The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show 10-14-19

Episode Date: October 14, 2019

The Matt Thomas Show w/ @SportsMT, @SportsRV, and @ProNickLow 10/14/19Carlos Correa's 11th inning home run to win Game 2 of ALCS (0:00)Clear Creek High School Choir sings "Go, Go, Astros!" (17:37)Ross vents his UT frustrations (55:14)Believe it or Not : Columbus Day Edition (1:43:46)

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 1205 in H-town. What's happening in lunchtivers? It's time to celebrate on the Matt Thomas show. First pitch.

I could have done it three. That's Joe. That's Ross. He's Nick. I'm Matt, and we welcome you to a Monday edition of The Matt Thomas Show. We will play lots of celebratory music over the next three hours of show or so. Look, I'm going to miss, I'm going to, my conjuring, I can't even speak. I'm really, really tired.

Look, man, you want me to take the lead on this one? You want it? You know what? I can play, I can play utility. Yeah, just go back and sit, lay back in your chair and just make a bunch of quips and make fun of me. That's what I do, so we can flip bro. It really does work out well that way. It's easier, trust me.

We were on the 10th, I think show until 1.30 this morning. I listened to three quarters of it. And then you fell asleep. Yeah, well, yes. So I am dog-ass tired, but it's okay. This is why we get in the business. This is why we do this for our profession. This is why we are here on these airwaves at all hours of the day.

Rossi, I got to tell you, Game 5 Dodgers Astros is the greatest Astros game of all times. Yes. this ain't far behind is up there I mean my goodness the way the game started and then Justin Verlander

and Paxton getting pulled early and Boone just going to reliever after reliever and then all the Astros relievers coming in and Roberto Osuna getting five outs Joe Smith getting five outs and then just the boom first pitch home run by Carlos Correa

who Of all the people Of all the people. Of all the people. I know a lot of y'all hate him, and you want him traded away, and you want him gone forever. And he also gunned down, who was at LaMahue at the plate or whoever it was. Off that strange ricochet. Weird, I mean, just so many crazy things happening.

And then, yes, Carlos Correa much maligned, both physically and with the fan base and people wanting him traded. Like, if we post something about him on Facebook, every comment is, let's hope his trade value goes up. Or I hate Daniela. Or I hate, yeah, or that, or she's ruining his career. all that stuff. And the guy, it felt like his at-bats were getting better as the game was going along. And then he just launches that home run. And then how about that pimp job that he did?

The bat? It's not even a bat flip. He just dropped it. A drop. Yes. It was like a mic drop with a bat. It was not a Hulk Hogan. I want to hear you.

It was where you hate is. Yeah. Or he could just admit and say, I want to hear the fans. No, that's not what it was. It was for the haters. No, it was for the haters. And it was a slow trotter on the, base pass.

Yes. And then the jump shot and the mid-range, which Gerald Roy would have hated. He got some air on that. You see those photos of that? He got up there. Maybe the back's okay. Well, here's the thing is he got to home plate.

I was like, don't touch him too hard. Yeah, right. Backslide when somebody does well. I was like, stay away. And then AJ gives him this big ass hug. And I'm like, AJ, don't. Let me. Which begs the question.

Is he injury prone? He is injury prone. That doesn't change after hitting a home run. Just making sure. You can be injury prone and still be really good at your job. When you play. He is for sure still IP. I'm just checking.

I'm going to be consistent with that. But all he did was cap off an amazing night of baseball. And so many layers to it. We have a lot to get to it today. Earlier in the day, the Texans' performance against Kansas City was spectacular. One of the best road wins in Texans' franchise history. You probably call it the best one. I don't know.

I haven't looked through the years, but it's probably up there. It's top three or four, you know. Because even though, you know, Pat Mahomes was less than 100%. You can clearly tell that. It doesn't matter. He still moved the ball. He still threw the ball five million miles up in the air where Tyreek Hill caught it early on. Took advantage of turnovers.

Got a gift horse touchdown late in the second quarter. That Chief's defense was terrible all four quarters. Texan's defense bended for sure, but didn't break when needed to. And every time you asked to Sean Watson to convert a key third down. he did it. Yep. Just a complete win. Just going up there and winning against the chiefs,

one of the best teams in football, and you dominated, the offensive line in the run game, especially dominated. They just physically whipped the Kansas City Chiefs and then that allowed things to open up in the play action game and Deshaun Watson was able to do his thing. And then you did just enough to get Patrick Mahomes. I mean, at the end of the day,

he threw for 273 and three touchdowns and a pick. I mean, that's a decent day for most quarterbacks, but from Patrick Mahomes, that's pedestrian. So at the end of the day, Texans, you look at the last two weeks, their second tier in the AFC behind, I will put the Patriots in Tier 1 by themselves,

and then Tier 2 starts with the Texans. Yeah, and they're over the top of Kansas City because you beat them in their home stadium. All right, so here's the plan. I'm working off about seven hours of sleep, give or take, and you know, you're restless, because when you get off the air at 1.30, You just can't, oh, I'm going to go to bed now.

No, you know, you're watching SportsCenter checking Twitter or whatnot. So, again, my verbs are not going to conjugate properly today. I may say a few things here and there. I got blocked by somebody on Twitter last night for all the right reasons. Good. But I want to hear from y'all. Today is y'all's day. We took great calls last night for the most part.

And we can do that again all the way to 3 o'clock today on not only the Astros' amazing performance, one of the best games I've ever witnessed in person. I was not in person for the Dodgers Astros Game in Game 5 in 2017. So this for me was one of the all-time greats to watch. And it was everything about a chess match, a boxing match, whatever you want to, whatever parallels you want to put, it was there. And we'll discuss it here today on the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-790.

We have no guest book today because we thought we'd give you an opportunity to pontificate over anything. My Cougars fell. It's insanity in a hard-fought game. Ross's longhorns are, I mean, they are who they are. The Aggies, again, 7-5s, not terrible, even at $10 million a year for your head coach. It's not great. Not great, but it's not terrible. 713-212-5-790. Everything is fair game here on the Matt Thomas show.

Yo, what's up? This you boy, bumbeat, the Trillog, with the whitest man in America. Matt Thomas. You are now tuned in in the Sports Talk 790, man. And your March 10 ready to go. It's October and the Houston Astros is in the playoffs, baby. We in the post season and it's about to go down. So if you got love for the Houston Astros, like the Tril OG, got love for the Houston Astros and you rockin your orange and your blue, you know what it's time to do. Put the pages up in the air, baby, let's go.

Crush City, mate, Crush, Crush City, Man. Crush, Crush City, Man, Crush, Crush City, Man. Crush, Crush City, mate. Crush, City, mate. Crush, Chris City, Mike. All right, so Ross, we put the ages in the air. Is that what we're doing? Is that what you're doing, Matthew?

I put the inch in the air all the time. Okay. Well, go ahead. Thank I, I don't live in Indianapolis. We put the eye in the air. We really are a little dated, but that's okay. Yeah. I fixed that.

Did you really? How'd you fix it? He took him out. He didn't re-record with Bunn and have him in studio. Bunn's around here all the time. Bunn, if you're listening, come in the studio and knock this out. Maybe that could be in backup vocals. I think he said he was done doing songs because every time he made one,

people, everyone tried to get all mad and say he was cursing the, cursing the Astros. Oh, so you're saying that Grumpy America doesn't like when people represent the city with the team? Okay. Some people. Well, how about this? The mob is fickle, Matt. You know that. Yeah, it's true. All right, 713, 2,1, 2, 5, 790. I have one phone line right now. You're telling me that y'all are just sitting around going, it's a nice day in the neighborhood. We've got temperatures in the mid-80s. Everything is fine. Look, we got crime in the streets. We've got high gas prices. taxes are out of control. We have strife in America.

We have good things going on. And this should be the, we should be the good time station. Not like the 70s series. I'm talking about the good times that are happening here. And we're lucky we got them. We do have them. 713, 212, 5, 790. Carlos Corey, about getting his timing back.

Yesterday I felt like my timing was getting back to where it should be. And then my cash work today was amazing. And I was very confident going into the game that today was a day where I was going to break out. And as soon as I hit it, I knew it was going to go over the fence. The adrenaline started pumping like crazy. I don't even know what I did. I got to go watch the video.

But I know that I was so hyped. And seeing my teammates running out of the dugout to the home plate while I was still standing there. It was pretty awesome. Obviously, a moment that is going to live with me forever. Rossi, I'm just going to give you little tidbits all throughout the show. managers get second-guessed constantly. That's what we as fans do best. Well, the manager of this local team was getting second-guessed hard on Twitter last night.

Yeah, I think I, what did you say on Twitter last night? You could smell the second-guessing in the air. And, you know how I feel about four out saves. Yes. How do you feel about five out? I don't. Well, maybe five is okay. Here's what you learned.

And AJ has said this multiple times, and it was a class example, sometimes your best reliever isn't the one you use right away in the ninth you don't save him for the ninth he wanted he being AJ wanted Osuna to get five outs so it stayed at two to two you know what I'm saying

in that he felt like anybody else the thought of all the base runners the Yankees were putting together were in the biggest jeopardy to keeping the game tied was with somebody not named Roberto Osuna that's how much faith he put in the closer of his baseball team. Yeah, I didn't second guess that one,

just because I know he likes Osuna, and yeah, he didn't work so well when he tried to give him for four outs earlier in the playoffs. The one that kind of puzzled me was, how about Ryan Presley only getting one batter? Gave up the hit, gave up the single, and then he was immediately pulled for Josh James. Well, you know, as we talked about a couple days ago,

I think that unfortunately Ryan has fallen off the map in terms of the leverage guys and the guys you trust. Now, he obviously is trusted more than, say, a Rondone, if you will, but that's not saying a whole lot. Right. Fact is that everything that A.J. pushed yesterday, and for that matter, Aaron Boone, the same way, Ross, their bullpen was filthy too. The best thing that came out of the bullpen yesterday, obviously besides J. Hap giving up the home run. And by the way, this really goes without saying, if you know anything about baseball, just a little bit, I'm not asking you to give me every player from every team. but when a Yankee reliever used to play for the Astros,

you probably should know his name. And it takes a while to get used to it. But it's been years. It ain't J.A. Hap. Who was saying that? Too many people. Oh, and Smolts or Buck, was it? No. I didn't see their broadcast.

Okay. It's J.Hap. Oh, you're talking about people calling in or something? I'm talking about people. In general. Too many people were calling him and have been calling him this morning, J.A. Hap. I call him J.A. Hap.

You can call him whatever you ain't. Call him a losing pitcher. But everything that Aaron Boone did, frankly, Ross, was a good call on his part. Yep, for the most part. I mean, he just started running out of guys. The question was, should he have pulled Paxton so early and should he have pulled Green so early?

Green was so good. But everything's pretty much worked out for the most part. I mean, they didn't get a hit. The Astros didn't get hit from the fifth inning until the 11th. 11th, right? Yeah, I mean, say what you will, about Paxson being pulled. The end of the day, they didn't, the Astros did not have much foot traffic at all between innings five through 11, except for an occasional walk. Yeah, he put, I mean, he knew he had 13 pitchers rostered, and he knew he had the off day. So he said, you know what? Paxton's looking a little shaky.

