The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Texans FIRE Slowik, Altuve Willing To Play Left Field To Keep Bregman With Astros

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" and Chris Gordy react to a report from USA Today's Bob Nightengale that Astros second baseman Jose Altuve is willing to play left field if that means Alex Bregman could stay in Houston and move to second. Nightengale also reports that the Chicago Cubs are interested in a trade for Ryan Pressly. Matt and Ross also:react to the Texans firing offensive coordinator Bobby Slowikdiscuss the Raiders hiring Pete Carroll as their head coachtell their "Non-Florida Stories" and more on this "Anything Goes Friday."

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10.3 at H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Do people in Dallas throw up the D?

Maybe. They're doing something with the D. I don't have to throw it up. Yeah, if you're from Dallas, are you throwing up your D? It's all about the cream, Matt. Cash rolls everything around. You've been saying that for a long time.

Cream, get the money. Dollar, dollar bills. So if he were in Guantanamo Bay and we were trying to get some information out of him, we would hold him down and pour mayo down his throat to get him to talk. Got to wrap her up and water her properly. I gave her a good tip, though. She's happy. I didn't know you needed a bed. I'd have given you a bed.

You were rubbing a dillo? 7.1. Dillow rubber Thomas. Sports talk. No, I've never touched a dillow. I've never touched a dillow. I've no interest in touching a dillow. I went to South Lano State Park and one time.

They're all over the place in that park. Friday edition of the show. Dillow, Robert Thomas in the house. I'm going to be, and look, I have lied on this show a lot. Oh, I mean, and how? And the average person does lie four times a day. Since we've gone to 10 to 2.

Yes. This is the most refreshed I felt at 10 o'clock since the show has started. I mean, you look haggard. Well, I mean, that's actually always going to be the case, because you always make fun of my appearance. Ha! You always make fun of mine. That's how we roll. That's true. and I was out last night.

So it wasn't like I had like... You were? Well, I waited a little... Out of the town? It was a rocket's function last night. Were you wearing the suit and sneaks? Like Adam Wexler? No, I wore this suit and dress shoes.

Yeah, you could never pull it off. By the way, one of the clients of the Rockets heard us talking about and he goes, I'm 100% with you. Wearing sneaks is lazy. It's a new school. It's a new wave. I wouldn't do it. I'm a traditionalist, Matt. Yeah.

Because I think a good pair of really nice looking dress shoes is, is something you should brag about. Putting on a pair of Nike's, it's not that, I mean, it's okay. Yeah. I mean, there are some, you can definitely go high in with some tennis shoes, and it can certainly match the suit, but I would say dress shoes as the plate, but, you know, to each is on, I'm not gonna,

I'm not gonna dress shame you. Well, it seems like you would. I mean, I kind of would, but not. You're always trying to, you dress shame Adam Clinton, every day he walks in here. Yeah, because he's wearing some other logo Texans jersey. That's fine. Let him live his life. I do, but I make fun of it. Let him spend 40% of his income,

on various jerseys and jackets. Of course, he won't build to afford Carson's college, but he's got plenty of C.J. Strauss uniforms. Yeah. Or Porsche Carson. Dad's got issues.

Really bad ones. But we love them anyway. All right, welcome to a Friday edition of The Bad Tomba show. We got a lot to get to today. My goodness. So much to get to. All right.

First and foremost, it is on editing goes Friday. And that means Ross, what do people do at 713-212-5-7-9? Well, they call us. That is the phone number, 713-212-5-790. As anything goes Friday, it means you can get to anything you would like to. We have drunk callers who call with a bunch of crazy off-topic stuff. Actually, it's a morning drunk callers, I heard, on the 6-10 show.

They were really hammered today, one day, wasn't it? The Sean Salisbury Show with Brian the Lima as well. So you can still get in. Anything you want to get to. If you want to talk about, I don't know, championship weekend, will Jaden Daniels be the first rookie ever? to start in a Super Bowl. We can get to that.

You also have the Texans in their offseason. How do they address the offensive line? No, don't do that. Nobody cares. They eventually will care, but not today. We do have some Texans news, though. We do. We also have some possible Astros news.

Oh, I think it's very possible. It's just very peculiar to me. Yeah, Bob Nightingale, what's the deal? Well, I mean, Bob's a little closer than I think he originally was. was he started the day off with the deal with the Cubs and the Ryan Presley is imminent. Imminent. And then he backed off that. Eminent means it should have happened by now and then it hasn't happened by now.

I'm going to give that on L to old Bobby. And then yeah, minutes later, Chandler-Rome and others were like, Ryan Presley has not waived his no trade clause. Doesn't mean he won't. Doesn't mean he won't. But he hasn't at this point. Correct. So I would say to say Bob probably took a loss on that one.

Imminent meaning, now again, imminent is a, there's no definitive timeline. it means it should have happened. Yeah, I would say by 10 o'clock the next morning it should have happened. I would agree. So that's a loss for him. But there are numerous reports about the fact that the Astros have indeed not closed the door on Alex Brighman. They're going to leave the door open. And then apparently the sixth year 156 deal may be still on the table. Okay. And at which

point? Which of a point what? Jose L. Tuve to left? Well, I'm not moving Pena to the left. If he's my future shortstop, I'm not changing that. He's like Paredes can move around. Yes. Altuvae to left field sounds really peculiar.

Now, let's roll play for a second here. Okay. Jose Altuvae did not hide the fact last September, how much he wanted Regman to stay. Yes. Very vocal. I think he did that more of the likes of, please pay him to be our third basement forever.

when the market basically didn't match what Breggman was looking for, then my guess is Al Tuve lobbed a phone called a Jim Cran. I think this was a skip past Espada and a skip past Dana Brown. This was right to Jim

and said, hey, listen, if you bring him back because he is such an important part of our team, I will make the sacrifice and I'll go to left field. I've kind of dreamt about what Jose Altuva is like in left field. Okay.

not overly excited about it, but it does show you how badly, if indeed Jose really did say this, how badly he wants Alex Bergman to come back, that he would sacrifice a position he has played his entire professional career to go play left field, which some places it can be easy. Minute made. Minute made would be, you know, the easiest of the group. Now, he wouldn't always, he wouldn't always have to be in left field because of the fact that you're going to probably get your run out there 35, 40 times. And then there will be some nights where maybe you shift some outfielders

and Maricio Dubon gets an occasional start out on the left field. So you're looking at probably, I don't know, Ross, if Jose plays 150 games, maybe 100 out and left. Again, I'm just throwing this stuff against the wall here. It doesn't excite me, but it does show you how bad the greatest astro of them all wants a teammate. to come back to hashtag run it back. Yes, he does.

Man, I'm going to give you some stat cast percentiles. Now, let's put this in perspective here. You don't have any metrics on him's work in left field, correct? No. So let's go into what you do have. Okay, I'm going to start with the highest percentile he has. Sprint speed, 44th percentile. That's below mid.

Arm strength. Now this is from second base. Maybe he doesn't have to, you know. In left field of your one. weakest arm in the outfield has to be in left. Seventh percentile. Continue. Range.

This is the big one for me. Third percentile. This was at second base. Now, hold on before you do the next one. No, that's it. Jake Myers can help you cover left field. That's true. Left center field, for sure.

Yes, he can. So I'm going to throw this out to the great city of Houston and all of our awesome listeners. I want you to close your eyes if you can. If you're driving, do not close your eyes. But if you are not driving and you're listening at home or you're in the bedroom or you're in the bathtub or you are on a sales call and you're just in your car just sitting there relaxing. Envision Jose Altuve in left field. What do you see out there? Because here's a thing.

Rossi. Maddie? Many years ago. I closed my eyes and asked the audience way back in the day before you and I were you and I were ever working together. And I said, Houston, Texas, I want you to envision Craig Bigeo in Centerfield. Oh. And people would call. And they said, Matt, it ain't going to be pretty.

And it wasn't. And it wasn't pretty. It was respectable, admirable. But needless to say, there were not gold glove considerations for Craig Bigeo and Centerfield. Houston, Texas, envision, if you will, Craig Bizio, out, Jose Al Tuve,

in left field. 713, 212, 570. Is that really worth it? Hmm. Braggie back, is it 6156, or is it a 124? Or a 392 with

buy out options. You get Yordon out there, but they're trying to limit that. For 100 games. 100 games. It would be an adventure, at least. Think about his base running. Would it be like that for him tracking down fly balls? I mean, if anybody is going to put the time in to get it better

to become at least a competent left fielder, it'd be Jose Al Tiber. That's one thing you can't trust, is that Jose... I trust him completely. He's not going to just go out there and wing it. He's not going to go, oh, you really put me a left-fielder. I'm going to go to go Manny Ramirez on it. Yeah. He would treat it very seriously, just like Craig treated it seriously.

Mm-hmm. But the reality is you're taking a lifetime infielder and putting him in the outfield. At age 34? In that range. 33? 34? Late mids. No, late earlys.

30s. He is 34. He will be 35 in May. Ooh, he's definitely mid now. 713. 212-5-790. And if I'm Alex Bregman, I'll tell you what I'm thinking about this when we come back,

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Who said that? Bob McIntyre. Bob Nyden, Jose left. I can't see it, but, you know, that's something he's open to and he wants to do it. And, you know, I know he's going to try to show up every single day and doesn't matter where they put him. He's going to try to. do his best for the team well Jeremy Pena I mean I think there's legs of this I do

I think Jose's like look I got my contract I'm set for life I want to keep my man here my broskey is that what he's saying I mean if we almost lost you Ross they said Matt would you go to 1 a.m. before him I'd say no

Ross get the hell out that's fine but it's different expect you to make sacrifices for anyone, Matt. Yeah, it's different. It's different for Jose Al-Tuvae. Again, if you're going to glass half full, because he's the greatest

asser of all time, he's going to give it as all, but physical limitations are going to ultimately kick in a little bit here. Father time always wins, does it not? Yeah, he does. And he's been winning the last couple of years at second base, where Jose Altova has not been great there.

If you think I'm saying a bad word about Jose Atouva, but anything will happen. Okay. You don't have to say, I can also deal in reality in the fact of the matter that he hasn't been good at second last year. So I'm going to be honest. No, no, no, you're okay with that being. I mean, I'm not, that's honest. But this is exactly what we did as a younger sportscaster when we heard, wait a minute, Jeff Kent's coming to the Astros and Craig Pishio's

going to go to center field like, well, give it a try, why not? Who's going to, it can't hurt, right? Yeah. God, Jose wants him back bad. Jose wants him back. Good for him. Good for Jose for dropping that in there. Because Paredes, we've already talked about yesterday, has never played in the outfield.

And you're not moving Jeremy Pena. You just can't. If that's your future shortstop, and that's all he's done, relatively speaking, you can't know. I wouldn't think so. I would be surprised. Very surprised. Meanwhile, Ryan Presley... How's it going? How's he doing?

Apparently, according to John Heyman, the douche, says that he does not want to go east or west. So the deuce is... What does that even mean? Why not? He's like, I don't like the Central Time Zone. Maybe he's a Midwest guy. So let's go through the possibilities.

Cincinnati? No. Cleveland? I mean, I guess. Chicago, White Sox or Cubs. Rangers. Cardinals? Royals?

Oh, twins? Go back to the twins? Now, are the Colorado Rockies too far west? No, that's Intermountain West. Sorry. Yeah, that's not West. It's, well, we say west of the Rockies. It's slight, it's on the Rockies.

Literally. That's the name of the team. If I would say what part of the country is Denver and I would say it's in the West. So sorry, that doesn't count. You lost. So Ryan's going to basically say, about seven or eight teams want to go to. Isn't it weird that somebody would ask that? Like, I'm old. Like, for instance, if you were to get a job

somewhere else, you would say there's about 15 places I would like to go and there's probably 10 or 15 and I wouldn't go. I don't think you would narrow it down to a certain sector of the country. Would you not? I mean, you could say South but to say Midwest is where you'd for it to go?

What's the longitude? Maybe he wants to hear like a lot of John Cougar-Mellencamp songs. He knows they don't get them play on the East Coast or West Coast. Maybe West Coast is too chill for him, the East Coast is too aggressive. That's actually a fair statement.

I guess. So twins are okay? You can go back to the twins? He said, according to John Heyman, it's a Midwest thing. Okay. It sounds like to me the Cubs will put together something here, don't you think?

Sounds like John Haines is making stuff up. Astros and Cubs have already. You're going to tell me the Astros have a deal to send him to the Dodgers and he would say no? I can't imagine that. Yeah. Well, apparently Toronto wanted him and he's like, not like trying to trial. I'm just going to speculate because that's what we do. I'm speculating John Haman's talking out of his ass.

And he's a douche. That's not speculation. That's true fact. I don't like to use that D word very often, but I had to do it there. You use it daily. Not on air, all there, constantly. All right. So I've asked all of you to close your eyes, as long as you're not driving, Ross.

Do you close your eyes you're not driving? Okay. Now playing left field for your Astros. Jose Al-Tubei! What's you thinking? And that one gets over Jose's head. Oh, now stop. And he misses the cutoff man by 50 feet.

No! No! No! Don't say that. Al-Tubei dies for that one. He had no chance. What was he thinking? No. Why is Jerry Seinfeld doing the play-by-play?

I can't believe what I'm saying. Jose Al-Tuve and left, what's the deal with that? So back to what I'm saying. If I'm Alex Pregman and I see this report and I hear, because obviously Jose probably could talk to Bregs, man, you do love me. I want Jose L-Tuvae's love tour. I want someone to love me as much as Jose L-Tubei loves Alex Bregman.

I think he's also tired of seeing all his good, I mean, he was bros with Correa. and Springer. Probably not Garrett Cole. No, but he's obviously can't be thrilled that Kyle Tucker's not playing right field. Michael Brantley? I mean all the hearts and souls of this team in the years past. Uncle Charlie Morton

who's still in the major leagues. Isn't that weird? They should have signed him that. The raise was like a two-year, $30 million deal or something. They should have signed. That was a hell. I think Charlie's like 49 now. Yeah. There was nothing but pus, but that's a different issue for a different time. He can still. He can still hum it. I was going to say,

crank it, but that's wrong. Yeah, putting hum and crank in the same conversation would not have been great. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Look, what am I supposed to do? If Bregman is on this team, it's better today than it was yesterday. Right?

Yes. I think so. Yeah, for the immediate. A couple of years. So you're worried about 3, 4, 5, and 6? Isn't that what Jim Crane is worried about? No, Jim Crane is not worried because the deal is there, was there, apparently, if you believe it, at 6156. Okay.

