Altuve Sees Action In Left Field, Rockets At Thunder, Greatest Heel Turn In Sports

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show, one innh Town.
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a Monday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Today. I come to
you from Oklahoma City, where tonight the Rockets will take
on the Thunder. We have astros baseball today here on

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these airwaves that we call Sports Talk seven Honti. In fact,
it's a half edition.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Of the show. We're giving you the appetizer, the main course.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
You will not get a side dish or a dessert
from us tonight, but we're gonna give you an hour
and fifty five minutes of the best sports radio commentary ever.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Would you agree with that, Rossville ever.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
I think that's a bit of an over sell.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, I mean I think we should say so. Card, Yeah,
thank you. How much of the Oscars did you watch
last night?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I did not watch one second of the Oscar either.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's crazy, zilch.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
I saw some clips, you know, you catch a few
clips on on social media.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
That's about it. That's what I think.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, I know is is that Demi Moore looks amazing.
Apparently she was in a movie that was horrific in
terms of uh just grossness. But she was very hot
in it, so that's good if you like. If you
like nudity and Demi Moore, you're probably gonna be enjoying
that one. I don't know if she won, don't really care,
but it's gonna see Demi Moore back on the stage,
back in.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
The limelight, if you will.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, I had it on my short list, Matt, did
you really uh huh for best nude Scenes? Do they
to won the Oscar for that?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
I believe you were going to the AVN Awards when
you had that. Ouree, Academy Awards. My bad.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
You ever been the av NS and no I have not.
They're in Vegas, right they are.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I mean we could go cover it wanted.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
You want to get a credential.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
I mean, there'd be worse things to get credentials for
m pound the pavement with some hard hitting coverage.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
You coming right out of the game with those huh?

Speaker 3 (01:51):
What did I do?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero. As
we come to you from Oklahoma City, where tonight the
Rockets will take on the thunder the Rockets. I don't
know if you saw this ross the injury list is
quite expansive. Yeah, I saw that. Are they just gonna
go ten and tank this game? Well, I mean again,

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just because you're on the injury list does not mean
you're not necessarily going to play.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
There is a back to back tomorrow will be in Indianapolis,
So my guess is there will be some guys that
will play tonight and some that will not play until tomorrow.
But those of you just playing at home, you've got
Fred Vanvleen is definitely out for tonight's game with the
right ankle strain.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Apparently he hurt himself very.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Early in the game when he ran into an official
and stepped on an ankle or an ankle a referee
stept on him.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
I don't know what. I never saw it, no one
mentioned it to me.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
He played through it, but he is out tonight. Steven
Adams is questionable with a left ankle soreness. Dylan Brooks
as a right knee contusion. He's questionable. Tari Easton is
questionable with left leg injury management. Alprin Shoon is out
questionable with lower backs on us A Men Thompson is
questioned with the right shoulder soreness.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
And tonight at Oklahoma City.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Reed Shepherd has set the NBA record for single plus minus.
He was a minus eighty six tonight in Oklahoma City. Unbelievable.
Stuff that feels rude. I mean, I'm not gonna lie
then doesn't sound great. By the way, the Thunder did
play last night in San Antonio, and it was a

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game for like two and a half quarters and then
the Thunder like, do you know how good we are?
They put up one hundred and forty six points in
forty eight minutes. I mean, did the Spurs just say,
you know, what?

Speaker 2 (03:39):
The hell with defense?

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Pretty much? Especially with Wemby out.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Jalen Williams Now there are two of them, yes, so
very confusing. Yeah, Jalen Williams eight, j Williams six. If
you listened to radio tonight, there'll be two of those.
Jalen Williams eight scored forty one points old.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Just Alexander just had him easly thirty one.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
How's Cheded Holmgren doing?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
You know what I gotta see? I don't know how
he did.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Has it been hurt again?

Speaker 2 (04:10):
It's funny that's the number one thing you think about
is who's hurt? Uh? He did not play last night,
and I.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Don't want I don't get an injury report on him
until one o'clock on game will they play back to back?
So I don't know what the status is on him.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
But yeah, that's that's not fun.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
In Indiana likes to score a lot of points. To Rosses,
it's gonna be a long it's gonna be be a tough,
little one to two, back to back punch here.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
If we can have the lock in defensively, Matt Me
or anybody that's put in the uniform.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
I don't think you know, and we're not counting on
you a defense.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
I did see Jeff Green in the hotel lobby last night.
I said, Jeff, you're gonna have to play it much done?
And he goes, why. He goes, have you seen the injury?

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Listen? I shut up my phone. He goes, I'm ready.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Okay, that's good. He's always ready.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
We appreciate veterans do so something veterans do Rossi, they're
ready when necessary.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
All right, again, we were with you till eleven fifty five.
Today we have to tell the truth at eleven thirty
and then we're gonna send it over to Jupiter, home
of where Robert Craft suffered a rather embarrassing moment in
his life. But that's not here North there. It's about the.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Marlins and the Astros.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Oh my god, you said Robert Kraft and I heard
Robert Ford.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
I was like, what, well, I mean, Robert Ford isn't
entitled to do what he wants to do.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
I mean, I'm gonna I'm not gonna be judging mcjudge.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
But you know, so it got thro onely that month
out there in spring training.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Man, it's not a month, bride six weeks. I mean
that could that could be taxing. Now, Robert is a
free agent. He's entitled to do what he wants to do.
But you know, I'm just saying, all right, we don't judge.
We don't judge on the road. That's just saying that, right.
All right, Okay, okay, we got that going on. We
have a wholesale tuba played left field this weekend and

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actually Friday in a game that we did not carry
that people got mad that we didn't. He played by
six innings and didn't touch the ball.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
You didn' get touched the ball.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Over the weekend, And we will get a little reaction
to that from Jose coming up to the next segment. Also,
ROSSI we have Deebo Samuel. What was your favorite? Almost
Deebo Samuel is a Texan moment.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
It was never happening. It seems like I don't.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Get the feeling that that's the kind of deals that
Nick Cassaria was going whatever make.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
We can't play the game. Fifth round pick. Should the
Texans have done it?

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Well? We talked about the fact that I think I
said sixth though you did.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
You're close. I'm proud of you.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
That's fine.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
What I've learned is guys over the age of thirty
that are down don't offer much.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
And that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Ross, And again, I don't want to you and I
argue about this, but that's why the second round picked
these NFL teams, and I'm talking about all thirty two
of them really really, really value top three selections.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
When did I argue that that it didn't matter that
trafficks tell me it's a sup ridiculous I'm telling you,
it was an extra pick, so that's why he used
it and went all in. I didn't say it was
a good choice. Okay, God, you always trying to put
things in my mouth.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Ten O three, actually ten of eight.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Are you okay? You're having a stroke.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
No, I'm just five minutes behind. I'm on a tape
to let sure.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Five minutes behind that seems significant.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
That's fine, all right. So that's why I think that.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Do you know, let me ask you this, do you
try to save Grace on that second round pick by
trying to sign him to another deal of short term
deal to say, all right, we did get him after
all for a couple of years.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
I mean, does that come into play or do you
go if a loss's loss is a loss.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
I mean, you do what's best for the team going forward.
I don't think you care about the second round pick.
The second round pick wasn't overpay to go all in
for last year. Unfortunately didn't work out because everybody got hurt.
I think a fully healthy Texans team could have beaten
the Chiefs, who represented the AFC. They probably wouldn't have
beaten the Eagles, but you could have gotten I think
they could have gotten to a Super Bowl fully healthy.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
You know, it's funny.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
As poor as Kansas City played in that game, it
does make you pause and go, what if the Texans
were at full strength?

Speaker 2 (08:08):
What if Tank Dell was out there?

