The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show 10-18-19

Episode Date: October 18, 2019

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Much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12-02 in H-town. Gurd. GASTro. Cardiff is going back. Let us go up 6 to 1.

Correa with his second home run of the series. We got on top of a fastball that was elevated, and Correa turned quickly. Picks it up. Doesn't a second error of the inning on the Yankees, and it's 7 to 3 Astros. He still had a play at first base, Torres did. But he looked home to a butcher of a defense that's inning. And that's lifted in a shallow left center field, and that's going to drop in front of Carter for a base hit.

Altube can walk home. Brantland RBI single, his second hit tonight, and it is 8 to 3 Astros. Shallow right field, long run for Springer, slowing down by the line, makes the line. the catch in fair territory, and that is the ball game. The Houston Astros defeat the New York Yankees 8 to 3. They go up three games to one in the ALCS, and the Astros are one win away from their second pennant in three years. Tackling wise in Houston, Texas.

This song is almost 40 years old, and it's still jams, at least for the purpose of this show. It's good It's a solid jam Let me take some This used to be on This used to be the opening song of an afternoon show On another station Really? I didn't know that

If we had a dance With our listeners Okay I mean I'm not saying that would be You're gonna wear a corsage No I'm just saying a general dance And this song came on Everybody runs to the center

You think so? Absolutely Okay Maybe Depends on how liquored up we are Speaking of that Hey, how are you feeling, Matt? You were questionable?

Looks like you, it was a game time decision, and it looks like you're here. I, um, I rallied. Um, peeling the curtain back. By way, it's the Matt Thomas show on sports talk Saturday. I'm Matt. He's Ross. Hi. I don't drink a lot.

I mean, everybody knows that. But when I do, I drink to success. Interesting. So, uh, a lot of friends met over at Big City Wings yesterday in the Kingwood location. Mm-hmm. which Uber is your friend at all hours of the night, even going from one end to Kingwood, the other. Okay.

And I had a few beers and a little bit of food, not enough food, frankly, and a lot of drinks. And so it was a interesting ride home to say the very least. I checked to make sure my star rating was still on point at 4.91, and it is. Well, it might take a little bit to update. That's true. But a good time is that by all. You and I've been working so many of these games last night.

was a rare night where I could just not worry about if I could have a drink or two. Because here's the plane. The Astro is loose tonight, which hopefully they don't. Ross and I are on deck tomorrow at 5 o'clock over at... Home played bar and grill. So I knew tonight my daughter's going to a Halloween haunted house with her buddies. Oh, really? And I'm kind of running shuttle on that.

So I knew I couldn't have a couple of pops tonight. I'm going to go? No, hell no. Are you going to pick them up in a screen mask and scare them? No. They're going to be... The Kingwood Asylum is supposed to be one of the scariest haunted houses. in the Houston area.

Really? I mean, you know, it's $33 to get in? I told Carl, I said, you are a sixth grader. You want to go in for $33 and be scared? I can do it for free at home. Yeah, just tell her about paying for children's tuition. Oh, that's really scary. Yeah.

And volleyball cost. Summer camps. That's really going to put a scary. Yeah, exactly. So last night, I just, as the kids say, You tied one on, right? Yeah, you really tied one on. That means you got drunk last night.

Yeah, so I did, and it's fine. The kids aren't saying that, though. Okay. Well, at some point, somebody said it because I didn't make that up. Yeah, like in the 60s, I think. I wasn't born in the 60s, so maybe I'm just really far behind. You're an old soul, man. All right, let's do this.

Let's brag on the Local 9. There are a lot of moments of truth in the game yesterday. By the way, I'm going on TV today at some TV station. I don't even know which one of this. You are? How famous you are. station you're going. Nick, what station is here to film us? Two! That's Adam Wexler station. Oh, really? KPRC. KPRC, Channel 2. We're local...

We have it on right now. We have it on right now. Look at this how we roll. I was actually going to get changed it. It's Trump stuff. I got to change it. I don't do politics on the show. White House Chief of Staff acknowledges Ukraine aid withheld. All right, so Channel 2 is your thoughts, Matt. I have zero thoughts at this point. What I have thoughts on is Ryan Presley, moment of truth yesterday, Ross. I mean, come on now. How nervous were you? One to ten. I'm at 9.6.

9.6? He's Ryan Presley. I wasn't that high. Even after the walk? I got a liar. I was like a five. I got up to like a seven and a half. You know, Ryan Presley's baseball soul was saved yesterday.

Because if he goes out there in bombs, gives up a couple of runs, bases loaded, any of those score, you've lost a spot on the roster. In fact, if the Astros would have lost the lead, you'd have felt a lot different about things going on. But Zach Granky grinded. Is that what I want to say? Is that the word I would use? Sure. He's a grinder. How would you explain? How would you describe Zach Granky's performance

yesterday? Okay. I mean, just very average. Yeah. When you go four and a third and give him one run, you didn't cost your team the game, but you would like him to have, for him to have gone deeper. He was the strike zone was squeezable.

That was one of the worst. And we're not umpire, bash, guys. No. We love you, Ben Deboz. That's your title. I mean, look, a lot of times bad calls are made on, like, edge plays. This dude was calling pitches that were straight down the middle. He was calling balls multiple times. I really thought, and I don't want to be that homework guy because, you guys, look, if you always talk about a fishing, it means when it really is bad of fishing, you can't really get to it. So Ross and I kind of proud ourselves and not spend a lot of time on that, but it was absolutely atrocious last night. It was really bad, and I thought Zach deserved a better fate. Presley comes in. James, gives up the home run. Harris was filthy, and then Joe Smith came in, and then he didn't keep Joe Smith in for the full inning. And you know how I feel about four-out saves? You know what? Roberto Osuna says, I got this. Yeah, man. He's Mr. Four-out, multiple out save guy. He threw eight pitches the other day. Today, I should say last night, he threw 16 to get the final four-outs. A really, really good day to be a Houston Astro fan, and we will discuss.

with you all day today on Sports Talk 790. If you guys want to get in, let me give you the phone numbers and welcome you. It is anything goes Friday. Ross, explain the essence of ending goes Friday, please. Well, Matthew, you can call 713-1-2-125 790. 7-1-3-1-2-5-7-90. Normally the longest leash in the business here on the Matt Thomas show gets even longer here on Fridays. If you want to talk about, of course, the Astros 8-3 win, a must-win game for the New York Yankees

if they want to stay alive in the ALCS. You've got the Texans with their game against the cults coming up this weekend. Texas versus Kansas. Grudge match. Okay. Let me tell you. It's an anything goes Friday. No one calls on Texas, Kansas.

Big game. Big game on Saturday and Longhorn. I'd love to talk. Longhorn Network. I'd love to talk U.H.U.Con, but that's just not going to happen today. Actually, I don't really want to talk about U.S.U. How about this new fall weather? If you want to talk fall fashions with Matt Thomas, you can get to that at 713, 212-790.

This is also a good camping. weather. So if you want to talk camping tips with Matt, you can do so on the phone lines. There is some Channel 2 breaking news out there on those streets. Oh, what do we got? Well, we don't want. We'll save it for later. I thought you didn't want to talk about Ukraine. No, there's, they have a roster assignment changing, apparently. I changed it, no offense. We have, um, no, put it back on Channel 2. Local moves comes first there. Well, I don't want to hear about the Ukraine. I mean, Ukraine. They'll have some game show on at 1230 to be fine. Okay, and you got an email. Yeah, I got an email. Oh, Pat Mahomes.

Oh, wait, they're 12. Bad kneecap? Oh, yeah, that's good. I mean, that doesn't sound good, right? No, dislocated kneecap doesn't ever sound like a good idea. Dislocated finger, you pop it back in, you're good. Dislocated knee? I don't think you just pop a knee back.

Even a shoulder you can pop back in. All right. 713-2-12-5-790. 7-1-2-5-790 with a message here for Beck and Maston-Bew at GMC. Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to break you up there. But Ian Rappport just tweeted 15 seconds ago that apparently after his MRI, he will return this season. It's bad news.

I mean, sorry, I'm glad he's going to be fine. Hey, it's Coach Dan Tony. Step back three, and the quarter is good. Matt Thomas, my favorite voice in Houston. Now, that's the Lord's Aziz right now. Back to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Maybe this is what they're playing in the clubs. Maybe like 2008.

Not even then. Probably before that. Yeah, this is from... Daft punk. This is from very early. Yeah, you're right. It's like the 90s. Thank God I'm so sophisticated.

I don't go to the clubs anymore. Is that what it is? Well, I wouldn't... Can't imagine me trying to dance of this song? I can't imagine you dancing to any song. That's true. It is the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. What a petty, petty series it has been for New York fans.

Yankee fan is the worst. First of all, you have the Yankee players saying that the Astros are whistling. you have them mad about tipping pitches, then you have debris being thrown on the field. Trash. Say what it is. It is true. Trash. Debris is a bigger word, but trash is certainly the cause. And then last night, you have Zach Granky on the mound,

and he is being heckled by a fan for his anxiety issues. You know what? You hear the phrase below the belt. That's even way, way, way below the belt. That is, I mean, in terms of smack talk, that isn't even good for sports, right? I mean, that is so, that's like talking about your wife or your children or your family or your religion. They just don't understand that at the end of the day, it's just a game.

And if you act like an ass, you're going to get thrown out. And when you say things, because you want to be the hero in the stands, you're going to get tossed and the guy got tossed. I think key to what you said there is you want to be the hero in the stands. You have a lot of people who, I mean, they like hate their jobs. They hate their lives and they come to the game. Right. And they want to be a part of it. And they think the way to do that is to get into the opponent's head.

So they try to yell things about Zach Rinkie or whatever and get into their head and think, oh, I'm helping the team. Like it's just they're taking themselves too seriously. They're taking the game too serious. Like you said, it's just a game. The only people that found that jerk to be funny or the three other drunkards around them. The rest of America and my. guess is 95% of the people at Yankee Stadium were like, get this a hole

out of here. He's bad. He's bad person. Yeah, you're just a loser. You're small. You're petty. You're showing yourself to be a bad fan. But that's what the Yankees fans have done this entire time. Like you said, you're throwing trash on the why, remember why they were throwing the trash on the field? You're throwing the trash on the field because of that review call with Yuleiguriel tagging out

Edwin Incarnacion. He was out. He was out. And you want to boo and throw trash onto the field? You're just a bad fan. You're just a bad person. You make personal attacks on people. You think you're bigger than the game. You're not going to sit around and watch the baseball game. So kudos to the Yankee Stadium officials for kicking him out.

The best part was when you saw the Twitter picture. He looked like he was going to cry when he was getting thrown out of the game. Because those are expensive tickets. He's out. I mean, he wasn't sitting in the upper deck. Yeah. Do not pass. Go straight out of the stadium.

