Texans COMPLETELY Change O-Line, So Long Laremy, Caserio Adding Pieces, Rockets Win 3 Straight

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show, one an Age Town.
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a Tuesday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
That's a Sports Talk seven ninety again.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Claramie Tucks will get it again.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
What in that?

Speaker 4 (00:22):
We'll start offers from the seventy eight. Yes, hiya bendy,
let's still sur down. Illegal formation offense under seventy eight.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
He did it again, his burns the time, let's go down.
He did it again. Illegal formation seventy eight.

Speaker 5 (00:37):
Offense from the seventy eight is n on the scrimbles.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
That is five penalties called against Laramie Tunsil offense.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
From the seventy eight.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Seventy their own, I stare down Holy cown with this
left tackle bee Houston, Texas. All they do is commit
penalties first and foremost. You should go up to Laramie
Tunsil and just to make sure he's okay, not not
to be like you know, dog, all the penalties today
or anything just.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
For you, Okay, is everything?

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Okay? Last time I saw you, you were shutting everybody down.
But now Jeremy Tumpsall we had six penalties called against
him today and five were accepted. I mean, Pete not
called games together for a long time. To Jay on
first down, here's the kid and they blow the play dead.
Looks like a false start of the Texans. Let's find

(01:23):
out who to board the.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
Snap fall start offense number seventy eight.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
It's a five yard.

Speaker 6 (01:28):
Penalty, still first when he got it out of the
way early lay every week though.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
I mean, you're a pro Bowl player. There's no excuse
for that.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
None.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Back to the fifteen week. Go bravo, bravo, bravo. You
know what I deglaire I am now I'm Texas fan.

(02:02):
Where by I don't go to teas. I don't go
to many camps. I take Tuesdays and Wednesdays off. Me me, me,
me me.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Domaiko says, get.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Chance on town, oh Man, don't forget the constant false
starts because he wants to keep his pressure rates.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Down and his mid run protection pass plucking.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
I'll give it to you, Rossie, pro football focus, ain't lion.
He's a pro bowler, Pro Bowlers. You had to play
in the tug of war. Thank you, Dimiico, Thank you Nick.
And by the way, I'm putting Dimico's name in front
of this every single time, because how many times have
we heard sports RV that those two gentlemen Aco Ryans

(03:00):
and Nick.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Casario are in unison.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
This on the dounge with the same page trash offensive
line to Miko's like, I can't possibly get rid of
my best left tackle my Pro Bowl?

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh yes I can. He wants a new contract.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Imagine that being a mid offensive lineman. He's he's here
at the mid Pro Bowl.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Crap.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
You get to play in that, You get to play
a game of flag football. He was named to the
Pro Bowl. He's not mid. That's ridiculous. He's a mid rusher.
He's a mid leader. I can tell you that for sure.
We can say that in a high octane false starter
an illegal formation guy. Seriously, Dexa's offensive life got worse.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well guess the end today they just made another trade.
They did They got rid of another offensive.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Liney within ten minutes. You know what Dimiko said, get
your ass out of here, you trash offensive line. Demiko said, well, CJ,
good luck. CJ has like thoughts and prayers. Kenyon Green Bye,
first round bus bye. This is by the way, this

(04:15):
is on Demiko, not on. This is on Cassario. He's
having to fix what was a trash line that he created. So,
by the way, this is not a celebratory day. You
seem to be celebrated. Well, I'm celebrating that somebody got
in the building and said, all right, we gotta fix this.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
ROSSI.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
They're going to load up on lineman at the on
the draft they have to, and they may be making
a free agent with who knows. But there was a
variety of layers to this and that's what we have
until two o'clock today to go through.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
All the layers, a full four hour show. Let's go.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, I would say this not that you should ever
allow public opinion to determine whether or not a trade
is good or not, because ultimately the end result is
how does he perform in Washington and his CJ.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Stroud not concussed.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
And we after we won. I mean that comes right
down to that's gonna be real. Your pass protection got
worse that it did. Well, maybe it's actually it's a
net zero with Kenyon Green going, but with Gone it's worse.
They went into the Ivory Towers of Texanville. Okay, Cal
obviously was not there. He was busy playing video games.

(05:32):
He was there, he was playing video games. Yeah, he
was in a different room. Hannah's meanwhile talking with the
new team president about putting getting a new stadium bilt.
So she's busy. She's asking how much would it cost
to get a Nordstrom's in the stadium. That's right, so
she can go the cut off, knock out two birds
of one stone, right exactly. So Casario and new offensive coordinator,

(05:54):
Nick Kayley, new offensive line coach, and Demiko they're in
this room. They shut the door, they put a padlock,
and they put a big old fashioned do not disturb,
and they had some hard conversations. The realization was Larimie
was looking for a new deal, or we'll be looking
for a new deal and not too distant future. They

(06:14):
looked at the metrics of what the new offensive coaches
will do for this team. Could you live in a
world without Laramie Tuncil protecting at the left tackle spot.
And the reality was adding the money that he spent
that he's costing you, and the thought he's going you're
potentially going to lose him for a compensatory pickup some
sort in a year or so, and then you get

(06:36):
to pick up some more mid round selections and the
fact that maybe they just needed a cleansing and sometimes ROSSI.
As you know, anything in life, cleansings can hurt. For instance,
I'll give you an analogy. We go.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Goodness, gracious, stay with me on this.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
I'm so nervous for you. You're overweight now, I'm talking
about you. Yeah, I am. It's okay, No, no, I mean
I will this particularly, any particular person is in overweight
and you need to go on a diet. Uh huh.
Ten of those first handful of days when you are
used to eating cheeseburgers and pizza and French fries and donuts.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
How bad are you hurting? Your stomach is.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Like, feed me, feed me. That's what CJ. Strouss gonna
be thinking about. I need offensive line protection. We're gonna
give it to you. You gotta get past this first
cleansing part. Like, for instance, unfortunately, alcoholics go through with
withdrawal problems. So we're gonna have Texans online withdrawal. It's
gonna hurt for a while, but you can chip with

(07:40):
extra tight ends. Oh my god, I mean, I'm just
I'm just throwing us out here. Okay, this is a
bad analogy. It's wonderful. I'm sorry. The Texans needed a cleansing.
Withdrawal pains are coming and Cassario has got to fix it.
He's already bumbled at once. A second time will cost

(08:02):
his franchise even more. But at least they're looking at
the at least Tomko's like, man, Bra love you. We're
in unison, me and you, Nikki are, but damn we're bad.
I think, yeah, it just became to the point I'm
gonna a different analogy, man than I think. It's probably better.
I'm going to tell you that whatever you say, it's
going to be better. And I fully accept that. I

(08:22):
think Laraimie Tunsel was part of a team, and with
his production at a certain level, you can overlook awards.

Speaker 7 (08:29):
Right.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Let's say, let's say Matt, you have a drinking problem,
but you come here, you're you tended to, you do
a great job. Everything's great, but then at some point
you start showing up late, you're not prepping as much.
To a certain point, you can take Laraimie Tunzel doing
all the things you talked about. Not going to Ota
is not being a team player. Worried about only his
stats and and that's it, and not being part of

(08:50):
this Texans culture that Demico Ryans is trying to set.
But when you get the production level doesn't meet the headaches.
Decision was made and that's the decision that they made.
And by the way, there are guys in the Texas
locker room that like him. Yes, Titus Howard one of them.
Titus Howard being one of them. Joe Mixon went on

(09:13):
his Instagram, I mean he's I don't think Jil lammering
Tunsel was a bad human being. I don't think he
is malicious. I don't think he is trying to hurt
the team. I think when he won't he gets out
there in plays, he plays hard and wants to win.
But how badly does he want to win? How badly
does he want to be a leader. This is one
of the whole things every year when these fake media

(09:35):
people who slurp up everything the Texans give to you
in terms of well, we just named our captains today.
Lamary Townsend was a captain, but he wasn't really a captain.
He had to be a captain because he was one
of the veteran players on the team. What kind of
optics would it have been. If the Bros would not
have hired elected him captain for all the years he's
been in the NFL, it would have looked terrible. I

(09:56):
don't think the players care about that. No, the optics,
I'm disagreeing with. The optics will look bad if Laramie
Tunzel was not named a captain and they had.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
To do it by default. So Dalton Schultze sitting there
like man.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
If I don't vote Laramie Tunsel, though, the nation's gonna
get really mad at me. So I'm gonna vote la
Dalton Schultz the whole nation. The nation won't care. I'm
just saying that you sometimes put people in I look,
I've seen anything in club sports.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I mean, I don't mean.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
It's happening, and it happens in club sports. Can those
of you who competed in high school and in club
sports you know what I'm talking about. Sometimes you have
to default to a captain who's been there, done that
over the years because you don't want the smoke that
comes with, oh you don't think I'm a captain, I
will watch me. Now. You had to make him a captain,
But that's really not even that big of a deal.
The reality is this. He might have been named a captain,

(10:45):
but he wasn't ever acting like a captain. He was
acting like a very good NFL player. But at the
end of the day, if they wins, he wins, he loses.
It's okay, I got my paycheck, m hm. And that's
how I see it. I could be wrong, but that's
how I see it. No, I mean, obviously, the the
reason if everything was harmonious culture wise with Laraimie Tunsil,
he produces enough to keep him here. And here's the

(11:08):
numb one thing, real quick, ROSSI Uh. Dimico could have said, no, no, no,
I know you've goofed this up, nikky. See, but that's
my guy, that's my that's my left tackle. That's the
most important that's my second most important position on the
team behind quarterback.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Why would I get rid of a Pro Bowl tackle?

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Guess what?

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Guess what? Dimico didn't say what I just said.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
He didn't say that. So are we either overrating the
left tackle position, which I don't think we are. No,
we're overrating the real true value of Laramie Tunzel to
the Houston Texans. We will discuss Taxan has made another
offensive lied trade like twelve minutes ago before the show started.
ROSSI and we're getting a safety So Jimmy Ward, good

(11:52):
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Speaker 2 (12:05):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
All these moves going on, yes, including what the Texans
are doing, but ultimately here is the core question. Can
seech you sort of stroud to survive this season? And
we better spend a lot of time looking at first
run off fits of alignment because the Texans are going
to have to take one period end of story. They've

(12:26):
got to replenish and they got to pray this guy can.

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Speaker 8 (13:35):
Matt Thomas Ross VIREL. It's the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
There's a lot of things going on in the world. Okay,
we have the Texans making two offensive line trades and
releasing another one. We have the Texans adding like seven
more wide receivers to their core, which only half of
them stick around. We had the rockets last night, beating
the uh hated Orlando Magic hated. But all that pales

(14:08):
in comparison to what are you doing? Dark Breast airlines?
What happened?

Speaker 2 (14:12):
They're charging bags and into May.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Oh yeah, didn't we know that was coming because we knew.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
About the assigned seats. We didn't know about the bag change.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
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mean not venture capital, but yeah, yeah, little marketing one
on one. I know, the dark Breast in the Avery
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You're still gonna win with the low fares, but the

(14:39):
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Speaker 2 (14:45):
I would say.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
A handful of times, if not more, percent of the
time that I travel, I end up factoring in those
bags and choosing Southwest.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
That's incentivized me multiple times to use Southwest over United See.
I think what you do is you just trickle the
far up a little bit. If you're looking to add
a little bit of money, and you can say, well,
you're not gonna be as competitive as say Relta, Well
guess what when Relta sells out at seats, you're gonna
go to the next lowest. I think that the bags

(15:18):
fly free was a huge marketing, big time. We're different
than the competitors. I guess this is really gonna hurt
Dark Breast. Yeah, we don't have to talk too much
about this, but I yeah, I think every company, it
seems like every subscription service is going up. Every airline
prices are going up. And we don't even have to

(15:39):
talk about grocery prices and stuff. And we got rid
of our eggs are going up, more expensive, our cast
is going up. We got Dark Breast charging for bags.
What's next? Ross, I don't know, let me want to
think about it. Texans Uh posted at nine to thirty
this morning from Adam Schefter, a choir safety ce J

(16:01):
Gardner Johnson he's a dash guy from the Eagles. In
exchange dash no Gardner dash Johnson okay, in exchange for
former first round pick Kenyon Green. Trade includes a pick swap,
the Eagles getting a twenty twenty sixth fifth round pick.
The Texans getting a twenty twenty six sixth looks like

(16:23):
the Eagles trying to shave money for an older guy.
Is that what it looks like? I think so salary
dump two years, nineteen million dollars remaining on a contract
for CJ. Gardner Johnson they just paid six. Sequan Hurts
already has a big contract. Yep.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
AJ Brown's making a lot of money. Oh yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
What, as we talked about on the show yesterday, Rossie,
you just can't pay everybody.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Something is going to suffer.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Lane Johnson has to be making a lot of money. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Good thing is they just won the Super Bowl, so well,
this immediately makes a Texans corner secondary significantly. I mean
this is a and again Kenyon Green? How me out
what can Green? What would appeal to the Eagles for
Kenyan Green? Of all people? And that sucks? Yeah? Nice? Great,

(17:08):
guy's been amazing. I mean they they must see untapped potent.
I guess I get I'm the cheap first round cheap guy.
I mean, I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, I
was gonna like, it's not the NBA. You don't have
to match money. Nope, Nope, you don't. It is really
really odd. I don't know most mostly so maybe they're

(17:28):
gonna cut Kenyon Green and it's a salary dump. I
don't know. If you guys want to join us today
about your favorite Larabie Tunsil is a textan moment seven
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(17:49):
was a deep conversation involving the older newall line coach,
the new offensive coordinator, Demico, and Nick in the room
of the door. Shut pretty ballsy for that, those two
offensive coaches and that head coach to go. We have
a prize quarterback. We got to keep him up right.

(18:10):
We didn't do a good job of it, and we're
gonna blow this thing up. It's it's Is it like
blowing up a pitching rotation? Is it like pitch? Is
it like blowing up in the middle endfield? Is it
harder the order? I mean, what what what's the parallel
on this? Yeah, it would be like saying we need
starting pitching help and then stay and then trading your
best pitcher.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
That's what they did.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
Now, now your best picture, by the way, three guy
or number two, maybe he's not an ace. Your best
pitcher is seventeen and thirteen in the area of four
and a half. No, not that bad. He made it.
He was selected to a Pro Bowl. I don't I'm
not using that. Everybody has seen him. I'm using that
to tell you he's not terrible. Okay, seventeen thirteen is
not terrible. Four fifty era.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Okay, excuse me, three ninety eightyr not terrible. That's better.
We're getting a little bit. I'm getting closer.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Uh huh. This is about performance, This is about finances,
This is about culture. Culture. This is not a under
no circumstance. Was Laramie tunseel a glue guy? I think
this is about And you know, we played those postseason
comments from Demico Ryans talking about people that want to

(19:23):
be here, people that want to play football, and Matt
credit to you. When he made those comments, you were like,
is he calling out Laramie Tunsell? Yeah, you said that,
And it sounds like after the fact now that that
absolutely is the case that he is trying to set
a culture of people who love football and people who
want to be here. DA was not part of part
of that, and Larimie tunsel as I said, the amount

(19:48):
of production. With a certain amount of production, you can
live with that. But he hit the threshold to where
the Texans said, you're not that productive to be acting
like this. We're gonna ship you. And by the way,
you're selling high to get a certain level of value back.
It's obviously not what they paid. What was it two
first round picks to get Laramy Tunsel here and insane

(20:09):
amount of money. And again he I want to make
sure him fair on this because I don't know. This
is not gonna be one hundred percent bashing of Laramie.
But the reality is he dictated the market because he
was the best at his position and the timing was right,
and he was able to negotiate a deal with with
perhaps the worst administration in the history of the National
Football League. Well maybe Matt Millan was the worst of

(20:31):
the Lions, but Bill O'Brien is not a far second place,
So kudos to him for negotiating what he's able to negotiate.
Over the years, he's meant a lot of money. He
is recognized as one of the better offensive linemen in
the league. But there were there are intangibles with any profession,

(20:51):
with any walk of life, in any business, and when
you are trying to get over the hump and trying
to recreate who what you are as an organization, whether
it's a sales force, whether it's on the pipeline, whether
it's on an NFL offensive line. If you're gonna put
a lot of money and a lot of faith behind somebody,
you better want to make sure the guy loves what

(21:14):
he does and wants to do everything within his power
to make sure he is a leader both on and
off the field. It's not fifty percent of the responsibility,
but it's a good junk memory Tuncil just wants to play.
Nothing else he wants to do. And these bogus, Well
he tooked the young players, well, of course he did.
He didn't walk in the room, put his uniform on
and go out. He talked not a bad guy, just

(21:36):
not the guy. And then when you couple that with
all the offensive false start issues and formations, was by
the way, to his credit, got better in the second
half of the.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Year, thank goodness. Well It couldn't get worse. It couldn't
possibly get worse.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
This is once again Tomko saying I am an NFL player.
I've been that was he playing in the league ten years,
give or take. Yes, I know what I want in
my room and Laramie Tunsel was expendable. Bravo Texans. I'm
just saying a small prayer for for CJ.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Stroud.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, this upcoming year will be his tenth NFL season.
A lot of value back. He's getting longer in the tooth,
the production has slipped, and he wants a new contract.
Isn't a culture fit wants a new contract?

Speaker 2 (22:26):
You add it all up.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
I get it. I was very surprised when I first
saw it, but I wouldn't say it was complete shock.
Your reactions welcome now. Seven one three two one two
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five seven nine zero. He was a good player for

(22:48):
the Houston Texans for a significant period of time. Was
he ever elite at both at what it took to
be a completely lead offensive lineman. No, run protection numbers
were not good, his penalty count was high, and his
leadership mid at best, missing OTAs, missing mini camps, taking

(23:10):
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Speaker 8 (24:17):
Back to battle Red Ross and Liberty white Ass Matt Thomas,
what is what I am? Real pale Texans talk continued
spawn them, Matt Thomas, show what a.

Speaker 7 (24:38):
Ten?

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Thirty five? Two fifths actually here? Including uh, who was
we lost last week? I'm turning to John A Blank,
these Offen Tech, Mace, Shack Mason. Three fifths of these
Texans starting line?

Speaker 3 (24:50):
All right?

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Ken you Reen? And did he not started that place?

