Jeremy Branham & Joe George

Jeremy Branham and Joe George broadcast live from the Huntington Bank Studios on ESPN 97.5 and 97.9 HD2, and this feed carries the show in pieces labeled by hour. It is Houston sports talk that runs in two registers at once. One is close analysis. Looking back at an Astros series-finale loss to the Rockies, the pair pins the game on a single bottom of the sixth: a leadoff walk from Isak Paredes, a Carlos Correa double down the line, runners on second and third with nobody out, and then nothing. A weak grounder kept the runner at third, and back-to-back strikeouts ended the chance. Their complaint is about situational hitting, and they make it batter by batter. The football talk runs on similar arithmetic: whether extending players like Will Anderson and Derek Stingley early leaves room for the next contract, and what share of the cap each deal takes up. Rockets talk is about matchups, including how the Lakers might hunt a favorable one in the half court or try to make a series ugly on purpose. The Rockets' postseason keeps coming back as a headline question, in hours titled 'How Much Pressure are the Rockets Under this Postseason?' and 'Which Rockets Have the Most at Stake This Postseason?'. The other register is the studio itself. Producer Brian McDonald, introduced as super producer and also called Tremack, runs a 'Who said it?' quiz built from quotes by station regulars, and the show cheerfully admits that most people hate it. He also sets up disagreements on purpose, saying after one exchange that he knew Joe would like a point and Jeremy would hate it. Texts read out under the tag 'Junkie says' get quick rulings. One fan who claims the Eagles, Patriots, Chiefs and now the Seahawks is told the show is not doing 't-shirt fandoms'. Bets get named early, a Cubs-Mets over among them. WrestleMania weekend competes with Rockets-Lakers for attention, right down to a debate over which one gets the TV and which gets the computer. The guests cover the same range. Astros voice Todd Kalas comes on in an hour that also asks 'Was Dusty Baker Right About Yainer Diaz?'. Former WWE co-president George Barrios joins in the run-up to WrestleMania. Crissy Froyd appears in an hour titled 'Will Anderson PAID + Crissy Froyd on Firing from USA Today After Russini Tweet', and the pair say they wanted her on to hear her side of the story. To start, the Todd Kalas hour shows the inning-by-inning side, and the hour titled 'Why Doesn't Cam Smith Have a New Contract Yet?' has the quote quiz.