The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show 10-28-19

Episode Date: October 28, 2019

The Matt Thomas Show w/ @SportsMT, @SportsRV, and @ProNickLow 10/28/19Double Crush Bus (0:00)The Astros never sweat (11:59)Was this Gerrit Cole's last game as an Astro? (1:06:00)Destroying Baby Shark (1:22:35)

Much larger than life. Yeah. Launch timers. I'm on my way. Is the Matt Thomas show. Welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Sports RV. Wonderful.

Hey, Nick Lowe, remember that dumbass Twitter that said, you know what? There needs to be veteran leadership. I do. We need to get that veteran leader on the. Double-crushed bus, don't you think? Does my have things have changed in just 72 hours? Is Brian McCann jumping on the bus? Yeah, Brian McCann, and having gas, Shane Reynolds, Craig Beecho.

All right, if you wanted the bus right now, I want to know, is the bus in Washington, D.C. Can we say it's there? Is it? Sure, okay. Probably a lot of traffic. So let's just pretend you're on the double-crush bus in Washington, D.C., What are you wearing? What did you drink? And did you flash your son? Yes, I did.

I think I'm going to flash our flash people today. Oh, don't do that. All right. If you want to the bus right now, just scream a hell. Yeah, because your squad was down to nothing and people were questioning the clubhouse and whether or not it was made of leaders. What a bunch of crap. The nationals are really good. And guess what? So too are the Astros. I would play some highlights of my computer is completely dead. So Ross, I'll let you pretend your Joe Butt calling Alex Breggman and game. Can I drop some C-Laters on you? I guess you could. Sure. Why not? Do the Alex Bremen Grand Slam.

Saturday night. I'm not going to do that. Here's the pitch. There's a deep drive. Oh, he's smoked and see you. That's not how Robert Ford does it. Oh, this one. See you later. See you later. See you later. See you later. That wasn't that either? That would be actually great.

You should do that. That's what he should do. Just ham up these calls like John Sterling. Yeah. How about this one? See you. A braggy bomb. See you.

See you. See you later. Later. Later. Making music out of everyone? Yeah. Oh, man, it is good to be in Houston, Texas. Your Texans with a win.

What are you putting your hands up in the air for? Nothing. All right, fair enough. Oh, look at the engineering team. Two guys came in? Holy smokes. Computer's dead as a doorknale, and they're coming in there racing in? No, they're not working on your computer.

You're messing on Michael Berry or something. Holy smokes. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-7. if you want to get on the bus early on. If not, Ross, you know,

I don't mind you and I taking the private shuttle if you know what I mean. Oh, nobody's calling it? No, nobody's calling. Everybody's excited. Well,

you have to make it clear. We want people on the bus. We want you on the bus right now. 713, 21, 2, 1,000, 5, 790. We allowing Gary on County on the bus? Uh,

if he wants. Are we allowing the busty girl that exposed herself with her friends on the bus? We wanted to take a watt on the bus. We had to make a stop of the hospital, unfortunately.

no. There's a question I must ask. You don't want to know the question, do you? What's the question? Is JJ IP? I said yes. He's got chronic back issues and he continues to get hurt. Of course. This is a chest muscle, though.

Yeah? But I asked you if he was six weeks ago and you said no. Are you sure I said no? A hundred percent. I think I think you're lying. I'm 100% sure. And I was like, what? I thought for sure I'd get a yes for you on that one. But you know, my rules are consistent. Yours change. No, that's not true at all. So under the rules of consistency,

he is IP. Kiki Quti is not IP, but he just didn't play. He's not? No. Okay. Will Fuller, definitely IP. What about Carlos Korea? Carlos Korea update because he's been slamming home runs the all playoffs. Yeah. And that'd matter. You can be IP and still be really good. Okay. Just like JJ Watt is IPing really good. All right. So your squad is one victory away. Yordon Alvarez, Jordan Alvado, and O. by the way, those of you, and look, I love you, Ben DeBos, like you're a stepson of mine. He couldn't be that old.

He's a stepbrother. Yeah, no, he's, yeah, you can be, you can be his stepfather. Unless I was having sex of my early teens. You're edging on 50, Matt. Oh, that's, that's, that's not nice. But Ben is the lead dog in the world of complaining about officiating. The umpiring. The umpiring. The umpiring of any sport. It doesn't matter. He, he has, true. He doesn't care what sport, what game,

who's playing. That shouldn't have been a red card. But the Victor Robles' strike three call for Garrett Cole was a complete joke. So for the 1,000th time, I tell you, Houston, Texas, do not blame officiating. Does it all... Let me show the sign what I'm doing right here.

What am I doing right here? It all comes full circle. Matt's making a circle with his finger, and it's actually making me uncomfortable for some reason. Yeah, I don't do that. Let's go to the bus see who's on it. Patrick, you on the bus? Yes, sir.

I'm one on the bus. What are you wearing? I'm wearing my orange chap and my peach basket, Thomas T-shirt. I drink a patron. What are you drinking? Silver patron, sir. All right, very good. You ready to celebrate tomorrow night?

Let's get this. Let's do this. All right, thank you very much. Ah-hee. Ah-hee. I love that. No peach basket. get Thomas shirt and everything created.

Trevor, you want on the bus? Hey, Kiam, let's go. What are you wearing? I'm wearing my take-it-back postseason World Series 2019 shirt, and I'm wearing my Astros tab and Waterburger sunglasses. Waterburger sunglasses, very good. What are you drinking?

I'm drinking a cold Dr. Pepper from Jack in a box that I got a free jumbo jet with the Texans winning yesterday. Oh, that's good, and you should go to a department store and get 50% off a belt. Oh, nice. And I just want to give a quick. Shout out to my history teacher.

I convinced her to move my history test. That was supposed to be for Wednesday. Yeah. And next week because she's watching games. There we go. What is her name? Professor Jenkins. Oh, where do you go to school, Trevor?

Lone Star College, Cypress Center. Nice, nice. Shout out to Professor at Cyprus. Yes. Too many colleges. Thank you. Shout out, Professor Jenkins. Moving the test.

Let's go to Benjamin. Benjamin. Benjamin, you own the double-crush bus? Oh, yeah. What are you wearing a smile? And I'm bringing me the two ladies from a behind home plate last night of the seventh inning. You know what I'm talking about?

Give me a holler. Yeah, holler, for sure. I thought they blocked you. By the way, those ladies are never allowed in a major league baseball game again. That's unfortunate. But they got a lot of clout, and that's what they did it for, and good for them. And, you know, I mean, they weren't the worst things. It's okay, Matt.

I'm going to be wearing my overalls for quick access so I can show them everything's bigger in Texas. What? What? What? Oh, that's a massive buzzkill. Yeah, that's, you're going to get arrested for that. Does Mrs. Lowe know about this? She doesn't need it.

Is it a free pass? Is it a free pass during World Series? Will your wife, husband, will your wives give you guys free passes for a World Series? Or husbands? Or husbands? Yeah, there's some women out there that are looking for a free pass. If you're a woman looking for a free pass, called the World Series Escape Clause.

Okay. I don't know if it'll work, but it's worth trying at least. Uh, Diane in League City, you want on the double crush bus? Yes, sir. All right. What are you wearing? Mask. Well, last night I went to the watch party and I bought a really awesome

fall plastic shirt that has Astros and that other team's logo on it. Nice. What are you drinking? Coffee, sorry. That's smart. You know what? You know, these games are four hours plus apiece, so. You were saying, Diane?

Has anyone mentioned how old photo is lately if I forgot? He is 21 years old. He's 21, apparently. And he got to taste something for his 21st birthday. An L.

An L. Strike 3 right down the middle. John in the Heights, you want on the double-crush bus? Oh, yeah, it's a megablast. So you know, I got something going on. I'm wearing a bright orange astro-colored banana hammock,

A speedo. Wouldn't that look lovely? No, you're... In cowboy boots. Yeah, that's great. And the beverage of choice will be Zima. Yeah, you're a really disgusting metrosexual. Thank you, Frank.

And that, my friend, the double-crush bus. I may have to get the bus going tomorrow, too. Just may need to. Maybe towards the end of the show. Okay. Something like that. What do you think? I mean, it is so odd that the...

Every road team has won. and when in doubt, the Astros bullpen is way better than the Washington Nationals bullpen. Well, and the Astros pitching. I mean, they scored one run in each of those three games. It's credit to Jose Orkidie. Who, by the way, how about AJ? I loved pulling him in the sixth. I hated it after I tried to do it.

Yeah, I mean, he was honest. I mean, look, the thing about AJ Hinch and everybody was questioning. that move, myself included. Who was catched? Was that Chorinos catching him that night? I believe so. I think Chorinos gave the sign to the, to the dugout. Hey, he's losing some of his stand there. Yeah, that's what, I think it was Smolt or somebody who picked up on that on the broadcast, and I was listening, and I remember him saying that. So, I mean, yeah, maybe he was losing steam. They did, they are keeping a Coles Island because Jose Arquitie wasn't even supposed to make the playoff roster. Jose Arquitie was under a strict innings limit because

of the fact of his Tommy John surgery. So he's not even supposed to be out there. so it made sense, but I think I'm with everybody else, though. I would have liked to have seen him at least get one more batter and see what he's got if he would no matter what the pitch limit was because he was pitching so well. But it worked out. It worked out.

Even though Josh James walked a couple people after that. How about Josh? Every time you want to root hard for the guy, he walks the first two people he sees. He's up and down. He's inconsistent. He's a middle relief guy. That's what they are.

And that means very, very small samples, which is unfair because his arm goes 100 comfortably. It just doesn't necessarily. necessarily stay in the strike zone. 1213, it is the Matt Thomas show. 713, 212.5, 719. 713, 2125, 790. Everything about the weekend series you want to get to,

everything about the Texans victory against the Raiders, and everything about J.J. Watt done for the season. Very, very discouraging. The secondary looks beat up, and then they're going to go to travel to London to play the Jaguars. I mean, they are in desperate need of a bye week, and they will not get it until after this Sunday's game. 713-2125-790.

It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross and Nick. We're with you until 3 o'clock. We thank you so much for listening to Sports Talk 790. The morning sports show for those who partied in Midtown way too hard last night. The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. Time is 1219. It is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. With Ross and Nick, I'm Matt.

We are very happy to have you with us. No guest today book because we are. are talking of the Houston Astros winning three games, the Houston Texans. I mean, it was impressive. I mean, I don't think Oakland's very good. They're very average. But Sean Watson is exemplary? That's, to me, the headliner, yeah.

It's basically Deshawn Wat. That's what the rest of the season is going to have to be. I mean, J.J. Watt going down, all the injuries in the secondary. Some of the guys should be coming back eventually. It's just going to have to be the Deshawn Watson show. And Deshawn, we trust. Please save us from this. bad defense and questionable play calling and decision making in Deshaun we trust.

So basically the Houston Texans are one amazing wide receiver, one incredible quarterback, and not much else. Carlos Heights decent. Duke Johnson got to the end zone. Kenny Still has been okay. Yeah, he's fine. None of that. I mean, even Whitney, I mean, Whitney's having a good year, but it's, it's, I mean,

here's where he's going to make his money. No Janavion Clowning because he's wearing Seattle gear. No J.J. Watt because the season is over. I mean, if Whitney is really going to get the money that he thinks he deserves and hopefully he does because, you know, we're team Whitney all the way. Here's where he's going to earn it in the next handful of weeks, right? Yes. There's nobody stopping him except other offensive linemen. Yeah, double teams.

And double teams for Whitney Mursels to go out there and be the D. I mean, who's Jonathan Joseph is hurt. The rest of secondary, I couldn't name them. I mean, it is a hot mess. in terms of who is out there trying to take the ball away from other people. This is going to, if the Texans are going to win this division and get to the playoffs, they're going to be winning 4,135 football games the rest of the way. I don't know if it's a formula that you would want or necessarily expect or hope,

but that's the reality. And case one of it working was yesterday with the Sean Watson his excellence. Yeah, I mean, defensively, you've gotten, the linebackers are solid. The pass rush is not good, and the secondary is not good, and hurt and banged up. So, yeah, you're just going to have to, you're going to be giving up points, bottom line. You're just going to keep pace. Otherwise, you're going to lose games. Jacksonville won yesterday over the Sucky Jets.

