Anything Goes Friday! Rockets vs Blazers Part 2, Miami Is Headed to the Natty

Anything Goes Friday! Rockets vs Blazers Part 2, Miami Is Headed to the Natty 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with ross.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Oh one, it.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Ain't down, Good morning, Welcome do it Friday at issue
The Matt Thomas Show with Wrongs. This is Sports Talk
seven ninety Rossie, I don't believe in violence, but i'd
slept oh violent. Sports Rby knows the pain of playing

(00:35):
with crack black players next year. I know the pain.
And see you keep thinking this is a win in
your head or something because I complained about her. I
wasn't complaining about the way she was playing. I was
complaining that she scolded me for playing wrong when I
played right, and then she hypocritically played incorrectly herself. There's

(00:58):
a difference. I couldn'tunderstand a word. Just said, yeah, I
understand me. That's in one ear and out the other.
That's fair. I don't. Here's what we're going to do.
You and I are going to run on a platform
of making sure anybody that enters a blackjack a casino,
any casino, has to have a blackjack competency course. They
can play however they want. It's fine. No, it's not fine.

(01:21):
Play You're already against the odds. You might as well
try to take not even advantage play to the best
of your ability and what you just described to me,
and we've played in that sound bite, there was not
the right way to play. Good morning everybody, Ross, How
the hell are you? I'm doing great, Matt. What's going on?
Nothing here in Portland? We're officially I'm wearing full plaid
today because once you live in Portland for more than

(01:41):
three days, you have to wear a plaid. I thought
it was flannel, and that too plaid flannel all that.
I'm not shaven, my hair is growing out, and I've
had fourteen cups of coffee already this morning, so I
am ready to go. Okay, great, can't wait for what?

(02:04):
I don't know. You said you're ready to go, and
I said, can't wait? What do you want me to say?
I want you to say that you are ready to
break down the Texans versus Steelers for four hours straight.
Let's do it, huge game. Well, we can do it
on Monday, I won't it. Do'll be just you on Mondays?
Oh yeah, I like that. We can. Yeah, get you
some Pittsburgh people on Yeah, we talked some Texans. Yeah, yeah, great,

(02:25):
they're gonna win. Nothing to worry about. Well, I wouldn't say,
nothing to worry about, but they're gonna win.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Scared.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
I'm not scared. Your Texans. You better record this rossing
your texts are winning by at least a touchdown on
Monday night, I said twenty four to thirteen or whatever
it was. So go we should at you know, we
should start doing We should start not even think about Steelers.
We should be thinking about the New England Patriots. It
seems like a mistake by whom, by everyone. I mean,
it's not like the team's doing it. It's not that

(02:51):
teams out overlooking the Steers. There's enough pessimism as where
we need some optimism. We need to joy. We need
divisional playoff previews before the wald card even starts. O.
Nobody else is doing too many scenarios with the receiding though.
I know that's true. They could very well be at
home next week. You never know, never didn't. No, they couldn't. Yeah,

(03:14):
the three the three road teams win. Uh is that? Wait?
Is that true? Yeah? I guess you're right. M hm.
That's not happening though. But it's you're saying there's a chance,
there's a minuscule chance. Well, charger, uh charger, Jonathan thinks

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there's a chance that's true. Slim. We'll make it a
slim chance. You know what, you got as much chance
as SFA beating Houston at TDC. What would be the
scenario They would host the Chargers then and then the
Broncos would host the Bills. Yes, oh that doesn't sound
too bad. It's not crazy, rossy this season of all yours,

(03:56):
you could, you could, this could happen. That would take Yeah,
three road teams will all have to win. Tell me
the tell me the three road teams don't have a
shot to winning these none of the spread. The biggest
spread I think is three and a half New England,
so it's possible. Ain't scared except the charge under gonna happen.

(04:18):
So I could. By the way, Patriots said that the
easiest schedule in the history of time. I know, ye,
all the all the here knows that. Ross everybody, all
the Patriot haters are like they all didn't play nobody. Yeah,
I thought it was odd. They opened up against Norfolk State.

(04:38):
They had a mid season game with Flourida, A and M. Yeah,
it's weird what happened on that very sec of them. Yeah,
speaking of the sec, we're down to no SEC teams
off in the college football player. I'm like, sure, why not?
I may check with Gordy is he okay today? You
know what's funny to me is I was never I
mean SEC guy, of course is SEC over everything, no
matter what, and we're gonna have all been together. And

(05:00):
some Longhorn fans have taken to that and I just haven't.
I mean, it's just it. It doesn't feel you're not
I'm not ingrained in the SE. I like that that
Texas is with the SEC. It's the biggest conference, it's
the best conference, it's the most money. But it's not
ingrained into my culture as a Longhorn fan to embrace

(05:22):
everything SEC. Do you know that in my life now,
granted I was a grew up as a Southwest Conference fan.
Then to the conference, no conference loyalty. I have never
been in the whack for a while, right, no, no whack?

Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, Yo were not Houston, No, they weren't Conference USA.
A Rice to the America. Now, Rice has been in
every conference.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
Not a man.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
You're right about that. So I will say this, even
though we've been the Big twelve with three years now,
I think is what it is Uh huh, I'm not
conference guy. When my team is done, they're done. I've
just never. I've never, And maybe it's because I don't
have a conference in graened and maybe because I don't
live Like if you live in Birmingham, Alabama, you are

(06:08):
inundated with SEC. If you live in I don't know, Athens, Georgia.
I mean, you're in the heart the heart of SEC country.
That you that's all you get. Your radio shows are
disgusting about discussed constantly. Your TV shows you get twelve
months of that. We don't get. We move on from
here to supports the sports and support here. Yeah, I
better ben conference guys. It's more ingrained, and I think

(06:30):
it's more SEC than any of the conference as well.
I think it's also maybe a Southern thing. I think generally,
if you're really loud about SEC being the best ever,
you probably own a Confederate flag somewhere. It's regional. Right. Well,
I'll say this, I am, and maybe this is hypocrisy
on my part. Look, I have two schools that my

(06:51):
kids have gone to, Texas Tech and Texas and M
I root for them. When when my University of Houston's out,
I mean, I don't. I will root for the I
root for the SEC. I guess yeah, but I don't
want Alabama to win more LSU. I mean that's these
are recruiting grounds A and M certainly not of course
or ou right yep. By the way, with Miami winning

(07:13):
yesterday beating almost thirty one twenty seven two things? Did
you see lang Kiffin sweet this morning? I did not
see language. I'm so proud of his old miss rebel.
He was hate watching? Was he the number one hate
watcher in America? Last? He was? He was openly true.
Actually no, because he gets paid. He lost on it
on seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars yesterday. Yeah, but

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doesn't part of you not want them? You can't. I
think it has to be you have to be slightly conflicted.
Overall you want the money, correct, but also he always
trumps everything. But overall he's making what thirteen million eyar
or whatever it is from LSU. Well, word is as
soon as the game is over. He demanded a plane
get to Phoenix, where he grabbed every one of his assistants.

(07:57):
That says, you're coming to LSU. I think I had
a rooom meeting with them. Yeah, team meetings already at
the in the locker room, I think he told the
coaches that were wearing the ole Miss gear to burn that,
leave the gear in the stadium and just wore like
a regular generic white T shirt. I think if you're
an egomaniac like Lane Kiffiness, you don't want them winning
the championship without you. Though. At even though the money's good, yes,
he's got to be think I get the money at

(08:18):
my next job, where where I happened to go next?
And also speaking the money, so, the ACC has a
rule that if you are in the College Football Playoff,
any money that you win for being in it goes
to you. Most conferences, the other three Power four conferences
they split the money evenly. So when they when the

(08:40):
CFP he hands a check to the Big Ten, they
will out over the sixteen teams in the Miami. In
the ACC situation, with Miami winning yesterday, they are guaranteed
twenty million dollars that goes to the conference. The conference
will then give that twenty million dollars directly to the
University of Miami. It is a game changer for being

(09:04):
an ACC team and playing for a national championship. That
is twenty million dollars that can directly go give it
to your NIL people however, whatever back channels you are,
and you can pay players that way, that for facilities, scholarships,
funding of other programs. I mean, could you imagine a

(09:26):
single university getting a lump chunk, a lump sum check
for one football game. That's what Miami got by winning yesterday.
That's good. I mean, they're just one of the powers
is back. They spend a lot in NIL. They had
all those boosters spending all this cash and while it's
working out for them, and I wonder if other conferences
will do that or do they say, hey, strengthen numbers,

(09:47):
because ACC is the only conference that does that that
directly pays the school for going to a Yeah, it
feels like it should be shared, but I guess why.
I don't know why. Maybe actually grant because that's how
it always was. Yeah, Yeah, I don't know. All right, Ros,
it's anything goes Friday today? How do you feel about anything
goes Friday feeling? I just I don't know if I'm
just having allergies all week or what I just been
in in a general malaise. Matthew, Yeah, I'm going to

(10:09):
try to lift you, lift you up for the next
three hours forty seven minutes. Well, I'm hitting coffee and
taking a zertech. So hopefully if you be feeling better
soon here really okay, you know I I went to
my doctor the other day and for my into your
physical and I said, hey, you know I get cold sometimes,
and you know what's the best thing. And she goes, well,
you know, you go for that suit of Uh that's

(10:32):
not suit of FED, it's musin X, mucin X. Okay,
she says the mucin X are the best, and I
said she she says, the really the absolute best is
musin X d H. But if you have any sort
of high blood pressure issues, you should only take that
if absolutely necessary, like you are completely miserable because I
have great blood pressure. Okay, Well, go get you some D. Yeah,

(10:53):
what is that is that? For a day? What does
that mean all day? Claire? Because there's clarence in D.
I believe it means it's damn good. I don't think
so you don't know that. Look it up google musin X.
Damn good D commonly means decongestent. There you go, Yeah,
and that's what. Yeah, So Unfortunately, I do batter about

(11:14):
a little bit of high pl pressure and I said
it's because the ten to two job I work. Yeah, yeah,
I could see you having high blood pressure and I
could see me having low blood pressure. Well, if we
were we balance out, well do we not? Yes, we're
the Yin and the Yang in the mid days. Yes
we are all right. It is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. If you'd like to join us, it isn't
anything goes Friday. And when I mean anything, literally, I

(11:36):
mean anything. We will give you. First of I'll give
you the longest leation in sports radio and Houston Pier
because we actually take your calls. We actually like you, folks.
Is compared to other shows in the market that just
don't want to speak to you. Uh, we actually liked
you guys to call in at seven one three two
one two five Sevenati seven one three two one two
five seven nati.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Also today on the radio program, We Have arm I'm
sorries the first of twenty twenty six did anybody not
behave themselves on New Year's Eve? Or did something that
you regretted? In the first handful of days of the
twenty twenty sixth calendar year. You need to call in
today at eleven thirty and say you're sorry. We'll have
the news at new Wake the strippers up, and we'll
have our non FODA stories at one thirty, plus hell
yarn ou at one fifty. But today it's a lot

(12:13):
about you. It's a lot about quite a bit of
baseball news. We'll get to today. Uh And if any
of you watched the college football on semifinal last night,
it was ross. I didn't pay a whole lot of
attention to it. I was at dinner with a lot
of people, but it looks like a back and forth
kind of area. It was awesome. It was a great game,
and Carson was a thriller. Yeah, Carson Bick's good. These

(12:35):
pro good.

Speaker 5 (12:40):
Well.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
At open we'll discuss. We'll discuss ten fifteen seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety anything goes Friday Sports
Talk seven ninety Here from Portland, Oregon. I think you're
even more rained today in Houston, and I'm gonna get
here in portand it is that accurate. Yes, I believe

(13:01):
a cold front is coming in, so it's not gonna
be eighty degrees in January anymore. You know me, I
like it. I know I'm a fraud, but you know what,
mister Texas loves of Texas. Oh my god. He okay,
well let me know when he gets here. I thought
you were mister Portland. Now, Oh is that Gordy? Is it?
Gordy dropped by? I don't know. Did we talk? Oh
we talked trash about the SEC. Yeah. Here the way

(13:24):
Gordy is going to get rid of his podcast because
there's nobody, no teams left.

Speaker 6 (13:29):
Hey, stay safe out there, bad in Portland. A lot
of stuff happening out there. Yeah, stay your hotel.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
I'm very well aware of the endless news coverage I'm
receiving right now. What's going on? Don't ask, okay, don't ask.
We keep it to sports here for a reason except
Gordy dropping by. All right, Gordy Carson Beck NFL prospect
Yes or no? Uh yeah. The Georgia.

Speaker 6 (13:54):
The guy who spent all those years of Georgia developing
in the SEC, taking all those tough hits in the SEC,
got to the to the ACCO went oh this is
a little bit easier here, so yeah, absolutely, all.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
Right, Look, I want to see if he looks he's
They listed him in six four twenty five, which is
NFL height and weight. I mean, it is what it is.
I look at him and I go cat throw the ball.
I don't know what to watch a lot of Miami football,
so I can't speak to it a lot. Obviously, was
great yesterday, good game.

Speaker 6 (14:23):
He threw a lot of interceptions earlier this year and
the losses to SMU and Louisville and so that was
kind of the moniker. Last year he had a stretch
at Georgia way through I think it was twelve interceptions
in a six game span.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Like it was bad. But he dated a Cavender twin.
He had that going for him.

Speaker 6 (14:41):
He had a Lamborghini he got thus from Miami and
his nil deal man.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Who wouldn't want a Lambeau another plus, you're in Miami
in a Lambo with a Cavendar twin.

Speaker 6 (14:49):
He had a huge calf tattoo, A tattoo across his calf.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
That's bold. M What is it of? I don't know.
It's some kind of graphic. So you brought this to
the table, and yet you did not tell us what
the what the actual tat is I don't know what
it is, you can't remember. It's okay.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
I'm just happy we can end this charade with old
Miss and they can go home back to being the
doldrum that they have known to be for sixty plus
years of football.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Wow, they're playing in the semi final of the National
Championship with LSU coaches. Yes, and you are ripping the
crap out of them? Yes? I mean god, are they
all Miss coaches?

Speaker 5 (15:29):
No?

Speaker 3 (15:30):
No, no, The offense was our offensive coaches, so they came,
they came LSU, and they sent them from over from LSU.

Speaker 6 (15:36):
The crappy defense was their new head coach. So good
luck with Pete Golding.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Is that what you wanted to do when you came
for your little drive by today? It was just just
anything else.

Speaker 6 (15:49):
I was going to say, well, well, I was just
gonna say this. Everybody's poop pooing on the SEC today.
And look, I know Ross is not SEC guy, but.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
They haven't made an s they haven't made a semifinal
or or I'm sorry, I fine in three years? Right
in football? Yes? Oh oh yeah, I wasn't talking about track.
Oh well, I was just gonna mention we are here,
We go.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
Reigning national champions in baseball l s U Yeah, softball Texas.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Here we go, men's basketball.

Speaker 7 (16:14):
Ever heard of it?

Speaker 6 (16:15):
The Florida Gators beat the Houston Burgers. Volleyball Texas, A
and M Gymnastics Oklahoma outdoor track men with A and
M outdoor track women Georgia, women's tennis, Georgia, Swimming and
Diving Texas. I mean we can get into conference dominator.
It's not just about football.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
That that is an all test propaganda spin. It's all
about football. You gotta be good in the other sportsw
SEC is not talking about the volleyball championship. We mentioned it, No, no, no, no,
no no. I was if I was to listen to
your locked onn SEC and one of your ninety rando
weirdo guess you have on you're not breaking down basketball

(16:56):
or yeah, Well, we talked all about Florid peak.

Speaker 6 (16:58):
Was it golden and in Florida beating the Houston Cougars
when it mattered most? By the way boy Manuel Sharp
fumbled the ball away, we talked all about that. Okay,
I was a choke.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Well, I'm sorry. By the way Gordy Ross guilted me
in yesterday I bought the ticket on Dark Breast Airlines.
Didn't guilt you. I just called you out. I am
leaving at six o'clock in the morning on game day
to go from Phoenix to Indianapolis, and then I will
watch the game and then I have a six o'clock
flight that the next morning back to Phoenix. What game the

(17:31):
National Championship game in Indianapolis.

Speaker 8 (17:33):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yeah, it should be a nice matchup between Michigan and Purdue. Yeah,
that's hard to predict right now. Well, yeah, but I mean,
don't you think I'm smart by at least buying the ticket? Now,
I got it for I used miles on one way
and then I paid for on the way back and
then idea, yeah, and make sure it's rinking. Make sure
you are smart. Good job, it is refundable. Don't look
at the kin Pom rankings. We were we were saventh

(17:56):
to the Poles. What does kem pom say? We don't
put in play anybody anything. I'm more. I've I've said that.
I'm now you remember I've been more. I've been consistent
on this, no matter how good or bad, anybody is,
right mckin pom guy, Okay, there eleventh it was a
good win for Tech. The other night. It was a
nice win, good good energy. Eleventh then, yeah, a lot
of people called the show of the day after until
they watched the game and broke things down. You're fighting

(18:18):
Texas Longhorns fifty first in the kN Pom rankings. How's
you it's gonna be a baseball this year? Fine toy
winnings got bad? He's bad. Yeah, yes, it's front of
the show, so back off.

Speaker 6 (18:30):
Texas is hoping to get revenge on UTSA this year.
It's a big one. It is a big one.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
All anything else from your Gordon usually come in for
some reason.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
He was just gonna I think, in all seriousness, I
do think the expanded playoff and nil on the transfer
portal has leveled the playing field a little bit more
in college football. Where and Indiana gets an incredible head
coach and a bunch of transfer portal guys, and look
at where they are Mark Cuban Cash.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
By the way, did you see and I want to
play this? We got to find it, Kirk Herbs. He
was talking about how Indiana's building a program. No they're not.
They're doing what everybody else is doing. They're just they're
just they're just winning the world in the piggy bank.
They're right check.

Speaker 6 (19:09):
But they've got like barely any five, four and five
star athletes. It's a lot of three stars that they've
developed and grabbed from other rosters.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
And I'm gonna say, I'm kind of getting the feeling
that Kirk Signetty is kind of the next big thing.
He's pretty good, but he's sixty five. I mean, how
long can he be the next big thing? He's six,
he's sixty four. Matt Oh, he's sixty four. Joe Paw
hang on, but his hair looks like he's forty three
because he's dying in How long did Joe pa hang
on with his rolled up newspaper? And then he was
on the wrong sideline half the game? Wasn't that a

(19:37):
terrible Beatles song? When I'm sixty four? Not terrible fans?
That song blows. That song is it sounds like it
was written by a third grader. It's you know what,
you know what's it's you know it's a banger. Matter
of fact, Jonathan will play when we come back here,
and oh my god, it literally sounds like a nursery
rhyme when I'm here. Look, I don't look. I respect

(19:58):
the Beatles. Six A lot of great songs by the Beatles.
I'm sorry, Chris Conway Twitty did not sing that as
a cover. I don't know. It's a nursery this year
Conwoy Twitty. That was early Beatles, right, was that like beats?

