HOUR 1 - Astros Top Twins 6-4 + Sorsby Focusing on 2027 Draft + Headlines

Summary

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Payne & Pendergast – HOUR 1

Date: July 1, 2026
Main Theme:
A quintessential Houston sports hour, Seth Payne and Sean Pendergast dive deep into the Astros’ comeback win over the Twins, analyze Jose Altuve’s mastery with the new Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system, break down the Brendan Sorsby quarterback eligibility saga, and roll through major Houston sports headlines, including new signings for the Rockets.

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Astros Top Twins 6-4: Key Takeaways

Timestamps: [01:00]–[13:40]; [37:38]–[41:46]

Game Recap

• The Astros defeated the Twins 6-4, fueled by a six-run fourth inning and a grand slam from Yordan Alvarez.
  • Quote (Todd Callis, Astros broadcaster):
    “High, deep to right field. All the way back. It’s good. Four on the board... Astros win it six to four, winning the first two games here against Minnesota and moving back within two games of .500.” ([01:10], replayed at [37:45])
• Mike Burrows struggled with a three-run first but settled in, and the bullpen (De Los Santos, Okert, Bryan King, Josh Hader) slammed the door.

The Details

• Yordan Alvarez’s Resurgence:
  • Ended an 0-16 slump with a three-hit night, capped by a grand slam.
  • Sean [03:41]: “Yordan had come into the night on an over 16 streak... quite the opposite.”
  • Grand slam followed Jose Altuve’s clutch plate appearance/challenge.
  • On Yordan’s Slump:
    “In most seasons with Yordan... when he gets into a bad slump, you look at his OPS and it’s still like above 850.” (Seth, [03:50])
  • This year: “His OPS is still above a thousand... He’s having a sensational season. He’s the leader in the clubhouse for the MVP.” (Sean/Seth, [04:13]–[04:29])
• Altuve’s Pivotal Challenge:
  • Down 3-2, bases loaded, 2 outs, full count — Altuve challenged a called strike three, won, led to walk and kept the inning alive for Yordan’s slam.
  • Altuve’s Quote:
    “Not really, but the situation told me I need to challenge. I thought it was a close pitch, but you got to challenge that one. Especially with the bases loaded, two outs, we're down in the game, and Jordan is hitting behind you. You've got to take a chance.” (via Sean, [07:59])
• Astros’ Recent Resilience:
  • The team has begun to show late-inning comeback tenacity reminiscent of early-season confidence.
  • Seth [16:40]: “My biggest thing that I like about the Astros as a team... over the last week is they've kind of had that feel... they just haven't been out of any games.”
  • Recent contributions from up-and-comers Taylor Trammell, Cam Smith, and Delgado are stretching the lineup’s depth.

Memorable Moments & Opinions

• Challenging the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) System:
  • Host praise for Altuve’s exceptional use of the challenge system, citing him as MLB’s most successful at winning overturned calls.
  • “You hitters who are challenging 0-1 pitches, stop it!” (Seth, [07:39])
  • Takes on the evolving in-game challenge strategy, including using game leverage and umpire books.
• The Value of Competitive At-Bats:
  • Modern pitch count awareness adds new drama.
  • “That is a demoralizing thing when your pitcher throws eight or nine pitches in an at bat and loses that at bat. That’s a big deal.” (Sean, [12:20])

Notable Quotes

• Joe Espada (Astros manager) on Altuve’s AB:
  “The Altuve at bat, the walk was the at bat of the game... it was not the grand slam.” ([11:08])
• Seth on Altuve’s plate vs. base running:
  “The batter's box is his safe space... Once he gets onto the base paths, that's where the problems begin.” ([10:39])

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Brendan Sorsby Saga & 2027 NFL Draft Implications

Timestamps: [21:17]–[32:27]

Situation Recap

• Brendan Sorsby, Texas Tech QB prospect, was suspended for gambling violations. Fought for NCAA eligibility but lost – also barred from NFL (no supplemental draft), CFL declined interest.
• Will now focus on the 2027 NFL Draft, is allowed pre-draft participation (Combine, visits, etc).
  • Sean [23:28]: “They’re going to basically treat him like time’s been served.”

Analysis & Reflection

• Hosts’ Reactions:
  • Both agree the outcome is “practical” and “fair” for all parties given the gravity of Sorsby’s violations.
  • Sorsby’s statement accepted responsibility:
    “I accept 100% responsibility for my actions. I did not have control of my gambling problem and it took getting caught for me to realize that. But it was truly the best thing that could have happened to me...” ([26:29])
  • Sean expresses skepticism about “forced” vs. genuine recovery.
  • NFL’s hard line on gambling compared to earlier leniency for cases like Terrelle Pryor.
• Larger Reflection:
  • “The only people really sticking up for him were lawyers... There was no question about whether he had committed the crimes.” (Sean, [23:37])
  • “I was a little surprised they didn’t have a supplemental draft. I thought they would.” (Seth, [25:00])
  • Discussion expands to how self-reported vs. getting “caught” impacts public/organizational forgiveness (analogized to relationship trust).

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Texans Quarterback Watch: Should Fans Care About 2027 Class?

Timestamps: [30:00]–[34:14]

Discussion

• With Sorsby out, hosts contemplate whether Houston Texans fans should pay greater attention to the upcoming, talent-rich QB class.

• Stroud’s Extension “Thermometer”:

  • If confidence in CJ Stroud is “4 out of 10,” then interest in college QBs is “6 out of 10.” (Seth, [32:01])
  • If Stroud flourishes, the extension will be obvious — but if he struggles, QB watch intensifies.

• Market Implications:

  • “Next year, you've got at least six quarterbacks who might potentially get extensions... That $55 million mark... is going to get up into $60 or $65 million.” (Sean, [33:26])
  • Both prefer to pay a premium for Stroud later if he proves himself, rather than prematurely extending.

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Headlines Roundup: Astros, Rockets, World Cup

Timestamps: [37:38]–[46:48]

Rockets News

• Player Signings:
  • Marcus Smart signed (2 yrs/$13M, player option) for PG depth/defense; potential if Van Vleet continues to struggle with knee.
  • Bogdan Bogdanovic added for shooting depth despite age/injuries.
  • Hosts are lukewarm on recent Rockets signings: “For me, it's not been a great offseason for the Rockets so far...”
• LeBron James:
  • “LeBron is not going back to the Lakers... fun to see how long LeBron strings this out.” (Sean, [44:05])
  • Hosts discuss modern athlete content culture and how “The Decision” would play differently today.