Garner Minchew was excellent yesterday. It's weird. They're not going to London until Thursday after practice. Man, that's 8.30 a.m. join, isn't it? Yeah. That's perfect. No, that's not perfect for me. After a Saturday night?

I'm going to be in, you know, that's a great call, but I'll be in Miami on Sunday. It's a 930. That's actually really good. Get your stuff. That's true. Yeah, that's where the Eastern Times will become your friend. You're a little closer to the pond, over the pond. That's true.

713-212-5-790. So many superlatives. What has been the biggest superlative of the three days? You know what it is for me? And this is, we've said this ad nauseum during the course of the year. The Houston Astros never seemed to sweat. They don't. The pressure's never too big.

There are guys that strike out that have line drives, maybe in a defensive era once in a while. But, man, it's somebody different. It clutch. I mean, Correa with the two-run home run. Yordaun Alvarez doesn't play much the previous two games. He gets to start in left field, hits the jack. You got Torino's hit in the home. I mean, they're just grown-ass men who are the best on the planet.

And they acted that way the last three days. Yeah, it was funny. I mean, they got down 2-0, and some people were completely already, I saw people on Twitter saying, hey, it's going to be a sweep. So some people were already off the bandwagon. Right. I wasn't. You weren't, but we knew it was going to be tough.

And the Astros came out and they did what they needed to do. The hitters started hitting the pitchers. I mean, to me, really what people aren't talking. We're talking about, of course, the home runs and Jordan Alvarez and the Grand Slam. The fact that they scored one run in each of these games, to me, obviously the starting pitching, Zach Grinky stepped up like we needed to. He didn't go six, seven innings. But what was it was, four and a third, four and two thirds,

whatever it was, and didn't give up a run. So that's helping the team out. His post is an ERA is three. It's good. It's not terrible. It's good. It's what a number three starter is. Yeah.

And then you have, I mean, Jose Ricati, I mean, that's just going to be one of those all-timers. Remember that time? If the Astros win this World Series, 10 years ago, 10 years from now, we'll be talking about that. And next year's rotation is going to be awesome. You got Justin Verlander. You have, you got Zach Grinke.

You have a Jose Yorkiti. You have a Lance McCullors. And then maybe a Forrest Whitley, or maybe there's a battle, or maybe there's a free agent out there. Okay. That's just, that's pretty good, gang. Framber Valdez? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Listen, that's not crazy.

There's your rotation next year. Yeah, that's not bad. And then you just hit a bunch of, in the New Ordon, Alvarez. Could he even get. better in his second season. Lineup's going to be good. You got your DH locked and loaded. Springer, locked and loaded.

Correa, hopefully healthy at some point. Al-Tube, Bregman locked up. Michael Brantley on the hook for another year. And then Carlos Correa is going to arbitration. Unless he gets traded away like people on Facebook want. Yeah, you got Kyle Tucker who probably will inherit right field over Josh Reddick. Right. If Josh is around next year.

Maybe trade him around for a little salary relief. It'd be a little. It's only one year. Yeah. You might have to pay off some of that. What am I trying to do? I know what you're trying to do. What?

Houston knows what you're trying to do. I don't know what you're talking about. I was just saying maybe you trade Josh Reddick for a little salary release. I'm just going to say this and then I want a pregnant pause for three seconds. I hope you, you as Houston Astro fans really, really, really, really, really, really, really enjoyed. You know who on the mound yesterday. Seven innings. Breathe an orange fire.

You're saying that was his last appearance in a natural uniform? No, help with the uniform now tomorrow. I'm going to miss Garrett and Amy. Who you missing more? Amy or Garrett. Be honest. Garrett. Okay.

Have you even talked to Amy once? No. I've talked to Mrs. Furlander once. I said you were great on Jimmy Fallon. She goes, oh, thanks. And then she made a furrowed her brow and turned around. No, she took a picture with my wife. Okay, good.

to the phones we go. Let's go to Anne and Rice University on 790. Hello, Ann. Hi, how are you? Wonderful. Listen, I wish you all were the television announcers on the Astros World Series gangs, because Joe Buck just cannot get himself to be enthusiastic about the Astros. It is just so obvious and so disappointing. And we tried to listen to the radio announcers, but you hear it about three minutes before it happens on television. So we just gave up and just yelled at Joe Buck every time he talked about the nationals. He was so enthusiastic. He never stopped talking.

And when the Astros came to back, he couldn't think of a thing to say. It was so disappointing and so unprofessional. and I'm so glad I got to say this because it's just not right. So anyway, go Astros. They're just doing a great job. Every one of them. I'm so proud of our team. Thanks again.

Thank you. Ann, thank you. Can I ask any question? Sure, why not? Anne, are you there? Yes. Did Joe do this? Did you feel like Joe did the same thing during the Tampa Bay Race series and the ALCS as well?

Yes. Okay. That's all I wanted. Yeah. So he loves the race. He loves the race. He loves the Yankees and he loves the nationals. Yep.

Yep. And, you know, people have told me that the Astros don't get respect, that only the East Coast and West Coast teams get respect. And I never believed it. So the Central Time Zone teams don't get, all Central Time Zone teams don't get respect? Pretty much. They tell me, you know, it's all old school. And with the announcers.

and with the national news. And I never believed it until this World Series. And it's just ridiculous. All right. Thank you, Ann. Appreciate the phone call. Thank you, Ann. I appreciate it.

I will very, very respectfully, completely disagree. You don't think everyone hates the Astros? No. Joe Buck loves the Tampa Bay raise. He didn't do the series, by the way, just for information. That was so. That was Kenny Albert. Yeah.

He love, okay, but he loves the Yankees. Yes. He loves the Nationals. And the Dodgers. and the Padres and the Giants and the Mariners and the A's.

He is not an aficionado of the Cubs, Cardinals, Indians, Astros, Rangers, Royals, who also is in the Central Time Zone? No. In all reality is this.

And I, Joe Buck doesn't like anybody. He's not going to play favorites. Unfortunately, in the city, Houston is not the only one to do this. Many of you, including Ann, who I really appreciate calling, have very selective hearing.

Extraordinarily selective hearing. We're used to hearing nice things about our players from local broadcasters and stuff like that. So if I give one compliment to Alex Bregman and you give one compliment to Juan Soto, Astros fans only hear the one to Soto. Correct. But Matt, who does he hate more than the Astros?

Nobody. Can I be honest? I'm going to really be honest with this. This is going to blow you away. There is actually one broadcaster in that entire group on Fox that I don't think is a fan of the Astros. Hmm. And this is coming from a – look, I'm a – I'm a trained professional in this business. Joe Girardi?

No, he's not working anymore. Oh, I'm sorry. Well, you said – I thought you meant the whole playoffs. Oh, I guess that would be fair to say that. I don't know. Ken Rosenthal because he's almost taller than Altovae, but not quite. That's actually not a bad guess. I don't think Alex Rodriguez likes the Astros.

He might not. I mean, I – that's – That's okay. I feel that tinge a little bit. But I think everybody, by and large, has been very, very down the middle. I don't think Smoltz's favored one team. Joe Buck is not favored one team. You just have people have selective hearing.

I did this two years ago, Ross. I don't even remember this. Remember we went to Twitter one day and heard about, we said all the people said that Joe Buck hates the Astros. And then we reversed it and found out everybody that said that Joe Buck hates the Dodgers. It was equal. There was just as many people. Nobody thinks your team ever gets the good slate on that. And then there was, what was the game?

Who was calling the game when Joe Buck was doing Thursday night football? Joe Davis. Yeah. And then everybody on Twitter was like, Joe Buck just absolutely hates the Astros. Like he's not even calling the game. Yeah. Yeah. We have to stop this.

We are, as sports hosts, we're trying to educate you and guys get you, you know, at least, you know, please stop thinking your, Joe Buck hates your team. And was getting choked up about it. She was, and that's okay. She loves her Astros. and for that I applaud her. Thank you, but Anne's got selective hearing. Joe Buck does not hate the... They were slobbing all over Garrett Cole that entire game.

I mean, do we have the calls of Joe Buck hit the home runs? Here's how Joe Buck would hate him. Oh, there's Bragman with us. Deep Drive, left field. If it stays fair, it's gone. It is, oh, God, the Astros are up now. I don't know. Everything I heard was tremendous energy.

Here's some tweets. Joe Buck wants to bleep Garrett Cole. Joe Buck and John Smoltz realized they would, when they realize they would both like to sleep with Garrett Cole, and it's the giff of, did we just become best friends? I didn't realize what a huge Garrett Cole fan Joe Buck is. If he could stop talking about him for a minute,

perhaps he could explain whether there's delay going on the game. Pathetic. Joe Buck is writing Garrett Cole's Jock Hard. Hashtag, selective hearing. By the way, our friend Bianca says, what about Aaron Sanchez? Well, Aaron Sanchez is going to miss most of the next season, too. I thought he was, never mind.

No, no, no. Yeah, he's not going to make this stuff. Yeah, I don't think Aaron Sanchez is going to be ready until mid-season. Joe Buck should propose to Garrett Cole already. John Smoltz and Joe Buck want to bleep Garrett Cole. Joe Buck is this close to unzipping Garrett Cole's trousers on the mound. These are tweets. These are literal tweets I'm reading.

John Smoltz and Joe Buck whenever the Yankees struck out in the ALCS and it's just a gif of a gentleman dancing wildly and happily. So, and we're going to get your break. But I'm telling you this again, as a purely objective, I may play. by play by play broadcaster. I've studied play by play broadcasters. Ross, verify this since I was like 10 years old. I talk more about play by play broadcasters

than some time about the game. The only person that I think has a tinge of I'm miserable that I'm here doing this is Arod because he wanted his Yankees to win. He wants to be home looking at himself in the mirror. It's fine. Yes. And the fact that everyone thinks that he hates his at your team

means he's probably doing a pretty good objective job. Yeah. By the way, I've invited Julia Rose to call the show here. Everybody's asking me to tweet. I've already done it. So she's got the number. We don't need to talk to her. We didn't give her any more publicity that she's looking for. I don't know. Some in the office said, why didn't you give her a call? I said, okay, we'll try.

I'm not going to chase her down. The video speak for itself. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-0. The Rockets are World Championships. Houston Astros World Series Champions. Home for your home teams that actually

win championships. Sports Talk 790. And Alvarez lifted pretty deep to center field. Robles is racing back, still going back, looking up. See you later! A two-run, home run for Yordaun Alvarez. And the Astros lead it two to nothing. Alvarez's first home run of the postseason.

Yeah, it's been a long time for Alvarez. It's about time. He absolutely hammered that ball to left center field. Just kept carrying on a line. That ball's hit well. Left field, high and deep. That's got a chance. Go on.

Carlos Correa with a two-run shot, gives the Astros the four to nothing leave. Of this series? Yeah. I think it's TBD right now. Who will be the hero in either game six or game seven? Let me tell you who I'd honestly give it to? I think you're going to say Will Harris. Will freaking Harris.

I can't imagine. The guy's been nails. Yeah, two opportunities, two huge moments. Actually, to me, I think he gave it to Yuleiguriel. Offensively, and his glove work at first base has been fantastic. Glove work has been good, for sure. I would have to look at the whole... Brantley's been a singles machine.

That's true. You got home run. You got Alvarez coming through. He's at a good world series. Springer with the two-run, Jack. There's a bunch of different candidates. But you know what, let's not worry about that until one more victory. And remember, let's keep things in perspective here.

The road team has won every game in this series. But Rossi, what major market radio host on Friday said, if the series gets back to Houston, the Astros are going to win the World Series? What major market, noon to three, semi-successful talk show host said that? I think it was Jay Moore. Now, is this one right here, the one that fingers are pointing my way. Okay. That's another.