Speaker 1 (08:10):
What if Stefan Diggs was out There's anybody else I'm
trying to think of that was missing.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't think I'm on the defensive side that was
really out.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
I don't think there was significant tree.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Jalen Petrie was gone.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah, that's true. But every team's missing people. You know,
nobody has all twenty two starters healthy.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
That's right, That's exactly right.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
All right, Oh, that is to be discussed on the show.
Ross your thoughts about John Cena's heel turn, now, go
ahead and say what you want to say.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
And I'm not gonna judge you.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
I'm not gonna say anything. I just don't understand. I
don't follow it, So I don't know.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
This is like, this is like an earth shaking all
time moment that happened, and I just don't get it.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
So you can explain it to me.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
I would like to explain it to you. I also
want to see if there is a sports parallel to it. Oh, okay,
that's what we do. We talk sports on the show
twenty four.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
So now all the other sports aren't scripted.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
So John Cena has been for ninety nine point nine percent.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Of his career has been what they call a face,
either a face or you're a heel. Now why they
call faces baby face just but you know, short for
that good guy that's weird.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
It's a good guy, bad guy. They call it face
and heel.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Okay, he I believe he was a heel when he
first started in professional wrestling, but when he got to
the WWE, he was a face and has been that
way up until this year, where he announced that he
was going to be retiring at the end of the
twenty twenty five calendar year.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Now, this is the guy that wears jeort's in a
backwards hat and he's like in his forties and dies
his hair.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yes, and it's also got a bald spot. Did you
notice that too? No? I didn't. I didn't.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
I saw like a cliff. I'm going to tell you.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
I think it's because of you that that my algorithm
for you does think I'm into wrestling.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Sometimes you're welcome, all right.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
So, with ten months left in his supposed career, whenever
he retires, it's not like the literally December thirty first,
but whenever he competes for the last time, he was
trying to obviously either reinvent himself or add drama or
do something for sizzle. Well, on Saturday night, he was

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in the ring with Cody Rhodes, the champion, and The
Rock was in there too, and the three of them
were kind of shooting. We're just shooting, you know what,
and the Rock told Cody it's told Johnsona to ambush
his buddy Cody Rhodes, and he beat the crap out
of him allegedly. I mean, there was this is all
obviously all set up. You're chucking and I and I

(10:34):
get while you're chuckling on this, but ross.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
What happened.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's still trending in Twitter.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
It's still one of the most viewed Instagram posts and
Twitter posts in the history of those two algorithms, in
those two different ways're.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Making that up. No, I couldn't make that up, no chance.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
And people even that are not even wrestling fans, are like,
what is this infatuation with John Cena?

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Now?

Speaker 1 (11:05):
The thing that crossed my mind to this and those
are either wrestling fans. You should thank me for this,
because no other radio show in the marketplace is gonna
give you a deep dive into this.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, probably they shouldn't, but go ahead.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
The one thing you don't know, John h Ross is
that John Cena is hands down one the most most
requested professional entertainer slash athlete in the history of the
Make a Wish Foundation.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
And it's not even close.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Okay, So while this yesterday was interest or Saturday was
interesting and obviously creates good drama, it's good.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
It's a human soap opera involving grown men.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Okay, I get that he can't do this very long
because Make a Wish to be like man, these kids
love you, they adore you, they want things done the
right way, and you basically turn your back on her
friend and beat the crap.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Out of them allegedly.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
So that's why I hope that John was able to
lob an email to you know, somebody at Makeawish dot
Com and say, look what I'm about to do here
is just theatrics. Send your kids to me. I still
love them, they still love me. Bottom buttering. But it
is interesting that one of the most popular sports entertainers,
especially who does so much charity work, decided, with less

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than a year left in his career, in his at
least wrestling career, decided to character change. I mean don't wrestle.
Don't wrestler's turn heel like every week you're in theory,
you're right, but he doesn't. He's been doing this for
like twenty something years and has never done this before.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's why it's such a big deal.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Okay, so huge.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I want to ask a question to you. Have we
ever had a heel turn in sports?

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (12:58):
About it? As time out OJ Simpson. That wasn't a
character turn. That was a criminal act.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
He was a face though he was the face of hurts.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Oh what as much as I wanted to dismiss that
right up the top, he was in movies, he was
on television. Yes, he did do commercials. Yeah, he was
a ladies man on the streets.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah. And then he turned heel to people. He turned
heel of a kitchen.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Knife, is man.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
I mean, I I think you're kind of right. Actually,
then I think about it. I didn't mean to dismiss
it so quickly.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Thank you, Matt.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
I would hope the next person that calls in or
gives us an identification of someone who turned a heel
would not have killed two.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
People, but you know, to each his own.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety seven
one three, two, one two five seven ninety. Is there
anybody in sports? And I'll flip it the other direction.
Was there somebody in sports who was a heel that
turned face? Somebody we absolutely despise and now we love now.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
I'm not talking like guys.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Like Pat Bevlier Dylon Brooks, because everybody still hates those people.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
But when they're on your team, you love them.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
I'm trying to think of somebody universally loved or adored
who's now universally hated and vice versa. That plus jose
L two Bay speaks, I'm playing in left field all
part of the first hour of the show eleven thirty.
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Speaker 5 (15:34):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on four
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Ross and you're ruling our friend Kenny and Katie just
sent me an email, said Aaron Hernandez.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
He'll turn. Is every athlete that kills somebody at hill turn?
I guess right.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
I think well, you followed his entire life.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
He was always a heel.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, I don't think he was ever a good guy.
Of course, he ruined the Texans in one playoff game,
but that's on your hero no there.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I can't.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
I can't think of anybody like Danny Ainge is always
a bad guy. I could see Lebron going from good
to bad to good to bad a lot.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, Yan Easy tweeted, is that the decision is the
heel turn? Oh yeah, Cleveland returns back to face.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah that's Yon Easy. Shout out to you, my man.
Good job.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
But you will still hate him though, y Easier.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Lebron both okay, mostly Lebron, Yeah, most Lebron like sham
Adam Shamann, big Lebron hater.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah he's great Lebron. I mean, Lebron's second greatest player
of all time and apparently getting worn out for his
thoughts about whether on he's the face of the league
still and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
Uh well, yeah, he took that opportunity to say, actually,
that's what I was talking about when I was co
hosting with Adam Clanton on Friday on the A Team
on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Didn't hear a word of it.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
That's a okay, we don't expect you to. We know
you don't support us, but that's okay, Matt. Anyways, what
was I talking about? Oh yeah, Lebron. Yeah, we played
those comments, and of course Adam Klinton was very upset
with Lebron. Clearly Lebron didn't really even answer the question.
He just wanted to talk about the He wanted to
bring up the negative, just the negative, toxic way that

(17:24):
people approach discourse when it comes to the NBA, which
we've talked about on the show multiple times.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah, you know what, Ross, it's just organic and whether
Lebron likes a responsibility or doesn't. When you were anointed
King James as a high schooler and you did all
the things you did and oh, by the way, you're
the second greatest player of all time, you get you
get to have that responsibility whether you want it or not.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
And I don't I don't particularly care.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
I mean, I don't think people are going man waking
up in the morning call man, I can't wait for
this Rocket Thunder game.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
But how's who's going to be the face of the
game tonight? Just won the game?

Speaker 4 (17:58):
No, yeah, it's a made up top thick, and it's
something that nobody annoints anybody anything. You either are the
face of the league or not. Nobody decides you are.
You just have to be that good.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
For that long.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
You have to have a certain level of charisma and success.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
If we spun the wheel and we have to five
sports bars in five different cities, and we walked in
and said, give us three names. In the NBA, Lebron's
gonna get mentioned seventy five percent of the time correct? Correct?

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Maybe even higher. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Probably by the way, I got an email in Matt,
I know what it's like to suddenly be the heel?
Signed v Selenski. Really we have political leaders listen to Showsky?

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Oh is that the h okay? Is that the Ukraine guy?

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Is he a heel?

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Now? Apparently apparently didn't wear a suit either. That's not good. Uh.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
I thought it was common for people not in war
time to not wear suits, or people in the wartime
wear a white house to meet. Anybody who met the
presidents are also I'm putting a suit on. Okay, that
maybe luluhim and pants, but it's still gonna be a
good looking suit.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm just telling you let's talk to some people.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
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Speaker 2 (19:10):
What's on your mind? Hey, good morning?

Speaker 1 (19:12):
I was thinking of the top again.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
I am.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
I thought of a face turn heel dinnis Rodman possibly
in his late with the Spurs when he catarted throwing
tantrums and throwing himself up, sending himself.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Out of games.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
But from heel to faith, I think Bryson de Shamba
is a great example. I think he was super hated,
no one really liked him, and then he started doing
the TikTok deal, won the US Open. It just has
really become a good guy again.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Those are two excellent examples, because let's go back to
the first one, because I know that more than I
don't follow golf all really closely.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
But d Champo's afice has been a name. It's been
both positive and negative.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
So ROSSI when Rodman and Frenio back this up. When
Rodman was a Piston, he was he was hard working,
grab rebounds, do this kind of thing is great, and
then he goes to what he goes to Chicago. From
there he is going to San Antonio from now turning
about which way he went.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Are you sure.

Speaker 5 (20:11):
Chicago is next?

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (20:14):
He goes to Chicago and obviously they're winning championships. Still
does a lot of San Antonio and then Chicago. Oh sorry, Freddy,
you were wrong. Uh san Antonio.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
He goes dot Com.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, yeah, Google's your friend.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
But Freddy, he goes to San Antonio and he's a malcontent,
can't get along with anybody.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
The reporter and the nads right, no, the video, the
what do you call the cameraman?

