Anything Goes Friday! Endless Astros vs Reds Talk

Anything Goes Friday! Endless Astros vs Reds Talk

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten o one
n H Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Friday
edition of the Matt Thomas Showing. Ross. This is Sports
Talk seven. Don't have that loud, Jonathan, quiet him down please,

(00:32):
And you are still laughing? A chuckle would have been fine.
I was hamming it up for the big or you
were good for you. Good morning everybody, ten o four
on this Friday morning many you know, but up the refrigerator.

(00:54):
We're gonna see there's some milk, there's some sour cream.
Not a lot of proteins in the old refrigerator. Today
sports are cancel the show. We're gonna go on a
boat tour with Diana Versini and Mike Rabel. Is that
ever gonna go away? Yes, it's eventually. It's so hot
right now, I'm not but I'm talking about the story itself.

(01:15):
Time heals all wounds. Yeah, especially in this day and age,
we'll be We'll move on to the next thing. Especially
when he remains the coach of the New England Patriots. Yeah.
I don't know that he should be fired. I think
he's just like like a token suspension, like one or
two games or something. They do it like when you're
at Michigan, I would say bad ethical practices, sleeping with

(01:38):
a reporter, unbecoming behavior. Yeah, it's gotta be some kind
of language like that in this contract. Well, if that
was the case, every player in the NFL and Major League,
bas quay, I shouldn't say every, but a lot would
be uh suspended because of conduct detrimental to their family life.
M it's not. It's not only that he cheated, it's

(02:01):
a who with and for how long? Long time.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Long?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I mean, let me stroll at the ethical angle. Yeah,
I mean, yeah, every coach. I am not every coach,
but I'm sure very many coaches and players of course
are all you know, it's the NFL. They're all what
they're they're sleeping around either a very high profile yes,
high testosterone correct individuals, machismo yeah, holder than now ma

(02:33):
Joe men egoes. Yeah, sure, they're sleeping around. I'll say this.
You know, the head coach of the football team here,
Damiko Ryans. I mean no character flaws at this point,
not that you know, nobody's perfect, but he's been I
mean as approachable in terms of put him in front
of the community as you can he's the coach speak

(02:55):
king too well. I mean he's not going to uh yeah,
he's going to be a little terse when things are
not going well. He's not gonna wow you at the podium,
but he doesn't want to. He doesn't care. That's right.
He's not going to destroy you, and I gonna try to
embarrass you. Yeah, he's gonna protect his players, probably too
too much, but that's you know, that's that's how he
was kind of does and well, the players seem to
like it. They do. They wanted to go ryants. Yeah,

(03:18):
you'll never hear a uh when C. J. Stroud had
two horrendous weeks in a row in the playoffs. We're
just gonna make him. We're gonna try to get him better.
We're gonna try to get some offensive line around, We're
gonna get some better running backs. We're gonna try to
make him better. We feel strong for him for him. Meanwhile,
he's thinking, Jesus, I gotta figure out a year from now.
I gotta pay him sixty million dollars a year now.
That's not necessarily his problem. But they're not gonna pay

(03:40):
him sixty Yeah, sixty A a V is the highest
in football right now, deck Dakota Prescott. But aren't the
numbers continuing to go up and up? And they continue
to go up and up and up. But he's c J.
Stroud now, un he's gotta have literally like thirty touchdowns
and five picks this year, then we're gonna talk. Yeah,

(04:04):
he's kind. He's like, I've bounced back. You gave me
a good offensive line. I trust them. I put in
the work in pay me. It is crazy. It's going
one way or the other. There's no middle ground, right yeah.
I mean the Packers pay Jordan Love and people crushed
that contract. It was it was worth it, Trevor Lawrence contract. Remember,
we were all like, what the hell are they doing?
He was great last year. He got a great play

(04:25):
caller and they put great weapons around him. Looking But
I will say, do you think Jacksonville and not that
we could certainly find out down the road. I don't
think Jacksonville's throwed was a contract. I mean they kind
of had to do what they are Now. Do you
think Jacksonville jack I'm just throwing it out there. Do
you think that Jacksonville Jaguars think they're Super Bowl worthy
next year? Yes, hmm okay, I mean I didn't believe that.

(04:48):
I don't know if they the Texans believe they're super
Bowl worthy. Yeah, I mean the call on a Panthers
think there's a super Bowl. The people are crushing their
Barismith Junior, Like, have you heard the Texans players talk
about how they're going to the super Bowl every year? Yeah?
This is the belief you needs. But it's almost like
you want to have your guys doing that. Of course.
Of course, could you imagine saying, yeah, I think we're
you know what, we're divisional playoff for bus Again? Guy,

(05:09):
if you made the NFL, you were the best player
on every pee wee seventh grade high school college team
you ever played on, you were the best player. Or
then when you got the college best handful of players,
there's no reason for you to not believe that you're
the best. Yeah, twenty what we're in two thousand and
two and we're in about the twenty fifth year of

(05:31):
Texans football and not even one championship game. They're due
setting up, They're due here it comes maybe next year
Battle round? You were ready to go? I like it? Yeah,
I like it? All right? Hey, gang, it is a
Friday edition of the show. And let's be brutally honest,
the Astros do not play yesterday. Uh so we don't

(05:53):
have a game to chew on, so to speak. We
obviously have got a lot of things to go on
with the Carlos Korean in the future of the Astros,
especially on the left side of the field. But we've
got four segments of preview versus the Natty Reds versus
Astros Preview four. We're gonna be a four segments one
an hour. We're gonna do, uh a lineup versus lineup,

(06:14):
rotation versus rotation, bullpen versus bullpen, and then X factors. Oh,
how about the segment called the intangibles? Yes, X factor intangibles.
All right, we'll try. Uh it isn't anything goes Friday
here on the show at seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety That means on anything goes Friday, I'm

(06:37):
gonna be perfectly blunt anything any Friday. It could be
about CJ strong contract. Okay, it could be about the Rockets.
It could be about the Rockets offseason still intriguing and
CBA going to seventy six teams. It could be to
the college Football Playoff, going to twenty four teams. Mother's

(06:57):
Day tips ooh is a do you have your presence
locked and loaded at this point? The answer is no,
me either, Love you Mom, you're the number one mom. Well,
I mean we've got ideas. Yeah, oh yeah, I've got
simbilant I got a what was that? I've got semblance

(07:21):
of a plan. Yeah, I mean I'll give you some
ideas between now and two o'clock today for sure.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
On that.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Uh, but working on that we have. I'm sorry it's
coming up at eleven thirty today. We need to apologize
for the things we've said and done. I probably, oh,
don't need to apologize to tatsu Emi. Yes, you should
ask him. You hate that guy all the time. You're
trying to give him diseased prostitutes. Well, I mean no,
I think the gift, the gift of sex is wonderful. Okay,

(07:49):
don't say that right after we're saying ideas for Mother's
Day present. That's really that's something for you, honey. She
doesn't want that for Mother's Day. There is certainly proper
spacing between that. We have the news that new wake
the shippers up. I don't know how this. Yeah, I'm
gonna go get I'm gonna go see any antique as.
I I need my I need my base back. I'm
working on trouble here. I don't know, Matt, your powers

(08:11):
are stapped away. I'm trying to think talking and without
those big pipes, because you would think if I was
gonna lose my if I was gonna get some tenor
my voice would be during the Rocket season. But this
assaul has happened after. So if I don't make it,
you know, yeah, you look like hell. I probably do.
I've lost I've lost like six pounds. I don't know
why I have. Yeah, it's not good. Oh no, I'm

(08:32):
okay now, I'm legitimate word Okay, okay, I'm gonna stop
making jokes. Yeah. Now I'm worried. Matt got tape. I
don't know if it's tapeworm. I don't know what it is.
But I want my voice back. I want my sex
drive back. Okay, fix mylow t dot com. Maybe that's
what I gotta go do. Let's go I need something.
I need my astros back. Maybe it's the astros you

(08:54):
think the suck the life out of me. Maybe it's
thet lands. What color is pitching is giving you low tea?
Oh it's just his fault. Yeah, okay, you know that, Lance,
you're wearing that, You're gonna wear that today. I hope
you feel better about that. Lance. Uh, you know you've
lost your finger down your ears above seventy.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
True.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
You've also got one of a major market radio hosts
who's lost the zist in his life the last forty
eight hours. Oh I do that to him. I'm so sorry,
Jean de Vive. We got to get you back on track. Matthew.
Let's get you to the doctor. I'm going. I think
I'm gonna go next week because I'm just let's go
this weekend. I don't want to go to a doctor
on the weekend. I know, money for thirds is better.

(09:35):
What a racket they have when you get sick on weekends.
Everybody a second. We got to go to the Poppa
doc and you gotta get a bad diagnosis like I
did the last two times. Maybe that's what I did. Man,
I've gone to popa doctor last twice. Jerks. This is
what it is. Seven one seventy and now the cope's bad.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven. And then we

(09:55):
also have the news at New Wake the strippers up.
We have non Florida stories. We've got hell here or not.
So we've got a few things to get to today.
But remember isn't anything goes Friday. May we start and
you know we'll do We'll start with a Houston would
you say, a sports legend continuing to to create a
narrative that you can't shake, a complicated legacy. That's a

(10:21):
radio teas right there. Seven one three two one two
five seven Ouy's And anything goes Friday, madd and Raw
Sports Talk seven ninety and is ten twenty on anything
goes Friday, anything except dumb ass callers. If you're a
regular caller, your luck and you'll love to call you

(10:42):
sure about that? Well, you know I will take dumb
ass callers today too, goes that's true. So if you're
a dumb ass caller seven one three two one two
love you, Yeah, we love you. Seven one three two
one two five seven Andy. If you're smart, call in too.
We'd like the smart ones, all right. Seven one three
two one two five seven nine zero. So last night

(11:06):
I look, I'm I'm the one. Uh, maybe you're the
two ross that watched the NBA. Yes in Houston. Man,
it is so like the Kentucky Derby numbers came out
for the top ten markets in the country. We're never
in that group. Top ten divisional playoff games, We're not
in that group, top ten World Series, We're not in

(11:28):
that group. Now we just check out. We've got stuff
to do, baby, like what school for a walk? Yeah,
good children's museums, good art museum outside of the ones
out of New York, Chicago, LA. Other cities have these
things too, and yet they still watch. It's one of
the best art museums in the country. I I highly
suggest you check it out. I think it's free on

(11:48):
like Thursdays or something. All very nice. Hope Man, that's
free on Thursdays because you gave away free advertisements. Want
to google it. It's not free. It's matt It's not
a for profit institution. It's an art museum sponsor us.
I'm gonna I'm encouraging people to go and enjoy the arts.
So you're saying, don't watch sports, go to an art
museum instead. You can go during the day. You can

(12:09):
go the games at seven. You go from five to
seven and then go watch the game. Or People Sports
a nineteen a year, that's right, you can do that too.
Or you could listen to the Tour and the Claude
Monet and he was learning about how to impressionism and
it was affecting his life. Or you can listen to
Robert Ford and Steve Sparks. In the sixteen hundreds. This

(12:30):
Egyptian pharaoh was out there and he called himself Hognuts.
There's no one an Egyptian pharaoh named Hognuts.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
Man.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
You don't know that. Maybe that's loosely translated. Point being
is we're never we don't watch anything that's not us.
That's how Houston rolls. I mean, there's some of us
out there who are watching. I guess we don't. We're
not top ten bold by hard sports fans. We're not
top ten in Indy five hundred. We're not top ten

(12:58):
in the NBA, we're not top ten in college football playoff.
We are Houston through and through. And that's why if
you won't, cause you won't discuss the name Nighters linebackers,
you can find on your show to do that. Because
nobody cares. But I'm gonna care about one thing. That's
that's another end of the jar. How many, Jonathan, how
many this week?

Speaker 5 (13:19):
A lot?

Speaker 1 (13:21):
But I'm saying our jar runneth over. I don't feel great, okay,
all right, so actually I feel okay. I just don't
sound great. I look fantastic though though somebody thought I
was less exemp I was kidding what somebody thought I
needed some less ozempic. Yeah, yeah, I'm either all natural
maybe you're all natural? All right? So last night it

(13:42):
was the Cleveland Detroit playoff game and the Pistons are
up two games and none in that series. Yes, and
I wanted to see how friend of the show James
Harden was doing. Yes, I watched most of the game
as well on Prime Video. You know what, Prime does
a great job, and once you get to it's really
goes as a good job they do. Their studio show

(14:03):
is good. I'm wondering how much there's I'm watching the
studio show. I'm like Dirk Novitzky, Steve Nash, you Donnas
has them, Blake Griffin, Taylor Rooks. How much is this
studio show costing? This that they'll never get that money?

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Back.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
They're doing it for a splash. I think studio shows
are too big. No, they're over doing it. Jeff Bezos
is overdoing it. Yeah, you don't need First of all,
you don't need all those guys because each of them
gets in one little thing. I thought the analysis was good.
They're doing a little bit more than the regular you know, terrible.
They're doing a lot better than that. They're actually watching it. Yeah, yes,

(14:40):
to be told, they're watching right. Part of when you
sign an Amazon Prime contract and you're like, yeah, we
want you to talk about the NBA, we also want
you to talk about the game that we're broadcasting. It's good. Unfortunately,
I don't know how much the layperson NBA fan cares
about that kind of stuff. But it's a good show
because as much as we tease about inside the NBA,
it's a way more popular. Sh oh absolutely want to

(15:00):
be entertained as their personalities.

Speaker 6 (15:02):
Really, as someone that's like jen Z Younger, this is
what I missed, like when the game is like halftime,
like people talking about the game, and like, honestly, I
really like the Prime.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
With that's good, but I mean I just think the
majority tune out when you get too much deep into
the the woods of stuff. I wish it weren't that way. Well,
think about this. The number one thing that was brought
up this weekend on the on the NBA pre and
postgame shows this weekend, he was probably the death of
Ted Turner and b was putting Diana Russini and Mike
rabel on the on the on the Celtics boat and

(15:36):
Draymond versus Charles as well. Yeah, I haven't really paid
attention to that. Am I missing something on that? Draymond
came on the show and was basically talking about the
end of his career and he compared it to I'm
trying not to be like you with the Rockets, Chuck,
and then they're like, let's look at the numbers. Charles
rockets good. He was good. He was like his numbers

(15:58):
were better than like Draymond's rear numbers. Draymond was like
three years old when Chuck reis. Actually all must have forgotten,
like Chuck could ball man. People don't forget like he's
a he's a Hall of Famer for a the guy
won an MVP. Draymond Green never sniffed an MVP, I mean,
and he wouldn't have four championships if he wasn't with

(16:19):
two of the five greatest shooters of all time. No,
a great coach and great pieces around them. Look, Charles
got fat when he got hurt, and the last game
he ever played, he was about three hundred pounds. Yeah,
and he came into melening as he wanted to end
his career on the courts compared to get injured trying
to get in fights with Shack at times. Yeah, yeah, uh,
but yeah, the reality is Charles was good. So yeah,

(16:43):
I when I saw that narrative being placed out there
that the Dreamon was ripping on Charles the last few years,
it just wasn't fair because he didn't watch the game.
So when you don't watch the game, I don't respect
your opinion. And I think Draymond's gonna be great as
a television analyst. Is he's good and fun, But I
mean Charles, I mean Charles is also the greatest of
all in terms of the punnet's because he's likable and
funny and he can he can poke fun of himself.

(17:04):
Draymond can't take a joke. Yeah. Sensitive The raality, Jonathan
is is that every that show that ends the NBA show.
It's being crushed because it wasn't on enough or it
was on too much. The guys are complaining it'll never
be toppled. It's as entertaining as it gets, because at
first of all, I don't take themselves too seriously. Be
it shows you that the lowest common denomenter is make

(17:26):
me laugh. Yeah, that's like they're always making fun of
Shaq and Kenny and Charles, and they're all making fun
of each other. Yeah, I mean when Kenny runs that
big boarder, start bringing things down like I mean, I mean,
Shaq gets the most sensitive. But also I think it's
kind of the bit he knows, he knows as he knows,
and when Charles and Shack fight with each other, it's
as good as it gets. Yes, yes, because sometimes it

(17:46):
feels like it's personal, But I don't think it really
is a little bit. All right, as promised, we're going
to get into a legacy of someone that used to
play here when we come back, because that legacy is
continuing no matter what uniform he's in. Okay, is that
a good tease right there? I can't wait. That's a
professional radio teavyn't wait. Seven one three two one two five,

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seven ninety seven one three two, one two five seven,
ninty Times ten twenty sevens and anything goes Friday here
on Sports Talk seven ninety ten thirty two on Sports

(18:27):
Talk seven NAINTI matten Ross with you wait in the air. Okay, good,
I think so. I don't hear anything. Oh I hear
your headphones. Yeah, well this is what it is. I'll
try this again, ten thirty two on Sports Talk seven
ninety So James harn has had a very distinguished regular
season career. Postseason not so much. I mean, whether it

(18:52):
be in Brooklyn, whether it be in Los Angeles, whether
it be in Houston, whether it frankly be in Oklahoma
City Sports RV. We're talking about a guy that has
wilted literally everywhere he has gone as an NBA player
in the postseason. That includes last night. Now again, the
series is not over with the Pistons. The Cavaliers are

(19:13):
down two thirty seven minutes last night for James Harden
ten points, three of thirteen, shooting zero for four from
three A minus fifteen. How many turnovers? Uh four turnovers.
That is the thirtieth game in his playoff career with

(19:38):
more turnovers than field goals made. There's a guy, Tom
Habistrow has been putting this together. I think he's with Yahoo.
Lebron has eleven, Curry seven, Durant five, Jannis two. He's
got thirty. Westbrook is next on the list, was seventeen.