So I don't think Crane was worried about it for six years. It'd be damned to give him seven. Damn to give him $157 million. I think he gave him an extra year just because he's Alex Bregman. I don't know. We don't know. But this is, do you don't see this very much? You don't see a sport that offers the sacrifice.

that's not a sacrifice. Let's put this thing to perspective. But it is something that not a lot of different people. Like, you, I mean, Joe Mixon wouldn't say, man, we need to get a running back in here. I'm going to go play tight in for this team. Yeah, it's a different sport. Yeah, I'm just saying it's very different and not often that a player would shift position so dramatically. It happens.

Alex Rodriguez went to third for Derek Jeter. Even though he should have been the shortstop because he was the better shortstop. That's still left side of the infield. That's not that dramatic of a change. This is a way. This is Craig. This is out of left field. Oh.

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You heard me. What is wrong with you? Oh, my God. This is your telling me this isn't good. Crank this up, Connor. It's fine. I like this song by the ABC. I can tell you that.

Oh, God. By the way, one quick thing, personal before I get to the phones, I got a lot of folks I want to talk. I forgot to mention this, and we were actually talking about this all fair. I want to thank all of you that sent me nice messages on Facebook and Instagram about my daughter committing to University of Rhode Island to play volleyball. A couple ladies in the office were like,

I saw that. So thank you to everybody that said something nice. If you didn't say something nice, don't worry about it. I didn't say anything rude. You didn't say anything nice, though. Congratulations. What do you mean? It took you a week. That was a message for other people. Congratulations to Carly. She wasn't here. I would congratulate her.

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Oh, okay. Just if you're interested in that kind of thing. And that volleyball moms? They sound angry. Yeah, I would say volleyball moms can be angry, especially when their daughters don't play. For the phones we go, our buddy Aggie Doug on 7 and 8.

AD, you got Alex Spregman, maybe back with the Astros? It's just a maybe. What's you thinking? All right, let's just play this out like it's actually a serious possibility, right? Okay. This really screws up a lot of things, right?

After Christian Walker signing, you signed him for three years. Let's say that you're going to go ahead and get Bregman your six for 156. Well, then what the hell do you have Cam Smith do? You have him go play the outfield now? So, I mean, and Esoc parade is. So, I mean, if this actually is true, it would be extremely interesting because I think you have to immediately have to have Bregman go back to third base. I think that's the only reason he's coming back.

I would probably guess he would take the three-year off-to-out situation, which kind of puts us right back in the same basket that we're in this year was, oh, is Gregman going to stay or is he going to go? Or if it's a situation where, hey, you want to play one more year and, you know, until Cam Smith is ready, maybe that's a situation that we'd be interested in. But I just think that the moves that have already been made, make a whole lot of sense. get that the outfield that we have right now is not is not world series outfield but it's not a situation where Jose Altupe makes yeah Doug we're losing you there and and this time it's your

fault I guess our that sounds like a good bad connection can I go and put this down as an early gut feeling because I think we got to kind of do this now in case something really happens the weekend I this is true gut feeling on my part no inside information on this no inside information not a recorded line If Breggman and D does come back, it's not at what's not at 6156. It's more or less? I think it's a short-term deal. Yeah, he could come back on a one year.

It could be one or two years. I think the six, the Rossi, the moves that were made with life after Breggman, as the Astros maybe would have interpreted, don't dictate 6156. Because Cam Smith is a future astro. Bryce Matthews is a former, as a current, excuse me, is a future astro. You know what I'm saying? Jacob Melton is a future astro. I think that, I think committing six to breaks

kind of muddies the waters a little bit of that. I mean, I mean, look, you can maneuver anything. Guys can be traded. Guys can also not perform. You can shift and move players around. But it, this, again, I, this really, really, really, And this is just me being sports fan. You and I, Aggie Doug, Roger, Johnny, Rico at the bar.

This feels like to me, Jose went right to Jim and said, hey, Braggs is kind of feeling down on the dumps. He's not getting the type of money that he wants. We've already lost Kyle Tucker. We still need some help for this baseball team offensively. And I'm willing to do whatever it takes for us to keep the bros together. That big left field signing we were hoping for, it's Jose Altovae. Am I crazy?

It seems crazy. No, I mean, that's how I think. I think Jose went to Jim on this. Maybe. And I think Jim would say, okay, Jose, you're our greatest astra of all time. You are the... He is going to say that. Oh, okay.

And he's going to say, okay, you know we need a left fielder. And we got too many people in the infield. We've already brought Issaq Paredes here via trade. We've already signed Christian Walker. And he's like, you know, Jose's like, I'll do whatever it takes. I mean, this happens sometimes in workplaces. I'll shift positions. I'll move different departments.

If you're keeping assets around, and I think the Astros still feel that Alex Breggman's an asset. He's a freaking gold Glover. OPS, what, 750 this year? 768 or something? 768. I mean, that's quality. You don't want to lose.

That's a loss when you lose that. I think it was 118 OPS Plus. When you lose that, that's a loss. But I can't think that 6156 is still there. Yeah, 760. That's good. So, it's not great. If he was so great, he'd be signed by now.

I'm going to take myself off the stage. I'm putting you on the stage for a second. Okay. What is your, what is your really, because this could be settled by the time we get together on Monday. Yeah. What does your gut right now say that's going to happen? My gut feeling is this does not happen. At all.

That's fair too. I'll put it this way. I'd be shocked. I'd be surprised. I think it would be a cool story. I think it's great for us. When Jose Al-Tubei's name gets brought up in left field, that's not. it's a shocking position

but it's not shocking that Jose Otuva would go to drastic measures to keep his guy. It would take Alex Bregman swallowing his pride It would take the Astros being willing to spend well over the tax threshold

for the second straight year and it would take positional changes and the other teams to drop out and not get close to matching what the Astros want. All that has to happen and probably things I'm not even thinking of. But your offense is better.

Your offense is better. Defense is a complete unknown. I'm not predicting whether it's going to happen. I'm saying this is the my line of thinking about how this has happened. Is that Jose is like my man, one of my best friends

on earth, is getting nowhere close to the financial dollars he wants. Because maybe Scott Boris gave him some bad advice. So you don't take the $6.156 because you come back as a well. You went out there and kicked the tires and your value wasn't there. But if you signed a short-term deal, give you a chance to reinvest yourself, reinvent yourself, and stay with a team that loves you.

Stay with the only team that you've ever been with. Yeah, a one-year deal to hashtag run it back. That's probably what it would be. All right. Let's go to Rico in A-Leaf at 1042 on the Matt Thomas show. Rico, thank you for holding good morning. morning. Man, I love the show, bro. First time, a long time, man. How good been going? Man, it is our pleasure, Rico, having you on the show. What's going on? By the way, A leave for

Life, Boone Elementary, Class of 1981, I think. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, I'm from that Hasting from 92, 93. All right. So we're good. We're good. Hey, but, man, hear me out, first of all, man. Like, first hear me out, and then, you know what I'm saying? We can clean in. My thing. My thing. What if, you know, we sign Bredeman, get rid of Pena, you know, trade him, and then how about we trade Averis and get three outfielders? What's your thought on that? Rico, are you sniffing paint right now? I'm not a big fan of Pena and Alvarez, man.

That's why. Like, they're weak, man. I don't like weak players, you know what I mean? Who's weak? Your not Alvarez? Yon Alvarez is weak? What? He's weak, man.

What's weak, I'd like you to say that to his face. What's weak about him? He could crush you like a grape, Rico. I don't care if you're man, if you're built to granite. You crush you. He's always hurt. He slides and gets hurt. Come on, man.

Who does that? I play baseball him a whole life. And that has never happened to me, brother. Come on, man. Rico dropped the plate car. Love you, Rico, but your take is horrific. We do love you. though. Wow.

That's, that's, he wanted, what do you want to trade Pena and Alvarez? For three outfielders. For three outfielders. For three outfielders. Man, I was bragging on A-Leaf, too. That's your A-Leaf. That's your Peece. That's, you, you just downgraded A-Leaf. Those folks in A-Leaf been trying to repair their image for decades. Yordaun Alvarez, career batting average of 298,

career OPS of 973. Mm-mm. No, thank you. 713, 21, 2, 2, 5. 790. 713. Should the Astros trade, Yonan-Alvarez, for three outfielders? Oh, no, don't even put that out there. It is anything that goes Friday.

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Do you cut a rock to this song, Connor? Oh, this was the jam on the radio in, like, middle school for me. It makes sense. It's called Still Into You. Yeah, this song absolutely blows. Whoa. Anything goes Friday. You know what?

Seventh-grade, Connor McGovern was getting the girls of this song. I know you were. Paramour was the band back in the day. What is it called? Paramore. Yeah, the kids like the Paramore. Makes me paranoid. All right.

My philosophy, my take on this, is totally not knowing the inside is that this is Jose trying to put together a last second ditch effort to get his guy to stay in town. Maybe Scott Boris is saying, hey, if the Astros are willing to do this, and by the way, let's

float that 6156 still out there. Come get your boy. But man, it is the trade wins have died down. Not trade wins. They're not trade wins. They're... And it's okay. Free agent wins. It works.

The summer wins. All right. I won't do that. And that's Sinatra, though. Yeah, I know. We love Sinatra on the show. Well, we're talking about Alex Breggman. Okay.

And paranoid. Sarah Moore. Per-or. Whatever. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Are we really okay with a massive overhaul? Peretti's at second.

Al-Tuvain left. Bragman at third. Better line. of the thought of Joseo Tuve, give or take about 100 games in left field. It's not happening. You think this is just, you think this is agent slash player driven to get some headlines out there? That's what I'm trying to think of. Because as you know, Matt, anytime something like this leaks out, you have to say who benefits from this, what side did it come out?

I can't really necessarily make heads or tails of that, but it's, I don't know. It's just, I will just say on its face, it just seems. seems too wacky. It's too wacky. Too many things have to come together. But if you are able to acquire assets in a company or a sports team, don't you just, and it's still, you still consider this asset to be a prime asset. And Alex Bregman is still a prime asset.

I don't think anybody is debating that at this point. For 2025. Don't you just, quote unquote, figure it out? I just. Who's your favorite national radio? host. Do you even have one? No. Okay, well then, Dan Patrick.

Okay, let's say Dan Patrick called our bosses and said, hey, I want to do a Houston-centric show for two hours a day. Okay. We at Iheart would figure a way to make that happen. We would say, we're going to move this show around here, this show, you fit, you know, you kind of move the pieces around. Mr. analogy, I don't. I don't think that's a terrible analogy, actually.

Okay. I just don't know that there is a necessarily analogy because of baseball and the positions that are played, it's completely different. Unless you may, I don't know. I just don't want what I don't want. How about basketball? We were worried about Chris Paul being here and James Hardin and who's going to dominate the ball. Yeah, what did Mike Dan Tony said? I got two point guards.

And at one time, they'll start the game together and then one will go take a rest. Then the other one will be the point guard. And then the other one will be the point guard. He figured it out. Just different from every other sport. And I can't make a cricket analogy. No, I just don't want, I don't want Jose. to be a defensive liability out and left.

He will be. He's a defensive liability at second right now. He is. I'm sorry. Oh, God. I can't say it. I just can't. Can't pull that trigger.

I'm sorry. That's a flaw in my part. Eric in Bay City, we'll get to you in just a second. Let's go to Roger, Northwest Side of the Matt Thomas show. Robert, good morning. It's Roger. Whatever.

Yeah, whatever. So, the old positioning to be going to the left field that doesn't even make sense what's backward's natural position shortstop right yeah when he was younger

he probably wouldn't go to shortstop at 31 well making Jose Artoube go to left field at 35 makes even less sense than that so why not put pain in left field which is above average arm, his above average speed

and his, you know, all his tools bring him out there. I know he's a shortstop in the future, but let's just make it the future, the future, and let them play their field now. And who's to say he kept playing with a shortstop when the need arrives?

That way, you've got all your plus players and your plus abilities where they need to be, you know, to put the best product on the field. That would be the most logical thing. Now, I don't know why. Jeremy Pena is not moving from shortstop. He's a much better shortstop.

I would be surprised. I would just say I'll be really surprised because Jeremy Pena is a premium shortstop. And Alex Bregman, at this point of his career, we don't even know what he hadn't played really shortstop since his first couple of years in the league. And he's 31 years old now. And he doesn't have the range that he did younger in his career.

And they're probably thinking, if anybody's willing to make the move, why would you take away a plus defensive position to make yourself weaker at two different spots? Or at least, you know, going off of the metrics that Ross has given you, right now, Jose Altoube is a below-average second basement defensively. So you're taking one below-average position player and taking him to another player. Is that like you're losing a gold glove at second base?

But he's going to be a horrible defensive liability. You know, I just, and plus an injury liability at that. So I'm just saying I don't see how he's going to go to left field. Well, I think if you're going to put, if you're going to make the transformation, probably left field is your easiest because 80 games of yours is at a very short porch left field. Yes. Then you have a plus center fielder in Jake Myers. Yes. Who's going to cover some more ground than the average center fielder is going to cover.

I don't love it, but if you wanted to talk me into it, we're spending some time talking about it today. It's easier to the tradeoff from. Altuvae from second to left isn't going to be as much as losing Jeremy Pena at shortstop and putting him in left, which is a much less – I mean, shortstop is the premium defensive position along with center field. Well, would you say adding another outfielder, like a pro far or something in that caliber would probably do – Profar signed yesterday. Oh, okay. Well, somebody. Somebody. I just – I just don't see – we don't have the – even though we put all these pieces in play. like the way you said with El Tuve and left field and you'd make a Bregman stage,

you still don't have the firepower. You still need something else in the outfields because the outfields are going to be a train wreck. You know, you don't have the guys. Myers can't hit and Myers can't hit it more. But Altoouva makes your outfielder

from an OPS standpoint significantly better. It just does because you're moving in from, but that's not the reason why you do it. And thank you for the phone call. appreciate it. I just, this is either Al Tuve, making a last ditch effort to make this happen, or this is agent-driven to get people to get off the pot and actually commit Bregman to a deal. Because you could say, man, if Bregman signs, let's say he signs with the Cubs. Man, I want to thank Jose Al-Tuvi. He was willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for me.

And I love that guy. You know that quote would be coming if he winds up going somewhere else. Because this is Jose freaking Al-Tuve. This is the guy that is paroled second. second base since the Astros since 2011. It's been his spot. The Astros have basically taken anybody in the draft or anybody in their model league system and said, you're not playing second base. Go play somewhere else. Go play different position.

Our second base spot is there for life and it's Jose Altovae. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, he says, you know what? Braggman doesn't have a deal. I'm going to go play left field. In my age 35 seasons? Yeah, I mean, be wild. That's why I just don't think it's happening.

I just don't. All right. More from Johnny and Eric to start the second hour of the show. We have found an Ultimate 70s crooner song to honor Alex Breggman. We have? Yes. Okay. By the way, is this show an entire show on Alex Breggman update? I think so. We haven't played the sounder yet.

