Astros Find a Way in Game 3 vs Mariners! Texans Schedule Talk

Astros Find a Way in Game 3 vs Mariners! Texans Schedule Talk

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten O one
of age Town.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning, and welcome to a Thursday edition of The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
There he's Sports Talk seven ninety. You have the small town.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Down too, hold past the dive of Naylor and then
the right field Matthews can walk boom and the ash
Rolls walk off the Mariners four.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
To three and ten.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Sach Cole mob after getting the first base.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
As for the first time in the last ten meetings,
the Astros defeat Seattle, you said, also ending a four
game skid with their first walk off win of the season.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oh the Great Steve Perry, the Great Journey, the great song.
It takes ys again too. Did a single person agree
with you on?

Speaker 4 (01:03):
That?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Doesn't matter that you know how? I know I won
because Jonathan fast forward? What how did you much foot?
Did you fast forward? Seventy five seconds? At least we
got a radio show to do seventeen seconds? There you go,
he's fast forwarding seventeen seconds. I don't believe that.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
I'm right.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I'm always gonna be right, and when I'm wrong, I'm
still gonna be right. God, you fight the dumbest battles
you know. I've gotta tell you, man.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
Even my girl has this song tattooed on her, and
I was like, oh, excuse me, what she has don't
have to believe in on her?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Tattooed on her? Oh okay, where is it located?

Speaker 6 (01:44):
What?

Speaker 7 (01:46):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
No, no, no, no no no, no volunteered. He volunteered tattooed tattoo.
Oh see, yeah, that's terrible.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
That's terrible. Good morning everybody. It is the title five
on Sports Talk said Anny Ross, how the hell are you?
I'm doing great, Matthew, how are you a.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
What I'm dis No no, no, no, no, no, no, no
no no. I'm uston Astros Houston Astros number one.

Speaker 8 (02:17):
We got the offense, we got the pitch. Yes, we
give no other team no hope. Yeah, okay. I didn't
think we were gonna go that direction, but we just
did it.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Let's go baby.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Championship number three. I am disenchanted. What's your problem with this?
I don't even think this dude was Astro Twitter. I
think this was just dumb aggie Twitter guy.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
What happened?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
So yesterday? You know I'm doing the tent thinning. I'm
gonna I'm doing the tenth inning show. Oh Man, great job.
You didn't listen to a single one. I thought it
was a great one. What was the best part of it?
The calls? I had won the call the guy. There's
a guy that calls his every day Kyle, Robert and Laporte. Yes,
and he just yells and screams and then he hangs up.
He has no interest in having common He is very

(03:06):
nice and he's always positive.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
I love Robert and Laporte. Robert, that's not where the problem.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Okay, dumb aggie on Twitter, Okay, and there's a lot
of smartaggies, my son being one of them.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
I put out there when Brian King, Brian King was.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Sweating bullets the ninth inning, the moment was too big
for him yesterday, Okay, I mean, would you agree with him?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
I mean he was terrible, Yeah he was. He wasn't good.
I don't know if the moment was too big.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
He's not a very good reliever. Is too big for
his abilities. And I and I simply said, man, good lord.
The Astros missed Josh Hater. That is a blanket that
that could be a statement for yesterday's game. That could
be a statement for any game this season. That could
be for large chunks of last season, right, I mean

(03:53):
we missed Josh Hater.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Chris. Yes, there are hand full of witter.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Phrases that I've got to even though I gotta be.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Better than they. Grind your gears, grind the gears.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
And the number one of the top three of the
list is this didn't age well. Hmmm, I like that one,
depending on if it's like some bad hot take. Tell
me that didn't age well?

Speaker 1 (04:26):
I like that. I don't mind that. Okay, all right,
So if I deserve it, this aid didn't age well?

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Did I deserve it? Off of good Lord? This team
missus Josh Hater? I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
And I'm getting back and forth with his fight and
I'm just like, what am I doing? I'm losing.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
First of all, I was cranky as the game was
going long. I was losing brain cells. Who told you
to just mute and move on?

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Mack?

Speaker 5 (04:48):
You know?

Speaker 2 (04:48):
And so I've only been telling you that for like
twenty years. So after the sixth time and finally I
just had to really insult him and then I muted him.
So whether he insulted me back, I I don't know.
I don't care. I'm sorry, Matt.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Let me let me. I wish y'all knew me, really,
and there's quite a few of you to know me
off microphone.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
I'm just laughing because I've warned you by It's almost
like I've become and and this is probably the same
for a lot of different broadcasters. You are this who
you are is an on air and then you are
you know you? You would hopefully dial it back as
an all fair person, and I really dial it back
as an offair Is.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
It c t e A nineteen eighty five?

Speaker 9 (05:38):
S you muted?

Speaker 1 (05:39):
I already haven't.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Muted, don't even know, don't even know why you would,
but never saw the tweet.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Then that guy's muted ct E AGI eighty five. You
are a dumb s ob. You really are. I might
have CTE well and I hope and if it doesn't
effect it of his his takes, but he says this
didn't age well, Like, are you kidding me? Did you?

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Have you not watched the Astros Labor through Brian and
Bray You and Labor through Brian King and Labor through Anena.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
The decentos so whatever his name is a mess? Yes,
I made a blanket generic statement just to just to
get some conversation going the Astros. And this didn't age.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Well, shit, youobo mess up man? All right, Astro did win.
Good job man, Zach Cole three hits yesterday, game winner.
Guys walked off the field in a good mood. And
you'll have a happy on deck coming up in about
an hour and fifty minutes from now. So and that's
here on Sports Talk seventy. The Astros go for a split.

(06:48):
And as I said to the audience last night, uh,
the Astros will not did not wake up this morning
with the worst record in the American League that belongs
to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Woo suck it, Anaheim,
Astro's number two worst record.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Hang the banner, hopefully.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Skyrotting, skyrocketing up the list the power rankings. Okay, I
don't know sure why not? Uh, here's what I loved
about the game. I was really scared about Lance mccullors
early on. Give up the home run early, mm hmm,
give up the second home run early, and I'm thinking, man,
he's gonna leave less than six innings. Giving up the
two runs, just shy of a quality start, and ultimately

(07:30):
is the Astros offense gonna come into play, and they
did get people on the base pass and they did
get i think base loaded three consecutive innings in a row.
You had the Christian Walker home run, You got enough
to tie the game, you had enough to have the game,
You had enough to get to the final strike. And
then it was like I was watching the pellets of
sweat off the beads of Brian King's hair. He was

(07:52):
just I can't throw strikes. And that has to be
a lonely feeling for a major league pitcher when you
go to the mount and there's no one else warming
up there eventually had to be Brian where you had
to warm up. But you're on the mound. They the
team trust you, and you cannot deliver. You can't be perfect.
Nobody's asking about it perfect. But in the moment in

(08:14):
time where the Astros could have really used a nice
come from behind victory and leaving the nine innings and
feeling good, he walks the bases loaded, they walk a
runner in, it's three to it's a tie ball game,
and then our hero z that Cole comes through. I mean,
ultimately the result was the best part, but it was

(08:35):
still it was a torturesome sort of game.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yes, it was.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
It just I kept on waiting for when they were
going to blow it, and a good thing they didn't.
But that's one of the kind of underreported things. We've
been focused on starting pitching. We've been focusing on the
hitting not being what it was for the last few games,
and we hadn't really talked about all season long. You've
had no Josh Hater and a completely un trustworthy Brian

(09:01):
A bray You, and it made me think even more
about these these nimrods who want Joe aspotagone, who are
acting like he's an idiot. Let's see, your starting pitching
hasn't been good. A lot of your position players have
been hit hurt, and your pitchers have been hurt, and
you've had no leverage relievers, no reliable leverage relievers. So yeah,

(09:22):
things aren't going so hot. And I miss Josh Hater,
I miss him a lot. I miss Hunter Brown, I
miss Jeremy pania H Hell, I miss Joey Little Plfrido.
Joe wasn't having a bad season. Yeah, I miss Sneaky
snake Jay. Thank god we got Braiden Shoemake Braiden Shoemake
has been good. I mean, if you're gonna go to

(09:43):
the backup card, he has done everything in then some
you've asked if a twenty eight year old out of
nowhere playing good shortstop and hitting three.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Sixty four and he's an Aggie, and I like, yeah,
there you go. I like that agg I like that
when I was fighting with on Twitter. That's funny. I'm
gonna pull this up. But I have to, like un
every one of that guy's tweets. So it's like a
whole thing. You want to do a sports time tee
theater on it? Nah, I mean, is it good? No,
It's just it was. It was.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Look, it was ten o'clock at night, ten fifteen at night,
and I'm just like, what am I doing? Look, there's
very few things that I'll ever take from Ross, trust
me on these things. But damn you are so right
about the damn mute.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Why do I eat? Why do I do it?