Speaker 7 (19:59):
You know.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
So it's hard to do this to somebody, but there
have been athletes that have had this happen in all sports.
I mean, let's face it, the Bagwell Bigio postseason numbers
as Astros have not been good. Now, I don't think
the national narrative finds that about those guys because they
don't think about the kind stuff we do because we're
following the Astros. It's also a different sample size. It's

(20:21):
also a sample size too. I mean, earlier in their careers,
Bigio and Bagwa were making the playoffs at all. James
Harden's got one hundred and eighty something plus games played
in the playoffs. It's not only does he not do well,
he doesn't even want to try to do well. It's
been like there's disasters. And I had defended James Harden
a lot when he was here in Houston. I mean,

(20:41):
MVP all time isolation player, three time scoring champion, at
least two time Assists champion. He's been a great, great, great,
great great, all time great player in the regular season
and then the playoffs. It's like, what's going on? Even
back to when he was in Oklahoma City and in
the finals against Miami when he was a sixth man,

(21:03):
he was bad. Yeah, you don't even want to talk
to him about it, to him directly because he's gonna
get defensive. That's why he skips out of media availabilities
a lot. But there is a consistent storyline with James
Harden in the month of April and beyond, don't show up.
And that's gotta be crippling to anybody's ego. Now, granted,

(21:24):
he's made more money than God. Every time he goes
somewhere he makes more money, he's gonna be okay. But Ross,
that's a horrific legacy to live through. Is the rest
of your life? Is you known as a guy that
when the lights are brightest and your team needs you
the most, you let them down. Ross, Literally every single
time it's been I don't even it's it's a very

(21:49):
very unique, complicated legacy and there's just no one else
like him. Well, I don't think it's complicated. That's a problem.
It'd be complicated if one year he was great, one
year he was not great. He's consistently not only not effective,
but he's absentee. I mean he's had he's had big games.
He's hit a game game winner or two in the
playoffs in the Bubble, they had a big block shot

(22:11):
there that was a clutch moment. He also has one
moment he scored and assisted all the points down the
stretch in that game and then had the games clinching block.
He has had some moments that we do forget. He
did hit a game winner in the against the Warriors
when it was he and Dwight Howard like. There have
been a couple of moments. For the most part, it
hasn't been enough, and especially when when the bright lights

(22:33):
get the brightest. But also we have to throw in that.
In twenty eighteen, I will submit they would have won
the championship if Chris Paul's hamstring were healthy. They don't
go over twenty seven from three with Chris Paul on
the floor, and then the Cavaliers on the other side
just weren't good enough. They would have they he was
a championship caliber player. Unfortunately, it's just ends up in
a hypothetical and he's not. He's going to retire without

(22:55):
a championship. As an eleven time All Star, three time
scoring champ, two time assists champ, eight times all NBA.
That resume right there is great. And if you tacked on,
you know, two championships to that, you're talking about as
sending in a possibly like top twenty all time. But
I think the narrative is written. There is nothing he
can shake himself of it short of getting the Cavaliers

(23:18):
the championship, and there are two games of being eliminated. Yeah,
even then, Yeah, they're not gonna win a championship. He's
gonna have to be a team on a team where
he's not the best player on a championship team. He
could have been there. He won an MVP. He's going
to the Hall of Fame. So, I mean, it almost
feels like we're not talking about a Hall of Famer here.
He's going to very well deserve to be in the
Hall of Fame. He changed the game. The starry about

(23:40):
a guy that commands so much respect in the months
of October all the way to March. But you know
when it hits April that he's not a factor because
he doesn't want to be a factor. He doesn't even
take shots. I'm sorry, h ROSSI he took thirteen shots?
How many free throw attempts?

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (23:59):
I'll I'll expanded stats, but bottom line is that he
should be in the seventeen eighteen shot range comfortably every
single game. And I know you've got Domin Mitchell on
that team, but that's the legitimate number two guy. Yeah,
four free throw attempts, thirteen shots, That's that's not enough,
zero for four from three. Just sometimes it seems like

(24:20):
he just gets in a funk and then he mails
it in. But how does a guy do that? How
does a guy that is built as being an alpha
dog for six months of the year all of a
sudden say, because look, it's not easy playing in the playoffs. Ross, No,
they know you, but guess what you know them too.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Across the board field goal percentages and stuff. Even Michael
Jordan had, I mean, everybody does. Because it's it's the
best teams in the league. You're going up. The numbers
will go down in terms of the raw percentages and
stuff like that. But I think if you describe James
Harden as a player who cannot commit to being even
a participant in the playoffs. It's a fair statement. And

(25:00):
I would think for me, as a professional athlete, for
as much money and as much fame and as many
individual accomplishments, if I wasn't known as a guy that frankly,
and I hate to use the word, but I'm gonna
use it right here. It's a playoff choker. Every time
the playoffs come around, the moment is too big. Not
literally every time, but ROSSI ninety percent of the time.

(25:22):
And that's a very difficult pill to swallow for anybody.
I would think, Yeah, I'm just trying to pull up that.
I mean, he's he's had some you know, let's see,
he's got eleven forty point games in the playoffs. That's
pretty good. But how many important game sevens? How many

(25:42):
my team is down three to one or down a one.
I need him to step up. I mean, if you
if you went to go if you google James Harden today,
what would you hear? What would you see and read
James Harden lost? You would hear choker and all that stuff. Yeah,
and as I said, thirty games at a one hundred
and eighty two thirty games where he has more turnovers

(26:03):
and field goals. That's crazy because you know what, I
got news for you, and some of you may not
be the biggest James Harden fans out there. Not a
bad player. He can take over games. Why can't he
take over games on April? On May eighth? And why
why is it easier for him to take over games
on December fourteenth? Yeah, and again I've been talking about

(26:24):
not playing like the Charlotte's and the second tier teams.
James Harden had some incredible games against them. Incredible. I mean,
He's scored sixty points at Madison Square Garden. That's saying something.
He's had big games against the Lakers, or the Clippers
or the Warriors. Warriors, I mean, but he look, he
wakes up in a with a shrine of by millions

(26:44):
of dollars. Yep, So he ain't sweating this. But I
would think for a personal aspect of this, to once
again have to wake up in the morning and realize
that you were just absentee from a playoff game, I don't.
I don't know if it drives him or not. He
literally doesn't. His isolation game too, has been copied by
a bunch of different players. And the way that he

(27:06):
I mean, if you call it foul baiting or whatever
you want. But also the step back three, the step left,
steph right is step right in out dribble like the
like all these little moves.

Speaker 8 (27:14):
That he made.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
He'd also changed the changed the game, the landscape of
the NBA. But he doesn't. But he doesn't change the
game in May. He can't get it done in the playoffs.
It's crazy. I mean, we you and I've talked about
a lot of athletes over the last twenty years that
have done this. I mean, he ain'tel first or the last.
Peyton Manning comes to mind in terms of regular season

(27:36):
and playoff drop off. I mean, he did win two
Super Bowls, that second when the Denver wasn't great, and
he did have some great playoff games. I mean, the
local side of it is Jeff and Craig never had
great postseasons that you can think of. Maybe they had
a hit or two, but it wasn't like they went
nine for twelve in a postseason, right Hmmm. Playoffs are tough,

(27:58):
but this is epic crumbling drop off of a legacy
of one of the great individual players in NBA history,
And I think that's part of the reason why when
the localized a little bit on this ross, is that
when the Rockets were kicking the tires on whether or
not they wanted to bring James Harden in here, what
tells you that James Harden is a Minsi's an acquisition

(28:21):
is gonna all a sudden change the fate of a
team Cleveland, They're not any better today than they were
when they got rid of James Harden. Out of James Harden,
let's say they're better, but not better enough to get
over the humpus of what they're hoping for. Yeah, you
sign him, you pay his big contract, you give him
major I mean he played thirty seven minutes and took
thirteen shots as a minus fifteen on the floor, four turnovers,

(28:45):
missed ten shots. James Harden played thirty seven minutes of
a basketball game and had three freaking field goals.

Speaker 7 (28:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
The Pistons are a great team, great defensive team as well.
They also went seven with Orlando, So it's not it's
not the Celtics as say they won sixty games, though
their sixty game winning too. I'm just saying there are
James Truthers out there that cannot possibly justify how poorous
he's been. You can't defend this all right, ten forty
three on Sports Talk seven ninety five. You know, we're

(29:24):
lucky to want to respect that, and it goes with
the territory of winning. We'll love Josel Tuvey and Josel
tub What puts me over the top of him being
the greatest master of all time is that he's had
postseason success. Carlos Korea had postseason success, George Springer had

(29:44):
postseason success, Kyle Tucker had his fair share of success.
Part of what Jeff and Craig will always dream of
and we'll never be able to get to is having
those octobers. To remember, now, they were at least competing,
They were at least getting their four abs and really
bag well, not so much the las ye because he
couldn't throw anymore and couldn't even hold the bat. But

(30:05):
you know what I'm saying, his numbers are are definitely
sullied by the two thousand and five where he couldn't
do anything. Yeah, he tried, mm hmm. It's like it's
like James goes into a world of I'm just a
guy on the court. I'll dribble the ball when I can,
but I'm gonna I'm gonna let Struce and Jared Allen
and Donavan Mitchell to the heavy lifting. That's not what

(30:29):
he was brought to Cleveland for. He was brought to
be a number two complimentary scorer to Donovan Mitchell and
everywhere he's gone to do that. He went to den
he went to the Clippers to be that guy. He
went to Brooklyn to be that guy. He went to
Philadelphia to be I mean, I don't think he cares.
I think he does. We'll never really know. But usually

(30:55):
Ross and I've been around these athletes a long time,
they only really care about the bag. They just do
they win bonus. That's what matters the most. Yeah. But
I think when you get to the upper upper echelon
of guys like James Harden, who is like all time
wants to be an all time great, and it has
a very very big ego, massive ego on James Harden,

(31:20):
I think it does probably sting him a bit. Three
hundred and seventy four million career earnings, three hundred seventy
four career earnings and one NBA Finals appearance by himself. Yeah. Yeah,
it's team game, team game. But he's been a part
of the teams that have been disappointing for sure. Let's

(31:42):
go to Dave on seven ninety and ten to fifty two. Dave,
thanks for waiting, Good morning to you.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Good morning guys.

Speaker 9 (31:49):
I'm not calling as an apologist for James, and I
agree with a lot of what you say there. But
you know, Ross said it a minute ago. You had
what how many forty point games in the playoff?

Speaker 5 (32:00):
I mean a total bust. Yeah, look at think about that.

Speaker 9 (32:05):
You know what James has done is or not done?
Is he just in the very biggest moments, the very
biggest games. That's when he's disappeared. And you know, he
is the antithesis of Altuve because al Twove's the guy
who shows up ends the biggest moments. I mean, that's
what he really comes through if you go back and
think about his career. But I'll say this about James,
as far as this year goes, I'll give him a

(32:25):
bit of a pass this year. James will be thirty
seven in a couple of months. Okay, He's not the
same James that he was ten years ago, and he
also is on a team that he joined halfway through
the year, and I think that that shows at times,
you know, I think James sometimes isn't sure, you know,
whether he should be deferential to other players on that
Cavs team, especially like Donovan Mitchell, who's the you know,

(32:46):
the lead dog on that team, in the alpha dog.
So I don't know James, and James tremendous talent, I do.
I do think he cares a lot about winning, and
that's I guess all.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
I have to say.

Speaker 9 (32:59):
One other thing I want to say, Well, I have you.
I follow you on Instagram, Matt and I see you
were thirty years Yes, sir, congratulations, Thank you a heck
of an accomplished Thank you very much at Houston Mainstay.
I love listening to you guys, both very enjoyable show.
And I've been following you, geez since the Dan Patrick's

(33:20):
KSV days, so it's.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
A long time. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much.
Appreciate that very much. Yeah, I and look, part of
the rejuvenation of my career is the man of my
right Ross has been a huge part of it the
last six years. So thank you. It's been a huge
enjoyment thirty years. Congratulations. Shout out to Wolfman on Twitter
at CDs nine nine one three call me an insecure

(33:45):
effing idiot. Why because he came me. He took shots
at me, so I took shots at back in him.
Oh he didn't like it. I tell him to get
into fiery crash. I didn't say anyone to die, all right.
Oh my god, I didn't even see that. Good But
read my last tweet, Matt, and you could just it's
funny that you're saying that as I just tweeted. Just

(34:08):
mute them and move on with your day. Yeah, but
it's fun because a Wolfman, you're an insecure beach and
you're listening to show. So thank you very much. I
appreciate that, all right. I didn't know you were getting
in beasts with people. I didn't want to get into beefs. Yes,
it was a fun day. I got a beautiful guitar,
I got a nice recognition from the office, and the
guy's calling me, uh, take some more Olympic shops for

(34:29):
such a wish. I don't take, and he says, I
don't know crap about anything. So wolf Man, go get
in that fiery crash. Hope you survive seven one three
two one two five seven dot seven one three two
one two five seven nint All right, what do you
want to go next? Well, wolf Man was being very rude. Yeah,
pound another Ozmpic needle. Yeah, isn't that rude? I don't

(34:50):
want to lose what I'm trying to gain weight. It's weird,
it's been weird. You're not being very nice. You're not
nice to me. You're not nice to me, wolf Man,
he's got it's funny. He's coming after you. You because
when you do that on the internet. You've got problems
with your life, wolf Man. Yeah, I hope they get better. No,
I don't I do. Oh, Wolfman, you're miserable. I hope
that you're sitting in your house right now and going
my life sucks and you're like, yeah, I made it

(35:11):
for myself. You probably did, wolf Man. Whatever you got
going on in your life, wolf Man, it can get better.
Just take the steps. I don't care, and I hope
you have a great weekend. All right, what do you
want to go to? Line one or two? Neither? I
guess line two? All right, No, you know, go ahead?

Speaker 10 (35:29):
Hi, Terry, Hey, what's going on, mister Texas.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
I'm great. Thanks for calling, Terry.

Speaker 10 (35:38):
Did you see the press conference with Dan Gilbert yesterday?

Speaker 1 (35:42):
I did not.

Speaker 10 (35:45):
Well, apparently you told the press. The press ask what
do you think about James Harden play? He said, we
brought him here to be a one and if we
don't win this series, James Harden isn't going anywhere. Kenny

(36:10):
Atkins is, so then he's done a purpose as.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
I don't. I don't believe he said that. I don't
believe that. He said that Kenny Atkins is on the
way out if they lose the series. I don't believe you.
I don't believe that's accurate.

Speaker 10 (36:23):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
I don't know. I don't. I'm gonna go look it up,
and if you're wrong, you never get to call the
show again. Are you ready to stake your claim on that?

Speaker 7 (36:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Okay, I don't. I don't believe that at all. I'm
gonna look it up. Have you had your morning coffee, Terry, Terry, did.

Speaker 10 (36:41):
You have your purr juice?

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Okay, I'm scared. Scared. Jonathan help me. I'm got him
in the other room. I want to continue to do
this show for as long as possible. But I need
better callers.

Speaker 11 (36:59):
I just.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
I just do.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
He did not threaten Kenny Atkinson's job over the game
loss yesterday. I'm sorry, stop making stuff up. Ross, I'm
trying to take a break. Let's sick. Okay, take a break.
Deep breaths for everyone. But am I wrong? Here's what

(37:24):
I want if you're smart and don't make things up?
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seventy If you want
to make things up and are not bright, text the
Wolfman at CDs nine nine to one three. He'd love
to have a great conversation with you. That's what I want.

(37:44):
Thirty years, Ross, I want to go thirty more years
with you. All right, I mean i'd be old, but
I still want to go thirty years with you. I
want smart. I don't believe it to be the case.
Just a hunch, Ted, I'm gonna go sir down Kenny
Atcketts's jobs in Jeopardy ten to fifty nine on Sports
Talk seven money, He's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

(38:12):
Everybody wants to get Terry at red Bull apparently rational.
Dombs says that Bross I went looking for Dan Gover,
looking to fire the coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. I
don't see anything on there just yet. I haven't seen
that either. No, Terry, by the way, he said he
was a multi millionaire two you know what he said?
He won the power Ball. Terry, I gotta be really honest.

(38:35):
Here's my here is my VINMOI account at sports empty.
It's gonna now cost you to come on the show.
How much? Well, if you're a power Bowl winner, that's
gotta be twenty five thousand dollars a call. Wow, Okay,
I want to see how serious he is. I don't
think he's got that much in the Venmo. If you
have pen, if you have if you won the power Ball,

(38:55):
you've got you've got Venmo money of that kind of money.
So Terry and ohioos around maybe making things up. I
need twenty five thousand dollars to come on my show.
Maybe it's all tied up in CDs. That wouldn't be
a great idea. If I'm Terry, why not I'd spend it.
Maybe he's wants to take care of his grandchildren, that's right,

(39:17):
and so you can take care of me too. I'm
probably old enough to be one of his grandkids. Twenty
five thousand dollars will take care of that. Okay, Hi, Rossie,
how the hell are you? I'm doing great, Matt. Now
we'll have a ball.