Speaker 9 (20:14):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (20:14):
That was when they're male? That was that male at
in Beatles. That was like, I want to say, not
white album. But I was like, we need ten songs
for this album. Let's just write it road. I want
to say, do you want to go see Lizzo with
me at the Rodeo met There's zero chance. Well, we
got some good tickets for you. I don't care. You
can have them. Why not. She's got some hits. Her
voice is beyond annoying. Oh she's a good singer. I think. No,

(20:37):
she's wretched. You hear me, Liz wretched new Man on
the Minnesota Vikings. Yeah, that was a big hit. That
was a big one. It's not my phone less phone,
so it's not a hit. All right, let's take a
time out. Thank you Gordy for the drop by. Are
you promoting the Texas Ball or anything or all that game?
Already passed. You don't think you can't promote that. Guess

(20:59):
you can do next year's Texas Ball. Check out Lockdown
SEC for more Volleyball Championship coverage and a bunch of
Rando reporters you never heard of that have like fourteen
hundred followers on Twitter. Now you gotta feel content somehow.
He left in me, he walked up. He's done, all right?
When I'm sixty four and Joe and passed it, Get down, Dina.
That's and anything goes Friday. Here on the Matt Thomas

(21:20):
Shoe Ross seven one three two one two five seven.

Speaker 10 (21:23):
Ninety, when I got old and losing my head many
years from now, will you still be sending me a
Palo Time Wesday Greetings, bottle of wine? It let me down?

(21:47):
Still quote the three Would you lock the door?

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Will you still need me?

Speaker 10 (21:54):
Will you still feed me?

Speaker 4 (21:56):
When?

Speaker 3 (21:56):
On sixty four? All think John a pretty little catchy tune, right,
I mean it's no, it's no check house, but it's
not bad mat or anything's face today. It's good. This
just showed the diversity in the catalog of the Beatles' repertoire.

(22:18):
This sounds like PPS. People like PBS. I mean, the
President doesn't, but everybody else seems to like it. Let's
see how it did in the old charts. Ross, promote
your Instagram, Why I look it up. Yes, I would
appreciate a follow at sports r V. My latest story

(22:39):
has a picture of a I mean, I just thought
it was a good view of the walking trail and
Buffalo by you park, and several of you have reached
out and said, Ross, be careful. Yeah, I was gonna say,
that's what the park I would go to. I mean,
y'all are a bunch of wine, old bunch of you
know what. You gotta leave your house sometime. My girl
was wed for you too. She told me the story.

(22:59):
She's oh my god, stopped reading the news. Okay, and
there hasn't. It's fine. There's a bunch of people out there.
There's nobody snatching up bodies, at least that I saw.
Everybody gets all worried because the news wants to sensationalize everything.
I was in zero danger is fine. Get off your

(23:20):
phones and get outside, go for a walk. There's more
people on the on the trail. When I'm sixty four
was part of the Sergeant Pepper's album number one hit
for forty nine straight weeks. What that's not true that
you're right? It was? Yeah, okay, that would be that
would be a record by like thirty weeks, not thirty weeks,

(23:42):
but like, yeah, twenty dollars. It's again, it's not what
it's not hard? Did it hit on the chart, Matt,
I don't know. I don't time to look. I'm trying
to do a radio You literally went to look it up.
Did it not chart at all? Was it not a single?
I don't think it charted as a single. Yeah, there
you go. It didn't chart it as a single, so
cause if it was a number one hit, you'd be
talking about how much the charts matter. Now that it's not,

(24:04):
charts don't matter.

Speaker 9 (24:07):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
It was one of the first songs on McCartney wrote.
He says when he was fourteen years old. This is
what I say. I told you. I didn't. I had
no idea that that was true. Give me credit? Do
I have to? That is hilarious? Are you serious? He
didn't record it till nineteen sixty six, but he wrote

(24:29):
it when he was fourteen. Yeah, that sounds about right.
That's what it sounds like. I mean it is what
it is. I'm trying to look at the race. If
you like it, Matt, don't look for you know, you
don't have to make us like it. Something named Richard
some guy named Richard Goldstein wrote a scathing review in
the album for The New York Times. He says the
song is not is. He says the song is not

(24:51):
mocking in tone, but complained that an honest vision is
ruined by the background, which seeks to enhance. You know what,
Richard Goldstein, if you're alive, shit, y o, bumb ass up.
He's still alive. Actually he's born nineteen forty four. Seriously,
you know what if people like songs, people like songs, right,
you like so Ross, Go see Lizzo. Yeah, I don't
want to listen to Lizzo. But yeah, you're right, Matt.

(25:15):
I don't need I don't need charts to tell me
what successful it was. That's right, Matt. You like what
you like and you you do you as they say.
And I don't like Kendrick Lamar, but I understand why
people do. And that's okay. And Charge of Peppers is
one of the all time great albums. It is an
all time let's talk to Joe and pass it, get
down Dina on Anything Goes Friday.

Speaker 9 (25:33):
Hello Joe, Oh, Matt, Good morning Matt, good morning.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
Uh second sing good morning Ross too. Don't forget about Ross.
Hi Joe, Hello Joe, Joe, learn from you in a while.
How's it going.

Speaker 11 (25:49):
Fine?

Speaker 3 (25:50):
That's great?

Speaker 12 (25:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (25:53):
I want to tell you two questions about the former
Resks name in the Houston Texas Stadium. But first I
want to talk about the formal Riskers name. I used
to be a Risky friend back then when Joke Daisman
was there, Doug Winning those guys. But they changed the
name to Washington.

Speaker 12 (26:10):
Commanders and that name it's sticky uniforms. They go and
this is that you this a five year.

Speaker 7 (26:21):
Rule?

Speaker 12 (26:22):
What is it called five year rule contract? They can
change uniforms.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Like maybe with Nike, you' somebody or what. I don't
know about name changing. I know uniforms you have to
wear them for a certain length of time because they
don't want to. When they put them out there for
sale and people buy them all a sudden, you change
them a year later. People sending a rors towards that.
Apparently you can't change everyone for five years. Yeah, that

(26:50):
makes sense, But I think the name is not part
of that.

Speaker 12 (26:55):
Oh okay, okay.

Speaker 13 (26:57):
Now the Texas Stadium a new stadium.

Speaker 12 (27:01):
Or we amount of the stadium energy stadium.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Well, thank you Joe for the phone call. Have a
great weekend. Both are up for conjecture. Nothing has been
publicly stated on either one of them. I do think
if you were to logically think about the situation, I
think the Texans will ultimately in the next twelve months,
I would say that I'll give you this for a
look cut feeling ROSSI we will hear something about a

(27:28):
rejuven i rejuvenated, refurbished energy stadium by the end of
the year. Hmmm. And because in something publicly from the
from ownership, Yeah, I think it will be. And again,
timing is everything, as we've talked about really since the
beginning of all this conversation. You go to a Texas Yeah,

(27:49):
if you get bounced a byt the Steelers on Monday night,
you probably hand in and cal will be like, oh
wait till twenty twenty seven. But if they make a
deep playoff run, and how they'll sell it is here's
how they're going to sell it, and it will not
go over well regardless. Hey, hey, fans. You know, Texans,
you don't get the stadium experience that people in Las

(28:12):
Vegas get, or people in Los Angeles get, or people
even in Arlington get. You deserve to have a better stadium.
And here's what we're going to do. And they're going
to put out this plan where they're going to hopefully
see a lot of public funding, and it will not
go well. It will be met with a lot of
cynicism from elected officials it'll come from. It will be

(28:35):
a lot of synings for people that are not sports fans.
Now you'll have your ross, your die hard twenty five percent.
They'll be like, you know what, hey, I'll pay for it.
I love my Texans. I want a better facility. I
want to be able to have a wider seat or
more club seats or you know, maybe the business community
steps up and says something, but it's going to largely
and again short of a super Bowl, it's not going

(28:57):
to go well for any PR firm and the Texans
to come out publicly and say we need to refurbish
energy stadium. And then when they figure out that maybe
there's no tax money available in the Harris County area,
that's when Hannah will come out and say, you know,
we are gonna we're gonna kick the tires, not my phrase,
hers the tires maybe going outside of Harris County. Uh,

(29:22):
instead of the thing is ross. There's a lot of
things you and I have discussed in sixteen years doing
this show together. We've not had deep stadium conversation. But
guess what, Bruh, it's coming. May not be this year,
but it's gonna be the next two. I have a
dumb question, please, what's the end? What's the end stadium
experience at Lambeau? What? Like? What bells? And have they
put bells and whistles and updated it somehow? And they have,

(29:45):
they have refurbished it multiple times. Okay, but the difference
is is that Green Bay is a one off? Well,
actually it's not a one off because Pittsburgh's kind of
the same way. Uh. I mean, Soldier Field is old,
but they're building a new stadium there. No, right, I
thought they were in Chicago. It didn't pass or something. No,
they're now thinking about it. We're gone. I guess there

(30:06):
is talk of them moving to Gary, Indiana. Oh is
that what it is? Yeah? Well, they were gonna supposed
to go to Arlington Heights, which is a suburb of Chicago.
That's what I thought was that things have fallen apart. Okay,
I think it's more It sounds like more posturing anything
else to me. But they did the Bears did kick
the tires of Again. I won't say that again. I
swear of going to the suburbs of Indiana, you know,

(30:29):
just outside the state line in interesting. Okay. But we
are seeing a trend. We're seeing it in Cleveland, we
are going to see it ultimately in Chicago. The world
of downtown stadiums now energy obviously is not downtown. But
the world of downtown facilities are no longer a thing
because I think what we're seeing here Ross is we're

(30:51):
seeing the suburban counties saying, hey, we saw what Atlanta
did with the Braves, moving them outside of Fulton County.
We're finding county, you know, or we're saying what AT
and T did out in Arlington. That's the open space,
the stadiums, the clubs, all that little rigworld that you've

(31:11):
been hearing them for all those years. They want to
build their own little palaces and reap the funds of
all the hotels and the restaurants. Yeah, I would say
the counter argument to what I'm bringing up is that
there's never been a playoff game, college playoff game, or
big Bowl games or anything. And at Lambeau that I
know of, right, they they don't do anything. But I mean,

(31:31):
that's what those that's what the mcnairs want. The McNair's
they refurbished because they just the stadium's old. This is
a refurbished because they want more bells and whistle They
want more bells and whistles, which means they want more
college football playoff games and right kickoffs advocare whatever season, kickoffs,
World Cup, all that stuff. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (31:50):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
They want a super Bowl, Yes, super Bowl and first,
as currently put together, Energy is never hosting a super
Bowl again. And I don't think that's that's a huge
surprise to anybody. I mean, honestly, if you want to
do that, I mean, if you're if you're really the
super well are you just rotating between San Francisco, La Vegas,

(32:12):
New Orleans and Miami and calling it to day? That's
what they should do, Seriously, honestly, it should be in
New Orleans every year. Well, you know, Kansas City is
going to go to Kansas. Oh, I forgot to bring
up Kansas. They're going to Kansas're leaving Kansas City to
go to Kansas to build the stadium apparently, and they
think that there's gonna be a Super Bowl in Kansas.
I don't know they can carry on those wayward sons. Hmmm.

(32:38):
I should know more than one Kansas in the wind,
that's all. I thought you were gonna take dust in
the wind and be like I got nothing. I was panicking.
It was on the tip of my tongue. I was
panicky guard because I said I should know more, and
I'm like, give me, Mack, give me one more something.
I had to spin it out quick before you got it.
Damnit win because I'm done. Hey, Rossie, we've got some

(33:01):
astros arbitration news to discuss when go, oh, yes, we do,
and I want to I want to do some Detroit
discussion as well. That stops dealing my bits. Okay, that's
why the show is on the same page, Because I
was gonna say, if you think it's bad in Houston,
you have you seen what it's going on in Detroit? Yes,
ten forty five. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross

(33:23):
and anything goes Friday seven one, three, two, two, five,
ten forty nine on Sports Talk seven ninety I'm here
at Porter by the way. We were playing the Blazers.
I think I've been here for a month now. I
got I'm in flannel, I'm wearing plaid, uh, growing a

(33:43):
long beard, and I'm drunk about now. Fifteen cups of
coffee this morning here in the Pacific Roa. How many cups? Fifteen?
That seems like a lot in big coffee culture up
in the Northwest. Yes. Uh, it's one of my favorite
things to do, is when you type in coffee and
you know the little pins to show on your map. Yes,
you know what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pinish

(34:03):
it like doing a duncan in Boston. It's exactly right. Yeah,
I'm gonna show you the pencil show up. There'll be
thirty places within about put put it on your put
it on your Instagram at sports MT. You think I
should give up on Twitter. I wish I want to
because here's what's going on with me. Go ahead. I'm
I'm getting spam all the time, which I block immediately. Yes,

(34:26):
and then I have a lot of people that are
deactivating their accounts, like we're never gonna get I'm never
gonna get to forty thousand unless they do something. I mean,
if you go on, let's say Adam Schefter makes a
tweet and you just you know what, reading the comments
is just internet culture, like, oh, what are the people
saying about it? Right? The first, the first of all,
in his infinite wisdom, Elon made people who pay for
the website to generate revenue with their AI bots. They

(34:48):
made he made their comments co op first. And it's
always like ten you have to sift through ten or
fifteen crypto bots saying oh interesting, oh funny, are repeating
the tweet because it's just an AI bot that is
putting in like fake commentary. You can't you can't get
the pulse of the people. One of the beauties of

(35:08):
Twitter was the community feeling the pulse of the people.
What are people saying? Funny comments and scendiary comments whatever?
That's completely gone, it's in the wash. It's too much
to sift through. It's annoying. I just wish there was
a better place. Or if you could just get just

(35:28):
get rid of the automated bots and I would love
Twitter again, or at least like it more. And people
have left it, which is fine because they but they said,
you know what, we don't need it. There's nowhere to go.
There's nowhere to go. Yeah, there isn't. And we have
opinions on things, and there's ugly. It's just ugliness out there.
But we're repeating ourselves. But people don't. But it's it's true,

(35:50):
and it's annoying and all these all these all these
blue check mark box bo bots, I should say, are
just wasting everyone's time. All right, I'm putting it in
my story. Oh I'm trying to. I'll do it in
a break. Okay, I've counted. Let me see if I
can count the how many there are a number of

(36:11):
places one to at least there's ten places within about
eight hudred feet of my hotel. Yeah, people drink some
serious coffee this time. Okay, just to the baseball. Two
astros did not agree to arbitration, which means I have
to go to arbitration meetings. Interesting. One I believe is
a long term future guy. Maybe not a long term

(36:33):
but certainly a futurist guy, das the other is essak Paradis.
Now I don't know what guys are valued or not.
I mean, it's all what the arportunities have to say,
it's all what the player thinks. It's all what the
team wants to pay. So for us to have a
conversation abou whether guy is worth four point seven million
dollars or six point two is I can give you

(36:54):
the numbers if you want them, though, please I find
it interesting. Uh esk paratus. Nine point nine five million
is what he wants. Eight point seven five million is
what the astros say he is worth. And I always
think about this ross when I see the numbers, because
that's not a huge discrepancy current and yes, it's the
second biggest in baseball. Wow, I didn't realize it was

(37:15):
that much, But I says, put the difference of call today, right,
that's what I like to say. I'm sorry. The least
are listed by total numbers, so it's the second biggest
as far as the number he would make with the discrepancies. Okay,
but looking in the list, it's about one of the
biggest discrepancies in baseball. Yanar Das is another big one.
It's four and a half million versus three million. That

(37:36):
that is a pretty big golf. I'm looking at this list.
It looks like it's about it's about two of the
biggest in baseball. Obviously, there's gonna be a big golf
with anybody who is going to arbitration, because that means
they couldn't settle it. That means there's a big difference, right,
But you and I don't. I mean, if it was
if Jonar Das wants twenty million dollars a year, we
tell him to go away and say bye. I mean,

(37:58):
but he's not asking for that. We we're getting it
gets into semantics at that level. There's one case, however,
that we can't get into semantics on it, and that's
what's going on in Detroit. For those of you that
don't know, a Taric Scoopl is what Paul schemes him
in our one to two in terms of most valuable
pitchers in baseball, Tony, Yes, I would say so and
show hey when he wants to pitch's about number three.

(38:19):
I mean, it is what it is. So Taric Scoopl
of the Detroit Tigers gave the Tigers a number. The
astro of the Tigers gave Tarak Scouoble a number, and
they could not come to an agreement on it. The
Tigers were willing to give this young pitcher, this phenom,

(38:39):
nineteen million dollars for the twenty twenty sixth season. How
much professional experiences he had? This will be his fourth
year or third year, somewhere in that range. That's pretty good, right, Yeah,
I'm gonna I think you're I'll go look at a range.
This is his sixth year, but his first year he
only he only pitched seven games, So he's going into
basically his sixth year. Okay, full you know the service time.