Speaker 1 (24:52):
He started at the beginning of the season, So I
wanna say for week one started, Yeah, three fifths of
the core of the earth half of the core of
the Texans offensive line is not gone. You went into
the season with it being Laramie Tunsel, right, Kenyon Green,
who was supposed to be Juice Grugg Scruggs, Jack Mason
Titus because Blake Fisher was your swing rookie just drafted

(25:16):
me right, right, So this is going to be a
lot on Blake Fisher, who was horrible to start the season,
got a lot better. I think you just need to
get strong. I think he was getting overpowered a lot.
And the fact is he will see a second round pick, right, Yeah,
he's the second round pick. Ross he's got to deliver.
He does, or Cassario fails again. Casari has to hit
on that he obviously grites. I mean you we were

(25:38):
talking about how basically it's a bus with Kenyon Green
before the season, it was very apparently a bust afterwards,
and now that he's gone, you wasted a first round
pick on at the guard position. Would they take him
fifteen or sixteen and we can trade it up for him?

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (25:53):
I think so that are traded too high for him?
Basically one of the two either way. This isn't this
is again this, this is Dimico going Nikki, I know
what you did and let by ganzi bygones because I
wasn't here when you made these deals.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
We got to fix this because there was something.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
We continued to hear over and over again at the combine,
end of season, press availability, media shows. Whatever is that
Nick Casario and Demico Ryans are in Unison and ross.
There are a lot of things that people in sports
lightly about. I don't think they were lying. I think
they're probably. I think they do have an excellent working relationship,

(26:34):
because if they didn't, we'd find out about it.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
We'd have people.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
The whisper whisper it would be in the wind as
it were. Yeah, yeah, I think they are working together.
I think so too. I think they were in step
on this question. It was do you call CJ as
is this happening? Or do you call them before it
becomes public? Stroud, You gotta let them know. Hey, CIJ,
how's it going. Yeah, we told you we were gonna

(27:01):
improve the offensive line. We're trading Laramie Tunseil. Sorry what
I'm sorry, my brain fog from all the concussions I'm suffering.
Are is just cleared? Can you say that again? Everybody,
by the way, has been trying to dissect everything that
CJ has said over the last couple of months. There
is okay, zero Laramie Tunseil conversation hmm okay.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
And by the way, we need to also think about this.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
You got some guys, guys you get you just you're
just putting a lot of money already did in Nico Collins,
Well Anderson Junior is looking for money and Derek's thing
is looking for a lot of money, as he should
as a first team all pro. I can't you know
what some of you call me a liberty white ass
mat on a Twitter I'm gonna are you back? Are you?
Let's go?

Speaker 9 (27:43):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Are you a Texans fan?

Speaker 7 (27:44):
For real?

Speaker 1 (27:45):
I am a fan of this move. I am very
happy that I wasn't the only one that saw what
everything else what everybody else is saying.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
I'm closer, let's go. I'm all the way there yet.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
We want you.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
We need me say this.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
If the Cougars win the National Championship, what I'll explain
because because my life has been full of sports despair. Okay,
so if I get elation, all right, you don't want
to take on more despair?

Speaker 2 (28:14):
Correct? I get you? Okay, I think that's fair.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Huh. So the Cougars win the National Championship, right, I'll
become a full fledged Texans fan. M So it's like
you're a parent in a house and then there's some
screw up cousin. They're like, hey, can he live with you?
And you're like, no, I'm good. But if things get better,
then you'll take on the screw up cousin.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
It's not bad.

Speaker 10 (28:41):
Or here.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
I saw your gears turned. I was like, what is
he doing?

Speaker 1 (28:48):
If your daughter gets a scholarship to play college sports, Okay,
I'll help her buy a new car.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Okay, you can reallocate the funds elsewhere. Yes, okay. The
problem was that daughter of mine.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Decided to go first far as humanly possible for me.
She's gonna be a three and a half hour flat
away from me, and then it's an hour fifty minute
drive after that. I think my nag is better.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Nothing, no hungry. I'm just saying we maybe.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
I think you and I need to do shows in
Boston about every three to four weeks.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Don't even get me started.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Israel or is Israel, East Rael, Israel A ten to
forty on the Matt Thomas showed Ross East Rayel a
good morning and now and now and now and now
the obligatory Laramie Tunsil falls start call.

Speaker 11 (29:41):
I mean, okay, we want to think about it. Counsel
was the best office of lineman that they had, and
that's why Washington winning gave him. He's in a better
position with a better franchise. If he's going to tack
a city with Magic Johnson one of the owners, and
he was in the of the NFC Championship game, and

(30:02):
they're gonna go there again. Only thing that's bad about
it is that they're going into a tough division here
is the South ALC South is kind of kind of weak.
Other than that mixing, don't like to trade. Yeah, y'all
want this leader, locker room kind of quiet guys.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 11 (30:20):
You can't win with guys like that. You need some
guys with some edge to him, and he is one
of them guys. And they're gonna regret it because the
press when once they start losing, y'all go, y'all gonna
dog them out. But one thing about the media and
Chocolate City, they're a little bit there, a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
What you call Chocolate City d C is chocolate.

Speaker 11 (30:41):
To anybody with the Brothers know it. You know you
ever I forgot with how you just laving yourself, DC
is called Chapling City and that's just a fact. And
he's gonna be welcomed there and the new Press is
gonna show him some love. And he going there with
Magic Johnson, one of the owners. And Magic is the winner,
like he did with the Dodgers and what they did
with the Lakers and doing a DC too. So bless

(31:02):
his talk, and I'm glad he went that. Even though
I mess with the Texas School, that's it.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
By the way. For those of you that don't know
Israel mentioning, Washington, d C. Is a chocolate city, Ai says.
The nickname was given to the city by a popular
funk song back in nineteen seventy three. And we'll come
back with it.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
What's the name of the song?

Speaker 1 (31:24):
I don't know. Chocolate City. No is Salt Lake City,
Bread Pudding City. Washington, DC known as Chocolate City because
of its large black population and significant African American culture. Hmm, it,
says Ai. Chocolate City was It was an album by Parliament.

(31:47):
Oh okay, can we play the number one song off
of that album when we come back? Sure? Parliament? Uh yeah,
Parliament number one hit for them?

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Help me.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
I don't know. I don't know if they had a
number one hit maybe maybe.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Their most recognizable hit, flash Flashlight.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Was great Maggot Brain. Oh my god, if you the
Maga Brain album is fantastic Doctor Funkenstein. That's kind of
Parliament slash fun. Yeah, I mean it's George Clinton and oh,
let's play it then. But they had a bunch of
different names there were Parliament because they were going they
were getting a legal problems with a bunch of different
record labels or something like that. There was Parliament, Funkadelic,
then there was Funkadelic, then there was Parliament. George Clinton

(32:25):
was like mixing around, and Bootsy Collins of course, was
in the bank, as you know, Matt. Yeah, I thought
Chocolate City was that place where you get to put
the at the moulda morale. You put sticking like a
lady finger of bread in the chocolate thing machine. What
you know a little fountain of chocolate. No, did you
ever do the molda morale chocolate fountain?

Speaker 10 (32:44):
No?

Speaker 2 (32:45):
You stick fruit in there and you get it all
covered in chocolate.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Flesh eating bacteria in there. All right, that's all I
can eat. Cirlondon Stace's probably not. Please don't come after me,
legal department. It's lawsuits coming into play, all right. Ten
forty three It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross
more on Laraman, Tom some more on the Texans offensive line,
and how I am one step closer ROSSI becoming.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Texan Thomas.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
I thought we're going with Liberty White, Matt. I'm battlered Ross.
You can be Liberty white, Matt, what's wrong with that?
But I'm not Liberty white. Ass match just a Liberty Well, yeah,
just Liberty White. Matt Okay Cougar's from the National Championship.
I walk him in a new round of his spare
teams Liberty White, What if they don't? What if they lose?

Speaker 2 (33:25):
In heartbreaking fashion of the final that I'm taking a
month off ten.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
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Let me give you the website, and he's like, Matt,
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Speaker 8 (34:44):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Do you know some pep in my step?

Speaker 1 (35:00):
What's happening in CC?

Speaker 2 (35:01):
I do actually out, but that's a temporary condition.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
First of all, I notice you're here, proud of you
are actually showing up. I'll see you again Thursday and Friday.
Can we announce what's going on Friday?

Speaker 2 (35:17):
I don't know. It's not a I don't think it's
our call. Not our call.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Okay, A little chocolate city in there. Okay, we got
we got a thumbs up. All right. Uh, Connor is
leaving us and we didn't force him out, as any
of you have been listening to show as your fault.
You kept, you mentioned it, you spoken into existence. I'm
really mad at you, Matt, uh not. We would love

(35:42):
to keep him, but he was able to get a
significant current advancement and we're going to miss him terribly. Connor,
even with me, what a year and a half, give
or take almost almost on me too. Okay, you have
been one of the very best produce which as we
have ever had on this show. Thank you. I'm gonna

(36:03):
say the best. And we've had some good ones and
we've had some no so good ones, but Connor, you
have absolutely crushed. The bar is high. Now the bar
is high.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
And we're gonna do a special Friday edition of Believe
It or Not? Which Helly or Now.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
We're only on twelve fifty on Friday, So twelve forty
three we're gonna do all things in Missouri and believe
it or not in Helly you are not on Friday
to honor his all things on the zoo. Yeah, how
about all things of Connor McGovern Would you like that
out there? I mean, that's up to you. We can
we can throw in some maybe like two Connor mac
governent questions. We have eight might begin how about this

(36:39):
four Missouri's two Saint Thomas High schools and two Connor
mc governed personal ones. Wow, I'm honored believe it or
not or helly or not? Yeah, So we'll do it
at twelve forty three on Friday. By the way, hell Y,
you are not believe it or not. Today is all
things about Laramie Tunsel. Hey. We opened the show with
Journey and we're giving away Journey tickets to the rodeo.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Oh we are Yeah, turn this up, Bill, say some
more of this.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
It's a slow burn. Well here we go. Yeah, now,
won't you go? I need to go listen to some
parliament when you get home, Mat, I'm.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Going to I got a two hour drive home. Why not.
By the way, I'm driving my daughter's car today.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
You're in the bug.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
I'm in the bug today.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Nice?

Speaker 2 (37:17):
How that happened because it.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Was she was It was near the trash can, so
I decided to move and I'm like, you know, I'm
taking your car today. By that's funny. She's the like anyway,
So enjoying the little spring break. Mm hmm. So if
you see a very handsome bald man in a yellow
bug driving down fifty nine, that are you dropping the top? Yeah? Nice?
Oh yeah, seventy eight degrees by the time show's over. Oh,
hell yeah, like that. Listen to eighteen. Oh good, all right,

(37:42):
back on the phone. So we go, by the way,
A lot of folks are not echoing the is is
Israel or is my l's Israel sentiment about how Magic
Johnson is super happy about Laramie Tunsel joining the commanders.
I think he is. I think the commanders are happy.
I don't think they're displeased the texting. This is the
this is a fact. The Texans got worse on the
field and the commander's got better on the field.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Don't the fact.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
I don't think you can argue it. But short term
there has to be a plan in place, and I
think it obviously is going to be heavy, heavy line
consideration of the draft. Okay, I guess you know we
always do like a little draft contest.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Maybe the question would be what point do the Texan
not not draft alignment they should take six of them
or however many picks I got. Now, I bet we
can do a question how many alignment of the text
is going to take between linemen and tight ends? Two?
I bet you think go more than that. Okay, there's
a shot at three, there's a shot. There's a shot
to be okay with it too. They need they need

(38:43):
replenishing and cheaper. By the way, this also signals to
me that their believers in Blake Fisher. Yeah, or they
have to be.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Because right now he's your starting to left tack or
is it you move over?

Speaker 1 (38:56):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Titus Howard? What is what does our lads have on
their depth chart? Because our lives always pretty.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Good, don't know? They always have pop ups and try
to make me pay for their Now sick of those
pop ups. Let's talk to Ed and Houston at ten
fifty four on the Matt Thomas Show at ross Ed,
good morning, Hey, what's up?

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Man?

Speaker 12 (39:14):
I was just I had come in right on the
tail end of y'all talking about Chocolate City and deifok,
and I just so happened to have worked on George
Clinton's management team for about ten years.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
So yeah, yeah man, Old?

Speaker 1 (39:31):
So you have some stories, Ed.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Yeah, but I got a bunch I can't tell.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Wait a minute, that's the best story you can give us,
a very quick, one minute best story you can tell.

Speaker 12 (39:43):
Okay, I'll tell you something to historic things. Have you
ever bought a keyboard like a Cassio keyboard or something
and they had a hand clapped key, you know, like
a key when you hit it.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
It sounded like you're clapped in hand.

Speaker 12 (39:59):
Okay, Well, back in the day, our keyboard player Bernie Warrell.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Who is like just amazing, was one of the first
people to play.

Speaker 12 (40:10):
A Mog synthesizer, and he would program hand claps into
the synthesizer to where not only Mogue but other keyboard
players recognized the hand clap as an instrument. So when
you see on the little thing, you'll see a trumpet,

(40:32):
you'll see a drum, You'll see two hands clapping each other.
That's all because of Parliament, now, all because of Funker
Dellic And the other thing is large like the shows
that you see, like beyond seeing them doing which high production.

(40:52):
Parliament Funker Delick was the first band to do it when.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
They were on Casablanca Records.

Speaker 12 (40:58):
They were label mates with Kiss, but they were hotter
at the time than Kiss, and they did an elaborash
stage show.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Yeah, they used to come out of spaceships and stuff, right.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
And that was the other thing. I was gonna say.

Speaker 12 (41:13):
The mothership that they used to come out of is
now in the Smithsonian.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Oh wow, all right, ed, thank you, and I rather
hear about the stories of moming, drugs, rock and rolling sex.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
I tell you what put me back on. I'll give
you my phone number and we could talk a bottle
over a coffee.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
I'll just find you Ed, thank you very much for
the phone call.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
I want the p funk stories about nineteen seventy two
story involving Ed and uh, George Clinton, but they parted hard. Yeah.
There's a series that Mike Judge does. It's like a
cartoon series with the guys telling stories. And there's a
story about George Clinton recording this song and like the
accident played an accident on backwards. But but George Clint

(42:03):
was so high he didn't realize it and he just
started improvising all the lyrics like this part.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
Well, I mean that's we listen.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
We listened to three James Brown songs between West Palm
Beach and Fort Lauderdale.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
That was all improvised, a right, probably some of it.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
This all makes you feel about blooming Tunsil Traders than
I am. Yeah, crank this up, Connor, Yeah, Chocolate City,
nothing but the Dog.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
This is a jam. I'm listening to some peoonk today.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
I'm wanna get some me some hook on the way
home too, some what hooka Hookah?

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Yeah that too?

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Okay, God, I'm telling you I was born in the
wrong decade. Please put me as an adult between nineteen
seventy and seventy six, the revolutionary George Clinton many rest
m all right? Uh, rockets gonna win yesterday? Is he

(43:12):
got it? Hold on, don't don't answers. I'm gonna get
on my hands up because I do have the p
funk wiki. I think he's a live. He's alive, right, sure,
because he was touring here like last year we gave
away George Clinton tickets. If he's a live is eighty
three he's still on tour. Yeah, sorry about that. D
I don't know how cuk you couldn't understand what he
was saying in nineteen seventy three.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
I don't know how co year it he is.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Hey, I want to say, eighty two year old Barry
Man alone in a couple of months. So yeah, if
he makes it, that's rude. You know what that was rude.
I'll apologize to the man. We'll right that one down.
Wins apologized to the fanalos When's Friday Sorries eleven thirty
gut feelings in one half hour. It's about Thomas should
Ross on seven ninety. All right, we're in the thick

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Speaker 2 (45:25):
Launchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show, eleven O.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
Three Sports Talks seven ninety hour, number two of four.
We're taking you know, two o'clock this afternoon. We've got
gut feelings coming up in a half an hour from now,
the news at noon, which will be labeled with Texans news,
including the Texans acquiring a safety from the Philadelphia Eagles
moving another offensive lineman. What was that's I'm ladeling it.

(45:52):
You said ladel You meant Ladon. You're the key, You're
the king of getting a word eighty percent right. You
don't think it's later I don't think Hayden, that what
you meant? Are you? Ladled?

Speaker 6 (46:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (46:03):
Okay, full of gravy? Yeah yeah, cream or brown?

Speaker 1 (46:08):
I prefer cream gravy.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
H you are so careful.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
His eyes lit up. Matt. You asked me what kind
of gravy I like? And Connor Govern's eyes lit up
like a child guy would go coming down.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
The stairs for Christmas. It's all about the cream, Matt.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
See.

Speaker 5 (46:26):
I knew it.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
I freaking knew it. Cash rules everything around me. Cream
get the money, dollar dollar bills, y'all. Okay, I prefer
I prefer brown gravy, but I like cream gravy too.
By the way, we did we did announce that Connor's
going away. He's given me all the drops. It was

(46:49):
like five hundred. Oh by the way, oh my god,
there's like five hundred of me. Good play them as
often as possible. Make sure the new producer or whoever
we have, make sure he knows where all this stuff is.
If they had to put the pope up ross and said,
you know, I want you to listen to this, well,
he's Catholic.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
He can't possibly get this right.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Sticking people.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
Where was that from?

Speaker 1 (47:11):
I don't know. I just thought it was funny. It
was it was a Friday open once, once upon a
time ago.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
So this is your last week of Friday opens? Yeah,
how would you do it? Best of find your best ones?

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Man, I have stuff I've e't been used yet too,
but I'll do the best one. There's some I listened to.
Some just made me laugh some time. So I'm gonna
play those. You put him on a loop to go
to sleep. I appreciate that. There's there's one that's my
absolute favorite that I'll play on Friday. All right. Uh,
By the way, he has taken over the lead of
a certain old friend of ours, a band or fleet
of asking for rockets tickets he has. Yes, I thought

(47:45):
I was trying to get in a run. You you've
gotten a good run yourself, He's He's like as a
party gift, do you have your tickets to fill them?

Speaker 11 (47:52):
All?

Speaker 4 (47:52):
Like?

Speaker 2 (47:52):
All right?

