The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show : Craig Biggio, Still Opening Day For Us, 10th Inning Show

Episode Date: March 26, 2020

The Matt Thomas Show with @SportsMT, @SportsRV and @ProNickLow 3/26/20Not Letting Corona Ruin Our Opening Day Celebration (0:00)Deshaun's Sub-tweeting (10:06)Craig Biggio Joins Matt With Some Opening Day Memories (21:07)Rob Manfred Says Red Sox Investigation Has Been Completed (42:26)Tell Us How You Really Feel Deshaun (1:03:20)Jake Kaplan On Resuming MLB Season (1:20:25)Astros 10th Inning Show (1:41:52)

Much larger than life. Yeah! Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. Ward, he's on the track. Still looking up, gives it a shot, and a two-run shot down the line, and the Astros lead five to nothing.

Out of the season for Yule. He lifts this to center fairly deep, going back on it, Hermosillo, still going back at the wall. He leaps and that ball is gone. And the Ash, The Astros lead grows to 4 to nothing. Brantley with his 22nd homer of the year,

and he hit it to straightaway center. One pretty well and pretty deep to deep. With his 26 as the Astros go back to back. Breaking ball, that's drilled down the right field line. It is hooking, and that ball is a fair ball around the foul pole, and it's a two-run, home run for Reddick. That got out of here in a hurry. The Astros lead is 7 to 1, thanks to the ball.

to the blast by Reddick, which is number 13. Swin out on my love of baseball, nor should you. Or the definitive opening day song. The definitive baseball song. Don't you look at me strange that way, sports, Harvey? I want to disagree, but I don't think I can. You can't. Not even Nick, who likes to be a curmudgeon on this show, can argue with that.

As far as baseball songs go, I guess this one should be right up there. Right up there. this is the song. Probably take me out to the ballgame. Yeah, but you don't play on an opening day to get you fired up for the season. It's not getting anybody fired up. I'm with you on that. As a matter of fact, Nick, can you find us?

There's got to be a rock and roll version to take me out of the ball game, right? Somebody's had to have done it. Everybody does their own versions of it. By way, this is the Matt Thomas show. Good afternoon to you. We needed that, frankly. With everything else going on in our world and the reports of jobless claims up today and more cases and the poor people of New York, frankly, the poor people of our entire world with all this going on.

And today it was just kind of a day where the calendar were circled. Ross, you and I would have been opening day over at, well, actually, I would have been on the road, but you would have been over at Minute Made Park at the Street Festival. That's right. I would have been working hard, sweating, or I don't know what the weather is exactly today. It's 86 degrees. Yeah, I would have been, well, not as profusely as others. Yeah, we, how would you rank the sweaters of 790?

Okay, you want to go in order? Please do. Chris Gordy number one. Mm-hmm. Sean Salisbury 2. Yeah, athlete. Matt Thomas, three. Um,

I feel like Clanton's a sweater. Okay. So why are you putting yourself so low on the list? I'm actually not really a heavy sweater. Oh, okay. Wax, do you think it's a sweater? I'm probably so, I don't know. I don't know when Nick sweats.

I don't want to see him work up a sweat. That sounds probably, probably, I'm fairly average as far as far as I think I would be, I think I'm below average. Now when I was heavier. Because you know, you go to the gym with somebody or you play, how about when we would play pickup basketball? Sure. And some people would be sopping wet and I wouldn't have broken a sweat at all.

Now, maybe you would say that's because my lazy defense, but I think it's because I'm not that heaviest sweater. I would lean more towards a lazy defensive player. Like, who is the best defensive basketball player on this station? Does any of us play a like a defense? Indy. Yeah, I would vote Indies. I've played with Gordy,

before. Number one, sopping wet. Does Gordy play defense? No, yes. He does. Too much. What? Because I, he, one time I was going up for a layup and he just cleared me out. He's like, no layups. I'm like, dude, we're playing a friendly game in a church. You call, did you call a foul? I think I did. I can't remember. That was a clear, very clear out. He was, it was, like, I'm not going to the line for two. You know, we would actually calm down, Gordy. It'd be fun for us to do a video of us playing pickup basketball, but since we can't really get together. Well, if we're a fewer than 10, we're okay, right? What about three?

That's not social distancing. Yeah, you still don't want to cover each other in bodily fluids. Three on three, one sub? No. We would actually play a game. No physical contact. You can just get in the space?

No, you play a game of horse and you separate each other by six feet. Yeah. It's your turn. Okay, come on. Nick, you're up next. Matt, you're up next.

That's how you do it. Okay. We can't even play pickup basketball in right now. Not that we would, but I'm saying if we could, we can't. If we do horse, can we lower the basket so we can dunk? Yes.

Yeah, you get a hoop's basketball goal. Put it down to about seven feet. Oh my God. I feel like I'm Jordan up there. Matt Thomas with the 360 windmill. Yeah. Dwight Howard touching the top of the backboard and then throwing it down with the other hand. I could do that.

Hey, it is opening day of baseball. If you all want to... Is it? In my mind, it is. Okay. And now, we'll eventually, we'll get one. We just don't know when. And by way, we'll get to some Rob Manford comments as our day progresses.

Craig Bidgio is going to join us at the bottom of the hour. Yes. Mr. 3,000. Mr. 3,000. The Hall of Famer. The Hall of Famer. So I would say that's a big marquee guest on the Shuderdate. Jake Kaplan from the Athletics is going to join us.

We're going to make some baseball in a little bit today. Also, I want to get you guys, and if you're out bumping around, probably traffic for a city that's kind of under not, I'm trying to place, but what is it? Stay safe, drive home or stay home, drive safe or nothing about driving? Stay home, safe, work, home. Whatever. Stay safe, work home.

Traffic is, it's not rush hour. It's pretty good. But it's pretty decent. It's a lot better. There must be quite, I know, I was going to say the other way. So I think there's quite, there must be quite a few essential people working today. Oh, it was, it was ramped up today? A tinge.

Okay. I think people are just having cabin free. Like, I'm going to get in the car. For those of you don't know, we're in the gallery area and it is just, this is probably one of the worst interchanges in the country. In the entire city, right, yeah, for sure. And we are, and it doesn't get us, it takes me normally, I'm saving 15 minutes every morning, coming here.

That's good. And about 10 on the way back. back's a little heavier, but by no means I can get back to and from Kingwell within an hour. And I travel to mid-morning here, so that's never a problem. Way back, even at 3 o'clock, it takes me an hour of ten comfortably. Hour and 10? Yeah.

Oof. And most of that's damage is done between here and 59. Oh, the 18, with Adam and Adam. Oh, man, you got to flip that off every now and then, right? No, I do put some serious 70s on 7. Unless they're in a good fight. Oh, if they're fighting, I don't change under any circumstance. All right, so baseball chatter day, if you are out there,

today driving around and just want to give us a baseball memory. I will be more than happy with that an opening day memory. Yeah, give me something about opening day to you that's really cool. There was a good, what didn't one of the opening days? Craig Bizio went like five for five or six for six. We should ask him about that. And then of course we all made the joke, Matt. He's on paced about a thousand. Well, you might have done that. I did. Are you on pace of, hey, Astros won. They're going to be 162 and a year. I care that guy. I know it's cheesy and terrible. God, that's terrible. That's God awful. So if you have a baseball opening day memory, of your life.

Whether it be watching the Astros or maybe your saltball opening day was a great day. You went five for five with two home runs because you know if you had a third one, you're probably out. There you go. 2001. He started five for five. Astros won 11 to three against the Milwaukee Brewers. And we'll ask him about that in 17 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. He did not bet a thousand that season.

Yeah, I don't think. How do you, well, let's see how, we'll tell you how he finished. Coming up. 713, 212.5.790. 713, 212. 5.790. Right, half the workday is done. Celebrate with Matt. Hey, Matt, love your show. Look, what was I talking about?

And by the sound of it, some of you started the party at breakfast. Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. Say bad. The definitive baseball song. No, it's not. Take me out to the ball game. We're going to play baseball songs. We're going to play MLB on Fox music at some point.

Okay. ESPS. I like the ESP and baseball music. That's a classic. That is a great one. I guess we've got to play talking baseball too. Talking baseball. I want everything baseball today.

Even when we talk about Deshawn Watson's cryptic tweets. Before we get back to opening day memories, we got Craig Bagejo, bottom of the arc. Rossi. Yes. I don't literally love Deshawnson, but I love everything about him. I love that he's trying to get better. I love that he has worked with a very, very average below average offensive line and has thrived. Coach on the field

First one in Last one out Works hard This may not be a popular opinion If you got something to say Say it These cryptic tweets These sub tweets

What's the point Are you doing because you're bored Are you doing because you're pissed We don't know That's the beauty of sub-tweeting Matt For sports radio purposes It's wonderful Yeah that's true

I mean if you wanted to send one out daily I'm okay with it By the way, I'll be starting to sub-tweet. I did already once, already today. I'll do it once per day. Yeah, I did one as well. At SportsMT, at Sports Harvey. And at Sports Harvey, yes.

Yeah. I like that we both had the idea. We both had the idea to put out some lyrics. Yeah, we did. We both separately did it. Don't tell anybody. That was organic from me. That was just random thoughts in my mind.

I don't want people to think I stole your idea. Oh, no. Let me take something. There are a lot of people in this market that steal my bits. That's true. I'm going to steal your bit. You should. You put something out there?

Okay. That's good. But point being is it, agree or disagree? Do you agree that either stop doing it or tell us how you really feel? I'll put it this way. I understand where you're coming from. That's not productive. It's not helpful.

It doesn't accomplish anything. It gets out. It gets really mad. Bill O'Brien probably doesn't like it. I don't know. Somebody probably has brought this to his attention. Let me tell you something. Jack Easterby's got it.

He has a burner account like nobody's business. Does he have Jack Easterby just crawling the internet for anything anybody says about him or something like that? Did you see, by the way, the Texans are hiring a digital social manager? Yes. Would you like to apply to be the social media manager for the Houston Texans? Because we were, I mean, we've been joking because every tweet of them that they, of theirs that they put out has just been getting ratioed like nobody's business. Do you think somebody quit or somebody got fired?

You think Bill was like, all right, you're getting us ratio too much? Sir, this is not my fault. I have no control over this. You made the trade. All right, you need to stop all these replies, all these people telling me, sorry, I can't do anything about it. All right, you're fired. That's what the conversation was like.

Whoever that person was, either got fired or quit and said, y'all don't know what the hell you're doing. You're making me put this stuff out there, and we're getting ratio like no other sports website out there. Every single tweet. It's like, hey, the Houston Texans have donated $100,000 to help out families in Houston and get the meals. Fire Bill O'Brien! And every reply.

It'd be better served just to put the release out and not go to your social media. But they're hiring somebody. So if you're available, if you want to be, I could be a social media manager for them. Well, all of us could do it. You've just got to be really innovative, creative, and phrase things properly. Check, check and check. What didn't Bill O'Brien just add another job? Why does he take social media manager?

That's a good point. As I said, who do you report to on this? Bill, you would report to Bill O'Brien and Jack Easterby. Probably. Or, I mean, maybe Jamie Roots? No, Jamie's like, I've told you, we shouldn't be doing this. I've known Jamie for a long time. Jamie's smart guy.

And I don't want to speak on behalf of him because I haven't spoken to him in a while. But my guess is the, Jamie, for those of who don't know, is the president of the business side. He's probably like, y'all do what you want to do. I'm not taking the hell on this. My job is to get corporate sponsors in here, keep people unhappy with their tickets. and serve good food in the stadium. I'm not going to let football operations ruin what I've built here for 18 years. He's doing his part on his side.

Oh, yeah. I mean, they continually, year after year after year, are one of the most valuable sports franchises out there. And I'll lie that is because of the business side. Certainly as it goes to football operations. Yeah, they are, I want to say like 20th or something like that in the entire world. Yeah, they're doing very well. More on Deshaun come up a little later.

Let me get an opening day thought from Alex and the Woodlands on the Matt Thomas show. Alex, good afternoon. Hey, Matt, good to hear your voice. Ross, you as well. My earliest baseball, well, not my earliest baseball memory. Also, you forgot that this week in baseball music. Oh, we'll get that too. Don't worry.