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Why to waste your time and negative energy? Twitter is
even five years ago was fun and cool. Now it's
just angry. It's it's because a lot of the reasonable
people who have left. Yeah, I mean I lose probably
ten followers a day, and most of the ones that
I lose are just they just spend their accounts, are like,
get out of this. Yeah, and I don't even know
how many real people are on this thing anymore.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
I did a poll yesterday. Normally we get like three
hundred votes on a poll. Yeah, what was your poll question?

Speaker 10 (10:52):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (10:52):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (10:53):
How invested are you in the schedule release?

Speaker 6 (10:55):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (10:55):
How is that going?

Speaker 2 (10:55):
By the way, let me see it's got twenty five
votes it Yeah, you get to Verify, don't you?

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Eight bucks a month? Right is more than not going
to No?

Speaker 2 (11:05):
No, no, no, I'm not paying for the free website.
Well I'm not well, I mean, I don't mind paying
for services, but why would I pay money to a
site that gives me porn bots and fake accounts and
people that just want to come out and just attack you?
How invested are you an NFL schedule release? All in,
very interested, little interest, zero interest, and the results are

(11:27):
forty eight percent zero interest. I don't know, twenty percent
little interest. There are some radio shows in this town
that are going hour after hour after hour of NFL
schedule predicting twenty four percent of people are all in.
So I have some inside information about the text and schedule.
Oh my god, are you gonna tweet this out for
your likes and views? Nope, you can get people hating

(11:47):
on you. Nope, that's all. You know what I think
you should Okay, I wouldn't do that to you. You know,
everyone's nicer on Instagram. Follow me on Instagram at sports RV.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Follow Put pictures of your family, yes, of food, your cooking,
places you're going to eat, vacation.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Destinations, and maybe just a kiss of your mom on
Mother's Day. Instagram.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
That's beautiful, the nice play place, except when Kevin Durant
fights with people on.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Instagram too, which is pretty funny too.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
All right, seven one three seven, Auntie. So the Astros
to get a victory. We'll talk more about that. We
will get into the NBA if you want to. A
little bit from last night. Is James Harden building a
new legacy. He's got a chance to take the Cavaliers.
So the Eastern Conference Championship did not play well yesterday.
Miss free throws, had a bunch of turnovers, miss a
bunch of shots, but the end result was a victory.

(12:35):
And there was also something gonna happen in that game,
Ross that I already know the answer to the question.
You know, when you're a trial attorney, always you always
ask questions you already know the answer to you already. Yeah,
I got a question for you about NBA phishing. I
want to get your thoughts on that as well. Okay,
NFL schedule releases today and we have a shorter show.
We're only on the noon. When's the schedule release specials?
Wex doing that?

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Don't tease him, he'll he'll do it. Why not?

Speaker 2 (12:59):
There's no night game. He could do it coming up.
He could seven o'clock the release.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Don't. Don't tease the boy.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
He's going to be so upset now why cause hes
gonna start sending email saying why are we doing one?

Speaker 1 (13:14):
See? You poke that bear? I didn't poke.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Anybody poke. You're a para poker. You're a bear poker. No,
I don't poke any one. Okay, ten sixteen on Sports
socc seven. Good morning, ten o'clockers. We thank you very
much for spending part of your day with us. We
want you to be with us all throughout the day,

(13:36):
including Astros Baseball with a one ten first pitch a
team after that the morning Drive six to ten, and
uh so when the Astros win, we need to celebrate it.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Now.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
How much are they going to win over the next
few weeks remains very much up in the air.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
So when we do have it, we don't look I
I what I do.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
What you don't want to do is you don't want
to be I don't want you guys to be out
there crushing the spot, a crushing Dana, crushing the team
when things aren't when when things aren't going right yet,
that's your job.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
I mean, that's you as a fandom. Well, things are
going right.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Hey, Gutsy win yesterday. Lance mccullor's bounced back. Apparently the
nail is fine on the index finger. Didn't throw a
lot of curve balls, doesn't really matter. He powered through it,
did very well. Astro's got a victory. We haven't had
a lot of those little theatrical ones light performance. Zach
Cole with three hitch yesterday, and we've talked about Zach being,

(14:34):
first of all, just a really good decent dude, and
you want him personally to have some success. Unfortunately he
just has not had much of that. But to get
the three hitch yesterday as the Astros won by a
score of four to three. In fact, the lineups are
already out for today's game. It is a very interesting
lineup that the Astros are putting out there that will
feature Zach Cole prominently, in fact, so much so that

(14:56):
he will be the leadoff hitter for the Astros today.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
All right, yeah, speaking of that, the Astros Twitter gave
Joe spot a full credit for the win yesterday. They
did not they, I mean, extra innings pulled, all the
right levers got abunded that well, they wanted to bunt
the guy over in the tenth got the win.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Close game.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
I a lot of high leverage innings in situations, So
full credit to Joe Spot.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Right, No, nobody does that? Oh well why not?

Speaker 2 (15:26):
I mean it's like going to a restaurant and then
the nine times you have a wonderful meal at the restaurant,
you don't care. The tenth time that the service's lows
you run it, you run a complaint letter. Well, if
Brian King would have given up the runs and that
would have lost, it would have been his fault, right,
Joe Spot his fault, So he's got to get credit
for the win.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Mmm. I didn't see anything out there.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Oh well, like if we went to if we went
to Astros, you know they put the final score up there,
what do you think it would be looking like? By way,
let me give you the line up today for the Astros.
It is significantly different.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Okay. Garrett Coleson left, Garrett cole Zach Coleson left for
Pete's sake, I gotta get my glove broken in.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Al Twovey drops the two. Albarez, who has been slumping,
drops to three Perettes is fourth, belling, third, Christian Walker
batting fifth, Brendan Shoemakers at church at batting fifth and
Braiden too, and Brad to get Brad. I know you
hate Nick Allen and Braiden Shoemaker. Well, I mean I
didn't think I was supposed to know who these people were.

(16:24):
Braiden b r a d Ean, Braiden Shoemaker. You're not
gonna have a problem with the name Braiden, are you?

Speaker 1 (16:30):
What do you mean? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
You always want to call out people for their names. Jack's,
Brodie's Jackson Brody's are douche.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Are douches? They just typically Braiden's are cool. I don't
know Braiden. I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
I don't know any other Braiden except for him. I
like Braiden Shoemake. I think he's been great. Braiden and
Aiden's and Cadence ops over is a thousand. I'm okay
with you, yes, sir? All right, So Braiden Shoemake's gonna
bat six and play shortstop. Uh, Bryce with an eye
the basic Yesterday's going to bat seventh.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
I was listening what you're just funny? Brice with an eye.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Well, it's right because you don't see very many b
r Ices. Sorry to picture yesterday for the Mariners. It
makes more sense than b r y though to me,
I have not Rice put a b on it. Let's go, okay,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's a four hour show.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
No it's not.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
It's two hours. Oh sorry, it's and a half hour's well, yeah,
you got my taggers.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
That's yea. I get a lot of heavy lifting. I do,
I do. Get out of here, all right.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Uh, Bryce with an I is batting seventh and playing
center field. Okay A cam Smith is betting eighth and
playing right field, and says, our Salazar is gonna be
the catcher in bed. Okay, Salazar is gonna have to
play day game after night game. He was gonna have
to do in a three hole. I just don't like that.
But that's fine, well is it? I mean it's a relief,
is it?

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Slump?

Speaker 2 (17:56):
I guess you're bumping him down because he's slumping so hard.
But we're not up more than who do you want
to get more plate appearances? Jose al two by?

Speaker 1 (18:03):
You're on Alvarez. Uh, you're on Alvarest. That's a that's
an easy one. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
By the way, did you see a nice play that
joseel Tube made up the middle of the field yesterday
in the game kind of save things late?

Speaker 1 (18:14):
We could you do me a favorite?

Speaker 2 (18:15):
And i't mean to put you on the spot of
this real quick here, but would you mind you you
have the defensive metrics typically on joseal two bay. Now
you're laughing because your pressing to be bad.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
In like a week since I checked.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
But unless he's really made up some ground in a week, uh,
you're not going to be happy. Where where are we at?
Where we wanted to? You will go among among second basement. Yes,
you don't know who the best second basement in baseball
is in defensive run saved? Please tell me Cole Young
of the Mariners, Okay, nice.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
JJ weatherhold Labor Torres, Alex Freeland. So how far going?

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Worst second basement in baseball? Bryce and Stott of the Phillies, Okay,
second worst? Josel two minus five defensive run saved. God,
it's so bizarre to me. This is out a forty
four second base guys who have logged enough innings at
second base. I'm gona look up his defensive numbers here
in how many errors as Josel two of a have

(19:15):
this year?

