NBA Trade Deadline, Rockets Make A Move, Perfect Alex Bregman Analogy

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show ten oh one
in ahe town.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Good morning, everyone, man, Welcome to a Thursday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.
I hope you guys are in a fantastic mood, and
ladies too. I'm coming to you from Minneapolis, Minnesota, where
tonight it'll be the Wolves and the Houston Rockets. Is
Houston tries to snap a four game losing streak, ROSSI,

(00:32):
it is a balmy fourteen degrees here in the Twin
Cities right now. How the hell are you?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
And I'm doing great, especially since it's not fourteen degrees
over here in Houston, Texas.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah. I talked to the wife this morning. She's saying,
is it gonna hit eighty again? In the age?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
I think so eighty one is the projected high right now?
It is seventy three degrees so glorious. It's not glorious now,
it's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's spectacuic.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
It's February.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Having lived here in Minneapolis when they're expecting minus seven
later this weekend, I'm good.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, I would rather minus seven, but a little chill
in the air is not gonna hurt anybody in February.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
You didn't have to be one or the other.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
You want to you want to wear a little hoodie action.
Don't you looking for hoodie weather? Instead you're in your
tank top and thong underwear. That's fine, I get you. Yeah,
that's most of the days, that's true.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
By the way, can we give a shout out to
our buddy Chris Gordy Okay the man. And I'm only
seeing this on Twitter because I've not been listening a
whole lot, although I did. Uh. I mean, when I
can put the iHeartRadio app on my will. We're getting
some great guests in uh at the super Bowl at
the radio row or they're calling it now Media Roe
because all these phony podcast people are out there. Yes,

(01:44):
but I mean Darryl Johnson, EMMITTT. Smith. You had Jake
Laser on the show yesterday, Yes? Who else? Uh? You
had you guys have Danny wirfol on yesterday?

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yes, Heisman Winn not terrible?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, I mean imagine spending thousands of dollars to hang
out with federal fellow radio ego maniacs, talk about how
great your show is, and then having grappy guests. I
mean we did it and on a budget. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Wait, I think Gordy staying at his me Mol's house
or something.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah, did you get your Texas player on yesterday? Because
I know you got Longhorned legend? Yes? Were you like
a kid in a candy store or what?

Speaker 6 (02:23):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Gordy handled it? I was losing my voice by the
end of the show.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah. How you feeling about way you? I'm all right,
I'm doing great, that's fine. I feel like I've done
I've not been a good friend you. I'm not said, hey, Ross,
how you doing? I do text you, but you don't
respond bass not true. Let's see, I don't have anything
unresponding to do. I I know, but it took you
several hours for the response. Sometimes you do you text
me when I'm on sleep. I texted you like at
three o'clock exactly. Okay, all right, but you're in a

(02:50):
good spirit. You sound better today.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Oh look it was underwell a little over two hours
I responded, and you did text me when I was
a nap.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, Well, the rule is again, uh, if I ever
become president that if you don't respond one of my
texts within two hours, your phone locks into Oh whatever,
you're ridiculous. I'm just saying, just throwing it out there.
It's called text being text courteous. I'm working on it.
You are You know, if you were sleeping out feeling granted,
you get a benefit of down. Hey, we have an

(03:19):
interesting show for you today. I remember our friend Brian T.
Smith who was the League columnist for the Chronicle. The
only reason why I really, frankly to read the front
page of the Chronicles for his column because he was good.
He is with a talk Sport now in the UK.
His wife got a great opportunity to work for a
company in London, and see he said, you know, I'm
gonna go with him. So he's carved out on a little,
nice little career for himself on the talkSPORT network. And

(03:42):
he's in New Orleans. Because I believe he didn't he
did he grow up in New Orleans? I think he did?
Did he not? Uh?

Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yes, he's from New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
From New Orleans if he grew up there or not.
But yeah, he is working for talk Sport and he
is covering the Super Bowl for the folks in the UK.
And he'll join us at eleven o'clock. We have not
talked to him since his departure. I don't think right wonderful.
So we'll got we'll get a little New Orleans feel
for that for you. I just don't get it. Today
at eleven thirty is coming up on the program today,
and if Smish Morny finds somebody really good, he'll talk

(04:11):
to us. But the guest list he gave us today
was atrocious. So he said, you know, we're passing because
what I wanted to do Ross is I wanted to
make sure we cleared as much time as possible for
discussion of the Texans new offensive line coach. Okay, go ahead,
break it down. How much did you guys get into
it yesterday? I didn't mention it once. Yeah. See the
problem is I would mention it right now, but I

(04:32):
don't have his name in front of it. It's something Popovich.
I know that.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
So you're saying a part of the Popovich coaching tree.
I don't know if he's in the family. Maybe maybe
in Russia. That last name is like Johnson.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, it's like, you know, there's a Serbian name that
is quite very popular that I didn't know, Bogdanovich. Yeah,
because boyon and and bogden right, is that who they are?
They're not related, not really, Are you serious?

Speaker 4 (05:01):
I swear to you I thought they're Bryce.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Toiler were brothers or or cousins or whatever. Yeah, they're
not related.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
I would have mentioned twenty bucks they were brothers.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
That's boy and bogdan right, Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, apparently
Bogdanovich is just Smith. Okay, you know tech zone right zone.
Uh we also have Popovich spelled the same way. Yeah, okay,
well he be on the show.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
He says, distantly related is Wikipedia.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Says well, I would think so. I mean, Popovich is
not a Johnson.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Orton, but you don't know what it is in Russia.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
It could be. Okay, you know it's fair because if
if you if you thought Bogdanovic was related exactly, that's
on you. Hey, ROSSI, we have a trade deadline clock
in play today. They're gonna the trade deadline ends at
two o'clock. This set. The deadline, I should say, is
at two o'clock our time. So once again, if the
Rockets do something spectacular, the A team will benefit from

(05:59):
it because we won't know about it until two o'clock.
That's fine, We're used to that there it is. By
the way, on Monday, we had to tell the truth,
and I really did believe we were not going to
have a signiory, Oh my god, we got one though. Yeah,
there we go.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
Like I said, you got to get ahead of what
of bad takes.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
It wasn't a bad take. That's a bad take would
be that uh Craig Biggio's and it is. It was
an elite centerfielder. That's a bad take.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
It was just a kind of a thought. I really,
and really I was not wrong for a while because
think about this, Kevin Durant, there was a lot of
rumors a couple of days ago that he was going
to go to Golden State. Well those rumors were cut
down and imploded or whatever you want to call it,
because Kevin Durant told the Phoenix Suns, I'm not going
to Golden State.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
Jimmy Butler said, I will.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
John. Jimmy but was like, get me out of Miami.
I hate pat Riley, I hate his slip back hair,
I hate Eric's bowls came to spells last name properly.
I hate him. But Jimmy Buckets top twenty player. Remember
we talked about this. You were right. I said, you
know what is a star player? Top Jimmy Butler when
he's healthy, which is again attendance is part of the
great ross. Wise Man once told me, uh huh, he's

(07:16):
a top twenty player when he when he's playing, and
apparently he is for the Golden State Warriors. This is
going to not end well.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
In and he signing extension.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
This is not ending well. I'm with you, this is
not ending well. What is Golden State doing? I done
got older. They spent more money on really good players
when healthy. But when you're like thirty four, thirty five,
thirty six, if you expect Jimmy Butler to play seventy
games next year for the next two years, you're high
on something.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
This feels like the Brooklyn Nets going all in on
Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Right, That's exactly what it is. So we will get
to that. My gut tells me, and again Rapfelstone is
not with us on this part of the trip because
I guess is he's probably in his office on his
cell phone the entire time, wheeling and or dealing wheeling
Andre d. I don't think there'll be anything significant honestly,
what is the most significant thing that could happen? Could

(08:12):
Durant find a place he wants to go to, not
name Phoenix?

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, Durant would be the biggest swing. But I don't
think the Rockets are gonna get involved in those sweets things.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
I don't think so either. I think from what I
understand Devin Booker is that it's the only player in
the Phoenix Suns roster that is untouchable at this point,
and he'd be the only player. I really want to
be honest with you. I mean not that I don't
appreciate Kevin Durant, I mean he doesn't have still a
game left, but if you're going to really rock the
boat here, give it somebody that's going to be a
part of this franchise for the foreseeable future. But really,

(08:43):
after that, is there anybody else that you would that like,
maybe Paul George gets moved, But no, I do I
mean no, is there anybody else that you're thinking like,
oh man, this guy gets moved. This is going to
be a completely crazy day. No, I don't think so.
We'll see.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Hey, the NBA is the most unpredictable of all the
sports in the trade deadline.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
So let me ask you this question. And you and
I've talked about this a few times. Why is the
NBA trade deadline and free agency more of excitement than
maybe fifty games of the NBA season?

Speaker 5 (09:20):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Because I think it's more of a storyline league than
the others, and the trade deadline is a big storyline.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, because people lose their minds. I actually don't follow
Shams except for this week.

Speaker 7 (09:38):
What.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, you got to follow Shams because people already reaching
thembout him and stuff. So I don't know. I'm trying
to keep my limit down on some looking stuff, but
I haven't. As a matter of fact, I'm not only
am I following him right now, but I have my
notifications turned out where you go normally do. But I
feel like if I don't have the notifications on and
something happens, I want to make sure I don't want
to miss something out. And again, it wouldn't take much
time for people to retweet it, but it's everybody's doing it.

(10:00):
Our entire travel party has notifications of Shams on because
he's the only one of breaking stories.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Yeah, it used to be Shams and WOJ.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
And WOJ is like I'm gonna go be the general
manager of Saint Bonaventure Basketball. Well he's a Bonnie.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Go back to the alma mater, respect respect But.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
From a career standpoint, what's the what's the cop on
that ross? What's the proper analogy?

Speaker 4 (10:23):
Okay, all right, I got it.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
I got it here. If we go, this is gonna
fit major market radio hosts Houston, Texas. Uh huh Voice
of the Rockets. I all of a sudden said, you
know what, I'm gonna go back to where it all started.
I'm gonna go back and be the voice of the
tom Ball Cougars.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, but it's a different job though. It would be like,
do you wait, is that how you started as the
voice of the tom Ball Cougars.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
I worked the KSV in nineteen ninety one July of
nineteen ninety one as a board op, overnight board operator
and Friday's Uh. Because the KSV is licensed the city
of tombul and you gotta do a certain number of
things community actively related to your community. And one of
the things that made sense was let's carry their high
school games. So my first play by play ever was

(11:12):
in the fall of nineteen ninety one. I was the
voice of the Tomboll High School Cougars.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Hm, that's a good was that where mob Melliett droped
his trousers in the bathroom?

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Okay, first of all, that's completely accurate. Second of all,
how you remember that? Thirdly, that vision is going to
be etched in my mind for the rest of my life.
A grown man should not drop trow when he is

(11:45):
at the urinal in the bathroom. At the toilet, you
do what you want to do when that door is closed,
You drop trow in a urinal. Is a little weird.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Analogy's not the same though, because it's not like he
went from being a reporter to a reporter. How about
you went and you were the vice principal at Maid
Creek High School. Okay, you're alma mater, so you're doing
what you're doing now, and then you go to be
a vice principal at Maide Creek or principal.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I guess. Yeah. It's just it's just
weird that he went from being the number one reporter
in a sport and the clearly there are there is
a noun called a woge bomb. Nobody nobody else gets
to have, Like I can't be a wode Matt me
if I break the story. It's not a Woje bomb.

(12:33):
He created his own terminil and he didn't do it,
but his followers did. It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy. All right,
eleven o'clock, we'll talk to Brian t in New Orleans
Love at thirty. Just don't get it, but leave it
or not. It's coming up as well. And we are
with you today as the Rockets who try to snap
a four game losing streak against the Timberwolf team who
last night beat the Bulls here in Minneapolis seven one

(12:56):
three two one two five seven nineties. How you reach
our show? I want to jump into the conversation. Come
on in join us. I missed you guys yesterday. Uh
tell me how Ross did? Was he a good uh
lead on the show yesterday? Or the show needs some improvement.
When I'm gone, which is unfortunately a couple of days
here and there because of Rockets travel so quite often
you're on the Johnny Carson schedule. Now I'm working five

(13:17):
days next week.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
You had to pause there, didn't you.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
I had to think about it for a little bit.
And in the following week I'm working four days three
of them. I'll be with you in West Palm Beach, Florida. Wonderful.
So it's all good. We'll go. You're gonna see that
fugh of me in the next few months, don't worry. Yeah,
you'll eventually miss me at some point. Ten fourteen on
Sports Talk seven Pinty, This is a Matt Thomas Show

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twenty on Sports Talk seven ninety It is the Matt
Tomas Show with Ross. Ross back at our Houston studios.
I'm here in Minneapolis for the Rockets and the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Beyond the air at six thirty on the network. Six
o'clock will be the launch pad and then seven o'clock
tip time here and then tomorrow after the game to night,
will fly to Dallas, and that's where I'll be. I'll
be coming home, Rossy, I'll be in the state of Texas.

(15:14):
That country can't wait. Matt.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
We welcome you back with open arms.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
All right. We got a Saturday game against Dallas at
two o'clock, and then we played the Raptors Sunday at
one o'clock. It's a Super Bowl Sunday. Yeah, why are
they doing that? No, it's not good. What do you
mean cause I'm on pre and post. I don't want
to be a pre and post on Super Bowl Sunday.
Get it together, NBA? Can I can I give you

(15:40):
a little secret? What Okay, it's let's say it's about
what three forty five giver tank? Mm hm, I am ross.
It's the it's the it's the Rockets trap show. Rockets
won the game, blank to blank. He played well, he
played well. You know what you got to do? You
ought to just basically just read the box, lay down
some tracks and we can have ai replacement like pre

(16:05):
record in the post game. Right.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
Let be the laziest thing I've ever heard in radio.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's been done before, not by you or me. But
how about this one. I'll give you some play by
play right now. We could do it right this second.
Go ahead and do a recap.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Hey, Rockets Raptors, Hello, everybody, Welcome into the Rockets rep
here on Sports Talk seven ninety and now I'm gonna
play a highlights.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, here's Man Thompson left side angle. He's got a
twenty three feet away pass inside of shnghun dunks it
in for two and the Rockets are up by eleven
at sixty to forty nine.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
See, but I can't even assume they're gonna win because
they lost to the Brooklyn Nets, who are terrible. Twice
twice they got swept by They sweep the Cavaliers and
then get swept by the Brooklyn Nets.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
And did you hear tiring my voice on that call?
By the way? Uh? The what the despair in my voice?

Speaker 7 (16:56):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (16:56):
You know, I thought you did a really good professional
job of calling the make because some people, some play
by play guys, don't call it as straight as you did.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Matt.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
I was really proud of you, what a true professional
you are, because some people, when that second three got
made would be like, ANI made it unbelievable, And you said,
you know you gave you gave it the proper due.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
It's proper due.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
It was. It was the raw emotion of me watching
a men Thompson throw the ball on the Dan Bruce's
general direction, in the vicinity of a guy wearing a
jersey of his team, same team, into the hands of
D'Angelo Russell of all people, like God, who knocked down
the three like it was handed to him, what a choke,

(17:37):
what a choke? Sucked? It's I gotta man, it sucked,
and I thought he made was right. He man, we
didn't deserve that. We we we we you know in
the great line in uh Bull Durham, you lolly gagget
here and you lolly gagget there.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
They played for half a quarter the whole game. He
said that in the post game, and he was right.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
God, it's it's I mean, you know what. This is
why once again I and people like to argue, not
necessarily with me, but just on Twitter. Fred van Vliet
is one hundred percent missed. I really believe this, and
I'm not trying to put too much on him, because look,
it's not like you said, a perfect season, but Fred
van Vliet doesn't let that happen on two nights ago.

(18:23):
He just doesn't. I agree either. Either he calls a timeout,
whether he inherits the basketball or he'd look. Amn. Thompson
is absolutely amazing. I can't wait to see he's becoming
one of my favorite players. He's such a nice kid.
He's a damn good basketball player, but nobody's perfect. He
turned the ball over seven times. That's too many.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
They're James Harden numbers come on now, and at least
James Harden was getting like fifteen assists on then someone
nights when he was getting seven turnovers. And I think, well,
aust Matt Thomas, Okay, well we'll try to get him back.
We've been talking about the Rockets here on Sports Talk

(19:06):
seven ninety as he is on the road in Minneapolis
with the Rockets, and and yeah, Fred van Vliet missing
is absolutely a big part of this, despite all.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
The hate that he gets on Twitter.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
I'm here. Oh hey, Matt, this phone system at this
this hotel is not good. This is I'm just you know,
I love when you're on the roads. So good. Well
it's not my fault. I mean I have everything. Yeah,
I'm I'm I'm putting a backup system in here now.
So okay, don't don't fall on your power cord a
get either. This hotel is sketch when it comes to
the phone service. There's nothing sketchy about that hotel. No, no,

(19:37):
this is it. This is I actually looked back and
looked at my notes. This is I should have put
the backup in So now it's it. Okay, I'm here. Great,
So we're talking about oh miss Fred van Vliet. Yeah,
I just miss We just miss him. That's all there
is to it. You're not gonna be traded. In fact,
he made me remade me re sign at the end
of the year. I don't think it's nothing. They will.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
It's a team option, correct.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, but I mean they may trotic send him beyond that.
I mean I I would be not surprised if Fred
van Vliet finishes his career as a Houston Rocket, at
least for the majority of his major playing career. Now
he is there.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
I thought he was a little older. He's thirty.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
He'll be thirty one actually coming up in the February
twenty fifth. Get him a present, Matt. What do you
get a man that's making forty five million dollars a year?
That's what I want to know from you. What do
you give a guy that making forty five million dollars
a year? There's really nothing he could possibly ask for,
am I right? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (20:30):
Mak him a handmade card. That's what my nieces give
me and I love it.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
So you're saying I should go buy some construction paper, Yes,
some of those big thick crail of markers.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
Yeah, draw some unicorns and some like some trees and stuff.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
And here's the best thing, get him some stickers. Yes,
so scratching sniffs. Yeah, if I gave an NBA player
a handmade card, you could be immediately put on a watchlist.
They'd be like, we don't want him traveling with us
at bare minimum, put him at a different hotel. Yeah,

(21:08):
that would not end well for me, all right. Ten
twenty six on Sports Talk seven ninety Uh, Brian T's
gonna join us in one half hour from now. You
may join us at this moment at seven one three
two one two five seventy one. More little segment on
the NBA trade deadline, because again, if the Rockets don't
do anything, it's kind of moot. Uh Emaye Duck is
going to join us on the show tomorrow, hopefully to
celebrate a victory over this Minnesota team again, Rockets centering

(21:30):
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my name? Ross? What would you put it at? Uh ugy.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
Thirty six thirty six to one, thirty six percent?

