ENDLESS Alex Bregman Updates, Will Travis Kelce Retire? Kevin Durant Reaches Historic Milestone

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

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Show two in h Town. Good morning, everyone, and welcome
to yet sicky edition number fifty seven of the Matt
Thomas Show. Ross I feel fine. Ross has a four
week old cough that he can't get rid of. Part
of this is because they don't go the doctor. Let's
go now, stop tele adocting. Oh that sounds weird. Get

(00:26):
to the damn clinic. Can somebody as a doctor can
come check out his patient? Ross Fielder reyal today? What
a full You want to eat a full physical, don't you.
You're gonna get over this terrible coffee years. And trust me,
I hypathize because I had my coughs last forever too,
so I know I'm not the only one.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
So I'm worried about you.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Just don't give me the flues. I can't even blame
you for this one. I hadn't seen you in I know.
I know we've been going to for what three straight days? Yeah,
you have had enough? You getting sick of it? Will
be on the rod. Look good, see you later. I'll
see you next week in West Palm Beach. About that,
that's true. We're actually going to West Palm Beach, and
we're gonna work while we're down there, as compared to
just pretend like we're having fun and just hanging out. Well,
I'm not working. Sounds more fun, That's true. West Palm Beach.

(01:06):
By the way, for those of you that are astro fans,
have ever been before, whatever you used for your budget
for Orlando, add thirty percent to it because it's significantly
more expensive. Okay, I was looking at hotel rate just
the other day for mid hotels, not even the number
ones that I'm accustomed to staying at four seventy five
at night. Hmm. Now you could also stay in Fort Lauderdale,

(01:28):
but that's you're looking at about an hour fifteen drive,
you know, to in front of the US Palm. So
it's you know, teach his own. Now, Ross and I
a couple of years ago, stay today and I'm go
ahad and say it's Studio six where there were murders
committe being committed on daily murder day committee. There was
dry blood in our tub. There was just one guy
with the shakes looking asking us where the office was,
and he was literally sitting on the bench in front
of the office. Yeah, and again the shakes was the

(01:50):
cute key issue. Yeah, he had the methy what do
you call it? The heroin shakes and all shakes. The
best part for me, and you don't even know this yet,
is that the woman I asked for a receipt because
we had to give receipts for our expenses, and she
was eating a cheeseburger from McDonald's, you know, the little
small ones. So she's eating a cheeseburger and I said, hey,
can you print it where she goes? Y'all go in
the back of the printer in the back of the

(02:11):
office and get it print out for you. And she
left her cheeseburger on the counter.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
So what.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Do you think that's how you're supposed to do with things?
Just like like raw on the counter, like the cheeseburger
in the in the wrapper on the counter in front
of me as I'm going as I'm waiting in the
rapper on the rap Do you think they do it
the four seasons they could do it, we weren't at
four seasons. They can do at the higher readings. What
is she supposed to do with her burger? Put in
her back pocket, put it somewhere else, or maybe I

(02:37):
don't know, carry it with her. She can't just put
it on the counter. You can't put food on the counter.
You're interrupting her lunch. I'm the customer, so what you are?
The customer or the customer can't put food items in
front of your on the on the desk. She's a
human being. What I was actually more concerned about her,
because thank god, I'm a normal person. What if I

(02:58):
was a not normal person and took a bite out
of cheese, she'd be glad she wasn't shooting up. Well,
she looked like she could have been. She's like, give
me five minutes. Well you bet I just asked for
a print out. Yeah, because I got this Daisy will
in the back. I gotta get this bad boy printed
out that way, not Matrix, if you will, desk Jet
five hundred, damn the Classic. I can get this copy

(03:19):
server account. I have to dial in and get the
email for you. Yeah, she's gonna handwrite and telegraph. Let
me use this fax machines she've been printed out for me.
Are they even fax machines around anymore? But they're not.
They still use them on signing day. Well, they're facts is,
but they're attached to I think to email addresses in
the computers.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
I don't think.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I don't think. I don't know. Maybe you can you
go get a real facts machine like our fax machine
is in our printer here at the office. It's just
a phone number. Okay, so that's it, all right. How
you doing by? I'm doing great, man. I mean you
look okay, thank you? You sound like how but I okay,
I'm working on. We have had a couple of days
of just doing the old regular ten to two show, yes,
and now we're about to get busy this week. We

(03:58):
got back to back rocket games tonight the Phoenix Suns, who,
by the way, lost last night at home to Memphis
Wonder on triple overtime. Hopefully I did look on flight
away this morning. They arrived at Hobby at three twenty
this morning. That's great. Yeah, and two days off for
the Rockets and uh, Durant I think played a Boltland.
I think Durant played more than forty minutes last night.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Love it?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Uh, somebody else you know the ty Ty Washington plays
for the Phoenix Suns. Yeah, ty Ty Washington Rockets legend.
I mean I would legend's kind of a strong term,
but yeah, uh who else did Bradley Bill playing think
a bunch of minutes somebody? Forty three minutes for Kevin Durant,
forty for Devin Bookers. Oh, Devin Bookers. Who he's young though,

(04:38):
But you know what these guys are used to it.
They're starting Bowl Bowl. It's easy for me to say,
is it Bond and Ball Bowl?

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
It sounds like a can trip. Yet we'll see. Okay,
you can listen in critique if you want. Okay, So
Rockets to night against the Phoenix Suns. Rockets played Golden
State tomorrow. Golden State is playing tonight as well. They're
paying goodness. They're in the d playing the Dallas Mavericks.
By the way, it I never thought basketball in the
passion were two words you used in the same sentence

(05:06):
in Dallas. Are they still pissed off? Did you see
the SMU Mustangs played yesterday? No, and they were screaming
fire Nico in that arena? Wow at SMU?

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Really?

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Now, I don't know if Nico was there or the
owner of the Mavericks. Was there somebody involving the Maverick
I think it was Nico might have been there at
the game. I'll have to look at the video here,
but they were chanting that at must at a college
basketball game. And then there's this one dude, you know,
like on Twitter, mAbs seven to seven five set whatever,
who videotaped through his phone him getting kicked out of

(05:42):
the arena the other day, and he is saying that
I didn't, I didn't, I'm following the code of conduct.
I did not do anything to get I did not
do anything to get ejected. And they had to bring
security people over, they had to brun the cops over,
and the cops were being very calm because they knew

(06:02):
that if something crazy would have happened and they would
have just grab him and said get your ass out
of there, that had been even a bigger situation. The
reality is this, there is an NBA fan code of conduct,
Yes there is. They can throw you out for whatever reason.
They can throw you in for out for And that's
what I kept as I was watching his videos, like
I did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong. The reality is,
if they think you did something wrong, the side is

(06:27):
going to go to them. Now, if you throw people
out just to throw people out, then you're going to
build a terrible reputation and lose business, which maybe the
Mavericks will do on this, But apparently saying fire and
Nico and putting up signs and whatnot is what they
the Mavericks thought was somewhat rude. Apparently Mark Cuban is
being seen dropping some f bombs at some fans as well, which,

(06:47):
by the way, he didn't have a dog in the
fight anymore. He doesn't even own any part of the
team anymore. He just thought he was a small, small
my owner. It's so small that but he's not involved
in any decision making. He had no idea that Luca
was going to get traded, because the word in Dallas
was if Mark have known, Luke would have never been
under any First of all, anybody with the same brain
would have not made the deal. I mean, forget about
the fact that it was not Cuban to know about it.

(07:08):
But yeah, it is ridiculously ugly for the people of
Dallas that are Maverick fans. Now again, they're gonna be
Maverick fans for another month or so until the Texans,
until the Cowboys have their draft, yeah, and then they'll
go back in their hole. But I mean, you think
Texans fans dominate this town. Which really doesn't anymore because
Texans haven't done enough to dominate. It is an Astros town.

(07:29):
It's an Astros town, but it can be. It can
become a Texans town really quick. It's fluid. You just
gotta win, you gotta win. Yeah, we are more on
Houston's love and respect. You gotta win. Yeah we are
we more than Dallas are winning. Get in yes, where
the Cowboys have been futile for oh my god, thirty
years and people still live and breathe on everything move
they make correct, I mean they will. They will say

(07:50):
I hate Jerry Jones more than life itself. But when
Jerry Jones makes his twice radio appearances on It on
the flagship station, people listen to everyone, he says. So
it's you know, it's a is it like a bad
TV show that you just can't get rid of because
you just are insistent on watching. How it ends, It's
like a generational curse because the Cowboys fans, like you said,

(08:11):
they haven't won a Super Bowl and over thirty years
at this point. So if you're a thirty year old
Cowboy fan, you never saw a Super Bowl. It's from
your parents. It's generations. You don't even know what a
championship game is. It was passed down. I mean the
Texans and the Cowboys have as many championship game appearances
as each other in the last what thirty years, right,
give or take. I mean, the text has never been
and I think when's the lost than the Cowboys have

(08:31):
Been's gotta be the mid nineties. Nobody's up and become
a Cowboys fan in the last thirty years. It's generational. Yeah,
nobody's been like man Quincy Carter. But I mean the
Rangers won a World Series. Yes, the Mavericks have won
an NBA title, correct, and he went to the NBA
Finals last year. The Stars have won a Stanley Cup,
and they all get their shine. But it's the Cowboys

(08:51):
are run the ten. It's like the Broncos. The Nuggets
won an NBA Championship in Denver. The Avalanche have won
I think a couple the Rockies went to the World Series,
what I want to say, a four or eight maybe
one of those four where they got swept I read
by the Red Sox. But that's a town that's the
Broncos and so uh and and maybe the text has

(09:13):
become that in this market someday, but you got to
get to a certain level, and that they have not
reached it yet. The five Super Bowls will be a
good start.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
All right.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
So on the radio program today, we have at eleven
thirty today we have shut your ball mass up. I
got a fresh one for you this morning, okay, and
involves my facial hair. Sorry, is the seven World Series
not four?

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (09:35):
But I mean I knew it was somewhere in that. Yeah,
I got to shut your ball mass up at eleven thirty.
At twelve o'clock today we have the news. At noon,
we have Believe It or Not today at one fifty. Uh,
and we have another Alex Pragmant update. Now, you know
when I know a bit's good is when everybody else,
every their station, every the show in town is doing
an Alex Bregmant update. It's an O dus it really is,

(09:56):
you think? So it's I feel like other people could
organically come up with that.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
M hm.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Alex Bregman update is singing songs about it. Uh, probably
did just have no idea. I mean, Sean and Brian
sing songs in our show all the time. I really
listen to other stations. Do you listen to ours, you
listen to the previous show. You don't listen to the
previous show occasionally, Okay, I mean Brian likes to sing,
so maybe he sings Alex Bregman. Maybe I'm listening to podcasts,

(10:22):
not really, Okay, listen to Plinkos and Power Bombs. That
is such a great podcast. I know the two episodes
it was since it's so good. You listen to the
over it was like a one hit. Wonders what it was.
I usually to go to sleep. That's not nice at all,
all right? Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five sevent eight.
You know on a bit is good as when people
send you material force admit an Alex pregnant update is

(10:44):
coming up next here on The Matt Thomas Show with
Ross seven one three two one two five seven ninety
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Speaker 5 (11:01):
Back to Matt Thomas and Ross via real on Sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
So I want y'all to do me a favor, just
like a previous listener did. Anytime you see a bring
an update, you had to send it to us because
it give us an opportunity to play an amazing Sounder
Ross show. The bit's never going away, much of the

(11:42):
chagrin of sum all right Jim Bowden, MLB analysts and
insider for CBS Sports, the Athletic MLB Network radio series
XM foul Territory, former MLBGM sixteen plus years executive in
the year, man, he go, why ain't you working? You
got all these things going on? I don't know. Thirteen

(12:05):
hours ago, got a tweet from a listener on this
teams that are still in on the Alex Spragman as
of this hour. That was thirteen hours ago. Okay, what
about nine o'clock last night, Red Sox Cubs Tigers. We
knew the We knew that yesterday because Buster only told
us it was down to three. Yes, Jimmy Badenke Mike

(12:26):
call them, Jimmy, Jimmy is putting in the Blue Jays
and the Astros again. Jimmy Badden. That's it. That's the update.
Oh yeah, that was the that was the past, the
passing the list. Do you think they're just passing each
other's updates to each other, just claiming that they're stealing
off other people and just claiming credit, no knowing their people.

(12:51):
I think the update is there's no real update. That
maybe that's that's you know what we you know, we
had to do. We gotta get our imaging guy, mink
Bill Bion to go there. There's no update. Oh this
is good. He's very busy. You better get in that
request now. Yeah, he's probably doing Michael Berry promos. That's okay,
that's fine. Lord knows we need to promote that show
some more, all right. Uh so, yeah, so now we're

(13:15):
writing two more teams. Back the list. We're back to
the original five. That's all I got. Okay, there's no contract,
there's no dollar amount, there's no elimination. Busters says one thing,
passing Jim Bowden to the other things. It'll be funny.
What would be funny? Man, I'll let you do it.
I want you at a sixteen. Who to put a

(13:37):
Randoway Yankees put a tweet Dodgers. I'm adding a sixteen? Okay. Sources,
Oh you wanted to say sources close to me? Or yeaheah, yeah,
I mean I'm not gonna nobody's gonna check you on it.
I feel like, if you're wrong, who cares. No, I
wouldn't do that. You've been asking me to do this
for a long time. Yeah, I wouldn't want to damage
my reputation. But your oh my, yeah, that's the thing

(13:57):
I don't. You don't care about mine, It's about yours. Okay,
it seems fair. That seems fair.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
All right.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
That's in a nutshell where we're at at this point.
And it is funny that all the different MLB Hot
Stove shows and the shows getting ready for spring training,
and the little reports that are done on various websites
are all like, are y'all surprised at Alex Bregman Sila
isn't a job? And the answer is, yeah, we're all surprised.
I'm surprised. As a human. To me, I would never

(14:23):
let this go this far. When I was trying to
figure out what I want to do in twenty ten
coming back to Houston, I had two offers and I'm like,
three offers become of the Minneapolis deal and I'm like,
I can't handle this. I wasn't gonna let them get
into a war. I was like, I gotta make a
decision on this, and why didn't you let them get
into a bidding war, Matt and bidding war for a
for a goal glove third baseman. So then it was

(14:46):
a little different than a than a you know, major
market media start. Yeah, so it is what you know,
you have to kind of temper your expectations. You have
to you have to kind of know who you are.
And Ragman's like, I'm a third basement can that's got
a ops plus? I one to wait? Yeah, maybe he
one eighteen. It might be one A white Tish year
you're saying is going down. I don't know how could

(15:07):
go up. I guess it's been going down for like
three straight cares. OPI you know what, I gotta hope
splus of one eighteen I can. I'd be lucky to
get sixty gold glove.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Well.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
According to Chris Gordy's reporting on MLB dot COM's Top
one hundred players list, do you see where he was?
I did not in all of Major League Baseball? Can
I mad? I guess sure? This is among every position player,
including pictures. I think pictures are in the list too.
I think I'll have to go double check. I'll let
you look it up to make sure.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
All right.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Well, and then and then I don't I don't even
know you're making me go to Gordy's Twitter page. Oh geez,
was you gonna get in mixed in offensive lineman from
Old Miss Conversation. Yeah, it's kind of tough.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Man.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, pictures are on this list? Okay? How many astros
are on the list? Four in the top one hundred. Yes,
let's see how good I get on this do I
got a range of uh, if I get it was okay, four,
but they've only done to the top twenty ol Jordan
will be in the top twenty. Okay, So at this
point Jordon is on in the and on the list,
Bragman is probably seventy two thirty seven. Oh damn, I

(16:10):
love breaks too. I didn't mean to Dinengrimd, which is
thinking Tony great players. They have him ahead of Matt
Chapman by one spot. Well, that's the reason why I
think Bragman wants to tame. You got to have had
a Mike Trout. That's just because he's been hurt. Trout's
top five. He's healthy. But by the way, are the
Angels signing like fifteen free agents this offseason seems like it.

(16:31):
You said, they said they signed Kelly Jansen yesterday. Good
for them. Well, I guess Kelly Jansen keeps moving around
from team to team the team at the end of
his career. I lose track of how many teams. He's
like thirty seven or something. Yeah, he's but he's I mean,
he's their closer now, good for him, Just like Ryan
Press is the closure of the Chicago Cubs. Well, he's
battling with that young guy with the Aria under two

(16:53):
whose name I can't remember, So what is it? What's
going to happen if he goes there and he doesn't
win the closer spot and he's not gonna close. I
hope he doesn't get upset and he doesn't want to
talk and when we had a close and then they'll
use that other guy like in seven thing. It's like
like the like the Brian of breaky Roll. We didn't
have Ryan on the show last year. We needed to
because we're we're you and I were pro team Press.
I'm pro Press. But he's also not as good as

(17:15):
Josh Hater sorry, and he also blew and you would
I was off at FanFest last year, and you would
You would not have said something directly like, hey, what's
it like being the second best reliever? We're been nice? Yeah,
of course you would have been nice. But if he
had asked me directly, I would have to answer. He
wouldn't ask you. I don't think you would. Don't ask
questions you don't want to answer to Matt. You know that,
all right? Am I the best radio host on seven ninety? No? Damn,

(17:40):
she asked the question. I told you see, you know
what I just feel like an ask for sports? RV
oh yeah, what did we call it? Brutally honest? Rv
oh No, Well, I'm not gonna want to do it now.
It's been a year. I'm ready.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Are you hated?