No sir Thomas. Is it? Have they won? No, so I'm saying, if they win, it's a 73,000 star. It's not even a 73,000 star. That's like, I mean, come on. No, it wasn't that much of a limb. Oh, did you, have you met?

Did you meet Houston after being down two nothing? I did. You said if they, you didn't say they're coming back and they're going to win it. That would have been a prediction. Oh. You said if they make it back, then they're going to win, which is, at worst, if they make it back, they're down three, two. Uh-huh.

So, I mean, I don't want to say anything at the time. I'm not here to, you know. So go ahead. Say what you want to say. I ain't afraid of you. I'm not here to just pee on anything you say, Matt. But, you know, I didn't feel like it was like the most bold prediction. It was, it was bold. It was interesting. It was bold. And let me once again read to you an email from email or Steve. October 24th, Thursday, 1155 a. I was going to use the excuse Senators, Expos, Nationals, Don Trump Dancers, Little League All-Stars had a week off and the Vomach Stros, two days of the reasons for poor play. It appears to practice games the Nats had last week were more.

competitive than the few days against the baby diaper vomit stroze sucking their thumbs. It's clear the vomit strows don't care and the gnats do. All the vomit strows have demonstrated as they disrespect their opponent and have put forth zero effort. I did respond to Steve this morning. I said, Steve, this did not age well. And he said, absolutely, I take the L on that. So good for you, Steve, for listening to the show and understanding that sometimes horrible emails must be appropriately discussed. and it was.

713-212-5-790. A good mix today on the radio program. We have the Texans with a very impressive win. Who's the MVP of the NFL? Is Russell Wilson so the MVP? Can Deshawn Watson get in the category in the chase? Will he finish second, third as many folks on the TV shows were talking about yesterday?

I'm trying to think. Wasn't there somebody, I mean, Aaron Rogers is climbing to list? But let me tell you, Deshawn is this by himself. Rag-tag offensive line, truth be told. Christian McCaffrey? Yeah, I mean, he's top five, right? Yeah. Deshawn Watson, in what year?

Is this third year in the NFL or fourth? Fourth? Yeah, fourth year. He is a top five MVP candidate. A really, really good first round pick for the Texans. They got moved up. By the way, today Bill O'Brien was asked whether or not the Texans would make a trade before the deadline. No, this is third year.

Third year? Okay. Dang. That's really good. That's two years and a handful of starts. And he's the top five MVP candidate. Pretty good.

I was asked if the Texans were going to likely to make a trade in order to improve their roster because they need so much defensive help. They need offensive line help. He said probably not. And what he wanted to say was, I can't make any more trades because I've got no more draft picks. Yeah, come on. I don't want to be the first team in NFL history not to have a single draft pick. But if you are, you get to let your scout team off for an extended vacation.

Oh, so you're saying like a, what do they call it, not a layoff, but it would be a furlough? Furlough. Has an NFL team ever furloughed a scouting department? I would hope the Texans would not be the first ones. MVP odds as of yesterday. Aaron Rogers, the favorite. Then Russell Wilson, Deshawn Watson,

third, Christian McCaffrey, Lamar Jackson, rounding out the top five. All right, we'll see Lamar Jackson in a few weeks, in fact. 1243 is our time. Returning on the phones, we come back. All of you on hold standby. We're going to get to all of you. And right now, is our contest line open? Is our contest line open, Nicholas?

Yep. We've got three lines ready to go. 713-2-3-39. Okay. All right. 7-13-21-2-33-99. Call right now. I'd like to give away two sets of tickets for the Rockets versus Oklahoma City tonight.

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Good news. It's the Matt Thomas show for lunch. Let that boring brown bag lunch rot in the employee refrigerator. What's that smell? The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. He brings intensity, a tenacity, I really know how to describe it.

He showed up today and it was business from the time he got here until the time he came out of the game. He was a plight out. That's George Springer talking about his buddy Garrett Cole, who was phenomenal. You know what, Ross, I'll be eating food out of a blender here in the not too distant future. I'll serve you. And you'll be serving me and giving me a sponge bath.

No, I'm not going to spend a lot. I'm not going to bug you. But we're never going to forget about Garrett Cole, right? No. Don't you forget about coal? That sounds like a parody. Gordy's very busy. Oh, yeah, we got to get that going.

Yeah, we should just do astral parodies instead. But the bottom line is, we're never going to forget him. getting a matter what team he plays for next year. Sorry, but I'm going to deal in realities here. Yeah. We're going to cherish every moment of Garrett Cole wearing a Houston Astros jersey. Are we ever going to forget Marwin Gonzalez? Nope.

We ever going to forget Charlie Morton? No. The problem is if Garrett Cole does it against the Astro six times next year, it goes five and one with the 234 ERA, be like, why didn't Jim Cain spend the money? Are we ever going to forget Ken Giles? Yes, we have forgotten. Derek Fisher?

Yeah, absolutely we have. Yeah, Tyler White. Yep, quickly forgotten. Real easy. Okay, fine. We might forget those. I'm probably never going to forget Ken Giles punching himself in the face, though. That's an all-time moment. That we won't forget.

Yeah, that one will stick in our crawl for a while. It is the Matt Thomas show at 7-1-3-212-5-790. J-R's in Lake Houston on 7-90. Hi, J-R. How's it going, guys? Good, J-R. I just want to say, I think something lost in the moment was when the answer then happened in the locker. And, of course, that was gross.

but how A.J. Hinch is incredible, how he creates a calm among the storm. And I was going, oh, my God, here we go again, you know. And when they interviewed him, he is a master in his comments were in no place in our locker room or anywhere in this crowd will someone feel uncomfortable. And we do not want to create that. And that just, that set the tone for it. And he has such a great demeanor about him. And, I mean, you got old saying you teach your kids act the same whether you're a homerunner strike out. That is the A.J. Hinch himself. This guy is a master, and I think he gets lost in the mix by how great he is, and how he handles all the different personalities and attitudes. And so my deal, he's our most valuable player how he handles. Because we're 0-2, and all of us are sitting over here at Burturturt, the way J. Hinch is going, hey, let's go, let's go, let's go.

And that's how he is. And one other thing, and I know we're getting ahead of it. I'm going to get ahead of myself is when those fire trucks go down for that parade, if Mattis Max is not on the front of that ladder, that's a travesty. So. No, look, I love Mattress Mac. The parades for the Astros. Absolutely.

And Mattis Mac will be the first one to tell you that. It's not about him. Absolutely. But looking back, when we have our mayor on the front end of that thing, It's not about him either. That's why I'm going with that. I understand. We're going to choose someone to put on the front of that ladder.

It shouldn't be the mayor or anyone, but if it is going to be someone, my votes for Mac. All right. Well, thank you for the call, Jay. It's going to be Sheila Jackson Lee, unfortunately. You better not be. Talking about those Southern boys. I really hope she's nowhere near anything. I can almost guarantee you she's going to be at the break.

You should guarantee it. You should do it. You should do it. Put your foot down on this one. Unless she's actually doing work in Congress, which I don't know. Is Congress in session? Probably not. I mean, here's the thing.

Why does she come out in public when she gets booed every time? You know what she's thinking? Donnie T. got booed? I keep getting reelected. I got scoreboard. Yeah, that's right. So shut up.

Southern boys. Those Southern boys. Jose Al-Tui. Oh, it's embarrassing. How embarrassing. And, you know, I didn't talk politics. Just makes me mad. Let's go to Thomas Northwest Houston on 790 and 1253.

Thomas, what do you have today? Hey, Matt, love your show, man. Thank you. I don't want to beat the Joe Buck, you know, harsh to death. But did you hear him last night toward the end of the game where he actually addressed the local broadcaster deal where he kind of said, well, you know, I understand that local fans want to hear their local guys, but it is what it is. and he kind of sounded like he didn't really care to be there anyway. So did you pick that up? Well, I did not pick up the exact comment.

I will say this. I think Joe Buck is a very good came caller. I think Joe Buck is where he is largely because of his last name, but he's also talented. If there is a criticism of his Thomas over the years, and it's good, look, I'm just a local guy. So far be it for me to tell this man how to do his job, he does at times come across as I'd rather be somewhere else. And I told this to somebody the other day. I don't know who I told this to. If I got the chance, look, Thomas, I love doing radio talk show host.

But if I got to do play-by-play and that's all I got to do all year long on the biggest events, I would thank my lucky stars every moment of the day. And I think Joe, whether he's bored, been there, done that, kind of takes the big moments, the biggest games of him of anyone's career and kind of treats him as just an ordinary Sunday afternoon. and I think his job is way bigger than that. You are, I think Jim Nance, and I'm not trying to brag on a U of H guy, but Jim Nance knows where he's at.

I feel like a lot of Mike Tariko knows where he's at. I don't know if Joe Buck really gathers and understands how important and the impact that his calls make on some of the biggest sporting events in sports today. Oh, I agree with you. I just don't think he cares, but you're right. You know, Nance is the gold standard, so, you know, you can't go there. But how hard would it be for, I mean, Fox should be able to have a feed that wouldn't cost them that much money. Oh, it isn't a question.

It's not a question of money. It's a question of splitting the audience. And thank you for the phone call. They want everybody watching Fox. They don't want everybody watching FS1 for the Houston feed. They don't want watching FS2 for the Washington feed. They want everybody watching the Fox feed where the television dollars and where the spots and the commercials are being played at crazy prices. They pay a ton of money for it and they get exclusive rights for it.

That's just how it works. Unless they figured out that they can make, again, there's not enough people. Think about this in reality. How many people outside of Houston, Texas, want to hear Todd Callis and Jeff Blum call the game? The answer is zero. Right. There's nobody in San Francisco going, God, I wish I could hear the Bob Carpenter on Washington National's version of this broadcast. This is not there.

That's why Homercast went away with the basketball. because at the end of the day, you don't really care what the local person thinks. Or the nation doesn't, yeah. The nation doesn't, I excuse me. Now, I do believe, I think there's a point where you should do it, you know, they have the SAP channel

where they have the Spanish. I would think if you wanted to choose the audio version for those guys and keep it on the same channel, I don't think there's a problem with that. Well, on Amazon for their football broadcasts on Thursday night football, they offer multiple different audios.

you can get the standard one that's on the network or NFL network or whoever's broadcasting it that night or you can get their Amazon broadcasts. You know, the Amazon broadcasters are Hannah Storm and Leslie Kramer, Andrew Kramer. They give you the option to listen to them or not. Yeah, but that's another platform that's not the television. You know what I'm saying? That's online. If you want to do that, maybe. But as far as Fox is concerned, Fox wants you with the eyeballs on Channel 26 or Channel 15.

or whatever it is across the country. They don't want you splitting up and going to FS 1, 2, 3, 4.5. Let's get the second hour start of the Matt Thomas show. Melissa and Manuel won a set of tickets for the Rockets games. We've got more Rockets tickets giveaway in the next 20 minutes. In fact, Ross, all afternoon long, we're giving away Rockets versus Thunder tickets for a mix-and-match Monday. Thanks to the Rockets for dropping the tickets off. So if you remember, the game is tonight, not next week.

It's tonight. So if you can't go tonight, don't call and win those tickets. We'll give away some more away in the next half. Sports Talk 790 at 713-212-5-790. Yes is the Matt Thomas show. We didn't tweak anything. We just continued to play the series. We have experience in series in seven-game series,

and we know on the front end you can't assume anything when you're ahead, and on the other end you can't assume when you're down. So I don't think we tweaked anything, but we started to bring our personality back. We started to bring our run production back. We started playing from ahead that was key for us this three games in Washington. And subsequently, our pitching staff decided not to give up very many runs. And that combined those things, and we come away with three wins.