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Oh okay, okay, Well, if you want to call my
recorded line to tell you how to bet that, I'll
be happy to do that for you.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Think it's closer to thirty six to one. We've had
him on a meeting day like four times higher.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Oh what do you mean, I'd go maybe two seventy
five to one. Really, Yeah, it's fine.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
He's so nice. We've had him on a few times.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah, he and I talk all the time. We were
getting food on the plane. Yeah, he's really nice. I
just don't think he knows my name.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
I think he does. I think how about this, he
could get it. If you give him a multiple choice,
he would get it.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
That counts for something. I might give you a kind
of peel the curtain back ons. Okay, So what I
do is when we have these guys join us on
the postgame show, I'll say hey, i'l be or Hey Dylan,
it's Matt upstairs or I'll say I'll always mentioned my
name just so they can maybe remember it once.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
Hmm.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, so I'm giving him a shot. All right, call
me on a recorded line, Ross all I'll give you
the inside information. Okay, good, all right, real quick, one
more thing about the NBA treadadentline. We're gonna move on
some other things. Uh, Steve Curry yesterday was obviously part
of the deal that has Jimmy Butler going to Golden State,

(24:36):
and they were talking before the game, and he then
spoke after the game. He'd like it for it. It
happened during the All Star break, so players don't have
to have the uncomfortableness of having to move right in
the middle of a road trip or right in the
middle of a game. Agree you disagree or complete in
difference to it?

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Uh, I would say mostly indifference. What's it a week
before the All Star Game?

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah? The All Star Game is a week from Sunday,
So you would talk to the last games that are
being played, I want to say, are next week from today.
Then the All Star Break starts after that. But at
least you can get a couple of teams with games
with the team you know why the NBA is not
going to do this because of the thing we talked
about about a half an hour ago. The NBA trade

(25:20):
deadline is sexier than a regular old January February, regular
cheason game. It just is just the reality of it.
ESPN is going to have a four hour show exclusively
on NBA trade deadline talk. Yeah, the NFL doesn't have that.
Major League Baseball might have that. I feel like Major

(25:43):
League Baseball would have that because if they have their
own MLB network and they're looking to fill time, But yeah,
they don't take over. And I think part of it, frankly,
to me, is not a great situation for the Commissioner
of the NBA, Adam Sower. If your trade deadline is
sexier than half your games, that's not something I'd be
bragging about. But it's just the truth is it is.

(26:05):
There have been more, There has been more social media interaction.
Not that that's everything, but it is a large indicator
of what the general world of sportsman are talking about.
I guarantee you that shams is Twitter count us up higher.
I guarantee that engagement on social media platforms is significantly higher.
The folks at ESPN figured out they're gonna do a
four hour special about it. This is it's must watch

(26:31):
rumor and innuindow and suggestions and thinking about forecasting the
future with certain teams. I think it's very, very intriguing.
And I don't know if the average person feels that way,
but those that consider themselves basketball fans in the NBA, Rossie,
they can't get enough of it. They just can't.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
That's just a big part of the league, is a
big part of the league year. And yeah, it's an
eighty two game regular season and a lot of times
big names fly and change name and change teams.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
I don't think it's necessarily an indictment of the league
or anything.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
No, then a shrewder calling it slavery. It's how they're
being traded. Was not the probably the best thing to
do on that.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
When when did he do that?

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah? And then he was years ago, right, you're talking
about when he did it? This week he did it again. Yeah,
I think he said something like that a few years ago.
He might have, but let me, I can guess I
could look up the fresh stuff here because it's always
changing with him. And then he got traded as part
of a multiple team trade that eventually sees him now
as a member of the Utah Jazz. So mm, can

(27:31):
I just tell you something. This is going to come
as no breaking news anybody players don't want to play
for the Utah Jazz. It's pretty pretty clear, very clear.
And I used to live in Salt Lake City and
it's a beautiful city. Ross. I don't know, have you
ever been to Utah before, but it's in that part
of Utah. It's uh, it's if you love the outdoors,

(27:51):
and I know that you do. It is a paradise
skiing mountains, there's four seasons there, climbing and National park.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yeah, the big four national parks that they have. It's Bryce, Zion,
Canyon Lands, and I can't remember, but I've been to Zion.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Is beautiful.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
It's gorgeous. It is more than beauty.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
I mean this in all sincerety, because I'm not working
for the Chamber of Commerce the state of Utah. It's
one of the most beautiful states in our country and
unfairly gets a bum rap. But the reality is young
men between the ages of say, nineteen and twenty seven,
it's not a great place for a nightlife. And that's

(28:34):
what nineteen to twenty seven year olds want for the
most part is they want nightlife. They want to be
able to go out and enjoy themselves, either before after
a game or on an off day. And you know,
the Jazz were trying to hold on that. Donovan Mitchell
wanted to be a Utah Jazz man for life, and
he's like, I gotta get out of here. This is
just not where I want to go.

Speaker 9 (28:54):
Now.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
The only benefit that Utah Jazz have done is they
have drafted pretty well over the years and they usually
say have some money because they have to overspend on
their athletes. They got to overspend guys that want to
become a free agent to go to Salt Lake City
because it's just not it's not it's not a it's
not a hipster place. It's getting better. It's better than
ones when I was living there back in two thousand
and six and seven, but it's still not great. So yeah, Dennis, sure,

(29:19):
who's uh, there's a there's a tweet out there that's
got him in like fifteen different NBA uniforms. This guy
has played in just about every city in the NBA,
including Houston, including Houston for a short time, all right
ten thirty nine. It is the Matt Thomas old Rossham
here in Minneapolis seven to one three two one two
five seven nine zero. The reality is ross nine of
the NBA players want to play in La Phoenix, Miami,

(29:42):
New York. It's about it. I mean, those are the
destinations for reasons.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Houston is kind of like in that second tier, you know.

Speaker 9 (29:51):
It was.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
It's funny because remember when they were trying to go
up to Chris Bosh and how Darryl Moore was trying
so hard to get him and yeah, showed up on
his door step with an iPad or whatever it was. Yeah,
it's like, man, no, no, no, Now, Houston is attractive
because of a variety of things. We got to deal
in some realities here. First and foremost, there is no
state income tax. That helps Number two. Uh, it's warm

(30:14):
generally speaking most of the year, you know, having to
fight like we're here in minne apples to where I
don't know what the I am chicken temperature lately, but
it's cold. There is a little bit of a nightlife.
The strip club scene is above average, not I mean,
I would say it's probably significantly better than it is
here in Minneapolis, and not that I would know about
these things, but you know, it's what it is, uh huh.

(30:34):
And you want to be around team as a winning culture,
and the Rockets, even though the last four years haven't
been great, I think I don't is going to help
the Rockets with his brand of basketball, get these get
some players to come here that normally wouldn't thought about
coming here two or three years ago. But in the reality,
it's Lakers, it's Nicks, it's Orland, it's a Miami. Who

(30:58):
else is, say Phoenix, because of the way the Boston
Boston has that just that insane winning attitude. I mean,
they just you know. But the reality is also this
for these professional athletes, is that just because you want
to go somewhere doesn't mean the team has the money
for it. And that's why I'm stunned at what Golden

(31:20):
State is doing. They're giving Jimmy Butler. What's this contract,
it's two additional years after.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
This year, one hundred twenty one million.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
I think I don't know what they're thinking. I really don't.
You're now going to have three players thirty four and
older making obscene amounts of money for the next couple
of years, Draymond Steph and now Jimmy Butler two years,

(31:49):
one hundred and twenty one million dollars. Yes, Jimmy Butler,
help me, help de deuce this for me. Here, Ross
hurt a lot. I mean, what's his and a'lpha look
it up here. I'm going to assume he has not
played has he played seventy games lately? Last two three years?
Somewhere in that range? Is there any.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
Probably I'll go look it up for you, Matthew.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
You don't have to. I'll look at it in a
break if you want me too. He played. Last time
he played seventy games was twenty seventeen, so we're talking
about seven seasons ago. Yes, and he's grumpy everywhere he goes.
You think he's gonna go there and all of a

(32:34):
sudden be like, oh, I want to know his ball.
Oh I want to change the narrative. Your narratives already set.
You're a hell of a basketball player, you are Tom
Ball's finest, but damn you always are unhappy. He's averaging
five and five this year. Say that again, seventeen to
five and five. He's averaging this year for sixty million

(32:55):
dollars for next two years. Yes, I mean if you're
if you're a you're an average sports fan and you
want to go to the that professional athletes make too
much money. Here's your poster child for that.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
I just don't get it. Coming up later on the show.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
There you go. I like, I like your segues seven
one three, two, one two five seven unties the way
you reach us today. If you want to get in
seven to one three two one two five seven? Hoty?
Did I see that? Pee? Alonzo Ross finally has a
place to play.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
Yes, he does. When the next Domino go to fall the.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Next Doman, No, it's up next. We'll discuss at ten
forty two on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Ninety Matton Ross return return on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Ten forty seven is the Matt Thomas Show. In Ross.
I'm here in Minneapolis. Ross is back in Houston, Man,
PJ Tucker, he was just for a Miami heat for
like thirty seconds. Ross. He's been traded now to them,
to the Toronto Raptors.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
What happened?

Speaker 2 (34:04):
I just said it. He's got traded Yeah for who?
For what? Davion Mitchell?

Speaker 10 (34:09):
What?

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah? Huge? Not a huge. I don't think PJ has
played a single minute this year. He was with the Clippers.
I think I've lost train. He's been with so many
teams in the last half dozen years, and then he
wasn't happy there, so he did They called the quote
unquote not with team, and then all of a sudden,

(34:31):
he's now been traded twice in the last thirty six hours. Yes,
Longhorn legend. I mean, look, he's thirty eight at this point.
He's made a ton of money. Good for him, former
Big twelve Player of the Year, Friend of the show,
daughter plays volleyball. Good guy.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Maybe I'm trying to find his career massive shoe game
ross massive. Yeah, eighty million dollars made in his career.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Good for him. By the way, Um, Peter Alonso, congratulations
to him. Two year deal going back to the Metropolitans
for fifty four million.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
Dollars opt out after the first year.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Correct, yes, thirty million dollars the first year of the contract,
twenty four in the second if he comes back at
that number. M h. By the way, did you see
did I see you? Right? And this is I don't
off it's a bragmant update or just bregman innu window
Cubs offering four years, one hundred million for Breggs. I did,

(35:32):
but I think that was from unreliable Oh I hate
the unreliable sources thing. That's not good. All right, So
if you want to set up we were talking about
setting a betting line earlier today, are we going to
set a betting line for whether or not Alex Bregman
fire Scott Boris after all this is said and done,

(35:55):
I'm gonna guess he won't. Yeah, I again, if I
could just be a fly on the wall, because he could,
because bragman. You know, it's like when you go, here's
here's my analogy on this. You're ready. This is good.
This is gonna be a good one. Here, rash you've

(36:17):
never sold the house before? Correct, No, stay with me
on this and this is gonna. This is gonna. This
is a banger analogy right now. I'm sure it is.
So you go to want to sell your house and
you think your house is worth X amount of money.
The realtor says, look, I'm in the business here, Okay,

(36:37):
I've done comps of your house, I've sold houses of
your ilk. You're only really worth eighty percent of what
this house is you own is only worth eighty percent
of what you think it's worth. But then you could
be that you're the client, like, no, I want it
sold at dismount and the and then the agent real
estate agent says like, I don't know we can do it,
but I don't think it's gonna happen. No one's gonna

(36:59):
want to buy this house at this price. They'll buy
it eighty percent. I'll get it, so Freddy, but I
can't get it free for one hundred is Scott Boris
the real estate agent that went to Alex Prepenan and said, Breggs,
love you, dog, but you're not worth seven years, two
hundred million dollars. Bregman's like, I am. Look what I've done.
I got a ops of eight hundred ops plus of

(37:22):
what one o eight. I'm a gold glove guy. I'm
a good dude. I'm a leader. I'm a I'm a
welcome guy in the clubhouse. I help out my teammates.
I've been really good for a long period of time.
I've helped one team win two World Series. I'm worth X.
Scott Burrows like, you're worth eighty percent of X.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
I don't think I think they've been on the same page,
trying to get him the most possible.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
I think I think so too. The scenario just gave
you is one that happens in the real estate world
that I don't think happens to the baseball world. I
think the baseball agent, although you would think ROSSI, the
savvy ones would be able to tell Breggs, I know
the comps and the comps on you say, six one
fifty six is pretty good. Now, remember chand the Rome
f end of the show. I thought it was in

(38:06):
I don't think he said insulting, but he thought it
was a deal that was easily for breagmant to scoff at. Yes,
And I guess the term that I think the Chandler
used was non competitive, and why it's wind up being competitive, Well,

(38:27):
we think it wind up being maybe the best. Now again,
so that four that four year deal of the Cubs
were being put out that that was just that was
just somebody just putting it out.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
I haven't found it verified for any legitimate reporter.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Well, we know Jeff Passa. He's reliable, even though we
don't like him, he's so reliable. I don't dislike Jeff Passing,
you do. That's exactly, that's exactly.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Well, you know what, Actually, when he started carrying water
for the Dodgers this offseason, that was pretty bad.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Yeah, that's bad, absolutely bad. But it doesn't matter. I mean,
we don't have to like the guy. He's a he's a.

Speaker 8 (38:58):
He doesn't miss.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
No, he doesn't say what you will. He doesn't miss.
Some of the other jabbronis out there they miss. He
doesn't miss. That is correct. So maybe maybe Braggs is
like fight, fight my battle for me. Tell him I'll
go play second base, Tell him go play shortstop. Tell

(39:21):
him I'll play third base. Just get me one seventy five,
give me, give me the seventh year that I've been
so richly deserving of. Rosty pictures and catchers are reporting
on with ten days.

Speaker 7 (39:33):
I know.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
I thought it would be cleared up by now, but
it's not me too. I can't. I can'tnot. Maybe maybe
the Alonso deal is the one that's gonna.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
Spark everything gotta be.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Yeah, we're sitting here se soo.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
He'll be signed right after the Sodo deal. He'll sign
right after the Blakesmail deal.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Glarby Bird, We're right after the astrois changed the name
of their baseball studio.

Speaker 4 (39:54):
We signed right after the Ben Gammele deal.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Ben Cambl's back. Let's go baby hashtag run it Back.
Is there a chance Ben Gamma will make an appearance
on a seven to onety talk show this year? Ben Gamble,
We'll talk to you down the road. Ben. We might
even talk to him in two weeks. We need some
heavy hitters in spring training. Who let mean, Josh Hater

(40:18):
if you will. Christian Walker has got to be on
the program I would host. So Dana Brown like Dana
tell the tell the Truth, we'll get and Joe for sure. Yeah.
Those guys are our friends, friends of the show. Yeah,
and we're not gonna be like we're not going to
interrogate them. We want them. I mean, I have let

(40:41):
me ask you this in all honesty. Have the Astros
made a misstep this offseason? I mean I would say
if there was anything, I think there is genuine concern
for the outfield. But Ryan Presley being moved is not
with something that wasn't necessarily going to be met with.
Oh my god, this is the worst thing ever. Or

(41:02):
making a move for Kyle Tucker. I know people wanted
to keep Tuck, but that Rossie. There was less than one.
There was a zero point zero percent chance he was
coming back. I'm ready to say with absolute certainty that
Kyle Tucker and I could have told you this two
years ago, ain't count was never gonna come back, and
the astrosknew it. Cale, I mean, Dana could have said
said all the right things a year ago, but he
was He knew he was lying to it. He was lying,

(41:23):
and we we and we and we didn't believe his lying.
We don't, we don't. We don't disrespect his lying. I
just said the same thing about was in his spot,
but he wasn't coming back.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
Well, he's talking about Dana said they were gonna lock
him up.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
No, that was just because that was GM speak and
sometimes you got a GM speak, but sometimes you go
do in reality and the rallity as Kyle Tucker said, Uh, hey,
the Astros, when you when you send me this offer
to keep me here for the next six years, shut
your bumb mess up. It seems a little. But was

(41:58):
there amy was there any misstep by the Astros this offseason?
And you go, what were they doing?

Speaker 3 (42:10):
I'm pretty intrigued by this. Josel Twovay and left thing
that's not really an off season move.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
No, uh, Jason and Kingwood, I'm seven Ony at ten
fifty six Jason, good morning.

Speaker 11 (42:22):
So man, So the thing about that real estate analogy
that you used, there's only thirty one other teams in
Major League Baseball that will be interested in that. Like
if you're selling a house, there are countless other people
that will be in the market to try to buy
that house from you, even if you put it at
you know, well over the what it's worth. So I

(42:42):
feel like there's probably more there's gonna be more of
a chance that you're gonna sell that house and more
than what you're then more than what it's worth with
that big of a market, rather than you know, Alex
Bragman only having thirty one other teams.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
That are interested. But besides that, two personal things.

Speaker 11 (42:59):
One I'm gonna be a new dad to find out today,
so I'm super happy about that. And number two, I
am going to Vegas tomorrow. Is there wanting y'all want me?
And is there anything y'all want me to put down
for bets before I leave?

Speaker 2 (43:15):
First and foremost, congratulations on being a father or future father.
Nothing like raising a family, nothing like havin your owns,
so congraduates. How long? How long y'all have been married?
Three years?

Speaker 10 (43:29):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Good, see a little you had a little husband wifetime
ahead of time. That's good for you. Good smart move
on your part on that. Yeah, good for you. Number two.
You're talking about like a bet for the game or
games in general, is what you're saying.

Speaker 11 (43:41):
There's like a futures bet like I did futures bet
for you know from the Astros. I'm obviously gonna put
money for the ash Rolls to win the World Series.
I always do that every time I go. Okay, but
any any other best that you guys think I should
put down?

Speaker 12 (43:55):
Also?

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Ross high five, Buddy, high five? High five? All right,
hang up on this guy. What is high five? Man?
I don't know what that means.

Speaker 4 (44:03):
Arsenal scored five on Manchester City.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Oh that was a late dig at you. And by
the way, my analogy is amazing. First, and it's fine.
And number two, there's only thirty Manjor League Baseball teams
to thirty one. Maybe maybe there's a JAS pro league
that's in front of the break.

