print. Are you sure? I mean, I don't sit there and stare at the screen. That's what I'm saying. I don't know. You got your glasses on?

You know, I did see one where they flicker it and it switches and you don't know, like... Oh, the flicker. And I saw that one time. I got... The flicker switch. You don't want to get flickered. 713-212-5-790. Brian and Pearland.

Brian, what's the matter with you? I got several of them. To whoever decided to close the Polk Street exit coming in off 288 from Pearland for the next month, right outside of Minamade Park, right outside of Shell Energy Stadium in the George R. Brown. Last exit, you can get to downtown to close that for a month. And ain't nobody got time for that. Speed that crap up. Let's go. We got ball games to get to.

Ain't nobody get time for that. To you idiots that are going to call in saying, oh, Trevor Bauer isn't signed. We can use pitching help. Stop it right now. You're an embarrassment to your family if you call in. You should be shunned and publicly humiliated. If you bring that take up in here, we don't have time for that Trevor Bauer nonsense. So just stop it right now.

And to who's ever working on 521 south of the Toland and Pearland down Alameda, it has been a year and a half, and I have seen zero progress. So whatever the hell you all got going on, can y'all do something to make it look? Like y'all are actually making progress? Because we've been just moving dirt around for the last 18 months. And I haven't seen the damn thing. And whatever take Brad is going to have, just ain't nobody got time to that. Wow.

All right. Thank you very much. Brian got all that in there. Running the gamut. We haven't heard from Brian a while. That's a shame. We haven't heard from James and Garden Oaks in a while. That's a shame.

Maybe we're losing. Oh, no. We haven't heard from two of our worst callers of a while. all time. This is a shame. All right. So that means we have opportunities for two great new callers to call on the show. That's true. So when two doors

closed, two more open. Yes. If you want tiny shoes to fill. Toddler-sized shoes to fill. I like James and Garden Oaks. Why? Because he's a friend of the show. He just like it because he calls you Governor Thomas. That's the only reason why. And it makes you feel regal. And we get to play the WFAN song occasionally. And his takes are bad and he's horrible. And he's always talking about

picking his winners and he gives us picks like we don't we even care about his picks. I'm more lovable the two of us today for sure. All right. If you want to get in on something right now because you're really angered by something, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790. More of shut your ball and ass-up. Ain't nobody got time for that. We have Astros baseball in 18 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. 1148.

It is a Matt Tava show with Ross. This is our most cathartic part of the week. By the way, you're going to be off Thursday and Friday getting a couple days off well-deserved. I don't normally say that, but it is with great regression that I regret I have to say that you deserve these days off. Thank you, Matt. I've only taken one day off all year. We're halfway through the year. We're going to have Brian McTaggart on tomorrow.

Cole Thompson, you catch on the afternoon shows. I'm going to be with him for a couple of hours. Oh, love it. And then Friday, Joseph Twarty covers the Houston Cougars will be with us for a couple of hours. I'd be a longhorn legend, Joseph Duarte, correct? He is a longhorn legend, but he appreciates the University of Houston, unlike other people I work with. You're going to call Jonathan out like that. All right, so we will be happy to have him in for a couple of hours as well, plus to wake the strippers up,

and then you and I will reconvene Monday at 10 o'clock, and these airwaves will be called Sports Talk 7.90. Wonderful. So if you don't like Ross, oh, you're going to be in for two days of awesomeness. A rings boost! Now, if you think Ross carries a show, then I'm going to try my best. Yeah. What's up?

My mom's not tuning in for two days. How about your dad? Well, your dad isn't listening to way. Yes, he does. All right. Mike on 790. Mike, what's the matter with you? Well, I flew out of the airport the other day and sitting in, you know, you have to put all your crap in the little containers and sticking on the conveyor belt.

Yes. You have to get back in line for that one crap thing you have to do. Yeah. Anyway, I'm in the line. I'm about four back to go in there. And this old lady comes up to me and goes, sir, sir, sir, I just put my $2,000 purse on the conveyor belt, and I don't trust them. Can I cut in line and get in front of you and go through the line first?

And I looked at her and said, you mean the one that's sitting there by my $2,700 computer? I think it'll be okay. And she got all ticked off at me and say put her in the back of the line. Through the line, I'm putting all my belts on and my shoes on. She comes back. Thanks a lot for nothing, dude. And then her poor husband comes walking behind her, snake in her head, looking at me, and looking at me and goes, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I said, no, dude, I'm sorry.

I don't have to see her again. You have to live with her. But, I mean, it was, I had no time for her. Ain't nobody got time for that. Speaking of that. Now, this was the TSA line? Yes. 90% of TSA agents are wonderful.

people. Yes. I'll even go 95%. What's up? Oh, 92%. I'm staying with my 90. I didn't Sutter. For the 10 of you that are not, that are rude, shut your bum asses up. Hey nobody got time for that. But you just missed all over the place. Was that gap band again? It was that dropping a bomb on people. Are we playing name that tune? They're playing name that tune? I can name that in one note. So the 10% of you that are grumpy that hate your job, find something else, or just be more pleasant. is ain't nobody got time for your attitude because we make fun of you when we leave, trust me.