Speaker 2 (17:59):
I'm upset and sick and tired to be in sick
brutally honest? Are more questions about talent? Talented seven ninety though?
Oh the questions sports seven ninety It's been done. I
did all workers are off the list. I already did that.
We I did a last last year. Okay, let's do
it right now. We got ten. This is a good
way to segue here. God, if you have a question
for Ross that doesn't relate to people that work at

(18:22):
Sports Talk seven ninety, but anything else in life, like
brutally honest, what's your take on I don't religion, brutally
honest take on politics, brutally honest on what car to buy,
brutally honest on women. We're looking for a brutally art,

(18:44):
brutally honest RV calls. This is a once a year bit.
WED organically just came out of nowhere.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Head there.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
I'm already uncomfortable, but let's do the only thing it's
off limits is Sports Talk seven ninety. Talent questions seven
one three two one two five seven ninety. If you
have something you really honestly want to ask Ross, and
he must answer and honestly. Now, are we gonna allow
you a free pass on a couple of these things?
You really are gonna answer every little thing that comes
your way? Okay, I honored? If you yeah, oh man,

(19:16):
nobody calls, you're gonna be saved. You're good? Seven one good, Yeah,
I think it looks good so far seven one three
two one two five seven And I won't mention the number,
but at least ten mores brutal honest music. Hey, it's Ross,
and I'm here to answer all your questions and the
most brutal and honest way possible. But this isn't brutal
and os. This is like soothing and I like it,

(19:39):
but it's not how you're gonna answer this question. Lay
somebody down gently, Matt, before you lay the hammer on
him exactly, all right, duh, push and pull this.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
I like this.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
I like this a lot. All right here it is
seven one three two one two five seven. If you
have something you brutally want to ask, Ross and he'll
give you the brutal answer, whether you like it or not.
Seven one three two one two five seven eight. I'm
actually in the mood for like a glass of tea
or something. Now, cat tea with a lemon. I'll do
a nice caber dang. But yeah, all right, yeah, are

(20:19):
we had a jazz bar? Where are we? Ross? We're
not even in the studio anymore. What do you mean
it's not a nice cocktail bar? You know we are?
We're watching League one volleyball, okay, late February in Richard
Rosenberg area. That's right, League one volleyball. I'm gonna do.

(20:40):
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(21:01):
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because your daughter plays volleyball, You play volleyball, you played
volleyball in yesteryear. It's a great family sport and the
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(21:28):
Welcome to the Sports Talk seven. Iim Matt Thomas Show
with Ross Cafe. I'm your major d and I would
like you to come on in relax. I wouldn't say
take your shoes off and nobody in a go to
a restaurant and have your shoes taken off. Ross. Do
you want a booth or do you want a table
to handle this responsibilities? Let's go with the high top

(21:50):
at the bar. It feels very uncomfortable. Okay, you want
to get intimate, then well, I mean you're gonna be
the one sitting down for most of this segment.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
So now and.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Cross my legs. How about more of a like a
like a semi circle lounge chair, and you would want
to sit chriss cross apple sauce. I might cross my
legs here and there because you cannot see indians down anymore.
And that is correct.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Incense in the in the air, No incense in public space.
What are you drinking? Glass of wine bourbon on the rocks? Okay? Neat?
Oh you're sitting on the rocks. Okay, very good? All right,
there it is. He's got his bourd on the rocks.
I am drinking a sex on a beach shot. There's no,
that's a cocktail. You ordered it as a shot, Yeah,
I did, and everyone was stunned. Yeah, and found it

(22:36):
to be quite delicious. No, it made no sense. Second
favorite shot, the Washington Apple, and then you get the
lemon drop. If you will, you an eighteen year olds
everywhere agree, Josh, Welcome to the Sports Talk seven ninety cafe.
Oh my god, Josh, you need to be brutally on
us with Ross, and he'll be brutally on us back
with you.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Oh well, I just have a question. It's kind of stupid,
but so it was this. Uh, I was curious on
your trip to Asia, have you got any action or
if you pulled any oh Asia?

Speaker 2 (23:15):
This is an easy one. No, I didn't really go
out of the bars. It wasn't really an aim of mine.
I also didn't speak the language. I didn't try to
speak the language. No, I didn't. Unfortunately, well not unfortunately,
I didn't.

Speaker 6 (23:31):
I was gonna curious for you.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
I'm sorry, Dave, good one. We do live like I
just even really talked.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
I just talked.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
There was just a group of us, and I just
hung with our group, and everybody in our group was
either male or spoken for. Okay, that's kind of a
nice easy way to lean into this segment. It was
a fun trip. It was a great trip. Yeah, you'll
go back again, right m okay over by Energy Stadium,
Davis with us in the seven ninety cafe. Dave, good

(24:04):
morning to you. What do you got?

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Good?

Speaker 4 (24:06):
Good morning, sir. This is about sorry to say seven
to ninety talent.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
No, No, you can't. It's it's off it's off limits.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
Because because I need I need, I can't.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
No, you can ask him. He is not required by
I were reserved the right to not answer.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
There you go, Okay, okay, that's fine, all right. These
guys that come on and after you guys, I got it.
I got a little bit of a beef with one
of them. He doesn't even know it, because I have.
I've been sitting on this for a long time. I
called him one day and I was, he's such a
stat master. You know who I'm talking.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
About, Glinton Dann Matthews. Dann Matthews, of course, yes, you're
talking about Adam Wexer. Go ahead, Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
So I said, man, there's got to I've been searching
the internet. There's got to be a stat for runs
that score on walks, because that was a big thing
last year with the ass pros. We'd walk somebody and
damn if they didn't score almost immediately. No, he said,
oh yeah, you can find that, and he say to

(25:08):
help me, but he never did.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Hmm.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
Okay, Now the killer is this? Now what do you
call that? When y'all played music for a segment, you
call that a sounder?

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Music? Is it can be called a bed? Probably a
sounder is more like one of our promos, or like
when Jalen Rose you hear the rose ding, that's more
of a sound. That's technical thing.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
Okay, all right, well they do this thing called best
of X And now tell me have you heard the music?

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yes, intro with WEX singing. Yes, I have heard that?

Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yes, Oh my god, Ross, do you hate that as
much as I hate that?

Speaker 2 (25:50):
I gotta be honest. I heard it once and I
thought it was hilarious. But it could be one of
those things if you hear it over and over again,
it wears on you. Can we hear this? Can we
bring this out? Play?

Speaker 3 (25:59):
Thank you very Dave.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Don't be mad, as we want people to hear it
so they can realize in the contact what you're speaking of.
This is every day. I think they do it at three.
The first time I heard it, I thought it was hilarious.
I wouldn't characterized it as hilarious, but you know what,
I'm not the judge of this. Not everything that I do.
Adam thinks I'm West Thing's the spectaclear. A lot of

(26:22):
things at Westdales I think is awesome.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Did you all see this?

Speaker 7 (26:27):
You should be putting out between five and fifteen.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Posts a day. Four hundred people were arrested for things
that they said on social media.

Speaker 7 (26:35):
History repeats itself. The type banguils succeed. Never doubt that
you're the one wholes look all one building. You're the best.
Nothing's gonna have the top.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
You know you're the best. Other post an every single day.
You know you're the best of the breaking the entire Internet.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Ten out of ten, no notes. I think it's hilarious
now every day. It could be a little shorter. I
guess you can take it up a little bit, play
every day, but I like it. Connor, you wanna break
the tie, you'd be honest, brutal, honest, brute honestly.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
I like it. I like it.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
I agree with Ross that it's a little long, but
I've clipped that clip your you just clipped yourself right there.
I think I control the edits. I don't have to.
I see how you are. Ninety nine percent of what
we says is awesome. That that when I just I turn.
I I don't like it, but that's to each your
own to eat his own.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Two to six weekdays, Sports Talk seven Hunty let us
continue James in North Houston on the seven ninety Cafe
James Party of one. What can do for you today?

Speaker 3 (27:53):
How are you doing?

Speaker 4 (27:53):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (27:54):
I got across a row?

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Hey roth, Uh, you're a betting my right?

Speaker 2 (27:57):
You go to Vegas sometimes?

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah? Okay, cool? Hey are these two questions and I'll
hang up and listen. What's your body count?

Speaker 2 (28:04):
And do you get the plumped the minus against Matt?
You know we've never talked about this. Oh my god,
it's bertal honesty. He has been single way more than
I have. So your body count is definitely plus? Can
I be honest? I don't know what it is. Yeah,

(28:28):
I'm gonna be saying. I'm gonna be safe in saying
that mine is significantly less than yours. I've also been
married for twenty How I've been married twenty seven years?
Are you supposed to give a number? I'm supposed to
ask other questions? Answer questions about other people. No, no, no,
it's I don't know the number. That's a lie. That's

(28:52):
not a lie. Well, get a piece of pay so
I'll write your names down. Give me some time. That
many you've lost count? Good for him him?

Speaker 3 (29:00):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Oh now you hear that? Connor, he's going to the
cough card. You might have to get tested. I love
that man. What's going on? You get the VID? You
better I have the VID. I'm going I gotta go
on the washingt d C here. If you get the VIN,
you're giving it to me. I'm not gonna be pleased
by this. Hummm. So you're not answering the question because

(29:26):
you're saying he First of all, every guy knows, I don't.
I swear to you. All right, at eleven o'clock we'll
lead off eleven o'clock hour with your list. This is
supposed to be brutally honest questions about other things. It's
also called brutally uncomfortable questions with ross. All right, I'll

(29:50):
give you. I'll give you. I'm not giving you the
exact number, no, no, and time. This says, this is
my SEGM misus, you'rsemon. I want to, I don't want to.
I'm good. I'll just say that I'm I'm minus. I
don't even know your number number, but I know my
number is less than yours. Okay, Because first of all,
I was portly as a kid, so I didn't get
a lot of I think a lot of teams matter
I don't care about. I didn't get a lot of teenagejactions.

(30:10):
If you know what I'm saying. Mm hm, you know
it's not got another minute left, a minute we got
last call here for the seven ninty Cafe with brutally
Annis Ross. See, we're supposed to answer questions about other people.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
I was answering questions about myself. I kind of like it.
Two of the three questions were about me and my
sex life. See, that's what people really want to know
about it. Really, I mean I never really know what
to know about your sex life either, but hmmm seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Final call
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero

(30:47):
seven one three two one two five seven ninety. And
you're gonna win because no one's gonna call in the
next thirty seconds to meeting. The segments over with and
you got you got away with it. Now you're not
gonna ask him a question? Mmm, no brutalest question, because
here's here's the reality. We've had a lot of brutally
honest conversations in the last fifteen years. You a question,
you know everything? Then I actually doing everything? Connor, what's

(31:08):
your question for our man here? What's the who's the
guests you've had on the show, but you'll never have back.
Oh that's a good question. That's a good question. Oh man, Uh,
help me think, Matt, there's I'm sure we can think
of somebody. Oh, there's been some as player our Weekly
asked your guests. Some have been terrible. I think Bob
Nightingale's bad on air. Bob's a really good guy, just

(31:30):
not grant in the air. Uh, this is a way
easier question. I'll let you think about it. We'll have
another question coming in. Oh, we have Cindy and Spring
once to say hello to the show. All right, here
we go, Sindy and Spring brutally brutally Annus Ross wants
a brutally honest question. Put it his way. What do
you got, Sindy.

Speaker 8 (31:49):
It's a question I need an answer to because I'm
not going to ask my son. I'm seventy eight. What
kind of iPhones did I buy?

Speaker 3 (31:57):
I'm an I six.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Right now, which I know is nice. This is great,
Thank you. Phone fifteen works great. What are you trying
to spend some money?

Speaker 9 (32:06):
No?

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Okay, I want to Oh, then you're fine, feel like
get like an iPhone thirteen or fourteen? Then whatever's cheap,
whatever's cheap. Yeah, I mean, are you a big listener
in music? Do you watch stuff on your phone? Or
you just use it for communication and texting?

Speaker 3 (32:23):
I could do that.

Speaker 8 (32:24):
Read I've read the Washington Post online, okay, and I
read the Houston Chronicles. So and it's hard to read
a book when you're blind almost. Yeah, I do texting,
and I you know, I don't listen to music. My
hearing has gone bad, and your hearing age. I'm telling
you want a phone to last me for about five

(32:46):
years and then I can die.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
The phone will all be fine.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Wow, I think you're fine. I think you can get
like a fourteen fifteen. Look, make sure this is what
you gotta do. You got to buy the two hundred
and fifty six gigabyte one instead of the one twenty
eight because they keep making the iOS bigger and bigger
and bigger. Then your phone starts operating slower, and then
they try to get you to buy another one. So
buy the bigger high buy an older one with a
bigger hard drive.

Speaker 8 (33:11):
That's too much technology, jeez, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
All right, two hundred and fifty six gigabytes s write
that down. Two five six GB.

Speaker 8 (33:22):
I can remember one number six.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Tell them I want the two five six GB. You
want the two five six GB two fifty six Yeah,
write it down. That's good, Thank you, Sidy two hundred.
I will say two more times for you two hundred
and fifty six gigabytes after that, just choose the phone
that fits you best. Mm hmm I got the two
fifty six GiB.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
That's where all those pictures you download and videos felt personal.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
There.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
This was an as Sports emptique segment. All right there
it is worst. You gotta think about your worst guests
coming up. Think if that's who's somebody would never have
never had. It wasn't good, yea, Kyle Tucker wasn't good.
We had a lot of astros that weren't great. Ted
or Scott great reliever, not a great interview. Yeah, he
was not good. Were you with astrofests? Was he?

Speaker 8 (34:12):
No?

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Actually he was?

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (34:13):
Was he?

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Okay? Maybe he just didn't like me. Yeah he said
tell Matt Thomas, I want to punch him in the throat.
That didn't feel very It's weird. Yeah, no he didn't
say that, Okay. Ten forty six it is that Matt
Thomas show with ross seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero. I would say that justin vernonter
was was not a good guest, but he never came
on the show. He was afraid to come on because
our audience wasn't big enough. Oh, I can read him twice.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
He was great.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
That was on Astrofest and it wasn't He didn't know
your name, not one to know my name. I don't
care he didn't come on because he came on twice though. Yeah,
but it was on a Saturday.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
He has.

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Matt Thomas, Ross Virel It's the Matt Thomas Show with
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Speaker 2 (36:10):
Welcome back to the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
That's me.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Matt here as well. Phone lines open at seven one
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You got a question now?

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (36:34):
And that's how difficult is it? It's not being discussed?
Oh zip zero zone. It's about seven ninety and we're
not doing it. Okay, good y'all want y'all what y'all want.
Y'all want tea about the station they want let me
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and this is your segment. I'm gonna I'm gonna bit
seal off of your segment. We have a really good
bunch of dudes that we work with. Some are quirkier

(36:57):
than others, but we all we all not generally get along.
We all get along. I've not been able to say
that throughout my entire seven hinty career. Yes, we all
get along. We all kind of have the same golden mind.
We all do different shows. And like I said, I
like that that my that you and I do a

(37:17):
show that is completely different the eighteen that's completely different. Seawn.
It's that's what we do where we you know what,
we're the thirty one flavors. You wouldn't want to go
to the same place and get the same thing every
single day, all hours, every hour. You want variety, So
that's what we're gonna do. I am like the butter

(37:38):
per Kahan, you're the min chocolate chip huh. I hate
min chocolate chip, do you really? It's not not my
favorites either, but I would eat it. It has too much,
especially from blue Belt of very economc Govern's very upset. Oh,
I didn't realize again taste of toothpaste. It's too much mint.
It's it's not like a hint of mint like an
andes yea yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, yea yeah for sure,
like a thin mint. Yeah. It's it's like I don't

(38:00):
want to eat toothpaste at dessert. That's so good. It's
too much, too much, it's overriding. It's it's overwhelming. I
should say.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
So yeah, we are the thirty one flavors here. I
argue with my brother and sister about it all the time.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
They love it.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
Connor, so you're on there. Have we ever done believe
it or not? I mean I scream ice cream flavors?
I don't think so. By the way, this Friday, Connor,
this will be I believe you. Is the second or
third time you have ever done a Fantasy Final?

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Has he ever done one?

Speaker 2 (38:25):
No, he's done one. I've done two. Okay, okay, last
last one. I screwed up pretty good with the Matt's
Christmas songs. Yeah, that's right, I was air. Yeah, you
and I have not gone mono monol a long time. Okay.
We are gonna uh celebrate the fifty years of Saturday
Night Live. Okay. Now we've done the best television. We've
done the best actors on the show, like dan Aykroyd

(38:49):
or John Belushi or Keenan Thompson, Keenan Thompson in one
and one travesty. Here is the Fantasy five this Friday
at two twenty. Okay, top recurring characters. Okay, Now, recurring
would mean more than once. For instance, it has been

(39:11):
discussed and widely recognizes the greatest skit of all time
in sn L history. Do you know the answer this question? No,
this is not me saying this is what people have said.
Is the cow Bell segment. Okay, but that's not a
recurring character. That is not a recurring character. So thus
you couldn't use cow Bell Guy m HM as a

(39:33):
Fantasy five category. Okay. So that's the recurring character has
been had at least more than once, and you and
Ill Fantasy five on that coming up on Friday. Oh stop,
I can't wait? What because it didn't sound authentic. It
didn't sound I can't. That's much better. And we're gonna
draft probably tomorrow, so we can have a little clips

(39:55):
for Connor to plan Friday if we cannad more work
towards workload.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
Love it.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
We went at the draft early. Yeah, we draft tonight
like a Rockets game. I'll come see you halftime. You
want to drafted halftime of the Rockets game and you
work at Rockets tonight. Yes, you're gonna be at the game. Yes,
it's Katie's in town. That's why is he The sums
are here now whether he plays or it's back to back. No,
it's a home game and I'm working the game. I
usually like to go. Kevin Durant did play forty three

(40:21):
minutes last night. He's we'll see I mean, I hate
to see that. By the way, email Duckable join us
on the show tomorrow. Oh okay, you were hoping, weren't you.
I know that's fine. What hashtag mailed in Rockets launch pad?
It's not mailed in Matt you're bringing a great interview
to the people. Yeah, it's the head freaking coach of
the Houston Rocket. I know, get we got we got
them on the show. We are very lucky and we'll

(40:44):
have a Joe a spot of joining us on Tuesdays
with regular Yeah, Joe's gonna be a little more protective
of a players, but he's still a great interview email.
He's going not protecting. I mean, he'll protect a certain level,
but he'll he'll question asked, it gets answered. Yeah, Dusty's
doesn't get surly with he like Dusty Baker does. Or
did he dropped a damn dude on me a couple

(41:05):
of times?