Speaker 4 (44:20):
Sweet count past five.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
But he got you late, didn't You weren't even ready
for that one. I knew, I knew it was coming.
Oh did you the second I heard his voice? All right,
let's talk to our friend Brian T. Smith. He is
at the super Bowl in New Orleans. We'll talk to
him next. He is with Well, let me make sure
to get this right, because don't have butch of this.
He is a US sports writer for Talk Sports Network
on in London, and he's at the super Bowl. We'll
turn with him next year on seven ninety.

Speaker 8 (44:49):
Launchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
All right. Any chance to play the Beatles on this
show is much welcome, right, sports Harvy, guess, let's say
hello to our friend. We have not talked to him
in a long time, and it's frankly my fault because
I'm just a bad friend. But Brian T. Smith, I
think I don't know. Did you get rid of the Brian?

(45:14):
I see if he got rid of the t His
Twitter account is definitely different than it used to be.
Longtime columnist for the Houston Chronicle, beat writer for many
many teams and joins us from the Big Easy where
that is his hometown. Brian, how the hell are you, Matt?

Speaker 13 (45:31):
It's been too long man, I'm great and it's good
to hear you and Ross together and talk to everyone
in Houston from New Orleans at the super Bowl where
I'm covering it every second for talkSPORT. You can find
us at talkSPORT dot com. Find me on Twitter at
Btsmith UK. And of self promotion, let's get on the
fun stuff. How the hell are you guys doing?

Speaker 2 (45:50):
We're doing great. First of all, you've left for your wife,
got an amazing opportunity for work, and congratulations see you
into her. What has it been like being there? And
when you got there you said, look, I'm going to
get into the business. You have been And I've been
looking at your tweets for many many months now. When
there's something US sports related they go to you. So

(46:11):
how has that been? How much explaining do you have
to do? Or can you get right into the x's
and o's and the analytics of talking about United States
sports in London? I appreciate it, Matt. Yeah, it's safe
to say it was a huge transition. You might have
heard of this.

Speaker 13 (46:29):
You know, England is very into hierarchy and kings and
queens and poshness and you know all the great wonderful
things about England. The move's been incredible. It was a transition,
It was a life transition. It was a work transition,
you know, in.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
A good way.

Speaker 13 (46:44):
You have to earn it there, right, just like Carls
Dickens did two hundred years ago. So you know, you
got to put in your time, You got to come
in with letters of recommendation, just like Ben Franklin did.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
And it's work.

Speaker 13 (46:57):
It takes time, but I'm having a blast, man and
being able to be in New Orleans. I was just
literally just interviewing Patrick Mahomes and asking him, uh, you
know about MJ and the Bulls and the and the
you know, could they ever have a even imagine having
two three pieces, let alone one which obviously the Chiefs
are going for on Sunday against the Eagles and having

(47:18):
fun too, and asking about you know, what the heck
do you think about being a mass fantasy and Luka
Doncic in a crazy Lakers uniform. So doing that all
for talk Sport has been has been great.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
Uh London.

Speaker 13 (47:28):
I mean, I loved Houston, you know, it was so
hard to leave, but it's just been an incredible experience
living over there, working over there, and as you said,
I'm able to do a lot of the same stuff,
still write columns, and actually, you know, I love Houston sports.
It's great to take a little bit of a life
break and do more of the national stuff. But yeah,

(47:51):
they're so heavy Premier League over there, obviously, but Tark
Sport does an incredible job of covering the hell out
of the Premier League. They have two point three million
five on Twitter everyone in I imagine a lot of
you know, English football, Wrexham, Chelsea, Man City fans.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Obviously, no Arsenal fans in Houston, but you.

Speaker 13 (48:10):
Know that they follow Talk Sport and so Talk Sport
is covering the heck out of US sports and I'm
trying to help them do that.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
All right, last question about overseas there before we get
to what you're doing in New Orleans. Obviously the NFL
goes to Europe quite a bit. How many of the
games did you get to go to in England this year?
What was it like being there for those games? And
the bigger question is do you really ultimately envision a
a full time NFL team there and do you believe

(48:39):
that at some point Roger Goodell's going to bring the
super Bowl to the London area.

Speaker 13 (48:46):
And it's has been one of the super cool things
for me is being able to live over there and
now doing you know, more of the United Kingdom, obviously
London and England, but but doing Europe. So it's not
just about personal travel, it's about work travel. I'm honestly,
I'm going to be at the super Bowl much longer
than I ever would have been for the Chronicle, you know,

(49:06):
and the Chronicle is a fantastic place to work and
was tremendous for me. But you know, Talk Sport understands
that the NFL is going global and that is the
push and I've been writing about this and covering a
lot of that. You know, they're going to Australia, They're
going to you know, Spain, in Brazil, Mexico.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
City, the London game.

Speaker 13 (49:26):
So I was at done NFL UK at Tottenham Hotsper Stadium.
I've done it at Wembley and matt It's just getting
bigger over there, and I mean I always have to
caution it, right, it is just ninety five percent Premier
League there. But London is such an international city. What
it does is that becomes their leap frog everywhere else.

(49:47):
And Roger Goodell mentioned during his press conference to really
kick off Super Bowl Week, you know, he brought back
the idea that he wants to one day have an
international team that had really fallen by the wayside after
the jacksonvillejack Wires had received a one point four billion
dollar approval to renovate their stadium. So whether that's expansion,
you know, they add two teams down the road, whether

(50:09):
that's they eventually move somebody. I mean, you know, the
Cleveland Browns are jacking around with their fans right now.
Could you imagine if the Browns threatened to move to London.
But they have the stadium, they have the infrastructure, and
I do think, I do think that two things will
eventually happen. The NFL is obviously going to get its
eighteenth game. I just asked Patrick Mahomes about that. You
can see my tweets about that. But Goodell gets what

(50:32):
he wants, right, So the NFL will get its eighteenth game.
And everything that I've heard is that the hope for
the NFL is that that eighteenth game becomes an international game,
and so every team will play either a home international
game or in a way international game, and Matt All
it is for the NFL, it's two things. It's more money,
it's more billions in their coffers, and it's more exposure.

(50:55):
The NFL has completely saturated the US market, it really
can't get any bigger, but it can easily expand overseas.
And once you do that, Matt, they will eventually have
an overseas Super Bowl. It might not be for ten
more years, but it is going to happen. And that's
what's cool about doing, you know, covering everything for Talk
Sport in London, is that, you know, as big as

(51:16):
it in the United States of America, it's really starting
to kick over internationally and we're at the center of that.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Well, Brian, I get very few things right when it
comes to my analysis of sports, as you know, but
I have said for months that when the NFL goes
to an eighteenth game, it's going to be that everybody
has to play overseas one time, because, as you said
just about to go, there's I mean they, Brian, they

(51:43):
got one hundred and fifty million dollars from Netflix to
put on two games. Okay, so they're always trying to
find new ways to make television money. But they're they're
being under potentially tapped out here in the United States.
They've got to go somewhere. Hell, they announced yesterday that
the NFL is going to play a game in Australia
in twenty twenty six. The international waters is where the
next source of revenue is. And that's why I firmly

(52:05):
believe went just like you do, that when an eighteenth
game comes into play, everybody's gonna have to go overseas
for at least one week. All Right, as far as
the game itself, you have covered Super Bowls before. Give
me the sense of how much three peat talk there
has been and how much it is referees are giving
philled Kansas City the advantage, and know there's been stupid

(52:28):
media questions about that, and how has Philadelphia taken all
this in with obviously much of the attention this week
around the Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah, you know a few things.

Speaker 13 (52:40):
Number One, the city is really starting the buzz. I mean,
I'm from New Orleans originally, my parents still live here.
Greatest for me, the greatest American city and in the world.
So the city is starting the buzz. Number one, everything's
really picking up right now. Number Two, this is definitely
East Week because of travel as Kelsey and someone named

(53:01):
Taylor Swift and the three Pete and Patrick Mahomes. So
there's an interesting thing going on and it almost feels
to me like a college football Playoff Championship where you
would have Alabama. Let's say, yeah, you know, five ten
years ago, and obviously that would BCS. But you know
where Alabama you just go into it and they're the
dominant force, and there's another good team that you think

(53:21):
could win. But everybody wants to talk about Nick Saban
and Alabama and you know, adding another ring to the dynasty. However,
I've been saying for weeks now and writing it is
a talk sport Matt, that you start doing the matchups
you look at, you know, whether it's you know, super
advancetistics or just jaalenk Harder blowing against the Chiefs offensive line.

(53:42):
You start running through all that stuff. Almost everything favors
the Eagles. I mean, they put up fifty five points
in Then's the championship game against a very hot Washington
Commander's team and Dan Quinn's defense and ruin the Jayden
Daniels story. So you know, with Skwon Barkley with Nick
Sirianni needing revenge against Andy Reid have already forgotten. I
think that two years ago they played and the Eagles

(54:03):
were the better team for three plus quarters. I think
it really comes down to in Jalen Perts channel view
shout out by the way, can Jalen Hurts be good enough?
He has the talent, but it was a very up
and down season. If they can get the NFC championship
version of Jalen Hurts and you can stretch the field,
he's using aj Brown and Devonte Smith, It's not all

(54:24):
Secon Barkley. If you have that one two tanem going on,
the Chiefs can't really answer for that. I mean, granted
they have Steve Spagnola, but right now, in terms of
the media, in terms of the presence, it feels very
heavy Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
And I will say they were super super.

Speaker 13 (54:39):
Confident on media night, like felt like you know, mid
eighties Bears, Mike Dick, Walter Payton, Jim McMahon. They have
that swagger because they have been here before. But on paper,
the Eagles win this game. I just it always comes
down to and Texans fans know that's painfully well. Matt
Patrick Mahomes ball in hand, Andy Reid. Maybe the refs,

(55:02):
you know, see things a little differently than everyone on
TV and in the stadium. It's really hard to knock
off the Chiefs, and they're going for true NFL history.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Unfortunately, your city went through some devastation with the attack
in the on Bourbon Street. Security already is tight for
the game, regardless of what had happened before. Have you
heard anything about extra additional security? What to worry about,
because again of what just happened a few weeks ago
in New Orleans.

Speaker 13 (55:31):
I'm getting the Soligic talking on the radio because we
always have such in depth conversations.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
You're such a good radio host and reporter. I love it.

Speaker 13 (55:38):
I missed this man, No, so this is actually very
interesting to me. So I've been to the French Quarter
ten thousand times, Okay, I've never ever ever seen it
like it is right now, and I'm doubt in modern
history it's ever been like this.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
And it's not a bad thing.

Speaker 13 (55:54):
But when I got here on Sunday night and walking
around at seven am Monday morning, it was startling to
see pretty, you know, empty quarter streets right they were
they were being cleaned you're getting all the vomited off,
you know, moving, moving the rats and making it look
pretty again for twenty four hours. So there's nothing on
the streets except for street cleaners and military personnel. Military

(56:16):
personnel carrying weapons, you know, carrying rifles. They're nice, they're friendly,
but they're doing their job. They have roadblocks, real roadblocks everywhere.
It's hard ast heck to actually actually get a car
through the French Quarter, the main part of the French.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
Quarter right now and then two days ago. I've never
had this happen in the Quarter.

Speaker 13 (56:36):
I was just walking to the convention center for you know,
Radio Row and a military member very nicely just asked
if he could check my bag, you know, in public,
which does not happen in the United States of America.
I'm not saying that's a bad thing. I'm safety first.
Was he was very polite. That is how intense they
are they are safeguarding this. Obviously in relation to what happened.

(56:59):
There was sogic, you know, on New Year's Eve. So
it is a very very heavy security presence of police
officers everywhere, momb sniffing, you know, dogs everywhere. I've never
seen security this heavy. Four days three days before the
Super Bowl. But I I give a tip of the
cap to New Orleans. They have to take this seriously.

(57:21):
You have to be able to come here and have.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
Safe feel safe. The flip side is it is New
Orleans and people.

Speaker 13 (57:27):
Were having a really good time last night already, So
I don't think anything can ever stop real partying in
New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
BTS. It's great to hear your voice. We must end
this conversation by having our good friend Roskildreale bring in
some Premier League conversation to wrap this bad boy up.

Speaker 4 (57:43):
I don't need any Premier League conversation against Ralphs.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
Never asked me a question ever, whenever we were on the.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
Air, you know, that was my time to kick my
feet up, Brian. That's why, Oh that's terrible. You know,
I was just curious about Brian, like you're you. You
have a unique perspective and just maybe from the business
side of sports things. Premier League to American sports now,
relegation to me is something that's cool, but it would
never happen in America. But have you seen anything over
there that you're like, you know, what they need to

(58:09):
do this in American sports or or maybe vice versa.

Speaker 13 (58:12):
Man, I could talk about that forever, so very very shortly,
I have gotten so into Premier They cover there and
the EFL and and the Pyramid and everything that you
see if you obviously watched the directions documentary and I'm
going to championship matches and you know League One matches
on and on, it's incredible. Uh, this is what this

(58:34):
is the biggest thing. I'm not even going to get
into the rules or whatever. Everything that you would see
on documentaries or you know, YouTube or whatever. Everything you
would watch on the stadiums, the supporters, the fans, it's
one thousand times better in person when you actually live there.

(58:55):
And there is so much that I think, not even
just the NFL that really like the NBA.

Speaker 7 (59:00):
The NBA.

Speaker 13 (59:01):
Kudos to the Rockets for being a good team again
and someone for Tita for getting that right. But the
NBA overall is struggling with fan you know, involvement and interest.
Baseball you know, not the Astros, but baseball overall is struggling.
And the fact that you know, in many ways, the EFL,
the English Football League, Premier League hasn't changed. They're doing

(59:24):
a lot of the same things they've done for the
last fifty seventy eighty years, one hundred years. I actually
think that a lot of these gazillionaires in the United
States of America, if they're not buying English football teams,
which so many of them are, there's so much they
could learn about fan engagement, keeping prices lower, roarting your supporters,
building loyalty the players changed. Just like in the United

(59:48):
States of free agency, that's not the thing, but having
loyalty to the brand, loyalty to the shirt, loyalty to
the franchise, all those things they take it so seriously
over there, and that is really really missing from American sports.
You get it in college, you don't get in the
pros anymore. And I just think there's really something missing

(01:00:10):
in the US. And you can learn a lot from
England about how passionately people support their teams but literally
liver or die. Comparing like a you know, Liverpool to
Atlanta with how they treat the Falcons and the Hawks
and all of their teams that nobody cares about.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
It's really really laughable. All right, I got ten seconds.
What food have you enjoyed back being in the States
that you can't get in London. Right now, what have
you missed and that you're now able to Yeah, really quick.

Speaker 13 (01:00:43):
So I actually love English food, like real English food
is amazing, not the cheap, bad pub food. Like the
real English food. It's amazing that you cannot be a
shrimp an oyster poah boy with a cup of gumbo
and then a beata beer. I don't care where you're
at in the world. That is the best food in
the world.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
All right, next time Pearl Jam gets back on touring
the States, come hang out with us and you use
some of my friend great to hear your voice said
hello and uh George chime back in New Orleans and
look forward to reading more your stuff on on talk Sport.
Thanks for having me on. I miss you guys. Take
care and hide everyone in Houston. There you go. Brian T.
Smith with us here on the program. Brian to call
us because he is one of those international members. Now, ROSSI,

(01:01:24):
I couldn't figure out.

Speaker 4 (01:01:24):
How we don't want to rack up the bill over.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Yeah, I've never called our phone system sucks, so them
forret to having a chance for him to get a
clear connection, it was a stunner to begin with. So yeah,
it's like he's like his phone number, Ship's like, oh,
four to four, it's country code. Yeah, I've never called
anybody outside of the United States. You know, when I
call Canada, they have a regular area code.

Speaker 3 (01:01:48):
Yeah, four to four is the English country code. You
know what the country code is for America seven ninety one.
Because we're number one, Thomas Edison, Baby, let's go, let's go, USA, USA, all.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Right, I just don't get it coming up in ten
short minutes. Sorry we were a little bit late there,
but BTS. But it was good to get a perspective
of him covering the game and his life now as
a British sports reporter eleven nineteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
The Man Tamas Show with Ross continues on Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
I missed BTS. He was great for us on the
radio here on seven ninety. He was a journalist as
compared to these hacks that consider themselves journalists that have
unsuccessful YouTube pages. This business of ours. Bad direction, Rossie,
bad directions, no comments. Why they need? They need? What

(01:02:52):
they need us? Houston needs us. You know what You're right, man,
they need We're there for you. Uh huh, yeah, we're
there for you. We appreciate it, man, Thank you so much.
Where would we be without you? Thank you Ross, Thank
you Ross for the fifteen years of us. Oh my god,
well got we only got fifteen more to go. We're
gonna be good. I'm gonna throw up. You're not. You

(01:03:17):
were having a good time. I am having a good time.
You get the talk. We get to talk to great
people and have good conversations and goof on everybody. It's
you know, Pizzazza.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
He's having a real job. Yeah, absolutely got that right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
All right? We got to gut feelings coming up, not
gout feeling we have. I just don't get it coming
up in five minute? You got anything on your mind
right away? About what the run? Five? What? No, we
don't get it? You what you?

Speaker 8 (01:03:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
I don't get why Jimmy Butler is a is a
Golden State Warrior and they signed him in a two year,
one hundred and twenty million dollar deal. Did somebody just
hit us? Get that hit with a stupid stick in
Golden State? I mean, I don't know what they're doing.
And how about Kevin Durant saying tell the Golden State Warriors,
I don't want to go play for you again? I've
already been there and done that. Dreamond Green drives me nuts.

(01:04:08):
Problem that Curry's mouthpiece is just so annoying and not
very cleansing. You know, it's got some fun guy on
it or something. Huh you get that checked out? Mm hmmm, yeah,
I just you know, I think I think all the
sizzle now the trade deadline and something less than crazy happens.

(01:04:30):
We're down to what three hours, let's see two o'clock,
so two and a half hours. Yeah, the big pieces
we're gonna be Jimmy Butler or Kevin Durant, and it
sounds like Kevin Durant. The latest reports are all that
the Phoenix is staying pat, standing a pat because even
let's say the Rockets really wanted to get really interested. Like, man,
you know, we've lost four in a row. We're watching
all these teams make these moves. The Lakers made their

(01:04:52):
big move. They also, by the way, we haven't even
talked about this. They got Mark Mark Williams from Charlotte.
Is a great get for the Lakers. Yes, yeah, that
guy has built a granite. By the way, he's averaging
basically sixteen and ten.