Speaker 9 (39:30):
Now.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Whoop boy wants to stick the ozempic needle in my neck?
That's not nice? Is it more effective there? I'm just
not seeing this little go go for the jugular? What
did you do to this guy? I didn't do anything.
He called he started calling me names the Sports Talk
seven on any accounts that congratulated my thirty years and
and he took shots at me. So you know what
I'm gonna I'm gonna king. I'm gonna king kung fu

(39:53):
back at you. I have changed my viewpoint on Twitter.
I'm going right at you because you guys are scared.
You're not nice people. So guess what, Just because you're
you want to be mean to me, I'm meaning to
you back. Boom bata boom and bab boom. Let's go mute,
done muting. I'm going right at you. Just be mean

(40:14):
to me back. I'm gonna be funnier and clever than
you are. Okay, it's not a good idea, is it,
ross No? Mute. That's not how you want to live
your life. Wolf Wolf. You've been officially muted. Ross wants
me muting. You do whatever you want. It's done. You'll
never see a wolf Man again. Not worth your energy.

(40:36):
And this is the thing too, is these these people
are trolling to try to get a rise out of you,
and you're giving them the satisfient. I'm enjoying it though, Okay, good.
If you're enjoying it, then you can then keep doing it.
Don't listen to me. He wants to put ozempic in
my neck. That doesn't feel nice. I'm trying to gain weight,
not lose it, all right, man? Yeah, I believe Kenny
Atkinson's and I mean, look, he's not gonna probably get

(40:58):
a nice five year extension of it, but he is
not getting get fired after the series. No, especially well
in fact, Dan Gilberto Well, I mean, yeah, owner's gonna
be quirky that way, that's for sure. Tom dibbodeou got
let go, and then the Nicks hired Mike Brown. Yeah,
but they're they're they're cruising. They're up to nothing in
their Eastern Conference series. Astros in Reds tonight will have

(41:21):
the on deck show at five o'clock. I think that's
what it is. Six oh five first pitch, six ten
somewhere there, right, Oh, I thought it was a f
I know, did I read wrong? I thought it was
a five to ten first pitch? Why are they doing
it so early?

Speaker 12 (41:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Five ten because I'm on post game, so five ten. Oh,
I see how it is. Tenseil's great, I see how
it is. Okay, all right, seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero. Let's go to our buddy soubs
on seven ninety at eleven zero five high soups.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
Hey, man, hey, congratulations on the thirty years. I mean, man,
I wish I saw to get picture. I was like, hey,
where's he?

Speaker 3 (42:02):
Who was it?

Speaker 5 (42:02):
The thunder the football team used to do?

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Yeah, the Thunderbears, the Thunderbears.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
Yeah yeah, it's like where's Thunderbears and arrows?

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Man?

Speaker 5 (42:10):
Like this is mister Texas, you know, h town? Like
you need show stickers on there too, So hey, man,
you know I loved all like family, and I first
so I first started listening y'all in twenty eleven when
I got back to Houston. I lost my daughter to
cancer in twenty eleven, and one of your guys was
one of my pall bearers, and so I started listing
asation then and then I argue and I was like, hey,

(42:32):
it's not the guy who did the PA and I
went back in and saw the tapes, you know, a
little bit heavier back then, but that's okay. Still love you.
You know that boys and you love to but man, like,
I can't picture anybody hating you.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
So this is why, Oh my god, people hate me,
and I'm okay. You know what, SUPs, I love you.
You and I know each other for a long period
of time. You know who I am, you know what
I bring. You know that this show is ninety nine
percent stick and for that, I love you for it,
and you have been with us all the way through.
So I don't need to say anymore but just thank you.

Speaker 5 (42:59):
Back to you, Hey, I need you to get a like,
get off my mic burner account, kind of like how
one of our players has a I don't even want
to repeat his so I don't get kicked off radio.
But I need that Burner account for you, and it
also need a sports MT posse. So we need to
protect our Houston treasures. So sports broke. That's okay, mister Harden.

(43:21):
So you know how they have I think what is it.
It's called rose or something like it is there like
a rose for playoff performances, you know?

Speaker 7 (43:27):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (43:27):
Because my boy needs that. Man Like I appreciate everything
he done in Houston. I may not have liked all
of it per se because I'm an old school like
nineties Like if somebody's like seven foot and trying to
block my shot, I'm putting my shoulder down and I'm
driving into the chest.

Speaker 7 (43:42):
And you know PJ.

Speaker 5 (43:43):
Tucker, Charles Barkley, old school Chucky Brown, you know the
short the short postky player man.

Speaker 13 (43:47):
I need.

Speaker 5 (43:49):
That's how I grew up on. In terms of the
NBA nineties, this whole, like I call it the hard
and araw ball SGA and all these guys like you
blow wind their way and their arms are flapping. And
I'm sure you saw the replay a homegrown last night,
like you thought he got shot? Uh, and then you're
looking nobody's here. I'm like, I can't stand that. I'm sorry,
I'm old school great grime. I'm okay with skilled players,

(44:11):
but you guys are too skilled this generation to be
doing all this swapping like it makes I'm not gonna
say it makes it unwatchable because I'm a basketball purist,
but it's just like, come on, man, but yeah, I
need that to go away. Anyway. My main call though,
today was for positivity, because again, man, we as Houston
true diehards that have been there through the lean year

(44:32):
of the Astros, and you're there doing to night listening
to take the calls of horrible take all right, you
deserve your flowers.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Man, I'm giving you a flow not necessary, but thank
you very much. Sue's great to have you call, and
I really means a lot that you do. So look, uh,
you all are too nice. It's just appearing in the
story and I'm just and wolf man. If you're listening,
God love you. You got some other issues going on,
and that's okay. We don't don't like everybody. Have a
great weekend, Yeah, have a grabbing a great weekend. Hey

(45:01):
go look at this. We're turning a new leaf. Even
though we've turned this leaf, but we're gonna turn the
leaf back. Look at subs getting you. Oh yeah, Johnny
in my you know what he's doing. He's getting me
in my my fields. He's going to make me a
better person. A Houston legend. Subs of course it is
Matt Thomas. We'll get you in there. We need to
get you in the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. No,

(45:21):
that's not gonna happen. I'm okay with you. You got
my vote, Thank you very much. No, I just let
me tell you something I don't mean. I don't want
to to get campy. I'm living my dream. You guys,
you don't realize. I didn't do anything in life to special.
I had the gift of gab, that's all I had.
And I worked. I worked with really good people. Jonathan,

(45:42):
You've been such an amazing producer for however many months
you got left with us, not like in life, but
it just doesn't work. Will you stop with that? God?
The worst ross. EVE been with me for sixteen years.
You were my second longest relationship in my life. That's
gonna throw up. That's not true. Well, my parents and
your son, oh, my sons, two of your children. Okay,

(46:04):
that's true. Actually no, uh was Carli born when you
were with me? I don't know. January of ten, two thousand,
yah born? Yeah, okay, yeah, so you're in the top
six outside of my family, my longest relationship. My god,
how about that for a breakdown? Oh that's great. And look,
when you do a radio show, everyone's gonna love you.

(46:25):
It's okay. I mean I don't love a lot of
people on radio right now. There's a lot of crappy
radio out there. People should be embarrassed that they consider
themselves media, but I don't, you know, and that's what
it is. Congratulations on the thirty great years, Matt. Yeah,
it's you know, you know what, call in and it's
call in and love all that. No, don't do calling

(46:49):
a rip on me. It's two years, one, two, five, seven,
wolf Man, where are you atone man? Call into? We
got things to get to. Thirty years in with iHeart Houston,
seven one, three, thirty five all years in radio though,
it's pretty good, thirty five more than some people have
been alive. Tough business, but it's it's definitely worth and

(47:09):
I think again it all comes on to you all.
If you don't like me, we went you know, if
ninety nine percent, if you didn't like me, we wouldn't
have a job.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Hate me.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
It's fine. Unlikable people don't have jobs that long. We've
seen it like this. Didn Winston Churchill say that when
they're a phrase about it? If everybody liked you, that
know you, you've never accomplished anything. Yeah, certainty want certain
your son talk to you about you in your philosophical era.
I know that's right. Did your son mention that to
you or something? It feels like the history major your son.

(47:39):
The boys are so happy we're finally going to do
something next summer. We talked about this as a family
dinner yesterday. What about this summer we got You're supposed
to Hawaii this summer. You said told me you were
going to relax for a week and you were going
to be on a beach and you weren't gonna you
were gonna look at your phone, and you were going
to calm down and be compressed. I know, not happening.
That's the reason why I can't hear on my right

(47:59):
of ear, and I've got the false subtle voice. I've
been trying to tell you to relax. I don't a
lot of back up here, So that's fine, will be fine.

Speaker 7 (48:08):
Oh, it's no.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
The show is important to me, very important to me.
That's good. Take your vacation time. Relax, we are gonna
go one year from September, we're gonna go to Interrustment.
I'm going, and I'm going. I don't believe you. We're
gonna do Abby Road. We're gonna beatle stuff old my
breath and then Camra, my oldest is a huge soccer fan,
wants to go to two different soccer games. So we're
gonna go to that. Okay, so one year from September,

(48:32):
mark it down. I'm told my breath, don't do that,
all right, love, it's also good. Yeah, and then after
that you're gonna come to ou Texas with me. Oh,
after that you're going to Hawaii. Relax. Stop calling me
out sucks. Colin Brian hang tib We'll get to you
in a minute. Eleven thirteen is our time. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three

(48:53):
two one two five seven ninety Well, I'm sorry, it's
coming up at eleven thirty here on Sports Chalk seven
ninety Madden Ross with you today and anything goes Friday
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.
If you want to join our program seven one three
two one two five seventy now you've been with us,
what fifteen years?

Speaker 11 (49:12):
Right?

Speaker 1 (49:13):
At least again, we're gonna have a little Ross celebration. No,
it's not about me, Matt, it is about you. No, no, no,
what is I've been here seventeen years. See the seventeen
is a terrible number.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
One.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
I'll get you like an even twelve. I've been in
the studio with you since March of nineteen. I count
before that. You were with me January twenty ten, not
the first day, but pretty close. I was there the
first day, but I wasn't full time the first day.
Did we get along?

Speaker 5 (49:40):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (49:40):
Okay, good got along from day one. We've always had
great chemistry. That's right, That's right, all right? Seven one three, two,
one two five seven any astros and reds uh? I'm well?
Hear an update? I think I think on Lance mccullor's
probably with Joe spoted today in Cincinnati. I l it's
got il written all over it. He's been terrible and
now fingernail fell off his hand. How long is that

(50:02):
bad boy take to grow back? Well, I mean he's
not a bionic animals, so how long when to take
the average person to do so? Like six months? He
needs yeah, he needs. Yeah, he's out the next six months. No,
I'm just saying that go back. But I mean, don't
pitchers use kind of their a little bit of their
fingernails sometimes depending on the grip or what it pitch
they're throwing. No, maybe that's like a I don't know,

(50:24):
like a forkball. But but to Jonathan's point, it ain't
gonna be ready to go in two weeks. Correct, Don't
you have to still throw eventually without it? You're telling
me the curveball, the number one thing that Lance mcculters
has in his arsenal is unavailable to him. Oh man, more,

(50:44):
do y'all not want to just first of all, don't
you want to hug each other? First of all? Yes, always,
But I mean it's not drugs, Matt. You're an Astros fan.
You go to the games. You enjoy the experience. Yes,
you enjoy the the U Beyonce, the and the energy
of a good old fashioned Ranger astro game or Mariner

(51:06):
astro game. And yeah, but I know the city of Houston.
He's gonna go on to something else. One to the
children's museum. Yeah, going kayaking?

Speaker 7 (51:16):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Yeah, Astros game or nice stroll down Memorial Park, double
Dutch on the sidewalk, go walking, Go get those steps in. Yeah,
go to h Paint and wine class and then now
this is what they signed up for. But the reality
is Joe spott On wanted to manage his way onto
getting a new contract. Yes, he's not managing the team

(51:40):
that he was given. He's being managed. He's managing a
team that the emergency room is giving him. It's it's
not been the way anybody envisioned Dana Brown, from Jim
Crane to Dana Brown to Joe's spotty, the players themselves,
Carls Carey doesn't want to be out for the year.
Hunter Brown wants to be out there. Hunter Brown, in
his financial interests needs what's a rack out? The rack

(52:05):
up the arbitration dollars and win cases and when it
gets to the settlement, Hey, how you doing well? You know,
attendance is part of the grade who It's been a disaster.
I'm sorry to think about this from a purely human element.
Here for a second. Danil Brown thirty plus years in baseball,

(52:29):
h I sound like I'm Joe Biden, thirty plus years
in baseball, thirty plus years in baseball and I I
finally got a chance to be of the leader general manager.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
But I you.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Wing, he gets one crack at this ross and his
team falls apart two of the three years his general manager.
Mm hmm, he inherits a World Series championship team. Yes,
just run the draft, do a good job.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
And maybe that catcher can be healthy? And bat is
weight walker?

Speaker 3 (53:06):
You on it.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Yeah, he's defensively he's ready apparently well, but so you
may have been defensively ready, light hitting defensive catcher. Brad
Austin says, hello, you don't build. You don't do that
with first round picks, though, ROSSI you just don't. Well,
a lot of first round picks don't even make the majors.
That's sound thing. I was like a third of I
think it's like a third of first round picks don't
even make maybe not a third, but somewhere around that.

(53:27):
And I know the Astros lost four picks because of
the cheek scandal. Yes, that does not That does not
crush your mode league system. You can still get I
have a crazy idea, what if you hit a second
round pick? I have another crazy idea, what if you
hit a fifth round pick? There's there's tenth or eleventh
round picks in the top one hundred prospect list. It
can happen.

Speaker 5 (53:47):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
It hasn't happened with Dana Brown and the Astros though,
Well they're all double there, Single A and he's managing
for his career, he's trying to be the general manager
for his career, not necessarily worried about temping at the
single level. Well, let's go to Kyle on seven ninety. Hi, Kyle, So, guys, congrats,
mat appreciate it.

Speaker 14 (54:08):
So so my question to you guys, I know the
sample size for Eaton peco And has been pretty small
so far this year, and Ulola has kind of been struggling.
And of course we have the guys that are reh
having right now, like Nate Pearson out of like that group,
like let's I know there's that like a group of
guys that they tend to go to that rotate back

(54:30):
and forth between the big league club and Triple A.
But it's something were to happen to those guys. Who
do you think out of those three of peco Ula
and Pearson will get the get the nod first out
of that group.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Probably Pearson will be my guess, Juliola has been down
on the minor leagues for a year and I've heard
no serious piece throwing strikes. He's just he's not He's
just I think he's a triple A pitcher is all
I've heard. You know, Pearson, they wanted to see up
for the big leagues. They they were trying to find
a spot for him to open up the year. And
again I I don't follow them up leagus very closely
because I want to follow the major leagues. Well, start

(55:05):
learning sugar Land, buddy. Our old number on the sugar
Land numbers are not going well for us because all
of them have been called up and Pearson's the only
one on the forty man. Yeah, Uliola has not. I
mean we do minor league reports. I think I've been

(55:25):
talking about Miguel Luluola for like a year and a
half now. Yeah, he's uh yeah, I guess he's been
in the oven for a while. Merinick. Yeah, he's like
over at a bolt, like sitting in that chicken, just
sitting there on the grill. Yeah, five point seven to
e r A this year. No, here's there's nothing they're ross.

(55:50):
There's nothing on the farm. Is ready to come up
here and help. We've already had Jason Alexander's already come here.
Colton Gordon's already come up here, Cody, Cody Gordon, I
mean Colton, whatever their names are. Twenty walks in twenty
eight innings, a whip of one point five, that's triple A.

(56:10):
He's twenty four. I mean he'll get a shot, I
mean clearly, especially if things really fall by the wayside
here second half of the year. But there's no one
in the Astros organization has come and whispered and said, man,
we are just keeping him down there just cuz, I mean,
y'all bitch him. Complained about Arraghetty being down there for

(56:30):
three starts or so. Yeah, Erragedty doing Erraghedty doing well.
There was a lot of buzz of aragedy. Yeah, and
again it was the right decision to keep him down there,
get him ready to go, give him, get you five
six innings or could get him built up. Yeah, and
it's paid off. Let's talk to Brian on seven ninety Brian,

(56:50):
good morning to you.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
Ross.

Speaker 15 (56:53):
You said, Yulola's got five seven two era and twenty walks.
He won't fit him perfectly.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
With our roadation. Truly, all we.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
Do is walk.

Speaker 15 (57:02):
So he is major League ready according to this year's
Astro's pitching staff.

Speaker 16 (57:07):
So you know it can't it can't be.

Speaker 15 (57:09):
Any worse, but because these guys walk tons of batters anyway.
But Matt, congratulations. Like through the years, I'm I'm finally
happy you guys have found a good time slot. The
Whiplash and you guys, you and Ross moving around from
early mornings with man Smrlined and being the proper gentleman

(57:32):
to the late afternoons to the lunchtime to the semi
early late morning drive and the Whiplash was just gitting ridiculous.
I can only imagine with you. But you guys have
found your good little brunch spot there and it's perfect
and and you've had some great callers over the years, Matt.

(57:53):
You know, nobody has done it like Howard Memorials. So
if they to channel my Howard and Memorial if the
Astros let go of Dana Brown, I know Howard would
want them to reach out to Jerry.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
That's right, still doing.