And now one victory away from the Second World Series in three years. You know what I love about the Astros besides the team I grew up watching? Is that this is not the New York Yankees. This isn't the Boston Red Sox. And they have made some trades, the Verlinder trade of a couple years ago. the Zach Grinky trade of now. But much of this is homegrown. Much of this is savvy moves and scouting, trades, free agency.

This was not somebody saying, we're the big bad Astros, we're going to beat you because we have more money than you do. We have more power than you do. This is largely started from a team that dropped three straight seasons of 100 losses. And look where they are now with, again, Good acquisitions, good drafting, maturity of players, savvy free agent pickups, very few blunders along the way. Very few. They didn't go out and hand somebody like a, you know, $70, $150 million contract or something like that.

I mean, who is on this team? Is it Michael Brantley or who was the biggest money free agent who came over only in free agency? It wasn't traded for it. Because Verlani was traded, Granky was traded, Cole was traded. Those are trades. That means it takes two to tango. Somebody has to agree on what you give them. Michael Brantley or Josh Reddick?

Reddick was a long-term deal, four-year deal. That's true. But it was free agency. Most people thought it was only worthy of a third, but Reddick wanted a fourth, got a fourth in the Astros. Brantley, Trino's a short-term deal. That's true. Miley, a short-term deal. Everything else is through trades and farm system, which trades are predicated on your farm system, because that's what you're giving away. Yeah.

You are taking a chance on giving up what you're. You've built in terms of getting, now, and here's the easy narrative that I think I'm hearing a little bit on sports radio. Look, Zach Granky is not worth $35 million a year for the next two years. He's just not. But the reality is you were not confident you could win an American League pennant without another arm into the rotation. That's just the truth.

Imagine if Grinke wasn't traded for. Or if it was an 11th hour type trade. Imagine if that didn't make it over the finish line. Like the Zach Brinna of a couple of years ago. This was our thinking before that trade. Remember, we were thinking Verlander, Cole, Miley, Peacock. Or Kitty wasn't in the conversation. Josh James, maybe a little bit in the conversation.

And not to say that Grinky's been gangbusters, but he's been solid enough special the last couple times out. Yeah, Zach hasn't hurt this team. If you take the body of work as an Astro in the regular season since July 31st and the postseason, he has been a plus way more than he's been a minus. would you have loved for him to go six innings? Yeah. But he kept, there was a lot of traffic on the base pass.

He's that kind of person. He doesn't have the blowaway stuff that Cole and Berlander have. And honestly, Justin Verlander, gang, had been phenomenal in the last two series. So these things are ebbs and flows. No one's going to regret Justin Verlander, part of the Astros for the next two seasons. I would think not. I would think the caller that called the trenches show a couple days ago and said that giving Alex Spragman that all that big guaranteed money is feeling pretty bad about himself right now. What a take that was.

Can I just, this is a public service announcement. Whenever you think you're going to say something that's trying to cause up a roar because you're so mad at somebody, say it to yourself or write it down, stare at it and go, does this make a make a lot of? sense. I believe this is a strong thing you should do in Twitter as well. On your Facebook, on your Instagram. What am I about to say? Does this make a lot of sense, or do I sound like a complete jerk? Or do I sound like I'm completely losing my mind? Bench Alvarez guys, not feeling great. There was Bench, Bregman guy. That was a thing. Michael Connor tweeted one of them, and I was just, dumbfounded. Okay, here's who's not, here's not feeling great. Breggman shouldn't get the contract extension guys in feeling great. Right.

Astros need a veteran influence in the clubhouse guy. That one is still going to one that's going to be. That's an old take exposed. Old timer. What else is out there? Bench Alvarez, Bench Brighman, let's see. Oh, Kyle Tucker is Ted. On the other side of the platform.

Al-Mas-Nees the DH guy when Yalvarez, when you were on was struggling. These are series. It's late in October. Nothing's normal. As calm and cool as you can be, things will work out. You were getting a maximum sample size if you go to seven games in every series,

a maximum sample size of 19 games. Astros, Twitter, don't listen to these guys. You make our job so much easier. Just let it fly. That's actually true. That's actually, you know what? Forget what I said. I don't need logical thinking people on my show.

Be as illogical as possible. I tell people that, like, if we go out on appearances and people talk to us and like, how do you deal with these callers? What are you talking about? These guys make us sound like geniuses just by simply saying the stating the obvious. Yeah, because in many respects, I'm a simpleton. Yeah. But I feel smarter sometimes. I don't have the greatest sports knowledge greater than anybody. But, you know, I can be better than some guy who's going to call in and say that Alex Breggman's deal is not good.

Yeah. And that A.J. Hinch, the team is winning in spite of A.J. Hinch. Yeah, that AJ is overmanaging. Now, here's why I love AJ Because he admitted As soon as the game was over, I goofed on Arcidi I should have let him go out there for the six days That's the beauty of him is you

Is what I tell people is you can question what he does But he's always got a reason A.J. Hinch isn't going to run out there on a hunch Or a gut feeling. He's not AJ Hunch, he's Hitch Exactly. Thanks, Sean Salsbury. He's, he will go out there and he will say And he said post game, he said, hey, we had him on a pinch

limit, we didn't want to overuse them you didn't want to get tempted to keep him in there for longer because we're trying to keep it on him and we might need him for game six or seven. That was his reasoning. Now, I disagree with his reasoning, but I understand where he's coming from. And it just did not help that Josh James goes there and walks the first two guys. Worst case scenario is coming. Bruttle, brutal, brutal, brutal, brutal.

Oh, then Will Harris had to come out and save everybody's ass. Thank you, Will. Isn't it? And I feel like I've said this for the 10th time this postseason. Will Harris was not Public Enemy Number 1 last year, Rossi, but he was like two or three. people didn't like them that's what that's what relievers have to go through your life as a baseball fan

is like a middle reliever sometimes you love what you watch and sometimes you love what you see other times you want that player or that coach or that manager to go far far away and will Harris I guarantee you I get air check some callers and myself and other shows a year ago at this point or maybe a year and change and we are

MFing Will Harris now we want him in the baseball Hall of Fame he's going to be I'm with it it's the beauty of baseball World Series how about if he gets some crucial outs tonight World Series MVP

it would be probably not happen not happen but it's in the he's in the mix he's the people's MVP he's my World Series MVP Girard on 790 at 110 hi Gerard

how you doing Matt you're okay yes sir yeah what's y'all y'all get away some rocket tickets tonight a little bit later we are oh man you should put something aside for me

you must have But let's talk about the Astros, man. I thought I heard after the game two with debacle, they had a team meeting. So they got the troops and everybody on board, man, to go down there and watch them, man, one, three in a row, man. I got to give them credit, man.

I did it. I thought they were in trouble, man, after they lose those first two games with that two best pitchers pitching. But get on guys credit, man. They went there, game three and Grinky. He did a good job, man. Pitch better than Rockout he was going to do. Game four and, what, two-thirds of innings of,

and gave up, I think, a run. And he kind of started everything right there, got everybody in a positive frame of mind with that pitching he did, and the bullpen kind of held it down. As the offense scored some runs, they were able to win that. So that was the key situation to turn this thing around was Zach Grinke. And then, like you guys said, really pitching game four was a masterpiece, man, five innings, no runs. Pitch well, man. That guy's got kind of like a herky jerky delivery.

I think of Washington Nationals battles were having a hard time picking the ball up. I think he throws probably top speed. He's probably 95, so he don't throw as hard as Verlanda or cold, but he's got kind of like an on-off-the-doc delivery, man, which serves him well. He did a real good job in game five. And finally the bats came alive in the next game, man.

They were able to score runs as they put on a home-run display with the likes that we haven't seen in a long time, man. Your Don, man. He went off, man. He finally found his groove, man. And with him hitting, man, he turns the office from a good office to a great offense, because you know what you're going to get out of Briggman and Altuva, Spring and Correlle, they're going to be doing their thing.

But when Nordaarns on top of his game, they take their offense to a whole other level, man. And he got the thing started strong, man, in game five, man. They were able to win that, man. Now we're in the same position we win two years ago. Game six, we've got the Justin Verlander. Hopefully he can close it out. Hopefully he won't go like he did against the Dodgers.

Well, where we lost that game. We had to win in game seven. But we'll see what happened with him, man. He's been okay. He ain't been nothing special in the last two series. been okay. We don't need him to be vintage Verlander, the Sy Young Award winner, pitching tomorrow, and hopefully

is that a get us over the hook. Man, we get ready for the parade sometime around Friday coming up like it was two years ago, so we'll see what happens. Quick thing on the Texas. They got to get that O-line back together. You know, with the injuries that they had, they had Clark playing against the Raiders, and

he was a turnstile, man. The guy was good by him and bullying him all over the field, man. That was what was what was hurting the offense in the first half. I think when the other linemen, Tunsel went down, they moved Clark over there to the left side. He actually did a better job on the left side,

and he did the right side. They put skipper in, and it kind of, the offense kind of did a little bit better when they moved them over to the right side. You know, you kind of hate to see Tunsel out of there because he's probably that best lineman, but it kind of worked out better for Clark.

I think he's blocked better on the left side, and he did the right side. So it was a good win, a much-needed win. They've got to get that line straight. They've got to get to a lot of guys back, especially in the secondary. And they just got it's just What we got to say?

Watson's going to have to be superman every game, man, for these guys to win, man. Because they got a lot of deficiencies on, especially on the defensive side of the ball, man right now, will watch out in the secondary issue. So, well, see what happens, man. But Watson, man, like you said, I got about right with him about number three on the MVP list. I got him behind Russell, number one, and Air Rogers, number two.

That's just my two cents in on it, and hopefully if we'll take care of business tomorrow night. Thank you. Thank you, Jared. It was at least a whole quarter. That went in two cents. That was like Canadian exchange rate, 85 cents of information right there. Thank you, at least a Kennedy 50 piece.

Got that right. All right. 713, 2125-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-A. I'd say I'd like to go catch my breath, but my breath has been catched. It is the Matt Tava show. We were with you till 3 o'clock and very excited to have you guys today talking about the big Astros set of victories and the Texans with their win.

I'll be at the cost of J.J. Watt for the rest of the season. 114 on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas, we'd like to thank his parents for only giving him two first names. Because who would listen to Billy Ray Thomas talk about Houston Sports? The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. I saw their dugout reaction, and I saw our dugout reaction on the Zimmerman pitch when he walked right before that. That's why I went out to the mound to calm Garrett and Martine down.

had a reaction the other way. So whichever side you're on, you're going to sort of react that that way. But, you know, we'll never know, and you'll never know whether I was going to take Garrett out or not. That's the beauty of it. Well, the Hell Pot Empire took Garrett out because he called Strike 3 on Victor Robles. Great umpiring. No, it wasn't. It was terrible.

It was terrible. Now, this is why you have to listen to the show because we are fair and balance. We tell you guys, never to over, don't get mad about Joe Buck and don't get mad about umpiring. Yes. It all evens out. And somebody tweeted me, brought up a great point. That Joe Buck call on the Michael Brantley play, the double play, it was a great call as well. He was a whole run-on-outoubays call was great to win the American League Championship.

Yes. He doesn't love the raise. Or no, he didn't do the raise. Okay. He didn't love the Yankees and the Nationals. Who loves the Nationals? People in D.C. probably don't even love the nationals. They should root for them because they live there.

Yeah. They could, if you play name a national, they would be like, George Washington, John Quentin Adams. Nobody died in the wool Washington national fan. Come on. It's not Joe Buck. It's cool. It's a place to be. President was there yesterday.

That's true. Apparently Secret Service had to pat everybody down and stuff like that. That's crazy. Well, he did do a smart thing. He did not get to the game right on time because if he did that, he would have delayed everything. He arrived as the game was started. But yeah, here's the thing about the Robless call.