Other Notes

• Astros:
  • Since “Payne & Pendergast Reset” on May 15, Astros are 26-17, now 2 games back in the division.
  • Next, crucial series vs. Rangers and Mariners.
• World Cup:
  • Mexico beats Ecuador; U.S. faces Bosnia & Herzegovina with the knockout rounds underway.
  • Seth: “I love the knockout round because now we’re out of pool play, which I despise.” ([46:03])

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On the Value of Big ABs:
  “That walk was the at bat of the game... it was not the grand slam.” – Joe Espada ([11:08])
• On Challenge System Anxiety:
  “I take back everything I said before the season about my nervousness or anxiety over Altuve using the ABS system... He's been outstanding.” – Sean ([07:51])
• On Sorsby’s Acceptance:
  “This... is the closest thing I've seen to Brendan Sorsby of really owning what he did.” – Seth ([26:29])
• On the Rockets offseason:
  “It’s not been a great offseason for the Rockets so far, even with the two signings in the last 24 hours.” – Seth ([45:44])

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Key Segments & Timestamps

• [01:00–13:40]: Astros-Twins deep dive (grand slam, pitching, ABS, Altuve, game strategy)
• [13:40–20:18]: Evolution of the ABS challenge system & impact on the modern at-bat
• [21:17–28:29]: Brendan Sorsby/NFL eligibility & gambling debate
• [30:00–34:14]: Texans QB future and college QB scouting theory
• [37:38–46:48]: Houston headlines: Astros surge, Rockets signings, World Cup, LeBron’s free agency
• [41:01]: Lighthearted banter on Imai’s “deep bows,” bagel temptation, and modern content generation

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Episode Tone & Style

The show is high-energy Houston sports talk, blending sharp analysis, playful banter, and a touch of irreverence (“The batter’s box is his safe space... Once he gets onto the base paths, that's where the problems begin.”)

For listeners who missed the episode:
You’ll get an in-depth Astros breakdown (grand slams and strategy), context and hard opinions on the Sorsby-NFL suspension, insight into how the Astros and MLB are adapting to tech-driven officiating, and the significance of recent Rockets moves. The hosts are at once passionate, knowledgeable, and quick with colorful analogies and jabs — sports radio at its best.

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Transcript

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[Sean Pendergast]

We coming to eighth time. Let's get the work in, man.

[Joe Espada]

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[Seth Payne]

Great day.

[Todd Callis]

Oh, give me some juice. Oh, yeah. Let's do it. High, deep to right field. All the way back. It's good. Four on the board. 44. The Astros lead this game six to three. Donald Ball game over. Astros winning six to four, winning the first two games here against Minnesota and moving back within two games of.500.

[Sean Pendergast]

That was a nice win with all their runs coming in one inning.

[Matt Kawahara]

Glover, the offense, got after it in the bottom of that fourth inning. Mike Burrows doing enough to keep the Astros in the game to allow him that big comeback with that big fourth inning and then the bullpen going, shutting it down the rest of the way. But who knew the ABs was going to take it the way from yesterday's game and give it today, the following day? Pretty incredible day. And a good win for the Astros.

[Seth Payne]

I. Blum, be quiet. We got a show to start here, man.

[Sean Pendergast]

Pretty good encapsulation, though. It was.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah, it was not. Not probably. Probably. A little long for a bump into a show, I would say.

[Sean Pendergast]

But for anybody who missed it, look, Mike Burrows got a rough start, about three runs in the first inning, but then reeled it in after that.

[Seth Payne]

Okay, I was one of those people you're talking about. I didn't get to see the game last night. I was out to din. It was my. My son. It was my son Sammy's birthday. So we went to the. The original Carabas over On Kirby Happy.

[Sean Pendergast]

I don't know if a birthday was worth missing a masterpiece performance by Mike Burroughs.

[Seth Payne]

Four runs in five innings.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, well, no, I mean, it was all in the. It was all in the first inning. I mean, he loaded the bases up, hit Caratini to score a run. It was a mess.

[Seth Payne]

I did see that.

[Sean Pendergast]

I saw that like it was going to be a disaster.

[Seth Payne]

I saw that on the TV above the bar there we were. Reservation was at 7:30, so we got there about 7:20. I did see the carot beaning, but. But it was nice having the phone sitting there at the table. And then all of a sudden, you know, you look down at your phone and it's six to three, Astros. I'm like, oh, anytime the score jumps like that, like, it goes from like three to two, and then you look down five minutes later and six to four. This was what it was like that game where they played Kansas City and they scored nine runs in the first inning. When it jumps like that, you're like, oh, Yordon did something. Jordan did something. And sure enough, another grand slam for Jordan Alvarez last night, courtesy of Todd Callis and Jeff Blum there from Space City Home Network. Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

And, you know, Jordan had come into the night on an over 16 streak or whatever it was, and it was quite the opposite of that. It's very, very good.

[Seth Payne]

He gets into these little. You know, that happens to everybody, and it happens to Yorda. It happens to the best of them. You get into these little. These bad streaks or whatever. In most seasons with Jordan, when he gets into a bad, like a bad slump, you look at his ops and it's still like above 850.

[Sean Pendergast]

He's still walking this year.

[Seth Payne]

He still walks. Yes.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

This year the number is a thousand.

[Sean Pendergast]

Like, you look you.

[Seth Payne]

You like, Jordan's in a slump. He's not hitting. He needs day off. He got a day off this weekend. Like, oh, he's just. Joe Espada's favorite term is a breather. He needs a breather, whatever the case may be. And you look and his OPS is still above a thousand, you know.

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[Seth Payne]

And obviously last night, three for four and a half, grand slam helps helps that number. He's at like 10:40 right now or whatever. He's having a sensational season. He's the leader in the clubhouse for the mvp. And he won that game for you with a swing of the bat last night. But Seth, the big at bat that's getting talked about a lot too, from last night's game is Jose Altuve. The plate appearance right before Jordan Altuve is your leadoff guy now because Jeremy Pena is on the IL and Jose Altuve with a 3, 2 count called third strike. Quickly challenges it. Quickly, quickly.