And his squad is down three games to one. How weird is this next 72 hours for us? Here we are at noon on a Friday. By Monday, when we reconvene on this show, either the Astros are in the World Series or we're taking shots because we're clinically depressed. They're not going to lose three straight. They're not.

Don't, don't, if we were on Channel 2 right now live, don't do a squinch. Act like you mean it. They're not going to lose three straight games. They're not going to lose three straight games. Don't record him. Make sure he does not get a little bit. on channel two tonight.

That's fine. I don't need the fame, Matt. I do this for the people. I know you do. Have you met the show? Yeah. Be sure to put at SportsMT in the lower third. Yeah, please.

And by the way, Channel 2, if you're listening, we could put this show on at 1230. What do you have on at 1230 after the news here? They got news, yeah. They do an hour news at noon? It's probably like Oprah Winfrey or something. I don't know. No, she doesn't have a show anymore.

Oh, she doesn't? Oprah doesn't do shows? What's jail up to? She does weight watches. Oh, look, we got extra and then we got Houston Live. Oh, Houston Life. Houston Life and what's on it too?

Oh, you know you've got that recorded. Okay, maybe there isn't room for me. No, we'll get you on two, what is it like 12-3 or whatever? We'll get you on the alternate. I want a sub-channel. The Matt Toppers show on subchannel KPRC 2-9664. Yeah, we'll work it. All right, let's get some phone calls in.

713-21, 2, 5, 7.8. I think the Yankees fans have looked awful. I thought the Yankees yesterday, butchering things on defense, and I think the Astros took their souls in about the seventh inning at last night's game. They just didn't seem interested in winning that game last night. Let's go to Doug in the gallery at 1224 on 790. Hi, Doug.

Good afternoon, gentlemen. Hi. I have a couple of questions. One of them is, why didn't Granky get the win last night? Why did they give it to Presley? You got to pitch five innings to win a game? Oh, okay. Yeah, Granky went four and a third, and then Presley got the final two outs in the fifth inning.

Okay, okay. And my second question is, I don't understand that odds number in baseball. Like Astros minus, like, 165. What does that number mean? I don't know what I mean. Well, we'll let Ross explain to you. He's a degenerate gambler. Well, the minus and the plus is the key.

If you see a minus, your team is the favorite. If you see the plus, they're the underdog. A minus 165, and it's always against $100. So a minus 165 means you put up $165 to win $100. If it was plus $165, you put up $100 to win $160. Does that make sense to you? Everything is based on $100. So they're saying, so again, Doug, you and I are in Las Vegas together, and we're going to bet the Astros, and the Astros are a minus 165.

The lovely people in Las Vegas are going to ask for $165 from us. Okay? And in return, they're going to give us $100 back. Now, you don't have to bet $100 on the Astro, 165 on the Astros. They're just doing it based on $100, you know, that's how their equation work. Their fractions work out there. Yeah. Okay.

And the Astros are minus 139 tomorrow. Tonight. So, Doug, if you and I want to win 100 bucks on the Astros, we would go bet, we'd go bet $139 on the Astros. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Good job. Appreciate it.

We're here for it. Educational. That was like a Google MT segment. That was. He asked you about the box score and then how to gamble. Do you think most people know that it takes five innings to win a game? What would you say the percentages of America that know that? of America, America, or people who follow sports?

Sports. Because I don't think anybody that goes to the opera care. 65%. Now, I also believe that Presley got the win yesterday. I don't think he had to get the win. I think because the official score can announce who he wants to get the win. Yeah, he can choose whoever. But his spot, he earned, of all the relievers,

his was the most important because the Yankees were threatening. They didn't score. And they kept the game at one run. So, yeah, that was an easy call on the press. That's just so weird to me, right? I mean, Grinky did go four and a third. Right. And only gave up one run.

Presley got two thirds of an, how come you can earn the win with two thirds of an inning, but you can't win it with four and a third? It's dumb. It's just one of those quirky baseball rules. Thanks, baseball. That's why baseball wins and losses don't mean anything. Do you think we need to enact a new rule about changing the number of

innings it takes for our baseball pitcher to win a game? I say no. We'll get Rob Manfred on the horn. Let's get Alfred on the east side at 1227. Alfred, good afternoon. Yeah, I'm calling. First off, I want to say, yeah, the Yankees fans are really, really bad. But secondly, I was Dan Bolino, man, behind the plate.

I understand where y'all are coming from. I didn't watch the entire game, but I thought he called a good game. I waited on him. Yeah, thank you. I waited on him at a local restaurant on Saturday when he was at third base, and I feel like he gave him. he let me pick his brain. The guy was really cool.

The guy was really cool. But I feel like he caught a good game. I just want to know what you don't see, what you see that I didn't see. Well, you didn't watch the whole game. So why are you coming to me like that? I'm sure he's a very nice fellow. I'm not talking bad. No.

I'm saying that for someone that you're listening to, and for Alfred, I thank you so much for doing that. I am not an impire bitch guy, okay? I am not. And you have the, and you have evidence of my show over the last decade. aide proving to you that I do not spend a lot of time talking about it. I thought Zach got really squeezed yesterday. Man, here's missing bad. And here's the problem.

Robinson Torino's is a terrible pitchframer. Terrible, terrible, terrible. I agree. I mean, I, that can't go on said. It felt like he was dodging after baseballs that didn't need to be dodged. By the way, what was Bolino's tip for your dinner? No, we've got to find this out. This is called a investigator.

Oh, that's excellent. That's why he's defending him. He was by himself. He was by himself. Okay. And I didn't even realize it was him at first, but he asked me to put it on the NLCS game. Okay. So I put it on the, and this was Saturday.

I believe it was Saturday. Maybe Friday. But either way, he asked me to put it on the NLCS. I put it on the NLCS when I went back. We started talking about baseball, and then he said, yeah, I'm going to be at third base on Sunday or something like that. Or when did they play game one? Either way, game one, he was at third base. Okay.

And it was a, he let me, he even told me, I said, I got a thousand questions I could ask. He said, take a seat. I said, unfortunately, I can't do that because that's not this kind of restaurant. But I appreciate the offer. Well, how nice is that? Yeah. Let me tell you, I love hearing stories like that because, as you know, I have an umpire fetish. I like, I'd rather talk to umpires and athletes.

So to hear that Dan Bolino was able to talk to you like that makes me think about him as a million stars as a person. As an umpire last night, he was way below. average. All right. Like I said, okay, you're right. I can't argue that because I really only got to sit down and watch 7, 8, 9. But either way, nice guy. It was hard. And I yell every time he makes a call that goes our way, I say, God my boy, Dan. And then when he says something bad, or when he makes the call that I don't agree with, I say, God darn it. Okay. We don't want to switch you want you to swear. All right. Thank you, Alfred. Great. That he's a good tipper. Yeah, 25% is nice, especially because my guess is he's not eating at, you know,

somewhere where it's an $8 dinner, right? Probably not. I don't think he said it was a nice. Seems like it was a nice place. I'm sure he's a great tipper, fantastic person, but last night he was a bad umpire. Sports Talk 790.

Product with a grand slam! Home of your Astros. It's always a good time for some steely Dan here on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas Show continuing. Number of you guys on the phone. 713, 2, 1,25, 790. 713-21-1-2-5-7. I'm talking about the Astros 8-3-3 winners over the New York Yankees.

Justin Verlander, a chance to close it out tonight in Yankee Stadium 608 first pitch. And, you know, I asked you this on Twitter, Matthew, you didn't really respond to me. Because I was drinking. Who should the, I was asking. Obviously, it was a joke. It's already been announced. And some people were still getting mad at me saying, obviously, you go Justin Verland. It's a joke.

It's okay. Calm down. Who should the answer? to start tonight, Matt. Bullpen game, right? Save Justin Verlander for the trip. Oh. Justin Verlender puts the kibush.

By the way, there were some horrible baseball takes on Twitter last night. And, you know, I'm going to be really truthful with y'all. Are you? I get a little more liberal on the tweets as I have more beverages. Same. So, and it was several people. And look, they know who they are. I don't need to call people out.

But is, I wish. I could have a mute button for dumbass baseball takes. It's just impossible. No, I love, you know what I love when, like, Chandler Rome or Brian McTaggart, tweet somebody with, and if this is if you have a take that is just completely out of left field and completely nonsensical, either you're dumb or you're trolling, so I mute them. Yeah. That's what I'm going to have to start doing, because what's happening is, unfortunately,

these people that I do not follow, y'all are tweeting and retweeting their awful tweets. And it makes people look bad. Look, you can't be an expert on everything. True. I'm talking this is about media. I'd love to be able to give you a real great analytical breakdown of why Bill O'Brien's offense is moving with the fluidity that it hasn't moved in in weeks, maybe years. I can give you the simplistic approach of past protections better. Guys are running their routes. The Sean's have time to throw.

But if you can't, you just, if you are not in your lane, stay out of it. Get out of it. Don't get to Spitfire Hot Bacon Astros takes when you could give two craps about them four months ago. You couldn't give two craps about them three weeks ago. So don't do it because here's what's going to happen. I'm talking about to media members. I'm talking about to fans. If you give a horrible baseball take that we crush,

like the old ratio tag. If you've been ratioed, you're probably not doing it right. I'm proud. I, at SportsMT, had been SportsMT for nine years. I have never been ratio

That's not true When Some of your should whoever give up And then they make comebacks That's more for a bit In Rocia we get ratio Okay then that's right So should the blank give up

It gets me get ratioed But that's that's shtick And now other people across the country are doing that stealing my material yet again Point being is this Baseball takes If you follow the team Be perfectly clear

When I say this do what you want to do. But do not become this all of a sudden authoritative voice on the Astros when you've spent more time discussing with your buddies about backup linebackers and third team centers. Oh, I know when you got ratioed. You say LMAO. Who was it?

Oh, yeah. Oh, hell yeah. I absolutely deserve that. Yeah. I got ratioed on that. But it wasn't because of my fault. It was because of the team sucking in the fourth place. Well.

Yeah. Okay. I'll give you that. So I've been ratioed less than five times of my life. Probably. I'm a 98%. My Uber rating is 4.91. My ratio rating is 4.99.

It's happened once or twice. Very fakeness. Let's go to Shane on 790. Hi, Shane. What do you got today? Hey, guys. How you're doing today? Good.

Good. First of all, got those strokes. I think we've got this serious way going to be a no-brain or not. put your money on the strows right now. Second of all, earlier, I heard one of y'all mention, this awful random, but about your daughter coming to the haunted house. Yes. Yeah, she's going to get scared for her life tonight.

She's very excited about it. Awesome. Well, I'm actually the owner of that attraction, and we are no longer Kingwood Asylum. What do you call yourself? We are the purgatory screen park. And if you had both of your daughters come out tonight with their friends, I will give each one of them a free ticket to our attraction tonight. Wow. Well, that's awful nice of you, Shane.