You just don't want that to happen to your team. You pray that your team doesn't get screwed. But sometimes it does. Sometimes they do. That was an especially egregious one, though. That's why, as I said before, if you're going to bitch and moan about officiating, do it when it absolutely means something.

when a pitch is a half inch off the plate and it's called a strike or a tag is so close you can't decide don't don't at MLB umpiring you guys are frauds at NFL officiating you're horrid at NBA officials you should be ashamed of yourself because there are going to be sometimes you really want to do it and in this particular case Mr. Robles should have gone to Twitter and said you screwed me because that bad boy wasn't close i find it interesting that you can't even say like if dave martinez goes by goes out to post game and says you know what the umpiring is horrible he's he's gonna get he slapped with a hefty fine no it's not a fine in theory it's if you argue balls and strikes you're rejected no i mean i'm talking about post game oh okay okay yeah yeah yeah

if he does that in post game he's gonna get fine like 50 000 dollars or something just by saying you know what that was a bad call and the umpire was bad tonight it's not it's not untrue yeah you can't find somebody for something that's accurate. You shouldn't be able to, but they do. NBA officials are that. I mean, how many times would Mike D'Antonia like to say, look, we got a host? And everybody was like, yeah. Ross, I told you this under night with the instant replay.

Yeah. We had two calls in the Rockets game against the Bucks that were changed in the first quarter. You can only use it once per team. And then you're out of it. You could spend 15. And that's what NBA officials have to go through. That's embarrassing. They should give them at least two.

You know, my philosophy is, And this is the same thing with NFL and NBA and baseball. You should, if calls are getting incorrectly made, you keep challenging, you keep wanting, you get to keep it. Yeah, like a king of the court situation. That's exactly. Make it take it. Yeah. Yeah. I like that.

Make it take it challenges. That's brilliant, Matthew. Yeah. You make the call and it's wrong. I'm going to challenge you. I win the challenge. Make it take it. I get it back.

Yeah. I like that. Or get some chance. Or when you're, when you're shooting your woman up, you get some change. Like when you make the shot, you get the change when you're all warming up with one basketball? Speaking of that, two more set the tickets for the Rockets Thunder. Right now, contest line, 713, 212, 32-39. Mix and match Monday.

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713-212-3-3-399. Two pairs of tickets, Rockets, Thunder, Mix, and Match Monday. You get the ticket. You get the choice of hop-dog, pretzel, popcorn, then a choice of soda, water, or beer. I've got to go pretzel there, I think. I would go pretzel and beer.

Hmm. Yeah. A good salty pretzel with a cold beer. Yes. Yes. Ice, cold, refreshing beer. Of course. As compared to lukewarm, not fresh beer?

Yeah. Nobody wants that. Chuck on 790 at 1. 25. Chuck, how are you? Hey, Matt. What's going on, brother? Just doing a radio show, my friend. I understand the Joe Buck stuff, because I don't even know who he is.

I was in all my games. I've done for 15 years on 790, and, you know, I even met a chick that likes to listen to me or listen with me, so that's pretty cool. Anyways, I think Kate's going to take care of JV in the morning. We're going to bring it back. But college football, LSU Alabama number one and two. Impressive. Hey, Ross, by the way, Texas lost.

Oh, they did? I really don't have much to say. I just thought. Yeah, we'll leave it at that. Thanks, Chuck. Yeah, let's get 30. By the way, the next 30 seconds, you just screaming and yelling about your squat. And go.

The defense is absolutely horrible. Sam Ellinger was not good turning the ball over, and you just can't win like that, especially. I mean, he has to be perfect for them to be in games, no matter who the opponent was. That game, Sharps were on TCU on that one, and unfortunately, they were right. You still have 15 seconds. Yeah, that's fine. Why don't want to, do you want more 15 seconds on TCU, Texas breakdown? They're off this week, so they're not going to lose.

Six, five, four, three, two, one mark. And that has been your longhorn 30 seconds. Look, you think, I feel sorry if you. I didn't email or text you. Thank you. Because look at my squad. We're not going to a bowl game this year. Yeah, Texas is at least going to a bowl game.

Tony and Katie at 126. Hi, Tony. Hey, guys. How y'all doing, man? Amazing. Hey, good deal. Hey, I want to talk about a couple of things. You know, we get those schools, free and our team kick butt on pitching and on offense.

So we get you guys like, you think, man, he's junk or we don't need them, but any other team would scoop him up and think that's goal. So we've got to think of what happens to, I mean, how do we get where we're at? Well, we got pitching coaches like Brett Ström, what are we going to do with him? We need to keep guys like that around because, I mean, Verlanner wasn't Verlans until he came here. Cole wasn't cold until he came here. So I hate to overthink it, but these guys are going to get along in the tooth, and we've got to keep some of those coaches around to bring up some of these pictures and make them what they are.

So what are we going to do about keeping Brett Ström? I think he's a key factor in what we've done here. I don't understand who's thinking he's going to go somewhere else. The only place I can think Brent Strym is going to is retirement. Right, right. Well, I don't know. I guess he's a little 70-something, but I mean, he's just an unsung hero, and I know we're worried about keeping cold, and I do want to keep him.

But he wasn't a super-stress until he got here. So I think we've got to give a little more credit to our pitching coaches and of course our head coach. But what are we going to do next year when Verlander is just back down the earth or Cole just has a part year and we look at guys like Grinke and think, well, we're hard on him,

but maybe a good year here with our pitching coach, he could turn out to be another, you know, 15-16 game winner. All right, Tony, thanks a lot. He makes a point out to one of the big reasons I don't think that Garrett Cole is going to be back. The Astros believe that they can turn average pitchers into above average pitchers and good pitchers and good I was like what average pitchers into good and good pitchers to great pitchers so they can go out

and find somebody who's under control for less money a garret cole type and then come here and have him be great for less money do me a favor go again just double triple check for me how much money granky it's on the books for next year and how much verlanders on the books for next year I think 33 and 35 I was going to say so let's say there's 68 million between those two Garrett Cole is going to be looking for six or seven years at approximately $35 million per year, 33, 34, whatever, somewhere in that range. I think he's thinking north of 30.

He's thinking, I'm better than Max Scherzer, I'm better than Justin Verlander, I'm better than Zach Grinke, I'm better than Steven Strasbourg, I'm better than Clayton Kershaw, I am the number one free agent pitcher, and it's going to take somebody, just one team to do it.

Yeah, Verlander at 33, Grinkey at 35, Jose Altuvae bumps to 29. How much is George Springer bumped to next year? Well, he'll be arbitration eligible, and he had a great year. And what how much he made you make last year? He made 12 last year, so he's going up. He's going to get probably close to double. 15.

I mean, whatever it's going to be. Here's the reality. The Houston Astros. He'll still make money. Yeah. The Houston Astros cannot spend, nor can frankly, any baseball team, any baseball team spend $100 million. on three pitchers.

It's just the truth. They would be well, well, well, well, over the lecture, what do they call that, the luxury tax? Competitive balance tax. And once you get past $20 million, the tax penalty is really, really crippling. Yeah. He's not coming back.

I'm sad. And by the way, anybody that calls and says, please, let's trade Zach Granky to keep him. Even if you trade Zach, which would, be a Darry-S-type deal. It doesn't guarantee that Cole's going to come here. You want to deal in guarantees? Verlander, Grinky, McCuller provided he's healthy,

Rikini provided he's fully ready to go after a year of Tommy John, and then the mystery fifth picture. Look, was Wade Miley on anybody's radar the last year? Was Charlie Moore on the radar four years ago? True. No chance. They will get somebody, and then they're going to come over here, and they're going to be good to great.

I have faith in that. All right, 713, 212, 790. Tired of 610. That changed over from the competition. Take another route. Sports Talk 790. Your unbiased home for your home teams. Strike three, Cole.

Got him with the cheddar upstairs. And Cole gets his man with his ninth strikeout of the ball game. You're going to make me cry. I'm a little over cleft. I'm having 90s flashbacks right now. I feel like I should go watch an episode of party at five or something. Dawson's Creek. Dawson's Creek.

Ugh. It's fine. Is he going to win the World's Siong? He's either going to win a Siong or be second. Yep. Hopefully World Series Championship, likely World Series Championship. Yep. And then go make a ton of money somewhere else.

It's fine. It's not fine. It's just reality. It's not enjoyable. you'd like to be able to say, listen, I know that you want to make $34 to $37 million a year. And by your resume, you're worth every penny of that. I know you want to take care of your grandchildren's grandchildren. It's the grandchildren.

Yeah. But would you mind taking a five-year, $100 million? I mean, it's $20 million a year. I know it's $15 million a year or less than your fair market value is. But we'd love to have it. Isn't that worth winning? Isn't that worth saying here? Probably not. And please, please, Houston Astro fan.

I'm going to put a stop sign up before you get to it. I don't want to have to be fielding multiple calls of Jim Crane doesn't want to win. Oh. It's coming. Is it? It's coming. Have you met Houston fan? You're right.

I know you're right. I don't want you to be right, but you're right. Matter of fact, what I'm going to do is I'm going to, I'm going to tape my show that day and just have generic responses. Here are the various ones. Two World Series champions caller. Justin Verlinder is here.

I'll run through the starting with the rotation, all the different players. I'll say World Series champions. I'll run through he does want to win. You can't have $100 million in three pitchers. I mean, seriously. Not a hundred million. 35, 33.

at 68. We're looking at 35. It's $103 million on three pitchers. The Yankees wouldn't even do that. No. The Red Sox wouldn't do that. The Cubs won't do that. We used to do the bit where you would say, hey, my voice is a little sore. And you would have all these greetings that you would greet callers with. That was a great bit that you used to do back in the day. I used to love that. That's a fantastic idea. Do you still have those? Now you can just do it with answers to callers. Remember that time we used to do it with Charlie's answers? That's true. That was amazing. Let me look at me all personal audio. 713, 2, 1, 2, 5, somebody. Do I have some of those generic?

You're like, you're feeling great, thanks. Oh, that's true. That is true. Let me see here. Let me go get a phone call. I'm on the short list of genius bits of the Matt Thomas show. We've had a few. Hi, Sam.

Hey, how you doing, Matt? I'm doing great. How are you? Man, I'm doing awesome here. Just enjoying a 3-2-6. series lead here. But I actually wanted to talk to you. I'm not sure if you guys touched on it after game three,

but I was telling the producer that at bat with Soto and Grinky, I thought it was kind of like a Michael Kazim of how the last D's games have gone. Like, you know, the Soto does a little shuffle thing. It kind of annoys people. But on one pitch, he kind of like squared up Grinky, kind of like, you know, poking fun at him or whatever because he didn't want to go inside or whatever with the fastball. And then Grinky kind of gave him some of the game.

sweet key music with the ball. I thought that was pretty awesome. And, you know, that kind of like, I don't know for some reason that kind of set the tone for me. Like, okay, Astros came to play, you know. Oh, by the way, what we're going to do at the top of the 2 o'clock hour, we're going to play this dumbass baby shark song with Astro highlights all over him.

How do you feel about that, Sam? Awesome. Awesome. Take it back. How does it go? Baby Shark do-do-do-do-do-do. It's... Baby Shark do do do so two o'clock open Baby Shark See the problem is I don't know the song

You know these people tour with that They go around Who's day? Whoever does the song The Baby Shark people They go on tour and they make tons of money Gobbs of money from that stupid song Yeah 2 o'clock hour

We're littering the show with Astro highlights Of the whole weekend Base off of that crappy ass song Baby Shark live tour They're in Minneapolis, October 30th, Milwaukee, Detroit, Pittsburgh. They were in Houston, I'm pretty sure. Boston, Philly.

They are going all the way around the world. Honolulu? No way. Yes. How much are these tickets? Oh, I don't even know if I want to look. What was the last time you went to a kids type show? I went to the Wiggles.

I've never done. Many, many, many, many years ago when Cameron was like four, now he's 19. Are they sold down? This is saying tickets are not available for the survival. What the This is incredible These Baby Shark people are going on $66.