[Todd Callis]

That's key.

[Seth Payne]

Challenge it quick. Quickly challenges it and wins the challenge. Walks, drives in a run. So that makes it three to two. But more importantly, it gives Jordan Alvarez a chance to come up with the bases loaded. Not leading off with the bases empty the next inning. And we know what happened after that. We just heard it.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah. No, and it was huge. Yeah. Jordan, when he got his first hit. Sean. Happy birthday to Sammy. When he got it, first hit, the exit velocity was 115 miles per hour. Line drive.

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[Sean Pendergast]

And he asked for the ball. Just is. Because, you know, it was a momentous occasion for him getting the ball after, you know, getting a hit after his dry run.

[Seth Payne]

Did he really ask?

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't see if they actually gave it to him or not.

[Seth Payne]

Oh. Because he was over whatever I got.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Payne]

That's hilarious.

[Sean Pendergast]

The other thing, though, too, about the. The three runs allowed in the first inning. Yeah. Jordan was partly to blame for it. Jordan. Jordan just let the ball bounce right past him in left field. And Blum very generously said that it took a weird bounce. I went back and watched it a couple times. It was. There's nothing weird about it.

[Seth Payne]

It was.

[Sean Pendergast]

It was classic Newtonian physics on this bounce, Sean, There was nothing about it where you're like, whoa, how are you going to handle that?

[Seth Payne]

Sheer gravity. It's it.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, that's. That's it. But no. And then the relievers came in and did a really good job. So it was a De Los Santos oker. Brian King and then Josh Hader. Yep. Just kind of mowed them all down.

[Todd Callis]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah. I mean. And that was good to see De Los Santos because he's been atrocious lately, so that was good to see him. And then the other three guys you just named Oakr, Brian King and Josh Hader, all lefties. A righty arm performing like those guys would be nice to have out there, although blue ball's done a nice job. But those three guys had been your linchpins in the bullpen. So seeing those three guys come in and do what they did was really good. I love this quote from Altuve because challenges. The challenge system was a big topic on the show yesterday because of the Christian Walker aborted challenge from the night before, where Christian Walker looked into the dugout after a called third strike. Should have been, like, a similar situation to Altuve. Should have been a ball four, should it? You know, should have kind of kept the inning a little juiced. And Walker challenges too late, looks into the dugout, challenge aborted. He strikes out. He's seething. Astros lose by one. Blah, blah, blah. I love this quote from Altuve. He was asked if he was confident that if the pitch that he was challenging when the count was three two, if he was confident that it was actually ball four. Umpire called it strike three. This is his quote. He said, not really, but the situation told me I need to challenge. I thought it was a close pitch, but you got to challenge that one. Especially with the bases loaded, two outs, we're down in the game, and Jordan is hitting behind you. You've got to take a chance, end quote. I take back everything I said before the season about my nervousness or anxiety over Altuve using the ABS system. I apologize to Jose Altuve for conflating his ratchet base running for what his. Just what his decision making at the plate would be with the ABS system. He's been outstanding. He's used it, as Matt Kawahara points out in his article in the Chronicle, he's used it way more than he had forecasted he was going to use it before the season. Nobody's had more. More turned over calls, you know, successful, successful challenges. Thank you. Then Jose Altuve. But that quote right there, that is the thought process. That is how you. You hitters who are challenging oh, one pitches, stop it. I don't care what time of game it is. You stop challenging. Oh, one strikes, stop doing it.

[Sean Pendergast]

That going to be happy about this. I know you weren't watching the game.

[Seth Payne]

That quote from Joseph. Oh, is this gonna. Is this gonna turn the tables on Altuve?

[Sean Pendergast]

No, no, no, no, no, no. Not on Altuve.

[Seth Payne]

Okay.

[Todd Callis]

Okay.

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[Seth Payne]

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[Sean Pendergast]

Christian Walker got out there and challenged. I. I honestly was the first pitch. He was successful. He was successful. He got up, he rectified, he got off the. Whatever psychological glitches he may have had.

[Seth Payne]

Oh, my God. Anyways, so, yeah, the. So, yeah, I love that when Al says, yeah, I wasn't real confident, but you got to challenge that because it's bases loaded, two outs down in the game, and most importantly, Jordan is hitting behind you. You know, that's. That is a challenge worth losing. You know what I mean? Like, if you lose that in a strike three and it's the end of the inning, I can live with that. Because all these challenges, like most of them, are within a, you know, a fraction of an inch. So I'm still amazed that some of these guys are so like Isak Paredes. Being as good at that is what he is. And I would have predicted that because he's, He's a very discerning hitter up there at the plate. But I love that quote from Altuve.

[Sean Pendergast]

Altuve. You know, what we failed to recognize, you know, when we were forecasting this before the season began was that. Oh, yeah, let's remember Altuve is awesome at the plate. He does. Look, he's got. He knows when he's chasing, you know, he knows when he's. When he's reaching way out of the zone because he's capable of making those hits. So I didn't worry about his actual judgment about whether it was going to be a ball or a strike, but we did worry about his decision making. And yet we know he's great at the plate. Yeah, he's not great once he's on the base pass.

[Seth Payne]

Right.

[Sean Pendergast]

So this falls into the category of, okay, this is all still at the plate.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

So we should have. We should have known and recognized.

[Seth Payne]

That's true.

[Sean Pendergast]

Once he gets onto the base pass.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

That's where the problems begin.

[Seth Payne]

The batter's box is his safe space.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah. Getting onto the base pass. He has. He's great at that. It's what he does when he's on them. Yep. That's the issue.

[Seth Payne]

Yep, yep, yep. He's good at taking the reservation. He's not good at keeping the reservation. Yeah, yeah. Here was Joe Espada after the game last night. He said the Altuve at bat, the walk was the at bat of the game.

[Sean Pendergast]

The Altuve challenge turned out to be a pretty, pretty huge.

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[Joe Espada]

I'm glad that you brought that up because I thought that was like the bat of the game. It was not the grand slam. The grand slam was pretty awesome, but it was the bad by Altuve saw seven pitches and you could tell, like, Joe Ryan was getting really tired. You know, after that, I bat. He used a ton of pitches and Jose really squeezed him out of, you know, and then Jordan, obviously, with a. With a big blow. But Daltuve at bat was the at bat of the game.

