Rockets Escape With Win Over Cavs, Bregman To Tigers Talk Gone Cold, Cowboys Closing In On New Coach

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Show, se ten oh two in Agetown. Good morning, and
welcome to a Thursday edition of The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. This is Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Three, The Three Tories and Terrrius Darling an shooting motion.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Free throw shoot. Jerome hands it to Carlin the three pointer.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
For the win.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
He has found and hits the front rim.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
The clock.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Show's two point eight seconds left.

Speaker 6 (00:45):
Okare you go?

Speaker 7 (00:46):
There's your miss, Firsus the miss, and he missed two earlier,
so it's this is not in the bad I'm.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Reading the right numbers here. He's a ninety percent free
for sure. He was fifth best in the association coming in.
Here's the second throw. That's as good.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Oh my goodness, Jacky, what a night for Darius Garland
to have his worst free throw shooting ever as.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
An NBA player. You've been giving a nine fly out
of Playton one O nine, one O eight. Cavaliers have it.
They have no timeouts. Here we go Ti gerom on
the sideline, Jay Shawn Taylor guard of the inbounds bounce
past left side, Mitchell's side pocket three short the foot back.
No good as well for Garland and the Rockets. Baby

(01:41):
it's got through. It was strange magic. There was a
spell on Darius Garland. The Rockets MVP last night was

(02:02):
Darius Garland, a top ten free throw shooter, missing a
plethora of free throws, including two of the three that
would have given the lead to the Cavaliers three of

(02:24):
eight from the free throw line. Everyone else was ten
of eleven on the Cavs, a ninety free throw shooter misses.
You said five free throws. Those are Dwight Howard numbers
three of eight. Ooh, it was strange Rossy. Rockets got
away with one and how good morning. It is the

(02:48):
bad top of show A title five. And yeah, I
did go Bobby Brady on the very end of that,
but that's just four hours of radio in a two
and a half hour, highly dramatic basketball game with Bobby Brady.
I didn't uh, that's what you know, Bobby Brady. His
voice would would when his Peter Brady, Peter Brady, not
Bobby Brady, was Bobby Brady. I don't know, Yeah, Peter Brady. Yeah,

(03:09):
that was My testicles have dropped, clearly his did not
back in the day. But that's seven hours of being
on the radio. You hear them out. You hear how
sultry sound right now? You sound great, Matt, Thank you
very much. The quiet still, Yeah, just talk like that
the whole show. I mean, I guess I could don't
don't no, no, okay, say words that sounds okay, So

(03:33):
now no sound effects of what you're saying. Okay, all right,
that's good. Hey. It is a Thursday edition of the
Matt Thomashelle Ross. We really appreciate y'all spending some time
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(03:54):
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to us and interact with the show. At seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety as the Rockets beat
the best team record wise in the Association. Yes, in
a game where they frankly, I mean, I'm not going

(04:14):
to mince words here, they should have lost the game.
When you when you give up a ninth Is it
a nineteen nothing run last night? Yeah, I think it
was nineteen nothing at one point. When you give up
nineteen consecutive points in the fourth quarter, you're supposed to
lose that game. When you foul a three point shooter
and then you don't give him a spot to land,
you're supposed to lose the game. And that was, by

(04:37):
the textbook, an absolute flagrant foul penalty one the correct
call for sure on Tario Easton there and on top
of that, ROSSI the Rockets Shing Goon got away with
one when he pushed aside. Uh yeah with Jared Allen.
Jared Allen. Jared Allen fouled him on the way up

(04:58):
on a jump hook. They didn't call that. Yeah, But
as the ball was going through Alt British Engoun was
not overly pleased with the fact that Jared Allen found
him and no whistle came, so he pushed him to
the side fell down. Yes, it wasn't a flop, now
that that Jared Allen, He's not built of bricks. He
did fop a little bit, but he sold it. Let's
put it that way. As I would have looked at it,

(05:19):
that looked to me a push and it would have
been a worse and easy case of a technical foul,
my guess would have been a technical foul, which had
been one free throw. They got away with that one.
I it was a fifty to fifty one that one
to me because there was a little bit of a
Jared Allen cell job. Yeah, and maybe the officials saw that,
but yeah, the Tarry Easton foul and God blessed Tari said.

(05:41):
As soon as the game was over, he's like, I'm
going to the locker room as fast as possible. Yeah,
I'm going to run and hide from all of you
because I committed a first of all, fouling a jump
shooter that far out with that little time left and
then not giving him a landing space. Was that could
have been a potentially a five point play and they
got one single point. Yes, and the Rockets won. Oh

(06:02):
my gosh. That was fun though, although you did drag
the last two minutes with all the reviews, Yeah, it did,
but you know what, they were three for three in
the reviews. The review system absolutely worked, and the Rockets
still holding on the second place. Boy, it is going
to take everything and then some for the Rockets to

(06:22):
hold on the two spot. Memphis is not going away
with the three, although you've got three wins against them.
Denver's playing excellent basketball. They're the four spot and they
have been playing good and even the only time you
beat them lately, well you had one chance so far
and it was with no Nicole Jokic on the floor,
So you took care of that business. So that's a
win against them. That you're gonna have three teams that
legitimately think they're going to be the second best team
in the Western Conference. Yeah, it's gonna be tough. You

(06:44):
want to swim with the big boys, is what's going
to be like. And it's you know, the great greatest
part of it all is that we're talking about the
Rockets in this conversation with the likes of the Memphis
Grizzlies and the Denver Nuggets. Where last year we're like, man,
we got a road win. Be nice. Get in that
tenth spot ahead of Golden State Warriors would be cool. Man.
We got to go in the nine to three to
get to that tenth spot, go ten and one to
get to the eighth spot. No, I mean, we're this

(07:07):
is it. They're going to the playoffs this year. Yeah,
they're going to the playoffs, certainly top six. I want
top four though, top four, and I'll be happy. I like,
I like to be home because we're not gonna be
home much the next two weeks. I feel like I
said that two weeks ago, eight out of nine games
on the road, and we just finished a stretch of
like seven of nine. I don't know how well. We
better have a boatload of games in March that are like,

(07:28):
we don't leave the state because man, I feel like
I've done nothing but travel the last few weeks. I
can't believe what I'm saying this, but I've actually missed you. No,
I don't believe it. That's true. I would never saying.
Both stretches are four games and six nights, so it'll
be interesting against some very tough competition. Yeah, the next
road trip is all playoff teams. Atlanta is not considered
a serious threat, but they're still a playoff team.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
And it's on the road. Yeah, back to back after
playing it the Boston Cethics the night before another T
and T game.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
That's a late start too. That means eight thirty more
close to nine o'clock and Craig Ackerman hanging out on air. No,
Craig's coming home. Oh wow, that's rude. I know they
stayed around with you. He stayed around for me. And
in Sacramento he's like, Noah, but workers, we're going to Portland.
That's the last game of the road trips. So they're like,
they're going home early to their TV divas. I see that.
They're like the A team of television. Yeah, they're radio.

(08:16):
They're our radio divas. That's exactly right, coming up at
two o'clock. Yeah, we love them. It was a good name,
good show yesterday. Did you listen to all those different coaches. No,
they were at the Bear Brian Award yesterday. I'm sure
it was great and it was really interesting. I was
good to get a PERSPI. I mean, get look, we're
not the hotbed of sports topics around these parts, so
they get all these really good coaches. SMU coach was
on Army Coaches on Boise State. The only a hole

(08:39):
was Indiana coach. Well, he was rude. He was just
off putting. What's his name, Kirk kirk Cernetti or something
like that, Kirk cauz Signetti. Yeah, Kirk Causcinnati. You were
lucky to be into the playoffs. You got your ass
kick about an under dame. You had one chance to
prove to America you guys could beat somebody. And he
was Ohio State and you got your ass kick there too.
And of course Clainton went to the you know, Indiana

(09:00):
known for basketball school. That's that's what get him, That's
what probably got him over the top, was going to
the old basketball school. Card there's nothing worse. Well, Clinton's
not wrong, He's not wrong. Are you kidding me? Indiana?
When has Indiana football meant anything except Lee Corso and
Kirk Lee Corsi in the seventies. And he wasn't even
good at that good of a code, no sudden. I mean,

(09:21):
can you name a great Indiana football player. I'm sure
there's been a few. Yeah, it's not coming on to me.
There's that one guy who played football. Okay, that was
no great example. That was called filler right there. But
point being is, it is a basketball school and it's
always gonna be a basketball school. So Kirwan Randall, well
that's who I was really trying to think of. I
canna shut your boy mass up. I forgot Trent Green. Really,

(09:45):
Trent Green went to Indiana? Tracy Porter, what ac was?

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Right?

Speaker 2 (09:51):
It's not. It's not a football school. We've always been
a football school. No, you haven't. You've been the Big
Ten five. You're like the Vanderbilt of the Big ten
front Who Jim Snyde dead? Now we're done. You can't
pronounce it right? All right? Did you watch the Rockets game?
Did you listen to the game? Did you enjoy the
basketball game? Speaking of basketball, Mike Cougars gave up thirty

(10:13):
six points in forty minutes. They're looking good? That is
that's that's Franklin cruel punishment for a basketball team to
fly from Salt Lake City to Hear and put up
thirty six points stifling Final four? Ready defense, headed your
way to San Antonio. That's right, Houston Cougar's will put
my name on it. Let's go, Koog's putting your name

(10:35):
on it. Final four to just put my name on it? Yeah, wow,
let's go. Well you do that every year. I'm not
gonna write that down. You really probably shouldn't. Oh, connormc
govern is back. That's good. Two road games coming up
against ranked competition. Who are theykes Kansas and Western Virginia. Oh,
that's tough roady there. I've never been to West Virginia.
I have no idea what it's about. Most people haven't

(10:57):
about coal miners and cigarette smoke, right, yeah, yeah, bring
your musket and your coonskin cap. Yeah, and they sing,
they sing, uh taking down country. Right. That's a that's
gotta that's a good bit. That's a jam. Oh are
you kidding me? That's a two A jam. Right, I'm
pro John Denver. Yeah. I don't think we drafted that
on two AM James when we did Fantasy five, but
that should be up there, oh for sure. And that's

(11:18):
a karaoke a lister too. Yeah, there's a lot of
overlap between two AM jams and karaoke. Oh yeah, matter
of fact, I gotta put that down on my list.
My new songs are gonna be take Me Home, Country Roads,
and I'm gonna go with a little fast Car as
well for a look at car. Yeah, okay, you go.
You hang out with me with karaoke. People love it exactly.

(11:39):
Why don't want to hang out with you? That's not nice?
Ten four let's go hear some bad singers. Let's I'm
not a bad sing Hey, you know it sounds great,
horrible singing all night in your ear. Let's go out.
I'm a former All state choir singer back in the day.
Thank you, Mary Mud You a bad singer. Geral the
others are a bad singer, like Craig and myself included.
Oh you are you?

Speaker 4 (11:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:56):
You you don't see. I take it somewhat seriously until
the booze starts to kick in, and then I don't
take it very serious. The booze, Yeah, it's not boo
booze b o z e. All right, rockets, would you
like to I would like to have a deep dive conversation.
Maybe not deep dot, but how about you say that?
He man, that was a fun game to listen to
our and or watch seven one three two one two
five seven ninetie seven one three two one two five

(12:17):
seven ninety ten to fifteen. It is a mount of
Timins show Ross and this is Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
We have the second best record in the entire Western
Conference in the city Houston, the third best record in
the NBA in Houston Texas. Are you energized, are you
feeling excited? Or are we still very much Houston like
in a wait and see mode. That's what I'm asking
you today, the great citizens of Houston, the great sports

(12:53):
fans of the city that we call Sports Talk seven Nintie,
Matt and Ross with you at seven one three, two
one two five seven one seven one three. If nobody
calls it, that means we've just not got anybody let's
care about the Rockets. So I listened to Sean Salisbury
today weekday morning, and they have and the guy John
that calls and he calls us occasionally to okay, he's

(13:13):
an elder statesman probably, I mean he's got to be
at least sixty five, okay. And he started his call
he said, I called y'all yesterday and said, I'm not
going to watch the NBA anymore because this this, this this.
So I was watching the Rockets game last night. I
was like, he in no time fled. Did he tell
you that he doesn't do something and then immediately he

(13:33):
does that. We do that a lot in sports, you
know that, And I'm guilty of it in my own regard.
I always tell you I don't want to watch those
TV shows in ESPN, but the hot take machines. But
guess what I'm doing day at nine o'clock in the
morning when I'm a hotel on the road, get ready
for your our show. I don't want to guess I
turn Well, besides doing that, I I turned on to

(13:54):
see what's going on. I'm that's We're all guilty of
things in sports that we say we're not gonna do,
but yet we do. So I've admitted mine. Oh here
we go, John, you admit yours. What is something you
tell us that you don't do but you wind up doing?
After all, I said I wasn't gonna watch the college
football playoff, but it was on, but we were all
just kind of watching it snowed in. Yeah, so you're

(14:15):
saying if you were not sown in, it was a
normal sixty degree day in January that you would have
had a coat. In the background, I think we're the
king of we're not going to watch something like For instance,
the one thing that I'm very proud of as a
radio host is I've told you just saying no to
the Pro Bowl, whatever it's been, flag football. I watched
the Pro Bowl. I'm not doing that, and I haven't
done it. I'm very happy that I've been able to

(14:36):
be ground viewing. I'm not gonna get all invested, like,
oh my god, this is the greatest dodgeball game I've
ever seen between NFL athletes. It's fine. Something flop, I
got news. I'm I'm gonna go to Comedy Central find
something else to watch. Okay, you want to watch the
seven hundred reruns of the Office or seven hundred reruns
of South Park.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
That's all.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
It's on that everage channel anymore. I could put Bravo. Honestly,
the Real Housewives of Said City. They have no original programming.
Oh except for I think Daily Showing. Maybe that's it. Yeah,
they still run old snls. They still do that. I
don't think so. And what does They used to have
their own shows, Chapelle Show and I don't know, Key
and Peel, you know what it is. Don't want to
spend the money on those. But I don't want to

(15:12):
spend the money. They get enough ratings off of old
Office reruns and that's fine. So basically, anything fresh and
interesting goes on the Peacock, it goes on the Paramount Plus,
and it goes on Netflix. Who are all Amazon? Netflix?
How about Netflix? Going with making the announcement, the press release.
We have the highest amount of subscribers ever. Look at
all this money we're making. And then two days later,

(15:34):
by the way, we're jacking out our price. I didn't
see that part. They're going up the bottom of the barrel.
The ad the one with ads is going up a dollar,
and then the premium package is going up two dollars.
Which one do you subscribe to? I had the premium
because I like the four K content. Okay, I don't
know what we do. I mean, my kids use all
the netflik. I just have to cancel it. You're not

(15:54):
gonna do that? Why not? There's too much good stuff
on there. There's not that much good stuff. Get football
to be yeah, exactly, No, I'm good. There's two football
games of year. Is a new season of you coming
out soon? The last day I finished up on Peaky Blind?
Is I can? I got Max? I just accidentally, not accidentally,
I signed up for Paramount Plus yesterday, so you can
get rid of that in thirty days, right. I canceled it? Oh,

(16:15):
I literally signed it up for it and cancel it? Okay,
all right? Back to the Rockets. Are weeks? Are we
a little excited? Are we like? Eh, Matt, I don't know,
an NBA guy, I mean, I'm not going to force
it down your throat. I'm just telling you that it
felt like sixteen thousand people were excited about the game
last night. They were in the building. What how was
the crowd because on TV it didn't look like it
was a great crowd. It was. It was not a

(16:35):
sellout snow day. Yeah, people are still a little airy
about me driving in. I mean they were. I think
general sense I got from people yesterday was we'll get
back in the cars. We're kind of kind to stay
in our neighborhood that if you live downtown or close
to downtown, you made the trip. But I would be
it'd be safe to say that most people that live Woodlands, Cypress,
Katie League City wasn't making the drive in the downtown. Well,
Gordy said, everybody from Perland was making the drive and

(16:57):
getting in recks. Yeah, we don't even know. And the
Tona Center getting it did take a long time to
get out of the arena last night, and I think
it's because people were just a little apprehensive. Some ice
on the roads and shadowy areas and went on the
way in for me today. All right, So I'm gonna
ask one more time and then we're gonna move on
because the phone lines are not full, they're empty. There's

(17:20):
not a single person. I'm sorry, Matt. We haven't caught
rockets fever yet. Maybe we always got the week off. No,
they don't mean no. Everybody's back at work today. The
kids are back at school this star. Yeah, absolutely everybody.
That's great. Nobody's out. I'm here. I know you. You
and I worked the whole time. I know Sean and
Brian worked, although they were they were home the last

(17:41):
couple of days and then you know, Adam and then
put some time. They did what they could. Yeah, they
wanted to do it. No, No, that that they Monday
was not their fault. No, it was others, but not
their fault. All right, seven one three, two one two
five seven on night. Now, Connor, you were off the
last couple of days, although you were podcasting like a
fool place update in the website. He's like, I'm getting

(18:02):
my hours. Yeah, He's like, I'm gonna still I'm still
collecting to check working palatial Humble he's not in decent
Uh what else? Hmmm, Oh, we'll get to Joe mixing
here a little bit. So did you hear what's going
on with Joe Mixon? The fine? Yeah, so he gets
fined then the end, and I guess the NFL when
came back and said, what do you mean you find
you on what you We thought we heard you say,

(18:23):
but we did hear you say something, so we're still
gonna diing you. They're still gonna find it.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Oh, PA's got to get involved, see how this goes.
Oh yeah, do you want to set a goal for me?
Account this out?

Speaker 8 (18:31):
Boy?

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Joe twenty five? G's no, he's fine, he can afford it.
What's he making you? What's what's his salary for you?
I was like twelve, twelve, thirteen or something, So thirteen
million dollars for a guy making twenty with a twenty
five thousand dollars?

Speaker 9 (18:43):
Fine?