I think it was Bregman coming up at that point, and he said he's going to give a different look. And Bramon was one for seven against him lifetime, and sometimes those splits work into play. Yep. So, I kind of, you, it did. Definitely, when it happened, I said, what? He's pulling him? He's pulling him? And I thought, I was like, I don't. 51 pitches too.

10% of him, he thought maybe he was hurt or something. It was very surprising. And then, I mean, okay, you got the day off and you got a bunch of rosters. Let's roll the dice. He obviously wasn't planning on an 11-inning game. And that's where, once it started to go to extra innings, there's a friend of mine who I have a bet with. He's a Yankee fan. And I said, Astros have the advantage right now because of so many arms have already been used by the Yankees.

This is the perfect scenario for them. The Astros are going to win this game. Yeah. Again, I don't go under the thought of, well, now the Yankee bullpen is taxed. It's really not. None of them threw an incredible amount of pitches. The one guy that had to work more than he usually has to is he rolled his Chapman had to throw 25 pitches, which allowed him, which I guess it didn't allow him to pitch a second inning.

That guy sweats profusely. But he's so damn filthy. He's, I literally hate him. And I'm not supposed to. Never said I've worked on him. You know how he goes those photos, those, those t-shirts, I literally love Jose Al-Tube. I literally love Justin Verl. I literally hate Erolus Chapman.

Well, he's got domestic violence history, so you can hate him. It's fine. Okay. Well, I'm thinking about him as a baseball pitcher only. Okay. He was good. Zach Britton, who was on the Astros radar forever. It was good.

Tommy Canley was good. Adavino, well, you know, that one pitch to Springer kind of hurt you. That's all right. But Green was good. Paxton wasn't awful. I mean, a couple of walks, but that was about it. He only allowed to, you know, one run on four hits. Yeah, and the one thing that's funny to me about Chapman

is the guy's up there throwing 101, and you're like, wow, he's just really slowing down in his older age, and it's true. Like, his average fastball velocity is down, and he's still running it up there at 101. The moment I knew he was superhuman was when he was first starting, and his slider was at 94.

There are a gentleman in the major league baseball that would die for a 94-mile-per-hour fastball. Filthy, awesome game on both sides. Roberto Osuna is going to get some hate eventually at some point, Ross, but an angle will be on this show today because he was fantastic. Joe Smith, you just wanted to hug him like a big old teddy bear. She's so lovable. I just love like a sidearm.

I love sidearms. I love sidearmers in the playoffs. They were all the tap in the weak stuff right to the pitchers, man. He's going to their defendant his position. It looks like the ball is rising out of his hand. And oh, by the way, Gary Sanchez, you bitching about that outside strike, which was, a complete makeup call. Yes.

Please don't do that when you knew you didn't touch the baseball and the foul tip. Yeah, you're supposed to be gone. That'd be great if he got tossed right there. Yeah. But you understand. And I did get home. I was in the studio getting ready for the 10th inning or 12th inning, whatever the show. Fox almost missed it.

They were so into Gary Sanchez talking to Corey Blazer, which sounds like a wrestling name. 219 pounds from Nashville, Tennessee, Corey Blazer. Right? So Corey Blazer and them are just talking it up. First pitch, Gonzo. I mean, Joe, hey, watch, watch this. I mean, he got the call. Right.

But he almost was tardy on it. I kind of didn't know what was going on. I mean, you were sitting there watching. Yeah. And I thought for a second, I was like, this isn't a replay. This is live. This is happening. All right.

And then I started jumping up. We have a choir in Houston, Texas, that sang one of our all-time favorite songs. We'll hear that song. And not all of it, but a little of it. Okay. Plus, we go to the phones next. 1227. It is the Matt Thomas show.

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Pump up the volume. Pump up the volume. Dance. Go, go, go. Astros. On me, home, home, won, won you. Bumpba, here come the Astros,

burning wintertime. Here come the Astros, brilliant orange bird. Here come the Astros who's win it on their mind. Here come the Astros number one every time. Go, go, Astros. Bunga, booma, boompa, bha, bupa.

Go, go, astros. That click, re choir, bringing it! They went harmonic on that song. I don't know what choir director put them up to that, but thank you, sir, or madam. And we're playing it the rest of our adult lives. I might be doing my show in a home that we foot out of a blunder, but I'm playing that. That was actually awesome. I unexpected.

I didn't know what you were going to when you said you were going to have something with a choir. That was incredible. I just like how you have to sing the electric band of. Makes you want to know what the bear tone's doing? This is amazing. Wow. Might be time for a new ringtone. You have to really have to get the music for it, the sheet music for it.

It's amazing. Yeah, it has to be an arrangement and all that. All right, we're going to play. I'll play more of it later. Hey, here's what we're going to do. We don't know if we're going to have a game six, right? We hope there, I mean, the thought is there's probably going to be a game six, right? Yes, or just go ahead and win three straight in New York.

I mean, that wouldn't be the worst. I need y'all to spread the word. If there is a game. Start spreading the news. Here's the game. Here's what. If Clear Creek Choir could, let's put it this way. Should they come to the station or should they come up to home plate bar and grill?

Problem is it would cost them a lot of money to park the car over it. Oh, which is one bus. Yeah, but I don't have tickets for them. I would hit them to go all the way down there not have tickets. Yeah, then have them come here. I'll just say this. We'll validate their parking here. Anybody that knows anybody that knows anybody at Clear Creek High School,

the choir is invited to come sing that live on my show. Huh. anytime they want in the next two weeks okay could you imagine having like 20 kids in this room yeah it doesn't sound great I'd rather just play the recorded one

aw they can come meet you yeah they don't care about me they don't know zero of percent of them know who I am that's probably sure all right let's start talking to some folks 713212 575790

Josiah in Beaumont at 1236 so what do you got Josiah oh man I got nothing but good vibe it's Osuna's trash guy is Osuna. No, no, he's not. I come with my hat in my hand. I was wrong. He's the man. I love his yellow hair. Oh, man. I can't wait for this series to continue in New York City, dude. I can't wait to go up there, take it to the Yankees. Take three from him. I'm calling for a home sweep over there in New York City. The only thing I'm worried about is Severino can throw like 99 and after Carlos Correa's jump shot with his helmet, he might have to borrow Deshaun Watson's

rib protector when he gets in the box. That's all I got, guys. I don't think it gets to that point. You don't want to be that stupid. I'd hope not. But yeah, if you want to let him on base, go ahead. I'm okay with it. Yeah. Yeah. Please, go to the unspoken rules of baseball in the middle of America League championship series. See how that works.

Yeah. Aaron Judge was running home from his home run putting a championship belt on. So, I mean, it's whatever. Yeah. If they're going to do that, good luck. Let the kids play, as they say. By the way, Severine in the postseason, 12 innings pitched, no, four innings picks, excuse me. No runs, four hits. He only pitched 12 innings during the regular season.

Yeah, they've been only allowing, I think his longest start was like five innings in the regular season, and then he had maybe like a four to three or something. Yeah, he's got three starts in September, 12 in a single. That's 12. Okay. It'll be interesting if they let them loose for a big playoff game, or if they're going to keep them on this restriction. They did use a lot of the bullpen yesterday, but the off day today. But then you do have three straight games.

You don't want to use guys, you know, four out of five days or three days in a row and stuff like that. I'm definitely curious to see how long of a leash Boone has. Hopefully the Astros just get to them really early. He has to pull them early. And the Astros would drop a St. Louis Cardinals 10 bomb on him in the first inning. I would love that. By the way, he's reaching 99 of the gun. So the arm is healthy.

Right. That way. But if not now, then when is what I'm saying. So I figure he would have a longer leash than he has so far. Yeah. There's just, I don't know. Why did James Paxon get to the short lease yesterday? Day off, 13 pitchers they've carried, and then Alex Bregman at the plate.

And the numbers against Breggman against a relief court was not good. So it makes sense. I get you. It's still early today, though. Let's go to Asia and can you like Asia? Oh, goodness. You must be excited today. First of all, I can't believe you've got seven hours of sleep.

Geez, I mean, I got like, I don't know, three or something. I don't get seven normally, but. Well, first of all, I didn't mean to come across that way. But secondly, we worked all day, Saturday, and all Sunday. So I'm just telling you, I just seven hours was literally get up, go back to work. And I'm not feeling sorry for myself. I'm just telling you time. during call-in radio to 1-30 in the morning

and then having to come back and do it. You know, this is part of the love of baseball, but, you know, you would like some downtime. And then you don't need it right now because the Astros are trying to win a World Series. Hey, guess what? I give you a lot of credit. You're always on.

As a matter of fact, when the game was going and you had said that you were going to be on the call-and-show after I was like listening to see if you were going to make it or not. You did, but this is why I'm in the business. I love this. This is great. Hey, you got seven hours over the past two days is what it was, really. You know what? I ain't bitching. I'm just telling reality. Go on. What you got today, Asia?

Okay, so I'm like with that last caller. I have been hard on Asuno a lot because I've always thought he was like awesome and good, but mentally he just loses it too fast. So I give him all the credit. Way to go, dude. I just hope he keeps it up. Our whole bullpen was like spectacular. Did it when we needed to. And AJ Hinch is like awesome the way he was able to, you know, know when to bring him in and not bring him in. And so I'm just so excited. Now, two things, Tucker still. I don't know why. I think Reddick. I mean, Reddick is like much better in the field.

I mean, Tucker didn't do bad in the field or anything like that. And I know Redick's not the greatest hitter, but I think when we go to the Yankee Stadium, I would assume they're going to have Redick. Because Tucker still, he's, you know, he's swinging his stuff. He shouldn't be swinging at him. But otherwise, you know, I'm just extremely excited. I'm glad I don't have to work until, like, this World Series is over because it's, like, so stressful. I'm just going to work when I need to.

That's how Ross feels. He works when he needs to. Thank you, Asia, for the phone call. There are some blaring weaknesses in this Astralina through two games. Alvarez has not touched a base hit yet. Gurriel doesn't have a base hit yet in this series. Robinson Cherinos, and whatever A.J. is trying in the nine-hole spot in right field, and ain't working.

Tucker overmatched. Mariznick overmatched. Reddick doesn't even get the chance in game two to get too on a bat. I mean, there are some holes in this lineup. But you know what, Ross? If we went back and looked at every World Series roster, there's going to be some pockets where guys just can't perform

because sometimes the pitching is just amazing. And the Yankees can throw that at you, just like the race did the previous series. You're talking about a maximum of 19 game sample size. So, I mean, guys are going to slump. It's baseball. That's how it goes. I'm not super worried about it.

But one of the ones that was slumping was Carlos Correa, so it was nice to see him bust out of it. Yeah, that is for sure. 1242. It is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. If you're a Texans fan and want to brag about the victory against Kansas City,

look, Ross, we do take our shots at Bill O'Brien, and I still am firmly convinced that Bill O'Brien will never leave the Texans to a Super Bowl. Just not going to happen. But that was a damn well coach game yesterday. Execution was fantastic. They took advantage of some silly turnovers that Kansas City put in the play. And they made Pat Mahomes look human as best anybody can. Your squad is playing exceptional football right now, so they deserve some props as well.