Speaker 1 (19:15):
I don't know. I'm looking at it that it doesn't seem
like has he even made one?

Speaker 2 (19:20):
So again, the metric is not only does he feel
his position, but does how much ground does he cover?

Speaker 1 (19:26):
How strong is his arm? Blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah.

Speaker 6 (19:29):
Hm.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
I'm gonna say this for the second consecutive year, and
Ross and I'm gonna fall on the sword on it.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
He doesn't embarrass me at second base? Okay?

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Maybe I mean, would you like to have twenty four
year old player that is hitting three twenty six with
power and playing second base? Of course, you would, every
major League baseball team would. But man, I'm just I'm okay.
I mean he's the he's the goat. He's gonna be
given more lesi than anybody else in recent astro history. Okay,
I'll give you another number. Oh no, that cast out's

(19:58):
above average. That is uh yeah, it's outs that you
would have made that maybe the average player wouldn't have made.
So an average second basement is gonna make this play,
but maybe not another Okay, and you're making outs above average,
so literal outs. So Luis aria is the number one.
He's made eight more outs than the average second basement. Well,
we're talking about taking an average person. Whoever that person's

(20:20):
name is John. Are you better than John? Yeah, average
second basement. Yeah, So Luis Arias they have him as
the best with eight outs above average. A lot of
the others that are on fielding in a DRS weatherhole, Chisholm,
those type of guys. He's a minus three al twove,
which is tied for the worst in baseball with Edwall,
Julian and Ernie Clement. So basically, according to that one

(20:49):
stat he's still going to He's going to hurt you
with even some of the routine plays. Is that how
I'm supposed to read this?

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, he just doesn't. He's just not that rangy. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Unfortunately, my full belief is you can't have nine gold
glovers all over the place. He doesn't hurt you. Okay,
now we'll put it this way. Is jose A twov
playing second base a significant factor?

Speaker 1 (21:16):
And why the Astros are were they are? No, it's
three outs all year long. Yeah, according to their metrics.
Ten thirty on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
And if you're at ten o'clocker, we love you seven
one three two one two five seven. And if you
want to come in and say hello, it was we
have I just don't get it. Come up at eleven
thirty today, that's an hour. Now Astros on deck at
twelve minutes. We got a shorter show. So come on
in and say hello to us. We we won't bite.
I mean, you want to fight with me on Twitter
at ten o'clock at nine, I might buy back at you.
And again I have a rule I never respond more

(21:48):
than twice. You know, I need to start doing You're
like my counselor. Yeah, if I'm gonna go to my
if I'm gonna go to my phone and respond. I
just call you and said and you'll say, hey, Matt,
I'm here sponsor, and you do not respond.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
This is the thing.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
I don't want to dismiss anyone who disagrees with me.
You know, just because somebody agrees doesn't mean you want
to say, Hey.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
You know what, I'm right and you're wrong.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Just have it in a respectful conversation. This didn't age well.
Is not respectful right, it's you're you're picking a fight. Yeah,
and I'll shut you down. Aggie mh. I love the
Aggies too. You guys all love the Aggies, love the Longhorns.
I love the Ryland Rams, love the Houston Coupers.

Speaker 11 (22:28):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
I'm a lover, not a fighter or dumbass.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
I want to fight gas station attendance people on the road.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, what I fight with the waiter for? I don't remember.
You don't know you're you've never gotten an argument with
the waiter. No, I believe you.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Blackjack, Oh blackjack, ladies who were just trying to play
their hands.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
That bitch need to be cut like shift cut. How
about this? What is wrong with how about this?

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yesterday I went to au restaurant to pick up some
to go food yesterday for the family. It was a
salad in two tacos. Okay, I waited thirty two minutes.
That feels like a lengthy time.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Was it like a fast casual place or a restaurant
or what a fast casual?

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Okay, that's really bad restaurant. I think like an fighte
And I even give them a tip on top of it.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Not really, They're not in the kitchen. Thirty two minutes
is a long time. They're not the ones in the kitchen. Yeah,
but I'm sure they tip share. People don't always tip
share the kitchen. I think I would say it's rare. Okay,
all right, that's enough for me. I'm not a I'm
a I'm a lover, not a fighter. That's all it is.
Jonathan seven one three two five seven day.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Sorry, go ahead, that was rude. I'm sorry. You know,
I didn't really understand which said. That's good. It's probably best.
I was great. I was very complimentary. You know, I'm
gonna fight.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
For checking the old four year tab during the break
ROSSI and uh, everybody's leaking out smart games. Most of
them are wrong, but people are still doing it. And
they're putting the you know, the team, their favorite team's
name in the tweets. People were thinking it's a legit website. Okay,

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so I'm not worried about it.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Seven o'clock the schedule will come out. I guess what
I'll do.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
I will take that schedule and I will put it
into my phone. I'll put it in by daytimer and
then bury it.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
I know, of course, man, it is our responsibility to
pay attention to sports, sometimes more than we would like
to interfere with our personal lives and stuff like that.
But I just can't. I can't get into this schedule
release thing at all. I will. I just don't get it. Well,
I watch the schedule release things tonight. You know, all
the teams are doing social media things that'll be kind
of funny. I guess, yeah, it's usually. Well, last year

(24:46):
it's like some TikTok dude I'd never even heard of.
Ones typically suck. Yeah, well it's just not for us.
It's like for anime kids and stuff like that. There
was there were some the dude, the TikToker, I didn't
even know who he was. He was wild popular, and
then they did some anime stuff which they get a
lot of likes and stuff on that, so I mean,
good for them. I'm just not I don't. I don't

(25:07):
watch animes. I know the kids do. The kids love
the animes, right, Jonathan, Oh you you anime? See the
kids love the anime.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
I just got to get onto that.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Okay, what do you like? The kids like the Hunter
ex Hunter or whatever. This is the misconception I'm doing
real quick. There's anime is not just there's so many
different genome. It's a wide, right, it's a wide.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
You even get some deep very like gory like the
pool topics, and there's ones for children, and there's one
more for adults and teenagers and little weirdos with the
little you know, pedophile stuff and oh yeah, we're aout.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
That's the whole favorite thing in something, you know, misconception.
But yeah, my god, all day, I'll just plotlist. I
just don't get it.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Move along, and you know what you do you and
that's you know, I'm not the one. I'm okay. I
understand that.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
That's okay, But I mean, I guess I can come
on and have a hot take. Oh anime sucks. You
are weirdos and.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Am I gonna do you do your thing? All right?

Speaker 2 (26:01):
So last night Cleveland and Detroit played a game and
the Cavaliers won, and they are now up three games
to two in their series. Not that we're going to
get into the breakdown of itself, because I'm going to
assume that about zero point three percent of you watch
the game.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
What I do want to get to is a bigger point.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Asar Thompson, which is a men's twin, had this great
block shot light in the game, late late in the game,
and there was a loose ball towards the sideline, and.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
I have you seen the video of this?

Speaker 2 (26:29):
By the way, I did not, okay, and he was
tripped up by Jared Allen of University of Texas, great
and a member of the the Cleveland Cavaliers. They'd be
n IT champion, Jared Allen, clear and obvious foul. No
call made the ball trickles out of bounds. The game
ends and tie. They go to overtime and where the
other team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, win the game in overtime,

(26:53):
and the pool reporter for the game went to talk
to the referee, and the referee Tony Brothers, who's the
crew chief. Yes, Tony Brothers basically said, I didn't see
the call.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
I went back, looked at it, have the game. I
don't see a foul.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Now, the NBA A will if officially release their two
minute report if I don't know if they've done it
already or we'll be doing it in not too distant future.
But everybody that has watched basketball for any length of time,
I mean, Jared Allen didn't intentionally try to foul Asar Thompson.
But a foul is a foul loose basketball, somebody clipped
somebody else, it's still a foul m and that obviously
would have changed the outcome of the game. Asar Thompson

(27:26):
gonna have chance, go the free throw on, make free throws,
win the ball game, and they wind up losing an overtime.
So my guess is Detroit's bitter. Yes, it is going
to be. I would think when the ruling comes out Ross,
it's gonna be considerablown call. You know what's funny is
the last two minute report, like what would you say,
on average has at least two or three missed calls

(27:47):
at least at least so and generally more calls are
I mean more calls aren't I guess made in the
last two minutes.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
But like, if we extrapolate that to a full game
times twenty four, it's like at least forty eight to
fifty calls that are getting missed now.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
A lot of players like Tony Brothers. Yeah, because you
can go back and forth to Tony Brothers. His skin
is thick. He'll let you say what you need to say.
He may bark back at you. He's always in big games.
He's always in the big game. So here's my stupid,
dumb question for you. Uh huh win the NBA, not

(28:19):
if I think it's going to be a win. When
they determined that was a foul that could have would
have led Cleveland, excuse me, would have led Detroit to
the free throw line to win the game. Yes, and
you can't assume that Sar was gonna make the free throws.
But for assumption they make one, you make one, you

(28:40):
blow a call like that in the big moment, do
you just chalk that up as that's just one call
among five hundred he made. He had a spectacular game
except for that one misscall. Or do you say, man,
when the lights are brightest and you need your top official,
there to make that call because it is an important

(29:02):
juncture in the game, a game deciding play. The NBA
is gonna give Tony Brothers a chance to move on
to the Eastern or Western Conference finals. He's probably gonna
call NBA Finals games. And if you're a fan, you're
going where is the accountability on this?