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
He's a lob threat. He can defend. That was a
great We talked about them needing to make a move
for a center. Mark Williams is a great fit for
the Lakers.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
And they got rid of Dalton Connect, who was their
first round pick. I mean they got rid of him quick. Yeah.
Then not nearly as fit. Yeah, he's not as physical
as uh as Mark Williams is not as good as
a shooter. But Williams is the prototypical five is compared
to Connect, who's just a stretch guy. Yeah yeah, Connect
is just a wing. Yeah yeah. And by the way,

(01:05:37):
the Dalton Connect rumors out of the draft, did you
and do we ever talk about this on air? I
guess we can. Uh. Oh, everybody in their mother is like,
the guy can score, but he's one of the worst
defensive players ever to come out of college basketball.

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
That was the book on him. That's why he fell
as far as he did.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
Yeah, which is it doesn't seem very nice, but that
reality is, you know, you have to have out people
have draft grades on you for a reason, right, Yes,
did you guys talk about read Shepherd's best game is
a rocket against.

Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
The Shepherd Shepherd?

Speaker 8 (01:06:08):
No, we didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
I mean we didn't talk about much of it, but
I mean best game and be a point total. Best
point total. He got out there a long time. Yeah,
something wrong with Aaron Holidays.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
Okay, I think it was just Hey, let's just change
the vibe up. Tell you Rossy. This team misses Fred
van Vliet. Yes, any people don't want to hear me
say that. It's just the truth. It's the truth, and
sometimes you can't handle the truth. Uh oh, Biscuit has as.
I just don't get it. Huh.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
Okay, when we come back, we'll start with him.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
If you got something you just don't get Remember, for
those of you new to the show, first of all,
where have you been? Secondly, damn glad to have you. Third,
I just don't get it. As a weekly segment, we
do that there are things in your life you just
don't understand it. Maybe you're afraid to tell somebody about it.
Maybe you don't want to tell your wife. I just
don't get why you have to go get botox done
every week, or you gotta get a facial every two weeks,

(01:07:01):
or get your nails done. We're gonna help you answer
your life's issues, because if you don't get something, we're
here to help you with it seven one three two
two five seven ninety. If there's something you don't get
Connor ross myself, we'll try to help you answer that

(01:07:21):
here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Do you have something
in your.

Speaker 14 (01:07:30):
Life that you just don't get. No need to worry,
no need to We will discuss for something. Just see
if we comprehend the things that make.

Speaker 9 (01:07:40):
Can use on friends.

Speaker 8 (01:07:41):
It's time to say I just don't.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Get it, all right, the first one for me, and
again if you got something you just don't get seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Rossie. I
lived in Salt Lake City between the years of two
thousand and four and two thousand and five, and uh
there was a change in the Utah network which forced me,

(01:08:03):
unfortunately to lose my job for the one only time
in my career. Knock one whatever this is property is
here at this hotel, and I've been very successful ever since.
And I took a job in Minneapolis to work on
the Twins radio station and host their coverage of Twins baseball.
I didn't do my due diligence on this. The weather
here is atrocious, and that's a lot of the reason
why I came back to Houston in twenty ten because

(01:08:25):
the weather sucks here. So I would say to you, Ross,
next Monday, here in Minneapolis, the highest twelve degrees. I
mean that's really cool, right, Yes, the low is minus twelve.
So if you don't have a job, that is completely
integral for you to be working in this city, living

(01:08:48):
here for any length of time outside of the months
of say maybe June and July, I would say, Ross,
I just don't get why anybody would live in Minneapolis.
These people good food, good scene, culture's good, but it's
absolutely ridiculously cold. I just don't get it. I'm with you.

(01:09:12):
I can't.

Speaker 4 (01:09:13):
I like a little bit of cold weather.

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
I don't want to live in cold weather and dealing
with ice and snow and sludge all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
Yeah. Monday high twelve, low minus twelve. Tuesday high of three,
low of minus fourteen. Oh my god, Wednesday high of nine,
low minus three. It's gonna warm up to twelve next Thursday,
and it'll be a higher twenty three next Friday. That
is hashtag a warm up. I say, I just don't
get it. I just asked Google, why would you live

(01:09:43):
in Minneapolis. It says vibrant, cultured scene. Yeah, abundant outdoor activities. Yeah,
strong job market you oh, in affordable cost of living.
It is affordable live here. I live in the Inner
City and Saint Paul. I never thought I could ever
live in the inner City, but I did. It was great.

Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
But yeah, the weather would keep me out and it did.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
I left. I said, no, Moss three years, don't get it.
And you got jipped on the snowblower. Damn the snowblower.
It was a good one too. But let me tell
you something, when you catch your own frozen snot, it's
probably time to move on. All right, nobody needs to
hear this. I'm just telling you, honest, Ross, what don't
you get?

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
There's a couple of things I don't get, but I'm
gonna start with this. I know this is the NFL
news from a few days ago, but it's still puzzling me.
Why did the Raiders make Chip Kelly the highest paid
coordinator in football times two. Todd Mounkin makes three million
a year.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
He's the offensive coordinator for the Ravens. He is the
highest paid assistant in the NFL. Chip Kelly's making six
more million, six million dollars total three more million.

Speaker 4 (01:10:47):
He's making double anyone else, and he's good, but he
failed in the NFL. I just don't get it. What
is going on over there in Raiderville.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
It is quite puzzling. Be honest with you, I would
say the exact same thing. I just don't get it.
But you know what, as soon as soon as he
won the national championship, he became the hot commodity. He
was either gonna get a Razor Ohowe State or he
was gonna take an NFL job ross million. The moment
they won the championship, in the moment that Bobby Slow

(01:11:20):
had got let go by the Texans, the very first
thing we thought was, well, demkoos chip a lot of
phone call, see what he wants.

Speaker 4 (01:11:27):
He was fired after his third year in Philly.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
He quit UCLA as the top man. That's that's not
like quitting Arkansas State. Was you cla big ten power
five par four? You're right?

Speaker 4 (01:11:44):
And he all forgot. He was fired for I forgot.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
He was a San Francisco forty nine ers head coach
for it was like five seconds. Yeah, yeah, he's been
fired twice in the NFL. All right, one of The
next one is easy. I mean, seriously, what's going on,
Golden State? What are we talking about here? Good for that?
I mean, you trade for Jimmy Butler, You give up
Andrew Wiggins in a package of assets, and then you
signed like the guy hasn't played seventy games since twenty

(01:12:08):
seventeen and you signed him in a two year, sixty
million dollar extension apiece.

Speaker 4 (01:12:13):
That's one hundred and twenty total. He's thirty six years old.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
You just don't get it. I don't get it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:21):
He's averaging seventeen five and five this year. Those are
like Chandler Parson numbers.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
Yeah, that's that's just a Statfelder. That's not a game changer.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
He's a good perimeter defense. But okay, he's thirty five sorr.
He won me thirty six t September. My apology is
mister Butler, and.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
He's been a head case. Oh by the way, everywhere
he's gone, every single place he's gone, he has left
with I hated here. They don't respect my game. And
by the way, I'm not from Houston. I'm from tom Ball.
I just don't get it. I don't get it. He
hadn't been an all Stars at twenty twenty two. Connor,
what don't you get a couple.

Speaker 15 (01:13:01):
Friend of mine? The girlfriend of the couple's her birthdays
over the weekend. So friend was planning a surprise dinner
for over the weekend. Can you guess what day he chose?

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
Super Bowl? No, no chance, no freaking chance, super Bowl Sunday?
What time? What time? Six o'clock? No, you're not going. No,
you're not going. I'm not.

Speaker 15 (01:13:25):
I already said I'm not going. So I just don't
get why you would think that's a good idea.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
And by the way, what all right? Change you're Oh
my god, is your friend? Is the guy a sports fan? No?

Speaker 8 (01:13:38):
Clearly not.

Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
So you're telling me one of yours is not a
sports fan. And was like, yeah, let's get a brunch
at super Bowl Sunday, so we cannot talk about the
super Bowl.

Speaker 15 (01:13:50):
Yeah, I don't know. I it was instant, like I look,
I I just said I had other plans already.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
No, you don't what you do gotta do? You got
to you gotta tell him the truth. What's the guy's name?

Speaker 15 (01:13:59):
You want to say? Don't you want keep it in eye? No,
I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna say his name, but
I did say. I'm like, God, that's a little You
might want to think about changing it to Saturday, because
I don't think a lot of people are gonna want
to go, and your girlfriend, if it is a surprise,
you know, might be a little.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
Disappointed if not everybody's there.

Speaker 15 (01:14:15):
So we'll see if there's any last minute changes, because
I'll go on Saturday, but definitely not anytime after four
on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
I could even justify it being a noontime brunch on someday. Hell,
the Rockets are playing at one o'clock. I mean, I
get that. I mean, yeah, not dinner though not dinner.
So I just don't get it. Why why you wouldn't
think of that beforehand? I don't get it either. That's
that same ross that might be the worst one we've

(01:14:45):
ever had. I mean, even if you're not a sports fan,
you gotta know when Super Bowl Sunday is on, we're
gonna get you some new friends. Some of your friends
are disappointing me.

Speaker 4 (01:14:58):
So he he's young. You know you weed them out
as you get older, Matt, you know how that goes.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
Con Connor, how old are you again? Twenty four? These
broskis you're with now, you'll only be talking to twenty
percent of them in ten years. If that good luck.
We got the surface level friends, then we got the
close ones. Now we're this is this guy a close
win or surface level? Surface level? Got it? Oh, then
you're then you know what you have. Then you have
to be honest with them and say, man, first of all,
act like you know, have a pair. And secondly, you're

(01:15:24):
not we're not doing this on Super Bowl Sunday. Good
luck having four people over at your place. Yeah. No, God,
thank god he's a surface level friend, because that'd be
a hard fall for you. All right, let's see what
the folks have to say. We'll start. We got a
lot of folks that have things they don't want to
They don't get biscuit on seventy biscuit, I have a
question for you. What don't you get?

Speaker 12 (01:15:45):
Well, Connor, Matt, you know I'm a big Cougar fan.
I'm a big, big Cougar guy. We've got a radio
host is a big Cougar.

Speaker 16 (01:15:58):
Guy, and we have a guy called in and say,
you know, I'm just about to start a family and
the cool guy, Hey, y'all, congregulations, and the guy within
the same suit and says, I'm about to go to
Vegas and blow some money. And the cougar guy, who's

(01:16:19):
the family man has kids.

Speaker 10 (01:16:20):
He can say, hey man, you might want to start
a stout your fund, or hey man, you know daycare
is real expensive. Hey man, sinilac and diapers can really
be costly. The cougar guy just said, go ahead, man,
have fun and put your money on the astros man Ross.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
I just don't get it.

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
Yeah, he's going to start that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
He's gonna start the scholarship fund by going to Vegas and.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Winning a bunch of money.

Speaker 4 (01:16:49):
Business, biscuit, you have misplayed this terrible.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
Let me tell you what you didn't do. The man's
about to be Listen missing me very carefully, biscuit. He's
about to be a father. Do you think he's gonna
able to run to Vegas when he wants to?

Speaker 10 (01:17:00):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
Hell no, he hang, oh no do that. So he
needs to enjoy Vegas as much as he can until
that baby comes out.

Speaker 4 (01:17:06):
So I totally get it, Okay, I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
Yeah, Well that's because you're old. That's the reason why
you don't get it. That's rude. That's the truth. We
love your biscuy. You know that, don't you. Ross. Let
me tell you something, but before my first child was born,
I was doing everything I could to be a single
or not a single would have married man without children? Mm,
because the children keep you down.

Speaker 4 (01:17:32):
Yeah, sounds like a wonderful experience.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
I remember this. So Cameron was born, like in June
of two thousand and the like in July. We're in
this earned this condo that I had off of San
Felipe and Boss and all that. I was like, man,
this is the best. I'm only ten minutes to work.
She's Kim's rocking Cameron in the in the baby chair,
and she's like two things, Matt, we're gonna need to
move to the suburbs. And too, we need to buy

(01:17:55):
a new car. I didn't have that when it was
just kimm and me. I didn't have that. One was
just me. She's spending money I don't have on I
had to go buy a starter house in Kingwood. So
instead of my commute being fifteen minutes to work, it
was fifty three minutes to work. So so my man
that went to Vegas, you know what, staying extra day

(01:18:18):
call the wife and say, hey, things are going so well.
I want to put some more money towards the baby's diapers.

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
Your time is running out, and.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
Don't met don't tell that you went to the glitter gulch.
That's all I'm going to tell you right now.

Speaker 4 (01:18:31):
I'm a spearmit rhino guy myself.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
Are you really okay? Well to each his zone, Paul
and Dave Hank ted We'll get to you in a
matter of moments. The news and noon is coming up
for fifteen minutes more. If I just don't get next
on seven.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
Ninety more Matt Thomas Show with Ross now Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
I got on more, I just don't get it Ross.
In marketing, you always have to keep your message changing,
keep it fresh, keep it alive. Now, there's a certain
national burger king chain. I was gonna say, murger Ring.
It's fine plug there. The guy keeps singing about the
variety of sandwiches and the varety of deals they have.

(01:19:14):
Uh huh, I think we need a new voice.

Speaker 4 (01:19:19):
It's a catchy tune, though I liked it when it
first came out, and I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Why I'm seeing it so many times. Maybe maybe It's
like an algorithm in rubbing is showing up in all
the commercials that I'm looking at when I want to television.

Speaker 4 (01:19:34):
But he says a big kay, have it your way,
you roll, it's the jam.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
Listen to this. I can make up the lyrics bought
up by two sandwiches, cost forty cents to make, still
charging lots of money for you to pay. The guy's
voice is striving me crazy. I just don't get it.
I don't get why someone says, man, let's get into the.

Speaker 3 (01:20:02):
Thing in some different verses, I got another one for you.
In general, I don't get how that place is kind
of stilling business. It used to be really good. It's
gone down in qualities so much. I don't go there
hardly ever. It used to be my number one favorite
fast burger chain. Like, who craves up a whopper?

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
Man, it's good.

Speaker 4 (01:20:20):
It's the last time you had a whopper?

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:20:27):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
It's been years. Not that I'm not avoiding it. I
just don't remember going, hey, kids, what do you want
to go to eat tonight? Eat tonight? And they're like,
oh nah, let's go get whoppers. It's been a while.

Speaker 8 (01:20:42):
I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
Now their onion rings are sneaky good because their fries suck.

Speaker 4 (01:20:46):
Yes, oh they change up their fries like every two years.
They're still never great.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
Still can't get it right, They're still terrible, still terrible,
all right seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven on eve.
It's something you don't get, let us know. We'll try
to help you. Let's go to H. Dave in Spring
at eleven fifty one on seven, y Dave, thank you
for holding good morning. Hey there listen. I'm like you guys.

(01:21:14):
I like Brian Keith Smith a lot. It's good to
hear his voice again.

Speaker 10 (01:21:17):
But I do not get how that man.

Speaker 2 (01:21:19):
Can say he enjoys English food. Say, nobody goes to
England for the food.

Speaker 13 (01:21:23):
If you go to Europe, France, Spain, Italy, yes, great food.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
But England. Nobody goes to England to eat good food.
In fact, you endure the food when you're in England.

Speaker 7 (01:21:34):
And it even has weird names like bubble and squeak
and spotted dick.

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
It's terrible. I don't get it. Dave, excellent call on
your part. Now. I had to be fair on that
a little bit because I've only been to London one time,
so I may have been Ronalds the whole time, didn't you. No,
we went to the bard Bock Cafe, oh my god,
because the food was so bad. The food in London

(01:22:00):
was atrocious, I mean just awful. So when in doubt
the bart Bach raft Ray had hamburgers, you know, I
was doing a Luca Dungeons believe it or not. That
was his favorite place in Spain when he was living there. Really, yes, Okay,

(01:22:22):
so yeah, I'm gonna go ahead, and uh, maybe he's
talking me. Maybe, I don't know because his wife's not
from there, so it's not like she's cooking differently than anybody.
I mean, I don't know. They have they have door
dash in in in one that I'm a sure probably. Yeah.
The food does suck there. I will give him that
Taiwan so probably yeah. Uh but yeah, he said real

(01:22:45):
English fruit, So.

Speaker 3 (01:22:46):
I'm gonna I'm gonna trust Brian that he's been over
there for a long time.

Speaker 4 (01:22:49):
He also says there a year.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
Yeah, there's gotta be Look, there's the people.

Speaker 4 (01:22:54):
Are surviving over there.

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
The foods, food's got it. There's gotta be some good food.
You gotta find the right food. I'm guessing now clearly
they don't don't have they have a shorta dentist there.
I mean, that's one thing that's very apparent.

Speaker 2 (01:23:03):
Hey, come on, man, you're going with these old tropes.
Matt Am, I wrong. Tell the truth. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:23:10):
I don't know anybody in Britain.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
Yeah, the chicklets are not great.

Speaker 8 (01:23:14):
The chick lits.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
Those are the teeth that chick lits.

Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
Twenty Best Fritish British Foods. Yorkshire pudding Nope, toad in
the hole? What a spotted dick?

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
Jellied eels? Is this real? Shepherd's Pie is good? No,
you don't like Shepherd's pie. I don't like any kind
of I don't like I don't like any sort of pie.
Food dishes like meat dishes. Yeah, what do you mean? Like?
What about in banana?

Speaker 10 (01:23:44):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:23:44):
I do like im bananas, but I don't like Shepherd's pie.
I think chicken and dumplings is gross.

Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
Oh my god. All right, that's enough, your band.

Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
It's seriously, what do you want?

Speaker 4 (01:23:56):
A soggy biscuit and you'll like chis gets and gravy.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
I like biscuits. I like gravy. I just like get
mixed together. You're weird, like the like the pies that
you get from uh ross and rocket? No, thank you?

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
No one zero a chicken pot pie. No chicken pot pie.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
ROAs here you're a child, so mcram yes, yes, chicken
pot pie, shepherd's pie, business and gravy.

Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
No, no anything anything anything out of a crock pot
generally speaking, No, you.

Speaker 4 (01:24:32):
Know what I got another. I just don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
I just don't get you. Yeah, I don't care. I'm
never worried about you getting me anything about me? Cram
all right? Uh anything else?

Speaker 4 (01:24:47):
No for alcohol?

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
Mm yeah. The food? Did you spotted dick? Is that
a beverage or is right? I don't know what it is?
Stops saying that when I gotta look at well, I mean,
if it's if it's legit, why not. It's a traditional
British steamed pudding made with swet.

Speaker 3 (01:25:10):
Sweat swet is the raw hard fat of beef, lamb
or mutton and dried fruit. This sounds horrible. Often certain antibiotics.