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh and hurt the guy very very
very badly.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
And then he goes to Chicago and he's with lovable
Pippin and Jordan and part of that Green team, and
all of a sudden, it's just Robmin being Rodman. So
that's that's actually, that's a really good example. Nicely done. Sorry,
but the you're mixing your teams up.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
But that's fine, we can do that.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
It's okay.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
And he Shapo I don't know much about obviously, but
I know that he is. He sparks a lot of
debate on both sides, But yeah, TikTok for these kids,
Ross can be your friend. You can be a really mean,
bitter person. Go to TikTok and people will love you immediately.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Oh is that true.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
I'm gonna think about going to TikTok.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Okay you and Weddon wex Big on TikTok.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
Oh, he loves the TikTok. That's great. They call him TikTok.
Wexler keeps him young. Two things that will never go
on TikTok and Snapchat.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
You're already on Snapchat.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah, but people send me stup. I don't send them
stuff back. Hmm.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Okay, Ryan and Montgomery at ten twenty seven on the
Matt Thomas, Joe Ross, Ryan, good.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Morning, got you guys.

Speaker 6 (21:45):
Uh So, I want to preface this with growing up
in the nineties being a passive wrestling fan, heels are
always the badasses.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
I always liked. I always though they were cool.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
Now that being said, Carlos Correa was the poster child
of like Gold Glows of awesomeness at Shortstop and then
after the cheating scandal, he told the beloved Dodgers to
stfu shut their bob mass up and just turned into
just a badass looking at his watch, hitting bombs and

(22:15):
bat flips, and he just basically told the league to
kick rocks and never once really had that apologistic attitude.
And I loved it, and I thought that was a
pretty solid heel turn.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
The only reason why I would disagree with that, Ryan,
is because that's how that's kind of kind of who
he always was.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
I don't think he was.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
He was just getting older and more mature and knowing
his role as a leader. I don't necessarily think that
was something that was like a character change. I think
he was just that way at sixteen or seventeen years old.
He just was different because it was in front of
a bunch of microphones. But I kind of go, you
understand what you're going with this. I want to give
you guys one Ryan, and you jump in on this.
What about the heel turn that Garrett Cole made when

(22:58):
he put the Scott Boris cap fine after the Astros
lost the World Series?

Speaker 2 (23:04):
He won that pre game, doesn't matter, it's a he'll turn.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
Oh my god, I feel like.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
That's a heel turn for that's a heel turn for
Astros fans where we start hating him, I guess was
everybody in the league liked him and then.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahs better than that's Ryan.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Good job Ryan.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
I'll give you a credit to you know, and Ross
is always going to take the other person's over.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
That's not true.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Uh did Bragman make a heel turn a little bit,
but I think he went a face turn. I think
he was more of a heel younger in his career,
and then after this chading scandal, he became.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
More of a face.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
About that. How about what's what's not a face? But
what is it?

Speaker 4 (23:45):
Just like disinterested, like he retired from the game. He
went from heel to retired and going into one ABC
players speak.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah he did. Remember when he came to the office
and he wore a robe.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Yeah that was and he took and he took the Yeah,
I was seventeen.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Because I went and look at the photo photo that
we took.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
And then remember when he used to carry the wearerborough
will Burrow in the uh in the clubhouse or not
the clubhouse, but on the dugout. I mean, oh that's gone.
Now he just like just fist bumps guys, mm hmm.
Maybe he'll be a heal when he comes back to Houston.
I hated you astro fans. I hated Jim Crane. I
hated the fact that you guys didn't respect me. Oh my,

(24:26):
oh yeah. Maybe we should have some people do, He'll turn.
They'd be more fun to cover sports teams. Hmm. Chandler
Parsons at a hill turn for us? Remember how much
you how much he loved Dallas and ripped on Houston?
That was a hill turn.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Let's see when did they go? When did the Red
Sox come?

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Is it may?

Speaker 1 (24:44):
His season might be heating up by then, Like I'm
watching ESPN right now, they're showing a photo of John
Cena hugging Cody Rhodes. The Rock tells him that he
slits his throat out, he's gonna go after him right now.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Wow, unbelievable stuff. Great theater kick them right in the
nads too, apparently. Wow, this is great?

Speaker 2 (25:01):
And why would see who was in the ring with him? Ross? No,
I didn't Travis Scott? Like, what is Travis Scott doing
up there?

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Missouri City legend?

Speaker 2 (25:08):
I know he's a legend, but he's definitely up there.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Why was Travis Scott there? That's a great one. Something
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
But he was beating up Sina too.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
He jumped Travis Scott was, yeah, Okay, he's very unprofessional.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
He's like five foot six.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
I hope that Travis Scott suffers terrible record sales because
of this. Hmm.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Loogle says he's five to ten. I don't know if
he's that tall, all right, Travis six.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Seven one three two one two five seven and he's
speaking of tall jose Al Tube in left field. Some
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Ross continues after he sent it back to Houston for
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You certainly don't want to miss instantly flow its second
would at first no score two outsop of the first
two two head off the end of the backgrounded to
the left side and through the legs of gior May
moving to his left around third coming home, low al
Twove picks up the photo. The plate is up the

(27:14):
line and not in time, goes to the backstop, gets
past Keratini. That will allow Wood to go to third
base and it is one to nothing Nationals.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Probably two errors will be charged.

Speaker 5 (27:26):
On that play, one to Gillora May for having that
ball go between the wickets, and one on al tuo
A for the throw that got past Keratini.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Uh oh, Now we need to be fair and balanced
here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross because that's
what we do.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Ross, we are fair and balanced.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Of course.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
That was was that? Yet that was yesterday? Correct, There's
no way he went to Tampa.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, they were two error stars in the play. I'm
looking at the box score right now. He did make
up for it. And let's give you that was the
low of Jose's throw, and again a lot of people
that were there so that maybe Karatina did not put
the ball very well off that throw, but Jose did
come back later in the game and make up for it.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Two and one.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
He's that's when I left pretty well.

Speaker 7 (28:19):
Al two bays got a shot under the warning track,
reaches how bags the catch in front of the fence,
made the catch and hit into the fence right away,
and he tipped his cap to the guys in the
bullpen who let him know that he was getting close
to the the chain link, and he was thankful for
that guidance from his teammates in left field.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Ross hashtag gold glove.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
He's got my vote.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
You don't get a vote, though, oh, public opinion do. Though,
that's good.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
I do get a vote in the public opinion.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Matt, Yeah, we're going to be in for a little
bit of a little bit of a learning curve with him, right,
I mean, there's just no way we're not gonna just
microscope that everything he goes out there in that direction
doesn't look like the worst throw ever could have been better. Yeah, yeah,

(29:15):
right now, In fairness to him, these ballparks that the
in the spring training don't have the you know, the
little strange nuances that major league ballparks have. For the
most part, I know that that where the Red Sox play,
they have built recruited the monster in left field Fenway,
but most of these ballparks are there's no you know,

(29:35):
like three thirty down the lines in three fifty seven
to one air. I mean, there's regular old ballparks. So
he's going to cover a lot more territory in left
field in West Palm beachs than he would say if
he was doing it at Mini May Park.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
Yes, yes, you're that's great, Matt. He's going to be
a fantastic at left field.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Let's go. So that's why they call you glass half
full of Villa Reale.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Sounds like he's going to be He's gonna be out
there a lot. According to our friend Joe.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Spotta, you want to read the code, you want me
to do it? I want you to do it, all right.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
He spoke to the media.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
I think he was either I'm assuming it was either
this morning or yesterday about how much he's going to
be out there. And I want to pull up the
exact quote here because I don't want to get it
wrong when asked. He still plans to give jose Al
two Bay game reps at second base this year this spring.
The Astros are still not coming into anything, but this,
I believe is the first time Espota has publicly said

(30:32):
could play a majority of games in left.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Field this year. Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Spotu says, right now, the plan is for him to
play the majority of his games and left and the
days that he plays second base opens the door for
Jordan maybe getting a start in the left field, someone
getting a DHDA. So this move allows us to be
creative and do stuff like that. I'm one am I

(30:58):
to tell the truth is gonna be about l two
Bay and what he does with his glove and oh, okay, fine,
I was gonna say I was gonna use it now,
but I'm gonna say it for eleven third. That's good
professional radio teas.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
What I'm trying to look, I'm trying to remember when
Craig Biggio made the move to second base.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
What year that was?

Speaker 1 (31:18):
It had to been early nineties, right, so too? I
think was that long he was behind the.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Oh, I'm sorry, to second base. I'm sorry. I'll take
you into to outfield.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Yeah, to second base was early nineties, and even early
in his career he played in the outfield, did Bigio?

Speaker 2 (31:38):
So O two was the transition to sonerfield?

Speaker 1 (31:41):
And I was a young sportscaster, But I remember talking
about it, honestly, Ross, I gotta be I remember saying
almost the exact same things we're saying right now. A.
Do what's best for the team. B. He's a professional athlete. CE,
he's caught pop flies before in his life. What can
be so bad about it?