Speaker 15 (58:08):
There's nobody he would want more to turn this team around,
and you know, put together the ninety eight Astros again,
I'm sure Moyst the salou Is is available and uh,
you know, and I'm sure Mike Hampton could give you
a couple innings, so that one's for you, Howard over
the thirty years, so I don't think he was very
high on temprepur and God who would be my only

(58:32):
hope for you over the next fifteen twenty years, however
long you're in radio is maybe they get you some
halfway decent working equipment. Thank you at iHeart, maybe maybe
maybe to stop using Windows ninety five.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Brian you are you are a you ar a p
one you know the show, and thank you very much.
And I shouldn't complain about the equipment, but we just
don't have great equipment, and I will we had better equipment,
and I love the people we work with. It's working today,
you know what. Why do we talk good about the

(59:07):
equipment when it's working? Thank you, computer, You're doing a
great job, all right. I appreciate you. We wanted to
play Peter Lambert on the tent on the on Deck show,
didn't we?

Speaker 7 (59:15):
The other day?

Speaker 1 (59:16):
Johonathan Dina, you don't Russell know that I do know
I was listening. See but the hey, eight out of
nine bits played, that's a good hit rate. Billion, two
hundred trillion, two hundred billion dollars. See, that's how much
we spent our equipment that worked.

Speaker 6 (59:35):
Tom was doing such a hard Jod trying to get
everything figured out over here, and they're just help them out.

Speaker 5 (59:39):
Phones.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
We look, we took a bunch of phone calls today.
They all worked.

Speaker 16 (59:42):
They all.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
Yeah, there's a terrible scat static to it. Got a
change your perspective, Matt. You know what is a winning day?
Equipment wise? Tom Planner one of our engineers here, the
only one I don't know his name. Tom is wonderful
and his takes the bare of our of our unhappy
life are working today. See look look at this bright,
shining smile from Jonathan Allen.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
I know it all.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
You know what, I'm gonna apologize. I'm gonna I'm gonna
apologize the engineering department for one day. You should all right,
I've said things, I've done things. I need to apologize.
This is more about me than you. Welcome to this
week's edition of this I'm sorry, so sorry. Seven one

(01:00:37):
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three two,
one two five seven ninety. What are you apologizing for.
Let's hear it right now. I will start boys, because
you all were attacking me yesterday and probably it was fair.
I really thought at the end of the day, the
cure to a touch sweet Emi rebound for the Astros

(01:00:58):
was hiring a hooker for him. I want to say
to the Astros. I want to say to Tatsui EMI's
family maybe a girlfriend he has, I'm sorry.

Speaker 15 (01:01:07):
Sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
Sex and freelance relationships do not solve anything ross, meaningful,
down to earth, heartfelt. I'm sorry, and a poa doesn't
do it necessarily do it every time a point of
attack correct. So to the e my family into Tatsui

(01:01:33):
next week when you pitch against the Mariners and I
didn't get you hooker, I will not be responsible for
if you suffer, and if you're successful, I will double
down and say I'm sorry again. You still want to
get a hooker? Not a hooker, but maybe just a
romantic friend. Romantic friend? Yes, what does that mean? That

(01:01:54):
just means a hooker? Well, I mean he doesn't have
to know what I paid for it. Hi, Hi, I'm mad,
this is my romantic friend. What are you talking about
he secretly want to be a pimp? Are you a pimp?
Let me ask you your name? Gator? If I if
he was to throw six innings, one run, four hits,
five strikeouts, and he was told and somebody asked him

(01:02:17):
what was the difference, and he said it wasn't because
of the hard man was going to something else that
was Oh see, you're you're apologizing. You always give the
worst apologies on this segment. You know what, I'm apologizing
to the my family on behalf of you. I'm sorry, sorry,
I'm sorry. Matt's the worst. I'm sorry that the sushi

(01:02:38):
ins Corpus Christie wasn't great, or apparently the sushi wasn't
great in sugar Land, although Sugarn's got a good sushi market. Right,
all right, there's my sorries. I want to say, I'm
sorry for the wolf man who hates me. You're I
don't think you're sorry. Again. Here, let's see, I wish
him to get into a fiery crash, and for that,

(01:03:00):
I say, I'm sorry. Give me just a general crash,
not a fiery one. Well, see what you just wish
him to get in to a car crash. You're not sorry, Okay.
I wish him to get safely to whoever he needs
to get to. That's better. Is that better? Yes, even
though you don't mean it, you don't know that, Yes,
I do. Ross. What are you sorry for?

Speaker 7 (01:03:22):
You know?

Speaker 5 (01:03:22):
Madam?

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
Sorry I didn't get you a thirtieth anniversary gifts, So
I'll give you an audio gift. Congratulations. Thirty years of
hard work, dedication, laughs and good insights, some better than others,
some better than others. But at the end of the
days taught me a long time ago and entertainment medium.

(01:03:43):
I've learned a lot from you and it's been a joy.
And I wouldn't rather work with anyone else, certainly at
the station. Other stations, you wouldn't mind here at seven Hoey,
I'm your guy. Thank you, Ross, so thank you. By
the way, I'm sorry for not getting you anything. Mark
Mark Grace, Yeah, got him some love. You're talking about

(01:04:04):
him and slump Buster, Yeah, thirty years ago. Yeah, but
some busters still working twenty twenty six. Okay, he's the one.
What's what's he My situation is he married? Whatever it is,
it's not good, it's not good. Take his mind off
the happy. Oh, he's happy because his mound is hard.
He's happy that his pitch clock is short. I thought

(01:04:25):
the mound was too soft. It's too hard. Now, I
don't know, Maybe it's just me. It's like it's like
it's like, uh, he's like Mortolocks is Porridge, he is Goldielocke.
He's the Goldilocks of major leagues. All right, John, Then
what are you apologizing for this? What is happening?

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
Oh? You know what?

Speaker 6 (01:04:40):
I I want to apologize because I was driving home
and somebody was getting arrested. And you know, I'm one
of those people that like slow down to like be nosy.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
Oh no, you're not. But it was bad because I
had rolled down my window and like I had slowed down,
and then you know, I'm creep up and then like
I guess, I started fighting someone was really getting arrested.
That was a oh snap, and I kind of broke
harder and the car behind me hunt and I had
to swerve. I was like all into I was like
I was not fucks on the road, and I really

(01:05:09):
want to say I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
Sorry.

Speaker 6 (01:05:12):
I just really wanted to know. I didn't y'all, don't
slow down, WUHTI You see like a crash or something.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
Y'all don't do that now you were You're saying sorry
because you're nosy.

Speaker 6 (01:05:20):
I'm saying sorry for both honestly, because I really break checked,
broke check whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
The car behind me too, break checking people out there.
I'm worried about you, Jonathan. No, it was it was
in the neighborhood. You know, I just slowing down. I
didn't know anybody was behind me. It was like late
at night. It was like eleven thirty. Y'all. Don't do that. Really,
when I see an accident, I maybe want to go look,
but I don't, so I just go right on by

(01:05:46):
because I don't want to be a part of the accident.
You just walk on by, like Dione Warwick. Correct. But
this was this was that a sonic like someone's getting
the rest of at the sonic. The workers were out,
so you were being nosy, you know, so apologize for
being nosy? Is your sonic go two meal? By the way, Well,
you know, I don't eat food from Sonic. I only
get the French toes.

Speaker 6 (01:06:04):
I think the food that well that's called food, Okay,
I get the friend toes. I had a friend that
worked there in high school told me some awful stories
about how they make food over there.

Speaker 1 (01:06:14):
I couldn't do it anymore. Uh not sponsored the show,
probably not gonna be now hmm, this is this is
John's here, Yes, Jo producer root forty four ounce iced
tea for me on sweet and probably some chili chili

(01:06:35):
cheese fries cherry lime made cherr limema for the wain
is that's fire. The goat Burger's a little overrated because
there's just there's just nothing that this Sonics mash is good?
Then hold on, First of all, you can't say overrated.
Nobody's ever been. Nobody's ever come to you and said, Matt,
You're never gonna believe where I got the best burger
of all time? Sonic nobody, nobody's ever said that. Okay,

(01:06:58):
so I'll talk about no sponsor, bad comic. However, the
Sonic smash is very good. Corn dog can't go wrong
with that, Chicken fingers can't go wrong with that. I'm
not a big tatero top guy. I'm in the minority
on that. I think, why not, I just did something wrong?
You tato to boss who doesn't they're okay? I mean
I I would eat choice top potato wedges, fringe fries,

(01:07:21):
curly fries. Yeah, you're not eating the right ones. I'll
tell you what the move, You're not the move. The
Sonic Sunday is really good. The soft ice cream right
at the top, everything all.

Speaker 6 (01:07:34):
Right, Sonic is actually really good, except when you get
to that red meat stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
The red meat stuff that's called burgers. Does burgers there
they don't have, they don't have. The chicken fried six
sandwiches aren't bad, you know what I I I apologize
to Sonic. Your food isn't as bad as to be.
The smash burgers they're literally smashed like they're wrapping that.
They're not very big, and your wound up being hungry

(01:08:01):
like twenty minutes today. I'm gonna go back and try
and I'll report give us a video too. We want
a video of you at Sonic watching people get in
the car crashes. Let's talk to Jared on seven and Jared,
what are you apologizing for?

Speaker 13 (01:08:15):
Hey, Matt Monday, you had a little bit of a crash.

Speaker 10 (01:08:19):
Out on air.

Speaker 8 (01:08:20):
Yes, I did, and I'm the guy that runs space
of the sports and I would like to take responsibility
for posting your quote on Twitter and causing him absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
Oh, don't worry about it, Jared, We're going to go.
We're good.

Speaker 13 (01:08:33):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
You knew what you were doing, Jared, you knew you
were You knew what you were doing.

Speaker 9 (01:08:37):
Me.

Speaker 13 (01:08:38):
I posted it because I felt vindicated, because I agreed
with him and that he just turned into a human panata.

Speaker 1 (01:08:45):
But all all of your little buddies called me retards,
and I wasn't mean that's the first of all, it's
a terrible term.

Speaker 8 (01:08:52):
Those are not my buddies, as my followers.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
Well whatever, But I mean they were very rude to me,
and I'm saying they were terrible. Weren't they terrible? And
I didn't do anything. I just said. I just said
that blaming Joelah Spotter for this team's lack of success
is it is the dumbest thing.

Speaker 7 (01:09:06):
You can do.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
And as you know, Jared Astro, Twitter can be a
little toxic occasionally or every day.

Speaker 13 (01:09:11):
Yeah, it's a terrible place and I'm sorry I put
you through that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
Yeah, that's fine. I'm bad. I got a big boy
books on Thank you Shepherd for the Savior of the Rockets. Yeah,
thank you, Jared. That what Jared said? Nah, we argued
one time he was said Udoka needs to be fired
for not starting Reed Shepherd. He went on, Charlstone's still here?
You Medoka still here? Oh you know what what Ross
has to apologize?

Speaker 6 (01:09:34):
Speaking of Reed Shepherd, what happened this feelings early in
the seasons that Reid would never be a starter ever
and this season.

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
That's true only because of injury. And then it was also, yeah,
I did. I talked about that when it happened. I
said it would only be because of injury, which was
true until Tarry Easton became like one of the worst
players on the team, and so yeah, it was good.
Well then also the last few games it was injury
as well. He didn't start when Kevin Durant was healthy.
So so you apologize me, don't worm out of Jared.

(01:10:06):
We're good. Just tell your asteroid Twitter fans. I was
just making a tall He knew what he was doing.
I don't believe you, Jared for a second.

Speaker 17 (01:10:16):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
Call me all sorts of names, and I simply had
a take, and then I became handicapped for some reason.
Mute button and then the mute this conversation button is
very helpful as well. You were so practical for this show.
I hate it love and forty five. We go back
on the phones next for more I'm sorry. So one

(01:10:39):
of my listeners says that uh tatsu Emi is happily
married with kids. So if that's the case, I really
double say I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I can't find it,
but I'm sure. I look y'all don't tell me lies right,
you don't let to me?

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
Maybe?

Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
Here we go seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
ninety Kevin says, injuries and astros, we're gonna hold you
for a little bit after the news, So Kevin, do
not go away. I swear to God we'll get to you.
But we've got a couple of folks that want to
say I'm sorry. First of all, Ralph says he wants
to teach Matt girlfriend experience. Ralph, what kind of experience
you want to teach the audience here? Please?

Speaker 18 (01:11:19):
I'm just trying to help you with the lingo, mister Matt,
to keep your feet out of hot water. I don't
know that you're so wrong, but maybe the burbage would
be a little bit better.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
Sure, please, So.

Speaker 18 (01:11:32):
It's called the girlfriend experience here in twenty twenty six
as opposed to a hooker.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
Oh so just saying girlfriend experience clarifies everything.

Speaker 18 (01:11:44):
Well, it jazzes it up below.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
Yeah, okay, I don't know if missus Emi would agree
with me on that or you for that matter, but
I will take it ato advisement. Have great day, man,
Thank you.

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

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
If he's married, look, I mean be like me going
to the varibles saying, hey, let's get this all fixed up.
That's a bad example. That has a bad example. Sorry
for that one very bad example. And yeah, apparently he
is married, and I believe they have at least one child. Okay,
So to tatsu Emi, may your rubber wound in the

(01:12:19):
mount the rubber not sandy. You guys are gonna go
that way. They're coupled. It was announced that he and
his wife were pregnant with their first child in February
this February. H So that's the reason why he's so
off kilter. He's having too much relations. He needs to

(01:12:39):
go back to the JJ Watt philosophy, don't have relations.
Wait a second, Yeah, wait a second, Yeah, you spouted
the last two days. He needs to get laid. Now
you're saying he needs to not get laid correct. Abstinence
is everything. What is wrong with you, Matt Thomas. Brain
is is a one of I'm gonna tell you that

(01:13:02):
what is wrong with you? What do we want him
to do? I want to throw strikes. I want to
pitch innings and for the major league team, whatever it takes.
Don't you when you are when you're on a slump
of some sort, don't you change who you are? You
don't just wake up the same thing and do the
same thing every morning. Right, Okay, I'm just throwing it

(01:13:25):
out there. The Astros that they're gonna be competitive, need
their eighteen million dollar guy out there to compete every
fifth day or sixth day. So we're asking for Ross
m h. I'm asking to be cy young, asking me
a twenty game winner. Just give us six competent innings
and not worry about everything but the game itself, the pitch.

(01:13:50):
I mean, he's got to take care Scotty beast down.
Please do this either. You know Scotty Bee can't be pleased.
Take care of your clients, take care of your boss,
take care of your fan base. We loved you, Ross,
We threw the h is up for you. I threw
the h is up for him. No you didn't, did?
You're a liar? Yes, I I've missed to throw up
the anxious guy all the time. It's like eight lies today.

(01:14:13):
I will throw up the H when he gives us
a quality start, not a quality rare starter, one of
those BS things you're making up. Quality start light, quality start, diet,
quality start zero sugar. I want quality start, quality start.
I don't take a quality start light, then I'm throwing
up the HS. Quality start light is at least five
innings and two or fewer runs. JT on seven ninety

(01:14:37):
j T, what are you sorry for?

Speaker 12 (01:14:40):
I actually want to say sorry on behalf of Mike Brabel.
And this sorry goes out to Amy Adams Trump because
I think she's hired the investigator that's dropping all the.

Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
Little conspiracy.

Speaker 12 (01:14:56):
I'm sorry, Hm, I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (01:15:02):
I will never apologize for Amy Krunk Strunk for anything.
She took my football team from me or her dad did,
and she was complicit to it, So suck it. Yeah,
I don't have a football team, but I will when this.
When the Texans to make the Super Bowl, it was
all bandwagon like a mudda And she's been running out
all this oiler stuff and now they got the new
colors of the oilers. She's trolling Houston. I'm not apologizing either,

(01:15:26):
miserable woman who I hate and I never met or
met her. I don't care if she's got more money
than God. I don't care. She's gonna burn your straight
down hate in your heart. Matt, I do you know
what I'm gonna sick? What's his name on Amy Krunk's trunk?
Guy was hating me on Twitter earlier? Go after him?
Wolf Wolfman, Wolfman, go after Amy Krunk's trunk. I went

(01:15:47):
ahead and muted wolf Man in solidarity. Mat Oh, that's
nice of you. Follows Channel of Rome and Adam Clayton.
Those guys could be solid blocked a s ob All right,
let's continue, uh, Steve, once you apologize to Ross, Steve,
go ahead, please?

Speaker 17 (01:16:06):
Hey, Ross, I'm sorry I crusted you out a couple
of weeks ago after a Rockets game and I said
a couple of f words on there, and I'm great
thanks to you that she did not block me on Twitter.
You can't right back at me.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
Uh okay, I'm sorry Ross. Steve Ross is a nice one,
so that's nice him to do that. I don't remember
Steve what the conversation was, but thank you for your apology.

Speaker 17 (01:16:31):
It was the Rockets blew something, you know, against the Lakers,
and I was upset.

Speaker 1 (01:16:36):
Okay, so it's okay, Steve. I hope you have a
great week away.

Speaker 17 (01:16:41):
And I'm having a great weekend out here in the
Hill Country. I'll come out here one day.

Speaker 7 (01:16:46):
I love.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
I was in Austin this this week. What do you
What are you doing in Austin, Steve? Or you are
you Frederick Cargaware.

Speaker 17 (01:16:55):
Called Fisher in your Blanco when memberly?

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mister text, I know where
that is.

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
Steve.

Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
What do you do out there?

Speaker 17 (01:17:05):
Nothing? I hike and do nine ten bowl in every
week out here and just take it easy.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
God love you. That's thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:17:16):
You.

Speaker 1 (01:17:16):
You know I want to live Steve's life thanks to
the phone call. What's the famous heritage craft brewery in Blanco, Texas, Matt?
That of course would be Schmekekels. What's that shiners? No
old style? Come on man, real ill brewing. I I
don't drink out there because you're not mister Texas.