Speaker 1 (47:53):
No, keep asking one guy one for the road like that.
So we're gonna go get some cream barbecue off the
on Friday. Yes, if you forgot where we're going yet,
I know I have recommendations from a Korean who lived here. Ok, okay,
and then so we're gonna celebrate and we're gonna go
free plucks. No, no, unless they take care of us,
and then it's different. So all right, uh seven one

(48:15):
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Speaker 2 (48:18):
Seven one three two one two five seven.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
We've obviously spent the first hour talking about the super
mega trade shocked the world. Be fair to say no
one saw it coming. I would say very surprising. I
love those trades. I love trade that, by the way,
because we had heard those whispers and man, as you
pointed out about Dimico Ryans's comments and and there were

(48:40):
there you were talking about things getting whispered. We'd heard
the whispers that they don't like Laramie Tunzel not always
showing up.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
They don't like him being about himself.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
And I don't know this for a fact, but to me,
just from watching the games, all those false start penalties
are because he's trying to make sure that he gets
off the line of scrimmage early, because he he's just
trying to.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Keep his pressure numbers down.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
He's hyper aware to me of his pressure numbers and
sacks giving up and all that type of stuff, and
he cares about more about being first and keeping those
numbers down than hurting the team with a false start. Yep,
he's more about his stats than helping the team. As
you just described that, that's not all pro to me,

(49:23):
the all pro definition and you've been using it and
I get it pro Bowl. But if that's what Pro
Bowl is ross, then probably ain't that great. Well, he's
a Pro Bowl player, he's not a Pro Bowl teammate.
There's a difference. As a guy. I'm sorry you committed
the most false starts of any lineman in the NFL.
That doesn't make you a Pro Bowl player. I don't
care who vote you in or what's around you. That

(49:45):
means the offensive line collectively is a unit in the
NFL sucks. If Laramie Tunsel, with all the penalties he
had now grant again to his pressure eight was that
low though, and the sacks giving up all that in
his back half of the season was significantly better. We
get we were doing Terry fall start calls every week.
He stopped doing that. Yes, wasn't holding a lot, but

(50:06):
there were things that were. I mean, the Minnesota game
in itself should have been It probably was the low
water point of his career as a Houston as fratman
or an NFL player. You just don't continue to have
those types of penalties week after week after week against
an elite team. And oh, by the way, you beat
an laitue team like Minnesota. Guess what you're doing in
Week two of the NFL playoffs.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
You're at home. It's compared to go on the road.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
You need your superstars, your high and offensive players, whether
it's quarterback, wide receiver, running back, defensive lineman, whatever the
step up. It's no big deal to block weak ass
Jacksonville or weak ass Cleveland. No, but Larry Tunsil did
have very good matchups against like Miles Garrett. He did
like he's gone against the best of the best, and

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he would did a good job of neutralizing.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Look for me, he's not I said mid. But he's
not mid.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
He's just not exceptional in except guys, Yes, should deserve
exceptional dollars and exceptional money that was being spent on him.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Me, he was the best of the worst. That's why
he's gone.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Yeah, and now we say small prayers every day for CJ.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Stroud.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
Now, before the twenty twenty four season, I did see this.
He was named the NFL. You know they did they
named the top hundred players? Correct?

Speaker 2 (51:20):
The players vote?

Speaker 1 (51:22):
Okay, he was named the fifth best tackle at number
seventy one, top in the top one hundred, so he's
pretty good. But is that because a name recognition? Though?

Speaker 2 (51:30):
It's almost like ross when you want to play.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Once you win a gold Glove, you have to really
goof up, not take another one because your name is
out there.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Well maybe then I guess he built that up, But
it's up to the players.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
Man.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
I would say that more with the name recognition, honestly,
with the media than the players.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
But the players aren't perfect. There's no perfect grading system.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
I'm just saying. By you add that he's a top
one hundred player, add that he was a pro bowler,
he's not bad. He can't be horrible, not horrible, and
I'll never say he was ever horrible. But I believe
that there were the intangibles didn't protect him from being
talked about in trade conversation, not showing up for Rota's,

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not showing up for many camps, the extra days off.
Wasn't there one time this year that CJ just got
his ass kicked and everybody ran over there. But but
Lareremie Tunseel. I mean, I don't want to. I don't
want to use Twitter and video to do that. No, no, no, no, no,
that was overblown. He didn't even he It happened behind him.
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
I don't, I don't. I want Larry, Yeah, please, I want.
You know that's okay.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Somebody ran with that because Larry Tunzel was upfield and
then CJ got knocked down behind him and he kind
of didn't see that.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
That's not fair to Laramie either.

Speaker 13 (52:39):
No.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
I mean again, we're just gonna be honest about this.
There were things about him that bothered me tremendously that
would in that particular situation, was not one of them.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Is
this word new that the cult signed Daniel Jones one year,
fourteen million dollars Colt san it's Anthony Richardson and it's

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Daniel j I would basically put a surgically repair to
arm On Peyton Manning and see what he's got left
from the town. You can't do any better than that. Seriously,
those are your two quarterbacks. Damn. The Texans are going
to the AMC South by default again because Tennessee is
in complete rebuild. Trevor Lawrence wake me up when he's
good for more than say, four games in a row.

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And the culture sending out Anthony Richison backed up by
Daniel Jones, give me a break. And that's what it's
always been about Ross. It hasn't been about the Texans
being the best of the worst in the AFC South.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
That's what it is.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
It's about getting it's getting to the next level. It's
getting to be Baltimore, it's getting to be Kansas City.
And don't sleep on Cincinnati. And I'm telling you, I
know the Chargers suck last year in the playoff game.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
I wouldn't sleep on them either.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
Cincinnati's got issues defensively, especially they got my guy t
Higgins though, again, pend a lot of money for those
two players, because here's what happens. If you spend obscene
amounts of money on on one position, in two players
at one position, you get hurt. And that's why they
are moving defensive players out. They were getting into like

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forty five to forty two shootouts already last year. Now
they're gonna deal Trey Hendrickson. Yeah, well he's searching for
a trade. Is what they was told me, right, they're
trying to deal with Yeah, all right. Seven one three
two one two five, seven ninety. The Rockets got to
win last night. They have won three consecutive games. We're
getting no help from anybody else. Ross, although last night
we did. Can thank the Nets they beat the Lakers.

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The Rockets are as close to two as they are
to seven. This is scary. This is the West. I
hate this. It's terrible. This is happening for twenty years.
It's terrible. The Rockets are playing six hundred basketball and
they might not even have home court in the first
round of the playoffs. Isn't that crazy? Yes, seven one
three two one two five, seven ninety. If you joined

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our program seven one three two one two five seven
eleven thirteen, this is the Matt thomash ol Ross.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
You're on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 8 (55:01):
Ninety Matten Ross return return on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (55:08):
Bowls Rip.

Speaker 14 (55:10):
Give it to Adams inside the arc behind him the green,
giving it back to Adams at the left elbow, looking
to final open man. Bounced pass to a cutter of
the screen, giving it back to Adamson as you called
a dump with the right hand for Steven Adams who
has nine first half points.

Speaker 6 (55:24):
Tremendous back door cut by Jalen who immediately got the
pass from Adams and shot it right back to him
for the dump.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
Flipping Brooks spaceline right. Jabari looking for another three pointer.
He's feeling it.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
That was a beautiful sideline three eighty nine seventy three
Jabbari up to twenty to go along with seven.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Board James Nintendoo.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Rockets beat the Magic last night in ninety seven eighty four.
The nineteen ninety five NBA season has no problem with
that final score from last night. It was shocking a
little bit. Thirty nine percent the Rockets shoot offense, he
and they win by thirteen Rocks. The Magic shot thirty
three percent from the floor, eight of thirty two from three. Rockets,
by the way, turned it over twenty times. Alpi my

(56:08):
man six by himself. It can be a problem, and
especially it's really a problem when you don't have Fred
van Vliet and Men Thompson can be prone to turnovers
as well. But when you're losing ball handlers and it's
more Alpern ching Goon and more Jalen Green the careless

(56:29):
turnovers and I mean alprinching gooons are like he's at
least trying to back somebody down, but he just he's
got a loose handle and people rip the ball from
all the time. Yeah, Alpie and Jalen combined for ten
of the rocket twenty turnovers last night. Jalen was six
of eighteen, three of nine from three Rockets also only

(56:49):
made it eleven of eighteen free throws.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
Ugly, are they won? That's all I can ask.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
They won twenty five. They will meet, they will. They
will match their win total with their next victory from
last year. Let's go that. Still have sixteen games left
to go in the season, seventeen games left to go
in this season.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
And still have hing pre oppens and can get better.
It can be better.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Yeah, they've won three in a row, yep, and a
very winnable home stand still ahead tomorrow night. Yeah, you
were looking for six and one. How are we looking?
We're three and oh so far pretty good. Phoenix lost
last night at Memphis, Kevin Durant with a miss three
pointer at the buzzard that allowed Memphis to hold onto
the win. You have Dallas on Friday, who's got no

(57:37):
healthy players left? Chicago on Saturday, who sucks. Although a
Kobe White I think is scoring forty in the racored forty four,
he's averaging like eighteen on the season before that. And
then you got Philadelphia on Monday, who's down to like
three players. So you know you got a chance. You
cannot let up. Because here's the thing. As awesome a
it is to have all these home games, and as

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awesome as it is to have you know, these subpar
teams coming in. Golden State doesn't lose anymore. The Lakers
have lost a couple as of lates. That's been encouraging,
but Denver doesn't lose anymore, and Phoenix and Memphis has
won a couple straight. The Rockets right now are in
the fifth spot. They are two out of the two

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and at this point they would hold the tiebreaker over
Denver because they've only played Denver once, but they've got
two more games with them, both in Houston. Ironically enough,
the Lakers are a game back or a game ahead
of the Rockets, as are Memphis. The Rockets, although tiebreak
over Memphis, the Rockets would have the tiebreaker over the Lakers,

(58:41):
but the Rockets and Lakers played two more times, and
then you have Golden State, who is three back of
the Rockets for the six in the sixth position. Golden State,
with one more game against the Rockets, has the tiebreaker
over Houston. They just keep climbing, too Golden State, they
won't lose. They have won five in a roerwo and
nine of ten. Well, that Jimmy Butler. This is what

(59:03):
I never would have thought Jimmy Butler made making any
significant difference. It's not like he's like stepping in there
and scoring twenty five points a game. He's just been
rock solid for them. You added a talented player to
a talented basketball team. Yeah, he's really good. He's not
a superstar. He's not worth the fifty sixty million years,
no one. And he'll always give you on the court.
He always gets pissed off eventually sometime, Oh he will.

(59:28):
Minnesota in the seventh spot. They are uh three and
a half back of the Rockets. They have won five straight.
The Clippers have won three. I mean, damn, No one's
losing in the West except teams that are normally custom
to losing. These days, the West is tough. Ten the
teams with a positive point differential in the West, six

(59:49):
in the East. The tenth place team in the West
is the Dallas Mavericks. They are thirty three and thirty
three five hundred. The tenth record in the East is
the Chicago bull at twenty seven and thirty eight.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
They're eleven under five hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
That's why you could get You got to get fat
and happy off of Chicago. And you've got a game
in Orlando next week, and uh, you've got another game
with mentioned Philadelphia, and then you've got Phoenix.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Who is in a complete free fall.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
And Dallas, who's trying to hang on to that number
ten spot in the West.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
They're gonna hang on. They're two and a half in
front of Phoenix. Phoenix.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
I'm gonna chase that. So Phoenix out tenth. He's gonna
get in the playoff game. But they're gonna be fodder
because whoever whoever advances out of that plan is gonna
play Oklahoma City, and they're good luck and good luck
enjoying your four games and your three nights in Oklahoma City.
Maybe maybe a gentleman sweep, maybe they get one at home.
That's true. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety

(01:00:50):
one more NBA. Hopfore we get to our gut feelings
about way. Gut feelings are coming up at bottom of
the hour where you get to make your predictions bout
anything in sports over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Was it maybe Friday? I don't know what it was.
Nikola Jokic had a thirty twenty twenty triple double, first
in NBA history.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
Okay, I preface this by saying, when you watch the
body language of Nikolai jokinch, he would rather be doing
anything but playing basketball. He's like, I'm seven feet tall,
I've been given the gift of soft hands and a
good shot. I guess I'll play basketball. I guess I'll
do it. Yeah, he didn't have a choice. He'd be
working in a Serbian farm, but he's playing basketball instead.

(01:01:31):
When we start putting him in the all time top ten,
are we getting close? And here's the thing, ross, If
we put him in the top ten, which we are
getting closer and closer and closer to doing, we got
to take somebody out. He's gonna be there.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
He's a unicorn.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
He's seven foot with a touch. You said, he's a
brilliant passer, great rebounder, His defense early in his career
was horrible.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Now it's good, serviceable, it's serviceable. That's as far as
I'll go.

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
He's just a he's a one of a kind weapon,
Like we just did something that's never happened ever before,
even with even with Magic, with Michael Jeffrey, with Oscar Robertson,
who was the for that matter, Russell Westbrook. I mean,
these are guys that lived on triple doubles in their
NBA career thirty twenty and twenty. I feel like Bobara Walters,

(01:02:24):
this is twenty twenty. Yeah, he's not gonna compile. You know,
he's not gonna get up to the some of the
all time lists because very early in his career he
wasn't good, or he just wasn't he was developing, he
was a young player. But he's three time MVP. He
should win his fourth. I think it's going to go

(01:02:45):
to Shake Gilgess, Alexander As Okay, we've given Nikolay Okitch
the MVP all these times. He's six eleven listed to
two eighty four. He's more Luca than he is. He's
Serbian strong, would that be fair to say not? I mean, yeah,
he's averaging twenty nine, ten and ten I'm sorry, ten

(01:03:06):
assists and thirteen rebounds. He's about okay. So the most
MVP's ever is Kareem with six, then Jordan with five,
Lebron has four. I don't know if anybody else has four.
I'll have to go look this up. But once he
hits four MVPs, which he should, I don't know if

(01:03:27):
he's going to this year, then yeah, he's already on
the list of the greatest of the greats. And by
the way, everybody who's ever had one MVP is in
the Hall of Fame in the NBA except Derek Rose,
and he's okay. I imagine he does he need to
win another championship to become one of the all all
time greats, because I just looked at it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
I looked at his Wikipedia page.

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
It takes fifteen minutes look at his Wikipedia page for
all the different accomplishments. He is so far ahead in
his NBA career. I question, hi, man, if we put
him in the top ten, who we taken out? And
don't say I gotta rank Rooum for eleven. If you

(01:04:10):
have a top ten, you have to take somebody out, okay,
And we can go are we going through? I'm just
saying somebody to think about down the road. We got
all the things to get to today. But I'm just
just throwing that out there. He's only thirty okay, players
to win four. Okay, he's already an elite company. I
want to list you the players who've won three MVPs, Bird, Magic,

(01:04:35):
Moses Malone, and Nikolai Jokich. I missed Wilt, He's won four,
Lebron's won four, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell with five, Kareem
was six. Oh wait, I think I think you brought
up the name you kick out of the top ten.
Bill Russell, Nope, Wilt Chamberlain, nope, Larry Bird yep. Oh

(01:04:58):
don't put you. We're not gonna put you on wee.

Speaker 5 (01:05:01):
I what that take?

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
No, I don't think you're crazy if you're going to
take out somebody that's legendary, no matter whatbody's got to
be eleven.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
And the problem is you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
Kobe's not is not an unanimous top ten?

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
Is he?

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
I would say most people do. I don't. Okay, So
this come down to Kobe or Larry gets kicked out
of the top ten. If Nicole now again, maybe people
are saying Nicole or Duncan or Shack. Oh I mentioned Shack.
I didn't even mention Hakeem the dream OLAJU want if
you heard of that guy.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
But they are. They in the top ten of the
all time. Hakeem was in my top ten.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
Am I gonna get crushed in Houston for saying this?

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
Don't say it? Eleven twenty seven. Time for us to
give you some gut feelings. We're gonna make some sports predictions.
We want you to do the exact same thing seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero seven one
ready two one two five cent and give us some
sports predictions. If you get them right, you get the brag.

(01:06:04):
If you get them wrong, we'll just forget about him.
It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross here on seven
ninety What's up the boy? I've been so appealing?

Speaker 15 (01:06:12):
Wasn't that tummat?

Speaker 16 (01:06:13):
You only got a gut feeling?

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
Connor, this is a special one for you. This is
your last gut feeling. Now you can always call the show.
I don't know if your new boss is gonna let
you do that, but you could always call in with
gut feelings if you so choose. I'll call in and
check up everyone. Man, we're not gonna hear from you,
but once twice a year, maybe Tom's deleting another column
from the from the spreadsheet. Okay for a while, for

(01:06:42):
old Tod's sake, you're just gonna be You're gonna be
happier to know that we're probably gonna remember your name
more than we do with the producers. There are something
like we used to work with this guy many moons ago,
like we had Noah, I've got his first gut feeling
from November seventh, twenty twenty three, and Texans game is close.
God knows what happened. They probably lost Dylan Brooks holds

(01:07:04):
lebron to under twenty points. Okay, who knows if that happened.
Let's go back to last week. Let's go back into
the here and now. Okay, fine, uh, let's see you
have Alex bregnant with an over eight hundred ops in April.
You jerk, you said something else, but I guess I
didn't write it down. Good. Um, I said that the

(01:07:29):
Rockets would be three and one versus the Pelicans, Pacers
and Magic. And they did go three and one, right,
they lost to.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
The Pacers lost, the Pacers lost the Thunder, No, but.

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
They but they beat New Orleans twice and Orlando three
and one. There you go, give yourself promise. I'm called
nailed it. Connor McGovern had the Rockets winning all four.
Unfortunately they lost to the Pacers. He said, ALPI scores
at least twenty five and one of them. I believe
that did happen. We'll just give him the credit on that.
I'm not sure. And then he said, score both games

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against the Pelicans twenty and twenty two points, and then
the Pacers he had twenty five and you said twenty
five more.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Okay, oh okay, So twenty five pickleball in the.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
Olympics in twenty two were Actually we're gonna call him
in four years, Matt three years to be sooner than that.
We'll probably know in the next two year. Yeah, that's true.
That was a retaliation true the day before. Yeah, I
get you. Matt takes her tough, because Matt Thomas takes
are tough. And that's all I have.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
That's all we didn't do much of last week, did we?
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
Or I didn't write it out? Now Brad distracted. Brad's
the only person along serious. So here's the bit for
those of you playing at home. We try to take
Brad as late as humanly possible, which means anybody that
calls in before him at seven one three, two, one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

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five seven nine zero seven one three two one to
five seven nine zero you get in before Brad. Now,
no one calls in the next day two to three
minutes with gut feelings, right, it's going next.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
I'll go with mine.

Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
Okay, I still think. Can I say Aaron Rodgers is
starting quarterback in the NFL next year? Is that crazy
to say? Hmm, it's not crazy. You're running at time
Aaron Rodgers starts Week one of the NFL season next
year or some team. I can't pinpoint which team that is. Okay,

(01:09:32):
but I'll go Aaron Rodgers starting quarterback. It went on Indianapolis. Well,
they're just gathering up bad quarterbacks and one left and
right there. Yeah, uh Texans prediction. This one's gone to
way till April.

Speaker 16 (01:09:49):
Ford.

Speaker 1 (01:09:49):
But I'm gonna go with They're gonna go offensive line
in the with two of their first three picks. I
think that feels like that has to happen, and better
I put it this way, it better happened. Now you
said this, there to trade up in the first round, Yep,
I'm piggybacking.

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
Texans. All these picks that they're keeping they have, they're
not keeping them. You know that Casaro gets the gets
itchy trigger finger, doesn't it. I'll be even more specific,
Texans trade up in the first round.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
There's got to be somebody I loved got it for alignment.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
Okay, two of the first three Texans picks will be
offensive alignment. Okay, Okay, they will not continue remember you
went away. They will not draft a wide receiver until
the I would say until at least the fourth round. One, two,
and three will be wide receiver free for the Houston Texans. Man.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
This is the problem you run into the draft. You
have so many team needs.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
It's supposed to be a very well stocked defensive tackle draft,
very well stocked running back draft. You could use both
of those, but you also need offensive line and wide receiver,
and generally picks after the fourth round aren't worth.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
Much and they're cheap, and you're hoping to catch lighting
up about with those guys.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
Gosh, so many neats they need all of that. I
want to see multiple O lineman, wide receiver, running back,
defensive tackle, even though they signed Sheldon Rankings linebacker depth too.
You just do oh such as say again Jake Canson.
Most famous Jay Canson ever boys was uh, that was

(01:11:25):
the Serial Killer? No, what do you say, Conde that up?
It's me It's the Texans. No, the character on Melro's Place,
Jay Canson, I never watched it. You didn't watch melrose Place? No,
I was like eleven when that was on Connor. If
you were your age back in the nineties and you
were a fan of melrose Place, you had have no

(01:11:46):
problems with you know what, but the ladies. Correct. There
was when I was single, before I got Mary, before
I started dating Kim, I had said melrose Place, watching
parties at my apartment with me and my guy in
some of our girl space friends, and you know, it's
fun and then you break out the the yellow tail wine.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
Zimas.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
Yeah, try to get them liquored up, and we place
some twister and then you'd commit loot and Lasivius X
and apologize later. I always apologized. All right, last chance
if you want, if you don't want to hear from Brad,
you got to call in right now at seven one
three two one two five seven ninety. Remember Brad goes

(01:12:30):
last here on gut feelings please seven one three two
one two five seven Nintie, Brian and Parley and Brian.

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
What's in your gut this week?

Speaker 11 (01:12:39):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:12:39):
I mean, I just makes up.

Speaker 17 (01:12:41):
I'm just to keep Brad waiting on hold longer.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
Oh thank god.

Speaker 17 (01:12:44):
Texans will trade up. They will use their first round
pick in a combination of some of the picks they've
just gotten.

Speaker 1 (01:12:51):
I don't know it to be a fifth or a
sixth or whatever.

Speaker 17 (01:12:55):
I'll use a package of three of those picks to
trade up in the state the top fifteen to get
an offensive lineman that they want to help bolster their
offensive line. And Forrest Whitley will be your seventh inning
guy to start the season.

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
And he won't miss.

Speaker 5 (01:13:12):
He will miss fewer than twenty games this year.

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
What do you mean mont won't miss? You mean like
injured this time? Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:13:22):
Yeah, he'll make one start up at I l but
first to a blessed or something.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
But it won't be for more than twenty games.

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
You cannot make predictions on injuries like that is rando.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
That's a rando.

Speaker 10 (01:13:34):
One.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
Oh, hold this a rando. That's true. Don't come out
of my owm bit. That's ridiculous. I'm just kidding, all right, Brian,
thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
I will piggyback off of the conversation about Forest Whitley. Okay,
Fort Whitley will get.

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
At least five holds for the Astros this year, Brock.

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
Then hold on fast. Did we get one from Connor?
And I didn't write it down? Connor, did you say anything?

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
We ain't got one yet. Yeah, I haven't given how
many holds. Five at least I'll take that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
I got another one for you. Yeah, Josh Hater over
forty saves, say what we's soup. It's gonna have a
bounce back year. The Astros offense isn't good enough to
have them blowing people out. There's gonna be a lot
of close games like last year. You're gonna Josh Hater
a lot. He didn't blow a lot of saves last year,
but he had a lot of losses. Bad situations. Yeah,

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forty saves plus Connor your last ones, my friend, good luck.
I will go. Rockets win next four to go on
a seven game win and then some some future ones.
I'll say, Texans make a splash at wide receiver. Rockets
win a playoff series in six games? What hold on? Jeez,

(01:14:56):
hold on. This guy's doing the whole rest of the
sports well because it for him. He's gotta twenty nine. Okay,
say this again. Rockets win their next four games. Then
they win their first round series in six games. Yes,
Texas tek a splash at wide receiver, and then if
only got one more, what do you mean splash at
wide receiver like a splash signing.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
You're gonna lose on that money was last year? You're
losing that. I could trade somebody, don't think so.

Speaker 1 (01:15:23):
And then I'll say, the Carolina Hurricanes are your NHL champions,
SAMI champions. By the way, can you help anybody? So
you got my Rockets winning a playoff series? Who are
they playing? And what seed are they gonna be in?

Speaker 11 (01:15:34):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
I ask.

Speaker 1 (01:15:36):
I didn't think that far ahead? Can I?

Speaker 13 (01:15:37):
Can?

Speaker 1 (01:15:37):
I think about it. I'm gonna go and give you
my gut feeling who we're facing. I think we're gonna
finish either fourth or fifth, fourth against thee and we're
gonna play the Memphis Grizzlies and we're gonna beat them.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
Then what's gonna happen in the second round against the Thunder?

Speaker 1 (01:15:52):
We're gonna pray a lot. Okay. By the way, the
Nuggets destroyed the Thunder in Oklahoma City last night. It
can be done.

Speaker 2 (01:16:01):
Sports RV.

Speaker 1 (01:16:03):
Over seven games, it can be done.

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
Sports RV.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
Yeah, they can. They can nick one. Can they steal four?

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
Your mount? The basketball gods are probably not.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
But that's okay. We'll come to that bridging across it.
Let's get the let's get the three seat. It's possible. Probably, Sorry,
the only way you I don't think you're gonna jump, Denbra.
You're hoping that with Lebron out, the Lakers go on
some Laura losing skid.

Speaker 3 (01:16:30):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:16:31):
By the way, last night, Luka, Doncic your favorite player
not over efficient last night. I'm not saying here's your
favorite player. He's playing himself into shape again, give him
some time. I mean he has always been dowey. He's
always playing himself into shape. Yeah, but that's that's what
he was doing to the day one of his NBA career.
Look at Dodge last night eight of twenty six. Lord

(01:16:55):
three of ten from three, finished with twenty two points,
twelve rebounds, twelve assists eight of twenty six. I'll take
my chances when you shoot eight of twenty six. He
has been a good, not great three point shooter in
his career. Yeap. By the way, I mentioned Denver last
night beating the Nuggets, one beating the thunder to say
one forty twenty seven. Uh Nicola Jokic thirty five points,

(01:17:19):
eighteen rebounds, eight assist. He was fifteen of twenty from
the floor, seventy five percent from the field. I got
another one for you. Uh huh.

Speaker 14 (01:17:33):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
Tell me how some oldering hat this is or how
cold and dull it is, please. Cam Smith plays multiple
games in right field for the Houston Astros this season
regular season. To find multiple twenty five, multiple, more than one.
Put your number on it. Number. It's a good feeling.

(01:17:54):
Multiple played right field in career. Multiple. HEAs you never
played right field in his lines, were playing school. Not
even get called up. He's going to uh, by the way,
he's not getting called up you know why to start
the season fifteen days.

Speaker 2 (01:18:06):
It's all going to sit down there and think an
extra year out of it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
There you go, am I right? Is that right? I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
Yeah, I think he said if he sits fifteen days.

Speaker 1 (01:18:16):
I'll defer to you. That's what we call you. Double
day Thomas. No, they call me buoye Qan Thomas. I
thought it was peach basket. Actually no, nobody calls me
that either. Everybody. Chris, Larry Mark, Brad your gut feelings
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Speaker 1 (01:19:33):
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Speaker 8 (01:19:38):
Gut Feelings continue now on The Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
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Speaker 1 (01:19:44):
Go seven one three, two one two five seven ninety
Larry and Katie on The Matt Thomas Show at Ross
at eleven and fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
Larry, what's in your gut?

Speaker 10 (01:19:53):
Yeah, it's really ironic. The last time I called in
was when Matt wasn't there and we were there at
the block.

Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (01:20:00):
But I was watching the Cubs game on Sunday I
have MLB and Tucker came up and they mentioned he
was over nineteen and he flies out his first time,
oh for twenty. The next time up, they had this
minor league picture that Grew's baton practice pitch in there
and he hits the home run, So he's one for

(01:20:21):
twenty one. So my prediction is that the Boobirds will
be out in Chicago by say May first. You hit
less than two sixty less than twenty five homers.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
So you're calling him a underperforming Kyle Tucker or a
flight out bust.

Speaker 10 (01:20:40):
Underperforming. And also, uh, I will be betting under the
eighty eight and a half wins the Astros this year.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
I've seen eighty six and a half. Where'd you see
eighty eight and a half?

Speaker 10 (01:20:54):
Well, it started, it started eighty eight, but then he
went down, So everybody's on the under. If you would
like to hear some information on Bregman, I've got an
inside school. The reason he didn't want to come back
to Houston was because he saw what happened with Springer Korea,

(01:21:18):
Gonzalees built trying how differently they were treated, and he
was really tired of getting disrespected. And when we talked
about it, he knew that he and up as an astro,
that he would never get the respect that he deserved.
And I agreed with him one hundred percent and so

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that's why. And the whole time he was wanting to
go to Boston because of the Green Monster. He felt
like his swing was meant for that, so.

Speaker 1 (01:21:47):
He so, you know, you know Alan personally, Larry.

Speaker 10 (01:21:51):
Well, I fished a bat in practice from twenty fifteen
to twenty twenty two for home games, and so yeah,
I got to know him a little bit. So I
would never say what he said exactly, but that's kind
of phrasing paraphrasing what he said, and that had a

(01:22:13):
lot to do with his decision.

Speaker 11 (01:22:17):
I think.

Speaker 1 (01:22:19):
Larry and came down to he was looking for the
most money. He would have swallowed his perceived lack of
respect bit if the Astros would have given him forty
five million dollars a year for three years with an
opt out. I think Alex was looking for the big
bank and do as do most professional athletes, as do
most of us in society. So I don't think this

(01:22:41):
was it was about not feeling the respect. It was
about I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
Looking for the.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
He was.

Speaker 10 (01:22:48):
He was actually attired of abuse.

Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
He really was. Not what abuse are you speaking of?

Speaker 13 (01:22:54):
What was?

Speaker 1 (01:22:55):
I don't think he was abused the.

Speaker 10 (01:22:58):
Verbal abuse from who uh, the fans when he was
on the road.

Speaker 1 (01:23:03):
Wait, what does that to do with him being an Astro.
He's gonna get a views on the road anyway, if
he's a Boston Red Sox. What are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (01:23:09):
That's not That's not what he said.

Speaker 10 (01:23:12):
That's not what happened with Springer in Korea, Gonzales and
Beltran when all they when they all left, Uh, they
were treated completely different. And he knew when he was
in an Astros uniform that he was gonna get disrespected,
and he didn't want to end up his career being disrespected.
And I agree with him one hundred percent. You watch

(01:23:36):
what happens in Boston. They're not gonna boo him in.

Speaker 5 (01:23:39):
Boston Red Sox.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
Boston Red Sox players don't boot Boston.

Speaker 2 (01:23:44):
Red Sox fan.

Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
I mean, they just don't. I mean, I'm gonna, yeah,
I'm gonna. I'm not buying this. I'm sorry. Larry's got
the inside dirt, Maddie.

Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
I think he's making it up.

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
Okay, you think you think Alex Pregnant's walking around going Man,
people can't just sit in your booming's and more in
an Astro uniform. I don't want to take any more
of this all loney, Alex is not not a wallflower.
Say I don't know, Uh, go ahead say it. I'm

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gonna say that if Larry was throwing VP in twenty
one and twenty two, that maybe Alex could have sit
and had those sentiments now in twenty four.

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
I'm sure he doesn't care for twenty five.

Speaker 18 (01:24:27):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:24:28):
Yeah, I mean, it's not fun to get booed, but
that's that's life. Baby, you're a professional athlete. Well, you
said it ruined Josel Twov's twenty twenty season. He was
beat up about the cheating scandal. I did you sure?

Speaker 2 (01:24:43):
I thought it was the opposite of that. Now we
argued on that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
No, I think Alex pregnant is a lot tougher than that.
I think Alex Bregman is looking for the cache. I
think so too. I think maybe he did have. Well,
first of all, his first concern was money. They are
him six years and a two hundred million dollars. He
would have taken losing Larry's train of thought that when
Boston goes to play the Seattle Mariners, Alex Bartman's not

(01:25:08):
gonna get booted.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
I find it to be impossible to believe.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
I think he'll still get boot Yeah, all right, we
gotta get going quickly here, Chris Jersey Village, Chris, what
is in your gun?

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
At eleven fifty five?

Speaker 1 (01:25:19):
Yeah, you know, Larry's right.

Speaker 19 (01:25:20):
I mean, after the whole scandal, Alex totally changed his
persona from the Will Baryl carrying guy to you know,
I'm going to hide in the corner because everyone's yelling
at me. So I could definitely see that. I mean,
Alex right now is being worshiped in Boston. He is
like he's never part of the Astros the way they're

(01:25:40):
treating him in Boston.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
So I definitely agree with Larry.

Speaker 5 (01:25:44):
My my gut feeling is.

Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
Sorry, but there's something, there's some technical problems we have.

Speaker 19 (01:25:51):
Yeah, you know what, caller's gonna have good points. Sometimes,
you guys aren't the only ones that have good point.

Speaker 1 (01:25:58):
I don't know that's at all. I don't. So you're
telling me that somebody in Boston loves a Red Sox player. Oh,
I was breaking news. Thanks very much for that. Appreciate
that it's all over the media, Matt.

Speaker 19 (01:26:10):
Listen, look at how they're praising all of course there listen.

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
He's a Boston Red Sox.

Speaker 12 (01:26:15):
What do you expecting of.

Speaker 2 (01:26:16):
Boot Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (01:26:17):
You're a new third baseman, Alex Regmanoo, Bob, you playing
for the Ostros Boo. Of course he's gonna love him. God,
this kind silly. Come on, I'm just saying, come on,
That's what I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Come on,
good continue, You're right, money teams first, but the green wall,
the green wall will be Hey, I'm the one that's

(01:26:38):
gonna beat eight hundred ops.

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
Trust me. I think he's gonna right there.

Speaker 1 (01:26:41):
I'm jealous, honestly, Yeah, no, I got hey, my.

Speaker 19 (01:26:47):
Gut feeling real quick before. Brad the best caller of
your show. I can't wait to hear what he's got
to say. Uh Amia, Thompson will be Rookie of the
Year this year.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Well he's a second year player, so that's and it
will not happen.

Speaker 1 (01:27:01):
No, Matt Collins can be right.

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
I should have gone to Brad sooner. I'm sorry, Brad. No,
don't be sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
On your mind, Brad.

Speaker 7 (01:27:15):
Those those guys were frauds that just called your show.

Speaker 1 (01:27:18):
They don't know a damn.

Speaker 2 (01:27:20):
That's that's exactly right.

Speaker 20 (01:27:23):
I'm sure now I know where Alex Bregman lived because
I went to the postal boxes and this guy showed.

Speaker 10 (01:27:29):
Me pictures and gloated about it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
Oh my god, Now that's real.

Speaker 1 (01:27:35):
I mean, so I know something real.

Speaker 7 (01:27:38):
Those guys pitching for the Astros back and yeah, right, dude,
you pitching for nothing here.

Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
You know, I never brought this up.

Speaker 7 (01:27:49):
Predicted President Trump like a year before he made he
won the election, and.

Speaker 20 (01:27:56):
I predicted Sam Darnold would not stay with the bike,
and you said, oh yeah, no, no way. And then
you switched up and change about two a month and
a half later, and you see what I no more,
Sam Donold.

Speaker 3 (01:28:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:28:11):
You also you also had Bill Belichick as the Cowboys
coach next year and as the New York Jets coach. No,
you said somewhere. Uh you Also you also said Verlander
was gonna make the playoff roster. He didn't do that.

Speaker 7 (01:28:28):
I don't remember that one.

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
Yeah, I wrote it down. Hey when you predict Hey, no, yeah,
I know. So you're gonna call that what you writ about.
I'm gonna tell you what you're wrong about. You also
had Joe ah Spot as manager.

Speaker 11 (01:28:37):
Of the Year.

Speaker 7 (01:28:39):
Hey, it happens.

Speaker 10 (01:28:40):
I I tell you what.

Speaker 7 (01:28:42):
When I predicted Bregman should have got traded the deadline,
can you imagine they would have gotten another camp Smith,
They would have gotten to camps.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
Let's see, I'm reading some more. You got You got
pedro leone starting for the Astros this year.

Speaker 13 (01:28:56):
No, I didn't have that.

Speaker 3 (01:28:57):
I will say this.

Speaker 7 (01:28:58):
You will say cam Smith will make one of the
spots and they're gonna train because.

Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
Oh man, we're gonna lose a connection here unfortunately or underwater. Brad,
thank you for the phone call. I'll get some more
for you. Verlanders going to retire. It didn't happen. Wait
a minute, this is actually gold. He had bregnant with
a three year deal somewhere. He nailed that. You know what, Brad,
you got that right of his props. I just did
because callers sometimes get it right. You heard the guys,

(01:29:29):
these call jose Al to MVP season says. These callers
are talking about the national media loving Bregman getting as
a Red Sox, not just Red Sox fans. Come on, Matt,
here's a good one. Rockets will not make the top eight.
These brad kits keep on coming. Stop it. Let him
be one more Bobby slowan head coach after this after
the twenty four season.

Speaker 2 (01:29:47):
Wrong, all right, last one, Tim and friends will what's
in your gut?