We'll do that too. Okay, my first baseball game was at the dome, 97 opening day. Larry Dirkers' first game as manager. They gave out these commemorative baseballs that had something printed on them. I don't remember. Something happened, and like 40,000 baseballs got thrown onto the field. It was insane. That was my first.

game. Best thing that ever. I really miss general admission. And also, Matt, I think you have me muted or blocked, dude, and I don't like it. What? It really hurt my feelings, man. I offered you a good price. I offered you a great price to change your water heaters, and I just got nothing. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, first of all, we're going to make up for this right now. What is your Twitter account? Casually underscore late. Why would I do that? Casually? I probably said something about you. I don't know. It's been years, Matt. So you're saying you probably deserved it.

I don't say that. I wouldn't say that. No, I don't have you blocked. No chance. All right. Well, good to hear, Peach Baskets. You guys keep it up. That's the reason why you should be blocked now.

See you later. Man's a genius. I'm not blocking fever dreams. Yeah, I remember that. He offered his services to change your water heater. I forwarded your information, so I did my part. His information, I mean. Yeah, thank you.

I had to go through the insurance company, so it is what it is. Yeah, I didn't know. He's still there. I see him. No, I'm blocking people. Trust me. I feel better about it, too. I'm a mute guy.

I'm a block guy. I have over 600 accounts muted at this point. Oh, I go right for the block. Because you know what? If you're going to segue things about me, you don't get the fine, you don't get to see the good stuff that I put out. Yeah, but that's the thing, though.

A lot of times people want to get something out of you, and then when you block him, they're like, oh, look at this, look at this snowflake. He blocked me on Twitter. And then they take a screenshot of it, and they're like, they're very proud of themselves. Yeah, that's, they can screenshot it, but I don't care. I have, I've had a...

I don't want to, I just don't want to give them the satisfaction. Oh, I could care less what the hell they feel about me. I'm petty like that. Okay, I'm just saying that I have felt better about Twitter in the last 30 days where I've gone to a heavy block policy. I'm on the heavy mute. Okay. Because it's like, it's like they don't know. That's the best part about it.

They'll continue to tweet you and try to say things about you and it just goes into the void because I don't see it because you are muted. But if you hit mentions, does it show up, though, right? No. Even on muted ones? If you follow them and they're muted, it will. If you don't follow them in their muted, it won't. Okay, I could do that too. That's good.

I don't do that. Not that I don't mind. Not that I would mute anybody I follow. Here's a problem. Yesterday, I had a nasty, nasty email sent to me. Oh, yeah, that's right. Did you tweet it out? You said you're going to.

No, I didn't sign it. I didn't do it. Screw that guy. It was something over something ridiculous. And I told the person in the email, I said, I don't want you listen to my show anymore. I'm offended by your email and do not contact me again. And he called me up a despicable POS.

And he says, don't worry. I won't listen anymore. I'm like, okay, good. Bye. Mission accomplished. Because this is sports. We are as. Oh, it was the swine flu thing.

Yeah, I said, I don't remember something like this since the swine flu. And he just jumped my blank over all that. He gets you with all the facts about the swine flu for whatever reason. Yeah, I was like, God, bless it young fella or old fella, whoever you are. Probably older. Nobody under 45 is sending you an angry email. And nobody's coming to me for medical information. They're just not.

I was saying a generic statement. Not to throw out erroneous or accurate information. Just talking about it. Now, I can play sports MT, Dr. SportsMT in the radio that's fine, but that wasn't the purpose of that. Should have gone with Spanish flu. Even though you don't remember that because you probably weren't alive. Well, that was also swine flu. It's the same strain, H1N1.

Is the same thing? Yeah. They were both a variation of H1. I thought you were going to say Spanish Fly. That's what I was like, wait a minute. What are you getting in that creepy stuff for? Is that what a Spanish fly is, right? I've never tried Spanish fly.

I have no idea what's in that. It's supposed to be like an aphrodisiac, right? Correct. I don't know. I mean, I haven't used it. I haven't touched it. Like all that stuff, you know all that stuff at the convenience stores of the horny wheat, goat weed and all that crazy stuff?

I have a friend. I'm not saying me. I'm saying legitimately a friend. Why are you winking? I'm not winking. This show is on AT&T. Why are you giving me a thumbs up? Stop.

I'm not going to look at you. I'll look at Nick. I have a friend. Wink. That has used it before. And he goes, Matt, that works. So it worked for you, Matt, huh? Well, the problem is, is that I don't know if I want to...

It's not FDA regulated. That's a very unsafe. Why would I want to take a pill that I could buy in a convenience store for $2.50? That seems kind of scary to me. It does. Do they even have, like, a list of ingredients on those things? Would it matter? Would it matter? Let me tell you something.

If you're going there and you're buying that stuff at the convenience store, you're probably not worried about what's in it. I had a friend who ran a convenience store, and I asked him about that as well, and he said people buy that stuff all the time, and apparently they swear by it. If I knew it was completely safe. Yeah, I don't want to have a hard attack. Because then you're going to end up in a Lamar Odom situation. Remember he had a heart attack because he had had all those quote-unquote herbal Viagras. He was probably popped a bunch of those.

My parents live right around the corner from the place that happened at. In California? are you? No, Nevada. Perump, Nevada. What is it called? Perump is the town. Do they live in backwards-backwards-ass Nevada? It's like 40 miles outside of Vegas. It's like on a nuclear test place. So we're on a Las and I go to Vegas. Can we stay at your folks' house? Yeah, sure. And then we can end up playing war at the casino and guess the number. Craig Begio next on 7-9. Matter of fact, he'll be with us in about 60 seconds. Don't go anywhere. Check this out. Our new most hated city in sports crowd.

matches our 2017 World Series ring. Always nice to match. This is Sports Talk 790. Proud home of your home teams. It is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Our time is 1231. I'm going to ask a tribute question to our next guest. He is a member of the 3,000 hit club.

He's a Hall of Famer. He's one of our favorite all-time Astros. Craig Bizio, do you remember how you did on April the 3rd? 2001 and 113 victory of the Milwaukee Brewers. Do you remember that day by any particular chance? What year was it? 2001, April 3rd, Astros 11

Brewers 3. Oh, opening day. Yeah, I did. I was 5 through 5. I just came off. I blew out my, I didn't blow out my ACL. Somebody else blew it out for me. Yeah, I know. We know. They took me out of second base, and I got hurt on, I think it was August 28th, my wife's birthday in 2000. And

The opening day the next season, I went five for five with five singles. Yeah, I remember that because it's kind of like one of those things that I've only had five hits twice in my career, and that was one of them. The other one was a 3,000 hit game. Yeah, your OPS was 2000 that day.

Congratulations on that. I should have quit and retire that day, you know what I mean? Yeah, you scored through runs. You got no RBIs, which meant the eight, nine guys, and your order sucks, so that's too bad. Well, you're in the National League. We've got to remember now. We're in the National League and usually you have a catcher that hits eight,

and he usually can catch really well, but he doesn't hit well. And then you had a pitcher, and pitchers can't hit. Sorry. One more tricky about that. Your number eight hitter that day was not Brad Osmus. Ooh, this is a good question. All right, here it is. Your hint is he was a third baseman.

Ooh. I was going to say like Mitch Muleski. No. Hold on, hold on, hold on. So the catcher, damn. It was Mr. For me, he was Mr. Spring Training because he'd have these halaciously huge numbers in spring training that would never do it.

That's why you can never believe that spring training. Wind blows out every day. I mean, everything's misleading. You want your younger players to have a good spring. But, I mean, for your older guys that have been true it, it doesn't matter. It's irrelevant. But who the heck was the catcher? Oh, my God.

Oh, it was. He, Osmiss caught that he batted seventh. Okay. Oh, okay. So then somebody else, oh, the third basement hit it. Yeah, yeah. I'd say Morgan Innsberg. Chris Truby

Chris Truby Tris Truby's the one that threw the ball when I got my leg blown out It was a ball It was not his full look It happens And just baseball back of the day Yeah yeah

It's kind of so the throw up the line And he was the one that threw it the year before Anyway I love Truby He's in Philadelphia You're doing a great job In Hermita Leagues by the way Nice

All right here's the line of bed day Lugo at short You're at second Bags at first Berkmansen left Hildago starts the game in center and goes to right. Daryl Ward's in right field. Awesome's catch is bat seventh,

Truby's batting eighth. And your opening day starter in 2001. I never would have gotten this one. I usually would have thought of it in Shane Reynolds during this time of year or that decade. Yeah, that's what I was going to. Scott Ellerton. Ellie. Oh, man.

Okay. He's great. He's a Pittsburgh. He's scouting with pirates and doing a great job with them, by the way. So, yeah. Good dude. Yeah, Colorado guy. And number one pick, right, back in the day?

Yeah. I mean, big tall drink of water too, right? Yeah, he was really a big guy. And, you know, he came up and put him in the bullpen and he did a really amazing job for us that year. And then he kind of had some arm issues after that. The funny thing was, I remember when, this is a funny story, I remember when Ellie came into town for his press conference,

him and Drayton because they were super tall people had the same pants on. That's a little awkward. A little tan. It was kind of like, you know, tall man's shop. Yeah, I don't, I'm not going any further with that. I just think talking about man's pants is kind of weird. It's great to hear your voice. I know how much you enjoy going down and working with the guys in spring training to have everything just cut off.

Had it been kind of a serious buzzkill. First of all, are you in the family okay? How's Kevin doing? What's he doing in terms of getting himself ready for the season whenever it gets into the place? Well, he's, you know, obviously, you know, listen, And our thoughts and prayers are with everybody here in this community and around the world and getting through this thing. And you watch the news, it really seems like we're all on the same page here in order to, you know, beat this thing. And, you know, for us in particular, we've got, you know, we got everybody here at the house.

I mean, we got Connor, Kevin, and Clint here at the house. And we're trying not to kill each other. We do a lot of, you know, hill hit. We have a little cage here that is a little dangerous for me. But so he'll end in this cage here. He'll get some ground balls in. We have a tiny little weight room. He's getting that done.

Connor's, you know, still at school at Rice. So he's doing that online. Quinn's, she's doing her stuff online at Notre Dame. And, you know, we're just, we're hunkering down and following the rules and staying inside. It's incredible to me because Kevin is a grown man now. He's playing Major League Baseball, but yet he wants to come home and see Mom and Dad during this time. I find that something refreshing. some small weird way.

Well, I mean, this is where he were still living. He was working on trying to get a place, working on buying a place, but, you know, we're just kind of, we're just waiting on that. But he's got, this is where he lives, and this is where he's at, and mom's an unbelievable cook. And we're making the best of the situation. And, you know, we kind of loaded up with our food,

and, you know, we kind of try to monitor that, keep it in the freezer and figure out our meals for the day or the week or whatever we've got to do. and you know, hey, we got it nice in here with Mrs. B cooking. I will say this, and you don't answer this, but I think I've gained five pounds since this whole kind of thing is coming to play. They're calling it the Corona 15 for the wrong reasons, and I just think it's 15 pounds, unfortunately.

The quarantine 15. Yeah, that's pretty funny. Well, we got, you know what? My wife wanted a Peloton treadmill for Christmas, and that thing seems to be like the greatest gift ever right now because everybody's on it. So it's kind of like I get on it, obviously when the sun comes up, and then when everybody starts rolling around,

everybody takes their turns and does the Peloton tread, and we're just hoping that we don't become a statistic with the 15. It was going to ask you, Craig. I mean, how do you think in your playing days, of course, there was a strike in 1994? What were you doing? Were you stir crazy? Because we know you're a guy that wanted to play a full 162. What were you doing during those times?

And how do you think you would react to something like this if you were in the midst of your playing career? Well, this is just something that's totally different. This is this is not a strike. This is not a lockout. This is a worldwide epidemic here. So this is something that, you know, we don't control it. So it is what it is. And we're just trying to get through it like everybody else. And, you know, I guess you deal with it. I guess I look at it, what Cabin's doing. And he's, you know, he's trying to get a workout in the house. He's trying to get some swings in and try to, you know, play catch a little bit and keep his arm in shape. Because you've got to remember, these guys were, you know, a couple weeks from teeing it up and getting here opening day, which today is. And then, you know, then it gets all shut down.

But, you know, hey, this is what it is, you know, five years now. And we'll all look back and be proud of the fact that this is something that we were all part of. And we all contributed into the successful on this of hopefully beating this thing. And that's just really just keeping your distance from everybody. I want to let you know the sports talk 790. Your home for the Astros are going to be carrying some of the great games in the history. Recent history of the Astros, including the combined no-hitter against the Mariners. We'll have it for tonight here on 790.