(39:02):
Kind of want service time, right, So Tark wants nineteen
or no, excuse me, the Tigers want to give him nineteen.
Tark's like, excuse my friend here, bitch please, he's asking
for thirty two million dollars. Yeah, the biggest arbitration spread
in history, and may not we may never see it

(39:22):
this big of a descripcy ever. Again. I mean this,
I've never seen it this wide before in my life.
Don't clip that? Um, yes, do that? Clip that? Okay,
if you're the Tigers, you have to trade him. Ooo.
It's not a win, can you or do you think

(39:43):
about it? Ross? He's not going to ever sign with
the Detroit Tigers under any circumstance. Yeah, but I'm telling
you Tigers need him. Of course they do. This is

(40:05):
this is not even Frankly Worth arguing about. There is
no way that a baseball team who has such a
wide number in the first year of an arbitration of
a franchise. If you think Hunter Brown is a one one,
this guy is a one one one one one one one.
Tark Schouble is mad. Tark Schooble cannot believe the Tigers

(40:33):
would not budge off of nineteen million dollars. Tark Schooble
is going to go to arbitration. There's gonna be resentment
and bad feelings. And this is for even for an
organization who doesn't typically spend a lot of money on
its players. That's why Alex Pgman didn't go there. Alex
Pregman would have loved to have played for aj Hinch

(40:54):
in Detroit. But Alex Pregman's like, I'm afraid, well, I
was gonna go to gonna be the biggest dollar guy
and no one there'll be no money around me. Tarak
Scoble will be traded. He has to be traded because
they're going to he's going to leave that Tiger organization
high and dry at some point up of this. We

(41:15):
saw this with Kyle Tucker Ross, we just did. We
saw it when it happened when the Astros and Kyle
Tucker could not come to an agreement and there were
hard feelings, and Kyle didn't hide the fact there were
hard feelings. He said, I'm never gonna resign here. Yeah,
say it publicly, but certainly between the lines, you could
hear that nineteen million dollars seems pretty insane. The record

(41:35):
for a arbitration eligible eligible player would be one Soto,
who got thirty one million dollars from the Yankees in
twenty four For pitchers, it's nineteen point seventy five million.
That's David Price with the Tigers, but also ten years
ago in twenty fifteen. Well, I guess eleven now at
this point in twenty fifteen, when the economics of baseball

(41:55):
were greatly different, they're gonna lose this, right. If it's
got to be one number of the other that I
don't know. I don't know how those those hearings go, honestly,
because it's got to be one or the other. There's
no they can still arbitrate. If that's a word that works,
they can. I think they can still discuss and settle

(42:20):
as long as it doesn't go to the hearing, which
isn't immediately. Tarker School is gonna need to pitch. He's
gonna walk, and he's gonna get like four hundred million
dollars or more. Yes, that's why they have to trade him.
And that's why they was talk during the winter meetings
about tark Schools name being brought up in trade conversation
because the Tigers knew this was coming. Yeah, I mean yeah,

(42:43):
for the long term health of the organization, you you
cash in that schoobl Chip our friend Ray and Miami.
We have a huge game Monday, and we haven't had
We have to hear about coffee. Haven't said a word
about the game. At this point, I'm done. Your show
is boring. Okay, don't guess what, Ray, don't ever call
the show again.

Speaker 9 (42:59):
Ray.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
If you don't like the show, Ray, go away, Rayo.
And we did talk about the game. I think we
talked about it all. We also we're going to talk
about four hours on Monday. The game isn't until Monday game,
It's not until Monday, Ray, And we didn't mention it,
and we did talk about it, and we're gonna talk
about it coming at the top of the hour. Ray.
I love how speaking of Twitter, y'all want to just
you want to do the show, you come to the show.

(43:21):
We're moving things around a little bit here. The game
is not until eight o'clock or seven o'clock on Monday night. Yes,
we talked about some college football. There was literally, Ray,
what I gave you. I gave you Kevin Harlan yesterday.
Calm down, Man, it's okay. I'm fine. I'm just pissed
off because this is this suppost mean anything goes Friday
fun Friday. You shit, he was boring. Well, then turn
that out, Ray, turn it. That's just Rays with other people.

Speaker 14 (43:45):
Ray.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
Yeah. Look, you've given you so many chances, Ray for
your horrible takes on my show. That's how you're gonna
repay me back. Yeah, go hit the jet ski, Ray, Ray.
Once you go on the jet ski, and if you fall,
oh well, oh wow, don't ever call the show again.

Speaker 10 (43:58):
Ray.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
If you don't like the show, Ray, go away. Ray.
And we did talk about the game. I think we
talked about it all. We Also, we're gonna talk about
four hours on Monday. The game isn't until Monday game.
It's not until Monday, Ray, And we didn't mention it,
and we did talk about it, and we're gonna talk
about coming at the top of the hour.

Speaker 10 (44:13):
Ray.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
I love how speaking of Twitter, y'all want to just
you want to do the show, you come to the show.
We're moving things around a little bit here. The game
is not until eight o'clock or seven o'clock on Monday night. Yes,
we talked about some college football. There was literally Ray,
what I gave you. I gave you Kevin Harlan yesterday.
Calm down, Man, it's okay. I'm fine. I'm just pissed
off because this is this supposed to be anything goes Friday,

(44:37):
Fun Friday. You shit, he's boring. Well, then turn it out, Ray,
turn its Rays with other people.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
Ray.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
Yeah. Look, you've given you so many chances, Ray for
your horrible takes on my show. That's how you're gonna
repay me back. Yeah, go hit the jet ski, Ray, Ray.
Once you go on the jet ski, and if you fall,
oh well oh wow, as long as you don't. If
you do, hopefully it's a minimal injury. It was a
college football playoff game last night, so we talked about
some college football. Literally, the arbitration stuff dropped yesterday, so

(45:08):
that's hot news. We did mention the Texans and they
play on Monday. You're gonna get a lot of coverage
of the Textans on Monday night. We got a NFL,
a lot of games again, four hour show. It's all good. No,
it's not all good. I'm pissed off because I get
this guy way much too much latitude. He's fighting with
other listeners for god knows what reason. He's fighting with
old Mangary. Oh Ma, Gary's weak. Weird as it is,

(45:30):
But that's fine, don't Yeah, if the game was at
two o'clock this afternoon, I get it. But it's a
seven thirty tomorrow on Monday night. The things to get
to Ray Ray once you call our show, so they
won't even take your calls. They don't like taking calls.
They don't like to talk to people. We do. You

(45:52):
owe me an apology? You know me, Ray, You call
me in half an hour and you're apologizing to me,
or you're never coming on this show again. You're barred
for life. There You go away. You got a half iron.
What if you tuned out because he said he was
going to well, then then he's I'm I'm gonna tweet
right back at him. I just meet him. He's gonna
he's gonna regret not being able to call this show.
Just meet him and go about your day, all right.

(46:17):
See that's what the fifteen cups of coffee kicked in. Yeah,
you got energized, Matt. I did get energized. So the show,
this show seventeen years of energy and moving things around.
Nickusy discusin linebackers and Nick Cayley. Can we keep it
or not? We did that? We got you. Kevin Harland,
who's calling the game? Anybody else have Kevin Harland on

(46:38):
this week? No, shut your bumb ass up with Ross.
I'm Matt good after the Good morning to you, eleven
O two sports Talks and we're back with the second hour.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Next he is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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(47:44):
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Speaker 9 (47:59):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
Let's get two the Texans injury report which came out
late yesterday. See the thing of it is when it's
the first day, and I don't know if it's different
because of the playoffs, but we've been spending the last
two months looking at that first day of the injury
report and seeing some pretty significant names but I don't
know about you, Ross, I never seem to be over

(48:20):
to concerned about it until it's the very last injury. Yeah,
especially come later in the season where guys are resting
up and you want to have them ready to go
come Monday, not super worried. Especially I would say the
limited guy's DNP. Maybe we can be a little bit
more worried about. But we'll see come later in the week. Yeah,
I uh to me this weekend, I should say it

(48:41):
is a little weird because there is a Monday game,
so it's it's a little different to decide.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Now.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
I guess the last report they have to bring out
is as on Saturday. So for those that don't know,
Nico Autry is out, did not practice yesterday, Titus Howard,
Juwar Jordan and Kamari Lassiter, Limit, Tid Trent Brown, Jamel Hill,
Sheldon Rankins, Jalen Reid, Jaylen Reid back on that world
that's good and Derek Stingley Junior and then arianta Ursery

(49:10):
among those that did fully participate yesterday. Okay, I guess
we can discuss that for four hours. Ray, we can. Matt,
all right, we've kind of already tell me there are

(49:32):
new angles on this. We've talked about the fact that TJ.
Watt is playing with a bad lung and had this
miraculous recovery and they're good. Aaron Rodgers does not. I mean,
we don't know if DK Metcalf's impact is going to
be at this point. Hell, we had Tim bens on
earlier this week, Ross and he couldn't even tell us. Yeah,
I would say, like the best unit as far as

(49:54):
what the Pittsburgh Steeler offense is going to bring, is
easily countered by the Texans. They have a good offensive line, yes,
but the Texans have a top notch defensive line that's
going to be able to mitigate that. And that's just
where I see this. I know it's you know, a
football one on one to say this, this game is

(50:14):
gonna be won in the trenches. Matt. This is great
football analysis, but that's what it boils down to because
Aaron Rodgers is old and he's not special like for example,
I mean, even though he didn't do it in the game,
Josh Allen, you feel like there's an element of Okay,
our defensive line can win and we can still lose
this game. Lose this game because of Josh Allen's mobility

(50:34):
and ability to make plays and go off script, and
Pat Mahomes it's great going off script and these other guys.
I just don't think Aaron Rodgers is going to be
able to go off script. You don't have enough of
a run game to keep things honest. And then the
pass catchers aren't good. So the strength of how they
split by the way, Aaron great mobile to Yeah, that's
what I'm saying. So, I mean, if there was some more.

(50:56):
I use the phrase when we had Tim Bins on
to talk Pittsburgh Steelers versus Texans Matt which we've been
doing this week, dynamic element. What scares me and what
can scare the Texans And what Dimico Rans talked about
last week is explosive plays, plays of twenty plus yards.
Who is going to be getting all these explosive plays

(51:18):
to game change, to bring you from your own thirty
to the fifty yard line to where you only need
a first down and a half to get into the
field goal range and then maybe get into the red zone.
How are the Steelers going to get into the red
zone in this game? I just don't I don't see it. Consistently.
I mean, are they going to dink and dunk their
way short passing game? Three four yard runs? I think

(51:41):
too many negative plays the Texans are able to create.
There's like they call it havoc plays, whether it's tackle
for losses, sacks, stuff like that, and the Texans create
more havoc than anybody else in football. So I, just
as I said, I continue, I don't see a pathway
to this. You are scoring enough to be competitive in
this game. I mean, is Calvin Austin a third strike

(52:04):
fear in the receiving corps? No, he sounds like a
senator from Virginia in the eighteen fifties.

Speaker 13 (52:11):
Me.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
He had a great game against Baltimore, but I'm looking
at his season numbers. He averages twelve yards of reception.
He's got thirty one catches for three undred and seventy
two yards. He had seven for fifty five with a
touchdown against Baltimore that was the game winner. Doesn't necessarily
strike the fear in Derek Stingley or Kamari Lassiterer, or
even for that matter, Jalen Petrie. The thing about this

(52:34):
for me and I we don't mean to dumb it down,
but there is. This is not rocket science here. Uh,
they don't have enough firepower. The Texas will lose this
game if the following things happen.

Speaker 13 (52:46):
C J.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Stroud throws sidley interceptions. The offensive line of the Steelers
gives Rogers a little bit of room to do what
you said, the dink and dunk, and I do believe
special teams will be factor. Kymi Fairbarn has been a
huge part of this team's offense. And if that field
in Pittsburgh, with the cold weather and potential wind affects

(53:10):
a guy that has made his living kicking field goals
inside stadiums as compared outside, then it could be in
a close game. Why couldn't a field goal make the
difference one way or the other between these two teams.
I don't think it's going to but it's but certainly
Vegas thinks it's gonna be a little scoring game. The
Vegas line has that as a very short favorite. Again,

(53:32):
sometimes strange elements and tangibles may make it yes different.
I mean football games. First of all, most football games
come down to one score, and most Texans games come
down to one score. So I do yeah, as you said,
it's gonna be turnover. If they lose a turnover battle
like four to one, that's what it's gonna take, right,
And it can happen. Anything can happen any given Sunday,

(53:53):
all that type of stuff. But the better team is
the Texans. The clearly better team is the Texans, and
you have to score points to win. This is an
all time this is the all time great Houston Texans defense,
and I think it's going to carry the day, specifically,
especially in this matchup. And the reality also is this, Uh,
is there somebody in the secondary for the Steelers that

(54:17):
scares you enough that Nico Collins is going to be stopped?

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Now?

Speaker 3 (54:22):
The answer could be yes, but we have seen other
guys in the Texans receiving corps, Dalton Schultz being the
number one guy. Yeah, I mean, has Dalton Schultz not
been c J. Stroud's best friend? This saf blanket Nico Collins, Yeah,
They've been using him a lot in the play action game.
He's been a good safety blanket, especially in you know,

(54:43):
third and eight and third and sixes and stuff like that.
Jayden Higgins has come along and played much better the
second half of the season. Yeah, I mean they have
good guy. I mean, Joey Porter Junior is a good cornerback,
and I think that what did did Tim Ben say?
They've been the usual Jalen Ramsey Now it's safety where
he's been more comfortable. Yep. So yeah, it's it's gonna

(55:04):
be a low scoring game. It's gonna be low scoring
and yeah, Stems, tex I'm gonna give you a ridiculous
generic statement, Okay, and I apologize for the set advance.
If the Texas was this game on Monday, Okay, we're
gonna spend ninety percent of the time talking about c J.
Strouds and effectiveness. We just are. I can't. I would

(55:27):
say turnovers, defense going, oh my god, why did they
allow Aaron Rodgers to throw for three hundred and nine
yards and three touchdowns? Yeah? I just can't fathom that
you could also end up in a situation like Woody
Marks finishes with thirteen carries for twenty seven yards and
the run game was nothing. They I just have. They
would have to get down a touchdown, They would have

(55:47):
to get down like two scores early. Where I would
really get worried is if the Texans got off script
to where they got down two scores early, had to
pass the ball a little bit more, and you're giving
TJ watt and can't an old man Cam Hayward and
Alex Heigh Smith like opportunities to create some havoc and
some turnovers, fumble sacks, pressures, interceptions, But that that is

(56:11):
the pathway to victory. If we're on Pittsburgh Steelers Radio,
get up ten points, get the Texans out of their
comfort zone and do something that the teams have done
that have beaten the Texans this year. Have the Texans
settle for three like you've done well too much this year? Right,
that's how it's good. I mean there's it's either CJ
is so poor because I don't think the Texans are

(56:33):
going to give up thirty four points. I mean the
Steelers offense is not capable of doing that. And then
ultimately is your red zone ineffect missile has been. If
you were to grade the Texans red zone this year,
you give them a C, right, maybe minus C minus
sounds about right. Yeah, I mean they got better, got better,
but it was still it was an apt earlier. This year.
You got to pass it. I'm scared to look up

(56:54):
red zone touchdown. Don't even look at pff, don't do it.
Don't do it, all right? It is that anything goes Friday.
People need to apologize. And I continue where he apologize
to me. In about fifteen minutes, I can tell you
that for damn sure, red zone touchdown percentage go ahead
from thirty two. Don't know, you know, we'll do it.
We'll come back, okay. Somebody was also asking for the
final offensive line rankings we did. We can get those two.

(57:18):
Let's good out, let's nock both those on we come back.
It's not pretty. Wait a minute, it was getting better.
It's not pretty, is it? Top twenty five? Find out
when we come back? Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninety years. So I had the Today Show on
in my uh room here in Portland, and guess what

(57:41):
they had on to break down the NFL playoff bracket
Sports RV on what Channel Today Show NBC. Al Roker,
We've already talked about this guy before once, Ryan Seacrest, No,
Steve Kornaki, Oh, that guy, he's got the odds right.

(58:03):
They had his He had his pencil in his ear, beautiful,
He had his sleeves rolled up on his white dresser. Huh,
and you were shaking your fist at him. I might
have been a little bit. He was trying to explain
to the anchors about how they recede after every round.
Very simple, best seed plays worse seed. No, no, no,

(58:23):
you wanted he got his pen in his best seed
plays worst seed. Next topic. Nope, they didn't do it
that way. Okay, they did not do it that way,
all right. Eleven twenty one of The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross Stepan one three two one two five is
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven nine.

(58:44):
Let's go to our buddy, Christian Lamark on Anything Goes Friday, Christian,
good morning to you.

Speaker 9 (58:52):
Right or in your case, Matt morning, Thomas and Ross
never reall. How y'all doing the start off this first
weekend of the new year?

Speaker 3 (59:06):
Doing great, Christians? We're doing great, Christian? How are you?

Speaker 9 (59:10):
I'm doing alright, you guys. I just wanted to ask
a couple of questions. First of all, when it comes
down to the Rockets having this big jeck O Heights
slide of winning big games but losing to mediocre ball clubs,
like what happened a couple of nights ago against Portland.
What should be their focus as they closed out this
world troop this weekend against the Trail Blazers and against

(59:33):
the Kings, who is another mediocre team that they lost
too recently. And also since this.

Speaker 13 (59:38):
Is an anything come heyday, and.

Speaker 9 (59:42):
I know this station almost never gives a damn about soccer,
especially when it comes to MLS, But since Matt posted
about it, might as well ask what are your thoughts
about the Dynamo cutting ties with Houston soccer Maven Glenn Davis,
who's been doing this since nineteen eighty four, but caring
about the team since two thousand and six. I just

(01:00:03):
got to say it ain't nobody got time for the
NL stupidity. And I'll leave it at that. I'll talk
to you on social media.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
Thank you very much. Christian. You know what I look at, Christian,
he's either had he's either got a helicopter phone or
a phone that just got constant blips.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
I think it blips out when he yells for whatever reason. Yeah,
it's over my Yeah, I already put my my sentiments
about Glenn Davis, who used to do a show here
on the station. It's had been a longtime soccer broadcaster,
both regionally, locally and nationally. Has I think he still
does another soccer show on another station. If there's anybody

(01:00:42):
in Houston, Texas that gives two blanks about soccer and
talks about it with knowledge and the most important thing,
passion is Glenn Davis. Knowledge, passion, experience, all of it.

Speaker 15 (01:00:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Yeah, Glenn and I I've known each other for thirty years.
He was the best man in my wedding. Wow. He
knows that I don't like soccer. So when we go
to dinner, he'll say, Glenn will say, how's Kim, how
are the kids? And uh, I'll give him a story
about how they're doing. And I'll say, Glenn, how's your life?