Speaker 2 (18:43):
What is that on the comparison list? To you and I?
It's lower, but you have to remember he's not making
that for the rest of his life, so it's different. Yeah,
this is his biggest shot at big contracts, but no
one's shutting it. Three year twenty seven million dollar deal. Okay,
it was annoying. Nine to man, that's you know, what's
good value. That's probably the best thing that uh nick

(19:04):
Case's done. Yeah, I mean the the Stefan Digswell was questionable. Well,
it was questionable, and then he tore his ac. All
that's bad luck. Yeah, but it would have been nearly
as questionable for me as if they would have not
if they would have kept the original contract as played.
Instead of like, yeah, we know you're you know your
history of being a malcontent. After a while, we're gonna

(19:25):
knock it down to one year and see how much
you'll love it. They did, and he was great for
a while. He was good on the field, and everyone
loved him in the locker room. And then we lost
a second round pick over it. It was it was
an extra second round pick. The second round picks are
treated extra second round Nesia did not treat it as gold.
He treated it as like a crypto. He treated it

(19:45):
as crypto has been going up. Man, you're always trying
to say you were right on cryptos going up and
up and up over one hundred thousand dollars. I go
to the grocery, I campaign crypto. Yeah, you could I
remember seeing it? A bitcoin of atm It's a lot
of work. Okay, just give him a go go to
old fashion remember one hundred and five g's Now you
can quit your job. Then you got oh you got

(20:06):
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Speaker 9 (21:47):
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Speaker 2 (21:47):
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Wait a minute, but okay, So what do I get
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It starting very very soon. Hey, Yeah, I got here
in thirteen minutes, got a couple of lights, okay, I drive?

(23:13):
I drove fifty nine King would drive to fifty nine
and maybe get off a cavalcade. M cavalcade? Cavalcade?

Speaker 6 (23:22):
You all right?

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Did you make it? It made me turn left at navigation.
Oh my god, you have a bulletproof car. I went
navigation to forty five. Yeah, forty five to ten, ten
to six ten, Connor, you got my drift on this
right man. The ways app and the Apple maps will
put you in all sorts of strange ass directions to

(23:43):
save you forty five seconds. Yeah, it's terrible.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
I was like, do I really need to get off
a cavalcade?

Speaker 4 (23:50):
Was it not?

Speaker 2 (23:51):
LORI copy not available for me? Was Gentsen Drive not
a better alternative? We have some people that want to
talk some Houston Rockets basketball, and we do that no
better than the place that the Rockets used to call home,
San Diego, California. Johnny on seven ninety Johnny, literally, good
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Speaker 4 (24:07):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
No.

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I just I can't stand listening to a grown man beg.
So I figured I'd appease you by calling in with
a Rockets call.

Speaker 11 (24:17):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (24:18):
But then you started, you know, going to commercial and whatnot.
But I'm sitting here. I waited for.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
You, Johnny I'm first of all, I did beg because
I love this basketball team and I think they deserve
some attention. So if it's a beg, I begged you,
and you've came through and delivered for that, we thank you.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
Yeah, no worries.

Speaker 10 (24:34):
I would have watched the game last night, but you know,
I guess NBA doesn't like flexing a top three matchup
into a national coverage.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
What was it? What was the ESPN game last night?

Speaker 4 (24:46):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (24:46):
I know it was. It was Minnesota. You know it
was Minnesota Dallas, which Dallas has no players left, so
that was a great idea.

Speaker 10 (24:51):
Yeah, well I had the Oh, I'm not going to
give him money.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
I have one of.

Speaker 10 (24:56):
The satellite streaming apps. Did a search for their name
and they'd ask for money, so I close the app.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (25:06):
No, there's the more than casual basketball fan. You know,
I obviously don't work in Houston, but a lot of
different people from a lot of different areas, fans of
different teams, and they're is starting to get some national
respect for the Rockets seeing where they're at, where they've
been maintaining as far as their physician and the rankings
and the young talents. So they are starting to get

(25:28):
some respect nationally.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Well, let's good, yeah, because it's so funny every time
you turn it on. You know, the Major League Baseball
Johnny has a problem throwing the Yankees and Red Sox
down our throats every other day. I feel like we
get nothing but Golden State, the Lakers, and the Celtics
on my national TV games.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
Precisely.

Speaker 10 (25:50):
Yeah, well, good chat with you guys. I'll let you go,
but a great show. Thanks for entertaining me on.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
My driving Thank you, Johnny, very much, appreciate it. Love
San Diego, well, I mean I literally love San Diego.
Put me in a Cornadal Islands, take me there and
never let me come back. I'm okay. That sounds like
the fancy Matt lifestyle. Well, I mean, what would you
want me to stay? Although the real fancy Matt lifestyle
is just glombing off of other people's luctury, like the Rockets, yes, oh,
by the way, tonight's TNT doubleheader, heat Bucks, okay eh,

(26:21):
and Celtic Lakers, of course. I mean they couldn't have.
Problem is you can't flex out of Central time Zone
games unless you move the time you could have moved.
You could have said goodbye to Minnesota Dallas and put
Houston Cleveland on it.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
Sick.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
We would have played the game at six thirty last night.
We could have done that. Okay, yeah, maybe that's fine.
I do believe with the way the Rockets are playing,
there's going to be some more national TV games. There
is there already are. This wasn't always going to be
the next week's game. Wasn't supposed to be? Yeah, Houston
Memphis always well, they just moved back. They moved it back. Yeah,
I moved it back. It was supposed to be at

(26:56):
six thirty. Now it's going to eight thirty game. What
about the one that was last week? Sacramento was always
on the schedram. We've always had two shut up. That's fine.
I mean so we we don't we sometimes we spit facts,
so we don't know how accurate. I did it for
a living. What about the ear It wasn't it They
picked up some game, didn't It was an ESPN game.
I can't remember. Mmm, No, I don't think so. I'm
just making this up. That's fine. I'm fake news. You

(27:18):
are fake news. That's fine. By the way, speaking of
fake news, there's no problem with fake news. I want
to get some fake news. I forget this phone call, okay,
because I don't know how I'm supposed to believe this
or not. One and Katie, I'm seven ninety at ten
thirty nine one. Good morning to you.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
Good morning guys, Good morning guys.

Speaker 12 (27:32):
I'm a long time listener, first time called.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
One.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Thank you very much, much appreciated.

Speaker 12 (27:39):
Yeah, for sure, guys. So, man, look, I'm a big
Rockets fan. I always been Rockets fan. I'm die hard,
I guess you could say. But man, it's been tough.
It's been tough past two three years where I couldn't
even watch the games, to be honest with you. And
this year, man, they picked it up.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
They looked really good.

Speaker 12 (27:59):
Defense is solid, offense is getting there, but it's not
all the way there. And honestly, then I think a
lot of it comes down to is that the NBA
is just is Sometimes it's really hard to watch, to
be honest, But but that look, I'm a big Rockets fan,
and I hope they, you know, keep making this push

(28:20):
and you know where they're sitting at right now, they
can make some noise in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
I hope you're right, let me ask you real quick
before I let you go on. Well, you say it's
hard to watch, give me and you don't have to
give a great detail, because I mean, everybody has their
own opinion, and you can't change people's opinions largely. Give
me the one or two things in your mind that
makes the NBA hard to watch.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
I think it's all the fouls. All the fouls.

Speaker 12 (28:45):
I mean, I'm you know, I'm from the old school,
so I like, you know, I'm like watching you know,
the fifth goal, I guess side of it. Whenever you know,
you can go in the pain and you know, crashing
the pain and things like that nature. But now now
it just seems like any kind of touch it's about.
And that for me, that was kind of a draw.
Like I watched Rockets, but like if it said the
other team it's hard for me to sit.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
I get it. That makes that makes sense. Well, and
thanks again for the phone called nice here for me.
Don't be a stranger of the show. This year, there
are eighteen point nine personal fouls per game.

Speaker 6 (29:19):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
In nineteen ninety six it was twenty three, I mean
nineteen ninety five, twenty three. The NBA game twenty five,
twenty two. It's about what you think. The perception is.
The NBA game you wrong, Your perception is wrong. Is
much more fluid today than it was twenty years ago
when you had NBA games. In nineteen ninety six, you
had ninety seven ninety two games where there were fouls

(29:43):
and free I mean, you know, it's hard to watch.
And I hate to say this because I do love
my Houston Cougars, but watching a just a good old
fashioned average college basketball game is painful. We were talking,
and Connor, sorry about this. Your beloved Missouri Tigers lost
the Texas Longhorns a couple of nights back. Neither team
shot thirty seven percent from the floor. They were both
sub thirty percent. I think it was thirty one percent

(30:03):
from a zoo and like thirty five percent for Texas.
That is impossible to watch. At least there are shots
being made. I thought last night Mitchell took over at
times for the Calves. Uh Darius Garland did, and then
Fred van Vliet, who look by his own emission and
by all of ours, has had a sub par season
shooting wise. It's a couple of huge jumpers. Last year

(30:26):
was the fewest personal fouls per game in NBA history.
This year is the second fewest. Yeah, that's just perception.
That's just not there. That's exact. That sounds like something
that that's something. That's one who doesn't who checked out
in the NBA because he thinks he sees something and
it really is not there. But that happens in a
lot of things in life. We always think that things

(30:48):
were better than they were. Absolutely, Like if you went
to a bad restaurant, I had a bad experience there.
I'll never go back. Why is it because the service
a beat? Well, if you've gone nine hunderd times, the
service is great. You wouldn't know about it because you
haven't seen it. Our kids snacks were better, our kids'
TV shows were better, movies were better. Everything was better
than it once was. Yeah, it's natural, it's natural. But

(31:08):
I would encourage one to look. I don't really care
if you listen, if you watch any other NBA game. Frankly,
it doesn't you know impact me. You do what you
want to do television wise. But I'd give the Rockets
a look. Now, there are nice where they don't shoot
very well, but the last week or show so they
have been shooting very very well. They've been fun action
pack games. They're playing against a good competition, they're beating

(31:30):
up who they should be beating up, and they're playing
competitive against playoff teams. They beat the number one team
yesterday who was thirty games above five hundred entering the game,
and they played tough, physical, old school basketball, very good defense.
I yeah, look, I understand people have checked out and
they're going to stay checked out, and they're going to
have their misconceptions or preconceptions or whatever. But you know
what that is. If that is the case, Ross, if

(31:51):
that is indeed the case, then the NBA has got
to do whatever they can to try to change that
scenario out there. It's not my responsibility, it's not your responsibility.
That's a that's something that Adam Silver does have to
figure out. Because the ratings are down and I think
the product is really good. I think there are marketable
starts that they need to be marketing better. But if
you if you are a generic NBA fan and you're

(32:13):
gonna put the game a game on tonight, I guess
what you're gonna watch it nin o'clock, not you'renn watch
You're gonna you're gonna flip around. You're gonna find Lebron
on and if you don't like Lebron's style, you're gonna
tune out. You don't want to want to watch a
forty year old who complains about every call and flops
and falls down and gets hurt. I mean, yeah, I mean,
I see, I see it. He's not that bad of aim.
He's not. I don't I'm just saying those that don't

(32:34):
like Lebron, those are the characteristics of him. Ten forty
four on Sports Talk seven ninety This is the Matt
Thomas Show seven one three, two one two five, seven
ninety is how you reach our show today? I just
don't get it. Ross's at eleven thirty today. I simply
ask you, what don't you get a lot of things
news at noon, believe it or not? Today at one
fifty category to be determined, we're gonna talk about Joe

(32:59):
Mixon's fine foules per game. Well, I'll name a year
and I'll give you the fouls for GAA history just
the worst.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Ten seven ninety mattic Ross return return on Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Ten fifty on the Matt Thomas shaw I mentioned this
rumor and I don't get into celebrity gossip ever. But
it's just flooding my and again my guilt for you.
Tap for some reason, you've seen this rumors about President
Obama and Michelle and Jennifer Aniston. No, I had not
seen those rumors until you brought it up at dinner,

(33:47):
looking counter shaking his head. You've seen it. He's disappointed
in you. Had you seen that, Connor? Had you heard
that anywhere? It's all I haven't even heard of that
sounds ridiculous, now, Michelle Obaka, I put Jennifer Andison, Barack
Obama into Google. Yeah, these are the top hits. The
Hindu stand Times, the Times of India Coming soon, dot net,

(34:12):
and the Economic Times. I've never heard of any of these.
All right, I'm on a Google.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Here, here's a Yahoo one from two days ago. All right,
let's just put a Barack Obama in by himself, like
Obama and it shows a picture of him and his
and let's see that. Yeah our room. Oh yeah, Hindustan
Times are rumors of an affair with Jennifer Anison effect

(34:36):
in the Obamas. Oh apparently on Jimmy Kimmel Live, she
said I met him once I know Michelle more than him.
Oh okay, so this is a rumor, then what I
don't I'm just I folded out as a pure roomor.
I didn't treat it this fact. I just said, it's
just it's just inundated my timeline of because you know,
Michelle did not show up at the inauguration. Yeah, but

(34:56):
you're spreading rumors, Matt. Now somebody's gonna now somebody's just
heard that. They're gonna be like, hey, did you hear
the rumor? Did you hear about this? So you're letting
it catch like wildfire? I'm not, and it's totally baseless
and untrue. I think, wait, wait, you just you just
soft sold it. I don't know for one hundred percent fact,
I don't know. That's why I brought up as a rumor. Okay,
you know what. I also heard a rumor. I heard
a rumor and name the songer singer, I don't know

(35:20):
who it is. Say you got a broken hot all right,
what's going on? I heard George W. Bush's with tory
spelling really well, that wouldn't surprise me, toy, it's got
a lot of kids.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
I also heard another rumor I heard it. It was
Bill Clinton and Ai Siri heard there. Yeah, okay, I
actually was it was Bill Clinton and flow from somebody
took two names out of a hat, Barack Obama and
Jennifer Aniston. It's gaining steam, all right. No, yeah, it's
gaining steam because you were talking about it. But I'm

(35:52):
a little am radio. You and the hindustand Times are
on the same page. Go to Twitter, see what's going
on there. It's out there. Okay, I'm moving on with
me on your for you tab. Alright, that's true.

Speaker 4 (36:04):
All right.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Uh So the NFL yesterday ross this happened during our show.
I believe find Joe Mixon twenty five thousand dollars for
some comments about the officiating that he did not make
that a former teammate of his actually not a teammate
but a former CINCINNTI Bengal have been teammates. I don't
think so. TJ. Housman Jada, Who's whoj Hush Mazoude, miss Mazada,

(36:30):
who was a referenced mostly during Your Fans Football? Is TJ.
Tjho's your daddy. Yes, he's the one that said yes.
So apparently the NFL is like oh man, we were
so sorry. We goofed. Well, they're still going to find
him twenty five thousand dollars, but they're going to take
his original comments that he did say and say that's

(36:52):
what we're fighting him for. So we're still going to
ding him even though we miss dinged him, and we're
trying to fight in the comments right now. We're gonna
try to play for here in just a little bit.
Oh you have Actually, here's here's what Joe Mixon really
said after the Chiefs game on Saturday, and this is
what they really meant to find on the twenty five
g's everybody.

Speaker 13 (37:13):
Know how it is playing up here. You can't you
can never leave it. You can never leave it into
the ref's hands. But I mean a whole world see man,
like what it is, bro, But it is what it is.
You know, like I said, when it comes down, So
you can't never leave it into the ref's hands.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
I mean, was that all that bad? You can never
put the game in the ref's hands. That means we
got to make more plays. That's what Joe Mixon is saying.
Literally he's saying that, but you can clearly read between
the lines. It is like we're going to have to
go against them too. But here's here's problem. If you
and Doka said the rest need to put their glasses on,
he got fined fifty thousand dollars. For my point is

(37:57):
that if the NFL goofed and said we thought you
said this, then it should be the under the my
bad category. You shouldn't be finding him after that, But
they still are. You didn't say a but we found
some stuff that we thought was not very nice either,
So we're still gonna find you the twenty five thousand dollars,
not gonna have to drop in a bucket to him.
But still you goofed. You misquoted somebody saying that. And

(38:21):
if I was a player association, if that was Joe
Mixon's agent, I'm like, the hell you're getting my money?
You you you placed you placed me at the scene
of the crime in which I was not there. I
made a comment on the crime, but I didn't. I
didn't commit the crime, and thus still gets the twenty
five thousand dollars. Fine, it's just little, it's a little
hokey from the NFL. It's ridiculous. Now E may I

(38:45):
tell them to get some glasses that's fifty g's well spent.
That was pretty fuck like. If I was gonna get
a fine about anything, Ross, I would make sure you
knew ahead of time. Ross, I'm gonna say something right
now that's gonna get me fined. Stay out of the way.
A Rockets coach em Doka told John Goebel referee to quote,
get some effing glasses. That was the classic of all time.

(39:09):
No need to misunderstand that. There's no need to are
oh bit. I think it's awesome. I think it's awesome.
All right, that was the first hour already done, Rossie.
We moved quickly by let's go, let's get some more
people involved in Houston. Okay, what do we have coming up? Matthew?
We have Texans O line conversation endless now, that'll be it.

(39:34):
That'll be a stop gap for that. No, we want
to listen to that. We have the Rockets winning last night.
We have NFL playoffs on Sunday. Are these now? The
NFC to me, doesn't have the sizzle man the AFC
Championship game. NFC doesn't have sizzle. Washington, Philadelphia, a rookie

(39:56):
Jayden Daniels trying to march to the super Bowl against
Jalen Hurts and the Eagles who've been there, done that.
I'm intrigued. I'm not saying it's intriguing, but let's see,
it's the opener, it's the opening act. The headliner is
in the NFL. Got it right, they put they knew
what they were doing. The knew what they were doing.
She builds the five thirty on Sunday. It was a
pretty good opening act, Matt. It's not bad. Yeah, it's

(40:19):
like having Stevie Nicks before Billy Joel I get it
in her prime. Oh yeah, not now ooh signent live,
do not do her any favors? Yeah, yikes. Seven one
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Speaker 1 (42:06):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
Eleven oh two on Sports Talk seven on it. You
know what, Aaron Glenn got hired as the Jets coach yesterday?
You know, we forgot to mention that Rex Ryan thought
he had the job. Remember though he was basically guaranteed
he's gonna get It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Rex has had a tough offseason. First of all, he
called the Texans game against the Chargers of bye for
the Chargers, for the Chargers, and then he's like, I'm

(42:31):
gonna get the Jets job. Hmm. That's a shame. He
really put his foot in his mouth, or he put
other people's feet in his mouth. That's what the fetish is, right, Yes, ugh, man,
I've heard of some fetishes, but that's sway, Matt. You
don't have to kick shame people. Oh really, so it's

(42:54):
just perfect and normal for good to have a foot fetish.
I don't know, I guess it depends on what you
to it. Dare I Google, I'm on my work laptop.
What percentage of people if you have a foot fetish?
Let us know?