[Seth Payne]

Boy, that is the thing too. He touched on the Joe Ryan aspect of it there. Joe Ryan, who's basically the ace of the Minnesota stats. And we feel that. I feel that a lot. Like we're, we're in an age, an era now where fans are just way more in tuned with pitch Counts. I mean, it's there at the bottom of the screen growing. When I was growing up, there weren't pitch counts at the bottom of the screen. You didn't. You weren't sitting there, like, looking at the pitch count going, oh, boy, I sure hope we get five out of this guy or get six out of this guy. Guys just pitched. So now you're more in tune with it. That is a demoralizing thing when you have an at bat and your pitcher throws eight or nine pitches in at bat and loses that at bat. Yeah, that's a big deal.

[Sean Pendergast]

You feel. You really. You understand how much of a greater loss.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah, you're right.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah. Keeping track of the competitive at bats, it's one of the better. It's one of the ways the viewing experience has changed for the better, I think. Yeah. Like, it kind of helps you. It kind of helps you be more intelligent without having to work at it.

[Seth Payne]

It does. It stresses me out more, though, man. Like when they lose those at bat, like when an Astros pitcher lose a nine pitch at bat, I'm like, no, but.

[Sean Pendergast]

See, but. But the flip side of it is that it makes you really appreciate the EOC paradises of the world.

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[Sean Pendergast]

Or the, or the Alex Bregman, you know.

[Matt Kawahara]

All right.

[Seth Payne]

Okay.

[Sean Pendergast]

He's making them work. He's. He's getting that pitch count up.

[Seth Payne]

That's exactly right. His.263 batting average is different than other guys. 263 batting averages.

[Sean Pendergast]

You know, Christian Walker just. I just had to fact check myself, be sure my memory wasn't. It wasn't harming me. It was. Yeah, it was an. It was an O1 count.

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[Sean Pendergast]

First pitch, he challenged it and he was successful.

[Seth Payne]

Okay. And then if you're successful, all's well that ends well. Like, I just think it's empirically, that's just a dumb thing to do. Unless it's just a completely. You know, unless it's just a really just abhorrently bad call by the umpire.

[Sean Pendergast]

I don't know. You know, they. They say that they've got a strategy for which, you know, when did you use it based on leverage, etc. Etc. I mean, there were two outs, I suppose, and whatever.

[Seth Payne]

What? Well, they have a strategy, too. There have been some good articles about how the Astros use that. And I thought the most interesting part was they have a book on the umpires, too. Yeah.

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[Sean Pendergast]

Last night's umpire was. He's one of the most accurate in the league. So that was where initially I was kind of surprised, too, because in the first is the bottom of the first and Walker's up. And, you know, callous had mentioned a couple of times, and I think. I think callous kind of slyly thrown a little shade at two nights ago umpire.

[Joe Espada]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

But just brought up a couple times how this is one of the most accurate via the tracking in the league. And Walker got it right up and made an accurate challenge.

[Seth Payne]

So I saw people, people who I think are intelligent. I saw people saying that. That Christian Walker got hosed on that challenge the other night. And I'm like, what are you talking about? He looked into the dugout and took like, three seconds to challenge. Like, he didn't get hosed.

[Sean Pendergast]

I don't know. I think.

[Seth Payne]

I thought it was a good call.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, he didn't get hosed on the challenge. He got hosed on the call.

[Seth Payne]

He did.

[Sean Pendergast]

He did.

[Seth Payne]

He did. He did. I saw people saying that he got hosed on the challenge. Part of him. Like, how can you say that? He looked.

[Sean Pendergast]

That was like, by the letter of the law. I mean, Espada didn't complain about it. No, you know.

[Seth Payne]

No, no, he didn't at all.

[Sean Pendergast]

Like, Espada basically conceded. Yeah, he looked into the dugout. I was given. I was giving Christian Walker a little bit of a break just in that. Okay. I can see his head turn towards the dugout. I don't know if he was actually looking at the dugout. Right. Spada just flat out said, yeah, he looked at the dugout. It was just. That's the very letter of the law is you're not allowed to look at the dugout before you make your challenge. So I don't. Yeah, I don't. I haven't yet seen an explanation for how he actually got hosed with anybody. Like, I haven't seen a good explanation for it.

[Seth Payne]

Someone said.

[Sean Pendergast]

Just like I. It. It doesn't make any sense.

[Seth Payne]

Someone said Cam Smith challenged the first pitch last night, too. And one. I don't know if that's accurate or not, but that would be on brand for Cam Smith challenging an 01.

[Sean Pendergast]

Cam ended up. Cam had a good night. I mean, Cam's had a good few games.

[Seth Payne]

Had a night. Yeah. Well, I said that yesterday, the game two nights ago. And this brings me to a broader take on the Astros. But the game two nights ago, where Cam hit the two home runs and they were two bombs. They were both over 400ft. Maybe. Maybe this is Cam kind of coming around here and being the hitter that they thought they were ultimately going to get. Maybe not right away, but ultimately thought they were going to get when they traded Kyle Tucker for him. I think that my. My biggest thing that I like about the Astros as a team, Seth, over the last, I'll say, week or so, is that they've kind of had that feel of the Astros early in the season where it didn't feel like they were out of any games. You know, the couple of those games in that Detroit series were comebacks, late comebacks. The two wins on Saturday and Sunday were both late comebacks. Monday, they didn't win the game, but they scraped some stuff together. Scrape some stuff. I mean, they hit two bombs in the bot in the bottom of the ninth inning. They didn't win the game. But if Christian Walker had successfully challenged that pitch, maybe that game goes to extra innings and then even yesterday they fall behind early and then they're able to put a big inning together. And I mean, obviously you get Yournan Alvarez hitting a grand slam, and that cures a lot of ills offensively, because that was the only inning they scored any runs in was in the fourth inning. They scored all six of their runs in the fourth inning, and four of them came on one swing of the bat. But I think that's something that's, you know, the lineup feels like it's lengthened a little bit here. It's not just the top three or four guys doing stuff. You're getting contributions from some of the other guys down in the order. Taylor Tramell and Cam Smith. Delgado's had some contributions last week, get sent down to Sugar Land and called back up because of the Pena Il stint. So that's, that's the. The big thing, too, in the last week is they've shown much better resiliency. I mean, you've cited that stat a few times prior to. To this past week or so, which is. For most of the season, they've been terrible if they've been trailing seven in the seventh inning or later in game.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah. For. For the better part of the first half of the season, they don't.