Yeah, yeah. Good for advertisement. Like I say, I was just going to call in and have one of y'all shout out the name. And one of your daughters, I guess, wasn't going to come. But, yeah, if the two of them come out. No, I've only got one daughter that I know of. So, yeah, I'm only having. Yeah, okay.

But she's got some buddies. Yeah, well, good deal. Yeah, well, let her know if she brings her friends out. I'll give her a ticket. All right. Well, Shane, I'm going to put you on hold, and I'm going to write your number down so I can say there's proof that you called the show because here's the thing. Awesome. You're going to scar my friend.

my daughter for life. You know this, correct? Well, yes, the Stroves will be still in the Yankee Souls and we'll be still in everybody. There you go. All right. We'll have the game on the big screen as well. So for the fans that want to come out and don't want to miss the game, we'll be playing it live. All right. I'm going to put you on hold. Nick, do me a favor, writing his number down for me and get his name. So I got, thank you very much. Yeah. Number of times you've been to how in the houses in your life, Ross? I would say five or more, but not. In the last 20 years, zero

Shane's place up in King one off of North Park the scared I mean my Cameron's now sophomore college went when his buddies

when they were junior and seniors in high school he urinated on his leg he was that scared literally? No

okay good but man so if y'all want to get scared go see my guy Shane out there because my God I'll never Mike Kim went and she's like

I will never walk in that place again really But some people will just get into that stuff. Like, you can't scare me. I kind of thought they were lame when I was 14. She's going at 12 and I'm like, Carly, you're going to have a tough time sleeping the night. Oh, Dad, I'll be fine. It'll be fine.

We'll see. So she's going to be scared out of her mind. And I'm going to watch the Astros beat the Yankees win the America League Championship. It would be nice. Sounds like a perfect Friday. This is Craig Ackerman. The rockets are certainly popping the polypropylene. I know Matt Thomas all too well.

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Dear Casey. Please ask for her. How do you not like this song? I'm going to download this right now. I'll be flying to meet my wife on Tuesday. Today is Sunday. Let her know it's one more night. We've gone through some tough times, some good times and bad, but she's been through it all.

Long distance has been tough on all of us. especially our Boston Terrier Rocco and her ex-husband continues to call us all the time and asks us for money and the kid they had between the two of them is a drug user and steals from me and he hasn't been honoring the restraining order

so just want her no I'll be there and despite the fact that my stepdaughter has an ankle bracelet I still love her too one more night all right Channel 2's like but you get on with it because we got out of the news to cover

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Let's go Jacob in West U on 790 At you at 1250 Hi Jacob How are you? Wonderful. We are three teenagers with one-twenty-one-year-old. We live in Washington, D.C.

We're now in Houston-Visian family, but we decided to go drive up to New York for game three. And as die-hard Astor fans at Yankee Stadium, you know that doesn't really go too well. You have these crazy fans, which is a pretty crazy experience, being Astero's fans. We get to the stadium.

We're going crazy in our bright orange. walking through Yankee Stadium, and there are a bunch of fans screaming at us. They're people heckling us, people getting personal, booing, almost throwing things at us. It's pretty crazy. The Yankee fans are as bad as people make them out to be. So we get up to our seats.

The game starts, and these fans are just, these fans are crazy. They start screaming us, almost throwing things at us, because we're out here cheering. They're getting personal about the players, making fun of George Springer, Alex Bregman, Zach Rankie, everything. They're getting personal.

So it is, it was pretty crazy. They started cheering when, when Bregman gets hit. They yell, yeah, yeah, so we, we start cheering, obviously, when they get out of the beginning. And what were they doing? What were they doing after they started cheering? You started cheering. Are they getting worse with you or just, like, quiet? These dudes were standing up and threatening us.

This one dude stand up right next to your screen, you better sit down before you get beat down. But then their mother was there. Our mother was there. And our mother drove us up four hours the morning of us. Wow. And we drove home after. But their mother glared at the one who was. Our mother started glaring.

The entire section was standing up, threatening us. Jacob, is that your sister? A mother. Mother. Oh, okay. Can we talk to her? Let's talk to your mother. Give her the phone.

Hi. Who is this? Mom. Hi, Mom. I'm the mother of three die-hard Astros fans. I grew up in Houston. Yeah. But we moved to the D.C. area a while back.

Yeah. And these kids have been like die-hard, die-hard Astros fans. So on a Tuesday morning, they woke up. The prices had dropped and they begged me to go. So I said, let's go. We bought tickets, hopped in the car, drove left the house at 10 a.m., got home at 1 a.m., and it was an awesome game. Great to be there.

Except for the abusive New York fans. Exactly. Yeah. In 2017, when they played the Yankees and the ALCS, we actually went to game four, but without our mother. So that was a lot different because there wasn't a mother to protect us. It was an 18-year-old, a 14-year-old, and an 11-year-old. Oh, my gosh.

At Yankee Stadium. Without a mother. In the 400 sections where all the drunk die-hard and all the drunk Chris fans are, so they were throwing things. This was a crazy game back in 2017. after the Astros blew it, they were throwing things at us. We're teenagers and they don't care. They're still threatening us, throwing things.

Damn. I'm going to tell my story. Look, look, I love this conference call, but I have to get other callers. Hey, Jacob, and tell your mom and all your sisters and brothers, thank you for listening. Thank you for calling. You're going to be on Channel 2 tonight. So I don't know how you're going to be able to see it or hear it, but go to their website. I'm sure they'll put the story up there.

All right. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Go Astros. Look at that. It's like a, is that the devil. crushed bus up in New York City right now? I think so.

Did you see the tweet I put out before the game yesterday? I had 80s on 8 and they had the rare you know once in a while we don't one hit wonders. Double crushed bus came on or double Dutch bus but this came on really and it was a positive omen

it did work. By the way we will get the bus restarted before game one of the world series provided they get there. Ross they're going to get there right? I think so. I'm glad that they had well you tweeted out a lot of a lot of beverages last night. I drank a lot yesterday.

Look, I'm fine, right? The show's been decent so far. It's okay. I'm glad that they had a lot of, their mother to glare at the Yankees fans because apparently that was helping. Nothing works like the laser-like glare from a mother. Take Mama Ross's mom.

Your beautiful mother. Yes. You take her to a baseball game and they start... Happy birthday by her. Her birthday's tomorrow. They start hurling insults at you. She's going to have your back. No, my mom will go up there.

My mom will go up there and... Say something. Yeah. She isn't messing around. I'm not even kidding. I like that. I like moms at fight. Well, then you like my mom.

My mom would be polite and talk. No. I think Jacob's mom is like, let's throw down right now. All right. Let's start the second hour of the Matt Thomas show. Everybody on hold, hang tight. We will get to you. I absolutely promise.

713-1-2-5-7-9. We go to New York City, talk with our buddy, Jay Kaplan, from The Athletic in the Athletic in the next segment of this, the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Yeah. Is the Matt Thomas show.

One o'clock on Sports Talk 7.9. Let's spend 10 quality minutes with our good friend, a man that is getting more frequent flyer miles and more hotel miles because this game got delayed a game. It's Jake Kappell from the Athletic. Jake, how are you, sir? I'm well, Matt. How are you? I'm a little tired.

I had a few cocktails during a game yesterday, So I know you didn't, but you worked because you're a grinder at Jake M. Kaplan on Twitter. So I just want to congratulate you for outstanding coverage once again at The Athletic. Thank you. I appreciate it. And I'm glad that you got to enjoy some cocktails. What were you drinking? Beers and took multiple shots.

Of what? Kamikaze tequila. And I think we did a sex on a beach as well. Wow. Sounds like quite the night. Oh, my God. What I remember of it, it was a magical. It sounds like an upset stomach is what that sounds like.

Let me tell you something. This morning between, say, four noon, one pleasant today, Jake. But you know what? Let's move on to some important things. Describe Zach Granky's performance. And I want to make sure I tell you before you give an answer, I am not umpire bash guy because I think, again, it's just too simple of a narrative.

But I really do think yesterday, and both guys could probably complain. I thought the strike zone was very, very inconsistent. And Zach could have had a much better face. for a couple of calls this way. Agree or disagree? I thought there was a couple bad ones for him, but I agree that it was a pretty inconsistent night all around, just a bad night for the home plate umpire on both sides.

I mean, I thought there were some pretty generous calls the other way, too, or the vice versa. But I guess the one that stands out for Grunkey is the judge, the judge one that it was like up in the zone, but it's, you know, it's also, I understand it's, His zone is so much different than every other hitter in baseball. But I could see the challenge there. But, you know, ultimately, I think Grinky's fastball command was just poor in the first inning.

And we've seen that before from him in his brief stint with the Astros. He'll just kind of lose his fastball command for an inning or two. And then it seems like in most of the instances, something will click back in mechanically and he'll be okay in subsequent innings. But that was really the issue for him. You know, he wasn't throwing any fastballs for strikes in the first inning. Yankee threw all of two fastballs for strikes. And all of his secondary stuff plays off of that.

So if he's not locating it, he's going to be in trouble. And then once the second inning started, he was locating this fastball. So, you know, it was kind of back to Zach Grinkey. They got the Sanchez home run. And then forgetting about the first inning with the wildness, there's just a bunch of missed opportunities for the Yankees. And frankly, in this entire series, even more so than the Astros. I thought for the first time, especially after the Astro started to pour it on and the defense let the Yankees down, it was a defeatist attitude.

And this is a Yankee team that won what, 105 games, one of the most vaunted lineups in baseball, 103 games. And it looked defeated. And I'm stunned. What has happened to them beyond the fact the Astro bats, when necessary, have come through, especially with Coray and Springer and their limited hits, but I've obviously been all of them very meaningful? Yeah, I mean, I think they've had a couple of their key players either get injured or slump at the wrong time. And the aster has pitched them really tough. I mean, outside of Judge's Homer off Burlander, he hasn't done a ton. You know, Gary Sanchez, that was his first, you know, good swing of the series, it felt like.

And it was when the game was already in hand last night, you know, Edwin Encarnacione hasn't looked comfortable at the plate. and he was just coming off injury. So I think that's part of it. They've obviously missed you in Carlos Staten. And, you know, the Astros, maybe we underrated the depth of their bullpen a little bit. It's easy to say that now. And, you know, how they performed in a small sample of this series. But, you know, whether it's game planning or just stuff, they've pitched the Yankees hitters really tough.