Speaker 3 (32:01):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (32:01):
Until we saw him play full center field for Bigio
was three Actually I was a year off and then
full two from off a catcher was ninety two.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Okay, any defensive metrics you can look off of what
you're seeing right there?

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah? How many errors?

Speaker 8 (32:22):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (32:23):
Two inch twelve at second base? Are you talking about
when he went to oh field outfield.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah, uh, just one era, and I'm assuming that's gonna
be on a throw. It's hard to get an air
not not catching a ball unless the ball just literally
drops in front of you.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
You can't see it.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Okay, But the thing that I remember most about Craig
playing center field was that he just couldn't care couldn't
cover as much field as other centerfielders with the Astros
in the previous years. That's so I think we're gonna
find ourselves in a very similar situation. And that's why

(33:05):
Jake Myers has got to keep a professional bat ross
on this team, get going so he can cover single
over the weekend. His ops and spring is moving up
nicely after over nine with a bunch of strike counts.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yeah, he's doing better.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, and we'll see. Uh.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
But honestly, Ross, this is gonna be something we're gonna
be talking about every single day because I think back
in two oh three, we talked about Crank Bigield playing
centerfield every single day. We talked about Remember there was
Talas Hill back then, so he had to go like,
how is his second basement, who's catcher, who's living in
the infield. His entire life go to adjust, having to

(33:50):
go backwards and climbing up a hill. Can I tell
you something right now? And I love and ron to
astros to minute may to now diking.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
What the hell are we thinking about Taws Hill out there?

Speaker 3 (34:04):
I love the Tows Hill. I know I'm in the minority.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
You are in the minority. Ast why you like it?
Because it is so nineteen.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
It's so stupid. It's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
It's really stupid that you would take a part of
the field and artificially add a bump to it.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
The reason you hate it is the reason I love it.
Why the hell is there a mound in the middle
of center field and.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
The flag poles are in play?

Speaker 1 (34:30):
There's a flagpole in play? It makes no sense. It's
completely ridiculous. I love it. Like you're putting a hill
on in the middle of a basketball court somewhere at
the three point line. Climb up the hill and take them.
You can get a better look at the at a
straight on three.

Speaker 4 (34:45):
Let's put an obstacle course in right center. You know
tires people got to run through to go get a ball.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
Or one hundred yard football field at the thirty yard line.
You have to there's like a zone you can't go
around in this compared to going straight.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
It's like, let's go ahead and play facking jock basketball
a baseball in the middle of the National League.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
It makes no sense.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
The reason they did is because during when Minute May
Park was built or Dikeing Park, excuse me, when Diyken
Park was built.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Was it was during the heyday.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Of nostalgia and old school and they thought, well, you know, Talismith,
they've been around forever, and that they wanted to try
something different. That was kind of an ode to what
baseball parks did back in the forties and fifties. Well,
not everything in nineteen fifty seven, Ross was cool. And
I will be honest with you, My guess is when
I was young sportscaster and oh my god, we're getting

(35:34):
out of the astronym of this brand new downtown palace,
I probably liked Styles Hill. But now that I've grown
up a little bit and aged and you know, think
about it a little.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Bit, it was stupid. It was une and thankfully nobody
really got hurt.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
Yeah, see it's all right. People man had iconic plays
running up there.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
Ask Leans Berkman I don't think last Berkman puts that
on his resume and his real tape.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
I don't think he puts it up there.

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Speaker 1 (37:39):
Matt Ross with you till eleven fifty five, so just
over an hour left to go on the radio program.
Today we're talking a little bit about Jose Altuve and
his playing left field yesterday and also on Friday and
Ross we have a little bit of audio coming from
West Palm Beach this morning. Yes, Matthew, First of all,
Jose l Tuov, how about that catch on the wall.

Speaker 9 (38:01):
You know it was kind of like a did fly
ball right on the on the fans, but made a
great play.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Yeah, good to be the first one.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (38:10):
I kind of like saw the ball going high and
I'm like, okay, that's going back. And then I saw
the wall saw the ball and I'm like, okay, it's
going to be interesting to see.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
So I got it and then I hit the wall.
But it was a it was a great play. Like
I said, I saw the ball, I saw.

Speaker 9 (38:23):
The fence, I know that they were getting close to
his shoulder, and in the last second I was like,
oh my god, I got to cash it.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
So he was like boom boom, boom, boom boom and
boom Matthew. That's all he does. I don't know how
much to say, except it sounds like he's bitter.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
I mean, I think he's like, you know what, I'll
try this one not. I mean, I'm in the time
of the tail end of my major league career. I
think he'd love to get to three thousand hits. I
don't think I think he's gonna come all a little
bit short. I hope I'm wrong about that. He's going
to be really, really good for still a pretty good
length of time. But I think he smart.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Enough to realize that his days covering a lot of
ground at second base are long gone, and you know what,
you've got to reinvent yourself. Sometimes later in your career.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
Change is necessary. Sometimes, Matt adaptability is important.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
Jose L tvea Ha says every play he makes will
help his confidence.

Speaker 9 (39:19):
He feels like every five ball I get or every
play I made is gonna be helping to get confidence
to start the season. So hopefully you get a lot
in spring training and if you know form matting error
or a great place learned from that and anything that
can help me for the season, you know it's going
to be obviously positive.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yeah, nothing overly crazy about that comment, Thank you, Jose.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
He's getting more com Repetition gonna be good.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yeah. Repetition is everything. It's gonna get wrapped and it
makes a lot of sense. M hm.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
He said all the right things. Anything else that's it?

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Okay? Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
I would say the number of controversial things Jose Altube
has said as a major leaguer is probably an done
on one hand with two fingers to spare.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
Right, I can get you a Joe a spot of
comment on l two VA's throw at home.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Let's do it. You know.

Speaker 10 (40:19):
I also liked when he came in and he made
that strong throw to the plate. I thought, you know,
we show arm strength the you know one hop I
wish we'd have done, you know, a better job of
finishing to play and backing up home plate. But I like,
I like the aggressiveness he came in. He knew what
to throw the ball, all those things. You know, he's
again positioning himself properly, looking in and and asking feedback from.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
You know, from the coaches every every inning.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
You know, Joe's gonna be in a tough spot here
because people are gonna be looking to nitpick everything that
Jose does in the left field. So I think anytime
it's gonna be asked about it, and this one include
when he joins us on Tuesdays during the year.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Roussie, I think he's gonna have to be overly how
would you say it kind, He's gonna yeah, yeah, I want.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
To Joe is in the first place. He's positive, right.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
But I think especially with a guy that was asked
to do something that he wasn't probably, I don't know if,
like when he put the glove down for the final
game of the season against Detroit last year in the
walk card. I don't think he was thinking, Man, I'm
coming back nexture's a left fielder.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
I mean, it sounded like to me.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
The conversation took place a lot sooner than maybe a
lot of his thought.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
But to ask somebody.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Who has played one position his entire major league career
to all of a sudden a death that can't be easy.
Some guys flat out will say no.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
I mean the ross.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
There are a lot of guys that have caught for many,
many years, like, I'm a catcher and you mean me
to first base is not acceptable. I don't want to
do that. The good ones make those adjustments, and thankfully.
I mean, look at the situation with what's happening in
third base with the Red Sox. I mean, who's the
guy that was with with Bregman right now? I'm trying
to name blank on that. Yeah, Rafael Devers. He's like, no,

(42:03):
I'm a third baseman. Hose they never did, never said that.

Speaker 4 (42:07):
Yeah, the Red Sox told Devers to shut his bumb
ass up.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
I haven't looked at a lot of box scorers, but
I'm assuming that Bregman's gonna probably comfortably be at third
base when when.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
The dust settles, because if there's anybody.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
In Major League Baseball that gives zerops about what a
player I think is probably Alex Scorra.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
I think he was born with the red ass.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Yeah he was.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
Let's see, uh Bregman in their last game was at
third base. Devers not in a lineup hmm.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
And I'm sorry, Ross, but you know this as well
as I do. You can't platoon third base for a
guy making forty MILLI you just can't.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
No, So are we gonna spend a lot of time
on the Red Sox for Shure? I think we're going
to more than.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
A little bit, maybe more than we normally would. Yeah,
been at third base the whole time there. Basically, here's
how it's gonna work. People are gonna be like, I
don't care what he did.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
How do you do last night?