Speaker 3 (01:29:51):
Tim?

Speaker 13 (01:29:52):
Hey, listen, I got the side and I was, Yeah, listen,
I was.

Speaker 9 (01:29:58):
I was the.

Speaker 15 (01:29:58):
Cleaner during the during the year. And the reason Bregman
was really pushing to go to Foster was there was
a corner behind the green Monster that if he really
liked to hide in when everybody was booing, and he thought,
if you could get that eighty one games a year,
that he was going.

Speaker 13 (01:30:14):
To be in a better spot.

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
So that's kind of much brother, Thank you, Thank you,
Tim Wow, straight from the cleat cleaner.

Speaker 2 (01:30:21):
Better than cleet chaser, right, clout chaser? That too, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:30:28):
It's look, callers have good points. They just sometimes you
got to think about what you say before you save them.
It's been a long rookie season for him in Thompson. Yeah,
and and that Bregman is human. But Bregman's about the
cash period.

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
In the story. That's why it's why you higher Scott Borrows.

Speaker 13 (01:30:46):
He was.

Speaker 1 (01:30:46):
I guarantee, I know Bregman well enough, trust me, I'll
tell you this. He could he could live with booze
and yeah, the wheelbarrow thing, it's the thing of the past.
But you know what, damn it don't work.

Speaker 2 (01:30:58):
Going to break.

Speaker 1 (01:30:59):
That's fine. He felt sorry and he's so raked and
he's still a great guy. And he's gonna batt and
ops in April in Boston. He's gonna rank there twelve one,
Sports Talk seven and we start the news at noon next.

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show again.

Speaker 1 (01:31:21):
Laramie clocks will get it again.

Speaker 13 (01:31:24):
What in that?

Speaker 4 (01:31:26):
We'll start oftens from the seventy eight Yes, supermunity, let's
still turn down the illegal formation offense under seventy eight.

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
He did it again. This down's the prime. Let's start down.
He did it again. Illegal formation seventy.

Speaker 5 (01:31:40):
Eight offense in the seventy years on the scrimbles.

Speaker 1 (01:31:43):
That is five penalties called against Laramie Tunsel.

Speaker 5 (01:31:46):
Often into seventy years.

Speaker 1 (01:31:49):
It's so down, holy cow, with this rough tackle. For
the Houston Texas, all they do is commit penalties first
and foremost. You should go up to Laramie dunsele and
just to make sure he's okay, not to be like
you know, dog. All these penalties today or anything. Just
are you okay? Is everything okay? Last time I saw you,
you were shutting everybody down. But now Jeremy Tumsil had

(01:32:11):
six penalties called against him today.

Speaker 6 (01:32:13):
Jay got first down. Here's the kid and they blow
the play dead. Looks like a false start of the Texans.
Let's find out who.

Speaker 5 (01:32:22):
Aboard the snap fall start offense number seventy eight. It's
a five year old penalty.

Speaker 16 (01:32:27):
Let's go first.

Speaker 1 (01:32:28):
But he got it out of the way early every
week though, I mean, you're a pro Bowl player.

Speaker 5 (01:32:33):
There's no excuse for that's nine.

Speaker 1 (01:32:37):
Back to the fifteen weego. You kiss off under ware?
Who ex quarterback? Who defends usually offensive lineman. That's what
quarterbacks typically dock es. Yeah, you can hear him slapping
it like sounds like notes or something sounds at the

(01:33:00):
table before. That's one of my favorite things about radio.
Listening to radio is when somebody that you can hear
them like grab the microphone or slap something like you
can hear the frustration. I love it. I should do
a better job of that. And you grabbed the mic
when you get upset.

Speaker 6 (01:33:17):
I do.

Speaker 1 (01:33:18):
Somebody says that people were saying mean things about Alex.
We can hear you ripping your headphones off. Do I
think Bregman didn't like the criticism. Of course somebody would
like it. But he's a big boy. He's got thick skin.
If you're not, if you don't thick skin, you're not
playing professional sports. Period into story. But it wasn't the

(01:33:39):
number one reason why I left, not even close. And
he's gonna be booed. And if you think he got
boots as an astro, as a Yankee, imagine what he's
gonna be booed like a Yankee sitting when he goes
there three times a year. He's gonna get double booted.
I guess two times year now, right, it's twice. You
go twice. Now you don't go three times anymore with
bounce schedule. Yeah, he is gonna he is going to

(01:34:00):
get ripped a new one at Yankee Stadium. He's got
to be. Is he the most hated person in Yankee
Stadium now as he was an astro and now he's
with the Red Sox. Yes, I mean that's a double dip.
That's a double dip. Time now for the News at
noon at twelve ten and the Texans News. Ross is
just overflowing here.

Speaker 16 (01:34:21):
Oh my goodness, bad do we have a lot of
Texans news for you, the news at dude here Old
Sports Talk seven ninety. Of course the lead A story
of the day would be the Houston Texans trading Laramie
Tunsul to the Washington Commanders.

Speaker 1 (01:34:39):
It's a third and seventh rounder in twenty twenty five
and a second and a fourth rounder in twenty twenty six,
all coming back from the Washington Commanders. The Texans are
also sending back. Why is it not in this article
they're sending back a third of a fourth I believe

(01:35:01):
are the Houston Texans. As far as the full compensation
for the trade up. Our good friend Aaron Wilson was
on the A team yesterday. Here's what he had to say.
Why did this happen? Why did the Texans trade away
Laramie Tunzel.

Speaker 13 (01:35:17):
The way it was explained to the Tunsil camp is
that it was in their best interest and they thought
his best interest to part ways at this time. It
was a situation where if they have some big things
coming down the pike financially, they'll make their extinly the
highest paid corner. I believe this offseason and then a
year from now Will Anderson Junior and CG. Straw will

(01:35:38):
become eligible for new contracts.

Speaker 1 (01:35:40):
So sounds like there were a lot of financial implications.
Of course, the money comes off the books. We figure
of course with the culture fit as well.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
You add it all up.

Speaker 1 (01:35:50):
Getting some pretty good conversation from Washington. Laramie Tunzel is
a Washington commander. The hardest thing to comprehend and I
understand when this happened a lot. Yeah, today was you
took your worst position group and you made it worse,
and that is that is something that has to be fixed.
I don't think the Texans are going to sit with

(01:36:13):
the five guys that are currently on There are lads
Scouting Guide, Draft depth chart and go.

Speaker 2 (01:36:18):
We were set they're going to go having the draft.

Speaker 1 (01:36:21):
I've already made the gut feeling prediction that they're going
to go at least two of the first three rounds
or their first three picks of independing what they do
and moving picks around, will be offensive linemen.

Speaker 2 (01:36:30):
They're not going to stand pat They've.

Speaker 1 (01:36:32):
Got an amazing quarterback they've got to protect. They just
weren't satisfied with what happened last year, and I don't
blame them because you saw it firsthand.

Speaker 2 (01:36:41):
As of this moment.

Speaker 1 (01:36:42):
Pinning what happened to the draft, Aaron Wilson also went
on to say likely Titus Howard had left tackle with
Blake Fisher at right tackle, but that's fall up for
the yea change of course, there are certainly spots up
for grabs for the Houston Texans well, including getting shipped
off won Kenyon Green traded to for CJ. Gardner Johnson

(01:37:07):
of the Philadelphia Eagles. Looks like they're trying to shed
some salary as well as they have to pay a
bunch of guys. So CJ. Gardner Johnson changing homes for
a third straight season in exchange for Kenyon Green. He's
a Houston Texan. Kenyan Green basically been a bust for
the Texans, and CD Gardner Johnson a pretty good safety.

(01:37:28):
And oh, by the way, the clock is on Casario
to fix this. By the way, this offensive line he
created this mess. Yeah, he's gonna he's trying to fix it,
and I and thankfully to make those on board. Thankfully. CG.
Gardner Johnson, a Houston Texan. Also Texans signing guard Laken
Tomlinson too, a one year, four point two five million

(01:37:50):
dollar deal.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
Looks mean in the photo.

Speaker 1 (01:37:53):
He was a pro bowler in twenty twenty one, but
since then, just according to one datapointment, the FF grade YEP.
In his Pro Bowl season, he was graded as seventy
three thirteenth out of eighty two guards. Last year forty
four out of seventy seven guards, which a sixty two
point sounds like a depth depth thing there, raid yeah,

(01:38:16):
depth guy, look yeap sixty two. I'll tell you this,
that's better than Shack Mason. He was the forty fourth
guard Shack Mason of forty seventh. So your winning, yeah,
in incremental improvement with Laken Tomlinson coming over from the
Seattle Seahawks, he is thirty three years old.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
Looks like a filter to me. I would agree as well.

Speaker 1 (01:38:37):
And there's you news in it and Rockets won last
night and then Rockets as I said, the Texans also
have re signed Mario Williams or Mario Edwards. Mario Williams
all right words, Mario Edwards, Edwards Williams and Mario Willims
would be hey be in his late thirties. Quite a surprise.
But more on a lot of stuff going on in
the NFL coming up at twelve. Yeah, we've got the
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Matt Thomas Show with Ross Now on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:40:20):
We got the NFL rewind coming up at the bottom
of the hour believe it or not today all things
about Larry Tensel at one fifteen, and we're giving away
what good rodeo tickets? Correct? Am I right on this?

Speaker 2 (01:40:29):
Or at least decent rodeo tickets?

Speaker 3 (01:40:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:40:30):
We got tickets to go see Journey at the Rodeo.
Wow with that new singer.

Speaker 1 (01:40:36):
He's not new, he's been there forever. That new singer
that's been there forever. And also a pair of tickets
to see the Psychedelic Furs. What's your favorite psychonelic first song?

Speaker 18 (01:40:45):
One with you?

Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
Mine's Gravity Define Gravity. No, it's just the name of
the song.

Speaker 3 (01:40:51):
Okay.

Speaker 11 (01:40:52):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:40:53):
I'm really bothered by this, And I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (01:40:56):
Dark Pressed Again had a chief transformation off sir by
the name of Ryan Green in September of last year.
He said, we're more likely to lose money if we
start charging for bags. He says the fact that free
bags is a key driver of choice creates a risk
that customers may choose the competition if we change the policy.

Speaker 2 (01:41:19):
They fired him last month.

Speaker 1 (01:41:23):
Jobama said, ain't nobody got time for you telling the
world how our marketing goes. Ain't nobody got time for
you not opening up revenue streams. This is Southwest Public traded,
I would assume, So why, Yeah, I don't think I
think most airlines are okay. By the way, do not
go look at your Fura one case today.

Speaker 2 (01:41:45):
Or in the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:41:48):
Let's wrong with our America. We got my eggs are
cost some warm, my Foura one case dropping, my gas
prices remain consistent. That's good at least that's yeah. I
got Dark Breast charging for bags. Now you charge Houston
LA charge instead of charging two fifty, charge two sixty five.

(01:42:08):
Keep your free bags, Keep keep that keep that core
Dark Breast airlines. Yeah, as I said, customer fan base, please,
I have multiple times, I would say even close to
fifty percent of not more of the time I've traveled
via air considered Southwest simply for the free bags. I
live closer to inter way, closer than I do to Hobby.

(01:42:29):
But when the dolt, when the kids and my wife
go there, there are one bag, two bag people. So yeah,
that's four or five bags and three of them huge.
That's the significant savings. We have gone and taken the
drive down to Hobby for that. It's like two hundred
bucks a trip. Yeah for sometimes sometimes dark breast what
you're doing, brah. Now again, their seats are full, but

(01:42:49):
aren't most playing seats full anyway? Just pray to the
almighty dollar, Matt.

Speaker 2 (01:42:57):
I guess this is a sad day. I am say.

Speaker 1 (01:43:00):
It's almost like what's a tried and true formula in marketing.
I mean, it's like the dollar fifty costco dog be
making make it five bucks?

Speaker 2 (01:43:08):
Yeah, I mean, Doc Brass, my man, my man, my lady.
Anybody works out.

Speaker 1 (01:43:13):
I mean you guys have lived on slightly more attractive
flooed attendance with a sense of humor, really slightly.

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
I think they're all comedians too much on inside.

Speaker 1 (01:43:24):
Sometimes they're too funny to try to be too trying
to be funny, too funny, I guess you can't be
too funny. But the free bag bit, especially since i'n
eleven when everybody started charging bank that separated you from
the group that that made you one of us. Again,
date they focus group this or they didn't focus group this,

(01:43:45):
and they're like, you know what, we'll get back lash
for a couple of days. Yeah, absolutely, they're right. People
will forget, we will forget. Well, I'm still gonna put
in Southwest dot com when I'm looking for flights, But
now it's it's different for someone that lives northeast of
Intercontinental unless it's a dramatic like one hundred dollars twenty
twenty five dollars difference. If it's fifty bucks, screw that.

(01:44:05):
I'm just gonna just say screw it. I'll just flash
mined yeah, or all fly Barrican it's costing you, like,
tell Bucks and gas to get down there. Yeah, no kidding.

Speaker 2 (01:44:12):
So just another dark day for old dark breast airlines.

Speaker 3 (01:44:16):
That sad.

Speaker 1 (01:44:18):
By the way, Cam Smith on the back fields today,
you know that backfield craziness out there, that's fore Channel
Roman and Brian mc tager through their heavy lifting.

Speaker 2 (01:44:26):
Yes, I'm gonna play five innings of right field today.

Speaker 1 (01:44:29):
Let's go. Let's get him out there, get him used
to it. If he's got third base, the Army's got
right field. Arm At least, let me tell you something.
If Chassi Fizz ain't sleeping, well, that would be a
zero surprise. Okay, I'm sorry, Chassy. He's turning thirty in April.
But it doesn't mean when you when you turn thirty,
you can't be a productive Major League baseball player. But
if you haven't become a big time how many players
become productive after thirty twenty eight? He was embarrassing, was good.

(01:44:54):
You'd be better than what we have out there now.
Twenty two home runs, I'll give a PS eight sixties.
Let me tell you give me twenty twenty three him.

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
I'm fine. I could live with that.

Speaker 1 (01:45:04):
Okay, you give me altuove. What he normally does are
close to Myers with a great man is he is
smacking home runs in spring training. Jake Myers got he's
got country bore, strong power, Yeah, country strong as Brian mctachants,
and then uh and then Chassi Fizz of twenty twenty three, Okay,
I'll live with that. It's gonna be somewhere in between.

(01:45:26):
You know what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:45:26):
They're they're not seeing it.

Speaker 3 (01:45:28):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:45:28):
They're in their minor going we got a fast track
camps with this post quickly, So I think you're right.
So I think, and I'll have to do a little clarification.
I think if they hold him back fifteen days, they
get to keeping him for an additional year of arbitration
if they now. The only reason why he wouldn't be
able to do that is if he finishes I believe,
in the top two or three in the Rookie of
the Year voting and then become a super two guy, which, again,

(01:45:51):
good for him. If that happens, it means the astros
are doing really really well to pay the man. Yeah,
I'm sorry, Oh, I'm sorry. You gotta pay these guys
that are producing for you MLB instead of having them
under control for six years and they can't hit free
agency do thirty. It's the greatest shister move in player.
And I should say employee employer relations. Could you imagine
working somewhere in your life now? Granted you do get

(01:46:16):
automatic bonuses, yes, or salary pre sessions and bonus, but
you can't leave for six But you can't. You can't
freely test the waters of your talents until you've been
with your company for six years.

Speaker 2 (01:46:31):
So what would you have it if I gave you,
for instance, Okay, let's just real quick.

Speaker 1 (01:46:35):
If I said I'm gonna sign you to a contract
and you can't leave for six years, but I'm going
to give you incremental bonuses of five percent per year. Yeah,
it's that's still pretty good as long as you're happy
with the company which you work and players who are
really good. I mean, what's from are making an arbitration
this year fifteen sixteen? I mean, when you have a chance.

(01:46:56):
The arbitration process. While it is there to protect the owners,
it still gives the players a great opportunity to make
a lot of money, especially if they're beneficial and doing
really well in the field. Eighteen million for Frobber, but
if he were a free agent this year, he'd get
much more than that.

Speaker 3 (01:47:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:47:11):
Well, I still think it protects the ownership group absolutely,
but I kind of get it ross If I'm an owner,
I like it because I need to keep my homegrown guys.
If if that was the case, honestly, you'd have the
super wealthy, super awesome players playing for all the top teams,

(01:47:32):
and then you'd have twenty or so teams playing probably
underpaying for guys at least with the arbitration numbers that
there is a bar that is being set right. And
baseball is different because I mean, you have a whole
farm system and you bring guys up, you send them down.
It's it's more complicated, it is very it's not a
simplistic procedure. All right, nfl rewind coming up next twelve
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Speaker 10 (01:49:02):
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Speaker 2 (01:49:03):
This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 1 (01:49:17):
We've got NFL rewind every Tuesday at twelve thirty here
on the Matt Thomas Show, Real Quick. Dj B enemy
of ESPN, says that the Texans again confirming they signed
left guard Lincoln Tomlinson. He says he's as durable as
they come. He played seven seasons in the row without
missing a game. He'll be competing for a starting role.

(01:49:39):
He allowed the sixth highest pressure rate among left guards.
Oh is that bad? With at least three hundred blocking
snaps and eleven sacks, the most allowed according to next
Gen Stats.

Speaker 2 (01:49:53):
So you're saying there's a chance. Apparently, still an upgrade.

Speaker 1 (01:49:59):
According to our friend at Profable, sounds like a just
a swing backup. Yeah, it's four million dollars. I mean,
just a guy's four million. It's just mind numbing money.
It's just four million. It's fine, totally fine, all right, Matt,
Let's go on the NFL rewind a lot of quarterback

(01:50:20):
moving and shaking. Let's start with Sam Donald to the
Seattle Seahawks three year, one hundred point five million dollars deal.
Gino Smith went to the Las Vegas Raiders for a
third round draft pick.

Speaker 2 (01:50:39):
So he's with the Raiders. Sam Donald with.

Speaker 1 (01:50:45):
The Seahawks, wasn't Gino Smith?

Speaker 11 (01:50:52):
Good?

Speaker 3 (01:50:52):
There?

Speaker 10 (01:50:54):
Good?

Speaker 3 (01:50:54):
Not great.

Speaker 1 (01:50:55):
I'm gonna say the same thing for Sam Darnald. If
you're a Seahawks fan, are you happy about this? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
You're training just one guy, another bridge for an underbridge.