Yoron Alvarez scuffling at the plate, Jake. In your estimation, is he lost out. out there? Is he just running into tough matchups? Or is he, I mean, is it just hard luck? What do you think is going on with him? I think he's chasing a lot more than he did in the regular season. It's probably, you know, a large part of a product of the pitching he's facing. You know, even though the Yankees are down three-one in the series, you know, and their starters don't go deep. They have a lot of really good pitchers and especially in their bullpen. So, you know, it's not the Mariners and the Angels and the Rangers. Like, you know,

you face a lot in the regular season. So I think that's part of it. I think just, you know, I mean, he's still getting singles and doubles here and there, so it's not like he's completely a zero for them. But, you know, it has been interesting to see how he's, you know, struggled

in his first real, you know, exposure to this kind of stage. Jake Kaplan from the athletic with us from New York, getting ready for game five tonight of the American League Championship series. Jake, I don't know if you spoke to Ryan Presley after the game, but how big of a moment of truth moment was that for him getting the final two outs in the fifth

because it has been obviously less than a stellar postseason work for him so far? Yeah, that was a, I mean, that was a huge moment in the game, that swung game. I mean, I think the Astros had the momentum at that point, but obviously it kind of swarmed even further into their favor. Yeah, I mean, I think he, like you said, he struggled in the postseason. He struggled in the second half. Torres is the best hitter. He's probably the one the most dangerous hitter in their lineup right now

and Presley came in. I think some people might have questioned the quick hook on Grinke and also the usage of Presley there given his recent track record but he made his manager look really smart

and yeah, it looked like the swing and miss slider curveball and basketball too, you know, that you saw in the first time. All right. So tonight's JV. And, boy, what's the leash going to be on Paxton? I mean, this guy has not seen the fifth inning in forever. Where are they with their arms?

I mean, they have got to be, their bullpen's got to be really tired at this point. Yeah. I mean, it's weird, though. I mean, it feels like a role as Chapman's barely in this series. So, you know, maybe they use him for two innings. Zach Britton didn't pitch yesterday, right? So, I mean, green and Canley are the two that it feels like are in every game. But, yeah, I mean, I think it all depends on how Paxton pitches.

I wouldn't expect he goes more than two times to the order. But, you know, with his stuff, he's capable of getting two times to the order. You know, it just depends on which version of him shows up. I mean, over the years when he was with the Mariners, and this year, it seems like it's one way or the other with him. He's either dominant or the Astroath hit him pretty hard. A couple more questions here for Jake Kaplan from the athletic with us from New York. It appears by his performance and by his mannerisms that Carlos Korea is soaking in every glorious moment of this postseason for himself.

Yeah, even wearing sunglasses to the press conferences inside. You look like he was in a 90s R&B band or something. I know, right? Yeah, he looks to be, I mean, he's that kind of player, right? The player for the dramatic, big stage player. I mean, he's got 10 postseason homers and he's, what, 25 years old? So, yeah, I think he's, you know, calming a lot of concerns that prevailed throughout the last two regular seasons about his health status by showing up when it really matters. And, yeah, I mean, it's amazing that he's hitting seventh.

in this lineup. All right. We try to be sneaky with AJ yesterday about game six potential. He caught it from a mile away. So we were sneaky but unsuccessful. What does your gut tell you if the Astros lose tonight? Who's pitching tomorrow first? You know, I keep going back and forth in my head.

I think they really have to consider going Gary Cole and short rest. But, you know, I'm not sure if they would do it. I think a big reason they did it last round was. with Verlander was because they had Cole to fallback on in the game 5. This time they wouldn't have that fallback because, you know, Granky and Verlander will just pitch.

So that leads me to think that the move is probably to go bullpen game, then coal, if necessary in seven. But you're playing with fire a little bit there if you do that because, you know, one bad inning by Jose or Keene or that Peacock or whoever,

you know, could even the series. So I could see it going either way. My gut right now tells me a bullpen in six, but either way, I wouldn't be surprised if they went either way. See, you know, it's funny as you were talking, I could flip it the other direction on you and say, wait a minute, you are being risky by putting call out there on short rest because we've already saw what JV did, and then you're relying on the bullpen game and game seven where it's a coin flip because you've gotten to game seven because you've lost the last two games in the series.

It's one of those things if you debate and the decisions made for AJ, you could have to the people are going to say, Yep, that's the right caller. Hey, what's he doing? So I don't think it's one of those decisions. Like people trying to tell the audience a couple days ago that JV should be wait for game six and go bullpen game today. That was ridiculous. I think either way, what he does in six and seven, you could justify. Yeah, and one thing I want to point out is I don't think just because of Orlando struggled on short rest, we could assume that Cole will struggle in short rest.

There's been countless instances throughout baseball. history and in recent years where guys come to pitch on short rest and dominate. I mean, look at David Price against the Astros last year in the CS. So, you know, I don't think one bad short rest start for Verlander necessarily means that Cole is the wrong choice on short rest if there's a game six. We'll leave it that. Mr. Kaplan, thank you very much. Enjoy the rest of New York.

What's the weather supposed to be like tonight? I haven't really looked yet, but I was just outside and it felt, you know, 50, 60s, somewhere in there. Not as windy as yesterday. So that's good. I was getting blown all over the street by the wind yesterday. So that was interesting. Why didn't you take a video of that? That had been fun to watch.

I mean, I don't think it would have been that fun. I would have laughed. I'd have been absolutely amazed by it, actually. Jake, great materials always from. We'll talk again soon. Thanks, guys. You got it. Jake Kaplan from the athletic. Follow him on Twitter at Jake M. Kaplan. I do. Yeah. He put the M in there.

Is there another, that's been another Jake Cap on the getting into space? Yeah, it doesn't seem like that uncommon of a name. You know, like, you know the guy that does watch what happens live, a guy named Andy Cone? He's in town this weekend, I think, with him and Anderson Cooper. You know who that is? I have no idea who that is. You know who Andy Cohn is, don't you? Linda Cohn is.

No, that doesn't matter. Yeah. Okay. Andy Cone is this, he's a executive producer of all the real housewife shows and all men. He's basically filming anything on Bravo has his name on it. Okay. You know what his Twitter account name is? Andy Cohn.

Andy. He got just Andy? He must have gotten in the day Twitter started. Yeah, there's some people like that. You never know. It might have lasted for a while before anyone even tried it because everyone just assumed it was already taken. Like poor Matt Thomas of the Toronto Raptors.

He wanted sports MT. No, he didn't. Sure he did. No chance. He's absolutely why. in sports empty. I took it from him. Yeah, you think so? All right. Let's get back on the phones. We got beat the schmose at the hour.

My name wouldn't fit. Brian, you could have gone to at Ross. Yeah, that's the, that's the, but then you begin a bunch of tweets about clothing sales. That's a discount retailer. Yeah, that's right. Hey, it's Eric Gordon. Gordon for three in the lead. Matt Thomas is my favorite voice in Houston.

EG for three. You're listening to the flagship. Sports Talk, 790. Home of the Rockets. We'll see what happens. Name the group for 10,000 M.T. Bucks. You can't do it, Nick. You just play the song.

This sounds like one more time. You have no idea to say pass. Last night in the Pips. Captain and Teneal. I don't know. My first crush, Tony and Teneal, 1976. That was four years old. Not bad.

She looked good back then. Now it's not so much. I haven't seen her recently. You don't want to. All right. We have not mentioned the Texans yet, not because we don't want to, because they have a huge game coming up, but it's just so much of the asteros is on top of the agenda here.

So please, feel free if you want to get in on the Texans, you're welcome to do so. We're going to make our picks on the game coming up in about 10 minutes from now on Beat the Schmo's where one of our contestants, Tiffany, is going to have a chance to play for some Papa John's pizza. Okay. 713, 2,1, 2, 5, 790. And I really don't want to neglect them.

But I would be saying the same thing about, let's say the Rockets were winning like 7, 8, 9, games in row. If the Texans are playing for the AFC championship, we'd beat all Texans at that point. Yeah. That's fine. We don't push an agenda. We just talk about the hits that are going on. And the hits are the Astros are one game away

from going to the World Series. Texans do have a big game this weekend. Big game. Not a must win, but a big game. Not a bus. Well, no, don't, don't come off your stance. No, you better not. There's things like, yeah, I can get you off of it, but that's not one of them. 713, 21, 2, 5, 7.8.

but they do win. It's a game and a half lead in the division. Huh. And a division will win. Hey, can you believe how bad Tennessee and Jacksonville turned out? Because Garner Minchew looked like he was going to play the role pretty nicely, and then he's come down to Earth. Jailor Ramsey's no longer playing defense for the Jaguars.

And Ryan Tannhill, is he starting? Have we got word on that? I'm pretty much, I think he is. I mean, they bench Marcus Mariano, not because he gets hurt, like every other week like he did in the previous years. They fly out bench him because he sucked. The Kansas City Chiefs, how many points he scored last night? I lost track of time after about 10 o'clock.

Yeah, Ryan Tannahill will get the start Sunday against the Chargers. So Tennessee goes to Denver last week and doesn't score a single point. Yes. And like KC scores like 30 yesterday with a backup quarterback. Yes. Matt Moore. How bad are the Titans? How sucky are they?

Well, it's weird. Didn't they destroy the Browns in week one? they've had more, they've had bigger wins on the road they ever have at home. They have another win. Wasn't their other win a decent? They went to Atlanta. That didn't turn out to be that correct.

All right, let's go to the phone. [phone]. Let's go to David in the gallery at 123. Hi, David. Hey, guys. Hi. I was happy to hear you guys call out the home plate umpire and distinguished complaining about umpires

versus this particular game. I don't think I've ever seen such inconsistent calls, and they went against both teams. There were balls called as strikes, strikes called his balls. But what I like your input on, what I saw that Granky doing, he was just barely missing his spots in the first inning, and those pitches in the third inning were being called strikes. So I actually think Granky did a lot better job, and when we talk about him giving us one-two-thirds innings,

I think he could have kept him in for a couple more innings, and he did have done great. So I guess I had an incredibly negative view of the home plate umpire, but a much more positive view about Granky, who I thought they rode the base in the first inning and get out of it. One run. Right. It was great.

Yeah. Yeah, I'll say this. I don't know if I would characterize it. And thank you, David, for the phone call. I don't think I'd characterize it as great. But if you see the line of four and a third, four walks, five strikeouts, one run, you go, okay, he must have been dodging, a lot, which he did. But I think some of the trouble he got put into is because he was getting

squeezed. Umpires, it's a tricky animal. Some guys are going to get more corners than others. Some are going to make it, if you're not down the heart of the plate, you're not getting it. The problem was, I thought the strike zone fluctuated so much that a strike call in the fourth inning was a bulk on the first, which would have bailed out Zach a couple of times. I thought Zach did enough to stick around longer than the four and a third would naturally indicate. Yeah, the problem was there were so many blatantly obvious strikes that were called balls or balls that were called strikes.

Usually, like I said, there's edge calls, and you can kind of say, you know what, those are difficult. You fight the edge calls. You flip a coin on that. Sometimes you get them, sometimes you know, there were some over the heart of the especially when the catchers were getting out of their stance a little bit, looking for that a high strike. That's still a strike.