Speaker 3 (41:05):
That was rough?

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yeah, the best question of them a dooka season this
year was when you asked him about what do you
think about kan Whitmore statements? It's like, yeah, that's fine,
say all he wants you don't happy, I don't care.
I'm here, I'm coaching. I'm will love on him when
he wants to play and when yeah, you know, need
to lock in a little more on defense. You know,

(41:27):
it's funny as we said that we got a minute
left here. Typically, in the NBA world of soft egos,
don't you think the NBA player has the softest Finnish
skin of all professional athletes? Yes, that may resonates with
so many players because of who he is, his background

(41:52):
as a friend. I mean, he was a fringe NBA player,
he just want He never was never a starter on
a regular basis. He didn't He was in a heavy rotation.
He had a bounce around from team to team to
team just to survive. And he did the same thing
as an assistant coach. Those guys bind to him.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
And I love it.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Yeah, and I think it's gonna ultimately help out when
it comes to free agency. Guys are going to come
play for him. And if you know you you sounded
the rockets, you're gonna get brutal honesty with I may Well.
A lot of other coaches will try to placate the stars,
and I sometimes causes friction. It's funny, though, Phil Jackson,
for all those years coaching not only Michael in Chicago,

(42:31):
but Kobe in LA, he was the first one to
tell you, I treat everybody differently. I treated Michael Jordan
differently than I treated Steve Kerr. Kobe's like or in
Phil Jackson, I treated Kobe differently than I treated who
would be a Fringellia player during some Yeah, great calling that,
you know what I mean? And Derek Fisher, Eric may

(42:53):
a little different. Yeah, he's of you know what, Jalen Green.
You make eight shots in a row and you don't
get back on defense on your ass.

Speaker 9 (43:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
They also don't have a big star player. That's right.
Maybe and maybe you change it all star. Yeah, but
but the alpha dog. I mean, if Kevin Durant came here,
would he may have to probably change things a little
bit for Kevin Durant than he would for jail and Green.
Probably a little bit. Yeah, all right, second arrow, the
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In terms of what's happening around sports, Travis Kelsey has
not decided about whether he wants to return or not.
He says he's going to take some time before making
a decision on whether he will come back for his
thirteenth season. He was went on his New Heights podcast
to say the quote following, I know everybody wants to

(46:25):
know whether I'm playing next year, and right now, I'm
just kicking everything down the road. I'm kicking every can
I can down the road. I'm not making any crazy decisions.
In the week leading up for the Super Bowl, apparently
Kelsey was asked about his future and that he had
planned on playing in twenty twenty five, but the podcast
with his brother said something else. Quote, I've been fortunate

(46:46):
over the last five or six years. I've played more
football than anybody. It's because of the people that are
in the building. The fact that we are going to
the AFC Championship in the Super Bowls, that means I'm
playing an extra three games more than everybody else's in
the entire league. That's a lot aware and in your body,
and it's a lot of time spent in the building
focusing on your craft, focusing on the task at hand,
and every challenge that you set up for yourself. That

(47:08):
process can be grueling. So he was very adamant early
before the Super Bowl that he was going to come
back for twenty twenty five. Not so much now. Uh,
And I'm gonna I'm gonna segue from the Kelsey retirement
speculation to what I think is gonna be something's gonna
happen the next couple of years. And I feel like
I've said in the next couple of years for the
last couple of years, Goodell's gonna get this eighteenth game passed.

(47:33):
He is going to and it's not really him, it's
gonna be the owners are gonna say, look, we go
to two preseason games because you guys aren't playing him anyway,
eighteen regular season games and we're going to make more money.
We're gonna put more money in your pockets, and you're
gonna bitch and moan about the fact that it's grueling,
but you're gonna also appreciate that quarterbacks can go from
making fifty one million dollars a year to fifty four

(47:54):
million dollars a year. You're gonna be very happy that
a wide receiver is gonna go from nineteen million dollars
a year to twenty two million dollars a year. At
the end of the day, ross greed runs everything. No one,
no one's going to play an eighteen game schedule without
there being a positive ram of financial benefit to the

(48:15):
players that are actually playing these games. Yes, so it's
a hollow conversation, frankly to me, I just I can't
imagine now. If it happens, it'll be one for the ages.
But will the union ever come out and say, we,
as members of the union, don't care that we're going
to give our our players an extra eleven percent income

(48:39):
increases in revenue. We're going to give that up because
we believe seventeen is plenty. I don't see those words
ever coming out of any union leadership's mouths well, union
leadership is saying it now or at least last week.
Lloyd Howell now a year ago, apparently he said, who
doesn't want to see more football this year? Tune wisely

(49:03):
right now, when I've talked to players over the last
two seasons, no one wants to play an eighteenth game.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
No one.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Seventeen games for many of the guys is too long.
I we are seeing more injuries than ever before, and
the NFL has tried to and they can try they want,
but the reality is football is the most physically grueling,
barbaric sporting man out there. I mean, if you're there

(49:34):
are If there were more injuries between sixteen and seventeen weeks,
there's gonna be an additional number of injuries that happened
between weeks seventeen and eighteen. Now, I folowed this out
to you a couple of years ago, and I don't
know if we ever really got into a deep conversation
about this. What if everybody has to sit out one game,
uh like a bye within your within your season, and

(49:58):
that it's up to the NFL T teams to say, Okay,
this week, Joe Mixon, you're not gonna play against the
Jaguars Damian piersh You now our main running back and
then but that's if they're healthy for every game. Like
what if Joe Mixon misses a game with an ankle
injury or two games or three games, well then that
would count. Then that would count. That no player in
the NFL can play more than seventeen games unless you're traded.

(50:24):
Wasn't there a player that was traded that played seven
eighteen games? It could have been. I mean, yeah, I
mean there's gonna be obviously some I'm just throwing that
out there as a possibility because in reality, let's say
that you are a team that is like the Chiefs,
who are the number one seeing in the AFC this
past year. You didn't play your starters in the last week.
If you've got the bad boys wrapped up after seventeen weeks,

(50:46):
then he's in the eighteenth week. Is piece of cake.
You just set them out and say that we're done again.
Here's they're gonna get it passed if the union fights
them on it. There may be some parameters that are
attached to it. First of all, I think every team's
going to get a second off week. So now you're
looking at twenty like the Super Bowl is going to
be into March nowm No. I think what's going to

(51:09):
happen is you're going to see the NFL season start
pre Labor Day. My guess, if if you go eighteen
weeks and you put two buys in its twenty calendar weeks,
do you do you perhaps I don't know, do you
eliminate the week between the Super Bowl that you know
there's two weeks in Super Bowl? I mean you could

(51:29):
do that. That's tradition. I like that tradition. By the way,
it's the biggest game of the year. You gotta let
the drama bill. You also want to get people healed
up too. Yes, I don't think you get rid of that.
I think you start. First of all, professional football does
not care about the nuances and the history of the

(51:50):
college game. I mean they put games on Thursday and
didn't think twice about it. They put games on Friday,
just like college as. Nobody cares about any other facet
of their industry. It's money. Yeah, so you put you
put a twenty game schedule together and you you take
two weeks off. Now, the one I'm thinking about is
mandatory set out. That's just me just throwing something against

(52:12):
the wall. I don't know if that makes any sense
anybody or not. But here's the problem. If you pick
a Rando Week six to set your guy out, does
that you know? Because the NBA has this issue right now.
If if you're a fan of Lebron James and you
get one trip a year for the Lakers to play

(52:33):
and say Chicago, and Lebron sets that out, are you
shorting the fans in Chicago an opportunity that wanted to
see Lebron take on the Chicago Bulls. Yeah, that probably
only applies to quarterbacks and nobody really even goes to
a Texans game. It's different in the NFL. It is
differents going to a Texans game. I feel like it
happens in baseball. Shohio Tani's in town, let's go. Yeah,

(52:57):
whoever pitch your X is starting. It feels like to
me that tickets are so hard to come by in
football for most NFL cities, like for instance, in Green Bay,
you know, the waiting list is you know, five fifteen
thousand deep. Yeah, it's been that for like sixty years.
You gotta be on like a kid as a twelve
year old to maybe get season tickets when you're like

(53:18):
forty six. That if all of a sudden you were
handed tickets to see Jacksonville play Green Bay. Jacksonne green
Bay isn't isn't sexy to you. But if you get
a chance to go to Lambeofield sit at the fifty
yard line, you're gonna go sit in the game. You
don't care who's playing. You're at Lambeofield, You're you're a
you're a Chief sad, you're a Packer fan. You don't
care who's on the other side. And again, if CJ.
Stroud doesn't play for the Texans in a home game

(53:40):
and money Mills is playing, you're still you're rooting hard
for money Mills. You may be disappointed, but you're still
rooting for him. Yeah, but if you hear the week
before that Stroud, I mean the week of that that
Stroud is sitting out, you gotta do it that out
of the road. Here's another thing. What if you put
yourself on a spot where you've saved all your off,

(54:01):
like if they've if they've finished one through seventeen, they've
played and they have to mandatory sit out a week,
and you've got like thirty one players that haven't set
out you got a one seat on the line or something.
Oh no, yeah, I don't think that's gonna happen. I
didn't seem practical. I don't think you know. I'm just
saying that if you're really trying to avoid them having
to put the suit, to put on a to put

(54:22):
on a uniform eighteen times, then you could probably space
out some weeks. I mean, maybe they say you have
to get it done by the first four fourteen weeks
of the season. I'm just throwing stuff against the wall
to see if it saying sticks and it's not. But
I'm just telling you we're talking about players that are
so adamant about this. And Travis Kelcey was alluding to
this when I brought this up, is that he's like, man,

(54:43):
we've been playing that a lot of extra games. We're tired.
My physic, my body is beat up over this. Travis
Kelsey has got what sixteen million dollars sitting on the
table for next year. Then we determined that yesterday somewhere
in that range. It's the cap hit. I think he
got most of the money up front. I think his
base salary is two and a half million. Oh, then
if he's doing that. But I think if you retire,

(55:06):
you have to give some bonus back. Let's say I
sign this two year deal with a giant bonus up front,
but I don't give out the two year deal. You
have to give some back. But he's got plenty of money.
He can give that back. I mean he needs to
get a loan from Taylor. Well, here's the reality. He's
gonna have a television career ahead of him. Yeah, he'll
be on the panel with his brother. I mean, is
the Kelsey fifteen minutes almost over? No, they're j Jason

(55:27):
Kelsey is everywhere. But I mean I think he's making
like eight million a year from ESPN or something. Have
you seen the ESPN late night show he's done. I
have not, but the reviews have not been really really good.
I haven't watched a second of it. I forgot it
was even on.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Well, I'm here to remind you that I'm wishing him
the best. But I'm sure you are. I don't care, Okay,
but it's interesting to see what happens if he really
if he if it's all about I'm tired, or it's man,
I got that money still sitting there on the table.
For me, like when most peo will retire, it's because
the company and said, hey, we're gonna cut your work back.

(56:01):
We don't have the salary you your bonus structure. He's
got that money sitting there ready for him to be
picked up. Always going to his play. I think he plays.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
I do too.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
I think he's going. He comes across to me as
someone that is going to miss football a lot. And
by the way, was you know he's got a chase
what's your face around the world on tours. I mean
that's gonna get tiresome after a while a seeing the
whole world. Maybe he becomes a roadie first, that's a
good time for for t Swift. Well, he's gonna start
loading up speakers and wires and cables and wearing a

(56:36):
black shirt his crew on it. Yeah, security, he'd be
go with security. I think everybody's gonna recognize him.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
All right.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
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Speaker 2 (57:07):
Eleven nineteen, We're gonna have Dan Hurley as part of
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people in Omaha to shut their bombasses up, and we'll
hear that for you coming up at the bottom of
the hour. Also during the news at noon, did you
hear what Dak Prescott had to say about his Dallas Cowboys?

(57:29):
What else is he supposed to stay? I don't know,
be a little more modest about the situation. Maybe we
have to coming up in about forty minutes from now, Okay,
but Dak, would you say bullish on his Dallas Cowboys?
I think he is. I think most athletes are. Joe

(57:52):
Mixon talked about him going to the super Bowl. By
the way, Joe Mixon is the king of the side imoji,
And look what I'm about to bring big surprise their coming.
Do you think he was doing that just to kind
of get some I didn't even extra juice on Twitter
or what we recent a few weeks back, like you
don't know what's you know? And again he could be
telling the truth, but he's basically alluding to the textans
something surprising is going to happen, and what obviously if

(58:14):
you put two and two together would relate to something special.
It's gonna happen with the Texans, whether it's t Higgins,
whether it's somebody else that wants to come here and
play that he knows, I mean, Joe Mixon knows all
player players in the NFL. And I still singing just
to the Bengals. T I like T I had tea
of the Texans two years ago. You did, and it
didn't happen. So you're gonna try to take full credit.

(58:36):
I'm gonna say that probably Joe was listening to the show. Ah,
what about Nikki nick you see Nicky See, he's listening
to the show. By the way, we're gonna hear from
the brand new offensive coordinator on the show tomorrow as
a matter of fact. Really, yeah, he's gonna join us.
Uh no please? Oh by the way, Kelvin SAMs is
going to join us today at twelve thirty is Yes,
I love it. Yes, I love that a lot seeing you, right,

(59:00):
believe it or not. Yeah, I'm just feeling a little weary.
I'm tired. I'm gonna get you some medication. Yeah, I
know we're working on it, all right. So Calvin Samson
joined the radio show at twelve thirty today here on
Sports Talk seven Ainty. Let's talk to John in Southwest
Houston on seven Ainty, John, good morning to you.

Speaker 11 (59:22):
Good money, good money. Hey, Travis Kelsey set so glummers up.
You tied because you played too many damn games. I'm
saf Cristal, but you played too many games and you die.

Speaker 6 (59:36):
I don't know what you got town for that.

Speaker 11 (59:39):
I'm not gonna have the assho Fiel. You know how
many games they played more than everybody.

Speaker 6 (59:43):
Last seven years.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
That's the difference.

Speaker 6 (59:46):
Between somebody that been given and somebody that's earned it. Hotel,
too many earned it. He ain't crying.

Speaker 11 (59:51):
You ready to go play the next game.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
And now he's what I got said about that.

Speaker 6 (59:55):
Appreciate it all.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Right, Thank you John. Look at John getting in early
before shut your baw mass up. Very upset with Travis Kelsey.
You know, it was a question asked, it answered. I'm
not gonna crush Travis for saying that, because let's be honest.
When the Astros were playing games into late October November,
some of the guys were saying, hey, we are off.

(01:00:16):
Seasons are significantly shorter than others mm hmm. Now you
they'd rather have it that way as compared to that
being done in late September every year. I get that,
but I do believe that an extra twenty five baseball
games can play a role in a guy's recovery during
the off season. I think three extra football games put
the uniform on and practicing and wear and tear can can.

(01:00:37):
I mean, it's a physical, rough sport. So while would
like to crush athletes for being honest or not being honest,
I think he was being honest and I'm gonna give
him a benefit of doubt on that. Yeah, I would agree,
I would agree. I mean you add it all up.
I think that probably is part of the reason there's
no NF No NFL team is ever three p because

(01:00:58):
you got to get very lucky. You're playing all these
extra games, which means you have to avoid injuries, and
when you're playing in a tournament format where you're one
and done, you have to be you just you can't
have an off week, right, you can't be bad for
one game. You're bad in one game, you're done.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
In the Kansas City's case, your worst your last game
was your worst game. Yeah, how many playoff games as
Travis Kelsey played, it's probably a whole other season. Five
super Bowls, Yeah, and he was in part of all
five of them, so that's what at least uh three,
So that's fifteen minimum, and they were they didn't all
have buys every single year. He's played in twenty five

(01:01:35):
playoff games, So that's an extra season and a half.
Yeah for a team that you know, if you've been
on the how long over how many years? Since fifteen?
So it's what, uh okay, so that's a decade. So
he's he's got an extra season and land extra games
in the last three years. I mean, you wouldn't have

(01:01:57):
it up. You wouldn't have it any other way. But
it is a byproduct of advancing. That's still like a
whole extra season.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Plus yeah, again, there are things worthy of crushing somebody for.
I can't do it in this particular case, but I
will say this. I think when you look back at
those things, you have to say, man, I wouldn't. I
wouldn't change it for the world. I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:02:22):
I wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
I wouldn't change having to put the pads on and
go hit somebody or have somebody hit me for a
chance at Labardi champions You meant, oh, by the way,
that the extra money that comes of being in a
playoff team and extra of being the best at your business. Yeah,
they get paid for it. Yeah, but it's it is.
It is real extra wear in tear on the on
the highest wear and tear sport like for instance. You know,

(01:02:43):
they had some of the astros complaining of not complaining
but just say admitting that, Look, we play an extra
seven fourteenth but extra twenty games per year each of
the last seven or eight years. It felt weird this
year they only played two. Yeah, you just go. You
should play for the Angels. You don't play any playoffs
for instance. And this is a situation I hope the
Rockets are in. How the Rockets have been done in

(01:03:04):
mid April for the last four years in a row.
The champion of the NBA is crowned in late June.
You get two extra months of playing if you're playing
for the championship. Ridict Again, that's a great problem to have,
you know. Lebron James went to eight straight finals. Yeah,
it's insane. It's one of the reasons when and didn't

(01:03:24):
on the last dance when they made three straight finals.
They talked about all the pressure and all the extra games,
and Michael Jordan's like, yeah, man, I gotta retire. Dennis
Robins like I need some time off, and would't Phil
Jackson say, go on, let's see you in Vegas. See
back when you get back from Vegas. That's the thing
is if you ask for time off, you're supposed to

(01:03:44):
be in your bed. You're supposed to be maybe you know,
if you live in a city with a nice beach, yeah,
you run down to the house. You don't go to
glah When Rodmins said that in the last dance when
he went to Vegas, Vegas is not a relaxing place
to go. You can relax there, but Dennis Rodman doesn't relax.
I don't think. I don't think Dennis Robin would relax

(01:04:05):
in Winchita. No, he'd be tearing up the apple. So
how do you relax in Vegas? You just lay out
of the pud pool because he even going to shows,
you have to get dressed down, shout out, circa, shout out.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
We need to go back. I hope we do.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
Yeah, Vegas. I've never relaxed in Vegas. I've never said,
you know, I'm I think I'm an say in the
room today I did. Do you remember when we there
was like a bad storm storms and I couldn't get
back into town and you tried to accuse me of
like just milking it. Oh you ran out of money too,
didn't you. Yeah, the whole last day I just stayed.
I didn't leave my room. I have to go to
I went to Gordon Ramsey's Fish and Chips.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
How was that?