Speaker 15 (01:17:38):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:17:38):
I drink water and you're not mister Texas, drink water
from the beautiful mountain ranges on the hills of the
Hill Country. Oh you know this is the question, mister Texas.
But water do you drink at the house Ozarka, the
biggest Texas. I think he's lying, But how do you
know I'm not lying?

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
Oh you do is lie last minute as much last believe? Hello, James.

Speaker 5 (01:18:06):
Yeah, I want to apologize for all the Dallas renegade talks.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
Dallas for renegade talk and the gambler talk. Yeah, you
apologize for that too.

Speaker 5 (01:18:16):
Oh maybe you should be the one apologizing. Then maybe
you should be apologizing, not mean the gambler nation.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
Thank you gambler. It's not a nation when there's like
one person there, there's no nation. Nation needs like a thousands.
I think they're counting the workers in the attendance. I
think they are. And I guess you did attend the game.

Speaker 5 (01:18:38):
He did.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
He was the one that was there. All right, Hey,
let's wake the strippers up. You want to now?

Speaker 3 (01:18:42):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
Why not? I don't know how the voice is going
to go on this. Let's have Jonathan do it. Old Ross,
I can probably give you ten seconds. Don't clip that
which she said, don't clip that too late. I'm gonna
try to give you fifteen seconds to wake the strippers up.
We'll do that and get this news at noon going.

(01:19:03):
And we've got non Flora stories, and we've got Helly Air.
No I want to say's edition of Helly Air not ELV.
I know, no clue. All right, we'll figure something out.
Twelve o'clock on seven ninety is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross twelve oh four h.

Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
Town, goodx Bars.

Speaker 1 (01:19:44):
It's our three of them, Mount Thomas showing Ross. This
is Sports Talk seven ninety Okay, okay, okay, really that's enough.
You were just sewing the bit. You weren't laughing that line.

(01:20:05):
I don't think or was I. By the way, happy
congratulations on the retirement to PJ. Tucker. I realized he
was in the league for a while. But the Rockets
are announcing his retirement. We see on the end of
the bench somewhere. Was it Miami or something? He had
a lot of dnps. Did not dress Yeah, not with team.

(01:20:27):
Oh I'm sorry?

Speaker 8 (01:20:28):
What what? What?

Speaker 1 (01:20:31):
Uh? Okay? He was on the Knicks last year, was he?
Or this is in twenty five? I forgot him even
being here.

Speaker 7 (01:20:36):
No, this is he.

Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
I don't think you plenty in the league, Jucker, believe
it or not, let's do it. Longhorn legend, that is
your guy. I got one for you right now. That's
gonna be on there Big twelve Player of the Year.
Believe it. Yes, all right there it is PJ. Tucker retires.
That is uh today's edition of Hell here not at
one fifteen. I got another one, but it's not gonna
be a question. There was one time where he threw

(01:20:57):
down an alley oop and it was on Sports Center's
Top ten and I was in the background cheering. I
made it on Sports Center's Top ten. It was me
because of PJ. Tucker. Thanks PJ. Tucker. Probably one of
the biggest shoebies I've ever met my entire life. Jim
Freeze City, we'd go to ten Bears shoe. Yeah, he's
a sneaker, big time sneaker head. Yep, but everybody knows that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:18):
Al right.

Speaker 1 (01:21:18):
Twelve eight, let's get to the news at noon. Well, Matthew,
gotta be honest, not a whole lot going on in
the news at noon. You did have some NBA action
last night, as you had the Cleveland Cavaliers following a
falling one oh seven to ninety seven to the Detroit Pistons,

(01:21:41):
thunder dispatch of the Lakers to take a two to
nothing lead in that series, one twenty five to one
oh seven. Austin reeves thirty one points, but not good enough. Also,
though the NBA Twitter streets are a buzz talking about
James Harden, another game, now thirty of them in his
career out of one hundred and eighty two where he

(01:22:03):
had more turnovers than the field goals, made complicated legacy
for James Harden. It's not complicated. I think it is complicated.
He's an MVP, he's an all time great. He is
somebody who he has eleven forty point games in the playoffs,
but nobody's gonna I know I was gonna remember. I

(01:22:25):
want to, but nobody can remember. But it happened. Just
because you don't remember something doesn't mean it didn't happen.
I think he will go down as a playoff choker.
I think it's yeah. I think it's easy. I know
just because somebody goes down in something doesn't mean that's
what it is. He did have some good games. They
would have won a championship in eighteen. They were favored

(01:22:45):
in those twenty twelve points. They were, but I don't
I don't really I mean, I don't remember twenty twelve
at all, so I can't really speak to it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:53):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
He was terrible, especially in the Games of Miami. People
think he was partying too much. All one of the
all time great partiers. Nobody's disputing that big ego, four
hundred million plus dollars made in his NBA career, and
bad playoff performances, especially now at thirty seven years old,
at thirty six thirty seven years old. It funny, though
you brought eleven, well eleven forty point playoff performances. I

(01:23:17):
would think the average NBA fan, I'm not talking about
the ones that are like the h The historians would
say you're making that up, yes, because people don't remember
that stuff, But they'd be wrong. That's what I'm saying.
Just because you go down as something doesn't mean it
never happened, or just because some people don't want to
remember stuff doesn't mean it never happened. I think I
think the legacy is built, especially within the last seven

(01:23:40):
or eight years, and especially towards his end of his
time in Houston. I mean the was a hoop block
on mind you, nobly the block blocked his shot right
in front of me. That was in twenty seventeen, I believe. Yeah,
but there was no time left on the clock. He
knew he had to shoot, so he went up for
the block. He had twelve turnovers against the Warriors one time,
and then the next game he was like one for eleven.
So let's go out to something more encouraging. Uh Astros

(01:24:04):
opening up a three game set against the Cincinnati Reds. Hey,
the Reds are struggling. Mike Burrows, Spencer Arraghetti and the
TVD on Sunday twelve forty start on Sunday three, ten Tomorrow,
five to ten tonight here on Sports Talk seven ninety
with yours truly on the Astros Tinting Show. So the

(01:24:25):
Atoms do a shorter show today, Yes, and they don't
pick up any extra shifts on the on deck in
ten todnent that's correct. Okay, Wishing them the best does
seem obially fair, but that's fine elsewhere in the news, Matt. Apparently,
as you if you recall, the Seattle Seahawks went up
for sale after they won the Super Bowl and potential

(01:24:45):
buyers have been not knocking down their doors. What's the
asking price? I am not sure. I have not seen that.
But an executive off the record telling ESPN that the
market for the the Seattle Seahawks is quote soft. There
isn't as much action as there was with Denver and Washington.

(01:25:06):
I think it's because of market size or reach. I mean, honestly, look,
the Seahawks are the champions, but they don't gather any
sort of national cachet. Sports business insiders speculated it would
spark a bidding war and the franchise could fetch up
to eleven billion dollars. A League spokeperson to declining comment

(01:25:29):
as yeah, I believe it is owned by the estate
of Paul g Allen.

Speaker 8 (01:25:35):
And all.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
By the way, it is not a foregone conclusion that
Seattle gets to w gets a NBA franchise. Explain that
it sounds like to me that the people are coming
in for Las Vegas. Not only are they coming in
for Las Vegas, but they're also bringing a new arena
with them. There's wants to be an arena on the
other side of I fifteen. There's a group of people

(01:25:57):
that want to bring a Vegas arena to downtown Loss
Vegas's interesting. Yeah, the tea Mobile would only be used
as a temporary facility because if you've been the T Mobile,
I was there two years ago, it's a man all
all right, Yeah, it's it's no frills. Okay, Now, it's
good for the die, it's good for the the hockey team,

(01:26:18):
the what do they call the Golden Knights. Oh, they
play a T mobile. Yeah, okay, But I think the
NBA team is going to get its own building in
downtown because they're trying to add layers of downtown. So
the charm of our downtown that we love Ross m
will become solist before you know it. Well, I can't wait.
Sounds great. There you go, Matt, there's your news at noon.

(01:26:41):
I want to read you a quote from Kelvin Samson
we come back.

Speaker 5 (01:26:46):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:26:46):
I can't. I can't play it because he swears we're broke. No,
he doesn't let the man say what he wanted to say.
And just jes why he walked it back, not me,
he walked it back. I kind of helped him, right,
I help him. I think we're not broke, sure, but
we're gonna hear what I'm gonna tell you what Kelvin
Samson said about our university Houston. It is anything goes Friday,
Ross explaining the essence and anything goes Friday at seven

(01:27:08):
one three two one two five seven ninety. Anything knows
Fridays seventy one three two one two five seven ninety
longest leash, and the biz gets even longer on a Friday.
Anything you want to talk about. We have Rockets off season,
we have NBA stuff. We have the Astros getting ready
for a three game set. He talks to you. EMI's

(01:27:28):
pitching next week. How we feeling about the stros I.
We don't have a bunch of all the Texans, but
it's many, it's many. It's a mini camp for the rookie.
Matt Thomas needs your idea gifts, gift ideas for Mother's Day?
Sethy's fine yours and also if you want to congratulate
Matt on thirdy No, no nos. At my heart, I'd
rather you rip on me for no love for you

(01:27:49):
to congrest. Oh, that's ridiculous. He's lying. He told you
he lies fifty times a day. He wants, he secretly
wants you to love on him. So do it seven
one three, no, one two five seven ninety, tell him
how great is That's not congratulate him on thirty years
not true, don't do that. Let's just talk some sports.
Let's have some good times talks and sports. Let's push
the agenda that Jhonath's gonna say with us at the

(01:28:10):
end of the year. Let's keep that Ross is gonna
be here for the long term. That's where we want
to win at seven one, three, five seven NINTI is
the anything goes Friday here on seven ninety. Boys need
a ruling real quick? Is it anything goes Friday. I'm
not gonna get in a deep dive of the uh

(01:28:30):
Astros reds. Hopefully a successful series. We'll talk about a Monday.
But since it's and it goes Friday, I would say
pound for pound. When you get into a uh Facebook
real comedy sketch or something on Twitter usually involves family feud.
The version hosted by what's the ball guy's name? Um,

(01:28:55):
Michael Michael chicklicks no, no, the guy that hosted Steve Harvey,
Steve Harvey. You said, what's the bull guy's name? There's
more than one ball guy, so Steve Harvey hosts the
family feud, and they do a very good job of
clipping their raunchy risque. They know what they're doing. Yeah,
name something you put in your mouth that you don't
spit out. They know what they're gonna say, so do

(01:29:18):
that on purpose. I was in the bathroom just a
minute ago and the guy was at the urinal doing
what he needed to do, and he has a family
feud reels on. Okay, I kind of feel like they're
always going to be there for you. Get your business done.
Let's something ness, let's not be at the urnal on
the phone. We asked one people. It's very common people

(01:29:43):
on the urinal in the if you're sitting down or
two different No, don't blast me. I don't need to
hear what you're listening to. I mean, I guess, are
you trying to cover up your noises? I don't know
what people are doing in there. No, nobody wants to
he or what video you're watching. I think I think no, No,
I think urinal antiphone on the urnal, very antiphone.

Speaker 8 (01:30:08):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:30:09):
I mean you gotta have no, yeah at the urinal
two and drop that thing in there. But he had
get get off your phone for five seconds. He had
the Family Feel Family Feud reels in his right hand,
in his It's Bad unit in his left hand. Now,
of course we all struggle with screen time, but man,
that's just the next level. It's ridiculous. Yeah, sitting down,

(01:30:34):
I kind of get it. I just don't get it
at the urninal because urinal's about a thirty five to
forty second procedure. Correct, you mean you can't go forty
seconds without watching. We asked one of people this, you
need to get a grip on life for sure. You
got a grip on something for sure. I'm talking about
something else. He has phone. I would hope. Yeah, let's
you know what, let's just say that. Yeah, it but

(01:30:59):
two to Steve Harvey's credit Family Feud, those clips do well,
that's the hobby airport. One time I was sitting across
from this guy who was just cackling. I think I
brought this up to you one time, just I mean
belly laughing. I'm like, I said, excuse me, what is
so funny because I'm watching Family Feud, fast money answers. Huh,

(01:31:20):
it's struck up a conversation. Interesting, I don't know, hunching
it is. I just wanted to bring it up. I mean,
you know it is funny. Uh, you know, the the
intensity of family feud can cause some strange answers to
come out, for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:31:38):
But they set people up too, they do, they do,
all right, it is a madd in ross with you
at seven one three two one two five seven. It
isn't only anything goes Friday there. I just want to
bring that up for the audience. Seven one three two
one two five seven nine zero Astros and Red's beginning
a series. You mentioned we got Mike Burrows going the night?
Is that correct? Mike Burrow? Now he did somewhat turned

(01:32:00):
the corner a couple of days ago. Is her is
under six? Now that's good quality start in Boston, quality
start light against the Yankees five innings to earned runs?
What why are you smiling? So when does it become
When does it come from a quality start light to

(01:32:20):
not even a quality start light. It's got it's basically
got to be five innings, as you were, a one
or two runs. If it's five innings, is a quality
starting not four? Five in I used to work with
somebody used to make up a bunch of metrics. Okay,
quality start light. Okay, I'll go for it, because five
gets you a win. Look if exactly you get your

(01:32:42):
win and you gave up only two runs, that gives
you a chance. Now the Astros lost that game mate
to three. You give your you give your team a
chance quality start light, you'll take it. If Mike Burrows
goes five innings and only gives up two runs to
I will take any Astros starter giving me five. I
think these days that's right. But here's the problem when

(01:33:04):
I say that, if you said give me five every
single time, you're still gonna wear at your bullpen. He's
got two quality start lights and a quality start so
far this season. He's got to be better. So I
make things up and I get made fun of. You
make things up and they sound logically exciting. Yeah, because
I'm the things I make up are are makes sense.

(01:33:25):
What did you make up? I don't know. I'm just
thinking about what I'm gonna start. I'm gonna start bringing
some new stats at the table every week. Okay, No
I expect that at XLA. Oh, by the way, you
like ESPN with the exit velocity on with the batted balls,
I do. I'm saying, do you like that no, because
I know you're mister exit velocity hater. Well, it's the
I love XLA. That's when you go out and you

(01:33:47):
spend money on the girl and your XLA is either
a thousand or it's not. You do it or you
do it's not a thousand or not. Depends on different factors.
How she's feeling about you, yes, how much you spend
on her. Other factors as well, Like let's move on.

Speaker 12 (01:34:05):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:34:06):
The Reds, by the way, are in last place in
the America in Nashley Central. They have lost seven consecutive games.
But even though they're in last place, they're still above
five hundred and they're still favored in this game tonight. Yeah,
I don't care about Vegas. Let me take about Vegas.
They had the Dodgers two to one in every game
and they I mean, let me take Vegas. Vegas are

(01:34:30):
the Rockets and favorite in every single game in this
series except the one that they actually won. If they're
getting it wrong, go up to the window, my brother,
you could suck at Vegas. Tear down I'm Vegas. If
it's so easy and they're so far off, go ahead
and step if I want to win. Never be back.
You would never be back if you knew where the

(01:34:51):
more than Vegas. I'm not getting Vegas. Vegas Rockets five
and a half point Cage lost by four. Get out Vegas.
I don't care about Vegas. Out with you.

Speaker 13 (01:35:02):
Done.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
I'm taking you.

Speaker 2 (01:35:04):
You hit it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:05):
Favor somebody, just for a favor. Just get some people
betting on it. Okay, not like I'm letting. I'm not.
You know what, We're letting money. We're letting Vegas. We're
letting odds. We're learning everything. Consume our sports world. Vegas
gives you a great idea of how who should be favored,

(01:35:25):
who should Well, it didn't do me much in the Rockets,
Like you're serious. The game is individual. It's called probability, Matt.
You play, you play ten games, you're gonna get ten
different outcomes in the NBA right in theory es yes,
but you can bend it towards one most probable outcome. Well,
I ben it. I tried to bend in a one
direction and didn't bend the other way back, So I
wasn't understand. Well, if they're so wrong and there's so bad,

(01:35:47):
you just go bet you. I can't bet here in
the state I can't bet in Vegas. You'll win so
much money you'll never come back. You go to Vegas
and casinos all the time. I'm just not not Vegas
to control my Okay, you don't have to. I'm not
letting them control your life. I'm just mentioning it. It's
not gonna say that. You could say you can. The
Rockets were favored in what five of the seven games? Yes,

(01:36:10):
so they didn't know. They sort of knew they got
it wrong. Yeah, just like it again. Just why I
hold my basketball back. That's by of the reason why
I'm so grumpy, because I'm I'm watching Oklahoma City. I
have to walk off. I'm watching the thunderbeat the Lakers twice,
just stressing me out, grumpy. I'm gonna take a segment off.

(01:36:33):
I'll be back where you're going. I'm just gonna walk around,
take some deep breaths. There's nobody here exactly, so be quiet.
Do I want to get screamed at you?

Speaker 8 (01:36:40):
Do?

Speaker 1 (01:36:40):
I want to hear quiet? I'm screaming at you. I'm
just I'm complaining because my my local baseball team's got
twelve healthy players. My basketball team is trying to trade everybody. Well,
at least the Rockets. Twitter is I got a football
team that's supposed to be I mean, well, I don't
have a football team, so that doesn't really count. Maybe,
you know what, how to do? You know what I'm
gonna make this. I might I might join the Texans bandwagon.