Speaker 8 (43:07):
Seven?

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Please do not okay? Oh god, oh god, please don't
get me flagged by HR What something startled you? What
is it? Um feats in tote of forty seven percent
of people who said they had fetishes. So this is

(43:29):
forty seven percent of thirty three percent, So that's one
third of people have some one bird have a fetish
of something. Half of those so that's what sixteen percent,
sixteen seventeen percent? Matt, All right, wait a minute, yeah
you would you just confuse the audience, so I think
you just did. So okay, let me get this. Can
you tell me one third of America has a fetish

(43:50):
of some sort. That's what this says. That's what Wikipedia says.
And then of that one third, this is from the
University of Bologna. Oh is that they also reporting about
Barack Obama John Frankison. Common fetishes for body parts or
objects associated with body parts thirty three to thirty three
thirty percent, foot, feet, and toes were preferred at the

(44:14):
greatest number forty seven percent of those sampled preferring those,
so forty seven of thirty three percent, so it's a
fair number of the minority that have fetishes of some sort. Uh,
let's move on. You did this. You're right, I did.
I'm gonna try to exit as fast as humanly possible,
so that would be wait, hold on, Oh now you're
trying to add it all up. Yeah, yeah, fifteen point

(44:36):
five percent. Fifteen point five percent people have a fetish
foot fetish. That's discussed. Wait a minute, fifteen every one
hundred people we find in America has a foot fetish.
That's pretty crazy. That's crazy. I don't buy. I don't
buy that first set. That's what the University of Maybe
maybe the Italians like feet more. Okay, we have fifteen
people that work at seven ninety, which is the fifteen
of us, have a foot fetish. I'm looking here's looking

(44:57):
at you, Jack, not me. I think feet are disgusting
generally speaking. Connor, who which one of the seven ninety
air staff or production team has a foot fetish? If
it's one out of fifteen, m maybe Wexler. This is

(45:24):
how rumors get started. This is man. This is starting
from Matt Thomas. Last segment are Jennifer and stated Brock
Obama together and the son. Now, somebody listening to the shows, Hey,
I heard Wes a fetish nobody called today and asked
on him he's gonna fight all today? No, you do
not do it from the two o'clock hour team and
ask Adam Wexer if he has a foot fetal seven

(45:45):
one three two. But I'm using your stats one out
of every sixteen people you're saying my stats are from Wikipedia.
This is a estimate estimate from the University of Bologna
I study in two thousand and six. Yeah, I don't
I choose that is that survey is Bolognay, all right,

(46:06):
let's get to it. Let's get back on the page
the you know what I'm I'm look, I'm not going
to get out the beaten path anymore. This is it.
I'm done sports sports, so Connor, anytime I want to
go away from sports, I want to hit the buzzer
and sat me back in because every time I do this,
I get criticized from people like yourself.

Speaker 12 (46:27):
Me.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Yeah, what did I do? You're mad about me reading
about a rumor about Jennifer and Brock. I'm just disappointed. Oh, please.
You read stuff all the time. You don't believe I
don't read it happens. It happens all the time to people. No,
I talk about rumors all the time. I don't read
all the fake news like you do. That's true. You're
you're so your whole for you tab is fake news

(46:48):
and jumbling jumbleees? What exactly are a jumbling jumbleies? You
know what they are? I may know they are, but
explaining the audience what they are? Whole for you, Matt
whatever if I follow them movie, but for me, I
don't follow them. They know what you like? You think? Hey, No,
they got you in the cross areas. Algorithm is wrong. Yeah,

(47:11):
back to sports. There we go, Texans offensive line. Let's
get to it right now. It took one day. Let's
get back to the Texans online. Talk your thoughts. Laramie
Tons a long term viability, he's getting a little bit
up in age, has two track s, grugs the future
center of his team long term. No, can Derek Fisher
be any more than a swing tackle? Hopefully? Yeah, he's

(47:31):
this is boring to me. I'm not doing this. Let's
get to what happened last night. Rockets Jennifer and all
the Rockets go. By the way, got an interesting email.
Two dead games for Jalen Green nine in a row. Yeah,
it wasn't good last night. Really struggled. Who is the

(47:52):
real Jalen Green. We're back on this again. I didn't
want to be here. But we were nine straight games
or twenty plus points now in the line last two
games four of sixteen for ten points. Before that eight
of twenty one for nineteen points. And yet they went
one and one and could have I mean, look, they
could have beat Detroit if it put together any sort
of offense in the fourth quarter, which again Jalen was

(48:13):
in the part. Yeah, yeah, mmm, I just maybe that's
what Jalen's gonna be. Is gonna be Ebbs and flows
guy for the rest of his career. When he's awesome
like he's been for most of January. He's scoring at
thirty points a game. When he duds it out, He's
about uh twelve points a game on four of nineteen shooting,
still shooting thirty six percent from three, which is good
if he can stay there all season. Yes, the Rockets

(48:35):
are going to be good because he's had a month
where he's space it's basically taking him sven games to
get to that number. Yeah, all right. Two of our
email our Wayne lives in Numbles is mad as far
as the marketability of stars, and we were talking about
how the NBA should probably try to get away from
putting the Lakers and the Warriors and the Celtics on
fifteen times a year. They squeezed about every ounce of
juice out of those lemons. Yes, he says Wemby has

(48:56):
no personality. That's fair. I don't think that's true. He
played chess in Central Park one time. Yeah, he seems
like a funny guy. I've never heard him speak more
than a handful of words. I don't seem any commercials
not the commercials make market Billee commercial, isn't he Shohio
Tani is the biggest star in baseball. He doesn't speak
a word of English. But sometimes it's about the Major

(49:18):
League Baseball markets him. But sometimes it's about the play
is so dominating that you by just by being as
awesome as he is, it doesn't worry about putting him
in a commercial on TV show Plus. But I mean,
to my point, Wimby has more personality than somebody that
literally does not speak the language correct. Well, yeah, by default, right,

(49:39):
by default. I'm saying that the NBA can do a
pretty good job of marketing. Would I would, I would
think or a better job. And I think he does
have some personality. I know we hate him, Aaron Houston,
he's the words. We don't hate. No, that's ridiculous. Nobody
hates people. Nobody. Somebody, Yeah, somebody maybe it's got a
foot fetish hates him. No, that's the other, that's the other.
Adom the ver Anthony Edwards, he says, isn't a guy

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that you want to market your kids. Well, I'll say this,
he does not, because he swears a lot on camera.
I think Anthony Edwards is hilarious man, but twelve year
olds is not hilarious. So maybe his twelve year olds,
but the parents don't think it's very funny. Uh, neither
is Jahn Moran or Zion Williamson.

Speaker 5 (50:18):
Fair.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
John Moran needs to put the guns down. Kids love
Jamran by the way. I've seen it. I've seen it
at the kids. There have been dozens of kids hanging
out at the end of games trying to get them
him to sign their jersey. Yeah, that's fair. I was shocked.
I was shocked. I didn't know, but it was such
a big star. It also has to come down to

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what mom and dad wants you to look at too.
He also says you didn't look at stuff and your
mom didn't want you to back in the day, and
now the kids have phones. Gianni's is great, but isn't
in a market that anyone cares about. Um Milwaukee's tough.
I would say Yannis is a pretty marketed market ted
to star. Joker doesn't care about fame. That's accurate, that's
for sure. Steph and Lebron and passed their prime and
most people want the latter retiring goal away. Silver has

(51:02):
a very big problem in his hands, and I don't
think there's a quick fix of solve it. I will
agree with that. And here's the worst part. And I
do respect the NBA. Look, I call the games, and
I love it and I think it's a great sport.
But I do believe Adam Silver's interpretation of what he
thinks is pippel ar and what really is are two
different things. I think he thinks the problem is minimal,
or I think those on the outside are saying, you
know what, you do have an issue. But the problem

(51:23):
is Adam Cibber just signed a ridiculously big television contract.

Speaker 4 (51:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
See, if he didn't get the money that he got
from Amazon and from NBC to broadcast these games, then
he would say, maybe I do have a problem. But
he just got fat contracts for decades for each one
of those who networks. But he's seen the ratings recently
and I think they need to do something, and I
think they have been short sighted and just using surface
level thinking. Lebron gets us ratings. Let's put on Lebron.

(51:48):
It's like, no, you have to market and you plant
the seeds of these other stars who are coming up too.
You got to do you put Yeah, you put a
lot of Lebron's stuff on, but you got to go
with these other guys too. You got to put them
on commercial campaigns. You got to have I don't know,
interviews and all this other stuff. You know what it is.
It's it's it's frankly, it's more about putting the games
on Ross. It's about putting the guys on Kimmel and

(52:08):
the Tonight Show and entertainment Tonight and having you know
him do a Nickel. You know, if Nickelodeon did a
basketball game, or in the middle of the game, the
you know, one of those players put a headset on
it at a quarter or something like that. Okay, I
mean this guy, let's this little thing. Let's get you
in the marketing team. I mean i'd be available. I
mean I'm not busy enough as it is. Tell him
to cut the check. Many. Yeah, they probably made me

(52:30):
start up working eight thirty in the morning.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
Tho.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
I wouldn't want that ten o'clock's emphases. And you're you're
gonna just want to zoomed in shots of everyone's feet. No,
for you're gonna put it on the feed cast on
ESPN three. That's everybody's watching feet. Can you know what
putting alternate broadcasts on? Hey wait a minute, fifteen percent
of people apparently would be interested in poodcast. Yeah, and

(52:51):
then yeah, thank you. No, no, no, he's right, he's
Connor's right. We're trying to fix the NBA with that
was It finishes your not because you get the fetishes
and you get the sneakerheads. That's double whammy. I'm a genius.
Nobody's buying your argument at all. I'm walking off on
that you should walk off. You should be embarrassed for
your productivity or lack there with this show. Seven one

(53:13):
two one two five se I just don't get it.
Bottom of the hour here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
The man Tana Show with Ross continues so on Sports
Talk seven ninety eleven seventeen.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
On Sports Talk seven ninety is a Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. Time now for and Alex Bregman updates man
oh Man losses show. The Bit's never going away. Much

(53:52):
to the chagrin of something this is according to the
I believe the Detroit Free Press, one of the two
newspapers in the train area. Is it the guy that
has beef with Justin Verlander? Evan Petsol does that namering Belgie?
You know, I'll find out. Why would why would anyone

(54:13):
have beef with Justin Verlander? The guy wouldn't answer his questions. Hmm,
probably said, what's your circulation of your paper? You're not
big enough. I won't talk to you. But my gravy
trained brother will see that's not correct. I'm trying to
find it. The Detroit Tigers remain interested, but negotiations are

(54:36):
a standstill with less than one month until the first
full squad workout in spring training is according to a
source with knowledge of the situation, Detroit needs a right
handed hitting third basement and has a payrol flexibility to
lock up a franchise altering free agent. But what's his name,
Evan Petzold? Oh no, it's something different, Fini. Yeah, apparently

(55:01):
the two sides are not moving towards an agreement at
the present time. HM Red Sox stalled, Tigers stalled Blue Jays.
Maybe out blue Jays?

Speaker 4 (55:15):
Maybe?

Speaker 2 (55:16):
Yeah, Man, I love our guy. What's going down, Scott Boris,
Let's ask him. Oh, he's like, we're patiently waiting. He's
a guy can play four different positions for any major
league team. Yeah. I guess they're hoping for something, and
we've got a number that there were No problem is
if you've if you go ask for a number and
you've not budgeted for that number. See praying for a

(55:38):
catastrophic injury to somebody, because we remember we talked about
the Hater deal being late in the game, which what
was that the nineteenth twentieth We already right, that was
also after Graveman got hurt for the year. And my
guess is, if you are thinking about this today, is
what the twenty third of January you're you've already kind

(55:59):
of assembled your spring training roster, not that you wouldn't.
You couldn't make a subtle change without any problems if
you put bring me into the third base spot, and
the Tigers are certainly in need of one. But ownership
ROSSI has a budget and that general manager has been
given that budget. I don't think there's a gaping hole

(56:21):
in the Detroit Tigers budget that says insert this late
January signing for X amount of dollars. Now, every budget,
especially at the ownership level, can be changed because you
don't adhere to anything except maybe a luxury tax situation.
I don't think that the Tigers are in that spot,
never have been. But if you're the Tigers, and again
I don't know they're inner workings of their payroll department

(56:43):
and their budgeting, but they kind of know who they've
got going in now, Bragmant all of a sudden says
I'll take a deal for less money in less years
because I want to get back on the field and
I don't want to be sitting here before the start
of spring training without a baseball team, then you will
certainly make attaminations and you'll all to your budget. But
if you're the Astros, is twenty six million dollars sitting

(57:07):
right now in a two be determined spot on the roster.
Now the Astros have moved on, have they not. It
seems like it seems like they're trying to shed Presley
and they're trying to shed payroll. Yeah, so they can
think about spending money perhaps on somebody else or next warefielder.
Oh yeah, I was listening again to Sean this morning.

(57:29):
They were talking about the outfield. It kind of sounds depressing.
McCormick's OPS is the highest of the three guys. Not
name you on On Alvarez, but Jake Myers subpar average hitter,
Chas McCormick hurt and had a down year power wise,
and Mariso Duban is your utility singles hitter. Yeah. And

(57:54):
I do believe that the more that Jordon plays in
professional baseball with the Astros, the less amount of time
he's going to play in the left field spot he
will be I don't want to say fully DH because
I don't think that's in his DNA, But I think
he'll be what do we elverys say, like an over
under a number of times he'll play in left field,
I would say about forty times, maybe somewhere in like

(58:14):
a four fourth season, somewhere in that range. I mean,
I have no idea, nobody does, but I mean that's
I think that's what they're thinking. That to keep him
upright and swinging the bat and doing things that he's
supposed to do. The less time he spends out in
left field, the better. Yeah, and have him do it
mostly at home, Yeah, where you have to know, you
know where, he knows the Dykin Park outfield wall, he

(58:37):
knows the Crawford boxes. Fifty three games in left last year,
forty the year before. I will take under fifty three
this year and feel very comfortable about it. You should, Yeah,
so you do need to still upgrade the outfield spot.
But again, if you've got a blank space in the

(58:58):
astros foster and payroll, you're not leaving it for Alex Bregman.

Speaker 5 (59:05):
I wonder, and.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
Again we don't even know the situation because we're not
we're not in a workings of this. But do you
think if Alex Bragman called Dana Brown today and called
Jim Crayton and said, you know what, let's buy guns
be by guns. That's six six sounds pretty good. Do
you think that that deals's on the table? I say, no,
it's not. I would I would lean to agree with
you unless you move pretas on to the un change.
I mean, and he's never played an inning of outfield

(59:27):
as a major leaguer. You could also convert me as
a younger guy. You can convert him, you can it
happens and learn left field. I mean, I wouldn't feel
overly confident with that. You would have a defensive issue
out there, whether it was him or Alvarez for that matter.
But at least Avroz has played out there. By the way,
Pete Alonzo is still waiting and waiting and waiting. Do
you know who he's represented by? Don't say it. The

(59:48):
Boris Corporation has has has Scott Morris gone Lee Steinberg
on us here? What does that mean? Because Lee is
buying about stuff his story in his book for about
twenty ooh, that's up. That felt personal. Lee for about
twenty five or thirty years got everybody, got big money,
and then he had a long, long dry spell until

(01:00:12):
he took this quarterback out of Texas Tech as his client,
and Pat Mahomes done quite well for himself. Yeah, he
was also selling us on Paxton Lynch. Remember that. Ooh man,
Thank god Thomas Sports Enterprise wasn't around there, because I
think Lee Steinberg would have convinced TSC to get that happen.
He was convincing was like, man, Paxton Linz could be

(01:00:32):
a ball, or least was. But Lee Steinberg's all over?
Did they want to retire his number for whatever team
he plays for, regardless of what team he's drafted by. Yeah,
but I mean has got Do you think there is
some resistance from the owners about how far Boris is
pushed and pushed and pushed the envelope for so many years.
This would be a second straight year where he's got
too far, slapped a little around a little bit. Except

(01:00:53):
for the Won Soto situation. He represents Blake Snell too right,
and Blake Snell got a big deal. Yeah, Blake did
okay for himself after not getting the kind of one
he wanted last year, but he eventually got it after all.

Speaker 4 (01:01:04):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
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Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
This point.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Wait for an injury? I'd have to know what the
offers are. Yeah, I think waiting for an injury is
a bad plan. Waiting for somebody to get hurt is
a bad plan. Yeah, because just because somebody doesn't gets hurt,
that means they're going to sign you to a seven
year deal.

Speaker 4 (01:01:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
They Again, my thought is, you don't have seven years,
one hundred and eighty five million dollars saying hey, this
contract is on the table, come in this room and
sign it right now. That might have been the case
ross thirty or sixty days ago, but it's not the
situation now. Is he gonna wind up getting a three
year deal with some opt outs, much like the the

(01:01:58):
fraging class of last year got. Maybe, but he's too
old for that. Create did that? He was like twenty seven, right,
twenty eight? Maybe it takes a one year deal somewhere
and Sissle's try this again another year. But if you're
Scott Boris, you can't you can't. You can't brag about
that and the market and the market can't be sold
because the market said we're gonna pay for players. The

(01:02:20):
markets said we're gonna spend some money. The Dodgers spend money,
the Mets spent money, the Cubs have spent money. The
market they were out there, there were teams looking to
spend money. The Blue Jays were in in a bunch
of different folks. The market was not like there was
no collusion among the owners. There were people wanting to
spend some money. Now, for that matter of the Astros
new first baseman, I mean Christiah Walker is getting good money.

(01:02:41):
I mean nobody is. Nobody's coming to these new teams
at fifty cents on the dollar. They're all making good deals.
Maybe we are starting to see the trend in sports,
and maybe Alex is one of those folks that say,
you know what you are thirty. The mega deals are done,
the over compensation and the but if you're thirty years
old with the wear and tear that your body has

(01:03:02):
gone through the experience you have. You're gonna sign a
short term deal, make a difference, have an opt out,
and then go collect your bigger money. Kind of with
mattch Hapman did a little bit. I mean, if you
think about it that way, and like Blake Snell did.
Blake Snell eventually got his deal, but he had to
win extra season for it. All right, it's time for
you to uh think to yourself about something in your
life that's confusing you that you just don't get. Well

(01:03:24):
Ross Connor myself. We're here to help you out. If
you don't get something, let us know it. Seven one
two one two five seven Untie, I just don't get it.
What don't you get We're here to help you. Next
here on Sports Talk seven ninety do you have something

(01:03:44):
in your life that you just don't get No need
to worry, no need to fred. We will discuss the topics.
Just see if we comprehend the things that may confuse
our friends. It's time to say I.