A strike is a strike. It's the letters to the knees. Right. And I felt like every time either one of the two catchers, Sanchez, or Trino's, we're trying to get, we're trying to look for the higher pitch, they weren't getting the calls. Now, again, I will say this. I don't, look, when Robinson Chorinos was here or has been here, when he came here, you weren't, you know, you didn't have, you didn't have an all-star behind the dish. You brought him for pop, better batting average than what Brian McCann was going to bring you last year, or Max Stacey. and that unfortunately just hasn't really panned out here. What? And good with handling a pitching stuff.

Yeah, but never to be known as a behind the dish, you know, amazing, you know, like unbelievable, catch everything, Dodge. He was like he was moving around. He was making me nervous. When I think sometimes, you know, the steady hand helped. I thought he had maybe had a more difficult time catching the pitches than maybe he probably could have. It's just annoying, though, because there shouldn't be an issue.

Pitch framing shouldn't be a skill that we should have to worry about. It's either a ball or a strike. What other sport is there where you have to, something like pitch framing? I mean, maybe flopping around in basketball to try to trick the referees into giving you a foul, selling calls that way, selling blocks or charges. But it seems fairly obvious. Anybody that catches can do it. Take the ball, try to squeeze it in in his own. But I felt that.

Robinson just felt like really herky jerky, way more than he should have been. I don't think Ranky and anybody else was as wild as the mannerisms that Robbins and Trinos gave you yesterday. Sometimes there were stuff was off. I mean, he'd be setting up outside and then it would have to go all the way inside to catch the pitch. And even though it was a strike, just because that's what umpires look for a lot of times. If the pitcher is missing his target, he's going to call it a ball more than likely. There could have been a lot of cross-ups too between the two sides. I thought it was both sides.

But I just, I thought generally speaking for, you know, the strike is. Zone. Inconsistent I can live with. Flat out wrong was what I thought didn't do Zach any favors. Even with Torino's moving around all the time, there were pitches like the one to Altovae that went by his eyebrows and he called it a strike. Yeah. I thought it was a very porous night, despite the fact he's a good tipper, according to a previous caller. Yeah, that tip, that waiter really tried to defend him. It was like, I'm sure he's a great guy. He just missed a ton of calls last night. Yeah. It is what it is. Yeah. Like, for instance, when I had breakfast with Joey Crawford and Orlando all those years ago. Yeah. He was a great guy. He was a great guy. He was a lot of

great guy. How many technicals do you call on you? None. I would have been honored to get a technical in a Marriott restaurant. Anybody who tips 25% is a great person. What is your average tip these days at the steakhouse? I would say total average, including the jerks who screw you, probably comes out to about

16%. That's terrible. I feel terrible for you. Well, I mean, there's some good ones, but the bad ones can really drain it now. You know a steakhouse and you're tipping 14 to 15 percent? That's just shameful. Just shameful. They call me Mr. 21. There's a lot of people out there that just tip, you know,

like they think $10, no matter what the bill is, is it inappropriate. Like, well, here, there's $10 and they don't understand that you're losing. It's 2019. Who really does that? You'd be surprised. I'm going to find out who you are. I'm going to start calling you tip busters.

I had a people when I was waiting at Chetters. They filled out the comment card, and they gave me all excellence. And they said, they put in the comments, Ross is one of the best waiters we ever had. Next time we come, we will ask for him. And they tip me like $4 on a $40. That was like, please do not ask for me.

When you come back, please don't. That's awful. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for one lucky listener to beat the schmows. In your dreams. And it's brought to you by our friends at Papa John's Pizza. where today our contestant Tiffany has a chance to win some free pizzas.

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Yep. He said very pedestrian numbers so far this year. Why do you like him? Tell the truth. Pick number four. Good segue. Very good segue. I'll take the Texans plus one for 2000 and keep up.

All right. Do you want Jimmy G's cell phone number? Yes or no? No, I'll pass. Okay. Thanks, Symphony, and good luck in your attempt to beat the Shmows. Thank you. I'll see you later.

I feel like she's got a crush on Jimmy G. He is quite dreamy. Is he handsome, man? I think so. Didn't he date porn stars? Well, I mean, date is wrong with that. Date or Slay? Rent.

What he said. I don't think you can rent a porn star. I'm sure you could. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you can. There's an Uber pet. Is there an Uber porn? There should be. Pretty good.

That's the future. I bet you within the next 20 years in Nevada. Uber porn, rent, get in a car with a porn star. And what you do is what you do. Oh, boy. You negotiate from there. All right, Ross, last time we played, which is two weeks ago, I went one and three and was minus 4,000.

Yes. You went one and three and we're lost 5,000. Thankfully, John, our contested when Owen, four and lost August 10,000, empty bucks horrible all year the season numbers are not pretty to be brutally honest with you all right let's go i will go first and i'm going to start with the new england patriots i feel like there's a lot of people thinking that they're just slowing down a little bit i think it's the trip to new york's going to get them nice and fat and happy i don't think it's going to blow out like a lot new england games have been but i think they're going to come to win this one i don't care if sam darnal is back or not

I will take New England minus the nine over the New York Jetropolitans for 2,000 M.T. Bucks. Next game, I'm going to go with a game, a team that's got to get fat and happy. The Los Angeles Rams have now got one of the best defensive players in the league. They have been very underwhelming. A lot of uncertainty in their health situation at running back. The Cooper Cup is still there. The Atlanta Falcons look like they're a bunch of lost souls. I think it's going to be a very high-scoring game.

But at the end of the day, the Los Angeles Rams are going to go on the road, give Atlanta three points, and beat the Falcons. I will take the Rams over Atlanta for 2,000 M.T. Bucks. The next game I love. Do you know who the MVP lead dog candidate right now is the NFL? Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks. I can't imagine Baltimore going in a mono-a-mono showdown all the way from Baltimore to Seattle. for that game. I think Seattle is going to be fantastic. I like Seattle minus the three over Baltimore for 5,000 MT bucks. Wow. That is what they call in the business a big play. Huge. Heavy units.

Excuse me. Texans Colts. Why would I not pick the Texans? Two impressive wins, two high scoring games. And they have their mojo. The offensive line is protected as Sean Watson. So I've been wrong all year long, hoping to change a trend. I will take the Texans plus a point over Indianapolis. But again, it's a very small wager, just 1,000 MT bucks. Okay, Matthew, I'll start off with the Dallas Cowboys.

I know that they're coming off the loss against the jets, but I still think they're going to be able to cover the two points. So I'm taking the Cowboys for 2,500 M.T. bucks. You are Mr. 2,500. Just this time. You know, we're mixing it up, Matt. Fair enough. It's a little something called Changing of the Guard.

All right, Minnesota, Vikings going to meet the Detroit Lions and AFC North Battle. I like the way that Kirk Cousins has been playing since the last week. he played better. I'm going to go with the Vikings minus the one for 2,500 MT bucks. You know what? Up that one. Up that one up to 3,000. Okay. There you go.

All right. Next, I'm going to take the chargers for 2,000 MT bucks. Tennessee, Ryan Tannahill, there are mass chargers. You're getting two points. Both teams are not very good, so it feels like an E of 50-50, so I'll take the two points for 2,500 MT bucks.

So that leaves you with 2,000 MT bucks on the Texans game. I'm with you guys. I just think Houston is a better team. Indianapolis is average on both sides of the ball. And you're getting a point. I will take them for $2,000. And that, my friends, is beat the schmows.

All right, 2 o'clock. We'll go to Brian T. Smith in New York. He's covering the series for The Chronicle. We've got some handicapping advice at 230. And Ross Wood is today's edition of Believe it or not at 252. Crickets. Okay. Nick, thank you.

Crickets. Ralph and Pearland at 141. Hi, Ralph. How you doing? Good. What's going on? Not much. Enjoy the game last night.

Well, I'm glad to hear that. It's nice you to call and tell us that. Yeah, I wanted to ask you, I noticed when the last two outings, that Chris, he was always shaking his right hand, his arm. You know what's going on with that?

He heard with that or what? He's shaking his right hand. Is that what you said? Hello? Yeah, this call's going nowhere. What did he say? I was lost. I don't know. Here come the Astros

Burning with desire Here come the Astros Bring an orange pie Here come the Astros It's winning on that line Here come the Astros number one Every time Go

Go Ralph, a great weekend. We just didn't understand a word just said. If there's anything injury related to anyone, AJ Hinch is not putting him in the American League Championship game five or game four. It's just not even a realm of possibility. What you think about C.C. Sabathia, by the way, that's how he's leaving the game right there. Oh, that's the believe it and I just started working on it.

Yeah, okay. Sad, right? I'm not that sad. is he a Hall of Famer he is going to make it it'll take a while but is it how many wins do you have career-wise it's like 225ish or something

let me look it up we'll find out on today's oh okay used to be when you got to 300 it was automatic they've changed it because starting pitchers just aren't going as deep as they used to go

251 oh he's in first ballot he didn't scream first ballot to me um six-time All-Star, one-time Sy Young winner, one ALCS MVP, one World Series ring.

251 and what? 161, 374 career ERA. That's good. Those are good. He's going to get it. He's getting in. 143, it is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790.

If you want to get in, 7-1-3-212-5-790. This is defense tackle DJ Reader. The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790. Rio Texans, talk here. Will Harris, standard operation. Will kind of comes in, does his job. Joe Smith, you know, was an error away from having a clean inning. Osuna coming in, getting a big out in the eighth inning,

and then waiting around a little bit, and then I sent him back out just to finish the game and be done with it. did a nice job having a scoreless out. And so our bullpen was asked or I was asked a lot about our bullpen coming into this series. The series is not over, but so far this series, our bullpen has been huge to complement a really good starting rotation. Ross, what do people wig about in life? Death, taxes, and their favorite baseball team's bullpen. Yes.

And the bullpen's been, I mean, if you don't want to give them an A plus, I'll give him an A. A minus. I was a little bit nervous. I mean, I know that Osuna got the five outs in game two on Sunday, and he was fine, but like, he mentioned, AJ mentioned it there. There was that long layoff. You're up five runs. I was curious to see if he would run him back out there because of the possibility of,

of the four games in a row. He did it, and it was totally fine. I'm telling you, and look, we got still a lot of meat left on the bone here. We've got a series with a ridiculously good Washington Nationals, who, by the way, I'll tell you what, Ross, you want to be greedy for a second? Yes. Astros win this game.

They can get their rotation all lined up properly here. You have to play this game Saturday, and you're going to be moving some different parts around. Yeah, I think it's imperative they win today with Justin Verlander on the Hill. How cocky is that? Let's win this one so the Astros rotation can get all lined up properly. No, I mean, that's what the nationals took care of business and swept their series so that they can, you know, they get that luxury.

To the victor go the spoils. If you win and take care of business, then you can say, your rotation up. Yeah. And the Asher, it is going to be tough sledding against the nationals.

The Astros, of course, have the better lineup. But you're going, was it, Scherzer, Strasberg,

and whatever order, and then Corbyn, that's a really good line. Or Annabel Sanchez. Annabelle Sanchez through a, almost threw a no hitter. So they got some good starting pitching over there.