To do what? To sit in the front center of this Baby Shark concert. Okay. These balcony tickets are $82 in Boston. Look, I've spent crazy money on concerts. I have no right to criticize what people spend. How do you drop 82 bones to go watch Baby Shark

with a bunch of kids everywhere as well, crying and whining. And spitting up milk everywhere. It's working. It's selling out buildings. The song is on the national. What? That's what we got to do, Matt.

What? We got to make a stupid kid song and become millionaires. Hmm. Baby shark? Like, infant squirrel. Do do, do, do infant squirrel. Do do do do do infant squirrel. Infant squirrel.

I like this. See you later. See you later. See you later. you later. I wonder how many YouTube views that thing has. I don't even want you to look at it either. Max on the Med Center on 7-90.

Hello, Max. 3.7 billion. Max, talk to me. So, you know, I was, I don't know, I'm probably one of the very many here in town who was really dejected and upset after the first two games. What I saw in the playoffs so far from the aster's up until that point was no real good hitting, you know, in the five-game series against Tampa

and then in the seven-game series against New York, you know, or six-game series against New York. You know, I didn't see them really blow up like they had been in the past, you know, especially when they played the Mariners or the Angels. And so after they went down to nothing, I was pretty dejected, especially with our two aces on the field. But I got to have to give the Astros a ton of respect. I got to eat a lot of crow.

They came back. They took the punch, the best punch that the Nationals gave, and they punched them right back even harder. Now, regarding tomorrow night's game, I'm cautiously optimistic. know about Verlander's previous World Series record. He's up against Strasbourg is pretty hot right now. But I think we hit the ball pretty reasonably well against Strasbourg last time.

And I think his pitch count was up. So I think, you know, second chance of seeing him again might make us victorious as long as Verlander doesn't let up too many homers in the game. One thing I wanted to talk about also and I just want to touch on was the broadcasting for this series has been just awful. Joe Buck is the most sterile commentator there is. and Smolz just looks constipated the entire time and just brings up this ridiculous, you know, analogies.

Like last time I was saying, this game could have gone the other way, if not for a couple of, you know, batters or, you know, hits or opportunities. I mean, that's baseball. That's every sport. You know, every team could have said, yeah, you know, if I didn't, you know, had this interception, we would have won or if I didn't have this crucial turnover in the last few minutes,

we would have won. I mean, that's just ridiculous. The Stroes beat them. They let up three runs in three games in Washington, and they just punched them back. So you have to give credit where credit is due. And the post game with A-Rod, he is just horrible. He is just terrible.

Big Poppy is by far the best one on that entire panel, and A-Rod is just completely unlistenable. So I just wanted to hang up and hear y'all's comments on that. We'll do that coming back. We've had a call about that earlier today. We'll kind of revisit that in a minute, and we're going to destroy this baby shark song in 15 minutes. I'm looking forward to that.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 150 on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas with you with Ross and Nick. We still have two, three sets of tickets, four sets. You know what? Let's do it right now. God, I just love to give things to people.

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your friends about the radio show, right, Ross? All of them. What does Vegas say about tonight's game, by the way? Tomorrow's game. Yeah, tomorrow. I keep saying tonight as well. Yeah. Minus 175, your Houston Astros, plus 160 for the nationals.

Total surprised me a little bit, seven and a half, and you have to lay a little bit on the under, minus 120. Let me ask you this. I think JV needs this one for his mental health a little bit, don't you think? I would like him to pitch well. He's 0 and 5 in the World Series. Yes. He's a Hall of Famer.

He's been the goat for 99.99% of the season so far. He's had a lot of good starts in the playoffs. But it is a ugly zero in there. You get the one and you're the one that gets the one and you win a second world series for a city. We don't care about the rest of the postseason numbers. That would be beautiful. They could just do it on Tuesday night.

Rossi, there's one one freaking win away when this city was clinically depressed after game two loss. I'm really confident about game six. I'd be very nervous about game seven I don't feel I think they're winning either way I just think for our own like for instance our blood pressure is all crazy right now

oh it's bad we are we are eating and drinking poorly we just we can't let this go to a 7th because we're really going to be on the edge for my mental and physical health I would like them to clinch and clinch like a nice little 7 to 1 or something

on Tuesday something I don't have to worry about here's my issue and it's purely selfish Game 7 is would be Wednesday I'm doing the second Rockets my first Rockets game of the year on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. So I'm going to be in the city.

You're going to be watching on your phone or? No, I got a rocket's getting a call. Well, hell, the game's going to go five hours anyways. That's true. You'll watch plenty. You'll catch the last six innings. Yeah, I'm only going to miss like the top of the first. Point being is this, I'm going to be in a city

in theory on that Wednesday that's every newscasts go nationals we got this we went down to Houston and won again we can certainly win one more game because we've won three before at Minutemade Park excuse me you know what I'm saying yeah what's that crowd going to be like

I don't know is there going to be anybody there would you go to a night would you rather go to watch game 7 on your television or go to a Washington Wizards game answer that question I would rather watch Game 7 on my television. Now, granted, phones do help, but battery life is not unlimited.

John Wall's still out for the season, right? I mean, Bradley Biel's cool, but pick your poison on that one. Who else is that? I don't even know if I can name another wizard. Yeah, I can probably name a few. I haven't thought about it yet because I got the thunder on my mind right. So, so far today, Melissa, Manuel, Todd, Joe's. Chris Chios is there.

No. Kavana and Skada. When we have five winners so far today? How nice is that? All we want to do is give, because we love you. Keep listening if you want Rockets tickets for tonight because we're going to continue to give them away all next time. Yeah, another hour going to go away some more tickets, so don't be afraid to do.

Let's stay the show. Let's go to Jacob and pass it. Get Down, Dina. Hello, Jacob. Hey, guys, how y'all doing? Great. Hey, so I was just, the guy called earlier, talking about Brett Tram and sculpting pictures, and I've been preaching that

to the choir to everybody that I know that keeps saying, you know, if we don't sign coal, you know, that's it for us. It's not. We got McCullors coming back, hopefully, you know, if everything checks out. We got Forest Whitley. I'm not worried about anything for the simple fact that Burlander was on the downslope when he came here. Garry Cole, you know, he was on a downslope when he came here.

And we're scoping all these. Brett Strom is a mastermind and knows what he's doing, and he's the best in the business. Absolutely. And it's going to hurt us more if we manage the sign cold back, then it would if we let him walk. And that's my whole thing about that. This isn't a question of letting him walk.

That's what I think, you guys, they're not, the Astros are not sitting in the ivory towers and going, man, bye. We don't love you. Yeah. Someone, now again, last year, it was a little different. Machado and Bruchado. Bryce Harper took forever to get their deals. But, Ross, they got their deals.

Yes. They got the value of which they were worth. Fair market value is what they got. It might be the same for Garrett. But if Garrett wants to go to Southern California, the angels have already said when they hired Joe Man last week that they're going to spend money. The pod race have not hidden the fact they'd like to.

I'm sure the Dodgers will kick the tires. I'm sure 10 teams will kick the tires. In theory, if you're a businessman of an Uber successful baseball team like the Astros, it's hard to fathom paying more than $100 million for three pitchers. It just is. I don't know guys don't want to hear that, but it's just the reality. And it makes me sad. But because, again, he could determine this by saying, I'm going to take dramatically less.

but I wouldn't do that if I was him. I got missing my first time after being in the big leagues for six years and I get to choose where I want to go and I get to choose the terms of it, why would I want to take a hometown discount no matter who's team it was? If he was a Los Angeles Dodger,

I'd want the Astros to pony up the cash. He's set to get the biggest contract of his life, get the most you can. He's looking at six to seven years I'm thinking, and again, I'm terrible on contract guessing. Yeah, that's not a forte. I'm assuming six or seven years of between $33 and $35 million a year. Probably a little bit more.

Yeah. And I don't think the Astros can adhere to that. I just don't think they can't. They love to, but they just can't. Is the Matt Thomas show. Robinson drills this one down the left field line ball is hooking, and that ball hits the ball. It hits the foul pole. A home run for Toritos.

And the Astros go up 4 to 1. Torinos came into this game, O for his last 15 in the postseason. And he has a single and his first ever World Series homer. 120 RBIs this season. Here's the pitch, and it's driven. Deep to left field. That is a grand slam.

Alex Brackman. Clears the bases. The Astros leaded 8 to 1. What a moment for Alex Bregman. A shot down the line in left field. A bomb. And Alvarez listed pretty deep to center field. Robles is racing back.

Still going back. Looking up. See you later. A two-run, home run for Yorda. Alvarez and the Astros lead it two to nothing. Alvarez's first home run of the postseason. Yeah, it's been a long time for Alvarez. It's about time.

He absolutely hammered that ball to left center field. Just kept carrying on a line. Mommy shark, do to do to do mommy shark. That ball's hit well. Left field, high and deep. That's got a chance. Go on. Carlos Correa with a two-run shot gives the Astros to four to nothing leave.

And Springer hits it in the air deep to left field and you can kiss it goodbye. A two-run home run for George Springer and a 7-1 lead for the Astros. Springer goes deep for the second time in this World Series. So essentially it's all members of the family, right? Springer shark do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do Oh my God. We are killing it in the zero to three demographic right now. Oh gosh.

Down three to two to do to doda do to go to do to go to the market. You can get the shark and kill it. Jaws. Gonna eat you right now tomorrow. So it's daddy. It's the aunt. It's grandma. Are there really grandpa sharks hanging around in the sea?

Well, baby shark thinks that way. Now we're going to have a generation of kids that don't fear sharks like we do. I feel sharks. Fear. Yeah, thank you. Shoot all the sharks. We're going to blow them all up. Like Jaws 2 or Jop.

What was the? Jaws where they shot an oxygen tank. Let's get the Jaws mouth. The Jaws theme song. Okay. Let's grow. Let's add a little matured to this. That was the first Jaws, by the way. Wait. Oh, was it? Whatever. The smile you son of a bitch scene. Oh, hey, the first 3D movie ever saw my life was Jaws 3D. Scared the crap out of me. Frankly, all movies outside of PG-13 scared the crap out of me. Oh my goodness. So there are 40,000 people doing the Baby Shark bit all year long apparently or I guess when power came over but

yish this is the astro shark right here this is Bregman It's a slow build on this one Mm-hmm Walk us through it Ross What are we walking you through?

I'm reading about Jaws Brickman Brighman Altuveh Yule Yuley Will Harris Harris

Harris Harris Smith Bird kitty Presley Presley Presley Presley Presley Presley Presley That Presley's Osuna That's what we should be playing tomorrow

To Minuteman Yes, actually that'd be awesome grown-ass man shark music That baby shark man music It's gross This is making me This is actually scary This is building drama about the show.

What's going to happen? Believe it or not, all things about sharks at 252. Uprooted Texan said this is the first time I've heard Baby Shark, and now I want to find the nearest thing and kill it. Again, I'm going to be honest with you. If I had young children, I would know the Baby Shark song because I knew every song about the Wiggles when I was in my mid-30s, raising my three babies. So, yes.

I mean, I've heard it a number of times. I have nieces. They're four and two years old, so. You guys have no idea. They have like seven different versions of it now. Really? They get the like the rap trap trap There's a trap mix

There is a trap remix Oh my gosh They have like a Halloween version They've got a Christmas version They've got one for every season Hmm It's awful Okay

This makes you feel better This is how you get ready This is shark music Yeah By way I've never seen a shark nato And I'm not going to watch it I saw Shark Nato one I think they're up to like five or six of them now

It's keeping Tara reads a career alive If you've seen one, you've seen them all. Yeah, that's what I figure. Yeah, they did six sharknadoes. Ian Zerling is like, he's gone from Beverly Hills to sharknados. Yeah, well, at least he's getting steady work. That's true. Viveka A Fox was the last one?

What? Come on Vivica. Step it up. Step up your game. Flamey in the Heights on 790. Hi, Flame. What's up, brother? What's the deal?

You got to tell us. I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. H-town is buzzing, man. You know, we had a little few doubters, you know. After, you know, we had a, obviously not the outcome we wanted in games one and two. But it seems like last night, I mean, obviously with game three, the win, it brought a little momentum. Game two kept the ball rolling in last, and game three, it's like from the beginning of the game, boys had their swag back.