Speaker 12 (01:03:57):
Just don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
All right, It's that time of the week. There's something
that is puzzling you, something that is popular, and you
just don't understand. You just don't get it. You can
call us at seven one three two, one two five
seven ninety seven one three two, one two five seven

(01:04:31):
ninety for I just don't get it. Well, don't you
get Ross? Oh, I thought you were gonna go first.
I mean, I can, I'm gonna can. I be completely
honest with you. I had something going in a break
and I can't remember it. Give me five seconds or
a try I remember it. Give me, give me one minute,
remember it. One thousand and one, one thousand two. I

(01:04:55):
mean my I mean, our life is pretty good. I'm
very happy the rockets one, very happy that. But there
were not major car accidents on freeways. We did a
pretty good job as a community. I don't get why
Connor wasn't here the last couple of days. I'm just kidding, Connor.
I just teased because I care. I know why, because
you would not offer up your bed. Yeah, Ross offered,

(01:05:16):
but you didn't. I didn't know you needed a bed.
I'd have given you a bed. That's weird. That feels
like a clip. No it doesn't. By the way, thankfully
you were going. There were nothing They're worth clipping. On
the radio show. I was listening every day. Oh okay,
I got one for you. What the hell is Jimmy
Butler doing? I just don't get it. He missed a
flight with the heat and now he's getting suspended. He
doesn't get but he gets suspended without pay correct, So

(01:05:40):
he's costing himself hundreds of thousands of dollars with all
these suspensions. I don't care how about this. I don't
get why any NBA team would want him. Yeah, I
don't get what exactly this is not helping his trade value.
I don't get it. You're right, I don't get it either,
connor your life's in busy the last handful of what
don't you get?

Speaker 8 (01:06:01):
Uh So, whether it's the studio or the gym or
anything like that, I just don't get. White people don't
feel the need to wipe down shared equipment. I don't
know if COVID just made me like an extra germophobe.
But like the microphones in here, the buttons, uh you know,
like a bench in the in the gym. I just
multiple folks use it over the course of the day.

(01:06:23):
And I just won't get why people don't wipe things down. Yes,
they live through life, they don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
I'm gonna go with you too, because I'm gonna go
take a nap in our in our room what do
we call it our prep room? I guess the green room.
There was somebody taking a nap there in that room yesterday.
I don't think he probably wiped himself down after he
don't wipe down anything. Sure do all the time. You
never once in your life wipe down that couch zero
point zero percent. But I'm not down there for four

(01:06:49):
to five hours. I'm like for forty five minutes. You
guys matter, You guys wipe down your microphones in there.
I do if I have a bit of a cough
or I feel like I was gonna do it today
because I've coughing today. I do wipe it down if
if I feel a little tinge of sickness coming on. Okay,
you wouldn't do it if you're perfectly healthy.

Speaker 14 (01:07:07):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
You know I'm gonna do something Connor, because I think
I need to leave. By example, I will wipe down
this microphone after the show today because I don't need
that Clinton sick because and then he'd make take more time.
Oh man, we don't need that. I mean, he's already
breaking our back with all this time, he takes off
kidding seven one three two one two five seven Nintie
seven one three two one two five seven NAUTI. I

(01:07:28):
ask my friend Tony and new Kanney, who joins us
here on the show, Tony, what don't you get.

Speaker 15 (01:07:35):
Two things?

Speaker 6 (01:07:36):
Once?

Speaker 14 (01:07:36):
And maybe it's been Dad, But I don't get why
the Astros have never tried to convert yourd on to
first baseman.

Speaker 15 (01:07:43):
Is he that fragile that he couldn't play that position?

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
I'll give you the answer. I actually get it. Two things,
he's never done it before, and when a grown man
is twenty two, twenty three, twenty four years old, there's
probably a little hesitancy in doing it. Secondly, and this
may not be a very popular stance on this because, look,
I feel present its own challenges. I think the nuances
of first base are much more difficult than people think

(01:08:10):
it would be. And the Astros have had a history
of having really good and for the most part, defensive
first baseman, and I don't know if he would be
hesitant to go over there to look bad where at
least he looks like he's a competent left fielder, not
a great one. Not a gold gloverer, But I think
he'd be afraid that if he went over there and
didn't do well, that it would stain a little bit

(01:08:33):
of his resume in terms of being a complete baseball player.
That's just my only feeling on on that one.

Speaker 14 (01:08:42):
I get that, But my point is, these guys have
been playing that they're disqualified that can make fifty million
a year. They've been doing this since they came out
of the loom. They ought to be able to be
willing at least to do anything for that kind of moneth.

Speaker 6 (01:08:59):
I don't get it.

Speaker 15 (01:09:00):
Ye.

Speaker 4 (01:09:01):
Sure.

Speaker 15 (01:09:02):
The other thing that don't get on Bregman and all
of these guys that want all this money, maybe they
need to what I don't get Maybe they need to
spend some time walking down downtown under the freeways in
the fifth ward and see what fifty five million dollars
can be and what these people have to go through.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
Yeah, but you know, Tony, that's an argument that I've
heard from a lot of fans over the years. Honestly,
I mean, if somebody said you'll get paid three hundred
thousand dollars to play third base, you would do it, right.
I Mean, there's no amount of money. You just have
to keep asking until it becomes too much. You just,
I mean, no matter what job you're in, you know

(01:09:42):
there's a certain financial stances comes with it. I mean,
I wouldn't do this job for twenty five thousand dollars
for that way.

Speaker 4 (01:09:52):
Oh, we know.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
You know what I'm saying. I mean, I'm trying. I'm
not saying it words that every job feels like it's overinflated.
Professional sports is over is overinflated. But it's a multi
billion dollar industry no matter what sport it is. And
if there's money to be made, the players say we
deserve it. If the owners are getting it that we
deserve a certain piece of the So it's just they're
all doing all right. And frankly, baseball in unions get

(01:10:17):
it like, for instance, if iHeart makes X amount of money,
they don't have to spend certain amount of money on salary.
They usually cut it. So and remember this, Tony two,
they're one of the see each team has twenty six
players times thirty, they're one of the eight hundred best
players in the in the world of what they do. Yes,
so you take the top eight hundred of anything in

(01:10:39):
life and they get over compensated. They just do. They
probably do pretty well. If you were the one hundred
and fourteenth best oil and gas man, you'd be being
paid like it. They're actually probably pretty good. If you're
probably a millionaire. Multiplif you were one hundred and fourteenth
best chef, you'd be working at a five diamond restaurant.
Michelin if you will, mm hmm. But if one hundred

(01:11:00):
and fourteenth best sports radio host, you'd be working with
another guy who was not in that category. Tend to
two weekdays on sports talking. We top six market. We
got to be in the top one hundred. Matt, I
don't know. I'd check the list that that has been
a sports radio programmer, says, we're not. That's because we
don't have subscribe to kids. We don't subscribe to and
we don't cuss in the skills with him. We don't

(01:11:23):
spend money to get him to give bad advice, to
take underperforming radio stations and make him worse. You know what,
that was my fault. But I led you to that
water and you drank it up. Buzz buzz and Connor,
What did I do? You got anything?

Speaker 3 (01:11:41):
Bought up?

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
Something that's yeah, but I knew Sports Sports Sports Park
that I knew you'd turn it into a flame. So
you know what that Yeah, it is my fault. I'm sorry,
all right, I apologize. That's on me. Tom in Downtown Tom.
One simple question for you, my friend. What don't you get?

Speaker 11 (01:12:01):
Well, what I don't get is for the past week
since the Texans law, all over social media, I've heard
everyone's complaining about how bad the officiating was, and it
was bad, but I haven't seen anyone point out the
poor clock management where they snapped the ball and got
sacked twice when they could have called timeout.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
On the on the fourth and ten.

Speaker 11 (01:12:26):
You're talking about fourth, Yeah, fourth and ten and right
before the two minute warning.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
Yeah again. Yeah. I don't think and that's it. And Tom,
I don't get it either. I would say this in
terms of timeouts and not necessarily clock management, but I
would say Dimko's probably a little bit below average when
it comes to that, I was gonna say average, But
if you say slightly below, I mean he's just okay, Yeah,

(01:12:53):
most coaches are. Yeah, I would say he's not in
the upper echelon. Put it that way, He's not He's
not an elite game manager. And when Treigman is screaming
at the on his headset Dimiko and you need to
take a time out. Your guys look disoriented. If the
broadcaster can see it from you know, from midfield in
a press box, it probably means that he's got a
pretty good sense of what he's seeing on the field,

(01:13:14):
which looks like it's just unorganized and rush and exactly
what it was.

Speaker 4 (01:13:19):
M hm.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
Yeah, there are some moments that I wish Demiko had
a little bit more of a overall game management How
about that? Is that is that better way to say
as compared to being a butcher at the two minut'clock?

Speaker 5 (01:13:30):
You don't.

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
I don't think he does that. There are way worse
coaches the NFL to do that.

Speaker 4 (01:13:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
On Twitter, Felipe says it's been said once before and
it will be said a thousand times more. People driving
slow at their hazards on. If you are scared to drive,
stay home or take an uber. Shout out to Sean
and Brian for speaking on this today, to talking about
people driving in ice with their hazards on. I just
think people driving on their hazards in general. Hm. The

(01:13:59):
only time I ever driving hazards, and I very very
rarely do it is when there is a torrential deck
major snow rainstorm or snowstorm. Well, we don't have that here, no,
I know. But my point is is that I think
it's the right thing to do when because it's hazard.
I mean, the definition of hazard is hazardous conditions. A
torrential deluge of precipitation on a freeway is hazardous. Yeah,

(01:14:23):
I haven't encountered. I mean, yeah, sometimes there's people in
the slow lane on the freeway with their hazards on,
or if they're hauling, like if they're moving couches or whatever.
I don't know. This doesn't seem like a major problem. Yeah,
I've never run into that much. But I'm gonna I'm
a very seldom used hazard user. A matter of fact,
I don't even know where my hazards are on my
new car, but I'll put them out in the bad weather. Okay,

(01:14:46):
and that We've got more coming up. Brandon and Taska,
see has just don't get it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
What do you have?

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
Anybody else have something on their mind that you just
don't get. I'm gonna focus on trying to remember what
I was gonna say before. Yes, I started typing that
stuff down. I know you know your memory is as
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Speaker 1 (01:16:34):
Matt Thomas Show with Ross Now I'm Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
All right, Ross, remember to what is? I just don't
get it was? Why don't you get Rossie? Right down?
The one guy that the one guy that did not
I don't get you number one, number two, the one
guy that didn't vote for Eachiro Suzuki. What are you doing.
We went through the resume. Ten time Gold Glover, two

(01:17:06):
time Batting Champion, MVP, Rookie of the Year, and oh,
by the way, all the things that he did in
Japan but still got he had three thousand hits in America.
Didn't start his career here until he was twenty seven.
And by the way, did you notice now that the
main the Baseball Writers Association and the Hall of Fame
Committee are arguing about it? When whose idea it was
to not display the votes of the people. Now that

(01:17:27):
nobody's each other side are blaming each other. Really, I'm
okay with it still being secret vote because it's not
anybody's business necessarily. But you know, because you don't want
people to give into public pressures. You want them to
to put their their true vote. But I did hear
that the reason why the members of BBWAA, that's a

(01:17:48):
Baseball Writer Association of America wanted to come out is
because they ask their athletes to quote and talk and
say sure and be forthcoming. Why are they being secretive
when you when the when the base sport writers complained
that the athletes are being secretive about things. Okay, they
believe if there's transparency in the clubhouse. There should also
be transparency on the voting ballots. That's true, but also

(01:18:11):
you get situations where fans will you know, if they're
let's say this guy's vote was public and he was
the one that didn't, you know, there are people sending
god knows what death threats are attacking him, Like Mark
Andrews got death threats? Did Mark Andrews and somebody really
say they were going to kill Mark Andrews? No, but
it's like there were some I don't know those death threats,
but he was getting a lot of derogatory things on Twitter,

(01:18:34):
not as bad as most people were sympathetic, but not
everybody because most because there's a cruel world out there. Yeah,
like people that would spread ironious rumors about former presidents.
Cruel world terrible going on major market radio, it's not true.
They said, like a loving couple. Not not Aniston and Barrock.

(01:18:54):
They Barack and missus a Barack do one of a kind?
Mat seven five. I just don't get it. You shouldn't
get this show. The show's been since twenty ten. I
just don't get it. Branded on seven Ninty Brandon, thanks
for holding what don't you get my friend.

Speaker 4 (01:19:15):
Oh well, Matt ross Connor.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
For the life of me, I just do not get
why the Utah youths decided to show up for that game.
Game man, no, a freaking man.

Speaker 15 (01:19:27):
It seems like a lot of travel in dangerous conditions.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
Just yes, yes, just doesn't seem absolutely right. Could have
said it better myself if you didn't catch it last night.
Our Cougar Update is presented to you by the Joint
Chiropractor of the Official Chiropractory of University Houston Athletics. The
Houston Cougars gave up thirty six points. I mean, how
embarrassing is that. I used to be the voice of

(01:19:51):
the Utah Youutes many minions ago. Interesting, it was forty
one seventeen and a half. Is that bad?

Speaker 4 (01:20:00):
Not good?

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
Houston outscoring Utah twenty nine to nineteen in the second half.

Speaker 4 (01:20:05):
One.

Speaker 2 (01:20:05):
Utah Utes for the game made thirteen of forty three shots.
That's they were shot thirty percent from the floor. Wow,
they were five of seventeen from three. Great free throw
defense too, and they and the Utes made five to
twelve in the line. Seriously, if you're if you're the Utes,

(01:20:28):
do you just call ahead and say Kevin, We're not
coming the forfeit. The game is yours, whether it issues.
You spent this thing about. You spent probably twenty five
thousand dollars in airfare, another ten or fifteen in hotel.
You spent forty five thousand dollars to get you come
to Houston, get your ass kicked. Hmmm, goodness, gracious, Cougars

(01:20:49):
are looking strong. That's embarrassing, Absolutely embarrassing. I hate to
hear it Houston now on the air fifteen and three
that they have won eleven straight games, loving ty. You
lose truck when you win, start winning double digits. That's true.
And uh, by the way, Joe Lenardi still has them
as a four seed in the bracketology. I just don't
get is no true, That's not true. You're There's no way.

(01:21:12):
I don't disagree. He's got them as a four seed
your line. I just don't get it. Ken Palm has
them as the number three overall team in the country.
It's kind of good dude, behind Duke and Auburn. I
don't know if Kin's a good dude, but I like
his ranking, his college basketball ratings. All right, Joe in
the Gallery of Joe, what don't you get my man, I.

Speaker 3 (01:21:32):
Just don't get it.

Speaker 16 (01:21:33):
Why why uh the baseball doesn't have a baseball chap.
Have you seen what the Dodgers have been doing lately?
They've been getting gobbling all these superstars. And for the
next four or five years, they'll they'll they'll they'll for

(01:21:56):
sure win the World Series every year.

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
Yeah, thank you, Joe. You know if a Dodgers winning,
what will be the national storyline Ross It'll be that's
the bust team money can buy. Absolutely. It's like people
have been saying since Ohio State won the National Championship. Well,
of course you just won the nationship. You spend two
million dollars in IL money with twenty million? Is it
two twenty million? Yeah? Oh my god, twenty million dollars
in IL money. Of course I should buy you a

(01:22:21):
national championship. I think it was. Yeah. I think the
Longhorns are around twenty million too. We are you guys?
In the semifinals you were the bridesmaid again. You know
you can keep one of the same dress. It was
a close game till the end. Take it off when
you're having a couple of libations, what are you talking about?
Texas A little loose. Why is why are you talking
about a football team taking off their dress? Because they

(01:22:43):
want to, They want to your they want to finally
hook up, they want to find that special person. Ultimately,
they're tired to be in the bridesmaid God, they want
to be the bride the third time since we've been
doing this. I just don't get you, okay. Last one
belongs to Yankees Keith at eleven fifty six. Yankees Keith,
what don't you you get.

Speaker 6 (01:23:01):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:23:03):
During the winter time or during the basketball season, a
time I actually rocket to keep.

Speaker 2 (01:23:08):
Oh yeah, I don't like it.

Speaker 8 (01:23:10):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
Is what I don't get.

Speaker 5 (01:23:16):
You know, last night was a fantastic victory. I can't
even imagine how we won that game with the two
seconds left and they's a file and all that, and uh,
this dude missing two out of three free throws.

Speaker 4 (01:23:29):
But that's not what I call about.

Speaker 5 (01:23:30):
I'll call about our number three draft pick, Read Shepherd.
I don't get why we drafted him if he can't play.
If he can't he can't is he a backup for
fan Fleet or is he's a backup for for Amen?
Or why is it? Why does he look scared every time?

(01:23:52):
He get out there on the court and he's the
number three draft pick.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
Well, the reality is right now, Rockets Keys, he's not
getting on the court, period, So there's a lot of
d mp E, c d s. He's not ready right now.
And the NBA roster rotation is about ten players deep,
and if you don't make the top ten, you don't
play very much. This was disgusted as a weak draft,
So try not to think of Reed Shepherd as the

(01:24:17):
third overall pick. Yeah. I mean, even though the Rockets
were over the moon, they got him, and I'm not
ready to give up on him. I don't think if
you do, that's stupid. No, he's just not having a
good rookie season. There are probably five or six rookies
that are having better seasons than he is, and they're playing.
How is the rookie class doing these days? Ummm, well
look at us. How's Zachlary Alice say? I will find

(01:24:40):
out next week when we go to Atlanta. How is
Alexander Julsa? He's okay? Right? Zach Edi is a foul
machine in Memphis. Yeah, I mean he's just a guy.