Craig Bizzio here with us for a couple more minutes. Craig, and I was living in Minneapolis-St. Paul when you were finished up your career in 2007. Obviously seeing most of your crew, but not the last couple of it. Did you know in April of 2007 that was going to be your last year? Refresh people's memory in mind when you decided ultimately that was going to be. to be your final season. And did you make that proclamation knowing that that first time you took the field in 2007? It was going to be the last time? You know, I didn't know. I really didn't know. I kept an open mind. And I think that it happens with a lot of guys that listen.

Like, if you go into the season and you're like, listen, I don't really know, you know, I'm kind of getting the inclination. This is what I'm probably going to do. And then once a season it started, then I was kind of like, okay, you know what? I think it's time for me. It's fine for me to go home. It's fine for me to be a dad. again. It's time for me to be a better husband. It's not for me just to be around my kids. Because again, you got to remember, like, I was gone. You know, I played for 20 years. So, you know, 20 years of my kid's life. I mean, we're not complaining, but it was, we've, I let a blessed life, especially playing in one, one city for my whole career. But yet again, it was like, you know,

your kids are gone every summer. And, you know, I missed out in all of baseball games. I missed out and everything. And, you know, Connor was going to be a freshman in high school. And it was like, you know, it's time for me to be around him and get to know him before he goes away to college and becomes his own man, his own person. And it was probably, you know, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. And the other reason why I told, you know, I made an announcement during the course of that years, I heard an interview someday with a person. And they had said, if I only knew that so-and-so was going to retire, I would have went to take my son to another game or a grandfather would have taken his son or grandson to, you know, watch their face.

favorite player or this and that. So I kind of made the announcements really just to let, look, you know, this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to be good with it and I'm not going to be coming back and I'll be done. And that's pretty much how it all played out. If we were to look at your DVR, because everybody's doing their DVR checkups and watching TV shows and whatnot, if I was to pull a definitive Craig Biggio game or moment or series with your team, what would I find on the DVR in terms of I want to go see some of my good stuff because that's what we're doing a lot these days. We're spending a lot of time Craig watching MLB. network watching ESPNs to kind of catch some old games.

Yeah. Well, I don't even have a VHS in my house anymore, so I can't even put anything in there. Don't age yourself like that, please. Don't do that. Well, that's what we had, right? I mean, it's kind of like, you know, I think the coolest thing was, like, my kids, I'm on the MLB thing now, one of these video games, these kids play, like MLB old guy, can play with the new guys.

Yeah, but it looks great. Like, the graphics are incredible. Like, it actually looks like you. It's pretty cool I think I Kevin was playing me and home run derby the other day or something

and I think I beat him I wasn't playing obviously but I beat him by one well he's got to play pretty cool see your kid hitting against you in a home run derby yeah but you know

he's not going to play as many positions as you did right I mean that's he's pretty good I mean I look what he does listen he's you know Toronto's got a nice situation going on up there.

Their front office has done a really nice job. They've drafted well. They've developed well. And for Cab to be part of this group right now, it is super exciting. It's just like it was without Tuesday Springer, you know, Bragman Correa and all those guys and watching our guys come into fruition just the same way that Toronto is. But getting back to my son, I mean, he's, you know, listen, for me, he's a second

basement, but he can also play third. He can play short. He can play first. They had him in center for a couple of games this. spring just to try it out. Yeah, that goes. And then it can play left and right. So, I mean, what he does is, what I did was I caught for a whole year.

And then I played, then after four years, I went to second and played second for 10 or whatever it was. And then went out to the outfield for a couple of years. Then came back to second again. But what he's doing at times by moving around, like Marwin Gonzalez, like Kevin, what they do, these guys are gifted, man. It's so hard to do. Like, I played that one, like I was saying, for the,

a full year. You know, for him to say, like, okay, you're playing second for a week and then also someone put you a third for a day, you know, the angles are totally different. The speed is totally different. Then all of a sudden you're going to go on the left or right or, you know, wherever. It's not as easy as these guys do. And I give him a lot of credit, man. He works his butt off on playing all the positions that he can.

But for me, like I said, right now, he's their second baseman and he's darn good at it. Hey, it's great to hear her voice. I want to get you back in uniform, whether you guys go back. down to spring training for a few weeks, whatever the case may happen. But thanks for spending some time with us, and we wish you and your family, and I'm sure you echoed the sentiment with the entire audience. Everybody stays safe, stay home. We'll get through this, and we'll look forward to baseball resuming at some point this summer. Thank you for the time, Craig, and it's always good to your voice, and we appreciate you coming on the show today.

Amen to that, Matt. Same thing with everybody. Thanks, Craig. I appreciate. Craig Bizio with us here on the Matt Thomas show. We certainly appreciate him spending some valuable time with us now. 1244 is our time. More on baseball memories, if you have such a thing. Craig Bizzio's provided a lot of them. Rockets, Basketball.

Rockets, PA announcer and sports talk show host. One might get the impression Matt Thomas loves to hear Matt Thomas's voice. Go ahead, Matt, talk for us. The Wiz kids had won it. Bobby Thompson had done it. And Yogi read the comics all the one. We need an updated version of this, too. We need a updated version of this, too.

Marijuana, we would score. So down on the corner, the national pastime went on trial. We're talking baseball. Klazoozoozki camp and now talking baseball. We should explain. Okay. Do you want to move over to that microphone? That one doesn't work either.

Oh, we're down. And I don't want to sit next to you. Yeah, that's a little creepy. We got a social distance. We're not six feet, though. Well, we're not as is, but at least we're closer than we would be. Yeah, we've got. We've got two working microphones in our studio.

We should have four. Well, it works. It's just I can't turn it off and on. Well, others have said that too. I mean, there are divas in radio who don't turn their own mic off and on, so. I would be crazy if I didn't have the control over it. I mean, that's why I'm kind of happy. I'm with you.

Yeah. All right. 713, two, one, two. He doesn't do that? Apparently, the place he came from immediately before this, the producer turns it off and on. Oh, too much work. I'm with you. I agree as well.

Let me run through Matt. Sean Jones never turned to them. Yeah, because we used to hear him all the time in the background. Let me let you hear from Rob Mann from the Commissioner, Major League Baseball is on ESPN yesterday, and let's play the cuts, and then we'll just comment after we hear them. First was to play as many games as they can as clearly mission number one. We need to have a regular season with a credible number of games. I think we should have a postseason format that focus.

on providing the most possible entertaining product to our fans at a very, very difficult time in our history. And overall, I think our goal is to play as many baseball games as we possibly can, given the limitations associated with the public health concerns. What's the number? 80 doesn't feel like enough. 100 seems about right. They're going to try for as many as they can.

Well, it was just like a day or two ago. they were saying 162 they still wanted to do. And I think Commissioner Manfred said, look, we got it. We cannot be. That was Scott Burroughs pushing that, by the way. That was the agent because guess what? Yeah. He's got a, he's got a financial interest.

It's all comes down to money. No matter what it is all the money. But if we're not going to, if we're, granted granted that money is always a, is the number one priority, unfortunately. But it is what it is. If you played a hundred games, would it feel like a full season to you? To me, the answer would be yes. Yeah, I think so.

80? I mean, it cuts something in half. It means obviously every game means so much more. And urgency is in play where a four or five game losing streak in an 80 game season is going to really cripple you. 80 feels cheap. I mean, I wouldn't take it, but it just feels cheap. Yeah, I wouldn't mind it. It doesn't feel, I mean, I don't know.

I guess it's all just how you want to perceive it. Yeah. If they all play 81 games or 80, however many games, as long as it's all equal and as long as it's not like 50 or something ridiculous like that, it won't bother me that much. Here's more from the commission on the number of games. We're probably not going to be able to do that this year. I think that's clear. And it does give us an opportunity to do some different things, to experiment and to make sure that we provide as many games as possible and as entertaining a product as possible. How about two games in one day?

certainly have talked about the idea of using double headers to maximize the number of games that we play. You know, I think I have said publicly before that there's some numbers in baseball. You can't change. Nine innings is one of them. I'm with you. When I said that, I wasn't thinking about this particular crisis. So, you know, I'm sure it's something that will get some discussion. It's funny. He said one of those things I didn't want to change was moving games from nine to seven on a double-header day. Van Pelt, middlewood says, yeah, that's right. And then he goes, well, maybe I change my thought about that. Would seven inning double headers make you feel any less about the game in terms of cheap inning and end results? It's two innings less. If somebody

throws a seven innings perfect game, does that count as a perfect game? Yeah. Does it count as a full, no-hitter? To be honest, full games are five innings. Five. Five. playing innings, five full games, five innings are, is a full play game. Has a perfect game ever been called, one that was called early? I'm sure the answer to that is yes. I just don't know right offhand. Hmm. So I'll throw it at you out base.

I'm throwing these things to the baseball audience that's listening to us. Seven inning double headers on Sundays. What do you think? For Saturdays. Probably Saturdays because Sundays usually travel days and you don't want to necessarily have everybody traveling, you know. But then you're doing, if it's Saturday, you're doing a double header and then you're probably be playing.

in an afternoon game. Yeah, I mean, there's really no good answer. You're going to play at some point. Probably middle of the week. Yeah. Wednesday? No, I don't know if it would be Wednesdays.

I think they'd be on the weekends. I think they would want to try to draw bigger crowds. Seven inning games. You're going to do day night and doubleheaders? No. Back to backs. Because remember, there's a possibility there could be games with nobody in the stands either.

So why separated by hours? It's like, all right, boys. You know what? I would say right now. Let's go full Ernie Banks every day. I would say right now, I wouldn't be bothered by Because again, everything, you can't be bothered by anything in 2020. If we want sports back, there's going to have to be some new, new, out-of-the-box thinking.

Not long-term. I don't anticipate seven-inning double-headers being a part of 2021, 2021, 2022, 23. But 2020 is different. We've got to get these games in to give us as many games as possible. If you want to do double-headers with seven innings, I'm okay with it. I'm not going to say, screw you baseball. How about start of the season? My optimistic outlook is that at some point in May, we'll be gearing back up.

We'll have to make a determination, depending on what the precise date is, as to how much of a preparation period we need, whether that preparation period is going to be done in the club's home cities or back in Florida and Arizona. And again, I think the goal would be to get to as many regular season games as possible. and think creatively about how we can accomplish that goal. Okay. And the last thing before we get to the top of the hour,

and this is where I want y'all to react after you hear it, he was asked about whether or not the Boston investigation is still being investigated. The Houston matter is done and over from our perspective. I mean, we rendered our decision. You know, it's had a full airing in the public, which, you know, we fully expected. Boston, we are done with the investigation. there's been a delay in terms of producing a written report just because I frankly have not had time to turn to it with the other issues.

Understood. But we will get a Boston report out before we resume play. There you go. It's coming. It's the Matt Thomas show. 103 on Sports Talk 7. I need a second hour, the Matt Thomas show. All right.

Matt Thomas. You know, whenever you're gone, I say the Matt Thomas show without Matt Thomas. That's nice you to say that. I appreciate it. And by the way, I'm not taking any time off until we resume playing games again. I'm not putting this pressure on anybody else. We've got to be here together every day. I'll see what I'm taking a week off pretty soon here. You might as well because if I, my, my thought is this, I'm going to have some wacky-ass rocket travel when we get going here. Yes, you are. I mean, so, you know. I'm going to take off two. You can handle running a board, right? Me? No, Matt. Yeah, well, yeah. I used to do it back in the day.

He ran a board back in the day. Sure. Of course, it was an old analog. Not nearly as many buttons. It was probably like being at Master Control in NASA or something back in those days when Matt was bored often, but I'm sure he can handle it. My early producer days, this is going back to July, August, August, 1991. I used to work overnights. And now you can automate.

Computers can do everything. But way back in the day, you could not automate. No such technology. Just live the whole time? Or you just play, would you sign off with the national anthem and go out there? We would be live until 2 o'clock in the morning. I used to work at KSCV 700 way, way back in the day. We used to carry this show called the Business Radio Network,

where people would call up at night and ask for financial advice. We carried Bruce Williams, who was a longtime, nighttime host, kind of an advice column guy, kind of cranky ass, so be frankly. We'd carry him to about 10 o'clock at night, and then we would carry something called the business radio network. And we had no commercials back after 9 o'clock, because KSCV at the time, still does, is only a thousand watts at night.