(01:01:20):
And he goes, You know, it's really good, but Manchester
United just isn't scoring enough in the second half. He
it's literally in the pores of his blood. Is that
I just think poors and blood? No, I don't think so. Ulo, Yeah, plasma.
He loves soccer more than anybody in this town. He

(01:01:42):
calls soccer games. His play by play career, in small
part is because of my digestive system. Yeah, that's right.
You had chili dogs right. We had We had chili
dogs before a hot shot soccer game, and I got food.
I don't know thin like I food poisoning. I just
say too much one probably more with a lad. But

(01:02:05):
I had to go to the bathroom two times during
a game, four extended periods of time. Hmm, is rains
Ronny Island still around? I yes, I think it's ray
Rewriye grill. But I also they're dwindling. Well, I had
three dogs. The one off the forty five North is gone.
It's like a it's like a Toastata joint. Now. Well,
the one in the West Timer is gone too, point

(01:02:27):
being is the original Downtown's gone to? I think, yeah there,
I mean again, that's why I literally asked West Timer
and bearing one's gone, yeah, gone. Oh that's right. It's
like a Mediterranean joint or something now, right, So what
Glenn asked for when he puts his heart and soul
into a soccer product is he wants good soccer people
running a soccer organization. The Houston Dynamo are not a

(01:02:49):
good run organization. They have been largely garbage for twenty
years now. I didn't I wasn't living here when they
moved back when they moved out of San Jose. So
I can't say they won a couple of MLS Cups
very early on, but they have had numerous ownership changes,
numerous front office changes and leadership changes, and all they

(01:03:12):
do is just get worse and all Glenn Davis did.
And I've not talked to Glenn since then. I told
him I was going to tweet about it because I'm
just so upset about it. All Glenn wants is for
people that are going to try to give Houston's fans
professional soccer to treat it like the respect that should

(01:03:33):
get and I don't think the Dynamo have ever done that.
So when Glenn probably said something that got people mad again,
I don't know impair, I'm just guessing, but to get
rid of a guy who literally loves your team more
than anybody else in Houston, it's an utter shame. It
is a complete and utter shame. He's not making a

(01:03:53):
lot of money. This isn't a question about money. This
is a question about Glenn Davis, a soccer diehard who
wants and appreciates and wants to promote professional soccer in Houston,
or for that matter, youth in college too. He's not
just talking about pro They just didn't like him, then
they got rid of him, and it's it's an absolute disgrace,
absolutely one percent disgraceful. And the only thing I'll add

(01:04:15):
is when he was doing that show, as you mentioned,
I was a young producer in the game, and as
you know, Matt, not every talent treats the producer very well.
Not everybody is nice behind the scenes. Glenn Davis one
of the nicest human beings I'd ever worked with, just great,
didn't talk down to producer, did like just collaborative, supportive,

(01:04:38):
easy and fun to work with, and just a good
person in my small interactions with him. So I just
wanted to add that. There you go. So shame on you, Dynamo.
You're You've been irrelevant every since I moved back to
Houston in twenty ten, and I've seen that not changing
at all. They just don't. And that's my piece, all right,
let me get to real quick back before we get two.

(01:05:00):
I'm sorry. Is for the week Mac You're on seven
ninety Mac. Good morning to you.

Speaker 11 (01:05:05):
Hey, guys, how you doing?

Speaker 5 (01:05:06):
Good morning? Have you new y'all? I just want to.

Speaker 16 (01:05:08):
Ask a question other than to say a medical red shirt.
Will we ever get back to eighteen to twenty two
year olds playing college football?

Speaker 11 (01:05:20):
You got guys six seven years playing twenty four? Look
at the quarterback for Miami, he's been playing seven years.
I mean, are we ever gonna get back to eighteen
to twenty two year olds since the COVID is over?
Is that what gave him five six seven years elvis ability?

Speaker 16 (01:05:33):
Can somebody elaborate on that for me and explaining it
to me? And I'm gonna hang out with my phone?

Speaker 11 (01:05:36):
Ain't acting right?

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
All right? Thank you for the phone call. We appreciate it.
I think we're out of COVID ross. I think there's
some medical red shirt situations going on, do we not?

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (01:05:50):
How long?

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
I guess he's talking about Carson Beck? Right? How long
is Carson Beck been playing? I believe he is twenty
seven years old? He'll be playing he actually, yes, I
think he's literally in his seventh season. I think, uh,
first year was twenty twenty one. This is his fifth year.
Oh really? Yeah? I guess somebody was joking on to it. No,

(01:06:15):
it was sixth year, twenty twenty he played. Okay, I'm
looking you know what I just see all. So yeah,
twenty I have him, twenty twenty one, twenty two, twenty three,
twenty four year. Twenty twenty was his red shirt year.
But so he played in one game, he played a game. Yeah.
By the way, red shirt rules for those of you
that don't know, it's four games or less and you

(01:06:35):
can stow red shirt. Yeah, so it gives you a
chance to play basically four and a half years if
you want to.

Speaker 17 (01:06:43):
But real quick, on that point of n Iol, there's
a lot of college kids when I wasn't going to
college twenty twenty that their coaches were purposely telling him
to red shirt this and their next season so they
can be stronger later in their college career against the competition.
So this might be maybe one or two more years
that we still see this.

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
Yeah, Yeah, you're COVID exemption. Yeah, it's gonna be it's
gonna be just about gone. Yeah. But as far as
red shirt, yeah, I peat people red shirt all the
time and play only. Honestly, I'd rather have it this
way than sticking around and playing longer. So this can
build something as compared to guys jettising after one you're
like to do in in college basketball, I've never you know,

(01:07:30):
if the rules allow it, whether it's medical red shirt
or regular red shirt or not, I've never. I mean,
is any is anybody in Miami complaining that Carson backs
twenty three years old lean them to a national championship?
I don't think so. No. I don't think the guy's
cutting the checks are mad either. No, they're not. I
didn't think they're gonna pull it off. But they're in
the semis. I mean, sorry, final, yep, they are all right. Listen, gang, Uh,

(01:07:52):
this is the next half hour that is yours to apologize. Look,
I apologize daily on this show, so I don't need
the other twenty eighteen hours thirty minutes. This next thirty
minutes just for you, Ross, you canna apologize for your discretions.
I gotta apologize to Nick Kayley. Oh, we gotta go
over pf FF grades and uh what was the other one?
Oh something else? I can't remember either. So we just

(01:08:14):
talked about I got the offensive line rankings. I can't
remember the other thing we were gonna talk about. You
were going to bring an offense red zone? Oh the
red zone on person? Okay, you'll read those that tab
you open it back up. Unfortunately you don't want to
hear it. But okay, that's why it's going to be
a close game. Yeah, this is why maybe I should

(01:08:34):
be backing off of my my steamroll comments. Texans by
seven Ladies and gentlemen, Texans buying, you know what, I'm
sticking by it. Twenty four to thirteen. That's not going
to be crazy. They can do this. I don't care
if it's cold. I don't care if it's Pittsburgh. I
don't care if it's Monday night the Steelers. The Steelers
are a mainfield goal away from thinking from Aaron Rodgers

(01:08:55):
retiring and Mike Tomlin thinking about being a television announcer.
Come on, so you look, old air is gonna freeze
t J wats long. I hope it doesn't get an
ambulance to the field or anything like that. No, I
don't want to. Yeah, we don't want a situation like that.
All right, If you want to apologize for something you
said or tweeted, you hear me said or tweeted seven

(01:09:15):
one three two one two wink wink seven one three
two one two five seven natis seven one three two
one two five seven. It's eleven thirty one. It's a
Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm sorries are next, this
is your next twenty coming and Toddy's you're coming. If
you don't say you're sorry, you know a lot of regrets,

(01:09:38):
especially some of you, that I could give a chance
to call the show to say these very special words.

Speaker 10 (01:09:43):
I'm sorry, so sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
If you went to Twitter and said my show is boring,
when I give you the chance to come on my
show all the time, you should call seven one three
two one two five seven and say I'm sorry. He
was on hold. I was gonna go to him and
lost reception on the jet ski. Maybe trust me. We
do twenty hours a week on this show. We know

(01:10:09):
what people want to talk about. If I take two
minutes to talk about coffee, give me a break. Was
it even two minutes? I think I saw we need
to put a timer on it. Ross, I guess we
should have. But we are going to talk about the
Texans endlessly. The game is not till Monday night, but
we still need to give you plenty of analysis, over

(01:10:31):
and over and over again. We had Kevin Harland on
the show. We had Tim Benzon from Pittsburgh, Ross on Monday.
Will find somebody to talk more from the Pittsburgh perspective
as well. We will give you NonStop Texans coverage over
and over and over and over again. We may bore
you with it, but we're going to continue to give
you over and over and over and over again. Are

(01:10:53):
you okay, mat I didn't go to my Catholicism? Move okay? Forever?
And what is that?

Speaker 9 (01:11:07):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
Okay, what's going on? Somebody didn't grow up Catholic noven
I didn't either, but I that's true, converted, it's a
Catholic thing. Okay, Catholic's gotta chuckle out of that. We
went in harmy for a second. There, We did go harmony.
It was weird. We went I'm uncomfortable. Who are the
greatest male artists to go? So we had Simon and
Garfunk all together. I'll be Simon, you be Garfund Okay,

(01:11:34):
all right? Seven one, three, two two five seven ninety.
If you want to apologize for something, get it in now.
You got twenty three minutes. Oh, I'm getting attacked by
Ray Now are you really what he's saying? I'm just
commuting him. It's not I'm not worried about it. I'm
not even gonna read it. You brought it up. Might
as well say, now, yeah, you brought it up. Yeah,

(01:11:55):
he says, I got suspended for a week for a
dumb take. Well, now I have to I have to
I mute at him. So, I mean, you can read
it if you want. I gotta I gotta go find
it again and unmute him. You're only suspended for three days.
Let's make sure we're clear on that. And it wasn't
for a take. Yeah, here it is. Your dumb ass

(01:12:18):
co host got suspended for anfing week for his dumb
ass take. Yet you come at me sports Harvey is
a bum that dropped out of college and googles everything
when people call in. Oh damn, he was saying the opposite.
I'm sorry right for the jugular show That interesting?

Speaker 17 (01:12:40):
Well, I mean, let me get these calls.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
Ray. I hope you have a great weekend. Man, Oh
here right now, wishing you the best. What don't you
do right now? Hang on a second, tell Ray have
a great weekend. Ray, I want you to have a
great weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
I don't even know what I supposed to be apologizing for,
But then don't apologize for my for my opinion.

Speaker 5 (01:13:05):
I just won't listen to your show because I had
an opinion.

Speaker 3 (01:13:09):
Don't turn it off.

Speaker 5 (01:13:11):
I won't listen. You call it a drop out.

Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
We don't need you. We don't need you. Whoa, whoa,
whoa whoa. That's okay. No, I didn't hang up on him,
by the way, No, he ain't. Definitely okay, I didn't
touch it. It's okay. The last vestige of a person
with no argument is personal attacks, and that's okay. You
have horrible opinions, Ray, you add nothing to this show.

(01:13:38):
You want to get in fights with old men. We
let you on here, and you think you're good because
you're loud and ignorant at the same time. And I
guess that gets some reactions. But you're not a good caller.
We don't need you. If the show is boring, turn
you on, turn it off. Find it's very simple. You're
not gonna find anything else better than this. For twenty
hours a week. We're gonna we're gonna do keep doing

(01:13:59):
what we're doing. We're gonna entertain we're gonna talk about sports,
We're gonna goof around a little bit. That's what we do. Sorry,
if you if you want twenty hours of breakdown. NFL
radios are there for you, but we got the things
to get too. Let's talk to uh. Caso, Caso. You
know what, Case, I always appreciate you because I feel

(01:14:19):
like once a week you do something wrong in your
life and you feel like this is the place that
you need to let it all hang on. For that,
we appreciate it.

Speaker 14 (01:14:29):
Yeah, I did something really bad, guys.

Speaker 9 (01:14:33):
UH.

Speaker 14 (01:14:33):
It was honestly very douchey of me, and I just
want to call and.

Speaker 3 (01:14:39):
Talk about it real quick, really quick. Okay.

Speaker 14 (01:14:43):
I was out of Starbucks the one offer forty five
and coling on my way to work.

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
There's a long line the drive.

Speaker 14 (01:14:51):
Through, and in front of these four cars was a
uh was a garbage truck getting in the garbage. I
came from the other side and there was a perfect
spot for right right there at the window to take
my order. So I cut all those people off and
I took their spot. This lady got out of her car,

(01:15:13):
came up to me and said, third, the line starts
all the way back here.

Speaker 3 (01:15:18):
I looked at.

Speaker 14 (01:15:19):
Her, I looked at the menu. I said, okay, I'll move.

Speaker 3 (01:15:24):
I apologize.

Speaker 14 (01:15:25):
I didn't see that she walked back to her car.
I started ordering my my, my drink. And for that,
I just want to say, I'm sorry. I cut all
those people off. I probably won't do it again, but
you know.

Speaker 3 (01:15:39):
But you might might.

Speaker 14 (01:15:42):
I'm sorry, I might, I might, Matt, And for that,
I'm a bad person.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
But I'm sorry. Yeah, I get it, Thank you case sorry.
Like there's people out there in this world that have
chatting cut it in lines for food, that will say
they're sorry, but they'll never leave the line. You ever
noticed that?

Speaker 7 (01:16:01):
Ross?

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
Uh? I don't know. I haven't been chatting cutting a while.
It happens to me all the time, uh, media dining
at the Totus Center. I won't name names. Constantly chatting
and cutting? Oh really? Yeah? And the crazy part is
the line is not that long to begin with. It's
about five deep. Maybe. Yeah, why are you doing that?

(01:16:28):
Not me? I'm talking about somebody else, man. I don't
chatting cut I watched the Curby Enthusiasm. I don't want
to do it to anybody. It's got to be Adam Clayton.
I'm just kidding. Well, I mean, you don't come down
there a halftime anymore used to when you're a pa. Yeah,
I can't go back that. I don't know any I
don't get nothing else what happens at halftime. I don't
even get those halftime tenders and dogs aren't bad, matty.

(01:16:50):
I heard. I heard the food upgrade at halftime is
really good. I get none of it. Yeah, sometimes it's
like brought worst. Yes, nice, But sometimes the tote center
brings me snacks at halftime. That's goodppreciate. Yeah, I go
grasp some Swedish fish. I'm just gonna tell you all something.
If you're a chat and cutter and you get you
get busted, take the l and go back to the

(01:17:10):
back of the line, just don't say you're sorry and
then stay there. Well that's what Caeso did, but he
did say he was sorry when he cut the line.
All right, really quick, bec we're gonna pay off on this. Okay.
Pro Football Focus offensive line final rankings in red zone.
Please tell the audience Texans Pro Football Focus offensive line
rankings twenty seventh. But they reached twenty fifth at one point. Yes,

(01:17:35):
they were like seventeenth or eighteenth in the middle of
the season. Wow, So I win on my guy. I
said they were gonna get the top twenty five, but
they finished the season twenty seven. They flew too close
to the sun. Yeah, like Icarus, which I just googled.
That's quite a pull. Yeah, I'd take it as a compliment.
If you think I'm googling everything that I'm staying off

(01:17:57):
the top of my head, I'd take it as a compliment.
Thank you. I google more than I can tell that
for a fact. I'm not afraid to say it. I'd
rather Google be right than say something can be wrong
and think off the top of my head. Oh, I
didn't get to do my Oh and quick, the the
red zone rankings, which I did google. I didn't know

(01:18:17):
these off the top of my head, Matt red zone
TD scoring percentage thirty second, New Orleans Saints, thirty first,
New York Jets. Uh huh thirtieth. Oh no, you're Houston Texans.

(01:18:38):
Oh no, forty six point three percent. Oh no, that's
red zone scoring period of test red zone touchdowns. Well
that that doesn't come as a surprise. Man. Well, I
would like them not to be thirtieth in the whole league.
But they've also won nine straight games, so stats don't
tell the whole story. And the defenses all I got

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bad news for Jonathan Chargers twenty ninth. All right, yeah,
the bad there's a bunch of bad teams and then
there's the Chargers and the Texans in here. These are
like the the worst teams Cleveland twenty five Cleveland. Then
we'll go to Vegas Giants, the Ravens, Chargers, Texans, Jets, Saints.

(01:19:23):
That it's bad, that's not good. That's concerning. Yea, Why
is why is Jonathan Ketchen's Chargers slander here? This sounds
a day like what's going on? All right? More, I'm sorry.
He's up next eleven forty five on The Matt Thomas
Show with Ross. I'm waking the strippers up in fifteen minutes.
I hope that people in the room next to me
are okay with that. You know, it's only uh ninety

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five here in Portland. Seven one three two one two
five SEVENANTI seven one three two one two five Sevenati
with all right, your last chance to say I'm sorry
for the week. Let's go seven one three two one
two five seven NINTI seven one three two one two
five Savanani. Uh, Jonathan, did you apologize for anything? Are

(01:20:07):
we good?

Speaker 4 (01:20:07):
Down that?

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
Uh?

Speaker 17 (01:20:10):
We haven't had I'm sorry in a while, so I
guess I could say I'm sorry for a couple of
weeks back. I had a little altercation with my phone,
didn't wake up in time to get here in the studio,
and oh.

Speaker 3 (01:20:22):
Yeah, I forgot about that. Wow.

Speaker 17 (01:20:24):
And I want to say sorry to the three dudes
I cut off getting to the station.

Speaker 3 (01:20:28):
Wow. Three yeah, I and one trip. That's a pretty
good number. That's Hall of Fame numbers, right, the guys
with that, I'm so sorry. And you also got your
Christmas bonus on the same day you were late for
you you know what? I felt something about that, like
time yep, yep, yep, yep. Ross. You gotta apologize for anything. Yeah,

(01:20:53):
a couple of things. I want to apologize to Nick Kayley.
I got fixated real asked on Mike McDaniel the second
he got available. I mean some have used the term infatuated.
I don't know if i'd use the term infatuated, but
certainly I was like Mike McDaniel, you know, I mean,

(01:21:14):
Nick Cayley's been good, He's been improved, play calling is
even better. The red zone has been better. I think Nick,
I think Mike McDaniel is a better option overall, but
I would I was so roundly dismissive of Nick Kyley.
I would like to apologize to he and his family.
I'm sorry. I got wonderful news for you. There isn't
is a less than a one percent chance they've listened

(01:21:36):
to this show less than one No, I know, man,
it's just a bit oh okay, um, do you want
to apologize for anything? H I got another one? Yeah, please,
I've I've been fixated so much on the Thunder. Now
they're losing games. I feel foolish. I want to apologize

(01:21:58):
the Rockets now they've been losing their our own games.
But I just felt like there was this giant cloud
hanging over the Rockets and it was a Thunder. They're
not infallible. They've lost seven games now, They're not unbeatable.
So for me thinking that they had the Rockets would
have zero point one percent chance against the Thunder, I'm
sorry for doubting the Rockets and overrating the Thunder. I'm sorry.

(01:22:21):
I'm sorry. The NBA made a terrible mistake. I went
to a look at my referee assignments tonight. Who's calling
the game. The referees, and Bill Kennedy will not be
one working as all of When Bill Kennedy works, he
does great review. What do you call those explanations? Yeah,
so he is working tonight, but he's not even the
lead official in the game that he's working, so he

(01:22:43):
won't even be on the microphone. You can't have Bill
Kennedy working a game and not on the lead mic
So sorry NBA for making that terrible mistake. Sorry. You
can't apologize on behalf of someone else, can you? I
just did you haven't you know you should be sorry.
You should be sorry for besmirching these nice espresso machines.