Do not. And we'll, and we'll do Monday, uh, yeah, thoughts. Is, uh,

get somebody out from Washington to talk about the nationals a bit. Because I don't know a lot about them, except every time I watch them, They're hitting impactful home runs and base hits. And Howie Kendrick has a new lease on life over there. I mean, my goodness. From a defensive butcher to an offensive star. That's what he's done.

If the Astros take care of business starting tonight or at some point this weekend. Monday, if the Astros lose this series, we're doing all disco. I'm going to be crying. What if they lose in the Texans beat the Coles? We still crying on Monday? Yes. Cry a little bit. What if everybody loses?

all weekend long. Oh, no. Then we're putting on the best of Nick Lowe. We got enough material for that? We got three hours of Nick Lowe? No, probably not. You just read 25 Florida store or not Florida stores. That's what we can do that.

Oh, yeah. All right, let's do it. Yeah, you're excited now. You're like, oh, the teams will lose. Let's go to Ray in Richmond at 152 on 790. Hi, Ray. Hey, how's it going, guys? I got two things.

Earlier we were talking about how the Yankees were just defeated playing last night. And I was listening to the game on the radio, and they were announcing that by the seventh ending, the Yankee Stadium was emptying out. They were already heading to the parking lot. And I wanted to say that if that wasn't Houston, that would have never happened. If we were down by, you know, five points or whatever, five, five runs, we would, we would have, all of the Astros would have, all the Astro fans would have hung around all the way to the end for sure, not like they did in, in the Bronx. I don't know if I believe that.

Okay, see, that's the thing. You've got to believe. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Ray, that's the difference. Ray, I have evidence. People leave Minutemate Park all the time because here's the thing, Ray. When I'm doing 10th inning shows, call in shows, even during the playoffs, I leave in the seventh inning myself to get to the studio. And there are lots of people leaving.

Okay. But here's, let's be honest here. Your team is getting their ass kicked at home, and it's, you know, remember, it's an hour later start time. And there are people that I've got to work at their kids of school. I don't necessarily blame them because there was no thought of my mind right yesterday that the Yankees were going to come back from the Astros deficit. It just wasn't. Yeah, you're right.

You're right. Okay. Well, it did get pretty late. It got to all like midnight. But anyway, the second thing, I wanted everybody in Houston, and everybody included just to repeat after me. Say, I. Hello.

Hi. Yeah. Say, I believe. I believe that. we will win. I believe that we will win. Okay. We got to cut that man off, man.

He was enthusiastic. Because I cut off when I drank last night. So should he. It's not very nice. I love you, Ray. Like a fourth cousin. But, you know, this is a major market radio show.

It's on a pep rally. Right? He believes that we will win. We appreciate your enthusiasm. Astros in five. one, two, yes or no, all three of us, ready? Astros finish it off tonight. One, two, three.

Yep. Yes. Oh. Yes, what? There you go. Much better. Yes. They're going to win tonight, I think.

Let's go to Brian on the south side at 154. Hi, Brian. What's going on, fellas? Hey, I was a little concerned when Presley got in. It seemed like Torinos was either, I mean, wrong signs. confused signs. Maybe he never caught them before, but I think we were super lucky, and I know we're good, but I think we were lucky to get out of that inning the way we did. Kudos to Presley and Cherinos for coming back the way they did.

But I was, you know, catching was my thing as a base, you know, playing, and I got to the point where I was, you know, catching 90-mile-an-hour pitches, but nothing above that, really. And I was never quite as confused as it seemed like those two. were last night. Do you think that was just, is that a normal combination? I don't watch enough, but does Maldonado usually catch Presley? Or is that, was that just a fluke? Because I'm that's a whole, yeah, they don't make specific catchers for bullpen guys. Bullpen guys come in and whoever's catching him, whether it's Torinos or Maldonado, it just happens to be

with that case. So, no, I thought Torinos yesterday looked, Bill Wilder wouldn't be the term I would use, but I don't think he was the pitcher's best friend yesterday. And I don't like him, But I just don't think. I thought he was, help me out, Ross. I wanted to be more grounded than he was yesterday. It felt like he was really moving around and sometimes unnecessarily. Maybe because of the way. We're steady-handed.

Yeah, steady-handed would be a good term. Well, and he got nailed in the shoulder earlier. So, you know, I know he was probably hurting a lot worse than I am right now. But it did seem like there were two or three strikes that were strikes. And he was moving so fast back there. The umpire had no choice. but to, you know, called the, and then we got lucky he dropped that one pitch against, I think it was their cleanup or the fifth hitter.

He actually dropped it, and the umpire was smart enough to know that was a strike. But it seemed like that was my question. I just didn't know if they had ever played together before. Oh, sure. Plenty. Yeah. Plenty. Thank you, Brian, for the phone call.

They've been played with each other plenty of times. But, Ross, I'm telling you, it was the moment of truth for Ryan Presley as an astro, at least in the 2019 season. He scuffles yesterday. He doesn't make the World Series roster. Those are some big moments. And honestly, he was a little bit, I mean, he was missing his spots as well. Even on that you had, I think Chorinos was set up on the outside when he got that strikeout with the 95-mile-hour fastball.

It was low and inside. It was a good pitch. They got a swing and miss. But, I mean, he seemed a little bit erratic, honestly. Well, you know what? We can always put this down because it just, it was such an important moment for him and being successful. Delvers another one, too. Swing and a miss.

Struck him out on a pitch inside of fastball. And the inning is over. Yankees load them up with one out and they get nothing. And AJ Hinch loved Presley's work too. As we know in this ballpark, when the inning starts to grow and build and the momentum starts to swing in their favor, really just a fresh arm with some power behind it and a good breaking ball. And I brought him in against Hicks.

He made some really good pitches to him. Those guys had played together. So I think they had some familiarity. But he had a really good at bat and then too big. two big outs after that. So, you know, press has been one of our guys that we've leaned on so heavily, but that was a really, really nice time of the game for him to come through big and feel back in the mix in a huge leverage spot. All right, there you go from aging. More on the Astros. We'll go to Brian T in New York, those of you on a whole, which will include Joseph.

And any of you want to jump in, 713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. The final hour of the Matt Thomas show, Believe it or not, all things about C.C. Sabathieu, because he left the mouth with a shoulder surgery injury yesterday, and he has been officially disabled, which means he's done for the series. And if the Yankees were to come back, which, God, hopefully they wouldn't, he would be ineligible for the World Series. So C.C. leaves the mound with an injury for his Major League career. 713-212-5-790. Yeah.

Is the Matt Thomas Show. Back to New York. We go at 203 on the Matt Thomas show. Let's spend 10 quality minutes with our good friend, Brian T. Smith, with us every Friday here on the radio program. We've gone over and over, BTS, over some of the intricacies of the game. Through your eyes, just give me a sense of what has happened in the New York Yankees, a team that had full of swagger, and it looked like a large part of the game yesterday was, let's get out of here and try to salvage a series somehow, somehow, somewhere by winning three straight.

Matt, how the turntables have turned, right? We're Yankee Stadium, the Bronx, the Yankees, the history, legacy franchise, and they can't win a game in their own ballpark. And two years ago in the ALCS, that series, which was, you know, another defining series for the re-built Astros, that series came down to home and away. And by the time you get into the last couple of innings last night, that was a total embarrassment. I mean, they couldn't field the ball.

It didn't seem like they cared. The stadium was empty. It looked like an energy stadium when the Texans went 2 and 14. It's amazing what confidence, what precision, what well-played baseball can do in October. And the Astros since that first game have absolutely had it. Carlos Correa's walkoff as of right now completely changed this series. Yankees haven't been the same sense. But if you are a Yankees believer and there are millions across the country,

game four was a total embarrassment for a franchise that's supposed to be associated with, you know, rings and Yankee pride. There was no Yankee pride at the end of game four. Because think about this for a second, Brian. The Astros have George Springer at 118, Brangman 18. Brangman 182, Guriel 063, Alvarez 067, Correa

176. And look, and Al-Tube and Brantley have been hitting the ball well in the series. But it's not like the Astros brought their own form of bombers

into Yankee Stadium to just beat them offensively over the hat. It's been lousy defense. It has been their main go-to guys. Why is Aaron Hicks batting third for the life of me? Edwin Encarnacion,

I don't think it's had a relevant hit in weeks for them. Gary Sanchez, with the exception of what he did yesterday. DeGrigorous has been bad. I mean, this is more of their doing, or maybe we need to start beating the chest of the Astros bullpen because they have been phenomenal so far in this series. Yeah, I think number one, we have seen the 107 win Astros in this series. And look, Tampa, Tampa Bay, let's be real about this. It could change tonight. There are three more games to go potentially. The Tampa Bay Rays have been much more of a challenge

and much more dangerous in a playoff series this October than the New York Yankees have been. And I don't know what's going on with the New York media. They're supposed to be tough. I feel like the Houston media is much more tougher on the Astros when they disappoint. I thought that Giancarlo's

Stanton, you know, that Stanton not playing and not being able to stay healthy would have been a much huger deal. And it's completely flown under the radar. It's like, oh, he's out again, quad, oh, whatever. It's Stanton. That's somebody, if Stanton's not in their lineup,

and they're going to say, hey, we 103 games this year without him for the most part, but you got him to be able to beat the Red Sox, to beat the Astros. You know, Tanaka had one great game, one bad game. The Yankees came into the series, Matt, with serious questions, I believe, all season about their starting pitching,

and it's finally started to catch up with him. Their bullpen is overworked. Outavino has been horrendous. He should never pitch. for the Yankees. But ultimately for me, I mean, Judge last night was a disappointment and crucial game-panging situations. Stanton can't even get on the field. This is not a great team right now, and you nailed it. Aaron Hicks. Aaron Hicks is hitting third. So I'm going to go with Burlander and Cole and a pretty good, very gritty greenkey last night. I'm going to go with

Joe Smith and Roberto Osuna and Rondon and Will Freakin Harris with. the October goate. Ryan Presley coming up, you know, wheel and a wheelbarrel across Yankee Stadium. Most importantly, I'm going to come down and place my bet on right now with what we know in the series, AJ Hinch, Alex Bregman, Carlos Correa, George Springer, Jose Altuve, Michael Brantley, the Astros entered the series as a better team.

I expected them to win it. I expect them to win the World Series. But thus far, they've reminded us why they won 107 and why the Yankees were a surprise to win 103. Behind the scenes, give me some more thoughts on the whole whistling bed, and clearly, AJ at his press availability yesterday, was quite irritated by it. Look, there's a lot of things that are rules that are broken in sports. Every team, including teams of the word Houston in front of them, do that.

So we can't be naive. But how much has the Yankees bitching about sign stealing and chirping maybe gotten to the Yankees' heads a little bit? Matt, I'm very glad you asked me that question. Just like AJ Hinch said yesterday, behind the podium. I've written this two straight years in Houston Chronicle.