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Breaking ball line to Altube on a hop. He can't play, it gets off of him. Around third and coming home, the Mayhew, throw to the plate in time. Correa throwing home after the ball, hit off of Altube, hit off of his chest and went to his right. Correa, the Johnny on the spot, and threw it home to get the out and in the inning.

And one other shortstop has the arm straight to twist the other direction and throw a bullet strike to home plate for an easy tag for Toritos. phenomenal play by Correa, a cannon to home. I was sitting next to a national baseball rider at the game last night in the press box before I came back to studios. They measured Cardinals Correa's throw from where he was to home plate at around 87, 88 miles per hour.

Say what you all about the back and the ribs? The arm is strong. Yeah, he came a little more than that. I've heard before. So, yeah, the arm looks okay. The jump shot looks okay. The bat was fine. Yeah.

Maybe he's fine. Well, you know what? This is the best time. Or whatever they're shooting him up with is working. Yeah, it doesn't matter. By the way, Hank Conger, did you see the quotes that he had? I got to pull up. Were those real, though?

I saw them, but I didn't know if I saw them from actual news source. Well, then I should temper by not ruining him if we don't know if they're 100% valid. But basically as Hank Conger was asked about do the Astro steal signs. And it's like, oh, yeah, we, yeah, they do. And Rossi, I'm okay with that. I haven't found it. This is from MLB Insider Dinger. Is it how many followers I have?

Almost 5,000, but their ad is at ATF 13 ATF. Yeah, I'm going to pass on that. Okay. But point being is this, stealing signs to me, the Yankees were trying to steal signs. the Astros are Everybody's trying to steal science It's a part of baseball Again

Just don't use any foreign intelligence Illegal operating tools to do so If it's watching video before a game And seeing what a pitcher's tendencies are Or if it's trying to steal when you got a runner Like Carlis Cray I think was trying to tell When he was the second base it or not I think he was trying to tell some astro hitters what was going on

That's why you have science begin with It's fine It's intelligence of the sport It's baseball It is baseball That's how it works. Let's go next to Jimmy and Tom Ball on 790. Hi, Jimmy.

Hey, guys. Man, that was a good win last night, and I know y'all don't like to throw around the term must win very much, but that was close to a must win. You go down 02 at home, and that is not good. I know we kind of lost home field advantage, but one of the good things is I'm glad we didn't waste Cole or Burlander in game one since the Astros didn't hit anyway.

so we still got we need three more wins and we got three more full rest starts out of a Cole, Burlander, and Cole. So that's good. Two questions. First off, is Correa, and I don't want to, I mean, he had a great game yesterday, but when people used to talk about how good Adam Everett's defense was,

was he really that good? Like, is Correa good enough, even if he didn't hit very well, but he's still worth having out there? Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, Carlos Curry is a better defensive player than Adam Everett was. Clearly. Better range, better arm, makes the impossible play look simple,

makes the difficult play a possibility. Adam was rangy. Adam was very good. Great defense. The Astros have had lots of great defensive short stops over their career, over the history of the franchise. But he's better. Carlos Correa is the five tool, period.

The only thing hurts him is the fact you just can't stay healthy for a length of period of time. My other question, and yeah, for sure. I mean, I mean, I put a home plate last night. Y'all were just playing it when I was on hold. I mean, that was just amazing. I mean, you said how you literally don't like Chapman. Gary Sanchez is the guy that I just can't stand. And he's literally never hardly heard us in the postseason.

He's honestly probably the way he booked her home plate in 2017, the reason we won that series. But when he swung and missed at that plate, and he's telling me up how he fouled it, why did he take off running for first? I guess you can't if there's a runner on first unless that guy runs. No, the rule is there has to be less than two outs. Okay, okay.

If first bases occupy a less than two outs, you can't. What that rule is put into place for us, you can't intentionally double up the person. Now, if there's two outs, which was the case, everybody who should have been running. What was the, where was everybody on the box, on the base paths at that point of the game? Was there anybody at first base? First and second, I thought. Or was it just first? I can't remember.

Not, maybe not second. Well, it didn't matter because the call was a foul ball. If he swung and it was called a strike and there was no contact, then he would have had to run to first base. What a terrible foul ball call, by the way. I mean, I guess the umpire heard something because that's what they usually go off, right? They think they hear it goes off the bat. And here is the worst part of it all. Two bad parts of it.

None of the other umpires saw it. And it was fairly obvious because the pitch was so far off the plate. I couldn't believe the replay was so far off. It wasn't even close. He didn't even get close to tipping it. And why can't? You can't review it. Yeah.

That's another thing you have to go to the winter meetings for and say, look at Exhibit A. Instant replay would have clearly determined that that ball was not touched. Now, there are going to be some spots where it's hard to tell. And remember, instant replay should only be used if it can, completely verify overturning the call. There was no bat to ball at any point of that swing. None.

That would have been an easy two seconds to figure out call. We're going to see that change. You have to, Ross. That was a strike out. Done. Finito. There was no contact. Yeah, it was bad.

That was a bad situation, but at least you got the makeup call. And the makeup call was atrocious. It was bad. I mean, Corey Blazer, who's an umpire at home plate last night, is on the plane today going, God, I goofed up not once, but subconsciously I goofed up twice. Because that other one was way out.

And again, please, please, please. I love all of you like brothers and sisters and cousins and some of you, I hate you. But mostly I love you. These umpiring calls are balancing themselves out beautifully. They just are. Please don't let umpiring determine whether or not you're enjoying the series or not. That umpiring to me was zero percent factor,

except for the horrendous miss call. And then the subsequent makeup call. Made it okay. A-O-K. Two wrongs made a right in that case, in my opinion. Isn't it a Barbara Mandrell song? If two wrongs make you right? I don't want to be wrong. Correct.

Second hour, the Matt Tava show. We're going to play Robert Ford's Home Run Call again. I just feel like we need to play it 10 times. And by the way, go look at his video, which I put on my Twitter account. He attempts to jump. No, no. It's on the What's on Matt's Mine show page. And it's doing quite well.

Sports 790.com. Go to the web page right now. Go look at Robert Ford's attempt to jump. As I told him on Twitter today, I would not want him as my rebounder on my basketball team. But he had a great energy in a call and we'll play it for you next. It's 12.57 on Sports Talk 790 with a message here for Oop, Steam Clinic. Let me tell you, if Robert Ford's at your house calling a home run and he's got a glass of grape juice or wine in his hand, he's going to spill it. And maybe y'all spilled some stuff yesterday as you watch Carlos Correy hit that home run in the 11th inning to win it.

is the Matt Thomas show. First pitch. And Correa aligns it deep to right field. Judges going back at the wall. Looking out. See you later. Was that for see-a-later? Yes.

I think it's for every base. It's the right amount. Yeah. By the way, Kevin Ashenfelder took the video of the Robert Ford jumping up and down. So Ash is listening to us. What's up, Ash? Oh, he wanted full credit. He should get credit.

He's the one and he got it. You didn't go in there and get it? I figured it was Matt Bolts or somebody. No, no. It was Esch had got it. Good job on Ash. Good to have Ash back with us. He was a little under the weather the last few weeks.

It was back with us on the Cougar football broadcast on Saturday. Tell Robert Ford to give you credit on his tweet. That's where I was looking for credit. That's where I was, when I read the tweet, I was looking for somebody to get credited for taking the video. You know, it's funny. No one credits anything with anybody anymore. That's true. At least this show will do it for you.

Who are you crediting? I'm crediting Kevin Ashthfeld. I just did it. Okay, well, only after he asked for it. He didn't say, please give me credit. You said, hey, my video went viral. I said, yeah, I did. So there you go.

He said, give your boy some credit. That's what he was implying. And by the way, it's Jay Hap, everybody. Not J.A. Jay. Jay. Anybody tells you J.A. Hap?

You're like, you know what? Out in right field, now batting for the Astros, right filter, J.J. Reddick. No, did you hear that Joe Buck? Yeah, I didn't see it. I heard it, yeah. You were at the game. He joked about it. He's a goofy mistakes. Mistakes happen.

He does a lot of sports. He doesn't ever do Duke basketball, but, you know, he gets around. Somebody asks me a story, what do you think he makes? I have to guess. I think he's in the $6 million range. I would get that. My first thought was $5 million, but yeah, six, probably somewhere like that. I bet we can find it, Joe Buck Contract. Do you think his contract's available on a PDF somewhere out there?

We can just look at it? I don't know about that. He has security, by the way. And somebody was like, can you believe he's got... I said, yeah, I can. Because let's say he has to go to the bathroom. And we all use the same bathroom in the press box. And yes, that's right.

Okay. Nobody's going to hassle with Joe Buck in the press area. You don't know that? What if, you know, he can't miss? Like, he's going to the bathroom. He can't miss the... No, he's not coming. But you ever hear John Smolte say,

welcome back to Fox's baseball coverage? No. It's always Joe Buck. I thought you meant he can't miss in the urinal. No, no, no. I mean, everybody misses in the urinal. That's a daily basis for you. for me. It's for whatever reason the Astros Concourse, people miss the entire toilets and just pee on the ground, but that's okay.

By the way, the worst place for people to miss at the urinal is in airports. Oh. What does it matter with you people when you travel to airports? If you have bad aim, sit down. I'm not going to judge you sitting down. I'm going to judge you with your pee all over the lid. It happens. It happens way too much. Yeah. And this, and what is happening is I was in, where was I last week? I was in Tampa. kids aren't traveling in Tampa in the middle of September and October. They're in school. So it's grown-ass adults missing the bathroom lid. Yeah, it's drunkards. It's basically every bar down town or midtown.

It's just America. It's bad, yeah. Lidfully or sit down. Thanks, Bill. We can't do that. Bill O'Brien didn't miss the lid yesterday. I just see that he got an contact extension in 2018, a three-year deal, but it just says multi-million. Yeah, he's, and again, somebody said, well, you know, I said, that's what the

big guys get. Joe Buck. And by way, Joe's fine. I thought Joe and John are fine. I have no problem with them. Players Wiki.com, whatever that is, says 6 million. Okay. So that's pretty good. I was pretty close then. You said 6 million. You nailed it. He does 20, about 25 football games.

Okay. 25 baseball games. 25 football? Yeah, because it's Thursday. Okay. U.S. Open. And that's it. You're doing okay.

So get your math. When we get you? Let me see. Let me figure this out here on the old calculator. What was some calculating music? He actually does more football. Let's give him 30 football games. Okay.

So it's 30 football games. He'll do 25 baseball games and one golf tournament 40. So that's about 60 days on the air. All right. So 60 days on the year. And let's give you a day of preparation for each one of those. Okay. So that's 120 days.

of literal work every year. Is that fair to say? Sure. So travel days, those count. Those can make you travel weary. Let's add 10 more to make it 130. Okay.