(01:23:05):
You're right, you're right. By the way, guess what, Craig
came and got his little coffee pods for me.

Speaker 16 (01:23:11):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
What do you mean sorry to Craig for making him
do all your errands? You're making Craig your coffee bitch. No, no,
he came and got mine. Oh, I was giving a gift.
So both the als start to me. I'm generous. I'll
give away the coffee because you weren't using them. Well,
I could still captain for myself. They don't redo those
in the You can't ask for those. Well, he must
apparently doesn't want to ask. He doesn't want to give

(01:23:32):
the tip money. Is that true? Ouch? You know what
you need to apologize for that? Yeah, you're right, Craig,
I'm sorry you're you're a decent tipper. I wouldn't say
spectacle for decent. Let's go to uh gil on seven

(01:23:54):
ninety at eleven fifty five, Gill, what are you apologizing for?

Speaker 8 (01:23:59):
Well, you'll started the I'm apologizing to my kids because
I sent them to count Screw because I was to
catch scoop and they used to.

Speaker 3 (01:24:06):
Beat the hell out of me.

Speaker 8 (01:24:07):
But I wanted them to feel the same way my
girls know. But my boy he did something wrong, not
the hell out of them.

Speaker 5 (01:24:13):
But they changed the rules. He did something wrong.

Speaker 8 (01:24:15):
They give him three days off, so three days vacation.

Speaker 3 (01:24:18):
Huh.

Speaker 8 (01:24:18):
So I apologize for trying to get him over there
to learn what I learned by getting the hell be
out of you, but they changing the rules on them
by the time they were rolling up to go, I.

Speaker 3 (01:24:27):
Didn't mean that.

Speaker 8 (01:24:29):
Wow and Jugging apologize to me for waiting for thirty
minutes to get online.

Speaker 3 (01:24:35):
Oh today people, there were other people talk about a
bunch of years way, it was thirty minutes to day.

Speaker 8 (01:24:41):
Yes, yes, I did, Yes, I did.

Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
But that's okay, okay, y you know, we're sorry. We're sorry,
Yil go there you go. Well, you're not going to
run to your Twitter account tell us how our show
was boring because we didn't put you on the airfaftough you.
I don't have a Twitter account. Gosh, you're smart, very smart.
Good for you. Kill those as an email. We don't
need that either. The harassment, it was more like nineteen minutes, Gill.

(01:25:06):
But you know, I'll give you the benefit of that. Yeah,
he exaggerated. I went to Catholic Sunday school and then
we'd go to Mass on Sundays. They never beat me,
so that's good. You never had a nun hit you
with a ruler. I passed my ten commandments. Quiz. Yeah,
I told you. When I moved to Utah, that's when
I converted to Catholicism and I took the express are

(01:25:27):
are the Catholic churches? Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:25:29):
There?

Speaker 3 (01:25:30):
Well, did you know what they did? They didn't discriminate.
They're like, yeah, come on over, I'm saying, big al lds.
There there's no mornings here. We need to we need
to strength the numbers. There's no turf wars or anything.
Everything's there. Everybod's chill.

Speaker 13 (01:25:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25:44):
I wouldn't say that the LDS and against the Catholic fighting. Okay, No,
I would not say that at all. Hey, let's wake
the strippers up. We have some broadcasting news to get to.
It's part of the news at noon. ROSSI okay, wait a,
what the news at noon? What's part of it? I
zoned out? Broadcasting news. Oh, broadcasting news. Yeah, you can
bring that. I'll bring it up. I don't know what

(01:26:05):
the hell you're talking about. Uh, one thirty today we've
got non Florida stories and hell yaron I at one
fifty hear that everybody. Well, it's not really for everybody.
It's just for Ross Ross one thirty nine Florida. Hell yah,
not one. What's the topic. I'll text it to you.

(01:26:26):
Waken the strippers up. Next, Love and fifty seven Here
on Sports Talk seven Hony with is the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross Spot twelve.

Speaker 7 (01:26:41):
Two in h Town Many Mister.

Speaker 3 (01:27:01):
Burs Fair an hour Matt Thomas Show with Ross from Portland.
That's his Sports Talk seveny. They're expecting seven inches in
La quiet Stone. I'm gonna give you six cents.

Speaker 18 (01:27:26):
All afternoon and dawn, let's talk about Woodie Marks running
off left guard for two yards second.

Speaker 3 (01:27:42):
And eight only gain two.

Speaker 18 (01:27:45):
Stay with me, pretty good? Yeah, we're just listening. Four
yards of carry on the quiet Stone, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:27:52):
Every time the Texans running first down, drink on Monday,
especially wol if they get a lead. You can be
nice and toasty, and we want you to make the
work on Tuesday. Actually, don't do that. Yeah, you and
I will reconvene on Tuesday. It's gonna be three four
hours of celebration on Tuesday. I think it was what
was the game a couple of weeks ago we were
talking about they got up, when they got up fourteen

(01:28:12):
to nothing, mm hmm, and then every single drive was
one pass for four yards, and then every single drive
started with a run. You went to the play by
a play chart and you were actually getting teary eyed
a little bit because of the conservative nature that every
time I read run, run, run for one yard, run
for zero yards.

Speaker 14 (01:28:30):
It just.

Speaker 3 (01:28:32):
All right. So here's what we're gonna do. We're going
to seriously try to guess what's in the Texans room.
Right now, let me give you let me give you
like four scenarios. All right, Okay, you tell me which
of the four. Now, they all could be all wrong,
they could all be right. But what is the closest
scenario that you see when if you were to sneak

(01:28:54):
into the Texans offensive? Uh, you know, conference roop Okay?
Umber one?

Speaker 5 (01:29:02):
C J.

Speaker 3 (01:29:02):
Stroud makes too many mistakes and you want to limit
his mistakes. That's option number two. Nick Cayley has no
idea what the hell he's doing. He has no feel
for the game. That he is a creature of habit
and if it worked one time, he's going to continue
to use it over and over again because he thinks,

(01:29:23):
in the back of his mind, well, if I use
the same philosophy of running on first down, play action
on second down, keeping things intermediate, and that we're going
to be fine. Number three Demiko Ryans is the most
ouper conservative offensive coach in the NFL. Defensive minded, yes,
but he has to worry about both sides and that
at the end of the day, he's like, I've got

(01:29:44):
an award winning defense and I just don't want to
have to put any more pressure on them. So I'm
going to just keep the ball long drives and we're
going to win games by six to seven points. Or
number four, we just ain't good enough. How we are
where we are is because the defense and nothing on

(01:30:06):
the offensive side impresses anybody. Which of those four scenarios
do you believe the most? I think three? What was two? Again?
Two was Nick Keley's doesn't know Hillies. Let's go three?
Then Nick Keyley. I mean, he's not that bad. If
Nick Kelly had Drake May, would he be opening things up?

(01:30:27):
I again will say my thinking is that it is
Demiko Ryans because if you listen to his halftime interviews, pregame,
postgame interviews, he says he's the head guy. You gotta
do what he says. He says it, we want to
run the ball, we want the short passing game. We
don't want to make mistakes, we don't want to turn
the ball over. He knows that he has a great

(01:30:49):
defense and they can win with this defense. And you
know what, he's been proven. Right, they're in a nine
game winning streak and they they they're twelve and five.
The only reason they're not that that would normally be
good enough to win the AFC South year after year.
But the Jacksonville Jaguars went on an eight game winning
streak and they're having a great season. Do you know

(01:31:10):
what's crazy? The most explosive the Texans offense has been
was those the two touchdowns of the bombs against the Chargers. Yes,
and then it was a different ballgame after that, It
really was. It was a different ballgame. People that I
follow were saying that the Chargers kind of changed up
the schematics of their defense. They're they're playing more deep coverage.

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They weren't going to allow that to happen again. So
then what does that happened mean? You got to got
to run the ball in more short passing game. So
do you think would you think a conservative coach would
even make it more conservative come playoff time because he

(01:31:50):
knows that one mistake could ultimately cost a game.

Speaker 4 (01:31:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:31:54):
I don't know how much more conservative the Texans could
get with their offensive play calling. But a part of
me says, you, the great coaches ross make changes in
the playoffs to catch So there's nothing on tape, right,
you know what I mean? There's what what if Pittsburgh

(01:32:14):
is preparing for Dalton Schultz and first down runs and
Nico Collins and Xavier Hutchinson and the right and Hagen's
and Noel and Noel and all those other guys, you know,
maybe putting guys in motion, maybe reverses. Maybe I'm not
saying halfback passes. I'm not double passes. I'm saying not
getting gimmicky. But if it ain't broke, why would all

(01:32:38):
of a sudden the Texans change their philosophy about there,
especially for this week's game, where you think you don't
have to score twenty six points to win the football. Yeah,
I think that's a great addendum for you. It's it's
it's you have to say, especially in this game, the
Steelers aren't going to be blowing the top off stuff.
You're not gonna get up fourteen nothing and say, you
know what, they're going to score points. We got to score.

(01:33:00):
We got to keep our foot on the gas. This
is not an all Gas, no breaks matchup. Vegas feels
that way. That's why the total is thirty nine and
a half. I mean, without even looking, when I guess
that that's got to be the lowest in the playoffs
all weekend. It's not going to be some kind of
knockdown drag him out yet easily. Oh, it's down to
thirty eight and a half. Oh, listen, folks, When he

(01:33:23):
says thirty eight and a half, he's not talking about
one team, he's talking about the two teams combined, both
teams combined. The total is thirty eight and a half.
And I think he's feel like an under because it's
it's it's not it's not only the teams, it's not
the only the personnel. It's a head coaches and their philosophies. Yeah,
I mean Tom doesn't have doesn't have the the clubs

(01:33:45):
in his bag to bring out the driver. He just doesn't. Oh,
I like that. That's a golf I don't want to golf.
That was good? Are you sure?

Speaker 12 (01:33:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:33:56):
That's two this year. You're on fire? Is all right? Yeah?
I was gonna say it's all all right than the fire.
But I feel like I've done this. What did I
say last week?

Speaker 4 (01:34:04):
The good one?

Speaker 3 (01:34:06):
I was blown away. I still haven't recovered. I almost
feel like, Jonathan, you need to go listen to every
minute of the show so far this year because you
need to start like, uh, marking down when my analogies
actually makes sense. Okay, we could do this year right now?
All right, well write that, write that one down, put
it in there, and we can do like Matt's analogy ones. Though,
Oh my god, I mean, look, I know my own

(01:34:29):
deficiencies as a host. Analogies are my worst. That's the
worst thing I possibly do to this show. Okay, I'm
sure the things ross keep keep that. Yeah, sorry, yeah,
I can hear all the.

Speaker 7 (01:34:47):
No doubt.

Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
Oh, Mike Stillon, it's terrible. I'm kidding. No news at
noon today, by the way, let's get to it. Twelve next,
break news and stay in the clock on the new year,
on the New Year's resolution, stay on the clock. All right,
news at twelve twenty, So long as the board doesn't
get fried and completely removed, let's come back and discuss

(01:35:11):
that for like twelve seconds. We have to Yes, not
your fault. There were three words I said to Jonathan
Man and I know you've heard these before, Matt. That's
live radio. That is live radio. All right. Our board
fried yesterday, And I want to give myself an MVP
award for one thing that I did. I'm not breaking
anything in the room in half. I didn't even talk
to Jonathan because I knew he was flipping out. Could

(01:35:36):
Kevin Hardlan have been more awesome? Like he understands he's
got a radio background. He's a sweetheart. All right, phone
calls and anything goes Friday and the News at twelve
twenty is next year on seven ninety. This is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross on four. All Right, we
did the news at noon, sometimes a little later than

(01:35:57):
we should, but we stayed on the clock in at
twelve seventeen. It's time for the news at twelve seventeen. Yes, Matthew,
it is time for the news at noon. Here all
in a sports talk seven ninety. Last night, the Ole
Miss Rebels taking on the Miami Hurricanes. They took the

(01:36:18):
l in a back and forth slobber knocker game thirty
one to twenty seven. The Hurricanes defeat the Ole Miss Rebels.
Carson Beck did throw a bad pick, but overall he
was pretty good. Couple of touchdowns, also had the game
winning rushing a touchdown. They advance to the finals. The
number ten seeded Miami Hurricanes, many people argued, should not

(01:36:42):
even have made the playoffs. They are into the finals
as they punched their ticket in a victory where they
and they will play at home in Miami in the
final matchup, which will be between either of Indiana or Oregon,
as they play a night with the Indiana Hoosiers. According

(01:37:03):
to the Vegas odd makers, a three and a half
point favorite in that matchup. A shout out to Miami, uh,
it is hard to be a small school in a
big city with pro teams. And even though Miami's got
a obviously a historic college football career or history is
largely sorry money largely irrelevant for the last twenty years

(01:37:25):
or so, give or take Maybee won two in the mix.
But that's an area. It's like the University of Houston.
You've got Florida fans, you got Florida State fans all
over the place. You got Georgia fans in the whole state.
I mean, it's a muddied water. And those fans of
Miami don't really only care about Miami football unless they're winning.
But they're winning, so they're gonna have a full stadium.
And I would have presumed the Miami would have a

(01:37:46):
significantly home field advantage over this, especially if I mean,
will Oregon and Indiana travel well down to Florida for
that I don't know. I mean, I guess it's for
the National Championship US you would, but yeah, man, do
Hoosiers have I mean they have a massive enrollment, right,
so they've got a pretty big fan base. State school. Yeah,
I mean, for that matter, Organ it's too I don't

(01:38:07):
know what the enrollments are, either one of them are,
but like, if you're an Organ fan, they're in Atlanta today,
ken is it bad that I'm rooting against Phil Knight
because he literally came out and said, I want to
win a championship before I die, And he's spending all
this money just to win a championship, and I is
it wrong? But I mean Indiana spinding? It's how wrong?

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
Does it mean?

Speaker 3 (01:38:26):
One to ten to just be rooting against Phil Knight
because it's funnier to me if he spends all this
money and they don't win. Well, if you are you
a Texas Tech fan, no, I'm Texas Tech didn't score
in their playoff? Yeah yeah I did, but then it's
a ten for you then they did? Okay, No, there
were Texas Tech people. I mean, I have friends I
was rooting against them too. Well, First of all, because

(01:38:47):
Red Raiders fans are the worst. No, they're not. Actually
the worst of course is Aggie fans, but it was
rooting because of because Red Raiders fans. Anyhow, I always
mess with your son, I text some oil club and
stuff like that. Oh no, what does he respond back
to you spend baby spend?

Speaker 7 (01:39:02):
Yeah, you know what?

Speaker 3 (01:39:03):
See the other team, because I told you Manchester City
they were bought by United Air rehemerates and they spend
all this oil money as they call it. So he
was always crushing me for that. So now now that
the oil the shoes on the other foot, I gotta
get you know, I got a jab at him. So
really at the end of the day, and this didn't
take it today to figure this out. If you want

(01:39:23):
your school to be competitive, just spend your way to it.
Because Texas Tech, with the exception of a Zach Thomas year,
has had a sucky defense for the last forty years.
Yes until this year. Yes, and they did never quarterback
to go to and I went him to spend five
million dollars on the Sincy quarterback. Spend, baby spend. Let's
go spend baby spend. That's exactly right. What else you got?

Speaker 15 (01:39:46):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:39:46):
What else do I have? Matt Rockets and Blazers tonight.
I would know. I know it was gonna bring up
the tasks. I knew I had something, I just couldn't
remember what it was. The injury report for the Houston
Texans Matt Please dnps include Denico Autry, Titus Howard, Jowar Jordan,
and Kamari Lassiter. Limited practices would be Trent Brown, Jamal Hills,

(01:40:10):
Sheldon Rankins, Jaden Reed, Jalen Read excuse me, and Derek Stingley.
Jonathan Alexander reporting from practice today. Titus Howard has been spotted,
as has Kamari Lassiter. Jonathan Alexander, of course covering the
Houston Texans for the Houston Chronicle, also adding there's no

(01:40:31):
way he wasn't playing this week talking about Lassiter, so
expect Lassiter suit up and also good news that Titus
Howard was out there at practice and Wax is out
there too, so you'll get a full breakdown for that
as Yeah, check him out two to six the A
team here on Sports Talk seven ninety And he saw
everyone at practice, did Jonathan Alexander except for the running

(01:40:51):
back Jawar Jordan. Yeah, but again one great week, love
him sure, it's a swell fella. That whole running back
room is just guys. He's a he's a decent backup,
but it's not exactly thunder and Lightning with Windy Marx
and Jerward Jordan. No is he still there? And dark
go good? Third down back, third and one? Oh, just

(01:41:12):
shy the first down markin that was British Brooks doing
your leading rusher in the game against the Colts. Well,
he sure played a lot the other night. Yeah, that's
a good name, British Brooks. It sounds like almost like
a WWE wrestler, it does, it does, British Brooks. Yeah,
he's coming in two undred and sixty four pounds from
parts unknown to the British Brooks. And I felt broadcasting

(01:41:38):
Al michaels As, I thought back next year to do
the Amazon Prime games on Thursday. Yes, I think memory
foam pillow is included in the contract. Eighty two years
old losses fastball. Yes, isn't that a lost losses fastball?
It's like he it's like a circle of change. Now

(01:42:00):
is like an instructional league. Okay, that's you know what,
that's unfair. I'm sorry. I apologize to Al Michaels one
of the five greatest broadcasters of all time. I play
guys period. Oh yeah, quick list, let's go do it.
You brought it up a multi sport. We're gonna go
whatever your criteria. Five greatest of all time. Pat Summer

(01:42:21):
all calling football, did some golf as well, but premarrily
for football. Vin Scully, Al Michaels, Nance Nance Nance for
the body of work, theatrics, and then I'm gonna have

(01:42:41):
to go with a six. I'm gonna split the fifth,
sixth vote with Iron Eagle and Kevin Harlan. Oh you
chicken bleep. If I'm going multi sport, I'm taking Vin
Scully off the list, even though he did football back
in the seventies. Okay, I don't know as much of
his football work. He's excellent. I used to look at
videos all the time. We do have some breaking news

(01:43:02):
in the NBA. I saw that go ahead and tell
us it's okay. Well, we call this breaking news in
twenty twenty six, but is this, well, break puts it out.
It's breaking. He calls it breaking for the first time.
According to Sham Sharania ESPN, the Memphis Grizzlies entertaining offers
to potentially move two time All Star Jah Morant ahead

(01:43:25):
of the trade deadline. Sources tel ESPN. His stock is
way down, right, you know what. He can't shoot. He
can't shoot. He can score, but he can got off
the field prop not off the off the court concerns.
I should say, got a coach fired late in the season,

(01:43:47):
super late in the season. Yes, there was the legal
issue with the guns getting in fight, getting a fight
in the Pisco pickup basketball game, right, but I don't
think was there any gun. Yeah, flashing the gun into
strip club. When you hear the phrase flashed a gun
at a strip club on Instagram live stream, that's never

(01:44:08):
a phrase you want to hear from about your franchise player, right,
But there were no charges for the incident. And I
will say this, I think he's a very tradable commodity.
A because he does have talent, but B he's only
on the hook for three more years. He's twenty six

(01:44:30):
years old as well, prime of his career.

