Soft Rockets In San Francisco, More On Bregman and Stone Cold Locks

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam Talking Your Teams series.
Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
The A Team Am.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
What's Up Houston?

Speaker 4 (00:19):
It is a Friday edition of the A Team Sports
Talks seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
He's Wex, I'm Ac.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
We are taking you up until six o'clock tonight as
we will give you our stone cold locks.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
We will give you all.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Of our opinions about some of the things that are
going on in the Houston sports world, but especially around
the sports world. And I in that Van wex I'm
going to tell you right now, I am so glad
that not only did the game live up to the
hype last night on Thursday Night Football, but also, somehow,
some way, in this brand new, technologically advanced palace that

(00:58):
we work in, it's not even two years I think
that we've been in this place, I was able to
actually stream it on one of our view you know,
one of the monitors in the studio, and it was
you know, it gave me the ability to distract and
actually watch a good competitive sporting event where both teams
came to play, so that I didn't have to just
concentrate on the other game that I was doing last night,

(01:21):
in which the Rockets probably pissed me off more than
they have.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
It's got to be since the Harden era, because now
their games matter again, and I'm watching them sleep walk
through a second consecutive game against the San Jose g
leaguers that had no Steph Curry, no Draymond Green, and
no business having a guy that averages thirteen point eight
points per game called Jonathan kaminga score thirty three points,

(01:49):
mostly on point blank layups. As emy Udoka said it best,
his team was soft last night. I don't I still
don't know what I saw last night. I can't believe
what I watched. And yes, I'm this upset about in
early December Rockets game because it's just it looked like
a bunch of guys that had read their own press

(02:10):
and were puffed up on false pretenses of being really
really good.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
They're not really good.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
And by the way, they have nobody on the team
that can take over when they need it, which is
night like last night, that's what you need.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
They have nobody like that.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
If they would have made their lefts, they would have
won the game. But yeah, there's a lot more to it.
I mean, seriously, they have some games where I'm just amazed.
You're right at the basket, man, just just put it in.
You're right, bounce it off the glass, there's a little
square there, and have it hit the front of the
rim and drop in. It's really seemingly for players that
do it every single night, you'd think they could do
it on any night. Last night was not one of
those nights. Too many opportunities to make easy shots. And

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then the other thing that is a part of their issue,
and it's not going anywhere. They don't make shots from
three point distance. They're gonna be one of the league's
worst three point shooting teams this year, bottom ten, and
Golden State was like, most opponents, go ahead, take them,
they're not going to go in, and they didn't.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
They took thirty eight threes and they made ten of them.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yeah, they've been able to overcome that through their fifteen
and eight start fifteen times because they play such good defense.
And you had two guys, the two guys that were
obviously going to be the ones you needed to stop,
and they weren't able to stop either one of them.
Andrew Wiggins had a good night and I'm kind of amazed.
I didn't say it yesterday, but now it'll sound like
an idiot saying it today. It was so obvious coming

(03:28):
it was going to go off against the Rockets yesterday,
or at least they were going to look for him
to because they don't have anybody else that could create
their own shots. And I know he doesn't have a
huge scoring season going mainly because of how they play.
Nobody does but Curry, and nobody's probably going to but
Curry for the way that they're constructed.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Even Curry's down, their whole team is down.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
But they also lost to this very same team already
this year, also without Steph Curry the ability to stop
Golden State from scoring.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
I know there's a lot of points.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
On the board the first time these two teams met,
but it's really more about the Rockets offense in both
games against the Warriors. They've got off to such a
miserable start the last time, That's why they fell behind
by so much, and it was a much better offensive
night for the Warriors last night.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
The Warriors, they couldn't ever pull away.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
Heck, the Rockets had a five point lead just a
couple minutes before halftime, and then the Warriors put a
painstakingly long extended into the second half run together, because
that's how long of a period of time it took
for the Rockets to get seven or eight points put
together over a four or five minute stretch spanning those
two periods, and yet still each time they came back,

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cut it to a two possession game, a six point game,
a four point game. They turn around and watch Golden
State go on a parade of layups to the basket.
It wasn't just coming, it was pretty much everybody. And
they do play very good defense, or else they wouldn't
be able to do this both teams, the Warriors have
managed to put themselves in a decent position. They're thirteen
and eight now and snapped along losing streak without two

(04:59):
of their most important players, one who can put the
ball in the basket and one who can't, but both
are important to their goals. It's because they play defense
and watch what they did to the Rockets. That's what
would have made me a more upset about the game
if I was trying to you know, basically, if I
was sitting on their bench because the Rockets didn't the

(05:21):
other thing he May said, is this is a team.
This is not how we play basketball. This is not
how we got to this point. I thought the Warriors
did a good job of making them that way. They said, look,
you're gonna win tonight if you can beat us one
on one. The Rockets can't do that. They weren't moving
the basketball. The offense was James Harden like stagnant. I
thought Kevinhale was on the sideline saying, hey, keep it sticky.

(05:41):
That's the way to go. Gotta be sticky. They didn't
move the ball at all. Warriors played good defense the
way the game was going to be officiated last night
for both teams, I think helped them a little bit.
The Rockets drove to the right side of the lane
every single time, at every single time, the Warriors just
kind of guided them into a ridiculously difficult angle and
they missed.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Warriors out played.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
Him, and now it's happened probably five or six times
the other two losses. I think maybe you put on
the Rockets themselves, but I think the other team made
them look poor. I think the other team did the
things that the Rockets couldn't stop them from doing. And
your point is going to be one that will stay
in place. I personally think for another fifty nine games.
I don't think they have a player or are going

(06:23):
to have a player. On the twenty twenty four to
twenty five Rockets, they could take a game over and
carry you to a victory. We've seen stretches where Sheng
Gun's had good fourth quarters. They clearly go through him
last night, terrible matchup. Should have given him the ball
every single time he wasn't defended by Loony, and should
have never.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Given him the ball every time he was.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
Looney knows how to defend shng Gun, probably as well
as he.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Knows how to defend a lot of guys. He does.
He's a very good defender.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
He just basically stands there and waits, Okay, go ahead,
put your elbow into my ribs and spin okay, spin
back the other way. Well, I don't care, Just take
the shit already. My arm's gonna be up in the
air and I'm not gonna leave my feet, and you're
gonna miss. It's amazing what he does.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
He's real.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
It's why the Rockets wanted him many many years ago.
It's why the Warriors keep keeping him. But yeah, I
was a big part of last night. I was over
at Tom's watch bar for our Rockets watch party, hanging
out with Ike and Danny and Shark and quite a
few of you Rockets fans were out there, as you
will be on Sunday night. Maybe a very similar scenario,
because in addition to watching the Rockets go against the Warriors,

(07:28):
you'll have the Rockets going against the Clippers. There was
a pretty good you mentioned it Sunday night, our Thursday
night football game last night. There probably will be a
pretty good Sunday night football game on Sunday night, considering
the Chargers and Chiefs are battling on Sunday night football.
The football game was just exceptional entertainment, and I did

(07:49):
see You know, you play a team like the Lions.
I brought this up before with the Texans and certain matchups,
maybe certain days you win the toss, you know you're
up agains. Should you take the football or should you
let the Lions have the football and drive straight down
the field and set your offense onto the field trailing
seven to nothing, which is exactly what happened last night.

(08:11):
It's not a good thing or a bad thing. It's
a decision you have to make. Do you want the
ball to start the first half? Maybe you string end
of the first half, started the second half back to
back possessions, and you know it's a good spot for you.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Most coaches do that.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
That's what the coach did last night after Matt Lafleur
was yelling at a Lions fan rightfully, so if you
miss that, but yeah, the Lions went right down the field,
put a touchdown on board option cee.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Do you want to let them convert on third down
or convert on fourth down because they're going to five times.

Speaker 5 (08:40):
Dan Campbell said, yeah, we're going forward on fourth down.
They converted four times. So if you want to take
us all the way to the end of the game,
that is a move that probably one quart one coach
in the NFL decides to make. Goph foring it, go
go inget for it on fourth and one, tie game,
gophering it on fourth and ononer from the Detroit Ters

(09:03):
last night when you need to kick the field goal
to take the lead, and he chose not to, he
chose to. I think we can burn the rest of
the clock because they'll be out of timeouts. We can
kick it with no time left. They'll never get the
ball back, and it worked out because they got the
necessary yard. If they don't get the necessary yard, they

(09:23):
turned the ball over in a tie game with more
than enough time for the Packers to get into field
goal range and beat them.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Confidence in his team, they went out there and did it.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
Like I said, it was a fourth fourth down conversion
of the night on five tries. They were also awesome
on third down. They dominated time of possession and they
won again as they've done almost every week this year.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
Well, I'll tell you right now, as someone who had
several participants in that game last night, I loved it.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
It was absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
You had Josh Jacobs and Jared Goff, you probably liked
it a lot. If you had anybody else, there was
a some good some back. It would have been a
huge knight for Montgomery or a huge knight for Gibbs. Wasn't
a huge night for Amon Ross Saint Brown. It's a
good night for Jordan Love too.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
I had golf, but I had Montgomery, I had Jamison Williams,
and I had Christian Watson, So there was some peppering
in Watson, man.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
I know he dropped one. It was a really well
he also fumbled. He also did that. Yeah, he should
have had more.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
Made a really nice play, Yeah he did so, should
have had thirty five against everybody else but the Texans,
who he also has five against.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
Again, it was a night that made me want to
put my head through a wall for several reasons, and
the Rockets led the charge. But uh, you know what,
who knows, maybe we'll find out something else before the
end of the show that'll make me want to do
the same thing.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
All I don't think we're gonna find out anything about
something happening in Major League Baseball with third basement. I
feel pretty confident we got another full four hour show.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Without that news, though.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
I bet you we'll hear some news in advance of
the Winter Meetings coming up next week. I think there's
a couple sidings, probably today, maybe one or two more
of significance as we get there, maybe the big one
Juan Soto before they begin. And yeah, like we talked
about with Brian McTaggart yesterday, I don't think we're going
to get to a second weekend. This is weekend number one.
Next weekend is weekend number two. I don't think we're

(11:18):
going to get to weekend number two without a Bregman answer.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
And when we come back, I'll tell you why I
feel a little bit better about that.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
The eight on Sports Talk seven ninety back to Adam
Clinton and Adam Wexler the eighty.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
So, for some reason, wex after our little conversation with
Brian McTaggart of MLB dot com yesterday, and I was
very depressed. It was the beginning of the tailspin into
the wee hours of the morning from a Houston sports perspective.
But it's not because I've slept on it, because frankly,
I haven't slept nearly enough.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Just this week has been brutal.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
Two West Coast games, two losses, and the kid in
just an obscene morning hour routine has just got me
absolutely all whack a doodle. But I got up today,
I'm reading around and it's been hilarious to see the
social media reaction to McTaggart's article and just the topic

(12:35):
in general. If it's as simple as Scott Boris saying
that he wants two hundred million next to the contract,
which I think is kind of how you phrased it yesterday,
then you know, maybe it's a situation where all hope
is lost because I don't think the Astros are going
to do that. But in regards to comparing it to

(12:56):
Matt Chapman's contract, if that's what it comes down, especially
in Bregman's mind, is it really all that unfair of
an offer.

Speaker 5 (13:07):
I don't think that's the right words why I hesitated
to use a low ball offer.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
I don't think it's a low ball offer.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
I think it's a tough place to start, and I
think you can make one huge difference between cite one
huge difference between the two players. Most of the time,
if you're trying to make this happen, this conversation, you
know Matt Chapman does this and Alex Bergman does that.
They were both in the same league together for quite
a few years. Matt Chapman kept piling up gold gloves, well,
Alex Bregman kept not piling up gold gloves. They're both elite.

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These are the two best fielding third basemen in baseball.
No offense to Nolan Aeronauto, but in my opinion, it's
these two guys, and he is a very close second
to either one of them. Technically second to Chapman now
in the National League. I told you about this a
couple of weeks ago when or probably even during the
season when Chapman signed his deal his extension, that it
makes very little sense, and it's hard for me. You know,

(13:57):
I'm kind of a numbers guy. You Occasionally I'll cite
some of the non old folks statistics, like, man, this
guy's really good. His batting average is two eighty seven. Now,
I'll probably try to tell you about their ops plus
or their their ops or something else additional that. You know,

(14:18):
since we have the numbers and information, I like to
use it. I don't like to pretend that I can't
understand it. And I still live in the seventies, and
whatever it says on the baseball card with the three
numbers is all that I know. I know more than
that look at the back of the baseball cards. But
have you ever noticed I almost never cite war you are.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
An anti war guy, because I don't think it makes
any sense.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
I haven't figured it out yet. And two different groups,
Fangraphs and Baseball Reference both have a war statistics that
doesn't equal each other. Hey, his war is five point six?
What is it on fangraphs? What's four point nine? Well,
how's that. I don't know, so I don't use it,
but I will hear for you just for an example.

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And I know it's supposed to essentially measure everything, everything
that there can be to measure other than the intangibles.
This last year for the Astros, Alex Bregman hit two
sixty his ops was seven sixty eight, his ops plus
was one eighteen, and his war was four point one.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
He won a Gold Glove.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
Matt Chapman was a two forty seven hitter, a seven
ninety ops a one to twenty five ops plus.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
He won a Gold Glove.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
Also, his war was seven point one, one of the
best figures in baseball, certainly one of the best figures
among players at that position. And seven point one versus
four point one in a measure like that is a.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Pretty sizable difference.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
And there's no way in h double hockey sticks, Matt
Chapman was better last year than Alex Bregman.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
In a very down season for Bregman. It wasn't a
very it was a typical season for Bregman. It's just
so poorly.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yeah, I guess that's probably more accurate because it was
a longer slow start than usual.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
But then he came on hot and kind of even deverish.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
Chapman's offense last year probably was the best it's been
in four years. And I mentioned two of those numbers,
which were both better than Alex Bregman's his OPS plus
and his ops not by a lot, but definitely better.
I don't know how he could have earned the amount
of war over him by fielding, but I do know
that's part of it. And it's odd in that all

(16:29):
you can be is the best, and one was the
best in one league, one is the best in the other.
There's only so many plays you can make to elevate
yourself over somebody.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
Else's funny the best, Yeah, and that's why it was funny.

Speaker 5 (16:40):
You know, there are some little particulars to it, but
that is such a huge gap. So yeah, it's not
an affront to Alex Bregman. Matt Chapman's a really good player.
And as as they sit right now, from what they individually,
do you feel the position you hit, you hit, you
feel the position, they aren't that dissimilar. But I can't

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discount all the other stuff that clearly war doesn't measure,
and nobody measures it except the teams.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
That know him.

Speaker 5 (17:09):
Do the San Francisco Giants or the A's before him,
or the J's before them, or in between, do they think, Man,
I really don't want to let Matt Chapman go because
we're going to stop winning. I mean, he is so
important to winning and it's not all on Matt his
team's zone.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
But I don't care about how talent clubhouse presence.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
I'm sure he has one, but how much clubhouse presence
can you have when your team is a perennial non
playoff participant and he's played on good teams, just not
as good of the teams. And as Alex take it
a step further, well, yeah, it's way more than But
I'm just talking about in that element, Alex Bregman sets
himself apart from so many legendary clubhouses in that regard.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
When you have a bunch of leaders in the clubhouse
and he's still setting himself apart, I think that's an
even bigger compliments compliment as it pertains to that exact,
you know, perspect of his whole what he brings to
the table.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
That element of it is something we'll discuss more. Joe
Aspota shared some thoughts on that very recently, he sat
down with Will Kunkle over on Kicking It with Kunkle
his podcast, Fox twenty six Sports Director. A couple of
interesting thoughts from Joe on that topic. The exact topic
we're talking about, some of the intangible things, the things

(18:25):
I mentioned yesterday very very clearly, since we had Brian
McTaggart on the immeasurables. To those who don't know, everybody
around baseball is aware of what Bregman probably means to
the Astros, probably means to Jake Myers, probably means to
Mauricio Dubond, probably means to Jordon Alvarez in every one
of his batting teammates. But unless you're an Astro, you

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really don't know. You really don't know exactly what he
contributes to the other players being better, you know, taking
a guy who needs a little bit more strike zone
discipline and making it a little better because of how
you explain this particular pitcher's repertoire towards towards him and
how he has pitched you before. I mean literally, the
things you would normally do with a pitching coach or
a hitting coach, or both of them, are a lot

(19:07):
of the things that he can do, and other teams
that are interviewing him will probably get a hint of that,
a touch of that, and they may have other players
who've been teammates with him that can shed some light
on that, and they just might make enough phone calls
to get a better understanding of And I bet you
Alex will tell them that too. I can make your
players better. There's like one freation out there who can
say that. And if you're the ownership group, the GM

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and everybody talking to him, you have to believe it.
He can make your team's players better, which in turn
should do what you sign a free agent to do. Initially,
you wanted to make your team better, But in most cases,
the only way he can impact the rest of the
guys is well, he bats fourth, so he protects the
three hole hitter, or he bats second. He gets on
base a ton, so he gives your three and four

(19:50):
hitters that much more of an opportunity to drive them.
And no, he literally makes the hitters in the batting
order better every single day. Whether he's nursing an injury
in the lineup, adding first batting eight doesn't matter. He
does the same thing for the pitchers the same things.
You're adding an extra five coaches who you also know
are good, not the ones you're gonna have to say, well,

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our team's hitting two twenty, we gotta fire somebody. Let's
fire the hitting coach. If teams get that, it's that
much more difficult for the astros to step to the
plate with an offer that will keep him here.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
And that's okay. So in that vein, you know, I
feel like.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
I've seen like additions to the initial non low ball
offer as we're gonna call it, I guess you know,
is it? Do you let me ask you this question
as it pertains to if that was really the first
offer that they made. Do you think it's the years
or the money? And I know the obvious answer here.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
But let's just answer it yourself. Then it's the money.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
But it's the money to me, that is an actual question,
even though it sounds rhetorical because Jim Crane has made
such a fuss about years, so you know, so many
times in the past, regardless of the dollar figure.

Speaker 5 (21:06):
It's an interesting point only in that we know he
won't do that. Do we know it has cost him
players or negotiations because they've demanded it because we can't
sit here and say, look why he lost George Springer,
he signed an eight year deal. Nope, that didn't happen. Right,
Look why I lost Corey he signed an eight year deal. Nope,
that didn't happen either. He hasn't lost players so to speak,

(21:29):
because of that. Absolutely, I'm never going past five and
now he's at six. Maybe he was at four or
five then, So I'm not saying it's a non factor,
and it's impossible that it wasn't part of it.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
It clearly was part of it.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
But the amount of money for where this player is
in his career on the year's part. Also, that's the
big deal, because if I'm the agent and I'm the player,
I'm thinking about the next ten years. Even in Bregman's case,
if I sign a four year deal, that means I'm
going to sign another contract while I'm still a contributing player.
I'm a thirty five year old player. What kind of

(22:03):
money am I going to get? What kind of years
am I going to gain that? How much pressure am
I putting on my sales at age thirty four and
thirty five because I'm heading into a contract. Yere again,
he probably isn't retiring after a six year deal if
he signs a six year deal with some team this offseason.
But he's probably also not looking at that next contract
in six years from now as a huge This is

(22:25):
my last big contract. This is his last big contract.
This one the one he's about to sign. That's why
he wants more years. That's why he wants more money,
and that's exactly what he's going to get. There is
no other big money contract unless he signs a crazy
short deal, one with options, where he's right back in

(22:45):
the mix agan next year, like Corey has done, like
Blake Snell has done, like other Boris clients have done.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
But that was not their first option. That wasn't even
their fifth option.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
He wouldn't want to do the eighth option because the
chances of him getting a good payday after even this
that shortened deal would be not good.