(01:37:04):
I need something. Let's go Liberty White, Matt. We're ready
for you, baby, I'm battle Red Ross. You're a Liberty
White Matt. Or the Gamblers are right there. Oh my god. Hey,
nobody's gonna accuse you of happen on that bandwagon. They're
two and four. Nobody goes to or watches their games.
I'm like, why are you suggesting the Gamblers? I'm just yeah,

(01:37:25):
you love the you love Kenny Rodgers. I do love
Kenny Rogers. I was a Gambler fan back in the eighties.
See you got any gear left? No desperate times, Missers.
You know the worst part about that was we got tickets.
When I went, my mom and my stepfather at the
time bought a jeep Wagoneer. That's how far along goal
this was. This is like first season the Wagoneers are back,

(01:37:47):
Are they really? Yeah? Ga Wagons? No, this was definitely
not a g Wagon. No no, this was not a
no no, no Mercedes g Wagon. This is the jeep Wagoneer,
deep Wagoneer. Go go Google to see how bad it was.
They're about you can get a new one. They're like
the only were like SUVs back in the year. They're SUVs.
So the guy says, hey, we want to give you

(01:38:09):
season tickets for the Gamblers, and are like that is awful. Nice,
You're off and he goes, well, we're only giving you
one ticket. Yeah, we had to buy another ticket. They
gave us a season ticket, season ticket ticket. Nobody's ever
said that. He I'm gonna get a season ticket. He
very rare. It's kind of cool. Hey you mean from

(01:38:31):
the eighties or for right now?

Speaker 9 (01:38:32):
Old?

Speaker 1 (01:38:32):
Yeah, you know, like the ones from the eighties. They're
like they were like the when station wagons went away,
the Wagoneers came into place. Yeah, oh wow, nineteen eighty eight,
twenty four k. What was they costing eighty three? That's
been I don't know. But you got we got one
season I mean, and I was like that, you go
tell your twelve year old you got season tickets. So

(01:38:55):
the Gamblers. But then you have to say, well, we
don't thinking afford the onus. We're buying this expensive wagoneer.
It broke my heart. Well, they got to get you
to school. We went, we bought the ticket toquire practice.
Let's go, and the best part was you don't know this.
At the Astrodome they put bleacher seats on the field
and that's where my season ticket was. Wow, you were
on the field for the game, on the gambield for

(01:39:15):
the Gambler games. Wo did you ever like catch Jim
Kelly's sweatband?

Speaker 9 (01:39:19):
I did not.

Speaker 6 (01:39:22):
That'd be cool, Jim Kelly. So that's why you don't
like Gambler gym. You see your old gamble you might
be onto something, Jonathan. It's deep seated childhood stuff with
the Gambler.

Speaker 1 (01:39:36):
No one cares with the Gamblers, but he used to. Yeah. Wow,
hmm interesting. So now you're going deep into my pores
of why I have Gambler hate. Yes, you couldn't get
that extra season ticket. Oh we went though, we bought
the ticket. Oh, okay, saw them play the Chicago Blitz. Okay,
Arizona Wranglers. If there'sn't been the he knows USFL football,

(01:40:01):
it's yours truly that's great. I don't know who my
kids birthdays are, but I can give you the line
up of the USFL gamblers in eighty three. Todd Fowler,
Gerald McNeil. It's wrong with me, Tony Fritz was a kicker?

Speaker 4 (01:40:13):
What was he?

Speaker 1 (01:40:14):
I think so many went to the oilers. Yeah, something
like that. I don't know. That's if you really wanted
to figure out the core of my issues of my life.
It goes back to my childhood. Yeah, that's everybody. But
for the gamblers. You said, eighty eight, eighty three, eighty three,
eighty three Wagoneer. He's look you look at eighty three

(01:40:34):
wagone cool. He's gonna buy one now sleeping. Those things
are so big you can sleep in those bad boys
bad Boy, the old one, the nineteen seventies even cooler. Oh,
I'm gonna buy you a Wagoneer. You know, because my generating,
we don't get these cool cars. We got these lames generic. Yeah,
I'm sorry. More and more expensive too. You mean you
mean the gas gulls on SUVs at four dollars a gallon,
costs more, breakdown faster.

Speaker 6 (01:40:56):
My g My dream car is a E thirty Beamer
you're not talking about No, I just want something you
this one car god, I didn't know ton and from
Work twelve thirty four Sports Talk seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven to one
three two one two five seven ninety is you can

(01:41:17):
clearly tell it isn't any anything.

Speaker 1 (01:41:20):
Goes Friday, all right. So Calvin Samsu was on a
coach's caravan tour. You know, they do this around the
offseason when they try to drum up money and support
and whatnot. And he said a lot of things that
I think that a lot of us Cougars do believe.
But I think the most important thing is you have

(01:41:41):
to have the Cougars believe that. He was talking about
joining the Big twelve and trying to give an impassioned
speech to fans and donors employing them not to play
second fiddle to the larger schools in the state like
Texas and Texas and quote Calvin Samson, I don't know

(01:42:03):
about this commuter school BS. And he said that word BS,
We're the University of Houston, where the University of Houston.
Don't you take a back seat to nobody. Don't talk
to me about Texas or A and M. We just
played A and M. Right, how'd that go? We played
them two years ago? Same thing. We have respect for
everybody in the state. We have respect for everybody in
this conference. We don't take a back seat to nobody
and nobody. Should you quote acting like these teams are

(01:42:25):
up here, No they're not. You're up here. Start acting
like it. Starts supporting the program now as a cougar.
That fires me up as well it should, right, Yes,
the reality is here. And here's the reality that I
know Coach knows. University of Texas and the University and

(01:42:47):
Texas and M have deeper pockets. There's just more alums.
There's more alums. It's more of A. It's A they're
more of a national known commodity. They have parts of
the entire state that they can draw up on and
get money from. I like where we are. I do.
I wish we were even in a better spot. But

(01:43:07):
I'm also realistic to the situation and whether it's commuter,
whether it is you your family went to A and M,
your family went to Texas, or you just group you
want to go to those two schools. They're just gonna
A and B are Sometimes gonna have an advantage oversea.
So while I applaud what Calvin said Rossy, I'm not

(01:43:28):
naive to the point that he can go out and
say whatever he wants to say, do it in front
of any group, and what he wants. The state is
going to be run by the two big schools A
and M in Texas.

Speaker 6 (01:43:39):
It just is.

Speaker 1 (01:43:40):
Texas Tech probably has the same feeling. SMU probably feels
the exact same way. Better feels like Cody's trying, He's
doing his best. Cody's can only do so much. Yeah,
and it's and if I'm a A and M and
I'm Texas, I'm not bragging about it. It's just the reality.
You have more kids that want to go to the
two state schools than they do the other schools in

(01:44:02):
the state, and just by sheer numbers. You know, the
way that the in my opinion, the non traditional superpowers
win is by having a lums like Indiana who have
an ungodly amount of money they have the donors come in.
Cody Campbell's spending serious money in Texas Tech. That's how

(01:44:25):
you kind of do it. As much, I'd love for
every Tom, Dick and Harry to donate fifty dollars or
one hundred dollars or two undred dollars at University Houston.
That doesn't get the job done. They would help. And
I mean the University of Houston enrollment has gone up
and upper house we are making inroads. And that's the
most encouraging thing because as someone told me a long

(01:44:45):
time ago, remember Rossy and look think about the kids
that graduated when I went their school, and I was
class of I went to school there in the nineties. Now,
I could have graduated as soon as nineteen ninety four,
but I graduated in ninety eight because I was working
in radio the full full time and going to school
part time. So I went to a basically ten years
of the University Houston. It took me eight to graduate.
Had graduated ninety or high school ninety and graduate in

(01:45:07):
school in ninety eight, So I was there for eight years.
I got a pretty good sample size. What was there
athletic department like between nineteen ninety and nineteen ninety eight
largely sucked. So that generation of kids like me that
were young, that were willing to buy into the athletics
of the University of Houston. We got eight years of
futility and Franks are longer than that. Did you did

(01:45:31):
an A and M and Texas ever go through eight
years of utter awfulness. I think that's one of the reasons,
kind of on the flip side of that's one of
the reasons I follow Longhorn basketball more than probably most
ut alums because when I was there, it was Rick Barnes,
it was LaMarcus Aldiers, PJ. Tucker. You had a good run. Yeah,
it was good run. The games were good. They were big,
like big matchups against Kansas and stuff like that, and

(01:45:53):
I would go to every single game. And I fell
in love with Longhorn basketball. Yeah, so yeah, totally interesting.
I think futility hurts. And when you don't have an
environment of togetherness and school camaraderie, and you don't have
a Greek life, and you don't have a large on
campus social life, all those factors come in. And I say,

(01:46:16):
and I guess was what Calvin is trying to say,
is enough of this. This has been thirty years of this.
It's time to step up and act like you're a
real school, just like everybody else in the state. And
while I again I applaud it and I'm all there
for him. I'm not needed to know that the rich
traditions of A and M and Texas for generations and

(01:46:37):
campuses in college life, they don't. They aren't with the
University of Houston is So I don't for me personally,
I don't want to be Texas. I don't want me
an A and M. Because if you're going to go
in a pissing match with them, you're gonna lose. You
have to establish who you are.

Speaker 8 (01:46:54):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:46:54):
It takes a long time for the tide to turn,
and really you've aged. I mean it's still been on
the ascent absolutely. Heby also that are on the ascent.
By the way, mister Sampson, if you want a championship,
I understand that's a lot to ask. It is, I mean,
one out of sixty four or sixty eight, seventy six,
whatever it is now. But thankfully we are always there now.
I mean ten years ago, Ross we were a joke.

(01:47:15):
You're in the Big twelve now, I mean we're That's
what I'm saying, Like things haven't turned in a day,
but things are trending upward for a top athletes now,
like yeah, commitment absolutely, and you know what it sounds
like to me that we're we've got cash. We've got
cash now things are getting better. You're not going to
just snap your fingers and and be Texas Raneum. Well,

(01:47:36):
the reality is this, You've got to find when whoever
it first of all win and second you gotta find
multi millionaires. I mean, how many how many multi millionaires
just flat out cut checks to Texas A and M.
I don't know plenty, I'm assuming I guess how many
kids get these alumni more successful? You need to get
you cut in a check. I don't have that kind

(01:47:57):
of money. Get thirty years in the biz. I have
a couple bucks laying around. Yeah I do, but it's
for retirement. Stop playing six to five blackjack and start
cutting Start cutting checks at you of h So if
I start playing three two more often, I take that
part of three to two profit, get it to my school.
There you go, all right?

Speaker 7 (01:48:18):
I think?

Speaker 9 (01:48:18):
I think.

Speaker 1 (01:48:19):
I like how you think there. Yeah, you always put
a gambling aspect to it. I respect that. No, But
if I'm kevin, I'm tired. I don't want to be
known on a commuter school anymore. I want to be
a school. I want you for Tita Centers full every
single time. Now, that's good. We're gonna get there with
TDCU Stadium. Willie Fritz has been a home run higher
and we're getting some money. But the thing that drives

(01:48:47):
me crazy, and this is my last point about this,
is that we if we could fill up TDUC that's
forty thousand M so four we're trying shut up.

Speaker 15 (01:48:59):
You.

Speaker 1 (01:49:00):
A and M fills up ninety thousand and four till
one hundred. Yeah, texts fills up one hundred and five
for UTEP. You know what I'm saying. I mean, there's
just gonna be things we can't overcome unless the Texas
fans and unless the A M. Fans just said yeah,
I'm done with you guys, and it's never gonna happen.
It's never gonna happen. Texas football can go five and

(01:49:21):
seven for the next ten years in a row and
you'll still have at least seventy five thousand in your
building period. You know what, that's a testament to the
Aggies because I was gonna say, you just need to win. Well,
they haven't won. I want a conference championships in ninety eight,
all right, So maybe the Aggie is a better example.
You see what I'm saying. I mean, you want to.
I've got a lot of problems and bones to pick with. Aggies.
Being die hard fans with not a whole lot of

(01:49:43):
success is not one of them.

Speaker 5 (01:49:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:49:46):
Ah, look I wish I had I wish we mean
mean ween the university sid had this. I wish we did.
We don't. You just gotta carve out your own niche.
But I love the fact that Kevin's like, man, stop
callings commuter. I think we still are in a lot
of respects.

Speaker 3 (01:50:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:50:03):
I don't have the numbers on that, how many percent
on campus or whatever. It's also just I mean, this
is the nature of the university in the in the
middle of the big metropolis. Yeah, most major college town oh,
most major cities that have campuses aren't considered. I mean,
I don't even know if Miami University of Miami is
a destination place. It's first of all, it's a private school. Yeah,

(01:50:26):
very very high falutin academic private school. All right, Emmanuel
wants to talk to us in California. We'll talk to
him next. Twelve forty eight is a time. Where's your
non Florida story from this week? Boys, Latvia all right,
We're going to Latvia for non Florida stories this week.
I don't believe him. You shouldn't either. Twelve forty eight
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(01:50:49):
nine eight seven one three two one two five seven
Aunti if you want to reach us today seven one
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today and Helli aaron I all things about Kyle Tucker,
who just recently announced his retirement after a long NBA career,
probably the last three or four years. A lot of

(01:51:09):
d MPCDS, DNT, d n p's, did not dress, did
not suit up, don't know where he is? Where the
hell have you been? PJ Tucker? M I think he
said Kyle Tucker? Oh yeah, PJ Tucker. Did you say Kyle?
Oh no, Kyle Tucker's still playing, By the way, kylet
Tucker had a good series against the Astros. You know
whatice that did he What do you think about the

(01:51:31):
other people booing him early on? I mean, I get it,
but I wouldn't do it. Yeah, I mentioned this on Tuesday,
the sixty million dollars. I can't believe he's signed with
the Dodgers. Okay, you would have signed with the Dodgers too.
I think he was more about booing the the word
Los Angeles across the Jersey than it was against Tucker
in the back. Let's talk to a manual on seven

(01:51:53):
ninety and twelve fifty four manual, thank you for holding
a good afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:51:58):
Hey, Matt and Ross, I wanted to congratulate you on
thirty years and radio. I mean you, whenever I'm down
on about my teams, you always make it interesting. You
and Ross are amazing your chemistry, how you guys just
drop off each other and just you just make the show,

(01:52:18):
you know, just so entertaining.

Speaker 5 (01:52:20):
I just want to keep listening and.

Speaker 1 (01:52:21):
Keep thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:52:23):
You guys are awesome. So I know it's been a
week now since the Rockets laws, so I wanted to
take some time to get off of it because I
was hoping to call in on Monday, which was my birthday,
and then hopefully they had an amazing comeback, but it
just didn't happen. But we got to go forward, and
to tell you the truth, I wouldn't mind if they win.
I know he's older and stuff, but you know, trade

(01:52:48):
shin room, trade even Jabari to minto Milwaukee and go
get Giannis Substakumble because we need something and we need
some more power in the that don't need to put
some kind of defensive fear into people going just they
were just carving us up in the paint that whole series,

(01:53:09):
and Kevin duran I'm not gonna do nothing to stop that, unfortunately.
But if we go get Yanni's, I know it's young
young players, and you know, you never know what can
happen with the young player if they can blossom into
a great player. But right now, if we're gonna go
for it, and we got we got Vamflett coming back,
and I'm pretty sure Kevin Durant's coming back, I say let's.

Speaker 12 (01:53:29):
Go for it.

Speaker 2 (01:53:30):
Go get Yannism, gonna get some backup of veterans and
stuff just to fill out the bench, and uh, you know,
you know, throw everything we have at it, go get
that ring.

Speaker 17 (01:53:40):
You know, if we have a chance to just.

Speaker 5 (01:53:41):
Go do it.

Speaker 1 (01:53:42):
Thanks Emmanuel for the phone call, the nice words. I
want to I'll repeat myself with us a lot over
the next handful of months, they will call, they'll see
what it will take. The problem is for me with
be honest, is that you're gonna probably have six or
eight teams wanting to get in there. And do the
Rockets have enough to trade. If you don't love Alpi

(01:54:06):
and you're in the anti Alpi category and you think
there are deficiencies in Alpi's game, guess who also knows
such deficiency an Alpie's game. The Milwaukee Bucks do. Yeah,
but you're also talking about an All star player. So
I mean the the Milwaukee Bucks that say, hey, if
we get him in the right system, you don't pair
him with another non shooter like a man Thompson. We
can allow him thrive more space to operate. If you

(01:54:27):
can get we get him in a right situation with
who even knows with a pair him with a lockdown
defending center, which the Rockets do not have, then you
can help up shore up for his deficiencies. I think
there could be better situations for alprinching gun. All right,
so let's put this, Let's put this out in perspective.
Let's say the Rockets do do this. My guess is

(01:54:48):
gonna be would be an Alpi Jabbari in draft picks,
fair like, sure your locket lineup would be Fred Jannis Durant.
I'm gonna sounds great. I'm gonna presume you're gonna resign.
And then who is your off guard? Amen? Yeah, that's

(01:55:11):
a lot of length, something that sounds great defensively as well.
Who's your center there, Durant? To be honest, I guess
you got mean those guys both tall, Giannis Durant, Ethan
a Men Fred, and you're just playing switch you got

(01:55:33):
suddenly a lot older, a lot faster. You gott You
probably don't want to switch Fred, but everybody else can switch. Yeah,
you go to You have to go get another backup
point guard, I truely. I mean I don't know if
Reid would be the guy you could be your six man,
but he is the guy. Come on now that's your six.
I'm not sure about Steven Adams being ready for the

(01:55:54):
start of next season me either, So you have to
probably go get and I don't think Clint would be
necessarily the number one go to guys you want. It's
a backup, big off your bench. Case in point the playoffs,
do you win it all? Probably not? But do you
run it back with what do you have right now?
Win it all? Probably not, so that's what you have
to figure out. We'll get you closer.