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
Hmm, yeah, that's yeah. I'm looking at the I'm looking
at the photo image of it right now. It looks disgusting.

Speaker 3 (01:25:32):
It looks pretty bad now. Times are hard, Matt. You
try to come up with new dishes in the middle
of the plague.

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
If I lived in Europe, I probably eat fish and
chips four days a week. I like fish. Yeah, fish
and chips is good. Malt vinegar on it, yes or no? Absolutely, oh,
lots of it, And how as they say, I want it.
I want my fish and chips drenched in vinegar. No,
I don't know about drenched. I mean vinegar breast for

(01:26:00):
the rest of your life. Felipe at May Park at
eleven and fifty six before we get to the news
at noon. Felipe, good morning to you. Good morning man
for my thing for I just don't get it. It's
your palette man.

Speaker 4 (01:26:16):
Like you don't like Shepherd's pie.

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
Nope, you don't like basils and gravy.

Speaker 4 (01:26:21):
You know he doesn't like Tamali's. He doesn't like it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
J dude doesn't like nothing, but he likes the McRib
You shut your moss up. I just don't. By the way,
Bourbon and Baseball just sent me a tweet. Biscuits and
gravy is a weird dish. It's pretty much just really

(01:26:43):
wet flour and really dry flour. Couldn't have set it
better myself. Bourbon and basis delicious very much. I like biscuits,
I like gravy. I just don't want him on top
of each other. That's not crazy, Yes it is. I
don't only I don't even know saggy do all over
my body and food in my palate.

Speaker 3 (01:27:02):
I wonder what percent I actually did a Twitter poll
in this age aes ago. I can't remember to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:07):
Don't do it. It's gonna lose. It's a Southern treat.
But if I said biscuits and gravy and say Maine,
you would then never would be different. But Texas it's
a it's a Texas specialty. Hey you know what, Yeah,
so go back to Dallas, then, Matt, that's a Texas ross.
Oh it's not real.

Speaker 4 (01:27:21):
It's North Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (01:27:22):
Okay, Yeah, I don't know. I just I do not
like chicken pot pie though. Gross the nasty juice that's
inside that pie. What are you just not You're probably
eating the frozen ones out of the grocery store and
saying you wait a minute, excuse me. You go to
somebody's house and saying, hey, everybody, I made a chicken

(01:27:45):
pot pie for everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:27:46):
My mom's made chicken pot pie. You can go to
any sort of homestyle restaurant and get one.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
That's what I'm saying. You don't need to go to homes.
Just don't do it. Just don't make it. You're taking
what you do. You're taking a pie crust. You're jamming
it full of soup. Oh yeah, covering with some chicken.
Put a layer on top. That's more gravy.

Speaker 3 (01:28:04):
It's all gravy and vegetables and heart chicken and a buttery,
flaky crust.

Speaker 4 (01:28:09):
Oh yeah, it sounds horrible.

Speaker 2 (01:28:13):
That's wrong with you. Let's get the News at noon.
It's up next here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 8 (01:28:20):
Lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 7 (01:28:24):
Whoa three at h Town?

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
What's happening to lunch timers?

Speaker 5 (01:28:27):
Good afternoon to you, and welcome to the third hour
of the Mat Thomas Show with Ross here on Sports
Talk seven ninety. Will we present to you every day
at around this time the big headlines up today?

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
It's the News at noon, all right, Matthew, Yes, we
got a lot to get to here on the News
at noon. We as we approach the n be a
trade deadline now under two hours away. The big headlining
move has been Jimmy but going to Golden State. But

(01:29:01):
according to Brian Winhorst, it was very close to being
Jimmy Butler in Phoenix Kevin Durant in Golden State.

Speaker 4 (01:29:10):
But Kevin Durant nixed the deal.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Do you think he did that because he likes Phoenix
the lot or do you think he's like, man, I've
been there, done that. There's a lot of drama in
Golden State. I think Durant had no interest in returning
to the Warriors, and apparently, according to other reports, that
had been his stance, and he was very firm on
that stance according to Mark Stein.

Speaker 4 (01:29:31):
And I believe Shamsherania.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
Because my guess is, if Durant's going to change his
life a little bit, at least for the rest of
this NBA season, he wants to go somewhere where he
thinks he is on the precipice of maybe going for
a title again. I don't think it's going to be
happening in Phoenix, and it certainly isn't happening in Golden State.
I would be of all the teams ROSSI and this
is giving you no breaking analysis on this one. It

(01:29:54):
looks like the Lakers have won this trade deadline by
leaps and bounds over everybody else.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
Yes, I was going to mention the Lakers as well,
Matt as we continue to break down the trade deadline
as they have traded for Hornets center Mark Williams a
really good fit as a lob threat for Luka Doncic
and Lebron James, averaging sixteen points on fifty nine point
seven percent shooting, also nine point eight rebounds, plays good

(01:30:21):
defense seven footer. We talked about the Lakers needing a
center with Anthony Davis being traded away. That center is
Mark Williams. They did have to give up Dalton connect
Cam Reddish in a twenty to thirty one unprotected first
round pick and also another pick swap.

Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
So what they're better? And by the way I've been listening, Look,
I was having to kill time yesterday, so I was
watching some of the NBA shows. If you Lebron, Lebron
has played with Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade, and who
elseo Anthony Davis play with Luka Doncion, He's gonna be fine. Yeah,

(01:31:03):
I mean I was just like, well, those guys can't.
There's only one basketball for him. Guess what. Guess what
JJ Redd's gonna do. He's gonna tell Lebron man, get
the damn ball to seventy seven. He can score. And
it's gonna be a matchups too.

Speaker 3 (01:31:17):
Yeah, if there's somebody matched up on a really good
perimeter defender that might be able to limit Luka doncic
a little bit, then they're gonna go to Lebron.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
If it's vice versa, and Lebron likes playing off ball anyways,
especially at this old age, and they're gonna be running,
gonna be running picking rolls with Luka doncicen and and
uh in Lebron freaking James. That's gonna be unstoppable. It
was unstoppable when it was like Dwayne Wade and Lebron James. Now,
of course that was ten years ago and Lebron's a
lot older. But it's gonna work to an extent. Is

(01:31:47):
it gonna be championship level?

Speaker 4 (01:31:48):
We'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
I don't know if they have enough pieces, especially with
another news item Matt on the News at noon, Chet
Holmgren coming back to play for the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Speaker 4 (01:31:59):
As we we all predicted.

Speaker 3 (01:32:00):
They're calling this basically a deadline deal made for the
Oklahoma City Thunder who have the league's best record at
forty and nine, and now they get chet Holmgen back,
they're gonna be even stronger atop the Western Conference right now,
six games ahead of the grizz who are two and
a half games ahead of your Houston Rockets.

Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
Yeah, they were on national TV last night. They who
they play? I forgot who they played? They crushed them?
Who did it?

Speaker 11 (01:32:25):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
O was Phoenix?

Speaker 4 (01:32:27):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
Nine? The final on that one. This Western Conference is filthy.
It sucks. It sucks because even if as much fun
as we're watching a Rockets play, I mean, I would
think the Rockets ross have got to do something. I
don't think this during this trade deadline, which is gonna
end in an hour in fifty three, but it's gonna
be I think we're gonna want to keep our binoculars

(01:32:50):
right on the on the Rockets in this offseason. Hm hm, Okay, Matt,
just just very much a gut feeling in that one. Well,
we'll see what happens. Now, just under two hours left
in the trade deadline. Early returns looking good for dearon
Fox as a San Antonio Spur, Fox showcasing his talents

(01:33:10):
in a one to twenty six to one to twenty
five win for the Spurs over the Atlanta Hawks. He
had twenty four points, thirteen assists, five rebounds, and three steals.
The performance marked the first time in franchise history that
a player making their Spurs debut utalied at least twenty
points in ten assists. Man, how big of a problem
are the San Antonio Spurs gonna be?

Speaker 7 (01:33:29):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:33:30):
I'm working for about Missy the Eltiman's furst vancoum around
the station, yelling at us.

Speaker 4 (01:33:34):
I know she's gonna ask for more airtime. She already
has been.

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
She's been so quiet lately too. I know Wemby was
good last night and much to out Adam clam and chagrin.
How does that has? Adam Clanton commented on Wemby being
an All Star Yet two o'clock today, Sports Talk seven
ninety just saying, okay, full breakdown, We're still going to

(01:33:58):
talk about the offensive line. The coach with the texts
okay Coal Coal Popovich. Cole Popovich distant relative told Gregory.

Speaker 3 (01:34:06):
Yes, Matt bitch uh and we'll move along actually to
some NFL news. Not necessarily news, Matt, but just something
I kind of noticed all week long and then some
since the super Bowl had been set, Kansas City at
one and a half point favorites total ticking down a
half point, and the Kansas City uh Kansas City line

(01:34:26):
also ticking down a half point. Kansas City now just
favored by one total, sitting at forty eight and a
half with the super Bowl coming up on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
Now, let me ask you this, because you're the betting
and fishing out all over the two of us, if
you think the Eagles are gonna win, you don't care
about that point, Just bet the money line, right, I mean,
I can't mention the payoff being that much different, But
why would you even need the point? Yeah, it's gonna
be I mean one out of one hundred games that
you're really even gonna need that little bit of value
you can get the Philadelphia Eagles even on the money
line right now, Matt, Kansas City at a minus one

(01:34:57):
twenty Okay, very good. Yeah, if you're gonna if you
let the Eagles who win, don't work, don't warm at
the point. Let me ask you this, when does that point.
Help me out the math of this. When does that
point come into play only for push purposes? Yes, but
you would never push. There's not gonna be a tie. Yeah,
so why would you even bother? Why would you? Why

(01:35:17):
would a point spread even be one point? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:35:21):
There's no tie in the super Bowl. That'd be funny.
What if they went to like fifteen overtimes They're like,
all right.

Speaker 2 (01:35:25):
It's a tie. I mean, would you bring out Kendrick
and Lamara for a second act because people will be
thirsting for more? You might?

Speaker 4 (01:35:33):
Well, I mean, he's got enough hits. He's got twenty
two Grammys.

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
Yeah, you play one, you play each each one of
his songs that won Grammys with absolutely although I think
he won five Grammys for one song this year. By
the way, do not want you calling me during the
halftime because I want to be able to sit back
and relish.

Speaker 4 (01:35:52):
I'm not I never call you? Should well, you never
call me. I mean, I'm not saying it's so no.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
I too, But it takes hours for you to get
that I was a slave. She must have taken a
long nap, like a long ass nap.

Speaker 4 (01:36:09):
Kendrick Lamar does have four number one albums.

Speaker 2 (01:36:11):
So okay, well, look forward to hearing the best of
all of them coming up on a medley of Kendrick
Lamar's greatest hit Sunday at about what seven thirty, give
or take? Maybe so I think?

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
So okay, all right, Matt, let's cat moving on. I'm
gonna go with the actually a little bit more on
the Super Bowl. Our friends over at Pro Football Focus
has ranked every position group. They have the Chiefs winning
the quarterback battle and the tight end battle, and they
give the edge to the Eagles everywhere else. Secondary, linebacker,
defensive line, offensive line, wide receiver, running back.

Speaker 2 (01:36:45):
I'm starting to think, Matt, we fill a little Eagles,
little Eagles money line for the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (01:36:49):
Do you think it's the Chiefs gonna.

Speaker 8 (01:36:51):
Be too much?

Speaker 4 (01:36:52):
Great man front of the show deserves a Super Bowl ring.

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
I like that we should go get a bet on
braidon manager's bet A Just be like, why is somebody
in Houston betting on a braidon man prop bet? I
bet you get prop bets on average kick? Right, wouldn't
you over under our number of average yarns or how
many times he kicked in a ball game.

Speaker 4 (01:37:14):
Gonna guess no.

Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
By the way, there's an email service that I'm not
giving a run to. It's a betting service that sent
me an email yesterday ross It says the study here,
their study. According to geotagged exit data whatever that's worried,
eighty percent of America is rooting for the Eagles, really
eighty percent. The states that are not rooting for the

(01:37:36):
Eagles would be Missouri, Kansas. Huh, Oklahoma, Arkansas?

Speaker 4 (01:37:48):
What about Texas with the hometown boy five?

Speaker 2 (01:37:52):
And there's two states above Missouri. Would that be Iowa?
Oh in Nebraska? Yeah, yeah, I guess I'm right. I'm right.

Speaker 4 (01:38:03):
Oh man, our geography expert Matt Thomas.

Speaker 2 (01:38:06):
And then Virginia. I think Virginia is a state that's
rooting for the Chiefs.

Speaker 4 (01:38:11):
Matt, Are you sure that's not North Carolina?

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
Oh it is North Carolina.

Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
Yeah, no, no, no, because no, no, no, I'm not
looking at the map. I'm just getting Virginia.

Speaker 2 (01:38:22):
Are you Virginia, because finally Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Yes, Virginia.

Speaker 4 (01:38:28):
Are you smarter than a fifth grader?

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
God? This is terrible. This is hard to do. Like
when I was in school, the easiest one was Montana
because there was always a face. It looked like Joe Montana,
but I look like it, but you just knew the face.
And I believe that cuts off the news at noon.
Is that correct?

Speaker 4 (01:38:44):
Yeah, that's enough. We actually have a Bregmant update.

Speaker 3 (01:38:46):
We can get to that though later, as we got
a Bregmant update yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:38:51):
Right after this.

Speaker 4 (01:38:52):
Sure, how about right if you want to get right
after this?

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Speaker 1 (01:39:28):
Back to Matt Thomas and Ross via real Fine on
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:39:38):
Ross teasing a moment ago and we hear at the
Matt Thomas Show and Ross pay off our teasers, ladies
and gentlemen, in twelve nineteen, we present to you and
Alex Bregman updates by update.

Speaker 4 (01:39:52):
Oh Man, you ross show, will he say.

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
The bit's never going away? Much disagree of some it's
you guy, Rossie well Man.

Speaker 3 (01:40:09):
Of course, we know that the domino of Pete Alonso
has fallen as he's finally agreed to return to the Mets,
And we got a really good Bragmant update is Chris
Cordy was out at Radio Row Matt. He ran into
Ari Alexander of KPRC Local too, who's been breaking down
all this astro stuff like nobody's business.

Speaker 4 (01:40:29):
You had not heard this, so I did want to
bring this to you.

Speaker 3 (01:40:32):
A really good breakdown from Ari Alexander on what the
latest is with Alex Bregman.

Speaker 9 (01:40:37):
There hasn't been much of updates within the past few days.
It feels like he's sort of in the bunker trying
to decide between what he has. But right now, the
way that I'm thinking about it, and just from the
people that I've talked to over the past couple of weeks,
is there are three sections of teams for Alex Pregmant
of the five total teams that are in on Alex Pragman.
The first section are the teams that are going to
be giving him long term offers that I think are

(01:40:58):
going to have to do a little extra to get him.
That's tor that's Detroit. The second section has just one
team in it. That's the Astros and whatever it is
that's gonna happen with them, the six to one to
fifty six offer that I just do not believe that
he's going to take. If the Astros, and it's sounding
more and more unlikely, are going to get Alex Bregman,
they're gonna have to up their offer. Doesn't feel like
they want to and doesn't feel like Alex wants to
take the six one fifty six. The third section of

(01:41:20):
teams is the Cubs and the Red Sox, two teams
that it feels like they're going for a shorter term,
opt outs type of offers to Alex Bregman, a little
higher AAV and those are teams that I don't think
would have to do the extra the way the Blue
Jays and the way the Tigers might have to do
to get him. Those are teams that I believe he

(01:41:40):
would like to play for if the money is right,
if the situation is right.

Speaker 2 (01:41:44):
However, the Red Sox create a problem.

Speaker 9 (01:41:46):
Because he's gonna have to play second base, at least initially.
Rafael Devers, from what I've been told all offseason, is
not moving off third base. So those are your three
parts of where Alex Bregman could go. But as of
right now, there is no decision made. He has five
potential places he could still go, and I know everyone's
upset how long this has been dragging on, and I'm

(01:42:07):
sure that he's not loving how long. He doesn't have
a specific plan of what he needs to do in
spring training, But that's where we're at right now.

Speaker 4 (01:42:15):
Nothing new there five teams into the mix.

Speaker 3 (01:42:19):
I think it was interesting the Devers is not going
to be moving off a third base at all, because
that was something that was talked about. So Cubs and
Red Sox would be short term opt out offers, Toronto
and Detroit would be long term offers.

Speaker 2 (01:42:31):
No, I don't believe it to be accurate at all.
Long term offers is beyond six years that the long
term offer is here in Houston. When have you seen
anything associated with a seventh year?

Speaker 4 (01:42:48):
Six years is long term?

Speaker 3 (01:42:49):
I just I'm talking about rather than the short term
out to opt out as opposed to yeah, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:42:53):
No, this whole thing of seven years is done, finished,
finito happening.

Speaker 4 (01:43:02):
Nobody said seven years exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
Oh well, I would have to disagree with you on I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:43:08):
Talking about right now what we're talking about in this segment.

Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
Okay, oh yeah, are you? Are you?

Speaker 8 (01:43:13):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:43:14):
No? But I mean there is nothing, there's nothing really
new out of that. I mean, we know that the
Cubs are interested, we know the Red Sox are interested.
I mean, the best deal might be the one in Houston.
But I just he thinks, and maybe who's holding a hut?

(01:43:36):
And look, I love Bragg unless I'm missing the whole
thing about how negotiations work in baseball. Who's sitting back, going, Man,
We've got this deal that's gonna waste or pass with
the Astros are off, and we're just gonna hold onto
the very last second to offer it to them. That's

(01:43:56):
what I under the category. But I just don't get
its is is boris waiting for somebody to all of
a sudden sall right, no, Moss, we give up you
one to one seventy five. Here it is there, it
is knock it out, let's go six years, one seventy five,
it's yours take.

Speaker 4 (01:44:14):
It all, right, what's your good feeling on this?

Speaker 2 (01:44:17):
Then? I don't know, Ross, I feel like the hot
mess when it comes to this.

Speaker 3 (01:44:21):
My good feeling is starting to turn more and more
to short term deal without opt outs?

Speaker 2 (01:44:26):
Yes that, yes, which would at this point? I mean yeah,
I don't. I mean with the does that knock the
astros out? Does that keep them in? Does that? Maybe
he was just so turned off by six one fifty
six he's like, you know what I mean, I mean

(01:44:48):
more to you than that, and that's the best you're
giving me. I'll take a short term deal. Go go
Rake and have an ops of eight forty this year,
hit thirty bombs, play my All Star or my third
Baseman Globe Glove, and I'll go get fat like Blake
Blake Snell did. Right, Didn't Blake Snell bet on himself
for a short term deal wind up getting MORESS? Maybe

(01:45:09):
that's right. Blake Snell older than than Bregman. I think
it's close. Yeah, Blake Snell is thirty two, so it
worked out for him.