Speaker 3 (42:59):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
I think that's a lot of people like that, like, oh,
I don't care where he signs, nobody cares where he went, Okay,
what oh he went over for ha ha. Well it's
like your ex girlfriend, I don't care what she's doing
if she's standing somebody else. Now you look at a
picture on Instagram that may be my great analogy of
the week. I'm gonna go ahead and chalk that up
as a win for me.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
That's a good one. Actually, you might want to go
ahead and be that one and.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
Not make it. The rest of are gonna suck. They
just are.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
You're doing great math.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
Ok.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Alex pregnant is the ex girlfriend that left you, but
you don't care about her, but you ask about her
all the time.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
M hmm. It's like when when you have a couple.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Oh, you said you weren't gonna do it anymore.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Oh, you're right. Let mean, you know what I'm starting
right where I'm at. I'm one for one.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
Into fifteen seconds before you to try again. I tried
and you stopped me. And for that, I thank you.
I thank you very much. To tell the truth is
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Speaker 2 (44:26):
Did you see what Bill self did yesterday?

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Ross I did not.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Well, we'll tell you what he did and how peculiar
it was for a coach of his statue to do
such a thing. We will also get to the astros
a little bit if you want to. Some Texans chatter
for the combiners in the books, and also.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Two schools in the ACC.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Told the conference you need to pay us more or
we're going to sue your ass. And those schools basically
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Sports RV, and at Connor d McGovern. Rockets against the
thunder tonight. Numerous players on the injured list. Doesn't necessarily
mean they're not going to play, but it feels like
to me that with a back to back tonight against
Oklahoma City tomorrow against Indiana, that the Rockets will be
not at full strength on either tonight or tomorrow. Ross

(47:22):
they were full strength on Saturday and lost to the
Sacramento Kings.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
It was not pretty. What is it to do?

Speaker 1 (47:27):
What's to do with the Sacramento Kings.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
I've had enough of the Sacramento Kings.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Demarta Rosen's had enough of the Rockets. Actually, he wants
to buy more of them. He can picking fights and whatnot.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
Terrible offense just wasn't good enough.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
I don't do you think there's a problem with the
with the rockets, turning the engine on and getting to
sixty miles an hour really really quick.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
I just think I don't know. Everybody that they have
on offense.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
Is good, but nobody is consistent, and nobody is let's say,
like matchup proof. Jalen Green sometimes can just kind of
sleep walk through games, not that he did that on Saturday.
Alprin Chingoon can struggle, and especially at the free throw
he missed seven free throws.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
On Saturday. You lost by ten. That's that's pretty significant.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
And you're not expecting everybody to go one d percent. No, no,
he does.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
You're looking at four points at least you left on
the board, maybe even five. Because Opera and Shingoon beginning
of the first two months of the Yarross was shooting
about seventy five percent of the free throw line. Now
he's down under seventy mm hmm. So that's a pretty
that's a pretty significant drop over about a three month
span there. And then yeah, everybody else, I think Amend's what,

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when's the last time he went off for well, I
guess he had twenty five points a couple.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Of games ago, right against San Antonio.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
I think, guess san Antonio.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
But his his scoring when he first hit the scene,
he was scoring like crazy. Remember, he was scoring like
almost twenty points a game. And then everybody, everybody knew
not to let him score and not to let I mean,
to back off and let him shoot.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
But I think it's more drilled into the rest of
the league. Hey keep an eye out on this guy,
and everybody backs off of him completely. And he's got
a score with you know, he's got to start putting
pull ups in the middle of the lane, and he's
got to get a little bit more creative.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
And sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
Well.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
The thing and I've asked this to e May several times,
and I think aman Thompson has tremendous basketball like you,
I mean I think he is well advanced for his
young age and his young experience, just.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
Being the second year in the league. But tell me,
I'm crazy to go from playing point guard to power
forward and back and forth on that and moving around
in different things that I don't know if it's gonna
wear on a guy because he's such a smart player,
but I think there's got to be a little bit
of not awkwardness. But I mean it'd be like if

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you were a baseball player you played third base one day.
Stay with me on this, you played third base on Monday,
you're in right field on Tuesday, and you caught on Wednesday.
I mean, there'd be a little bit of adjustment to
something would have to suffer because of that, don't you think.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
I don't think it's that big of a deal.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
In basketball in twenty twenty five, it's mostly positionless. Like
how we were talking last week, Tory and Prince is
a forward, but he was listened at guard. I mean,
he's not like he was guarding there and cross matching
and men Thompson generally isn't guarding the power forward on
the other side. Depending on how things are going, and
I mean generally on matchups you're gonna have Dylan Brooks

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guarding the bigger, bulkier guys on the other teams rather
than am Men Thompson. He's normally gonna be guarding against wings.

Speaker 4 (50:44):
So just because fred Van Vlanvit's in there, it does
change when you're more of a primary ball handler and
you have to get other guys involved, maybe offensively. But
I don't think it's something that should be wearing him
down much physically.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Okay, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
I just feel like that he played aid so much
in January and February because of friend's absence, and that
there were nights where he just the ball just wasn't
coming out of his hand particularly good. Where if he
was playing regular minutes and knew what he was playing
and did it at one particular position, would that make
a difference. Again, the rockets is a coaching staff do
a phenomenal job of preparing him for the individual matchup

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coming up?

Speaker 2 (51:22):
There's no, There's no.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
He doesn't walk on the court at four point thirty
and go, man, what am I doing tonight? So I
give him credit for that and then give the coaching
staff for that. But I just I don't know. I
would just think if you did that in baseball, and again,
basketball and baseball two different things, but I think that
you'd have some slippage, maybe not on the offensive side,
but certainly from a defensive position if you're playing all

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over the spots and in different nights, in different games.
Let's see what else is going on. We mentioned that
the Lakers are playing really well. They have bumped up
to their now percentage points behind Denver for the number
two spot in the West.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
The Lakers are third. Rockets will have again tonight, Oklahom
the stead tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
Yeah, Lakers are second. Actually, you know what, I.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Keep seeing that, but the numbers tell me the am
I differently.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Six forty four percentage Lakers six thirty nine Nuggets.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
Is what I see. I just have the ESPN page
pulled up.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
Oh you know what they changed since this morning because Denver.
I woke up at four o'clock this morning and Denver
was a number two spot. So yeah, five percentage points.
The Rockets were to start the playoffs today.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
Memphis at Memphis.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
The ain't scared. We want to beat them.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Not about being scared, but come on, man, beat the Kings,
beat the Jazz.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
Gotta win these games.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
Man, still time, there's still time, but there must win
games down the stretch. Mat No, they're not Rockets get
to fifty. They'd have to go thirteen and nine easy.
So without going through every game, you still have two

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more with Utah, two more in New Orleans. But you
do have two more with Oklahoma City, two more with
the Lakers, a Clippers game. Clippers aren't great anymore. You
have one one more Golden State eighteenth, most difficult schedule remaining.

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Lakers are three, Denver is four, Memphis is ten, so
you get the weakest schedule remaining of all of them.
Let's go come on in that top four.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Rockets only a game and a half out of the two. Honestly,
that's not bad.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
Either two would be nice, two would be dream scenario.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
You know what's nice though, And I know that maybe
this is a resonate with a lot of folks. Us
talking about playoffs is gonna be fun, Ralse, it's been
a while and for you all enjoy basketball, it's kind
of nice. And then we're not having to you know,
like April twelfth, there it was your another NBA season
of the books. So there you have it on that.
What else is going on in sports. I'm missing anything.

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I mentioned Rockets Astros playing against the Martins.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
We did.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
We did a deep dive on the John Sina heel turn.
We're all good.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
People wrote gentle up on the sale Scena Hill turn.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Huge.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
It was big.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
Yeah, I know, I'm agreeing with you.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
You know what, You're gonna wind up watching some WrestleMania.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
And that is zero points. It's the pay per view
in it.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
Uh people, but it's not Netflix. It'll be fine.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
M don't you have to pay? Do you have to
pay for it on Netflix? I don't think it's I
don't think it's a special Netflix pay No, you do
you honestly think I'm gonna end up watching WrestleMania.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Why don't you come to the house.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
That's the last time I watched WrestleMania was that you
were your house.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
We wrestleman.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
I got told to never come back.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
That's not true that that was a decade ago. You're
a lot back. Your ten year sentence is over.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
Okay, I've done my time.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
Yeah, just don't make fun of our cheese sticks like
you did a Teresa his house.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
I look.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
They were flavorless.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
I know they were you know that you had them.
Never find flavor. If I'm out mad, if I ever
hose the party and I'm selling this and serving you
flavorless food, flavorless food, let me know.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
I'm not gonna do that.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
I'm not gonna be It's giving a public service.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Sometimes you just say nothing at all.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
Yeah, but sometimes you gotta let people know.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
I don't think. I don't, I don't think. Honestly, it's
always the best policies.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
It's not like she was back there handbretding them. They
were frozen out.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
Of a box.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
Just buy the box next to him next time, get
the different brand. It's like, Okay, I'm gonna give you
some advice. You don't if you go to somebody's house
and something doesn't taste good, sometimes just don't.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
I'm gonna let them know.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
You are gonna let them know. Yeah, I got you,
all right.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
Seven one three two one two five SEVENINTI Kansas coach
Bill self and his Jayhawks are in town for the
Houston Cougars, and he put on a really peculiar release.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
I don't know why he did.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
This, but we'll discuss that coming back in a minute.
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Speaker 2 (57:50):
It is Matt and Ross with you.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
I'm here in Oklahoma City for tonight's game with the
hated Oklahoma City thunder Hated because they're ridiculously good.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Look, I want the Rockets to go to.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
The NBA Finals, who win the whole championship even when
they were losing sixty games a year. I mean, wasn't
theoretically possible, but I mean, I'd make no bones about it.
Oklahoma City Ross versus Cleveland. If those two teams, and
they have been number one in their respective conferences all
year long, if they wind up being the representatives for
both the East and West, it might be the least
talked about finals, but it may be one of the

(58:23):
best finals. Those two teams will play seven knockdown, drag
out on the edge of your seat games.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Yeah, it'll be fun to watch.