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[Sean Pendergast]

It was like 2 and 17 or something ridiculous when trailing in the seventh inning. And part of that is. Yeah, when you. I mean, when you couldn't trust your bullpen whatsoever, that. That's obviously going to make a big difference. And they've just. You feel so much more solid about everybody except the Brayus still, when you get into those final couple. Couple innings right now. Yeah, Cam Smith challenged the first pitch. It was. Yeah, it was the first pitch on an oh and one count. I think. No, I think this is where is you and I learn about how teams are handling the abs.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

I think the thing that I've started to realize is that the we. We act like an 01 count is we act like it's no big deal. Why are you challenging it? I do think that teams are way more. I think they're actually looking at that first pitch as is one of the better times to challenge it, to have a clean slate. If you feel get ahead of the

[Seth Payne]

count, maybe certain guys are more comfortable, you know, batting from ahead. That makes sense. I'm still gonna get angry when I see it happen, but I. I'll accept that.

[Sean Pendergast]

I'll accept the speed at which you can turn into a dinosaur these days has accelerated dramatically. So you got to be careful on this.

[Seth Payne]

You're right.

[Matt Kawahara]

You're right.

[Sean Pendergast]

We got to be open to, you know, checking our biases and everything.

[Seth Payne]

You're right. All right. We've got the latest on the Brendan Sorsby situation. I think this was the most practical ending to this saga for everybody involved. And with that in mind, Sourceby is going to be part of the 2027 QB class. How closely should Texan fans be watching quarterbacks on the collegiate level this year? Curious what people think about that. We'll discuss that coming up next. Oh, by the way. Baseball Talk on Sports Radio 610 presented by Xfinity. Score the most reliable Wi Fi 1 price, five years guaranteed. Xfinity.

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[Seth Payne]

All right, Pain and pender gas. We've got, I guess, the closest thing to a resolution to the Brendan Sorsby situation. Brendan Sorsby, the would have been quarterback for the Texas Tech Red Raiders this year, except his addictive gambling habit came to light several months ago and he ended up going to rehab for that. He's fighting it every day. He fought the NCAA on their making him ineligible, successfully got an injunction, and then the Big 12 boat up on him and Texas Tech said, hey buddy, why don't you go in the supplemental draft in the NFL? We're not in this for this, this level of a fight with the. Because it looked like the conference was going to be successful in litigating their way back into him being ineligible.

[Sean Pendergast]

Or at the very least, it was going to be an every week type of scenario. Yeah, like it wasn't going to be stable or good no matter what.

[Seth Payne]

Right. So the school encouraged Brendan Sorsby to apply for the supplemental draft with the NFL and become an NFL player this year. The NFL said, no, we're not going to have a supplemental draft. Sorry, this gambling is an issue for us. So they essentially kind of functionally ended up suspending him for the year by not allowing him to play in the NFL. He can't go back to college. He can't play in the NFL. The cfl, the Canadian Football League, said, we're not going to take you. So I think this actually works out best for everybody involved. This is Adam Schefter tweeting this. Yesterday afternoon, a memo was sent to all NFL teams saying that the NFLPA And Brendan Sorsby will not be pursuing any further litigation regarding his entry into the NFL. And instead Soresby will focus on his preparation for entry into the 2027 NFL Draft. Sorsby will be considered a draft eligible player for the 2027 draft. He will not be eligible to sign a contract until after the draft. He's, you know, so he's basically, he is basically a, an NFL prospect now for 2027. Also as part of this set, they're going to allow him, the NFL, to be part of the combine to do all the, the, the, the in person visits to teams.

[Sean Pendergast]

They're going to basically treat him like time's been served. He's going to be able to follow the normal progression of a draft.

[Seth Payne]

He's a, he's a college player who's not playing in college this year. Yeah. So.

[Sean Pendergast]

Well, you know. Yeah. I kind of look at it almost like a guy that got injured or something. Right. You know, with something that's not going to threaten his career. So he's just gonna have to miss a year. So I, I think this is the biggest thing. Like we had said this, a lot of people had said this. He's gotta stop acting like he's the victim here and you're not gonna curry any favor with the public or anybody else at large. The only people who are really sticking up for him were lawyers because of crap that nobody really wants to think about as far as how the process played out and everything. There was no question about whether he had committed the crimes, so to speak. He was just litigating over whether he should have to serve a lengthy punishment. And nobody, like, nobody has an appetite right now to say, oh yeah, if anything, you know, players should have even less of a punishment when they are found to have gambled on their own team.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Like there's just. You're not going to win that.

[Seth Payne]

No.

[Sean Pendergast]

In any arena other than with the attorneys that are also sports fans.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

And they're not cheering for you, they're cheering for the process. So this is, I think it's probably the smartest for him. And it does look, it's a murky gray area. Nobody's really comfortable with it now that gambling is so common and present in sports. But the, just the, the notion that somehow he would have been able to bet on his own team for. And, and get away with just two meaningless games for a suspension. It's not good for anybody.

[Seth Payne]

No, no. And I, the NFL, the, I was again, you know, I was a little surprised they didn't have a supplemental draft. I thought they would, I thought they would have a supplemental draft and punish him coming into the league like they did with Terrell Pry and that Terrell Pryor and I think that's a distinction. Terrell Pryor coming into the NFL with a five game collegiate suspension hanging over his head. That was for something. That was for something that quite honestly would have been legal now that was for like tattoos and extra benefits that he got. This was the NFL realizing wow, we are flying way too close to the sun on this gambling thing. If we let this kid into the league this year.

[Sean Pendergast]

There's still, and yet, I mean there's still some inconsistency and we're, we're in, you know, the natal stages of all of this. Keisha Booty after he got drafted was found to have gambled on LSU games when he was in college. And the NFL didn't do anything about it. They just let it go on and proceed. So Keisha Booty never got it. So I mean I like they probably. There may have been a case for it but it would have gotten, it would have been another thing that's just dragged out forever, you know. And Brendan Sorsby's agent or excuse me, Brendan Sorsby's lawyer is the guy who fought to have Tom Brady's Tom Brady suspension reduced or eliminated after Deflategate and he was successful. But then that was struck down and ended on. It ended up being just a years long saga and I don't think that that would have served Brendan Sorsby. Well.