So $6 million a year divided by 130 work days. He's making $46,000 every day he works. It's not bad. It's not bad at all. I mean, I love working with you. But if Foxx want to pay me $6 million to leave your ass,

I'm done. Can I just get like a, give me just a chunk of that to help you out and I'll, I mean, I'll spot for you. I'll do all your research. When I get to Fox, you can be my bodyguard. Okay, great. Yeah, I'll be your bodyguard, spotter, uh, in research. Stats.

Statistician, concierge. Would you drive my Uber for me? Absolutely. By the way, I'm looking forward to trying this Uber comfort. It's a new zone, a new layer of Uber, by the way. Do you see that? Yeah, it's just another scam. It's just more labor, right?

Yeah, it's okay. That's just another thing. Like if you have an accord. rather than a civic, they charge you extra. It's a scam. Yeah. It works out beautifully. To the phones we go, let's say hi to Jim and downtown on 798-109.

Hi, Jim. Hey, guys. Help you doing well. Thank you. Last night, I thought, was a really good game. My only concern is that the early innings, we're not taking advantage and put more pressure on the Yankees. We could have scored at least three innings and put more pressure on them in the first.

Actually, the whole game I was worried thinking that was going to come back to Haunis. and hopefully we can jump on them with a call on the mound and we can put some early runs to keep the Yankee crowd somewhat quiet. And I was outside the stadium after the game when we were leaving. There was a lot of Yankee fans there, but they were pretty quiet. And then we kept saying, hey, we're not Minnesota twins. No, I don't mean bad or Minnesota, but, you know, I have people that live up there. But anyway, I said, you're going to have to earn it if you want to beat us.

And they just shrug your shoulders and said, yeah, I guess we do. But anyway, hopefully they'll do good and enjoy your show, guys. Thank you. Yeah, trust me when I tell you, the Astros are not sitting and go around and going, you know, we need to get to the fifth and sixth inning before we start doing our damage offensively. This is a team that has had, well, how many, I mean, more than double-digit George Springer leadoff home runs this year. Ten, I think, exactly. Or 12, maybe.

No, yeah, it gets more than 12, 13. So if any team likes to take advantage of getting off to a fast start, it's the Houston Astros. Please understand that there's nothing the Astros are doing intentionally to piss you all off. They're doing it because they're having troubles. Yes. The Yankees are good. The Yankees are getting paid, too. The Yankees won 103 games.

I'm a question for you. What's that? If the game four of the series, which is supposed to be Wednesday, gets rained down, meaning game four goes to Friday. You want Zanker-Ranky pitching that game on normal rest at Yankee Stadium? Yeah, why not? Okay. What's the alternative?

Peacock or what? Well, yeah, I mean, it's TBA at this, you know, at this point. TBA? Mm-hmm. Then... What you would then do is you would send then you go back to Verlander. You'd fly him home because they don't want to have him

keep him there in New York at night and then have to fly back in and then pitch the next day. Send him home back to Houston quick. Get him his proper rest. You would then set up game six with Verlander and game seven with Cole. Was that right? Kind of rest with Cole be on it would be if he's pitching tomorrow

that's Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. He would pitch Sunday. on his fifth day. Yep. On full rest. Yep. Because right now, the weather holds, game three is coal.

Game four is, we don't know yet. Game five would be Granky, six Verlander, seven coal. So then you'd be going four, five, six with those three. Yeah, that's right. And then game seven would be the question of, well, what are we going to do now? That would be all hands on deck. That'd be Verlander for an inning. be Cole for an inning. And your game seven

starter. I guess there's an advantage one way the other is. Yeah, no. My guess is from a logistical standpoint they'd like to play the game. But you'd rather keep your top. If you go your top three of the first six games. You know, it's kind of funny. We joked about Verliner and Cole, if they win their games, the Astros win their series.

Well, so far, it looks like that's worked out well. Verliner looked a lot better yesterday. One mistake pitch to Aaron Judge. By the way, Aaron Judge, to show you how strong he is, he's got some hitch in his motion batting stance-wise because of the injuries, my guess is, and it's something he'll work on in the off-season. All of his home runs are being pulled, are opposite direction. He's just that strong.

He can will his way, Apo-Taco, as the kids call it. I don't like that term, by the way. It's a terrible term, but people are using it all over the place. I don't like it. I mean, it doesn't even make sense. Like, what's a taco? Like, what's in this Apot taco? Does it have sour cream?

I mean, it's just, yeah, I don't like it. Yeah. Thumbs down on Apotaco. His opposite field power is amazing. And so is Carlos Crea. I'm going to make a poll on Twitter. Apotaco, like, don't like. Oh, I would think it's probably 3 to 1.

Don't like it. 113. 1-1-2-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-7-90. I literally hate Aerold as Chapman. It may not be fair, but it's a truth. And thank you, Astros, for at least pitching, getting 25 pitches at them,

so he couldn't pitch a second inning. for the Yankees. It is the Matt Thomas show with Pro Niccolo and SportsRV. I'm SportsMT. We appreciate you very much listening to Sports Talk 790. Rockets, Basketball.

Rockets PA announcer and sports talk show host. One might get the impression Matt Thomas loves to hear Matt Thomas' voice. Go ahead, Matt, talk for us. I poll question at SportsRV, the phrase Apocaco. Do you love it? like it, don't like it, hate it. I'm going to go with a hate it, Ross. You okay with that?

Okay. Here we go. Right now, 35 votes are in. It's even 29% like it, 29% love it, 23% hate it, 20% don't like it. Get your votes in at SportsRV. Hey, I want to remind you, tomorrow, Ross and I are going to be on location. We're going to Twin Peaks. We added this at the last second because it's going to be like an unofficial, what's going to be an official show. Yes. We'll go 12 to 2 and then we'll send it up. to Michael and Chris up at Yankee Stadium for on deck at 2 o'clock. Wonderful. And then you and I are, I mean, I don't know if you are, but I'm going to hang out for a couple of hours.

Yeah, I'm not obligated to do that, am I? No, but I'm going to drink some beer. Well, we'll see what the scenes are like. Well, the scenic views will be fine. Should I have something healthy like a turkey avocado sandwich or it should just go full wings and... I'm going to have Coors Light and a nice garden salad. I'll be drinking an ice cold, refreshing dos Eckis. They're diet doceki?

I don't think so. They don't have a Dosecchi's light. No. Where's lights? My jam? With a cook. There's no half stepping with thoseekis. With a salad.

And I'm going to watch games. So, hey, I won't put this out there. So we're not an thing official. We're just, we're going to hang out. We're going to hang. There's no like, hey, come spin the wheel of fun. Should we get dollar bets or something going? I'll make dollar bets with you.

Okay. Let's get some ones. Everybody bring ten single dollars with you. I'll stop by Polkats on the way home and get some ones. It was last he went to pole cats. Never. I drove by the other day. A little seedy.

I've been there when it was scores. Truth be told. Well, and you are a truth setter. It was at like 155, and we didn't know that they were going to close it, too. So I was literally in there. I had one beer and left. Okay, fair enough. So here's the jam.

We're going to be at 59 and Kirby tomorrow for the show. I feel like you have your own sub-show. No. I'm just trying to make sure I don't tell my score story. Yeah, not for today. So tomorrow, come by and see us. We're going to be at 59 in Kirby for Twin Peaks at 12 o'clock to do the show, and then we'll hang out and drink some beers and watch the game.

Relax and relax and. Yeah. And then Thursday, we're going to go to the thing over at Big City Wings in Kingwood. So if you live in that neck of the woods, come on hang out there. We're doing the show there? No, I'm just going to go watch the game. Okay. Yeah, I can, yeah.

You're very busy. That's like a $50 Uber for me. By the way, Uber pricing, y'all getting... Dynamic was pretty brave. There were people like waiting an hour and a half after the game. They're just like waiting at 1 o'clock and I'm wanting to get a decent Uber right back to their neck of the woods because Uber pricing spiked during the playoffs.

And it was supposed to be. And by the way, the jam of going to a different hotel or something, like two blocks, Uber's got that fixed. They're going to get you. You have to basically walk to like, I don't know, the hobby performance center before you can get a cut, cut deal on anything of Uber rates that light at night last night.

Yeah, you might want to try a lift or sometimes at a certain price, a cat, a good old-fashioned cab is going to be fine. And it's immediate too. 713-212-5-790. Let's say hi to Alex and Hobby Airport on 7-90. Hello, Alex. Hi, Matt. You know, this love and hate-love

and hate relationship with Carlos Korea is static. You know, I was at the game in last time. I mean, you say that that's probably the most exciting playoff game that you've been to. Is that correct?

Well, I wasn't there for Game 5 because I was working Rockets. So for me, that was one of the most exciting. I mean, my most exciting moment as a kid was Mike Scott no hitting the Giants, but that was a regular season game to win the West. Yesterday, for me, was up there among the all-time grades. Well, you know, obviously nothing can top game. five, but let me ask you a question.

Wait, did you go to any of the 2017 ALCA against the same Yankees? Did you go to any? Yeah, I did, yes. Okay, well, okay, let me tell you. I think game two, it's funny. You want to hear something funny? Game two, to me, it was even more exciting than this one. Game two, it was won by Carlos Correale on a WACOP on the 9th of of Chapman. And that was the game, Berlander, went

nine innings, and he struck out 13 guys. To me, I mean, that was, I was to both games, and to me, that one was more exciting than last night. Alex, why are you trying to compare what was more exciting? How about yesterday being an exciting game? It was, yeah. But, I mean, all I'm saying is these games against the Yankees, they're epic, and they're just going to get better. And I can't wait for tomorrow. We win.

We're going to bring them back to Houston. And, I mean, the best is just to come. That's what I got to say. Thank you, Alex. shit the phone call. Yeah. Everybody's got their own subjective opinion. What was more exciting? I just loved, it was part chess, it was part heavyweight fight last night. There was drama. There was, I mean, the second guessing galore, I could just feel it in the pores of Houston, Texas. Everybody was upset. O'Suna got put in when he did, and then he got up

for that second inning in a review where he's upset. I personally was questioning why Ryan Presley was put in at all if he was only going to see one batter and then go with Josh James, who was good previously in game one. But, you know, it is a question mark. Has been up and down in his career? Everything worked out. Yeah, the only thing is I don't think Ryan Presley has any mojo left. Faces one batter gives up a hit. He had two previous appearances in the playoffs so far that have been less than spectacular. And that hurts because that was one of the go-to guys. He'd worked his ass off to get back from injury. You were thinking, this a guy that can help the cause, not only him, but Will Harris is two great-up set-up guys Osuna.

And I don't think Ryan Presley has thought of that vein right now. I think probably Josh James takes over that because here's the thing about Josh. We've talked about this five million times. We'll do it again five more million times. You can't teach 100 miles per hour. You cannot. And it seemed like, I mean, he was just throwing a ton of fast balls. I think he ended up throwing like maybe one breaking ball in his whole like 10 pitches that he threw.

It was crazy. But yeah, if he's running up there in 99 and locating it well, Josh James is good. Josh James is plus. And it was good to have JV back too. I mean, no thought. That whole thing of three days rest thing is outside now. It's not even thought about.