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Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. And the one-two. Swing and a three-pointer from way downtown. It's good. Two strikes, pregnant, Popsie. Waggles the bat. Here's the pitch.

And he pokes this one. Left field. Deep and gone. Long set, now the one two. And Bregman lines this one. Deep to left field, back is Rooker. Looking up, see you later. Alex Bregman, his third homer in the last two days.

One-nothing Astros. Don't let the kid get hot. The 1-0. Bragman belts it. Deep to left field. And this game is over. Astros win at 7 to 6. best comeback in the year

Astros down 5-0 at one point Bregman with the bat lift that landed in our booth I can smell the pine tar Can't live without you, Ross Can't live without you, Ross. Can't live without Breggman. I guess we can. I appreciate that. I mean, I don't want you going anywhere. We've been together for a long time. Fifteen years. We're like an old married couple. And going strong. Man, we are, we are feeling good, baby. 11.06 on Sports Talks

790. By the way, on a very sad note I forget the phones I hear this commercial I hear this song I want to go by a Swifter which is just terrible Oh okay

Swiffer Yeah Swiffer I don't even know what it is Sing it real quick This is a jam This is a jam I'm with you Thank you

This is one of your easy listening jams Even Connor and his girl Are dancing romantic Of his song Yeah She breaks up with him He's gonna play this on a loud speaker Outside of her window

He's outside her door in her apartment, knocking on it. She's calling the police. Yeah. But I just can't live without you, Connors girl. Girl name X. Yeah. He can tell, he can say anything he wants to. That's up to him.

No official announcement. So Swiffert does the commercials with this song. Okay. And then Downey Rins and Refresh is taking the Bonnie Tyler song from us. Yes. It gets stuck in my head every day. Now, if you don't know what Downey rinse and refresh is. I just listen to one of our spot breaks.

We play at about nine times a day. They're huge. I didn't realize Downey was such a big sponsor of the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. Huge. They love it. They do love it. We're all about fabric softners on the show. So this is just terrible.

I wish bands wouldn't give up their songs like this, but it's happening all the time. And they're getting paid a lot money for it. Good for them. So you come up with a couple of hits, get it used in a couple commercials. Go to a casino and play it over and over again. You're good. You're doing great. So, Matt respect to those amazing artists of the last 60 years that don't use their songs towards commercials. Like, staying alive.

Is with John Travolta on a Rapid All Run commercial? Yes, it is. When he's Mantamaz. And big two. It's fine. He's a lot of work done. A lot of work done. Wishing him the best. You couldn't have had a better 10-year run than he had. between Welcome Back Cotter to Greece to Saturday Night Fever.

I mean, and then he went away for 20 years. Urban Cowboy, if you will. Urban Cowboy, yeah, good call on that one. And then he had his comeback with Pulp Fiction. Before that, he was with Kirstie Allen in that movie. Look who's talking? No, that was Bruce Willis. Wait, who's talking?

Maybe it is Luke who's talking. Bruce Wilson was the baby, but he was in the movie, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. John DeVolta got his comeback with Look Who's Talking. Was he in that? Yeah. Yeah, you're right. John Tervolta once.

A little known tribute before he married Kelly Preston way back in the day, who was unfortunately has passed. He also dated a woman. He was about 25 years older than she was. Really? Yeah. He's like 22. She's like 47.

She passed. A little in fact, he's also very good at playing the sitar. Yeah. He also wears a lot of drag. Not that we're judging. Allegedly. No, I know he's in a lot of drag movies. Okay.

I don't know if he can play the sitar. I'm sorry. Oh, okay. 713, 2, 1, 2, 2, 5790, 713-212-5-790. Our main topic today has been that the Alex Breggman rumors have taken a new level, right? I mean, these are fresh ones. I love this. This is late January sports radio. Oh, I'm happy about it.

Two hours can Alex? Can we cut and discuss the Texas lineback to court? Can we figure out what offensive linemen doing first rounds? Cust and discuss that. No, hell no. That's boring-ass talk. Jose L-2-Bay playing left field. I'm not even, I'm serious.

This is great too. That's awesome. Better than the other crap that could have been out there. I did not. Let's break down Jacksonville's head coaching hire. When I woke up a couple days ago, I didn't know I'd be discussing the L.A.L.2's left field prowess. This is great. By the way.

Thank you, Bob Nightingale. Congratulations or maybe not. He gave us a topic at least. Yes, he did. Congratulations to Pete Carroll, the new coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. at the ripe age of, what is he, like 70? Well, Las Vegas is a nice retirement community. Does he get a Dell Web as part of this or what?

A what? Del Webb, isn't it a property that older people live in, Dell Web? I don't know. I think it is. Okay. I'll take your word for it. Somebody back me up on the Dell Web. I think I'm right about that.

And then one other thing that we tease, the close the first hour, the Texans have... It's a 55 plus active adult communities. Yeah, perfect for Pete Carroll. Yeah, he's active. He looks younger than 73. Is he 73? I didn't know how he was. He's 73 years old.

So he's in it for three years? They said, this is our coach of the future. The 73-year-old Pete Carroll. That is absolutely crazy. Usher in the new era of Raiders football. This is why you, this is all the consulting that Tom Brady did, and this is the best he could come up with. So Al Davis's son owns the team. Mark, Mark.

Tom Brady owns a sliver of the team. 5% I think. And he is making all the calls. That's what I'm telling you, Rossi. If Mark Davis opens up a bigger piece of the pie to this and Tom Brady can find the money for it, he's going to do this. And then Fox is going to tell him,

bro, we can't have you own more than 5%. Tom Brady's Asian disagrees with you. I know, but I'm still holding on to the fact that he's not going to finish that contract. We'll revisit in 10-year. The 25-year anniversary of the show will revisit. You know what we're doing for 25 years? We're doing the show in Australia.

We're doing the show from Adele Webb. That's probably true. Will you push my walker? No, push my walker. I'm about to crush you in Majong today, the Dell Web. Dude, I can shuffleboard your ass real quick. I will pinnuckle your ass to death, baby. Come with the king, you best not miss.

We're going to play a best of three. Backgammon, spades, and shuffleboard. Put some dominoes in there, and I got a shot. All right. Real fast, Texans need a new president. This is the business side of things. I don't know if you guys know who Greg Grissom is. No.

I don't really know him very well. Nice enough guy. But usually when teams get rid of presidents, they're not making enough money, which isn't the case of the Texans. They're making money hand over a fist. They need some heavy firepower to go get a new stadium. This is for me, in my mind, 100% about the Texans wanting a new stadium. Now, the question is going to be, will the city of Houston say, shut your ball mass up? We'll fix up NRG for you and you like it.

will this be all right you want to build a new stadium you can right you can get the check for it we'll give you some land and maybe a tax break here and there but you're going to write it you're going to pay for it or are they going to basically said we've already built you one city and energy is fine be done with it i don't think energy is fine it's nice for people to go to game on the texans on sundays but ross they're going to they're out of the super bowl competition they will never host any sort of uh olympics or uh college football playoff or anything i mean all that stuff's gone these these new majestic facilities are opening up left and right around football and as crazy as it sounds what is reliant 22 year energy 22 years old that's the current shelf life of NFL stadiums which is absurd where they're going to put it if i was a betting man i would say they're going to get out of the nrg area the whatever what they call it medical center area i hood i believe Hood would be more appropriate. I think they're either going to go to Edo.

If there's a spot over there. There's spots. But my sneaky suspicion is they're going to try to go west. Katie? Close. I think they want to build a Jerry World type, the star type, monstrosity. And they need a lot of land. in and around it so they can create their own little city.

We saw the Atlanta Braves do it. We saw Jerry do it in Arlington. You got to find a city that's going to give them the land super, super cheap. And maybe all it takes is one suburb. Why don't it be Katie? Okay. That's just a, not it's not a time of a gut feeling. That's just what I'm thinking they're thinking.

Okay. But I think they're thinking, first of all, the rodeo wants out of energy. I mean, they're not hiding that. They do? Yeah. They want their own palace. Why? Because they want to build

control it more than the 15, 20 days they have a year. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Plus, the Astrodome just sits there. That's just wasted space. That's money being made. It's going to be a multi-billionaire.

Oh, my God. Stop. Marketplace for retail. Plus, it's one of the worst parts of town. Sorry. I don't mean you get mad and most of you live over there. You're a hater. I'm a realist.

There's nothing wrong with the OST. South Maine. What up? Yeah. The boys on Kirby. Stella Link? Yeah. Very nice.

Murworth. Holly Hall. You're naming them all. My dad leaves you love on Holly Hall. It was CD 25 years ago. Name pretty now. They want out of that area. We'll take a time out.

You know, I'm put my name on it. The next Texans facility will not be where it is today. There's no land for that. Or they'd have to implode it. What if they just want to do a facelift? They could do a facelift and move the team over to TDCU for a year. Or two years. They need a real stadium.

It is a real stadium. It's a majestic palace. 713-212-5-790. The Matt Thomas Show with Ross continues on Sports Talk 790. This is quiet star. Sports Talk 790 Bregman, baby Come on back

Boy, LTV says Get back to H, baby I'll even let you throw your H's up I'll play laugh for you And seriously, we could do quite a radio station We can mix Quiet Star music Yes, Connor's dancing

It's radio Well, people can look at the video screen We'll have a live YouTube channel your lyrics Okay I'm trying to glad you tried to give me something My sultry voice

You're gonna be two stepping A night at the company Shindig Connor I'm gonna oh that's right You guys go on the night I know you're not going Yeah

You never show up to anything That's fine I'll go I'll bet the casino Good luck Cleveland's taking me For a lot of money over the years Remember you hit

Hit your threes against a two 13s against a two Yes Or 12 against a two No, it's 12 against a 2 and 13 against a 2. I know. You said people are getting mad at you. They were getting mad at the 13s.

Show them the card. If the dealer shows 3s, you don't hit anything. Yeah. 13 against 2, 12 against 2. LFG. Mm-hmm. You and I have argued about a lot of things in life. We do share the same sentiment about Blackjack.

We are kindred souls on a few things. Blackjack is one of them. Absolutely. And that's why I can't let you go. Thank you, Matt. Let's go to Eric in Bay City at 1122 on 7.00. Eric, good morning. Hey, guys, two things this morning.

One is from y'all's show a couple days ago. Y'all were talking about Lance Berkman and not getting a 5% his first year. That does surprise me because he won a World Series in St. Louis. He played in playoff games for the Yankees. He had a 317 batting average and a 969 OPS in 170 postseason at bat. Wow. I mean, the guy had incredible numbers. I think he'll be a veterans committee selection at some point.

There have been people with war stats that have gotten more votes than Burtman. I never thought Bergman was going to get in the Hall of Fame, but I will agree with you. There should have been a higher percentage. I would have thought he would have stayed on for more than one year. The big reason I called this morning, guys, is I'm now on the train to trade Jose Altuve. If he's going to stir up messes like this, Alex Bregman. doesn't have one dollar offered to him by any other team publicly at this point because nobody wants him. I told you all this the other day. And I'm very disappointed that Jose Altuve would join Joe Espada

in this public plea to bring this guy back. If we sign him for six years, it's going to be the worst signing in Astros history. Matt, I hope your gut feeling is right that it's a one-year deal if he's coming back at all. I could do it for one year. But for six years, that's a horrible, horrible contract. Thank you very much. It is absolutely 100% accurate. I wouldn't trade Al-Tuba, though. At Tuba's my guy.

This is just, but I do, see, here's the thing. You should not under any circumstance be surprised that Al-Tube wants him back. I do believe there are some people that are interested in Alex Pregman.

just because he hasn't gotten the offer he wants us I mean he hasn't been offered something so I do believe this is going to probably push it along a little bit but not that I don't think if you're if you're the Cubs or you're anybody else that you go from oh well we're only going to offer you 513 to oh oh the aster's want to keep you so we're going to go to 8195 I don't think baseball I don't think baseball sports teams work that way yeah I wonder Ariel Alexander says that there has been at least of KPRC, local too, that there has been at least three teams to offer Bregman a deal of five years or longer,

including the Astros. Astros is one of those three. So two other teams have been in talks with Bregman. And I think it was Bob Nightingale or somebody that said that two teams still have offers on the table for Bregman and have been negotiating. So it's only a couple. Cubs Reds Sounds like the Yankees

are done There's been a report Even after the Santander signing That the Blue Jays still have money I wonder How much they want

Are they're willing to offer And how much Literally The tax implications Of that are Apparently The taxes in Toronto Are insane

Or in Canada Plus I told you It's a pain The ass to go to Hatterners Yeah But that's That if you're making

Good money I mean George Springer knew That was When he signed With the Blue Jays I mean They can get past

Some Some stuff there's just not an offer that Bregman liked. And I don't know if this is Altova driven exclusively or this is Scott Boros calling Jose and saying,

what do you think about doing this? We want to call your old team. Do you want to call your boss? Because I feel like Scott Boris is the guy that was a go-around guy. You ain't going to mess with Dana Brown. Probably not. And if you're Jose Altoouving,

you're the greatest of Astro of all time. Are you going around Dana Brown? Probably kind of Al-Tube, also a Boris client. I say this in Ross, there's inner workings of this that are a lot deeper than just Jose Al Tuve volunteering of services. I think there is layers to this. Whether it's Altuve saying, Astros, get off your ass and let's get this guy signed here. Or it's Bregman calls Altuva and says, man, I'm not getting any push.

Well, then he's like, well, then you just need to stay here. I would be surprised. I still would be surprised if it's going to happen. for Bregman to to throw away to turn down the five year 156 or 6156 and then come back on a one year deal

that'd be crazy is there any party that goes it would be embarrassing for Bregman to take that yes because if you take a shorter deal then it doesn't come across as but you could just sell it I wanted to run it back with the Astros one more time

let's go let's ride it isn't the the time isn't perfect. I don't know. You can spin it in a variety of ways. And at the end of the day, if he wants to spin it any way he wants it, we don't care.

If Bruegman comes back, again, here's the number one thing. If you're thinking about 2025 exclusively, don't think about 2029. Don't think about 2030. Alex Brangman in 2025 makes us a better baseball team than it currently is as we speak.

Maybe that would be ideal for the Astros and Jim Crane to do a one-year deal. that's my thought you're not going to get you're not worse because you bring breaking back for 2020 no you're better yeah even if it's alt-toe and left

can I can we try to soft sell you on this a little harder yeah your voice do that again because your voice takes a deep drop and it gets a lot softer really quickly yeah they'd be better even if El Tudet was in there

yeah you can't shake that even if Al-Tubei was doing a great job in left field that's much better That's much better. 1129 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas showed raw. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790.

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She died recently, right? I didn't make it rhetorical. It's either yes or no. She died recently. How confident? You're going to do a lifeline? I'm sticking with my initial assessor. She died recently.