I said last year, look, if the Astros are doing something that is absolutely illegal and they are, they've got some covert, you know, Jack Ryan,

Jason Bourne spy system going on and they are breaking written rules of the game, then that changes everything. Thus far, they have been, you know, there was an issue in 17

in the World Series. There was an issue in 18 against the Indians and the Red Sox in the playoffs. It was an issue this year, against the race. It was an issue this year in this series against the Yankees. Until another team, or more importantly, Major League Baseball can prove anything. And baseball's investigated the Astros a couple times and come away with absolutely nothing. Until somebody can prove something,

the losers and the whiners need to shut up. And that's what I wrote in the Chronicle. If the Astros are doing something and they are breaking rules, you would think that, I mean, here's the thing. Players change teams every year, every season, Matt. You're going to tell me there's nobody else in this age of supermedia and cameras and reporters everywhere in 24-7-365 clickbait, you're going to tell me that nobody, no great reporter in America in the era of fake news, can find a former baseball player, a current player on, let's say, the Oakland A's, to come out and say on the record or, you know, very well-sourced, very well-sourced, very well-reported, yes, the Astros are cheating.

Nobody has ever said that. So for this to come up again in Yankee's, stadium and you've got the commissioner in the stadium, the Yankees look like winers. The Yankees look weak. The Yankees look like a team that's on the verge of being eliminated. Don't have a bullpen. Stanton can't play. And they're accusing the Astros of whistling.

We're talking about whistling. So, you know, Astros need to finish this off tonight. You got Verlanner on the mound. I don't know why in the world, 10% of Astros' Twitter was freaking out that Verlander was going to pitch game five. This is exactly what you want for the Astros. Maybe the series turned to one more time, but right now it feels over. The Astros look like

they're going to win the World Series, and the New York Yankees look really, really wimpy. All right. If things do fall apart tonight, which is a possibility, because you know what? Could happen. Could happen. And I try to get Jake on his opinion. I want to get yours. What would you do for games 6 and 7 in Houston,

Texas? Yeah, that's where it's going to get interesting. And maybe there's a turn, right? I mean, this is a team at 103 games, and they play in the Bronx, so they should be better than this. let's say the Astros let's say Verlander pitches really well and the Astros lose 2 to 1 or 3 to 2.

A.J. Hens is going to have a huge decision and this is where Astros' Twitter should really kick in and question this. As of right now and I need to see how the game plays out, man. I don't know what the correct answer is because Garrett Cole is the best pitcher on the planet that Garrett Cole has never pitched on short rest. In the last example, we have of Astros 8th

throwing on short rest, it was a bus. Justin Verlander did not have it. Do you save Cole for 7 not according to AJ Hinch. Everything A.J. Hinch has said this part in the playoffs is he believes in winning today. Right? You don't say we're going to lose today and win tomorrow. Game 7 is 50-50.

Game 7, they had a first inning grand slam and Minutemate Park goes quiet, and your season could be over. So I have to talk to Cole. I have to be Hinch. You have to steal it out. But depending on how this game goes, I do believe you have to give very serious consideration

to starting colon 6 and finishing it. Because here's a thing, If it's seven, what is Grinky going to start in short rest? I mean, seven feels like a wash already in terms of who you would throw. So maybe the best answer is you go with the best pitcher on the planet, say, hey, he's missing one day of rest, and let's finish this with Garrett Cole in our stadium. Maybe that's the best answer. See, I think it all makes a lot of sense. I just think people, and I'll put myself at the top of this list, think, my God, if the Astros drop two in a row and it's a game seven,

winner take all, the drama of a game 7, no matter what sport it is or what series it is, you're going to go with bullpen people. It just sounds really, really weird right now because... Right, but that's the state of major league baseball. We'll find out. It may all be a wasted point,

but they got off track and the ALDS. We'll see if it hurts them eventually in the ALCS, you know, with taking it to five. And, you know, Grinky started game one. That was an ideal. You wanted to have early in there, and Cole, but it's not like flip it upside down, Matt. It's not like the

Yankees are going to be throwing magic fire in game seven. I mean, the Yankees are in a worse spot than the Astros are. I think you go as what you know and you believe in and you throw colon six and close it out and then deal whatever happens in seven. But yeah, it's not an ideal situation, which is why

I tell you right now, they came here, wanting to close it out here after the whistling, after throwing stuff on the field, after Zach Grinky reportedly, you know, having personal insults yelled at him and the bullpen when he was warming up. After all that, the Astros want to close it out in Yankee South Stadium and celebrate on the Yankees field. I like how you think.

BTS, safe travels back to our city. We'll talk again next week. Take care, Matthew. You got it, Brian T. Smith, with us from the Houston Chronicle, a Friday contributor on the show. All right, it's you and me the rest of the way with Ross as he prepares for a C.C. Sabathia, hell, yeah or not. We'll get some handicapping advice for you coming up as well at the bottom of the hour. Hey, it's Jeff Blum.

Blum Fact number 14. I was on the White Sox in 2005. Yeah, sorry about that sweep, H-Town. But we're all good right now, right? World Series champion. Back to your lunchtime champion, Matt Thomas. People had enough. Give me some on.

You people want the wildhead. Give me some on. You know, we always need that. Give me some on. Even though we get in money, you can give me some on. We got a lot of talk. You asked me earlier to name the artist, Matt, so now you name the artist. Give me multiple choice.

No, you didn't give me multiple choice when I know who that. I actually thought it sounded like Tina Turner, but then you said group. I'll give you a hint, Matt. It's not Phil Collins. Should I know this? No. Okay, then tell me who this. Busta Rhymes?

No chance. You're not a big Busta guy? So, Mrs. Rhymes had the baby in her hand and said I'm going to name him Busta? Yeah. He's a rapper named Busta Rhymes, Matt. What's his real name? What was the captain of, was Captain in Teneal? Was he really captain?

Tony Tenil. His name is Darryl Dragon. Was he a captain? Not really. Did Mom hold him in his arms and call him this is captain? No, it's the name of the band. Okay. But he was always known as Darryl Dragon. I don't have no idea.

Is that his real name? He died last year, I think. You know, they had been together. Nothing. Here we go. They had been together for decades and decades and decades. They finally got divorced like five or six years ago. That's a shame.

So now she's by herself. Is she available? Is she on tour? You want to go see Tony Tenil with me somewhere? Anybody? I'm okay. I had a teacher in high school named Miss Dragon. economics.

Really? Mm-hmm. I'm still going about Miss Courtney from eighth grade. She used to say something racially insensitive about Japanese people I can't remember what it was.

Yeah. 2019. Come on now. Actually, it wouldn't have been good back then either. Let's go. Joseph on the Southwest side on 790.

Hi, Joseph. Joseph. Joseph. Hello? Hello? Joseph, turn your radio up as high as it can. I don't think it's on.

Hello? Hello? Joseph. Yeah. Yeah, I'm here. I'm here. I want to ask you. Can you hear me? Barely. Speak as loud as you can. Like, almost yell. Oh, I'm sorry about that. I need to ask you question right quick. Go on. Is this Marconi or not?

Yeah, we're just going to cut that off. DJ LeMayhew at first base today leads off, followed by right fielder, Aaron Judge. Glaver Torres bats third today and play second base. D.Hing, Jean-Carlo Stanton is back. They don't like him in New York at all. Where's Incarnation? He's resting.

So is his, but, 105 batting average. His bat has been resting the whole series. Aaron Hicks and center field bats fifth. Gary Sanchez catches in batts six. D.D. Gregorius is a shirt-out batting seventh. Gio O'Shele is at their base batting eighth. And Brett Garner will be in left field, batting ninth for James Pexton. There you go.

Let's go to Josh and Conroe at 224. Hi, Josh. How's it going, guys? Good. I just had a couple things to say, then I'll hang up and listen. One, I don't know what y'all think, but maybe Cherinos was just cold. And so we couldn't quit moving around to stay warm. And then I know Aaron Boone is not trying to lose the series,

but you got a question is statistics and throwing Atevino out of Vino out. out there every, every game, knowing you're going to get crushed. But thank y'all. I love the show. Thank you very much. Yeah, I have a feeling that Aanovino is getting the same wrath that a Roberto Osuna has received in this town over a certain period of time. Oh, is it Gregerson bad?

Or is it Chad Qualls bad? Oh, no, Chad Qualls is the goat of getting people hating on him. Yeah. We're getting Neshacked a little bit for a little bit there. And then he went to the Phillies and was awesome. Yeah, no, Nishak, not even a blip on the radar. Like if you think of the worst, all-time relievers that got crap from Houston. Bradledge, number one, because of the home run that's, I don't think he still has landed yet at Minutemate Park.

Is Ken Giles up there? I would put Qualls 2. Yes. Then Giles 3. Kenny G. punished himself, though. Gregerson? Gregerson got crushed for a while. I would actually put Osuna above Gregerson.

I really? I think. I think. Gregerson was getting crushed back in the day. Yeah, but Gregerson was a soft tosser. That's fine. That's one of the reasons it was easy to crush him. Billy Wagner, very low in the list.

Yeah. Doug Brokele? Yes or no. High in the list. Who was that guy that they treaded for from the pirates that was just like Mike Williams or something was his name? That dude used to always get in a ton of trouble. He had like five different sliders he would be throwing out there. Yeah, I wasn't here when he was pitching.

I think I think our list is strong. I really do. That's who always gave with Mike Williams was coming in for the Astros. Oh, he only pitched one year here, 2001.

I guess he burned in my memory. God, man, I was here in 2001. Yeah. Shame on me. They traded for him from the Pittsburgh from pirates,

and then he would just come in and throw like five different sliders and he was one of those, you know, it seems like some relievers don't, and Ken Javis was kind of like this. They don't start throwing their best stuff

until they get a couple of runners on base. seems like. And then that's just where you start getting worried and then there's less margin for error. Yeah. It's good stuff there, for sure. But, yeah, I don't think I put Mike Williams in the list. He's on my personal list. Yeah, you, Mike Williams. There's some serious hatred for Mike Williams.

Let's go to Jaime and Montrose on 790-227. Jaime, how are you, sir? How are you? Wonderful, what's up? Well, you know, if I'm not mistaken, y'all were talking about game six is that we all talking about? As a possibility.

We believe the Astros will finish it off today, but you have to talk about it. You have to talk about it sometimes, yeah. Yeah. For what? For who? For what fans?

Because Burlander's going to go out there and he's going to smash it. He's going to kill him. Like, they've never been killed before. Come on. It's Verlander. It's J.B. in the postseason in Jackie Stadium.

Let's go straight. And that's all I have to say. Okay. Hi, Jaime, thank you. Thank you. We all do that. We all, when we have a point we want to make, we raise the volume of the show. I do that constantly.

Somebody's chiming in with David Weathers. That is not a top five. When is the last time I heard David Weathers? That is not a top five hated Astero reliever. Come on. Oh, Tony Sip. Oh, hated. Yeah.