And it only in the transmitters in Tombo. So if Tomball, North Area Town gets KSEV clear as a bell, but most of the city at 8.30 at night can't get KSEV. So it was a very small audience, very few commercials. The only thing I had to do was change from one, from the business radio network satellite to the ABC News top of the hour satellite. And it was like changing a channel on a remote control. Very simple.

Just a toggle. You didn't have to calibrate the satellite? No, and it didn't do that. And I would fall asleep regularly because it was, you know, 9, it was 1045, 11, 13. And I'm listening to this amazingly boring business radio network. We had no TV in the control room at the time. So it was just me listen to that. I remember one time falling asleep at the board.

This actually been later than 2 o'clock because we were doing it over a. I was working 9P to 5A. So yeah, it had me 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning. Oof, it was a different kind of, not the Dolly Parton kind of 9 to 5. No. And I hear, be-d-d-dum. It was like, you know, when you open your car door. Yeah.

That was the satellite because I didn't flip it. Okay. So at one point in the summer of 1991, instead of hearing the top of the R-A-B-B, BC News, my audience for several minutes heard, boo-do, do, bo-do, because there was no, nothing on the other channel. Maybe I should stick around. Yeah. Yeah, I used to work the overnights back.

I have napped a time or two. I was a good producer. I was a good board of bread. Dan Patrick, I was his sidekick for many years. Now he's a lieutenant governor and talking about getting rid of people over the age of 70, which I'm opposed to. But, you know. I was a fantastic board up as well.

Attention to detail. On top of it, tight board. For whose show? for this show for like nine years Nick you've heard the show always dialed into the show Nick you heard the show when he was producing there was massive amounts of dead air

that's not true all the time I used to take it because I worked when I was part-time and there was overnight to KTRH and of course you know it's overnight at KTRH Coast to Coast A.M. Oh my show but in coast to coast when you get to the like the beginning

of the first break you don't have have a break for like 22 minutes. So I would take like I would set an alarm on my phone for 20 minutes and I would take a 20 minute nap twice an hour if I was really tired. Should you be saying this over the air? I don't know. Probably not. Okay.

I mean, this was 10 years ago. Am I going to get into, am I going to get written up for something I did 10 years ago? I expect an email from somebody here with the next three to four minutes. It was a decade ago. What's the statute of limitations on that? You're right. Five years ago it had been a problem with 10 years. If you have nothing to, I mean, I had nothing, literally nothing to do.

It's in, it's three o'clock in the. the morning and there's no break to hit for 22 minutes. The best is like Sunday morning at 4 a.m. over there. It's like paid programming. It's like 30 minute blocks almost. Yeah, see, there's more paid program. You press one button than you're good. Yeah, back in my day, there were more live shows. We played shows on Sunday morning on KSV way back in the day, Christian Science Monitor for 30 minutes. And the only tough part was, we only had one real-to-reel machine. This is, you all know what a real-to-rele is. And no, it's a real-to-reel, Matt. You did. Even the home audience knows.

I had two minutes to go from one tape to the next. And if I was not ready to go to rewind the first one and put the other one on, it screwed everything up, which would then go into the other hour of the show. It was just, that was my only tension working Sunday mornings. We never really. I never, I mean, I used to play bumpers on CDs back of the day. We don't do that anymore. It's all, everything is digital. Everything.

Everything is digital. All right, there's your little behind the scenes of peeling the curtain back of old school radio days. I got a couple of stories that I could tell of people that have long gone. Maybe I, should we do like Board Off stories one day? I don't know. Sounds like a great segment. Promise you should do it on an NAB website.

I have two that are really good. They involve women coming to the studio. No. Well, then they're not that good. Okay. I don't know. Now, DJs used to tell me. No, there's a third one too.

DJs just tell me that they'd play American Pie or they would play stairway to heaven if they wanted to go. In Aga de Vita. They wanted to go hook up with somebody. Now, I'm not talking about in the middle of the night? Yeah.

back when, you know, in the 70s and 80s when they were playing that song on a regular, semi-regular basis. The full version of Pink Floyd's echoes. Yeah, I mean, there were songs that could go 11 minutes that you if you needed to... That one's 28. I don't think you'd get away with that anymore. No.

I would never need 28 minutes for anything. I know. Preach. All right. One 10 is the time. We are somewhat celebrating opening day, although it's not going to happen. We're going to have a real opening day.

But the great thing is, it's not great. But there is some, hope that once baseball and basketball gets started, Rossi, we're going to have the busiest summer of my entire sports career. Because in theory, we're going to have the rockets and baseball going at the exact.

Even if the rockets are limiting, which hopefully isn't the case, we're going to have NBA basketball. There will not be a night between whenever life resumes for us or as close to what it was until the end of the year, we won't have something to talk about. There'll be football games. It'll be interesting.

Baseball, we'll have basketball going into August? Because we have all these... It's almost like, you know, you talk about how you want... For example, a regular weekday. You have a couple of days off and then you're working for a few days. Right. We're getting all the days off from sports right now,

and then it's just going to be all jam-packed into one. Mm-hmm. How are we going to keep up with everything? Because NBA playoffs is one of my favorite times of the year. Yep. Because there's good... Especially the second round in the conference finals, to me, or the sweet spot.

You're going to have to... You read out the batons, and then there's really good games almost every night. And imagine some cities in the north that have hockey teams. that are good too. I mean, it's going to be sports radio. We're kind of earning our our paychecks right now. Yes. It's going to be easy. It's going to be

not necessarily easier. Easier, but it'll be much more exciting. When we have, hey, the Astros are on a five-game winning streak. And, oh, by the way, the Rockets game, play game two of their series against, you know, Utah Jazz or whatever. And by the way, they played those five games in three days.

Double-heder, off, double-hutter. You do double-heder basketball game? Okay, so let me go back this. We'll quick before we get the break. Seven in-in-ning double-hutter games. You guys, okay with you or have a problem with it? Well, like I said, with the Sunday, you're playing, then at that point, you're playing three games within the span of, what? 18 hours?

Here's what I envision. 7 o'clock Saturday, excuse me, 7 o'clock Friday, 3 o'clock Saturday games, 11 a.m. double-h headers, and then double-header on Sunday. man 11 inning excuse me 7 inning double header games that started 11 o'clock in the morning so like four games in 36 hours pretty pretty much pretty much doing that every week because here's what they want they still want their off days you got to give the off days

and if they want to get to around 100 and 10 115 games somewhere in that vicinity double headers will have to be a part of it I see rosters being expanded to 30 that'd be great just for this year these are all just one year things. And I still see guys getting, I still see four to five off days in a month. And in service time and all that stuff will have to be modified. It'll be interesting.

A little bit, yeah. Yeah, each game will mean a little bit more, I think. But that's, that's for the major league baseball players association to worry about. All we're worried about is, I don't think 82 games would really devalue the overall season. I think you've got to try to play at least two-thirds of your season. Does that make sense to you? Not that I'm not going to say major league baseball, screw you're playing 82. But can't you imagine NFL season with eight games?

They had one of those strikes shortened season. Oh, and he was like... When Greg Cook was still playing, they put a nine game... I think they put an eight or nine game season that year. And it was a mess. There is precedent. But man, it did nullify some of the charm of the year. Because if you got off to an 0-and-2 starting an eight-game season, you were basically screwed.

I don't think you want to do that. I don't think you want to fall behind four games in the first month of the year. Expect to make that kind of grown up that quickly. 113 is the time. Some predictions have been made from USA today on who could win the World Series in 2020. How do they see the Astros? We'll tell you about that in a matter of moments. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Day-9 double-headers? Don't think so. Seven-inning double-headers? Very much a possibility. It's a Matt Thomas show. on 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. And now, please rise for the singing up on that. You know the words of this one, Maddie? You and me, baby.

Ain't got along with that when I'm moving on up. They say batter up on this one. Oh, my God. This is your favorite baseball song, Matt. This is moving up the ranks. You like it? Get out of the Jefferson's theme song, Randy.

Let's compare these songs. Well, because it says big leagues on that one, and then they say batter up instead of moving on up. This is a forgotten Nelly classic. Of course, in the, who could forget the St. Lunatics? Who could? All right, turn that down, and let's get it. the Jeffersons and you compare which song would you rather have.

Okay. That was batter up. Yes. I believe it's on country grammar, the original. This isn't Janet Dubois singing this, though. This is a different one. Yeah, turn this one off. Nick always hits these weird alternate versions. Why do you find these eclectic versions?

Amazon music or something. Is that what it is? Okay. That sucks. No, that was the first result on YouTube. Here's the actual TV. There we go. There we go. Jeanne Dubois passed away a couple weeks ago.

May she rest in peace. I don't know who that is. She played Walona. Okay. You know, everybody's doing their contest of best TV theme songs. This guy's going to do this one. Everybody's in their own polls or their brackets. Well, we did a fantasy five with it.

This is number one overall. Yeah. I don't remember which one of us got it. I don't remember who won that one either. So there it is. Probably me. Nobody else steal my ideas, you bet stealers out there in Radio World. Did you see the name your top five receives it

Receivers of all time was one of the ones that was catching fire on Twitter. And a lot of people were arguing Randy Moss or Jerry Rice, who was the better receiver. I'm going to do a bracket. I'm going to do this tonight. I'm going to do a 32 team. You know, I bet I can get 64 songs. 64 is going to go way too deep. 32, punny?

Yes. 8.14 brackets. Even 16 is probably fine. But 32 is good. 32. I'm going to do a 32 team bracket. Yeah. And I'll have to get somebody.

Are you going to put a bunch of? polls up. We can put it on the what's on Matt's mind show page. Yeah, I'll get Ken Hoffman to help me put them into brackets. And we'll figure out the best. All right. So stay, be ready for that. That's my project tonight. All right, majorly, USA Today has put out a, their staff predictions. It doesn't matter who these people are. The only person I even recognize among the six people is Bob Nightingale because

he goes on Sean show occasionally. Everybody have these six people. These are the six baseball writers at USA Today have the Yankees one in the east, the twins winning the Central. You're saying, well, how is the American League West fair? Three of the six riders have the Houston Astros winning the American League West. Can I guess what the others have? Yeah, the other one is the same team. Oh, all three? I'll say A's.

A's. Of the three teams that don't, of the three riders that don't have the Astros winning the West, do those three teams have the Astros as the wild card? One of the two wild cards, yes or no. I'll say yes. The answer is yes. The consensus, every one of the six teams

of the six riders have the Rays being one of the wild cards and then the other walled cards are either the Astros, three of them. We just mentioned, two of them have the A's and one person has the Angels is the sixth wild card

or the second wild card. Well, ALDS winners. Yankees A's A's, Ray's A's A's A's Astros, Yankees Rays, Yankees, Reyes, Yankees A's. Only one of the six had the Astros going on in the American League Championship series. Interesting.

Okay. American League champions? A's, raise, A's, Yankees, Reyes, Reyes, Yankees, Reyes, Yankees. Now, one of the six had the Astros repeating as American League pennant champions. I think having the Yankees is the favor is fair. It absolutely is. National League. Five of the six have the Braves beat over the Nationals in the National League East.

Four of the six have the Cardinals, one in the Central. The other two have the Brewers winning it. All six of them have the Dodgers winning the West. The Wild Cards, Diamondbacks, Nationals, Mets, Cardinals, and Phillies are the ones in some form of combination. National League Division Series winners, Dodgers, Braves. are four of them. Two of them have Dodgers nationals. All six of them have the Dodgers winning the National League.

All six? All six. They're pretty stacked. World Series, three Dodgers, two Yankees, and one raise. And that is your, according to six Jibonis, I mean six baseball writers at USA Today, the predictions of Major League Baseball. They have six baseball writers on staff? Well, they're going to have three here pretty shortly. They have to borrow somebody from entertainment or something? Do they still produce Baseball Weekly?

You know that magazine? I don't know. When I was younger, you could get all the baseball box scores. This just shows you, I don't mean to age myself, but too damn bad. We used to be in Fantasy Baseball many, many years ago, and you could only get one place. This is pre before Internet was so blown up, that every box score of every game that week, and Baseball Weekly had it. There's USA Today Sports Weekly. Maybe that's what it is now.