Speaker 1 (29:17):
So where do you stand on that?

Speaker 2 (29:19):
I stand on that's just uh, it just baked into
the game and it's unfortunate.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
There's no way to fix it. You can't take Tony
Brothers off of games because he missed a call. I mean,
there's two other officials on the floor, and no one
basketball game, no four quarter basketball game, is determined by
one call.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
But and I'm with you nine percent.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
I'm just saying, but sometimes when games are so back
and forth and close and on the edge, either you
make the call or you don't. I'm looking at the play, Mmmm,
that's a foul, dude. They're both going for the ball.

(30:05):
They don't. And that's another thing too. In the last
ten seconds of game, as you know Matthew calling them,
there's there's fouls, there's clutching, his grabbing, shoving. It's almost
like there's no rules when there's under ten seconds. Okay,
so let me let me give you another option. A.
He blew the call. B he made the right call,
which I don't think aybody's saying or see that thing

(30:26):
is so tight that in the emotions of the final
seconds of a game, you'll kind of give not a
free pass. But understanding because it didn't really Let's say
he doesn't foul him there, it doesn't affect the outcome
of the game.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
My question's if it's going if somebody's.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Going up for a shot and he get really hacked
on the arm, that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
He's I know it's a loose ball. Foul would have
resulted in free throws. It would have resulted in free throws.
But he's on the other end of the floor. He's
not gonna grab it. Didn't.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Like I say, if he doesn't foul him there, it
doesn't affect that. If if somebody it's fouled on a shot,
that affects the shot. It didn't affect a shot. And
if he doesn't foul him there, that doesn't affect.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
The outcome of the game. So I say, tough, tough,
you know what, Detroit, I'm agreeing with roster met Okay, yeah, no,
I mean it's not necessarily disagreeing.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
He's I don't know. I'm just yeah, I look JB.
Bickerstaff to coach the Pistons. It's tough complains about officials
all the time, a game, all the game, so you know,
it's it's it's not in a situation. The boy the
credit wolf, but he's crying, and I'd be in the
same spot. If you and I were doing Pistols radio

(31:35):
to day, we'd be out of our mind that the
clock is running out. You're going to overtime. Yeah, he
he pushes them going for the loose ball, but.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
It didn't affect It didn't affect the outcome. You go
winning overtime. I'm sorry, Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
It's one of those I understand it's tough, but I
think if we're Detroit Radio today, we're losing our minds
over it. We're talking about adding a next official to
the floor, We're talking about any extra challenges in the
final minute of games.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
We are going through the we're running through the gamut
of options.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
TED forty six, Sports Talk seven ninety We're with you
today until twelve noon. I just don't get it coming
up at at eleven thirty. I just don't get it
coming up at eleven thirty Russell of the on Deck
show at twelve, where Brian Mintagger will be on the show.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
He's a good Scottish irishman. Let's go try freshman Brian
mctaggers be.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Talking about the new lineup the Astros are putting out
there to Yeah, it's a massive change. I'm not a
bit look lineup quibbling. Who cares at the end of
the day, But I'm not a big fan of your
I'm moving down, okay, But Zach Cole's been hitting, so okay.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Let Joe do his thing. Hey, three for four day.
The fivers in the lineup's gotta hit. That's right.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Let's talk to Vince in Midtown. Our time is a
ten fifty one seven Vince, good morning to you.

Speaker 6 (32:58):
Good morning guys.

Speaker 12 (32:59):
Hey.

Speaker 9 (32:59):
Yeah, on that Detroit game, that definitely was a foul.

Speaker 6 (33:02):
And I guess I'm kind of like just not understanding
the referees. They kind of reward guys who throw themselves
onto the defenders as they're trying to shoot the ball
and give you know, and they yet when you know,
guys trying to make a hustle play at the end
of the game, it's obviously silent. They swallow the whistle
that that sucks.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
And so and so.

Speaker 9 (33:24):
But I've got a a star is man. I can't
believe the Star is a better defender than a man.
He's just slightly better defender. But he makes them outstanding
defensive plays. And that's been very impressed with him. But
I hate but I have a wish list. I got
a couple of players that I already know that probably contractually,
and we don't have anything to give up to try

(33:45):
to get these guys. But there's two guys I wish
the Rockets could get their hands on. One is the
the strous guy, Max Trausse.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, Max trus Yeah, sorry.

Speaker 9 (33:57):
And then and then also that that J Mitchell guy
for Oklahoma City. Man, that guy, how do we miss
out on him? How does in Oklahoma City gets these
guys who no one's ever heard of? And they guys
play their butts off?

Speaker 4 (34:12):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Well, first of all, A J.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Mitchell wouldn't be playing nearly as much if not for
Jalalen Williams eight being hurt as much as he has been.
So he's kind of taking the opportunity.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
But he could.

Speaker 9 (34:20):
But he's playing that he's playing great.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Playing great, absolutely, and so he should be.

Speaker 9 (34:26):
He could be helping someone who can Actually, you know
that doesn't have the depths at that position.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
So you're actually you're asking for a team in Oklahoma
City to get worse by just handing off a player
to another team.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
I like the way you think. It's very much they're
going to hit the apron at some point. Second J.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Mitchell was the second round pick of THEIRS. Yeah two
years ago. Yeah, sad, But anyways, but thanks, thanks for
the phone call. Yeah, I don't honestly watching, I didn't.
I watched the replay of watching a hundred times. I
don't think the three officials just sat there and said,
uh man, we're gonna We're gonna help out the Cavaliers.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
I think they just said moment was moment. Things are
going fast and furious last few seas. Remember remember R.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Sar Thompson blocked the shot that resulted in the loose ball,
So it was not there was the ball wasn't coming
in out of a out of an inbound play, It
wasn't after a made basket.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
It was live ball. Action.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
That goes back to the bigger question again. I want
my best officials, pound for pound, to make the right
calls in the most crucial portions of the game. And again,
if you are someone that has a bias towards officiating,
which a lot of people do, it's it's very normal.
Do you say, man, moment was there for you to
make the right call and you didn't do it?

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yeah. I think also the.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
It was it would be tough to decide a game
on a loose ball foul as the seconds were draining,
and it didn't affect. Like I said, if he didn't
commit the foul, it wouldn't have affected the outcome.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
And by the way, I was wrong. Jared Allen wasn't
on the n I champion team. He was, he left earlier.
It was Jackson Hayes. I got confused. You know all
these longhorned legends.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
First though, you could have said it over and over
again for thirty times and no one's gonna check you.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Y hey, I like to check myself. You had quite
a few centers in the NBA. Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
You've had LaMarcus Aldiers for the longest time, and Jackson
Hayes Mobamba right, Yeah, Jared Allen, Jared Allen, Jerico Sim's
got a taste here and there. I don't know where
he is anyhow, I don't know, but yeah, he's been
around the only good long time.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yeah, yeah, I'm more NBA players and tournament wins in
the last ten years. It's fine. He's it used to
be us for a while too, don't don't worry about that.
Fine whatever. Sean Miller's building something good. I think I
think he is. I think so too. I mean Sweet sixteen, babe. Yeah,
I was gonna say you you were ready for them

(36:58):
to say goodbye and Dayton and you went all the
way to Sweet sixteen. It's nice.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
The tournament run you don't expect is nice. The expectations
falling flat on their face. Allah, Rick Barnes era, those don't.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Feel so great? Yeah, I don't. I don't feel great
that we were fourteen seconds away from a national championship.
M shame tongue in cheek or is it out now?

Speaker 6 (37:25):
No?

Speaker 2 (37:25):
I just had a little popular always at the movies.
All right, let's get to some more astros will come back. Also,
I'm sorry I can't do that. I'm sorry for being
the worst at least you admit it.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Least I apologize.