Speaker 1 (01:51:04):
I mean, Sam Donald most of the time last year
was like, all right, Justin Jefferson down there somewhere. He
just bombed to Justson Jefferson and Jordan Addison was good.
Second half of the season.

Speaker 3 (01:51:13):
TJ.

Speaker 1 (01:51:13):
Hawkinson came on, let's do a gut feeling. Good season,
great season. Disappointing season for Sam Donald as a member
of the Seattle Seahawks. I'll say good not great. I
just think that's what he is now. He threw thirty
five touchdowns this past year. It was I mean, by
all accounts, a great season, but regression from Minnesota. I
would think with that lack of targets. Right, with DK

(01:51:34):
Metcalf gone, Lockett wants to be gone. Right, is locking
already gone or is he Locket's gone? Yeah, DK Metcalf's gone.
Good luck Seattle Fan. I mean Jackson Smith and Jig
but was really good second half of the season. Something
about this year. He's not my radar man for the
fantasy season next year. So Seattle Fan has the Mariners
new manager that's gonna be spend money though, and they'll

(01:51:54):
spend money. Turner literally was begging them to spend money
because they have a great one through five rotation and
they didn't. You have University of Washington who's just mid
in the Big ten, and then you got Sam Darnold.
Have fun, go cracking? How the kracking doing Connor contellis crack?
What's how the cracking doing in the NHL Stanley Cups? Uh?

(01:52:15):
Not super good. They're towards the bottom. They were on
TV last week. Dang, and then that ends our crackin
Talk seven ninety segment. Yep, continue, Okay, so mentioned Geno Smith,
the Raiders, Daniel Jones. If you had not heard finalizing
a one year deal with the Indianapolis Colts. How's Colt
fan feeling right now? Hey, guys, you want Anthony Richardson

(01:52:35):
or Daniel Jones. Would it be too soon to put
another AFC South banner up at Energy? I don't think
it is. Let me ask you this, how about putting
the two thousand and twenty five AFC South banner in
a plot of land out in the woodlands so we
could put it for in the new Texas Stadium is
going to be placed. They already came out and said

(01:52:58):
they're looking to refurbish. Okay, well you want to got feeling? No,
I would lean towards refurbished. But I think if you
think they're not thinking about other real estate area, you'd
be crazy. Okay, because I'm telling you, if you refurbish
and you think that area of town is gonna be
a hustle and bustling spot for non game days, you

(01:53:19):
high Let me read you through the list of top
passers for the Colts the last several years. Last year,
Anthony Richardson. Nope, before that, Gardner Minshew, no, thank you,
Matt Ryan, Carson Wentz, no, Philip Rivers, Jacobe Brissette Andrew. Look,
that is seven straight years with seven different passing leaders

(01:53:43):
in Indianapolis and Peyton Manning is like you, I need
to shrine. Should be a statue with him outside of
Lucas Al State? Is there not?

Speaker 3 (01:53:55):
There?

Speaker 1 (01:53:55):
Should be?

Speaker 3 (01:53:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:53:57):
Keeping with quarterback news, Josh Field's two years. Excuse me,
Justin Fields, Josh Fields is the reliever. Yeah, that was
trade of dollars. Yeah, Justin Fields two year, forty million dollars.
Do with the Jets. How they're Jets feeling about that?

Speaker 2 (01:54:11):
Oh, twenty million dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:54:13):
For Justin Field back to Daniel Jones and Indianapolis fourteen
million dollars to be a backup.

Speaker 2 (01:54:19):
That is wasted money.

Speaker 1 (01:54:20):
That's money. You'll never recoup that money.

Speaker 2 (01:54:23):
You'll never get great value back in returnable.

Speaker 1 (01:54:26):
All right, Keeping it moving here on the NFL, rewind
How about the Rams saying, Eh, Cooper cup are too old,
we don't pay you all this money. Davante Adams two
year deal with the Los Angeles Rams, and it is
going to be twenty million dollars per year. So it's

(01:54:49):
a cup definitely on in Los Angeles now, or there's
a chance you put those two guys together forty four
million dollars because it so twenty two million dollars per
year for Davante Adams at thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:54:57):
Two years old. You want to play in the West coast.

Speaker 1 (01:55:02):
Uh, there have been people linking him to Houston. As
I said before, he's here. He wanted to play in
Los Angele. He wanted to He want to go on
the West coast and return.

Speaker 2 (01:55:10):
So there it is.

Speaker 1 (01:55:12):
Uh, yeah, Rams to release cup if no trade is made.
That is the latest on our good friend Cooper Cup. Now,
we kind of mentioned this in the last passing days,
but since it's the nfre win, we'll bring it back up. Man,
Miles Garrett, I'll tell you why I did bring this up.
I already had a story locked and loaded from like
last week. I was like, Okay, Miles Garrett says he's
ready to miss games. He's gonna hold out right, they're

(01:55:34):
at a at a standstill. When not meeting with the owner,
Joner said, no, Jimmy has them yep. Well, four years,
one hundred and twenty two point eight million dollars guarantee,
the most ever for a non quarterback in league history.
Miles Garrett, I want to play for a contender. Didn't

(01:55:54):
his statement say, I'm all about championships. I didn't come
here to make all pro teams. I came to win championship.
And then he said how much excuse me? Quiet? Okay,
Cleveland Browns. Let's go, folks, and remember four athletes zero
point nine percent of the time, it's about the cash.

Speaker 2 (01:56:14):
Literally.

Speaker 1 (01:56:15):
His statement that he made his trade request with talked
about wanting to win Super Bowls. Well, there's a chance,
although the Brown's never been to one, but there's a chance.
Who's the Browns starting quarterback next year? Deshaun Watson.

Speaker 2 (01:56:34):
You're hurt?

Speaker 13 (01:56:35):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:56:35):
Yeah, you've hit his achilles?

Speaker 2 (01:56:37):
Uh is the guy with the hyphens too?

Speaker 1 (01:56:40):
Yeah? Dorian Thompson Robinson, No, I can't. They can't go
in him with the starting quarterback. You look up something,
I'll look it up. I'm gonna look at it right now.
Trained it traded for Kenny Pickett. Oh that's right. Oh,
they got Bailey's Abbey and Jameis Winston too. Picket and
Dorian Thompson Robinson the Browns and Eagles. Eagles continue to

(01:57:06):
shed payroll. We mentioned that they traded CJ. Gardner Johnson
to the Houston Texans. Now they plan to release Darius
Slay on Wednesday. This always happens, Matt. Team wins the
Super Bowl, got to get out of cap Hell and well,
Darius slayh CJ. Gardner Johnson gone from the Philadelphia Eagles.

(01:57:29):
Elsewhere in the NFL, the Panthers have cut Miles Sanders
and we did kind of briefly mention this, Matt, but
it was a two year deal with Mario Edwards here
in Houston, Texas nine point five million dollars. Mario Edwards
staying here. Sheldon Rankins re signed one year, seven million.

(01:57:51):
I want them to get a defensive tackle. We'll see
if it apps. They're just, you know what they're doing.
They're just these little short term little let's rebuild this
way and let's you know, let's let's build and let's
let's get as many players in as possible for at
least amount of money and help a couple of these
guys stick. You can find defensive tackles late in the draft.
I still want the Texans to go get somebody like
the Textans have gone like three hours without signing a

(01:58:12):
wide receiver. There's gotta be something that's gonna nervous. Switch
didn't even mentioned those, was it Braxton Barrios and Kansas
City that never played Justin Watson? Yeah, I mean god,
I'm not gonna invest myself in these guys until I
see him in the training camp and playing in the
preseason and making a roster But they're replacing Hutchinson, Matchie

(01:58:33):
who else? Yeah, guys, guys Derek Barnett and Jake Hanson
also resigned. We hadn't mentioned that, Matt, your thoughts, I
might the number one thing they're gonna be thinking about
is the Larmie Tunseil trade was obviously number one, and
number two is making sure Derek Stanely has a new.

Speaker 2 (01:58:49):
Contract before the next year starts.

Speaker 1 (01:58:51):
He's going to well, I don't know if the year starts,
we'll see, but he's got these moves. Are are shaving
payroll to make these things happen. And that's your NFL reway.
Nicely done, feels very active, lots going on. Yeah, and

(01:59:15):
it feels like the Laramie Tensil stuff has subsided just
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:59:18):
Would that be fair to say that.

Speaker 1 (01:59:20):
Those that are angrier angry about it have kind of like,
I kind of get it now those that have not
been overly that we're pleased about it and felt like,
you know what, feel satisfying. And the thing that we
brought up at the beginning of the show today worth
repeating again is Nick Cassio and Dimiico Ryans both have
said unless ross they're lying to us that they are

(01:59:43):
working collectively very well together. You don't make a move
that big unless both the general manager and the head
coach sign off on it. And when asked if cal
was going to sign off on it, he was busy
playing Donkey Kong and was on a available to sign
off on it. Yeah, I heard you just got to
level seventy eight, I mean a level so other a

(02:00:05):
Donkey Kong. I don't know. I think it the game
eventually like freezes. I don't think there's a limit. I
think the game like bricks out.

Speaker 2 (02:00:12):
So he's staring at the game right now.

Speaker 1 (02:00:14):
Why documentary on the guy playing What was that documentary
about the guy who was like the Donkey Kong champion?
It was last time and played Donkey kong uh in
nineteen eighty one. I was going to say, in the
late eighties for me, and that has the NFL we won.
Thank you very much. Ross all right, but lab or
not coming up in a one hour from now. We
want you to be with us between now and then.
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I'm gonna flat out to ask any of you that
are Texans fans right now, are you still really, really
really angry at the deal that was done yesterday? Or
have you softened your stand saying I get it. Laramie

(02:00:57):
Tenseil's now Washington commander. Are you you still upset? And
if you're not upset, no longer upset, tell us why.
And if you're happy, you let us know. But I
want to know.

Speaker 2 (02:01:06):
I want to find some people right.

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Lunchtimers, lunch timers, it's a Matt Thomas show with Ross
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Speaker 1 (02:02:39):
All right, twelve fifty. Obviously there's no more outrage Lemmon
Tensil people loving this. Be fair to say us overwhelmingly
positive support for them, But again we're not in the room.

Speaker 2 (02:02:53):
We're also not CJ.

Speaker 1 (02:02:54):
Strouders probably thinking about what potential could be is the
five guys in front of him next year takes if
you bring in an extra steveny, bring an extra tight
end and to help the cause Dalton Schultz probably what
a beyond below average blocking tight end.

Speaker 2 (02:03:09):
Isn't that great?

Speaker 1 (02:03:12):
Keep a fullback in do something Okay, creative? Nick Cayley,
good luck thoughts some praise to you as your first
time as an offensive coordinator and the first time is
a play caller. It's interesting how they went with youth
in terms of experience at the offensive coordinator spot. All right,

(02:03:32):
uh more on that coming up in the final hour
of the show. Plus Believe it or not, today all
things about laroming tonsl at one fifty ross. The folks
in Major League Baseball like to create these special hats,
and the Texas Rangers had a special hat they had
put online in their online story yesterday and had to
get pulled off the shelves. They pulled it off the shelves.
I was wondering if they were going to do that.

(02:03:53):
All right, So they did this for every team. Right,
they put the logo in the middle of the team name,
team name or place or town. Right t e x
A S is Texas Correct? If you had put that
on the hat, nothing, no big no big issues.

Speaker 21 (02:04:13):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (02:04:14):
Instead, what the Rangers did was they went T E
the logo for the Rangers, which is a big T yes,
A big T so guy T E big t A
S T E t A S.

Speaker 3 (02:04:29):
And that is.

Speaker 1 (02:04:32):
T E t A S T E t A S yeses. Mhmm.
Interesting look until somebody figured out what it meant. I mean,
there's wasn't There wasn't one because the Texas Rangers. Correct,

(02:04:54):
we're in Texas marketing department. There wasn't one Hispanic person
in there. Or this was done by fanatics and they
just did it to everybody or whoever was it Finanal
or new Era.

Speaker 2 (02:05:05):
I guest would you not have sent it to the
team to say, what do you think?

Speaker 1 (02:05:09):
Yeah? How many hurdles did this clear before it was
put out? So we don't know. It's a Spanish term
for chee cheese, which is a Spanish term for breasts. Yeah,

(02:05:30):
it's more, but that what the Ranger. It's kind of vulgar.
It's vulgar, more vulgar, so breast is non vulgar. Yes,
it would be equivalent to one of the seven words
you can't say on TV, which you can't say now?

Speaker 2 (02:05:48):
Is it less vulgar than boobs?

Speaker 1 (02:05:51):
No more vulgar? How did chi cheese back in the
day get away with it? I don't know what they
were doing. I guess because of Chi Chi Rodriguez.

Speaker 2 (02:06:04):
But chee Cheese are making They're rebranding.

Speaker 1 (02:06:08):
Chee Cheese are coming back.

Speaker 2 (02:06:09):
YEP.

Speaker 1 (02:06:10):
I think chee cheese never left. The chimney chong is
a chee cheese was good, So I spent my youth.
That's why I got so fat. You spent your youth
at chee Cheese. Oh, my dad was a manager there,
so I would sometimes spend Sundays with him and he'd
give me twenty five hours with a quarters to play
video games and the end, Oh, you could eat the
chimmy chong.

Speaker 2 (02:06:28):
You and your dad bonded over chee cheese.

Speaker 1 (02:06:30):
We did. Actually, yes, you never bust che cheese. Connie,
your new job can't have this so much fun to it.
You're you're gonna be bored. You're looking to play some
sound or somebody's gonna say something inappropriate the office. You're like,
I can't use it for Friday. I mean, all these
are terrible I haven't seen is the worst. The Astros

(02:06:56):
one's not good. Is a giant h with the star
logo over Astros looks like ashos. These are stupid. It's
called the New Era Overlap fifty nine to fifty collection
and no idea how they're selling at this point. These

(02:07:16):
all look terrible. Let me see the Dodgers. One's actually okay.
Maybe the Blue Jays is too. Most of these are terrible.
You know what we're running in two ross. We're running
out of ideas. You have colors, you have a logo,
you have the city name. You're just trying to reinvent
the wheel unless you just frankly just change everything about it.

(02:07:38):
Everything is getting cut to the bone. You're running out
of ideas. Look, this is like the Southwest thing. Okay, look, hey,
you go to the boardroom. You're like, hey, hey, shareholders
need some more money. Shareholders need to see our stuff
going up. We need earnings up. All right, what are
we gonna do? All right, We're going to uh, We're
gonna have cheaper fabrics. We're gonna have smaller patches. This
is what fanatics and New Era and whatever has been.
We're gonna We're gonna Okay, well, you know what it

(02:08:00):
costs US as much to do it in China, it's
cheaper doing in Malaysa. Let's do it in Malaysia. Okay,
we got to come up with new ideas. We're gonna
do this color, that color, this color, that color. It's
gonna we're gonna oversaturate the market. At some point, you
can only cut to the bone so much to where
there's nothing left to cut, so they they have to
keep it reinventing the wheel. And that's the reason why
again I think the NFL explosion overseas is going to happen.

(02:08:24):
They have to go somewhere. Running out of things to do.
In the United States, they keep adding games. They are
out of they're out of ideas. They are new ideas.
Let's keep adding more games. I think eventually we're gonna
see Jersey sponsorships in the NFL. Mm hmm. By the way,
that is a revenue stream. That is not as a
revenue stream. But the NBA has already learned they're not
making as much as they thought they were going to.
The NBA thought they were gonna be able to make

(02:08:46):
millions and millions and millions of dollars we have logos
being changed on Jersey patches left and right, and that
gludes the Rockets for that matter. Rockets are murn new
in this year with Morrial Herman. But I mean we've
seen four or five rocket It was credit Karma Reddit Rama, Yeah,
sorry Rama. The Celtics were re e for a while.

(02:09:07):
Now there's something else. There's some teams. I don't even
have a logo on it. Yeah, I mean I don't.
I don't think the logo they made it. They tried
to compromise. If you want to go full bore, just
do it soccer style, doesn't does THEMWNBA do? WNBA does
it full soccer soccer style, and that's that's it. You're like,
you'll have the city and their team name in the
upper left corners, some tiny pat You're like, what is that?

(02:09:28):
You can't even see? You can't even when you're watching
in WNBA game. That's what we were doing a lot
of that. But if you are, you don't know which
team is which because the logo of the companies are
way bigger than the city name and the team name.

Speaker 3 (02:09:39):
This is what.

Speaker 1 (02:09:40):
Yeah, it's gonna happen. I think we're gonna see did
we talk about on field sponsorships for the NFL every
twenty or thirty yards. I mean, have you seen a
Rockets game. You can hardly see the floor. Now some
of that is super imposed, Yeah, a lot of that. Actually, Yeah,
they're gonna do the NFL too. Yeah, it's coming. You're
you're you're shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars for

(02:10:04):
these games, and NFL is asking for more and more
and more and more. Let's go international, more marketing, more filled,
make stuff to clutter it up. The only thing I'm
asking ross, and this is in any sport, that you
do not make a marketing arm decision that would affect

(02:10:27):
the game. Like if you shoot from the I don't
know the rate, re special star on the court, you
get a bonus. You have that on No, not a bonus. No,
I don't think it would affect the game. But you
already have that on radio broadcasts. We're into the whatever
red zone. Yeah, but then, but that's just a sponsor technim.
I'm saying that you if you the day you affect

(02:10:47):
the game because of a sponsor edition.

Speaker 2 (02:10:49):
Is the day I'm leaving sports. That's not gonna happen.
You better hope not.

Speaker 1 (02:10:52):
This is not rocket.

Speaker 2 (02:10:55):
We love our great advertisers.

Speaker 1 (02:10:56):
No, I'm not just saying I just don't want a
four point line with letters all over it, saying if
you hit the Raryreen four point line, you get a
free you know, a buzzer or something like that. The
Synergenics Health dot Com four point line.

Speaker 2 (02:11:09):
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Yea, Okay, I guess Syenergenics can do that. Sure, well,
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Speaker 2 (02:11:46):
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Speaker 3 (02:11:48):
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Speaker 2 (02:12:08):
Launchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 1 (02:12:13):
What four on Sports Talk seven ninety. It is a
final hour of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We
take this program until two o'clock today. Hunter Brown four
scoreless innings, six strikeouts, two hits, no walks. And if
you want to hear those strikeouts tonight at seven o'clock
here on Sports Talk seven ninety, Cy Brown, let's go.

Speaker 2 (02:12:34):
Is that we're calling him?