It was baseball weekly. I think maybe they just do sports weekly now. Smart idea on their part. According to Wikipedia. Okay. You know Wikipedia doesn't lie to you. Well. Nor to the Instapole.

Sometimes. I will say this. I'm not shocked that six supposed baseball knowledgeable people don't have the Astros going to the World Series. I would have thought more of them would have had the Astros winning the West. The Astros are the clear number one in the AOS, in my opinion. Well, let's figure this out. I think there's one definitive reason why the Astros would not be the favorites.

the clean sweep, but I think it's pitching. The A's, I mean, they have Frankie Montas, and then after that, it's Sean Mania, Mike Fires. Yeah, I don't even know. And a good bullpen. Those guys are all still there, right? Yeah, good bullpen.

A lot of arms. No, I mean, let's let's be brutally honest. The Astros season started the day. Your opening day starter is Zach Granky. Your number two starter is Lance McCullors, and he's only going to give you 75 pitches.

not starting today, luckily. But my point is, is that the Astros pitching during this time away from sports needs to be A, get healthy, meaning Justin Verlander, and more importantly they need two or three more weeks in spring training to figure out who's really going to be three, four, five in the rotation. A's rotation right now, just as according to the Oakland Athletics website.

Yeah, what was it saying? Their depth chart. Fires Mania Montas. Is it Jesus Lazzardo? Yeah, Jesus Lazzardo, and then AJ, what is this, puck, puke? Doesn't matter. I don't know this guy. Okay, put that compared to Verlander Granky.

Now again, healthy, healthy. Yeah, they're going to be, I mean, Verlander's expected to be healthy. I only got two injuries so far. By the time they start. Yeah, I mean, I hope. I mean, no guarantees. You know, he's young. No, he's not.

Father time always wins. They just do. Who's four and five? Is Josh James in the rotation? and can Josh James looks the part, Velocity's there. Arcidi and James.

Rokidi just needs to pitch every game like he did in the World Series, and he'll be fine. Where's Brad Peacock in the mix? Remember they said they wanted Peacock in the bullpen. I think one of the big reasons they did that is because Lance McCullors

innings are going to be limited so much but hey, now if you're playing fewer games, do you have to limit his innings as much? You don't want to put X amount of innings on them. You want to keep them to $125 in a season. That's going to be a lot easier when you play in half the games. Wouldn't Brad Peacock be perfect starter on a seven- inning double-heder game day?

Yeah. Well, yeah, I think one of the reasons they came right out. Like, remember last year they waffled all? We don't know if we want Brad Peacock here or there. We like them in both roles. This year they came on and said, we want Brad Peacock in the bullpen. And I think that's a lot of it has to do with because they're going to need some innings eaters in that bullpen.

And Brad Peacock's going to be candidate number one because of McCullors and the back end of the rotation. You could totally see trying some guys out. and sinking or swimming. And when they're sinking, somebody's going to have to come up there and mop up some innings, and Brad Peacock's probably going to be that guy.

All right. If you want to talk some baseball on this opening day, you're welcome to do so. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Tweets are certainly welcome to at SportsMT, at Sports RV,

and at Pro Nick Lowe. Speaking of tweets, Deshawn Watson had a few of them. How many do they have yesterday? One or two? Two. Ross will do his oral interpretation. It's legit. Oral interpretation is legit.

Okay. Sometimes I make up phrases, that's not one. No, I know that's a real one. Okay. We will oral interprets. Deshaun's tweets next. From the most hated city in sports. This is Houston's Sports Talk 790.

Proudly wearing our H-town crown. I've never watched, Feel the Dreams, but I've watched Major League 5 million. times. Probably. Best baseball? No, my favorite baseball movie of all time is a sandlot. It's not even close. Never softful. Then Major League's probably two for me. Yeah, that's after your time.

Major League one. Major League two is okay. No, Major League three was just... Two sucked. I didn't think it was that bad. My five favorite, Major League One would be number one. Bull Durham. Oh, Bull Durham.

League of Their Own three. Ooh, League of Their Own is a good one. Natural probably four. We've never seen the natural. And five and six would be the one where the kid breaks his arm and comes back as a hundred mile an hour pitcher. Rookie of the Year? I loved rookie of the year. And that little big league would be number six.

When I was a kid, we had rookie of the year. You know, there's like it ends up being like a few movies that you have on VHS. For the love of the game, too. Which you watch all the time. Don't forget Angels in the Outfield No, I've forgotten about that. Angels in the Outfield was my jam as well when I was a kid.

I mean, I was like eight when it came out, Matt. Give me a break. Okay, you're right. Okay, so let me reset mine real quick. Major League one, Bull Durham, two, League of their own three. Little Big League is where the kid runs the team.

Yeah, that was okay. It was just okay. Yeah, I'll have to think about that. I'll go Sandlot. Major League Bull Durham. I don't know after that. God, Bullderm is so good. It's a classic. Before soon, Serena became a complete whack job.

Most quotable? It's even more quotable than Major League, I think. I feel like we should all have an assignment this weekend. We should all memorize when towards end the movie when Kevin Kosser runs through the ball. All the things that he loves. He believes in soft core porn. It believes the DH should be banished from baseball. That JFK, that the murder was... Long, soft kisses in the night or whatever.

Yeah, we should all memorize that, right? I'll pass You don't ever want to play with us, do you? I've seen Boulder, I'm not I don't need to watch it again Oh yeah, some of this you cannot read Yeah, okay, now What can we read about Deshawn Watson's

Twitter account? Well, we can... Do we need... Do you want to... Well, we could go to his mentions If you want to get the mentioned music going. I don't know if I have little Uzi Vert in the system.

No, and then the second one he quotes, I was thinking about pulling it for The nightcap on Sports Talk 790 nightly at 6 p.m. But it's just too. There's every other word is a curse word. So let's do this. You read the treats and then I want you to read the mentions, replies, and we'll play our reply music.

Okay, well here's the first one from Deshawn Watson. Ah, what a jam. Don't deal with the lies and the frauds. That's why I don't get involved. What's up? That was two days ago. This was yesterday. Oh, you want the one from like three days ago?

Or a couple days ago? that was the Drake one. Okay. Is that you want? I was just going to say, I don't know how I'm going to make it out of here clean, can't even keep track of who plays for the other team. I iconic duos rip and split at the seams.

We knew what that meant. We miss you. I miss you, DeAndre. And DeAndre put his hands up in the air. And I love you. Then the yes, that was yesterday was don't deal with the lies and the frauds. That's why I don't get involved.

What's up? Now, after that, about 20 minutes, after that, never take advice from a person who don't love you. You gotta walk light, gotta stay above water. So to the first one, I ask,

when he says, don't deal with the lies and the frauds, who's the liar, and who is the fraud? See, this is where I have the problem. Is it Bill O'Brien? That's basically, there's no, you know, we can beat about him in the bush,

but is he talking about Bill O'Brien? Or the Texans organization? Let's, let's, Go back to the beginning of it. Why would he type these things into his computer to begin with? Well, number one, he's probably bored. He's in quarantine. Can't work out.

Not around teams. But that would be the case, too. If the NFL will go on regular, they wouldn't be... Now, maybe he can't work out as gym. But there wouldn't be anything to any team-related activities going on right now, right? Not a thing. Not a thing. So he's doing this because he wants to get everybody up in arms over this. 6,000 retweets for the one from Y,

FN. Lucci. Okay. And do you prefer YFN. Lucci or a Lutzy Vert, Matt? A little Uzi Virt. Okay. Go ahead and give reason to replies to some of these. Well, let's go with the little Uzi Virt one. Please don't leave.

Ask for a trade. Hold out. Fire Bill O'Brien. He's going to the bills. Yeah, you won out. We support you 100%. Are you leaving Houston? Will you sign a extension.

I don't like this tweet if you want out Houston. Let me ask you this. Is he doing this because he's mad about DeAndre? Or do you think he's trying to engage contract talks for an extension and going nowhere? Come to Indy pal.

It could be some of it. It could be frustration. This has got to be the most frustrating offseason of Deshaun Watson's life, right? In his young NFL career. So here's my answer to this. If you're pissed and you want to use Twitter,

tell us what you're mad about. But these song lyrics are throwing up all sorts of sub-tweeting smoke screens or smoke shields. What are we supposed to make out of this? I'm with you that it's a fence sit in a way. You can either say nothing or come out and say something. If you want to say nothing, I'm okay with that. Again, you don't, everything in your life doesn't have to be a tweet. So if you are mad about the contract negotiations, let your agent handle that.

If you're mad that DeAndre is gone, you don't necessarily have to say, I'm team O'Brien or I'm team Texan. Just don't say anything at all. We can't accept that. That's true. I'd like to hear the conversations that probably occurred today or yesterday between Deshaun and his agent. Well, his agent put the bug eyes out right there right away when as soon as he heard about the DeAndre Hopkins trade. But this putting lyrics out, you know what? Two can play in that game.

What if my, what's the rest of my life I just tweeted out lyrics? to songs. Cryptic lyrics. Which you can find the latest one on SportsMT. Yeah, I mean, yeah, if you were locked, if anybody's locked up in negotiations

and they tweet out something like that, I mean, maybe it's a way, I mean, try to get inside of his head. Why would he do this? Is it a way to communicate with the fans that he's not happy, but without saying that explicitly? Like, what if he wants to pour his heart out,

but it would be bad form? If he came out and said, you know, Bill O'Brien sucks and I'm mad that discharges. DeAndre Hopkins is is gone and pay me bill

we would call him a nuisance we would call him a diva we would say he needs to keep that in-house we would say he needs to not talk out of turn but it's just easier to go to Twitter but what if he wants a trade if that's the ultimate goal

then this doesn't hurt him at all it might hurt the Texans don't say that but it doesn't hurt him we don't want him to want a trade and when you wake up in the morning with your head on fire and your eyes too bloody to see go on and crying your coffee

but don't come bitching to me what's that from that's the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790 Good news It's the Matt Thomas show for lunch Let that boring brown bag lunch Rotted the employee refrigerator Oh what's that smell

The Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790 Can you catch Will you hold The ball When you step To the plate When you swing And fall

If you play You gotta know I'm usually decent About old school music I have no idea who this is Can I guess? Sure, go ahead and guess Are her initials P-B?

Nope Pearl Bailey Oh This is definitely not Billy Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald Or Nope Not Sarah Vaughn

I don't think I doubt you're going to guess it Yeah it's a It's an obscure one, I think. Mabel Scott. Don't know her. Most best known for her hits, elevator boogie.

Okay. And this is called baseball boogie. She also did Santa Claus Boogie Wooge. Hmm. And that's all I can find. Does she like to boogie? If Fogarty Centerfield is the definitive baseball song, what's number two? I'm sorry, saying?

If Fogarty, if Centerfield is the definitive baseball song, what is the number two? Finner to baseball. Well, like I said, number one is taking me out to the ball game. That's not true. And then center field is two. That's an anthem out of song. And then after that, oh, please.

Nobody goes around town playing, take me out of the ball game and they're on their phones. Why not? I mean, why not? Because nobody does it. That's not a question of why not. Nobody does it. Okay. Well, number three is batter up by Nellie.

Yeah, I'd have to agree with Ross. Oh, you want Boys of Summer by Don Henley? Oh. Boys of Summer or Don Henley? Hmm. by down headley better up is good though that jolting joe demaggio song

no he's on our side or whatever right you know there was a song about henry aaron hitting home on number 715 I played it a lot when myel was celebrating the anniversary you know he called it every year he's sitting on 714 yeah great call great call I want one of those in my lifetime when James when James scores 82

no I will see the thing is I won't be doing, at least for now, I won't do them play by a play of a finals game. Could you imagine Hardin with a buzzer-beater to win? It's a title, bang, and it goes in, and you play it over and over and over again. Wouldn't Craig be on that call? What's what I'm saying?

For now, it would be Craig. I'm not trying to push Craig outside. That's why I said you need to call James scoring 80 or something. Oh, like in a regular season game. Like Kobe scored 81, yeah. There's how Craig officially steals your nothing but nylon. He uses it in a situation like that. Oh, what if he did?

What if James knocked in a three to win the championship and he said nothing but nylon? At the buzzer, it's nothing but nylon. The Rockets win the championship. He would probably bowl you over as he gets up. Here's what I would do. I would throw my headsets down. Oh, please. And then I'd push him out of the seat and go.

That's my call. That's my call. That's my call. That would be great. That would be an all-time call then. It would make SportsCenter not top 10. and go viral quick. That's for sure.