Speaker 8 (01:56:15):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:56:15):
What's interesting to me is the names have been brought
up that have not involved Giannis Uh Donovan Mitch. Mitch
has been a big one hawked a lot a lot Donovan.
Mitchell is intriguing Donovan, don't. I don't think alpah inching
Gun is going to move the needle for them. They
have Evan Mobley and Jared Allen and like they they've
got bigs over there. No, I I I think if

(01:56:38):
you involve Cleveland it would be probably more Jabari Smith
than anything else. Well as well. Also, though I guess
I just said, you could pair Alpi with a like
a big man defensive player of the year type like
Evan Mobley and move Alpy to the four a little bit.

Speaker 7 (01:56:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:56:51):
Yeah, I'm still in my core believe the Rockets will
run it back primarily with what's twits here now, and
I think they will chalk it up to we never
got to see what Kevin and Fred were like on
the floor at the same time. H Now, that could
be fool's gold. That could be. I know what they

(01:57:13):
would be. I mean yeah, but you have to also
see what they do playing wise, and the grand scheme
of things putting Fred together with with with Kevin never
materialize even one bit over the course. You got a
zero sample size, so we'll see run it back. Maybe
they're not really running it back, they're running it for

(01:57:35):
the first time. Well, they're gonna run to see how
far they can go. How about that. Yeah, you're gonna
figure out if you're gonna pay them in big money
you're gonna to pay. You're gonna figure out if you're
gonna try to keep Tari. You're gonna try to figure
out who your backup wings are gonna be, who your
backup center is gonna Because again, I would love for
Steven Adams to be ready for the start of next season,
but I'm not. I'm not holding out hope against that.

(01:57:57):
You shouldn't. I'm gonna throw one thing really quick at
you can Jabbari take the next next step, like if
you think the next if you think you know who
Alpi is, an Alpi is where he is? Jabbari to me,
forty percent from three we have four years of sample.

(01:58:20):
He's at thirty four point seven last three years of
thirty six, thirty five, thirty six. So do you have
a so he can make off the numbers? You would say,
we absolutely have evidence of guys going off for forty
in a year. It would be variants, all right. Number
two on this list of things. If you were to
resigned Tari, can Tari play eighty games of consistencies compared

(01:58:43):
to playing sixty of which forty of those last year
were very That's a question for his doctor. Are the
team doctors? And then number three does a man Thompson
become a thirty five percent three point shooter? Nope?

Speaker 8 (01:58:57):
He is?

Speaker 17 (01:58:58):
Who is?

Speaker 1 (01:58:58):
Yep? Okay? Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. I
do love talking about trade scenarios. I just don't you know,
completely comprehend the financial aspect of it, the health of it,

(01:59:19):
the scared being scared about making trades. Again, if you're
scared about making trades, you're never going to be a
good general manager. So I get all that, but I
also don't want to overpay. And sometimes if you stay
close to home and you stay with the guys you like,
there is a payoff for it. Patience is something the
Rockets have generally speaking, had I mean, the Kevin Durant

(01:59:41):
deal was crazy, not crazy, It was logically thinking, right.
I mean, you love Dylan Brooks, you knew only Jalen
Green was to give you so much and the first
round pick didn't do anything for you and giving them
up on that so you didn't feel like you lost
that trade. You were looking for somebody to be that
fourth quarter score until Kevin unfortunately got hurt. You were

(02:00:01):
unable to use him for the playoffs. But he was
what you asked for us for a fourth quarter clutch guy,
and you got that. Yeah. We had game winners and
big time clutch performances. There were there were multiple times
this year where the Rockets do not win the game
if not for Kevin Durant. Yeah, and those were And
it wasn't like Jalen Green reinvented himself in Phoenix. In fact,
Dylan Brooks became a bigger scorer, but he was a

(02:00:24):
more volume scorer, shooting at the less percentage than he
did in Houston. Jalen Green was hurt a lot of
the time in Phoenix, and when Jalen Green was asked
to do what he normally does, the statue looked very
comparable to what it was in Houston, Texas. Yeah, Jalen Green,
I think sometimes you are shifting your the chairs on
the on the Titanic. I don't know. Hey, well, I mean, honestly,

(02:00:47):
no matter what they do, the Thunder and the Spurs
are going to be projected ahead of them. Do you
really think when the Rockets made this trade that they
were coming to get Kevin Durant that they didn't hear
it to the grave, viney who he was in terms
of how he's going to be as a leader, what
he was going to do as a leader, he was
going to the leadership. Yeah, we have Fred's your leader.

(02:01:07):
I mean there's other guys who have shown leadership qualities.
A men in Jabbari on this team. He made Doka
as a coach that Kevin Durant wanted to work for.
He made Dooka signed off on it as well. I
mean we wanted him here too. He may Doka. I
know some people don't believe this, but he knows basketball.
I can tell you for a fact. Nothing that Kevin

(02:01:29):
did as a Rocket surprise. The Rockets got in the
league for seventeen years. You know, Kevin Durant at his
age at thirty seven years old, doesn't reinvent him. I
just got to get off his burner accounts. That probably
is accurate. He probably needs to stay away now. If
he wants to represent himself, that's one thing, but the
burner accounts are probably different. But even so, they still

(02:01:52):
won basketball games. They won nine to ten before the
end of the season. Yeah, they had a number five
seed in the West. They still won fifty two games.
Not the end result, I understand. No, their their Vegas
win total. I believe preseason was fifty two and a
half and honestly fifty two. Anything about this. He honestly

(02:02:14):
played way more than anybody thought. I was gonna play
seventy eight games, which two of those were personals. We
I foolishly asked him when we had him on preseason,
are you going to play back to backs? He said,
I'm gonna be out there. You said, you know who
I am. I shook your hand back when I was
in college. Should Jojoe my mess up? I'm playing back
to backs? That's funny, all right? Seven one, three, two

(02:02:34):
two five, seven ninety one oh ninety is our time.
We've got non florist Sars coming up at the bottom
of the hour. We've got a hell yeah or not
today all things about PJ. Tucker at one fifty. Pauls
with us on seven ninety Paul, thanks for holding in
good afternoon.

Speaker 3 (02:02:49):
A much better experience visiting the Alung TV on the
Heart radio app than at crappy ass radio. I got
in the kitchen. But I want to hear about what's
your experience like traveling with the rockets. And what I
re mean by that is, I'm sure you're not parking
in the Econo lodge, taking the shuttle up there, going

(02:03:10):
through the t f A lines and taking your shoes off,
and then walking down the concourse and waiting outside the gate.
Just tell me what what's your process of going through
all that? And I'm gonna hang out at heart.

Speaker 1 (02:03:23):
Don't hang it. I don't know what you're I don't
know what your question is. Just here your question again?
When you travel with the rockets, Yeah, I can tell
you thanks to the phone call, UH we fly out
of uh private air terminals there are and those of
you that don't know, they call them FBOs that are

(02:03:45):
private air terminals that are on littering on both sides.
Of Hobby Airport, both sides of Veteran Countrent and Airport.
They have FBOs and sugar Land and tom Ball. It's
where private planes go. So we don't go to the
main terminal. We drive up, we drop our car off,
we get our bag out. They running through TSA. That
with private TSA. We hand them our quys, they screen, search,

(02:04:05):
screen us. We go, walk on the plane, we leave,
we land, the bags are taking on a bus to
our hotel via truck. We get the bags there, We
get to our room pretty seamless. It's nice. There's no
going through baggage claim. There's no going through the main TSA.
Now that then the rockets are paying for all this.
Nobody's this is none of none of the Government's not

(02:04:27):
giving us any break. You have to pay for the
private TSA. But it's a much easier process. And this
happens with all sports teams. So it's private terminal. Walk
onto the plane, get on the plane, fly land, get
on a bus, on the buses on the runway itself,
go to the hotel, get your back at the hotel,

(02:04:48):
take it to your room. Tip sounds like fun. Well
it's not only fun, but it's just a lot less work.
You don't worry about loosening your bags, you don't worry
about having to go through a long TSA line. You're
not getting the clear of the pre check and all
that kind of stuff, but they still check it. They
still check you. Yeah, so you're not bringing any weapons,

(02:05:10):
that's good news. I would hope not now. NBA players
Back in the day, you used to bring some weapons occasionally.
Washington Wizards are like, we got examples of that. I
thought that was at home. I don't know where it was,
but they gonna a gun on the plane with Harris Crittendon.
I was in the locker room. I think you're talking
about Gilbert Arena. Yeah, yeah, No, it's a it's a

(02:05:32):
really good life, and it does make you when you
fly commercially. It does make you miss the private life
for sure. But I do not get frecking flyer miles.
You don't get the freaking mile porns at the hotels.
But everything else is pretty much take care. It's very nice,
and there's food on the plane when you get there.
That's how you became five diamond Matt. I mean, yeah,

(02:05:55):
I can't argue. I mean to have a full plate
of food, sitting at your at your table five minutes
after you get to the airplane's a little different than
having to wait till you get to the cruising altitude.
Can I have some water? Please? No, sit down. I'm
talking about the regular planes. Okay. You get pillows and

(02:06:16):
blankets and recloinning seats. It's it's quite a nice life.
That's why I don't complain about it, because it's I mean,
even though you're going bouncing around, complain here and there,
not much, not much. Am I tired? Yes? Do you
land in philadelf fift three o'clock in the morning. Yeah,
you can't do that for sure, But generally speaking, it's

(02:06:37):
it's the way to go. NBA players are doing okay, Yeah,
I can't care of. Never worry about how professional athletes
are traveling. It's all I won't. I don't. It's like
the Reds the Astros, and they played the Red the
Dodgers on Wednesday. They went to Sin Sanni earlier. They
had a whole off day in Sin Sanatai to get themselves,
you know. They they don't want the guys sleeping. Yeah,

(02:06:59):
it's range hours are missing time off, so they flow
up the right after the games, so they got a
full night's rest in Cincinnati. So it's a cost that
a lot of teams are going through, like we will
not travel as you know, we will not travel west
to east overnight. So if we play the Rockets, play
the Lakers at nine o'clock at night, or played the
Golden State Orders, we will always spend the night in
that city and come back the next day. Now that

(02:07:19):
you do lose a day, but they figure it's better
to do that than the land in Houston at six
o'clock in the morning and try to catch your sleep
up back here in Houston. They have a lot of
sleep scientists that you know, the sports Medicipe will travel
with us all the time and ask about the costume,
try to limit your blue light. Matt, really, yeah, I

(02:07:40):
just put my ear muffs on and take a little nap,
a little rest. That's good, think about the next show
the next day. It's pre planning, always show prepping, all right,
one fourteen. We've got non Florida stories coming up in
fifteen minutes seven one three, two, one, two, five seven
ninety one On Sports Talk seven NINETI Matt and Ross
with you on the Friday Rain in the area. I'll

(02:08:01):
be careful today getting home. A team will take you
two o'clock until six here on seven ninety. You've got
astros tenth things show tonight, correct? I do all right?
Five ten, first pitch in the natty several times on
our friend let's uh talk to Mac in Parland at

(02:08:21):
one two mack, good afternoon.

Speaker 11 (02:08:25):
Good afternoon to y'all. I'd like to see him not
do any really serious trading with their with their young
core or whatever.

Speaker 5 (02:08:34):
Just to see.

Speaker 11 (02:08:36):
How it works with a healthy Fred out there running things.
I wouldn't mind seeing them bringing in an assistant coach
who had some offensive ideas. Though our esteemed head coach
and I like our coach, but his idea of the
offense is to shoot a shot and if it misses,

(02:08:59):
then you've got a bunch of guys under the basket
and hopefully we get it and put it back in.
But when we have that many people down there to
get the rebound, the other team has defenders, and a
lot of our guys aren't clever enough to get a shot.

Speaker 5 (02:09:13):
Up and in at that point. So I'm just I
don't know.

Speaker 11 (02:09:16):
And when Reed Shepherd is handling the ball, he does
a lot of dribbling, and other teams when somebody does
a lot of dribbling, they have a cutter or place
to pass or you know. And I'm just wondering if
we could be a little bit more fluid at the
offensive end.

Speaker 1 (02:09:34):
I think mackin thank you for the phone call. They
will definitely take a look at that. I don't know
if it necessarily it's a staff adjustment, makes that decision,
makes things more fluid. You Dooka said in the post
game or postseason press conference, he's not anticipating staff changes. Yeah.
I think sometimes assistant coaches can become geniuses when they

(02:09:54):
have great players that make shots. That's a big part
of it, I think as well. I mean, look, you're
you're building an offense with alprin Jingoun who doesn't stretch
the floor, floor a Men Thompson who does not stretch
the floor, with guys who can't really what you really
need or it would be really helpful, for example, shake Gilges,

(02:10:17):
Alexander I don't know, Donovan Mitchell. Like guards who are fat,
like Austin Reeves, even Lebron James, they can break down
guys off the dribble and get to the basket. What
does that do? That means the first line of defenders gone.
That means somebody has to collapse and help. That means
either a look at the basket, b you're getting fouled
at the basket, or see you're kicking for wide open

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looks at threes. Now, Rockets don't have a drive and
kick element to their offense. Jalen Green had that a
men Thompson can break guys down off the dribble, but
once you're in the half court, everybody SAgs off of
them by twenty feet. And hey to other teams, frankly, honestly,
Ross do not respect a men outside about eight feet. No,
they don't. They so they play in the paint. They

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don't have to worry about him shooting a three. Same
thing for Alpera and Shingoon. And then while Jabbari can
knock down he's league average, he is Tarry easton long
term league average, Ree Shepherd better. But they people don't
mind leaving Jabari Smith Juner in the corner because you're
you're just gonna live with the result because he's about
a league average three point shooter. So you're dealing with

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a lot of imperfect players. That you're trying to fit together.
What would help some good ball handling and distribution from
a guy like Fred van Vliet, and you're missing that.
And then as the caller said, they like to crash
the boards. Steven Adams is the best in the league
at crashing the boards and he was gone as well.
And at the end of the year you finished eighth
and offensive rating. It's not like it was terrible with

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all these perfect players not playing perfectly. You don't have
a driving kick that you that is solid enough to
knock down I mean, I don't mean to use the
previous team, but you don't have a Luke Canard is
sitting on the wing where to knock down three point
show exactly. You don't have that guy. And you mentioned
Austin Reeves can break down guys with the dribble. He
shoots thirty six percent from three Alpi is basically fifteen

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feet in the case on the top of the key jumper. Yes,
a man is basically fifteen feet in, maybe more so
twelve feet in. That means you got the paint is
mucked up with those guys, and they're gonna take their
chances on Tari Easton bearing you from three and or
Jabari Smith and Jabari's sometimes been able to do it
and sometimes not being able to do it. Yeah, I
talked about this in the post game. There was there
was this. There was a moment where Matt if do

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you remember this at all? There was game six. I
think there was like a the Rockets had like a
three on two fast break, but it was outbranchingon at
the top of the key. Everybody was in the paint.
It was Lebron and somebody else. Then he whips it
to a man at the other corner at the basically
the left wing. Everybody stays in the paint. Nobody has
to move. You can guard three on two when it's

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those guys because nobody everybody can just stay in the paint.
Nobody's open. No, So it that that's what their offense is.
If if you really wanted to really diversify things, it
would be it would be a men finding a shot
outside of twelve feet. Yeah, Rujo Hotch Murra shoots like

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forty from three Rockets. The only forty three point shooter
is Kevin Durant, and normally he's they're gonna double team
because they're gonna get they're gonna give the other guys
a shot of opening of those those jump shots. He
can occasionally break a guy off the dribble on a
switch here and there, but elbow to elbow, he's gonna
turn the ball over some and he's gonna pull up
from about fifteen feet because that's his spot. Yeah, all right,

(02:13:30):
let's get to our buddy, Girard here on seven, hinting
at one twenty seven. Girard, how are you?

Speaker 7 (02:13:36):
I'm doing all right?

Speaker 1 (02:13:36):
How you guys doing good? Yeah?

Speaker 16 (02:13:39):
Man, shout out to you. Man. Was it thirty years?

Speaker 1 (02:13:42):
Thank you, Thank you man.

Speaker 16 (02:13:44):
Great great job, great job. You will thank you all right.
I think the Rocket lead a professional score off the bench.
You know, they got one professional score on the team,
and Kevin Durant. I wouldn't look at uh making some
moves in cre ac you know. Maybe get somebody to
take the mid class reception, somebody like a CJ.

Speaker 7 (02:14:01):
McCullum or.

Speaker 16 (02:14:04):
What's my boy guy from that was with the Clippers.
He went to Miami. Uh uh, he's a guy that's
a proven score. I can't remember the guy. Yeah, Norman Powell.
I think Norman Pole is probably more of an email
docal type of guy, kind of tough, rugged, you know,
minion strong guy plays the defense. I think he's probably
more maker the donk of a guy than a CJ.

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McCallum who's not known to play no defense. I've been
looking to bring in a guy like that.

Speaker 7 (02:14:29):
I think we go.