July 26, 2002 3. May she rest. May she rest? I thought it was more recently than that, but 34, so I put her at 57. 56. Okay, 56.

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where she basically had to take her's off the stage or something like that? Yeah, she ripped up a picture of the Pope. Pope. Yeah. That's usually going to be up. Well, it was in reference to, I think, the cover-ups of all the molestation. So I think she was on the right side of history on that one.

By the way, next month, a big super special for Saturday Night Live, 50-year special. Oh my gosh. That's great. I mean, look, it gets ripped on a lot. Because it sucks and has for years. But I think people of them saying it sucks for years

has been saying it sucks for years for 25 years. I wouldn't watch an entire 90-minute episode, but I go look at the YouTube's on the weekend, and there's one or two funny segments every week. It's fine. Yeah, I would say it's fine. But you know what? For broadcast television, fine gets it done these days.

I guess. They must not be paying those people very much money. Oh, are you kidding me? 50. It's going to be an epically good show. I'm still mad that you beat me in Best Saturday Night. Saturday night live cast members of all time. You took Keenan Thompson and won.

That's a travesty. Keenan Thompson has been on that show, I think as long as the show's been on. Yeah, because he's got no movie or TV career. If you're a real big star and you're good, you move on. His career peaked with a good burger when he was like 16. And carved out a nice career. By the way, a friend of ours shall remain nameless. Okay.

Ran into him in a London nightclub. Okay. and said he was an absolute awesome human being. I'm sure he's very nice. He's not one of the greatest cast members of all time on SNL. Great versatility. Owee, what up with that? Somebody voted for me.

I think maybe two people voted for you because of Keenan Thompson. I just made myself angry all over again. What a travesty of a voting panel that was. Anything goes Friday. Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Sports Talk 790. Johnny calling us from San Diego again, man. Johnny, I'm sorry that you don't have great sports talk in San Diego.

We appreciate you coming to the Houston, Texas. iHeard radio app to find us thank you friend what's going on oh not much born and raised in houston so i i still stream you guys on i heart radio but i've been listening to you and ross and i want to say summer of 2010 was the first time i think of cross you guys let's go johnny yeah yeah uh so i appreciate y'all being part of the family speaking of family uh please convey my heartfelt congratulations to carly thank you sorry it's belated but i i miss the uh the uh the uh the announcement special on ESPNU. You know what?

I didn't get the invite. So she, you know what I said? I said, John, I told her, I said, Cardi, why don't you come on my radio show and announce it?

And she goes, no, no and no. So obviously she's not, she's not like her father. I don't know. She might have if she would have went on with the A team whenever they were simulcasting.

Oh my God. They don't even work much. What day could she, she couldn't even pick a show to work because they're never on? The third Tuesday of next month. There you go. Excellent. What you got on Al-Tube?

So, all right, first off, my favorite, my favorite astro of all time. I think Bagwell and then Biggio would be like my one, two, three. I love the dude ever since I got a chance to meet him in 2012. So I don't want anybody to think I'm hating on him whenever I say that him in left field is an awful idea. He's probably just saying, hey, I'm willing to do whatever, even including going and playing left field. field. It must be a Mandela effect thing because whenever we were talking about Parades coming in, I thought that there was talk that he had some outfield experience, but I guess that's wrong. But if that is wrong, and we're looking at shifting one of the two of them to play primarily left field,

why wouldn't we give the younger, faster guy the opportunity to do that instead of uprooting Altuve from his spot that he's been playing for, you know, since 2011, right? That's why Ross is, and I don't want to put words in your mouth here, but that's why you're leaning towards this is a bit. Not it's a bit. It's probably something that, yeah, as the caller Johnny says, that something Al Tuve, I don't, I do believe that he said, hey, I'll go to left field if we need to make it happen.

That doesn't mean it's going to happen. So do you think it will, here's the thing, guys, was it flippant? Or was Jose being serious saying, No, Jose's been serious. I think Jose was serious. If he really threw the idea out, I don't think he's being flipping about it. He's like, I want to do whatever it takes to keep as much of the core here.

I've lost a lot of my core. I've lost Springer. I've lost Korea. I've lost Kyle Tucker. I want my guys. I want my good lineup. Alex Breggman, here's the thing that is indefensible. Alex Breggman baked, even not, maybe not until June 1st,

but Alex Breggen makes his astronaut better today than it did a year ago. With Christian Walker, you get a second. significantly better first baseman. Paredes is going to crush at Minute Maid Park. Other places I don't know. But you're going to have a better hit because Kyle Tucker, I don't even count last year because Kyle Tucker was gone

for three months. Well, he was great when he was here. He was great when he was here, but he's not here. Except in the playoffs. Except in the playoffs. I do think that he is willing to do whatever he can to get Bregman back in the fold. He's been that vocal since before the season was even over

that he's willing to do whatever. I honestly think we need to do what we can to get him in. I don't think that he's going to get more from us after all of this time. The same deal allegedly is still on the table that he was offered from the beginning. So if anything, I think, hey, the deal is still here. You want to do it? Let's do it. They figure out some sort of rotation to get the guy that they got in the Tucker trade playing time

because that would be wasteful otherwise, but still get Altuvae. and Bregman and Alvarez in the bat. But I have now run out of reasons to push back my meeting, so I'm going to let you guys go. Thank you, John. Thank you very much. By the way, I want to shout out real fast, the IHeart Radio app again.

We have a great friend of ours. I met this past weekend in Portland, who lives in Seattle. Yes. We have our buddy in San Diego. We have Sal and lives in Orlando. We need the Northeast Quadron taken care of, and then we're all set.

Okay. We're a national radio show, with a nice local flair. We're local nationally. Exactly. We're nationally local. I don't want to do a national show. I can tell you that for sure.

I'd take the check. You'd be surprised how little of the check is. You get a lot more of topics. Do you really want to get in a deep dive of Washington, Philadelphia, for an hour and a half? Yeah, why not? I mean, I guess you could. This is more interesting to me, that I'm me. This fantasy that L2A is going to left field?

I mean, it beats a breakdown of, you know, are we sick? and tired of the Chiefs going to the AMC Super Bowl every year. I would be shocked if this would happen. I don't doubt that Altuvae said, I'll do whatever it takes. If I need to go to left field, put me in, coach. But I'm doubting that the organization is taking that seriously and willing to pay Alex Bregman unless he's willing to come back on a very short-term deal. I'm more and more as the show moves along.

I'm more and more convinced it's a short-term deal. because you would then really Has Alex moved all his stuff? He sold his house? I don't know. What's going on there? Usually we've got a real estate expert joining us in the show. That's true.

I know Alex works out in Phoenix in the offseason. Oh, okay. And it's also doing quite well. It is? Yeah. They rebranded. Well, you don't normally rebrand if you're doing that great. Yeah, but I mean, Bregman doesn't sell well in Des Moines.

What's name of the salsa? Del Sol? Casa del Sol. It's De La Sol. De La Sol. Sol. Yeah. De La Garza, De La Cruz.

Wild Soul. Wild Soul. Wild soul. Salza. That speaks to your soul. Tequila. No, it's not tequila. It's just soul.

Wild soul. And barbecue sauce. Sosa that puts hair in your chest. Oh, they got a 15% off coupon on their website. Let's go. I'm good. He was. He always made a case of salsa.

And why? Because he's telling me he's going to take care of it. I wouldn't have volunteered. Why don't you text him? I thought you guys are broskeys. We are broskeys, but I don't want to do it right now. I'm going to text him when ultimately his decision is made. They have a recipe for wild salt mango habanero bread pudding.

I used to be a huge bread pudding guy. Now it's just too much. Oh my God. What? What's not to like about bread pudding? But if the bread is over, if it's just too chunky and clunky, it's, it gets in the way. Get to the way of what? My flavor.

You eat it. It's, I would, if you're going to go favorite puddings. What do you mean like people putting pecans in it or something? No, just, it's just too much. It's just bread with sugar. I mean, it's just a double dose of. Yeah. Welcome to sugar cookies.

Welcome to vanilla cake. I mean, this. Would you either have bread pudding or a cake? I mean, it depends. If I'm in New Orleans, it's bread pudding. I don't have a bignet over a bread pudding. Oh, okay. So you can get your whole chest covered in powdered sugar?

Mm-hmm. Yes, sir. You eat like a rabid dog. 1144, sports talk 790. That feels rude. Let's talk about game day men's health. Let's get our energy going. Let's feel better about ourselves.

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More Matt Thomas show with Ross. Now on Sports Talk 790. Now we're careless whispering. By the way, you all can send me as many funny clips as Irant Live as you want. Again, not a full 90-minute show, but Tom and Downtown, our buddy, just sent me a clip of Meet Your Second Wife.

Hysterical skit. There's also a skit called What's My Name? That's really funny. Bill Hater was the host of that. Plus Celebrity Jeopardy was a goat, classic church lady, Wayne's World. I mean, there was enough stuff

that you could put a 50-year anniversary together. Yeah, in 50 years. Didn't they do 40 recently? Which one did they? Was it at 45? Eddie Murphy came back? Yeah. Dave Chappelle was on last week.

Oh, how was that? I didn't see it. Oh. I thought you recorded it every week. No, I don't know. I just used the clips. You used to? I used to until I got typically really bad.

But the Colin Jost weekend update where him and Michael Chee give each other three jokes at the end of the year where they don't read him ahead of time. Yeah, they do that once a year. They do it twice now. They did it over Christmas. That's smart now.

And then Michael Chey gave Colin Yose. some stuff that involved his wife, and it got awkward really quick. And it was very funny. I like awkward situations that make people laugh. Kind of the show in many regards. It can't get awkward. We're going to wake the strippers up. Speaking of it, getting awkward, we're going to wake the strippers up in about eight minutes.

Wake the strippers up. News at noon. Friday montage. Oh, absolutely. Oh, yeah, let's go. Gordy's coming at 1 o'clock. Who? Chris Gordy.

He is? I'm headed to Cleveland. Oh, that's right. Rockets and Cavalaires. You gotta leave the show because, you know. Because what? You're just a part-timer here, that's fine. I almost went to hurricane coverage, or a hurricane.

Snow coverage. But you didn't. No, they didn't need me. Yeah, it was fine. The weather god said, you know what, Matt, we want to save your tones for later. It was crazy. There was three inches of snow in Houston earlier this week. It was fun.

You know what? And by the way, A-plus, behavior. You know what we were doing, like, shut your bum ass up. I don't have time for that? We need to applaud the city of Houston. You all behaved yourselves. We didn't have terrible. We had a few wrecks, but nothing crazy.

That's good. Because a lot of times people don't listen to warnings. Like, don't go outside. And then they go. And they go. Some people did do that. Yeah, but I mean, they went to Miller Park where every TV station was there doing live coverage.

That's fine. All right, to the phones we go. Let's talk to Greg in Livingston on 790, 1153. Greg, good morning to you. Thank you for holding. Good morning, no problem. I was just a reminder. Vigio moved from second base to

center field he did what he moved from second base and played center field for Jeff Kent no chance that's not you're making stuff out uh look it up all right I just want to remind you all that okay look it up okay two years for Jeff Kent wow huh yes things you learn on the show thank you Matt don't be rude more bye bye we mentioned earlier in the show Greg. Matt's trolling you. I'm sorry. I would not troll him. I would like to apologize for Matt being so rude. It was something mentioned earlier in the show, Greg, and obviously you weren't listening, but we did talk about it. And thank you, Greg, for listening. To the full four hours. Or the time that you're listening to us now. He might have missed

the first hour. Give Greg a break. He's very busy. You don't, that's the thing is you can't miss any part of this show. Or you'll find out the correct, that we did know that the... I'm only here half the show, and I'm sitting next to you. I know. I've noticed that, yeah. Yes, in 2004, I'm sorry, 2003, 150 games in center field. Woo!

At age 37. And it was amorable, but painful. Do you know what Jeff Kent said? Don't care. I don't care. Cut the check. Cut the check. Did you say he was rude?

in the locker room once? He was rude to everybody. And you know what? I watched Jeff Kent during the college world series because his son played for A&M. Yeah. He was an He was exactly what I thought

Jeff Kent would be as a dad. What? Oh, he just, when his son got picked off and he just gave him a little Keep Your Head in the game, point to the head. Bring a home run. Well, he should.

Great job. You're not as good as I am, son. He didn't say that. And well, he never made it into the Hall of Fame. So. because he's an a hole last year the ballot Kent got the most

23 he got 46.5% What were his Do you have his career numbers in front of him? Yeah I do a home Let me pull it up What do you want Five time all-star

Good MVP One time right One time How many career home runs Four time Time Silver Slugger 377 All a very good

8555 P.S. at second base. No gold gloves? Fault with Barry Bonds. I give him bonus points for that. I thought he had a gold glove or two, but I guess not. That's zero. All of Very Good. The Hall of Very Good, we could have a really good time. Like if the Hall of Fame is in Cooperstown, where would the Hall of Very Good be?

Omaha. That's where the college games played. Pueblo, Colorado? I don't know. It's weird that it's in Cooperstown in the first place. How about St. Louis? Why do they deserve it? That's centrally located. Maybe, you know what, Ryan Presley would go there?

He likes the Midwest. If you've not heard, Ryan Presley, apparently according to John Hammond does not want to go to the coast. There's certain longitudes. He will not pass. I think Presley, and again, I know Nightingale said it was imminent yesterday. Nightingale's a little goofy, but he'd be flat out 100% wrong. on this. And I don't think he isn't a business of being

100% wrong. I don't think he is. So my guess is Presley gets moved at some point. Although he said, Cubs on the verge of acquiring Ryan Presley, that was at 4.34 p.m. yesterday. And that was what 5? How long are they on the verge? And what is imminent? Emins within the next 8 hours, right? I would say imminent, it's

like within a couple hours. So 17 is not accurate. Dean in Hondo. Or is it Ando? You do pronounce the age, I believe. Hi, Dean. No. Hey, yes, Hondo. I have talked to you all in the past, originally from the Houston area, was in Brenham, now I'm in Honda.

First of all, congrats to your daughter, Matt. Thank you. I appreciate that. My daughter played college softball, and one of her best friends went up to Rhode Island and pitched up there, and we went there for a game. It's beautiful. It's an awesome place. It's far, but it's awesome.

I know, it's too far. Like I said, I mean, we may have to get a 790 bureau up in at least a Providence metropolitan area. I'm trying to get an, I'm trying to see if I can run an apartment or something for, like, when my wife goes up there, but it's like $5,000 a month, and I'm not making Ross money, so I can't do that. What's your thought on L2B? Well, first of all, you're talking about going, I know you got to get off, but you got Honda, Texas lockdown. So use that on your next contract. Yes, we're a Honda sports leader.