Speaker 5 (23:05):
All depends on who you are, what you think might happen.
Blake Snell is probably gonna get a little bit more
money out of it. I guess you could say it worked,
but we don't. I mean, we know what he got.
I guess you could say it worked, right what he
got from the.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
She's gonna get the money later because they defer everything.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
But he agreed to it. I know it's not a
negative from the player side. If it was a negative,
he'd say no.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
I wonder if Jim Crane would be, you know, in
order to get this done, would be you know, would
lean that way.

Speaker 5 (23:33):
He might lean that way if you put in there
the money is deferred and you begin to get payments
on it in twenty thirty two, and then he makes
sure that the parties aren't really paying attention and that
three and twenty thirty two is actually an eight and
it's twenty eighty two when you start getting paid.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Well, I don't think they handwright these things. I don't
think that's gonna happen.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
It doesn't smudge, not in the black ink. You make
sure I gotta have black ink design this contract.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
The agency computer guy isn't gonna let that happen. Nick Ferguson,
was that his name?

Speaker 3 (24:00):
The company computer?

Speaker 6 (24:01):
Oo?

Speaker 3 (24:02):
Exactly? That's the best.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
All right, Enough about that. It's going to either get
me more depressed or get me more hopeful. And I
can't decide which. We've got some football to discuss. It's
not I mean, listen, the Texan's not playing after a
game like that, that's pretty brutal, But there is other
things to get to and again, our Stone Cold Locks
are right around the corner. It's actually a pretty interesting
weekend in the NFL without the Texans playing.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
All that still to come. Here on a Friday edition
of the show.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
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Speaker 3 (26:52):
Did you all see this? You should be put it out.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Between five and fifteen posts day.

Speaker 5 (26:56):
Four hundred people were arrested for things that they said
on social media.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
History repeats itself.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Type and you will succeed.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
Never doubt that you're the one too pustle.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
No one go believe you're the best of it. Nothing's
gonna have a top.

Speaker 5 (27:14):
You know you're the best.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
Post an every single day you're the.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
Best of it, breaking the entire internet.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Time for the best of XS.

Speaker 5 (27:30):
Something hopefully that really is attributable truly to the X platform,
not necessarily.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
All this interview happened the other day. Here's a couple
of bites from it. More or less, I like.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
To feel where this is specific because we only have
it because social media is there. We only have it
because someone posted something that elicited a bunch of responses
to it. We gotta roll through, or there's a beef
going on, or I'm sure again next week Danny Canell.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
This instance is.

Speaker 5 (27:59):
Again thanks to the NFL and their social media teams
being inside the locker rooms when teams win football games.
I wonder if they actually are denied access when teams
lose games, not trying to sneak in there and getting the.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
You guys bleep any bleep bleeps. We talked about this
all week.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
And then you, like I said yesterday, hard knocks exists.
Social media teams, creative teams, digital teams exist. I want
to see more of the other side. These are great,
but I do want to see more of the other
side inside the locker room.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Last night, the Lions won.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
This has been in very commonplace this year. Dan Campbell
got to go into the locker room and tells guys
how awesome they are because they've won every game but
week two when they lost to the Bucks.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
They won here in Houston.

Speaker 5 (28:41):
Give a victory speech and handed out some game balls
and talked up the message that they've had all year.
They have a very specific culture in Detroit, and it
certainly is one that is a winning culture. The players
do things that they need to win every week. They
make plays. It's very, very simple. So I wanted to
give you a little bit of what.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
He had to say.

Speaker 5 (28:59):
And then since this is the best of X, the
absolute best thing that he had to say, So there's
a little bit of what he had to say to
his team.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
We don't have to talk about how tough we are.
We don't have to talk about how resilient we are.
We live it, man, We've been living it. Where's our defense, Oude.
That's the way to step up, man, that's the way
to step up.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
So again, thanks to the team on the digital side
that cleaned it all up for us. Usually we go
with beefs here in house, they go with silence. There
are a lot of bombs in there, and a lot
of coaches do that pretty much thirty two out of
thirty two. But the very next thing he said was
the most fun thing that he said. He just gave
kudos to the offense. That's the way to get it done.

(29:43):
They clearly kept Green Bay off the field. At the
end of the game, they went forward on fourth down,
they got to bleed the clock all the way down
to two seconds so the Texans killing kicker could make
another killer kick to win the game. Jake Bates, who's
done nothing but that all season long, which is wild.
But then he looked over and all one of his linemen,
and Dan Campbell said.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
This, throwing up on the line.

Speaker 5 (30:09):
He was literally sitting in his seat near his locker.
There was a bin in front of him, and he
was leaning over. And I doubt he wasn't doing exactly
what Dan Campbell said he was doing.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
After the game.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
Okay, I said this to you when you were cutting
up this sound. He sounds like he's cutting a wrestling
promo every time. And I guess I'm the only one
on the planet that doesn't remember his playing days.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
If WrestleMania give a number, was at Ford Field, I
think they have one. They've had one there, they have well,
they also had at the Silver Dome. Oh that's true.
Well that was Pontiac.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
Right, one hundred percent. He is there and he is involved.
He's fringing aside or perfect for it, and he would
be not like every coach would do something. He would
be physically involved because he looks right like if you
wanted him to put on you know, to cut, get
cut just a little bit more.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
He's pretty. He's definitely cut for a coach.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
He was cut for a player, would be on the
he would look fine, but he doesn't seem like he'd
be on the bigger side of a current oiled up wrestlers.
He would be yeah, and and just looking at them
and how they like. We've heard Demiko in his in

(31:27):
his postgame celebration. We just heard it last week when
he gave a game ball the offensive.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
We heard Dan Campbell.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
Now, if these two were at a match at WrestleMania
against each other and had their fans behind each of them,
Demiko's the protagonist, the hero, the good guy, the baby face.
Dan Campbell is theist, the heel, the villain.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
Right absolutely well, because his promos would have saltier language,
would be a little bit more.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Who's the current gene oakerland? Is there anybody in particular?
They don't really do it like that, No, they do,
but it's of the female variety.

Speaker 5 (32:09):
But do they get both the two participants together in
a single interview setting where they're literally yelling at each other.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
Sometimes it's not as common because you get one side
and then the other because you know, there's so much beef,
so much beef. I used to like it when they
would face off at the same time, but it was rare.

Speaker 5 (32:26):
Well, there are quite a few reals Instagram story type things,
Facebook stories that have old wrestling oopsies from some of
those interviews.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
They're out of bounds.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
The best, Well, John Stossel getting slapped is my favorite
because the reporter, well, yeah, he was trying to He's
just trying to make a point. That testoscle that I
can never remember the wrestler's name that did it every
single time, Stone Cold beef Cake Reco. No, no, it
wasn't any of those three ravishing bulldogs sting. God, just stop,

(33:00):
it's uncomfortable. But yeah, he's just trying to prove it
wasn't fake. Yeah, but no, no, he's really getting hit.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
That's the thing, Like any people like me or anybody
else who does a little bit of poking at it,
mocking like the athletic marvels that these participants are and
the events that oh my God, they are absolutely killing
their bodies.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
Yeah, go watch a tables, ladders and chairs match in
the Astrodome at WrestleMania seventeen and tell me that was fake.

Speaker 5 (33:31):
I'll give a hat tip to Front Office Sports on
this other item for best of X including professional soccer.
Chicago's a very popular sports town. They have men's and
women's pro soccer teams, they got a hockey team, they
got men's and women's pro basketball teams. They have two

(33:51):
baseball teams, and they got a football team. That's eight teams.
Since twenty twenty three, which was last years year, every
one of them has fired their coach except for one.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
Uh, the women's soccer team.

Speaker 5 (34:08):
Nope, they fired. The Red Stars fired Chris Petricelly.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
You could have held a gun to my head and
I couldn't have told you the name of that team.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
Well, the Blackhawks just fired Luke Richardson in the last
couple of days, So that's why I think this came out.
Cubs and White Sox fired their managers obviously.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
The Bears just took care of theirs.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
They took care of eber Fluis the Sky Tea Spoon,
Terence Teresa Witherspoon's been fired the Fire. Chicago Fire MLS
team fired their head coach, the Bulls not recently within.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
The last two years, Billy Donovan fired. Billy Donovan.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
Well, look at it last night, one hundred and thirty
nine points in a win over the Spurs.

Speaker 5 (34:47):
He's put up a defenseless team in his defense of
his job.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
Imagine losing at home to the Bulls and letting them
score one hundred and thirty nine points and having me
believe that the defensive stalwart that is Victor women Yama
should get Defensive Player of the Year.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Stupids.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
Not quite as many teams at our disposal here in Houston.
But Joe Spata's start, Demko Ryan's start, he made Udoka's start.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
They're maiden voyages. Hey, they were all at the same time.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
And like the exception of Udoka, wouldn't you argue that
they've taken a step back in year two?

Speaker 3 (35:25):
If clearly taken a step forward in the year.

Speaker 5 (35:28):
Rather insulting to Joe Aspata why he hasn't done anything?

Speaker 4 (35:33):
There is no year too. Oh that's right, we are
going into year two. I got mixed up still, And.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
Even for you to say that about Tamiko, he just
hasn't taken a step forward. You said it yesterday, and
I quote, they're gonna go ten and seven just like
they did last Put.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
The car into gear down in neutral. That's fair. I mean,
my gosh, you've got a Ferrari there. Can you even
put a Ferrari in neutral?

Speaker 5 (35:56):
I believe it's should you never?

Speaker 4 (35:59):
I mean, what would be the point? It would be
the pointy putting it in reverse either. I mean, I
know you have to sometimes, but come on, now, drive
that bad boy point.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
Well, maybe Nick Cassario can soup up the engine this offseason.
Wrap up the two o'clock hour. Coming up next.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
The aight on Sports Talk seven ninety back to Adam
Clinton and Adam Wexler.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
The eight.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
Winding down the first hour of four here on Sports
Talk seven ninety will begin our simulcast coming up on
Space City Home Network. I'm still very chapped about last
night's Rockets loss.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
By the way, we buried the lead.

Speaker 5 (36:54):
Yeah, I had a good time with Ike and Danny
and the rest of the Rockets fans of Tomas watchmore.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
How you already said all that? Okay, so there for
it wasn't buried.

Speaker 4 (37:01):
Fifteen consecutive losses to the stupid organization WEX.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Are you serious right now?

Speaker 4 (37:07):
They didn't have Steph, they didn't have Draymond and Clay's
in Dallas, and you still lost for the fifteenth time
in a row.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Do you realize that?

Speaker 4 (37:15):
Matt and I on air the other night, we came
up with this and we figured it out. The last
time they beat the Warriors, I had hair.

Speaker 5 (37:22):
Yeah, we talked about it yesterday. Jeff Green was a
rocket for the first time when that happened. He's a rocket, right,
he also had hair. I did strongly consider posting a
gift of three doors down on our show tweet today.
Why they sang a little song that everybody knows and loves.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
Kryptonite, that's the one I hate. That song's well, I
didn't pick it. It's just awful, and I love that band.
I actually have an irrational love for that band.

Speaker 5 (37:48):
Good Morning Rockets Losses videos that probably song would fit.

Speaker 4 (37:52):
Maybe and I could like start it with a little
clip from Superman of Lex Luthor.

Speaker 5 (37:57):
Something like that, and then definitely mix in a lot
of of a mouthpiece chewing, probably some Scott Foster.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
There was nothing worse. All the different.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
Reasons why They've lost to them for fifteen consecutive times,
and none of them have to do with those things
that was previous. Additions not being able to beat.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
Them there is There was nothing worse in a long
list of bad things last night than seeing that jackass
jump off off the bench having done nothing to contribute
to that latest loss to the Warriors. This is guy's
better in practice. Yeah, he's a totally great teammate too.
I think he's amazing.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Would you like to play with Steph Curry? Yes? Did
you like playing with Steph Curry? Yes? People said the
same thing about James Harden, but people just don't want
to hear that. Give an example.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
I loved playing with James. Who signed Chris Paul signed,
Dwight Howard, signed Russ? There's at least one more in
there right that he chased. Oh, I loved James Harden.
Signed Kevin McHale.

Speaker 5 (38:57):
I loved playing with James Harden. It was the most
fun time in my NBA career. Signed John Wall.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
I Uh, that's not even the best one of that era.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
DeMarcus Cousins love hearing from James Harden during postgame interviews
talking about his teammates.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Signed DeMarcus Cousins.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
DeMarcus Cousins gets up there and says, this is my
favorite preseason training camp press conference involving Tim McMahon asking
questions about Actually it was when James finally got to town,
rolled his fat suit into Toyota Center, and Tim McMahon
was like, you know, he was in it. Of course,

(39:34):
how could he not be? There was like two of
him in it, maybe three or four.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
He should have stayed in Vegas to work out laws exactly.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
That's the one time in my life that I didn't
absolutely despise Tim McMahon, who just comes off like it
he's fine.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
No, he's not. No, he's not. Say it again. I'll
tell you again. He's not. He's a Dallas Hank, He's not.
He uh.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
He actually asked questions that made my heart happy. My
old blackened heart was warmed. A player gave a totally
ridiculous response to a question, and he called him on it.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
It shouldn't be so hard that player shave that response.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
He called that player on it, which no one had
done here in the however many years he had played.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
We got, you know, during some we got so much.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
I feel like DeMarcus cousins talking about James Harden, like,
if the social media team asked him to read something
Rockets related, hard and related, he would do so because
they asked him, and he's a nice guy.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
Yeah, but it would look like he was in a
hostage video. Yes, blink twice. It took him five.

Speaker 5 (40:37):
Is cooking Rockets fans come to Toyota Center and watch
him cook.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
It took him five minutes of being in Houston to
realize what a bad guy James Harden was. And by
the way, I don't want to hear about all these
people in La saying he's such a great teammate because
they're already doing it.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
Oh man, he stays and works with.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
Yeah, I bet, yeah exactly, Norm Powell, you know what
those guys spoke glowingly about each other at three o'clock hour.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
Coming up next, two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adham
talking your Team. Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the
A Team A.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
It is a Friday edition of the Eight Teams Sports
Talk seven ninety and now we have begun the simulcast
on Space City Home Network. I'll see if I can
be a little bit more PC than I was in
the First Hour, first segment of the first Hour, about
last night's rocket loss. I just finally had had enough,
and I said it last night on social media as well,

(41:44):
because it was late, and you know it can I
don't know, it's weird. I feel like sometimes when I
get called to the mat for things that I've said,
either on the show or on social media, I feel
like it always happens on social media for some reason.
It was or it lasts more if it's written somewhere
and you can read it. But if I say it
into the ether here on the air, unless you're dvring

(42:07):
it and you play it back for somebody, people don't
get as all up in arms and offended about things
I say about the teams here in town.

Speaker 5 (42:13):
Well, if you say it on the radio, people aren't
going to have as easy a time of spreading it around.
Can I ask you a question about on this subject,
X platform or any other social media. Once it's there,
everybody grabs it. In Viral City, Baby.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
You and I have known each other for close to
twenty years.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
At this point, I walked into the old asbestos laden
building of KPRC.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
I'm kidding about that. It just probably did have it,
but it's.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
Gone now to be an intern at Channel two back
in the probably about this time in two thousand and four,
and I'm sure I saw you in there, but eventually
saw you at the radio station that we both worked
at all the time, and so you've known me for
a long time, is what I'm trying to get at here.
And I'm not pretty. I'm like when it comes to

(42:59):
this kind of stuff, I'm just not filtered. I never
have been, I probably never will be. I've kind of
reined it in a little back in recent years because
it just got tired of fighting with people all the
time that I don't know. I fight enough with you
every day, and then I go home and I fight
with my wife sometimes not a lot, though, but I
just feel like, you know, I've been fascinated by the

(43:23):
types of people in this city that give a you
know what about what I have to say about a
team at any given time. It is fascinating to me
because I get it. This is a platform. See this
thing right here is a microphone. People can hear it.
A lot more people can hear you, by average, in
all likelihood than maybe someone else that has an opinion
about any given team in town. But I just never

(43:45):
have understood why certain people get so caught up in it.
And that's why I liked last night, because what are
you gonna say to me that you're not gonna go
say to your head coach. He's the one calling them
soft after they lose for the fifteenth secutive time to
the Golden State Warriors. He's the one that is calling
out not their character necessarily, but definitely their work ethic

(44:10):
for at least a given night. And really he took
it a step further last few games, basically on paraphrasing,
I know you probably have the SoundBite ready, is it
or doing in.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
My systems down? I can't look at anything. It's in there.
It's in there from last night.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
We definitely have EMA at some point essentially paraphrasing what
he said is that, listen, whatever we've been doing right
that got us to that fifteen and six record and
the two seed in the West, we haven't.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Really done those things. The last few games.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
Got away with it in the thunder game, and the
last two nights we've just been outclassed by frankly an
inferior opponent.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
I don't care what the Golden State Warrior.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
They were on a five game losing streak coming in,
didn't have Curry, didn't have Draymond. Like I said, Clay's
in Dallas, and the Rockets got bullied by them, and
they still held them to less than one hundred points.
That's the most frustrating part of all. They I guess
defended well enough or was it just anybody not named
Kaminga and Wiggins wasn't making shots to the degree that

(45:08):
they normally do.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
That should make it easy to win. Buddy Heald wasn't
doing Anybody on their team could score.

Speaker 5 (45:13):
Yeah, so why'd you let the only two guys that
could do it all night long?

Speaker 3 (45:16):
And that's that's what And why couldn't you score? I
think we went through that in the opening.

Speaker 5 (45:21):
And the reason I can't score is because this is
a good defensive team, whether or without Draymond Green.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
The Rockets didn't move the basketball well enough.

Speaker 5 (45:27):
The Warriors do things to make you feel uncomfortable, and
after you watch them, I hope you guys could see
that they're they're up in you. They're forcing you to
do what they want, even if even if it's not
necessarily what you expect. I mean, they were basically forcing
Jalen Green to take his guy to the basket at times,
you know, playing off of his left to force him

(45:49):
to go right, which doesn't necessarily sound right, but it
also it makes the offense when the Warriors are on defense,
makes the other team's offense do things they want them
to do, because they're essentially they're setting them up. They're
running them into certain defensive situations, running them into certain
defensive looks. And when the Rockets would go inside to Shngoon,
unless he was defended by a non Looney, he wasn't

(46:10):
really in a position to score. And the Rockets took
a while to figure that out. He took a long
while to figure that out. And I thought his decision
making looked like twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three. Shng
Goon at the beginning of this year and last year,
right before he got hurt.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
Give him the ball and let him go, and he
would do something. Right after he got the pass.

Speaker 5 (46:30):
He would know to back his man in, he would
know to go left, he would know to go to
the basket. He would take his jump shot, whatever it is.
Last night, he was so slow to move into even
Kyle Anderson, who was there last night. He plays for
the wars He thought Alpurn was moving rather slowly through
his motions. Simple, I could make it much more simple.
We'd be done here with the show when before six
o'clock if I did, they don't make enough three pointers.

(46:55):
And then you add a night where they were miserable
at the glass. And this was without Tari Easton, whose
game before was Oh my god, Tarry make a lamp.
They missed him last night. It's not the reason they lost,
but they certainly missed him. And it's just a matter
of everybody else not making their lamps. And when the
Rockets would go down three trips in a row, get
all the way to the rim, throw a shot off

(47:15):
the backboard that catches nothing but window. The Warriors would
go right down the court. They'd end up with the
ball in Wiggins hands or Kaminga's hands.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (47:22):
He put a couple of moves on whichever single defender
was on him, Jabari Smith Junior, Dylan Brooks, and then Thompson.
He'd go all the way to the basket, he'd finger
all it, he'd lay it in off the glass and
he'd get fouled. And I'm not a phantom call, but
he would get foul. They just let the Warriors do
what they wanted. They didn't force enough shots from the
other seven players who were out there. They were awful

(47:42):
offensively except for two guys. Fifty six points out of
their ninety nine came from two players, and neither of
them were Curry.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
Because Curry didn't play.