Speaker 12 (01:44:34):
With me.

Speaker 3 (01:44:34):
He's also one of those people that we say if
he ever gets a three point shot, and it's just
never happened. If Jannis ever gets a three point shot,
it never happened. So those of us saying if I'm
in Thompson ever gets a three point shot, got some
bad news. Yeah, the ball leaves Jos's hand really awkwardly.
He just is a volume guy. But boy he can

(01:44:55):
if he wants so, he can take over a game.
And the three point shooting for a men, has it's
gotten worse than last year, and it's it's been a
lot about that looks too. I'm sorry this week. I'm
sorry he is. I love him and Thompson, I'm rooting
for him. Of course, I'm rooting for him. One quick
other note, offensive coordinator Ton Todd Monkin fault himself for

(01:45:18):
the decline of the Ravens and Lamar Jackson, saying, quote,
I didn't coach Lamar well enough. I didn't have as
good a relationship as I could have. I didn't do
the things we needed to do this year to win
enough games to give ourselves a chance. I believe that.
Do you think he's falling on the sword for Jian
Hoball to an extent? But I mean he doesn't have
to do that. He's not gonna come out and say

(01:45:39):
Lamar is an idiot, He's the worst and I'm the best.
Do you think he had to do that in order
to get himself a job somewhere next year? Why would
he come out and say no, No, it was on
the It was on the Ryan Ripkins Show. I don't
even know who that is me either. All right, that
was a pretty meaty News at noon right there. We
give you a lot of stuff. Yeah, Matt, we're bringing

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the meat, all right, to that tim A show with Ross,
we bring the meat. We're like, we're like the Arby's
of sports talk radio. Yes, I like that. I don't
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Hm hm.

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That's at one fifty today. I guess I gotta give
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their playing I mean we've never done a Miami. They're
to the finals. I guess that counts. Yeah, lets give them,
Let's give them their shine. Who's there art all time
leading passer Vinnie Testa Verdi? Or are you do something
simple like this yesterday the announcement with a rodeo Houston.

(01:47:14):
We could say to this performed person ever performing? Oh,
we've done that before. I found like I found like
Elvis in like the nineteen seventies. That's always an holy
bit of goodie. Though. So there's your two. I I'll
figure it out all right. Uh seven one three two
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Talk seven ninety Matt Thomas show a Ross continuing after
the news at noon ish. Wow, we've been talking about
a lot of different stuff here on the show College
Football Semi Final last night. I mean, of course you
can always get into the broader topic of the portal
in the nil with what's going on with college football.
Rockets will be taking on the Portland Trailblazers tonight at

(01:48:03):
the Modu Center in Portland, where Matthew is as they
are looking for revenge, coming in at six and a
half point favorites in the game tonight. I will have
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o'clock here on Sports Talk seven ninety and of course
you can hear Matt on the broadcast tip off coming
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and the Pittsburgh Steelers matchup on Monday. We went through

(01:48:25):
some of the injury report in the last segment and
the good news UH reports today from the Texans and
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is everyone all hands on deck except for Jair Jordan
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Let's see, we were talking about j c I Grills.

(01:49:13):
Apparently there's a couple of them left. Even wanted to
let us know. So that's good. I mean, it's just
a hot dog place. Have you, Jonathan? I need to
ask you, this is Jonathan. First of all, I want
to say love having you on the show. Your youthful
perspective on all things life in Houston, Texas is much appreciated.
Are you aware of James Coney Island? Sounds familiar? Okay,

(01:49:37):
so you've never been. No, God, the kids just aren't
going to the hot dog joints. So when I was
a kid, I mean there was commercials all over the place.
We used to do spots here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
For them, it is like a hot dog joint. And
then and now I guess they're closing down. Did you
hear that, Matt Jonathan has He barely even knows what
the place is and has never been used to be.

(01:50:01):
When I was a kid, it was hot dogs and
fries and that's all they had to worry about. Then,
with more fast foods coming into Houston, they had to
diversify their menu because people were like, you know what,
hot dogs, No thanks. They put burgers and they put sandwiches,
and they've done all sorts of different things, the euros
and suffer they doing like salads and euros and yeah,

(01:50:22):
they got unfortunately got too cute and you know, they downsize.
It didn't market marketing is everything. That's what we tell you, folks,
if you're young, if you're a small business and would
like to an economical way to you know, spread your message.
I mean Big City Wings. I mean, I'm not trying
to pat myself on the back, but they've grown because

(01:50:44):
of the advertising they've done on this radio show, in
this station. You know, we will give you results. If
you don't have a crazy ass barlock and you're not
too expensive, we're gonna help you. We're gonna help you
grow your business. And I think JCI gave up on
market and one location shut down out for the other
and it was a staple of my life. And like

(01:51:05):
I said, my man Glenn Davis got to his started
as play by play Kirk is my affinity for JCI
and so wait, it's just it was just a hot
dog joint, ya I went to. It was a good
huts like hot Dog and Fries hot Dogs and fries shakes. Yeah,
it's good, but then it got too pricey. The problem
with me, the deal breaker for me, I haven't been
there in like a decade. Just got too pricey. Well,

(01:51:27):
you and I would go on nine to nine cents,
that is right, And the problem was the line was
so astronomically long. It ain't worth waiting forty five minutes
for nine cents. Maybe I need to go, you know what, Jonathan,
Maybe what we need to do a field trip. You
gotta find one that we gotta have. Jonathan, try it.
I need to go one last time before they all
close down. I'll go with you for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:51:48):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:51:48):
It definitely brings some man acids in the early nineteen hundreds.
It's been around forever. I mean it's a hot dog joint.
I mean, look, I would you'd go there and you'd
get two hot dogs in a drink, and you'd spend
like fifteen dollars. I can go to the store and
get a pack of eight hot dogs and buns for
like five four Right, it's just not reasonable. Yeah, and

(01:52:10):
hot dog places Coney what they used to call Coney
Islands very popular in the East there is I don't
know for those of you that don't know, And I
promise you, Raymon, I'm you'll get back to Texans. I
swear to God because I know you'd be more dying
for Texans preview again. You stopped listening, man, Remember that's
what he did. So the rest of you there are
normally on the Jets fans like everything. There is a

(01:52:32):
Coney I brought this up before. There's a Coney Island
in Detroit and near our hotel that was family owned
and operated. Well, the family got into a fight. This
is a God's on a true story. So they open
up a Spike store right next to the next to
the Coney Islands. There are two Coney Islands owned by
two different families who don't speak to each other, but
they share a wall. Hm hmm, yeah. Wow. It's essentially

(01:52:57):
the same product. It's hot dogs, it's chili, it's cheese,
it's onions, it's free doze, it's fries, it's coke. That's it.
Neither one. I'm trying to reinvent the will, but those
places are just legendary, old school jac I just kind
of fell out of favor. I mean, I think we
were such a diverse food town. I mean we have
the euro we have euro places that are fast food,

(01:53:20):
we have fast casual burger places. We've got i mean
twenty more chains than we ever had before. Yeah, I
just think it kind of get caught up. I think
it's also the product, like the hot dogs is just
I mean just okay, it's a struggle meal. Well, I
mean premium car. We'll get some chili dogs. It's a
premium price for a struggle meal. Nobody had time for that.

(01:53:41):
I'm sorry. I love the place. I went there a
million times as a kid. What did we decide today
was not a was a struggle meal that we we've
always heard peanut butter and jelly. Yeah, but there was
someone there's something else. We argued about it. But whether
it's a struggle meal or not, it was corn beef hash,

(01:54:02):
no potted meat, no sugar sandwich. Well I said that.
You know, the peanut butter and jelly remained very popular.
Sandwich underrated, crunchy Jonathan, Jonathan, We're gonna go to a
j C. I. They don't spend Fantasy five of struggle meals,
and we there was a debate on whether somebody could
pick peanut, butter and jelly, I believe, and I said

(01:54:24):
it was a struggle move because nobody would choose to
make a Hey, let's go home and have peanpbur and jelly.

Speaker 2 (01:54:28):
Sam.

Speaker 3 (01:54:28):
I think we picked like top ramen and wolf chili
A yeah, yeah, I think it is a struggle meal Hamburger,
Hamberg strole meal that's a goat stroggan off one lasagna
two chili chili chili cheeseburger. Three. By the way, I've

(01:54:50):
got two Fantasy five categories coming up to the next
couple of weeks. I want to do it when we're
actually in studio together. Yeah. I thought about this the
other day. Unfunniest Comedians slash comedian. Okay, best spoken word voices, Okay,

(01:55:12):
I think we did do that. Actually, now I think
we've definitely done the second one. I know, Oliver Dead. Yeah, okay,
like if you want to re I wanted to take
Vincent Price number one whatever, but yeah, I would say
a live or Dad for sure. Kidding. So we got
we got two in the bank. If you could think
of you when you start, that's why the notepad on

(01:55:33):
your phone is good to you. When you think of
these random things. You go, I want to do this
for a fantasy fall. I do that. I am they
at two am. I'm trying to sleep, staring at the ceiling,
and I get hit with lightning bolts of ideas at
two am. At two am, I think they're the greatest
ideas in the history of time. Then I wake up
in the morning, I'm like, I don't think that's great.
Is a good ideas? I thought I got one for
you here on the list. Because I'm not in the

(01:55:53):
documentary yet, I do want to see it. What's that?
I think Chevy Chase is really funny, but apparently he's
a miserable human being apparent. Now this is is interesting
to me. I want to watch it too, because how
much of it is it him being an ass or
in his stick stick right? Right, That's that's what I
want to figure out or try to get a better

(01:56:14):
handle on. Right. You're you went right where I was
thinking too, because I've not seen it. I've seen reviews
of it, and the people that were reviewing it can't
figure it out either. Really, I think it's stick. There
have been so many people, apparently that have worked with
him behind the scenes. When the cameras are off. That's
say he is an a hole. Yeah, but it's it's

(01:56:35):
like stick that doesn't stop though, right right, because he's
just living in his own world. I'm going to going
to the Bay Area tomorrow or Sacramento. I'm gonna I'm
gonna probably try to download it and watch it in
the flight because I'm really curious because I'm not as
big of a Fletch fan as everybody else is. I
liked it, I didn't love it, but I think is
that the one He is like a doctor in the

(01:56:56):
poster or something. Yeah, he's also he's like a private investiat.
I don't know what he wants. It's been so long
sep Scene, I think I need to rewatch it. But
I loved him in Vacation, Christmas, all the vacations. I
loved him in Caddyshack, I mean his I even watched
his show a little bit when he was doing that.
So that's the late night show. Yeah, for the short term.
That was very short lived. Did you see Do you

(01:57:18):
remember his set? Do you remember what his set looked like? No,
I don't really remember the show. His desk. Underneath his
desk was a fish tank. Ah that sounds familiar. They
were live fish underneath his talk and he was trying
to do the show. And yeah again I got that's
enough for Chicky Chase. But point being is, we're gonna
do a Fantasy five. I think we're going to do
Fantasy five next week. Unfunniest comedian slash comedic actors. Okay,

(01:57:40):
and we'll get back to Texans practice practice support and
we have some more breaking in C double A news.
All right, let's get to all that, plus Stunner Rick
and Mike hank Tight all three of you come back
with us stunning, stunning breaking? Is it breaking NFL news
or n C double A in C double A football
related to a playoff team? Ooh, that's next. As the

(01:58:02):
Matt Thomas Show continues here with Ross on Sports talks
of ironically, ROSSI, one of the old JC eyes is
the Truberger's on the Shepherd And yes, like fifty nine right,
basically they're doing quite well. Yeah, the bunch of locations,
you know what, that's part of the reason Jase has
in trouble. My good friend Bumb's cooking Burgers since nineteen

(01:58:25):
twenty three. Also, I went to there. I went to
their website and I clicked on like to find the
locations and it said like critical error. So really not
helping themselves. There's been a critical error on this website.
They need some critical marketing. So bad all right, ROSSI
you try to give you my business. Texans practice news

(01:58:46):
and an NCAA news. Yes, Matthew, Well we were talking
about the Texans and the injury report, and well we
mentioned at the news at noon ish it is that
everybody is basically there except for Jawar Jordan, the running back.
He can and you should deal with his ankle injury.
We'll see if he'll be there later. Kamari Lasser continuing
to play through ankle and knee injuries. Also very important

(01:59:07):
that Titus Howard was spotted as at practice as he
deals with his ankle injury. And then on the nc
double A. The NCUBA has ruled against another year of
eligibility for Trinidad Chambliss, the quarterback at Old Miss quarterback
at Ole Miss. Of course, I think the decision wasn't
gonna come until they were out, and then they were

(01:59:29):
so Ole Miss can still appeal the decision. Trinidad Chambliss
did sign a deal to come back to ole Miss
if he was going to be granted the six year
of eligibility, but apparently he is not granted that at
the moment, it was I'm going to assume injuries were
involved in playing time. Well, ole Miss filed the waiver
because Chambliss did not play his second season at Farris
State dealing with persistent respiratory issues. Chamberlis's attorney, Tom mars

(01:59:53):
Is indicated he's also preparing legal action in Mississippi for
an injunction and damages. I don't even know how to
comment on that. I mean, that's sounds like a lawyer
is on our retainer nicely for that bad boy. There
will be lawyers and they're all gonna get paid. And also,
by the way, the another news nugget was the Washington

(02:00:18):
quarterback who had who had signed a contract with the
Washington Huskies then said he was in here where the
portal l s U other teams interested. He's back to Washington.
He's like a side. It looks bad, but I think
he he he probably found out he wasn't gonna have
a legal leg to stand on. That's right, And we
talked about that yesterday. We're talking about demon was it

(02:00:39):
was his last name Williams, Williams, demon Williams. He wasn't
gonna we and you and I are are expert legal minds.
That was not going to win this case. So he
was gonna have to backtrack, he went, he would just
kidding you, guys. This is what his quote. I am
fully committed in fun gets done, contributing to what we

(02:01:01):
are building. Believe him or not, But I mean, how
do you again our buddy Softy, who is a UW grad.
He's disgusted by the guy, and and Softy loves UW
like I love you of age, so we don't think
our guys can do anything wrong. But so if you
got a fan like that and Softy who hates the situation,
how is he going to be welcomed back by the

(02:01:22):
coaches and the and the players. Throw a touchdown? Yeah?
I run for that first day, Throw a bunch of touchdowns,
win some games. Here's every Maybe take make up, maybe
take up a rough in the passer call and get
a first down. I don't know if that's gonna do it?

Speaker 5 (02:01:39):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:01:39):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 8 (02:01:40):
What?

Speaker 3 (02:01:40):
What happens when you watch a college football game or
pro football game and a guy gets hit across the
head in the fly coms. What's the first thing people do? Yes, Yeah,
but I don't think that's how he's gonna endear himself
to their fan base. I know, but it's I'm just
talking about the hypocrisy of football. We want to protect
our quarterbacks, but when they get hit, we move the chains.
It'll be fine. Get one of those Jalen Petrie soft

(02:02:01):
shell hats on top of how I feel well. When
I see C. J. Stroud slow to get up, I
get concerned. He is uh? Is he is he a CP?
What CP? Concussion prone concussions are a ees? We we
can talk about that the more concussions you get, the
more like you are to keep getting them. That that
is a medical fact. So we can definitely say that.

(02:02:23):
All right, let's go to uh Rick on seven ninety
at twelve fifty two seven one three seven ninety high Rick,
Good morning, you're gonna have to new Thanks for calling.
What's going along? Guys?

Speaker 5 (02:02:35):
Hi, I'm just calling it. No, No, there's a d
A j ci on in Maryland.

Speaker 3 (02:02:40):
Paza, Okay, thank you?

Speaker 4 (02:02:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:02:46):
Still the team.

Speaker 12 (02:02:47):
I think the best thing the chimney makes a difference.

Speaker 3 (02:02:50):
M I don't think it's that good. Chili made the
difference between nineteen ninety five. It made Glenn Davis a
play by play soccer hero. I don't think they're Chili's
that good.

Speaker 5 (02:03:00):
Oh I got got good show here. You listen to
your guys every day.

Speaker 3 (02:03:03):
Man, Well, thank you Rick very much. We're selling this
hard to Jonathan. By the way, I know where the
nearest Okay, West Hammer's closed, Shepherd Closedlands closed. Oh man,
we're gonna go all the way down sixteen. Well that's
I mean, that's fine, Okay, if you're okay with it,

(02:03:23):
I am your long. I'll go that's literally southwest and
you're northeast. I know I'll do it. Well, do it
on a rockets night, how about that?

Speaker 9 (02:03:32):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:03:32):
Okay, whenever do it next week. I'll far go the
delicious media. Wait wait, wait, I have a gift card
from like years ago, the Easy Way. It's gotta work
because it's fired. There's no way.

Speaker 10 (02:03:45):
No.

Speaker 3 (02:03:46):
They those don't expire. They better they shut their mosses up.
They better take my gift card. Okay, I got one
for you. I have a bunch of expired I'll bet you.
I will bet you one cony I'll bet you a
chili cheese Cony. It works, Jonathan, Oh, I bet it works. Yeah, yeah,
I'm mad action killer. Hush, okay, I won't say a word.

(02:04:07):
All right, we've been to Cony or what? Yeah, okay,
let's go. I have to find it first. I think
I know where it is. I got a stash of
gift cards that are like from places I'll never really
I told you I have. I've got long distance gift
cards like mc I yeah, okay, throw those away. Yeah
I did. Actually could be worth something and you never know, No,

(02:04:31):
I would think that. Let's go to uh stun at
twelve fifty five Stunn of what do you got today?

Speaker 5 (02:04:37):
What's going on? Man Ross?

Speaker 3 (02:04:39):
We're great?

Speaker 19 (02:04:40):
Hey.

Speaker 5 (02:04:41):
First of all, hey, Matt, they got one right there
on nineteen six.

Speaker 3 (02:04:44):
And the Brook Oh yeah, I know that one for sure.