One mistake pitch. It was a little bit of a question mark because he was coming off the short rest. Sure. He looked shaky. How was he going to bounce back? Then he went, what, 10, 109 pitches. And he did seem like he wasn't super happy to get pulled when he did. Oh, my God.

I don't know if this is peeling the curtain back or y'all can just see it without having to worry about peeling it. JV wants no part of being pulled from a game. No. And he's going to basically tell you. My guess is... He looked like he didn't even look a hinge in the eye. AJ has worn out, has been worn out more than one occasion.

If you were to put a bet of JV and AJ arguing about whether they're being pulled in a game, at any point in a spring training game, I would put that at a... minus 500. Honestly, I thought he looked tired in the sixth. I was a little bit surprised. He went out for the, what did he start the, what did he start the seventh with like 100,

almost 100 pitches, like 97 pitches or something like that? And I don't know exactly what it was, but I was a little bit surprised that even went out for the seventh. And then I did get a couple of quick outs and then allowed the walk, and then that was all she wrote.

And yeah, JV's not going to look at AJ, but they're going to hug it out after. And if they don't hug it out, who cares? I don't need my manager or my player to be best friends. I need a respect factor. And AJ is going to give JV a longer leash than anybody else. Peering into store it because he knows how intense he is. But that was the right decision.

Yeah. All right. We'll take a short time out. We'll come back, get some more phone calls in. Alex and Aaron, we've got two A's on the board looking for a 3A. 713212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Our time is 1-27.

It is the Matt Thomas show. Sports RV, Pro Nuclo, with us. If you Texans fans want to get in, I'm here for you, too, because you all were fantastic. The squad was, I mean, Rossi, that's a big time win. I ain't, there's no reason to soft sell what we thought maybe the Chiefs are Tinge overrated. You know who made them overrated? The Colts and the Texans did.

Yeah, I made a tweet that it was a great win and the Chiefs are thought of as one of the best teams in football. And somebody was just trying to down, somebody was, somebody who didn't even follow me. So that's a Matt Thomas classic right there. Guy didn't even follow me and he's getting all upset with me for calling the Chiefs one of the best teams in football. They are. That was a great win for the Texas. Absolutely. No question about it. 128 on Sports Talk 790. This is Carlos Correa.

Back to Matt Thomas. It's an inside the park. Two run. Home. It's your home. A fastest baseball. All right. I promise Ross would allow this.

133 on the Matt Thomas show. Here he is. And by the way, Nick, can you get a clock going? How long do you need? 60 or two minutes? I'm not even. I can, I can get. get this way out of this out of my system pretty quick.

60 seconds, Nick, wait for the clock because I want a little production value to this. Let's get a 60 second clock ready whenever you're ready, Nick. Let me know. We're going to let Ross bitch and moan about his hated beloved Texas Longhorns. We ready? All right.

The clock starts now. Big time rivalry game over the weekend. Longhorns covered at least. There were 11 point dogs going into it. Just completely outmatched in basically every phase of the game. Could not get any push in the running game, except for a couple of late runs from Roshan Johnson in the second half. The defensive line was doing absolutely nothing.

And then Malcolm Roach, your best defensive line and gets kicked out for targeting. It is what it is. It was the right call. I don't like the rule there, but whatever. And then my God, some of the worst tackling you will ever see. Absolutely horrible. CD Lamb had a great game with 171 yards and 10 catches and three touchdowns. He should have had about half of that if the Longhorns could actually tackle. The offense was solid. If it weren't for a couple of turnovers, this thing would have been much, much worse. So I feel like Vegas did have this one right.

Longhorn's lucky to only lose by a score in Dallas over the weekend. Damn, you got it with like two seconds of spare. You should have said hook him. Hook him, horn. Look, the Holiday Bowl has never been. bad, the Alamo Bowl, whatever you are going to this year. Kansas and TCU and K-State

next. So, hopefully three wins. Look, my squad's not going to a bowl this year, I don't think, so. Expectations are a little bit higher at Texas than you of H, man. Aggie fans, you're welcome to calling with your 60 seconds. Oh, they're still, they only fell back to 15th. All right. Longhorn

bump in the ratings is real. The only two lost team in the top 20. My cohort. thumbs up on a top 15 rating in the Associated Press Bowl. My expectations changed on the 40 acres. Get that 15 next to you. Get you some more sponsorship dollars or something. Anna, Northwest Side at 135 on 790.

Hello, Anna. Okay, that was great. I think I can tell my five things in 60 seconds if I don't get interrupted, please. First of all, I think somebody should get that choir to the next. home Astro game on Saturday. That was wonderful. And I want to thank DISH for getting our stations back from greedy criminal fox people. So when we can watch the Astro games on DISH. And I think it's alarming that so many great first pitches, the Astros are letting so many great first pitches go by that are strikes. I've never seen them do that so much, I don't think.

The next thing is also alarming, and you touched on this while ago, is our rookies. I mean, I know they're really great, especially Alvarez and I think the Tyler guy, but they keep striking out. I mean, it's alarming. We're trying to get to the World Series, you know. We have experienced players that maybe could do better. And the last thing is, I think it's my last thing, is Cole. If management, hands down, if management and the owner is serious about a World Series next year, they will pay co. They will pay him.

You will prove to us that you are serious about a World Series again. Thank you. Go, go, Astros. Oh, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Here come the Astros. There come the Astros Billing orange bird Here come the Astros

Who's winning on their mind Here come the Astros number one every time Go Go Astros Boomba! Boomba! Boomba! Go! Astros! That might be the official new Moon Music of the Matt Thomas Show.

instead of playing Lou Rawls. I think I'm okay with that. By the way, Nick, cue up towards the back half of the song, because I can't cue here in my studio. We'll play it not necessarily now, but at some point, we've got to play the last minute of it

because we've been playing the first minute of it forever. These fine folks at Clear Creek High School went two minutes and 31 seconds. They should be heard towards the end. Okay. I'm just saying... Do you play the whole thing? Well, I just don't want to play the whole thing in one stretch.

Okay. I mean, we don't, you know, Michael Barry doesn't have a show. We don't play all songs. Why don't you come back with Freebird? We'll just listen to Freebird. Coming up on the show tomorrow, we'll play Freebird, followed by a stairway to heaven, and then American Pie. And that'll be the 1 o'clock hour.

And it got a divita after that. That's true. 713-212-5-790. Aaron in the Woodlands on 790. Hello, Aaron. Hey, guys. Hi. Only a degenerate gambling longhorn would start off his rant by saying, at least they covered.

Not that there's anything wrong with it. I'm just wondering where he laid the money on Texas to cover. He's calling you out. He's calling you out. That was a stay away for me. I don't want to be hung up on. I'll stay away from that. Okay, I have one point is so great to be a Houston Texan,

Houston fan right now with the rockets on their way, Astros, and what's happening with, although I'm concerned about a picking game with the Texans, and I'm happy with everything else the way it's going. My question is, and I want this go to the smartest baseball player that you know, and I don't know about you guys, but I live by kind of a code of telling my kids, listen, never settle for if somebody says,

well, that's the way it's always been. That's not a real good answer to a question, right? I try to figure out, hey, if it could be better or different, We should try to do that, right? In baseball, it's such a precise sport. Everything's measured. We were out there last night watching them chalk the field and measure the mound and measure the grass to make sure of the lengths of it. It is just crazy how specific everything is.

However, one thing that is on the field that nobody uses, I don't know why it's there. I know why it's there, but they don't use it. They don't adhere to it. And that's the coaches boxes. So if y'all could tell me one reason why either the coach's boxes on the first third base side are even there, or why don't they be moved where the coaches actually stand? And the guy that got tagged out, the Yankee at home plate, that third base coach was almost at home plate with running down the third baseline.

So if it's a safety issue, that's crap. If it's interfering with the referee or the game, that's crap because they're all over the field. So if you can answer that, I appreciate it. Great show, guys. Keep it up. Thank you, Aaron. The speed limit's 55. People test it constantly. Base coaches test the box all the time. I don't have any more of an answer than that than what I just gave you. It's there as a guidance, but it's not to be used.

I've been honest with you, I've watched thousands of baseball games, and I have never seen an umpire go to a base coach and say, get in your box. I have wondered about that too, though. Oh, I mean, it's kind of where you're bringing it up after game two of the American League Championship Series. Gary Pettis is like when he's waving somebody home, he's like almost in the opposing dugout. I thought it was awesome the one time he waved Jose Altova home and he actually jumped on Jose's back to go with him. No, I'm kidding. Say, I missed that one.

Yeah. It's just as a guideline. The only thing I know that they adhere to all the time. all the time is you have to absolutely have to wear the batters helmet because there have been guys that have been hit. By the way, I have not heard any more on the security guard that got hit in the dugout. Yeah, I haven't heard either.

Stable condition was last I heard. Yeah, and they were giving us reports a couple of times during the course of the game. Excuse me, but I have not heard anything more since then. But that's sad. Man, you just, baseball, you have to, even if you're in the dugout, if you're in the stands, you have to be super, super, super careful

no matter where you are. Even in the upper deck, ball. I mean, there's only so much netting. You can't protect yourself everywhere. So please don't be in your phone. It's not the same the guy was, but you could clearly tell for a couple minutes. It shook the folks,

especially with Michael Brantley at the plate and age. You had to go over there and kind of talk to him. 142 is the time. The station is Sports Talk 790. I'm Matt Thomas with Ross Villareale and Nick Lowe. We look forward to visiting with you between now and 3 o'clock today. 713-2-1-3-1. to 5-790, and we are going to play the back half of the Clear Creek Choir song at some point during the show today.

We just felt like we got to give them the whole run. The morning sports show for those who partied in Midtown way too hard last night. The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. Introduce to provide information to you here. I'm looking at the same website during the break. MLB rule 5.03. The team at Bat shall have stationed two base coaches on the first. field during its time at bat, one near first base and one near third.

Got that right. Base coaches shall be limited to two a number and shall one being in team uniform and two remain within the coaches boxes at all times. Wink, wink, wink. The penalty for this, the offending base coach, is to be removed from the game and shall leave the playing field. Okay, well, nobody's going to do that. Here's the wink-wink part of the rule.

This comes from a baseball rules academy website. It has been common practice for many years for some coaches to put one foot outside the coaches box or stand astride or otherwise be slightly outside the coaching box lines. Until a batted ball passes a coach, a coach is not permitted to position himself closer to home plate than the coach's box nor closer to fair territory than the coach's box. Otherwise, a coach shall only be considered out of the box unless the opposing manager complains, in which case the umpire shall strictly enforce the rule to remain in the coach's box at all times. you know, I never quite thought of it.

I don't think it's ever been a problem. Again, you're not trying to piggyback off the situation. It's anecdotal to me. But yeah, I don't know. If nobody says anything, it's not a problem. Yeah, no one's saying anything. And if you are, you just have too much time on your hands to be focusing on the really important stuff.

And why would you want the Empire looking anywhere but home plate? Why would you need him focusing on the things? third or first base coach. If he's not interfering with the ball and play, who cares? Yeah. Now, if they do interfere, then it's easy, but they're never in fair territory. Right?