Speaker 10 (37:43):
Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross All right, here's
where one for you. In this next segment of the show,
I want you to call in.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
I want you to predict what the Textans are going
to play in week number seven the NFL season.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Let's go. You're a liar.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Seven one three two one two five seven, houty. If
you guys really think you know your sports, you will
call in and tell me who the Texans are playing
in weeks Oh no, week seven would not be the case.
I think it's in week six they go to uh London,
So maybe, like, you know what, give me a week eleven.
Let's see how smart y'all are, Jonathan. I only want
phone calls from people that are calling in with week

(38:24):
eleven predictions. Got I mean, we got the Astros winning
a game yesterday, we got some decent NBA basketball going on.
We've got college football people mad at each other about
how big determinent should be. Twenty four team, fourteen team,
twelve team Dan teem, five team Dan deep. I think
it's like an auctioneer, but I want I want to

(38:46):
know who the Texans are playing in week number eleven. Okay,
we're gonna get I'm gonna go with the Rams. I
don't believe it's eligible. Oh that is eligible, I know
if you know, she almost did I almost did it.

(39:10):
Oh you didn't talk about college game day picking making
its first two stops?

Speaker 1 (39:14):
Picking those you can talk about that.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
One of them is Austin, Texas, correct, Yes, sir, LSU
Clemson week one, Texas Ohio State week two.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Okay, I'm sure you are more than okay of that
game big at six thirty at night. To another way, right,
is seventh thirty East? I think.

Speaker 6 (39:29):
So.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
It is funny that Fox, you know, spends a lot
of money on sports, the big New kickoff. It doesn't
really fit, does it. It's okay, it's okay once in
a while. But man, I like a big eleven o'clock
game because you get you get. There's usually enough games
to go around. Some weeks are leaner than others, obviously, yeah, yeah,
but usually you get a big game at eleven and

(39:52):
a big game at two thirty, big game at seven.
Let's go, you going, that's up to my My brother's
got season tickets. So usually Popski's first DIBs. I don't
know he will not sell those tickets. Correct, No, oh,
don't sounds That's not the worst thing I ever heard
of him in my life. It's called being a real fan, Matt.
You go and you support your squad for the big games.

(40:14):
There will be lots of Ohio State red in that building.

Speaker 6 (40:17):
I know, you know it.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Okay, lot of people who aren't real fans got there.
You gotta be raucous, little T shirt wears. Well whatever,
don't think T shirt wearers are getting season tickets.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
You never know.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
Hey, I got two callers on the line here. Okay,
we're gonna see how well they know their NFL schedules.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
This is great.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Scott on seven ninety Scott, I have one question, one
question for you only. Who are the Texans playing in
Week eleven?

Speaker 9 (40:42):
The New York Giants.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
Thank you very much. We can build a radio shawlf
of this.

Speaker 9 (40:49):
I like this.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
New York John were writing this down. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Something's gonna be right. We're gonna give a prize. They
are playing the NFC East this year. You got a prize.
Hoard this out.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
I don't know. No, all we got is uh a triumph, right,
That's all we got. Yet and we got so they
got him off like a toilet paper reel. They rolling
them out? Must be something is Triumph? Are they really
a good man?

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (41:12):
I love Triumph? You have no idea, not even one
of their songs?

Speaker 4 (41:15):
Uh huh?

Speaker 1 (41:16):
And so what the comic song here? Hold on play?

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Yeah, let's play a Triumph song here. Let's say this,
is there even one in the system?

Speaker 1 (41:24):
We got the buzz? Are they a buzz type scenario?
Triumph got the hits?

Speaker 6 (41:29):
Yo?

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Is that what the kids are saying? That's hysterical? Got
the hits?

Speaker 6 (41:34):
Yo?

Speaker 2 (41:37):
Oh maybe this wasn't the best sound good? Oh man,
I am vibing. No wonder I believe or not? Was
lean yesterday? This is off off of a bad CD

(41:57):
or something.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Mark. Who are the Texans playing? In week eleven? Markets
are going to play? Hello? Go ahead the commander the commanders. Oh, huge,
huge matchup. Thank you very much for that phone call.
Oh they're Canadian, this says, uh. Their biggest hit was

(42:30):
Somebody's out there. Well my opposite.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
It's good enough that they're filling up smart financial credits.
Oh they're a smart financial Yeah, that's got that's a value.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
See venue. Yeah, very good for them. Yeah, we don't
think got the biggest song on those systems apparently.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Yeah, Ross and I, Jonathan, we had a great time
at Smart Financial many many years ago. Oh the super
Bowl party. Super Bowl party, Oh my god, who that's
how they had to be busting busting in the talent there.
I don't know what happen. Happened, Jonathan, don't tell your
girl this, but this is the story of us three bros.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
Right now.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
There was excuse my French on this, and I'm happily
married to twenty eight years. There was so much hot
ass there. You would not believe how beautiful they were there.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
You would have thought we were learning German nine nine
nine nine nine. You've been waiting all year to use
that line. I just came up with it. That was
I'll give you that. That was, buddy.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
So Jonathan, we go, we go to this party and
you know, you don't know this, but Ross and I
will take some dares. We wouldn't do a VIP area
that we would never should have been in, and we
got in there, and I mean it was unbelievableh my god.
So Smart Financial Credit Center, you all do a great

(43:50):
job with concerence I've seen you, saw Tony Bennett there, right,
I've seen Hall and Oates there. But the Maxim party,
Oh my god. Now the uber costs back to the
city was quite quite. Oh yeah, we waited, We waited,
still paid off.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
Was that with you that I walked? We walked across
the freeway or is that somebody el somebody else? That
was okay?

Speaker 2 (44:09):
That was a different smart financial trip, like walk across
the freeway to the McAllister's deli to try to get
a better price.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
So we see one of our coworkers there and I'm
not gonna mention who it is. You're getting me enough
trouble with this guy. Please stop hee. You're not gonna
believe it. You're gonna believe this.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
He hugs me, He says, hey, Matt, good seeing you,
and then he whispers in here, can you set me
on with.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Some rocket tickets soon? Captain Schmooze, Well, that will not
tell you who it was. You said, yes, didn't you?

Speaker 6 (44:44):
No?

Speaker 1 (44:44):
He's never now he's no. He then blocked me on
Facebook and Twitter. So it's fine. Got me blocked. You
were you were you were a you caught as straight
there and I'm sorry for you.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
For that.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
All right, So we have we have two predictions. We
have the Texans are playing the Commanders and the Texans
are playing the Giants. Which one feels stronger to you?
JF says Texans Colts Week eleven. That feels about right. Ah,
it's you know what in DW go AFC al Michaels
asleep at the wheel for Texans Colts Week eleven.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Who's starting for the Colts? We have no idea. It's
Sam Ellinger versus Davis Mills. You know, I'm so out
with a concussions.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
I'm so sorry that you feel that you've said about
al Michaels the way that you had, because it's true. Yes,
I mean he's eighty years old. Yeah, well they give
him some dog matchups to the better now they've been better.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
But I mean Herbstreet's dogs got more energy than al
Michaels does. But Al in his prime, Rossie, I mean
on the on the Mount Rushmore. Yeah, he's He's what
put Tarico up there.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Now, you know, when you have like, man, I want
to nail the call, the moment was not you know,
he Al Michaels and Mike Rico are the anti Tony
brothers of last night? Who's your Rushmore? Because I yield
to you the expert. You've put Tarico on there on
a like it was a to tell the truth. Yeah,
you said it was true, so you gotta stick with that.

(46:15):
To Rico, okay, this is in their primes. In their primes.
The problem is, do you have to call more than
one sport? Can you stay with one sport? That's up
to you play by play. I'm gonna go national guys
that have called more than one sport? Okay, t Rico, Nance, Nance,

(46:36):
Michaels leaving it, Scully off? Are you leaving Kevin Harlan off?
Are That's why we have to create a fifth to
the Mount Rushmore Top five.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
As a slap of president up there. Man, here's a.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Thing that it's it's hard on the Eagle Harlan thing
because I know them both very well. I actually know
Iroan a little bit better than I know Kevin. But
they're two of the most genuine, nice, approachable people that
you will have in our business. Now one I think

(47:22):
iron I think it's eight or nine years younger. So
are you trying to I'd have to take the fastball
of Harlan Maybe say, ten years ago, compared to the where.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Iron Eagle is now.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
I you know what, I I Dogle is more polished.
We've kind of talked about this. Harlan is more the artist,
you know, He's more the technician. Iron's more the technical.
Ian's gonna give you the steady sixty minutes so good.
He's gonna be on beat, all all set. But if
Harlan's gonna have to belt out that one note, that's
gonna crush the song at the end. But if you

(47:57):
want the soulful solo, you go to Kevin Harlan. It's
too it's just too hard. I can't I can't mean
I'd have to be let on fire to make a decision.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Hmmm.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
I'm asking you to do that, but I'll light you
on fire. I don't want you to. You know what
I'm saying, dream that you haven't.

Speaker 7 (48:14):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Jamal on seveninety Jamal, who are the Texans playing in
week eleven?

Speaker 4 (48:18):
Hey?

Speaker 13 (48:18):
What's going on at?

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Jamal Man fromas dot com?