Speaker 5 (47:50):
Your defense is way better than that to have allowed
that to happen. And credit to Kuminga, who's again he's
clearly I think he's a much better player than say
this year's raw numbers, you know, points per game, et cetera.
Will show, and I think it's going to show as
the season continues. They're gonna need more and more from
him all year because they know they can't be a
one man offense. Even when Curry comes back, I think

(48:11):
he can certainly fill that. Boy, it wouldn't even be
crazy to say by the end of the year he's
the second most trustworthy offensive player, ahead of Wiggins, but
obviously behind Curry.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
It's it's such a weird dynamic because if you look
at them on paper, they shouldn't be well and they're not.
I mean, it's not like they've got a great team
this year or that their record, But like, first of all,
they were right there behind the Rockets before they went
on this five game losing streak. It was basically edge
ahead of exactly. And the Rockets are gonna three way

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tie for what still the two seed after all of this.
They've lost two straight. The MAVs have had to win
in a row, right, and they're still right there and
they look, do I think they're gonna beat the Clippers?

Speaker 3 (48:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
They're playing a lot better the Clippers are. And if
the Rockets play like they did the last two nights,
they're not beating anybody.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
They're not gonna beat the stupid Jazz, but I just
they'll be. They would beat the Jazz and beat the Wizards.
You know, come on, did you see that point on
the road at the Warriors?

Speaker 4 (49:15):
So the Bulls go in and give up, Well, no,
they played the Wizards last night.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
That's who know.

Speaker 4 (49:22):
The Bulls played the Spurs who played the Wizards last night?
I can't remember who.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
Somebody who beat them? Well, yeah that was the MAVs,
that's right. Maps put up one thirty nine.

Speaker 4 (49:30):
I believe on them, And uh yeah, there are some
teams out there that even the Rockets probably wouldn't find
a way to lose two.

Speaker 5 (49:37):
But I mean, it's less about what it's about how
they played. They didn't they didn't play hard enough. And
it's not really an effort thing. It sounds like it is,
but they didn't play physical enough. I don't think they
got pushed around. There's there's a difference between not being
physical enough. Because this Rockets team is one of the
most physical, most intense. They do impose their will on

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their opponents most nights. The Warriors didn't impose their will
on the Rockets, but they just quite simply didn't have
to face that against Houston. Had Houston done that, that's ballgame.
Like if they go out there and play the way
like Ima said, you know, you win most of your
games this way this year.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
Yeah, they would have won last night.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
Let's listen to what you may had to say. So
we have, you know, all the context we need.

Speaker 8 (50:20):
All the things that we've done to get a decent
record have kind of gone out the window last few games,
and so that was a big part of it. Obviously,
his you got to come with some energy, some juice
from the start. If you guys really didn't look like
they showed up till after halftime. But one of us
off this game since I've been here for sure.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
So he's not talking about aim men Thompson because men
Thompson was great in the first half last night.

Speaker 5 (50:44):
When he was asked about would you like about what
A Men did tonight, he didn't want to answer about
how good he was, but rather yeah, he was okay,
because you were right. He was good in the first
half and he basically couldn't have him on the floor
in the second half, not all on a Men, it
was on the other five guys. Adjustments were made.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
Well, he had to.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
I thought he felt he couldn't play him because they
had to put the ball.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
In the basket and he can't do that consistently.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
He can do it.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
He actually is not bad because you knew they were
gonna miss. Well, maybe he can grab an offensive rebound
and put a show.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
Now you know who also isn't good at doing that consistently.
They're two guard and it's just I'm sorry, but you know,
nine points one night, forty one, the next nine points
the next night, twenty eight after that, when he finished
with fourteen last night, yep.

Speaker 5 (51:31):
One more than Fred who missed eleven shots. Well that's different,
and more than Jabari who made two shots.

Speaker 4 (51:36):
But you know what, Fred can have nights where he
doesn't shoot the ball well and he's still helping you win.
I don't know that I can say that about Jalen
Green Knight in a night out and for a guy
who just got extended, that's a problem.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
It's not a max deal. But I am almost making
as much money as Fred.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
Yeah, well Fred's got an NBA ring that he can
take to you and anybody else who has a problem
with what he's making.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
Well, I just it's there's not one. The problem.

Speaker 4 (52:02):
They didn't love last night because of Jalen, but they
didn't win because of them either, And that's the problem.
And here's the thing, absolutely.

Speaker 3 (52:08):
It is he supposed to be carrying this team to victories.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
No, he's actually not because the guy that actually should
be his outpr and Shingun and he didn't do it either.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
But of those two that.

Speaker 5 (52:16):
Got expends, that's Jalen's never been that and he's never
going to be that. Why Why are we pretending like
it's his fault.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
Because he's one of the top paid guys on the team,
and he was the top two pick in the draft
and all.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
Of those so what none of that stuff matters, Well,
so why'd you sign him? Then that's a totally different issue.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
But it's not because it's on your team because you
did it.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
It doesn't You can't change the player by giving him cash.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
You can change Albert haynes Worth. I give it a
cash I hope he makes All the time, you give
a guy a bunch of money and he doesn't play
as well after that, Yeah, he's the same guy.

Speaker 5 (52:51):
I'm not trying to stick This almost sounds like Laramie
Tunsel conversation.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
I'm not trying to stick up for Jalen. He was
four for sixteen. He didn't play.

Speaker 5 (52:57):
I didn't say he quit, But like it's the rockets
woes every time they lose are not on him.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
And that's what it always sounds like, at least on
this show sometimes.

Speaker 9 (53:08):
The eight.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
On Sports Talk seven ninety I mentioned that Fred van
Vliet has a ring. Now, he probably didn't get it
at set these fine jewelry, but it doesn't mean that
you can't get some bling there the holiday season going
on right now, where you can get forty percent off
a huge selection of diamond jewelry. Well, it's right there
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fine jewelry on Voss between Sam Felipe and West Timer.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
Back to Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler the eighty.

Speaker 4 (54:04):
It is the eight team Sports Talk seven ninety. You
know what I like to see on the collar board
at seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety
a caller who wants to call in and talk about
what's wrong with the Rockets. I think on December sixth,
we should take a phone call like that after a
loss for the fifteenth consecutive time to the Golden State Warriors. DeAndre,
you are up next on the phone lines. What's going on?

Speaker 2 (54:25):
Man?

Speaker 3 (54:26):
Hello, Hope, you guys been doing well?

Speaker 10 (54:29):
So I watched the game last night and I heard
what you may say immediately after the game that we
have to get back to what got us the second seat.
And you guys alluded to that today too, so I
wanted to ask you, guys, other than I guess physicality,
what are some of the things the team could do
to get back to the win. Callum, it's why you're
looking at the stacks, like the Rockets were out rebounded

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last night by the little Golden State Warriors. Is that
like a physicality thing?

Speaker 5 (54:54):
Like?

Speaker 3 (54:54):
What is that?

Speaker 5 (54:55):
That's part of it And the fact that they were
guys are just jumping over top of them when they
were especially in the fourth quarter, they were doing the
things defensively they needed to do until the shot was
missed and the Golden State wars would end up with
an offensive rebound and they would end up getting a
wide open three, which eventually they would make. They didn't
shoot the ball well either, but those little things that
for a team that fancies themselves as a tough rebounding team,

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and the statistics clearly backed that up.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
Most nights they needed to do that. They didn't do
enough of that last night.

Speaker 5 (55:24):
They should have hammered them on the boards, even with
Looney out there, and they didn't, and it definitely affected
their ability to win it. You gave up ninety nine
points in the game last night, and you obviously had
the loss right before that. But there you know, their
defensive numbers have slipped a little bit, their net rating
number has slipped quite a bit just in the last
the three games. Now in this month of December versus
the month of November. It just falls right in line

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with Emys. The things that got us here are not
what we're continuing to do. We need to get back
to that.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
Is that all you got, Deandragory? Yeah, I offered today.
All right, I appreciate the phone.

Speaker 4 (56:00):
Yeah, it's I do enjoy the fact that that e May.
It's not like he's the first coach that's ever gotten
up on the podium and called his team out.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
But it's not like the first time he's done it.
In the last two weeks or the last two days.
I mean, he had things to say.

Speaker 4 (56:15):
He probably had things to say the other night that
weren't directed at the officials.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
So but he's this is why I like him so much.

Speaker 4 (56:23):
He's not he's an equal opportunity offender or criticizer or
whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 5 (56:28):
It's not done to get at them. It's not done
to get a rise out of them. It's not done
because he doesn't think he's reaching them privately. It's because
this is what happened well. And how about Alprin Schangoon
has said, I want him to coach me that way.

Speaker 4 (56:42):
By the way, I have to take care of something
right now, as you know, during the break, please do.
I was talking to some of our co workers. I
think half the sales staff. Is it some happy hour
somewhere and they all think, yeah, Paul is Paul L.
Paul L exactly his promotions. So congrats to Paul Lambert.
And here's your big big wave to all of you
in the bar right now. That's look here, we're we're

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both waving at you. But yeah, we've had you know,
we've got a little bit of leadership change over here.
But not really. They're all still in place. They're just
getting you know, new roles. If you will here at.

Speaker 5 (57:14):
Ima, change out that name plate on the door. Thank goodness,
it's digital.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
Did they even use those? Like? We had them installed?
But they're always in adding. I know I can see
your feet under the frosted glass.

Speaker 4 (57:25):
It's like when you have the status on your chat
when you're you know, in like a g chat or
what I mean.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
When there's like five seconds left for you to pick
before it goes automated in the fantasy football draft, and like,
is he there?

Speaker 3 (57:35):
That's different?

Speaker 4 (57:36):
Well, how about the guy in the fantasy football draft
that constantly keeps logging in and out of the draft
and it's clear he's doing it on his phone instead
of a computer.

Speaker 5 (57:44):
Hopefully very quick path to the commissioner to make his
picks for him when he's inevitably not there. So the
business he needed to take care was that it?

Speaker 3 (57:52):
That was it? Okay, it's taking care.

Speaker 4 (57:53):
Of it's literal business, the business side of what we
do here. So very space City Home Network has the
staff like that as well. You know, that's how we
make our money, as they say. But uh, going back
to em Udoka, like he's absolutely the right guy. It
was weird. I wanted the Rockets to hire him and
I wanted the Texans to hire uh Demiko Ryans when

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you know those respective jobs were up in the same offseason.

Speaker 3 (58:18):
He's opening for bird Gang guy. But you don't mean that.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
I mean he's pretty good, he's okay, and you would
have rather had him than Dimko.

Speaker 5 (58:27):
I mean Demiko, I don't even want to tell you
he wasn't even second. I mean Shane Steichen. I would
have been just what a dream. That would have been awesome.
I mean they did, Okay, Dimiko's okay.

Speaker 3 (58:35):
You probably can rattle least. I thought maybe they were
going to get Ben Johnson out of Detroit. Didn't happen.
All right, Well, Demiko's still there. I guess we'll hire him.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
You can probably rattle off all the coaching hires that
happened in the same offseason that Demiko was brought to
the Texans right now.

Speaker 3 (58:49):
Those are definitely accurate.

Speaker 5 (58:50):
This is I start to get confused between the back
to back to back years the Texans were in the
head coach hiring cycle.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
They weren't in the I had coach hiring cycle.

Speaker 4 (59:01):
They were installing people who were band aids or stop
gaps from the real theme.

Speaker 5 (59:08):
Is important if you want your products to work right,
whoever you're installing or using to install, it's very important.
Do you think Okay, you guys heard the sarcasm. I
don't think I could lay it on much thicker. Yeah,
I agree. I thought Demiko was the best of the
possible hires. Since we're on the theme of sarcast the answer, right,
I can just go to my spreadsheet.

Speaker 3 (59:27):
Which one the one that's titled Texans HC slash GM.

Speaker 4 (59:31):
Is it one of your fifty five thousand windows that's
open or do you have to actually go to the
file and open that one.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
I got to open a file on that one. Do
you guys realized that?

Speaker 4 (59:40):
Honestly, if you were guys were to see his screen,
you would think he's a serial killer. I know no
one else would act like that and have those kinds
of look at this.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
It's right there, it's fine. And how many? How many?

Speaker 4 (59:51):
Is how many windows are open right now? Is there
a way to tell without counting them manually?

Speaker 3 (59:55):
There's fifteen windows on this page open.

Speaker 4 (59:59):
There's another page with more windows. Yeah, what's wrong with you?

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
Well, let's you see more stuff at the same time.
That's are you opening it?

Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
Do you okay? I mean this is a serious question. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
When you and Robin are discussing like bills or schedules
or how many spreadsheets do you have for that, you're
like the digital version of binder guy.

Speaker 5 (01:00:20):
We don't discuss bills unless one of us has forgotten
to pay it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
And the pink envelope, So how.

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
Many times are you one? Are one of you a
deadbeat in this marriage. Well, wait, did you pay the
water bill? Because the shower is not coming on?

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Never reaches that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:36):
Okay, how come there's someone in the backyard looking like
they want to turn something off?

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
Why is that guy standing by the meter?

Speaker 5 (01:00:42):
Scheduling is constant, but that's because of me. She has
to constantly say what's your schedule this week? Like just today? Yeah,
she said, what do you have going on this week?
And I go, I'm going with the bunch of Cougar
fans who have won tickets to go see the Cougars
and Butler play basketball for four point thirty on Saturday.
That contest is coming up later today, including our big winner.
We're gonna get a fourth winner, and of those four,

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one of them is gonna get upgraded to courtside seats
to sit with me at the game four thirty Saturday.
We'll do that just before we hit the five o'clock hour,
four to forty five. We're gonna knock those Cougar tickets out.
But she had she asked me that, and I'm like, okay, yeah,
I'm busy Saturday, but what about Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:01:21):
Off the top of my head, I think I'm good
on Sunday, and so she goes about telling me what
she wants to do on Sunday night, and right before
she tries to finalize that, I say, well, I'm not
doing anything on Sunday except I'll be doing the Rockets game.
Rockets are playing the Clippers, so I'm kind of busy
both days whatever, you know, as long as it's close
to the front of my mind. But it's all written
down somewhere. That's why I usually say I don't know.

(01:01:42):
I have to look her schedule. She works, she does this,
she handles pickup. It's fairly standard.

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
Mine is not.

Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
I don't know what I'm doing any given day. Sean Payton,
ezuro everro Thomas Brown, and Mike Kafka.

Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
Those are the other interviewees the year.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
They had to Miko, No, I was what I was
referring to was all of the hires during that cycle.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
I probably wasn't clear enough. Oh, I've got all those hires.
I figured the ones that are in bold.

Speaker 5 (01:02:10):
Okay, go ahead, well, Steichen, Peyton, Ryan's they were all hired.
Bird Gang Guy obviously was hired by the Cardinals.

Speaker 4 (01:02:16):
Sometimes I forget that Peyton was the same hiring cycle,
because there was at one point where people thought, hey,
maybe he'll coach the Texans, and that person was Chris Gordy.
You know, he secretly wanted him to come here just
because he would have it he would bring the Saints magic.

Speaker 5 (01:02:31):
That was the same off season that Frank Reich also
got hired to be Bryce Young's first head coach.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
How'd that go? Well, he didn't even make it to
He was like Goose and top Gun. Goose lasted longer.
I don't know how you measure that. I think he
would be more canda Iceman.

Speaker 5 (01:02:49):
You have to get down the running time. And when
Meg Ryan started when he was dead.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
He made it through two acts of the movie. Two acts.

Speaker 4 (01:02:57):
Well that's what they call it. That's what Hollywood types
call it. It's not a play. He begins with the
funeral or whatever. The Meg Ryan crying in the is
the instruction room? Is that where she was at? She
was waiting on Maverick. Yeah him a hug and cry
and tell him how much Goose loved flying with him. Duh, Well, God,

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he should stop. He's got to go win the battle
whatever it is. He's got to go talk to Tom
Scaret at the lighthouse.

Speaker 5 (01:03:25):
He's got to go, not leave his wing man. Did
I ever tell you I'm not leaving him?

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
Die I ever tell you?

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
When we went to San Diego, it's Coronado where a
lot of that was film. Yeah town, there you go, Fightertown, USA.
You can buy the sweatshirt and the gift shops. So
I went over to try and find the lighthouse where
he had the conversation with Tom Scarett.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
Guess what, it's not open to the public. What do
you mean good? Keep it, keep it simple, keep it private.

Speaker 4 (01:03:50):
Would have been a great glassify there's a Pacific Ocean
right out there.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Kelly McGillis didn't even know about it. Chuck, Well, I
gotta touch that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
By the way, would you believe that the people that
we were waving to missed it? So now we got
to do it again right now. We're not monkey, You're
not gonna do it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
We're gonna dance for them. We're not like the thing
you're supposed to look at in the dentist office. Can
you look at that camera right now and wave at them?
I could, but I'm not going to. You usould make
me look stupid doing it. You got it?

Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
I don't mind, I don't mind. I'll dance. I'll be
your monkey, all right. So we will continue here on
Sports Talk seven night. You still have a lot to
get to. I do want to dive into some layers
of what happened on Thursday Night football last night as
it pertains to both they're the favorite now, the Detroit
Lions are the Super Bowl favorites. I don't know why
people are just now saying that, because they've been to

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the Super Bowl favorites for a long long time.

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
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Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
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Speaker 3 (01:04:54):
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Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
Do you want to hear how bitter last night's Lions
game made me?

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
Because only I could do game? Can wait? You just wait,
you'll say.

Speaker 5 (01:05:10):
Team back here on a Friday edition of the show
a little after three thirty in the afternoon. Hopefully work
week's wrapping up for everybody. Wex Sac and Dan here
with you right here on your home for Rockets basketball,
Astros Baseball by the way, Astros Baseball via Astro Line
comes your way tonight six o'clock edition with Blummer and
esh are good friends over at Space City Home Network,

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lending their voices to this program. A couple of interesting interviews, including,
I hope soon to be.

Speaker 3 (01:05:37):
A Hall of Famer.

Speaker 4 (01:05:38):
He's got like million one percent of the vote that
he needs. I guess he does something like that. I've
read that somewhere And in that same little blurb, guess
who has one hundred percent? Supposedly Carlos Beltron No Yankee
though like Yankee, Andrew Pettitt, no fatter, Wow, but the

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same position.

Speaker 3 (01:06:05):
Well, it's not Roger, he's not on the ballot.

Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
Dave Wells, No, but not a bad guess, same body type,
not Dad Pod, fat Pod. He has his first name
and his middle name are the same. Yes, his first
name is Ce and his middle name is s. I
mean he's a pretty good pitcher. Is he a unanimous
first ballot Hall of Famer?

Speaker 5 (01:06:24):
You're probably taking a sample size of like twenty ballots
or fifty ballots, even though it should still not be
a hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:06:30):
But he's not you know who didn't get a hundred
and everybody else.

Speaker 5 (01:06:35):
Yeah, but they're mad about that one. But yeah, we
got all those things coming your way. You can watch
this via Space City Home Network on the simulcast three
to six each and every weekday afternoon. Of course, those
of you out there, no, you can find us on
the iHeartRadio app. Same place you can subscribe to the
podcast and by the way, it's free. So the Lions
and the Packers played last night, and while you were
working it was really making you mad.

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
No, it was after the game. After the game you
really got well.

Speaker 4 (01:07:01):
First and foremost, the Texans should have the other loss
on their record. The Texans should be the other blemish
on their record, you know they they should be what
are they now? Twelve and two?