Speaker 4 (01:45:23):
Yeah, hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:45:29):
I really want to know. And this is where they
like Athletic will figure this out. You know that. That's
they have more term time to do that than other
newspaper sources doing journalism. They can, they can get into
the weeds on this because I don't even know, if
you know, if we ever talked to Bregman again on
the show, if he didn't even really tell us that
the God's honest true, probably not, nor should he if

(01:45:53):
he doesn't want to. I'm saying that's right, because if
you know, he's got to be thinking that's all they
gave me. I'll go show them and then you go
out and check yourself out in the free agent market,
and the market says, nah, it feels about right. You
don't want to go tell the world, Well, I should
have taken the original offer that was given to me.

(01:46:13):
If how about this, let's do this instead instead of
trying to guess what he's going to happen. If you
were to give him advice, this is different. Rots We've
never done this advice advice, my advice. Knowing where we are,
it's February the sixth. As I would sign a two
year deal like Pete Alonzo did with an opt out

(01:46:37):
of the first year, I'd have heavy money in the
first year, because I believe the Alonzo deal was fifty
four million dollars, of which thirty of it is this year.
I'd opt out if I really wanted to and go
do this all over again to prove that I can
go get more in the kids. And then you know
this AAV I think maybe in in this particular case,

(01:47:01):
and again this is just pure conjecture on my part.
Is like Bregman is insistent on having a higher AAV
of twenty six million dollars per year.

Speaker 4 (01:47:13):
Hmmm.

Speaker 2 (01:47:16):
So my advice is compared to prediction is Briggs, if
you or do not want to come back to Houston
and you are not satisfied with the six one fifty six,
open it up to everybody and say, hey, I'll sign
a two year deal. Been oup that after one front
load the first year of the contract lfg ah.

Speaker 3 (01:47:43):
I would my advice would probably take the whatever the
long term, whatever the biggest total money is.

Speaker 2 (01:47:50):
What if the biggest longest term is money deals six
pet fifty six and then take it? Why handing it?
Done it already?

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
I think he doesn't want to come crawling back. Maybe
maybe he thinks easy clearly.

Speaker 2 (01:48:01):
Ross it is.

Speaker 9 (01:48:04):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:48:04):
If he scoffed at that and told the astros this
is a slap in the.

Speaker 3 (01:48:07):
Face, and then they're like, all right, let's go, well, well,
sorry we slapped you, go ahead and find him better
and he couldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:48:14):
Wouldn't it be it isn't a bigger slap in the
face If he goes back at a two year deal
worth fifty five million, of which let's say thirty five
of it is front loaded. I don't know. I might
just throwing numbers out. I don't know, because just because
you take a take a short term deal with OPT,
that doesn't necessarily mean three years from now a better
deal maybe out there. Look, I ain't worried about Briggs. He's,

(01:48:36):
first of all, awesome dude, gonna make a lot of
money wherever he plays, and wherever he plays, he's gonna rake.
Those things are not are not in my mind a doubt.
It's it just feels like this is a cat and
mouse game. Maybe this is too personal for me Ross,
but I could not to figure out my future the

(01:48:57):
way that Scott Borrows runs his clients.

Speaker 4 (01:49:03):
I think one Soda is very happy with Scott Morris.

Speaker 2 (01:49:05):
Wan Soto is very happy Jordan Montgomery not real happy.

Speaker 3 (01:49:10):
Yeah, but I think he keeps more clients than he loses.
That's what Snell stuck with him, and he got one
hundred and eighty two million from the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (01:49:20):
H I don't know it's but if we did a
survey right now, like an instaple, I bet you it's
fifty to fifty at the very best that people want
Pregnant back here.

Speaker 8 (01:49:34):
It's good.

Speaker 3 (01:49:34):
The tide continues to turn. It does, but I think
I would say I would say still over fifty over
fifty percent. Because he found he signed today, they would
be absolutely Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:49:47):
It'd be a little it'd be a little weird talking
about the off season, but what have a Let me
tell you. If he's signed today, let bygones be bygones.
My god. Wait, you know, I think that even the
people that are like, oh, he's bgging this on too
love here, if he signed today tomorrow and you said,
are you happy Bregnant's back, he would be like ninety ten, yeah,

(01:50:12):
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Speaker 1 (01:52:05):
Lunchtimers, Lunchtimers, It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:52:17):
Rossie Bob Nightingale recently going on Twitter saying that free
agent third basement Alex Pregnant still has no interest in
a short term contract and seeks a six or seven
year deal. Hmmm, well he is going all freaking in baby.
I remember what we said in the last seven was advice,
not what we think it's gonna happen. It was advice. Hmm.

(01:52:43):
Now you're saying whom you're trying to put together thoughts
are you're trying to measure yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:52:47):
I also have no interest in a short term deal, mad,
I'm seeking a ten year contract worth one billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:52:52):
And who are you gonna get it from? There?

Speaker 4 (01:52:55):
In lies the rub Me and Alex Bregman are in
the same spot.

Speaker 2 (01:52:59):
I would pay you, I mean I would pay you
more than what you're making now. Thank you, Matt. I
appreciate that. Not much more, but it would be a
little I'd round of the nearest dollar.

Speaker 4 (01:53:08):
You know, you being out of town all the times
that I'd allow me to save up for our lunch?

Speaker 2 (01:53:12):
I owe you. Are we ever going to pay that off?
I bet stop?

Speaker 4 (01:53:18):
You've been out of town for eight weeks?

Speaker 2 (01:53:19):
Bro, I'm sick of myself. Does that make sense? I
could see that. I want to go home. I want
to lay in my own bed. I want to play
with my dogs, snuggle your dogg oes. Yes, I miss
my pupps, miss my family, miss my wife. I miss
you know that kind of stuff too, you know what

(01:53:40):
I mean? I guess. By the way, Uh Taylor is in?
Where did she go this week? She's I want to say,
she and Costa Rica. I gotta look and see, Oh
my god, real quick, she's not a radio row. No,
she's Oh she's in Costa Rica. You knew that.

Speaker 3 (01:54:00):
Trying to play dumb, we were trying to we were
hoping she was on radio rows who we'd get her
yesterday when you weren't on the show, And how jealous
you would have an upset?

Speaker 2 (01:54:10):
You would have been, Oh, i've heard her talk. I
don't necessarily hear on my shots.

Speaker 4 (01:54:14):
What does that mean, Matt?

Speaker 2 (01:54:15):
Because the Iowa accent is annoying? Af and what is
she gonna offer? Bad picks? I can get that from
anybody around. I get that from you daily.

Speaker 4 (01:54:22):
What am I worried about her? Why are you so
infatuated me?

Speaker 2 (01:54:25):
Because I mean no, I'm not infatuated. Others might be.
People are sending me stuff. They're like, man, I just
want to let you know this is a girl out there.
I'm like, what's your name?

Speaker 3 (01:54:33):
And you're like, I already saw it twice. You don't
know that, you said, all right, I got it bookmarked.

Speaker 2 (01:54:39):
You don't know that, your liar. You don't know me.

Speaker 4 (01:54:42):
I know you a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:54:44):
Easy on seven nine of or twelve thirty eight? Easy?
What's the good word, gentlemen? Good morning?

Speaker 6 (01:54:51):
If you do now, I floated the the the short
term contract. I actould get out to you guys, just
see if you can read. I think get said to
get him. I checked in I want million.

Speaker 2 (01:55:02):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:55:02):
It kind of gives him a little ego boost over
Peter Alonzo two years sixty million, And how would that
work out? I mean again, he's a professional. He you
know with the six fifty six, he's making twenty six mil.
I mean making you give him the thirty mil. That's
that's Scott Borris's agent fee. You know, it's it's true money.

Speaker 2 (01:55:23):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:55:24):
And again the other one was uh, so he still
gets that's second basis of natural position. How come Paradis
can learn to it? Moving the left I mean he
would be a liability out there as far as arm
but left field. Make the new guy learn the position,
and that's that's about it, didn't I mean again, I'll
hang up with listen.

Speaker 2 (01:55:44):
Thank you, Bob. Was that his phone line or our system?
I think was? I don't know. It's our system. Our
system sucks. It doesn't worter anything for the most part. Um,
okay to the first part of the question. I mean again,
I just gave advice in the last thing. But I
would take if you're not happy with what you're getting

(01:56:04):
right now, take a short term and see what can happen.
But it feels like, man, I don't know, I don't know.
I'm tired of say feels like because I'm not I'm
I'm I'm not reading the room apparently, unless he is
just absolutely ross set on seven years or six years
and a higher value than what the astros are giving.

(01:56:25):
At this point, it seems like that's what he said
on and it's that's what Bob Nightingale is saying. Yeah,
but I feel like that tweet would mean a lot
more in like December ninth. It's February sixth. Hey, you
know what, if you're making a six seven year decision,
what's a couple of weeks. But see, but teams don't

(01:56:48):
operate that way. That way though there's not a major
League Baseball team, I don't think. Now, maybe I'm wrong.
That's sitting there going man, we're gonna keep holding this.
We're gonna keep holding spot for you until you take it.
We I mean, we'll wait for you. Even ross. Even
great college football and basketball teams don't wait forever for

(01:57:11):
kids to make up their mind. At some point, they
do put them on a clock. Okay, well it is
Bragman on a clock. It doesn't seem I don't know
clearly he's not. Yeah, and again, if Alex Bregman signs
on your team tomorrow, you are whoever gets him is
going to be better than they were yesterday or better
than they are today. That's indisputable. Yes, But how many

(01:57:36):
teams and all it takes this one, But how many
teams are sitting there going we've got this spot we're
holding in for you. And oh, by the way, we've
got our budget set for twenty twenty five, like, for instance,
in our company. In most companies, the budget set the budgets.
You can't go on beyond the budget without having to
go through massive amounts of overhead. In terms of talking

(01:57:58):
to bosses and bosses bosses now, granted, in baseball it's
a little bit different. You go to the general manager
and you say hey, You go to the owner and say, hey,
I want to bring Bregman in. It's going to put
us over the luxury of the threshold. Are you willing
to pay it? And the owner says yes, I am.
Then it's a moot conversation. There's no hard cap to that.
But most companies don't operate that way. Most companies say,

(01:58:22):
all right, we have a dollar amount that we've set
we're putting it in a place when our fiscal year starts,
and we can't budge from that without having to get
approval from several people above us. But as we've learned,
sports don't work the way the normal businesses do. Ah Man.

(01:58:42):
The great thing about Brigman is, and this is like
with any other professional athlete ross he dosn't worry about
a paycheck. He's not going to if he doesn't even
play a single play in twenty twenty five. He's got
nothing to worry about his grandkids. Knox's grandkids are gonna
be taken care of, should be. But holding out for

(01:59:05):
seven years, this late in the game, I wonder, I
wonder if you know, I probably apologize for saying a
wonder again? Is Boris calling? He seems every day saying, man, look,
just get him the extra year, look, get get give me,
give me. I've asked for twenty let's put the difference,

(01:59:28):
give me ten he'll come your way, or a Scott
Boris or I don't mean I gotta wor about my
twenty twenty six clients. I'm done.

Speaker 3 (01:59:39):
I mean, are they checking with everyone every week? And like,
all right, you haven't up the offer, all right, check
with you next week.

Speaker 2 (01:59:44):
Because he hadn't certainly hadn't checked with the Astros. Apparently
Dana Brown did at the lunch and data Brown said
he's been doing him a call for three weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:59:53):
He lost his number.

Speaker 2 (01:59:55):
It's like that. It's like that text you're supposed to
return but you didn't do it, so people get grumpy,
like when Ross, you don't return my text. I feel
somewhat offended, Scott. Scott Borrow's got to be offended by
the Astros. I don't know what's going on. That's why
I really want somebody to tell me the God's that
a truth. When it's all said and done, somebody's gonna

(02:00:20):
get you know. And again it has to come from
both sides that you know, because the player might say
something and the age of may say something, but the
but the general managers around baseball may have a different
story to this. Because here's what I don't think. I
for for Bregman, who needs to be he's gonna be
with his new team and has to have a good
first impression because again he has been typically a slow starter.

(02:00:42):
The last thing Bregg wants, or for that matter, deserves,
is to go somewhere new, rush himself into spring training
and get off to a one to eighty five start,
because that's not the legacy I want that guy to have.
Because he's awesome, but maybe he's willing to sacrifice that
or least season struggle to get that eventual dollar amount

(02:01:03):
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Speaker 8 (02:02:48):
Lunch timers lunchtimes. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (02:02:56):
Trade deadline clock one hour nine minutes remaining. We are
your official NBA Trade deadlocks station. Ross. There's not a
bunch of mid players being traded here. This has got
no steam to it whatsoever. That's rude from Vert. Okay,

(02:03:19):
here we go. You tell me when something sizzles. You ready.
The Phoenix Suns are training use of Nurkic in a
twenty twenty six first round pick to the Charlotte hornas
for Cody Martin, Vasili Michic and a twenty twenty six
second round pick. Roots.

Speaker 4 (02:03:34):
Use of Nurkic is good?

Speaker 2 (02:03:35):
Okay, you like that? Yes, here we go. The Atlanta
Hawks are trading forward DeAndre Hunter to the Cleveland Cavaliers
for Karris LeVert, George Niang, three second round picks and
two swaps. How that sizzle? Hmm?

Speaker 3 (02:03:48):
How does Karris Lvert feel going from the best team
in the East to the ninth team in the East.

Speaker 2 (02:03:54):
You know what, he's got his bag. He ain't worried
about it, poor guy. Next Milwaukee training Patrick Baldwin and
cash to San Antonio.

Speaker 4 (02:04:04):
Patrick Baldwin and cash.

Speaker 2 (02:04:08):
M Okay, would you like to be a part of
a deal involving cash? No, you never want to. They've
traded just for cash. Consederations. I mean, do the Spurs
have a venmo account. I mean, if you do, can
you you know, I don't know how does that work.
That's a good question. Do they zel it or do
they Venmo or whatever?

Speaker 4 (02:04:25):
DeAndre Hunter is a good pickup for the Calves.

Speaker 2 (02:04:29):
He's a good six man for sure. By wait, I've
never zeld before, but I have vinmoed. Okay, somebody told
me was zel if you make a mistake, tough luck
on you.

Speaker 4 (02:04:38):
I Venmo's like that too.

Speaker 2 (02:04:41):
Really, you can't retract it or anything like that. Yeah.
So if you sent somebody fifty dollars by ACKs and
it would be incumbing on those people to send the
money back. Correct, damn dude. Raptors are trading Davey on
Mitchell the heat for PJ. Tucker a second round picking cash,
but a lot of cash deals, all right. The two

(02:05:03):
most interesting players that are left that have been possibly
discussed in a trade, Kevin Durant, Yes, Diane Williamson, Yes,
the clock is ticking. I don't hear a clock.

Speaker 4 (02:05:19):
Oh, I mean, well, you know, metaphorically, Matt m Here
here's the Red Cross clock.

Speaker 2 (02:05:24):
The clock.

Speaker 4 (02:05:27):
Do you want to hear for the whole next hour
of the show or what?

Speaker 2 (02:05:31):
No, because our show is timeless.

Speaker 10 (02:05:34):
It is.

Speaker 2 (02:05:35):
Yes, that's great. Matter of fact, I think you're gonna
go here. I think you can stay handle six o'clock.
Leave right up into rockets now I'm going coverage. I
do have rockets launch. Bad for you coming up at
six o'clock though, ooh you do. And you don't have
Amy a don'kay interview to play today. I'm sorry, so
what I don't care? Yeah, but that usually takes care of,
you know, the host half of their show. No, the okay, whatever,

(02:06:00):
I don't want to hear from you, all right, Uh okay.
Either one of those guys intrigue you for the rockets,
either one of them.

Speaker 3 (02:06:09):
I mean they're both intriguing, but I don't think you
would give up the assets to get either. Too many
question marks about dedication and this staying healthy was Zion
Williamson and staying fit?

Speaker 2 (02:06:22):
Yeah, got it? You know what it is though, and
I honestly god ROSSI he I think I've only called
maybe three or four of his games over the years,
and that's really very bad to see because we play
the Pelicans four times a year. That's how much few
times I've ever called his games. But when he's on
the court, as limited as he is, he's damn good.

Speaker 4 (02:06:44):
He's amazing.

Speaker 2 (02:06:45):
He's not impossible to cover, but he's much more difficult
because he can put his back to the basket and
beat you up and push you aside, and then he
can knock down a nineteen footer, I mean a running
nine to a stop set shoot kind of. I mean
he can. He can burst down the court, put the

(02:07:05):
ball in his hands and jack up a shot and
make it. He's but man, it's just there's been not
enough of that. That's this is a god's on his truth.
He just hasn't done enough of that. During his NBA career.
He's averaging thirty and ten. He's just only played fifteen
games this year. Fifteen out of them possible what fifty one,
fifty two, somewhere in that range. Probably crazy.

Speaker 4 (02:07:25):
Did play seventy last.

Speaker 2 (02:07:26):
Year, though, and they had to play the plan to
make it seventy. So I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:07:30):
I'm I'm on his basketball reference page. It says regular
season seventy games played. That's what I'm going off of.

Speaker 2 (02:07:36):
Mm hmmm. The only one I'm gonna lose on us.
He's gonna keep playing past thirty because there's too much
money for him to make somebody, somebody when he leaves
New Orleans eventually, not don't matter if it, but win,
somebody's gonna say, we're gonna put him in our camp.
We're gonna watch his We're gonna watch his weight, just
like just like Rosster's saying that about Luka Doncs in

(02:07:56):
Los Angeles. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna
tone him up. Yeah, he's gonna lose that flab. He's
already got a big extension though he's signed till twenty
twenty eight. You're talking about Zion, Yeah, okay, I was
thinking about Luca.

Speaker 4 (02:08:11):
Oh, Lucas about the Supermax Everything dance.

Speaker 2 (02:08:14):
Yeah, he's gonna be regular.

Speaker 4 (02:08:17):
Maout, I'm sorry, Max.

Speaker 2 (02:08:18):
Yeah, that's right. Lakers win on that too. They don't
have to super maxim. Nope, they do not. Ross. If
somebody was paying me two hundred million, forty five fifty
million dollars a year, I would never cook for myself,
but I would hire a full time chef and make
sure that he wasn't feeding me crap. I'd have an

(02:08:39):
ankle bracelet around me that if I was anywhere near
a drive thru would go off, and my training would
call me or come chase me down and just yell
at me.