Speaker 2 (58:32):
For some of us, for a few of us, for
not many of us.

Speaker 4 (58:38):
I think Boston still makes it even though they're they're
way behind in the standings.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
But I don't know.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
Maybe it's dumb to Doug Cleveland at this point.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
Boston was up twenty five to three over the weekend
to Cleveland and they're all beating their chests and the
Cavaliers came back and won at Boston.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
H So I'm just saying, Okay, we got to tell
the truth coming up at the bottom of the hour.
So people are idiots ros. I don't know if you realize
that or not.

Speaker 3 (59:03):
Yeah, that's rule one of life for me.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
There is a Zeke Mayo who plays for Kansas and
unfortunately he has been the subject of threatening and racist
messages on social media. This after Texas Tech went to Lawrence,
Kansas and beat them seventy eight to seventy three. What happened,

(59:26):
I'll repeat it again, Zeke Mayo the subject of threatening
and racist messages on social media after Texas Tech beat
Kansas in Lawrence seventy eight to seventy three.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
Well, Tech fan was saying racist stuff.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
No, no, no, I know you're not real understanding it was
probably Kansas fans doing it. I was Kansas fans, I
guess I am.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Apparently Mayo posted a sample of the messages in social
media in which fans called him a racial slur, made
veiled threats, and incited self harm, among other things, and
posted He posted a few those messages and also is
issued apology.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
For not playing better man. Kansas fan, you gotta check yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
So the odd thing about this whole situation is if
I had one of my players do that and tell
me that some of my own throat were posting messages
about such hateful things over something silly like basketball. At
the end of the day, it's silly, it's sports, Okay.
So Bill self went out and said and published a

(01:00:29):
release on this, and I don't want to read the
whole thing, but the reality is this In the second paragraph,
he said this, we competed, we tried it. Speaking of
the game against sexist Tech, we.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Came up short.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
And I'm proud of their efforts, and I'm also proud
of their preparation to be ready for the game. We
haven't had the overall year that we had hope for ourselves,
nor the year that many other people have expected. But
it was hesnittant because of lack of caring. I can
do a lot of things better. We can all do
a lot of things better. But I'll roll with these
guys every day and I'm proud of it. At about
the team should be directed at me. I'm the head
coach now, while I have plugged that in him taking

(01:01:07):
the responsibility because he's the one that's getting paid, I mean, gazillion.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
Dollars be the coach of Kansas.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
If I'm going to put a release out after one
of my kids on my team said that he was
getting racial slurs directed at because of his play, I
would say.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Either you're with us or you're against us.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
And if I ever find out any of you have
said any of these things, and I found out who
you are, You'll never get to go to a Kansas
basketball game again, and I'll do everything in my power
to expel you. It was it was just to me,
a nice thing to do, but an odd thing to
do that. He would basically say, look, if you want
to make cracks at us, do.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
It at me, not the kids.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
Yeah, so you know, I just I would have zero
tolerance as a coach to be polite to anybody that
was hurling such nasty things at one of my players.

Speaker 4 (01:02:02):
And I don't understand exactly what he's trying to accomplish
with this statement.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
He's obviously he's not saying if you want to hurle
insults doing to me, nobody wants that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
I mean, I guess it is.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
I applaud him for saying what for going on and
defending his player, but he was just too nice.

Speaker 3 (01:02:27):
Yeah, he didn't say much of anything.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
Yeah, it was just kind of vanilla sort of, Hey,
we're trying our best, and if there's any problems, you
can put them at me, don't put one of our players. Well,
first of all, players can be subjtetute criticism now, especially
because they're paying, they're getting being paid like professional athletes.
I think I think hands are off now. If you
want to criticize college basketball players, especially that they're highly compensated,

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I'm all for that, because it's not they're having to
grow up because there's a financial responsibility. But no matter
if he was making a half million dollars or zero,
using racial slurs and attacking people's personal, personal characteristics or
anything about him isn't is unacceptable.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
I don't think Bobby Knight, and as crazy ass as
he was, Bobby Knight would not put out a three paragraph,
polite sentences uh statement. Basically, if one of his players
was having Rachel hurled at him, be like, why don't
you come in here and send it to his face?

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
It's also I mean, this anonymous online world that we
live in, this is just gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
It's just it's the reality of it. It's not shouldn't
be that way. It's partly like just ignore it. You
can't do the best you can to ignore. It's what
you do, right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
And the reason I bring this up is because Kansas
is here in town to night for the Cougars.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
It's a big Monday game on ESPN. Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
But yeah, they're not having this. I mean they look
the Cougar's one up there and one Texas text one
up there. Kansas is just mid this year, which is
strange to say because you never thought Kansas would ever
be mid in anything, especially basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
But I just I, first of all, I feel sorry
for the kid, but.

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
Secondly, man, I would have zero I would not be
polite at all towards anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
That was doing that to one of my kids.

Speaker 4 (01:04:10):
Yeah, I think it's a bit of a weak statement
from Bill self, And as far as the comments and
stuff like that, it's unfortunate that I have to kind
of feel like it's par for the course in twenty
twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
Yeah, he just is. People are just yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
People, it's what they're doing. It is because it's anonymous.

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
They're doing it because they can go on their burner
and then nobody's gonna know, they're not gonna use their face.
And then when you give people this anonymity, they can
say anything. It almost makes more sense for him to
say nothing, for Zeke Mayo to say nothing at all
than none of us are known about it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
I don't even know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
I mean, but yeah, just because something is gonna be
that way, I don't know, that doesn't mean I guess
you can't try to combat against it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Yeah, I mean I feel bad for the kid. I do,
and he's still our kids.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
I mean, there may be compensated, but it doesn't matter.
I don't care if you're making thirty million dollars a
year or three thousand dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
You gotta be better than that. America's gotta be better.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
But social media is allowed anonymity, and I'm not gonna
let an egg emoji on an avatar at Kansas Jayhawk
fan for Life throw terrible things at me and go,
oh I should feel bad about this.

Speaker 4 (01:05:15):
Just block them, Block and mute, folks, Block and mute
is your friend, Block and mute, Block and mute, and
then when you're done with that, block and mute some more.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Yeah, we should get t shirts made. Block and mute.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
I like that, except for ad sports empty.

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
You.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
I mean, I know who's muting me? You do absolutely
not like not. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
There's like there's no website at telling me. But I
but I can tell when people don't pay attention to
what I'm saying because they'll ask me things and they're like, man,
if you would mute, you'll be able to see what
I was talking about. Oh, I'm not naming names. Oh,
but it's like somebody asked me about my daughter the
other day, and I think I put up a few
posts about my daughter.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
And if you follow me on Twitter, you a bible
to figure out.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
No, maybe they missed them, Matt. They're not always all there.
They're always on Twitter. When you're on Twitter.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
This person never likes any of my stuff. I know
who this person is. Don't worry about it. I don't
even live in town. Don't worry about it. I'm not worried. Good,
all right, you writ for some Tell the Truth?

Speaker 8 (01:06:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Why are you chuckling back there? I'm not okay?

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
Ummm, we we're gonna say, oh, I have four topics,
three of which I believe, so you believe one three
this time?

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
Yes, one I do not believe.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
It's very confusing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
It's not confusing. I tell you that. I'm very clear
what I tell you this every single time?

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Got it?

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
How many are you gonna believe?

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Ross, I'm gonna believe. How many do you gonna believe?

Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
You're only gonna believe three of them?