Speaker 1 (02:12:35):
Yes, all right, I also got Cyblanco got we had
a psychical back in the day. Yes, cy mq mm hmm,
cy Cole. He finished second, though we had Cylander. We
had a cybuton Norris, No, no, I don't think so,

(02:12:56):
Cy Feldman exactly else the Astros put out there in
the twenty fourteenth in rotation times are better. Oh saw
your Keatie signed with the Chicago Cubs. Oh, good for him. Yeah,
I think it's the Cubs. I can check on that. Uh,
I want to say it with the Cubs. One year
deal with a chance to make some extra money with incentives.

(02:13:20):
So let me tell you, let me double check that.
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (02:13:23):
Kid, can't spill your Kiti properly.

Speaker 11 (02:13:27):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:13:27):
If you like to be a part of our show
this hour, we'll welcome you at seven one three two
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one two. Oh, I'm sorry they tried Tigers.

Speaker 2 (02:13:36):
There's a time.

Speaker 1 (02:13:36):
I know it was somebody in Midwest, close enough. One
year contract for the twenty twenty five season with a
club option for twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (02:13:42):
He obviously knows uh A J. Hinch a little bit.

Speaker 1 (02:13:45):
So is he even going to be available?

Speaker 10 (02:13:49):
Mmm?

Speaker 1 (02:13:51):
I don't know. That's a good question. I don't think
he's ready for the start of the season, that's for sure. Well,
wishing him. Has not pitched in twenty twenty three, it's
twenty nine years old. Wonderful, be fine, I'm wishing him
the best. Oh, that's a guy feeling hit for me.
I told you guys that or Katy never played for
the Astros again. Yeah, I will take credit for that. Look,

(02:14:13):
I miss a lot of things. I need credit once
in a while. Oh yeah, I didn't say anything.

Speaker 2 (02:14:19):
You just give me the side eye, like that side
from you.

Speaker 1 (02:14:24):
Okay. By the way, Aaron Rodgers word coming out of
ESPN today that he's emerged a quarterback option for the
Steelers June fourth. You said it, or Keaty never plays
for the Astros. But you could come back? You said,
never plays for the Astros again?

Speaker 2 (02:14:40):
No, you win, fine, I can't.

Speaker 1 (02:14:43):
Victories are so rare for me. I'm like the Miami
Marlins of predictions. I'm like the Charlotte Hornets. No Matt,
You're a no Shir Thomas. I'm like the Sacramento King.
How about that?

Speaker 2 (02:14:53):
Is that little bit better?

Speaker 1 (02:14:54):
Sure? If you'd like to be a part of the program,
we are with you today until two o'clock except one three, two,
one two five seven nine zero seven one three, two,
one two five seven ninety headlines of the day. Still
a lot of chatter about Laramie Tunsel. I was listening
to the A team yesterday. You were one half of
that team. Was not particularly pleased with the act with

(02:15:15):
the Texans trade.

Speaker 2 (02:15:17):
What is Smadam schmeezer. Yes, he was not happy.

Speaker 1 (02:15:20):
I wonder if he has thought about it and said, yeah,
the team isn't as a good offensive line, but there
is obviously a strategy. I think there is obviously an
overhauled notion to this when Kenyon Green.

Speaker 2 (02:15:31):
Gets moved today.

Speaker 1 (02:15:32):
I mean, on its face, there is no arguing you
need your biggest need to address in the off season
with the offensive line, and you got rid of your
best offensive line. That's true. That's a true statement. Yes,
let me let me flip both sides of this. Part A,
Why in the world would you get rid of your
one good part? That's part A. Part B is you
had one good part and you still sucked. Yeah, so

(02:15:57):
that's okay. You can have bad rotation map but still
have a good starter in the mix. And they got
rid of him. Wasn't an ace, wasn't an ace. He
was a number two guy, has money coming in, wants
more money coming in. That's true, and you have to
pay other guys. But this to me was more than
just about the dollars and cents. It was yes, of course,

(02:16:20):
we need a we need the shed them things, culture shift,
a shift, and he wasn't fitting in Tamiko Ryan said
multiple times, we want guys who love football, who want
to be here. Laramie Tunsil loved Laramie Tunzel's stats. Laramie
Tunsil loved Laramie Tunsil NFL left tackle money. I don't

(02:16:41):
think he had an insatiable thirst for football.

Speaker 7 (02:16:45):
Liked it.

Speaker 1 (02:16:46):
He's got a you. Okay, you have to have Okay,
I can't judge to a certain level, right, we don't know.
But if you want to be in a Borderlando Pro
All Pro and you're just going through the motion. But
if you want to be a leader and really carry
the captain's hat, you're at OTAs, you're mini camps. And

(02:17:06):
the reality is this, if you're a vet like he's
been there for as long as he has been, you
can be treated differently. You're not going to go in
there at OTA's and work out like you're a second
year player just to make your squad or looked or
look better to the coaches. Lemry Tunsseill, who got the pedigree,
the history of the resume to say, you know what,
just showing up. I also don't believe that Jeremie Tunseell

(02:17:28):
was a cancer or a bad guy in the locker room.
I'm sure he had his friends, and obviously there were
some guys that have come to his defense socially and said, hey,
we're gonna miss you whatnot.

Speaker 2 (02:17:37):
But there wasn't enough to go untouchable. And Demiko ryans
to me.

Speaker 1 (02:17:44):
Like most NFL player coaches ross that have been players
before do a pretty good job of reading the room.
I don't know if Bill Belichick could ever read the
room particularly well. I think he did, he had to well.
I think when you read the room and Tom Brady
like and just take care of the room for us.
I think Demiko is a guy that likes to be
in the room, look around, get the culture. He's more

(02:18:06):
of a player's coach than Billy is. Yeah, I don't
think Bill particularly cared if the culture was great or not.
I think he said, I've got talent, I've got Tom Brady,
I've got i've got my veteran leaders.

Speaker 2 (02:18:17):
I'm good with that now.

Speaker 1 (02:18:18):
They said a culture of winning over there in patriotal
for sure, and an expectation level of everybody do your job.
I think what was that the phrase? It's similar with Demiko,
do your job. But I don't but I don't think Demiko.
I don't think a lot got snuck by Demiko. Just
a guess on my part, because he's he's not that
far removed from being in the uniform in practice, knowing

(02:18:41):
what it's like to be a early twenty ten, eleven,
twelve thirteen player in the NFL, knowing what it takes
to be a positive and tangible in your team, on
your team. He wants a certain type of player on
his team, and Larry M Tunseel did not fit that
as well as he would have liked. I'm sure otherwise

(02:19:01):
he'd still be here h And frankly, they would have
probably given him an extension and reworked the dollars to
make sure that Laramie got taken care of financially. And
there was money for will Anderson Junior down the road,
there was money for Derek Stingley down the road, and
obviously money for CJ's Stroud down the road. But at

(02:19:23):
its core, there probably isn't room to mega sign all
for the guys I just mentioned, and also putting in
the Nico Collins money that was spent in is it
too hard to spend super mega dollars on five players?
One of them is your quarterback? It seems like it is.
It's going to be everybody needs to get paid. Is

(02:19:49):
it hard to pay I guess you'd have to ask
a salary capologist. Is it hard to mega pay fives? Absolutely?
I would say so. So maybe you don't, Maybe you
don't do anymore. Maybe when we start thinking about who
really needs to get paid. With the amount of money
that you're going to pay a quarterback and the big
chunk that he pays out of your salary cap, you

(02:20:10):
better be damn sure that if you're gonna if you're
gonna spend crazy upper third, upper ten percent on money
in player like for instance, Derek Stingley is an All pro,
which he is not a Pro Bowl ross.

Speaker 2 (02:20:20):
He is an All pro.

Speaker 1 (02:20:21):
He has absolutely deserved the right to renegotiate a contract
to get him paid top two, top three NFL money.
You're only looking at one or two of those guys
doing it. If you're gonna put C. J. Stroud in
that special stratosphere of sixty million dollars a year right
somewhere in their range somewhere, give me yeah, then you
can't put every player that you love in the upper

(02:20:45):
stratosphere of the dollars. Somebody has to take a fall,
and in this particular case, it was a offensive lineman
who was good at times, really good, small window of elite,
but knowing that at the end of the day not
p pleasily replaceable, but can be replaced, and they'll do

(02:21:07):
it in the first and second rounds of the NFL Draft.
I think back on the phones, we go in a
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Speaker 8 (02:21:28):
Back to Matt Thomas and Ross Viial Fine on Sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (02:21:37):
We appreciate you spending some time with us today. Tomorrow
we've got a shorter show. We're going to eleven fifty.
We'll have a shut your ball mass up at eleven
twenty tomorrow. I have to tell the airline to shut
their ball mass up. I think they just I think
this is a major major mistake by them. I just
I'm just a travel whore. I like to travel. I

(02:21:57):
like the industry. I'm always fascinated by it. If if
there was money in owning a travel agency, I would
have done it a long time ago. But this isn't
because people are doing most of their traveling using travel
sites and booking in themselves directly with the airline. But
that's one of those things I would have liked to
have done at some point in my life, is open
travel agency. But yeah, Dark Breast, I think you're goofing

(02:22:18):
on this bad I just do. This is a This
is a shocking development. And they're also adding basic economy.
Isn't Dark Breast basic economy all the way through? Now
that you can't get free bags, I mean now only
you're probably getting smaller seats. Yeah, how can they get
any smaller? It's terrible this. You're really busted up about this.

(02:22:39):
I am bring it up every hour on the app.
I even fly, Dark Breast. I know you are America's
travel whoreor so. I'm a connoisewer, not a whore. A
horror beginning in for Free, we have a horror that
works with us, and I will mention his name. Michael
Garfield seven one three two to one. Okay, is that
cough back again? Note you're ROSSI you brought it back.

(02:23:00):
I've been fine all day. I don't think I've brought
anything back. Eric and Bay sitting at one twenty on
seven Ninty. Eric, thank you for holding in.

Speaker 2 (02:23:08):
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, guys.

Speaker 21 (02:23:10):
I've been dropping in and out of the show as
i've been working here today, and I heard that Connor's leaving,
so I'll call the day to launch the official good
Luck Connor campaign. Yes, I hate to see him go,
but I'm glad to hear. He's got a great opportunity
ahead of him, and all them ladies out there better
line up because Tonner McGovern's on the ride right so.

Speaker 1 (02:23:31):
I believe he's spoken for At the moment, Eric, I
think you're trying to create a disharmony between him and
his girl, and for that he doesn't thank you well.

Speaker 2 (02:23:38):
Eric, No, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (02:23:39):
I appreciate it. You have a lineup like you get
some engagement ring on him.

Speaker 3 (02:23:45):
Nothing's done to you.

Speaker 1 (02:23:47):
I can't argue with that.

Speaker 21 (02:23:48):
You can always keep the line outside. But appreciate all
the time he's let me through with my ridiculous act.

Speaker 1 (02:23:55):
Grinky tay good. They're so bad.

Speaker 21 (02:23:58):
But you know what's great though, I'm gonna miss his
hockey takes, unlike soccer Ross's soccer takes.

Speaker 2 (02:24:04):
I'm sorry. Yeah, soccer on the show. I appreciate you, Eric,
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:24:12):
That was a non Zach granky cause that's the small
progress right there.

Speaker 3 (02:24:17):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:24:19):
You guys don't talk too much soccer. I don't bring
it up really, no, I mean unless I'm joking and
messing with you. When is World Cup? Is it this summer? No? Man?
Four years? Thank god? Now, the Champions League happens every year,
and of course the Champions League Final out shines the

(02:24:40):
Super Bowl in terms of ratings and revenue every year.
Who's your pick for the Champions League Final? And I'm
gonna go. I want Barcelona. Anybody but Madrid, please, for
the love of God, anybody but win this thing. The Tottenham. No,
you know what your son did? He chose like that.

Speaker 2 (02:25:01):
Who's a big name team who just never gets there?

Speaker 11 (02:25:03):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:25:04):
The Yankees?

Speaker 1 (02:25:06):
No, it's not the Yankees. Cubs Cubs to a better reference. Yeah,
he chose the Cubs of the He basically chose the Cubs.
That's a great year. Did perfectly, thank you. He chose
the Cubs of the Premier League. Now, they didn't win
one time, but that was also about ten years ago.
But they've had decades and decades of close right. Yeah,
that's basically like Tottenham Hotspur. All right, So I'm gonna

(02:25:28):
give you my favorite sports teams and you're gonna give
me a soccer team.

Speaker 3 (02:25:32):
Oh no, here we go.

Speaker 2 (02:25:33):
This will be hard, but you're gonna figure it out.

Speaker 1 (02:25:35):
I'm gonna try University Houston Cougars football and basketball. Okay,
Houston Astros, Houston Rockets. I have no NFL team, but
these recent moves has given me a little bit of
faith that the Texans are getting this figured out. And
I told you earlier today that if the Cougars win
the National Championship in basketball, I will have room for

(02:25:57):
additional despair in my life, and thus I will allow
the Texans into my house. You said you were going
to become a Man City fan years ago, and why
was I a Man's Why would I have trust? Remember
why you just said, oh, I'll take Manchester City. Problem
is this, If I told you I was a Man
City fan, I just can't sit through a game. That's Okay,
you're supposed to come to a game with me and
your son at a soccer bar. We'll go get That's

(02:26:20):
the beauty of enjoying European soccer. You get day drunk
and nobody judges. You gotta bring my phone. You can
have to put it down for forty five minutes, watch
the game and we'll talk about the nuances, matt offside traps, tactics,
triangle passing, total football.

Speaker 2 (02:26:42):
I got a Rockets game. Uh at eight in the morning,
I'll figure out one.

Speaker 1 (02:26:47):
Are they in China? You know the Impellicans are playing
some preseason games in Australia next year. Really yeah, so
they'll be on from like the future. Well, they're not
gonna be playing anybody from the NBA. They're playing a
bunch of Australian teams. Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (02:27:00):
Okay, I think we're going back to Alabama next year.

Speaker 1 (02:27:03):
I'm rooting for Barcelona in the To answer your question, Connor,
let's go, Steven, who's your soccer team of choice?

Speaker 9 (02:27:14):
I don't even know.

Speaker 3 (02:27:14):
I don't want.

Speaker 9 (02:27:15):
I don't want soccer.

Speaker 2 (02:27:17):
Bless you.

Speaker 9 (02:27:20):
I hope you guys are doing okay. They just wanted
to kind of like talk about the larning tons of
trade a bit.

Speaker 3 (02:27:28):
Obviously.

Speaker 10 (02:27:28):
I was.

Speaker 9 (02:27:29):
I was a little surprised yesterday when it happened that
just because you know, as it stands right now, your
offensive line is worse than what it was last year,
and it was pretty bad last year, but they don't
play un till September, and so I'm kind of just
giving it time to see what Nick and Dimiko can
cook up to improve that line. And I think what

(02:27:51):
it comes down to is that, you know, what did
we hear all last year from Demico was that guy's
got to be accountable and he was never going to
call out a player during a conference. So, you know,
I think this this is just one of the clearest
examples of they didn't like what they saw last year,
and you know, they're kind of just going scorched shirt

(02:28:13):
and we're they're going to rebuild this thing, and it's
it's up to them to get it right, you know.
So I'm I'm not mad at the trade, but I'm
definitely okay they got to make some moves to make
this thing better because as fans right now, this is
the old line is there's I think there's a lot
of faith or maybe too much faith in what we

(02:28:34):
have at the moment, So appreciate you guys all hang
up and listen.

Speaker 2 (02:28:37):
Thank you for the phone call.

Speaker 1 (02:28:38):
Seven one three two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven nine zero. Do you think
CJ Stroud how intimate and this is just purely guessing
I'm our part.

Speaker 2 (02:28:53):
Okay, let me give you scenarios.

Speaker 1 (02:28:56):
CJ was in involved and involved in every step of this.
B CJ got the phone call just before it happened.
CJ didn't get to call at all and found out
when we found out. Or do you think CJ's was.

Speaker 2 (02:29:15):
Like, you did what?

Speaker 1 (02:29:18):
And I'm gonna walk you through what we're thinking. We're
gonna go heavy in the draft. We're gonna get this fixed.
You know how bad your offensive line was, even with
Laramie out there, You're gonna have to trust us. And
I would say he wasn't consulting much.

Speaker 2 (02:29:33):
How about this?

Speaker 1 (02:29:35):
He was asked about Laramie Tunsel and then they moved
forward with the deal. And I'm gonna say he probably
vouched for Laramie tunzell Or said he wanted to keep him,
or he likes him, or he thinks he does a
good job and overall, and he wants to he would
want to keep him. I mean, no one would say
he's gut or trash. He's a bad dude, get rid

(02:29:57):
of his ass. But you could also go to CJ
and say, we got to take care of some of
the guys on this team, and including maybe most importantly you.
You just like I can run around the chicken on
my head cut off for a year, I can live
with this one for one year. Of course I don't

(02:30:18):
have three concussions. Don't have to show up the offensive line.
You gotta do something, and you're gonna have to do
it via draft picks, because if you are paying Will Anderson,
if you are paying Derek Stingley and c J. Stroud,
you can't. You're not going to be able to pay premium.
Is that at the tackle spots?

Speaker 3 (02:30:31):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (02:30:34):
So I mean, I don't know the team got worse
right now they are, but I think some of you
brought up earlier in the show makes some sense. Maybe
Blake Fisher is on the rise, and that the rookie
year is the rookie year and go through pains this guy.
There's no reason why any player, whether this is Blake
fish or not. Can't have a year where they go
through a lot of growing pains and Kuback in their

(02:30:55):
second year and making impactful part of this offensive line.
Titus Howard, you re upped, so you gotta find you
got some money tied up into him. Juice Scruggs is
going to be another year in the system unless Juice Scruggs.

Speaker 2 (02:31:08):
Ross is just a guy.

Speaker 1 (02:31:10):
But you've also spent a high draft pick on him. Yes,
this is where Caserio. I mean, it's not like he's
voided the he's not voided the position. He just went
with guys and this isn't un fairly high and that
just haven't panned out. Everybody that he's gotten rid of
was on the offensive line that he built, Kenyan Green,
first round pick, Shack Mason, free agent right, and Laramie

(02:31:31):
Tunseel was here. But so he didn't really build Tunsil
I suppose, Yeah, but he re aire me built tuncl Yeah,
destroying Texans draft picks and getting a crazy amount of
money and not hiring an agent or firing his agent
and signing his own deal.