Thank you, Dean. That's cool. I love that. We're crushing it in Hondos, San Diego, Seattle. Houston, we're very mid, but everywhere else were going very well. That's nice to hear, yes. Okay, so if anything goes Friday, so keep your mind open, Ross and Matt. Here's what we've got, okay?

You're going to have to absorb this. We got McCullors in left field. Rocket arm. Nobody's going to run them, and he's going to hit as good as Jake and Chas. Hey, come on. He's not going to have to throw much. he's going to be in the lineup for about the first two months, and then you get out to Vey back out there.

So something to think about. No, no, we're losing. That's what Honda is bringing us? The quality of meth in Honda must be going down. Can we get some Lano? We're going to go. I like that. Weird Texas town names.

Waxahatchee, are we? Let me hear from you. Goodness. 1157. Oh, that's a 12 o'clock. Wait, the strippers up. Let's go. Matt's staying on the clock, Matt.

Come on. We're trying to. Back in. That didn't seem like it. News at noon, the stripper wake up, and we'll get the fronting intro all straight ahead. Next on 790. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show.

12-0-4. In H-Town, in the third hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Do people in Dallas throw up to D? Maybe. They're doing something. with the D. I don't have to throw it up. Yeah, if you're from Dallas, are you throwing up your D?

It's all about the cream, Matt. Cash rolls everything around me. You've been saying that for a long time. Cream, get the money. Dollar, dollar bill, y'all. So if you were in Guantanamo Bay, and we were trying to get some information out of him, we would hold them down and pour mayo down his growth to get him to talk. Got to wrap her up and water her properly. I gave her a good tip, though. She's happy.

I didn't know you needed a bed. I'd have given you a bed. You're rubbing a dillo? Have a pillow rubber Thomas. Sports time. No, I've never touched a dillo. nickname. I've no interest in touching a dillow. I went to South Lano State Park and one time. They're all over the place. 12.07. Let's go! With the dillow rubber.

No, I ain't rubbing anybody's dillow. I haven't been around a dillow in a long time. Full throat, Thomas. That was one for the ages. Again, it's... First time in four... Four months doing this show at 10 o'clock. I actually... gas tired. Yeah. You need to get you more nights home with the wife.

Waking up with energy. Time now. I'm not going to answer any more on that. I'm barely above the Mendoza line, Rossi. You're doing great, Matt. Let's get to the news at noon. All right, Matt. We've got a lot of things going on to the sports world,

but it has been, at least here in Houston, offensive line. I'm just kidding. No offensive line talk in the news at noon today. Bob Nightingale talking about a number of things related to the Astros of what we've been talking about a lot on this show.

Let's start with, well, there's a couple of news items. Let's start with the fact that he said the Astros would leave the door open or leave the door a jar with Alex Breggman. If he did come back, Jose Al Tuvei would be willing to move to left field.

Spencer Arrogatti. What do you think about Al Tuve and left. No, I can't imagine Jose, not a second, but it would be crazy, you know, I mean, I've seen there's been weird things that have happened, you know. I didn't think it happened, but no, I can't imagine

Jose not a second. Bob Nightingale saying Bregman has... That was a chuckle, by the way, from Spencer, are getting. Has serious offers from at least two teams. Well, also Ari Alexander of

a local two saying the Astros plus two other teams have offered five years plus for Alex Bregman in this offseason. And let's go. I mean, I don't know how much more you can wait. I mean, unless Alex is really not concerned about the timing of this and trying to figure out where he's going to go before the start of spring training.

You want to get nuts? Let's get nuts. Let's get nuts. Let's do it. Altube and left. The previous greatest second basement in Astro's history did it, or at least went to Outfield Center and then left. Let's get El Tuva there. He did it at 37. Al Tuvei can do it at 35. Yeah. It will be 35 at the beginning of May, Jose Altuve.

Bregman's short-term deal, if he comes back to Houston. According to our friends at Fielding Bible, they rated 184 second baseman. Wait, but 20-24 season. How many seconds? 184? If you logged a single inning at second base, you're on here. That still feels like a high number, but that's none of here nor there. If you logged a single inning at second base, they have ratings for you.

Jose Altova ranks out of 184, 184th. Now, come on. I don't... You know what it is? It's dorky metric people. He's not the worst second baseman in Major League Base, but that's ridiculous. You would agree with that. Has you lost a step?

It's the range not as good, but when you're 184 on a 184, that means you basically every ball goes through your legs. You can also accumulate more negative traits the more endings you log. Okay, well, you know what, you're right, man. That's unfair. Let's go to 2023. 179, the second basin, rated by our friends at Fielding Bible. Jose Al-Tubez rank 179.

These numbers are terrible. Let's say they got it wrong. Let's just say there are a few standard deviations off. I like standard deviations, yes. The best. I will accept mid. Just say. The other nugget from Bob Nightingale is that the, well, he said that the Cubs, to use his words,

on the verge of acquiring closer, Ryan Presley from the Astros. That was at 4.34 p.m. yesterday. Nothing reported yet, but Presley, of course, would have to approve any trade. Astros, there has been much talked about this offseason, trying to move on from Ryan Presley to get some payroll relief. Does the pressing deal have to happen first before the Astros maybe up and off for the Bregman? I would think those are two independent deals. I think one could lead to the other. Okay. I can see it.

Continue on. All right. We'll continue on. Matt, as you know, we have the Chiefs versus the Bills in a big matchup in the AFC championship. A lot talked about with the referees and the Kansas City Chiefs. Pat Mahomes says the refs are doing their best to call the games fair. I don't feel that way. I mean, I just try to play football at the end of the day.

The referees are doing their best to call the game as fair and as proper as they possibly can. And all you can do is go out there and play the game that you love as hard as you can and live with the results. And so I think that's what we preach here in Kansas City. You get new referees every year. You get new circumstances and you never can really tell because every play is different. That's what makes the NFL so special. And so I feel like I've just continued to play the game. And I just try to win.

And whatever happens kind of happens. By the way, do we know who the referee? We knew who the officials are. My guess is that person has refereed a bunch of chiefs games, and his record is well above 500. I thought that was the biggest overblown set of the week of the divisional playoffs. This guy has never lost when the chiefs never lost to this guy's referee. Because you know what?

The chief's postings and records been pretty awesome in the last five years. I love this, Matt. You've been talking about context with stats lately, and that's great. The context matters. Yeah, I'm all about to call me Mr. Context. Yeah, they call you a lot of things. That's not one of them. All right, Matt, well, let's keep it moving along here.

This isn't necessarily offbeat, but it is quite bizarre. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have lost their offensive coordinator, Liam Cohen. One day after withdrawing his name from consideration from the Jaguar's job to remain in Tampa Bay as one of the NFL's highest paid coordinator. Until. Liam Cohen secretly flew to Jacksonville on Thursday to meet with Shepard. The ad-con the Jags owner and then agreed to become their head coach. That's when you fire the general manager, Tram Balky, things tend to open up.

The About Face leaves the Bucks seeking their third offensive coordinator in as many seasons. What are you doing? I'm trying to get through the 4U tab, so moving on here. What do you mean try to get through? It's never ending. All right. Well, there you go, Matt. That was good. So we didn't do a deeper dive on the Jacksonville Jaguar's coaching search?

Don't you think we should do the next hour on that? No. It's pretty funny, though. We should also mention Jimmy Butter's been suspended two more games. How do you feel about a guy named Liam being hired by the Jaguars? Feels like he should be an action movie here on a coach. Liam Cohen, 39 years old. You mentioned to the new coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.

Oh, yeah. By the way, Pete Carroll, 79-year-old Liam Cohen signed or is the coach of the Jaguars. Yeah. 73-year-old Pete Carroll. Now the head coach of the Raiders. By the way, Bill Belichick's. First game as the coach at North Carolina will be nationally televised all by itself apparently.

Really? Why? This is Bill freaking Belichick. It's going to be a huge story. Are you kidding me? I hope they lose. Who are they playing? You'd have to ask me that. Well, you brought it up. Well, I can't get to the four U-Tag because you won't let me get to it. You can get to it, Matt. I know what you're trying to see, all right? What am I trying to see? No new post from Taylor this year.

By the way, Taylor did very well yesterday for those of you playing at home. TCU. Ooh. a fellow Big 12th. By the way, good luck to the Cougars playing in Kansas tomorrow.

You didn't see nothing the Big 12. But TCU is. Oh, fellow to you. Yeah. Okay. So I was confused. And again, U of H

beating Kansas tomorrow? What you got? Yeah. I got U of H in the final four. Good. This might be the year they win at all. Seriously,

I will be, I'll be like depressed. You know how you depressed you were? like you were when the Longhorns lost the final four. Which year? Last two years in football. It's been depressing. Thank you.

I'll be like you. So I'll know what you feel like. I know. The expectations are high. Ridiculously high. All right. Back on the phones we come back. 713-212-5-790.

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That's one. You're the only one that knows. Keep going. Hit it. That's two. Hit it. Oh my God. That's three.

Now five's the max, right? Yes. Hit it again. Four? Where's Bregman? Where's he gone? Where is he? What happened?

The Houston Texans are moving on from offensive coordinator Bobby Sloick. Come on. I thought it was an Altovae thing. I know. I know. You tricked me. I tricked you. D' Miko Ryans hopes for more out of his own.

offense. Chris Strausser, offensive alignment also out. Man, what a day. Thank God all this happened in our show. The 18-minute great we turned off the big headline. Wow. This is a gut feeling wrong on my part. Me too.

It is an absolute miss on this one. I guess the first time that it entered my mind that it was a real possibility where the post-season comments from Demecoe Riance. Were lukewarm at best. Yeah. He

he didn't say, you know, Bobby's done a great job. Bobby this, Bobby, that. We're convinced he's going to be our guy. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, none of that happened. What a day sports RV. Wow, incredible. So, you give out the phone number and I'm going to go get the tweet out because I need to do that and we'll take a phone call. Oh, I know what you're doing. You know what I'm going to do that.

713-215 is the phone number. Bobby Slowick out as the Texans offensive coordinator. Four is plenty, right? It wasn't a five. Bregman's a five. Yeah, I thought, that's why I thought we were going or something. I was like, oh my God, Altuvae's about to play left. Bobby Sloick out. 713, 212, 5790.

Here are the comments that I was mentioning. D'Miko Ryan's after the season. You know, normally he'll coach speak about something for 30 to 45 seconds. A six-second sound bite. D'emico Ryan's, what did you see from Bobby Sloak? I think overall With Bobby I saw some growth

Saw some improvement throughout the year And I'm getting rid of his ass He's out Wow Surprising I mean Not shocking I'm actually not

Shocked but I'm very surprised So maybe So he's not going to get the Jacksonville job That already some guy named Liam Cohn. Liam Cohn. Liam Cohn has that. Jeff Jones, Aaron Glynn. Yeah. Cowboys' job apparently sounds like it's

going to be Brian Schottenheimer. Yes. Oh, Buccaneers are looking for a guy. Buccaneers are an OC. They need their third three years. Raiders don't need a coat. All the coaches don't. New Orleans, they have a coach yet? Raiders have an O.C.?

Raiders have a head coach. Excuse me. Raiders, yeah. I think there's only one vacancy left. Is Schotenheimer official with the Cowboys? No. So two are really at this point. But Schoenheimer's close.

Bobby Sloick is out. I am, I'm going to say surprised to very surprised. It just shows you in the world of coaching that if one part of your game is suffers, like the offensive line did Bobby Slovak zero favors. Do I believe, Ross, that when you have a deficient offensive line, it hampers your play calling? Absolutely it does. Yes. So Bobby Slowick is going to,

walks into Domingo's office today, and Domingo says, I've got to let you go. It's like, wait a minute, Cicero gave me this crappy offensive line, and you're, I'm the fault guy for this? He was walking on water one year ago where we sit. People were begging him. Please don't go. Please don't go, Bobby Slubbitt. We love you. Yeah.

Crazy. That's how it turns in the NFL. That's why maybe he should have taken whatever job you could have got offered last year. You know what it does mean? It shows you that maybe you should, yeah, you should, if somebody's offering, we don't know anybody ever offered a head coaching job to slow it. I mean, he didn't turn one down to stay here. Correct. Right. That we know of.

That we know of. Ain't that a blip? One year ago. All right. So who do they get? Who's available? Oh, I'm going to throw out the crazy ass name I told you before. Chip Kelly? It was on the Twitter streets. Chip Kelly?

Because we don't deal in rumors here. Lord knows I got it ripped on Jennifer Anderson and Barack Obama hooking up. Okay. Chip Kelly in Bobby Slowick out. You say what? I say, damn. Chip Kelly is a great offensive coordinator. Lazy head coach. Yeah.

Probably definitely the professional level. And really never had any more great success at, what was he at Oregon's where he became a great head coach? He was great at Oregon. He was not good with the Eagles. He was not good at UCLA. And just won the national championship with Ohio State. As an offensive coordinator.

Yes. Hmm. This is intriguing. Guess he? He's poor Bobby Sloak. He's 37 years old. He'll be fine. Hmm.

I think they're going to go sexy on this. Let me give me crazy. You want it for a crazy one? Yes. Just throwing it out there. Tom Herman. Oh, that is a crazy one. Okay, I'm just saying, it's crazy.

But you know what you're thinking about offensive cornerers at Ohio State? He was, that's where he was. That's true. And he brought U of H to New Heights and then ever since? A little mid. Got a little go with Texas. But you're happy he's gone. I'm happy.

You're in a better spot now. They are. Steve Sarkeesians doing very good. Bridesmaid. Back-to-back bridesmaids. You get invited to the wedding, Ross. You just want to finish, get to the honeymoon. That's fine.

All right. So there you go. Jose Altovae. Rumors. And who should replace Bobby Sloick? We'll discuss next. 1228. Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show, Ross. 713, 212, 5, 790. Texans on three, one, two, three. Back to Battle Red Ross and Liberty white-ass Matt Thomas.

What up? What up? That's what I am. Real pale Texans talk continues on the Matt Thomas show. What up? What up? Yeah, I think he did, you know, he did great. I think he, um, as time went on, He got better and better and better. And, you know, it was learning from, you know, his past and what he did in San Fran, learning from what he's done on the defensive side, you know, put into his own scheme, you know. So I definitely think, you know, that, you know, he has a lot of success coming his way. And, you know, I've been honored to, you know, have it with him and hopefully, you know, keep it going.

So, you know, I'm, you know, definitely, you know, on Bobby's side and appreciate him for, you know, all the things he's taught me and, you know, how great he's been, you know, in my career so far. No more, no more. You're fired. You're fired. You're fired. You're fired. You're fired.

You're fired. You're fired. You're fired. You're fired. You're fired. You're fired. You're looking up right in the show. Now, baby, listen, baby, don't you treat me this away.

Well, I'll be back on my feet someday. One of the greatest of all the time. This is a karaoke song, yes or no. Hey, get your lady up there. You get your lady up there. A little duet. To be one of the Raylets? Yeah.