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
There you go, you figured it out. I like it.
I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
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the Truth is coming up next, where Connor and Russell
decide which one of my four takes I do not believe.
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Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
I never know I have four takes three much.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
I believe I'm telling the truth on three of them
when I'm not all right.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
Here we go boys. Good luck to you. Uh take
number one.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
If you're an Astro fan, I highly suggest you not
watch the Boston Red Sox and Alex Spregman this year.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
Ross and Connor. He's gonna crush it at Fenway Park.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
I don't know what the exact numbers are going to be,
but we're going to It's gonna be a major storyline
for us as a baseball CONNOI sewers about how good
of a season he has topped a bottom and that
includes having a much better late March in April than
he ever had with the Astros.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Okay, okay. Number two.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
The Giants need a franchise quarterback and there are a
lot of rumors that they could be moving up with
the number one overall position. The logical thought for them
in twenty twenty five is to sign Aaron Rodgers to
a one year contract. It makes sense for Aaron. He'll
get good money, b he doesn't have to move and

(01:09:30):
see there'll be a little pressure on him to succeed
and anything he does will be beneficial while the other
quarterback is ready to go, and Aaron Rodgers will be
for the first time in his career, he is ego
checked and if he gets replacement of the year, he's
got to live with it because one of the things
that he always complained about back in the day was
that Brett Favre number wanted to teach him anything. He

(01:09:52):
will be the opposite. Aaron Rodgers should sign a one
year deal with the New York Giants.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Three.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
The Automatic Ball Strike System I never know is so
good in the limited games that I've watched it that
if I was Major League Baseball, I would say, get
ready twenty twenty six. The ABS is ready to go,
and we got a whole year of minor league baseball
to work on any other nuances and any other logistical
issues that at the end of the day, it's moving

(01:10:23):
along nicely.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
It's not delaying games.

Speaker 1 (01:10:26):
ABS should be in play for twenty twenty six Major League.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
Baseball with the challenge system.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
I am at the challenges es.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
Yeah, okay, you Rosherr dreams of every pitch is never
gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
I wouldn't say never.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
I'm gonna say never and number four.

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
This is not what I want, But I think the
fascination with pickleball is growing and growing and growing. Knowing
what I know about the Olympics Ross and how they
put goofy ass things in there, I think pick a
ball is gonna ben Olympic a sport event in twenty
twenty eight.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
I don't know why it's.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
Coming, because again it's just basically quarter of the tennis
and less effort and less sweating. That's got fast paced action.
We've seen goofier things like three on three put in there,
and handball and beach volleyball. Pick a ball is going
to be a twenty twenty eight Olympic sport. And if
they can't do it by twenty twenty eight, it'll be
by twenty thirty two.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
So you better get ready.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
Pick a ball will be a part of your summer
Olympics in the near future.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
Which one of the four do?

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
I not believe Bragman's gonna crush Rogers should be a
giant for one year. ABS Challenge system should be in
playing twenty twenty six. Pick a ball will be an
Olympic sport, if not for twenty eight, certainly by twenty
thirty two. I gotta give it to you, Mat, These
are some horrible takes. So I don't know where to go. Oh,
I think I know.

Speaker 3 (01:11:52):
Oh, usually usually I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
But I feel like you got a good feel that
you got a good beat on this one.

Speaker 8 (01:11:59):
I think think so Connor McGovern and I say that,
and I'm gonna be wrong and you're gonna win. Like
I might agree with you. It's about winning. It's about
picking what what's right. No, it's about Yeah, it's about winning.
It's about winning and losing. I don't care that much,
but he cares about it so much it makes it
that much more fun if I win. So you care
about it exactly. I don't care. Until you care, then

(01:12:20):
it makes me care. Okay, what I follow? I think
it's got to be two. He doesn't believe the Giants
should sign Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
Hmmm.

Speaker 8 (01:12:30):
I feel like everything else Matt could believe, even though
he is kind of ridiculous. I believe Matt believes it.
I think the abs Chunce system will be implemented, uh huh.
And then yeah, I think Matt thinks Pregnant will crush
at Finnway. So it's got to be two in my opinion.

Speaker 4 (01:12:48):
Mm hmm, okay, uh that was I mean, to me,
the three is the most believable one.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
I'm gonna throw that one out after that, I'm I mean,
I'm just gonna go with.

Speaker 3 (01:13:06):
Number four.

Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
All Right, guys, we're gonna be really pissed off. Alex
Prevergan's gonna crush this year.

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
I don't know that for a fact.

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
But my mind, why do you think that? Because I
think that left field is gonna be his best friend,
that's sure.

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
Port He had a short porch over here in Houston,
but if but.

Speaker 1 (01:13:26):
He always mashed at Benway, and some guys just like
playing in certain ballparks.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
And I think that there's gonna be forty million reasons.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
Now he's already got the forty MILLI but I think
he's looking I really think he wants to get out
of this new contract. I think he wants to be
a one and done in Boston.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Because if that was the case, if he didn't want
to be a one and done, he would have signed
a three year deal and called it a day, because
that's forty million dollars is a great money.

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
I think he was so sure he was gonna mash.
He would have gotten a big deal from somebody.

Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
Yeah, I think he's gonna mash, and I think we're
gonna be really pissed off.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
So number one, I believe.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
Two the ABS. I love it, and I've only seen
a handful of games for it now. Again, we can't
see it in West Palm Beach because they don't have
it implemented there. But the games I've seen on MLB
Network and the games I've seen when the Astros are
on the road.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
Ross, I think it's fantastic. I really do.

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
Now it's a one hundred percent efficiency at this point,
I don't know. I've only seen it a very small
sample size. But give Major League Baseball an entire season
of working out the little kinks on this, We're gonna
get ABS.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
In twenty twenty six, and I hope we do. I
really do. I think it's great.

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
Last Aaron Rodgers is not done playing football. I don't
think he's going to retire. I don't think you can
get any more than a one year down anywhere else.
You might as well go somewhere where you're gonna at
least play for a year until the other quarterbacks are
ready to go, and the Giants need to have a
quarterback hit on this one, whether they move up to

(01:14:55):
number one or get something else. I think Aaron Rodgers
hunning a one year deal to stay in New York.
The Giants would be the best of both worlds. You're
not ready to win yet. Aaron'sn't ready to retire yet.
Wait for that number one pick to get ready to go.
Aaron Rodgers should sign a one year deal with the Giants.
The one thing I.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
Don't believe pick a ball sucks. It just does.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
I mean, it's fun to play with your bros when
you're fifty five, but I don't want to see twenty
four year olds playing pick a ball at the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
That's absurd.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
So please Olympics, don't put pickle ball in the Olympics,
because if that's the case, then you gotta put a
game like backgammon or a game of dominoes in the Olympics.

Speaker 4 (01:15:37):
See Connor, you had to pay attention for this one.
He was crushing pick a ball last week.

Speaker 8 (01:15:41):
I know he was, but I feel like he was
so his takes are sometimes over to ye.

Speaker 1 (01:15:46):
I know he actually believe it is in front of me. Yeah,
you know. Don't get me wrong, Connor, there was a
lot of bad takes on this thought. I overanalyzed this one.
I was overthinking it. I was over calculating.

Speaker 8 (01:15:55):
I thought Matt would believe the most ridiculous one of
the bunch this time.

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
Like you, sometimes, I think.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
It's ridiculous to say that Bregman is just gonna crush
as a Red Sox.

Speaker 3 (01:16:03):
Well, that's fine, but we'll see. I mean, I hope,
I hope, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
I'm not begrudging pickleball as an event. I have a
lot of seems like you have a lot of friends.
But let's not overseell what it is. Does anybody burn
a hundred calories playing pickleball for two hours?

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
You do?

Speaker 2 (01:16:22):
Are you sure? Yes? Now, please don't bring this up
to you make because he loves.

Speaker 3 (01:16:26):
I'm gonna bring it up.

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
No, you're not.

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
You're you're trashing pickleball.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
I'm not trashing. I'm just saying, because here's what if
I trash it? He found out. But he's like, let's
get out there, ma, let's go out there, Matt. Let's
see how you do. I want to do that. I
want to face embarrassment by the NBA head coach, because.

Speaker 1 (01:16:41):
You know what he would dog cuss me if once
you figured out what that meant.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
I know what it meant. He didn't know what it meant.
Now he does.

Speaker 1 (01:16:49):
Matt, would you rather have Sam Darnold or Ann Rodgers? Oh,
Ross's Is this an obvious answer?

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
That's to me?

Speaker 4 (01:17:02):
I think, all right, I would go Sam Donald. I agree,
I don't know this is super obvious. This is not
the worst question ever. I'm gonna go with Donald just
because he's younger.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
And there was signs that he did good play well.

Speaker 1 (01:17:14):
I mean, I don't think Aaron played really great at
any point for the Jets, but granted he also had
nothing around him.

Speaker 2 (01:17:18):
I mean, Devanta Adams is a step slow. Running backs
couldn't stay healthy all.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
Karrett Wilson's good.