Speaker 2 (02:31:48):
I've never had an agent before, never needed one.

Speaker 1 (02:31:51):
I'll be your agent. Would you really okay, let's let's
I'm doing for a new deal. What are you looking
to get me here? I don't know ten percent of
whatever you get. Oh, you just want my money no
matter what. You're not gonna get me a new raise.
Oh I don't care.

Speaker 2 (02:32:04):
I got you.

Speaker 1 (02:32:04):
That's fine, all right. Up there on the astro as
we come back. One at twenty eight is our time.

Speaker 2 (02:32:08):
They get one. Twenty nine. We got to believe it
or not. Coming up in about twenty minutes.

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Speaker 8 (02:33:26):
Lunch Timers, Lunch Timers, It's a Matt Thomas Show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety's.

Speaker 1 (02:33:35):
Do a quick live listening. East Soak Perettes is on
the the plate for the Astros and the Mets and
a no score game.

Speaker 2 (02:33:42):
Bottom of the six runners at first and second.

Speaker 1 (02:33:44):
The first pitch in the Senate in any of their.

Speaker 2 (02:33:48):
Four at bats.

Speaker 1 (02:33:53):
The one zero.

Speaker 18 (02:33:55):
That's a strike on the outside corner. Well, Joe Spata,
He's made it a point of emphasis to see a
few more pitches. Feels like that's an area of the
Astros didn't do so well in and numbers certainly back
that up. One of the more aggressive offenses in baseball
last year. Sometimes now they're detriment one one swinging in
a foul off the catcher single, were goals behind home

(02:34:17):
plate and it's one to two to Yorda. And A's
also part of the reason why picking up guys like
Issac Parades and Christian Walker for the Astros was still appealing,
because there are two guys who have a pretty extensive
history of seeing quite a few pitches. The one two

(02:34:38):
to Jordan and that's fouled back to the screen, a
breaking ball away and it's one and two still And.

Speaker 1 (02:34:44):
Even with how aggressive they were last season, the Astros
still led the American League in batting average and they
were still second, and on these percentage they trailed only
the Yankees last year. Second.

Speaker 18 (02:35:01):
I'll two a at first excellent speed on the basis
for the Astros. The pitch swing and a mess fastball
downstairs gets jord On and a big strike out for
Garrett trying to strand a couple of runners.

Speaker 1 (02:35:13):
There are now two outs and Yanner Diaz will take
his turn.

Speaker 2 (02:35:15):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:35:16):
A little drama here, sal Piner has lined out and
struck out by Perette.

Speaker 2 (02:35:21):
A strikeoun of Alvarez.

Speaker 1 (02:35:22):
Two outs, bottom of the six, no score, Mets Astros
al two bays at first, I don't know who's at second,
and we go back.

Speaker 18 (02:35:30):
To west Palm two bond A second pitch on the
way and that's fouled out of play behind Holme. Strike one.
Garrett one of the pitchers who calls his own pitches
using a pitch com. He's got the device on his
right side on his belt to communicate with his catcher,

(02:35:54):
who is hated singer this afternoon. Bo one A dribbler
behind home, foul and it's nothing in two not a yiner.
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Speaker 1 (02:36:19):
Slash o D sweeps. That's o D sweeps two swinging
in a mess.

Speaker 18 (02:36:29):
Ds chases a breaking ball in the dirt and strikes
out too in the inning, so the nobody.

Speaker 1 (02:36:35):
Failed to score and half first and second nobody out
perreadis Pops popped the catcher. It's a strikeout for you
turn it on. There you go, turn strike out for
Jordan Alvarez and yarn Airdeas our lights came back on,
they went off. This is weird.

Speaker 2 (02:36:56):
Are we on the air still?

Speaker 1 (02:36:58):
I hope?

Speaker 11 (02:36:58):
So?

Speaker 1 (02:36:59):
Man, they're going zero zero going to the top of
the seventh inning in West Palm Beach. Oh the humanity? Seriously,
do we lose power in here? For the lights went
completely out? That was weird. Anyways, Oprah on air there

(02:37:20):
the lights said beyond for the three o'clock A team show.
That's fine. We got to get them on TV. It's
really out of going to a restaurant and seeing those
two numbskulls on my television side. Now, I'm jealous. I'm
gonna be honest, I'm jealous. I don't We can't do
half the fun things we do because the show's an ontel.
But it's cool. You tell your grandma you're on TV.
I'm on TV occasionally. I don't even tell. First time

(02:37:43):
on grandparents left. So that's ESPN three didn't count it?
Short accounts checks Cleaiar, Is that TV?

Speaker 2 (02:37:51):
Alright?

Speaker 1 (02:37:52):
You're right? Maybe if Craig gets sick, I'll do a
Rockets game filling you know, bed, Well, oh, you don't
want to get crazy to get sick. You're right, I
don't want the rude for you to say. Talk to
Craig at length yesterday, Swell fella, what y'all talking about
this basketball? Basketball stuff?

Speaker 2 (02:38:09):
Breaking it down?

Speaker 13 (02:38:11):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (02:38:12):
Do you see Ryan Hollins' suit the other night? Which
one the full pink suit that he wore. No, I
didn't catch it. I was like, did you just get
that made? He goes, No, I've had it forever, like
looking fly that seven footer has a pink suit in
his repertoire.

Speaker 2 (02:38:28):
Where every suit he gets has to be custom made.

Speaker 1 (02:38:30):
Correct? Absolutely? Well, yeah, what are you gonna go off
the rock for seven foot suits? The XL places big
and tall?

Speaker 2 (02:38:37):
Really that big?

Speaker 1 (02:38:38):
Probably not? I don't think so. How many suits do
you own right now? Functional one? Okay? I think in three?
I think three suits most most of my most of
mine were two bigs. I had to get the reshaped resigned. Yeah,
new ones. He keeps losing weight, tapeworm is ravaging through

(02:38:58):
what's because of well immediate phanomic great and muscles. Last night, muscle,
you've got us. You didn't need him, did you. I
had a few and I quit. Okay, it's just too
much work. Say it's like crawfish. Too much work. Okay,
muscles are way less work. You get your little forking

(02:39:19):
jab out some meat. This is about one is one
one of some of his best. He's got to use
best of on Friday. So that's not making a cut,
that's true. Okay, So uh back to we got h
back to what the astros in spring training dealing?

Speaker 7 (02:39:38):
Baby?

Speaker 2 (02:39:38):
Yeah, how do you feel about the nickname Diesel? Who
gave it to him? He's had it for who gives
it to you?

Speaker 1 (02:39:45):
I don't know. Do you still don't remember the origin
of it?

Speaker 3 (02:39:50):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (02:39:51):
Maybe it's because he's from Detroit, Motor City, makes sense.
Went to the same school my mom did, Wayne State University.
Your mom went to Wayne State. Huh, I didn't know that.
You know, I've never brought this up before, but you know,
she would say, my mom and dad got divorced at
a very young age and childcare wasn't you know, we
we did not grow up with any sort of wealth
at all. So she would take me to class with

(02:40:12):
her sometimes really, and I would bring coloring book, and
I would sit in the class and she says, please
be quiet while the teacher does the teaching, and I
was great, it's adorable. Yeah, and his reward fat Matt.
We went to McDonald's on the way home sometimes after classes.
This had honest to God's story here. I don't know
why we're doing this, Wayne Staple. We got a minute
left before we get to play, I believe it or not.

(02:40:33):
We would get a cheeseburger, a smaller fries, and a
small coke. Okay, at McDonald's.

Speaker 2 (02:40:41):
It's gotta be.

Speaker 1 (02:40:41):
About nineteen seventy eight, I'm thinking ROSSI, Okay, we'll we'll play.

Speaker 2 (02:40:47):
Let's pull the name game. Let's put the pricing prices
right here.

Speaker 1 (02:40:50):
Three ninety nine. Okay, I'm gonna say it again. And
then Connor, you jump in as well. One small cheeseburger, yes,
one smaller fries, and one small coke. And this is
with tax two am the tax you said out before
tax two am before tech? No, what Tex know what
the tax rate was in seventy two? Just twenty three

(02:41:11):
twenty three? What do you say, Connor? Now it's gotta
be less two fifty. I'm gonna go I'm gonna go
two forty nine fine to fifty dollars six? Dang, I
changed my mic three times.

Speaker 2 (02:41:25):
Fraud.

Speaker 1 (02:41:25):
I have a fraud. Yeah you can. You can't even
play the game, right? Can you imagine burger frying a
coke for a dollar six? That's a good it's a
good run, Matt. Now you can't even get free bags
on a Southwest flight now yesterday because the food was
so well mid it the arena. I got a double cheeseburger,
small fries and a small sprite at McDonalds on the

(02:41:48):
way home. It was five dollars and fifty cents. Hmmm,
so an extra extra meat patty. Yes, and the price
was five times the amount, Thanks Joe Biden. That was
nineteen seventy eight though, come on, and I was today's
edition of Rick Ronald's Price is right, wonderful, I believe
or not?

Speaker 2 (02:42:08):
You ready to go lock them up?

Speaker 13 (02:42:09):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:42:09):
Not at all. I'm about to make up. Be ready
to say not far. I'm making up a bunch of stuff.
We've only said it, Connor. Did we not announce this
before the show even started today? I'm sorry, don't help
the listeners. I'm sorry. I know it makes you upset. Oh,
I love these Mets. You rode uniforms with the New
York line curse. I think it looks sharp. Okay, that's
the second time they've worn. By the way, the Mets

(02:42:30):
have got something goal with runners at first and second.
Here in the top of the seventh drama Oh against
Tylor Scott, friend of the show. We'll tell you how
things turn out with him and believe or not? Next
if you want to play seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven.

Speaker 8 (02:42:45):
Ninety Matt Thomas, Ross Viel It's the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (02:43:04):
All right, Taylor Scott's got a little work to do here.
Two out, top of the seventh, no score Mets Astros
something called Alexander Canario at the plate. The count is
three balls and two strikes. Well, don't play because we're
watching the TV version, so it's well behind. By the way,
Astros tonight at seven o'clock. I believe Astro lines at

(02:43:26):
six this evening here on seven ninety, so I'll be
ready for that. I couldn't be more ready, really, And
now Taylor Scott has walked the bases loaded. It was fantastic.
Don't bring that up when he joins the A team
oute of this year. By the way, our player interviews
are going to the A team. Dang, are you that
upset about it? I like the interview in the players, Yeah,

(02:43:46):
why not?

Speaker 2 (02:43:47):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (02:43:48):
We will get Brian boga Sevik with us every week
starting next week. It's gonna start a week from tomorrow.
That's going to hit every week, and then player interviews
are hit or miss. Yeah, and then Brian mctagger a
week from Thursday starts and those both those guys will
be at eleven o'clock.

Speaker 2 (02:44:01):
In those perspective, Wow, unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (02:44:02):
Every Wednesday, Bogus seven, Every Thursday, Big Tagger at eleven
o'clock right here in these air whips.

Speaker 2 (02:44:06):
And sometimes, if it's really really good, we'll replay it
later in the show to kind of give you a
chance to catch up on it.

Speaker 1 (02:44:10):
So, yeah, I wish you do.

Speaker 2 (02:44:13):
Do you a chance, right, believe it or not?

Speaker 1 (02:44:18):
Tomorrow. There's different audiences throughout four hours, no question. Do
you think what'd be sweet if everybody listened to us
every hour of the twenty hours? Some people doing for
those that do that we appreciate you. Oh, let me
tell you, I will give you the biggest hull you've
ever set in your entire life if you tell us
you listen the show twenty hours a week.

Speaker 2 (02:44:34):
Twenty hours. I don't even listen twenty hours. And I'm here.
I know I can feel it when I'm on the road.

Speaker 6 (02:44:39):
I know.

Speaker 1 (02:44:40):
I'm sorry, rashare there? I got attention span issues, Matt,
But you had these for fifteen years. Yeah, I know. Well,
I'm sorry. You want to get you want to get some?
I want to start. I'm gonna take a picture of
me and just put it in this spot while I'm
gone and just ster at you. We could zoom you
want to, Yeah, but I'm not. What if I'm not
wearing full cloth?

Speaker 3 (02:45:00):
Though?

Speaker 1 (02:45:00):
Will you put clothes on?

Speaker 6 (02:45:01):
Eh?

Speaker 1 (02:45:03):
Is that too much to ask? I like, I like
being like. I like either put clothes on or give
me some infetamines. Let's go all right. Tomorrow we're on
ten eleven fifty. We are carrying astros Lime spring training packs.

Speaker 2 (02:45:14):
Wonderful.

Speaker 1 (02:45:14):
So I'll put a live FIGURINGE of me in or
a fake big figuring. You know, one of those AI
creations is what you could do you can stare at
me lovingly believe yourand slam was just hit.

Speaker 2 (02:45:25):
Oh my god, it's four nothing Ooh Taylor. Scott's gonna
be pissed. Five minutes left to go on the show.

Speaker 1 (02:45:31):
What should we do?

Speaker 2 (02:45:34):
We should play.

Speaker 1 (02:45:36):
America's fastest growing sports radio game show.

Speaker 2 (02:45:40):
We simply called it be leave it or not?

Speaker 1 (02:45:41):
If here's hot work should call seven one three two,
one two five seven ninety seven one three two, one
two five seven ninty. Today's edition to Believe or Not
is all things about Laramie Tunsil. I'll read your statement
about Laramie statements completely utterly accurate. You'll say this, believe it.
If a statement's here Ronnie's full of bunking made up,
you will say this not two believe it or not
in her own all things about Laramie Tunsel, the Washington Commanders.

(02:46:04):
You want to prize Connor will be playing for today
A pair of tickets to.

Speaker 2 (02:46:07):
See Journey on March fourteenth at Rodeo Houston.

Speaker 1 (02:46:10):
A pair of tickets to see the Psychedelic Firs live
on July twelfth at the House of Blues. As of
seven ninety t shirts.

Speaker 2 (02:46:16):
Dave on seven ninty day, Have you ready to play?
Believe it or not?

Speaker 1 (02:46:21):
Laramie. Laramie Tunsil has never been named an AP All
Pro First or second Team. Never ever first or second team,
Believe it or not? Not believe he has never sorry
five time proble Yeah whatever, Rubin on Seminintie Ruben, You're
ready to play Believe it or not?

Speaker 8 (02:46:42):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:46:42):
Laramie Tunsel's major while in Old miss was journalism Believe
it or not?

Speaker 1 (02:46:49):
Not?

Speaker 2 (02:46:50):
It was maybe he's gonna host this show one time?

Speaker 1 (02:46:55):
Michael on Sevenintie, Michael, what was your favorite part of
today's radio show?

Speaker 8 (02:47:00):
All of It?

Speaker 1 (02:47:00):
Man best selling seven ninety Laramie Tunsel's love of the
movie The blind Side factored into his choosing to play
at Ole Miss.

Speaker 2 (02:47:07):
Believe It or not?

Speaker 19 (02:47:09):
Not?

Speaker 1 (02:47:10):
Yeah, Chris Gordy made that one up statement number two
for the way and Laramie Tunsel was arrested on June
twenty fifth of twenty fifteen, on domestic violence charges into Oxford, Mississippi,
after an altercation with his stepfather.

Speaker 2 (02:47:22):
Believe It or Not?

Speaker 1 (02:47:24):
Ooh the year believe it? That's I believe it of course,
Thank you, congratulations, appreciate the nice words. He's a winner.
Mike on seven Auntie, Mike, you're ready to play Believe
It or Not. His junior year at Old Miss, Laramie
Tunsel was ejected from a game when he slapped Alabama's
Reggie Raglan in the helmet with an open hand.

Speaker 2 (02:47:45):
Believe It or Not?

Speaker 11 (02:47:47):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:47:48):
No, he hadn't really hurt his hand if he had
done that.

Speaker 1 (02:47:52):
Desmen done seven ninety Desmond, what was your favorite part
of today's radio show?

Speaker 3 (02:47:57):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (02:47:58):
Laramie Tunsil has been in the top and hey, turn
that radio down.

Speaker 1 (02:48:04):
Laramie Tunsel has been the top ten most penalized players
each of the last three years, and he was number
one last year. He was and turn get your radio fixed?
Sorry it was a believe it bump bumping down Joseph
and Lake Jackson. Joseph a ready to play Believe it
or Not?

Speaker 3 (02:48:25):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (02:48:25):
In twenty eighteen, Laramie Tunsel was on a podcast hosted
by Peanut Tillman and admitted his parents received about seventy
five thousand dollars for him to commit to Old Miss
Believe It or Not. That's a lot, that's right. Statement
number two for the when Laramie Tunsll has one nickname
listed on its Pro football reference page, King Tunsil. Believe

(02:48:47):
it or not, That's why there's actually no nickname listed, Kingraantulash.
They got a minute a half left to go on
the show to promote tomorrow's big program, which will feature
and can breakdown of.

Speaker 2 (02:49:02):
The Taylor Scott home run given up? Oh for nothing?
Yi oh base hit to open things up?

Speaker 3 (02:49:07):
All right?

Speaker 2 (02:49:08):
Something just his inzo?

Speaker 1 (02:49:09):
Is it? Something's cooking for the Astros in the bottom
of the seventh Uh, We've got to shut your bum
mass up tomorrow at eleven twenty. And will the Texans
grab three or four more receivers by the time this
program resumes tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:49:20):
At at ten am. Probably not.

Speaker 1 (02:49:24):
Therefore, Rockets and the Phoenix Suns coming up tomorrow as
well the durantlo Is in town.

Speaker 2 (02:49:29):
Do you see the latest Kevin Booker and Kevin Devin
Booker trade?

Speaker 1 (02:49:32):
What is it with rumors in the window? It might
take three first round picks and an up and coming
third and fourth year player for that for Devin Booker
to be moved from the Phoenix Suns ground rule double oh,
they're cooking come back City. It'll be a something called
Bestidas Bestidas. Oh, Jeremy Paine is on headset. You got

(02:49:53):
a fill time somehow You should get players on during
a headset during our show. That'd be actually greggy, really
really good. Alright, up next, who is it?

Speaker 11 (02:50:04):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:50:04):
Well, it's the guys that normally on following us, have
been following us for years. Oh okay, it's Wexler, it's Clinton, it's.

Speaker 10 (02:50:12):
Team.

Speaker 1 (02:50:12):
They're going to entertain you between down six o'clock. I'll
talk to you tomorrow with Ross for ten to eleven fifty.
Right here on these airwaves, they'll be called Sports Talk
seven ety

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