[Seth Payne]

No. So. And Sorsby actually put out a statement yesterday. This. I'll only read the first paragraph of it. It's two paragraphs, you know, the second paragraph is about how he's looking forward to this journey and the, you know, no, supplemental draft is not going to affect him. He's getting ready for the draft. I thought the first paragraph was the closest thing I've seen to Brendan Sorsby of really owning what he did. He said there's been a lot of news about me out here and I want to share this statement to clear things up. I accept 100% responsibility for my actions. I did not have control of my gambling problem and it took getting caught for me to realize that. But it was truly the best thing that could have happened to me. Because of this I've been able to get the help I need and fully focus on my recovery. Now where, where it's where he's at in his recovery only he knows that. Again as he Himself cites this was sort of a forced recovery because he got caught.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

You know, this wasn't him realizing an epiphany of his own, like, oh, I really need to go get help. This was. He got caught. So I feel that. I still think if I were an NFL team, I would still have some questions, big questions for Brendan Sorsby and just how recovered he is from this. How much of this was truly recovery and how much of this was PR to, you know, try to enhance his stock in what would have been a supplemental draft if it had happened?

[Sean Pendergast]

No. And I think that's where, like, somewhere along the way in the next eight months, you're going to get a couple of nice little probably well polished documentary pieces or something about Brendan Sorsby and his recovery and all of that. I mean, that's the. I guess that's. If you go through the psychological part of, okay, does it matter that much whether somebody got caught and then they rehabilitated themselves versus, okay, they realized that they needed help? I think it was a natural human tendency that, yeah, if somebody just comes forward and says, hey, I've got this problem and I've realized it, you're going to buy into it a little bit more. But ultimately, that's not how you can judge whether a guy is actually recovered and totally.

[Seth Payne]

No, that's why I say only he knows. Only.

[Sean Pendergast]

I fell for some engagement bait yesterday, which was, you know, when people write these, like, who knows if it was a real tweet or not, but it was a woman who was complaining on Reddit about how she'd been married for 10 years and she screwed up once and cheated on her husband and that was it. He didn't give me any chance. We didn't go to counseling or anything. So, of course people get into arguments about it. So when I put myself through that psychological torture of imagining, oh, what would I do if my spouse cheated on

[Seth Payne]

me, I do think, what'd you come up with?

[Sean Pendergast]

Well, I think that. And I do. I know somebody who went through this scenario, and I get it. And maybe I didn't get it as much at the time because we were young and in our, you know, early 30s or whatever. Like, so I had a friend whose spouse cheated on him, but it was one of these things. They'd been married a while, and it was like she came home and immediately told him because she felt awful about it. And like, so she completely. Just, like, it was obvious that she had screwed up. She felt awful about it. They had issues in their marriage, etc, Etc And I could easily see how this would have been a divorce.

[Seth Payne]

They had issues before that, you're saying.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was like the fact that she came forward with it because she genuinely just, she couldn't live with herself and told him immediately after the first transgression. That matters a little bit because somebody gets caught cheating.

[Joe Espada]

Yep.

[Sean Pendergast]

And yeah, they're claiming that this is the first time they've ever done it. All right.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah, sure.

[Sean Pendergast]

Okay. Yeah. So I think there is the self confession does matter.

[Seth Payne]

It does. I totally agree with you. I want to hit the question that I teased into this segment also because the Sourcebee thing got me thinking yesterday. We have not had to really, from a Texans perspective, follow the collegiate quarterback.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

Class for a few years now. Now, this class in particular is going to be fun to follow, even if you were a jillion percent certain that C.J. stroud is the guy moving forward. Because it's a deep class. At least right now it's forecasted to be a deep class. These things can change. So I think just in terms of being a football fan, it's going to be a fun class to watch. How closely should we be watching it through a Texans lens this year, this quarter? This quarterback class, which they're saying has at least five, maybe seven or eight guys that are first round talents in

[Sean Pendergast]

it, I think there's a meter that's going to vacillate from week to week. It's a, it's a frog. It's a CJ in boiling water scenario.

[Seth Payne]

Yes.

[Sean Pendergast]

I think that CJ Is our frog in boiling water where we're not going to think about it, we won't think about next year's quarterback draft class. And unless all, unless the water over the course of the first four or five weeks starts getting hotter and hotter and then all of a sudden we're going to realize, hey, why are we not spending more time on next year's quarterbacks?

[Seth Payne]

Right. Right. Yeah. No, if he gets off to a bad start, that's going to be a topic.

[Joe Espada]

How about this?

[Seth Payne]

Okay, so they're running a promo on the station right now. When you and I, you and I had a conversation last week, I think it was where I asked you, like, what's your appetite for extending CJ Stroud right now? And I think you and I were kind of simpatico on it, which is, I think you said like three and a half or four. How about this as a mathematical part? If CJ is a four on a scale of one to ten to Extend. Then the other six, six out of ten is how intently we're going to be watching the quarterbacks at the collegiate level.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

So let's say we get.

[Sean Pendergast]

So I'm already at a six out of ten.

[Seth Payne]

You're under my theory. Well, I guess I would be. It's up to you if you want to subscribe to that part of the theory. You and I are in the same, I think, range on whether they should extend C.J. i think what I'm going to do is say, wherever CJ Is on the contract O meter, like, if he gets up to an 8 at some point, we're like, oh, yeah, they got to extend him. If we're at an 8, I'm still going to be kind of watching at a 2 out of 10 collegiately, you know what I mean?

[Sean Pendergast]

I think the. This is the interesting mathematical theorem. Early in the morning, I'm a little bit just in spending more time just kind of thinking about it against my will, but because there's nothing else do to. To think about right now. You know that, that $55 million mark we've talked about that the quarterback market, by and large, has been stuck at $55 million, except for a couple of exceptions for the last three years, which is a long time for a position to stay stuck at one figure, especially that one. Next year, you've got at least six quarterbacks who might potentially get extensions. So you've got C.J. stroud and Bryce Young, you've got Jaden Daniels, you got Caleb Williams, you've got Drake May, you've got Bo Nick. I'm probably missing somebody. Well, of young quarterback.