And I'll tell you what, boy Alvarez going three for three last night. man, he got his stroke back. He's back in town, and Yuli was swinging last night. Springer started swinging. And, you know, Tuvae's Al Tuve. Brantley's Brantley. The Batch are live, and I tell you what, man, we're going to finish this thing in six. I predicted five, but you know what?

I'll take another World Series title in game six. I want it in six. I think everybody's listening. Thank you, Flamey, for the phone call. Everybody wants this thing in six. Because seven just makes your, you can't sleep, can't eat. I would like it to be go to six. Seven, I'm confident in six.

Seven, I feel like I would feel a little bit on shaky ground. Would you really? Yes. Grinky. I like him. You know what game seven's all about? Yes. Grinky.

Herkitty. Cole. Grinky. Herkiti, Cole. Game seven against what maybe Max Scherzer provided his shoulder and neck is feeling average. Cole in relief on. be okay. Normal rest. For an inning or two, absolutely.

Okay. You throw in between starts anyway. This would be a normal in-between start. We'll scare many. No, no, no, no, no, no. I will not allow that. Okay. They're going to finish it in six.

Patrick Corbyn was in great in relief earlier in the playoffs. But Gary Cole greater than Clayton Kershaw has been a disaster in relief. He's been a disaster in his whole life in postseason. Patrick Corbyn wouldn't good on his start either. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Just calm down. H-town. It's over in six. Over in six. Okay. Okay. Adrian on 7.90. Hi, Adrian. Yeah.

You're on. Go ahead, Adrian. Okay. Oh, man. I was just calling them to let you know how I feel about the game. I think it's going to be over in six. I also was calling about the rocket stickers you guys are giving away, but I don't know if you guys are doing that now. Another pair before the end of the hour. Well, you're eligible for, but we just, not giving away right this second. Okay. Well, I just want to let you all know, you know, the Rockets just started, and I think they're going to do phenomenal as well with Westbrook on the line.

And I don't know if you guys tuned in last year, like in the playoffs, but I'm one of the guys that was doing the dance cam videos. I don't know if you guys have ever seen those videos. It's me and my brother, two heavyset guys in the dance cam videos, and we're dancing. Adrian. Yes, sir. So you're saying when I go to the Rockets games, I see you there as one of the two heavyset guys that like to dance? Yeah, we come out on the dance can.

We do our thing. Actually, when we play the... I've never seen you. Yes, you have they dance in sync and stuff. I've seen them. Adrian, I've never seen two men heavyset dance and rhythm ever in my life at a Rockets game, ever. Yeah. Well, actually, when we played the...

When we played the Warriors in game seven, I think that was in 2017. We were invited to Good Morning America to perform on online TV. It was a great experience. But getting back to the Astros, I think it's going to be done in seven. And if it was up to me, I would say who deserves the MVP would be between Brantley and Altube. Brantley and Altube. You know what? Thank you, Adrian, for the phone call.

and Andrew, I got a little secret. I know who he are. You guys do great. Those guys are awesome. Those guys are national sensations. Yeah. Andrew, I know who you all are. I don't think that the envy,

I don't think it's down to two people at this point. What about if Brantley gets a home run? If Brantley hits a home run, he's got a real legitimate chance. If Will Harris gets the final, maybe gets three outs in the seventh or eighth, he's got a chance. Will Harris has got my vote.

I want Will Harris. Harris get it because I just think a man, a grown man that's had to explain why there's not two L's in his first name deserves MVP consideration. Wait a minute, what? He's only got one L and Will. That's not true. Spell his name. Will?

Will Harris. W ILLL. No. Will Lutz only has one L. No, I think Will's only got three letters in his name. Okay. I think, right? I think you're thinking of Will Lutz.

Am I really? The kicker, Will Lutz. Lutz only has 1L. Yeah, Will Harris is a British entrepreneur. He's got 1L. Sorry about that. Will Lutz has one L. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. How many people... Yeah, that's Will Harris. That's just everybody. That's a grown adult people's fault. Now I'm all confused. Yeah, how can you be even... Like, Will Lutz...

How is his name with 1L? His name is William. Yeah, I said incorrect it, Willie. I thought you only had 1L in your name. But tell me where Will Lutz gets this 1L business from. Because his dad was smoking pot,

his name is William, though. Oh, it's horrible. All right, 21, he's our time. 713, 212. I feel terrible. I thought Will only had one L in his name. First name.

Philip Rivers only has one L. What? Now you're confused. We're going to have to do a spelling bee now next week when it does so. Hi, this is former running back of Herschel worker. You're listening to Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. 220 on Sports Talk 790. I'm going to admit something that only people that went to the Rockets game on Saturday know about.

You know what? Because, again, if you can't make fun of yourself, then you just can't make fun of anybody. Postgame show was great. Do you have a lot of calls? Two. Gerot and Maya. Ding and ding. Um, Saturday.

It was brief. How brief was it? It was one of the most brief one I'll ever do. I usually like to go. Because the World Series was on. Yeah, it's fine. That's totally. It's fine.

Speaking of that, so I had Astros on a brain as I'm calling this Rockets game. Yes. And a certain player for New Orleans had a three-point shot. J.J. Reddick. And I said Josh. I said Josh Reddick. And as soon as I said it, I corrected myself within one out, one-tenths of a second. How do you do that?

Do you say, excuse me? No, I just said, I said three-pointer, Josh Redick, J-J. Reddick. Oh, okay. That's fine. Was there a crowd reaction? No. Was there a crowd? There was a crowd.

Okay. My guess is if I wouldn't have corrected myself, I probably could have got away with it. But you know what? Life's too short to be that guy. Mm-hmm. So I goofed. That's fine. Nobody's perfect, Matt.

Nobody's perfect, but it was this interesting that little slips because if you have something on the brain, I wasn't watching it. We don't have a chance of watching. I'm hitting my phone or anything because the Internet's not great to you, somebody's on there. Point being is this. What, Tillman said he was getting it better. He was going to, he made, didn't he make a proclamation? The internet's going to be better next year.

It's fine. It just didn't happen to have it on my phone. I just was work in progress. Yeah. It's a work in progress. Point being is that I just, I just, it was a slip of the tongue. And somebody famous happened to catch it in Texamine and she said that she loved it. Hmm.

And I said, I didn't mean to do it intentionally. It was just very much a slip of the tongue. But I had baseball. How famous? Semi famous. Locally famous or nationally famous? Locally. Okay.

Jennifer Raina? No. 713-212-5-7-90 you'll never guess 7-13 2-212 Dominic sucks up 5 so I don't think Dominic would know who I am although we're fellow you of age people let's go to Jim and Crosby at 223 hi Jim hey how's it going

hi good I think they wait the way you spell Will Harris's first name is MVP oh I see how you're working right there Jim very nicely done my friend. Very nicely done. Yeah, and game six, of course. We all won it in game six. But I think game six is going to be a nail-biter.

Berlater's never won a World Series game. It's Strasbourg is Strasbourg. We've got a better chance in winning game seven, but I don't want to go to that. But because we got Will Harris MVP in the bullpen, Wow, that's such a comfort. I don't, you know, he's been fantastic. Thank you for the phone call. Every time you've asked him to do something, he's come through. I don't even want to go to the, when was the last time Will Harris gave up a run?

Don't look it up. Don't do not do so. Do not look it up. You have to figure at some point he won't be sharp or something like that, but every time he's come out there and it's been in tough situations with runners on base, I think he allowed one in, I think he's only allowed like one, runner that's come on since he's run runner on base,

he's strand everybody else. It's funny though. Joe Smith's been really good. Yeah. Pressy's been up and down. O'Sona's been more up than down, but a little bit of fluctuation. Smith's been fan, I should say, Will Harris has been fantastic. And then Jose Arkiti.

Yeah, what if, yeah, what if I got into a time machine? I talked to two months ago Matt Thomas. And I said, hey Matt, Zach Grinkie's in the starting rotation, not two months ago, Whatever. Zach Rinkies in the starting rotation. Wade Miley's out.

And your 7-8-9 is Will Harris, Joe Smith, Roberto Osuna. I could believe the last thing very easily. The rest of it, I couldn't believe you. Because remember, Wade Miley. Presley was amazing, though,

before that injury. Wade Miley was top five ERA among left-handers for most of the season. Yeah. And now he's been out of back-to-back series. It's just crazy how things happen. The way you plan things and the way things they work out.

Yeah. And how about Brian Peacock? I mean, injuries galore, and he helped you out a little bit when necessary. Yeah. All right. Let's say hi to Jimmy on 7.9 at 225. Hi, Jimmy. Hey, how y'all doing today? Well. A couple of points, a couple of things here. Did I hear you say Hannah Storm was doing NFL games on Amazon? Yeah. If you go to the Amazon feed, she does the Thursday night games with Andrew Kramer. They don't do them from sight. They do them on a television set from a studio.

they give you the female perspective of the NFL game. Now, isn't this same Hannah Storm that started out with Rockets? That's right. Okay, that's what I thought. And did you see the dude that stopped Alvarez's home run with his chest because he didn't want to put his beer down? I respect that. Yeah.

You know how much beers are in the World Series? But he did eventually put his beer down to pick up the ball. So he did see that had beer out. So he spilled it a little bit. Did that ball, does that ball go back to, Alvarez. Only if that guy wants it to. Okay.

I didn't know if Alvarez since he was his first World Series home run if he got to keep it. That's a great question. What did the guy do with the baseball? I don't remember. I don't know. We don't know.

I saw him holding it up. Yeah. But I don't know if he gave him back. And he was a Washington fan because he had a W across his chest. Yeah. By the way, look, all pharmacies are current equal.

Thank you, Jimmy. But I'm not going to Walgreens until the series is over with. Sorry, Walgreens. Love you. Mean it. I'm team Walgreens for though. Oh, I'm, I've been, uh, I'm more team CVS. Really? 24 hours. I mean, I'm not like

Eckerd back in the day. I miss Eckerd, but you don't have Eckers around here anymore. That's what I'm saying. Now they got beat, bought out by CVS and I'm still holding a grudge, Matt, so I'm a team one way. I'm team, one way. I'm team CVS because it's 24-7 and I can go to my nearest and an icey and my fire in my medicine. How do you feel about a right aid? Um, only more in the Northeast, right? I think they have them like California in the Northeast. I've been to a right-e before. I got runny eight bandages in my toiletry bag. I don't know where I got it. When I go on the row of the Rockets, I buy weird stuff all over the place.

I can see that. Like, I buy dress socks in the middle of nowhere for no reason. Because I'm too damn lazy to get him in Houston. Dress socks, bandades, craps rolls. Oh, like the cinnamon treats? Oh, in the, in the, oh, there's, oh, I don't even know what you're talking about. Yeah, man. Those pecan rolls.

Don't go all fancy mad on us right now. We're trying to try to stay with. They're not fancy. They're three for a dollar, not fancy at all. Where are you getting them from? Oh, the pecans spin wheels? Yes. Those are my jam.

That's if I'm really needed like a sweet snack. That's my jam. That and the fried apple pies. You know the ones that are Mrs. Bairds that are coming in the cover and they're glazed over? You drafted that and we were doing snack cakes and you drafted a pie and beat me. I'm still upset about that. Because the pie is the goat.

It's not a cake. One more pair of tickets. We're getting away right the second. One more pair. 7-13-212-3-3-39. Remember, why are we getting more of the tickets? Because we love you at Sports Talk, 790. And we want you to be a part of the Mix and Match Monday.

Your ticket tonight for the Rockets will include a choice of a hot dog, pretzel, or popcorn, and a choice of a beer, soda, or water. For more details on future Mix and Match Mondays, go to Rockets.com. One last pair for tonight's game is going to be Chris Paul wearing in Oklahoma City uniform, Rossi. How weird, one to ten? That's got to be about a nine and a half for me. Eight.