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
By the way, it was good fish and chips real quick.
We got thirty seconds. If I gave you ten different
plates of fish and chips, the best from the worst
would be how big of a discrepancy? I'm not huge.
We like pizza, Hamburger. I think Hamburgers is the biggest
oversight of That was the best hamburger I've ever had

(01:05:06):
in my entire life. If you give me a mid
like Wreckers, Hey, okay, I like me a Wreckers Burger
and the fries, the fries to die for. You love
it because it's cheap, now you too. I mean, I'm
all about the cheap burger as well, but a Wreckers
Burger to what. Let's say that you went to go
to what's a high uh a, a Rapis Burger over

(01:05:32):
there on West Timer. Okay, remember we went that one time.
We spent like almost your whole fifty dollars gift cards.
Ridiculous significant days. Difference between the checkers, the Wreckers and
the pap and Rapis Burger. It's significant, but like you said,
not as big as like you know, yeah, like a
good steak is compared to going to the Golden Morale
or something like that. I don't know how he got

(01:05:52):
to that, but that point is my point is we
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Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
You don't we have time for at twelve o'clock the
news at noon, we have an update on that yet
another Angels player that's hurt for the upteenth year in
a row. You know what, in reality, everybody's got a
lance for colors. Some get paid more than others. And
we'll tell you about that coming up at the top
of the hour. Also, uh, you're gonna hear Dak Prescott

(01:06:58):
at the top of the hour. And also we're gonna
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Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
You're still there talking for dad.

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
Yeah, let's say, Matt Chutch your bum ass up, and
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All right? Normally we go to ours, but our man
Hobbyer is like, I got to work, I gotta I
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Hobbyer guide in early. We're gonna to him right now.
Seven one three, two one two five seven? Annie Hobby here,
what's the matter with you?

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
I I just want to pell.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
Patrick Mahomes to to go. Tom Brady got their bumb
ass up. Ain't nobody got time for that? Dumb comparison, Bro, Mahomes.

Speaker 6 (01:08:07):
Sounding dude, ain't got nothing for the go cut that
stuff out.

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
Ain't nobody got time for that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
You have a good day, boys, go astros there you go.
So let me ask you this ROSSI we each of
us is gonna have an opinion on this. What's it
gonna take for Mahomes to supplant Tom's the goat? Five
super Bowls and how many NFL seasons he played? Is
Mahomes in around?

Speaker 12 (01:08:30):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
He's been to five one three, He's started for seven
years and made the AFC Championship game at all seven.
So his five Super Bowls and seven seasons as a starter,
his percentage is pacing significantly higher than tom Brady's. Tom
Brady is one of the ones that sent him home
in an AFC Championship game, and I think his first
year as a starter, and then Joe Burrows the other.

(01:08:56):
Does he have to get to seven two? I don't
think necessarily it's gonna be. It's tom Brady's resume to
me is unbeatable, all time yards, all time touchdowns. It's
gonna be one of those things where you say he's
accumulated the most Super Bowls, but who was better? And
right now it's probably Tom Brady. I mean, I'm a

(01:09:21):
Coorge Pat Mahomes fan just as a player forgetting about
the team or they were. He still has a significant
amount of work ahead of him to get into the
Tom Brady convers He's been mediocre for two years. For instance,
the conversation between Lebron and Michael Jordan is as close
as it has ever been, and it's only going to
get closer unless all of a sudden Lebron falls off
the map in place. So he's forty six and he's

(01:09:42):
averaged in nine points a game, shooting thirty six percent
for the floor. He's his drop off has not been
significant all things considered, and he might be able to
rejuvenate his career now that he's got Luca Doncies as
his wing. The difference between Pat and Tom still, to
me is is white a bit. So for anybody that

(01:10:02):
would be trying to put them in the same conversation,
you can. It's just a pre It's just premature, that's
all it is. Pad Mahomes' stats since losing Tyreek Hill
have gone down significantly. He's had a couple of mediocre
seasons under four thousand yards. This year twenty six touchdowns,

(01:10:24):
eleven picks. It's a good season. Yeah, it's not incredible.
It's not all world. Didn't make the Pro Bowl so
you can play in Tucker Wars. Didn't make a Pro Bowl.
So he's got a ways to ways and ways and
ways to go. I'll give you one tell. I'll give
you a take for the gut filling category. You don't

(01:10:46):
get to seven. No, the odds are heavily in your favor. Yeah,
so something crazy for me, it's just and it takes
fifty three guys for Ross to get you to the
Super Bowl. Now, granted, one of those fifty three have
to be pretty much an amazing core and Pat Mahomes
fits that mold. But it also takes a good defense.
It also takes a good kicker to make field goals

(01:11:07):
for you. A good special team is the block punts.
It takes a little bit of everything. It's a team game.
I mean there. Dan Marino is the greatest example of
a amazing Hall of Fame quarterback first ballot, one of
the greatest passers in the history of the sport. You
close your eyes, you need eighty yards in two minutes,
and Da Marino's on your short list. He never had enough.

(01:11:30):
He never had enough. He always had receivers, but never
had running backs per se. And his defense was always
made it best. And Tom Brady really the first five
six years of his career they won three Super Bowls
and it wasn't because of him necessarily. He was good,
but they had dominant defense. If the tock rule wasn't around, yeah,
it's the Raiders, that's correct. If yeah, any number I

(01:11:52):
think what was it in that twenty eight to three
game who made a crazy catch? Was it Julian Edelman.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
But also you could flip the other way if the
Oli Manning doesn't make the crazy throw, the David Tyree throw.
But I'll come about this. If Russell Wilson just hands
the ball to Marshawn Lynch, that's another one.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
It's over.

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
Yeah, so they get they're absolutely on the right side
of Look, I think winning seven out of however many,
it should be just about the individual performance more than
the team goals. But so he could get to seven
to get the niner, he could never go again. It
wouldn't necessarily be his fault. The one against the Tampa
Bay Bucket when he was in Tampa Bay and against
the Chiefs. Both Chiefs tackles, starting tackles were hurt. He

(01:12:28):
threw for like two hundred and one yards in that game.
He didn't win because of him. They went because of
the dominant defense team.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
Game.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
Yeah, all right, if you want to tell somebody to
shut their bomb ass up, let's go seven one three,
two one two five seven Ony Mago first today, Yes,
well after Javier Hey, aay, okay, I'm going a second.
So my wife spends a lot of money on her
hair and her nails, and that's not an indictment against her.

(01:12:54):
She's like, you need to do something for yourself that
you enjoy. The one thing I hate doing is shaving
my head and my face. So for about two years now,
I have been going to a barbershop. I go to
two different barbershops in Kingwood, and I have two different stylists,
actually three two three stylists. Well, I wrote, it's whoever's available. Wow,

(01:13:17):
you are fancy. One works on a weekends only. Okay.
One she's off every Wednesday. Shout out to you Candas
and then at Candas. And then I go to the
other Kingwood barber shop where Kelly works, and he works
on Wednesdays. So I got there this morning at seven
thirty and he was sick and called in sick, and
so that you know, life happens. So I went to
google Kingwood or Humble barber shops, so I was heading

(01:13:41):
in that direction. Okay. I found a place that said
they were open at eight o'clock in the morning that
does shaves head and face. And I'm like, thing, gog'
I gotta go somewhere new. It's fine. I'm not used
to it, but it's fine. So I get there at
eight o'clock. The open light is on on this barber shop.
I go open the door, it's locked. Another guy shows

(01:14:03):
up right behind me and says I have an appointment
with this guy at eight o'clock. And I said well,
He says, do you have an apotment? I said no,
I just send to walk in because I'm looking for it.
So the guy who has the appointment ross calls the
barber shop says, hey, I got a point with you
at o'clock. Barber says, I'm not coming until nine. No
to that barber and humboldt, anybody got time for you

(01:14:24):
to develop your own schedule? When you set up an
appotment for eight o'clock and you gotta walk in eight o'clock,
who says you're opening it a'clock? Anybody got time for that?

Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
I might have got time for dad. And they don't
like staying in business. I couldn't believe he's like, yeah,
your appointment today, I'll see you at nine. Told that
guy you gotta find somewhere else, and I'm getting the
hell out of here. So I think guy gets out
and runs out of business. It's going to and you
have those kind of ethics you open an eight get
your ass their day o'clock. Well, maybe he really hit

(01:14:51):
it hard at the bars the night before on a Tuesday,
got the club going on about it. Maybe you need
to go seek some help. Probably that's all I got
for now, Thank you, Matt. I'll sure I'm thinking of
something else. Okay, what you guys got?

Speaker 4 (01:15:07):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
Can I go to Rodney Terry and Longhorn Basketball? Please?
Do take your time? My god, why do we even
spend time caring about this? I got myself excited when
I looked at the spread and it was only four
and a half. Yesterday they got absolutely destroyed by the
Crimson Tide who shot sixty from three. How does this happen?

(01:15:28):
What is this defense? What is this offense? Rodney Terry
and the Texas Long Orange basketball team? Anybody got time
for you?

Speaker 9 (01:15:35):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
Nobody got time?

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
Ford?

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
Mag go again? Yes to my son Peyton, my middle Yes,
my Aggie. Mm hm. Yesterday his beloved Aggies were playing
a college basketball game and they beat Georgia sixty nine
to fifty three. Right celebration. Yes, yes, Georgia was in

(01:16:00):
college station yeshuay to play that game, and Georgia was
up at the half thirty two to twenty three. I
called a check on cap on Peyton h son, what's
going on? He starts mfing everything Aggies, screaming at them,
saying they don't know how to take care of the basketball.

(01:16:21):
So I want to look at the halftime box. They
had six turnovers in the first half. Okay, it's not great,
but it's just it's not if you doubled for twelve.
It's not a terribles. It's a lot worse. Trust me.
Then he hangs up on me because he's so pissed
off his Aggies are losing. That's great. Then I'm like,
screw him. I'm not talking to the rest of the night.
I'm gonna take away his allowance. Then the Aggies outscore

(01:16:46):
the Georgia Bulldogs forty six to twenty one, and the
second halfened win sixty nine to fifty three. Do I
get a phone call or a text? Sorry, Dad, I
was so upset. Sorry, I drop f bombs in front
of you and Mom. Not a zilch zero Peyton shut Jo,
bum ass up mane Wow, shit your bum ass up man,
and straight for your own son. Sometimes you gotta cruel

(01:17:08):
lovers out there, and I just gave it to him.
You should respect you should respect my thoro attime. I
can't believe it. I first time I ever attacked one
of my children. It won't be the last kind of
what you got? What's matter with you? So I'm looking
into booking a trip, and I was one of the
places I was looking at because I had cheap played
it with Cancun. I've never been to Mexico, and I

(01:17:29):
have a group chat full of some college buddies. There's
like twenty people in there, so I figured i'd ask
if anybody's ever been to uh Cancun to get some
advice and uh. Instead of answering the questions seriously, they
proceed to make a joke about how the rock that's
where the rockets are gonna go playoff? Exit? Oh you
time for that group chat when I'm asking a serious question,

(01:17:50):
to make digs about the rockets? Yeah, shut your bumb
ass up in nineteen bros, shits up, man, I get
some tips for you. By the way, two questions on that,
is this a bro trip? Hell?

Speaker 11 (01:18:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:18:05):
Right? Al right?

Speaker 2 (01:18:06):
All right? Now? Are you paying for her too?

Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
Not all of it?

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
WHOA, I ain't got all that? Uh? How much of
the flights. Uh, it was really cheap. It was two
fifty seven. No, you're not doing all inclusive. Okay, I've
never I've never been a CanCon. I couldn't tell you.
All right, if you're going on a budget. I got
some tips for him. What do you got well of
the talk off her?

Speaker 3 (01:18:28):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
Quick time out if you got something you want to
get to. So the nineteen bros by the way, any
invite themselves like, hey, why don't you Why am I
going with you? One of them texted me individually, is
like uh and he's like can I come? And I
was like, no, you can't. So this is definitely a
couple only trip and no esidy end of it, no
cup poles only trip. No, Yeah, it's just two of us.

(01:18:50):
You can make it if you try. I mean, a
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It's beautiful. Get a little bit clemped on this. Seven
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Speaker 5 (01:20:14):
Matton Ross return return on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
We have a celebrity joining us here on shut your
ball mess up? Ain't nobody a good time for that?
Seven one three two one two five seven Nintie seven
one three two one two five Sevenati. By the way,
again speaking of celebrities, Kelvin Sampson's agree what they said
about forty minutes. Here is Dan Hurley. He is the
two time defending national championship coach at Yukon You com
played at Creighton yesterday in a Big East game. Yukon

(01:20:45):
Ross beat the Blue Jays in their home building. Okay,
you would then normally not ask talk the coach that
won the game? Correct? Correct? Crighton fan felt otherwise? So
Dan Hurley response, two rings. He points to his hand,

(01:21:13):
two rings, and then at the very end goes two rings. Baldy.
Isn't he bald himself? Yeah, baldy. Let me tell you
about bald. Bald is beautiful. We are deficient in some areas,
we are spectacular on others. Oh, it's like going blind,
you get a sixth sense. Mm hmm. Interesting. Yeah, okay,

(01:21:38):
So why would Creighton fans smack talk Dan Hurley after
his team won on their home floor?

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
People like to heckle, people like to make it about themselves.
They're probably drunk. What else is there to do in Omaha,
Nebraska in February, Eat good steak, get ready for college baseball,
eat a freezer, burned mid steaks, got good, and now
the other. Okay, you're you know what? You're partly right
on that partly seven one three two one two five

(01:22:07):
seven OUTI fully bay on seveny fully by. I have
one simple question for you, What is the matter with you?

Speaker 3 (01:22:13):
Well and tea.

Speaker 9 (01:22:16):
I gotta call out a certain uh air quote sport
analyst who likes to make seriously bad hot takes uh
and keeps referring to Patrick Mahomes as the goat, Nick
Ray show bum as my home is far far behind Brady,

(01:22:36):
keep his nuts out of your mouth.

Speaker 2 (01:22:40):
Take I got news for you, and Nick's got a
lot of those in his mouth. Lebron, really anybody that
cares about it, He just doesn't have a take. He
just wants to make sure you go full in m h. Yeah,
he was fine, he was mind just I just don't
get it. Last remember that, I was like, I don't
get it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:59):
White.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
What what made National Sports for him? I mean the
brand works for him. He pushed himself to all of
these heights. Very ambitious, no credibility to be damned. But
you know, hot takes galore self aggrandizing as someone man
to Nixon defense a little bit. He has been a

(01:23:20):
lifelong Chiefs fan. Where's he from? He's he came up
through Kansas City radio before coming here. Yeah, but he
was I don't know. He went to Syracuse, which is
in itself is part of the problem. God, they're so arrogant.
Won't moor turn your phone calls like we've got. There's
a few that are really decent Syracuse guys, but there's
a lot of pricks to it. Are just our unsavory people.

Speaker 3 (01:23:44):
Is that better?

Speaker 2 (01:23:44):
That's whatever?

Speaker 3 (01:23:46):
All right? Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
Born in born in Kansas City. Okay, so there you go. Yeah,
so I give him a little bit of defense on that,
but he does love him s Pat Mahomes. Yeah, born
and raised Kansas City. Good for him. Did go to
Syracuse his new house School for Public Communication have a
wicked page? He does. Geez, can you add what you
want in there? Yeah, but it'll probably get policed. Who

(01:24:07):
polices Wikipedia?

Speaker 3 (01:24:08):
There?

Speaker 10 (01:24:08):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Is it an AI composer? Nerds that are on the
internet all day? Like pro football focus guys. Not those
kind of nerds. No, this is different nerds. So what
Reddit nerds? So a Wikipedia Tell me about a Wikipedia nerd? Describe?
What would you think a Wikipedia nerd looks like? What
they look like?

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
I want two legs, arms and they could look like anything.
What do you mean? They have striking personalities? They could
be they have sex on a regular Why not? Okay,
I don't know if if that's my forty hour week
job of just correcting Wikipedia, that seems like a lot
of works. Probably a hobby. And they don't think they
get paid. I don't think does Wikipedia have paid employees?

(01:24:47):
I don't know. They're always asking for money at the
top of their pages. Yes, I almost feel like I
should give some some time, don't you think I've done?
I donate to them all the time. I mean, they're
not one hundred percent accurate stuff, but they're ninety. I
use them every day for Believe it or Not, So
I think I Believe or Not should be brought to
you by Wikipedia.

Speaker 3 (01:25:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
I drop him a few bucks every now and then.
Can we mentioned if we were in high school we
in Wikipedia at our disposal, I thinks would have been
a lot easier. I had to use the funking Wagonles, Matt,
the one wagonals funking Wagonles. Okay, you know about the
F and G back of the day, I rock, I
copied and paste out of the F and G absolutely

(01:25:27):
Kyle on seven nine eleven fifty six. Kyle, what's the
matter with you?

Speaker 12 (01:25:31):
Man? I got one that you're gonna like here the
other day when Ryan Hollands had the incident with Grady.

Speaker 6 (01:25:37):
Dick and people got offended.