Speaker 3 (01:07:14):
The Lions have only lost one time, I mean twelve
and one. Sorry, they should be eleven and two.

Speaker 4 (01:07:19):
And so it made me think a Texans screwed the
pooch on that one.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Absolutely just blew it. If they if CJ.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
Stroud finds Tank Dell in the back of the end
zone instead of airmails it, they probably do win that game. Okay,
and you you really I didn't even know you could
do this, except for I did. You took a statistic
earlier in the show. I think it was in the
first hour and somehow made it worse. Jared Goff has
ten interceptions this year. Correct, I believe that's his tally.

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Half of them went to which team on one night,
and the other half are sprinkled out throughout the rest
of the.

Speaker 8 (01:08:00):
Game.

Speaker 4 (01:08:00):
Five twelve and one season. So, by the way, how
good does Baker Mayfield feel right now? Is the only
opposing quarterback to beat Jared Goff this year?

Speaker 5 (01:08:09):
They might feel good today, probably won't feel as good
when Goff's team is in the playoffs and his team isn't.

Speaker 4 (01:08:14):
Yeah, all right, So I started thinking about the last
time a team that we could really relate to had
that kind of record.

Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
Oh, yeah, it was the Houston Texans, the twelve and
one Texans.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
No, they were eleven and one. They would have been
twelve and one if a double murderer hadn't scored two
first half touchdowns against them.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
You can't why you have.

Speaker 5 (01:08:38):
To figure out a different name for him. Why because
it's being used by somebody else.

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
It's not anymore by either of them.

Speaker 5 (01:08:45):
You can't say double murderer and expect your listeners to
know who you're talking about if it's applies to two
different former football players.

Speaker 4 (01:08:52):
Well, maybe if two former football players didn't kill two
people each it wouldn't be a problem, but they did.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
Okay, talking about Aaron Hernandez.

Speaker 4 (01:09:02):
Yeah, Aaron Hernandez had two first half touchdowns as the Texans.
Actually they trailed twenty one to nothing at the half.
Then Dante Stalworth, who also, I mean, can I say it,
I come on Friday, anything then anything goes Okay, let

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me put it this way.

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
You'll love this.

Speaker 4 (01:09:26):
Three of the four touchdowns scored against the Texans before
they scored in return were scored by people who are
responsible for other people's deaths.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
It's unfortunate. It is unfortunate.

Speaker 4 (01:09:41):
Dante Stalworth made it twenty eight to nothing before the
Texans finally put an Arian Foster one yard rush on
the board. You guys remember the game. I'm talking about
the letterman jacket game. And what am I wearing today?
A letterman jacket and not with the Texans logo on it,
and certainly not with a Rocket's logo on it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
But I just game.

Speaker 4 (01:10:01):
That was the end of it. That was the end
of because that was twenty twelve. Remember twenty eleven, they
kind of burst onto the scene. JJ's rookie year. Arian
Foster became the best running back in the NFL. You know,
Matt Schaub was serviceable or above serviceable? How do you

(01:10:22):
describe him before he completely turtled above? Okay, so there
you go. I mean he did, you could win a
Super Bowl with.

Speaker 5 (01:10:28):
He did win almost every game that year and now
through the thirteenth game, which you're talking about. The losses
were to Aaron Rodgers who carved them forty two points
up on the board, carved them at home, by the way,
to Brady who put forty two points harved them aboard.
In the end of the year when they lost, it
was again to Brady who put forty one points up

(01:10:50):
on the board. Yeah, their defense was pretty good that year,
not those days. We really the second half of the season.
They were kind of a night and day outfit. First half,
really good, second half, a lot of points giving up.

Speaker 4 (01:11:02):
It's I mean, it's actually incredible to think about the
fact that we are what are we a few days
shy of the what thirteenth anniversary of that game? It
was December tenth, twenty twelve, and I was at that
game in Gillette Stadium. I had originally intended to cover it,

(01:11:23):
but I could not get a second credential for a
person I was with.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
That's not what I was laughing at.

Speaker 5 (01:11:30):
Okay, I was laughing at the Texans through thirteen games
that year, or the Texans that year scored four hundred
and sixteen points on the season. You're trying to compare
the Lions and the Texans a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:11:41):
It's the highest one.

Speaker 5 (01:11:41):
Well, it's not often that you get this far in
the season, one loss, highest scoring team in Texans history,
four hundred and sixteen points, sixteen game season. When the
Lions field goal went through last night, they capped thein Yeah,
they're four to seventeen wet, four games.

Speaker 4 (01:11:55):
Four games are remaining. Wow, Yeah, I didn't know when
was there bye a while back? Wasn't it Detroit?

Speaker 3 (01:12:03):
It was?

Speaker 4 (01:12:04):
I'm asking, I don't know, Well, I mean the Texans
is this week? That's late as all get out. I
think it feels like it is.

Speaker 3 (01:12:11):
It's the last one.

Speaker 5 (01:12:12):
Yeah, Yeah, They're bye week was after their fourth game,
very early.

Speaker 4 (01:12:16):
See that's even to me, that's even more impressive what
they're doing because they lost in what week two?

Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
They were one and one, and everybody's like, oh no
about this. They just lost.

Speaker 5 (01:12:25):
They're gonna win eleven games in a row over the
next twelve weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:12:28):
It's crazy. It's crazy. And then it just reminded me.
You're asking me how it got me bitter. Reminded me
of the Letterman Jacket game because that was the beginning
of the end for that era. Let's face it, they
never got that good again during that era of Texans football.
That was the last time the organization truly cared about
the offensive line. By the way, if you want to

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be really honest about things and get uncomfortable.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
It's not that they don't care. They don't care. They
do care. Hey, the first game made colossal mistakes.

Speaker 4 (01:12:58):
First play of last week's game again, it's the freaking Jags.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
What happened to c J. Stroud? He almost guys knee
taking it in completion?

Speaker 5 (01:13:05):
He the box score is that what it says, So
it must have happened, like everybody knows, Like everybody remembers
the first play, Oh my god, not already were almost
through without him being touched and he gets he he
looked like he hurt his hip on the very.

Speaker 4 (01:13:22):
First he almost went chet Holmgren, I fall him and
I can't get off.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
Yeah, that was pretty memorable.

Speaker 5 (01:13:28):
Memorable first play he only got sacked twice that day,
and the old line got a game ball pretty special stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:13:33):
How many times did they sack Trevor Lawrence or the
other nuarterback? Yeah, that was really really great game that
they won. Feels like they lost that game. Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety. I'm Clinton on
Sports Talk seven ninety goes up Stars, Rockets basketball lives here.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
It is the eight team Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:14:13):
So we got our bitterness out of the way about
the Rockets, got our bitterness out of the way about
the Texans, and uh, I guess if Alex Bregman signs
with the Yankees before the end of the show, I'll
have to get my bitterness out about that. And when
I say oh, I mean mine, Wex is never bitter
about anything, at least not sports related.

Speaker 5 (01:14:29):
You put all your time and effort into being a
great baseball player. You help this team seven a alcs's,
a couple of World Series births, a couple more World
Series championships.

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
Fans love you, team loves you.

Speaker 5 (01:14:40):
Been greatful for the team everything, and you want to
go make a little bit more money and win somewhere else,
which is what he wants potentially.

Speaker 3 (01:14:47):
Yeah, it'd be nice if he stayed.

Speaker 5 (01:14:49):
It's not necessarily a guarantee that he will just because
he likes it here, just because we like having him here, or.

Speaker 4 (01:14:55):
Just because his wife is from here, which I've seen
written extensively about. When it comes to decision, he's gonna
make like Daniello was from here. A lot good that did.
Carlos is playing in Minneapolis where it's cold and it
snows for his first month of the year every year
in an outdoor stadium because they're too stupid and not
build a roof for it.

Speaker 3 (01:15:14):
As long as Kylo is that, why should you do that?
Why would you what live.

Speaker 4 (01:15:18):
In Minnesota have a baseball team and not have a
roof on the stadium from when it snows at the
beginning and end of every year.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
Don't worry about the end of the year. He'll never
be far enough a post pullman or two. What's a
big deal.

Speaker 5 (01:15:30):
Double headers versus the extra millions you took from your
fine citizens to build a roof.

Speaker 4 (01:15:36):
Oh, now we care about citizens paying for stadiums. Here
in Houston, we're like, dude, you're the rich guy, you
pay for it. But no, because it's always hotel and
rental car taxes. We don't pay for those. Why are
you ringing a hotel room in your own city we.

Speaker 5 (01:15:48):
Don't pay for I'm sure, But why not gather hotel
and hotel and tax taxes and whatever else and use
them for something else other than a roof on a
athletic events stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
What would you rather have them use those funds for
here in Houston? Ask you know? I like this argument. No,
those funds are actually tied to this. They can only
go to that, and you can't use this. Yeah, the
Harris County Sports it's already told me so.

Speaker 5 (01:16:10):
I mean, it's it's taken me just a little bit
longer for school drop off each morning because the roads
are big worked on and a two lane road is
not only one because they had to fix it.

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
I'm glad they have the money for it. I don't
know where it came from. I think I know the
road you're talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:16:25):
I don't know, but yeah, I mean, maybe you could
hook the teachers up with a couple extra bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
Oh well, that's like nation or worldwide.

Speaker 5 (01:16:33):
It's a problem in the in the cities in our
country where they don't have stadiums.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
Forgive me, by the way, because I thought that was
not if.

Speaker 4 (01:16:39):
I'm skeptical about how Harris County's going to spend money
on a big thing of any kind. Yeah, I don't
glad I am that I don't live in this county anymore.
You can't even put it into words right now.

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
That's funny. Why.

Speaker 5 (01:16:54):
I mean, I have not moved in a couple of decades,
and it would take a while for me to realize
that's something I should should care a lot about.

Speaker 4 (01:17:01):
What does the house look like? Is it close to
what I want to give you? Guys a peek behind
a curtain as we in the three accast up to
the highway that I can get places. I mean, I
like this neighborhood, but it takes me eight minutes just
to get to it ten fifty nine six ten two
ninety whatever it is that i'd rather be.

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
That's all you care about her? Yeah, I want to
get there. I want to get where I want to
go faster. Oh funny, you were in traffic today. I
had no problem at all because I live close to
the situation. Like the bump up in show start time.
Uh huh, sucks. No, it's the opposite.

Speaker 4 (01:17:29):
So I thought it was going to be good because
the first few times I drove in, Oh, the loop
is so much clearer. And then it's like everybody that
travels on the West Loop figured out that our show
started an hour earlier, all of a sudden, all of them,
because now they're all in the west Loop again like
they used to be when I was driving down it
late in the two o'clock hour.

Speaker 5 (01:17:47):
I don't imagine we'll have another conversation over the final
two hours of the show about the Texans Letterman jackets.
So we might as well get Brian in here now
since you just brought it up last segment and you're
currently wearing a Letterman jacket.

Speaker 3 (01:17:58):
All right, Brian, this better because good?

Speaker 9 (01:18:03):
Yeah, Hey, doing good man. As I'm in the card
line picking my girls up as you saved Way and
me into that. Uh, you got a question. I think
them Letterman jacket's really pissed off Brady. So here's here's
my question. The biggest two goats football basketball? Who when
you pissed them off? Jordan or Brady?

Speaker 3 (01:18:28):
Uh huh?

Speaker 9 (01:18:31):
Who do you think went off the hardest?

Speaker 5 (01:18:33):
Yeah, I appreciate it, Brian. That was a good point,
and I think it's an easy to answer.

Speaker 3 (01:18:38):
You watch the last dance. It's just different. I took
that personally. It's like said, good morning. You know why
we know the answer to the question because of Giselle.
What do you mean explain?

Speaker 8 (01:18:49):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:18:49):
She would never say that if she was married to
Michael Jordan. Never say what I can't my husband can't throw.

Speaker 4 (01:18:56):
As she's getting on the elevator after a loss in
a champion.

Speaker 5 (01:19:00):
Which he never has fifty consecutive beautiful spirals to the
exact place he needs to for his ten different receivers
to have five catches each, He's not going to go
fifty for fifty if one of them's going to drop
it or ten of them are going to have drops.

Speaker 3 (01:19:14):
If Michael Jordan.

Speaker 5 (01:19:15):
Does his job the way he wants to, unless he's
decided to pass to John Paxson or pass to Steve Kerr,
he's so much more in control of the outcome without
relying on those other things. They're both team sports, don't
get me wrong. And he can't defend five positions. He
can't score try its.

Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
He's you know, he didn't even come close to scoring
one hundred point.

Speaker 5 (01:19:36):
Whatever I think He's more in control of what's going
to happen in that game than a quarterback could be
would be, and.

Speaker 3 (01:19:44):
Well by design an NBA team would be.

Speaker 5 (01:19:46):
Anyway, Michael Jordan's maximum minutes in a game was twenty four,
like a quarterbacks. I mean you could get to you know,
you can play more than thirty minutes in a game,
as I played sixty, But you're you're literally watching your
eleven teammates try to stop the other team from you.

Speaker 4 (01:20:00):
Will play sixty minutes as a quarterback in the NFL,
not once, not even if they go to eight overtimes,
which they.

Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
Wouldn't in the NFL because the rules are different.

Speaker 5 (01:20:12):
I think it gets if we watched a thirty a
ten part thirty for thirty series on the Dynasty that
is the Patriots, It's coming and we want and he
had an iPad for all the things that were against him,
even this nonsense of smashing his phone and spygade and
deflate gate and whatever else. Brian brings up first problem

(01:20:35):
letterman letter like, can you imagine, Hey, what do you
think when you saw Antonio Smith and Connor Barwin and
JJ Watt and other letterman jackets.

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
Well, really it was Sean Cody that made me take
that personally? That would be mj.

Speaker 5 (01:20:46):
Why why would you take it personally that these NFL
men are wearing high school letter Jack.

Speaker 4 (01:20:52):
I'm thinking about all the times he said it in
that documentary and how you could not just compare the players,
like when he's talking about Gary Payton the glove.

Speaker 5 (01:21:00):
I had no problems with the glove and the other
thing makes so much more sense for Jordan that this
movie now that we're talking about, and the idea that
it made him so mad. Who were all the people
that tried to shut Tom Brady down?

Speaker 3 (01:21:13):
Can you even name one?

Speaker 5 (01:21:15):
Uh? Like his biggest foyle also played quarterback and was
never on the field with him. Gary Payton defended Michael
Jordan these I started around fought with mathis.

Speaker 3 (01:21:26):
Like his bookend defensive ends for the Colts, Like.

Speaker 5 (01:21:30):
He played him once a year, maybe twice, maybe I
mean most year the first place, and maybe they met
in the playoffs. Yeah, but the bad boy point played.
Is there such thing as the Brady rules? Did I
miss that book?

Speaker 4 (01:21:43):
And back then they were playing six times because they
were in the same division right in basketball?

Speaker 3 (01:21:48):
Yeah? Yes? And then the playoffs which was always a
seven game series.

Speaker 5 (01:21:51):
I compare the Patriots rivalry with the Colts to the
Bulls rivalry with the Pistons night and day.

Speaker 3 (01:21:58):
It's this is why last night's loss makes me so mad.

Speaker 4 (01:22:01):
They're not even in the same conference, but every time
they play each other, it's not a rivalry.

Speaker 3 (01:22:06):
Warriors kick their ass and I'm tired of it.

Speaker 5 (01:22:09):
They're probably not spending a lot of time neither team current.

Speaker 4 (01:22:12):
And you know what, Udok is tired of it too,
and that's why he called him soft last night. Can
we get him in studio? Can Tracy make this happen?
I know he comes on the Matt Thomas Show every week,
but come on, I want to get that guy in here,
and I don't I want to talk about other stuff
that's not just basketball. I think that would be good
because he would give you the same, you know, unfiltered

(01:22:33):
opinion about everything. So we shall see four o'clock hours
coming up next. Don't you worry, because I know you've
been thinking about it. Yes, we will have our stone
cold locks in this hour the a on Sports Talk
Steven ninety two lifelong Houston sports guys named at him

(01:22:55):
talking your team.

Speaker 1 (01:22:57):
Serious, Adam and Adam Wexler are daighteaen.

Speaker 4 (01:23:04):
A four o'clock hour underway here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:23:11):
It is the A team.

Speaker 4 (01:23:13):
We have got our Stone Cold Locks coming up at
the bottom of this hour. We've got u of h
Cougar tickets to give away. We've got a whole lot
of things that we have already discussed up to and
including The Rockets lost last night their fifteenth consecutive to
the Golden State Warriors, going back to the twenty twenty

(01:23:33):
or actually twenty nineteen twenty twenty season, actually right before that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
I think the last time they beat them was in
twenty nineteen.

Speaker 4 (01:23:40):
But we've talked about that loss and the subsequent response
by their head coach calling them soft. Afterward, you heard
from emay Udoka. They'll be in Los Angeles Sunday night,
so a few days in LA to enjoy the city
before they try to spoil the latest reuniting with James

(01:24:01):
Harden this time in the This is gonna be the
first time they're playing in the brand spaking new what
is it called intuid Dome?

Speaker 3 (01:24:06):
Yep?

Speaker 4 (01:24:07):
Have you seen that behind the basket there are supposedly
this huge home field advantage for them, and by field,
I mean I'm saying that intentionally because it's more like
a football game back there.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
Specifically lined up rowdy fans to sit there. Yes, like
were they wearing red? I know they are not because
that would be a gimmick infringement.

Speaker 5 (01:24:25):
Yeah, yeah, that's it was specifically done with something he
was super excited about when Steve Ballmer when he he
was excited about something, so I said, it opened up
the stadium and had these ideas and things they can do.
Probably as excited as the exact fan. They could pinpoint
to shoot the T shirt cannons too that are affixed
to their overhanging scoreboard and surrounding ribbon boards, et cetera.

Speaker 3 (01:24:48):
Yourself.

Speaker 5 (01:24:49):
Since we're talking about basketball, totally side story entirely, although
it has to do with basketball.

Speaker 3 (01:24:55):
You know how we track everything now.

Speaker 5 (01:24:58):
Shots where from you know, pick and rolls, isolations, catch
and shoot, and then from a physical standpoint, teams are
monitoring everything that players do. They're wearing devices and they're
checking on everything and how many miles you've run. Well,
I got this from a big sneaker head, Nick Topoula,
who covers the sneaker game like no other by minutes.

(01:25:22):
The top ten most popular sneakers worn in the NBA
this season, one of them is not attributed to a
specific basketball player, like it's not named for that player,
so we'll eliminate that one. The nine other most oft
worn shoes, one of them is much as fifteen thousand
minutes of this current season. There are three shoes that

(01:25:46):
have worn that much frequency this year that are by
name of a player that's currently in the NBA, just
three of the top nine.

Speaker 3 (01:25:57):
Interesting, So Lebron, no, really no, No.

Speaker 5 (01:26:01):
Lebron's KD, the Nike KD seventeen is eighth of the
top ten. Do you know why you're five thousand minutes worn?

Speaker 4 (01:26:10):
Do you know why you said no, Lebron? Why because
they suck? Okay they no, they always have. Well, I
get it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:17):
Kd's shoes actually have looked.

Speaker 5 (01:26:20):
So you're trying to say Lebron's sneaks are as good
as Lebron's current three point shooting.

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
They're actually better than that. Although he moved up on
the list in the thirty point loss.

Speaker 5 (01:26:31):
Which two other current NBA players are worn, their shoes
are worn a lot. You just talked about one of them.
I did they're not Nikes, although every other one on
the list is Harden Adidas Hardened Volume Ete ninth on
the list.

Speaker 4 (01:26:49):
I was given a pair of Hardens when they first
came out by the Rockets Nice.

Speaker 3 (01:26:53):
They were so comfortable. And then when he did what
he did? What did he do? He left?