That's a fact. All right. 713, 212.5. 790. We have spent a lot of the time on the show today talking about baseball because it was supposed to be opening day. Jake Kaplan's going to join us for a little baseball chatter at the top of the hour. And then at 220, Stratomatic is a simulator game, correct?

Yes. It feels like it's been around for generations. Am I right on that? I mean... Yeah, it was like in the 80s, right? when Stratomatic baseball started or even before that. So is it a computer program now is what it is? I'm not 100% sure what it is.

Oh, it started in 1961. Oh, yeah. I remember Stramatic as a kid, but it was more of a video game, kind of more than a computer system. Stratomatic played out today's game between the Astros and Angels already. There's a full box score, attendance, game recap, and everything. We'll put it on my Twitter account probably in about 50 minutes or so. But yeah, the game.

has already been played in corner to start an automatic and I'll give you the result and who did what? We'll go through the box door and we'll react and we'll talk about what this means and all this stuff. We will react as if it's the real game, right? It'd be like back to the future. I like that. Just trying to think out just with less weird incestual overtones or undertones. Yeah, could you imagine your mom being as hot as Leah Thompson? I don't know how to answer that question.

No? that was the creepiest part of Back to the Future. Everything was awesome about the fact that what was her, what was a character's name? What was Leah Thompson? Marty McFly. I don't know, she probably had a, I don't remember her name. Marty was the kid.

What was the, what was Marty McFly's mom? His dad was George McFly. What was mom's name? She probably had a maid name, of course. Man, she had the hots for Marty and it was really, really, really peculiar. Lorraine Baines. Lorraine. McFly.

And then what was a big meathead that was? the guy that was trying to bully him around. Biff. Biff, Tannen, make like a tree and get out of here. You know, it's funny. Why haven't they remade this one? Oh, they were. It's got to be a matter of time, right? You know, we have started a little bit of a movie club among our house. Oh, really? And this weekend, our plan is all of us, except for Carly. I think Carly's a little too young for it, for Good Morning in Vietnam. I haven't seen that movie since I was probably younger than Carly. But back to the future might be one that we all, man, not might be. It will be one.

It will be one of the shows. It's a PG-13. Yeah, but it's... Incessual undertones. More than one or just that? It's just that one. But man, it was a doozy of a one. But good morning, Vietnam, I cannot wait because we watch...

You know, as Robin Williams just... One of the greatest of all times. One of the greatest of all times. First of all, incredibly diverse in terms of actors, in terms of types of movies. And then you just never felt like he ever followed a script. And that most of his magic was purely off the top of his head. Great movie for people who work in radio as well. It's a big draw.

It is. It is. But yeah, so we started a sort of movie club, and I guess, yeah. What's been on the movie club so far? Nothing. Oh. We're starting. Oh, you're just, you just collected dues so far.

The reality is this. I am all into Ozark this weekend. Ozark's going to drop. Friday. Okay. Tomorrow. I got to finish Tiger or whatever by the Tiger King by the end of the week. Yeah, you've got to.

And then how far are you behind on Ozark? I'm in the middle of season one. Yeah, you got work to do this weekend. There's like 50,000 shows everyone tells me to watch. It's too much. Tiger King, finish your Ozark, get to fresh Ozark. We will have, I will have a Facebook live on Ozark sometime this weekend. I'm going to watch like two or three episodes.

But yeah. And Tiger King. How many episodes are dropping? Like eight? They do it the whole season, whatever that is. Isn't it crazy how you get, you wait for an entire season to watch one show and then all of them come down in one episode? It's interesting. They do it that way these days.

It looks like the first two seasons were 10 episodes apiece. You get work to do then. All right. Jake Kaplan's going to talk some baseball with us. What his opening day memories are all about. We had a great, great conversation with Craig Vizio at 1230 today. If you miss that, if you put it on the blog, Nick, at Sports790.com, you do not want to miss that. That has a great, great visit we had with the Hall of Famer.

It's up there ready for you. All right. Final hour. Matt Thomas show starts with Jay Kaplan, then. Dritomatic gives us the play-by-play rundown of everything about today's game between the Angels and the Astros. It would have been played at 6 o'clock down at MinuteMade Park. Rossie, what is today's edition of Believe It or Not at 252? Crickets, Nick?

No, I thought you had a category. Song lyrics. Oh, that's right. Yeah, since Deshaun Watson wants to put out cryptic lyrics, we're going to put you people to the test. Is this a lyric or did I make it up? I can't wait to hear some of your made-up ones. Final hour next on 790. Let's talk 790. One more hour of a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show here on 790 with Ross and with Nick.

I'm Matt. You guys are welcome to join us, you ladies as well. At 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you want to reach out through Twitter at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Pro Nick Lowe. And our next guest can be found on Twitter at Jake M. Kaplan. he is the host, co-host of a very, very popular podcast. Isn't that right, Jay Kaplan?

We're getting there. I hope it's gaining popularity. How are you doing, Matt? You know, a little nostalgic today, frankly. We had Craig Bidge you on about 90 minutes ago talking about opening days and whatnot. What is your, and I don't know you have an answer to this, but do you have a memorable opening day either as a reporter, a baseball fan, or maybe as a participant back in the day in fifth grade?

back in my playing days. Yes. Yeah. I don't think I ever made it to one as a fan. So I've covered five or six as a reporter. And I think maybe the most memorable for me might have been my first one on the Astros beat, which was 2016 at Yankee Stadium. Mostly because it was such like a hectic time in my life.

Like I was still like in the process of moving. I was living out of a hotel in Houston. my belongings were somewhere on a truck in the middle of the country. And I remember it was freezing cold. It was like 30-something degrees, and there's no windows at the Yankee Stadium press box. So your fingers were like frozen while you played. So, you know, I don't remember a ton from the game other than it was like another Dallas-Cai goal pitch as well, Yankee Stadium story.

But, yeah, that would probably be my most memorable in my, I want to say it's five opening days. know. Jake, you have to still cover a beat because that's what you do with the athletic. And by the way, the athletic doing a great job of opening up some of their paywalls for people to check out the great journalism you guys are putting together the last 90 days. It has been, frankly, difficult for me to get a hold of live players for any sort of conversations. I'm assuming the same thing for you because a lot of guys are just kind of hanging

with their families. And I think there's a lot of uncertainty. And a lot of people don't want to say the wrong thing about whether they think baseball is going to return if and win. Are you running those same kind of problems? Yeah, there's just not a whole lot to say right now, I think. You know, there's a lot of questions and not a lot of answers. So, you know, everyone's kind of in the same boat.

Like, in most cases, when we have questions, there's someone who knows the answer, but in this case, not even Rob Bantford knows when they're going to start the season. So it's just unknowable at this point. There's so many variables that it's impossible to predict. So, yeah, it's kind of a strange time. It almost feels like it almost feels. like a second off season in a way, like in terms of like no baseball activity, but there's also very little to write about because in the off season, you generally have

the off season stuff, the free agency and the trade. So yeah, it has been definitely something from a reporting and journalism standpoint that's been a unique challenge. I don't think I'm in the same boat as you guys. I don't think any of us have ever had a period like this where there's just no sports. Okay, so let's do this then. This is strictly opinion for you because I value your opinion. First and foremost, how in the world are they going to play a game at Yankee Stadium or City Field this year with New York being obviously the epicenter of this terrible, terrible coronavirus? Yeah, I mean, I don't, like, it's depressing to say, but like, are they going to play any games this year?

I think that's still to be determined whether there's going to even be a season. anywhere. But you bring up a big point, same with Seattle, right? It's been pretty, pretty rampant up in Washington. So, you know, I don't know. And if there is a season, do they let fans in the stadium in the ballpark? I don't know. These are all the questions we're all asking and trying to figure out, but there's really no way to predict. In my mind, a little bit, Jake, I think, well, okay, they'll play in empty stadiums, and that can happen. We can live with that because least television, but I don't even know if you want a hundred people in New York City in a stadium. Because, again, unless the numbers start to dwindle there, it feels like to me that

New York is being attacked way harder than even, you know, most of the states. I mean, I know California's been hit hard. I can say the same thing about Seattle. I know that the Pacific Northwest has been very hit hard by this as well. How in the world are the Mariners? I mean, I brought this up to Ross yesterday. If the Yankees and Mets are going to play baseball in 2002, 20, do you give them a neutral site home games for this calendar year? Because it's just too dangerous to try to put any amount of people in those facilities in the next six months. Yeah, I mean, I think they're going to have to consider everything. I think their goal is obviously once they get the okay,

to squeeze in as many games, as much as a season as they can, and do whatever it takes to do that. So, yeah, I think they're going to have to be really creative with sites, with scheduling, with playoff format, with everything. I don't think anything is not on the table at this point, but I hadn't really considered a ton of just those two or three cities specifically, but you're right. I mean, it's obviously the thing is everywhere, so it's a challenge everywhere.

But, yeah, the two New York teams playing games with fans, that seems if it's going to happen this year, it seems month and months away. Let's say we get baseball, cracked up and started by June 15th. Just throwing a number out there. How many games can you get in between June 15th and October 15th? A, make a legitimate season. B, give them days off and C, not feel like you're trying to over-smush a schedule. Because obviously, again, they want as many as they can. But what do you think is a decent number if you play between June 15th and October 15th? It's a good question. I'd have to do some more math in my head, and math is not my strong suit.

First of all, I think June 15th is pretty ambitious right now. But, yeah, if you were to say it's June 15th, is that 100 games? I'm not really sure. I mean, I think you try to flip in double-headers here and there, and you can tack on some games at the end. We've seen that before. But then you're, you know, how late do you want the season to go? Like, how logistically having a postseason goes super late poses challenges

for the next season because it's a shorter off season and especially for the teams that are in the playoffs. So like, you know, I don't know if you can play past, you know, Thanksgiving or so. That even seems pretty late. So, yeah, I don't really know. I mean, I think half a season sounds, you know, you know, I don't know if realistic is even the right word, but something that you should, your starting point should probably be a half a season or a hundred games if you're thinking in realistic terms, and that even might be kind of ambitious. Yeah, I was going to say June 15th, October 15th, 100 sounds just about right. I'm going to say, Ross and I sort of debated this.

I would not be opposed to seven-inning double-header games. I know the Commissioner Manfred had said in the past that he never wanted anything short of nine, but I think yesterday with his interview with Scott Van Peltie kind of softened his stance on that. You don't have a problem with that, do you? If you play double-header games of seven innings each? No, not really. It would be weird, but I mean, like, this is a unique circumstance, and there's going to be a lot of different stuff. If they do have the season, which hopefully they do, there's going to be a lot of things that are unconventional about it.

And that's just kind of how it's going to go this year if there is a season. How does Manjali baseball handle, let's say it's the Astros and the Yankees playing the American League Championship Series, or for that matter, any cold weather city against the Astros? Do you neutral sight these? This is strictly your opinion. Do you neutral cite the entire postseason? Or are you going to say, unfortunately, the Astros have a roof over their head, and they can play games in October 29th and not worry about weather. Meanwhile, I'm sorry, Cleveland, it's 31 degrees on first pitch.

We're not playing baseball games. Do you neutral cite those games? What's a fair balance on that? Are you assuming there's no fans anywhere in the ballpark? I'm going to assume there's not 40,000. I'm going to assume there's going to be limited people in the building. But regardless of that, I think weather becomes a factor no matter what, because you don't want to be in a spot where you're in, say, Pittsburgh,

and you're sitting there having to wait three days out because of snow, and then you're further backing up the season. Yeah, it is a factor either way, but I think the neutral site, the case for teams to do neutral site is a lot easier if they're not getting the gate revenue anyway. But you could say there's no fans in the ballpark and you're just using using neutral sites. You could do Miami, Houston, Arlington, Arizona, for example, and do it that way. But if there are fans and the fans and teams are getting revenue from those home games, they're not going to give them up easily.

So I think that's the big factor you have to determine first. and obviously we can't predict that. But yeah, I think the neutral sight thing has to be at least considered if they're planning into November. All right. Before I wrap up our visit, we're visiting with Jake Kaplan from the Athletic on Twitter at Jake M. Kaplan. You can find him there.