[Seth Payne]

Young quarterback, I was going to say, because Lamar Jackson's going to get one.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, right, right, right. Well, Lamar Jackson, that's a whole nother debate, you know, like, they haven't really made any moves at all or talks about that. And we know that the Ravens have kicked the can down the road before. That's true. So. But Lamar Jackson might be in that cat.

[Seth Payne]

There'll be a veteran or two. Yeah, yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Oh, no, no, no. Lamar, they have to. Yeah. You know, you're. I was thinking of Jalen Hurts. Yeah. They've got to do something with Lamar Jackson. Yeah. So that's seven.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

And then maybe, maybe, maybe Hertz as well. Yeah. So it's gonna go up like, it's gonna. It's gonna get up into 60 or 65 million. So if they did sign him now at 55 million, I would feel. I would feel like, okay, well, you're you know, you're hedging and maybe saving a bunch of money, but it's still a huge chunk of money for a guy that you're obviously not 100% certain on. And I would prefer. I'd rather pay the premium next year.

[Seth Payne]

I would, too.

[Sean Pendergast]

And be certain about it and feel like I'm getting a discount. It's like, then you're just like some sucker who buys something because it's on sale.

[Matt Kawahara]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

You know?

[Joe Espada]

Yep.

[Sean Pendergast]

Oh. Oh.

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[Seth Payne]

Toast sounds so good. Right?

[Sean Pendergast]

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[Seth Payne]

Yes.

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[Seth Payne]

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[Sean Pendergast]

I've been. I've been relative. Mostly off refined carbs for a while. Yeah. But we have a house guest right now and who likes bagels, so he bought a bunch of bagels and, man, it's been testing.

[Seth Payne]

I was gonna say.

[Sean Pendergast]

Oh, I've never been as tempted to stray from marriage than I have been by that bagel.

[Seth Payne]

You've not eaten a bagel yet, huh? You got them in the house?

[Sean Pendergast]

They're sitting right in there.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah. Oh, starving.

[Sean Pendergast]

All right.

[Seth Payne]

Paint and pender gas.

[Sean Pendergast]

Cheese and everything. Paint and pender gas all lined up. You know, Brandy's a very good host. She's got the. The bagels, and then in the fridge, it's the cream cheese and the butter right next to each other.

[Seth Payne]

All the fixings. Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

All right. We'll throw some scallions.

[Seth Payne]

We'll get to some. We'll get to some headlines. The men's tea clinic brings you headlines. We'll get to that. Coming up next, including some breaking news with the Rockets. They got a point guard, huh? Too little too late for some, but they did. They did just have a signing within the last couple minutes. So we'll have that for you, Astros. We'll hear from this. The Stroz last night. All that coming up in headlines next.

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[Todd Callis]

High deep to right field. All the they back it good. Put four on the board for 44 of the Astros lead this game six to three. Donald Ball game over. Astros win it six to four, winning the first two games here against Minnesota

[Sean Pendergast]

and moving back within two games of 500. That was a nice win with all their runs coming in one inning.

[Todd Callis]

Blumer.

[Seth Payne]

All right, there you go. Todd Callis on the call there. Space City Home Network. Astros win last night six to four. Hey, real quick, just to pay off on the Rockets news, which we'll dig into in a second. Rocket signing Marcus Smart as had been forecasted for the last couple days. 2 years 13 million. So they get a little little more depth at point guard. We'll get to that in a second, but we Bump in with the Astros. They beat the Twins last night, six to four. The big swing was the one that you heard coming into the segment there. Jordan Alvarez with the Astros trailing three to two in the fourth. And the bases loaded. Hits a grand slam. It holds up. They go on to win six to four last night. Here was Joe Espada on Jordan Alvarez.

[Joe Espada]

Yeah, the ball just went over the fence. So he. All of a sudden he's back. No, he's been here all along. He just. When the ball doesn't reach the grass, he's walking.

[Todd Callis]

He's.

[Joe Espada]

He's passing the baton to Paredes. Paredes passes to Walker. That's some good players do, good teams do. But trust me, that was fun to see that ball go over the fence.

[Sean Pendergast]

Hell, yeah.

[Joe Espada]

And he hits those balls again. Catch some balls out in front. That line drive. 115, his first hit. Yeah. Just getting positive results from those balls in play.

[Sean Pendergast]

You sound a little Schrager like there for a second. Oh, hell yeah.

[Seth Payne]

Oh, yeah. Jordan Alvarez is this fun young player.

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[Sean Pendergast]

Alvarez. This fun young, creepier with time.

[Seth Payne]

That is not getting any less.

[Sean Pendergast]

Doesn't get one bit better.

[Seth Payne]

It does not.

[Sean Pendergast]

We all. I almost feel like we. He might have a case for a lawsuit or something. We just keep playing that without context.

[Seth Payne]

Maybe the. The Astros currently Seth 26 and 17 since the pain and Pendergast reset on May 15th.

[Sean Pendergast]

That's got to be like. Is that like 100 win pace? 98, 98, 98. If they had started the season on May 5th. Unfortunately, baseball abides by not being able to eliminate games from earlier in the

[Seth Payne]

season calendar that you gotta keep the

[Sean Pendergast]

first one third of the season matters. Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

Two games back in the division. One and a half games back in the wild card. So they're hanging around. You know, they need to go on a little run here at some point. And it's the Rangers now that are leading the division. The Mariners are who they're trailing in the wild card race, but in the division right now. The Rangers have gone on a little bit of a run here. Astros will play them in about a week, week and a half, something like that.

[Joe Espada]

So.

[Seth Payne]

So they'll get their shot. But they win last night over the Twins and the rubber match will be tonight. I believe tonight is an IMAI start.

[Sean Pendergast]

So, yeah, I think I would just by virtue of Chandler. Rome just wrote a piece by EMI about EMI and how he turned it all around. I. I put it in the show prep. We can discuss it later.

[Seth Payne]

I've got it open to take a look at. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

I guess. Sie built at Bulls are apparently a big part of it.

[Seth Payne]

Saee bowls one liners and deep, deep boughs. How Tatsuya Imai has gotten comfortable with the Astros. Deep bowels, deep bows, B O W s. I'm assuming it's. It's. It's boughs he's talking about, not bows. Yeah, you know, I don't think he's, you know, got bows.