Speaker 13 (48:20):
And I want to say that I want to take
a guest that the Texans will be playing a Baltimore Ravens.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Ravens my dad, right?

Speaker 14 (48:28):
I like that?

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Oh, By the way, Joe Buck to thank you for
the phone call. Joe, Yeah, what's up? What you hate? None,
Joe Buck. I don't hate Joe Buck.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
But but to me, he's just a and maybe because
I don't have a personal relationship with him, but he's
just a little bit of a lever level down but
still excellent.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
I'm with you on that. I liked. I think he
gets a lot undue hate. But but here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
Here's the problem is that with kids when you have
these lists and you create these grades of all time,
mm hmm you're talking.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
About I mean, I've been watching sports for fifty years.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Pat Summer all doing the Super Bowl, Montana Rice touchdown,
the voice, the delivery.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
The sticky I mean, it's it's just perfect. Vince Scully,
a wardsman and a word smith and award smith, never
butchered a call.

Speaker 7 (49:26):
Guys.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
He was eighty years old calling games by himself on television,
telling stories about snakes, uh coming out of people's eggs
and stuff and calling strikes, killing of snakes and pulling
them out of the mouths of the rats mouths and stuff.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
By the way, we have some some quick astro I
wontn't call it breaking news.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
I saw go ahead and mentioned, Okay, Jeremy Panya still sore,
not playing today in double A.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
He got up into a couple of days ago. Uh,
you got a call her talking about Howard Cosell. Why
we're not bring him up? I don't know. I would
go sell he wasn't play by play figure right, Matthew?
Uh not that play? Uh entertaining.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Let me tell you what I would go zell with him?
I met a late You mentioned people who do uh
a impression of everyone? Everyone does an impression of person X. Yes,
Howard co Cell one of the old times back and
then yeah, Howard Cosell, Jonathan, you would love Howard Cosell
because he is he would be right now he is.

Speaker 6 (50:27):
He was.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
The hot the hot takes of the nineteen seventies, right,
basically he was the hot take machine.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Yeah, seven, one, three, two, one more quick note col
rally oblique strain headed to the eye out.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Did you see what happened to him last night? You're
trying to pull the double play? He couldn't throw? Yeah,
you think you hurt himself?

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Because that was an and fortunately for the Mariners, it
didn't ultimately make a decision, but.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
He could have thrown that ball away and it really
would have been a a lot of trump.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Yeah, he was in pain. Yeah, imagine heard himself on
a swing. I mean everybody obleak. We mentioned this, like
everybody's they're they're they're throwing harder and they're swinging harder.

Speaker 5 (51:08):
And they're probably not doing the most like the leak
work and the work. I gotta you gotta strengthen that
oblique too. You got those planks and all that side crunches,
all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
You I do more of that? Can they They work
on them, but they're probably just doing too much. You know,
we gotta do what we should.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
We should have a bleak classes, Okay, I mean alt
the out Jordan oblique.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
Who's got oblique right now? Was it Jake Myers? Myers?

Speaker 6 (51:30):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (51:31):
Christian Walker had oblique multiple times? I'm sure yeah, Yeah,
it's not good.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
All right. Eleven fifteen on Sports Talk seven seven one
three seven Texans release we're gonna have them? Should we
have a Texans release party? Texans schedule release party? We
are apparently tonight we are. It's a Cole and Josh Jordan.

Speaker 6 (51:53):
I think what.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
You know, I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get a six
pack of beer, okay, and I'm gonna listen to that doing.
I guess you drink half of it.

Speaker 9 (52:02):
Matt.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
I'm gonna get a six pack of beer Groggy in
the morning, and that's gonna be Oh, that's a tough
matchup in week something and every time I know I'm
gonna drink okay, I'm gonna be blitzed by about seven fifteen.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Oh. Man, I cannot wait tomorrow to break down the
textans schedule with you all tomorrow. I cannot wait. Why's
that jar looking, Jonathan? I cannot wait it runneth over.
We might have to cast his check in. We can
go on a cruise.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
That's very fair. You're seriously, you have to be a
dork if you are losing your mind over the schedule.
Release twenty four percent of people? Am I a very
very limited poll vote? How many votes? It was like
twenty five or something? Okay, so that's six. Let's talk
about the vote numbers. Come on, man, I'm sorry. It
was a small sample size. Yeah, very small sample size.

(52:56):
At sports. I'm gonna start. I'm gonna I need your
twenty twenty eight scheduled predictions. Stop, Come on, no, let's
just something. The other shows don't know what play schedule
they're going to be.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
You don't know that. No, yes, I do, Battle Red.
You know what they're gonna be? First place, super Bowl champions.
Could happen? Crazier things have happened? All right?

Speaker 2 (53:17):
I want to know who the Texans are playing in
week number eight eleven seven one three two one two,
five seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Josie, Hi, Josie, how are you doing today?

Speaker 12 (53:28):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Your name is jose It's not Josie, is it. No,
it's Josie. It's it's it's a the outlail outlaw. Are
you the are you the are you the outlaw? Josie Wales? Yes, sir?
All right, what you got today? Josie? Okay? Hey fun fact.

Speaker 9 (53:45):
Uh, Well after I'll tell you my guess. I'm Buffalo Bills,
Josh and the Buffalo Bill week e left.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Buffalo Bills week eleven, and that game's in Houston, which
you mean that's a guaranteed Astros victory, because you know
the Texans all they do is beat Buffalo. Josh Allens
in some of his worst games against the Texans.

Speaker 9 (54:03):
Yes, sir, Also, I did meet Thurman Thomas in nineteen
ninety one.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
You met Thurman Thomas in nineteen ninety one, Yes, sir,
did you raise him?

Speaker 6 (54:16):
No, it was a it was off season.

Speaker 9 (54:19):
I knew his cousin, Grady Cabinets that played a reiver
receiver dB for UT.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
Okay, so let's let's go back here. Let's go back
to your second Joseph.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
You you just came on a major market radio show
for that We love you, and you said in nineteen
ninety one, I met Thurman Thomas. Is there something special
about this meeting? We should know about her just as
just a rando? You met a professional athlete. Well, it's
because I you know, I guess Week eleven was the
Buffalo Bill.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
It's a Billsteian, Oh, I see, okay.

Speaker 9 (54:47):
Okay, you know it's a steak and a potatoes.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
You know I got hey, I got one for you too.
Steve Tasker, who was on those special teams, was a
friend of the show for many years. Ross tried to
call him and he would not re respond to Ross's text.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
That's true. I text Youve Tasker. He texted me back immediately.
How about that? That's buffalo? But up old stuff. I
don't know. This is kind of fun.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
He would respond to me sometimes, but the last couple
of times he didn't. Hen shut his butt masks up.
Then he got let go and now he's doing solid.
He's doing sideline for the Bills now, so we'll have
him on this fall.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Okay, now, I'm not texting.

Speaker 9 (55:21):
All you can. At the Oilers training camp in ninety
four to ninety five, Alsome met Bush forty three.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Damn, you've met a lot of famous people, are you.
Are you more famous than you're letting on to be.

Speaker 9 (55:35):
I've known some people, I've met some people.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Okay, thank you, Josie. Don't be a stranger to show Josie.
I appreciate you calling in. He's got the Buffalo Bills
coming in. Man, we got a wide ROSSI gamut of
options here for week number eleven in the National Football
League for your beloved Texans Brian in Paarland, Brian who
the Texans playing in week eleven?

Speaker 1 (55:56):
MC.

Speaker 12 (55:56):
I gotta preface this by saying, there's an account on
acts that I can say. I can to direct tweet
you and Ross on this, but I've followed this account
on x for the last three or four years because
me and my buddy always liked to take one trip.
Last year we went to Seattle, and we've been to
Green Bay and some others. So we're kind of look
at it when this guy releases it as to where

(56:19):
we want to go based on the remaining cities we
hadn't kind of been to that year. And I've already
seen the week eleven and this guy's been pretty accurate
with year after year because I've matched him.

Speaker 9 (56:30):
Up based on what he releases.

Speaker 12 (56:32):
So I've seen it, and I'm going to tell you
what I've seen. It's Houston at Indy Thursday night football
against the Colts.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
All right, now, if that happens.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
Now, if that happened, you got to call back tomorrow
and say that I told you so, you're you're allowed
to do that on this radio program.

Speaker 4 (56:49):
I'll do that.

Speaker 12 (56:50):
Then that'll be my bladd gut feeling then.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
And Matt, let me get your thought.

Speaker 12 (56:57):
You are mister Texas, so you know all things about traveling.
You travel all over the place with the with the NBA.
We're looking at possibly Washington and even the ones we
just hadn't been to.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Her working uh into our schedules.

Speaker 4 (57:13):
D C.