That is a problem when you're dealing with something like that. But it's only 10%. I want to make sure I'm very clear on this. 90% of you are very nice. We've had some listeners who are actually TSA agents and it's nice to visit with those people on occasion when I can. But the 10% of you that are,

I would have to say hobby is nicer than intercontinental. Hobby security is way better to me, for sure. But also maybe they're dealing with fewer people so it's fewer idiots and so it's the easier, easier job. Right, right, right. That, yeah, that lady said she didn't, she thought the TSA was going to steal her bag. She wanted to be closer to her $2,000 bag.

And he's like, I want to be close to my $2,700 computer. I get it. I like that. Shut your bum ass up. When it, now, this country really started to go wrong. When we raised everyone to think they're the center of the universe. You're not the center of the universe, lady. Your bag's going to be fine.

I would have to say theft at TSA is what, one out of it. Every 10,000 people? I'm going to say even lower. Everything's on video. Everything's on camera. And even if it's something is taken, guarantee you watch it and you go, hey, someone to my bag. Somebody is going to stop them.

You are in a confined area. I'm going to say you have a zero percent chance of putting something into the TSA X-ray machine or whatever and it not coming out. and it being completely gone. But I think what they're worried about is the people that are waiting for their stuff saying, oh, there's that person, let's grab this person run. You can't run in an airport. You can't run in an airport.

You're stuck. Where are you going to go? The bathroom? You're going to go ask Tom Hanks where he stayed for a couple days? No. Yeah, that's true. That was actually pretty good by you. My thank you.

I don't do that very often, but I felt like it was a hit. Yeah, my jaw's on the floor. Your jaw's been on the floor a lot in your life. Your knees, too. Let's go to, uh, But Jason on seven ramped it up. Jason, what's the matter with you? You know, and every time I turn on ESPN first take,

I got to hear Stephen A. Smith and all the Nick people that want to talk about the Knicks and not giving Indiana credit. Man, you know what, I ain't got time to wait on the Knicks to lose in game five or six, man. I'm ready for the Knicks to lose, man. I'm tired of turning the TV on listening to that bull crack. I mean, if it ain't for a rocket snob being it, man, I'd rather see. I just better not hear about the Knicks. There you go.

Anybody got time for the Knicks? And I didn't watch one minute of screaming any of the day because I know he's so sad. This is absolutely unconscionable. The New York Knicks are down 3-1 in the series. It's unbelievable. Thanks, Stephen. That wasn't terrible. Thank you, Matt.

Man, that wasn't your best work, but it's not terrible. All right. we got time for a couple more here 713212-5-790 Vince in Midtown Vince what's the matter with you well I've been watching the NBA playoffs and every time the Knicks play especially at the garden ain't no one got time to see all those old Knicks that used to play for the Knicks who haven't won anything in 50 years why they keep showing those guys especially like John Starks John Starks was 2 for 18 on game 7 against the Rockets.

Why is he there? Why are they making him a big deal? Okay. Second thing, ain't no one got time for Dremont Green tainting the TNT studio and ruining that show.

I don't tune in when he's on there. I don't know why they're trying to make that sociopath be a normal announcer or a commentator. Ain't no one got time for that. You know what the crazy thing is? I really believe that Dremont has an incredible case of bipolar. I think he, when he gets on the 94-foot floor,

he becomes the most dangerous man alive in that building. He's got a screw loose. Yeah. Because you put him on a set. And if Dremont came in here right now and talked to MBA shop with us, we would be captivated by it. I 100% believe that. Quick question that came up real like the other day.

Please. If Dremon Green played his entire career for, say, the Portland Trailblazers, is he a Hall of Fame? Are you attributing the team success to his individual success? Is what you're saying? He's a big part of it. Draymond by himself does not lead to any championship. He was the third or fourth best player on all those teams.

Yeah, okay. So what's your point? Nothing. I'm just asking if you didn't answer my question. Is he a Hall of Famer? God, you're really putting me in a tough spot here with like a minute left from the show. Okay, I guess. Quick.

Hall of Famer, probably no, but a respected NBA player, yes. Yeah, I think he's a five by five guy. He does a little bit of everything very well. Does that put you in the Hall of Fame? I don't know. If it put you in the Hall of Fame with Clay Thompson and Steph Curry alongside you, absolutely it does. So to give you a long winded answer to your question, no, but he is a definitely still considered a fine NBA basketball player with a screw loose, as you said. I think eight-time all defense, defensive player of the year. So I think he has a borderline case. He might end up with a borderline cases. But nobody ever spends

their entire career in Portland. They just don't. That's true. I thought Damien Liller was going to be a pleasure for life. Clydexie got out of there. Bill Walton. All of them. Damon Stonemeyer. O'Don? You can have a career. All right. Ross has to rest his vocal cords.

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