Speaker 5 (02:04:50):
Hey. Hey, yeah, I used to hit that one all
the time. But I remember when you got sick, Matt.
I remember that you was you was Jacob Matt.

Speaker 3 (02:04:59):
But wait, time out, hot, time out, Stuna, Suna listening
to be very careful, Sonna. You're a great friend of
the show. There was no way in the world you
were listening to me. Calling the play by play of
a Houston Hotshots game in nineteen ninety five.

Speaker 5 (02:05:17):
I remember when you was I remember when you guys
sick though.

Speaker 3 (02:05:21):
Yeah, yeah, but that was when I won the when
the Rockets won the championship. That's a different story. That
was because I was drinking too much.

Speaker 5 (02:05:28):
You know, I thought it just might have been, you know,
a good weekend.

Speaker 3 (02:05:33):
Oh no, that was a good night. I'll say that
for many reasons. But that's a different issue for a
different time.

Speaker 5 (02:05:40):
Yes, sir, yes sir. But hey man, my my call
was really about.

Speaker 3 (02:05:49):
The Rockets.

Speaker 5 (02:05:51):
Is is Sagon coming back anytime soon?

Speaker 3 (02:05:56):
I would say what it is today the ninth, I
would say, proper, No later than the end of the month,
probably in the next, hopefully ten days or so.

Speaker 2 (02:06:05):
Man, because hey, hey man, I've been hold on segu
all these years. But hey, I gotta get him a
little hey, we need him now. I gotta eat a
little crow because we do need him. But hey, oh
you know one other things, Matt, Hey, do you wake
up the strippers wherever you at, like you in Portland?

Speaker 5 (02:06:28):
Now, you never start to waking them up?

Speaker 3 (02:06:31):
Well, they got arm hair, they got armpit hair here
and They're a different kind of strippering here in Portant
to be honest with you, a little more earthy. Hey man,
you don't know that.

Speaker 15 (02:06:42):
You're a stereotyper I I oh god, God, no comment,
but just I'll say thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:06:57):
Trust me, stunner, I know, just just say okay, Matt,
I believe you. And now you've got me googling pictures.
If I get fired, please, it's mass fault. All right,
here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna send you the
place that I know that you heard of, that I've
heard of. These girls are good, healthy, Oh a lot

(02:07:18):
of tats.

Speaker 5 (02:07:20):
Hey, Matt, y'all go to the one that's a pretty
good one.

Speaker 3 (02:07:26):
We're not having.

Speaker 4 (02:07:28):
Matt.

Speaker 3 (02:07:28):
Oh, relax, Relex, I want you to get a chili dog. Oh,
thank lap dance, beads of sweat going down my ship,
my uh my forehead here. All right, I'm gonna send
it to you. Which one we go? I mean, what's
when people go to? All right, final hour of the

(02:07:51):
Mad Thomas Show. We'll start with Greg with Ross. We've
got non flour stories. At half an hour, we've got
hellier and how did you figure out what you're gonna
go with the topic. Oh figured it out? Yeah yeah, yeah,
thank you Javan Jonathan. Where's your non floor story from
Minus from Louisiana? Thank you for asking. I'm glad Ross.
Where's yours from Trinidad and Tobago? Mmm? Mine, It's actually

(02:08:16):
just Trinidad. No, I'm going Tobago for the Okay, final
Hour The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. He's The Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. Final Hour The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. Here from Portland where I feel like I

(02:08:38):
need to go to Oregon Driver's license. I've been here
so long, Abo, I'm not driven a car in a
handful of days. Ross is back in Houston. We look
forward to hanging out with you folks over the next
hour or so at seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven nine zero. Want to let you know that the
Rockets take on the Blazers here tonight. We'll have the

(02:09:00):
broadcast for you with the launch Pad at eight o'clock,
our pregame on the network and a thirty tip time
will be at nine to pm. Texans will not play
until Monday seven. What is seven to twenty? Give or
take on the start time for that one. And Ross
is gonna have a watch party in his apartment. Just
send him a DM on Instagram and he'll give you
his address. It's gonna be is gonna be a four

(02:09:22):
K on ESPN four K I think so. They're also
doing a Manning cast of this game too. Oh I
love the Manning cast. Okay, I don't love it. I
like the man In cast. I've not done enough watching
of it. I would say this for his game, as
as important as the playoffs are, where I won't really
want to watch, you know, as many intimate details of
the game. It feels like to me, I don't want

(02:09:43):
endless chatter interrupted. Yeah, but when you get in the
three and out, after three and out, you might want
a little entertainment, Matt, What will be better the game itself,
x's and o's or Peyton and Eli having their celebrity
guests done. The celebrity guests I don't care for, or
when they actually talk football. The best was when they
would have Bill Belichick on there and they would talk

(02:10:04):
actual football, tell old stories. Peyton and Bill would joke
about their battles over the years.

Speaker 14 (02:10:10):
Like it was.

Speaker 3 (02:10:10):
It was good stuff. Let me ask you this, do
you get do you get JJ Watt on? I mean
his brother plays with the Steelers. Yeah, you gotta get JJ.
He's available, he's doing jack, he's not on ESPN. I
hope he's the rookie of the year. By the way,
in broadcasting, don't you think, Yes, yes, I think sometimes

(02:10:31):
it sounds a little forced, a little, but that's what
JJ was. Sometimes things were a little forced. But overall analysis,
good enthusiasm, energy, check check check. Like he's doing a
very good job. Good sense of humor, I mean, yeah, funny,
self deprecating, yeah yeah, yeah, No disrespect to Charles Davis,
who has been on the show before and a really
good analyst too. But Charles Davis just doesn't carry the

(02:10:51):
same cache as JJ Watt does, and CBS figured that out. Yeah.
I like Charles Davis, though I think I do too.

Speaker 4 (02:10:56):
Job.

Speaker 3 (02:10:57):
Charles will be doing the number one Big Ten Game
of the Week on CBS, which will be feature a
lot of games involving Purdue Minnesota Perdue coming your way.
Du It really took the sting out of that song,
right yeah. And oh, by the way, speaking of songs,
and we're gonna go to the phones a second. So
you know we're going to start of college basketball season

(02:11:18):
in earnest, there's conference games going on. There's just a
lot of games. Sean Miller calling out his team. It's great.
Are you upset about your squad? By the way, even
had an intimate talk yet about Okay, So the NBA
and NBC is back with John Tesh Yes, yes, Fox

(02:11:39):
uses it too. Yeah, they said, chuch you bump mess
up NBC. We got these rights too. It's it's Xavier
and Marquette. Facts from me con improvidence on FS one, Yes, exactly.
You're right. It cheapens it when it was the NBA
Finals and Bob Costas laying it out and doing the

(02:12:02):
little what what do you call it, the pregame setup scene? Yeah,
scene ceter it was.

Speaker 14 (02:12:08):
It was.

Speaker 3 (02:12:09):
It just boom, it popped. It's a laser. It popped.
It still does. But right when it's like uh de
Paul versus Marquette not so much now. Good knowing too
that nobody watches those games except fans of those schools, right,
or or generate gamblers. As great as Text to Tech
Houston was, and it was on FS one the today,

(02:12:31):
I can't imagine many people in since Annie were watching
that game, or or to generate gamblers like Charlotte North Carolina.
I will say this though, if it's four K and
then Fox does four K and they have that those broadcasts,
I'll put it on just because I like the four
K picture on the TV. I don't know. I like
college basketball. I don't love it. I love the Cougars.
I'll watch the Cougars play every time, like I didn't

(02:12:51):
come back from dinner the night and watch textat Tech
versus Houston. But a Randall college game, even it's in
seven K, I don't particularly care. Okay, I'll put it
on TV two. Yeah, but I mean, if you want
college like tomorrow college basketball, I don't know what the
schedule is, but my guess is if you wanted to
watch forty games, you probably could. Yeah, it's crazy between

(02:13:13):
what BS, ESPN, USA's got games, True TV has games. Well,
there's Texas Alabama at seven pm tomorrow. You don't sound
too encouraged. Do you want to know the spread? Guess
Bamas thirteen, Bamas thirteenth. Texas is nine and six, zero

(02:13:34):
and two in the SEC and they haven't beaten a
team that's not like shammadad or Fairleigh Dickinson or Lafayette
or writer in the game to tuscaloosor yes, Alabama by
nine thirteen and a half. So for your loss, Hey,

(02:13:55):
if you have not Tea's fine, I'm thinking more CBI, Matt,
is there even a CB? I ANYM? I don't know?
All right, onto the phone seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Let's go to Greg on The Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. Greg, thanks for holding a good afternoon,

(02:14:18):
you bet, thanks checking my.

Speaker 14 (02:14:19):
Call, guys.

Speaker 13 (02:14:20):
Sure.

Speaker 4 (02:14:20):
First off, happy anniversary to you guys, and just hopefully
your bosses are listening. But y'all have the best show.
Listen every day. Other shows come and go, but you
guys are the best, and I don't think it's even close.

Speaker 3 (02:14:33):
Thank you very much, Greg. You are correct and very smart.

Speaker 4 (02:14:37):
Thank you exactly. I don't normally call. I normally tweet
you guys, but of course you know what gets me
to call. But JCI so the best thing, and Ross
is exactly right. A hot dog place by design is
like no terrible, but they used to have when they're
in existence. There was one by my house that kids
eat free, so that was perfect. And the chili cheese

(02:15:00):
fries were pretty good, and they also had a cheese gun.
I don't know if this is that every j C I,
but the Chiefs came out of like a gun, which
was cool and also weird though. Anyway, Yeah, all right,
I mean not R I P to j C I,
but basically, yes, they're done well.

Speaker 3 (02:15:16):
I mean they've had the gut work to do to
save themselves. I mean they've they've got more airtime on
this show than their marketing this year.

Speaker 4 (02:15:23):
And I guess we shouldn't. I guess we can. We
can call them by their real name because they don't
really exist. But anyway, Yeah, and the last thing, since
we're since we're talking about college basketball as a as
a lifelong Aggie, I have no idea if they're good
or not, but the Aggies are two and oh in
the SEC somehow, and Bucky McMillan looks like a difference maker,

(02:15:45):
So I don't know if down the stretch what that's
going to be, but I think hopefully.

Speaker 3 (02:15:49):
They made a good hire.

Speaker 4 (02:15:51):
And uh, it's at least exciting to have something to
do in the spring.

Speaker 3 (02:15:55):
Did you see that your former coaches own four.

Speaker 4 (02:15:59):
Oh yeah, yeah, I hate watching on Buzz, so I
bet you are. I know the checks for cashing though, but.

Speaker 3 (02:16:06):
Oh I know that's good money there in Maryland for sure.

Speaker 4 (02:16:10):
Yeah, but I'm not. It looks like it looks like
Bucky he's he's an innovator and so hopefully that works.
But we'll see.

Speaker 3 (02:16:18):
And you got a great Yeah, I got a great
role to win at Auburn. Thank you for the phone call, Greg,
good stuff and happy New yoron and thanks for the
nice words. Uh yeah yeah. And in basketball's are okay?
I mean it is. I mean it's a great name,
Bucky McMillan, and they wanted Auburn despite the fact that
they were Did you see the the interview that he
was trying to do on TV after the game they

(02:16:39):
were getting booed by the fans or whatever. Correct, He's like,
I can't hear y'all. They're they're doing too Lastly, a
m has been good, I mean gone to the tournament
a regular basis. Yeah, I mean, say say what you
will about Buzz and the fact that he wears suits,
and it went from a buzz to a Bucky. It
feels like that's got to be a name that you've like.

(02:17:00):
The next coach at name is gonna be like a
jet Row or something, right, can't Why can't it just
be Michael? They don't believe in that? What's wrong with Steven? Listen?
Let me tell you what they've had in the last
let me see, let me tell you what they've had
an A, M. This is going to be a great
bit for this segment right here. They've had a Shelby,

(02:17:23):
they've had a Kermit, they've had a buzz Bucky, and
then they had a Tony. Tony was the most normal
name they've had in the whole group. Yeah. Well, and
they had Calvin two that's fairly normal, who brought his

(02:17:44):
son over and he was mid and the coach was
even worse than Mid. So let me tell you something
another show in the marketplace. I'm gonna give you a
rundown of A and M coach's names in this one. Wow,
that's probably a point in their favor. Yeah, I need
Texans talk. I don't need this A and M basketball
rundown list. All right, we'll get back to it. I

(02:18:04):
swear uh one thirteen. In fact, we'll go talk some
Texas and we come back seven one three two one
two five seven ninety nine Florida stories coming up in
twenty minutes. Here on Sports Talk seven ninety six is
Sports Jocks Seveniny to Matt Thomas Jold Ross here from
four Rockets trying to get out of the sixth spot
in the West. They are at twenty two and twelve.

(02:18:25):
We'll take on a Blazer team that's eighteen and twenty.
By the way, record will be broken tonight, hopefully, hopefully
it won't take very long, Rossy. Kevin Durant is fifteen
points away from passing Wilt Chamberlain for seventh on the
all time NBA scoring list. I would like you to

(02:18:45):
repeat that sentence for me. I will needs fifteen points
does Kevin Durant to pass Wilt Chamberlain for the seventh
most in NBA history. I mean, here's a guy, he
plays for the team in Houston, he wears Rockets gear,
and he's about to play Wilton pass Wilt, Wilt freaking Chamberlain. Incredible,

(02:19:13):
that's insane. I'm gonna have my statistician tonight keep the track.
I'm I'm just gonna do a list because I hope
it's a you know what it needs to be. It
needs an ailbow jumper. That's what he's made is most
of the truth, you know what I mean? Wilt the Stilt,
seven time scoring champion, correct one hundred point game, he

(02:19:37):
averaged fifty in a season. Yeah, and Kevin Durant is
going to pass him an obviously different game. Blah blah blah. Right,
that's crazy, that's so cool. That's awesome. Imagine you look
at yourself in the mirror and say, I just passed
Wilt Chamberlain points. That's cool, man. I mean, I don't

(02:19:59):
even know if if Rossville arial watching Kevin Durant as
a freshman at Texas could have envisioned No. I mean
I thought he. I knew he was going to be great.
I knew he should have been picked over Greg Odin.
I didn't know Greg Odin's legs were gonna fall apart.
But yeah, he needs nine rebounds to reach eight thousand
for his career. How many nine he could get that

(02:20:27):
he would join the cat this category with twenty seven
thousand points, eight thousand rebounds five thousand. So I guess
there were three others, and I'm gonna let you make
two mistakes, Kareem Lebron, Wilt's gotta be over that. Well,
they counted rebounds this one. This other player is an

(02:20:47):
all time great, but it's and he's somebody you've seen
him play in person. I'm going to assume Carl alone,
I'm alone. You're right, OKAYOD for you? Who is the
miss that's right? You say it was? It was Karl alone, three,
Kareem Lebron and Crome alone. Okay, you missed in a
wild will did not give there? Okay, No, I'm assuming
it's on the assist that he didn't even get it done.

Speaker 4 (02:21:09):
I got you.

Speaker 3 (02:21:12):
Twenty seven, eight and five. God, that is incredible, thirty
seven years old, nineteenth year in the NBA. One season missed,
obviously it would be Achilles, but eighteen playing seasons aging
like a fine one. I don't have a relationship with him.

(02:21:34):
I see him on the plane. I talked to him
a couple of times on postgame if we were in
the hotel. He'd say, hello, that's as far as it's
going to go with me with him. I'm okay with that.
I am blessed to call one of the all time greats.
I just am. I'm blessed to call all the all
time greats that have called so for whether it's been
rockets or not. It was so crazy and I'm promising

(02:21:54):
on the phones with this. You asked Kevin Harlan yesterday
about what he thought about the NBA and how do
you get rid of this injury situation that you're currently
going through? Reduction in games. It's not a it's not
an option. Even though Adam Silver says that there's no
way you're taking revenue out of the guys of these

(02:22:15):
owner's pockets. Okay, this is not gonna happen, but if
you could, do you really think it would help? I
think so, I it would. I want it would be
so easy also say, of course it would, but I'm
not even sure that would. I think A big contributing
factor is the improvement of sports science getting bigger, faster, stronger,

(02:22:40):
and which also ties into the year round nature of
training year round, like back in the day, guys had
jobs or whatever, they would play themselves into shape or
you know, get it, show up at a training camp
a little bit out of shape and then kind of
play their way into shape. You show up and everybody
says the best shape of their life. That's kind of
go to. But to an extent, it's true everybody's it's

(02:23:03):
just this culture to and I understand that you have
to do it. If there's other teams who are working
out all all season and they're in great shape and
they're ready to go, you have to you have to
keep up the jones. You have to keep up in
that arms race. You have to be the one doing
it too. You're a bad teammate if you're not working
out all all season. Right, And they work out all
the time, all the time, and with more maximization of

(02:23:25):
figuring out what proteins and what other nutrients to take
to grow their muscles and all that type of stuff,
and they can do as much stretching and all that
other stuff as they want. But it just at some
point the the the sports science and nutrition is outpacing
the ability for the human bodies to handle all of this.
And we're seeing it in every sport, every sport, NFL,

(02:23:46):
major League Baseball, with pitchers arms, especially in the NBA.
Let's go to Mason on seven ninety Mason, good afternoon
to you. You don't sound like a Mason, Yes I do, Hi, Mason, I.

Speaker 4 (02:24:12):
Was wondering if.

Speaker 5 (02:24:14):
If there was any new updates.

Speaker 3 (02:24:17):
Okay, uh yeah, Mason, Uh, there is no injury news.
He was never going to play this year. He's been
working out a little bit here and there. He has
been seeing Mason at the facility. Unlike Joe Mixon, didn't
he put out like a cryptic tweet or something like
he's trying to get on the way back. Well, he

(02:24:38):
can cryptic all he wants. It's not happening. And look,
I'm a tank Delle guy, but I wouldn't count on
Tankdale long term for the NFL. The body's too frail.
It's just it's not it's you.

Speaker 13 (02:24:51):
You have to have.

Speaker 3 (02:24:54):
Size. Size matters ross. We've talked about it before and
size with flucish injuries. Some can get away with it,
others can't. And when you're as I don't want to
say frail because that's not the term. He's not frail,
he's just thin. He doesn't have the prototypical wide receiver's body,
even for a possession receiver, doesn't have the prototypical body. Yes,

(02:25:20):
as quick as I'll get out though, that offense was
dynamic with him, and I'll tell you what he does
as a part of the stretching the field. He does
give you options. He does. You know what he does.
He does diversify the offense. But you can't diversify if
you don't get on the field and you're I mean,
they listen them at five ten one sixty five and

(02:25:44):
I guess you can't lie the Ross five ten one
sixty five. I mean, you know people in your life
that are five ten one sixty five. Jonathan, how tall
are you? Uh five eleven and what is your weight?