What a jam. This is nice. Love Ray Charles. One of the greatest to ever do it. One of the greats. When I think of Ray Charles, I think of Kendrick Lamar, right after that. You should. Innovative in their field?

Widely regarded as one of the best of what they do? Multi-Grammy award winners. Let's see. I think it's, is it 17 Grammys for Kendrick Lamar and still won for Barry Manilow? He's up for like six more this cycle, too. Cannot wait for America to get Kendrick Lamar at halftime. Cannot wait. Well, he's got one more appearance to Barry Manilow.

No, did Barry? Didn't Barry do a Super Bowl? No way. I'm just saying. But how many New Year's Rock and Eve's did Kendra Lamar do? Barry did like 10. It's because he was always available. Hey!

Not in high demand. He and Dick Clark were close until Dick passed away, unfortunately. May he rest? May he rest? The goat. That's one of the catchphrases of this show. he rests. All right.

Gerard Johnson, yes or no? I'm going to say leader in the clubhouse. Feels like it. There was talk. I mean, is this not coincidental? There was the report yesterday about Gerard Johnson being considered as O.C. for the Jets.

You think this is D'Amico Ryan saying, shut your bum ass up, Aaron Glenn. He's our guy. Hey, Gerard, what's up, man? Oh, I'm going to go take a job of the Jets. Wait, let me get right back. to you. We call Bobby real quick.

Let me call you. Let me get back to you in five minutes. Hmm. All right. Let's make a $1 bet. Okay. Rod Johnson or the field, and I'll let you have either side. Oh.

$1. I think it's a good. I think that's a good bet. I could go either way. I'll take whatever side you don't want for $1. I don't know. While we're young. I'm sorry.

It's a good bet. It is a good bet. It is usually you make horrible odds. I know. Well, it's a small wager. I'm going to go with Shrod Johnson. See, I'm comfortable either way.

That's a coin flipper. All right. No money bet. Will we hear Chip Kelly's name officially being brought in? About that one. As an interview. As an interview.

I will say no. Okay. Let's go to the phones. We'll talk to Greg first on 70. A little more on the Jose Al-TV. We've got a couple of meaty topics today here, Rossi. Not bad for a Friday in January. Yeah, we're doing great. Greg, thanks for holding. Good afternoon to you.

Yes, sir. Thank you, Matt. Thank you, Ross. A great job for guys today. Hey, look, while I was on hold, y'all were mentioning a too big thing, and then all of a sudden there came the news of the day, right? So that's something else. I know. Baud damn time. We actually got something in our show. Yes, sir. So look, let me get real quick to what I was about. So you were talking about, Ross mentioned Altube being 184 out of 184. And I'm thinking, wait a minute, there's no way that's possible

because, I mean, I don't like a local guy from here, Knobloch, Noblock, Chuck Knobloch. He was a second baseman, went to left field. He couldn't throw from second base to first, you know? So I'm like, how can they say he was better? Well, that was in his head. That was the case of the years. Also, this is for the 2024 season.

Oh, for the 24th? Okay, gotcha. Okay. No, he's been great earlier in his career, but Jose Altuvae is well past his prime defensively. Well, so, I mean, your gut feeling is you don't think the move to left would be even thinkable or not really? No, I think it's thinkable. We're clearly thinking about it. I mean, I don't all of a sudden think it, it doesn't make your defense better. But remember, you're also taking it, you're taking a below average second baseman and making him a below average second basement and making him a below average love fielders so you're kind of just picking your poison here at this point yes sir yes sir well and you know like i said i like um getting in and and talking to you guys is always always a pleasure

and all and you guys do a great job so hey thanks a lot for the time you guys keep up the good work thank you for a nice to hear from you 713 212 5 790 712 719 that's how i think i think we should think about it as much so we love jose the greatest astro of it all and as batting has slipped a little bit, probably more so his feeling than his batting. Yes. He's still a very good lead-off hitter. If you want to dumb it down, you think I'm losing, I'm not losing a great second basement to put him in a spot where he's uncomfortable with.

You're losing an average second basement at best, if you really want to be honest about it, and putting him in a new position. So from a defensive standpoint, you're not getting significantly, you're not getting better for sure. and maybe not getting significantly worse. You want another data point, Matt, defensive metric? He's a little bit better here. Okay, shoo. Outs above average.

This is from stat-cast, second base base. Okay, timeout. Explain what that means. Outs above. That sounds like completely made up. How many outs is he recording above average to an average second base? I mean, I can break down the whole formula for you, if you want. Do I'm going to give you the, it's the cumulative effect of all.

individual plays, a fielder has been credited for or debited with. Okay. Okay. This, they have only 37 qualified second baseman. And L2A's 36th. So somebody's worse than him. Jorge Polanco. Suck it, Jorge Palanco.

You're the worst. Not Al Tuve. You know what? I want you to put those metrics and shove them up your ass. Okay. Because you've never, you've not given me anything that makes me feel better. Well, what do you want me to do. I just told you, shut him up your ass. I don't want to hear any more of it.

It's not enjoyable. We know, Ross, we know. You've given us enough numbers to say that Jose Altovae is not where he was five years ago. We get it. Okay. They have Jake Myers is the sixth. Out above average has Jake Myers at the sixth best center fielder. That's good. And it covers more ground. In fact, he covers too much ground sometimes. He and Chadd are like, yeah, I'm going to get out the way. Kyle Tucker. Kyle Tucker looked like he wanted to debt Jake Myers a couple I was like, get out of my way. Jake Myers is like, dude, I don't, I'm not going to hit 30.30. Please get out of my way.

Let me get my range metrics up and let me catch this ball. Please, Kyle Tucker, please. Here's another problem. Chats's arm is not right field good. And for those of you that don't know, you put your best arm outfielder in right field because you do not want runners to going first and third or you want to minimize it. If you don't have a good guy in right field, any base at the right field, those are base runners with any kind of speed at all are going to take the extra base.

that might be in itself another bit of concern. While McCormick can certainly has decent range, the arm is not where it needs to be for a right fielder. That's what Kyle Tucker, you lose that. And that's a bitter pill to swallow. Besides whatever he does offensively, he held runners basically going from station to station 90 feet at a time as compared to grabbing the extra 90 feet.

Well, and Jake Myers will not be in right. He doesn't have a strong arm either. I'm talking about McCormick. I'm also saying that Jake Myers isn't out the solution either, is what I'm saying. Arm-wise. The reality is all

if Altouba is in the left, you have three below-average arms in theory that would be your starting outfield. So if you're watching the broadcasts on Space City, you know, they always have a green light, yellow light, red light. Mm-hmm. If you're watching another team's broadcasts, they're all green. Might be.

They're all like, get on a hard. a racetrack. Because frankly, who has the best outfield arm right now? McCormick is manageable and left. Myers, never since the injury, he's a comeback. Actually,

you know, I'll say strongest, not maybe most accurate. Yordon. Yordon's probably got the... Yoron, like in Bummet, like 90. Yeah. Accuracy is not great, but in terms of teams trying to score on shallow flies, they're probably not doing a whole lot of that. All right, we'll talk to Mike about the Texans'

offensive coordinator situation. An interesting nugget on a C.J. Stroud and Bobby Sloick's relationship when we come back. Where did this from? Twitterverse. NFL sources. For you? You went to write to the people you follow. Okay, I got you.

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This is the Matt Thomas show. Bobby Sloke's a great coordinator. He's done a great job. He's a great coach. And we're going to, you know, we've done a lot of good things offensively. And I would say as far as the second half goes, in the end, it just comes out of execution. So the other team makes more plays than you do, then, like, going to win. So can we do a better job?

I'm like, yeah, sure. Like, do better on first down, right? Put ourselves in second and manageable, which is third and manageable. Take care of the football. So in the end, this league is all about execution. It's about doing little things. It's about controlling field position. And firing your coach. Bobby's

Slugas, like, I am a damn fall guy, and I don't appreciate this. Nkisario's like, how come he's not turning John Metchy and Xavier Hutchinson into star? You force me to put together an offensive line with juice scrugs and nine swing tackles. And your crappy-ass draft picks. Nick Casero saying, these guys are great. Jared Patterson and Juice Scruggs and, oh, man, Blake Fisher's unbelievable.

And Kendrick Green or Kenny Green or how many Kenyons. I can't know who they are. These guys are amazing, Bobby Sloak. How are you not turning this offense into 50 points a game? And Laramie Tensel doesn't show up to the first day of the week of week one practice. What I teased in the last break. Yes, please do, please. From Albert Breer.

We rely on him, yes. I'd say he's pretty good. Okay. Texans fired offensive coordinator sources confirm. He was a hot head coaching name a year ago. This is the juicy part. But there was a lot of frustration. Some from QB.

C.J. Stroud himself. on offense in Houston this year. Oh. Albert Breer saying C.J. Stroud was frustrated with Bobby Sloick. Coach Killer Stroud? Oh, are you going there? I'm going to say no. I'm going to say maybe that was a part of it.

First of all. He spoke in the wheel. First of all, you can be frustrated with your boss and not get him fired. Well, it's different when you're the star quarterback. It's a little bit different. I mean, we're frustrated with our bosses here. They don't fire, we got them fired. It would take it like if Michael Barry was frustrated, maybe some things would have to change.

Oh, Ramon, are you frustrated? Ding, let's get out. Any Markini, you're out. Do you like chili with beans or without beans, remote? Ramon, should Jayrod Johnson be considered as a head coaching candidate? Or as an offensive coordinator? What's your favorite jelly that's not grape, Ramon? Ramon, have you ever coached?

Laramette Tunsell. He's a strong individual, Ramon. Ramon, have you ever put a face mask of weed on? I was once in college. Larry Tunsel's been, as far as we know, he hadn't been involved in any sort of dust-ups with any sort of law enforcement or anything. Send me a note on Twitter.

Just simply say, I have or I have not. Breaking news. College kid smokes weed. If you've ever put a, what are those face masks on? It was a gas mask, I guess. If you've ever put a gas mask up. to smoke weed. Don't say, hey, Matt, I did this.

Just say, send me a tweet at SportsMT. I have or I have not. I have not. And I'll know exactly what you're talking about. I knew people in college that did, like, you know, smoking out of apples and doing crazy stuff like that. I mean, bong, yeah, roll-ups, gummies. Yeah. What else?

Don't hate Laramie Tunsel. He's ahead of the game. It's a billion dollar industry. It's legal in like 20 states. He was high and lazy. He didn't want to roll it up. He just wanted to put the mask on. No, it's to get higher. It wasn't about laziness. What are you talking about it? You put the mask on, you go turn the machine on.

Let's go. It's extra work. What machine is he turning on? I don't know. I've never done this, so I can't speak to this. Let's go to Mike, south side of town, 1253 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Good afternoon, Mike. What's up, Maddie?

Ross. Hey, look here, man. Here's the deal, man. We're going to get rid of the one-hit wonder and go get the best they ever do it, man. Let's go get Gary. Kubiak. Bring him home. Oh, stop. You're crazy. Bring him home, man.

Let's go get Kubiak. He's retired. He's happy. He's happy. He's not, you know what I'm coming back. Hey, man. Kubiak, the best ever do it, man. He's going to come home and take one for the team. St. Piles, alumni. Let's bring him home. Texas, A&M. Let's go. Texan NEP. What's up? What's up?

All right. Thank you, Mike. Mike, did you have a gas mask when you called the show? Gary Kubiak last in the NFL in 2020 as the Vikings offensive coordinator. How old is Gary Kubiak right now? I mean, we got 70 plusers in the NFL now. He's only 63. I thought he was older. Are you kidding me?

He's only 63? Yeah. Maybe Mike's on to something. Bring him back. Bring him home. Bring him home, baby. Could Gary Kubiak come back as a consultant? he left on good terms here

stop just throwing it out there he's been out of the league for five years we're cussing and discussing he's been out of the league for five years and he's not going to be brought back Gerard Johnson ding Chip Kelly Chip Kelly Ding it's got to be somebody associated with Domingo he's not he's not going to get somebody doesn't know

I just love familiarity I'm with you I'm going to guess that this I'll put it this with the the Bobby Sloak firing is because somebody is lined up. Got feeling. So you're saying... Believe me or not. Oh, look at this.

Totally have. I have. I have. See? Love it. I will not announce who they are. Why don't you... I'm not shaming them.

I'm just asking. You're all trying to shame Laramie Tunsel. I'm shaming Lernery Tunsel because he's lazy. How is he lazy? The lazy bong smoker. Do lazy people get into the Pro Bowl? No. Oh, my God.

Lazy people will commit 15 fall starts? Yes. Pro bowler. Suck it. Where are your anti-Larmy Tunsell station? No. Matt Thomas, hi. My name is Ross. I do not hate Laramie Tonsel. Matt Thomas hates you. I said I'm anti-Tomis hates you. He thinks you're lazy and bad at left tackle. I disagree. And commits false start penalties and way too much money. Laramie, you do commit a lot of false starts and I'm sorry about that.

Sorry about your legal formations. I forgot about those. Well, it was only a couple in the first week when they were really the point of emphasis. And you made, you made Tedes Howard the Fall Guy on a few plays or in the postseason. Well, somebody didn't pick up that stunt. I don't know whose fault that was. Okay. Yeah, I have, I have not, not judging. Oh, wait.

Larry Mutantzel was arrested on domestic violence charges in an altercation with his stepfather in June 25th, 15th. That was also in college. You make, everybody makes mistakes in college. My greatest mistake was opining for a girl that was with my sweetman instead of me. Wow. I'm sorry, Matt. that make you feel?

Not happy? How do you feel about it now? I'm well over it. Why are you bringing it up then? Because we talk about making mistakes in college. There's your mistake. You know, sometimes this feels like this has been, something that's been chained to you.

But I met my wife in college, so it kind of equaled out. This has been an anchor chain to your waist that's been holding you back. I don't know why you're, why did you change your voice tone? I think you need to break that chain, Matt. Let it go. I've let it go.

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Bobby Slow is a great coordinator. He's done a great job. He's a great coach. And we've done a lot of good things offensively. Yeah, I think he did great. You know, I think as time went on, you know, he got better and better and better. And, you know, it was learning from, you know, his past and what he did in San Fran, learning from what he's done on the defensive side and, you know, put into his own scheme, you know.

So I definitely think, you know, that, you know, he has a lot of success coming in his way. And, you know, I've been honored to, you know, have it with him and hopefully, you know, keep it going. So, you know, I'm, you know, definitely, you know, on Bobby's side and appreciate him for, you know, all the things he's taught me and, you know, how great he's been, you know, in my career so far. I think overall with Bobby, I saw some growth, saw some improvement throughout the year. Anything else, D'Bico? Great coach. Love to have him here for years.