Jake, obviously Verlander's injury, this time away from the game helps that. If the season was going to start really today, you would have had J.B. on the injured list. you would have had Zach Granky as your opening day starter Lance McCullors would have been two what would have been three, four, five

if we started the season on time? Granky, McCullors, and then some combination of or Keity and Josh James, I'm not sure in what order. And then the fifth would have been Austin Truitt or Frum or Valdez,

one of those two, depending on how the rest of spring went. So, yeah, now if you factor in a healthy of Erlander, it basically just bumps down, Pruitt to the bullpen. And James is the – seems like at least – you know, it's hard to say because they're going to have to do another spring training. But after the first part of spring training, he seemed like the closest to a frontrunner for that fifth rotation spot as much as one existed. You mentioned spring training. Do you think everybody goes back to Florida?

Do you think they stay in their own respective cities for a few weeks? work out before the start of the season? My prediction is there's a few weeks in Florida, but I don't know. I would guess they would need at least three weeks, but it also depends on how long this layoff last. Because here's the thing, too, they're going to want to play some games before they really start playing, and you can't do that if you're spread all over the country. That's why I guess Florida makes some sense.

Yeah, I mean, hitters want to face live pitching and vice versa. and, you know, it's not easy for the players to work out right now, I can imagine. So in terms of, like, getting the proper space to throw and getting hitters to face and all that stuff. And so they're going to need, like, another ramp-up period, I would assume, before you play real games. Jake, the name of the podcast is? We're calling it the Crawford Talks, and it's on the athletic. You can also get it on Apple and Spotify. Very good.

Hey, I'd say stay safe, but everybody's staying safe. So just stay safer as humanly possible. Don't go out and get any trouble, all right? I won't. You guys be safe as well. Thank you for having me. We'll see you, buddy. Jake M. Caput on Twitter from The Athletic.

And Crawford Talks is the brand-new podcast from The Athletic, and Jake is on there. 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 your. Houston Sports. The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. Here's a winner. This is my definitive baseball song, Matt. I like this way better than Centerfield, which is overplayed.

Take me out to the ballgame as a fun little ditty. This is getting me pumped up for Astros baseball and making me sad that it's not happening. That's okay. Because the time will come for Astros baseball to come back, and we do have a box score to get to. Yeah, we'll get to that box score. I want to get a question in first. I'm going to put the box score on my Twitter account so you guys can see it. This is a good song.

Is this guy still alive? Hopefully. Astros number one. Thank God that other song is. Oh, All Systems Go is awful. The worst song. It's All Systems Turn the Station. All Systems that song sucks.

I really listen to Spanish version of this song. Oh, the Spanish version of this one's good, too. Not bad. All right, let's go to the phone. Scott and Waterbrook at 220 on the mat-t-tomish. Scott, thanks for being patient. What's going on? How are you doing today, Maddie?

Good. Excellent. Well, I was actually, I'm watching MLB Network and I'm showing an old Derek Jeter game, and I saw on the scroll what I thought was a pretty cool stat. So I quickly turned it into a trivia question for you guys. So here it goes. Which current major league pitcher has the,

obviously the current record for consecutive opening day starts. And I don't know if I worded that right, but they're currently, they currently have the most opening day starts consecutive right now. At this moment? Yes, sir. Is it an astro? No, it's not. And they have six.

They have six consecutive. They've started the last six opening day. And they leave the league. Same team? Yes, sir. All good. I say Steven Strasper? Incorrect.

National or American League It's a national league I felt like it had to be national league What's that? Julio Tehran You're a Hulio Tehran Yeah, I wasn't going to catch That wasn't going to guess that

That would have been Never on my list How about that, huh? There you go All right, well you all have a good day Thank you That would have been What would it call it reverse trivia

Reverse Trivia We lost Is that minutia, though? Do you think? Do we would have to rule that out with minutia? Should we bring back reverse trivia? I love reverse trivia. I have judged reverse trivia before.

Okay. I would have to say that would not be, that would be one that we would should, should the gallery should be able to get. We should be able to get Julio Tehran? It's six straight years. Not like it's, I mean,

it would take a brighter baseball mind than mine to get the answer to that. It would take somebody that's following baseball every single year for last. I would have to say it'd be somebody that probably... They live in Atlanta. That doesn't touch a woman on a regular basis. It probably had to be somebody who calls the Atlanta Braves games and writes their game notes. I don't know. I would think a fantasy baseball guy would know that.

I mean, nobody plays... I don't think anybody plays fantasy baseball much anymore, but... I play. You're not in the league? Yes, I am. No, you're not. What do you mean? Who's in their league?

It's people from this poker form than I want. You play fantasy baseball. Yeah, every single year. I've been playing the last several years. I'm usually somewhere. One year I got seventh, and that was pretty good for me. I just draft a bunch of Astros, and I use it to help me follow baseball a little bit.

That's actually very smart of you to do that. But I haven't played fantasy baseball in 15 years, probably. It's just too much work. But you know what? It does make you a smarter broadcaster, that's for sure. All right, I just put up on the Twitter account at SportsMT, if you guys want to follow, the stratomatic results of today's game

between the Astros and the Angels at Minute Made Part. What happened? The Dodgers jumped out to a fast start. Dodgers? No, Dodgers. I'm seeing Los Angeles. I'm sorry.

The, I say I don't call them the Los Angeles Angels. It just doesn't sound good. Just say the Angels. The Angels. The Angels. The Halos. I'll call them the California Angels.

Go old school. Okay. The California Angels scored one of the first, one in the second. Three more in the third. One in the fourth. Who started the game? Stay with me on this. Two more in the sixth.

Oh, geez. No, one in the sixth and two in the eighth. They got 15 hits and scored nine runs. Astros did not put a thing on the scoreboard until the fifth inning. That's the fabulous fifth inning where they scored three in the bottom of the fifth, two more in the sixth and one more in the eighth and lost the game by a score on nine to six. The halos putting up your totals, nine runs. Here you go, yes.

15 hits, the O'airs. The Astros, six runs, seven hits and one error. Who made the air? Starting pitching. Bregman, come on, Bregman. Zach Granky takes the loss. He goes four innings, gives up eight hits, six runs, five of which were earned. There's the Bregman area you were talking about.

Strikes out three and gives up two home runs. His ERA after his opening day start for the Astros, 11.25. Biazini comes in. Oh, no. Talks for everybody for half an hour before he gets on the mound, gives up a run in his only inning of work. Frambert, Valdez gives you a score of sixth. Joe Smith gives you a score to seventh. Abreu does not survive the eighth inning where he has to give up one run on two hit, two runs on one hit. It must been a home run. No home run. Doesn't record it out. Presley comes in in the eighth to get that inning. Chris Tivinsky does the night. ninth inning in the Astros lose by a score of

9 to 6 with Andrew Heaney, the opening day starter for the Halos, going five innings to get the win. They also had to go to their bullpen. They went five deep in their bullpen to get the victory. Oh, wow, and Martine Malinato also had a pass ball. Come on, machete. On the offensive side of things,

George Springer goes two for five with three RBIs. Altube 0 for 4 in the day. Brantley won for 4. Bregman 0 for 1 with a run score. He must have walked a couple of times. Yuri Gurley L. O for four, Yardine, one for three. Carlos

Correa batting in the seventh spot goes O for four. Josh Redick batting 8th goes two for four and Martin Maldonado goes one for four in the nine hole. Everybody's going to be all over Altuve for going O for four. One game. They're going to be calling him a cheater, tweeting out gifts of him in his jersey.

By the way, the number two and three spots in the halos, which will be a pain in the ass in real life coming up. Mike Trot went three for four with four runs scored and two RBI. and Anthony Rendon, fresh of the nationals, back in the ballpark where he won a World Series for the Nats, two for four with two runs scored.

Albert Pujol's batting in the six spot goes 0 for four with an RBI. That sounds about right. Jason Castro, the former Astro. That rhymes. One for five. There you have. This looks accurate. Astros were one for seven with runners in scoring position.

That looks about right. No, no, no. don't do that. What? I'm just saying. Here's the thing. I put something on stratomatic on, and the first thing I get it from a reply,

charge your phone. Seriously, stop worrying about my phone. Yeah, who put that out there? You! Oh. I'm in here trying to a major market radio. I'm not worried about charging my phone. No, it was just a tip.

Like, hey, you should charge your phone. Oh, it was a tip, huh? You could have told me right now, why did you put it on your Twitter account? I don't believe you believe in tips. This is fake news. Exactly, Ben Dubos. Fake news.

getting a lot of replies to this. I am. Thanks to Gordy for finding that, by the way. It's nice that Gordy put that out there, especially with the knock on him that you said earlier in the show. Gordy, if you didn't hear Ross Rip of you, go look at the ghost of the podcast at Sports790.com on the website matchmine show page.

228, you got a reaction to this? You know what? Can we do? Hold on. Post game. Can you do the 10th inning show? We'll find the 10th inning show. We'll come back with the 10th inning show open next.

We'll take phone calls on a 9-6 loss here on 790. That's a wrap. And the ball game is over. It's gone. This is the Sports Talk 790 10th inning show, presented by Xfinity, The Future of Awesome. The 10th inning show is also brought to you by Twin Peaks by a late health, and by Gaplin Sinus Relief.

Thanks, everybody. The 10th inning show from the Northwest Dodge Sports Desk on Sports Talk 790, your home for Astros baseball. 2-0. And Simmons. drives this pretty deep to left field. Gonzalez is back looking up and that's gone. A two-run home run for Simmons into the Landry's Crawford boxes.

And it is now a 3-0-0 Angels lead. Simmons continues to terrorize the Astros, particularly at Minute Maid Park, as he is now 8 for 13 against the Astros in this ballpark this year. Andrelton, I always forget his name wrong. Andy Simmons. not doing a lot of favors for the Angels tonight as they beat the Astros and also the newest member of the Angels doing some damage too. That ball sky to left field going back on it Brantley. He's on the warning track and it's gone.

Into the Landry's proffered boxes goes Rendon. Yep, that's right. And Anthony Rendon making a successful debut for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. They beat the Astros nine to six. Good late afternoon, everybody. 233 is the time. This is the 10th inning show here on Sports Talk 790. If you want to get in and talk some Astros baseball,

after today our friends at Strattomatic have the Astros losing by a final score of 9 to 6. 713-212-5-790. Ms. Carroll, you are first in the list if you want to jump in. Howard Memorial wants to talk about how bad the Astros season has gone so far. Will the Astros win a single game this year on opening day? 2020. 713, 212, 5790, Jose Altube, according to Stratomatic, O for four. Yuli Gurriel, O for four, is Yuli finally showing some signs of his age? And what about Zach Granky's problems today? He only goes four innings for the Astros, allows eight hits, six runs, five of which were

earned, gave up not one but two gopher balls on the season. is ERA after his first start, 11.25. This is the 10th ending on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. You heard Simmons the shortstop today, one of his two big hits. Also, Mike Trout goes three for four. Anthony Rendon, two for four. Shohei Otani today, DH, and he finished the day.

One for five, Justin Upton, two for four. Man, the angel smacked around Astros pitching. Not a good performance for a break. who could not get out of the eighth inning. In fact, couldn't even get it out of the eighth inning. Ryan Presley coming and doing a nice job as he did much of last season. And then Chris Devinsky in an unfamiliar mop-up role working the eighth inning for the Los Angeles Angels. Zach Rankie gets hit hard.

Joe Beijini gets hit hard as well. And I believe Joe is still speaking the media. We would like to hear some comments from Dusty Baker, but Joe B. Eugenie is taking over the microphone and thus will not be heard. So the Astros fall tonight by a final score in 9 to 6. so says Strattomatic. 713-212-5-790. Patrick and Bel Air, first up on the 10th inning show.

Patrick, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon, Matt. Kind of a disappointing opening day here. You know, green energy in the crowd and everything. I was really disappointed, though, that Jesse Baker did not butt more today. Yeah. I feel if the hitting coach should be fired. Right.

But I think if we probably employed the bunt on every first strike, I think we probably win today, 25 to 3. That's just my thought. Yeah. But, you know, bunting is just such an underrated art. No one seems to one ever talked about it. Because here's the thing, Patrick. Do we know that Andrew Hini can actually defend his position?

Just butt right to him every time. He's going to fall off the mound. He's going to throw awkwardly. There's going to be one error after the other. There's no reason why this team should be bunting six, seven times in a game. Exactly. I mean, when you look at Adela and his fielding readings, I mean, he's got a terrible radius. And I mean, you know, what's the deal?