Yeah, that's a good one. Tony. Josh Fields, no. Octavio D'Otel, I would say no. Am I call him beloved? I'm talking about, like, let me write this down. Okay, top five hated. Qualls.

Qualls is up there. Lidge. I think Brad Lidge is tops. How do you feel about a Ricky Stone? Old school, Dave Smith, for Blown 86 series. Who else will we have on there? Dave Smith is like one of the all-time leaders in saves for the ass shows, right?

Yeah, but people still hated him. Oh, really? That was before talk radio. Yeah. Who do we have? They're talking poorly about him in the Houston Post. Do you think Luke Gregerson really makes the top five list of most hated? Yeah, I think so.

I don't know. Maybe not. Have a stand. Yes. You're right. I think so. Gregerson's in there. Qualls is in there.

Giles is up there. Giles definitely is in there. people are really upset about Dan Maselli Hey don't go against Oscar Villarie Selle Oscar Villa Rial Oscar my namesake Oscar Villarreal he was not good He was a disgrace to the to my last name

You know who I used to always hate Fernando Abad I used to call him Fernando Abad Yeah God he was terrible That's a good one All right let me get one in before we get to our handicapper Let's say hi to line two Frank Westside

Who we're missing on on Hey fellas First of all, please, I'm going to reclaim the good name of Dave Smith. He was awesome. Yeah, but he sucked in 86. Well, no, he was great in 86. Got all the way to the LCS and also a very good match team. And by the way, he also liked the pop a few colons at my favorite local.

Good dude. Fair enough, fair enough. Going deep old school. Two guys came to mind immediately. The first was Mitch Wild Thing Williams. Oh, Mitch Williams. He always made coffee nervous. I give you that.

Correct. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and then two other guys who sort of pitch, I'm thinking kind of after Smitty and then Williams, two guys just sort of swapped in and out to be closers, Todd Jones and John Hudek. I don't, I would say Jones was hated more than Who Dick. I think people like John Hudick. Matt, I can't remember if they hated Hootick or not, but Todd Jones basically was Bradledge light in the sense that, A,

he couldn't pitch with men on base. He would just go to pieces. And B, he had to go elsewhere to establish a real Major League career because if you look on the all-time sales litch, believe it or not, somehow he's actually fairly high up relative to his complete lack of talent.

Anyway, that's all I got. See? Wow. Thank you, Frank. We could have some fun with this. Ouch. Damn. During the off-season. Yeah, we got to worry about the good relievers, which are the Houston Astros. Let's make you some money next.

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Sports Investors Weekly is a radio show that I'm telling you, when you're like I'm going to get coffee and donuts for the kids, or I've got to make a quick trip to the grocery store, or I get hives going to Home Depot to try to get home improvement things. You got to have these boys on. Paul, who are all the guys on that show? Because it's just much listen radio. I just, it's just an absolute 100% part of my weekend. No, dude, thanks a lot.

That's awesome. Appreciate it. Who's on there with you? I got Jimmy Taggs. This was my boy. I love him. He's been around the business really since the early. the 80s, he's going to be 62, actually, today.

And, you know, my buddy, Damon Roberts, who's been pretty good host. We used to do business back in 2000, and then I went to Eddie Roman for a while, and now I'm back with Damon, and I really enjoyed Damon because Damon's prep work is unlike nobody else's. All right. We try to keep it light. You know, we try to have fun, but we try to keep it seriously at the same time because, you know, we still know we're talking about people's, you know, investments and their bets, and I don't know, like, joking around about money.

No. Let me tell you. They're in a single soul in this America that we live in. It's joking about money right now. Let's make some money for some folks this weekend. On the NFL slate, boy, Philadelphia and Dallas, two really schizophrenic teams as of late, especially in the Dallas side and they're losing ways.

Where are we on this game this weekend has the line fluctuated a whole lot? No, the line hasn't fluctuated a whole lot. But I don't know if we talked about it on your show, but I do a lot of these. But, you know, we really liked Sam Donald's value that he brings to a team, and we realistically didn't have. have the guts to go jets completely plus seven and a half or seven, you know, when the line came down from eight and a half.

But we did have the over in that game, which was very fortunate with all those flags down the stretch. But we all felt like it shouldn't have been that way. That's just a different team when they have Sam Donald. I mean, they average 22 points a game with them in the lineup and 10 without them. So, you know, it's one of those things. So as far as, you know, the Eagles go, the Eagles secondary was abused in a way that, like, you rarely see in the NFL anymore.

That was as bad and embarrassing a matchup as we have seen. So we do know as one thing with good coaches and good teams, especially good locker rooms. And Philly does have that. They do a pretty good job of bouncing back. So I am not completely down on the Eagles as of yet. And I know there's a lot of people, especially over in Dallas, jumping off bridges because of, you know, Dax play, including Dax agent, you know, who's, you know, Dack went from one and 40 million a year. He should really be happy to take a $20 million a year.

But, you know, again, when that offensive line is where it's at, we talked about it. You know, Connell Williams at left guard, Cam Fleming at left tackle. They've been sieves. Rookie Brandon Knight on the right tackle, it really hasn't been much. And when you see with Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham, due to weaker talent, they obliterate it. So the question comes down to this. Will Amari Cooper play well? Because you watch the All-22 on him, and he's soft in his routes.

He's not selling his routes. he's just looping his way in. Dak has never been overly accurate. And if you're not running precise routes, you know, there's going to be a lot of drops. And, you know, we watched Gallup drop a couple balls that should have been caught. And Amari Cooper's always had the drop season. You know, I mean, one of the guys on TV, I think said I think Amari Cooper's hands are just for decorations at this point. And, you know, it's like one of those things where, you know, you just can't trust that team at all.

So I like the total in that game. If I had to, I would take the under in that game. I'm hoping the weather comes to it. that's one of those things you want to wait until closer to game time based on if the wins over 12 or 14 miles an hour, then I'm definitely going to be on that under. All right? So the under and the Philadelphia Dallas game this week is what you're thinking, right? Yeah, I'm leaning towards that as a free selection, yes. Okay. Let's get to the Texans and the Colts.

Are we still believers of the home team gets two points regardless or because right now the Texans are only getting one this week in Indianapolis? What are you thinking about that? Well, I think NFL teams this year, I think the road teams have one. on 56 or 57% of all the games on the road straight up this year. So road dogs have obviously been a great investment. And no, it seems to me with all the penalties and the way the crowd gets pulled out of games with all the flags, you know, it does seem to be affecting the emotional state of it, you know, of a home crowd. Other than sleeping in your bed, other than the convenience of having your facility, it hasn't shown to be as profitable or as valuable as it used to be.

So, you know, Indianapolis, to me, is a better team that we saw against the Oakland Raiders. Indianapolis is probably not as good a team as people thought when they were a 10-point dog and beat Kansas City. Again, this lends to the overreactions, the tribal behavior of people, how emotional people get when they bet a game on a team and they win, they fall in love. And when they lose, they fall in hate. And I think it's one of the things I wanted to address this week was we talked about Bill O'Brien and a couple weeks back. I'm asking if the fans in your area are sick of them and tired of them. And we had been talking about it. You know, we talk about your team really every week for the most part.

And what he's doing everything we've asked, he's getting the ball out of the kid's hands. He's doing two stack route concepts where, you know, he's pushing the zone beaters back and guys just drop it underneath and giving him a chance to get the ball out of his hands very quickly, which is exactly what you asked him to do to keep, you know, Deshawn Watson upright. That kidded to me. I've said it before. I'll say it again. if he was in Andy Reed system and he was, you know, last year in Kansas City, he would have put up video game numbers as well.

You know, we'd love him as in terms of all ratings. We have them as the number two quarterback in the league right now behind Russell Wilson. Tough game here. I do not. I can tell you that I hate to say this on the A, I really like Indianapolis in this game. I don't want to annoy the local crowd. Let me tell you. Let me tell you.

Let me tell you. Let me, excuse me, Paul, I'm going to say something right now. We want to make money. We don't care who wins and loses. Now, if we're talking strictly fan base-wise, yeah, Texans fans don't want to hear the cult that at Las Vegas handicapper or like yourself, and you guys are at Freewinners.com or are into this. But it's about right now people listening going, hey, if I'm putting a wager down,

what am I going with? That's why they trust you, Paul. Well, I appreciate it. You know, again, I don't want all the radios turn off in your audience, that. But, yeah, I like Indy in this game. I think it's a perfect spot. I love Frank Reich as a coach.

His staff is outstanding. The fundamentals of this team are outstanding. what they do in terms of practice so much like Bill Belichick staff. They have a lot of time to prepare for this game, and I really believe that from a schematic standpoint, this is going to be a couple really nice mismatches, including the fact the one thing that Houston has to do, they have to get after the quarterback to kind of cover up that secondary, and they're not going to get away with that this week. And I really think Darius Leonard is one of the best kept secrets in the league.

With him being back and the secondary starting to get a little healthy in Indianapolis, I really like India in this game. So if people out there want to play this game, it's definitely going to be a free pick that we're going to give out over the weekend. And it's a real solid play. So we really believe in Indy this week. All right. Saturday's at 10 on the college games.

Sundays at 11, or as you say, Sundays at 10 o'clock as well for the pro games. What else is happening at freewinners.net this weekend? You know, what we try to do is just give everyone a free weekend pass. You call in any time you want. And, you know, we'll do as we'll let you play three games for Saturday, three Sunday. We throw out in the Monday night game as well.

And it's where you get a taste for what the free picks are about. And if you like what you see, you give us a call back. There's not a lot of pressure. There's not going to be a lot of people pushing you to join up or sign up. Always give money back guarantees. If you want to join up for $99 for the month, it's always a money back guarantee at the end of the month if you're not happy. And you play all the free picks and all the service plays for 30 days. It's really fair.

We just want to get to know you and show you what we're really about. I love the fact that you go to the freewinners.comnet website and you show Vegas. It makes me want to just buy a bunch of games right now. So mission accomplished, my friend. I'm telling you, it's great stuff. Well, I appreciate it. Sight's still on the construction. It's not where I wanted to be, but I'm always changing it because I've mental issues and I'm working on that.

We all have mental issues, my friend. Paul, Saturdays and Sundays for Sports Investors Weekly and Freewinners. com. Thanks for the programming, and we'll talk again next Friday. Hey, thank you, sir. I appreciate your time. You got it. Paul Nolan with us again, freewinters.net. Rossi, we're down to two before we get a skunk.

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God friended me. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Oh, damn it. I thought I'd get him on that. Have a great weekend. The A team's up for a full, I don't know, two hours, but they'll barely talk to sports.

Yeah, they're about like an hour of 40. Why do you hit us? Because you don't work. And the Yankees are dust in the, wind and there are dust in the wind and you eat cheez-its and they're gross go get some pretzels have a great weekend everyone