Speaker 12 (57:14):
L A or Cleveland. Uh, just because I want to
say I've seen Philly for Christmas Eve or not that we've.

Speaker 9 (57:22):
Been the Green Bay. We've been to a lot of
all the AFC south of those three.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Okay, right else, I would skip Washington for now because
they're going to go to a new stadium in a
couple of years. I'd save that for another trip. Were
there two places you were thinking about going?

Speaker 13 (57:39):
LA?

Speaker 12 (57:40):
But we went West coast last year to Seattle for
the Monday night game, which was fantastic, by the way,
because that was also the same night that the Mariners
lost in games, so so sweet even though we got,
even though the Texans lost, it was sweet to be
in there to just hear the dejection the Mariners fins voices.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
Or Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
Uh, Cleveland's also going to be in a new stadium.
It is by far your obligation to go to LA.
Sofi Stadium is supposed to be spectacular. It is a monstrosity.
It is a beautiful statement. I've never been inside of
it abviously is relatively new. So I'm going to put
you on the assignment to go to LA and then
call us back with a report on that.

Speaker 12 (58:21):
I will I will they if that were under their schedule.
But yeah, if the schedule dealer is right, I will
tell you, guys where I'm seeing this year after year to.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
This and and and if you're wrong, you call tomorrow
eleven thirty and apologies and say you're sorry.

Speaker 12 (58:36):
Bro, I will apologize absolutely.

Speaker 1 (58:38):
All right, Thanks, we'll see it. Appreciate phone call. Yeah,
it's funny people, don't I guess people people do go.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
To NFL teams because they want to go to different atmospheres,
Like I'm I was lucky enough to go to Grint
to Green Bay on a couple of occasions.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
I do want to go to so far. I do
want to go to Vegas.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
I haven't gone to a lot of NFL games the
last handf of years because I just don't travel that
much during the.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
Fall like that. And you don't have an NFL team, Matt,
I don't have an NFL team. That's true. That's true. Embrace.
Where are you from or where do you have you
lived most of your life? I've lived.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
I'm fifty three years old and I've lived in Houston
for five three, eight, eight, seven, thirty eight years. Who's
been the NFL team here for about twenty almost twenty
five of those. The Houston Texans, come home, Come on home, Maddy,
come on, baby something. If the Astros keeps struggling, you
may have a hoole someone.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
To convince me. Let's go baby, Liberty White, Matt and
battle Red Ross. We get T shirts and everything together.
Oh that'd be great, that'd be funny.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
All right, real quick, Jim, before we get to I
just don't get it, Jim, what do you got today?

Speaker 13 (59:43):
Hi, guys, I want to throw in the Cowboys for
the schedule because that was their requirement. And then Keith
Jackson he called. He was ABC's number one guy, so
I think he's a pretty good play by play and
I like Joe's dad, jack Buck. I think he called
the catch in the forty nine er game and he

(01:00:05):
was fantastic. He called the kirk Kitson home run.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
So that's it, all right, thanks very much, appreciate it. Yeah,
Keith Jackson, w that's one of your best impressions. Go ahead,
I'm sorry for stealing your thunder.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
It's one. Oh, it's one of your best ones.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
Everybody does that, though, Jathan, I don't even think I
want to get your opinion.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
I want to see you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Well, how much does John Jonathan has no context for
I mean, Keith Jackson's retired in two thousand and five.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Oucket now gonna get in the character. Yes, you do
ad time not to play. It's gonna be. I just
don't get it here on the program. Let's go, everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
If you want to have something enough, you just don't
get seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
Ninety If you just don't get it, I don't get
it at a.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
Lily See, you didn't say Alabama at any point Alabama
Crimson Town against the alban Tigers. Okay, now you wait
Georgia any uspn's coverage of ABC's college football continues after
these words in a message with me your local station.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
It used to be sharper that wasn't ready. No, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
It's not your fault. You've made nervous ross I did.
I built him up a little too much. He was
definitely thrown off by that. If it still get something seventh,
you know what it is. I'm talking like Keith would
talk where he will he will be going all of
a sudden like this like this is a name drop
A two yeah, yes, seven. It's like I guy Foster Brooks,

(01:01:44):
he always faked that he was drunk as a comedian.
You go, it's good to heaven Algie. He'll be here today.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
You don't. I'm talking about it. That's school. I'm talking
about that guy, all right. If you send me life
you just don't get seven one three two one two
five seven ninety.

Speaker 11 (01:02:05):
Do you have something in your life that you just
don't get? No need to worry, no need to We
will just does the somethings. Just see if we comprehend
the things that may can use our friends. It's time
to say I just don't.

Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
Get it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
All right, Time for us to talk as grown men
to each other about things we don't get in our life.
It's a half hour we like to call I just
don't get it. Here on the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross Jonathan, you are learning things about our society as
you grow up and mature and become a man, and
Ross and I are here to either help you along

(01:02:48):
the way or give you terrible influences. What in your
life this week do you not get?

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:02:53):
You know, I wanted to bring up this Joe A
Spota and Dana Brown like conversation out there, how bad
they're doing. Yes, sir, I for the life you cannot
understand that Houston will talk down on the Yankees, the Dodgers,
you know, whatever big franchise because of this or snobby,
you know, whatever the case may be. And then they

(01:03:14):
kind of do the exact same thing all those fan
bases do when they're having a bad season. Last year,
we had the same type of inerguries and we were
one series out from going back to the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
We as an Astros.

Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
I mean, yeah, I just don't understand, like all, like
how Houston's mentality is, Like, you guys are still what
four years of move from being world champs.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
It's gonna take time. You still have to believe in
your team.

Speaker 5 (01:03:40):
You can't just disregard and go for the head of
the GM and the manager that are trying to do
the impossible. Now criticisms allowed. I understand that wholeheartedly. There's
things that they don't do perfectly, But to just disgrace
your team that you're saying that you want to root for,
I don't understand that, because, I mean it feels like
you're just any other bad bandwagon fan that just happened

(01:04:00):
to come in twenty seventeen when they want I just
don't get and maybe that's is Houston. Y'ah'll tell me
out because I really don't understand this.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
I totally get it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
The shelf life for enjoying anything in sports, especially for
a local your team that you root for, is very short.

Speaker 6 (01:04:23):
It just is.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
I mean, we've had the greatest decade of baseball in
this We've been the greatest decade of sports and professional
sports in the city of Houston history. And a segment
of the population that social media, that group is we
talk about a lot, and it's probably it's probably our
fault we talk about it too much, just hates it,
hates what's going on now. Once everybody fired, doesn't care

(01:04:46):
about anybody who's feelings, doesn't care, doesn't look at the
big pick the macro view of things. It's just if
you don't win, fire immediately, everybody's sex. So I will say, unfortunately, Jonathan,
I get while you're frustrated.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
Doing that every other time? Are they doing that in
Atlanta with the bus.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
The Dave Dodgers fans hate Dave Roberts. They've won back
to back World Series.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
I don't understand. I don't did this fans fans are
most of them are idiots. Patriots the people are idiots.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
The Patriots had all those Super Bowls and where they
had Jared Mayo was the coacher for one year, they
fired him. I mean, yeah, you uh, organizations sometimes acquiesced
to that loud, noisy group that just isn't ready to
say all right, maybe it's not our turn now. It
doesn't help, Jonathan when you have ownership or general managers

(01:05:36):
or players or coaches say the windows always open.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Or we're always gonna win.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
So sometimes you give them bold to more materials. That's
why I think if you're an owner, you probably should
be careful in saying those types of things.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
But I do. I mean, I'd rather him say that
than say, eh, you know what, we've had two World
Series and all these American League pennants and all these
World Series appearances, and you know what, we're due for
a four or five year downturn. I don't. I don't
want my owners saying that so you just can't win
in It's just I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:06:02):
I guess for me, I would if I'm rooting for
a team, I'm gonna have their criticism and you know,
keep it in house, like you know, it's a family.
You're gonna talk mess with your son or your brother.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
With you know what that is.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
You know what you're describing. You're describing college athletics. Okay,
actually all right, yeah now and a head. That's how
I treat it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
I'm like, this is my team. You know, you have
a problem. You're not treating college and pro the same.
You just can't. That's just crazy, all right, So I
understand it, but I do do get it. Roussell what
you got. This week, this World Cup is seeming more
and more like it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
It's a disaster. The prices are dive bombing. FIFA's controlling,
as you mentioned, like all these stadiums and making them
take their sponsors off.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
I just looked this up.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
Twelve of the fourteen tournaments host countries have said have
generated losses due to astronomical infrastructure, security and operational costs.
There's these stadiums like from the Brazil World Cup, I
don't know, eight years or whatever, like they're just growing moss.
Why does everybody bend over backwards? Let FIFA do whatever

(01:07:07):
they want. Come in here and glad hand everybody and
hand out all the money to themselves and be in
take kickbacks and be corrupt if they're losing money on this,
is Houston really gonna get some major economic impact from
the World Cup where people are saying already that like

(01:07:28):
there's visa there's issues with people getting visas getting into
the country right now, there's people issues with hotel rooms
all across the country. They're they're saying they're not seeing
any kind of World Cup pop, Like, I don't understand
why why countries are bending over backwards to host World
Cups when it ends up costing them in the end.