Fantastic job, building up C.J. Stroud is one of the great young quarterbacks in the NFL. I mean, I think overall, with Bobby, I saw some growth, saw some improvement. throughout the year. Yeah, he's like the type of guy, like, I'd be a quarter short for the drink machine, and Bobby would be like, I got you. Here's a quarter. You know, he's like that kind of guy.

Very nice. Darling of the League, 12 months ago, hot name for a head coaching job. Supposedly interviewed by the Jets, possibly the Jaguars. That's why I always say, strike when you are hot. Remember Byron Lefwich was the flavor of the month at one point? And he, you know, I'm happy. Tampa. I'm going to stay here. And then

you get passed over and you know like you suddenly the next year you fall. It's just funny. It happens all the time. I just whenever you are an O.C. on the rise and teams are interested in you and say, hey, coach, make the jump. This whole

loyalty thing about, oh, I'm happy where I am. It could come crashing back down earth very quickly. It worked out for Ben Johnson, who was with the Lions and he waited and he got $13 million. Like a top 10 paid coach already out of the gate by the Chicago Bears, one of the franchises he was willing to go to and just 38 years old. But did not work out at least yet for Bobby Sloick.

Still young in the game, he's only 37, fired as the Texans offensive coordinator. You're fired. Ross, yeah, we played that earlier. I don't even know when or how I had this, this montage. You're fired. You're fired. You're fired. You're fired.

You're fired. You're fired. You're fired. You're fired. you're fired you're fired Bobby Sloick yeah I can't do the trot any client to come in here yeah we need him I can't do one either you could do him going you know we looked at everything

in the program and we said the Texans what's going on there offensive minds in the NFL at CJ Stroud a generational quarterback that's what they say well Sloick has been let go we're here to talk about it with you it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas he is

well out jet setting with the Houston Rockets because they are traveling Chris Cordy gracious enough to hang out with us You want to get on. You can at 7-1-3-21-2-2-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. So the first thing I was kind of speculating about this, Mr. Gordy, is that this is no accident that it's happening when it did this late in the game. My gut feeling on this is that the Texans have a replacement lined up, whoever it may be. Say that again? My gut feeling is the Texans have the replacement lined up, whoever it may be.

Who do you think it is? Maybe Gerard Johnson, maybe Chip Kelly, maybe somebody else. I don't think that they just went out of nowhere. Chip Kelly? Chip Kelly is a name that has been floated. Why? Because Demico Ryan's, he was his coach when he was in Philadelphia, so there is a previous relationship there.

They just won a national championship with Ohio State. Right. Clearly they just caught to Ohio State. It was one year. Yeah, I don't know if it's going to be Chip Kelly. That's just a name that has been mentioned. Can I give you another name? Okay.

And this is way off the radar. Uh-oh, way off the radar. He's never coached in the NFL before. He's been a long-time college coach. Okay. His name is Kevin Wilson. Kevin Wilson just got fired as the head coach at Tulsa the past two years. He went four and eight and three and eight.

Oh, he's got a great resume. Go ahead. However. Do you know what his previous stop was? Alabama or something? He was the offensive coordinator at Ohio State. Ohio State. He was there for the full duration of C.J. Stroud in a Buckeyes uniform.

Okay. Is that what you're going to go with? I mean, when people said that they didn't like the offense that C.J. Stroud was running and they didn't think that he showed a lot of NFL traits when he was with Ohio State? I'm just putting it out there. Like, they put up a lot of numbers. He was a guy that, you know, he coached under Urban Meyer when he first got to Ohio State.

Okay. So, what, helped, had a couple Heisman finalists when he was there, Justin Fields, right? I mean, I don't know. I'm just putting it out. Okay. Like, that's, it's, again, no NFL experience, but did CJ like him? Maybe. If C.J. Stroud is behind the scenes pulling all the strings, which is possible. We mentioned the tweet from Albert Breer that he said the C.J. Stroud was among the people frustrated with Bobby Sloick. And look, common sense says what they're going to do, they're going to go with one of these retreads.

One of these, I mean, my God, like we just, we put all these names on a hat and you just shake it up and go, are this guy's either going to be a head coach or an O.C. somewhere else next year. I mean like Brian Schottenheimer. Had he been an O.C. like every team in the NFL. Yeah. And now he's probably going to be the Cowboys. The Cowboys seem to like him. Well, that's because Jerry Jones is going to, he's like, I need a yes, man, who's going to agree with everything I say.

And that's what, that's who Brian Schottenheimer is going to be. Who, Cliff Kingsbury. He's another one. Just throw his name out there. Well, he's still in the playoffs. Yeah. With the commanders. So I think he's doing pretty well.

But I would say, we talk about the Jimmy's and Joe's and X's and O's. probably more Jimmy's than Joe's, but maybe a different offensive coordinator could have come up with some better ways to cover up the warts on this offense with the Texans, talking about the lack of pass catchers and the offensive line. Run game was really good. C.J. Stroud has been, well, he was great, his first year, really solid, good, decent enough, his second year. And I thought he was good in the playoffs, C.J. Stroud. and I thought the Bobby Sloat game plan and what they did in that first matchup against the Chargers was great. They threw on three of the first four first downs of their drives.

Unfortunately, John Metchie fumbled one of those and they really moved the ball well. They got over 400 yards against a really tough Chargers defense. Didn't they follow that up? They also did outgain the Chiefs in that game and the second game in the playoffs. So I feel like I thought Bobby Sloak had done enough to keep his job. So I was a little bit surprised, not completely shocked

with how much, you know, he was under fire all season long was Bobby Sloick, but no longer the offensive coordinator for the Houston Texans and they are searching or has the search been completed. That's my gut feeling that something will get announced soon. It feels like kind of like

one of those Friday news dumps. Yeah. Do you go back to the 49ers well? Who's over there now these days? So the Shanahan tree. So he just left this past offseason, went to New Orleans, but Clint Kubiak was down in New Orleans. The offense looked pretty good in New Orleans the first couple weeks.

Well, we had a caller that said bring Gary home. Gary Kubiak. He's only 63, you know. Clay Kubiak, I believe is the OC for the 49ers currently. So you got Clay Kubiak, he got Clint Kubiak. If you really want to dig deep, how about their OC, or their quarterbacks coach currently? Brian Greasy. You put his name in the mix. Brian Greasy? Yeah. What? I thought What is he? He's on a staff?

He's the quarterback's on TV. When did that happen? I mean, good for him, I guess. And Michigan Michigan legend, Brian Greasy. I'm just putting names out there. I see that. But ties to San Fran and ties to

D'Amico, the Kubiak family, absolutely. Pick any of them. You want Gary? You want Clint? You want Clay? Pick any of them. Gary's been out of the NFL game for like five years. I think I'm good on Gary. That's probably your better bet. By the way, I was kind of shocked to see that Gary Kuback's only 63.

But do you really want to go that path, though? Do you want to go more Shanahan disciples? I mean, if Floik was, you know, the epitome of a Shanahan disciple, all those other guys will be too. So I'd rather almost go a different direction. How about Kellyn Moore? You know, like, some of these guys who were interviewing for head coaching jobs. Like, if they don't get them, I'd look to poach him and pay them as a higher pay. and more get fired by the Cowboys?

Let's see. Then he was the OC with the Chargers for a year, got fired again. Oh, he's the OC with the Eagles right now. Okay. Yeah, I don't know that he would come over just to be the OC. That doesn't seem like necessarily a viable candidate. All right, we're going to take a quick break here on the Matt Thomas show

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So he is out, and Chris Gordy is here hanging up. Appreciate him. You can get in as well. If you'd like it, 713, 212, 5790. That phone number again, 713, 212, 5790. So Gordy with you, we talked about the big news of the day with Bobby Sloick. How about the big news kind of of yesterday? It wasn't necessarily news.

Bob Nightingale saying it was imminent. I'm sorry, on the verge of acquiring closer at Ryan Presley, talking about the Chicago Cubs. That was like 21 hours ago now at this point. Presley having a no trade clause, of course, must approve any trade. And well, we haven't seen anything there. And then the fun one was talking about Jose Altufe, playing possibly in left field for the Astros. This from Bob Nightingale.

The Houston Astros are keeping the door ajar for free agent third baseman, Alex Breggman, to return, but are not optimistic. Bregman has serious offers from at least two teams if the Astros pulled it off. Bregman could stay at third base. Issoc Paredes would move to second base and Jose Altuve in left field. What an image there. Yeah, I mean,

I think Jose is just trying to be nice because he wants to keep one of his buddies. But the reality of this thing is it's a business. Like, you got to move on. They moved on. They got Isok Paredes. They got Christian Walker. I mean, Chandlerome, I just did a video

saying like the Astros, and the Astros are not alone. Other teams as well are dead set on not entering that second. tax threshold. It's not, it's set up to hurt. The whole reason MLB has this. Yes, they don't have a salary cap. No. They have luxury tax thresholds that

make you pay a ton if you cross them and it's a penalty. Let's call it what it is. It's a penalty. It's supposed to hurt you. It's supposed to deter you from doing it. Now, the Dodgers just have stupid money. I don't know where they have it. The Mets don't seem to care. It's from their TV deal. But here's the thing. It's all because, like, just

because they do something stupid means I have to do something stupid too? Well, if you want to compete with them and they're not necessarily, I don't know that the Dodgers is doing anything stupid. They're just signing very good players and paying a bunch of money.

Especially with a lot of the deferred. And they're going to be deferred. Now, where does that money go? Does it just go to MLB? The competitive belt? I think it's shared. I think it's shared among their other teams. Yeah, I think the other teams

share it, yeah. Whatever the case is. I mean, and that's what's funny, Chandler is, Chandler Rome's latest report in the athletics says, The Cubs are also sniffing around on Alex Bregman, but they also don't want to go over the second luxury tax. So, like, you have two teams.

The Cubs and the Astros would love to have Alex Bregman, but they also don't want to pay the penalty. It would cost to pay him. This is what Google says. Actually, the first three and a half million of the CBT money goes toward players, benefits, like retirement counts and stuff like that. Okay. So Kurt Schilling could get an extra burger.

We need to. And then have, oh, it goes to the players. It goes to the players. individual retirement accounts. Half of it. Yeah. Dang. I mean,

Dodgers is going to be taking care of all the former players soon with the amount they're paying in luxury taxes. The other half is distributed by the commissioner to pay e-clubs that have grown their non-media net local revenue over a multi-year period.

What? I just, I don't get the, fans are just so quick to pay the man, pay the man, but you can't pay every man. So it's like, you have to pick and choose

who you give the big contracts to. Yeah, I understand. This is why I don't necessarily think it's going to happen with Alex Spregman, but... Yeah, I mean, look, it'd be fun. If they could get him like a one-year deal and we do hashtag run it back, and he comes back and we do... And El-Ti-Bae plays left field for one year? That'd be the dream scenario.

And by the way, it's not our money. Also, who says Isak Paredes gets the, like... I'm like, if anything, he'd be the odd man out. Hey, bro, you're the new Marvin Gonzalez. You're just going to play eight different positions. Like, why does he automatically get to move the second at L-TRA? Tuve's going to move to the left field. Because Altuva is a horrible second basement and you would improve defensively there.

And if at least he's going to be horrible in left field, he's already horrible in second. So you're not losing much. He won't be jumping up on that wall making many catches now. No, I don't think so. He can play it off the bounce, intelligent. I just, I never think of a short outfielder. Like, everybody in the offield's always tall. Well, no, but in theory, if he can run down a ball, that's better than being short in the infield where he's, you know, he's always making these diving plays.

It's like, yeah, a guy who was like 5-10 would have just scooped up the ball. You know how many errors he's going to have throwing that ball? You know how many errors he's had in second base? That to me is like it's kind of not necessarily much of a net loss. The other part of Chandler's story here, it says that Ryan Presley has not yet approved to reject it or trade from the a asterisk to the Cubs. Presley is deliberating, quote, on a fresh start versus staying where his family considers home. So this is kind of interesting because it's like he had kind of a rough.

year. I mean, it was an okay year. It wasn't that bad. He wasn't that bad. But he had some just brutal moments. How many clean innings did Ryan Presley just come in and go one, two, three, Bing, Bang, Boom, out, out, out. Let's go. He'd done it, but wasn't that many. It was very few. It felt like he was always, you know, lead off double

almost every time he came into the game. Like, God, why do you have to make this so dramatic? Yeah, he wasn't very good. That's why his whip was highest has been in a long time. 1.3.4.1. That's pretty large. And it's crazy because he was beloved in 22 and wins the World Series. And now it's like, yeah, yeah, everybody's kind of like...

He's older, hadn't thrown his fastball much the last couple of years. He still has one of the best curveballs in the game, but it's just the other stuff has to work too with it, and it has it. And people knew that he wasn't going to throw his fastball. Couldn't you keep... Couldn't his family just stay here, and he just goes up to Chicago for a couple weeks and plays games there? Well, clearly he doesn't want to do that, and that's... He has afforded that luxury.

He has a full no-trade clause. That's his prerogative. He's like, yeah, somebody's paying me $14 million. just going to figure out where it's going to be. Chandler also says the Tigers are also involved in trade discussions for Ryan Presley. It's like AJ Hinch is always looking for Astro scraps.

Trying to get the band back together? What Astros are leaving? Who's he got over there? Huh? Who's over there now? Well, they're interested in Breggman. I'd heard that they lobbed the call to Verlander about maybe trying to get him back before he went to the Giants.

Well, they couldn't sign Verlander to 15 Milly? I mean, I think that was more of a swan song. and come take your bow here and we'll retire you. Well, he's with the Giants now, unfortunately. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how it plays all out.

But it just feels like... Chailor says, according to one league source, Astors are, quote, doing whatever they can to trade Presley. So, like, that scares me because it almost sounds like they might have to throw in a prospect to get him off the books.

They're going to pay a bunch of the money. That also tells me that they're aggressively trying to get under the tax. Right. So, so what does that tell you? When we hear reports of, oh, they're still on Bragman. No, they're not. They're not in a... Biden and Nagle.

Okay, he does have a sketchy track record here and there. But it's like, but then you're, if you're Jim Crane, you're talking on both sides of your mouth. Do it, Dana. Do whatever it takes to get us under second luxury tax. Unless Bragman wants to come back and then we'll pay out the rear end on a luxury tax. Yeah, but Jim Crane's been talking out of both sides of his mouth for a while. As long as I am here, the window will be open. What? We're hitting the tax second year?

Oh. Well, then why? They're still competitive. They wouldn't trade. Not bottoming out. Okay, then why would you trade away Kyle Tucker? Then you're trying to keep the window open as long as possible. Because it keeps you, it keeps you flexible for the next decade.

Because you don't want to pay him money. No, they were willing to pay him money, just not huge monstrous money. I don't think the window is nearly as open with Kyle Tucker off this team than on it. I mean, come on. In this division, though, they're still better. Yeah, and this division. But it's not about this division. It's about the other team.