Speaker 4 (01:24:50):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
The kid in San Antonio that was picked right after him,
is good. I can't. I'm drawing a blank on his name.
But at Yukon whatever, he's having a good season. But
the expectations are different there. He doesn't have he's had
a chance and insert himself in the line and brought away.
Read Shepard was not trying to fill a hole right
Read Sheepperd was trying to supplement Right now, he's not supplementing.
It's not very supple. All right. Yeah, the team is

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winning and doing great without him, that's good, could get
even better. Relax you, it'd be fine, all right. Seven
one three two, one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero. Uh, I
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Matt Thomas Show. Jerome hands it to Carl in a
three pointer for the win. He has founded.

Speaker 5 (01:26:55):
HiT's the front rim.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
The clock shows two point eight seconds left.

Speaker 4 (01:27:00):
Oh, there you go.

Speaker 7 (01:27:01):
There's your miss versus the miss. And he missed two earlier.
So it's this is not in the bat.

Speaker 2 (01:27:07):
I'm reading the right numbers here. He's a ninety percent
free for sure. He was fifth best in the association
coming in. Here's the second free throw. That's so good.

Speaker 3 (01:27:17):
Oh my goodness, Jemmy, what a night for Darius Garland
to have his worst free.

Speaker 2 (01:27:25):
Throw shooting ever as an NBA player. You've been giving
a nine fly out of point one O nine one
o eight. Cavaliers have it. They have no timeouts. Here
we go time Jerome on the sideline, Jay Shawan Taylor
gard of the in bounds bounced past left side Mitchell's side,
pocket three and.

Speaker 4 (01:27:44):
Short the foot back.

Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
No good is wild Garland and lockets word no baby.

Speaker 10 (01:27:57):
Ju just.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
Scenes. It's twelve oh six. What's happening to lunch timers?
This is actually a song of this person. I like
what Yeah, you always call him overrated. He's a worried
about like the song. Oh he is overrated. I'm with you, yeah,
I like the song. All right, some guys have all

(01:28:21):
the luck. Try Easton has all the luck. Rossy that
should have been sending Darius Garland to the free throw
on a ninety percent free throw shooter should have made
all three free throws because that's what ninety percent free
throw shooters do. That at one point they had the
ball and then it would have been a devastating loss,
especially because the Cavaliers at one point in the fourth

(01:28:41):
quarter scored nineteen consecutive points. It would have been a
quite a tough collapse to stomach. But instead we celebrate
as part of the News at noon, Oh the music
is back, absolutely, Matt. We are going to lead off
the News at noon with that Rockets game that you

(01:29:02):
mentioned that you were on the call for Rockets escape. Yes,
I will say it. Escape with a one oh nine
to oneh eight win over the Cleveland Cavaliers fifty to
fifty call on the Alpuram Chingoon foul definitely was a
flagrant foul on Sari Easton at the end of the game.
Concern level for Jalen Green last two games under twenty

(01:29:26):
points after being over for nine straight eight of twenty
one against the Detroit Pistons for nineteen points, four of
sixteen against the Cleveland Cavaliers for just ten points. That
is his lowest point total since December twenty third against
the Charlotte Hornets. He didn't play the fourth quarter in

(01:29:48):
that game because it was a blowout win for the Rockets.
U sigh relief pairing in the story, and you beat
the best team in the NBA record wise, Yes, I
mean the best team in the NBA is Thunder. Yeah, Thunder.
But can is there an NBA team And I don't
know the answer to this that has beaten both the
Thunder and the Cavaliers in the same season. I don't

(01:30:10):
think so. I only have seven losses of piece.

Speaker 4 (01:30:12):
It's not bad.

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
Just saying, just saying, let's get your playoff tickets ready,
Let's watch party. Let's go people. If we have a
watch party, we all go see Ross if we have one,
are uh, never mind, all right, continue on then? Sorry,
you know sometimes you infect my brain. I'm gonna stop myself.

(01:30:34):
Let's move on, Matt, Let's move on. On the news
at noon, as we talked about yesterday three people inducted
into the Baseball Hall of Fame se Sees Zabathia, Billy Wagner,
and each Hero. Suzuki also talked about it on I
just don't get it. Only one voter did not vote

(01:30:56):
for each hero. Now here's what he had to say.
This is through an interpreter. By the way, the interpreter
has laryngitis, so just you can he's gonna sound awful
to hear how it goes.

Speaker 4 (01:31:08):
I was able to.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
Received many votes from the writers. Grateful for them. But
there's one writer that I wasn't able to get a
vote from.

Speaker 13 (01:31:21):
I would like to invite him over to my house
and we have a drink together.

Speaker 2 (01:31:28):
And I have a good chat. But very very grateful
to be here and thank you. E Chio wants to
have a have dinner and a drink with the guy
who didn't vote for him, so they can talk it over.
Or how about getting some throat losses for the interpreter.
I mean, you have just gone to the Hall of Fame.
You need an interpreter, and there's gonna be some other
he's Japanese correct, Yes, you can probably find a Japanese

(01:31:51):
interpret It would take a little while, but you could
probably find one that has that is full throated and
excuse me, yeah, he's course that didn't sound good. H
Maybe he was celebrating with eachiro last night with the
night before. Yeah, Okay, each row on my shirt list.

(01:32:12):
If I go, if I need a leadoff guy, he's
my guy.

Speaker 4 (01:32:14):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:32:14):
Grant he's gonna slap single me to death, but he's
gonna give the hits for me. He's gonna be halfway
down first base by when he's midway through his swing. Yeah,
that's how it was so effective. He's so good he
throws his bat up in the air and the ball
hits it. I mean, I mean amazing value in the
field as well. Yeah, for sure, great arm as well
from Ichiro Suzuki now in the Hall of Fame. Matt.
Of course, as you know, moving along on the news

(01:32:35):
at noon, it's off beat, but it is sports, which
is my favorite way to end this segment. The Bills
taking on the Kansas City Chiefs this weekend in the
AFC Championship Game. Bills tackle Spencer Brown asked what would
he do how hard would it be on him if
the Bills lost to the Chiefs on Sunday. His answer,

(01:32:57):
A twenty four pack by myself, which begs the question,
A twenty four pack of what? Yes, now, you're not
doing twenty four I p as it's very very dark,
too heavy. Yeah, it's not that dark. It's heavy though.
Oh yeah, you're not doing dappelebox Matt, you're not doing porters. Well,
you're not doing you're not doing shine or twenty four

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shot lights.

Speaker 4 (01:33:18):
You're not doing that.

Speaker 12 (01:33:19):
The light.

Speaker 2 (01:33:21):
A biller byteps, a mud light or a beat or
a bee stone light. Yeah. Oh, actually an ice cold
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Chris Gordy. Yes, all right, I just don't get you.
That was the last segment. You can't you can't use that. Sorry,

(01:34:03):
you can't move segments. We keep a stringer segment. Clock
were very regimented the Man Thommas show with it my selfish.
You say, I want the Bills to win, I want
some fresh blood man. I'm kind of pissed off the
way Mahomes kind of acted this weekend too. Not about
the personal facult but he can't control that, but the
the fake dive out of bounds, A getting like that
was douchey? Is it wrong of me? You know how?

(01:34:25):
Who is the girl that was always taking the football
away from Charlie Brown? Loosing? Lucy's always taking the ball?
Now you want Charlie Brown to kick the ball, But
isn't it kind of funny that it keeps happening?

Speaker 9 (01:34:33):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
You want, I feel here's what you want. You want
Charlie to forget the football and kick Lucy's ass, kick
her of the teeth. Yeah, this is gonna ge assault charges. Man,
say listen, bitch, stop pulling that football. And I wouldn't
I wouldn't hit you in the head. She's the deep
seated issues that lay within this man coming anybody, anybody
that watched that was sick and tired of Lucy pulling

(01:34:55):
the football. She needs to get hit. I'm just saying
if if the ball gets pulled away from the Bills again,
it might be a tings funny to me. And you
you know what you did? You also found the Bills
getting their ass kicked four times in Super Bowl quite charming,
did Yeah, you know what, you know what that is?
That's that's who you are. You you like for people
to suffer. I'm optimistic, I'm appy, I'm missing. I want

(01:35:17):
the Bills to win the AFC, and I want Lucy
to get her head kicked in. Part of me says
it'll be funny. But I'm rooting for the Bills because
why because of the evil black magic that is the
Kansas City Chief. There you go, there's a way to
estelish yourself there, nicely done. Is that the news at noon?
And that's all news at noon? That's what I like
to hear, all right? Seven one three two one two

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five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven nine zero. You don't bring up the damn Peanuts thing.
Doesn't irritate me. That Peppermint Patty always calling Charlie Brown chuck.
Nobody else called Charlie Brown chuck except Pepperman Patty. All right, Uh,
let's see here. Did we ever figure out what the

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twenty four pack was? He never announced what it was.
He didn't say with the twenty four pack, which is
I'm assuming ber what right? Yeah, yeah, Okay, maybe maybe
it's movies. M that's certainly possible. I was rhyming a
what were you doing again? It's a rhyme for truleies.
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Go back to Matt Thomas and Ross Vireal Fine one
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
You know ESPN is bored when they're having to come
up with a headline of how important is Sunday's game
for Pat mahomes legacy. I can answer that in about
two seconds. His legacy has already been determined. It's one
of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play. If he retired
right now, Ross, he's one of the greatest quarterbacks ever
to play. I almost feel bad for these guys. They
do have twenty four hours to fill and that's what

(01:38:13):
we when we had Dan Orlowski on this show and
you weren't here. I listened to it though it was good,
he said at the end. Or I guess we were
talking to him. Like, the best thing about ESPN is
that it's on twenty four hours. The worst thing is
it's on twenty four hours. You have twenty four hours
to fill. You would think they would repeat some things,
but they really don't. What they do is they take
the same five people and put them on every show,

(01:38:35):
so you're basically getting the same thing over and over again.
How important? I mean, you gotta roll your eyes when
you hear this, right, I gut, you're doing a show rundown?
All right, guy, guys, we're gonna do this. We're gonna
do this, and then we're gonna go to How important
is Sunday's game for Patrick Mahomes' legacy. That's about answered
in twelve seconds. Let's move on the next time. Excuse me,
Patrick Mahomes, the guy who's not even thirty and has

(01:38:56):
three Super Bowl wins under his belt, two time NFL MVP.
All yeah, if there's anybody who's not worried about it.
As long as he gets Pat mahobes barring him throwing
like eight interceptions, I think he's gonna be okay. Even
if he threw in interceptions, it wouldn't matter that's true.
I mean there are there are comparisons to him already

(01:39:17):
being Tom Brady. Now he's got some work up to
do to make that happen. But come on, ESPN, I
would say do better, but that's what they do. How
many MVPs that Brady win? Two or three in the
Super Bowl or in oh, I don't know how many
altogether overall? I know the most was won by Peyton.
He's got like six, I think. Or well, that's good

(01:39:37):
off season topic, mount rushmore of quarterbacks, three time NFL
MVP Tom Brady and most rings and best all time
roast maybe ever, well, longest for sure, Yeah, what's the longest.
I'll give you that. And they used they ripped the
crap out of Kevin Kevin, Aaron Rodgers four MVPs, Peyton

(01:39:59):
Manning five. If any NFL quarterbacks legacy is in question,
it might be Aaron Rodgers. Two years with the Jets,
all time great one plays, he plays a handful literally
plays like five plays one year and then sucked this
past year. Yeah, and got super weird too.

Speaker 4 (01:40:21):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:40:21):
He was always regular weird, but he got super weird
this year. The Super Bowl wins their team accomplishments though,
and he won four MVPs. He's still one of the
all times. Oh, he is all one of the all
time greats. Yeah, he wasn't great when he was forty
with the Jets, and he's still had a decent season.
I wonder what Aaron Glenn thinks of him. I think
Aaron Glen's probably thinking, he's gone, oh did you hear
by the way as it relates to the Texans, Yeah,

(01:40:42):
go ahead. Possibly an o C candidate for Aaron Glenn
would be Jarrod Johnson. Gerrod Johnson. I was gonna say,
Josh Johnson, that was wrong Johnson. If I literally brought
that out to the audience, say hey, what are your
thoughts about it? There would be not a single person
a thought on it. We don't know the inner workings.
We don't know if let me tell you, here's the

(01:41:03):
gods honest truth. The only people that know if Gerard
Johnson could do it is probably Bobby Slowik and Demico Ryans.
People have time and and uh and obviously Nick Cassario.
People have spoken well of Gerard Johnson's football mind. So,
but that was even determined before he before he ever

(01:41:24):
became a quarterbacks coach for this team. I mean, could
you and I make CJ. Stra a decent quarterback? Here's
what I don't know, right, and I'm not and I'm
not willing to say yes or no on this.

Speaker 4 (01:41:37):
No do I know?

Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
Do I know that Gerard Johnson went in there and
taught c. J. Straus and things that made him even
take it to the next level. I mean they're very
well could be yes, but a good coach, he's also
still he's also a very good athlete who was highly
regarded play at the highest level of college football, worked
his ass off, got a private quarterback coach, got to
be the number three pick of the draft, and hasn't
been largely a a huge success with this organization. Well,

(01:42:01):
if Jard Johnson is being considered for an OC, that
means he's probably a pretty good coach. But it's also
guild by association too. The people around me, well, say,
you know, you don't You don't have the best quarterback
coach in the NFL could be the Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback coach.
You just happen to have a sucky quarterback. Or maybe
he's not doing a good enough job with him. Oh
maybe he I mean, do you think that a quarterback

(01:42:22):
coach would teach Trevor Lawrence to overthrow his receivers? No, well,
he needs to do a better job of not doing that.
Maybe he needs to work on his footwork. To me,
you have to take the next steps up. So Gerard
Johnson is going to be an offensive coordinator somewhere. I
think when you're again guilt by association, you're with a
very good offense, very good quarterback, you're not good. Not

(01:42:43):
every quarterback coach becomes an OC, No, but a lot
of them do a lot of them start as positional
coaches and become coordinators. Yes, So it doesn't really matter
if it's a running backs coach while receiver, quickly you
move up the pie chart the food chain. Running part
of backs. Coach doesn't normally do that. Eric Bannamy, He's
been with a running backs coach and became an.

Speaker 4 (01:43:01):
All and D.

Speaker 2 (01:43:02):
Line coaches don't do that. Yeah, running backs coaches do.
Quarterbacks coaches for sure, do wide receivers coaches can. The
line coaches is always just some guy with like a
mouthful of chew and a screw loose and just constantly
swears yes. The Olders had a coach named Bob Young.
I want to say. His name was big, the old coot,

(01:43:23):
like sixty five seven years old. All he did was swear,
yeah it's and by the ways, when you have when
you have a thirty, when you are five seven and
two forty nine, and you're swearing at these offensive linemen
who can crush you grave, you better check yourself. But
he was such an old coot that they didn't care.
If yeah, let's the man scream at us, I don't care.
I think his name was Bob Young. I'm not for
a hundredcent sure that's going way way back. Take your

(01:43:44):
word for it. You should, I'll google Oiler's history. No, no,
don't want you doing it right now. I don't want it.
We're not getting into positional conversation. Okay, unless Bobby Slowan
gets gone, which I don't believe. I think if he leaves,
and I'll say this again if if Bobby Slovic lives,
I think it's in on his own volition. Okay, But

(01:44:04):
we Young coached the Houston Oilers offensive line from nineteen
ninety to nineteen ninety five. I knew the name. I
didn't think I was making it up. He died of
a heart attack in nineteen ninety five. Did he really yes? Holla?
Was he fifty two? Ooh ooh, I'm fifty two. That's
all he was, was fifty two?

Speaker 4 (01:44:22):
Mm.

Speaker 9 (01:44:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
He had diabetes and a smoking habit. It's a one
two three punch right this. The Wikipedia death paragraph is
not very glowing. No matter how I die, Ross, I
want you to tell everybody that you know that I've
died a natural cast. I will edit your Wiki page
for you. Matt Young was married three times after his
career ended. He maintained a smoking habit and was considered
obese to go along with having diabetes. On June seventeen,

(01:44:47):
nineteen ninety five, Young died of a heart attack at
age fifty two, and just Swoorren he was swearing to
those final days played at Oh Howard Payne. He also
coached at You of H as all great coaches do,
coach with the gamblers. Oh really, man, he really was
All Houston coach coach at U of H football, Bill Yeoman,

(01:45:10):
Jack Party, Hello, Wade Phillips, Hello, okay Wade Philip did
wait Phillips coach coach? He was like an assistant Yeah, okay,
Wade Phillips, all accept, you want to accept? Jack Party?
What did they do Jack today? It's one person. What
did he do besides getting multiple NCAA infractions?

Speaker 5 (01:45:28):
Not him?

Speaker 4 (01:45:28):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:45:28):
Is that Joe Yeoman? Get your infraction straight? Jack was
a saint. Okay. Jack went on to coach at Gambler's
tremendous amount of success. He went on to yell over
your calls? Right was that Yeoman? That was Yeoman? Everybody
mixed up. I'm sorry, I can't get these mediocre coaches
that accomplished nothing at u of h mess. Oh my gosh,

(01:45:50):
I hope you have it. I hope the Cougar's Dennis
a storying you like they always do. I'm just messing
with Matt Oh Jack Party, College Football Hall of Fame. Yeah,
it was part of the Junction Boys. Oh he was, Yes,
poor guy.

Speaker 14 (01:46:05):
It does.

Speaker 2 (01:46:05):
What I'm saying is going out there getting physically and
emotionally abused by Bear Bright. He was part of the
Junction Boys, and he wanted being a sweet man. Do
you know a lot of times people who are abused
young are very sweet and older age. Yeah, I don't disagree.
Jack was one of my favorite people. His I'm still
very close friends with all of his family. Matter of fact,
he's got his two of his two grandsons. Two of
his grandsons are coaching right now, So the coaching tree

(01:46:28):
is vibrant. Bill Yeoman was only there for three years.
No at u of H. No, a lot of stuff
vacated wat Jack Party. Jack Party was only coach for
three years, and then he got the Gamblers job and
they went to u of H. Yeah, I'm not former
Jack Party, former coach of the Washington Redskins. He told

(01:46:49):
me he was great at u of H. So he
didn't win a bowl game. They lost in a Loja Bowl.
Bad officiating. Hmm, I'm not seeing greatness. He was eighty
nine coach that that team was had NTBLA in fractions,
They weren't on live television. Andre Ware won the Heisman
Trophy that year and were not on live television. And
then he coached the Bills collapse and the Chief loss

(01:47:10):
and then went one and nine. That was and got
replaced by Jeff Fisher. Jim DDI's fault. Yeah, Jeff Fisher,
you get the orders history down.