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
Shut you, shut your bum ass. I glad you brought
that up, Kyle, Thank you very much. First of all,
friend of the show, friend of mine, excellent broadcaster. Ryan
Hollinds is as nice of a person as you could
possibly find. He's a seven foot teddy bear, and I

(01:25:59):
mean that in all sincerity. The name is difficult, Okay,
it is what it is. And the first time I
called a game involving Grady Dick did. I chuckle a
couple of times, of course, but I got past it.
He was not doing what he said in order to
get a rise out of the art. But that was

(01:26:21):
a poor choice of word like this, he was not
screw it. That's not Ryan Collins's bit to misuse Grady Dick. Yes,
he was properly using yes, Grady Grady's name, and he
wasn't doing it because he was trying to get on

(01:26:42):
brick Center. At the name of the Twitter account brick Center.
I think it's what it is. I don't know, that's
what that's where it was caught and that's where we over.
So he had he had to go apologize. The rocketson
Think made him apologize. He was like, man, I didn't
mean to do this, y'all cot me some slot because
he was getting, you know, ratioed on Twitter. And that's
not a fun because, I mean, Ryan doesn't operate that way. Yeah,

(01:27:04):
we say stuff, we get clipped every week on this show.
Yeah happens. I mean, we don't operate that way, but
unfortunate things get taken out of context and made fun
of them on Friday's at ten and twelve, and that
my friends will shut your ball mess up with this week.
Good for that, Kyle, thank you for dropping.

Speaker 3 (01:27:20):
That in there.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
All right, news and noon is up next. Calvin Sampson
thirty five minutes away. This is Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:27:30):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show, twelve three.

Speaker 2 (01:27:35):
Sports Talk seven ninety. Good afternoon. What's happening lunch timers.
It is our number three of four. We take this
program till two o'clock and coming up in twenty five minutes,
we speak with the University of Houston head basketball coach
Calvin Samson. Cougar's knocking off Baylor a couple days ago
on the road this weekend to play Arizona. Wow, I

(01:27:57):
was in second place in the Big twelve on the
road to Arizona. Could be a second conference loss. I'm
not gonna mention that to him, Ben Arizona said after
that down the home stretch. Baby. By the way, the NCAA,
the tournament committee is gonna announce. I believe they're top
four in each one of their regions at this point.

(01:28:18):
They've been doing that in the last couple of years. Okay,
will Texas be a part of that?

Speaker 3 (01:28:23):
I do not know.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
They may be top four in it home. You know
you'll get a home game out of it.

Speaker 11 (01:28:29):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:28:31):
I think they said bracketology. With a win last night,
they would have had an eighty seven percent chance. I
don't know with a loss now. So if you're Craig
Way women's team makes a tournament tournament game, teams great,
they beat South Carolina, give you this women's game. You know,
because Craig tries to do as many events as possible. Yes,
like he will go from sea to shining Sea to
broadcast a Texas sporting event, m HM women's tournament game

(01:28:54):
or men's n IT game, women's tournament. I think he
probably would it be contracted into the men's side first.
He might be I don't know, I haven't read the
details of the deal. Yeah, we gotta look at his kind.
We'll call him and twihould text can find out time
now for the news at noon and with that we
go to the sports desk. We can't sports center as

(01:29:16):
a copyrighted phrase to the sports desk. Here's Rossville real, yes, Matthew.
Top sports news headlines of the day include Travis Kelcey
announcing that he's going to take time to decide on
his playing future. Right now, I'm just kicking everything down
the road. I'm kicking everything I can down the road.
I'm not making any crazy decisions, says Travis Kelcey. He

(01:29:41):
also talked about playing all of these extra games, a
lot of wear and tear on his body, and a
lot of time spent on the in the building, focusing
on your craft and focusing on the task at hand,
and every challenge to set up for yourself. Travis kelce
thirty five years old, already one of the great of
all time, a four time All Pro, a ten time

(01:30:03):
a Pro bowler, deciding whether or not he's going to
hang them up. If we were to make a prediction,
I think both you and I agree that we believe
that Travis Kelsey is going to try to come back
for I would say he coins more year. The Chiefs
could save a ton of cap money a cap space.
But also I believe Travis Kelcey would have to give
back some of the bonus if he does retire that

(01:30:24):
he got yep, all right, let's keep it with the NFL.
Matt Dakota Prescott, Dallas Cowboys quarterback had some interesting things
to say that as intriguing people and making headlines throughout
the sports world. He thinks that they're pretty darn close
to the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 3 (01:30:42):
I feel like we.

Speaker 10 (01:30:43):
Couldee with Eagles and beat him for the most part
where we played him on. I don't want to say
check the record when the other guy's holding the trophy
right now. See credit to them. They've earned and they
deserved it by all means. But yeah, I'm very close.
Especially you even watched the NFC game, the NFC Championship,
and those two teams, teams that we battle against each
and every year a couple of times, and as I said,

(01:31:04):
feel confident about we've gotten the better part each.

Speaker 3 (01:31:07):
And every time.

Speaker 10 (01:31:07):
To see them, to see it in such a dominating fashion,
credit to them, it's are turning.

Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
Us on us.

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
I listened to this soundbout originally on the A team
yesterday two to six here on seven ninety. Didn't the
Eagles get blown out by the Cowboys both games last year?
I don't even I'll look it up as you go
to the headlines, But when I think of the Dallas
Cowboys in the Philadelphia Eagles, I don't think about them
being close last year. There's nothing close about what they

(01:31:35):
are the Eagles beat Yeah, the Cowboys. Let's see, is
this right? Thirty four to six, yeah, and forty one
to seven. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:31:50):
I just saw that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
So maybe he's thinking about the pascot didn't play out
of those games, so he would really have a pretty
good idea because he was probably in the luxury box
sit next to Jarra. He thinks they're close. If he
was there, he makes up those thirty points in his mind.
Oh my gosh, Okay, that's I see. In twenty twenty three,
the Cowboys lost to the Eagles twenty eight to twenty three,

(01:32:13):
and then beat them thirty three to thirteen, So it
has to happen in the past. So Dak Prescott has
beaten the Eagles before. Okay, he also thinks that they're close.
Fair enough. I think he's supposed to believe they're close.

Speaker 3 (01:32:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:32:32):
There's a way of saying, I'm not crushing him for this.
I'm not I'm gonna say, you don't say they're close.
He said we beat them before, we can beat them,
we should beat them, and he's got the confidence that
they can take the Cowboys to the next level. Along
with Brian Schottenheimer. Ough, what a doubts? What a how
lucky is Dallas sports talk show host, and I keep
saying that over and over again. Do truth? It is

(01:32:54):
a truth. They aren't damn lucky. Yeah, you're right, all right, Matt.
Elsewhere in the news at noon, Kevin Durant makes history
last night. He is the eighth player in the history
of the league to score thirty thousand points. The others
all time greats Lebron, Kareem, Karl Malone, Kobe, Jordan, Novitzky,

(01:33:21):
and Wilt. He's thirty six insteall risks twenty seven points
per game. He doesn't show signs of slowing down at all. Now, tyme,
he might go nine for thirty one because they're playing
off a back to back, but and that rocket stinchy
defense may come into play. So it begs the question, Matt,

(01:33:42):
I'll beg a question of you. Yeah, Kevin Durant, does
he crack the top ten all time in your mind?
All right, let's write this down. Might as well get
accurate on this. Lets you and I come up with
a consensus. Tach okay, Jordan, Jordan, Lebron, Lebron, Wilt, magic,

(01:34:05):
magic magic or Crevin okay, Bill Russell or Kevin Durant. Oh,
Larry Bird Okay, Larry Bird over Kevin Durant, Bird over Durant. Oh, oh,

(01:34:27):
Bird over Durant. Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, No, no,
oh God, I think you can't do this. We can't
do this list. I'm sorry. So we so we've got
like six guys for sure. And then there's argument Shaquille
O'Neal Kevin Durant. We need to go to a pub,

(01:34:48):
keem the dream allows you one with Kevin Durant when
you go to when you go to a pub. I
think Kevin Durant's defense quite underrated. Tim Duncan karm Alone,
Steph Curry, kar Malone. Oh he's over. I go Duran

(01:35:10):
over Carl karm Alone. Maybe this first or second greatest
power forward ever to play? How about this hot take?
I'm going Kevin Durant over Steph Curry. What's up? Better defender? Uh?
And then championship games together? Who won finals MVP both
those years? Steph better scorer? He's a better shooter. Yeah,

(01:35:33):
Kevin Durant is a better scorer. Okay, better shooter significantly
in favor of steph Okay, but Kevin Durant's one of
the top five shooters of all time in my opinion.
Let's see what his numbers are this show. I got
to pull up his numbers ranked this second. He's thirty six,
by the way, I know. But he's shooting oh, fifty

(01:35:53):
three percent from the floor and forty from three. Damn.
He ain't slowing down. He ain't slowing down. It's just
the reality of it. Three at thirty six. It's not
like he's just taking wide open corner jumpers like Steve Kerr.
He is the leader of the contested tube by the
way too, one of the great mid range games of
all time. Just when you just say just a hooper,

(01:36:16):
just a pure hooper, he's a hooper's hooper. Then why
are we even arguing about Kevin Durant? All we're I
don't know, this is what we do, Like you said,
boys sitting at the pub, but having a point, But
what do you got We just went to a quick
five or six automatics. Why are we not putting Durant
in the automatic club. It's just because there's so many
great players that are of a similar talent. Yeah, okay,

(01:36:38):
so the the no doubt about it. Is it inarguable?
That arguable? Inarguable? Five? Jordan Lebron, Wilt Kareem Russell. Russell's
the greatest, still to consider, the greatest defensive player of
all time? Magic is is magic inarguable? I'd say yes, now,

(01:37:06):
not a super big score, but didn't need to be
when he had all those targets on that squad. Magic
at six nine is a point guard, could also play
center if you wanted him to. Yeah, go magic. Magic's inarguable.
So that puts it at six people in the inarguable list. Now,
we never saw tiny Yard. We never saw tiny archibal

(01:37:28):
Oscar Robertson. I mean, mister career triple double. Oh, by
the way, how much longer does Nikoliokich need to be
in this top clubs? He's climbing the round here. Doesn't
ever suck, you don't go man. I wish Nikolai Ookich
wouldn't have gone four for nineteen. He went even when

(01:37:49):
he sucks. They're like low triple doubles. The list I
pulled up from hoops Hype. They did, they ordered a list.
They had Kevin Durant twelfth, behind Hakem and ahead of Steph.
I can't argue that. I mean, you know, I'm a
biggest dream guy. O. Fine, but I could see why
the National would go durant over a keem. No, this

(01:38:11):
has a chem over drank. Oh okay, okay, okay, well
then's but I mean it's eleven twelve, it's fluid. It
could flip in every other day. I also have a
key behind Shack and Tim Duncan, which ain't right, Tim Duncan.
Maybe it's my san Antonio bias. I just can't me great,
But is Tim Duncan on my I'm a floor when

(01:38:33):
I need a basket? That I mean, I I don't
know if you need a fifteen foot banker. I guess
all right? Anything else? Oh that's for the news. No
off it beat off being paint time. Okay, very good,
Cava Sampson at fifteen minutes here on Sports Talk seven
ninety seven one three two one two five Sevenatti is
how you reach a shelf? If you want to join

(01:38:54):
the conversation seven one three two one two five Sevenatti,
Believe it or not? Today at one fifty category will
be written while I talk to Calvin Samson here, that's
true sports talk. Saek coming up. Uh, well you know what.
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Speaker 5 (01:40:04):
The Matt Tama Show with Ross continues on Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:40:20):
We have a few other news items we did not
get to at the news at noon. Definitely worth a
quick mention. Uh, Anthony Rin, doones hurt again? Jesus? I mean,
my god, I mean this doesn't sound good either. Hip surgery?
What is he seventy six? He didn't remember. He wasn't
a huge fan of playing one sixty two anyway. Maybe

(01:40:41):
he's just like self, hurting himself. You think he threw
him down himself down a flight of stairs in order
to need hip surgery. Maybe he throws himself against the
wall break break. Maybe he's just a glass man hip surgery.
And the quote unquote expected him as significant time. Well,
that's right for the legend. National's legend right for a while. Yeah,

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I mean when he can played, he was good. But
you know it's when he played, when he played. Attendance,
it's part of the grade, Matt, Yeah, attendance is part
of the grade. Ross, speaking of that, Chandler Ronge got
some quotes from Dana Brown and says the following on
a couple of injury notes, let's see Luis Garcia continues

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to throw off flat ground because quote, we don't want
to rush him.

Speaker 3 (01:41:32):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:33):
I he will see you in twenty twenty six. No,
Luis gar Sea pitches this year. Believe it or not.
We have to make another bet. I mean, you're gonna
be eating free meals for a year. It's it's a
pure it's a fifty to fifty guess. At this point,
there's no significant favorite, one one or the other. No,

(01:41:54):
I feel like he's gonna pitch.

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
He's ready.

Speaker 2 (01:41:57):
He's not ready. He's not thrown off. He's not thrown
off the money, he's not ready. Flag round. He said
he's taking it. So what was the setback in September? Okay,
so I'll take let's just I know, we don't have
to be bad. One cup of coffee. What about a coffee?
He's got a free coffee up here. Yeah, but it's terrible. Yeah,

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but I'm gonna bring you That's what I'm bringing you here, Matt. Okay,
so you'll literally bring me the coffee from the kitchen.
I'll go to the dumpster. I'll go to the marmuck's dumpster,
get an empty cup and then fill it up with
the stuff. Here by the way, they had free coffee
for us on Monday. Do you know what's that I
thought you had? I thought Sman Shmanton had because he
because he was looking for fancy coffee. When I got
the I got the right roast or the right race

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I was able to take get got a free tall.
It was fine, Okay, good all today, All right, okay,
I'll I'll just take the opposite for you to go
get my coffee for me. I'll take you. Doesn't pitch
this year. Lance mc colors, by the way, is throwing
off of a mount. Hey, he's been posting on ig
stuff's looking good. That's not That's not like uh file

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video or anything like that. No, I do want Lance
come back because I would not want to have the
legacy of a guy that signed the big contract and
never fulfilled it. So for his own mental health and makeup,
I don't want him to be able to compete. Yes,
Lance mccullors, this year starter reliever and will starter do

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we do? We want Gordy to ask my colors if
he goes he's Gordy's going on there today? That's true.
That was going to get Lance's finger in his chest again.
That didn't really happen. No, but we felt like we
felt we've been embellishing on this quite a long time.
Let me spend you a story, Matt please astro starting

(01:43:50):
pictures fromber is an ace hunter. Brown follows up what
he did last year, renewe. Blanco's good again. Absolutely, Spencer
goods for they turned Hayden was an escuer round will
not turn them around a different arm. Yeah, Actually he's
gonna kick the ball. Okay, and let's Pickler's junior.

Speaker 3 (01:44:09):
Is good.

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
As you're six starter, because there's can be some times
it's that you're gonna need six starters. Have not banking that,
Jonathan Patrick Frantz. We love you, and we love that
you like to go hunting deer in Louisiana. We will
see you in twenty five e there, but we're good.
Hey like the little story I spuny Now, it's not
likely all that's gonna hit, but it could happen. I'm

(01:44:35):
not reading your story. I got reality is and Lance
wouldn't be mad if we said this. We got I
gotta see to believe it. I just I'm not. I
can't forecast a guy that's been gone for two plus
seas are one of Brown, Blanco, Arraghetty aren't gonna be
as good as they were, and Brunel for the basically
the whole year, and Brown and Araghetty the second half
of the year. Are you ready for a distant gut

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feeling the Astros will be looking for starting pitching at
the break, at the a dead line, you know what?
That's why, man, Come on, I just told you they
got six great starters. Yeah, we had six great starters
last yearuntil they kept dropping like flies. And to go,

(01:45:17):
get go, get kakucci? Am I wrong about that? We
did the exact same thing a year ago. They had
to go and snap up kakuchi, right, and they got
the kakuchi and good, it was good. The kukuchi was
excellent while it lasted and then it left. Yeah, so
you don't have to go look for some different, a
different type of kakuchi. You had to give up a
lot to get kakucci, though, It's true a lot. Jake
Bloss throwing babies, a Bato throwing bbies for the Syracuse

(01:45:41):
War Chiefs or whatever they call them up there. Uh
I thought they were the buffalo, the buffalo whatever something,
buffalo whatever. You got my point, all right? One of
the things to mention if we get to Calvin Sampson.
Congratulations to former Texans offensive coordinator Bobby Slowick. Yes, he's
been in the Shanahan tree, this time under Mike McDaniel,

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the Miami Dolphins coach. He is the senior pass game coordinator,
so he doesn't didn't worry about run ever. What a
nice job that is, just worry about one part of
one part of the offense. Yeah, the pass game was
what was bad with the with the Texans this year,
but a lot of that was the protection issues. Of course.

(01:46:23):
Watch watch to a tackle Holowa throw for fifty one
yards next year and Negornon going suck it to y'all.
You know what you can be. You can be a
senior quarterback passing game analyst when you have a decent
offensive line. Your offensive line sucks, you can be the
greatest innovative mine in the history of offensive coaching. And
I'm gonna pay off senior pass game coordinator Bobby Slogan.

(01:46:46):
Congratulations to him. Landed on his feet, landed with someone
who he's worked with before, and he was gonna get
another job. It wasn't me. He wasn't gonna sit out
because he got you know, the the acts here. Usually
coaches get two or three opportunities unless you're just a
complete medicine. He wasn't getting. He was a hot commodity
two years ago. Doesn't mean all of a sudden he
couldn't coach that happens. What's thereic being me up to

(01:47:07):
college college? Now? I think he'll he's His opportunity to
be a head coach has been long gone. Twelve twenty seven,
Calvin Sampson, speaking of head coaches. He'll join us next
here on Sports Talk seven ninety's Knocked Off the Baylor
Bears a couple of nights back ten straight twenty win
seasons at the University of Houston, the all time god

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a coaching. Kevin Samson joining us here on the show. Coach,
good afternoon, Thanks for joining us. Congratulations. It seems like
just yesterday you and I were sitting atop that dump
known as the Hawfin Pavilion, thinking, oh, you're going to
fix this right away. And it took a couple of years,
but you got us there. Congratulations on another ten twenty
one season for you in your squad.