Speaker 4 (01:27:00):
He put his fat suit on, and we already went
over this a couple hours ago, and I started using
them for champagne celebrations in the Astros clubhouse.

Speaker 5 (01:27:08):
One more current player has a shoe that a lot
of people wear. Everything else is from a non current
NBA player. Curry wears orthopedic nurse shoes on the team.

Speaker 3 (01:27:18):
Out of Kat's the Nike book Ones, teammate of Katie.
Oh okay Booker okay.

Speaker 5 (01:27:24):
So all of the other shoes Jordan's six entry, there's
one Air Jordan Air Jordan thirty nine.

Speaker 3 (01:27:31):
The thirty nine.

Speaker 4 (01:27:32):
You remember when there was like a serious discussion after
he retired, which I believe was the thirteen's or the
fourteens ninety eight, in other words, that they were like, oh,
we're not gonna make Hi anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:27:44):
I think Phil Knight was like, we're not gonna make him.
He's not playing Apple didn't want to make him anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:27:48):
Exactly, and Matt Damon was like, nah, nay, we're gonna
keep making billions of dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:27:53):
Number one, number four, number five, and number ten are
a different version of the same person's shoe.

Speaker 3 (01:27:59):
I'm gonna say, Alan Iverson, no penny.

Speaker 5 (01:28:02):
Come on, this is not even hard. I'm trying to
make this easy. The hard question is still to come.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
But they don't currently play no Stefan Marbury. Yes, correct.

Speaker 5 (01:28:12):
The Nike Kobe six, four, fives, and eights Kobe's shoes
are very popular to be worn in NBA games by
NBA players. This just in he apparently, well.

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
How much of it is the shoe themselves or how
much of it is just an homage to a guy
that everybody really.

Speaker 5 (01:28:29):
Were four different versions at a supremely high level, so
they're probably doing a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:28:34):
There's four Kobe's in one mj okay, So there's one
shoe left. Is the thirty nine? The current one? By
the way of the Jordan's sounds like it. Well, you're
the one with the article in front of you. Figure
it out.

Speaker 5 (01:28:45):
It's not what would be called current because there's only
one current shoe on the list, and it's the one
we haven't named.

Speaker 4 (01:28:51):
Hang on before we get to that Tom and Downtown.
So the hardened shoes were so comfortable. Would you say
they were soft? I would say they're pudgy, maybe even fat.

Speaker 5 (01:29:02):
The second most popular sneaker this year is number two
on the list.

Speaker 3 (01:29:06):
Not a current NBA player. When did they retire? They're
not retired. What they just don't play in the NBA.
It's not Dwighte.

Speaker 5 (01:29:16):
She just doesn't play in the NBA because she's not
a man. Caitlin No, what shoes havn't barely even been launched.

Speaker 3 (01:29:25):
Who has a shoe?

Speaker 5 (01:29:26):
Sabrina and and Escu the two's who? That's not even
I know you. We don't ever talk about it, so
I'm not pretending. But she plays for the Liberty and
she's one of the most popular players.

Speaker 3 (01:29:36):
I don't know who she is.

Speaker 5 (01:29:37):
Well, the NBA players do. Every single shoe they could
have at their disposal, but one. Only the Nike Kobe
six have been worn more than hers. Okay, waits how
good they are they are? They obviously make a male
version of her shoe.

Speaker 3 (01:29:52):
Duh.

Speaker 5 (01:29:53):
Well, I mean as they do for a lot of
these shoes like a female version of the other shoes
we mentioned.

Speaker 4 (01:30:00):
Oh, you're right when the hardens first came out, and
they had like that white like the part that went
over your toes was like that solid white canvas kind
of material. The popular women's version was that with the
rest of the shoe was red. And Teresa wanted some.
I couldn't find them anywhere, and I'm like, man, I
wish I knew somebody they could give me some of these.

Speaker 3 (01:30:21):
Oh wait, I do. I just never got them. The
Sabrina too, the most worn current new basketball shoe across
the NBA. You think I'm kidding and doing it for effect.
I don't know who that was.

Speaker 5 (01:30:31):
That's fine, but obviously her popularity is enormous, and it's
more about the shoe itself and Nike putting effort into
making a shoe of hers with her name on it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:41):
That's good, that's liked by players I have.

Speaker 4 (01:30:46):
I'm actually, ironically today and it's the first time I've
worn these since the summer because they're orange and I
usually wear them with Astro's stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
Like I'm wearing today.

Speaker 4 (01:30:58):
I'm wearing Adidas, which run a half size smaller than
what I wear Nike. I have never I never wore
a Didas until I got married to Teresa. She was
like always wearing them all the time. Likewise, or conversely,
she was not a huge Nike person. That's all she wears. Now,
I've worn Nikes my whole life. I know about all
of the labor and all that kind of stuff. I'm

(01:31:20):
just saying from a comfort standpoint. I just there's nothing.
And it's crazy because you and I went to go
see the Air movie, and if you guys haven't watched it,
you don't have to be a sneaker head to enjoy it.
If you like eighties music and you're aficionado, you're really
gonna like it. But like eighties anything, yeah, it's so good.
But think about how it was, and it was true

(01:31:40):
how it was portrayed. At the beginning of that movie,
they were like, like, what was their biggest who was
their biggest endorser, Like Arthur ash It was like tennis
literal tennis shoes, that was their big guy.

Speaker 5 (01:31:53):
Well, they were wondering if maybe in the upcoming draft
they should grab a player like Mel Turpin to be
the base of their new shoes.

Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
My favorite part was when they had the draft board
in the conference room with Hakeem on it. When he
didn't add the H until nineteen eighty nine and they
were set in four. They needed better, some smarter people
on set. Seriously, that's not a small mistake. Though everybody
outside of the number one had no idea. He's that's
not true, no idea really, because who was picked first

(01:32:23):
in the eighty four draft.

Speaker 3 (01:32:24):
It wasn't Hakim Elijuan.

Speaker 5 (01:32:26):
And I promise you very few people even would have noticed,
but we would and to think, would.

Speaker 4 (01:32:33):
Think about if I don't know who's the best up
and coming star right now? Shake Gildess Alexander added a
letter or took a letter away.

Speaker 5 (01:32:42):
From her name was spelled sha y Shake Gilders Alexander.

Speaker 4 (01:32:46):
Would you notice, No, that's different the first letter of
his first name. That's the whole point. You changed the
pronunciation of the name. That's why he's a bad example.
I don't know who I could use. What if some
guy named Chris decided to change his name to Mackmoud
abdul Rahoof. That's different though, No, but that would be
but it's actually similar. It's very similar. If they wrote
on it was religious in nature. Well, if they wrote

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on the board for that draft the.

Speaker 3 (01:33:09):
Name he was using Khmood abdul rahoof, that's.

Speaker 5 (01:33:12):
Not the name, Like he didn't the same person Kareem
abdul Jabbar Luel Sinder.

Speaker 4 (01:33:19):
It's still not my favorite sports name to say. That
will always be Byaka Patuca. Timmy, how did you get
that on the back of a jersey? It's like twelve
cons in a row. I just yeah, that's that was Uh,
that's fascinating though. That a woman and she's number two
on this list.

Speaker 3 (01:33:37):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:33:38):
So who was number one again? The Kobe Kobe? The kobeester? Yes,
what's Kobe?

Speaker 5 (01:33:43):
Believe that one was the six? Six, four, five and eight.
I think we're on the list.

Speaker 4 (01:33:47):
That's a classic. The six had to have been like
what two thousand and one or two? Deef Curry's under
armor sneak did nurse orthopedic shoes.

Speaker 5 (01:33:56):
He's signed, Uh, two players, one of them gets their
signature shoe today.

Speaker 3 (01:34:03):
Just beat the Rockets a couple of days ago. De
Aaron Fox. I want dearon Fox on the Rockets.

Speaker 5 (01:34:10):
Somehow, somehow he's happy in Sacramento.

Speaker 4 (01:34:13):
But he's from where he's from the age. If he
got traded to the Rockets, he would be extinct. You
rescued him from the Kings. I mean, nobody's happy playing
for the Kings.

Speaker 3 (01:34:24):
Maybe it's one of those so I gotta get my money,
so I'll take it from them.

Speaker 4 (01:34:27):
And then Rafel, if you're listening, and I know you are,
maybe you're watching in your office, go get me, d'aron Fox. Actually,
actually go get me, Anthony Edwards. I want that more.

Speaker 2 (01:34:38):
The eighteen one Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (01:34:41):
Ninety The A Team continues continues one Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:34:56):
Let me tell you how out of touch my co
host is with just the world of sports right now.
I Am just going to absolutely throw you under the
bus and just run over you a couple times over.

Speaker 5 (01:35:06):
After that, wexit Ac along with Dan here on the
A Team talking sports on the A Team on Sports
Talk seven to ninety and also on Space City home
network and via the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 3 (01:35:16):
What do I not know about Sports?

Speaker 4 (01:35:18):
We did an entire segment on all of the shoes
that NBA players are wearing with the most frequency, four
of them being coasters, yeah, one of them only being
Jordan's and the number two most worn being a female
basketball player's male version of her shoe.

Speaker 3 (01:35:37):
Yeah, signature shoe.

Speaker 4 (01:35:39):
That whole conversation went by, and you didn't bring up
the most obvious item of the day when it comes
to this topic.

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
I know I should have talked about le Angelo's brother,
so good.

Speaker 4 (01:35:51):
Wait, what's the dad's name? LeVar, LaVar Varson and Alonzo?
This is a story about Lonzo. Which one's he he
has or he's born under contract with Chicago?

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:36:04):
Lonzo ball blames his injuries and there have been many
on his dad, Levar's Big Baller sneakers.

Speaker 5 (01:36:14):
I didn't see any headlines today from Scham's or anybody
else that said Big Baller Shoes has signed their second
NBA player.

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
I didn't see any of those.

Speaker 4 (01:36:22):
And you never will, especially when the quote given was
quote they were like kickball shoes. Now again a couple
things here. What are kickball shoes? Right, I guess, But
like there's you know you can get you know that,
you you obviously know this. You can get Jordan golf cleats.

(01:36:44):
Oh yeah, you know one of the a couple of
years ago.

Speaker 5 (01:36:47):
Now it's so yeah, going out to practice a couple
of times in the last couple of years now it's
commonplace seeing a few Texans wearing the red, white and
black Jordan's if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
So awesome. But now everybody wears them forever.

Speaker 4 (01:37:00):
If I'm not mistaken, Josh Hater wears Jordan's for his
cleats when he's closing the r Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:37:08):
I think he wears the thirteens if I'm not mistaken. Yeah,
Lonzo Ball of Big Baller brand shoes.

Speaker 4 (01:37:15):
It's not a brand. If you have one client, Big
Baller Sports. He was in the family.

Speaker 5 (01:37:21):
He's played six games this year for the Bulls. That's
six more games than he played in the NBA last year,
and six more games than he played in the NBA
the year before that. Okay, that's bad, right, seven eight
years post draft. Okay, he's hoping to see action in
his two hundred and fifty ninth games soon.

Speaker 3 (01:37:40):
But that's not even the most stunning part of the story.
Do they have a quote from LeVar Please? Yes, say it?
I hope So. The most stunning part of this story
is that Lonzo Ball is the one saying this. Well,
who else could say? You had to wear the shoes
to say it.

Speaker 4 (01:37:58):
That's a good point by the way. He wasn't He
said he wasn't. This is a quote, wasn't really getting
hurt until he started wearing them. That means he could
have been fine this whole time if he just hadn't
worn his dad's crappy tennis shoes.

Speaker 3 (01:38:16):
I can't believe I'm reading this. He was then.

Speaker 4 (01:38:20):
He was the Jalen Green of the twenty seventeen NBA draft,
the number two overall pick. Spent three seasons with the
Lakers before being uh and this is my favorite part
of this article. He spent three seasons in Los Angeles
before being shipped to the Los Angeles Pelicans Oops Typo
New Orleans, obviously part of the Anthony Davis trade. I

(01:38:42):
had forgotten he was.

Speaker 3 (01:38:43):
In that deal. I just thought it was brandon Ingram
for Anthony Davis straight up.

Speaker 5 (01:38:47):
My favorite part of the Lonzo Ball story that I'm
perusing is his last surgery was, as his stops are described, it,
a hail Mary to save his career. It included cartilage,
a cartilage transplant from a cadaver, a rare perceive god
for which there wasn't a single successful recovery by an
NBA player.

Speaker 3 (01:39:05):
Time out. They took the cartilage from a corpse.

Speaker 4 (01:39:09):
Yeah, I thought most of the time when you did
cartilage replacement they took it from one part of your
body and put it in another.

Speaker 3 (01:39:16):
They said, this is rare. QC kinetics would never do this. Never, Well, he's.

Speaker 5 (01:39:21):
I mean, chronic joint pain, unable to you know, walk
and play basketball at the same time.

Speaker 4 (01:39:27):
Don't that guy over there is not using it anymore.
Let's get it out of him. They'd never say that.
That's just unbelievable. And how about this quote. I was
an Adidas kid since high school, so I was thinking
that was going to be the route. But what was
told to me, I guess, wasn't what really happened. I
was told that nobody wanted to partner with me. So

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my dad was like, just rock the brand and I
was like, all right. But they were like kickball shoes.
I still need to know what that means. You play
kickball a lot in recess when.

Speaker 5 (01:39:59):
You're out no support, limited feature sneakers. They cover your foot,
they have a soul, and you lay them up. That's it,
like DOC shoes practically, probably.

Speaker 4 (01:40:13):
Do you think and bear with me, and I need
a straight answer from you without you laughing or snickering.
Do you think that maybe the fact that the sticker
price on these things was four ninety five contributed to
the fact that they didn't take off.

Speaker 3 (01:40:28):
I think I laughed. Sorry, I didn't mean to.

Speaker 4 (01:40:32):
I mean, so, if you go to the Big Baller
brand website, neither Lonzo nor LaMelo appear on the homepages
feature image, but it's rather LeVar and two other men
his age. So they're basically discount sketchers. They're not even
that discount, they're the discount keads. Well, yeah, that's actually
true from the cost standpoint. I was talking from a

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I was speaking from a quality perspective on these things.

Speaker 5 (01:40:57):
I mean, the sunburs BBB triggers are on, say for
one thirty.

Speaker 4 (01:41:00):
Five sunburst BBB triggers. What do those do? Bite you
in the achilles and make it roll up your leg?

Speaker 3 (01:41:06):
Well, they're a new arrival. It's an exciting development. So
they haven't even tested them out yet on just regular people.

Speaker 5 (01:41:11):
Well, they've collabed with the Human Propulsion Laboratory on this one.

Speaker 4 (01:41:15):
The HBL re reading this story, reading these quotes from
a guy who wore them an NBA competition, Why would
you ever put those on your feet to even take
the trash out.

Speaker 5 (01:41:26):
All right, last thing on the topic, if you'll allow
for me, No, we have several more minutes to go
in this segment. This needs to be the last there. If, hypothetically,
if you had a huge company, apparel company, big baller brand, whatever,
and you sold those products on your website, if you
also sold hot sauce on this very same website, right

(01:41:49):
next to a backpack and a T shirt, and this
was the big Baller brand hot sauce, what would you
call it?

Speaker 3 (01:42:00):
I can't say.

Speaker 5 (01:42:00):
It's on the website. So whatever they think is is
it's the actual answer. It's sayable.

Speaker 3 (01:42:07):
It's toilet humor.

Speaker 5 (01:42:08):
Literally, you can turn any dish into a delicious masterpiece.
We've meticulously crafted a flavor for elegant dining experiences. You
want to know what it's called or not? Yes, then
you have no guesses. No, stay in your lane, hot sauce.

Speaker 3 (01:42:24):
Are you serious right now? I am? You know what's
going to sell?

Speaker 4 (01:42:28):
He has said that Alex Bregman's sauce, whatever they're calling
it at any given time, it's wild soul.

Speaker 5 (01:42:33):
Well, it used to be something, right, It used to
be something else is the original one? Yes, that he
makes good well flavored lime and tused correct. Yeah, that
is just they got a bunch of new stuff coming out,
so I've heard. I'm not sure if they'll launch it
here in the ature, maybe somewhere else.

Speaker 4 (01:42:52):
You ready for something that you didn't see you coming
for this segment, I didn't see it coming.

Speaker 3 (01:42:58):
I'm jealous of you. You are.

Speaker 4 (01:43:00):
I don't usually get jealous of you about these types
of things, but I'm jealous of you.

Speaker 5 (01:43:03):
You're You're just thinking about December thirty, first, New Year's Eve,
the Kinder's Texas Bowl, aren't you.

Speaker 3 (01:43:11):
Nope, that's not what you're thinking about. But that's along
those lines.

Speaker 5 (01:43:13):
Yeah, that's what you're thinking about. So new sponsor for
the Texas Bowl. If you had not heard, Kinders Sauces
Kinders Flavors, they are the new sponsor for the Texas Bowl.
Who Sunday, like everybody else, will announce their big twelve
sec matchup for that date. They played in the New
Year's Eve slot, and there's a pretty good chance it's

(01:43:33):
going to be a very well attended game because of
at least one, if not both, of the selections. So
might be very pleasing to some of the people that
work here.

Speaker 3 (01:43:44):
Yeah, I'm one of them.

Speaker 5 (01:43:45):
Uh No, and you're not really one of them. Dan's
one of them, Chris is one of them, Eddie's one
of them, Greg's one of them, Paul's one of them.

Speaker 3 (01:43:52):
At one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:43:53):
I wasn't talking about the football, I was talking about
the kinder and all of the barbecue sauce products. Time
listeners of the show probably recall an interview with Alex
Bregman's wife doesn't work when it's Alex Bregman.

Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
Yeah, Reagan Bregman, she joined to her on the show.
See when you're.

Speaker 4 (01:44:09):
Talking about Oh, Reagan Bregsman's husband is signing with the
Arizona Diamondbacks, then it's funny, even though it wouldn't be funny.

Speaker 3 (01:44:17):
You set that up. What a job.

Speaker 4 (01:44:19):
It was a good job. It was a great interview.
She's very nice. It's a great product. We'd had it before.
You got a little sampler platter. I believe I have
two left. I've used too.

Speaker 3 (01:44:31):
You also got to follow on Instagram from her. Oh nice.
You know I know that she looked at a story
I posted. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:44:40):
No, no, no, that's too easy. So last night by
too easy. How do you know, let me know when
you're done guessing. I've done guessing. Their anniversary was either
yesterday or the day before. It was all over the place,
both of them posting pics of each other, very each other.

Speaker 3 (01:44:55):
Absolutely they do. He said, so use those words.

Speaker 4 (01:45:00):
And I was like, oh, and so it was like
on his account, and then I was on her account,
you know, just being nosy like I did, basically being
Matt Thomas. And uh and it's I go over to
like similar followers or mutual follower. There she is following you.
She follows you, and Jenn follow me. Okay, does he

(01:45:21):
follow you?

Speaker 3 (01:45:22):
Uh? Maybe? I don't think he follows me either. He
follows me on Twitter? Uh No.

Speaker 4 (01:45:29):
And I was jealous at first, mime in my life,
I was jealous of you for that type of thing.
I never get that way, but I was just amazing,
amazing stuff. Wait till you hear this Deshaun Watson's story.

Speaker 1 (01:45:41):
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Speaker 3 (01:45:45):
Shut up, you see Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
On any device with a free radio act see that chap.

Speaker 3 (01:45:56):
I'm stit that Houston Sports in.

Speaker 1 (01:45:59):
My ear, Remember that magic aateball, A nice little shaken.

Speaker 2 (01:46:07):
Look at this I'm getting late tonight would make.

Speaker 3 (01:46:09):
An answer, guys giving it to you.