Come on, guys. Let's look at, you know, all the spray turts and stuff. And let's get these buns done. And let's go 161 and 1 this year. Okay? Thanks, Patrick, for the phone call. Appreciate you joining us on the 10th inning show. And you know what?

Here another thing, Ross. I hate to say this. Why is George Springer batting leadoff? Two for five. Put that in the heart of the order, gang, and But more. This is too real right now for me. First of all, this is radio freaking gold. I hope somebody's recording this.

I hope all those gibronies that are like sports radio analysts who never put me in the top 20 in major market midday shows. Listen to this going. You know what, there are nobody else in the market doing this. You know, Matt, it was just a tough outing. I mean, Andrew Heaney, he didn't really have his best stuff. He gave up a couple of runs. That's why you got a bun on him.

You like George Bringer to get it going there. But I mean, the reason he's a lead-off guy is because that's just the way he's hit. And I think, you know, the previous regime with with AJ Hinch, was a big believer in letting guys get comfortable. So I got no problem with keeping George Springer up there at the top of the lineup. But you can't have Al Tuve going 1 for 0 for 4. And honestly, the runners in scoring position problem seems to have carried over from last year's playoffs.

At least one game in, you don't want to overreact. Yeah. You don't want to say too much. No, no, no. You do overreact. This is a 10th inning show. But one in seven and runners in scoring position, you're not going to win a lot of games like that. No, you not.

And you did score six runs. So normally that's going to be enough for you to win. obviously Zach Grinke just did not have his best stuff and we know that he's a guy who is not going to get up there with the velocity at this stage of his career

and he didn't have the velocity today but we knew that coming in it's just the control wasn't there the breaking ball was flat it just was not a great debut from Zach Rinky I got two more things for you Zach Ranky

you better be better in four days okay just gonna put it out there Zach they're not paying you $30 million for you to go four innings Absolutely. And number two, Dusty? Let's change things up a little bit. Let's go. You're not motivating like AJ used to do. Come on. Let's go. 10th inning show continues.

713-212-5-790. Eric in Bay City on the 10th inning show. Hi, Eric. Put me in the fire, Dusty Baker camp. I cannot believe he left Grinke in for 156 pitches. This is the first game of the season, and we all said it. We knew this was going to to happen. We knew this was going to be a problem with our aging pitchers. Fire Dusty Baker. I'm out. Thank you. Yeah, I thought 156 in the first start was a little much. I would have capped him about 90. Dusty felt like 156 was the right way to go. This is bad game. Don't want to overreact, Matt. It's just one game. No, this is where you overreact. Opening day is overreaction. No, the callers overreacting.

Oh, you're telling me, I'm going to calm down, everybody down. Calm down H-town. Where's Miss Carroll we need her? Miss Carroll would straighten this all for us. One thing I also found bizarre, Matt, only 29,000 people in the place. That what they said? According to my box score. I don't have that in mind, do you? Must be the, I guess, you know, they're still trying to keep the regulations on there. No, there'd be more than 29,000.

That must have been a miscount. Somebody didn't count that. 29, 97. You tell me there were 10,000 empty seats at tonight's game? Well, maybe they're social distancing. That still seems like a lot of people then, I guess. Maybe the social distance rule wasn't. They don't care about you in Section 400

You can be as close you want to Lower level people social distance Well we can talk about the hitting and the runners and scoring position All we want but the bottom line is Zach Rinkie's got to get better If you give up six runs You're just not going to win the majority of those games If you're opening day starter And I know Verlanders hurt

Get him back as soon as we can But Zach Rinkie's been a Sye young winner He's been a front line starter In both leagues for a very long time You can't have him go out there Only pitch four innings and give a six runs You know, it's kind of crazy, though, is that today we saw a crossover. Kay Middleton, who is a pitcher for the Angels, also plays in Milwaukee Bucks.

Kay Middleton. Chris Middleton. One inning, struck out two. So he's trying to play two sports at one time. It's got to be taxing on them, especially in times like these. You would think baseball and basketball players that have a hard time playing with each other at the exact same time. But Chris Middleton, able to do it, gave the halos a scoreless frame. Well, apparently his name is Kenyon.

No, I think it's Chris. His nickname is Kenyon, just like Davianz's poop. Okay. Do, do, do. Okay, whatever. So the Astros are own one. Breggman, oh for one, technically, he must have drawn a couple of walks, right? How many walks?

The Halos only had four walks. Breggman has, might have a couple of those. Astros struck out. Astros, nine different Astros struck out today. Heaney got five Ks. That's why he got a butt more. Let's not getting to this strikeout. You know, nothing but home runs or not.

It's an overreaction, man. I think you got to keep the, you stay the course. We know that bunting doesn't work in 2020. I know that a lot of people want it right now. But it's just one game. We can't overreact. Like I said, the offense could have been a little bit better, but the real big problem was the pitching.

Oh, and there was also this tonight, too, that didn't help. And look toward third, and that's a balk. That is a balk on Chris Devensky. He faked a throw to third. What? And that will allow Otani to score. Simmons goes to third. It's five to nothing angels.

Now the fundamentals of the sport are falling apart. Otani? Scoring on a balk? On a balk. Come on, Devo. We know you're going to fall violently to the first base side every time you pitch. That closes out the 10th inning show.

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Yo, what's up? This you boy, Bumb, the Trill O.G. with the whitest man in America, Matt Thomas. You are now tuned in to Sports Talk 790, man. On your March 10, ready, go. You got love for the Houston Astros, like the Tril OG, got love for the Houston Astros. And you rockin your orange and your blue, you know what it's time to do.

Put their pages up in the air, baby, let's go. Crush City, mate, Crush, Crush City, Man, Crush City, Man, Crush City, Man. This is a classic. I don't know if Bundman, any money out this song, but I feel like I should get like 20% of proceeds. I made zero on Crush City, and the Astrosan Academy using it every day.

Yeah, the greatest all-time baseball song is Center Field by John Fogarty. The second is Carc City, Maine. Crash City, Critty, Crush City, May by Bunby. I like it. By the way, I have, and I use a little bit of Internet help, but mostly off the top of my head. I have 48 of my 64 teams for the greatest theme song in television history. and I'm going to work on this some more. I'm going to have a couple of people that I respect their opinions on television theme songs.

I'm going to put an initial bracket out, have them look over it and maybe move things around a little bit here and there. But I can see, Nick you'll appreciate this. We'll have an all-instrumental region, great theme songs instrumental. We'll have an old school. And then we'll have a, there's probably going to be two different regions of old school. Because the best theme songs were probably from the 70s and 80s. You can't put all the old school in the same region. You've got to pepper them around, right?

I don't know. I haven't thought about it yet. I just started writing down just off the top of my head songs that I thought would be in it. You need to divide the old school into like R&B and rock. Or maybe dramas versus comedies. I'm putting the Jeffers and straight through. I know that for a fact. Like right off the top, the number one seed in the instrumental region will be Dallas, in my mind.

number one seed would be the Jeffersons. I would have to, the Sopranos has to be a number one seed, right? That's a pretty good one. And then I would go for hokey songs. Dukes of Hazards probably. That's okay. The Love Boats got to be a number one seed too, right? We can't have more than all these.

I think Dukes of Hazards is a one seat over Love Boat. So it's a 64 team total tournament, right? We may not be able to make a perfect execution of what the different regions are, but I can definitely take there's going to be at least one region of nothing but instrumentals. Fresh Pins of Bel Air better be on there. That's one of the goats as well. Seinfeld will be on there. That song sucks, I think.

Seinfeld might be the best, one of the best, I mean, the best sitcom of all time, but that song is not good. We'll let the voters decide. Oh, I will vote. Yeah. No, I'm filling my own bracket. I don't care what these idiot voters are saying. Give me a few days to put it to do. together. And like I said, I will not be the soldier. Now, it's my 64. So there's been like,

well, you didn't put F troop in there. I'm like, I didn't watch F troops. Sorry. You know, you know what I'm saying? I don't even know what song they have. I don't either. But my point is that no, no bracket's perfect. Where's the theme to Joni loves Chachi? Yeah. But at this point, I will put together, give me a few days and I'll put this together, 6014. Ooh, law and order. Oh, I've got to add that. That would be an instrumental. Yeah. That's a good one too. Here's another great one. Hill Street Blues.

I think you played that for me. I can't remember that one. Give him 20 seconds of Hill Street Blues real quick. Fire that up. Great, great song. Let me write that down, Law and Order. That is another good one. The instrumental region may be 32 deep, to be honest with you.

That's what I'm saying. I think you shouldn't name them like that. I think you should just pepper them out. You should just seed based on strength and let the chip fall where they make. The problem is they're all great. I got to separate them somehow. Yeah, by seed. What is this?

Is this it? Yeah. Okay, hold on. Not a number one C. It's not doing anything for me. If you watch the show, you loved it. Okay. And I did watch it.

I didn't. And this song is... Oh, NYPD Blue. Well, that's not a great theme song. Yeah, you got to differentiate great show. Now, there's going to be a kid's bracket, too. Like I said, you got to, like I said about Seinfeld, you got to differentiate great shows from great songs. Seinfeld is a great show.

The song wasn't very good to me. It's just a little baseline. bam, damp, bam, bam, like this is really getting the people going. Yeah, this one's not going to work. Is there like an NIT tournament and it's going to happen for the CBI? But is Law and Order do something for you? Yeah, I think that's a great song. Again, different story for different songs.

I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. Because I did love that show. But maybe that's why it's into. But I think it's such a memorable theme song. It's true. And that'd be the best sounding. It's got its most memorable theme song. I think Seinfeld's got to be in there because it is so.

Good times is a one seat. Got to put good. Good Times is a one seed. Damn. You're going to have some tough decisions to make your money. Very, very tough decisions. Five minutes left to go in the show. What should we do?

It's time for us to play America's favorite sports game show. We simply called it. Believe it or not. And here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-9. Today's edition of Believe or Not, brought to you by Houston Woodhouse Day Spiles. The category today is, are the following lyrics really a part of a song?

I'll read you a song and it's lyrics, and you tell me if it's really a song. If it's really a song, you'll say this. Believe it. If it's not a song, you'll say this. Two, believe it or not, it's in a row on all things about songs and win your prize. Ross, you're going to have to really sell the prize because no one wants to play right now. Oh, you can get a shout out. Would you like to promote something of yours?

Would you like to say hello to Matthew or Nick Lowe? Would you like to talk about your website or your Twitter account? Anything that you would like to shout up. Perhaps you would like to say happy anniversary or happy birthday or just say hello to your wife. Or someone that you love. It will appear on our podcast later and you can tell all your friends that you got a shout out on the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Clearly they want concert tickets because the shout-up bit has run its course, I think. But there's no concerts.

Yeah. I guess people do want like the concerts. way more than I ever thought they would. We got people calling yesterday. 713, 2,1, 2, 5, 7.90. Maybe we're down to zero listeners. Why don't you just do it with the pride of winning, believe it or not? They're like, we'd rather have tickets to see Chicago, Matt.

We'd rather have tickets to see rats' latest tour. Well, this is a shame. You want to wait for one of the Adams is here. He can play now. Come here, Wax. Apparently, no one wants to win for no prize. Yeah, he's got to put him out. This is a very discourage.

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of me. Nothing will bring nothing we bring will make them see. Is that a real song lyric? Bellied it. No, it's, uh, it's not. He said it was Mr. Mr. I wear the face. You got to put all that on there.

Yeah. I don't know that. They screwed that up. Yeah. Let me give you one more to make you feel better. Okay. Thank you. Less we forgot, the ones we forgot. They haven't forgotten me. from Cat Stevens' longer boats in 1974. Did you make this believe it or not? No, he did. I'm gonna say, believe it.

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Ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. And when you can't be me, I can't be. you, Chenate O'Connor's, this time from 1991. Believe it or not? Believe it. No. Oh, gosh.

I know. We're going to have emotional people. We do have prizes, Ross. This one's great. Yeah, you guys are having so much fun with this one. No winners and no prizes. All right, let's get a name up here on the board. Let's go to Jacob on 7.

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That sounds good. That's actually accurate. Thank you very much for playing. All right, boys. Adam Clanton, Adam Wex, are going to entertain you for the next three hours, and Adam Wex are going to shave live on air on Facebook Live. Hashtag hits. Have a great rest of your day. Back tomorrow with Brian T. Smith, and maybe one of the, what it's confirmed?

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