Speaker 12 (01:47:51):
It does seem like seemed like a long time ago,
but yet you and I both still remember it, so
oh yeah, something about our our cog native state.

Speaker 3 (01:48:00):
Yeah, it's still.

Speaker 12 (01:48:04):
It's been a beautiful ride, wonderful journey, and can't wait
to see what the future holds.

Speaker 2 (01:48:10):
It feels like to me that you have had to
balance a lot of aches and pains with your roster
the last three or four weeks, with guys getting some
time starting second halves, not playing in certain sections of
the games. Where is the state of your squad right
now injury wise? And is this kind of a look
You don't want to ask for injuries for anything, but
it's giving you an opportunity during this time to check

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out some different combinations. Am I correct on that, No,
that would be accurate.

Speaker 3 (01:48:36):
I think health wise we're about as good as we've been.

Speaker 12 (01:48:40):
Sitting Emmanual down for a week or so or at
least two games, I think really helped him. The only
reason he did not start the second half was he
had to retape his ankle, so he was late getting
out to the bench at halftime.

Speaker 3 (01:48:56):
So we started Terrence. No big deal.

Speaker 12 (01:48:58):
Terrence played good, and when Emmanuel got back out, we
stuck him in and he went out and played well too.
So I think our team is progressing. The great thing
about your team is the season goes on, is everybody
settles into a role. It's a lot easier to to
define your role as the season goes on, before before

(01:49:21):
the season starts, or even early in the season, because
you're still learning your team. You know, we have a
brand new point guard. It means everybody's game was going
to change a little bit. But Milos has done an
excellent job of fitting in and doing it his way.

Speaker 3 (01:49:37):
And I'm really proud of that young man.

Speaker 2 (01:49:40):
You have mentioned I was gonna ask about models right away.
You had asked talked about him from the first time
you got him on your campus to where he is now.
Was there a certain turning point or was that just
I've got a young man, very talented, but me coaching
him and others coaching him in his life are two
different animals.

Speaker 3 (01:50:00):
I would agree with that one hundred percent. Every coach
is going to be different, you know.

Speaker 12 (01:50:05):
And and however, the previous coach handled mylos was exactly
the way it should have been. Every coach is different,
but every coach is right and the way he does
his own thing. I think the big thing with Milos
with us is adapting to our culture. You know, just
on a day to day basis, UH individual development, UH,

(01:50:29):
position workhouts, team workouts.

Speaker 3 (01:50:31):
You know, we build we build our team through through
those three areas.

Speaker 12 (01:50:35):
You know, we we work you out individually as applies
to how we defend and play offense, and your position
workouts is.

Speaker 3 (01:50:42):
Usually defense and then offense and then.

Speaker 12 (01:50:45):
The team workouts kind of a Smorgers board of everything.
But he's he's a smart kid. I think he's gotten
tougher and more competitive, and I think he's embraced that.
He enjoys that. But like every basketball player in the country,
he's not perfect. He still has some things he has
to work on, some business he needs to climb over.

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But a lot of that stuff is individuals.

Speaker 1 (01:51:11):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:51:11):
It's you know, as a basketball coach, you can put
your team together, but as an individual, you have to
cockyer your own demons, and I think he's done a great.

Speaker 3 (01:51:20):
Job of that.

Speaker 2 (01:51:21):
You've got so many young men that have obviously bought
into your system, and if they don't buy in, they
usually go somewhere else. Juwan continues to play great. Tuggler
is even advancing from from last year. I want to
go to Malie Wilson for a second, because you know,
and look, you and I could have a deep conversation
about kids that jump with the portal as fast as possible,
kids that are jumping because of nil or they're not

(01:51:42):
getting playing time or whatever. Well, he could have done that.
He's stuck around, He gets his minutes. He's had some
impactful games for you in the time you've asked of him.
But tell me about a young man like that that said,
you know what, I'm not getting there. Maybe I should
be playing more. Maybe I got to get on the
good side or bad side one way or the other.
But he stuck it out and he has been able

(01:52:03):
to give you what you needed in those times where
you need him. Wilson on the floor. Yeah, I think
the biggest thing with Malite Matt is he enjoys being
part of a team. His ego doesn't drive him.

Speaker 12 (01:52:22):
You know, everybody wants to everybody wants to be in
a winning program, but not everybody wants to win the
way the program is set up.

Speaker 3 (01:52:30):
A lot of kids have a comm up beside it.

Speaker 12 (01:52:32):
I want to win, but I want to win by
getting the most shots or the most minutes or the
most of this.

Speaker 3 (01:52:37):
So this individual, we don't have those kind of kids
in our program. And you're right.

Speaker 12 (01:52:43):
Sometimes it allows kids to go make a choice and
go somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (01:52:48):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:52:48):
Tron Mark, Caleb Mills, Damien Dunn all transferred and that
was the best decision for them. And that's okay, that's
the that's college basketball today. It's no, it's no mark
against anybody. Kids look for better opportunities. But Malik is
is unique.

Speaker 1 (01:53:07):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (01:53:07):
He's from Rayville, Louisiana, which about as small town as
you can get.

Speaker 3 (01:53:11):
I think he was raised with small town, small town
values by his mother. Uh.

Speaker 12 (01:53:18):
He's got a very close knit family. They wanted him here.
I remember when he was going through his process. His
mother called me and she said, Coach Sampson, uh, I
want Malik to stay with you.

Speaker 3 (01:53:33):
And I said, well, we absolutely want him to stay here.
We brought him in.

Speaker 12 (01:53:37):
I sat down and was very honest with him about
the way I saw his uh, his role being. I
didn't think he would be a starter, but I thought
he would he could develop and come off the bench
and be part of a winning team and have that,
you know, for the rest of his life. You know,
Malik's been part of an NCAA tournament Sweet sixteen conference championship.

(01:54:00):
Was his starter and the leading to score on those teams. No,
but he has no ego. He wants to be part
of a team. We don't beat Kansas without Malik. He
scored eighteen points in that game. Boys, don't let that
cloud your future bolts on him. That was probably a
one off, but he still does things that impacts winning
for us. His athleticism is a factor, his defense is

(01:54:22):
a factor, and his personality and his heart is a factor.
I absolutely love and respect Malite Wilson a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:54:31):
Well, I think you should recruit the Rayvale area because
my close friend Elvin Hayes is from there, so there
must be some sort of pipeline over there.

Speaker 3 (01:54:39):
Well, we're two for two from Rayville. We'll see.

Speaker 12 (01:54:41):
We'll monitor that area closely going forward to see if
we can go three for three.

Speaker 3 (01:54:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:54:46):
I want to ask big picture question for Kevin Sampson
with us here on the program. Kevin, when I was
calling college basketball twenty years ago, when you brought transfers in,
you always were I'm not saying in every situation, but
you were always leary about transfer because he's transferring for
some reason. It feels like to me in twenty twenty five,
as your sport changes, and we've talked about this on

(01:55:07):
numerous occasions, do you have to kind of shake off that, Well,
there must be a reason why, and maybe what you
do instead of saying, well, why did you leave is
compared to why do you want to come see us?

Speaker 3 (01:55:18):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:55:18):
Why do you want to play for us? Is does
the mentality change a little bit or do You'd still
have to do the deep dive as to why a
particular young man wants to leave a school and all
of a sudden wants to come play for Kelvin Samson
the University of Houston.

Speaker 12 (01:55:29):
Well, absolutely, you have to do your due diligence. But
port of Moser, the head coach.

Speaker 3 (01:55:36):
At Oklahoma, is a very very good friend of mine.

Speaker 12 (01:55:38):
He's in his assistance have been through here spending time
with us in the summer, exchanging ideas. I've known Porter
since he was at Loyola in Chicago when he took
that program to the final four.

Speaker 3 (01:55:53):
So I picked up the bone and called Mosure, And.

Speaker 12 (01:55:56):
I know that had the potential to be an uncomfortable situation,
but I think I think it speaks to our relationship
with each other.

Speaker 3 (01:56:04):
And he had nothing but great thing to say about Milos.

Speaker 12 (01:56:08):
He knew he was going to leave and he felt
he thought that it would be an adjustment, but he
was worth the gamble. One of the things that helped
Milos is his dad was a very successful high school
coach in Las Vegas and Milo's played for him.

Speaker 3 (01:56:27):
And I think the key thing Matt was Milos chose us.

Speaker 12 (01:56:30):
He did his research, He went through and said what
program can I go to and be the best version
of myself I can be? And when we when we
had started to have an initial conversations, he made that
very clear to me, Coach Amson, I want to come
to Houston. We didn't have to recruit him. He chose us,
and all the conversations we had with him was about

(01:56:53):
him getting better and the reasons why he wanted to
get better in the areas that he felt he needed
to improve in.

Speaker 3 (01:57:00):
So he came in here with the right attitude. Uh.
He has surrendered to the culture of the program.

Speaker 12 (01:57:07):
He has fit seedlessly in with our kids because like
all the all of our kids, he's a great human beings,
outstanding person. So you know, my Littles's best days I
think are still ahead of him. We still wanted him
to be a little bit more aggressive in the shot clock.
His defense in space is getting better, but there's still

(01:57:30):
a lot of work to do for him and all
our players as we continue to uh, push push on
through this season.

Speaker 2 (01:57:36):
Farlet your on the last time I think you were
in Tucson, I called the game you were coaching in Oklahoma.
I was calling Utah games. Am I correct on that?
You guys have even't played there since then?

Speaker 3 (01:57:46):
Right? No? That was Andrew bogus here.

Speaker 2 (01:57:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you had given Kevin. You had
Kevin book out at Oklahoma. I remember him very very well.
Let's get to your squad has gone to Kansas and
played you have played at Iowa State. There are some
ferocious arenas in the Big Twelve. But my guess is
your team is mature enough to not worry about the elements.
Just appreciate the big crowd. And I don't know what

(01:58:12):
you want to put on it if it was just
one game, but you went to Allen Fieldhouse. There are
a lot of great basketball players, Kevin that have been
in that building that have completely been shell shocked by
the moment. So going to Tucson, while again great basketball team,
they've got just a couple of blemishes in the conference
that should be nothing in terms of a overwhelming moment
for your squad going into that building on Saturday, Well,

(01:58:35):
I would say nothing.

Speaker 12 (01:58:36):
I mean, that's I coached them the Pack ten against
coach Loud Olson's teams with Damis Dolomayer, Khalid Reeves, Sean Elliott,
Steve Kerr. I mean, that's that's that's up there with
all of the great basketball arenas in the country. They
do have a great home court advantage, which is why

(01:58:59):
they never lose. Don't think I think they're undefeated at
home this year in the conference.

Speaker 3 (01:59:04):
I think that's right.

Speaker 12 (01:59:06):
But you know, when you go on the road and
you're playing at Houston or at Arizona or at Kansas,
if you win, it's an unbelievable win. But if you lose,
it's not the end of the world. You're playing a
team that probably should win this game at home. But
for us, it's an opportunity to take a step forward

(01:59:28):
and see if we see if we can compete at
that kind of atmosphere with the team that's fighting for
the Elague Championship this year they got They got an
outstanding team, great depth up front.

Speaker 3 (01:59:40):
Coach Lloyd has done an unbelievable job there.

Speaker 12 (01:59:43):
Caleb Love, Jaylen Bradley, kJ Lewis del orso good backcourt.

Speaker 3 (01:59:47):
So two really good teams.

Speaker 12 (01:59:49):
One of them is gonna win, one of them's gonna lose,
and whichever one wins, we'll move on down the road.

Speaker 3 (01:59:53):
And which everyone loses, they'll do the same thing and
get to the.

Speaker 2 (01:59:56):
Mexican And lastly, what's the one thing you want to
see from your go on between now and the end
of the season that thinks it will be the determining
factor about how you go deep in the tournament and
obviously we would like to get you back to the
final four. What is there anything you're looking for still
at this point or do you feel like just maintaining
what you have brought to the program you started talking
to the kids about when you first got together during

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the summertime.

Speaker 12 (02:00:19):
Well, I think all coaches this time of year, Matt,
your biggest concern is the things that are out of
your control, and that's help. You know, Baylor took a
huge hit when they lost their center. You know, you're
gonna look around the country. Everybody's got kids out, seems like,

(02:00:41):
and we've certainly been through that with our program. And
so we pray for good we pray for good health,
and just keep working on the things that's got us
to where we are. I mean, we're twenty what is
our record, twenty and four, twelve and one in the league.
There's some things that we need to get better at,
some areas that we need to shore up. But you're

(02:01:03):
always trying to work to get better. You watch the film,
you identify problem arius and you go out there.

Speaker 3 (02:01:08):
And do the best you can to clean them up.

Speaker 12 (02:01:11):
But when you're playing good teams, you're not gonna shut
these teams out and they're not gonna.

Speaker 3 (02:01:14):
Shot two out. It comes down to your depth on
the bench.

Speaker 12 (02:01:19):
I think one of the strengths of our teams is Malik,
Terrence and j b Are coming off the bench.

Speaker 3 (02:01:24):
Those three guys, yeah, have all contributed to winning for us.
And then the other guys just keep working. Man.

Speaker 12 (02:01:31):
It's a you know you're gonna lose games on the
road in the Big twelve, does all teams do, and
but your your ability to bounce back and get to
the next one, and we're only about three or four
weeks away from getting to the conference tournament, so you
just want to keep playing well this time.

Speaker 3 (02:01:47):
Of the year.

Speaker 2 (02:01:49):
Kevin, thank you for the time. It's always safe travels
to Arizona. We really appreciate. Congratulations and yet another twenty
one season, I think one hundred weeks in the top
twenty five. Outstanding accomplishments for you and your organization, your
squad staff, and we wish you the very best coming
up in the next couple weeks.

Speaker 3 (02:02:04):
Okay, thanks for having me on, man, you got a.

Speaker 2 (02:02:06):
Kelvin Sampson with us here on the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross twelve forty six is our time again the
Coach and the Cougar's taking on Arizona on Saturday. They'll
take on Arizona State on Monday as they head out west.
Twelve forty six Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three
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Speaker 1 (02:02:34):
Wherever you are. So is Matt Thomas.

Speaker 2 (02:02:48):
Twelve fifty two on Sports Talk seven on Eils checking
the for you tab and that's again my mistake. But
again it's not the people I would follow. But there
are gonna be some things that I'm going to like
besides Taylor. Oh they know you, Matt, well, they obviously not.
I'm an NBA guy because I just had the four
you tab on NBA Central.

Speaker 3 (02:03:04):
M hm.

Speaker 2 (02:03:05):
So let me tell you the two things that popped
up on the for you tab okay, in no particular order.
One of some guy named fit founder.

Speaker 3 (02:03:13):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (02:03:14):
He says men who have sex once a month or
forty five percent, were likely to have cardiovascular disease compared
to those who have sex two to three times a week.
So you need to up the activity. I would think
with any aerobic activity, you'd probably want to get that,
you know. Yeah, I mean it's not just sex, I
don't think. I think maybe just a brisk walk and
probably do the same thing for you. Now this means
with another person, the brisk walk, all right? Uh, NBA Central,

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that's a aggregate. Oh god, now which one is it?
Centel or Central Central? It's a legit one. Okay, I
still meet them I think according to Windhorse at ESPN
says that Kevin Duran is probably going to get trained
this summer. He knows that the sun's known, and the
rest of the NBA knows it. Okay, we talked about

(02:04:03):
him earlier. Thirty six years old, averages thirty six minutes
per game, top fifteen of all time, twenty seven points
a game, six rebounds, forced to, shoots fifty three percent
from the floor, forty from three, eighty two percent of
the free throw line. And look, you can say thirty
six all you want to, but maybe he's Maybe he's

(02:04:25):
the next round of Lebron James. Teams would trade for
Lebron tomorrow. Lebron James starts for every NBA team in
the association. That's trade, with the exception of maybe Boston. No,
he starts from Boston over whom. Let's figure it out.
Just Bump Porzing is out in to go with three
big forwards. Who's the rest of the starting five, Jalen Brown,

(02:04:48):
Jason Tatum, You got Drew Holliday, Is Derek White starting over?
Derek White started starting over Derek White?

Speaker 3 (02:04:55):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (02:04:57):
You're not replacing Derek White with with uh, Kevin Durant
unless you moved, unless you moved one of the grounds
of Lebron James Lebron, excuse me, Yeah, could Lebron play
two I guess he could play two guard. I mean
kind of does anything. He does everything. He's six eight,
You start him at center. That's true point being if

(02:05:17):
Kevin Durant's got five years left in him, what and
he's and let's say he drops off twenty percent of
his production, He's still gonna get you twenty. If he
drops twenty percent, he's gonna go twenty. He's gonna shoot.
He's gonna score twenty three points a game for you,
gonna get your four and a half, rebounds, three assists,
shoot about forty eight percent of four and about thirty
seven percent from three. It's insane. That's if he drops

(02:05:40):
off twenty percent in the next three years. If you're
if you're Phoenix, nothing, We're gonna spend a lot of
time on Sun's Talk today. But if you're Phoenix, you
have to trade him. You're a hot mess. It's Booker
and everybody else is up for grabs. I don't think
Devin Booker's live in Phoenix. I think I don't think
so I think he'd have to ask. But I don't

(02:06:00):
think he used to ask and doesn't have any I mean,
I don't. I mean, he obviously wants to win, but
he wants to do it as being the alpha dog
in Phoenix. He's trying to get it done. He's not
the reason why we'll bring up the suns rockets, but
the Sons. And I'm not saying that that Kevin Durant
would be a rocket, but it will be talked about.
I don't think so. I don't think the whispers out
there have been just to throw Kevin and Durant and

(02:06:20):
the rockets in the same conversation. I'm just saying that.
I think that as a wise man once told me,
and I'll say his name, Rafel Stun said, I'll listen
to every phone call. Yeah, I'll take everyone. He should
take every phone call. But there are some gentleman who's
like not interested the data. Brown doesn't take phone calls
from Scott Boris. Oh, I meant to read that to you,
can I yes, Segway for a second, I get those
quotes for you in the next hour when we come back.