That's seven. Really? I mean, he wasn't here for a long time. I think, yeah, but if you're a clipper fan, you're like, what the hell is he wearing? Hey, this is Whitney Mercer's. Listen to real Texan talk on your smart speaker. Just say, hey, Google. Play Sports Talk 790 on IHeartRadio.

Frosting to remind the audience that if there is a game eight of the World Series, you and I will be screaming play ball to the audience. Only if a game eight. That'd be interesting. You can go play ball. I don't need to be up there. I want you to be a part of it. I'm good.

Now, if you want to throw the first pitch, I'll catch it. You always know how important you are based on the person that catches your ball in the honorary first pitch. Like Simone Biles, it was Jake Moriznick was out there. If Framber Valdez is catching your first pitch, you're not that thought of highly, highly thought of. Do they ever really have the All-Stars get up there and do it? Not really, usually. It's usually somebody like. It's Biggio to Al-Tube.

That's true. It's Bagua de Guerrille. it's Matt Thomas from Sports Talk 790 to Sice Need not the size on a great fellow it's got Major League service time yeah but it's just you know stretch Suba or something like that he's no longer worth the team oh

Javier Broca Mante handles that responsibility now let's go to Jeff and Brookshire at 235 on Sports Talk 790 hi Jeff hey Matt how you doing good I was asking myself do I hang up

on Matt us to win tickets or do I hang on and talk to the man? Well, I got great news for you. Jeff, we're going to give away some more tickets in the 3 o'clock hour, so it's better to talk to me and then go for the tickets in the 3 o'clock. How about that? Good. I'm in. I'm in. Hey, I have a great promotional idea. Since this is an outdoor city, we love the outdoors. You get a big old billboard inside the stadium and you get Al-Tubei and Korea with a fishing

with a fishing rod, and you have the shark upside down hanging there as one of their big catches. And y'all could put the big 790 up there on the billboard. It would be a great promotion. Well, I'll say this, Jeff. If anybody's listening to us right now, do they let you bring in props to the World Series? I mean, I know there's signs and whatnot.

Bring a glove. What, that's not the question. I don't know. Here's what you do. If somebody could get a really small, fishing pole. I'm talking like three feet max, right, Ross? Yeah. With a like a shark. Like a shark, one of those things you went in an amusement park. Toy shark, yeah. A plush? A plush shark. And pretend like you're reeling it in. That would work.

Put blood all over it. Well, that's not your graphic. Okay, fine. Hang it up and some red paint keeping in your pocket. You're hanging upside down beside Korea and out too. It'd be great. All right. You know what? Jeff, I think I'm giving a few people listen to this show right now. few ideas. Thank you for the phone call. They let you get in with that. They let you get in with astronaut helmets on. Well, I mean, a sign lady who listens to show, she always got pictures of like eight or nine of the astro players. Those don't, those don't come easy. Yeah. Not easy at all. You could probably stuff one of those kids fishing poles, you know, just down the leg of your pants, sneak it in. Just saying.

No, don't say it. They're going to say, what are you walking like that? Like the 10 man. What is, are you carrying a, do you have a third leg? Is there a fishing pole in your pocket? Are you just happy to see me? By the way, we did attempt, not really, but we did attempt to try to get a hold of the girl with the big, well, they're not big, they're just nice. Yesterday's game. Oh, geez. My friend Jones, like, how did she get the letter to say that she can't go to games anymore?

My guess is that, what's her woman's name? I don't even have a... Something Rose. Yeah, she's been doing this at other places before. They've known. They've known. They've known. They printed her out that letter pretty quickly, though. Yeah. They had it locked and loaded, so to speak. Now, that's indefinitely. Does that mean like a year?

Indefinitely means until we tell you can come back. I don't know. And here's the thing. She was spending last time looking at her Twitter account. She's like, I'm not the only one did it. Two of my friends did it. They were apparently there were six breasts. I only saw four. Yeah, me too. Hmm. This is like a second gunman on the grassy knoll situation. So breast five and six. We didn't see you. Tommy, how are you, friend?

Well, I'm doing well. Great. I put a little song on Facebook because I was talking trash to my negative Nancy friends after the game two loss. And I told them, you know, these guys are awesome. Anyways, it went semi-viral and Channel 13 played it on the news.

But I thought, how can I get this out to some people who aren't on my little world in Facebook? How better to do that than with Matt Thomas' This is a huge, vast social media reach. So I'm coming here asking for a favor. Sean in the morning tweeted it. If you can retweet it for me, Matt, been a lifelong listener and fans.

My daughter's 13, and this is about the only way I can earn cold points these days. Now, let me ask you this. If we play a little bit of it and it sucks, can you accept that punishment? Oh, I promise you it doesn't suck. I mean, I'm not a professional musician, I have a lot of passion for my strows.

I predicted the three-game sweep and coming back to Houston with that in our back pocket in the song. So I think it's worthy enough. Well, here's all I'm due for you. I want you to tweet it to me right now, and then we're going to come back before you play, believe it or not, I'm going to play like a minute of it. Now, remember. Matt, you're the man. I'm just telling you.

I just understand. If it's good, we'll tell you it's good. But if it blows, be prepared for that as well. I'll go this far. Knowing how much you like free dinners, I'll buy you a free dinner. I'll buy you a free dinner. Nah, no, no, no, I'd rather, no need to buy me dinner. You're a good listener to show, and that's all I want is just for you to stay

with part of the radio program. All right, Tommy, so send it to me via Twitter. We'll play a minute and I'll figure it. We'll do a quick rush it or flush it. Matt, I appreciate it. Y'all are awesome. I love the show. Thank you, buddy.

See you later. All right, so yeah, Tommy, send it to us, and then we'll rush it or flush it come out of the break. Let's get one more in before we do that. Kevin and Tom Ball. Hi, Kevin. Hey, man. How's it going?

I'm good. What's going on? Man, I wanted to give her a key to you some run for MVP, though I know it probably wouldn't have it. But for a guy to come from AA at the beginning of the year and have his first start, I believe it was, as being the World Series game, to hold the team the way he did to keep the nationals back, to keep it from going 3-1 and holding it 2-2, really keeping the momentum in our favor is very important for what he did. Can't argue with that at all, my friend. He was, you know, not only was he great for the now, he gives you amazing optimism for the future, does he not? Because provided his arm reacts well to the Tommy John, the elbow surgery, and he obviously is doing well. He's going to be a part of that rotation, and Jeff Leno's been saying that.

This is not some breaking news. They've always had her key in the plans for 2020. You just don't think about guys like that until you see him actually in competitive action. And, man, on the biggest stage, he thrived. Yeah, it's a high-stress situation for him to be put in and for him to perform the way he. did. And like I said, to keep the momentum of the team going the way they did, I think that really deserves some throw. All right. Thanks for the phone call. We appreciate it. Let's get a quick time out. And we'll play like a minute of this song and we'll see if it's any good. And then we'll

play believe it or not next 242 on Sports Talk 790. Load up on those napkins, straws, ketchup, hot sauce, mustard. Oh, and don't forget duck sauce. It's the Matt Thomas show for lunch on sports. Talk 790. Yeah, also the contest line. Hit the music. 713. 2.12.

3399. That's the contest line. 10 years of the phones being a certain way, they're different now, which I'm okay with. Time for an instipal. By the way, the guy should be flushed because he doesn't follow me on Twitter. Somebody that's following me. Wow. He's begging for you to...

No. Somebody's listened to me for years and yet doesn't follow me on Twitter. It sounds a little hollow. Yeah. And ask you to play his song. didn't even follow you? Yeah, I'm calling BS on list. You probably listen to other shows talking Texas linebackers.

Doesn't follow me either. Yeah. Trivia 0-0711. I'm calling BS on you. Oh, bad. You're the best ever. You know, come on now. 713-212-32-33-99.

7-1-3-2-32-33-99. Line two, rush it or flush it? Hey, they, uh, flush it. Flush it, one flush it, boat. Line three, rush it or flush it? I'll get him a rush. All right, one rush and one flush. Remember the insipole doesn't line.

It never does. It's in the contest line. Line one on the instapole, rush it or flush it? Oh. What do you say? That was a vomit sound. Oh, is that a flush? That's a flush.

713, 212, 3399. Line two, rush it or flush it? Uh, yeah, I want to play. Okay, you do. Here's the question. Name 14 elements you can find in the period. What was that? Name the 14 elements you can find in granite.

Go. Language. That's three flush it and one rush it. Line one, rush it or flush it? Oh, flush that trash. Oh, geez. Wow. You guys are harsh.

You are tough. Guys is pouring in soul out. the piano. He's at a smoky blues lounge with a cigarette in his mouth and a gin and tonic in his right hand. All right. Trivia 0-0-0-7-1-1 who doesn't follow me or Ross.

Okay. I see how you are. We played your song. Big time. I listen to Matt Tom to show all the time. Okay. I see how y'all are. All right. Five minutes left to go in the show. What should we do? We should play.

America's fastest growing sports game show. We simply called it. Believe it or not, and here's how it works. You'll call 713-213-1-2-5-7-90. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-Hunty. Today's edition of Believe it or not is brought to you by the Woodhouse Day Spas. It's pronounced gift card for the gift of relaxation at Houston Woodhouse Spas.com. The category today is all things about sharks, grown-ass adult sharks.

I'll read you your statement about sharks. Statements completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. Your earnings full of ball command up, you will say this. Two, believe it or not, some things about sharks wins your prize. Rosswood is the prize. Matt, I got a pair of tickets to the inaugural game of the new XFL team,

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Believe it. In total, there are about 220 species of sharks categorized into eight different orders. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, there's actually 440 species. Duh. Can you name six of them?

I'll go Great White. Baby shark, grandpa shark, sister shark. line five. Paul on 790. Paul, your favorite part of the radio program today. All of it, Matt. Sharks have ears located inside of their heads and can hear up to 3,000 feet away.

Believe it or not? Not. Believe it. Duh. I feel like my wife can hear me from 3,000 feet away. So you're not going under your breath enough, Matt. Josiah on 790. You're ready to play?

Believe it or not. Believe it. Sharks do not have bones. Their bodies are structured by a substance similar to cartilage. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win.

The biggest shark in the world is the basking shark, which can reach lengths of 36 to 38 feet. Believe it or not. Not. Oh, that's right. The whale shark's the biggest at 46. Duh. Line two.

Kelly on 790. play, believe it or not? Yes, even though I call to talk to you. Kelly, how are? Yes, I'll play. Kelly, you know what I do? What's the matter, Kelly? I've been trying to read you for a week.

I've been here every day, noon to three. Where are you been? I call in between all my sessions for 20 to 30 minutes. I never get in. I'm going to call you tomorrow on that, but I'm going to play today. Kelly, you're going to play today. You're going to tell me. Nick about you tomorrow, your first in the list.

Okay, you promise? Yes? I'm calling. All right. The smallest shark in the world is the dwarf lantern, and it's six inches in length. Believe it or not? No. Believe it. No, it's believe it.

Kelly, I'll talk to you tomorrow. All right. That's a shame. Matt on 790. Matt, your favorite part of the radio show today? All the Astros talk, baby. Depending on the species. Some sharks reproduce via eggs and some reproduces.

produce via live birth. Believe it or not. Not. Believe it. That's gross sounding. What? You want to watch sharks getting down? No, I don't want to watch shark sex. Jesse on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it.

Sharks are able to pick up on electrical fields and currents to hunt their prey. This is called electroreception. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the wind. If you flip a shark upside down, they go into a trance-like state called tonic immobility. Believe it. Believe it. Believe it.

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That's it for the show. The Adams are down at Toyota Center. I'll see you guys tonight for the Thunder Against the Rockets. If you did not win tickets on my show, they've got three more sets of tickets to give away in the first hour of the A team. Stand by for that, for Ross, for Nick, I'm Matt. Have a great day. Talk to you all at the arena tonight and tomorrow at noon on 790.