I've never seen a base coach ever in fair territory. No, I don't think so. So when the time is called and they go talk to the guy in third base, even then they're still just like close. So what about this? How about this? Let's say the ball is hit the left field and you got Michael Brantley and you have base running coach, the third base coach of the Yankees and he's trying to throw

home and knock him out. is that, I guess, is the coach protected by the box? Generally, they just get out of the way, right? Yeah. I mean, I'm asking this honestly, because I've never seen it before. If Gary Pettis got, guy took him to the ribs? No, no, no, other way, other direction. Third base coach of the Yankees.

Michael Bratley, ball is hit to left field, and he's trying to throw the base runner home. Aaron Judge is trying to come home, and the ball hits the base coach. Is the base coach protected as long as he is in the. box. I don't think so. I think he would have to make an effort to get out of the way. So you're telling me it's subjective, regardless of where he is? Former Astro great Phil Nevin, the third base coach over there.

Okay, so if y'all are an umpire, help me out with this. Phil Nevin, third base coach, former overall number one pick of the Astros. Not a great one. Instead of Jeter. Michael Brantley is trying to nail Aaron Judge to the plate, and the ball is on its way in the air, and it hits Phil Nevin. is he protected as long as either one foot or both feet are in the in the coaches excuse me in the coaches back i've never seen it probably he's fine don't know probably we we we shouldn't even guess i'm just i'm literally asking the way the rule is written it says until a batted ball passes a coach so once the ball's been hit and it's

traveled past that point right i think he can move wherever he wants to to stay out of the play or to make his calls, his signs, whatever he needs to do. And at that point, I think, yeah, he would have to try and not interfere in the plane in any way. So as long as there's an effort for the base coach to get out of the way, you can't penalize that team. It's like a batter trying not to get hit by a pitch. As long as you try to get out of the way, you're okay.

That's the craziest thing about baseball. There's things that, I mean, I've been watching baseball since I was seven years old. There are things I still have never seen before. You always see something new in baseball. It is. And it's a cliche, it's true. I used to have to, when I was doing post game shows, I'd have to guess. And sometimes I was right and sometimes I was wrong.

And so now I just kind of defer to, I haven't seen it before. What is the rule? And there are umpires that are driving around town right now. Like, I had been through that situation before. I know what it to do. Not that I hope it ever happens. Not that it could ever happen, but, you know, sometimes strange discussion points come out of stuff like that.

Well, luckily, they wear helmets. Hi, Gene. You're on 790 at 153. What's going on? Gene? Yeah, I got a couple of questions to ask. I was wondering, do, does a manager, do you ever give a take signals? If they have rookies in there and they're at the plate,

do they ever give take signals so they don't have the responsibility of always swinging at a ball that's out of the strike zone? And I was wondering another thing about, why does Al-Tubi try to butt the ball more? If he tried to butt the ball, like he would probably catch a, third baseman or a short stop out of position. Maybe he... Bum, bong, bong, bong, bong, bong, bong, bong, bong, bong, bong, bong, here come the Astros,

burning with desire. Here come the Astros, bring a horse ride. Here come the Astros. There's winning on that night. Here come the Astros number one every time. It simply puts you in a good mood. Yeah. Here come the astroles,

burning wind inside. I want the sheet music for this song. Are you going to sing it? Because I was a baritone in college. Here come the Astros number one. Here's a harmony. Go. Astros

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All right Clear Lake Letter represent. Woo. Because I can baritone harmonize like a mutter. If that didn't put, yeah, I mean, you're a state champ, weren't you? I was. I earned the equivalent of like 21 letter jackets.

There you go. Matt Choir Thomas. If I could ever have the stones to sing the national anthem, I would do it. But I just... Why don't you do it? Because I'd be definitely afraid of forgetting the words. We should have a couple of Coors lights before. Oh, that would actually kind of help.

Yeah. And you should let it loose like it's piano, man. We've seen you rip that one. I did. I didn't get free drinks off of that. That was good. Let's go to Alex and Garden Oaks at 155. Hi, Alex.

Alex. Yes, sir. Go ahead. Great show. I remember before the day's pitch counts, the old baseball cards, 50s and 60s, in the back of the card on a pitcher, we brag about how many completed games that pitcher had, how many shutouts, how many one-hitterers, etc. And those days seemed pretty much to be gone.

And I thought Hinge was crazy pulling pitchers that weren't tired, weren't injured, weren't in trouble. And the first time I noticed that was when we were playing the Royals and the playoffs. And we were three-in-one, we were up three-in-one, and we lost that game, pulled the pitcher for no reason at all. I don't even think there was a pitch count problem at that point. But anyway, now I see what the Wraise are doing, and I see what the Yankees are doing. They're taking it to such an extreme. And I heard one announcer who agreed with my philosophy, you know, you keep pulling these relievers. One after the other, you're going to get one coming in there with a bad hair day, and that's going to blow a game.

And that's what I've seen going on with the aster's in the past. and it seems like in my opinion the Yankees lost last night because they were pulling their pitchers at home run for example the winning home run in the 11th inning after not holding an Astro to a hit through the last six

innings before that. The Astro scored three runs the whole game. Please. Come on gang. Let's wake up! Wake up! Let's go! Seriously, I'm not doing this anymore. The two best office And two of the three best offenses in baseball, however you want to look at it, depending on your metric. Scored three and two runs yesterday.

Yeah. The Astros did not get a hit until the home run, right? Correct. From like five and a half innings. Right. Six innings. Let's go. This is 1957 or 67 or 77 or 77.

We in 2019, whereas manager will tell you, I'm not managing for just today, but the next. day. And what I want to use in two days. What Aaron Boone did. Canely, two and a third. Britain and inning. Chapman an inning. Sabathia won third. The guy, I can't even pronounce his name properly. Loisinga? Yeah, Robert Loza.

Two walks. That was a blemish. Hap came in and did his job and then through the first pitch. Loisiga. It was the 11th inning. It was a battle of attrition. Somebody had to make the mistake. There was no mismanaging. anywhere. Sorry. It just wasn't. Lord.

Where? We're, we're... 158. Final hour of the Matt Thomas show. I need a drink. Is the Matt Thomas show. Four on Sports Talk, 7.90. I made one major mistake with our friends over at Clear Creek High School. I think I said Clear Lake High School. It's Clear Creek. That's like calling Texas, Texas A&M. What'd you say wrong? I said Clear Lake. They're Clear Creek. Yeah, you said Clear Creek at first.

Did you say Clear Lake at some point? I think I said the last time. Okay. By accident. Back since happened, JJ Reddick. That's true. Well, now the Clear Lake High School choir needs to step up. Clear Creek High School, if you're listening to me,

bring your choir to our offices. We know we can do, they can carol throughout the offices of IHeartMedia. We'll put them on Sunny, put them on our station. Yeah. They should be kicking off Christmas music pretty soon, right? Yeah. Yeah, so come sing Acapella to Go Go Astros. And I do send somebody in Clear Creek, please send me the sheet music.

I want to sing baritone with y'all. I think it'll be awesome. Ross, you're more of like a tenor. Okay. What are you talking about Matt? No, that's drop it down. That's bass. Oh, what are you talking about Matt?

I don't know. You want to hit them high notes, Maddie? All right. 7-13-21, 2, 25, 7-9. What is happening on the show? I don't know. Look, I'm a little punch drunk because we were working late last night. Well, you were.

I was listening. It's all right. And it was worth it. This is why I love sports. This is why I do this. This is why I got lucky to have to do this job. This is great. Even talking to some numskills occasionally.

It's going to happen. Asking El Tivita Buntmore. Watch this. This is my head hitting the microphone. Just a quick note. So we can seriously. address those concerns, Matt. How many home runs will you ever hit bunting?

Zero. Unless it's like a little league home run. How many extra bases will you ever hit bunting? Zero. That's why you don't punt. And look, there are moments in time. They hit 31 home runs this year. If you're in a tie ball game, 11th inning runners

at first and second, nobody out, but you have somebody that actually can bunt? I'm down with it. I'm okay with that. I'm not this, I'm not that guy. If it's the pitcher, I'm okay with it. somebody on Twitter last night was asking for Yarnan Alvarez to Bunn. Oh, no. That big burly man couldn't even buy, couldn't try it. And then he had an out.

He already, it was already one out. You're not giving up an out. You're just giving up outs with a, within theory. Now, they haven't acted that way, but in theory, a prolific offense. I feel like he's going to be okay. He's just going through a slump. Thought of moving him down a spot in the order. I mean.

Probably is Gueriel, who would be the next guy in front of him behind him. he has does that have a head either. You think we'll see Correa 5 and then like Yordaun Yuli or something like that. Promise nobody's real. There's only, I told us to Ross before. Bregman and L.T. of A. Yeah. So there are three players that have OPS in the postseason talking the five Tampa games and two New York games.

OPS of 800 or higher. And 800 is the really frankly the average measure. Average is usually about seven, seven, five. So slightly above average. Right. Above average. When I, when somebody says somebody, these guys got an OPS of 800, I go, okay, that's He's good.

He's good, yeah. The only player is on the Astro Squad with OPSs of 800 in the postseason. Altuve at 1100, Bregman 1,000. Malvinano's only played two games for, two at, five at bats, his OPS is 800. The rest of the mainstays are way, way down. OPS for Alvarez, 632, Brantley, 563, Correa 556. That includes the home run yesterday, so it shows you how lean he was. Guriel 555.

Torino's 535. Springer, four. You're leading your leadoff man, who went deep yesterday. Yeah. OPS of 435 in the postseason. Ugh.

Tucker 347. Reddick 282. The ones I'm really worried about, I would say Trinos, Reddick Tucker. Well, 7.8.9. I mean, I'm not going to be. 8.9 have been horrible.

I mean, those guys have looked like they are a little bit out of their depth sometimes with the bad, really bad at bat. And Marzick is Jake. And Michael Connor and I argued about this a little bit. I argued. He debated it. He's like, this is, the splits are good.

I'm like, my man, October splits and April splits against the Yankees are two different animals. Yeah. And I think Jake looked daring headlights right off the bat. And that's why AJ made the quick hook. Kyle Tucker has got to stop swinging at high pitches. What is he doing? Why is he swinging in his eyelids every five seconds? Yeah.

He looks over a man. I feel like Yulee is going to be fine. I feel like a lot of the guys are going to be fine. And Correa, I thought his batts had looked progressively better yesterday and then the home run. For those of you that watch House Kitchen, you'll love this reference. There are three cooks that one has to get kicked off the show. One is Tucker. One is Reddick and one is Mariznick.

And all three of them are trying to go to chef. What's his face? Gordon Ramsey. And they're trying to explain why they're a good cook. It's like chopped. And they're all like, he's like, all y'all, effing suck. Why should I keep one of you? Well, you know, I boil water, all right.

Hey, I made spaghetti one time. That was good. I looked good. I got a free flowing hair. What tall you? An idiot sandwich. I love that gift. What, to all you?

That was my British. Look, let's move on. Yeah, let's move on. Let's, uh, Rick and Conroe at 210 on 7. I'm hi, Rick. Hey, guys. How's it going on today? Good.