Speaker 1 (01:46:11):
You can trust whatever it said, or you could trust
these two guys named Adam.

Speaker 2 (01:46:17):
It's a crap shoot either way.

Speaker 1 (01:46:18):
But these are your stone.

Speaker 5 (01:46:22):
Cold locks, as promised four point thirty signature segment time
each and every day here on the A team we
get to Friday during football season, we ech it with
our stone cold locks. Quick revisit of how we got here.
Fourteen weeks of selecting games, most weeks after each has

(01:46:44):
been tabulated. You've been a pretty good position, AC and
you are again this week.

Speaker 3 (01:46:50):
I'm not happy.

Speaker 5 (01:46:51):
We had Texas Texas A and m as our college
football game of the week. Of course, we made a
pick on the Texans Jaguars game, which was missed by
all of us a half point. In both cases it
went under by a half point and the Texans covered
by a half point.

Speaker 3 (01:47:06):
Too few, dumb, but I went four to one.

Speaker 5 (01:47:08):
You each went two, and three leaves you with one
more win than me and six more wins or seven
more wins than Dan. The Longhorn game helped me hurt.

Speaker 3 (01:47:18):
You, guys. You thought a lot of points would be scored.
There were not.

Speaker 5 (01:47:21):
I figured the Texas might win a road game by
four and a half points over an inferior aggie team,
and they did fun enough game for everybody who got
to watch it that wasn't standing on another college football
field in twenty eight degree weather.

Speaker 3 (01:47:32):
So I hope everybody enjoyed.

Speaker 5 (01:47:33):
It, and it set Texas up to play this weekend
in an option as your college football game of the week.
We actually have football tonight and those games where if
you would like to choose them available to you. Any
college football conference title game slated for this weekend was

(01:47:54):
if it wanted to be your choice for the college
football game of the week.

Speaker 3 (01:47:57):
So many of those are on our board.

Speaker 5 (01:48:00):
Actually several of them made their way to our selections.
We'll get through our week fifteen selections. We wanted to
have a little college football discussion around our selection, so
I want to start with Dan giving his picks on
every game he shows this week that has to do
with college football, so we can offer up a little

(01:48:21):
discussion on that.

Speaker 3 (01:48:22):
And that's four of his five picks this week.

Speaker 11 (01:48:24):
That is true. I went all college football for my games.
I'm gonna go Georgia Texas under fifty in the Big
Ten championship game. Gonna go Oregon three and a half
point favorites against Penn State. On taking Arizona minus one
against Iowa State in the Big twelve championship game, and
the Mountain West title game tonight, I'm gonna go with

(01:48:46):
UNLV plus four and a half against Boise State.

Speaker 5 (01:48:50):
I considered all four of those games. I actually took
a different game, but I want to run through each
one of those that you mentioned. Oregon I already told
everybody yesterday. I was crushing that even though I don't
even think Oregon is that good, certainly don't. They didn't
do anything special, honestly to go twelve in oh they
beat a good Ohio State team by one point. That
was pretty much it. I know their game against Boise
State was very close. Their schedules for the conference that

(01:49:12):
they're in, and how many highly ranked teams are in it,
they didn't really have to play too many of them.
They played Ohio State. But I don't think Penn State's
very good. I think Drew Aller might make me regret
and you regret this selection, but probably not. I also
took Oregon minus three and a half. So Texas Georgia
they got to forty five. The last time they met,
it was a turnover festival and they still went under.

Speaker 3 (01:49:34):
I don't imagine if this game is not similar to that.

Speaker 5 (01:49:38):
Like with all the turnovers giving short fields which led
to so many points for Georgia, it seems like the
number fifty is too way out of line.

Speaker 11 (01:49:47):
No, I agree with that, I mean, because it's also
look at the way both of these teams have played.
I mean, Georgia, the only reason they really put up
the amount of points they did last week is because
they had to otherwise you're losing that game. And Texas
kind of the same, I mean, Kentucky and then last
week against Texas A and M they've been pretty much, Hey,
it's Trey Wisner and we're going to control the football.

Speaker 5 (01:50:09):
Yeah, we didn't talk about that earlier this week when
we kind of got into the game a little bit.
The Longhorns, well, just the running back situation, point blank,
both teams. I think Georgie's confident in what they'll have
with ET ten tomorrow. I guess the long courts are
very different in the backfield because of what Weisner's doing

(01:50:31):
compared to the first time these two teams met, you know,
the Georgia Georgia Tech game. Since you brought it up,
I neglected to have my weekly visit from Danny Canell.
In the Best of X he made some ridiculous crack
about Georgia. Oh, how many points did they give up
to Georgia Tech this week?

Speaker 3 (01:50:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:50:48):
How many points did they give up to Georgia Tech?
I guess what number? Would you say?

Speaker 3 (01:50:52):
Twenty seven?

Speaker 5 (01:50:53):
He said forty two, which is accurate. After eight additional
scoring periods, they did get to forty two. Even though
they scored in very few of those overtime periods. Happened
to score in the touchdown available portion of the overtime period,
so they got six points for those they barely They
couldn't get in the end zone from the two yard

(01:51:14):
line how many different times. But it's Danny Canell crushed
them for giving up forty two points because you're a foolish, foolish,
foolish person. Arizona State one point favorite i AOWA stayed
as one of the better defense in the Big Twelve.
Arizona State is coming off one of their most satisfying
wins of the season. And that they took their rival
to the woodshed not at full strength. But this did

(01:51:38):
seem like an obvious play. Arizona State minus one Scattabow.
We trust he was awesome last week. He's been awesome
this year. If he didn't, I guess if anybody knew
who he was before the year started, he might have
gotten a little more run. I'm not saying you should
win the Heisman, saying anybody should vote for him first,
but it will be a little interesting if this is

(01:51:58):
an Jaunty versus Travis Hunter, because potentially both of them
will lose votes. One Hunter could lose votes to his teammate,
his quarterback Shudarie Sanders, and it's possible Johnt could lose
votes in the West Coast balloting to scat a bow
and UNLV plus four and a half. I wanted to
take Boise State. They've already beaten UNLV. It's in their building.

(01:52:21):
They beat him by more than four and a half then,
but I couldn't do it. How come you took UNLV.

Speaker 11 (01:52:27):
I just think that, I mean, you can learn from
a first meeting, and we've seen it numerous times. I mean,
Georgia one year lost got the doors blown off by
Auburn and then crushed them in the SEC championship game.
Barry Odom's a hell of defensive coach, so he's going
to try to take away Ashton gent and if they're
able to do that, I think UNOLV wins this game.

Speaker 3 (01:52:44):
But what conference was Barry coaching in before he got
this show? The SEC?

Speaker 5 (01:52:48):
And you just told me that Texas is winning this
weekend by analyzing the Boise State UNLV game.

Speaker 3 (01:52:53):
Love you for it.

Speaker 5 (01:52:54):
You also took Saquon Barkley over seventeen and a half
receiving yards this week.

Speaker 4 (01:52:58):
Let's hear you're five ac all right? Work backwards two
is passing for two touchdowns.

Speaker 5 (01:53:02):
Just like you did last game. I had to double
check that you updated this.

Speaker 3 (01:53:07):
I just did. I know what I'm saying. It was
the same prop you took the last time.

Speaker 4 (01:53:10):
Oh no, Well, I'm looking at the games and I'm like,
I think I took TUA last week.

Speaker 3 (01:53:13):
You did, I'm gonna do it again.

Speaker 4 (01:53:14):
It's it's fine. I'm going I'm gonna fade Dan. I'm
taking the under on the Georgia Texas game.

Speaker 3 (01:53:22):
Dan, Is that is that fading you? It's not fading me.
It's literally what I did. Fading him would be if
he took the over Bingo.

Speaker 4 (01:53:29):
Well, then it's written wrong on the on the spreadsheet here.

Speaker 5 (01:53:33):
Well, I'm not wrong wrong where it matters, which is
the graphic. So that's my fault for you making the
mistake that I made, But the graphic is.

Speaker 4 (01:53:40):
Correct me making a mistake that you may Yeah, I
made your mistake correct all right.

Speaker 3 (01:53:47):
Anyways, I'm taking the under regardless of what he took.

Speaker 4 (01:53:49):
I'm agreeing with Dan all right, Jets Dolphins taking the
under forty five because it's Jets. And then I'll take
the over on Bill's Rams forty nine and a half
and the over on the Chargers Chiefs at forty three,
with the Chargers probably ending up holding up there into
that deal, more so because his screwce Pa Mahomes this.

Speaker 5 (01:54:13):
Year two very very good defenses, So glad I didn't
start him. But forty three is a pretty low number
for a game. I think that means as much to
both teams. You get my stone cold locks on the
other side of giving you two already, I'll hit you
with the other three as we get on the other
side of this break.

Speaker 3 (01:54:27):
The next segment. Also will be.

Speaker 5 (01:54:29):
Our last winner and our big winner to come see
U of H basketball with me on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (01:54:37):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (01:54:39):
Ninety Adam Clinton, Adam Wexler. The A Team continue continues
big ball, football basketball in my Sports Talk seven ninety
home for your home teams.

Speaker 5 (01:54:57):
Real quick wrap on the stone cold lock and then
immediately into hooked somebody up to go see the Cougars
tomorrow with me over four point thirty te at the
Fortida Center. They got Butler in town, one of the
best teams in the country of the Cougar's Butler very
good team as well. Cougars would like to get well
and continue on with the rest of their season, So
we'll run through those particulars. Remember, one of our winners,

(01:55:20):
either somebody from the past two shows or today's winner,
not only will go to the Cougar game, but you're
getting upgraded.

Speaker 3 (01:55:25):
You're gonna sit with me.

Speaker 5 (01:55:27):
Down on the court court side seats for the game
for one of our four winners who've got a pair
of tickets to give away today, as was the case
each of the previous three days, but I went with
the Oregon as well mentioned that earlier took SMU two
and a half over Clemson. Clemson not about football team
put a nice middle portion of their season together, but
they also played nobody in conference. Happened to Indiana, happened

(01:55:50):
to Texas, happened to Penn State. It definitely happened with Clemson.
Their conference schedule this year was laughable and they played
basically one all right team.

Speaker 3 (01:55:59):
And they like Gorty talking about the ut Longhorse, It's
what I said. It's going to happen pretty much every year.

Speaker 5 (01:56:06):
It's just a matter is that team just good enough
to take advantage of it and Clemson is just good
enough to take advantage of it. Sure wish the game
was in a location less awful for SMU considering they're
the best team, but I think they can win on
kind of a road game and win by two and
a half. To do so, take the Bengals minus five
and a half.

Speaker 3 (01:56:25):
Who do the Bengals have this week?

Speaker 5 (01:56:27):
The Cowboys Brian Thomas over four and a half receptions.
Mac Jones has to throw as somebody. He targeted him
ten times last week. He and Trevor targeted him ten
times against the Texans, so he can get over four
and a half, And if I took the Bengals minus
five and a half, why not also take Joe Burrow
over one and a half touchdown passes. We don't normally

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mention players of the week in the NFL because unless
it's a Texan's kind of a nothing, we don't usually
mention players of the month, even though we could. The
Bengals won a game this month. Congratulations, Joe Burrow was
the player of the offensive Player of the month in
the AFC.

Speaker 3 (01:57:03):
That's not even the coolest thing he did this month
led his team to a victory. Yeah, that's fine. One time.
Do you know what the coolest thing he did? There
are a bunch of touchdowns, barely had interceptions. You're not
even close.

Speaker 5 (01:57:13):
He had Dan Orlowski and Shannon Sharp yelling at each
other over this and keep going.

Speaker 3 (01:57:18):
He dyed his hair blonde. Nope, but you're getting closer.
He has another new girlfriend. No, he's only had one.
He bought the batmobile. I heard about that, Dan, Did
you hear him miked up at practice talking about it? Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:57:31):
Yeah, but we're gonna get to that in a minute,
right probably, Let me get to get to our u
of h winner. Okay, we need one at seven one, three,
two two seven ninety pair of tickets to see U
of H Hoops take on Butler this Saturday, December seventh.

Speaker 3 (01:57:43):
That's tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (01:57:45):
You're now if you win entered in that drawing to
get upgraded to a pair of court side seats to
watch the game with me. Bud Light, my good friends,
they've all hooked this up. Bud Lives, the official beer
sponsor of U of H Athletics. I asked you a
question related to the history of this matchup all one
time they've played. The coaches involved in this matchup. Butler's

(01:58:07):
that Mata Kelvin Sampson of U of H. They've faced
one another a handful of times. Kelvin Sampson has also
faced Butler numerous times, just once with you of H.
You guys knew that happened a couple of years ago
in Vegas at the MAUI Invitational at the michelob Ultra Arena.

Speaker 3 (01:58:25):
That's what yesterday's winner got.

Speaker 5 (01:58:26):
My question today about Kelvin Sampson versus Butler. He's one
to zero against Butler with U of H. He has
one other career win as a head coach in college
basketball against Butler. Who is Kelvin Sampson the head coach
of when his team beat Butler. Kelvin Sampson was the

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head coach of what team when his team beat Butler?
Not you of H as I just said, he has
also done it with you of H the other program
he was the head coach of when he beat Butler
one time seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven nine.

Speaker 3 (01:59:06):
If you know the answer to that question as per usual,
I'm nice.

Speaker 5 (01:59:09):
If you have no idea what the actual answer is.
I shouldn't have to tell you what the hint is,
but just guess the school that he's coached at.

Speaker 3 (01:59:18):
You might get it right. Five seven ninety. I want
to get him out to.

Speaker 5 (01:59:24):
Hang out with me over at the Cougar game. Had
a great fun hanging out with some fans last night,
looking forward to the more great fun four thirty tomorrow
for Koog's and Bulldogs. And we get to upgrade a
winner to enjoy court side seats thanks to bud Light.
So we'll do that, uh, the upgrade portion after we
have our winner, likely in the opening segment of the
five o'clock hour, So they were listening here, and they
can be listening then, So Josh, John and Kenny, along

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with whoever wins will be up to be upgraded. We'll
get to that as mentioned momentarily. So I decided to
bypass your store, but I wanted to. It's a brief story,
and I think we'll kind of just go right past it.
I said, wait to hear about Deshaun Watson. Yeah, there's

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really not much to it other than the league has
said no, all good, We're done with this. We don't
need to continue looking into it anymore an investigation. You know,
Deshaun has had additional cases or case brought up against him,
and they were able to somewhat quickly, I guess, get
to the bottom of it and kind of move on

(02:00:31):
and not be concerned with it anymore. So there was
a story written about it, obviously, stories, especially online newspapers too,
for those that still read them, they usually have almost
all I say, one hundred times out of one hundred,
if it's a real story, it also has a headline
with it.

Speaker 3 (02:00:48):
Story reads like this.

Speaker 5 (02:00:49):
NFL has ended its review of sexual assault allegations that
were levied against Cleveland Browns quarterback Sean Watson. In September,
a League spokesman told ESPN spokesperson said there was insufficient
evidence to support a finding of a violation of the
Personal Conduct Policy. You know, it's another case brought up
Tony Busby. We talked about it in October. Read some
of the particulars of the case. This new lawsuit accused

(02:01:11):
him of sexual assault and battery. And we know about
a lot of the particulars from many of these suits
that were very very similar that were brought up quite.

Speaker 3 (02:01:18):
A while ago, alarmingly similar.

Speaker 5 (02:01:20):
I bring it up to give you that information that
there is no additional punishment coming for this particular incident,
but mainly because of the headline of the story it
reads NFL ends probe of Brown, come on the latest
sexual assault case?

Speaker 3 (02:01:41):
What this is on ESPN? That is correct?

Speaker 4 (02:01:47):
Who's the final gatekeeper to these sorts of things being
let out into the public.

Speaker 5 (02:01:54):
I found it not I don't know what We're odd
amazing shot fire for this.

Speaker 3 (02:02:00):
Probably not suspended, I doubt find. I don't know. I
mean I saw it and felt I couldn't just no,
you can't wait. Somebody did it on purpose.

Speaker 5 (02:02:12):
You would think, so it's happened before, not on this particular.
It happens from time to time. It's it's something that
people think is clever. You remember the Jeremy Lynn headline
that got somebody in trouble.

Speaker 12 (02:02:23):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:02:24):
I wasn't sure there could be a second story. I
know somebody had said something on the air. Maybe it
had to do with that headline of that story.

Speaker 4 (02:02:31):
But it was the first real example I can remember
of early cancel culture because I don't think the person
was whoever came up, but I don't even remember who
it was was trying to do that.

Speaker 3 (02:02:43):
I'm not gonna say it. It's just people know what
I'm talking about if they remember that story. It just.

Speaker 5 (02:02:51):
Man, that is what were you going to say that?
I put a pass on so I could get to
that very important to Joe. So he was talking about
buying Robin's partner's car.

Speaker 3 (02:03:00):
Yes, not your Robin, that's a different Robbin.

Speaker 5 (02:03:03):
So this, for my own information, is this the television
show Batman vehicle.

Speaker 4 (02:03:08):
I believe it's called a Tumbler from the Dark Night
Christiaale Yes, okay, So he was rolling around this is
with Hathaway the vehicle that was her Well, it was
also in the Dark night. Okay, I think it might
have been in the first one too. Batman begins like
a big wheel, a very expensive big wheel.

Speaker 5 (02:03:27):
Well, Morgan Freeman could tell you all about all the
bells and whistles, I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (02:03:30):
Well, yeah, he designed it.

Speaker 5 (02:03:32):
So he bought this car and he went on miked
up on the side on during practice and was telling, hey,
I got a new car.

Speaker 4 (02:03:41):
Yeah, basically we have the audio.

Speaker 3 (02:03:44):
We might get to but you you guys want to ride, well,
you'll like it that.

Speaker 4 (02:03:48):
They were giving him a hard time like, well, you've
got to you gotta wear the suit, and he was
actually the one that was almost.

Speaker 5 (02:03:53):
Like, honestly, he's playing primetime football this week. We're going
to see him walking into the stadium everywhere.

Speaker 3 (02:04:00):
But the problem is it's not wearing legal.

Speaker 5 (02:04:02):
Batman suit would be better than a lot of the
stuff he wears.

Speaker 4 (02:04:06):
Well, that's because it's better than a pant suit, which
he has worn.

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Speaker 1 (02:05:16):
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Adam Clinton and Adam Wexler are the A Team A Team.

Speaker 5 (02:05:36):
It is the five o'clock, our final hour of the
show and the week here on the eight Team, it's
also Football at five.

Speaker 3 (02:05:42):
Wexac and Dan here with you.

Speaker 5 (02:05:44):
Just gave away the last pair of tickets to our
fourth winner for the U of H basketball game tomorrow
against Butler. That's see, Leo knew that Kelvin Sampson beat
Butler previously in his college coaching career while the coach
of Oklahoma, so we'll be looking for his third win
against Butler on Saturday. Leo has a pair of tickets,

(02:06:06):
Josh has a pair of tickets, John has a pair
of tickets, and Kenny has a pair of tickets. One
of the four of you is about to get upgraded
till those pair of tickets will put you courtside with
me tomorrow. Four thirty compliments courtesy of Thank you to
bud Light, the official beer sponsor of Houston at University.
I mean, there's a number of different ways I could

(02:06:27):
do it. Well, I'm asking I'm going to ask you
to give me a number between one and four. You
can choose one, two, three, or four, and that will
determine the winner and quas sperate a certain order which
you have not seen, and I will know which is
corresponding to the number that you give.

Speaker 4 (02:06:48):
Now, you put all the pressure on me so that
when three of these guys lose, it's my fault.

Speaker 3 (02:06:52):
Instead.