Speaker 3 (02:08:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:08:48):
I would just see trimp po boys and red beans
every day. So you'd be to take the money and
don't give a damn but your body after that. Yeah, okay, man,
there's a lot of athletes that have done that for sure.

Speaker 4 (02:08:59):
Just give me the surfing turf pow boy with shrimp
and the debris on it too.

Speaker 2 (02:09:05):
Oh, the debris. That's good, It's real good. New Orleans
is a great food town. It was cool about its
crime and people peeing on the streets and whatnot. Excellent food.
I wonder what the table limits are at reezers? Ooh,
super Bowl week? Can get? Can you get a blackjack

(02:09:27):
table for less than fifty bucks a hand? Right?

Speaker 4 (02:09:29):
No, there's no way. Maybe now one pm?

Speaker 2 (02:09:33):
But at night it Rossie, it's Thursday before the Super
Bowl Sunday. I said, maybe now, maybe, probably not. The
first Super Bowl I ever covered was in New Orleans,
and I remember going into that was then called Raras
and it was twenty five dollars a han. This is
going to be going back to what was Brady's for

(02:09:54):
Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (02:09:55):
Two thousand and three or two thousand and one against
the the the uh Rams.

Speaker 2 (02:10:00):
Yeah, I was there for that one, and that twenty
five dollars was a lot of money at that point.

Speaker 4 (02:10:05):
I know it's a lot of money for them for
merit money for me right now.

Speaker 2 (02:10:08):
Es that's when I'm playing two hands at once.

Speaker 4 (02:10:10):
Oh look at you, high roller.

Speaker 2 (02:10:12):
Well, I'm just trying to play the odds a little bit. Slow,
slow down the slow it down, win big, lose big,
same sentence. But yeah, fifty dollars, I can't even enjoy
black jacket fifty dollars a hand. Yeah you can if
you're winning, well, I mean you're hitting, if you're getting twenties,
you're you're having a great time. You're sitting a pair

(02:10:35):
of four you got fourteen's all over the place, and
I haven't don't as much fun. But it is crazy?
Is everything in New Orleans?

Speaker 10 (02:10:41):
Is?

Speaker 2 (02:10:42):
I wonder if what if the I mean, do the
restaurants in the area up start charging more Like if
you go to a Gordon Beers, you can get you
a cheeseburger and onion rings or whatever's that gonna not full.

Speaker 4 (02:10:52):
Twenty Gordon if you're in New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (02:10:55):
Well, because everything else. I got long ass lines, that's true.

Speaker 3 (02:10:59):
I mean, if there's a city that can handle the
super bullets and they've hosted the most, right, do.

Speaker 2 (02:11:04):
You think do you think Michael Garfield could chat and
cut at Mother's this week? And know he will? I
know he will. Yeah, he's a chatting cutter all over
the place. Happy birthday to him, by the way. Yeah,
do you get invited to party?

Speaker 12 (02:11:15):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:11:16):
No? Did you want to go?

Speaker 10 (02:11:18):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:11:18):
I don't even I don't really hang out with the
Garf like that. But I mean I'm wishing him the best.

Speaker 2 (02:11:22):
Of course, you are got the sixties feeling good? I
mean proud of him good. Yeah, but he is the
ultimate chatting cutter, that is for sure. All Right, one
hour left to go, Ross, we'll be talking about in
the final sixty minutes of the Matt Thomas Old Ross.

Speaker 4 (02:11:39):
Uh more Bregman talk coming up?

Speaker 2 (02:11:42):
All right, NBA trade deadline down on an hour, believe
it or not, today in fifty minutes from now and
more on the offensive line coach that was already on staff,
who wasn't the head coach? I head offensive lineman who's
the assistant offense as a line coach now is the
head O line coach. Hmm, does Hannah know about this?

(02:12:07):
Probably is she endorsing this? Did or did or did
Nicky See go around and say, hey, Cal, don't tell Hannah,
but we're gonna keep the one of our on line
coaches here in town. And Cal's like, oh, I got this.

Speaker 4 (02:12:23):
Yeah, I'm sure Cal's on top of it.

Speaker 2 (02:12:25):
I sent Hannah over to AF fifth. She's doing great
over there. She's a bought the whole store. One o'clock
Sports Talk, seven ninety.

Speaker 8 (02:12:35):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (02:12:40):
It is the one oh five. It is a Matt
Thomas Show with Boston here in Minneapolis. We are down
to fifty five minutes to the completion of the NBA
trade dead line, which is two o'clock. Rockets. I don't
think are gonna make any sort of major move. We've
already kind of talked about the two players that would
be most discussed. If Kevin Durant does want a leal

(02:13:00):
leeve Phoenix, if Zion Williamson might be moved from New Orleans.
I don't spend either one of those tea guys being
involved in it, but you never know. Could be sometimes
a deal that's too good to refuse. Rockets against Minnesota
tonight here trying to snap a four game losing streak. Ross,
They're gonna win this game tonight because Anthony Edwards has
to be tired. Scored forty nine points against the Bulls
last night, shot twenty eight shots in thirty seven minutes

(02:13:22):
to play. Yeah, okay, he's like twenty three years old.
Mat I think he's gonna be fine. Yeah, he is
twenty three.

Speaker 4 (02:13:30):
Sorry, Rockets favored by one and a half.

Speaker 2 (02:13:34):
You like it, Let's go Rockets. Please do not lose
five in a row.

Speaker 4 (02:13:38):
Please.

Speaker 2 (02:13:39):
I know in the Westerns, I was having such a
good time as the Rockets as a two seedy They
don't And if they don't get rid of this street
pretty soon, they're gonna drop it with the four.

Speaker 4 (02:13:49):
Yeah, Nuggets taking on the Magic tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:13:53):
Oho. They are in Orlando too, or is it at home?
Denver's at home? Seven and a half point favorites. Orlando's good,
but they're hurt. All right, Let's go Rockets. That's all
I gotta tell you. Let's go Rockets. Yes. Bob Ningel
earlier today saying that Alex Bregman wants a six or
a seven year deal. Well, he's got one. There's a

(02:14:14):
six year deal in the books. Mm hmm. I always
love the uh, the references that people try to You know,
people try analogies all the time, right, yeah, you especially, Yes,
I mean nobody does as well as I do.

Speaker 4 (02:14:32):
Mister analogy.

Speaker 2 (02:14:32):
We call you. You should by the way, seven one
three two two five seveney if you want to come
in and say hello. Seven one three two one two
five seventy. This girl on on Twitter says, try to
hold on to hope for Alex Bregman is like thinking,
the guy who is nice to you every once in
a while when he's bored might actually be the one.
Mm hmm you like that one? Uh No, try to

(02:14:58):
hold on to hope for Alex Briggan. Well, who is
she a fan of? Is like thinking the guy who
is nice to you every once in a while when
he's bored. Oh basically, hmm. That's I'm trying to put.
I'm trying to put.

Speaker 4 (02:15:14):
That's a Matt Thomas level analogy.

Speaker 2 (02:15:15):
Are you confused about what she means by the relationship? Yeah,
help help us out here. You with the young what's
that interpretation on that one?

Speaker 15 (02:15:22):
She means the guy is not interested. Yeah, the guy
is only interested when he's bored or lonely. Yeah, so
she gets her hopes up thinking he wants more.

Speaker 2 (02:15:30):
So the Astros are the lonely and Board.

Speaker 4 (02:15:32):
No, no saying who's she a fan of?

Speaker 2 (02:15:35):
She's an Astros fan? Yeah.

Speaker 15 (02:15:37):
I think Bregman's the lonely and Board one. It only
comes calling when he is lonely and Board is waiting
desperately for more. Analogy doesn't work, that's it. That's the
thumbs down.

Speaker 2 (02:15:49):
All right, So any of you we got to play
a little game called the analogy game. Okay, who can
come up with the best analogy between now and two
o'clock today? Oh boy, you're opening the flag. They flog gates.
I mean, what else are you going you want to
get in? What else you want to talk about? You
want to break down the Eagles versus Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (02:16:06):
Uh Fangrafts did a breakdown of playoff odds with or
without Bregman for teams.

Speaker 4 (02:16:10):
I thought that was interesting, but I don't know if
you do.

Speaker 2 (02:16:12):
Okay, so let's let me let me get let me
lay this out, and then I want to do hear
this because this is interesting if you have a good
analogy of what is going on with the Bregman negotiations
or like thereof, we want to hear from you at
seven one three two one two five seven hounty. If
you I don't think we've got anything to give you
except just we'll give you your flowers and sometimes that
this is enough. It's like everybody in every hotel I

(02:16:36):
go to has her hand out. They want to tip
for this, a tip for that. I don't have any
tip money for you, but I can give you a
warm thank you. So if you like a warm thank
you from Ross and myself and Connor for that matter,
come up with a perfect analogy of what's going on
right now with Alex Bregmant and his future with whatever team, we.

Speaker 4 (02:16:57):
Can give away a T shirt right.

Speaker 2 (02:17:00):
You don't, I'll autograph that T shirt. We don't want
to down grade the value. You know, Oh you're saying
it would down Okay, devalue the option. If you don't
want an autograph by me, I will not autograph it
for you.

Speaker 4 (02:17:14):
Optional autograph.

Speaker 2 (02:17:15):
I like that, an optional autograph seven seven And if
you can also give us analogy on Twitter, we'll read
those as well and send those tweets to me at
sports empt now fangraphs, ROSSI, you're the stats geek of
the two of us. How how much do you value.

Speaker 3 (02:17:32):
FanGraph Fangraphs is great, it's a great resource. They got
a lot of good numbers. I absolutely suggest you check
it out if you're into baseball.

Speaker 2 (02:17:40):
They don't treat you like dorcs there. What do you
mean they don't treat you like anything? Who am I
talking to? I'm reading the website. Yeah, but I mean
there could be some super analytical stuff that makes absolutely
no sense. Yeah, there's a bunch of that. But I mean,
for for for us playing folks, is it a good
website to go?

Speaker 10 (02:17:55):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (02:17:55):
I'll give it a look tomorrow. Well yeah, I at
if you like baseball and you want to read a
little bit more and learn a little more about the sport.

Speaker 4 (02:18:04):
You can go there.

Speaker 2 (02:18:05):
All right, So what does Fangers have to say?

Speaker 3 (02:18:07):
They did one of their writers did an article. They
simulated the season with Bregman on teams and then without,
and then what would the playoff odds change? For example,
Houston Astros without Bregman, they have them at a seventy
percent playoff chance with Bregman.

Speaker 2 (02:18:25):
They have them as seventy eight eight percent. Change repeat
that again for everybody's to comprehend.

Speaker 3 (02:18:31):
Eight percent addition in playoff odds. For Alex Bregman being
on the team, they go from seventy percent to seventy
eight percent.

Speaker 2 (02:18:39):
So his wins above replacement is significantly high, right, I'm
deducing that, But.

Speaker 3 (02:18:43):
Also I mean it depends on how good the rest
of the team is. Like for example, it has no win,
basically no impact on the White Sox making the playoffs.
So he's he would be great for the White Sox,
but he doesn't get them.

Speaker 2 (02:18:53):
Into the playoffs. Okay, that makes sense. So where he's
going to have the biggest impact is where there's a
team that's kind of teetering on playoff odds and then
he would bring them up. For example, the Tigers, they
have a twelve percent edition. The biggest addition would be
the Royals. You put Bregman on the Royals, their playoff
odds go up fifteen percent. According to this article, it's

(02:19:13):
pretty interesting. Has very little impact on the Dodgers. For example,
Dodgers are making at what I mean, at what player
left they have not acquired could help them increase their
odds of making the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (02:19:27):
So if teams that are being talked about that the
Bregman could go to, they have it. Twelve percent added
odds to the Tigers, putting them from thirty one percent
to basically forty three okay, and then the red Sox
go from forty five to fifty six percent, so about
it basically eleven percent. So if you if you're reading
this article and you're the Tigers general manager, you're thinking

(02:19:51):
you need to sign Alex Bregman to help help your
playoff odds in a big way.

Speaker 2 (02:19:55):
Now, the only question at that point is do you
really believe what fangrafts have to say? Do your numbers
support the exact same thing that fangrafts.

Speaker 3 (02:20:02):
Then have to be the exact same I mean, if
they say it's twelve percent, it's probably somewhere in that neighborhood, right.

Speaker 2 (02:20:08):
That's providing that Alex Bregman provides the same run, production
and defense that he has in the previous parts of
his career. Now you have to father time and a
number of games over the years is going to play
into that. So you're expecting the Bregman of last year
to exactly play the exact same level.

Speaker 4 (02:20:26):
No, they don't project that necessarily.

Speaker 2 (02:20:28):
Okay, well that's good. So what is an Alex Bregman
projection this year? Does anybody? Can anybody come up with one?
Or I mean, I guess everybody can. Yeah, I can
bring it up.

Speaker 4 (02:20:38):
It is gonna take me a second. But yeah, they
do projections on all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:20:45):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 3 (02:20:48):
Uh okay, twenty twenty five projection for Alex Bregman twenty
two home runs yep ops seven sixty three. So that's
the projection they're using to add Alex Brigman.

Speaker 2 (02:21:03):
And we're saying we added, we said decided last year
that the OPS numbers are dropping league why baseball? Y
usually you were you were? It used to be if
you were eight hundred, you were considered good. Now we've
dropped it. What did we dropped it? Seven to fifty
last year? Nah? Yeah? Maybe five.

Speaker 3 (02:21:24):
Sh nah A league. I can go find what actual
league average OPS was from her to year.

Speaker 2 (02:21:30):
When OPS was in vogue. I mean it still is, obviously,
but it was very easy to say if you were
an eight hundred OPS hitter, you were considered a very
good major league baseball hitter. If you got the nine hundred,
you were considered an elite hitter. If you got to
one thousand, you were a MVP candidate. And there was
a lot of times that Jordan Alvarez in the last

(02:21:53):
couple of years was opsing over one thousand.

Speaker 4 (02:21:55):
Yes, his career number is close to one thousand. That's crazy, Okay, So.

Speaker 2 (02:21:59):
Average OP let's let's juice bowl era was seven fifty
eight twenty nineteen. That's pretty good. This is league average.
Last year was seven eleven, seven eleven. To me, I
can't call you good.

Speaker 4 (02:22:17):
No, yeah, it's average. It's league average, and.

Speaker 2 (02:22:19):
Call you just call you a good old fashion And
I don't know if if I don't know if I
can make you if if you're an OPS seven twenty five,
make sure all of a sudden makes you a little
bit by average, Maybe we can, Maybe we'll maybe we
move it to like seven seventy five, making you've been
at seven to seventy five. Sure, Bregman last year seven
sixty eight. We have Jason on Twitter has given us

(02:22:40):
another analogy. We're looking for analogies of this Alex pregnant situation.
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Speaker 1 (02:24:48):
Matt Thomas, Ross viel It's a Matt Thomas show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:24:57):
A couple of quick things just listening to ESPN. In
the last couple of minutes. Scott Bobby Marks, we like him, Rossie,
I don't. I don't know much about him. Former general
manager right of an NBA team.

Speaker 4 (02:25:08):
Yeah, he's kind of the ESPN capologist type guy.

Speaker 2 (02:25:11):
Yeah. He thinks the best fit for Kevin Durant would
be to come to the Houston Rockets. Hmm hmmm. Why
does he say that? Uh? Well, I mean, you could
clearly put him in the starting lineup as a perimeter guy. Secondly,
it's a young team thirty wouldn't have to carry all
the heavy lifting of trying to score thirty points every

(02:25:34):
single night.

Speaker 5 (02:25:35):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:25:35):
And I think four it would be a chance for
him to go to a team that would be out
of the playoffs into a into a top you know,
hopefully top four position. I don't, I don't know. I mean,
I think he's just trying to say, where does Kevin Durant.
I mean, no one's saying Kevin Durant fits well in Atlanta.
Kevin Durant fits well in Chicago, he fits well anywhere.
Is thirty points a game? Yeah, I don't know. We'll see.

(02:25:57):
I You know, you could look at somebody one minute
and say that he is going to stay in Phoenix
for a long term, wants to be its team, and
then you got other people saying, well, this will be
his last season there. Maybe Kevin's just he's just a
change of scenery.

Speaker 10 (02:26:14):
Guy.

Speaker 2 (02:26:14):
Don't you have somebody in your life that you work
with that just can't stay in pat for more than
a couple of years somewhere hmm, I guess, or maybe
not in our building. But I mean we have friends
that I have one friend in particular just text me
and got a new job today. As a matter of fact.
I mean, they're just some guys that just need constant
change of sceneries. And then one other thing. Brian T.

(02:26:35):
Smith we had on the show earlier today, was good
catching up with him. Is it the Fox media day
event where you know, all the broadcasters get out there
and they talk. I don't know. Well, I'm here to
tell I'm telling you there's a day with the Fox,
the network that carries the games, has a media day. Okay,
go interview people can interview them out the thing. So
how he's there? Terror Bradshaw's there is there? Kevin Burke

(02:27:00):
hard is there is calling the game? Uh, you got
Tom Ronauldi. If you will, you have a Michael Strahan.
If you will, you have a Mike Pereira. If you will,
you have an Aaron Andrews. There's one name I've not
mentioned so far.

Speaker 4 (02:27:18):
Hmmm who.

Speaker 2 (02:27:23):
Tom Brady? Not it's the press day event? Oh why not?
Because he's a diva, he's big. Maybe he's busy doing
what something, Maybe some popped up you believe that or not.

Speaker 4 (02:27:37):
He's gonna go load up some palas at the TV
twelve factory or something.

Speaker 2 (02:27:41):
Maybe he's having Beignet's a Cafe Deum on the lines along,
you know, because the line can't happen there. Yeah, but
it moves fast, Matt Cash only by the way, if
you want to go to can you see?

Speaker 4 (02:27:49):
That's why it moves fast.

Speaker 8 (02:27:50):
You see that line.

Speaker 2 (02:27:51):
That thing moves. So if the lion moves and there's
really no reason why he shouldn't be at the conventions.
So you're right. Not a team player. M is of
all time? Not Chris TV anilest of all time. Pat
Mahomes is coming for that title. That's right, Sal, what
is it? One twenty five on seven ninety Sal, Good
afternoon to you, Hey, Matt Hey Ross.