Speaker 16 (02:14:29):
I think this year is in bed draft man. They
got a lot of good point guards. I think the
punt guard was is probably the deepest position in the draft.
I know the Rockets have two second round picks, but
you might be able to give some value in the
second round as the back of point guard because even
with van Fleet coming back, say he get hurt, you'll
be in the same Posisue was this year. You know
you know not you don't have a point guard. I

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don't think Reeed Shepherd is a punk guard. I think
he's more of a shooting guard or maybe a humbo guard.
Saying to be said for in Holliday, I don't think
he's a punk guard either. So you go get a
guy to college. They got some good guy. The punt
guard out of Produce Smith is there. You got Bradley
out of Arizona. I think he was a big twelve
player of the year. We all seen him hit that
shot to beat who they beat was All State in

(02:15:10):
the Big twelve semifinal game. That guy's a proven score.
I think the guy to Illinois, the team that beat
you of Vates, that punt guard is pretty good. I
think the name is Boss. Well, if I'm not mistaken,
he's there. You bring in another point guard in there,
you know, and I think there's the Rockets just need
to make some improvements around here. You're getting a bad
fleet back in Adams back, you know. I like it
as good as y'allis. After COOPO is. If you bring
him in and say you trade Sagoon and Jabari Smith,

(02:15:33):
you're gonna have him and me and Thomson. You still
have two narn shooters in there, so the defense can
kind of sag off both of those guys. It'll make
it hard for the rent and those other guys to score.
So the greatest he year is. I just think if
you're gonna bring him in, you know, it's gonna be
kind of hard, like I said again, with him in
a mean Thomson, especially in the half court. But all
that being said, quick day on the Astros Astros were

(02:15:54):
there to play like thirty eight games this year.

Speaker 7 (02:15:56):
You know, still early.

Speaker 16 (02:15:57):
They're in a bad division. You get a Hunter Brown back,
You got Hunter Brown, you got the young guy Lambert,
you got ar Getty, you got potential of strong starting three,
you get uh, you know, pin your back parade. You're
moving over to third base now that careers out, the
dashows can get back in this thing. Man, It's it
ain't like you were in a strong, strong division. You know,
you got a chance to get back in there. And

(02:16:17):
once you get in the playoffs, anything anything happens you go,
especially if you get some uh strong pitching and quality hitting.
So it's still early for that. Shows don't panic yet
for them. Put thing on the text and I'm gonna
ask you guys what you think about this bringing in
maybe a J. Davin Clowney because they still haven't replaced
the guy, the Nico Austry. He was that guy that
came off the bench that wrecked have it as far
as the defensive end came in to spell Hunter or

(02:16:40):
Will Anderson. They don't have a guy like that yet.
Now that Austry left in free agency, I would look
at uh bringing in a Ja daven Clowney for the
checks and bringing me in right for the training. Captain,
you have to he'll be your third pass us to
to kind of spell Will Anderson and danil Hunter. Actually, guys,
who you think about that? Now hang up and listen.

Speaker 1 (02:17:00):
Thank you very much. Uh wow, Russ all the chew
on there. Yeah, we're gonna break down it, break it
all down, break it up well, Rockets, Astros and Texans
and one call. I'll knock it up.

Speaker 5 (02:17:12):
J D.

Speaker 1 (02:17:12):
Cline's way past his prime. I'm not. I don't think
I'm gonna rely on a backup point guard in the
second round of the NBA draft.

Speaker 5 (02:17:19):
And what was that thing?

Speaker 1 (02:17:20):
Uh oh, Jim mcconomicks. Yeah, Norman Powell, I don't think
you can afford Nope, those are all guys way out
of the Rockets price range.

Speaker 5 (02:17:30):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (02:17:30):
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Speaker 8 (02:18:36):
We find interesting stories that's sure outside.

Speaker 13 (02:18:41):
The state of Florida and share them.

Speaker 3 (02:18:45):
With the people of us.

Speaker 1 (02:18:50):
It's time for non Florida.

Speaker 11 (02:18:58):
Off.

Speaker 1 (02:18:58):
Time for no Florida still up coast to coast.

Speaker 13 (02:19:10):
We'll Brady Strange and wild.

Speaker 6 (02:19:15):
No alligator exhales, but something that will make you smile.

Speaker 1 (02:19:23):
It's time for lass from.

Speaker 4 (02:19:26):
Far and wid.

Speaker 1 (02:19:30):
In this crazy world, there's nowhere one thirty seven on
Sports Talk seven on Man and Ross with you boys,
I'm going to China for my story this week. Electronic
vehicle engineers are gearing up in China to roll on

(02:19:54):
a fleet of cars featuring built in toilets. Series s
R e S, an automotive manufacturer specializing in high end
electric vehicles, has been granted a patent for an in
vehicle toilet that slides under a passenger seat for mid

(02:20:15):
trip use. The carmakers reportedly playing to equip the potty
to appear with either the push of a button or
through voice activated commands to limit odors. The in car
commode will come with a fan and exhaust pipe implemented

(02:20:38):
to funnel funky smells out of the automobile. Per the patent,
paperwork wastes will be collected in a tank that has
to be empty manually. The toilet to go will also
boast a rotating heating element that evaporates urine and dries
excrement When not in use. The can will be concealed

(02:20:58):
beneath the passenger seat, making full use of the space
inside a car without requiring excess room. Dads everywhere rejoice
Dad's on road trips. This will not be the first
vehicle ever with a toilet in the bathroom in the

(02:21:19):
car itself. In nineteen fifty four rolls Royce featuring a
passenger seat pot hit souther Bees for just under one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. If you can't hold it.
And I know there are some people that like to
travel from Dallas Houston don't want to make a stop.

(02:21:41):
But I'm going to pass on buying a vehicle that
I can drop a douce in while I'm driving. What
put me on a commit drive itself? I don't think
what about when you need to wipe? Do you know
what I said? It drives it up for it? Oh? Yeah,
that's what I'm saying. What does that mean you can
just bring baby wives? No? No, so okay, let's put this.

(02:22:04):
You're driving and you got to do the duty. You're
gonna bring the baby wives and drive along to the
gas station like a normal human being.

Speaker 6 (02:22:11):
I mean, I think it's more practical if it's like
a road trip type of scenario. I don't think it's
gonna make a sole use. And you wouldn't get this,
I was, you know, you a bachelor or something.

Speaker 1 (02:22:20):
Posh of a button or through voice activated commands, and again,
you can press a button to get airflow in that area,
to get rid of the stench perceived stench. I'm assuming
boys will be collected in a tank that has to

(02:22:40):
be empty and manually. Okay, So Jonathan, you want this car,
you're gonna have to go empty it out yourself. I mean,
don't they do that RV's you gotta empty out yourself.
I guess in theory, but I don't drive an RV,
so I don't mean I would take that. The toilet
to go again will boast a rotating heating element that

(02:23:01):
will evaporate urine and dry esque excrement. You're getting heated
up poop. This does not sound like a good road trip.
ROSSI and Jonathan, I'm a hard pass on this, and
I look, I don't like stopping it, but I will
stop because I want my car clean and not worrying
about drying excrement. And that's, my friends, is my non
Flora story. Boys, you're next, all right, Matt, have you

(02:23:27):
been keeping an eye on the Staten Island deer population?

Speaker 2 (02:23:30):
I have not.

Speaker 1 (02:23:31):
Well, I'm glad you asked. Apparently, researchers say the population
has dropped nearly fifty percent after ten years of a
controversial Parks Department policy. How controversial is it. They have

(02:23:56):
been giving out vasectomies to the deer out there in
Staten Island as New York City has snipped in to
their deer population. As the people were saying they were
getting negative human wildlife interactions. Human safety had big concern
with the deer. The vasectomy program started in twenty sixteen,

(02:24:19):
criticized by experts for its lack of a lethal component
because they wanted the deer to die, But now the
Parks Department say it is a smashing success as now
the deer population is down forty one percent thanks to
these deer visectomies. I don't know how to comment on that.

(02:24:44):
I was gonna ask you've ever seen one? But I
think the answer to that is no. The city has
also seen in eighty three percent drop in deer to
vehicle collisions since the project started. Also, disease carrying ticks
found in Staten Island have declined since twenty sixteen as
a well, according to the Parks Department. So there's nothing
but a win win for everybody there, less deer, less romance. Well,

(02:25:09):
I think the deer can. I guess I can. If
we can still do it, they can they can too, right,
do they put frozen p's on theirs?

Speaker 15 (02:25:16):
Too?

Speaker 1 (02:25:16):
So a smashing success you answer my question. I don't
know what the post procedural program is for deer vasectomies.
Thank you, You're welcome, Matt. I think this is great
news for everyone that if we can that if deers
can do it, so can we. The deer still get

(02:25:37):
to do their thing. They're not pro creating. I still
don't know if they put the frozen p's on there.
You know whats though. We'll have you called the park
and go. We'll have you called it Staten Island Parks Department.
They're very busy. They have a voicemail system. All right,
so we have going taking a two in your car. Yes,
we have the deer uh beingvseectic made deer snips. Deer

(02:26:02):
snips Jonathan and I say, beat both those stories. Okay,
let me give my breath, all right, all right.

Speaker 6 (02:26:08):
Rebecca Woods, fifty nine, of Massachusetts was found guilty of
assault and battery. Well for you might ask, after unleashing
hives of bees on officers who were in the process
of this.

Speaker 1 (02:26:21):
A friend of hers, The Guardian reported on April twenty
eighth one officer had to be hospitalized and others were
stung repeatedly. In addition, Woods lost about a thousand bees
in the kerfuffle. This is what's another report. That's terrible.
Shame on you. Thirty years you're telling me the woman
got mad. She unleashed the bees on the people. That

(02:26:43):
is a r That is a terrible punishment. Wolf Man,
I wouldn't do that to you, Uh, they said the
Woods like because she had her own experience of being evicted.
She was compelled to intervene because her friend, the one
that was getting evicted, is a cancer patient in his eighties.
The man was not home when Woods at least the
bees and she went to the library to find information
about how to halt an eviction. She was sitting, said

(02:27:06):
six months in jail. I don't know that sounds like
a good neighbor. She's trying to help out. I don't
think so he attacks. Hey, Yeah, she was trying to
help out. What do you mean what I'm saying? Yeah,
but that's a really vicious way to help. She didn't
control the bees. You're eighty with cancer. You wouldn't want
your your neighbors could do that take care of you. Yeah, Matt,

(02:27:27):
so yourself eight years old. I'm got cancer. The only
way I don't get evicted is by my neighbor releasing
bees the people that are trying to convict me. You know,
it does make a lot of sense. Six months sounds
like superhero stuff. And she only answered six months in
jail bees. She's sixty, so you don't what. You don't
know what's gonna happen to her, So she might die
in jail. You don't know what. Wait a minute. We're

(02:27:48):
not putting her to death, are well. I'm just saying,
you don't know what. Get a scuffle in jail or
something that's not it's not sweet in there. Oh the
bee bitches here?

Speaker 17 (02:27:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:27:55):
Yeah, you and she would Nobody would mess with her,
that's for sure. That's a pretty cool thing to do, right,
is the release bees on in your hated enemies?

Speaker 5 (02:28:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:28:06):
H Wolfman, wat's up? Wolfman? You better watch out?

Speaker 5 (02:28:13):
Hell?

Speaker 1 (02:28:13):
Yeah or not all things PJ. Tucker. Next, those are
our non Florida stories at one forty five on Sports
Talk seven ninety All right, really fast for we play
Believe it or not, We got our buddy Willa is
going to join us online. Number two, Little James Harden
chatter at one fifty will a good afternoon to you.

Speaker 7 (02:28:30):
Hey, good afternoon, fellas a great show as always, but hey,
I'm glad I'm the last caller so we could start
our weekend off with with with keeping it real. James
Harden gave us our best hope since nineteen ninety six. Y'all.
Every time we bring up James Harden, match your talking
down saying how times were bad, times weren't bad. We

(02:28:50):
had hope. Now we have no hope. We got Alfred Single,
who's going down the toilet. He can't even produce like
James Harden. Kevin Durant is hurt. We haven't seen any
ain't like the times we had James hard We had
Brooks before then, remember those times when we had Brooks
and uh the fat Well point guard. Those are horrible.

Speaker 1 (02:29:08):
Times if you if you ate well, if you want
to well, if you want to really keep it real.
We've had thirty five years of hard times. My friend
him in just five or six.

Speaker 7 (02:29:19):
Well, I'm yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, thirty five years.
But I'm forty four. So from thirty to forty we
were we had hope, right, we had James Harden we
had the man, right.

Speaker 1 (02:29:31):
No, no, no, no, no no no no you didn't no, no, no, no,
you didn't have the man. James did not come through
for this team in the playoffs. It didn't.

Speaker 3 (02:29:36):
He did not.

Speaker 1 (02:29:37):
He won the man.

Speaker 7 (02:29:38):
You're not gonna We played against the best team of
all times.

Speaker 1 (02:29:43):
There's always well, there's always an excuse.

Speaker 7 (02:29:45):
There was Hope.

Speaker 1 (02:29:46):
What is the excuse for him? Is in Brooklyn?

Speaker 3 (02:29:47):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:29:48):
What's an excuse him? Is la Clipper? What's his excuse
to clip?

Speaker 7 (02:29:51):
I'm not making any excuses. I'm just saying quick respect
on this name because he gave us open at least
we thought we could do it.

Speaker 1 (02:29:57):
You know, I'm sick of hope with Hope. I want wins.
I don't know I'm blaming him. I'm just saying, but
but don't, but don't, but don't sell me. No, I'm
not trying to sell you. Shangun over her heart and
I'm just saying I'm tired of Hope period. I want wins.
I want another ring Willa. That's all I want.

Speaker 7 (02:30:13):
Well, we got to get rid of Sango. We gotta
get rid of Smith, even though I love Smith, and
we got to get somebody good man, are. We shouldn't
even really trade in anybody, man. That's how I feel.
All right, y'all, have a good weekend.

Speaker 1 (02:30:24):
See you will appreciate the phone call. Always good to
have you in there. Five minutes up to go on
the show. What should we do? We should play America's
fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply call it
be leave it or not Monday through Thursday, but on
Fridays we call it a hell yeah or not. And
here's how it works. You call seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one

(02:30:46):
two five seven ninety Today's edition of Hell Yere, And
that is all things about p J. Tucker. I'll read
your sament about PJ same as completely utterly acry about PJ.
You'll say this hell the same as Hierroni's full of
bunking Innupe. You will say this all right. How are
we doing on tickets? One is one correct answer? Good enough, Jonathan?
For these tickets? Yeah, all right? One correct answer gets
you a pair of tickets to see Staying on May

(02:31:08):
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One correct answer wins you. On today's edition of Hell
Yeah or Not? Joe on seven Aintiy Joe, You're ready

(02:31:28):
to play? Hell yeah or not? Yes, Mad No game
cardon No No, No Joe. PJ. Tucker's given name is
Anthony Leon Tucker. Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 5 (02:31:39):
Oh my God, Matt Jesus, hurry yeah, hell yeah? Can
you right?

Speaker 1 (02:31:44):
Chilens Paul on Sevenati, You're ready to play? Hell yeah
or not?

Speaker 5 (02:31:51):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:31:51):
PJ. Tucker originally committed to play his college basketball at Clemson,
but followed Rick Barnes to the University of Texas instead.
Hell Yeah or not.

Speaker 6 (02:32:01):
Not?

Speaker 1 (02:32:02):
That's correct. That's two winners. Cannon seven ninety Ken, your
favorite part of today's ten to two radio show, all
the outstarts talking.

Speaker 9 (02:32:12):
Congratulations on thirty years.

Speaker 1 (02:32:13):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 15 (02:32:14):
Ken.

Speaker 1 (02:32:14):
In two thousand and six, PJ. Tucker was named the
Big twelve Player of the Year Walt the University of Texas.
Hell Yeah or not?

Speaker 17 (02:32:23):
Hell Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:32:23):
That's a third winner. Nicely done. Rubin on Seveninti Rubin
You're ready to play hell yeah, not hell yeah. Before
establishing himself in the NBA, PJ Tucker played professionally in Israel, Greece,
and even Ukraine. Hell yeah or not.

Speaker 7 (02:32:40):
I'll give it a hell yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:32:41):
You should for yourulations. Felipe on sevenintie Felipe ready to
play hell yeah not hell yeah. In twenty sixteen, PJ.
Tucker finished third in the Defensive Player of the Year
voting with the Phoenix Suns hell yeah or not not
that is correct? Five winners. Let's finish it off, John

(02:33:05):
on seven ninety John, your favorite part of Today's ten
to two radio show. PJ. Tucker appeared to himself on
a season one episode of the Netflix sitcom sneaker Heads
hell yeah or not?

Speaker 16 (02:33:17):
Believe it?

Speaker 1 (02:33:18):
Yeah yeah, that's a nod. Thank you for playing No
good back, Frank on seven ninety You're ready to play
hell yeah or not.

Speaker 5 (02:33:30):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:33:30):
According to spot track dot Com, PJ. Tucker has earned
approximately one hundred and sixty million dollars in his career
one sixty hell yeah or not.

Speaker 5 (02:33:39):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:33:40):
No, only ninety million. Uh one more person can come
in here broke, he is broken. Just ninety million dollars
seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Let's
get the next person in. As soon as he calls in,
you will be next up, and that'll be lining number three,
Line three. Who's this? Angie? PJ. Tucker played Game six

(02:34:02):
of the twenty eighteen Western Conference Finals with cracked teeth,
and game seven after undergoing three root canals, hell yeah
or not? Hell yeah, there's a winner. Angele's congratulations, Bossy,
have a good weekend. I look forward to listening to
you on the tenth Inning Show before after the Astros
beat the Reds. How about that? Can't wait? That's up

(02:34:24):
Burroughs quality, start light plus zero, Shuner baby up next days.
Talk to you Monday at ten on seven a