(02:06:44):
Ya Ya'll leave off with that, sure, because it was
another not perplexing because it's been remarkably consistent. But it's
just another weird lack of dialogue, I guess between Bregman
and the Astros old war. No, no, nothing cold about
it's just you know what it is, Ross, It's it's

(02:07:06):
a friendly breakup. It's you know, I'm not into you anymore,
You're not into me? Okay, some I think one party
has moved on and the other maybe has it another
still longing. I got a better analogy. Go ahead, Can
I say it? I'm gonna do it right now.

Speaker 3 (02:07:22):
You and I.

Speaker 2 (02:07:23):
This is a bad example. You just said how great
it was. I know, I'm talking about you and I.
Oh okay, let's say that you're a girl, not if
you're a guy. We could suburb whatever. And what can
I be a guy? Okay? You and I are having
a relationship. How about you and Connor? About how about
you and a fictional person? Me and Taylor? Taylor who swift? Sure, Okay,

(02:07:48):
we're gonna use Connor because this is a Connor Connor
and his girl are like Connor's like, man, I don't
know if we're gonna know each other anymore. Connor's girls like, yeah,
I kind of agree maybe we should break up. But Connor.
But the girl's mom loves Connor, okay, and she's the
one saying keep fighting for that relationship.

Speaker 3 (02:08:09):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:08:09):
Scott Boris is the mother. He's like, Breggs, you gotta
keep talking to the astros se you. I think it's
Scott Boris, it's Alex Bregman's mom in this particular situation.
Gotta keep up that money, gotta keep getting house dollars.
Maybe if you get him to if we got him
to one sixty tomorrow, we get him to one sixty
five by the end of the of Friday, we get
him to one seventy by Sunday. And Bregman's saying, no,

(02:08:29):
he doesn't appreciate my worth. Bregman's like, man, I want
to go somewhere else. I want to try something else.
I want to dip my Bregman's being stubborn. Bregman's kind
of trying to convince himself that he's worth more than
was offered. You think Scott Boris is giving him up.
The other side of it, Scott Boris is like, you
need to sign this bro, or you need a time
for short term making me look me, making him look bad.

(02:08:50):
Honestly he is. People are talking the streets. You're talking
about how mom's looking bad. This analogy like, let's tell
your worst one, thank you, because I know there's been
plenty of bad ones. Oh and how all right? Dana
Brown spoke on the Bregman situation. Not word solid, but

(02:09:11):
something we've kind of basically heard a ban update.

Speaker 3 (02:09:14):
Um, yeah, why not?

Speaker 2 (02:09:14):
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Speaker 1 (02:10:28):
Launchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show What O three.

Speaker 2 (02:10:33):
On Sports Talk seven ninety of the final hour. We
thank you very much of being with us since ten o'clock.
If you've just joined us, worry have you've been, but
be most importantly Dan glad to have you for the
next fifty seven minutes as we lead you into the
eighteen at two o'clock Rockets basketball tonight. A little bit
of a different starting time. We start the launch pad
at six thirty tip time seven thirty because the Suns

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last night were home for the Memphis Grizzlies, and you
have to have a certain amount of hours in between
games starts, so we had to push the Rockets game
back a half hour to a seven thirty tip as
compared to a seven o'clock tip. You know, the Rockets
before we get to the Breagmant update always trying to
decide what would be better to get people in the
building at Do you get them there at seven or

(02:11:19):
do you potentially have them leave early if you start
the game at seven thirty and realizing it takes you know,
forty five fifty minutes to get home for most people,
I think you're damned if you do, damn if you don't.
I personally selfishing with like seven o'clock starts because its
getting out a little bit earlier six thirty with a
little six forty you know, I'll tell you what, give
me a three ten for seven o'clock didn't start till
like seven to twelve anyways, Yeah, give me a three

(02:11:39):
to ten tip off.

Speaker 3 (02:11:40):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (02:11:41):
Actually, it was so weird. The Rockets play the Raptors
on Sunday afternoon at one o'clock. It was three o'clock.
I leave the building at three fifteen. Whatever it was.
I was like, I walked out. That was bright, sunshiny day.
It was very pleasant, Like this is fantastic. The NBA
doesn't play day games the middle of the week. No,
they should have. Why don't they have? Busy has been
special awesome? Like every other Wednesday is like at one,

(02:12:04):
like a one one ten tip.

Speaker 3 (02:12:06):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (02:12:08):
Probably Tillman wouldn't. The players wouldn't. No, players are night outs.
The only time you ever played during the day typically
is on the weekends and when you're on national television.
But even though Christmas that's it, that's a national TV day.
But yeah, even even the national games are night mostly.
I mean the TNTs at ESPN is the week at night.

(02:12:29):
The big Saturday game of the week on ABC is
at night. So rarely do you get the afternoon game.
So you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna ask Gretchen Sheer,
the president of Business Operations, and she's gonna say, Matt
shuts you a ball mass up. You should still petition
for it, though, man, oh, looking to fill up eighteen
thousand sea, it's not that big of a deal. Six
million people in this town. How many sellods this year?
Quite a few? Actually, how many actual sellouts. Well, I

(02:12:51):
mean I don't. I don't sit there and stare at
the numbers.

Speaker 3 (02:12:55):
Don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:12:56):
Maybe you know what you can do that tonight at
the game. Count I'll count. I don't want I don't
want you to go in the game.

Speaker 3 (02:13:00):
You can go.

Speaker 2 (02:13:00):
I'm gonna be there. I'm gonna count every single empty seat.
I'm thinking about not going. Actually, you gotta go. If
you can't do anything until you go the doc I did,
I'm talking about like a cough suppressants that it didn't work.

Speaker 3 (02:13:11):
It's over.

Speaker 2 (02:13:12):
You went to you. I should sue them. Time now
for a Bregmant update.

Speaker 3 (02:13:20):
Ross show.

Speaker 2 (02:13:28):
The bit's never going away. Much to the chagrin of
some Chanderome asking general manager or maybe somebody that was
there asking Dana Brown about whether or not the team
was in the market for a third baseman, Brown replied, quote,
as long as Bregman's are free agent, we'll continue to
have internal conversations about it, and it'll be like that

(02:13:50):
until he signs or whatever happens. Man, these internal conversations,
they're they're happening a lot. Uh, Jim, do you want
to you want to up the offer to Breggs? No,
all right, doctor next week. Those are the internal discussions. Yeah,

(02:14:10):
that concludes today's edition of Internal Conversation. Y because if
I'll put it this way, I do believe this is
more driven by the owner than it is a general manager,
I mean a decision or maybe and maybe more by
the players than the general manager too. He made the
general managers to improve the team. Ad An Alex Bregman
improves the team. It just goes over a certain payroll

(02:14:32):
threshold and that's when it comes to comes to the owner.
But Crane doesn't love him so much that he's like,
all right, forget it, let's get this done. Let's get
to the let's get the bone. The number to one
seventy five. It's called a day. Jim doesn't love Bregman
that much. In order to cash with it can't be
about years because they've already offered six. So it's about money. Yeah, oh, man,

(02:14:52):
just internal conversation. You don't what gonna do. I'm gonna
I'm gonna tease dating about this. I want to be
invited to do an internal conversation. I'm not internally with
the Astros, but I could be. I mean, I've been
a fan since I was seven. Don't you think it's
as a lifelong Astros fan, I would be allowed to
go to one internal conversation. I gave you the conversation

(02:15:13):
you want up the offer, No, all right, talk to
you next week. That's true. He never gave me. He
never gives you. The lengths of time of these internal
covers the internal discussions, it could be a minute and
a half. Yeah, like when we have internal discomp We
had an internal conversation yesterday at the show yesterday. That
was That was twenty five minutes. It's like thirty it was.

(02:15:36):
It was good, it was good, it was worth it.
I'm trying to watch the Manchester City game, although they
lost disappointed me. So you're telling me you'd rather watch
a foreign Premier League soccer game that have an It's
called Champions League, man whatever, the world's biggest tournament. It
doesn't matter. Yes, it's just very few to the to
more people watch the final than watch the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (02:15:55):
I have you out here.

Speaker 2 (02:15:58):
More rice being eaten too. Oh lord, that's why they
call you mister analogy. They should. So the average link
of internal conversations got to be less than three minutes.
Like you're thinking about how much playing time minor leaguers
can coming to camp are going to get Is there

(02:16:18):
a spot for an extra outfielder? Do we kick the
tires on an infielder? Do we sign a guy a
minor league contract? Are we really sticking with Ben Gamble
as a fourth outfielder? Hey, Benn's listening. He's not happy
about it. You talking about Bens. You know there's a song.
Give Ben a chance. Ben, You've been available since up
until last week. Ben knows okay, But on the checklist

(02:16:39):
of conversations, is bragant at the top to get it
over with or do you wait to the very end
of Mike the bottom? Yeah, they are planning. They are
planning to have plan to not have him this season
for a long time, well for the rest of his career. Yeah,
unless he wants to come back as a thirty nine
year old on a league minimum. Detail he wants to
sign a one day contract. Retire it is so lame.

(02:17:01):
It's not that terrible terrible, it's it's lame one day contract.
So I can retire as a whatever. So here are
the Astro updates from Brian mctagger today. By the way,
Brian will be with us coming up next month as
part of a weekly appearances here on the will. Yeah,
we got him back. Yeah, awesome. I mean we had
to deck some of your payroll to get him paid.

(02:17:23):
But you're telling me roster appears set. Dana Brown says
is always in the market for pitching. Didn't say third base. Oh,
hell's Alex Bregman's arm, Hell's his elbow. Luis Garcia is
throwing off flat ground. The Colors has been working off
of a mound. Joe Spottas says base running will be
a focus to spring, including more drills. Yeah, there were

(02:17:44):
some base running gaffs the last couple of years, most
of them Maltove. But the dropping in talent more apparent
in the team's defense or in their base running the
last year or so.

Speaker 3 (02:17:56):
I'll go with.

Speaker 2 (02:17:57):
Defense, all of it. Defense, base running just overall slippage. Hitting, Yeah,
not been as good. Slower start that bigger deficit as
they down ten they down ten last year to somebody
went they down ten to the Mariners and ten games.
Yeah yeah, and then they made it up in like

(02:18:18):
three and a half a week. Yeah, it was. It
took him less than a month. The granted playing the
aids a bunch of times helped, and I think the
White Sox in that group, well yeah, and then the
Mariners just completely imploded. Did be Baltimore? Didn't they sweep Baltimore? Impressive?
Seriously here at Mine, Matt, I think or Dyiking where
one of those games, like on the Friday, they were
up like twelve runs and then almost hold on close. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(02:18:40):
See all these games make together. But I do believe
they did sweep the Orioles and they did sweep part
of that. So yeah, looking for an outfielder, So Ben
Gambles should be looking for real estate. Ben Gamble's ready
to go. Mm hmmmmm seven one three two, one two
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Matt Thomas Show with Ross Now on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 12 (02:20:40):
S.

Speaker 2 (02:20:42):
All Right, I had not thought of John Rocker much
in the last I don't know, twenty five years rossing
a young sports mt we're doing the radio show. John
Rocker was the gift that kept on giving in terms
of chill Us putting his foot in his mouth under
every circumstance. It wasn't like a Sports Illustrated profile. It

(02:21:05):
was a Sports Illustrated columny, and it did not turn
out well for him Major League Baseball. I believed that
there was a suspension.

Speaker 3 (02:21:13):
Of some sort.

Speaker 2 (02:21:14):
I don't remember what it was, but it was we
don't need He basically torched every single sexuality, ethnicity. I
mean he ran the gamut. Oh look at you of
people to insult. The biggest thing I don't like about

(02:21:35):
New York are the foreigners Asians, Korean's, Vietnamese, Indians, Russians,
and Spanish. He handed them. How did the hell did
they get in the country? So apparently he and Pat
Mahomes Senior. Pat Mahomes Senior a former Major League Baseball

(02:21:57):
player many many years. I want to say, primarily with
the Wins and the Mets, if I'm not mistaken on that,
maybe a little bit of time with the Cubs too.
I'm not one hundred percent sure, but was a well traveled.
I don't think he was ever a closer. I think
he was a Was he a middle reliever? I mean
I don't really have much recollection. Yeah, basically a reliever. Okay,

(02:22:18):
middle relief. Didn't get a lot of saves. So John
Rocker gets sideways with him, apparently somewhere in New Orleans
during the Super Bowl m hm, and they throw hands.
I'm can Pat Mahomes Senior after this confrontation. Uh So

(02:22:41):
Pat Mahomes Senior and John Rocker get into it in
New Orleans. Barstool Sports has the video of it. Then
John Rocker says, this effing loser can't take a damn joke.
Wish I laid him out right there and ruined his
BS weekend even more. Then Mahomes goes back and says,
you really haven't changed one bit in the last twenty
five years. Keep your name out your mouth.

Speaker 3 (02:23:00):
I love that one.

Speaker 2 (02:23:01):
Keep my name out of your my name at your mouth. Oh,
your loud mouth, your loud mouth. So my son, my oldest,
just texted me and said that it's official. Dave Portnoy
over at uh is that barstool Barstoolia he's the owner.
Pat Mahomes Senior versus John Rocker at something called Rough

(02:23:24):
and Rowdy on April the nineteenth. Yeah, they do these
unsanctioned pay per view fights, and I don't know, it's
like random staffers. I don't even know exactly who's on
these Rough and rowdies. You're a watch one of them? No,
I have not. They do them for like, I don't know,
any like twenty or forty bucks or something like that.
It's like a low cost amateurs beating up on each
other type of thing. Oh well, guess who's not going

(02:23:45):
to get their money me. I'm not gonna give it
to them. Oh, you're not a legal stream it April nineteenth,
hopeful of the Rockets are playing playoff games. So no,
I'm trying to find the Yeah, how many of these
have there been? They just have like random people fight
each other, and maybe it's sometimes there are staffers who
haven't beat Well, apparently there's enough beef for these. Now

(02:24:06):
do you think they're gonna kiss and make up at
the end. I'd rather than not kiss and make up,
and I don't want them to take money for a fight,
beat the crap out of each other and say, oh man,
we're all good now oh you know jose Canseco I
think was in one of them, got beat up by somebody.
It was like, uh, Danny Bonaducci in one of these
things too. Oh, that's is different. That was on the
Fox Sports Celebrity Boxing. Okay, both didn't a new bowl.

(02:24:28):
Touch up Refrigerator Perry. But it's dead, right, I think
they're both dead. Oh I believe yeah, I think both
of them are dead. May they all rest?

Speaker 3 (02:24:39):
Of course?

Speaker 2 (02:24:42):
See this is gonna end, This is not gonna end. Well,
this is just gonna end with those two guys beating
the crap out of each other and then hugging and
going man, Refrigerator Perry is alive. Oh damn, I'd have
mess that one. That's my bad. I could have swore
I thought he was dead. I mean, congratulations to you,
Perry at it is still pumped. I wonder if he's like,
how tall is he? But for jure about five ten,

(02:25:03):
five eleven somewhere in that round. He's gotta be bigger
than that. Right now, he's on like six five is what?
Maybe he's six two two ten now, maybe he's really Schfeldt.
I'm wishing him the best. So but John Rocker basically
talked blank to Pat Mahomes. Pat Mahomes basically talked blank

(02:25:24):
back to him. Yes, and they're gonna get paid for it.

Speaker 3 (02:25:29):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:25:29):
I know Pat Mahomes had several deary d why's, but
I'm still gonna sign your I wonder what he says.
Can't take a joke if you got beef with John Rocker.
I'm gonna imagine John Rocker's on the wrong end of this.
That's just my guess who's got a quicker job. He
also looks quite right now, didn't John Rocker throw a hundred?

(02:25:50):
John Rocker when he pitched was as nasty as as now.
He would implode like nobody's business too. Now, see Matt,
A lot of the the greatness of pitch, especially with
high velocity, comes from not strength. You can be as
strong as you want. It's not necessarily, you know, otherwise
a bodybuilder would throw a hundred. They don't. It's the
quick twitch muscle fibers that they have, and obviously John

(02:26:12):
and those also translate to punching power in my opinion. Now,
how fast was was Pat Mahomes? Is he throwing how
fast is he throwing pitches? I remember him being just
a guy. I don't remember anything remarkable about He played
for eleven years. He had a minus point four war
I mean teams did he played for uh.

Speaker 3 (02:26:35):
Six?

Speaker 2 (02:26:35):
So he literally was a typical mittal relief player. So
I'm gonna guess he wouldn't throw a hunter hunted he
was a crap? Was he crafty lefty? Let's see he
threw he was a crafty righty.

Speaker 3 (02:26:55):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (02:26:57):
He's a change. He was a change of pace or
the npach I can find on him is how fast
he's driving his du i. So that does not that's
not what you want looking for, looking for mph, not
at all all right, So, uh, we don't know the
details of said fight, but I would say early on,
I'm gonna probably lean towards John Rocker. I'll tell you

(02:27:18):
I want.

Speaker 3 (02:27:18):
To lean John Rockey.

Speaker 2 (02:27:19):
He looks royded up and he throws a hundred, so
he can probably throw a punch, So I would I
would say, he looks huge, He looks huge, and he
looks like he's still on Royd's. Now, if you're Pat
Mahomes Junior, they don't call him Pat Mahomes Jr.

Speaker 3 (02:27:35):
Do that.

Speaker 2 (02:27:35):
I don't think I know if you're if you're Pat
Mahomes a senior, and then Patrick Mahomes is the Okay,
if you're Patrick, do you go to dad and say Dad, listen,
sports rush dot Com says he throws in ninety seven.
Oh no, maybe it's the younger that is confusing.

Speaker 3 (02:27:50):
Dang it.