Speaker 17 (02:28:14):
As far as mister Bregman goes, I really don't want
to see the news conference where he says, this is
where my heart always was. I always wanted to stay
with the Astros. I just I think Dana Brown was
so smart in picking up the players he did and
taking care of the roster and obviously not waiting on Bregman.

(02:28:35):
Imagine where they would be if he didn't make those
roster moves right now. The other thing is, remember Bregman
had a tender elbow last year. I don't think anybody
even talked about that. I mean, they were talking about
he's gonna switch to first base, his elbow was gonna
blow out and all this stuff. So I just think

(02:28:55):
the Astros were pretty smart when they let Corea walk
and they let Springer walk, and they always seem the rebound,
and I mean, I think they are better with Bregman,
but you can't let them hold up the team for
Fort Knox.

Speaker 12 (02:29:06):
Uh.

Speaker 17 (02:29:06):
It just it just shouldn't go and That's that's how
I feel that one comment about the Cougars, if I may, sure,
I've thoroughly enjoyed watching the last two overtime games with
Kansas and Texas Tech. And what I do come out
of that with is they really miss having Shed, I mean,
controlling those games at the end of those games. I

(02:29:28):
just wish I wish he could have stayed another year.
But anyway, thanks, thanks for listening. I'll talk to you.

Speaker 2 (02:29:34):
Thank you phone call. Yeah, uh you know, let's go
back to the first point. The Astros did want to
keep bregman Rossie. In my mind, they never really thought
Carl's Korea was going to sign it, so they didn't
put together a real authentic offer. They never really made

(02:29:54):
an offer towards Breg towards George Springer. They knew that
they were going to be well out price by Garrett Cole.
I think the Astros, I mean, look, they haven't been perfect.
They've been They've done a lot of things. They are
head scratchers, but that's with every sports organization. They they
properly prized the market. They just did. And unless something

(02:30:15):
comes out of this in the next week, ten days,
two weeks, that gives it well north of one to
fifty six. They measured this, they did their comps, they
did their analysis, they went and they went in the
deep dive, their deep dives AD six one fifty six,
and they've stood on it. They've from all reports. Yeah,

(02:30:36):
maybe there's a little wigger room to one sixty one
sixty five. I don't know, but I haven't heard that
unless Dana is just being the ultimate liar and saying,
you know, I owe Scott Boris a phone call because
in the maybe he's on the WhatsApp app. Who knows
what app? Maybe I mean he could technically know.

Speaker 3 (02:30:56):
The fact that they haven't re engaged really just means
that the offers out there, guys want it, take it,
not We're we're building our team without with you, with
it in mind that you're not going to be here,
that Alex Big is not going to be here.

Speaker 2 (02:31:08):
Yeah, yeah, I just I just, you know, some people
thought it was just a not a disingenuous offer, an
offer that was going to be scoffed that immediately, and
it was. I think it was scoffed that immediately. And
that's why you go kick the tires and somewhere else
I mean we've all done that in work. We you know,
when you've gone to a ross, you ever sold a

(02:31:30):
car where all those companies that this is solos, you know,
bias or sellers your caring. No, I mean you let
me get you out doing some more things in life.
Got to own a car for you sell one, Matt Tuere.
Are you tired of doing the easy least thing? I
guess no, I'm just kidding. I owe my car and
I'm keeping it forever until the wheels fall off. Baby.
But I mean I've gone to those places before and

(02:31:52):
I've said, hey, this car is in pristine condition, it's
got a little mileage. Oh, we're going to offer you,
you know, fourteen hundred for it. You're going to do
what I'm going to the competitor. I'm gonna go get
seventeen thousand from it. I'm gonna go get seventeen to five.
I'm gonna go get eighteen. And you go to little
places and nope, fourteen to five. By the way, this

(02:32:14):
is a great analogy in my part. Man is absolutely wonderful. Matt,
You're knocking this one out of the park. We have
some analogies coming into this into the on Twitter were, yes,
we do. What's believe it or not? I need it
right now? Ummm do Minnesota done the Timberwolves? I don't

(02:32:34):
know you got you know what, I'll I'll read that.
I'm gonna give you a little bit of space. I'll
leave you. Virginia Hallis McCaskey has died at one o two.
By the way, what's going on the background there? Uh?

Speaker 4 (02:32:47):
Adam Clanton opened the door and somebody's yelling the hallway.

Speaker 2 (02:32:51):
Do you tell Adam Clinton if he wants to come
in early, then he can jump on the microphone and
finish the show for both of us until then get
his ass in there to a like everybody else. Does
you think Chas would come in early on our show
and come sit and settle in on his show? No,
he's skiddy, he's ready to rebutt. He's getting his headphones.
Don't we don't We don't chime in early on the

(02:33:13):
Sean Salisbury Show.

Speaker 3 (02:33:14):
Hey, there's certain stations in town they're like, hey, we
gotta do cross talk before the show. You got to
be in there ten minutes early. Did you know that
Matt like cross talk? Should we start doing that every
day with all our shows.

Speaker 2 (02:33:25):
No, it's because it's a mailed in segment that people
figured it out.

Speaker 4 (02:33:28):
Well, we don't do that.

Speaker 2 (02:33:29):
We don't do mailed in segments too.

Speaker 4 (02:33:31):
I like cross talk. What you got against cross talk?

Speaker 2 (02:33:34):
All right, you know, let's try it a see what's
on the one? What's on the two to six show today?
I'm very busy. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:33:40):
This is like, this is like when you ask Ross
what's going to be believe it or not? He goes, oh,
and then the cricket sound bite and all the bits
that you guys, do you hear?

Speaker 7 (02:33:48):
That?

Speaker 2 (02:33:48):
Was that a good segment there? He didn't even know
when he was on his own show.

Speaker 4 (02:33:52):
Well, WEX is on my show. That's all I have
to say.

Speaker 2 (02:33:55):
So WEX organized the show, and you just come in,
sit down, put your headphones on a call today, wouldn't
you with WEX?

Speaker 4 (02:34:02):
Yes?

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Speaker 8 (02:35:08):
Lunchtimers, lunch timers.

Speaker 1 (02:35:11):
It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:35:21):
All Right, we got some folks that have been very
nice to just send us some comparisons about what it's
like watching Alex Bregman and his negotiations. This is from
Jason under Underscore. Jason Underscore Deep K also known as
Wally Paul Nuts Shout out to the entire Paulnuts family ross.
That's a pall Walnuts reference, which is a Sopranos reference.

Speaker 4 (02:35:44):
That flew right over your head.

Speaker 2 (02:35:46):
That's correct, by way, the one of the uh soprano guys?
Was it the next game? Internight? I tell you that
over that already one of the uncles. Okay, Uncle Wido
was there. I think, mm hmm, all right, time to
rate that analogy from Wally Paul Nuts. Alex is that
guy who walked away with the most beautiful, intelligent, loving
lady in his life. The spider is still telling him

(02:36:09):
he can come home, he can home. He's waking up
with strippers at noon and hasn't brushed his teeth in weeks.

Speaker 3 (02:36:17):
Hmm, I guess that's not the worst one I heard.
The rockets are the I mean, excuse me, the astros
are the the the beautiful woman he's got waiting for
him at home.

Speaker 2 (02:36:29):
Yes, she's She's always got a spot in the house
for her for Alex. And yet he's going out with
strippers and not brushing his teeth. Why isn't he brushing
his teeth? I don't know. I mean, I'm more worry
about his cavities at that point. Next, think this is
from MPG MPJ Underscore thirty. Okay, thinking Alex Pregnant is

(02:36:53):
going to sign with your team is like thinking the
stripper actually likes you. Hm.

Speaker 3 (02:37:00):
Nah, Alex Bregman's the one looking for suitors to get
whatever match, whatever deal he wants.

Speaker 4 (02:37:08):
I'm giving that one that thumbs down.

Speaker 2 (02:37:10):
Yeah, it feels like to me that is that's a
good comparison to other things in life. So MPJ MPJ
Underscore thirty. Hold on to that thinking the stripper actually
likes you for something else down the road. Wait, she
doesn't really like me, Well, if you can help her
pay for her college and her baby, she said, I'm

(02:37:30):
so cute in her and her various drug habits, she says.
She Here's what she said to you, Ros. She says,
are you proud of me? I mean you don't know me,
But are you proud of me? I mean, I'm working,
I'm raising my daughter, I got no man in my life,
and I'm I'm hustled. I'm proven, I'm proven I can
do this. I am proud of her. Man next, Sam

(02:37:54):
the sports Fan, the Bregman v Astros off season Soga
is looking more and more to me like Aben and
hostel or the lead negotiators. And it's similar to their
Who's on first routine? The headline of this off season
should be who's on third?

Speaker 1 (02:38:10):
Mmm?

Speaker 2 (02:38:11):
Is it? I don't know? Third base? Yeah, who's on first?
What's on second? I don't know it's on third base.
The rest of the outfit, I can't tell you.

Speaker 4 (02:38:24):
I can't remember. I used to love that routine.

Speaker 2 (02:38:27):
It's that bad. It's still classic. Honestly, it's one of
the all time great comedy bits. Man. There's no swear
words in it.

Speaker 4 (02:38:37):
Yeah, it's a classic.

Speaker 2 (02:38:40):
Next back to Wally Paul Nuts. I woke up this morning,
looked at my phone, no overnight, text him anyone I love.
This is how I think Jose wakes up seeing he's
left on red to Alex nah, Alex returns, He's returning
all two vas text. He's returning his text.

Speaker 9 (02:39:02):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (02:39:03):
You know? What is Texas? Any anything new? Bra or bro.

Speaker 4 (02:39:09):
No, they're probably not even talking about it.

Speaker 2 (02:39:10):
These are just letting it be yeah, no, no, no,
nothing man. And then and then Jose says love you man,
response back, love you too.

Speaker 4 (02:39:19):
It gives them a big heart emoji.

Speaker 2 (02:39:21):
Uh No, I think they actually they're actually so confident
and so relax in their relationship they can say they
love each other and not have to necessarily go to
the emoji card. Well what if? What if I could
see all two they liking to use a bunch of
emojis is altob a big emogi? Yeah I can see that.
I will say yes. The easiest way from the big

(02:39:42):
the biggest, easiest way for me to use emojis is
to end conversations. Mm. Okay, don't you think it's kind
of a sneaky good way to end a text thread?

Speaker 4 (02:39:50):
You skid, have a thumbsup. It's not sneaky.

Speaker 2 (02:39:52):
I mean it's yeah, you're shuffling people away with emojis, man,
that's how you do it. That's fine. Yeah. So if
I ever if you ever text me and we're back
and forth, and and then I run out of things
to say to you and I just go to the
heart or like or exclamation point, it means I'm trying
to wrap this bad boy up. I can't be sending two.
I can't beget into a deep twenty text threat with

(02:40:12):
you conversation unless it's really intriguing and interesting. But normally,
if that's just the informal way of saying, hey, brod,
it's been good talk with you. You gotta move on,
all right, Let's uh, let's see. Is there any other
ones we gotta get to have not met?

Speaker 8 (02:40:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:40:26):
I got another one from Easy. It says Breggs is
holding out.

Speaker 3 (02:40:30):
It's like a sugar daddy that offered a BMW five series,
but she wants a seven series and some cash.

Speaker 2 (02:40:38):
Hmmm. In this case, I guess the Astros are the
sugar daddy. Yeah. I took a five series to Atlanta
in nineteen ninety six. That thing can still move. Yeah.
Seventh series is nicer though, Oh, no question. But I
got to one hundred and ten on I ten ben
to anybody.

Speaker 4 (02:40:55):
Oops, and then you gotta you gotta upset. When Adam
Clanton was driving fast.

Speaker 2 (02:41:02):
Yeah, because I at least trust my own ability. He
was on the phone talking, he was checking his phone.
He was taught.

Speaker 3 (02:41:08):
You know, no, Adam Clayton, that's because if I don't
answer your text message within like an hour, you start
breaking out in hives.

Speaker 2 (02:41:16):
Yeah, it's the block, that's right. The rule is I
would lock your phone, although you were sitting next to me,
so that doesn't really make sense. No, it is not
at all. Did you like the Challenger?

Speaker 9 (02:41:25):
Did you?

Speaker 2 (02:41:25):
Did you not like the Challenger? It was a great
ride with a good time car. That was a good
that was back in the day day, that was married
at the time, the rockets of time, a.

Speaker 4 (02:41:37):
Lot of disposable income.

Speaker 2 (02:41:38):
Matt, Yeah, you introduce me to dude wipes kind of weirds.
Why is it weird because one grown man should be
talking about how they cleaned themselves with another grown man.

Speaker 4 (02:41:49):
I was just offering if you wanted to use them.

Speaker 3 (02:41:52):
I put them on the back of the toilet in
the hotel bathroom for everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:41:57):
And then the thing the magic words you said was
it's tingling. And I'm like, I'm good, Well, that's because
it's meant seven one three two one two five seven
ninety GEO in a task casto The Matt Thomas Show
of Ross Geo.

Speaker 18 (02:42:13):
Good afternoon, Good afteron, guys, great show as usual.

Speaker 16 (02:42:17):
I think I got the perfect analogy setup.

Speaker 2 (02:42:20):
Are you sure? In this situation? So you just said,
you just said you've got the perfect analogy? Now you
know me? I give you a lot of grace when
it comes to analogies. The analogy hater is on the
other side of the microphone over here. So I'm gonna
bow out and gonna wait for Roster your analogy.

Speaker 18 (02:42:38):
I actually think Ross is gonna like this, and you
can elaborate, man if I fumble it a little bit,
but here we go. All right, So Breakman is Matt
Thomas right, the astros are sports SOX seven ninety.

Speaker 16 (02:42:50):
And the field is Price is right?

Speaker 2 (02:42:54):
Ooh?

Speaker 18 (02:42:57):
Now I am I right?

Speaker 17 (02:42:58):
Am I wrong?

Speaker 6 (02:42:58):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:42:59):
The field doesn't even know he exists in this in
this analogy, Geo, I wish the prisis right? Would Cod
leave this place at a pot tick?

Speaker 16 (02:43:08):
Alright, guys, good stuff man.

Speaker 2 (02:43:10):
Thank you Jio.

Speaker 3 (02:43:13):
Now Breakman's got offers from other teams. Price is Right
doesn't know who Matt Thomas is from anybody from Adam literally.

Speaker 2 (02:43:19):
By the way, I got a text from somebody that
said that George Gray, you know, the announcer for the show,
is getting a divorce, and I'm like, what does that
mean for me? I mean, does that mean that he's
going to be not focused on his job or is
he going to be now super focused. I'm making sure
that he announces even better than it normally does. See,

(02:43:39):
I don't know how's Nate Burlson doing? Oh god, that
train wreck? Now, I'm just pissed off. Seventeen minutes away
from the trade deadline. Believe It or Not is up next? Category?
I have no idea. I'm not gonna ask Ross again
because he's got to work on it. Is this the

(02:44:02):
Believer It or Not? Clock or the trade deadline clock?
That's old. I'm on the clock too, Yeah, shut up, Ross, focus, Ross.
You guys gotta call in. It's gonna be a great game. Hey, Connor,
what are we playing for today? We never never do
this beforehand? We should keep doing this. What are we
playing for? Believing or Not? On prizes?

Speaker 15 (02:44:16):
We got tickets to the Outlaw Musical Festival this summer,
and we also got tickets to master Jam this Saturday.

Speaker 2 (02:44:22):
Okay, so two excellent prizes to play for on today's
edition to Believe It or Not? Seven one three two
two five seven NINTI, it's one forty four. Believe It
or Not is up next and the last moments before
the end of the trade deadline. As you listening to
Sports Talk seven ninty Hi, this is a farmer running
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Speaker 4 (02:44:42):
You're listening to Matt Thomas on the Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:44:56):
All right, we got breaking news. That's one. Ross, what
do you say one? Aren't you want another one? I
didn't even see. I've been writing to believe it or not. Connor,
you look at it real quick. Go look at chams. Ross.
You don't look. I don't think it's a second one, Okay,

(02:45:26):
all right, I don't think it's the second one. Okay.
The Atlanta Hawks that made a tray with the Houston Rockets.
ROSSI Trey Young, No, keep going.

Speaker 3 (02:45:38):
Uh, I don't even know who else is on the
Hawks these days. No, he's still there. They traded DeAndre Hunter.
He's not there anymore.

Speaker 2 (02:45:46):
Nope.

Speaker 4 (02:45:47):
Dejontay Murray's been gone for a while.

Speaker 2 (02:45:50):
Yeah. What's it looking like? Matt Cody Zeller? Oh? And
a second rounder? And a second rounder? Has Cody even
played this year? Mmm? He didn't play last night? Jesus.

(02:46:16):
I don't know. Was that doing anything?

Speaker 4 (02:46:17):
I mean, you you wanted to go with two sounders
for Cody Zeller?

Speaker 2 (02:46:21):
Well, I mean it's just trade deadlines.

Speaker 4 (02:46:22):
It's probably a salary dump situation.

Speaker 2 (02:46:24):
Yeah, I don't know. That doesn't. I gotta figure that out.
All right. We have a call. We have a bregnant analogy.
A couple more analogies are coming in here real quick,
really real quick, real quick. Joan appen, what's your quick analogy?

Speaker 10 (02:46:36):
On?

Speaker 2 (02:46:36):
Uh on Breagnan?

Speaker 7 (02:46:39):
All right, this one might go over the younger kids heads.
Uh the Euston ash jos or Forrest gump mm hmm.
And Alex Bridman is Jenny, Oh, come on, Jenny the whore.
You know she went and explored all of her options
in life till she finally tuttled down in Forrest and
it was too late.

Speaker 4 (02:47:00):
Wow, this actually might work, Jennay. Does Bregman get the
hive now?

Speaker 2 (02:47:06):
All right? Chad Chad Hartman on Twitter. Bregman is a
seven that thinks he's a ten, he said the bar
trying to pull a ten, but it's getting later and
he starts striking out while the eight he was with
the astros is waiting patiently at home. That might be
the winner. Wow, Chad. One more, Trevor. The Alex situation

(02:47:26):
is like me when I was in school, waking up
every morning in the winter months hoping school would be
closed for a snow day, knowing in my heart it's
never gonna happen, but still holding out hope. Give the
T shirt to the guy with the seven seven with eight.
All right, so Chad Hardman shout out to you. Bregman
is is seven that thinks he's a ten. He's at
a bar trying to pull a ten. But it's getting
later and he's striking out while the astros aren't eight.

(02:47:47):
He's waiting. They're waiting patiently at home. That's damn good.
That's damn good. By the way, a lot of dude
white conversation apparently hitting the world of the Twitter streets
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