Speaker 10 (02:25:58):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:25:59):
One fifty four. Okay, So look at Jonathan right now. Ross,
he's looking tank delish. Add ten pounds to ten. That
guy's gonna try to go after linebackers and big ass
safeties are going to try to beat him down and
get rolled up and get hurt. It could also be
a It could also be a situation where a lot

(02:26:21):
of times guys, even their first year back, it might
take multiple years for him to get back to anywhere
close to where he was. Even when guys come back
after these major injuries, usually it takes a year or
two if it happens at all. Yeah, So as far
as him coming back, probably next year. As far as
him having an impact, probably a year after that, if
at all, if at all, but if there's anybody that

(02:26:44):
just you know, has worked and we've seen it, nothing
that he needs to come out and say, hey, everybody here,
I am but just normally being around that adds to it.
That gives you hope that he is going to come
back and try to help. We're in Joe Mixon's case.
Out of sight means what the hell's going on, doesn't
mean out of mine. It means what the hell's going on?

(02:27:04):
All right, one twenty five on Sports Talk seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven ninety We've
got non Florida Stories coming up next. And for those
of you that are new to the show, first of all, welcome, Second,
where have you been? Thirdly, every week here on the
show at Friday one thirty, we either do one of
two things. We either do the non Florida stories or
we do uh Fantasy five. And we'll do non Florida
stories this week. We're gonna do Fantasy five next week.

(02:27:26):
We unlike other radio shows in the country, we'll go
to find strange stories that we want to bring out
to the audience. But the only one rule is you
cannot bring up a Florida story unless one of the
three of us was in Florida the week of the show.
So since I'm in Oregon, I couldn't be any further
away from Florida, so I cannot bring up a Florida story.
Nork and Ross, Nork and Jonathan, So non Florida stories

(02:27:48):
are up next one to twenty six. It is the
Matt Thomas Show. With Ross, we find.

Speaker 19 (02:27:54):
Interesting stories that sure outside the state of Florida and
share them with the people of Huston.

Speaker 3 (02:28:07):
It's time for non Florida.

Speaker 16 (02:28:15):
I'll time for non Florida.

Speaker 3 (02:28:24):
Store on Coast to coast will bring you a strange
and wild.

Speaker 19 (02:28:32):
There's no alligator tails, but something that will make you smile.

Speaker 3 (02:28:40):
It's time for laughs from far and wild in this
crazy world. There's nowhere.

Speaker 1 (02:29:00):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (02:29:01):
My story is a year old? Oh man, it's fine,
sound like it's fresh. Still counts. Yeah, Doug Pike reads
those old stories on them Saturdays. I'm sorry, I cause
I went I always go to the news like the
most recent stuff, and it was January and I thought, okay,
this is perfect and unfortunately twenty five. All right, now
you're gonna go for a story Okay, yeah, go ahead,

(02:29:24):
I may try to find something else.

Speaker 14 (02:29:25):
Go on.

Speaker 3 (02:29:25):
I know you're a big man of TikTok, and I know.
Have you ever been to a restaurant or a venue
or somewhere and the social media person's taking video of
everyone and you know it's gonna be posted and it
makes Does it make you feel uncomfortable? Or has that
ever happened to you?

Speaker 10 (02:29:43):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:29:43):
I like being photographed. Yeah that makes sense. Actually, well
I don't like it because I just don't want to
be plastered all overall somebody's social media while I'm trying
to live my private life and then just enjoy something.
But I'm gonna tell you who agrees with me. A
forty two year old man from Catania, Italy. He is violating,

(02:30:04):
he is saying, filing a lawsuit claiming his privacy was
violated as he was at a restaurant and the social
media team came around the restaurant, made a video, posted
the video on TikTok. What was the issue? Well, turned
out that he was on at the restaurant on a
date with a secret lover and not his wife. Unfortunately,

(02:30:30):
the TikTok expose his affair, and of course now he
has been divorced from his wife, but he is now
suing the restaurant for violation of privacy after the footage
was posted of him dining with another woman as part
of their social media promotion. The man told his wife

(02:30:50):
that he would be out on a routine business dinner. Instead,
he spent the evening at the restaurant on a date
with his lever. So I guess the question is, do
you who took the picture? Again? Who took the photo?
It was the restaurant's social media team. Does the restaurant

(02:31:12):
owe it to the customers to tell them they're in this,
because if they do owe it to them, then he
should sue. Yes. I think if you're gonna be posting
up look, I know it's a pain or for influencers
are going to be mad or whatever, come at me
on Instagram at sports Harvey. You need to get people's
permission before you post them all over the internet. Yeah, yeah,

(02:31:41):
this is actually I mean, there's nothing humorous about it.
I mean, it's douchey. The guy did what he did,
but I side with him. If you're gonna use me
to promote your restaurant, you better tell me ahead of time,
his lawyer saying the restaurant acted unlawfully by filming, paid
and sharing the material online. Hmmm, well that's a jovial

(02:32:09):
story to wrap up the right. Yeah, you could post something.
I went to a barbecue restaurant. I went to Burnt
Bean in Sageine, Texas. They're the number one in the
latest list. They had a sign on the door, if
you enter, you consent. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

Speaker 7 (02:32:24):
It does.

Speaker 3 (02:32:25):
But us, I'll sell sell a chicken bleep too. I'm
just trying to I'm just trying to eat some ribs
and brisket. I'm not trying to be on social media
or TV. All right, give us, since you brought it up,
give us the review of the restaurant. Oh, Burnt Bean incredible.
Is the number one barbecue. It was number one, and
then twenty twenty five list. It was I think top
five or ten in the twenty twenty one list. It
was great. The brisket was great. The lamb. The lamb

(02:32:45):
was okay, but all the sides were great. The desserts
were great. Burnt Bean and Sageine two big thumbs up
from me. And I told him I didn't want to
be on TV because they asked me, Hm, all right,
I'm gonna go next. This is not another great story either,
but since like end, my story was over a year old,
I didn't want to go with it. This is a

(02:33:06):
month old November twenty seconds?

Speaker 9 (02:33:10):
All right?

Speaker 3 (02:33:10):
When is Christmas? Ross and Jonathan? When isn't that be
a December twenty fifth? Good job? So is November twenty
second too early for Christmas carollers? Yes or no? We're
hearing from Sunday ninety nine point one down the hall.
They said, you're three weeks late. Paul Susy of Annapolis,
Maryland was taken into custody to Annapolis, Maryland after he

(02:33:36):
allegedly pointed a firearm at three twelve year old girls.
Oh my god, we'll arrived at his house to sing
Christmas Carol. This is way worse than my story. This
is terrible. WMARTV report of the incident happened around eight
thirty pm, which is not too late. That's good. Police
recovered a loaded forty caliber glock handgun from Susie's home,

(02:33:57):
exhibiting loud and belligerent behavior. As he was questioned, Susie
admitted to pointing the gun at the girls he was
charged with first and second degree assault. Damn. I mean,
let the girls sing. No, you don't have to give

(02:34:19):
him hot chocolate or a cookie or something, but don't
put a fireman in front of them. Terrible. It is
November twenty second, though, that's a little surprising. I guess
I've never seen carollers in my life, like legitimate ones

(02:34:41):
when I've never gone gone caroling.

Speaker 9 (02:34:43):
Have you?

Speaker 3 (02:34:44):
They pop it up in the kywood, they can they
could do some carolling and I get blasted on and kywood.
It's all good. No, no, no, I'm just saying we
don't have a lot of carrollers period. All right, Jonathan,
you're next, all right.

Speaker 17 (02:35:00):
Mine is from Louisiana about Aaron Elizabeth Sutton, forty one,
attempted to go for a skinny dip that didn't end
well after she attacked sheriff's deputy responding to trespassing complaint.
According to the Union, pair of Sheriff's office deputies were
dispatched in November to residence in Lynnville, you know, random location,

(02:35:20):
as a neighbor was seeing in her driveway screaming and
telling them that someone was refusing to leave her property.
When they arrived, the suspect was found nude swimming in
a pond located on the college property.

Speaker 3 (02:35:33):
The one was later identified, and she refused to exit
the pond because she was telling them she was trying
to be a mermaid.

Speaker 17 (02:35:43):
After they got sutt in, a blanket was provided, and
as the deputies attendant to escort Siton inside the residents
to warm up, she charged at them, ignore multiple commands
to comply, and resisted detention.

Speaker 3 (02:35:56):
A taser was deployed but had no effect on a woman.

Speaker 17 (02:36:00):
As she was on the ground, she continued to resist,
kicking them in the mouth and punching the debut before
she was finally restrained, and as she was there to
go to the hospital for further treatment, she allegedly threatened
everybody that was in there that she would kill the
deputies and the paramedics. Elizabeth Saithon was arrested on multiple charges,

(02:36:21):
including three counts of resisting an officer with the force
or violence, two counts of public and intimidation, and two
counts of battery of the police officer. Her bomb was
set to sixty two thousand dollars. Authority said, did they
put the clothes on her or we don't know that
yet I think she stayed with a blanket.

Speaker 3 (02:36:37):
Any photos, Actually there is a photo. Matt is much shot. No,
I mean that's much shot. By the way, Jonathan, you're
not gonna believe this. I have a friend of mine
in the data in a mermaid A long time ago.
He brought her into New York and he tried to
make her live a normal life, and she just wanted

(02:36:58):
to be out in the sea. It was quite It
was quite a disappointing for you know. He tried and
he tried to normalize her best he could, but he
just couldn't do it. She was quite attractive, she was tall,
she was blonde. She didn't wear a lot of clothes
because she you know, mermaids don't typically wear a lot
of clothes. And they lived. They lived happily for a while.
But he fell in love with the mermaids. I venture

(02:37:19):
she said, I need to go back on the water,
and he said, okay, I get it. Gross helping me.
I'm calling the phone line. Do you think Matt knew
somebody who had a mermaid girl? I guess this is
a Disney like show. What is this like The Little Mermaid?

Speaker 10 (02:37:36):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:37:36):
Is I think it's is it splash, Matt, I don't
know what you're talking about. Wrong, Yeah, I think it's
splashed Darrel Hannah, by the way, Prime, Daryl Hannah, Prime,
Darryl Hannah. My god, this is a nineteen eighty four flake. Okay,
this Google Prime Daryl Hannah. I got one more stir
for y'all, and it's got a it's got a great
ending to it because it's something we all appreciate. In

(02:37:59):
North they're in China. An unidentified twenty three year old
man was the victor in a lying flat contest. The
contest took place at a shopping mall. It started out
with about two hundred and forty people lying flat on mattresses. Now,
once you lifted your head up, you were out. You
had a lie flat. Of the two hundred and forty,

(02:38:23):
one hundred and eighty six of them had quit within
twenty four hours. After thirty three hours and nine minutes,
just three contestants were left, and organizers then up the
competition by asking them to raise their arms and legs,
quoting the winner. My girlfriend sent me a link to

(02:38:44):
the competition and suggested, I go. I will use the
money to treat my friends. You're saying what are they?
What is he treating his friends to guess what? Boys,
he's taking his friends out for a hot pod dinner.
Oh nice, that's good eating. Hey, question is how long

(02:39:08):
could you lay flat on a bed? No pillow, no bathroom,
no food, no drink? Can you kind of wear a diaper?
Is that drug test them? Oh that's a good one.
You hit them gummies and you just melt into the bed. Yeah,

(02:39:30):
you could take like four town old pms just sleep
at all and just be telling right, Yeah, you're gonna go.
How about that? The tiebreaker was you have to lift
your legs in the air and arms too. It means
you gotta be toned. I don't think I don't think
I would have won. What was upon the winner one
four hund and twenty dollars? That's nothing? What oh for

(02:39:51):
twenty and by the way, how much this is the
real story for four hundred and twenty dollars? Maybe goes
farther in northern China. You know what you're doing. You're
probably going for dinner. We went for lunch. It was
lot cheap. Remember that's true. All right? Um, that is
this week's edition of non four stories. We'll do the
Fantasy five. Next week, we're gonna we canna do least
funny comedic actors and actresses alive or dead. Sounds good

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to me. I'll take this. Yes, hell yeah, not is up?
What's the category? Miami Hurricanes don't sound too happy about it?
Be great, all right, Miami Hurricanes, Hell yeah or not?
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. If
you want to play, hell yeah or not? Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety. We made our

(02:40:36):
predictions already, I think, so let's recap them quickly. Rams.
I got Rams beating Carolina. Yes, you do as well. Yes,
Jonathan's got the upset well, of course he's the upset king.
He's going off of all the Carolina matchup earlier in
the year one. All right, I got Packers beating the Bears.

(02:41:01):
I got the Bears on a money line lock of
a week. I got the Bills beating the Jaguars. I
got I got you too, I got that too, Niners
over the Eagle, I got all the road teams win. Yes,
we're on that. Yeah. Maybe we're idiots right and they're
calling me and the home people win. Patriots over the Chargers, Yes,

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Texans over the Steelers by a touchdown. So I have
of the six playoff matchups, I have five road teams
winning this week twenty four to thirteen Texans. What's up
twenty seven to twenty and I would take the over
in a stunner. Twenty you said twenty one to ten
on gut feelings. By the way, I'm keeping that on
the on the document. I'll keep that. Then I was

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trying to get pulled up the document. That's fine. No,
do you eat twenty seven to twenty? How many how
many special teams in offense defensive scores? One each is
gonna say this? These offenses aren't putting up forty seven
points against their defenses. All right, I got one for
you here. This is if you were to this is
your bet, your life saving dear, oh sixteen bucks, let's
go you ready, here we go. Number of missed field

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goals between the kickers. I'm gonna put it at one
and a half under. Okay, it's two real good kickers.
And yeah, but they're gonna kick a lot. These coaches
love to kick, because if you go five out of
six of field goal, that's still miss ye I Anderson,
I'm going to this is my lock of the week. Oh,

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Rodo's not with us today? Over one and a half?
Miss kicks? Okay, bind sucky sucky sucky? Goright, get roster
real quick in the one minute we have a left
give it's a Rando stat that you is legitimate? A
random stat about what anything of the game. I just

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give you a Rando stack Tony Tony Gwinn's career batting
average three thirty eight. What about I said, you ask
me for random stat? Oh my god, how many runs
of three yards or fewer for Woody marks? Ooh, go
set the number at eight and a half. No, what's

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too haigh. Let's go under. If you will under, if
you dare well under? All right?

Speaker 1 (02:43:25):
Good?

Speaker 3 (02:43:25):
Fuck fine? Six and a half under oo four and
a half? Uh five minutes to call the show? What
should we do? Were we good? Playing Umerica's fastest growing
sports radio game show. We simply call it Monday through Thursday,

(02:43:47):
beat leave it or not. But our party is we
call it a hell ye are not here? So it works.
You call seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
Today's edition of hell yere not gives you an opportunity
on all things about the Miami Hurricanes. I'll give you
a statements staatements could pull an italy accurate. You'll say this,
believe it the same as ronious full of buck in
hell and uh it is full of bunk, made up

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and not inact. Okay, whatever, I just say no, right,
say it not? Yeah, that's only how's butchering in it?

Speaker 9 (02:44:17):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:44:17):
Two hellier nuts and are I'm gonna win your prize.
We're gonna play for either pair of tickets to see
ever Clear next weekend at the House of Blues January
the fifteenth, or a pair of tickets to see Monster
Energy AMA Supercross January thirty First Energy Stadium. Tickets available
for both those events can be found at ticketmaster dot com.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Jessica

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on seven ninety jessco what was your favorite part of
today's ten to two radio show?

Speaker 15 (02:44:46):
Jeff hearing your voice?

Speaker 13 (02:44:47):
That's all.

Speaker 4 (02:44:48):
It's been great racking.

Speaker 3 (02:44:51):
Thank you, Jessica. In nineteen eighty nine, Hurricanes mascot Sebastian
was tackled by a group of police officers for attempting
to put out Chief Ossiola's flaming spear prior to Miami's
game against Florida State. Hell yeah or not? Hell no,
it's a hell yeah, Sorry Protessica, thank you very much

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for man and Katie. You ready to play? Hell yeah
or not?

Speaker 5 (02:45:19):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:45:20):
The Miami Hurricanes lead the all time series with the
rival of Florida State thirty seven to thirty three. Hell
yeah or not? Well, hell ya, it's correct game of
number two for the win. The official model the University
of Miami is Magna s veritis, which translates to great
is the truth? Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 5 (02:45:41):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:45:42):
Hell yeahs right man? Thanks egatulation. Let's go to uh
John in downtown on seven hointy John, You're ready to play?
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 5 (02:45:53):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:45:54):
The Miami Hurricanes have had more wins vacated than any
of their program, with a total of twenty two vacated
victories over three different decades. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah,
no kidding, that's LSU tough l thirty seven?

Speaker 9 (02:46:12):
What the hell?

Speaker 3 (02:46:15):
Corey on seven at You ready to play? Hell yeah not,
Let's do it. The Miami Hurricanes all time leaving passer
is Vinnie Testa Verdi. Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 4 (02:46:29):
No, no, it is not.

Speaker 3 (02:46:30):
That's right. Who's bragg kaya, I've never heard of that guy.
Benny's fit statement number two for the win with seventy
eight victories, Butch Davis has the most victories in Miami
Hurricanes history. Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 5 (02:46:46):
Hurry no, correct?

Speaker 4 (02:46:48):
Incorrect?

Speaker 3 (02:46:49):
Maybe dust strip the ready?

Speaker 5 (02:46:53):
All right?

Speaker 3 (02:46:53):
Congratulations Steven on seven and he ready to play? Hell
yeah not hell yeah. The first official mascot of the
Miami Hurricanes was a boxer dog named Hurricane. Hell yeah
or not.

Speaker 1 (02:47:06):
Not?

Speaker 3 (02:47:07):
That's a believe it. I'm sorry, sorry about that, Lindsey
on Sevenady, lindsay, what was your favorite part of today's
radio show?

Speaker 8 (02:47:17):
You know, I was just able to tune in now
I had what's going on and was able to just
get a break.

Speaker 3 (02:47:24):
The Miami Hurricanes marching band is known as the Ocean Sound.
Hell yeah or not Hell yeah. It's a fan of
the I'm sorry we're doing on the female demographic, are
we not? The ladies love the Man Thomas Show with
Ross that they do. Have a great weekend. Rockets basketball

(02:47:45):
tonight against the Portland Trouble Ages. I'll call it for
you from nine o'clock. Here from the Motor Center Up
next excellent Nan Clayton. They are Bay. Hey, I'm sports Dog.