Speaker 2 (02:27:52):
Okay, back to my point. Okay, go ahead. If you're Patrick, Telpops,
just don't take this. He's not gonna allow him to
do this. I don't think it's this is not this
for pat'son crystal clear sweet image of just a good
old fashioned boy with his wife and kids. He can't
be having dad out there throwing a hand and John
Rocker's younger. Mahomes is fifty four, Rocker is fifty. He's younger,

(02:28:15):
threw one hundred and roided up and the lefty I
got a Rocker out of minus two fifty. We don't
even need fight club on this. This is this isn't
gonna end well for Pat Mahomes Senior. Oh but you
know what, there's also you know, it's not as about
the size of the dog in the fight, Matt, it's

(02:28:35):
also about the size of the fight and the dog
you gonna put that on your next T shirt. You've
been you've been coming up. I know I've heard this before,
but you are like becoming the T shirt cliche machine
of the show.

Speaker 3 (02:28:48):
Thank you well.

Speaker 2 (02:28:49):
I mean, if you're a matifican turning into a private
go for it. I don't care. I'm just telling you.
Maybe Pat Mahomes can throw hands. I'm gonna go still drive.
If I was a man on this, which I would
never in a million years bet on. If the early
years of UFC have taught us anything, little guys can
fight and beat up big guys, it can happen.

Speaker 3 (02:29:11):
I have to go.

Speaker 2 (02:29:12):
I'd have to go see a current image of because
I don't think John Rockers. No, it's not fat. He
looks rocked up like he's on Royds right now. Yeah,
and he can be on Royds. It'd be good for
I mean, it's legal for him to do it. I
guess if you're prescribed. I've seen a lot of street
fights on YouTube, though, Matt, it's not always the big
guy that wins. Sometimes a little guy can just fight. Okay,

(02:29:34):
I feel like Pat Mahomes been in subscribes. Let's put
a fast food breakfast. I told you I got minus
two fifty, so you gotta get me odds. I already
got Rocker minus two fifty. I'm just saying, maybe Pat
mahomes a live dog if he's signing up for this.
I don't think he's doing that knowing he knows just
as well as you do. They were just sized up
on on Bourbon Street. He knows just as well as
you and I do that he's smaller and that John

(02:29:54):
Rockers has got Royds. So if he's feeling that kind,
he's alive. Also a part of me that's like, maybe
Barstool's offering him so much cash you can't say no,
which again, there's no way they make twenty dollars on
these pay per views. But how much did jose Canseco
get for a Rough and Routy or Pat? But Pat
Senior doesn't need money because he can go to Pat Trick. Well,

(02:30:16):
I don't know those lawyer fees rack up not Tea.
He can pay for t duy s. Not that he
should be getting either one of them, but he could
probably pay for him. Apparently jose Canseco made over a
million for the fight, So a million to get your
ask kick for about fifteen minutes. Yeah, maybe you do
take that. You'd give a million to both of them.
I'd take a million dollars for you to beat me up.

(02:30:37):
I wouldn't hit you, Matt, you just pushed me down. No,
I wouldn't. I wouldn't lay a finger on you. So
we'll give you a hug. Maam. That's not Barstol. Wouldn't
pay million dollars for you to give me thro the fight.
You know, really good in wrestling, why not. Yeah, they're
not gonna pay us anything. Nobody knows who we are, Matt,
certainly not me, all right seven one three two one
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five seven on you. So John Rocker's fifteen minutes, he's
getting a sixteenth minute ross thanks to Barstool. Apparently somebody
called in and said Pat Mahomes Senior was an amateur boxer.
Oh oh, one of golden gloves. Oh that changes everything now.
And the caller who called in and told me that
said he fought his father back in the day amateur bobs. Okay,

(02:31:22):
See those odds have just changed, by the way. Absolutely,
that's what I'm saying. If I said, if he's taking
up this fight, dude can fight, But you're fifty four.
It was the last time you saw a fifty four
year old fight anything? A family reunion every year. What
were they fighting over the last MODELO. We're not supposed

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to stereotype on the show, but sometimes you just have to.
I'm kidding, and you do it beautifully. Thank you, because
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Speaker 3 (02:32:14):
Today?

Speaker 2 (02:32:14):
You worked on it during Kelvin Samson, Kellen Moore, Oh,
the very new coach of the New Orleans Saints did
Did Gordy help you with this?

Speaker 3 (02:32:21):
He did not? All right?

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Lunchtimers, Lunch Timers, It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross
on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 2 (02:33:39):
Ninety our Betty Campbell or Campbell from h Payaways like,
don't forget Tyson last spot. That wasn't even a fight.
I've seen more legit fights at Russell Meania than I
saw in that fight between Paul and Tyson. That thing
was a joke, all right? Who told you to pet

(02:34:00):
Paul decision? Yeah, it was a joke. He wasn't he
wasn't going to crush Tyson because he didn't want to
ruin the legacy. Yeah, he carried him, he did, and
Tyson had then he lose like a gallon of blood
or whatever it was.

Speaker 3 (02:34:15):
He was sick.

Speaker 2 (02:34:16):
I don't know if I was more offended by the
fight or that thong that Tyson wore that was shown
on television, Oh my god, that was deserbed, or Rosie
Perez doing the color commentary. Was she in the color commentary?
Oh yeah, why don't I remember that? She's a bit
huge boxing fan, Like deep in the I want to
say it was Roy Jones, Rosie and the public play guy,

(02:34:41):
and like Roy Jones and the Public play guy were like,
we're arguing the whole time about how Tyson was biting
his glove. Oh yeah, I remember that, Yeah I was,
And I think the guy was right because Tyson did
he was talking about. Roy Jones was trying to make
it more than it was because Tyson, if you go
back and watch his fights, it's something he did young

(02:35:02):
in his career and then he kind of went away
from it. It was a tick, and then late in
his career it came back. So basically, Roy Jones did
no homework about the watching old Mike Tyson. Maybe he's
also taking a lot of blows of the head Roy
Jones one of the great boxing talents of all time.
Rosie Perez is an actress. Go She was good in
White Man Camp Jump. She was active, and I don't

(02:35:26):
really remember her anything else. I don't either. Can you
name another movie besides White Man Can't Jump? And probably
one of the five most annoying voices out there in history?
Fran Dresser one, Rosie Press two. You know there's a
member of the Rockets broadcast team that is thinks that
Pran Dresser uh walk walks on water. Craig Ackerman corrects.

(02:35:52):
You know what, He's so weird. I love Craig anytime
there's he gets fixated. He hates the randommest things, most
random things, and he loves the most random things. That's
what I love about Craig. You never know what you're
gonna get talking to him. So I'm gonna give you
a quick rundown of the Craig ocument likes and dislikes.

Speaker 3 (02:36:11):
You ready.

Speaker 2 (02:36:13):
Despises ranch dressing, Yes, despises anything creamy like blue cheese, mayonnaise,
sour cream, sour cream if it's got. So he and
Klan are the only two people I've ever heard of
my life, and they're both in broadcasting and they're both
Sam Newson Bearcats.

Speaker 3 (02:36:31):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (02:36:32):
Correct. So when Craig and I go eat, it's not
just a I'll have a number four like or I'll
have this. I mean it is we even a sit
down restaurant. It's a deep dive explanation he's got as
he's got the special order for like six minutes. Well,
the King of is I'll I want to I'll have
this bacon cheeseburger combo for at a nice restaurant with

(02:36:55):
a burger like a bar or something like that, and
they're like, what do you put on it? So it's
just come.

Speaker 3 (02:37:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:37:02):
So he wants the things that the worst. He loves
em music, which is very odd interesting that he does. Now,
I like, you know, some ms.

Speaker 3 (02:37:12):
Fine.

Speaker 2 (02:37:13):
Now, he and I decided toe we are going to
go to an EDM festival in the state. Really, Yes, Oh,
you're going to an electric Daisy Lane carnival at sam
Boy So are you serious? Yeah? He and I are
going to go sometime. You know how the women dress
at those things?

Speaker 3 (02:37:24):
Yes, we do.

Speaker 2 (02:37:24):
That's why you're going. You don't know that, Yes I do.
I told him, I said, you know what, Craig does
anybody to go with I'll go with him. His sons
are busy. I'll call you a restraining order. Thomas. You're
going to a festival if you I've been in Vegas
when they've had a DM. We have to walk right. Yes,
you can be all right more than all right. You're fancy, Matt.
I'm a little worried about I can get a golf cart.

(02:37:46):
That's fine, you're not there's no golf carts. You're not
trucking people in golf carts at the e DC Conna.
Let me tell you about the DC. You go into
d C. Stay with me on this. I was in
Vegas one time when DC was already there. I didn't
know it was there there And this is probably good
about ten years ago. Okay, so now these twenty one
year olds are now thirty one with kids in Stretch

(02:38:06):
Bay in twenty one with kids. That's true that for
the twenty something crowd, what you're in, you'll always want
to figure out how to get to Vegas because they
have no interest in gambling. Yeah, they have. All they
want to do is they want to son during the day. Yes,
go to the pools.

Speaker 3 (02:38:20):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (02:38:20):
They don't care how much it costs because either dad's
paying for it or they've saved the money up. And
then they all I don't know if is ZDC still
at samboys Stame or they moved it to the Dome.
I don't know. You mean the sphere No, no, no,
they moved it to Samboyd's Dam. I'm not saying that name.
It's a pretty good haul from from downtown from you know,
from the from the strip, and they got shuttles. It's

(02:38:41):
at the Motor Speedway. Oh, they moved to the Motor Speedway. Now, yeah,
it's huge.

Speaker 3 (02:38:45):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:38:46):
Those shows go till like six in the morning. Craig
and I will be there at some point. Insane. I'm
actually KaiA jealous. My mind is blown. So he also
likes that. He loves Hello anything Hello kitty related. Yes,
a little weird.

Speaker 3 (02:39:01):
M h.

Speaker 2 (02:39:02):
And he's got lots of cats and dogs in his house.
How many I think total animals bought ten?

Speaker 3 (02:39:09):
Are you serious? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:39:11):
And he's not I'm not talking on school. He's bragged.
I mean he's he's he loves animals, so he and
his wife are big animal fanatics and they are able to,
you know, take care of multiple kittens and dogs.

Speaker 3 (02:39:23):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (02:39:24):
And these children are out of the house, or at
least well they're all they're both adults. They are out
of the house. One of them's in Utah, and one
of thems here in town works with us on the
Space City broadcast. Wonderful great kids, fit, great family. But
it's just there's a few things that are weird, Like
we all have things that are weird. But the the
the hard thing is to go eat with him, because
it's there can't be any cheese on things. There can't

(02:39:44):
be any sort of mayonnaise or sour cream, or a
rimold or a baronet, none of that. He doesn't. He's
he's anti sauce. Wow, except me catch up in a one.

Speaker 3 (02:39:59):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (02:40:01):
It's like a child exactly exactly interesting. M hm uh.
Tomorrow pictures and catchers report to UH Spring training officially
our man, Chris Gordy, the Chris Gordy. Chris Gordon is
the on the way out there.

Speaker 3 (02:40:19):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:40:20):
He's probably stopping off and doing some radio hits on.

Speaker 3 (02:40:22):
The way there.

Speaker 2 (02:40:22):
That's true. Well he's driving, no, but he's probably figuring.
Like man, I could have I could have done some
stuff and I could have been on Pensacola Sports Leader today.
I could have been in Jackson. He probably was. Yeah,
he probably did some stuff at the airport. He might
have the most radio hits in America. Yeah, seriously, but
I mean all markets under one twenty five? Would you say, ah,

(02:40:45):
how's mobile? Mmm?

Speaker 3 (02:40:47):
Close?

Speaker 2 (02:40:47):
I gotta be yeah, I mean yeah, they don't. They
don't have full time employees. Yeah, yeah, the show's pay for.
You know, the growing metropolis. I don't know that there's
a sports rail stationer in Birmingham is pretty power. Lot
of people live in Little Rock, not a lot. I
think he's really popular in gads in Alabama. I don't think.
I don't think Gordy pays for a meal in gas

(02:41:09):
in Alabama. When we look at biggest media markets. I
think he's got at least one or two in the
top hundred, No more than two. I mean the man
O Califlorida on the North Central Sports Talk, he's all
over that there. He's talking Gator football. Charleston, South Carolina's
number eighty five, but he doesn't go on to Charleston

(02:41:31):
Columbia South Carolina seventy six. Oh, he's been on Columbia,
that's for sure. Lafayette. Lafayette is one hundred and twenty four.
Lake Charles, Lake Charles, one hundred seventy seven. Dothan, Alabama
won seven. Oh yeah, Gordi, Yeah, Gordy is making maybe

(02:41:51):
one or two top one hundred hits Pure Rock fifty Okay,
that's good. But do they even care about the SEC
and are in little Rock? Yeah, just happened to be
involved mobiles number fifty nine. See all right, So you
know I said correct that he's the top sixty talent.

Speaker 3 (02:42:07):
All right.

Speaker 2 (02:42:07):
One forty three, believe it or not, Today is the
category all things. I'm gonna looking up right now. Let
me see what we got. We told you I forgot already. Jackson,
Mississippi seven just did my hit in Montgomery from the
terminal at the airport. Do we know Gordon or not?
Baton Rouge eighty seventh. That's tope hundred. He went out
of Montgomery. What's Montgomery's Montgomery is Montgomery Selma? No Montgomery? Yeah,

(02:42:31):
so about I wonder if he gets waffle house trade
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(02:42:54):
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This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on four
o'tox seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:44:26):
If you're a Devin Booker fan, You're not gonna see
him tonight. He is sitting out of tonight's game. What
I know, the injury list tonight for the Phoenix Suns
is lengthy. You're ready, Here we go in, let's see here.
Grayson Allen is also out tonight, so we sent we

(02:44:49):
see no illegal kicking in dirty play. He has left
knee soreness. Bradley Beal is out with a left great
toast brain, Devin Booker is out with a left low
back contusion, Cody Martin is out with a sport attorney,
and Vasili Micic is questionable with a left ankle spring.
Vas I was like saying, no, I got a lot

(02:45:12):
of soreness. I'm I'm I'm going to be there. Go
take a nap, get get a shave. Look good tonight
for the Rockets. By the way, there's gonna be a
piece coming out in the Chronicle about the and I
think the Rockets twitter count. That is, I think thirty
years ago today the Rockets made the trade for Clyde Drexler.

(02:45:34):
If I'm not mistaken on that or in around thirty
years I I told the Chronicle that Greg Rajan called
me and said Hey, can you give a quote for this?
I remember having a I was super, super sick, like
I shouldn't have been there, had a high fever. It
just was just sluggishly feeling bad. But I'm like Clyde

(02:45:54):
Drexer's coming to Houston. He's going to be introduced the
middle of the game. I ain't missing this, so I didn't.
I heard six people were hospitalized. Have you got them?
That's not true. You weren't even there Halloween. You were ten.
Uh I got traded deer. Do you remember saying something
I was ten years old? I vaguely remember.

Speaker 3 (02:46:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:46:14):
It was in a middle game. He comes out in
the middle of the game. Remember those old rock those
nineties hats with the word Houston Rockets, really really big
letters ripped out of a lot. That was a really
big It was a big trendy thing back then. You
wore a Rockets cap, his very first time wearing a suit,
and I announce him for the very first time. It
was very cool thirty years ago. Damn, I'm getting old.
Five minutes left to go on the show.

Speaker 1 (02:46:33):
What should we do?

Speaker 3 (02:46:37):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (02:46:37):
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It's about all things. Kellen Moore the barrin New Saints coach.
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(02:46:59):
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(02:47:20):
to play Believe it or not?

Speaker 3 (02:47:22):
Yes, sir Al.

Speaker 2 (02:47:23):
Good luck to you, my friend, And here is your question.
As a youth, it was discovered Kellen Moore had Turner syndrome.
With growth hormone therapy, he was still able to grow
to six feet tall. Believe it or not?

Speaker 12 (02:47:37):
Believe it?

Speaker 3 (02:47:37):
No, God Ross was.

Speaker 2 (02:47:41):
Right out of the get go. Huh, damn dude. Let's
go to don on Houston. Donn in Houston, don You're
ready to play? Believe it or not? Yes, sir. Kellen
Moore so has fifty wins as a starting quarterback. It's
the most in ncable A history, and he still went
undrafted in twenty twelve at from Oregon. Believe it or
not not? No, nobody wanted him. Anthony by Hobby Airport. Anthony,

(02:48:07):
what was your favorite part of today's radio show?

Speaker 3 (02:48:10):
Brag Man Updates?

Speaker 2 (02:48:13):
You're the best. Kellen Moore is third all time in
NCAA passing yards history, behind Case Keenum and Timmy Chang.
Believe it or not?

Speaker 3 (02:48:21):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:48:22):
No, he's tenth. Damn dude. Wikipedia would have been your friend.

Speaker 6 (02:48:28):
Bill.

Speaker 2 (02:48:29):
What is your favorite Brooks and Dunn song? Bill? Not
like us, Kellen Moore and his quarterback Derek Carr faced
off in college. Were Morris Boise State squad? Be Car
in Fresno State fifty seven to seven. Believe it or not?

Speaker 9 (02:48:49):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:48:50):
Yeah, I believe it. Came a number two for the win.
Kellen Moore's younger brother, Kirby, played wide receiver with him
at Boise State. Believe it or not. Oh, I'm so
sorry you don't get to go see your favorite band
of all time. So sorry not Let's go to Roger

(02:49:12):
on SEMININTI. Roger, You're ready to play. Believe it or not?
Believe it, baby, believe it. In twenty seventeen, Kellen Moore
auditioned to be an NFL analyst for Fox Sports before
deciding to getting into coaching. Believe it or not.

Speaker 3 (02:49:26):
Believe it.

Speaker 2 (02:49:27):
No, he wanted to be a coach all the way
through Matt on seven ninety Matt, You're ready to play,
but believe it or not. Kellen Moore is a member
of the Ooh, what is this Restorationist spot?

Speaker 3 (02:49:41):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 2 (02:49:41):
Restorationists?

Speaker 3 (02:49:42):
I believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:49:42):
Yeah, Restorationist sect of the Mormon Church where is considered
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Kellen Moore met his wife Julie Wall at Boise State,
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(02:51:08):
school gear. I think is that you're working with me today?
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