Speaker 4 (01:47:17):
I'm good for you.

Speaker 2 (01:47:18):
I have the Wikipedia. You're gonna say Okay, I got you.
Twelve thirty on Sports Team Jog Party talk continues. No,
we'll move on to other things. Let's go back to
the Rockets. You want to Was that fun talking Rockets?

Speaker 16 (01:47:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:47:30):
I like it, man, I just think go with the numbers.
Give it impassion, please for Rockets.

Speaker 4 (01:47:36):
Go right now.

Speaker 2 (01:47:37):
Seven one three two, one two five seven ninety. Your
Houston Rockets are number two in the West. They just
beat the Cleveland Cavaliers, who had only lost six games
all year. They now have seven losses, only seven losses
for the Thunder. They've beaten both of those teams. They're
half game up on the Memphis Grizzlies for the number
two spot in the West. We were over the halfway
point of the season and they're still playing great. Let's

(01:47:59):
talk some Rockets all seven one three two two twelve
thirty one Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (01:48:04):
Ninety Matt Thomas and rossby a real two guys, extremely
passionate about Houston sports.

Speaker 2 (01:48:11):
You can tell them to go get a room. We've
shared a hotel room, but they already have and I've
shared a band on truth be told. Thanks for the
visual pillow in between.

Speaker 1 (01:48:22):
There's no pillow between you and more lunchtime Houston Sports
Talk on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:48:30):
That makes way too many people in this town. Chuckle.
I don't like it. It's so good pillow in between, Matt,
It's fine real quick. Another thing I just don't get
I saw it just on the ESPN minute ago. Why
Mike Greenbird's existence would have to be probably on the
top five most overrated sports personalities ever to appear. I

(01:48:52):
guess he was good on radio. I didn't really listen. No,
just comes across. I forget, all right, I distracted you. Sorry,
go ahead, Uh, football broadcasters mainly analysts wearing suits and
tennis shoes. I just don't get it. That's the that's
the rage these days, Matt. What rage is there? Go

(01:49:16):
go down any street in downtown Houston. You calling out
dan Orlowski. Yeah, there's broskys going in and working in
finance that wore who were wearing suits and wearing coats
and tennis shoes. Absolutely all right, I'm going to I
usually drive from here to the Tote Center taking memorial Yeah. Well,

(01:49:40):
I mean it's color once around for a reason. I
don't see anybody in tennis shoes in a suit walking
around now you might do it because you're walking from
a significant difference distance. But my mom worked at a
very high end law firm in this town for thirty years. Okay,
when does she stop working there? It's been a while,
so maybe this is for example. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

(01:50:01):
It's the it's what the finance bro the broskiser. Okay,
so let's let's open this up then. Okay, if you
work at a office, in an office that the gentlemen
wear sports coats and shirt and ties, not full suits,
but maybe at least a sport code and the coat
and jeans people wear that people are sport coadje jeans, sneaks.
It sneaks is okay, I'm talking about. That's what Dan

(01:50:23):
Orlowski's doing. Suit Okay, do people within your office that
wear a suit wear tennis shoes with their suit suit pants? Like,
for instance, I'm going to a rocket event tonight at
dinner this evening, I brought dress shoes with my suit.
Got brand new suit. By the way, GQ Magazine, twenty
twenty two. Can you wear a suit with sneakers? You bet?

(01:50:44):
Here's how, plus twelve different pairs are rock with your
best tailoring right now. Okay, GQ said, it's okay, Matt. Well,
they do call me mister GQ. So, no, you used
to see my new suit, guy TJ Max do not.
I went to Rosave Ray Ranks. No discount either. Oh
maybe that's me, that's mister re Ray Rex. Well, I'm

(01:51:05):
gonna I got a new suit on my debuting tonight.
They've been too. Does it fit? Oh, it's tailored good?
The rest of them. Wait in the rest of the
suit you wear? You look like you're putting on your
dad's suit. Yeah, I've gotten rid of all that. That's crabs.
I'm so happy for you. Yeah, that's something. I'm gonna
wear it and I haven't. Take some pictures and you can.
You can judge my suit. Now, where are you wearing this?
It's just at a Rocket event. It's a event. So

(01:51:26):
are you making a big donation or something? No, it's
it's it's for the sponsors of the team. Did they
ask you to it?

Speaker 8 (01:51:31):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:51:31):
They always ask Craig. They don't ask me. Oh I sorry,
I'm still available to do those things. They always they
always ask Craig. I didn't mean to step into that one. Sorry,
that's fine. I mean, I mean I misused to it.
I used to be mad about it, but like I
don't get mad. Love Craig. Yeah, that exciting. Let Craig
do it. Yeah, Craig do it. I mean Craig. Craig
hardly works. Yeah, you're busy, Matt, You're a man about town.

(01:51:54):
All right, Let's go to uh Broderick and a Leaf
at twelve thirty eight on seven. Honey Broderck, good afternoon.

Speaker 4 (01:52:00):
Good afternoon, mat Ru. I heard y'all plea for a
Rockets car.

Speaker 2 (01:52:06):
It was a plea, it was a bag, It was
a come on in open arms, Roderick. We are opening
up our arms to you, Broderick. Bless you Broderick.

Speaker 17 (01:52:16):
All right, So look, I'm Bonafi saying I love him
just like y'all do. And I'm very happy with where
we are. I'm not going to be one of those Yeah,
we need to go out and.

Speaker 4 (01:52:28):
Make a trade. I honestly don't feel like we need
to make a trade. In my opinion.

Speaker 17 (01:52:32):
I think a good season, win between forty about forty
eight games, and win around in the playoffs, and that's
the progress we need for where we're trying to go.
You got a lot of We got a lot of
good pieces, and I don't really necessarily see getting rid
of the court with I kind of look at us

(01:52:53):
like the the fifteen Warriors. You know they was coming.
They were all home grown. They just brought in like
an igle dollars. So that's a fread art dealing and
you just let them cultivate and keep growing. And that's
the best team in the best route I think we
used to take. I know that's what Raphael said, he
wants to do. I think that's a good a good

(01:53:14):
way to go about the situation. And really, I really
think a lot of our fans, we just kind of
don't believe it. Still, I'm bonified and I'm always there.
Even when we play the good team. It's like you're
kind of used to what we were for the last
poplicit yeh. But I mean every game they kind of
like prove us wrong in a sense. So over halfway

(01:53:37):
through the season, the record we got, I mean you
can consider them a legit good team, not great, but
a good team.

Speaker 2 (01:53:46):
And you know what the singing is, Broderick, I want
to see how great they can be. Come and thank
you for the phone call. Don't be a strange of
the show. That's why I really think at the end
of the day, Rossie, they're gonna probably stand pad of
the deadline. If they do something, it'll be something to
add depth maybe, but it's not gonna be one of
those wow, oh my gosh kind of moves involved with
the Megastars, because I don't generally think they want to

(01:54:08):
see what this team is and then of a better
guesstimation of what the missing piece would be to get
to the next level if they don't receipt get to
the ultimate level, which would be playing for a championship. Yeah,
I don't expect a major and especially with the winning
ways the last couple of weeks, I'll like think a
lot of the chatter from from fans and from pundits
has gone away about them possibly making a big move

(01:54:28):
with the Jimmy Butler stuff, which could have been dismissed
from the from the get go there, But as far
as any other big moves and dearon Fox being floated
and whoever up Bradley Be or whatever, No, they're not
gonna go for any of that stuff. They like who
they are, they can continue to grow. They're in year
two of phase of phase two, Emodoka saying himself that

(01:54:50):
it's been good, but we want more. But that's just
his DNA, that's what That's what coaches are always gonna say. Yeah,
uh so, I don't expect anything big to be happening.
And let me ask you that. Like when Donovan Mitchell
was being bantered about whether he was going to sign
a long term deal in saying Cleveland, mm hmm. No
one questioned Donovan Mitchell's work ethic, desire, locker room lawyer

(01:55:15):
type thing. There's been hints, certainly with Jimmy Butler because
he's been happy in three other cities and now he's
got completely sideways with pat rolling in Miami. Yeah, Daron Fox,
the rumor is there, and again we don't believe in
rumors here on the show. We've already talked about that
before today. Yes, the rumors that Daron Fox was the

(01:55:37):
one that helped push Mike Brown out the door in Sacramento.
Mm hmm. If you're really gonna go get somebody, don't
you want somebody that? And again, maybe you can't have
it this way where nobody says anything bad about anybody.
But Donovan Mitchell was generally beloved, and the only issue
issue was going to be whether or not Mitchell was
going to sign long term in Cleveland. Don't you want
to go If you're gonna go, get that missing piece
to add to what is already a really good chemistry

(01:55:57):
team to begin with, don't you want to make sure
it's a good fit, could fit character wise. I'm not
saying that Daron Fox is a bad character. I'm just
saying that there has just been the night before Mike
Brown gets fired, Daron Fox didn't play defense on a
final play that ultimately cost the Kings a game that
ultimately Mike Brown got fired the next day, and Mike

(01:56:18):
Brown called him out on it without saying his name directly,
and Darren Fox like, I am not letting that happen.
It's I'm the star of this team. You want me
to sign a long term You're gonna figure out to
get another coach in here to make me happy. That's crazy.
Coach of the Year was last year or the year before.
I just look, I don't want to I don't want
Dearon Fox to be labeled as a coach killer. But
it's he didn't necessarily come out and say, oh, this

(01:56:40):
is the greatest travisy in the world. I can't believe
this happened, you know what I mean. I just think
you gotta be if you're gonna really make a trade,
you really gotta be careful. Like, for instance, is Kevin
Durant a coach killer. I don't think he is.

Speaker 1 (01:56:51):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:56:52):
I just think he just he gets bored and maybe
that's I think he was right to run away from
Scott Brooks. Yeah, in that situation in Oklahoma. So the
Brooklyn situation was almost toxic from the jump. He went
and got his championships in Golden State. At Golden States,

(01:57:14):
he was finals MVP for both of those rings. By
the way, for those who tried to discount his part
in that, Yeah, there's just a little bit of me
that says, if the Rockets are really going to shake
things up, I want it to be a guy that
absolutely fits what is right now in Houston. And right
now it's a cohesive group that's we'll throw hands that
they have to, but they fight hard and work hard

(01:57:35):
and they play hard. And I kind of like that.
I don't I don't want to have a Well, I'm
worried about whether this guy wants to show up on
one particular ride or needs a night off because of
this and that. Jimmy Butler just gets grumpy anywhere he goes.
There's just no there's just too much chance. There's just
no chance on that the other guys. I mean, look,
if Devin Booker says I'm one on a Phoenix and

(01:57:57):
things are imploding and the and the Suns want to rebuild,
if the rock if he wants to call the Rockets,
if I'm the Rockets, I'd listen. I think Devin Booker
largely has been nothing but just an absolute amazing score.
It's just a question except thirty points a game and
how much you have to give up? That's the question.
Mark all right, A twelve forty five on Sports Talk
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Speaker 8 (01:59:34):
You've got Sports Talk seven ninety, Houston's home of Longhor football.

Speaker 2 (01:59:38):
The Matt Thomas Show continues now. Clarence Hill covers the
Dallas Cowboys. I believe for the four worst star Telegram.

(02:00:01):
Let me make sure I'm right about that. Well, it
doesn't necessarily have a you know, he probably got rid
of He probably quit or got fired from there. Oh well,
he still covers the Cowboys for some website that no
one's ever heard of. He says, look for the Cowboys
to cross the finish line and hiring Brian Schottenheimer Noloa
than Friday. Possibly that was Clarence Hill Junior. You said, yeah,

(02:00:21):
he he've had him on before. Back he's a four
star Telegram what used to be. Yeah, they probably had
massive layoffs. Yeah. By the way, note to you all
kids out there. You think the radio business is tough,
print journalism even tougher unless you're savvy like McTaggart a Rome.
I'll tell you who's doing a nice job, and he
comes on our station occasionally is John Alexander. He does

(02:00:42):
some really good investigative work. He's legit. There's so few
people that cover the Texans that are legit, and I'm
gonna give him a shout out. So John Alexander, shout
out to you for being legit member of the media
covering that team.

Speaker 4 (02:00:53):
M H.

Speaker 2 (02:00:54):
Friend of the station, yeah, I think he comes on
once in a while. Yeah, okay, So back to my point, Uh,
Brian Gottenheimer just the kind of non sexy higher that
I think Donald Dallas Cowboy fans didn't want. I mean
Brian Mike McCarthy's winning coach, League, Mike McCarthy's Super Bowl

(02:01:14):
winning coach. They won seven games with Dak Hurt, two
successful NFL runs for a guy that's never been a
head coach before. I mean, man, man, this is how
long Brian Schottenheimer's been in the game. His first job
as a coach was an assistant with the Saint Louis Rams.

(02:01:35):
Did he ever coach with his dad? I'm assuming he
did at some point, Right, Marty was a coach for
Kansas City and Cleveland for most of his career. He
was an assistant for the Chiefs in ninety eight. Marty
might have been there then. I don't know, it could
have been. I think Marty was coaching the Chiefs when
Montana and Marcus Allen came here to beat the Orders.
Oh yeah, he was Chiefs coach until ninety eight, then

(02:02:00):
one year with the Red Skins, and then a few
years with the Chargers. Didn't they go fourteen and two
his last year. He's been an assistant coach for twenty
seven years, six years give or take Bryan schot Harmy,
and he's never been a head coach. After twenty six
years an assistant, he's been in OC for the Jets
Saint Louis Rams, Georgia. He worked with the Colts OC

(02:02:24):
at the Seahawks passing game, coordinated with the Jags for
a year, and then has been with the Cowboys as
an analyst and then the OC the last two years. Okay,
so let's let's once this is. This is not to
the level of David Hully, but it's close. David Cully's
name popped in my mind as well. But also, yeah,

(02:02:44):
he was only a positional coach for twenty plus years.
But it's yeah, you know what, Matt, Maybe he's been
bubbling over the under the surface and he's ready to
take the Cowboys to their new era of greatness. By
the way, fifty one, Okay, so he obviously got started
to age because dad got a dad. I nepotism work, Yeah,
work works very well. It's gonna happens everywhere, yeah, for sure.

(02:03:06):
So he's got plenty of time to get going here
to have a successful NFL career. But is it one
of the first questions that you that you would ask
at a press coverage I indeed, Brian Schottenhemmer gets a job.
Is that you've been an assistant coach for all these years?
Were you finally ready or did somebody finally say I
will give you a shot? I mean if I'm a

(02:03:29):
Cowboy fan and not that you should. For instance, when
the Texans hired Jamiko Ryans, there was a general level
of excitement in this town. Yes, bringing back one of
our own. He has been the defensive coordinator for the
San Francisco forty nine ers. He had much success, He
was highly sought after by multiple teams. Denver included yes, thanks.

(02:03:50):
That would be the opposite of what Dallas fans or
Dallas media for that matter, would say when if this
indeed does come to pass, where you had this big
press commerce for Jerry Goes, You know, we got rid
of a coach who won a Super Bowl and won
playoff games for US and went to the playoffs for
two different teams. We brought ut a guy who's been
a good soldier. He's fifty one years old. So there's
a lot of left in the tank. And he's been

(02:04:10):
an assistant coach for twenty five years in the NFL.
It's a hard selling point. He's well seasoned. He has
been marinating this to me. Says that no one wanted
the job, that the Dion Sanders stuff was just a
bunch of fluff. Because Dion Sanders, whatever next job he gets,

(02:04:32):
whether it's at a high more high profile college job
or an NFL job, is going to want the dictatorship.
He's not going to acquiesce to some old has been
past tense NFL evaluator like Jerry Jones is. Jerry's an
excellent business person, the greatest business person maybe in professional

(02:04:54):
sports history. But as a general manager, he's about fifteen
years past this. And you know what coaches ross in
the NFL who get to pam pick where they want
to go. What was the new coach in the Chicago Bears,
Ben Ben Johnson, right is his name? Yes, Ben had
had a pick of the litter on where he wanted

(02:05:15):
to go. Yeah, that's what I was trying to think of.
I was trying to think of the last Cowboys coach.
It was that kind of wonderkin up and coming next
greatest thing because Jason Garrett was a good guy in
the Cowboys organization, was a backup kind of a coach
on the field, coach on the sideline and kind of
get that. But in terms of young bright hip ready
to be the number one guy, not really. They try

(02:05:38):
to get lightning in a bar with Parcels. They tried
to go old school with Barry Switzer after his college
runs four years of Phillips. Before that, Dave Campbell was
a positional coach. They swung for the fences with Bill Parcells,
but he was past his prime, yer Dave Campo. Then
it was Chan Gaily who was a successful college head
coach and a coordinator but never showed any success at

(02:05:58):
the head coaching level. And then before that it was
Barry Switzer, Jimmie Johnson, Tom Landry. Yeah, that to me
was this is an undesirable job, just like what Jacksonville
did yesterday. Trent Balki, their longtime general manager out ross. Yeah,
nobody wanted to go there. Nobody wants a general manager.

(02:06:19):
They don't trust unless you're Brian Schottenheimer, who's been given
it will be given. It sounds like to me, whether
if it's indeed going to be done the first opportunity
to be a head coach in the NFL. That's pretty crazy.
They fired Balky that late in the game or shot
Conn the owner did? I guess they realized nobody wants
to come here because no one was talking about it. Yeah,
you had the the offensive cordnerator of the Buccaneers saying

(02:06:41):
I'm good here. You're not going there. I'm not going
to becoming a head coach in the first time. I
don't want to go there. Go four and thirteen, two
straight league seasons and ruin any possibility being a long
term head coach in the NFL because you go to Jacksonville.
Although Jacksonville everybody loses when they go there, so it
wouldn't necessarily be a huge stand on your resume because
nobody goes to Jacksonvine wins. Gus Browny didn't win there.