What's going on? Yeah, for sure. Hey, uh, just, make a note on that third base coach deal. It's kind of like the free throw line. When the ball's in the air, no more rules apply. It's free game.

As long as you don't go cross the line. So I think it makes more interesting in the game. But I just said it's like a free throw. Once that ball leaves the hand, you're good to go. It's not a coaching box. It's a starter's box. That makes a lot of sense.

That's all I have. Thank you very much, Rick. Yeah. They just want to have some parameters where they just where the, you don't want to see Gary Pedder's like out in left field, boo, boo, you can't catch that. You got to have some, some, start throwing sunflower seats at him.

Yeah, miss it, miss it, miss it. That'd be great. That would not be what are you going with. Let's go to Gabriel, West Houston on 7 on a. Hello, Gabriel. Hey, how's it going, guys? Good. So, first of all, great Astros win last night,

no matter how you want to call it, awesome win. The thing that really, really got me going is Sanchez knew he was nowhere near that ball. And the first thing he did was he turned and he whined to the Humplano Pire. I got a piece of it. I got a piece of it. I rewounded like five times my wife was angry. You can even see him checking his bat for a mark on that ball. I know Ms. calls are a part of the game.

I mean, we all remember the perfect game in Detroit that wasn't. Blown calls don't make me upset. But whenever you have a grown man sitting there lying in front of the national stage thing. I got a piece of it. And then complaining even harder when he strikes out on the next pitch, it made me hate the Yankees all over again. I couldn't stand it. And don't forget about this. Before Corrie, I see that first pitch to win the game, he and Corey Glazer the home-pillar, bitching and moaning about it still. And I'm like, what he should have said is bray, bra, I know you had a make-up call. We're good because you know I didn't touch the bat.

I mean, my bat did not touch the baseball. That should have been a very short conversation. How, because every game is videoed, every game is magnified. There's no way that Gary Sanchez can get away with complaining about the outside pitch when all of the world of baseball on television saw that his bat did not touch that baseball. Couldn't agree more. I mean, if you're a catcher, I understand you've got to go to bat. If he would have went up to the home plate and said, hey, my guy better get that outside call too, that's fine. But to sit there and jaw for like 30 seconds before Carlos Correa walks off, I even,

told my wife, I was like, hey, this is a different Yankees team. I don't hate him like I did in 17. That, however, the hatred just rose back up and I just hopefully just win all three in New York and just say goodbye and just leave it alone. All right. Thank you for the phone call. I appreciate that you joining us. More on, from you guys in a minute. You've been really good today. It's been fun talking with you all. It was one of the most special games ever to be played in Houston, Texas. Yeah, it went five hours, but who was really paying a bunch of attention to the time on that? Good news. It's the Matt Thomas Show. for lunch. Let that boring

brown bag lunch rot in the employee refrigerator. Oh, what's that smell? The Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Are you, humbly Astros? We'll have be on deck tomorrow. Kind of a weird day for us because it's an afternoon 308 first pitch. Michael

Connor and Chris Gordier up in New York covering the series for us. Ross and I are tomorrow are going to be at Twin Peaks at Kirby. And we're going to be there starting at noon tomorrow for the show. We'll go till 2, a clock and then we'll send up to New York for the last 30 minutes for the network pregame. But Ross and I, well, I don't want to commit for you, but I'm going to stay for a while.

I might. And eat, drink, and enjoy some scenic views. Very scenic. The most of, the most scenic of views. I mean, beer's under 30 degrees. You got to drink it, right? That's true. So if you all got something, nothing to do tomorrow, come hang out with me.

I mean, I got no prizes. I have no silly darts to give you or, you know, air fresheners or anything. We're just going to sit and watch the game. and cheer loudly. Yes. And have a couple of pops. And then I'll sober up and then I'll go. Okay.

You stay at my place if you want. I'm not staying at your place. Why not? We can hang out. I'm sorry. I'll pump it down to 67 degrees for you. A little hot in the house last time. Oh, my gosh.

It was 72. I was sweating. Oh, my. You're so, you're so bougie. Ha! 713, 2,1, 2, 1,2, 5, 790. 7.1.3, 2, 1, 2,000. You could have said something.

Well. Anyways. You were sleeping. That's true. Roger and the RGV on 7-80. Hello, Roger. Why are you doing that? Wonderful, friend.

How are you? That was a great win. You said, is the Battle of Nutrition out there? Here's my question to you all. You know, you're the inside guys and the baseball and et cetera. Did last night seem like, what's his name, Judge was talking trash? when he hit that home run and he was circling first place and turned around to the Astros and said something. I could read lips and it was not too good.

And then some of the three athletes that Mr. Sanchez was doing up in the plate when he was batting, I saw him interfere a couple of times with Trionis, you know, where there was a throw to the pitcher or whatnot. Are these guys known for dirty play, you know, like, you know, being nuisance out there, you know, because I didn't see a lot of the ass was trash talking. There might have been trash talking behind the scenes, but Judge made it seem loud and clear when he was talking to our bench. And I'd like to know your take on that. And are the Yankees have always been known to be dirty.

Thanks a lot. Love you show, man. Thank you, Roger. I would consider the Yankees be borderline communist. Is Aaron Boone waterboarding reporters? Let me tell you something right now. When Carlos Correa drops the bat

Oh my gosh. Put his hand to his ear and walks to first base. That is the epitome of trash talk. I watch that probably 10 times. That was awesome. We are fair and balanced here on 790, just like Fox News.

There is nothing the Yankees have done that the Astros ain't doing either. It's a cocky, arrogant bunch. You know why? because both teams are really good. Yeah, I mean, Eric George looked like he was saying something. You couldn't really tell if he was firing himself up or if he was saying anything to Astros.

And then he did the old championship belt thing, and I didn't think anything of it. Carlos, Carlos is kind of two-prong. He did the ear to the crowd. He did it for the haters. And he did the jump shot going to home plate, which is awesome. You know, he's 6'7, right? He's 6'4.

6.4. That's good shooting guard. Yeah, Judge is 6-7. Yeah, he's the biggest human being alive ever seen in a major league game. But Carlos at 6-4, he could play the off-guard. He's got good form. The mid-range jumper. He looked all right.

He could play for anybody but the Rockets. We can get Tracy McGady's back guy. But he goes for the jump shot still with 10 feet left to go to the plate. A little mid-range. Sometimes you've got to pull up, Maddie. Roger, I'm going to tell you this

because you're a good listening to the show. Don't worry about the trash talk because everybody's going it the rest of the way. It's fun. It's October. These guys have played 200 baseball games. They're punched drunk. Literally the phrase for the playoffs is what? These guys play loud. Yeah. And that's saying like these guys talk trash. They have a good time. They fit flip bats. We are having fun. This is a game and I'm okay with it. When Alex Breggman talks about Weiraburl, he's not talking about doing mulch work. He's talking about gentlemen with large testicles,

okay? That's trash talking. Right. I get zero problem with either side. It just adds to it. Hell, we had our buddy Nick Duttle on. Have you been checking his Twitter account? Has he been dropping any F-bombs? He was not happy with the way Boone handled the bullpen yesterday. Oh, no, no, no. And the only reason I saw that is because I think Adam Klan was retweeting him.

All right. Caden and Deer Park at 225. Hi, Caden. Hi. Caden, are you off from school today, Caden? Yes, sir. All right. How's your Columbus Day going so far?

Good. By the way, we got believe it or not today on all things about Columbus Day coming up in 20 minutes. You do. You do. You're going to hurry on it. Caden, what you got today, son? I just wanted to know how y'all, like, how y'all felt about how many pictures they put in after pulling green. And, like, after the asterisk couldn't touch him.

Just wanted to know y'all's opinion about how many pictures. You know, I don't get, I don't know the dynamic about how long green normally goes. Thank you, Caden, for the phone call, and good luck in school, young man. Well, let me ask him. Let me get Caden. Caden, what grade are you in? Sixth grade. Where do you go to junior high or middle school?

Deer Park Junior High. Deer Park. Go dear, right? Is that the name of the team? Yes, sir. Go dear. All right, thanks, Caden. Green was so good.

What was Green's pitch, 26? I don't know. I don't know enough about him to tell you what he normally throws in terms of work. Let me look at his, at his, previous work. Chad Green we're talking about. Trying to look at his rundown of what his game ops are. See, it's hard because it's different game log. Here we go. What does he normally do?

He is a, and typically, see, these are all postseason here. I'm trying to find regular season numbers here last 30 games. This is not the great radio. Sorry, Caden, but I want to make sure I give it to you. He is two innings, two innings, two innings. There's nothing more. There's a two and a 30.

had in July, in July. But most of his work is inning, inning in a third, two, two. So, you know, there's one three inning game in September. Maybe he could have got another inning. But again, it's all about matchups. It's all about how particular guys do. Again, I'm just being purely objective in this.

I don't think there's anything that Aaron Boone did per se that was necessarily wrong in terms of how he set up his guys. He also wants to be able to make, to use greening game three of the series. That's the one thing I've learned from these managers. Rogers Ross in 2019 is that they're always thinking about the next game and can I use that guy. Especially if Severino doesn't go deep in game, you would love to be able to come back and use a guy like Chad Green for two more innings if you needed to in game three. And maybe that extra inning makes him a scratch potential for game throw.

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, and Boone operated the way that he did pulling packs in early is because you had that extra day because you have those extra pitchers. Now, obviously you start scraping the bottom of the barrel there with C.C. Zabathian and Jay Hap, but he didn't anticipate it going 11 innings. You can't plan that way in the third inning. Yeah. That's just the way it went, though.

All right, 228 is our time. Larry and Laporte, Gilbert and Hempstead. We'll get to you in a matter of moments. We will also get to believe it or not all things about the Great Columbus Day. Well, Matt, did you see where that pitch was located that Correa sent the other way? Was it to the outside? Hmm. Hand on chin emoji.

Ride. Half the workday is done. Celebrate with Matt. of your show. What was he talking about? By the sound of it, some of you started the party at breakfast. Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790.

Time is 235. It is the Matt Thomas show with Sports RV, Pro Nick Lowe. We're going to believe it or not coming up in a few minutes. Tomorrow we're, he's starting to be. It's going to be amazing. Tomorrow we will be at Twin Peaks. Come on and see us. We'll be on the air at noon.

lead you into Astros baseball with a first pitch of 308. Wednesday's game is still very much up in the year. As the rain chances still remain 100%. They must be absolutely certain that there's going to be rain in New York. The question is going to be for how long? Does it hit the Bronx? And will it affect? They don't want to rain it out because it throws everybody off in logistical nightmare

because the plan is to not take a day off in between. If they have to play game 5 on Friday, everybody will fly to Houston right after the game and play game 6 and 7. according to its schedule, because Fox has TV windows and slot it and all that kind of thing. So, yeah, it's a big mess if they can't get the game in, but Mother Nature may have something else to do with it. Let's go to Larry and Leport at 236 on 7.9. Larry, how are you, sir? Hey, Mike, Ross, Nick, happy today to you all.