Speaker 1 (01:17:23):
They got decent tied end, they got run two good
running backs.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
It's terrible. They were nothing going on over there.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
But why were they so bad? Was it? Because? Do
you think I were Rodgers? The reason why they were
so bad? If they were, tell.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
Me I think he was mid I mean, how many
games did they win?

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
Not many? Beat the Texans?

Speaker 3 (01:17:40):
Well, yeah, they they did that one.

Speaker 2 (01:17:44):
Yeah. Look, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:17:45):
I want to make sure I'm claris. I'm not anti pickaball.
I just don't the fact that the national fascination.

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
With it is crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
Matt hates you and he hates pick the ball, folks.

Speaker 8 (01:17:55):
Just I would believe it because in twenty twenty it'll
be in the US and the U it's like a
pick up all.

Speaker 2 (01:18:00):
It's like a US thing. So I thought about it,
but I was wrong. I lost.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
But you know what, you were very diplomatic about it,
and for that I appreciate. Maybe maybe your partner over
here because you learn take your l Connor, I'll take it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:12):
Take dead light. So rude.

Speaker 1 (01:18:15):
All right, Uh real quick before we get to this
next time out, do you see Florida sitting Clemson a
few months ago?

Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
Ross remember they.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
Were suing the acc Yeah, what's going on with that?
They're gonna be They're gonna bow to that. They're not
gonna sue anymore. You know why that is?

Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
Are they getting more money or something.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
They're gonna get more money than everybody else in the conference.

Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
That makes sense.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
So there is a there's two different pies.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
And I didn't not read the whole story, but I'm
just to summarize walk quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
There's a there's a pie that gives that of the
other schools will equally.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
Distribute among the fourteen ACC schools whatever that dollar amount is.
Then there's another set of money, which I believe is
tied to television, that is sixty percent, and that of
that sixty percent sent Floria State and Clemson are going
to get more of it because they're saying, honestly, what
if ACC football is on, what are you watching? Are
you watching Florida standing Clemson or you're watching Wake Forest

(01:19:12):
versus Louisville. Okay, So Florida State and Clemson sued and said,
we're better than you. We don't care if in the
same conference, it doesn't matter, and we want more money,
and apparently they're gonna They're going to get it always
comes down to money.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
Isn't it interesting that that's how you're gonna keep these
conferences alive? Because if they would have not done it,
I would have I would have me. I didn't given
Florida say that stayed at blank blank check. I mean
another football program is you know, look, last year was terrible,
but two years ago they were almost the in the
in the college football playoff, and Florida State has a
huge national name at least in my opinion, so judas
Clemson for that matter, football wise.

Speaker 1 (01:19:52):
Mm hm. So if I'm the accum and if all
of a sudden, Virginia Tech called me and said, what
are you guys doing? Like broh, nobody's.

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
Watching v Tech.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
Sorry, these television dollars are being like in like in
the in the SEC, you can say Auburn and Alabama,
in Georgia, who else, Florida. They all have these huge
fan bases that draw huge television rating.

Speaker 3 (01:20:16):
Huh, you didn't mention Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
Texas, Oklahoma, A and m I mean big television dollar.

Speaker 2 (01:20:23):
I mean nobody's watching Vanderbilt. But that's that's they're at
the attity.

Speaker 3 (01:20:26):
I'm gonna have some slappies in there.

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
Yeah, in the ACC who you watching? May mean Miami
probably has the biggest uh contention on this.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
Yeah, you have a bunch of programs that kind of
I don't want to call them sleeping giants. But if
Virginia Tech used to be really good and people got
into that same thing, like Georgia Tech had its runs
here and there, Mike La Boston College.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
I think Miami is gonna be passed about this.

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
At the end of the day, Pig like Pitt has
had some history, Pitt Stanford, but none of them are
none of them are up to par of where they
could be, including Florida State and Clemson right now. Yeah,
So if you're in Miami going, why are you getting
Florida State all this love? They won like three games
last year.

Speaker 4 (01:21:08):
It feels like the ACC could be a really really
strong conference with these brands, but none of them are
up to par.

Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
You know what it is. They all can't stay on
on top or the SEC.

Speaker 1 (01:21:18):
Even Alabama, with a slight dip this year, was on
the precipice of making the top twelve. Georgia lose a
couple of games, and yet people still think they're really
really good.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
I mean, I don't know it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
It's what I've learned over the last few months is
at ross at the end of the day, it's it's
the Big ten, it's the eight, it's the SEC, and it's.

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
Everybody else fighting for third. It really is.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
And I think that the Florida State, I think the
AC is like, I mean, we got to stay relevant
if we can't lose those two schools. If you lost
Florida State and Clemson to another conference, you would dramatically
weaken their football, even though you mentioned Miami's been good
for a while. Tech had some run, Louisville's had some run.
Those they just don't bring the sets that that Forest

(01:22:04):
in and Clemson do.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:22:06):
Final segment of the Matt Thomas showed. Ross is coming
up next eleven forty five here on Sports Talk seven
ninety seven to one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety one.
Final segment, Come in Say Hello to Us seven one
three two one two five seven ninety The Man Tana
Show with Ross continues on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
Wow, ROSSI three quick things. I just put a tweet
out with a.

Speaker 1 (01:22:36):
Funny, I mean ridiculously funny sketch from SNL on Saturday.
It's called Couple of Beers. I've seen it. What do
you think it's hilarious? We got that's one of the
ones Like I was showing it to my brother and
he had people sending into it like him.

Speaker 4 (01:22:53):
I think that's one of the more shared ones. It's
it's one of the funnier skits in the last I
don't know couple decades.

Speaker 1 (01:23:00):
Really, just go watch it. You'll laugh your ass off.
Who is the guy that's on that show with?

Speaker 2 (01:23:07):
Who is it?

Speaker 1 (01:23:07):
Am I missing who this guy is? He's just a comedian,
right Shane Gillis?

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
Yeah, you don't know who he is. I really didn't
know much about him until this episode. What's he known for?

Speaker 1 (01:23:17):
Uh? He's really famous comedian. He was on SNL briefly.

Speaker 2 (01:23:22):
Yeah, fired from SNL. Off moutain, he's got.

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
Fired from SNL. He does bud Light commercials. He does
a pretty popular podcast. I would say you're you're a
little bit out of touch if you don't know who
Shane Gillis is.

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
Matt, I know he is.

Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
Now that's good, by the way, real quick, this was
a question. This was a statement of the Chad Johnson
man on ESPN First Take Today, Get your quick answer
on this? Okay, what is more difficult? Here's his quote
and you getting then you have the answer. The two
most difficult things in life are hitting a baseball and
keeping a woman happy long term?

Speaker 2 (01:23:57):
Ross which one two would you say is more difficult?

Speaker 4 (01:24:00):
Uh? Hitting a baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
I'm gonna go with hitting a baseball as well.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
I mean how many plus hitters are there in America
with a OPS plus of over one hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
Okay, there's twenty five roster, twenty six guys, thirty seven
hundred pictures. Half of that probably seventy five one hundred baby.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
Yeah exactly, there's more than one hundred people keeping their
wives happy.

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
Right, yeah, oh yeah, for sure the.

Speaker 3 (01:24:31):
Actual I'm gonna go with hit a baseball, but.

Speaker 1 (01:24:33):
The actual act itself hitting a baseball ninety five miles
an hour or keeping her happy.

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
We keep her happy by good music, good food.

Speaker 1 (01:24:42):
I'm gonna start with money and money.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
I think you know what're else that can keep me
happy too? Honestly, all right, we got a minute left.
The w W E. Ross never misses anything.

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
What do you mean?

Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
They just followed a trademark and something I didn't do
many years ago, which I should have. Oh Jesus, you
know what they trademarked, know, break a wish mmmm as
an ode to John Cena going heel and remember all
that we were talking about it before. He's the most
asked for athlete celebrity in make away history. Okay, thanks

(01:25:16):
to R. S j R DK for sending that to us.

Speaker 3 (01:25:19):
Incredible stuff. Keep US updated Matt on the John Cena
heel Turn.

Speaker 2 (01:25:26):
I'm having a WrestleMania party and you're invited.

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
Ah, I don't think I can make it. I'm very
busy that weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
You know what, You're already busy that weekend because it's
the Rockets playoff weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
Oh yeah, I'm definitely. It's on Easter weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
I believe.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
So yeah, two days in Vegas. I think I think
Clac's going, but he's not. And John Cena will rise again.

Speaker 2 (01:25:44):
He's starting to get a media credential. Oh hashtag Chiefs Camp.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
That's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:25:49):
Hop Next.

Speaker 1 (01:25:49):
Astros Baseball back with you tomorrow at ten o'clock from
Indianapolis here on Sports Talk seven nine

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