It's not about better being the, than the, the, crappy underperforming Rangers. It's about winning the World Series. You win this division. You're in the playoffs and anything can happen. The window is always open. Also, let's go ahead and trade Kyle Tucker because we're not going to pay him. Yeah, and how did Kyle Tucker do in the postseason the last couple of games? And two games, I'm sorry. He was bad for

two games last year. How about before that? It was like seven or eight, nine games, whatever it was. It wasn't that much. He just putrid in 2020. He was great in like the 21 run or something like that. So, I mean, he's been good in the playoffs before. Yeah, when the stakes are not high in the postseason, Kyle Tucker, he's going to come

Oh, shut up. Plutch moments? What, shut up. That's real talk, bro. Then, okay, real talk is small sample sizes. You're overreacting to. Kyle Tucker's one of the best. Yes, it is.

He's one of the best hitters on the planet. Best regular season. Put the caveat out of the best regular season. Okay, he's been one of the still been very good for the Astros. Also, having Kyle, you're going to argue that Kyle Tucker off the team makes them worse? Also, his injuries take like six months to heal some times. So maybe. Well, it was the worth, no, it was always a fracture.

They just didn't want to say it for whatever reason. God knows why. Best ability is availability. Kyle Tucker, a 229 postseason batter. Hmm. Well. With 53 strikeouts. He was young for a lot of that.

And then, well, he was super bad the last couple years. And a very short sample size. Eight home runs, 20, it runs batted in. He's got eight home runs. That's good. Eight home runs in the postseason, that's not nothing. In 64 postseason games, he's got eight. Dude, you're supposed to be an MVP.

candidate. He was like 20 years old for some of that. Give him a break. Man, you are Kyle Tucker apologists. Kyle Tucker's really good. I mean, I don't even know what you're talking about. He was just traded away for a top prospect in two major leaguers and the guys.

Great regular season. Oh my God, you're calling Kyle Tucker the Danmarino. You're ridiculous. Do you know how ridiculous I can cut off dozens of Altuvee Clutch moments in the postseason. Brighman postseason moments. Jose Al-Tu-Too. When they won the World Series in 2022, he hit $1.90 in the playoffs.

Yeah, he had one, they weren't any good. Yeah, yeah. It's what I'm saying is it can happen. So I'm saying anybody can be bad for any given amount of time. Kyle Tucker's still great, a great player. You know what his most memorable postseason moment is catching the final out of the 22 World Series? Yeah, he's great in the field. Anybody could have made that.

No, no, no, no. Chas McCormick makes that catch. Chas McCormick maybe makes that catch, but he slows up so he can make a diving catch for it. Stop. backed off. Let the first baseman give it. Please somebody get in here. I don't want to talk to Gordy anymore. 713-212 5790.

Lunch timers. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida

and share them with the people of Houston. It's Time for none. It's that time a week where we bring you stories dead or not from the state of Florida. Matt calls him low-hanging fruit. Quite frankly, I love not story. I love Florida stories.

But he wants to put a new twist on the Florida man segments and make it non-Florida stories. And well, this is where we bring those to you. Gordy, with you as our guest, you may start if you'd like. Oh, I take us over to Sydney, Australia. as there is a rare and endangered plant that emits the smell of decaying flesh, and it's drawing hundreds of devoted fans to a greenhouse. A devoted fans. In Sydney.

Fans wait in a three-hour line to get a glimpse and a smell of the blooming flower, a fragrance that evokes, quote, gym socks and rotting garbage. Oh, Christ. It's a tall, pointed, and smelly corpse flower. where the plants are found in the what Sumatran rainforest. Sure, why not? Fans call it putricia, a combination of the name Patricia. Patricia and Putrid.

The followers call themselves putritions. But for a week, she has graced a stately and gothic display in front of a purple curtain where fans have been flocking to get a whiff of her. There are only thought to be 300 of these plants in the wild and fewer than a thousand including those in cultivation. But yeah, fans flocking to go get a smell of a plant that smells like, one more time, Jim Sox. You said this is in Australia?

And rotting garbage in Sydney, Australia. All right, you people are sick. What the hell's going on, Della? It's going all of you, Aussies. It's like they don't smell my finger. I didn't talk to Jack Landale about this. These people should be embarrassed. Dude, this smells awful.

Look, smell it. You know, it's like, no, you just told me it smells awful. Why would I want to smell it? Yeah. Hey, man. did you try the they're eating at a restaurant? Hey, these refried beans taste

like crap. Here, try them. I'm good. Appreciate you. All right, I will go next. And, Gordy, are you aware with the

Life and Times of Hans Zimmer? Yeah, did, was he Star Wars? No, that was John Williams. John Williams. Hom Zimmer did, like, the dark night. He did Inception. He's worked with,

you know, interstellar. Same guys. gladiator, Lion King, Dune. He's a composer and chorus most famously known for his film scores. Well, apparently, Hans Zimmer may have his biggest task yet

as the Oscar-winning composer has been asked by Saudi Arabia to work on a new version of its national anthem. As senior official has said, as the kingdom steps up in image makeover, apparently a PR for Saudi Arabia, great right now. As he has been offered

to work on the anthem which is known as Ash al-Malik translated to long-live the king written in 1947 by the Egyptian composer Abdul Rahman al-Katib. So the

version would be changed and Hans Zimmer apparently working on his biggest project yet trying to rework a national anthem. Yeah, don't get that one wrong. Yeah. You don't You're going to get a living infamy. You don't want to put one out and they go, ooh, they really didn't like this odds. You know it would be funny if he just used the Pirates of the Caribbean theme.

Yeah. You're pretty going. Dun, dun dun dun dun dunna. It gets the people going. It actually made me start thinking, what if Trump says? Hans Zimmer, we need you to rewrite the national anthem. Francis Scott Key. He's the worst.

It's a little old, a little outdated. It doesn't have my name in it. Golf of America. Yeah. I'd be a national anthem. I like it. Maybe that could happen. So there you go.

Hans Zimmer, apparently, going to rework the Saudi Arabian National Anthem? Is he signing on to do it? Apparently. I'm going to guess they cut him quite a big check. That's why every boxing match and UFC and MMA and all this stuff is all in Saudi Arabia. Rinaldo's making like $200 million a year to play in Saudi Arabia. They get some cash over there. A little live golf action.

Yeah, live golf. And now Hans Zimmer. Saudi Arabia is taken over. Is he going to write? lyrics or is it just going to be music? I don't know if it's going to be lyrics or music. He's a composer. I hope he just writes lyrics

to the Dark Night theme. If Saudi Arabia said we want to launch a Houston Sports Podcast Network Ross and we want you, we're going to pay you a million a year. Would you go? Let's go. What's up? I would do good things with my money. I'm just saying those people that are like

self-righteous about, I wouldn't take blood money. Well, after I got my Bugatti, I would figure something out. be fine Give some of the leftover money Yeah, homeless charities Whatever the starving Struggling Child people

It's fine All right Connor McGovern I know somebody's in there talking to you Tell them to shut their bum ass up Tell them you need to go on air Because You are next up

On non-Florida stories Somebody called in Gordy And said that That plant was at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Oh wow ago and that a bunch of people lined up to see a bloom and yeah that didn't go smell it yeah that's disgusting

Ronald called it in the sun rotting flesh smell not really interested to go check that out I'm gonna pass on that one well for mine's on Florida story we're gonna go to London where Brent Naylor he's from north London he was awarded an over $6,000 payout from police after being wrongly accused of masturbating at a woman on a bus he was wrongly accused censor yourself say he was pleasure

No, it's a scientific word. Connor is a man of science. That is a scientific word. Naylor was arrested over the instant after being identified by Metropolitan Police and all his neighbors saw that he got arrested. So even though he was wrongly arrested

and was released quickly, the damage to his reputation was already done. Naylor says the police is incompetence in arresting him for indecent exposure that he did not commit has made him the subject of verbal and physical tax ever since. He claims he has been

assaulted and evicted from his home and even banned from his favorite pub since being handcuffed by six officers at his front door. Oh man, that's tough. He was arrested after police released an image of the suspect who was pleasuring himself on the bus. And somebody anonymously

reported him. So maybe one of his enemies. It was only after he had been custody for more than seven hours that a senior officer looked at him and realized he didn't resemble the suspect at all. Nailer hired lawyers, sued, and then settled out of court for over $6,000 in damages and legal costs. The police press office said it was not aware of any further arrests over the incident on the bus.

You imagine that damaged your reputation? Like, hey, aren't you that guy that was, you know, wedding on the bus? Well, it didn't happen to. No, it wasn't it happen. No, it wasn't me. During COVID, didn't it happen with the CNN guy? He was on a Zoom call and, they were like, John, your camera's still on, buddy. And he somehow survived that.

Oh, was he? It's going to solo Poundown? That happened a lot during COVID. A lot of people didn't realize their cameras and microphones were on. Yeah. Always assumed the camera and the microphone are on. It used to happen to a certain Houston reporter all the time. He was wrong with Bark Merman.

What was the... Bart, hey, turn it off. You're off mute. Wasn't there an old play-by-play guy that took a selfie and a mirror? Oh, right. We don't need to talk about that either. On that note, we're going to take a break. You're on the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas.

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with our George Jones Friday staple. As we were winding down, I was reading a story from Jonathan M. Alexander, friend of the station, who put out a story for the Houston Chronicle, talking about the five. firing of Bobby Sloick. According to his story,

it was Demiko Ryan's call at the end of the day. So Sloick out, who is in? I suppose we shall see. Also, it sounded like, according to this report from Jonathan M. Alexander, that the 31 to 2 game against the Ravens is where Bobby Sloak really became under fire as the Houston Texans OC.

Which game was that? 31 to 2 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. Yeah. I mean, especially on Christmas Day, nationally televised audience, everybody watching on Netflix, no competition, you were going up against anything. So you were prime and central, and that was awful.

That's what makes this interesting is, you know, they said, where was it, I was reading on Walter Football. They were kind of saying, like, there was no creativity. creativity, and they led the league in running the football on first and second downs. Now, part of that might be... You got a bad offensive line.

The only way was so bad of pass protection. That's the thing. That you kind of had to. Well, let's see. Our offensive line is terrible. We have a super high pressure rate, and there's blown blocks all over the place. Let's pass every down. That's not a good idea.

Of course not. We have Joe Mixing. You're trying to establish a run. So I understand there was a lot of criticism for him and how much they ran the football. But the alternative was every time they tried to pass the football. the ball. There was a mega high pressure rate and they were blowing blocks all over the place. Here's what they said. By the way, they give out grades for coaching changes.

They give us an A grade. Okay, Walter Football. Is he the one that was stealing stuff from Lance Erling? Was that somebody else? I don't know. What a difference of your makes. Bobby Sloick was a hot head coaching candidate a year ago and unlike Ben Johnson ruined his coaching stock so much

that he was fired. He did a poor job with the Texans. His predictable play calling constantly had strout in third and long situations. Sloak called runs on first and second down at the highest clip in the NFL and he didn't stray away from his strategy even if Joe Mixing was sidelined. He still said, we got to run the football.

Yeah. And they said even if the team was trailing in the fourth quarter they still ran the football first and second downs. Passing the ball when you have a bad offensive line 50 times is a bad idea too. So I kind of damned if you do, damned if you don't if you ask me. Also in this Jonathan

Alexander report, some people inside the building thought the Texans could part ways with Sloick as soon as their open week in December. Well, that was rumored. I thought, you know, that wasn't the craziest thing. People were floating out there that maybe they could have made that move before the play.

You know, like, let's have somebody else called the plays going into the playoffs. Yeah, there you go. Houston Chronicle was some good stuff there. And we'll see what happens with Bobby Sloick now out as the offensive coordinator. And like I said, happening this late in the game where you think Damiko Ryan's was hoping he was going to get hired away. and now that basically every job is pretty much closed up.

He's like, come on, Bobby, just get hired away. Maybe it wasn't D'Amico Ryan's head that he was going to fire Bobby Salk. He's like, oh, man, if somebody could just hire him away, that way I don't have to do it, that'd be great. And now they're like, oh, well, I didn't get the Jags job, didn't get the Jets job, interviewed for both of those, didn't get a job last cycle.

I guess we have to do what needs to be done. Bobby Slocke, you're out. Look, this is what's best for the time. And the underrated O-Line coach, out too. So, you need a new line coach, you need a new OC. But again, do you go back to that well of the 49ers tree?

Do you just go find somebody completely different, you know, find somebody like a completely different philosophy. Somebody from a different, a different walk of life. Oh, somebody who's not even like, like Stephen Silas? No ties to the Texans. No ties. Mike Dan Tony? Yeah. Just somebody

completely. Out of the tree? Byron Lefich. Okay. I'm just putting out of name. Barron Lefich has been a good. O.C. He was put on a name of somebody who's never coaxed somebody who's never coached in Houston. He was, yeah, like you said, he was a hot coaching name a couple of years ago. And then... Speaking of Jags, Jaguars got

their new head coach. Liam Cohen. Yeah, Liam Cohen, who told the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, all right, guys, I'm going to sign back with you. Then they fired Trent Balkke. He's like, wait, what? All right, I go to the Jaguars. And then they, like, in this, in the middle of the night, apparently, got in an interview, another interview with the Jaguars, and they hired him. Liam Cohen was,

he was, came from the Rams Tree, went to the, uh, Kentucky. a few years ago to go be their O.C. And that was the year they had Will Levis, came over from Penn State. And Will Levis had an awesome year. Kentucky had such back quarterback play. He went, oh, my God, look at this. He's a genius.

He gets hired back by the NFL, jumps back to the Rams. It kind of goes okay, but he decides to jump back to Kentucky the year later, and Devin Leary is his quarterback, and that was not good. Devin Leary was not productive at all. So Liam Cohen's like, yeah, this return to college didn't really work. Let me go back to the pros.

And then where was he this year? O.C. in Tampa? Yeah. And look at Baker Mayfield. One year at Tampa. Well, I mean, yeah, Baker Mayfield was good the year before, too, with what was it, Dave Canales. He got hired to the Panthers. But is he going to be the savior for Trevor Lawrence?

I don't know. He's got to be. Doug Peterson was supposed to be the savior. Urban Meyer was supposed to be the savior. Savior number three for the Jacksonville Jaguars. We'll see how this goes. He was the, Liam Cohen, was the offensive coordinator in 2017 at Maine. And now he's the NFL head coach.

39 years old. Again, he got the most out of Will Levis. in Kentucky that year. That's true. Maybe he was feeding him mayo before every snap. That would be Adam Klan's recommendation. Maybe that's what Trevor Lawrence needs. Speaking of Adam Clanton, he is up next with Adam Wexler.

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