If you remember, I called you yesterday and told you I couldn't sleep, Sarah, tonight because what was going on. And then after I finally fell asleep, I had a dream that I could. Dr. Correa. I told him to quit taking that outside pitch and drive it to right field. And I'll be doggone if that ain't what he did. But the thing that it puzzles me is we go to the outside pitch right field when we're in trouble, like the last game of the last series, when we got those five hits in a row in the first inning.

Three of those hits were to the opposite field. A little thing that puzzles me, I can't understand how. Torino is a catcher. He has to see the curveball to catch it. His eyes follow the ball. But when he's batting, he can't see it. You know, Alvarez, if he don't hit that first pitch, that's the left one he's going to see doing that bat. They'd rather walk him than let him hit a home run.

They're pitching the first pitch across the play because they want to get ahead. Trucker is the same way. Quit chasing. Walk. If they don't pitch to you, walk. you know, oh, man, we can do this. But I'm not blowing hot air. I played baseball from 14 to 50, pitching and catching, so I know the game.

You know, I watch them swing at that outside pitch. It's kind of like smoking. It's a bad habit. You are not going to hit that outside pitch to left field. You might as well go with it. Well, like I said, Correa proved me right yesterday. And I just hope they just started going with what the pitcher give them. Y'all have a good day, man.

I know y'all are bumping around town going, man, Larry's act is old. I'm not changing it. If you think I'm going to moon music, Larry and Leport, you're nuts. I'm glad Carlos was listening to the show, heard Larry, and decided to go opo. Taco, as the kids say. Dear Matt, I've listened to your show for years. I stopped listening today. You have become really rude to your callers.

Going with the pitch and bunting are fundamentals. If you bunt every now and then, you can catch the defense off guard. As for going with the pitch, the Astros themselves proved that theory correct. Your callers and your listeners keep you on the radio. I haven't heard a radio host so rude since Charlie Polillo. Thanks, Rob. Can you forward that to me? Sure, why not?

You want to copy on that? Yeah. Can you see me on that? Let me tell you. I'm just going to tell you, and Rob, I know you're still listening. I have been nice to callers for entirely too long of my life. I allow more of a rope than anybody in the history of Houston sports radio. I feel very confident in that.

I agree. So if you leave me, you're not going to find anything better, which you're going to probably find is hours and hours of people that have no idea what the hell of baseball is trying to talk about it and calling people J. A. Hap when it's been J. Even when he was an astro. So Rob, stay with me. We can always agree.

And Bunting is very popular 25 years ago. Gilbert and Hempstead at 239. Hi, Gilbert. This is Gilbert. No, it's not. Who is this? Tell me who your real name is. Mr. Thomas?

I have a few issues with the game last night. Hold on one second. Here come the Astros, burning with desire Here come the Astros, bringing hoarish pride Here come the Astros, I'm playing an all that mind Here come the Astros number one every time Go!

Go Astros Go Go! That's the Asteroos. That's the official moon music until the Astero season is done. Okay, thank you. I don't know if I could take it in like February. We get a dumb college basketball call.

We're not playing it at that point, you're right. We get a college basketball call. I was going to say. By the way, my cougars. How are shocked as smart in the boys looking at? My Cougars predicted to finish co-favorits in the American Athletic Conference today. Congratulations to Calum on the crew. I don't mean anything, but it feels good.

Almost a relevant conference. No, it's not almost. We were better than the Big 12. The whole conference? I don't know. That's not good. You of H is better than Texas. One thing on the Texans where we get to the Columbus Day, believe it or not.

Okay. Let me write this. How about all the first quarter penalties? First, how about the penalties? Throughout the whole thing. It was just awful. You could never get anything fluid. And then when there wasn't a flag, you were like, why isn't there a flag?

Yeah, that's the thing. They missed a ton of calls, too. It's crazy. And by the way, that was a pick on the past interference that Bill O'Brien challenged, and he was right about that. And by the way, why is Kami Fairbearance still a Texan? I'm waiting for the release to cut his ass. Four missed extra points, a missed field goal yesterday?

Why is this happening? B.O.B, you were great yesterday. Now do your job as a general manager and go find a new kicker. DJ and Huffman on 790. Hello, DJ. DJ, are you with me? A guy went to work at work, went to the game, the last game of the Tampa Bay race.

He was telling me that they're going up $3, a bottle of beer from the, anyway, $16.50 for a bottle of beer. Is that true? I don't buy beer at games, I couldn't tell you. Oh, but he was telling me that every game, every series is going up another $3. And they said by the World Series, if they go to the World Series, $25. That's what the guy I told him there.

I was just kind of curious. You know what? That's true. That's true. That's kind of crazy. But I don't know. I can tell you this. And thank you for the phone call.

I can just say I saw Bloody Mary's being served for like $18 bucks today. I'm not a Bloody Mary drinker, so I don't know if that's good or not. But $18 seems crazy. I just don't like alcohol as much as everybody else does. I couldn't tell you. I don't know if beer prices are going up. The Bloody Mary, that's about a 300% markup from a normal bar restaurant.

Yeah, but the Minutemate Park uses the best Amanda Juice. Let me, I don't know. I don't know. That's if the prices are that crazy. Let me see here. Oh, yeah. Yeah, three hour, yeah, Barry went up $3. So did ticket prices, if you notice that.

Everything's more expensive cup post season. Josh and Richmond on 7 out of a 243. Hello, Josh. Hey, what's going on, guys? Hi. Taking the call. Hey, hey, man, I just wanted to comment on, you know, the email you guys just read. I think Miles just read it.

Man, look, you guys are absolutely right. If this guy doesn't want to be around, I've listened to other talk show radio. You guys are amazing. I'm not sitting here trying to, you know, blow smoke. But you guys are awesome. Bunting is a tool of the past. It's not popular, but baseball is not what it was 25 years ago. football has drastically changed.

We can review plays. Coaches can't be coaches. I mean, I think that's a great comment. I just wanted to call in and say that I agree with you. And if this guy doesn't agree that he can always, you know, go to a different radio and hear them bash people worse. So anyway, that's all. Thanks, Josh.

Appreciate it. Yeah, I don't need y'all to get me. I just wanted to read to you that not everybody loves this. But I'll take the percentages. And I'll stay trying true in the fact that I absolutely stay with call. longer than any other host in America. Not America. That's not true. In Houston. There are some shows that don't even take any colors.

They don't like you. I like y'all. I mean, I just do. I think you're a part of entertainment. And my man, Larry, I'm never hanging up on Larry. He has the same outside pitch bit for Ross, what, five months now? It's been a while. And it never changes. It never gets fresh. But I love him. And I'm not going to stop loving him.

but angry Bunt fan who doesn't this is when old back in the day when I played guy that's tired you got to move forward it's 2019 believe it or not is next Matt Thomas we'd like to thank his parents for only

giving him two first names because who would listen to Billy Ray Thomas talk about Houston sports the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790 in Twin Peaks of Kirby tomorrow for the noon show please come by. I'll hang on after the game if y'all want. We'll eat some wings, burgers, salads, drink a couple of coal ones, whatever we got to do to root the Astros on.

And game number three with Garrett Cole on the mound for the local nine. 713-2125 to 790 the number you will need right now. Because with five minutes left to go in the show, I ask you one simple question. I say, what should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports game show. You simply play it. We call it. Believe it or not. And here's how it works. You'll call 713212-5-790. By the way, I got a shout out to my band.

Randy Lemon, the Garden Weasel. And our friend Grace, who says beers were being popped $3 a pie. She paid $16.50 for a beer that her day. Did the Garden Weasel say on Facebook, the Astros weren't going to beat the race? Yeah, the Garden Weasel is just overreactionary Astro fan, but we still love him, nevertheless. All right, now back to the game. Let's play, believe it or not. You're going to call 7132-1-2-1-2-5-7-90.

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The statement's completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. If it's your earnings, it's full of bunk and made up, you will say this. Ah, to believe it or not, it's on all things about Columbus Day, when you're priced. What's the prize? Matt, I got a four pack of tickets to experience Hendricks with special performances by Buddy Guy,

Joe Satriani, Johnny Lang, Doyle Bram Hall, Eric Johnson, and more October 20th at the Revention Music Center. Information and Tickets at LiveNation.com. How many lines was that read? Four. Did you stumble on? Just one. Small one. A little trip.

We all stumbled. Trust me. Yeah, we saw the people at the front of home plate bar and grill. What did I stumble there? Remember they tripping? No. Oh, those poor people. Hi, Troy, you're on 790.

Ready to play, believe it or not? Yeah. Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, but he also made three subsequent trips to the West Indies in 1493, 1498, and 1502. Believe it or not. Believe it. Statement number two for the win,

Columbus Day was first enacted in 1892 to appease Italian American immigrants after 11 Italians were lynched in New Orleans. Believe it. it or not. Believe it. Don't interrupt me. It's not going to worry.

You interrupt the host? Do you think Alex Trebek gets happy when you interrupt him on Jeopardy before the answer is out there? Just saying, no. Line number four. Paul on 7.90. Paul, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Christopher Columbus wanted to make his voyage so desperately.

He sold the majority of his belongings to help finance the trip. If the voyage was not successful, he would have been completely broke. Believe it or not? not. Where did that come from? I tried. That was terrible. You're terrible.

You're terrible. Statement number two for the win. Christopher Columbus's calculations on the trip were way off because he did not convert Roman miles from Arabian miles, believe it or not? Not. Believe it. What is the conversion on that, Ross? I don't know, but he thought he was going to be around the world 30 days, and that was not accurate.

How long it would take? He didn't find the West Inde. these until 35 days. Okay. Matt on 790, Matt, your favorite part of the radio show? All of it. Although there are many portrayals

of Christopher Columbus, there is no actual surviving portrait with his actual likeness. Believe it or not? Not. Believe it. It's all right. What do you think it looks like?

An Italian guy? He looks like Robert De Niro? Or Robert Downey Jr. Maybe if they They had a baby. Ooh, that'd be gross. Hi, Chris. You're on 790.

You're ready to play, believe it or not. Believe it. Upon returning to Spain, Christopher Columbus was initiated into the order of Alcantara, which in Spain was the equivalent to becoming a knight. Believe it or not. Believe it. That sounded very believable, Ross. You have made amends.

Thank you, Matthew. Line number five. Kevin on 790, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Christopher Columbus had a son from his marriage. and a daughter from an affair with an orphan girl. Believe it or not? Not.

Believe it. I'm going here today. Robert on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. There was much controversy surrounding the remains of Christopher Columbus. He was buried in Spain, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and eventually back to Spain. Believe it or not?

Not. Beliebe. We gave away nothing today. You're welcome, Nick. Thank you, Ross. That was fantastic. You all are working in the cahoots with each other. I know how you all are.

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Plus again, $1 chicken tenders and big brews for just $3.50 today at Big City Wings. A team is up next. Talk to you guys tomorrow at 12 news. 12 noon. Come by and see us at Kirby and 59 before we lead you into Astros baseball, which means today Adam and Adam are going to work for three hours, and tomorrow there work none. And the next date, oh, crime any. I got to renegotiate my contract. Talk to you all tomorrow at noon on 790.