[Sean Pendergast]

It's a racist assumption, but.

[Seth Payne]

Well, it's.

[Sean Pendergast]

You're a racist. A son of a. I'm gonna tell you that. Tell you that much right now. You just assume because we're talking about the Japanese pitcher, and then nobody ever talks about bows in the context of baseball. You're just assuming.

[Seth Payne]

Come at me.

[Sean Pendergast]

I can't believe it. Ben, Ben, bring up the HR tab so we can file a complaint.

[Seth Payne]

No, I'm putting a dump. I'm putting a chair underneath the door. They're not going to pull me out of the studio. I'm going to stay here and do all four hours with that take.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah.

[Seth Payne]

So the Astros win last night. Let's get to the NBA. And the Rockets. Yes, they. They made a signing last night. They signed Bogdan Bogdanovich, a 33 year old. He's been around forever. He was with the Clippers last year.

[Todd Callis]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth Payne]

One year deal for 33 year old that's been injury prone. But he can shoot. They need shooters. He can shoot. We'll see if he stays healthy. But Bogdanovich. And then this morning, just minutes ago, they signed Marcus smart to a two year, $13 million deal. The second year is a player option. Smart is an older player. He. He came into the league in 2014, so he's played for the Lakers. Last year. We saw him in the postseason in that series against the Rockets. If. If Mark is Smart, if it turns into a situation where Marcus Smart is your, you know, your starting point guard, because there's issues with Fred Van Vliet in the knee. That's not great. And yet it still would be much better than what they were doing last year with the point guard situation. Mark.

[Sean Pendergast]

Right, right.

[Seth Payne]

He can at least get the ball

[Sean Pendergast]

over half court having an actual point guard, even if he's not. Yeah. Trying to, as Dana Brown said, cobble it together. You know, instead of just bringing in a guy who can pass and dribble, we'll cobble it together and have a bunch of guys who can't pass or dribble be your point guard. So, like, okay, give me a guy who can pass and dribble, play some defense. I feel really old now that Marcus Smart is an old player.

[Seth Payne]

Yes.

[Sean Pendergast]

I mean, it was 2000, it was 20, 22 when he won the defensive player of the year. And that's. That's long in the rearview mirror.

[Seth Payne]

By now he's 31. Or last year was his age. 31 season. So he's. He's gonna be 30.

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[Sean Pendergast]

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[Seth Payne]

That's a problem.

[Sean Pendergast]

I guess that's a problem. You're not allowed to be called older at 31 anymore in the NBA, I don't think. I mean, it's just. It's. There's so many guys that are thriving in their mid-30s.

[Joe Espada]

Yep.

[Seth Payne]

So the Rockets make a couple signings there. LeBron is not going back to the Lakers. That was announced yesterday. So this will be fun to see how long LeBron strings this out. You know, it's been a while. Been a while since he's been able to do that thing where you're a free agent and you can seek some attention and things like that be the topic.

[Sean Pendergast]

He could do another decision. You know, I would watch. I think you could. He's kind of made fun of himself for that. They had some ad campaign around it, didn't they? A couple years ago, he was like, on. He was announcing a decision and it was like, I'm gonna. I'm gonna eat this brand of chicken wings or something. That's what it was.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah. Was it. Was it for Wingstop?

[Seth Payne]

I don't know if it was chicken wings, but I remember the. Him doing a commercial where he was mocking himself.

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, yeah. So I think he might now, if he does it for charity, I'd be in on that.

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[Sean Pendergast]

It'd be kind of fun.

[Seth Payne]

He did the first time. It was the. The Boys and girls club of like, Right. Somewhere in Connecticut was the beneficiary of that. So.

[Sean Pendergast]

But then it just felt like he was almost using the kids as props. Look a little bit less self. Self worshiping than it is.

[Seth Payne]

If anything, it made people angrier, you know?

[Sean Pendergast]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You brought kids along to this atrocity.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

Now I think you could actually do it as long as you kind of. Of poking fun at himself.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah. I think he was ahead of his time. I think we live in a time now. There's so much that was in 2010.

[Sean Pendergast]

Now you got like high school kids when they make their decision, making a huge production.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah, no, that We. We live in it like that. We live in much more of a content generation phase now.

[Sean Pendergast]

That's true. 2010, the majority of adults would have still been really embarrassed to be seen taking a selfie.

[Seth Payne]

Yeah.

[Sean Pendergast]

And now it's just the standard like that.

[Joe Espada]

That's.

[Sean Pendergast]

That's what you do, human beings do in America, what you do.

[Seth Payne]

Kawhi Leonard going to be headed to the Toronto Raptors.

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[Seth Payne]

We'll get into LeBron a little bit more and the Rockets in the next segment. It's like, I'm curious what Rocket fans think. Watching all these other teams make moves, watching these superstars kind of fly off the board. It's.

[Priceline Advertiser]

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[Seth Payne]

For me, it's not been a great offseason for the Rockets so far, even with the two signings in the last 24 hours. So we'll get to all that real quick. Mexico wins last night in the World cup. They beat Ecuador 2 nil. US tonight against Bosnia and Herzegovina. 7 o', clock, the knockout round of 32.

[Sean Pendergast]

I see. You know, I love the knockout round because now we're out of pool play, which I despise.

[Seth Payne]

You despise pool.

[Sean Pendergast]

I don't like having to keep track of stuff. I like single elimination. Maybe. Maybe a consolation round or something, but make the. Make this game matter for something.

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[Sean Pendergast]

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[Sean Pendergast]

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[Seth Payne]

We're now to the Seth Pain phase of the. Of the world.

[Sean Pendergast]

Simple seters.

[Seth Payne]

There you go. All right, heading into the 7 o' clock hour here, we mentioned the Rockets. The off season so far. I. It is. It's not.

[Sean Pendergast]

I.

[Seth Payne]

In my opinion, it's not been great for the Rockets for a few reasons. Even with the signings they've made in the last day OR so and LeBron James announcing he's leaving the Lakers, who's the leader in the Clubhouse to get LeBron? And what. What is his Laker legacy compared to some of the other guys?

[Sean Pendergast]

We'll.

[Seth Payne]

We'll discuss that as we launch the 7 o' clock hour here in just a few minutes.

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