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
I guess you could say it the same for Olympics too.
They do the same thing, right, yeah, Olympics apparently. I mean,
is it there's really long term impact positively? I don't
see it. I don't get it. I don't know what's
going on.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
I would draw a line in the sand and say, no,
FIFA were good. I did watch Channel two this morning. Okay,
they're anticipating now the Channel two. You know, as we know,
they embellished numbers like anybody else does. They're anticipating five
hundred thousand people over the entire World Cup tournament to
come just to Houston alone. So eh, so I would

(01:08:22):
think five hundred thousand people coming in over what a
two week span would generate money for the community.

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
Am I wrong? I get that that's not what the
studies say. The studies say the people lose money and
cities are losing money and they're not seeing a pop
right now.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
I think it's more of a matter that these cities
have to main like I guess these like Brazilia said,
like Rio like they didn't take care of the facilities afterwards,
they didn't repurpose it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
I think that's the problem with all these other cities
right all right.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
The Houston Chronicle from two weeks ago, FIFA could make
eleven billion. Houston will be lucky to break even. That's
terrible news. That's terrible, terrible news. Real fast, mind, short
is I got the phone calls to get to I was,
as I told you guys couple of days ago, I'm
becoming a food TV show watcher.

Speaker 1 (01:09:03):
And there's this country cafe out in the Kadier. I've
never been there before.

Speaker 2 (01:09:08):
I don't remember what it's called, but they serve chicken
fried steak, and the big argument on their show this
week was do you serve it with cream gravy or
brown gravy.

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
There's no argument.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
I like them both, Okay, I don't want to be
shamed if I want brown gravy on a Monday and
cream gravy on on Tuesday on your chicken fried steak.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
Yeah, gotta be cream. It doesn't have to be it's
got to be brown.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
What I don't get why everybody is gravy watching gravy
watching now, Jonathan. Midwesterners like brown gravy much more than
cream the Southern people. Southern folks like pretty much. Yeah,
where are you from, Californian?

Speaker 1 (01:09:49):
Get out of here, Get out of here. Don't hate you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
And I like my grits with sugar too, So I
mean I am an equal opportunity. I don't like grits
at all, and not for the like I don't remember
having sweet grits. Ever, that sounds vaguely familiar.

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
What are you playing your oatmeal? By the way, really quick?

Speaker 8 (01:10:07):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:10:08):
Cinnamon sugar?

Speaker 13 (01:10:10):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
If I had just milk a little bit of milk
and maybe some chopped nuts and some splendor or you know,
sweet or something, bought some bananas. Oh that's good, it's
got some oatmeal let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:10:21):
Let's good.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
It makes it up oatmeal restaurant. It makes the best
oatmeal in town. That's what I want to customize oatmeal
food truck.

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
We'll get some brown gravy, johnthan me, and you get
some brown gravy too. We will not be shamed exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
Keith called haul and oats Keith, Keith, Dave and Jason
up next with you, guys. Eleven forty seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
All right, the last six minutes of the show is yours.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
We're just gonna listen, adjust and give you our sage
advice under this week's edition of I Just don't get it?

Speaker 1 (01:10:58):
Uh line three day. What don't you get? My friend?

Speaker 14 (01:11:03):
Well, Matt, I uh listen. I have an Instagram account.
The only reason I do is because one day you
are pleading with people to follow you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
Pleading is strong, pleading a strong term.

Speaker 14 (01:11:13):
I don't have many you know, I don't have many
people I follow. So your stuff pops up all the
time on my phone. And I see this stuff about
your daughter, and I see she's MVP of her volleyball. Yeah,
I hear you talking about her going to play college volleyball.
And what I don't get is you know, I see
pictures of you on there too, and I don't get

(01:11:33):
how this incredibly athletic daughter could possibly have sprung from
your loins. I'm wondering if maybe, you know, maybe your
wife is incredibly athletic, athletic or or I hate to
bring up infidelity, but that's always something to consider as well.

Speaker 4 (01:11:55):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
M Dave. That's that's actually quite fair. Although she looks
just like me, so that's I'm definitely her father spitting image. Yeah,
I will say, yeah, she's her dead itself. You know
what she does too? What Jonathan, You'll be so proud
of her. She works out, she eats right, she's motivated

(01:12:17):
all the things her father is good. She learns you're
a good bad example, Matt. She does the one aid
of my life. She eats salads, she runs, She has
a membership and here's a strangeling, folks, she has a
membership to a gym and she actually goes to it.
That's cool and that's stunning. Good for her. Mac on

(01:12:38):
seven ninety Mac, what don't you get.

Speaker 15 (01:12:41):
Well when you go into a restaurant order chicken fried steak,
unless you headed off at the past, it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
Comes with cream gravy on it and it's delicious cream gravy.

Speaker 15 (01:12:51):
How you can admit to eating brown gravy on chicken
fried steak and be mister Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
Because you need to shut up and work on your
astros on deck?

Speaker 4 (01:13:05):
Mac? What do we? What do we?

Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
Would you say Texas is a friendly state.

Speaker 15 (01:13:13):
Not as much as this reputation gives it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:15):
All Right, We're inclusive. We're accepting. I accept people that
love cream gravy because I love cream gravy.

Speaker 5 (01:13:22):
I am.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
I am accepting people of people that like brown gravy
because I like bron gravy. I accept people that don't
want to put any gravy at all on their chicken
fry steak? What, Mac, I'm okay with what however? You
want to layer your chicken fried steak brown cream, you
want to put ketchup on it? I don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
I'm accepting of it. And that's why I am the
epitome of mister Texas. And thank you for the phone call, Keith.
What don't you get?

Speaker 4 (01:13:52):
I got two of them first off? First off hands
MVP voting concluded to win it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
We don't know I had been dounce yet. It's probably
gonna be Sgvado.

Speaker 4 (01:14:04):
Okay, well, if Victor don't win it, I don't get that.
Here's here's something I've been harping on for years, five
years ago, at least five years.

Speaker 7 (01:14:17):
I'll call y'all saying that can he please aboutish to
shift in baseball? I think they finally did a version
of it. But what I don't get is the way
that they still do. They're still on because you hit
a line drive up the middle, there's a second basemin
right there, there's a shortstop right there. That's just crazy, man.

Speaker 4 (01:14:36):
I just don't get you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:37):
But I mean, but but Keith, you have to let
the second basement and the short shop move around a
little bit there.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
They have to stay on their side of the bag.
It's not like they get to go room roam around.
I know the shift is no longer an issue to
me in baseball.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
It's it's playing the position. That's why you put your
your two best interior infielders in there, because they cover
the most ground. I have no problem with that. I
totally get it, Matt.

Speaker 4 (01:15:00):
When they when they when the pitcher winds up, the
second basement goes right behind second order, short stop goes
right behind second that's that's they're cheating our way.

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
They're not cheating, they're moving around. I just don't get Oh,
that's crazy, you're crazy. Thanks Keith for the phone call.
Appreciate it. No, I mean the ship.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
I was pro shift to begin with. I didn't care
where you put your out fillers. But I know people
got cranky about that. So as long as the shortstop
is left of second base and the second basement is
right of second base, that's just called defensive position. It's
not I mean, I'm not gonna have them have their
shoes nailed into the ground.

Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
They can't. Got a problem with it. No, zero problem
with the Kyle Tucker did. But yeah, a couple.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
Now see something's wrong with X. I got four responses
and it says I only have one vote. That's can't
be right. Well, how would four people respond and not vote?

Speaker 1 (01:15:52):
What's your question?

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
Chicken fried steak gravy preference. Well it's gonna be cream
three to one. Uh let's see, I'm serious. What brought
this up? No way, Matt is mister Texas and used
brown gravy.

Speaker 1 (01:16:03):
I like them both. If anyone votes brown gravy and
lives in Texas, they should be deported from Texas?

Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
Is that what we're looking for? Anyone putting brown gravy
and chicken fried steak is a terrorist. Thank thank god
I'm mister Texas. Thank god I'm running the state. Because
the Lord knows y'all want to send everybody out and
if they don't agree with you on something, I don't
feel that way. Ross, you have a great out of deck.
I'm sure it'll be spectacular. Brian mctager gonna join you
in fifteen.

Speaker 1 (01:16:27):
Minutes or so. Ryan mccaggart, he's a fine Irish lad
astros on deck as X. We'll wait, trippers, what what
come in your way? Come await next