Speaker 5 (02:06:53):
There's lots of things. Three there you go. Congratulations, our
winner is josh to the other, that's not nice. I
know all of you are going to the game. Joshua,
you are the winner of the upgrade thanks to a
bud light, and I'll be sitting there with you. And
AC made the selection for you one tickets earlier this week.
But Leo John Kenny also you should be getting your

(02:07:16):
tickets shortly and you can all we can all find
each other over at the U of H game tomorrow.
Probably have the easiest time finding Joshua. He'll be on
my left or am I right court side at Fertita Center.

Speaker 3 (02:07:28):
We have butler U of H. We have an issue.

Speaker 4 (02:07:31):
You and I have something in common as it regards
in regards to our diets. I'm not going to give
too many details away. Okay, it's kind of like a
It's not a competition, but it sort of is. I
only bring that aspect of it up because of this.
We've been doing the the the radio thon for Saint
Jude over the past few days and they've been bringing

(02:07:53):
in food like crazy.

Speaker 5 (02:07:55):
It's it's a you know, it's nice that they were
able to do that and have some other people that
they were QUI that are part of the cause, that
are contributing to the food and drink that's brought in.

Speaker 4 (02:08:05):
Did you see the latest email about that kind of
an item. I knew there were some treats in the building.
Were they from Tiffany?

Speaker 3 (02:08:11):
They were?

Speaker 4 (02:08:12):
That's a problem right now A for the I'll tell
people I I eat once a day and it's basically
whenever I get home from this show, for about an hour,
hour and a half tops, is that window that I eat.
It's like it's an interminute fasting. But it's extreme, right,
And our cohort Michael Barry is the one that told

(02:08:36):
me about this. And have you know I'm not in
s felt condition. I'm not my CrossFit shape like I
was about ten years ago, but you know, it keeps
the extra poundages off, or at least a lot of them,
coupled with some exercise, that kind of thing if you
stay to it. But that's one of my weaknesses. I
didn't used to be a guy that ate any sweets.
It's just I don't need it already ate.

Speaker 3 (02:08:57):
But now.

Speaker 4 (02:08:59):
I guess it's an old age thing. If I hear
that those are in the building, I'm like a bloodhound
right now. What kind are they? How many snicker doodles
did you bring? Because that's the awesomest cookie.

Speaker 5 (02:09:11):
It's pretty good and not often offered when cookies are offered,
chocolate chip cookies. If you're somewhere where they're you know,
we've made cookies, as are Hey, we brought cookies to
your pot luck or whatever, what are the desserts?

Speaker 4 (02:09:24):
And if it's not February and girl Scouts aren't knocking
on your door.

Speaker 5 (02:09:28):
Making snicker doodles is always a good idea. You make
them well, it's well box, So what do you mean
by box? It's all couldn't be any easier. You bring
the butter and the one other, the egg and everything else.

Speaker 4 (02:09:41):
Is way more intensive than just buying them already pre cut,
and you put them on the pan and just put
the oven on.

Speaker 5 (02:09:48):
Top shelf of the pantry. I bet you right now
has at least six boxes of some variety of cookie
or brownie to be made at the house.

Speaker 3 (02:09:57):
Why do you guys not make these? I don't. I
hardly make him because Ryan just makes them for everybody.
So Ryan's the one that does it.

Speaker 4 (02:10:03):
Yeah, does he like cooking it's just something to do,
or does he like doing dessert specifically all parts? Okay, Well,
I don't know what to do now, because it's not
just that the fasting thing is being affected. I want
to leave the segment and go get sun. Right, shock,
do you stayed through the break? But we do need
to get some football, being Mary's Football at five. But

(02:10:24):
it does beg the question. You've gone out to eat,
You've had an awesome meal. You went specifically to this
restaurant because you like their food. You like the meal,
the entree, the appetite, whatever, like. Is it a big
deal if you ate the awesome food and didn't leave
room for dessert because you came there for the awesome food. Well, ironically,
one of my favorite restaurants is an Italian place. It

(02:10:47):
rhymes now, I'm kidding. It's across the freeway from here,
though it's in the Galleria area. It's in a prominent
shopping center and Darryl Morey used to like to go
there for lunches family style exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:11:01):
I'm not a huge fan. Desserts are so good.

Speaker 5 (02:11:04):
You feel like when I'm getting there for that also, right,
but most of the time personal just for me.

Speaker 3 (02:11:10):
I went there for the food. I went there for
the right.

Speaker 5 (02:11:12):
The first thing I'm ordering my entre, my meal, you
know what, I'm gonna eat everything I can on that plate,
not think about oh no, I can't get dessert.

Speaker 4 (02:11:19):
I think what really made me become a dessert guy
is doing this fasting. If you're only gonna eat once,
might as well, yeah, just keep eating, right, I get it?
Is there room not really? Are you gonna keep going?

Speaker 3 (02:11:31):
Yep, it's basically how it goes.

Speaker 4 (02:11:34):
But that particular restaurant, there's only really like one item
that I truly well, there's two.

Speaker 3 (02:11:39):
They have a good cheesecake over there, but it's that
the apple caramel ice cream crusted situation. You get to
mix in a dessert on Sunday night. See, I think
I did I get something from Tom's? Pretty sure you have?
They're good.

Speaker 5 (02:11:56):
Tom's watch Bar got another watch party for you with
the Rockets that comes up Sunday eight o'clock.

Speaker 3 (02:12:00):
Tip for the Clippers. Ac will be out there with you. Guys.
Hate watching James Harden eating dessert. It's gonna be great.
It's a great hangout.

Speaker 5 (02:12:07):
I was there last night for the first of our
watch parties when we're doing a bunch of them over
at Tom's Watch Bar downtown Houston, twelve oh one Caroline Street.
So it's a great place to hang out all of
the games all day, every day, and this weekend's a
great weekend for that with all the conference title games
and even what's going on the rest of the day
Sunday with the Pigskin. But an awesome place, not a

(02:12:28):
bad seat in the house, and the food is tremendous,
so you can join.

Speaker 3 (02:12:32):
Him out there for that.

Speaker 5 (02:12:33):
We'll give you the dates on the future ones coming
up in the future, but I know it was really
important if the Cowboys have a big game this week
with the four win Cincinnati Bengals and their four win
quarterback who I never thought it would happen because I
was so sure of it. And this ties the story

(02:12:53):
we talked about last segment to this segment when Deshaun
Watson played his last on field seat in Houston with JJ,
I kept telling you this is never gonna happen again.
No quarterback is going to produce numbers like this and
play the way he did and have an awful, awful
record and an awful, awful team based on record.

Speaker 3 (02:13:15):
To show for it, they won four games.

Speaker 5 (02:13:17):
The numbers he posted suggested that team when you compared
him to most every other season of a quarterback who
accomplished some of the things that he did. This team
went twelve and four. This team went eleven and five.
This team went twelve and four. One team wasn't that good.
They went nine and seven. Everybody else ten wins or more.
His team won four. Joe Burrow's doing it. Joe Burrow's

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season this year is probably even better wild than the
season that Watson had, and they're losing basically for the
same reason. So I cannot stop the other team from
scoring thirty thirty five, forty forty four. He did throw
a pick six last week, and the forty four points
that Pittsburgh got, But it's week after week after week

(02:14:01):
if he's not perfect, and he's been pretty close. He
just won Player of the Month and had one win.

Speaker 4 (02:14:09):
But you wouldn't get by the way, someone else is
watching us right now, and I have to do this
for the camera. I'll just just do this two thumbs
for Dustin, by the way, and I'm gonna do it
long time, just in case he's not looking right now.
Just keep him up here for a long time, Okay.
So basically, oh, he wants the people's eyebrow too. Basically
this is the antithesis of Dak Prescott in a way,

(02:14:33):
because even though Dak Prescott had a defense that was
really pretty strong behind him those last two seasons twelve
and five, the first of those, especially like Micah Parsons
and all those guys, like they had a good defense.
But people are blaming Dak more than anyone else as
to why the Cowboys. And maybe it's because he's a quarterback,

(02:14:57):
but maybe I think more.

Speaker 3 (02:14:57):
So his play.

Speaker 4 (02:14:59):
I don't think any nobody's looking at the Bengals saying, ah,
this is definitely Joe Burrow. As a matter of fact,
nobody would ever confuse those two, even though I think
a lot of people would still say Dak's a top
ten quarterback, nobody's confusing him with Joe Burrow.

Speaker 5 (02:15:16):
No, and this season, his partial season, Dak's partial it
wasn't good. It was no, it wasn't very good.

Speaker 3 (02:15:23):
This year.

Speaker 4 (02:15:24):
Well, I just it's it's actually astounding that Joe is
this good, and it's because I don't look at him
and de Shawn the same way.

Speaker 3 (02:15:34):
Like that team.

Speaker 5 (02:15:34):
No, Deshaun could. He made magic happen. He was with
He extended plays into this. He could run for that
and he could he tried to run people overall stand
in the pocket, He's gonna pick you apart.

Speaker 3 (02:15:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:15:46):
But organizationally, like I think Cincinnati's got like a really
good head coach. They have fantastic talent. They've got one
of the best wide receivers in the NFL.

Speaker 5 (02:15:56):
That wow, Yeah, But I don't recall that's That's the
other Like I guess Trey Hendrickson is really good as
a defensive end. I know that's true, but like the
defense that Deshaun was playing with.

Speaker 3 (02:16:07):
We're talking about JJ Watt's defense, but.

Speaker 4 (02:16:10):
JJ yeah yeah, But I just I can't believe, almost
like by accident, they don't win more games and don't
I didn't look at that with DeShawn because of what
you're saying. He was cobbling stuff together. It's not to
say he wasn't a good quarterback in those years. Obviously
something happened.

Speaker 3 (02:16:27):
Well, it's it's just that one season.

Speaker 5 (02:16:29):
Get the other season when he was playing that way,
they were winning, right, and he did I don't even
I really think that was his best seasons individually.

Speaker 4 (02:16:36):
But what I mean is nobody's ever going to confuse
Deshawn's best playing years with Joe Burrow any year. I
just think Joe Burrow is a better traditional quarterback in
every sense.

Speaker 5 (02:16:47):
He's going to get This was the big argument I
mentioned with Shannon and Dan, like, this guy just keeps
getting a pass. He took his team to the super
Bowl and lost, and basically now nobody can ever criticize
him anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:16:58):
He's gotten all this good will built up, but he's
gonna be Dan Marino if he's not careful. Man.

Speaker 4 (02:17:04):
That's the exact comparison to make a prolific passer. Stud
buys Batmobiles. Went to the Super Bowl early in his career,
and before you know it, he'll be hawking is Atners
and starring in Ace Fincher, the remake The A.

Speaker 1 (02:17:22):
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Speaker 3 (02:17:33):
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Speaker 4 (02:17:48):
According to David mcminnimon, see what I did there. According
to Malika's husband, Lebron James, is expected to play tonight.

Speaker 3 (02:17:57):
Per JJ Reddick great.

Speaker 5 (02:18:00):
Well, when a player is a retiring eight or doubtful
on the injury report and the coach meets with the
media before the game, he will usually divulge's doubt game time.
He's gonna give it a go. He's available, he's going
to start. And you know why he was doubted because
he's forty.

Speaker 4 (02:18:17):
And they're starting to wonder if playing him on back
to back games, not just nights, is a problem because
he sucks now, so will they actually list old on
the they should rather than rest like in parentheses, like
right now. If you were to look at Steph Curry
on the injury report, it's gonna say ankle, And if
you look at Draymond Green, it's gonna say cath maybe

(02:18:39):
concerned about because he is. That's what it would say
for Lebron. He's not injured, he's old, and he's terrible.

Speaker 5 (02:18:47):
Lakers' last nine games have included two victories. Is that
a tough stretch?

Speaker 3 (02:18:54):
Shooting the three balls to toughs? Some numbers? He made
one in their game two days ago. How many do
he take?

Speaker 5 (02:19:01):
He took fort he made one. The four games prior
to that, he took nineteen and made less than one.

Speaker 3 (02:19:08):
That's zero. That is zero. I just this is.

Speaker 5 (02:19:12):
He's gotten just each year, he's gotten a little bit
less capable of helping the team on both ends. If
this continued shooting slump is part of his twenty twenty
four to twenty five, that would be a major change.

Speaker 3 (02:19:24):
I know people some people like to hate on.

Speaker 4 (02:19:27):
Lebron last loves the people. Do half of the people
in this studio. He gives them ammunition to.

Speaker 5 (02:19:34):
He shot forty one percent from three point distance last year,
took five a game. That's the best of his entire
career and efficient, it's exceptional. It's one of the best
in the league. What happened, He's dipped back down to
basically his career now and back up to an age
that has a foreign front of it.

Speaker 3 (02:19:53):
But he also this, that's what's changed from this year
to last year.

Speaker 5 (02:19:56):
What hasn't changed dramatically is and it's basically been the
same story probably since COVID or Prep before that. In
LA they're awful defensively, mainly because they have to play
four on five when he's on the court, because he
doesn't play any defense.

Speaker 4 (02:20:08):
Dude, did they really think that his podcast co host
being coach was going to change something.

Speaker 5 (02:20:14):
That's not the reason they didn't lose last year because
of Darvin Ham, rather not going to lose or win
this year because of Who's I think going to be
a very good coach. I think he could be a
very good coach. He's not going to impact the Lakers
at all. People players to win games well, good plays.

Speaker 4 (02:20:28):
People think that it's this huge, big deal that he's
light bulb on over his head running the offense through
Anthony Davis.

Speaker 3 (02:20:35):
He should have been doing that two years ago. He
JJ wasn't there to tell them. Well, then Darvin should
have and the coach before that before that. What's the
danger in running the offense through Anthony Davis? Well, he
might have a hangnail and then not play.

Speaker 5 (02:20:49):
More touches, more responsibility, more pressure physically and mentally, and
maybe when he needs to be healthy at the end
of the year, after you've had three months off for COVID,
he isn't.

Speaker 4 (02:21:00):
What do you think is more fragile his mental or
her physical capabilities?

Speaker 3 (02:21:03):
Over time, he's.

Speaker 5 (02:21:04):
Mentally fine, you think, So there's nothing wrong with his
mental state. Hmmm, you can make something up if you
want to continue.

Speaker 4 (02:21:13):
He laid out a shirt that said, that's all folks,
for his final game again or for the Pelicans, meaning
he was thinking about it that much.

Speaker 5 (02:21:20):
Breakup if it was awesome? Breakups are bad. No, some
of them are amicable. No, that's what's theses. Are they
mutually agreed? Did Anthony Davis and the Pelicans mutually agreed
a part ways?

Speaker 3 (02:21:34):
Yes? Actually no, that's not accurate.

Speaker 4 (02:21:38):
The NBA agreed this guy needs to be playing with
Lebron in LA.

Speaker 5 (02:21:42):
Like, how come he didn't sabotage the Pelicans? He didn't
ruin the Pelicans. No, he didn't do what James Harden
did to the Rockets. No, he did the same thing.
I want out of here, get what you can get
and I'm out.

Speaker 3 (02:21:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:21:51):
He didn't show up to work fifty pounds overweight a day.

Speaker 5 (02:21:55):
He didn't do any work. He said, I'm not playing anymore,
and he sat on the side. Put a t shirt
out that said, that's all full.

Speaker 4 (02:22:02):
That's better than fatting it up and then playing like
garbage while you actually are.

Speaker 5 (02:22:07):
Out there bulking up to stay on the court for
every game, bulking up barely missed any games his whole career.

Speaker 3 (02:22:12):
He had a box of Tits treats every quarter. Not
unless they make honey buns, do they? I don't think so.
I thought there was some breaking news we needed to
have here.

Speaker 5 (02:22:22):
No, this is You've said it before, and you'll be
right on this one again. I don't think the Lakers
are going to factor into any real postseason.

Speaker 3 (02:22:29):
They're not making the posts.

Speaker 5 (02:22:30):
They could make the play in tournament, they might make
it out of the playing tournament, that they're not.

Speaker 3 (02:22:34):
A factor in the Western Conference. I don't believe.

Speaker 4 (02:22:36):
I predicted at the beginning of the year the Rockets
would have a better record than the Lakers, that they
would make the real playoffs, not this lame playing thing.

Speaker 5 (02:22:45):
Well, if you win the playing tournament, two of the
teams that do you. But I'm saying they wouldn't need.

Speaker 4 (02:22:51):
That step, is what I'm saying. They would be a
true top six seed. And then uh that I didn't
I think I said that the Lakers would miss the postseason,
but I have I have a third prediction, as it
pertains to them, this is the season where Lebron finally
gets like some sort of serious injury and I'm not.

Speaker 3 (02:23:09):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (02:23:09):
I don't want anybody to get that. Well, maybe some people,
but they're not athletes. I don't want everybody else. Well, no,
just a few, but they are a lot of people
that are non athletes. One of them knows who and
he is definitely a non athlete. So I just what
you would too.

Speaker 3 (02:23:30):
A lot of negative references this week.

Speaker 4 (02:23:33):
I'm just easing into the weekend, and I wouldn't have
to talk about them. JA murder two people. It's not
my fault he lopped off their heads. That's o jays,
it's not my fault.

Speaker 5 (02:23:45):
Lakers are closer to being eleventh, which is outside the playoffs,
than they are to the Rockets.

Speaker 4 (02:23:51):
Yeah, so, okay, he's gonna And the reason I say
this is because it's gonna be a soft tissue injury.

Speaker 3 (02:23:58):
He's old.

Speaker 4 (02:23:59):
That's step to this whole thing happening. It's happening to
Kevin Durant. Now, Kevin Durant, he stepped on a guy's foot,
so it's kind of fluky, But come on, how many
times he stepped on a guy's foot in the past,
you know, ten, fifteen years, however long he's been playing,
And it didn't you know Sideline on the you know,
I just these guys are.

Speaker 5 (02:24:17):
He's missing games again. Oh it had already knew that
because the Sun's lost. Yeah, but it was close.

Speaker 3 (02:24:23):
Uh huh. What was the final score?

Speaker 5 (02:24:25):
They lost by two points exactly to the four win Pelicans.

Speaker 3 (02:24:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:24:29):
Well, at least they have Brandon Ingram, who's good and
scored twenty nine.

Speaker 3 (02:24:35):
I believe Kevin Durant. The team is eleven and two
when he plays, well, yeah, they are not eleven and
two when he doesn't play, they're one and seven. Well,
but he's like Lebron, He's in that same relevant can't
lose with him, can't win without him. That's not true.
Numbers don't lie for maybe that team. Yeah, MVP.

Speaker 4 (02:24:59):
Ah, it's gonna happen though with Lebron, and it's gonna
be well what.

Speaker 3 (02:25:04):
Was always going to happen with Lebron? For the NBA?
He was no longer going to be playing. Are they
Is the league prepared for that?

Speaker 5 (02:25:11):
For how much we still talk about him follow the
Lakers put the Lakers on TV. This is kind of
what I think a lot of people talk about on
the baseball side and some other You gotta promote some
of the other the Rockets. The Rockets might not have
played the most entertaining brand of basketball last night, but
they certainly are one of the more entertaining teams with
nothing but young, exciting players.

Speaker 3 (02:25:33):
And Fred and.

Speaker 5 (02:25:34):
Dylan, why do you have to do that because they're
not young and I doubt there's many people that call
their games exciting.

Speaker 3 (02:25:42):
They're very effective.

Speaker 4 (02:25:43):
I'm sorry started to scrum in front of the Rockets
bench where they were grinning at each other as they
were tearing each other apart, him and Shay Gildess.

Speaker 3 (02:25:51):
Alexander that was that was a feat of strength.

Speaker 4 (02:25:53):
Well, that's called entertainment in my book, Okay, Dylan Brooks
is anything but not entertaining.

Speaker 3 (02:26:01):
I think I could see your flawed statement retracted.