(02:07:04):
Urban Meer didn't win there, Doug Peterson didn't win there.
Are they or have they interviewed Bobby Slowik the Jaguars
they're going to mention? Yeah, for sure? Interesting and thinking
about this, you lost the two coordinators of the Lions
are now gone. Who's the hot candidate left? Those are
the two guys that were talking about more than anybody else. No,

(02:07:27):
not our problem. We got our guy Demiko Ryans, who
may be losing his quarterback coach you never know, and
might be losing his offensive coordinator woul Bobby Slowanks take
might be I say you know what I say ya
in Jacksonville if they offered it to him, Hell, he
take would take at this point, he would take it.
He may not want to take it a year ago,
but he may want to take it now. All right,

(02:07:48):
Final hour of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven
one three two one two five seven ninety. If you
want to join us today seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. Rockets with a very nice win
last night against the clifand Cavil in one of the
most dramatic games in recent years. Is that too much
to put on that game? We'll get to that. We
will get two more on the NFL. Alex Spragman's the

(02:08:10):
desire for the Tigers to bring him in is frankly
luke warm at this point. We'll get to that and
believe it or not. Seven one three, twelve fifty eight
on Sports Talk seven ninty.

Speaker 1 (02:08:23):
Lunchtimers, This is the Matt Thomas Show one three.

Speaker 2 (02:08:28):
On Sports Talk seven. Ani. You never know who's listening
to the Matt Thomas Show. At Ross, we were talking about, uh,
the big dinner we have tonight with some corporate folks
of the Rockets. I'll be debuting my new suit with
dress shoes, not sneaks. No, Matt could go, I have
I brought sneakers. I'm wearing sneakers right now. GQ says,
you're in the clear. You know what I'll do. I

(02:08:51):
will do this I bought the next time I wear
a suit, not tonight, Okay, the next time I wear suit,
Like if I'm doing a U of H game or something,
I'll one I'm ear in a suit.

Speaker 5 (02:09:00):
M hmm.

Speaker 2 (02:09:01):
Now you gotta wear cool sneakers. No, I've got cool sneakers.
The how you do? Yeah, can buy me some for Christmas?

Speaker 11 (02:09:06):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:09:06):
Oh, what do you mean? Oh you're gonna get on
her baths hot, She'll hit you. I've been on her
bad side for a decade now I know. So I
will go with the suit and the new sneaks, and
then we'll give it a score with the dress shoes
without just wear dress shoes. Wow, why you wait, you
just told me. You just told me that gu is

(02:09:27):
in the clear. I don't want you to get ridiculed. Yeah,
I think you like me getting ridiculed. No, I don't.
I'm trying. I'd save you daily. All right, thank you.
So so. Craig Ackerman, voice of the Rockets on television,
was listening to us talking about the fact that he
hardly works. Thank you, and he responds he's not working. Correct,
we are, He says, I work a lot, Matt. Okay,
maybe I don't, and you can have those MC duties. No,

(02:09:50):
those are yours, Craig, those are all yours. He says.
He's running entrants and listening to the show. Thank you, Craig.
That's what we love. When the television voice of the
Rockets is listening to the radio voice of the You
have to always appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (02:10:01):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (02:10:01):
Also, by the way, great job is always on the calls, Craig. Yeah,
he gets on Sports Center TV all the time. I
make Sports Center Radio fair quite a bit. That's great.
But he gets on television and of course the Rockets
Social department always puts his stuff on the social number,
puts my calls in there, which is fin Yeah, because
they're gonna have to. It's easier for them to just
record the video. Otherwise they're gonna have to find the

(02:10:23):
radio overlaid on the video. It's a whole ordeal. I
doesn't feel like a whole lot of work.

Speaker 17 (02:10:27):
They can't.

Speaker 2 (02:10:27):
They got to pump up that content. Yeah, okay, But
to Craig's credit, one of the most interesting stats, and
we can you know every night anybody can get them,
is how you do against the league. How you shoot
well three pointers, how well you shoot free throws, how
well you shoot field goals, how many points you score?
How many give up? Yes, well they do. They rank

(02:10:47):
one to thirty on all a bunch of different categories. Okay,
if the Rockets are number one in the NBA in rebounding,
they're like twenty eighth and three point shooting, So you
get the flips out of that, you get the defensive
side of things. Rockets give up, you know, maybe the
six fewest points. Maybe they are the third best field
goal defense team in the NBA. They have been something

(02:11:09):
not only this year but in previous years. But this
year it feels like it's been a lot more than
it has been in year's past. They're the best defense
free throw shooting team in the association. And if anybody
knows anything about free throw defense, there's no such thing
as free throw defense but pure luck. It is pure luck.
But among the thirty NBA teams, the Rockets when their

(02:11:33):
opponents have the lowest free throw percentage success more than
any of the other twenty nine teams. So the Rockets
have had the number one free throw defense in the league.
And Craig apparently, and I don't see this as I'm
calling again myself, but he brings it up a lot
on television. So when you bring it up and you
put Darius Garland at the free throw line, a ninety

(02:11:54):
percent free throw shooter, and he goes three for eight yesterday,
that obviously was because there have amazing free throw defense.
They were second last year. I'm just pulling up past
years checking it out, and there's absolutely no rhyme or
reason for it. Oh the year before they were twenty fourth. Oh,
so they vastly improved their free throw defense. Yes. Great.

(02:12:15):
Since Emio Dooka has been here, they's been second and first.
So we're tougher. He's physical. Maybe he's been staring at him,
calling him soft, abs The only way I could possibly
think you could improve your free throw defense is by
s talking them. Now, I used to I saw Fred
a couple of times the wall, like at the end
to it, domem h. But the rockets actually shot better

(02:12:35):
into the wall than they did out of the wall.
We were there earlier this year. Yes, So I wonder
if if there's a good amount of s talking, like
if Fred van Vliet I saw a couple different occasions,
would walk over to Darius Garland, maybe that maybe that
gets in the guy's a young man's head, like your
wife smells like hunting out cheerios. I don't think Fred

(02:12:57):
said that, but Kevin Garnett said that. I know, But
I'm saying back in the day, right, which loops or something,
or when you used to play on the main streets
of and I mean main streets, like you had to
carry guns and stuff. Okay, well you an s talker
at somebody. Did you ever shoot free throws? You didn't
shoot free throws in the really you don't. Normally you
could shoot three if you've got a disagreement on the court,
you got to shoot for the ball. Would you s

(02:13:19):
talk to them at the free throw? No? I wasn't
really that. If somebody did it to me, I would
give it back because my thinking is, having known Tari
and Dylan and Fred, they're probably fantastic s talkers when
it comes to talk of the guys before they get
to the free throw line.

Speaker 4 (02:13:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:13:37):
Maybe that's part of the reason why the Rockets are
the best free throw defense in the association. I don't
start the trash talk, Matt I the Rockets let my
play do the talking. But one of the things that
is most interesting, Look, I'm calling every one of the
Rockets games, so I don't spend a lot of time
looking at other teams benches. But it feels like every
time the Rockets play somebody and somebody's hot, they're smacked

(02:13:57):
talking them the entire way back and on the other
end of the floor. Absolutely an offense because every team
does it that way, or the Rockets just incite more
stuff than others. I think it's a great I think
it's an interesting, funny, additional part of an NBA game,
as long as it does involve, you know, Pier six brawls.
Why not could you get guys ejected? Yeah, I don't know.

(02:14:17):
You should put him in the penalty box. Like hockey,
they don't have penalty boxes, and the NBA should. You
don't want to see four on three basketball. That'd be fun,
that'd be comic, that would be hilarious and be funny,
but it wouldn't be great. Did it almost happen to
the Rockets before they were like down to their last
player a few years ago? Well, there was a game
of years ago during the COVID that the Rockets barely

(02:14:37):
enough to put a roster together, so they got there
was a little bit of a concern. Yes, it was
like a five man rotation. Christian Wood's playing for forty
three minutes on his fifth foul. So Craig has gotten
the free throw phenomenon going with his defense's analysis and appearance. Well,
he's taking all the credit. Yeah, I noticed that. You

(02:15:00):
need nothing to do with it. Yeah, I've been hanging
out with you too long. You think I take credit
for things I've got nothing to do with. No, Matt,
you never do it feels rude.

Speaker 4 (02:15:12):
I know.

Speaker 2 (02:15:12):
I'm sorry. It's Craig Ackerman that's doing it. He's taking
all the credit. He's calling himself the best there ever was.
Look at his tweet I'm the best there ever was
to two thousand.

Speaker 9 (02:15:23):
What.

Speaker 2 (02:15:24):
Yeah, he just called himself the best that ever was
and he got two thousand likes, Yes, two thousand likes,
two undred and seventy eight retweets. Why don't you tweet
something that it's two thousand likes?

Speaker 5 (02:15:37):
Matt?

Speaker 2 (02:15:37):
Come on, I can't. I can do. I can do
a couple of eye emojis. What do you got, Matt?
What's the news just gonna get two thousand hate mess
How about this? I could put the I could put
the Rocket's logo out on one tweet with the side
eye emojis and astros with the two, and then I
could put a picture of bregnant with eyes and people are.

Speaker 12 (02:15:54):
Like, what do you know?

Speaker 4 (02:15:54):
What do you know?

Speaker 2 (02:15:55):
Yeah? You should, but I don't want. I don't want
people talking about my heritage and how ugly I am
and that kind of thing. I don't need that. That's rude. Yeah,
people can be very rude. Take you to rack up
the mutes. The mute button is your friend. Yeah, I've
just been blocking a lot of the porn bots and
the crypto Botley, Yeah, after you got scammed that one time. No,
I ain't get scammed. I like my Twitter account to

(02:16:17):
be authentic, unlike others who brag about their Twit accounts
full of bots. I know who you are out there,
So the sellers and buying it, I don't think they're No,
they're they're not parsing out followers for bots. They don't care.
That's ridiculous. It won't give good those numbers up that
stop stop blocking everyone. No, I want I want an
authentic count. I want to be because then you block

(02:16:38):
people who have real accounts, and then I have to
talk to them well open lines, communication or everything. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero. So the
Rocket's gonna win last night because of the free throw
defense and they have the second best record in the West,
third best record overall in the NBA. Craig Ackerman texted

(02:17:01):
us again. He says, free throw defense, it's real and
it's spectacular. And how come you were twenty four two
years ago? Craig? So was Craig giving himself a talk
a buckeye on his helmet for two years ago when
the Rockets are twenty fourth. I don't think he was
typical TV announcer. Come in there, get a shine brag,
give us something anything to do with He was on
the call four years ago. They were twenty second MMM.

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Speaker 1 (02:18:43):
Matt Thomas, Ross Virel, It's the Matt Thomas Show with
Rassi Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:18:58):
According to Detroit Free Press, Rossy Alex Bregman's conversations with
the Tigers have cooled off, meaning he keeps calling him,
or at least Scott Boris does and says, hey, we
want two hundre million dollars and we want seven years,
and Detroit Tigers are like no. Thus the cooling off continues. Interesting,

(02:19:23):
where's he gonna go? I I never would have thought
it would have gone this late. And we'll still got
a month until pictures. Well, we got a month of
full score workout. When you bet the under you thought
that there could be a Boris situation here. That's the
whole reason you did right. Uh No, I just think
they I think the marketplace was saying we're done giving

(02:19:47):
out the super big deals to accept for rare cases.
And I don't think one so is a rare case.
I don't even think Kyle Tucker's going to get a
super mega deal. I just don't. We hate but eye,
I think Kyle Tucker is going to get a better
deal than Bregman will because of youth. We've got the
line up, especially if he's got a good season coming
up with the Chicago Cubs seven and a half. By

(02:20:09):
the way, early predictions on Kyle Tucker, Ellen Dodgers, Oh stop, stop,
no way. Isn't there payroll like half a billion dollars
this yet? But most of it's deferred until the grandkids
graduated from their college. Oh my god, this is absurd.

(02:20:30):
I asked you a question a couple of hours ago.
It's worth repeating again. Is there a six year, one
fifty six deal sitting in the Astros offices waiting for
Alex Bregman to come home and sign it. Nope, it
was burned up when they signed Christian Walker. If you
ask me, I would look, it's not my money, so

(02:20:50):
let's just want to go ahead and pay him. I'm down.
Let's do this figure it out. Does Christian Walker come
here if Bregman re signs at sixty one fifty six?
Probably not, So you'd have Bregman Singleton slash Diez slash
and Paradis can play first paratus, or you could have

(02:21:17):
Paradis primarily playing third in Christian Walker at first base.
So you're saying this is the team's better. I'm not
saying that, I'm saying, what do you think it is?
I mean, I would say getting rid of a gold
glove third baseman who still has an ops of seven
point fifty is hard to give up. But you're getting

(02:21:38):
Walker on a three year deal at lower dollar value
than you would be paying Bregman on a six year deal.
The big unknown is how is essik Paride is going
to be at third base defensively and offensively. If the
drop off is significant, then we're gonna be wishing for
Bregman wearing the Astrosk gear so largely. In my opinion,

(02:21:58):
the answer is, we don't have an answer, but I
don't think it's and I'm a huge Bragman fan, this
is hard to say. I can't wait for Christian Walker
to hit forty home runs next year. Yeah, signing a
a go glove first baseman who's in his mid thirties.
It never doesn't work out. Oh God, the hit. I

(02:22:23):
know what you said there, We'll see. I'm excited for
the Christian Walker signing. So I'm put it this way.
I went from, how are the Astros going to move
on if Bragman doesn't get doesn't take the six one
fifty six from the Astros too, The Astros moved on,
and I'm okay, frankly to me, when when you and

(02:22:43):
I go to Florida in a few weeks, I'm I'm
really more concerned about what the starting five rotations going
to be and how the hell you can get any
pop and consistent batting average out of two thirds out
of your outfield because Jake Myers is he's a two
thirty hitter maybe, And Chas McCormick was hurt a lot
last year and his numbers were dramatically off from the

(02:23:05):
previous years. And I don't even know if Chas McCormick
you'd want to a healthy Chas McCormick playing full slate
last year would have been a guy that you would
have penciled in to be a starting outfitter in twenty
twenty five. That's why I still have a feeling that
the Astros might want to pull the trigger on one
more outfield signing before they get to camp, because the
Astros last year made a late move to go get

(02:23:27):
Josh Hater away, and so they're not adverse to making
a late to January early February potential acquisition. Plus, if
you do move Ryan Presley, you may get an outfitter
back in return that can compete. I don't know what
you'd get back, because again, you're probably taking on a
lot of the salary of Pressley, so it'd probably be
just a guy at that point. Yeah. Do you want

(02:23:48):
the Christian Walker projected stats? Who's projecting them? Baseball reference?
Do we trust their references? I mean, it's just it's
just a guess, Okay, an educated guess. This is done
by a computer or done by human beings. I'm sure
by a human being who put it into a computer. Okay,
go ahead.

Speaker 4 (02:24:04):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:24:06):
Twenty five home runs, two forty six batting average, seven
eighty four ops and a goal glove first base caliber
that'd be significantly better than what you got last year,
you know, not even close. Bray who didn't hit Singleton
was a scattering of hits, held his own at first base.
But by no means is ever going to compete for
a goal glove ever. Huh. By the way, John Singleton's

(02:24:28):
still on the roster, Yes he is. He'll be a
part of fan Fest Saturday. We got some good guests
coming up, projected. I don't think, I think could think
could shuffle around. So don't think we're supposed to say names.
Let me ask astros pr if you're listening, give Ross
the B and C level guests. Let's kind of test
his acumen. See how things are going with that. That's
been every year, the little hanging fruit, the easy stuff.
Give it to like Seawan and Brian. If Sewn and

(02:24:49):
Brian Lila will be on two to four, it will
be eleven to two. It'll be myself, Adam Wexer, and
Dan Matthew. You need three of you to host that show.
It's a lot of boy. Yes, with the headset, four
people that's gonna sense side. We got three people to
I mean, we got hours to kill. Maybe you guys
a roll too, Maybe you should give you like a
smoke break, do some talking stros. We'll talk some stros,

(02:25:10):
all right, Okay? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:25:14):
What is I mean?

Speaker 2 (02:25:14):
Singleton is your twenty sixth guy?

Speaker 5 (02:25:16):
Right?

Speaker 2 (02:25:16):
He only places first basic in DH if you need
a lieutenant bat. But he wasn't a great. Well, how
did I would have did Singleton do as a DH
last year? I don't. The DH spot largely was just
a big black hole for the mostly replacement level. It
was nothing that was something great out of that group.
Fangrass projections have Walker thirty two home runs. I like
that number one. I believe team I'm team Fangrafts down

(02:25:39):
with Baseball America. What do you think for a w
RC plus of one twenty format? What do you think
you're testing yourself there? Give me the give me the
ops seven ninety. It didn't have ops plus projected, but
well then it's not really a legit website. Then let's
go to Phillip in Pairland at one twenty six on seven. Phillip,

(02:26:00):
thanks for holding good afternoon. What's going on your mind, Matt?

Speaker 6 (02:26:04):
I watched the Rockets game last night.

Speaker 9 (02:26:08):
Uh, there's such a fun team to watch. Actually I'm
going to go in a couple of weeks. But at
the end, you know, the the east and foul and
all those foul shots for this ninety plus percent. Darius,
I think his name was from Cleveland, h Matt.

Speaker 6 (02:26:25):
He missed what he missed? What two of three or
three of four something?

Speaker 2 (02:26:31):
Two or three two? Two would have tied the game?
One wins it, three wins it. He made one and
they had it, and they got the ball back after
the penalty one and they missed the three point on
the baseline and the following pointer, and Garland missed the
follow up two, which would I would look back at it.
I think it would have it would have been counted.
It would have count as a game winner. So they
missed two shots in the final four seconds.

Speaker 6 (02:26:56):
Maybe that's what he was. Do you know why he
was laughing, Darius after the game, like and it seemed
like it had happened quickly, But I should have went
over and looked at it more closely. But he started
he was laughing after he missed all those foul shots.
I couldn't believe that somebody must have did somebody say
something funny to him or something He laughed quite a

(02:27:16):
bit after, you know, he missed those foul shots, and
even I think after they lost, he kept laughing. I
was really surprised to see that, and I wonder what
triggered did.