Speaker 5 (02:26:05):
The Rockets are a team that ought to be in
front of people's eyes more often, and you'd think that
I would think that's something the league would want. You've
got to whether these players eventually become big stars, you've
got to get on the right side of it, I
think to help your league.

Speaker 3 (02:26:21):
Well, they went on ESPN.

Speaker 5 (02:26:23):
Today, Houston. It could be several five or ten teams
that are almost never on that should be.

Speaker 4 (02:26:27):
And uh and what's her face called him baby Jokic,
which just I cringe when I hear it.

Speaker 5 (02:26:34):
Why didn't you just give her the same treatment you
gave Dave. Dave Mcmanhamon's wife called him.

Speaker 3 (02:26:40):
Yeah, baby Jokic. It's a good nickname.

Speaker 4 (02:26:44):
It I feel like in order for him to earn it,
he's got to do that more consistently.

Speaker 5 (02:26:53):
Is isn't that the baby part of it? Like, he's
not Jokic, He's not ever gonna be Jokic. He's he
plays like he does when he was younger. He is
also younger. Like it's it's very few players in the
league that do some of the things that mimic what
Nikola does. I hope he does those things. Some of
those just not.

Speaker 3 (02:27:11):
I can't remember the last time somebody called him by
his government name.

Speaker 5 (02:27:14):
Well, with all this baby Jokic shock, I wanted to
make sure everyone knew who I was.

Speaker 3 (02:27:18):
Joker, the Joker. Yes, that's a way back.

Speaker 4 (02:27:21):
So uh yeah, I just they don't have that star,
but yeah, they should probably be featured a bit more.
In fact, somebody wrote that the other night they were
going up against the Thunder, who does have a star.

Speaker 5 (02:27:33):
I mean that's and their team is way more obvious
than Houston. They should be featured all the time. Do
you think marketable stars at least in Shay and Chet.

Speaker 4 (02:27:42):
Funny, you should use that word because the root of
it is market and I still.

Speaker 3 (02:27:47):
Think market is rather uninteresting.

Speaker 4 (02:27:49):
I still think they look at Oklahoma City as a
hindrance to their That's the dumbest way to look at
the most archaic way to look at it. That's like
watching Nash News Channel and thinking you're getting the news
these days.

Speaker 3 (02:28:02):
You're not. Never would have come up with that one. Oh,
I can make it connect. I can always make it connect.

Speaker 4 (02:28:08):
I'm just saying there's new forms or ways of consuming
information and or sports.

Speaker 3 (02:28:14):
And that's that's it right there. So just saying, all right,
we will continue here with in case you missed it
when we come back.

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Speaker 2 (02:29:09):
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Speaker 5 (02:29:10):
On a Friday edition of the show, it is oh man,
I feel like this.

Speaker 3 (02:29:15):
Is probably out of pocket.

Speaker 5 (02:29:16):
Out of pocket in case you missed it us here
there are a few items we need to address. Missed
that commercial break readdress, That's why we have you here.

Speaker 3 (02:29:24):
What do we have today?

Speaker 11 (02:29:25):
All right, So we start off with news out of
the NFL pregame show, Randy Moss taking a leave of
absence away from ESPND to health. He had toik people
off to this last week where he said he was
gonna be wearing sunglasses on set. He was well, whatever
his health issues are, it's going to keep him away
from the Sunday NFL Countdown desk.

Speaker 4 (02:29:48):
We were talking about this a little bit earlier during
one of the breaks, just because you know, when when
Randy Moss came out, he had a lot of baggage
and famously Dallas and several other how many teams passed
on him, all of.

Speaker 5 (02:30:00):
Them, I believe it was twenty different teams. He was
twenty first, I think if I was seventeenth. I thought
it was later than that, not quite, but he wanted
to go to Dallas. He was a big Cowboys fan.
You remember the first game he played against them as
a Viking. I thought it was one of those standalone
holiday games where they threw him the ball three times
and he had three long touchdown receptions.

Speaker 4 (02:30:18):
So yeah, before you before you could digest your turkey,
he had twenty one.

Speaker 3 (02:30:24):
Well technically eighteen.

Speaker 4 (02:30:26):
The kicker took care of the rest, but yeah, I
and then we all remember straight cash homie, And then
we all obviously remember Joe Buck saying Dad is a
disgusting act as he pantomimed moving he didn't even actually
do it.

Speaker 5 (02:30:39):
The Chargers were on the board before the Vikings took
him at twenty one, but they went with Ryan Leaf,
friend of the show, rind of the show, but second
wide receiver drafted this year that particular year, who was
the first He nearly had one of the most memory.
He definitely I take it back. He had one of
the most memorable plays.

Speaker 3 (02:30:59):
In Super Bowl is ninety eight? Correct? Yes, correct, of course,
it's correct. You know your years.

Speaker 5 (02:31:05):
This wide receiver drafted ahead of Randy Moss in the
nineteen ninety eight draft, had one of the most memorable
plays in Super Bowl history. It was memorable because it
was not a touchdown. Oh, Dyson, Kevin Dyson, Wow, I
really blew that one.

Speaker 4 (02:31:22):
Titans could add Randy Moss well against stir and Eddie
Joe Eddie Eddie Jones.

Speaker 3 (02:31:29):
There's a Laker blast from the past. They live rent
free in your head. Why can't I think of his
last name now? Eddy George George? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:31:38):
Four?

Speaker 3 (02:31:38):
Oh, I'm sorry. Four Hall of famers in that first round.
Randy Moss is one of them. Alex Fanica is another.
You weren't going to guess him.

Speaker 5 (02:31:47):
They went picked one and four and they were already
linked together from their college careers.

Speaker 3 (02:31:53):
Manning he went one. Why can't you think of who
he was linked to.

Speaker 5 (02:31:57):
Because he finished second to him in the Heisman voting,
Ryan Leaf, not Ryan Leaf.

Speaker 3 (02:32:02):
Charles Woodson. Oh, that's right. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:32:05):
This is hopefully that whatever this health issue is is
not something that will be you know, awful and be
potentially even worse than awful.

Speaker 3 (02:32:14):
Well I was.

Speaker 4 (02:32:15):
I was saying all that to say when I met
him at the Super Bowl in New York.

Speaker 3 (02:32:19):
You know, they let you mingle with the whoever's got
the game broadcast personnel will be on the third floor.

Speaker 4 (02:32:27):
Could not have been not I mean, but like that's
something not that nice. He didn't do a shout out
on camera. He's nice to everybody. These guys were all
there together. Michael Vick was available this year. We went
and talked to all the Fox crew.

Speaker 3 (02:32:43):
He was nice. It was awesome. Carissa Thompson was very nice.

Speaker 5 (02:32:49):
I had a chat with her about Twitter and what
you should or shouldn't do, and I gave her a
bunch of hypothetical situations, but they were all about you.

Speaker 3 (02:32:58):
I do remember that. Do you still have that video?
Probably I'd like to see that.

Speaker 4 (02:33:01):
It's probably why your your phone's always jamming up and
saying that you should probably delete some files because you
keep stuff like that from twenty eighteen.

Speaker 3 (02:33:08):
What else do we have?

Speaker 11 (02:33:09):
All Right, there's been a couple of days of whaling
and gnashing of teeth directed at MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred
over the supposed golden at bat rule that he had
claimed earlier in the week was gaining buzz amongst MLB owners. Well,
he talked with the World Baseball Network, who I had

(02:33:29):
no idea that was even a thing. He said, quote
for those who have golden at back concerns, put your
head on your pillow and sleep soundly tonight. He also
said as much to Tim Kirchin of ESPN of talking
about video which we played some of the other day
here on air about the golden at bat being brought

(02:33:50):
up to him, and he said, yeah, you're wasting my time.

Speaker 3 (02:33:52):
It's a terrible idea. He says, that remains the same.
Wonder what Tim Kirchin said back.

Speaker 5 (02:33:57):
It was just like I thought, I mean, was never
I'm we had a little conversation about it, and we
expressed our concerns with it. It was not real and
it's not going to be real.

Speaker 3 (02:34:06):
It was for the purposes of buzz it.

Speaker 5 (02:34:09):
No, it was for the purpose of making sure the
people who told him it was stupid were right. Let's
put it out there, so to speak, Let's see what
the reaction is. And the reaction was as it should
have been. This is ridiculous.

Speaker 11 (02:34:19):
So Rob, just for the record, you're not going to
do the golden at bat role.

Speaker 5 (02:34:23):
It's pretty headline in the always popular New York Post,
Rob Banford throws water on golden at that idea after
widespread mocking.

Speaker 4 (02:34:33):
He's also throwing water on automated balls and strikes callers.

Speaker 3 (02:34:39):
What else do we have? All right?

Speaker 11 (02:34:40):
Michael or Mike Tyson? Is Michael Michael Tyson? Michael Tyson, Yes, Mike.

Speaker 3 (02:34:46):
Ironvile nickname Iron Michael.

Speaker 11 (02:34:48):
That would be pretty rough to be able to rattle up,
especially for Rosie Perez. But a London court receiving a
lawsuit from a gambling company directed at Mike Tyson for one,
he went five to nine million dollars or one and
a half million euro because they feel like he violated
a promotion deal for his fight against Jake Paul. He

(02:35:10):
was paid twenty million dollars for his fight against Paul,
so if this doesn't go his direction, he'll only have
about eighteen and a half of it left.

Speaker 5 (02:35:18):
What did he do that violates the deal that they're
suing him over.

Speaker 3 (02:35:22):
He did not. He did not promote it at all.

Speaker 5 (02:35:27):
With his fight against Paul, Like he didn't wear a
shirt to the ring that said blank gambling.

Speaker 3 (02:35:32):
Have him on his trunks or anything?

Speaker 5 (02:35:33):
No, well, sadly he didn't have his trunks on. For
everything that we saw during the fight coverage.

Speaker 3 (02:35:43):
Was he wearing chaps there? Because he might as well
have been.

Speaker 5 (02:35:47):
That's typical boxing under your trunk's gear for front side protection.

Speaker 3 (02:35:52):
They're punches. I wouldn't have worn those. Uh, every boxer
wears them. No, they usually you just don't usually see
either by that. I wouldn't have worn only those. I
believe it's a girdle. No way it's called that. It's
what's called football. What do you wear a girdle for?
In football? Who's wearing a girdle these days?

Speaker 11 (02:36:13):
To protect yourself? It was called the jockstrap with a
cup in it. You can still call it a girdle.

Speaker 4 (02:36:20):
I thought a girl was like lingerie for women or
Michael Tyson, Michael Tyson iron, Michael Tyson, what else?

Speaker 3 (02:36:31):
That's all I have? That's all he has today, he says,
He says, what else?

Speaker 5 (02:36:36):
Well, I mean we I think we had exhausted the
Michael Tyson.

Speaker 3 (02:36:42):
Going what else you got? Geez?

Speaker 4 (02:36:44):
Well, when he did the the drum roll off, in
the hangover and he's like.

Speaker 3 (02:36:52):
Omar, what Omar is not with us anymore? Don't worry
about him. Seriously, they were never going to top that movie.
But yeah, the first one was the best one. The
other tour each was so gross, and I never saw.

Speaker 4 (02:37:09):
The third one where all this well was the entire cast.

Speaker 3 (02:37:13):
And the third one most of them.

Speaker 4 (02:37:14):
Yes, who wasn't there Doug, Yeah, Doug's ex fiance.

Speaker 3 (02:37:21):
Well, the other Doug was. But then you got shot
Bye John good Boiler Alert. Yeah, it's like fifteen years old.
I haven't seen it. Mister was in it, Zach was
in it, Brad was in it. Brad Cooper the dentist
was in it.

Speaker 5 (02:37:36):
We got the people we needed, all right, We did
it well to do.

Speaker 3 (02:37:41):
We got more Mike Michael Tyson out of that segment.
All right.

Speaker 4 (02:37:46):
When we come back, we are going to wind down
the week and we'll give you a prediction on the
Houston Texans score this weekend.

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promo he goes two beers, Greg a coaster tag.

Speaker 3 (02:39:09):
No, he never played here.

Speaker 4 (02:39:11):
Two Bears, Greg Foster, I knew it was one of
those white gregs from Utah.

Speaker 5 (02:39:15):
So somebody played big here and in Utah and said
two beers And it's not Brad Miller. He or Akwon Carr,
the ankwon car? Was it somebody along the lines of
Red Foster. Oh, he played I just said that. Yes,
you don't remember that?

Speaker 3 (02:39:29):
No, look it up. No, I'm gonna give away the tickets.
Greg fosteroter in front of me. You can do that.
Ten in front of that, all right?

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ones that have the full train set that go around
the stage, are they.

Speaker 3 (02:40:35):
That's the other one. What's the other one? Manheim Steamroller.

Speaker 4 (02:40:39):
I mean, I wasn't gonna say it, but since you
just blurted it out, Yeah, the Steamroller of Mannheim.

Speaker 5 (02:40:45):
I'm still trying to get the Wexley research team on this.
Greg Foster nonsense, I mean, am I crazy?

Speaker 3 (02:40:52):
Yes? Never played for the Rockets. Then who is the
guy that said two beers in the promo? Eric Piedkowski? No,
BOKEI wasn't the Polish rifleman Charles Oakley. No, Gott Paget.

Speaker 4 (02:41:08):
Scott Paget, That's who it was. He also played in Utah, Right,
that's more like it. Okay, I got him mixed up
with Greg Foster because Greg Foster was a former Jasmine,
wasn't he?

Speaker 3 (02:41:17):
Paget came to Houston from Utah? All right?

Speaker 5 (02:41:21):
Was he part of the White Boys Super Squires? Yes,
Sarah Paget, JB. John Berry and starting four in the
playoff series against the MAVs. Brent Price, No, I said four,
not point guard Rich Maloney.

Speaker 3 (02:41:39):
I don't know. Flying Ryan Bowen. Geez, now is he
still coaching? I think so? Yeah? All right, so you
had some interesting Joe spot a sound too late? Come on, man,
how long is it?

Speaker 5 (02:41:54):
We can't play it? But the commentary on it is
useless at this point. Why hey, Joe bought us that?

Speaker 8 (02:42:00):
Down?

Speaker 5 (02:42:00):
With Fox Sports director Will Councle on his podcast Kicking
It with Kuncle cut up some of the most important
things he had to say about the possibility of Alex
Bregman being an astro in the future.

Speaker 3 (02:42:09):
Joe likes their chances.

Speaker 12 (02:42:11):
I feel good about our chances assigning Braggie. I think
Braggie Braggie loves loves winning. We know how to win here.
I think our fan base, he's family. There's so many
things that we got going fa us that I think
that he won't be able to find any of that

(02:42:33):
somewhere else. I think that's that's important for Alex.

Speaker 4 (02:42:38):
So, Okay, when was this SoundBite given yesterday or today?

Speaker 5 (02:42:45):
I don't know that it makes any difference, but I
don't know the definitive answer.

Speaker 4 (02:42:49):
Well, was it before or after Brian McTaggart's article dropped.

Speaker 3 (02:42:55):
I don't twelve.

Speaker 5 (02:42:56):
Yes, It's also about when was it actually recorded, not
necessarily posted, you know whatever I mean.

Speaker 4 (02:43:02):
Don't you feel like that's pretty bold of him to
say Nope.

Speaker 3 (02:43:05):
Sounded just like everything else they've said.

Speaker 4 (02:43:07):
That's not true everything else they said. And by that
I mean an organization.

Speaker 3 (02:43:12):
In the audios that way, I know.

Speaker 4 (02:43:14):
But what I'm I'm being serious, Like what you're alluding
to is when organizations and even Dana Brown in this case,
have said we're you know, we really think we got
a good shot.

Speaker 3 (02:43:24):
We're gonna do the best way. That's not what he
was saying. The first thing. He just said no, he
said we're gonna do it. He did say more a spot.
I wasn't sure.

Speaker 5 (02:43:31):
You can't speak for Alex that he wants to go
and can get what he wants by going elsewhere.

Speaker 12 (02:43:41):
It would be something that I don't know if Alex
wants that, you know he might, but at least then
Alex breakman that I know how much he loves this city,
this fans, he's teammates. I think we we have that
going for us.

Speaker 4 (02:43:58):
So they've got the leg up because he's been here,
done that. You know what's funny about that very aspect
of this. There are people that would have you believe, well,
he's already won, so now he's gonna go get his
bag and go somewhere where he can't win.

Speaker 3 (02:44:12):
Makes zero sense. Yeah, I'm not in favor of thinking
like that because it doesn't because you've got in your head. Well,
I mean, you can go get your bag.

Speaker 5 (02:44:19):
But what that person or people would be saying is
he's being offered two hundred million dollars to play for
this team or this team, or this team or this team,
four or five teams are offering roughly the same amount
of money, and then this other team, who might not win,
is offering him way more money than that, way more
money than that. So he's just gonna go get his bag.

(02:44:39):
You know why, getting his bag period, end of sentence.
But it's a bigger bag.

Speaker 4 (02:44:43):
The bag is what it is, That one last bag
that you talked about, I mean, and that's the Scott
Boris bag.

Speaker 5 (02:44:48):
We're at the point, how many more houses do your
fifty family members want? I mean, you can buy them
all houses.

Speaker 3 (02:44:54):
It's so then stay in Houston.

Speaker 5 (02:44:56):
It's just at some point, even for a player who
wants as much as he can get, even for an
agent who wants as much he can get there are
the other things.

Speaker 4 (02:45:04):
If he was in the room with us right now
about this very aspect, and I'm not even doing this
for effect, who actually remembers the total figure other than
you and I know what you're gonna say. Well, obviously
he wants more money, but at the end of the day,
it sounds almost more like it's Scott Boris that wants

(02:45:26):
this dollar figure attached for future clients, versus Alex Bregman
wants this so much more money because it's a dollar figure.

Speaker 3 (02:45:34):
The Union also does too, by the.

Speaker 4 (02:45:36):
Way, and I understand that, but I don't know, maybe
I'm naive, maybe it's wishful thinking. Specifically, Alex Bregman just
does not seem like that kind of Gofford six.

Speaker 5 (02:45:49):
If he signs for six one eight, totally reasonable. If
he signs for six ten, totally believable.

Speaker 4 (02:45:54):
So if six'ne eighty six comes back from the Boston
Red Sox and you're Jim Crane, pony up.

Speaker 3 (02:46:01):
It's not my money, but pony up.

Speaker 5 (02:46:03):
One thing that Brian McTaggert said to us yesterday about
this fallback plan, Okay, if it doesn't work out there,
we know that they've talked to you know Jorge Polanco,
and maybe you know eight or nine million. If I'm
not mistaken, we'll refer to him as the band aid.
Will you bring him in and you hope that he
gets back to what he did the year before. He's
pretty productive prior to last year. And that figure just
stuck out to me. That's basically the amount of money

(02:46:25):
for one or two probably a short term deal, but
that's the amount of money you're talking about going from
the offer they've given Alex to what ultimately we think
it will take to sign Alex. So you're just spending
it on Alex instead of other things. I mean, it's
keeping you from signing a player the caliber of Jorge Polanco.
Would you trade for Tony Kellicher in doing that? Would

(02:46:45):
I trade for him?

Speaker 4 (02:46:47):
I don't know how you're gonna make that work with
the You're gonna see a bunch of his salary if
you do it. But is he a better player than
Alex Bregman in your lineup based on their numbers last year?

Speaker 5 (02:46:57):
You can get away from him sooner because it's a
short term deal. I'm just seeing I just hope attached
to I'm just not sure how many games you want
to have scheduled between four and five. Cody Bellinger's on
your team because four to twenty is going to come
up every single day. Six o'clock is going to come
up every single day. That's we side our way out
of here, looking forward to the Cougar's game tomorrow with
all my winners.

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