Speaker 2 (02:27:26):
My thought is in Philip, thank you for the phone call,
is that sometimes in defeat and disappointment, you laugh at yourself.
It's better to laugh than cry sometimes, Matt, and that's
what Darius Garland felt. He's probably thinking to himself, Philip,
I'm a ninety percent free throw shooter and I missed
five free throws, two of them in the final five seconds.
He's probably just thinking like this is crazy, this is unbelievable,

(02:27:48):
and he was just laughing. By the way, a conspiracy
theory has come into play about the Wider Rockets had
the best free throw defensive percentage in the NBA. Conspiracy theory, yeah,
go on some on Twitter, you know, you go and
take out the grain of salt, oh boy, is that
the Rockets are so physical that guys can get tired
of the free throw. I'm gonna go with they play
so much better defense that they're not fouling the other

(02:28:11):
team's best player as much, which generally is a good
free throw shooter. But but Garna went to the free
throw line eight times yesterday, Yes he did. I'm saying generally,
and I'm not saying about every single game, nobody's getting
more than three free throw attempts. Matt, It's not what
he said. You said generally general, Okay, trying to think

(02:28:32):
it's just statistical randomness and we try to make sense
of it, or what statistical randomness? Please? I think I
thought you made up a word. I didn't hear what
you say. You were just talking fast. I understand what
you're saying. I think it's just scrandomness. I'm like, what
is a scrandomist? Statistical randomness? That's good? I can buy that.
Oh thank goodness. Yeah, no, I hope they have the

(02:28:56):
number one free throw defense in the associate. What would
you get, like, if you're the best free throw shureing
the lee, you would get a Calvin Murphy Award? Right,
perhaps if you who's greatest all time? Is that Mark
Price got to be in their Steph Steph's up there.
Mark Price is good. Calvin Murphy is good, but Calvin
Murphy is the local flavor to it. If you're the
worst free throw percentage shooter, in the NBA, wouldn't you'd

(02:29:18):
get you'd receive an award as well. Uh oh, Mark
Price is third. Now Steph Curry won Steve Nash to
Mark Price three. You know what what Steven Adams free
throw percentage is this year? It was thirty seven percent
and then he missed. It's like thirty five. It sounded
thirty five. Yeah, before the game is thirty seven percent.

(02:29:39):
Dame Lillard fourth all time, by the way, and Dame
gets the free throw on like fifteen times a game.
Then Paigestryakovic, Chauncey Billups, Ray Allen rick Berry, and Jalen
Green's had a good month of free throws at the line.
I think he's missed like one or two this entire month.
You got to keep that up, got it?

Speaker 12 (02:29:58):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (02:29:59):
I have, Matt respect for guys. I could shoot free
throws and I looked like Albi air bawled one again
last night he did. I don't remember that well. You
had a barely grazed romote and I'm not saying you're wrong.
I must have missed that part or maybe I went
to the bathroom. Yeah, but he hit two in the
end that gave the Rockets a league he did. I
was worried they were. I was very worried. I was like,
please just make one. Clanton turned around on my and

(02:30:20):
all the look oh really yeah, I was like, I'll
show you.

Speaker 4 (02:30:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:30:22):
It was nerve wracked. I said a small prayer. Yeah,
Jesus guided the free throw in. Well, yeah, if you were,
if you were Cleveland, Jesus, you didn't get. Clearly, Darius
Carlin has been sinning this last ye cavalier. Jesus didn't
give him any favors. Yesterday seven one three two one
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Sports Talk seventy, Our time is one thirty.

Speaker 1 (02:31:06):
One lunchtimers, Lunchtimers, It's a Matt Thomas Show show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:31:30):
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de mcgovernor. I am just looking at the ESPN website. Uh,
a lot of NFL preview Washington versus Philadelphia. Coulda be
a good matchup? Yes, Buffalo, Kansas City. You know, we
get these rando emails from these betting services. This part
of America thinks they want the Buffalo Bills to win.
This part of America wants the Chiefs to win, apparently,

(02:32:12):
according to some website, which they will not get recognition
for in our show because they don't spend money with us,
even though you're using their content they provided you. Yeah,
that's there. I didn't ask for it, they gave it
to me, so I'm taking it. Okay. Thirty three states
are rooting for the Buffalo Bills to win the Super Bowl.
That's it. The AMC should be forty nine or forty eight,
Kansas and Missouri. That's it. I'm guessing I was a

(02:32:32):
huge chief state too. You think so? Maybe, yeah, I
would get Yeah. I would imagine America is rooting against
the Chiefs because of their tired They want to see
fresh blood. Is there tired fatigue? People who don't like
Taylor Swift? Is there Patrick Mahomes fatigue? Certain people with
certain leanings. She was getting she was getting booed at
the sports bar. I was watching this past really yeah,

(02:32:56):
I mean, does anybody realize when you go to a
sports bar and boo at someone, they don't hear it.
I don't think so, But they don't hear when you cheer.
You can cheer high five of a good time is fine?

Speaker 11 (02:33:09):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:33:10):
Yeah, I do believe the Bill's Mafia wants some more airtime.
The Bill's Mafia seems like a really crazy group of
people that have been thirsting for an opportunity to get
back to Super Sunday, which have not done since the
nineties when they lost four consecutive You know, we you
and I didn't do sports radio together at the time,
and I want to say I was very young in

(02:33:30):
my career, if not even on the on the air
full time I was in elementary school. Could you imagine
doing Buffalo Sports radio and going to, Hey, we wont
the AFC again again again, this is our time. We're
going to get past this. Yeah, the last one when
to get their ass kicked by the Cowboys. I was expected, though,
right after a while, you kind of like, oh, we're

(02:33:53):
going to go back and we'll just give it an
old college try. You try to be really loose about it.
It's like if you're a if you're like an election,
if you're in an electoral candidate and you've lost Senate races, like,
what's the guy's name that here in tel Yeah, Betos Beato.
Every time Beto ran for something in Texas he lost.
He kept trying for different things. He's like, oh, it's
not there to see what happens. You know, deep down

(02:34:14):
he's like, God, I want to win so bad, please,
And he lost again four super Bowls in a row.
That's why there was a huge part of me that
wanted the Detroit Lions when because those Detroit fans were excited.
They had this high profile offense, they had this really
interesting coach, They had this great project where they took

(02:34:34):
a bunch of guys, you know, the Jared Golf It
was left for dead and Los Angeles goes to Detroit
and changes things around that. That meant to me, like,
this is gonna be a fun We could get a
forty five forty one game, whether it's Detroit versus either
Kansas City or Detroit versus Baltimore for that matter, or
Detroit versus Buffalo. We were in a no lose situation,

(02:34:57):
but Detroit ran out of defensive play and they just
couldn't couldn't go point for point. Now, to me, I'm
rooting for Buffalo. I think I'm rooting for Buffalo. I
think the networks are rooting for the Chiefs because again,
the Taylor factor plays huge.

Speaker 4 (02:35:14):
M hm.

Speaker 2 (02:35:16):
Because here's the bit. What wasn't the craziest thing about
last year's Super Bowl was she was playing overseas? Could
she get to Las Vegas time? It was a because
think about it, when you have two weeks in between
the games, she had full fuel. Could she burn in
a week's time? How much we're gonna cost her? Where
was she going to stay? Could she get there? If
the clock you know you did? Are they a day

(02:35:36):
behind the day ahead? Yeah, we had to check time zones. Yeah,
we don't have that bit if she's on it. I mean,
who's the most famous Buffalo Bills fan? I don't Jim Kelly.
He's probably the most famous player behind Thurman Thomas. But
there's a't there isn't a there isn't a celebrity bill Like,

(02:35:57):
who is the celebrity is Paul Waller, celebrity Texans fans
bunbe bun b Beyonce thug Beyonce. I guess yeah, she's
a fan and she got paid. She's the game. She
was there, Callahanna were there too. Yeah, they graver chained
off her. That was fine. But the Bills, it feels
like they need one just for mental health sake. And

(02:36:20):
may they live in upstate New York with torrential lake effects, snow,
bitter cold. Yes, I don't know. They have been long suffering, Yeah,
Like to me, Detroit would have been cool, Minnesota would
have been I'm all for long suffering. Why because I've suffered?

(02:36:40):
If as a sports fan in this community, we got
our we got our taste, we gotta we got the
astros helped us out, but a drought, I mean, long
suffering Rocket fan forgot about my Bross broadcasting responsible. Yeah,
but I want to chair. We'll chips are hard man.
We're having a party next week for the thirty year
anniversary of those people that worked fourteen thirty freaking years. Dude,

(02:37:02):
that's a long damn time. You know how I'm changing
thirty years And they always trot out every time they
go to the throwback nights and they trot out this
is at the arena. This is this is like I'm
just saying, they always do it in the arena. Yeah,
it's like it's a legends from thirty years ago. It's like, honestly,
Calvin Samson was sick and tired of talking about five
slama jama. He's done with that. If he never heard

(02:37:24):
the term five sama jama ever again, he'd be okay.
So we hear the Matt Thomas Show are rooting four
teams that have been long suffering. Well, look, we have
a football team. We have a football team in our
town that has never even tasted an AMC championship game.
They've been rounds in two thousand and two. They are
getting closer twenty twenty three years of football and not
even a championship game. They only lost by nine this

(02:37:46):
last week. Is that how you're going now? Closer?

Speaker 3 (02:37:50):
Is that how you feel?

Speaker 2 (02:37:51):
Absolutely? So, you left that game in the at the
end of the contest going we got within nine, We're
feeling better. If you got the nine and a half
you did, You're Rossie, You're battle red. It took you
twenty years to get to battle red.

Speaker 11 (02:38:05):
I have.

Speaker 2 (02:38:06):
I have been a fan for twenty years. I've only
been a fan for two years, So I'm good.

Speaker 4 (02:38:10):
So you're not.

Speaker 2 (02:38:10):
You're not feeling the the the stress of rooting for
this team year, your stress of being an Oilers fan. Yeah, Yeah,
there's been a lot of futility in losing here. If
you've been a football fan in this community for any point,
you've you've tasted nothing but to spare. Like I put
the NFL network on the other day, they were showing
highlights of Mike Renfro's non catch in the back corner
the ends. They were yes, why because they wanted to

(02:38:32):
pour some just great tragedy. Yeah, it was a great tragedy,
but that would have just tied the game, right, It
wasn't a guaranteed going It was just a miscrec Yeah, yeah,
miss called you don't want miss calls ever, but you
certainly don't want him an AMC championship games that turn
away touchdowns. Yeah, and bum was wearing this big cowboy

(02:38:55):
with leather and sweded and he's yelling and got his
cowboy hat on Passers was in his mind over everything
it was. He just pissed me off. Then they were
gonna go kick the door down against Steelers and we
didn't kick it.

Speaker 4 (02:39:07):
They didn't.

Speaker 2 (02:39:07):
They smash it over our head. Well, they get held
back by a dynasty, the Steelers, then we happens. Then
we get the Buffalo playoff game. Rockets got held back
by a dynasty and the Warriors. Yeah, I'm no more
held back. We want to we want to help those
get over the hump or team Buffalo this weekend. Okay,
I guess I can't be team photo Off because that

(02:39:28):
means more crime in the Philadelphia area. No, I'm gonna
go for Commanders. How about Jayden Daniels and the rookie
getting it done? Washington Cool v. Buffalo, we can do it.
That's that's the least sexy of the two. That's the
least sexy of the networks. Fox is rooting for Chiefs. Eagles.
They are absolutely rooting for it. Recognizable players, yes, big

(02:39:48):
medium markets and and Ta and Taty not Tata Ta Washington. Uh,
still in the league. I want to say G League.
I don't know is this player G League or not?
Rockets fans were upset when he got traded away. How
could you give up on ty Ty Washington? Ti Ti?

(02:40:13):
But we had we had some we had some characters
back in the day, ty Ty Washington. Now it's all
about winning. Now it's about Cam Whitmore and that hillacious
slammy head last night. Ty Ty Washington playing for the
Phoenix and Valley Suns this year. Okay, who's got a
chance on a two way m All right, let's play

(02:40:33):
Believe or Not. It's up next year on Sports Talk seveny.
The category is is it famous Garlands? It gotta be
a lot of Judy in there, you know. By the
end of the yeah, I'm leaving your Larkin. All right,
let's say about uptown applying trepair. If you want to
play believe it or not, by the way, it's up
next to you on the program at seven one three,
two one two five seven Ony. That's the way you
call to play Believe or not. We're playing for more

(02:40:54):
Auto Boama tickets.

Speaker 8 (02:40:58):
No, we got tickets to Moster Jam and we've got
tickets to Bunbe's Birthday extravaganst at Rodeo, Houston.

Speaker 2 (02:41:03):
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Night and Ross are your monsters of the midday and.

Speaker 1 (02:42:12):
I really enjoy your shoe, your dominant defense against Portom
having the most fun in Houston sports them Matt Thomas
Show with Ross continue so on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:42:27):
To get a huge shout out to my beloved Houston Cougars.
They destroyed the Utah Utes seventy to thirty six, eleven
straight Cougar victories. They're now fifteen and three out of
this season. Juwan Roberts loved rude. Why don't you take
it easy on the Utes? Haven't they suffered an come
in to Big twelve. You get your ass kick, get out,

(02:42:48):
get out, get out. That's Richard, Get your ass back
to the Mountain West. Look at this guy, he's got
a coordinator. What's the deal? Well, is he wearing sneaks?
Is he wearing sneaks with a suit. It's in my car.
I'm not wearing my suit at ten o'clock in the morning.
Sorry are yes?

Speaker 9 (02:43:03):
I am?

Speaker 2 (02:43:04):
How long are you taking a nap for?

Speaker 4 (02:43:05):
Is this so? Yeah?

Speaker 12 (02:43:06):
What I do?

Speaker 2 (02:43:07):
Here's what I do. I put you guys on my
iHeartRadio app and I go in the room and I
fall asleep.

Speaker 18 (02:43:11):
Do people know that you have a pillow in the
building that stays on that couch and we have to
miss out that's not my pillow, but you use it. Yeah,
so it's not yours and you use it.

Speaker 2 (02:43:20):
That's weird. I put a plastic bag on it or something. No,
I just people's head grease on there. Yeah, yeah, like
the guy from yesterday.

Speaker 4 (02:43:29):
I was zero.

Speaker 2 (02:43:30):
Yeah, I've got zero. It's it's a sheen. That's what
I'm saying. Grease ross.

Speaker 18 (02:43:34):
If you ever use my pillow, I have T Tree
on here, So okay, there's no way he uses T Tree.

Speaker 2 (02:43:40):
By the way, James Click will be co hosting Today
with the A Team, with Adam Wexler bringing I'm bringing
Bregman back with the suit. You do look clickish? You
think you look clickish if you were wearing a T
shirt and shorts. You are the The doppelganger is unreal.
It's it's lazy and low hanging fruit, not that we
ever shot a video together. Fine, let's let's put our

(02:44:02):
heads up behind the air and start in the sky.
Five minutes have to go on the show. What should
we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio
game show. We simply called him Believe It or Not.
In Here's how it Works, you'd call seven one three
one two five seven ninety The category in today's edition

(02:44:22):
to Believe or Not is famous Garlands. I'll read just
the statement is completely utterly accurate. You'll say this, believe
Save Troni is full of bunking men up. You'll say this,
to Believe or Not's in a row. Win your prize.
Connor will be playing four.

Speaker 8 (02:44:34):
A four pack of tickets with Pitt passes to Moster
Jam on Sunday, February second at Energy Stadium. A pair
of tickets to Bunbe's Birthday Extravaganza March seventh at Rode
of Houston presented by Kroger, or a seven ninety t shirt.

Speaker 2 (02:44:45):
Brian on seven Ain. Are you ready to play Believe
It or Not? Yes, sir, Darius Garland played his college
basketball at Vanderbilt and was a five star recruit coming
out of high school. Believe it or not, believe it?
That's right it Statement number two for the When Darius
Garland's father, Winston played in the NBA for seven years,
Believe it or not, not he did. He was a

(02:45:06):
primarily a Golden State Warrior. Thanks for playing, John on
seven Ninty, John, You're ready to play? Believe it or not?

Speaker 6 (02:45:14):
Believe it.

Speaker 2 (02:45:14):
Darius Garland wears number twelve in honor of his father,
who wore the same number in the NBA. Believe it
or not, No, he wears number ten. Did you not
watch the game? Du Tony on seven ninety Tony? What
was your favorite part of today's radio show?

Speaker 4 (02:45:32):
Everything?

Speaker 2 (02:45:33):
Despite the patent first being folllowed by Samuel Morse, Augustus
Garland is widely considered the inventor of the telegraph machine.
Believe it or not, that is correct? Statement number two
for the win in twenty eleven, all remaining Girland's food
Fair How did Girlands get in here? Were purchased by
the eight stuff by the purchase by the h B

(02:45:55):
Grocery Company. Believe it or not the nun that is
also correct. Nicely done. All right, let's go to Joe
on seven. Honty, Joe, You're ready to play Believe It
or not?

Speaker 4 (02:46:09):
Believe it Matt As.

Speaker 2 (02:46:10):
In twenty twenty four, of the population of Garland, Texas,
about seventy five thousand Believe it or not.

Speaker 5 (02:46:18):
Believe it?

Speaker 4 (02:46:19):
No.

Speaker 2 (02:46:19):
Two hundred and forty two thousand. Mike on seven, Untie Mike,
what was your favorite part of today's radio show?

Speaker 5 (02:46:29):
I listen now all day, man.

Speaker 3 (02:46:30):
I like when you and Robs go.

Speaker 4 (02:46:32):
Back and forth, buy a bunch of crowd.

Speaker 2 (02:46:34):
We do go a bunch of back and forth by
a bunch of crap. Judy Garland dot have a barbituate
overdose in nineteen sixty nine Believe It or Not Believe It?
There you go, State, but number two for the way
Judy Garland strongly discouraged her daughter Liza Minnelli from entering
the show business. But Manelli did it anyways, Believe it
or not?

Speaker 12 (02:46:53):
Lave it? There you go.

Speaker 2 (02:46:55):
Favorite Liza movies all of them. She played Arthur's love
interest in the movie Arthur, starring Delly Moore, Arrested development
He does a lie all right, we gotta kill forty
five seconds. Oh, I mean promote packed up clearly. I
don't wait to yelled at by Wexler. He but these
guys looking good tonight. We got a big party to

(02:47:16):
go to. I'll get dry. I'm gonna take nap first,
then I'll take my do and wear your sneaks. No,
I'm going dress ues. Wexler and Klan are not wearing sneaks.
Are you wearing sneak? Let me see you?

Speaker 5 (02:47:29):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:47:30):
We gotta Oh he is his words, snakes, it's Clinton,
it's Wexler, It's team. Talk to you all tomorrow at
ten o'clock here on Sports Talk SEVENOTI

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